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1' HSi HEN RY COUNTY WEEKLY
CONSOLIDATED JANUARY 1.1891.
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ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Mi-DonoiOil, • iA.
Win practice in the counties composing
ihc Flint Judicial Circuit, the Supreme Court
ft Georgia and the United States District
Court. «prS7-l v
j am. ii. n Bmm,
attorney at law,
McDonough, Ga.
Will practice in the counties composing
li e Flint Circuit, the Supreme Court of
Georgia, and the United States District
ourt. marl 6-1 y
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attorney at law.
McDonocoh, (sa.
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
I'iiK Wekklv olfiee.
j « 'VAI.I.,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
McDonough, Ga .
Will practice in the counties composing the
Flint Judicial Circuit, and the Supreme and
District Courts of Georgia. Prompt attention
to collections. octs-’79
U/ A. IIHOIVA,
’ 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
jj a. i*i:r.»*i.r.s,
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 of the.
United States. Special and prompt atten
tion given to Collections, Oct 8, 1888
Jno. D. Stkwart. | K.T. Danikl.
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.VI TORNEYS AT LAW,
Griffin, Ga.
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AT TORNEY AT LAW,
Gate City Natioal Bank Building,
Atlanta, Ga,
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FKOM TUE VALLEY OF SHADOW,
Death rode from the Valh*v of Shadow
In clouds that were crimson, and trolled;
“I would, and I would that 1 had, O
The heart of a warrior hold!”
Swift then thro* the Northland he thun
dered.
Struck down there a soldier of fame
Who smote at our heart till it sundered,
Swept clean w ith his besom of flame.
Then sobbed, at the North, every river,
And sighed, at the North, every pine
When Sherman, whom none could deliver,
Passed grim o’er the shadowy line.
Thence Death to the Southland rushed,
storming
Thro’ cloudbanks that luridly rolled,
And he sang, “Oh, I long to be warming
My spear in the hearts of the bold.”
Gray haired was the liero aud fearless,
But Death smote him full on the breast;
And Johnston—Joe Johnston, the peerless--
Went over the river to rest.
Still dogging the footsteps of Sherman,
They clasp on the uttermost shore
Of that river of fable and sermon
Whose voyagers cross it no more.
Then Grief robbed the South of her blushes ,
The winds sighed along o’er the lea;
Savannah sobbed on thro’ her rushes,
Potomac rolled tears to the sea.
He bivouacs in dasics and closer,
Afar from the fret and the hum;
The boom ef his cannon is over.
And hushed is the sound of his drum.
All over, his charges and rallies,
His camping in rain and in sun,
His bugles that rang through the valleys
Are over—all over and done.
All over, the strategic marches
That held the blue legions at bay,
The t 1 irst and the fever that parches,
Are over—all over, to day.
Forget all his faults in his glory;
Be silent and cover them all;
The sword that he wielded is gory,
And hangs in his desolate hall.
Then honor him, chivalrous, fearless,
The gallant, the dauntless of breast;
For Johnston, Joe Johnston the peerless,
Has crossed the dark river to rest.
W. T. Dr.mas.
Sparta, Ga.
Outdone l>y a Boy.
A lail in Boston, rather small for
his years, works iu an office as an et
rand boy for four gentlemen who do
business there. One day the gentle
men w< re chaffing him a little about
being so small and said to him: “You
never will amount to much, you are
too small.”
The little fellow looked at them.
“Well,” said he, “as small as I am,
J can do something which none of you
four men can do ”
“And what is that?” said they.
“I don’t know that I ought to tell
you,” he replied.
Hut they were anxious to know and
urged him to tell what he could do
that none of them were able to do.
“I can keep from swearing,” said
the little fellow.
There were some blushes on four
manly faces and there seemed to he
very little anxiety for further informa
tion on the point.
Conservatory Contention.
“What has become of the Sweet
Pea?”
“Mignonette it.”
“If she told you so you shouldn’t
Violet her confidence.
“You needn't scold about it. I'll
tell Poppy.”
‘lf you do I'll keep out Orange of
his gun.”
“I’m not worried Aster that.”
“You I.ilae everything when you
say it.”
The Rose blushed; the Gentian
looked blue, but said nothing.
“Come, children, y ou mar Elysium,”
reproved Mother Primrose, with a hy
brid air. “Such contentions Rasp
berry much, and may end ill a Cereus
affair.”
Mr. J. 11. Estill, President Morn
ing News Co.. Savauuah. Ga., says:
A member of my family who lias been
a marty r to Neuralgic Headache for
twenty years, lias found iu Bradvcro
tine an infallible remedy.
A chronic kicker is bad enough,
but a continual scratcher is worse,
Better imitate a mule than a hen.
Hunt’s Cure will do up the worst case
of itch known. Pi ice .10 cents.
AND HENRY COUNTY TIMES.
McDonough, ga., Friday, may 15, isoi.
A SOL1I) GOLD NECKLACE.
Hut It Blackened it Pretty Girl’s Neck
and Nearly Broke an Engagement.
Late yesterday afternoon a young
man entered a jewelry store on Penn
: sylvauia avenue, and in a very excited
manner demanded to see the proprie
tor. His countenance indicated a storm,
and it was not slow in making its ap
| pearauc%. ,
‘T thought you sold me this neck
lace for solid gold. It’s nothin" of the
kind. It's a fraud, a perfect fraud,”
stormed the young man. “I paid yon
a sufficiently large pr’ce to have it of
solid gold of the purest grade, but it is
1 nothing but brass, and if you don’t re
fuud my money there will be trouble.”
“Young man, just calm yourself,”
said the jeweler, “and if you can prove
that the necklace is not 18 karat gold.
1 will gladly give you double the price.
Now, tell me, what is the trouble.'”’
“It is simply this. 1 gave that neck
lace to my fiance, and it has resulted
in nearly breaking off the engagement.
The first tire.e she wvore it the miser
able thing blackened her neck before it
had been on two hours. The young
lady was attending a cortillion at the
time, and she is fearfully mortified over
it, for she declares that every girl iu
the room must have noticed the black
marks made on her throat by my latest
present. She naturally concluded that
1, like my gift, was a fraud. The only
way I could make peace was to show
her by your hill that I had paid sufii
cient to insure it being solid gold.”
( “That is what I thought,” replied
the jeweler. “The' fault is not with
the necklace, hut with the young lady
herself. You will find that during the
course of her life she has taken a great
deal of strong medicine containing cer
' tain minerals, the effects of which re
main in the system for years Such a
person cannot wear gold next to the
skin, for the mineral in the system will
find their way through the pores of
the skin with the perspiration, aud even
iu this minute quantity, will attack and
tarnish gold of the purest carat. This
tarnish, of course, comes off, aud soon
there will be a sufficient quantity to
leave a dark-colored mark on the skin
of the fairest woman if she is so unfor
tunate as to have much of these nte
talic medicines in her system.”
The dealer then convinced the cus
tomer that the necklace was pure gold
as represented, but refunded his money
as lie said it would be useless for the
young lady to attempt to wear the or
nament without having a repetition pf
her former experience.
To a reporter the jeweler explained
that such cases were quite frequent,
but not as much so as formerly, because
physicians have iu a great measure dis
continued the use of calomel and other
like drugs in which chloride of tuercu
ry enters as a factor. This mineral, ho
said, acts more powerfully than all
j others iu its attacks upon gold. Its af
finity for the latter metal is what re
mits iu skin being blackened when
gold is worn next to the person. Sil
ver is aiso acted upon in the same man
ner.— Washington Post.
From Bail to Worse.
The ordinary treatment of conta
gious blood poison is to drive one poi
son from the system by introducing an
other. The result, iu most cases, has
been which ttsally foil >ws a leap from
the frying-pan into the fire. I'o put
it milldly, mercurial and other mineral
poisonings have disadvantages which
are hardly less serious than conta
gious blood poison. In either case the
system is wrecked; aud yet there is no
reason why humanity should combine
to suffer. It is the office of S. S. 8. to
cure contagious blood poisoning. For
that disease the medicine is surely a
s|>ecific. Aud it is also its office to
cure mercurial and other mineral pois
oning. In shortS. S. S. is the great
blood purifier. It destroys the germs
of the contagious uisease, aud expeii
from the system all forms of mineral
poisoning. It restores health and
strength to the sufferer.
Now is the time to Btd>i<cril>e.
Angry Spectators a Circus.
A circus and wild west show went to
Knoxville, Tenn., for a week’s stand.
On the third night the large audience
present began to jeer some of the
performers. As the audience became
more aud more excited it worked its
way into the space reserved for (lie
show. All attempts to force the
crowd hack were fruitless, and several
fights resulted. Fiualy a clown moun
ted a block and begau singing a song.
Hu had sung one verse when some
one hit him square lit the mouth with a
brick bat. He fell senseless to the
ground and was dragged away by his
companions.
By this time eveything was in an
uproar. Women screamed and a mad
rush was made for the exit. The po
lice wete powerless. Scores were
knocked down and trampled on. The
manager of the show gqfc on a stand
aud attempted to quiet the mob with a
speech, aud lie, like the clown, was
knocked down.
At this point the riot spirit took
command. Everything in sight was
siezed and wrecked. The band instru
ments were smashed fiat. Tne seats
were torn down and Broken. Some
one cut the ropes aty’i the big tent
came down with a rush,) burying 200
or more people in its fo'us.
A rush then mado for the dress
ing rooms, which were also torn down,
leaving the actors and actresses half
dressed iu the open air. The side
shows were next attacked and wrecked.
After wrecking everything the crowd
dispersed, and the show people, aided
by the police, gathered their traps to
gether aud left on a midnight train.
About twenty people were .hurt, hut
none seriously except the down, whose
nose was broken and lower jaw frac
tured.
James Makes No Mistakes.
1 heard a goo 2 story in New York
the other day ou James Gordon Ben
nett. “One of the maxims of lien
nett’s life,” said a well know.) club
man, “is never to make if mistake and,
therefore, never have occasion to cor
rect one. Bennett makes few errors,
lie never acknowledges one. 1 re
member a few years ago he went into
his club on Christmas day for dinner.
It was his usual custom to give his
waiter #5 on Christmas, lie hud two
small rolls of money in his pocket.
One contained five $1 notes, the other
five SI,OOO notes. When Bennett
had finished lie handed the waiter one
of the rolls of money without examin
ing it, presuming it to be s•’). The
waiter thanked him and shoved it into
his pocket without examination. After
the great editor had gone the waiter
drew forth liis roll of hills and discov
ered to his supprise five SI,OOO hills.
He was actually frightened, and went
to the steward, giving him the mouey
to lock up in the safe until Mr. Ben
uett returned, stating that he knew
Mr. Bennett must have made a mis
take.
“A few days later Bennett returned
to the club The waiter aud the stew
ard called him back into a rear apart
ment and handed him the roll of bills,
both stating that lie must have made a
mistake. At this Bennett straighten
ed himself with an air of indignation
and replied.
“James Gordon Bennett makes no
mistakes,” and strode out.—Atlanta
Constitution.
What It Would Do.
The money paid for cite glass of
beer would pay for one loaf of bread.
The money paid for one glass of
whiskey would pay for one pound of
beef.
The money paid for two glasses of
beer would pay for a peck of potatoes.
The money paid for two glasses of
whiskey would pay for one pound of
coffee.
The money paid for three glasses of
beer would pay for a quarter of a
[Ktund ol tea.
The money paid for three glasses of
wltiokey would pay for a dressed fowl.
The money paid for four glasses of
beer would pay for two dozen eggs.
The rnouev paid for four glasses of
whiskey would pay for three pounds
of butter.
The money paid iu one month for
two glasses of l>eer a day would pay
tor a tou of coal
The money paid in 0.,e mouth for
two glasses of w hiskey a day would
pay for a suit of clothes.
Itch on human and horses and all
animals cured in 30 minutes by Wool
ford’s Sanitary Lotion. Never fails.
Sold by C. I). Mcl'onald, druggist.
McDonough,
I UNSUCCESSFUL SPECULATORS.
Nearly all tlu* Big Professionals the
World over Have Lost Money.
Some people know, all do not,
that this year the great professional
grain speculators the world over are
being worsted. With very few excep
tions. the rich men in the trade have
front the very outset been disbelievers
in high prices. That has been the
case here, ut Minneapolis, aud at New
•York. There are less than a dozen
rich professionals speculators, local
men, who take lines of importance to
make litem at times leaders—Ream,
Cudahy, Bloom, Linn, Roclte, Kent,
Pool, George Smith, llutckhison.
George Smith has been a pronounced
“hull” and has made a great deal of
money 011 the advance. Hutchinson
had been a “hull” in his views and is
supposed te have mado money, hut lie
h'>s not bet. his opinion streight out.
lie lias “straddled,” and gotten in and
gotten out and every such hedge has
cost money.
The others have stuck to the opin
ion that it was to be the ordinary sort
of a year ; have believed that no un
usual prices could be gotten for so fine
a crop as was advancing and have tried
the short side. There were lines of
“short” taken in Saturday which took
two hours to cover aud which must
have aggregated millions of bushels.
In the Northwest there has been hut
one “bull” among the rich men in the
trade—Ptllsbury. 'Lite others among
the flour millers and grain elevator
men have, as a rule, been wrong.
Who have on the “hulls?” It is harder
to say. It has beeu the many against
the few.
While the losses on the “short” side
have been large, the winning have
been divided into innumerable shares,
none of them very large. People iu
the casli trade have had a great advan
tage. They have had the situation
disclosed to them. People in the ex
port trade ami people witli cash wheat
for sale, the elevatorr owners and
others, have been made “hulls” by the
orders they have received and the bus
iness they have done. As a rule they
have made money. Williams, Dunn
and Raker are the best examples of
this class. There has, however, been
no little timidity among the exporters
and elevator owners. There has been
one crowd at New York which has
been very successful.
It has been led by a man who is fa
mous for betting profits. Quinlan got
his people headed right, and tit ‘y were
w ise enough to let their broker press
their luck for them. St Louis lias
been very wrong; wrong from the start.
The professionals down there, like the
big men here, have had their eyes on
the fine home prospects and not be
lieved in foreign damage- 8t Louis
wheat traders have got a good deal less
money than they had six months ago.
The “art club” is never heard of here
nowadays.
San Francisco traders, for some rea
son or other, have been very “bullish”
and very jight. The Frenchmen be
gan their buying of cargoes out there.
That must have started the pacific
coast, men. The amateur speculator
the country over has, of course, been
bullish. He has had his curiosity
roused by the advance; he has dipped
in; mirabile dictu, he lias made money.
A Foot Race for an Office.
Monday last the city election occur
red at Waynetown, Montgomery coun
ty, O. William Sims and Frank Hollo
well tied for the office of treasurer,
eaclt gentleman receiving 332 votes.
To decide the question as to which
should hold the office, there was a
foot race yesterday between them.
The race was a 200-yards dash and
several thousand people wete on the
ground betting on the outcome. Sims
seemed a sure winner until he tripped
and fell within three yards of the goal.
Hollowell feR over him hut crawling
over the line, won the race, amid the
yells and cheers of the crowd. Hollo
wed was duly sworn in last even
>"g- - _
Mistress—Bridget, what is that child
crying so wildly for?
Nurse—Shure, mum, he’s justdrink
ed all his soothin’ syrup and et the
cork, and I don’t know what ails him
unless the bottle he wants to schwally.
English Spavin Liniment removes
all hard, soft or calloused lumps and
blemishes from horses, blood spavins,
curbs, splints, sweeney, ring bone, sti
fles, sprains, all swollen throats, coughs
etc. Save soo by use of one bottle
Warranted the most wonderful Blem
ish Cure ever known. Sold by (’. I).
M c Donald.
A Farmer Holds a Mall “At Hay,”
John Reardon, a Will county farm
er, had a whole barrel of fun the other
day, which might have continued in
definitely had not the law, personated
by Capt. Horace Elliott and a detach
ment of his police stationed in the En
glewood district, suddenly put a stop
to the sport and thereby rescued a
Rock Island passenger tiain from a
most exasperating dilemma.
It is doubtful if any railway history
cau boast of an incident so execrucia
tingly ludicrous.
Iho Rock Island fast express was
due in this city at 10.n0 o’clock in the
morning. On account of Farmer Rear
don’s hilarious obstinacy the train did
not reach the city till noon. Farmer
Reardon got an early start and stopped
at Washington Heights for the purpose
of inquiring the shortest wav to Chica
go-
Some wag told the agriculturist the
“shortest way” was along the Rock
Island track. A few moments later
the fast tnatl dashed around a curve.
The engineer sighted the farmer and
set the air brakes, ut the same time
pulling open the whistle valve. In
response to the shrieks of the iron
horse, Mr. Reardon turned and shook
his fist and made “laces” at, the engin
eer, hut turn aside he would not. The
train hands consulted and decided that
tile obstructionist was a “had man” aud
most likely had a gun. The locoiuo
tive was sent ahead at a slow pace aud
once actually bumped against the old
farmer’s wagon. But he wouldn’t pull
out, aud the procession moved slowly
towards the city.
AtSoutli Englewood a dispatch was
sent Captain Elliott, and a great rush
was made by that officer and his men
to rescue the fast mail. At the police
station Reardon said lie had “the right
of way and didn’t propose to get out
of the way of any gosh-blamed ingine.”
—Chicago Times.
Getting u Pointer.
A Macolt County farmer who was ou
the market with vegetables the other
morning was accosted by u young man,
who explained :
“f have a [latent hay-fork which I
am going to travel with this summer,
and I should like to get a few pointers
from you to start on?”
“Pinters, eh ? Wall, what sort ?”
“How shall I approach the average
farmer.
“Wall, you’ll generally fiud him in
the field.”
“Yes.”
“Just tell him iu a pleasant way
what you've got.”
“Yes.” .
“He’ll ask yon up to the ham to talk
it over.”
“I see.”
“Biit don’t you go. Instead of that
make a bee line for your buggy, climb
in and scoot your boss as fastks he kin
go for the next six miles.”
“But why ?”
“Oh, nuthiii' much. I only killed
six myself last week, but you know it
rained purty steady for two days and
travel was light.—Free Press.
A Czar Hotel Keeper.
The most autocratic hotelkeeper in
the wot Id is in Orland, Colusa county.
I was preparing to go out one night,
when he said to me :
“Be back before 9 o’clock.’’
“Why ?" 1 asked.
“Because I go to bed at that time,
and if you are not hack you won’t get
in, that’s all.’’
“Give me my key,” I said. “I won’t
stop in such a hotel ”
“Oh, ho! you won’t, won’t you ?
Where else are you goiug ? There is
no other hotel in this town, no other
stable aud no other store. You can’t
buck agin me. You lie back, now, by
8:30 p. m.”
I looked at the old brute, and con
cluded I had better stay. I sat down
and he came around and affably ques
tioned me. “Look here,” 1 eaid, “1
have to stay in your hotel, but I don't
want to be bothered with you. So keep
your questions to yourself.”
“I’ve half a mind to tell you to leave.
Can’t I speak to a man in my' own
house ?”
Wealth is sup[K>sed to give ease, but
what if the possessor happens so have
chills? Why, ho should simply ex
change 30 or 73 cents of his wealth
for a laittle of Cheatham’s Tasteless
Chill Tonic and his ease would be re
stored. It always cure* chills. Guar
anteed.
FOR THK IH.OOD,
Weakness, Malaria, Indigestion and
Biliousness, take
BROWN’S IRON BITTERS.
It cures quickly. For sale by all dealers 1c
medicine. Get the genuine.
< Henry County Weekly, Established 187(1,
( Henry County 'limes, Established 1881.
GEORGIA IN BRIEF.
i Short News Items Culled from Varl
oils Sections of Out Stato.
Floyd county is to have a SOO,OOO
court house.
Athens is soon to have a union pas
senger depot.
The premium fund of the Augusta
exposition is .$4,000.
The Georgia turpentine crop this
year will not be as large as the de
mand.
A largo deposit of a very fine black
marble has recently been found near
Dalton.
Kinard and Thompson contemplate
the erectiou of a cfiair factory at Flo
villa.
1 he Desoto hotel claims to have en
tertained la,ooo guests since its open
ing day.
A Northern party is investigating
with a view of establishing a SIO,OOO
shirt factory in Griffin.
W. M. Goodrich A Co., of Atlanta,
aro preparing to develop gold and sil
ver miuining property near Cherokee
mills.
A colored man in Atlanta has been
awarded $4,000 for freezing one of bis
feet while in the chain gang.
Athens will celebrate the comple
tion of the Georgia, Carolina and Nor
thern railroad by an immense mid
summer’festix-al.
The Illustrated South is the name
of a new monthly journal published at
Columbus, in the interest of Geotgia
and the South.
Ibe citizens of Dotiglussville aro
determined to have a bunk soon. Ken
tucky capitalists are interested in the
enterprise.
Fifty rooms aro said to be ready for
guests at the new Wigwam hotel ut
Indian Springs. The formal o|>eniug
occurs to-day, May IS.
Georgia’s home for disabled soldiers
near Atlanta, coat $35,000 . and pays
pensions ranging from $2 to $23 per
month, according to the disability.
Georgia lias not pensioned her sol
diers, but has granted a pension of
SIOO a year to the unmarried widows
of all who lost their- lives in the late
war.
The ladies memorial association of
Dalton have contracted with the mar
ble works of Elizabeth, Ga , for tl o
Confederate monument that is to be
erected at Monument Park.
A man living in Talbot county has
never attended services at a church,
bus never ridden on a train or ever
been to a city. Recently a genVlemau
offered to pay bis fare to Columbus,
bat lie refused.
li. is reported that the Covington
and Macon road has offered to pay
$17,500 as a compromise of tbo suit
for damages by ISaruum & Hailey’s
circus. It is understood that the com
promise will be accepted.
A negro woman in Abbeville lias a
child two years old which a doctor lias
examined and pronounces to be a great
fr -ak. Its bead weighs thirty pounds,
while its body does not weigh ten
pounds. It can neither walk nor talk
and the back of its bead is perfectly
soft.
It is expected that boats will com
mence plying the Ocmulgee river be
tween Macon aud Ifawkinsville in
three or four weeks.
By order of the military advisory
board, the date of opening the Chicka
mauga encampment has been changed
from the 13th to the 16th of June.
An editor down in South Georgia,
in reporting a wedding, said that the
bride was. uot particularly handsome,
hut the father threw in seven mules
and the husband was satisfied.
The suggestion is made that a grand
reunion of the old Confederate veter
ans who fought in Chickamauga be
helil on the histone field this summer
at the time of the State military en
campment.
Houston county claims the youngest
living Confederate soldier. Ilis name
is Augustus L. Dixon, one of Hous
ton’s best citizens. lie entered the
service in 1863, when under twelve
years of age.
A Baker couuty jury has acquitted
Cull Edwards, a well known citizen
who, while drunk, killed Louis Bar
bour, the town marshall of Newton.
During the trial the prisoner’s entire
family, a wife and ten children, were
with him. The acquitted man says he
is forever done with whisky.
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