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WASHINGTON GAZETTE
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2, 183 i.
$2.00 A YEAR IN ADVANCE.
WILKES-WISE.
We believe all the sick of our com
munity arc improving.
—Home-raised ribbon cane is
abundant in this place.
—There arc thirty-four scholars at
the Male Academy in this place.
About half the stores in this place
have recently bceu repainted and im
proved.
The building boom still continues,
and several more houses will be be
gun very soon.
—Last Monday was the day of
Atonement, and our Jewish friends
kept their stores closed.
Mr. James F. Jackson bought
the residence opposite rhe
Masonic hall last Friday.
—IV ood & Jackson have the best
livery stable evcVkept in Washington
since the place was a town.
—ln McDuffie county on Wednes
day, Dr.' Hawes, prohibition candi
dates for the legislature, was elected
by a majority of 158.
—We ieanr that Mr. T. M. Green
will open a brtned store ont at Poole’s,
in this eojjnty, and employ Mr. Wil-,
lie Hugulcy to run it.
—ln the matter of dust, you will
have to make up vour mind toil and
take it as it comes. We don’t see
what elso-is to be done.
—Thig weather was never surpassed
for picking cpttoii. and very few far
mers are leaving their fields to do
ginning or any other work.
—Washington is unsurpassed as a
cotton market, and the good prices
that are paid here for tha fleecy sta
ple, are bringing it trem fgreat
distances:
—The total amount of money for
all purposes, t* be raised by the Meth
odist church in this place, this year, is
$1,252. A good deal of this has- al
ready been raised
—We regret to know that Mr.
Brewer Pope lost about thirty
thousand feet of lumber by tiro last
Monday. It was being kiln-irpff and
and caught fiora the fire.
V—The Pruipoot of the large num
ber of visitors to this place next week
has formed acorneron the market in
chickens, eggs, and butter, and it i
next to impossible to buy either.
—The contractor expects to have
Mr. Fortson’s new house ready for
him to move into it about the first
of December.’ It will be one of the
handsomest residences in town when
completed.
—Savafinah Morning News: The
Washington Gazette comes out this
week in a largo eight-page edition.
The news'of the town is thoroughly
and competently and home
readers connot fail ( $ and the paper
full of interest.
—Mr. W. E. lIL Returned from
Augusta yesterday, whither lie had
driven 39 head ot cat tie. Mr. Edward
Binns also returned from the same
place yesterday. He hadcarrijd
down eighteen lAfad*SP*cattle. The
cattle sold from 3% to 4 cents gross.
—Mr. W. A. iturdett ha* a natural
curiosity on his Fishing creek planta
tion. A large oak tree tias covered
a radius oDftve ctr ' siX’Ceet ih every
direction wltlTUs root*, the
roots have solidified and are now cov
ered with one solid stretch of bark.
—Tho estimates for the cotton re
ceipts at this place for the ensuing
cotton yearwre froth fourteen to fif
teen thouad 6aJe. This will bring
in about Seven -hundred' thousand
dollars, which with the fine grain
crops that have been raised, will give
the people considerable surplus
money. * - - - -
—’ Trespassers have been depreda
ting on the grounds 6f St. Joseph’s
Orphanage considerably of late, not
withstanding the warnings that have
been posted. ' Officer Beal took the
matter in hand of catohing the tres
passers,and yesterday morning arrest
ed twQ negroes named William Sut
ton and Howard Butler, and they will
be required to answer the charge' Of
trespassing before the court. * '
—A negro naitfcd George Wingfield,
who left here with the first Yankee
troops that passed through in 1665,
has just writtea to his relatives from
the house of correction, in Detriot,
Mich., asking'them to send him mon
ey enough to come home on. When
he was arrested son® time ago, he
wrote here for money and his family
cent him twenty-five dollars to pay a
lawyer to defend him.
However, he was convic
ted and sentenced, and writes
DOW that his time is nearly out. He <
has never stated what crime he com
mitted. For nineteen years lie lias
been kuocking about all- over the
United States. lie is now about forty
years old
—Mr. P. S. Rodgers, of Lincoln
coun'y,aged seventv-three, died at his
home, on the loth of September.
—Our neighboring village of Bar
nett has had quite a revlvai of relig
ion. Twenty-oue have joined the
Methodist and three the Baptist
churches.
—The fellow with a fiddle and
otherouc with a horn select warm
weather for practicing, when a man
can’t close the door, shut down the
window and thus protect himself.
—Thcrb was an exhibition last
night by Miss Shipp's school, at Eben
ezer, in tliis county. Miss Annie Car
ter, telegraph operator up at Social
Circle, came down yesterday to visit
Miss Shipp, who is a former claas
mate.
—The heat of the sun last Tuesday
expanded the railroad iron so greatly
cn the truck at the depot," that it
"'as with great difficulty the
switch was changed for the incoming
train. Cool water was poured on the
rails and sledge hammers were used
to knock them in position.
—No matter how much cotton is open
in the fields and liable to bo blown out
and mined in the first rain, all the
negroes for ten miles area ml must
come to town Saturday and loaf
around almost the entire day. Good
wages are no inducement for a negro
to give mi his Saturday’s holiday, un
less hunger is pinching him.
—The election passed off very quiet
ly in this county on Wednesday. The
vote for governor in the entire couuty
was 2fSO. The vote for state house
officers, state senator and representa
tives varied very little from tlic above.
Wilkes county acted wisely and set
tled all questions in the primiary with
out the assistance of the brother in
black.
—Messrs. L. Smith &Bro. this week
gave tlio people of VVashinglon some
thing witli which to while away their
leisure moments. 11 was a most
unique little puzzle, composed of two
round cards connected together with
a string. The point was to get the
cards apart without breaking the
string. It was at first pronounced
impossible, but when once worked is
very simple.
—The tax collector in acknowl
edging the receipt of of the tax digest
for 1884, writes the following to the
receiver: “I liayoposted vour digest
—had no trouble with it, it is just
splendid, just as good, neat, correct
and legible as I could wish it to he.”
The many friends of Mr. Ftcklcn will
be glad to know that lie has per
formed the work entrusted to him
in such a faithful mannei.
—We are glad to know that Mr.
Hogue is making arrangements to
build two neat new cottages—one on
each side of the house now occupied
by Miss Belle Weems, near tho Wash
ington hotel. Both houses have al
ready been' rented. Thus the town
is constantly growing and almost ev
ery week wc arc able to announce
progress on this line. As we have be
fore remarked, it is exceedingly grat
ifying to growing so
rapidly.
—There u a one-legged man in this
county who is a member of a family
to which had been left a tract'of about
otic hundred acres of iaml. This was
about all they had inherited. The
above-mentioned man bought tho sev
eral interests of the other children in
this land and by hard work lias paid
every dollar of i*, while the others have
nothing to show for their inheritance.
He seemed stirred up to greater of
fort by reasea of bis condition.
—Wc have just received a large lot
of new and stylish type and a large
shipment of all kinds of paper white
and various colors), envelopes, cards,
bills heads, letter heads, note heads
(linen and plain), of the finest quality.
We do the finest job printing of ali
descriptions, and would be glad to
serve you. Send in your orders and
we will duplicate city prices and do
as beautiful work. Strangers arc
surprised to find such a splendid job
office as oars in.a town of this size.
—Some thief stole a number of ar
ticles, of clothing from Mr. Henry
Gilbert’*"Store in this place last Satur
day night. The mode of stealing was
certainly a very moved one. The
thief took a lorig stick with a hook of
some kind on the end, and poking it
through a cat hole in the door,dragged
the clothing from a counter and
twisted it through the hole, which
was a good sized one. There is no
cine to the robber, but some hope of
catching bin* as Unclothing can be
recognized. The value of the goods
stolen was about fifty dollars.
Lucerne seed at Lyndon’s.
PERSONAL.
Mr.C. E. Smith went t Atlanta on
Wednesday.
Mrs. Lewis, of Greenboro. is visit
ing her father Mr. W. VV. Hill.
Mr. Quince Johnson has rented the
house on the same block with Mr.
Jordan's residence.
Miss Coru Brown of Hamilton,
Ga., is visiting her aunt Mrs. L. VV’.
Sims.
Mr. B. S. Irvin’s interesting letter’s
will probably bo continued in our
nextißsuc.
Mr. John T. Wooten with fluent
pen, now keeps the Macon Tele
graph informed on Washington af
fairs.
Mrs. M. P. Cooper and Miss Hattie
Barnett are expected homo from the
North to-morrow. .
Dr. Gatuhell of Elberton, has
bought a placo near Centerville, trem
Mr. Will VVotten, and will move
there and practise medicine.
Miss. Willie, daughter of Judgo
VV illie, chief-justice of tie supreme
court of Texas,who has been spending
sometime wieh relatives and friends
in this place, left last Tuesday for
Gainesville, Ga.
The prospect for the election of our
t’cl low-townsman. E. T. Shubi-Sck,
Esq., to the office of solicitor-gen
era! by the legislature which assem
bles next month, is very encouraging
to his many friends in this part of
Georgia. •
Col. Jas. P. Verdery of Augusta,
was in town tho first of the week on
railroad business. Wo saw him out
driving while hero and lie seemed
contented to do his travelling in a
buggy and let railroading alone for
the balance of his days.
B. 8. Irvin, Esq., whose letters from
tho North, have added so greatly to
the interest of our columns recently,
returned home last Saturday, very
muchjireproved by his trip, ilo left
the other members of tho quintetto in
New York, where they will remain
for a few days.
Mr. John D. Shcahan, fftr a long
while with tho house of Jas. A. Ben
son, in this place, and one of the best
business men who ever did business
in Washington, has gone to Lanrens,
S. C., to go in businoss for himself.
He is one of most uftable, ploasant
gentlemen we ever knew, and this
with his fine business qualities will
brink Id'n success wherevsr ho goes*.
He leaves many warm friends in
Washington.
Some very kind hearted gentlemen
in this place, went to work this week
and got up subscriptions to send a
very worthy young lady of Washing
ton off to college. She is prepared to
enter the soniorclass. We know that
those whose money went in this di
rection will havo moro cause for re
joicing in after years than it this
money were to bring them one hun
dred per cent. per annum. After all
Washington has more kind hearts to
its numbers than any town wo ever
saw.
Death*.
Mr*. John Ficklen, who was
Miss Eliza Battle, and well known in
this community, died at iter homo in
Waco, Texas, a short while since.
Mrs. Kingsbury, of Atlanta, who
was Bunina Clovclannd, youngest
daughter ofMr. Cleveland an old cit
izen of this place, died last week,
Mrs. Hubbard, wife of Mr. Jno. 8.
Hubbard, died at iter home in this
county Jast Sunday night, at quite an
advanced age. She was a most esti
mable Christian lady, and such as tho
church and her friends can ill afford
to lose.
Died at the residence of her
husband, in Lincoln county,
Mrs. Almedo Paschal. She was born
March 3. 1821, joined tho Baptist
church early in life. Was first mar
ried to John Murphy in 1843. She
was next married to Mr. J. A. Pas
chal. They lived happily together
until separated hr death.
We call tho attention of all planters
in Wilkes and adjoining counties to
the advertisement of John W. Carr,
who has become a resident of Wash
ington for the purpose of buying cot
ton. The advantages of shipping
direct to Europe, and Northern spin
ners, enables him to pay planters bet
tor prices in this market than they
can realize elsewhere. Mr. Carr has
large experience in his especial busi
ness, and his gentlemanly straight
forward manners will make his ac
quaintance both pleasant and profi
table to all sellers of cotton. 40-4 t.
Motto*.
All persons are hereby warned
against employing Charles Bufford
(colored,) as he is under contract with
me. Any one so doing will bo held
responsible according to law.
Oct. W. B. Norman.
Heard's grass at Lyndon’s
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Energy, Experience and Hard Cash Win Once More. *
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84irAgents for Buttrick’s Patterns. Fancy Work ATLANTA A
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the come of I bih smrwTTi
THE LARGEST, BEST AND ONLY SHOW COMING THIS SEASON.
it WASHINGTON, WEDNESDAY OCTOBER HL
The Sacred Wonder Thoodorus, The White Spotted Elephant. More and rarer Wild Boasts than were ever before exhibited
under one canvas. All quarters of the Globe have beuu ransacked for wid, Carnivorous Beasts. Tho list of exclusive feutures
is exceptionally large, and only a tow of them can be mentioned : Huge herd of Performing Elephants. Monster Blood Sweating
Hippopo‘amus. Ferocious Man-Eating Lion Slayers. Human Blood Sucking VampireH. Royal Abyssinian Lions. Royal Ben
gal Tigers. Baby Animals of every Kind and Hue. The Egyptian Bovalapus. Large drove of Bactrinn Camels. Snakes
great Snakes—Live Snakes. Living Marint Monster. Gnu, or Horned Horse. Onve Robbing Hyenas. Performing Rhinoceros
4jO OPEN DENS OF WILD BEASTS lO
l Exhibited Free of Charge on the Public Streets.
; w * (Heat Circuses, embracing 100 Lending and Champinn performer* in 3 Separate Rings. Tho largest assemblage of Clrcut
yjEelebritips together in the civilized world, including 14 Real Brawny Turk**, who will appear attired in their native costumes, pre
senting thrilling aerobattPßßiiovemeniji Athletic FeaU, Wonderful Vmblting and Leaping, Maneuvers <>n High Ladders and
Herculean Exercise*; the whole forming Unman Pyramid*. Bulb ini’s French Troupe of Byciclo Riders, acknoHjodic^l
Champions of the world. Moore Family, Siberian Roller Skaters: the most skillful Lady and Gentlemen a Xrn * --r fti • - -r*TTr T 1 it;
Charming Katamorpa Queen of tho Rep ilo wold. Ritfia Bey, The Dextrous Knife Thrower. 3 Sicgrist Brothers, the Greatest
Acrobats Living or Dead. 4 Onofri Brothers, Muaiovl Speeialsts. 3 German Aeralists, Rudolph, Htuhcip, Franz. Mll’o. I)e
Granville, the Iron Jawed Lady. The Great Eldorado, Japanese Wonder. Miss Antonio, Gymnic Evolutions on the Slack Wire
and Instanoous costume changes. William Showlos, the champion of all Champion Bare-Back Riders. Ella Stokes the best
Bare-Back Equestrienne in either Europe or America. Bailie Marks, the Pleasing, Popular, Petite Premier of tho Arena. The
Champion Dog Circus; Dogs thifc Talk, Sing, Laugh, Danco, Pray, Read, Play Cards, Hold School and smoke Cigars. 3 Mncarte
Brothers; Classic Posturings. In addition to these there are almost numberless lot of lessor lights, making up the, roster of tho
best Circus Company throughout. Space will not permit further detai’s, for full particulars see other publications.
THE GRAND FREE STREET PARADE.
Takes plaoo daily at 10 A. M.,and surpass
es in magnitude all other parades ever Been
in Ameriea. It is NEARLY THREW HOI,II)
tIILEH IN LENGTH and requires nearly an
hour"So peas any (riven point. Extensive
arrangements hare been enacted for
Cheap Excursion Rates
OS ALL RAILROADS.
Doors Open at 1 and 7 P. M. Performance
Begins One Hour Later.
ONE TICKET ADMITS TO ALL
ADVERTISED SHOWS.
Dont fail to see the new stock ol
I’latcd Ware at W. T. Johnson’s.
Prices lower than usual.
Wood & Jackson have on hand o
splendid lot of broke horses and
mulea-which they will sell low for
cash.or on time. Give them a call.
Wood & Jackson san serve yon
with as elegant and satistactory turn
outs as you could wish to drive.
SMITHS’ WORM OIL is the
best. 11-lyn
You can buy Grates cheaper than
ever before at W. T. Johnson's.
Thomas Uenrv, col,, sells fresh
fish every Saturday.
The best Corliss engine Oil and
cylinder Oil for gins and machinerj
at W, T. Johnson’s.
Holmes Sure Cure Mouth Wash
and Denlfrice is an infallible cure for
Ulcerated Sore Throat, Bleeding
Gnms,Borc Mouth and Ulcers. Cleans
the Teeth and keeps tho Gums healthy
and purifies the breath. Prepared
solely by Drs. J. P. & AV. R. Holmes
Dentists, Macon, Georgia. Used and
recommended by leading dentists.
For Sale by Dr. H. B. Kommc, Wash
ington, Ga., and all Druggists and
Dentists. ' 36-tf.
Diamond Dyes all colors at Dr.
Harpers drug store.
Ladies call at Dr. J. A. H. Harpers
drug store and look at tho splendid
line of Perfumery he otters for the
inspection of the public.
Lioiitn Kit’s tine extracts equal io
Lit bins in prices, far superior to
Lubins as to quality, at Dr. J. ‘A H
Harpers drug store—all tho favorite
oders can be found. '
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Ladies try one otince of Ligbtner’s
choice perfumes arid you will never
use any other. They are the finest
extracts made—try them.
A. Handsome little paletto painting
with a sample bpttlc of Lightner’s por
fume free to all the ladjes at the drug
store of J. A. 11. Harper.
Dn. J. A. 11. Harper hrs a hand
some lot of Merschaum pipes for sale,
call and look at them ; they are some
thing real elegant.
At the new drug store you will find
tho best cigars in town—tho finest
chewing tobaccocs.
Remember to call on Dr. J. A. IT.
Harpor when you need anything in
the drug or stationery line.
See advertisement of Portable' Corn
Mills for sale by Geo. It. Lumbard
& Cos., Augusta, Ga, tf
JOHN B. DOKIS’
New Monster flows
UNITED WITH THE
Great Inter-Ocean.
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Museum! Menagerie! Aquarium!
3 Rin * Circus and Elevated Theatre Stag#
Unequalled in Extent. Unparalleled
in Attractiveness and Unrivalled in
General Excellonce. Requiring
for its Transportation
3 PALACE RAILWAY TRAINS.
Entire and Absolute Sucoesa.
Maj. John C. AVhitner, ot Atlanta,
well and favorably known all over
the United Stato as a General Insur
ance Agent, Says: “I used this reme
dy before the war on a largs planta
tion in a great number of cases, al
ways with absolute success.” sep.
Treatise on the Health and happt
iicesot' Woman, mailed free.
Bradpield Regulator Cos.,
Box 28, Atlanta, Ga.
SIHLOH’S VITALTZER is what
you need for Constipation, loss ef Ap
petite. Dizziness and all svmpksms of
Dyspepsia. Price 10 and 75 cents
per bottle. For sale by G. E. Lyndon
Washington, Ga.
WILL YOU SUFFER withDyspcp
sia and Liver Complaint ? Shiloh’s
Vitalizcr is guaranteed to cure.
For sale by G. E. Lyndon. Washing,
ton, Ga.
You can find the prettiot assort
ment of New Style Lamps ever of
fered in Washington at W. T. John
son’s. A nice decorated Lamps for
11.00
Yon can buv the Old Reliable Ex
'cclslor cook stove at W. T. Johnson’s.
Mr T. F. Cane will sell beef in ottr
market on Wednesday and Friday,
'and will sell choice slake at eight
cents per pound.