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THE GAZETTE: TIFTON , GA. ^FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER C, 1895.
The Tifton Gazette.
A POSSUM HUNT.
1'VilMMHKIl WKKK1.Y.
we lost no time in complying. ,
We left Uncle Abe with the coon,
The Gazelle m
Official Organ City of Tifton.
The Colonel was a mid»lle-aged : a nd helped the Ivernel home, where
man and extremely active and boyish
for his years. He was always talking
of his younger days, and regaling his to bed.
be was soon plastered and poulticed,
liberally corn-juiced, and tucked off
INSURE YOUR PROPERTY AGAINST FIRE!
J. F. COBB & CO.,
AGENTS,
Tifton, G-e o r g i a,
Represents the following Firstclass Companies:
hearers with stories of the chase or When the Colonel got to town Liverpool, London and Globe Insurance Oompanv.'
TKUMH OK HUItSCIUPTION!
one Year ' “ j other sport, in each of which, accord- j next day and the hoys asked the I Hartford Fire Insurance Company,
Six Months
)tt
OTAMAM.V IN AUVAKOK
i'hree Month*....’ .' i»[ing to his version, he always played a> reason f or h ia bunged and patched-
star part. ; U p physiognomy, he told a long story
' He stopped at our house one night j tt p 0 ut his horse having run away and
in the fall of the year, and made; thrown him into a tree top. The
himself at home generally, and with gtory would have been plausible, hut
the aid of a little of the old man’s j the horse didn’t look like he’d been
corn juice, was soon “one of the, awa k e in five years.
’ Entered at the jiontofflce, at Tifton, Georgia, a
mall matter of the second claw.
Ult. GKO. M. WESTON ts the Ga/kttk’* au-
M thorlzol acentat Enigma, who will receive
and receipt for siihscrliiUon* and all due* to the
|,.i|H>r and contract for Job work, cU:.
Iirof. ,f. M, FATTEN i* an authorized agent
T for the OAZ.nmt, anil will receive and receipt
for HiiMcrlptlon* and due* to the paper; ae well
a* contract for work.
boys,” so to speak. Wonderful were , .
J ' * ! In a recent letter lo the manufacturers
the exploits ho told of bis younger j jj,.. ^ p Hcnjamin, editor of the Spec-
The oyster is here, and the Oeor-j days, and we sat with mouths and | tator, Rusbfdrd, N: Y., says; “Itmay be
a legislature is soon to follow. T,et eyes wide open as he detailed his a pleasure to you to know the high •>-
gia legislature
us pray that one will give us strength
to bear the other.
A handsomely gotten up premium
list is out for the Wiregrass Exposi
tion, to he held at Hawkinsville, Ua.,
Oct. 15 uml 18, 1895, embracing
$3,500 in,cash premiums and purses.
The Milford
numerous experiences.
]',y and by, old uncle Abram came
by the yard, and giving his horn a
teem in which Chamberlain’s medicines
are held by the people of youY own state,
where they must he best known. An
aunt of mine, who resides at Dexter,
toot, started all the dogs on the place i lows, was about to visit me a few years
to howling and yelping at once. We since, and before leaving home wrote me,
knew that a possum hunt of large I asking If they were sold here, stating if
; they were not she would bring a quantity
with her, as she did not like to he with-
; out them.” The medicines referred to
proportions was on hand.
“I, yi;” remarked the Colonel;
Mail man tells, o | “how' J. wish I was one of yon boys, L re chamberlain’s Cough Remedy, fam-
stmight, unbiased story of his visit go as I could enjoy that Bport. Ij ousforits cures of colds and croup;
should j have ketched more ’possums and ! Chamberlain’s Pain Balm for rheumatism,
to Wiregrass tleorgia, and it
go a great way in satisfying the huh- coons in my time than would fill yer
picioiis rnirul and those who have daddy’s big barn!”
been misled by false rumors. ! “Come, go with us, Kernel; and
The Cuban insurgents seem to be j show us how you do it,” says Jim.! use In Iowa for almost a quarter of a
gaining the advantage over the Span-! “We have been uncommon nn!ucky j century. The people have learned that
lame hack, pains in the side and chest,
and Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and
Diarrhoea Remedy for bowel complaints.
These medicines have been in constant
iards day by day, and it is u serious
question whether they will be satisfied
with the granting of autonomy by
lately.”
The Colonel said lie was feeling
oncomrnon good, and he believed one
I they are articles of great worth and mer-
| it, and uncqualed by any other. They
are for sale here by Tifton Drug Store. '
Programme.
Insurance Compajiy of North America*
Orient Insurance Company,
Hamburg-Bremen Fire Insurance.Company,,
Phenix Insurance Company, of Brooklyn.
Sun Mutual, Imperial and Palatine Insurance Com
panies.
Life and Accident Insurance Solicited.
aS?" Prompt attention given to all matters relating to insurance.
v4n5-ly.
Office in Eaulk Building.
ENOCH P BOWEN,
DEALER IN
General Merchandise
OP A T. I , KINDS.
MISREPRESENTS NO GOODS AND GUARANTEES GOOD VALUES.
UNDERTAKER.
Spain. Encouraged by recent sue- of them old time frolics would make ■ _
•U ** 5 U„. rrmr* £S£«5SoS
up his knife and standing his half
| )ar jy I finished stalk of sugar cane in the
j I chimney corner, he got his hat and
i made ready to start. With much
tooting and calling and yelping, we
independence.
A movement is on foot by a
of Pennsylvanians to establish a co
operative colony in Twiggs county
(icorgia. All land, stock, imple-
/ . .,1 . were soon off for the woods, down by
incuts, provisions, etc., will lie owned | . ’ . . J
in common, and the labor divided
evenly among the colonists. If es
tablished, its workings wi.ll prove of
unusual interest.
Orders For All Sixes and Grades Filled Promptly.
E. P. * BOWEN
Hear the B. & W Depot, Tifton, Ga.
JULIAN.
W. it. LOVE.
K. A. BUCK.
The special train hearing the
Knights of Pythias from Macon,
bound for Indian Springs was
wrecked by the engine jumping the
track near Hilton. Three persons,
Mrs. (J, W. Hancock, of Americas,
and J. A. Kennedy utid F. 15. Her
rington, of Macon, were killed, and
over fifty injured, but onlv a few
seriously.
Atlanta’s latest sensation is
killing of 15. A. P.iiss, a well known
the river. In a short time, the dogs
hayed something, and going into the
gullberry hushes, sure enough there)
was a ’possum, of the biggest sort. “I, ■
yi; you old chicken theivin’ raskil
remarked the Kerne
I git my fingers on ye,” and in a jiffy
the Kernel had the grinning varmin t
by the tail.
Undo Abram split a stick and
clamping the ’possum’s tail into it,! * n S> conducted by W. f’. Lox.
swung him over his shoulder and
we soor. had the Kernel off for more
’possums to conquer,
j The dogs treed next time in the
the | big persimmon tree, down in the |
corner of the swamp Hold. “Uh,
iih;" grunted the Kernel; ’’.Might)
‘sim-
iiion tree. Shine his eye, uncle Abu,
and less sro if lie’s worth climbin’
after. Uh, uh; ’peers to be a party
JJ
Sept. 28 and 29, 1895.
Saturday, 9:00 a. m.—Invocation
scryice by J. 15. Sinclair,
9:30.—“What benefits are derived
from Sabbath schools by the sur-j
rounding community?” by J. D. Cal
houn.
Recess.
2:00, p. m.—“Who ought to sus
tain and encourage Sabbath school
“Just wait ’till i work?”by President., C. II. Heckwith.
4:00.—Miscellaneous business.
Sunday, 9:00, a. m.—Invocation j
“"ofiit-Sabhathtchool mass meet-j tcnti °l?L Ven .. to the 3mallcSt aS wdl aS the lar g est orders ’
Bankers and Wholesale Grocers,
TIFTON, GEORGIA.
Public patronage is respectfully solicited, and prompt at-
commission merchant, who was foilm
dying from a pistol wound in the a knmved you’d find one in a
fiend on Friday morning of last week.
The coroner’s jury returned a ver
dict of murder, by unknown parties’.
10:00.—Sunday school exercise, by
Mt. Zion Sunday School.
11:00.—Preaching, To be supplied
by committee.
W. W. Wehb, )
U. T. Dowling, :■ Ex. Com.
S. M. Self, )
PLANT SYSTEM.
Tlinw Table No. 72. In l&ffect at 12:01 O'clock, a. m., Sunday, August 4,1895.
READ" DOWNWARD
READ tfPWARD.
No. 327.
Local
Freight.
Dully cx
Hu ml ay.
Tlio developineiitH promise to he un- good ’tin. Now, hoys;’jess watch me j tried
usually sensiUionul, ns it in charged
lie was murdered by detectives, to
prevent his divulging some crooked
practices.
Itot.li aides of the silver question
are getting great comfort out of re
cent letters of lions. It. Hobbs ami
(». 15. Stevens. And might not this
little cire.Hinstanee suggest to our
brethren that there iH not such a
great difference between us, after all;
that we arc all working to the same
end, mid that this hitter family quar
rel is the work of a few disappointed,
core-headed politicians, by whom we
should feel ashamed of being led
astray?
Corporations that are no more
public spirited than the Consolidated
Street Railway lines of Atlanta
should he disfranchised. The spirit
of the whole ontei prise of the Cotton
States and
skin up that tree and fetch 'im down
And suiting the action to the word,
he laid off his coat, and luvt and was
soon scrambling up the tree. We
waited below, and from the protract
ed grunts and puffing above, we sus
pected it must he harder for him
now limn in his younger (lays.
AII at once we heard the Colonel
yell: “Thunder and lightning, hoys!
’Hits a coon! I grubbed his tail and
'hits hairy all’ over!” And with a
vigorous shaking am
dislodged one of tin* biggest coons
ever seen in these parts. The dogs
were onto him in a jiffy, but some-:
how he shook off the whole* puck and
succeeded in again gutting out of
reach 11)1 the tree.
“Look out, Kernel, he’s coming up
again!" we shouted.
“Helen lllnzus!” roared the Kernel,
“git him down! I can’t light a hull
up here!
It May Do as Mitcii for You.
Mr. Fred Miller, of Irving, 111. writes
that ho had a Severe Kidney trouble for
many years, with severe pains in his back
1 and also that Ids bladder wns affected. He
tried many sncalled Kidney cures but
wit bout any good result. About a year
ago be began use of Klcctrie Hitters and
found relief at once. Eloctrlc Hitters is
especially adapted to cure of all Kidney
and I,iver troubles and often gives almost j
instant relief. One trial wilt prove our !
statement. I ’rice only 50c. for large hot - 1 '
tie. At l’aulk’s Drug Store Tifton, or 1
Crabtree's Sparks.
llawkinsvillo Dispatch and Newa:jJ
A subscriber who lias not paid for 9
his paper in six years writes us to!'
know how we stand on the financial
yelling ho soon question.
sheriff to arrest
j until wo cun got our shotgun re-.
paired. We can stand some tilings,
but such bruzen effrontery as this is
unbearable.”
No. SO. I No. 87. |
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General Su|M*rlntendent, P. T. Mn^’r. Savannah, Ga. D. P. A^t., Brunswick Ga
In ter tuition ul Exposition, raft of bioody varmints
as wo look at it, is to uttruct the but his coon-shi
world mid at the same time ovate
Sent it to Ills Mother in Ocr-
mitny.
Mr. Jacob F.sbanscn, who is in tbe em
ploy of Hie Chicago I.umber Co., at Des
Moines, Iowa, says: "I have just sent
some medicine back to mv mother in the
, old country, that I know from personal
Baldridge & Fulwood,
was already out of u»o to be the beat medicine in tbe world
for rheumatism, having used it in my
near
reach, and hud got entirely too
favorable .impressions, not only as to the Colonel’s neighborhood for safety. fnmll> ; fo , r , T'T' 1 . U , iS ? aUe ‘ l
Atlanta’s advantages, hut the whole Then beran .1 series of : Ch " mtarto,a * " ' “ nlwa - v * !
. . n 1 ni 11 ui'Kiin a eeuoe oi aiiithinir t •»
ROOMS 1 AND
Tifton,
PAULK BUILDING,
Gheorg;ia.
..., 1 j,,,. u ,, n i. begun it seiios of abixking ■ does tlio •work,” 50 cent bottles for sale
south, it if hih.Ii institutions us the un j whooping, such us would be ini- i by Tifton Drug Store,
one referred to arc allowed to extorl, ]waib i 0 to reproduce on paper. And
ar, these propose to do, hv charging a lhen t |, e | mlkv fonil of the ( ; 0 , 0I)(!l
ten cent fare, resulls sought after. CU me oraslmig through the houghs, „ ,, ,
will \M%uy nuitninzul. outh ; im \ f c u pbnnp in tin middle of the
hogishneiis sliotild be throttled by eager and ex]«ctmit hounds. They,
public indignation if by no other thinking it was the
•wav. Ho wo of Wiregrass Georgia \ huu in h,df dozen „ 1IW .... , ... ..... .
lift our voicah iigaiust. it, and com-.“hire aial orimatoiu,* I
coon, gathered
places at once.
brimstone! Helen Bht7.es!
mend the Jonmal'x well-timed oppo- boys; take ’em off boys! the infernel
sition to such selfish greed. critters are run mad!” ami, of course.
A bnxnard tlew into the headlght
of a Pensacola and Atlantie railroad
AVe have
some few slow trains in Georgia hut
j none that are so as to attract the at
tendon of vultures.—Telegraph,
S. Gr. SLACK,
Contractor and Builder,
AND DEALER IN
n
fever are soot lied and permanently cured
by Dr. Westmoreland's Catisaya Tonic.
For sale at Main Street Pharmacy.
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HARDWARE,
PAINTS, SB OILS, ES ETC. *
Tit ton, : : : : Georgia.