Henry County weekly and Henry County times. (McDonough, GA.) 1891-189?, October 30, 1891, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Textiii: iii-.NRY COUNTY WEEKLY CONSOLIDATED JANUARY 1,1591. VO . XVI. ruoFESSI OX A l- CA 11DS. I |Sr. a. i». n niMiKM., DENTIST, McDosoiuh <»* An' one «l -irinir work dune can l»e ac eommtMis.tcd either l»y malting on me in per son or joMi • -sin.ix me through the mails. Terms -ash. unless special arrangements are otherwise made. Bit? AX | W.T. Dh'KKN. tißVi> IMIKI attorneys at LAV.’, McDonoloh, *.*A. Will pi notice in the counties composing ,he Flint .1 iiilioiiil Circuit,the Supreme Court r f Georgia and the United States District Court. apr27-lv j Ifi. I«. II IOUK, attorney at law, McDoxoikiii, Oa. Will jiractioe in the counties composing I|,c Flirt Circuit, the Supreme Court of Georgia, and the United States District Court. mariti-ly (7 3 attorney at law. McDonough, CiA. W ill -actice in all the Courts ot Georgia Special I tent ion given to commercial and thcrco ;ections. Will attend all t he Courts it Ham; t on regularly. Office upstairs over The W i ki.y office. j r. w ABsi., A I'TORNE’S AT LAW, Me Do no i tin, G a . \V' ill j icticc in the counties composingtlie Flint .I :i<-iiil Circuit, and ihe Supreme amt District ourts of tieorgiu. Prompt attention giv iii 10 collections. octs- . D A. BBOIViV. ' ATTORNEY AT LAW, MeDosocuh, Ga. Will practice in all the counties compos ing the Flint Circuit, the Supreme Court ol | tleorgia and tlie United States District Court. janl-ly W A. hhki-i.km. ATTORNEY AT LAW, UaMI'TOX, Ga, Will practice in till 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, 3888 ■lno. D. Stkavakt I If . T. Danikl. KiiiH Ait r .v attorneys at law, Grikkin, Ga. joiipt i,. rvi:. ATTORNEY AT LAW, Gate City Nnlioal Hank i’nilding, Atlanta. Ga. ioaciir. - in tin 1 Slate and Fidcrai Courts. THE— sv,5 v, ’‘-x: >- v - V. fei-V T"'*/ \&£X m ■ d '<f 'Jo * T : ' % LtfSESL • -rf . •- : * •$+ -<t\i " . ,- -A ' JUi' wmsk‘~ " : sSr2k Up m TaS vM iwm East Tin. Virginia & Ga, R’Y. IS THE ONLY SHORT AND DIRECT LINE TO THE NORTH, SOUTH, EAST AND WEST. PUL MAN'S FINEST VES- T 3ULE SLEEPERS BKTW KEN ATUUTA & KNOXVILLE NiACON & CHATTANOOGA BRUNSWICK & ATLAi 7 A 11 ITHOM ( lUAtti:. Direct Connections at Chat tanooga v/ith Through trains and Pullman Sleep ers to Memuhis and the West, ;>t Kuoivillc xvilli s*iilliiuin Sleepers I’or WASHINGTON, PHILADELPHIA, AND NEW YORK. 1 fit! It ItTIIKK IXFORMaTIuX ADDRESS, B W .VRENN, CHAS. N.KICST (■elf!. Ajf .. A.f . r. \. kmi.vviii.l .\t|.a*t\ tnil ft <inll'U.R. SO I TU I. mm' Me Donor."b *• m ' u ■ ■ ■ * '■'*' - 1.-.iuelln 1 “ .. r„miu ■ “ SOOTH- Leave Griffin 4:(KI p. m. An- w LniielH 4:(0 - • i -4.40 “ M. E GRAY, Sup’t. **STEWART** •MERCANTILE* *CO’S* * CARD * To Their Friends and Customers. WE THANK YOU FOR 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 STEELYARDS. We have also full line of JEANS of the best Unake and closest prices. We carry a good line of Home Made Shoes that are very cheap. Of 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, d i 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 sec 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 for the prompt manner in which they are settling up—early collections do us a lot of good. Agipn thanking our Customers each and all lor their fa vors, we are yours to serve The Stewart Mercantile Co. Thos, D. Stewart, Pres’t & Gen’l Manager. L. H. Fargason, Vice Pres’t & As’t Sec’y. J. B. Dickson, Secretary & Treasurer- AND HENRY COUNTY TIMES. mcdonougii, ga.. Friday, October bo, ism. SOON THKYT.L MARRY, , The Groom One llnmired und Thirty, the Bride Seventy-Six. lie oldest nmn in the ci nnii \ i, now on exhibition at tlio exposili n ground*, j near the grand stand. lie has livid in Georgia year* with out number, and has a hi tol v the like of which has never been written. To j he appreciated liest the old man's story 1 should be heard front his own lips. : Notwithstanding his advanced age, lie retains all his mental lacultie* and takes great pleasure in talking to visitors. Physically the old man itf not nearly so feeble as one, readiug of his case, wou.d naturally suppose. The old man fought through two wars preceding the revolution, he being over 75 years old when lie enlisted the last time. Hut the most wonderful thing about j 11 tram Lester remaius to be told. The old man is soon to he married. t Lite wedding will occur some day dur 1 ittg the exposition. 011 a couch near ltis chair sits an aged woman. This is the old geutie man’s intended. “She tells me.” said old matt Hiram, “that she is only seventy six, hut 1 be lieve site is more than that.” Then the old tellow turned and laughed at his fiance anil site laughed gleefully hack. They are as lively as crickets, so far as their tongues are concerned, this old couple, and they seem to be as happy over their approach'ng nuptials as any pair of youngsters whose life is yet in the morning hours 1 here is nothing at the Imposition more worth the seeing than they —At lanta Herald. Col. Womack Inclined. Not by the grand jury, for the gen ial, witty, and eloquent, it not hand some, Solicitor-General of the. Flint Judicial Circuit is hand and glove with the Grand Inquests throughout the jur isdiction in which he ami they are jointly a terror to evil doers. But Col onel Womack has been arraigned by the Bartlesville Gazette for high crimes and misdemeanors aud that paper sternly demands that lie resign his lu crative and honorable office. As Col onel Womack lias many friends over the State who are not aware that he has been guilty of grave official derelic tion, we reproduce the indictment which the Gazette brings against him : “If the Gazette is correctly inform, ed, Colonel Emmet Wouiack, solicitor for the Flint Circuit of Georgia, should resign his position, in fact, he should have resigned some time ago. We are told that for the past year he has given little attention to the duties of this im portant ollice, having entrusted them to almost any lawyer whom he could secure to represent him. It ’is public ly stated that Colonel Womack is in the employ of a railroad, and now de votes his time almost exclusively to the interests of that road, rarely ever at tending the sessions of court held in this circuit “If these statements are true, Col. Womack should at once tender his res iguation as Solicitor, so that some one may be appointed who would devote his time to the work of the office. It is more than a year until Col. Wom ack’s term of office expires, and why should the state pay him for a service rendered by other lawyers ? There are other lawyers, possibly, who would like to have the position, and who would give their time and en ergies to the duties of the office. This would be best for the State. “Let Col. Womack resign at once, so that some one may be appointed to fill this position.” The gifted Womack will doubtless be able to plead to tins indictment without retaining counsel, but we vol unteer a word of defense. If lie lias been negligent of bis official duties, be lias nevertheless managed to make the reputation of being one of the most ef ficient and successful of the Solicitors- Generai of Georgia. The law imposes no restraint on him in respect to the practice of bis profession, outside of criminal prosecutions where lie repre i sents the State, and be is at liberty to j devote bis services to other clients* ! There are doubtless other competent I lawyers in the circuit who would like ;to have the office, but we trust Col. Womack will be permitted to serve out his term, unless be commit some more heinous ci ime.—KnquiruSuu. Itch on human and horses and all animals cured in 30 minutes by Wool* j ford’s Sanitary Lotion. Never fail, j Sold by C. I). McDonald, druggist McDonough, Ga. Providence, Luck or Accident? W hen the train pulled out of Gal veston every seat in the second class car had at least two occupants. The first stopping place outside of Galveston was a flag station, and a' this place a neatly but poorly dr. sved man stepped on and made his way to the second class car. The two men on the front seat ini mediately made room for this new pas stinger, who carried a hook under one arm and looked every inch a preacher. And he was a preacher in a small way. For ten years ho iiad been a circuit rider, and having received his first call to become the pastor of a church, he was on his way to his parish. I'lic three men certainly wore each of a different class ! Tlie most conspicuous was the one who wore a sleek beaver hat, a broad cloth suit, red cravat and “patent leathers,” a drummer presu nably. The man who hail occupied ihe seat with the drummer from Galveston was surely a tough looking citizen. A slouch hat covered the shaggy hair and his face iiad not felt the touch of a j razor for three weeks. His profession was stamped in his every feature— gambler. I he third man was the preacher. The three men were soon talking to gel her, as men will oil short ucquain tance, when the drummer remarked that things were sometimes changed for better or worse by the merest ae cidt tit. ‘ No,” said the gambler, “you are wrong. It is simply the way your luck runs. “Last week I was in a gambling dive in Galveston, playing poker with Monte .Jack, well known to he a cool and desperate man, aud possessed of an unerring aim witli the revolver. “We had been playing some time when we struck a “jack pot.” Monte Jack dealt the hand and tried to run me out by bluffing, but I was “heeled.” There was quite a crowd around us and there was a $2,500-stake, so I de tei mined to stick it out. I saw him one better and called. “Throwing down his hand, two kings, two tens and a queen, he started to rake in the ‘dust’ aud money, hut before he could do so I exposed my cards, three aces and a pair of fives. as a thought he changed the motion of his hand and drew his pistol. As soon as I saw him reach for his pis tol 1 drew mine, but lie had been too quick for me, and shoving his pistol into my face he pulled the trigger. “In another iustaut he was lying dead on the floor with a pistol hall in his head! “Luck had been with me—Monte Jack’s pistol had failed to fire.” “Your ‘luck’ is ail well enough,” re marked the drummer, “but let me tell you a little story. “A traveling friend and myself had just taken out a couple of accident pol icies for $3,000, at.d on the same day went out riding together, as we were out of a job and had plenty of time. “While we were out riding the horse became Lightened and running into a tree upset the buggy. I escaped un- j hurt, hut my friend, by the merest ac cident, sustained a fractured ankle. “For this he received SIOO per | month for two mouths. I now owe ' my friend $75, us I was out of a job! for that length of time and was obliged to Iwrrow from him. Had it acciden tally been me 1 would be $275 in.” “My brothers,” said the preacher, “I fully understand what you think, hut you both are wrong. You should look to Providence, our Lord llimself, for the true reason of any and every thing that happens, not only to your self, hut to others. “Why, when my dear wife was so sick and the doctors—human doctors— had given up all hope of her recovery, the Great Physician answered my pe titious and she— There was a terrible crash ! A train, freighted with human souls rushing along at the rate of forty miles an hour, had run into an open switch and collided with the rear end of a freight train. The groans of the wounded, and the shiieksaud yells, curses and prayers that came from those under the wreck age, now cue mass of roaring flames and rolling smoke, was enough to drive crazy the few survivors of that awful calamity. Some bodies of the dead have been recovered from the wreck and placed on the hillside Ail within the possibility of human strength, human energy and human Highest of all in Leavening Power.— U. S. Gov’t Report, Aug. 17, 1889. D o y a j Baking Powder ABSOLUTELY PURE sympathy has been done! A man stands near the dead gazing upon them in silent contemplation. Suddenly he stoops and nncoveis the face of the first hotly. It is the drum mer. lie uncovers the face of the sec ond. It is the face of the gambler. Kneeling upon the giouud by the dead, the preacher pours forth his thanks to the Providence that had sav ed him when the gambler’s “luck” had deserted him, and the drummer’s un fortunate “accident” hud come at last. —Percival Blipp. I'HK THUNDERING NUKING. A Natural Wonder of Georgia and the Story Connected With It. In the county of Upson, fourteen miles west of Thomaston, three miles from Flint River, among the hills of the Pine Mountain, is a most remarkable spring, known as the 'Thundering Spring, forty or fifty years ago. I was familiar with all the surroundings of that locality, and I have never seen a description of the spring, and —so far as 1 know—it is not mentioned in any history. I propose to give a brief out line of the spring as I saw it forty-two years ago. At the foot of a steep hill, 200 or 300 yards from the public road, it bursts out of the ground in a volume sufficient to drive a mi'l. The spring is about four feet, constantly boiling up line sand, which is thrown off every day, forming a dark circular ring the size of the aparture. 'The most re markable thing about it is that the sand all stops about sixteen inches below the surface of the water. 'The water for sixteen inches is as clear as glass, below that as dark as a soap pot boiling,which it very much resembles when at rest. Occasionally a large bubble bursts at the surface, stirring up the sands, which soon settle buck in the same po sition. 'The depth of the spring is un known. The hubbies make a peculiar rumbling sound before reaching the surfuce, hence its name. I will close this desciption by relating a legend about the spring as handed down by the Indians. On the top of the hill and near the public road is a hole in the ground about fifteen feet deep and ten feet acioss the banks, overgrown with trees. This was once the thundering spring. Some white man put up a doggery, where he sold “fire-water” to the In dians. One day the Chief of the tribe got drunk, mounted his pony and seem ed to want to ride over everything and everybody he saw. lie had ridden his pony into the doggery, much to the const* rnation of the keepy and the de light of tie Indians. After tiring of this kind of sport, he concluded to ride into the spring. His friends tried to pursuade him, hut lie, with a great oath (for the whites had taught him to curse), said : “I will ride my pony into that spring if I sink in aniitiute.” 11 is friends, his wife and children among them, caused their efforts to prevent | him and in he plunged. As the pony struck the water it ceased to boil up ; ward and went down in a whirlpool— Indian, pony and all, out of sight. The water burst out in a short time at the foot of the bill, where it now is, but the Indian and bis pony were never heard of afterwards.— Flowery Branch (Ga) Journal. “Madame,” said the tramp, “can I get a lumcheon here to-day ?” “You can sir, if you can saw that pile of wood over there,” answered the tnadarne promptly. “Mv good woman,” said the visitor dejectedly, “allow me to correct your gran.aticai construction. Saw is the imperfect form of the verb to see. It relates to the past. For example, in speaking in the present tenss, I would say that 1 can see that pile of wood over there, not that I can saw it. Go you grasp the distinction tnadarne ?” She did, and the broom, too. Corn is well provided with ears, but its talk doesn’t amount to much ; its too htiskv. < Henry County Weekly, Established 1870, ( Henry County 'limes. Established 18X4. lIKAI> <»►’ A HITMAN. Body Like a Huge Snake, Winds Around In All Conceivable Forms. -Mi ni ik, Ini*., Oct. It—Word reach ed this city from a source that can be regarded as being perfectly reliable, of the discovery of a semi human mon strosity that liys all other freaks of na ture in the shade. Yesterday, while T. •1. lilackburn, a Washington township farmer was going through a cornfield, in which were numerous stumps, he discovered lying on one that was about lour feet in diameter a female dog I hat had given birth to a litter of pups, one of which possessed the head of a human being, although its face bore a striking resemblance to that of the worst kind ol an idiot. Its body was shaped like a boa constrictor, and, being of unus ual length, it would wind around in AM, COVC EIV AItI, K FOK.UB but without injury to any of its broth ers and sisters. The forelegs are much longer than the hind ones, which gives it a giraffe appearance when standing on its feet Its skin is soft and pliable, and is possessed of no hair, with the exception of a very small “casis” on the top of the head. Instead of whin ing, like all pups, it gives out a hide ous scream that imitates an eagle when fighting for its young. While the freak snaps like a dog and is possessed of a full set of teeth, its instinct causes it, not to molest or disturb its relatives, Other tlmu thu unuoyauce that is brought about by natural causes. On its feel are claws that extend several inches in length. This monstrosity will, in all probability, h i exhibited, and it is expected that the owner will reap a rich harvest for the exhibition. Hi'iuking IScgets Stealing. Mr. and Mrs. .1. S. Milner were vis iting Atlanta this week. Mi. Milner gives us the following extract from a conversation he had with a friend : “A man who drinks will steal, said Sam Jones.” That is so, said a very prominent citizen to whom I mentioned the subject the other dav in Atlanta. My wile and I started down stairs to breakfast one morning and I wanted a drink so bad, I told her to wait till 1 went back to get a handkerchief. I didn’t want one. I just went back to steal a drink of good peach brandy my wife had put away, but I did not want her to know it. When she smelt my breath afterwards I told her our neigh bor gave >t to me. So, I not only commit a theft bet told a lie —Newuan Advance. I* \I(JV|T TU K CAUSE.—It is llli.l / V|j [10 donht t i, o correct thing to treat the symptoms of a dis ease, hut this is not effective unless the cause of the complaint is removed. For instance, a fever may be treated with quinine, etc , but unless ihe cause is removed the fever will surely return. Again, the soreg and eruptions of Scrof ula may he healed bv mercury and pot ash treatment, but unless the cause of these symptoms is cleansed from the system, they will return or attack some of the delicate internal organs. Swift's Specitic strikes at the cause of the trouble, and forces out the germs of disease, and the poison through the pores of the skin, and at the same time builds up the general health of the suf ferer. Swift’s Specific is a purely veg etable remedy, and is harmless to the most delicate, yet it never fads to elim inate the poison from the human body. We will mail a valuable book to all who will send for it. SWIFT SPECIFICCO. Atlanta. Ga. ■low to 4'ure All Nltin His rases,” Simply apply “Swavse’s Ointment.” No internal medicine required. Cures tetter, eczema, itch, all eruptions on the face, hands, nose, Ac., leaving the skin clear, white and healthy. Its great healing and curative powers are posessed by no other remedy. Ask vour druggist for Swavne’s Ointment. Parties desiring their gins sharpened can have the work doue in the very l»est workman like manner, night or or day, by calling on .1. J. Smith. Mc- Donough, Ga.