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THE HENRY COUNTY WEEKLY CONSOLIDATED JANUARY 1,1891. VOL. XVI. I'ii O FESS lOXA I. CAII /> S. J j!r. f.i. i\ OAMPIHiM, DE Nrl ST. McUosorcii G*. - (1.-'irMif.' work done can be ac ..-. U-d citliev '>v allil'f; on me in per . ... bin-asing me through the mails. | c . rlll - . unless special arrangements mc ..tin*, wise in a !>■ Geo i n | W.T, Dukk.v. »v im i.r.v ATTORNEYS AT LAW. McDonough, ‘.'A. Will praetice in the counties composing ,he Flint .1 udiuial Circuit, the Supreme Court rf Georgia and the United States District Court. apr27Ay j ,\S. SI. TIiBSiHB, \TTORNEY AT LAW. McDonough, Da. WHI practice in the counties composing Flint Circuit, the Supreme Court ot Georgia, and the United States District Court. '"=“•* 6 -‘y P RKA.OA.iSI, ATTORNEY AT LAW. McDonough,Ga. Wii. .ractice in all tlie Courts of Georgia Special attention given to commercial and ther col lections. Wilt attend all the Courts .t Hampton regularly. Office upstairs over Thk Wkckit office. I r. h am., A TTORNHY AT LAW, McDonough , Ga. Will practice in the counties composing the Flint Judicial Circuit, and the Supreme and District Join ts of Georgia. Prompt attention giv m i. collections. octs-’79 -yy 5. stlCOtV.ti. ’ ATTORNEY AT LAW, McDonough, Ga. Will ractice in all the counties compos ing tlu- Hint Circuit, the Supreme Court. oT Georgia and the United States District Court. janl-ly jj A. PUKIM.W*, ATTORNEY AT LAW, U ami-ton, Ga, Will practice in all the counties composing the Flint Judicial Circuit, the Supreme Court of Georgia and the District Court of the United States. Special and prompt atten tion given to Collections, Octß, 1888 Jno. I). Stk.vart. J it.T. Danikl. KTUWAKT A HiMt’.l.. ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Gkissin, Ga. JOHN 3.. TVS’.. ATTORNEY AT LAW, Gate City Nalioal Bank building, Atlanta. Ga, Practices ill the Stale and Federal Courts* THE— •• . '< Bfc’L j * '.Lv'. r fytfi -r- ...%* eft.- ~ - L. . J> AC. ' lL I M Ten. Virginia & Ga. RY. IS THK ONLY SHORT AND DIRECT LINE TO TIIK NORTH, SOUTH, EAST AND WEST. PULLMAN’S FINEST VES TIBULE SLEEPERS B KTW F.KN ATLANTA & KNOXVILLE MACON & CHATTANOOGA BRUNSWICK & ATLANTA 45 2 2 3101 S'< ft DiREi t Connections at Chat tanooga with Through trainsand Pullman Sleep ers to Memphis and the West, at Knoxville will* ■*ullmi«n Sleeper* lor WASHINGTON, PHILADELPHIA, AND NEW YORK. FOi: FI'RTHKR INFORMATION ADDRESS, B W.'VRENN, chas. n. kic ,j t l’a**. Aar ~ A. G. r. A. KXOXVILLK. ATLANTA (;nir£iii nidi m<> Ar <3 uIfIC . K. soitii Leave McDonough <:'*» a. m. Arrive Grev.wood ' ■ “ Lout-Ha “ “ Griffin .. . 8:0.» “ NORTH. Leave Griffin p. m. Arr vv lane lit -1 r4O Gr> enwood 4:48 “ •• McDonough 5:05 “ M. E GRAY. Stip'f. •♦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 TIE?, popular prices. MACHINE OIL and STEELYARDS. We have also full line of JP2ANS of the best fnak© and closest prices. We carry a good line of Home Made Shoes that are very cheap. Of course we have a complete stock oi DRY GOODS, CLOTHING, HATS, SHOES, NOTIONS, HADWARE, TINWARE, CROCKERY. MEAT, FLOUR, LARD, SUGAR, COFFEE, TOBACCO, SNUFF, ETC., ETC. Did you ever think of if? 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 11s? 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 for the prompt manner in which they are settling up —early collections do us a lot ot good. Again thanking our Customers each and all tor 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. .McDonough, ga.. Friday. November 27. ism. LONG AGO. There are facet* just ».** perfect, There are eve* us tme and avert; There are hearts as strong and lender As the heart that ceased to heat; There aic voices just as ti rilling: 1 here are souls as white, I know. As licrs were when she went troiil me— My love ol long ago. New lips are ever telling The tale th-.t ne’er grows o,d Life’s grays me always changing For some one into gold; But amid the shine and shadow. Amid the gloom and glow, She walks with me and talki with me— Mv love cl long ago. When I think of nil the changes That the changing years have brought, I am glad the world that holds her Is tlie world that changes not. And the same as when she left me She waits for me I know— ‘ My love on earth, my lovj in heivun, My love of long ago. lIAM> ORGAN AND MONKEY. llow Two Brooklyn Republicans Paid an Election Hot. An amusing spectacle, tint outcome of several political bets, was witnessed by a large crowd early yesterday morn ing at tbe corner of Rodney and South Second streets, Williamsburg. Samuel Arnold, of No. 201 llave meyer streets, a member of the Thir teenth Ward Republican Association, that bet W. Hicks, a member of the Thirteenth Ward Democratic Associa tion, that the republicans would carry the state at the recent election. He stipulated that if he lost the bet he would grind a hand organ for an hour at the corner above mei tinned. John l it,bets of No. 37 Ten Evck street, a mutual friend, also a member of the Thirteenth Ward Republican Association, was so certain that Fas sett would be elected that he declared iu case Arnold should lose his wager he, Tibbetts, would consent to play monkey, and dance for an hour to Ar nold’s barrel orgun accompaniment. At the same time that these bets were made, William Hraririigan of No. 180 Hope street, and Frank Weston two staunch republicans, made an agree meat with D. Moore and Henry Hoff man, two democrats, that if Meyer lost uiayorality they would wheel their democratic friends for an hour iu bar rows, with the proviso that they should have the ride if Boody was beaten. These bets were made with great ear nestness and iu the presence of a num ber of politicians. Saturday war. the day agreed upon to square all the wagers, and according ly at an early hour the party met at tbe corner just named. Arnold worked bravely at the crank. He opened the entertainment with “Comrades,” and ground out all the popular airs iu turn, including “Mag gie Murphy's Home” and the “Skirt Dance.” All thi» while Tibbetts, true to bis word, was doing the maukey business. He hopped first on one foot, then on the other; made'faces and held out bis cap for peunies. An immense crowd j gathered, and the giinder and bis mon key had a severe ordeal to stand, but they worked on unfalteringly. At the end of the hour harrows were brought forward and Mr. Moore and Mr. Hoffman took their seats. Rran nigan and Weston grasped the han dles and the procession started forward. A band of music bail been engaged for the occasion, and a dozen rockets were fired. Followed by hundreds the pro. cession moved up Rodney street to Grand, from Grand to Bedford avenue, to Broadway, to Hooper, to South Fourth, again to Rodney and on the corner of South Second, from whence it started. Moore and Hoffman evidently enjoy ed their ride. They cheered lustily and waved aloft the stars and stripes. The day was beginning to dawn as the pro cession ended at its starting place, and two more dilapidated and worn out specimens than Brnunigau and Weston would have been hard to find. ‘*l’m dead,” said Brannigaii to the democratic friend he ha-1 been wheel ing “Sorry, my boy,” returned the oth er, “but next campaign’ don’t bet with a democrat.” New York Advertiser. ■low to Cure All Nkin l>i»- I'HNC St.” Simply apply "Swav.vk’s Oistmknt.” 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 hy no other remedy. Ask your druggist for : Swaysk’h Oixtmk.vt. The absence of soft water is no ex cuse for druikiug hard. Site Wouldn't Have Him. Ihe Cairo Short Line passenger from Paducah bail a very heavy load ol excursionists Sunday, returning home from Kentucky, where they had been spending a holiday. Among the number was a dapper little man from I St. Louis, whose name is withheld be cause it would add nothing to this o’er I true story, lie was very sweet—at | least, his vanity told him so. The dude | sported laven ler pants, a black silk tennis shirt, a flashy tie, and wore a No. til beaver hat. Like all of his kind, this dude had a mania for break ittg hearts, and made himself conspicu ous by ogling all the ladies on the train and by loud remarks drawing attention to himself. Mis forte, though, was a promenade it the vai ious stations where the train pulled up. Then he was in his element, as he minced along the platform or took up an artistic pose, as much vs to say, “Look at me ; ain’t I sweet ?” Whenever he ap. proached a woman, be she while o r black, this foolish dude had some in. sane witticism to crack at her expense. This conduct continued till the train reached a station thin side of Piuckneyville, 111., where a long halt was made. Here was the dude's op portunity, here he surpassed all pre vious efforts in his role as a railway masher, and here, alas, he was overta ken by a vengeance. On the platform stood an old gray haired gentleman, with strongly mark ed features, and by his side a modest girl of seventeen years, neatly and be comingly dressed. They were evident ly father and daughter. The natty little dude spied them as soon as the train pulled in. Here was his oppor. tuuity, of which he quickly availed himself. Accompanied by three com pauions he walked slowly past the couple, making some teraark as he reached them. The girl's cheeks crim soned, while an omnious frown gather ed on the father’s brow. Unaware of their danger, the quartet proceeded to ihe station saloou and gleefully quaffed their soda, after which each lighted a cigarette and retraced their steps to the train, again having to pass the father and daughter. Whether the soda flew to the dude’s head and made him more reckless than usual, or whether the fact that the girl was so modest and shrinking that he thought her lawful game, and as her only protector was an old man, no danger was apprehend ed, the St. Louis dude grew bolder as he approached the couple, and turning to a companion, said : “This girl says she won’t have me.” In a moment the old gentleman reached forward and grasped the sur prised masher by the back of the neck, saying: “No, by gum, but her father will,” and then proceeded to mop the platform with his dudesliip. Hack and forth the natty little man was dragged, his lavender pants split up one leg, his silk shirt torn, while his handsome beaver was hopelessly crushed as though so much paper. Then, turning him around, the old gentleman planted a No. 10 shoe squarely and fairly at the base of the dude’s spinal column, elevating the little man in the air and landing him off the platform, a hope, less and helpless wreck. Ilis three valiant companions had fled at the first onslaught of the old man, but 400 or 500 passeugers gave him such an ova tion as sildom falls to the lot of mor tal, the cars fairly rolling under the ap. plause so heartily bestowed. Ilis dudesliip dragged himself away a sorer, if not a wiser, man. Where he hid himself no one knew, but he was not seen again until the cars reach ed the union depot, when he was de tected limping painfully between a standing train, wending his weary way Ito the nearest car line.—St. Louis ! Globe-Democrat. There is nothing discouragiu ' in tiie outloo!.. Stand to the Democratic pat ty, firm and confident. The democrat ic party enjoys the renown of being the oldest political party in America, anil has the advantage of being both old and modern. It has stood the test ot time while dozens of other political par ties have sprung up, been weighed in the balance of justice, found wanting, aud have again passed into oblivion, while the party of. Democracy has stood firm.—Exchange. “So you want to know where the flies come from, do you, Lucullus?” “Well, the cyclone make the house fly, the blacksmith makes the fire flv, the carpenter makes the saw (iy, the driver makes the horse fly, the grocer makes the sand tly, and tiie boarder makes the butter fly.” Highest of all in Leavening Power.— U. S. Gov’t Report, Aug. 17, DqW| Baking Powder ABSOLUTELY PURE How the Office Hoy Saved the Edi tor, lhe paper had said something he didn't like and he was going to see the editor about it and thump the stuffing out of him. On the stairs leading to the den he found a small boy, who blocked his way. “Is the editor iu ?” he inquired roughly. “Yes, sir,” replied the hoy, polite iy- “Can I see him?” “1 s’pose so, sir.” “Well, I want to. Do 1 go up this way ?” “Air you Mr. Johnson ?” inquired the boy, with evident personal inter est. “Yes, I am.” “The same that the paper give it to in the neck ?” “Yes. What’s that to you ?” “Nothing much, Mr. Johnson, but I’m your friend.” “No you don’t say ?” said the visi tor sarcastically surveying him. “Well, let me go on up stairs, won’t you ?” “Cert, Mr. Johnson, but before you go into the editor’s room you look in the c irner by the door and git a dray pin setliu’ there. I put it where you could g:t it easy You see the editor is lookin' fer you and lie’s got a big boss pistol in his drawer and a hatchet layin’ on his desk, and when 1 seen them preparations l jist thought it was a shame for the editor to go fer a man ifi his old paper and use a hatchet on him besides without givin’ him some sort of a show. I ain’t nobody but an office boy, but I know what justice is as well as if 1 was I’resident of the United .States. (Jo right on up, but go easy. The dray pin is in the left-hand corner.” And the man didn’t go up. Mister Oin-r Ahead. lie was standing on the corner of Hastings and Gratiot streets when an other young man about Ins age came along, and the first one said: “Look lieah, Mistah Carr, I want to gin yo’ a few words oh advice ” “ Well, sah ?" “Yo’ seems to bo payin’ yo’r ’ten shuns somewhat to a young lady nam ed Miss Perkins.” “Yes, sah—Yes, sail.” “Bin buyiu’ her boxes of candy an’ sen.lin’ up bokays, 1 understau’.” “Jes so, sah.” “Well, sah, in order 10 save yo’ fur der bodder an’ expense, I will inform yo’ dat I am duu engaged to marry Miss Perkins in de nigh fueber.” “'Zactly sah, ’zactly, an’ in order to save you furder bodder an’ expense, I will iuform you dat Miss Perkins dun becutn Mrs. Carr last eaveniu’ at n o’clock ! Weddin’ strictly private ! No keerds I” No Protection. There were three or four colored meu on the platform of a Brush street car, and one of them was expressing his perfect faith in it as a charm, when an old man with a cane and basket re marked : “I dun used to hev one o’ dem my se'f, but I frowed it away long ago.” “Doan’ you believe in ’em ?” “No, salt—not now. Dat rabbit’s fut was all right bcfoli dey got de po lice fo’ce, hut it ain’t wutli shucks now. They looked at him for an explana tion, and he said : “1 went out one night will a rabbit’s fut in my pocket, ati’ the next thing I kno wed I was up in de work house fur thirty days.” “Dow you git dar?” asked one. “Dejedgo sent me.” “What de jedge dun sent you fur?” “What fur? What he dun sent me fur? Why, sah, case dey found de | chickens in my bag, of co’se !” Matrimony doesn’t appear to greatly improve the habits of the convivial man after all. Before marriage he is generally “up with the boys” half the night aud after marriage he is frequent ly up with the baby all night. And in I the latter case he is just as boisterous as in the former. 1 Henry County Weekly, Established lHTfi, ( Henry County 'limes, Established 1884. Arms of a Devil Fish About Him. The schooner James Towusond, which arrmeff from Fort Bragg to day, brought news of the extremely un pleasant experience George Barnes had with a devil fish at the place named re cently. Barnes, accompanied by a fisherman, was searching for sea eggs, and a fine abalone shell partly covered by a rock catching his eye lie determined to se cure the prize. Barnes, who was bare footed, stepped into the water to obta’ll a good purchase on the rock when his left ankle was seized by one of the tentacles of a big octopus. The sur prised explorer made a hasty effort to draw his imprisoned foot away, but more deadly in their grip than the nip pers of a policeman are the long, fiexi hie feelers of the devil fish, aud soon three or four more tentacles of the sub merged monster were lapped around Hai nes’s foot and leg, while his hips and waist were encircled in the slimy em brace of the devil fish. Barnes used every exertion to either free himself or else land the octopus upon the beach, but his strength gave out and he would soon have succumbed to the fish’s vicelike hold mid lieeu drawn into the sea had not his compau ion noticed his sad plight and hastened to his rescue. The fisherman plied a hatchet and a huge knife with good effect, and soon sections of tentacles were severed from j the devil fish and dropped in the tide, squirming like eels. Iho wholesale J carving of its feelers proved too much | for tho octopus, und its several holds on Harnes’s log and body relaxed, and he was dragged up on the sand and al lowed to recover from tho fright and weakness inducod by tho unpleasant adventure. —San Francisco Examiner. The Gibson Itecord says: An old gentleman says the acorn and hickory nut hulls are very thick this year; also the shucks on corn are thicker than they have been for several years, all of which, lie says, is a sure sign of a se vere winter. If there are barnacles on the bulk of the demociatic ship—clean them off. If there are leaks in the bottom—stop them. If she needs new canvass— spread then. If her captain is a rascal —throw him over. Hut sink her never. —Chattanooga News. At a recent Boston wedding, as the newly-married pair were marching down the aisle, the organist played for a re cessional the wellknown hymn: “Oil ward, Christian Soldier, Marching on to war.” llow vain aud unprofitable it is fora man to he a politician. If the energy that some meu spend trying to get into oflioe were expended in the ordinary pursuits of business, wealth would easi ly follow. Politics is a poor trade.— Atlanta Herald. The propitious weather together with the growing determination of far mers to make their farms more self sustaining is causing them to sow an increased amount of grain in Henry county this fall. There is no velvet s> Hoft as a moth ers’s lap. no star so lovely as hersn.ile, no music so melodious as her voice, no rose so fragrant as the memory of her love Thomas Hazlip, about 70 years of age, fell dead while sitting in a chair at his home near Stark on Friday night last. The debtor is the fellow who isn’t at all anxious to have his creditors Lurry ou his account. Profess the religion that you intend to live, and learn the things you intend to practice. Trying to drown sorrow in drink is about like cutting off a sore finger to make it stop hurting. Educate aud become the strong sturj dy oak. Remain in ignorance and be* come the evergreen. Pails and tubs saturated with glyce rine will not shrink.