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THE HENRY COUNTY WYEKLY
VOL. XX.
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ATTORNEY AT LAW.
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Will »*i ictice in ail the Court rof j
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ATTORNEY AT LAW,
McDonoi i.n, ‘ > a .
Will printie*’ in the count ies romposinu
h run t .!u«iici:ii Circuit,the Supreme Omni
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ATTORNEY AT L VW,
on.II, Ga.
Will prut-tie’* ill all the enmties conipos
in.L the Flint circuit, the Supivftiu Oouri of
Gi orghi utiJ the United States District
Court. janl -ly
|j ,4. I’iiKl'liHS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Hampton, Ga,
Will practice in all the counties composing
the Flint Judicial Circuit, t-hc Supreme Court
of Georgia nml the I list riot Court, ol the
United States. Special and prompt >lt<so
tion ''itell to Collections, Out 8, i"t h
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D E N T I ST .
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com moil a led either by eftUing on mo in per
-on or addressing me through the maiis,
Terms ctiali* unless special arrangements
ire otherwise made,
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ATLANTA, CA.
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ATTORNEY AT LAW,
McDonough, Ga.
Will practice in the counties comprising
the Flint Judicial Circuit, the Supreme
Court of Georgia, and the United States
District Court.
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For Yount; Ladios, ltor.noke, Ya.
Opens Sept. 1:2, 1805. One of the lead-,
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health. European anil American teachers
Full course. Superior advantages in Art
and Music. Students from twenty States.
For catulonguos address the President,
W. A. UAItKIS, D.D., ltoauoke, Va.
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Georgia's Tax Values.
The indications now are that the p< r
cent of taxation levied by the state tl»i
year will be larger than it wis last
year.
The few tax digests which have been
returned to the comptroller general
for this year show a very large de
crease in the property values in the
state, and if this decrease continues
through all the counties in the state
the total'decrease will amount to more
than |30.0 10.toK). The decrease in
property values in the state for the
years 1893 and 1894 was also large.
This would indicate that the proper
ty owners in Georgia are annually
growing poor* r. Ilut when the facts
are considered it is safe to conclude
that this apparent decrease in proper
ty is more fictitious than real.
This shrinkage in values founded on
the returns of tax payers is not due to
reckl ?ss speculation by the people, uot
to the bankruptcy of the merchants, or
the farmers, or the failure iu the crops
during the period referred to. It is
evidently true that there has been but
little change in the real status of the
various properties in the state during
these years It is safe to conclude that
the population of the state has not
dimished and that the number of farms
and other industries have uot decreas
ed. It is equally safe to conclude that
the property which was taxed three
years ago is still iu the state, that it
lias not taken wings and hied itself out
of the state, nor been drawn away
through outside influences.
Hence the apparent decrease iu the
taxable property of the state is attribu
table to the fact that the owners of
property have felt the financial depres
sion that prevailed, and they have seen
fit to reduce the value of their proper
ty when making their returns to the
tax receivers. This is one of the uat
ural fruits growing out of taxation in
times when money is scarce and there
is a general depression in business.
No matter, however, what may be
he cause of (Ins great decreaseTn the
value of property, as appears from the
tax returns of the various counties of
the state, it must be admitted that it is
not a very encouraging fact. Never
thtdtss, as this apparent decrease in
property has come about merely from
a shrinkage iu values estimated, we
may sately infer that is only temporary.
These tax returns were the fruitage of
almost universal despond, growing out
of the greatest financial panic that ever
visited or befell this couutry. That
panic is rapidly passing away, times
ai e growing brighter and better, prices
of property are advancing, the tide of
prosperity is heading towards the peo
pie. and the results of these things will
be that soon the apparent decrease of
property in Georgia as appears from
the tax returns, will be wiped out.
While calamity howlers gredHilv
seize upon everything that smacks of
adversity to the people, yet we are
caudid in our belief, with the light be
fore us, that the prospect for posterity
in Georgia is brighter now than it has
been in thirty years.—Monroe Adver
riser.
The President Relented.
There is a mle at Smith College that
no girl can go out driving with a young
man unless he is her brother, her fiancee
or a near relation. Now, once upon a
time not many years ago, a young man
went there to see a girl with whom he
stood in none of these relations, al
though he wished to be in one of them.
Aud like any seusible young fellow in
such a pretty town he asked her to cake
a drive, having no knowledge of the
bothersome rule. The girl said that
she would just love to go, but she would
have first to ask the president. “Is
the young man your brother ?” in
quired that functionary.
“No,” said the girl.
“Is he your cousin ?’’
“No,” said the girl.
“Are you engaged ?”
“Not yet,” the blushing maiden an
swered, “but 1 think we will be when
we come back, if you only let me go 1”
And tradition says that the president
relented and that the couple came home
engaged.
Twu Lives Saved.
Mrs. Phoebe Thomas, of Junction City.
111., was told by her doctors she had Con
sumption and that there was no hope for
her, but two bottles Dr. King’s New Dis
covery completely cured her and she savs it
saved her life. Mr. Thos. Eggers, 13D
Florida St. San Francisco, suffered from a
dreadful cold, approaching Coinsumption,
tried without rcsall everything el-se then
1 Knight one bottle of Dr. King’s New Dis
covery and in two weeks was cured. He is
naturally thankful. It is such results, of
which these are samples, that prove the
wonderful eCicacy of this medicine in
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mcdonougii, ga.. Friday, august h>. iso.-.
A Great Corn Year.
The com crop of 1889 was 2,11-,
892,0 w hushels. li was the largest
crop known in our historj, but this
year’s yield promises to he still largi r
and tlm e*s imate is that it will be 2,400,
000,000 bushels.
The west will furnish a tremeudous
-Imre of this total and the south will
produce more than at any previous
period. The price keeps up fairly
well, and the farmers will make a
profit. The St. Louis Republic says :
Corn is the most valuable agrieultu
ral product of the United States ; uot
only because it is the largest, but also
because it is manufactured and con
sumed at home. The total crop is
transformed directly into human energy
or adds to the country’s employment of
industry by being fed to live stock.
It is corn which makes the American
people the best fed iu the world ; which
gives them a variety and cheapness of
meat foods, phenomenal w hen compared
w"ith the past of any other nation and
strikiug when compared with the pres
ent.
There has been some repining be
cause Europe will uot import our corn
and corn meal iu large quantities.
Some earnest efforts have been made
to introduce the many preparations for
the table which we find palatable and
wholesome. Perhaps these i Sorts are
uot thrown away, but the most profitable
export of corn is in the form of meat.
If the Uuited States can sell abroad all
the meat their corn will make, they
should be pleased rather than discon
tented if not a bushel of corn left our
shores. When the South manufactures
it 3 cotton as closely as the West man
ufactures its corn, the wealth of that
section will no longer suffer iu cornpar
isou with the showing of New England.
There is more to regret in the large
proportion of raw cotton exports than
in the small proportion of corn exports.
This big crop will create wealth and
trade just where they are needed. It
will pay debts, increase the value of
real estate and benefit the railways.
Corn is the poor man’s crop. It re
quires very little capital and can be
produced almost anywhere. It is for
tuiiato that the south is producing so
much of this great staple. We need
it. for man and beast, and even if we do
| uot send it to distant markets it wil^
; keep a great deal of the money at
I home which we formerly spent m the
I west.
No mystery about it. When the
Shakers offered some time ago to give
away a bottle of their Digestive Cor
| dial to anv one who might call at their
i New York office, there was a great rush
| and a great many people thought they
I were crazy.
Subsequent events prove it to have
been a very clever advertising trausac
I tion, for although they gave away
i thousands of bottles, it was in the end
profitable : nearly every one that took
a free bottle came back for more and
I paid for it with pleasure, saying they
had derived better results from its use
than from auy other medicine they had
ever used.
There is nothing so uuiforraly sue
cessful in the treatment of stomach
troubles as the Shaker Digestive Cor
dial, aud what is better than a'l.'it re
lieves at once. ,
Laxol, the new form of Castor Oil
is so palatable that children lick the
spoon clean.
A San Francisco young lady with a
touch of tonsilitis, was consulting the
family physician a few days since.
“That is nothing serious,” said he.
“I’ll touch it up with a little nitrate of
silver aud you will be all right.”
The young lady looked a bit doubt
ful.
“Oh, it won’t hurt,” remarked the
doctor, reassuringly.
“I wasn’t thinking of that. Papa
might object.”
“Why, what possible objection can
he have ?”
“I beard him tefl mamma the other
evening that he was opposed to silver.
Couldn’t you use nitrate of gold ? Sil
ver is so common and cheap, yon
know, and lam sure papa wouldn’t
object then.”
OI«i People.
Old people who require medicine to regu
late the bowels and kidneys will find the
true remedy in Electric Bitters. This med
icine does not stimulate and contains no
whiskey nor other intoxicant, but acts as a
tonic and alterative. It acts mildly on the
stomach and bowels, adding strength and
giving tone to the oigans, -thereby aiding
Nature in the performance of the functions.
Electric Bitter- is an excellent appetizer
and aids digestion. Old People find it just
exactly what they need. Price fifty cents
per bottle al all drug sl-rcs.
Sound Advice.
An Indiana man visiting Georgia
writes the following letter to his home
paper :
‘•At present there are! thousands of j
dollars wojth of native grasses going
to waste every yoar ini these open j
woods for lack of cattle to eat it up. j
What a paradise • for the cattle mau 1
Ten months of luscious feed without a
cent, of expense, exceptufor salt. N>
flios, no mosquitos. What abonanzi
for a hog man with his Herd ruiniiti;
among those chestnuts, acorns, beech
nuts, and coming home for Christmas
with their hides chock full of Armour
butter.
‘•What a country for a man to start
a cannery, and put up vegetables by
the car load. Aud finally what a coun
try for the young or middle aged man
with small or moderate means, to go
and build up himself a home—a place
where the laudlord caunot say “go,”
and he has to jog along, or “come,”
and he has to he up aud ooming, but a
place where he cau sit ninler his own
vine and fig tree and smoke the pipe of
peace, happiness and contentment with
the whole world.
“The renter can hardly expect to
ever own a farm here in Indiana with
his present environments, the laborer
must always be a laborer, but do uot
go there empty handed, for the price of
labor is lower than here. The reuter
with his team, tools, family and five
hundred dollars is just the man they
want down there, and with
habits of thrift and industry, his fortune
is certainly assured. Aud those are
just the men who are not needed here
in Jasper and Benton. There are two
of them for every farm To every
neighborhood in the South where such
meu go, comes a season of rejoicing.
They will meet you with outstretched
hands and words of warmest welcome.
Your coming among them meaus better
times, and the coming of the many
who are sure to follow means greater
prosperity. , •
“Young men go south. Take your
beßt girl right along, aud theu you will
uot be homesick. Or if you have uot
found them yet then go along, and you
will find the fair daughters of the Sunny
South awaiting your coming with
sweetest smiles of welcome. Go when l
you will as the master, uot the ser
vaut. Be the owner of forty, eighty
or a quarter section of land, with a few
cows, pigs and chickens. See how
thvy will grow aud multiply. See how
much taller, broader and bettor you
feel. See the roses coming back to
the cheeks of your wife. The winter
days will not bu too cold to chop and
haul logs, the suinmor not too hot to
harvest wheat and clover and luscious
fruit. Horses, hogs, grain and hay are
higher*iu price there than here, while
stock, fruit aud vegetables are low
er.”
Everywhere We Go
We find some one who has been cured
by Hood’s Sarsaparilla, aud people ou
all hand* are praising this great medi
cine for what it has done for them and
their friends. Taken in time Hood’s
Sarsaparilla prevents serious illness bv
keepiug the blood pure aud all the x>r
gaus iu a healthy conditiou. It is the
great blood purifier.
Hood's Pills become tbe favorite ca
thartic with every one who tries them.
2oc. per box. *
“Here’s to the kicker, the Ireaelier
ous kicker, the kicker who never is
true ; who always is cryiug and never
is trying some good for his own town
to do. No use to correct him nor need
you expect him to get to. the frout like
a than ; while others hustle he’ll sit
down and rustle objections to raise to
each plan. But when the brute dies
we’ll pause with dry eyes, on his for
mer condition to dwell, and we’ll envy
the devil that handle the shovel, when
be roasts the rauk kicker well.”—Ex
change
“This winds me up with men,” Baid
a Pennsylvania woman the other day
when she. received the papers for a
legal separation from her husbaud.
She had tried five husbands, and found
every one so bo a failure. She had
evidently given the tuon the benefit of
every doubt until overwhelmed with
proof that they will uot do to tie to.
A good price for cot.on and other
i farm products this fall would do more
towards restoring confidence and ihe
settlement of the financial question than
all of the long-wiuded speeches and ar
guments that can he brought to hear
upon the subject.
Hit an enemy with the truth if you
want to kill him.
Dr. Price’s Cream Baking Powder
Most Perfect Made.
| Will Pay Less For Hugging.
! he season i>, approuc ing when the
j j.-lanlt rs begin to think about cotton
bagging, l roiu the present outlook,
those who put ill :: supply at an eai ’y
date will pay utiiel, less than they did
last \ ear I In* price is 1 j cents less
than last yin tor jute hogging, and
about 41 cents less for sea island big
ginji.
Tlie conditions in the tra le last year
were quite d lT (rent from those of this
season. Last year, notwithstanding
the prospi cts of law prices for cotton
at the beginning of the season maim
facturers of jute bagging were reaping
a harvest in its sale They bad de
layed operations at the mills, awaiting
the result of the tariff bill, and appeal
ed to be afraid to manufacture largely,
thinking that the English goods would
deprive theu. of their usual profits.
When the demand came and the tariff
was still unsettled, they went to mauu
facturing, aud succeeded iu gaining a
monopoly iu the trade.
The factors who supply the farmers
had only a small supply on hand at tlm
time, and consequently paid high prices
for their stocks ; the farmers, of course,
hud to stand the expense.
This year, the effect of the duty he
ing removed from bugging has influ
diced the trade iu an altogether differ
eut manner. Thu manufacturers have
had to pursue different tactics to gain
the trade The most prominent mills
tearing thut the English bagging would
be brought into this country, have sold
at prices, competing sharply with for
eign goods. They have succeeded in
securing nearly all of the heavy orders
of the south, and now feel easy so far
as keepipg out foreign competition is
concerned. Buyers iu the south huve
taken tho precaution in making con
tracts to have a forfeit clause iucluded,
to be sure that their orders will be filled
at the price agreed upon,
This is understood to have been done
on accuuut of the non delivery of con
tracts during a past season, when it
was claimed that the manufacturers
were short aud the price was advauc
ing.
It has been assorted by persons well
informed that as goon as it becomes too
late to import English jute bagging,
the manufacturers of this country may
advance the price, aud tint those who
puL iu at the present low prices will
reap an advantage over late purchasers.
The shipments of bagging to the
south will not be heavy until about
the middle of August. Thu amount
of stock which the factors have on
hand at present, was left over from last
year, and cost more than the price at
which it is now offered t > the farmers.
The current prices for jute bagging are
as follows : Two and one fourth pound,
G^c.; two-pound, o}. ; one aud three
fourths pound, sjc.
The prices at this time last year
were as follows : Two and one fouith
pound, Be. ; two pound, 7£c. ; one and
three fourths pound, 7c The prices
of sea islaud bagging now is B.jc,
against 12 to 13c last year.—Savannah
News.
A number of boys were bathing in a
large pond in Lowudes county last
week when, it the story be correct, they
had a very frightful experience. They'
were leaping in from a spring board,
and ouo of the boys, after venturing
far out into the water, was cut off from
the bank by a large aligator. lie real
ized his situation, am! at the suggestion
of some one, made a dive for the bank.
Unfortunately as he was coming to the
surface of the water, he struck the ’ga
lf>r in the side. This greatly angered
the big <i»h, and lie began a lively chase
for the hoy, who managed to escape by
rapid swimming
In Norway no mail is permitted to
cut down a tree unless he plants three
saplings in its place.
What a man says in a class uveting
is often vc-ry different to what he would
gay' in a horse swap.
Kansas apple orchards have made
SIOO,OOO clear profit during the last
teu years f>r one fruit farmer in what
the New York Sun dubs “that centre of
calamity.”
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“Ihe Worth of a Soutiiueut.”
The above is tho title of an address
recently delivered before the Washing
ton aud Jefferson Societies of the' Uni
versity of Virgiuia by Mr. George U.
Deck, of Chicago, an ex-federal soldier
who is now a prominent official of tho
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fc sys
tern.
We might easily praise the address
for its graces of style, hut wo prefer to
commend it for its lino of thought—for
its genuine Americanism, and for its
felicitous expression of that sentiment
which the late Henry W. Grady did so
much to build up—a seutimeut which
has brought the suctions together aud
eliminated the old passions, prejudices
aud issues of the past. But we must
let Mr. Peck speak for hituself. After
a glowing tribute to Washington, Lee
and other heroes of the South, he said
of tiie two sections:
“It was, I believe, a brave, hearty
American sailor who said, ‘Blood is
thicker than water.’ Hut who can
trace the curreuts which, uniting in
Auieiicuu veins, make us all members
of the same family? It is of slight
avail to talk of Puritan aud Cavalier.
Did you not have a Fairfax who was
the friend of Washington, uud whose
name is a part of Virginia history ?
Aud did uot the Puritans have a Fair
fax, too, who fought with Cromwell aud
his ironsides? In those old days anil
in that old laud which is the mother of
us all, you who were Cuvaliers thought
we who were Puritans wore our hair
too short; and we solemnly declared
that you wore yours too long. You
named your chilttreu Marmaduke and
Rupert, while we called ours Praise-
God aud Perseverance. But the quar
rel righted itself at last ; and if there
were some scars, civil liberty went on
its way unfettered. The truth is, there
was never much difference iu our
blood ; but there was a difference iu
creed, m forms of worship and iu theo
ries of government. Believe me, these
things, if they had been rightly under
stood, would have counted for little
then as they count for nothing now,
when a wider knowledge is taught us
that men may differ and yet agree.
My sympathies are with the Puritans,
yours with the Cavaliers—but what
shall we say of ourselves ? A dispute
which has been silent so long need not
trouble us. We are always overlook
ing the dramatic unities. We make
little things seem great, aud meanwhile
miss the beauty of scenes which will
live forever.”
The last paragraph will touch a sym
pathetic chord iu the hearts of our
readers North and South. The orator
said :
“Gentlemen, I have seen the uew
South. But I saw it not by the I’oto
mac nor by the Cumberland. I saw it
by the shores of that peaceful lake
whose waters are broad enough to carry
the fleets of the world and deep enough
to bury in its bosom all the hatred and
all the sorrows of the past. I saw the
new South with her helmet on, bowing
to the august present. She had not
forgotteu the past, but was bravely
giving herself to a welcoming future.
There is a great city in the West,
known over all the earth as the type of
eager, restless business activity ; a city
which has been called coarse aud vul
gar, because it is young and strong ;
a city that has been sneered at as ut
terly giveu over to the service of Mam
man. Behold ! On that day every
shop aud store and factory was closed ;
the hum of trade was bushed: the
pulse of traffic ceased to beat. Aud all
this—need I say it?—was because Chi
cago, gathering her own dead to her
heart, found room for yours. Long
street and Lee and Hampton sat at our
hearths, while the bugle and the drum
proclaimed the everlasting peace. The
monument which marks the tomb of the
Coufederate dead at Oaks woods was
reared almost entirely bv those who
fought against them. When it wag
dedicated North aud South marched
together in streets, thronged not with
enemies, hut friends. Remembering
our own heroic dead, we reverently un
covered while you gave tears and flntv
ers to yours. The new South stood in
line with the njw North : and above
them both towered a form, brave puis
saut, serene aud fr< e—it was the new
nation !”
yy B' l.'K CXXUGHT tea cum Constipation
5 CENTS A COPY
Mucking u Widow.
1 was s'.audiug at the end ot the do
pot platform, when a little old woman
drove up with an ox harnessed to a
cart, and handing the rope lines to a
little colored boy who was loafing
around, she came up to the steps and
askod :
“Do you owu this yere railroad sah?”
“No, ma'am, I don’t.”
“Is ttie critter around yere who owns
this yore railroad ?
“There’s a critter inside there but I
think lie’s only employed by the mau
who owns the road.”
“Stranger,” she said, after looking
mo over, “will yo’ back a lone widder
to git jestice ?”
“How back you ?”
“This yere railroad has run over one
o’ my hogs aud won’t pay fur him.
I've come down to git six bits fur that -
hog or turn loose on somebody! I’ll
wulk up to that critter inside aud de
mand uiy money. 110 won't pay and
I'll tacklo him. Will yo' back me to
see a fair fout ? ”
“Why, you are a woman aud shouldn’t
think of having a row with a man, ” I
replied.
“Never you mind about my bein’ a
woman, stranger ! It’s six bits or I
tackle him, but it’ll help me along to
know yo’ ar’ behind me. Will yo’ do
it, or see me git licked and lose my cash
to boot ? ”
I saiil I’d see fair play and went in
with her. She walked up to the sta
tion master aud spat on her hands aud
said :
“Vo’ know about that hog ! It’s six
bits or I’ll light onto yo’ !
“Why, Mrs. Ramsey, 1 don’t own
tlw railroad !” he protested.
“Six hits or a tackle! ’’ she replied.
“I’ll send your claim up to head
quarters to be acted on.
“Stranger, hold my sunbonnet, and
don’t lot him gouge iny eyes out or pall
my ha’r ! ” she said, as she untied the
strings. “Now, then —*
“Hero’s your six bits,” he said as he
handed out three quarters.
“Thankee! Good money is it ?
I’hat squar’s the hog an’ thar won’t
he no fout. I jest reckoned tbar
was away to git at a railroad, but
I didn’t oxactly know how it wuz
done.”
I went out to see her in the cart, aud
as she got seated she extended her
hand aud said :
“Stranger, 1 was a lone widder aud
wanted backiu’ and yo’ backed me. 1
haiut a woman as kin shed tears nor
git off big words, but my airnest wish
is that the Lawd may dun hev mercy
on yo’r soul—amen—g’lang, Sul ! ”
New York Press.
According to a Liverpool paper, a
young man was arrested in that city,
charged with kissing a lady against her
will on the public highway. The pris
oner pleaded that she was in bloomers,
aud he mistook her for his long lost
brother. The magistrate discharged
him, aud it is said the local tradesman
can now scarcely supply the feminiue
demand for bicycles and bloomers.
Professor Otto Lugger, the State
Kutomolsgist of Miunesota, says that
in Chicago county of that State there
are 400 grasshopper killing machines
locally known as “hopper dozers,” at
work aud they are killing 8,000 bushels
of grasshoppers a day.
All good things can be appropriated
to evil purposes. The same bushel of
wheat that makes our bread could have
been made into whiskey aud poisoned
a whole family.
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