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GENERAL NEWS.
The Senoia ice factory will be in opera¬
tion about six weed s from now
It is rumored that a large cotton factory
will soon be built at West Point.
Dick Melvin of Albany says he can eat
twenty boxes of sardines at one sitting.
A potato two and a half feet long has
been dag np within*a day or two on W.
G. Wall’s place at Dawson.
A Smithvillc man cut a large cabbage in
half, fresh pulled from his garden, and was
horrified to see a small rattlesnake crawl
out of it.
The Frincoton factory at Athens has
consented to buy cotton from farmers and
furnish them second-hand bagging free to
do it up in.
While digging a well On D. K. Butler’s
place, near Camilla , a day or two ago, a
vein 6 feet thick of umber of fine quality
■was discovered.
Rev. P. L. York of Dawson has sold $30
worth ot grapes from his scuppernong vine
this seasou, beside s what his children have
gathered and sold. The vine is yet full,
Rev. Howard R. Williams of Monroe re¬
ports a most enterprising hen. She is now
scratching for her fourth brood of chickens,
haviug laid, set and hatched four times
this year.
The prevalence of typho-malafial fever in
a neighborhood one and a half miles north
of Pendergrass is proving far more fatal
than the yellow fever cf Florida. Out of
nine cases fully 50 per cent, have died, with
many of the others still in a critical condi¬
tion .
fifty years ago Judge John Stilwell, of
Griffin, was married to Miss AniiaT. Knott.
Ou Tuesday of this week they celebrated
' their golden wedding. There were present
four daughters, five sons-in-law and twenty
three gradchildron.
At Athens. Friday, Col. James M. Smith
bought enough bagging for 1,080 bales of
eotton. He says that this year tho farmers
are powerless and he secs nothing left but
to submit to tlis exactions of tho trust and
buy their bagging as heretofore.
FAIR PLAY!!
M C GEE BROS.
Are in the ring and must have a showing
Fresh Groceries.
Flcar, Sugar, Coffee, Drugs
and Canned Goods.
All grades corn an i Rye
Home-made Peach Brandy.
Lager Peer, Imported Rum
Imported Snuff Gin. and Cigars.
Tobacco,
DO YOU WANT A
If so you can be suited with what
offered here.
A Well Improved
Of 70 Acres. Good Dwelling,
7 Tenant Houses, Large Barn,
all new. Nice Orchard
Vineyard, Splendid Water
Plenty of it.
Also Plantation of 320
Fifty acres of well drained Bottom
in this tract, and Fifty acres covered
Original Timber. Goon Barn on the place.
ALSO A FARM of 287 ACRES.
q)n this place ate a gin house and a
house. Lauds are producing good crops.
Fences Extra Good.
HPlrst Class Buyers will Find
TEEMS EASY.
-Apply to B. H. R A Y,
Macon, Gte.’
Tho latest from Madison county is by a
reliable gentleman who says that passing
botis'e he saw thirteen girl children, all
the same size, sitting on one stump. They
were also all red headed.
On last Saturday the negroes in conven¬
tion at Bainbridge nominated Noah Keaton
a bright mulato of Mitchell county, for
seuator, aud Wisdom Nicholson and John
R. Williams for the house.
A few days ago a negro school teacher
at Cork, Butts county caught up a little
girl of Tobe Williams, and kissed her.
soon as Mr. Williams hoard of it he
him a severe whipping with his buggy
whip. The negro obtained a warrant
Mr, Williams’ arrest for assault and
tery, but before the case was called the
gro had left for a more congenial climate.
Boss Potter, a white man of the twenty
eighth district of Sumter county had a
very exciting time with one of his hogs last
week. When he first noticed her she was
all in a quiver of excitement, rooting and
biting the earth into great- big mouthfuls.
She would jump on any object, seize it,
shake and bite, and grow! the wholo time.
Potter saw she was mud and conclnded to
make himself scarce around her, but she
saw him as he started off, and made a dash
with open month, glaring eyes and foam
flying in every direction. Potter jumped
over the fence and the sow thought she
would “chaw” it up ; while Potter went for
a gun and help. The sow Was eventually
killed.
Di c Moffett’s TEETHIHA (Testhing Powers)
Bowels, Allays Irritation, Strengthens Aids the I;i£N?stioi>, Cbnd,make* Regulates Teething the
Eruptions tasy and Costs only 25 Cents, Teeth In a cure*
the Bummer and Sores, and nothing equals it for
troubles of Chi idren of any eege* Zi
is&afaandamre. without TEETHIN Try it and you will never fc*
Pen in the House* a as long ns there ara child-*
Ask. your Pruggist*
For Sale by Jones cc LeSueur, Knoxville
aud J. F. Hartley, Taylor Ga.
E, VAN WINKLE & CO.
ATLANTA, GA •1
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SAW MILLS, WIND MILLS, TANKS, SHAFTING ETC
ATX KINDS OF FOUNDRY WORK.
Write to us foi prices. W r e can save you money by purchasing direct.
izGome to Headquarters rwhat You want—
E. Van Winkle & CO.,- - Atlanta, Ga. 171:1
Post ‘Office Box 83. 7 i
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NEW MILLINERY GOODS,
MES. M. B. PIEECE
-HAS.—
a Choice Lot of Hats, Ribbons, Laces and other Novelties
new line of Hosiery and FallDress Goods. Babies' Hoods, cheap and pretty
have a lot of good and neat CLOAKS aud JACKETS. Prices very low.
■DRESSMAKING
the Latest Styles, cut by measure' My lady friends arc cordially invited to
to see me. to oc5
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—-Capacity from ,5000 to 50,000 Feet per Day.
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with this - mill the feed bounder Fash
Popular well the can and Perfect Control* It is now the most
as as most Saleable mill in tlie market
s aw Mi 1, Portable Corn Mills and DeLoach Rater Wheel* Etc.
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