Newton County GaArchives News.....GOSSIP HERE AND THERE March 9 1883
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The Georgia Enterprise
...9 1/2 cents for cotton yesterday.
...Georgia weeps for the death of her Governor.
...Dr. Frank Wright is meeting with success in his large practice.
...Couldn't we manage to have a Fair at Brick Store this year?
...Mr. S. D. Hight will probably move back to town this winter.
...Judge Edwards is ahead of his neighbors in early gardening.
...Col. T. P. Callaway, of Lexington will be up here in a few days.
...W. B. Lee continues to make improvements on his home place.
...John Taylor visited the no fence section of our county last Sunday.
...After the 1st, of April no person should hunt partridges.
...We learn that a marble yard, will probably be opened here.
...About a dozen town gunners went on a snipe hunt Friday.
...New cottages continues to be erected in our city.
...Prohibition carried the day in Clayton county last week.
...One of our prettiest young ladies will soon marry, so we are told.
...John Hight has been quite sick for some time past.
...Col. N. P. Hunter is recovering from a severe spell of sickness.
...Sam Hutchins has moved his batchelor den to the Dorsett corner.
...Lige Cooksey, colored, hauls all day and splits rails all night.
...Dr. Douglas has been chosen as the physician for the paupers.
...Mr. Jack Meadors planted a patch of corn last week.
...John Bagby is placing some fine beef on our market.
...The two cents letter postage won't go into effect until Nov. 1st.
...Dr. Dearing will soon have a most magnificent stock of Spring goods.
...Judge Lee was up from the Plains Friday and seemed to be in good health.
...Gen. Toombs has forgiven his grand-daughter for marrying against his will.
...Six hundred thousand dollars was expended on the public schools of the State
last year.
...Col. J. T. Whitehead was here last week to organize a division of the Home  
Guardian.
...Thirty seven new Doctors were turned out by the Medical College in Atlanta 
last week.
...Representative Middlebrook is catching fish in gill nets and on set hooks.
...Henry Horton's Restaurant is more popular up stairs that it was when in the
basement.
...Gen. D. M Dubose, of Washington, well known here and in Oxford, is dead.
...James Farmer will soon have one of the prettiest homes in the city.
...Judge Floyd's old office has been moved to the corner of the Hendrick lot.
...Bailiff McCord thinks that Rocky Plains district has cause to be proud of her
farmers.
...The colored people are making their Methodist church neat and comfortable.
...Judge Woodson has improved in health since he went to the poor house.
...Several ladies have died here with consumption. Before the war, the disease
was unknown among them.

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