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THENEWS-HERALD.
THK GWINNETT HERALD, )
Established In 1871 f
the LAWKENCK.VILLE NEWS, (
Established in 1893, )
A MAGNETIC HEALER!
Baptist Minister Creates a Sen
sation at Auburn.
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GIVES HEALTH TO THE SICK
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Seventy Cases Treated During the Month
of March—Uses No Drugs,
Teas, or Herbs.
Down near the goodly little
town of Auburn, which is the cap
ital city of the far-famed militia
district known as Ben Smiths,
there lives a man who is just now |
attracting more attention and |
winning more notoriety than any
of the noted men of that celebra
ted territory. He is a citizen of
the county and known far and
wide for his peculiar attainments
aud erratic personality. He is a
minister in the Baptist church, a
strong believer in the power of
unseen forces and a firm devotee
of the doctrine of magnetic heal
ing. This person is the Rev. H.
R. Williams and his notoriety is
the result of his curing and claim
ing to cure nearly all manner of
diseases without the use of herbs,
teas, drugs or medicines. He
calls himself a magnetic healer, a
doctor who doctors not,but through
the means of magnetism, hypno
tism, or something of that kind,
produces marvelous results on
those who are afflicted with the
pains common to fallen humanity.
He uses no medicines whatever,
not even a bread pill, and the
cures he is making are said to be
extraordinary. During the month
of March he treated seventy cases
and it is said all these were great
ly benefited and many cured.
Persons with headache, toothache,
colds, and other kindred disorders
are given immediate relief. Rheu
matism, fevers aud other multi
forious diseases are cured in a
short while.
One man who had been afflicted
for many years with rheumatism
now walks abroad in all the vigor
of his younger days. Another
whose disease baffled all the phy
sicians in the country has gained
permanent relief. Another was
taken with fever, but the fever
was checked and in two days he
was calling for more grub. A
woman bad not been able to do
her own washing in many moons,
but after a short treatment by
this party she is now rejoicing in
the exercise of that ancient pass
time. An other party had not
crossed his legs in ten years but
now it is an easy job. A mau
had rheumatism in his knee and
it was so sore he could not bear
to let it be touched, but in five
minutes the pain had slipped out
bv way of his big toe and his knee
was as tough as ever.
There are four doctors in that
town) and they are doubtless view
ing with alarm the increasing pop
ularity of the magnetic healer.
Seventy cases the first mouth
would seem to indicate that the
people in Ben Smiths are anxious
to try the new remedy. He has
opened an office in Auburn and
guarantees satisfaction. hiocure
n > pav” is his motto.
OASTOHIA.
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LAWRENCEVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, APRIL 4. 1901.
HARRIED SIX TIMES
Supreme Court Decides Case
Involving Marriage Laws.
MUCH PROPERTY AT STAKE
Norman Loses One Wife’s Estate—An
Actual Marriage Prevails Over a
Presumptive Marriage.
From the Atlanta Constitution.
The supreme court decided a
case yesterday iu which there fig
ured a muchly married mau, one
Charles B.Norman, now of South
Carolina. According to the rec
ord in the case, Norman has mar
ried no less than six women, and
he did not always wait for his pre
vious wife to pass away before se
curing a uew one.
The suit was brought iu Gwin
nett county by Mrs. Martha A.
Goode and Miss Ora O. Clark to
recover property - formerly belong
ing to Amanda A. Clark, who was
one of Norman’s wives. The Gwin
nett superior court decided iu fa
vor of the plaintiffs, and the su
preme court in sustaining that de
cision, presents some interesting
and important points.
Charles B. Norman, as the rec
ord shows, was a deserter from the
confederate army. He joined the
! E federal army, and during the days
of reconstruction he was stationed
liu that state. There he claims to
have married in 1866 Henrietta
Prescott, who was sixteen years of
age. The evidence only shows that
he lived with her as a common law
wife.
The first wife died in 1869, but
in 1867, after living with her one ,
year, Norman came to Georgia
and settled in Harris county. He
had deserted his first wife and in
Harris county married Anna Han
cock, who is still living. The rec
ords of this marriage were in evi
dence.
In 1869 Norman deserted his
Harris county wife and went to
Kentucky, where he married at
different times Mattie Van No:t
and Nancy Meredith The latter,
Nancy Meredith, had a living hus
band at the time Norman married
her, but she subsequently got a
divorce and married Norman again.
Mattie and Nancy Mer
edith both died, and then Norman
came to Gwinnett county, Geor
gia, where he married Amanda A.
Clark. After her death he mar
ried b;s present wife aud is now
living in South Carolina.
The suit before the supreme
court was brought by Mrs. Martha
A. Goode and Miss Ora O. Clark,
sisters of Amanda A. Clark, to
recover from Norman some land
in Gwinnett county which be
longed to Amanda Clark when she
was alive.
Norman contended that his
marriage to the woman in Florida
in 1866 was good, aud that there
fore his marriage to Anna Han
cock, in Harris county, was void.
Consequently he claimed he had
the right to marry Amanda A.
Clark and therefore that he was
her sole heir.
The sisters of Amanda Clark
contended that the alleged Florida
marriage was void and that the
marriage to Anna Hancock was
valid. There was no evidence of
the marriage in Florida, while it
Special Sale of Easter Clothing.
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}“ln the spring the young man’s fancy lightly turns to
thoughts of—” a new Easter suit!
If you live in Gwinnett county it will pay you to come (
to Lawrenceville and buy your spring suit from 1
-—I J. H. McGee, The Clothier. |He~ J
A look through his immense stock 1
of clothing will surprise you. It is equal j
to many of the best clothing stores of
We have the swellest suits for men f \ I
and boys, made by the very best tailors | J j:
in this country. Fine, sack suits, cut- Icp pi
aways and Prince Alberts for men. p*
I Serviceable two and three-piece suits for boys. Natty Hf
I sailors and Russian blouse suits for the little fellows, as well
J as vest and fancy suits, braided trimmed and furnished. 1 #
I Ties, Bows, and Scarfs.-^*-
) Of course you will want a new tie for Easter. I have the largest and
) prettiest collection of neckwear ever displayed in Lawrenceville.
! J. H. McGEE, The Clothier.
could be showu that the marriage
to Anna Hancock was legally per
formed. They claimed therefore
that Norman was not lawfully
married to Amanda Clark, inti
mating that he was guilty of big
amy.
The supreme court in sustaining
the contention of the sisters ruled
that while the law presumes a
marriage from co-habitation and
repute, such presumptive marriage
will not prevail over a subsequent
marriage which actually took
place. It was held that when the
actual marriage to Anna Hancock
came into contest w r ith the pre
sumptive marriage to the Florida
woman, the actual marriage pre
vailed over the presumptive mar
riage. Therefore it was held that
Norman was not legally married
to Amanda A. Clark, and he can
not claim her property.
The supreme court sustains the
finding of the superior court of
Gwinnett county, aud, it is stated,
that the title to considerable prop
erty there is involved in this de
cision.
Death of Au Infant.
Theo, the seventeen-months-old
baby of Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Year
wood, died at the home of its pa
rents on Railroad avenue Sunday
morning at 10 o’clock after a brief
illness The remains were laid to
rest Monday afternoon in the new
cemetery, Rev. G. W, Griner con
ducting the services.
Misses Pearl aud Clara Year
wood, of Dacula, sisters of Mr.
Yerrwood, attended the funeral.
Mr. and Mrs. Yearwood desire to
return thanks to their neighbors
and friends for the kindness shown
them during the sickness and
death of their precious little dar
ling. It was hard to give him up,
but an overruling Power directs
all things for the best.
COMES OFF NEXT WEEK.
“Among the Breakers” Will Be Presented,
Thursday Night, April 11.
The drama iu two acts, entitled
“Among th 9 Breakers,” will be
presented at the college auditori
um Thursday evening, April 11th.
The play is gotten up entirely
by local taleut under the direction
of Mies Annie Glenn, teacher of
music and elocution at the college,
and the proceeds will go to the
school.
The play is written by George
M. Baker and has been presented
a number of times with success.
The scene is a light-house on the
coast and the plot is well laid and
proves quite interesting when
properly carried out.
It takes about an hour and a
half or two hours to present the
drama, and negro songs and dia
lects will be introduced to add
spice to the play.
The small sum of 10 and 15
cents will be charged for outsiders
while school children will be ad
mitted free.
If you wish to spend au evening
of rare enjoyment turn out next
Thursday night and aid in a good
cause.
CAST OF CHARACTERS.
David Murray, Keeper of Fair
point Light—C. R. Ware.
Lany Divine, his assistant —Ben
Juhan.
Hon. Bence Hunter —John M.
Jacobs.
Clarence Hunter, his ward —
Wesley Clower.
Peter Paragraph, a newspaper
reporter—C. M. Morcoca.
Scud, Hunter’s colored servant
' —Tyler Peeples.
VOL. VIIL NO 23
Miss Minnie Daze, Hunter’s
niece—Misa Pearl Mitchell.
Bess Starbright, “cast up by the
waves,” —Miss Annie Glenn.
Mother Carey, a reputed fortune
teller —Miss Ida Craig.
Biddy Bean, an Irish girl—Miss
Ophelia Wall.
Jenkins—Booth.
At 10 o’clock last Sunday mor
ning at the home of Hon. C. M.
Booth, member of the house of
representatives from Walton coun
ty, occurred the marriage of his
oldest daughter, Miss Alma, to
Prof. B. H. Jenkins, of Harris
county. The marriage was a very
quiet one. Only a few of the per
sonal friends of the contracting
parties were present. Rev. J. W.
Burßon performed the ceremony
in an impressive manner.
The bride is a young woman of
striking personal beauty, and in
her bridal costume she seemed the
incarnation of all the lovable
characteristics that dignify the
gentler sex. Beside her personal
attractiveness, she has that fine
i intellectuality, that conversation
al intelligence, that sweetuess of
character, and that domestic fru
gality that are deemed essential
in the establishment cf a home.
The groom is well known in this
county, having taught school here
some years. He is above the aver
age in the sterner qualities of man
hood and is one of the very few
young men who we knew led a
purely moral, stainless life.
Those who were permitted to en
joy this occasion including the
magnificent wedding dinner, were
Mr. and Mrs. B. A. Towler, Miss
Anna Bagwell, Mtss Annie-Bell
McCutchen ; Messrs. James Sheats,
J. W Coggins and J. C. Flanigan.
Mr. and Mrs. Jenkins took the
late train at Lawrenceville for
their home in Harris county.