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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. * 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