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THE HENRY COUNTY WEEKLY CONSOLIDATED JANUARY 1,1891. VOL. XVI. r/. o li:ss I OAT I L VA It Its. ! 'M. <«. *». <• b DENTIST, McDo.NO l’fill A it\ ,*»m* <l«‘!»irinji work done can in* uc ?!>»»}*:*t( I «*ithur by calling on me in pel - 's..!! or . bln me through the mails. Forms rash, unless special arrangements r. otherwise made. :b > W Jlrv vx 1 W.T. Dick ex. I EiiKYA.’S A l*!( Ui:^, ATTOBNEYS AT LAV.'. McDosoufui, Wil; liictict- in the counties composing i he Kii"i Judicial Circuit, the Supreme Court ri*u!i.i,i it ml ilu United States District Court. aprSJf-l y j te. S 3. TUOiKK, • > ATTORNEY at law, McDonough, Ca. \S j!I oructice in the counties composing the Hint Circuit, the Supreme Court of cteorgi.i. ami the United States District Court marlti-ly P ATTORNEY AT LAW. McDonochh, Ga. Wi: ractice in all the Courts of Georgia 5:..-, ■ attention given to commercial and ■thei lections. Wilt attend nil the Courts it Han: ton regularly. Office upstairs over The Weekly office. | W tl.I, ATTORNEY at la w, McDoxocon, tis. Wit; ractiecin t’.ie counties composing the tTlint Judicial Circuit, and the Supreme and i)i;nri--t Courts of Georgia. Prompt attention ::,i m in collections. octs-’79 A. IIKOWA’. ' ATTORNEY AT LAW, McDonol'qm, Ga. Will practice in all the counties compos ing the Fiint Circuit, the Supreme Court of Georgia and tiic United States District Court. jnul-ly . |j A. PIiEFIiKO, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Hampton, 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, Oct 8, 1888 Jno. D. Steavaut. I K.T. Daniel. ws siWASer x iu.miii,, attorneys at paw, Gkm + in, Ga. | osi’ll a,, tvr. ATTORNEY AT LAW, Gate City Nutioal Bank Building, Atlanta. Ga, Practices in the State and Federal Courts. THE " tf&f-N.'.' ■ " hr/' • • • o/* < <'£ ... || • T [y ■ i ", ' '.' >-> . ■■■ , -”r£ ! ; . • . . " 4 >»,' ' I ■ Y./ % jfjf '/}■ kf, Easi Telia. Virginia & Ga. k R’Y. IS THK ONLY SHORT AND DIRECT LINE TO TIIK NORTH, SOUTH, EAST AND WEST. PULLMAN'S FINEST VES TIBULE SLEEPERS B KTW E EX ATLANTA & KNOXVILLE MACON & CHATTANOOGA BRUNSWICK & ATLANTA '.VITIIOI I'll! Direct Connections at Chat tanooga with Through trainsand Pullman Sleep ers to Menphis and the West, al KniitviUi 1 \viHi I’tilliiiiin Xlee|HT« for WASHINGTON, PHILADELPHIA, AND N E W YORK FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ADDRESS, B. W. WRENN, CKAS. N. KICST fien’l. Pass. A*j ~ A. I'. I*. A. KNOXVII.LE. ATLANTA AlidlanH Al iallir It. K. solth. Leave Arrive Greenwood 7 .-47 “ “ I.ouella . . 7ris “ •• Gliliiil .... 8:05 “ j NOLTH. Leave Gridin. . . .... . -1:00 p. m. Arr '■ Louella I I l * “ (Jreeinv tod. 4:4H “ “ Mcr>" nouj.h 5:05 11 M. F, GRAY, Sup’t. •^STEWART** 'MERCANTILE* •CD'S* * CARD * To Their Friends and Customers. WE THANK YOU FOE 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 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 •j 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 lor the prompt manner in which they are settling up —early collections do us a lot ol good. Again thanking our Customers each and all for 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. December is. ism. LOCUST GROVE, As Seen and Written t T p by Montgom ery M. Folsom. Staff Correspondence Atlanta .lour in»l.—For a long, long time I have heard of Locust Grove. It was sacrilegious to my memory as the place where a train had to wait when I was hurrying down to see some body i knew. But never before to-day have 1 had a fair conception of the beauties of this lovely little central Georgia town that has been here for many a the couiiuence of Indian creek and the Towaliga river. More than half a century ago there came to this country a merry English man whose life had been tilled with more vicissitudes than had fallen to the ordinary lot. Mr. George P. Combs was son of English parents who emigrated to America, and both of them died on shipboard and the little waif was placed in the orphanage at Charleston, and there he was bred. From that great charitable institu tion he was bound out to one of the old landlords of that time. The mansion caught on fire and the little boy jumped from an upper story and saved himself. God protects the children of des tiny. And so this little orphan English hoy was saved, and iu time came to the vale of the Towaliga and settled here. At that period there were stage coach lines, centering in McDonough, that penetrated this region north, somlt east and west One of the main lines ran down the Ocmu'gee toward the infant city of Macon, sud on that road Mr. Combs built his home. It was a ro mantic spot, and in the broad area in front of his house he planted heavy locusts. •That is why it has been called Locust Grove from time immemorial. The old pioneer left a splendid rec ord and a noble lineage behin^Ai. As I listened to the wild the frisky locomotive today I thought of the contrast between that and the old stage bugle that used to wake the echoes of Towaliga on a frosty morn ing. Locust Grove is a place of natural loveliness. Situated as it is, in the very heart of the fertile lauds of mid dle Georgia, and populated by a brave and generous hearted people, it cannot help being a place of more than ordi nary importance. Why, they get three thousand hales of cotto.i here annually, and there are nine stores, each of which does a fine business iu general merchandise. The planters Warehouse is another company iu which a number of the en terprising citizens of the town have stock. Mr. G. P. Combs is secretary and treasurer and general manager. The company has a capital stock of S4OO, and having leased the old ware house, has utilized it for the present season. A large brick building will be erec ted during the ensuing summer for its accommodation, and Locust Grove will boom up as a cotton buying point in middle Georgia The business outlook is exceedingly fair. Mr. Brown, one of the most prominent merchants, does a business of $20,000 off an average stock of $4,- 000, and besides that does a large busi ness in cotton and fertilizers. This is but a sample of the enter prise and business of this town. # * * For instance, they have a 20-ton cot ton seed oil manufactory here known as the Farmers’ Cotton Oil Manufac turing Company, that not only buys all the seed offered, but turns out a large amount of cotton seed oil, oil cake, cot. ton seed meal and 600 to 800 tons of fertilizers that are sold to the farmers of Henry and Butts counties. The company also iuus a giunery, with five sixty-saw gin", turning out 1,500 bales of cotton during the sea son. Mr R. F. Smith is president, Mr S. 15. Kimbell, secretary, treasurer and general manager and Mr. J. I{. Wil liams, superintendent. Mr. A. L. Colvin, on a stock of $4,000 in bis liaudsome store, besides a thriving millinery establishment up stairs, does a busine-s of $20,000 a year. Mr. J. L. Gardner carries about $2,- 500 worth of general merchandise, and does a snug little business of #IO,OOO a year- His is “the Racket Stoie.” / Mr. J. T. Davis does a rushing bus I iness in general merchandise, making a specialty of fruits, w hich lie ban lies in large quantities. Mr. I'. E. Sullivan, the efficient dep t’ty sheriff of Henry county, keeps a livery stable as nicely fitted up as can h« found in Georgia, and furnishes elegant turnouts and feeds; buys and sells mules and horses of all kinds, driving a tine and thorough going busi ness. Mr. Price, up iu the old part of town, has an elegaut brick store where he does a rushing business iu general mer chandise and farmers’ supplies. The farmers around Locust Grove are not wliiners, as you sometimes find in pirouling around Georgia, They are big, broad-shouldered men who fear God and try to keep His command ments. Take, for instance, Mr. W. A. Boat ner. lie is a typical young farmer, lie runs font plows and on his fertile lands giew forty hales of cotton the present year, lie is a progressive young man aud one of those who will help to redeem his people from the bane of poverty. Prof. J. It. Williams is principal of the school here, lie is an Alumnus of Bartlesville and of Athens, and when lie came here, over two tears ago, the school only amounted to 25 pupils. Now he has lit enrolled, with an uv erage attendance of 70; and Miss Liz zie Perdue, his accomplished music teacher, lias a class of fifteen who evi dence her proficiency in their own ac complishments. I he school house is ample and com modbus, but if I’rof. Williams keeps on as he lias begun, he will soon want a big brick academy to accommodate his pupils. As tor the social and religious fea tures of Locust Grove, they are unex celled. It is one of these places where you get the benefit of that sweet and true religion that awakens in the heart the blessed seeds of comfort and conscien tiousness that so often lie dormant in the human bosom. A handsome Methodist church in the south end of the town afford pivileges of worship for the good old followers of the great and good Wesley; while down in the new part of town the steeple of Indian Creek Baptist church towers heavenward, pointing to the road that leads beyond she sunset of life’s titful dream to the golden fields of that Eden where the elect shall reign in all the un told splendor of godliness. Locust Grove has a literary club that would do credit to a larger town, and the best people of the town are members, aud take a lively interest in its prosperity. •Through the courtesy of my good friend, I)r. VV. C. Bryant, I was admit ted into the sanctum sanctorum of this institution tonight, and I was charmed with the heauty of its arrangement and the wit and wisdom of its member ship These middle Georgia folks are not only business like and thoroughly en terprising, hut the right hand of old Henry lias never forgot its cunning, but the shadow of its patrician namesake, the great Patiick Henry, of the Old Dominion, seems to hover over its youth as a guardian angel pointing to higher themes and nobler aspirations than the common, dull routine of life. 1 visited the hospitable home of Dr. W. 11. H. Peek, the late worthy repre sentative of this county in the legisla ture, where I was most pleasantly en tertained. He is an old practitioner and a dam up man in every respect. Dr. T. .1. Heflin is another prominent physician who has made name and fame here. I must not forget to mention Mr. (!. M. Mahonc, our agent, and correspon dent here, who is one of tiie best rail road agents the world ever saw, and his assistant, Miss Ada Ward, is just as graceful as he is great. * * * Now, that I am through with busi ness, permit me to indulge in a little descriptive work. I don’t like to be always in the treadmill. 1 like to wan der abroad like I did this afternoon and commune with myself and my God, who is the Lord supreme of all that is most beautiful. I watched the purple-hearted aureole of the eastern sky, all bordered with crimson and gold witli a single star, like some great diamond burning in its quiv ei ing heai t. And faraway the curving expanse of parti calmed wavelands slowly faded Highest of all in Leavening Power.—U. S. Gov’t Report, Aug. 17, 1889. ABSOLUTELY PURE like the memories of a pleasant dream. Down in the carmine vested west the dying sun showed the blush of his ruddy brow upon the bills of Towaliga, and the wind-swept ridges reflected back glimpses of his royal splendor from the serried ranks of the emerald crested pines. I love the pines. Perhaps it is a weakness, but in the rythmic melody of the gales that, play among their boughs I recognize the lullabies of my childhood. Have I not a right to love them? They were the first familiar acquaintances of the “Auld Lan ri fciyno," and in their majestic presence I prattled when the world was heed less To them be devoted my sweetest songs forevermore, for they, alone, of all the earth, have not proven faithless at the weary years have dragged their length aloug. In the sacred precincts of the old burying ground I stood as the twilight fell on the hills of l owuliga, and in the shadow of the ancient church I redreamed the dreams ol happier days It was a precious hour to a world-weary man. A great rock in a desert land! And so long as I live 1 shall live to lovo this quiet little country town, Lo cust Grove, imbedded in the heart of the red hills of Georgia, and possessed of all the natural and artificial advan tages that go to make up a peaceful, prosperous and progressive home place, where tiie heart finds comfort in quie tude and the uiind is gratified by the activity' of life tl at is almost metropo litan in its magnitude, I am glad I came to Locust Grove, i and I hope to come aguiu when the ap ple blossoms blow. Montoomicrv M. Folsom. EXPEL ii mi i.l- 1 hat disease is propaga ted by the innumerable microbes* germs, etc., which lill the air we breathe and the water we drink, there can he no quustion. These microbes attack the human system, and breed poison in many shapes. Recent exper iments read before the congress of sur geons at Berlin leave no doubt that tin way to clear the system of these germs is toj force them'out through the pores of the skin. S. S. S. does this in the most efbeient way. It cleans them out entirely, and the poison as well. Mr. F. /. Nelson, a prominent and wealthy citizen of Fremont, Nebraska, suffered for years with Scrofula, and it continued to do worse in spite of all treatment. Finally, four bottles of Swift's specific cured him He writes : “Words are inadequate to express my gratitude and fuvoralde opinion of Swift’s Specific.” Treaties on Blood and Skin Diseases maiicd free. THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO., Atlanta, Ga. The Billville Banner. Last Sunday Parson Jones pulled out his Waterbury watcli to see if he had preached an hour and a half, when the glass flew off and fifteen yards of the mainspring flew out, and, catching Deacon Scruggs round the neck, chok <d him to death, and caused Sister Spraddler to break her right arm, and tiipped up Steward Brown and upset the pulpit. The Waterbury watch is little, but lively. Burglars rifled the Billville postoffice last Wednesday night and made off witli the year’s receipts, consisting of fifty two cent stamps, one package of stamped envelopes, one ball of red tape and one side of meat. It is a sad blow to the government, but a blessing to the postmaster, who took advantage of the circumstances and resigned. Coroner Jenkins held an inquest yesterday on a drunken man who tried to whip his mother in law. There is a good deal of resolution in Billville whisky, but cussed little judgment. We took out an accident policy last Monday, and had the good fortune to break two of our legs ten minutes af terwards, for which we will get S2OO. Now, if we can only break our neck, we’ll come into a fortune—Exchange. ! Henry County Weekly, Established IK7C, } Henry County 'limes, Established 18*1. Why Me lltul (jiilt, A eute young Detroiter fond of his hor e and fond of Ins joke was quu zing a quaint old fellow from the coun try the other day whom he had met j for the first time. “I understand you’ve got some pret j ty good horses,” he ventured | es,” said the old one warily, “I’ve got some good ones.” j “Anything rapid ?” “Not overly. You see I ain’t rajs [ in’ for speed any more.” ‘No ; why not ?” “ Cause there ain’t much in it for mo anyhow. I done fairly well till about lour years ago, when I boojked a tine 8 year-old agin a mule one of the boys owned, *ud sence that I’m kinder discouraged like.” “Hacked a horse against a mule?” repeated the young man, innocently surprised. “Jos’ so.” “And what was the result?" I he old man’s eyes twinkled. “ Kout what was to he expected,” he said with a chuckle. “'The diirn mule kicked the 8-year old full of holes in two minutes.” Fourteen men laughed all at once, and the lift< enth who was the Detroit er, went away by himself for as much as half an hour.—Detroit Free Press. A HrlUlunt Youth. A tall, lean, cadaverous-looking in dividual moped into Henry \\. Watler son’s sanctum oue duy. lie looked lost. There was a wild look hi his , basilisk eves as they neivvusly noted the contents of the room, ami vou could j almost hear his heart go thrumpety -1 thrutnp against his coarse, blue wool en shirt. He had on a dirty shirt and a pair of blue jeans trousers, that held well aloof from coarse htogans. You might have taken him for a cow boy, had he a more brusque manner and a swao. ger. There was an infantile cough. Mr. Watturson wrote ou. There came another cough, a Jittie louder. Mr. Watterson looked up. “Well, young man ?” “Mr. Watterson,” began the intru der in a high, squeaky and uncertain voice, “I am a journalist. Is there an opening on this paper for a bright, brilliant young man like me, excellent education, trenchant writer and —” “Yes, young man, there is,” inter rupted the great editor. The brilliant young man’s heart bounded anil be smiled sweetly as be moved toward the speaker. “Yes, young man, there is,” contin ued Mr. Watterson. “The carpenter, by wise forethought, when he con structed this building, provided such an ‘opening’ for brilliant young men like you. I hen, abruptly-, ‘-Turn the knob to the right, please.” The young man had found an open ing.—Philadelphia Press. She Wanted Time. Little Brother—“ You and sister ain’t mad at each other, is you ?” Unsuccessful Suitor—“Oh, no, not at all, not at all.” “Do you stay away just because she wouldn’t marry you ?” “Um—partly, yes. She didn't ab solutely refuse me however.” “No, I know. She wanted time.” that’s it. And I promised not to bother her until she was ready.” “Well, you won't have more’n ten years to waiL” “What—Ten years?” “Yes. She’s twenty now, and she said she’d marry before Bhe was thirty even if she had to take you.” When a Pennsylvania uimrod re cently went out to hunt fora bear near Hazleton, he found one so suddenly that it was about all he do to es cape from Bruiu. In his efforts he lost one foolish dog and nearly all his clothes. Finding a bear is sometimes a great deal easier than losing him. LAniGS Needing atonic, or children who want build ing up. should take BROWN'S IKON BITTERS. It is pleasant to take, cures Malaria. Indi gestion, iiiiiousuesasud Liver Complaints.