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: HE HENRY COUNTY WEEKLY
CONSOLIDATED JANUARY 1,1391.
Vi) l . XVI.
mot HSSIOXAL CARDS.
t as. G. i‘. C OI3*BJXI.,
DENTIST,
McDonocgh *«*•
Anv i in- i! -stHi.c »■ rk done can ->c ac
;m: :nt •>»!< J Gllu-i In calling on me in pi-r
--.,>n .. r iditic.sii : ni> Ihrongh the mails
I'nrrn- .-ash. m. ■-< special arrangements
an i-tl-i i wise nniile.
r.no W. Bar aw j W.T. Dickkn.
lltiUA A HKltll'i.
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
McDONOI (ill, OA.
Will practice in the counties composing
he Flint Judicial Circuit, the Supremo Court
ti'Ceoigia and the United States District
Court apr27-ly
. If. TIIKIVKK,
attorney at law,
McDonough, Ga.
Win practice in the comities composing
the IV.It Circuit, the Supreme Court of
iJeoig- '. and the United States District
Com!. marl 6-1 y
jjTj *■«•%«.%*.
attorney at law.
McDonough, Ga.
V, ; naetiee in all the Courts ot t'corgis
Speeio attention given to commercial and
i! . re; Ucctions. Wilt attend all the Courts
>t 11 inipton regularly. Office upstairs over
Fun Wffkly office.
t I*. WAX**
attorney at law,
MoDonocuh, Ga.
Will practice in the counties com posing the
Flint Judicial Circuit, and the Supreme and
District Courts of Georgia. Prompt attention
giv u. to collections. oct.i- At
A. IIR6WH.
’ ATTORNEY AT LAW,
MoDonokih, Ga.
Will practice in all the counties compos
ing the Flint Circuit, the Supreme Court ol
Georgia and the United States District
Court. janl-ly
H A. ■
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Hami-ton, Ga,
Will practice in all the counties composing
the Flint Judicial Circuit, the Supreme Court
of Georgia and the District Court ot the
United States. Special and prompt atten
tion given to Collections, Oct 8, 1888
Jno. D. Stewart. j R.T. Davukl.
STHWAKT & lUMKI,
ATTORNEYS AT RAW,
Griffin, Ga.
J i.. TIT.
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Gate City Natioal Rank Ruildiiig,
Atlanta, Ga,
Practices in (he Stale and F. deral Courts.
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IS HIE ONLY •
SHORT AND DIRECT LINE
NORTH, SOUTH,
EAST AND WEST.
PULLMAN’S FINEST VES
TIBULE SLEEPERS
ATLANTA & KNOXVILLE
MACON & CHATTANOOGA
BRUNSWICK & ATLANTA
rriaoi r< ti t\«n.
Direct Connections at Chat
tanooga with Through
trainsand Pullman Sleep
ers to
Memphis and the West,
at iiwosvtlle ultli l»ullmnn
keepers for
WASHINGTON,
PHILADELPHIA,
AND NEW YORK.
FOR FI KTIIKU INFORMATION AODRKSB,
B.W. WSENN, CHAS. N.KIC T
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Leave Griffin 4:00 p. ill.
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M. K. GRAY. Sup’t.
STEWART**
MERCANTILE
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To Their Friends and Customers.
WE THANK YOU FOE YOUR
LIBERAL PATRONAGE
THIS YEAR.
We are ready with the usual fall goods— prices al
ways the lowest.
GOOD BAGGING in 3 yard pieces (no loss in cut
ting) 7 cents. NEW ARROW TIES, popular prices.
MACHINE OIL and STEEL.YARDS.
We have also full line of JEANS of the best >Yiake
and closest prices.
We carry a good line of Home Made Shoes that
are very cheap.
Ol course we have a complete stock of
DRY GOODS, CLOTHING, HATS,
SHOES, NOTIONS, HARDWARE!, TINWARE,
CROCKERY. MEAT, FLOUR. LARD, SUGAR, COFFEE,
tobacco, snuff, etc., etc.
Did you ever think of it? We pay no house rent, do our
own work (for the most part)and have large capital in our
business, and buy in large quantities and do you see how it
is possible for anybody to undersell us? On the other hand
it is a notable fact that all our customers seem to prosper—
the reason is obvious.
We desire to do a
STRICTLY CASH BUSINESS THROUGH THE
FALL.
This you see gives us an opportunity to close up our
books.
We will be prepared to furnish the whole
Country next year on time. We desire to express
our thanks to our customers tor the prompt manner in
which they are settling up—early collections do us a lot ot
good.
Again thanking our Customers each and all for their fa
vors, we are yours to serve
Fhe Stewart Mercantile Co.
Thos, D. Stewart, Pres’t & Gen’l Manager.
L. H, Fargason, Vice Preset & As't Sec’y
| J. B. Dickson, Secretary & Treasurer-
AND HENRY COUNTY TIMES.
McDonough, ga., Friday, octoheu its, ism.
GROTTK IS OOXK,
But His Last Day’s Stay in Atlanta
Will Gong Be Remembered.
Sheriff Glass had a lively time bring
ing Grotte to McDonough last Salur
day, of which Sunday’s Constitution
gives the followina graphic account:
Alexander Grotto made an exhibi
tion of himself yesterday.
About noon Sheriff Glass, of Henry
county, called at the Fulton county
jail and told Mr. Faith, the jailer, that
lie would call for Grotte at ti o’clock,
as he was wanted in Henry on the
charge of cheating and swindling.
Grotte was told to prepare himself
to go. Instead of doing so lie inform
ed Mr Faith that he would go to bed,
and when the sheriff culled would plead
sickness.
He did so. An hour later he sent
word down stairs that he was dying
and wished a physician. This was
merely laughed at. Wo s ent again and
again, and was becoming annoyed in
his repeated requests ( A medical atten
tion after such a statement as lie had
made.
Finally Ernest li Stanley, who was
himself siek iu bed, allhost staggered
down stairs to ask that a doctor come
for Grotto. To sa'isfy ihitn, Mr. Gil
bland, the day guard, telephoned to
Dr. Griffin, explaining the circum
stances.
The comity physician replied that
his advice was for Grotte to go with
the sheriff and cause no d'sturhance.
The message was carried to the fellow,
and he declared that he 1 would never
go, and would die first, "i
At (j o’clock Mr Glass canto, lie
weLt up stairs to Grotto And told him
to come along.
“Never,” said Grotteftrasping the
bed stead, “I’ll die soon el than go.”
“Cotue along and I’ll yon like
a gentleman.” >
The words availed nothing, anil af
ter another request the sheriff got the
assistance of two or three men and
handcuffed the struggling occupant of
the couch. Then an attempt was made
to dress him, hut Grotte resisted more
than ever. The combined efforts of
several men were ineffectual.
The Sheriff finally became angry.
“If you don’t come,” he said firmly,
“I’ll drag vou through the streets to
the depot in your present condition, j
I’ll pay the necessary fine—sloo if 1
need he—for bringing you into public
in that way, hut you have got to;
come.”
“I’ll die first,” was repeated.
With that the jailer, sheriff, guard
and two others dragged the resisting
Grotte out of his room and down the
stairs. He was barefooted and had
but his sleeping garment on, hut that
made no difference to the sheriff. He 1
pulled him through the door, down the
steps, and dragged him on the sidewalk.
Then Mr Glass dragged him up the
street, to the utter amazement of all
lookers on.
When near Hunter street a patrol
man came along, lie asked the cause
of the trouble, and when told, asktd
Glass 10 take Grotte back. The fel
low consented to go to the jail and
dress himself, and they returned.
The minute Grotte got inside of his
room, he clung to his bed and raised a
worse racket than ever. The many
people who had seen the disrobed fel
low on the sidewalk in the hands of an
officer, were in front of the jail anxious
to know what was the trouble.
Up stairs Grotte acted like a mad
man. Finally a half dozen men bound
his arms, and with their assistance the
sheriff had the raving fellow dressed.
A Hack was telephoned for, and Grotte
was almost carried down stairs, with
Ins limbs tied with a rope.
Once in the vehicle, there was little
trouble. The sheriff declared he had
never seen such a stupid exhibition;
the jail officers didn’t know what to
make of it, the outsida specators asked
a dozen different questions.
“I 11 punish you yet,” said Grotte to
the sheriff when they reached the de
pot.
lie will be tried in Covington this
week. Ic is the Cloud matter, and he
will have a hard case to fight.
itabbi Moses I’. Jacobson, of Macon,
; Ga., says : The effc cts of Bradyero
tine are phenominal and lastin 0 .
■ low lii < 'lire All Nliin VMS',
eHwe****
Simply apply ink's Ointment.”
No internal medicine required. Cures
i tetter, eczema, itch, all eruptions on the
1 face, hands, nose, k leaving the* skin
! dear, white and luuithy. Its great healing
! and curative powers are poses sc* d l»y no
I other remedy. Ask >our druggist tor
SWATNfc’a OINTMKNT.
A YOUNG Giltl. SLAIN.
Her Four Mule Cousins Shoot Her
Down in Colil Hlouil.
FottSYTU,Ga., October it.—Miss
Lizzie Gossett, a beautiful young girl
of seventeen, was shot to death about
dark last night by her four male cons
ins, while in defense of her father’s
life.
The young lady was one of the most
popular in the neighborhood where she
lived, and it is said was engaged to
marry one of the young men who aided
iu murdering her.
thk i*ko vocation kok tub traisichy.
The tragedy occurred near Union
vilie, twelve miles from Forsyth.
Mr. J. C. Gossett, the father of the
murdered girl, is a large planter. On
an adjoining farm lives his brother-in
law, Edward Thomas, who has four
sous, lie has had trouble for some time
with the Thomas boys, of whom there
are four, J. U , David, Holier ami
•lake.
Since about the Ist of September
the stock of the Thomases have been
running loose, and very greatly injui
iug Gossett’s crop. The Thomas hoys
themselves would race through Gos
sett's corn and cotton like wild men, re
gardless of the great damage they were
doing.
TUB CUISIS COMES.
It seems that Gossett took up two of
their mules some time ago, but allowed
the Thomases to take them away with
out paying anything for the damage
done. He again took up another mule
that was foraging iu his crop, and this
time said that the Thomas boys should
not get the mule unless they had paid
fifty cents for the damage the last mule
had doue, and fifty cents each for the
two mules before which he hail allowed
them to take away without paying
damages.
THEY ALt.;i 1 Unlit L'NCLK.
The Thomases swore that they would
have the mule if they had to wade
through blood to got him. In this
mood they went over to Gossett’s yes
terday evening about dark and deman
ded the mule. Gossett narn :<1 the con
ditions <is above stated upon which they
could get it. This they again refused,
and repeating their threat, without more
ado all four jumped on Gossett and be
gan to beat him.
SHOT THROUGH THE HEART.
Just about this time Miss Lizzie, who
had been out horseback riding, came up
iu a canter. Seeing the four men heat
ing her fattier, and recognizing them in
the dusk, she sprang from her horse
and, grasping one of the men by the
collar, gave him such a jerk as to throw
him upon his hack. The flash of sev
eral pistols followed from the men and
the girl fell with the exclamation,
“Oh, Cousin David!”
it was David’s nur.t.ET.
It was the bullet of her cousin David
which had pierced her heart. The
murderers fled at once from the scene,
leaving the father and mother alone
with their dead child. The news
spread rapidly, and during the night
hundreds of people gathered at the
Gossett home to see the dead body of |
the girl who had died iu defense of her j
father.
A Muchly-Married Man.
A young railroad official vouches for
the fact that there is a man in a town
on his line who has married four times
[in the same family. After marrying
and losing two of them, the unfortu
nate widower called on the paterfami
lias and asked for the third. “All
right,” said the old min, “and when 1
die you may have the old woman.”
Strange to say, the old man did die
soon afterward, and his last duughti r
did not long survive. When the three
times disconsolate widower was
unable longer to live in single bliss, he
remembered the old man’s promise, and
is now married to his mother in-law.
This sounds like fiction,- but the rail
road man says it is true, and. of course,
that settles it.— Constitution.
It Works YVomlers.
Tlie tonic and alterative properties
of 8. S. S. are now widely known, and
jit enjoys wonderful popularity as a
! spring medicine. It is as perfectly
! adapted to the delicate system of a lit
j tie child as it is to that of the adult. It
works wonders on those who use it as a
tonic, as an alterative and as a blood
I urifier. It gives health, strength and
heartiness to the sick and the feehle.
It is adapted to the very young and the
very old. It revives, renews and
builds up tbe feeble or the broken
down system.
Give us your job wor k. It will re
ceive prompt attention.
Highest of all in Leavening Power.— U. S. Gov’t Report, Aug. 17, 1889.
ABSOLUTELY PURE
Kffocts of Financial Management.
Duly a few people who have closely
observed the operation of our national
financial system are conversant with its
effects upon the business and property
of the country generally. Obsurvatiou
alone teaches that great changes have
taken and are taking place; that prop
erty is passing out of the bauds of one
class into the hands of another class;
that large cities, money centers, ami
large corporations are rapidly growing
richer; and the rural districts poorer;
that a limited low are becoming pos
sessed of piled up millions and the la
boring masses of tlie country becoming
poorer and having an increasing strug
gle against adversity. While some ol
the causes of this struggle by the la
boring people may ho in a measure at
tributable to themselves, other causes
are operating to bring this about.
A close scrutiny of the following
compiled facts and figures will show
that our financial system has somewhat
to do in oppressing the laboring class
es. •
“In 18(>(5 tlie fanners owned 7d per
cent, of the properly iu Georgia, and
the farmers of the United States owued
(J 8 per cent, of the entire property of
tlie country.
Today only 28 per cent, of the peo
ple own homes, and in Üborgiuonly 21
per cent of tlie property is held by
farmers.
Iu 1842 Charles Dickens said a
tramp in this country would be as
strange a sight as a lluming sword at
midday in the heavens. In JB7C there
were 3,000,000 tramps iu the United
States.
The towns and cities of Georgia
have grown at the expense of the coun
try. In ten years the property in
towns and cities has increased $50,000,
000.
In 18GG the congress passed the fa
u.ous contraction act. It was not rig
idly enforced, however, until 1808. In j
18(50 the total circulation was $1,(593,
379,573, amounting to $32 per capita. 1
In ten years the circulation fell to
$400,549,097, ami the money in circu
lation was red need to $5.45 per capi
ta.
In cloven years there was lost by
“contraction” of the currency a total of
$10,149,687,415, shared by tlie people
as follows :
Lost by business men, $1,304,751,-
117.
Lost by farmers, $3,044, 935,297.
Loss by laboring classes, $4,800,-
000,000.
Tlie circulation and its effects upon
the tirms is shown by the following ta
ble :
1811—528,000,000 —Hard times.
181G—$110,000,000 —Good times.
1818—$40,000,000—panic.
1832 $60,000,000 —Fair times.
18;)7 5150,000,000 Booming
times.
1843—$58,000,000—Panic.
1847—$ 106,000,000 —G00d times.
1857 -—5215,000,000 Booming
times.
1858—$ 150,000,000—Panic.
18C5—51,651,282,373, 530 failures
Booming times.
1873—5739,210,000, 5,163 failun s
Panic.
1878—5796,443,000, 8,872, failures
Prostration.”
A Good Farmer.
The Hon. James M. Smith, of Ogle
thorpe county, is a farmer who employs
three hundred hands, and runs a well
equipped railroad of his own within his
farm limits for the purpose of hauling
his supplies and products economically.
He is, therefore, ‘“considerable of a
farmer,” and is a recognized authority
on agricultural matters, Mr. Smith
has just published in the Atlanta Con
stitution a letter of advice to the fat
mers of Georgia, of which the Consti
tution says :
“This letter is timely for two reasons.
First, the time to sow oats is at hand,
and this letter is on that subject: Sec
ond, the coming year will lie one of
high prices for cereals, and the farmers
who have to buy corn will find it hard
to make ends meet. If they have not
made enough to last until next fail, the
f Henry County Weekly, Established 1870,
( Henry County 'limes, Established 1884.
best thing they can do is to plant a
large crop of oafti to supplement their
corn supply. This is a matter of im
mense importance, for the fall oat crop
ripens before summer, and : t will be a
small corn crop that will not hold 'out
till then. If next summer the fanner
has his barn full of oats, he will not
have much high-priced corn to buy. It
i‘.i pretty certain that the prices of cori »
wheat, oats and bacon will all be high
er next year than they have been this
year. The provident farmer in Geor
gia will make his plans accordingly, and
the planting of afull crop of oats is the
lirst matter that requires his atten
tion.
Day Dawn in the Country.
Dr. Taliuage.
I do not' think that it is ever real
morning except in the country. In the
city, in the early part of the day, there
is a mixed color that climbs down over
the roof opposite, and through the
smoke of the chimney, that makes peo
ple think it is time to get 11 p and comb
their hair. Hut we have real morning
m the country. Morning ! descending
from God out of heaven like a bride
adorned for her husband. A few mo
ments ago 1 looked out, and the army
of night shadows were striking their
tents. A red light on the horizon does
uot make me think, as it did Alexan
der Smith, of "tho barren beach of
hell,” but more like unto the fire kind
led on the shore by Him whom the Dis
ciples saw at day-break stirring the
blaze on the beach of Genesartttb.
•lust now the dew woke up in the ham
mock of the tree branches, and the
light kissed it. Yonder, leaning against
the sky, two great uprights of flame,
crossed by many ruudles of fire ! Homo
Jacob must have been dreaming.
Through those burnished gates a flam
| ing chariot rolls. Home Elijah must
4>e ascending. Morning! I wish I
had a rousing bell to wake the whole
world up to see it. Every leaf a
psalm. Every flower a censer. Every
bird a chorister. Eveiy sight, beauty.
Every sound, music. Trees transfig
ured. The skies in conflagration. The
air as if sweeping down from the hang
ing-gardens of heaven. Tho foam of
I celestial seas plashed on the white tops
l of the spirtea. The odors of heliotrope
j overflow .he urns and flood the garden.
I Syringas, with bridal blossoms in their
' hair, and roses bleeding with a very
j carnage of color. Oh, the glories of
, day dawn in the country ! My pen
! trembles and my eyes moisten. Unlike
I the flaming sword that drove out the
i first pair from Eden, these fiery splen
dors seem like swords unsheated by
angel hands to drive us in.
Blackshear Times : We never saw
as much drunkness iu Blackshear be
fore as we did on last Saturday—it was
I hogs. Early in the morning Joe Har
| per emptied several large barrels of
j grape hulls, from which he had made
wine, out in the rear of his store. It
! wasn’t long till the swiue began to
i gather to it like bees to bait, and the
| consequences were, late in the after
noon, almost every hog in town was
drunk. They would stand about upon
the streets with their snout down on
the grauud, their legs standing out on
either side like bench legs, and sleep.
Of course this furnished a good deal of
amusement for the boys of the town at
the expense of the dumb brutes.
Houston Home Journal : A leading
member of the Stonewall Alliance was
beuefitted last spring by the proposi
tion that members of the Alliance enter
into a prize contest iu grain culture.
He carefully prepared five acres of
land and plauted oats. His entire oat
crop consisted of twenty-five acres, but
he devoted very little care to anv ex
cept the choice five. From the five
acres ha gathered more oats than from
the other twenty. He is firmly con
vinced that there’s profit in careful
preparation, and that prize contests
will engeuder the necessary care.
If some people could twist their
mouths around behind their heads they
would actually talk behind their own
hacks.