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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. A T J 7 .V T" A •AT T "j ; 1 3 f 2XJL V T J--L1 J j c ATLANTA, OA •1 ymmKtmmKmaw M A N'TTFACT U EE i tB»« 1 u tu mm opr c^o i o-i IK H r -j 1*5 j I 1" * 8 s Ci - IHi i f ' flatten 0131 Mills and Oil Machinery SAW MILLS, WIND MILLS, TANKS, SHAFTING_ETC ALL KINDS OF IfOUND^Y .WORK. Write to us foi prices. We can save you what money You by Want.~ purchasing direct.^ S zzCometo HeadHttariers for ■s E. Van Winkle & CO„ m Atlanta, Ga. ju22-3 Post Office Box 83. '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 of S'! 00b ISgll 3 m gpi ; . gj ^ WXMtMMM. $311 . A: -A EgsI^^9S&gmK; S I s i.: ill i-i i Ilia rw I A -A HSS ' ST; /* A A A. -/ 2UiC aJ8ltk 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. Oottoh ipresses. Clfianers Alma @eed