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VOLUME I.
KilckeryGrove Happenings.
Mr. A, C. Morgan was interred at the
fiharp ?ravc«yard‘ near here, yesterday.
He had beeu sick a long time with a tumor
or abscess of the spleen. He leaves a
wife and twelve children to mourn, his de¬
mise.
"We have been blessed with good taius for
the last week. Potatoes, peas and turnips
arc all O. K. Cotton is opening rapidly.
Grass is plentiful and if the farmers wilj
only save it ’twill supplement the grain
crop.
Sorghum-cane is being ground up into
syrup and there is a large acreage planted
in our neighborhood this year. The farm¬
ers have found out tiiat the seed is worth
as much as the land would make in corn
—therefore the 3yrup is a clear prof’-.
Some few people are sowing grain. Now
is the time to sow rye and fall-oats
Mr John \Y. Hammock killed a very
large rattle-suake Monday which had
seven rattles and one button.
Misses Miltie ana Josie Harrison aud
Miss Florrie Blasingame spent Sunday
night in our ville, ou their way from the
camp-meeting. The young ladies are
pretty and intelligent and aud some of our
coys think they r.re just too lovely to live
alone ; to wit; Cur Charlie, onr Jog aud
oar Archie. I met one of the young men
yesterday and his mind seemed to be
wandering ou by-gouc scenes and pleasures.
Onr Charlie speaks of taking a trip soon
to Florence.
Our Alliance is on the increase—34
members now and have demitted nine.
We speak of getting up an oil mill at this
place, and if some c apitalisl will come along
and open up the iron aud lead mine that
is near here; who knows but what Hick¬
ory Grove will be to Georgia what Birm¬
ingham has been to Alabama.
Uardca Seed In
gia.
The followiug is taken from the
nballvilla Times concerning a
truck grower near that placo, !t
what cau be done in the way of
garden seed in Georgia.
Mr. L. A. Humph is one of the
neers of our county in the truck and seed
business, and his exhibit at the Lair 3kews
that he has gone by rapid strides to the
front in business, lu the exhibit were
twenty-one different varieties of garden
seed, to wit: New York eggplant, white
velvet okra , toll while okra, dwarf white
okra, Georgia col turds, giant curled mus¬
tard, pearl millet, white pine cucumber,
white bush squash, early valentine beans,
king of garden lima beans, savory squash,
yellow globe turnip, extra maleua turnip,
German curled kale, coiled endive, palmet¬
to asparagus and kohl rabi- Mr. Rumph's
reputation as a grower of reliable seed is
not confined to this community but has
gone abroad and he finds no tronb ! e in
placing his seed on the market. His truck
farm is well and neatly arranged and ev¬
ery branch of the business is closely over¬
looked by him in person, he leaves nothing
to his laborers that requires his
attention and in that way keeps up the
reputation that he has so justly earned.
Mr. Rumph’s success plainly shows that
cotton is not the farmers’ only resource for
money. Try every thing that, your land
will pioduce and yon will live more com¬
fortable, even if you realize no more mon¬
ey, from your crops,
Work on the new barrel fectory at'Can
ton will begin this woek. .
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GEORGIA., . 1888.
A. Cara front Mr. SaumiSrs,
Mr. Suitor: —In the Journal of Aug-
3rd, is a piece from Mr. Burnett, purporting
to be a Teply to a card of mine of July 9th.
Why did . he not show up felly and squarely
instead of dodging around add trying to
make it appear that I charged his constit¬
uents with the “epithets” as used in my
card, I intended these “epithots” to apply
as I used them, to two or three Poli¬
ticians that took a very active stand against
me. If Mr. B will refer to Webster he
will find considerable difference in a Poli¬
tician and a Voter.
If the voters of Crawford county that
voted for Mr. B, all consider themselves
Politicians of the type 1 alluded to, why
then certainly they are included, as Mr. B
says. If not, why tbon Mr. B is trying to
create a feeling of malice on the part of
them against me. As to the charges Mr.
B used against me, and his reply, as al¬
ready stated, he has dodged entirely, after
scouting over a portion of the county to
get up certificates as he was advised to do,
and have them published. Furthermore,
“that he bad been reliably informed that I
canvassed among my intimate friends, in
my interest as an Independent Cadidate
aud that he is able to substantiate: the
charge by the testimony of reliable citizens
etc.” Thejburdcn of the proof is still upon
him. Why don’t he show up ? I don’t
think I have an intimate friend in the
county but what has moral courage e
neugh to acknowledge if -1 approached
him upon the subject of independentism.
Mr. T. J. Martin an uncle of Mr. Burnett
and a friend of mine, certainly remembers
a conversation I had with him not far from
Mount Paron church, prior to the last elec
lection, in which I stated to him, that
Henry w-ns circulating that I would be an
Independent Candidate against biro. I
told him that I wanted him to see Henry
and put a stop to it, that I had no idea ol
such a thing, and that if 1 knew 1 could
be elected as such, I would not suffer my
name to ba used. Furthermore, that if I
should have any political aspirations in
the future it would have tendency to
Mr. Martin told me he would see
Henry and put a stop to it, which I be¬
he did, for I heard no more of it until
last campaign, and then right upon
heel oi it, when it was impossible to be
I think Mr. Martin is a gen¬
possessed of honor enough to give
the benefit of that eouversation-
Mr. Burnett further chaiges, that if I
had been a loyal democrat, l would not
have tried to prove him guilty of forgery.
That is something entirely now to me.
Never knew that he was suspected of such
much loss that it was attempted to be
proven upon him. I deny knowing any
thing of the matter. He says he can prove
it by reliable testimony. I demand it.
He is a “worser” cat than I thought. Air.
B didn’t doubt my loyalty as a democrat,
when he solicited.* certain party to come
to see me and get me not to oppose him
lor Clerk but offer for Representative, and
torm a combination with him aud another
candidate. If I was disloyal as he claims,
what construction can be placed upon
him V He knowing me to be disloyal—he
trying to get a disloyal party before the
people, and trying to form a disloyal com¬
bination. Why doubly disloyal.
As to my being at McGee Bros., Mr. B has
modified his chrage considerably. Only
think, “the pot calling the kettle black.”
I don’t deny being at McGee Bros. Was
Mr. B never there ? I don’t deny taking
a drink or two. Did Mr. B never .do the
same ? Don’t he do it yet ? I don’t slip
behind the curtain to do what I do, and
try to cloak and conceal it- Can Mr. B
say the same ? If Mr. B had only put
that modified phase on it at first. I would
not have noticed it at all. But he
ed it in such language as to make itappoar
that I was there beastly, and-* kicking up
generally.
Now fellow citizens doh,t you call that
attacking my private record, and being a
candidate on my domerits.
As Mr. B “does not recognize: the- press
as the proper medium through which to
enter into controversies,” I don't know how
to get at him. He is like the Irishman’s
flea. Wheu you. think you've got
hand on him, “he ain’t thar," 1 want
him where I can put my. hand onhim and
say he is here. The only way is to get it
in white and black. Mr. B thinks I
ought to bold him personally responsible
for any false statements made by him. I
claim that I have held him responsible
and he has so acknowledged, when he
states that all special charges are against
him in person. He is the one that the
pill was administered to, and he is the one
who will have to swallow it, unless be
produces his reliable authority. Until
he dees so, the brand that has been put
upon him, Cain like, he will have to wear.
Respectfully, H. C. Saunders.
E-a»S and i'«aad. •
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There was considerable
among the people in the- vicinity of Sel
nian’smiU from Friday. Aug. 17, to Mon
jay, Aug. 20, over the Iosb of a . little 2
year-old negro boy.- The mother of the
child left home Friday evening, _ and
child afterward left home, unnoticed,
in the direction of Selman’s milt. When
the child’s absence was discovered
family immediately instituted searoh.
the shades of the night grew deeper.** and
no traces of the lost child discovered
anxiety and excitement became more
tense, and as the news spread the
of seekers incieased and eager and
search was kept up all night, all day. Sat¬
urday aud until monday morning without
any cleat to the whereabouts of the little
wanderer.
The lost child was the topic of conversa¬
tion with all on Sunday, and search was
continued Monday morning with renewed
vigor, when little barefoot -tracks were .dis¬
covered near the head of the pond, which
were traced into a briar patch and swamp
so dense that it seemed impossible for the
child to get through, but. being determined
to find out, they entered, sweeping the
swamp until they came to a deep ravine
into which some brush aDd treetops had
fallen and would have passed on without
having made any discovery, but for the
faint sound of a child’s voice coming from
among the brush in the bottom ot the
chasm, where the lost child lav almost
perished, ond having had its clothing
most entirely torn off, it -was -. sore • aud
swollen all over from briar scratches and
mosquito bites.
The child was living and doiDg very well
at last accounts.
Sherod H. Gay of Clayton county dis¬
posed of thirty-four bales of eotton at 9 3-
4 cents last week, some of whieh he has had
on hand over thirteen years, and most of
which be has had stored in his smoke house
seven or eight years The staple made
fine samples. The interest on the money
obtained for this cotton mould amount to
$800, or half as much as the cotton
brought. .
NUMBER 32.
Uetting Out of Debt.
Farmer’s Journal: —Another help to
getting out of debt is to make the farm
produce as far bb possible the family sup¬
plies. I know farmers in debt whe depend
on the butchers for almost the entire supply
of meat. Others who have large families -
take no pains to have vegetables, fruits,
poultry, etc., and are even careless about a
constant and regular supply of milk and -j
butter. Now, it is easy to plan so that
there shall be a small, steady income to
meet the little outgoes, and the most pros¬
perous farmers I have ever known were
those who rarely go to town without a
package ot butter, a basket of -feggs, sonic
poultry, fruit or vegetables to help pay the
bills. There is a great failure to live np tc
the privileges of the farm, as well as in¬
secure its profits, to the man who does not
look after the many small sourcesjof supply
and income which the farm furnishes
The most important advice-I * can give to »
the farmer in debt I believe to be to put =
more of thought into the work of his farm
and what I mean by this is that you should
decide upon a plan which is addapted to
your land’ your locality, and your own
taste and capacity. Half the' farm man
agement with which I am familiar is of
such a character that any man. could see
that it woul d fail of proSt, because the
owners are not studying to know what W ■
best for them, but ouly trying to copy aftev
so Hu, ^oue else. There is a lack of
persistency and a disposition to change thu •
plan of management too often. There avo
few localities where some line of farming
cannot be chosen that will prove profita¬
ble, but in choosing we must act deliberate
aud wisely , and having chosen, must ad¬
here persistently to our plans.- Lastly, wr
must not grow discouraged if our progress -
Is slow. The position of a farmer put of
debt and with a farm in good condition
as regards-fertility, buildings, fences, etc. ,,
is one worth a long struggle, aud I know
no man more to be envied than-the one
who between the age of 40 and 50 find.
himself in this condition.
A minister,a Conviction.
Rev, 0. W. Winkfield, of Union Point,
Ga., suffered terribly for twelve years from
articular and sciatic rheumatism. He
consulted numerous physicians- and tried
all sorts of medicine. Filially he began
the Swift Specific as a forforn hope
and by its use he was entirely restored
He writes: “I foellikea new man. I .■
cannot attribute my miraculous and per¬
fect cure to anything but the Swif Spe
cific. I know that it alone cured me, for -
nothing else had done me any’good for
twelve years. I owe my restoration and
strength for labor and religious duties Mom
this grand remedy, and gladly make
this statement for the lienefiit of -all suffer
ers from this most torturing*, disease— -
rheumatism.”
Treatise on- Blood aud* Skla-t Diseases -
mailed free.
The Swift Specific, Co 1 .;- Drawer*. 3 At¬
lanta, Ga.
J. F. Hart of Uniou Point .has-formed a
stock company in Birmingham' and con*- -
me need ,t he manufacture ofhis patent rail¬
road- switcli In that city. The Howd-l save -
work will be rapidly pushed, as aoBnlt
dozen roads are now waiting to secur»»the ■
turnouts, and the orders on hand are
than can be filled for several, mouther-*..