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IMPURnXT KOTIl'K.
Notice i* hereby given that I have this
d» ; de-unsted the BAt.VBRIDrtE SkaKOH
LlOHT. a 'veekly uewspaper published
in Biiliibridge. Or.. as the medium for
the publication of all leiral advertise-
iuent« eminsting from the Sheriff', office
during the year 1001. Jan. 10th. 1001.
A. W. FORPHAM.Sheriff.
An exchange doubts if Jonah real
ly thought his wife would believe
the explanation of hi* absence,
“How to live a hundred years” is
the title of a pharuphlet now distrib
uted through tlie mails. If the ii -
Hiruotions strictly carried out enables
one to get on the pension lists it
would be successful in its mission.
That per diem of $10. is thought
to he the obstacle in the way of the
members of he Cuban convention
llmt impedes their progress in agree
ing to the Platt amendment. To
make haste s o . ly is both wise and
economical on their part.
Every true American heart, with
out regard to section or party, went
o it in sympathy to Mrs, MtKinly in
her late illness and to the President
in his hours of distress. In her im
provement they both receive sincere
c ingratulations from every part of
t"t* country.
Thu Spiritualist fad seems to he
fading under the new light of the
Christian Science fad. The latter
will in lime fade out of sight under
the light of the newest fad, the “New
Thought” religion. What the next
fad that is to befall the world baa
not yet been anno.meed.
Gov. and Mrs. A. D. Candler are
to chaperone a party of young lady
teachers and girl pupils of Fulton
County to the Buffalo exposition in
August, The party is to go under
the auspices of the Atlanta Journal
and will have all their expenses paid
by that enterprising paper. We have
not been informed whether a call on
Dr. Parkluirst is down on the pro-
i
grume.
Complaints are being filled with
t e Jacksonville Relief Committee to
the effect that rents are being raised
by landlords to an extortionate fig
ure and the committee lias appointed
Bish >p Weed to investigate the mat
ter ami report. The committee inti-
mates that it any such complaints he
well founded the landlords found
guilty will be properly punished and
the facts made public,
The lower house of the Florida
legislature has passed a hill toeslal-
lisli a State Whiskey dispensary svs
lein, the funds arising from the sales
to lie devoted to the improvement of
the public roads. It is thought that
the hill will pass the senate with as
little opposition as it met in the
house. Good roads iu Florida will
be more profitable to the people of
the state than are the bar rooms.
Pennsylvania has made it plain
that she is not above ind lgiug in a
lynching bee. A mob in the Key-
stale did its best the other night to
stain its hands with the blood of a
negro who had committed a murder.
It battered down the walls of a jail
with a telephone pole, and obtained
a dear view «f the intended victim,
but the business-like muzzle of the
sheriff’s revolver acted as an effective
deterrent on the mob leaders, and
they retired precipitately. About
the only difference between lynching
parties uorth and south is that the
fonin r seldom carry out their plans,
a id l c latter usually do.—Albany
Herald.
|, ,, H | y«II.UIXI> is this * ot.\ ‘ '•
The Dairy industry is being rapid
ly developed in the Fowltown and
Attap.ilgus sections of t.us—Decatur
county. This valuable resource
has been there all the while, but no
effort has ever been made to develop
it until withiu.it few years past. Now
there Is scarcely a farmer who does
not have dairy products to sell.
Mr. Maston H Duke is a small
farmer, near Faeeville, in the Fowl-
town section. He was in town last
week, and requested the writer to
give him the names of a number of
Apalachicola merchants to w hom he
desired to ship butter. We asked
him why he did not sell this product
right here in Balnhrulge? He an
swered that he made too much todis
nose of here. “How much do you
make?” was our question. His an
swer was: “Two hundred pounds a
week.” Ami upon inquiry we learned
that a number of farmers in that sec
tion produced more per week than
he. There are several thousand
pounds of delicious butter shipped
out of this county every week, and it
adds greatly to the prosperity of the
farmer.
The Fowltown and Attapnlgus
section of Decatur county is one of
the most beautiful and fertile regions
iu nil this fair land. Its magnificent
hills— almost mountains—loom up
against the blue sky a glorious pic
ture; while the lovely valleys, per
forated by perling streams, and cov
ered with the richest verdure, present
scenes long to be remembered. The
soil will produce anything. The
grasses grow there in all their glory,
i euoe it is the finest cattle county
in tile State. And the farmers have
improved the hived of their cattle,
and but tew are not slocked with the
Jersey and other fine breed.
Verily, old Decatur is the garden
spot o£Georgia; and Bainbridge is
the growing, enterprising and beau
tiful capital city of this God-favored
county.
KII.I.IXJ (JH.VSS.
Daring the present month and the
next, more agricultural wealth will
be destroyed on the farms in Decatur
county than the yalue of the whole
cotton crop within its bounds. This
may to some seem an extravagant
statement, but it is the whole truth.
The killing of grass is not only a loss
in Itself but the process entails an
enormous expense on the farmers en
gaged m the work. Suppose all the
grass that is destroyed iu these tw o
mouths by the farmers in this county
in the cultivation ot cotton were eco
nomically cured, harvested, put into
merchantable bales ind immediately
converted into money as its va'ue de
mands on the markets every day of
the year; or converted into beef or
butter—the equivoleul of cash al
ways and everywhere—w’lint would
be the result as compared with what
we now see? .
Some might answer that there is
no market for these products and
that cotton is the only thing that
comm aids money at home.
Iu the experience of many of ovr
most progressive and successful farm
ers, those who are making money by
farming, this is not true. There is
more money paid for Western hay
shipped to this county every year
thltn the value ot the cotton crop, and
the demand for more bay grows every
year. A load ot good hay baled can
be sold any day ns readily as a load
of baled cotton. As for beef and
butter, the genuine articles, not such
stuff as we often see offered on the
market, are always staples and will
make a market for themselves any
where.
It is more profitable to cultivate
grass than to kill it.
The famous Park mandamus suit
was taken up iu the Supreme Court
Thursday morning and a decision
will be reudered iu about ten day-.
tun Ol’i'UBrtXITV IS WAITIXG TO
MtliTTHE SIAM.
There is perfect independence, if
not large fortune, in an industry that
we will point out right here. It is
market gardening and poultry farm
ing. Land is cheap near this city,
and a few acre* would be all that is
necessary. Would the products of
this enterprise sell? Yes, Indeed;
there is hardly anything raised on a
farm or in a garden that does not
find a ready and profitable sale right
here in Bainbridge; which thriving
city has a large and rapidly increas
ing population of working men who
make money and must be fed.
For instance, the only man tn the
county who makes anv pretense of
market, gardening is Mr. Glisson, of
Faeeville, 12 miles away. His gar
den is not extensive, yet he manages
to sell $40 to $50 worth of vegeta
bles a week in Bainbridge. If there
is not big money in this resource it
fully developed, we are no prophet,
and will forever after hold our peace.
And the po iltry farm. This is the
bonanza. More money in it than in
all the gold fields <ft the Klondike.
Do you doubt it, gentle Annie; then
be convinced. Did yon know that
the egg eiop of the United Slates
is worth considerably more than
our boasted cotton crop, even at 10
■ants a pound? Did you further
know that po >try, and its products,
is worth nearly double as much as
the cotton crop.
There is always a market for these
products In Baiubridge at profitable
prices. Chickens are selling iu this
market now at 40 cents each, and
scarce at that. The poultry farmer
lias a field here that cannot be crowd
ed. Our big hotels will always keep
the price up to a healthy figure.
The opportunity is here waiting to
meet the man or men!
The following utterance of Dr.
Lvman Abbott, Brooklyn preacher
and New York editor, must have
been aimed at Parkhurst and Ogden:
•‘The foutlierner has less prejudice
against the negro and more interest
m his welfare than the Northerner
has; he desires the negroes education
out believes that whatever it may
become in the future, it should now
ne industrial rather than literary;
the South lias spent on the negro’s
education between three and four
times as much in school taxes as the
North lias speut in contributions; the
work of the North amoug the negroes
should be carried ou lu fellowship
with the Southern whites, not in an
tagonism to them; to attempt to
force either political or social equal
ity is to inflict incalculable tujury ou
the negro and on the nation. In a
word, the Northerner should'* recog
uize the fact that the Southern while
man now wishes to befrieud the ne
gro; but the negro should recognize
the fact that lie has yet to earn tne
Southern while* men’s respect.”—
Atlanta Journal.
The Southern white man not now
but always has been the negroe’s
best friend « hiob fact the negro has
not to learn. It seems impossible
for this idea to enter the cranium of
the aveiage Northern man. With
out the ignorant interference of peo
pie who cannot understand the pecu
liar relations existing between the
negro and his Southern while peopU
there could be no such thing as a
uegio problem.
Baiubridge is tiie coming winter
resort of the South. Her two big
hotels, tiie Waiuman and Bon Aire,
will turn the drift of travel to our
city; and witliiu a year or two there
will be a grand wiuter hotel of 200
rooms erected on the site of old Fort
.Hughes, on that 75 foot bluff oyer-
llooking the Thronaieska river. It
j will certainly be built. It would not
; surprise us if the job were undertaken
by J. P. Williams, H. M. Flagler or
the Plant System. It will be the
grandest hotel in the South.
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if I Shirt waists 30c. 40c, 60c. flOc. $1.00. $1.20; Ladies Black " tVor
W Skirts 90c, 09c,$1.20. $1.50, $1.95. $3.35; Silk Skirts $4.50, a*korted'i»|
lit] Fancy Brocades; Black Crepon Skirts, $4.50; Brocaded Satm Skirt* I
$7.00; Fancy yard wide Percales in the hest makes at 9c peryaird. wortfl
fully 124r India Linen 54c. 7c. Be. 15c. 20c, 25c. 30c per vard; L»'wn
Dimmities 8c. 10c. 15c per yard; Slippers 75c, 95c, $2.00; Spelpisl gjl
gains in Notions; Suspenders 8c; 12 yards of Lace. 5c; Cologne 15c, j^i
15c; Ladies Hose Oc, 8c, 10c. 12c. 15c, 20c. a pair; 24 sheets note miapo^ *
3 Bars Sweet Soap 5c; 5 Cigars for 5c; a good umbrella 43c; 5 wapersof
pins 5c; 5 papers needles 5c; 12 safety pins Sc; Men’s Oil Grain f
Shoes $1.10; Lace Pillow Shams 19c. Everything sold cheap afl
lew York Racket Sim
WATER STREET,
BAINBRIDGE, GEORGIA.
W. S. W1THAM, PmllMI. J. D. HARRKLI., V. Pre.’i. R. «. II ARTSVIKI.n. r»
People’s Bank of BaiiM;
Duly Chrtered Er.c er tne laws of Georgia;
: CAPITAL 125,000.00. :
W. 8, W’itham, John D. Harrell, It. G. HartsfieM,
Directors: Dr. J. D. Chason, James A. Reid, A. B. Belcher,
H. C. Draper.
Aocouxits of corporations, Firms
individuals solicited.
BRACKIN & COMPANY.
Livery And Transfer Stables,
Broad
Street
Busses meet all trains and transfer passengers promptly to any|i
lion of the city. First class teams and trusty drivers.
GALL AT OUR STABLES—PHONE 66.
Brackin & Co.
r uausBJwamammtM
I. E. BRHZHKD,
Columbus.
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i I oise and Mule Shoes, Paints, Oils, Glass, Brushes
Doors and Blinds, in fact anything you need for building f
,>oses or in a Blacksmith Shop.
fake advantage of the low freight rates [bn the n J
write me and let me give you prices.
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