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The Weekly Chronicle.
Entered at tbe Pwtofficc in Fort Gaine* a* Second
Clam Mail Matter.
PUBLISHKD BT
CHRONICLE PRINTING COMPANY
EVERY FRIDAY MORNING.
Official Organ of Clay County.
SUBSCRIPTION.—The Chronicle will be sent to
any address in the United States one year for
one dollar cash. No money, no paper.
ADVERTISING -The Chronicle i« the only
paper published In Fort Gaines or Clay County,
■nd it t» to the interest of advertisers to give us
their patronage if'they wish to reach the trade of
, thia aection.'»..Bend for rates to
THOMAS H. JERNIGAN,
3 . Editor and Manager, Fort Gaines, Ga.
Friday evening, junk so, isoi.
Arlington is soon to have a bank.
Southwest Georgia is rapidly pushing to
the front.
The world would be much better than
it is if men would live up to their obitu
ary notices.
All the dogs killed at the pound in
Atlanta are sold to the soap factory, so
says the Journal.
A woman in Jamesville, Penn., seventy
six years old, is said to be cutting her
third set of teeth.
A couple living near Lithonia have
been married forty years and they have
/ never kissed each other.
The government makes a louder howl
about the §1 shortage in the treasurer’s
account that it does about the $87,000,000
treasury loot.
Twenty thousand bales of cotton were
burned at Fall River, Mass., Sunday.
This may have a tendency to cause a rise
in the market.
Poisoned ice cream is getting in its
work this warm weather. Antidotes for
ice cream will soon be as essential in so
ciety gatherings as whisky is in a wood
land ramble.
A shower of decayed eggs broke up a
pa ent medicine man’s performance in
Milledgeville last Monday. If the patent
medicine quack had been broken up
Instead of the performance it would have
been better.
Rev. E. R. Carswell says the world
will come to an end between the years 1896
and 1901. From the temperature
one would think they were rapidly
nearing the land where the majority will
sojourn, just now.
Uncle Sam’s pocketbook is $87,000,000
short of what it contained this time last
year. It wont be long before an applica
tion will have to be made to a building
and loan association for money to pur
chase paper for pension blanks.
The merchants of Rome have asked
the city council of that place to impose a
license of SSOO on retail dealers in cigar
rettes, and place a fine of $5 on every
minor caught puffing the deadly things on
the public streets. Rome should be con
gratulated.
The convicts in the Cole City camp, this
state, made a desperate effort to escape
last Monday. They attacked the guards
unknowingly and in the melee seven per
sons were killed, including two convicts.
Out of GOO convicts confined there only
two escaped.
Dothan’s $75,000 fire may prove a bless
ing in one respect after all. The buildings
consumed were wooden structures, and
knowing as we do the progressive spirit of
her citizens, dare say that in less than six
months nice brick stores will adorn the
now dilapidated spot.
The colored troops of the state want a
slice of the military appropriation pie,
and unless they get it threaten to use their
political influence against all state office
holders who oppose a division. The
majority of taxpayers in Georgia are
white people and our colored friends
ought to be satisfied with the school ap
propriation.
Camp Chickamauga is too limited in ac
commodation to the requirement of the
number of men now there. They are
packed like sardines in a box, and the
men will not have as pleasant a time as
the men just returned. There are neither
tents nor mattresses enough, and some of
the boys will experience the hardships of
camp life until the deficiency can be sup
plied. Some of the companies there have
never been in camp before, and are conse
quently at a loss to know what to do.
The soreheads and mossbacks that are
having so much to say about the military
encampment appropriation, and accusing
the soldiers of using the trip and time m
camp for a summer jamboree, need only
enlist for one year to be convinced that
a brakeman on a freight train is a prefer
able “snap.” Georgia has never done
but very little for her volunteer soldiery,
and now that she has made a start, for the
sake of good government, dont try to dis.
courage it.
What Fools Ye Mortals Be.
A companion of George Bushby, a
butcher of Jackson. Ky., proposed to
pay for all the whisky he could drink.
George got away with twenty four
drinks and died the next morning.
John Kenney, of Elizabeth, N. J., for
a wager of $lO, ate 51 fried eggs in nine
and a quarter minutes. He died the
next merning.
A .woman in New York drank twenty
seven cups of tea. The funeral was
largely attended.
A man in New York drank fifteen
glasses of water. He now lies among
the daisies.
A man smoked twenty boxes of cigar
ettes in New Jersey in one day. He
will smoke brimstone hereafter. *
A Disgrace.
A very disgraceful story comes from
our neighbor, the city of Columbus. It
is a very unpleasant picture, and oue
that no civilized people should behold.
It should be removed from public gaze.
It is this:
Ella Dixon, a frail white girl of only
15 years, can be seen almost any day
working on the streets of Columbus,
with negroes, on the chaingang. The
was arrested on a charge of disorderly
conduct and sentenced to pay a fine of
815 or serve 15 days at hard labor. Ella
did not have a friend in all the great
crowd of sight-seers, so the fine was not
paid. She was carried back to the cell,
where she began crying, and in a few
minutes the black maria was backed up
to the door and she was put in it with
her eyes filled with tears. Then two dirty
wenches and a negro man were put in,
and off they dashed for the rock pile,the
negro women laughing and swearing as
they went.
The Inquirer-Sun says that after the
girl's first day on the streets she was
marched to the jail and then put up with
the negroes. There being no other
place to put her she was crowded in a
hot cell with some of the worst charac
ters in the jail.
This is truly a deplorable spectacle
What hope can there be of the girl’s re
dedemption if she is to be sujected to
the daily companionship of such revolt
ing characters as described above ? It is
disgraceful that any female should be
forced to work on the public streets, and
more especially if the subject is a frail
girl of only 15 years.
If this poor unfortunate committed an
offense against the law, and there was no
charitable institution or reformatory
where she could have been placed, she
should haye at least been simply impris
oned at the city barracks, away from
older and abandoned creatures, and not
have been put to work on the streets.
The following extract from a letter
written by J. A. Starbuck, of Yorktown,
lowa speaks for ittelf. “Two years ago,
in harvest time, a young man came in
my store and said he had been binding
wheat during the forenoon, and was so
bad with diarrhoea and cholic pains,
that the would have to lay off unless he
could get relief. I took a bottle of your
diarrhoea remedy from the shelf; gave
him a dose; sold him the bottle, and
told him I would give him the money
back if it did him no good. He came in
next morning and said the single dose
did its work so well, that he not only
kept up his place binding during the af
ternoon, but had worked all night; and
had the price of the dose I gave him
been three dollars, it would have been
cheap. I will further say. keep on with
your good work. You cannot recom
mend your medicine too highly. Cham
berlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea
Remedy is one of the greatest medicines
of the age; it cannot be beat. Wishing
you much success and prosperity which
you richly deserve, I remain truly your
friend.” For sale by Dobbins & Co.
Never Monkey With a Mule.
George Beach, a farmer, owned a
mule that has always been a terror to
the farriers and never has been shod ex
cept after being thrown. Fred Heyman,
a new blacksmith, told Beach he would
slice the mule in his regular way if he
died in the attempt.
Aided by three men to hold the mule
Heyman succeeded in his task yesterday.
Then he stepped to the window to cool
off, when the mule broke away from the
man holding him and rushed at Hey
man, striking at him with his forefeet,
one of the hoofs hitting him in the
head. Heyman dodged to get out of
the way, when the mule dropped on all
fours and snapped at him with his foam
ing jaws. Heyman attempted to dodge
in a corner, but in doing so came face to
face with the mad beast. He yelled to
the others to kill the mule. One of the
men drew a revolver, but before he could
fire the mule had made another snap at
Heyman and bitten off his nose and part
of his right cheek. Then the shot rang
out and the mule fell dead,
Heyman’s nose was sewed on, but he
has a slight chance for life. He is crazy
from fright, and the .doctors say he is
likely to die of blood poisoning. If he
lives he will be noseless. The mule
nearly killed a man who tried to shoe
himabout a year ago.
What Does It Mean?
“100 Doses One Dollar” means simply
ihat Hood’s Sarsaparilla is the most econom
ical medicine to buy, because it gives more
for the money than any other preparation.
Each bottle contains one hundred doses
and will average to last a month, while
other preparations, taken according to di
rections, are gone in a week. Therefore, be
sure to get Hood’s Sarsaparilla, the best
blood purifier.
A couple living about five miles east
of St. Joseph, Missouri, took their in
fant to town the other day to be shaved.
It was born with a growth of hair on its
face which grew so rapidly that at the
age of three months it was eighteen
inches in length. This so distressed the
mother that it was decided to have the
objectionable coat of hirsute removed,
which was skilfully done by a tonsorial
artist at St. Joseph. The baby sood the
ordeal surprisingly well.
Abbott’s East Indian Corn Paint
Is a quick cure for Corns, Bunions and
Warts.
Cure Your Corns By Vaing
Abbott’ East Indian Corn Paint for Corns,
Bunions and Warts, it is great.
A single blast at the government rock
quarry at Apple Creek, HL, in addition
to turning up several barge loads of
stone, killed 300 pounds of catfish con
fined in a water box located 100 yards
form the explosion, besides dotting the
bosom of the river with dead fish killed
instantly by the tremendous concussion
of the explosion. Another singular fact
is that not a single fish of any descrip
tion has since been caught in the neigh
borhood, which heretofore has abound
with the finny tribe.
Tiny, little, sugar-coated granules, are
wbat Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets are. The
best liver pill ever invented; active* yet
mild in operation; cure sick and billions
headaches. One a dose.
Over Fifty Years.
It has been said that skilful advertis
ing will accomplish wonders, and this is
partly true, for it is no uncommon thing
to see various nostrums achieve a brief
notoriety in this way. But they do not
outlast the notices that herald them.
Thus it is said that the mercurial and
potash remedies are constantly appear
ing before the public in new disguises.
Advertising, however, will not account
for the popularity that S. 9. S. has en
joyed for fifty years, nor for the fact
►hat it has become a household remedy;
nor will advertising account for the
thousands of testimonials that the peo
ple have ghen in its behalf. Only the
most substantial merit can account for
for the estimation in which this wonder
ful medicine is held.
There’s a patent medicine which is not a
patent medicine—paradoxical as that may
sound. It’s a discovery ! the golden discov
ery of medical science! It’s the medicine
for you—tired, exhausted, nerve-wasted
men and women; for you sufferers from dis
eases of the skin or scalp, liver or lungs—its
chance is with every one, its reason is al
ways because it aims to purify the fountain,
the fountain of life—the blood—upon w'hich
all such diseases deoend. The medicine is
Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery.
The makers of it have enough confidence in
it to sell it on trial. That is—you can get
it from your druggist, and if it doesn’t do
what it’s claimed to do, you can get your
money back, every cent of it. That’s what
its makers call taking the risk of their
words.
A novel case was tried at Keyser, W,
Va., last week. D. J. Moran deprived
his daughter Maggie of her jewelry and
fine clothing, owing to an alleged report
that she was about to elope with a drum
mer. The daughter being 21 years of
age sued her parents for $l6O. The ver
dict was given in favor of the plaintiff
for $l6O, or the return of the jewelry
and clothing.
W. B. Roddenberry of Cairo, has re
ceived returns from a car of melons ship
ped recently to New York. They
brought the fine price of S4OO. On the
same day last year Mr. Roddenberry
shipped a car of alike number to New
York, for which he received $440. The
melons this year are not quite as large
as last season, which likely accounts for
the difference in price.
The more sensitive nature of the female
sqx renders woman much more susceptible
than men to those numerous ills which
spring from lack of harmony in the system.
The nervous system gives way, sick head
ache is frexuent, the appetite is lost, and
other ailments peculiar to the sex cause,
great suffering- Hood’s Sarsaparilla is pe
culiarly adapted for such cases, and has re
ceived the most gratifying pra’se for the re
lief it has offered thousands ot women
whose very exhistence before taking it was
only misery It strengthens the nerves,
cures sick headache and indigestion, purifies
and vitalizes the blood, and gives regular
and healthy action to every organ in the
body.
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.
I have a personal knowledge or cases of
rheumatism in this vicinity that haye been
immediately relieved and permanently cured
by Chamberlain’s Fain Balm after other
remedies were used without any benefit. I
have been handling the Pain Balm for the
past five years and have never had any cus
tomer express anything but words of praise
for the medicine. It has been my experi
ence that any customer who once uses
Chamberlin’s Pain Balm will have nothing
else when again in need of such a medicine.
E. W. Porter, Postmaster and druggist, Elm
Creek, Nebraska. For sale by Dobbins &
Company, Fort Gaines, Ga.
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 system 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. Price 50c. at Dr. J. M.
Hatchett’s drug store.
Legal Advertisements.
Administrator's Sale.
Agreeably to an order of the Court of Or
dinary of Clay county, will be sold at the
court house in Fort Gaines of said county,
at public outcry, to-the highest bidder for
cash, on the first Tuesday in July next, with
in the legal hours of sale, the following
property: All that tract or parcel of land
situated in the town of Fort Gaines, of said
county, known in the plan of said town as
lot No. forty-four (44), lying on Carroll
street and containing one-half (j) acre, more
ot less, the same being the place whereou J.
M. Martin resided at the time of his death.
Sold as the property of J. M. Martin, late
of said countv, deceased. This June 2,1891.
A. L. MARTIN, Administrator.
Notice!
Notice is hereby given that at the July
session of the legislature a bill will be intro
duced to exempt from state, county and mu
nicipal taxat’on the wagon bridge’across the
Chattahoochee river at Fort Gaines, Ga.
F. E. GRIST. Mayor.
Fort Gaines, Ga., June 3, 1891.
Dyspepsia
Few people have suffered more severely
from dyspepsia than Mr. E. A. McMahon, a
well known grocer of Staunton, Va. He says:
“ Before 1878 I was in excellent health, weigh
ing over 200 pounds. In that year an ailment
developed into acute dyspepsia, and soon I
was reduced to 162 pounds, suffering burning
। - sensations in the stomach,
InTQnCQ palpitation of the heart,
lulluu nausea ’ and indigestion.
IIIIVII VW J cou]d not sleep( lost
heart in my work, had fits of melancholia, and
for days at a time I would have welcomed
death. I became morose, sullen and irritable,
and for eight years life was a burden. 1 tried
many physicians and many remedies. One day
a workman employed by me suggested that
I take a ■ Hood’s
Sarsapa- V||ffAF|nf¥ nlla, as
dimming "
sia. I did so, and before taking the whole of
a bottle I began to feel like a new man. The
terrible pains to which I had been subjected,
ceased, the palpitation of the heart subsided,
my stomach became easier, nausea disap
peared, and my entire system began to
tone up. With returning >
strength came activity of D V QQFA
mind and body. Before M IR Q I X
the fifth bottle was taken w I VUI v
I had regained my former weight and natural
condition. I am today well end I ascribe it
to taking Hood’s Sarsaparilla.”
N. B. If you decide to take Hood’s Sarsa
parilla do not be induced to buy any other.
Hood’s Sarsaparilla
Sold by all druggists. JI; six for J 5. Prepared only
by C. I. HOOD & CO., Apothecaries, Lowell, Mass.
100 Doses One Dollar
JEWELRY
When in need of first
class goods, such as
Jewelry,
Watches,
Clocks,
Silverware,
In fact anything in the
*/ <_>
Jewelry line, go to the
“Old Reliable,”
W. B. HOLMES.
I will pay you CASH for
your OLD GOLD and SIL
VER. Don’t keep it at
home lying idle and doing
you no good when you can
get the CASH or NEW
GOODS for*it.
W. B. HOLMES.
A pamphlet of information and
¥"ft stract of the Jaws, showing How toZI /
Obtain Patents, Caveats, Trade^^M^
Marks, Copyrights, sent Ine./>&af
—^NT^Ad'iresa MUNH & CO>/^r v>
Breadway,
ew York.
Established 1879. Incorporated 1887.
B. F. Climbs & Bn. ConaisM Co.,
GENERAL PRODUCE
COMMISSION : MERCHANTS
Foreign and Domestic Fruits.
Georgia Melons and Southern Fruit
IX CAR LOTS A SPECIALTY.
313, 315 & 117 Walnut Street,
KANSAS CITY, MO.
Quick returns and best prices. Write or
wire for quotations. Reference: Any
Mercantile Agency, Bank or wholesale
house in the city.
Matt. H. Stork. Fred L. Menne
Stork & Menne,
Gen'l Commission Merchants,
AND WHOLESALE DEALERS IN
Foreign and Domestic Fruits and
Produce.
P. O Box 397.
No. 25 Poydras St., NEW ORLEANS.
Reference: Dunn’s and Bradstreets Commercial
Agencies. Metropolitan and Whitney National
Banks and any commercial house in New Orleans.
DRY GOODS, NOTIONS, ETC.
GREAT BARGAINS
FOR THE
NEXT SIXTY DAYS!
I will sell out the entire stock
of goods, consisting of Dry Goods,
Notions, Clothing, Boots, Shoes,
Hats, Trunks and Furniture, and
also Store Fixtures,
AT THE OLD STAND OF
GUS HERTZ,
At Actual Cost!
I have employed Messrs. Gus Hertz and Luke
Hurst to wait on you, who will be glad to see their old
friends and manv new ones.
I MEAN BUSINESS.
Don’t miss this opportunity. Respectfully,
S. STERNBERG.
Special Notice.
Office of Caldwell Commission
Co., Chicago, 111., Jan. 21, 1890.
A. B. Girardeau, Savannah, Ga.:
Dear Sir: My son, a man of 30
years, was attacked with La Grippe
and, believing it be of malarial or
igin, took your Johnson’s Tonic as
directed for chills and fever. The
result was be escaped the iev^r
which follows the severe aching,
and was able to bo at work the
second day. I was taken with the
disease. Every bone in mo began
to ache, and my '•offering was
great. I was compelled to go
home and {o'bed. I fully expect
ed to be there a week. My son
told me of his experience, and
urged me to take Johnson’s Chill
and Fever Tonic. I did so, took it
with regularity and through the
night, and was agreeably surprised
to see that no fever came. 1 con
tinued until 1 had eight doses —
felt weak and exhausted, but no
fever, and aching disappeared.
Next morning I had a good appe
tite for my breakfast, felt quite
well, and went to my business as
well as I ever was. Since then I
have tried it with like results on
two other cases. Yours truly,
W. W, Caldwell,
President and Manager.
La Grippe corresponds very
nearly with our Broken Bone Fe
ver or Dengue Fever. Johnson’s
Chill and Fever Tonic is a specific
for any malai ial trouble, hence it
cures La Grippe.
For sale by all druggists, and
50 cent bottle guaranteed to cure
in every instance, or money refund
ded.
H GROVE'S 0
Q TASTELESS IS
H CUILL H
| TONIC, fl
CALL AT
Qloelel £ tar,
* MIMS & LEWIS, •
PROPRIETORS.
—
If you want something GOOD to drink.
OUR FIXTURES
Are nil the latest style Antique Oak and
are considered the finest in Southwest
Georgia. New Pool Table. New Beer
Refrigerator. New I’igar Stand. New
everything.
Ice Cold Keg Beer always
on tap, 5 cents a glass.
Fine Imported and Domes
tic Cigars.
Fine Wines, Whiskies, Ales
Etc.
Sole Agents for the Celbrated
Silver King & Acme Whisky
THE BEST GOODS SOLD.
We try to be polite and court eon a Io ail,
and if you will give us a trial we are mo*
fied you will come again.
MIMS & LEWIS.
Bank of Fort Gaines.
c. V. MORRIS, Pros’t
J. E. PAULLIN, Cashier.
PAID UP CAPITAL $50,000.
DIRECTORS;
C. V. Morris, J. E. Pauilin, Joe Vinson.
W. A. McAllister, N. H. McLendon.
We have every facility for trans
acting a general banking busincM.
Can offer every accomodation to our
customers consistent with prudent
banking, and we solicit accounts of
merchants, farmers and individuals,
whose inteiests will be
guarded. apr J 91
DO YOU WANT
Good Goeds,
Fresh Goods,
Cheap ^oods.
IF SO CALL ON
T. M. Klllingsworth,
NICE LINE OF
Fancy and Family Groceries, Etc.
Fine Cigars
A SPECIALTY.
FURNITURE! FURNITURE!
Any style and price. Call on me
T. M. KHllßgrworth.
Store nevt to Brown's Hardware Reis*
