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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?.
