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About The Henry County weekly. (McDonough, GA.) 18??-1934 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 16, 1892)
THE HENRY COUNTY WEEKLY VOL. XVII. rnoiESsioval cards. «. I*. CIMPIiI'XI., DENTIST. MoDoKorna Ga. Any one desiring work done can !>e ac commodated either by calling on me in per son or addressing me through the mails Terms cash, unless special arrangements *re otherwise made. Geo W. Bet an j \V. T. Dickex. ISKV.VN A ATTORNEYS AT LAW, McDonough, Ga. Will practice in the counties composing the Flint Judicial Circuit, the Supreme Courl of Georgia and the United States District Court. apr27-ly JAW. 11. TURNER, ATTORNEY AT LAW, . McDonough, Ga. Will practice in the counties composing the Flint Circuit, the Supreme Court of Georgia, and the United States District Court. marl ti-ly I A I KIIAGI >, J. ATTORNEY AT LAW. McDonough, Ga. Will practice in all the Courts of Georgia Special attention given to commercial and othercollcctions. Will attend all the Courts *t Hampton regularly. Office upstairs over The Wekklv office. j «• "All., ATTORNEY AT LAW, McDonough, Ga. Will practice in the counties composingthe Flint Judicial Circuit, and the Supreme and District Courts of Georgia, l’rompt attention given to collections. octs-’79 A. HUOH li. * ATTORNEY AT LAW, McDonough, Ga. Will practice in all the counties compos ing the Flint Circuit, the Supreme Court ol Georgia and the United States District Court. janl-ly u A. PEEPIiES, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Ha ion, Ga, Will practice in al! the counties composing the Flint Judicial Circuit, the Supreme Court of Georgia and the District Court of the United States. Special and prompt atten tiongivento Collections, Oct 8, 1888 Jno. D. Stewart. | R.T. Daniel. STEW ART & l»AAIi:i„ ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Griffin, Ga. | Oil'S E. TYE. ATTORNEY AT LAW, Gate City Natic 1 Bank Building, Atlanta, Ga, Practices in the State and Federal Courts. THE-— —.. \ East Tenn. Vininia & Ga. R'Y. IS THE ONLY SHORT AND DIRECT LINE TO THE NORTH, SOUTH, EAST AND WEST. PULLMAN’S FINEST VES TIBULE SLEEPERS BETWEEN ATLANTA & KNOXVILLE MACON & CHATTANOOGA BRUNSWICK & ATLANTA w iTifoi :t (Kti'_ Direct Connections at Chat tanooga with Through trains and Pullman Sleep ers to Memphis and the West, at Knoxville xvitli l*nllmnn Sleepers for WASHINGTON, PHILADELPHIA, AND NEW YORK. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ADDRESS, b.w.wrenn, chas. n.kicht (Ifn'l. Paw. Ai;t., A,G. P. A. KNOXVILLE. ATLANTA Cieorpia ltSs<ll»n<! Ac C*«lf R. 11. SOUTH. Leave McDonough a. m. Arrive Greenwood 7 .'27 “ “ I.ouella 7:'i s “ “ Grillin 8:05 “ SOUTH. Leave Griffin 4:00 p. m. Arrive Louefla 4:40 “ “ Greenwood 4:48 “ “ Mclionongh 5:f15 “ M. F GRAY, Sup’t. JONES ON POLITICS. REV. SAM P. DELIVERS A RED HOT SERMON A CHARACTERISTIC DISCUSSION Listened to by a Multitude Number lug About Six Thousand at His Tabernacle in Cartersville. From the Atlanta Journal.] Sain .Jones “shelled the woods” yes terday morning. lie was at his best, and the manner in which he bandied politicians, cigarette smokers, pistol “toters,” blind tigers, gad-abouts and preachers proved thoroughly interest iug to the immense congregation assem bled in the tabernacle. He never spoke more plainly or di rectly in bis life and that means that he went at them without gloves and scored a clean knock out. The sermon occupied nearly two hours time, and there was not a dull sentence io it. The congregation was kept laughing almost from beginning to eud. The crowd in Cartersville yesterday was without doubt the largest ever en tertained by that hospitable little city. A long train from Atlanta carried near ly one thousand people. The traius from Rome, Kingston and places above Cartersville swelled the number to two thousand. The East and West road brought them as far as Pell City, Ala bama, while from the country round about the people poured iu ali the morning, coming in carriages and wagons. After the sermon in the morning the tabernacle grounds presented an inter esting sight. Hundreds of buggies, wagons, horses and mules were scat tered over the knoll near by. The re freshment stands were doing a thriving business. Here and there on the grass were picnics spread, and everywhere people young and old discussing the red-hot sermon they had just heard. It is estimated that between six and eight thousand people were present, and heard the sermon. The tabernacle was packed, and many who could not get inside, found seats beneath the trees and heard the sermon from the outside. THE TEXT WAS FROM KINGS. The sermon was on “Manhood,” and the text was taken from the second chapter of Kings, first and second verses: “Now, the days of David drew nigh that he should die; and he charged Soiomou, his son, saying: “I go the way of all the earth, be thou strong, therefore, and show thy self a man.” SAM ON POLITICIANS. The most interesting part of the ser mon dealt with politics and politicians. By way of an introduction to the subject he said : IT WAS PRACTICAL. “1 propose to enter into a practical discussion of this question and I’m go iug to “hew to the line let the chips fall where they may.” It’s Sam Jones’ business to hew to the line aud your business to look out for the chips. If you get hit, it is uot because I am mad with you, but because you are on the line, you fool. You little lice, yoo, i’m incapable of entertaining any peak or spite against a little thing like you. I’m going to talk manhood. Then he waded in. He spoke of the towering strength of a good character and said : IIF. STRIKES POLITICS. It’s the same way in the political world. If a man has a good character he is invulnerable, but if there is the slightest stain resting on him he had better look out. He will catch it. Somebody says Sam Jones is getting into politics. As I said in my letter to the Journal yesterday, I’m ju3t as liable to go into the bunco business as to go into politics. No candidate could get Sara Jones to make a speech for him for a million dollars, but I'll tell my children to vote for the candidate who has the strongest character, who is a man. You nomiuate my daddy for sheriff, or my brother for governor, or my uncle for the legislature and if he's a scoundrel I’ll till the people that 1 think he is. I'll never vote for any fellow and then tell my boy to keep out of the coropauy of that damnable scoundrel. 1 don't care about parties. I don’t care whether a candidate is a demijobnicrat or a republican or a third partyite, just so he’s a good honest ; man. You holler hurrah for Democ racy. You blear eyed fool, you wouldn’t know the principles of the democratic party if you saw ’em cora- MCDONOUGH, GA.. FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 10, 1802. iug down the road with a red flag tied to them. lil ts THE THIRD I’ARTVXTES. You third party people have gone up north aud picked out as your candidate for president a mau who said a few years ago that the last one of you ought to be shot. Listen to me. I’ll say something and you can call me a traitor or a fool, or anything you want to, but I think more of the sohri etv of my boy than Ido of any polit ical party in America. If saying that proves me a traitor, put mo down as the biggest traitor since the days of Bene diet Arnold. I’ll never vote for any man, no matter what his politics are, unless I can say to my boys, there is a grand man. The man that will vote for a dirty, damnable scoundrel is no better than the dirty, damnable scoun drel he votes for.” THE WISH EE-WASH EE MAN. When you show me a mau that is stiong in character, a man strong with God and his fellow man, a man sober, truthful and honest—that’s the man I’ll vote for. Show me a wishee-washee mau, aud I’ll show you a man that’s go. no strength of character. I never saw a man of decision who wasn’t a power in the laLd. The church is troubled like political parties with these little fellows who sorter decide that they’re a Baptist then think they are a Methodist and then a Presbyterian They are first like the fellow who de cided he was a democrat and then joined the third party. They jump about from pillar to post until they’ll soon he like the dog in the expicss car that gnawed off his tag —tiny won’t know where they belong. Twenty years ago l decided that 1 would be a Methodist miuister, aud to day I’m the same sallow-faced little fel low I was. (iod took me up aud made me a Methodist. I have preached in some states wheu I expected to he shot iu the pulpit, when I expected to hear the crack of a pistol at any time ; for I’d rather be a dead lion than all the live dogs in Cartersville.” they’ll have a relapse. “If there’s anything I do like its the fellow that’s come to stay. I never changed my politics hut once, I was born and raised a Democrat, but I’m well of the disease. It’s a terrible dis ease, but I’ve recovered. You third party fellows think you’re getting well, but you aiu’t. You are only convales cing, and you’re going to have a re lapse.” THE LITTLE PREACHER. 1 like a man with courage. These little cowardly preachers, these littlo parapatetic fellows who wink at mean ness, say that they want to keep on good terms with their membership. I don’t know but one or two preachers who are doing their duty this year, and siielliug the woods iu the right sort of fashion. There’s Sam Steele, iu Nash ville, and Chatham in Petersburg, and Wadsworth in Augusta, and Dixon in New York, aud Dr. Parkburst, but they’re all. SET THE DOGS ON ’EM, The little brother says he’s leading his flock, but they’re going the other way. “Brother Jones,” he says, ‘ I believe iu moral suasion.” You can’t toll a hog out of a corn field, but set the dogs on him. Yonder lie comes. This little preacher’s trying to toll hogs out of the field. Sam Jones has the dogs on ’em and they’re coming a tilting. “Moral suasion.” He ain’t got any sense. His trouble is over bis eyes. You can’t do anything with him. He’s forgotten how to spank his children. sam’s politics. “You third party fellows are clever enough. You may get to heaven, but you’ll never get to Washington. I’ll tell you my platform and then you can guess my politics. I’m for everything that’s against whisky and against ev erything that’s fur whisky. Now you know me. I’m a concentrated, con solidated, eternal, uucompromisiag, ev er-day-m-the-year, ready-to-be-knock ed-down and-dragged out prohibition ist.’’ he’s for drover. When any party under the sun nom inates a good, upright man I’ll vote for bim. If I knew my vote would elect old Grover Cleveland, he’d be the next president. I believe he’s the best president this country ever had, and that’s what makes me say what I say. You may say, “Brother Jones, you’re making a iegular political stump speech.” I'm like Johu Billings’ mule —when you go to preach my funueral, you’d better stand at my head when you’re at it. “You old democrats don’t see:'u to like what I say. You third party fel- lows hold your noses. I never got the stiuk. old fellow. I’m going to preach the truth, and if you can convince me that it ain’t the truth I’ll take it all back. THE PISTOL “TOTEK.” After touching up blind tigers and cigarette smokers in his usually vigor ous style, he jumped on the pistol “toter.” “I’d rather keep a pole cat in my pocket,” said he, “than a pistol. You miserable little pukes, some time a pistol will go off in your pocket and kill you.” ON DOMESTIC RELATIONS. Sam next fell afoul of domestic affairs in red-hot fashion. “The man who thinks his wife is loosing her charms,” he said, “is up to some devilment. Hear me. You find me a woman who thiuks any other mail is prettiei thau her liusban, and she’s gel ling on the devil’s ground. Love should be blind. If your husband is uglier than a mud fence, you must think lie’s the prettiest thing in tbe world. You men that go uptown at night say you’re going to post your books. Y’ou hound, you, you leave your wife at home with a baby on her knee singing ‘Hiish-a-bnhy limiting Papa gone a hunting,” and you have gone a burning, too, you low down dog you. One fellow’s wife got one of these pedometers, and when he had been posting liiii books she pul led it out of his pocket, where she had put it to catch him, and found that lie had walked seventeen miles. Y’ou get a little pedometer, sister, and you’ll tree him.” Mr. Jones spoke for nearly two hours, and his congretion was kept thoroughly awake. At times his re marks were greeted by bursts of hmg and again by loud “amens.” A lkungcrons I*si|tcr. The Southern Alliance Farmer seems to have degenerated into a medi um through which anarchists publish their destructive teachings. This is deplorable when it is remembered that there are some people Gho. will not lead any other paper. In an article contributed by a Mrs. J. G. Goodwin is this language : “What is an anarchists ? It is one who resists oppression. Washington was an anarchists to King George’s governtment, aud the workingmen who to-day rebel against the government of capital are in the same category.” Reader, it is time for eve-y one to stop and tliiuk. Spies and Parsons in the same category with Washington ! The so-called official organ of the alliance of the State of Georgia pub lishing such an article ! Will not the yoemanry of this State rise up and put their public disapproval upou such pub lications in their reputed organ and the editor who inserts them ? We believe they will, and that right speedily. Harry’s Turn Now. Johuey, aged four and Harry, aged five, had been left at home with their sister, mother having gone out. Wheu bedtime came they wanted to stay up for mother, and it was hard work to get them to bed. Harry main tained a stolid indifference, hut Johnny cried lustily. Their sister listened at the bottom of the stairs, hoping that they would soon be good. At last Johnny stopped, and the lis tener heard him say : “You cry, Harry. I’m tired.” A Point for You. In view of what Hood’s Sarsaparilla has done for others, is it not reasona ble to suppose that it will be of benefit to you ? For Scrofula, Salt Rheum, aud all other diseases of the blood, for Dyspepsia, Indigestion, Sick Headache, Loss of Appetite, That Tired Feeling, Catarrh, Malaria, Rheumatism, Hood’6 Sarsaparilla is an unequalled remedy. Hood’s Pills cure Sick Headache. Harrison’s letter of acceptance has been published. It required a half doz en columns of small type to set it up. It was decidedly lengthy. Benny says the force hill must be had. Ben will never die happy unless he lives to see bayonets around the ballot boxes to secure a “free ballot” and republican returning boards to make a “fair count.” “Have you any bright pupils?” he asked of the pretty schoolmarm. “Can you look me in the eye and ask that question ?” she answered cooly. And he looking into both of her eyes, con fessed that he couldn’t. He comes of a nautical family. His father was the mainstay of the family and his mother was the spanker. TORTURED HY MINERS. Terrible Experience of Q. O. Itloe In tlie Tennesse Mountains. New York, September B.—Gilbert G. Rice, the man whose sufferings at the bauds of a mob of Tennessee min ers did go much in the recent strike to turn sentiment against the strikers, was the center of a group of friends at the Grand Central depot yesterday after noon, says the New York Press, lie arrived early in the morning from BaP timore on his way to Boston to consult specialists as to a peculiar ailment which followed his treatment at the hands of the physicians that lie has so far consulted. liice is a peculiar looking man of large, muscular frame, now wasted by illness, although his carriage is still that of a mountaineer, liis cheek bones are high and prominent, his mus tache is long and drooping and he speaks slowly, with a slight flavor of Tenuesee dialect. Ho is only thirty seven years old, but his hair is white. rice’s storv. To a Press reporter Mr. Rice gave a description of the thrilling scene in which he so natrowly escaped death. “About a month ago,” said he, “when trouble was brewing at the mines. I visited Altamont, Tenn., to purchase land in the vicinity. One day I deter mined upon a pioce of forest betvveen North Carolina and St. Louis railroad aud the Elk river. I climbed the side of the mountain, blazing the trees along the route- There was no path and I depended upon the blaze marks to get hack. On my return I lost my way and wandered about vainly trying to find the blazed path. It was near ly dusk wheu I heard voices ahead of me. I peered through au opeuing and saw a group of miners talking with two men with demijohns. 1 saw that it was a secret meeting of some sort, and, as the men looked desperate. I thought it wise to get away quickly. But 1 step ped on a twig which cracked, and in a moment they were upon mo and I was drigged back to the opening. CHARGED WITH BEING A SPY’. “From their conversation I found that they were a band of strikers, who had come into the forest to negotiate with illicit distillers for a supply of liquor. The two men with demi johns were owners of the still and had brought samples with them. I was at once searched from head to foot. As I had my hunting clothes on I had no papers in my possession. This seemed proof positive to my captors that I was a spy. The miners were strongly un der the influence of the liquor and were for killing me at once, but the moon shiners, who were sober and cool head ed, protested, saying it would only bring down on them the wrath of the government. “Finally the miners took me to the main camp. There I was kept a pris oner several days in hopes that 1 would give some details of the couvict carap with which they supposed that I was acquainted. I frankly admit that I lied about the matter and gave much pretended information in exchange for food. “Hut after the miners had made a charge, based on my misleading infer mation, and were repulsed most severe ly, their anger knew no bounds. Cross examination elicited the fact that I had never visited the convict camp, and the miners determined to make an exam pie of me that would make the other prisoners tremble. TIED TO A FI.YIJHJ FREIGHT CAR. “A meeting was held and the most painful and ignominious death was dis cussed. The meeting was held near an old freight car that had been side track ed on a steep incline, and its presence offered a suggestion that was quickly acted upon. One of the miners had brought a strong lariat of tough cow hide. It was decided to tie me by the neck to one end of the lariat and fas en the other end to the car and then set the car to rolling down the grade. “The decision was quickly carried out. The noose wns drawn around my neck and the brakes was looseud. One of the miners dropped tbe noose from neck to my waist. As the car started ! the lariat straightened out anil I took a step forward, then another and anoth I er, until I found it difficult to keep up. HOOTED ItY MINERS. “The sides of the track were lined with a jeering mob of miners. As the I car passed they cheered wddly. At a l curve in the road I was lost to their .sight. Anoth. r curve loomed up alu-ad, and 1 closed ray eyes in despair. There was a sudden turn as the car flew : around, and at the end of the taut larit I felt myself flyiug thiough space. 1 had gone off on a tangent and tho rope near (he car struck a telegraph pole with a suddenness that made mo dizzy. The rope wound itself rapidly around the pole. There was a sharp report as tho lariat parted and the car went on. As I swung around the pole tho lariat grew shorter, until I was brought flat up to the pole with a force that took away my breath and rendered me in sensible. “Hours later I revived and got free from the lariat, which had torn the flesh about my loius into shreds. Two ribs were broken and I was bruised all over. I found a squatter’s hut and two days later was in Knoxville. I have been very ill eveiy since. My weight has fallen from 205 pounds, thrve weeks ago, to 150 now, and the shock turned my hair white.” A Clean Sweap. It is just possible that the democrats will attain next election what they have not enjoyed since the war—con trol of both house and senate and a democratic president. The house is already overwhelming ly democratic aud there is little reason to anticipate any change there. The outlook for the election of Cleveland is highly satisfactory and there is a good fighting chance for the senate. In the present senate are forty-seven republicans, thirty nine democrats and two farmers’ alliance members. The terms of twenty nine will expire March 3, 1803. Twelve of tho senators whose terms expire in 1893 are democrats, as fol lows : Gray, of Delaware ; Pasco, of Florida ; Turpie, of lndiada ; Gorman, of Maryland; George, of Mississippi ; Cockrell, of Missouri; Blodgett, of. New Jersey ; Bate, of Teunessee; Mills, of Texas ; Daniel, of Virginia, aud Faultier, of West Virginia. Seveeteeu are republicans : Felton> of Carolina ; Hawley of/Jonuecticut; Hale, of Maine ; Dawes, of Massachu setts; Stockbridge, of Michigan; Davis, of Miuesota ; Sanders, of Mon tana ; Paddock, of Nebraska ; Stewart, of Nevada ; Hiscock, of New Y’ork ; Casey, of North Dakota; Quay , of Pennsylvania; Aldrich, of Rhode Is land; Proct or, of Vermont; Allen, of Wasliinlon ; Sawyer, of Wisconsin ; and Warren, of Wyoming. There is no reason to doubt that the twelve democratic vacancies will be filled by democrats aud in several of the states where republican vacancies occur there is a good fighting chance for democracy. Five of these republi can vacancies must be filled by demo crats to secure control of tho senate, and in New Y’ork, Connecticut, Mon tana, Wisconsin and Michigan there is a very hopeful promise of victory. With Cleveland in the presidential chair and the entire congress demo cratic then democrats will have a chance to legislate and third jiartyites will lie justified in camplaiuing if there is no improvement. Georgians who are thinking of voting for Weaver or anybody else but Cleveland, should reconsider and lend their aid towards democratic victory this time. Then if the democrats, with the entire govern ment in their charge, do not do some thing to relieve the agricultural classes it will be full time for the farmers to turn against ths democratic party. In the meantime let us all pull to getlu-r one more time and see if we can not put democrats in charge of the government. —Augusta Chronicle. You cannot be too particular about the medicines you use. When you need a blood purifier, be sure to get Ayer’s Sarsaparilla, and no other, ft will mingle with, purify, and vitalize every drop of blood in your body. It makes the weak strong. The Australian system of voting in Vermont resulted in cutting down the llepiihliciti a “use tl” m.ij >ri*y. i hev ini vui '.i 'o rep -it tin l i'.v. T .<■ hoi lowncs of tn It , ib'iicii. .-i talk i:i):>ut “u Ire ballot’' t» vtrv anp.tren*. It's only when a bthy is very home ly that its mother can see a resem blance between it and her husband’s folks. After a g-1 has been married five years and becomes a little faded tbe bit terest drop in tier cup is to meet the prettvgirl her husband might have hail and wtio has had nothing to fade In r. One half and over of Mexico’s piec ious metals and about three fou'ths of her other products come to the I’u'ted States. I’hiladeiphin claims to lie the birth place of icecream. 5 CENTS A COPY" A REPUBLICAN TICKET Will probably Be pnt Out in Soutli Carolina. Charleston, S. < ■,, Septemlmr B—lt is learned from reliable resources hero that a call will be issued in a few days for the assembling of astute republican convention at Columbia on S •ptember 29th. It is also learned that a serious effort will be made there to nominate i state ticket, audit is said the party has pretty well settled upon Thomas Is. Johnson, the collector of'this port, as an ayai’nble candidate for governor. Those who are engineering the John son boom say there aro Go,ooo negro voters registered and that if these can be brought to the polls they will elect Johnson—owing to the lack of inter est which usually prevails among the whites at a general election. They say Johnson has popularity with all classes and is weathy and willing to spend his money. Dcudly Work of a Itattlesuake. A most pathetic and horrifying story has just reached Athens from Madison county and is vouched for by the best authority. The story gives the harrowing details of the death of the entire famly of four children of a Madison county family within forty minutes, there of whom died Irotn the bite of a rattlesnake and the other was drowned while the mother was attending the snake bitten ones. The details of the story as told by two of the most prominent citizens of Mad ison county are as follow : The name of the parents of the cbd. dren is Wilson, living in Madison county about twelve miles from Athens. It seems that a few days since Mr. Wilson bad left bis borne for the pur pose of going to a mill some distance away, and Mrs. Wilson lmd some work to do. She bad left the bouse but a short while when screams attracted her atten tion, and hastening there Bhe found two of her children dead and the third ono ejuite sick. The little fellow, however, was able to talk, and said that they had pokid their lingers through a crack in the floor and a hen under the house had bitten them all. Mrs. Wilson then burred hack to the spring and there foud her little baby had crawled into the spring and was drown ed. The mother gathered the baby in her arms and returned to the house and found the little boy also dead. Of course the strain was to great for human endurance and the mother fainted away In a few minuets Mr. Wilson return ed from the mill and the sight that met his gaze is beyound description—four children dead, and his wife on tho floor in an unconscious couditiou. As soon as possible he secured the assittance of neighbors and restoratives were applied and Mrs. Wilson regained consciousness. As soon as she could speak she repeated what the little lioy had said. A search was made and a huge rattlesnake was found under the house and killed. Jedgc Waxem’s Political Proverbs. The longest purse knox the persim mons. Organized labor don’t fatten on gov ernment jobs. A congressman begins to get bigger as soon as he heads for home. A diplomit don’t tell.ail he knows and a congressman tells more'n lie knows. Klecksliun to office don’t make a bad man good. The A msrican Eagle never goes on a strike. Thar ain’t hut one stars and stripes. A man who will steal a vote will steal a boss if he gits a chances. Ail the fools aiu’t in congress. Wimmen has a wider field than pol sticks. No person should travel without a box of Ayer’s Pills, As a safe and speedy remedy for constipation and all irregularities of the stomach and bow els, they have no equal, and being skilfully sugar coated, are pleasant to take, and long retain their virtues. A South Dakota girl lost a bet of 1,000 kisses on Illaine’s failure of the nomination. After conscientiously pay ing the same, a recount was demanded, which she paid without a demur. The Republicans of Spalding county have endorsod Governor Northen and Judge John I. Hall for the Legislature from that county. The State of Arkausas has done her duty. The Democrats carried the Sate in an election for governor last week.
