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THE HERALD AND ADVERTISER.
VOL. XXV.
NEWNAN, GA, FRIDAY, JUNE 6, 1890.
NO. 34.
NEW HARDWARE AND SEED STORE,
GREENVILLE ST., NEWNAN, GA.
New goods in every department re
ceived regularly. The finest and best
stoclc of Razors, Scissors and Pocket
Knives in the county.
Powder, Shot, Caps, Primers; Rim
and Central-fire Cartridges; Smith &
Wesson, Colt’s and Mavlin Pistols;
Winchester, Colt’s and Marlin Repeat
ing Rifles and fine Breech-loading Shot
guns; Wagon and Buggy Tire; Bolts
of all kinds; Hubs, Rims, Spokes; Sol
id Steel Axes; Fence Wire and Sta
ples; Orchard and Blue Grass, Red
Clover, Lucerne and cultivated Ger
man Millet. Best Garden Seeds. Ask
to see the Sublett Hoe.
Jars ahfl Jugs, (all dimensions,) for sale.
A. POPE.
THOMPSON BROS.
HEADQUARTERS FOR
FURNITURE, ORGANS AND COFFINS.
BED ROOM SUITS FROM $12.00 TO $100. PARLOR
SUITS FROM 35.00 UPWARD.
Bedsteads, Bureaus and Chairs—All Sorts,
Sizes and Quality.
Organs for cash or on the installment plan.
Window Shades, Curtain Poles and Rings.
Drapeify Pins and Curtain Chains.
Baby Carriages for all Pretty Babies.
1 COFFINS!
From the Cheapest Wood to the Finest Metallic Burial
Caskets. Burial Robes and Shoes. Ready Day or Night.
THOMPSON BROS.,
NEWNAN, GA.
J. A.’.PARKS, Pkbs't. W. O. ANROLD, Viok-Pmkb’t. W. A. DENT, Bbc. A Tkkas.
NEWNAN BUGGY COMPANY,
MANUFACTURERS QF •
REVSAMP. JONES
REV. J.B, HAWTHORNE
WHAT THEY SAY ABOUT
DR. KING’S
romepEOEt
The following le an extract from a latter writ
ten by the World Renowned Evangelist:
" I returned from Tyler, Texas, on the 12th
(net. I And my wife hae been taking Royal
Germetuar to the GREAT UPBUILDING of
her phyiloal system. Hhe le now almost free
from the dlatreaafhg headache* with which ahe
liaa been a MARTYR for twenty yeara. Surely
lthaadone woodera for her! I WISH EVERY
PgOR.BDFFEBINa WIFE HAD ACCESS TO
Tn ai
rheumatism FOR THIRTY^EARS. acaroely
having a day'a exemption from pain. After
taking Royal Oermetuer two months, hs writes:
aa A J- i_A_ a IfOP# - “ " “
younger, and la aa happy and play!
healthy child. We have perauaded many of our
frlenda to take tlio medicine, and the testimony
of all of them le that It la a great remedy."
Dr. Xing's Royal Oermetuer Is a boon to
women. It builds up the strength, Increases the
appetite, aids digestion, relieves thorn of the
cause of disease, and Insures health.
Itlaan Infallible cure for Rheumatism', Neu
ralgia, Paralysis, Insomnia, Dyspepsia. Imll-
* nation. Palpitation, I.lver, Hladdcrand Kidney
Useases, Chills and Fevers, Catarrh,all Blood
and Hlcln Diseases, Female Troubles, etc.
Prompted by a desire to reach more suffering
people, the price has been reduced from $2.50 to
$1.50 per concentrated bottle, which makes one
gallon of medicine ns per directions accompa
nying each bottle. For sale bv the
ATLANTIC 6ERMETUER CO. Atlanta, Gs.
ond by Druggists, If your Druggist can nut
supply you, It can be sent by express.
, AEfr’Send stamp for full particulars, certif
icates of wonderful cures, etc.
For sale by G. R. Bradley,
Newnan, Ga.
FIRST-CLASS VEHICLES,
IN EVERY STYLE.
HEiFAll kinds of repairing neatly and promptly done.
PATRONIZE HOME INDUSTRY!
IF YOU WANT TO BUY A
PIANO
DON’T BUY UNTIL YOU HAVE TRIED
THE COOPER.
__ SOLE AGENTS FOR THE PACKARD ORGAN
ATLANTA PIANO COMPANY
. 27 MARIETTA STRE ’
MONEY
Loaned on farms in Coweta,
Heard and Meriwether at eight
per cent, per annum. ^
L. R. RAY, Newnan, Ga.
m iuii u ill, s
Ohahj.khton, W. Va., Jan. 18,18IK).
DcnrHIr: I have received your crystalIzcd
lenses, adjusted for me some weeks ago, and
am very much pleased with them.
Very respectfully,
K. W. WI CHON,
Governor of West Virginia.
These famous glusses adjusted to defective
visions at the bookstore of CARTKH & ENG
LAND, Newnan, Ga.
M. G. KEITH,
LIVERY, FEED AND SALE
STABLE.
Opposite M. X. Church, NEWNAN, OA.
The best vehicles, the safest drivers and the
fastest horses always ready for hire, night and
day. No man, woman or ehlld will ever hire
u Vr a I n f ro "} ,nB with which they will be dis
satisfied. Everything Is flrst-eluss.
My charges are reasonable, and I do all I
can to accommodate my patrons. Give me a
call. Conveyances for'drummers to surroun-
plng towns a specialty. M. G. KEITH.
NAMES OF NEGROES.
(Educational.
WALKER HIGH SCHOOL.
1890,
Begins Its Spring Session on the Second
Monday In January.
Prepares girls for the Senior class In college;
boys for the Junior, and both tor practical life.
The English and Ancient Classics, HIghei
Mathematics, the Sciences, Painting and Mu-
ale thoroughly taught.
Prom ISO to $100 per annum saved by pat
ronising this school Instead of entering the
lower classes In college.
Girls boarded by the Principal study at
night under his supervision. y '
$lsS? ,d and Tultlon tor “cbolastlc month,
Text books furnished at reduced rates.
DANIEL WALKER, Principal.
Curlsus Nomenclature That Originated
In the Old Plantation Life.
Of course, on every plantation there
were several negroes of tlio same name,
and the negroes, who are apt at such
things, used various And peculiar so
briquets to distinguish them. On my
father’s place thero was an’ Taller
Lira, au’ Block Liza and an’ Pop Eyed
Lisa, an’ Unker Big Jako, UAkor Lit
tle Jake and Unker Knook Kneed
Juke. 1 here were in one family throe
generations‘of Bens, nil possessed of a
mental or physical infirmity. Tlio old
man,'who had been kicked in the head
by n mule, was em*y. Iffy spent his
days And pretty nearly all his nights
standing under a broad China treo
preaching of the judgtnont dny. lie
was Unker Pool Ben. His son, a tiiid-
dle aged .man, ofllicted with Mi ulcer
that iuhde him Tama,’was Unker Hop- 1
pin* Ben. Tho grandson who trem
bled With the palsy ana besides was
simple minded, was Unker Chilty
Ben. Though able bodied, he was.
never required to do ahy work and
wandered about tho place without let
or hindrnneo.
At tpe close of the war a large ma
jority of tho southern negroes assumed
the name of tho family to which they
belonged, getting it fearfully twisted
somotTmos, as, for instance, Grim for
Graham, Buskoy for. Arowbuski, eta
Some went back in search of names to
their former owners in Virginia or
Carolina, who had lost them either
through'debt or raised them to be fold
to tho negro speculator, who brought
them further south to be sold again to
work ttie cotton and rfce plantations.
In this way you will now find the
grandfather of a family bearing the
name of his old master iu Virginia,
his son that of his owner at tho olooe
of tho war, whilo the grandson as
sumes some fanciful namo suggested
by circumstances. So I know an old
man calling himself Jim Sanders. Ills
son is Jim James, Jr. There is not nor
ever has been a Jim James, sr. His
son, again, is Jim Grandson. Upon
the plantations you still occasionally
come across the once familiar names
of Sambo, Cutfee, Dinah, Bukey, *tc.,
but veiy rarely even there. Grand!-
sons, Mortimers, Leilas, Nathalies,
eto., have taken their pUom.
Bible names, with explanatory pre-
flxes and suffixes, are great favorites
among the devout portion of the ne
gro community. The man who works
my garden is King David Jonsing.
My woodcutter is Rev. Solormon
Wiseman, who, like St Paul, does not
disdain with his own hands to min
ister to his necessities. Besides these,
1 number among my acquaintance
Rev. Simon Surrender and Holy Tab
ernacle, Brother John the Baptist
Tubbs. Among the more secular are
Mr. Jack Hyena and Prince Albert
Hardtimes, a happy equality between
the aristocrat and tho plebeian. Tlie
lusty young negro man who, with
Webster’s spelling book and ohiokory,
teaches the colored idea how to shoot,
has chosen the name of Professor Sam
Cape of Good Hope. A block vulcan,
hammering sparks from his anvil,
dubs himsolf Sampson Lightning. Tho
butcher’s boy, who comes whistling
into the yard with his basket upon his
arm and has a face as black as ebony,
answers to the namo of Ivory Temple.
A little colored female tramp from the
country, who comes to mo once a
week, totin’ a bundle of ligther’d on
her head, which she offers to ex
change, announces herself as Miss
Annerliiier Purse. An empty purse,
evidently, for she never fails to wind
up the trade by asking; “Ain’t yer got
nutbiu’ t’eat yer kin give me?’’—Cor.
Philadelphia Times.
FRIGHTENED TO HIS FATE.
A Story Connected with a Laconic Entry
In a Steamer’s Log Hook.
A tragedy of the sea, full of pathos
and pointing an obvious moral, is made
known through tho laconic entry in
the log book of tho Brazilian mail
steamship Finance.
Whcii the Finunoo touched at Per
nambuco on her way to this port n
colored ( man ran up the gangway and
bogged (he captain to allow him to
work bis passage to Now York. The
negro was so piteous in his appeals for
a passage that tho captain finally con
sented and sent him inter the spike hole
to work at passing codl.
His name tvas william Watney.
All that wns known nbput him was
that he hid been stranded in Pernam
buco and that he belonged fit or some
where near this city.
Oh tho etching oT the third-day his
name wee written in the log as fol
lows;
William Watney, colored, a chat
pa*aer, while intfane, Jumped ovjnr
boarif and #to drowned.
was related to the reporter* by a stoker .-
• “We were short one men iatheeoal
bate," said the stoker. “Watney Was
• vary strong fallow, and ha want at
Km killing work with a vim and cheer
fulness that surprised us.
“He was very quiet. He had (in
impediment in his speech, and very
seldom spoke unless asked a question.
He bore his hardships uncomplaining
ly, and woti the admiration of the en
gineers.
“The second day afteir leaving Per
nambuco Watney was summoned on
deck by the second eugiueer to sign
the ship's article so that he could do
paid for his work.
"Watnby Signed, but hardly com
prehended what he was doing. He
was ignorant, and he oame down into
the hold again with a wondering look
on bis face. Several times ho shook
hU head solemnly, and lie seomod to
think that his signing his namo to a pa
per portended evil for him.
“Finally one of the stokers, whose
namo I don’t care to nienthyi, asked
him what was tha matter.
Watney shook his head doubtfully
Th# FMblonabl* Arena*).
Beyond the Arc de Triomphe is the
Avenue du Bois de Boulogne leading
to tho park of that name. It is a thor
oughfare that grandlj^hows to wlmt
beauty avenuegardeningiscapable. It
was mode entirely through private
lands, half the expense being borne
by the state under the conditions that
an iron railing of uniform design was
to be constructed along the whole
length ef the road; that a strip of
about forty feet in breadth be left fora
garden between this railing and the
houses, and, further, that no kind of
trado or manufacture should bo car
ried on in any of tho buildings adjoin
ing. Its total length is 1,350 yards
and its width is 130. It consists of a
central roadway 80 feet wide, of two
sidewalks each 40 feet wide, of a “Rot
ten Row" for riders, of two long pieces
of garden with grass, shrubs and flow
ers, and of two bordering roads for
public vehicles. Some of tho most
magnificent private mansions in Paris
face on this avenue, und it is tho direct
fashionable route to and from the bois.
Professor Poo, of Bridgeport, Conn.,
has drowned and resuscitated a pet
rabbit eleven times, and suffocated it
also with the fumes of burning char
coal and restored it to life. Tho pro
fessor uses a pair of artificial lungs.
Artificial respirations produce muscu
lar contraction and expansion, forcing
oxygen into the lungs and drawing out
the deadly gases.
’ou know?' ho
and repliod: ‘I done sign
dock. What dat for? Yo
asked.
' 'The stoker thought he had a chance
for amusement So he cried out in
stimulated alarm; 'Great Scott, did
you do that? Why you’ve signed your
death warrant and you will be hanged
to-morrow.’
“Watney never said a word, but
shivered from head to foot There was
not a man who didn’t feel sorry for
what our comrade hud said, and we
all turned solemnly to work. Proba
bly our silence alarmed him still
more, for in a few minutes lie asked
for permission to get a drink of water.
“He went on deck, looked around,
and, seeing some of the officers' ap
proaching, evidently thought they in
tended securing him for the hanging.
With a wild yell he rushed to the rail
and vaulted into the ocean.
“He never rooeonoe; tho ship was
stopped and every possible effort was
mode to save him, but it was fruit
less. He was never seen again.
“We in the stokeholo felt liko a lot
of—well, I don’t like to say murder
ers, but I for one wasn’t able to sleep
for many a night.’’—Now York Even
ing World.
a paper on cage and toe what will happen," tug
Electric Lights In Africa.
An amusing account comes from
Now Guinea relating tho effect on the
natives when the steamship Nelson ex
ercised her power. The foghorn was
blown and tho electric projectors
flashed upon the village. The natives
thought the electric lights to be tho
eyes of some great monster, and when
they heard the sound of tho siren they
immediately concluded that it was the
voice of the monster, and, acting un
der this belief, numbers of them ran
away and bid in the bush in terror of
their lives.
Mis Peculiar Economy.
1 knew a man—a country doctor—
of ample means and real generosity,
who smoked tlio best of cigurs and of
fered tho same kind to his friends.
But when his guest asked for a match
to light the cigar or offered to help
himself from tho filled box on the
smoking truy he would hastily re
monstrate, walk to a box filled with
the short stumps of matches that had
been once used, und, carefully relight
ing one of these, would hand it to his
friend. —New York Evening Sun.
(NiONKiiY and guinea pig.
One Funny Night to Ho Soon In a Wash
ington Fancier’s Shop.
Tho little monkey sat on its perch in
a cage at tho fancier’s shop, looking
placid enough until tho proprietor ap
E reached with a until 1 guinea pig in
is hand. Thou she sudufehly became
much agitated, chattering nervously,
whilo tho littlo pink eyed animal was
put in through tho wire door am!
dropped, tho entrance being tboreupon
closed again.
No sooner wns this done than Mis
tress Monkey—for such Was her sox-
raached down one abnormally long
arm to the floor of the cage, and, grip
ping tho guinea pig by the skin of his
back, lifted it with ono quick motion
to the perch. The visitor thorn sum
morily Rented did not squeal nor ap
pear in rue least' discomposed, ao gent
iy wns tlio opomtinu performed. It
even seemed entirely content when its
hostess proceeded to hold U la her
arms as a mother would her baby,
tightly clasped, and to bestow upon il
die meat maternal carcass*, ludicrous
ly simulating human wars.
It was ns If the tnonkey regarded
the guinea pig as a very delightful
live doll baby. Holding it in her or me.
she wbuld nestle it up under her chin,
ludlihing her hw^ to one side In the
attitude most expfendve of motherly
affection. Meanwhile the guinea pig
evinced udt the slightest annoyance,
submitting to the embrace without n
struggle, and blinking placidly with
its muk eyes.
Probably the guinea pig is the most
philosophic of animals because it
thfhks the least; at all ovents, in the
class mammalia that pretends to so
small a portion of intellect
The fancier, who keeps a little shop
ou Twelfth street said that the mon
key often played doll baby iu this way
with a guinoa pig for hours at a time,
and would do ft far days if permitted;
but it was rather too hard on the
guinea pig. He averred that be hud
never taught the monkey to do any
thing of the sort, nor the guinea pig
either. Not merely this particular
guinea pig wottld serve for the pur
pose, but any Other; in feet, half u
doeen that were just tlien in stock,
were made to take their turns ss doll
babies for Mistress Monkey.
'Put a second guinea pig into the
A I'oJyphouic Organ.
A grand organ is being built ut
Cremu for tho sanctuary of Valle di
Pompei. It is called a polyphonic or
gan. The chief, characteristic of tho
instrument is tho perfect imitation
which it can produce of almost the
whole orchestra, especially of the
strings and wood wind. It has three
keyboards, each with 61 notes, 34 ped
als and 2,000 pipes, divided into 40
reghton—Philadelphia Ledger.
gestod the reporter.
The fancier said ho hod never tried
that, and qutokly fetched another.
Whon it was put inside,' the monkey
became very much excited—so much
so, indeed, that sho held the flrsl
guinea pig topside down in her arms
for some minutes, with its hind legs in
the air, while she watched the second
guinea pig noee around tho Aoorof the
cage. Sho looked wistful, but made
no attempt to soize the second guinoa
pig, evidently considering that she
could not well hold more than one ut
a time. The Urat guinea pig, that was
held upside down, did not seem to
mind it a particle; but presently the
monkoy discovered tier doll baby’s
predicament and hastily reversed its
position, bringing it right side up
again. The fancier made her drop the
first guinea pig, whereupon she picked
urtko second guinea pig, that being
near ut hand, and proceeded to do the
tnutornal act with it us with tho other.
Guinoa pig No 2 did not seem to mind.
— Washington Post.
A Cheep Letter file.
A friend keeps inuny hundreds of
letters on file in a novel way. A
memorandum is kept, in which is re
corded tho date and addresses of each
piece mailed, ulso whether it be a letter
or postal card, together with remarks.
On the opposite page is a similar rec
ord of whatever is received by mail.
This gives the date, tells from whom
it was received, whether a letter, card
or otherwise, and remarks sufficient to
identify tho letters afterward. Each
letter is numbered-as received and in
an additional column the number of
tbo letter is given. The letters are
filed away consecutively os numbered,
and, by referring to the memoranda,
tbo number of any letter is readily as
certained and by looking iu the pack
ago containing that number tho letter
is found.—Cor. Springfield Home
stead.
Pplutablo insect Powder.
At un officer's mess in the East In
dies the cakes handed round for dessert
were greatly relished for their choice
flavor and rich saffron color, which
excellent properties wore attributed to
tho baking powder used iutheirprepu
ration. One day the native cook
brought the announcement that his
stock was exhausted, and he was told
to fetch tho empty cunister iu order
that a fresh supply might be ordered
from the same firm. With the know
ihgair of one who has mode a grand
discovery the cook exhibited the empty
canister, which was found to have
contained t Persian insect powder.—
Phare du Bosphore.
Gilhooly—Jininon act* rather queer;
I think his mind is unsettled.
Gusde Smith—I don't know about
his mind; but I know, to my sorrow,
that his bills are unsettled.-
