Newton County GaArchives News.....TOWN AND COUNTY, EVERYTHING AND EVERYBODY March 7, 1889
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The Georgia Enterprise March 7, 1889
~Some one poisoned Burton Davis’ fine pointer dog.

~Col. J. F. Rogers fine setter went mad last week and had to be shot.

~Brother Blaine will have full swing in the Harrison cabinet.

~Col. Capers Dickson, of Oxford, has lost his fine pointer dog by poison.

~Capt. George Cunningham has about recovered from his severe cough.

~A mad cat was killed on Mr. R. M. Everitt’s lot last Saturday.

~We regret to learn that our old friend, Mr. Turner Horton, is in very feeble 
health.

~Mr. A. H. S. Davis has consented to open a writing school here if a large 
class can be secured.

~Mr. Richard L. Davis, of Monticello, spent Sunday with friends and dear ones 
in Covington.

~Mr. W. M. Heard and sisters now occupy the Hix residence on Social Circle 
Street.

~Mr. W. C. Clark is one of the most accommodating bankers in Georgia.

~Mr. and Mrs. T. P. Callaway have returned to their home in Oglethorpe County.

~Mr. P. W. Warren proposes to run an hundred acre farm near town this year.

~Mrs. Governor Gordon spent a few days in Covington last week as the guest of 
her sister, Mrs. Capt. J. M. Pace.

~A. M. Reid, of Eatonton, says he went ‘possum hunting not long since, and 
caught eleven ‘possums, each weighing eleven pounds.

~We learn that Beckie Anderson, a colored woman of Covington, went to 
Washington to see Gen. Harrison inaugurated for President.

~Rev. Merritt J. Cofer, of Atlanta preached an earnest and interesting sermon 
at the Methodist Church here Sunday.

~Mr. J. A. Stewart, Jr., will lead the young men’s prayer meeting Sunday 
afternoon at 4 P. M. Everybody invited.

~Ordinary Belcher held his regular monthly court Monday last, and cleared his 
docket of all important business.

~Dr. Henderson, of Oxford, an old Mexican veteran, has invented a windmill and 
sent the model to the Patent office at Washington.

~ It makes us sad to know that Mrs. Cleveland is no longer the first lady of 
the land, and that Uncle Grover has been retired for a season to the private 
walks of life.

~Mrs. Myercough, nee Miss Katie Buice, and husband, of Birmingham, Ala., have 
been on a visit here as the guests of their sister, Mrs. Joe P. Anderson.


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