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CO*, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1895.
VOL. 5-NO. 33
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OUR NEAR NEIGHBORS
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Our neighbors appropriately ob
served Thanksgiving yesterday.
Valdosta is bidding for the Meth
odist annual conference next year.
A bill incorporating the town of
Dougla&baa passed the legislature.
The teachers of Lowndes have met
and formed a teacher’s association.
A bill abolishing the county court
of Coffee has passed the house of rep-
• resentatives.
Sylvester’s new depot will be 105
feet long by 50 wideband Editor Al
len spells it with a capital D.
Prof. Thos. P. Tison, of Ashburn,
is teaching a flourishing school at
Lake Park, says the Advance.
•The citizens of Douglas are kick
ing for better passenger accommoda
tion on the Douglas and McDonald
road.
The Poulan Herald rubs a puzzle
column. Sometimes, when the devil
misses a rolling, the whole 1 paper is a
puzzle.
Mr; J. T. Monk, .of Inaha, was
married at the Allisbn hotel,/in Ab
beville, on the 20th inst., to Miss Mary
■ Crawford.
Cordole is s putting on airs. ■ She
tilthks she will soon lmveanew hotel
and union depot, iyid is bidding for
an aftesian well.
new farm near Tallahassee, and the
Greers will become citizens of Irwin
county,—News.
“Have you ever notioed that Ash-,
burn has very few sorry looking
men ?” queries the Advance. Well,
yes; we had noticed it, but thought
perhaps they had no immediate cause
for being sorrowful.
Messers. J. S. Westbery & Bro. have
sold their turpentine interests to Mr.
J. G. kcPhaul, who will move the
still and fixtures to Poulan in time
for-the next season business.—Worth
■Co. Local.
This year bids fair to brpak all
records in Valdosta on stock sales.
Over a thousand bead of horses and
mules were sold in this market lash
year and the number will be eclipsed
easily during the present season.
—Times.
Mr. R. R. Hayes, of our town has
The bill of Mr. Fletcher, of It'
Will,
dark, and the Cart struok a stump
and threw, them out, hurting Kendall
pretty severely. The money was in
his overcoat pocxet, and when he
palled it off to ascertain the extent
of his injuries, Salter pioked it up
and ran off with it.
The lynching ot old man Purdue,
at Mt. Vernon, on Saturday morning
last, was one of the blackest crimes
that has ever disgraced the state.
He had been in jail for pome time,
under charge of accomplishing the
rum of a young girl. At the last term
of superior court the grand jury, fail
ed to find any bill against him, and
Saturday morning a mob overpower
ed the Sheriff and took Purdue from
jail and riddled him with bullets.
He was 54 years old, with a wifo arid
two daughters, and possessed a splen
did education, having made a living
as a school teacher for a number of
years.
From Worth’s Metropolis.
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Georgia Firsts.
bought the mercantile business of Mr,
Jehu Branch, of Ruby and aided by j Now, Gallant Knight!
his sou, Mr. Elmo Hays, has taken i The Isabella correspondent of the
charge of the business. Mrs. Hayes! Local seems to he holding his, (or
will still run the hotel here. —Syc-! her ?) own pretty well against the
amore news.
Judge Berrien Brown, the veteran
ox breaker, is in this neighborhood.
to Change the tipie fop holding the
silperior court of that'county, has
passed the senate.
Senator Wilcox,of Irwin, was home
■ on the sick list last week, but is so
* v fiU' feeoYereih'ttftJo be ablato resume
/his dii ties .again. , a
j The triuyriage of Mr. Blow to Miss
Gale is mentioned in the. Hoggins
* Breeze. Hope none of this will re
sult in future storms.
There is a man down" at-Ashfey-
ville named Return StrickluriApucss
'his christeuers meant if iieoonldn’t
he delivered, return to writer.
Ilog cholera has been decimating
the beg crop over in Worth. Hun
dreds are said to have died of that
disease during the fall and winter.
^ t Judge Hansel! has postponed the
falLsession of Lowndes superior court
until the third Monduv in December,,
owing to illness in his family,
Mr. C. S. Boyd, off the Boyd Lum
ber Company, at Ashburn. Ims pur-
. chased the Ashburn livery stables
and added considerably to their equip
ment.
“Why go west and blow up? Why
stay north and snow up? AVhy live
east and slow up? Why not come
south and grow up ?” Thunders the
Poulan Herald.
Dr. A. T. Ford, who killed bis
cousin in Worth county some time
ago, was brought to Macon yesterday
and placed in jail for safe keeping.—
• Telegraph, 24th.
^ Sheriff Nelson made a raid on a
crowd of negro gamblers at Ashbnrn
on Saturday night last, and captured
He returned Monday and
toped in two lpore.
Waycross has two good newspa-
edited by .good men and able
and tue best ©fit is they,
ell together in peace and harmony
t city of brotherly love.
A bil l is pending before the legis
lature to create a board of commis
sioners for the county of Irwin. It,
1 be bard to make an improvement
i present status of affairs over
He has,broken, up to date, 532 oxen
and drove each or.e 200 miles.—Crys
tal /Lake Cor. Worth Local) And
during the same length of, time, lie
lias toted up 100,000 cords of tire-
wood, and earned a seat on the* bench
with Job.
Judge iSoab Reese, of Sparta, was in
Valdosta Monday. Ue went over to
BainbridgC to bold court for Judge
Bower, who wap ill. After the session
opened Monday morning Judge Kbesft
received a‘ telegram' ••announcing the
illness©? 1iis diiugbtoy. lie adjourned f
combined forces of Editors Allen and
Smith, on the removal question.
Here arc some centre shots:
I see Editor Smith has been riding
with six girls. Boys must be awful
rare in Ashburn.
I want the legislature to pass a bill
to set aside the old courthouse for the
use! <if the poor, unfortunate editors
that have to camp out during court..
Bro. Allen, you made a mistake
when you went to Silvester to con
nect wtih the courthouse. It would
have been the easiest job to have cast
your lot with Iscibelhumd pulled some
fellow’s railroad to the courthouse.
“Uncle Sara*' has' evidently not
court and returned to- his .bonus atj forgotfen the friendly Friday oven,'
once.—Times. j I ing tilts in composition at the old
We would hardly have believed', school house in Isabella.
Sweat: “Valdosta may!
Death has sent his syokle in Worth
and Colquitt for tbe last two weeks.
Mrs. Ed Fulgham and Mrs. Jim Ste
phens have passed off leaving twenty
children to mourn their loss besides
a host of relatives.
Old lady Truluok passed away
last Sunday, at her daugnter’s in
Colquitt, and was buried at the Han
cock graveyard in this county. She
leaves several children and grand
children to mourn her loss. Shu
had stayed here over a century being
one hundred years, one month and
twenty days old. How few of us
that are left will ever reach the
mark she has.
John Roberts, Sr. has tho cham
pion potato of the state, being four
feet and six inches long, and of the
nigger-killer variety. It looks like a
pine root, not like a potato. His son
John has gone into tho chair business
and ho shure makes a good otic.
It is reported that there was to be
live couples married at Deep Bottom
church last Sunday. When Colqpitt
gets in tho marrying line, she does
the thing by wholesale.
Miss Mat Gay and James Alexan
der were married last Saturday at
Mrs. Penny Whittington’s. .
I see they have up tho telephone
wire nearly to Isabella, arid tho depot
at Sylvester is as far as the sills and
sleepers. It will be a nice one when
it is done, and ought to be, for they
have done without long enough to
have a good one.
Dr. Ford was carried from kero to
aeon jail for safe-keeping Friday,
night, by order of Judge Bower.
J. M. Buckalow has sold his Isa
bella place to Clerk C. G. Tipton.
I,SUM AMI,.
Here is an extract from Governor
Hastings speech at the Atlanta expo
sition. The Governor of Pennsylvan
ia has been studying up on Georgia
history. He said.
Georgia’s versitility on climate and
soil induced her lawmakers to estab
lish the first State Department of Ag
riculture in the land.
Georgia was the first free and anti-
slave colony in America. Her code
of laws of 1790, was so wise and sym
metrical that it was afterwards ap
proved and to some extent engrafted
upon tho venerable body of English
jurisprudence.
The first steamboat that over
crossed tho ocean sailed from Savan
nah.
Tho first female college m the
world, the Wesleyan Female College,
was established in Mnoon, Ga.,
The cotton gin was invented in 1793
by Eh Whitney; near Savannah, on
the plantation of General Greene, of
revolutionary fame.
The first sewing machine was in
vented by a Georgia preacher, F. R.
Colliding.
Georgiv is the second state in .the
production,of cotton and the first in
the south in all general lines of luati-
ufactuio.
this of Dau uvvsix* 'muvfsin .. ,, , i _ r
, ., „ , 1 It MnyDoasMtieli lor You.
bojj.fit oi her five-legged pig, &e. &c.ij .
t ■ ' ,,a . # . . , , 11 Mr. Vrcd Miller, of Irving, .111. writes
hut Mrs Eunice, who lives mst be- , , , , „ t rl i . ,, „
that lie hid a Severe Kidney trouble Tor
the
It! B. Lutterloh & Bro.
large possession of land
r m Irwin county to Greer
of Dakota, last week. The
will fake charge of their
but Mrs Eunice, Who lives' just be
yotj'l tho city limits of Waycross, has
a pig that came into the world plain
ly marked in each ear and its tail
bobbed off. We can’t be downed on
the hog question.”
W. C. Etheridge, of Coffee county,
who wrote an obscene letter through
the mails to llis wife, was tried in the
ted States court at Savannah
Friday, ana sentenced to the Colum
bus penitentiary for two years. lie
said he had something to say to his
wife that he could nob say in any
other way than through a letter.
Mr. Ralph Iluckabee and Miss
Annie Cox, daughter of Mr. S. M.
Cox, were married at the Hotel
Clyde, Ashburn, on Suuday morning
last at 10 a. m. The happy couple
left immediately for a tour through
the northern and eastern states. The
bride is one of Worth’s fairest daugh
ters, und to her and her handsome
husband, the Gazette extends its
sincere congratulations.
Five negroes escaped from Irwin
county jail last Saturday. As Jailer
Luke went to carry the prisoners’,
dinner, and opened tbe door to hand
in the pan of victuals, some of them
caught him by the band and jerked
him through the door, and bolted,
Mr. Luke cangbt one, but tbe other
five make good their escape. Sheriff
Panlk is in hot pursuit, and offers
a reward ot *20 each for thejr capt
ure.
Hugh Salter, who has .been heard
of once or twice in this section scoop
ed in *490 from Tlios. H. Kendall
on Thursday night of last week. It
seemri that Kendall was collecting for
a guano company, and was on his
way home from Monltrie, uccompa.
nied by Salter, the two riding togeth
er in a road cart. The night was
many years, with severe pains in his back
and also that bis bladder was affected. IIo
tried many soealled Kidney, cures but
without any good result. About a year
ago lie began use of Electric Bitters and
found relief at once. Electric Bitters is
especially adapted to cure of all Kidney
and Liver troubles and often gives almost
instant relief. One trial will prove our
statement. Price only /50c. foi largo bot
tle. At Paulk’s Drug Store Tifton, or
Crabtree’s Sparks.
Knights ol tlicMnccnbces,
Tho Stuto Commander Writes us from
Lincoln, Neb., as follows: “After trying
other luodlehics for whui seemed to bo a
very obstinate cough in onr two children
wo tried Dr. King’s New Discovery and
at tlio end ol two days the cough entirely
left thdrn. We will not he without it here
after, .-isour experience proves that it
euros where-all other remedies fail."-—
Signed P. \y. Stevens, Com.—Why not
give. I his great medicine a trial, as- it is
guaranteed and trial buttles are free at
Paulk's Drugstore Tifton, or Crabtree's
Sparks.
A Prominent Minister.,
ltov. T. 11. Kendal, pastor Grace M.
E. Church, Atlanta, Ga., says: “I take
pleasure in testifying to the great virtue
of Kings Royal Gormeluer in relieving
night sweats resulting from the debilita
ting influence Of malaria. In a severe
ordeal through which my family passed
from this oppressive affliction, 1 found
Germeture to lie an immediate Rpecitlo.
Have also found it a speedy tonic to tho
digestion, and a most grateful and re
freshing remedy In the heated when
suffering from relaxation and general de
bility.” New package, large Dottle, 108
doses, §1. For sale by Tifton Druggists'
Thanks, Daniel.
Herring, of Tifton, is said to have
such a fino sense of smell that lie can
tell when there is a dead letter in
tho postofliec without going in a block
of it Valdosta Times.
Herring is a capital news “aconter”
and makes the Tifton Gazette fairly
sparkle.—Waycross Journal.
There was a time when business
men could do without advertising,
but it has gone to return no more.
Those were the days of stage coaches
and tallow candles. Now everything
is done in a rush and the man who
does not moyc in a hurry gets left.
This is a reading age. People expect
the newspaper to keep them informed
about everything. They want in
formation in their homes before they
buy. Hence the superiority of news
paper advertising over all other
forms. Put this in your pipe and
smoke it: The most successful mer
chants are the most persistent adver
tisers.—Ex.
Judge Joseph Tillman of Quitman
has written a book, “A Compendium
of Facts,” descriptive of tho character
and condition of the country through
which the Plant System runs. Iteon-
tairis all the information desired by
home-seekers, and will become val
uable to those who are prospecting
with a view to locating in that section
of country described so well and tru
ly by tho judge. Twenty thousand
copies have been distributed in the
North, West and Northwest, from
which sections many people are
coming South to locate.
Milfovd Market.
The following market quotations
from tho Milford, Indiana, Mail/may
he of interest:
Lard 7 cents.
Hides 4.J- cents.
Timothy hay, §13.
Potatoes tit) cents,
Hogs, ijtJj.riO on foot.
Dressed Pork §4.00.
Good Butter 12 cents,
Eggs Hi cents a dozen.
Rye, 40 cts per bushel.
Oats 20 cents per bushel.
Young Chickens, 6 cents.
Wheat 00 ets per bushel.
Corn, 20 cents p *r bushel.
Beef by the quarter 7 and 8e.
Clover seed, §5,00 her bushel.
You can’t, count on your fingers the
ills caused py constipation. Dr.
Westmoreland’s Calisaya Tonio cures
it.—For sale at Paulk’s Drugstore.
Haekien’s Arnica Salve,
Tbe Best rjalvfi in the world for Guts,
Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Balt Rheum, Fever
Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands, Chilblains,
Corns and all Skin Eruptions, and post
tiyely cures Tiles, or no pay required. It
is guarantied to give perfect satisfaction
or money refunded, Price 25 cent ptir
box. Sold at Jak$> W. Path’s Drug Store
Tifton, and W. A.Crabtrees, Sparki tk
Speaking of “the man who stops
his paper,” the Doughlasvillc New
South says: He is in all, a predesti
ned fool or he would understand that
no newspaper can be run to please all
the people all the time, and he would
know that any newspaper whose
opinion is worth noticing cannot hope
to assert views which are in exact ue-
cot-dance with everybody clse’s
A printing office is usually consider
ed a prtty rough place and the news
paper worker a mighty had man.
Statistics,however,do not bear out that
idea. Of 3,899 in the state penitenti
ary of Texas there is not a newspaper
mail or printer, while there are min
isters, lawyers, photographers, preach
ers atnl members of all professions
and callings. We think we hear
some people say “There are printers
who ought to ho there.” Yes that
may bo so, but we know some fellows
outside of a printing office who ought
to be there, and will get there sooner
or later.—Americas Herald.
views.
Shako off the shaking shackles of
malaria by taking Dr. Westmoreland’s
Calisaya Tonic.—For sale at PaulkV
Drugstore.
A number of tho papers of the
state are speaking out against the
preposterous proposition oi Govern
or Atkinson to authorize the family
of a lynched person to recover dam
ages from tho county in which the
lynohiug occurs. Besides the injus
tice such law would bo upon tho law
abiding citizens of a community, tho
idea of a rapist being worth anything
to his family or anybody oi anything
supremly ridiculous.—Dawson News.
Ramon’s Uver Mil remc
rite Tonic Pellet tones up
Gomblfedform a Peril