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VO L. XIX.
B. W. WRENIM, JR.
Atlanta, Georgia,
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ATTORNEY AT LAW,
McDonough, Ga.
WiH practice in the comities comprising
the Flint Judicial Circuit, the S.ipr-nu-
Court of Georgia and the United States
District Court.
yy.n, T. MCICIBV*
attorney at law,
McDonough, Ga.
Will practice in the counties composing
he Flint Judicial Circuit,the Supreme Court
of Georgia and the United States District
Court. a? 1,2 7
J. REAfiA.T,
J ’ attorney at law,
McDonough, Ga.
Will practice in all the Courts of Georgia
Special attention given to commercial and
»thercollections. Will attend all the Courts
at Hampton regularly. Office upstairs over
Thk W tftKLT office.
A. IIROW.T,
’ 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
JOHN 1.. 'I'VE.
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Gate City Natioal Bank Building,
Atlanta, Ga,
Practices in the State and Federal Courts,
IJ A. PEEHEEN,
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 Mteu
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THE HENRY COUNTY WEEKLY
Puzzled by the movement of animals
and birds, and keen, as always, for ad
ventures, he saddled bis horse and gal.
loped off into the night to investigate.
He rode rapidly for an hour, which
brought him to the river. It traversed
a valley several miles in width, which
sloped toward the west. The bank on
our side was fifteen or twenty feet
higher than on the oposite side. Ris
ing like a wall ; t shut out the view j
from the westerly side of the stream.
Dismounting and standing on a Tittle
! knoll, or Indian grave, he l>oked upon
a remarkable scene. For miles beyond
A Night of Terror.
In these days of forest and prairie
fires, involving heavy losses of life and
property, an experience of my own may
be of some interest. In 1848 a compa
ny of emigrants, uuuibering nearly 100,
left Independence, Vo., for the Souoino
valley, Cal. At the end of the fifth
day’B journey we encamped in a grove
of 200 or 000 acres, in the midst of a
plain apparently limitless in extern.
On every side of it stretched beyoud
the range of vision a sea of waving
grass, interspersed with flowers of ev
ery color. The mouth was August or
September.
The season had been very dry ano
the earth was cracked and parched
Vegetation was beginning to feel tbe
effect of the drought, especially the
short, or buffalo grass which carpeted
the ground. The trees in the grove
looked brown and sere. The sky had
a brassy appearance. We did not real
ize all these things at once, and to our
eastern eyes the panorama spread out
before us was one of great magnificence.
The wagous were arranged in the
form of a hollow square as a protection
against night prowlers Supper was
prepared and eaten, arms looked after,
sentries stationed, and all who were
off duty gathered around the captain’s
tent to talk ovei the events of the day
and plan for the future.
We had engaged a scout at Indepen
dence as guide and hunter during the
journey. Ilis name was James Fletch
er. He was six feet iu height, sp ire
and sinewy as ah Tndiau, a brave man
and a dead shot. He achieved distinc
tion as a member of Berdan’s corpse of
sharpshooters duiing the civil war.
WOI-VES GAVE TflF, WARNING.
About 11 o’clock we all, except tbe
sentries and the scout, turned iu for a
few hours sleep for we were to be up
and ready for march at daybreak
When we closed our eyes and sleep fell
upon us there were no indications of
anything unusual. The sileuce was
profound, except when broken by the
movements of the horses or the occa
sion yowling of prairie wolves.
1* itffcher, our scout, sleepless and
restless after the manner of his tribe,
remained up, taking frequent strolls
around the stockade of wagons, and
making observations of the environ
ments of the camp. Without knowing
why, he had a presentment of coming
evil. There was a glow on the horizon
that he did not like. Wolves appeared
in increasing numbers, moving in an
easterly direction. Flocks of plover
and other birds of the plains flew past
with unwonted cries. To Fletcher’s
trained mind and eye the occurrence
foreboded evil. He thought of fire,
hut apprehended no danger from that
source. He knew there was a river
eight or ten miles away, to the west,
and he believed it would be an effec
tual barrier to a conflagration coming
from that direction. He knew there
was no fire on our side of the stream.
the riyer the plain was a mass of
flames, gathering force and volume as
it swept forward, and consuming every
thing in its course. This was the cause
of the glowiug tint we and he had ob
served ou the horizon. He was not
alarmed, for he still thought the river
would check the progress of the
flames.
MAGNIFICENT, BCT AWFUL.
For half an hour he stood motionless
watching the magnificent spectacle.
Rapidly the fire eat its way toward the
river. At a narrow place a tuft of
burning grass was caught up by the
whirlwind of flames and wafted over
the stream. He knew in an instant
what this meaut. The camp was iu
danger and we would have to fight for
onr lives.
Putting spurs to his horse he began
a ride for the camp as heroic as that of
j Sheridan from Winchester. His horse
was wiry and active, and he did not spare
J him His feelings can be better imagi
ned than described as he sped along
uDder the silent stars with death in his
i wake. His object was to reach the
camp long enough in advance of the fire
.mcdonough, ga.. Friday, sepiembeh ai. i«» 4.
to enable us to take measures for our
safety.
Rushing through the stockade of
wagons without drawing reiu. Fletch
er discharged his pistol and shouted :
"The prairie is ou tire ! The flames
have crossed the river ! The camp is
in danger!” Kvery member of the
party was up in an instant. There was
no panic, liven the women were cool
and collected. We were always on
the lookout for danger, and were in a
manner prepared for it. IT hurried
council was held to devise measures for
our safety. None of us knew how to
fight a prairie tire, and instiuctively we
turned to Fletcher for advice.
Like a general with the glow of ex
citement upon his face, he issued his
orders rapidly and demanded prompt
obedience. Knowing that the trees
would increase the danger, he conduct
ed us out of the grove into the open
plain. The wagons were arranged as
before. Redding and clothing were
drenched with water from a spring near
by and thrown over the wagons for
protection. Grass was mown for some
distance around. The animals were
turned loose to shift for themselves, but
they hovered around the camp as if
conscious of the impending danger.
A TORNADO OF FI-AME.
These preparations had hardly been
completed when the fire burst upon us.
It came sweeping over the plain in
great billows. It struck us fair and
square. All at once we were envir
oned by flame. We bad done all we
could and silently awaited the result.
The heat was iuteuse aud the smoke
stifling. We saw that the wet bedding
and clothing ou the wagons was hold'
ing back the fire in that direction.
Five minutes of intense auxiety ensued.
Then the sea of flame parted aud swept
forward on either 'side with a roar like
that of a tornado.
We then looked after results. Two
small children had been smothered by
the smoke and heat. Three men who
had sought safety by climbing trees,
contrary to orders, were found burned
to a crisp. The flames had enveloped
every tree in the giove from root to
topmost branch. All of our bedding
had been consumed and the wagons
were badly scorched. Fletcher kept
watch over the animals, aud when the
flame parted he drove them into the in
closure from the rear. Three horses
and several cows, straying off, perish
ed.
Next morning we dug a grave near
the foot of a large walnut tree, in which
we deposited our dead, mended our
wagons the best we could, and with no
bedding and little clothing resumed our
journey with heavy hearts. The five
bodies were afterwards exhumed aud
ttaken to Sonoma for interment.
The awfulness of prairie and forest
fires cannot be realized by those who
have never witnessed them. People
in the northwest who are passing
through this terrible experience, the
worst probably in the history of the
country, are deserving of the active
sympathies ol the American people.
Herman Harter.
All Can Get Well Cheaply.
When druggists do not keep Blood
Balm—and they are few—send SI.OO
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lanta, Ga. Book of wonderful and
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Knee Breeches Coining.
Look to your calves. Knee breeches
are to be revised, saith the fashionable
tailor. It all comes about easily and
gracefully, because the present genera
tiou of young men capable of making a
departure in dress the fashion are ath
letics, and willing to exhibit their legs
on any and all occasions. A few years
ago American swells would have feared
to encourage knickerbockers. They
wore them under the rose, so to speak,
if at all, making cycling the chief rea
son for their adoption. Now, however,
any pretense of that sort is to be cast
to the winds, and, really, truly calf
exposing breeches form. As
yet they have not been met with in the
marts of meo, but at the watering
places the innovation is being tried for
all it is worth.— Boston Herald.
Onr people can never be prosperous
and independent until they raise all
their supplies at home. Or, as Col.
Houston A. Jones wonld say, “our
farmers must quit raising cotton and go
:to farming,”—if they expect to be
happy.—Covington Star.
BLACK-DRAUGHT te» cur«s Constipation.
II»A DKNOtTNCKD.
Dr. Astwood, the Noted New York Ne
gro, Calls Her a Fraud.
New York, September o.—At a
meeting of the executive committee of
tlie New York State Cleveland League,
an association of colored democrats, a
sensation was created by a vigorous de
nunciation of Ida R. Wells at the hands
of Secretary H. C. C. Astwood.
‘•Regarding Ida Weils," said Mr.
Astwood, ‘‘l speak for the bouest aud
iutelligeut masses of my race when 1
call her ft fraud, She has been going
about the country gathering notoriety.
She knows nothing about the colored
problem in the South. We all regret
that lyuchiugs occur there, but we ap
prove of them to the extent that the
white people of the South 40. A rep
utahle negro has uever bean lynched,
and never will be.. (July outlaws have
suffered such a fate.
“All this talk about the pitiable con
dition of the negro in the South is non
sense. I speak from a true knowledge
of the state of affairs there »!i to I as
sure you that the negro in many of the
states and cities in the South, is better
off than the negro in New York City.
There is great poverty iiTTojue districts,
hut the white people are poor, too, so
what can we expect?
“The negroes are beginning to com
prebend that the Southejjj*j|>eople are
their friends. They hava&cn deluded
by the carpet-baggers, now fast
leaving the South. Old mbits and old
associates are returningHfSfTlie negro is
growing to be happy Sjspfn with the
associations of the pe»)e, who once
held him in bondage.iPlei longs for
two things—education ®d etnancipa
lion from the republicajjnptj-ty. He is
already casting his ihp demo
crats.”
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What the Doctor Says.
Dr. 11. C. Timmons," SpArtlauta, Ga,,
says : “I take pleasure in stating that
I have used Royal Germetuer exten
sively in my practice, and have found
it as nearly a specific for dppepsia, in
digestion, catarrh aud nervous debility
as any remedy I have ever tried. It
is an excellent remedy for all stomach
and biwel troubles. For weak aDd de
bilitated women I think it is a wonder
ful remedy. As a local application it
is a prompt relief for piles, cuts,
bruises and sores of all kinds. With
my family it is a standing household
remedy.” $1 ; 6 for $3.
Have You Noticed?
That the village statesman who
knows exactly how to settle “the labor
question" elsewhere, settles it at home
by letting his wife do most of it?
That the man who cusses the demo
cratic party “for doing nothing,” holds
down a dry goods box about 3C5 days
in the year ?
That the man who swears “prohibi
tion kills a town," has a breath on him
so strongly alcoholic that it would warp
a stone flue ?
That the man who knows perfectly
“what the farmers ought to raise,” nev
er raises anything but his voice ?
That the man who worries about
“this country’s financial condition," is
nevei bothered by the fact that his wife
supports him ?
That the man who objects to silver
money “because it is too heavy,” never
had $4 at one time in his life ?—Rob
! ert L. Rlalock in Macon Telegraph.
In Campbell county there are three
legislative candidates in (he field, viz:
Hon. J. L. Latham, democrat ; Wil
liam 11. McLarin, populist; C. H. Hen
ry, coloted, republican.
Home and Abroad.
It is the duty of everyone, whether
at borne or traveling for pleasure or
business, to equip himself with the
remedy which will keep up strength
and prevent illness, and cure such ills
as are liable to come upon all in every
day life. Hood’s Sarsaparilla keeps
the blood pure and less liable to absorb
the germs of disease.
Hood’s Fills are hand made, and
perfect in proportion and appearance,
j 25c. per box,
“Now,” said the physician, who is
; noted for his heavy charges, “I must
j take your temperature.” “All right,”
I responded the patient in a tone of utter
resignation. “You have got about ev
erything else I own. There’s no reas
! on why you sh iuld not take that, too ”
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MALARIA AND MISKKY.
A Case Too Often Seen In Malarious
Sections.
He raw boned, hard handed
farmer, less thau fifty years of age, hut
with a sallow and wizened complexion,
peculiar to seventy, just such a mixture
of malaria and manhood as the MisY
sippi valley only can fuwiish—hardy,
horny, homely and honest. He was
unhitching from a rickety wagon an
old horse so knobby aud loose-jointed
that the oft-mended harness seemed
necessary to hold it together. A two
roomed, mud chinked log house, a
faded, slattern woman, a troop ol un
der-fed, frowzy children, some long
legged chickens, a tamarack swamp
stretching away in all directions—these
complete the picture, and ague had
done it all. It had chauged stalwart
manhood, to gaunt ghastliness. Thrift
became squalor aud plenty poverty;
weeds and shrubs overran well tilled
fields and dismal untidiness had perva
ded every nook and crauuy of the once
well kept premises of ’Squire ,of
,La. While the ’Squire proceeded
unhitching, the woman, his wife, began
lifting out of the wagon the few gro
cerics which he had brought from the
village, a few miles away. “Where’s
the bntile of quinine ?" she asked with
a querulous, rasping voice. “You
didn’t go and forget that, did you ?”
“No, I did not exactly forget it, or get
it, either. The drug store man showed
me a new medicine for malaria which,
he says, is a great deal better than qui
nine, and so 1 bought it. 1 have spent
one farm buying quinine, ami I’m get
ting tired of it.” “Well,” she answer
ed, “we’ll try it, hut I haven’t a par
ticle of faith in the new fangled stuff.
I should think they could find a better
name for it than Pe-ru-na,” she added,
spelling out the name oil the bottle.
Three years later ’Squire was
seated ou the front veranda of his new
house; a pair of prancing steeds and a
stylish carriage stand before the door.
The ’Squire looks twenty years' young
er than when .we first saw him. No
one would recognize the place or in
habitants, —a buxom, happy wife,
strong, healthy children, a well stocked
farm, waving meadows, whore once
dreary swamps festered disease What
has wrought the change? Hear the
'Squire’s answer : “Health did it. As
soou as 1 began the use of Pe-ru-na
instead of quinine we all began at once
to regain our health, our spirits, our
ambition, our enterprise, and our
strength. All these malaria had takeu
away from us Pe-ru-na lias cleansed
our systems of all malarial poison and
keeps us from having another attack.
This is the whole story. Pe-ru na did
it. It has also done the game tiling for
our neighbors. Malaria brings disas
ter and destruction —Peru na brings
health and success. But, by the way,
speaking of Pe-ru na and malaria, ev
ery one should have a copy of an illus
trated hook on malaria published by
Tbe Pe ru-na Drug Manufacturing
Company of Columbus, Ohio. They
send it free to any one. 1 haven’t got
the words to tell you what this book
does about Pe-ru na and malaria.”
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Regular s'xe 25c. per box. Sold by any
druggist.
A man was struck by lighting in
Pasco county, Fla., and where the bolt
I entered bis back it left a queer land
scape view on the skin, a picture of
trees and plants.
There are banks in all great cities of
the country that could cash a check for
$1,000,000 with no greater delay than
would be required to count the notes or
goli.
Senator Hill, of New York, is 51
years old. He is old enough to he
President, but as yet he has failed to
convince the people that he is otherwise
equally well qualified.
if Texas were as densely populated
as the State of Massachusetts, it would
have a population greater than France
and Great Britain combiued, or about
75,000,000.
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Random Dots from Hore and There.
1 want to say in the outset that I
have uo little narrow, contemptible,
sycophantic yawning to iudulge iu,
about the populistic party, or any other
organization. I simply want to tell the
readers of Tim Weekly of a recent
visit 1 made over iu Hpaulding, to
spend a few hours in the company of
old Bro. Taylor. 1 shall let it suffice
to say that this old gcutlemanu has
beeu a Bible student, and those who
have the privilege of hearing him talk
ou those old mystical questions, iu
volved iu the hooks of Moses, will cer
tainly become interested. A kind
providence permitting, it is my inten
tion to have this able old minister to
favor the church-goiug poople of Me
Donough with an opportunity of hear
ing him, some time in the month of
October.
On my return homeward, 1 stopped
at the meeting that is going ou at Po
motia. The church at this place is
known as a Methodist Protestant, and
not as it is frequently called, Protes
tant Methodist. It is Methodist prot
estiug against ecclesiastical usurpation
of power, that was exercised by the
ministry of the Methodist Episcopal
church, way hack long time ago, when
I was quite a small hoy. hi this church
at Pomona there are some most excel
lent members, among them one of my
special friends, Bio. Joe Dorsey. Bro.
Dorsey is a Christian gentlemau aud a
whole soul Methodist Protestant. But
there is no marvel at that, for he has
a helpmate that is worth her weight in
fine silk, a'.l a yard wide in fast colors.
Sfsfor Dorsoy shows hor faith by her
works. I have been there, and I reck
on I ought to know. But that aiu’t all
I know. There are yet remaining
three nice pleasant girls, the daughters
of sister Dorsey. That of itself is suf
ficient guarantee that a young man in
search of a helpmate that will measure
up to her half of the marriage relation
can be found if notice is given by the
proper applicant. To avoid unavailing
calls, the young man that is always
afraid of snakes, and has to carry a
piut flask of snake bite antidote iu his
coat pocket everywhere he goes, will be
wasting his time in visiting those young
ladies.
We come next to the pleasant day,
immense crowd and fine music we had
at Sunny Side last Sunday. F.very
body enjoyed themselves splendidly un
til there was a little snap judgement
taken on the congregation in the form
pf a small collection to aid in paying
for the new seats that had just been
put in the church. A number of pret
ty nice little girls were appointed to
pahs round with the collection hat.
One of those nice girls went lovingly
to our old batchelor friend Tip Jack
son and presented the hat. It was
more than Tip could resist—his hand
had to go down into his pocket for a
small contribution. 1 could plainly
see that Tip is not yet insensible to the
captivating smiles of the fair sex.
Just over to my right sal uncle John
nie, but there was a bright sparkling
eyed y-ung widow sitting between me
aud him, and 1 could uot see whether
he was confronted with the contribu
tion basket or not It is said by those
who are eb se observers that uncle
Johnnie's heart is not impervious to
fascinating influences. 1 guess he
caused a little giugle in that little con
tiibutiou box. But I must go slow in
relating my observations at the big
singing. Tom W. was there, and
though he can’t see tq read, yet he can
hear every word that Margaret calls
when she reads The Weekev. I don’t
want Tom to conclude ' that I made
some observations of which I have net
spoken. Hu is the most suspicious
scrub I have to encounter.
W. T. G.
He asked the Miss »hat was a kiss,
Grammatically defined;
“It’s a conjunction, si r," she said,
“And hence can’t he declined.”
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H. K. W., Jerusalem, Ob. : Am thinking of
planting with n view of making win® tares
acres In (tropes. The land Is high, dry, red
land, exposed to the son at all times of the day,
being a rather round knoll. It is not rloh, but
I expect to Improve it. Will such a piece of
land be suitable for grape culture 1 What kind
of grape would best suit this soctlon (Pickens
county)!' How thick should they be act 7
Should they bo trained to a scaffold or confined
In a bunch upon a stake ’ How much wine
would be a moderate yield to the vine when to
full bearing f Where ran I get the vine yon
would recommend and what would they coat In
large quantities l
Answer, by Hugh N. Starnes, Horti
culturist.
1. The land described will do very
well, especially on south and west
slopes.
2. For wine in your county (Pickens)
Norton’s Virginia would be the best
grape you could select. It is only suit
able for wine, however, and Is not a ta
ble grape.
8. Plant in rows, circling around your
knoll, twelve feet between rows. This
will allow free passage of vehicles. Set
the vines ten feet apart in the rows.
This distance is not too great for ram
pant growing vines of the Aestivalis
species, to which Norton's Virginia lie
longs, and will give you more satisfac
tory results than closer planting.
•l. Train on u trellis of three wires on
what is known as the “Pan" system,
'This is fully described by L. 11. ltailey
in a little work entitled ‘American
Grape Training" published by the Ru
ral Publishing Company of New York.
It is impossible to sufficiently condense
a detail in the limits of this paper. An
excellent and economical method of
training is the "Munson” system. This
you will find fully described in “Our
Native Grape” by Charles Mitzky, pub
lished by Charles Mitzky A, Co., Roch
ester, N. Y. In this connection I would
also advise you to purchase "Huss
limn’s “American Grape Growing uiul
Wine Making," published by the
Orange Judd Co., New York. A peru
sal of these three books—none of them
large—will render you pretty well up
iu the theory, at least, of grape culture
and wine making. Practice and expe
rience must do the rest for you.
5. Norton’s Virginia ought to yield
you. the third year, an average of five
pounds per vine, if properly cared for.
The fourth year this should reach eight
pounds, and a yield of ten pounds per
vine lie reached the fifth year and
maintained thereafter. The latter yield,
wouM (jive yoTt-Ter acre, if vines are
set I2xl* us suggested, pounds of
grape*, on a basis of 357 vines per acre.
This may be considered a medium
yield. At 7 pounds to the vine, 2,500
would of course be the yield. The
amount of wine obtainable depends
considerably on the method of treat
ment : that is, the amount of water ad
ded and the number of pressings
through which the husks are passed.
California grapes yield only about 180
gallons per ton, but American grapes
will turn out, under skillful treatment,
from 200 to 250 gallons per ton, of fair
ly good claret, llussman’s "Grape
(■rowing and Winemaking," previously
cited, will give you full information on
this head.
6. For vines, write for special prices
per thousand to either of the following
parties: I*. .1. lierckmans, Augusta,
Ga. ; G. H. Miller & Non, Rome, Ga. ;
Hush & Non A. Meissner, Hushberg, Mo.,
or Elewanger A Harry, Rochester, N. Y.
On your acreage you will require some
thing less than i,501). They ought to
cost you not more than SBS per thou
sand, if so much.
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