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GENERAL MEWS .
Lumkin’s population has just been asoer
tamed to*be 1,002,
Crop prospects from all parts ofStewart
county are Mattering.
The spelling bee threatens’ toefigiilf some
■ of the country towns sgain.
The'Arnold- house in Crawfordville was
burned last Thursday night.
A society for the prevents i of cruelty
• to *nia»SW has been- organised -ht -Bruns¬
wick.
One of the banks of Athens, with a cap¬
ital stock of $100,000, has already loaoed
■$550,000.
'Dne^fnmrsand crates of pears were sent,
’from Thomasville by express on one day
last week.
Sumter <eoonty fanners are expecting to
-get a bale if. cotton- in- market- by the mid
Kile of July,
The State horticultural society will
i ts next annual meeting ar, Thomasville
Aug.1, 2 and 3,
A farmer was in Tb.nmasVlBe one day.
-last week trying-toSell a wagon load of fine
'.melons irf-Sie apiece.
The republicans will not put out can li
dates for any of the county offices in Blarke
■except that of coroner.
And now they say in -Drfwson that a
•- smoke was teen creeping out of a hole in
'the brick-wall of a barrroom in that town.
Daweon'is'happy, as the luscious water¬
melon can now be bought at a nicklo apiece
'for tlie-first time, in the history ot the town
State 'Schotti Comsiiiseiouer Hook ha s
gone to''‘Brunswick, where he will deliver
un address to ithe-pubiic schools of that
’city.
Work on fiic'Georgia factory at Athens/
'is progressing rapidly, and when-esompleteif
tlie capacity of the factory wiS be
doubled.
Walton New's: A church supper, crowd
of negroes, whisky bottle, racket, row,
hippockct^-.j>!stol, Jead negro, murder.
-jin'apt iliustratiop.
The contract for erecting the buildings of
-the Ncwcau cotton mills has just been a
warded the R. D- Cole manufaet uriug com
pany rf-Newnan at $35,000.
E L. Michael of Athens has a pigeon
that is trained to do almost anything he
tells it. Tt can play on -the piano, waltz,
'march and crow like a rooster.
Athens is bragging again. The Banner*
'Watc-hman says “there are more baby car¬
nages seen m Milkdge avenue any fine
afternoon than on any street in Georgia.’,
Tlie Atlanta butchers unanimously re¬
solved to adopt flic cash system on duly 1,
end now have as their motto: “No cash,
no beef.'’ Tlie plan is said to work well,
"Ed Ansley, of Americas, rnr.de a ship¬
ment cif sixty-two peaches Friday that
weighed twenty-four pounds net. The
sixtv-two peaches tilled a half bushel
■measure.
C. F. Allen died from lockjaw in Au¬
gusta Monday. He went to Augusta a
short time ago, ami while at work at the
carpenter’s business n ashed one of his
fingers. This produced lockjaw.
The Dawson Southwestern -News
plains of the crowds of worthless vagabond
iiegro boys who loaf around the streets ol
that town, and wants to know if the law
•against vagrancy is inoperative.
At Americus a day or two ago a negro
boy 5 or 6 years old found a buckeye, and
thinking it was a chestnut ate it. The
doctors worked some time on him, and after
administering heavy emetics saved his lifq
A warrant was drawn on the state treas¬
Wednesday for $17,500 in favor of
T. Windser, treasurer of the asylum
the' insane. This amount goes to pay
expenses of 'the asylum for' the '• month
June. I
The farming operations tfais'y&ir-iir Cobb
are said to have boen managed
with a good deal -more system and cSr e
than usual. The farmers a v e an intelligent
class, and-vie with each-otter-to make all
the improvements they can, with a -view
of making ever thing self-sustaining.
Frank Flynt, of Spalding county, is a
political canvasser who’.literally does not
allow grass to grow under his feet. In
Orr's district on Saturday he came across
a farmer -ploughing in the -field and took
his plow in order that the farmer might go
to the polls and vote. By repeating
in ditlerent cases two or three times, he
secured enough additional votes to carry
the district.
A solemnwarning is (bus given to-geii
vho wear 'false molars by the
Advertiser-Appeal ; a few
ago a- St. Simon’s geurietnun, becom¬
somewhat enraged- at a darkey, spoke
hfm so veherabntly'that his false teeth
out of his month and sunk to the
of the river i-n twenty fact of water,
now that man has time to gum -his
and meditate upon tile uncertainty
human-teeth when not duly nailed in
nature.
The corner-tree of the counties of Wilkes,
r.nd Taliaferro was blown down
few nights 'ago. It was a sturdy old
that had bveirs-anding for perhaps a
and when it was a sapling the
liver "was the boundary line of
Wilkes, and the old county included tlie
territory that is now cut up into twenty Or
small counties.
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'C->1, Buck, Chairman of the Republican
comm'fttee of Georgia, says there
no 'rriore republican conventions
held in'the'state this year, but that he
intends’ to call the committee for the pur¬
pose of.putting "out a'Harrison electoral
ticket.
Sunday morning Delia Burns (colored)
of "Americu 3 died very suddenly, after a
two Week’s illness. After taking medicine
to relieve a slight illness she foolishly
drank a groat quantity of very cold lemon¬
ade, which in a short time brought on a
violent illness, resulting in her death.
Monday, for the' first time in his life, Dr.
J. F. Brown of Bulloch county was sworn
in a court house. He was summoned to
Americas in tire'Black-Brown will case.
He is over 50 years of age, and was never
on a jury, never was sued, rover sued
anyone, never paid a lawyer’s fee until
Monday, which he paid to Hon. E. G.
Simmons. Dr/Brown has represented the
Seventeenth senatorial district in the legis¬
lature, is now one of the delegates to the
gubernatorial ' convention, having been
elected while away from home.
One of the largest mortgages Over filed
in Fulton county was filed Monday' by
Col.'George T. Fvy r . The mortgage was
for $3,000,1)00. 'When in New’Tork May
17 last Col. Fry sold first mortgage thirty
years 6 per cent, gold bonds of the Atlan
t.c, Atlanta and Great Western railroad
company to the amount of -$3,000,-HOG.
The mortgage isHo secure these bonds, and
is the first ami only mortgage executed or
to be executed by the company. The
mortgage is made to the Mercantile Trust,
company of New York as trustee for all
the bondholders. The bonds are to
8,000 in number, each o.'Hic denomination
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Prof. W. II. Blackrnore, an old citizen
of Flovilla who died a few days ago, was l a
member of the famous command of that
gallant and fearless soldier, ‘Gen. John
Morgan, He followed Morgan through ah
of his perilous adventures, being captured
and placed in the Ohio state prison. Ho
made his' escape at the same rime as the
general, and was nea 1- by on that ‘ fatal
morning when the fedcrals shct bis brave
leader down in Greenville, Tcnn.
Among the passengers bn the North¬
eastern road ©Monday were a German
accompanied by his wife and seven chil
dien. They had come direct from the
fatherland; could speak no English, and at
Athens their destination could not be
learned.
A dinner will be given by the East
Wilkes agricultural club at Alexander
Spring, near Washington, July 18. Hoi,.
W. J. Northern president of the state agri¬
cultural society, will make an address.
The occasion is lor llie purpose of working
up a Wilkes county exhibit for the state
fair. It will be a grand day in advancing
the agricultural interests of the county.
Washington Gazette: The people in
different parts of Coe state are making
much ado about the Farmers’ Alliance.
We understand that the members of the
■alliance require the merchants they buy
from to'chow them the invoice, and they
pay the merchants a 'reasonable per cent,
as profit on the goods. Why. this is noth¬
ing new in Washington. It has been
going on in'business circles here ever since
we have known anything of the town.
Casli customers and others who are per¬
fectly good, can ascertain the cost ofja bill
'of goods whenever they desire; and him
d, ' clls of tllon6ilods of do,,MS worth
S«ods-have been sold here when the cuS
L'fncfs exactly v.’.iat profit they were
paying the merchants.
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