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, .y :-£&; ;• nn:.c ' *- ■ ■ > Vjfe'-i^ A :’- ''•-:.n>r : < .' ,:.“v‘•••■:-'t7^ • ;£f i J/v V-a ■ -7 iG-QrwS'TvVi -.v.- * . /v.-gEBlS^* •'-*£*-itiv'l;’*- -- 81.00 PER ANNUM. TIPTON, BERRIEN -COUNTY, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1803. VOE. 3—NO. 20, LOCAL HOTCH-POTCH. it r‘“" ^' H FIND TO TALK ABOUT. Pavement Pnraipraplta Picked Ti» mid Pen- elveljr Penned—All Pertaining to v Portion* and ThiiiK»> Work has been commenced on Dr. Peterson’s residence. Mr. 0. M. Tift is ill liomc again from bis summer vacation. Ho Arrived Wednesday. Mr. S. Whittington, of Worth oounty, was in the city Tuesday with a wagon load of flue pears for sale. Pjidrick Bros, have commenced work on tiie 22x90 feot and two sto ry addition to their already mammoth . fltore building. Mr. B. S. McOrnnie, of Ty-Ty, is filling the position of day operator at the Brunswick and Western depot, while Mr. Wilson supplies the place of agent. Mr. J. W. Hannon asked the first of the week to be relieved ub City ’Marshal; Mr. Shriver now fills the position until the next meeting of the City Council. A Mr. Cross, from Virginia, lias been visiting the family of Dr. J. C. Goodman for several days the past Week, lie took his leave yesterday .'Horning for home. Mr. Adam Adams, with his wife and daughter, has moved to the Vick ers’ residence for the purpose of car ing for the building and to enable the owner to have it insured. New sweet potatoes have been in tlie Tifton market for more than a month; tlie next thing the country jieople will want 113 city folks to Chew will be sugar cane. Mr. and Mrs., 15. P. Everett are to be congratulated upon Lho arrival, lust Sunday morning, of a lino 104 pound-baby boy at their home. The mother and child are doing well. The “Sunbeams," lichildren’s mis sionary baud of Tifton, contributed $10.59 during the lust quarter, the third highest amount paid by the juvenile bands of South Georgia. Rev. It. B. Iteppard, of Savannah, Chairman of the Executive Commit tee of the State Suuday-scliool Asso ciation, was in the city Tuesday night and a guest of Dr. J. C. Good man. Mr. F. G. Boatright, the efficient agent of tlie Brunswick and Western railroad at Tifton, with his wifo and son, left hist Friday niglil fora visit to relatives and friends in Indiana, his old home. They will see the World’s Fair before returning. Mr. Davis, who Ims been in the employ of Capt. II. II. Tift as a saw filer and hammerer, died last Sunday after an illness of about two mojiths with inflammation of the stomach. Ilis remains were buried the next day in New River cemetery. A mass meeting of the citizens of Tifton will beheld to-night,8o’clock sharp, at the Institute building, for the purpose of electing a Board of Trustees, who shall have the ovet- . eight of the school during the ensu ing twelve months. Let everybody turnout. Tifton lost the general offices of the Brunswick and Western railroad the first of the week simply because she had no banking facilities. From a standpoint of health the officers ami employes g.-eaty preferred to remain in Tifton, and have emphasized their preference by leaving their families Capt A. A. Myers, of South Caro lina, was in the city this week the B guest of Mr. W. W. Timmons. He was here prospecting for a new and the very best families of South Caro lina to our citizenship. The infant of Mr. and Mrs Tlurts- Jicld died early Wednesday morning and was buried at New River ceme tery yesterday morning. Rev. F. T. Snell officiated at the funeral. The sympathy - of the community is with the bereaved parents. $1,17)5.00 will buy a corner lot oil Love Avenue with neat six room house and necessary out buildings. Apply to C. W. Fill wood. It is our painful duty this week to chronicle the death of the infant son of Mr. and Mrs W. T. Hargrett, of this city, which occurred at Johns ton Station 011 Tuesday. The re mains were buried at Alapalia- on Wednesday. The bereaved parents have the sympathy of their many friends in Tifton. It gives the Gazette much pleas ure to state that Miss Ida McCormuc the accomplished teacher who was in charge of the music class at Sumner High’School last /ear, has accepted a similar .position with Tifton Insti tute tor the next scholastic year. She is not only accomplished in music; hut. is intelligent, refined amiable and will prove quite an accession to the social circles of our little city. Nice little farm of (10acres, 15 un der cultivation, two miles from Tif ton. Can be bad on good terms mid at a bargain. Apply to C. W. F11I- vvood. A bold bad burglar went on the ram page Monday night II ■ first enter ed the store nu-ildingoccupied by Mrs. A. B. Graves by culling loose the bottom slats, raising the bitch and opening the blinds to tiie side win dow on Third street, then removed a pane of glass took the stick from above and raised the sash, and.thin ptilied himself into the building. The silly thing that is missing is a watch which Yon mans, the jeweler, had ta ken to repair and for which be will have to pay. The same or some oth er burglar went into the store of Mr. W. 0. Tift, blit if he helped himself to anything it lias not been dicovercd. ALL ABOUT THE COUNTY. NEWS FROM ADEL, SPARKS, NASH VILLE, AL.APAHA, Ami Other Point* In the (’.nod Olil County of Berrien—Crop Pronpeet* Be* ported—Minor Mutter*. BiicUIoii'm Afttit*a Salvo. Tiib Debt Salve in tin; world for CJulfi, Bruises, Soicm, l'leers, Sail Rheum, Fever Sores, Totter, (,’liuppcd Hands, Chilblains; Corns and all Skin Eruptions, tnd positively euros Piles or no pay re* iptired. It i< guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction, or money refunded Price 25 cents per box. For sale by J. W. Paulk & Co., Tifton, (»a. fc-Xi desirable home, and wus ven much pleased with Tifton and surrounding country, lie is a gentleman of edu cation. means and influence—having represented bis county in lho legisla ture several times—a gentleman of energy and most excellent 'business Oil Short Time. According to the Macon Telegraph there has been no work done at the Georgia .Southern and Florida rail road shops Ibis week and hereafter, until fifrthpr notice, the men employ ed in the shops will work only five days in each week and only eight hours each day that they do work. It was nut until the mad found it absolutely necessary that this order was issued, and even then it was with great reluctance that it was done. 'They thought it best, however, to put the men on short time than to put them otr altogether or to reduce the force. The officials say that traffic has fal len olT to such un extent that it was absolute!} - necessary to curtail expen ses,ami that they did in the best man ner they knew bow to cause the least hardship. Tlie reason of the great fal ling oft in the traffic of the road, they olsim, is due mainly to the shutting down of nearly all of the saw mills and turpentine distilleries along the line of road. The road is dependent til a great measure on the lumber and naval Storec business and when tlies mills shut down it become necessary to govern themselves accordingly. They also - claim that the rolling slock of the road is in good repair and.'-that they can uRinage handsomely for some time to come with little or no repairing The exercises of the fall term of Sparks High School will begin next Monday morning. Miss Orie Bell Fatten, an accomplished teacher, will have charge of the music class. The merchants of Berrien comity are preparing for a big run of trails this fall and winter. Large and fresh stocks will be shown all their customers; they have very little old goods on di'ind. Mrs. Mary McKinnon, and Misses Emma Allbrittou, .Jennie Overstreet and E11 In Olvatf, of Nashville, are agents for the Baptist Watchman, Christian Index, Missionary Helper and Foreign Mission Journal respect 1 ively. Oiyr readers will surely be pleased to know that the Gazette has seeur- ed the services of a special correspon dent ut Adel to furnish them the news of that flourishing town. Of one thing we can assure our readers, his letters will always be full of in terest. The yearly meeting of tlie Union Fi'iiintivc Baptistcluircli, a short dis tance bldovv Mill town, occurs the sec- 011 l Sunday ami S.iturd iy before in this month. Then at Pleasant church on the third Sunday and Saturday before, and Umpire church on the fourth Sunday and Saturday before. The Young Ladies Mission Society, organized by Miss Loulu Morgan, of the Nashville Baptistcluircli lias the following officers:' Miss Jennie Over- street, president; Bobbie McCranie, vice-president, Elinina Morris, secre tary; Eulii (Hyatt, treasurer. These young ladies lire earnest workers in whatever they undertake to do and vve expect to hear a good report from the mission work in their hands. Mr. W. F. Harrell, of Sparks, against whom a number of bills of indietniqpt were found at the last term of Berrien superior court, charging him with the offense of lar ceny after trust, was languishing in jail tlie last vve heard from Nashville. When the bills were first found lie succeeded in giving bond, but last -week while lie was in attendance up- 011 county court bis bondsmen sud denly took a notion that they did not care to carry the risk any further ami to his great surprise delivered him over to tiie sheriff for safe keeping. Some of bis friends say that bis bondsmen were uniicccessnrily alarm ed. That while it is. true lie is charged with a grave offense—and quite a number of bills found—be is not guilty and cannot be convicted. The Gazette knows nothing of the mer its of the charge against Mr. Harrell. Tlie Stale School Fund. II011. 8, I). Brmlweli, state school commissioner, hns just completed an apportionment of the state sctiool fund among the. counties, made upon a basis of school population. The apportionments for Berrien mid her sister counties are ns follows: Berrien—School population,4,200; fund received, $7,859.60. Brooks—School population,4,020; fund received, $8,000. Clinch—School population, 1,001 : fund received, $8,480.75. Coffeo—School population, 8,303; fund received, $5,030.75. Colquitt—School population, 1,- 065; fund received, 43,420.25. Irwin —School population, 2,303; fund received, $4,020.25. Lowndes—School population, 4,- 081 ; fund received, $8,715.75. Worth—School population, 3,182; fund received, $5,507.50. The taking of the school census shows a general increase of school population in the stale: also, vvbat should be more gratifying to the peo ple, 07 per cent, of the school pop ulation are intending school— leaving only 3 per cent. out. If the interest in the rising'gen- erittioii continues a few more years as it bus the past two, the proud stall' of Georgia will occupy a higher piano in the mutter of education than she lias heretofore. ITEMS OF LOCAL INTEREST. GARNERED BY THE PENCIL AND SCISSORS PROCESS. Batch of Now* from NolKhhorlttc Cnuntloa Doomed of Special lutoroM to Ua/.et to Bernier** Tliw Tax Kolia. The tax digests of all the conn lies of the state but three—Fulton, Bibb and Floyd—have been received by the Uomptrollcr-Geneinl. All but twenty-six counties show decreases ranging from a quarter to three-quar ters of a million dollars. Those that show an increase are: Berrien, Bryan, Bullock, Chatham, Columbia, Cobb, Colquitt,, Coweta, DeKalti, Early, Echols, Gwinnett, Jackson, Leo; Lowndes, McDuffie, Muscogee, Oconee. Fierce, Pulaski, Richmond,Heriveil.Tattnall. Union, Walker, Walton and Wilkinson. Sumter county shows the large* decrease, $890,779. The largest in crease in #120,893 and ta made by Berrien county, of the wire grass re gion. Fulton may give im increase, blit it is doubtful about Bibb ami Floyd. Herrlcu County’s Exhibit at the Ohio State Kalr, While the progressive county of Berrien lias a very creditable exhibit of her products at the Ohio State Fair vve regret that her people did not take more interest in the matter than they did, for vve are sure the county could have made a much bel ter exhibit than the one sent forward. Some of the citizens around Cecil, through the influence of Dr. J, R. Folsom, contributed a simill lint vu- rid exhibit that- was very creditable. A few articles were contributed at Adel. But the hulk of the exhibit came from Tifton ami vicinity and were contributed by Messrs. Charles II. Goodman, Frank J. Weltzbarkcr from tlie Tift A Snow farm. John !>. Calhoun, James F. Paul, A. J. Pope, II. II., W. U. A E. II. Tift,and perhaps others, ami made up, as vve have staled, a very creditable display. Among the articles sent: were long and short staple cotton in their va rious stages, corn, sweet potatoes, peas, egg plants, onions, rice tobacco in its various stages, etc. We would have been greatly pleas ed if tlie people bad taken more in terest. in tlie'matter and every section of the county bad been represented. The exhibit sent cannot do the comi ty justice; with a great majority of the products sent from and labeled Tifton will carry to the minds of Ohioans tlie impression that when they come to Berrien county pros pecting they have only to come to Tifton to Bee nil of it worth seeing and it is hard to disabuse their.minds of this false impyssion. Berrien is ii great and grand coun ty in every section and a new comer would not make a mistake it matters not in which portion he should de cide to Imild his home. A cow nursing a pig is one of the odd sights of Sumner. Prof. W. S. Tilly will conduct the fall term of Sylvester ncndeniy. Brooks county’s tax “slump” amounts to more than $100,000. Cholera is playing havoc with hogs in some portions of Coffee county. Prof. John I!. Overman, of Willa- coochoe, lias a new son at his house. A sqnusii, weighing between fifty and seventy-five pounds, is a product of Coffee county. The merchants of Moultrie are said to he paying 7c. mid upwards for short, staple cotton. The old-fashioned eanipnieeling at Homerv ille begins September 16th and continue ten davs. lion. John A. Tomherlin repre sented the Irwin County Alliance at the stale meeting at Griffin. Miss Florence Williams has leased her paper, The Valdosta Telescope, and retired from its management. A wnr of words, over tlie question of removing tlie county site of Worth county to the railroad, continues in the Local. It is claimed that there Inis uot been a single dentil, from natural causes, in Moultrie for more than I wo years. A correspondent savs there are seven store buildings under contract at Moultrie, Colquitt county, to Ik finished by October 1st. Tlie editor of tlie DuPont. Indus trial Banner did , three days road service last. week, lie was not al lowed to talk out of it. are lmppy, and they couldn’t lx-other wise when they have plenty at home to live upon and to barter at the store for all tlie purchases they desire to mukc. Messrs. Leo and Daniel Hull, of Coffee comity, were arrested a few days since by a deputy United States Marshal charged with it violation of the revenue laws, by selling whisky wRhput license. They have always home tiie reputation of being respec table, law-abiding citizens, mid their arrest hns caused no-lit tie excitement and surprise among the people of that comity. . The. Storm King. The most terrific storm within the memory of tlie oldest inhabitant pre vailed on the south Atlantic coast last Sunday. The loss of life and properly at Brunswick, Savannah, Beaufort, Port Royal and Charleston were great-—about forty lives ami tlioiuamls of dollars of property have been reported. Tbo steamship City of Savannah went ashore off limit ing Island near Charleston having on board ft long list of passengers, bn*. fortunately none were lost. Tliey were rescued by the steamship City A meeting of the Irwin County Alliance Inis been called with Cen terville lodge for Friday, September 8th, to transact important business. Sheriff Sharp, of Colquitt county, has just returned from a trip In Flor ida, whither lie went after a negro, A ml v Riebler, who is charged with a heiiious eriine. Editor DeLoaeh, o f the Irwin County News, says he grew this sea son twemy-two pieimdnns, or citrons, on one vine averaging twenty pounds each. This is some melon yarn itself. The News makes the honest con fession that Sycamore, “has been awfully dull during the past two years," notwithstanding some sub stantial improvements have been made. Editor Pendleton, of the Valdosta Times, after investigation, lias de cided lie (ltdti’t want, the Indian agency tendered him by the govern ment at any price. Just as wo ex pected. Aslilmrii wants to lie the county site of Worth county and will give the land mid build a court house. But Ashhurn is too far in the north western part of the comity for her hid to avail her any tiling. The [ample living in the vicinity of Mt. Zion Baptist church, Colquitt county, are looking forward to the meeting of Mell Association, which convenes there on Friday before the fifth Sunday in October next, with TU'ton Institute. Wc are cognizant of the fact that the school at this place heretofore, although reaching a high standard of excellence, has not been what it should have been, ami that in it the people, of this amt surrounding conn- try have not. realized anything like their anticipations. Being, as we all arc, aware of this fact wo must ac knowledge that there is some reason for it, ami finding this drnwbnck we must work together to remedy the evil that is breaking down our school interests, holding back the growth of our fondest, hope that of making Tif ton n town Whose people shall every where he spoken of as noted for their culture, refinement, sociality and roligton. Let its examine ourselves and see if the beam is in our eye, unit if so remove it. Do wo properly regard the welfare of our children who are to come after us and take our places on the great stage of life? Hava we done everything in our power to promote the cause of education in our community V Have we at nil times given it the hearty co-operation our knowledge of iu importance would seem to indicate to us as due? Have wc not, at some time, let some little petty whim cause us to lose sight of the great object for which wc are striving, the preparation of the rising generation for the impor tant duties of life which are soon to fall to their lot? If so, let ns awake from our lethargy and assume til# grave responsibilities that are rightly ours, f.et us “art well our part, for there the honor lies." We have a commodious building, well equipped with modern furni ture, gratuitously placed at vAir dis posal, and a teneher who will do honest work, striving always to work for the best interests of the school, sparing neither pains nor energy to perform creditably to himself and profitably to Ins pupils the duties im posed upon him, but utterly helpless without the hearty co-operation of the patrons and people of the towu. The fall term of school, which opens on the 4th inst., wilt lie run with the one great principle in view that “upon the* proper discipline of the child depends the future welfare of the man, the prosperity of the state and the wisdom and justice at the laws.” Let us all lay aside every hindrance amt with one long, hard, stubborn light, plant our banner on Pelion’s heights with a trinmpthant shout of victory that shall awakun the country for miles and miles around. E. J. VViu.tAjis, Jn., Principal of Tifton Institute. qualifications, ami who would he a valued addition to any community. If in the fact “that, a half loaf is bettor be succeeds in his mission here lie ttmn no In if at all." They si.y they tvill be the means of adding several of j will not fare :is badly as some ot tiers. of Birmingham Wednesday nmniing. From the above the reader? of the i having clung to the mast ami rigging <; *z,crTE will see that the grand old for quit® two days. The men express themselves as syd- {.oniilv of Berrien will probably win j isfieil, realizing that circumstances ‘be proud distinction of the “liutiner j 1 lie House of Representative*-do- whic.li‘lie officials coal.l ‘not control county.** As the matter stands;feated the free coinage up to the m ute 'such ucMon nccres irv They j Fulton is really her only competitor. ; n t j 0 „f go („ | on Monday and next ‘ complaining.' rather rejoice ,,s * h ® ul &'day repealed the purchasing clause are not complaining. I every citizen of Berrien comity to of tlu Sherman silver' luw greiiter activity - , in the work of ina- . terial advancement. Lotprogress be believed that a ratio oJ b - . to written oo ail her banners. j be adopted. It is 1 will pleasurable anticipations. The As- day. At Now Hlver Ghurch. A most interesting protracted meet ing begun with New River church last Saturday and closed Wednesday at noon. Preaching service twice a social inn will receive a royal wet come. Gov. Northen Inis offered an ad ditional reward of $250 for the ap- prehension and delivery to the sheriff of Worth county of the party or. par ties who luiriied the court house. This increases the reward to $1,5 75, In Older to get this reward the ap prehending party must furuislrproof to convict. The farmers of Colquitt county have pieiity of corn, bacon and pota toes-arid a bright prospect for a full supply of these articles next year. Tliey have no money but still i,A m &S5 i mfttSWmSiBEtfw The preaching was conducted by Filters Cox, Matthews, Overstreet, Clark and Snail, The Ilolv Spirit attended the word with convincing and converting power, and six per sons were led to believe the Truth anil, on Wednesday morning, Ut o'clock, three young ladies followed Christ in baptism. Pastor W". F, Cox administered the ordinance. . This church will engage in a prayer and praise service next Sunday morning ut 10 o'cloak, after which the members will attend to the bnsi> uess of calling a pastor for suing ussociuuuual year.