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About The Barnesville gazette. (Barnesville, Ga.) 187?-189? | View Entire Issue (Aug. 4, 1898)
iVvtj 'ft&TxvestnWe, BARNESVJLLE, CA. -THURSDAY, AUGUST 4, iB9B Money-Making Industry. In the Atlanta Constitution Mon day there is an editorial which is full of suggestions and is well worthy the consideration of the people. Speak ing of a statement about chickens, the editorial says: During a recent week 10,000 chick ens were expressed from the Gaines ville office. Although this was a week in a very dull season of the year, these figures prove that a large lot of fowls go out from that point in a single week. It took about 275 coops to hold them, and they were sent in almost every direction and to many different places. These chick ens averaged 15 cents apiece—10,000 at 15 cents amount to $1,500 in one week and in a dull one at that. This would be $6,000 a month, and $72 000 year. This story of what may be done in the simple item of chickens is one which shows the value of small indus tries. It has often been said that the farmer's wife riding to town with her basketful of eggs is enabled to carry back more money and to get more with it than does her husband from the proceeds of his cotton crop. There is money in chickens and eggs and butter. There is money in cab bage and lettuce and onions. ’1 here is money in corn and potatoes and turnips. Here are enterprises open to every one, in the prosecution of which no man can fail to make a liv ing, and there is more to be expected from these lines of trade than from those with more pretentious surround ings. Let the story of Gainesville be duplicated from every railroad sta tion in Georgia; and soon instead of a cotton ridden country, we will sec a prosperous agricultural community, rich in the diversity of its pursuits, free from the mortgage fiends of the east, and happy in the enjoyment of the advantages which life in Georgia holds for the thrifty and industrious. Our Navy Has Bern Underrated. That the United States had a navy before this war began is a (act that has been but little appreciated both gt home and abroad. On the conti nent of Europe it was openly declared and secretly hoped that the Spanish navy would be more than a match for ours. There were Englishmen- -and Americans, too, who had not read their history- who forgot that a leop ard cannot change his spots, and they shook their heads ; and feared we should meet defeat at the first, until we could build more ships and get more men. When the Maine blew up in Havana harbor, there were peo ple all over this country—patriotic men and women undoubtedly—who honestly believed that the accident, it not a breach of discipline, was at least due to a faulty construction of the ship. For many years this branch of our service has been persistently underrated by those who knew noth ing of what they spoke. At every grounding or leak or other mishap to our new ships many murmured and scoffed, and some of the papers ac tually published jokes about the inse curity of our battleships. If any of these critics, alter four years of the hardest kind of work at Annapolis, were put on the bridge of a warship and told to conduct her from port to j)ort, they would perhaps appreciate that the successlul handling of a war vessel, even in times of peace, is one of the most difficult tasks in the world ami is only acquired after a lifetime of the most assiduous study and the practice of it.—From “The Battle With Cervera’s Fleet Oil San tiago,” by Winston Churchill, in the American Monthly Review of Re views for August. There is more Catarrh in this section of the country titan all other diseases put together, ami until the last few years 5 was supposed to be Incurable. For a great many years doctors pronounced it a local disease, and prescribed local remedies, and by constantly failing to cure with local treatment, pronounced it incurable. Science has proven catarrh to be a constitutional disease, and there fore requires constitutional treatment. Hall's C atarrh Cure, munufaetured by F. J. Cheney £ Cos., Toledo, Ohio, is the only constitutional cure on the market. It is taken internally 'u doses from 10 droi>* to a teaspoonful. It acts directly on the blood and the mucous surface of the system. They offer one hundred dollars for any case it fails to cure. Scud for circulars and testimonials. Address F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo O. jy* Sold by Druggists, 75c. A “Daisy." "Yon are a daisy," is used by Dick ens in "David Copporficld” in the sense of calling a person a daisy iu the way to express admiration aud at tbe same time to laugh at oue’s credulity. Steer forth says to young Coppcrtield: “Da vid, my daisy, you are *0 innocent of the world. Let me call yon my. daisy, at it is ao refreshing to find one in these corrupt days ao innocent and unsophis ticated. My dear Copperfield, the daisies of the field are not fresher than you." THE DECISION RENDERED o The following decision rendered last Thursday by the Supreme court of Georgia, involving interests in the Barnesville Manufacturing Company will be read with interest by the read ers of The Gazette: Rogers et al. vs. Burr, administratrix. Before Judge Beck. Pike super erior court. Little. J. — r. Where a number of persons, for the purpose of including others to subscribe for capital stock in a manufacturing company in which all such persons are interested, exe cuted a joint instrument guaranteeing for three years the payment of an an nual dividend of eight per cent, on such stock to subscribers who would take an amount of stock necessary for successful organization, and stipu lating that “if at the expiration of said three years the holder or holders of said stock desire and wish not to carry the same any longer, we hereby agree with thirty days’ notice from •any or all of them, to pay each holder par value (fifty dollars) for each share held by them, their heirs and assigns: and if said amount of par value is not paid promptly we hereby consent that the agreement and guarantee to pay 8 per cent, dividend above set forth, shall continue in force until the same is fully paid up:” Held, that if the makers of such a contract were resi dents of the town in which the nianu facturing establishment was to be located, interested in its growth and development, and jointly interested as subscribers in the turtherance 01 such a common undertaking, this was in law consideration sufficient to support the agreement. 2. A valid subscription to the cap ital stock of a manufacturing com pany (unless otherwise provided in its charter) is not required to be in writ ing. A contract to purchase such shares does not come within the star ute of frauds, the subject of the pur chase being neither the “goods,” “wares” nor “merchandise” contern- plated by the statute. 3. Under the terms of such a con tract the liability of the promissors to purchase and pay a given amount for the shares was conditional, and did not exist in favor of a particular promise, unless within a reasonable time after the expiration of the three years, thirty days’ notice was given by him to the promissors of his elect tion not to longer carry the stock. 4. Notice to one or more promi sors of an election by a promissee to sell his stock was not, in such a case, notice to the other joint promissors, and this is true though one of them as agent for the others had procured stock subscriptions under the con tract. (a) Accordingly, a verdict for the value of the shares of stock having been returned in the present case against all of the promissors, and the evidence failing to show that all of them had the required notice re quired to fix liability, such a verdict was unsupported by the evidence and must be set aside. (b) The guarantee as to the divi dends was by the contract uncondi tional and binding without notice, and this guarantee covered a period of three years even though the agree ment as to purchasing the stock be come inoperative for want of notice. J. S. Boynton, R. 1,. Berner and Kstes & Jones for plaintiff in error. J. F. Redding and S. N. Wood ward, contra. IMITAT^cR^ THE EXCELLENCE OF SYRUP OF FIGS is due not only to the originality and simplicity of the combination, but also to the care and skill with which it is 'manufactured by scientific processes known to tins California Fio Syrup Cos. only, aud we wish to impress upon all the importance of purchasing the true and original remedy. As the genuine Syrup of Figs is manufactured by the California Fio Syrup Cos. only, a knowledge of that fact will assist one in avoiding the worthless imitations manufactured by other par ties. The high standing of the Cai.i fount a Fio Syrup Cos. with the medi cal profession, und tlie satisfaction which the genuine Syrup of Figs has given to millions of families, makes the name of the Company a guaranty of the excellence of its remedy. It is far in advance of all other laxatives, ns it tts on the kidneys, liver and bowels without irritating or weaken ing them, and it does not gripe nor nauseate. In order to get its beneficial effects, please remember the name of the Company CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO. •AN ntUICHM, CaL UtHTUIAIr. NEW TMU, N. v Weak Lungs Hot weather won’t curs weak lungs. You may feel better be cause cut of doors more, but the trouble is still there. Don’t stop taking your Scott's Emulsion because the weather happens to be warm. If you have a weak throat, a slight hacking cough, or some trouble with the bronchial tubes, summer is the best time to get rid of it. If you are losing flesh there is all the more need of attention. Weakness about the chest and thinness should never go to gether. One greatly Increases the danger of the other. Heal the throat, cure the cough, and strengthen the whole system now. Keep taking Scott’s Emulsion all summer. Voi ul by all druzz‘t at } uc and fi.o* THE FRUIT INDUSTRY. © E visited the fruit farm of Messrs. Stafford and How ard a few days ago, in the hope of getting some in teresting dots for your readers, but as neither one of them was there we failed to do so. We were told that one of them was up north and the other at the depot personally attending to the loading and shipping of their fruit. Now this is what I call business: leave no screw unturned to secure success. We must say, however, that we were simply astonished at the magni tude of the fruit growing, and fruit packing industry carried on at this farm. We remember many years ago that the very land on the mountain side upon which this orchard now stands was considered too poor to be cleared up; yet to-day it is converted into a veritable garden. We were told that Messrs. Stafford and Howard expected to ship fifty cars of fruit from this orchard this year. Now when we consider that this is only one, of perhaps a hundred orchards in l’ike county, it gives some idea of the magnitude of the fruit in dustry right here. It reminds us of a trip we took across the Indian Ter ritory to California in search of gold, in 1850. That was a perilous trip, then, as all west of the Missouri river, and as far down the Mississippi as Arkansas was filled with hostile In dians ready to scalp a white man at sight. But we could hear such fabu lous tales of the discovery of gold in California that when we started out there, we never thought of stopping this side of that state; yet to day gold and silver are discovered in abun dance right along in the country over which we traveled then. So it is in considering the fruit in dustry of Georgia to-day. Hereto fore our mind’s eye naturally reverted to south Georgia, as being the best fruit growing country in the south. But tune, energy and enterprise has! proven to us that we have been pas sing over a country right here in mid dle Georgia that cannot be excelled by any other country for growing fruit. We certainly have some as fine orchards here as can be found anywhere. We have believed for a long time, that middle Georgia is as good a country as the world can produce; we can boast of an excellent climate, good pure water, good health; and our educational and religious advan tages cannot be excelled, our soil has a good foundation and can be built upon to produce equal to the best, and we believe that energy and enter prise will be rewarded here, as well or better than in any other country. In fact, we might say in a few words. Surely middle Georgia is God’s favor ed country. All we have to do is to obey the Biblical injunction, “Earn your bread by the sweat of your brow." It takes energy and persever ance now to make a good living any where, and we need not look for a better country. We have proof evident right here in this orchard, that energy and per severance will be rewarded here as well as anywhere else, and it is anoth er evidence that middle Georgia, and especially the growing, thriving city of Barnesville, "never gets left." They have only one hundred acres in fruit now, but expect in the near future to have one thousand acres in different kinds of fruit. Talk about cotton at five cents a pound. Get a move on you boys, and go to raising fruit. But don't all start at once, we might over do the thing. Fruit grows powerful in middle Georgia. We tried to get some data of profit and loss but failed. Little Ben. AFRICANA will rare RheunatiMiß&a t* Scrofula tm SUy Cure*. COLLIER’S... Barnesville’s Greatest Store. . 10 Ditierent Departments. sell everything and we want every body to trade with us, We ca/ ter closely to the wants of our customers, took alter their interest every way. /t TC specials irom Grocery Department, m. m. c:.x:. Mar Tipc Two car loads of first-class Hub Bagging and one car standard “"U 1 tea A rrow t j es . \y e handle nothing but the best and solicit the attention of close buyers. Wfl/mnc We have just closed a deal to handle White Hickory Wagon. It is one VV dguiia of the best on the mar h e t s and we guarantee it in every way for 12 months. Prices are under other wagons. Cash or credit. Flour ave P urc^ largely for fall, and our store will be headquarters for flour. TnhflCCO 2000 pounds bought before the war tax of 12c per pound went into effect. So l uuduu we can saveyou hig money on tobacco. Matvlifliifc in the country can secure dry goods and shoes at Atlanta prices and save f re j g hts b> buying of us. Liberalterms of 30 to6o days given merchants. $ Vnrk Our Mr. Collier leaves for New York City Saturday next, and can be found new lUI at our N. Y. office, 36 Worth st, at any time after 13th inst. until Sept. Ist. Watch us and sec Barnesville’s great store grow greater and greater each season, We appreciate the trade the people have given us, and we promise lower prices still next season, J.C. COLLIER CO., Barnesville’s Big Store, There Were Disappointed. Quite a number of Populist people were here yesterday, having come to hear the Hon. Mr. Hogan candi date ot the People’s party for gover nor. There was a misunderstanding about the appointment, and hence ihere was no speaking. It is proba ble that Mr. Hogan will speak here 1 iter, when it can be properly adver tised. the best remedy for flux. Mr. John Mathias, a well known stock! dealer of Pulaski, Ky., says: “After suf- ( fering for over a week with flux, and my j physician having failed to relieve me, I! was advised to try Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera and Diarrocea Remedy, and have the pleasure of stating that the half of one bottle cured me.” For sale by J. 11. Blacklmrn. MARRIAGE visiting cards engraved at lowest prices; no delay; work done by skilled artists in our own establishment. Send for samples and prices. J. P. Stevens & Bro., Jewelers, 9 W. Alabama street, Atlanta, Ga. FIRE! FIRE!! WATER ! WATER! QUICKEST SETTLEMENT SATISFACTION ! Baresville, Ga„ May 26. '9S. Mr. Edward Elder, Ins. Agt, Barnesville. Ga. Dear Sir: —In acknowledging j receipt of settlement of my loss ' by water damaged from fire ; which occured on May 24th, I desire to thank you for the J prompt and satisfactory settle- j ment —only two days subse quent to fire—and a total pay- J ment of amount of damage > claimed by me. \ W. J. COX. M. D. j TEACHERS WANTED Union Teachers ’ Agercies of America. BEV. h. D. BASS, D. D., MANAGER. Pittsburg, Pa., Toronto, Can.. New Orleans, La.. New York, N. Y„ Washington, D, C San Francisco, Cal., Chicago, 111,, St Louis, Mo, and Denver, Cos There are thousands of positions to be filled during the school term caused gy resignation, death, etc. We had over 8,000 vacancies during the last season. Unqualified facilities for placing teachers in every part of the United and Canada, as over 95 per cent, of those who registered before August scured positions. One fee reglsteres in 9 offices. Address for Applications to Pittsburg, Pa. The Colton Market. Barnesville is going to be a fine cotton market again the coming sea son. Last season many a bale came here that had been going elsewhere and the cotton planters were satisfied with the result of bringing their* cotton to this market. Messrs. J. W. Staffords & Sons, are already preparing for buying cot ton this fall and in their advertise ment this week they present state ments which the cotton planters of Middle Georgia will do well to con sider carefully. It is a fact that Barnesville is going to be one of the finest cotton markets in Georgia the coming season. TO CLEANSE THE SYSTEM Effectually yet gently, when costive or bilious, to permanently overcome habit ual constipation, to awaken the kidneys and liver to a healthy activity, without irritation or weakening them, to dispel headaches, colds, or fevers, use Syrup of Figs, made by the California Fig Syrup Cos, Colored Baptising. Next Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock, at a place down the railroad on the lands Mr. Edgar L. Rodgers, there will be a colored baptizing, to which the people, white and colored, are invited. Rev. A. J. Rucker, the pastor of Gilmore's old church, will administer the ordinance. He has been conducting a revival and there will be about thirty persons to bap tize. Proper Springs for a buggv, surrey, or any side-bar vehicle are the Thomas Coil Springs. As different from as they are better and easier than plate springs. Make an old buggy comfortable —anew one luxurious. The THOMAS stm COIL SPRINGS M||H£i|BWdL are heartily endorsed by every one who has ever tried / k them. At any wheelwright’s, or we’ll supply yon / \ direct. Full information mailed upon request. -Aw* Tkr Blftl* Sprtic Ac Gear Ca., Baffalo, New York. FOR RENT. House on Greenwood street, part ly furnished. For terms, apply to Mrs. Loula K. Rogers, or Mrs- Lock ett, at residence. 3t The City Restaurant wants a few more boarders at $2.50 per week. ' Suggs, the Baker. Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Lambdin re turned yesterday from Indian Spring, where they spent two weeks very pleasantly. Mr. George W. Speigle, of Atlanta, a former citizen of Barnesville, was here this week. He is a jovial, big hearted man, and has numerous friends in the city. Misses Mamie and Jean Mitchell went to Zebulon this week to Zebu lon this week where they will visit their grandfather, Mr. G. W. Milner, and other relatives and friends for a couple oi weeks. It will doubtless be very pleasant visit for them. Mr. George Crowder, who has a position with J. M. High & Cos., of Atlanta, is at home this week on a vacation. He will remain here only a few days, however, and will return to Atlanta the last of this week or the first of next. PICTURES. Cabinet size only $2.50 per dozen in the next three days. Come at once as the time soon expires. Geo. W. Grice.
