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Phoenix weekly herald., 1898-09-29

The candidates for Justice of the
Peace and constable are placed at the
| bottom of the ticket on election day
but that does not imply that the Off
| ces are unimportant. Their work is
not confined to the sentencing of petit
| larceny thieves and the holding of in
quests though this constitutes a con-
| siderable portion of their work and
should be done properly and well.
| Nearly every business man however,
| ON occasion has business with the pre-
cinct officers sometimes in the nature
of friendly suits, sometimes where dis
putes of great moment to the individ~
ual require settlement. Candidates for
these offices should be men holding
the confidence and respect of the cons
munfty, men who hold principle higher
than fees and men both competent and
willing to perform their duty with eX-
ac1ness The republican ticket is now
placed before the voters of Phoenix
and viii bear inspection.
President McKinley's instructions TO
the commission appointed TO investigate
the conduct of the war department
shows that no whitewashing is to be
permitted The President desires that
the country shall know whether or not
the charges made by the yellow jour
nails of the country are true. His in
structions were that the investigation
should be thorough and complete from
the conduct of the Secretary of. War
down and that the blame for improper
conditions, if any existed, should be
placed upon the shoulders of the men
accountable for such conditions regard
less of their rank or position. Presi- |
dent AIcKfnIey's record has been such f.
that every reader knows he means
that the commission shall carry out
his Instructions to the letter. If the
administration has been derelect in its
duty the people shall know it even if
the blame falls upon the President
himself
Capt. James McCIintock in all prob |
ability VIII not be able 70 return home
in time to make an extended personal
canvass in this county though he win
be in the field as soon as possible.
Fortunately however, he is one of the
best known men in the county or for
that matter IN the Territory. His in
teresus have been here almost since /
his childhood and he has ever been in
the fore front of every good work for
the advancement of the interests of
this county and the Territory. Al
most every voter in the county knows
him and halls his as Jim" and even
with the double dignity of Captain and
his candidacy for the highest office in
the county introductions viii be un-
necessary He will be Jim just the
same when he comes Hmping home
and when the votes are counted and
Colonel Brodie comes marching in with
his arm in sling Jim Will be trot-
ting right behind him and dragging his
game leg.
Phoenix weekly herald., 1898-09-29

If you want to vote this fall see that
your name is on the register.
Phoenix weekly herald., 1898-09-29

The following cure for rattlesnake
bites is guaranteed by United States
army surgeon in Arizona, who says it
never fails if used in time: When Bit
ten by a rattle snake, take a sharp
knife and cut through the fang
wounds just deep enough to make it
bleed. then take some mud and make
a dam around the wound, break a
cartridge and pour some of the powder
on the wound then touch it off with a
match and the explosion burns the
poison and kills its effect. If there is
no mud convenient, or water to make
it, put on the powder and fire it all the
same. The mud dam is simply to con-
fine the powder so that it Will not burn
q larger space than is necessary.
Phoenix weekly herald., 1898-09-29
SHOULD RECEIVE ATTENTION.

Congress Must Now Attend to Our
MerchantMarine.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1898-10-14
Gibbs Locals

w. 0. Edwards lost five barrels
of flour Friday night, they having
been washed away by the river.
j. G. Wood had business with
ex.deputy sheriff Sunday evening.
Quite Il crowd of our folks en-.
joyed drink of sulphur water at
the. spring near Pickwick Sunday
morning.
MIR. Ferguson, the cotton buyer,
made b. b. Branum q call Thurs
day,
Miss Lille White, who has been
staying with her sister here for
quite a while, started for her home
near Adamsville Sunday.
Geore Shipman is on the sick
list.
Little Alma Franks has been
quite sick with fever this week.
Is. b. Branum, who has been
crippled for the past two weeks,
is slowly improving.
Miss Ida Branum was "sick"
Sunday.
D. G. Paulk went to Florence
Sunday.
T. j. Boyd went to Riyerton
(Ala.) this week to accept a
position.
He that condemns the innocent
for the misdeeds of the guilty is
WHAT "Better find one fault of
your own than ten of your neigh
bor's.n
The B. & e. string band made
some good music at A. Branum's
Saturday night.
j. NJ. Lakey is going to Ala.
bama Monday on a business trip.
Mrs. Mark Edwards and daugh-
ter, Miss Alice, visited B. b.
Branum Tuesday.
Good luck to the Courier.
HAPPY BILL.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1898-10-14
Old Town.

The rain that fell Saturday was
very much needed, as most every
body's wells and springs were
failing so.
Lee PilkintOn was cleaning out
a well for Bill Thomas, when the
well caved in; but, as it happened,
he was standing up and it caved
in under his arms-if he had been
STOPPING over, he might have
been killed. We congratulate Mr..
Pillsinton on his narrow escape.
We had bad time for the AS
ISOLATION, but had a good attcn-
dance each day, and good preach
ing. having three preachers
Elders Jeans, Pitts and Harris.
a little son Of Mr.. Bill Wilson,
of near Burnt Church, came near
getting killed in a molasses mill.
John Hosey is having a bad
time this week for making his
sorghum, on account of the wet
weather.
Tom Neil says if it rains any
more he fears he will lose all his
cane.
Elder j. p. Pilkinton and family,
of Mississippi, are visiting his son
Lee this week.
Mrs. James Johnson's baby is
better at this writing.
A protracted meeting COM
menced at Camp Ground Sunday
the 9th.
Everyone who has cotton is
busy picking it this week.
Lee Pilkinton and family spent
last week on Hardin's Greek with
friends.
Our hunters say there are more
squirrels now than there have
been for long time.
HARD TIMES.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1898-10-14
MET IN JOINT DEBATE.

AS announced, Hon. T. w.
Sims and Hon. w. f. Hinkle,
candidates for Congress from this
district, opened their campaign. at
this place last Monday. The
speakers devoted about one hour
and half each discussing the
points of issue between them.
Mr.. Sims made an eloquent
speech, touching the tariff, the
money question, the income tax
and other important measures of
national and State importance.
Mr.. Hinkle also presented
his side of the question in a clear
and forcible manner, showing him.
self to be close student of pol
itics, and we'll posted on the issues
between the two parties. These
distinguished gentlemen spoke at
Adamsville at night, and at Selmer
Tuesday.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1898-10-14
In MenOriam.

WARDS, Oct.6.-"Another moth.
in Israel has fallen" Mrs. N. e.
Porter passed into rest from these
mundane shores and from a life of
suffering on last Monday morning,
October 3, and now shines as the
stars in glory.
Sister Porter was born in
Maury county, Tenn, in the year
1925; protested religion and Join
ed the Cumberland Presbyterian
church in 1914, in which she lived
until last Monday at about II
o'clock, when the summons came,
and she fell asleep, and was laid
beside her loved ones gone be-.
fore, near Wards school house, in
Hardin county, Tenn.
The subject of this sketch was a
member of old Mt. Tabor congre.
CATION, but had not been able to
attend church for a long time,
being sufferer of bodily attic.
ton for a humber of years. She
was living with her daughter, Mrs.
Brewer, who did all that kind and
loving hands could to make her
last days on earth peaceful. Your
humble scribe visited her on last
Sunday morning. think all CT
her children but one were present,
with many of her friends, among
whom was her brother, Mr.. Dick
son, from Turkey Creek, an elder
in Alder Grove congregation. Be-
fore l left she requested prayers.
We read a short lesson from Gods
holy word and then knelt for
prayers, at the conclusion of which
she got very happy and praised
God for His forgiving mercy and
for directing me there for that
service. She said that the last
doubt was removed and her sky
was clear. To this service she re-
fered several times before she
died the next day, when talking to
her loved ones.
She seemed to feel a great in
terest in her five surviving chill.
dren's spiritual welfare, as was
shown in her talks to and about
them while sick. They all seemed
to treat her kindly and lovingly
and were grieved at her departure,
but the inevitable had come. Her
loved ones, having expected her
demise for some time, were, to
some extent, prepared for the
blow, and when the spirit had
flown they prepared a beautiful
silver-mounted casket, in which
she was placed, and next day at J
o'clock, p. m, after an appropriate
funeralservice, conducted by Rev
Treadaway, of the M. E. church
south, and the writer, the re-
mains were laid to rest by her
husband, who preceded her by
many years.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1898-10-14
Three Doctors in COnsulta'
tim
FROM BENJAMIN FRANKLI

FROM BEN JAMIN FRANKLIN.
"When you are sick, what you
like best is to be chosen for a
medicine in the first place; what
experience tells you is best, to be
chosen in the second place; what
d. e. Theory says is best is to be
chosen in the last place. But if
you can get DR.. Inclination, DR..
Experience and Dr.. Reason to
hold consultation together, they
will give you the best advice that
can be taken.
When you have a bad cold DR..
Inclination would recommend
Chamberlin's Cough Rem edy be-
cause it is pleasant and safe to
take. DR.. Experience would recon-
mend it because 1t never fails to
effect speedy and permanent
cure. DR.. Reason would recon-
mend it because it is prepared on
scientific principals, and acts on
natures plan in relieving the
lungs, opening the secretions and
restoring the system to a natural
and healthful condition. For sale
by j. X. Barlow.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1898-10-14

find one as small as a home grown
waiter m'llion. The wise farmer
raises sheep and punkins and
other things that are profitable,
but the Innocent man who enga.
ges in waiter million culture is in
luck if he gets one, on an acre of
ground, as large and luscious as
an old.fashioned Tennessee Ten
Pin.Alley ball.
After all when you think about
it seriously the punkin has advan.
tages that the waiter million can
never overcome. Of course it is
snubbed and ignored by the proud
and giddy who sport palm fans
and wear low quartered shoes du-
ring the long, long days of sum.
mer, but when the waiter millions
and butterflies and sun.tiowers
and palm fans and low quartered
shoes have vanished like a school
boys dream and life gets down
tn business, the punkin comes
smiling serenely to the front, and
without regard to party platforms
cOnvinces a man that in some
things at least gold standard is
the best. Oh, the good old pun
kin pies of winter time! You new.
er get any pie timber out of a
waiter million, and as for as the
sweet later as q pie maker, it
ranks way below the punkin in
the estimation of an Overwhelm-
ing majority of pie eaters. In fact
when it comes to a contest be.
tween pie.makers the punkin may
safely be pitted against the field.
For pie stock it has no equal. An
old-fashioned peach cobbler may
give pleasure for a day and an
egg custard with its soft winning
ways may do very we'll once in q
while on small occasions, but for
every day pie with unpretentious
demeanor and honest intentions,
give me the punkin pie every
time. Let the naughty nabob re.
vel in mince pie and wrestle with
the hideous night horse if he
likes, but give the honest man
simply a piece of old-fashioned
country punkin pie and a tin cup
full of cold sweet milk and his
days will be full of pleasure and
his nights will be reviews of gild.
ed glory.
Talk about the charms of music
that soOthe the savage breast,
and wonder why Will Shakespeare
never tried him with punkin pie.
Surely Sitting Bull and Captain
Jack and the Modocs and others
of their kind were not brought up
on punkin pie and evidently the
Philippine chief clothed.in his in.
nocence and a plug hat never
heard of the prince of American
pies.
Among the great men Of this
country who having loved the
punkin pie and loved it to the
end was John G. Whittier, our
greatest poet. He had a just con.
ception of its merits, and in the
midst of the honors heaped upon
him by the learned of earth he
found time to tune his Tyre and
sing the praises of the old.time
country punkin pie.
T. M. HURST.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1898-10-14
Van Buren,, Pa.

While you are on the subject of
pumpkins IL want to say" that
this country beats any place l ev-
er saw. Pennsylvania does not
grow "watter millions" and "sweet
taters" and 'goobers" and the
like but when it comes to a show
down on pumpkins, she beats all
creation, including Desha County,
Arkansas.
Pumpkins from the old.time
crook.necked "CushawD in a stri-
ped calico wrapper to the new
tangled Japanese baby pumkin
and fromsthe freckled-faeed s-caly-
barked nameless pumpkin to the
old.fashioned 'yaller" bellied Ten
nessee river bottom roller with
which we used to fatten the old
steers for beef when they had
grown so frail in the service that
they could work no longer, and
so old that they had to be fed on
chapped pumpkin, or some other
soft diet.
In country where one has
choice between waiter millions
and sweet taters and punkins,
there is Of course apt to be q va
iiety Of opinions as to which is
best, but here the contest is en-.
tirely within the punkin family,
The waiter million is not in it
Neither is the sweet later. Oh
course we get imported waiter
millions from Georgia, but any
man who has waiter million ed.
ucation knows that they are but a
delusion and a snare, and that
what those Georgia crackers fail
ed to do with grape and canister
in '6l, they are now doing quietly
through the agency of the ubiqui'
tous "mountain spr0ut." The man
who has ever belonged to night
class of waiter million students
would no more think Of eating an
imported Georgia waiter million
than a Kentucky colonel would
think of taking drink Of ice wa.
ter. and when it comes down to
the Pennsylvania variety one
might AS well undertake to eat a
'fat gourdp provided he could
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1898-10-14
Swift.

Life's scenes are continually
changing, so is the price ofcotton
Farmers seem to have been
made for low prices, and not
prices for the farmers.
The merchant, lawyer and
teacher will only collect part of
his accounts this year, but OF
course we will all pay the editor
in full.
A good lot of citizens in a good
country surrounded with pure
atmosphere will surely make a
success, provided they can keep
their neighbors all right.
1t is always the other fellow
who keeps me from prospecting.
We have decided to attend to
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1898-10-14
nutlera Chapel.

I'd rhomou Ia Thought to have
tho foyer at this writing,
Miss Mimic Butler attended
church ut Savannah Sunday night.
Tho little son of Felix Parish is
quito sick.
a number of people of this
community attended church ut
Eureka Sunday,
G. W, Duncan, family and sis.
ter, Mrs. Imam, were visitors at
w, j. Buffers Sunday.
We would be glad to hear from
Prof NJ. l.. Davis again through
the Courier,
A. Ii. Cobb and wife visited rel.
atives here Saturday night and
Sunday,
We wonder what has become
of"Pill Skootinright," as he failed
to appearin the Courier last week.
WHITE ROSE.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1898-10-14
Governor Taylor is recovering,
The yellow fever situation in
Mississippi grows more alarming
each day.

A general strike of miners AT
Tracy City, Tenn, is in progress.
The disagreement is over wages,
miners demanding an advance of
2i cents per ton. Efforts are be-
ing made to arbitrate the trouble
and prevent a prolonged strike.
About 500 men are out.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1898-10-14
M. II. MEEKS HONORED.

Last Satur day the Democrats
of Davidson county, in..convention
nominated NJ. Fl. Meeks as a can.
didate for Senator from the 10th
Senatorial District of Davidson
county. Mr.. Meeks is we'll known
here as a lawyer and politician,
being for many years associated
with Col. John A. Pitts in the
legal practice. We clip the fol-
Icing from the American of the
9th inst:
NJ. H. Meeks was born in Nc
Marry county, near the battlefield
of Shiloh, and his early life was
spenS upon q farm. He comes of
q family long prominent before
the American people. He is a
son of Gen. John II. Meeks and a
great.grandson of Capt. John L
Henderson, of Revolutionary
fame. His father, Gen. Meeks,
WAS A member Of the Consti-
tutional Convention of 1870, and
served two terms in the Tennessee
Legislature. AT the time of the
frat election McNairy county was
known as a stronghold of the
wings and Gen. Meeks was the
frat Democrat who was able to
break their ranks. So powerful
was his following that as long as
he was an attendant at the county
courts of his district the vote and
representation of that county was
with the Democracy.
Mr.. Meeks is a graduate oil
Cumberland University of the
class of 1867. He began the
practice of law at Purdy, Tenn,
In August, 1878, he was elected
ATTORNEY General for the Eleventh
Judicial Circuit, and at the close
Of the last term of court held In
bis circuit, and before the term
axnirad he removed to Jackson
Tam. There the law firm of Pitts
Hays g. Meeks was formed. In
Angust. 1883, he, with Mr. J. A.
Pitts. came to N Nashville and re-
newed his practice of law, the
partnership being the well-known
Arm of Pitts s. Meeks'
Mr. Meeks il o man OF unusua,
ohilitv and force, and is recognized
a aS, one Of the leading lawyers Of
th Oh state. Since he began the
oroctice of his chosen profession
Pe has devoted his time to law AZ.
univ no vI taking part in politics as 'he
J SnHSands of good citizenship re-
o ouired He is not a politician, but at
. qI LAWYER, and the Office to which
10 " was nominated yesterday came
WI Without his solicitation. me de- ie
S;ra 70 send good men, representa-
. sre of no faction, to the LeglsIa
, t,n.' caused many to solicit Mr. II,
Meeks to allow his name to DC 3'
nresented. His consent was o my
p lacured under promise that the
. secure Of which be should be q
r nart' would represent the demands nc L
par, w sorm for which the people
are now asking.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1898-10-14
Monday Nov. Z, 1898,

sell to highest bidder for cash at the court
house door in the town of Savannah the undi-
vided interest of W. o. Mitchell in the fol-
lowing town lots bounded as follows: the J..
C. Mitchell homestead, north by Dickey,
east by Shannon, south by public road west
by Decaturville road. Also one other boun-
ded north by public road, east by Savannah
road, south by Holland, west by Hinkle.
One tract bounded north by Logan heirs and
ALB. Mitchell, east by Roger and Logan,
south by Bingham, west by A. b: Mitchell
One other tract known as the Atkins land,
bounded north bp Smithson, east byDavy and
Sayells, south by Savells, west by Savells.
One other tract bounded north by Speer,
east by Murphy and Casey, south by Murphy
west by Jim Carter lands. All being and
lying in the 18th civil district OF Hardin
county, and levied on as the property of w.
o. Mitchell to satisfy judgment in favor Of
!. II. White. This October IL, 1895.
1T. SAWNER, Sheriff.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1898-10-14

Sister Porter requested that
when she died her friends would
sing at her burial clay Me Be-
side My Mothers Grave,n which
was done by the young people,
some of them her grandchildren
with fearful eyes, but with hopeful
hearts of some day meeting her
again. A very large procession of
friends and loved ones followed
her to her last resting place, ana
are left behind to mourn their
loss, but doubtless her gain. She
leaves behind five children-three
sons and two daughters, some OF
whom, perhaps, are not religious.
1t is hoped, however, that her
christian life and prayers left to
them will induce them to get
ready to meet her again in a better
world than this. She leaves also
about "a grandchildren, some of
whom are grown and very promis-
ing. May they all emulate he-
christian virtues and take her
Cody advice, so that they may be
ready, as she was, when the sum-
mons comes, "for we know not
the day nor the hour when our
Lord doth come"
Asleep in Jesus, blessed sleep,
From which none ever wake to weep.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1898-10-14
Nonresident Notice.
|. W. Holt Adnr. vs.. Lucy Holt Etal.

NV. Holt Admr. Us. Lucy Holt ElaI.
In this cause it appearing from the bill
which is sworn to that defendants John w.
Hamilton and wife Matte Hamilton are nom
residents of the State of Tennessee. 1t is
therefore ordered by me, d. a. Welch, c. &
NJ. of the Chancery court of Hardin County,
Tenn, that said defendants John w. Ham
ilton and Matte Hamilton enter their app
pearance herein on or before the 4th Mon
day in November, 1893, and plead, answer
or demur to compliments bill, or the same
will be taken for confessed, and the cause
set for hearing exparte as to them.
1t is further ordered that a copy Of this no.
tice be published for four consecutive weeks
in the Savannah Courier This Sept. 20, '9S.
(O-2S) IA. WEIGH c. & M.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1898-10-14

interesting NoWa From the Various Parts OIL
Hardin County--Local and Personal,
Compiled by Correspondents
~HaEHr.-

our own affairs for twelve months
and then notice the change. /
wonder who will forget their
pledge. Oh, l suppose it will be
the fellow whose line of business
is too short to keep him constant.
" Mt work. Suppose we fret
more over that which we can do
if we try.
Never speak i'll of your friends
because they do wrong, but re-
member they have a friend who is
not exactly perfect.
If you do not feel just right
about your treatment, 60 to DR..
Parker and have him to change
the time and enlarge the quantity.
If Doctor Parker is not a reliable
physician we will never know the
difference.
Seed cotton is selling at $1.40
per hundred at Welle RS,
which is equal to SLIGO, as you
only have to back up to the
place and get ont of the way and
let the old proboscos come and
get it. ! guess they will extend
the snout to the cotton press next
year.
Had you heard about the pros
poets for new church and school
house at Center View. Miss Dora
Outlaw has awakened, considerable
interest in that community, she
taught q splendid sc h o o |
this past summer, and l under
stand will teach again this winter.
Prof. j. ID. Carman could not
find "a footlog long enough so he
prefers pitching his tent on the
western bank of the stream, so he
will soon take up his abode at
Doctor Kerr's and bat ideas for
the young minds at Russ Chapel.
That leaves Shady Hill without
a teacher, as Swayne cannot 60 it
alone. There will be q chance
for some teacher to get o school.
| wonder if Swayne will close his
career and try something else. l
expect he had just as well 10.
The candy breaking at Brother
Woody's Saturday night was con-
sidered success.
Shady Hill is soon to have a new
bell which will add greatly to the
magnificent church, provided they
build new belfrey.
Boys isyou are in dead earnest
about getting married | would adj.
wise you to select girl who
is not expecting very great results
in order to give satisfaction.
The girls of Swift SCENE to
have a continued case of affected
eyes, perhaps they have taken too
strong a focus on their best fellow.
Parker Woody says he can 60
to Cerro Gordo just the same, but
has been too busy with his mules
of late.
David COble was thrown from a
mule and dangerously hurt,
Frank Cupples is very sick with
slow fever.
DR.. Kerr wants 100 head of fat
yearlings.
Uncle John got his candy broken
at Bun Woody's Saturday night.
Parker Woody is still buying
eggs for st. Louis merchant.
Heber Cupplos speaks of going
to the Henderson college.
Swift is soon to have another
gas factory. EUGENE.