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The Search-Light.
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KnUrttl at the Po*> 0;Hee at Batuhridg
On., asmatter.
IM!VKT-t!»T HOTICR.
N"tie<? i- hereby irhen that I have this
d.< • de-iitlittcd III,} H \rVBKltM.2 .StCAROH
LtotlT. h weekly neWHimper published
ii> liuiiliridjfH Gh . «s the medium fot
the pulilicati m of all le^al u Iverli-e-
iiieutd euiiijiiliug from the Sheriff'soffice
during the year 1001. dun. 10th. 1001.
A. W. FORDHUM Sheriff
Tlte shirtwaist for men Poems to
l»e auitaliiig some of our neighbors.
Why should not the dbirtsleevo an
swer the demands ? One is about
us tltgmttod as the o.hor when fash
ion utters her decree.
The recent rams have suspended
the vagrant law, as the blackberry
erc>|i is sate and all of our citizens
wi bout regard to race, color or pre
vious conditions of servitude, will
have a visible means of support.
A TVVCHIIU THIUl'Tti.
Daniel Grant, the old colored sex
ton of the Independent Presbyterian
Church of Savannah, who had held
his [tosiliou so long and faithfully
that his fnee had become mdentiBed
in the minds of the people'of Savan
nah with the stately edifice ^hat was
his special pride, died some time
ago.
PAY THE TRACHKHS.
While the lawyers, and the courts
are making haste slowly the teachers
of the state are paying out money to
get their orders cashed.
Treasurer Park seems to he unduly
cautious about his responsibility to
his bondsmen, and it will now take a
decision of the supreme court to sat
isfy him. If his bill of exceptions
before a
Hy the children of the Sunday follows the usual course,
School he was greatly beloved and decision is reached by the supreme
he returned this affection with a fevor court it will be a long and costly
characteristic of the negro race and delav for those who have to wait on
of the old regime of which be and
his kind had been an essential part.
On the occasion of the celebration of
it to get their salaries.
One consolation, however, is left
to the teachers, and that is that
the ninety-seventh anniversary of hereafter the question of using the
that clmrche’s Sunday School, Dr. funds in the treasury for paying
Fain the pastor, in his address, paid them will be settled,
a lender tribute to the memory of. If the Supreme court should sus-
the old sexton, iu connection with \ tain Treasurer Park’s exceptions,
the kind providence that had protec* j which seems now extremely doubt-
ted its officers and pupils' from the ■ fu), the legislature should provide
grim reaper, in these words: some way by which the state can
“But lie has been among us and ( meet ns obligations lo the teachers
taken'away Daniel Grant. Our faith- just the same as it would do if any
fill old sexton is dead. How he loved other class of its servants had to be
us all! What a loss was oars when [provided for,
he was called away! How we miss
Ins kludly face, as it shone upon ns,
each time we assembled here, from
the door of the clurcli!
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Shut waists 80c. 40c, 50c, 80c. $1 .Of). £1.00; Ladies Black \\-Z*
Skirts OOc. 9Sc;$t 80. $1.6 h $1 05 §2.35; Silk Skirts §4.50, Rssottfjj
Fancy Brocades; Black Crepnn Skills, §4.50; Brocaded Satin Sb
$7.00; Fancy yard wide Penales in the best makes at 0c per yard «
fully 124r India Linen 54c. 7o. 0c. 15c. 20c,25c. 30c per yard; Lawn
Dimmities 8c. 10c. 15c per yard; Slipper® 75c. 85c, $2 00; Special ]
gams in Notions; Suspenders 8c; 12 yards of Lace, 5u; Cologne 5 e »■
loc; Ladies H.,se5c. 8c, 10c. 12c. 15c, 20o,a pair; 24sheets notepnpJ
3 Bars Sweet Soap 5o; 5 Cigars for 5c; a good ut^hrella 43c; 5 p llf , es j
pins 5c; 5 papers needles 5c: 12 safety pins 3c; Men's Oi. Grain Cum
Shoes $1.10; Lace Pillow Shams 19c; Everything told cheap at the
Senator McLauriu’s effort to get
the appointment of Gm. Wade
Hampton for the Columbia pualofllce
bus caused a stir among the South
Carolina newspapers. Thev charge
the undertaking as an effort lo buy
llic old gem ral, on the part of Sena
tor M Liuria for the Republican ad -
ministration. Gen. Wade Hampton - . , , • „
will never be bought, whether Mio ly sanctuary, so we shall see him negro and ovyns up to it.^
again before the gate of the celestial
city, not made with hands, and
reunited with him there.”
Among the memorial offering*,
WATER STREET,
BAINBRIDGE, GKOItGlA 1
A Cl)LOilKI) PAXTOIl O.V 1)11. IW JiHlilHST
The Rev. S. Geriah Lampkius, pas
tor of the Tenth street Baptist church
“He is gone, but I have the sweet ( <: °E>) A\ agliington, D. C., in bis
hope that we shall see him again;
that just as we used to see him,
standing in the doorwav of this earth
\V. S. WITHAM, Prrsliiem. .1. D. HtBRKU. V. Prri,’,. H. <i.JI.\RTSt;iELL> J
last Sunday’s sermon took Dr. Park'
hurst to task for his statement that
“the southern white man dislikes the
Columbia por,[office be given him or
not.
1 ’rot. A. L. Metz, of Tulane Uni-
vi isity, New Orleans, after experi-
iiivuting with liquid air, has discov
ered a process by wlnoh air can bo
in oi, into a solid substance. Prof.
Met/, thinks it will be made useful in
many practical ways
i in
Tv,
The colored paste- made use of the
lj t . following language:
“The southern people like the ne- j
gro for several reasons. The great
, . , , majority of the southern negroes are
lu.d around the great cross ol while t.ahfuf servants, and. there is an in-
roses that, was planted at the foot of ( suiictl in the human breast which
the pulpit, was a wreath'of roses to compels admiration of faithfulness,
the memory of Daniel Grant. The j Tl, e southern people can never forget j
I the true devotion of their servants, 1
who tilled their soil and guarded j
; their liona-s and protected their w ive» !
Duly Chrtered l‘rc< r tee laws of Georgia.
CAPITAL S25,000.00. :
children that placed u, tliere, in
W. 8. Witham, John D. Harrell, R, G. Hansh’eld,
Directors: Dr. J. D. Cliason, .James A. Reid, A. B. Belcher,
II. (J. Draper.
lislufcctiun and explosives, j negro, around whom some of thetr j rtu d daughters during the lauTrebelb j ZW ACCOUI^tS Of OOrpor&’tioaS, SPin^lS I
individuals solicited.
solid
air
mi lls much more own sweetest and tenderest memories
slowly than licpiid air eva'poratia clustered,
and therefore will stand greater
expos .re than the latter.
Rebel trains and boats have been
pouring into .1 u’.hsonville this week
to teiieve the distress and hunger of
11 if homeless. A commissary has
buen established in the center of the
city and thousands ,oro being fed.
Kwry train coming into the city
adds to the relief fund and every
mail brings offers ul' assistance from
ev.rv'i art, i' Truly the American
people Hie great w hen it conies to
dispensing charily to the suffering.
Minister Conger, who lias recently
retr,rued Horn Chinn, says the pow
ers will not demand indemnities
which China will he physically un
able to pay, I ,.t, there is a proba
bility that some nation will demand
tunitory iu le u of money. If ihis
is done the partition of (llitna will
follow which will result in dissen
sions among the powers lie denies
t at there are any serious differen
ces between Russia and Japan. Mr.
Conger also denies emphatically the
tbs .ml uiori's legardiug the looting
by the in.smoii.tries.
Mayor R. wden, of Jacksonville,
warns people from coming to that city
at the | rest nl t me. The coming
of so many people into town h t from
motive of m, re curiosity bus added
greatly lo the bin den of the relief
committee as they Lave to he provid
ed for as weil a i those left destitute
and Homeless by the lire. lie begs
that those who have nobisiness save
that of mo,b.d cniiisity will refrain
from con.mg. On iug to the broken
in mis and sew . i pipes there is no w a
ter to 11 sh closets and the sanitary
<•'111110'. ot >. city are already in a
" . I'M . 1 eo.eliti, M. uless
Mi' ■ V .1 . 'ir . .1 h. . ff cud,
ion when thev went to war.
Iu a recent issue of the Atlanta
“A tidy, self-respecting, indcstri-
o s, and honest negro is i.ot disliked
by white people anywhere. Out
breaks among the rablde go for noth
ing ns an expression of public seuti-
in a write up of Baiubndge as it is nient. A mob in South Carolina or
today, portrays its beauties and ad- j Georgia no more represents either of
vantages in a manner that does the! di : *e slates than a mob in New York
town good and which we hope will i '* n l*w*»*«> v * ot ' the -etitiment of
add much to the future anveiiceuient
thereof. Mr. Blackburn in the main
gels things rignt, but does the
S<5Alum Light an injustice by repie-
seuting the Biiinhriuge Democrat as
the Official Organ of Decatur county.
We are uot aware of tlm motive of
Mr. Blackburn’s informant in thus
misrepresenting matters. The Search
Linin' is the official organ of both the
city of Bambridge and the uoitnly of
Decatur. Everybody in this section
the metropolis.”
Livery And Transfer Stable
Broad - - R
The following from the Savannah
News is a seedy comedy on the ag-
rienltura! department: “Funny let
ters are being received in Washing
ton respecting the seeds sent out by
congressmen under the governmental
free seed distribution. In many in
stances seed supposed to produce
poppies have given good stands of
mustard, while other packages with
001
Busses meet all trains and transfer passengers promptly to any]
lion of the city, First class teams and trustv drivers.
CALL AT OUR STABLES—PHONE 56.
names oi flowers on them have pro-
kuows tins and therefore Mr. Black-1 dlHjed difi . retU vegetableB> 0ne
centraly istitueut who wished to have a (lower
bed bordered with poppies put the
government seed and now has a nice
bed of young cabbage plants iu his
front garden. Another constituent
b an’s statement to the
could uot materially effect i.s locally,
but for the sake of placing the mat
ter correctly before the press of
Georgia, wo desire to make this'eor
ruction. We have no complaints to
make and nothing to say fur.her
than that Mr. Blackburn’s informant
must have been grossly ignorant of
tlie facts til the case or else did not y (| , u .
trouble himself to stale the truth
he knew it.
It seems that Mis
who thought he was getting a variety
of select and rare Japanese seeds
finds himself in possession of a mixed
lot of okra, tomatoes, collards and
clocks, all from the same
p ickage.
McKinley with his
Carrie Na-1 reached El- l’aso, Texas, last
m D. T. SUTHERLAND,
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tl Machinist, Iron and Brass F««
|| BAINBRIDGE, GEORGIA.
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i-c; Large dealer in new and second-hand machinery. .Mmufaetuierofj
S5! Grate Bars. Sash Weights, Saw Mill! and all castings in iron and bms-.
fl Having a large and modern plant can do good and p: : r work.
fS Carnies a large stock of Babbit. Valves, Pipe Fi'tk.ifgs, Luluica-J
if tors, Iiijuctovs; and a full line of Mill supplies.
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lion’s raids out west have begun to
bear good fr. it any way. The Kan
sas City saloons wt re closed tight
last Sunday for the first lime in six
years, and the city experienced the
quietest Sun lav for a long time as a
res ill. Amass meet ng* under the
i.uspices <f the Ltw Enforcement
Leagu- 1 , attended by 5l ; U men, was
held and strong re, o'.u.ions commend
ing the mayor and police comtnis
sioners for their action, were adopted,
j A committee was appointed to secure
(evidence a J -lust saloon kicpvrs win
fail to observe the lew lv msas (..’.t
is to be eouy«tiibit.-il on t- e f a-
that that tin re is an liilm-s-t x .tiiii
, her bor-lers in favor ol jio.-et u>
the u ""1 order and morals ,>r , s
• ."id...
Monday and expected to shake the
hand of President Diaz across the
border, but the Mexican president
could not leave his capital aud sent
a personal message by Gen. Juan
Hernandez, conveying his good
wishes to the chief magistrate of the
United States. After a due exchange
of courtesies, President McKinley
requested Gen. Hernandez to convey
to President Diaz his personal good
wishes for his health and happiness
and a continuation of t'le cordial re
lations at pr -sent existing between
the 1 u o co ui 1 .e-.
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,^-Head Office: ST. LOUIS 110.-
Branch Houses at Nashville, Tcnn , Dallas, T. ::., Binning
Ala., Montgomery, Ala.
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BKST ORGANS ON EARTH. Terms n Me. A
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