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THE HENRY COUNTY WEEKLY VOL. XVIII. JL'Ji iJJb'ESS lON A L CAIiltS. xs. kkyan, Ai'IOUNEY AT LAW. ifcl'oNUUUn, <<A. Wit! prsct;<-<- in Hie counties conij . Hie Flint .Indicia! Circuit, the S.i-- Court of Ueorgia, and the United District Court \V?JI, T. BSM'I*. UN, ATTOiNEY AT LAW, McDoxot on, .; A . Will practice in t'r.e counties composing he Flint Judicial Cin iiit.tiie Supreme Court or Georgia and the United States District Court. aprdJ-l v y -S. Ew3d at* AA, attorney at law. MoDonoi oh, Ga. Will practice in all ihe. Courts ol Georgia Special attention given to commercial and other collections. W ill attend all ttie Courts it Hampton regularly. Other upstairs over ■fim \Vkkki.y otlice. a. :uio:v \. * ATTORNEY AT LAW, McDonough , Ga. Wilt practice in all tlie counties compos ing the Flint Circuit, the Supreme Court oi Georgia and the United States District Court. jaul-ly L. 'll Bd. ATTORNEY AT LAW, Gate City Nation! Bank Building Atlanta, Ga, Practices in ihe State 4ml Federal Courts* 7J A. ATTORNEY AT LAW, Hami-tox, 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 tion given to Collections, Oct 8, 1888 Jno. D. Stewart. | K.T. Daniel. STEW ASST & I»ANIKX„ ATTORN EYS AT LAW, Gki+i in, Ga. j|*«. s 3, utyiPBElJ, DENTIST, McDoxoi'an Ga. Any one desiring work done can he ac commodated either l>y calling on roe in per son or addri me through the mails. I’erms cash, unices special arrangements ire otherwise made. — Easl Tom. Vinii & Ga. R’Y. IS THE ONLY - SHORT AMD DIRECT LINE TO THE NORTH, SOUTH, EAST AND WEST. 1 PULLMAM’S FINEST VES TIBULE SLEEPERS BETW EEN ATLANTA & KNOXVILLE MACON & CHATTANOOGA BRUNSWICK & ATLANTA WITHOI "S' CM A E. Direct Connections at Chat tanooga Through TRAINS AND PULLMAN SLEEP ERS TO Memphis and the West,: ‘ ai liooxTille Tvitli I’nlJninr. SSecpfi’S for WASHINGTON, PHILADELPHIA, AND N EW Y OHS. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ADDRESS, I B.VV. WRENN, CHAS. N.KICHT Gen'l. As ~ A. !*. A. KNOXVIIL3. ATLANTA ; <»eor|l£:* nd A (sull'ES. IS. SOUTH. Leave McDonough 7:00 a. m. Arrive Greenwood 7.27 “ “ Louell* 7:25 “ “ Griffin 8:05 “ NORTH. Leave Griffin 4:00 p. m Arrive Louella 4:40 “ “ Greenwood 4:48 “ «« McDonough 5:05 “ M. E.GRAT, Sup’t. 1r ¥ T T / 1 «T> 1 I cures sc-atch on IVljiij'vi i-.il hors-.s, mange on dogs with one or two applications. For sale by D. J. Sanders. -rr T T T /•ftl> 'I O guaranteed to Ivl i?L cureitch in thirty minutes. For sale bv D. J. Sanders. » rTUra !» J». T.’.TM ABTTHAWKI AS I hi' : ' •d,tress. W*«i!l rr.iC » MV a. a.- nuffßSS IHEH.TAfTIBS*.K. CO.K-iii.tilUt.l.T.* Kbß IT PS .1 A’ D HAPPENINGS. All Fool's Div to morrow. Look tor >r "hi superannuated joker. I 1 • i 11. tuns' probably, bo brought • . i-.i ami ini rtirougb all the paces i occasion. Well, “no fool no tun., imi we are bound to have plenty of it. * * * .Mr. John I*. Copeland’s handsome | cottage, on Macon street, has been ; greatly enhanced in appearance the past week by the artistic application oi [taint brush under the supervision ol contractor C. J. Tidwell. It has been painted a light gray with trimmings of red, and looks nearly as pleasing to the eye as a dimpled maiden clothed in her Easter gown, with dying stream ers. *** Wc learn that Mayor Oglesby is an applicant for appointment to an Indian agency under Secretary Hoke Smith, and if strong receommenlatious and sterling worth goes for anything his name will he found on the winuiug side. lie has received strong assurances of support from a number of prorni tient politicians who are thoroughly in touch with the “powers that be.’’ We join iiis numerous friends when they wish him unbounded success in any of his aspirations. # * * Three weeks from Monday until the April term of Henry Superior Court. Sheriff Glass is already busily engaged summoning jurors and witnesses. There will be a full docket of both civil and criminal cases for trial. * * * The pay car of the East Tennessee road passed down the line last Friday, dispensing monies to its numerous employes. It is always hailed with deiight by the railroad boys at this place. * # # From now on the people at this place will receive a Sunday morning mail, which it is needles to add will be appreciated by many. Mrs. Sutton received the following notice to that effect from Sup’t Tirrell : Postmaster— McDonough, Ga., — Sirs : —Agreeable to your request of the 22nd. clerk on train No. 17 will exchange at your office ou Sunday morning. liespct., L. M. Tekkell, Sup’t. *** Some of our farmers repot t their seed sugar caue as badly damaged by the severe weather experienced the past winter. It is feared there will not he as full a crop ma le this year as usual from that cause. * * * A professional tight rope walker stopped over in McDonough one day last week for the purpose of giving an open air exhibition. Before making the exhibition, however, he canvassed the business houses of the town for the purpose of increasing his fiuauces, and, in consequence—well, he hasn’t given the exhibition up to date. At the de pot he was heard to remark, “D d hard town for the professional class ” * # * The season of the year is rapidly approaching when the sonorus tones of the hull frog and sub fresh college ora tor will be heard in the laud. * * * It the weather clerk fails to send us i beautiful w'eather next Sunday there will doubtless be much “weeping and wailing and guashiug of teeth” among j the fair sex. They are on the tip-toe of anticipation as to how they will ap pear iu their new Easter bonnets and gowns. Now, Mr. Weather Clerk, no foolishness; we must have bright, springtime weather. * * * Last Friday mornitig our town was visited by one of the heaviest showers of the season ; in the language of that wonderful old man, llev. Allen Tur ner, “it was a trash-mover and a eliick eu-drewner.” It was also accompa nied by heavy electrical manifestations. * * * The many friends of Hon. James E. Brown in this section, were pleased to learn of his having received the ap pointment as postmaster at Newnau. It could not have been awarded a more deserving Democrat. * * * We learn that two of McDonough’s vouug society gents had themselves photographed a la Sullivan aud Cor j bett recently, adopting the same style I of dress, etc , as worn by the two great sluggers on the occasion of their won derful fistic display in New Orleans. We don’t think these young gentle men’s aspiration for the fleeting froth .McDonough, ga.. frEDay. march »i. lsdil of goary glory will ever result in their enteiing the ptize ring, however. * # # Some things ThkWekkly would like to see iu McDonough : First of all, a large cotton factory. Next, a well organized and equipped hank. And then a canning factory. Also a soap factory. Some decided step taken toward holding a county fair this fall. A new Methodist church erected. All her merchants advertising. All her people trading with home merchants. And everybody “pulling together” for mutal advancement of all public interests and enterprises. * * * An exchange says that recently an old au hardened criminal was asked what was the first step that led him to bis ruin, to which he promptly answer ed : “The first step was that of cheat ing an editor out of a year’s subscrip tion to his paper. When I had done that, the devil had such a grip on me 1 couldn’t shake him off.” Pay tip your subscription and keep out of the hands of the devil. The following paragraph contains 57 words, 112 e>, and no other vowel: “We feel extreme feebleness when we seek perfect excellence here. We well remember men every where err. Even when Eden’s evergreen trggs sheltered Eve the serpent crept there. Yet, when tempted, when cheerlessness de pressed when helplessness fetters, when we seemed deserted—.hen we remem her Bethlehem; we beseech the Re deemer’s help. We ever need tire rest the blessed expect.” # ' # * This bit of consolation comes from the Columbus Ledger : “So the editors get no jobs under the new administra tion. Well, the editors don’t want any. Blackberries will soon be ripe anyhow.” * * * It has been remarked as a noticeable fact that thatjlie majority of the boys of tins day have no high ambition like those of other days ; each one depends on the other to make the great men. They only aspire to a professional base ball player or something of the kind. Our boys should be taught that they will have to run this grand old union sometime, and that there is a place for every one that tries. * # * A beautiful girl stood alone in the room. She held a bunch of Easter lilies in her hand. But the lillies were no whiter or sweeter than she was. She looked into the pure flowering cup and sighed, and that is a sign of great hap piness. She pinned the blossoms in her gown and thought of a question asked and an answer given the evening before. Then she smiled and blushed again. She went out. A little way down the street a young man stood ou the steps of a church. He seemed to he waiting for some one. When the beautiful girl came near, he hurried eagerly to meet her, and when he saw the lillies his face grew radiant. He spoke to her, aud she smiled. Their eyes met, and together they walked in to church. »** An enjoyable sociable was partici pated in by a number of McDonough’s social favorites, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. Q. Nolan last Friday eve uiug. The affair was given iu honor of Miss Emmie Stafford, one of Grant ; ville’s loveliest and most accomplished young ladies. While in the city Miss | Stafford was the guest of Mrs. J. Q. Nolan. * * * The picnic season is on its way from the tropics, aud iu a few more weeks will reach our woods aud streams and meadows. * * * Uncle Billy Miller informs us that one of his neighbors recently caught with a home made box trap, and killed 175 rats in less than one week’s time, and—we were about to forget—none of the rats were under a year old. What do you thiuk of that, “Col. Re’gan?’’ *** Regular monthly session of Ordi nary's court next Monday. * * * We learn that one of our largest cotton growers has disposed of bis en tire crop this season at Bcts., the cot ton to be delivered next October. #** Legal sale day next Tuesday, but as : very little property has been adver tised to he sold, and the farmers also being busily engaged, there will doubt less be but a slight attendance. Tin- Gem ge All place, ir*the fatuous Sixth, is to he sold by the Sheriff, and the bidding will doubtless be lively, how ever. .< *%’ Public roads are in passable condi tiou once more. * * * Mrs. A. C. Nolan, of McDonough, one of Georgia’s mOst noble matrons, the grace of whose life of piety and benevolence is the pride of her home people, is one of the most welcome vis itors to the city.—Atlanta Constitution, 24th iust. Cost of Canning Factories. Many who are interested in the fruit and vegetable canning industry natu rally desire to kuow how much it would cost to start a caupiug factory on a moderate scale. The Manufacturers’ Record goes ful ly into the details. It says that a plum haviug a daily capacity of 2000 cans of three pounds each will not cost for its entire equipment more than SIOO, exclusive of the building and the brick used for the chimneys, and to set the kettles. The equipment for a 4000 canning can be bad for §2OO, not in eluding brick oi building. Three bun dred dollars will buy the equipment for a factory turning out daily 10,000 cans of three pounds afcch. Tho aver age labor cost in a -fOO can factory is about $25 per day. These points will an able any one to figure out the cost of- such a plant as may be desired to establish. Any old warehouse or out '■building can he util ized. It is easy enough to secure the building. The brick needed and the pqtirpmflnt cost only a few hundred dollars for a lage factory. So much for. the general features of the enter prise. Can’t McDonough at leaßt establish a canning factory ? A Good Oue on llawkins. Editor Si Hawkins, .of tho Cutting ton Enterprise, tells a,good one on himself : “We were out bird bunting Satur day: the wind way iy<s*vi’.ig eo har-d and the snow was falling so last. In au effort to cross Dried Indian creek on a log our feet slipped aud we fell in the water. Being cold and wet wo noticed smoke issuing from a pile of brush in Luther Cook's new ground and headed for it. We pulled off our shoes, hung our socks, coat ami vest, ou a log to dry, and theu began to prom enade around the fire to melt tho water out of our pants and warm our half frozen body. In this condition an old colored man, who lives on the place, came upon us. “ ‘Looks kinder like you’ve been spiinkled by the mercion plan, an’ hvng yerself ’round loose in dis lieali posted new ground fer to thaw,’ said the old man as he pulled his own coat up around his ears. “‘I fell in the creek, am wet, cold, tired, hungry, sleepy, sick aud broken down, and if I live to get homo will stay there until linen duster time,’ said we, with our back to the old man, being determined that he should not see oui face or find out our name. “ ‘Boss, I’se a new nigger in dis des trict, doau know who you is, or whar you lives at, or whar you gwiue, hut it ’pears to me a man w’at nusses a gun an’ a piuter dorg such a mornin’ as dis, ain’t got no one to blame for Juie down fall, ’ceptin’ hissef. Marse Jack Mead ors was er tellin’ ov me last year dat dar wa’n’t but one man iu de world dat was wild enough to hunt birds iu a storm an’ his name was Enterprise Hawkins. Mought dat be your trim min’, boss ?’ “The old man stepped out into, the field and laughed until he almost cried. We hurriedly gathered our things to gether, placed them under our arms aud went down to a pine thicket to dress and to weep.” Giiaranlml <’ui-e. Wc authorize our advertised druggist to sell Dr. King’s New Discovery lor Con sumption, coughs and colds, upon this con dition. If you are afllicted with a cough, cold or any lung, throat or chest trouble, and will use this remedy as directed, giving it a fair trial, and experience no bene! t, you may return the bottle and hive your money refunded. Wc could not mak - this offer did we not know that Dr. King’s New Discovery could be relied on. It never disappoints. Trial bottle free at any drug store. Large size 50c and SI.OO. And now it is claimed that sugar can be obtaiued from cotton seed, aud that jit is really “sweeter than sugar” from the sugar cane. “First thiog you know ; cotton seed are going to be worth five dollars a bushel’” says the Cutliber* Liberal. In Memory of Ills Mother. The following beautiful and touch ing lines were indited by Mo ntgomery M. Folsom, to Urn memury of his dead mother : W i‘!i Time’s first touch of vernal, Thy ransomed you! took wing; To smi-briglit clime eternal, Ami everlasting spring! Wliv should 1 slid be weeping. Ami mourning thee as dead; When angels watch are keeping Around thy painless bed 1 For me, the sad awaking, The sorrow; sodden brow; No more thy still heart aching, As mine is aching now! No more mvaimour flashes, . All stained with sinful rust; Thine? Ashes unto ashes, A ml dust unto dust! But while in this drear region Slil gropes my wen i d soul, Thine, through divine religion, Hath gained its glorious goal. A sinner unforgiven, Hopeless, homesick I roam; Thoo in God’s restful heaven, Forevermore at home! A Good Old Woman. The sparks from our anvil and forge were emitted in giving tho readers of I'iit. Wm.ki.y a brief statement of the two young ladies of whom wo have made mention. One of thorn has been married several years, yet she is still compaiatively a young woman. We propose in this communication to speak of an elderly lady, one whom wo have known for three score years. Just at this time this good old mother is very deeply afflicted, and her friends, who are numbered by the scores of hundreds, will deeply regret to hear of her serious and painful illness. If sincere wishes and earnest prayers will avail anything in her behalf, she will soon he restored to her wonted health and strength. The hand of no woniau in all this hroat^land has contributed more in providing for tho wants of those who were fed at her table. Hun dreds who have ofteu shared in her hospitality have long since passed away, never to return. Four score ami frrnr years has she boon treading life’s rugged pathway, and it is now certain that she is nearing the end of her journey. Unpretentious in all that site was, and did, her life's work has been finished. Fortunately for her, she has loving ones with sufficient means to provide every coinfort that this life affords. Yet she lias long looked beyond the boundaries of this life towards a better country, where the head has no pain and tiie heart no sorrow Her hope and prospects for a rich inheritance over iu that better land are all bright and peaceful. She lias fought a good fight, she has finish ed her race, hut best of all she has kept the faith, and is ready to be of fered up whenever the messenger shall come. The hour is near at head when the sad tidings shall he spreud far and wide that aunt Sallio is dead ; hut not so, she will only be a little ahead, wait ing at the gate. Husband, children, one aud all, she will he there, waiting, watching and looking for you. \V. T. G. How to Spoil Tilings. The way to spoil a hot; is to over feed him with corn. The way to spoil a wife is to frown at her. Tii ■ way to spoil 1893 is to let This Wi.i.kly stop coming. The way to spoil a cow is to pound her with the milking stool. The way to spoil children is to take no interest in their doings. The way to spoil yourself is to nurse your conceit ainl think only of numb r one. The way to spoil a driving hose is to cut iiim with the whip when he does not expect it. The way to spoil your towu is to kick on every proposed improvement and spend your mom y out of to m Poach Trees In the V nis. Wo have seen peat'll trt in the !■ u sard and Bom'-, trees outside. Ihe trees in the hen yard nave male won I derful growth, a.d are as healthy as 1 ’an L. v, ishsd. Tiio liens have kept ground around the trees clean, and no gtass and no cultivation has been required. In fact, the trees have given no labor at all. They will afford ex cellent shade the coming summer, and no doubt the hens wid partially protect them from ins ets. The trees outside have had more care, but do not com pare iu appearance with the thrifty, large trees in the poultry yard.—Ex. Experience comes high sometimes, but then men must have it in their business. Highest of all in Leavening Power.—Latest LT S. Gov’t Report. ft^'c:; PbwdfST' ABSOLUTELY PURE BUTTS’-BTOUK. Farmers are busy preparing iluir laud for planting. McDonough’s good citizens, with J. VV. Alexander at the head of the list, we notice gave fifty dollars to the cy clono sufferers, ’j’homaston, with her good citizens, matte up five hundred dollars in cash and five hundred dollars in provisions. We are proud to say that Jonesboro has a fine school, and still they come. Our friend Prof. John Denton, is at tlmr head of it, and ho is as fino a teach er as the State has. Hurrah for Jones boro. Clever Dave Mellon gave us a pop call a few days ago. Mr. George Gilbert, of Atlanta, came down to see his homo folks a few days ago, aud of course his beet girl. Mr. F. C. Butts made several httsi ness trips to the Gate City recently. Mrs. F. C. Betts is organist at the Ark. A good selection. Uncle Henry Barnett is visiting Lige Barnett. Wo have beard several good citizens say that Uncle Boh Sandifei- spoke their seutiuieuts in regard to tho court house. A great many say there are bridges needing repairs worse than the court house. But then twenty ilirie or twenty-four men can speak the sen timents of two or three thousand peo ple. As for my part, 1 am with the majority of the voters of the county The right way to do is to leave it to ihe people. Miss Ola Callaway, llui highly es teemed daughter of R tv. fftts CaUawav is visiting Miss L uia Alexander this week. Miss Lena Walden visited Atlanta last week. Mr. John Berry’s health is tto belt' r than it has been in some time. The young people had a singing at Mr. L'go Barnett's last week. Mr. Lee Simß is preparing his land so as to make something like five bales ; to the acre. Messrs. Pete l’abb aud Walter Me- j Vieker gave your scribe a short visit j some time ago. Also, tho sant day, John Copeland aud Smith Coker wetej with us. We are proud to say our friend Hen ry Elliott, of Stnekbridgo, is doing a good business. He is a line business 1 man, and besides lie is a —widower. Uncle Joe Bond and Uncle Dick Hightower are the liytdiest men in Stockhridge. Jonesboro is on a boom, with two newspapers and as fine a school as any town of equal size iu the State. Bill Sims aud Joe Harris, of Jones boro, were out to tiade cows with F. C. Betts a few days ago. Oi.n Glakd. Paste Tills in Your Hat. The New’York un lias prepared a condensation of the democratic pint form. Mere it is: I. Home rale; individual liberty; re sista 1 ce to centralization. 11. No force bills; no Federal interfer ence in State elections. 111. Economy in appropria’ions; no pr. Ii- ate expenditure. IV. Protection uncous iiutioual; no p >.v ier in the Fedeial geverument to ji and collect tariff duties except . r v .ue only. V \ , ... | 'I. oats and combination* to be ngi . 1 y regulated by law. VI. Coinage of both gold and silver ; no discrimination against either metal ; the dollar unit of coinage of both metals to he the equal and interchangeable value. VII. IIom;-t Civil Service Reform. When Mr. Cleveland was notniua ted the Hill men asked to “wait till November” to see the effect of the blunder. Now will these people pa tiently wait ti’l ’9G to see the effect of the blunders in Mr. Cleveland’s ap pointment? 5 CENTS A COPY. PORK IN TIIK SOUTH. % The Polly of Importing and not liais ing it There. Our farmers are paving 12 1-2 cents per pound cash for pork, and 15 to 18 cents credit prices, says Col. Edwin Montgomery, of Mississippi, in the Country Gentleman. The great bulk t)f the pork consumed in the cotton slates is shipped in here from the west, and yet in no section of this broad un ion can hogs bo raised so cheaply as in our southern country. Our mild cli mate, which does not necessitate such heavy and protracted feeding and such warm shelter, is very much in our fa vor. Our lands are cheap, labor cheap and fencing cheap. We can have good grazing for nine months of the year. We have the greatest variety of foods to select from, all cheaply grown, such as artichokes, chufas, peanuts, cow peas, sweet potatoes, and several vari eties of clover that we might mention and that flourish well in the south on lauds adapted to their culture. For permanent pasture none of the north ern grasses can, in all respects, equal our liermuda. It makes a tough sod, and the land once sodded will afford continuous pasturage for a life time. Grass is the best and cheapest of all crops for hogs as well as horses, cattle and sheep. There is no better grazing for hogs than liermuda. Then we have the Leipedcza striatta, which grows spontaneously all over this southuru country. Chemical analysis has shown that it is, in nutritive value, align! oj reti ofrfrrr. TTiViTcYi m * nthtT ViiTtiliWß grasses of spontaneous growth that supplement the above for pasture. When the grasses fail there are many other crops cheaply grown and harves ted that give fine results in growing pork choaply. There is no good reason why a single pound of pork should ever he shipped South. The idea that much corn is needed in order to raise and fatten swine successfully is only imagination. We, can grow the corn but we can grow other crops more economically that are better for hogs and more cheaply grown. Wo only need to feed a little corn a short time before the slaughtering, in order to harden the fleih, and even this is not absolutely noces try. It is a foolish idea that ftn-ding much corn is essential to suc cess yi swine breeding. Our people in the South cannot af ford, at any price, to continue buying •their pork from the West. There is no good reason for it. Tho drain upon our finances is too great, i iie yearly expenditures of our South !mi people to llie West for hog pro | ducts aggregate an enormous sum of uonoy. Suppose this were retained at hom i and put into circulation here, how much it would add to tho accutuu- latcil Wealth of our section and coun try ! Where money is scarce it is liaid to acquire property and amass money, but where money is plentiful and eir cu’ates freely, there is a far better eli mce for all who give proper atten tion to our business to get our fingers on some of it. A country to be pros p* rous must make the best possible use of its natural resources and capabi ities. A Leader. iiice its first introduction, Electric Bit m lias gained rapidly in popular favor, u iil now it is clearly in the lead among .lire medicinal tonics and alteratives —con- taining notliing which permits its use as a beverage or intoxicant, it is recognized as he best and purest medicine for all ail ments of Stomach, Liver and Kidneys.—lt will cure Sick Headache, Indigestion, Con stipation sud drive Malaria from the sys tem. Satisfaction guaranteed with each bottle or money will lie refunded. Price only jOc per bottle. Sold by any druggist. While a man was walking along the river bank near Mount Meridian, W. Va., the other day, he discovered a muskrat hole just at the water’s edge, and upou c'.ose examination he found it was full of fiih. He got a board aud stopped up the h ie, aud in a short j time he claims that be had taken 175 suckers from the hole with his hands. Bring in jour Job Work.