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THE GAZETTE t TIFTON, GA., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1894.
FACTS AND FANCIES.
A Batch of Interesting Items from the
Assistant Editor.
St Valentines’ day, Wednesday of
last week, was a dead issue in Tifton.
The violet and jasmine are begin
ning to bloom, and next month the
atmosphere will be ladened with the
perfume of the wild honeysuckles.
The Gazette Publishing IIouhk
continues to solict your printing. All
work executed with artistic skill and
promptness, and at prices that defy
competition.
When a man falls out with an ed
itor and quits taking the paper ho
reads it just as regular as he did be
fore, if he can borrow it. There is
one ot these characters in Tifton.
The political campaign of 1894
will soon open and every voter shuuld
keep posted on passing events. This
they can do by subscribing for the
Gazette, only $1 a year in advance.
The Gazette’s latest attachoe,
yclept the “Devil,” received through
the mail last week something better
than a Valentine—a beautiful silk
’kerchief from his best—well, its best
to say no more about it
The Gazette has a large and in
creasing circulation m the counties
of Berrien, Irwin, Worth and Col
quitt, and merchants desirous of
reaching the people of these counties
should patronize its columns.
Yesterday was the birthday of
■ George Washington, “The Father of
lIU Country.” To-day is our birth
day, and wo thank our Heavenly
Father that he has permitted us to
reach another mile-post on the high
way between the cradle and the
grave.
February' is the month provided by
law for the burning oil woodland,and
the people of this section have been
busy the past three weeks engaged in
this important work. This explains
Why the atmosphere has been laden-
cd with smoke and ashes ever since
this month was ushered in.
The Gazette has two scholarship ,
for sale—one in the Georgia Busi
ness College at Macon and the other
In Stanly’s Business College at Thom
ftsville. They are both superior
Schools of their character; and young
tnen contemplating taking a business
course would do well to consult us
relative to these two scholarships.—
Stenography and type-writing are
taught at both schools.
Deserving Praise.
We desire to say to our citizens, that
for years wo liavo been selling Dr. King’s
New Discovery for Consumption, Dr
King’s New Life Pills, Bucklcn'a Arnica
Salve and Electric Bitters, and have nev
er handled remedies that sell as well, ot
that have given such universal satisfact
ion. Wc do not hesitate to guarantee
them every time, and we stand ready to
refund the purchase price if satisfactory
results do not follow their use. These
remedies have won thoir great popularity
purely on the merits. Jake W. Paulk
Druggist. '
SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA.
fi»m« Facta About the Southern Portion
of the Golden State.
Sas Jose, Cal., January 80,1894.
Ed. Rkiwucam:—Before leaving
Joliet many of your readers asked mo
to write to them regarding California,
its climate, various expenses, etc. I
have now spent nearly a month in
the various valleys from Yuma to
San Francisco, and have obtained
much valuable information for pros
pective settlers, part of which I will
give your readers:
It is not my intention to describe
the most attractive feature, but to
give plain, every-day facts which will
confront every one who comes here
to settle. This valley, Santc Clara,
is tho banner fruit and vine section
of the state, and prices for land here
arc fifty per cent higher than in most
of the other portions. 1 took a thir
ty-mile ride with some prospective
purchasers, and vre were shown land
four miles from San Jose at WOO per
acre and nine miles out at $900 per
acre. Nearly ali the valley and foot
hill lands are held at prices ranging
between these two figures.
Fruit aud grapes arc the only prof-
■ liable crops to grow, and it requires
from three to six years to grow a
good bearing orchard, and it is the
rule here not to raise other crops
among the young growing trees. So
the new comer must figure on not
less than $200 per acre for his land,
ItlO per acie each year for
earing for the orchard, 8 to 9 per
cent interest on the purchase price, if
hk buys partly on time, $2 per acre
for irrigation, $20 to $35 por thous
and feet for lumber to build bis bouse
and other builders’ materials in pro
portion, $200 to $300 for drilled well,
wind mill, tank, pipes, etc., without
being able to make even his living off
the land for the first three or four
years. There are no farms here, all
being ranches, even a five acre traot
being called a ranch.
Ordinary household expenses arc
not any higher here than with us, for
the green vegetable carts keep going
the year through and meat and cloth
ing are oheap. One of the greatest
drawbacks there is to this coast is
the gigantic monopoly of the South
ern Pacific railroad, as they charge
any price they please for passage or
freight. I know of one case wiiere
they charged at the rate of 7 cents
per mile. Of course, these high rates
make it difficult for a poor man to
change from one portion of the state
to another. But I must close for this
time and will give yon a glimpse of
the brighter side next letter.
J. II. Rowell.
A Million Friends.
A friend la need is a friend indeed, and
not less than one million people have
found just such a friend in Dr. King’s
New Discovery for Consumption, Coughs
and Colds.—If you have nover used the
Great Cough Medicine, one trial will con
vince you that It has wonderful curative
powers In alt diseases of Throat, Chest
ami Lungs. Each bottle is guaranteed to
do all that is claimed or money will be
refunded. Trial bottles free at Jake W.
Paulk,8 Drug Store. Large bottles 50c
and $100.
SOUTHERN GEORGIA.
As Viewed by a Juliet Mun whu tins Seen It.
Ed. Republican :—The letter of
Mr. J. H. Rowell, from San Jos, Cal.,
in your issue of the 5th, regarding
California and tho opportunities it
presents for people wishing to engage
in tlie delightful avocation of fruit
raising in its detail, presents such
striking contrasts to the opportunities
of Southern Georgia, which I recent
ly visited, that I wish to let your
readers know something of that land
which within thirty-six hours ride of
us lies largely unoccupied and wait
ing for development.
At Tifton, Berrien county, 105
miles south of Macon, land can be
bought at from $0 to $10 per acre,
from which a living may be had from
the start, and in a few years a com
petency earned, and that in a delight
ful and healthy climate, and with so
cial conditions unequalled in any com
munity. There are thousands of
acres ot land in Georgia to bo had
for from $2,00 to $5.00 per acre on
winch one can live and thrive; hut
railroads do not gridiron that state as
they do our northern states, and the
points from which shipments can be
made profitably are not plentiful.
Therefore junction points are most
desirable and such a point wo find at
Tifton, where the Georgia Southern
& Florida railway crosses the Brun
swick & Western, the latter road be
ing a part of the great “Plant Sys
tem” of the south, embracing 1,494
miles of railroads.
The products are cotton, corn, oats,
rye, peas, potatoes, sugar cane, rice,
tobacco, and all kinds of vegetables,
known or raised in any country, nnd
last and far excelling any other pro
duct, fruit.
Georgia, is the home of the poach,
pear, grape, and strawberries, black
berries, and raspberries are unequall
ed in production and profit, over and
above ail stands the Georgia water
mellons. Investigation of what is
being done at Tifton ‘shows that on
these lands, fifty acres of which may
lie had for the price of one acre in
California, is being raised all these
crops and fruits successfully and with
profits far above that of ordinary
farming. The Georgia peach is un
rivaled by the California product.
The famous Elbcrta variety far ox
ceiling anything from the western
coast. Other varieties arc as good os
any which can lie raised in any cotitt
try under the sun. The peach indus
try in Georgia is fast engrossing the
attention of the northern horticultur
ist, attracted by the cheap labor and
cheap laud. Several thousand acres
are now set put in orchards, mostly
by northern people, who,* forming
stock companies, have - gone .down
■and occupied the land nnd are mak
ing it “to bloom like the rose.” Peach
trees begin to bear the third year from
setting. Meantime crops are raised
between the rows. Last year peach
es soltl at $1.20 per bushel, on the
trees, and average orop for the fourth
year is from a bushel to five pecks to
a tree; with 175 to 200 trees to the
acre, make the calculation and com
pare it with the fourth year of occu
pation of a California acre ranch.
Lnbor is abundant and good, at fif
ty to sixty cents per day, and long
hours, not five cents per hour to the
colored man, who is both willing and
anxious to earn even this small
amount on which to support his
family.
Lumber can be bought at from $7
to $8 per thousand, and all kinds of
provisions are as cheap as in Joliet,
excepting poultry, which all through
tho state is scarce and high. Poultry
raising presents the finest opeuing of
any industry one could engage in,the
mild climate and abundant range and
plenty of green food making it com
paratively safe.
Tile southern people invite and are
eager to encourage northern capital
and enterprising settlers.
“Warm as the sun that seeks Its land,
Boundless as all its wealth may be,
Opcu as its extended hand,
Is Southern hospitality."
I have not touched upon many at
tractive and interesting things con
cerning this most bountiful land. It’s
too long a story for a short letter.
B. II. Kino.
Mr. Albert Favorite, of Arkansas City,
Kan.,wishes to give our readers the ben
efit of- his experience with colds, lie
says “I contracted a cold early last spring
that settled on my lungs, and had hardly
recovered from it when I caught another
that hung on all summer and left me of.
I had used Chamberlains eougli remedy
some fourteen years ago with much suc
cess, and concluded to try It ngain. When
I had got through with one bottle my
cough had left me, and 1 have not suiTcr-
ed with a cough or cold slnco. I have
recommended it to others, and all speak
well of ft." GO cent bottles for sale nt
Tifton Drug Store. •
THE
GEORGIA -
SOUTHERN
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Tampa, Fla., and Hashv ilia, Term.
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JACKSONVILLE, LAKE CITY, MACON AND
■ ATLANTA,
MUMS CONNECTION IN UNION DEMT8 AT
ISACON, ATLANTA A NASIIVIhLG
rOR ALL POINTS
NORTH, EAST & WEST.
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Palta,Macon,Ga.
ALL POINTS WEST
ONLY LINE
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—WITH—
Local Sleepers on flight Trains,
Oat Ptlttki-MsCAa Night Train carries
Tampa-N.ihvtlle Sleeper, North
bound, from Lake City, Pit.,
Making aU Connections aa above.
Paatengars Iron. Jacksonville lor Ma
con should take l.ccal Steeper at Lakt
City. Dy doing this they can remain In
Bleeper till , a. m.
lnlormeUou as to Hates, Bchtdlilst,
Blssplng Car accommodations, etc.,
Cheerfully and promptly furnished an
application to the undersigned.
, A. C. KNAPP,
Traffic Manager,
MACON, OA.
AGAINST FIRE.
JAMES Z. ELLIOTT,
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After two or three years' experience with the credit sys
tem and all Us attendant trials, disappointments nnd
anxieties, I have determined to abandon it and do bus
iness
Strictly
For the Cash.
I propose to carry a limited stock of STAPLE GROCER
IES AND PLANTATION SUPPLIES, and those buy
ing for cash will find it to their inlurost to got my prices
before making their purchases.
The hanks are now loaning money on the same col
lateral that is required to obtain credit of tho merchants
and 1 am convinced that it is belter for both buyer and
seller that fnrmers borrow money from this source nnd
pay cash for what they buy. The merchant avoids the
(rouble and expense of book-keeping and collection, and
tho farmer obtains his goods at much lower priccs.
Don’t forget 1110 when you want
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cash sales and small profits will liu my motto horoafter.
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JAMES Z. ELLIOTT.
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Specific Tax Ordinance.
City of Tifton.
He It ordered by the City Council of Tifton,.
That the following specific taxes shall be payee!
I.y any porson or per sons who carry on or encage
in tho same within the city, and upon a failure
to pay the same before commencing business, or
when requested to do so, shall be subject to a
hue of not less than one dollar nor more than
one hundred dollars, or work on the streets or l>e
confined within the city gujfi-d bouse in thtr
Mayor’s discretion.
(or each billiard or pool table, ten pis alley,
and all tables and alleys of any kind Used for the
purpose of playing with balls or pins, or boath
within the said city, for profit, 910 on the flrrt,
and for each additional table, payable when
said business commences, and no license snail he
granted for leas than one year.
On all contrivances of wbat ever kind used for
the purtMise of gamine or carrying on a game of
chance by selling-cmls, tickets or numbers, or
turning a deal or wheel, selecting or designating
cards, pictures, envelopes or photographs from a
»uml>er of similar articles or objects, or by
pitching rings at sticks or knives, or by throwing
dice, or by any othor artifice or contrivance
whatever, shall pay the sum of 910 or such other
smn .as the Mayor in his judgment may assess.
All jmrsons shall procure a license before open*
Ing or commencing any of these kinds of busi*
nesses.
For each performanco by circus f 100 or in thd
Mayor’s discretion.
For each side show, per day, $25 or in the May*
or's discretion.
For each theatrical exhibition, $5, or in the
Mayor’s dicretion.
For sleight-of-hand performances, 910 por day.
For tricks of lodermain, or any kind of shows
or exhibitions not mentioned,- the Mayor shall
use his discretion.
For caeh book peddler or canvasser §2 per
month, or the Mayor may use his discretion.
For each peddler in any kind of merchandise,
or anything not enumerated above, from 92 to
$25 per month, in tho discretion of the Mayor.
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For each barber chair used for profit, 9* per
annum.
For evory dray wogon or cart drawn by one
animal, $5 per annum.
For each dray, wagon or cart drawn by two or
more animals, $7.50 per annum.
For each auctioneer, 910 per annum.
For each dealer in spirituous, vinous, mault or
intoxicating liquors, rice bear, cider, beer, bit
ters, or anything that will tend to intoxicate,
910,000 jter annum, payable before commencing
business.
For each dog, owned and kept in tbe city, 9t
per nnnuin. the marshal shall Impound and If
not redeemed In a n-asonabls length of time It
shall lw sold or killed.
For each photographer or plcturo-Ukor iu tent
or located 910 per annum.
For each dealer iu guns and pistols, $10 per
annum.
For each contractor or builder who contracts
for any building costing or worth when complet
ed the sum of $300 or more shall pay a license of
915 jwr annum.
For each contractor or builder who contracts
for any building costing or worth when complet
ed the sum of $100 or less than $300 shall pay a
license of 910 por annum.
The term contractor shall include all persons
superintending work on buildings or any
thing of like nature and charging therefor by
the day or otherwise except it lie tho persons
owning the building. .
Hub-contractor* who work on buildings where
tlie principal contractor has paid the pr«j»er
license shall not bo required to pay a lieonse for
engaging in such work.
For each skating rink, 930 por annum.
For each restaurant, $5 per annum.
For each market or retailer of fresh meats—
U*cf, pork, mutton, kid or veal—939 p«r annum.
For each dealer iu fresh salt water fish, $10
per annum.
Kvery lion-reilduiit llfo insurance solicitor, $10
pur Minium.
Kueli lire insurance company, $5 per annum.
Kadi Ufa Insuranco company, $5 per annum.
Kueli accident insurance company, $5 pur
annum.
Kaoh Ini tiding and loan association, $10 per
annum.
For each boarding bouse taking transient cus
tom, $5 per annum.
For each hotel, $15 per annum.
For every merchant doing a business under
SPARKS, GEORGIA^
$3 SHOE
The Best Shoes
910.000 annually, 95 por annum.
*" “Oil— * *
business of from
FOR
6ENTLEREN.
SB, 84 and 83.00 Dross Shoo.
83.B0 Police 8hoo, 3 Ooloo.
82.BO, 82 for Workingmen.
82 and 81.76 for Boys.
LADIES AND MISSES,
83, 82.60 82, $l.7B
CAUTION.—If nny denier
oflora you W. I.. Dougin*
shoes at a red need price,
or nays ho has them with*
tho nitmn ntnmped
tho bottom, put him
down mu fraud.
_ ^ Shoes arc stylish, easy fitting, and give better
aatlsfnctlonTit th<Tpi kes advertised than any other make. Try one pair and be con
vinced. The stamping of W. I.. Douglas* name and price on the bottom, which
guarantees their value, saves thousands of dollars annually to those who wear them,
Dealers who push the sale of W» L. Dougina Shoes gnln customers, which helps to
increase the sales on their full line of goods. They nan nfford to soil nt n leas profit,
nnd w«i believe you can save money by buying nil your footwear of the dealer adroit
Used below. Cutuloguo free upon application. W. I*. DOUGLAS, Urucktou, Muse.
J. Z. ELLIOTT, AGENT, SPARKS, GA.
.ci v merchant doing i
910.00 to *25,000, annually, $10 .... ...
For cat’ll merchant doing a bn*incs*s of $50,-
ooo annuity, $15.
ICnoli pbytdciun or surgeon, $5 i*or annum.
Kaeli dentist, 95 per annum.
Kach lawyer, 95 per annum.
Fruit real estate agent, 95 per annum.
Kueli Jeweler, 95 per annum.
Kaeli tailor, $2.50 por annum.
Km b shoo maker, 92.50 por annum.
Kadi fruit, oanJy and peanut stand, fJ.10 per
annum.
Knob Hewing rtmchluo agent or local dealer In
sowing machine* except, liceiisod merchant*,
$2.W per annum.
Ueenso tuny !*» granted for six months for <50
per cent, of tno 1111111141! rate, all licenses shall
plre on or before tho first day of February of
each year.
All ordiminee* or parts of ordinance* la con
flict with this ordinance 1* hereby repealed.
I'sssed and adopted in Council tlds, F«l*uary
5th, IR'.M. O. \V. FuifWfxm, Mayor.
Attest: J. II. (Ioodmam, Klerk.
L. DOUGLAS
t the pikes advc
C. W. FULW00D,
Agent For
Insurance Co , of North America of Philadel
phia.
Hartford Insurance Co., of Hartford.
Greenwich Insurance Co., of New York and
otbjr old line companies.
Insurance effected in any locality and on
overy class of
Office, rooms land 3 Love Building, Tifton
Un.
CASH for FARMERS!
Cash Homo Market for Your Produce. Make Your
Contracts Wow. We allow you to ship and
buy your surplus. Your Interest is Ours.
Is now ready to make contracts with yon for tho 1804 crop of Ei\rlv
Jujic Peas, White Marrowfat Peas, Refugee and Wax Bunch
Beans, Lima Beans—Bush and Pole-and Sweet Corn.
500 Acres in Tomatoes.
This Is the only crop you can plant knowing what you can
get for your product Wore breaking ground. Our future
_ pon you. Wc furnish crates In which to handle your crop. We
urnlsii your seed at actual cost.
"Wanted, in Large Quantities,
Blackberries, Strawberries, ITacfclolierrles, Haspberrlcs, Elga, Quinces. Peaches,
LcConte ami KelfTer Pears. Culls, In peaches and (.ears, not wanted.
Call at the factory for further Information.
47-4m. H, G. SLACK, General Manager.
An Ordinance.
HK<\ 1. Ho it uunrtud by tko City fotmoil of
tlm rity uf Tifton, and It is hereby enacted by
tho authority of tho *amo: That »«> imieh of tl»o
HjMM lih: or occupation tax act of 1*uj Its relates
to tho sale of Cigarettes l*o aud tho same la here
by rejicnled.
Appro\cd, February 5, 1*04.
C. W. Kumvood, Mayor.
An Ordinance.
Hbcst. 1. !to it enacted by the C ity Council of
tho t'ltv of Tifton. ami it I* hereby enacted by
the authority of tlw mi mo, that from and after
tho passage of thin act, ii Mmll Ik* unlawful for
horse* or mule* to run at largo cm the streets of
mild city, and it I* hereby made Rio duty of tho
City Mur*hul to lake up amt impound all such
animal* found miming at large and to notify
tho ownor thereof to appear l»cfore the Maxor
who shall hear e\ Idunci- in the matter and if It
apjxtara that said animat* arc at largo by tho
consent or through the neglect of the owner, ho
nh.ill lie required to pay a pound fee of $1.00 amt
25c per day for each day Mild animal 1* kept after
the first day.
hK«\ 2. Ho It further enacted, that all ordi
nances or part* of ordinance* tn conflict, with
thi* are hereby repealed.
Approved, February 5, t*iM.
C. W. Fulwoop, Mayor.
An Ordinance.
lie it enacted by the City Council of the City
of Tfftion, Mid it Ii hereby enacted by tlie
authority of the same, that from and after tho
pannage of this act it nliall la* unlawful for Kail-
road Companies or their employe* to obstruct,
with Uailroud Train*. Kiiglne* or Cars. <>r other-
wine, any of the public KallrnaU creasing* with
in the Corporate limit* of Tifton for a longer
period than ten minutes, ihiles* the cireuin-
Maine* are *ucU a* tn render longer time almo-
lately necessary; and any one found guilty of
vlolatIng this ordinance Mull l*e lined not loss
than 9.V00 nor more than 925.00 or be Imprisoned
m tlie guard house not longer than Lin lays in the
discretion of the Mayor.
Hko. 5. lie tt further enacted, and it ir harehy
enacted, that all laws or parta of laws In conflict
with till* law are hereby repealed.
Approved; February 5.1«94.
(). W. Ft'Lwroon, Mayor.
An Ordinance.
Sue. 1. fls it enacted by tho City Council of
the City of Tilton, and It*is hereby enacted by
the authority of the aume, that sixty days from
the passage of tki* aot it shall be unlawful for
Hogs to roam at large on the street* of said City,
and Hlxty «tays from the approval of thU act It 1*
hereby made the duty of the City Marshal to
take up ami impound all hog* so found miming
at large and to notify tlw> owner thereof if the
same can Imj found; if not fo advertise the tuerks
and dtsertptlon of tho animal in three public
place* its the City for a period of ten days; and,
if tlie owner doe* not claim l*. to sell said ani
mal to the highest bidder and deposit the pro
ceeds thereof with tho Treasurer. A11 owners of
Hog* impounded under thi* ordinance shall pay
a pound fee of 25c tot the first dav the animal is
kept aud 10c for each additional uay,
SwvJ. He it further cnaeted that all ocdl.
nances and part* of ordinances in conflkt with
lids ordinance are hsreby repealed.
Approved: February 5, l*id.
C. \Y. Fvvwroou, Mayor.
LEGAL BLANKS,
Warrantee I feeds,
Honda for Title,
Mortgages—I»njr and Short Form,
Criminal Warrants,|
* For sale—
Justice Court Humutons,
Justice Court Kxecuttons,
Forthcoming Horn!,
Attachments,
GAZETTE PUBLISHING HOUSE.
Rule is Perfect Service.
Maby k. Cbim>N,i l.tBKu Fou Dmmcr:
VS. J In He men Superior Court:
Kd. Ci.tiTov. ) October term lftB.
It ap|x\tring to court by the 'return of rhe
sheriff in the above Mated case, that the defend
ant doc* not reside in said county; and it furth
er ap|NWtring what lie does not reside in the state,
• it is ordered by the court that survive b*
perfected on. the defendant by the publication
>f this order, once a month for four months be
fore tin* next tetm-of this court, m the Tiktoh
iAKKfTK, a newspaper published in Hervieu
r ‘ounty tJeoreto.
runted *.. Vvyvi.YS £ AuxAHWRk,
Vt’d. If. lldNSKt.L, I’etiUonev* any*.
Judge S. C. S. C.
A 1 Imv copy of the minute* of this court.
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