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THE WEEKLY CHRONICLE
VOL. I—NO 27. 1
STATE NEWS ITEMS.
Rev. Davis of Tnrin, has a family relic
in the shape of a gourd which has beeu
in use 120 vears.
Two chickens were recently hatched
from one egg near Kathleen, at the
home of E. E. Holland. The twins are
as natural in appearances as any other
chickens.
Perry Journal: So far the sale of wa
termelons has brought less than S3OO to
Perry, though $3,000 would not be more
than a fait price for the carloads that
have been sold and heard from.
It is rumored that a clerk in the em
ploy of James Daly & Co., of Augusta,
has fallen heir to a fortune estimated at
$50,000. The money was left him by
an uncle, who died at Leadville Col
orado.
It is said that J. J. Roberson, the man
with a bullet in his brain near Sterling,
is getting better instead of worse. If he
should recover Iris case would form one
of the few of its kind known to medical
science.
Abbeville Times: A suspicious party of
five or six wandering men have made
their appearance in the neighborhood of
Cedar creek,this county. They are heav
ily armed with Winchester rifles and two
pistols each. They are said to have
plenty of money, and they seek the com
pany of fcegioGS and eat and sleep with
them.
The dwelling house of Marcus Ham
mock, living four miles frem Cordon,
was struck by lightning Wednesday
morning about 3 o’clock. The clock was
torn into pieces, and the bed on which
Mrs. and baby were lying was struck
aud the post split into pieces, dropping
the bed to the floor, but the occupants
Were unhurt.
Uncle Joel Morris, who died recently
at Roswell, had quite a sum of money
buried in the garden. The family met
at the old home last week and took up
the money and removed it to the safe of
the Roswell Store. It is not known ex
actly how much money there was, but it
is thought there were several thousand
dollars in gold.
Five members of Colonel Brewster’s
family, and three servants were poisoned
at Newnan on last Wednesday by eating
an apple pie which had been kept over
from dinner until supper in a tin vessel.
Physicians were summoned, and though
the victims of the poisoning were for a
time violently ill, they are now consid
ered out of danger.
Susie Johnson, a colored girl living in
the outskirts of Augusta, had an encoun
ter with a large hawk. The bird was af
ter chickens in the back yard, and the
girl attempted to drive him away with a
broom, when the infuriated hawk turned
savagely on her, and it was after a long
and hard fight that she succeeded in
killing it. It measured four feet from
tip to tip.
J. A. Harper of Blackshear, is making
preparations for the manufacture of his
grape crop into wine. He has now on
hand ten barrels of sugar weighing
3,586 pounds, which he expects to use
in making at least 2,000 gallons of wine.
He t will realize $2 per gallon for the wine
he makes, which will make four thou
sand dollars for the crop he gets off
seven acres of land. The grape indus
try has proven very profitable in Pierce
county.
It is stated that a farmer living near
Beersheba, a few years ago, yas poor,
having no money for stock. But he
went to work with a blind horse, and to
day he has the finest mules in the coun
ty, makes his wheat, corn, oats and
everything at home, lias money ahead,
besides owning $5,000 worth of property.
This man has never attended a. political
meeting, and has attended two fairs in
his life, but has given his farm his atten
tion.
Greensboro Herald-Journal: Clinton
Daniel brought to Greensboro last Tues
day one of the finest stalks of corn we
have ever seen grown in Green county.
The stalk verily looked like a young
tree, it was so strong and hardy, and
measured a trifle over twelve feet in
bight It has four well developed ears
on it. Mr. Daniel expects to have plenty
of corn this year, and if all is like the
stalk he brought in fifty bushels per
acre will be about the yield.
Raise More Com.
Here’s what a prominent allianceman
and member of the legislature thinks
about the financial and agricultural sit
uation:
“I don’t care how much money comes
down here, if we go on planting cotton
this way we will continue poor. When
the alliance members of the legislature
met, I asked all who planted all cotton,
bought their corn ancThad a dollar in
their pockets to stand up. I also asked
those who raised their supplies, made
cotton a surplus crop, and had no money
to rise. Four or five gave their experi
ences’, and said tliat they raised their
provisions, made cotton a surplus crop
and had money to lend. One man said
he sold his corn this year for a dollar a
bushel, spot cash.
“Now, what does this mean ? It
means that when wa phmt all cotton and
buy corn, we increase the supply of cot
ton, thereby depressing the price and in
crease the demand for corn, thereby in
creasing the price. We bear the price
of cotton that we sell, and bull-the price
of corn that we buy. That sort of man
agement will make everybody poor. Let
the southern states, through all the alli
ance, adopt the policy of planting ten
acres to the mule, and the price of cot
ton next year will be 124 cents. Noth
ing on earth can prevent it. It is tjie
profit in the transaction that should be
looked at. It is better to make five bales
to the mule and own it than to make ten
bales to the mule and owe 11 bales at the
end of the year. This year it cost the
farmers 3 cents a pound more to make
cotton than they will get, and the great
cost is due to the high price of provis
ions they are buying.
A Disfigured Countenance^
Many people who would scarcely no
tice an armless or legless man will in
stantly detect and remark on any blem
ish of the human face, and dive into all
sorts of speculations as to its cause and
attendant circumstances. If you doubt
this assertion become the possessor of a
discolored optic and notice how much
attention it will invite. A black eye is
generally avoidable, but blotches, pim
ples and other scrofulous and eruptive
marks steal upon us without warning,
and are frequently the first intimation
of the fact that our blood is going wrong.
A prompt and systematic use of P. P. P
(Prickly Ash, Poke Root and Potassium)
will purify the blood, cleanse the skin
and give back to the face nature’s famil
iar, rnddy signs of health. Get it of
your druggists.
Georgia is the Place.
The chigger may chig with all his
might, and the mocking bird mock
and sing; but the Georgia crops will
take the cake, and cotton you bet is
king. Tho cricket may crick, andi
froglet frog, and farmer sing hiJ
strain; but Georgia crop is alwayl
on top —the result of plenty of raiJ
Chinchbug may chinch, and thl
grasshopper hop, and the hot windl
make you tire; but if any one sayl
such things are not so, just call him!
a beautiful liar. Tennessee may boom!
and Alabama howkand Florida shoot]
off her chop; but Georgia’s the place
to get you a home, and raise a great
big crop. —Crawfordville Democrat.
A Fourth Party Now.
W. R. Vaughn, ex-Mayor of Coun
cil Bluffs, la., appears to be laying
the foundation of a Fourth Party,
colored.
Mr. Vaughn made an address in
Washington City last Saturday
night, in which he outlined a plan
he has for the government to pen
sion all ex-slaves by issuing bonds
to the extent of $100,000,000 for
their benefit.
His contention is that the govern
ment owes them as much money for
unrequitted labor performed, and
he proposes to get it tor them if
they will only stand close to him.
Mr. Vaughn’s address was delivered
to a large audience of negroes and
many of them ex-slayes, and it is al
most superfluous to say that it was
frequently interrupted by loud and
prolonged applause.
The speaker said nothing about a
Fouth Party and a nominatibn for
president, but our colored friends
are not going to forget a real bene
factor like Mr. Vaughn.
A man who has practiced medicine for 40
years ought to know sugar from salt; read
what he says:
Toledo, 0., Jan. 10 1887.
Messrs. F. J. Cheney A Co. —Gentlemen:
—I have been in the general practice of
medicine for most 40 years, and would say
that in all my practice and expreience have
never seen a preparation that I could pre
scribe with as much confidence of success as
I can Hall’s Catarrh Cure manufactured by
you. Have prescribed it a great manv times
its effect is wonderful, and would say in c on
clusion that I have yet to find a case of ca
tarrh that it would not cure, if they would
take it according to directions.
Yours Truly,
L. L. GOBSITCH, M. D.
Office 215 Summit St.
We will give SIOO for any case of ca
tarrh that cannot be cured with Hall’s Ca
tarrh Cure. Taken internally.
F J. ehenny & Co., Props., Toledo, O.
g*^»Sold by druggists. 75c.
Cicero Edwards of Monroe tells of
shingles that have done service on a roof
for eighyty years.
FORT GAINES. GEORGIA, FRIDAY AUGUST 7, 1891.
ALL DONE FOR LOVE.
TWO MINERS FIGHT A DUEL WITH
SLEDGE HAMMERS.
A Missouri Maiden Tliat Caused Two
Hearts and Heads to be Crushed
While She Looked on.
The details of a strange story have
just come to light from the Welsh
settlement of what is known as the,
“Black Road” district, near Bevier,
Alo. The settlement is composed
of miners who work the coal
mines there, nearly all of them being
Welshmen. The story is as follows;
One of the handsomest girls of the
Black Road district is Martha Light
foot. She is not only handsome
but was fickle and had all the young
men of the district at her feet. Two
of the brawniest young miners of
the , district, Ab Jones and James
Carmichael, were devoted suitors
and rumor first gave to one and
then the other the place of honor.
Matters ran along in this way for
some time, Alartha being impartial
in her smiles, and apparently giving
encouragement to both. At the same
time she had numerous other suitors
on her string. A crisis finally came
one night when the miners were
congregated in a barroom in the vil
lage. Jones proclaimed to his as
sembled friends that he was the ac
cepted suitor of- Alartha Lightfoot
and would soon lead her to the
church. Carmichael was present
and at once denounced the state
ment as a lie. He said that he him
self had received the troth of the
girl and she would marry him or no
one.
Hot words followed and a fight
was prevented by friends, and it was
decided that the girl should be called
upon to explain the situation. The
men and their friends went to the
Lightfoot house and called for’ the
girl to come forth. The girl was dis
jj^H^opostpone the matter, but
h-- ■
^ufl^ner^ecnier^^^^^^^^raff
for their bride. The details were
simple, and what is probably tjie
strangest duel ever fought was con
tested that night,
The moon was shining brightly as
the combatants stood in the centre
of a large ring formed by all the in
habitants in the district, who had
assembled to see the contest. The
men were armed with breaking ham -
mers, such as are usually used in
coal mines. Science and great phys
ical strength were combined, and
the blows were delivered and par
ried with lightning like rapidity. For
half an hour the battle raged, when
by some chance each received a
crushing blow on the head at the
same instant, and both sank to the
ground. Jones was dead within
fifteen minutes, and Carmichael lin
gered until the next day, when he,
too, died.
The sequel of this strange duel is
as remarkable as the prologue.
When Jones was pronounced dead
his old mother, who looked to him
alone foi' support, called for the girl
to stand forth. The girl stood on
one side of the ring and those who
were near her drew away from her
as from one who bore contamination.
The old gray-haired woman then
proceeded, with awful solemnity, to
put “the curse upon her.”
As anathema after anathema came
from the old crone’s lips the girl
seemed to blight and wither. Dis
aster dire and trouble deep were
called down by the lonely mother
upon the cause of her sorrow, until
at last the overwrought nerves of
the girl gave way and she fell sense
less to the ground. When con
sciousness again returned to her
she was a raving maniac, and grew
so violent that it became necessary
to place her in an asylum. It was
while she was on her way to that
institution that the strange story
was learned.
DESPERADO KILLED
AFTER A HARD STRUGGLE WITH A
TOWN MARSHAL.
A South Georgia Hercules Who Could Lift
a Hogshead of Bacon Gets His
Throat Cut From Ear to Ear.
Jessup, Ga., July 31. —Town mar
shal Goodbread this morning killed
General Bartow Fluker, a colored
hercules.
It appears that Fluker a few nights
since, in Brunswick, cut to pieces
and killed, a negro woman, probably
his wife, and then made his escape.
THE NEGRO CAUGHT.
This morning quite early some of
the relatives of the murdered woman
living here informed Alarshal Good
bread that he was near town, at the
East Tennessee, Virginia and Geor
gia coal chute. He went and took
him in. On his way to town, while
walking across a branch, the negro
made a dash for liberty, and got in
to the bushes and water and ' lay
down. When the-marshal advanced
on him and ordered him to get up,
he arose with his knife and advan
ced on the marshal, whereupon the
latter shot him, wounding him
slightly, which only seemed to mad
den him, and he rushed on the mar
shal, seizing him and throwing him
down, and securing hold of his pis
tol.
THE KNIFE TURNED.
The marshal held the pistol, too,
and in the scuffle got hold of the
negroe’s knife and cut his throat
with it. The marshal went on to
town, having the appearance of hav
ing been fighting a bull dog.
- _ A DESPERATE RECORD.
This negro, a few years ago, was
sifid to be the strongest man in the
state, and the biggst eater. He
would lift and carry a hogshead of
bacon like it was a keg, and would
eat at one time a whole quarter of
beef, and it is said that he ate at one
time thirteen watermelons of good
size and said he could eat thirteen
more.
Seiis Her Daughter.
Mrs. Rebecca Wright, of Chatta
nooga, Tennessee, sold her daughter
Lizzie to the proprietress of a bag
nio for sll. Lizzie Wright was ar
rested on the street drunk, and her
mother refused to pay the fine but
agreed that Alice Cooper, who con
ducts a bagnio on Helen street
should have the girl if she would
pay rhe fine.
The station keeper refused to let
the girl go under these conditions till
the mother took the money herself,
and payed the fine. Chief Kilgore
remonstrated with the mother, but
to no effect. She said she sold Liz
zie to the devil and she was going
to heaven. Lizzie got into the car
riage and was driven to her hell,
while the mother made her way to
her heaven(?).
The Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Children has sworn out a
warrant against Mrs. Wright, and
will at once take steps to secure the
girl from the place of prostitution.
Since the developement of the
above, a raid has been made upon
two houses of ill-repute in Chatta
nooga and quite a number of the in
mates arrested.
Electric Bitters.
This remedy is becoming so well
known and so popular as to need no spe
cial mention. All who have used Elec
tric Bitters sing the same song of praise
—a purer medicine does not exist and it
is guaranteed to do all that is claimed.
Electric Bitters will cure all all diseases
of the Liver and Kidneys, will remove
Pimples, Boils, Salt Rheum and other
affections caused by impure blood—will
drive malaria from the sytem and pre
vent as well as cure all malarial fevers.
For cure of Headache, Constipation and
Indigestion try Electric Bitters. Entire
satisfaction guaranteed, or money re
funded. Price 50 cts. and 31 per bottle
at Dr. J. M. Hatchett’s- drug store.
A Second Jonah on Deck.
Tacoma, Wash., July 26. —The
bark Guy C. Goss, with a cargo of
$500,000 worth of tea, dropped an
chor here yesterday, forty four days
from Yokohama, long overdue.
When fifteen days out, “Tom” His
kiaski, a Japanese sailor, mounted to
the topsail to reef it during a gale.
A lurch of the vessel threw him
headlong into the sea. and he was
seen to suddenly disappear. The
lifeboat was put out, but no trace of
the missing sailor was found.
When returning to the vessel a
whale rose to the surface. The crew
then suspected what had become of
Hiskiaski. The whale seemed to be
in great distress. Suddenly, after a
violent convulsion, Hiskiaski was
thrown from the whale’s mouth on
to the crest of a wave and upon the
deck of the Goss. Ho was uncon
scious and badly injured. Careful
nursing brought him around and he
is now in his normal health. Capt.
Malet e vouches for the truth
of this story, and the sailor was
pointed out.
A Little Girl’s Experience in a
Lighthouse.
Air. and Airs. Leron Trescottatjekeep
ers of the Gov. lighthouse at Sand Beach,
Alich. and are blessed with a daughter, 1
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”—then she tried
Dr. King’s New Discovery and after the
use of two and a half hottlos, was com
pletely cured. They say Dr. King’s New
JJiscovery is worth its weight in gold,yet
von may get a trial bottle free at Dr. J.
Al. Hatchett’s drug store.
A Ball of Fire.
A heavy thunderstorm prevailed
on Coney Island last week creating
considerable consternation among
the guests of the Manhattan beach
hotel.
A ball of fire, followed a heavy
peal of thunder, fell within a foot of
the railroad station a Sheepshead
Bay just as the passenger train was
coming. The engine and three cars
were thrown from the track.
Intense excitement prevailed.
Women screamed and men lost their
presence of mind.
The trainmen restored order, how
ever, and the passengers proceeded
on their journey in safety.
A Cheap Cow.
Stranger —What do you value
your white cow at?
Farmer Furrow —She ain’t worth
over $lO. Taxing cows this year?
Stranger —I am not the assessor
lam an official of the Quick Time
railroad. Your cow was killed this
morning. Here’s tho $lO. Good
day.
The following frank statewent from J. Et
Hare, of Trenton, Texas, will be of interest
to many of our citizens. “My little boy
was very bad oft' for two months with diar
rhoea. We used various medicines, called
in two doctors, but nothing dona him any
good until we used Chamberlain’s Colic,
Cholera and diarrhoea Remedy, which gave
immediate relief and soon cured him. I con
sid^r it the best medicine made and can
conscientiously recornmend it to all who
need a diarrhoea or colic medicine.” For
sale by W. O. Dobbins & Co., druggists.
A stroke of lightning foil near a church
in Towns county on last Sunday, and
glancing from the ground, entered the
church, variously affecting the people in
the congregation. Some had their
clothes and shoes tern from them; some
were knocked senseless; many were
burned and marks were left on their
bodies where the current touched them.
None were killed. A horse, which was
standing on the opposite side of the
church from where the lightning struck,
was killed.
Passengers arriving from Jackson.
Miss., report a strange accident oc
curring of the Yazoo Valley Railway,
branch of the Illinois Central last
Monday. As the train was passing
through a field a frightened quail
flew through a window and struck
an aged lady in the face with such
force as to destroy one of her eyes.
The bird was instantly killed.
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. Noves,
820Powers’ Block, Rochester, N. Y.
For every man who knows more
than he tells, there are fifty that
tell more than they know.
English Spavin Liniment removes all
hard, soft or calloused lumps and blemisnes
from horses, blood spavins, curbs, splints,
sweeney, ring-bone, stifles, sprains, all swol
len throats, coughs, etc. Save SSO by use of
one bottle. Warranted the most wonderful
blemish cure ever known. Sold by W. M.'
Speight, druggist. Fort Gaines, Ga.
181.00 A YEAR
FUN IN SECTIONS.
“Peace fills the man who richly reaps
And with a plenty is content.
And likewise, too the tramp who sleep*
And doesn't care to earn a ant.”
A bald headed man's hair is like a <n«>l
and his money.
Never attempt to sit down in a chair
that isn’t there.
Mrs. Ella Wheeler Wilcox’s latent
poem is entitled “No More.” If sh*’
only means it.
He Was Loaded: Judge—What w the
prisoner charged with?
Officer—Wlrsky, yer honor.
A Bad Shot: He—l have never yet
met the woman I thought I could marry.
She—No, they are very hard to ph axe.
as a rule.
“Several important steps quickly
taken,” murmured the young man win n
the girl's father helped him over the
door sill.
“What is unselfishness?" asks a aiib
scriber. “Unselfishness is one of th*
rarest qualities in the world to find in
anyone else.
' First Tramp—What are you painting
those green stripes on your pants for?
Second Tramp—That's Paris green;
it's for dogs..
Sawyer—The proof of the pudding is
in the eating.
De Spep—No, it isn’t. It's in the di
gesting.
When a young man sits in the parlor
talking nonsense to his best girl, that’s
capital. But when he has to stay in of
evenings after they are married, that’s
labor.
As into the surf the seaside maiden
rushed,
The conscious waters cried, “O, lx>rd
and blushed.
Florist—What was that man kicking
about you sold thy roses to?
Boy—He wanted to know if they were
fast colors; said the last he got h* r
faded. •
Do you belong to this church? in
quired the stranger.
No, sir, replied the wealthy memb* r
of the congregation, this church lx longs
to me.
Cholly—Have a cigawette, doah boy?
Chappie—Thanks, old fel, but it’s too
beastly hot.
Cholly—But I’ve had them on ice
ovah night—better have one.
Little Boy—Mamma, may I go «w:m
ming?
Mamma—l am afraid you will get
drowned.
Little Boy—Why, this isn’t Sunday.
Thirsty Acquaintance—What? An
other glass? You drink like- like a
leaky ship.
Thirsty Physician—No sir. I drink
like a dry doc.
“Alas!” said the tramp, “I am hungry
and sore;
Is there no one to pity my plight’"
*‘o, yes,” cried the dog as he sharpened
his teeth,
“Come in, and I’ll gi .o you a bite."
Warden (of insane asylum! This poor
woman imagines that she is shopping
all the time. Sometimes she sits in
silence for whole weeks.
Visitor—What is she doing then?
Warden—lt is supposed that she im
magines she is waiting for the change.
“When I was single.
My pockets did jingle,”
says once a popular song. ft is very
evident fact that the fellow who wrote
those lines never tried editing a country
paper if he was single.—Camilla Clar
ion.
Mrs. Prentice—What do all those
signs I see in the cars mean? flow do
you “Get a Home on the Installment
Plan?
Tom Dewitt—First you get the house,
then you get a wife, and then the in
stallments complete the house.
Mrs. Green (to young physician whom
she has called in haste) — O, doctor ’ doc
tor ! I fear yon have made a terrible mis
take ! My daughter had that prescrip
tion which you sent her last night filled,
and took a dose of the medicine. Now
she exhibits every symptom of poison
ing. O
Young Physician—Prescription, mad
am? Why, that was an offer of mar
riage.
Abbott’s East Indian Corn Pilot
Eradicate? Corns Bunions and Warts
where all other remedies faik
A sore leg, the flesh a of disease,
yet P. P. P. (Prickly Ash, Poke Root
and Potassinm) achieved wonderful re
sults, the flesh was purified and the
bone got sound, and my health wae en
tablished, says Mr. James Ma nf
Savannah, Ga.