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VOL 140.18.1
GEORGIA GLEANINGS.
The Very Latest Xew« Items Gathered
From Our Exchange,.
A cotton compress will be built in
Cordele in the near future.
Fifty thousand dollars has been
expended in Vienna in the building
of houses in less than a year.
• Dr. Glover, the Franklin county
wife murderer, who has been dement
ed since his recapture, is restored to
reason.
At Beall’s mill near Cuthbert, Ma
rion Taylor caught a carp that
weighed seventeen pounds, in a dip
net a few days ago.
At Macon during the past week
week Dr. N. G. Gewinner amputa
ted five thumbs of as many different
persons who got them smashed in
machinery.
Farmers who arrived in Columbus
Friday from down the Chattahoo
chee report bright prospects for good
crops, although they^have had but
very little rain.
Four men demolished the furni
ture and broke the windows of the
church at Nelson, last week. The
sheriff and two deputies went after
them, but they had skipped out.
Tallapoosa secured five new indus
tries last week—a wagon works, a
chair factory, shoe factory, stove
works and ice factory. They will
employ 600 hands. Two miles of
street railway are to be built by Sep
tember i.
The Baptist church at Griffin has
at last settled the organ question by
appointing a committee to solicit
subscriptions frofn the members of
the church and to purchase a new
pipe organ from the factory, not to
cost less than $1,500.
Thomaston Times: Miss Nettie
Vining, who lives in the southern
portion of this county, is the cham
pion hawk catcher of Georgia. She
caught seven hawks last week in a
trap. This entitles her to seven two
storied chicken pies from her neigh
bors.
J. J. Bent, the young soldier who
was convicted of picking the pocket
of a drummer at Macon, was taken
to the chain-gang on Saturday. His
father refused to remit the money to
pay the fine, and unless something
intervenes in his behalf, Bent will
wear shackles along with the negroes
until next September.
Oconee Enterprise: We are inform
ed that one day this week, while Oc
tavus Branch was chopping cotton
near Farmington, a poisonous snake
bit his hoe handle and in a few min
utes it had swolen so large that he
could not carry the log—formerly a
hoe handle —out of the field. Mr.
Branch is also the proud owner of a
cow from which he milks twenty
eight pounds of milk at each milking,
three times a day.
The whirlwind that passed over
the Powell place, at Shell Bluff, in
Burke county, recently, had many
■curious features and resulted strange
ly and disastrously. It was so severe
and of such a dry, parching nature,
that it ^destroyed between four and
five acres of cotton. After the wind
passed the cotton weed, which before
was growing vigorously, would
crumble to powder in the hand when
handled. The cloud of sand and dust
raised frightened a good many citi
zens.
Where Poker Rnlee.
Almost any man at the Hot
Springs would rather hold four aces
than be President. Some men come
here for their health, to get cured of
rheumatism, to rest and change the
subject; others come to get away
from snowstorms and climate kicks,
or from red liquor and the nicotine
fiend, and others for no reason dis
coverable except their ability to pay
hotel bills. But there is hardly a man
who does not play poker when he
gets here. Some play it for their
health. Some don’t. Here and there
some old fogies settle down in a cor
ner for a game of whist, and in the
evening the ladies —heaven bless
them!—make whist an excuse for
conversati, |n.^ The quiet and harm
less joys oflM^lown, I have
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THE WEEKLY CHRONICLE
straight, is played in solemn state
once a week and oftener in the big
hotel parlors.
But when a man takes a deck of
cards in sober earnest here, poker is
the result. In the Arkansas Club,
the principal gambling house here,
faro, perhaps is first favorite; but I
understand more money is lost even
there at poker, and the roulette
wheel cannot whirl fast enough to
keep apace with the “ante” of the
national game.
Nearly all the buildings in town
are two stories high. The ground
floor is a saloon or store, and the sec
ond floor a gambling shop of some
sort. The architects have planned
with an eye to poker. In nearly ev
ery second floor room in the business
part of the city, and often in daytime
and always at night men are con
stant shuffing and dealings. In all the
hotels card playing is incessant. Po'
ker is the game, and the stakes vary
with the place and the player. You
can find negro waiters who are con
tent with a 2-cent ante, and from
there mount to the game without a
limit, at which only a wealthy man
can afford to lose.
There are all sorts and sizes of
gamblers here. The aristocrat, who
frequents Phil Daley’s when he is in
east, aud can tell you curious tales of
Monte Carlo or of Carlsbab in its
palmy days; a dignified old man with
gray hair and a piercing eye, and a
grip like a vise, not a gambler in
looks, but a professional gamester
all the same, survives here still. He
is not so often met here as he used to
be, if the stories of the veterans be
true. —Pittsburg Dispatch.
A Greedy Client.
A Philadelphia lawyer, now dead,
who had a national reputation, hav
ing been honored with high positions
of trust both at Washington and
Harrisburg, was famous for his tre
mendous charges.
One day a client for whom he had
collected $1,500 called at his office
to receive his money, and the lawyer
handed him a check for SIOO. The
client looked at it and remarked that
the lawyer must have made a mis
take, and had given him the check
which he meant to keep for his fee.
•‘Let me look at the check,” said
the attorney, and glancing over it, he
declared that it was all right, and no
mistake had been made. The client
kicked against a fee of $1,400 for col
lecting $1,500.
*’O, well, if you want to be a
hog about it, take that,” said the man
of laws impatiently, and he wrote out
another check. It was for $l5O, and
with that he had to be content, the
lawyer pocketing the $1,350.
Gentlemen: —I have suffered for
years with a kind of Tetter or break
ing out all over - my body, and at
times these small pimples would ter
minate in boils. While traveling in
I the South last year I had occasion
to try a bottle of P. P. P., which
was recommended to me by a friend,
and to my surprise it helped me so
much that I got six more bottles,
and after taking the full contents, I
felt better than I had since the be
ginning of my trouble, and while I
have no symptoms of the disease re
turning, I am still using the wonder
blood medicine at intervals, and am
fully satisfied that I will be entirely
cured of a disease that for fifteen
years has troubled me. I cannot
express my gratitude to you for so
wonderful a benefactor as your P. P.
P. (Prickly Ash, Poke Root and Po
tassium). I am yours truly,
JACAT PETERS,
Traveling Salesman.
Savannah, Ga.
At Macon Saturday afternoon a
gentleman approached several police
officers in the vicinity of Bridge Row
and showed them a description of a
negro named John Williams, alias
“Old Ad,” who was wanted for the
murder of a white man in Twiggs
county. The gentleman said that he
was a brother of the murdered man;
that he thought the murderer was in
Macon, and that he would give SSOO
reward for his arrest. At a late hour
Sunday night a negro named John
Williams, answering the description,
was found in a house on Bridge Row
by Officers C. W. Mozely and W. H.
Jones, arrested without resistance
and locked up in the city prison for
safe keeping.
POUT dim OIMII PHIDIV JUNE L
SHE CAME FOR HIM
ALLTHE WAY FROM NEW MEXICO TO
WILLIFORD, GA.
Mr. J. A. May Answers a Matrimonial Ad-
vertiseinent and Gets a Wife a
Long Ways From Home.
Cordele, Ga., May 30.—[Special.]
—Last Saturday morning when the
10 o’clock train arrived at Wiliiford,
a station ten miles east of Cordele,on
the Savannah, Americus and Mont
gomery railroad, the natives were
surprised to behold two large, tine
looking ladies get off and inquire for
Mr. J. A. May, the postmaster.
The ladies set-med to have come
to stay, for several large trunks were
taken from the baggage car, and
they held the checks for them. But
why should they wish to see Mr.
May, the genial postmaster and mer
chant? This was the question which
he people of Wiliiford asked each
and which the guide who showed
the ladies the way to Mr. May’s
store mentally asked themselves.
Mr. May was putting up the mail
when he was informed that some la
dies wished to see him. He finished
his duties as po-tmaster, aud then
walked out to inquire what they
wished-
He was told that one of them was
Miss Gussie Taylor and the other
was her widowed that they hailed
from somewhere in New Mexico, and
that Miss Taylor had come for the
express purpose of marrying him.
Mr. Miy seemed a little surprised,
but said he was looking for Miss
Taylor and would be ready for the
ceremony as soon as possible
The ladies were conducted to Mr.
May’s house, the store was closed
and and he began his preparations
at once. A notary public was sent
for and at 3 o’clock Saturday after
noon Miss Taylor became Mrs. May.
About eight months ago Mr. May
answered an advertisement which he
saw in The Heart and Hand, a mat
rimonial paper. The advertisement
proved to be a woman in New Mex
ico and an excellent correspondent.
Mr. May is a gentleman of culture
and education, and Miss Taylor’s
charms as a letter writer roped him
in at once.
Finally he proposed that they
should get married, but intimated
that he did not have the means to
pay his expenses to New Mexico and
back. To show how strong her at
tachment was for him, she said she
would come all the way to Georgia
to have the ceremony performed.
True to her word she landed in
Williford Saturday morning, and the
marrage took place as narrated
above.
I have been informed that Mr.
May is ignorant to a great extent of
his wife's family connections or of
her own past life. She said she
loved him and would marry him. He
took her at her word, and they are
now as happy as two sunbeams. At
least, so things appear to people
outside the family circle.
A Little Girl’s Experience in a
Lightliouse.
Mr. and Mrs. Leron Trescot tare keep
ers of the Gov. lighthouse at Sand Beach,
Mich, and are blessed with a daughter, 4
years old. Last April she was taken down
with measles, followed with a dreadful
cough and turning into a fever. Doctors
at home and Detroit treated her, but in
vain, she grew worse rapidly until she was
a mere ’‘handful of bones”—theu she tried
Dr. King's New Discovery and after the
use of twj and a half bottlos, was com
pletely cured. They say Dr. King s New
Discovery is worth its weight in gold,yet
you may get a trial bottle free at Dr. J.
M. Hatchett’s drug store.
Jerry Simpson, sockless in his
fame, seems to be more of a philos
opher than the people have thought
The detroit Free Press says:
A medical journal bids us beware
of red stocking—they sometimes
poison the blood. Anybody will tell
you 1 hat black stocking sometimes
crook, and editors everywhere de
clare that blue stockings frequently
Superinduce a tired feeling. Per
haps, after all, Jerry Simpson has
found the philosophy of the situ
ation
An editor who had’tramped from
Texas to Billville was found dead
near* the courthouse last week. All
that was found on his person was a
free pass and a hope of a hereafter.
GOLD ORE IN A WELL
EASTMAN WELL DIGGERS MAKE A
VALUABLE DISCOVERY.
Georgia Forcing Her Way to the Front as
Gold-Producing State—California
About to be Outdone.
Dr. J. D. Herrman’s well on
Chauncy avenue, in Eastman had
gone dry. and the dusky diggers, in
quest of water lower down, struck a
stratum of flint, hard as usual, and
fiery, responding in crackling sparks
to the strokes of the pick.
The work of breaking up the flint
had not proceeded far when a nug
get of the precious metal, weighing
230 grains, equal in weight to about
§7.50 in gold coin, was seen to roll
to one side and to glitter as the de
scending pick crashed it way into
the rocky floor of the well.
The peculiar find was brought to
the fuller light of day and came un
the eye of Mrs. Herman, who sus
pecting the real character of the
heavy, shining lump, which was in
the shape of an oval, sent it directly
to the doctor at his office, who after
turning it about he critically sur
veyed it for a short while, asked,
“What is it?” as he delivered it into
the hands of J. B. King, the jeweler,
to be tested
Mr. King, after a moment’s inves
tigation with the natural eye only,
remarked to the doctor: “I will give
you §5 for it and risk it,” to which
the medical man promptly disa
greed, requesting that a thorough
test be made.
Accordingly, after submitting it
to the usual crucial test, under the
powerful influence of nitric acid and
the blow-pipe, and perhaps other
agents equally potential, the jeweler
pronounced it gold of fine quality.
After the melting process had
been completed, it was found that
155 of the 230 grains were pure
gold, the other 75 consisting of flint
rock and other extraneous matter.
Thus it is seen that more than two
thirds of the entire nugget as it
came from the earth was pure gold
—a much greater per cent, than is
usually obtained from the crude au
riferous rocks in vaunted mining re
gions.
Gold is most generally found dis
tributed in small shining particles
all through the sandstoue, quartz,
shale flint rock or othei’ material
which contains it, so that the entire
mass must be pulverized or reduced
to powde in order to separate the
gold from the baser material with
which it is pleased to keep company
in mother earth.
Hair all gone, scalp covered with
eruptions, and pains in all of his
limbs, a nreadful case of disease, ye t
P. P. P. Remained master of th o sit
uation, a cure was affected, and the
patient, the marshal of Monticello,
Fla., says his hair has grown out,
and that he is a well man. This cure
spread far and wide, and now the
drug stores of Monticello buy P. P.
P. in large quantities.
A heavy team loaded with disc
harrows was going along Hunter
street in Atlanta Tuesday. About
that time one of th^ sharp imple
ment, weighing about seventy-five
pounds, slipped from the wagon and
struck one of the mules squarely on
the leg. The blow cut it completely
off the animal bled to death.
Consumption Cured.
An old physician, retired from practice,
having had placed in his hands by an Bast
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.
Held by the Mule.
One peculiarity of the mule was
forced on my attention some time
ago when I was traveling in Arizona,
said Tom Wand, says the St. Louis
6tar Saying, this morning.
While at Tombstone I stepped out
of a bar and noticed a lazy looking
gentleman lolling on a mule at the
door. Something familiar in the
man's face struck me. and I turned
back and asked the barkeeper who
the fellow was.
Why, said he, that’s Bad Bill from
the mines.
Bill was wanted for a peculiarly
horrible murder, and there was no
doubt if captured he would be
strung up, yet there he was, loafing
about, with a dozen within call.
Why in the dickens doesn’t he
skip out of this?
He can’t.
Certainly he can. If I was on
that big mule, I would give them a
chase for it.
You would, eh? Stranger do you
see that other mule across the street,
tied to the hitching post?
Yes.
Well, that’s the pardner of this
mule.
Well, what, what if it is?
Just this, the!n mules is pardners,
and been goin together for years.
One wont go any where without
the other, and Bill as well try to
take an air line to the moon as try
to get away without the other mule,
which you will observe, has been
tied by the sheriff while he is taking
his morning eye-opener. See?
And Bill sat on the other “pard
ner” contentedly chewing a cud,
while the long-eared friends looked
at each other and winked.
The Billville Banner.
There will be no services at the
church tomorrow. Some body broke
in the parsonage last night and stole
the minister’s hat. It will, there
fore, be impossible to take up a col
lection, as he was the only man who
would risk his hat in a Billville con
gregation.
We stated last week that our
wife's mother had been injured in a
railroad wreck and was not expected
to recover. Later advices, however,
state that she still lives, and is on
her way to Billville. We leave on
the next train.
A subscriber shoved a dollar un
der our door during our absence last
week. It slipped through a a crack
and was caught by Judge Smith,
who left immediately for Canada.
The marshal of Billville is on his
trail, and he will be brought to jus
tice.
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
will find the exact remedy for restoring
your nervous sys tern to its normal
healthy condition. Surprising results
follow the use of this great Nerve Tonic
and Alterative. Your appetite returns,
good digestion is restored, and the Liver
and Kidneys resume healthy action*
Try a bottle. 1 rice 50c. at Dr. J. M.
Hatchett’s drug store.
A New Danger.
Don’t want no books, no soap, no
pictures, said the hard-faced woman
to the strange young man at the
front door, according to the Indian
apolis Journal.
lam not an agent, madam, said
the stranger. My business of an en
tirely different nature. Do you re
member a weary, ragged, and hun
gry tramp calling at your kitchen
door about six weeks ago?
She didn't remember.
Let me refresh your memory. You
were dressed in an old morning
wrap, tied at the waist with a string,
your front hair was in tins, and there
was a dark smudge across your
nose.
She tried to slam the door, but his
foot happend to be in the way.
You had a rolling-pin in one hand
and a kettle of hot water in the
other, with which you threatened to
scold the poor wayfarer.
Well. I didn’t scald you, anyhow.
You can’t get any case of assault and
battery against me.
Nothing of the sort was intended
ma’am. I merely wished to let you
know that I was that supposed
tramp. The bundle that I carried
on that occasion was a camera. See?
I have already been offered $4 tor
the picture of you I obtained, but it
you want it for 53.5° it yours.
He made the sale.
1 A VBA»
SOME SMART SAYING*.
Short l’ar»rraph« Carafally Ttoa*
Will Make You Smile.
The colonel left the lovely Mm
He’d called that eve to see.
And as he went she cried, ’’Pteaae kww
The regiment for me.”
Branch, when suddenly papa Mop
ped and, pointing him out. said.
There, my dear, is a man worth $lO,-
000,000
Visitor (in dime museum, 1895 h—
I see nothin freak-like about you.
Freak—l’m the only man who did
not go crazy about souvenir spoons.
Rush — That’s a very good cho
rus; they are remarkably well drilled.
De Billboard—They ought to be.
they’ve had time enough, there bn’t
a girl in it under 40.
Tenderfoot (who has just purchas
ed a horse) —Is it the custom here in
the west to throw in a halter when a
man takes a horse?
Old Resident—Well, it depends
on how he takes him.
Now collect yourself, my man, and
tell us the whole truth about the af
fair.
I assure you, your honor. I could
not say anything different from what
I have said, not if you were to make
mince meat of me.
Unsophiscated Parent-Hcllo.there,
nurse, what is the baby yelping that
way for? I can't read stall.
Nurse—He's cutting his teeth sir.
U. I’.—Well, see that he doesn’t
do it any more, or you lose your
place.
The effect of Rev. Mr. Harkin s
sermons on the terrors of hades was
lost.
How so?
The church was as cold as a bam.
and the prospect he held out was
rather agreeable.
Friend—So yours was a rase of
love at first sight?
Mrs. Getthere —Yes, indeed. I fid!
desperately in love with my char
husband the moment I set eyes upon
him. I remember it as distinctly as
if it were yesterday. I was walking
with papa on the beach at Long
One of the clergy at the recent
Christian Endeavor convention in
Portland, Me., had this to relate in
illustration about the small boy at his
home —aged about 5! years—who
had been out shoveling snow.
Didn’t it make your back ache,
my son?
No-o, responded the small boy in
the most approved base ball tone.
Did you ever have the backache?
continued the fond parent.
No, but I’ve had the front ache.
Editor Rufus Mason thinks there
is no place in the world where a mm
can learn how to farm profitably,
equal to a vegetable garden. If be
begins this ear with a moderately
rich garden soil, he will have moder
ate crops. Next year he will put on
twice as much manure; his crop*
will double last year. The third
year he will load on the manure, yes.
literally load it on; he will try to
overload it and fail, but he will have
such crops as he never dreamed of.
Now. when he gets on a farm be will
remember his lesson in the garden.
He will farm little land with much
manure and surprise everybody sod
even himself* You can easily gorge
land, but you can get as much mosey
ofi it, almost, as you choose. Try it
once.
Aman who ha* pracfier-d medicine for 4«
years, ought to know salt from sugar, reed
what he says:
Toledo, <l, Jan. 10,1787.
Messrs. F. J. Cheney A Co.—Cientlewn;
—I have been in tbe general poetiea es
medicine for most 10 years, and would toy
that in all my practice and experience here
never seen apreparati >n that I could pre
scribe with as much confidence of toceott M
I can Hall’s Catarrh Cure, manufiMtswnd by
you. Have prescribed it a greet many
times and its effect is wonderful, and would
say in conclusion that I have yet to fi^d a
case of cata rh that it would not rare, if
they would take it ac.-ording to directiowß.
Yours tru y,
L. L. GO&CCH; M- D,
Office. 21S MummK St
We will give SIOO for any ease of catarr h
that cannot be cured with Hall’s Catarrh
Cure. Taken internally.
F. J. Cheney & Co., Crops., Toledo. O.
B^Sol I by all Druggi-te, 75c.
Social Circle has a neat newspaper
called the Sentry.
The public debt of the citv of .W
gusta is $1,447,800.