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THE WAYCROSS HERALD, SATURDAY, AUGUST 12, 1893.
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SATURDAY, AUGUST 12, 1893.
OUB 0W5 AFFAIRS.
It has rained fifteen out of the forty dog-
days.
Several new houses are being built in
southeast Waycroas.
A gentleman from Pierce county reports
good crops, but lots of rain in his section.
The time 1ms arrived when you should
!>egin to prepare your fall garden.
And now the lady bicyclist is with us.
We hope she has come to stay,
Miss Lola Jolinson lias returned from St.
Simon.
The man who advertises is he who fre
quents the bank to deposit his loose change.
Quite a number of new advertisements ap
pear in this edition of the Herald.
Mrs. M. A. Cook and daughter are visi
ting Mrs. C. K. Murphy on Gulf street.
A good party from Valdosta went down
to 8t. Simon last Monday.
It I* rumored that two or three weddings
have been promised for the fall and winter.
The commercial angels have been thick
in the city during the past week.
It is nothing uncommon to see a five dol
lar hat marching down on a five tent dude.
Col. A. Winter is with the Waycross
Lumber Co. for a short time.
Keep konstantly kool; if you kan't keep
kool. keep as kool a? you kan.
Now is a good time to let the people know
what you have to sell.
The stay-at-homes will have plenty of
company in a few days.
Judge Lott’s notice for new road appears
in this issue.
? back from
Mrs. Leonard, of Boston, is visiting her
daughter Mrs. Dickerson, in the city.
Business is beginning to pick up in Way-
cross The merchants are hustling for the
fall trade
Waycross needs more paved streets and
must have them. The comfort of our peo
ple and the growth of the city demands it.
Mr. Geo. Turner has been to Savannah
buying horses, buggies and carriages for his
new livery business.
Mr. Harbin has moved into the house on
Brunswick street belonging to Mr. C. E.
Cook.
Send us your job work. We are fully
equipped with material and workmen, and
will do y out work at live and let live prices,
The fact has been demonstrated in Way-
cross that a town can flourish and prosper
even in these hard times without bar-rooms,
The man who won’t work because he can’t
get a soft place, is a drone and should be
treated as one.
The cutting down of the weeds on the
right-of-way by Mr. McGee’s apprentice
gang, Is a great improvement.
It is quite certain that Waycross will
have a new postmaster before the moon
changes.
Our St. Simons “dotters” have returned to
the mainland. Several of them are already
in the city.
Somebody says it has rained everyday
since dog-days commenced. How is it any
way?
We present our readers with a very fine
cut of Vice-Preident Stevenson and Speaker
Crisp to-day.
The prospect for a large attendance at the
Waycross High School at the fall term is
▼cry flattering.
Waycross merchants want your money
and will sell goods cheaper than you can
buy them at retail in Savannah.
The runaways are fast returning to the
“Magic City” and are scrubbing up and
cleaning up for the coming business season.
Waycross has a world-wide reputation for
solidity and enterprise and she proposes to
maintain it.
Mrs. Dr. Williams and daughter. Miss
Mattie, have gone to Stone Mountain, to be
absent several weeks.
Judge Joel L. Sweat is in Brunswick, con
tinuing the session of Glynn Superior court
in chambers.
Mr. W. H. Wright, a Waycross boy. and
a popular conductor on the S., F. & W. Ry.
is in New York on a vacation.
There is no such tiling as a backward
lovement for Waycross. “Excelsior”
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J|Mpret to learn that Mrs. T. M. Darr.
a^Wrour esteemed friend Capt. T. M. Darr,
is not much improve*!. She has been quite
ill for some days.
Waycross people having cottages to rent
at St Simons might find it to their interest
to let the same be known in the columns
the Herald.
■Waycross is undoubtedly the healtliiest
place • in America, invalids have to be im
ported to furnish the doctois with sufficient
occupation to keep them alive.
Mr. George Turner has taken charge
the Cannon stable and proposes to ran a
first-class * livery business. His ad will ap
pear in a few days.
How is it that yon complain that there is
no money in Waycross, when you are send
ing your cash off and buying your supplies
elsewhere.
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Brad Watson A Cos. big advertisement ap
pears in this issue. It is scarcely necessary
call your attention to it. You can’t help
seeing it.
The scaffolding has been removed from
church and the glass is being put
the windows. It is a beautiful building
and will soon be ready for occupancy.
Mrs. S. M. Stokes and little son Hill, from
Waycross, are spending a few days with the
families of Messrs. J. D. and R. L. Stokes.—
Eastman Times.
Everybody passes through Waycross. In
fact Waycross is the grand central point and
the towns and cities for hundreds of miles
around are tributary to her.
The Evening Herald published President
Cleveland’s message on the same day it ap
peared in the big dailies and in advance of
some of them. We claim that our telegraphic
> first-class.
The Central Hotel, under the management
of Mr. J. D. Smith, is making a reputation.
Its tables are supplied with the best in the
market, and none go away-dissatisfied.
Delayed Council proceedings aud Treas
urers’ report appear in to-day's paper. We
have l>een too short of help to publish them
sooner. > 1
our double column ad. in this paper,
save you money.
Bead Watson & Co.,
Leading Dry Goods Store.
Marshal Cason will go on duty again .next
Monday. We hope his vacation has benefit
ed him. Marshal Cason is one of the most
efficient officers in the stute.
Watermelons and peaches are about gone,
but grapes and pears are coming in to fill
the vacuum. When these are gone possums
and persimmons will be ripe.
Gov. Northern says Georgia has no health
laws. If all towns and cities in Georgia
were as healthy as Waycross no health laws
would be needed.
The Herald learns that a committee of
experts have examined the Opera House
and it is declared perfectly safe. This will
be good news for those interested.
Parties desiring to advertise their fall and
winter business, had better secure space in
the Herald at once. The probability now i
that space in these columns will be scarce.
We learn that some of the Waycross 3rd
nine object to the name “Buckshots,” which
the Herald has given it All right then,
we’ll call it the “Wild Colt” nine.
If the fruit and vegetables which have
been wasted and thrown away in Ware
county the past season had been canned,
they would furnish a supply for this section
for two years to come.
Some very pretty lands adjoining the city
re being laid off in town lots. Waycross
might as well prepare at once for the in
evitable. In a few years it will take six
figures to numlter lier inhabitants,
A report of the recent base ball game in
Waycross to the Savannah Telegram from
its correspondent at this place ii anything
but complimentary to the Waycross nine
and the manager of the Macon team.
Just received, a new supply of our fifty
inch wide black Gloria Silk, 75 cts. a yard,
new lot Percales just opened.
Brad Watson A Co.;
Leading Dry Goods Store.
Jack Chambers Chained to a Tree
and Shot Into Doll Rags.
THE SEVEN * * *
WONDERS OF
r * m THE WORLD IHESAME0LDST0BY
WILL FIND A RIVAL IN
Brad Watson & Co.’s
ANOTHER LYNCHING BEE.
GREAT
7 DAY
OOMMENOUrG-
Friday, August 11,
AND CONTINUING FOR SEVEN DAYS,
Closing at Him, Saturday, Hug. li
We are going to take stock in a few
days, and stock must be REDUCED AT
ANY COST!!
Mr. M. J. Divine and family take posses
sion of the handsome residence on comer of ^ I* Ank Af| "1\T t, nn L
Parallel and B streets to-day. Mr. Divine iVctlllMJUK,
has been here sometime and his family
rived this week, consisting of his wife, grown
in and daughter.
The Herald is the last paper in the world
to interfere with the proper and legitimate
amusements of boys, but we have been i
quested to ask them not to throw quite
many balls in close proximity to the busi
ness houses on Plant Avenue.
Mr. R. I. Denmark, one of the best
i well as one of the most substantial far-
ers in Brooks county, passed through the
city on Monday afternoon, enroute to the
Agricultural Convention at Stone Moun
tain.
Mr. Brinson returned this week from his
Wilmington outing, and had a good time in
the Carolina surf. ’ Unfortunately however,
he was taken with feveT upon his arrival
here and is now quite ill at his room. We
wish him speedy recovery and renewed
vitality.
Persons returning to the city from their
summer outing will confer a favor by hand-
t sending us a notice. We can’t keep
up with the whole city and a notice of the
comers and goers is interesting information
ar readers and in some instances is a
matter of business.
A party of the Waycross cottagers came
up from St. Simon yesterday morning on
the way home. They intended leaving on
the Brunswick and Western train, but failed
to make connections, consequently, they
spent the day looking over the city.—Bruns
wick Times-Advertiser.
Among the many other blessings which
Waycross enjoys is that of having one of the
best mayors in the State. A. M. Knight is
the right man in the right place. He knows
his duty and dares perform it. Under his
administration the affairs of the city are
prosperous and the evil doer makes himself
scarce.
DID TOD EM DBEflJH OF SUCH PRICES ?
READ AND THINK:
Best Feather Ticking, ----- 13 c. yd.
Checked Homespun, 3Kc. yd.
Sea Island, 3 c. yd.
Extra Good Bleaching, - - - - 5 c. yd.
Good 10-4 Sheeting, 14 c. yd.
4 c. yd.
Ex. heavy yard wide Sea Island, 5 c. yd.
Extra Good Cocoanut Gil Toilet Soap, 4c. each.
SOCKS, STOCKINGS, CORSETS, UNDER - WEAR, SHIRTS,
COLLARS AND CUFFS, STATIONERY, RIBBONS, DOILEYS,
NAPKINS, TABLE LINEN, DRESS GOODS,—and, in fact,
EVERYTHING GOES FOR A MERE WHISTLE
THAT IS LESS THAN A SONG.
I* wjml
The Senate Has Commenced Work
in Dead Earnest.
“Mr. a. l.
tative of the TeU
at the Pul
the Waycross represen-
elegram, is in the city stop
ping at the Pulaski. Mr. Weiss is one of
the leading citizens of that thriving city and
is one of the best writers on the Georgia
press.”—Savannah Telegram.
The Telegram is a new paper, but the
al>ove paragraph would indicate that it
thoroughly “up to snuff.” It takes a wide
awake paper like the Telegram to keep up
with the leading citizens of a city like Way-
cross.
The *‘stomach dance** is advertis
ed as one of the attractions at the
Chicago fair. A girl eat3 a “jim
kolb” watermelon from South Geor
gia, and then the “stomach dance*
commences
SHOES
Almost Given Away!
Buy your Children’s School Shoes now
and save money.
A negro named Jack Chambers was
found chained to a tree and shot full of
holes about five miles from Waycross on
the Waresboro road this morning. Cham
bers was one of the three negroes who
committed the crime of outrage upon
the wife of Mr.. George Warren near
Hoboken about a year since. The other
two negroes were caught and payed the
penalty of their crime at the time.
Chambers escaped and has been at large
for 12 months. A few days ago he was
located, having given himself away to
some negroes and a white man. Last
night about 11 o’clock he was arrested
by Mr. Spence and Mr. Clayton who
were taking him to Hoboken
wagon, but before they
had proceeded a mile however the
wagon was stopped by a crowd number
ing twenty-five or thirty white men all
armed to the teeth, and Chambers
was taken out. The wagon was or
dered to drive on. The crowd then
took Chambers to a tree about twenty
five yards from the road, chained him
with a pair of trace chains and| literally
shot him to pieces with Winchesters,
double barelled guns and pistols. It is
said not less than a hundred shots were
fired into his body. Where the crowd
came from or where they went nobody
seems to knW. It is understood how
ever that the husband of the outraged
woman was in the party. The faces of
the lynching party were blackened.
Chambers was known to be a desperate
character, and about two weeks ago at
tempted twice to intercept two daughters
of a well known citizen on their way to
school. The girls only saved themselves
by running for protection to tbeir father,
who was pulling fodder near by. He
has recently threatened the lives of sev
eral people in the neighborhood and at
tempted not long since to shoot a Mr.
Stokes. Chambers was cursing] at a ter
rible rate when the crowd stopped the
wagon, but when he confronted the
muzzles of thirty Winchesters he wilted,
exclaiming:
“Oh, Lord, I’m gone, now !**
The negroes in the neighborhood
were very much afraid of Chambers, and
seem to be delighted at his sudden
taking off.
The coroner will hold an inquest this
afternoon, but as we write the body of
the desperado and outlaw is still pinion
ed to the tree with chains.
We could not learn where Chambers
came from. He is about thirty five years
old, black and very repulsive in appear
ance. The party that did the shooting
was very cool and quiet but very deter
mined.
The particulars of the affair from the
time the negro was taken from the wag
on to the time he was found this morn
ing are hard to get at. Whether he
confessed and asked for mercy or wheth
er he stuck out stubbornly to the end
we cannot tell. There was ample proof
of the negro’s guilt at the time the out
rage was committed, and if he had been
captured he would have been lynched
then. Justice has been delayed but it
came at last.
Another brute has gone, and thus
they will continue to go until our wo
men are safe.
We had hoped that Ware county
would escape lynching and the cause*
that bring it about and make it necessary,
but it is upon us.
The leading colored men of Ware
county shculd use the lynching of Jack
Chambers as an argument to prevent
crime and outrage among their race.—
There is no use getting mad about it,
these things will continue as long as
there is a rapist in the land. ’
The Hopie Adjourns Out of Respect (or
Dead Member—President Cleve
land and His Cabinet Had
a Short Conference.
MANY BILLS INTRODUCED.
Gome Out Bright and Early
FRIDAY MORNING!
We Will Open Your. Eyes!!
REMEMBER!
Our 50-Ui Black Silk 75 Cts. aM
BRAD WATSON&e0.
The Leading Dry Goods House.
Wit of the Wee Ones.
NO GOOD AT EXCUSES.
“I had to be away from school yester
day,’* said Tommy.
“You must bring an excuse,” said the
teacher.
“Who from ?”
“Your father. 1
“He ain’t no good at makin’ excuses.
Ma catches him, every time.”—New
York Sun.
his proof of Innocence.
“One of you boys has been stealing
raisins again : I found the seeds on the
floor. Which one of you
Tommy : “It was not me; I swallow
ed the seeds in mine.”—Tid-Bits.
SHE SYMPATHISED WITH HIM.
Annie was a girl of seven years who
tried to talk politely. One of her play
mates had had the tooth-ache and was
absent from school for two clays. When
he came to school again Annie said to
him : “Did you enjoy much pain when
you had the tooth-ache V*—Youth’s
Companion.
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Washington, Aug.. 10—In the house,
after the president’s message had been
read, Mr. O’Farrell called up the case
of Richardson and Belknap, both claim
ing to have a prima facie title to a seat
In the house from the fifth Michigan
district.
Mr. Dingley moved that the matter
be referred to a special committee of
five members to be appointed by the
speaker, with instructions to report
thereon within 10 days. This was lost.
Yeas 138, nays 194.
Then came a vote on the Republican
resolution declaring Belknap entitled to
his seat on a prima facia case, and it
was defeated—yeas 114, nays 198.
Mr. O’FarreU’s resolution for the im
mediate swearing in of Mr. Richardson
was agreed to without division, and
Mr. Richardson came forward and
qualified.
Mr. Reilly, of Pennsylvania, announ
ced the death of his colleague, William
Mntchler, and as a mark of respect to
the memory of the deceased the house,
at 4:35 o’clock, adjourned until Thurs
day.
Bis Work In the Senate.
Two hundred and fifty-nine bills and
number of resolutions were intro
duced in the senate. The majority of
them are measures that were placed in
the last congress, but not acted on.
They include public building bills,
measures proposing amendments to
their resolutions and general land laws
and a large number of private bills,
claims and pensions.
The bills and resolutions of superior
importance at this time, however, were
those relating to finance and of such
bills and resolutions there were not less
than a dozen. Among them was Mr.
Hill's suspension bill, Mr. Hoar's reso
lution to repeal the stiver purchase
clause of the Sherman act and Mr.
Test’s bill to fix the number of grains
of gold and silver in the gold and re
pealing all acts and parts of acts dis
criminating in taxation against the cir
culating of notes of state banks and
state banking associations; providing
for an income tax of 40 cents on each
£ 00 owned by persons or corporations
excess of $5,000.
Senator. Hunter, of Virginia, office
hills repealing the Sherman law. pro
viding for the purchase of not more
than $2,000,000 worth of bullion a
month and zmtnorizing the coiuage of a
standard silver dollar of 420 grains.
Among the bills on subjects not relat-
iag to finance were the following: By
Mr. Carey, for the admission of New
Mexico as a state; by MrrMurphy, the
Hudson river bridge, reintroduced; by
Mr. Mitchell, of Oregon, the bill intro
duced in the house last session by Mr.
Oates, of Alabama, providing for the es
tablishment of a uniform system of
bankruptcy throughout the United
States. The measure is the old Torrey
bill with a few new clauses prepared by
Mr. Oates.
Cleveland and the Cabinet.
The president came into town about
10:30 o'clock, and went direct to the
White House, His brother was with
him. He had very few callers, Speaker
Crisp and Mr. Kerr, secretary of the
senate, completing the list.
The cabinet met promptly at 11
o'clock, with all the members in attend
ance, and remained in session about two
hours. The financial situation is said
to have been the principal topic of dis
cussion, although it is probable that the
Behring sea arbitration, the Samoan
war and the opening of the Cherokee
strio were also considered.
icre are 1(.0 presidential vacancies
alone in the treasury department.
Among these are 23 internal revenue
collectors. Secretary Carlisle is very
anxious to fill these places, and had an
interview with the president on the
subject.
The Third Day.
The sepate met, and, without trans
acting any business, adjourned. The
motion was made by Gorman and the
yeas and nays demanded by Platt. The
vote stood yeas, 48; nays, 21.
THE SILVER CAUCUS.
Huf Leaden Were Conspicuous on Ac
count of Their Absano -.
Atlanta, Aug. 10.—The Journal’s
Washington correspondent, refer ing to
the silver caucus, says:
That the concensus of thought among
the leaders of the Democratic party is
against any unwise or intemperate ac
tion on the financial question at this
time, was made apparent this morning
at the caucus of the ‘‘free coinage men,**
where they were conspicuous by their
absence. Bland was there, of course,
and fio was young Mr. Bryan, of the
silver mining state of Nebraska. But
all of the leaders failed to pat in an ap
pearance.
Representative Moses was the only
Georgian who attended the caucus. The
other members of the delegation, no
matter what their particular views on
silver migkt be, preferred not to go into
any caucus that was not called Demo
cratic. The Republicans and Populists
participated in this one. Bland’s inter
view last night, in which he predicted
“turbulent times, not even equaled in
bitterness by delegates in congress just
prior to the war,” is universally con
demned.
Why Some Went.
. The resolution of Mr. Hale, Republi
can, who so suddenly and unexpectedly
brought up the question of speedy re
peal' of the Sherman law before the
senate, was tbougnt by some Democrats
to place tueai ia a :» «ic:on where a con
ference became necessary in order that