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THE HENRY COUNTY WEEKLY
CONSOLIDATED JANUARY 1,1591.
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Geo W. Bryan j W.T. Dicken.
;sisv4\ & incurs
attorneys at law.
McDonocuu, Ga.
Will practice in the counties composing
the Flint Judicial Circuit, the Supreme Court
r I Georgia and the United States District
Court. a P'' 27 - |v
j V*.. «l. ’l l SUHK,
attorney at law,
McDonough, Oa.
Will practice in the counties composing
the Flint Circuit, the Supreme Court of
Georgia, and the United States District
Court. marl6-ly
|i .j. RRAOAHL
* ATTORNEY at law.
McDonocuh, Ga.
Will practice in all the Courts of Georgia
Special attention given to commercial and
other collections. Will attend all the Courts
at. Hampton regularly. Office upstairs over
fur: Wi kly office.
j I . WAS H-,
attorney at law,
McDonouuii, Ga.
Will nracticc in the counties composingt lie
Flint Judicial Circuit, and the Supreme and
District Courts of Georgia. Prompt attention
givan to collections. octs- 79
yy A. IlltOW A.
‘ attorney at law,
McDonouuii. 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. PiililMJ«T
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Hampton, Ga,
Will practice in all the counties composing
the Flint Judicial Circuit, t lie Supreme Court
of Georgia and the District Court ol the
United States. Special and prompt atten
tion given to Collections, Get 8, 1888
J no. D. Stewart. I It. T. Daniel.
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M. E. GUAY, 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 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, IIADWARE, TINWARE,
CROCKERY, MEAT, FLOUR, LARD, SUGAR, COFFEE,
TOBACCO, snuff, etc., etc.
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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 ol
good.
Again thanking our Customers each and all tor their la
vors, we are yours to serve
The Stewart Mercantile Co.
Thos, D. Stewart, Pres’t & Gen’i Manager.
L. H. Fargason, Vice Pres’t & As’t Sec’y.
J. B. Dickson, Secretary & Treasurer.
AND HENRY COUNTY TIMES.
McDonough, ga., Friday, novekrer la, ihsh.
CARDS DID IT.
A Sail Story, anil a Warning to Hoys.
‘ Lend me a dollar to get borne.”
The speaker was a young man from
Houston county, whoso name is with
hold for reasons that are host known
to the News and the parlies who gave
the information.
The words were ad trussed to one of
the best known warehousemen of Ma
COD.
The time was this morning.
To say that the warehouseman was
astonished at the request would hardly
express it, for he had, yesterday
afternoon, paid the young man a
considerable sum of money. When
the request was made the warehouse
man thought the young man was only
jesting.
Rut he was not.
Thereby bangs a tale.
Yesterday a young man who lives
with his widowed mother in Houston
county and sees after her farm for her
came to Macon to sell four bales of cot
ton which had previously been ware
housed here.
The cotton was brought to Macon
a week or more ago. Rut the lady
had a note to meet to day. For that
reason she decided to let the cotton re
main unsold until yesterday. So, as
stated, the boy came up to sell the cot
ton. The halts sampled up well and
something over $l5O was paid over to
the young man as the result of their
sale.
Like many other young men who
come to the city on such errands, this
boy, lor he is only a boy of 19, could
not resist the temptation of taking a
di ink while he was in the city.
That drink led to the loss of his
money.
The boy fell into the hands of sever
al who seem to depend on gambling for
a liviug. They gave him as many
drinks as he wanted.
Then they broached him for a little
social game.
The boy was in the mood to accept
and accept he did. Instead of taking
him to a private room they took the
youth to an apartment that seemed to
have been fitted up especially for the
purpose of gambling. The tables were
there, all covered over with green, and
chips in profusion were there also.
It was not long before the game com
menced.
Luck varied with the boy. Then
fortune seemed to favor him.
When he had been in the room an
hour he was considerably ahead.
The stakes were increased.
In another hour the hoy had lost all
his winnings'and the entire sum paid
him by the warehouse men.
When they saw they had all of his
money the gamblers would not listen a
moment to the woeful tale which the
boy told them. They unceremonious
ly ushered him out of the room and
told him not to play any more cards
until he learned better how to manage
it.
The boy spent the night with a
friend.
This morning he approached the
warehouseman, told the story and ask
ed for a dollar to get home. He said
he was afraid to report the matter to
the police as he was as guilty as the
other parties.
The boy did not know the names of
those who worked him.
He gave the warehousman a good
description of the men and the place.
So the matter will no doubt be
brought before the grand jury when
the body meets.
The boy was considerably affected.
It was a mortgage which his mother
, had to meet to day. She has not now
money enough to pay the debt, and he
is afraid her Koine will be sold His
suspense and anxiety is something ter
1 rible.
The warehouseman, however, knows
I the lady well. He will see that the
mortgage is cancelled, hut he didn’t
tell the boy so, for he wants the youth
to learn a valuable lesson from his ex
perience.
This is a sad case.
But many a boy with the best of
motives is liable to be caught in just
such a way if he don’t look out.—Macou
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A Mind-Cure Story.
“Yes, 1 believe in mind cure," said
a leading fashionable physician. “Ev !
erv practitioner does to a certain ex j
tout, and every successful physician
uses it constantly in his practice. 1
have had some rather extraordinary
examples in tuy own experience. There
is one case in particular which I shall
always remember. Several years ago
I had as a patient a wealthy lady who
had been bud-ridden for five years. I
could not see that anything really was
the matter with her, but for a few
months I tried every remedy iu vain.
Finally I hit upon a desperate expedi
ent. I took into my confidence the
husl«and, who was a very prominent
lawyer, and secured his consent to put
my plan into execution without fear of
interference from him. One afternoon,
when all the conditions were favorable,
1 made my usual call. The husband
was iu the room when I arrived, but he
went out shortly and left me with the
patient. As soon as he was outside
the door 1 quickly turned the key and
lesumed my seat by the bed. The
electric bell was at the other side of
the room, aud there was no way in
which the iuvalid could communicate
with the rest of the household. For a
minute or two I kept silent, and she
looked at me in amazement. As soon
as the stillness began to he oppressive,
I remarked quietly : “Mrs. , I am
going to sit here until you get up, and
that door is to remain locked until ihat
time.’
“ - 1 can’t do it,’ was the feeble re
ply.
“ ‘But you must,’ I responded severe
ly. ‘lt has got to be done,’ and, taking
a bunch of matches from my pocket, I
continued : ‘I am going to set Are to
the bed, and if you don’t want to be
burned you will have to get out of it,
for 1 shan’t help you.’
“She gazed at me in terror, evident
ly thinking that she was locked up
with a mad man. 1 deliberately set
tire lo one corner of the blanket. It
burned slowly, of course, but it burned.
Still not a movement on the part of the
inmate of the bed. You will hardly
believe me, but I was obliged to set
the bed on lire in a dozen different
places, and she lay there helpless, un
til the flames had almost scorched her
body. Then she sprang up wildly
with a scream and leaped to the floor.
That woman has been one of my most
active and healthy acquaintances ever
since, and she and her husband are the
warmast friends 1 have. But if my lit
tle mind cure experiment had happen
ed to fail they would have beeu my
enemies for life. It was one of the
chances of the profession, and I had to
take it. Do 1 believe in Christian
science, too ? Well, hardly!”—Phil
adelphia Bulletin.
A Girl’s Condensed History.
Met him.
Met him again—in love with him.
Met him again—but no longer in
love with him, but he is in love with
me, because I am so beautiful.
Met him again—he is still more in
love with me, not only because I am
beautiful, but because I am also good
Sony for him.
Agaiu I met him—he is colder than
he was. Think he has forgotten my
beauty and my goodness. I, however,
am inclined to think that I am in love
with him after all. How lucky he is
and bow angry mama will be !
Mama proved to be strangely pleased.
Makes me angry, for I know sbe is not
a good judge of a young girl’s hoart.
Flirted with him outrageously to
make mama mad—didn’t succeed.
Engaged to him—glad.
Married to him—sorry.
A Colored Ham Jones.
“Uncle” Jason is a negro preacher
who, in his way, is as original as Sam
Jones lie lecently preached a sermon
in which he said that during a trance
he was taken to heaven, and while
there he saw the Methodist, the Pres
byterians, and the Episcopalians “way
off to one side.”
“Aud, whar wur de llaptis’?” asked
a brother in the congregation.
“Dey wus rite at de throne,” said
Uucle Jason.
“How dey cum dare?”
“Well, de Lawd say de liaptis' am
such unreliable raskals, he had to keep
’em wha’ he kin git hands on ’em !”
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THE FIGHTING PARSON.
Defiance of a California Mob by the
Rev. O. P. Fitzgerald.
Old-time Californians, says the San
Francisco Examiner, remember Ifev.
0. P. Fitzgerald, the .Methodist preach
er and enthusiastic Democrat, who was
State superintendent of schools shortly
after the close of the civil war. They
remember him as the lighting parson.
At the time when the news of the
assassination of President Lincoln throw
the country into an uproar of grief and
rage, Mr. Fitzgerald was pastor of a
little Methodist church on one of the
by-streets south of Market street in
this city, and lie was among those sin
gled out objects of mob violence.
Two tliousund angry men, after hav
ing gutted the Monitor office, and after
having assaulted Rev. Dr. Scott while
coming out of his church on Rush
street, raised the cry, “Let us lynch
Fitzgerald and hum his chuich!”
They went on a run in the direction
of the little South Methodist chape!,
but some friends of the Methodist par
son were swifter than they, and when
the howling mob arrived iu front of the
church they found the doors locked and
the pastor and his brother standing ot.
the porch, each armed with a loaded
rifle. _
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The crowd made a rush for the steps,
and several men in the rear shouted,
“Kill them!”
“Stop!” cried the stern voice of
Fitzgerald, rising high above the tu
mid', as he brought the butt of his ri
fie to his hip.
I!e looked like a man who meant
business. Standing six feet high, and
as straight and stalwart as a Sioux In
dian, his undaunted bearing and the
tone of his voice brought the crowd to
a standstill. They had not expected
such an obstacle in the person of a
minister of the gospe 1 , and they looked
at one another iu amazement. They
could not understand it.
They had had their own way all day.
They had only a few hours before re
fused to disperse at the command of
Gen. McDowell, who, mounted on a
dry goods box in front of Platt's Hall,
on Montgomery street, advised them to
obey the law and commit no violence.
In that moment of irresolution Par
son Fitzgerald spoke to the angry
mob :
“1 am a minister of the gospel and
strive to follow in the footsteps of the
Prince of Peace,” he said, “but, by the
living God, even if it weie my last act
on earth, 1 will defend this church, the
property of my congregration, with the
last cartridge in ray belt. If blood be
shed let it be upon your own heads.”
The effect was magical. The fore
most in the crowd fell back quietly
from the muzzles of the rifles that
were slowly describing a semi-circle be
foie their faces.
Pale of face, but unduauted of mien,
stood the Fitzgerald brothers, with the
rifles clasped firmly in their hands.
Then, with a mighty roar, the mob
started off on the double quick to smash
the doors aud windows of a storekeeper
on Third street who had refused to
have the emblems of mourning on his
awning.
As the years rolled on Parson Fitz
gerald drifted further away from poli
tics and correspondingly nearer to the
bosom of his church. Then he settled
in Texas, where he became a bishop,
aud returned here recently on a vis
it.
A lawyer returned to his home tired
aud warn out.
“You look tired, dear. I suppose
voo have had a hard day’s work agaiu
in court,” said his wife.
“Yes, lam very tired ; I’ve had a
difficult case, but I’ve won it.”
“You had better take a cup of tea,
and then go to bed and take a good
night’s rest.”
“No rest for me to-night. I’ll have
to sit up and watch the stable with a
shot-gun to see that the carriage horse
is not stolen.’*
“Why, who is goiug to steal it?”
“You see, I was defending one of
the worst horse thieves in western Tex
as this afternoon, and I cleared him.
He is loose now, aud 1 am alraid the
double-dyed scoundrel will bo arouud
to-night and steal my horse.”
f Henry County Weekly, Established 187 G,
<[ Ilenry County limes, Established 1884.
staked Ills Teeth and la st.
The recent story of the loss ,e
bank roll of John Daly’s uptow 11 g am '
ling house brings to miud a stor V which
Con Daly, who sat behind the ‘‘silver
box ’’ in that house for many yea ’*> once
figured.
< ’on was dealing one night when a mau
who sat in front of him said: “Will
you loan me
“No,” said Con; “wo don’t d- 5
banking business here.”
“Well,” replied the mau, “I’ve
four hundred here to night, am l I
make good the twenty-five the i-ext
time I come in.”
“Can’t help it,” Con chippei 1 ***»
“can t help it. When you win our
money we don’t ask you to loan üß ‘
and you can’t expect us to ‘stake’ y ou
when you lose. Tell you what l'l \ ‘l°,
though. If you’ve got any l c< Hal’
about you worth twenty-five we’ll ) oan
you on that as a special favor bee ‘ use
you are a loser.”
1 he man who had asked for the 1 oan
sat back searching his pockets, felt * R
the pluce where his watch should h ive
been a..d could not bring to the surf 100
anything worth the tv mty-five. M 0
rose from his scat to 4 go when a brig
den struck him, and putting his lTai
ir. his mouth pulled out his upper set 1
false teeth. They were a very fin e
set, mounted on very heavy gold platt >
and several of the teeth were gold-fillei
to give the appearance of genuineness.
The set must have cost fully
Passing the teeth over to the astonish
ed ( on, the man said :
“Let me haf ther money on thoth.”
“Well, you’re a good uu,” ejaculated
Con. llow’ll you have it—money or
chips ?”
“Sthack of browns, please.”
'Phe stuck was handed ovur and the
toothless man took the chips, “cut ’em
in two,” played the ace open with half
of them and heeled the rest from the
tray to the ace.
The next turn out of the box came
ace-tray, and the dental chips were
whip sawed.
When Con pulled the chips in the
man with the bare gums murmured :
“Well, thath hard luck. Go’ th’cat
thoup till Thaturday.”—New York
(’ommercial Advertiser. •
Wanted a Straight Share.
“I want a straight shave.”
“Vot kind of a shave vos dot?” ask
ed the Teutonic barber after he had
tqcked a towel under his customer’s
chin and grasped the shaving brush.
“Why, I want a straight shave,” re
peated the customer gruffly ; “a straight
shave ; isn’t that plain enough ?”
“Maybe dot vos some kind of a shave
vot vas joost imported, und ain’t come
round here yet alretty,” remarked the
barber, loath to admit that there was
anything connected with his profession
with which he was well acquainted.
“Great Scott! Must 1 explain my
meaning to every new barber that I run
across? When I ask for a streight
shave I mean I want a shave without
any bay rum, without any hair oils
without any ‘don’t want a shampoo ?’
and particularly without any confound
ed talk. There, now go streight ahead
and give me a streight shave and be
quick about it.”
“Py shimminy!” said the barber in
dignantly, when his customer had de
parted, “some people vos such hogs
dey doan know that a barber haf some
feelings mit him. 1 haf a goot mind to
put a notice up in my store dot ve vos
not shaving hogs here no more.—New
York Herald.
“Pa,” said little Johnny Cutely, “I
heard you talking with Mr. Brown
just now, aud you said you—you didn't
believe in future punishment.”
“Well, Johny,” replied the old man,
“the subject is a strange one for you to
speak about ; but, really, I don’t.”
“Then, I suppose—l suppose that
lets me out o’ that lickiu’ you promised
me after supper.”
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