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THE HESS? COUNTY WEEKLY.
VOI.. XIII.
PKOFKSSIOXA 1. C.t ri!>S.
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D ENT I ST.
McDonough, Ga
Any oho Ut-.'irhii; work done cun l»e ac
commodated citl cr l*v callmjj on me in per
son or addressiair nu? the mails.
Terms cash, aniens special arrangements
are ot’ m ole
Gko W. Bry >x I Wii. T. Dickex
«HVA\ A: l>l< kn,
AT LAW,
MeHoNoron, G a .
A'ill practice in the counties composing
he Flint .Indicia! Circuit, the Supreme Court
>i* Georgia and the United States District
Court. api27-lv
» \M. If. 'l'f'BtAltK.
ATTOKNKY AT LAW,
MI'DoXOUOII, G.\.
Will practice in the counties composing
■he Flint Circuit, the Supreme Court O!
(teorgia, and the Unit'd States District
Court. mar Mi-1 v
p .f. RR%<4AiV
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
McDonough, (l a.
Will practice in all the Courts ot Georgia
Special attention given to commercial and
other collections. Will attend all the Courts
it Hampton regularly. Office upstairs over
Schaefer’s warehouse. janl-ly
| S\ W UJ.,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Mi Donoi-1;n, Ga .
Will practice in the counties composing the
Flint Judicial Circuit, and the Supreme ami
District Courts of Georgia. Prompt attention
given to collections. -octo-Ny
W A. !?3£OM A.
# ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Me Do vof oh . Ga.
Will practice in a'l the counties compos
ing the Flint Circuir. the Stiprelne Court of
Georgia and the United States District
Court. janl-ly
jj j i\ pi:aii*M:s
ATT TONEY AT LAW,
Hamuton, Ga.
Will practice in ail the counties composing
the Flint Judicial Gifcuit, tlm Supreme Court
of Georgia and the District Court of the
United States. Special and prompt atten
tion given to Collections, Oct 8, 18S8
Jno. D. Stewart. j U.T. Danikl.
ntuwaut a i>AAii:g„
A I TORNEYS AT LAW,
Guifkin, Ga.
j jD?. K. -3. A9e^Ol.l>.
Hampton. Ga.
I liere-v Under my pcrfeesional service tu i
the people of Hampton and surrounding 1
country. Will attend all cal’s night and
day.
la u cum.
I opened a law office in Atlanta, hul
will continue my practice in Henry county,
attending all Courts regular’v, as heretofore.
Correspondence solicited. Will he in Me- :
Douougli on all public days.
• Uflice Room '2d, Gate City Bank Build- I
ing, Alabama street, Atlanta, Ga.
JOHN L. TYE.
•lanu.irv Ist, 1
McElree’s Wine of Cardui
and THEDFORD'S BLACK-DRAUGHT are
for sale by tlie following merchants in
Henry County:
1). Knott & Co. McDonough.
Hill ite Parser, Lovejoy.
A. V. McVickcr, Babb.
Ferry & Bran nan, Flippen.
Dr. tV. 11. ii. Peek, Locust Grove.;
J. C. Best wick, Peeksville.
,1. W. Hale, Sandy Itidge.
YY. H. Gilbert & Co. Stockbridge.
B. F. Harlow, Tunis'
Notice of Dissolution.
The firm of John J. Smith
& Co , is this day dissolved by
mutual consent ; John J.
Smith assuming the indebted
ness of the firm. The notes
and accounts due the firm are
held by fohnj. Smith.
John J. Smith &Co.
Jan. 24, ’B9. im
McDcnongji laclu Works
AND—
-BRASS FOUNDRY.^
\V r e announce to the public that we are
T » novw ready to do all kinds of Machine
Repairing, such as
Sieuiii Fiiiginrs t'oflion 4m in*.
Separator and .Mill Ma.<‘lifn
cry. I'iliii;; an<l 4*iiamining
Gin Saws s« Specially.
We keep constantly on hand all kinds of
Brass Fittings, Insoirators (of any size).
Iron Piping and Pipe Fittings ; Pipping Cut
and Threaded auv Size and Length, We arc
prepared to repair your machinery cheaper
than you -Cali have it done in Atlanta. AH
work guaranteed to gjve .atisfaetiou.
J J SMITH.
May 24, 1888
4 XVVIi on,s ' n every Tawn
fI i 1 11J 1 r and County to soli our
C4oods. Send 11* One Dollar, and "<• will
fund von samples that sells for three dollars
and start you in business tli.t will pav you
from $lO to per month.
Address
THE RKTIMOND fTJELISHJXG 00.,
RICHMOND, \ A.
ffITTTCI T> A 'PTTT? my found cm fi^v,
«*. 1110 AX lulX j*. Rowf-il & A< WMpaper
A<tverttartm? Bureau MOSpruce St.i. Ws«*re advertising
\>uUucU) uu»y U; luouc 1 sat ib 1A MiW lOK ti»
mix Aon it, ga...
il lo.ugh, a town of l,oo< inhabit nts,
is the county cite of Henry, one of the lar
gest and most populous counties in middle
Georgiy, is situated on the Fast Tctuu, Yu.
JL Ga. K’y., twenty fight mih .*• south oi At
lanta, the cupifol oi the state It : s also
the northern terminus of the Georgia Mid- i
land & Gulf U’v, which has its southern
terminus at Coluiuhus, Ga. v “the Lowell of
the South.” The Central ot Georgia ran*
through the western portion of the county,
thus giving it three first class lines of rail
way.
Farm lands can be bought from $5. to
f 15. |er acre; on which can be grown re
munerative crops of Cotton, Corn, Wheat,
Outs, Rye, Barley, Hive, Millet, Sugar-c ne.
Sorghum, Sweet and Irish Potatoes, Ground
and Field Peas v and the finest Watermelons
(both as to size and flavor) in the
world.
A'i hinds ol fruits <io well i civ. Quite a
fruit industry has sprung up some fourteen
mile; to.thc southwest of McDomiugh. and
is conducted bv an intelligent set of immi
grants from the north, who bought the lands
cheaply, and which have appreciated from
| *lO. to *IOO. per Mere, i he; arc thousands
j of acres just as good in Henry county await
j ing development by industrious imiui
| grants.
There are six rail toad towns in Henrv
count v-McDonough* Hampton, 23 lock bridge,
Locust Grove, Greenwood and Loueila. In
( point or population they rank as given.
The climate is mild and equablo, There
is not a day in the year that out of door
work cannot be dom on account ■ i cold
weather. The Atmosphere is pure ard en
tirely free from in<tia: ,; a. A ease of ellow
fever was never contracted in 150 miles of
this section. The county lies 1.100 feet |
above si a level, and is gently undulating]
in its topography. Wood and water of the j
best quality are abundant. Building mate-!
rial is cheap and plentiful. LTidn-xsed lum-j
her can be bought at *9. per M. and dressed ;
lumber at from *l*d, to *ll. M. and shingles ;
(first cb\ss)at *•>• per M,
Our pi ople are kindly disposed towards!
alt well-meaning new comers. Politically,
our people believe in “a fr* '■ ballot and a i
fair count.” There is a standing reward of*!
*;*()(). for a single instant where a man ]
has not been allowed to vine his politi cal !
conviction—whether he be democratic or
republican. Our motto is. ‘Let be I
bygones; and ’ i all unite in the up building j
oT our goodly heritage. We know no smith
no north.” We de ire to bend our united
energies to bringing our beftUtifi 1 lands to J
that degree of pertection which brawn md
brain have done for less favored sec-
I ions
The manufacturing industries ot this
section have received a wondcrlul impetus in
the last few years. Griif.n, n sprightly
town of 5000 inhabitants only eighteen miles
south of us, has built two splendid cotton
mills in the last three years —costing in the
agaregate *300,000. mi which amount they
declared a dividend of 30 per cent, last year.
To thnse who have monov to invest, wo in
vite theni to comv to McDonough, which is
one ott he host building sites in the south,!
owing to its being in the midst of the cotton
fields, ami on a line of railway where cheap |
coat can he had. it lias been demonstrated .
that capitalistic,ninot make a mistake in in
vestin'! in southern niauai'aciurina. entcr
terprisos. A cotton mill, an oil mill or
guano factory would all pay a haudsomu div
idend if erected and put in operation
here.
To tin; capitalist, the mechanic, the ma
chinist. tim sturdy, thrifty northern and
western farmers we invite you to conic and
examine our section before purchasing in the
bleak, treeless northwest. We will accord
you a hi artv welcome and happy, sunny
homes.
Sample copies of Tm Wkf.kly forward
ed to anv address on receipt of a one cent
stamp.
All parties corresponding with us will
please inclose stamps to insure reply.
Sr ki-.ii A Trn.NKB, Tubs.,
McDonough, Ua.
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&AKIH G
Absol utefy P u re.
This TK)wder never varies. A marvel of
purity, strength anu w holesonu ness. More
economical than the ordinary kinds, and
cannot be sold in competition with the mul
titude of low test, short weight alum or
phosphate powder.'. Sold only in cans.
Royal Bari no Powdkh Co., 10<> Wall street,
New York . nov4 B - 1 v
GRIFFIN FOUNDRY
AND
Machine Works.
nj i* announce to (hr Pub’.i that we are
pie pa red to manufacture Engine Boil
ers : will take orders for a’i kinds of Boil
ers. We are prepared to do nil kinds of
repairing on Engines, Boilers and Maehin- |
erv, genera’ly We keep in stock Brass !
fittings of all kinds; also I In-!
jectori, Safety Valves, -deion (iuages.
Pipe and Pipe Fittings and Iron and Brass
Casting* of every Description.
osisou> wALPorr,
GUANO*'
X
We have plenty of
Guano cn hand. Stan
dard Brands, Low pri
ces, Caii on either
Thos.D. Stewart&. Co-,
J. W. Alexander or S.
M. Oglesby.
McDOXOTGIL GA.. FRIDAY. MARCH, 22. 188!).
TO HOUSTON HE GOES.
TOM WOOLFOLK HI TS A
CITAX OF. or VKXFE.
Anil 111- Will IM- Ti-in-U In May
\i vl for llu- J 1 in-dor of lli.,
B'atli«r*»i i'umil, Two
Vi ai> Ago.
The great murder trial of Tlmunts
O Woolfolk t-atuo to a long uuticipa
ted t-ud to-dav about uoou. so far as the
courts of Bibb county are concerned
The jury lias been discharged.
A change of venue has been grauted
and the trial will be held at Perry,
Houston county, on Tuesday after tlm
first Monday in May.
Thus the case goes to pieces, after
nine days fruitless effort to get the tri
al in shape and complete a jury.
THE Tl'N .n itons.
When the court adjourned yesterday
afternoon ten jurors hud been obtained,
and the sheriff’s deputies were instruc
ted to scour the county for new names
to have at court this mottling at 10
o'clock, the opening hour.
THIRTY SIX EXAMINED.
Thirty-six jur -rs—a'l that the depu
ties had been able to find who lmd not
been previously examined— were pres
ent, and they were duly c died and put
on the defendant.
Captain Rutherford, on the part tf
defendant, challenged the array upon
the yrounds already stated in the other
challenges, and which have been recor
ded from time to time in the reports
published in The Constitution.
Che court overruled the ruoti in- and
ch dlenges, and the examination (tf the
jurors proceeded.
The first name called was that of .1.
15. Willis. lie qualified, was accepted
bv the state an I put on the defendant.
Captain Rutherford made t o point
that one J. 15 Willis had already been
put o i the defendant at, the piesent tri
al and went off for cause. That the
said Willis lived in Rutbland district,
and there wss only oneJ B. Willis iu
the jury box and the J. 15. Willis then
on examination lived in the Godfrey
district. The court sustained the point
snd Mr. Willis went off foi “cau-e.”
NONE QUAI.TFIF.D.
All of the other thirty five jur -rs dis
qualified. There were no other panels,
and there yet remained two jurors to
be selected and sworn.
A change of venue was inevitable*
WHAT THE COCUT SAID.
At this point Judge Custiu spoke
as follows:
1 1 think this investigation, gentlemen
; has gone to the extent the law requires.
, I regret very much on account of the
I expense* to tlie county trfis case should
j have to lie carried to another county,
but 1 thin!, tile examination of the jury !
| box has been thorough. I trust that
i the effect, or rather the result to be
met here in connection with this case,
| may have the effect of impressing upon
the people of this county and especially !
: upuu the members of the legislature!
the impropriety of a very large number !
| of exemptions that have been granted I
\ under our law.
lam satisfied if it hadn’t been for
| the exemptions a jury could have been
! obtained and that the expense could
I have been saved to the people of this
| county.
. One fuatu:e, however, about this, is
j iJuit those gentlemen who have availed j
’ themselves of these exemptions will
I have a very large amount of the extra
tux to nav on account of fit's case hav
| ing to lie transferred.
The court to Captain Ilutheiford:
"Do you see any leascn why this panel
j should not be d scharued?”
Cap am Rutherford: "No, Sir.”
The court: "You can cake your or
| der, Mr. Solicitor, discharging the
[jury.”
Solicitor General Felton : -‘Shall Ii
wait until we agree what county it shall j
be changed to?”
Captain RutliCrfoul: “I think the!
fir-t point ought to ho settled now.’ ,
The court: ‘-I thin L- it would be'
betti r to have it all L eluded in one or-;
der.”
Capt.dn Rutherfotd : “Will your
honor give us until b o’clock ?”
Solicit u general: ‘-1 would prefer
to have a set'lenient’ of that question
now. The section of tin code provides
how it shall be done, and 1 should ratli
ei have it settled now ”
The court: “I hiuk it would be
better to settle that questi 11 now. It
seems to be contemplated it shall all he
done at once.”
TRYING to decide.
Captain Rutherford and the . ollcitor--
general then retired to the judge’s room
to try and decide on some county where
the trial should be held. The only
counties in this circuit, outside of Bibb,
are Houston nd Crawfo*d. The sol
icitor-general would agree to no county
other th in Houston. Captain Ruther
ford favored neither Houston nor Craw
ford, and suggested several counties re
remote from 1HI), and finally named
Twiggs, and as a compromise or last!
resort, named Crawfon, but the sol'ci
tor general -ejected each and all, a d I
dung to Houston They couldn’t 1
at-ree, and accordingly returned to the i
superior court room and -o reported to
the court, and under the law the duty
1 of naming the place thou devolved up
j on Judge Gustin,
KUTUKiU’OKD ONCE AGAIN.
Before Judge Gustin named the
county, Captain Rutherford arose and
{argued why be didn’t wish the case
j heard in Houston or Crawford. He
claimed that they were adjoining coun
! ties, and situated so near the scene of
| the murder, that the pc pie o those
I counties were more liable to have par
j taken of the prejudice and bias enter-
taint'd hv the people of Bibb towards
Wool folk, and for that reason it might
be impossible to obtain unprujudice 1
juror—jurors whose minds vvete not
perfectly impartial. He argue 1 it
wonVI be much bettor to transfer the
rase to Chatham, Richmond or Fulon
counties, where there wore large cities
'and where the probability of obtaining
ati impartial jury was much beter than
in counties near Bibb. In the cottr-e
of bis remarks he stated that it might
bo | ossihle the court was partial to
Houston or had express d an opinion
that the ease would be transferred there
if a jury could not be obtained.
never SAll>so.
Judge (iustiu said ho had never ex
pressed I imself to a man on the subject.
That he would not discuss it with any
lone and bad purposely infused to talk
on the matter.
The solicitor genera! arose and stated
I that he could bear the C' urt out in that
! statement, as previous to the present
trial he lmd addressed the ’the
subject and Judge Gustin firmly infused
I to talk on the matter at all.
Captain llutlierortl—l think 1 got it
from some publication that your honor
would move it to Houston.
Captain Hardeman —I tin tight you
said the newspapers didn’t tell the truth
about it.
Captain Rutherford—No, sir, I did
not say that. lam a great admirer of
the press and sj.and by it- It
right to'speak out what it desires, being
only responsible under the law.
TO HOUSTON IT COES.
The Court—“l don't think 1 have
the right to go into another circuit in
this state and preside, nor do I think 1
have the right to shift the burden ol
tlio trial of this case upon onu of the
other judges of the state.
“My misfortune comes fiom residing
in this circuit, and it devolves, fiom my
standpoint, the duty of trying this case.
S" far as the feeling being affected in
any of the adjoining counties, I can
hardly think it would be true as you
suggested. In the first place a large
i umber di-qualifirtiims in this case
have been on account of men who came
into the court house to listen to the tes
timony, some from curiosity, some no
doubt for tin* distinct purpose, as I have
heard a number avow, of listening to
the testimony qnd expressing*!! opinion
so that they would be-disqu lilied, and
would not be competent jurofs in case
the. case should ever have to be tried a
second time. That will not operate in
other counties than Bibb. So» far as
trans'erring the et|o to larger cities, 1
apprehend there |vou! ’ bt; mpre difficul
ty there, than there would be in the
counties even adjoining haie, who do
I not get the daily newspapers. It is a
well-known fq.ct that the press .of At
lanta anil .Atigusta, and, perhaps, Sa
vannah. to some extent, published daily
the accounts of thist tiial b fore giving
ibe evidence, and so far as any effect is
concern 'd, it was discussed there much
more than iu any o'her county that did
not have ihe daily papers.
‘■You can take your order, Mr. So
licitor, (flanging the venue of this case
to Houston county. This is the more
convenient for witnesses and has the
: largest jury li>t.”
THE ORDER.
’1 he . solicitor-general accordingly 1
drew up the order lot change of venue, |
discharged the jury, etc , which was du- j
ly signed by the judge.
The order also-recited that Woolfolk
should remain in the Bibb county jail j
until further orders from court.
Captain Rutherford suggested that
the prisoner be -carried at once to the !
Houston jail.
The court answered that the' custody
and place of confinement of the prison
er was something with which Captain
Rutherford lmd nothing whatever to do. >
and the court did not care, to hear
from him on the subject.
Sol Woolfolk will remain in his rag ■
at the Bibb county jail until the time of
bis trial, when be will be c ri ied to the
Houston jail at Perry,
, IN MAY NEXT.
Judge Gustin ami minced that the case
would probably be called on Tuesday
after the first Monday in May. Judge
Gustin said he would first have to visit
Houston before he could s; t a certain
fixed date, but the trial will not occur
before May.
now- wooi.toi.it received it.
When the court announced that the
case had fallen through and the trial
would bo tran.-fered to Houston coun
ty, Wi.olfolk received the information
without theqafvei 'of a muscle. His
face retained the seri >u- look it wore
all day. He seemed utter y devoid of
all feeling, but only the eve of Heaven
knew what were the emotions of his
hea:f. ife says the farther from Bibb
the case could be heard the better would
be his chances of acquittal.
JUDGE GUSTIN.
This gentium m is receiving the plau
dits of ti e people for his faithfulness
and per "veram-e in trying to obtain a
jury in Bibb county, lie kas done his
full duty in the premises and nothing
more could be expected of niin. The
people regard him a- an able, upright
an I conscientious judge—Ex.
Z*e IMdn'i.
There v. i re a dozen jnen on the car
who saw Mr. Blank waiting on the
crossing ahead, and one of them remark
j ed :
“Now you see if he doesn’t lead right
■ oil by saying what an open winter this
; is.” .
Blank stepped aboard, e tered and
greeted half a d -zen people, and, while
all er holding their Breaths he said :
‘ 1 : entlemon, what a cool summer we
I had last year !”
A LITTLE OF EVERYTHING.
Dancing is said to be declining in pop-!
ularity in England.
A threshing machine iu England is
worked by eK ctricity.
An apple tree near Frenso, Gal., is
reputed to have borne one ton of fruit
the past season,
The rabbit pest is again making
headway in Australia. The means ta
ken to eradicate it have proved in
sufficient.
According t > a s'ntisticul document
lately published in l’aris, there are in
Europe 300,000 blind people, 30,000 of
who.* are in France.
Robert Winter, a young nnist of-
San Francisco, lost h's eyesight bv look
ing with his naked eye at the eclipse on
New Year's Day.
AdelboroutiphoßCOphorniostikos is
the classic name of a locomotive owned
by the Lackawanna Iron & Coal Com
pany at Scranton. ,
The Custer monument *m Montana
has been so greatly defaced by Indians
shooting at it, that it has been found nec
essary to recut the names on it.
One of the rules in the ltoyaj Libra
ry in Berlin, made with a view to pre
serving quiet and good order, calls for
the exclusion of all members of the gen
tler sex.'
An Albany physician says he has
never known a ease of cancer among
the Hebrews, and thinks their exemp
tion from the disease is duo to absti
nence from poik.
Not to be outdone by women, Balti
more men have instituted a custom of
giving afternoon teas. As members of
both sexes are invited, the teas are very
successful.
l’astour dudug January treated 112
persons with rabies at bis institution in
Paris, of which number only two died
Among the patients was one who lad
been bitten by a mad ox.
An Irishman named Casey died re
cently iu Albuquerque very wealthy.
By bis will he left to Gen. J. A. Wil
liamson, of lowa, nearly $300,000 fora
favor to Casey that was long ago forgot
ten.
Pasteur is a cheerful man and takes
a hopeful view of the future of medical
science. He* thinks it will be pleasant
to live In the twentieth eentury when
all epidemics will be done away with en
tirely.
The Duke of Cambridge, commander
in-chief of the British army, after a
careful inspection of the fortifications
at Gibraltar, declares that they are ut
terly inadequate for defense agunst
modern artillery..
Among the cases of existence with
out food and drink is that of a fast of
sixty-six days just completed by a sheep
on a farm uear Tuscola, 111 The poor
1 animal was imprisoned all that time be
neath a strawstack.
Terra-cotta money jugs for saving up
coin are becoming very common. Many
families keep them handy, and drop in
to them their spare dimes and ltickles
until the jug is full. Then it is broken
and the contents applied to tho pur
chase off sonic article long desired, but
which it was thought could not ba affor
ded
Ben Butler is the champion mascot
of the nineteenib century. By the -i<l
mission of the new states the govern
ment is obliged to purchase 8,000 ua
tional flagH with forty-two stars apiece,
and Ben, as the owner of the I'nited
States Bunting Company, will be 5200,-
000 richer by the transaction.
The recipe for making tho original
eau de cologne was discovered 200
years ago, and siuce that tiit.o it has
been intrusted to only ten persons. The
written copy of the recipe is kept in a
crystal goblet, under tripie locks, in a
room in which the_ essential oils are
mixed.
Aruon * the names of the mistresses
of the White House have been three
•Marthas, two Marys, two Abigails, one
Eliza, one Elizabeth, one Margaret,
one Sarah, one Jane, one
Harriet, one Dorothy, two Julias, one
Letitia, one Emily, one Angelica, one
Louisa, one Lucy, one Frances, and
i now there is a Caroline, though she
calls it “Carrie.”
A jl llOl'iMlllM.
Nothing hinders llie constant agree
ment of people who live together, but
vanity and selfishness. Let the spirit
of humility and benevolence prevail,
and discord and disagreement would be
banished from the household. —Col-
ton.
If you do not rise early you can nev
er make progress in anything. If you
do not set apart your hours of reading,
if you suffer yourself or anyone else to
break in upon them, your days will slip
through your hands unprofitable and
frivolous, and really unenjoyed by your
self.—Lord Chatham.
Industry needs not wish, and he that
lives upon people will die fasting—
Franklin.
There cannot be a greater rudeness
than to interrupt another in the current
of his discourse —Locke.
The drying up a single tear has more
Of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore.
Byron.
The mo-t manifest sign of wisdom is
continued cheerfulness. —Montaigne.
An will always speak of him-
L self, either in praise or in censure ; hut
a modest man ever shuns making him
self the subject o ! his conversation —La
lituvere.
He 'hat 1 >ves to be flattered is wor
th'. ■>’ the fla'teier. —Shakespeare.
Never marrv but for love, hut see
that thou lovest what is lovely—Ovid.
I He that «oaW govern others first should lie
The master ol hiu;9elt.
—M assinger.
THE ARIZONA KICKER.
We take the following extracts from
the last issue of the Arizona Kicker:
‘•Exn. anatouy.— Last week we
announced that we were on tho trail of
J. 15 Davis, the Apache avenue grocer,
and that this week’s issue would con
tain an expose calculated to startle the
community. We hail over a column
of it in type when Mr. Davis called at
l’lie Kicker office and subscribed for
tTie paper and gave us a column ad. for
a year.
“Mr. Davis is not only a genial,
wholesouled gentleman, worthy of u
place in our best society, but an enter
prising, go-ahead citizen who is a aud
it to the whole state - When you want
the best i»ooils at the lowest prices call
on him.”
“Rrkoumino St.ow i.y.—When w»
struck this town the chief of police lay
I drunk on the sidewalk in fiont of the
i postoffice, and the six patrolmen were
1 playing pool or poker. Any ono of the
crowd could be bought for half a dollar.
We have been pegging away for reform
with each issue of The Kicker, and wo
are pleased to note an improvement.
The chiffchasn’t been drunk for the
last fortnight, and yesterday wo coun
ted four patrolmen on their beats at one
time.
“All reforms move slowly, lint pa
tience. and perseverance will accomplish
much. We shall kcp St it. and we
predict that the day will yet come when
we shall have a police fo>eo which will
no' fear a drunken Indian nor sell to a
gambler for less than $2 a sell.”
“Not, This Year. —Considerable
anxiety has been expressed by our
many Mends and well wishers over the
fact that The Kicker did not get the
city printing again this year. In ati
swer t,o all inquiries wo reply that wo
did not. want it. The total income last
year was ninety-six cents, while we
lent over slf> to the Mayor and alder
men and never expect to get a cunt of
it back. We can't stand that kind of
a racket more than one year.”
“Some Other Eve. — Wo have rc
pci veal several communications front
leading citizens asking Tho Kicker to
“go” for Judge of Frobato Smith, who
lias been too befuddled with had whisky
for tho last mouth to attend to business, j
There is no doubt that the judge ought
to be fak'sHftne and aft, but we can’t
do it just now. Wo are, his creditor
for about s2o,and if we opened on hita
he’d tell us to whistle for our loan.
As soon as we get our money back we
promise to make tho fur fly, not only in
the case of the judge himself, but. from
the coat of his brother Bill, who is a'so
daily steeped in liquor and ronderifKj
himself a public nuisance, Have pa
tience gentlemen.”
THE IRON HORSE AS A CIVILIZER.
Julius G’iusiir appreciated the gnat
value of highways, not only for milita
ry purposes, but as agencies of Roman
izing! in other wauls Ga .vi/.ingjtho
world.
The value is as great now as then,
and was well illustrated by a recent
occurrence at the proposed town of
Middleboro, the site of which lies in
the skirts of the Cumberland Mountain
at the northern end of Cumberland
Gap, in the extreme southeasterly coi
ner of Kentucky. With the develop
ment of other portions of the Htate. tho
desperadoes and moonshiners of Ken
tucky have for years been forced far
ther back into the fastnesses of the bro
ken country, until the sections of
whiehJMiddlehorrj is nearly the cen
ter. became infested with a class of
ruffians scarcely equal for ferocity in
any other portion of the south. The
valleys of Clear Greek and Yellow
Creek, which ate affluents of the
Cumbetland and water this section,]
were held is subjection by a class of
men who had come from many sections
for their own safety and the
good of the communities which
they left—men who “used V\ in- 1
chesters for walking canetf,” held hu
man life very lightly, and openly defied
law. Many of these had large rewards
upon their heads, yet they made no
pretense at concealment, and, if sur
prised and arrested, their friends would
have them in the weak jails at Pine
ville and Tazewell in twenty-four
hours. The many respectable people
of tho neighborhood were terrorized,
and it was a bold otlicer that would pen
etrate to the retreats of the outlaws to
make an arrest.
At length, however, there began tho
building of a railroad to penetrate this
region, pass Cumberland Gap by tun
nel and connect Louisville and the
west with the seaboard. This brought
in a new element, men of courage and
respectability, who were not
ed to be intimidated. Tho desperadoes
began a series of annoyances and worse
which has Dated all winter, and has
ranged all.the way from cutting up
saddles to brutally abusing and in 'wo
or three cases, killing colored and
Italian workmen. This culminated in
u fight with Winchesters, which occur-;
reil on Wednesday, resulting in the |
defeat of the ruffians with loss of life j
and in an organized and determined i
movement t o drive them cut of the i
country. The locomotive is a better ;
peace maker tl an the six-shooter and
the free whiskey and free fights of the
Pine, Cumberland, Powell and Clinch
Mountains will he things of the past.
In a Bowery restaurant : Vociferous
waiter—Two pies an’ puddin’—two
coffees! AfrighteJ Teutonic patron —
Pis n for two; poodt in two coffins',
j Mein Gott! I gits me cudt!
EARNING AND SAVING.
With most families the problem of
every day life, is how to provide wh it
are regarded as actual necessities, ami
wiu'u this is accomplished there is little
energy to devote to the work of making
provision for the future, which is hardly
essential.
We often hear the statement that
Vmoiican housewives are not as care
ful and saving as the women of other
CQUUtrie , and that they frequently
waste what would he sufficient to keep
the family in food. Domestic econo
mists sometimes lay great stress upou
this, but they proceed from a wrong 1 a
sis. Tlnro is no difference between the
United States and other countries in tho
desire of people to have all the comfort"
; they can, and to indulge hi such luxu
i r.ies as they can afford. There is great
er variety and abundance in tho daily
fare of the average American than*
the average inhabitant of any other
!■ entry; simply because the former can
afford it, amt the latter must do wii fl
oat much ho would like to have. When
it conies to comparative results for ei
penditure, there are no women in the
I world, who fnake a better showing,
\ generally speaking, of our own country.
I The well kept children and the tidy
! h uses maintained on small incomes
furnish tlm highest proofs of the thrift
and faculty of American housewives.
Hundreds of thousands of these do all
I their own work, and their deft lingers
are otherwise busy in fashioning gar
ment ami household adornments.
It is a striking fact that children al
most as soon as they begin to prattle,
seem to reali/ 1 about what they can get
fiom tlu ir fathers and mothers, and
their demands are in a large measure
regulated accordingly. That tliero ia
waste and loss from this cause through
over indulgence is uadoutedly the fact,
but the fault lies with tho parents.
The children take their cue from
them. ,
There are many families who could
save something, without denying them
selves any real comforts they enjoy,
who fail to do so. A great help to do
this is to be found in thorough concert
between husband and wife. Ti c poli
cy o l n. t getting anything until it can
he paid for is a safe-guard against ex
travagance, and a systematized account
of all expenditures will give that per
feet knowledge of the actual cost of
living without which, on a small income,
plans cannot be laid to the best advan
tage. It will also serve to keep expen
ditures within the hounds of prudence,
and show wherein retrenchment, if nee
os ary, can he effected. There should
he but one purse, and, as is too often
the ease, the man should not throw the
whole domestiburden upon the wo
j man and grumble because, with little
money at her command, she (Inna it
I nece-safy to expend it all. Husband
I and wife should plan together. With
| a complete statement of expenditures
i always at hand with those by the
j husband put down as well as those by
; the wife and family—there would
■never ha occasion for the question,
"What did you do with the money l
gave you yesterday ?” and, in the largo
majority of cases, it would not he thu
woman’s fault if something was not
saved for a “rainy day.”
BILL NYE'S APPREHENSION.
Bill Nye was lecturing in Pennsyl
vania a shott time ago with .lair.es
YVtiitcome Riley. At one of his ap
pointments Mr. Nye, so it is said, felt
very much depressed. It is a peculi
arity of humorists to be melancholy at
times, and he was in this mood at the
tiin . One of the committee went back
of tin scenes to ce him, and the depress
ed hum l ist welcome 1 him as a bit
of unusual good sunshine. They shook
hands—Nye earnestly, tho committee-
man decorously.
“Mr. Nye,” he said gravely, “you
will find this an unusually healthy
city.”
“Ah'” said the humorist.
“Yes, the death rate is only one a
day.”
At this juncture Nye took the co n
iniitepman by the arm and hurriedly
asked :
“Is he dead ?”
“Dead ejaculated the committce
inai. “Who dead?”
■•Why. the man for to-iay,” was tho
j grave reply.
The committeeman stared with all
his might into the immovable face of
the lecturer.
“Isn’t there a clerk or register or
coroner, or something like that, ot
whom yon could find out whether tho
man for to-day has died?”
“Why, yes ; I suppose so,” slowly
replied the committeeman.
“Would you b • so good, then, as to
find out. and before I commence the
lecture, if posable, whether the man is
dead ? If he is dead 1 am all right,
for we arc to leave the city early to
morrow morning; hut if he is not dead
I cannot but feel uneasy about myself,
as T am not well to-uight.”
The kind-hearted committeeman hur
ried away to get the information for
him.
When Nye and Riley were in their
room that night a bellboy told Nye
that a gentleman wished to see him.
, lie went down into the parlor of the
! hotet and there he met tho co remittee*
; man.
‘Tam soiry to disturb you, Mr.
Nye,” lie said, “hut I could not find
the information any earlier. It is all
right. The death rate l spoke of was
, only an aveiage and a man died this
morning.”
lbesident Harrison has decided to
pacify the Pacific slope by sending mil*
j Bonaire Swift to Japan.
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