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THE iuINRY COUNTY WliiikLY VOL. XVII. FROFESSIOXAL VA l-l>s. ||K. «. i». ( AMrirei.r., DENTT ST, McOoNOI OH ** A . Any one desiring w* rk done can *»c a*, conmiodated iill**'r !•; caHir" on me in pn qon or address**).;.: me tbronirh flic mail?- Perms cash, unless special arrangement \re otherwise trrdu. Geo W. Bryan J W.T. Dhkk.v. RjSSVA> A OM Kl^i ATTORNEYS AT LAW, McDoNOICH, UA. Will practice in the counties composing the Flint Judicial Circuit, the Supreme Court cf Georgia and the United States District Court. »pr27-ly Tt J. KHAWAA, I Li # attorney at law. McDonough, oa. Will practice in all the Courts ol Georgia Special attention given to commercial and Dthereollections. W ili attend all the Courts at Hampton regularly. Office upstairs over This Wkkkly office. A. IIROW'.V ’ ATTORNEY AT LAW, Mi Donodoh, Ga. Will practice in all the counties compos ing the Flint Circuit, the Supreme Court of Georgia and the United States District Court. janl-ly j J A. ATTORNEY AT LAW, Hamuton, Ga, Will practice in all the counties composing the Flint Judicial Circuit, the Supreme Court of Georgia and the District Court of the United States. Special and prompt atten tiougivento Collections, Get 8, 1888 Jno. D. Stkavart. j It.T. Daniel. ST I.WAIST <fc DAHIEL, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Griffin, Ga. | OH A S„ TVE. ATT ORNEY AT LAW, Gate City Natioal Bank Building, Atlanta, Ga, Practices in flic State and Federal Courts, p IVWEEKN, ATTORNEY AT LAW, H mpton, Ga. Will practice in all the State and Feder al courts. Collections a specialty, and prompt attention given to all Business en trusted to me. THE ■: p ■ ; ■ -'ll 1 - gQ23 XI • a.fer----. ir...-v .-i tflClAo! East Tern. Virginia k Ba.' R’Y. IS THE ONLY SHORT AND DIRECT LINE TO THE NORTH, SOUTH, EAST AND WEST, PULLMAN’S FINEST VES TIBULE SLEEPERS B ET W E LX ATLANTA & KNOXVILLE MACON & CHATTANOOGA BRUNSWICK & ATLANTA WITHOUT CHAKCSK. Direct Connections at Chat tanooga with Through TRAINS AND PULLMAN SLEEP ERS TO Memphis and the Wesi f at KnotTllio with l'ullninn Sleepers for WASHINGTON, PHILADELPHIA, ANDNEWYORIL for further information address, B. W. WRENN, CHAS. N. KICHT Gen’l. Pan*. Ag h ., A, G. P. A. KNOXVILLE. ATLANTA (jicoi'gist Midland A: (ilulf R. SC. SOUTH. Leave McDonough 7:00 aTm. Arrive Greenwood 1 .'ll “ “ Louelia 7:’is “ “ Griffin ... 8:05 “ NORTH. Leave Griffin 4:00 p. m. Arrive Louelia 4:40 “ “ Greenwood 4:48 “ “ McDonough 5:05 “ M. E GRAY, Snp’t. irTT T ( If IMf cures scratch on ]\ 1 i Jll Jl horses, marine on do fr s with one or two Fo* sale by D. J. Sanders. a agm HR! m ER. TAFT’S A3TKMALEN3 fto i flmA-p||Bpr) >■ r f,\.i .. i,iv .. will mill mil fc jr.tlj ‘TTS.« rn"r THED*.TAFTtBOS H CO.,BOCHEST£B,H » “ ItCB AN INTERESTING LETTER. Locust Grove, as It Was Seen by a Morning Call Correspondent. Pomona, G a., Sept. 19, 1392— - A lighting from one of my tineertait md erratic flights this week, 1 fount oiyself surveying that ancient neigh no-of ours, which antedates our owl bustling and busy Griffin many years, but which the fates or circumstances, or somebody else appears to have cou spired against. But, like Banquo’s ghost. Locust Grove appears to be hard to down. Situated in the midst of some of the finest farming land in the South, slit was a center of wealth aud culture he tore tiio chinquepin ceased to bloom on the crossing of Hill and Solomon streets. But the railroad, that most prominent factor in civilization, came this way aud Griffin, with that advantage immediate ly outclassed her little rival beyond the Towaliga. Thus matters stood for nearly a half century. Then the East Tennessee in extending her lines to the sea took advantage of that beautiful plateau between the Towaliga and the Octnulgee, aud Locust Grove became a railroad town. Her growth in the last decade has been rapid, but healthy, and now she is one of the biggest little places in all Georgia. Her business is transacted through seven mercantile firms, and a large ter ritory is thus supplied. They all do a large business and some of them have recently been building additional store room. Two drug stores grace her streets, but somehow drug stores never were profitable there. We suppose it is too healthy. Dr. Peek aud Dr. Heflin are also there to administer to the needs of the afflicted, hut beyond setting a broken bone or dressing a wound, their practice appears to be small, and really the only thing at the Grove that don’t appear to pros per are the druggist and the M. D’s. Two handsome churches lend an air of piety to the place, that the rush of business might otherwise trample out. Rev. Mr. Rosser serves the Methodist Episcopal and Rev. B. W. -J. Graham preaches at. the Missionary Baptist. Each of the churches have a strong membership. A first class graded school is anoth er attractive feature. It is presided over by Prof. Arnall, of Tennessee, who, by the way, is one of the most thorough educators in this country. Fall term opened the second Monday in September with a fine attendance. Aii addition is being built that when (ompleted will give a total seating ca pacity' of 225. One of the most interesting features of the place is the oil njll. It is worth coming to see. It was put up four years ago by a company of local mer chants and planters at a cost of $22,. 000. It is fully equipped with the very best machinery. The daily ca-i pacity of the mill is ten tons of seed and the output this season will be 1,200 tons. The warehouses have a storage capacity of 800 ton. We were shown through by that clever and enterprising gentleman who is always largely interested in every pro ! gressive move the place has experienced J —and it was a pleasure to be chap- j eroned by such a man as R. F. Smith. But excuse me for becoming so ve hement. Let us look at this mill a lit tie more. Everything is done by machinery. The seed are carried from the wrrehouse to the gins where it is all re-ginned and about 25 pounds of Hut is secured from each ton of Seed, j The seed then passes to a crusher where it is broken and the hulls are sifted out and carried to the engine room lor fuel. I ° j The broken seed are then passed be tween heavy rollers and are ground fine. They are now ready to be cooked. From the scalding vats they pass on, j still warm to the press. Here, by hy draulic pressure, it is forced to yield up ] every drop of oil, which is piped to 'the oil tanks in an adjoining room, ; from whence it is again piped to the the railroad oil tanks aud shipped to the refineries, from where much pf it goes out and is finally bought by the consumer as pure olive oil. But let’s jgo back and see what becomes of the residue after the oil is pressed out. It I comes from the press in the form of j oil cake, and is as hard as brick. A small boy feeds it to a hopper near by i and it ci mes out below as cotton seed meal and is splendid stock food or a fine fertilizer. Heretofore it has been man ufacturtd into guano, hut we were in formed th it uo guano would he manu factured this season. We were told that the mill had been paying splendid dividends, the smallest annual divi McDONOUGII, GA., FRIDAY. OCTOBER 7, 1802. dend heretofore being 22 per ceut. The mill is under the superintendence of Mr. J. R. Williams, who keeps everything lunning like clockwork. Locust Grove is also rapidly coming to the front as a fruit center, and well she may, for I must say I never saw lands better adapted to fruit growing than those lying around the place. High, rolling in easy grades, good soil, with that red clay so much desired, it is just the place to grow fine fruit. The first vine)ards were set four years ago oy R. F. Smith and W. J. Smith, and the acreage has increased lapidly since then. The first shipments wore made last season and the return for last sea sou aud the current season have been very encouraging. Shipments will he made next year in car lots. With that advantage the growers will reap profits such as they never knew in the palm iest days of King Cotton. The in tnstry was started as a direct result ol the success at Pomona. The acreage will be largely increased tins winter, and Locust Grove bids fair to become a live competitor with Griffiu, Pomona and the other fruit centers. Mr. R. F. Smith proposes to foster this new inds try by Selling a part of his 2,000 acres of land in small lots, on easy terms, to parties who wish to embark in this new aud seductive industsy. His lands, which lie immediately in and around the town, include some of the finest fruit land in Middle Georgia, and with the advantages whcli the soil and location affords, is hound to become very valu able. Lands are very cheap now, but are going up rapidly, and the lucky man will be the one who gets there first.— Chas. T. Smith, in Griffin Morning Call. Battle Blinded. It was in the streets of Fredericks burg, as the army was thrown across to attack Lee in his impregnable position, says the New York Sun. Deep down in the heart of every confederate on ihe lines that day was pity for the men in blue drive forward to the slaughter. Those repeated charges made against that tqrrible stone wall at the base of Marye’s Hill were not incited by brav ery hut horn of reckless desperation and despair. Men saw that there was not the faiutest hope of winning a victory, but they charged and grew in toxicated at sight of the awful slaugh ter. Shell aud grape and canister and bullet screamed aud whistled and sang as never before or after. The lines could not be kept dressed under that tire. Men falling dead or wounded pulled those yet unhurt down with them in their fall. Here and there de tachments huddled together like fright ened sheep; again, lines suddenly broke and the men would not rally, though they turned their faces to the foe and fought on. A shell had exploded on the right of an advancing regiment, killing oue and wounding seven or eight men. Con fusion followed. A captain sprang out with drawn sword and sought to rally the men of his company. He was a grand looking man, tall and knightly, and he had the voice of a lion, even in that awful uproar, with death within arm’s length of 75,000 men. 1 could not help hut notice the rnau. A bullet loosened one end of a shoulder strap, but he never knew it. Another ent the cloth of the upraised right arm, but only one or two men saw the dust of it. “Into line, men—into line !” he kept shouting. “Fall in, Company A|! The old second wants you to lead the tv* way ! His words were heard away back in the supporting column and men who 1 could not see him for the dust and 1 smoke cheered him. I had my eyes on him when something passed my face. It was like a flash of lightning —a streak of flame and smoke. The cap tain’s anus went up and be sank dowu in a heap. I thought lie had been struck and instantly killed. Two of his men extended their hands and he struggled to his feet and said : “Lead me to the rear I am stone I blind.” His eyes were wide opon, but sigt less. Shell or shot had passed so close |to his face that he would never see , again. “My mother in law never under stands a joke,” says a correspondent. “I finish a good story, aud she always looks up and asks, ‘well, what did the ther man sav ?’ As she can’t appre date wit, I was surprised to receive a Ifctter from her a few weeks after my little boy had swallowed a farthing, in which the last words were: ‘Has Er nest got over his financial difficulties A STRANGK MANUSCRIPT. I And not so Very Strange Either When we Conte to Think About It. The following ancient manuscript was found in Burke county by one of our citizens who asks for its publica tion. Its ancientness is proven by its general style, which was in vogue at the time of the first settlement of Geor gia. It may have been buried by the Quakers, who cut the first road through this county, as it is their style of writ ing aud speaking: ■ “Now for a long time there was war between the house of Grover and the house of Beujamin, him of the hat; which war did come down from their fathers. And Benjamin strove against Grover, hut succeeeed only in part be cause the country to the southward did not cleavo unto the house of Gro ver. “Now when Benjamin, him of the hat, saw that he strove ami succeeded not, he called a couneil of Ins wise men, and inquired of them a way by which he might possess the whole laud For aforetime lie did not own the people, but did tax them. “And one of his servants, wise above all his brethreu said, ‘why should my lord be vexed because 'of this thing. Send forth thy servants to steal away the hearts of the people unto some other ruler than the house of Glover or the house of my lord, the king, and then, when they are divided, we will come in aud possess the land for thee.’ And the saying pleased Benjamin much, and he ordered tl&t it he done according as his servant had said. “Now there went forth to do the king’s bidding one of his servants call ed Weaver, who, to deceive the people, made as if he inveighed against the king and was desirous to rule in his stead. And with much fairness of speech he did deceive the people, and they forgot he did aforetime rob their fathers with a great robbery and had sought to kill them and put their chil dren in bondage, and he coveted earnestly that he might sow the land in salt. “Now the chief of his helpers was the wife of a man of the west country where the plains are. And as slio did vex him greviously all the days of his life, he said go ye and tarry thero un til thou art ready to leturn. So she ceased to vex him for a season, and went fortli to vex the people to the southward. And her voice was the voice of a cat fight when the moon shineth not, hut to some of the people it was like unto the sound of music, and many of the foolish men of the land said would that she were my wife, and they knew not the sorrow of him whose wife she was. “Now in the process of time it came to pass that many people of the land of Burke, being deceived, dfd follow hard after these servants of the house of Benjamin and knew not they were en emies. “For if the crops did fail they said behold the house of Grover did it. And if the murrain was among the cattle, or there was hail or dtought or any troub le in the laud, they say it all the more. And they did shoot out the lip and wag the head, and say behold how grevious ly the house of Grover doth vex the people. “Now the wiser people knew that for a long time the house of Grover had suffered loss because of them. He went forth to battle against Benjamin, him of the hat, for their sakes, and they were grieved because of the folly of the land. So they called all the people who were favorable unto him to meet upon a set day in her chief city. Upon that day many of the wise men and honorable men, both rich and : poor, met together and with one voice did set Enoch to be the captain of tho host who warred in that land for the house of Grover. There were already captains over the hosts of Benjamin aud the Weaverites. who did fight to gether against Enoch and his valiant men. “Among the chief of them who did follow after the Weaverite was Omaha and John surnames Tootsey, and the other John, a Ilamite. And they did valiantly for Weaver, him of the flan nel mouth. “As the time drew near when tha kings go forth to battle, Enoch sent men to number the hosts of the house of Grover, and there were found C 79 young men of war trained for battle. Now when the Weaverites saw this they were greatly amazed and aston ished for the space of fourteen days for they saw that the people for the most part did follow Grover, and their hearts grew weak within them. “Then came certain of their rulers and talked to the rulers of the camp of Benjamin, and said come yo and be friendly with us and we will destroy the house of Grover and we will give you much goods And some of the leaders thereof went, hut abode in their own tents. “Now when the VYeaverites had pitched their camp over against that of Enoch aud his hosts, they sent men through all their camp to number their hosts, aud they were found 240 men able to do battle. Then they laid hold of whomsoever they found, even the sons of Ham, who dwelt in the camp of Benjamin, and all the sick and all the maimed of every sort whatsoev er who were not able to go down to battle and said, give us, we pray thee, thy nano and come stand with us ’til thou art numbered so that we may have somewhat to terrify the army of Enoch. And sonic they did buy with a reward, and some did go, being de ceived, and some, being lame, they did bear in their arms, and thus they did until they had about 700 sick and well, hut only a part did hear arms. Then said they all with a great shout, the hosts of Grover are hut as grassoppers before us, for we have a thousand and three score and four men. Now, when the spies, whom Enoch had sent to search out the enemy’s camp, returned with tnese tidings there was much laughter among the hosts of the house of Grover. And tho Wea verites waxed wroth because of this, aud said, is thy servant a dog that he should db those things, and they smote upon the breasts as if to do battle hut they gavo it not. Now it came to pass that when the camp of Weaver aud Benjamin were joined, whensoever a Weaverite went into his tent to slumber that when he awoke behold a Hamite did lie by his side, aud whensoever ho did seek to eat the savory meat that delighteth the nostrils, behold a Hamite had already eaten it. And this was fqr tho space of m any days, until many of the Wea verites had fled their tents, when the Hamites returned unto their own campß enriched by their spoils, which for the most part were broken promises and savory meats which tho Woaverites did cook upon poles.— Waynesboro True Citizen, Wliat Is a Wife? Tne pretty school teacher, for a little diversion, had asked her class for the best original definition of “wife," and the hoy in the corner had promptly responded : “A rib.” She looked at him reproachfully, and nodded to the hoy with dreamy eyes, who seemed anxious to say something. “Man’s guiding star and guardian angel,” he said in in response to the nod. “A helpmeet,” put in a little flaxen haired girl. “(>uo who soothes man in adversity,” sugested a demure little gjrl. “And spends his money when lie’s (lush,” added the incorrigible boy in the coroner. There was a lull, and the pretty, dark-eyed girl said slowly : “A wife is the enemy of spinsters.” “One wiio makes a man hustle,” was the next suggestion. “And keeps him from making a fool of himself,” put in another girl. “Some one for a man to find fault with when things go wrong,” said a sorrowful little maiden. “Stop right there,” said the pretty schoolteacher; “That’s the best defi nition.” Later the sorrowful little maiden si dled up to her and asked : “Aren’t you going to marry that ; handsome man who calls for you near ly every day ?” •‘Yes, dear,” she replied, “but with !us nothing will evei go wrong. He | says so himself.” Griffin Call: The first load of baled j Spalding county hay has been brought |to this city by Cbl. W. B. Griffin, of j Sunny Side, and was sold to ( apt. ; Geor»e R. Niles. It was in every J O manner superior to Western hay aud was sold for a smaller price, as the j handling of it cost so much less- This industry is being pushed by Mr. Grif fin, an.l in a few years we expect to see the Western product run out of this market by Georgia grasses. If you can afford only one, tools and labor for thorough tillage, or an abund ance of fertilizer, choose the former by all means. Tillage is manure, hut j manure is not tillage. Settle for your paper. Highest of all in Leavening Power.—Latest U S. Gov’t Report. Baking Powder ABSOLUTELY PURE THE ARIZONA KICKER. The Editor Announces the Plan of Ills Political Campaign. Our Platform—We do not only be lieve that we are eminently qualified to fill tho position of state senator, but we make no bones of tho fact that wc are humping ourselves to secure tho nomi nation from this district. We have re ceived quite a number of letters in quiring as to our views on certain matters and we hereby append a few of them. 1. We “take sumtliin’,” occasional ly, hut will get right down to spring water and hang to it if the rest of the crowd will. 2' We want to see every working man earning $lO per day and every capitalist doubling his money. 3. We favor any tariff which will please the crowd. 4. Durn tho Chinese ! 5. Wo are pledged to a low rate of taxation and a high price on mules. That’s about all up to date, but we stand ready to answer all further ques tions. We shall go into this campaign on a different lino from anything here tofore adopted. Our opponent will probably be the Hon. Joseph Mini man. We have had his record for the past six months. Wliilo he was yet a youth his mother eloped and his father went to prison. As ho grew lip ho robbed a store, burned a school house, stole a horse and got fifteen years for manslaughter. Ho broke jail to come west, and has had a noose around his neck twice in this territory. He a valuable liar, a magnificent dead beat and a tricky rascal in general. All this, however, we shall carefully sup press during our canvass. Neither on the platform nor in our paper shall we allude to him as anything hut an hon orable gentleman. Wo do not believe in campaign slanders and vituperation. Heretofore it has been the habit of candidates to put on an old red shirt, slouch hat and corduroy trousers and go among the hoys as one of them, and liquor has been free. We shall appear at various meetings in a plug hat, boiled shirt, regular collars and cuffs, and a Prince Albert coat, Now and then we shall have our shoes blacken ed with regular blacking. Wo owe it to our dignity and to the dignity of the office we hope to fill. Some of the opposition will probably take us for a squirt and attempt liberties. All such will only have to spit on our low-cut shoes to find two guns ready for active service. We shall do no treating as a regular thing, no niattor wliat course our opponents pursue. If elected we shall have considerable patronage to digpose of. There won’t he any civil service about it, however. It will be given to those of our parti sans who have yelled the loudest for our election, and we shall make it soon. Any one wanting a bill put through the next legislature should call or write to us as soon as possible. During this campaign we shall not editorially advert to our narrow mind ed, small souled contemporary. He is sworn to do all he can to defeat us with his 4GO circulation, hut as we can always buy up 455 copies of every is sue, and the others are dead-beads in some way. In his last he affirms that we killed our mother and - f! 1 i. m Vermont, l:u Du* <i ird fo’l i t: ‘ us his old v. ’.H r on pay day. Y. t b.i\e he. I. Uji.eii if »e shaH do a..y sliwji'i - ’ nr canvass. We hope 1 1 avoid H, hut t h ■ opposition ' must not presume too far. We are willing that others should he heard, and we propose to bo heaid ourself. There are towns where they don’t like us, but we shall appear and he heard just Llie same. We have heard j of candidates being tossed in a blanket, j but we have no fear of such an occur rence happening to us. We expect to I be guyed about our plug hat, ridiculed J about our boiled shirt, aud probably 1 menaced because of our generally gen j teel appearance and fumble demeanor, but we hope we shan't be obliged to attend any coroner’s inquests, and j therebv interrupt our programme I New York Sun. 5 CENTS A COPY. Our One Callus Iloy. t An important figure in the state to day is that dirty, odd looking combina tion of patches known as the ontfgal lus Georgia boy. Ragged and pale and often hungry, nobody envies the poor little fellow as he trudges along the street, and the great big, solemn patches that stare out from the rear of his pantaloons are rarely, if ever, gazed upon with indif ference. If they fail to provoke a tear from the kind-hearted aud sympa thetic they are sure to excite laughter among the idle and unemployed who are reared, as it were, in the clover of' cir cumstances are and not easily touched by “another’s woe.” Life to them i.s a world of sunshiuo and levity—a vast theater in which they havo eyes aioue for its trifles and its comedy. Hut that same little fellow, viewed in the light of Georgia’s past history—• that very samo boy with the dirty face and one suspender—is a far more im portant individual and is rather to be envied for his future prospects than many of the rich and well-fed boys who laugh at him. He is going to make a name that his countrymen will honor and the poverty through which he is to day passing is only the rude discipline that is molding his character and schooling his intellect for its future attainments. Grim poverty has forced him early, though not prematurely, in to the ac tive strife of the world, and while the other boys of his own age are playing in the nursery or poring ovor ‘-Lock Robin” in front of the open fireplace, lie is fotfted to go out and toil for his daily bread. Hut he works like a man, and he is a man in everything except years. He frequently sighs as ho thinks of the other boys who are go ing to school aud who wear fine clothes but then he says to himself, “just wait a few years and I’ll bo able to read too,” and again ho is cheered by that feeling of independence that comes with the responsibility of working for others. 11 is shoulders broaden under the weight of his heavy burden and bis face, from associating with the pur pose that actuates his manly frame, ac quires that look of dignified maturity that nature often g : ves in advance of her civil privileges. —Constitution. ■ledge Wuxcius’ Political Proverbs. When a nashuual legislator! won’t read a newspaper er two, he ain’t worth shucks, Polliticks is like the peniteushary, a heap site easier gettia’ in than gettin’ out uv. Laborin' men has rights that other laberin' men are bound to respeck. A man that sells his vote newer en joys the proseeds. Practikel politishuns don’t werk fef the love. The prosperous farmer ain’t findinn’ much fault of the old parties. Tiie summer gal may ware galluses, hut she don’t want to vote. l’urty wimmen ain’t goin’ round beg gin men fer sufTridge. Diplomats keep their mouth shet ; that’s why more Congressman ain’t di plomats. The Lord and money makes United States Senaters. Joseph Ruby, of Columbia, Pa., suf fered from birth with scrofula humor, till he was perfectly cured by Hood’s Sarsaparilla. Tom—May i kiss you? Sally—They say kissing tends to the propagation of microbes. Tom —Well, you can kiss me then— Pm not afraid of ’em Generßl Adlai Stevenson believes in his rabbit foot. It was presented by J. E. Uzzle, a leading North Carolina Democrvt, who predicted a majority for the Democrats in that State of 20,- 000. The foot is from a rabbit caught in the Raleigh cemetery eight years ago when the state went Republican by 1,- 400. It is noticed that an ameteur fish erman can tell just as big lies as a pro fessional.