About The Tifton gazette. (Tifton, Berrien County, Ga.) 1891-1974 | View Entire Issue (April 14, 1893)
' ■ , ; * / . ♦ ' / / . tj . ■ ■ . ( .sou? . rmi rr“ 4 SI.00 PER ANNUM. TIPTON, UEItRIEN 001’NTV, (iEOllUIA. FRIDAY, APRIL U, ISO;?. LOCAL HOTCH-POTCH. WHAT BUSINESS MEN AND LOAFERS FIND TO TALK ABOUT. Pavemvnt ParaRraphN rickftl’l T l» a«'l Ven- alvely Penned—All Pertaining to Percons and Tiling^ Presto; change! Head Pad rick Pros, new advertisement on fourth page. Mrs. W. 0. Tift has just returned home froth a week’s visit to Athens, Georgia. Mr. John Churhwell,of Brookfield, maile a pleasant call at onr sanctum Tuesday afternoon. Two of Padrick Bros, half-hose make a pair and will be sold for 5c. oil the 22d inst,. Go to the Tiftou Drug Store for your summer drinks; coca-cola, milk shakes and soda water. Wests’ barber shop is the place at which to have your shaving and hair dressing done. Popular prices. The young men of Tiftou held a meeting the first of the week to per fect the organization of a baseball club. Mr. John li. MeCrunie, tux re ceiver of. Berrien county, was in Tif- ton last Wednesday to receive tax returns. Col. C. W. Fill wood was elected Mayor of Tilton last Saturday to till tlie unexpiie 1 term of W. 11. Love, resigned. Hop. J. B. Paulk, of Irwin county, spent u couple of days ibis week in the city, the guest <5f his son—Jake W. Paulk. Berrien comity court will be in session next Monday. Let all who are interested “take notice ami gov ern themselves.” Mr. P. A. Weldon is just complet ing a comfortable cottage residence for himself on Railroad street, north of bis grist mill. Col. C. W. fill wood was sworn in as Mayor of Tiftou last Wednesday and entered upon the discharge of his oflicial duties. The citizens in the vicinity of the Paul school house, recently built, is ; very anxious to secure the services of u competent teacher. Mrs. W. L Pickard, who has been visiting her sister, Mrs. II. 11. Tift, frtr several months, left Wednesday for her home in Louisville, Ivy. Mr. W. A. Allen, of County Local, was in Monday evening. He was enroute for Atlanta, where he goes its a dele gate to the annual meeting of the Grand Lodge, Knights of Honor, of Georgia. W. W. Webb has just completed a splendid ice-box mid wants his custo mers to know that hereafter all fresh meats sold by him will be kept cold until called for. He is also prepared to serve customers ice-cold bottled soda water. Col J. 11. Pol hill, of Isabella, was in the city last Sunday enroute for Irwinvilie to attend the monthly ses sion of lnvin county court on Mon day. ’Pile Tiflon bar—Cols. Fill- wood, Alexander and Sexton—also attended the court. A colored switchman at the Bruns wick and Western railroad depot was caught in the act of stealing a bottle of “case liquor” from a box in the depot. He will lie sent to the chain- gang, where he Will have opportuni ty lo repent of his folly at leisure. “How lo save money” xplained at Padrick Bros. ill'. Hart, the young gentleman from Akron. Ohio, who has spent the winter in Tiftou, left for Ins home yesterday. By his suave manners and gentlemanly hearing he Ims won many friends during iiis stay in the city and their best wishes attend him. The long bridge across New Kivor, near Mrs. Lindsey's,on the Nashville and (juitmau road, is in a dangerous I the Worth J TEMS 0F L0CAL INTEREST. 1 if ton last GARNERED BY THE PENCIL SCISSORS PROCESS. AND with much less expense to the county and litigants than m the superior court. — -- Business and dwelling bouses, and some nice rooms conveniently located to rent, apply to C. W. Fill wood. A HUSBAND IS KILLED W'l.lli. llrlVlKlInir Ilia M OV ACinlllst tl..' Al- lurk* of a Trump. YAi.imista, April 13.—Mr. John F. Wisenbaker, a well-to-do planter living about seven miles south of Valdosta, was working on bis farm near bis bouse late yesterday after- ! noon. Hearing his wife scream, be hurried to the house and met bis wife coming out. Sin told him tlmt a man was insside who bad threaten ed her life if she made any noise. Mr. Wisenbaker rushed into the Hatch of New* from >'ul|;h1mrlnK Count Ie* Deemed of Special Interest to Da/ctte Deader*. Sycamore is enjoying a protracted meeting this week. Mr. D. IT. Herrington, living near Snmt.er, was .stricken with paralysis a few days since. He is improving slowly. The sheep owners of Irwin county will begin shearing theii sheep about May 1st, and will look to Tiftou for a market. Reports from the various sections of Worth county indicate that a large acreage will be planted.to long staple ! cotton this year. Editor W. A. Allen, of the Worth County Local, has been elected grand j wilh t ,, e „ K . sentinel lo the Grand Lodge, Knights . ^ , )f (||t , amli llf ,, r living bis revolver without effect, OF CORRESPONDENTS. Nckv* and Invent* of Iiit<*rc*t Transpiring Chronicled by n l'nlthfn) and K.ltl- dent Coi'p* of lteportcr*. Ilow to SlmiR. Ray’s Mii.i, April 11.—The Ber rien boys have recently learned'why they could not shine well among the girls. But 1 am happy to say some of us learned last Sabbath from a! voi» s—no. as THE GAZETTE LETTER-BOX. ;■>“ not pay the teachers of its coin- I inon schools as promptly as it does A RECEPTICLE FOR THE THOUGHTS olh <| r I™Die servants, mid II hervaxy Hue manifestly unjust discrimination is a grievous burden to a faithful class of the State’s workers, since vt forces the teachers to discount their papers at a heavy loss, for the purpose of supporting their families; therefore, he it Itfsnh-fd, By tlie teachers of the Counties of Baker, Berrien, Calhoun, Clay, Dooly-* Dougherty, Early, ls>e, Randolph* Tsnell ami Worth, now in young man carrying a sack of meal I alt#m i UIlce up0 u t | lt . Lmhitute of m Ins buggy twenty miles to sec his - B()lltliw „ 8t ( ie oigiu*in the city of Al- girl and take her lo church. And i haiiy, thanks of this body are due oh, when the girls found lie had the'j lire Um . by most coril guiy ex- mcal, they just loaded his buggy. j u . mU . d to 1L W .,J. Hum and So, spur up. hoys; blues your I ol|K , c umnb , rs of lUc hist uioustai'lic, brush hack your huir, | tWwbly> of ^ ^ £or tUcir house with a hoe in liis hand.ami was i and don 1 forget to take your sack of ! ,.(i orls j u trying to have said instantly tired upon by the tramp, meal! '' 1 Wisenbaker struck at him scveial of Honor, of Georgia. The Aslilnirn calaboose is said to be nothing more than a toy fur llie prisoners incarcerated therein; they get, in and out at their pleasure. The citizens living near the Swim poslollice, Irwin comity, want to em ploy a good school teacher. 11 is one of the best neighborhoods in the county. The Advance says “Ashlmrn needs a canning factory, a lanyard and a whipping post.” The whipping post is a relic of religious fanaticism dur ing I he seiiii-lmrharic age. There was to have hn n an Alliunce- seizcd Widen I inker’s gun which was laying in the corner of the room, and emptied the contents in Wisenhakei’s breast, killing him instantly. After committing this horrible deed, lie burglarized the house, ob taining about one hundred dollars. A messenger biought the news to town about nine o’clock last night. A posse with bloodhounds scoured the country in search of the villain, hut could trace him no further than the railroad true.,. ‘ j teachers more promptly paid. Enigma Echoes. | llrstilral further, That We earnestly '.nuimx, April 13.—Mrs. George request tlm next Legislature to enact | Weston, at the new mill, had u sc- j some law lo remedy said, wrong, vere stroke of paralysis hay before i limit reil further, That wo request yesterday. She is very sick. the following dailies—Albany News Mr. James T. Annin Inis been ; and Advertiser,. Albany llerald, At- qiiite siek for several days jiust. Mr. Ian la Constitution mid At lan to Juur- II. F. Stewart, the sawyer ul this; ual—and all lint weeklies in said mill, has also been very siek. enumerated couMit'S* us well as tlie The weather is line, crops are Georgia Teacher amt Southern Fdu- growing atid the farmers are pro- calional Journal,, to publish these grossing linely with llieir work. resolutions. S. 1). Biiauwei.i., I will try to writ" more at length I’res. Institute und S. S. C. condition; and there is a great prolm- j third-party meeting at Tv Tv on hi I • tv, unless it is put in repair at I Thursday of last week to hear a Imr- Itostou News. Boston, April S. -For the past week the weather lias been unusually I line for farmers to prepare and plant once, some one will have a claim for j uugue from Tom Watson. But Tom their crops. A large trop os melons damages against 1 la* county the pee-j wasn’t there, and so—the meeting | has been planted and reports show in j pie will surely remember for a lung I wasn’t there either. iii good condition, and indications lion. John Y. Fletcher, the county | point to a large and early crop, school commissioner of Irwin count v, lime. Ail election for otlicers for the the Thu melon or Young will lie he at l lie do.- Men's 1 nion prayer uieeliug j announces that the county teachers' d next. ■ of I lie umlav service afternoon of prayer. institute w ill Saturday in he held oil the fourth April, and thut a full Mr. .lere Holmes, who has tilled the attendance of teachers is required, position of president during the win- \y ( , ,.uMed , t . t | 1( . “Sumner Local" last year and gave no offense, or no objection was laiscd ; this year, since the change of location, we called H parting tIn- “Sylvester Local," and now the editor's pants can hardly contain ter, will return lo his northern home next week and it is hoped all tin j young men will turn out to the meet ing and extend him the hand. Messrs. .1. B. Norman, Sr., Joel S. Nonnun and .1. B. Norman, Jr., of Colquitt county, passed through Tif- ton last Tuesday enroute for Atlan ta. We were sorry to loam that the him. 11 old up, hue, 1 here is no ne cessity for this huir-splitling about, your “entitlements!” Mr. Wiley Fletcher, who lives about four and a half miles this side was suffering 0 f Jrwiiiville has one of the prettiest face and | |i,.|,| e «e have ever seen. It looks , .. ., j eye, and the object of this vieit to there might be fifty acres in the o Atlmiluipfoi M.t pm post of (onsuit-1 mclosn r**» ami ii l hero is :i stump in Saturday, April Md, is special sale, illg Specialists will, a hope of his it M | urgB lW your , Ut old mil day at, Bad rick Bros. U on hamh >f |tin rt .,i„f. The Gazuttk ti r a shrewd buyer ami c what s Dr. .1. C. Goodman, determined to |li|mod gellt | i ; ilmM have some shade trees at the earliest j f) . 01|) of ti „. 1|if( day practicable, lias set some Brule!, late frost iliil not hurt pear crop maleiiallv. The cahliage crop has been the largest ever grown in this section. Mr. .1. S. Norton, one of the largest truck fanners here, has shipped cab bage this week weighing twenty one pounds each. Cabbage and other vegetables shipped from this point have found good markets and grow ers are well pleased with iviuins. Funnel's claim they cannot grow cot ton at prices their crops brought them last year, hence, a decrease in fruit and t ruck. ♦ The World’s Exposition will soon next week. 1{!-:<)(' 1.a it. I’logiani mill Syllabus Second Session if the Teacher's In stitute to he I leld at Nashvtlle on the Fourth Saturday. 22d mat.: 1. < ti t Ini-]i v. 11. W. (I ray. Dniermcal marks and how to teach tlami, (L. ('liesnul 1, 'll: hill/. i. The best method of teaching reading, Mrs. F. L. Mc.Nabb. Articiilutioii, inflection and em phasis, (i. R. I >11 Inn. J. R. Lost;, Secretary. ♦ I A Negro Trump Commits Mnr- dci'uiid is Lynched, Gkoiiuktow n, April UL—Mr. Jeff | Burnett, a young white man who. lived ten miles below here* was killed I early this morning by a negro. The instrument used wits a pistol,the butt i entering the skull oil the top of the I head. ! The purpose of the murder was. j robbery. Burnett lias u little store ; across the road from his mother’s. Iuins> and he sleeps ill it, for a day or two ail unknown negro has been louf- I. tell. ari Writing as an ipcn. I’adrii k Bros, are opening a Nubb. splendid line of Spiiug basement prices. Goods at patliizcs with him in his affliction. The Gazkttb calls special at ten- nd vert iso- s y ,n ", see it and it is almost as level us a jut ilie Imiiie of the bride’s there for u. It is noticeable, that many of the shade trees planted along the streets j l ' < ’ 11 10 "''H- 1 ' isplnyei ... "of the city last winter are showing I'K'hn Chtirchwell A Hon, j jn-ep into the office of Judge James Fredrick ’L Snell, pastor of the Biq j billiard table.—Sycamore News. During our stay in Irwinville last ! week we had the opportunity ol a Pauli, Clayton. ,ust Sunday, uiorniiig, April tltli, parents in Tilton, Mr. .lake W. Lilia Clavlon, were I ’ii ii I k and .Miss united in the f a holy bonds of matrimony, IJev. I). (ioilnnl. It is Imped all will i Brookfield, to he found in I column. These gentle.nen ,, ii- * , c i Well pleased with their experiment Rev. \Y. C. Hickson, pastor of the . , . , , , ,, . . , , ’ ,, , I with printers ink last fall that they signs of life, live. Methodist churches of the Alapaha circuit, will (ill his Tiftou appoint ments next Sunday at ,thc usual hours. A hate ball team has been organ ized among the young men of Tilton, but it. seams that the young men can’t get time from their various vo cations to play. There were services at the Tiftou Baptist church last Sunday, morning and evening. The pastor, Rev. F. T. Snell, preached two earnest and im pressive sermons. The continuance of (he Tiftou barrel factory will not be effected I by the death of Manager Bike. We learn that the business will he con- another] |;, (Jlcmcnts, of the countv court,and - O' 1 * fiojue satisfied ourself that there is no county court in south Georgia that > j is supplied with a more complete set \ prescnliitive of Irwin connIy in the Mixri'llllllcttll'. list, church < llieiating. j |, Discussion of school hook com Thu groom is the eldest son of I mission, lion. John It. Baulk, (tin* present re- T. F. Wh i i\>i('. S. ('. II I'i/ini/.— Writing as a science, W. F. Bat- in « ul ' ouml ,lu ' 8ture - Tl,is morni "K Burnett got up quite early to wait on art R (' ; some id’tlie plantation hands. After I they had purchased what they want* I'm/lish tlriiiiiniiir. - jed Burnett threw hinself on the counter to take a knap. While in this position the negro shot him. It y| r | was not known that he was shot for some time afterwards until a colored ignl carried his breakfast out to him Good- Kite run hack lo the house and told the sad news. In a very short time a crowd had gathered at tlie store. A search was immediately orguu- I ized lo liiid the murderer. A large crowd in wolch tlieie were thirty or I forty negroes started in pursuit. Ho j was caught in Clay county, about eight miles from the scene of the murder. He was carried hack to I where the murdered man lay. He acknowledged that he did the deed. 1 He was tied hard and fast and satur ated with kerosene and the torch up- i plied. As the Humes encircled him Ins body was riddled with bullets. I. Bails of speech, definitions, W. G. Aiera. ”. I’ses and propertie., Nubb. .li'illliililir. - I. ('oiiiiiioii fractious, < I man. ‘J. Decimal fiacliom. W. F. L. Mc- S''iilli'r mill I'rilr/i'T nf inn'll in//.— I. Class work, J. Sydney Roberts. J. Individual work, J. J. Huggins. Ilislnrii. ■ 1. Discovery of America, J. II. Chesnutt. The Aborigines of America, C determined to keep their business he-j dockets and other hooks of record, fore the people, and to that end have m ( j mv correctly and elegantly closed a yearly contract with the G.\- | ie j,| y.K'riB. I he junior member of the . There was a protracted meeting in I has j progress at Aslihtiru last week. A I him as a young man of noble ini tieorgta legislature and one of her staunchest citizens,) and one of Tif- ton s Nterliug young business men. !Jake is esteemed by all who know) A fton. <>u., A pril II. 1 n'.id. BERRIEN’S ROLL OF HONOR. lirm, Mr. John II. Cliurcliwell, Ki'knlulhm* -\«*«l li.v flu* A III I IlH IIIIIIM|UH The following is the list of Berrien - - i* j *i ISO Ol i/11 ^ IIV 111 1 i 41 1 I * 1 vnilllllllt entire charge of the business and will collection of \flOO was taken for old j pulses and irrcproaehahle integrity. | county teachers wlm attended the ' d lie is believed to he tli give prompt and coiirtaous attention , lm ] indigent Methodist nduislers, j The bride is the eldest daughter Teachers' Institute at Albany during - dl!rt . r 0 f ^| Forsyth w to every customer. and one of ifl,(»4(i for foreign mis- I of C’apt. A. B. Clayton, of Tiftou. ; the (’hantauqoa: I killed in DimIoh cmmiv in i'ki sions. However, when the people and possessed of many loveable and were l('quested by tlie preacher to rare trails of character and trash” to lie I prove a helpmeet, indeed, to devil’s will her company. Tlie Gazkttb is requested to an nounce that Rev. L. A. Snow will preach at the Cycloueta Methodist clmren on the fourth Sunday, morn ing am) evening, in this month. All are cordially invited to attend. Dentil of Mrs. Carswell. WaYi kosh, April 13. —Mrs. II. F '.Carswell, widow of the late Dr. Cars- i bring out “tin ! well, died at the residence of her son, j cremated, no oi William J. Carswell, yesti rduy morn-1 possessed uny of these articles—ah-j a glimpse of Miss Lilia's expressive ing. She was a devout Christian ‘ «ol«t**ly nothing they thought it was face, just as iliu huppy couple pre- woman. 'J’lie inleiiiieiit took place Li sin lo possess. So says the Ad- eeiik-d themselves for the solemn, yet ’vance. intek, sting and beautiful, ceremony We ure informed that T* cosok ! to he performed, we were forcibly re- wore transferred from the superior I minded of a stanza from Lord Byron "AihI «iti that rhwk ami nVr that Iimw n»ft, *o calm, vet el»H|ttcnl, Tin* that wfr., the tint* that glow, Uui tdUuf <l.ij* in £4*mIiic*** spent, A mint! at a-jt-Si all hrlou, A heart »ht»m* h»ve ** Inn'M-ont.” The marriage was a very quiet one, only a few of the lelatives mid j at Hephzihaii. The deceased was the mother of | j our esteemed fellow-citizen, Mr. J. K. tintied by the other members of the C-arawell. and our citizens geiierallvI t0 the county court of Irwin county,! unite with the Gazbtti: in extending lin( I ft>cy are set for a hearing before him sincere sympathy in lus b< reave- j *-hat trihuiml on the second Monday »nei>t. in May. An effort is being made by ’certain parlies, for eel fish reasons, to ( liilico Notice. 1 , Services of the Episcopal church | mid, ‘ r ““nty court ..upopular will bt* held in the MeUimlist church,) with the pcojilc, with tin* view of There will he an i.ilerosUng event I Tiftou. on the Friday and Saturday ! n, " ll: - v * !Curin B " fi abol "’ ion ’ The tics lieing present as witnesses. At t; on “Tiftou Heights’ next Tuesday i before the.till Sunday in each month.! wun, - v oour ' 18 J 1 '* 1 the jconclt’sion of the pretty ceremony all C. A. He Vane, F. V. Itmvan, .1. S. Roberts, Miss S. .1. Ingram, W. G. A' era, R L. Batten, W. F. Batten. It. Woodard, J. M. Sutton, J, .1. Young, H. W. Gray. N. J. Banish, G. T. Batten, G. D. Godard, J. A. Webb, L. B. Lovitt, F. L. Me Nubb, J. D. Lovitt,1 J. J. Huggins, George R. Dillon, H. It. Sutu.n, (). L. t'liesnutt. John F. las', J. II. Gary, .1. It. Guthrie, J. M. Batten. n it.OliKI). M. II. Cobh,' W. B. Holmes. 1). J. McLean, Charles Jeffries. which is neatly expressed by Henry j.. I)a ven port: ••At lant th*» happy <l*y Is Knr hetn t* to la* nntu-il, Ami ot» that day h-IH ho The tiuti lm«* l»t*eu friends of the high contracting |uir- UKsm.r nox's. The following resolutions o! Irwin county need; the j present gave the happy young couple 1 offered by Brof. /,. I. Fitzpatrick veiling 7:30, and Holy Com-• I K '°P e ...union on Saturday morning 10:30. portion of the legal business U hearty grasp of the hand it. con- F. B Tick Noll, j of the county, civil and criminal, can j gratulations and best wishes for long Archdeacon of Albany.'be adjudicated in that court, and I life, hi with and huppiiics#. Is Tlii> It tell Lowry? Savannah, April 13. Edward .own, a half-breed Indian, was ur- T.'H.'i.ora in ' rested in Coffee county last night, charged witli illicit distilling. He was brought here ami examined to- the nuir- wlio was I killed in Dodge county in 1800, ami j for which Luther II. Hall, Wright t Lancaster, John Lancaster ami James ; Clements are now serving life sen tences in the United States peniten- i tinry at Columbus, O. j Lowry is believed by all who saw j him to S>- the murderer. He is now ! in jail and will he given a prelimi- j nary hearing on that charge. Car Load of llogs. M acon, April 13.—A most unu sual thing occurred in this city to day ami it argues well for the section of country around Camilla. Mr. XV. II. Brimberry, a farmer risiding near j Camilla, .sliip|H'd a car load of ho„s ! here for which ho found a ready I were 1 market. The price realized by Mr. Brim- president of the Albany College, and, beiry wax very satisfactory, and he unanimously adopted by £50 teachers, remarked that there was Cvusiderahle HViwos, The, • State of <ieorgia | profit, in the pursuit of hog raising.
