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HHSl r» WAYCROSS HEADLIGHT. WEDNESDAY, JAN. 2p, 1&86 Ent«M BlihePml Office at Waycro*i t« second clou* mail matter The Largest T«wa Circulation, The f.orgrst Comity Circulation. The Lanrewt General Circulation TLe HKAM.YGHT vUtt* more Hon •n«l la Head by more People than any other I*n|ter |>ubll«he<l In thla Seel ion. North ami West in Official Or^an of Charlton. Official Organ of Ware. In the'Madway frond* The Central Railroad authori ties are making preparetibno for tfcc change of gauge which, will take place next July. The pres ent width of track on the majority «.f Southern railroads is 5 feet. This is less than the width in use on English railroads, but more than in use on railroads in the the United .>Aiii:s t >r. S ri:i:V;?:.\N. EditOTS. Jesup wants an iron and brass foundry/; all right, the Sentinel can furnish brass for the busi ness. Albany is getting ready for prohibition. Twenty-eight sa-. loons in the town dispense the the^tandurd ardent. James A. Beall, of Albany, | committed suicide by shooting blmseif with a pistol, last week. No cause assigned. The leccnt cold spell has played the mischief with gera niums and hot house generally throughout this section. Wo have just received a lot of new watches, which we arc offering low down. Come and sec us. Lanier You mans. States. The standard gauge in the North and West is 4 feet SA inches. The Central wilt adopt a gauge of 4 feet 9 inches. While this is half an inch wider than the standard gauge in the North and West, it will not interfere with the running of cars from Northern and Western roads. Thus it will he seen that the gauge adopted by the Centra! with he substantially Burglary anti Mape Homerville. Ga, January 16. —Rev. G. W. N- wburn, school commissioner, -has lost eighty odd dollars, and Mrs. W. C. Newbern fifty. It was stolen from the house of the latter. Joe Smith, colored, has been committed to jail for the offense of rape, committed on Bettie Grandison, colored. Death of Miss Bayard. Washington. Jan. 1G—Miss Kate Bayard, eldest daughter of the Secretary of State, died suddenly about three o’clock this afternoon. The reception at the White House was sus pended upon the leceipt of the news of her death. Miss Bay ard died at her home just as she was starting to attend Miss Cleveland's reception. The obstacles to he me t in pre paring for a change from 5 feet to 4 feet 9 inches are numerous, but they arc not as serious as at first glance they would seem to be. The change in the track will be made by a force of men scattered from one end of a given line to the other. For instance, when the change is made between Savannah and Macon, a sufficient force will be engaged to cover every foot of the space between ti e two cities, and not more than a single day will be required to take up the A tramp near Annapolis, Md., j rails und relo - v ,lltm tl,rec incl,cs .luring the recent severe c< 1J | ncaror together. No cli.n^ofim snap, hung himself to escape* be ing frozen to death. Oranges Slightly Injured. Jacksonville, January jo.— General rains prevailed through out many portions of the state yesterday and to-day, nnd the la test reports from east and south Florida indicate that the damage was not so great as at first feared. In some portions of south Florida even the fruit on trees was not spoiled and it is no longer apprehended that any trees, save very small ones, were* killed. The weather here to day was agreeable and winter sunshine has resumed its benign swav. From Jesup. Jest:?, 6a., Jan I‘2th, 1885. True to the Signal Service predictions the cold wave struck us. Mr. nnd Mrs. M. W. McRae are visiting relatives at McRae, Ga. Dr. W. B. Burroughs, of Brunswick, spent last Saturday in Jesup. Mr. H. \V. II. Grady has just set out a thousand LeConte Pear trees on Ins place. Miss Sackie Wright, a charm ing young lady, of Dublin, is ill in Jesup, visiting her sister Mrs. R. E. Walker. Mrs. J. ,R. Richards 'ii nnd her three • children, who Itfi Jesup on New Year’s day are still in Sumter, S. C. Mrs. J. Ware, a talented art ist of our (own, has just finish ed a handsome crayon painting —a mar'llt view entitled “Three fishers sailing out into the west.” It is now On exhibition at her studio. 1886.-1! 3 % * From the Apache Country porlanee will he necessary in tree- Homerville, Ga, January tics and bridges. 13.—Charles A. Fisk stopped over . . . To change the cars, a simple here cn route to Florida, lie A petition to the Semite and alteration of the gauge of the claims to have been a recent suf- JTousc of Representatives asking j trucks is all that will he necessary. that the further coinage of the silver dollar be stopped, lias been signed by nearly every business man in Savannah. The United States census of 18S0 shows that there Were over 7,000,000 bushels of grain rais ed in the counties tributary to the Western and Atlantic rail- l'his will he accomplished by moving the wheels three inches nearer each other. Perhaps the most difficult change to make will be in the lo comotives. Even this, however, will not cause half the trouble and expense that might he supposed. The front wheels will be changed the same way that those of the road, besides over 50,000 bales L ars will he. To change tiie of cotton. A prosperous farmer at Marion, O., has eloped with his hired girl. The local paper accounts for it bv paying that he. had always “manifested a deep interest in re ligions revivals, but of Kite had become a speculator in Bohe- inain oats.” The city of Americus owns a bridge on the raging Flint.— Montezuma owns a steamboat. Boat can’t pass bridge. Atneri- gaugc of the driving wheels, the following device will he resorted to: The stool tires will be moved hack an inch and a half each, thus making a contraction of three inches in the gauge. Formerly, it was the plan of manufactures oi locomotives to make driving wheels without a movable tire. Now, however, it is very rare that they are made in that way. Nearly all the engines owned by the Cen- ens wont move, bridge. Big j trui have the movable tire, and lawsuit will follow. Road lnwj vv uh ;l few exceptions, they can on obstructing navigable stream, easily he changed to the new gnu Albany Medium. A man who went hunting in the wild mountainous region near Slnrtton, Vt., recently, wag found dead after three days, with his gun lodged in the cre vice of the ro?k<, where appar ently it had discharged both bar rels into his ho lv. She snow was I tramped ad about, the corpse by j the efforts of his dog to arouse and comfort his niEster. The case in Massillon, O., in which a colored harbor is th<^ defendant and is arraigned for refusing to cut the hair of a col ored customer, presents some curious ns poets. It seems that the harbor declined to serve his colored friends because he thought their patronage would drive away his white customers. The plaintiff insists that under the law he has no right to dis criminate in the matter of color.—Darien Gazette. Tho Municipal Boaidof Phil adelphia is supposed to he work- jug under civil service, rwi- UyfejA - «*? Asnal is known as cJfjy^r'smith announced to the heads of the several departments that ho had decided to ignore the provisions of the hill, and make npimintmcnts in his own way liud to suit himself. Tho heads of the several departments pounce that they will follow the mayor. —.Savannah No fercr in Arizona at the hands of the hostile Apaches, who murder* ed his cow boys and captured his. stock, leaving him to escape with his life. He says he had a through ticket to Florida that he carried in his pocketbook with a small amount of money, which he missed soon after passing Atlanta, and was put off at Jackson, where ho was helped on his way by the Masons, lie belonging to that or der, He stopped at Eastman, Jesup and Waycross, receiving help at each place from the fraternity, and was sent by them from this point to Jasper, Fla., where he expected to be helped on to Gainesville and from there to Ocala, near where he has a sister living with whom he wiP remain until such time as he can, with safety, return to Arizona. Foot Fads In Clinch. Times are getting bad indeed. A man can scarcely travel at night in this* country ns well as around Valdosta without being attacked on the way by some scoundrel. Some days ago Jack Allen, a son of Judge J. U. Allen, living near the Alapaha River, between Nay. lor and Stockton, was g’ ing from his home to his brother-in-law’s who Jived about a mile distant. As the night was pleasant lie thoughtJic would walk‘over alone. On getting to the corner of the fence near a branch some one stepped into the road from out the bushes and struck at Mr. Al len with a large club, knocking his hat off his head, but before lie could make the second strike, Jack tied, getting home sale. He felt quite thankful to his Maker, ••ometime later Mr. I. J. Efd- s inie cotton for potncoLhis wnrana on returning home some one followed him,from the river swamp nc: r l.is house before they stop; ed ;.nd that nigfit they were seen standing near hia yard gate. Mr. Kdniunson was soon informed of it and on going out with some members of his family they saw them stoop down and walk off as _ l fast as possible. It wi.s suppos- Hie Baxley Banner celebrates .ed that it was some one that had the end of its first volume hv seen him with the moi coming out on colored paper. Tlie Banner isinu flourishing condition, wo ore pleased to learn, nn<! while it has a ri^ht to lie thankful it also has a riaht Fight in Mid-Air. A gentleman says he witness ed u strange fight between a eat and a hawk Monday that inter ested him. The eat had found a warm nook on the sunny side of the barn and gone to sleep. A hawk came circling around in the air—a large red-tail, with fiery eyes that gleamed in the sun like diamonds. It saw the eat and pounced down on her. Its cruel talons had taken a good hold before tabby know what was up, and the bird bad risen ten feet in the air, then there was a yowl from the cat and the leathers began to fly. The bird d cat had it. over and over but still going higher and high er. When about fifty yards high the hawk dropped the eat, hut immediately darted after, but tabby get the upper hold and the hawk flew around with one talon in the under hind quarter of the eat while its head and front claws were cn the hack of its foe. The fur and feathers flew thick and fast, for a while and at lastLJmlti—Sd Wllere thev expl The .ntmiUsf were torn \V. R. Vanderbilt and party stopped in Jesup last weeK on their way to Brunswick, On their return, the special, near the Macon tank, ran into a pole ear, and the entire train was nisiderablv shaken up. We would be pleased to satis fy the curiosity of the popular Sarah A. Higgins concerning the name of “Kappa,” but wo fear to have any passages with that Argus-eyed individual, who is so merciless to her avowed admirers. Wo do not wish to participate in the “blud on the mune” contingency, neither could we “coon ther foot-log” in retreat. On Saturday morning last the citizens of Jesup were star tled by the cry of fire, and it was soon ascertained that the Altamaha hotel was burning.— The flame, not .being under good headway were soon extin guished, and no damage was done. The fire originated from an overheated chimney, tho un usual cold weather causing larger amount of coal to be used than customary. Kappa. Buclclrn'* Arnica Salve. The best Salve in the world . jr r ’uts, Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fever Sores. Tetter, Chap ped Hands, Chilblains Corns, and all Skin Eruptions, and positive ly cures Piles, or no pay required. It is guaranteed to give perfect sat isfaction, or money refunded. Price 25 cents per box. For sale at Folks & Morgan. Kewapapor vrhere adve contract* may may t>« tornado* Ills at Geo. P. Roweis. A Co** THIS PAPERHH Volk. during the day and tried to overtake him. or someone knew he was go ing to town that day to sell cot- ■ton, and did not know the exact route he might come ami to be sure of him they would go to his home early in the night and catch him to print on colored paper, lint’out, knock him down, and take the idea is not original' with I monev. Everything worked friend Ward. The II k mio.it! S£Jj, A 1 /- k'’or. f .. ? “!o ms neighbors cotton for 18 the oulv paper m u*is section {a good price, returned home safe that dies colored paper to get, up j nn d turned the money over to extra editions, still, we .lo on* j them.—VaMoota TSwe*. object <<1 our brother's following; _ T ~ / *. * , , I~ nnfrjftniiA. .lore ho he, none* of the Dawson Follow oi:r Icadj Jo,Trn,lI » "Nudes to \\ nyorow as ~ nako r a* a “village.” Men of small i^vc her have small opinions Waycross, Ga., S?p 2oth, 85. T. Albert Jennings, Jasper, Fla.: Dear Sir: For the last two years I have been troubled with chill and fever, and I bought one bottle of Jennings’ Fever Tonic, and was cured entirely of chills and fever, before the bottle was half used. I take great pleasure incommending it to those troubled withchills a^d fever. Yours, E. P. SHOU8E. WILLIA MS BR KiLDpsht, GEORG El, Calls especial attention to their'pew :and beautiful k Nine Shu, ESTBY ORGAN, which they are offering to deliver, fr^»* of freight at any railromi depot on rcceii t Of Ten Dollars Cash, and blXTttfl MONTHLY PAYM.NTSr-k UVE DOLLARS each, including UI ® and stool. We also otter the New Estey Piano, >»• installments of *50 CASH, and from 810 to 15 per month. IF Repairing and Tuning Organs and Pianos ma le a siieeiatv an l wotk guaranteed »r no charg\ Oar t.*rns a ask is a fair and impartial trial, and we will \i Write ns for special prices of our different pianos. aept9 6m e s an 1 all mean business of organs and H. L B Valdosta, Georgia. i Dealer in Hardware, Stoves, Stove < Fixtures, Mechanical- Tools and Farmers’ Utensils, Uorn-shellers, Wheel-barrows, Fane Mills and Syrup Fans. -All kinds ,of PLOWS-' always fa Halid. Breech-loading Shot-guns and Rifles, Ammunition, W<5., igk. large and well aeleety>4 stouHP^ Manufacturers of all kinds ot Tinware. • ' Iron, Steel, Steam f ixtures; and ^ - mill supplies, Belling, eie. . % 3 ° u , r Stock/ is the largest infi Ey ^ Southwest Georgia, and wej defy competition., Buyers can always have their Orders filled. Send to njie for what yon wat scptO-fiin-a b oj To Printers. We are offering THE M1LLEN BEACON for sale at a bargain—in deed aucli a bargain has seldom been put upon the market. Millen is a live railroad town ot between 800 and 1.000 inhabitants, located at the junction of the Savannah & Augusta R. R with tin* main hue »f the Central. It has unlimited pros perity, an«l is surrounded by a large nnd pepn'ous territory of fertile * ‘ n, altogether, it is one ■Ifl-fixj p eni? out; while the hawk had its listed two months, does not owe a head crushed by a bite from the ,lollar an< ' has P ,id r ‘ on ‘ ,hc illitial eat. The hawk measured four I " u , ul! f-* u,, i8 ,,fft ' rcu f “ r , 8aI ' ! feetandninei.iel.es from tip of on,y ‘ l ? e P™' net, ‘ r ‘ ,,ave . .. - . 1 j more business than thev can prop wing to tip of wing. ir l V isanage. A.Mrrcss [Americus Republican. * SULLIVAN BROS., W avneslioro* Gf SCHOOL NOTICE. Miss Maie Stead will open a school for primary and intermediate •ranches on the 1st Monday January, 18S6, at her father’s res idence, oppssite tho Presiding El der’s home. Terms, primary, $1 p. r month; intermediate $1.50. to Debtor* and Creditor*. Iversons having demands All against the tstate of Elias D. Wal dron, late ot Ware county, deceas ed, aic herebv notified to render in their demands to the undersigned, according to law; and all | ei sons indebted to c aid estate are required to make immediate payment. This Jauuary 6th. CORA L. WALDRON, Administratrix estate Elias D. Wal dron, deceased. {a 13 pra fee 3 75, Notue is hereby given that nfer thirty days from the date of this notice all legal advertisements emi- nnling from the Ordinary** office of Cli.idi county will be published in} C. (.VUlliNE (areiaetf DEALER f.Y Meiroliandll tolflosla.Getfiia. One of the large/** 8 locks in my line; lias recently *«ie WrCRUSetf. - " Millinery and FanjcyDress Goot_ and Custom-mdde Shoes Sue* cialtids. 1 1 1 Orders from tjie country solicited. 3 buy from me in prof* roucc to son goods which 1 sell at reasonale figure: of Millinery &j' Dress Goods .n rj 'ZTL I have one o? the finest slocJ in Southwest OOorgia. from whifii pa. infers can select frno.1. f-: * tnsl and l will be satisfied. »epi»»i2m a s o £ FOLKS Si MORGAW,, I .Parker’s Brick '• * ;, £. Waycross, GilJJ cHlg°ci^™ r K ful1 6, ™ k V f Sundries, Sol “ ’ c *5*rs, Tobacco, bin :. JU.lwt.ery, l» alent Medicines.*! A Frill Line of Fresh Gard^ Seeds alw ays on hand. and Soda water vita '*> seasoji. -i / / n , a y I i - ■ I