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GENERAL NEWS.
Coweta county has §4/000 in her treasu.
ry incold cash, and does.nt owe a cent.
It is rumored that a syndicate contem¬
plates the erection of a ¥75,000 hotel at
Cartersville,
The largest marble quarry in the world
is that of the Ocorgia niarhie company in
Pickens county.
It is estimated that Brooks county has
lost in the neighborhood of $ 40,000 on
melons this season.
The melon growers of Brooks county
have paid the transpotation companies
? 100,000 during the present season.
A charter has been granted the Talla¬
poosa glass works company, and an or¬
ganization has been perfected.
Marcus W. Snider of Schley county
gathered eight bushels of fine pte , ites
from ond tree. He sold a bushel of inifm
in Montezuma for $ 4 .
Four men met in Baxley Tuer'dav v. ho
weighodlaltogethei- lfillli pounds. Throe
of those men live in Baxley and ime in
the lower part of the county.
A radish weighing three and a half
pounds and mearuring twenty molm , in
circumference, is on exhibition in Dublin
It was grown by Dr. Buchan of Keedy
Springs.
Sunday evening dining an -electrical
storm at Wuitesburg, twelve miles west
of Newifan, John Culpepper had three
mules and one horse killed by lightning.
At Griffin, Judson Mathews, who was
kicked by r mule about seven weeks ago.
died Sunday alter the most intense suffer
iugs, Judsou had just entered his Had
year.
A. I,. Pridgen, living on tl:e old Mat¬
thews homestead, north of Sander vi.'ie,
has a stone which he cut from a dm. r ,u
Montgomery county a number of yeats
ago, and which is said to be a genuine
mad; tone.
There is a curious monstrosity on elder
Tipton's farm in Miller county. It is a
colt with the hoof of a cow. Otherwise
the animal is perfectly and well devel¬
oped for its age.
Tennille is elated over the prospects of
the A., G. and S. railroad being extended
from Sandersville to that point, sub¬
scriptions have been freely given, and
- 4he road is almost a certainty.
B- L, Smms, Alfred Dealing, John
Feck and A IIS Davis, ail of Coving'o?,
-performed a swimming feat on yellow
-river, on monday last, which is hard to
■ excel], They swain from Brown’s bridge
to Cedar Shoals, which is between three
sand-four miles.
Tuesday John Fills, who is workir.gf-.it
the Matthews mine, of Hall county, now
‘owned by A- J. Nichols of Gainesville,
found a nugget of gold weighing twenty
’ounces, worth over §300. This is one of
the largest pieces ever taken fiom the
mine.
Prof. Lawson B. Brown reports quite a
pteuomenon on his plantation in Burke
county. lie. has a well there 100 foot
deep, w'th about 4o feet of water in it.
About three months ago the water began
‘ boil with distinctly heard i-t
to up a rear
some distance. Tho disturbance contin
ed for weeks, then ceased for a short
‘time, and began again with equal vigor
The tenant on the place has recently
cleaned out the wet|4o the bottom, dis¬
covering no cause to produce the
nomonon.
A gent!: -aan of Hurtcounty positively
assert! that bis p iotln ;iv 5 enough
milk to nourish hoi healthy babe and
then has. to draw, a gallon of the lactei.I
11.id fton-'i- ' !: I ;;‘ ! a! means
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Gainesville Eagle: Ve have on re
iiably informed that a rich vein of tin h- s
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will assay from 20 to22 per cent of pure
tin, and that the supply is almost
haustible. H this is true, Northeist Gear
giaha8 another mineral product which
time with the celebrated,Cornwall mines
-of England.
Frank Williams, the miller with John
Wright of Greenesboro’ was bitten by a
moecasiu the other day.- Ip the mill is a
trough in which corn is kept- There is a
small opening in the trough* and Mr.
Williams, while stauding near, saw a rat
run out of it. Thinking there were more
rats in the trough, lie slapped his hand to
the opening. In a second more he felt a
sharp prick in the center of his hand and
instantly imagined lie had been bitten
by a snake. Camphor and other anti¬
dotes were applied, and Mr. Williams
expetionced no further inconvenience
from the bite, The trough was moved
and the corn taken out, and a monster
moccasin was found in the bottom. The
snake wss killed.
The Walton county News says that No¬
ah Thomas, an old colored man, who
livos a few miles from Monroe, who is
noted for his peculiarities, wrs on the
streets of the town Thursday. Some of
the boys subbested to him that be eat
some raw eggs, he told thorn that he
would be glad to get some, but he would
not start with less than two dozed- The
eggs were procured, and the old darkey
would break a small hole in each one to
see if it was fresh and sound, then he
would swallow it down, When he had
disposed of the two dozen he called for
more—he then ate about half dozen more
and told tho boys lie would call again.
Some time ago lie wastn town, and was
given a shad weighing nearly two-pounds
and to the surprise of many lookers-on
he ate it raw where he stood.
Monday afternoon during the parade
of the colored Odd Fellows, W. C- Truitt,
a white boy who clerks at Brotherlon’s
»»4».«o» .h. lack ofn, ,,. ht
one of tile cuts was serious.
Lyons was arrested and tried in tl, B
police court this morning and flned§ 50 75
,
Col. White of Sandersville, postal clerk
on the Augusta, Gibson and Sandersville
E. VAN WINKLE & CO.
ATLANTA, GA •t
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E. Van Winkle w & CO.,- - Atlanta, Ga.
,ju2-2-3 Post Office Box 83.
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railroad, has a sample of cotton' 1 taken
from Spread a shipment of thirty bpdes made
from to Augusta on yesterday,'by
Messrs. J. S. Stapleton & Son, The cot¬
ton was raised', packed and stored by the
late IIoh. Jgmes, Stapleton "in 1866, and
has been held for twenty-two years. Be¬
ing well protected, the bagging is well
preserved, and the sample shows no inju¬
ry from age.
Br e Moffett’s TEETKISA (Teething Powders)
Bowels, Allays Irritation, Aids Digestion, Regulates the
Easy and Strengthens Costs duly the 25 Cents. Child,makes Teeth hi Teething
Eruptions a cures
and Sores, and nothing equals it for
the Summer troubles of Children of any age. It
is safe and sure, Try it and you Tylll never be
without TEETHINA as long as there ars ehiicl*
Sea ia the House, Ash your Druggist*
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Miss Blanche Lmrant rode sixteen miles
on last Sabbath on a tricicle in two hours.
The trip was made near Atlanta in com¬
pany with Rer two brothers.
SOME STRONG POINTS.
The strong points of the Union Cen
tkal may be boiled down into the fol¬
lowing to paste dozen in sentences which it will pay
you your hat;
It has the
LOWEST DEATH RATE.
It realizes the
HIGHEST INTEREST RATE
on its investments.
It pays the
largest dividends
to policy MOST holders, and has made the
RAPID PROGRESS
of any company id the United States
It issues endowment insurance at
LIFE RATES.
It mokes its policies iucontestable
It NONFORFEITABLE.
continues all policies in force, with¬
out surrender, by the application of the
entire reserve thereth. It does not own
a dollar in
FLUCTUATING STGCKS & BONDS.
It imposes no rostriotions on resi¬
dence or travel, and
PAYS LOSSES Promptly.
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Knoxville, Ga. Aoent,
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