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THE HENRY COUNTY WEEmA VOL. XVII. DIIOFESSIOXAL CA EDS. ||ll. «. I». CAMPBKLI, DENTI ST. McDonough Oa. Any one desiring wnrk done onn lie ac- BOini'.odatcd eiiher by railing on me in per son or addressing me through the mails Terms cash, unless special arrangements are otherwise made. Geo W. Bryan j W.T. Dicken. liltVA\ DICKIE, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, McDonough, el a . Will'practice in the counties composing the Flint Judicial Circuit, the Supreme Court ef Georgia and the United States District Court. apr27-lv |Y J. UKI6A.H, ATTORNEY at law, McDonough, Ga. Will practice in all the Courts of Georgia Special attention given to commercial and othercollections. Will attend all the Courts At Hampton regularly. Office upstairs over The Weekly office. yy A. IIBOWM ’ ATTORNEY AT LAW, McDonough, 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 | A. PBEPLES, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Hamj'TON, Ga, Will practice in all the counties composing the Flint Judicial Circuit, the Supreme-Court of Georgia and the District Court ot the United States. Special and prompt attcu tiongivento Collections, Oct 8, 1888 Jno. D. Stewart. j R.T. Daniel. STKWART A. I»AMI1I-, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Griffin, Ga. JOHN 3.. 'I'VE. ATTORNEY AT LAW, Gate City Natioal Bank Building, * Atlanta, Ga, Practices in the State and Federal Courts. y r. minus, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Hampton, Ga. Will practice in all the Slate and Feder al courts. Collections a specialty, and prompt attention given to all business en trusted to me. THE lllijjßilim East Tenn. Virpa k 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 WITHOUT CHAJHSF. Direct Connections at Chat tanooga with Through trains and Pullman Sleep ers to Memphis and the West, at Knoxville with l*ullmnn KSeepcrti lor WASHINGTON, PHILADELPHIA, AND N E W YORK. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ADDRESS, b.w.wrenn, chas. n.kicht Gen’l. Ag f „ A, G. P. A. KNOXVILLE. ATLANTA Ocorgio IlMiaitd A t»«ill IS, IS. SOUTH. Leave McDonough 7:00 a. m. Arrive Greenwood 7.'27 “ “ Louella 7:25 “ “ Griffin 8:05 “ SOUTH. Leave Griffin 4:00 p. m. Arrive Louella 4:40 “ “ Greenwood 4:48 “ “ McDonough 5:05 “ M. E GRAY, Sup’t. -r rII T / 1 r 1 T) f cures scratch on Jvl Li Li“vT Liil .'1 horses, mange on dogs with one or two applications. For sale*bv D. J. Sanders. » TSB. TAFT’S ASTHtCALSIfB ASTnmA-ni|»e|' •-'<* __ >«i r w C . ~, «U‘i £ “ Ir .™CDCC THIDI.TAFTIsaS.M.CO .BOCHISUR.N.I.r KBC THE YOUNG WIDOW. She is modest, Put not bashful, Free and easy, but not bold ; Like an apple, ripe and mellow, Not too young and not too old ; Half inviting, half repulsing. <t Now advancing, and now shy ; There is mischief in her dimple, There is danger in her eye. She has studied human nature ; She is schooled in all her arts ; §hc has taken her diploma As a mistress of all hearts ; She can tell the ver> moment When to sigh and when to smile ; 0, a maid is sometimes charming, But a widew all the while ! Are you sad ? How very serious Will her handsome face become ! Are you angry 1 She is wretched, Lonely, friendless, fearful, dumb ! Aro you mirthful ? How her laughter, Silver sounding, will ring out ! She can lure and catch and play you As (he angler does the trout. Ye old bachelors of forty Who have grown so bald and wise; Young Americans of twenty, With the love-look in your eyes ; You may practice all the lessons Taught by Cupid since the fall, But I know a little widow Who could win and fool you all. PARSON PLADLEY. BY MANLEY 11. PIKE. It was “meeting time’’ in Iludderfield, Massachusetts Bay Colony, on a Sun day morning in June, 1676. The fifty or sixty log buildings which made up the settlement stood silent as so many tombs among the black stumps of the half cleared fields, for every soul in the place, from the old man of ninety to the youngest child, was in the meetiug house on hill—every soul, that is, ex cept Abner True. Abper True, whose father was a deacon and a tithing man, and counted second only to the minister himself in rigid piety, was actually playing truant from meeting; aud this in a village which looked upon Plymouth aud Weymouth as dangerously worldly towns, relaxed in morals aud manners by overmuch prosperity. But Aimer had worked from sun to sun every day for the last week, and knew he must do the same every day of the next week aud the week aftei that; for the corn was to be hoed, the grass crops got in, aud a score of other tasks to be done. It seemed to him too hard that, on this one day of rest, he should be ob liged to sit upon a backless plank bench all the forenoon, if, indeed, he did uot find himself forced tn sit there longer; since Parson Pladley, who rarely preached less than three hours, sometimes preached four, and once or twice bad been known to exceed five hours. Abner felt sure that the sermon would not be a short one this day, even according to the preacher’s ideas ol brevity ; and the more he thought of it the more he dreaded it, until he became willing to incur any punishment for the sake of escaping that discourse. So when Deacon Amos, with his wife and younger children, were ready for meeting, no Abner could be found. Hidden in the little hay-mow of the rough barn, he saw the family depart— his father marching ahead, equipped with musket, bandoleer and powder horn; for King Philip and his ludians were at war against the whites, and no man throughout the colony went to field or church without his aims. Similar groups, sinrlar accoutred, paced solemnly along toward the rude sanctuary upon the hill, uutil Abner, seeing that all Huddersfield had passed, felt that he was safe—for the present —and lay down upon the soft hay to prepare for the sound nap he had so longed for. Below old Fly, the farm horse, stamped and munched without, the hens crowed in the sunshine, with a drowsy note that should have been favorable enough for slumber. But between his guilty consciousness of what he had done and his dread of wbat Deacon Amos would do, Abner could not man age to go to sleep. lie began to wish himself upon the backless plank bench, even if the ser mon were to last al' day ; yet a tardy arrival wou’d be nearly as great offense as not to come at all; and he had not the courage to meet the public reproof which Parson Pladley might adminis ter, or to hasten the private chastise ment that Deacon Amos would surely inflict. The time went on. The old horse was still now ; the heus uttered only an occasional croak. From the far dis tance the preacher’s voice came down McDonough, ga., Friday. November 4, 1802. ou the warm breeze iu a softened tnur mer. Abner was dozing. What was that ? He heard a sound that awakened him quite, and he sprang up to listen. Nothing but a slight swishiug sound in the tall grass behind the barn — nothing hut that. It was probab’y some fox or polecat on the watch to snatch a chicken. Abner peered out through a crack to see if be could dis cover the animal, for the swishing sound seemed drawing near. In the meeting-house Parsau Plad ley had turned his big hour-glass twice, and uow the sands of the third hour were almost speut. Before him rows of serious men, women aud children in reverent attention, not once removing their earnest eves from the minister. The heavy door was flung open and shut again with a loud bang that startled every member of the congregation. A boy, staggering aud streaming with perspiration, ran up the broad aisle aud fell exhausted at the foot of the pul pit. Every man stretched out bis hand to the musket that stood beside him : but no one arose, no one said a word or littered an exclamation. Whatever the danger was —and they knew well what it might be—this was God’s house, and in it none but God’s servant should raise a voice or venture upon any action unless he permitted. The minister descended from his place, leaned over the panting Abner and caught the few words the boy had strength to whisper: “Savages—full five score—stealing up—to take us un aware !’’ The minister returned to the pulpit.- “Kind’.e your matches, brethren,” said he in a voice of perfect tranquil ity. The ring of flint and steel sounded all oyer the house. “Make ready your guns,” continued the minister, takiug up a heavy musket, and blowing the match, or fuse, by which it was discharged. “Musketeers, to your stations. Ye that have swords or pikes, sit fast.” The congregation obeyed these or ders as calmly as they had been given. Twenty-five men, headed by Deacon True, silently ranged themselves at the loopholes which were pierced in the door aud along the walls. Each knew his position, and took it without delay or hesitation ; while the fifteen men who had no firearms sat stiffly on the benches with the women and children, most of whom had not looked behind them since Abner rushed in. Parson Pladley looked at the hour glass, which still continued to run, and quietly resumed his sermon. Around the sides of the room the musketeers stooped at the loopholes amid the light vapor from their smouldering matches. Ou the benches the body of listeners kept their composed countenances turned upon the preacher. Save his voice, there was no sound but an infre quent metallic rattle, as some musket eer examined his gun or loosened his iron-hilted broadsword in the scabbard. The words of the preacher sang throughout the house: “And even as aforetime the heathen did furiously rage, and did compass the children of the covenant with spear and javelin round about —” A high-pitched, thrilling screech filled the air without, and now rose above the minister’s voice. It was sus tained and prolonged in many pavage throats. There came quick, sharp patterings on the roof and walls, like hailstones. Enoch Brett fell backward from his loophole with an arrow through the brain. Another man arose from his seat, picked up the gun which Brett had dropped, and took the vacant sta tion. A dozen muskets answered the storm of missiles. Their fire seemed to check the advance of the Indians, inasmuch as the war crv grew fainter, and the patteriug of the arrows diminished. Parson P adely had not interrupted his sermon, although his voice had been temporarily drowned by the noise of the assault and defense, except that he cast one glance at the musket beside him, and another at the hour-glass. All the men who could act were at their posts, why should he not continue to the end, while waiting for the des perate struggle which must come ? His sense of duty told him that he ought not to cease his holy office before the appointed time, except under compul sion in which' he must recognize the hand of God. His hearers understood this as well as if he had declared tie determination in so many words. They did their part by listening with steady attention. Again the cries grew louder and ar row flights thicker. The guns replied, but this time the attack was not re pulsed. A ponderous thumping on the door, which shook the whole build ing, told that some kind of battering ram was being employed io break it down, A few more such shocks and the door must fall. Only a pinch or two more of sand remained iu the hour glass. Still it was not quite empty and Parsou Plad ely preached on. Crash ! The door was half off its hinges. The firearm tuen crowded be hind it and delivered a volley that ap peared for a minute to clear the pas sage. There was yet some sand in the hour glass. Che parson’s lips could be seen to move, though his voice was not heard. A renewed yell and the crashing blows once more beat upon the door. No shots answered this time, for the muskets were empty. An arrow whistled across the church and stuck quivering in the front of the pulpit. Around the edges of the shattered door hatchets and clubs were brandished in the faces of the defend ers, who dashed them aside with the butts of their guns. The women be gan to scream. The last sand ran out of the hour glass. Parson Pladley bowed his head and said, “Amen!” And all the con gregation answered together, “Amen !” Up sprang the hitherto motionless listeners—women to the rear, men to the front —and from the pulpit the old minister, with sword and gun, led the way to the aid of the others, who were beginning to give ground before the crowd of hideously-painted figures who were forcing their way through the en trance. Then came out another side of the Puritan character. The fierce energy —almost joy—with which the colonists fought was as surprising as the stony self-control they had shown but a mo ment before. Ahead of them all, Parson Pladley swung his mighty sword with cries which betrayed the old horse-soldier of Cromwell aud Harrison, for such he bad been and of those who followed him, more than one had stood in the ranks of the pike men who met the charges of Prince Rupert’s Cavaliers, and repelled them, too. As if he remembered this the min ister lifted up his strong voice in a stern Psalm which had thundered over the battlefields of Nasehy and Marston Moor—the war song of David the King, rejoicing over his victory : “I have pursued mine enemies and overtaken them; neither did 1 turn again till they were consumed. ‘T have wounded them that were not able to rise; they are fallen under my feet. “For Thou hast girded me with strength unto the battle; Thou hast subdued under me those that rose up against me.” The Indians were like wolves com bating lions. They shrank, wavered and were pressed back to the door, through it, and outside of it. Then, by one last rush, they were broken, scattered and dispersed. They ran in every direction for the shelter of the woods ; many of them fell by the way under the pikes and swords of their pursuers. Huddersfield was saved. Within the meeting-house, now' half ruined, dim with powder-smoke and heaped with broken benches, arrows and dead bodies, the congregation gathered around its minister, who, blackened and bloody, with gown torn to shreds and a great slash across his forehead, once more raised up his voice—this time in the glorious strain of one of their triumphant hymns. All joined in it—even the wounded, who could scarcely lift their heads from the ground, and the dying, who sang their own breaths away in the grateful chorus. When the injured had been cared for, and there was once more time for ordinary matters, Parson Pladley called Abner True to him. “Son Abner, thou didst well so cun uingly to avoid those ruthless savages, and privily warn us be-times. F'or this thou meritest reward.” Abner looked up astonished. “And this shall be thy reward — that for thy willful tarrying away from the sanctuary thou shalt receive no dis cipline —from the church.” “But my father will—” stammered the boy. “Of a surety he will,” placid replied the minister, “and I trust it may do thee good.” “Come with me, Abner,” said Dea con Amos.—Youth’s Companion. A Lesson on tlie Tariff. The following object lesson for Steve Elkins and any other person capable of reading, is furnished by the Chicago Times: Mr. Elkins bought a line fowling piece f"r the eldest boy just before the McKinley hill became a law. Later on, after the passing of the bill, his other sous persuaded him to order for them in New York duplicates of the gun. # The guns arrive ! when the secretary was on a stumping tour. When he re turned the hoys exhibited the guns, with the statement that they were “just like brother’s.” “Yes, boys,” said the secretary, “1 ordered duplicates of the first one. After he had examined the guns one of the boys asked : “Well, papa, where have you been this week, and what have you been doing ?” “I have beau to Martinsburg, Graf ton, Morgantown aud Kingwood, mak ing speeches.” “What did you talk about?” “The tariff.” “Did you tell them that the tariff was not a tax, and the consumer did not pay it?” “Certainly.” “Now, papa, if the tariff is not a tax and the consumer does not pay it, will you please ex| lain to us what this means on the bottom ol the hill that came with the guns ?” Here the lad produced the bill, aud on the bottom of it was written : “Mr. Elkins, we are obliged to charge you $4 more for each of these guns, on accouut of the McKinley bill, making .118.” The boys were still waiting for the secretory’s explanation when last heard from. Judge Wuxem’s Political Proverbs. Mighty few tuen sell their votes to get money to pay their onest (lets. Most Congressmen thinks more how to git re-elected than how to benefit the country. Taint often that a party gits too cor rupt for a pollilishan ez long ez it takas good keer uv him. The ritch pollitician wants to buy aud the pore wants to sell. The man that’s tricky in politics will be tricky anywhere else. It takes editors to make staesmen feel about half as big as they air. Religion gits lost in politics mighty soou. Stump speakers had better talk about tho tariff than to talk about each other. That Mammoth Cheese. That mammoth cheese coming from Canada to the World’s Fair, mentioned in the World two week's ago, has been made. It was manufactured at the Dominion experimental dairy station at Perth, and will certainly rauk as the largest cheese in the world. It weighs over 22,000 pounds, and contains the curd of a day’s milk from 10,000 cows. A gigantic oaken press was erected for J,he purpose of constructing the cheese, and 200 tons of pressure was applied. The cheese has already been pro nounced perfect in texture, flavor and color. The cheese will be placed in the pyramid of Canadian dairy products at the fair, and will afterwards be cut up and sold in pound blocks either in Chi cago or in one of the large cities of Great Britaian.—Chicago World. T tie Saliirilii)’ liliiile Is the greatest newspaper wonder of the age. It is four years old and has a circulation of over a quarter million copies a week. The latest sensations and the most marvelous events are written up in the b 'St style and fully illustrated. Subscriptions received at 52.00 per year, SI.OO for six mouths, or 50 cents for three months. Special inducements to clubs. Send fur free specimen copies. Boys everywhere are making big money selling the Blade on the streets. Wri’e for particulars Address the publisher, W. L). Boyc 110, 115 and 117 Fifth ave., Chicago. Some of the hotels have a bill of fare with the fly leaf covared with, cards of various business houses. An Oregon man recently took a seat behind one of them, when a waiter appeared with “Wbat will yon have, sir?” To the utter coufusion of the waiter he leisurely remarked, “You may fetch me up a set of new teeth, in a gutta pereba, an im proved sewing machine, with [latent lock stitch, a box of Brandredth’s pills, and a pair of No. 7 French calf skin boots.” In a moment the waiter re plied, We do not furnish those articles.” “Then what have you got them on the bill of fare for,” ictortedt he customer. Highest of all in Leavening Power—Latest U S. Gov’t Report. D o v a | Baking Powder ABSOLUTELY PURE It Was Business. About 10 o’clock in the morning, says a writer In the New York Sun, two colored women rode into the town on a mule to do some trading at a store and it wasn’t over half an hour later that 1 ran across the younger on the platform of a cotton warehouse walking hand in hand with a colored man. lie let go of her and followed me down the platform to say : Seed yo’ grinniu’, boss, and I thought I’d ’splaiu dat it was a case of luv at fust sight. I war jist tuk wid dat gal do fust minit I sot eyes on her, an’ I reckon she ll dun promise to many me befo’ noon.” Soon after 12 o’clock I went down to the depot to see about a train, and found the man sitting on a salt barrel, with the other woman, while the first was standing beside the mule under the tree across tho street. The pair on the barrel were hilling and cooing, hut as I outered the depot tho man follow ed to sav: “Reckon you am sorter surprised ober de change, eh ?” “Rather. You were courting the daughter two hours ago.” “Dat’s a fact.” “And you said it was love ut first sight.” “Exactly.” “Well, why did yon diop her for the other?” “Dey am mudder aud darter, sail 1” “Well?” “Wall, I dim found out dat de mud der owns de mewl, sah.” Chlvftlrte Maxims. The sacred hooks of India contain the following maxims : He who despises women despises his mother. Who is cursed by a women is cursed by God. The tears of a worm n call down the fire of heaven on those who make them flow. Evil to him who laughs at women's sufferings; God shall laugh at his prayers. It was at the pra}ers of a women that the Creator pardoned man. Cursed be be who forgets it. Who shall forget the sufferings of bis mother at his birth shall be reborn in the body of an owl during three suc cessive transmigrations. There is no crime more odious than to prosecute a women. When women ate honored the diviu ities are content; but when they are not honored all undertakings fail. The housholds cursed by women to whom they have not rendered the hom age due them find themselves weighted down with rum and destroyed as if they had been struck by some sicret power. It is time to appreciate all things at their true value. To-I>ay Hood’s Sarsaparilla stands at the head in the medicine world, admired in prosperity and envied in merit by thousands of would be competitors. It has a larger sale than any otb r m di cine. Such success could not he won without positive merit. Hoop's Ptt.t.s cure con-nip ; > i by restoring the paristaltic action of the alimentary canal. They are the best family cathatic. Secretary Sheriu, of the democratic national committee, who has hern spending some time in Indiana, his home stale, says that he was surprised to learn while there of the large num ner of prominent republicans who have recently left their party to vote for Cleveland. It is his opinion that the democrats will sweep the state, elect ing president, congressmen and the fu'l state ticket. It is alleged that in New York town, where tln-re are over 800 political “floaters” the purchasables have or ganized a trust and agreed upon S3O as the uniform price to be charged for each vote. Magee will probably be sent to secure “harmony” there. Numerous married women of the land are indorsing' that plank of the Omaha platform which declares that men who will not work shall not eat. — Detroit Free Press. 5 CENTS A COPY. One Glass Too Much. A glass of wine changed the history of France nearly twenty years. Louis Philippe, king of the French, had a sou, the duke of Orleans, au heir to the throne, who always drank only a certain number of glasses of wine, be cause even one more made him tipsy. On a memorable morning he lorgot to count the number of glasses and took one more than usual. When entering his carriage he stumbled, frightening the horses and causing them to run. In attempting to leap from the carriage his head struck the pavement, and he Boon died. That glass of wine over throw the Orleans rule, confiscating their property of £20,000,000, aud sent the whole family into exile. The llilrogv l,<'<l|ter. Is twenty years old aud ban a circula tion of 140,000 copies a week. It is u combined story and family paper, fully up to the times in every particu lar, and handsomely illustrated. There is a Fashion Department, and also a Young People’s department, either of which alone is worth the su scription price of $2.00 per year, SI.OO for six months, or 50 cents for three months. Send for free specimen copies aud in ducements for clubs. Hoys aud girls everywhere aro making money selling the Ledger to regular customeis. Write for particulars. Address the publisher VV. D. Hoyce. 113, 115 and 117 Fifth avenue, Chicago, 111. Paid for Stamps. For the year ending June 30, 1891, the ordinary postal revenue of the United States, exclusive of money order business, was more than $05,000,000. Something like $11,500,000 of this came from letter postage, the majority of which came from the sale of twoceut stamps. It is estimated that the whole number of this stamp used exceeds two billions yearly.—Ex. The Valdosta Telescope, edited by one of the sweetest little wonera in Georgia, hits the truth squarely in the following, ‘-Mrs. Lacso may bo au intellectual, talented women, swaying a multitude of people with her elo quence, but atas ! she is not a womanly women. Indeed we cannot associate her with womankind at all. ' ,r e can not think of her as a wife and a . ither, a woman whose children will rise up aud “call her blessed.’’ Women can not purify politics by going to the bal lot box. The revolution that is desired must begin at home, and women who want to purify and revolutionize the political world must stay at home and teach her sons to be honest and reliable and her daughters to be pure and true.” For the cure of headache, constipa tion, Btomach and liver troubles, and all derangements of the digestive and assimilative organs, Ayer’s Pills are invaluable. Being sugar coated, they are pleasant to take, always reliable, and retain their virtues in any climate The continued lawlessness about the Homestead steel works seems to indi cate that the taxpayers of Pennsylva nia are not done paying out money fo which they are in no way responsible. It may yet be found necessary to re turn the troops to Homestead. The Irishman who explained that a cannon was made by taking a hole and putting brass around it came nearer be ing explicit in bis explanation than McKinley can be in explaining how the United States government succeeds in making foreigners pay our taxes. Illinois, like New York, has sur prised party managers by registering an extraordinarily latge number of vo ters. And in Illinois, as in New Y'ork, it is believed the increased registration augurs well for democracy. Jay Gould’s outlay iu pocket money amounts to about thirty five dollars a mouth, and he rarely has more than ten dollars iu his clothes. Nearly all his purchases are paid for in checks. If the care of the hair were made a part of a lady’s eduction, we should not see so many gray heads, and the use of Hall’s Hair Renewer would be unnec essary.