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WEEKLY TIMES.
2i Y VOUCH E «< JQHXSOK.
Entered at the postoffice at McDonough
Ga., as second-class mail matter.
McDonough. Ga., Feb. 20, 1891.
That “Little Paragraph.”
An innocent little paragraph in the
last issue of The Weekly unexpect
edly brought forth an editorial of some
length, each, in the Sparta Islimaelite
and the Atlanta Constitution, some
what explanatory.
The aforesaid “little paragraph”
must hare touched a tender spot, else
it would have passed unnoticed.
However, we acknowlegde the error
of hurried paragraph scribbling, and
accept the correction. Perhaps it was
not “amusing,” and we did not really
mean “bitter,” when we used those two
words, to which our contemporaries
object.
In the meantime, we respectfully re
mind them that the “little paragraph”
never once intimated that anything of
a personal feeling existed between the
Islimaelite and Constitution, lu their
anxiety to enlighten some of the small
fry brethren, this was purely a crea
tion on the part of these two great
papers.
The writer hopes he is not mistaken
in the belief that he appreciates the
difference between personal abuse and
argument; nevertheless, he is at least
a little “puzzled” sometimes to see
how such harsh things can be said of
one paper by another, when it cannot
convince that its positions aud ideas
only are correct—on matters of party
fealty, aud otherwise. In fact, some
of them seem to forget that others can
honestly differ with them and still be
loyal to party.
We assure the Islimaelite aud Con
stitution that none could be more de
lighted than we to see them pulling so
well together in Democratic harness,
“for the good of the masses,” and trust
they may never see cause to separate
again. Neither could any be more
earnest for one united, solid front
throughout the entire rank and file un
til a complete aud glorious victory is
achieved. Here’s to universal har
mony—the greatest aud grandest con
summation to be sought.
No, brother Lewis, you need not be
uneasy about our Democracy.
With the free coinage of silver, the
abolition of the national banks and the
repeal of the law taxing the issues of
State Banks, says the Sparta Ishrna
elite, the financial condition of the
country would undoubtedly improve.
The Mayor of Palestine didn’t even
make a case against “your uncle
Jones” when the latter thrashed him.
Atlanta.
To haye or not to have an exposi
tion? that is the question. It has been
given out that unless Atlantians sub
scribe pretty liberally the indispensable
Piedment Exposition and the wild
west show will not be held this fall.
Many of Atlanta’s business men have
replied when beseiged for a subscrip
tion, “give us a rest.” Others have
given from $5 to $lO, and a few ex
ceptional oases more than that. Now
the Piedment Exposition is a good
thing, but isn’t it becoming rather
tame ? There is such a thing as over
doing the matter. Can the people af.
ford to take time every year to give
the exposition the support it needs in
order to make it a succtess? They are
not subscribing very enthusiastically
aud spontaneously enough to make the
managers feel encouraged, anyw'ny.
And we will soon know whether the
tamed red man will give his regular
afternoon matinee at the race course
next fall or not.
The laudscaape artist who is to im
prove the capitol grouuds has begun
his work, aud soon Georgia’s proud
capitol building will have more respect
able surroundings.
It is the talk m railroad circles here
that the East Tennessee road is soon
to enter the union depot. This would
be a much needed improvement, aud
would increase travel on this road.
Bji.l Snooks.
A man who has practiced medicine
ought to kuow salt from sugar; read
what he says:
Toledo, 0., Jan 10, 1887.
Messrs. F. J. Cheney & Co.—Gen
tlemen:—l have been in the general
practice of medicine for most 40 years,
and would say that in all my practice
and experience have never seeu a piep
aratiou that 1 could prescribe with as
much confidence of success as I can
Hall’s Catarrh Curs, manufacturer! by
you. Have prescribed it a great many
times and its effect is wouderful, anil
would say in cenclusion that I have
yet to find a case of Catarrh that it
would not cure, if they would take it
according to directions. ’ Yours truly,
L. L. GORSUCH, M. D.,
. Office 215 Summit Sl
Vt e will give SIOO fur any.case of
Catrrrh that cannot be cured with
Hall's Catarrh Cure. Taken internally.
F. J. CHENEY & CO., '
Props., Toledo, O.
CsPSold by druggists, 75c.
FROM OUR CORRESPONDENTS-
Snapping Shoals.
Scarcely within the memory of that
much talked of individual, known as
“the oldest inhabitant,” has there l»eeii
such an unfavorable season for farm
work as that we have had since the
first of January.
It is now but little over ten days to
the first of March, and still there is
practically nothing done upon the farm.
But, as your scribe has before stated,
if the seasons should prove favorable
after that time, there is no reason to
suppose that crops will not be as good
as usual.
What would be the effect if the en
tire farming population of the Southern
Slates should find it impossible to plant
more than one half the amount of cot
ton usually cultivated ? Would it be
a benefit, or would it prove to be a
disadvantage ? Assuming that half
the area planted would result in the
production of only one-half the usual
crop, is it unreasonable to suppose that,
as the manufacturers consume all that
is now produced, and that the manu
facturer’s stocks of cotton on hand at
the opening of the present season were
very short, the increase in price would
compensate the decrease in production?
But, allowing that the amount of
money received for the half crop would
not be so large as the amount received
for a whole crop, the deficiency would
be, measurably, if not entirely, offset
by the increased acreage that could be
devoted to the production of corn and
g-ain: so that the first of January,
1892, would, in all probability, find
the farmer in better financial shape
than he was at the beginning of the
year. Because, if he has less to buy
with, the increase of food crops would
necessitate smaller purchases of sup
plies.
It would demonstrate too, in a small
way, that the farmsr has it entirely in
his power to control the price of cotton.
It is a well known law of political
economy that supply and demand con
trol every article that is the subject of
bargain and sale. The rule lasing : the
less the supply, the greater the price ;
and vice versa. No one will dispute
that the farmer cannot control produc
tiou of cotton by lessening, the area of
land placed under cultivation. It is
further conceded that a small crop will
have as large a money value as a large
one. It is, therefore, one of those in.
scrutable mysteries, past finding out,
why, with the power in his hands to
control the price of the principal staple
of production, the farmer is content to
go on serenely, stolidly and idiotically,
year after year, and accept the valua
lion of paities whose every interest is
opposed to his own. The world is
ckalengcd to produce any thing that
cau equal this in monumental asininity.
All other trades aud occupations
have bauded together to secure for
themselves a just compensation for
their labor except that long eared
tribe of farmers, who deliberately
close their eyes to the teachings of wis
dom and experience, and idiotically
aud gratuitously offer thimselvs as a
beast of burden to carry the balance of
mankind.
Why is this ? Is it because he is
too ignorant to realize the ignominious
depth to which he has fallen ? Or is
it that he is too iudolent and uncon
cerned to make an effort to escape
from a degrading thraldom, which long
use and custom has rendered compara
tively light ? Or may it be ascribed
to the inherent depravity of human na
ture, which makes an effort of self de
nial that will benefit some one else an
imposibility for him ? It is generally
said that it is because of the impossi
bility of securing unanimity of action.
Be the cause what it may, it is a burn
ing shame that the men whose toil sup
ports the world should, from auy cause,
not receive a full aud just compensa
tion for their labor. But it is doubly
humiliating and shameful that ignor
ance, indolence, or selfishness, should
render useless the all-potent weapons
they possess. That use should rendei
them so accustomed to their ignomin
ious bondage that they have not only
ceased to make any effort to escape
from the most ignominious thraldom
under which any of the sons of Adam
have ever labored since the morning
stars sang together at the creation.
Will they lie supinely down under the
ignominious imputation of being “beasts
of burden,” and “hewers of wood and
drawers of water’’ to the balance of
matikiud, or will they, under the superb
organization of the Farmers’ Alliance,
make one more effort to place them
selves upon a footing of equality with
that portiou of their fellowmen, who
claim for fhemselees the right to say
what compensation they shall receive
for their labor, and not have the valu
ation thereof fixed by those whose in
terest it is to reduce it to the smallest
limit that they can be forced to accept.
If their enfranchisement is ever to
be accomplished, it will be through the
instrumentality of organized effort on
their part. The Farmers’ Alliance is
already organized in their interest and
it does certainly seem that there ought
to be intelligence enough in the ranks
of that organization to devise some!
plan whereby the consummation cau
be accomplished. The suggestion is
offered to the brethren in the hope that
at some future time it may bear fruit.
Feb. lfitli. Claudius.
Mont St. Jean.
More rain more mud.
Farmers would lie very thankful for
a little fair weather now, so they could
commence preparing their lands foi
planting seasou.
Mr. 11. W. Carmichael sold thirty
six bales of cotton last week in Mc-
Donough. Mr. Joe Carmichael sold
twenty-five bales in Griffin the same
week.
Ilarvey Carmichael went up to At
lanta Tuesday to buy more mules.
Mr. Joe Carmichael has had his grist
mill renovated and put in first class
condition. Any one wishing to pat
ronize the mill caD get their corn made
into good meal by bringing it to this
mill on Tuesdays and Fridays.
Mr. John l’enley, Z. K. Harlan and
Jasper Peuley went up to the Gate
City last Saturday.
Mr. John Payne possesses one of
the finest Norman colts ever raised in
this section of Middle Georgia.
VVe are sorry to say Mr. Harrison
sill continues on the sick list.
Mr. P. Fields has fodder in his barn
twenty-five years old.
Why will farmers work so hard to
raise cotton when there is so much
more to lie made raising hogs. Mr.
Jas[>er Penley made more than sixty
dollars inside of twelve months on one
hog.
< >ur friend “Muggins” knows what
to write, and how to hit the target.
We were pleased to read another let
ter from the able pen of "Don Juan”
in your recent issue.
The young people enjoyed a hop at
the residence of W. It. Mays one night
last week.
Will Penley, of Lovejoy, was visit
ing in our community last Sunday.
Duncan & Camp, of Atlanta, have
sold “dead loads” of goods to Henry
county people during the past year
The cause of this is (latent to all close
observes, they advertised in The
Weekly. Griffin merchants would do
well to follow their example.
Feb. 18th. Old Guakd.
Babb.
Mr. Editor, I noticed in your local
column last week that you ask for the
news of the county, and mentioned
Hampton, Stockbridge and other places
of note that you wished correspondents
from. We tak,e this opportunity of let
ting you know that our little village
is located in the grand old county of
Henry, and ought to be worthy of a
small space ia your columns.
Farmers have done comparatively
nothing in the way of farming, on ac
count of so much rain. Hands are in
demand aud hard to find.
Everybody nearly has been afflicted
with la grippe.
Capt. A. 1). McKenzie is cauvassing
the county iu the interest of the Mc-
Vic'ier A Conkle Improved Guano
Distributor, which is given up to be
the best machine on the road.
Mr. George J. C. Smith of Calhouu,
Gordon county, Ga., visited the pat
entees at Babb last week aud purchas
er! the right to Bartow, Floyd, Cal
houn and Whitfield counties. Mr.
Smith is a wide uwake, eneregetic gen
tleman, and comes highly recommend
ed by the most promiueut citizens and
business men of Gordon county. We
wish him abundant success in his ter
ritory.
Mr. Editor, if this don’t fiud its way
into the waste basket, and you desire
our village to be represented in your
columns, we will write you occasional
ly. Success the Weekly and Times
A. V. M.
[We will lie more than pleased to
have Babb represented in our columnus
and hope to hear regularly hereafter.
Eds]
The people at the World’s Dispen
sary of Buffalo, N. Y., have a stock
taking time once a year aud what do
you think they do ? Count the num
ber of bottles tliat've been returned by
the meu aud wome n who say that Dr.
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery or
Dr.l’ierce’s Favorite Prescription' did
uot do what they said it would do.
And how many do you thiuk they
count. One in ten ? Not one in five
hundred !
Here are two remedies—one *the
Golden Medical Discovery,” for regu
lating and invigorating the liver and
purifying the blood; the other, the hope
of weakly womanhood; they’ve been
sold for years, sold by the million bot
tles; sold under a positive guarantee, and
not oue in five hundred can say: ”It
was not the medicine for me!” And—is
there any reason why you should be the
oue? And—supposing you are, what do
you lose? Absolutely nothing!
Cheatham's Tasteless Chill Tonic
has stood the test of time aud pioven
itself worthy of a place in every house
hold. It nevir fails to cure chills. Put
up in 50 aud 75 cent bottles. Cure
guaranteed.
A few reasons why Cheatham’s I
Tasteless Chill Tonic should be used : j
It is effective : it is harmless: it is j
pleasant to take : it is quick in its ac-1
tion : it is cheap; it is guaranted to j
cure. 50 and 75 cents.
Farmers, Don’t Fret.
"" ee
Of all classes of people in the world
the farmer should lie the last to coir.,
plain. It is very generally conceded
that the farmer is the back-boue of the
country, for after he has made a suffi.
cieney for himself the overplus goes to
maintain the rest of mankind. With’
out the fruits of his labor all the wheels
of progress would stop. To dispense
with farming would eventually put an
end to every other business.
None but pusilauimous nethiuims
will complain of the hardships of the
farm. There is always reward for
houest toil, and no toil is more honest
and honorable than agricultural toil.
“He that tilleth his land shall be satis
fied with bread.” Farming always
pays ; whether it pays the farmer or not
it is of untold benefit to somebody. The
charitable farmer should console him
self with the thought that if he is not
getting rich himself it may be that he
is helping some one else to get rich,
and thereby keep the curse off his owu
head. There is not much sense in
counting the expense of farming as an
obstacle to success—and when the ex
pense exceeds the profit there is no
sense (cents) in farming at all. The
brain of the successful farmer is never
bothered with the expense, for he
knows how to manage.
The reason there are so many poor
farmers is not because there are so few
good ones, but because of bad manage
ment ; and bad management is as olteu
the result of hard-down laziness as
any thing else. Some men will buy
ull their coru, meat and fertilizeis, but
half cultivate their lands, leave their
tools in the field exposed to every kind
of weather, neglect their stock aud
every thing else that does not compel
their attention ; no energy to take care,
unwilling to dig, ashamed to beg, so
they just complain. They tiy to justi
fy their failure and to excuse their lit
tle, envious souls by complainiug of
the oppressions of monopolies and
trusts, and in cursiug “Uncle Sam” and
the weather. They excite more dis
gust than pity. Without u change in
their style of farming no change of law
nor weather will better their condition.
An increase iu the circulating medium
would do them no good. There is no
reason why farmers should not be pros
perous and happy. They live better
than any body ; have more good things
to eat; better water to drink ; more
fresh air ; have more leisure and more
pleasure, and should never have what
is called the “blues.” Men of other
professions may handle more money,
wear finer clothes and do less manual
labor, but they can never have more
enjoyment, a better appetite, as good
digestion, sweeter sleep, a sounder
mind, a healthier skin, a purer heart
nor a quieter conscience than the dilli
geut and industrious farmer. Don’t
fret. S. L. 11.
Feb. 1(>.
Siftings Through the Stock Exchange
One of the greatest troubles we will
encounter in establishing a plan upon
which we can harmonize and be united
is the predisposition of some men to
find fault with everything that does uot
suit their peculiar notions.
Occasionally some member of the
brotherhood finds out that he has dis
covered the very spizerriuktum that we
all need to make this machine work
like it ought to. It is as clear as moon
shine to him, that nothing else but his
way is worth a cent. The main object
and intention of this stock insurance
business is simply to establish a uni
form system by which we propose to
transact business upon established bus
iness principles.
An emotional sympathetic feeling
that is sometimes exhibited in the
lodge room has a soft sweet chime iu
its music, but it is as evenescent as the
morning dew. Every man in our com
mon country is required to bear his
I proportional part of the tax levied by
our Btate and county, for the purpose
of maintaining our State government.
Suppose we were to undertake to run
our State government upon a broad,
charitable basis. How long would it
be before the boiler would bust, and
derail the whole machine ? There must
! necessarily be some enactments that
will seemingly work hard on some poor
brother, unless he is taken up and car
ried as an obj :ct of charity.
Some meu are going to undertake to
run a farm with a poor old worn out
mule, that is not able to walk across
the field, much less to pull a plow,
j Don’t you know his old mule is going
to surrender by the first of March or
the middle of April 5 That old mule
was estimated at S3O by the appraisers.
Now, when he dies there is only §2O
to the owner of poor old Jack. That
will be all that that poor brother will
be entitled to.
But, my good friend ami brother,
who is to blame? We are uot the ser
vants of a rich husbandman, who has
plenty of money at his disposal, and he
ke has the right to give a penny on
ly to those who had borne the heat aud
burden of the day just precisely what
they agreed to work for, but a poor
brother comes in with an eleventh hour
mule, and wheu the evening has come
aid the roll is called the brother who
had wrought but oue hour gets just as
much for an old worn out s.'so mule as
the other does for his $l5O mule, in
case his fine young to die.
We h ave some brothers among us who
want a stipulated price to be paid to a
poor brother when he loses his mule.
Pay him $75 because lie had the mis
fortune to lose his old superanuatrd
mule, that had been entitled to a pen
siou ever since the war of 'l2.
Now, if we can get up an old mule
that is barely able to walk up to the
appraisement, it don’t matter, so we can
have him entered. 1 don’t expect my
old mule to live, and if 1 can get him
entered and registered, I can well afford
to see him hauled off to the bone yard,
provided I can get $75 to buy another
one that w ill be worth as much again
to me as the oue 1 lost.
Now, brethren, I would fondly hope
we have but very few men in our ranks
who are so devoid of the b reat priuci
pie of right, as to impose on his friends
in any such way. It matters not how
poor we may be, we can maintain the
great principle of honor and right, as
nobly as our more fortunate brethren
can. Let them fi>» tbit. we fire made
the right vv:i\ ut tlio dir:, and m the
hour of our greatest need we w ill not
be forsaken. 1 had rather hi regarded
as an object of charity, than conde
scend to any act unworthy of a gentle
man and alliancemati. W, T. G.
Obituary,
llrother John N. Hightower is dead !
He was hern December sth, 1812, and
died January 30th, 18'Jl. Age forty
eight years, one month and twenty five
days. He wa3 a consistent member of
the M. E. church, South ; a member of
the Masonic Iraternity, and a Confed
erate veteran, a member of the JOtli
Ga. regiment. lie was buried with
.Masonic honors in Concord cemetary.
No more on earth cun his loved ones
greet his return, nor his many friends
welcome him to their embrace Kor
his place is vacant, hut his loving
words and kind deeds will still live in
our minds to encourage us to press on
m the battle of life, and be ready so
when death comes we can all he as he
said, and have iot a single fear. John
spoke often on the subject of death to
his family and friends, and calmly told
them that he was living for another
world, for that is the meaning of life.
His last words before he became un
conscious were, “Thy will be done,”
and “I have not a single fear of death.”
What a glorious privilege that it is our
privilege, as it was his, to live so that
when we come to die we, wish him,
can say there is not a single fear be
tween me and the sweet-bye niid bye,
for lam almost there. May tile God
he loved help the bereaved ones by. an
eye of faith to see him just over the
River of Death, now h ippy and wait
ing for them. While ix fleeting on his
death wo exclaim, with the poet:
How blest the righteous when he dies,
When sinks a weary soul to rest.
How mild’y beams the closing eyes ;
llow gently heaves the expiring
breast.
Life’s duty done, as sinks the clay,
Light from its load the spirit Hies,
While heaven and earth combined to
say :
How blessed the righteous when he
dies.
C M. S.
Everbody Knows
That at this smison the blood is fille
with imparities, the accumulation of
months of close confinement in poorly
ventilated st. ires, workshops and tene
ments. All these impurities and even
trace of scrofula, salt rheum, or other
diseases may he expelled bv taking
II nod,S Saisaparilla, the best blood pu
rifier ever produced. It is the only
m dicine of w hich “100 doses one dol
lar” is true.
A good horse and young mule for
sale cheap. Call on G. F. Turner.
[HOQD’VI
COMPOUND EXTRACT^V^S^,
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The importance of purifying the blood can
not be overestimated, for without pure blood
you cannot enjoy good health.
At this season nearly every one needs a
good medicine to purify, vitalize, and enrich
the blood, and we ask you to try Hood's
Do/'i ill -a v Sarsaparilla. It strengthens
rCCUMdr and builds up the system,
creates an appetite, and tones the digestion,
while it eradicates disease. The peculiar
combination, proportion, and preparation
of the vegetable remedies used give to
Hood's Sarsaparilla pecul- T- I-f coif
iar curative powers. No * I LOCI I
other medicine has such a record of wonderful
cures. If you have made up your mind to
buy Hood's Sarsaparilla do not be induced to
take any other instead. It is a Peculiar
Medicine, and is worthy your confidence.
Hood's Sarsaparilla is sold by all druggists.
Prepared by C. 1. Hood & Co., Lowell, Mass.
100 Doses One Dollar
NOTICE.
All parties indebted lo the eslate of A.
Brown, deceased, will find their notes and
accounts in the hands of K. C. Brown. Call
on him and make settlement
R C. BR >WN\
A. G. COMBS,
Exicutors ot A. Brown, d -c'd.
Your ATTENTION, Phase!
lam prepared to serve my customers this year with ev
erything in my line at the VERY LOWEST PRICES, and
give everybody a cordial invitation to call on me.
I continue to carry a full line of FURNITERE, and will
not be undersold by city or country houses. Nothing but
reliable goods kept.
I sell several splendid brands of GUANOS, and have put
prices just as low as good grades can be handled. If you
want fertilizers it will be to your interest to see me before
placing your (frders elsewhere.
My Undertaking Department is the Best in the Countrv—
Full and Complete. A SPLENDID HEARSE
Sent Free when Price exceeds Twenty Dollars.
Lumber, Shingles, etc., Constantly on Hand. I Repre
sent the Finest Tomb Stone Monumental Works. Sells the
Wheeler & Wilson Sewing Machine, the Finest on the
Market.
B. B. CARMICHAEL,
McDonough, Ca.
When you go to Atlanta for
CLOTHING do not fail to call on
the O. K. CLOTHING HOUSE.
There you get the best and cheap
est Fine, Ready Made Clothing in
the City.
ALEXANDER KREISLE,
49 WHITEHALL ST„ ATLANTA, GA.
McDonough Institute,
An English, Business and Classical School,
Begins its SPRING SESSION
JAN. 5, 1591, AND CONTINUES FIVE MONTHS.
o
Faculty.
O, E. HAM. - - - Principal
S W. DUBOSE, - Teacher of Intermediate Department
MRS. O- E. HAM, - Teacher ot Primary Department
RATES OF TUITION:
Primary Class, per month, co
Intermediate Class, per month, - - . , iio
Advanced Class, per month, - - _ 2so
Music, per month, - - _ ,E 0
Incidental Fee per Term (payable in advance) - ”50
TUITION PAYABLE MONTHLY,
Patrons will receive due credit from the public school
tund. YV e solicit the patronage ot the entire community
and will leave nothing undone that would further the educa
tional interest ot each and all. Give yo.,r children an edu
cation, lor this is a companion which no misiortune can de
press, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate, no des
potism can enslave; at home a friend, abroad an introduc
tion, in solitude a solace, in society an ornament.
Board at SB.OO to $ 1 0.00 per Month.
For further particulars address any of the following:
E J Reagan, Pres., J W Alexander,
A b Harper, Sec. T C Nolan,
H J Copeland, Treas, 11 C Turner,
B B Carmichael, O E Ham, Prin.
A FIRST-CLASS
| Printing Office
For Sale.
Includes Washington hand
press, Gordon jobber, stands,
galleys, news and display
type, and other things neces
sary tor a good country news
paper and job office.
Can be had at a bargain In
applying to
FOUCHE & JOHNSON,
McDonough, Ga.
It is the outfit used in print
ing the Henry County Times
previous to consolidation with
this paper.
Honey to l.oan.
We have recently made arrangements to
loan an unlimited amount of money on leal
estate.
Loans made for flee years with the privi
lege of payment in lull or part at any time. I
No delays Cheapest monev in the county. I
RAY A FRANKLIN, ‘ i
Sept. lii. Jackson. Ga.
_ - t
All parties indebted to Neal
Lemon & Knott are notified
to come forward and settle, as
we have sold out and the
business must be closed up j
without delay.
Dissolution.
'1 lie firm of '1 HOS. D. STEWART A ; 0.
IIS tills day Unsolved by mutual consent,
and is succeeded By THE STEWART
M RCAN’TILE COMPANY, for whom we
Be-peak success. Mr. Tims. D. Stewart
« ,11 collect the notes and accounts due the
old firm, and will sign the firm’s name in
liquidation. We thank our friendi and cus
tomer. tor their liberal patronage, and
kmdiv request all who are indebted to the
old firm to nuke settlement as early as
possible, as we wish to wind up th/o’d
business. THOS. D. STEWART.
WAI KER P. INMAN.
McDonough, Ga., Jar . |, l.sqi,
XOTICE.
U. leering to the above, we beg to inform
our friends and the public generally that
«c have associated ourselves together un
der the corporate name and style of The
Stewart Mercantile Company, for the pur
pose of doing a general mercantile business
at M Donough, at the old stand of Thos. D.
Stewart A Co. We an young men and
have ample facilities and a thorough knowl
edge ot the business. W« propose doing i
strictly straightforward Business, „ pm
strictly honest principles. We are pre
pared to accommodate mtr cusiomtrs and
friends on time, and will thank the uuldic
tor their favoraßie consideration.
Respectfully,
THOS. I). STEWART.
J. B. DICKSON.
L. H. PARGASON.
McDonough, Ga.. Jan. I . ISJI, .