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S1.00 PER ANNUM. TIFTON, BERRIEN COUNTY, GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING, MAY 13, 1892. VOL. 2-NO. 5. ■i- to be Annual County held at 10TH ANNUAL CELEBRATION OF THE WORTH COUNTY SUNDAY- SCHOOL ASSOCIATION. Mnce Attendance—Memorable OccmIoh— Htlrrlng Adtlrettseg—Cheering lleporta—^ Thu J’rJxe Content, Etc. Ab lias banu “ye editor’s” for several years iu went up to Poulan Iasi in attendance on the| Celebration of tue Sunday-school Ai their tabernacle. The special train was somewhat delayed and caused him to be rather late in arriving, but when he did get there "he found that an immense throng of people had already gather ed and the preliminary or opening exeroises were over. The three most prominent officers of the State Association were present by invitation—President J. W. Wheatley, of Americus; Secretary Lott Warren, also of Americus; ■ Chairman of the Executive Commit teo R. B. Reppard, of Savannah— and the first thing we did was to eit down quietly and listen to a solid, bnt none the less entertaining, ad' dress by Prciedent Wheatiy. He was followed by Mr. Joe S. Davis, the efficient superintendent of the Albany Baptist Sunday-school, who never fails to please his audiences. Chairman R. B. Reppard acted as muster of ceremonies throughout the program. He next introduced Maj. Peter Pelham, the organiser and first pres ident of the Worth Oouuty Sunday' vein*)! Association, who made a short i talk, serving as a fit prelude to the \president's report'which was to fol |ow. lfe said that when the associ- |iou was first organised it consisted three schools, and wua held in a i not twenty feet square, csident J. J. Williams followed a verbal report, showing the status of the Sunday-school . in the county, and it was a |g revelation to many of the present and none wore so i visiting officials of the state bn. He reported thirty-four ktli.o county, c.-nbraoiug a |p of about '1,260, but be that the reports from iifter dinner would show increase in the at one hour wag then |iar. As usual there able the quantity of ^tantials and dellca- > feed the large con- “Yo editor” the Poulan table |t was » grand one ewiyes mm expel |g viands to sat- -Wo heard one uy say he was unwell and illiat inagnifi Rio Oapt, John . j. P. Wilson im- dinner at ness after b t ho reports ^y-six re ived the |th ooun laud vari Jthy Leed Infant, Ty Ty Adult, Poulan, Sum ner Baptist, Friendship and Syca more. The Sycamore class was de clared vlotoriouB after a most ex quisite rendition °* 9>* beautiful ter Anthem “I am the Resurreo- on.” The banner was presented by Secretary Lott Warren with an appro priate address. The singing of theTy Ty Infant olass, eight little girls un der twelve years of age, was excellent and received honorable mention from the jndges. Dr. J. F. Wilson awarded a beau tiful banner to, the MbeUaTfnion school, of which Johur L/fterring is superintendent, for/general merit. Chairman Reppardfmade the presen tation. f The singing of .the benedlotion hymn, “God be with you till wo meet again,” brought the celebration to an end. It was by far the grandest and most impressive evei held under the auspices of the Worth County Sun day-school Association. The Real Estate Market. From May 1st to September 1st is iroperly considered the dull season n the real estate business, and about ull that is done by real estate men is to classify what they have on hand, make oui abstracts of the titles to it, and make contacts with the owners desiring to se)rSo that it can be prop' erly advertised by the time the sea son opens. If you have anything to pluoe on the market this fall.you will lind it to your interest to place it with Fnlwood & Alexander, the real estate agents of Tifton, now that all the little details of u proper prepara tion for market may be attended to betore the scuson opens. The May Festival. For some time post Prof, and Miss Emma Lee Murphey have hi.nl the pupils of Tifton Institute in training with the idea in view of compliment ing the friends, patrons and pupils of the school by an evening's diver sion, an entertainment which they were pleased to cull a “May Festival.” Last Friday evening was the time selected for the cntertaimeuL It was one of those balmy, beautiful moonlit evenings for which lower Oeorgia is so widely colebruted. gentle broese was blowing, temper ing the otherwise too heated atmos phere to a temperature that might justly have been called a “golden mean.” Not a fleck of cloud drifted across the azure firmament to shut out for a moment the soft, mellow rays of tbo bright moon's light. The weather was simply perfection. The large south room of the In stitute was brilliantly lighted, and by eighto'clock-was filled with eager spectators. The girls and boys who were to participate in the program and furnish the entertainment chafed under restraint until the onrtains went np for the presentation of beautiful charade entitled “Crowning the Queen of May.” The Uazkttk is compelled to say the participants in this charade acquitted themselves most creditably. There were other short charades, recitations, etc., com pleting an entertainment of two hour’s duration which, taken alto gether, was as pleasing as any Tifton has ever had. * At the close of the entertainment Prof. Murphey stepped before the footlights and delivered an admira ble address on the subject of edit tion during which he reviewed the history of the Institute from its opening iu October last to the pres ent The exeroises closed at 10:80 and all who attended went home pleased with their evening’s diversion. TEMS OF LOCAL INTEREST. GARNERED BY THE PENCIL SCISSORS PROCESS. AND Batch of NOW* from Ketglilmrlng Countlci Deemed of Rpoclftl Interest to Gniottc Headers* at Fine Jersey (lows for Bale. I offer a limited number of fine vs, fresh In milk, for sale. For prices write to N. F. Tift, Albany, sjtrlen County Sunday School L i\ Convention. regretAcecdingly our Inability I tiie fiunday-eohw)! nonveu- d,m we fully intended to Just m we go to press . through tile kind' The Coffee county Sunduy-sohool association will hold its annual meet ing at Pearson on the first Sunday in June. Mm. Wm. Henderson recently died her home near Miimisy'Irwin county. She died very suddenly and leaves a husband, a number of chil dren with other relatives to mourn her departure. The union meeting of Smyrna Baptist Association will be held with' Union church, Coffee county, oom. mencing on Friday before the fifth Sunday in Mny. An interesting pro gram has been arranged for the oc casion. Messrs. J. S. Loti, J. B. Smith and II. M. Tea ton of Shepherd, 1ms introduced a new industry in Coffee county,—the killing and plucking the plumes from the “pond scoggin.” It may bo u new industry for Coffee comity, hut it is an old and profits ble oue in Florida. Irwin county was visited by a se vere bail storm on Saturday Iasi. Hon. M. T. Paulk lmd every house on his place blown down, excepting his dwelling. The bail was destruc tive to orchards and crops. The storm wus terrific and the ruin very heavy. Coffee County (Janette. The now famous Arrington-Lanc cose, which lias been pending Brooks county superior court for several years, bus been flnully disposed of by nolle prosequi.. Tlio former was be ing prosecuted for killing the latter who he had strong reasons to believe lmd criminally assaulted his daugh ter. The attorneys for the prosecu tion consented to the dismissal of the ease against Arrington. The erratic young man, T. A. Qimrteruiun. who suddenly unjlfiiys- teriously disappeared, from/fJouglas, Coffee county, on tha night of March 20th lust, 1ms ns suddenly and mys teriously reappeureu, He tells a “cock und hull” story about being kiduiipped; of course no one believes him. lie deserves a sound thrash ing uml no doubt if lie goes hack to Douglass lie will bo given one. A mass meeting of the. democrats of Worth county will convene ut Is ubella on the Oth of June to elect i new exeontivo committee and for the transaction of an j and all other bus iness looking to the good of the par ty. The chairman of the county executive committee, lion. Wm. A. Harris, says emphatically tiiat every democrat in the county has a right, to participate in the meeting and is urged to do so. The Gazette notes from the Southern Alliance Farmer that Dr. J. H. Pickett, of Ty Ty, is a proba ble congressional candidate iu this (second) district on the third party ticket. Agitator Daniels, when he was down here selecting, could not have hit upon timber more suitable to represent the revolutionary ideas of the politicians who compose the party boin at Si. Louis. When it comes to rueniug for office “the end will justify any means” with Dr. Pickett. Rev. J. C. Wilson, of Leliuton dropped dead un the streets of Wil laooochoe op the fright of the 27th of April. He preached a sermon in opposition to tile liquor traffic at 8 o’clock, oftfr/which ho went to the parsonage 4i>d retired for the night. In oompan j/ with Mr. D. B. Sweat Between 12 and 1 o’olook in the morning he was taken r/ith cramp colic; arousing Mr. Sweat they start- ed to seek mediqgl akl of Dr, J«ff Wilcox. However, he sank on the sidewalk before reaching his destinsr tion. Mr. Sweat ran for Dr. Wilcox rot before they returned to the sick; Mr. J. B. Davis, the clever livery man of Sycamore, suffered' the tnis- forture of having his right leg brok en just below the knee. He was en route from Sumner to Sycamore with u wagon load of furniture and other household effects. He was six miles from Syoamore when the sad acci dent to himself happened. The team had started down a steep hill rather briskly and nnthonglitedly he check ed them np suddenly; this caused the wagon to run against the horses and one commenced, to kiok and tho other to run. They soon became un manageable and Mr. Davis jumped from tlie wagon and broke Iris log: At last accounts he was resting well and getting along very nicely. ty Can bo UBed single or double. For terms and prices apply to Fulwood & Alexander, Tifton, (la. TURNER7N IRWIN. lMIvrri h Grand Expose of the True Iu- wurdiiwi of iiiu Third l’urty. Congressman Henry G. Turner filled his appointment to speak ut Ir- winvilte lust iSaturday, The Gazette man, in company witli Mr. C. It. Goodman and Capt. Stone, of the Suvntmah News, took passage, by way of one of Williuins’ iivery turnouts, for Irwinville to lis ten to the wisdom of tho Groat Apos tie of Genuine Democracy. Mr. Turner lmd preoeded them via tho Tifton and Northeastern railroad and one of Mr. Elbert Fletcher’s lleetest nags. However, they rcnchod their destination in tune, but not without, breathing many audible expressions of admiration for the pure cuasedness of tlie Texas jKinioa they were driv ing. Capt. Stone insisted that “Shop” had palmed off two third par ty nags on us to try tlie temper of our democracy, whether or not it hud the ring of tlie right metal—a tem per that would stick. Promptly ut 11 o’olook the crowd wus culled into the court-room, It was not as large aii attendance us we hoped would be there, still it wub gratifying, thut the audience was composed of some of the heat and sturdiest yeomanry of tlie county men of iniiiienoc in their resix-otivc districts. Wc accounted for the small audience by the fact that there is a disposition among Irwin county people to be charry of strangers and Congressman Turner was a jierfcct stranger to them. The meeting was called to order by Secretary Coleman, of tlie county democratic executive committee, nud the speaker was introduced by lion Thomas D. Young, who took occa sion to assure the people that Mr. Turner bud not come there to create wild enthusiasm by flights of elo quence or tid-bits of political sopliis try hut to talk to them calmly und earnestly, to place pure democracy before them iu a pluiu, common sense way. The speaker bowed nud expressed his appreciation of Hie compliment and then, after an explanation that he wus nearly sick from the fatigue of travel, said thut lie lmd prepured no particular line of thought to pre sent to the people of Irwin county and asked tlie audience to suggest line of discussion. Mr. Bussey, of Sycamore, luggwst- ed that the speaker tell the people- what he knew about the third party. Mr. Turner bowed u polite assent and began in a quiet manner, elo quent in its simplicity, to unfold the history of the thml party—giving its origin, its birth. Its composition and exposing the fallacy of its heretical arid ruinous platform. It was a great speech and won for the speaker man j friends among tha people of Irwin comity. Next week we will endeavor to make room in LOCAL HOTCH-POTCH, WHAT BUSINESS MEN AND LOAFERS FIND TO TALK ABOUT. Paragrapha PI k« l Bp und Pen- lively Penned-All Pertaining to Persons and Things* Go to Dr. J. C. Goodman’s for sporting goods. Capt. H. H. Tift returned from his trip to Key West last Friday. Petite Miss Caasie Tift accompa nied her grandmother, Mrs. Hansom, to Conneotioutt, The light of onr humble den lias gone out for a season. The return is looked for earnestly. Postmaster Futoli, of Cecil, has a good barber chair for sale. See his advertisement elsewhere. President Bedgood, of the Arahi Lumber Company, was in the city Monday afternoon on business. Don’t forget Contractor Himl when yon have building to do. Mrs. C. A. Ransom, mother of Mrs. K, H. Tift, left 'Tifton tho first of the week for her home in Myslio, Conn. Padrick BrvM./hayo moved to tlie Parks bnildrilg' on Main street and are carrying^ large stock of general merchandise. Mr. John McKee mid wife, for merly of Sparks hut more recently of flaxleliiirst, luive moved to Savannah their old home. mr paper fir a synopsis of this publication, ugh expose of the rottenness of B in time fair ladies, be t ull these lovely (lowers ure gone. Padiiick linos. Several of the Tifton merchants went to Savannah tlie first of the week to take in tlie city and enjoy her lioBpitalitics during inercliant’s week. Mr. Dun Vudon and wife, of Wll- hicoooliee, ure enjoying tho hospital ities of a Berrien county home this week—that of her fattier, Mr. M. B. Clyatt. Mrs. B, T, Allen left Tifton Inst Friday night for n protracted visit to her parents and other relatives and friends in Madison county, Florida. Con tractor J. C. Hind has for snle a large supply of first-olass lime, shingles and laths. Hon. II. O. Turner left Tifton lust Sunday for Washington, 1). C., where he arrived 11 o’clock Monday morn ing. He resumed Iris seat in tlie house of representatives thut after noon. Mr. Maitison and daughter left yesterday inorniug for their home in Mystic, Conn., after having spent the winter in Tifton. He superin tended the building of tlie Baptist church while here. The Tifton Baptist church is com pleted with tlie exception of making und placing the pews in position und finishing painting, This work could be done within u week if the materi als were all ut hund. We offer gicat inducements to bring U to our store. We offer greater ones to keep you there. Padkick linos. The drug firijl of Peterson & Paulk him been dissolved. It is now J. W, Paulk Jt Co. Mr. J. A. Tomber- lin, of Irv/n county, bus taken an interest iu the business. Read tbo new firm's advertisement in another column. It in a fixed and Immutable law that to have good, sound liraith one must have pure, rich and abundant blood. There J« no akortor nor surer route Iban by a ooUrse of tie Wilt’s Sarwperllla. J. C. Goodman. An informal meeting of tlie exec utive committee of the Brunswick and Western, or Sixth division of the Georgia Lumber Association was held iu Tifton ou Tuesday afternoon. The meeting furnished nothing for tlie public exeroises at the University on the evening of May 18th and Jn 3d. Capt. W. H. Snow, of High Point N. 0., ami general manager of Snow Modern Tobacco Barn pany, spent lost Friday in Tiffl lie was pleased with the progress ol the work at the Snow tobacco farm. In fact he was pleuaed with the out look generally. Col. Jas. M. Griggs, Solictor-General of PAtaula Circuit, says: "Mlgratlnohas always afforded me prompt relief in cases of headache." At Dr. J. 0. Goodman’s. The ice cream and strawberry fes tival Tuesday night under the au spices of tlie Ladies’ Aid Society of the Methodist church, was quite a pleasant ns woll os successful affair notwithstanding the tremendous rainstorm that prevailed jnst after nightfall. About $30 was realised from the Bale of button-hole boqttete, strawberries, ice cream and cake. Mrs. 1,. R. Patton, llockford, III,, writes: "From personal experience 1 can recommend De Witt's Sarsaparilla, a cure for Impure blood and general debili ty." J, 0. Goodman. The young ex-editor of the Adel- News, Mr. II. D. Smith, was united in marriage with Miss Sallie Foun tain at the home of the bride’s par ents in Sycamore on Wednesday of lust week, Rev. S. W. Brown officiat ing. The young couple will make Adel their home for tho present. The Gazette extends congratula tions mid best wishes for their future liappiiie«8 and prosperity. Wc truly believe De Wltt’e Mule Ear ly Kisers are the most natnral, most ef fective, most prompt and economical pill for biliousness, Indigestion and Inactive liver, J. C. Goodman. Hon. Henry G. Turner was a guest of Hotel Sadie last Friday und Saturday nights, and went over to and from Irwinville Saturday by way of the Tifton and Northeastern rail road. It was lus first visit to Tifton ami lie was surprised at her growth and her energy und enterprise. Ha did not expeot to find a bustling lit-' tie city where only two years ago was a pine forest. IIo was particu larly pleased with Tifton’s elegant public buildings. Blight people are the quickest "WYec-*** - ognlio a dood thing and buy it. We aelt thorough ex, third partyism. We ate overstocked with baby rlages and lmll trees. Special thescgoodi for a few i 1 on ns for anything H dull, splr Wood h thick ti\ tile Is cttprlcky.' y i m lots pf people the Little Early Risers. If you are not bright these pills will make you so. J. 0. Goodman. Jupiter Pluviiis opened his flood gates and let the rain fall in torrents Tuesday afternoon. It rained ubout. oue hour uml a half us hard as it was possible for it to rail). It was a source of great rejoicing among the tobacco planters and they put a “hump” on ull uvuilahlchelp to com plete the work of transplanting. Ollier planters also had aJrrorni smile on them and have eat no idle bread oti their farms. There was consid erable hail us well us rain. Thesnu burns tip one's feet in summer time. But by wearing light shoeB or low Oxfords you get on so inueli better. Padrick Bros, make a specialty of cool footwear, their stock is more varied than ever. Mr. C. L. Ashley, of Tifton, went ’ up to Atluuta hut week to be iu at tendance ut tlie marriage of hia- hrotlier, Mr. Henry P. Ashley, and .diss Lillian II. Cleveland, daughter of Ilev. T. P. Cleveland, pastor of the Fourth Presbyteriuu church, Wednesday afternoon. He noted as best matt with Miss May Cleveland, sister of the bride, as Maid of Honor. The ceremony was most impressively performed by the bride's father, as sisted by the Rev. Dr. McDonald, of the Second Baptist church. Some of tlie Grand Amy boys may 5>* Interested in the following from Alex B. Pope, A. D. 0, Commander Dep’t, Teen, sad Ga. He says: "We bate bid at* epidemic of whooping cough here, and CbamhUfa’s Cough Remedy has bet4tk*$j only medicine thut baa dose uty gaoil.’^. There Is no dugsetrem whooping mtr*- when this l» fwsdy glvewt completely control* l bottle* f