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THE HENRY COUNTY WEEKLY VO I . XVIII. \ ULCERS, CAKCER3, SCROFULA, iV" SALT RHEUM, * RHEUMATISM, BLOOD POISON. these find every direase arising from impuro bloc<i hucuus* fully treated by that never-failing aii(J )*:st of all tonics and medicines, SISISIIjISSS Books ca Blood and Skin v DiseLi.es free. Printed testimonials sent on application. Address Ths Swift Specific Cio., W** ATLANTA.CA. P?"^BBADFIh!d^S^I CURES . DISEASESTI^y^Ti ' •TO WOMEN!) Have used and recommended it to my friends. All derived great benefit from its use. Mbs. Matilda I.arsoit, Peoria, 111. Best remedy I have ever used for irregular menstruation. Mrs. G. Jett, November, 1888. Selma, Col. I have suffered a great deal from Female Troubles, and think I am completely cured by Bradfield’s Female Regulator. Mrs. Emma F. Sword, Mansfield, O. Book “To Woman” mailed free. BRADFIELD REGULATOR CO., For sale by all Druggists. Atlanta, Ga. PJiOFESSIONAL CARDS. I 1 no. w. i;kva>, II ATTORNEY AT LAW, McDonough, < 1 a. Will practice in ‘.he counties comprising the Flint Judicial Circuit, the Supreme Court of Georgia, and the United States District Court. yy.n. r r. imur.:\, ATTORNEY AT LAW, McDonough, Ga. Will practice in the counties composing iie Flint Judicial Circuit,the Supreme Court ci Georgia and the United States District Court. apr27-lv jjl .3. KKAOAN, ATTORNEY AT LAW. McDonough, Ga. Will practice in all the Courts of Georgia Special attention given to commercial and other collections. Will attend all the Courts it Hampton regularly. Office upstairs over Puk Weekly office. A. IIK OWN. ’ ATTORNEY AT LAW, McDonough, Ga. Will practice in all the counties compos ing the Flint Circuit , the Supremo Court of Georgia and tlie United States District Court. janl-ly | <ti: > 9.. TI E. ATTORNEY AT LAW, Gate City Natioal Bank Building, Atlanta, Ga, Praclices in the State and Federal Courts, jj a ATTORNEY AT LAW, Hampton, Ga, Will practice in all the counties composing the Flint Judicial Circuit, the Supreme Court of Georgia and the District Court ol the United States. Special and prompt atten tion given to Collections, Get 8, IK 8 jjlt. G. S'. CAMPBELL, DENTIST. McDonough Ga. Any one desiring work done can be ac commodated either by calling on me in per son or addressing me through the mails, terms cash, unless special arrangements ire otherwise made. WESLEYAN FEMALE INSTITUTE STAUNTON, VA. Opens Sept. 6th, 1898. Climate and surroundings ex ceptional. Handsome buildings, being remodeled, • Lorougkly renovated, repainted inside and outside, and with new pianos, carpets. Ac. Steam in*.-it, gas light bath moms on every floor. New Labora tory thoroughly equipped. 2>i experienced teachers. \ iv i'i< *-d (L.ui-se3 in English, Latin, German. French. • Special advantages in Music and Art. 141 board ing pupils from 18 States Terms moderate. For Cata logues of this celebrated old Virginia School, address \V.\V. KOBURTSON, rn s., Stiiuiiioii,Vu. PARKER’S hair balsam fCieamea and the hair, v Promote! a luxuriant growth. !4jSSSSHIi=i Never Fails to 2estore Gray Hair to its Youthful Color. Cures scalp & hair falling. SU M PTI VE| I'c Parker’s G-inerer Tonic. It <nires the worst Cough, Yvak Lungs, Debility, Indigestion, Pain, Take in time. 50 cts. HSNDERCORNS. The only sure cure for Coma, ttopa all pain, 15c. at or lilbCOX it CO., N. Y. WHEN AT THE WORLD’S FAIR, Chicago, he sure to call at the unique exhibit of J LIEBIG COMPANY’S EXTRACT OF BEEF in the northeast part of the A GUI j CCLTURM; BUILDING, north! aisle, in the Uruguay Depart ment, and get a FREE CUP of delicious, refreshing BEEF TEA made from the world known Likbi« COMPANY'S Extract ok Reef. Try Postell’s Elegant and you will want no other. It is the very finest flour to be had. Sold only at Maxwell’s. MINOR MENTION. A Paragraphic Penciling of Pass ing Events. LIFE AND DEATH. Two snow Hakes born of winter’s storm Fell through the air— Two downy Hakes of star-like to in Beyond compare. One rested on t lie sun-kissed ground, And, thawing, died ; While one a sheltering ice-drift found, And death defied. Two human souls, by God’s decree, Were sent to earth Each with a different destiny Was given birth. One struggled ’gainst an evil fate, Nor long survived ; The olher, born of happier state, Grew strong and thrived. ,<• Oh, who can solve the hidden sense Of God’s design 7 Wc trust in His omnipotence And love divine. Not length of years, but deeds sublime, Can call us blest ; He longest lives, who in his time Has lived tlie best. * * * Read our new advertisements. * * * Full uiglits and summer days. * * * To-mortow is the last day of Sep tember. There will be usual services at the Methodist church next Sabbath. *** Cotton pickers in this sectiou are now receiving forty cents per hundred. *** McDonough now has two purchasers of cotton seed, and they are keeping the market lively. * # # The East Tennessee pay train passed through early .Monday morniug, pay ing off the road's employes. *** Did you ever notice a resemblance between John Oglesby and Hoke Smith ? It’s striking ; but our John is the best looking. *** Remember you can get The Henry County Weekly, The Atlanta Con stitution and The Cosmopolitan at a mere nominal cost. See fourth page. * * •* Some of our citizens seem to be un aware of the existence of a stock law in this county. We hear considerable complaint of depredations by loose stock. * * * You can get ALL the news, both local and national, by subscribing for The Weekly and the Atlanta Consti tutiuu. Only $1.50 for both papers. Now is the time. Two new mercantile establishments will probably be opened in McDon ough at an early day. Young, wide awake business men will be at the head of each. Thus we grow apace. * * * A private subscription was raised among the citizens of McDonough this week for the benefit of the Brunswick sufferers. Mrs. Thos. L. Sutton de serves most credit for this laudable act of charity. * * * We learn that the neighbors of Mr. Filmore Bowden, who lost his dwell ing by fire last week, have come to his aid, like the big-hearted, Christian peo ple they are, and are now re-building his heme for him * * * One uf our sage philosophers was recently heard to remark, that “when a couple are married they take each oth er for better or worse. That is—the man generally gets the better and the woman the worse.” The barbecue given by the colored people last Friday is reported to have been a perfect success. Enough money was realized by the project to enable them in making the desired repairs on th< ir church building. They are much gratified at their success. McDonough’s cotton buyers were kept busy from early morning till late in the afternoon last Saturday. The receipts on that day were heavier than any preceeding day for several seasons past. The farmers are finding out that our buyers al ways pay top of the market. • • * This is the season when the cotton J gin gets iu its deadly work. We would recommend to our daily exchanges the advisability of having a sterreotyped heading something the last seven McDonough, ga.. fridAy, September 29, iwci. words of tlie foregoing sentence con stantly on hand until the cotton season is over. It will prove to be of much service. **. The old “befo’ de wait” custom of giving cornshucking along at this sea son, with a big supper afterward and all the pretty girls in tlie neighbor hood to help in serving the repast, seems to have entirely diet! out iu this sectiou. In fact, there are auy num her of farmer boys iu Henry county, we doubt not, who have already reach ed early manhood without being pres ent at such an occasion. * * * Did you ever notice so many tramps any one season before ? From one to a half dozen p iss through our town daily now. Some have the appearance of old time roadsters, while others by their deportment are readily recognized as novices iu tlie profession. Tlie writer has observed two of the latter named class within tlie past week chop ping stovewood for a meal. Surely, the great financial stringency has affect ed all classes. * * -* Mr. Charlie Dupree acknowledges grateful obligations to his I'ucie Fitch Alexander for “taking him in out of the wet.” mention of which was recent ly made in these columns, but con fesses to purtnrbation at the want of sufficient shelter for the care of his horse. It was put in tlie road, in charge of a darkey, with instructions to “go” until a stall large enough could be found. Uncle Fitch cau explaiu privately. By another season there will be a scarcely prettier place anywhere near town than Alex Lemon’s fish ponds, lie has already planted out several rare species of water lilies, one of which came direct from .Japan, and will aid nature in her perfect work iu many other ways. The two large ponds lie side by side with only a small strip of land separating them, and are sur rounded by a beautiful oak grove. Mr. Lemon has stocked one of his ponds exclusively with carp, while the .other contains suckers, perch, cat, and a vaiiety ot other fish. * * * The leaves are turning on the trees, The autumn time is heie ; I scent malaria in the breeze. The autumn time is here ; The sun moves southward by degrees, The girls still on the ice cream freeze, Tlie chappie’s pants bag at the knees. The autumn time is here. The summer blossom droops and dies, The autumn time is here ; We’ll soon lie rid of bugs and tlies, The autumn time is here ; The farmer lays in new supplies, The housewife winter dress goods buys, Now is the time to advertise, The autumn time is here. * * * We have again made arrangements with the Atlanta Constitution to send The Weekly and that paper to sub scribers both one year for only .11.50. This iuchidess those who pay up and renenew, as well as new names, but all subscriptions must positively be paid iu advance. We would be glad for everybody to take advautage of this opportunity. Those who desire gen eral readiug, in addition to the county news will find it the very best arrange ment to he had. To make it complete, we will include one of the very best magazines published, The Cosmopoli tan, for only $1.50 additional. Bear in mind this combination and don’t fail to avail yourself of it. First class read ing at a lower cost cannot be had. Now is your time ! * -* * In the language of an exchange, we | must say that it is not our purpose to enter into a lengthy discussion of the question of finance. What this country needs is more finances, more money, j The question of confidence has nothing to do with it. When money is plenti ; ful there is never any scarcity of confi dence. The Weekly has not been wauting in confidence even in the hard est of times. We have sent the paper to hundreds of subscribers without the cash. We believed they would pay us for it*as soon as they could get the money. We expect them to pay us early. _Our creditors are now ready to pounce down upon us. We cannot sat isfy them unless you come to our relief. Please don’t put us off. The amounts our subscribers owe us are small to the individual, but large in the aggregate. We must collect EARLY. Please DON’T DISAPPOINT US! Ihe Albany Herald says: “The great difficulty about common sense is that it is so tremendously scarce that it : isn’t common. Death of Mrs. Robert M. Walker. While it is kuown to every human being that there is an hour appointed iu which they must die,, still this sad event always produces a sorrowful time that pervades our hearts. In writing this brief nodes of tiie death of Mrs. Walker it will he un necessary to enter into an extended de tail of her life and clmracter. We shall let it suffice to say she was the oldest daughter of Mr.jqid Mrs. Joseph Atkins, late of Henry county, and was married to li. M. Walker the 2nd day of Feburary, 181 G. ‘fit tic Jjfd and character of Mrs. ,v;n well known to her many frjyuils and ac» quaiutauee, and tlie stranger would have hut little interest iu reading an ed detail of ail that might be said iu a merited commendation of her many deeds of human kindness. For many years she was a sincere and consistent member of the Chris tiau church, having rendered obedience to her Lord and Savior. She had been in a declining state of health for sev eral years, but beiug' a woman of m*- tiring energy site kept up most of the time until last Friday. She was smit ten with a stroke of paralysis, which was beyond the power of her friends, assisted by medical aid, to arrest in its fatal work. She lingered in an uncon scious condition until Saturday after uoon, when her liberated spirit made its exit into the “Laud Beyond.” We are assurred that mr loss is tier glorious gain Site is now at rest, quiet, peaceful rest. We would not recall her to these mundaue shores. Yes, Rettia, mother has gone and loft you and Bob all alone. Everything around tlie old home now will look so sad and lonely; hut don’t let y<mr hearts be overburdened. Her time had come aud she must needs go to the call of iter Lord aud Master. She will be waiting and watching at tlie gate for you. Just at this time she is forming a new acquaintance with many loved ones that have preceded her to the sp'rit land. After a little while and we will all he on the other shore. Did you hear tlie shout “Hosanna, iu the highest !” as she weut sweeping through tlie gate 3. Let me sny ta you, dear children, weep not for moth er, since site lias made such a peaceful voyage across the Stream of Death. She weut out on the hark manned and piloted by Him who said, “Ho that believeth in me though ho were dead yet shall he live again.” Go, children, and plant sweet (lowers that will bloom over her grave, but look not down in that cheerless grave for mother ; she is not there, but up yonder, away up yonder in tlie glory land, where the eye never grows dim, nor ti e heart Bad. Meet her there. W. T. G. You couldn’t get a girl to confess it, remarks a knowing one, but it certain ly is true that the mau she most ad mires is often— He whose ideas never coincide with her own. tie who tells her point blank that he hates to see powder on her face. He who appears blissfully unaware of her existence. He who tells other people that she .dresses in good taste. He who never says some other girl looks pretty. He who alwayg appears interested when she airs her little tribulations. lie who declares she looks beautiful when she kuowi positively that hei hair is ail out of curl. He who does not overlook a slight or forgive hasty words too quickly. Women or men who hear tales, who betray confidence and make mischief with their tongues, are vulgarians of the most despicable type. They are dangerous people and should be avoid ed by peace loving and good mannered people, says an exchange. I>on’t You Know? That to have perfect health you must have pure blood, and the best way to have pure blood is to take Hood’s Sar saparilla, the best blood purifier am) strength builder. It expels all taints of scrofula, salt rheum and all other humors, and at the same time builds up the whole system and gives nerve Btreuth. Hood’s Pills may be had by m»ii for 2~> c. (J. I. Hood Co., Lowell, Mass. Do you read the testimonials pu’»- lished in behalf of Mood’s Sarsaparilla? They are thoroughly reliable and war thy your confidence. No had results from taking Dili's Chloride of Gold Tablets, while the cure is permanent. Drunkenness, To bacco and Opium habit positively cured. Try BLACK-DRAUGHT tra for Dyspcjwia. HON. JOHN T. OGLESBY Writes an Interesting Letter to Henry County Friends, At the request of quite a number of my Henry county friends, 1 tako this occasion to give a.i account of myself iu my far away western home. I am located in tlie State of Nebras ku, 307 miles west of Omaha, on the Fremont, Elkhorn and Missouri Val ley railroad, iu 12 miles of the line of •South 'Dakota.; aud about 125 miles of the line ot Wyoming. lam Receiving K hipping Clerk, aud stationed at tine lam in charge of a largo oust 1 , and receive all the supplies for the Rosebud Indian Agency, which is located 35 miles from this place, over iu South Dakota, ,I'hei-e are between four and five thousand Indians on this reservation, of tlie Sioux, and under veiy good control, Quite a number of them have fought under the leadership of Sitting Bull, the fighting chief. Coon Dog, who is a noted Indian, was in my office yesterday. He is the man who killed Spotted Tail, the greatest Indian chief this world Ims ever produced. It takes quite a largo amount of pro visions and annuity goods to supply this reservation. I have in the last three days shipped to them over two hundred and twenty five thousand lbs. of different kiuds of supplies, and have just received an invoice of 385 bags of coffee, 750 hags of sugar, -15,000 lbs. of beans, 30,000 lbs. of hard tack, 7,000 lbs. of baking powders, and other things in proportion. '1 he Indians haul all the freight, and are paid 50 cents per hundred for the same. Time is worth no considers lion. They are only sojourning, aud are expecting after death to he trans ferred to the “happy hunting grougds.” I let the goods out on order from the Indian ageut. Tlie have some very peculiar names, a few of which 1 have taken from my order book to show tlie Indian’s po culiaritv: Left Hand Bull, White Bear, No Good, Coon Dog, Blue Eyes, Afraid of Thunder, Black Tail Deer, White Hawk, Turtle Head and Bull Eater This is a fair sample of the average Indian name. The government furnishes them very comfortable clothing, hut the old In dian buck has not vet become accus tomed to wearing them exactly like the Young American. For instance, they invariably cut out the seat of the pants holore they put them on. Quite cool, 1 imagine—especially tvhen the (her momoter drops down to 30 and 35 de grees below zero, as it frevueutly does here. Valentine is a very pretty little town, of about 800 inhabitants. It is located in the sand hills, and we have some very severe winds here, which makes it unpleasant at times. We have three churches, one Catholic, one Methodist and one Episcopal. We have quite a number of church going people, but 1 must contess that the people of this country do not make re ligion specialty. 1 don’t think I)r. Dr. Scott would be very much impress ed with this country, from tae fact that Ilaplists are very scarce. This portion of the State is not well adapted to farming, although there are some very good farmers. It is very (iue for grazing purposes and they raise quite a quantity of cattle and horses here. This county is 65 by 9G miles in size, and there are about 0,000 peo pie in the county, which would give one inhabitant to every square mile. Some of the jurors have to travel over a distance of a hundred miles to attend court. The eastern portion of the State that 1 traveled through is a very fine country, some of the land produc ing as much as 100 bushels of corn per acre. Ohaha is a great city. They claim a population of 160,0°0, and the city reminds me very much of Atlanta. The people there speak of the great future of the city, and I would not be surprised to see it become the Metrop olis of the West. The p didcs of the .State is of course lb publican. It did not Cast its vote for Weaver, as is supposed by a great many down South. Mr. liryan, our Congressman, is admired for his bril liancy, hut I don’t think he is regarded as a very ardent Democrat. The populists are makiug a desper ate offort to carry the State this fall. They are well organized and are mak ing nominations in almost every county in the State for county offices. They claim almost everything, but 1 suppose , pose the result will be about like it was Highest of all in Leavening Power.—Latest U S. Gov’t Report. PoYaI Baking Powder ABSOLUTELY PURE in Georgia last fall. They are making a little fight on the Republicans, and we have three tickets in the field—pop ulists, Republicans and Democrats. I weut out to a democratic caucus last night and of course joined the club. 1 made them a brief talk and told about Uncle llirum Lester going to the polls last fall, aud when some oue asked him how long lie had been votiug the dem ocratic ticket, lie re replied ever since the world began. • The Democrats will will make a hard pull for some of the county offices here. The Republicans in this town have treated me real nicely, aud I have quite a num ber of good friends in that party. The most of them are conservative in their nature, aud I have no complaint to make against them. Congress is playing a good joke ou the third party people throughout the nation. That party believe, or profess to believe, that Cougress will not fulfill the promises as laid down iu the Chica go platform ; but right there they will ho surprised. Congress will repua l the Sherman law; Congress will remove the 10 per ceut on State ilauks—and after that is done they will give us a general reduction on the tariff. Con gress will never adjourn until il has given us a good flexible sound curren cy. Of course they cannot make laws to suit every man, hut they will legis late so as to meet the hearty approval of all intelligent Americans. I for one entertain the kindest feel ing for all political parties, concede to every man his own honest convictions, aud hope there is no man but who is willing to uphold and perpetuate good government. A small suspicion has crept into my mind that the Hill men, or umi Cleve land men, aro jumping at conclusions too quick iu regard to Cleveland’s pol icy. Those papers in Georgia which are kicking so vigorously at the admin istration had better go slow. I noticed from Senator Hill’s speech iu the Sen ate on the Sherman repeal bill that there is no difference in their opinions ou the financial policy of this govern ment. lam not ou of those who take a pessimisistic view of what Congress will do. The financial condition of this country has improved considerably iu the last fifteen days. I look for a gradual improvement until the Aerican people are all fairly pros perous. The southern farmers will get a fuir price for their cotton, the west ern people will make money ou their wheat, corn and hog crop, so for the next (juarter of a century I think tlie American people will he well “in the swim.” I must tell you of one little incident that took place during my trip out here. I was on the pullmau car, and we had reached St. Louis. There was a rumor started that lloke Smith was on the train. Very soon I was escort ed to the rear platform by the conduct tor and introduced to the large crowd as the Hon. Secretary of the Interior. Taking in the situation at a glance, I replied as follows: Gentlemen of the grand old State of I thank y,u for this ovation. It give* me great pleas ure to meet the hottest yeomanry of this grand old commonwealth ; and 1 will assure you that I will endeavor to maintain the dignity of the lofty posl tiou which I occupy. I will do the Lite square thing to the honest, deserv ing pensioner and the broken hearted ImliaD ; but I will assure jou that ev ery single man drawing a dishonest pension will be stricken from the pa* roll. I must now hid you good bye. When you come to Washiugtou call on me As the train pulled out three hearty cheers were given for the Hon. lloke Smith, the Secretary of the Interior. This letter is longer than I intended, but 1 will not worry you any more in some time. Now, Mr. Editor, and friends, I bid you ever visit the sand hills of Nebraska, cal', on me. You will always find tbe door wide open—unless there is a western blizzaid on hand. To every reader ol The Weekly I must say that I hope peace, plenty and prosper ity will abide with you. J. T. Oglbsky. Valentine* Neb., Sept. 18, 1893. 5 CENTS A COPY Startling if True. In view of late events and the open hostility of some socalled democratic leadors(?) to the administration, and to almost everything else democratic, the following from the last issue of the Val dosta Times is very interesting reading: “It is believed, upon what is consid ered the best authority, that a conspira cy has been formed in Georgia to capture the Democratic party next year bag and baggage. “The plan is this : Certain newspa pers and certain disgruntled politicians are to plant themselves on the Third party platform of principles, but they will declare that they are better Demo crats than Grover Cleveland, and that they propose to stay inside the party. They will attempt to reorganize the “Ocala Democracy,” but they will call tt “Free Silver Democracy.” Tom Watson was uut willing to make the treaty, and go into the combine, until he could feel the Third party pulse all over the state, and for that purpose he has been making this off-year campaign from county to county. But he has finished it up, and it is hinted that ho has now given up hope of further success on that line and is willing, when the right time comes, to advise his follow ers that they had better seek “relief” through the Democratic party, and to return and co-operate with the anti-ad ministration Democrats in the primaries and thus capture the party organization, as the alliance did several years ago. “Of course Watson is to be provided for in the deal. Black will be sacrificed and the wild colt of McDuffie will enter Congress again as a Democrat from the tenth District. Turner, Lester, Ilusseli, Cabaniss and Lawson have also been marked for the slaughter. “'This, briefly, is the plan which has been outlined to us. In the meantime we will watch and wait developments.” An Old Farmer’s Views. An old farmer of Sumter county, who has a level head, writes to The Americus Times-Ilecorder as follows: “There is being so much said in the country about hard times and the scar city of money, and as everybody has a cause and knows a remedy, I thought I would write to tell your readers what I think is the cause. The trouble is we buy more than we produce. There is too much flour and bacon shipped here every year. The things we ought to make at home we are buying. “We let our timber rot and buy our plow stocks, singletrees, ax handles, hoe handles and fencing. “We throw away our ashes and buy soap and axle grease. “We give away our beef hides and buy liame strings and shoe strings. “We let our manure go to waste and buy guano. “We buy garden seed in the spring and cabbage in the wiutor. “We let our lands grow up in weeds and buy our brooms. “We let the wax out of our pine and gum trees go to waste and buy chew ing gum for our children. “We build schoolhouses and hire teachers and send our children off to bo educated. “We land a 5-cent fish with as 4 fishing rod. “We send a 15 cent boy out with a 4'20 gun and a $4 dog to kill birds. “We raise dogs sud buy wool. “And about the only thing in this , country that there is au over-produc i tiou of is politics and dogtics.’’ IHcctric IlitlreN. This remedy is becoming so well known iiikJ so popular as to need no special men tion. 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