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T1FTON, BERRIEN COUNTV, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, MARCH 10, 1893.
LOCAL HOTCH-POTCH.
WHAT BUSINESS MEN AND LOAFERS
FIND TO TALK ABOUT.
Pavement Paragraph* Picked l T p and Pen
sively Penned—All Pertaining to
Penton* and Thing*.
Master Julian Cole is quite sick at
his parent’s home.
Several more tu* sales appear in
the Gazettk to-day.
Bargain days at—where? Pail rick
Bros.,'Saturday, 11th and 18ih.
Quite a number of shade trees are
being set out m different parts of the
sity.
Mi86 Stella Miller, of Fort Valley,
is in the city visiting her sister, Miss
Sallie Miller.
Prof. L. B. Lovitt is teaching a
flourishing ^school at the Mogul
school house.
age has been done. However,the ex
treme cold weather made growers
feel exceedingly “blue.”
Mr. J. B. Greene, near Tifton,
killed three shouts last week that
were not quite a year old aud had
never been fed two bushels of corn,
that weighed, when dressed, CIO
pounds. And it was not a good day
to kill shouts, either.—Local.
Uevs. J. L. Underwood and F.
S. Snell will officiate at the Irwin
memorial service next Sunday morn
ing at the Tifton Bgptist church.
Remember, all the friends, in town
and vicinity, of the late Dr. Chas. M.
Irwin are cordially invited to attend.
Prof. John L. I). Powell, who lives
near Nashville, has suffered a long
time witll a bone disease m one of
his legs and it has become necessary
that the member be amputated above
the knee. Drs. I,. A. Carter and W.
That run on Padriek Bros, sugar 11j. Goodman, of Nashville, will per-
■4
last Saturday was just too sweet for
anything.
Mrs. Newman, of Sundersville,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. B. T. Cole,
is in the city visiting her parent’s
family. '
We can’t all be in Grover’s cabinet,
but we can trade at Padriek Bros.,
the leaders ill low prices.
^ ' Revs. Newell and Mitchell have
N Mhtinued their religious services at
tlik Methodist church during the
■week.
Why do Padriek Bros, sell so
cheap? They buy for cash—sell
quick and close—and only for cash.
Mrs. Willingham and daughter, of
Atlanta, mother and sister of Mrs.
IL. II. Tift, are in the city and her
guest.
The young people of Tifton have
issued invitations for a “Masquerade
Party,” lo he given at Tifton Insti
tute next Monday night. There will
j be no lancing.
1
Rev. Frederick S. Snell an 1 family
—wife and two children—arrived in
Tifton from Norfolk, Va», last Mon
day. lie is the pastor-elect of the
Tifton Baptist church.
Rev. W. 0. Ilixon tilled his regu
lar appointments at the Methodist
church last Sunday—morning and
flight—and preached to largeuud at
tentive congregations, notwithstand
ing the bitter cold weather.
Rev. L, A. Snow is at the Tift and
Snow fruit farm superintending the
putting out of a large number of
peach and other fruit trees. The
fruit farm is niore than ever the
scene of busy workers in the orchard.
Mr. John S. Lindsey, one of Ber
rien county’s most progressive farm
ers, is making elaborate preparations
for taking care of a large tobacco
crop which he proposes to grow this
year. We wish him the greatest suc
cess.
Tifton’s photograph artist got on
u,little spree and raised a racket with
liis wife—we believe tried to whip
her but was prevented by the by
standers, and now he has skipped at
least uutil after Berrien superior
court.
We call attention to the “Dissolu
tion Notice of Elliott & Carter, a
lirm of turpentine operators, who
have been doing business in the
Qnilp neighborhood. .dr. Carter,
the junior member, succeeds to the
business.
Judge J. L. Sweat, of Wityoross,
passed through Tifton last Saturday
on route for Irwinvillc to hold a
special session of Irwin superior
court for Judge C. C. Smith who, in
turn, held Clinch superior court for
J udge Sweat.
The Gazkttk is pleased to note
the fact that Rev. II. I’. Dowling’s
child, who was knocked from the
track a few days since by a Georgia
Southern train and had a leg and
arm broken, is improving as rapidly
as could be expected.
The Gazrttt. has made considera
ble inquiry us to the effect of last
Saturday and Sunday’s bliuzurd upon
the fruit crop in this section and is
glad to suv the opinion is very gen
erally expressed that no great dam-
form the difficult operation.
The Board of Education of Berrien
county held its regular quuiterlv
meeting last Tuesday. Besides rou
tine business the appointment of
enumerators to take the school cen
sus of the comity M;,s made. It is
|iiite probable that Mr. K. E. Yon-
mans, of Tifton, will be one of the
enumerators.
News reached Tifton late Saturday
afternoon that Mr. Artemus Rents
was found dead in his held near Mo
gul. He lmd been in the field plow
ing. Passers-by noticing his mule
apparently alone and the plow and
gear badly tangled got over the fence
to straighten things out, thinking
that the plowman lmd stepped aside
and stayed longer than lie expected.
To their borrow and dismay they
discovered the body of Mr. lientz ly
ing prone on the ground, stiff and
cold in the embrace of death. When
found his face was black but there
was no indication of bruises or other
violence, and the generally expressed
opinion was that death was produced
by heart failure. Nevertheless, bis
neighbors considered it proper to
bold an inquest, and did so, but
nothing could be ascertained more
than is recited above. The deceased
was a very quiet mobtrusive citizen;
if he had any enemies it was un
known to hint. He has two brothers
living in the county, Messrs. Peter
and Charles Rents, both of whom
are Lightened and honorable men.
The deceased was sixty-five years of
age. His remains were buried in
the Allen Hester grave yard, near
Lenox, Sunday afternoon,
Nows from Spiu-Us.
The citizens of Sparks are proud
of both their literary mid Sabbath
schools; and justly so, as they are,
perhaps, the largest and most pros
perous in the county.
W. K. Greene & Go.’s brick stores
are about completed and are being
filled with a large and complete
stock of general merchandise. These
stores are most conveniently ar
ranged in two departments and the
office so located as to give the book
keeper’s eye a complete view of every
part of the establishment at a glance.
Prof. I). J. Dickerson has again
made Sparks his home, anil is con
ducting a mercantile business for
Mr. Lewis in tin Rents store.
Elliott & Robinson are holding
the fort at the old stand, and are
selling stacks of goods. Their sales
of Guano this season will, perhaps,
exceed that of any other one firm in
the county.
Burt, the Valdosta racket store
man, is ojiening up u stock of goods
in the Goodman & Parrish building.
Bnckabee & Williams are also do
ing a first rate mercantile business.
Mr. J. T. Cole bus assumed charge
of the Metropolitan hotel, und is
giving very general satisfaction ns u
hosteler.
The farmers in the vicinity are in
GENERAL NEWS NUGGETS.
ITEMS GATHERED FROM OUR STATE
EXCHANGES.
Informntion Concornltig the Growth amt
l’rogrwu* off the IikIiiMHoh nut! Town*
of the Southern Empire State.
The tax payers of Georgia will
have to give in their property this
year at. its value oti the first dav of
March, instead of April as heretofore.
The Worth county murderers,
Nim and Cliff Kearce, have beeq
carried to the Bibb comity jail for
safe keeping. Their triul will take
place ut the April term of Worth
superior court.
It having been reported that Judge
Emory Speer was in Washington
urging the claims of his friends leads
the Atlanta Herald to inquire “wlnit
has Judge Speer to do with a demo
cratic administration.”
It is reported that Messrs. Plant
and Flagler, the great son them rail
road magnates, are fixing to scoop
the ilkw road front Savannah to
Jacksonville, being built by the
Florida Central and Peninsula.
The weather last. Friday night and
Saturday was decidedly wet, stormy
and cold, and plenty of ice and frost
were visible Sunday morning. It is
a great wonder to everybody that the
fruit crop Ims not been blotted out
of existence.
The grand jury of Fulton county
Ims found an indictment for murder
in the case of Miss Julia Force, who
shot and killed her two sisters a
week or two since, and while her at
torneys will plead insanity it is possi
ble she will have to stand her trial
for the crime with which she is
charged.
The officers who went to Plant
City, Florida, for the purpose of de
termining whether or not the negro
lynched there was John Cronnis, the
Worth county murderer wlm escaped
a short time since from Dougherty
county jail while under a sentence
to be hung, has returned. They
say the body was exhumed, examined
lo their complete satisfaction and
they givo it ns their positive convic
tion it is that of John Grooms.
A destructive cyclone passed over
a portion of middle Georgia last
Saturday morning. It seems to have
spent its greatest fury in I’ike and
Meriwether counties. Greenville and
one or two other little towns, it; its
path, were wrecked. Numbers of
lives were lost and thousands of
dollars worth of property destroyed.
The people are practically without
food and shelter, and are asking aid
of their more fortunate neighbors.
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Berrien County Snndn.v-seliool
Association.
Preparations are making to hold
the iinnual session of the Berrien
County Sunday-school Assofciulion ut
Alupalia on the third Sunday ami
Saturday before in April. The
association is interdenominational and
every white school in the county is
entitled to be represented by one or
more delegates, and the president of
tiie association earnestly desires and
requests the superintendents of euch
white school in the county to see
that delegates arc elected and sent to
the meeting
Considerable progress has been
made in Sunday -school work the
past twelve months in the county,
much mote interest is lining taken in
Information of the superintendents,
vis
I'oxsTtrirtox.
Aimci.K 1.—This Association shall
he known as the Berrien County
Sunday-school Association. Any de
nominational or union school tall
white! within the county may he con
nected with this Assertion by adopt
ing this constitution and notifying
the secretary of the same.
Aktici.T: 2.—This Association shall
be composed of delegates chosen hv
the schools according to the following
ratio; One delegate to every twenty-
five members. The pastor, superin-
tendqnt und secretary of euch school
slmlkbo members ex-officio.
Artiolk 3—This Association shall
consist of u president, five vice-presi
dents and ii secretary. The five vice-
presidents shall constitute (he execu
tive committee, and the president, and
secretary shall he members ex-officio,
who shall be elected at each annual
meeting and shall hold their offices
until t.licir successors shall be tn-
augurated.
Aimci.K 4.—There shall lie two
regular meetings of the Association
each year: The annual meeting on
Saturday before the third Sunday in
April, and one meeting on Saturditv
before the third Sunday in October,
at such hours and places as the Asso
ciation may select.
AttTK'i.K ft.—The president shall
have power to call extra meetings of
the Association whenever he may
deem it necessary, by giving proper
notice to the schools, and to till any
vacancy that may occur by the death
or resignation of any officer.
Aimci.K ii.—- It shall be the duty
of the president to president all meet
ings of the Association; to visit, ill
person or liy i ice-president, all schools
in the Association seim-uniumlly, to
advise with superintendents as to the
best mode of conducting their schools
ntul to use all available means to
have each school supplied with suita
ble literature and other requisites.
Aimci.K 7.—The vice-presidents
shall take the place of the president in
his absence. They shall also assist
the president in visiting schools and
perform such other duties as may he
assigned them by the president or
Association.
Aim< i.k 8. The secretary shall
keep a true record of all the proceed
ings of the Association, lie shall
also keep a statistical record of the
number of officers, teachers and
scholars in euch school: shall give
timely notice of all meetings, as
directed by the president, and notify
all chairmen of committees of their
appointment, with instructions us to
their duties; conduct all correspon
dence, and |ierform such other duties
as may lie required of him by the
president or Association.
Aimci.K 0.--The executive com-
Hi i * tec shall make all necessary ar
rangements for the meetings and
festivals of the Association, ami per
form such other duties as may he
assigned them by the president or
association. They arc required to
wear u badge on public occasions,
designating I heir office. It, may hi
either a ribbon or rosette, as they
may elect,
Aiitm’i.k 10. This constitution
may he altered 01 amended by a two-
thirds vote of members present at
any annual meeting.
Adopted at a mass meeting, held
in Alapaha, Gu., November 111, 1 Hit I.
ITEMS OF LOCAL INTEREST.
GARNERED BY THE PENCIL AND
SCISSORS PROCESS.
Hatch of Now* from Neighboring; CountIr*
hwinwl of Speriul lutere*! to
Gtixette ItnuliTN,
The Breeze makes the startling
luinouceinent that “Coffee county is
without a coroner.”
The Breeze tells of three marriages
near I’hil’ipg Mill, Coffee county,
where all three of the dough tv grooms
stole their blushing brides.
The citizens in the vicinity of
New Bethel church, three miles
south of Sylvester, Worth county,
met last Sunday and organized a
Sunday-school.
The triennial convention, for 1803,
of the Coffee County Sunday-school
Association will he held at. Lone Hill
church on the second Sunday and
| Saturday before in May.
Goto Higgs’gallery and examine
his new specimens.
The first quarterly meeting for the
Sycamore eiienit was held last Sat-
VOL. 2-NO. 47.
three men were engaged m the rob
bery, and inquiry developed the ad
ditional fact that some of the hands
at Horne it Parker’s still, in Col
quitt county, had obtained some
meat from an unknown source.
Several arrests were made and suffi
cient evidence secured against one
of the prisoners to warrant his com
mittal to jail. It is hoped all the
thieves will be captured and pun
ished.
A HELPING RAILROAD.
The .Splendid Work of the Georgia
Southern.
No recent enterprise bus done so
much with its own efforts to develop
Georgia as the management of the
Georgia Southern, aud the result is
going to he one of the prettiest and
most self reliant sections of the south.
Through its agencies thousands of
good nort hern farmers are lining car
ried over the line, and settled upon
the contiguous lands, than which
none more fruitful can be found.
One of the most liberal und praise
worthy enterprises of the practical
development along this line is the
unlay and Sunday ut Cyoloneta. j experimental farm, near
Tifton, known us “Cyoloneta,” upon
which has been planted ii,800 fruit
trees, acres of grapes, and a general
diversity of crops that shows the
stranger at a glance what cun be done
ill this favored section.
Besides the fields of outs, there is
jiow growing upon the farm thir
ty-five acres of rye which, after win
tering a large heard of calves, is now
waist high, and its graceful waiving
of green, u picture to capture the
admiration of every one.
The Advertiser was shown on last
.Saturday evening, by Deputy Inter
nal Revenue Collector Win. II. Mat-
Gnr Methodist friends have a neat
building at that phase.
The good iiyws comes from Worth
countv that a large acreage will he
seeded to corn. The farmers of that
county will show their good sense
by slicking to their judgment.
The Boston and Albany railroiul
has reached Moultrie and a regular
passenger and freight schedule in
augurated. The manageinimt is now
having a depot built at Moultrie.
The revival meeting at Willa-
cooehee Ims closed with live acces
sions to the Methodist church. It is
reported as i!v most interesting and j thews, samples of the tobacco that is
successful meeting ever held there. grown und manufactured on the farm,
The photographs made ut Higgs' which were as fancy as the famous
Georgia Cliuiitniniun.
In another column will be found
the well-displayed advertisement, of
the above institution which will be
gin its fifth unnual sessional Albany
on Sunday, April 2.
Tho enterprise is intended to ele
vate the religious, moral and educa
tional standard of this section of
country, und lienee is entitled to the
patronage of every patriotic citizen.
Its beneficent influence has Urn
the education of the hearts of the j felt for the past four years. The
i ising generation than formerly, and
it is proper that the association
should not only keep pace with but
in advance of this improvement.
The affairs of the association have
been allowed to run along at a snail's
puce and a slip-shod way long enough.
It is time the friends of the Sunday-
tchool cause in the county to awake
from their lethargy, and live up to
their opportunities to make the world
better for tiieir having lived in it.
The program for the convention
will appear in these columns next
week.
Inquiries have been made relative
good spirits and are determined to j to the number of delegates to which
improve their condition the present j each school is entitled, und we have
year if pluck and energy can accom- thought proper to publish the con-
plislt such u thing. s I dilution of the association for the
training received at the special
schools cannot be duplicated in the
stare, while the exercises during the
Assembly affords the mental und
physical diversion which our people
so much need before entering upon
the long summer of foil just (tpeu-
ing up to them.
The laboring classes need diver
sion, by way of recreation, perhaps
more tlmn any other, unit to them we
recommend the Assembly of the
Georgia Chautauqua us affording the
most profitable recreation to be found
anywhere.
The literary normal school should
receive the patronage of evsry young
man in southwest Georgia, who can
afford the time and cost, whether he
expects to be u school teacher or not.
tent are llrst-cliiss in every respect.
Mr. Dull. W. Stunner, living a few
miles north of .Sumner, Worth coun
ty, Ims demontrated this season that
there is money in growing turnips.
He planted an eighth of all acre in
rutabagas, harvested nearly thirty-
live bushels which lie sold for twen
ty-five cents a bushel, lie realized
.■{eld.2ft oil the eighth of an acre.
The Sycamore News is waging a
determined vvurcfarc against several
offensive habits indulged in by some
young tr.cn: The arm-dutch, smok
ing in the presence of a lady, making
deprecatory remarks about, ladies,
etc. The G.iznrn: will assert, with
out the fear of successful contradic
tion, "that a gentleman doesn't in
dulge in these practices.
The people of Moultrie and Col
quitt country are greatly incensed |
ovel the recent slanderous write up
given the town and |ieoplo by Homer
lleeil, of the Atlanta Journal. The
Banner goes for Reed without gloves.
This is not Reed’s first offense—
sorry he hasn't sense enough to treat
people decently—and if the Journal
doesn't want to lose its subscribers
and friends iti this section it bail liet-
ter keep Homer Heed away from
this territory.
The Gazkttu recommends Higgs’
gallery to those who desire first-class
photos.
Broxton, Coffee county, was the
scene of a homicide ami a dastardly j
outrage attempted ii|K>n a white girl 1
hv a negro, February ‘itillt. George I . .......
... ~ i party or parties brought to justice.
Jones, a white lad of eixleen yours, , , , , ,, , ,
, ’ s . , ; borne time lust full the store house
shot and killed, a negro lad of the , . v , . ,
' b |of Mr. Marion Dixon, at Dcrmmvs
same age, after the negro had as-1
faulted him w ith it knife.
brands of Virginia.
It is a proverbial comment of trav
eling people that southern railroads
pass through the most rugged ut.d
uninviting sections, seldom offering
a panorama of cultivated landscape.
The Advertiser predicts that the
Georgia Southern will pay up its
interest and keep out of the meshes
of United States courts, when once
clear of the environments of elemen
tary troubles. ^
The experiment is one that should
attract the attention of other south
ern roads.—Brunswick Advertiser.
Hold, Enough;
The editors of the local papers of
Worth ami Irwin counties are en
gaged in praising their respective
sheriffs. Here is what, they have to
say:
Sheriff Nelson is determined that
the county shall not run out of
boarders. Ho brought in two from
his recent trip down in Decatur, who
have been in hiding for some time
under a charge of larceny. Worth
has never lunl a more zealous or vig
ilant sheriff than her present one,
and offenders against the law will
save themselves time and trouble by
coining in and giving themselves up
at once, as they will inevitably be ar
rested if they stay anywhere in this
country. -Sylvester 1/ocal.
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When a case is placed in the hands
of Jesse l’aulk, Irwin county’s effi-
oient sheriff, it is always brought to
a successful issue, and the guilty
.Mill, was broken into and robbed of
1,1 a)ro about $400 in money and other val
uer a jury returned a verdict of jlisti- ., ...
e..,.. .o
liable lfomioide. A negro employe
of .Mr. N. Forehand made u criminal
assault, upon the latter’s 10-year old
daughtei, Imt did not succeed in bis
nefarious purpose. A party of men
took the wretch to the woods, gave
hint a severe whipping und ordered
him to leave the county.
The smokehouse of Mr. John M.
Kennedy, who resides in the lower
part of Worth county, was robbed a
short time since of about thrye
hundred pounds of Bacon. Tracks
leading to and from the Rotate
evinced the fact tlmt uot lees than
Suspicion pointed to two
white men by name of John Bowel!
and Henry Stewart; Mr. Baulk was
detailed on the case and a few days
ago, after the lapse of several mouths,
he bugged his game ami gave them
lodging with friend Luke, in the
Irwin county jail. Jesse found
Rowell in Darien aud -Stewart at
Lumber City.—Sycamore News,
Relieving the National Treasury
iii time of stress is a commendable
action by the New York bankers, but
it.doesu’t help our own Citizens as
directly as does the relief to private
purses by Bad rick Bros, low prices.