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D.B.SWEAT, Agent* THE HERALD* Omt authorized rtpmnutira will U pmldcd s:•“ Communication* far publication mast bear the ai tbe writer. Pare! * - lakes only Coauau - Tuesday. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 24. 1892. ADVERTISING RATES. JaPAt'K. |1 roo',3 moGmojTyr ~ 1 Inch 2.00| 4.00! 7.00i 10.00 •2 inch! 3.00 0.00 10.00| 14.00 3 Inch 4.00 8.0014.00 20.00 I Col. 0.00 12.00 20.00l».00! 1 Col. 11000. 20.0030. (4,1. !i&.o6;9o!oo!fi0.oAool —• weekly „ s to be less. ient advertising inserted at $1.00 per •’ "k-subsequent insertion. local columns 10c per line Orel insertion; 3c per line each snbsc- pastor church here, pawed through tlie city Thursday on hia way home from conference. He goes next year to Louisville and Davisboro. Col. L. A. Wilson, our clever represen tative, has returned home again. Wel come, old boy, to home, clients and roar Christmas turkey. Master Lee and Miss Lulu Sweat are at home on a holiday vacation and the warmth of home life will be enlivened by their presence for a short season. Mr. I .eon Kent, the clever representa tive of M. FerstSons A Co., of Savannah, has excused himself and gone to spend Christmas with his best girl, not alto gether unlike a young fellow. .LEVY, BRO. & CO. . Married. Miss Genie Roddenberry and Me. W. J. O.’Cane were married at the home of the bride’s * parents, in Folkston, last Wednesday, the Rev. M, C. Austin officia ting. The IIebald extends congratula tions. - CONTROLLING PRICES IN For ('h)-np advertising ace t’lieap Column. Advertisement* to insure insertion any Week must be in by Wednesday of that week. Changes made in advertisements, inserted at our rect * will be dn ties, and for specified time, for at cost of making said will l»e charged forspe- Arrlral and Departure of Mails At WayerosH. ARIUVK A. X. From North G:30 and 0:45 " South tWO " 9:15 East West.... . 9:10 .. 6:30 ** 9:10 The handsome new residence of Mr. J. H. Gillon, on Tebeau street, is near ing completion, and that gentleman and his estimable family will move into their home in the beginning of a new year, with renewed real in the pursuit of happiness. The Al G. Field’s minstrel troop mortalized themselves in the minds of Waycroas theater goers last Tuesday evening. Several scenes, flooded with the scenic beauty of varegated light, was grand beyond description, and the veiled scene of the quadrille iu the old log eabin was something new and quite be- il the ordinary minstrel production* A son of Mr. M. D. Pusser, a mer chant of Gibraltar, X. C., was so badly afflicted with rheumatism for a year or more, as to be unable to work or go to school. His father concluded to try Chamberlain’s Pain Balm on the boy. It soon cured liim and lie has since walked one and a half miles to school and back every school day. Fifty cent bottles for sale by Cash drug store. Clothing, Shoes, Hats, k MAKES THEM SELL LOW. Keep your eye on our line of Men and Boy’s Suits. Remember that we lead in Quali ty, Style and Low Prices. Ten Per Cent Discount for all of December! Keep your eye Our Elegant ine of Christmas Neckwear. More Stock of this kind than all the bal ance of Way. put together Largest Stock of Clothing IX WAYOROSB, AND PRICES KNOCK THEM ALL OUT. Waycross lodge, No. 805 F. & A. M., will hold a public installation of officers Tuesday, Dec. 27, at Masonic hall, installation services will commence at .30 p. m. All members of Waycross Lodge and their ladies, also sojourning Masons in good standing are cordially invited. Committee of Arrangements. A big line of Hess’s fine shoes in every >e at the Palaoe shoe store. W. J. Smith. A merry Christmas to you. Watch the cork at A. R. Bennett’s Arc you ready to balance accounts with the year 1892? Go to Stokes A Morgan’s market tor nice beef, pork and sausage. We offer a great variety of appropriate presents for ladies, gentlemen and chil dren. We can supply a suitable gift for r young at any price you wish to exjieml. C. E. Cook. Boys, barrels a ascendency just t Twenty-five i»er Cent, discount < vrwnre at Lanier’s jewelery store. Do nothing rush boys, to wound the feeling* of another or mar your own Christmas pleasure. We learn that Editor Freeman joined the church last Sunday. A line display of all kinds ol jewelery wanted for Christmas presents at Geo. R. Youiuans A Co.’s. Young man, if it makes your head swim, or increase* your wealth too fast, go'hoiuo, too much holiday illusion is a v delusion and a snare. Talk of the town—Williams’ stall-fed lieef. Before the opportunities of the year elose, lop off your evil habits and the sin which doth so easily beset you. The circus last Wednesday was n swindle, a barefaced imposition upon the lovers of amusement, however frivolous. You can get a n ice lunch basket froo* with every pair of school shoes at J. T. Palmer’s shoe store. Our patrons will please note the purison between their display advertise ments in the Herald and similar work on some pretentious poster sheets not far The dry goods department of the C. C. Grace Company’s establishment is doing a splendid business. Guided and direc ted by the skillful management and tiring energy of C'apt. lien Grace, i cess is certain. They shipped three loads of goods to customers on the Air Line this week. Never so good • Never so cheap Our beautiful display of holiday goods is o|iencd and ready. C. E Cook. Mr. C. E. Cook's store, immediately in the center of Waycross and the world, reserved as sjiccial arcanum for Santa Claus, has been crowded with customers all this week. Regular Christmas services at Grace Church—Episcopal—Sunday morning at eleven o’clock, and special services for the children in the evening at 7:80. The Herald has received a great many encouraging assurances of success for the proposition to start an evening paper, our merchants feel ibe need of it and realize the great lienelit to their business by reason of the speedy and efficient medium for advertising it would a fibril, and every lady and gentle- in the city with public spirit enough to feel a lively interest in public affairs, would soon welcome the evening visitor with pleasure. you want something nobby in a child’s or boy’s overcoat, see W. J. Smith’s prices, they suit everybody. illouses to rent. Apply at f Herald Office. The Methodist Sunday school has se cured Lott’s hall and arranged to give the children an entertainment next Wednesday evening. The doors will be open at six o’clock. A sumptuous feast of all the good things obtainable will be the principal feature of the occasion. May all the little ones, both members ef the Sunday school and their guests, be made to feel at home. If you want your watch or any article of jewelery repaired, go to Geo. R. You- mans A Co.’s. It will pay you to see the shoes get the prices, that are now being of fered at the Palace shoe store, before buying elsewhere. W. J. Smith. $500.00 worth silverware to close out at Lanier’s jewelery store. 25 per cent, discount. Engraved free. 'RtFi-E /2*j?rry. A trifle breezy,but nevermind, Ml go to LEVY’S 10 per cent, discount sale and get an Overcoat. CMntr CmH Salic*. The monthly sessions of the County court of Ware county will hereafter be holden on the third (3d) Saturday in every month, instead of the first as here tofore. All writs and suits made returnable to the January monthly session 1893, should be made returnable to the third Satur day; the 21st day of January, 1898. This Dec. 1st, 1892. J. S. Williams, Judge of the County Court of Ware Go. Come early, make % avoid the rush. r selections and C. E. Cook. We oiler One HundretT Dollars Re ward for any case of catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall’s Catarrh Cure. F. J. Cheney, Prop., Toledo, O. We the undersigned, have known F. J. Cheney for the last 15 years, snd be lieve him perfectly honorable in all biuduesa transactions and financially able to carry out any obligations made by their firm. West A Truax, and Wal den, Kinxan & Marvin, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O Hall’s Catarrh Cure is taken internal ly, acting directly upon the blood and uiucuous snrfaces of the system. Price 75 cents per bottle. Sold by all drug gists. Testimonials free. We learn of the intention of Mr. T. M. Darr to join the ancient order of united women. At a regular meeting of the Waycross Lodge, No. 305 F. & A. M. held Dec. 14, the following officers were elected: W. W. Sharpe, W. M; C. T. W. Sy phan, S. W; B. H. Williams, J. W; Warren Lott, treasurer; D. R English, secretary; P. C. Tracy, S. D; J. Hogan, J. D; W. H. Scruggs, chaplain; E. H, Reed, marshal; D. A. McGee, S. W; D. F. Kirkland, S. S; O. D’Auvergne, tyler. The doors of the blue lodge in the Masonic temple will be open to the public oil the evening of Dec. 27th to itness the installation ot these officers. The officers of Rlackshear chapter elected the 23d of November will also be in stalled at the same time aud place, they arc as follows: W. W. Sharpe, H. P; E. II. Crawley, king; L. Johnson,scribe; Warren Lott, treasurer; I). It. English, secretary ; A. P. English, C. of II; E. II. Reed, P. S; H. D. Rowbotham, 11. A. C; R H. Wil liams. M. of 3d Veil; J. O. Ward, M. of 2.1 Veil; 1). A. McGee, M. of let Veil; O. D’Auvergne, sentinel. In the future I will handle children’s and boys’ clotbiug only. I am closing out a big line of men’s extra coats and .pants at about half price. W. J. Smith, fills) $1.00. OUR DECEMBER PRICES They nro the Lowest, tie he had. In December, as well as in all tlie balatnce of the year, we control tbe prices of our lines in Wax-cross. An Elegant Line of HOLIDAY NECKWEAR. Just the thing for a Nice Little Pres ent. The presiding elder, the Rev. Mr. McDonald, will preach his farewell ser in to the people of Waycross to-mor- v, Sunday morning, at 11 o’clock. He goes to the Columbus district. Rev. Geo. \V. Mathews returns to his charge for the fourth time. This means something of course, more perhaps than the casual observer will sum up. This much however, looms up as a certain re sult, the finest Methodist church in Wiregrass Georgia, will lie built Waycross this year, before Geo. W. Mathews, the business men of Waycross and Methodism all bearers to the success of this undertaking fall. Try a |»air of Palmer’s $1.00 school ihocs, best in Waycross for the money. A grand Christmas tree at the Baptist church this evening will be the medium of transfer for many handsome Christ mas present*. Old Santa Claus too, will no doubt be there, laden with nice things for the children, Solid gold, 14 k. ladies’ watches, $18.50. Best Waltham movement, at I^mier’s jewelery store. Stokes A Morgan keep a fresh supply of choice westerly beef. Many of the old sensible colored men, like representative Styles, are willing to admit that the men they grew up with ou the farm are not their worst enemies. The Presbyterian Sunday school will entertain next Tuesday evening, open ing at 6:30 o'clock. The features of the entertainment will be varied, with reci tations, songs, etc., notable among which will be the presentation of a gesture song by Mrs. T. L. Strickland’s class. After the entertainment the Sunday school, with its guests, will repair to the resi dence of Mrs. C. J. Jenkins and indulge in a few hours of social pastime. Dr. G. B. Williams' Liver Pills, At T. S. Paine’s drug store, endorsed by Dr. J. L. Walker. This pUl will cure sick headache or any other kind. Parties Wishing j| TO BUY First Class floods in Onr Line WILL ONLY DO THEMSELVES JUSTICE TO CALL GN US BEFORE MAKING ANY PURCHASES. SPECIAL LOW PRICES FOR DECEMBER B. H. LEVY, BRO. & CO., Southern Hotel Building, Waycross s, Ga. The newest ideas, the best selections, the most appropriate and desirable pres ents at fairest figures at C. E. Cook’s. House to rent, $11.00 jx-r month, plastered, good location. II. W. Reed. Our delegation all back from conftfr- ice. Rev. M. C. Austin will preach tiro unsearchable riches of Christ to the good people of the Duke circuit, anoth- ycar and the poor will not be forgot ten, truly the *un is made to shine, and refreshing rain defend on the unjust and the just. Kum C Lanier, and nave 25 per cent, u watches, silverware and jewelery. The Fast Mail was a flue repetition of its production last season. Confederate Veterans’ Re-wulou. Attention is called to the fact that the next annual meeting of the South Geor gia Confederate Veterans’ Association trill be held in the city of Brunswick on Thursday, January 19th, 1893, the j versarv of the birth of General Robert E. Lee. Ixt county associations assem ble at their usual places of meeting the fiirst Saturday in January to make suitable preparations for attending annual re-union, and in counties South Georgia where no organizations exist, let the veterans meet ‘at the court houses of their respective counties on said day and organize preparatory to at tending. An interesting programme for the occasion will be prepared, and the railroads asked to make reduced rates. F. A. Boyle, Secretary. J. L. Sweat, Pres. S. G. C. V. A. llurrab for the holidays! Right now we are ready with an immense assort ment of Christmas gifts. Come early asd make your selection. C. E. Cook. WaycrossTW^HM 2i; 1892. City, council met m regular monthly session at 8 o’clock p. in:, his honor Mayor Knight presiding. Aldermen McNeil, Justice, Murphy and Gillon present. Read and confirmed the minutes of meetings held October 20th and 24th 1892. Council took up the tax appeal rases of Capt. C. W. Hilliard and Mr. T. H. Morton, appealed from the city assess ment of 1889, with a view to a settle ment of the same. Col. J. C. McDonald representing the appellants made a pro position for a settlement of both cases, which on motion was received and accep ted. The Satilla MTg. Co., was heard by council in relation to closing the old Glenmore road where it runs through the property of the company. Messrs. H. W. Wilson, Miles Albertson and E. H. Reed _• heard by the council for the com pany. After discussion it was on motion resolved, that the council notify the county commissioners of Ware county that the city contemplates closing the old Glenmore road where it passes through the property of the Satilla Man ufacturing Company within tlie .city limits, and along the right-of-way of the S. F. & W. Railway company, toward Glenmore, to the corporation line, and the council requests that the county open tha road beyond the corporation line connect with Glenmore street, as now laid aut by the city within the corporate line. K * X:UI Pending a hearing from the county commissioners tlie Satilla Manufactur ing Company is permitted to erect gates to elose the old road during the night, to be kept open during the day. Carried. The clerk is hereby instructed to notify the county commissioners of this action of council. Council passed the following ordi nance, to-wit: An ordinance to pro hibit the obstruct ion of any street, lane, road or sidewalk. It Ordained, That from and after the passage of this ordinance, any person or persons who shall, knowingly, wilfully, or negligently, stop, close, or in any manner whatever obstruct any street, lane, road or sidewalk in this city, or shall cause the same to lie done, and shall refuse to remove the said distrac tion, or open said street, lane, road or sidewalk, after having been duly noti fied so to do, by any marshal or pol ice man of said city, shall be fined not more than fifty dollars, or work on the public streets not more than thirty days. Passed in council meeting of the 21st of November, 1892. W. D. Hamilton, Clerk. The hill of Messrs. Itowbotham Murphy for $104.50 for making pin specifications &c., for city hall was re ferred to chairman finance committee. The mayor called the attention of council to the necessity of building at i, a “calaboose” fur the use of the city. On . Jered that a special com- consisting of alderman McNeil and Justice be appointed to have erec ted at once, a “calaboosee,” and to su perintend the erection of the same/to bt built of brick walls on tbe outside, con taining 4 cells and hall,.or passage-way. The inside walls to lie of wood, double thickness. The monthly reports of the keeper of Lott Cemetery were received for month ending 20th instaiit. Same ordered filed. Cemetery returned to general city fund $300,00, loaned to cemetery fund for the purchase of addition to Ixitt Cemetery. The protest of Mrs. Sarah F. Williams against paying interest tax on water works bonds received and filed. The bond of ex-policeman T. It. Hen derson, was on motion, cancelled. The chief of the fire department in structed to purchase a set of harness for the chemical fire engine at once. - The third quarterly reports of city officers was passed over on account of the absence of tLt* chairman of -finance. On account of th.c sickness of the city tax collector, his report of taxes collec ted for the year 1892 was passed over. Clerk of council was directed to issue tax executions against all city tax de faulters on the first day of Decendier, 1892. On motion ordered that the mayor be authorized to draw his draft in favor of Henry N. Sasnett for $G.OO for three days service to finance committee. Council audited and ordered paid the following bills, to-wit: O. D’Auvergne, work to cemetery, $3.50; O. D’Auvergne, $2.25; John Williams, brick for ceme tery use, $8.00 ; C. C. Grace & Co., mer chandise, $50.65; J. P. Ulmer, black smith work, $7.75; Satilla Manufactur ing Company, lights, $187.44; S. E. Sowell, whitewashing stockade, $10.00; Grace A McNeil, sundries, 80c.; C. C. Grace A Son, sundries, $7.80; H. W. Reed, lease, printing, $45.00; \^. P. Lee, provisions, $170.80; J. W. Mallon, mer chandise, $13.55; Mrs. M. C. Austin, making convict clothing, $3.60; A. II. McWhorter & Co., medicines, $6.95; Lloyd A Adams, cement, $1.50. The claim of J. M. Smith for damage to horse, was referred to special commit tee, consisting of aldermen Sharpe and Murphy, for settlement, if a settlement can be made, if not, the matter to be submitted to arbitration, one arbitrator to be chosen by the city, one bv the claimant and these two to select the third. Council ' '. D. Hamilton, Clerk. A. M. Knight,. Mayor. It Should Be lu Every House. J. B. Wilson, 371 Clay St, Sharps- bivrg. Pa., says he will not be without Dr. King’s New Discovery for consump tion, coughs and colds, tljat it cured his wife who was threatened with pneumonia after an attack of la grippe, when var- other remedies and several •physi cians had done her no good. Robert Barber, of Cookiport, Pa., claims Dr. King’s New Discovery has done him more good than anything he ever used for lung trouble. Nothing like it. Try it. Free trial bottles at A. R McWhor ter & Co.’s, R J. Smith’s, and E. B. Goodrich’s drug store. Large bottles, 50 cents and $1.00. j MAKE NO MISTAKE. ^ lien one wants to eradicate every indi in of malaria from their system, they . mly wise, and make no mistake if they will try Dr. John Bull’s SMITH’S TOXIC SYRUP, any years it has deservedly mnin- » reputation as lieing the n ” the many t reli- sees adverti CURES dd for the most il enervating of all malarial dis- s a goo dy lias given such satisfaction, ir druggist. Take no suh- a larger profit is made, i you more good than six her remedy, and the relief cut. A word to the wise ures malaria. feel weak ? l»o you have pain ? Ik> sores trouble you ? Are you in poor health and growin- worse ? Use I>r. John Bull's Sar- saparilU.%It will make you well and strong, delay. Give it a trial. Get it from bottles (192 tca-spoon- r druggis julylti-lni Ladies are Unfortunate. ids nature Philotoken controls tlie bottle, from York. Send for druggis inland iptive pamphlet, with dire ieates from many la.” nl can’t say enough NOTICE. vemlier 1st, 1892, tlie undersigned issocinted together under the firm 'the Cherokee Nursery Co. Tlie lie property will continue in the If. \V. Reed until the conditions of contract made the same dute an* inplied with. All contracts with checks for the payrne xpenscs. C. M. Grit kill have charge oft 'herokec Nursery Or ■f H. W. Reed A- Co. Ilitrklm'a Arnica Salve. The best salve in the world for cuts, bruises, sores, ulcers, salt rheum, fever sores, tetter, chapped hands, chilblains, corns, and all skin eruptions, and posi tively cures piles, or no pay required. It is guaranteed to give jierfeet satisfac tion, or money refunded. Price 25 cents per box. For sale by A. II. Whorter & Co., E. II. Goodrich, ami II. J. Smith’s drug stores. LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS. 1 WARE COUNTY. Contractor’s Notice. Bids for the contract for tapping water mains, furnishing corporation «-ocks, and lead pipe connections, from 5-8 to 2 inches, wilt Ik* received by the Sanitary and Water works Commission of Waycross, Ga., up to 12 ni., of the 20th instant. The commission will furnish an improved tapping machine, under pressure npgto one inch. Bids must state tlie quality of material to Ik* furnished. Bond in the sum of&OO.OO, with approved security for faithful lierformance of contract, required from the aecepted bidder. The com mission reserves tlie right to re- iectany or all bids. Bv order of the Sanitary and Water-woiks ominission of Waycross, Ga. IVeenilKT 13, 1««. W. I). Hamilton, Kx-officio Clerk. City Marshal’s Sale. Georgia, War* Conutyi Will l»e sold, on tlie first Tuesday in One and one-half (11) acres of land, more or less, in Waycross, said county, bounded east by Morton canal, west by land of Jef fords and Jordan, south by A street, north by Wadley street. Said land levied on as the property of l>. J. McIntosh, to satisfy « tax ti-fa issued by the city clerk, fi*r city tax for the year 1892. Waycross. Ga, K*- of said e ■old. Ik*fore the he t Tuesday i the legal hot of s f land number 34, in tlie 8th listrict of said county ; sold as the property >f John B. Cason, late of said county, de ceased, under and by virtucof an order from * ” ' ’j county, for the purpose of paying tlie debts and for distri bution among the heirs of said deceased. “ ' December1892. J. A*. Cason l Administrator. rgUu War* County: H. Smith and Kllendcr Smith applied for letters of dismission from tlie ad- nistration of the estate of Ransom Smith, deceased, and I will pass on said applicat; Monday ' “ Wayi ~ iuary, 1893, at WARREN LOTf. Oruinauy. ■.Georgia. Oct.5th. 1 OFFICERS OF CHARLTON COUNTY. Aaron Dowling, Ordinary. A. G. Gowen, Clerk Superior Court C. (. J. A. Wainright, Sheriff. . , James Thompson. School Commissioner. Sheriff Saif. VEORGIA, Clrarlton Comity I Will be sold on the 3d day of January. 1893, at Trader’s Hill, Charlton county. Georgia, between the legal hours of sale, the house and lot known as the C. S. Parker drug store in the town of Folkston. levied on to satisfy an execution issui^l from tha Superior court of Coffee county. In favoror Rosenhemer A Co. bevy made this the 20th day of Oct. 1892. J. A. WAJXWJumrr^ KILL GERM litis