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GEORGIA NEWS.
The Griffin canning factory has opened
up, and is canning apples this week.
Over 4,500 packages of fruit have al
ready passed through the express office
nt Griffin this season.
At Cedartown Tuesday, during the ab
sence of the jailer, the prisoners prized
the door off its hinges and six escaped—
two white and four colored.
The Perry branch moved sixty-eight
carloads of watermelons last week, which
is the biggest business this road ever did
in one week’s time.
Only thirty bales of cotton were made
in Dado county last year. Mil Ohly (W&
mortgages recorded within the year.
The situation explains itself.
Virgil Stead has sold $l3O worth of
watermelons for the cash in Talbotton
since the opening of the season off of
two acres of laud, ou which he made
less than 1,000 pounds of seed cotton
last year.
The corn crop in this section is now
assured, and the farmers say as they will
have plenty of corn bread to eat they
can wear their old clothes and fight the
monopolists twelve months longer.—
Fort Valley Leader.
It is probable that Brunswick will
soon have three oyster factories. The
Scarlett Oyster Cultivation and Can
ning Company will begin work on
their factory building by August 15 if
the city Council will agree to exempt
their property from taxation.
The cotton men, buyers and spinners,
decided at Brunswick not to buy another
bale of dirty, sandy, trashy cotton at
any price, and will let all the looms in
the world stop before they will take a
pound of such cotton. This is emphatic
and sums up the action of the cotton
men's meeting.—Fort Valley Leader.
Besides marketing about $l5O worth
Df grapes from three quarters of on acre
A. R Greene, of Fort Vailey, has made
between 75 and 100 gallons of fine wine,
this will make the profits on this small
plat of ground fully $350, as there were
'enough peaches grown on the same
ground sold to pay all expenses of culti
vation.
Two old muskets, supposed to be rel
of the war, were found near the cem
etery at Dalton recently. They had lain
there propably twenty-eight years, and
the wood work about them had long
since decayed. Some one, with a reck
less disregard of the danger to which his
head might have been exposed, made an
investigation of the old weapons, and
pronounced them loaded.
Capt. Dempster of the Salvation Army
was fined $lO by Mayor May at Augusta
Wednesday for calling Mrs. M. C. Ar
thur the biggest liar in Harrisburg. Mrs.
Arthur slapped the captain’s face at the
time for using such opprobious language
towawl her. The Salvation Army is far
from being united in Augusta, and this
fight has created a big gap in the ranks.
Senator Pomp Strickland is popular in
his district. Wednesday a number of
his constituents from the mountains
came to Atlanta in canvass-covered wag
ons. They bought heavy loads of
goods, each of them, at the alliance ex
change and Senator Pompey went down
and helped them load up their wagons
in a very energetic manner. They ap
preciate his kindness by electing him to
the Senate.
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Thompson, living
near Swainsboro, have twelve children,
eight of whom are married, and who al
together have seventeen children, mak
ing a family of thirty-nine, and a most
remarkable thing is, that there never
has been a death in their family. On
the Fourth of July the children cooked
up and brought in provisions, and had a
regular festival and family reunion. AR
were present except two of the children,
who live in Bryan county.
This is the season of the year when
the melon and pear grower hangeth
around the post office and anxiously
iooketh for a check from his commission
house. Bat, alas, the check that he
looketh for never comes, and in lieu
thereof his house aendeth him a bilF for
freight This maketh the aforesaid
melon and pear grower exceedingly
wroth, and he sweareth vengeance on
the head of his northern brother. —
Thomasville Times-Enterprise.
Austell Advertiser: Mack Chandler is
the best all round railroad man in the
state. He is the man of the Bowden
Lithia short line. Is general manager,
general superintendent, chief engineer,
section boss, track raiser, fireman, be
eides several other minor places. Has
filled those positions for the past five
years. Has never had a collision, run
eft, train oat of time daring the whole
time. Where is the railroad either north
Or south that has another sneh man?
THE WEEKLY CHRONICLE
Mary Cunningham, the old woman
whose»perambulations daily for sev
eral years in front of the city hall in
Brooklyn have made her a familiar
object to the people of that city, is
under arrest as a vagrant, and an in
quiry is to be made as to her san
ity.
It has been her custom for a long
time, in all kinds of weather, to walk
around the hall and to the front of
the court house between H a. in.,
and 3p. m., and disappear around
Court street corner just as the hands
on the city hall clock pointed to the
H ’
late hour. Fifteen years ago, it IS
said, she inhei’ited about SIO,OOO
and engaged a lawyer to collect the
money. On the day that the money
was to be paid to her she called at
the lawyer’s office. He told her to
wait till he went to the bank to get
the money, adding, “If I don’t come
back at 3 o’clock you needn’t wait,
but come back to-morrow.'’ The
lawyer, so the story goes, has never
been seen or heard of since, but the
woman expects that he will some
day turn up. She has become known
to the Brooklyn officials as “The 3
O’clock Woman.
The Record of a Cow.
A gentleman in this county has a
cow worthy of mention in these col
umns. He has made a careful cal
culation of the product of this cow
and it is as follows: Since she first
began to give milk the yield in but
termilk is 5.462 gallons and 2,231
pounds of butter, not counting the
sweet milk used by the family.
Counting the milk at 10 cents per
gallon an the butter at 25 cents per
pound the value of this product
would be $,103 95. She is of the
common piney woods stock and was
17 years old last June. This cow is
still doing good service by giving 2
to 3 gallons of milk per day. The
gentleman says if the cow was three
years old, knowing what he does,
$l5O would not buy her.—Beuna
Vista Patriot.
A Tou^h Duck Story.
Old Capt. .Prout, for whom
Prout’s Neck, now a well known
summer resort, is named, was a no
ted gunner in the days w hen the
■water fowls were plenty in that
vicinity. Early one spring, 1860 or
thereabouts, said an old settler to
me, he brought home from the West
Indies a gun, the like of which had
never been seen by the natives. It
was a muzzle-loader, about a two
inch guage, and weighed about 30
pounds. Soon after its arrival there
came a heavy storm, and the next
morning a pond a couple of acres in
extent back of the captain s barn
was covered with ducks so thick
that another one could not possibly
have been squeezed in. Here was
an opportunity to try the new
gun, and loading it with the regula
tion charge, of one-quarter pound
of powder and one-half pound of
shot, he sailed forth. At the corner
of the barn he cocked the piece and
stepped out with it held in readi
ness. When within about forty
yards all the ducks jumped as one
bird. The captain aimed at the
middle of the mass and fired.
Here my informant stopped as if
expecting some encouragement, and
somewhat against my will I felt con
strained to ask, ‘‘How many did he
“Wal,” he replied, “he didn’t get
any; he undershot, but he picked up
three bushels of ducks’ legs.”
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
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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.
Skin and scalp diseases, the head 4 at times,
a running sore, the body entirely covered
with sores as large as a quarter of a dollar,
and no medicine had the desired eftect un
til P. P. P. was taken. The disease yielded
at once, and P. P. P. proved itself the best
blood purifier of the age.
On Time.
FORT GAINES. GEORGIA. FRIDAY JULY 31. 1891.
OVERPRODUCTION OF MELONS
And No Organized System of Distribution
Make the Growers Lose Money.
There is a glut in the melon mar
kets, caused principally by the ship
ment of inferior fruit and its un
equal distribution.
The chief trouble is with the west
ern markets. The Central railroad
has notified its agents to refuse
shipments to overstocked points un
less the freight is prepaid to the des
filiation. Tliese markets are princi
pally in Ohio and western JPennsyl
vania, The Pennsylvania railroad
in all cases requires the prepayment
of freight on melons carried over its
lines, and in consequence prepay
ment is required by its connections.
The Savannah, Florida and West
ern railroad is shipping very heav
ily, principally to the north and east.
It has moved so far this year 4,143
carloads against 2,88 d last year. The
Central’s shipments are heavy, and
they are being handled as rapidly as
possible. The Ocean Steamship line
is unable to handle all the fruit de
livered to it. The City of Birming
ham carried 61,000 day before yes
terday, and the City of Afacon, for
Boston, yesterday had 44,000 mel
ons. The company has dumped a
good deal of fruit in New York al
ready, owing to its overripe condi
tion and a failure to get on the mar
ket in time. A good deal remains
on the docks here on account of the
steamers not being able to carry it.
The Savannah, Florida'and Western
in its greatest season has never han
dled over 3,000 carloads.
The situation in the fields shows
the trouble to be overproduction
and pool’ fruit. The Americus Re
corder says there is no organized ef
fort to properly distribute the crop
by selecting such markets as are
likely to be best paying. The pres
ent season’s crop has not brought
by any means satisfactory returns
Last year the Georgia and Carolina
Melon Exchange was organized. It
made contracts for decidedly the
bulk of the crops of Georgia, Flor
ida and South Carolina. The plan
was to pay the grower $75, S6O and
SSO per car for melons on the track
when loaded, Nothing under a 15
pound melon was to be put in a car
and no car was to have less than
1,000 melons. Those who were in
terested in the exchange were a few
prominent growers and commission
men. To make sure of its money
the exchange made contracts with
one commission house at each ship
ping point to handle all melons, the
exchange to draw upon shipment of
car for $75, S6O or SSO, as may have
been paid for it. The idea was to
properly distribute the crop and
hold up prices that would pay.
The growers had a good thing,
those who sold to the exchange
made more money than they had
ever made before. But it went not
well with the exchange. The grow
ers flew wide of their contracts.
The melons were terribly short in
weight and numbers. It looked like
a plan for all who had contracts to
see how much they could make out
of the exchange. The result was
that the commission men saw that
they were constantly getting in the
soup by advancing more per car than
they could possibly realize. One
fine morning the exchange went to
the wall, having suffered an actual
loss of $3-5,000, while the aggregate
of the exchange and co-operating
commission men footed up a much
larger sum. The growers had hur
ried of green melons, melons that
had just dropped the bloom, de
formed melons and all other sorts of
melons, to get advantage of the $75
price. The vines were bare and the
growers had made big money. Os
course the loss fell on the commis
sion men. The idea therefore sug
gests itself that the commission men
are having their inning this year.
M,erit Wins.
We desire to say to our citizens, that tor
years we have been selling Dr. King’s New
Discovery for Consumption,Dr. King’s New
Life Pills. Bucklen’s Arnica Salve and
Electric Bitters, and have never handled
remedies that sell as well, or that have given
such universal satisfaction. We do not hes
itate to guarantee them every time, and we
stand ready to refund the purchase price, if
satisfactory results do not follow their use.
These remedies have won their great popu
larity purely on their merits. Dr. J. 31
Hatchett, druggist.
A LONG ISLAND OUTLAW. ■
A Disciple of Rube Burrows and Jessie
James Abrodd in the I.and.'
Quaint Long Island produces a
sensation that savors largely of the
wild and woolly west. It is nothing
les than a reign of terror caused by
a bold and awful outlaw, Tom Rich
ardson, the individval in question, is
the picturesque representative of
such dime novel heroes as Jesse
James and Rube Burrows. Though
a native Long Islander, lie lias asso
ciated among the Texas cowboys
and learned many things that t^e
easy-going Long Lllhl Ul'M’ MW
dreams of. Among other things,
CT CT
Tom learned to shoot well. He can
put a bullet through a dime, at forty
paces. He can wear a wide brim
hat, a flannel shirt and top boots as
gracefully as a yeal cowboy. His
Texas education has also taught him
that gentlemen of his calibre should
shun work.
With all these qualifications it is
no wonder that Tom created a sensa
tion when ho returned to tho sleepy
little town of Islip after a brilliant
career in the Lone Star State. The
girls were facinated with his dash
ing ways and cowboy swagger. They
listened to his tales of Indian con
quests, and loved him all the more
when he lied the harder. And it was
thus that the pretty daughter of
Judge Walters, or Squire Walters,
as the neighbors call him, came to
fall in love with Tom. There was a
wedding, and Tom true to his Texas
teachings, went to live with his judi
cial father-in-law and avoided work.
This might have been well enough,
according to the Squire’s story, had
not Tom contracted bad habits. He
contracted debts, didn’t live as hon
est Long Islanders are wont to, and
finallv the old man turned his son
in-law from the house with the cau
tion that he must mend his ways.
Tom disappeared and nothing was
heard of him for months. Mean
while nearly everybody in the neigh
borhood of Islip and Bay Shorfe was
getting robbed. Large rewards were
offered for the capture of the burg
lar, but he escaped detection.
Then Tom Richardson turned up.
Circumstances pointed to him as the
robber. Two remarkable caves were
discovered in the locality, and they
contained some of the stolen booty.
They were Tom’s caves; there was
no question about it. In one of
them was found a heavy chain se
curely fastened to a stake. At one
end was an iron band, which, it is
believed, was made to fit the waist
of Tom's wife. It was the ex-cow
boy’s intention, declared the ’Squire
to steal his wife, chain her in this
cave and let her starve to death.
The ’Squire believed that Tom also
intended to kill him and do other
desperate things.
And so Tom Richardson became
an outlaw. Three hundred armed
men scoured the woods and swamps
determined to shoot the desperado
on sight. The squire hod his house
guarded day and night, and a reign
of terror began. For two weeks the
search for the outlaw was conducted
and is still going on. A reward of
82,500 was offered, and expert New
York detectives engaged, but Tom
is still at liberty.
The pursuit does not seem to
bother’ him in the least, While the
searchers are in one locality Tom ap
pears smilingly in another. It seems
that no one dare approach in single
handed, and the mere mention of
his name will cause a dozen armed
men to flee for their lives. Summer
boarders are leaving the hotels in
haste, and Islip and Bay Shore
threated to become depopulated un
less Tom is wiped out.
Tom Richardson is a picturesque
figure. He has made a small local
ity in Long Island famous in the
past two weeks, and has nearly
frightened the wits out of sheriff
posses.
Abbott’s East Indian Corn Paint
Is a quick cure for corns, bunions and warts.
P. P. P. makes positive cures of all stages
of rheumatism, syphilis, blood poison,
scrofula, old sores, eczema, malaria and fe
male complaints. P. P. P. is a powerful
tonic, and an excellent appetizer, building
up the system rapidly.
She Was Considerate.
“My dear one, Ido wish you would
quit working so hard; you are breaking
yourself down, and before middle life is
reached you will be a wreck,” were the
tender lines written by a faithful aud
loving young wife, who is away for the
summer, to her really hard-worked hus
band, who holds an important position
in the district government. The hus
band murmured a “God bless you!”
wiped a tear from his cheek and resumed
the loving missive. A faint “Well I'll
be ” escaped his lips as he read the
following postscript: “Now, dear, if not
too busy, please go to Ketohem &
Cheat imand get five yards of pale blue
serge silk, at prices advertised in last
Sunday’s l?ost; also to mother and tell
her what I told you in my last. Mrs.
Slogs said she would have my dress done
Tlmluj, Wil Oj ” rt
baby a broad-brimmed straw hat, mysell
a pair of russet slippers, and see Mrs.
Choos at Alexandria about keeping
house for us. Our washwoman did not
return the handkerclfef before I left.
She lives out near the jail. Now, good
bye, aud don't, please don't, work too
hard.” When the last injunction was
read the husband keeled over and for a
time was unconscious. His first words
upon recovering were: Considerate, dev
ilish considerate.
GENERAL NEWS.
A cow belonging to a farmer near
Marshalltown, lowa, is the proud moth
er of triplet calves.
The town marshal of Dallas, Ga., was
shot down and killed Sunday by an in
furiated law breaker who was ordered to
meet at court house for trial.
The people of Starlight, Grundy coun
ty, Mo., say the man who carried the
mail to that town puts young pigs, etc.,
in the pouch along with the love let
ters, etc.,
A magistrate in Georgia recently re
ceived four silver dimes as a marriage
fee. The groom, a boy of eighteen said
it was all ho could afford. The bride was
a widow of forty.
A tramp stole a razor and opened up a
shop in a box car near the fire-brick
works, at Mexico, Mo. He shaved 25
men in half a day, pocketed $2.50 and
again took to the road.
The Georgia legislative committee to
whom was referred the bill to make
drunkenness a crime have reported the
bill favorably. The bill makes it a state
offense to get drunk anywhere.
H. M. Flagler travels daily from his
home on the sound to his business in
New York on a yacht that cost $280,000.
Mr. Flagler, it is perhaps unnecessary
to remark, is a Standard Oil magnet.
It is said an Atlanta dealer in cotton
packed 200 bales from the samples ob
ta’ned from cotton handled by him dar
ing the past season. It is further stated
that 200,000 bales were obtained in the
South in the same way.
At the crossing of Mangum and Mark
ham streets there are two large brick
buildings facing each other. One is a
coffin factory the other a beer bottling
brewery. The one kills and the other
buries. They go well together.—At
lanta Herald.
Justice Field of the United States su
preme court, counts as his lost opportu
nity to gain great wealth his refusal
forty odd years ago to buy a sand lot
opposite the Palace hotel in San Fran
cisco for $4,500. That lot, divided in
two, has since been sold for $1,000,000.
Why those editors up in St. Paul
should attempt to tell e<*ch other “How
to edit a paper” is a mystery. For ex
act information as to the art of conduct
ing a newspaper apply to any Caucas
sian between the ages of six months and
60 years who has never seen the inside
of a newspaper office. He knows all
about it and more.
A woman may have beauty grace,
learning; she may be able to talk of Cae
zar’s daring deeds in the Latin tongue,
sing Virgil, write sonnets, play the piano
and paint, but to have her gather roast
ing cars from a field of corn is destruct
ive. If unpracticed she opens every ear
and in spedts the grain. We saw a lady
ruin a half acre of corn the other day in
finding enought for the noon meal, and
yet she is one of the most cultured la
dies in the whole country.—Gainesville
eegle.
Austell Advertiser: W. C. Aughtman,
of this place has the most wonderful
squash of the day. He has been plant
ing the same variety (we should say va
rieties) for the past five years with the
same unvarying result. From any one
seed comes up an ordinary .looking
squash vine of the bunch variety. Now
upon this vine, when in full bearing can
be counted seven distinct varieties.
Easily can be distinguirhed the Patly
Pan, Hubbard, Gregory, etc. These
seed are valuable and should be utilized
by market gardeners.
The city man who can’t tell rye from
oats is usually the man who can tell you
best how to make money off a farm. At
any rate, such a man could never make
a living on one.
SI.OO A YEAR
HUMOROUS
Stranger (in Tombstone, Arizona,) —I
hear your bank has suspended !
President—Yes, and so is the presi
dent.
Undertaker (to dying editor) What
epitaph shall we place on your tomb
stone?
Editor (feebly)—“We are here to
stay.”
Wife (timidly)—Charlie, dear, won’t
you let me look at your paj>er a mo
ment!
Husband (irritably)—Certainly. Wait
till we get under the tunnel, can t you?
Swayback (to importunate beggar)
Leave tbe liouse, sir.
1 woubl not H” 11 *
of attempting to carry it off with the
heavy mortgage it has on it.
Foreman—Can’t you let mo have my
salary today? I hear that you caught a
burglar in your room last night.
Editor—l did, but all that I gut out of
him was $G and a life insurance policy.
Wait till I catch another.
First Convict (to his cell mate)—An’
yer never ehawed or drank in yer life?
Second Convict (gloomily)—Naw.
First Convict —Aw, don’t try any o’
yer temporary insanity rackets on me!
I ain’t no juryman.
Tenderfoot—l notice you call every
body colonel.
Western Resident—When a man looks
like a gentleman call, him colonel;
that’s that’s the style out here.
Suppose he looks like a tough and
blackleg?
Call him general
“I do hate to hear a man grumble ail
the time, as that fellow is doing over
there,” said a disgusted passenger to the
conductor of the train.
“My dear sir,” exclaimed the conduc
tor in surprise, “you evidently do not
understand the case. That man is tray
eling on a pass.
I have invented another machine. It
is a labor saving contrivance for moth
ers, being a self-rocking cradle, baby
spanker and clothes wringer in one. The
baby spanker works like a paddle wheel,
the loose paddles doing the spanking.
As many as five babies can be spanked at
one time. All you have to do is to drop
a baby in the slot and the machine does
the rest.
Miss Daisy Cutter—Father, I can
never accept Mr. Waistrot.
Coupon Cutter—Don’t be reckless,
Consider his wealth and position; and
then he is only 25, and good looking,
too.
Miss Daisy Cutter he may be young
in years, father; but the man who can
pass a base ball bulletin without turning
his bead to seo what the score is, is too
old for me.
Mr. Skinphlint had been walking the
floor with his hand on his jaw tor about
four hours. “Why don't you have it
pulled ?” inquired his wife.
“Have it pulled?” he roared. “Mar
tha Ann, that tooth cost me a 32 bill
less than a year ago for filling. I leek on
I’m going to throw that money away
and a half dollar on top of it? Not much'
Ache away, gosh ding ye! Acho a ay!”
And Mr. Skinphlint resumed his walk.
Entirely too much prominence is be
ing given by the press of the State to
the alleged new party movement in
Georgia. There is really no third party
in Georgia. There is no need of
©ne. The Alliance is “up and doing” in
politics, but the rank and file of organi •
zation constitute a majority the Demo
cratic party, and they can acomplish
what they want as Democrats. If the
newspapers will just let the so-called
third party movement alone fcr a while
it will soon peter out in Georgia.—Al*
bany News and Advertiser.
A famous Chicago lawyet once had •
singular case to settle. A physican camo
to him in great distress. Two sisters liv
ing in the same house, had balnea of
equal age, who so resembled each other
that their own mothers were unable to
distinguish them when they were to
gether. Now it liappened that by the
carelessness of the nurses the children
had become mixed, and how were the
mothers to make sure they received bark
their own infants? “But perhaps,” said
the lawyer, “the children wern't chang
ed at all.” “Oh, bnt there’s doubt that
they were changed.” said the physician.
“Are you sure of it?” “Perfectly. ”
“Well, if that’s the case, why don’t you
change them back agai? I doD- t see any
difficulty in the case'
The following frank otatewent from J. El
Hare, of Trenton, Texas, will bi of interest
to many of our citizens. “Mv little boy
was very bad off for two months with diar
rhoea. 'We used various medicine*, called
in two doctors, but nothing done him any
good until we u»ed Chamberlain’s Colic,
Cholera and diarrhoea Remedy, which gave
immediate relief and soon cured him. I
sid»-r it the best medicine made and can
conscientiously recommend it to all who
need a diarrhoea or colic medicine.” F -
sale by W. O. Dobbins & Co., druggists.
