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TIFTON, BERRIEN CO., GEORGIA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13. 1895.
VOL. 5-NO. 22
OUR NEAR NEIGHBORS.
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Moultrie’s barrel factory is in opera
tion.
Oampmeeting was in progress at
Dooly camp ground last week.
The News wants a board of tax as-
cors for Irwin county.
Prof. L. D. Passmore will open the
spring term of Sumner High school
on Sept. 16th.
The Dooly county teacher’s Insti
tute holds regular monthly meetings
since the vacations.
W. II. Murphy and Miss Annie
Veal were married on Wednesday of
last week, in Moultrie.
The ladies memorial association, of
Valdosta, are to erect a confederate
monument in that city.
Irwin county’s tax returns show
a decrease of $125,902. The News
says it is because they need tax as
sessors.
Smith Sept., 3rd, the charter
was granted for the Old Soldier’s
Colony, which will now go to work
to survey and allot the lands. By
the way the Gazette was the first
paper in the state to give the news
that this special session would be
held.
The school board of Worth county
has inagu rated a movement for the
purpose of laying off the county in
school districts as directed by the
scliopl law. It is claimed that this
actipn will materially aid in simply-
fying and systematizing the public
school work.
Mr. Walter Thomas is making ar
rangements to establish a mill at
authorities on the subject that the
price will rule higher early in the
season than it will’ later. Owing to
the continued increase in the pro
duction of sea island, it is hardly
probable that we will see very high
prices for it again. The production
last year in Georgia alone was double
wha,t it was four or five years ago.—
Valdosta Times.
Cowan, Usry & Co., failed last
week for $51,000. It was first ru
mored that they made an assignment
but it was learned later that they had
made a straight deed to James Smith,
tiie convict lessee. It is said that
they have not paid off their hands in
several months. Laborer's liens and
HOW
WE STOLE THE WA-;
TERMELON,
One of the greatest sins, in the old
man’s opinion, when we were boys,
was an unauthorized invasion of his
watermelon patch. He always plant
ed bis melons and nursed them him
self with the tenderest care, and
when the big juicy fruit was ripe,
one of hisgreatest pleasures was to go
about the patch from one to another,
thumping and turning them about
and selecting the ehoiccst, lipest
specimens for the feast later in the
day.
Those who ever had the hardihood
to commit depredations mi this niol-
. , , . , , , .. , | on patch declared afterward that the
Lake Park. He has already bought other claims have been playing into oW man had C0linted every one and
the timber for sawing and it is his j the bands of the lawyers, while bher- had a diagram of the patch with the
intention to hare the mill running as iff Nelson has done the levying. oxact posilion of eao i, nu . lon
soon lie can finish it. He has been Whether the deed will stand the test
in the city for the last week or so.— j that will be put on it or not is a thing
Valdosta Times. ; that
Deputy Marshals
en
graved on his memory.
. . One time the melon patch was lo
ll minority of the people would - . . .
J r 11 catcd in a big cotton field some dis-
Opiwot* White t like to know.—Advance. , f ,, , , ,
iitoigc ivnire tance from the house, and along m
Moultrie is going to have a trade J and George Thomas made a raid in A terrapin about us large around tho hot sultry days of July it so liap-
day in the near future, and her en- j Coffee county yesterday and avircstedj as a silver dollar was the subject of a 1 pened that we hoed cotton alongside
terprising merchants have chartered ! and carried off Mitchell King, War-1 good deal of talk on Wall street the of this forbidden 1 fruit. The old man
a special train for the occasion. 'reu Tanner. Milt Wiggins, Will other day, and the same terrapin has
The coroner’s jury returned a ver- Bruddock, Jake Kennon and one come near settling in the minds of
lict of justifiable homicide in thei w hose name your correspondent! some people the theory that fish, j all day. As the sun got higher and
had gone fishing early in tho morn
ing and we know ho would be away
case of the killing of E. E. Reaider,
by J. T. Curry, in Cordele last week.
The commissioners of Lowndes
will build a bridge across Alapaha
river,between that county and Clinch,
to be paid for jointly by the two
counties.
Among the legal advestisenients in
the Worth County Local appears a
libel of divorce, with Dr. A. T. Ford
us plaintiff and Emma W. Ford us
defendant.
Clever Dan Clements has purchased
a half interest in the mercantile bus
iness of T. D. Smith, at Stunner, and
the new firm will hustle things un
der the name of T. D. Smith & Co.
The press, job press, type, etc., of
the defunct Populist paper, the South
Georgian, was sold at Douglas, at
public sale last Tuesday for $50.
Jo hr. M. Lott, Sr., being the pur
chaser.
Quite a number of citizens met at
the new school house on last Monday
and commenced the work of putting
up the handsome patent desks, and
failed to get. Some are charged with frogs and the like are often rained
operating moonshine stills and the down in severe storms. During the
others as witnesses.—Douglas Cor.; heavy rain of last Friday the terrapin
Telegraph. | fell in the street between Myddloton’s
At a meeting of the county coin- j shoe shop and Davis’ beef market. It
missioners on Monday the board re-{was seen strike the ground by two
(fused to pay the coroner for holding ; men in the shoe shop and by Davis’s
{an inquest over the body of Porter little boy. There is no explanation
the heat became more intense and
Lazy Lawrence danced and squinted
along those long dusty cotton rows,
those melons seemed lo grow larger
and more tempting. By and by Bud
SOUND ADVICE.
An Indiana man visiting Georgia
writes the following letter to his
home paper.
“At present there are thousands
of dollars worth of native grasses go
ing to waste every year in these open
woods for lack of cattle to eat it up.
What a paradise for the cattle man!
Ten months of luscious feed without
a cent, except for salt. No flies, no
mosquitoes. What a bonanza for a
hog man with his herd running
among those chesnuts, acorns, beach-
nuts, and coming, homo for Christ
mas with their hides chock full of
Armour butter.
“What a country for a man to
start a cannery, and put up fruit and
vegetables by the car load. And
finally what a country for the young
or middle aged man with small or
moderate means, to go and build up
himself a home—a place where tilt-
landlord cannot say “go,” and lie has
to jog along, or “come," and he has
to he up and coming, but a place
where lie can be under his own vine
and lig tree and smoke the pipe of
peace, happiness and contentment
with the whole world.
“The renter can hardly expect to
ever own a farm here in Indiana
with Ills present environments, the
laborer must always be a laborer, but
do not go there empty handed, for
the price of labor is lower than here.
Stock, who suicided at Mineolusome- as to where it came from except on a was, we made up our minds to try
proposed that wo steal one. The
bare mention of such a thing almost! ront<»r with his team, tools, fain
took my breath away, but as risky as **.Y ai,( * *' vo hundred dollars is j.ust
time ago. The payment was refused, the theory that it rained down,
and
it. Selecting one the least likely to
| present at the time that the fatal 1
shot was fired.—Times.
In the past two weeks Sheriff
Jesse Paulk has arrested and carried
before Judge Clements thirteen ne
gro gamblers and thieves, all of whom
were convicted of one or the other of
these charges and one was convicted
of gambling and stealing. From
these thirteen criminals Judge Clem
ents put, into the general funds of
the county treasury $900.00.—News.
[hinder the head of “A Growing
Family,” the Cordele Sentinel says:
“Yesterday County Commissioner J.
L. Allen married a lady in Phenix
also putting up some fencing and with five clli ldren, increasing
making other necessary improvements 1 1)igf(ini . ]v by gix Then thig morn .
to the grounds.-Worth Co. Local. | ^ y0iuigest 8on > 8 wife, who is
Hon. David Ewing, chairman °f living in the same house, gave birth
the executive committee of the Irwin j ^ ^ w j„ gjj-ls, making an increase in
County Sunday School Association, j j-| lc family of eight in two days.”
announces that the annual conven-!
tion of the association will be held at!
Ebenezer church, beginning on Sat-1
urday before the fourth Sunday in
upon the ground that an attending j the question now is was that really be missed, we pulled it and then
physician and other witnesses were j the case ?—Valdosta Times. ; turned the vine on which it grew,
this month.
Among the sheriff's sales for Au
gust, in the Worth County Local, is
advertised the boiler, fixtures and saw
null plant of Cowan Usry & Co., un
der several mortgages and fifus.
This'
Marvelous Results.
From a letter written by Itev. .1. Gun-
derman, of Dimondalc, Midi., we are
permitted to make this extract: “I have
no hesitation in recommending, Dr.
King's New Discovery, as the results
were almost marverous In the case of my
wife. While I was pastor of the Ihiptlst
church at Rives Junction she was brought
down with Pneumonia succeeding La-
Grippe. Terrible paroxysms of cough
ing would last hours with little interrup
tion and it seemed as if she could not
survive them. ’ A friend recommended
Dr. King’s New Discovery; it was quick
in its work and highly satisfactory in
results." Trial bottle free at Jake W.
Paulk’s, Tifton, and W A. Crabtree’s,
Sparks.
Programme.
For union meeting, to be held with
Salem chutch, Worth county, Sept,
14 and 15,1895.
9:00 u. m.—Invocation service, by
A. A. Hutchinson.
9:30—“Necessity for preaching at
each church on every lord's day, and
a snake story that is worthy passing | * 10W to secure it,” by J. A. Cox.
notice. While hunting coons in the) lL’hl Sermon on church work,
corn field of Elbert Fletcher a few *W pastor, Geo. I:. Clark,
mornings ago, Tom says lie came up- j Recksh.
on a rattlesnake measuring nine feet, 1 2:00 p. M. “To what extent shall
all of whose rattles were missing ex- we °P en 0,ir ( * 00rs 10 ** los< ‘ °lh ( ‘ r
cept nineteen. He proceeded to kill denominations?’by G. W. Ridley,
the snake, by shooting his head off,
T. D. Paulk, of Ruby, who is noted
for his unswerving veracity, tolls a
around in the opposite direction. The
game seemed well worth the ammu
nition and we had a feast, that, none
but a farmer boy knows how to ap
preciate. When we had finished, the
next thing was to destroy the re
mains in order to leave no evidence
of the crime. We dug a hole and
carefully placed the rinds and seeds
in it and covered it up.
For a week we escaped detection
and had begun to congratulate our
selves that for once, we had outwit
ted the old man. A few days after
wards we were walking along behind
the old man going for watermelons,
and imagine our astonishment to see
him come to an abrupt stand just
over the spot where wo had buried
the melon rinds, thrust Ins cane into
the ground, and bring out one of
those rinds on the end of it. Wo
thought the old mail must be a mind
reader, but on coming nearer, lo! and
behold every single seed in that hole,
had become a living acusing melon
vine. 'Ye stood convicted without a
word of testimony by perhaps tho
strongest circumstantial evidence
known to criminal history.
For days after this tho sight of a
the man they want down there, and
with habits of thrift and industry his
fortune is certainly assured. And
those are just the men not, needed
here in Jasper and Benton. There
are two of thorn for every farm. To
every neighborhood in the south
where such men go, comes u season
of rejoicing. They will meet you
with outstretched hands and words
of warmest welcome. Your coming
among them means better times, and
tho corning of the many who.are sure
to follow means greater prosperity.
“Young men go south. Take your
best girl right along, and then you
will not bo homesick. Or if you
have not found them yet then go
alone, and you will find the fair
daughters of the sunny south await
ing your coming with sweetest smiles
of welcome. Go where you will.be
tlie master, not the servant, lie the
owner of forty, eighty or a quarter
section of land, with a few cows,pigs
anil chickens. See how they will
grow and multiply. See bow much
taller, broader and better you feel.
See the roses coming back to tho
cheeks of your wife. The winter
days will not be too cold t» chop and
haul logs, the summer not too hot to
harvest wheat and clover and luscious
truit. Horses, hogs, grain niul liav
are. higher in price tlier
4:00—Miscellaneous Business,
company made an assignment a few | w j lon a full grown coon walked out, 'Sunday, 9:00 a. un
lays since to J. M. Smith, of Ogle- o£ (y 10 gDjjke with a roastiiigear in his service, by \\. G. Watson.
1 melon would awaken tender, but j while stock, fruit and v
i than here,
go tables are
mouth.—Irwin Co. News.
9:30—Sabbath school mass mect-
. ing, conducted by J. B. Norman,
flic colonists, through the Georgia Preaching at 11 o’clock, lo be gup
Invocation memories all over us, and lower.
j that melon patch did not tempt us| Moxv’mThis!
any more that season. y,',, offer One Hundred Dollars reward
Four Itig Successes. for 1 ' ) n,arrl l * ,,|UU,ot he
,, , , , . , cured by Tlall’s Catarrh C ure.
Having the needed merit to more than ! ^ j cilEENEY CO Tided
make good all tlm advertising claimed
edo, O.
Wo, the undersigned have known F. .1.
thorpe county.
Editor Smith, of the Advance,:
wants to know if the phrase, “Get* Xnimigration and Investment Bu- plied bv committee.
there Eli,” is profanity. Well, Bro. i Yeau, bought and paid for overlO,000 i W. W. Wehk, . , , . . —, — —
Smith, that depends. If your side is j licre8 o£ .] a „d in Irwin county Inst W. A. PatTEk, j Committee. I “f tt ^ninal" Hale” 0 l/i'!i f fo . r . t,m . ,nsl T\ ’’-fT
getting there, it is perfect; if the ; wee k, and options have been secured { _Li^ ^ l°^i King's Now Discovery, for consumption, j f^nctlonVai.TtUmnciaUy able me'wry
other fellow is chronicling Ins ar- f or more than as much more. The, Judge Emory Hpccr, ex-Congrawman
rival at the coveted goal, it is profan- colonists are extending their line of from Georgia, and now presiding Judge
ity of the rankest, foulest kind. posessions south from Swan and in l * i0 United States district court of the
Diphtheria is creating some excite-, the direction of Irwinville. Great!
ttient in the settlement of Doleg. Mr.
J. \V. Gay lost a little girl last week,
Mr. John Hobby lost a child Surday
j Southern district of that State, has ar
{ eepted an invitation to deliver the open-
and Mr. A. L. Hobby one Wednes- extent that might naturally be ex
day, all diphtheria. Several other peeted.—Irwin Co. News,
children have the terrible disease,
and more die of it than get well.—
Ash bn m Advance.
excitement prevails among the land | n g address at the Cotton States and
owners in that portion of the country; International Exposition. Judge Speer
still they do not advance prices to the
At the special session of Irwin Sit- been sold here at 15c. It seems to
perior court, convened by Judge' be the general impression of the begt
Isa gentleman of national reputation,
both as a lawyer and as an orator, anil
will without doubt make a notable
utterance on that occasion.
Sea Island cotton market has not] _ , '
opened yet and will not before the |. Biting off more than you can chew
15th itist, though several bales have
seems
coughs and colds, each bottle guaranteed. I m)) otdlgations made by their firm.
-Electric Bitters, the great remedy for ] WKgT & T|U , AX wholesale Druggist,
liver, stomach and kidneys. Bucklon’*! m . do y
Arnica Salve, the best in the world, and ; Wa ,’„ n Kisn vs * M auvin. Whole-
Dr. King’s New Life pill,* which are a g8 , 0 Drugghti| Toledo. O.
perfect pill. All these remedies are] H al p g Catarrh Cure is takeu internaUy,
guaranteed to do Just what is claimed for RCti y dirccll upon Ulu Woo d mMi mu -
them and the dealer whose name is at-. urf f u , m qvtimoub
tachcd herewith will be glad to tell you , , „ . „ . - ,,
more of them. Sold at Jake . Paulk’s, *«nt free, l’nco >■><-■ per bottle. Sold
Tifton, and W. A. Crabtrco's, Sparks. by all Druggist.
is the chief cause of indigestion. For
! nick relief and absolute cure take
>r. Westmoreland’s Galisaya Tonic.
For sale by Jake IV. Paulk.
In Tokyo, Japan, one hundred and j It is a credit to The United Status
twenty newspapers and magazines are; Goverment, that President Cleveland
published, and the Japanese Morning has settled the limits between Brazil
Nows has a daily circulation of land the Argentine ivepublicjtliose are
110,000. decided in favor ot Brazil,