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THE WEEKLY STAR.
vol. vn-No. 10.
Robert A. Massey
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Douglasville, Georgia
[Office in front room of Dorsette Building.]
WILL practice anywhere except in
the County Court of Douglas county.
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.ittorvey
Civil Engineer & Surveyor,
DOUGLASVILLEGa
• B. G. GRIGGS,
ATTORNEY AT L A W.
Douglasville Georgia.
W'l tL practice in all the courts, fitate
and Federal. Jan 13 ly.
John M. Edge,
> j *ir
Douglasville, “ On.
THT! LL practice in all the courts, aid
IfW promptly attend to all business en
r»v*te<l to his care.
f T.S.~JAMEBr~~
Attorney at Xomtset.
DOUGLASVILLE, GEORGIA.
Will practice in the Courts of Doug
las,Campbell, Carrol I, Paulding,Cobb
'Pu ton and adjoining counties.
'Wompt atteutios. given to all bus
iness.
Dr? T. R. WHITLEY,
Physician and Surgeon.
Douglaaviilo, O».
(•Office up-itairs in Dorsett's Brick Building,)
P, S. Var dery,
Physician and Surgeon.
OFFICE at HUDSON 4 EDGE’S DRUG
STORE, where he can be found at nil
hours) except, when professionally engaged,
special attention given (o Chtonic eases, and
especially all cases that have been treated and
aje still uncured. JaniS t*s,ly.
nospectfully offer my services ns physi
cian an I stir<oon, to the people of Doug
lasvllteaud vicinity. AP calls will be atten
ded prompt ly. <’nn *»«» found nt the drug store
uriiW.im* iW4», iUrl»4 th •„ duy and st
mght nt my les dence at the bouse recently
occupied by J. *. Pittman.
J. B. EDGE
DENTISTRY,
T R COOXT
Hus located in Douglasville. 20
yearrn experience. Denistry in all
itg branches, done in the moat ap
proved style. Office over post office.
T. S. BTTTLSR
lloiiwo Painter
DOUG LA VILLE, - GA
WILL make old furniture look ns will a
new. Give him a t rial In this line. Wil
Iso do house carpentering work,
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Coliimbus’ new City Court met
Mondaj r evening for the first time.
Bibb county'v new jail is cornp’c
ted, and is ready to be turned over
to tne Commission- rs.
Six million dollars’ worth of silver
is used in this country every year
for manufacturing and decorative
purposes.
The City Council of Atlanta has
voted to build a $12,090 school
house on Crew street.
The Ordinary has appointed May
13 as the time of holding the election
on prohibition in Tronp county.
At Rome William Pape, a IG-year
old wnite boy, has been sentenced to
serve a year in the chdih-gang for
burglary.
A pig with two mouths and two
noses, well formed, no eyes, and feet
like a hawk’s claws, has been found
in Conyers.
St. Louis claims a man who killed
106 blackbirds at one shot. An ordi
nary newspaper liar might as well
go to chopping wood.
Hon. R. B. Russell, Representa
tive from Clarke cotiniy. has purcha
sed a half interest in the Athens Ban
ner-Watchman.
An effort will be made to induce
the State School Commissioner to
establish one of the annual summer
normal schools in Rome.
At Augusta Sunday morning an
infant son of Jesse Thompson sprang
from a window 18 feet abo.e the
ground, but escaped without serious
injury,
—e >i, iqb >
“Lemme die now,’ gasped an Ohio
former.“l’ve lived to see a wonaae
git thirty two yards of cloth to one
dress.aud I,m ready to pull up stakes
now,*’
The pews of the Episcopal Church
at Columbus were rented Monday
for an amount aggrega ing nearly
52,500. The highest amount pai l for
one pew was $l5O.
Mr. Hancock, overseer of the
bridge gang for the Central Rdlroa i
Company, happened to a terrible ac
cident Friday, at Mcßean bridge.
A heavy piece of timber fell upon
him, breaking his backbone in two
or three pieces. His recovery is
doubtful.
At Augusta Monday t;e wife of
Rosenbusch, who keeps the Schuet
zenplantz, elop<d with George Rieb,
who kept bar for the trusting S huat
zenwirth. Their destination is un
known. The eloping couple carried
off S4OO of Rosenbnsch’s money.
- Rieb is only 18 and she is 35.
A tramp entered the store of R »th
childs Bros, at the foot of Rose hill,
Columbus, purahased $2.50 worth of
goodsand walked out without pay
ing for them. When the salesman
asked for the money the tramp mere
ly drew out a dirk and told him be
couldn't gel it.
Two Augusta contractors. Geo. A.
Denning and Wm. Painter.baye been
given the contract f>r erecting a
granite whaif for H o government in
I rear of the Custom House in Char
leston. Their hid, wld h won the
award, was $31,350, and was the low
ask of eight bids from all over the
country. There were three bids frotu
the North.
Albany, Ga., April 7.—A sen
sational shooting afitdr f.ccurre l l ore
last bight about niiduight. Mrs.
Hayes, wife of a railroid employe,
laid in wait for her hus-b ind, and, as-'
he approacheil the th p< t in o. mpany
with a dis-olute male named Kate
Cumming#, she fired upon her, shoot
ing her through the a»p of (hv head,
the ball pasciug through the scalp
and taking off a portion of the ear of
another male companion, who wat
directly behind Kate with another
female. After the first shot the wo
man fell upon her knees and begged
for mercy, whereupon Mrs. IDyes
fiirtd
the side, and commenced lasting
her in the side wilh the bar rd of tin
pistol. The woman finally made Uti
ard staggered to her home
weak and bl-e u g. She is dotnj
well to-day Neither of the wmiml
ate very eeihus, though, perhaps
" she is injured internally by tlie beat
i ing sus.auied. Mrs. Hayes i* s.idt*
Im? an Iri-h w< uau(f violent tom
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Douglasville, Georgia, Tuesday April 14 1885.
i The grown-up Mormons are ex
j ceedingly hard to convert to any
thing like orthodox Christianity. But
the teachers and missionaries who are
trying to evangelize Utah are at work
' on the children, who are plenty in that
'country. Seventy-one school building
have been built at a cost of near y
$200,000, and a dozen or more schools
i are held in rented buildings. There
| are about 7,500 Mormon children
! under anii-Mormon instruction,
and they are said to make good
scholars.
A Methodist preacher of Jackson
objects to the raffling or anctioneer
i ing of a couple of cakes in aid of
' refurnishing the parsonage. He tuc
-1 ceeded in preventing the raffle the
’ first night, but on the night follow
ing during his absence the raffle was
consummated. A local paper took
sides against the minister, the grand
turned their attention to the subject,
but took no action, and a lively time
generally occured. The notice ol the
affair taken by the grand jury was
at the request of the minister that
an indictment may be found for
gambling.
A week ago a man registered at
the Grant House at Atlanta asll.
L. Wilkins, of Erie, Pa. He was
extremely affable, aged about 50
vears, had the appearance of a pros
perous business man, and madelmsts
of friends. Introducing himself to
C. C. Thorn, a grocer, he proposed
to buy out his stock of goods at cost,
and employ Thorn as a clerk for
three months at $75 per month.
Ihe $1,699 which Wilkins was to
pay was to be handed over Monday
morning. During the last three days
of last week Wilkins was behind the
counter, and to make friends of his
future customers treated people with
great liberality. Saturday night at
closing time he took the cash out of
the drawer, apparently put it in pa
per bag and had Mr. Thorn lock it
up iu the safe. Monday niortiing
Wilkins was not to be found,and an
investigation developed the fact that
he had fled, leaving an unpaid board
bill of sl2 and waste paper instead
of money in the bag in Mr. Thorn’s
safe. He had not been captured at
last accounts.
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At Leasburg a day or two ago
Emma Rackaru was brought before
Justice Murden charged with having
given her husband,Warren Rackard
poison with the intention of killing
him. From the evidence it appears
that she and her husband have not
been getting along very amicably,
and that she has frequently ex
pressed herself as being tired of liv
ing with him, and that she intened
to get uid of him, and that she has
twice before attempted to poison him
once by placing poison in a cup of
coffee given him to drink, and again
i: s her husband says, with a piece of
b of upon which she put a quantity
I of “rough on rats,” neither of which
j took effect. So she concl r led to
I m ike another attempt, and last Sat
urday procured a poison from Mr.
Kimmon’s drug store, prepared f<-r
kilting lied-bugs, and placed it itr a
small quantity of whisky. Early
. Sunday m 'rui'’g she g«ve him the
. whisky,aad in a short while after
drinking it he was seized with viol
i ent con ulsions. About an hour after
• h<lng «eiz d with th* spasm, his
bro’her, Hamp Rackaid, cameover
to see him and found him suffeting
• so much that he came up town an I
i procured 20 grains ofepicac, which
. he gave him, causing him to
, freely, discharging the poison from
:? bis stomach. She was bound over in
’ the som of SSOO to make her apj»ear
e ance before the grand j rry at the
- next term of court. Failing to secure
, the bond ?he was sent to th» jail in
> Ocala Thursday morning. The next
f dav the hu-bandwent around town
r trying to secure bail for his wife.
r ’
r TWO LITTL E FEET.
1|
a Two UUl® feet went pattering by,
” t Years
hTbcy wandered offtoUiesunny sky,
i Years ago!
g two little sock*, well vrii.kled and worn,
° Move me to tear«. with their memories l>vrn
e j Years ago!
r Dear little feel that ran heieand there
. I Years ag*l
’ Creeping, climbing about everywhere
nr Yeersagnf
i Crept never back to the love they leC,
Is Cdmbiog nevermore into arms wereot,
I Years ago!
>_ ' Again !•!! those dear little feet
1 Pattering by!
!O Their u»t»«lc a thousand-fold more iweel
In the -ky’
I- J Joy to th ink of the Fi-hers c .re,
T -al hedtia UH tu ‘till I mot them then
• By aud by!
California Hospitalities,
i California hospitality is more re-
I markable than that of Germany. I
have experienced it in the following
impressive and peculiar manner.
! Anyhow, the peculiarity is so notice
able that the tewcom r is alffays
surprised by' if? The other day I j
called on a leading business man and
I v.as engaged with him until norn,
i anti our affairs were not settled when
he invited me out to lunch with him.
As he is a man whose business runs
away up into millions annually, I;
supposed heMfcuuld go income neat
res aurant and enjoy a civiliz d
lunch, an I the belief was made stron-
■ ger when he led the way toward the
I restaurant of ihe Palace Hotel, the
finest place of the kind in America,
I and yet the cheapest. B .U, alas for
human expectations ! He turned to
■ the left and entered the ba room. ;
Walking up to the bar, he said to
the attendant:
“Give us the bones.”
The bar keeper at once handed ,
him a li.tle round box containing
five dice. He took the box, rattle I
it awhile, and emptied E upon the
couutor. The bar keeper drew aside
two of the dice, put the other three
back in the box, and my friend spill
ed them out again. Then the bat
keeper put a|l of them back in the j
box, and my friend passed it over to
me with the remark. “Shake.” I
shook and spilled the dice, aed my
friend said, “Will you fid or throw,
again?” 1 thought I would throw]
again, though I did not know what'
he ’fVhen I had spilled the
dice again- he only remarked : “lu’s
on to you; whisky is mine,” I have j
been around enough to know that I
was to pay for the drinks, which ;
were 25 cents each. Then my friend '
turned around to the free lunch coun
ter and procte ed to fill himself. I
feared that he was absent-minded,
and remarked to him: “Ain’t you
afraid you will destr \ your appetite
for lunch ?”
“That’s just what I im trying to
do, or I wouldn’t be eating lunch
here. FVhat do you have fur lunch
at bars whuve yya c*m<» fijotn ?” he
asked.
“Usually cloves or burned c »fle i
1 answertai, for I ha I Indi mapolis !
barroon* luuches in my mind, Tucn
my friend informed me that this was
the lunch he had invited me to, aid
that as it was a “stand-up lunch” it
was quite popular with all classes.
Later io the day I was sitting in
the office of another leadi g mer
chant when a fruit peddler came in ,
with h’s basket full of truck on his
»rm.
“Want anything to dajhe asked.'
“Yes, give me a share,” said the i
merchant.
The peddler at once drew a dice
box fro E bis pocket, and they pro
ceeded to shake, ond I knew the
merchant was ahead, because the
fruit -dealer remarked : “Oh h—
pick ’em oul” The merchant to< k
two large apples from the basket,and
handing me one, remarked as the
peddk-r passed ou',
“I don’t pay for half the fruit I
eat; in fac', I nearly always comrout
ahead of these fellows,”
Upon inquiry I learned that this
practice of gambling h quite gener
al, and that even sober business men
who are active and liberal in church
and Sunday school ass irs do not
regard it as at all improp r.
Death A*y<tr«>ptiobii».
A subscriber at Mirs Hid, this
county, fav >rs the Argus with an ac
count of the dea h of L <Fayet’e Fox
a tenant on the plantation of Maj.
I’itner/ro n by irophobiaon the3i*t.
The latter part of January he was
bitten on the hand by bis dog while
chaining him- The wound healed
oxi it was forgotten. Tuesday of
Iweek a severe pain commenced
tn ihe ban’, passing through the
arm to the body. He then became
quite s ck, growing rapidly wors'’,
with every symptom of the malady.
' Friday night violent spasms follow
' | ed, bis family being forced to avoid
i him in his fer.rfu' ravings. llu was
t finally got to bed. and had to be held
i there. He passed through ail the
h 'riible imaginations chara< leiistic
jof the distem er, believing that he
was lieing lorn to piece*, that his
children were being mur lered, that
water was being poured on him. He
wou'd shudder ats-ig'.t of water, and
plead for his life. Our conespond
ent was an eye witness, and says that
language fails to depict the distorted
couii’enauc* 1 , the unearthly eyes, the
j frantic gestures, and the most pila
ble pleadings Ou Sai uni ay be con
tinued to grow worse, and by even
’ ing had to be lied down, when, at 6
I o'clock, death re iev* d his tortures.
Some of tb« p ysicians h Id that
I hydrophobia is common in all dogs,
' ami a bite from in, of them, under
pertain conditions, is liable to pio
duoe like results —Dalton Argus.
Subscription: ti.ee c<ml» Per Annuu
Fiytnir S®o Miles.
“Homing, or carrier pigeons, re
quire somewhat careful training,”
said Daniel S. Newball, Sunday. “It
is not often, however, that anv are
lost. The birds are allowed at first,
] when about three months old, to fly
around and about their home for a
week or two. Then they are taken
on various occasions to < ifferent
spots about a mile distant, and the
distance is increased until outside the
city limits. Then ten, twenty and
i thirty miles are reached and success
fully acheived, and they are taken
still further away until the distance
is increased to 60, 90, 150, 400, 500
and even 800 miles. The stations
are generally Signal Service stations,
as the officers are well qualified to
judge as to the weather the bird is
likely to encounter. I have known
' birds to be kept at a station several
, days before being allowed to fly,
owiag to adverse weather. Some
times after being kept so long they
are loth to leave, and occasionally,
after flung about all d>y, unable to
find their way to their real home,they
will come a', nightfall and settle on
the roof of the station. That, of
course, is not very often the case, for
the birds have a really remarkable
instinct.
i “I med to know a gentleman in
Germantown who had a different way
of training bis birds, or rather of
judging which birds he would train,
j After they had become thoroughly
| acquainted with their home, he gave
i them no trial trips, but sent t :ein off
to New York right away. Those
which found their way home he train
ed for longer flights. It is really as
tonishing how tew be lost.
I “Pigeons will fly well till they are
four years old, but it is rarely you
find a pigeon of that age doing any
, work. The reason is simple. If a
bird-owner finds any specially good
bird, and it wins half a dozen prizes,
i be is not going to waste the pigeon
1 nor let it wear itself out. He wants
to breed from it. He, therefore,
ke»psit at home. Carriers run a
number of dangers, you know; the
hawks get at them, and nothing
earthly will preven t that.”
The School Nactcr Harried McCorftMl
Sister.
Knew Dick McCorklet well, I swml
The ornary Uttle Thag! An* he*sgcAW
rwnoh on the Pecos, you say, an* pop*
’lar araonp tha cowboys. Great Goe»
I knowd him when he was aflop-mcrathed
boy. Ho wax a terror. I tell you. We
i waa at school together, me an* him.
Pop’iar then? Well, no, not oooogh to
SUe him. Why, we boys juat despised
m. We uster git up in the night to
bate him. You see it war this wwp
| The school master wanted to marry ms
I sister—Dick’s sister. Diok was •
I freokled-faeed and codfish-eyed
an’ he never know'd his lessons, but M i
wasn't licked an’ thumped, nor jammed
up against the wall, nor batted oa tbs
head with a frr.me of an old slate. Tbs
schoolmaster wtuUi'd to marry bis ste
tor.
i ’ “He wm lot sit with the big glvte, as’
•g 0 oul ’ as often r.s ho wanted to. The
■ litttle spike-haired cur could come late (
and eat nuts end champ apples tn
school hours without '.'tie word of re* j
i proof, au' when he spilled ink on the
1 floor ho didn't git * belt on the ear (
with a McGuffey’s third reader. Oh,
do. The schoolmaster wanted to marry
his sister.
“How we hated that young hoodlum!
We tried to lower hi:a in the master’s
: estimation by putting up jobs on him.
| We were guilty of dead loads of vil
lainy and i.(justice in our attempts to
make the teacher turn on him. but it
was always a cold day for us. and we
newr suceoc-ded, for the school master
wanted to m.-irrv his slater.
"We couldn't see why the school- j
master should take revenge on our
tender hides, and why we snotiM wear
welts and sears while the ’gnor&nt non
descript. McCorkle. W'XiK put on airs
over ,n*. an’ would wander singing
down the lane with all his imperfections
on his red head, an' bring back to the
master the tough saplings that were i
worn out ou tbs jackets of the rest of
us. He never got a whack. The
school master wanted to marry his sister.
“1 left the school to help in camp on
a cattle round-up, an’ it was about
three months before 1 came back. The
first thing I saw when I got back toachool
was the master whalin P davlights oaten
McCorkle with the cover of an ntlas.
When he had used them up and broke
the ruler, he spit on bis hands, caught
Diok by the ears, and pounded his head
against the map of Asia. Then he
pulled two handfuls of hair out of his
bead, and sent him to sit down by the
window with the broken pain where the
snow was coming in.
"1 could hardly believe my even. 1
asked one of the boys what wm the
meaning of this, an' if U wasn't some
mistake.
“ 'No, no.’ aayw be •thM ie regular
every day. The master whales Cor key
eight or tea times a day now, an’ vee»
i terday he bit him with tire English lan
guage (unabridged) oa the beat! until
tha jar loosened the fillin' in his teeth.
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