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GENERAL NEWS.
’Real estate continues very active at
Thomasville,
A new brick hotel is among the proba¬
bilities at Carrollton.
Mr. Brown, of Thomasville, has a beau¬
tiful red mockingbird.
B. F, Nipewander will establish a can¬
ning factory at Americus.
George W, Benton of Milton ebunty
committed suicide Saturday.
A fairly good crop ofLeConte pears are
promised in Madison soutity.
Postal cars will be put on the Coving¬
ton anS M.iodn railroad on June 11.
Pickens county has let the contract to
build a court house to cost $13,000.
The town of McVille, in Telfair cotmty,
will be known as Scotland after July A.
An illicit distillery was discovered in -a
cyclone pit iu Forsyth county a day ‘dr
"two ago.
Editor J. N. Moore has been with the
Milledgevilte Union and Recorder forty
‘ooe years.
A rich vein of kaolin lias been drscov
•ei-ed <-m J. T.’M. Harris’ place, in Ggle
’therps cecnty,
lu Houston county the-apple crop Will
‘be a good one. Peaches may be considered
’a flat failure this year.
The brand for murder used in Oglethdvpe
county in ante-bellum days'is still in .pos¬
session of a Lexington gentleman.
Gordon county is outrof debt and taxes
are light. Now there is a talk of building
a court house to cost $20,0750.
A land company has been organized in
‘Carrollton, with a capital stock of $251000,
to operate within two miles of town.
John Shell, (colored;, of Antoricus, fell
beneath a moving train at Smithville,
Thursday, and was perhaps fatally injured.
At a meeting of the Spalding Alliance
last Saturday, they decided to have a
warehoiiofe'Ot their own erected at Mon¬
tezuma. . .
The grape crop in Oglethorpe county
will be a failure this year as a very small
fly has attacked the vines and will destroy
’the young fruit.
The fair Rockmart correspondent of the
McDuffie Journal, writes her paper: T
am going to Rome soon, to many an old
'Columbia county boy.”
There is said to be some pear blight in
the vicinity of Boston, in Thomas county.
It is a significant'fact that this blight has
confined itself to grafted trees.
On Monday Reason Walden, of Gibson,
undertook to extract a tooth tor his wife.
• Ly some means in his endeavor to loosen
tl e tooth he broke her jaw bone.
R. A. Harris, of Washington, who was
injured in the stomach by the kick of a
gun a few days ago, died Friday from
inflamation caused by the injury.
J. T. Bradley, of Carrolton, lost '60,000
brick by the late rain, making altogether
75,000 he has lost by wet weather. He
has made and saved about 200,000.
A negro boy, about 15 years of age, Pig
Bryant by name, was drowned Tuesday
while bathing rn Hunt's mill pond, about
one and a halt miles from Bartlesville.
Janies G. Bonner, of Putnam county,
has a crystalized-quartz fully an inch long
and one-quarter of an inch in diameter,
which he found iu a fish that he caught
from the Oconee river.
J. W. Strickland, of Blacksliear, has a
rose bush growing iu his yard that, until
just before it blooms, has every appearance
of a red or white rose, -and wnen it blooms
out is perfectly green,
Near Outhbert a few days ago Mrs.
Zack’ Bullock had an arm broken and Mr.
Bullock cine of his ears nearly‘torn off by
being thrown from a buggy while the
horse was running away,
Samuel’Carter, who lives near Naylor,
in Lowndes county, is about 90 years old.
His father reached the age of 107 years.
He rode horseback when he was 100 years
old, ane could do hard labor at that age.
At Gumming, a few days ago, B. F.
Findley and Berry Gilbert were bitten by
a rabid dog. Findley was attacked with
hydrophobia, since which time he has been
raving mad, having to be closely confined.
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Work Will begin oh the cotton factory
at LaG range in a very short time. The
board ot directors are hard at work ar¬
ranging plans, specifications, eta, and
will give out work just as soon as it is pos¬
sible to do SB.
“The devil has establiseed an agency at
DuPont, with E. J. Willis at the head,
backed by the Mayor and 'Council,” is the
way a correspondent of the Waycross lie
porter has of stating the fact that DuPont
has a whisky saloon.
A J. Butler has presented the Dawson
Jo urr^al a curiosity in the shape of an egg.
It is abbnt half the usual size, with a hard
shell.handle originally about an inch long,'
and presenting the appearance Of a round
and well-proportioned gourd.
8. 0 Pr-udden has discovered what is
supposed to be a genuine mineral spring
ou his land, just on the suburbs ot Eaton
ton. It has a taste similar to that of
Oconee springs, which is a fine spring. It
tastes strong of sulphur and iron.
Go!. Charles S. Hill, of Washington, D.
C., Who has charge of the government
exhibit for the Augusta exposition, has
shipped a portion of the display, and it is
nowon the way'. The government will
make a very fine show at the exposition.
The depot yard in Americus seems to be
a fatal spot so far as accidents to persons
are concerned. Within the past twelve
months, or thereabouts, four people have
•been killed by trains within hailing dis¬
tance of the depot, ana a fifth one badly
crippled.
A few days ago, while a little girl of
Joel Hollis, of Lowndes county, with other
children, were playing by turning the
sugar mill, her band was caught between
thu iron rollers of the -mill aud terribly
tuashed. It anil perhaps render her a
cripple for life.
koi'ft Count, y Local: Dennis Towel!,
living down on the Warrior-, plowed thirty
Acres of com -and chopped out forty
five acres of cotton in five days lwst week.
In plowing the corn ho put four furrows
to the row, and completed the thirty acres
in a day and a hslf.
Last week, at Turin, Long Wynn find
Felix Reader, two negro boys playing in a
game of baseball, had a difficulty, and
Render inflicted a severe blow on the head
of Wynn, from the effects of which he died
a day or two ago. Render made bis escape,
but the officers are after him.
In February last a dog passed through
Mrs. Ann Young’s lot, near Antioch, and
bit a cult, a cow and a horse, Monday
last the calf died with symptoms of hydro¬
phobia, and at last accounts the cow was
raving with like symptoms, while tlic
horse is reported strangely sick.
Dr. D. M. White, of Watkinsville, re¬
ports a strange case. It is that of Joe
McRee, who is now at his house tor treat¬
ment. It seems to he a neuralgic affection
of the eye, but the strauge part of it is the
peculiar effect swallowing has upon it.
Mr. McRee says his eye may be perfectly
easy, and let him attempt to swallow even
a little water and the pain is almost un¬
bearable. For this cause he has eaten but
very little for two weeks past, and every
effort to procure relief has been in vain-.
ROBERT COLEMAN BOLIVER H. RAY TOHN N. BIKOH
COLEMAN BAT k CO.,
Macon, - * - - - - Georgia,
and Dealers Fertilizers. in Groceries, The following Plantation brand Supplies, Kentucky Mules
of fertilizers on hand :
NAVASSA ACID. GEORGIA NAVASSA COTTON FERTIL¬
IZER, PACIFIC GUANO.
convenience We keep a of supply Crawford of the above goods at Fort Valley for the
our county customers, which can be
had on application to us.
MRS. M. B. PIERCE,
MILLINER 30 DRESS MAKER,
--KNOXVILLE, GA——
Choice made Lot of Millinery Goods. Cheapest to be found in any country town
D’esses in the LATEST STYLES. ap6
J. 0. HOLMES,
CwHoden, Georgia.
--DEALER IN
GENERAL MERCHANDISE
& UNDERTAKER’S SUPPLIES
I keep a Full Line of Family Groceries Farm Implements and Heavy Dry Goods, ‘Country Shoes, Hats Ac.
Large lot Crockery, Glassware, Prices. Undertaker's supplies & Cutlery. Produce
taken in exchange at Fair a specialty. I always
1 aep a complete stock of these Burial goods, Robes both Metal Wrappers. & Wood To Cases. Wood 1 have
'from the cheapest to the best. & this line of my bus¬
iness (so much'appreciated by my patrons since its introduction) 1 give special at¬
tention, and bv so doing hope to merit a liberal patronage from the public. I shall
spare no pains in serving Will you promdtly. attend burials My 15 charges miles will With be hearse more reasonable than
you charge can when buy elsewhere. worth §20 upwards- In connection with without Miss extra
cases are or me At-hsab.
Holloway has an immense Hue of
Millinery and Ladies’ Dress Goods, "White Goods, Notions
and Novelties in profusion which she is'offeririg -at remarkably low prices. ’D'resse '5
cut, made and fitted promptly to order. Her superior skill and tact in this line -of
her business just her cant be excelled. Then she naturally loves to see you and show
vou through stock of goods. She invites ail the ladies to call to see her 'when
they comb to our little city, and don’t be in a hurry ; spend the day and she wil l
make it pleasant for you. Very respectfully,
J, O. HOLMES, Culi-oden, Ga.
The question of building a railroad from
Rockmart to Carrollton on toward the Gulf
is being talked ol by some of The citizens
of Carrollton. At the last session of the
Legislature a Charter was obtained for such
a road, under the name of the North
Georgia arid St. Andrew's Bay railroad.
Monday night, Nathan Christie, living
at the home of his son, Hon. S. R. Chris¬
tie, near Dawson, fell from a high porch to
the grouud, and broke an arm and fract¬
ure^ bis collar bone. It is doubtful if he
will recover from his injuries, as he is
very old and infirm and was just recovering
from a spell of sickness.
An obstruction was placed upon the A.
P. and L. railroad track Sunday afternoon,
not far from the Gatewood school house,
at Americus. The engineer saw the ob¬
struction, a crosstie, in time to stop the'
train before running upon it. This is the
fourth time that an attempt has been made
at this same place to wreck a train.
At Macon, Tuesday, on Tine street,
a negro boy was driving a mill e hitched to
a wagon. A barrel half full of slops was
in the front end of the wagon, and the hoy
stood directly behind it. There was noth¬
ing visible that could have induced the
mule to run away, hut it did all the same,
and after a zig-zag course down Pine to
First he ran the wheel against the lamp
post at Mrs. Hollingsworth’s corner. The
shock was so violent, and yet so sudden,
that the boy was pitched forward and
head-foremost into the barrel of slops,
nothing remaining of him to he seen but a
pair of shoes. In his efforts to get out, he
caused the barrel to roll off the wagoD, and
he thus escaped. The wagon was pretty
badly wrecked, but the mule was unhurt.
Henry Jackson, a colored man living on
the plantation of P. C. Livingston, in
Schley county, one day last week cut ten
acres of whea', averaging fourteen and
three-fourths bushels to tlic acre, and drank
one gallon ot whisky during the day. At
the Conclusion of the day’s Work the darkey
asked Mr. Livingston if he couldu’t set
’em up for about a pint.
The Jackson county Co-operative Society
was organized at Dry Pond on Friday last.
This organization consists of the farmers,
and its object is to rafse the farmer to a
higher plane of improving the lands, rais¬
ing the standard of his credit, aud for
mutual benefit. The membership now
numbers about 1,600, and is growing daily,
J. N, Twitty, of Jefferson, was elected
president.
James Kemp of Albany, wes so annoyed
at some one milking his cow on Monday
night that he sat up all night Tuesday to
catch the thief. He was mortified next
morning at missing six thickens from his
hen house. It is supposed that the thief
came in, and spying Kemp asleep on his
watch, compromised on taking the chick¬
ens for fear he might disturb Kemp aud he
wouldn't like -it.
George W. Manning, in company with
several friends, visited his farm near
Adairsville a few days ago. When they
repaired to the spring their attention was
attracted by the noise made by a rattle¬
snake. Going Dear this noise his snake
ship was seen lyiug otit full length, with
head erect, and only a feW feet away wn*
a full-grown rabbit, evidently under the
charm of the snake. After the latter was
quickly dispatched the rabbit was seen to
( keel over and in a few moment; wa; dead