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PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY. Subscription SI.00 A Year in ADVANCE. Ellaville, (ia. Thursday Nov. 28 1889 R. DON. McLEOD Editor. Hon. Geo. H. Pendleton of Ohio is dead. ♦ O The Okeefenokee is to be advertised and sold on the 7th of January. Montana is blessed (?) with two full fledged legislatures. Both parties are holding the fort. Mr: Bob Rodgers, a merchant of Sum terville, was assassinated Monday night by an unknown party. The citizens of Cleveland Ohio are up in arms against the death-dealing elec tric wire and are cutting them down pell rnell. ------— «• >•---- Australia is hankering to become a re public and it is claimed that a proposi tion to this effect will soon oe made to the British Government. Don’t be like a bump on a log! make your-self useful to the community, stir around and do something to let the world know after you are dead that you once lived. The friends of Hon. Jeff Davis have organized a joint stock company to buy up his wild lands in Arkansas and thus enable the old chieftain to pay off the debts that are weighing him down. It’s strange, but never-the-less true that the gallant young fellow who goes court ing with bis pockets full of candy and peanuts seldom gets a wife. Girls have lots more so id sense than they get cred it for. If you have city property that you can possibly spare, price it and advertise it for sale. Dont try to hold it and there by keep out new comers who would buy and locate here and help build up the town. The News continues to gather new subscribers. The following have just been added: T. B. Clegg, Henry Payne, W. J. Payne, IF. W. Childers, J. A. Goodson. T. J. Threlkeld, A. L. Jordan. Mrs. E. J. L. Goodson, J. S. Ethridge, \V. T. Ethridge. The republic of Brazil is made up of pretty tough material; one-third white, one-third negro and t lie balance, a regu lar conglomeration. The new govern ment has been recognized at Washing ton and by other nations, but its stabili ty is exceedingly doubtful. We heard a dashing middle-aged wid ower propose marriage to a young lady Monday, on condition that she pay for linens. As the Ordinary has not been called upon to issue the licens, we fear that the chances for wedding cake on that proposal are slim. H* Only four Georgians appear among the inventors this week. They received patents on the following inventions: O. S. Heckle, Macon Ga. a Rotary fan; E. B. James, of Thomasville Ga. a Plow; C. W. Walters, of Tifon Ga a fire kin dh*r; J. A. Wotton, of Atlanta Ga. a Sec ondary battery. Services were held Saturday and Sun day at the Baptist church by Rev.;Mr. Blitch. We understand that this gen tleman has bought a place at Anderson and will move his family there so as to be nearer his work. Ellaville might have secured Mr. Blitch as a citizen if some effort had been made. Every good citizen is a valuble acquisition to a grow ing town and we ought to keep a look out for them. Swainslmrq Pine Forest:—Hager, the colored girl at Rej. F. W- Flanders last Tuesday was napping before the fire when her clothes ignited and she awoke to find herself enveloped in a sheet of Or id flame. No one was present when it happened but in her mad delirium she rushed in the bed room of Mrs. Flanders, viuglu. the old lady and Miss Lilia up in ’wr arms and threw them upon the bed. n. sluing their clothing and that of Mw bed on fire, and but for the brave. heroic action of Mr. John Hooks three would ... have perished omen in • flame. His hands were fearfully burned and he himself almost helpless. A ROOMLET. Within the past few months, the News office building the Post Office, Dr. Harp's office, Mrs. Burtons new store and Mr. Lindsay’s handsome residence have gone up ; nd all our builders and contractors are now bust' on new build ings. Besides the New hotel, Dr. Cheney Mr. Williams and and others have new residence buildings in course of con struction. The editor of the News is negotiating with contractors and hopes to begin next Week on his new residence to be erected on his lot adjoining Mr. Arrington, Judge Battle Dr. Harp, Mr. Arrington and several others are con templating building soon, This may not lie a boom, but it is something of a boom let that may soon burst into a full fledged boom. THE TIME To MARRY. Marriage is honorable and should be encouraged. A land of old maids and batch el ors would become a dreary waste They are or no more use to a community than a Lump oil a log. The Creator never intended a man or woman to live all their lives in single cussedness, and unless for some good pathological reason they should never make up their mind to defy this law of nature. Get married by all means, but dont go about it bur riedlv or blindly—exercise, at least, as much judgement as you would i mak ing a horse trade. No one should defer marriage until they become old, wither ed, snaggle toothed and bald headed, yet the idea that a girl is inarriagable at “Sweet Sixteen” and getting on the old maid list at twenty tw > or three is fal acious. We of the South are too prone to this fallacy and should work our selves out of it. Northern girls are sel dom considered twenty five. Regarding the best time for marrying. Family Fiction says: Early marriage, should certainly be discouraged. No girl or boy under twenty one years of age is morally fit to contract so lasting and serious a union as that of marriage. They at that age know not their own minds, and are not even properiy prepared for the battle of life in which husband and wife have to share. But tlie female, according to medical testimony, is even less prepared for early marriage than the male. “The brain of a girl at seventeen.”, says an au thority, “is immature the reason is fee ble, and the character unformed.” Cer tainly these are three of the best reasons that can be given against the risky expe riment ot an early assumption of the marital tie and its manifold sacrifices and responsibilities. Medical authorities, we note, concur that probably the best time for the av erage civilized woman to marry is at any age between 24 and 26 years. It is not pretended that no woman should marry earlier or later than these ages, but it seems reasonably established that the health and developmant of the average woman, her natural physical vigor and mental ripeness, are ordinarily at then highest perfection at this period. More over, statistics show that the happiest marriages are those which date from about this epoch of the lives of the con trading parties. Comparatively few early marriages protract themselves hap pily. for in most cases, during the years that the girl wife is becoming a woman, she is encountering the disap pointment of lost illusions, the annoy ance of cares which she is too inexperi enced to hear, and the bitterness conse quent upon the discovery of a grave mis take made when it is only too late to repair it. We have had the curiosity to look over a report of the divorces granted bv a Western court for the first six months of the current year. Out of ten cases an average of every seven present the uni form fact that the parties to them are appealing to the law to free them fro - bonds contracted at an early age. Hus bands of twenty-one or three years ap peal for divorce from wives of nineteen and twenty, after two or three years of matrimonial misery. There are cases even in which the wife lias been married at lifteen and before she is twenty, as the mother of a family, demands to be rid of the husband whom she, as a girl, sacrificed herself to. With these cir cumstances ns a warning, we think the established limit of age has all of the ! >0 * nts ' n '* s f avor * ‘'Look before you P'overb that applies in mon y ^ "-ell as in other connections, an<l tlie niore haste you are in to reach the altar is, in the end, usually the more K P t>e< ^ the divorce court, or at least the st001 of m^ntance. Please remember to he at the M. E Church Sunday night. Dec, 1 to attend the closing exercises o* the “Week of Prayer and Self-denial,” *' , ‘ u * pi o^ratn will interest . levery one. wlio tends and we cordially invite all. An address is expected from the Diet See Mrs. C II Smith v SCHLEY COUNTY NEWS. X. Making a specialty of shot s, J. M. Estes – Son, of Columbus, Ga., can suit everybody in price and quality. 3 Piece Tin Sets, Bath Tub, Water Carrier, and Slop Jar, all for 90 cents, New Crockery Store, Co utnbus, Ga. W. W. C. acts first on the blood; sec ond on the Liver and Kidneys. Old papers for j utting under carpets or for wrapping purposes, for sale at this office, 20 cents a hundred. Don’t suffer with cold when you can buy the best make of shoes at a very lit tle above manufactures prices by send ing to J. M. Estes – Son, Columbus, Ga. You should take W. W. C. when troubled with Liver or Kidney com, plaint. European Novelties in Art Glass and Pottery, at the New Crockery Store, Columbus, Ga. W. W. C. is perfectly harmles. No Mercury or Potash; is purely vegetable. It builds up the system. Tea Cups and Saucers, Gold Band China, at 15c. New Crockery Store, Columbus, Ga. •J. M. Estes – Bon, Columbus,, Ga., sole agents for the genuine Foot Warmer. Try a pair. 3 Pieces Tin Sets at 90 cents. New Crockery Store, Columba, Ga. LOT FOR SALE. A suitable residence lot in desirable part of town. Terms reasonable. Ap ply at this office. CHEAPEST MONEY YET. Money to loan on improved farms at 6 per cent, interest. J. J. Hanesley, Americus, Ga. Barlow Block, Room No. 5. ON YOUR LIST. Let a visit to our store be on your list when you are on Broad St. and the trip will certainly not be regretted as we are making a special effort to entertain La dies who are kind enough to call. New Crockery Store, Columbus, Ga. Dr, .T, F. SHACKELFORD DRUGGIST. Says since W. W. C. was put in the Drug Si ore we have sold scarcely any other Blood Purifier. LET THERE BE LIGHT. Big lamps and little lamps fine lamps and plain lamps, cheap lamps and high price lamps, and lamps to suit every body, at Dr. Smith's Drugstore. REAL ESTATE AGENCY If you want to buy or sell Farm property iu Sumter or surrounding counties Address MEItRELL CALLOWAY Americus Ga. lima HELLO YOURSELF. Everybody with a warm heait begins to think of tin ir Christmas shopping. Everybody with a long head is going to see those bargains in choice Glasswares, Silverware, Toys, Dolls, and everything else pretty at 1633 Broad St, New Crockery Store, Columbus, Ga. READ what W. W. c. HAS DONE FOR EX-GOV, J. M. SMITH. Wooldridge Wonderful Cure Co. Columbus Ga. I take great pleasure in saying that the medicine you prepare is. in my opinion, an excellent remedy for many diseases, I have taken it for indigestion, to which I have been subject for years, and have found great relief from its use. I have suffered much from Rheumatism also, and have tried many sorts of medicine recommended by physicians and others for this disease. I have experienced more relief from the use of your prepa ration than from any other. I have great faith in its use, and believe it the best medicine prepared for the diseases in which its use is recommended by your company. Respetfully JAMES M. SMITH, Columbus, Ga.. June 7. 1889. .For Sale by Cheney – Harp and C. II. Smith. -------------------------------- A GOOD COUGH SYRUP. Thereto nothing parents should boso careful about tw selecting a cough syrup. Degas' (’berry Cough Syrup costs no more than the cheap and inferior nostrums thrown on the « na »’ k *- The best is none too good, be sure and gotBKGGS’ cherry COUGH SYRUP. \\> k, * pp ** onh “» l dut nil times. I)r. C. H. Smith Druggist, CLOSING OUT SALE OF LA attings AT Lf.ss Than New York Retail Prices to make room for an ' ELEGANT stock of new carpets, which are now arriving and will be sold as Low as They Can be bought in Our Larger Cities For Cash. Also some lines of Dry goods very cheap. J. J. Cranberry, Agt. Americus, Ga., Oct. 7th 1889. C . C. HAWKINS, —DEARER IN— FUENTIURE, CROCKERY, China, Glass Ware, Lamp Goods, Etc. Buiuai, Cases, Caskets and Coffins. COTTON AVENUE, AMERICUS, GA. Hugh M. Brown. AV, Little Manlre. 1 IIII in 4 MR DR n ! Li Wholesale and Retail Dealers in Books Stationery Wall Paper Wrapping Paper, Paper Bags, Twine, Picture Frames, ART GOODS, NOVELTIES, SHEET MUSIC, ETC, School Goods a Specialty. 105 Forsyth Street. Next Door to Post Office. AMERICUS GA. 125'"’Mail Orders Attended to Promptly, ffino. ■C 7 V 8 "WILLIAM BEACH. Hardware, Alabastine, Paints, Portland and Kentucky Cement. Columbus Ga. Best Shoes For Planters. If you want a good and cheap shoe go to ~V\7”illiam nSsZLeyer, 1112 Broad Street, COLUMBUS GA And buy a pair of Gainesville Shoes. They are the only shoe that will wear well and are made in Georgia. T h o s. C h a f f i n BOOKS, STATIONERY and ]]VQisical Instruments Depository of the American Bible Society. Columbus Ga. Phil, Eifler IMPORTER AND DEALER IN GUNS, PISTOLS, CARTRIDGES, A MMUNITION –c. –c. runs FISHING TACKLE AND SPOBTING GOODS, 1005 Broad Streeet. - COLUMBUS, GA. Instjre OUR Q-ins. We are prepared to furnish reliable insur unco on Gin Houses and contents at equitable rates, as we have done for many years. All needed information promptly given. D. F. Willcox – Son, 1149 Broad St. --Columbus. Georgia. FARMcR'S ALLIANCE STORE. COOPER – HOWARD, —Dealers In— HEAVY GROCERIES Also Keep On Hand COTTON TIES,COTTON – JUTE BAGGING, Tkxab Rr8T PK <»or Oats, Georgia Rye And Baulky. Our Motto: Short Promts, And Good Weights 1101 Broad .Street.........Columbus Gil 9. lino. A GRAND HOLIDAY DISPLAY. " Crockery Store of Columbus, . ,1|(> | S *’* piettiest stores of its kind 111 * and now, since their Christ mHB goods are open it is fiijmfiv ( „.. '• lt „i Remember tliev have tl„. g i* * ,' ® at the rWff ° price 1 for toi .my -mv one o you may ish . to select , a present for. 1033 Broad St. Columbus Ga. UVCoo:r?e Bx*oa Columbus, Ga. An Entirely New STOCK. Fine Dress Goods, Silts a I FRENCH MILLINERY. AGENTS FOR THE CENTEMERI KIDGLOVES Special attention to orders by rut Expressage paid on all bills of Fi dollars and upwards. 1000 doz. Ladies Hem-stiched Har kerchiefs at 3 cents each. 1000 doz., 18x36, all linen fowls. at 12 1-2 cents each. 1000 doz., 16x16, Fringed Doilies, tra fine quality, at 1.00 per doz. Worth $1.50 per doz. lOOOjMoz. ,Men’s Full Regular Er: Half Hose at 15 cents a pr. Would be cheap at 25 cents. 1000 yards good quality dress hams at 5 cents a yard A grand bargain. 1000 yards Canton Flannel word, 15 and 20 cents, but to make roor other goods we close the lot at 10 cents a yard] Finest line of Dress goods. Sik: Trimmings in Columbus. Sendfo l)les and prices. A complete line of Ladies. Missi Gentlemen’s Fine Shoes always oi| Every pair guaranteed to gi ve si tion or money refunded. 500 piece's Woolen jeans at w figures. Patronage solicited. Tours truly, Moore Bitot I Ur .ad Street. COM