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TIFTON, BERRIEN CO., GEORGIA, FRIDAY, MARCH 1,1805.
VOL. 4-
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-NO. 45.
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BITS OF LOCAL GOSSIP.
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PersonaF-and Impersonal Matters In
' the City and Vicinity.
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•The Wire© Volume*.
f life is % story in volumes three;
> The punt, the present, and the yet to be.
Tile first U,finished and fold away;
The second we are reading day by day ;
The third and last, of the volumes three, ’
*r * Is locked from sight—God keepeth rite key.
- —Southern Odd Fellow.
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March 1; the first day of spring.
Early vegetation is likely to be late
this year.
y TiftVi Snow Co.. are“here to stay”
—hud to win.
Tifton is always ahead! Shelias
Snow every day now?
Go and see the carloads of bargains
) being opened, ut Padrick Bros.
. The woods m this vicinity are re
ceiving their annual burning off.
The purchase of a cage don't al
ways mean the capture of a bird,
is Capt.-Tift’s turpentine hands are
itoxing all the round timber he owns
_ in and udjacent to the city.
Miss Seigler, of Thomas comity, is
visiting in the city and the guest of
her brother, Mr. VV. F. Seigler.
Tift & Snow (Jo., have grown the
: very varieties that is suited to your
. wants and your climate.
Elder II. G. Hogan, the Primitive
Bnjitist minister from Indiana, held
services at tlie Methodist church
again lust Monday night.
Another young lady has arrived ut
the hospitable home of Dr. and Mrs.
J, A. McOrea. The Doctor is all
smiles; says “lie prefers for all lib
I boys to be girls.” '
The old unfed and unsheltered cat
tle have fared budlv during tjie se
vere weather of the past two mouths;
«ml, doubtless, many of them have
“yielded up the ghost.”
To walk a mile in twelve minutes
is easily uocompiished if you wear the
Wuukeuphust shoe, sold at Padrick
Bros.’
Messrs. Julian, hove & Buck, Tif
ton’s wholesale merchants, are grad
milly working themselves into a fine
business. They ship goods daily to
every point of the compass.
Dr. J. W. Farmer went up to Isa-
bella Wednesday as an expert witness
at the preliminary hearing in the
case of “The State vs. Barton,”
charged with murdering his wife,
i The foundation has been laid for
* Mr. E-LPadrick’srefidence, southwest
corner of Central avenue and Sixth
street It will be u handsome two-
story structure and contain nine
rooms.
Gaskins’, Tif ton, is the place to buy
the best goods at rock-bottom figures.
In the Masonic building.
The local freight train on the Geor
gia Southern and Florida railroad
has resumed a daily schedule south,
supplanting the inconvenient tri
weekly that has obtained for some
• r , months past.
The Tifton Literary Soeicty meets
■ once a week at the residence of Mr.
!, W. 0. Tift It properly encouraged
and appreciated it will prove a very
beneficial institution to the young
L. jieople of the city.
Be not deceived by unreliubleiigcnts
Tift & Snow Co., can do better for
. you than any other firm.
Col. Jos. A. Alexander, of Nash
Iville, was in the city Wednesday on
professional business. He has sold
his Tifton property, on Central ave
nuo, now occupied by the Gazette
man, to Mr. II. S. Murray.
Constable Nobles, of the Alapahu
district, was in the city this week
Jooking after delinquent tax payers.
1 lie was imperative <n his demands for
the government's tribute, said the
limit to Ate leniency bad expired.
Try the high grade Imperial lliik-
., ing Powder. None better. At T. M.
Greene & Sons.
Swv'LV'-'
Tin* Gazette is not given to
boasting of the prospects of Tifton’s
growtli. But the roseate hue just
jffcfoow. frejn the standpoint of building
/* uents, rather urges us to say
cost of contemplated build-
" XU'Jit wijl be more than
liSl
$50,000. , This does not include the
building thut will be done outside the
incorporate limits but near the city.
We don’t mean by this that Tifton
is going to need uny great,influx of
mechanics.
Nearly every mail from the North
and West hrings letters of inquiry
about Tifton and adjacent country.
Verily advertising pays—especially
newspaper advertising, whou,there is
real merit in the thing advertised.
If you want standard goods at the
lowest cash prices, call on Gaskins’
in the Masonic building.
The Gazette .is informed that Mr.
L. C. Spires, the efficient railroad
yard master at Tifton, will soon com
mence building a comfortuble resi
deuce on his Siljley property, just
outside the southwestern limits of the
city.
Mr. F. M. Maugham has moved to
his new residence on Tift nyenue, al
though it is in an unfinished condi
tion. Tile Slack cottage on Central
avenue, which he vacated, is now oc
cupied by Mr. El B. War man and
family.
Tift & Snow Co., cun sell you fruit
trees better and cheaper tlmn any
firm in 1000 miles of here.
Tlie immigration from the North
and West to the South is oti in earn
est. Tifton wants u full quota if
they are all us desirable a-’ il.o*e sin.
lias already secured. The are ener
getic, thrifty and well-behaved citi
zens. !
Mr. J.W. Temple began Wednesday
morning to lay the brick foundation
for Mr. John Pope’s residence on the
northeast'corner of Love avenue and-
Fourth street. It will he u splendid
two-etory building, and elegantly
finished.
Don’t make your purchases of
general merchandise until you call at
Gaskins’ ami examine his goods and
prices. In Masonic building.
The'work of clearing away the de
bris on the Baptist church lot was
commenced Wednesday morning, mid
is progressing rapidly, preparatory to
laying the foundation for the new
structure. Mr. Simmons is in charge
of the brick work.
Hon. M, 11. Lindsey, Berrien coun
ty’s surveyor, has been in the city for
several days, and we regret to say is
in feeble health. His services ure in
great demand in this vicinity just
now, establishing original luiul lines
and running new ones. He made a
pleasant visit to this office while here.
Yonmans the liveryman. Tifton,Ga.
solicits public patronage, lleasonable
satisfaction guaranteed.
Work lias commenced in earnest
on Hie Tifton Foundry and Machine
Shops. Contractor McKinnon, of
Sumner, is in charge.' They say he
is a hustler. He has just finished
adding a kitchen to the residence of
Conductor Harrison, of the Bruns
wick uuit Western railroud, ou Love
avende.
The-Georgia Southern and Florida
pay train passed down the road this
morning, making glad the hearts of
employes. Passing into the car to
'interviewjGenerai Manager Lunc, who
was making a tour of inspection of
the road, this impecunious editor
spied the shining ducats—“so near,
and yet so far.’*
You can got n team at Yonmans’
stables. Tifton, at any hour, day or
night. Hostler (deeps ut stables.
Among the last car-load of horses
received here by Mr. Perry Moore
was (file that hud his shoulder badly
injured in transit. .Mr. II.A.Youmans
accepted a half interest in the horse
for his services in trying to cure him.
The horse is dead, and Dr. YounmiiB
got the trouble of hauling off the
the carcass for his services.
Some of the citizens of Tifton are
complaining at the manner horses
have changed hands in tin* city re-
oently. The Gazette thinks the
parties to it, after sober reflection,
will let the method end without dis
cussion of its riprebensibiltty. The
precedent of “getting something for
nothing" is too glaring, and the
youth of tlie city will too readily
accept it os » correct example.
RECORD OF THE COUNTY
Items Which Escaped the Attention of
Our Special Reporters.
Fair Weather.
K6 longer ha* the hlfzzar«l place:
It* course afar It takes;
Anil now the blue sky see* its fneo
In bright unrippled I ikes.
• —Atlanta Constitution.
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The attendance upon the public
schools of Berrien county has increas
ed, during the past year, from 2,250
to 3,2S0. This unprecedented in
crease is due largely to the volume of
enthusiasm which Commissioner
Thomas E. Williams is infusing into
the patrons, pupils and teachers of
tlie schools.
If yen wiqit nice bread use Impe
rial Baking Powder, from T. M.
Greene & Sons.
The Gazette is informed that the
failure of the bonds of the newly-
elected tax collector and tax receiver
of Berrien county to reach the comp
troller’s ollice within the time allowed
by law, was no fault of theirs. The
bonds were made and filed with tin*
Ordinary to bo forwarded, and lie un
intentionally overlooked it. It will
not be amiss for the Gazette to say
that it is the duty of these officers to
forward their own bonds, and not
that of the Ordinary. In the pres
ent case, if thq governor had declared
i liesu offices vacant and ordered a new
section, they could blame no one but
themselves. The precedent of leav
ing these bonds with the Ordinary to
be forwarded is a bad one, and should
not obtain longer in Berrien county.
Missus, if dat bread aint de finest
in de land. Slio, Use gwine to buy
some dat Imperial Baking ' Powder
myseli fiom Mr. Greene’s.
Tlie plucky ami progressive town
of Sparks Buffered- a severe loss by
lire on Thursday night, of last week,
amounting to about. $-1,000. Tlie fire
originated in the store bounty corner
Goodman and Colquitt streets, occu
pied by Mr. B. A. Rowland, between
0 and 10 o’clock ut night, and four
stores were soon burned to the ground,
together with a large part of their
contents. The losses were distributed
ils follows: B. A. Rowland, $1,500 on
stock and building, no insurance; es
tate of Dr. I. J. Goodman, $750 on
building, no insurance; M. L. Pur-
om,$1,000 loss and damage to stock.
$500 insurance; Gluts. Rent/, $400 oil
building, no insurance; J. B. Lewis,
$200 loss and damage to stock, r.o
insurance. The sufferers are all
friends of the Gazette, and its ed
itor regrets tlie disaster that has be
fallen them very much.
Melon Seed for Stile.
I have for sale about forty bushels
of watermelon seed, embracing Kolb
Gent, Jumbo Jones, Augusta Rattle
snake, Ivy or Little Gray and Pear
son. Price, 30c to 00c per pound.
Also a choice lot of Nutmeg canta
loupe seeds. D. G. IRBY,
Irby, Gu.
A missionary entertainment nt the
residence of Mr. B. 'J'. Cole to-night
Admission, 10 cents. J-et everybody
attend and aid the good cause.
•Patronize the merchants who are
cons.tahtly looking after the interests
of their customers. It is an acknowl
edged fact that Padrick Bros! have
been tlie means of drawing trade to
Tifton that would have gone else
where. Why? They curry a largo
assortment of goods and sell cheajier
than any house in South Georgia.
The indies of the Methodist church
propose giving, for the benefit of tho
parsonage fund, at Tifton Institute,
next Friday evening, Marcli 8lh, a
sale of aprons both useful and ornc-
meitlal, at which refreshments will
be served at 7:30 p. m. Admission
free. . All having the interest of this
cause at heart are ’cordially invited
to attend.
Hiliii®®SS
Btickleit’x Arnica Bill ye.
The Best Halve In tlie world for Cuts,
Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Sail Iilieum. Kcver
Sores,Tetter,Chapped Hands,Chilblains,
Corns anil all Skin Krupllons, and pot!
lively cares Piles, or no pay required. Il
is gaimnted to give perfect satisfaction
pr money refunded. Prim* 25 cent per
Ixix. Sold nt J. .1. Golden’s Drug store,
aud by W. A. Crabtree, .Sparks, Ga,
;
NltshvlHo Nuggets.
Nashville, February 28.—Since
old Mother Earth was painted white
with the beautiful snow, two weeks
ago, we’ve been lmying some spring
like weather.
Farmers in this section are very
busy preparing their lands for plant
ing. The incessant cold and rainy
weathei has retarded farm work very
much.
Marshal W r . P. Ilendley is having
some nice work done on onr streets
and sidewalks, and it is adding very
much to the looks of our bountiful
little town.
Mr. M. L. Purgorri, of Sparks, was
ill town Monday looking after bis in
terests. lie made many strong friends
among our people while engaged in
the mercantile business at this place.
Prof. Gary’s school is progressing
finely; new scholars coming in every
wook. Six new ones were added this
week to his already large number. It
is needless to say he is a good teacher
and giving general satisfaction,us the
several large schools lie has taught ut
this place attests that fuot.
Mr. W r . R, Fntoli will soon have a
livery ahd feed stables completed for,
the accommodation of the public,and
will be a Imfg felt want in our town
supplied. He will have them ready
by superior court. We hope our
young men will not forget he Inis
some fine steppers and nice buggies
in which tiieir best girls would like
to ride.-
• Mr. O. L. Smith, our efficient clerk,
recorded lusr. week one of the longest
deeds on record in this county, it,
covers eight pages closely written
and conyeys 523 lots of land, lying
in the comities'of Berrien, Lowndes,
Worth, Irwin, Coffee, Clinch, Echols,
Ware and Wayne, and is the proper
ty of the estate of the late Walter T
McArtnr, of Telfair county. These
hinds were once owned by Dr. Dtinie
Lott, of Wuyoross, and after Ins death
sold,"at executor’s sale, to McArthur
for $3,000.
Mr. S. I. Carter, woodspun for the
turpentine firm of Timmons & Co,,
ten miles east of Nashville, was shot
lust, Friday by a negro numed John
White. The negro was cutting boxes
that; did not give satisfaction, and he
was told by the woodsman he Imist.
do better or they would mix. Tho
negro used some cuss words am., ut
the smile time, stooped down to pick
up his ax which he hud laid down
while cleaning out his box. Mr.’O.,
thinking the negro intended attack
ing him with the ax, covered him
with his pistol by the time he raised
up with the ax and drove him from
the woods. The negro went to the
quarters, a distance of two miles, and
got a double barrel shot gun and
came back to where tlie other hands
were at work and hid himself in some
hushes. As Mr. Carter passed by,
inspecting boxes, the-negro fired upon
him, three buck-shot taking effect in
the right side of the head. The wound
whs dressed and one of the shot, ex
tracted, and Mr. Carter wits able to
attend to his work again Monday.
The negro lied, but through some
splendid detective work on the part
of two of the firm’s employes, Messrs.
Junior Myers and Lewis Mo While,
lie was caught that night, after a
desperate struggle, and brought to
Nashville Saturday, where he was
given a preliminary hearing beforo
Justice R. K. Turner und committed
to jiltl to await action of the femttd
jury. Keneiiy.
Ctininlierlulii’x lOye uml Hktu
Ointment.
Certain cure for Chronic Sore V-j-es,
Tetter, Salt Iilieum, Scald Bead, Old
Chronic Sores, Povor Bores, Eczema, Itch,
I’raii to Scratches, Sore N’l|i|i!es and Plica.
Il ia cooling anil soothing. Hundreds of
cases have been cured hy It after all
other treatment had fulled. It is put up
in 25 and 50 cent Imxcs. Sold at the
Tifton Drug Stoic.
Hon. Thomas E. Williams, Ber
rien’county’s indefatigable school
commissioner, was in the city on
Thursday of lust week. He is already
looking after the interest ami arrang
ing a programme for the minimi
teacher’s institute — composed last
year of the teachers of the public
schools of Lowndes, Colquitt, Worth,
Irwin and Berrien counties—which
meets in Tifton, in accordance with
a resolution adopted at the last insti
tute, some time in June. He expects
a much larger attendance this year
than lust, and says it is probable the
institute will embrace this year the
teachers of two additional counties.
OUR NEAR NEIGHBORS.
important Items of News from Ber
rien’s Sister Counties. 1
It says they then went in search of a
clergyman or justice of the peace,but
none of them would jierform the cer
emony, mid tlie couple left town. A
C'lisniberlaln’s Cough Remedy gives Hie
beat satisfaction of any cough medicine 1
hurdle, and as a .filler leads ait other
preparations in this market. I recoin-
inland it because it is the best medicine I
ever hadlcd for coughs, colds and croup,
A. W. llAi.niiuiou.'V
ttlleisvllle, lit.
The Four Kdltnr.
They may talk alxnit tho editor*
Ami say that they are poor, t
With very few pood creditors
And little earthly store.
But there ia one thing certain:
You cannot kecji them down,
For when they can't support themselves
They still support the town.
( —Waycross Herald.
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There arc $270,000 in the Valdosta
banks, suys the Times.
Tho spring poet struck the Ash-
burn Advance it hard blow lust week.
Judge J. B. Clements, of Irwin’s
county court, is reported quite sick'ut
his home in Irwinville.
Judge McDowell held a two day’s
session of Worth’s county court last
wee a, disposing of eighteen cases,
most of them civil ones.
Prof. J, II. Wilson, co-principal of
the Sylvester graded school Inst year,
has it large and flourishing school at
WiuTeiiton academy, near Ty Ty. '
Baldridge & Ftilwood are thor
oughly equipped for handling real
estate, call on or write to them at
once'if you have anything in that hue
for sale.
All over this section of the state
comes tlx* plea from our country ex
changes for much needed work on
the public roads, left almost impass
able by tlie recent thaw.
Portions of Dougherty, Worth ami
Irwin were visited by a heavy hail
storm on Tuesday of last week, re
ported in some instances to Imve fal
len to a depth of four inches. .
Work was begun lust Wednesday
on Moultrie and Colquitt county’s
first brick store. This is the second
brick building erected in the county,
the first one being u church.
Clerk C. G. Tipton, of Worth su
perior court, Imd the misfortune to
got the middle finger of his left hand
broken und another finger injured by
a kick from a liorfce one day lust week*
Mr. Jake Fletcher, of Irwin, and
Aliss h’lorenco tju inner, of Worth,were
nmriied at the home of tlie bride,
near Sumner, on Thursday of last
week. The groom’s parents gave the
yonr.g couple it handsome reception
at their Irwin county homo Thursday
night
We want to handle on commission
100,000 acres of land in Berrien, Ir
win and Worth counties. Fruit and
farm hinds a specialty, if we do not
make sales you ure at no expense.
Baldridge & Fulwood,
Real Estate agts.
Mr. Elbert Fletcher, ono of Irwin
county’s best citizens, living three
miles eust of Chain, lost his barn and
stables, his year’s supply of forage
and grain, aud three fine mules, by
lire on Thursday night of lust week.
The lire was discovered,about 2:30
o’clock, and its origin iB unknown.
There was no insurance.
Mr. II. K. Pritchett, a turpentine
operator in the southwestern part of
Worth county, was shot by a negro
one day l.iBt week. The wound is a
scalp one, uml not serious. It seems
that the negro, with four others, hud
run away while in debt to Mr.Pritcli-
ett, who pursued and arrested them.
It was while carrying them back that
the shooting Occurred. The negro
has become conspicuous by his absence
with a reward of $100 offered for him*
Rufus Joiner, a young mat) for
merly in the employ of Carter &Fonl,
nt Isabella, while Imuling freight one
day lust summer, injured his back by
lifting n heavy package. Tho hurt
.caused him but little inconvenience
until about two months ago, when he
was stricken with pimi'ysis, from his
hips downward. Despite a robust
constitution, and the most strenuous
efforts of his physicians, the paralysis
gradually spread to his breast, neck
and head, causing his death Saturday
night last.
Tho Valdosta Times says thut a
blind man aged about 115, iwl a lit
tle girl of fifteen, who hud been wan
dering tlie streets of that city beg
ging, applied to tlie ordinary for a
marriage lieonre, whirl) was grunted.
Valdosta clergyman, and claimed the
Times did them an injustice.
About the first of this year,a white
family mimed Barton moved front
Cycloneta to Mr. James Whaley's
place, four miles south,of Ty Ty, in
Worth county. They made few ac
quaintances, and but little was known
of them bv tiioir neighbors. On the
morning of th 12th iuQt., Mr. Barton
said thut tie wus awakened by the cry
ing of their infant child, and on go
ing to his wife’s bedside, found her
dead. The neighbors were called in,
and tlie body buiied next, day. Be
fore uml after tlie funeral, the actions
of Burton were such as to arouse sus
picion. until enough was developed
to warrant tho holding of an inquest,
which was done lust Saturday. At
the Inquest, it was in evidence that
Barton refused to leave tho room
while the corpse was being prepared
for burial, and insisted that it was
only necessary to wash the face,hands
and feet. He also asked one of the
women present if she did not think
the. imclt of the corpse was swollen,
and said that; his wife's neck waff al
ways large. The body was disinterod
and an autopsy held, tit which Dr. J.
W. Farmer, of Tifton, presided. The
woman’s neck was found to bear plain
im pi lilts of thumbs and fingers, as if
it Imd been violently grasped by both
hands. A further examination of
tho body mid stomach showed both to
be in a healthy condition, with no
parent cause of death, beyond tbe
signs of violence on the neck. As u
result; of this inquiry, the jury re
turned a verdict against Barton, who
was sent to Isabella jail. Wednesday
was set apart for a preliminary hear
ing of the case, but tho defendant
waived trial and was re-committed to
jail, *o await action of thjp grand
jury at next term of Worth superior
court.
$50 Pci'Mouth Guaranteed.
Young men uml women willing to no-
copt positions ut a salary of Fifty Dollars
per month, slmulil liiinivitluicly write tho
Georgia llaslausu College; Macon, Ga.
The guarantee Is given In writing to
parties passing required examinations
uml furnishing satisfactory references;
amt Important action will lie necessary to
secure iliese positions.
Progrnuintn
Of the Mell Baptist Sunday-school
Convention, to he held with Zion
Hope church, Irwin county, tlie
Fifth Sunday in March mid Batin''
day before, 0 O’clock x. M.
1. Invocation service by President
0. II. Beckwith.
2. Is tlie Bible onr authority tor
Sabbath-schools ? W. It. Morris.
3. What should ho the relation of
the pastor of u Baptist church to the
Sunday-school ? J. C. Beckwith,
4. Necessity for system und promjit-
ness in the Sunday-school. J. B.
Norman, Jr.
5. How o.ut wo make the Sunday-
schools more attractive ? R. A. Hen*
tlr.eks.
Devotional services to bo referred
to committee.
We earnestly urge that every school
be represented by delegates.
W.;W. Webb, }
II. T. Uowmno, [• Committee
S. AI. Sei.e, j
Mayer & Crfue.
Tho spec'ul attention of the reader
is called to the new advertisement, of
Muyet & Critic, Albany, Go., which
appears in to-day’s paper. They deal
itt general merchnndiK, but make a
specialty of furniture, la this par
ticular im? they can satisfy the
most fastidious and nt prices to suit,
tlie times. Their establishment is
one of tho handsomest in tlie city.
Wanted.
A position as teacher in a country
school, of thirty or thirty-five pupils,
convenient to railroad station. Bev*
era) years experience. First grade
license. Address
W. Henry G turns,
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