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£PP @1.00 PER ANNUM. 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. -——— 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. * * l * 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.