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WASHINGTON GAZETTE
J. W. CHAPMAN. Proprietor.
• FBIDAY, JULY 17.1855.
SUBSCRIPTION $2.00.
WILKES-WISE.
—Mr. B. O. Barksdale went tip to
Atlanta Tuesday.
—Mrs. E. P. Hull left forChatati
qtia, X. A'., on Monday.
—Miss Kate Harper returned from
college in Jonesboro this week.
Hon. W. M. ficcso. lias been
ntadea trustee of the University.
—ltev. W. W. Wadworllt.of New
uan, is visiting friends in Washing
ton this week.
—More that twenty travelling men
arrived here last Tuesday and it was
not a good day for drummers either.
—The Augusta Chronicle banters
our Washington base ball club to
meet the Charleston club In Augusta.
—The insurance adjusters arc here
this week adjusting tho insurance on
Messrs Irvin & Callan’s mill. There
are nine of them.
—There were six car loads of coal
at the depot Wednesday. Our citi
zens arc determined not to lie caught
short of coal another winter.
Misses Susie) and Gertrude Fort
sou and Salllc Cade, three charming
young ladies ol Elbert county, are vis
iting the lamily of Capt. W. G. Cade.
—Messrs. Percy Adams and Irvin
Alexander were among the gradu
ates ot the State University this
week. The former took the second
honor.
—A general meeting of the Bap
tist shurch was begun at Newtown
church Wednesday. Tho attendance
is large and the meeting a most in
teresting one.
—Mr. and Mrs. John W. Carr, of
this place, who have been in Klberton
for some time, went to Charlotte,
N. C. t a few days ago and will return
to Washington in a few weeks.
—The combination in Messrs. L.
Smith & liro’s safe got out of order
a few days ago, and a safe burglar
was in demand to open the safe. It
was finally bored into with a drill.
—Vote for the old board if you vole
stall next Tuesday; but it will not
bo necessary to vote at all unless a
another ticket is unexpectedly put in
the field; which is not now proha.
hie.
—Mrs. E. Holliday of Llncotnlon,
formerly of this county is quite sick.
Dr. Holliday,her son who lives in
Harlem, was telegraphed for Wed
nesday morning and canto up that
day and went out to Lincolnton.
—Miss Fanny Andrews lias declin
ed the position of principal of our
Female Academy, atil accepted a po
sition in the faculty of Wesleyan fe
male college in Macon. She will ar
rive in Washington on a visit in a
few days.
—We regret to know that Dr.
Hiliyer was slighllv injured on
Wednesday by a horse that kicked
into the buggy as (lie Doctor was on
his way to the country. Ills in
juries arc slight, but he is confined to
his room.
—The lodge of the Legion of Hon
or was convened last Tuesday for the
purpose of initiating two members
Messrs Jas. F. Jackson and W. M.
Sims. This lodge lias thirty-seven
members and all but two are insured
for 15,000 each. Our mutual insur
ance orders in this place have lest five
members since they were first organ
ized.
—Messrs. B. D. Callaway, J. A.
Benson, John O’Neill, 11. 6. Colley,
M. Y. Moore, Jas. Anthony, Jas.
Newsome, W. E. Hill, Jas. Moss and
Ed Anthony went (town on Broad
river fishing ot! Monday and returned
Tuesday evening. They caught a
great many fine fish that weighed C
and 7 pounds and a large cat fish that
weighed 14 pounds. They packed two
large trout in ice and brought them
into Gen. Toombs.
—Base ball is on a boom in this
piace. Our club finished up the se
ries of games with the Augusta Ath
letics last Friday by a score of 18 lo 7
in favor of Washington. So far our
hoys have not lost a game this season
and.most of the games have been sig
nal victories. The following game will
he played at our base ball park on tho
dates given: Augusta Athletics;
July 21, 22 and 23; Atlanta Mutuals
July 28, 29 and 30; McCormick, S. C.
club August 12,13 and 14.
—Mr. J. M. Wood lost another
fino horse on Wednesday, from over
driving, the second he lias lost in the
last raenth. lie hired him to a drum
mer who went to Goshen by Danburg
and return by the Crossroads. The
horse showed symptous of bring sick
at Goshen, hut was driven on to
Crossroads where a short stop was
made. Coming on the horse fell a
short distance this side the Crossroads
and died. It is evident the horse died
front heat and overdriving. Mr.
Wo,od has instituted legal proceedings
to recover the value of the animal.
Ho was a very lino spirited horse.
The drummer's name is F. F. Palur
zo, and lie travels for Edmond T.
Brown A Cos., of Charleston.
—Last Tuesday evening just this
s'de of Mr. Newsome’s on the Mal
lovsville road, Messrs. Jas. A. Benson
and Bichard D. Callaway met with
what came near proving a vory se
rious accident. In passing another
buggy t hoy drove too near a deep
gully that lias been encroaching on
the road for some years, ami tho bug
gy, horse and tho two gentlemen
were thrown headlong into this gully.
Outside of breaking t ho buggy nootli
damage was done,but the escape from
a serious injury was very narrow, as
the gully is seven or eight feot. deep
The Gazette called attention to this
identical gully a mouth or two since,
and if its warning had been heeded
this accident would not have hap
pened. It is a disgrace to our county to
have such pitfalls on our public roads.
—The game of base ball played
last Monday evening was tho most
laughable, if not tho most correctly
played game of the season. The two
clubs were made up of our business
men who played for tho fun and not
for tiie scientific manipulation of Iho
ball amt bat. Some of tho players
were dressed in tights ami were hard
ly recognizable by their host friends.
Capt. Jack Crafton, armed with an
old flint and steel blunderbuss that
came over to this country in tho May
flower andj an old bowie-knife that
was made at a blacksmith shop dur
ing the war, tor enforcing his decis
ions, umpired the gamo. The great
est hilarity prevailed during the en
tire progress of tno gaqto. Tito fut
man met the ball with a bat and the
force of the ball knocked him sprawl
ing on the ground. The score stood
22 to 21. Tho gate money amounted
to $21,00 and was given tea poor w and
ow of this place.
Our municipal Government.
Our town government is now pass
ing through somewhat Of a crisis. Our
board of commissioners, acting upon
thoir host judgment, advertised that
that they would apply to the legisla
ture for a special act, amending the
town charter. One of the provisions
was an increase in tho limit of laxu
!ion. A good many ofonr citizens
look exceptions principally to this fea
ture, before giving the commissioners
a hearing. In otir last issuo the com
missioners published a card in which
they ntado a plain statement of tho
case, ami we feel satisfied that all that
is necessary to endorse tho action of
this body is for our citizens to simply
reflect over the matter. It is very
apparent that most of them have
already reflected and that the com
missioners will he endorsed nexl
Tuesday. If the best interests of the
town could be served without an in
crease of taxation wo are satisfied
they would bo served by the present
board as well as by any board that
could lie elected. We arc making no
vindication of the board of commis
sioners. Thoy need none. Their of
ficial career was most heartily en
dorsed up to the time this question
was sprung. Wo beg of our citizens
not to do the town tho injury of over
turning the present board. Their ca
pacity as commissioners is as well es
tablished as their integrity as citizens,
and it wuhi bo hard indeed to fill
their places,especially under the cir
cumstances of subverting their policy
which lias heretofore been so heartily
approved.
What better guarantee that (lie
tiie best interests of the town demand
ed an increase in taxation, could our
citizens ask, than that nearly every
dollar of property owned by the in
dividual members of the board lies
within the coporate limits of our town,
and the increase of taxes will fall as
heavily on it as on any oilier property.
Remember that if the citizens re
main away from the polls next Tues
day,the old board will take this an en
dorsement. If thoy go to work and
elect another board then we will
see what we will see. If Ben.
Irvin and Lent Sims, who are tho
“battery” of tiie hoard, president and
treasurer, can not run the town on the
small tax of one-fourth of one per
cent., wo arc at a loss to know where
the two men can be found who can
step into their shoes and measure up
to their stature, and do tho work nec
essary to bo done with so small re
sources on which to draw.
NOTICE Or ELECTION.
Notice is hereby given that an elec
tion will be held at this place on Mon
day July 20th, 1885, for tho purpose
of electing a Board of Commissioners
for the town of Washington, Ga.
L. W. Silts. B. S. Irvin,
Sec. Board. Pres’t Board.
, Washington, Ga., July 9th, 1885.
ST. JOSEPH’S MALE ORPHANAGE.
A Visitor's Interesting Account of the
Closing Exercises of Hie School
•nd sßrlef History of the In
stitution.
[Correspondence Augusta Chronicle.]
In a beat ..fill spot on the edge of
tho pretty town of Washington, Ga.,
surrounded by broad fields of cotton
and ef ripening grain, stand the
Catholic Male Orphanage of tins
State. About nine years ago this in
stitution was moved hero from Sa
vannah. Since that time about six
hundred boys from the ago of two
years to fourteen have been inmates
of (he institution. During that time
but two of the number have died ;
ana these had chronic troubles when
they entered. To-day there are about
a hundred hoys at tho Orphanage.
Tenor twelve will ho sent out this
summer. More than Halt tho boys
are the sons of widowed mothers.
Those who have no surviving parent
to take litem when they leave are
kept until steady employment of a
suitable kind is obtained for them.
No children are received after they
have reached the age of eleven. Tho
institution is supported by voluntary
contributions and ’.lie products of
the farm.
“Certainly no institution can show
a better or a happier set of boys than
are to be found in this asylum.” Such
is the language ot the last animal re
port,and all who visit there can readily
belcivo it.
Bov. James M. O'Brien is in charge.
Nino Sisters of tho Order of St.
Joseph have tiie entire care of the
children. They teacli and do tho
household work. And here I am
tempted to depart from this plain
recital ot facts to express unbounded
admiration for these noble women.
With what tenderness, patience and
utter abnegation of self they till tho
place of mothers lo these children I
need not here altest. Ladies of re
finement and education, and in somo
cases of fine worldly prospects and po
sition, they have discarded name ami
all else to give mind and heart wholly
lo tins work. Tiie success ol their
system of care and training goes
without saying. Tito result bore
speakes for itself.
The visitor to this Institution can
not but bo impressed with tho cheer
fulness, zeal and thorough devotion
lo duly of these Sistci's.
Under tho supervision of Father
O’Brien an Orphanage was built,
fio is a gentleman of fine character
and ability and of great popularity
among Protestants as well as Catho
lics. Hiscxecttlive and financiering
ability peculiarly fit him for this
charge. As the spiritual director of
these hoys and tho confidential advisor
of each one of them, his means of
studying and moulding their charac
ters arc übundunt. And this gitvo
weight to his statement to me thut
• hey were remarkably good boys.”
The system of education here is
lliorotignly practical. English branch
es nml mathematics only are taught.
For two days I attended tiie exami
tions. Tiie first day the primary
classes were examined. Several of
tiie little fellows wore frocks, and all
are cheorhil, healthy looking and
iietii. Four hours they passed through
the examinations with a proficiency
surprising to the visitors. The same
may be said of the older boys, who
were examined the next day. Of one
class we were told thoy know tho
arithmetic from one end to the other,
ami were invited to examine them at
will. These examinations demon
strated that the training had not been
superficial. I have never seen boys
pass an examination more successfully
Tliehealtbfulnoss ef the hoys and the
remarkably small number of deaths
during the entire history of tiie school
us stated above, show that tiie tasks
have not been too severe. It is stated
that no sickness has occured among
them (luring the past yeur serious
enough to require a physician.
As I looked at tho multitude of
bright faces, struck with tho thought
that each one of these little little boys
would go forth to battlo with tho
world an orphan, dependent upon his
own manful struggles, I fell also that
few hoys, witli ail Hie advantages that
wealth and happy homes could give
would ge forth so well prepared
morally, or at their ages mentally, to
meet tiie responsibilities of lifo. No
boys arc trained up with purer hearts
or better ideas. Beligion is instilled
into thorn at evory step, and to them
it presents nothing gloomy or forbid
ding. Asa talisman against all that
is hard and cyncical and corrupt they
carry into tho world memory of tho
good Sisters and their teachings.
Plenty of recreation is allowed them
here. During tiie vacation they are
given ample time for fishing and
roaming (he woods, and some of the
older and stronger boys work a part
ofthetimeon the farm.
I was particularly interested by the
very small children. Noticing a cou
ple of them, about two years old each,
embracing a Sister and running race*
for her amusement, I remarked to her
“They don’t scent to be in bad spir
its.” “No.”said the Sister, “The little
ones generally fret for the first two or
three days after they come, but after
that they forget everything else, and
are perfectly at home ami happy.” A
bow! of milk arrived about that timo
and the two orphans were soon ob
livious of all else.
Those.facts and impressions I have
given, feeling that they will interest a
large circle of readers and call atten
tion to an institution deserving gener
ous support, not only from those who
are in sympathy with its religious
character, but from all who recognize
in it as a groat charity and a nursery
of useful citizens.
I append a list of tho pupils who
received models at the examinations:
Jerry O'Mahoncy, of Savannah,
gold medal for good conduct; Den
nis Pomeroy, of Savannah, gold med
al for scholarship ; Johnny Kennedy,
of Savannah, gold medal for cate
chism ; Joe Clayton, of Augusta, sil
ver medal for drawing; John Bren
nan, of Savannah, silver medal for
advancement in study. A number
of otliers received book prizes.
VISITOR.
THE DISTRICT MEETING.
The district meeting tor tho Athens
district of tho Methodist church as
sembled here on Wednesday night.
Bev. J. D. Hammond, presiding ei
der, preached the opening sermon.
Tho business session convened yester
day tnoriii ng.
Bev. W. W. Wadsworth preached
at the morning hour and Bev. A. ,T.
Jarrell last night.
Bev. Warren Candler will preach
this morning and Bev. Mr. Beid of
Soo Cliovv, China, xviil preach to
night. The Woman's Missionary
Society will hold a session this after
noon.
The following citizens are enter
taining tho delegates who follow
their names. Other citizens are en
tertaining lady delegates, but wo
could not get list.
E. G. Biniis—Bov. J. J. N. Kenny,
S. I’. Kenny.
J. I’. Cozart—Bev. F. G. Hughes,
W. J. Comer.
W. I). Ellington—Bev. E. B. Bees,
Miller Willis.
I. T. Irvin—Bov. B. A. Seale, T. R.
Willis, L. W. Lattimor.
J. M. Caban—Bev. J. S. Embry
and son, W. T. Wills.
Titos. E. Fortson— W. F. Moore, J.
A. Haralson,.!. W. Boyd.
J. M. Wood—M. J. Whitehead, J.
W. Whitehead.
J. W. Black—Z. F. Stanton.
Bev.,J. W. G. Watkins—B.P. Dunn.
J. 11. Gilbert—A. A. Hamilton, J.
It. Stone.
J. T. Woollen at hotel—W. P.
Anderson.
B. L. Foreman—Cobb Lampkin.
11. O. Colley—J. B Allen, A. T.
Lyle.
J. AV. Chapmnn—Rey. AV. AV.
AVadsworth, J. 8. King.
Dr. Itu s —Rev. J. V. M. Morris,
D. 11. Gaulding.
11. P. Quin —Uov. E. D. Stone, J,
T. Aalre,
M. A. Pharr—A. J. AVages, T. D.
Gilliam, It. AV. Hell, Elbert Askew.
AV. 11. LaPrado—ltev. Jno. D.
Hammond and wile.
I!. 8. Irvin—Sim Hooker, Z. T.
AViilingham.
AV. AV. Simpson—F. P. Langford,
J. C. Jarrett, Geo. M. Gunby.
C. E. Irvin—J. AV. Jackson, B. It.
Mcltec, J. M. McKee, AV. T.\Osbornr|
AV. G. Cade—J. V. Andrew and
F. M. Tiller.
Kobt. S. Smith—Rev. L. AV.
Downs, Samuel N. Hunter.
Toombs Dußose—ltev. AVarrcn A.
Candler, Hcv. C. F. Itcid.
L. Smith—M. J. Mcltco, J. L. liar*
ris.
Gabriel Toombs—J AV Busby, Phil
lip Combs.
Robert Toombs—Jno. AVinter.AV.G-.
Tatom, Charles Combs.
T. B. Green —AValtcr Arnold.
C. E. AVinglield—K. I. M. Smith,
J. E. Glenn.
AV. M. Itcesc—Rev. E. G. Murrah,
r. B. Hollinshcad.
L. AV. .Sims—AV. U. Tuok, N. B.
Davis.
B. AV. Heard—Dr. Mcßce, AV. R.
Ellis.
For ale.
A good set of running gear, Gris*
wold gin and press for sale, cash, or
on time. C. E. Smith.
July 7th 1885. 27 1 m
Trespass Notloe.
All persons aro hereby forbidden to
hunt with dogs or guns or in any
other way trespass on my lands and
all offenders will be dealt with to the
full extent of the law.
204 t C. E. Florence.