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The Weekly Chronicle.
Entered at the Postofflcc in Fort Gaines as Second
Class Mail Matter.
PUBLISHED BY
CHRONICLE PRINTING COMPANY
EVERY FRIDAY MORNING.
Official Organ of Clay County.
SUBSCRIPTION.—The Chronicle will he sent to
any address in the United States one year for
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this section. Send for rates to
THOMAS H. JERNIGAN,
Editor and Manager, Fort Gaines, Ga.
FRIDAY EVENING, JULY 31, 1891.
Steve Ryan’s “kite” is now flying with
out a tail.
Ozburn has been executed and his body
laid to rest.
What will the Atlanta papers talk about
now? Ozburn has been hung.
Can’t the legislature pass a bill probibit,
ing trains from running off the track?
Beuna Vista had a destructive fire one
day last week. All the buildings burned
were of wood.
It is evident that the thoughtful legisla
tor will purchase his Christmas presents in
Atlanta this year.
We belong to the democratic party and
expect to support it until it -has proven
disloyal to its promises.
The Coal Creek miners of Tennessee
have agreed to a settlement of their griev
ances until the legislature meets.
Particular care in gathering this year’s
cotton crop will do more towards estab
lishing a good price than anything else.
What is troubling the average citizen is
not the expansion of the currency, but how
to get a grip on a few extra dollars after
the currency has expanded.
The convict lessees are making daily
shipments of convicts to Coal Creek mines
to take the place of honest labor. This
state of affairs can’t and will not remain
s& very long.
The legislature is endeavoring to pass a
bill prohibiting the picking of blackberries
on lands not belonging to the pickers.
This will bring forth a wail from the
country editors.
Georgia has a colored desciple of the
noted Jesse James, who holds up water
melon trains and makes the conductors
pile out Kolb Gems until he has enough
to last for weeks at a time.
Anderson, the man who is out under
bond for the killing of Castellow at Blakely
this spring, married a young lady of Early
county last week. Anderson needs some
one to console him in his trouble.
A pretty Virginia girl in a low-neck red
dress captured the Georgia editor^ while
on their way to New York. So infatuated
were some of them that they endeavored to
paint the great Metropolis a like color.
Can’t the present legislature pass a law-
making it a crime to defraud newspapers
out of subscription money while they are
taking such wholesale sweeps at persons
and thing’s? Editors suffer as well as far
mers.
A Terrell county farmer dreamed of
finding a buried treasure in the middle of
a creek. Next morning he w-ent in search
and found the object of his dream but it
was too heavy for him to raise. Farmers,
the Lord will provide.
It cost the tax payers of Georgia sSoo
to start the “dog bill” in the house of rep
resentatives and if it goes to the senate it
will cost at least that much more. This is
a dog goned poor way of displaying an
economic administration.
Being in an elegantly furnished room
and having all the comforts of life adminis
tered to him, it will be some time before
Ryan becomes enough disgusted with the
weird surroundings to go down in his old
sock and shell out the SIOO,OOO he is ac
cused of having.
In the' treasury vault at Washington
there is laid away what is called “The
Conscience Fund,” sent in from time to
time by persons over the country who
have defrauded the government. What a
pity Uncle Sam’s conscience can’t be
moved in a similar manner.
Six men almost cut each other to pieces
in Alton, 111., this week over the division
o r a watermelon. They should take a
southern tour about this season of the year
if their appetites for watermelons can’t
be satisfied in the north without fights.
An Ohio editor has recently been sen
tenced for life at hard labor in the pen
itentiary for the killing of another ‘editor.
The only difference in his condition now
and when he run a paper is. that he is
allowed to roam about now as of yore.
There’s no difference in the salary and
work.
THE GEORGIA MILITIA.
“That the state’s greatest safe
guard is in the maintenance of a
well organized militia” a truth that so
evident as it would seem to need no
demonstration.
Thomas Jefferson the author of the
constitution of the United States
gave utterance to the truth in his
first inaugural; a late governor of
Alabama repeated it when he was
inaugurated; and Governor David
B. Hill, of New York, reiterated the
self evident fact in a late speech at
Poughkeepsie.
In a country like ours, a republic,
composed of soverign states, a large
standing army w’ould be a useless
drain on the revenues of the govern
ment, useless because it would be an
arm of the federal government and
would not and could not be available
to the states in aiding them to regu
late their internal affairs. Only in
such rebellions and such law-break
ing as the general government has
jurisdiction of the exclusion of the
states could the federal army or any
part of it be used in the states.
Emergencies are not only apt to
arise, but evperience shows that they
are continually arising in all of the
states in this government, not only
in the south but in the north and
west, and no one will deny that it
these insurrections, riots and mobs
were not smmarily dealt with by the
states through their militia they w’ould
be much more frequent and their law
lessness result in much more se
rious damage.
What then would be the condition of
a state which had no militia? Every
one knows, that where there are fac
tions among the people or where
the law is to be enforced contrary
to public sentiment, the civil author
ity through the posse comitatus is
powerless.
The federal army is remote and
unavailable, the civil authority is
powerless, and public sentiment is
with the law-breakers. The enforce
ment of the law becomes impossible
and violence and mob law runs riot.
Human life and private property are
held as naught by the howling de
mons excitedly drunk and maddened
by some imaginary wrong.
Will Georgia take a step backward
and by withdrawing the appropriation
already voted to har militia, leave her
citizens to the mercy of the mob, or
will she expect her citizen soldiers to
uniform and equip themselves and la'
bor to become proficient in drill and
the duties of a soldier and then hold
themselves in readiness to obey the
orders of the governor and to march
bravely forth to enforece the 'law
and protect life and property, with
out any help from the State —but
with the fact staring them in the
face that the General Assembley has
discouraged their organizations and
turned the back of its hand to them.
While the troops are enlisted they
must obey the orders of their superi
ors, but who- can prevent all the com
panies in the State disbanding if the
State shall prove to be so parsimoni
ous that she expects the time, the la
bor and perchance the lives ©f her
soldiers and refuses to support them
or to aid in supporting them, and
even withdraws the paltry appropri
ation of $25,000 to pay the expenses
of an encampment to help them to
better perform the duties they may
be called upon to discharge. There
are about four thousand volunteer
soldiers in the State and the neces
sary expenses of each individual sol
dier on an average is not less than
sls a year. The boys pay then
$60,000 a year towards the support
of the militia of the State, when the
State itself begrudges $25,000, less
than one-half this amount not to
uniform the troops, not pay armory
rent or other necessary expenses, but
to pay the expenses of an encamp
ment not for the pleasure or personal
profit of the men, but to give them a
week’s hard life, under rigorous mil
itary discipline, and to prepare them
better for the State’s service.
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years ought to know sugar from salt; read
what he says:
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its effect is wonderful, and would say in con
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Yours Truly,
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SOMETHING BETTER FOUND.
The Savannah News prints the
following concerning the land loan
plan. Whether the solution is right
or wrong we are not prepared to say:
The speech which Mr. Polk, pres
ident of the national alliance, made
at Spartanburg, S. C., Wednesday
differed, very little from the speeches
he made in this state last week.
Among other things, he is reported
to have said that the last congress
“spent $1,000,000,000 of the people’s
money, of which the farmers paid
four-fifths.”
This is certainly an extraordinary
statement —that is, that part of it
which relates to the portion the far
mers paid. According to Mr. Polk,
there are 8,000,000 farmers in the
country, and if they paid out four
fifths of the money which the last
congress spent, each of them must
have paid on an average of SIOO. It
is quite evident that they didn’t pay
any such an amount, either directly
or indirectly. It would be safe to say
that they didn’t pay $lO each.
But Mr. Polk wants the govern
ment to loan the farmers all the
money they want at an annual inter
est of 2 per cent. The government
hasn’t any surplus, and the only way
it can get money to loan is by taxing
the people either directly or indi
rectly. If the farmers, as president
Polk says, pay four-fifths of the
money which the government re
ceives, what benefit would it be to
them to borrow money from the gov
ernment ? They would only borrow
the money which they paid to the
government. They would be no bet
ter off, therefore, than they were be
fore borrowing it. They would
simply pay 2 per cent, for money
which the government obtained from
them.
But Mr. Polk would say, probably,
that he does not expect the farmers
to borrow the money they paid in
the shape of taxes, but the money
which he proposes the government
shall make —that is, fiat money. As
suming that such is his meaning,
why would it not be better for the
farmers to keep the money which he
says they pay in the shape of taxes
and thus save the 2 per cent, inter
est, which he proposes they shall pay
the government for loans, and let the
government meet its expenses with
the fiat money which he wants issued?
Would not this plan be an improve
ment on Mr. Polk’s plan ? The far
mers would rather have money with
out interest if they could get it, and
if Mr. Polk’s figures are correct there
is away for them to get it. But how
about Mr. Polk’s figures? Are they
not open to the suspicion of being
wide of the truth?—Savannah News.
Don’t Care to Eat.
It is with the greatest confidence that
Hood’s Sarsaparilla is recommended for loss
of appetite, indigestion, sick headache and
similar troubles. This medicine gently tones
the stomach, assists digestion, and makes
one “real hungry.” Person in delicate
health, after taking Hood’s t arsaparilla for
a few day, find themselves longing for and
eating the plainest tood with unexpected rel
ish.
A man crazed with mean whiskey cre-
ated a disturbance on a Southwestern rail
road passenger train one day this week. It
took the whole train crew to put him off.
There are some brands of whiskey that if a
man loads up on it he will do almost any
thing.
Fort Gaines, our neighbor over the river,
is'improving more rapidly than any city
we know of. Whole blocks of new brick
buildings are now in course of erection,
and other wooden buildings are being torn
down to make room or others. We love to
see our neighbors grow, if Abbeville can’t,
for when our friends prosper so will the
Times. —Abbevile Times.
Brother Grouby of the Abbeville Times
has evidently been on a “razee.” Read:
“Many a ruined man dates his downfall
from the day he first borrowed money. We
date ours from the days we first took
liquor.”
An honest confession is good for the
soul, brother.
The Parting of the Ways.
Wilkins and Watkins were college chums
and close friends. They had been hard stu
dents and had taken little out-door exercise.
When they shook hands and said goodbye,
at the end'of their college career, they were
in impared health. Both had dyspepsia,
liyer troubles, and- a troublesome coughs.
Wilkins had plenty of money and de
cided to travel for his health. Watkins was
poor. ‘‘l must go to worK for my living,”
said he, “but I’ll try the remedy that Robin
sen talks so much about—Dr Pierce’s Gold
en Medical Discovery.”
In less than two * vears, Wilkins came
home in his coffin. Watkins, now in the
prime of life, a bank president, rich and re
spected, and weighs 200 pounds. The Gold
en Medical discovery saved my life at a
critical time, he often says: “Oh, if poor
Wilkins had only tried it!” For weak lungs,
spitting of blood, ail lingering coughs, and
consumption in its early stages, it is an un
exualed remedy.
Nervous Indigestion.
The prime cause of most of the
nervous disorders with which human
ity is afflicted may bq_traced to indi
gestion. The irritable man. the. un
happy woman, the fretful child, con
trive to make all around them miser
abl. They dose themselves for nerv
ousnesss, and perhaps find tempo
rary relief, only to grow more nerv
ous when the inevitable reaction
comes. It is in such cases that S. S.
S. gives almost immediate relief. It
build up the entire system, purifies
the blood, gives tone to the diges
tive organs, restores the functions of
the stomach, gives activity to the
liver, and puts all the nerves in tune
with health and good humor. It is
nature’s great remedy, and never
fails to give relief.
There will be five million dollais less in
in the south this fall than there was last
fall, so says Mr. Inmar. To us it will
never be missed.
The editor of the Midland City, Post in
speaking of the acquital of Parker Powell,
one of the famous Dothan rioters, says the
“town went wild,” when the glad news
was received. From the chirography of
the article the editor evidently hasn’t got
tame yet.
By passing the blackberry bill the major
ity of the legislators are cutting their own
throats. When the country editor is
deprived of the treasured blackberry,
rather than live on common air, he’ll run
for the legislature—and be elected to.
King of Medicines
Scrofulous Humor — A Cure
“Almost miraculous.”
“ When I was 14 years of age I had a severe
attack of rheumatism, and after I recovered
had to go on crutches. A year later, scrofula,
in the form of white swellings, appeared on
various parts of my body, and for 11 years I
was an invalid, being confined to my bed
years. In jhat ame ten or eleven sores ap
peared and broke, causing me great pain and
suffering. I feared I never should get well.
“ Early in 18861 went to Chicago to visit a
sister, but was confined to my bed most of the
time I was there. In July I read a book, • A
Day with a Circus,’ in which were statements
of cures by Hood’s Sarsaparilla. I was so im
pressed with the success of this medicine that
I decided to try it. To my great gratification
the sores soon decreased, and I began to feel
better and in a short time I was up and
out of doors. I continued to take Hood’s Sar
saparilla for about a year, when, having used
six bottles, I had become so fully released
from the disease that I went to work for the
Flint & Walling Mfg. Co., and since then
HAVE NOT HOST A SINGLE DAY
on account of sickness. I believe the disease
is expelled from my system, I always feel well,
am in good spirits and have a good appetite.
I am now 27 years of age and can walk as well
as any one, except that one limb Is a little
shorter than the other, owing to the loss of
bone, and the sores formerly on my right leg.
To my friends my recovery seems almost
miraculous, and I think Hood’s Sarsaparilla
is the king of medicines.” William A.
Lehr, 9 N. Railroad St., Kendallville, Ind.
Hood’s Sarsaparilla
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Legal Advertisements.
Homestead Notice.
GEORGIA—CLAY COUNTY:
Mrs. M. A. Shivers has applied for ex
emption of personalty and setting apart
and valuation of homestead out of the es
tate of her husband, L. O. Shivers, and I
will pass upon the same at io o’clock a. m.,
on the 20 day of August, 1891.
7-24-31 R. T. FOOTE, Ordinary.
Notice of Local Legislation.
Notice is hereby given, that a bill will
be introduced at the present sitting of the
General Assembly to repeal a special Act
prohibiting the sale of whisky within 3
miles of a church in the town of Bluffton.
Clay county, Georgia. Also to regulate
the sale of whisky in said town.
Local Legislation.
Notice is hereby given of an intention
to apply to the General Assembly of the
State of Georgia, at the present session
thereof, for the passage of an act to repeal
an act entitled, “an Act to prohibit the
sale of intoxicating liquors within three
miles, in any direction, of Bluffton, in the
county of Clay,” approved Feb. 16, 1876.
This July 16, 1891.
Road Notice.
GEORGIA—CLAY COUNTY:
Whereas certain petitioners have made
their application to the Clay county com
missioners court praying an order granting
the establishment of a new road commen
cing at a point near the Cain Bridge, run
ning in the old road bed near the residence
of Swan Roland, to strike the land line be
tween the said Roland’s and the Fleming
place; thence by Bela Jenkins residence to
the northwest corner of M. A. Kent’s land,
thence to division line between Tumlin &
Atkins’, to intersect the Fort Gaines and
Blakely road at the Stamper place—and
whereas commissioners appointed for that
purpose have reviewed and marked out
said contemplated road and reported to us
that said road will be one of much public
utility and convenience. Now this is to cite
and admonish all persons that on and after
the 3rd day of August. 1891, said new road
will be granted if no good cause is shown
to the contrary. Given under my hand and
seal July 6,1891.
J. W. SUTLIVE, Clerk Com. Court.
Sheriff’s Sale.
WILL be sold on the first Tuesday in
August next, at the court house in
Clay county, Georgia, within the legal
hours of sale, to the highest bidder for cash
the following property, to-wit: South half
of lot of land No. 131 in 7th district of said
county. Said property levied on as the
propertv of Hiram Farrier, Henry Patrick
Joshua Leath, to satisfy a fl. fa. issued from
the Superior court of said county of Clay in
favor of D. C. Adams against said Hiram
Farrer, Henry Patrick and Joshua Leath.
Tenants in possession notified according
to law. This 2nd day of July, 1891,
JAS. T. McALIISTER, Sheriff-! |
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 many new ones.
I MEAN BUSINESS.
„ Don’t miss this opportunity. Respectfully,
S. STERNBERG.
DON'T
“Bee" Surprised
When you hear that you can
buy FURNITURE cheaper
from T. M. Killingsworth than
it was ever sold before, for it’s
a fact. The reason for this
great reduction is that I have
too much of certain kinds and
as I have a fine assortment of
Fine Goods to arrive soon I
Must Clear Out Old Stock
to make room for new.
This is no “summer gag”
but honest talk. Come and
let me give you a bargain.
I also make a specialty of
FINE CIGARS
and when you want a good
smoke, call on me.
NICE LINE OF
Fancy and Family Groceries, Etc.
T. M. Killingsworth,
Store nevt to Brown’s Hardware House
R. R. BLOCKER
Bluffton, Georgia,
SELLS
All kinds of school books, tinware, glass
ware, snuff, cigars, tobacco, dry goods,
kitchen safes, tables, chairs, trunks, con
fections, toys, sugar, rice, pickles, flour,
nails, all kinds family medicines, clocks,
6 Tea spoons Scents
G Table spoons 10 cents
12 Fish hooks 5 cents
12 Safety pins 5 cents
144 Rice Buttons Scents
10 Slate penci’s Scents
12 cedar pencils 5 cents
12 Best rubber pencils 10 cents
7-inch shears 10 cents
One barrel lime $2, Sodawater sc, two
papers pins sc. two papers best needles oc,
curry combs sc, bits sc, draw scales 10c.
Fresh Fish every Saturday.
Ice dailjuu any quantity.
Humphries Produce Co.,
Established 1870.
Melons and Fruits a specialty.
ST. LOUIS, MO.
T. G. SPEARMAN,
REPREBENTIMO
E. J. MILLER.
DEALER IN
Mirth Monuaente, Tombstones, Shiwy,
IRON RAILINGS. ETC,
Os AMERICUS, GA.
Orders solicited. Satisfaction guaran
teed. rnay22
Jeff. D. Mathews,
Commission Merchant in
Watermelons, Peaches, Pears and
. . Small Fruits. . .
No. 23 Poydras Street,
NEW ORLEANS, LA.
Representative Melon Grower's Association
Galveston, Texas.
Represented by W. B. Graham, Fort
Gaines, Ga.
Established 20 Tears.
G. S. PALMER,
Wholesale Commission Merchant
FOR THE SALE OF .
FRUITS AND PRODUCE
Pears, Peaches, Grapes Melons
Vegetables, Etc.
166 Reade St., NEW YORK.
No soliciting agents employed. All
business done direct with the shipper.
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: Dnnn> and Bradstreets Commercial
Agencies. Metropolitan and Whitney Nation)
Banks and any commercial house in New Or lean a.
G. W. VAN fiORDER,
Produce Commission Merchant.
Potatoes and Applet
IN CAR LOTB A SPECIALTY.
HEADQUARTERS
SOUTHERN PRODUCE, FRUIT
And MELON'S.
609 Liberty Street,
PITTSBURG, PA.
References: Pittsburg National Bank
of Commerce, 8.-adstreet’« Agency, Busi
ness men generally.
Established 1879- Incorporated IW.
S, F, Hi t Bn. tashaa b„
GENERAL PRODUCE
COMMISSION : MERCHANTS
Foreign and Domestic Fruita.
Georgia Melons and Southern Fruit
IN CAB LOTS A SPECIALTY.
313, 3 r 5 & 3*7 Walnut Street,
KANSAS CITY, MO.
Quick returns and best prices. Write or
wire for quotations. Reference: Any
Mercantile Agency, Bank or whole’ale
house in the city.
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