GENERAL NEWS.
An effort is being made to get up a sham
battle to take place during the Northeast
' Georgia fair.
The BronwoOd Reporter has been sold
to stock company in Shellinan and will be
published in that place.
A gentleman living near Lexington has
an 18-months- old child 'that weighs one
third as much as he.
Charles Maddox of IroriSprings district,
Butts county, has one fourth of an acre ip
sngar cane that will make lUO gallons of
' syrup.
J, P. Echols of Bellton' has a' pair of
spectacles that have been in constant use
in his family for over seventy five years.
They are rough and crude looking, the
’ frames are heavy and tho glasses small and
thick
A negro man created considerable
amusement at 'Greenesbbro on Saturday
last by' Tiding through tewnori'a monster
ox • The' a nim al was bridled'atkl - saddled
■ and moted through the‘'city at arapid
pace.
t>r. Kendrick of Crawford villc says that
■there was a quantity of fodder at his far
ther'a at. the time of his death that was
made by slaves during the first yoar of the
war, about 27-years ago. He says it looks
iis bright as this year’s fodder.
Hon. H. N. CarltoD, representative in
-congress, has addressed an open letter to
’the’Athens Banner-Watchman, in which
'he advises farmers not to buy bagging at
present prices, as it can and will sobn be
• imported at-eheaper prices.
Two boys, Horace Bishop and Charles
Appleby, of Branford, Conn., took soda
whter at a drug store in that town, yester¬
day, and wei immediately taken sick, dying
within aa hour. An investigation revealed
tho fact that tincture of acohite -had been
‘mixed with the soda insfead of syrup.
Robert J. Lotta, the clerk who made the
■ fatal error, has been ai rested.
’The cotton buyers of Athens- have issued
‘ a circular' to the farmers, complaining of
the common practice of using an unneces¬
sary amount- of bagging on 1 their bales, and
•stating that they will hereafter make de
-ductions on this'-overplas. Many planters
nee twice as many yards • of -bagging on
their cotton bales as necessary.
• About twelve days ago a"registered let¬
ter pouch, which had been made up in the
Atlanta postoffice to be dispatched to Rome
ivaa found by the postal clerk with a hole
cut in the side. -An examination of the
qnVuch showed that five or six registered
letters were missing from the pouch. It
: has been learned since then that there was
very little money in the letters, probably
not mere than five dol.ars. There is no
clew to the robbery, but it is supposed to
have been committed by burglars.
The cotton factories in and around
Athens have sold the last yard of second¬
hand baggiDg they had atid farmers are
clamorous for more. This bagging was sold
at 4 cents per pound less than the new and
answered every purpose. Planters are only
.purchasing enough bagging to answer
present and prestin demands, and threaten
to permit their cotton to remain unginned
before submitting to the extoftion of the
trust.
A citizen of Halatka'hurried down to
prominent business man’s office, Friday,
and said a girlhad come into the city with¬
out a certificate. The business tnan'be
•came excited, rushed around and blew'the
quarantine officers sky high for not per¬
forming their duty. Then the health
board was informed, and that body repri¬
manded the officers in severe terms.
While the pot was bdilidg and'indiguaiion
'ran high, it was discovered that a baby
girl had only been born to the wife of that
citizen Then the excitement died out,
Huid a universal smile came over the troubled
%*ter.~
A very aemarkable duck is owned
T. Bally of Kingston. It has four legs,
four wings, two tails and one head. It wil
be exhibited at the 'North Georgia and
Alabama exposition.
The negro, Dr. Pomell, who was arrest¬
ed at Amcricus Tuesday for assault and
attempt tojmurder, was given a preliminary
rial Wednesday, and sent to jail in default
of a $600 bond.
The negroes living in the settlement be¬
tween St. Paul’s church ahd Tattnal
at Macon are greatly worked up by a negro
man without a vestige of clothing-stalking
about apparently aimlessly in that section.
According to the account given of him, he
has been shot at by those who wanted
pnta stop'to such'antics.
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Fifty acres of well drained Bottom Lands
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