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VOL 1.-NO. 3. I-
MARCHING THROUGH GEORGIA.
What We Find to Talk About on Our
Weekly Travels.
Macon’s fund for securing the state
military encampment now amouts to
$2,280.
It is said that the acreage devoted
to watermelons this year in Sumter
county will be unusually large.
A SI,OOO confederate bond in a
store window at Thomasville attracts
the attention of northern visitors.
The Albany and Cordele railroad is
now in sight of Albany, and will be
completed into the city this week.
Glen Mozely of Austell is the fa
ther of nineteen children. He is 78
years old. The youngest child was
born three weeks ago.
President George R. Mcßee of the
Georgia Melon Growers’ Association
called a meeting of the melon
growers of Georgia at Albany on
Wednesday Feb. 18.
.Tames Carter, Jr., of Hart county,
has invented a new cat coupler.
Among its merits are its simplicity,
certainty of action, cheapness of
construction and strength. He will
apply for a patent.
Eph Ponder shot and killed Bun
Sutton, another negro, at Frank
Walker’s place last Sunday about 12
o’clock, near the Georgia and Florida
line. A woman was at the bottom
of it. Ponder was arrested and car
ried to the Tallahassee jail Monday.
There is one gentleman in Newnan
who evidently does not consider mar
riage a failure. He wss married
about ten years ago, and on each
Christmas morning since he has pre
sented the minister who officiated at
the ceremony with a $lO gold piece.
Tuesday while Mrs. Thomas Hol
lis, of Griffin, was standing in her
door holding her infant child .in her
arms, some one fired a parlor rifle,
the ball entering the forehead of
the child, making an ugly dangerous
wound. It is not known who fired
the shot.
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It has puzzled the Georgia news
papers to account for the large num
ber of mules sold in Georgia at this
season every year; but the Crawfords
ville Democrat probably iolves the
mystery when it says that a vast
number of mules are starving to death
each year by the colored population,
and even the whites buy stock and
actually starve them to death.
A Savannah negro adopted a cruel
method of keeping a crazy woman
quiet. Georgia Harvey had been
discharged from the lunatic assylnm,
but when she again developed traits
of insanity her cousin, with whom
she resided, tied her hands and feet
and left the woman helpless on the
floor for days at a time. She was
discovered in this position by the
police and removed to the hospital.
Five negro boys were arrested near
Fairburn, a few days ago, charged
with assaulting an old negro at his
home and trying tc run him off. A
day was appointed for the trial.
When the day arrived the old negro
who was the only witness of any
consequence, and the prosecutor
could not be found. He has not
of since. It is thought
by some that he may have been “put
out of the way.” The grand jury
^will investigate the matter.
The following appears in the Rome
Tribune: “Paul D. Reese and his
wife have this day agreed to a volun
tary separation, being unable longer
to live together in peace. In full of
temporary and permanent alimony,
said Paul D. Reese hereby conveys,
to his said wife all property of every
kind now in the residence occupied
hy them in Rome, Ga., except his
wearing apparel and books; and to
give his note for SIOO, payable to his
said wife ninety days after date," and
to pay the same. Paul D. Reese,
Madeleine Reese. Witness. J Bran
ham. . .. ’
THE WEEKLY CHRONICLE.
He Was Smith of Pottsville.
I had been dropped off the train
at a small station in Nebraska, says
a Kansas City Star writer,, and the
train had been gone about ten ifnn
utes when a young man rode up and
called out to the landlord, who was
also station agent and telegraph
operator.
“Has the train passed?”
“She has,” was the reply.
“Did you get a telegram from me
to hold her here till I came?”
“One from Smith from Pottsville.
That you?”
“Yes.”
“I showed it to the conductor, and
he said you must be fresh to think
he could fool around here.”
“Said that, eh? Saw it was signed
Smith, eh?”
“Yes.”
“Went right on just the same?”
“Yes.”
“Didn’t even ask what Smith?”
“No.”
“Didn’t express any anxiety, eh”
“Not the least.”
“Well, good by.”
“Hold on a bit. What’s up?”
“Oh, nothing much. My name is
Smith of Pottsville. I was . going to
marry the conductor’s daughter
this evening. Had to catch this train
to get down there, you know.”
“And there is no other until after
midnight!”
“That’s all right, The supper will
be spread, the guests on hand, the
preacher there, the bride ready, and
I’ll ride back home and get off these
togs and get drunk on hard cider.”
“But, man, I —”
“Oh, it’s all right. When the con
duotor comes up in the morning, just
ask him if he knows Smith of Potts
ville, and how the wedding went off
last night. Ta-ta, old chap, and you
needn’t mind any wild-eyed tele
grams which come whooping up
the line asking of my whereabouts.”
Woes of a Rich Beggar.
Chicago, Feb. 12. — Michael
Schmidt shambled into Justice Prin
diville’s court yesterday between two
burly policeman. When they stood
before his honor one of the officers
drew a big roll of money, $2,000, from
his pocket. “This,” said he, “be
longs to this man, Michael Schmidt.
It was found on him when he was ar
rested.” The judge inquired the
reason of his arrest, and the officer
said that Schmidt was a chronic beg
gar ; that he had refused to pay a
small debt to a cab driver, and that
he had been caught begging a penny
from a little girl on Clark street.
During all this time the S2OOO, was
piled on the judge’s desk. Michael
Schmidt did not hear the officer or
the judge. He was watching his
money. When the judge asked him
what he had to say for himself he
did not answer, but thrust a tremb
ling arm toward the big pile of bills.
“Fined SSO and costs,” said the
judge. Michael Schmidt heard that,
and fell to the floor in a swoon.
When he recovered he paid his fine
from the roll of bills and slunk out
crying.
If you drop a nickel with a string
attached, keeping the end of the
string in your hand, have you really
dropped the coin? An lowa judge
has decided in the affirmative. An
ingenious youth in that state tied a
thread to a nickel, dropped the nickel
in a slot machine, got what he want
ed, then, withdrawing the nickel by
the thread, repeated the operation
until he had made a clean sweep of
the receptacle’s contends. He was
arrested on the charge of theft, but
the juo^r «ho tried him held that he
had committed neither burglary, lar
cency nor robbery, nor even obtained
property under false pretenses.' He
had merely done what the inscrip
tion on the machine told him to do
—drop a nickel in the slot —and he
kept on doing it. Nothing was said
about leaving the coin where it was
dropped. This decision will prob
ably abate a nuisanee.
The King of Holland got a divorce
from his first wife because she used
musk for a perfume. There are
many people who thnk that a suffi
cient cause.
FORT GAINES, GEORGIA, FRIDAY FEBRUARY 20, 1891.
NOT FOUND IN THE ALMANAC.
Some Fanny Paragraphs Overlooked
by the Almanac Writers.
Poor dea" little Flo
Up the aisle did go,
In her brand new winter suit;
’Twas her heart’s delight,
For the fit was tight.
And she knew it looked quite cute.
But poor little Flo
Os course didn’t know
That quite plain to everyone’s view
Was a tag of red—
“§4.l9” it said,
And a smile was in every pew.
—Brooklj n Eagle,
She—Do you believe in love at
first sight?
He—Why, of course. So few peo
ple marry at their first meeting, you
know.—Detroit Free Press.
Adam (to Eve) —Well, We’ve got
to leave Eden right away. Come on!
Eve—Wait a minute. Is my hat
straight?—J udge.
Little Edith—Mamma, what’s a
poorhouse?
Mamma—A poorhouse, Edith,’ is
an imaginary place of papa’s where
he intends residing next week.
Physician (with ear to pugilist’s
chest) —There is a severe swelling
over the region of the heart which
must be reduced at once.
Patient (anxiously)—That swell
ing is my pocketbook, doctor. Please
don’t reduce it too much.—Chicago
News.
“I don’t see how you gentlemen
can render a verdict of not guilty,”
said the judge.
“Well, your honor,” said the judge
politely, “if you’ll watch us close
we\l do it over again and show you
how.”—New York Sun.
A correspondent asks for a reliable
remedy for blind staggers. In the
case of a horse bleed the animal in
the roof of the mouth; in the case of
a maa confine the patient to a sim
ple diet and the use of water.—Free
Press.
Tramp (after receiving a biscuit)
---Where is your wood pile, lady?
Lady—Out in the shed, sir. How
kind of you to offer to split some
wood.
Tramp—l’m not going to split
any wood. I want to find the ax to
split this biscuit.---Boston Herald.
Garrulous Stranger (on a train) —
My wife’s name was Wood. What
was yours?
Crusty Old Bachelor --- I guess
mine’s name was “wouldn’t.” I
dian’t get her.—-Washington Post.
Wool—-1 think the talk about the
McKinley bill raising prices is all
bosh I
Van Pelt---Why so?
Wool—l can’t raise the price of a
drink any easier than I could before.
-—Brooklyn Life.
“Then,” said Mr. Tenderfoot,
thrillingly, describing his western ad
ventures, “the Indians style upon us.”
“And—-what did they do?” breath
lessly asked a friend.
“Then they gradually stole every
thing else.’’—Washington Critic.
Mr. Wickwire—Bickel told me to
day that he would have to cancel the
insurance on our house if Mary Ann
didn’t quit using kerosene to light
the fires.
Mrs. Wickwire-—Perhaps we had
better take out a policy on Mary
Ann, don’t you think? —lndianapolis
Journal.
Justice of the Peace —Prisoner, you
were caught trying to enter a poultry
yard at 10 o’clock last night. Did
you know it was a reprehensible
offense?
Mr. Gambrill—No, sah; I thought
hit war a wooden fence, sah, but hit
turned out to be a barb-wire, sah. —
Puck.
Roadside Bill (handing back the
pie) — Madame, will you kindly
change this for a piece of soap?
Mrs. Newhouse — Certainly; but
you can have the pie, too.
Roadside Bill —Don't need it. I
wanted the soap to get the taste of
that one mouthful out. —Judge.
The young man who courted an in
vestigation says that courting a girl
is much better fun.
II aunt of a Gory Ghost.
An old substantial brick residence
located on one of the principal thor
oughfares of Lexington, Ky., has
been considered a haunted house
ever since the war. Old citizens claim
that during the war a union soldier,
who had been wounded in the battle
at Richmond, Ky., and who was be
ing taken care of by the family that
then lived in the house, was brutally
murdered by a southern sympathizer,
in the cellar of the residence.
Ever since then, the story goes,
there has been uncanny doings and
mysterious noises seen and heard in
this old mansion at regular intervals
of six months. At these time when
the families occupying the house
would be at supper, lights left in the
living room and other parts of the
house would be extinguished and
sounds very much like the groans of
a person in agony could be distinctly
heard. No one ever saw anything
other than this until a few evenings
ago.
The family that has been occupy -
ing the house for the past three
months, and who did not know of
the supposed existence of this pecu
liar ghost, were sitting at their table
eating supper at about 6:45 o’clock.
The parlor had been lighted up, as
ther was sofne young people visiting
the house, and the lamps were burn-
ing brinhtly in the living room. The
servant girl had occasion to go into
the parlor and living room during the
progress of the meal, and when she
returned she exclaimed:
“Miss Sallie, who dun blowed out
dem lights in yor room an in de par
lor?”
Miss Sallie did not know of course,
and before the astonished household
could recover from their surprise
deep groans were heard as if coining
from the living room, which was sep
arated from the dining-room by fold
ing doors. The groans grew louder
and more agonizing in their tones
until suddenly the folding doors
opened backward, and in the center
of the threshold the now thoroughly
frightened family and friends beheld
a sight which is is usually supposed
to freeze the blood with terror.
There stood the form of a man
with his hands uplifted; he seemed
enveloped in a white gauze, through
which could be seen a bloody and
apparently bleeding breast. The
apparition only remained in sight of
the terror-stricken people but a few
seconds and then slowly disappeared
into the gloom of the darkened
room behind it. The supper was
left unfinished, and there was no
sleep in that house that night-
The next morning the head of the
household notified his business part
ners that he would not be at the office
that day, and before night he had se
cured another house, into which he
moved his family the next day.
This story is told by a neighbor
and friend of the family, who is a
thoroughly reliable man.
A Brave Little Scboolnjarm.
Worthington, la., Feb. 5. —Be-
cause Miss Mary Shayne is a brave
little school-teacher and soundly
thrashed a big bully who wouldn’t
mind her at her school near here sev
eral weeks ago, she is persecuted by
all sorts of petty annoyances from the
fellow’s “gang.”
Notes warning her to give up the
school and threatening to “blow her
up” have been received, but no at
tention was paid to them. The
threat was partially carried out the
last cold morning, when the stove
was blown to pieces by a powder
loaded stick.
The brave girl still holds the fort,
however, and now’ the young men of
this place have come to her aid and
threaten to lynch the next person
caught annoying her. As uie coun
try boys don t “ ’low to be downed
by them city chaps,” interesting
times are expected.
An Illinois preacher who refused
to have an organ in his church be
cause it “was Satanic,’’ lost his pas
torate and is now engaged in the
manufacture of fiddles. He warrants
them to “produce sweet, soul-stirring
music, which must make men bet
ter.”
HAPPENINGS HERE AND THERE
Related to Our Readers in the Short
est Manner Possible.
Six millions of dead letters are an
nually torn and sold as old paper in
Washington.
Ninety thousand cows, it is calcu
lated, have to be milked twice a day
to supply London alone.
An Atchison man is soon to marry
the woman who stood sponsor for
him when he was baptized as a baby.
A northern newspaper announces
that the flags will not be half-masted
for the late force bill. It would be
more in accordance with the fitness of
things to run them up to the mast
head and touch oft' some gunpowder.
The item going the rounds that
Blind Tom, the pianist, was in a poor
house, had no truth in it. He is not
only out of the poor house, but still
giving exhibitions and adding to the
store of wealth which will enable him
to live bountifully in his old age.
“I propose to die!” said a man as
he entered a Sacremento saloon.
“Give me a glass of beer in which to
take poison!” It was handed him,
his money dropped into the till, and
barkeeper watched him as he sprinkled
in strychnine and drank it off, to die
two hours later. x
Henry Shiner lays claim to ten
acres in the heart of Cincinnati, val
ued at millions, but as there is noth
ing mean about him he will
quit claim for sls in cash and a bar
rel of whisky. He says he met an
old chap on the highway fifty years
ago and who gave him the land for a
chew of tobacco.
The president of a Delav’are sav
ings bank refused to give a tramp ten
cents, and the tramp went about hint
ing that the bank was unsafe, and in
24 hours there was a run which took
out many thousand dollars, but fortu
nately not enough to occasion any in
convenience to the bank.
Every preacher in the state of
Georgia could be walked to jail under
an old law, which says that each and
every one of them must read the laws
of the state from his pulpit four times
a year. Somebody, who got bitten in
a horse trade with a preacher, has
found the law and proposes to en
force it.
The gallows now used in Colorado
is so arranged that a spring is set
loose by the weight of the victim on
the trap, and he acts as his own ex
ecutioner. This saves the sheriff or
any one else acting as hangman, and
no one’s conscience is troubled if their
is any bungling.
In some parts of Oregon wild ducks
are so cheap that they only bring
seven or eight cents apiece, and the
people have had them fried, baked,
stewed, frizzled, fricassed, roasted,
toasted and boiled until they call out
in agony: “Oh, won’t somebody give
us a change to codfish.”
John Hayes, a Nebraska youth, re
ceived 460 letters from his girl, and
she received 470 from him. Each
one wrote on every letter, “Burn this
after reading,” but both took the
greatest care not to do anything of
the sort. If you want a woman to
save your love letters just let her
think you want them burned.
An acre of bananas will support
25 times as many persons as an acre
of wheat. One thousand square feet
of land, growing bananas, will pro
duce 4,000 pounds of ^nutritious sub
stance. The same space devoted to
wheat or potatoes, will produce only
33 pounds of wheat, or 09 pounds of
potatoes.
Louisiana has the largest farm in
the world. It runs 100 miles north
and south, and 25 miles east and
west. It costs $50,000 to fence it.
All cultivation is done by steam
power. Three men with cable ropes
and portable engines, plow fifty acres
per day. The Southern Pacific road
runs through this farm for a distance
of 36 miles.
I SI.OO A YEAR.
The Widow W ho W'as “Bnsinesa.”
A rickety oki wagon, drawn by a
pair of lean old mules, says the New
York Sun, came arouud the corner
of the freight house. A little old wo
man was holding the lines, and three
or four tow-headed children were be
hind her.
“Hee up, Jerusalem I” she called
to the off mule, who shied at a freight
car, and with a twitch and a yank
and a cut she wheeled the team
around and backed up to the plat
form.
“Whar’s the express feller ?” she
asked as she jumpped out and came
along cracking whip. “Oh, you are
the agent? Wall; the old man’s thar
in the wagon. I want to ship him
up to Erin.”
“I don’t see him” replied the agent
as he looked into the wagon.
“He ’un’s in the coffin thar! I’m
going with it to Erin. How much
to pay ?”
They went to the office and ar
ranged matters, and the coffin was
taken from the wagon and placed on
a truck. Then the woman returned
to the wagon and said io the eldest
boy:
“Now, you, Reube, you drive slow
and don’t worry them mules, and the
rest of you all behave yourselves.
Come down fur me Wednesday, and
bring a jug of co’n to sell with you.
Hee-up, now!”
When the wagon had gone she
turned to us and explained:
“Old man went off purty sudden,
and I’ve had to move lively. He un
want to be burried at home, and I
would’nt disappoint him.”
“Your husband?” I asked.
“Sartin. Lived together nigh on
to thirty years. Reckon you all are
amazed that I don’t cry and take on,
but thar’s heaps to see to, and it falls
on me. Only half an hour afore the
the train, and I’ve got twenty things
to think about.”-
We voted her full of “business,”
but rather hard-hearted, but we had
to change our mind about that. She
suddenly disappeared, and as we
walked along to the cotton bales
piled high on the platform we heard
a grieving and sobbing, and then a
voice of lamentation cried out:
“O, Jim, old man, it’s the Lord's
will, but I can’t abide it! I'm a hold
ing up and trying to be brave, but
my old heart is being drowned out
with tears which my eyes won’t shed!
I’m a-waitin’, Jim —a-waitin’ till I git
back home whar I kin slop down an’
hev it out with my sorrow!”
And two minutes later she was
standing at the ticket window and
saying:
“Reckon these kivered kyars nev
er’d be en time, but I want no fussin'
around in this case or somebody’ll
git sued. Haint got but two days to
put him through and git back to
home.”
Georgia's Pensions.
This is what Georgia pays her
crippled ex-confederates, under the
law as it stands amended:
For total loss of sight, $150; for to
tal loss of sight of one eye, S3O; for
total loss of hearing, S3O, for loss of
all of a foot or loss of a leg, $100; for
loss of all of a hand or loss of arm,
$100; for loss of both hands or both
arms, $150; for loss of both feet or
hoth legs, $150; for loss of one hand
or foot and one arm or leg by same
person, $150; for permant injuries
from wound whereby a leg is ren
dered substantially and essentially
useless, SSO; for permanent injuries
from wounds whereby an arm is ren
dered substantially and essentially
useless, SSO; for the loss of on^figef—
or one toe, ss;-for~the loss of two fin
gers or two toes, $10; for the loss of
three fingers or three toes, sls; for
the loss of four fingers or four toes,
S2O; for the loss of four fingers and
thumb or five toes, $25; from other
permanent injury from wounds or
diseases contracted during the ser
vices, and while in line of duty as a
soldier, whereby the person injured
or diseased has been rendered prac
tically incompetent to perform the
ordinary manual vocations of life, SSO;
for permanent injuries from wounds
whereby a hand or foot is rendered
substantially and essentially useless,
$25; for wounds or disease which
renders applicant totally disabled ibr
labor, or helpless, sioc.