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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.
