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GENERAL NEWS.
Eev. Sam Jones is said to be worth over
>0,000. /
I Property iu Georgia has increased $123,
pO,000 in nine years.
J. L. House of Fish Creek at one slaugh
r on his farm killed 192 large rats.
Already 200 copies of the life of Bishop
ierce have been sold in Hancock county.
"The boys” want the brutal and old
Ishioned gander-pulling revived at the
lodge county fair.
Authur Simmons (colored), a planter of
Kirnter county, sold $1,800 worth af cotton
I Americus Monday.
I D. W. Cash and Miss Mattie Youug
[ere married at Dalton a few days a t o
rbile sitting in a buggy.
I Hog cholera is becoming prevalent in
litchoil county, and some apprehend that
( will amount to an epidemic.
Dp to this time last McDonough bad
pceived has over 1,000 bales oi cotton, aud this
par not received more than 100 up to
,te.
On account of flood damages, Augusta
p postponed the opening oi the expsuion
pitii ^November 8th, It will close Decern
pr 15 th
Mrs. Mary Barker of Forsyth county is
he mother of lilteeu pairs of twins, twelve
iris and eighteen boys, and twenty-three
he now living.
A wagon came into-Americus from the
ountiy Friday morning bearing nine
pavy bales of cotton, every one of which
las-eovered with white osnaburgs.
l-y 7 . ,: F. Morris, of Brunswick, of the Ea. t
[euntssee, Virginia and Georgia road, hab
curiosity in the shape of a postal card, on
[’Inch as written 1,4UU words, which can be
-read.
j Little Mattie Hogan was hr ught to
Franklin Tuesday lohave a toe amputated
tome months ago she dropped the tongue
If a little wagon on the great toe ol her
left foot. It continued to .grow worse uutil
[ho foot had swollen fearfully and the end
If the toe had decayek, making amputation
lecessary.
IFAIR PLAY!!
M°GEE BEOS.
L4ie in the ring and must have a showing
Fresh Groceries.
Flour, Sugar, Coffee, Drugs
aucl Canned Goods,
ft]] grades corn an A Rye liquors
Home-made Peach Brandy.
Lager Beer, Imported Imported Gin. Rum and
I Tobacco, Snuff and Cigars.
■0 YOU WANT A FARM?
; If so you can be suited with what isj
ffered here.
I N Well Improved Farm
>f 70 Acres. Good Dwelling:,
J Tenant Houses, Large Barn,
ill new. Nice Orchard and
Yineyard, Splendid Water and
Plenty of it.
ilco Plantation of 320 Acres
fifty acres of well drained Bottom Lands
n this tract, aud Fifty acres covered with
)riginal Timber. Good Barn on the place.
ALSO A FARM of 287 ACRES.
)n this place are a gin house and a tenant
louse. Lands are producing good crops.
Fences Extra Good.
Irst Class Buyers will Find
TERMS EASY.
ypply to B.H.RAY,
Maeon, Gtu
On the Mitchell's bridge hill in Clarke
county there has been discovered a clay
that is thought will make a first-cless arti¬
cle of mineral'paint. It is very inach like
ochra. «
An old negro woman who lived a mile or
two south of Guthbert, went out to the
well for a bucket of water last Sunday
evening, and -while drawiug it up, fell
down dead.
Cotton pickers around Americus are in
demand by the farmers, as their cotton
was mostly all blown out by the late wind
storms, and is ruining by lying around
loose ou the ground.
The warehousmen of Hawkinsvilfo now
pay a quarter of a dollar for eqerj bale oi
cotton carried to them. There is nq differ
euce among them in the price for strriug
cotton, but all charge the same.
At Louisville, Thursday night, some ras
cal turned a freight car loose ou the rail¬
road just beyond the river, and it came near
running into the washout, it was stopped
by striking the pole car which was badly
damaged.
William Tiner, of Arnericus, says that
his house dog became mad lust Monday
and he“kiiled him Friday morning, lie
kept the dog tied, but he broke loose, and
ia.i around in a circle, biting every thing in
his reach. lie bit down every weed and
bush iu a circle of 150 yards, the track he
was running. The flesh of the dog was as
red as flannel.
Dr. Moffett’s TEETM (Teething
Allays Irritation, Aids Di^stion, Repiilatps tho
Eruptions Easy and Cons only 25 CentsV^Teethina'curio
and Sores, and nothing equals it for
the bummer t roubles of Children of any age . It
itsafeatidsuix. without TEKTHINA Try It long and you will nerar ba
as as there aro-child*
Sea la the House. Ask your Druggist.
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fed VAN WINKLE
■MANTIFACTU ATLANTA, GA •!
cs RE-
Oottwm. @1133. Efiflis
and Oil EWaalmirlery
SAW MILLS, WIND MILLS, TANKS, SHAFTING ETC
ATT, KINDS OF FOUNDRY WORK. ^• 111111 ^
Write tons fox prices. We can save you money by purchasing direct.
—Come to Headquarters r„wliat You Want— m m
E. Van Winkle & CO.,- - Atlanta, Ga. - 'i
ju22-3 Post Office Box 83. ■i
NEW MILLINERY GOODS.
MRS. M. B. FIERCE
—-HAS,—
Quite a Choice Lot of Hats, Ribbons, Laces and other Novelties
Also new line of Hosiery and Fall Dress Goods. Babies' Hoods, cheat) and nretff ttT
X have a lot of good and neat CLOAKS aud JACKETS. Prices very low. P
DJRESiSMAIOLlvCS
e toteo S tyleS * CUt ooc“ eaSUte ‘ My ladv friends aro cordially invited to
wme mc. t
The DeLoacli Variable friction Feed.
A New and Valuble Device, Simple and Effective.
* Capacity prom ,5000 to 50,000 Feet per Day.—_
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Has only been on the market upo year, but has become so popular that shipments
tv«wi' S u l- l !j‘l, t0 a J* P arts of lhe United Dates a-.O-inquiries coming from abroad
nil this m.,1 the reed o.an be under hash and Perfect Control- It is now the most
Popular as well as the most Saleable mill in the market
ft a\v Mi l, Portable Corn Mills and DeLoach Water Wheels Etc.
De5j ° ;W -‘ it Nlill Mfg Co., Atlanta,Ga
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Cotton Pregfiseg.
And Seed @leamers