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THE KNOXVILLE
VOLUME I.
Items FronijCercs.
Mr.-A. S. Hatcher who has been attend¬
ing college, in 'L'homaston is in our midst
again. Mr. Hatcher was one of the
ber who received diplomas at the last com¬
mencement of R. E. Lee Institute.
Mr. Larkin Wellons of Hickory Grove
informs us that there is a poke stalk grow¬
ing on Rev. A C Wellons’ placo that
ures thirty feet in height, and from
present condition promises to reach forty
feet before winter. Now if there is any¬
body that can poke out a stalk that will
top this one let him come to the front.
Mr. M J Moore made a business trip to
the Gate City last Thursday.
“General Green” is about conquered
Good seasons continue and crops are grow
arc growing off nicely’.
Mrs. J. M. Webb, Miss Annie
and Mrs. J. P. McNiece spent Saturday
and Sunday in Thomaston visiting tho
family of Mr. George Shepard.
Mr. J. M. Moore of Macon was in onr
ville Thursday and Friday.
A, Sunday school has been organized at
the school house near Mr. S, W. Hatcher’s
Let as give them all the encouragement
we can—it is the only Sunday school’ in
this section.
I)r. A. S. Moore and wife of Macon
in our ville a few days lust week visiting
tho family of Mr.M J moore.
Mrs. J P McNeicebas a four legged chick¬
en, but it only uses two. We guess
other two are reserved to use in cases of e
mergeDc'y—picnic big meeting occasions Ac.
You people that were too lean to con¬
tribute a basket to the Knoxville dinner
had belter stand, at least, two in a place
these sunshiny days in order to make a
shadow.
Mr. E B Batcher wears a bread smile
because of a “bouncing baby boy’.”
Mss Sallie Vining one of Macon’s fasci¬
nating young ladies, after spending several
weeks with Miss Leah Harris returned home
mondny, Miss Leah accompanying her.
Watchman,
A Singular Case of Hearing-.
Some time ago an engineer on the Miami
Railroad was suspended because, after hav¬
ing been examined by Dr. Clark, he was
found to be quite deaf. The engineer
claimed at the time that he could hear ev¬
erything while running his engine, but toe
doctor- found that in a still room be could
not hear ordinary conversation a foot away
The engineer lived at Cincinnatti, and re¬
ceived treatment iu that j city lor bis disease
but without any special benefit. After bo
iug suspended eight mouths the engineer
again came to Dr. Clark aud insisted that
he could hear perfectly while on a moving
engine. Tho doctor thonght he would
test the case, and accompanying tho man
to Cincinnati, msde a number of experi¬
ments on engines. The result was that
tho doctor found the engineer was not on¬
ly telling the truth in regard to the matter
but also that the deaf man could bear low
semarks and whispers on a moving engine
that even Dr. Clark’s keen car failed to
catch. t he engineer was reinstated iu
his former place.
In Maryland a man with seven wives
has been jailed. The law sometimes helps
a man out of a very bad scrape.
A woman in Bridgeport, Conn-, has a
good joke on her husband. He hated her
pet poodle and in trying to kick it down
stairs he lost his balance and broke his
neck,
KNOXVILLE, GEORGIA., JULY 20, 1888
Sandy I’olDt Siftings.
Sandy Point, Ga.. July 16th—Some of
us wore awfully disappointed when the fiat
went forth* there will ho no barbecue in
Knoxville. We tried to console ourselves
by thinking wo poor mortals can’t always
have things; to please us. That is poor
consolation, however, we don’t ftel like
“shuffling off this mortal coil,” hut want
us to have a picnic. Why can’t we ?
The farmers are up with their work.
Corn and. cotton never looked better at this
time of year.
Mrs. S. J. Culvevhouse has returned to
her home nearKnoxville, after two weeks
stay with. her. daughter, Mrs. L. V. Low
man.
Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Ellis of near Holton
have been spending several days among
friends aud relatives.
Mr. McMullen and wife of Macon are out
on a visit to Mrs. Hatchev aud family.
Miss Alice Williams has opened her
school with fair prospects- fo a good school
this term.
Miss Lizzie Long has resumed her school
duties at the Rock Spring academy. She
too, has a good school. AJi success to the
ladies.
Miss Lee Ellis has returned after a de¬
lightful visit, to friends and. relatives in
Macon.
Dr. Dewberry and Mr. Ad Jackson, two
of Ceres gallant young men, were at the
singing Sunday. Of course they stopped
to see the girls.
Water, melons in those parts, are as scarce
as hen’s teeth. If the railroad came this
way we might have some impoT l.(?)
Yucatan wo might say lots to yon about
your iast accusations. V." it an old Wid¬
ower told U3 to say. to you, aud how he
would stand by, iu all emergecies, but we
“refrain” and advise you to “don’t” next
time. Steel Point.
Ttieoght it-would Eiill Him.
Cuffeeville, Miss., February 20 1888,
GentlemenI suffered with exzema for
nearly two years, and was treated; by,three
physicians, but they couhl do me no good.
I spoke of-trying S. S. S. and they told me
it would kill roe, but I tried it any
and-after taking six bottles, I was complete¬
ly cured, and cave never beeu bothered
since with it, anil 1 feel it a duty to you and
suffering humanity to make this statement,
H. 8. Davis.
Monport House, Wills Point, Texas.
To the Swift Specific Co., Atlanta Ga.
Gentlemen ; Our baby when but two weeks
old was attacked with a scrofulous affec
tion th it for a time destroyed her eyesight
entirely, and caused us to despair of her
life. She was treated by the best physi
ciaus without benefit. We finally gave
her Swift's Specific, which soon relieved
her completely and she is now as hale and
hearty a child of three as can lie found any
where. E. V. Dels.
Treatise on Blood and Skin Diseases
mailed free.
r lho Swift Specific Co., Drawer 3
Atlanta Ga.
A pretty good toast—“May you be hung
drawn aud quartered ! Hung high above
the reach of adversity ; drawn in a carri¬
age of your own, a nd quartered in the
arms of those you love.
The Thomasvitic Times requests that the
press pass around Ed Marshall and \Ym.
Crow, vendors of of patent medicines and
prize boxes, who jumped their board bills
at Tliomasville,
Why the PrcachcrLaughed.
“I only laughed in the pulpit once,”
said a young preacher. “It happened in
this manner: I was preaching at a certain
place one Sunday, and during the sermon
I caught sight of a young dandy who had
a fiery red hair, immediately behind him
sat a little urdhin. The young scapegrace
was amusing himself. He held one of his
fingers out near the dandy’s liair. After
keeping it there for a short time he drew it
in, and placing it on bis knee commenced
pounding it with his other fist, imitating a
blacksmith hammering a red-hot nail^
The whole thing was so ludicrous that I
burst out laughing. I could’nt help it.
Ex
From Mr. W. B». Harrison.
Nashville, Tenn., May 2, 1888—1
have used Switt’s Specific in my family for
some time, and believe it to be an excellent
remedy for all impurities of the blood. In
my own case, I believe I have warded off a
severe attack of rheumatism in the shoul
by a. timely v.esoit to this efficient semedy.
in ail cases where a permanent relief is
sought this medicine commends itself for a
constitutional treatment that thoroughty
eradicates -the seeds of disease from the
system. W. P. Harrison
Cancer of t-toe Kje Cored.
Atlanta. Ga-, February 14,1888.
The S?,iK* Sj icT C-S-, Ga
Gentlemen: yfcont three years ago, Jerry
Bradley a colored man, had a caucerous
sore on his face, near the right eye. It
consed him a great deal of pain, and he
lost the sight of the eye, but was finally
cured of the ulcer by the use of Swiff’s
SbcciSc. This case is well known in
Wilkes county, Ga.. where ho lived, near
Danburg, and of this case, I myself had
personal knowledge.
T. C. McClendon, J* P.
Treatise on Blood and Skin Diseaces
mailed free.
The Swift Specific Co., Drawer 3 At¬
lanta, Ga.,
I,evel Hearted <b!irl».
The young ladies of a wtstern town at- a
recent meeting passed the following reso’u
tion : “That we wi[l not marry any one
who is not a patron of,home newspapers,,
for it is not only evidence of' the want of
but, that he will prove too
stingy to provide for his family, edneate
children or encourage institutions of
in his community.” A greater
than this was never spoken.—Ex.
General Meeting.
The general meeting of the Eastern Dis¬
trict of the Centennial Association convenes
with the church at Oak Grove, Crawford
county, Ga., on Friday before the first Sab¬
in August. Programme querries,: Are
our country churches prospering, if not
what is the cause ? Dicussion opened by
J. A. Jackson. How shall we secure, the
individual and active cooperation of the
members of the cburchjin the prayer meet¬
ing services? W. O. Sharp. How shall
we awaken a deeper interest in the cause of
missions? G. W. White. Introductory
sermon by \Y.\V, Arnold.
E. Rowell
Chairman Com.
Capt. John Keely, the grea dry goods
mershaut at Atlanta, is dead.
NUMBER 26.
Two Curses.
The Augusta Chronicle has been com¬
paring the value of the agricultural
products of 1870 with that of 1887, and
the comparison speaks well for the indus¬
try of the Southern people.
The production of cotton has increased
from 3,000.000 bales in 1870, to 6,300,000
in 1887. Wc made 07 per cent more corn,
54 per cent more wheat and 155 per cent
more oats than 17 years before.
During that time the population has not
increased in the South half as much as its
agricultural production. This shows that
each individual produced more in 1887
than in 1870, and refutes the idea so
common that the Southern people lack
industry and energy.
But in spite of the increase the in produc¬
tion, so much larger than increase in
population, there has been no increase
worth mentioning in the value of land, or
in the property of the farmers. They are¬
as poor today as they were in 1870.
Where is the fault for this state of affair.? ?
Not in the farmers themselves. No class
of people work harder. The rising sun
finds most of them fighting hard their bat¬
tles against poverty, and when the clay is
doue, its last light shines upon them still
toiling, still striving to earn their daily
bread, and lay up a little property for old
age. If that is honorable, the farmers of
the South should be the most honored men
in the world. Their industry is proven
beyond controversy by the crops they have
made.
The trouble is not a fault of the farmers,
but of tht laws that grind them down and
opprets them. They are taxed to supnoit
the capitalists who are enjoying the lux
.t. -> wealth gives, who are a thou¬
sand miles away and who value the South¬
ern fanner only for his contribution to the
tariff fund, and beyond this do not care
whether he prospers or starves.
There are twin evils that are destroying
the wealth of the country. We are glad
to see that thB people are aroused to fight,
them. The press all over the country is
attacking our bad collection of debts. We
will win the fight, and unless we are mis¬
taken, will, soon see onr people af all classes
enjoying the fruits of Their industry—
prosperous, progressive and happy.
Another great evil is bad collection laws.
Such laws make the farmer pay a price for
credit which makes him poor and will
keep him poor forever, i’he State of
Georgia.can remedy this evil. The great¬
est anti-poverty fight that can be made is
the tight that will destroy all laws which
are intended to help men keep from pay¬
ing their debts.
SOME STRONG POINTS.
The strong points of the Union Cen-,.
tral mnv be boiled down into the fol¬
lowing dozen sentences which it will pay
you to paste in your hat:
It has the
LOWEST DEATH RATE.
It realizes the
HIGHEST INTEREST RATE
on its investments.
It pays the
largest dividends
to policy holders, aid has made the
MOST RAPID PROGRESS
of any company id the United States
It issues endowment insurance at
LIFE RATES.
It mokes its policies incontestable
NONFORFEITABLE.
It continues all policies in foVce, wiih
out surrender, bv the application of the
entire reserve thereth. It does not own
a dollar m
FLUCTUATING STGOKS & BONDS.
It imposes no restrictions on resi¬
dence or travel, and
Pays LOSSES Promptly.
W. I’. BLASINGaME,
Knoxville, Ga. Agent -