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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. TIIE- L Do'Vn !..;•« Ar. . - . . ~J 1 ,'tv,. j ■ ■ »• ./ ’ ; f:'.v • East Tin. Virpia l Ga R’Y. 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 FpiFl- I’.i. • ■. A, i,I A* ttXOX* tltl.K. 4TIAJ)T^ SIM Til. Li-sive 7:M »• ">• Aniv. . "nod •• i.t,-i.iiH “ “ Gritliu 8:03 “ NORTH. Leave Griffin 4:00 p. ill. Arr vc Li.uclW . ’ * tJr nwo< 1 .... 4:4b M. K. GRAY. Sup’t. STEWART** MERCANTILE *CO’S* s * CARD * 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.