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VOLUME I.
What Aranfor:! County Weeds.
Now that a railroad has been built
through Crawford county, a good many
the people have thought that times will be
better. They suppose that in some way
the railroad will bring money here and
leave it in circulation, which will cause all
business to im prove. They expect the rail¬
road ts do everything for them. Just-how
our people are to be benefitted they have
never been able t-o see, further than that
railraad freights from Atlanta are cheaper
than wagon freights to Macon, and that bo
sides, fruit and other small farm products
can be marketed more easily.
' But it behooves uo to look more closely
into this matter, to study the new situation
carefully. Crawford couutv is not one whit
letter off now than she was twenty years
..ago. Why is (his the case ? While al
most every other county iu the State has
advanced with the times Crawford hasp
mained as che was. Our people have Wen
economical, they have worked hard and
made good crops; people in other counties
did the same, and yot cities havo sprung
up in these otherfeounties and many citizens
made fortunes, while in Crawford no towns
have been built, no fortunes accumulated,
and why is this ? T he answer to this quek
lion will be worth more than anything else
to-cur people.
We think we know sevsral causes for
this state of things. The farmers soli cot¬
ton, corn, bacon, some livestock pioductpjiave and a few
vegetables - The farm been
sold oift-side of Crawford county. The
farmers buy dry goods, hardware, some
groceries and all their mules, horses and
wagons at towns not found ;a Crawford
county. Our celling and our buying has
all been dene outside our own county .and
all the profits from the trade have been left
in other counties. Our people have not
traded among themselves but have piled up
fortunes for those who have no interest
with us. Then it is plain that the country
can never be anything hut what it is so
long as it is without a market town, A
good market will make every crop worth
more, will enhance the vuluo of property
of all kinds, and keep money in circulation
at home. •
If the county should remain for a hun¬
dred years longer without a market town,
at tho. end of that time the people would be
no better off than they are now. What
Crawford needs then, above all all else in
the world, is a market town.
Two €* real Sieviyals,
Knoxville, Ga., August 8, 1888.—For
seventeen days a most gracious meeting has
aeen in progress at Dixon church ten days.
Seven days at Macedonia, at Dixon
From the first service, the power of the
Holy Ghost was present and the, interest
the meeting increast, by the fourth day
there was no less than five hundred people
present on Sunday before the meeting
there was six hundred people present and
it seemed that the spirit of God was felt by
all the congregation on Sunday night, un¬
der a propisition to sinners alone, there was
a hundred and foreteen at the alter
we suug just eight lines of a hymn, and
fuly that many accepted the propisition
that could not fine room at the alter truly
tho Lord was with us in wonderful power
many blackgliders were reclaim and many
wanderers returnedto the fold, numbers
were converted and the whole church reiviv
Twenty three added to the church. We
are.now upon a higher plane, of Christian
experience than ever before. The brethren
say. that.it wasthe best revival that Dijon.
KNOXVILLE, GEORGIA., AUG. 10, 1888.
church ever, experience
At Macedonia church was great revived
and built up. and the membership resolved
to payer more and work more for God and
the salvation of tho people pn. Christ) five
added to the church at this point. I have
three protracted, and have three more
to conduct. We havo added to the -church
this year fifty two members and we are
glad to say the most of them are converted
and that they are among the most active
part of the church and we still go on trorn
good to better I have never see just such
change .from grace to. glory, as is plainly
noted in this charge this ■ year. God- is
working with us for the salvation of this
people, and his hand is graciously visible.
To him be all the prais for his spirit must
do the wcik cf saving the soul if ever save
at all. W. L. Carter, P. C.
SaSae-tlay’s fi’Scmic 0
A s hart time ago there was a meeting
held i rf the court house by the public to
deviseJplans looking to the improvement of
die military. The number of citizens at
roe meeting was small, but all were eafchu
siastic." It was decided to have a picnic in
honor of tho company on Saturday, as that
was the day the company was to bo in¬
spected by an appointee of Adjt. Gsn.'Kel).
The sokiior chosen to make the inspection
was Lieut, D.’ G-. Smith, of the Floyd Ri¬
fles of Macon, and no cleverer gentleman
or better disciplined soldier could havo been
chosen. As the company is composed now
mostly of new men, the inspection was
looked forward to with a degree of dread,
though all felt that Lieutenant Smith would
give them all the credit that belongs to
them.
Only a few were present at the citizens
meeting at tho court, bouse, and it was pre
dieted an hour after the meeting that .the
pieme would be a failure. But when the
day came for the feast and the town was
full of people from all over Crawfbd county
it was plain that the occasion would be
anything but a failure, and it was indeed a
glorious occasion.
Rousing speeches wep made by Col. L.
D. Moore, of -Macon, and Col, Oliu P.
WrigTit, of Knoxville. A committee was
appointed to canvass for subscriptions, and
the amount procured was far more than
any one had anticipated. In one .little
corner of the house the ladies alone gave
thirty dollars. We have not learned the
total amount that was subscribed, but it
fakes three figures to show the dollars.
The dinner wa3 ail that could be desired.
There was a spread of all the luxuries that
could be thoughtjof, and tl:e gallant and
the fair of old Crawford were out in- full
force.
A move to extend an invitation to Dr:
Clifton, State Geologist, to lecture here in
the interest of the company was carried by
acclamation. Dr. Clifton is as well versed
in the study of natural science a3 anyone
in the South, and a lecture by him would
be sure to entertain every listener, whether
be ignoiant or educated.
The company is now on tho highroad
to prosperity, aud in a few mouths tho
people of Crawford will be proud of their
home soldiery as they should be. For four
years this company has held together with¬
out the aid and with very little recognition
from the public. All this is changed now
and our military will receive all the atten¬
tion and encouragement that is needed to
place them on an equal footing with, the
best in the State.
Saturday was a great day forjtbe Craw¬
ford Guards, The speaking, the good din¬
ner, the crowd of pretty girls and every¬
thing conspired to make the future success
of the .guards certain,...
Some Political Points.
Webb’s Valley, Ga., August 7th, 1888.
Hr. Editor; Tho army eoorrespondent
writiug from the 3rd Dist.. in your last Is¬
sue poped alitjle cap and would fain
our poaee loving citizens believe that war
is eminent and the 3rd Dist, is to be the
battle ground. Oh ! indeed ! quoting such
war terms as field hospitals, litter beavers
wounded. Oh ! horrors 1 going to raise
the black flag wo presme, as there is to bo
nene of the benign, soothing mitigating in¬
fluence of Grace in the matter, actnlygoing
to-toli the re.quiem of the fallen and rear
a monument on the field we presume to
perpetuate the memory of the strife, the
victory or the dead, This deponent sayeth
not. From the familart-y with this trogan
belches war smoke, we conclude that he is
a General of the army retired, therefore,
for the sake of convenience, shall address
him a3 Genl, for wo can not reconciled to
the idea of receiving him in the collecive
sense of the 3rd District. Dear General,
the war is over therefore demolish those
airy hospitals,discharge these litter hearers
the wounded are only in your morbid im¬
agination. Hallucination is your disease
caused from thine own wounds for thou
dear. Genl. art wounded unto death, have
no obsequies, erect no air castle menumuts
too late in the season for such formalities.
Tho possibly may wake up late, on the
evo of August 24th and find that s goodly r
number of the 3rd Disk believe in and
have received Grace- Grac ’ids a charm¬
ing sound, Harmonious to the ear. Grace
will heal all our wounds, And drive away
our. fear.
Dear. Cteni,, you should learn in
walks of peace to divest yourself oj
ous and authoritative , these traits are
of the habits cf war, for certainly,
Genl. the invincible 3rd would not
gate unto you the prerogative to speak fo:
her in a collective sense.—Music from
choir Grace ’tis a charming sound etc.
Futhermore we have head the boom ol
caanons the report of (ire crackers ar.d the
command to lie down mulish we are going
to pop a cap, until we have become accus¬
tomed to false alarms ar.d don’t
a cent.
The season and the times are propitious
for the cultivation of the graces, socially,
morally, religiously aud politically. A
bounteous harvest will make glad, the heart
of tie htisbandmad, art enterprise, and
progress are making,- rapid strides, the
snort of the iron horse .s heard in our
midst, mines of the varioue ores are only
questions of discovery and utilization, we
bound by ckaius of steel with tho great
commercial centres of our own Sunny
Southland, plenty of peace abounds. The
various religious denomination are having
great revivals, the waters mus surely bo
disturbed by angelic forces. Grace seems
tho all absorbiugttherne, when up steps
this son of Mars and obscure the horizon
with the dark clouds of war aud with athe
istioal flourish asserts that we have no
Grace down here, had he said we have no
God etc. no no he certainly did not mean
religiously, pssibly he meant Grace moral¬
ly, but assuredly the 3rd Dist, would not
permit anyone tc say that she had no gra¬
ces morolly, yolitically or religiously indi¬
vidually or collectively. Music from the
band. Grace ’tis swo|d, p charming sound etc.
Sbeth your trim your quill and
lay down your cojjnsalk, no need for your
hospitals and woundjs littef, bearers.. Grace will
heal all our which are mere bruis¬
es. Because the Democratic giant chose
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DUMBER 29.
to spatik a few ol Ms boys, the old fellow
is not very mad, if you will only let bin:
get in a good humor, he may make pets out
of some of these boys hereafter through the
medium of their good graces, Grace is a
representative character and..has a man to
represent the character. Grace IS 2nd doth
most cxceedingly-robound. Grace is nc
respecter of persons by partiality—heart
as big as all out of doors. ■- Grace is not .
man server, but with an eye single to
duty and conscience, he doth serve all the
people. No good Genl. with any strag-.
etical points, dare attack the stronghold of
Graco. Geace will carry the keysjof castle
Victory will perch upon the banner upheld
by Grace (false prophets v.-Hl be stoned)
Hurrah for Grace and Cleveland and Thur¬
mond the red Bandanna. Observer,
'Tlae S. ft ■ €orapsn>
Amongtheveryfir.it establishments of
Atlanta to become uatioaily known when
the Gate City had set out on its wonderful
career of fame and fortune was that which
has manufactured and sold tho celebrated
"8. S. S.” or Swift’s Specific ; and it war
through tho iminterupted and unyielding
success and increasing use and popularity
of S. 8. ( 8. that the house became famous.
It is too late in the day to recount with
brevity (he loug and unvarying Iriumps of
this sovereign tonic, and if. is much too late
to question its undoubted effiacy and men.
Other preparation have been brought into
being by the needs of human woo. Some
of these have-been meritorious and bav:
met the expectations and claims built npon
them. Others have been fallacious. Some
of thorn have survived. Others have dis¬
appeared—have goue under by their own
gravity or been swept away by superior
remedies. To the sterling and established
repute of S. 5. S., of course the fate of oth¬
er efforts could mean nothing, Their sue
eoss could not abate that of the S S S and
their failue could give it no wider field for
its tnnmps, A remedy so well known ane
so universally successful could well afford
to submit to all tests.
S. S. S. happens, too, to be a speesfio
for the very kinds aud degrees of ailment:
and afflictions to which the vast percent¬
age of human flesh is heir in all climates,
conditions and circumstances. These •are
rheumatism, scrofula, blood poisons, blood
tai ,ts, mcvcariai aml vegetab!e . )0i80M
cers, diseases of thejskin, catarrh, sancer etc
F.lsemhero we print a full page showing
the wonderful scope of disease over which
tliis specific presides us a confessed anniki
lator. Our readers will find there a full®*
'account of its conquests than it is possible
to set fourth in this space.-—Greensboro, Gr.
Herald and Journal.
Treatise on Blood and Skin Disease*
mailed free.
The Swift Specific, Co., Drawer 3 At¬
lanta, Ga.
Messrs. J P Tuggle, J S Jarvis and N
W Orookslianks, all of Atlanta, were it..
town a few days ago,.
It is said that Brother Kersh of the
Fort Valley Enterprise will run an excur
sion train, under a cearta of his. owu, to
Fort Valley on the day of the barbecue,
and that the fare there and back from
Knoxville will be fifty cents.
Vanderbilt is being sned by a broker
named Broese for over one million dollars
which lie claims old Van kept him from
makiug in a pool where he had joined fort¬
unes with the old millionaire. If Broese
were a poor mad the public would lixe
see him win the case. >. ,
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