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THE WAYCROSS HERALD SATURDAY, SEPT. 7, 1895,
TOWN AND COUNT.
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i, and vou need it
The Shooting Contest.
There will be a shooting match in a
few days between five members of the
Way cross rifle club and the squad from
the Rifles who attended the prize shoot
at Albany several days ago. The match
will take place at the Rifles’ range, jast
west of Reedsville. There will be five
shots each standing, at 200 yards; and
five shots each, kneeling or sitting, at
the 300-yard range.
The Rifle club will use Winchester or
Marlin rifles, and the squad from the
Rifles will shoot with the regular army
Springfield rifles. The Rifle club has
selected seven of iheir best shots and the
Council Proceedings.
City Coucil met in call meeting on the
evening of August 16, at 7:45. Present
—His Honor A. M. Knight, Mayor,
Aldermen Yonmans, Bruce, Humphries
and Justice.
The Mayor read a letter from the Wa
ter Works Commission in relation to at
taching an Air-lift plant to the Artesian
well, so as to secure a more abundant
supply of water. His Honor also read
a letter from Mr. H. Murphy, in which
he offered to lend the city five thousand
($5,000) dollare, and take the city’s notes,
made payable as follows: $1,000.00 due
five who make the best average score at j July 1st, 1807; $1,000.00 due July 1st
the practice shots will be-the ones who 1808; $1,000.00 due July 1st, 1800;
will enter the contest. The following are ; $1,000.00 due July 1st, 1000; and
the seven: j $1,000.00 due July 1st, 1901, with in-
D A. Williams, Frank Williams, Gee. terest at 8 i>er cent per annum.
There is very little sickness in Way-
cross just at this time, and the doctors
are looking awful blue.
Mr. Banner Thomas returned from the
up country this morning. We are glad
to see him much improved in health.
Mr?. Rabine and three children, of
Jacksonville, are in Waycro.-s, and will
spend several months at the (Southern
hotel.
The new school building will be dedi
cated on the opening day of the ensuing
tony, Monday Sept 23rd at 9 o’clock a.
m. Everyone is cordially invited to'at
tend. til-sep.22
Way cross should be figuring on an
other trade day sometime between now
and Christmas. Our friends all over the
country say they must have it.
The denizens of lower Plant avenue
are still complaining about that terrible
cess |*ool, and we desire to again call the
attention of the board of health to this
nuisance.
Rheumatism, neuralgia, pains in the
back or side, stiff neck, sore throat, ton-
jlitis, diphtheria, cramps and colic in
stantly relieved by Johnson’s Magnetic
Oil. Large bottles 25 and 50 cents.
Sold by B. J. Smith, druggist, Waycross
Ga.
Every dollar paid the Herald goes
right straight back . into the pockets of
the business men of Waycross. When
ever we try to hold a dollar the eagle
"screams and we let her go.
A clear soft, rosy, complexion is the
desire of every lady. Why not give
Johnson’s Oriental Soap a trial. There
is nothing to compare with it os a skin
beautifier. Two cakes in a package 25
cents. Sold by B. J. Smith, druggist,
Waycross, Ga.
The way to reach catarrhis through
the blood. That ringing sound in the
ears and loss ot smell is caused by ca
tarrh. Johnson’s Sarsaparilla and Celery
treats this disease successfully. Try it
and you will not be disappointed.
Price, large bottles 50 cents. Sold by
B. J. Smith, druggist Waycross, Ga.
Admission tickets for the first term of
the public schools can be had from the
superintendent during the week preced
ing the opening of the school’s office in
new school building. Hours from 9 to
12 a. m. Sept 16 to 21st If tickets are
procured before the opening day classi
fication will he greatly facitated. New
pupils will be expected to stand exami
nation during this week. til-sep.22
W. Barnes, B. If. Williams, A. B. Mc
Whorter, J. G, Justice and T. S, Paine.
The squad from the Rifles who will
enter the contest will be as follows:
Lieut. J. H. Gillon, Sergeant Joe
Brewer, Corporal C. J. Paine, Privates
P. S. Archibald, W. H. Buchanan an 1
A. P. Perham, Jr. One of the above
will be dropped before the day of * lie
contest.
Kettle Creek Items.
Prof. J. W. Rutherford, of Anderson-
ville, Tenn., is teaching a private school
at Kettle Creek church, for J. J. Wilkin
son, J. E. McClelan and S. V. Jeffords.
The school is in a flourishing condition
and a few more pupils would be admi -
ted. Terms reasonable.
Quarterly conference will
here on the second Saturdav in Septem
ber. ,
Rev. S. V. Jeffords has returned from
Indian Springs much improved in health,
but while gone from home he lost a fine
mule.
The county commissioners having fur
nished the lumber, J. J. Wilkinson and
others will put a good and substantial
footway across Kettle Creek, at the
church, in the near future, which will be
a great convenience to the community
as well as the public generally.
Big Land Litigation.
Two important equity causes from
Charlton Superior Court were heard here
at Chambers, by Judge J. L. Sweat, yes
terday. In the suit in favor of Daugh
erty, et. al. vs. Brooks Lumber Co., et
al., the title of forty-eight lots of land
was involved, which was decided ad
versely to plaintiffs. There was another
sui^in favor of Mrs. L. A. Dugas against
the Brooks Lumber Co, et. al., involving
sixteen lots, in which plaintiff's title was
upheld and injunction granted. Capt
S. T. Kingsbury and Col. C. C Thomas
represented plaintiffs in Doth suits, and
Messrs. Toomer, Wilson, and Hitch &
Mvers, the defendants.
Will Probably Go to the Exposition.
The Riflemen held their regular
monthly meeting last night Eight ap
plications for membership were read for
the second time and were favorably vot
ed on. There were five more applica-
ti >na for first reading.
The company is considering a trip to
the Atlanta Exposition. A large ma
jority of the members have expressed
their desire to go with the company and
a Pullman sleeping err will probably be
chartered for the entire trip, if the com
pany decides to ga
The Eclipse Last Might.
Last night there was a total eclipse of
the moon. It was plainly visible in
Waycross and was watched by hundreds
of people.
The eclipse began at 9:50 o’clock and
was obsiured until 1:53 o’clock this
morning.
In the first part of the night the sky
was cloudy and the eclipse did not show
up well.
This is the only ;clipse that will be
visible in America, or, in fact, any por
tion of she earth, during the remainder
of the year.
He Took the Picture.
Mr. Hinman, the photographer, went
out to the scene of the lynching yester
day and took a picture of the dead ne-
gio as he lay on the ground tied to the
telegraph pole. It will be on exhibition
at his gallery. It should serve as a warn
ing to others.
The contract for putting in the Bacon
Air-lift plant at the Artesian well, be
tween the Knowles Steam Pump Co. and
the Water Works Commission, was read
d considered.
On motion, it was resolved that the
City Council do approve and endorse the
contract made and entered into between
the Knowles Pump Co., of New York,
party ot the first part, and the Water
Works Commission, party of the second
part, for putting in an Air-lift pump at
the Artesian wells.
On motion, the following resolution
was presented and passed unanimously:
Whereas, Mr. H. Murphy has sub
mitted to the Mayor and Council of the
City of Waycross a proposition to lend
the said Mayor and Council of the said
convene pjjy c f Waycross, five thousand ($5,000.-
00) dollars; and,
Whereas, The negotiating of such a
loan for the purposes intended, will sub
serve the public interest; therefore
He it Resolved, That such proposition
be accepted, and in the manner follow
ing, to-wit:
Upon payment of the said five thous
and ($5,000.00) dollars, by the said H.
Murphy to the Treasurer of the City of
Waycross, the Mayor, for and on behalf
of the Mayor and Council of the City of
Waycross, is hereby authorized and em
powered to execute, payable to the order
of said H. Murphy, Five (5) promissory
uctes, of one thousand ($1,000) dollars
each, said notes to bear interest from
date at (8) eight per cent., per annum,
payable in advance, and to be payable
respectively on July 1st, 1807, July 1st,
1898; on July 1st, 1899: on July 1st,
1900; on July 1st, 1901. It is express
ly understood that this money shall not
be used for any other purpose than for
completion of the Water Works system,
as per contract with the Knowles Pump
Co., of New York, and not for settle
ment of past indebtedness; and that the
•Mayor and Council of the City of Way-
cross shall have the privilege at any
time, upon three months notice to the
said H. Murphy, in writing, to pay all of
said notes, receiving then and there a
rebate of any interest which may have
been advanced upon any of said unpaid
notes.
ANOTHER RAPIST DIES.
OUTRAGE AND LYNCHING NEAR
WABESBOKO.
Westley Weaver, Colored, Attempts to
Outrage the 8-Year-Old Daughter
of Major J. M. Spence, Sr.—The
Boldest Attempt Ever Known in
This Section—He is Taken From
The Marshal and Shot by an Infu
riated Mob.
Waresboro was the scene of the most
intense excitement yesterday morning,
when it was learned that a negro named
Westley Weaver had attempted to out
rage the 3-year-old daughter of Major J.
M. Spence, Sr., of that town and that the
;or had been placed in jail at that
place.
THETBOLDEST; attempt on record.
The boldness of the attempt surpasses
anything of the kind ever kno*n in
Ware county, and in brutality of intent,
as confessed by the negro himself, beats
anything on record.
THE CIRCUMSTANCES
are these. Night before last Mrs. Spence
and one or two smaller children were
sleeping on one bed in the room, and
little Susie Spence, her eight-year-old
daughter, occupied another bed by her
self in the same room. The negro first
attempted to get in at the window, but
failing in this, went in at the front door,
which was open. There were persons
sitting up in another room of the same
house with Mr. Moses Spence;
sick. The negro went into the bedroom
where the little girl was sleeping without
being observed, and taking her up bod
ily attempted to carry her from the
house, at the same tima stopping her
cries with his hand and the bed cloth
ing. The child struggled and managing
to get the negroe’s hand from her mouth
for an instant, screamed “nigger!” Pai
ties who were in the other room ran ii
as quickly as possible, and the bru.i
WHO THE NEGRO IS.
When the negro came to Waresboro,
several months since, he said he was
from Cartersville and that his name was
Westley Weaver, he has also gone by
the name of “Slickum.”
He was evidently a tramp and did not
seem inclined to stick to any steady job.
He seemed to be harmless, however, and
treated kindly by the people if
Waresboro and especially by the
Spence family in whose employ
he was at the time ot the
attempted outrage. The mother of the
liitle girl had fed him, and her father
had been his friend.
For pure diabolical deviltry, ingrati
tude and recklessnefs, taking the ne
groes own confession, we have never
known an equal to this case. Wesley Wen-
or “slickum,” has paid the penalty
of his crime. His fate should be a warn
ing to every brute, be he black or white.
The men ol Ware county will protect
their wives and their daughters and the
wrongs of those who have no natural
protectors will be avenged by our man
hood.
Another negro who “Slickum” said
had given him wine and put him up to
wbat he did, was whipped yesterday and
made to leave the town.
Morsgagc Sale.
Georgia—Ware County:
By virtue of a power of sale
mortgage by Henry Jones, on 17tli day of
January, 1893, to D. B. English, and record
ed in books of mortgages A, page 177, there
will be sold at the court house, in said
county, on first Tuesday in October next,
public outcry, to the highest bidder, the fob
lowing property, to-wit: That tract or par
cel of land in the City of Waycross, W
county, Georgia, described as follows*:
Commencing at the northeast corner oi
Race Track and “F” streets, thence easterly
along said Race Track street, sixty feet;
thence northerly parallel to said “F” street,
hundred and fifiy (150) feet; thence west-
How’s This!
We offer one Hundred Dollars Reward
for any case of Catarrh that cannot be
cured by Hall’s Catarrh Cure.
F. J. Cheney & Co., Props, Toledo, O.
We the undersigned, have known
F. J. Cheney for the last 15 years, and
believe him perfectly honorable in all
business transactions and financially
able to carry out any obligations made
by their fiirm. ^
West & Truax, Wholesale Druggists,
Toledo, O. Walding, Kinnan & Marvin,
Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O.
Hall’s Catarrh Cure is taken internally,
acting directly upon the blood and mu
cous surfaces of the system. Price, 75c*
per bottle. Sold by all Druggist
Testimonials free.
Sheriff Sale
Gkoboia, Wvre Cocuty.
Will be sold on the first Tuesday in Sep
tember next before the Court House door,
between the legal hours or sale, to the
highest bidder for cash, the following de
scribed city lots, to-wit: Four lots in the
City of Waycross. Ware County, Ga., num
bers eleven (11), twelve (12), thirteen (13)*
fourteen (14). in Block 2, fronting on Sweat
street 300 feet, running back 110 feet, levied
on under and by an execution issued oit of
the Superier Court of Ware County in favor
of M. Ferst Son’s & Co., against Ben Sir-
mans. Levied on as *lie property of Ben
Simians this August S, 1895.
S. F. Miller,
4tw Sheriff Ware County.
Diver
Try Electric Bitters as a remedy for your
troubles ? If not get a bottle now and get
relief. This medicine has been found to
be peculiarly adapter! to the relief and
cure of all Female Complaints, exerting
a wonderful direct enfluence in giving
strength and tone to the organs. If you
have loss of Appetite, Constipation,
Headache, Fainting Spells, or are Ner
vous, Sleepless, Excitable, Melancholy
or troubled with Dizzy Spells, Electric
Bitters is the midieme you need Health
and strength are guaranteed by its use
Large bottels only fifty cents at A. B
McWhorter and B. J. Smith’s Drugstore-
finding it impossible to escape with the j parallel -with said Knee Traci street,
child, dropped her and scrambled under sixty f,;ot ’ to “ F " stW! ‘ : thcnce so,,ther,!:
the bed.
Private School-
Mias Winifred Quarterman will open
a private school in the Crawley building
near court bouse, on Monday Sept 9th
r l895.
French will be taught as a special
j course. Chargee moderate. 27-2wd&w
Make Your Complaints to Mr. Wadlejr
Mr. J. E. Wadley is in charge of the
electric light and ice plants belonging to
Waycross Manufacturing Company, and
all complaints most be made to him, at
his office.
Labor Day.
Yesterday was Labor Day, but the
only indication of it in this city was the
closing of the banks. Very few persons
knew that it was Labor Day, and work
went right ahead as usual.
Be it further Resolved, That said notes
shall be Executed as aforesaid, for the
purpose as stated, so soon as the Water
Works plant is complete, according to
contract, and accepted by the Water
Works Commission.
The matter of putting in a Telephone
system in the City of Waycross, was
considered, and on motion, adopted.
(Published in Waycross Herald, August
20th, 1895).
On motion, Council adjourned.
A. M. KNIGHT, Mayor.
R. P. Bird, Clerk. *
Mr. Albertson Retires.
Mr. Albertson gave up his lease of the
Satilla Manufacturing Company’s plant
on the 1st inst, and it is now being it
by the company as before he leased it.
Mr. Albertson has many friends in
Waycross who regret exceedingly to see
him give up the plant but hope he will
not leave the city. Mr. Albertson is one
our best and most enterprising citizens
and it would be a calamity to the com
munity if he should leave us.
For Hale.
I havefor sale, at bargains, several
fine mules and horses,* suitable for wag
oning, turpentine and mill work; also
some wagons. I can give you a bargain
any time. Come to aee at my stable,
rear of jail. W. H. Bradley,
aug 3-2m Waycrofes, Ga.
Condemned by the Negroes.
The Herald learns that all the best ne
groes in the vicinity of Waresboro were
loud in their denunciation of Weaver,
who was lynched night before last, and
it is thought that perhaps some of them
had a hand io the lynching.
Opening Dav.
All Georgians and thousands of others
are interested in the opening exercises
of the Cotton States and International
Exposition, in Atlanta, on the 18th inst.
The full programme for the exercises
at the grounds is as follows:
“Salute to Atlanta”—Composed for
the occasion by Victor Herbert—Gil
more’s Band.
Prayer—Bishop C. K. Nelson.
Address—President Collier.
Address on Behalf of Women—Mrs.
Joseph Thompson, president of the
Women’s Board.
Music, Chimes—“Columbia.
Address, Presentation of the *Negio
Exhibit—Prof Booker ' T. Washington,
principal of the Tuskeegee Normal and
Industrial college.
Address Of Welcome on behalf of the
State—Governor Atkinson.
Address of Welcome on behalf of tie
City—Mayor Porter King.
Music—^Gilmore’s Band.
Exposition Oration—Hon. • Emory
Speer. - T ,
Music—Gilmore’s Band.
Pressing of the button which starts
the machinery by President Cleveland at
Gray Gables.
Benediction—Bishop Becker.
National salute.
The household was alarirBd anil in a
few minutes the negro was cap-ured and
taken from under the bid. The mar
shall was summoned and he was placed in
the lock up. The town was in a state of
great excitement all day yesterday and
threats of lynching were freely made.
THE NEGRO’S CONFESSION.
Upon being questioned yesterday while
in jail the negro confessed that he in
tended to smother the child to prevent
her cries until he got her out of the
house when he intended to outrage her
and choke her to death, and seemed to
care very little about the consequences.
THE MARSHALL ATTEMPTS TO BRING
HIM TO WAYCROSS.
Feoling quite sure that the negro
would be lynched during the night, at
about ten o’clock last night, Marshall
Crawford slipped the negro from the
guard housed and started to bring
him to Waycross jail, but spies had been
set upon his movements and when about
half a mile from town he was over pow
ered by fifty men, armed with Winches
ters, double barrel guns, pistols, knives
and he stated to a Herald reporter that
he was quite sure a few of them had can
nons. They took the negro away-from
him and ordered him to make tracks for
home if he had any home. And when
the crowd, none of whom he knew, told
him to get quick, he got.
FOUND THIS MORNING.
Tee engineer on the earlv B. & W.
freight found the dead negro this morn
ing and reported to the officials at Wares
boro. He had been tied to a telegraph
pole about half a mile this side of Wares
boro and was literally shot to pieces,
nearly a hat full of Winchester shells
were picked up around the place where
the shooting occurred, and the telegraph
pole was badly cut up by the balls.
THE INQUEST
A Herald reporter reached the ground
soon after the ccroner had summoned
his jury and before the body had been
moved. The sight was a most terrible
one and can never be forgotten. It
would doubtless have been a good thing
if every brute in the land could have
witnessed it. Coronor Grimes made as
thorough an investigation as was possible
under the cirbnmstances, but no one
could be found who could identify any
of the men who did the shooting, and it
was finally decided that they came from
Pearce county. The following verdict
was rendered:
southerly
ne hundred and
place of begin ing.
along said **F” street,
fifty (150) feet, to point •
Aug, 21,1895.
J>. B. ENGLISH.
J. Walter Bennett, Att’y. 4t-$G.OO
Sheriff Sale.
Georgia—Ware County:
Will be sold before the Court Honse door,
on the first Tuesday in October next, be
tween the legal hours of sale, to the high
est bidder, for cash, the following property,
to-wit:
Lot of land, number One Hundred and
Eighty-one. in 7th District, Ware county,
and all improvements thereon, except one
hundred and fifty acres, more or less, lying
on west side of said lot, bounded by a cer
tain gully, running north and south, or
nearly so; starting at Peach Creek, thence
east or near east, along a ditch connecting
with other ditch, running south or near
south,'to a certain stake, thence west or near
west, to a stake in first described gully ;
thence up said gully to original line near
southwest corner. Property levied on un
der anil by an Execution issued out of the
County Court of Ware eounty, in favor of
Joel Smith against Loud. M. Cribb arid J. A.
Cribb. Property levied on as the property
of Loud M. Cribb and J. A. Cribb. Wriiten
notice given defendants.
This. Aug. 22,1895.
S. F. MILLER, Sheriff.
Valuable Saw Mill Plant For Sale.
Wll be sold before the court house door,
at Homerville. Clinch County, Georgia,
within the legal hours of sale, on the first
Monday in August next, the large saw mill
4ant of Paxton & .Mattox, located at Clinch
laven, on the Savannah, Florida & Western
Railway, including engines, boilers, saws
arid all necessary machinery and appurten-
mill and planing mill
ances for the „
with houses and all necessary lots and build
ings and about fifteen miles of tram-road
ready for iron and two locomotives and
about fifteen timber carts and harness.
Also, fifteen thousand acres of land, and
in addition thereto, forty five thousand
acres of timber, more or less, lying at and
near said saw mill plant and adjoining other
land and timber accessible thereto.
Said property sold underand by^virtue of
. erior Cour
ing therefor.
For further particulars address or call on
Warren Lott, Waycross. Ga., or C. J. Haden
Atlanta, Ga. This July 10th, 1895.
WARREN LOTT,
C. J. HADEN,
Commissioners.
State of Georgia, 1
County of Ware. J
We the undersigned, jury selected,
chosen, and sworn as a jury of inquest,
to inquire into the death of Westley
Weaver, find that the deceased came to
his death by gunshot wounds at the
hands of unknown persons.
H. L Mullis,
J. R. Thigpen, .
M. V. Smith, *
J. L. Murray,
A. R. Cribb,
E.M. Cribb,
Foreman.
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Thomasville, Ga..
For B°lf s ^ Giris^
Faculty of Seven competent instructors,.
Using most approved modern methods in
all departments, including music and
drawing. Commodious a n u elegant
buildings and grounds.
Board in good families near college at,
$10 to $12 a month.
Tuitions $2, $3, or $4 a mouth accord
ing to advancement of pnpils.
Attendance increasing yearly—1 a st
year 171.
Fall term opens September 2ml, 1895.
.Write for catalogue to
MISS E. H. MERRILL, Pres., or*
CAPT. A. G. MILLER, V. Pres.
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Sale of Railroad Stock.
Georgia—Ware County:
In accordancewitk an order of the Ordi
nary of said county, granted Angust 6th,
1895. there will be sold on the first Tuesday
October next, at 10 a. m., at the court
house, in 8*id county, (6) six shares of Cen
tral railroad stock, and nineteen (19) shares
of Southwestern Railraod stock; property
belonging to the estate of Johanna Conni-
han. deceased, at public outcry, to the high
est bidder.
THOMAS PEACH.
mo-$3.00 Administrator.
Application for Twelve Months’ Support.
Georgia. Ware County:
The appraisers appointed to -et apart a
twelve months’support for the family o
Richard Spivey, deceased, having filed their
return, all persons concerned are hereby
cited and required to show cause in the
court of Ordinary of said county, ot
first Monday in September next, why the
application for said twelve mon is’ support
should not be granted.
This Aug. 5th, 1895.
4t-w WARREN LOU, Oidinary.
Make Cows Pay.
Twenty cows and
one tens Giant
Separator, will make
more butter than 25
cows and no separa
tor. Five cows will
bring $200 to $300 and one
separator will cost $125.
Five cows will eat a lot of
feed; a separator eats noth
ing. Moral: Make the cow
business pay by using a sep-
arator. SfonA fnr c-irrmlarc
$200 Offered Free!
Offics First Natiowai. Bakt,
^■ticax. Business Cousob, Nasbvixax,Tx».
Dear SueThe time for which yon deposited
$100 three months ago to-day as a forfeit under
your proposition to give Jioo to any charitable
institution in Nashville and $100 to any Business
College sooth of the Ohio River, if yoa could not
show more written applications for Bookkeepers
and Stenographer* daring the PAST FIVE
MONTHS than any other Business College south
of the Ohio River cooldtbow In the PAST FXVB
YEARS, has this day expired, and, no demand
having been made, the same is now held subject
turn, and thirty thoosank circulars, giving the
colleges three months* time to accent.—trash-
vOU Deity American, April 7, /Spy.
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