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EllaviUe. Ga. Thursday. Dec. 4. 1*90.
R. DON. McLEOD Editor.
The President’s message is lengthy,
feeble, blindly partizan, and bitter to
ward the South.
Hon. J. H. Martin, has b en elected
Judge of the Chattahoochee circuit, made
vacant by thedeatq of Judge Smith.
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The legislature comities to pile in new ]
hills. If the members do not intend
spending the winter in session half of
these will never lie considered.
Our sprightly little evening contem
porary the Macon News enjoys toe dis
tinc'ion oi being the first paper in Geor
gia to publish the Presidents message.
The Savannah and Western Co. con
tinue to improve their lines. They have
recently put up one of Harrington s ser
maphory signals at their depot in this
city.
A bill will be introduced in the legis
lature next week by one of Bibb’s rep
representatives, to have all stock affect
ed with glander destroyed and a pen
alty fixed for bringing diseased stock
into this state.
The Nat ional Farmers Alliance now m
fcession al Ocala. Fla, seems determined i
t<> thoroughly investigate the attempt of |
MacCune, Livingston and Harry Brown,
to sell out the order in Georgia to the
biggest monopoly in the state.
We regret exceedingly to learn just as
we go to press, of the death of Maj. T.
M. Furlow, the father of Amerieus, the
biggest hearted citizen our sister city
ever had. He died in Atlanta, under
a surgical operation for a cancer in the
mouth.
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The 52nd congress convened Monday
in H’ashington. Bulldozer Tom Reed
looked moody and subdued as he per
formed hisdutv swearing in the reelected
nn-inhers that his republican majority,
now reduced to a small minority, had
only recently counted out.
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Instead of a defeat for the alliance, the
election of Gordon was the biggest victo
ry ever won over monopoly, Instead of
being weakened the order is strengthen
ed, by thus showing to the outside world
that it will not he blindly ted into the
camp of the monopolistic enemy, even by
the treachery of its most trusted leaders
One ran hardly appret*ia‘e the extent
of the progress EllaviUe has made
without taking a stroll around town
and counting the new buildings and
other improvements put up since the
railroad was completed to Columbus,
a little more than a year ago. The
town inis nearly doubled in houses and
population, and is still moving on.
A strange accident at Paschal, in Tal
hot c uatv, occur? I recently. Tom Po
sey.a little boy,was found lying near the
railroad track in an unconscious condi
tion. His skull was broken in several
plan s. but the skin was without a bruise.
The boy does rot know how it occurred
and the affair is shrouded in mystery.
Th“ boy is si ill alive.
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Handsome new passenger coaches
have been put on the accommodation
train from Columbus to Amerieus which
makes travel hv that train more pleas
ant. Now if the company would jusi
reverse tlieschedule of that train it would
he far more convenient and acceptable
to their patrons in this section and no
doubt much more profitable to the road.
\ man from Talbotton struck ow
town Monday, with his tongue loose at
lsitli ends. He seemed to imagine him
self the m a tend: zed spirit of some de
par ed poet and attracted large crowds
on the streets by ids perpetual flow of
home-made poetrv. Some declared that
the tel low was insane and wanted to
have him arrested under a writ of luna
cy. until the neck of a black bottle pro
trudiiig from his pocket betrayed the
fact that the spirit animating him WH8
not that of a poet, hut regular old rye.
85 young men from this State were
among the nearly 1.000 students from 24
Stales who attended the Commercial Col
lege of Kentucky University. Lexington,
Fvy., this yean Its graduates are sile
c< sful.
A FATAL FROLIC.
The shooting and killing of Marshal
Nickerson of Svlacauga Ala. last week
by Lub Hunter, editor of the Svlacauga
Bee. created much interest here, as two
of our former citizens, Mr. Sam William
son and Mr. Cornelius Reid were with
Hunter at the time of the arrest that
afterwards brought aoout the difficulty.
The version of tbe affair given by the
boys is about as follows: In company
with Hunter and another young man
they were returning home from the de
pot late at night, laughing and talking,
when the marshall heard shooting in
town and supposing that it was them
proceeded in a very abrupt and insult
ing manner to arrest them, After their
trial before the mayor editor Hunter
criticised the marshal rather severely in a
newspaper article, intimating that be
was drunk when making the arrest.
When the marshal read the criticism
he called on the editor at his office abus
ed him and struck him with his club.
Stung with pain and indignation the edi
tor resented the assault with pistol shots,
killing the marshal. He was then ar
rested and put in jail and the boys learn
ing that friends of the marshal had
threatened to mob him that night, arm
ed themselves and guarded the jail.
They write that they were fined $5,00
each, but we do not exactly understand
whether the fine was for the first offense
or for guarding their friend in jail, after
lie had killed tiie marshal. They state
that, they are going to sue the city for
$10,000 damages and have strong hopes
of recovering it.
A Birmingham, Ala., special of Nov.
28. says; At Svlacauga Ala., a little
town fifty miles east of this city, to-day,
W. L B. Hunter, an editor, shoe and in
stantly killed Charles Nickerson, the
^ ovvn marshal, Hunter is in jail, peinl
inga preliminary trial.
Hunter is editor of The Svlacauga Bee,
a weekly paper, and correspondent of
the daily paper in this city and Monday
right he. Hunter, was out on a lark with
a party of friends, and they were all ar
rested by the marshal on a charge of dis
charging firearms on the streets. In a
a dispatch to a paper in this city next
day, Hunter made the following report
of the affair:
•’W. L. B. Hunter, editor of the Svla
cauga Bee. M. B, Parker, R. C. Reid and
S. A. B Williamson were all arrest d
lust night, charged with firing one shot
of a pistol in the jurisdiction of the city.
But the testimony proved that the genlie
oien were not guilty as charged. The
marshal was charged with being under
the influence of liquor at the time the ar
rest was made. The young men have
had him arrested for using profane and
indecent language on the streets, and
will sue the city for damages. ”
When Nickerson rea l this, lie wasan
gry. Today lie met Hunter on the street,
and it is said attacked him with a stick
striking him two blows. Hunter drew
his pistol and fired two shots, the second
one striking the marshal iu the brain,
killing him instantly.
We have since learned that Hunter
was tried and acquited.
MRS. CASK Y A T REST,
Mrs. Martha Caskey, who has been
quite feeble for some time,of old age and
natural breaking down of the constitu
tion, died last Sunday at the residence
nf her son. A. M. Caskey of this city .aged
78 years and 8 days. Mrs, Caskey’s
maiden name was Countryman. She was
born Nov. 21 1813, in Lancaster county
C C. and was married Nov, 13 1834 to
Capt. Samuel Caskey with whom she
lived happily u til ‘separated by his
deadi (jet °9 1878
With her husband she moved toGeor
:ia in 1839 and settled in Schley county.
For fifty vears she was a member of
the Presbyterian church ami lived in the
enjoyment of the Christian faith.
Onv a short time before her death she
remarked 10 her brother-in-law. .hulge
Battle, that she felt fully assured of a
home of heavenly rest beyond this life
and was ready and willing to go. She
only prayed that the disolution mi'lit
take place without pain, and so it did.
Quietly as the sweet slumber of an infant,
her gentle spirit left its tabernacle ot clay
nil winged its flight to that ho.no of
terruil rest beyond the grave.
Mrs. Cakev leaves a son. Mr. A. M.
Caskey, nrd two daughters Miss Mar
garet Caskey and Mrs. T. S. Harper, two
sisters. Mrs. C. L. Battle and Mrs. .Tu
lius Daniel, and a large circle of friends
in Schley county. The burial took
place Sunday in the family burial
grounds at Ebenezer church, Blessed
are the dead, which die in the Lord
henceforth: Yea. saith the spirit that
they may rest from taeir labors and
tlu’ir works <lo follow them.
HOUSE KEEPER WANTED.
A good house keeper who will lx* kind
and attentive to children can get a situ:,
tion by applying at this office. An < Iderlv
lady prefered.
SCHLEY COUNTY NEWS.
WHY CHILDREN LEAVE THE FARM.
From the old Home8tcad ]
In the first place they are not brought i
up to love the country, lhev are early
accustomed to hear both father and
mother grumble about the hardships of
farm life. Then there is <,oo much work
and too little play for them. The boys I
works in the field all day, and his oppor
tunity for amusement in tbe evening is
cut short by a long range of “chores”
till bed time; meanwhile the sister has
much the same experience in the house.
And no agricultural college in the land
will restore what their parents have
blindly allowed them to lose.
Study the “bent” of yourchilden. If a
boy hates one kind of farm work and
likes another don’t make him do what he j
dislikes all the the time, but so far as
possible let him do the agreeable work.
If he offers sugge-tions or forms plans,
don’t laugh at him however impractica
ble they may be; but if there is anything
in them make tbe most of it, point out
his mistakes, encourage him to use his
thinking powers. Keep your daughter
at borne by getting for her. as far as you
are able, some of tire things she practical
ly likes—a magazine, a croquet set, or
an organ—and let her carry out some of
her pet plans for improving the flower
garden and front yard, And if yon
have given her some domestic animal
and allowed her to pet it and regard it
as very own, don’t sell it and pocket the
money. Let her keep it and dispose of
it as she will.
Let a gift always be a real one, Don’t
drive your children about farm work,
but teach them and train them so that
they may consider it happiness to follow
in your footsteps. Teach your girls to
discriminate between a dude, r tailor
made man. and one made by the almigh
ty; at the same time teach your boys to
dress better, and. if possible, see that
they have means for doing so. A Sun
day suit and a working suit, which is
more than likely patched and faded, are
not enough.
Let each have another corresponding
to the business man’s every day suit in
town, so that, when he goes away from
home on a week day, he. may neither
feel humilated by his old clothes, which
are good enough to do work in. nor feel
foolish in his Sunday best at any time.
Teach your children to be proud of farm
life for its independence, freedom from
petty annoyances and temptations, and
its importance as one of the orld’s in
dustries, ,
Another essential plan is to give am
bitious < hiUhei s< n.epiece of ground to
cult ivate for then own, or something in
which they take a great personal inter
est, and from which they have the in
come to use as they please. And in
everything about the farm try to shew
them the reason of things and processes, i
that they may feel that they are learn
ing something, and that the farmer’s lot
need not he one of ignorance. Lastly,
the siciat leanings of young people must
be gratified. Provide them with plenty
of good reading matter, and encourage
all legitimate literary, musical, and so
cial entertainments. Youth is not con
tented without society, and ought not
to be.
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HEADQUARTERS FOR SHOES AND HATS.
Calvin Carter, – Son. are decidedly in
the lead in the Americas, hoot, shoe,
and hat business, they make a specialty
of every thing in their line, and carry a
stock to fit every demand, Plow shoes
for the farmer. School shoes for the
pupil. Walking shois for the pedestrian.
Comfortable shoes for the businessman
Kiri button shoes for young lady. Soft
easy wearing shoes for the matron, a
dandy shoe for a stilish young gent and
in fact a shoe for every body. Buying
in lar «« quantities direct from the inarm
facturers. They can offer the very be*%t
bargains to l e hau in tlieir 1 ne, Citizens
of Schley County visiting Amerieus. an
invitation is extended to you to call and
see their stock and get prices.
MU. KAIiUN KOBIYED.
Some sneak tlieif entered the house of
Mr. Joseph Rabun last Thursday morning
while he and family were eating break
fast in the bitching, and rob bed bis
trunk of a watch and$3in currency. For
tunately, he had loaned a friend several
hundred dollars a few days before and
had left but little in the trunk. Manse
Br. z 1 and Greene Pay ne colored
were immediately arrested on suspicion,
They gave bond and will have a pre
liminarv trial to-day. Mr. Rabun thinks
■ it was planned for Manse to go to tilt
kitchen and engage hint in conversation
while Green entered the house to rob
it. The evidence s > far as we can learn
is only circumstantial and it is dim to
Green Payne to stale that lie has here
to-fon borne« go >d reputation arid many
of his white friends hope andbelieve that
Ids conmeti n with the crime is a mis
, take. The evidence produced today
| v ill probaly show whether it L or not.
§$l$£cwh
The public schools, for 1891 will em
brace the first four months to the year,
except the long term schools.
Fancy candies at Casky – Reids.
ATTENTION TEACHERS,
Examination of teachers for license
will be held in EllaviUe December 20th.
Cows with young calves for sale.
C.H. Smith.
Ladies, for Fair Skin and Complexion
take only W. W. C.
CHEAPEST MONEY YET.
Money to loan on improved farms at
6 per cent, interest.
J. J. Hanesley.
Amerieus, Ga.
Barlow Block, Room No. 5.
Weak,WornConstitutions reb b ; ilt l.W.C
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FOR OVER FIFTY YEARS.
Mrs. Winslow's Soothing: Syrup has been used
for over fifty years by millions of mothers for
their children while teething 1 , with perfect suc
cess. 11 soothes the child, softens the gums, al
lays all pain, cures wind colic, and is the best
remedy for Diarrhoea. It will relievo the poor
little sufferer immediately. Sold by Druggists
in every part of the world; Twenty-five cents
a bottle. Be sure and ask for “Mrs. Winslow’s
oothing 1 Syrup,” and take no other kind.
Needing LADIES
atonic, or children who want build
BROWN’S ing up, JRON should take
It is pleasant BITTERS.
to take, cures Malaria, Indi
gestion, Biliousness and Liver Complaints.
ADMINISTRATOR’S SALE.
Will be sold on Wednesday the 10th day of
December 18.10 between the legal hours of sate
upon the place in Schley County known as the
Amos Wig-gins place, all the personal prop
erty belonging 1 to the estate of Mrs. Mollie B
Wiggins deceased now upon said place. Con
sisting of three horses two mules, cows, hog s,
corn, fodder, cotton set d farming implements
and all other property there situated. Said
saie by order of Court for the benefit of heirs
and creditors. Terms cash.
It. A. WIGGINS.
Administrator.
1)111 lb 1 nail mo
EllaviUe, Georgia.
Building done in all the latest styles o
architecture, at prices that will meet
any fust-class competitor.. C ntracts so
limited any where in Southwest Georgia
and satisfaction guaranteed,
BROWN'S IRON BITTERS
Cures Dyspepsia^ In
digestion – Debility.
GEORGIA, i f To whom it may eon
SCH LEY COUNTY, eern; Whereas the com
missioners appointed to set aside a years sup
port for Mrs. Mary E. Hndren, wife of
Jamas A Harden deceased, have tiled their
report m this office; fill parties interested are
hereby notified, to file their objections, if an
they have, in the time required by law, why
so made by said commissioners
; be allowed the said Mary. E. Har
den and the same entered on record in this
Office.
This Nor. 10th. 1890.1. T. II. Myers
Advertise JO days . (Ir till 1 rv
For Blood, Bladder, Biliousness, W.W.C
SALE FEED AND LIVERY
STABLES.
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la front of Court House. Eltyvil e Gu.
A. J. Hill Proprietor.
Carriages. Buggies, Carts, and Saddle
Horses 'or hire.
Farmers horses fed and cared for.
The patronage of the i uhlic is solicited
('EM J -Ill.
Under New Management
The Central Hotel, at Columbus Ga., is
last becoming a great resort for
the t raveling public.
This hotel Ims been thoromr'ily renovated
inside mid out and put iu first-class order, and
the fare, ns well as the noeoninindationa, is all
that could be desired. This hotel is centrally
1 rented, huge rooms, well ventilated and fur
nished in modern style. Polite and attentive
servants. T he table supplied with all the dwl
ieueiesot' the season, mailing it a most popu
lar resort for dtiuutacis and t.'ie travelling
ubl.e generally.
E A Pure * Vegetable Tonic
HTTifi " ■unw—aiBB ■ mvsraaii^rjj
No mincDc’.i used whatever.
s£ Mild and wholesome effect on the
liver and kidneys.
Cleanses the Blood of all impu
« rities.
Cures Rheumatism,Cancer, Scrcf
ula, Tetter, and any poisons.
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Dps. GHESEY AND <— V
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Oglethorpe Street
EllaviUe Ga.
WE HAVE ADDED TO OUR STOCK (,F
DRUGS, PAINTS, ETC.
FANCY GROCERIES.
Flour, Meal, Rice, Grits,
Sugar. Syrup A Canned
goods also.
FBTTITs
Oranges, Apples, Cocoa-nuts,
RAISINS’ NUTS, CANDIES ETC.
You can find all the lead
ing Patent Medicines.
Full stock of Drugs, Chem
cals, Paints Oil, Varnish,
Ac,
Lamps and lamp fixtures,
Kerosene Oil
Potash, soaps, soda,
Starch,
Best Brands of Chewing
and smoking Tobaccos Ci
garetts and Macaboy Snuff,
Hi
Writing paper, Blank
books, Inks-Black, Violet
and Indelible, Pens, Pen
holders, Pencils, School
Crayons,
Blacking, Combs, Hair,
and Whist brushes, Black
ing and shoe Polish, Ac.—
Perfumery and Toilet ar
ticles, Mellier s Quadruple
Extracts, Iioyt’s and Tar
rant’s Extracts, Tooth pow
ders, and brushes Ac
HUHSI) DYES
36 colors and 92 shades
am s < 1 \ j
Ful] assortment 2 packa
ges for octs
In fact everything to be
found in a first class Drug
Store.
All calls attended to
promptly,
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