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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. u.i>. camp,"' .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, B U R N H A M~S M IMPROVED - Ma Turbine! - Is the best constructed and Wj. iiiu'-Ih (I, glv,■« better percc.i- ; WtoJaYnTL ’"M’'’ more power and la sold hF-I I J|jS tor less money per horse power >in y other Turbina in tha world ~4S Ae«' pamphlet sent fr kby BUKNHAM BR'iM., York, Fa. PTrk.e r *B~ t b“Klc. A pure Family Medicine that Never Intoxicates, tfyon have Dyspepsia, Rheumatism, Kld ney <>r Urinary Complaints, or if you arc troubled with any disorder of the luvg«, atomschr, bowels, blood «»r nerves you cau >-4m» ruled by Parker’s Tonic. It you are a lawyer, minister or bualaaas tn mt exhausted by mental strain or anxious Otrexdo not t ke intoxicating stimulants, but use Parkers’ Tonic. v uni are a madianic or former, worn ou Mb 'llh over-waa k, or a mother run down b SQhUiiiiy »r if us« hold duties try Parker stub I a iTtoM.—-Hefuae all autwtitutea. 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Qfoae SJWKCUras Asia* a*. fol **» I acfo TH * Utile Ortfowatw*.” fc 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 i i l *- 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. ■ ♦ 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. 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