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THE HENRY COUNTY WEEKLY
CONSOLIDATED JANUARY 1,1591.
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ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
McDoxocmi, n».
vViii practice in t!:e counties composing
the Flint .Indicinl Circuit, the Supreme Court
r i Georgia and the United States District
| >. ». St. TI!R4»iB,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Mr Don on mi, Ga .
Will practice in the counties composing
Ihe Flint Circuit, the Supreme Court of
and the United Slates District
C uni inarlti-ly
M < . lIC I! 4«« I>,
VT’I'iiUNEY AT LAW.
. McDonough, Cl a.
Wil practice in all the Oourts of Georgia
Special attention given to commercial and
i-or-collections. Will attend all the Courts
,l Hampton regularly. upstairs over
f H K VVkkkly office.
j »•■ WIM.
ATTORNEY at law,
McDonouuh, Ga.
Will practice in l’ie counties composing I he
/lint Judicial Circuit, and the Supreme and
District Oourts of Georgia. Prompt attention
sjlv’ii to collections. octS-’i'J
yy A. iilloH A,
’ ATTORNEY AT LAW,
MnDoNonun. Ga.
Will practice in ' a’l the counties compos
ing Ihe Flint Circuit, tile Supreme Court of
Georgia and the United States District
Court. janl-ly
\\ A
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Hampton, Ga,
Will practice in all the counties composing
tiic Flint Judicial Circuit, the Supreme Court
of Georgia and the District Court ot the
United States. Special and prompt atten
tiou given to Collections, Oct 8, 1888
Jno. 1). Stewart j R.T. Daniel.
NTIIWAKT At lS.t A.HU,.
ATTORNEYS AT T-AW,
Gkikkin, Ga.
JOHN TV 11.
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Gate City Nntioul Rank Building,
Atlanta. Ga.
Practices in the. Stair and Kideral Courts.
R’Y.
IS THE ONLY
SHORT AND DIRECT LINE
TO THE
NORTH, SOUTH,
EAST AND WEST.
PULLMAN’S FINEST VES
TIBULE SLEEPERS
BETWEEN
ATLANTA & KNOXVILLE
MACON & CHATTANOOGA
BRUNSWICKI AT LA "lA
WmiOl l t lE INCH.
Direct Connections at Chat
tanooga with Through
trainsand Pullman Sleep
ers to
Memphis and the West,
at Kaoiriiie with Pullmaa
Sleeper* Tor
WASHINGTON,
PHILADELPHIA,
AND NEW YORK.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ADDRESS,
B.W WRENN, CHAS. N.KICyT
ilen'l. Ag A,( . I’. A.
KNOX VILXBT. ATLANTA
south.
Leave McDonough 7:00 a. m.
Arrive Greenwood ... 7 -7
“ Loud la 7:25 “
“ Griffin 8215 “
NORTH.
Leave Griffin 4:<o p. m.
Arri' ■ Loud * 4:40
4 * Greenwood 4:48 “
“ McDonough 5:05 “
M. E. GRAY Sup’t.
■*STEWART* s
* 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 prices (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 YOake
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, HADWARE, 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 of
good.
Again thanking our Customers each and all tor their fa
vors, we are yours to serve
The Stewart Mercantile Co.
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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.
McDonough, ga., Friday. November 20, ism.
THEY FOUGHT.
Rev. Sam Small and Tom Minor En
gage In Pugilistic Exercise.
Nam Small, the evangelist, and Tom
Minor, a Deca'ur street salomis'. had
a rough and tumble flight hi Nash's
barber shop on Peachtree street yester
day evening says the 1 ’onstitutiou.
The belligerents ooillonnod to none
of the rules of the art of self defense.
It was eutirely a hit-me-tf you can
contest.
It appears that both iMessrs. Small
and Miuor went into Nash’s yesterday
morning for shaves.
And by accident were there at the
same time.
Mr. Small was in a chair being shav
ed when Mr. .Minor came in. As Mr.
Small left the chair after the barber
was through, Mr. Miuor advanced to
wards him saying:
“My name is Tom Minor.”
And in another instant, in regular
pugilistic style, he slugged the rever
end geutleman on the jaw.
The blow stunned Mr. Small for a
moment, but he quickly pulled himself
into fighting shape, and the barkeeper
and preacher clinched.
Like a ton of brick they went to the
floor. Quickly the barbers separated
them. Mr. Minor got up first and it is
claimed that he kicked Mr. Small in the
mouth, cutting his uuder£t|> and knock
ing out one of his froutTSteeth. Then
Minor remarked :
“You will know TonOßnor in the
future,” and walked out.
The cause of the was cer
tain remarks made by MR Sam Small
iu an autibarroom speechrjast Sunday,
reflecting on Minor’s method of con
ducting his business,
Mr. Small told the story of the diffi
culty as follows :
“I had goue into Nash’s barber shop
to get a shave. It seems that this Mi
nor was iu there when I went iu. He
got through shaving befori 1 did. and
took a seat unffr I gofup. fie walked
up to my chair, and the barber asked
him if he could do anything for him.
He teplied:
“‘No, here is my hand,’ and he struck
me.
“But I threw up my arm and warded
off the blow sufficiently for it not to af
fect me much. Seeing that Minor in
tended to continue his attack, I had to
defend myself, and we clinched, and
soon fell to the floor. I was under
neatli Minor, and the barbers pulled
him off me. He remarked when he
was up:
“‘1 reckon you will know Tom Mi
nor now ’
“As I was getting up he kicked me
in the face cutting my lower lip and
kuocked out one of ray front teeth.”
“Do you know the cause of the at
tack ?”
•‘I understand it was became I sta
ted in my last Sunday’s speech that
policemen were stationed iu front of
Minor’s saloon on Decatur street to
take care of the bums that congregated
there to quench their thirst.
“I did not know Tom Minor, never
saw him. but only knew the reputation
of his place.”
Mr. Minor’s story of the details of
the difficulty were not very different
from Mr. Small’s. He said :
“I stay at home and attend to my
owd business, and Sam Small seems to
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be trying to attend to everybody’s. I
keep an ordeily place, and have for
seven years. When I heard that Sam
Sma'i said, iu his speech at Prohibi
tion hall last Sunday, tiiata special po
liceman was placed in front of mv sa
loon to keep order and prevent trouble,
it made me angry. I made up ray
miud not to say anything about it and
did not intend to hunt Small up, but
when I met him face to face this morn
ing I thought a slight tap might make
the evaugelist come uearer attending
to his own business and me feel better.
Ido my shaving in that barber shop
all the time, and ; t was the merest ac
cideut that I met Small there this
morning.”
“What about kicking Mr. Small in
the face ?”
“I may have done it, but I was ex
cited. 1 was very angry to think 1
was at home attending to my busiuess,
and that a man who knows nothing
about me was using my name iu such
a detrimental manner. I thought I
would introduce myself, so that he
might know who he was talking about
uext time.”
.Small Speaks.
It is doubtful if ever before Sam
Small looked quite so dapper and
spruce as he did last night wlieu he
faced the big audience in Prohibition
hall.
The people came to hear him narrate
the incidents connected with the bar
ber shop episode. They expected some
lurid wordpainting, and they were not
disappointed.
Mr. Small’s opening sentence was
characteristically humorous and caus
tic.
“There may,” he said, “be a slight
impediment in mv speech— but that's a
Minor matter. [Applause and laugh
ter.]
“I think there must have been a
grand hurrah iu hell to day when some
black-winged demon flew into that
abode of darkness and brought the news
that the Small end uf the prohibition
party and the Minor end of the whisky
party met in Atlanta. [Tremendous
laughter and cheering.]
"This end is still here—all right and
serene My difficulty witli that burly
whisky bummer reminds me of the ad
venture a man had with a log ho was
trying to pull up a hill. He hud a rope
tied to it, and the idea occurred to him
that it would be a flue chenie to fasten
the other end of the rope to his body,
so lie tied it round his waist. The log
began rolling down hill and he strove
to check its downward flight by bracing
himself. The log was heavier than he
bargained for and be found it pulled
him with it. The rope twisted around
the log and shortened. He was drawn
nearer tind nearer. Finally he and the
log embraced, and down the hill they
rolled over and over When the hot
tom of the hill was reached the man
pulled himself together, got upon his
feet, and, addressing the log, said, ‘Yes,
you darned scoundrel, I was as manv
times on top as you was.’ [Cheers and
laughter.]
“The development today was just
what might have been expected. It is
the natural outcome of the whisky sel
lers’ methods. I last Sunday told you
I was in this tight to stay, aud I repeat
it iu spite of the bruises. The ouly
way to get me out of this fight is to
take me to the cemetery and bury me
in tlie vault where lies my dead baby.
[Applause.]
“What I said Sunday about Torn Mi
nor is strictly true, aud the police rec
ords will corroborate all the charges I
made. He is reported to have said
that the reason lie attacked me was be
cause I spoke against his family. J
hurl that charge hack in hie dirty teeth
I will tell the whole truth about them
if they beat me up every day. If they
beat me at 12 o’clock iu the day I’ll be
back here at 7:30 o’clock' at night.
When I was running with them the
other crowd used to beat me, and now
that I am running with the other crowd
they beat me. [Laughter.]
“Why, I didn’t know the fellow from
Adam’s house cut or the devil’s pres
ent cat. [Laughter]
“I’ve got the tooth he kicked out my
mouth here in my vest pocket. I’ll
keep it as a mascot. I’m going to have
it polished and mounted with gold, and
wear it after the 2d ol December next
as a scarf pin, and I’ll weal it down
Decatur street past Tom Minor’s bar
room.” [Great merriment.]
\V L 1 \ | Til — Is something which
' ’ HAH 1 II most people seek, and
which but few are indifferent to, no
matter iu what form it presents itself.
The word “pecuniary,” which is often
used in speaking of a man’s riches,
comes from the Latin word pecus,
which means cattle, and shows that
formerly a man’s wealth was reckoned
by the cattle lie possessed.
Abraham is said to have been “very
rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold.”
Hut no matter in what a man’s riches
a man’s riches may consist, it is all
vanity and vexation of spirit, unless in
connection therewith he has health.
Emerson fully understood this when he
said “the first wealth is health,” and
we have ho doubt if he had known the
virtues of S. 8. S. that he would have
recommended its use to all persons suf
| feriug from the diseases for which it is
recommended.
Treatise on Hlood aud Skin Diseases
; mailed free.
SWIFT 8 PEC IEC CO.,
Atlanta, Ga.
■low to Cure All Kkiu l»i»-
rasrs,”
Simply apply “Swayse's Ointment.”
No internal medicine required. Cures
tetter, ec/.enia, itch, all eruptions on the
face, hands, nose, &c., leaving the skin
clear, white and healthy. Its great healing
and curative powers arc posessed by no
other remedy. Ask your druggist for
Swathe’s Ointment.
Young men desiring to attend a Business
College will find it to their advantage to
cal, at this office before making arrange*
' irc nls el sewhere.
Highest of all in Leavening Power.—U. S. Gov’t Report, Aug. 17, 1889.
8255
ABSOLUTELY PURE
THE Alt I'/.ON A KICKER.
It Is a Foolish Man who Tackles a
Western Editor.
Wanted —The Kicker wants to en
gage a spirited and enterprising young
man who is not afraid of wo r k and is
ambitious to build himself up, to act as
a collector. We have about SUiOO out,
and will furnish a mule and two revol
vers as an out fit free of expense. The
collector will be allowed to retain half
of his collections.
We regard this as a splendid open
ing for some ambitious Eastern man
wtio wants to work up in journalism.
He will no doubt be shot at fifty times
for every hundred dollars lie collects,
hut if he’s got the right sort nf sand
he’ll pull through and come out 011 top
of the heap.
After we’ve given him a dozen les
sons on getting the drop, and lie's had
a couple of days’ acquaintance with our
mule, we'll hack him to tackle any one
of our nonpaying subscribers outside of
a rifle-pit. In case of deatli we guar
antee a fair medium futietal. Apply
at once.
At It Ao.iin —As is well known to
the readers of The Kicker we have a
private graveyard with ten graves in it.
The ten graves represent ten different
men who were mistaken in sizing us up
for an editor without backbone. We
did the fair thing in each ami every
case—sending for the Coroner—buying
a colli 11 —turning out the trays in pro
cessiou, and so on. The average cost
has been per funeral, and that’s
rich for this locality .
Our contemporary, who has never
shot a man, has been insanely jealous
of our “plant” out on the sand-lots, aud
on two occasions before last night has
been caught iu the act of trying to steal
“ome of the head boards to start a
graveyard of his own. At ten o’clock
last night we received word that be
was out there again. We mounted our
mule and rode out. He had just com
menced operations.
WK HUN HIM SEVEN MILES.
lie had his old mule hitched to the
fence, aud took the alarm and mounted
before we got up. We run him seven
miles, hut his mule wus the fastest and
he got away.
We wanted to be neighborly as an
editor, but we also want this old lop
shouldered, bow-legged hyena to thor
oughly understand that he lias at lust
maite us tired, and that any further
fooling around on his part will leave
his milk-and-water old shoo*, without a
head.
It Was a Faii.ukk. — We got a sly
hint several days ago that the postman
ter of this town, whom we have had to
shoot in thiee different places within
a year, in order to expedite the mail
service and prevent him from walking
on us, had seut over to Tubac to get a
man to do us up. The routine of get
ting out one of the biggest and bright
est weekly papers iu America (subscrip
tions payable iu advancu) went on just
the same, however, and we didn’t do
any private aud confidential worryiug.
All the forenoon yesterday we heard
some one hollering around the streets
tor gore and upon inquiry learued tiiat
it was the man from Tubac. lie was
reported as being a teal, old fashioned
terror from Grizzly Mountain, with his
toenails dyed red and his eyes shiuing
like two camp fires, and that lie was al
so looking for us. We were never
more calm or serene. We sent out to
our gravedigger to excavate another
hole, anil wrote a note to Steve Will
iams, the undertaker, to varnish up a
wbitewood 2xG and get the trimmings
00.
It was about 4 o’clock in the after
noon when we finished our editorial la
bors for that day and started out for a
saunter. Just as we turned into Sioux
place the man from Tubac jumped out
on us from a doorway and started in to
secure our right ear as a relic.
We sat up with him most of the night
last night. One of the bullets has been
extraced, but the other couldn’t be
reached with a three-foot stick. Unless
iuflaniation sets in he will very likely
f Henry County Weekly, Established 187 G,
} Henry County Times, Established 18^4.
pull through. If he does be assures ns
that he will be a changed man.
He wouldn't exactly say that the
postmaster gave him soo to come over
and bumble our proud editorial spirit,
but he said enough to satisfy us that
we must run over to-morrow and have
another pop at Mr. Wanamaker’s man.
He’s getting too coltish again.
The .Ihiitowu Journal.
The Jimtowu Journal, edited by Hill
Omi, reaches us weekly now. It is
spicy and refreshing, and Hill keeps
things lively in his town, if he has to
get whipped twice a day to do it. We
append a few of bis latest paragraphs :
Cotton is so low now that it is abso-
lutely vulgar.
The Turk with bis dancing bear ar
rived in Jimtowu yesterdav.
OLij' 3 ’ They Turk our last dime.
Miss Eva NeSaut, a skollege girl,
writes us to parse : Ze vous aime. Ze
vous adore. Ze vous aime de tour moti
Coeur. Ze is a pronoun, a personal
pronoun. It is in the nominative case
and never lies about catching fish.
Aime is a terb—one of those gtddv
verbs that lakes you unawares und lets
you fall over u forty foot precipice.
Vous is ?. prououu—and—and—
Say, Eva, how old would you be if
you wore in evening dress ?
Some vile wretch who is too mean
to breathe the atmosphere of River
Junction, deliberately robbed our con
tribution box last night. We oiler a
reward of $4 cash, payable in corn, for
his death.
It goes way down knee deep into
our heart and causes salt briny tears to
trickle dowu our corrugated cheek to
chronicle the death of Col. Chris An
themum. His untimely death has cast
a gob of gloom over his creditors.
lie was beloved by all who owed
him. Those who did not know him
have much to be thankful for.
There is no appeal for relief from
the great law that dooms us to dust.
Generations shall appearand disappear
as the grass, and the mightiest monarch
that ever shook the earth with his foot
steps has no stronger hold on life than
the tre<s that wither in a day. There
fore let us all so live that wheu the
grim spectre reaches forth his icy arms,
that we can wrap the cellar door
around our house of clay and pass
with a sweet, gliding movement into
the great beyond.
J £ ’Now is the time to perspire.
While going home the other night
j some one threw a brick house at us.
The moon was circling around us like
a cat on the back fence, and we saw
more fencing than we ever built in
Jimtown.
do not send us another
jug of the same kind.
George Goolsby, colored, who lives
near Sandy Cross, in this county, is a
model colored man and the example he
has set in life is worth following by
others of liis race. He is G 4 years old,
never got drunk, chewed or smoked to
bacco, cursed or lied. He owus four
plantations which he made and paid
for himself, never bought two sacks of
1 corn, makes his own meat aud has
credit wherever he is know. He is
honorable and kind to his neighbors
both white and black, is a strict % raem-
ber of the Haptist church and has rais
ed and educated sixteen children, lie
says he has ueyer needed the attention
of a physician. He outlived four mas
ters during slavery time and was al
ways a trusted foreman among the
hands. He is a subscriber to both his
county papers. From George’s record
the colored people of Georgia can learn
a great deal.—Crawford Herald.
Itch on human and horses aud all
animals cured in 30 minutes by Wool
ford’s Sanitary Lotion. Never fail.
Sold by C. I). McDonald, druggist
McDonough, Ga.
English Spavin Liniment removes
all hard, soft or calloused lumps aud
blemishes from horses, blood spavins.
. curbs, splints, sweeney, ring bone, sti
fles, sprains, all swollen throats, coughs
etc. Save S3O by use of one bottle.
Warranted the most wonderful Bletu
! ish Cure ever known. Sold by C. I).
McDonald.