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VOL I—NO. 6. 1
MARCHING THROUGH GEORGIA.
What We Find to Talk About on Our
Weekly Travels.
The Georgia Chautauqua open in
Albany on March 29.
Over 1,000 tens of fertilizers nas
been sold in Covington this season.
John Holland, of Terrell county,
has become heir to some property in
Germany.
Between $2,000 and $3,000 will
lie distributed in Wilkes county to
■widows of confederate soldiers.
A boy 11 years old has been ar
rested at Cartersville for stealing let
ters frem the postoffice.
Jeff Davis, of Sandersville, has a
gourd the handle of which is three
feet long. The bowl holds about one
quart.
A farmer in Washington county
•made 200 bales of cotton with ten
plows last year, besides plantation
supplies enough to last him until an
other crop is gathered.
Jonesboro News: Atlanta was so
stuck on Jay Gould that he has
been invited to return next fall to at
tend the exposition. Don’t money
talk.
Thomasville Times - Enterprise:
John Sullivan tackled John Barley
corn in Augusta and John B. knock
ed John L. out in two rounds. Bar
leycorn is mightier than Sullivan.
Tribune of "Rome: The transition
is easy—boom, bum bust. Every
southern town that wants solid pro
gress will avoid the boom, and it will
then not have to weep over the bum
and the bust.
Our exchanges note a great falling
off in the influx of young men from
the country to the cities.* Few va
cancies exist in any business and
there is more than enough young
men in the cities to fill them.
Henry Deans {colored) last year
rented 35 acres of land from T. M.
Green, of Wilkes county, on which
he made 20 bales of cotton, 100 bush
els of corn B 0 bushels of peas, 14
bushels of potatoes and one barrel of
syrup.
There is aWE who lives in the
southern part of Talbot who has
never attended services at a church,
has never ridden on a train or ever
been to a city. He frequently hauls
-shingles to Talbotton, and recently a
gentleman offered to pay his fare to
Columbus, but he refused to go.
Judge Charles F. Crisp has re
•ceutly had passed by congress an act
•allowing a pension of S2O per month
to Mrs. Mary A. R. Martin, who lives
in the northern part of Dooly coun
ty. Mrs. Martin is the widow of
a soldier who was killed in the war
of 1812.
A citizen of Sandersville, in mak
ing out an order for flowers and
shrubbery, was attracted by the cat
alogue description of a shrub with
the technical name capanthus. He
ordered it and to his surprise found
that it was what is commonly called
sweet shrub. The woods around
Sandersville are full of them.
Swainesboro Fine Forest: Berry
Hooks, a white man who was sent
from this county to the county chain
gang in XX ashington county about
two years ago, and who made his es
cape from that chain-gang shortly af
terwards, was arrested in Swainsboro
Monday and placed in jail, He has
been in Florida nearly ever since he
ran away, but upon receiving intelli
gence from his relatives that his fine
had been paid and the matter settled,
lie was returning home to remain.
His fine had been settled by his moth
er, but whether too late or not is yet
to be decided. Hooks married while
in Macon, and was returning home
with his young bride, in company
with his brother-in-law and wife, the
sister of his wife, when arrested in
Swainsboro.
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THE WEEKLY CHRONICLE.
About the Weather and Crops.
Newnan, March 6. —Last night
there was gathered quite a number
of gentlemen around the comfortable
fire at the Virginian House.
The “weather;” that fruitful topic,
was discussed.
What are the farmers to do if this
weather continues? Will they have
time to prepare their lands? Will it
not result in late planting and late
planting result in a short crop?
Mr. J. R. McCollum, one of j:hc
largest and most successful farmers
in Coweta county, said he advocated
thorough preparation, but that once
before he had just such backwardness
to deal with. In order to obviate
late planting he listed his cotton
lands and plowed out the middles
after the cotton came up.
Mr. McCullum further said that he
had found out that it paid to have
plenty of plow force, so that if rains
came and the grass threatened to
take his crop, he had the means at
hand to destroy the grass. An
abundant plow force rendered less
hoeing necessary.
“Mr. McCullum, you make from
eight to twenty bales to the mule. Is
your land richer or do you make these
heavy crops by excessive application
of commercial fertilizers?”
“My lands were regarded poor
when I bought them. But I brought
them up by growing pea vines and
resting them. Pea vines are great
fertilizers. I use fertilizers of course,
but. net in excessive quantities.
When I rest a field, expecting to put
it in cotton the year after, I list it for
cotton as if I expected to plant it.
These furrows hold the train water
along during the year, and thus a
large amount of ammonia is collected
in the furrows. Weeds grow up and
shade the land. After this year of
rest I am ready to prepare the field
for cotton. I throw back the old
lists upon these furrows which have
caught the rainfall and the debris.
These furrows, open for a year, be
come receptacles for the best wash
ings from the soil, and in these I put
my fertilizers and bed on them. And
in this way I have brought up my
lands to a Conditions which yields
large crops.”
“Do you favor the tenant sys
tem?”
“Ng, I do not regard it best,
though I have some tenants,”
“Do your tenants grow corn suc
cessfully?”
No. I have found it-better to'
make corn myself, and let them plant
more heavily in cotton. There is
more science in corn culture than in
cotton culture. I have sometimes
made on an extra acre over 100 bush
els of corn, and on upland at that.”
Mr. McCullum thought farming
paid in Georgia, where the same en
ergy and care and push was given to
the business that a merchat gave to
his.
em*
He Was a Good One.
A man who gave his name as J.
R. Gibson was recently arrested at
Sulphur Springs, Tex., charged with
vagrancy. He had bothered the cit
izens no little with his tales of hun
ger and poverty, but when searched
his pockets were found to contain
SIOO in cash, two certificates of de
posit—one for Sioo in a Dallas bank
and the other foJ S9O in a Denison
bank —a valuable watch and eight
gold rings. Gibson was fined §lO,
and then demanded the return of his
property. After carefully stowing
the different articles in the bottom of
his pockets he asked the court if it
was possible for him to work out the
fine on the streets. On being told
that he could, he expressed the live
liest satisfaction, saying that times
are so hard and money so scarce he
much preferred putting in twenty
days on the streets at 50 cents a day.
to paying out his “hard earnings.”
People wonder when they find how
rapidly health is restored by taking P.P.
P. (Prickly Ash, Poke Root- and Potas
sium). The reason is simple, as it is a
powerful combination of the roots and
herbs of the home .woods.
T. T. Shuptrine A Bro., wholesale and re
tail druggists. Savannah, Ga., say. “We
have sold lots of Johnson’s Tonic for La
Grippe, and hear nothing but favorable re
ports.”
. FORT GAINES, GEORGIA, FRIDAY MARCH 13. 1891.
HAPPENINGS HERE AND THERE
Related to Our Readers in the Short
est Manner Possible.
A young man in Batavia, N. Y-,
will go over Niagara Falls in a rub
ber ball if the public will contribute
SIOO,OOO. He will then take the
monev and build twenty meeting
houses for poor congregations, and if
no preachers can be had he will fill
the pulpits himself.
A sleeping car porter on a New
England railroad says there is a
marked difference between a. Yale
professor and a Yale student. The
former tips him a quarter after the
brush, while the latter hands him a
cigarette, and remarks, “Go smoke
and kill yourself!”
A Paris tobaccoist, who had' per
haps been in America, advertised a
certain cigar to be “the best in the
world for five cents.” He was ar
rested, failed to prove it “the best’’
and was fined S6O for “malicious in
tention to deceive.”
A county treasurer in Texas who
skipped out the other day left about
$l5O behind him in good hard cash.
The people can’t make out exactly
how ithappened, but think he must
have either been demented or absent
minded. They are rather expecting
that he will return some day to claim
the “unexpended balance.”
Frank Gabel, who was recently re
elected tax collector of Texas town
ship, Pa., has disappeared, leaving a
balance of more than $22,000 owing
to the county. lie left a letter say
ing he intended do go away, and,
like his father before him, put an end
to his life.
David M. Cavender, a noted and
well-to-do man of Ripley county, Ind.,
who was sent to the penitentiarv,
was recently granted a rehearing afid
was acquitted in the Ripley county
circuit court. He is a school teach-
Jr
er, a music teacher, and was several
times county surveyor. New evi
dence exonerated him of the robbery
of Recorder Johnson, of Ripley coun
ty, -some time ago.
Immense, snow slides demolished
the quartz mill of the Red Jacket
mine, near Baker City, Ore. Hugh
Curran, foreman;'H. Holstein, watch
man, and Jules N. Olsen, boarding
house-kceper of the mine, were bur
ied.
Mrs. Rose McCormick, of Green
point, died on the 7th in.st. fully be
lieving that she was 104 years old.
On the Bth papers were discovered
which proved her age to be only 91.
This would have been a sad blow to
her, and it was lucky she died when
she did.
A dying reporter in Providenoe
wrote his last will on a paper collar
with a lead pencil, and it stcod to be
admitted to probate. Perhaps the
reason of it, however, was because he
only had a pair of boots to will
a wav.
A doctor at Charlestown, Mass.,
says the plug hat is responsible for
much of the catarrh in the northern
states. Between ten men who wear
plugs and ten men who wear cadies,
the latter have 50 per cent, less of
the unpleasant affliction. Sit down
on your plug.
A woman claiming to be a seventh
daughter struck a Michigan town
with her star-gazing apparatus in
good order, but as the women were
not satisfied with her predictions
that they were to be rich and happy,
she told eight of them that their hus
bands were unfaithful. In the riot
which followed the seventh -daughter
brought up in jail.
A Chicago drummer attended a
spelling school in Missouri and spell
ed every down. He expected to be
congratulated ov^r his victory, but
instead of that a crowd of young men
got after him an 1 ran him three
miles through the woods and left him
for dead.
A Swindling Postmaster.
Savannah, Feb. 25. —After twen
ty years of continued swindling, by
which he has managed to defraud
firms throughout Georgia and other
states out of amounts aggregating in
the neighborhood of $50,000, A. J.
Dickson, of Mershon, in Pierce coun
ty, has come to grief. He is now on
trial in the United States court here
for using the mails for fraudulent
purposes, and has a fine prospect of
spending a few years in the peniten
tiary. Dickson is one of the clever
est swindlers who ever worked the
business public. His scheme of late
years was simple, but effective. Ac
cording to the testimony, he would
send for a small bill of goods, and
refer to a fictitious firm at Mershon,,
where he served as postmaster.
When the letters of inquiry came he
would answer them, giving himself a
first-class business rating. The -first
bill he would pay as a bait. Then
he would order a large lot of goods,
for which the pay never came. Other
goods would be ordered and secured
for fictitious firms in the same way. „
His position as postmaster aided him
in his schemes.
Dickson was indicted eleven times
by the grand jury of Pierce county,
but, for some reason, his case never
came to t v ial. He was removed from
his postmastership, and an order
was issued removing the postoffice to
Coffee, and Miss Kelly was appoint
ed postmistress. This was last May.
Dickson did not surrender the effects
of the office until September, the
government officers, in the mean
time, thinking that Miss KeHy was
in charge at Coffee. In June the
office at Mershon was revived, and
Dickson’s son, a boy sixteen years of
age, was appointed postmaster. Then
Dickson ran bo.h postoffees in the
same building and utilized each as a
means of swelling "merchants in his
old -style. Unsatisfied; judgeme^its
for about $5,000 arq in""existence in"
Pierce county against the fictitious
firms that Dickson originated-. His
operations extended < ail over the
country, he having secured carriages
and other goods from as far away as
Kalamazoo, Mich.
A Large Bear Killed.
Mr.'Abe Mixon, of Clinch county,
and a party of friends, killed a ’large
black bear several weeks ago. Mr.
M. lives, at Mixon’s ferry, on the
Suwanee river, near its source in the
Okefbnolreeswamp. About i(^o’clock
at night his dogs began a terrible
barking in the yard, and going to the
door he heard a hog squealing about
200 yards from the house. He knew
what was the matter. He shouted to
the dogs, and they made off for the
racket. The bear carried the hog
into a large swamp near by, and
stood eating it while the dogs bayed
him. Mr. Mixon saddled -a horse
and went a lull speed a mile and a
half and got two men and more dogs
and returned. Then they made a
charge upon bruin, and the old hog
thief climbed up a large pine and
comfortably fixed himself in the top
among clustering boughs. Mr. Mixon
and friends built two or three large
bonfires around the tree and stood
guard until daylight. When the sun,
rising in the east, gave them sufficient
light, they open fire, and at the thir
teenth shot bruin came tumbling
down and hit the ground with such
force that the noise could have been
heard halt a mile away.
The bear weighed 400 pounds and.
measured three inches through the
fat on the round. He also measured
seven inches across the ball of the
foot. - •
A number of wounds, and buck
shot evidently fired into him some
years previously, were found in his
carcass, showing that he had been
tackled before, and was an old resi
denter in those Okefenokee regions.
Mr. Mixon was quite proud of his
game, although this was not the first
one killad by him, by very many.—
Valdosta Times.
A fact worth knowing is that blood
( diseases »Inch all other medicines fail
to cure yield slowly but surely to the
blood cleansing properties of P. P. P.
(Prickly Ash, Poke Root and Potassium)
NOT FOUND IN THE ALMANAC.
Some Funny Paragraphs Overlooked
»by the Almanac Writers.
“Did the fisherman have frog’s
legs, Bridget?” Sure, I couldn’t see,
mum; he had his pants on.”—Life.
When spring comes, the wonderful
things we are going to do will be put
off until cold weather gets here.
“Eve,” said Adam, a few minutes
after he had eaten the core. “Yes,
Addie?” ‘‘l believe we are going to
have trouble in our midst.”
At the golden gate.—St. Peter (to
college man, who has bee^i loafing
around) —won’t you come in? *
College Man (absent-mindedly)—
What’s the limit?
Mr. Brezev—Just on vour account,
madam, I’ve been hiding my light
under a bushel for years!
Mrs. Brezey—O, dear! Extrava
gant as ever! Why didn’t you buy
a pint cup?—New York Herald.
“My dear sir,” asked the old gen
tleman of the passer by, “won’t you
read what street is printed on that
sign?” *
“Can’t,” answered the citizen,
“Musn’t read anything; just been
drawn on a jury.”
The man who will complain that a
twenty-minute sermon is too long
will sit half a day, watching a couple
of chess players making two moves.
—Norristown Herald.
Lawyer (to female witness) —Will
you please tell this court and jury
what your age is?
Elderly Female—Wi\at’s the use?
They wouldn’t believe me if I was to
tell them. —Texas Siftings.
“Why won’t you associate with
Fleckel”
-‘‘Because he was engaged to my
wife before I married her. A man’s
that’s sharper than I am is no asso
ciate for me.” —Fliegende Blaetrer.
When a man goes wrong the wo
men are the first to say that it is the
fault of some woman who tempted
him.—Atchison Globe.
“Have you chosen the text for
your first sermon, Mr. Acolyte?”
“Yes, Miss’Stiftles; it is Revelation
xii., I—‘And there appeared a great
wonder jn heaven: a woman.' ” —
Niagara Spray.
/“Rastas, does the alligator open
his mouth up or down?’*
“I dunno, boas; I ain’t never
waited to see.”
“I’ll bet,” said Chollie, “judging
from the way these trousers shrink,
the wool was shorn from an unusual
ly timid hmb.” —Judge.
“Are Mr. and Mrs. Green at
home?” was asked of the little girl
who answered the bell.
“Yes.”*
“Are they engaged?”
The small girl looked horrified as
she answered:
“Why, they are married.”
Jerry Simpson, of Kansas, who
has recently come into notice because
he defeated Ingalls for congress, but
who is better known as the man who
doesn’t wear socks, is not by any
ways a greenhorn or a simpleton.
The other day a gay and thoughtless
female said to him: “Is it true you
don’t wear socks? Won’t you let
me see, please?” Simpson gravely
replied: “Madam, do you wear
socks? If you’ll show me, I’ll show
vou.”
“No, Sam,” said a Washington
business man to an old servant who
had shown a disposition to make
him a confident concerning some of
his affairs. “No, Sam; I never play
cards. I couldn’t tell you how many
aces there are in a pack of cards.”
“Well,” said the old man, re
flectively, “dat ^m a pooty hard
question sometimes. Es yoh wuz
playin’ to my house, dab wouldn’ be
on’y fob, but es yoh wuz play at Sim
Jenkins’ dah mout be six oh sebben
’foh yoh knowed it.”—Washington
Post.
{ SI.OO A Y EAR
Buried Alin*.
A dispatch from Hazleton, Pa-,
says. “Four men were rescued alive
from JeanSville mine Tuesday night.
All arc Hungarians, named Thomas
Tomastuskey, Joe Mastuskewitch.
John Berno and Bosko Frinko.
Twenty-three men were in the mine
when the water broke in. Six es
caped and seventeen were caught by
the water. Thirteen bodies have
Been taken out. Thofoas Mastuskc
witch, known as “Big Joe,” from hi#
size, is apparently in the worst condi
tions of all, and may not live. They
were in the mine nineteen days
and nineteen hours, and owe their
lives to the fact that the portion of
the mine w here they took refuge w.ls
“cushioned” by fresh air by the pres
sure of water which rose in the sl<»|>e
624 feet in five minutes. They sup
ported life on the contents of their
dinner pails and oil in the lamps and
bottles, and, when these were gone,
upon the water in the mine, which
was horribly foul with sulphur.
Hard to Believe.
A locomotive engineer said a few
days ago to a reporter of the St.
Louis Globe-Democrat: “We once
had an experience on the old Kan
sas Pacific that taught us what quick
sands are. An engineer run off a
low bridge near River Bend, about
too miles east of Denver, and fell
into a small creek filled with quick
sands. A wrecking train came up
in a few hours, but the engine had
entirely disappeared. The railroad
officials ordered it to be raised, but
it could not be found. We sounded
with rods to a dopth of over 60 feet,
but not a trace did we discover of the
engine, which had vanished as com
pletely as if it had never existed
Four years afterwards it was found at
a dept of over 100 feet, nnd was rais
ed. We then ascertained that there
was scarcely a bit of rust on it, the
breaks were few, and a little tinker
ing it was put on the road again.
The sand had kept out the air and
prevented the air from oxidizing.
A Story of a Ham.
“Young man, take my advice and
pay for things as you go. Do not
run up bills.”
This was the sage advice a well
known business man gave a Star re
porter yesterday. “Why?” contin
ued he, “because in the end you will
have to pay for it all, and there is no
telling how much else besides. I
will tell you of a little incident that
came under my observation recently,
and you will see why I say so. The
proprietor of a large provision store
in this city made a credit sale of a
fine ham to one of his customers, but
much to his surprise he found out a
little later that he had forgotten to
whom he had sold it, and failed to
make any note of it.
“This bothered him somewhat
until a happy thought struck him. lle
cudgelled the gray matter in his
brain and recalled the names of thir
teen meh who had happened to be
in the store at the time the transac
tion took place, though for the life of
hirn he could not think who had gone
off with that piece of swine. But
he went. back and told his
bookkeeper to charge up one ham to
'each of those thirteen different ac
counts, telling him at the same time
that when twelve of the men object
ed tc paying for it, to explain to
them that it was a mistake that
would not occur again.
“What happened? Whv, twelve
of that party paid thei- ' ills w thout
a question, and only one rai.ed any
objection to the pork i em. So at
least eleven, and very -kelya l twelve
had paid for something they had not
bought, and that some one had dis
posed of. Steer clear of bills.” —
W as hingtorrStar.
Pleasant Plains, Ala., )
January 29, 1891. (
I and my family suffered with La
Grippe for several weeks before we
tried Johnson’s Tonic, nut when
we did wo found speedy relief.
Have not had a bottle returned or
complained of. Yours truly,
S. TEMPLE,