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THE WEEKLY CHRONICLE
VOL I.—NO 334
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PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
w C. WIMBERLY,
Physician and Surgeon,
Fort Gaines, Ga.
Office: Room No. 1, Paullin Building.
Residence at Mrs. W. O. Dobbins.
Responds promptly to calls either day or
night.
JACKSON & MONCRIEF,
DENTISTS.
Port Gaines, Georgia.
We are now prepared to do all kinds of
Dental work
Office over Dobbins Drug Store.
Bank of Fort Gaines,
c. V. MORRIS, Pres’t
J. E. PAULLIN, Cashier.
PAID UP CAPITAL $50,000.
DIRECTORS:
C. V. Morris, J. E. Paullin, Joe Vinson,
W, A. McAllister, N. H. McLendon.
We have every facility for trans
acting a general banking business.
Can offer every accomodation to our
customers consistent with prudent
banking, and we solicit accounts of
merchants, farmers and individuals,
whose interests will be carefully
guarded. apr 3 91
Tennille’s Repair Shop,
SELLS AND REPAIRS
Buggies, Wagons,
Furniture, Etc.
Remember I build Buggies to order
and keep in stock finished Dashes,
Cushions and Shafts for repairing
same. I run the only General Repair
shop in Fort Gaines, and will guaran
tee satisfaction.
FORT GAINES ACADEMY
Session 1891—92.
FALL TERM BEGINS SEPT. 7.
Ample arrangements have been made for
a FIRST-CLASS SCHOOL in every par
ticular.
The services of Miss Ada Walker, of
Athens, Ala., have been secured and seh
will be ready to begin her work on the first
day. Miss Walker come highly recom
mended as an educator, being a graduate
of the Female college of Athens, Ala., and
having had several years experience as a
teacher. She has the advantage of a
special course at the National Normal
School of Lebanon, O.
The Music Department
will be under the direction of Miss Clyde
Holland, whose superior skill as a teacher
is well known among us.
Special attention will be given the little
children —we intend that they shall not be
neglected.
Realizing the importance of good dis
ciplire a strict observance of the rules of
propriety shall be maintained during hours
of school, and on the way to and from the
same.
A Report of each child’s school life will
be sent to parents every two weeks, and by
this means we hope to elicit on the part of
parents the mutual aid that is so much
needed to secure success.
We earnestly solicit the co-operation and
patronage of the people of Fort Gaines and
Vicinity in buitding up an educational in
terest commensurate with the demands of
our rapidly growing city. Respectfully,
J. W. PIPKIX, Principal. '
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‘■OLD RED-NOSED DEVIL”
Is What Sam Jones Called Koine’s Whls
key Swiggers.
“The soul that sinneth it shall
die. ”
That was the text that Mr. Jones
took for his sermon last Wednesday
night.
Tuesday night he and Sam Small
knocked the city council and whis
key sellers silly, and Wednesday
night, using this text as a weapon,
Mr. Jones wiped up the earth with
whisky drinkers.
“I understand,” said he, “that
your old whisky loving council sus
pended a policeman for getting
drunk and then the policeman went
to shooting back by asking why
they didn’t suspend each other.”
After looking around with a com
ical expression on his face, Mr. Jones
said:
“If I was a member of that anti
council and a policeman got drunk
I’d stick to him, yes I would. I'd
stick to him till my heels flew up,
and then I’d stick to him a skeetin’
along. Let the boys have licker.
If its a good thing for you its a good
thing for them and they ought to
have it.
“I’ll tell you my friends a whisky
drinker’s a blight to any town, he’s
nothing but a wart on the devil’s
nose.
“You say you are a gentlemanly
drinker for you never get drunk.
The difference between you and the
drunkard is the same difference that
exists between the man who steals
five dollars and the one who steals a
hundred dollars. You think because
you are colonel, so and so, you can
drink all you want too, you old
“fussy hound.”
“When my friend George Stewart
was visiting me,” continued Mr.
Jones, “I received a letter from a
preacher asking me what to do with
his wife who was always getting
drunk. I wrote him that I’d quit
her, but I showed the letter to
George. He said that will never do
for she would never quit him if the
case was reversed. 1 said, ‘bless
your soul, George, you are right,
the women are too good for the
men,’ and then I wrote to the minis
ter to stick to his wife as long as the
world lasted.
“Now, you whisky drinker, if your
wife was to go into a bar room and
take a drink, you’d be whining
around that court house for a di
vorce, you old flop-eared hound,
vou.
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“I don’t believe a drinking man’s
a first, a second or even a third-rate
fool—he’s only a tenth-rate fool.
Now, you old red-nosed devil, what
have you got to say to thatt”
Everybody laughed at this, and
began looking for the “red-nosed
devils,” at which Mr. Jones waved
his hand and said:
“Don’t look at ’em! they feel too
bad.
“I don’t believe,” he continued,
FORT GAINES, GEORGIA, FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 18. 1891.
A. S. BROWN, PROP. *
Sells the “New Enterprise,”
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“that anybody but an infernal
scoundrel would sell whisky, and I
don’t believe anybody but an infer
nal fool would drink it. Can you
put it any stronger than that? If
you can just write it down and I’ll
sign it.”
An old-time sister jumped up at
this and clapped her hands like she
was going to shout, but her friends
quieted her before she did and Mr.
Jones continued:
“Youv’e got one of those skunks
of hell up here who’se sending his
infernal stuff to Cartersville. If I
can find out who’se getting it I’ll
make the bo^s give him a little ku
klux essense, and I’ll bet he won’t
be able to set down and eat in a
solid month.”
Mr. Jones declared that Rube
Burrows was a gentleman, a scholar
and a Christian by the side of the
whisky drinker, and he proved it by
the preachers on the stand with
him.
One of the endearing epithets he
applied to the old whisky drinkers
was, “You blubber-headed, blear
eyed, concentrated, conceited old
fool.”
Another to the young boys just
beginning to drink was* “You young
buck, you little pin-feathered pusil
lanimous puppy, you.
“Some of you old fools,” contin
ued he, “who've got children, ain't
fit to raise a litter of puppies. You
don’t know where your children are
to night no more than you know
where the dog star is. *
“I saw an old cow running after a
wagon the other day, and when I
looked in there I saw her calf, and
she was a settin’ up to him. Some
of you mothers are not following
your children, Its a mighty poor
mother who don t think as much of
her child as a cow does of her calf.
“The saloon keepers don’t like
me until they quit, and th n we get
as thick as seven in a bed.”
“You old whisky drinker, go out
now and say to yourself, ‘Here I
am, the most principalist man in
town and that preacher talking to
me like I was a dog.’ If you don’t
feel like a dog you don't feel nat
ural.”
“I could shout a mile high if ev
ery saloon-keeper in Rome would
quit to-night.”
“Cure the drunkard and the sa
loon will quit, they say. I’ve always
heard it said, kill the calf and the
cow will go dry. I don’t know’ about
that, for Jim Harrison in Carters
ville has a cow that he has been
milking for sixteen years and she
never had a calf, and Jim says her
mother before her never had one.”
One or two hundred people came
forward to be prayed for, and then
the benediction was pronounced as
ter Mr. Jones had announced that
Mr. Small would preach to-morrow
night.—Atlanta Herald.
lor Coms, Warts and Bunions
Use only Abbott’s East Indian Corn Paint.
She’s a Hustler.
A plucky and independent girl is
Miss Elizabeth Moore of Edge
worth, Pa., says the Buffalo Com
mercial. With her own hands she
recently built a neat little cottage;
laying the foundations, plastering
the walls ot the different rooms and
performing all the carpenter work
to a builders staste. To do this she
found it necessary to don male at
tire, and a young girl friend helped
her over the hardest part of the
work. Miss Moore is said to be as
pretty as she is energetic. She was
once a portege of Jane Gray Swiss
helm and the lesson that stern com
panion of woman’s rights taught
her apparently have not been for
gotten.
Take Warning.
What are you crying about? asked
a kind hearted stranger of a lad
who was standing in front of a news
paper office weeping as if his heat
would break.
Oh, dad’s gone up stairs to lick
the editor.
Well, has he come down yet? pur
sued the gentle Samaritan.
Pieces of him have, exclaimed the
boy, indulging in a fresh burst of
tears, and I'm expecting the rest
every minute.
Stole His House.
I met a gentleman at the Union
depot the other night who had just
returnd from Kearney county, said a
Kansas City Times man. He said:
“I took up a claim three weeks ago
and built my shanty with more care
than is usually taken with them. I
built a bedstead of boards in the
cornel- and laid in a small stock of
canned goods and dried meat. The
first night after it was completed I
crawled into bed and fell into a dead
sleep. About midnight I was awak
ened by a half dozed rude jolts,
some one cracked a whip, yelled “Git
up'” and I straightway felt the mo
tion of a heavy wagon. I was but
half awake, but I realized that my
bed was tipped to an angle of 45 de
grees, and that everything was mov
ing. I realized that my shanty, sup
posed to be unoccupied, was being
stolen with me in dt. I grasped my
revolver and emptied it at the walls,
and in answer heard the sound of
scattering feet. I crawled out of the
small window and drove back about
a hundred yards to the site of the
house, I made the horses fast and
posted myself under the wagon.
Ihe next dav I drove two miles to
my nearest neighbor and soon had
his opinion and that of several other
farmers. They all said the horses
and wagon were mine beyond doubt,
as one would c ver claim them.”
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.
IVhen you want
Any kind of Hacdwarc,
Harness,
Road Carts, Pistols, Etc.,
Come to Headquarters.
ATrain Robbery in the Sixties.
Friday night’s train robbery re
calls a robbery on the Central back
in 1862 or 1863, when the Merchants’
and Planters’ Bank of Savannah lost
$35,000 in gold between Savannah
and Macon.
The robbery was one of the most
remarkable that ever occured, chiefly
because of the mysterious disappear
ance of the money and the fact that
no clews were ever discovered as to
who the robbers were or how the
robbery was accomplished.
There were many surmises and
several parties were suspected, but
no evidence of any value was ever
discovered regarding it. This re
markable robbery was called to mind
by some of the older residents yes
terday during the discussion of the
bold attack on Express Messenger
Coulter night before last.
The Merchants’ and Planters’
Bank at that time was doing an im
mense business in Savannah, and
had large deposits of gold and cur
rency. Hiram Roberts, since dead,
was president, and M. A. Barie, a
well know citizen of this city, now
living on Liberty street, near Hab
ersham, was cashier of the bank.
The bank also had a depository in
Macon for the safe keeping of its
deposits during the disturbed state
of affairs in the country then.
Some time in 1862 or 1863 the
officers of the bank, becoming fright
ened at rumors of the movement of
the federal army in this direction,
sent a large amount of its gold to
Macon, amounting to about $l5O-,
000.
The real or reported danger of
the city’s capture was passing away,
and the gold being much needed in
Savannah, it was decided sometime
after to bring it back. •
Instead of sending the money by
express, as could have been done, it
was packed in kegs and boxes and
loaded into a freight car, which was
locked. A man was sent along on
the train with the money to keep a
watch upon the car. At every sta
tion where the train stopped he
would get out and take a walk
around the car to see that every
thing was all right.
How the robbery was accomplish
ed was never known, but when the
car arrived in Savannah and the
packages were transferred to the
bank §35,000 in gold was discovered
misssing.
Inquiry was made and search was
instituted at once, but neithei’ the
manner of the robbery, nor the iden
tity of the robbers was ever discov
ered. One theory was that the
money was taken from the depot at
Macon before the car left the city.
Another, and the one to which more
general credence was given, was that
when the train stopped in East
Macon, after crossing the river, as
was the rule, some person gained
access to the car and threw over-
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board the kegs containing the
money.
What became of the (money or
robbers was never known. There
was a belief in Macon for a long
time that the money was buried in
an old cemetery there, but none of it
was ever discovered. Another ’be
lief was that the money was’ carried
to Florida and , shipped to some
safe point from there. Any
way nothing has ever been heard of
The Merchants’ and Planters’ bank
went down with most of the other
banks in the south at the dose of
the war. Just before the capture of
Savannah the president Hiram Rob
erts, took all the specie on hand and
left with it for Augusta. He hid it
somewhere in Washington county,
where it was captured by the leder
als.
The story was most remarkably
different in this case, however, from
those usually told. The federal party
was commanded by honest officern
who after destroying all the confed
erate bonds and other securities to
be found returned the specie to the
bank at Savannah.
Mr. Barie^said last night that he re
membered itn return very well, be
cause the money was packed in a
common dry goods box and the dol
lars were dropping out of the cracks.
—Savannah News.
The First Step.
Perhaps you are run down, can’t eat,
can’t sleep, can’t think, can’t do any
thing to your satisfactian, and you won
der what ails you. You should heed the
warning, you are taking the first step
into Nervous Prostration. You need a
Nerve Tonic and in Electric Bitters you
will find the exact remedy for restoring
your nervous system to its normal
healthy condition. Surprising results
follow the use of this great N< rve Tonic
and Alterative.' Your appetite returns,
good digestion is restored, and theLi’er
and Kidneys resume healthy action -
Try a bottle. 1 rice 50c. at Dr. J. M.
Hatchett’s drug store.
A Remarkable Fish Stiry.
Gov. Hogg of Texas went a fish
ing the other day, and on pulling
out his line at the first nibble, he
found that he bad hooked a snap
per, the snapper had been seized by
a terrapin, the terrapin had been run
through by a swordfish, which was
fastened by his long blade, and a
stingaree had wrapped himself
around the swordfish and stung him
to death. Altogether there were
300 pounds of fish at the end of the
line. Gov. Hogg has hitherto been
considered a trustworthy man who
would scorn to tell a fish story.
Merit Wins.
We des're to say to our citizens, that tot
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 we.
These remedies have won their great popu
larity purely on their merits. Dr. J. M
Hatchett, druggist.
