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Newspaper
Barnesville Gazette
Location
Barnesville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Apr 02, 1885
Page
4
The Barnesville Gazette questions Senate probes costing about 100000 dollars and warns such traveling investigations may waste funds. It laments Grant’s distress at potential disgrace while noting the public memory may quickly forget his era and condemns unchecked ambition and worldly pursuits.
The article reports rising tensions between England and Russia with the queen summoning the House of Commons to mobilize reserves. The War Office orders emergency preparations, sending Mercury for immediate service and listing ships Devastation Colossus Bacchante and Orontes as readying for sea amid claims of selfish motives driving the crisis.
The case against J. W. Renfroe former Georgia state treasurer ended with the Supreme Court ruling on the matter. Executions against his securities were enjoined on constitutional grounds and the state pursued the second bond for interest plus penalties, while the defense argued the treasurer’s bond covered only lawful receipts and that penalties were personal.
The text recounts a Superior Court demurrer on a Fulton case, its overrule by the judge, and the Supreme Court reversal. It then shifts to political commentary on advertising, Hop Bitters claims, and public notices. It also covers Vice President Hendricks’s influence on post office appointments, a call for veto power over appropiation items, and biographical notes on George Gray, Malcolm Hay, and J. B. Baird, plus a bankruptcy and the President’s March salary.
Chronicle notes medical ads and social commentary. It highlights blood purification claims by Ayer’s Sareaparilla, contrasts political views, mentions brokers and wholesalers in Macon, malaria anecdotes, Brown’s Iron Bitters testimonials, pneumonia trends in New York, and a Red Star Cough Cure endorsement. The piece ends with a note on Egyptian finance and a 45 million loan guarantee.
An old column jokes about a crying baby and offers Parker's Tonic for soothing infants. It notes a 50 cent price at the druggist. Also advertised are carpets and window shades arriving at Crutchers, offered at Atlanta prices.
The text lists symptoms of dyspepsia such as stomach oppression nausea flatulence water-brush heart-burn vomiting loss of appetite and constipation. It suggests these patients should stimulate digestion and ensure regular daily bowel action by using moderate doses of a remedy.
The advertisement touts Ayer's Pills as sugar coated and purely vegetable. Taken daily after dinner they regulate the bowels and complete the cure for stomach and bowel disorders. Described as pleasant, entirely safe and best of all purgatives for family use. Prepared by
Late dispatches indicate the car death of Ex President Jefferson Davis after weeks of rheumatism and struggle with an old wound from Mexico thirty eight years ago. Genl Grant's condition was serious Tuesday but improved in Wednesday's reports. Texas Land sale offer of twelve thousand acres to settlers with long time terms. address Hicks & Bro Center Shelby Co Texas. We Want a Lady to take permanent sole agency for our goods. stock furnished. references indispensable. J B Henne Co Chicago Ill.
May sheriff sale notices list two properties for sale at Zebulon court house door on the first Tuesday in May. First, 63 two thirds acres in the northeast corner of lot 127, 2nd district, Pike County, to satisfy two common law fi fas in favor of W. H. Head & Co against J. N. Shockley and J. E. Wiston, with G. W. Shockley in possession. Also, one side line buggy in the same notice. Second, property of G. Waller, to satisfy a fi fa from Pike County Court of Kibb Powell against G. Waller. Date April 1. Sheriff W. P. Bussey.
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