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SATURDAY. DECEMBER 17. 1892.
The Gibson Record remark* that
Wataoo ia the firat congressman erer
known to "jaw around the hat” lor hi*
own benefit.
Jay Gould payed his son George a
salary of $1,000,000 a year. Few men
not engaged in the newspaper business
receive such remuneration.
“Dead.” “suspended,” “last issue,”
“failed for want of patronage,” etc.
That’s the way the reports are coining
ia from third party paper*.—Jackson
ville Banner.
It is rumored that Major Bacon will
again be a candidate lbr governor in
1894. Major Bacon is an able and clear
headed man and would unquestionably
make a wise executive.
Many men and some women who never
give away anything in their lives, al
though well able to afford it. wear very
pleasant faces at this season of the year,
they know that some of the fools among
their acquaintances will send them
Christmas presents.
South Georgia conference is in session
this week, and we are left without
Methodist preacher. Way-cross being
exactly in the center of the world, and
being otherwise qualified, we shall
pect to entertain that noble body of
Christian workers, as soon as
church is completed.
The present legislature has not yet
taken any steps looking to a change
homestead ami exemption laws. .1
yet this is a most important matter. The
difficulty attendant on collecting pre
vent# the investment of millions of dol
lars capital in Georgia.—Herald-Jour
nal.
It is pretty generally believed that
Cleveland will call an extra session of
congress as soon as he is invested with
the powers of administration. The re
publican UrifT laws are so galling to the
people that they cannot well wait a year
longer lor the relief that the democrats
were placed in power to 'give.—Citizen,
Macon. «’■■■
The legislators go home at the dose of
the week. Some good hills have been
passed, some have been killed, some
hare been introduced and aomAhave not
been introduced, but taken as TT whole,
the work of the general assembly is fully
up to that of its predecessors.—Athens
Banner.
Legislation in Georgia is drifting too
much into parsimony—in some things,
matters appealing to state pride, for in
stance—and into costly mistakes when it
comes to the things which the average
legislator considers more material.—Al
bany Herald.
The negroes in this county have about
reached the conclusion that the third
party ia using them simply as tools and
many will reftise to vote with that party
in the county election. They say they
are tired of being huddled together by
two or three white men and one or two
colored ones and carried to (he polls in
tko interest of office seekers. You watch
the tide turn in January. The negro is
learning something about this third par
ly every day.—Jonesboro Enterprise,
The cariosity exhibited in legislative
circles as to what the verdict of the
Gober investigating committee will be, is
iutenas to say the least of it. The Jour
nal anticipates the committee with the
following:
The report will exonerate Judge Gober
from any criminality in changing the
proceeding of the court on the motion
for a new trial, so far as the evidence
discloses.
The committee will find that there is
n conflict in the testimony as to what oc-
currad at the hearing In Marietta, when
the change ia arid to have been made, as
to how much of the motion Judge Gober
changed, and they will declare that as
this conflict is irreconcilable, they will
five Judge Gober the benefit of the
donbt. The committee will presume
that the judge did his duty as a judicial
officer.
The committee will further say in their
report, however, that this investigation
has developed the fact that there is a
necessity for some legislation on the sub
ject of motion* for new trials, defining
th* power and duties of judges, in order
that the practice throughout the state
shall be uniform.
The arguments submitted on both sides
havs been printed and freely circulated
in both branches of the legislature and
thair action upon th* report of the com
mittee will be watched with interest by
the people. The report of the committee
has been declared a “dog foil.” Glen and
made n breve fight bat Gober
had all oader-hold.
HSULT TO DEMOCRACY.
Speaking of the insult to democracy
and the national congress by the Reform
club of New York at its dixraef last Sat
urday night, the Washington Post has
this to say:
Mr. Fairchild says there were so many
democrats of prominence present that
the number of speakers had to be limi
ted, but it would seem, under such cir
cumstances, as if the name of General
Patrick Collins, of Massachusetts, or
Congressman Tom Johnson, of Ohio, or
Governor-elect Stone, of Missouri, or
even Mr. Breckinridge, of Arkansas,
might have been left off and that of
Speaker Crisp, of the house of represen
tatives, substituted without any great ef
fort to the intelligence of the democratic
party, or any serious strain upon the
overpowering dignity and intellectuality
of the Reform Club.
The Post is quite sure that ex-Gover-
nor Campbell, of Ohio, who, in spite of
the uncongeniality of the surroundings,
made the only speech of the evening in
which there was a salient democratic
idea, would have gladly stepped aside
for Mr. Crisp had the opportunity been
afforded him.
No. Mr. Fairchild’s explanation
won’t do at all. The strange fact that a
“distinguished democrat” like Tom
Johnson was given precedence to Mr.
Crisp and permitted to make a speech
that can be regarded in no other light
than an insolent and studied attack upon
the gentleman from Georgia and his lead
ership, furnishes an explanation that
really explains, at the same time seri
ously impugning the good frith of the
ex-secretary and his motives, ami be
traying the ingratitude of a congress
man who has always been treated by tbe
speaker with quite as much considera
tion as he erer deserved.
The Birmingham Age-Herald says:
Speaker Crisp Isn’t the first democrat
whom the mugwump have snubbed.
The mugwump thinks himself better
than an angel and turns up his nose at
the mention of a seraphim.
Elsewhere in these columns will be
firtind a communication from the presi
dent of the board of education, which
ought to claim the attention, and receive
at the hands of every citizen of Way-
cross careful and earnest consideration.
Capt. Reed has been an earnest worker
for the cause of education. He was the
prime mover in the work of securing the
present site for the school building, and
unremitting in his efforts to secure do
nations and pro*ecv*e the work until the
present building wi-v completed. Tbe
rapid growth of the city and the large
increase in applications for admitance to
the school, notwithstanding the new
annex to the old building just completed
last year, presents to the board of educa
tion the alternative of providing some
is to enlarge the accommodation, or
being confronted in the near future with
the stern necessity of withholding from
many of our children the benefit of a
public free school, for want of sitting
room. The plan suggested to raise the
money with which to erect a new, com
modious brick building, ample in all its
^tycnts, affords perhaps the best so
lution, and the only escape from the al
ternative the board of education could
devise. The Herald invites the friends
of education to use its columns freely
airing this subject which is even
greater importance to Waycross just n<
than the question of water-works.
BOARD OF EDUCATION.
Regular meeting of the board was held
Saturday, December 10th. Present—II.
W. Reed. Simon W. Hitch, W. J. Cara-
well, J. L. Walker, L. Johnson and J.
M. Marshall.
It was ordered that the 8th rule b*
suspended for the colored school until
the 19th of December. After said date
it will be rigidly enforced.
The president was directed to employ
Miss B. Blakely at a salary of 3-10.00 per
month.
After auditing some small accounts,
the board took up for discussion a long
felt necessity, i. e , the proposition to
build an academy that would accommo
date all the children of Waycross, and
possibly a few more. Realizing that
this was a question upon which the
board mast have the earnest co-opera
tion of the people, it was decided to ap
point a committee, consisting of 8. W.
Hitch and \V. J. Carswell, to draft a
hill, while the entire board resolve them-,
selves into an agitating committee to in
duce consideration by the people.
It was ordered that there be a two
week’s vacation for Christmas, commenc
ing December 21, and ending January 3,
1893, and that the last term end on the
third Friday in June, so as to provide
for the spring vacation.
Dr. W. C. Bass, the president of Wes
leyan Female college, states that the
young lady, Miss Taylor, who, in the re
cent past, has been sick with scarlet fever,
has entirely recovered and In a few days
will resume her studies. The eighty
young ladies who left immediately for
their homes at the first appearance of
the fever in the college, will return after
the Christmas holidays. All fears of an
epidemic have subsided, and the students
from the city are in daily attendance.
The Albany Herald has this to say of
Hon. E. R. Jones:
Hon. E. R. Jones is receiving many
flattering notices of his bill to provide
for a weather bureau and crop reporting
service lor the state. This b an impor
tant move, but has never as yet been
provided for and sustained by state ap
propriation. It b a want in which the
formers of the state are directly interested.
Way cress an Bdacatlenal Center*
We people of Waycross feel justifiable
pide in our little city, and one of the
prime elements that accord us the right
to a sense of superiority, is the educa
tional system that we maintain at a lower
cost than any other city of equal size has
done. But while we rejoice in the work
of the present, (however imperfect it
may be), we should be mindful of the to
come. He is wise who builds with an
insight into the distant future.
It should be remembered that our rate
of school tax is only 25 cent on the one
hundred dollars, scarcely enough, to
gether with other resources, to pay the
necessary running expenses. The board,
of education receives no compensation
for their services, and there is no fund
that can be applied to buildings and
grounds.
Other cities and towns have erected
handsome school buildings and lavish
money annually on improved grounds
and apparatus. I will further venture to
assert that no city of the size of Way;
cross has ever yet succeeded in
taining a public school system year after
year without the expenditure of one
dollar for 1 alibiing* and grounds, and
yet this city has done so and has spent
very little for furniture.
The high school building was built by
private donation upon a block of land
donated free by the 8. F. & W. Railway
Company, which U now worth fully
$5,000. The colored school lmilding
was built and tendered, rent free, by the
8. F. & W. Railway Company, and the
8. F. &. W. Railway Company lias also
loaned to the board of education money
to pay for school furniture.
\Ve now find ourselves in a position
that demands immediate action. Tbe
white school has been increasing in
membership about 40 scholars |»er an
num, until we now have 30G enrolled
and the old building, with its new addi
tion, is full. Another year at the
regular rate of increase, we will be over
crowded as we were last year. It would be
decidedly inadvisable to add to the pres
ent building, and we have no money to
do it with, if it was so decided- Now
what are we to do ? Only one plan sug
gests itself to me as practicable, we
should build a first-class brick school
building of sufficient size to hold six
hundred children and we should also
provide ample funds for building
more school buildings for the colored
children. The burden of this work
should not fall on the present citizens of
Waycross, but should be liorue in
measure by those who come here in the
future. To accomplish this, it will lie
necessary to Issue bond* payable say 30
years hence.
I estimate that a present assessment
of 15 cents on $100 will be sufficient for
the purpose, and of course this rate will
diminish as the property valuation in
creases from year to year.
We could with this method make
Waycross in fact, as well at in name, an
educational centre, and it 'a apparent
that to provide for our natural growth
something must be done at once.
The present school building might be
used for a city hall or for a boarding de
partment for the high school, a thing
that wouid bring us a large numlter of
pupils from abroad.
1 hope our people will take hold of
this matter in earnest and If any better
plan can lie proposed, let it come out.
H. W. Reed,
President Board of Education.
Hurrah
FOR THE
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HOLIDAYS!
C. E. COOK
XrXICIPAL XOJUSATIOSS. '
The mass meeting Jast Tuesday even
ing, called by the mjiyor, was well at
tended.- Promptly at 8 o’clock mayor
Knight entered the hall and rapped for
order. The object of the meeting was
briefly stated, and permanent organiza
tion effected by calling Col. H. P. Brewer
to the chair. Mr. E. T. Malone was
chosen secretary, and the chairman an
nounced ready for business.
Col. John C. McDonald offered the
following resolution: That the meeting
proceed to nominate council men from
the respective wards, commencing with
ward No. 1.
Dr. J. L. Walker offered as a substi
tute a proposition to open the ball with
the nomination for mayor. The
and nays resulted in the adoptiou of the
substitute and the name of Mr. A. M.
Knight, present encumbent, was pre
sented by Dr. Walker. There being
other nomination, on motion of Col. 8.
W. Hiteh, the secretary was instructed
to cast the unanimous vote of the meet
ing tor A. M. Knight. Nominations foi
aldermen were made by acclimation as
follows: First ward, Andrew J. Miller;
second ward, Capt. E. H. Crawley; thin!
ward, J. G. Justice; fourth ward, W. W.
Sharpe; fifth ward, W. A. McNeil.
Dr. J. L. Walker was placed in nomi
nation for member of the board of edu
cation, and elected by acclamation, after
which the uominees were called fur and
resj>onded with abort ajteechca.
Solid gold, 14 k. ladies' watches,
$18.50. Best Waltham movement, at
Lanier’s jew el cry store.
11 you
•hilt!’*
Smith’s
Is /Sow "Ready with a
Large Line of
James G. Blaine i* reported to be dy
ing of consumption.
Somite Georg In MrthodUta.
The South Georgia Methodist confer
ence met at St. Lake’s church, Colum
bus, Ga., last Wednesday, Bishop Fitz
gerald presiding. W. C. Lovett was
elected general secretary and W. F*
Smith, A. C. Downing and W. C. Wade,
statistical secretaries.
The hours for sessions were fixed from
9 to I. At the opening of the confer
ence Bishop Fitzgerald read the 13th
chapter of First Corinthians and <
mented thereon, followed by prayer by
Rev. Get*. G. N. McDonald.
Reports on educational institutions
were then made and referred to the edu
cational committee.
Reports were made from the Andrew
Female college, at Cuthbert, Wesleyan,
at Macon, South Georgia College, at
McRae, and Emory, at Oxford. Rev.
Crawford Jackson, of the North Geor
gia conference, presented this conference
with a scholarship in Andrew college
worth two hundred dollars per year to be
used by the daughters of poor preachers.
Rev. W. Lambert, one of the mission
ary secretaries, delivered an eloquent ad
dress on missionary work.
The case of Editor McCook, of the
Brunswick Times, will come up before
the conference under question twenty.
Much sympathy is expressed for Mr.
McCook. His foil is attributed to a
prescription for hemorrhage for which
he took whisky.
oys and «3>-
Christmas
PRESENTS
Tie West Variety of Toys
EVER BROUGHT TO WAYCROSS;
The Lowest
Prices ever
Known in the
City before!
DOLLS! DOLLS! BOLLS!
A Cm e for Twenty Cents.
Any remedy sold at one dollar a bot
tle which claims to cure rheumatism, is
■imply an imposition, for when all ex
penses are deducted it leaves not more
than twenty cents to represent the medi
cine. Dr. Drummond’s Lightning Rem
edy, which is performing such wonder
ful cures that it is being prescribed by
the medical faculty everywhere, is com
pounded at great expense from rare drugs
and cannot be sold for less than Five
Dollars a bottle. But it always cures.
Sent prepaid to any address on receipt
of price. Drummond Medicine Co, 48-
50 Maiden Lane, New York. Agents
wanted.
Some rare bargains in men’s extra coats
j and pants at W. J. Smith’s.
D
ON’T FORGET TO GIVE
ME A CALL IF YOU
WANT A NICE DOLL
AND CARRIAGE
AT A VERY LOW PRICE.
Now is the time
ons lx?fore the rut
Chamberlain’s Eye i
Ointme
, A certain cure for Chronic Sor
Tetter, Salt Rheum, Scald Hoad,
Chronic Sores, Fever Sores, Eczema^
Itch, Prairie Scratches, Sore Nipple?;
and Piles. It is cooling and soothing.
Hundreds of cases have l»een cured by it
after all other treatment had foiled.
■It is put up in 25 and 50 cent boxes.
For sale at the Cash Drug Store.
W. L. DOUGLAS
S3 SE40S? cEN-fiSfLiEN,
to BCCTSHOEummiuiniTOinaEr.
•old at th* rricc. E>;u&L)i-UkU4a toads ahoMcoatla*
!B4 nSjllamS-sewqd,. flnecalftboss. Tbs
at the prico,* t &hv> c^uaia'iM
2*9 S0 9 lV>lirs Shoe-.xi
want something nohhy it
ir boy’s overcoat, see >V.
•rices, they suit everybody.
There came near Wing a serious fire
Thnmosville last Tuesday morning at
2:30 o’clock. Fire caught from the
hearth iu a sleeping room above the store
of T. J. Ball A Bn*. John Androehock
occupying the room and discovered
the fire iu time to save the building and
stock. There was some damage to the
kuildiug and very slight damage to the
took by water. Both are. fully covered
by insurance.
All the best features of the circus
•rid will be seen with Sells and Rent-
fro tv’s Big Shows.
Uurklru’a Ant Ira Salve.
The best salve in the world for cuts,
bruises, sores, ulcers, salt rheum, fever
sores, tetter, chapped hands, chilblains,
», and all skin eruptions, and |*osi-
tively cures piles, or no pay required.
It is guaranteed to give jKrfect satisfac
tion, or money refunded. Price 25 cents
per box. For sale by A. B. Whorter &
Co., E. R. Goodrich, and R. J. Smith’?
drug stores.
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS.
varb county.
Contractor’s Notice.
Bids for the contract for tapping water
nuiius. furnishing corporation cocks, and
lead pipe connections, front 5-8 to 2 inches,
will Is? received by the Sanitary a * “*
ility of material to
be furnished.
Bond in the stun of $500.00, with approved
security for faithful performance of cnntrai *
required from the acepted bidder.
The commission reserves the right to i
jeet any or all bids.
By order of the Sanitary and Water-woi
Commission of Waycross, (ia.
iVeemlter 13.1«»2. W. 1>. Hamilton-,
Ex-officio CVrk.
City Marshal's Sale.
Georgia, Ware Comity*
Will lx* sold, on the second Saturday
January next, at the court house, s:
county, within the legal hours of sale, to t...
highest bidder, for cash, the following prop-
fine and one-half (1)) acres of land, more
or leai, in Waycross, said county, Imunded
east by Morton canal, west l>y land of Jef
fords and Jordan, south by A street, nort*
by Wadlgy street. Said land levied on *
the property of D. J. McIntosh, to satisfy
tax fi-fa issued by the city clerk, for city
tax for the year 1802. Waycross, <i: *'
centber 15, l«r_*. J. P. Cabo:
Georgia, Wore County.
To All Whom It May Concern t
J. R. A J. W. Bennett, administrators <
the estate of Richard Bennett, deceased, h
applied for an order to sell 335 acres of lot
land number 2U5. in tlio 5th district of sa
•minty; also 3 guns, I set of buggy ami oi..
set wagon wheels. 1 gold watch and 9 head
goats. And I will pas* upon said applica
tion on the first Monday in January nex‘
Witness my hand and official signatur
this December 5,1892. Warreji Lott,
4t < irdinary.
first Ttiesduy in Jan-
e legal liour* of sale,
Of lot of land im miter 31, in the 8th
f said county; sold as the property
of John B. Cason, late of said county, de
ceased, under and by virtueof an order from
the court of ordinary of said county, for the
purpose of paying the debts and for distr'
button among the heirs of said decease*
This December 5,1892. J. A. Casox
30d Administrator.
.o Imported abocs costing
S3.
feet Cry sad warn.
CO 30 FIs* Calf, sad 62.00 Work-
Wfci Inamrn’n Shoe* will give more wear for the
money than any other make. They are made foe aer-
vtce. The increasing sale* ahow that workingmen
b «rten*km edeeahoe. may to walk In, and wilt
hare found ti
Boy#’gjgs?3sftsr»B«.-
wbera. p*s most acrriceabl e ahoeaaold at the price*.
Ladies’ 13:8“ HFIrsvteSMSf
Mieses are made of the be*t Doogola or One Calf, at
d«*lmL They are very at rush, comfortable aaddura-
TbeKUDafcoe equal* cn>to«n (made abort eoaunjc
SUOtoStnt. Ladlee who with tosoosenUeU*
footwear are Cod tag thnoot.
■tlon.-W. I- Douglas' name and th* price la
_ ped on the bottom of esc hi shoe; loos tor It
When yon boy. Bew*re of dealer* attempting to aub-
■Utata other make* i«-them. HuchsabaUtutloasare
fraudulent amt subject to prosecution by law for oh-
taining money under false pretence*.
wTl. botuus ItncktM, Maas. Bold by
FOIt SALK BY
B. II. LEVY BRO.&CO
janl-ly
HOTEL PHOENIX, -f
One Minute Walk from Union Depot.
J, \V. Strickland, Ar . T „
Proprietor
Benton & Upson,
Machinery and Mill Supplies,
ENCitM'.K, IIOII,Kits,
Saw Hills, Shingle Hills, Wosd Work
ing Machinery, Sugar, Rice, Cotton
and Canning Machinery.
Irrigating Machinery
A SPKCIAI.TV.
S. F. 8 W. Railway Depot,
JACKSONVII,LK, KI.A.
SAYANX AI [ ADVKUTISEMKNTS.
EDWARD LOVELL’S SONS,
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA.
Hardware, Tinware, Plows,
Turitentine Manufacturers’ Supplies,
Bar, Ramljutd Hoop IRON.
Wheels, Axles and Wagon
Material,
Gum, Pistols and Ammunition. tlHMy
J. II. Smith and EHender Smith applied
to me for letter* of dismission from the ad
ministration of the estate of Ransom Smith,
deceased, and I will pass on said application
“on the first Monday in January, 1803, at
”’-7croes. Georgia. Oct. 5th. 1802.
WARREN LOTT. Obmxart.
OFFICERS OF CHARLTON COUNTY.
Aaron Dowling, Ordinary. .
A.G. Gowen, Clerk Superior Court C. O.
J. A. Wainright, Sheriff. ,
James Thompson. School Commissioner.
Sheriff Sale.
Will be sold on the 3d day of January.
I8W. at Trader’* Hill, ‘’hartton county,
GeOTgia, between the legal hours ofsale the
home ami lot known *» the C. S. Pute
drug store in the town of frolkston. levied
C. E, COOK S,
Plant Avenue, Waycross, Georgia kill germ
„„ w satisfy an execution issued from the
Superior court of CoBee county, in fovorjof
Itcsenbemer A Co. Levy made this the 25th
day of Oct. 1892. J. A. Waixw*iohTj
Lloyd & Adams.
DEALERS IN
Faints, Oils, Doors, Sash and Blinds,
Terra Cotta and Sewer Pipes,
BUILDERS HARDWARE,
Lime, Plaster and, Hair and Cement.
Comer Congress and Whitaker Sts.,
Savannah, : : Georgia.
Sole Agents for Adamant Plaster. I»«st
preparation in the world for plnstcring
walls and ceilings. Write for rirental*.
dec 19-1V
A CUT CN RATES.
From Joke to October
$1.50 PER DAY,
The Old Reliable
HARNETT HOUSE,
SAVANNAH. GA.
NICE,
Hal Printing n Specialty.