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t CsSSEgsJ 5 H " p 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. .