Newton County GaArchives News.....ROCKY PLAINS September 21, 1883
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The Georgia Enterprise September 21, 1883
~The negro, TAYLOR BRYANT, who is billed to hang in Monroe, Georgia, on the 
19th of October, served twelve months in Major W. L. DAVIS’S chain gang, in 
this district.

~R?? DICKERSON says that your correspondent from Island Shoals ought not to be 
so hard on him about his moustache, unless he could support more on a side than 
he does.

~Miss Jennie Edwards, a very pleasant young lady, who has been spending some 
time with friends in this district, has returned to her home in south-west 
Georgia. She made many friends during her visit here.

~Rocky Plains district promises to be a “sweet” section of the county for a 
long time to come. Besides the many pretty young ladies here, we will turn out 
several thousand gallons of the sweetest kind of syrup this season. Professor 
ROBERT W. DAVIS will make over one thousand gallons of as fine syrup as can be 
found in the market. Like some of the balance of us, the Professor wanders in 
single wretchedness with “no one to love, none to caress.”
ISLAND SHOALS

~Times are extremely dull in this section, with the exception of milling and 
ginning. Whooping cough and an interesting protracted meeting have managed to 
keep our people awake for some time past. Mrs. DICKERSON, who has been so near 
to death’s door, is said to be a little better at this writing. WE saw the 
Rocky Plains editor pass today. He “grun” a wicked grin and “smole” a 10X15 
smile as he crossed the bridge and landed on the same side of the river where 
lives his lady. We understand he’ll give this deponent “hail Columbia happy 
land, if it ain’t fun I’d be dog,” about the “widow” item. We know another 
Henry County love affair, and one bushel of apples is the price of our silence. 
There is a legend, (of my own manufacture, I’m a licensed legend maker), that 
Henry and Newton County don’t mix in love affairs, as once they did before 
Henry refused to advance her part for the new bridge to pay Covington well for 
her work in securing its erection, and still the wagons pass every day loaded 
down with the fleecy staple, and every one heading for  your town. The many 
little items in the Enterprise setting forth the advantages of your market has 
brought trade to Covington and the merchants should not allow your columns to 
run so short of home advertisements.

~The Eatonton Messenger, speaking in reference to what your correspondent said, 
concerning Putnam County being in the 8th district, says the writer must be a 
Putnamite, which is true, and we are proud of it, and we are also pleased to 
know that old Putnam has  as true Democrats as can be found in the State, and 
when led by such patriotic men as Col. NESBIT, W. F. JENKINS, J. S. RIED and 
others, Radicalism can secure no hold upon her honored soil.
Yours, OLIVER TIFTON


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