Waycross headlight. (Waycross, Ga.) 1884-1???, February 03, 1886, Image 1
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
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