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About The Knoxville journal. (Knoxville, Ga.) 1888-18?? | View Entire Issue (June 15, 1888)
GENERAL NEWS. Eatenton shipped 7 00 pounds of butter last week. A mule died-at Eogahsville a day or ’ two ago that was 36 years old. Green Lewis of Cairo has sold his pear crop of between 1,500 and 2,000 bushels for 50 cents per bushel. A cucumber 20 inches long and weighing two and a half pounds is among the curi¬ osities of the vegetable world grown at - Montezuma. The commencement of the Middle Geor¬ gia military and agricultural college at 'Milledgeville will be in "progress from June 17 to 80. It is estimated that 150 carloads of melons will be shipped from Quitman this week. Kolb gems are selling on the track from $100 to' $150 per car. There lives near SmithviTle a colored woman who is said to be 105 years old. She works in the "field along with the rest of them, and is as active as she was at 76. The splendid timber lands of Dooly and Wilcox counties are attracting wide atten¬ tion and promise to be the attraction for a great deal of immigration to’that "-sefction The farmers of Troup county have sub¬ scribed $30,000 for the erection of a •tliirty-ton oil mill, fertilizer works, etc. The leading citizens of West Point are also -interested in the,project. A petrified starfish was picked up near ‘Limestone urcek in Houston county a day or two ago. As the starfish is a salt water shell fish tho finder is unable to account for tfiis specimen being found in Houston At LaGrange Monday Earnest BCyd (colored) a young boy, went to sleep on the railroad track while watching -cows, ■and theday Montgomery train passed on, nmoving’all obstacles, anil the is that Earnest -died that night. Edward, the 16-year-old son of Willis Smith ofEFoert county, accidentally shot himself in the hand on Thursday last. He was putting a cover over his gun when it caught the hammer and caused it to go off, "tils left 4 'land being over the muzzle at the time. ■■Gov. Gordon drew his warratit on the state treasury Monday for $10,000, which "was paid by Col Hardeman out of the appropriation for the Technological school. The appropration for this institution was $65,tOO, all of which has now been drawn from the treasury except $4,000. 1 Charles Everett of Covington has a monstrosity in a blooded Plymouth Rock ■chicken. It has one well developed wing -on one side, wbile on tho other it is per¬ fectly smooth, with no indication as to where the wing should have been. The little chick is about a month old, and has quite a thrifty -appearan ce. Jiordan Moiris, living near the line of Milton and Cobb counties, was in C. C. Kiser’s store, in Marietta, last week, and stated that he is 81 years old, that lie has never taken a chew of tobacco nor smoked a cigar or pipe, never was drunk, never swore an oath, never was married, has been a member of the Methodist church forty years, and came to that section ;;i 1835. The store of Jordan Bros. •& Co., at Monticello, was entered, Tuesday night, by prizing open the front door. The safe "waa blown open and the contents rifled About $225 were taken. This, together with the damage to the safe, makes the loss about $300. While the fine clothing end some other goods were disturbed, it is not known that any were stolen. An old ■chisel was found near the safe, but it does not furnish a clew. Two strangers were seen in town Tuesday afternoon, whom no •one has since seen. Dr. Walter Cheatham, of Dawson, has a young Shepherd dog which makes a prac¬ tice of catching and" eating the common little grass sparrow. These birds -ferelv ever fly high when frightened up, and this dog simply outruns and catches them before they light. He not Only eats the birds, but seems to enjoy the sport. In sawing a round piece of timber at W. E, Gramling's carriage factory at Marietta, the other doy, the saw struck a grape shot imbedded near the center of the timber. The piece of wood was brought from Noon¬ day, in' Cobb county, and the grape shot was doubtless fired from a gun of one of the two armies during the late war. A warrant was'Issued on the state treas nrer at Atlanta, on Wednesday of last week, for $7,280 paid out to 298 disabled confederate soldiers between Fob, 7 and June 6, 1SS8. There had been paid pre¬ viously $17,220 to 667 maimed soldiers i making the total ’amount paid by the state to confederate soldiers" since Nov. 1 last, $24;3G5. T-ho congressional campaign in the Fourth district is growing sensatioual. Rev. R. H. Jackson, president of the Geor¬ gia state alliance, isin the field, and it is in his county (Heard) that the latest devel¬ opments dr,tve taken place. He called a mass meeting'to Indorse his candidacy in opposition to that of Hon. Thomas Grimes, and, after much disorder, the gathering broke up in great"confusi’Cn. Several days ago, Capt. Mygalt, while grading on the Macon and Covington tail road,' near Athens, was surprised"to sfte yellow metal, very much resembling gold, in a bed Of quartz. This, upon exatmna tion, proved a very good specimen of gold ore. Capt, Mygatt thinks that if the vein wasTollowed up a good return would bad, and that Dr. Carlton, upon place the gold was discovered, would soou Tie a rich man. •Early Monday morning B. B. Bagwell shot and killed Bill Wombie (colored), ’about twofniles'from Molena, Pike county. Bagwell and the negro, Wombie, had a difficulty on Saturday last, in which Wom bte drew a gun on Bagwell and cursed, abused and threatened to shoot him Monday morning Bagwell and his wife ivont to Womble’s house, the negro living on Bagwell’s place, to order him off, when the difficully was renewed and the shooting took place. Bagwell is supposed to have -under tho influence of whisky. There is now filed with a litigated will r iu the courts of Monroe county, a silver dollar issued in 1775. This dollar has been iu possession of the same famitv for more than 100 years. It is one of the thirteen dollars that was paid to a revolu¬ tionary soldier when discharged from the continental army. It was once abducted, but did not pass out of the hereditary channel, being transmitted by special bequest to the abductor. Though reposing now in the courts thcro is a testamentary provision that its past history be repeated by paying it to the eldest son of the testator. At Atlanta, Tuesday, the inhabitants of the neighborhood of tho East Tennessee freight depot were considerably frightened by the frantic action of a mad steer of the Texas variety. The steer was being driven through town to tho slaughter pen, and as -be was troublesome the driver tried to tie his head down, when tho beast became enraged and sprang upon his guards with great fury, After pitebiug a boy up iu the air about 15 feet and smashing a negro’s head against a telegraph pole, he cleared the street easily. Hundreds of, people gathered arouud, hut kept within a safe distance. Finally his steership started in the direction of the Walker street school house, pursued by a detachment of armed police, who, after firing several volleys, brought down their game. ROBERT COLEMAN BOLIVER II. RAY JOHN N. BIRCH ooLumr in & € 0 * COTTON Macon, i*i OeovgTrt, Dealer.-; in Groceries, Plantation Supplies, Kentucky Mules and Fertilizers. The following brand of fertilizers on hand ; NAYA8SA ACID. NAVASSA COTTON FERTIL¬ IZER, GEORGIA PACIFIC GUANO. We keep a supply of the above goods at Fort Valley for the convenience of our Crawford county customers, which can be had on application to us. MSS. M. B. PIEBCE, MILLINER DRESS MAKER, --KNOXVILLE, GA- Dresses Choice made Let in of the Milllnfhy LATEST Goods. STYLES, "Cheapest to be found in airy country apG town J. 0 . HOLME 8 , Oullodeii, Georg 1 sd« --DEALER IN GENEB AL M EBCH ANDISE & UNDERTAKERS SUPPLIES I keep a Full Line of Family Groceries and Heavy Dry Goods, SlioeS, Hats &c. Large lot Crockery, Glassware, Farm Implements & Cutlery. Country "Produce taken in exchange at Fair Prices. Undertaker’s supplies a specialty. I always keep a complete stock of these goods, booh Metal & Wood Cases. Wood I have from the cheapest to the best. Burial Robes since & Wrappers. introduction) To this line give of my bus¬ tention, iness (so and much by appreciated doing hope'to by my merit patrons liberal patronage its from ] special 1 shall at so a Hie public. spare no pains in serving vou promdtly. burials My charges will be more reasonable thaii you can buy elsewhere. Will attend 15 miles with hearse without extra Aharge when eases are worth 820 or upwards- In connection With me Miss Achsak Holloway Millinery has and an immense Ladies’ line of Dress * Goods, White Goods, Notions and Noveltiesin fitted profusion which she order. is offering Her superior at remarkably skill and low tact prices. DiessCs line Cut, made and promptly to in this of her business just, cant be excelled. Then she naturally loves to see you and show you through her stock of goods. She invites all the ladies to call to see her when they come to our little city, and don’t be in a hurry ; spend the day and she wil l make it pleasant for you. Very reste ctfu lx,y, ,7, O. HQLMEB, Culloden, ,Ga. Tlchry Queen Went from Jug Tavern to the war, and for sixteen years after his parents never heard from him and supposed him dead. At last lie came to see them, He bad become a leading engineer on the Louisville and Nashville railroad, where he was doiug well, having married and made his home at Bowling Green, Ky. Since making his first visit he had contributed liberally toward , the ., support , of c ,. Ins aged parents. Some time last winter his «*« «• “0 “ w™ 1 “> shipped to Jug Tavern a neat tombstone to mark her grave. It arrived a few days ago to be placed in position before her funeral, which was to bo preached Sunday, at which he was expected, but by the explosion of the boiler oi his engine, only a 'few days ago, he was instantly killed. Last Friday afternoon Sheriff R. T. Mills of Scriven was out in tho woods about two miles from Sylvania with a party of friends, shooting squirrels, when they heard a roaring, rumbling noise which some thought to he a train, but the sheriffs trained ear discovered it to bo the running of a herd cf sheep. 'Going up the hill they found a bunch of five dead ones in one place and half a dozen in another. They proceeded on, and, stopping at the well of a a dweller uweucr m in that tuac neighborhood nei noornooci, were were 'refreshing themselves wilh a cool drink of water, when they discovered a large ° cur dog , chasing single r well-grown „ wether „ a near by, which, overtaking, F he seized by the throat and commenced joining . ,. hack- , , ward, going toward a fence near hv, and, dragging him into one of the jams, seemed to .halt for a second. This apparently •gave the sheep some hope. Seeming to gather ail his power iu one last effort, lie made a fearful plunge at the cur, and striking him squarely in the forehead, killed him stone dead. Falling over on his dead enemy the victorious sheep also expired in less than a minute, ri J BORGIA, Crawford County.—Tc '- all whom it may concern : Wherea;: J. B. Hammock, Fowler, executor of the will of T, deceased, has applied t< mo for letters dismissory from his Exec cause, if any they have, iWfft before £& ft® LbSicL me, on saffi fhould noTbe di£ charged, c!al ^EQ yen l^b^vVy'eR under mv hand 1 and olli s!Sn ! ’ 'Ordinary /"i VJ EORGIA, Crawford County : Will be sold before the court house door in the town of Knoxville, said county, on the first Tuesday in July next, within the legal hours of sale, the following described property, to wit: Whole lot- • of land numbers 37, -1(1, 70, 77, and fifty acres off of the east side of iot number 82 - all in the First district of said county and aggregating eight hundred and sixty (800) ibed acres, land more or less; said above do ser levied on as the property of defendants in fi. fa., to satisfy a fi. fa. Issued from the City Court of Macon m favor of A. Gibian, surviving partner, against A. W. Gl json, trustee, et ai. ^1^1^ of land, more sai(l or less, in being the Seventh dis trict ot county, lot number ^ and t0n acn)S tho south east cwr _ ner Mufus of lot number liii, known as the Carter place and whereon \\. M. Taylor Scvefitli now district resides; of also lot number 0i>, in said county, eon tabling two hundred two and oiie-half acres, more Win, or less, levied on as the property of Carter to satisfy a ii fa from Crawford County Court in ■favor cif £ ay taSSerel) 1 Caf ter,. B. A. HARTLEY, May Sits, 1888, BUerif?.
