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THE WAYCROSS HERALD, SATURDAY, JULY i, 1893.
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be provided
itbonty, duly
It the big pints* we all disposed
of, tbe people wonld now liki to see
a few medium sized postoffleesgo
democratic.
After months of uncertainty and
delay it is announced that tbe Gate
City Bank depositors will be paid in
full this week.
SATURDAY, JULY 1, 1893.
EDITORIAL SHORT STOPS.
Edwin Booth left an estate valued
at tcoo.ooo.
Eulslis bas left behind her many a
reminder.
Mr. Crisp will talk to Tammany
on tbe fourth or July.
There are forty-seven Chinese
temples in tbe United States.
This is Atlanta’s off * week. No
new sensations for six days.
Tbe Chicago fair is the biggest one
tbe world ever saw and perhaps the
worst managed.
The efiort to raise Speaker Crisp’s
scalp will not pan out much. Mr.
Crisp will be tbe next Speaker.
It is thought that the best half of
the watermelon crop has gone forward
from this section.
A great many republican office
holders are refusing to accept the
situation with proper resignation.
“The fair-must-be-ciosed-Sundays”
paragraph is now eliminated from the
Chicago papers.
A drop in the price of rosin is re
ported. Rosin is sticky enough to
adhere to its first convictions.
There are some people in Georgia
who would have preferred that Blount
remain in Hawaii.
Once in every eight years all the
locks on the United States mail bags
are changed to insure safety.
We complain of bard times in the
south, but by comparison with the
north and west, we are quite flush.
There is a one-legged bicycle-rider
in Chicago who is getting rich on his
trick riding.
Julia Force is to be placed on
trial for the murder of her sister in
Atlanta next Blondey.
Confidence is a mighty good thing
to have but we need a little cash
while the peas are cooling.
The definition of a mugwump is
“a man who is never silent.” If he
is silent lie is not a mugwump.
Kart’'quakes are getting common
and cheap. Almost any town can
have one.
Bliss Julia Force is now on trial in
Atlanta for the murder of her sister.
•She will be acquitted upon the ground
of insanity.
Tom Watson will open np bis cam
paign for governor on July 4th.. We
are afraid Thomas has hot work
ahead of him.
The terrible loss of the British
battleship Victoria was the occasion
of a cablegram from Mr. Cleveland
to Queen Victoria.
Tbe investigations of the Ford
theater tragedy would indicate that
the department superintendents rule
their underlings with an iron rod.
Tbe prohibitionists aud populists
are combining in Iowa thi9 year.
This will give tbe democrats a chance
they bad scarcely calculated on.
In the south tbe white man who is
known to have sold his vote is dis
graced. Without knowing we ask
tbe question: Is it so in tbe north?
Mr. Blount bas resigned and will
soon leave Hawaii. This is a part
of the arranged programme. Mr.
Blount will be a gubernatorial possi
bility .
While indulging in criminations
and recriminations within our own
party, let us not loose sight of the
fact that the republican and third
parties are powerful friendly.
A Pittsburg man has figured the
end of the world down to Nov. 20th,
1899. We 9bould think he might try
to let her stand six weeks longer and
thus complete the full century;
Lizzie Borden and her sister are
said to be worth 8250,000.. How
ever the lawyers are to be paid out
of this amount. So yon can’t tell
much about it. ,*
Hon. Jerry Simpson will' be the
orator at the celebration on July 4th
to be held at Lnray, Page county,
Virginia. .
An Ohio life insurance firm has
gonetothewa'.l with assets of 816.
It looks like they might have run a
day longer and made it even.
Lizzie Borden bas returned to her
home at Fall River, Mass. The
bouse is tbe same in which her father
and step-mother were murdered.
Col. Aineswortb does not occupy a
very enviable position in regard to
tbe late Washington disaster, nor is
the government blameless.
Tbe Minneapolis Journal ie right.
If there is anything in spiritualism,
we ought to have found ont long ago
who Sbakspeare was.
Tbe French people will soon be
called upon to select another presi
dent. Mr. Carnot is at tbe point of
death.
Tbe Eastman Times nominates
Lester for Governor. To elect him
is another thing, tho' we would like
to see it.
It is estimated that northern visi
tors to Florida leave nearly as mneb
money in Florida as the orange and
cotton crop combined amounts to.
A copy of the first dictionary made
by Chinese scholars in the year
1409 B. C., is still preserved among
the archives of the Celestials.
Perhaps Mr. Blount does not love
Hawaii less but it is supposed that he
loves the gubernatorial chair of Geor
gia more.
Mr. Eugene Speer bas been ap
pointed chairman of a committee of
treasury officials to visit New OHeans
for the purpose of taking an invento
ry of bullion coin and other proper
ty of the United States in that city.
Benj. H. Hill once said, “if you
want a man to hate you, let him be
aware that yon are honest and that
you know he is mean,” and a truer
sentiment never was uttered.
This newspaper waif is as true as
it is good; “A man never realizes
what an ass he can be until he goes
on a picnic and tries to help enter
tain the party.”
Editor McIntosh has been feasting
on white blackberries. And some
ga'oot bas asked the question, “ain’t
white blackberries too good for an
editor?"
There is considerable kicking in
France because the Panama canal
swindlers were given their freedom.
Its as hard to convict a man with
money and influence in France as it
is in America.
A recent calculation places tbe
number of immigrants to tbe United
States during the century at 16,000,-
000. The native popnlation in the
same time has increased oter 40,-
000,000.
A correspondent of the St. Louis
Post-Dispatcb attributes the financial
depression prevailing in that locality
to what be calls tbe “back door hab
it” to which some of the bankers are’
addicted.
A high school boy said recently in
class in reply to tbe professor’s
question: Among the different kinds
of wind storm are the cyclone, torna
do, typhoon, whirlwind and the Chi
cago drummer.”
The story of forest fires and burn,
ing villages in Northern Wisconsin
and Minnesota is a deplorable one.
The sweep of the cyclone is nothing
to tbe destructive sweep of the great
forest fires.
There is a strike in tbe South Car
olina liquor bottling shops. A num
ber of women who were paid 82.50
a week have quit. Their places were
filled. The establishment is turning
i,nt twelve hundred gallons of liqnor
a day.
Of the 400,000 immigrants who
landed at Castle Garden last year
only 4,000 came sooth. Tbe sonlb
wants a good class ol immigrants
but the riff-raff of the old world will
not be welcome here.
The Georgia colonels who failed
to get places in the civil service de
partment at Washington can get em
ployment in the agncaltnra! depart
ment athome. It ain’t too late to
plant taters.
Atlanta gets in on time this morn
ing with a fresh sensation. This
timn it is a mens between Dr. West
moreland, Judge. Emory Speer, Dan.
Ronntree and lawyer Crawford.
Lightning struck a circus tent rt
River Falls, Minnesota, yesterday,
and killed six persons and injured
several othere. Those who stayed
away from the circus were not in
jured.
Congressman Turner, of Georgia,
has entered upon his thirteenth year’s
service as a member of the lower
house of the national legislature, and
in all that time he bas never voted
wrong or had a single act questioned.
What a grand record! -Ocala Capi
tol.
Mrs. Grant and Mrs. Davis have
met and are much pleased with each
other. Another episode in the great
est tragedy of the nineteenth century
bas been enacted. When the ladies
make friends tbe war must certainly
be over. Let U9 have peace.
The Tbomasville Times says there
is some good growing ont of the use of
cigarettes, after all;' they kill off
dudes and sap-headed youths who
have no better sense than to steep
their systems full of tbe poisoD fol
lowing the use of them.
The surprising strength of the so
cialists in Germany, polling as they
did 2,000,000 votes and electing
anywhere < between forty and fifty
members of the German reiebstag, is
matter for serious consideration
everywhere.
The husband of Minerva, the
strong woman who can lift 835 lbs.
and hold out a 150-lb. dumb-bell, bas
go?a divorce from herbus b’nd.A man
who would rush madly upon a dan
ger of that kind onght to have been
forced by the referee to stay in the
ring and take his punishment.
A lively campaign over tbe prohib
itory liquor question is predicted in
Iowa next fail. But the people of
Iowa, like those of Blaine, are becom
ing reconciled to tbe situation. While
the Prohibitionists rejoice in the law
the others get their liquor without
any trouble and the saloon keepers
pay no license for selling it.
As being more nearly accurate
than anything seen in tbe columns of
that paper for some months we call
attention to this from tbe Chicago
Inter-Ocean: Georgia farmers want
to raise sheep, but the majority of
Georgians prefer to Taise coon and
’possum dogs, which don’t object to
sheep meat for variety in diet.—Au
gusta Chronicle.
The Prince of Wales while in his
yacht at its winning race carried a
cane and escorted a Sky terrier,
leading tbe creature by a silken
string. American yacht clubs will
undoubtedly profit by the example,
and hereafter no amateur seadog will
venture ou bis bark on tbe sea with
out having on board a cane and s
Sky terrier led by a silken string.
Tbe Knoxville Sentinel says Re
ceiver Duncan’s refusal to admit col
ored people at Lake Ottossee bas
aroused the ire of tbe race and they
have taken revenge. At Elmwood
park, tbe resort near Ottossee for
colored people, the following placard
is nailed conspicuously at the main
entrance: “No white people admit
ted, except as servants."
If parents and pastors would only
attend the Sabbath school, they
wonld be saved tbe mortification of
meeting the children coming away.
The best plan for filling up the
church with the children, is for the
Sunday schools to be filled np with
parents. Many parents need the
Sunday school as much as their
children.
The bank failures we have had in
Georgia are not to be compared to
those they bare bad in the western
states. Several Chicago hanks were
seriously embarrassed, bat the pro
prietors of the fair ground lunch
counters came to their relief, and
they stood a steady ran for three
days and nights, snd then bad money
enough left to buy out a few provin
cial governments.
, Distribution of Office*.
The Haora Telegraph, alwaya in
clined to do justice to all, speaks as
follows:
Our South Georgia exchanges seem
to have “caught on” to the interesting
fact that South Georgia is being com
pletely ignored in the distribution of
Federal patronage, and they are not
pleased. Their displeasure is perfectly
natural. The strength of the Democrat
ic party of Georgia lies in those parts of
the state which are being ignored.
Judge Turner’s magnificent campaign in
the eleventh district and his complete
success did more than any other one
thing to encourage the party at a time
when there was danger of disruption
and defeat. He proved that the best
way to deal with political heresies is to
fight them in an open, manly fashion.
In the second district, South Georgia
Democrats showed that they were will
ing to make almost any sacrifice to pre
serve peace in the party. They did pre.'
serve it, when in other parts of the state
factional dissensions and the ambition of
individuals were allowed to distract and
weaken the party.
The Telegraph has no sympathy with
tbe eager spoils hunting that reduces
every new administration to a state of
helplessness for several months; but if
certain valuable offices are to be given
to Georgia Democrats, there is norea-
r justice in distributing all of them
among persons living in a small region
in the northern part of the state.
If this sectional policy is to be pur
sued further, we see no remedy but for
South Georgia and Middle Georgia
Democrats to recognize it as the proper
policy in their turn and proceed to look
out for their own interests. They can
not force the national administration to
do them justice, hut there are certain
important offices in the gift of the state
which they can take for themselves at
any time they see fit to do so.
Uley Williams in Lack.
Mr. Uley J. Williams, formerly' Ol
Waycross, now of Bainbridge, has re
ceived a government appointment in the
interior department at Washington with
a salary of81,800. Mr, Willems has
many friends here who will be rejoiced
to hear of his good fortune. Bet) Rus
sell probably pulled the wires.
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AMONG 0VR EXCHANGES.
China Hits Back.
China bas already begun a system
atic retaliation against the United
States on account of tbe Geary act.
The North China News, received
by the steamer Japan from China,
states that Hsu Toatai, Viceroy of
Amoy, has issued his proclamation
prohibiting the purchase, use or sale
of American kerosene in the prov
ince. The statement is made that
for every Cbiaaman deported a simi
lar ukase some one American pro
duct will he issued. Canton and
Swatow are preparing to follow suit.
Pretty Cool up There.
The following clippings are taken
from the Farmington, Maine, Chronicle
of the 20th inst, and show that there is
considerable difference between that
climate and our own :
AVe hear of heavy frosts on the Ken
nebec river, but none here yet.”
i very nice growing time we are
having now, and grass is looking well in
the fields, excepting where the ice laid
on it in the winter. Com and potatoes
have come up well and most of the corn
is already hoed.”
Mr. Elbridge Parker had sweet corn
spindled Thursday, June 16th, and pole
beans two feet high on the poles tbe
same day. F. E. Ham, our popular
postmaster, reported that there was frost
enough Friday night, Junel7th, to with
er some of his vegetables on the lowland.
It looks as though everybody waa going
to be satisfied with the weather, for we
have one day which rivals that of the
tropics and the next will come pretty
close to that of the Arctic regions.”
Russell After Scalps.
The following extract from a Wash
ington correspondent shows that Ben.
Russell is putting in some good work for
his section. Ben is a hostler and never
forgets a friend: “Representative Russell
got in a job' lot of business to-day for his
district. He saw Mr. Bissell and that
official promised him to depose Postmas
ter Brimberry at Albany very soon and
give the town a Democratic postmaster.
CapL Y. G. Rust will succeed to the of
fice. The Dawson and Tbomasville of-
ccs will likewise receive early attention
and democrats will manage their postal
affairs.”
Gradually the old Confederate vet
erans are passing away. According
to some recent figures compiled by
State Treasurer Hardeman, of Geor
gia, in 1883 there were 1000 pension
ers who drew 8100 for loss of limb or
total disability. Three hundred of
these have died since that time. The
next decade will record a still larger
mortality among the old vets, per
haps more than double that of the
past ten years. The yonng men of
tbe preset generation will doubtless
seethe pension books closed and
“Crossed Over” written on the label.
—Ocala Capital.
Aud now Cuthbert is going to have s
cannery. A good move. ,
Albany did not catch any of the earth
quake shake.
Atlanta has raised her street tax from
one to three dollars.
Mis. Elizabeth Latham died in Atlan*
ta recently at the age of 102 years.
The Atlanta post office question is
still undecided.—Lumpkin Independent.
Atlanta hasn’t decided any questions
recently.
Adel in Worth county is not in the
melon shipping business this year.
The Macon Telegraph got slightly
disfigured in its row with Huff, hut it
won its fight on the sewer question.
Luther Whitfield, an old Brooks coun
ty boy, is publishing a first class paper
at Live Oak, “The Banner.”
Cpl. J. W. Hanlon is now chief editor
of the Ocala Capitol. Hanlon is mak
ing a first-class paper of the Capitol.
Nearly all the mill ponds in Berrien
county broke loose last week. The floods
in that section have been terrific.
Mr. Gerardeau of Monticello, Fla.,
shipped Bix car loads of canteloupes to
Chicago a few days since.
An exchange says, “Pigeons were
employed in the mail service in Bible
times.” We thought these were Bible
times.
The Eastman Times is on its metal
this week, and goes foi the greedy office
seekers of north and middle Georgia
with gloves off. Hit ’em again, Stokes.
On account of the unusual stringent
times there are several Savannah houses
in the hands of receivers—Savannah
Local.
A negro preacher at Rome, who hod
besn sentenced to the chain-gang for
beating his wife, jumped in the river on
the 22d and drowned himself.
An eating reform association hus been
established in New York. It claims that
a man can live on two cents a .day. We
have foiwarded our application for mem
bership.
Miss Ida Wright of Atlanta was re-
cently married to General Antoine
Ezettta, brother of the president of Sal
vador. Atlanta reaches into Central
America for her sensations.
Major M. C. Kiser is erecting a hand
some vault on his lot at Oakland, in
Atlanta. Fifteen carloads of granite
will he utilized in its construction, and
the cost will be $20,000.
The hardest politieal battles in the
history of Georgia have been fought in
the second district, but so far there has
been no recognition of tbe South Geor
gia democrats—Boston Globe.
Will Brown and Lee Hoist, formerly
bell boys at the De Soto, who stole
$3,500 worth of diamonds from Mr.
McLaughlin of Brooklyn last March at
the DeSoto were arrested in New York
yesterday by Detective Doran.
The annual meeting of the Georgia
Teachers’ Association will meet in
Gainesville on June 27th, and continue
three days. Ho: -t and railroad rates
will be reduced, mi i many fine speakers
will be on hand. <
When Congress meets the first thing it
ought to do is to provide for two editions
of the silver dollar, one heavy weight,
half pound edition for these “(10 cents
dollar men” and one of “the dollars of
our daddies for plain, old fashioned dem
ocrats.
The hellions who are running the
Chicago fair have carried their point,
and the great show will be open on Sun
day’s. Well, if the Ishmaelite baa tbe
lack to get hold of any “gate money” it
will spend it at home.—Ishmaelite.
The Georgian who didn't want an
office died yonng. Cholera infantum
was the cause of his untimely taking off.
—Gnlf Tenant. Respectfully referred
to Judge Perham for denial.—Ocala
Capitol. We art like tbe boy the ealf
ran over, nothing to say.
A treasury, statement issued a few
days ago showed that the amount of
United States bonds held abroad, on
which interest is remitted semi-annually,
is only about $18,500,000. Twelve
years ago the amount of Unitel States
bonds owned in Europe was $538,000,-
000.
During the past hunting season about
300 otter skins and several hundred coon
A turpentine operator says $150,000
will not cover the damage done to tim
ber by the late storm.
The Turpentine Operator’s News
says: ‘We must have easier money or
many people must go to the wall.”
The trials of the Hinckles in Ameri
cas has been postponed until December
on account of the absence of witnesses.
It is rumored that a hill has been
drawn to enjoin Brunswick against sell
ing her sewer bonds and that Judge
Sweat will be asked to pass upon it.
The average young gallant will run
along side a girl on a' bicycle until the
perspiration flows like a stream; but you
couldn’t get him to cut a stick of wood
for love or money.—Albany Herald.
The Albany Herald says: “If any
one believes the Herald is going to mince
political matters in the coming fight,
just watch and see.” We never knew
Mclntesh to mince anything. He goes
the whole hog, and if its at a fish fry,
six large bream will fill the bill.
Georgia “bobbed up serenely” in the
list of appointments yesterday, hut not
“from below.” Her place is on top and
she generally stays there.—Atlanta
Journal. The Journal is correct. None
of the appointments from Georgia ever
come from below Macon.
There is no estimating the value of
a newspaper to a town, and very few
there are who appreciate this fact.—
Albany Advertiser.
It is said that roller skating is being
revived again. To the fellow who can
ride a bicycle this signifies nothing.
The report that the Police Gazette
will be removed to Atlanta is in circu
lation. Atlanta ought to deny it.
The Darien Gazette says, “money
continues very tight” You ought to
have a dry town, Dick Grubb, and then
money would keep sober.
Nearly all the towns are making or
dinances against reckless bicycle riding.
So far the bicyclists of Waycross have
hurt nobody be themselves.
The body of a white baby with its
bead crushed was found in a well on a
vacant lot near Columbus on Saturday.
The discovery has produced a sensation.
The announcement is made that Rev.
Simon Peter Richardson will be placed
on the superannuated list This noted
Georgia preacher has given almost a
lifetime to religious labor and has earn
ed his rest, says the Augusta Chronicle.
•ledge Waxem’s Proverbs.
There ain’t nothin brittler than a
polylishun's promis.
It makes folks sassy to hold offis.
Every now and then you find a con-
grisman with a for sale notis pinned
onto his generl stile.
Nobody ever questions the other-
doxy of the stars and stripes.
Some statesmen live on poker and
perqnizets.
Politicks ain’t even kin to patriot
ism.
A public econnermist these times
seems to be a man that gits $5,000
a veer ter tryin to spend all tbe guv-
ernment money in his own destrick.
Uncle Sam continues to ware pants.
W.A. McNEIL’S
Is t>» Pile* ts Bay
Provisions, YogotsMos, Hoy,
Grain and Bru.
1 am Bole Agent in Waycross for Ballard's
Celebrated Pkrar, and for the present will
offer the following popular brands: •“'*
Obelisk, @ $5.25
Favorite “ 4.75
Blue-Bird 4.50
Floor has advanced, bnt having bought a
Car-load before the rise, 1 can afford to give
my customers the benefit of the old price,
and I will refund the money if any of the
Ballard Flour fails to give satisfaction.
I WANT
The very best Country Produce, and
will give the highest market price,
either in trade or cash.
A Full Line of Crjfkery and Stoves on hand.
All I ask is a eall.
ug!3-d3m
NEW STORE 1
New Goods, Cheap!
skins, representing-cash value of about j
$2,500, have been killed in the upper ,
&>* mi f™ pa»u
sold at or shipped from Oviedo to north- j TT*1<a_
ern markets.
Parker and Elizabeth Sts.
PARKER A LEE
j Oar friends are invited to call
The Dawson News demands the ' gov- i corner
ernorship for south Georgia next year.
The trouble with south Georgia will
probably be that it will ait down
and complain about political neglect,
while north Ceorgia will hustle into the
state convention and gobble np the nom
ination. . This has happened several
times.—Columbus Enquirer-Sun.
Special Notice
All parties, having work at my shop
are requested to come forward, pay for
same and take it out, or it will .be sold
in 15 days for repairs and to make room
for other work. Respectfully,
24—tf
S. L. Gcpton 4 Co.
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