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VOL. XIV, WAYCROSS, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, MAY 27.1893. NO. 27 OCR 0W5 AFFAIRS. Ntwi, Notes and Gossip, In and Out Town, Foisted!jr Pat Paposcly for Oar Readers. The oat crop is lx*ing harvested and is said to lie a good one in this section. If you want to enjoy life swap your mule for a bicycle. Way cross is reaching out after everything that will add to her prosperity ami comfort. A bigger provision crop and more economy is our advice to farmers*. The 8. F. & W. R. R. is sending out hun dreds pf ears to move the melon crop. Jim Courney’s case goes to the supreme court but the chance* are against him. Way cross Is as clean perhaps as any city of its size in Georgia and should be kept so. Overcoats can now retire, the Summer is surely upon us. Advertisers should Temember that the Herald is read by ten thousand people every reek. >old Madame Grundy Says. "The rose may bloom for En*t*and t The lilly for France unfold: Ireland may honor the shamrock; Scotland ner thistle bold; • But the shield of the great Republic; The glory of the West, Shall bear a stalk ef the tasseled corn, Cf all our wealth the best! The arbutus and ths golden rod The heart of the North may cheer. And the mountain laurel for Maryland „ Its royal clusters rear; And jasimine and magnolia The crest of the South adorn; But the wide Republic’s emblem Is the bounteous, golden corn.” fastles of air though they may be, They seem like solid masonry. alien life’s closing day comes c When much is lost and little v When confidence gives way to doubt, Like dead sea fruit, they’re blotted out. As the city grows people will Waycross «s the most delightful portion town for private residences. Old Waycross is coming to the front fine shape. She is to have the park, her streets are to be paved and the next thing yon know she will be putting on nil My empty pocket-book to-day Gives cause for much repining; Unlike the dark and stormy clouds. It has no silver lining.—Ex. Our patrons will please remember that job work is supposed to be cash, but when they haven't got the cash we’ll take the money, it answers ourpurpose. The winter is certainly over at last. We make the statement without the fear of successful contradiction. The criminals from our city and county courts cannot be put to better use than im proving our roads and streets. The more strangers see of Waycross the nore they are impressed with the lielief that she is the coming town. Mr. Charles Conrad and wife recently of DuPont, have moved to Waycross so says the Industrial Banner. The chain gang is doing some good work on the streets. Vagabond negroes and 1 tramps can lie utilized if properly managed. Everything good has struck Waycross ex- cept the Salvation army and we are expect ing th atat any time. If there is one thing more than anotlier that prevails in Waycross, it is unity among our leading citizens. The report that six dead negroes hail lwen found at the bottom of the water tank turns out to be o fake. No one has been to the bottom of the water tank recently. Callers at the Herald office are welcome at all hours. In fact you can bring your pipe and knitting and camp with ns if you see Hes ‘*We’Il meet soon,” he wrote." I supple I’ll see this blossom with you.” Hemet her—the glorious belle— That eve, on the avenue wide, An<l the rose—’twas on the lappel Of the man who walked by her side. —Chicago Record. OURSELVES AND NEIGHBORS. fit. The new Methodist church is about to as sume tangible shape. Heretofore it has been hard to tell what manner of building it would be. Hope springs eternal in the human breast. It is quite possible we may publish the schedule of the electric car lide to the new park,yet. One half of the Herald’s editorial staff is out to-day in the linen duster which belongs to the office. The other half will don the garment as exigency requires. Our city can boast of more societies and orders than any other town. All we need now is a rowing club, and for wan*, of a bet ter place they might exercise in the huge water tank. Visitors to Waycross are invited to make themselves very much at home and help themselves to anything in sight. Just so they leave the mud sills of the city, that’s all we ask. The fellow who attempts to ride a bicycle and gets a tumble receives no sympathy from the by-standers, in fact they all want to see him tumble, and the harder the fall the better the fun. After four o’clock each afternoon about every third man you meet on Plant Avenue is tusseling with a cycle, and the fun of it is that in nine cases out of ten the "dratted thing” wins the fight. The “Sunday-School Revival,” published in this city by Mr. D. B. Sweat, is on on ble this morning. It is a bright sheet, full of Sunday-school news and items, and should be liberally patronized throughout the land. Surprise parties are not frequent in an editor's sanctum, yesterday afternoon how ever, Joe Bird Vcaught ns out.” The deli cious ice cream which he sent to this office was fully appreciated. We are reliably in formed that Joe keeps it on tap. The Herald is in receipt of a pleasant letter from Mr. Turner Brewer now located at Blount’s Ferry, Fla. It contains an invita tion to come down and go fishing in the Huwanee. We thank friend Turner for his invitation and kind wishes and it is possible we may call on him some of these days. Don’t allow the little boys to break np the mocking birds nests or capture the young birds. They are the sweetest songstera in the world and it is much pleasanter to hear them singing In the trees than to see them pining away and dying in cages, and besides it is not light to encourage a cruel disposi tion in the boys. “Many talk about woman’s sphere As though it had a limit. There’s not a place in earth or heaven, There’s not a task to mankind given. There’s not a blessing or a woe, There's not a whisper yes or no. There’s not a life, a death or birth. That has a feather's weight of worth, Without a woman in it,** Some Items. Bicycle riders in Russia are to be tax ed $3,00 on every wheel. When a man runs his race in this world and reaches the end he is naturally out of breath. The area of the Russian Czar’s in dividual possession of land is greater than the entire extent of France. “The battle is now open,” wrote an editor, but the printer put an ‘o’ where the ‘a’ should have been, and was fired out bottelv. A whale nearly wrecked the schooner Mermaid off the coast of Japan by the simple lashing of his tail. This is not a fish story. The whale is not a fish. Peter Humbach, the watchman in charge of the new Methodist church at Scranton, Pa., which was burned a year ago, has confessed to starting the fire. The building cost $175,000 Mrs. Wickwire—Henry, dear? Mr. Wickwire—Well. Mrs. Wickwire—I want to make a bargain with you. If you will let me have $10 this afternoon I will let you do $15 worth of grumbling at ray extrav agance.—Indianapolis Journal, The orignal of H. Rider Haggard’s terrible and ageless beauty, “She who must be obeyed,” is or was the first wife of the English novelist, who was divorced from him, and is now living with her third husband on the Pacific coast. She was a Miss Carroll of Balti more. An Idaho genius has established a floating bank, which will cruise along the shores of Lake Kootenai, transacting business for towns too small to support banks of its own. A happy thought, indeed! When depositors take it into their heads to make a run on the estab lishment, the first mate will simply cut the rope and the bank will steam out into the middle of the lake until the flurry blows over. It is believed that such an institution would be able to float almost any kind of paper.—Minneapolis Tribune. Wild man: “Whoo-o-pee! I’m the winged and unlassoed terror of the cha parral, the double-headed dragon of the swamps, the superheated aerolite of the Sierras ricocheting through space at my own sweet will; I breathe the cyclone, drink the waterspout, and dine on the blizzard. Whoo-o-p! Nervous citizen: “Officer, why don’t you arrest and con fine that dangerous lunatic? Officer: “That liain’t no lunatic. That’s the governor of Oregon takin’ exercise.”— Cleveland Plain Deater. Hale’s Weekly has nominated for governor Hon. James S. 1 the veteran Spalding jurist and states man. Boynton was President of the State Senate at the dealh of the lamen< ted Stephens, and in the interim of the election served as Governor. He was a candidate in the memorable contest that followed but McDaniel came in, after Boynton and Bacon had waged the bat tle, and carried off the prize, about which, of course, there is some interest ing history. ^ ^ ^ The fair editress of the Valdosta Telescope has this fashion item: A “Patent Pneumatic Petticoat” has been invented, the use of which enables the wearer to adapt herself to circum stances. She can spread herself by touching the inflation button, or instantly become -slight or slender by means of the automatic collapse. Verily, wonders Corn is in full silk and tassel around Jasper, Fla. A bill will be introduced in the next Georgia Legislature to fix the liquor li cense of Blackshear at $20 009. Not satisfied with the Cubans and everything else in the world, Thomas- ville is to have a canning factory. The pear blight has struck the or chards in the neighborhood of Jasper, Fla. Thomasville girls are spinning around the track on bicycles. It is said they ride very gracefully. McIntosh, of the Albany Herald, is working up a scheme to down the west ern hog. As usual, McIntosh is on the right track. A gentleman near Dawson contem plates starting a possum farm. There are very few things in this life more to be desired than ’possum and taters. This kind of weather makes a fellow want to lie out under some big tree in the country and lie out of all work at the same time.—Ocala Capitol. The Ocala Capitol, for causes unknown to us, does not exchange with other Ocala papers. The boys ought to read up on “reciprocity.” Walter Williams, who has been on trial in Decatur county during the past week for a murder committed thirteen years ago was acquitted yesterday. A man in giving his testimony said that formerly he had lived at Grumble Corner, but lately he had moved up on Thanksgiving street; and he found the air purer, the sunshine mose cheerful, and the people better neighbors. —S. S. Revival. TheMocon Evening News sizes up the situation in the following terse man ner: Tom Watson will run against Black again. This determination is the result of a No. 6 intellect rattling in a No. 8 hat. As Postmistress at Isabella, Worth county, Mrs. C. O. Lancaster gets the plum. Some more of Ben. Russell’s work in feminine fields, no doubt. But that’s all right, everybody is pleased with the appointment—Albany Herald. Why isn’t a bank solid when it is pro nounced so by a State or United States examiner? That’s what the Herald wants to know.—Albany Herald. Simply because the examiner is a good deal like most other men. He don’t know everything. “Is there any relationship between a dunkard and a drunkard?—Albany Herald.” There is no relationship what ever. However the omission of an “r” in drunkard would make dunkard, the addition of whiskey to a dunkard would make drunkard. ‘The choice for governor lies between Henry G. Turner, J. J. McDonough and A. S. Clay.”—Albany News and Adver tiser. The Herald believes that it is in position to state that Mr. Turner will not be a candidate for governor under any circumstance^. Since the sad demise of her "husband Mrs. M. Ullraan has been suffering from prostration. It was currently reported on the streets yesterday that death had claimed Mrs. Ullman, but the Times is pleased to state that she was improving last night—Brunswick Times. Hanlon, of the Ocala Daily Capitol' gets the thing in good shape as follows: ‘The Atlanta Journal, the Savannah News, the Albany Herald and the Way- cross Herald, four of the brightest and best dailies in Georgia, now visit the Capitol office—four diurnal messengers, laden with news from home.” A Magnificent Monament Erected to His Memory In Georgia. "LIBERTY HALL” GROUNDS Bold! the Shaft That Marks the Reatln C Place of the Great Georgia Com moner—imposing Ceremo nies and a Vast Crowd. will never cease. Dr. T. Hartidge, one of the oldest cit izens of Jacksonville, is dead. Crawfordville, Ga., May £5.—In the unveiling of the Stephens monu ment here Crawfordville has witnessed the greatest event in her history. It was here Alexander H. Stephens made his home and here in the grounds of historio old “Liberty Hall” his re mains were laid to rest at the close of his eventful career in 1882. And now the last outward display of the love aud reverence of his pedple has been made in the oeremonies attending the event. The life of this great commoner was •pent in the service of his people and death came to him while discharging the duties of the highest office in the gift of Georgians—that of governor. In 1836 Mr. Stephens was elected to the legislature from this (Taliaferro) county, and served his county as her representative five years. In 1843, as the nominee of the Whig party, he wrested his congressional district from the hands of the Democratic party after one of the hardest fought campaigns ever known in Georgia, and when it was thought that the fight was a hope less one, in that Democracy was so strong in the district. From then until the day of his death Mr. Stephens was kept continually in congress and when the war between the north and south was opened he was made vice president of the southern Confederacy. At the close of the war, when the south again sent representa tives to congress, Mr. Stephens was the representative of the Tenth congress ional district of Georgia, and was re turned at each succeeding election un- til 1880 he was nominated by the Dem ocrats, and elected governor, which po sition he was filling at the time of his death. The labor of love by those who had the preparations in charge was amply rewarded by all that could be asked in a of bright sunshine, and the pro gram was ext uted faultlessly in the presence of a great crowd who had come from all sections to witness the ceremonies. Hon. George T. Barnes, of Augusta, opened the exercises by calling the as sembly to prayers, which was led by Rev. R. S. Barrett, of Atlanta. Hon. Thomas M. Norwood was iu>r.t introduced and delivered an eloquent oration on the life and labors of the great commoner, closing' with these eminently fitting remarks: For 40 years you honored yourselves i-i honoring him. The Rummi maxi n, “A man is known by his associates,” appil * to a people and their representatives. X.» higher encomium could be paid to y» i than you conferred on yourselves by c tinuing this great statesman in your ser- CANNOT GET DETAILS Kaeh Alleged News Is Current mt the Nicaragua Revolution. Panama, via Galveston, May 25.—A strict cable, censorship is maintained at San Juan del Sur, and there is an abso lute newspaper blockade. The Pacific Hail recognizes the Corinto mail censor ship. Neither the Nicaraguan insurgents nor President’s Sacasa’s forces have won a decisive victory, although the govern ment troops have suffered severe re pulses and are demoralized. The rebels are holding back, awaiting arms. The government troops are hemmed np in Managua, Leon and Corinto. Corinto they are holding as a last means of es cape when the revolutionists drive them to the wall. While the situation is practically unchanged, the rebels are gaining more confidence and strength with delay. Results thus far have been in their favor. Much alleged news is current, but it is unreliable. There is absolutely no means of obtaining particulars and de tails of the struggle. THAT CREVASSE BREAK. There la Great Danger of Serioua Dam age* Resulting. Vicksburg, Miss., May 25. — The frightful velocity of the current through the Whitley crevasse is such that As sistant Engineer Brown, now in charge there, wires Captain Townsend that the sole chance of holding the ends of the levee is to float down trees against them, thereby making a breakwater. Parties who left the crevasse at i o'clock p. m., wire from Lake Provi deuce that it was then 500 feet and the roaring of the current through it canid be heard for miles. SO IN MICHIGAN TOO. The Crime Is So Dastardly That Mobs Will Sot Wait. A LYNCHING AT C0BUNNA. Th* Brut* Who Murdered a Man and Then Outraged Hla Wife Summari ly Dealt With by th* In censed Town People. Detroit, May 25.—A special dispatch from Corunna, Mich., to The Tribune 6&ys: William Sullivan, the farm hand who bo brutally murdered his employer. Layton Leach, and murderously as saulted the latter’s wife, has paid the penalty of his crime. He was taken from the jail and lynched at 9:40 o’clock Rig Demonstration In Uyd* Park. London, May 25.—A quarter of a million people, it is estimated, took part in the demonstration in Hyde park by Irish National league of Great Britain. Delegates came from all the league’s branches in the United Kingdom. T. P. O’Conner, M. P., and other Irish leaders; Arch, M. P., the leader in the movement for the emancipation of the English agricultural laborers; D. Nao- roji, M. P., formerly of India, and other well known men spoke. Resolutions were adopted approving Mr. Gladstone's home rule plan and accepting it as a settlement of the Irish question. Gladstone Spoke to Workingmen. London, May 25.—Mr. Gladstone de livered au address at Hawarden to workingmen. He rejoiced to see the increase of labor representatives in par liament, aud as magistrates and inspec tors of factories. It promises well for the fnture. There has not been a single labor member of parliament, he said, but was distinguished by high intelligence, sound knowledge and trustworthy char acter. “Our esteemed friend, Erank C. Owens, of Waycross, evidently intends running for governor of Georgia. He sees that Douglas, the shoe man, will be run for governor of Massachusetts because he advertises so much and our good friend, Owens, evidently has his eye on the gubernatorial chair ot Georgia from the way he advertises. Go it, Frank, we will vote for yon.”—Thomasville Review. We beg leave to correct the impression which seems to possess the Review in re gard to Frank Owens and his advertising. The fact is Frank wouldn’t give a cent to be governor and has no political as pirations whatever. He simply adver tises as a matter of business and for the money there is in it, and this is the great secret of his success. “Anyone reading Sam Small’s personal column in the Atlanta Constitution is struck most forcibly by the overwhelm- 1 ing modesty of the evangel isL”—Macon News. Sam Small’s proverbial modesty is a chestnut the bare mention of which in this section lays the party liable to a a “set up” for the crowd The News man will be in for it should he visit Waycross. Mis9 Marry Corry, a relative of the dead statesman, removed the covering from the beautiful structure. GREETINGS TO THE SOUTH Presbyter!*] Up North Send a Fraternal Me»cage to Those In Georgia. Washington, May 25.—The Presby terian general assembly was called to order at 9:30 bv Moderator Craig, and opened with prayer by Professor Roy, of Chicago. Dr. Young’s sessional re port from the committee on bills and overtures as to the distribution of over tures among the several committees went througa without objection. Sixty overtures relating to the new creed and 20 proposing changes in the present confession of faith were sent to the committee on bills and overtures for answer. Responses to telegrams of congratulation and fraternity received last week were read by the stated clerk. To the general assembly of the Pres byterian church, south, at Macon, Ga., the following was sent: The general assembly of the Presbyte rian church, in session at Washington, responds cordially to your fraternal me - sages. “Tbere is one body and one spirit as ye are called in oar hope of yonr call ing! One Lord, one faith, one baptii Shot m Negro by Mistake. Sparta, Ga., May 25.—News has reached here that Mr. Sam Ennis, Jr., shot and seriously if not fatally wound ed a negro about five miles from Sparta. Ennis, it seems, was in pursuit of an other negro, who had committed a crime in Washington county, and mis took his victim for the Washington county fugitive. Ennis is a resident of Baldwin county and a brother of Sheriff Ennis, of that county. Could Not Rats* the Ship. Savannah, May 25.—F. M. Jones, the ship carpenter who bought the sunken Austrian bark Undine for $2»M) and has been trying to raise her for the past 30 days, has notified Captain Car ter that he had given np the job. Cap tain Carter, United States engineer, w*ll now advertise for bids tohave her blown out of the river with dynamite and all the debris removed. A Young Lady Missing. Toccoa, Ga., May 25.—Miss Mamie Hitt, of this place, has mysteriously disappeared and cannot be located, though every effort has been made by her parents to find her. She is the daughter of Mr. R. J. W. Hitt, of this place but has been living with hei sis ter, Mrs. B. C. Moore, for several months past. A short time ago some misunderstanding occurred and Miss Mamie left her sister. She stayed at the residence of Mrs. L. B. Nowell until last Friday, when she went away with out informing any one where she wae going. She is about 18 years of age aud decidedly pretty. Gilroy 1* Grand Sachem Still. New York, May 25.—The Tammany sachems met and by failing to elect grand sachem continued Mayor Thoin;i F. Gilroy in that position as a hold over for another year. Maurice F. Holohan and John J. Gorman were re elected as scribe and father of the coun cil. Richard Croker was made chair man of the committee on speaker* John J. Gorman, of the committee ot printing, and Bernard F. Martin. <* the committee on arrangements for th. Fourth of July celebration. Grand Sachem Gilroy and Sachems Grant Cockran and Clark were absent. Meeting of th* Iron Hallers. Indianapolis, May 25.—Ten states are represented here at a meeting of the order of the Iron Hall. It was decided that one of the first things to be dom was to employ an attorney. The dele gates express belief that under the The mob consisted of over 800 men, who shouted themselves hoarse as the body dangled at the end of a rope. Just before be was taken from the cell. Sul livan attempted to commit suicide with a knife which he had in some manner concealed about his person. By means of sledges the jail was soon broken open by the mob. A noose was placed around his neck and the crowd dragged him through the jail corridors to the big jail yard aud to a low, marshy square of ground about 200 feet to the rear of the jail building under the oak. Men Fought, Struggled and Cursed, for the privilege of helping totng at ths rope, which was thrown over the limb, and with a sudden jerk, Sullivan, who had been lying motionless and appar ently unconscious on the ground, was raised to a sitting posture. Another pull and his head and shoul ders were visible above the black mass of those that surrounded the spot. A Terrible Scene Followed. The body was pushed from hand to hand and several drew pocket knives and lunged at the swinging corpse. Others began to tear the clothing, and in a few moments only the shreds of his shirt remained hanging to his shoulders. When the body was lowered to the ground, portions of the mob which had been unable to get close enough to take a hand in the actual hanging, seized upon tho rope and dragged the lifeless body through the mire. Afterward the crowd dragged him about the streets’ and around the court house square. TWO MEN DROWDED. AnU a Third Was Barely Saved from a Like Fate. New Haven, May 25.—Harry W. Holcomb, Alfred S. Holt and Clarence W. Webb went out in the harbor in a cat boat, and when they were near the western breakwater, a sudden sqnall capsized the boat and all three were thrown into the water. They managed to secure a holt on the upturned boat, but were washed off three separate times. Finally, Holcomb and Holt said they would try to swim to the lightship, which was about 300 yards off. Webb tried to deter them, saying that the dis tance was too great and the waves too high, bnt they struck out. They had gone only a little more than half the distance when they sank and were drowned. WebD clung to tho boat until 8 p. m., when he was taken off by the lightship. He was barely able to speak. He has recounted the story of the disaster to the bereaved families. Holcomb was 21 years old. Holt 20 and Webb 23. All three were in busi ness with their parents in this city. IKE VINCENT PARDONED- ing of the supreme court, the receiver of the order has no right to close out its affairs and if reliable officers are elected the sitting can have the money now in the receiver’s hands. It is claimed to be the regular meeting <-f the sitting and as the terms of the old officers has expired, new supreme ofii cers will be elected. A Cyclone at Fremont. Fremont, O., May 25.—The cyclone which struck this city Tuesday morn* ing caused heavy damage throughout the city aud surrounding country. A Train** Fatal FalL Dublin, May 25.—A train on the Tralee and Dingle railway plunged off a viaduct while running at a furion- speed and fell 50 feet. Five passenger.** were killed, instantly and 12 others were severely injured. Coaches and loconnv tive were completely wrecked. Tun brakes refused to work while the train was going down a steep grade, and the engineer lost control of his locomotive. The train dashed along at constantly in creasing speed, flew half way across a viadust on a curve and then jumped the track. Th* Governor of Alabama Say* Ho Ha* Suffered Enough. Montgomery, Ala., May 25.—Ex- State Treasurer Dee H. Vincent is a free man. Governor Jones has granted him a full and absolute pardon. Twen ty-five thousand people petitioned for his pardon, including 103 of 133 mem bers of the general assembly. It is one of the most famous cases in the crimi nal annals of the state. Vincent while state treasurer speculated in the state funds and defanlted for $215,000. The governor’s pardon makes several thousand words. The governor dwells upon the enormity of the crime with which Vincent stands convicted and does not excuse the wrong committed in speculating in funds with which ho- was intrusted, hut adds that though he had misused over $200,000 of the peo ple’s money he was not a wholly hard- : : i .. —i... l.. i./i i > ened criminal, as when he left he had ample opportunity to take much of the $167,000. which he left in the treasury undisturbed, when the denomination of many of the bills was so large that he might have easily taken off thousands of dollars in his vest pocket. General Young’* Secretary. Washington, May 25.—The president has appointed Henry C. Stuart, of Col orado, to be secretary of legation Guatemala end Honduras ana consul general to Guatemala. Andrew A St. John, of Pennsylvania, as consul at Batavia, Java. Doe* Not Need a Receiver. New York, May 25.—Bank Exami ner William H. Kimball, who took charge of the National bank deposit, has stated that there was a fair chance of the appointing of a receiver being avoided. The depositors, stockholders and directors will meet to adopt a plan for the widening up of the affairs of the bank. If they can agree and fix upon a committee to take charge of the affairs, the receivership can he avoided. Oth erwise some one will have to he ap pointed to close np the business of the hank. President Ransom is still hope ful of making a good showing for the stockholders.