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VOLUME I.
ITKJ1S FROM 41 JESSES
Presuming Watchman is napping at his
post, since he is silent respecting passiog
events the writer offers a few dots' from
Ceres.
Gathering and marketing the “fleecy
staple” and grinding and boiling the juicy
sorgurn is the order of the day.
Knoxville must look to her laurels siuce
wc have “Moore” energy ond enterprise.
Whan we hear the thrill whistle of the
locomotive, receive our daily' mail ami sec
the beautiful homes springing up in ou
midst we feel like we had awakened from
a Kip Van Winkle sleep. It fills us with
ptine to know that. Knoxville to is makiug
such gigantic, strides. Hfirrah for Craw¬
ford ! "There is life in the old land yet,”
'lhe following young ladies have recent¬
ly visited Miss Matilu Hatcher of this place:
Miss Belle Moire, Valdosta; Miss May
Stafford, BaroosviHe; Miss Nina Williams,
Americus ; .Miss LilaEverette, Fort Valley;
Miss Forine Cox, Perry; Miss Viola
Winfield and Mrs. Byers. Culloden.
Misses Williams aud Cox are still lending
us their charming presence.
The, young ladies are enthusiastic on
the gallantry of Mr. Maner, the gentleman
ly conductor on the A. & F. Railroad.
No wonder, when ho is ready to carpet
the streets with his coat to protect their,
dainty feet.
Weave eager for the weekly visits' of
The Joukxal. We want to see how far
Knoxville has traveled since the week be¬
fore. SUDSCIUBEB.
Sandy sum Mg's.
School closed at this place last
Miss.Alice tnriWd Williams, the teacher, has
home aud is enjoying the
immensely.
Mrs Joe Amos of Taylor county
friends and relatives not long since.
Mr. Jud Williams with his genial smile
was in our midts last Sundry.
Some of our citizens attended the lecture
last Saturday night. We hcatd one youn g
iady say she prefered private lectures. Oi
course slut meant by some young-man,
Mr. G. P. Rivi"re of Barnesviilo and
and Miss Mattie Avmt of Knoxville were
down on a visit to Miss Alpha McManus
last Monday.
Dr. Yarbrough and his sister, Miss Ellie
were also on a visit to the Point last Mon¬
day eve.
Mrs. L. V. Lowtnan has returned after
severaf days stay with relatives at Knox¬
ville
Mr. O. W. Burnett and mother visited
relatives a few days ago.
Miss Lizzie Long has closed her school
at Hock Spring academy She has retain¬
ed home.
TsaE S-.Eirs'sraiE.
Dr. Clifton lias been here and delivered
his lecture.. The people had aniictj ated
something good, and they were more
pleased than they had expected. The
audience was not very large but it was ap¬
preciative, The Doctor and Col. L. D.
Moore were expected to come on the morn¬
ing train, but failed to make their appear¬
ance, and a report to the effect that they
were not coming' spread abroad, . which
report was the cause of a good many stay*
ing at home. It was not until late in the
afternoon that the learned Doctor put in
his appearance,.
If the lecture could ! be Repeated it is
pfobable that four .times as many would be
KNOXVILLE, GEORGIA., SEPT. 28, 1888
present to hear it. Dr. Clifton can enter
taian any audience with his lifelike illus¬
tration and his familiar way of handling
natural science.
CAPX BJ SB IK 8» A EWE St A lAP.tE
of'F’ive Years
At the September term, 188‘i of Craw
lord Superiot Court, the grand jury return¬
ed a true hill against Cyrus Ross ^colored)
elt .rging him with the offense of carrying
eon e.aled weapons. When the arresting
officer with his warrant went for the accus¬
ed, he had fled to parts unknown; and
during his absence from the county he has'
according to his own statement,, visited
several localities, nearly every one of which
sends-with him an accusation of crime.
However, none are of a nature more seri¬
ous than that, for which he stands endicted
by the grand jury' of our county. A few
ago Ross was in Fort Valley, sporting
two pistols (one of unusual size) nbcuu
his person, whereupon a posse of ciltizens
and captured him, probably
Iris-character and ofthe numerous
hanging over him. A. short time
Sheriff Hartley, hearing of bis
iu custody, went down after him and
linn back to Knexvile where he
now in the lock-up awaiting future
4»onc After Water*.
A story is told on a Fluidity school
er in a certain backwoods settlement in a
neighboring county, which is worth pub¬
lishing. She had a new class of young
scholars, the parents of which had neglected
to give any instruction in their chatechbm
whatever. Coming to the first boy in the
class she asked him who made him. He
dvl not know. She told him God, and
urged him to remember it. Of the next
hoy she asked who was the oldest man.
lie did not know, and the teacher told him
So she wont on down the
asking each a question and giving
the answer.
While she was thus engaged the first
hoy watt to the bucket after some- water.
The teacher returned to the head of the
class, and not- knowing that
ang was absent she asked the.first hoy who
made him. Without hesitating the- hoy
quickly replied, “Mettiiiselah."
No exclaimed the teacher in astonish¬
ment, God made you.
No he'clidn’t, persisted the urchin with
confidence, the boy God made is gone af¬
ter water. The teacher gaqe up the class
A StE-wMire (PJieiiosEteno«!.
On last Monday evening while Robert
Carroll was drawing a bucket of water
from the well of J. S. Rodgers he noticed a
strange noise somewhere abouts. After a
close examination it was found that the
noise was in the well, and something like
that of a half dozen swarms of bees. In a
few moments a large crowd had gathered
atouud, and in each one’s opinion, they
knew what the noise was. Otto said it was
water leaking in and around the curb, one
said it was gas escaping from somewhere,
o.ie said it was steam escaping from< the
lower region, etc. One old gentleman
stauding near tasted the water and said it
was several degrees hotter tbaD it had been
and that h— was not a quarter of a mile
from that place, aud that he believed he
would drive on. $g|t, however, now the
well has quit singing and the water . has
got cool again.—Ex. I
Living Willi S&us Keck SSroUcn.
Barney Baldwin, the man with the bro¬
ken neck, used to be yardmastor of the
Louisville and Nashville railroad in Binn¬
ing ham, Ala. He was run over in a col¬
lision March Iff, 1887. He was generally
broken up. Legs, arms, ribs and neck
were broken. He wasconfined to bed for
over six months and recovered "by the
skin of his teeth.” He is perpetually in a
tight leather jacket to which is fastened a
steel baud that supports his head and neck.
He is unable to lie down, and only deeps
three hours out of every twenty-four. This
he does sitting in a rocking chair, covered
blankets.—Ex.
A. Birragg-isl’s Xestimony,.
The Swift Specific Co., Atlanta, Ga. :
Gentlemen— 1 used your Syceific a few
years ago with a very ol stiaate and malig¬
nant case of scrofuiar, amt effected a radi¬
cal and ccmplefe cure. It was the case
a little colured girl, the daughter of a good
customer of wine. Tile wife hail died and
also several children with scrofuiar cr con¬
sumption. This was the last living child
aud she had the worst ease of Scrofuiar I
ever saw. Sue had a great many lumps
and holts in different- pLn.es about her face
aud neck so that she looked deformed. Ho
had tried a great ntatig remedies aud ha-1
lost all hope, when I ins stod upon his try¬
ing Swift’s Specific. He consented at last,
if I would credit him until he could make
a crop, whssh 1 did. Before he had used
a half dsxen bottles he reported the child
well. Tern months after when I left the
place, there ban been no reappearance of
the disease. Three years have passed now
and no return; I believe a permanent cute
I am using S, S.- S. on another chronic
case of Scrofula, and it .is growing better
everyday. R.' E. Novara, Druggist.
Martin-, Teun., May 20. 13S8.
Treatise on Blood and Skin Diseases
mailed free.
The Swift Specific, Co., Drawer 3 At¬
lanta, Ga.
«EI4>aJNi!»S FOB HM'i'tSmCE.
Below i3 reproduced a law which was
in force in England until the year 1770
The signs of the times in our own coun¬
try are such as to lead suspecting parsons
into the belief that the enactment of siui
lar law may soon become necessary for
the protection of men who are easily
by smiles and artificial fixtures. Here is
the aged statute, which will be interest¬
ing to many and possibly profitable to a
few : “Whosoever shall entice into mat¬
rimony any male subject
of Her Majesty’s by means of rouge,
white paint, Spanish cotton, steel cossets
crinoline, high heeled shoes or false hips
shall be prosecuted for witchcraft aud
the mawriage declared null and void.
A Hafer, Sr., of Eatonton, smokes a
pipe every day that tradition says is over
200 years old. On an average twelve
pounns of-tobacco are now annually con¬
sumed in this pipe. Assuming that this
has been about the average of eon
sumption since the day of its iuitiatiou.
2,400‘pounds of the weed have been burned
in its bowl. The cost of this tobacco
can safely be put down at $12, Now
if the first twelve dollars thus spent had
been put out at compound interest at the
rate of 10 per cent., it would hare grown
the snug little sum of 1,766,448,200.
NUMBER 36.
SSc Was iiavefuolect
Last night Jack Oliv'er, a white boy a
bout fourteen years of age, was sent by his.
father to a shoe shop to get a pair of shoes
which had been left to he mended.
When Jack was returning to his nomo
on Larkin street about eight o'clock he was
met by a negro who asked for a match.,
when.the boy was putting his hand into
Ins pocket to get the match, lie-was struck
on the head hv the negro and the shoes
were jetked from tinder his arm.
The negro ran down the street. The-as¬
sault had been made near the boy’s home,.,
and he ran into the house, and securing a.
pistol chased the thief. Once lie was in
sight of the negro and fired three shots at
him.
’The thief escaped by jumping down a
railroad embankment thirty feet high.—
Evening Journal
A S.Stfite 4*f oFE3oy«i.
\\ T e have going the
seen rounds severa
compositions written by boys on the sub¬
ject of girls. Here is a little girl’s com
position on boys, in which she shows that
hei sex, no matter ho w young, can get
ahead of the boys every time ; Boys are
men that have not got as big as their pa¬
pas, and girls are young women that will
young ladies by ami by. Man was
before women. iVh’en God looked'
at Adam lie said to himself, ‘Well, I
guess I can do better if I try again,’ and
then he made Eve God liked Eve so
much better than Adam that there have
been more women than men gver since
Hoys are a trouble. They are wearing' on
everything but soap. If I had my way
half the boys in the world would lie lit¬
tle girls, and the rest would he dolls.
My papa is so nice that I guess he- must
have been a girl when he was a b'oy,”
In two days last week Mrs. II, McWhor¬
ter of Lexington had twenty-two half
grown turkeys die mysteriously, Not
thinking ot the cosequences Mr. McWhor’
ter had them thrown in his fish pond at
food for his fish, and a day or two later
discovered that he had killed every frog
and tadpole and a great mtmbe.t of fifah
therein. It has since been learned that
the turkeys died from eating salty bran
that had been ted to cows.
At Americus Wednesday morning, near
theartesian well. Mr Willett was doctoring
a sick horse by pouring water on oil him.
This relieved him so much that he got up.
Mr. Willett, thinking that a little exercise
would do him good, allowed him to walk
olf. lie made a bee line for Dr. Eldridge’s
drug on Jackson street and walked in,
with policeman Feagin close behind. Dr.
Eldridge, not knowing exactly how to treat
a sick horse, gently turned him around
at.d started him off in another direction..
He then visited Dr. Hall’s drug store.
Wednesday last Mrs. A. W. Parker, of
the Twenty-eighth district, of Sumter, was
out in the yard gathering chips, when she
a large fox squirrel run up a tall pine
tree near by. As she felt a kind of a de¬
sire for squirrel, she went into the house,
took down the old shotgun and went foi
the squirrel. The little animal saw that
there was to be a bard fight for life, and
ran to the highest point* of the tree and
flattened out. The keen eyes of the lady:
found the object she sought, awl,, taking
deliberate aim the gun was fired and the
squirrel jumped about ten feet high end.
tumbled down at the feet of the fair gunner
Parker says she killed it with her eyes,
there was not a shot to, bo fouc ' about tia.i
animal. .