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The Search-Light. $. m mmi Great Entered at the V<«t Ojftce at BaiiJrrulg On., at newnil-eiu-n miitter. IMIMHT.wr Mil'll K. K'ltice is hereby given that I iiuve■ hi* d i .• designated the BAINBItlPHfe HkAUCH Liuut, a weekly uewspaper pul fished in H.uubridgie, Ga . a* the medium for the public (tom of nil legal advertise ment* emiutting from the Sheriff * office during the year 1001. Jan 10th. 1001 A. W. F0IU*3AM. Sheriff. Tiio Chinese indemnities for war expenses, exclusive of the claims of private individuals ami missions) are said to he fixed as follows: Russia $1)0,000,000; France, ft) 7,000,0')0; (ienn'iiy, $00,000,000; England, $22,500,000. State Treasure 1- U. E. Park has notified Commissioner of Pensions .1. M. LinHey, that there is no money to pay the new cl.ms of widows’ pensions, find it is very doubtful if the condition of the treasury will wariant any payment to them this year. • All the steamers ply mg the Flint and Chattahoochee rivers have pooled their interests and will hereafter work under the name of the Col tu- biiB Steamboat Association. The steamers entering the pool are the M. \V. Kelly, \V. C. Bradley, Queen Ciiy, J. W. Hires ami the Naiad. The recent discoveries of oil in T> x is in quantities claimed to he in- exliaustible, s em to promise a revo lution in man .fiiulnring. Thousands of barrels have been slopped to the luautiftieturing eities of England and jibe great questions of military con Never before in the history of ibis country has there been sueli a remarkable condition oi prosperity. How long it is to last is the question, and in answering it the consideration of the conditions that have brought about this happy state ot affairs should be taken in view. Taking an npttroiHlic. view of the sit ation* 'VC sec that conditions exist now unlike any that have preceded them. Instead • d being as heretofore, a borrowing nation we are now above all others, lhe great money loaning, nation of the world. Our exports largely ex ceed our imports, while in the past the latter largely surpassed the former, the result being depression and hard tunes. With the conditions reversed, the year 1900 showed a balance in our favor of about six-hundred and fort,' nine millions of dollars an almost in conceivable amount. To give one an idea of how our wealth lias been piling up for the past year or two, after paying to European countries all we want of the lux ries from them the American nation has been laying up at the rate of fifty tour million dollars a mouth, thiructi millions a week, nearly two millions a day and about eighty thousand an hour. Every time the minute hand moves, a “sur plus reserve” of one thousand three hundred is planed to the ereidit of Uncle Sam on the hooks of the com mercial world, after paying all ot his own obligations to them This wonderful commercial growth is opening the eves of the great com mercial nations of the old world and is of more importance to them than Fifteen Thousand Foliar Stock of Frogs. Medicines and Sun - driesTo e Sacrificed. BELOW COST. ON ACCOUNT OF f L HEALTH. 1 am forced to give up all buti..ess at the earliest day practicable. lean hard- P, hope to sell the business as it 6tands. But will from this day on reduce the stock tin it comes witliiu reach of some druggist who wants it. It will then be closed out in a lump, furniture and all. 1 iil closed out or till further notice I will sell as follows: C-n., l||| Shirt waists 30c. 40c. BOc. COc. $1.00, $1.20; Ladies Black Worsts] j rjj Skirts 00c. 93c. $1 20. $1.50, $1.93,@2.85; Mlk Sturts $4.00. assorted ill Fancy Brocades; Black Crepon Skirts. $4.50; Brocaded Satin Ski^ ■jill $7.(JO; Fancy yard wide Percales in the Lest makes at 9c per yard. ,lil fully 12ir India Linen 5*0. 7c. Pc. 15c. 20c, 25c. 30c per yard; Lawn "'"fftl 5c III Dimmities 8c. 10c. 18c per yard; Slippers 75c, Doc, $2.00; special ill gams in Notions; Suspenders 8c; 12 yards of Lace. 5c; Cologne 5c, JlLl Joe; Ladies Hose 0c. 8c, 10c. 12c. 15c, 20c,a pair; 2-1 sheets note paper PI 3 Bars Sweet Soap 5c; 5 Cigars for 5c; a good umbrella 43c; 5 papei So t' po pins 5c: 5 p IT] s 41 Si ST tl ! fa oilier manufacturing eenires of Eu-j tests in which they arc always con- rope where, for sometime past, they corned. Reunitly Lord Rosebury have been threatened with an ex haustion of coal lor fuel. If it proves tv* he as good as claimed for fuel purposes, its cheapness will solve the gave expression to his alarm in the following words. The war we fear is not a military war. The war I regard with apprehension is the war fuel q icstion throughout the muiiu- of trade which is unmistakably upon factaring world. Twenty years ago there were less than 1$0 textile mills south of tlio J’otouiuo river and they were all small affairs. The lu-i census will show SIR) cotton factories in tbo southern states. Lcsiden these, tlie woolen mills furniture factories, to bacco factories, stove and plow works and industrial plants of every description mo springing up like magic throughout the South. The town and community that neglects its own inteiesls in failing to estab lish some of these enterprises will us. America and Germany are our antagonists. The alertness of the Americans, their incalculable nntuial resources, their acuteness, their enter prise, their vast population, which will perhaps in twenty years he one hundred millions, make . them very formidable competitors.” | From main other directions in Europe eoiue like expressions of alarm in view of the known fact that commerce rules the world and is its most potent factor in the promotion of civilization. | Besides the great strides made by America in commercial conquests, no surely he left behind iu the raoe of n. 8(( |, a8 been her progress towards progress and wealth. supremacy in manufacturing goods ! for the nations of the world. In many important articles, America today is fixing the prices for tile bal ance of the world, and is moving I from its former position as an agri- . . | cultural to the leading industrial na- riug monuments to their memory, 1 f , , , r ,, ■ lion of the world. In view of all these facts, the tortuito .s conditions that have fallen to our country, there is every reason to expect a eoutinu- The Savannah News, Commenting on the opportunity presented to mill- iuaire philanthropists for establish ing scientific experimental farms as the most practical way to hnild en- d sav s: Ten thousand more scientific far mers in Georgia would add itiiui- nse- ly to the agricultural wealth of the Absorbent Cotton. 2 oz. for .. Just half my regular price. BLUSHES Hair Brushes Tooth Brush es, til roe Brushes, Flush Brushes. Shav ing Brushes. Complexion Brushes. Nah Brushes, Cloth Brushes, 40 per cent, oft . This is the largest and finest stock of brushes ever seen ia Bainbridge, and the prices are away below prime New York cost. Brown’: Iron Bitters, $1.00siz-J .... 00o Blank Books 40 per cent, oft Black Draught, 2 packages 25c Combs—Mammoth stock,40 percent, oft Chamois Skins .-*0 per cent, oft' Chamberlain’s Cough Cure 25 size.. .15c Chamberlain’s Fain Balm, 25 sizt ....15c Capsules, empty, 100 in each box, 3 boxes ’-Oc D_.es—Diamond Dyes, each 5c German Dyes, each 5c Dull ill's Cue ..riuute Cough Cure, 25 size 15c De’W itts Kodol, 50 size 30c UeWitt’b liodol $10J size ,....UUo Fever Thermometers 1’rices cut bad' in two. Face Powder, all kinds, Prices cut half in two. Class Syringes 40 per cent off Har.er's Iron Tonic. $1.00 size GOo Holme's Mouth Wash, $1 00 size 40c Holme’s Mouth Wash, 25o size .. ..13c Hypodermic Syringe.- and Hypodermic! Needies Prices cut half iu two I Isiug.aSa Sticking Plaster, 3 packages. . Dc | i-iugiaos Sticking Plaster, per y ard. 30c King's Royal Cermaleur. $1,00 size 30c LcLeun'b Strengthening Cor.da., 00c size 30o McLean’s Streu^liieiilng Cordial, -;T.0O size 55o Mu.ted Milk, $1 00 size 00c Mailed mirk, OUcsize 35c \ Milk Food, Waiupoie'b, 50o size .. 33c' Milk Food, Wampole's, $1.00size . , 05c 1 Medicine Droppers, each lc ' Playing Cards—Fashion p'ayiug cards huest linen, per dock 25c Bicycle Cards, per deck J5c Star back Steamboat Cards, per dock 3c j Pt-runa, $1.00 size ,G8c | ! Piukliaui s Compound, $1.00 size.. 71c Patent -Uedicii.es not otherwise priced, 0 per cent, below wholesale list. | ^ PAPER -F ine Box Paper, Polite Corres- poudece Papea, Piuu Paper, Writing Tablets, and Envelopes, Mourning Pa- per, Visiting Cards.... 40 per cent, oft <$]»; PENCILS—Slate Pencils, tire best soap stone, per 100 8c Plaiu L.ead Pencils, 2 dozen for . . ,5c «?o> Lead Peucil, rubber inserted 1 doz oo pins oc: o papers needles 5c: 12 safety pins 3c; Men's Oi. Grain C'on^re Shoes $1.10; Lace Pillow Shams 19c.' Everything sold cheap at tbs WATER STREET, BAINBRIDGE, GEOkGlA. W. S. WITH AM, l’roMuent. J. D. HAHHU.M., V. Pi-tVl. It. U. IIARTSPIELI), c, Fuly Chartered Under tne laws of Georgi. CAPITAL §25.833.08. Firectcrs: W. S. VVitham, John D. Hamdl, It. G. IlartsHeM, Dr. J. I). CliuBon, James A. Reid, A. B. Belcher, II. U. Draper. tgr Aoco-u.ra.ts of corporations, 2rirna.g i individuals solicited. f-'-NS m Livery And "Broad. rrt ransfer Stables, Street! Busses meet all trains and transfer passengers promptly to run | tior. of the city. First class teams and trusty drivers. CALL AT OUR STABLES—PHONE 66. Brackin & Co. D. T. SUTHERLAND, 0 Machinist. Iron and Brass Founder, BAINBRIDGE, GEORGIA. , *;<s Ic state. Tneru would soon he few j anoe-of our prosperity as a nation in plantations wlu-re two acres were re- even it larger measure than we see at q tired to produce one bale of cotton. We should stop importing eggs and butler and cheese and po llry from other slates. Our beef, mutton and pork would he home products. We should grow o r own hroomuorii and in.ikoo.ro n brooms, and so on. Increased opportunities for the study ot tin* sciences of the farm would he, unq lestionably, a benefaction not only to the you g men hut to the country, and we hope Secretary Wil son will lie sue present. i iil lie suceessf l some broadminded pliil.-inphiopists to p it some some of their millions into experimental farms. In that manner they could build monuments t» themselves that would tie quite as enduring tno possibly more bene ficial than tlie “Carnegie Libraries.” i L G 11 Dillard, Bainbridge, Ga., does first-class carpenter work, and for the lowest o:.s!i figure. He furnishes <s- tlmutes cheer!ally ami ex cuteR his work neatly. Give him a trial. The Osage Indians of Oklohoma, are said to he the richest people iu the world. The annual income to these people from the rents of their pasture lands alone makes them im mensely wealthy, not including the $8,000,000 in the United.Slates treasury which brings them an an inducing ] nual in :ome of $-100,000. The value ol their land holdings amounts to $7,850,875. Each member of the the tribe, counting men, women and children has an annual income of $604 25. They raise all their food stuffs and imtuh grain for the mar ket. The realty holdings of the tribe hare a per capita valuation of $3,987. There is no other race of people in the world that can make such a j showing. Faber's Best Carpenter’s pencil 3 for 5c Faber's Commercial No. 2, the best #3 iu the world, 8 for.. 5o %% Pea Holders—Plain, 2 d >zeu for. ... 5c Pen Hold rs—-.Polished .'well, each . PILLS—Coinpouud Cathartic Pills, 25 pills iu a bo: tie, 8 bottles tor 10c Indian Uoot Pilis, per box 16c All other 23c pateut pills per box . 14c Porous i'iaslers, ad kinds. 8 for 2oo i KL BUE.it GOuD-'j—luciuding Bulb Syr-1 ingea, Fountain Syringes. Hot Water i Bottles, Kuober sheeting, atomizers, 40 per ceut. oft. Soap—Turkish bull. 2 cakes for oc \ Sponges 40 per cent, off sEt-'D —Cabnage Seed, per ounce Collat'd Seed. 4 ouuoe-, r,»r . ... 1 ut-i.ip and Rutabaga seed, 4 oz for 5c i Seidiiiz Powders, 2 lor Swamp Uoot, 50c size Swamp do'it, $1.00 size 07c Shoulder Braces . Pi ices cut halt in two Stuarts Dyspepsia Tablets. $1.00 size, 78c St.-.art's Dyspepsia T..b.et», 50c size, 34c 1 oilet Paper, 8 packages lor !...25o Williams Shaving Soap, per ib ... 25c U eoster s B.t.e back Spellers, 3 for.. 10c \V me ot Cardiu, v-1 00 .-ize GTc Large dealer in new and second-hand machinery. Mauufactmerof | Grate Bars. Sash Weights, Saw Milll and all castings in iron and brass. Having a large and modern plant can do good and prompt work. Carrries a large stock of Babbit. Valves, Pipe 'Fittiungs, Lubriea tors, lnjuctors, and a full line of Mill supplies. ’ o y s'Nf? ® (Sfs: 3 ~o;C;'6;;y rTc-rr'c/ts VVVV Vy oi’u'S-/, c-i o' O' 6 0.0 o ^ x c d THE BE PBESCH PM & 3EEAS 01 ^ _Head Office: ST. LOUIS MO.- 5c Branch Houses at Nashville, Tenn., 1 Julias, Tex., Binnin^h' 11 Ala., Montgomery, Ala. MANUFACTURERS OF THE STAR, JESSE FRENCH, AND*RIC’HMOND PIA> T()I ALSO SOUTHERN AND WESTERN AGENTS FOR Til FAMOUS STEIN WAY, IvNABE, VOSE & SONS, REMIX* TON AND CllICKERING PIANOS. Other items will be added to the abov e list from time to tin.e tin the store u closed out. rnisattractivesaleis liab.e to be brought to a stop at any time by the appearance on the scene of a purchaser for the whole stock. Mv regular full prices will be charged iu redeeming re bate checks. R- X-D H103S13. BAINBK.DGE, GA. All i BES L ORGANS ON EARTH. Terms reasonable. Struments fully guarautt-f<l. i.-- Io BLEDSOE Coxxcra.1 A.goxx-b Donalscnville, Ga BOB’ L. Z. BRIDGES. Practicing Physician, BRINSON, - - GEORGIA. . Ail calls promptly attended. . . L. TOWNSEND. G. F- WKSTMOP.K^ T0\YXKEi\‘D tv HESTSifHELAl Axtoexeys-at-Laav, Bainbridge, Geor .ol.icriil&T *Pa«NT