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GEORGIA GLEANINGS.
Tt>«* Very Item*
From Our Exchange*.
Austell Advertiser: Joe Mozely of
Austell has a common hen 12 years
old. She has been a faithful layer,
has raised at least forty chickens each
year and promises to do faithful ser
vice for many years yet to come.
Considerable interest is being man
ifested in the election for treasurer of
Washington county, which takes
place tomorrow. There are three
candidates for the office, T. H.
Sparks, P. R. Taliaferro and J. F.
Hawkins.
Brunswick Times: Undertaker C.
G. Moore has only sold two coffins
within the past two months, and one
of these was used outside of the city.
This is an excellent showing for the
health of Brunswick, though it cer
tainly must be discouraging to the
undertaker.
Elberton Farmer: A successful
farmer in the lower portion of Elbert
says he fervently and ardently prays
ever night that the price of corn will
go to $5 a bushel and meat to $2.50
per pound. He believes that this is
the only way to bring the people to
their senses.
Macon Telegraph: A few days
since Officer C. H. Hutchings, while
watching the digging of a post hole
in his vicinity, saw the spade lifting
up a bronze-colored medal 2 J inches
in diameter, “Awarded to J. S. Scho
field & Son, Macon, Ga., best power
press, 1871.”
The Eatonton Messenger presents
the facts thus: “Col.” Livingston is
rising in a financial view. He gets
$133 day as a congressman, $5 a day
to run the alliance in his own inter
est, $2 a day to assist Harry and
Larry to form opinions. Total S2O a
day. The statesman’s income is $7,-
300 a year.
Feb Carr, John Mackey, Will
Cross and Russell Ninot, from Au
gusta, went over in Carolina Sunday,
together, and while over there had a
fuss and began to shoot at each other.
They proved poor marksmen, how
ever, and the only one in the party
injured was John Mackey, who had
one of his fingers shot off.
At Athens Sunday night, the barn
belonging to Chancellor Boggs, on
the campus, was burned completely
to the ground. The fire alarm was
sounded and the department re
sponded, and but for their prompt
and effective work other buildings
would have been destroyed. The
fire is thought by some to have been
the work of an incindiary.
Marion County Patriot: H. M.
Brown went out into a pond at Juni
per the other day and killed a wild
duck as it came from and old hollow
stump. Mr. Brown climbed the
stump and found a dozen eggs,
which he carried home and placed
under a hen. Out of the dozen eggs
eleven young ducks were hatched in
just a week’s time.
It is stated on the authority of the
husband of the late Mrs. Isham
Wheeler, a cotton factory’ operative
who died at Newnan a week ago,
that she was the daughter of ex-Gov
ernor Smith of Alabama. Superin
tendent Florence says she was a wo
man of more than ordinary intelli
gence, but so far as known gave no
intimal^n of her relationship to Ala
bama’sex-govemor during her resi
dence here.
Washington celebrated Memorial
day on Monday. Dr. S. H. Bradley
delivered the address of the occasion,
which was one of tke finest addresses
ever delivered in that city. The Ir
vin artillery, Delhi Rangers and Col
ley’s Company of the Confederate vet
erans were in attendance, escorted by
the Irvin Guards and Academy Ca
dets. The graves were beautifully
decorated by some of Washington’s
fairest daughters, w hile a select choir
dispensed appropriate music.
A Walking Bank.
A plantation was sold the other
day by a Savannah gentleman to an
inferior capitalist. The papers were
prepared by a well-known legal firm
with three members. The purchaser
closely examined the papers.
“I don t think I can improve on
’em,” he said after deep reflection.
“Now,” he proceeded, “will you
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please just shet the door.” This
was done and he began to strip. One
garment after another was removed-
His woolen shirt came off. Around
his waist there was strapped a belt
This he unstrapped. Its contents
were revealed. Slowly he counted
out the shining pile of sixteen thou
sand dollars. The purchase money
was paid and the poor countryman
went his way with his titles in fee
simple to a plantation situated, lying
and also being in a county adjacent
to the Central road the other side of
Millen. He is a man who wears cur
rency in place of underclothing.
How I Was Cured of So-Called Cancer.
Dear Sir:—This is to certify that
I was a sufft rer with a place on my
underlip for fourteen years, ann was
under treatment of different physi
cians, but they done me no good.
I had lost all hope of being cured
by medical treatment. I then went
to a doctor living in Florida, who
treated them by art. After going
to him it got well, apparently, for a
while, but returned as bad as ever.
I then concluded to try P. P. P.
(Prickly Ash, Poke Root and Potas
sium), and after taking five bottles
(pint size) was cured. I also find it
to be a good medicine to give a
good appetite and to give proper
digestion- Yours truly,
J. L. Strickland.
Good Fanning.
The following will show what can
be done on Marion county soil by
strict economy and industry.
Mr. Owen W. Smith, a young far
mer living eight miles north of Beuna
Vista, has clared in the last four years
above all expenses, on a two mule
farm, $2,750. He has made in the
last three years 41,500 pound of lint
cotton,making 83 balesaveraging 500
pdund each. The largest amount
raised in any of these years was 31
bales. In addition to this he has
made in the same length of time
1,200 gallons of syrup averaging 40
cents per gallon. He has also made
plenty of corn to do him. He started
four years ago $2,500 in ’ debt and
now he is out of debt with plenty of
money to run him this year and owns
a home worth $2,500 or $3,000.
Mr. Smith has kept a accurate ac
count of everything about his premi
ses and these figures are correct.
What this young farmer has done
many others could do if they would
go at it in the right way.—Beuna
Vista Patriot. .
A prominent railroad superintend
ent, living iu Savannah, one suffer
ing for years from malaria and gen
eral debility, srys, on having recov
ered his health by the use of P. P.
P‘, thinks that he will lie forever,
if he can always get P. P. P. (Prickly
Ash, Poke Root and Potassium.
This party's name will be given on
application.
Listen to This Tale of Woe.
Three brothers, Levi, John and
William Youmans, near Baxley, Ga.
within three and one-half miles of
each other, happened to a streak of
good fortune last Monday. Levi, the
eldest es the three, was made the
happy father of a fine boy at 12
o’clock noon, John, the next oldest,
had his home gladdened by the ad
vent of a boy at 1 o’clock, one hour
later. William, the youngest, was
the glad possessor of a boy in less
than twelve hours later.
This coincidence is one of marked
singularity, and the proud fathers
have made a record which is hard
indeed to beat.
Cure Your Corns by Using
Abbott’s East Indian Corn Pain for
Corns, Bunions and Warts, it is
great.
A Narrow Escape.
Last w ek a colored man named
Antony Jame was engaged in rafting
timber out at Spring Creek, when
he got a rope twisted around his leg,
the other end of the rope was fasten
ed to a raft, the raft drifting down
the current he was seriuusly bruised,
and if the timber had not caught
against the bank, it is though his
leg would have been mutilated be
yond hope.—Bainbridge Globe.
First Student—You told me you
had a rare and curious manuscript
to show me. I see nothing here but
a recipted tailor’s bill
Second Student —And you see
nothing rare and curious about
that?
FORT GAINES, GEORGIA, FRIDAY MAY 8, 1891.
Lulaton, Ga.
GAMBLED IN GRAIN.
“OLD HUTCH” HAS AT LAST BEEN
JUSTLY REWARDED.
He Become* Disheartened by Successive
Failures and Trie* to Sneak to
Other Climes.
It is estimated that not more than
10 pei' cent, of those who enter mer
cantile life retire from business with
a fortune. It is doubtful if the per
centage of those who gamble in
stocks, grain and cotton retire with
fortunes is as large. Speculating in
stocks and futures is a quick way of
making money and a quicker way
to lose it.
For a long time one- of the most
conspicuous speculators in grain in
the whole country was Benjamin P.
Hutchinson of Chicago, better known
as “Old Hutch.” Not very long ago
his wealth was estimated all the way
from $5,000,000 to $20,000,000. On
Wednesday, according to the Chica
go dispatches, he left Chicago for
some point between that city and
Pensacola, Fla., for the reason that
he could not meet his obligations.
His vast fortune has passed into
other hands, and had he not in the
days of his prosperity settled a large
sum upon his wife he would be vir
tually penniless.
His deMre to speculate was so
great that he could not resist it.
Many months ago it became evident
to his sons, who are prominent bus
iness men in Chicago, that luck was
against him, and that he was rapidly
losing his wealth. They tried to
get him to give up speculation and
spend the remainder of his days
quietly and in the enjoyment of do
mestic life.
He yielded to their wishes for a
time, and for several months he was
not seen in his usual haunts. But
the ruling of his life was stronger
than his will, and he began specula
tieg again.
He will make no more bets, how
ever on the future prices of wheat
and corn, unless his wife supplies
him from the money put apart for
her use. And if she is a wise woman
she will keep what she has, however
earnestly her husband may plead for
it. She knows that a few hundred
thousand dollars would not remain
long with such a ‘‘plunger ’ as ^‘Old
Hutch,’ if luck should be against
him.
“Old Hutch’’ will be remembered
a long time as one of the most re
markable men who ever operated on
the Chicago Board of Trade. For
years he ruled it, sending prices up
and down as he pleased.
He started in life with nothing
but good health and a great deal of
native shrewdness. Fifty years ago
he was employed in a small grocery
in North Reading, N. H., at S2O a
vear, but he did not remain there
long
Forty years ago he went to Mil
waukee and was successful in busi
ness there. After the war he began
speculating in Chicago, and in 1887
was the leading operator in grain in
that city. It took him twenty years
to accumulate the millions which he
lost in less than two.—Savannah
Morning News.
We are apt to look upon the good
people of Leadville, Col., as a rough
set and given to rough ways, but we
cannot deny that they have some
good ideas and practical novions on
some subjects A judge who was
holding court was much^given to giv
ing “sass,” as they call it, to the law
yers and jury, which, becoming tire
some, that body revolted, ordered
the sheriff to lock up his honor for a
couple of weeks, which ths sheriff
proceeded to do. A popular bar
keeper was placed in the judicial
chair and the cases were continued
with great satisfaction to all par
ties.
Now Try This.
It will cost you nothing and will sure
ly do you good, if you have a cough,
cold, or any trouble with throat, chest
or lungs. Dr. King's New Discovery for
consumption, coughs and cold, is guar
anteed to give reHelf, or money will be
paid back. Sufferers from La Grippe
found it just the thing and under its use
had a speedy and perfect recovery. Try
a sample bottle at onr expense and learn
for yourself just how good a thing it is.
Trial bottles free at Dr. J. M. Hatchett’s
drug store. Large size 50c. and sl.
HE SAW A GHOST.
AN ADEL YOUNG MAN DOES SOME
GCOD RUNNING.
A White Mother Hubbard Serves as Rai-
ment for Hi* Ghost*hip--He E*-
tapes Unhurt.
We had a ghost at Airdale and
that is what suggested it to the boys.
। They never would have thought
of perpetuating such a piece of mis
chief only for his Ghostship.
A negro desperado was murdered
in cold blood and buried between Air
dale and the turpentine distillery of
the Cassel Bros.
Two or three years a light could
be seen rising from the grave to the
height of a man’s head, when it would
slowly move away, sometimes in one
direction, sometimes in another.
Once it swayed across the railroad
track (the grave was just off the
right of way) in exact imitation of a
lantern stopping an approaching
freight train. The engineer was
somewhat startled to discover that
the light was not waved by human
hands.
’Twas a veritable “will ’o the wisp,’
and no one ever succeeded in unrav
eling the mystery.
A sister to the Cassels’ came to
visit her brothers, (one of whom had
recently married), and one of Air
dale’s young men admired her very
much and was very attentive to the
object of his admiration.
When returning after a pleasant
evening in the society of the charm -
young lady, he would pass the lonely
grave among the pines with rapid
stride and fearful glances expecting
every second to see some terrible
form start out from among the trees,
appalling enough to strike terror to
the stoutest heart.
One evening he escorted the young
lady home from prayer meeting and
some meddlesome spirit whispered
to the boys: “Now is the time to
scare Ben half to death.”
Immediately resolving themselves
into a committee on “ways and
means,” the “how” until the ghost
occurred to them, when they resolv
ed to “make Ben think that the
ghost had come for him that night.”
Selecting two choice spirits to carry
out the joke, they bestirred them
selves to get the required material,
which consisted of one pound ol gun
powder, some matches, a mother
hubbard and a lantern.
On the way they had to cross a
swamp several hundred yards wide,
and they stopped at the trestle and
arrayed a pole with the mother-hub
bard. The night winds swayed the
full skirt across the track in away to
surprise a person not in the secret.
Going on to the grave they sat
down to wait for the pre-arranged
signal to be given when Ben started
home. Soon it came and they
scarcely had time to scatter the pow
der and tie the lantern on a pole be
fore their victim was upon them.
Waiting until he was exactly op
posite them, they fired the train of
powder which they had laid in a
manner to make a terrific explosion,
raised the lantern and ran directly to
wards the terrified young man who
stood spell-bound, thinking the grave
had opened and given up its dead.
The bright speck of light starting out
of the smoke and bearing down upon
him restored his pow ers of locomo
tion and articulation, and, with a
soul-ireezing screech he retired
through the woods at a rate of speed
impossible-to-be imitated by persons
convulsed with laughter. The boys
soon gave up the chase an returned
to town to tell the success of the joke
and await the return of the victim.
And what of Ben? He ran on
through the woods, over logs, gall
berry bushes add saw palmetto, un
til it suddenly occurred to him that
he had been victimized. Slowly re
tracing his steps, with revengeful
thoughts revolving in his mind he
reached the railroad a hundred or so
yards from where he had so abruptly
left it
So intently was he thinking, “How
shall I pay them up,” that he failed
to see the mother-bubbard, which
had been left for his benefit, until he
ran against it, fell down on it and
wound it around himself in such a
loving embrace, that in trying to ex-
tricate himself from the arms of the
monster he rolled off the trestle into
a nice, soft bed of mud, where he
finally succeeded in freeing himself.
Fortunately, the place where he fell
was clear of obstructions. Thunder
through mud and over snags he
finally reached terra firma whence he
fled for home, which he reached
without further mishap.
I leave you to imagine the merri
ment with which he was received,
but he never “got even,” and the
ghost was never seen again.—Adel
News.
Specimen Cases.
S. H. Clifford, New Cassel, Wis., was
troubled with neuralgia and rheumatism,
his stomach was disordered, his liver was
affected to an alarming degree, appetite
fell away, and he was terribly reduced
in flesh and strength. Three bottles of
Electric Bitters cured him.
Edward Shepherd, Harrisburg, HL,
had a running sore on his leg of eight
years standing.. Used three bottles of
Electric Bitters and seven boxes of
Bucklen’s Arnica Salve, and his leg is
sound and well. Jobn Speaker, Cataw
ba, 0., had five large fever sores on his
leg, doctors said he was incurable. One
bottle Electric Bitters and one box
Bucklen’s Arnica Salve cured him entire
ly. Sold by Dr. J. M Hatchett.
She Liked Boiled Souvenirs.
They are telling a wicked story at
the clubs about the better and heavier
half of one of the rich nabobs whose
splendor is occasionlly permitted to
dazzle the habitues of fashionable
thoroughfares. Sailing majestically
up the floor of a prominent Chestnut
street establishment, Mrs. Noorich
paused before a glittering showcase
and exclaimed:
“Oh, my! what awful nice spoons
them are!”
“Yes, madam,” said the clerk in
attendance, “they are our very latest
designs, and are greatly admired,”
“Ah, er —are they made to eat
fruit with?”
“They are souvenir spoons, mad
am.”
“You don’t say! Gimme a dozen.
Our new French cook makes ele
gant souvenir.”
She Was a Hammer.
A personage who attracted the at
tention of every one as she passed
along the streets was in the city
Saturday.
She was a young white woman, 17
years old, and weighed 286 pounds.
She wore a derby hat of an extraor
dinary size and a Mother-hubbard
dress loosely belted down, which, a<
she passed slong, looked like the
mainsail of a ship’s canvass. She
hailed from Willacoochee, but her
name could not be learned.—Albany
News and Advertiser.
No Through Car Wanted.
This old darky was wandering
among the trains in the Seventh
street depot with a carpet sack in
hand. He was accosted by an em
ploye with:
“Where are you going uncle?”
“Ter Pitchburg, sah.”
“Want a through car I suppose?”
“No, sah, don't Las’ kyar I rid
on whent trhoo, an’ cum nigh killin’
me. Los’ my hat.”
“How’s that?”
“Trussle warn’t strong ’nuf. No,
sah, Tse huntin’ de kyar dat don’t
go froo; I want de kyar dat’ll git
dar wid me.”
He was shown the right car, got
aboard and was soon on his wa y to
the smoky city.
Consumption Cured.
An old physician, retired from practice,
having had placed in his hands by an East
India missionary the formular of a simple
vegetable remedy for the speedy and per
manent cure of Consumption, Bronchitis,
Catarrh, Asthma and all Throat and Lung
affections, also a positive and radical cure
for Nervous Debility and all Nervous Com
plaints, after Laving tested its wonderful
curative powers in thousands of cases, has
felt it his duty ro make it known to his
suffering fellows. Actuated by this motive
and a desire to relieve human suffering, I
will send free of charge, to all who desire
it, this recipe, in German, French or Eng
lisg with full directions for preparing and
using. Sent by mail by addressing with
stamp, naming this paper. W. A. Noyes,
820Powers’ Block. Rochester, N. Y.
T. T. Shuptrine & 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.”
A fourteen-year old girl who was
sworn as a witness in a Cadem, N. J.,
murder case said she had never seen
a Bible before she entered the court
room.
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SOME SMART SAYINQI,
Short r»r»<r»ph. < »r^*wl»y TfcM
Win Make Yn» Smile
Never kick an electric wire
when its down
The saddest words that ere were
writ
Make up the senteoce, “Please re
mit."
A greedy man should wear a plaid
vest, so as to keep a check o® hie
stomach.
There are some people in thia
world wouldn't be satisfied it they
were perfectly contented.
Every heart knoweth its own bit
terness. Many a man who looks
happy is wearing a shirt his wife
made.
“Look at the crowd around the
corner. What’s the matter?’’ Baggs
—“Oh, nothing, only a policeman
killed by an accidental discharge of
duty."
Jane, the biscuits were like lumps
of lead this morning? Yes'm, I know
that, but then I beard you say tbe
master had to have a heavy break
fast before going to bis business.
Aha! I catch you buying a porous
plaster, do I? I thought your de
votion to the fresh-air theories would
bring you to this.
It ain’t tbe plaster that does me
good, answered tbe crank. It’s the
ventilation obtaind through the
boles.
Minnie—Oh, yes, Jennie Figg
was there, of course; and making
herself generally obnoxious, as
usual. Mamie—You ought to be
ashamed to talk so. Jennie doesn't
make herself obnoxious. She’s born
that way. She merely makes her
self conspicuous.
Agent of Benevolent Society—
The people of that tenement home
on Kay street are wretchedly poor,
but they are proud and independent.
They say they need no help. Pres
ident of Society—Then how do you
know they are very poor? Agent—
I stumbled over nine dogs on their
stairway.
The advance in the price of wheat,
corn, oats, etc., as the Philadelphia
Times points out, is of more than
doubtful benefit to our farmers.
Last year’s crops are in the hands
of speculators, and when the new
crops are ready for market prices
will be forced down, and the farmers
will be compelled to take what they
can get, Later, prices may be ad
vanced again.
It is a bad state of affairs, but
there is no remedy in sight just al
present. Speculative combines and
trusts have it in their power to buy
crops at low prices and then advance
the cost of food, including meat, to
their own figures.
If this sort of thing is to go on
the evil may become so oppressive
that it will work its own cure. When
the farmers and the masses gener
ally see that the scheme is to juggle
with the prices of the necessities of
life in order to fill the pockets
of the speculators and drain
the pockets of the producers and
consumers, and when they find no
relief in legislation they will resort
to any defensive and remedial meth
ods that may seem moat effective.
In plain English, there will lie
trouble if this unscrupulous specu
lation in food is allowed to go mi.
It is very easy for capitalists to
say that the poor must accommodate
themselves to the situation buy pur
chasing less, but in a country like
ours there are millions of people
who would rather fight and die than
live half fed and half clad. When
men are in such a mood speculators
should go slow, and statesmen
should give the pressing economic
problems of the day their very beat
thought.
We have not yet come to the
worst, but we are drifting in that
direction, and without something in
the shape of substantial oconomic
reform the people will make the mo
nopolists and speculators feel the
crushing and sometimes cruel force
that goes with the supreme power
of numbers.—Atlanta Constitution-