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LOCAL HOTCH-POTCH. WHAT BUSINESS MfiN AND LOAFERS FIND TO TALK ABOUT. • Pavement PnrOsrmplm Picked Pp nrtil Pen slvoly Penned—All Pertain!ntf to l'erstm* and Things. Mr. .7. li. Haralson anil wifi* hove moved from Tifton back to Ty-Ty. (Jet your photographs at Higgs’ Satisfaction guaranteed. Mr. S. D. Thomas has transfenjftf his residence from Tifton to Abbott, $ loi’ida. Read the new advertisemShts which appear in this issue of the Gazette, on fourth page: 'f Prot T. 0. Ross, teacher of I he Tifton colored, school, reports an at tendance of fl’fty pupils." Two colored lads, wanted in Coffpe county for arson, were captured in Tifton hist Saturday aud lodged in jail, Mr. Ohas. H. Goodman returned Tuesday from his visit to Virginia. He reports h.’ fiug hud a most pleas ant time. " Go to Higgs’ gallery and examine hie new specimens. Solicitor-General II. B. Peeples 1ms been in attendance upon the adjourn ed term of llroo.ts superior court this week. It is feared the cold wave has de stroyed the out crop. If so, it will prove a seriqus blow to many farmers in this Bcction.. Rev. .J; L. Underwood will, if the weather ib favorable, preach at the Tifton Baptist church uext Sunday morning undtiiight. '^'he young people could pot. enjoy 1 lie sport of snow balling Wednesday morning, the snow full was followed too closely by sleet and rain. Tho rainy, weather of the past few days bus caused !he woods to gel boggy, and Capt. Tift is-finding il dillieult to supply bis mill With logs. Tile demand for wood the past week was truly pressing. Some of Tiflou’s citizens will be more careful t.o have a, supply on band in future. PaJriek Bros., have no bad no- counts cm their books to add to prices pit goods. Attend the young then’s union pruver meeting at the Methodist ■ church next, Sunday afternoon at 3 ■ o’clock. All young men are cordiul- Jy invited. • . • Someof the citizens of Tifton "were delighted Wednesday morning when _ they awoke and found the landscape •covered with snow. It Is a rare sight this far south. Berrien county court was in session last Monday, but owing to the ub- i aence of attorneys, in attendance upon higher tribunals, little or no business ivas transacted. The failure of Rev. W. 0. Hixon, pastor of tho Methodist churches of the Alapaha circuit, to fill his Tifton appointments last Sunday is attribu table to the illness of his wife. The Gazktte recommends Higgs’ gallery to those who desire first-class photos. Muduinejlunior has given it out i c-onple of Tifton’e moat pop- r young people are soon to be : one at by men’s altar. The ■; extends congiptulationa in and Florida railway ns agent and op erator ,at Adel. The' editor com mends him to the citizens of that thriving town us entirely worthy of their confidence and esteem. To our respeoted contemporary, the (Jordeleau: Such Negro scoundrels as John Croome don’t find an abiding plaoe.around Tifton, and it is u great pity they do anywhere. Tifton bus the most orderly and luw-abiding Negro population'of auy city in the state of Georgia. Hon. W. H. Snead is reported ns continuing to lend aid and encour agement. to the third purty ideas. We hoped he had seen the utter fiv tility of establishing upon any sort of certain foundation these'new-fan- gled political dogmas and would .le sist, und we regret lie still persists in following the ignis fntuus. Hotel Sudie breakfasted forty-oife persons last Sunday morning besides the regular customers. They came in on the belated Georgia Southern und Florida traiu and were going to Florida by this new and popular route. * Notwithstanding they struck the Sadie without notice a splendid breakfast was served them und they went on their way rejoicing. - The fifty Ohio people, of whom mention was made in these coltims last, week, passed through Tifton Wednesday afternoon enroute to Florida and Cuba. Tho weather was too inclement for them to carry out the pingrtitn that Imd been mapped out for them. Hence after dining t Hotel Sadie they coutiuucd their journey toward Florida. It is prob able on their return they will take a look about Tifton. Justice court for the 13141b die friet was held yesterday—Judge \V W. Rutherford presiding with nil usual dignity. Only the local at ornej’s were in attendance—Cols. Fulwood, Alexander and Sexton, The lulter is a student at law and will apply for aduiismou to the fra ternity ut the next session of Berrien superior court. He took a “twist 1 in tho legal lights yesterday und bundled bis Cilse dextrous!)’. The Brunswick aud Western rail road authorities have determined to close up every telegraph office ulong their line that they can possibly get along without, and in accordance with this policy several chungcs of agents made last week. The tele- graph office at Ty-Ty was discontin lied and a Mr. Butler made agent at that place; Mr.’Q. F. McUrutile was sent to Willucoochee to relievo Mr. Maugham who lias been transferred to Tifton to succeed Mr.’Cliauncey, the night operator, who resigned. The late legislature passed an act placing the names of all grand jurors in the traverse jnry box. The act re quires the jury commissioners to meet on the first Tuesday in Febru ary, or within thirty days of that date, and revise the jury box; placing the oaihtB of all grand jurors both iu the grand and traverse jury boxes. In case a man is drawn on both juries for the sume term of court, his name is not counted on the panel of trav erse jurors,' und another name is drawn for traverse juror. The full text of the law will lie published next week. GARNERED BY THE PENCIL SCISSORS PROCESS. Batch of New* from NwlfflibovInR Count lg* Deemed of Special Intercat to Gatette Uenilera. ^ . about to be Mr. .5$. F.lliott.of Sparks, has H hoif Interest fli his mercantile ness to Mr. W. T. Robinson, firm name is now Elliott & Hob- will curry a large stock of Choice lot of fresh garden seeds just received ut the .Main Street Pharmacy. s. sell for cash, the s eeo.uve bargains over toe i and sellers. Georgia Chautauqua. The time of opening the Chautau qua has not. yet been definitely de cided, but, as it is of Interest to many, it may he said that- it will begin either dn the itSth of- March or tho 2d of April. It depends, however, on The Colquitt county jail is complete. A Presbyterian church is built at Moqltrie. Ten marriages in three weeks is a good showing for Colquitt county. The Dotiglus Breeze has quit “blowing” in this direotiou. Wliat is the mutter Bro. Sweat? The ' manufacture of twist plug tobacco was commenced at the Cyolo- neta farm, in Irwin county, this week. The offices of Coffee comity will be filled by new men, with the ex ception of clerk mid treasurer, and they will be, sworn in ut. the next session of the court of Ordinary. The city couucil of Moultrie lias appointed a committee to purchase street lamps to light the oity on dark nights. It will be very nice, hut the oily council will find it an expensive luxury. Prof. S. P. Settle, late of the Wuresboro High School, Iiiib become principal of the Iiomerville Academy and will bend ull hie energies to the building up of a fitet olass educa tional institution at that pluca, Thu Banner says the 10th iust. was pay day for Colquitt county school teachers, and they received 33 cents a day per scholar from the public fund. This amounts to 99 cents a day for a school of thirty scholars. A petition Iihs been filed, with the Ordinary of Qblqnitt county for the appointment of lion. J. B. Norman, Jr., us guardian of the Autrey chil dren, whose parents were killed last spring by a horse running uwuv and throwing them out of the buggy. Go to Pad rick Bros, an i) buy goods ut wholesale rates. A Worth county furinpr was in the city last Monday and, in conversation with the editor, temurked -that the farmers were having fine weather for killing and saving pork. Ho stated that Ins neighbors laid lost very lit tle, if any, of their pork, und ull hail killed enough meat to do them until next season. The -photographs made at Higgs’ tent arc firpt-class in every respect. .. Tho Ordinary of Worth comity lias appointed a committee of three, us recommended by the late grand jury, to confer with the Berrien county authorities ,relative to the building of a bridge across Little river near the Brunswick and West ern railroad bridge. This is an ini portant matter aud should be looked after at once. I guarantee every bottle of Plan tution Chill Cure, and will clieerful- ty refund money in case of failure. Hr. J. C. Goodman. The adjourued term of Irwin on perior court, for the trial of criminal causes, was in session this week Judge George F. Gober, of the Blue Ridge circuit—the judge who signed the order for Steve Ryan’s imprisonment—presided for Judge 0. C. Smith, who was disqualified. Owing to the severity of the coid weather the court hastened to an «d- journriieut. Little or no business of imjortanoe was transacted. Mr, J, "A. Adams lmvin» lemed the Pitts’ building is prepared to ac commodate boarders, regular und transient, at regular rates. lm. Mr. Frank Knight, an industrious Books (hat wore Stolen from tho Clerk's Otttee Found at Ills Offire Poor. The books and old seal that have beeti missing from the Clerk’s office far, io, tliese many months have been returned,—minus the usual thanks, however. Last Monday morning when depu ty ordinary Brack opened tho front door of the court limiso tile first sight that greeted his eyes were tiie three books, book “A” and “0" of record of deeds and lawk “B” of record of mortgages, and the old comity seal, winch have been missing over since the <J4tli or Sihth day of September last, lying piled up in front of the clerk’s office. They wero placed there tho night before, no doubt, by the same parly or. parties that stole them. A good deal of erasing, re-writing und iiitorliniug has been done in the books, and the old seal was no doubt put to good use in forging titles.— Douglas Breeze. Sews mid Kventa of Interest Transpiring Chronicled by a Faithful and KttU dent Corps of Reporters, Do not let other merchants palm off other preparations on you because they have not Plantation Chill Cure in stock. Apply to agent named bo low, who guarantees it. Dr. J. 0. Goodman. Must Pay tor History. The State Board of Ed neatloq held an important meeting Tuesday, at which the question of making his tory a purt of the course of study in the common soliools of the stale came np for ilnul action, this mutter hav ing been discussed at a meeting held week previous. At the. former meeting it was practically decided that history should be lidded to the course of study, but at this meeting itn order wus passed making it coin pulsory on tho various boards of county school .commissioners toudopt history and compulsory on students in the common schools of tim state to study the Idstoiy prescribed. The hoard also requires that ull teachers in the common school* shall be examined or. history the same us they are upon other studies of the common school curriculum before any are granted license to tcaoii. In referring to tho action of tho hoard, Commissioner Brad well said that the adoption of history’ as part of the studies in the common schools meant nn outlay of about $100,000 on the part of the people of the state who are patrons of l.lie common schools. "When ymt are tired of huving chill* get a 60c. bottle of Plantation Chill Cure and stop them. If it fails Bohemian's Budget. Cki'H., January 10.—We are hav ing some weather here, but our neigh bors share our fate. Guano is leaving the oars at a live ly rate, aud fat, sleek mules are draw ing it The incrchtmts smile, and I would “smile” also, but no one asks me to. Some recent deals in real estate in dicate building. Our land owners have decided to out up large tracts into truck faun lots, if they can find purchasers. This is tho right move. More country people, more grub raised, more clothing sold. A toivp with no country people to buck it is iiko a horse with nothing to feed him on, mid produce of the farm is little better without a market. We regretted to see the Ohio coach swing by in such a hurry. We want land hunters to stop over and look at our lands; tlmt is all we ask. The Georgia Southern, by being built nn a dividing ridge, shows little but ponds and waste land, as every one knows who is familiar with our sec tion, while off hut a short distance is as fine farming land ns can be found in any section of Georgia, und is well drained by natural spring bmnolica. I<ct us have a convention, Bay ut Sparks, of those land owners who have land they will sell off in small lots und see if wc cannot so arrange it that men of siniill means can own a home, thereby increasing both pro ducers and consumers, which is the wealth uf nations. Bohemian. Hon. Fleming G. du Bignon w: be a candidate for United Stutcs.S ator to succeed Colquitt, Everything in this country except the unlor of office seekers has been exceedingly cold during the last two weeks. ed Do you know that Plantation (Jiiill Cure is sold under a positive guaran tee? It costs 50c. per hottl», but if it fails tho money will be given buck to yon. Dr. J. 0. Goodman. by will, give you your money hack, J. C. Good man. we Dr. in ore/man,-Moses Alien. what the Superior Court does. Theji ou,1 8 team living on Grand Bay, first week in April is court week, and in npper Lowndes county, suffered • n bond of &M0, the , for his appearance e next term of Berrien sn.- , to answer the chaige of 'irdly crime of if the court meets that week, the Chautauqua will open a week earlier, which, will be the ‘26th of March. The 2nd of April, however, is tho day that has bven determined upon, aud if nothing interferes that will la the lime of opening.—Albany Her- aid. Go to tin* Mam fiirect Piv.rmacy, Tifton, Oa.. for your Barden the misfortune .« few nights ago of having his dwelling aad contents by fire. He and family had retired for the night and the flames spread so rapidly it wan with difficulty that lie and hjg wife saved their eight children front horrible deaths. Be sides hi* bouaehold goods and wwr- *680 in cash was dvsrroy- neiohhoi Meiiolmiii-Htoiicy. At the residence of tho bride’s mother, by Rev. J. If. Btoney, Janu ary 4,1803, Mr. D. H. Meuclium and Miss Olio M. Stoney, daughter of Dapt. A. L. Btoney, of LuFuyette, Indiana. The wedding was a very quiet affair. Besides the members of the families of tho contracting parties there wero only two or three invited guests. The bride was tastily dresied in cream hrilliuntine, trimmed with chiffon luco and cream silk ribbon, whito rosebuds in hair and carried a large boquet of white, buff and deli cately shaded roses—-sent from Fruit- land Park—in her hand. Tho groom was dressed in conventional black. The house was beautifully decorated. A bountiful supper was served end ull wete happy, the only regret was that Capt Stoney, the rather of the bride, could not be present.—Orange Oity (Flu.) Times. The groom is well known among the young people of Tifton who, no doubt, extend him and iiis bride good wishes for their happiness and pros perity through life. The Gakkttk- extends congratulations und it* best wishes.' Mesdames Mencham and Brown, of Tifton, mother ami sister of the fere present and witnessed the utiful ceremony. From Lowndes Comity Sum, January 18.—I promised to send you an occasional screed from tills pluoe ami will now try to do so l hive been so very busy that I could not find time to ulU-nd to the matter before now. Our school now miitibtn! sixty two students and tho probuhi’ity is tlmt it will increase to seventy five before the fend of tho montin Great interest is ivianifesled hut li pupils und patrons and 1 see no cause why this school may not lie made as interesting as any in the county. Sii'fely it does not htok material. A Mr. Butler living near hero Imd tho misfortune to get his house burned one night lust week but huve not learned particulars. There is talk of a small school be ing organized ut Cherry Creek church, one mile from here, in oppo sition to the Fine Grove school, but wc Ian: yet to learn of tile success of the project. The farmers of the community are preparing for the next crop, many of them having already hauled their supply of Guano. We predict un ex tensive long cotton crop this year if seasons suit for they are going plant it on a large scale. Mr. John Dasher has rented his farm and moved to Valdosta where he has engaged in the family grocery buiinecs. Wc wisli success to Jolio. Mrs. E. ? 8. Dasher is the post mistress at tin’s place u’ml is always ready to wait on tha patrons of the office. Respectfully, W, IIkksy Gkifhx. A Thomas county citizen voted his tax receipt at the late comity elec tion. They have some queer people down in Thomas. Not within the memory of the oldest inhabitants has there been cold»r weather in the United States tliun within the last ten days. It is not certain that the uufihish- part of the Oconee & Western railroad, between Ilawkinsville and Grovaiiin, will be constructed imme diately. Georgia truckers will have an ex cellent opportunity to sell vegetables tliis spring, as the early vegetables in Florida have been killed in most localities. Miss Delaware Clark, a pretty Al bany girl of eighteen summers, elop ed last Saturday night with a man by the name of Carter, who is re ported to have a wife and two chil dren in Macon. The merchants of Macon, with the telephone and ssreet cur lines, claim to have been damaged $65,000 by the snow storm of last Wednesday morn ing. The merchant’s louses were sus tained from leaks in the roofs. The Georgia Southern and Florida railroad has been in ill luck this week. Three wrecks following one following immediately after the oth er ip rapid succession, and ail oc curred in tho vicinity of Cordcle. I'lie Atlanta solflier's home, which two successive legislatures declined to accept for the State, is to be sold by the trustees and tho proceeds giv en to the support of old soldiers. It may be given to. tho city of Atlanta upon the same terms it wus offered to the Btuto. Who knows the wuste of money when U buy of houses that buy aud sell on lime. Still After Cronins. The whereabouts of John Grooms Is still a mutter of much speculation, tint the authorities are still hot on Ids trail. ■ Sheriff Edwards sent out. u rol more postal cards this morning to different part of the country, still of- ftriiig WOO for Grooms iu any jail iu the United States. It is reported that Grooms io well armed, anti whoever catches him wili never do it ulivo unless by strategem. —Albany Herald. If you feel and all worn out BROWN'S IRON weak take In the Oroeq Goods Litres ■< Three countrymen, near Tifton, have been arrested for wurki PS the counterfeit money racket as worked by New York sharpens and ijt is raid many “highly respected cnima* have been involved in the effort to S et counterfeit money. These fellows o not play the sawdust game—when they get the money from their cus tomer, members of the gang, as of ficers, rush in and arrest the victim, then ieyy blackmail foi a release.— Brunswick Advertiser. • . ' It is now in order for the Adver tiser, to give its authority for the above screed, give oauwa of the par ties who, as officers, are engaged li* this counterfeiting and blackmaiiir™ ■ business. The above charges are im certain. I sell more Plantation Chill Cure than any other chill and fever medi cine, mid do yon know why? Be cause it never fails to dure. Dr. J. C. Goodman. Jersey Cream ohewlng tobacco, the best on the market, can be had only at J . W. ’Piraik & Co.’s. fevi ay other dealers 78c. awl $1 core when you can get innuion on Satii Church Notice. Borvioes of the Episcopal olinroli will be held in the MeHuxiist ohnroh, Tiftoir, on the Friday awl Saturday' : before the 2d Sunday iueiich Friday evening 7:30, mid. Hdl; _~~-20lui Eager Advisee. With the eomiag ^f the sp' * son is it natural for tlie edit gin to advise the faroiete how to“j out of the grass,” w to spsak. 4 <JBi As a rule the editors kuow tth of farwiiig, and its i Hire and drawbacks, as .nncra successful news