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The Weekly Chronicle.
Entered at the Postofflcc In Fort Gaines as Second
Class Mail Matter.
CHRONICLE PRINTING COMPANY
EVERY FRIDAY MORNING.
Official Organ of Clay County.
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ADVERTISING —The Chronicle i* the only
paper published in Fort Gabies or Clay County,
and it w to the interest of advertisers to give us
their patronage if they wish to reach the trade of
this section. Send for rates to
THOMAS H. JERNIGAN,
Editor and Manager, Fort Gaines, Ga.
FRIDAY EVENING, SEPT. 4, 1891.
Publisher’s Notice.
On and after the issue of August 7th, all Legal
Advertising handed in to us must be accompanied
with the CASH. The rate prescribed by law is 75
cents per 100 words, or a fraction thereof, each in-
sertion. Count the words and act accordingly.
Cotton is going up. Whoopee!
The rain-makers must bo at work in
this section just now.
These “fire clamp” explosions are
damp bad things.
Cheek is a mighty good thing to have,
but there is an overproduction of it in
this section.
The reform that is needed would come
quicker we think if the people would do
more work and less talk.
A “burglars trust” has been formed in
Milwaukee. All trusts have more or
less thieves in them, though.
Why can’t the people of Clay county
have a grand rally and barbecue? We
are getting anxious for another square
meal.
We’ve been running a newspaper
seven months for “glory” and we’re
overstocked. What we want now is
money.
It’s the farmer who is staying at home
looking after his interests and reading
and thinking for himself that is making
life a success.
Six masked men held up a train in
Texas Wednesday and relieved the mail
and express cars of over $1.0,000 in cash
besides other valuables.
Austria had a tremendous land slide
Sunday. In this country land slides are
frequent. Sliding out of the owners
hands into the capitalists.
The bill prohibiting doctors and drug
clerks from getting drunk has passed
both houses and only awaits the signa
ture of Governor Northen to kecome a
law.
A furniture store was burglarized in
Macon Monday night. Burglars are not
at all choice these days. The next thing
we expect to hear burglarized is an ice
factory.
Three hotels “busted” in Atlantic
City this week. When times get so hard
that hotels and boarding houses fail it’s
time for every other business to be look
ing for a soft place in the ceiling to hit.
Lieut.-Governor Jones, of New York,
the man “that pays the freight,” will
make the race for goveraor on an inde
pendent ticket. He will no doubt have
an opportunity to verify his noted asser
tion.
Washington county has a farmer who
has sold 300 pounds of bacon and hams
and about the same amount of lard dur
ing the last 12 months and still has
enough to feed seventeen mouths foi
some time to come.
A young white boy in Atlanta now
languishes behind prison bars for steal
ing 24 cents from a postoffice. He
should have waited until he could have
made a $24,000 haul, and he would then
have become an honored citizen.
Detectives are in possession of a list
containing the names of parties that have
corresponded with “green goods men”
or counterfeiters for the past few years,
and it would make very interesting read
ing. There are several parties in this
section whose names appear on the list.
The Richmond & Danville Railroad
authorities have offered SIO,OOO reward
for the arrest of the party or parties that
drew spikes from the rails on the West
ern North Carolina road last week and
caused a passenger train to be dashed
into a swollen creek.
A restaurant proprietor in Waynesville,
Ind., shot and killed two roughs a few
days ago that went into his place of bus
iness to rob him. A “square meal”
would have doubtless accomplished the
same results that his powder and lead
did, and would have been much cheaper.
This is the way the great and only
Atlanta Constitution talks: “The Fort
Caines Chronicle is undoubtedly the
best humorous weekly in Georgia.”—
Issue September 2. Thanks to Bro.
Stanton for his many favors and a stand
ing invitation is extended him to visit
us during the harvesting of the 'possum
crop.
A GOOD REMEDY.
There may be a few simple-minded
farmers who are resting under the
delusion that the state may enact
some law or laws that will tend to
their enrichment, whether their crops
may be good or bad. In the past
year or so we have seen a great
many farmers at every season of the
year attending various meetings, and
applauding with all their might the
wild and enthusiastic utterances of
numerous speakers who have been
appointed in one way or another to
enlighten the farmers upon the sev
eral matters relating to their calling.
We are sorry to say that in all these
“speakings,” the reports of which we
have read in the various newspapers,
we have rarely noticed any very
sound advice to the farmers after all.
A great many speakers have aired
what little knowledge they possessed
of the national banking system; of
the possible benefits to be derived
from a 2 per cent, loan; the govern
ment ownership of railroad and tele
graph; the election of the President
directly by the vote of the people;
the free coinage of silver, etc.; but we
remember no instance where any of
these would-be Moses have told
the farmers in plain and unequivocal
language that whatever the govern
ment may be induced to do in behalf
of the farmer it all would avail him
little if he continued to cultivate soil
that was already impoverished and
followed the practice of planting the
same crop that every one else did
and without regard to food supplies.
We have read the “speeches” of a
good many“farm” orators in the past
twelve months, but we cannot just
now recall any speech wherein this
substantial truth was set forth before
the eager listener, the alliance farmer,
as it should have been. Let the gov
ernment do everything that a pater
nal government of the “first water”
can do, and what it will be able to
do for a man who has been cultiva
ting right along for twenty-five or
thirty years the same old fields in
cotton and corn with no disposition
to make the change that is plainly
called for by the progress of events.
So long as he looks upon cotton as
the magnum bonum of agriculture,
plants it to the exclusion of nearly
everything else in many instances,
excepting only corn, perhaps, so
long, to be sure, will he need help of
some kind, whether it happens that
he gets the right kind or not.
Legislation can not be depended
upon to bring prosperity to the far
mer who cultivates soil so poor that
it will not make profitable crops, or
who diversifies his plantings so little
as to risk everything upon one single
crop, or at most two. All the legis
lation in the world will not be able to
save a man who follows this practice.
Money at one per cent, won’t do it
A sub-treasury at evei’y crossing of
the roads won’t do it. No, my dear
farmer and alliance man. We need
not look beyond our own brawn and
brain for help. We must enrich that
land and plant crops that will bring
money and raise everything in the
way of food that we possibly can.
We must organize and maintain our
own sub-treasnry and borrow money
from ourselves at 2 per cent, if we
find that we can’t get along really
without borrowing a little. We must
turn a part of our attention to im
proved pastures and meadows, and
have stock enough to make manure
to restore the . old worn field to a con
dition of fertility that will enable
them to respond fairly to the labor
that is expended upon them. This
much done, we will, supplementary
thereto, stand square up to the old
democratic party in its manful fight
for lower tariff on woolen goods,
farm implements, etc. Whatever
you do, don’t mortgage the farm if
there is any possible way to avoid it.
Borrow as little money as possible
even at “2 per cent.” Don’t bother
yourself about the railroads, the tele
graphs, and national banks and make
your land rich and plant judiciously,
and do not live beyond your income.
You may be poor, but you may have
a happy home that many a million
aire would have cause to envy you.
In conclusion, weigh well the
words of the demagogue, if you lis
ten to him at all. In this country’
just now demagogues are as thick as
hops in a hop field or leaves in Val
ambrasa. Your own reason must
tell you they are preaching a false
doctrine, the outcome ol which must
necessarily be dire disappointment.—
S. A. C. in Savannah News.
For Corn*. Warte and Euniono
Use only Abbott’s East Indian Corn Paint.
RESULT OF WOMAN RULE.
Argonia, Kan., Aug. 29. —This
city has just experienced one of the
most unique weddings that any place
can boast of. Argonia is under wo
man rule. The town officers are all
women, and in fact when it comes to
official business the men are not in it.
This peculiar, and to a certain ex
tent abnormal state of affairs, has
given to the ladies an independence
of thought and action that is far in
advance of the ordinary women of
the country.
Not only do married ladies enjoy
greater freedom and broader views,
but the girls and young ladies talk
on free thought. There has been a
growing independence among the
young ladies, and at a small evening
party some weeks ago the matter of
equal rights was discussed by the
young of both sex. The young men
took the ground that while the ladies
could vote and hold office, there
were some instances in which they
had to acknowledge the supremacy
ol man, in the matter of courtship
and marriage being especially men
tioned.
This, at first was a poser for the
ladies, but Miss Ella Smith said she
thought she had as much right to go
courting as a man had, and if she
wanted to marry a man she would
ask him.
The matter w^s looked upon as a
joke, but a few. days afterward the
young lady made good her asser
tions, calling upon Walter Tiffin,
and, after a brief conversation, pro
posed marriage.
As she was one of the most desir
able young ladies of the town she
was eagerly accepted by the fortu
nate young man, and the wedding
came off last Wednesday evening.
The ceremony was performed by
Mrs. James Gibson, who is justice of
the peace of the town. The wed
ding was a joyous affair, and it is
said the innovation will spread.
You Take No Risk
In buying Hood’s Sarsaparilla, for it is
everywhere recognized as the standard
building up medicine and blood purifier
It has axon its way to the front by its own
intrinsic merit, and hos the largest sale of
any preparation of its kind. Any honest
druggist will confirm this statement. If
you decide to take Hood’s Sarsaparilla, do
not be induced to buy anything else in
stead. Be sure to get Hood’s.
A GEORGIA WONDER.
“Uncle” Richmond Elder is an old
darky who is well-known on the
street of Athens, and quite a pathetic
story attaches to him. Richmond
went off to the war with his “mars
ter,” a young man named Elder,
who lived in Oconee county. He fol
lowed him where the battle grew
thickest and where the bullets came
with the most telling effect. He
never faltered in his faithful service
vice to his young master, and spread
his own blanket each night by the
side of his master’s cot, and kept up
the camp fire many a long winter’s
night, when chilling blasts blew
strong and bleak.
In the fight at Malvern Hilll a bul
let from a yankee’s musket pierced
the heart of the gallant Elder, and he
fell to death in an instant. Who but
Richmond, the slave, should rush to
his side and clasp the dying soldier
to his ebon breast? But it was too
late. The soldier died in the negro’s
arms, and Richmond took the cap
from his master’s handsome head
and has worn it ever since.
It is all worn threadbare and sleek
now, but Richmond will wear no
other hat, he says, untill his dying
day.
Cleanses the Whole System.
During the last half century there
has been a wonderful development
in what is known as sanitary science.
It is a science that looks to the pre
vention of diseases in communities
through the medium of cleanliness,
and it commends itself most urgently
to the common sense of the people.
Meanwhile, it ‘should be borne in
mind that the human system stands
in need of sanitation, and requires
evem more care than the municipal
body. It is precisely here that S. S.
S. takes up the work of the sanitary
scientists. It cleanses the whole sys
tem, purifies the blood, disenfects the
channels tarough which it flows, and
destroys the germs of disease. It is
a harmless medicine, and yet a most
powerful one. It is nature’s tonic
remedy.
A course of P. P. P. will banish all bad
feelings, and restore your health to perfect
condition. Its curative powers are marvel
ous. If out of ssrt and in bad humor with
yourself and the world, take P. P. P-, and
become healthy and rational.
OUR BLUFFTON DEPARTMENT.
R. R. Blocker, Editor.
Mr. George Collins has opened a shoe
shop here.
The new altar in, and paing on the M.
E. Church greatly improves appear
ances.
From the lumber Mr. Humphreys is
having hauled he intends building, but
will not say what. He has much vim,
and has done no little towards Bluffton’s
prosperity.
Mr. John Killingsworth£says he re
cently saw cotton which will actually
take thirty acres to make a bale. We
all know that cotton is seriously, injured
in Southwest Georgia.
Last Friday the small boys of Fort
Gaines played ours base ball. The
Blufftonians beat ten rounds. Our vis
itors spent the night with us. They
were quite lively and seemed to bear
their defeat with true manliness.
Daily I hear people ask when do the
boatsjjass up or down the Chattahoo
chee river. Now my wife is ready to go
down the river on a boat, and have just
heard there will be no boat Wednesday
night. Boats should publish their sched
ule.
Our people owe nearly one hundred
dollars balance on the Academy, which
the wish to pay, also to pocure money
to^ceil the house; for which purpose we
will have a supper on Thursday night,
17th inst. Hope our friends will liber
ally patronize the entertainment.
We are pained to chronicle the death
of Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Hayes only child,
an infant. Saturday Bev. Bascom Sen
tell performed the funeral services. We
truly feel for the bereaved parents, and
hope they will realize that “All things
work together for good with those who
love and serve the Lord.”
Mr. J. T. Lay (in speaking of the in
terest oui citizens manifest in keeping
apace with the times) said, “When I
took charge of the postoffice here there
was very little reading done. Now
nearly everybody reads the papers.” Our
office receives weekly about one hundred
Constitutions, fifty Journals, besides the
Early County News, Calhoun Courier,
Cuthbert Liberal-Enterprise, The Fort
Gaines Chronicle and others.
Monday Prof. McKenzie begun school
in the new Academy. The building has
one first floor 28x40, one 35x60, and a
second floor 35x50, and is quite an orna
ment to Bluffton and a monument to
the liberality of her citizens and friends.
Prof. McKenzie has thirty pupils, one
of whom Mr. John More, from Coleman
and L. O. Gamble, from Americus, and
other boarders. Prof. McKenzie is the
first who ever issued a catalogue of the
Bluffton school.
COLEMAN NOTES.
Coleman affords as good market for
cotton as any point. So bring your
cotton to Coleman.
We regret very much the illness of J.
A. Chapman who has been and is quite
sick of typhoid fever.
Coleman High school opened Wednes
day with a good attendance under the
supervision of Prof. Daniels as princi
pal.
Miss Annie Brown, of Bluffton, who
was elected music teacher for our school
returned home on account of sickness
of sickness Tuesday.
Mr. W. H. Crawford, of Fort Gaines,
visited home folks last week.
Judge 1. J. Sanders is erecting a nice
residence on Broad street, while there
are many others under contract.
Everybody come to Coleman to edu
cate their childdren.
After a short illness our friend and
neighbor Mr. A. J. Bailey died at his
home on last Sunday evening. Mr. Bai
ley was one of Randolph’s most success
ful farmers, and liked by all who knew
him.
Death is a debt we all must pay,
New or at some future day;
So let us watch our pathway drear,
For we know not when death is near.
We tender our heartfelt sympathy to
the bereaved family.
Mr. John Martin, of Buford, is visi
ting his brother Mr. A. L. Martin.
Life insurance is a lively business just
now. It’s a good investment for young
men as well as older ones.
The customers of the Coleman Buggy
and Wagon Works are requested to
come and settle their accounts before
the 15th of September, as every open
account must be closed before 15 inst.
lam forced to do this and all accounts
after 15 inst., large or small will be put
in other hands for collection. Please
call and settle without trouble.
Respectfully,
J. C. Chapman.
Piles! Piles! Itching Piles.
SVMPTOMs-r-Moisture; intense itching and
stinging; mast at night; worse by scratching
If allowed to continue tumois form which
often bleed and ulcerate, beoming very
sore. Swayne’s Ointment stops the itching
and bleeding, heals ulceration, and in most
cases removes tho tumors. At druggists,
or °*y mail, for 50 cents. Dr. Swayne
Son, Philadelphia.
AND SCHOOL OF SHORT-HAND.
THE MOST SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS COLLEGE IN THE SOUTH,
cheapest and Mat Practical Elogant Catalogue Free. COLEMBUS, GA.
King of Medicines
Scrofulous Humor — A Cure
“Almost Miraculous.' f
“ 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 jhaf dine ten or eleven sores ap
peared and broke, causing me great pain and
suffering. I feared I never saould get well.
“ Early in 1886 I 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 LOST 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 walls 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
Sold by all druggists. Jl;slxforgs. Preparedonly
by C. I. HOOD & CO., Apothecaries, Lowell, Mass.
100 Doses One Dollar
Malaria and Broken-Down Constitution.
Waycross, Ga.
Dr* W. H. Whitedead:
Dear Sir—At your request I will state
my case. Some years ago I contracted ma
laria in its most violent form while living
at Newark, N J. I consulted various phy
sicians and took numberless preparasions
recommended as “sure cures,” but it stuck
to me like a brother—or more like a moth
er-in-law. I finally came South, and while
here tried new renedies, said to always
cure malaria, and it still stuck to me, and
you know the broken-down conditon I was
in when I came to you. You put me to
taking your P. P. P. (Prickly Ash, Poke
Root and Potassium), and I improved rap
idly, and am today in as good health as I
ever was —in fact, better. As a remedy
for a broken down constitution it has no
equal. Yours etc., T. P. COTTLE.
Notice Local Legislation.
Notice is hereby given that a local bill
will be introduced at the present session of
the General Assembly of Georgia repealing
the present Fence Law in the sth district
of Clay county, and making the land lines
a lawful fence in said district. This Aug.
26, 1891.
Notice to Debtors.
All persons indebted to ine are notified
to come forward and settle their accounts
at once. Having taken a partner in my
business I must get my old books bal
anced. Bespectfully,
11. C. MoALLISTER.
DON’T
“Bee' Surp risea
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
GLAS, BLOOM & CO.,
General Commission Merchants
AND PRODUCE DEALERS.
WATERMELONS,
Potatoes, and Apples in car lots a specialty.
No. 23 West Front Street,
CINCINNATI, O.
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Georgia tail and Industrial College,
A State Institution for the education and
special training of Georgia girls, to be
opened at Milledgeville, Georgia., on Sep
tember 80, 1891.
Clay county is entitled to one schol
arship in this school. All girls wishing
to become applicants foi these places are
requested to appear at my office on Ist
day of September to stand the entrance
examination. The examination will in
clude the Elementary English Branches;
viz.: Arithmetic, History, Geographv and
English grammar. No girl under fifteen
years of age will be eligible to a scholar
ship.
For full information concerning the
school write for a Prospectus to I’resident
J. Harris Chappell, Milledgeville. Ga.
J. D. RAMBO, County School Com.
T. G. SPEARMAN,
REPRESENTIMG
E. J. MILLER.
DEALER IN
Marble Monuments, Tootas, Star,
IRON RAILINGS, ETC.,
Os AMERICUS, GA.
Orders solicited. Satisfaction guaran
teed. m»y22
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 Years.
G. S. PALMER,
Wholesale Commission Merchant
FOR THE SALE OF
FRUITS AND PRODUCE
Pears, Peaches, Grapes Melons
Vegetables, Etc.
166 Reado 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: Dunn’s and Bradntreets Commercial
Agencies, Metropolitan and Whitney National
Banks and any commercial house in New Orleans.
Tw. van Corder,
Produce Commission Merchant.
Potatoes and Applet*
IN CAB LOTS A SPECIALTY.
HEADQUARTERS
SOUTHERN PRODUCE, FRUIT
And MELONS.
609 Liberty Street,
PITTSBURG, PA.
References: Pittsburg National Bank
of Commerce, Bradstreet’s Agency, Busi
ness men generally.
Established 1879. Incorporated 1887.
B. F. Ccomba i Bro. Conainioi Co.,
GENERAL PRODUCE
COMMISSION : MERCHANTS
Foreign and Domestic Fruits.
Georgia Melons and Southern Fruit
IN CAB LOTS A SPECIALTY.
313, 315 & 317 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.
Established 1882.
C. S. DUELING.
Wholesale Commission Dealer
IN WATERMELONS
Domestic Fruits & Produce,
No. 192 Duane Street,
NEW YORK.
N. B.—Returns made for each consign
ment as soon as sold.
References: Irving National Bank,
Any Mercantile Agency.
Established 25 Years.
John Curren & Co.,
Commission Merchants.
OUR SPECIALTY:
WA TERMEL ONS.
Southern Fruits & Vegetables.
CINCINNATI, O.
Represented by Will B. Graham.
