About Waycross headlight. (Waycross, Ga.) 1884-1??? | View Entire Issue (Feb. 3, 1886)
LANIER & YOUIIANS, Proprietors, Temperance,Truth and Justice. $1-50 Per Annum, in Advance- VOL 2. WAYCR0SS, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, FEBOARY 3. 1886. NO- 40 - . B. Stu, m i- “The department of agricul ITS j tnre lias received from Mr. L. C ■■ Mattox, of Komerville, Clinel ■Ei l county, a nuniucr of specimen which class him among the’mo>t ! here for some .time thi successful agriculturalists and j biggest wheat deals ev A Big Beal in Wheat. The Globe Democrat prints the following statement wfilch it says is ver. on undouhted authority : It lias been kuovrn|en ’Changt Chill and Fever Remedy Thor.* being such a great demand ; tpr-sweet"orange""fre-n T tree for K*vcr remedies m this country, ! vie]din 2 ,500. The sai. pl,* s I liavc bc?n making a special stiidv ; j , • . , * if not the biggest on in progess in the Nort worked from Chica course of the market, been watched closely the effects of the dea such as to confirm th< The scheme is beity He also I Armour, the Northwci the interested railroac horticulturalists in Georgia. One sample of the Sea Island cotton measures feet in height and yielded one bale to the jjere. A sample of syrup was sent gdft ' maae ^ rom cane which yielded | 450 gallons per acrel. It is pro- j nouneed by all who have seen ! arul tested it to he as fine as any > UllUIDI II > ever mdtff ^W^leorgia. sent a bn sweet orange; attached to the branch, which | tors and the grain bar was taken from a tree bearin'! | templates putting win point necessary v be, but it is cerfi .. . , . . r; yidumg i,ouu. me samples I * fthe dilcrcnt’rcmeZrLcd j'mve been inspected by a largej . malarial troubles ever since I have I mimber of persona and ,uT pro-! J ° 1 a been in the drug business. I de- 1 nouneed unusually tint.”— At- •d last Fall upon putting up j lanta Journal. The above article shows very plainly what can be done 1 in Clinch county, ard what is true of Clinch is true of Ware andali other counties in south Georgia. Stabbed by His Son• A Strange Story, , Saved by Printer 9 * ink• -Savannah, Ga., January 23. | Fourteen .years ago George I There is just as much truth as -^Joseph B. Sibley, a .well-1 Priest, then aged about thirty-J poetry in the following, which known cotton shipper, was dan- [ eight years, came to Coweta f we copy from an exchange: oMhe * S^ roU8 ty stabbed in the abdomen county and located near the j When trade grew* slack and ttempted wight by his son Percy,' Heard line with a women who i^iotos fell due, ihc merchat’s face aged 18. It appears that Sibley | came with him and claimed to grew long and blue; his dreams had occasion to reprimand his 1be his wife. They lived togeth-; were troubled though the uight ; 2,0(>0; another branch of the bit- millers, i eleva- It con- down to Ifatever it nly below ! 80 cents in Chicago, an<§from that onic preparation that would cure the majority of cases of Fever, Ague. Chills, etc., and that would take the place of a great number of Norther^ and Western Fever and Ague remedies, believing that one 'iving in this section is capable of [preparing something that is better th Jieeuliar class of fever ami [the d*>ilitating condition of the ystciri that prevails during the [.Summer months. I have hi A Xorel Case, The tadjourned term of the Superior Court began Monday, heeded fit a. Valdosta, COHS, BUNDS, Falinis, ,4 Oils', Brushes, P^re White Lead, jAnd Colors, Ci expectations— Last ' pa y s tho Augusta Chronicle, spring I began to manufaetnre! Judge jRuney presiding. T!ie JENNINGS’ FEVER TONIC. | „ , a* i - , ,. y , n*-st case taken up was that* ot jMnce which time I have put up! 1 and sold several thousand.bottles, j Clapp vs. Hatton, udministra- and IT HAS xevkr failed to ct KK tor of WarreP, and the teslmio- IX a S .xr", E instance. Meeting ; „ was hot c(md uded at the ad- with this unprecedented success I : . g "eel perfectly safe in placing a j journment of cuur r . Mr. Clapp IL'ARAXTEE upon EVERY hot- the plaintiff, has a farm ad- !e; so when it is taken according.*^,}, ,, in L tl)C Warren ,,] acc o the directions and it does not et-i . ., 1 feet a cure the money will be re- j fl bout n ve or sik miles from the 1 city. Near lii^l land is a large cents to 40 cents, wiith would bring it here mover $Tap lbr May ; and also an advancci*nt ot the value of pork and provisions, while that o? wiic.it is being depressed. The parties to the scheme rely upon the scarcity of wb$at In the winter area, and the fuejt that the count r y , s supply is in {fie North west. The farmers of tijat section have put their wheat iq country elevators and have beon'ljUlyanced money on it by parties ^interested in the present deal, thfi farmers being advised to hold their wheat, in view of the probabiiit^of higher [funded The regular practicing phyf inns of the country have exami d the formula of Jennings’ Few. [Tonic, and pronounce it efficient ! has filed his and harmle jited certificate! >) it: uuder tin . headwriglit la"’. Mr. Clapp nl- 1 place before the public only a • - »,, , few of tin* great number of unsolic- I le » 0S that uo c ' n ® 1 f evcr " sed egard j °r occupied otjpejdyocseasioii of the land; that it Ts^.irgin for est, and has never passed from the Stale. Mr. Clapp claims that, as feead of a family and the first applicant, lie is entitled to enter upon the tract and receive a grant from the State. The prices. The money already ad vanced will soon be exhausted, and bv that time the market will have been pushed down to the bottom, the banks wilDirefuse to advance any more ntan^y, the farmers will throw up tl^ir. hands and sell out, when tliq^ssociated , interests in the scheme will push tract of over one hundred acres i the market up. /Sr heavily timbered, to which he i /_ Albert Jennings, Druggist, Jasper, Fla. Certificates. «lnss, Putty, Varnishes,I NKWNAXSVILLE, Fln.J July 22, 1885. $ r. T. Albert Jennings, Jasper,, Warren estate resists the claim, Fin. : - [ asserting thr.t the land is cover- Dear .sin—I have used your i , Fever Tonic quite extensively with 1 by a bhorilis deed, and al- iv hands, and find that it will do 1 leging acts of ownership on their part. A number of old Plain aMDwatiie Wall Paper, K111T OB A SPECIALTY; *oti claim for it I take picas* imncnding it: - Yours truly, John F. Lamb, [Conductor Itoadway Train, S. F. & W. Railway. . deeds and surveys were intro duced* bv the plaintiff, extend ing over a period of 90 years, A specud from 1 ville, Ga., to the World says: Yester- duy Dr. A. D. lleviere, a well known physician of this place, secured from the ordinary ot* Lodansvilie a license to marry Miss Octavia Nash, of that place. As he was walking out of the ordinary’s office he was passed by Mr. John Jackson, w’ho se cured a license to nmrry the same lady. Dr. Reviere moun ted his horse and giving it the spur started out at full gallop for the lady’s home. Five miu- utes later Jackson . mounted and was in full pursuit of the doctor. The men rode furious ly, but the docto: having live minutes the start was married son at the table; a quarrel en sued, and young Sibley went in ta the y«*rd, seized a sticky ssault liis father. Sibley picked up an axe-handle to defend him self, and finally threw it at the infuriated boy. Percy left the house and endeavored to pro cure a pistol, but failed. He finally borrowed a knife, and again returned to the house, meeting Iris father as he came out. Sibley told him to go in and behave himself, when Percy cursed his father, who becoming exasperated made a slap at him, when the bov savagely attacked his father cutting him tfterrible blow in the stomach. After the stabbing the boy ran off and w*as arrested during the night at a house of ill fame. Sibley is badly hurt and itjs feared the injuries are fatal‘as it is thought that internal hemorrhages has commenced. Sibley is well thought of here end the unfor tunate affair is deeply regretted. The young would-be paricide is now* in jail. He has a reputa tion as being a bad boy and idler. lie is very large for his age. Mrs. Hood, mother of the fa mous confederate general, John B. Hood, died Tuesday at an ad age, at the residence of her son-in- law, Dr. Graves, near Lexington, Kv. linear Lore arc mill, near Jasper, George Welsh, ious fjthese facts to be g.n, colored freight train hand,jumped from the train while it was back ing, fell a d was run over before he could get up. lie had a leg ! r 'ken, foot crushed and received other injures. The passenger train on the Bruns wick and western railroad picked up a broken rail Monday night near the nineteen nlflc post, which caused the engine to turn over on her side. No serious damage re sulted.—Brunswick Herald. There was place in Florida where the late cold snap—not even frost-r-touched, and that was Winter Haven, Polk county. Not a leaf curled, and the young or- trees look as fresh as though F. R. A* N. Railway Shops,) Ellavii.i.e, Fia. j iMr. T. Elbert Jennings, Jasper, Fla.: Dear Sir—I can safely and cheerfully recommend Jcnuin and surveyors and neighboring | to the girl by the time his rival [there had never been a blizzard. residents were examined. This is khe first case of the character j remembered in this county. Some time ago a Florida land Fryer Tonic, a pleasant cure for [ company, located in New Yook reached the scene. It seems j Thc legislaturcs of Connecticut, that she was engaged to both , Kentucky, Maryland, and had named the same day , _ x- t ‘ >- and hour for each to appear Massachusetts New Jersey New her groom. It was not until York, Ohio, Rhode Island, New the license were issued that the ; gave a grand sub-tropieal ban- , quet at their New York office, in which Florida fruits and pro- two men found oat the state of affairs. true , Jasper, I Nash Weights, CORJDS, Hinges, iSorews, v Lime, j ^Piaster, \ ! Hair, Cement^ Etc., Etc. ) Write for prices. 1 [bilious fever, etc. Yours Truly, J. D. Johnston. Jasper, Fla., July 10. 1885. Mr T! Albert Jennin Fla: Dear Sir—I have used “Jen nings’ Fever Tonic,” and find it to 'be a success. One bottle cured* , , [three eases of. chill and fever on deavored to find some of the | ncss transaction wonderful products growing on i their native soil. He could not I man » , r n j . . : anv eeremonv commenced „trait* ro t i o, too- , fi,,d an ora “S e ’ or a strawberry ^ him wit h *awhipstaff. Others j JennIaNT.s, Fla., July 21,188o. I or a banana, or a tea plant, or Mr. T. All»crt Jennings, Jasper,! ... , / . . ,, , . - , jFla.-DEAE Sm: Jl.vvife had the ' an - vlh,n S b,,t stunte<l b,ack J aL ' k Ifever for 12 months, anJ I could bushes aud dwarf palmettos an calling himself F^tzger- duets were magnificently diplay- j aid, who'hac been about Elberton ed. A correspondent of a New | for the last two or three weeks ad- York paper visited the com pa-; vocating negro equality, offered an nv’s land the other dav and en-!* nsu ^ to a lady about some busi- Smy plneF.^ ;-reeom- K mend it. Yours Respectfully, Tnos J. Bryan. Friday the cn- ed husband of the lady met the i4jhe post-office, and without ;et nothing fo cure her until re cently, when she used a bottle of Jennings’ Fever Tonic,which cured [her immediately. I have used sev eral bottles of Fever Tonic on my arm, and am highly pleased with t—it never fails to cure. Respectfully. * - 8. S. Sn.vRP. joined in with cowhides and buggy whips and gave him .a thorough drubbing. After it was over he was furnished with an escort to This correspondent ha* already conduct him out of town under a exposed some half dozen bogus | promise never to return." cities, thousands of lots ia which j . g ^f^r^Wounty been sold to credulous j ^ u a Just r ce p ft h c Peace who White Sprixo, Fla J 83. [ --■XI- jna C 86 1 y July 24, 1885. Mr. T. Albert Jennings, Jasper, Fla.: Dear Sir—Last spring I had an 1 ..ick of fever. Hearing of your Fever Tonic, l-purehascd a bottle |nd usc<l only a third of it and .was cured. Tile remainder of the iliottlc I gave tvi a young lady who Jliad had thc fever for two years, nad'I have learned that it entirely cured her and she has not had the .fever suicc, I take.*great pleasure ' horceommending it to thostf snffer- ,—. *-'* fcyerH, etc. have Northern people by alleged de-! #cU #s j ury an d adminis velopers. Florida'produees ilow-'j trat0 r. Not long ago he tried a ers, fruits, and vegetables in : case 0 f divoroe between two col- Mexico, Mississippi and Wyoming twelve in all—are now in session. Last year at this time the number was thirty-three. ubundauce, but they are hot usu ally found on the lands of these developers.—Savannah News. A negrp in*LaJp* an ge is the own er of a house and lot in the city and 100 acres . of valuable land just outside the corporation. He also has a contract for carrying, the n>ail [two or three times a week to a small village a fow ipiles dis- - tant,jwliij:h pays him $00 a quar^ States sena ter.^ Thp l ?amc cqlored.man came ored people. He put the case to trial as a jud&e and decided that both parlies were entitled to a di vorce as a jury, and then proceed ed to administer on the effects of the parties, giving the woman, her share and the man his. It is pre sumed also that his little fee came along towards the last- Mrs, IJpndricks has received from thc officer* of the United massive, iron : nkstaml used i»v her husband iu to LtGrahgc when it wc;> in fhe his private r«'om at the capitol at ^ “ ' with hit then Washington. It is o han^pme and unique work-of ,art, and *ii at least $3,000. There is some ’ probability from present indicatios that there will be two railroads built into Flori da from points on the Savannah, Florida and * Western railway— one from Quitman to Monticcjllo and one from Thomasville to Tal lahassee. There is room far both of them. At Brookfield on the Brunswick and Western railroad, a few days ago, some scoundrel put a log chain across the track, but fortu nately the engineer discovered the mischief planned in. time to pre vent all damage. Evidently all the bad men in South Georgia are not dead vet.—Brunswick Her ald. Last week Judge Lumpkin, of Lawrenceville, issued three li censes for the same young lady to marry. One day a young man from Cates district dropped -in and got his license. The next day another called and wanted the necessary papers to marry the same- young lady. TDe Judge inform*d"him That he was too late, as he had al ready issued license Tor another party. “That makes no differ ence,” replied No. 2, “give me •the papers.” lie was aoemnmo- dntdd. • The next day No. 1 re turn rl and stated that he ..had lpsi ns first “set,” and lynnted He .got tliem *j*tf went er without suspicion during that; with sheriffs, bailiffs, all in sight, time, and seven children bbnj to j At last his wife George Young appeared in the neighborhood, and after tha* time Priest grew restless, began to maltreat the woman ho was living with, ami trouble see.nod to be brewing at his house. On December 29th, Priest and the woman disappeared, and on January 2nd he^etumo l with another woman, and walked from Newnan to his home, about ten miles, at night, through a cold rain. On liis return he told a stange story. He says that the> woman he had been living with Was not his wife; that her maiden name was Miss Kate Jonegan; that she had a sister who married a Mr. Daniel in north Georgia; that her father lives near Elijay, and and say these*things unto all men: ‘My goods I wish to sell to yon, and to vour wife and daughter, too; mv prices are so very low that each will buy be fore they go.’ He did as by his wife a<tvised, and in the papers adv->.*risiab Crowds came and bought, of all h“ had; his notes wnv-paHl. his dreams were glad, ami lie will tell you to this day h«»w well did printers ink repay, lie told us with a knowing wink how he had been saved by print er’s ink. ‘ -*■ There are many persons who do not stop to think that the space in the columns of a news paper or a journal is a commod ity, for sale the same as any other that“'when*'‘ he took hToir“he ! 1,rticlc of m< ' r< -' hai,dise ' a,ld tba ‘ carried her to Atlanta, bought her a ticket, and started her on the train to Dalton. The woman now with him was a Miss Young, whom he claims to have married iu Ka.l county previous to his coming to Coweta fourteen years since. When he came here he brought with him n little boy, who all thought was his son by the woman who came with him. I The boy now says that neither of the women are his mother, but that lie is a son of the sister of the woman whom Priest now claims to be his wife. anx guicra|ly known, that it may be ascertained what truth there is in his story, and what has become of the moth er of his children whom he claims to have sent to Dalton- Foraffiny Baring the War, In the winter of 1861, thc Colquitt brigade was encamped near Wilmington, N. C. .Ra tions being scarce the boys would occasionally go out forag ing, and would bring into camps and sell anything they could bug to those vho remained iu camp. Upon a certain night complaint having been made to the General commanding, a guard was placed upon the pun- lie roads leading to the camps, and all who "ere found with anything were placed iu the “bull pen.” The writer, with his cammand, was placed on duty in camp, to guard those “pulled in,” and by morning had quite a squad in the pen.— At sunrise they were marched to the General’s headquarter’s/! cov each man carrying his load of, A I of potatoes. Arriving tlieie the . command was halted and tli the publisher, like the merchant, makes his living by selling at a profit either to the subscriber to the paper in the shape of reading matter, or to the adver tiser, who buys so much space for his individual use. It would be regarded as the very quaint- cs set ice of what is commonly called “cheek” for a man to go into a store and ask the proprie tor to give him a hag of flour or any other article without paj f , yet this same thing is done witty impunity to the -publisher of a newspaper—Exchange. V ldostaTTtA., Jan. *2®*—'Infor mation has just reached hero of an incendiarism, which is unequaled in the history of this section. Several nights ago the bridge across Little river, at the Rocks, 25 miles ’north west of this place, on the line between Lowndes and Brooks counties, was burned. The same night William Ryals’ gin house, a country school house, and the miller’s dwelli g at BourqcinV mill, wore burned, and tlu incendiaries had poured kerosene on Dr. Bourquin’s mill, and wi re in the act of applying the torch when he discovered and ran them away. These fires all in-cured iu sight of each other, and iFulminated that * corner of B; .i dc.: and Lo *n :os « unities. No a. rests nave been nude General came out on the porch, aud surveying the men. address ed them in no flattering terms, after which the potatoes were emptted out into-a pile, then for each man to fill Ips haver sack, which was done in tine style, while the poor fellows who Fro pert y is not very cheap in New York city. There was sold on Broadway lftst week some lots lor $101 a square foot. 7 * This hi a little too high l\»r i>ro fit able iV.-u'.ing purposes, but land has been sold at a ->tiil higher figure. As there are ! 4-1 square inches in a square foot, the $101 would hardly cover the'lots with gold dollars. A buyer of land in .London once 1 to pay a price that would over it with golden -sovereigns, at the offer was refused. The seller said he would agree if ttyo* buyer woutytaover it with sover eigns set up edgewise. -..Whether or not this was done .wo^do.not know, as our man came away, be fore the dickering was finished.' The Nasheville Union boasts as follows: “Build a wall around Tennessee and there would be no had carried them for many need to go outside of it fohany of miles looked on with a wishful the necessaries and but few}sxf : .the hopeless* gaze that none but they could express. They were then allowed to go to camp, and luxuries of life. .. Aside_froin_Tho scmitropical fruits of Florida and Louisiana, there is not a natufal A ... . .. r . production contained in thc cen- all returned to enjoy tue feast 1 , , ■■ .. j-•• j J J sus of 1880 cannot be produced of roast and baked | , he limit? ol thU §£ate." while the pool fellows could on- Georgia*can do u little better than Jim m . ]v look o» still If! People continue to eat raw pork, at the risk of an attack of the terrihlo triehiniasis. No one has ever been known to have an attack of that Ueadly^inaladjr from eating pork that had been thoroughly cooked. that. - With a little extra attention and protection in winter, it can raise every product incntiohctl “in the census, and some—tea, for :—| —* mentioned. — •' - jpstanco—not The annual meeting of' the Department of Tennessee _and Georgia, Grand . Army of tho Republic, will beheld iii Atldn- ' ta oh Friday, Feb: 26. - ...... .. Tinier.. <fe'Ytihn»ans"irilV ^jl .Ameripns to procure material yon gbod hole jutper ' “ for it. -■.•" - [quire.- f .BlacksViear wants a brass band and ■ has , sent -a . professor to ■ :
