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VOL. XIV.
WAYCROSS, GEORGIA, SATURDAY. AUGUST 2(>. 1893.
NO. 40
CITY OF ms DIRECTORY
OFFICERS OF WARE COUNTY.
Warren Lott—Ordinary.
B. H. Thomas—Clerk Superior Court.
H. F. Miller—Sheriff and Jailor.
E.H. Crawley—Treasurer.
Joe I). Smith—School Commissioner.
I. .1. Wilkinson—Tax Receiver.
a. T. Thigpen—Tax Collector.
.. K. Daniels—County Surveyor.
S. McCarthy—Coroner.
Co only Commissioners—W. A. Cason, J
W. Davidson and D. J. Blackburn.
Address, Waycross. Ga, . .
CITY OFFICERS, WAYCROSS, GA.
Arthur M. Knight, Mayor. Aldermen
W. A. MoNiel. W. W. Sharp, K. H. Crawley,
J, G. Justice, A. J. Miller.
JI. I*. Bird, Clerk of City Council.
\V. F. Parker, city Assessor and Collector.
Warren Lott, City Treasurer.
J. I.. Crawley, City Attorney.
John P. Cason. City .Marshal.
The Waycross Herald Official Organ.
COUNTY COURT.
J. S. Williams, Judge, R. C. Cannon, Soli
citor. Regular session third Saturday in
each month. Quarterly sessions third Sat
urday in March. June, September and Dec
ern her.
BOARD O F EDUATIOZ.
H. W. Reed, President; W. J. Carswell,
Secretary; J. K. W. Smith. L. Johnson, S.
W. Hitch. H. P. Brewer. J/L. Walker.
Board meets Second Saturday in month
ut 2:30 p. m., at High School building.
SANITARY * WATERWORKS COM’N.
PI. Murphy, Chm’n, W. M. Wilson,
M. Albertson, Lem Johnson,
W. A. Cason, H. W. Reed.
R. P. Bird Rx. Off. Clerk.
Warren Lott, Ex. Officio Treasurer.
H. W. fleet!. Chief Engineer.
F. and A. 31.
JLACKSI1EAR CHAPTER NO. 9, R. A.
Meets at Masonic Hall, Plant Avenue, 1st
Friday in each month at 7:30 p. m. Kx.
Comp. W. W. Shatpe, II. P.; Rt Kx. Comp.
kD. B. English. Secretary.
WAKEFIELD LODGE NO. *7, K. of P.
Meets every Monday night at < -.30 o’clock.
^ " ti. W. Bennett,
BROTHERHOOD LOCOMOTIVE EN
GINEERS.
Division 429, J. J. Widemnn, Chief Engin
eer; J. W. Lyon, First Assistant Engineer;
JL A. McGee, Insurance Agent. Meets
2d and 4th Sundays of each month at 10 a.
m.. Brotherhood hall. Recti block.
XNTERNATIO.ilAL ASSO. MACHINISTS.
Waycfoss Lodge No. 74.W. T. Brewer, M.
M., A. A. Beavers, Secretary, fleets 2d and
4th Saturdays each month at B. L. E. hall,
7:30, p. m.
ORDER OF RAILWAY CONDUCTORS.
L. E. Hali; Reed Block. W. T. Forrester,
Chief Conductor; Geo. A. Crootn. Secretary
and Treasurer.
WAYCROSS RIFLES.
Company —, 4th regiment Georgia Volun
teers. Cupt. J.McP. Farr, 1st Lieutenant,
.1. H. GiUon: 2d Lieutenant, T, O’Brien;
Secretary, John Hogan; Treasurer, I). J.
Crawley. Reg. monthly meeting 1st Tues
day of each month. Drill nights Tuesday
and Thursday of each week, 7:30 p. in.
WAYCROSS LODGE 1. O. O. F.
Meets every Tuesday levelling at 7:30 o’clock.
J. C Hvtlier, N. G.; D. Williams, Secretary.
AMONG THE CHURCHES.
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.
Williams Street, Rev. W. S. Porter, Pastor.
Sunday services at 11:00 a. m. and 8:00 p. in.
Except the tirst Sunday of each month.
Sunday school at 9:30 a. m. Young peoples’
METHODIST CHURCH.
Church Street, Rev. G. W Mathews. Pastor.
Services 11 a. m. and 7 p. in. Sabbath
School 3 p. ra. Christian Endeavor. 4:30 p.m.
BAPTIST CHURCH.
Elisabeth street. Rev. W. H. Scruggs, Pastel
J'reaching every Sabbath 11 a. m. and 7
p. m. Sunday School every Sabbath 3 p .m.
Prayer Meeting every Thmsday 7:30 p. m.
OURSELVES AND NEIGHBORS.
GRACE EPISCOPAL CHURCH.
Comer Pendleton and Mary Street.
Rev. J. W. Turner. Sunday services, Ear-
. j Celebration 7:00 a. m. Texcept on tiTst
Sundays.) Morning services 11 o’clock,
.except on 5th Sundays.) With Holy Com
munion on 1st Sundays. Sunday School
\MK) p. m. Evening service 7:30 o’clock, (ex-
i 1st and 5th Sundays).
The 0*17 One Ever Printed—Can Yon
Find the Word!
There is a 3-incb display advertisement in
this paper, this week, which has no two
words alike except one word. The same is
true of each new one appearing each week,
from the Dr. Harter Medicine Co. This
house places a “Crescent” on everything
they make and publish. Look for it, send
them the name of the word, and they will
return you Book, Beautiful Lithographs or
Samples Free. > jan23-ly
Bntklca’i Arnica Solve.
The best salve in the world for cuts,
bruises, sores, ulcers, salt rheum y 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 perfect satisfac
tion, or money refunded. Price 25 cents
per box. For sale by A. B. Whorter &
Co., E. B. Goodrich, and B. J. Smith’s
drugstores.
There are now forty seven prison
ers in Chatham county jail.
Savannah is healthy and clean and
is observing a strict quarantine.
Mr John I. Rockwell dted of con
sumption in Valdosta Friday night.
A number of Brunswickians hhve
just concluded to take their little
summer trip.
Albany has received more than six
hundred bales of new cotton the
present season.
A monster rattle snake as big as a
man’s thigh, and six feet long, was
killed near Baxley recently.
Derry Polk, colored, was killed bv
Charley Washington, colored, at
Obhlocknee Thomas county, on Sat
urday.
The Ocala Capitolis trying some of
the so-called democrats in Florida in
the firery furnace. Some of them are
being found sadly wanting.
Martin L. Hiann, mate of the
schooner, H. J. Blcndermau, fell
overboard anil was drowned near
Brunswick on Thursday last.
Waycross quarantined a car load
of lumber that came from Bruns
wick, saying that they could not
stand even yellow pine.—Albany
Herald.
The Boston World asks: Has
Thomas county a Democratic execu
tive committee; if so which one is it?
We can answer the question without
difficulty from this distance. It is
the committee which is composed of
Democrats.
The man who can pay a large bill
these days, smile, and then ask the
collector to have a seat and a cigar,
and talks aboat the bright future, is
the man who advertises.—Albany
Herald.
The Telegram, Savannah’s new
daily, lias been placed in the hands
of a receiver, but the publication of
the paper still continues. We hope
the Telegram will come out of its
troubles all right.
Usurers, the Sbylocks, the men
who fatten on the community’s mis
fortune, had best lay low during the
present public temper. The general
spirit of the hour is to bear and for
bear, and this is being thoroughly re
alized.—Birmingham Age-Herald.
Waycross has an aveoud called
“Albany.” It must be a hustling
thoroughfare.—Albany News.
Albany avenue takes its name from
the Artesian City, and for that rea
son always keeps up with the proces
sion.
It is now thought that in all proba
bility Dr. Branham contracted yellow
fever from germs in a uniform coat,
which he wore for the first time in a
long while, in Brunswick. He wore
the coat while inspecting yellow fever
cases in New York two or three years
ago.
The Florida Talleliassean says
that s number of intelligent negroes
in that section recently called on
Governor Mitchell and expressed
their surprise and regret at the con
tents of nn editorial that appeared in
The Floridian of Saturday last advo
cating the deportation of the negroes.
Mr. J. J. Doolan has been ap
pointed business manager of the Tel
egram. This is a decided change
for the better. It is impossible to
successfully manage a daily paper
without having brains and experi
ence at its bead, and Mr. Doolan has
both.—Savannah Telegram.
The friends of The Telegram need
have no fee r about its future. The
efforts to destroy it by those who
should have sacrificed everything for
its advantage, if for nothing else
than their personal reputation, has
signally failed, and now, that it has
been released from the coils, its suc
cess is assured.—Savannah Tele
gram.
I The Atlanta Journal says “nothing
| but an artist can draw money now.”
The business portion of the town of
White Plains was destroyed by fire yes
terday.
The Macon News wants the authori
ties of that city to quarantine against
Brunswick.
The business men of Albany are act
ing in a straight forward determined
manner and their action is receiving fa
vorable comment.
A crazy negroes capers caused much
excitement in Albany day before yester
day. He cleaned up the town with a
baseball bat and defied the police. He
was finally captured and jailed.
While all this fuss is going on at
Washington over the silver question the
boa constrictor protective tariff is get
ting in its work on the eonntrv.—Al
bany Herald.
Notwithstanding that Albany has a
number of artesian wells, and is known
as the Artesian City, complaints are be
ing made of an inadequate water supply.
We hope Albany will not be compelled
to go back to fit st principles. ‘
There are two kinds of Democrats
now—Clevelandites and Democrats who
stand squarely on the Democratic plat
form on which President Cleveland and
the Fifly-third congress were elected.
The Herald will be found in the line
with those who stick to the platform as
long as there is a plank of the structure
left.—Albany Herald.
SPEECH OFJOORBEES.
The Senate Chairman of the
Finance Committee.
EE EUIiO&IZED THE PRESIDENT.
.*T»U
Ma<le a
M the Wabash'
a for the Repeal
l*urchasiug
All Sorts.
A pathethic instance is related of
a poor old woman who had just seen
the ocean for the first time. She was
asked by her son. “What do you
think of the sea?” “Think,” replied
the old dame, after a long pause. “I
can’t think, I can only thank Provi
dence for Having shown me some
thing in my life of which there seems
to be enough snd to spare.”
The city of New York, the popula
tion of which is now beyond 2,000,-
000, must within a very few years,
predicts the New York vSun, be the
second largest city in the world.
The next census will most likely show
its population to be greater than that
of Paris. This city is growing more
rapidly than any of the other chief
cities of the world. There were but
60,000 people here at the opening of
the century; now there are over 2,-
000,000.
General Gordon declares to the
editor of the Griffin News that if
congress refuses to come up square
ly and promptly to the relief of the
people by the enactment of laws to
that end, that he would announce up
on the floor of the senate that he
would never again raise his voice in
support of the party, though it would
kill him politically and otherwise.
Democracy, he said, now has the
grandest opportunity ever offered a
national party of benefiting the peo
ple, and if it shirked the duty it
would die eternally. — Augusta Even
ing News.
Concluding the story eolitled
“Omega,”or “The Last Days of the
Earth,” the writer says:
“The earth no longer existed, nor
her celestial companion, the little
isle of Mars, nor the beautiful sphere
of Venus, nor the colossal world of
Jupiter, nor the strange system of
Saturn, which bad lost its rings, nor
the slow-moving Uranus and Nep
tune—not even the glorious sun, in
whose fecundating heat these man
sions of the heavens had basked for
so many centuries. The sun was a
dark ball, the planets also, and still
this invisible system sped on in the
glacial cold of starry space. So far
as life is concerned, all these worlds
were dead—did not exist. They sur
vived their past history like the rains
of the dead cities of Assyria which
the archaeologist uncovers in the des
ert, moving on their way in darkness
through the invisible and the un
known.”
The man who hasn’t an opinion of
his own on the silver question which
differs from everybody else,* is out of
the fashion.
Silver went up two cents yesterday.
Perhaps Livingston’s speech did it.
Congress, the Chicago exposition
and the yellow fever scare, divide
the attention of the reading public.
Act by Sherman.
Washington, Aug. 24.—The speech of
Senator Y<*>rhees upon his repeal loll in
troduced jin the senate last wa* an able,
logical and effective effort.
The sp&ch had been prepared by him
in advance and he delivered it from type
written sheets. But it was spoken with
all energy and vehemence that Mr. Voor-
hees has ever displayed in a speech be
fore the senate. From the first sentence
he commanded the close and earnest at
tention of senators on both sides of the
chamber, and of an unusually large au
dience in the galleries.
He had not been speaking more than a
quarter of an hour when he noticed Mr.
Stewart rise as if to pnt a question or in
terpose a remark, and he prevented that
by stating that he declined in advance
to yield to any interruptions, and that he
would have to appeal to the chair for
protection in his right to the floor.
He then resumed the delivery of bis
speech, but had not made much further
progress before he was again interrupt
ed, this tiihe by an outburst of applause
in the galleries, following an encomium
of President Cleveland. This breach of
proprieties of the place and occasion was
checked liy Vice President Stevenson,
who threatened to have the galleries
cleared if the offense should be repeated.
Mr. Voorhees said that while the calm,
unbiased public opinion of a great ma
jority of the American people, irrespect
ive of parties, had justified the action of
the president in convening the extra ses
sion, the causes for the action were
widely and dangerously misunderstood,
and by certain classes purposely misrei>-
resented. Therefore he deemed fitting a
few words in explanation, spoken in no
spirit of strife or controversy. For five
months had gone up the voice of the
prophet of* financial-evils: from the great
money centers had bminated cruel edicts
contracting the currency and resulting
in panic.
No one _ believed there was a want of
confidence in the government credit or
in the stability of its currency. Not
withstanding the empty treasury left by
the last administration and the record of
a bullion dollar congress, the American
credit is 1 letter now than that of any
other country on the globe, and even
cowardly capital seized upon our Iwinds
with swift greed. Investors of capital
complained that the administration had
declined to issue at least $300,000,000
more bonds. This additional indebted
ness. increasing the burdens of American
labor, would lie hailed with the keenest
delight and swept with avidity into un
patriotic vaults by the parties who most
loudly declaimed against the government
credit. There were many reasons why
our credit should be stronger now than
ever before. It rested on the alisolnte
unity of purpose of the American people
that it should be upheld.
After reference to the fact that no age
in the history of the country compared
even in a remote degree with the present,
as an age of progress and development,
the speaker referred to the tariff as the
“giant evil” which robbed the country
of much of its greatness, and expressed
the belief that it would soon be removed.
He then referred to the fact that gold
was nothing but a medium for the ex
change of values, and that the official
stamp of its creator—the government—
was all that gave it worth.
Paper was made equally as good, when
once stamped, and there were, in all,
nine mediums of exchange in this coun
try, and all of them were in harmony
and worked smoothly, and the national
credit has been maintained in a degree
that challenged the pride of every Amer
ican citizen.
Mr. Voorhees said he had referred to
these things to illustrate the power and
dnty of the government in furnishing
sound, reliable and constitutional money
for the people. At this jiomt. he said,
he was confronted - by a law without
precedent or parallel in American his
tory; a law which for months past had
been the theme of all tongues and pens,
and in whose name financial panic and
disaster had been invoked and for whose
repeal this congress had been convened.
Mr. Voorhees briefly sketched the birth
of the law. which resulted from a com
promise and said that in an evil hour—
the worst and darkest that ever befell
the cause of bimettalllsm .or the honor
and existence of silver money'—this per
nicious compromise was accepted and
fastened on the country.
He advocated the repeal of the meas
ure and denied the charge that he who
voted for its repeal was an enemy of sil
ver. In this,silvers darkest hour, he
proclaimed Ids faith in the white metal
and lielieved it would still stand, one of
the world’s factors in Imsmess.
The question has been asked whether
a vote should be given for its uncondi
tional repeal or whether a substitute
must be agreed upon before. Mr. Voor
hees would at once eradicate this con
fessed evil from the body of our laws,
with no other condition than his right
and free agency to support and to secure
in connection with its repeal, or after
wards by an independent measure the
success of its immediate repeal. The
primary duty of the hour might at the
time dictate. a sound financial system,
embracing the coinage • of silver on an
equality with gold. In making this
statement he only repeated the declara
tion of the Chicago platform on which
the American people restored to the
presidency one oi me strongest, auiesi
purest and most patriotic characters ever
known to American history. '
Mr. Voorhees. at this point, quoted the
financial plank of the Chicago platform,
and. saying that the record did not stop
at this ixiint, quoted from President
Cleveland's letter of acceptance, which
he said was in no wise modified or con
tradicts! by the singularly able message
delivered a few days ago. He said that
it contained in four brief sentences even-
sound. wholesome, enduring principle of
finance ever known in the history of the
most pros]»erous nation of the earth.
Who dared, in th“ face cf the clear and
explicit words wlich he read, to charge
that their author was a monometalist in
disguise, a believer in the use of gold imd
gold alone, but wearing for the sake of
an election to the presidency, a bimetallic
mask? His fearless frankness in the ex
pression of his views on all public ques
tions without regard to the effect upon
himself had long been conceded by friend
and foe to l>e the leading characteristic
of his mind.
He had never recalled, retracted or ex
plained a single word of his letter of ac
ceptance. and it was just as binding as
when first given to the world. He. Voor
hees. was willing to stand or fall by liis
faith in the ti*utli and honor of Grover
Cleveland, and in his wellknown fidelity
to pledges when once they are made.
John G. Carlisle was the peer in intellect
and spotless integrity of any of the illus
trious statesmen who had held the port
folio of finance, including Hamilton, and
he made uo mistake in placing him as a
bimetalist.
Debate Still Goes On.
Washington, Aug. 24.—The house j
met at 10 o'clock, and the silver debate \
was opened at once by C. W T . Stone, of I
Pennsylvania, who spoke for repeal and i
adjured the members to disregard parti-
6an feeling in dealing with the subject.
Mr. Covert, of New York, pleaded for
unconditional repeal, and comparing sil
ver to a faithful servant fallen into bad
habits, held that nothing would suffice
to restore it but the gold cure.
Mr. Fitch, of New York, followed in
the same line.
Dalzell contended for the repeal of the
purchase act and ascribed all difficulties
of the present situation to Democratic
hostility to the tariff.
Mr. Hatch, in speaking in favor of
free coinage, advocated a caucus of Dem- l
ocrats of the house and senate to inter- !
pret the Chicago platform—every man of !
whom would pledge “his life, fortune I
and his sacred honor” to abide by the |
decision. |
The i-ommittee on ways and means
held its first meeting. All the members
were present. Chairman Wilson was
authorized to appoint sub-committee*/
clerks and other employes. Tuesdays
and Fridays were fixed as the regular
meeting days.
Before adjourning. Chairman Wilson
requested the* members to consider be
fore the next meeting a plan of proceed-
ure for the committee in its work,wheth-
r not healings shall lie given persons
interested in the tariff, how and when
the bill shall be reported, etc.
In the Senate.
Among the bills introduced in the sen
ate was one by Mr. Pasco, as a substi
tute for the minority bill of the finance
committee (proposing silver coinage at
20. to 1). The substitute proposes a com
mission of three citizens of the United
States to ascertain and report before Jan
uary, 1894. the intrinsic relative value of
gold and silver, and that on that report
the secretary of the treasury shall fix
and determine the ratio.
The president sent to the senate the
nomination of Joshua F. Dodge, of Wis
consin, to be assistant attorney general,
vice William A. Mawry, resigned.
Secretary Gresham and Minister
Blount liad another long conference over
Hawaiian affairs at the state depart
ment.
Tlw Tim*-* Are Brightening.
Washington. Aug. 24.—As viewed
from a treasury standpoint the general
financial situation of the country shows
improvement, slight perhaps, but be
lieved to be permanent. Bank failures
have almost entirely ceased, banks that
suspended are resuming business, gold
which poured out of the country is re-
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
LEE L. SWEAT
Attorney at Law.
WAYCROSS, - - GEORGIA.
B. H. WILLIAMS, D. D. S.,
. Office: Up-stairs
FOLKS BLOCK, AYCROSS, GA.
Tenders his professional services to the
public.
J^R. JAS. C. RIPPARD,
Physician and Surgeon,
D U. K. C. FOLKS, F j ,-in-ianand Sur-
peon, Waycross, Ga.
Office over T. E. Laniers Jewelry Store.
Office hours from 9 to 10 a. Can,be found
at my residence, corner Pendleton street
and Brunswick avenue, when not profes
sionally engaged. iy4.1y
1)K. A. 1'. ENGLISH,
Physician and Surgeon,
WAYCROSS - - GEORGIA.
All calls promptly attended.
DR. J. E. W. SMITH,
Office Reed’s Biock.
Special attention given diseases of the Eye,
Ear, Nose and Throat.
WAYCROSS, - GEORGIA.
C. C. THOMAS,
Attorney at Law,
Next to MilliCs Bistmant, Wqcrm, Gl
DR. G. P. POLKS
physician and surgeon.
'.'AIT. KNOX'S, ALBANY AVENUE,
WAYCROSS, CA.
DR. T. A. BAILEY,
DENTIST,
C. CANNON,
Attorney at Law,
WAYCROSS, - - - GEORGIA.
Office in Court-house.
Will practice in the Brunswick Circuit and
elsewhere by special contract.
Nov 15-’90-ly,
J. L. CRAWLEY,
ATTORNEY LAW.
WAYCROSS, : : GEORGIA.
Office in the Wilson Building.
John c. .McDonald,
Attorney and Counselor at
Law,
WAYCROSS. - - - GEORGIA,
Office up stairs in Wilson Block.
| A. WILSON,
Attorney at Law,
WAYCROSS, ‘ - _. . GEORGIA
Dr. J. P. PRESCOTT,
Practicing Physician
HOBOKEN, GEORGIA.
All calls promptly attended. jy2-6m
BLOUNT IN WASHINGTON.
He Slipped In on the People—May Run for
Governor.
Washington, Aug. 24.—Ex-Minister
Blount slipped into town Tuesday after
noon. and has since that time been al
most in a continual conference with Sec
retary Gresham. He is looking splen
didly and is in excellent spirits. The re
port which Minister Blount makes is of
course a secret. He is also uncommuni
cative as to Georgia affaire.
He is anxious to return home and will
probably do so in a few days. He only
smiled in answer to the question whether
or not he would enter the gubernatorial
contests in Georgia, but his friends here
are firmly of the impression that he will
look over the field carefully, and when he
sees what the prospects are he will de
cide. It is believed here to mean that he
will be a candidate.
A Failure in Teuu.
San Marcos, Tex.. Aug. 23.—The First
National bank has suspended payment
by order of the directors. Notive was
given that the depositors would be paid
in full as soon as they could realize on
the paper, of which there is more than
two and one-half times the amount re
quired.
Week* Ha* Seen Located.
San Jose, Costa Rica, Aug. 23.—Fran
cis H. Weeks, the embezzling president
of the Land and Improvement company
of West Superior, Wjs., who fled from
New York two months ago to escape ar
rest, has arrived here with his wife.
Weeks has been in hiding at Panama.
S. L. DRAWDY,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
HOMERVILLE, : : GEORGIA.
DR. J.H. REDDING,
OFFICE. AT RESIDENCE,
Near the Stand Pipe. apr30-ly
SIMON W. HITCH EDW. H. MYERS.
HITCH & MYERS,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Up Stairs Wilson's Block.
WAYCROSS, GEORGIA.
W. A. WRIGHT, J. P.,
And Agent For
National Guarantee Co-
Securities obtained on easy terms. Special
attention given to the collection of claims.
Post Office Building, Waycross, Ga.
J S. WILLIAMS,
Attorney at Law.
WAYCROSS. - - - - GEORGIA.
F. J. JAMES,-
Harness and Shoe Maker,
Two-story Building Albany Ave,
WAYCROSS, GEORGIA.
All work done promptly and Cheap for
Cash.
Orders solicited and satisfaction guar
GEORGIA-—Ware Comity.
Whereas. W. J. Carswell" has applied for
letters of administration on the estate of
Mrs. H. E. Carswell, deceased. Notice is
hereby given that I will pass on said appli
cation on the first Monday in September,