The Weekly Chronicle.
Entered at the I’oMoffk ■ in Fort Guinea a? Second
Class Mail Matter.-
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Official Organ of Clay County.
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THOMAS H. JERNIGAN,
Editor and Manager, Fort Gaines, Ga.
FRIDAY, MARCH 13
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Chronk le:
Fort Gaines—W. E. Lightfoot, J. P. 11. Brown
Bluffton—R. R. Blocker.
Days X Road—T. J. Peterson.
Forgive us this time, brother of the
Dawson Journal, we didn’t intend it.
From the numerous newspaper re
ports, it evidently rained somewhere last
Sunday.
There are 2,899 white and 4,918 col
ored persons in Clay county, making a
total population of 7,817.
The heaviest snow of the winter fell
throughout Kansas Saturday. This is
rather discouraging to spring poets.
Capt. Phil. Boyd’s store, at I Leary,
was burglarized Saturday night and
over S3OO worth of goods carried away.
Four years is what Goo. F. Work,
the bank wrecker, got for dallying with
the securities of tine Bank of America.
Col. Thomas Hardeman, one of Geor
gia’s old and beloved citizens, died at
his residence in Macon Saturday last.
“The business congress” demonstra
ted the fact that it takes money to do
business with. Now pay your sub
scription.
A north Georgia confederate^ soldier
repaid a loan of $5 last week made
with a comrade during the civil war.
Better late than never.
Uncle Sam convicted si; of the boys
on the charge of moonshining in Atlan
ta Tuesday. What's the use taking such
risks when whisky is so cheap?
To Czar Reed:
•Farewell, Thomas, may you never boss
this country any more. There's a va
cant office, Thomas, waiting for you
down below.
The cotton crop promisos to be short
this year. Continued rains delay the
work. It is a blessing, after all, for an
other crop like the one in 1890 would
place the staple at about two to three
cents per pound.
Aim over the state they are organizing
investment companies for the purpose of
building up their respective towns. We
will have one here before many weeks
if the citizens will make a long pull, a
strong pull and a pull altogether.
From the way Bro. Vaughan, of the
Milledgeville Chronicle, used his shears
on a late issue of ohr paper local news is
ebout as scarce with him as monev is
with us. Walter, we are old friends,
and you ought to recognize us.
An iugenius Kansas man has been
granted a patent on an invention that
threatens to demoralize the American
hen. He proposes to manufacture and
sell eggs in car-load lots at three cents
per dozen. With so great a competition
as this, the average hen will hardly go
on any more strikes.
An old colored man, after a dilligent
search of twenty years, has at last been
rewarded by finding the much-sought
object—his wife. There are men in our
county W’ho have been on a similar
scarce for more than thirty years and
haven't accomplished as much.
Three toughs boarded the cannon
ball train at Dawson Saturday night and
were put off at Smithville by the con
ductor, because they did not pay their
fare. They became angry at this seem
ingly urgent demand on the part of the
conductor, and when his train started on
its way to Albany, fired several pis
tol shots into the passenger coach.
THE FLOODS.
The incessant rains of the past few
daysalmo t convinced people that there
was another deluge to come, and among
the ward politicians there was an incip
ient movement to elect a Noah.
Since last Wednesday morning we
have had rain enough to cause disastrous
floods if it had been concentrated in
forty-eight to sixty hours, but the rain
took a breaking spell on Saturday, and
gave the accumulated water in the
streams nearly twenty-four hours to get
out of the way before the great
rain of Sunday came. That one day’s
rest was providential, for without it mil
lions of acres would have been flooded
and an immense amount of property
would have been damaged.
Below wo give a brief account of the
damage at different places:
'•’he Pelham cotton factory at Spar
tanburg, S. C., has its first floors entire
ly inundated.
The Tennessee river at Chattanooga
has reached the danger line and still
rising at the rate of three inches per
hour.
At Augusta the streets arc partially
flooded, and it is expected that the over
flow will exceed the freshet of 1887.
Rome is partially under water, and
considerable damage is expected.
The Ocmulgee river at Macon is out of
its banks, and the strong current at that
point has washed away part of the Ma
con and Covington railroad bridge. The
water is beginning to cover the park
rapidly. Great damage is looked for.
The Flint river threatens to overflow,
and if it does, tne loss and damage to
cattle in the swamps will be alarming.
Many letters are received by the P. P
P. Co. from patients, saying they had
used such and such a blood purifier and
sarsaparillas, mentioning their names
and siting they did no good, and they
did not get well until P. P. P. (Prickly
Ash, Poke Root and Potassium) was
tried. These letters we started to pub
lish, when the various manufacturers
wrote us fearful letters, and we discon
tinued same, but P. P. P. (Prickly Ash,
Poke Root and Potassium) is triumph
ant on every occasion, and has made a
host of friends in cures of Syphilis,
Rheumatism, Scrofula, Blood Poison,
Dyspepsia, Malaria and Female Com
plaints.
COTTON.
The following, taken from the Macon
County Citizen, might boos interest to
the farmer who intends planting the
“earth” in cotton this year:
The co ton market all over the United
States was never in a more unsatisfactory
state than now. The market ceased in
New York city Saturday night, with
lower prices than for the past thirty years.
The consumers of the staple all seem as
tounded at the enormous receipts and
the factories all over the United States
and Europe, have a sufficiency to last till
about October 15th next, consequently
the unprecedented dullness. There is
positively no satisfactory or plausible
reason to expect higher prices for any of
the spring or summer months.
The warehouses all over this broad
southland of ours, are crowded with the
fleecy staple, and great financial loss is
inevitable. Our farmers have all gone
energetically to work to prepare their
lands for a repetition of the act or crime
committed annually since the late war:
that of planting three-fourths in cotton
to one in coin. If a crisis is ever reached
it is our opinion that we will experience
it this fall and winter.
Heed the Warning,
It is not infrequently the case that
itching pimples and irritating “cat boils'
are the forerunners of larger boils or
the more serious carbuncles. Invariably
Nature puts out her danger signals, and
they should be heeded at once. The
pimples and little boils show that the
blood is not in a good condition and na
ture is trying to relieve the system. A
few doses of Swift's Specific at this junc
ture will accomplish wonders. The
eruption will be healed and the system
cleansed of its impurities. The modern
paraphrase of the old saying, ‘ A stitch
in time,” etc., is that “Timely stitches
will save the nine pairs of breeches.”
The modern form has a touch of humor
that does not modify the truth of it. In
that vein, we may say that a course of
Swift's Specific prevents ills terrific.
FROM BELLVILLE.
The following items were clipped from
the last issue of the Billville Banner, and
we are proud to know that this famed
contemporary has again been revived.
The Billville Banner, which was closed
out by the sheriff three weeks ago, has
resumed publication, and the editor
seems to have recovered his usual spirits.
He savs:
We are still doing business at the old
stand. We settled our financial difficul
ties by promising to marry the sheriff’s
mother-in-law. Please omit flowers.
John Hammond has returned from
Texas. He came in a first- class coffin,
which was furnished by the citizens free
of charge, in consideration of the work
he did in trying to run the town.
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The people of Georgia used not to be
afraid that they will not have an exhibit
at the Worlds fair. We aw the only
confederate private in the state, and. wo
aie going.
That Trestle.
Mb. Editoe:—The very full report
and cut of the late wreck on the Fort
Gaines branch of the Central railroad in
your last issue, stamps The Chronicle
a live paper, and up with the spirit of
the age, and had your reporter been
more careful of his facts the writer
would have only commendation of his
enterprise. But when lie gravely as
serts that “the cause of the accident was
attributed to the decayed condition of
the timber which formed the trestle.’’
and that “an examination showed that the
foundation on which the studding rest
ed was rotten even with the surface of the
ground,” simple justice to the manage
ment of the road demands a correction.
About the last day of March, 1888,
the trestle over the ravine near 139
mile-post was carried away by the great
freshet, and soon thereafter the trestle
in question was erected of stout heart
timbers, and being less than three years
old at the time of the accident, it could
not have been rotten. But more than
this, a critical examination showed that,
with the exception of one brace, slight
ly decayed, which did not effect its ver
tical strength, every stick of timber com
posing the structure, from mud-sills to
cap-sills, reported so very “rotten,”
were found so good and rich that Road
Master Porter—although planning for an
extraordiny strong trestle—to be safe for
at least ten years; would not permit
them all removed, but put the new tres
tle on them.
Tor the correctness of these statements
I refer to that close observer and expe
rienced mill-man, Mr. B. M. Brown.
There were some old timbers used as
“backing”—in no way affecting the tres
tle—which were found to be quite “rot
ten,” and charity inclines me to think
that these were the timbers seen by your
reporter.
The unfortunate break-down of the
trestle was readily understood by those
who took the trouble to investigate the
matter, and was not due to any defect in
the structure. For some unknown cause
a refrigerator car, weighing, with its
coments, 6,500 pounds, “jumped the
track” just as it was going on the trestle,
and running on the cross-ties, bunched
them and broke it down. On the best
tracks in the country cars often leave
the track, for causes which cannot be
discovered. Until man’s wisdom and
knowledge cease to be finite, his best ef
foris for safety will sometimes miscarry.
A conductor of a splendidly equipped
and popular railroad remarked a few
days ago that there had been on said
road an average of one accident or run
off per day for the past thirty days.
Our branch has been remarkable for
its exemption from accidents and mis-
haps of every kind for more that thirty
years, and now that it has two accidents
—not “three”—in one week, dees not
j justify the wholesale denunciations in-
I dulled in your columns. Besides, Mr.
j Editor, the Central is the only road now
i running or likely to run to our town,
j and hence our prosperity, if not exist
: fence, as a commercial mart, is de
pendent upon it.
It has been liberal and generous to the
town in ways and matters too numerous
to specify. Our wagon bridge across the
Chattahoochee river, upon whicu our
trade so greatly depends, is largely the
gift of the Central railroad to Fort
Gaines. Until prohibited by the rail
road commission of Georgia it gave us
rates of frieght—much lower than the
size and importance of our town de"
manded.
In view of these facts, why should it
i be made to appear that Fort Gaines is
' antagonizing the management of the
i Central railroad? Is this wise? Is it bus
iness-like? Is it prudent? I think not
W. A. Graham.
The First Step.
Perhaps you are run down, can’t eat,
can't sleep, can't think, can’t do any
thing to your satisfactian, and you won
der what ails you. You should heed the
warning, you are taking the first step
, into Nervous Prostration. You need a
! Nerve Tonic and in Electric Bitters you
I will find the exact remedy for restoring
I your nervous system to its normal.
■ healthy condition. Surprising results
! follow the use of this great Nerve Tonic
’ and Alterative. Your appetite returns,
I good digestion is restored, and the Liver
; and Kidneys resume healthy action.
■ Try a bottle. Price 50c. at Dr. J. M.
> Hatchett's drug store.
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I
Billville did not get the state en
campment, but she is not lacking. She
has an organized bank of “white caps,”
who can make more noise j n a minute
than they can in a mile.
Queer world! Queer people! Here are
men and women by thousands suffering
' from all sorts of diseases, bearing all
manners of pains, spending their all on
physicians and “getting no better, but
; rather worse,’’ when right at hand there’s
a remedy which says it can help them
because it's helped thousands like them.
; “Another patent medicine advertise
ment,” you say. Yes—-but not of the
' ordinary sort, The medicine is Dr.
Pierce's Golden Medical Discov
eiy. The different from the '
ordinary nostrums in this: It does what
it claims to do, or it costs you nothing!
The way is this: You fray your druggist
SI.OO for a bottle. You read the direc- '
tions, and you follow them, You get
better, or you don’t. If you do, yea :
buy another bottle, and perhaps another.
If you don’t get better, you get your ■
money back. And the queer thing _ib '
that so many people are willing to be i
sick when the remedy’s so near at hand |
LEGAL ADVERTISEMEMTS.
Petition for Charter.
GEORGIA—CLAY COUNTY:
To the Hon. J. II Gucrry, Judge of Su
perior Court of said county:
The petition of W. J. Greene, G, R. Sut
live, E. W. Killingsworth, J. E. Womack,
11. C. Coleman, D. F. Gunn, J. D. Rambo,
J. W. Sutlive, L. L. Sutlive, VV. M. Speight
and others show that they desire to obtain
a charter and to incorporate themselves for
the object of manufacturing brick, tile etc.,
for the purpose of selling the same for cash
and on a credit as well as for the further
purpose o f using said brick, tile etc., in
the building of houses, sewers etc., for cash
and on a credit—and to buy, lease or con
tract for the purchase of realty on which to
build the houses etc., with said man
ufactured materials. And if necessary,
to borrow money, and to secure the same
in furtherance of the aforesaid purposes—
and to do any and all acts necessary for
the objects and purposes as aforesaid.
That rhe incorporate name of said peti
tioners shall be “The Sutlive Brick Com
pany,” and«the amount of capital to be em
ployed by them shall be $5,000 with the
right to increase the same to an amount
not exceeding §50,000. That the shares
shall be SSO each, payable in such install
ments and at such times as the Directors
may require. That their place of doing
business shall be in Fort Gaines, Ga„ with
the privilege of making contracts for the
advancement of said business, at such other
places as it may be to their interest. That
the time for which said charter is desired,
shall be ten years.
That they shall have the right to sue and be
sued in their corporate name—That they
they shall have the right to make such by
laws and rules for the government of their
body as to them shall seem proper and not
contrary to the laws of the State of Georgia
That said stockholders shall be, in case of
failure of said corporation, liable in their
private capacity only for the amount of
their unpaid subscription.
Wherefore your petitioners pray for an
order granting to them and their succes
sors the charter as prayed for. And your
petitioners will ever pray etc.
J. D. RAMBO,
Petitioners’ Att’y.
Bridge Notice.
GEORGIA—CLAY COUNTY:
Bids for building a bridge known as Ma-
Gruder’s Bridge in the 749th district, G.
M.. Clay county, will be received until the
first Monday in April, 1891. Specifications
will be posted in the office of the clerk of
the Superior Court of said county, and will
be open to the inspection of the public.
Bids should be handed to the clerk.
By order county commissions..
J. W. SUTLIVE,
This Feb. 24,1891. Clerk.
Citation.
GEORGIA—CLAY COUNTY:
To all whom it may concern: W. A.
Graham having in due form applied to the
undersigned for the guardianship of the
persons and property of Ethel May Gra
ham and W. A. Graham, Jr., minor chil
dren of W. R. Graham, and Hammie Gra
ham, late of said county, deceased.
Notice is hereby given that his appli
cation will be heard at my office on
the first Monday in April next. Given
under my hand and official signature.
This 2d day of March, 1891,
R. T. FOOTE, Ordinary.
Sheriff’s Sale.
GEORGIA—CLAY COUNTY :
Will be sold before the court house door
on the first Tuesday in April between the
legal hours of sale, the following real es
tate, towit: One acre more or less, situated
in the town of Fort Gaines, Ga., bounded
on north by land of West Gross, on south
by land of Harriet Lee, on west by street,
on the east by land of R. A. Turiripseed;
said land sold to satisfy a distress warrant
issued from the Justice court of the 431st
district, G. M., in favor of J. Railey against
Gay Wilkes, said property levid on as the
property of defendant. Tenant in posses
sion notified according to law.
JAS. T. MCALLISTER,
March 5, 1891. Sheriff.
Sheriff Tax Sales.
GEORGIA—CLAY GOUNTY:
Under and by virtue of a tax execution
issued by W. R. Harrison, tax collector of
Clay county, Ga., I will sell at public out
cry for cash, between the legal hours of
sale before the court house door in Fort
Gaines, Ga., on first Tuesday in April,
1891, all of fractional lot No. 140 in 7th
district of said county,containing 113 acres
more or less, or enough of said lot to satisfy
said execution. Said land is levied on by
me to satisfy tax execution for state and
county taxes for year 1890 against J. W.
Sutton. Said property was pointed out by
said J. W. Sutton to be levied. Tenant in
possession notified according to law.
JAS. T. MCALLISTER,
This March 3, 1891. Sheriff.
Citation.
GEORGIA—CLAY COUNTY:
To all whom it may concern: Robt. P.
McKemie has in due form applied to the
undersigned for permanent letters of ad
ministration on the estate of H. F. Colley,
late of said county, deceased; and I will
pass upon said application on the first
Monday in April next, 1891. Given under
ray hand and official signatuie.
This March 5, IS9I, R. T. FOOTE
Ordinary.
Sheriffs Sale#
GEORGIA—CLAY COUNTY:
Will be sold before the court house
door in said county, within the legal hours of
sale on the first Tuesday in April next to
the highest bidder for cash, the following
property, to wit: All that lot of land in the
town of Fort Gaines known in the plan of
said town as lot No. 91, bounded on north
by an alley, on east by lot No. 90, on south
by La Fayette street, on west by an alley.
Levied on as the property of Sam Wil
liams, deceased, under two executions from
the county court of said county in favor of
Simpson & Bro., against J. W. Sutlive, as
administrator of Sam Williams, deceased.
JAS. T. MCALLISTER,
This March 5, IS9I, Sheriff.
Notice.
All parties indebted to A J. Fleming
are hereby notified that all notes, ac
counts, etc., due him have been transfer
red to me, and no one is authorized to
collect the same except J. R. Simpson, or
F. I>. Dillard and J. D Rambo, my at
torneys. This Feb. 23, 1891.
Mas. Mavo R. Simplon.
Brown’s Hardware House:
A. S. BROWN, Prop.
Headquarters for Everything in the Hardware Line in GeneriiL
and the following Goods in Particular.
Nails, Plows, Plow Stocks, Hames, Backbands,
HARNESS,
Crockery. Glassware,
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FISHING TACKLE, GARDEN TOOLS, AND THE BEST AXE
IN THE WORLD FOR 80 CENTS.
Gantt Cotton Planters. Gantt Improved Dow Law iron Frame
Cotton Planter.
Reduced Price on ROAD CARTS for the next 30 days.
We arc overstocked in SADDLES and are selling closer than ever
heard of before.
The only Licensed house in Clay County for the sale of PiatoU
KnucKs, Etc.
Re-Opened!
The Dobbins Drug Store has
been re-opened and is prepared to
fiill prescriptions and supply the
public with Fresh Drugs, Toilet
Articles, Garden Seeds, Etc.
Watch this space every week
and see what they offer you.
TENNILLE’S REPAIR gHOP. !
SELLS AND REPAIRS
Buggies, Wagons,
Furniture, Etc.
Remember I build Buggies to order
and keep in stock finished Dashes,
Cushions anti Shafts for repairing•
same. I run the only General Repair j
shop in Fort Gaines, and will guaran
tee satisfaction.
W. R. TENNILLE.
JACKSON & MONCRIEF,
DKNTISTS.
Office in Paußin Building. All work guaranteed
S “ALARY $25 PER WEEK.—
Wanted—Good Agents to sell our
C eneral Line of Merchandise. No peddling.
Above salary will be paid to “live” Agents.
For farther information, address
Chicago General Supply Co..
No. 178 W. Van Buren St., Chicago, 111,
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For First-class Jewelry, Watches, Clocks
ilverware, and in fact anything in Jew-
elryline, go to the Old Reliable
W. B. HOLMES.
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WAIT!
I will be in Ft.
Gaines on or a
bout March 16,
with a Car Load
of Texas Horses
and Mules.
Wait for me, I
have Bargains in
store for you.
m. l mcdowell
Cleburne Tews, Feb 26, *9l,
