iii: iii-.NRY COUNTY WEEKLY
CONSOLIDATED JANUARY 1,1591.
VO . XVI.
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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
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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.
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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.
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attorneys at law,
Grikkin, Ga.
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ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Gate City Nnlioal Hank i’nilding,
Atlanta. Ga.
ioaciir. - in tin 1 Slate and Fidcrai Courts.
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M. E GRAY, Sup’t.
**STEWART**
•MERCANTILE*
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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.
