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AY, FJEJJ. 3.' 1«86
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Tlie Largest T*wn Clirafatisa.
Tbe Liifnt Coouty Drritatioi.
The Largest General Circulation.
Tkfl Hr.ADLIOlIT Malta more Homes
M4 Is Mead hjr more P«*ople Ihu 'aajr
•tiler Paper pnbllilicd la this Srctjoi
Official Organ of Charlton;
Official Organ of Ware.
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• M. PltKRMAK.
Editors.
NOTICE.
Our terms on and after this
date will be* GAS IT or no paper.
We cannot afford to $end it out
at the very low price we have
put it, without* the cash in ad
vance. .Xo dollar no paper.
Burglary at Folkston
During the night of the 25th
instant the store of Cavedo and
• Mr Joseph B. Sibley, the Sav-1
annah cotton shipi>er who was i
stabbed by his son recently, has
been pronounced out of danger.
The State Lunatic Asylum was
j#aid its November allowance of
$14,582.30 Monday, for the sup
port of the institution for that
month.
PUBLISH intv NOTICE.
Wo will hereafter take sub
scriptions to the Way cross
Headlight, at the following
low prices for CASH only:
One year, - - 11.00
Six months, - - 50 cts.
Three months, - 25 cts.
Our increased circulation en
ables us to reduce the price of
the paper, and we hope by the
reduction to double our sub
scription list in the next few
months.
The Atlanta University was paid
by the State $8,000 Monday, the
, annual appropriation by Georgia
Brown was robbed. The express j f or t j lc maintenance of that insti-
and post offices are kept in this; tution
building, and undobtedly mon
ey was the motive for the rob
bery, but fortunately only a few
dollars were left in the drawers
that night. There were no
stamps or money packages left
in the offices, so the burglar
left, being only a few dollars
the better off. Nothing in the
building was disturbed except
ibe money drawers. Access to
the store was gained by cutting
out a panel of the back door.
The Waver steam fire engine, of
Savannah, weighs six thousand
pounds, anti yet its pair of hand
some gray horse* pull it through
the sandy streets with all ease.
A peculiar fact about the names
of creeks in Coffee county is, that
they arc all numbered—tne Seven- 1
niile, the Nine-mile, the Seventeen-
mile, etc.
A negro has been elected
mayor of the town of LaFayette,
in Walker countv.
In Wilkes county, a few days
ago, Jim Blakely undertook to
bring a cow down a hill with a
piece of roj»e around her neck.
J o check her speod Jim r«n around
a tree and lost two fingers.
The Georgia Press Associu
lion will meet in Macon this
year on or about the 5th of May
The County chain-gang of
Decatur county, has been trans-
fered to Lowndes. Wo thought
Lowndes had enough criminals
of her own.
Reador do you owe for the
Headligat. If so we want you
to pay us; it takes money to run
a newspaper just the same es
anv other business.
It has been decided by the
United States Supremo Court
that taxes levied on drummers
either by Slate or city authori
ties is unconstitutional.
South Georgia Conference
of the A. M. E. Church
This distinguished body of
colored preachers assembled in
this place on Monday of last
week and adjourned on Monday
evening last. The Conference
was presided over by Bishop
Shorter, of Cincinnati, and we
are informed that perfect harmo
ny prevailed throughout the
session, Dr. Embry, an rible
colored preacher from Philadel
phia, delivered twb. excellent
discourses at the court house on
Sunday last. A good crowd of
our white citizens turned out to
hear him. Dr. Embry is a man
of culture and his discourses are
characterized as being among
the ablest ever delivered from
the pulpit in this place.
The large body of preachers
composing the Conference were
hospitably and pleasantly enter
tained by the colored people of
our town.—Hawkinsville News.
The Florida News says: Col
Smith, (Bill Arp) is at Sandford
caring for a sick son. The fa
ther has our sympathy*, and wc
hope his son may soon recover.
Boguo Self was-convicted of
murder in the first degree, at
Live Oak, last week, with a re
commendation to the mercy of
the Court. His counsel moved
for a new trial.
The Sumner Freetrader
comes to us this week much im
proved. Friend Allen will
make his paper more interest
ing to his readers if he will edit
himself instead of having it
dono by long-winded corres
pondents.
i On DuBoso Hill’s plantations,
in'Wilkes Cuuniv, Friday, a negro
named Harrisou,- while projiekin’
with a pistol lie didn’t know was
loaded, shot a negro women, the
ball entering her check just under
the left eye.
A Tramp struck Americus, Tues
day, and casually remarked that he
h;«d no, worked any in a year. He
was promptly taken before Jud<
Pilsbury and senteueed to twei
months on the chain-gang for v
grancy.
A little negro girl, about twel
ars old, was burned to death on
Luther Boynton’s place, near Sun
ny Side* Friday. She was play-
in a straw field that was beiu:
burned off, and caught on fir
from burning straw.
Bill Arp says no man should
have more than one million dol
lars. Thats one place where we
beg to disagree; a man should
have a billion if he comes by it
honestly, provided he does not
use it to oppress those less for
tunate, which is too often the
case. “Man's ‘inhumanity to
man has made countless mill
ions mourn.”
liobbed at Thomasville.
A short time ago Edgar Lee
of Spring Vale, started for Flor
ida, taking the train at Lyle’s
Crossing. On the train he met
with a man who told him he
lived in Florida, and being e
m imitative and very sociable,
Edgar put himself under his
protection and guardianship, as
it were.
Edgar lmd never traveled, and
his want of experience made
him an easy victim for his
friend. Having to stop over at
Thomasville, his friend sugges
ted that it was unwise to keep
money about one’s person at a
hotel, and, as he was going to
the bank to deposit wlvat money
he had until morning, he would
take Edgar’s also and deposit it
for him. Edgar innocently han
ded him eightv-five dollars (all
the money he had), and also
lent ..him his watch, a good sil
ver one. Ilis friend disappear
ed, and has not yet been heard
from. This occured several davs
. Edgar went into the coun
try and sought work which he
found, but when his condition
was known some parties furnish
ed him money to pay his way
back home.—Cuthbert Liberal.
Mr. J. P. A DuPont, of Du
Pont, went to Macon last week
to confer with the authorities
of Macon »fe Covington'railroad
relative to extending their road
to the Florida line. There are
now strong reasons to believe
that it will be extended, and
will probably follow the line
surveyed several years ago for
tbe proposed Macon and Flori
da line. Should the road be
built it will open up some of
the finest timber, turpentine
and cotton land in Georgia.
Mr. T. B. Green, of Washing
ton, sold recently to Mr. Massen-
galc, of Boston, 2.V acres of land
on the* Augusta Canal, at about
$1,800 per acre Mr. Green owns
iiluabfe land, in both Augusta
and Atlanta, and is one of the lar
gest land holders in Wilkes.
John Waited has closed a con
tract *br a monument to be erected
over the graves of General and
Mi s. Robert Toombs at Washing
ton. The monument will be
draped shaft of Italian marble and
will be twenty-five leet high,
will Ue made in Italy and will be
here next fall.
A young man from Thomson, say
the Washington Chronicle, who
has been in Texas for several years,
made it lively for the passengers
on'fhc down passenger train last
Wednesday, and it required the
conductor and all the lie’p he
could get to put him off. lie
knocked down the r.cwsbo^,
threatened the conductor, struck
the brakeman and tried to cut the
baggage master with a long knife.
Last Sunday, while some men
were digging a grave in the ceme
tery at Knoxville, in Crawford
county, they found, about three
feet below the' surface, a handful
of teeth. Supposing that they had
broken into a grave, they searched
further, but found nothing more
than a yard of blue ribbon i
state of perfect preservation.
How the teeth and ribbon came
there, and why the ribbon should
have been so well preserved, is
question that is being asked ov
and over again in Knoxville.
Jfirom Waresboro.
Waycboss Headeigbt—X am
a stranger in your cpnuty, hav
ing been here only a week. I
am very favorably impressed
with the country and the people
appear to be kind, moral and
prosperous.
This town, Waresboro, is a
thriving place. I find that
about one year and a half ago it
was considerably in the back
ground, but now it'is booming
and will soou rtVal vour town if
its prosperity continues. Wares-!
boro, has an excellent
and nourishing High school
taught by that excellent gentle
man and able teacher, Prof. F.
C. Berry.
There is hardly any one thing
that tends more to build up a
place than a gojd school, and
no doubt this is the secret of
Wareshoro’s success.
I was in Waycross a day or
two ago, and during a conversa
tion with one of your leading
m?n I was pained to learn that
such a lovely place did not have
a good school.
Why is it that we, as a South
ern people cannot unite on ed
ucational questions? Many a
lovely town in this beautiful
southland of ours have their
brightest hopes blasted and
dashed to fragments on this very
rock—the rock of division. One
man wants a three thousand
dollar house built, another
wants a five hundred dollar
house; Mr. A., wants the build
ing in a certain place, and Mr.
B. in another, so here they have
it. One will not yield to the
other, neither meet half way.
The consequence is a divis
ion, and necessarily, weakness.
A „roau with money hesitates
about locating in such places.
M AGISTER.
Waresboro, Jan 23d, 1886.
Over the South.
J. R. Crome, of Pulaski, has
been elected most illustrious grand
master of Masons for Tennessee.
The planters nearly all over
Alabama' sowed the so^ds for
large crop of oats last week.
The headless trunk and limds of
a man recently found in Nashville
have been identified as these of
Frank Arnncd, a mulatto.
T. T. Tyree, an old, wealthy
and popular citizen of Mobile, died
in that city on last Saturday,
leaves a wife but no children.
BiU Arp <w Silver,.
They say that the silver i dollar
is the poor man’s friend and it
does not matter whether it is pure
or plated so long as it buys as
much as a gold dollar or a paper
one. Judge Underwood say's he
does not care ifit is made of nick-
le plate so long as the government
receives it for a dollar. That the
credit of the government is all that
makes paper money good or any
other money. it is tne stamp of
Uncle 8am upon a gold coin tout
makes it good. So let the silver
dollar roll on and jingle in our
pockets. The banks have got ail
the gold and if we put silver down
gold goes up, of course, and people
wiio are in debt will have to make
a sacrifice tjo get it. it wi 1 make
the rich richer and the poor poorer.
Well, that seems to he tne way
things are going, the millionaires
agaiqst the masses. What we want
in congress now is some grand men
who will stand up lor ihe common
people, the toilers in the workshops
and on the farms. Ed. Richard
son is dead—died worth ten mil
lions, and made it all out o.i cotton
down in Mississippi. iV ell, tit
least nine millions of it came from
the sweat and toil of the laborer
who made the cotton and who was
justly entitled to that money.
The woaking bees imdu^hc honey
and the drones cat fly but by and
by the workersin their an
ger and slay th^’agabonds. This
thing has got to stop somewhere
and sometime. These monopolies
; and rings ore binding us hand and
foot. What does the average rich
man know about the sufferings of
the pfer? What does he care?—
The Atlanta (nabobs think they
did splendid in giving live or ten
dollars to help their poor tide over
the late cold wave, but after the
watfo* has passed? One gentleman
wrote a note saying he was glad of
the opportunity to give five dollars.
Well, he can be glad every day if
he wants to.
The opportunities are more fre
quent than the importunities, for
there are hundreds of proqd spirits
who will not beg. How 'vain the
cold world seems to them,
far away is the church and hu
manity and charity. When Secre
tary Bayard’s daughter died the
doors of the Presidential mansion
were closed and the brilliant lights
turned down and the music ceased
and this was right and kind, and
considerate, but a poor woman in
Atlanta burns he| chairs and bed
steads to keep the vital spark alive
and nothing stops. The rich ride
round. The lamps bum brightly*.
The music and the dance go on.^-
Thc theatre has matinees. The
church its pravcr-nieetings but the
poor woman burns another chair
all the same. These spasmodic
VALDOsV.l ADVERTISEMENTS.
Williams bros.,
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YALDQSTA,. GEORGIA,
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Calls‘especial attention to their new
and beautiful
Nine Slop. ESTBT ORGAN,
which they are offering In tlolivcr, frea of
freight at any railroad de; ot onyeccij t
Of Ten Dollars Cash,
siXTtw MONTHLY PAYNliNTS <>(
FIVE DiiLLUv-. each, im-iu.liiijj bonk
aud stool. We also otter tlie
New Estey Piano,
of *31) CASH, am! fin
lontll.
R epairin:
ik guar mice l
pia;
g and Pun ng Organs aud Pian>» mv\o a »i»ceiaty and
irnt>e’nrg. Oir term are reasonable, ail all wo
npartial trial, and we will prove that we mean business
peoial prices of our different styles of organs and
sept!) Cm c s o g
H. L.
BOONE,
Valdostu, G corgi a.
Dealer in Hardware, Stoves,Stove
Fixtures, i^Iechanical Tools and
Farmers’ Utensils, Uorn-shellcrs,
Wlieel-barro
Syrup Fans.
(vs,
C a lie Mills and
■All kinds of PLOWS-
always on Hand.
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Tho editor of .the Smithville
Enterprise is angry because a
young lady did uot get down oil
her knees and thank him uutil
she sea* snaggle-toothed for aim.
ply tieing her horse U> a post af-
• ; ter uncoupling it from, the bug-
. gy. He advises young men to
l let tlio ladies unfasten and fast
en their own .horses in future,
* still Jio admits that the lady said
r'thaDk you.” Poor foliow^e
3}ope the ladies will carry a dime
Kdti l fbffilrpockeUfoA orse-h iteh-
ers in future. You are crazy,
bud; we’ve seen tbe time that
•*e*d unhitched the bone aud
pulled the buggy am! its fair oc
cupant iwo miles just to get one.
'‘glance from her eye,**) .
Our old friend. W. A. Allen, of
the Sumner Free Trader, stopped
over a few hours with us last Sun
day*.
Cols. J. L. Sweat, of Homervillc
and S. W. Hitch, of Blackshear,
were in town on professional bus
iness last Monday.
Sheriff Miller, and our Senior
has gone to Savannah on a fly
ing visit. ’Bout as we expected;
we thought he’d rear around un
til the Sheriff got him.
The fire fiend still keeps up his
work in Hamilton and surround
ing counties, A church and
school house were burnfill near
Belleville, Hamilton county, last
Monday. Somebody down there
ought to form themselves into a
hanging committee.
• Be sure to read W. M. Wil
son’s advertisement on miother-
page, and . learn how to save
money. He has recently pur
chased the storehouse he occu
pies, filled it with goods and ex
pects to lead the van in the way
of cheapness. -
Dr. W. B. Folks passed au un-
us'mlly restless day last Sunday.
Breathing was more difficult,
and lie said (here was no change
in his case except for the worst.
The yinUitude will halt when
they hear this, and'raise a word
to Heaven for the consolation of
this beloved gian, os-lie is slow,
lypnsslng' away.
.. ..anie.
Eighty wild ducks were picked | charities arc poor com t o;
x * suffering poor an-relieved ior a
day or a week, biit what next ?
Depend upon it, the course ot
this nation is avarice, and it
I have no
up during one night recently, at
the base of the light-house on
Anastasia Island, on the Florida
coast.
The Norfolk and Western Rail
road Company will soon com
mence the erection of a large and
handsome passenger depot at Pe
te rsburg-
The house of Rev. M. P.. White
in Brunswick county, N. C., was
burned Recently*, and two mem
bers of his family perished in the
flames.
Monday last Mr. Frank Willett,
of Glouccstor county, Va., attempt
ed to walk across Severn river on
the ice, but broke through and
was drowned.
Bears Vs. Oranges.
The sand pear, or LeContc
pear is to wiregrass Georgia
what the orange is to Florida.—
The business of raising sand
pears in Georgi^ has hardly
started, but the few that have
started it are realizing fabulous
profits from their investments.
The sand pear beats the .orange
for abundance and maturing
early, commencing to bear the
third year and increasing year
ly until very near a support
can be made on a very few trees.
The fifth year generally brings
in handsome profits.
Not so with the orange. No
where has the orange produced
any profit under ten years of
careful culturo and attention;
and even then it is subject to
be killed out by the cold. Why
should people run off to Florida
to grow* o*aiiges. when here in
wiiegrass Georgia, foi tunes
await them quickly, surely and
easily, if they but stay and plant
one, two or three acres ju Sand
or LeConte Pear.—Swain&bora
Pine Forest.
‘ . Wl«t Can Be Done.
By trying again and keeping up
courage many tilings seemingly Im
possible .tejy he attained. Hundreds
of hopeless cases of Kidney and
Liver Complaint have been cured by
Electric Bitiers, alter everything "else'
had been tried in vain. So, don’t
think there is no cure. for you, but
try Electric Bitters. There is
uicdieino w> safe, so pure, and so
perfect a Blood Purifier. Electric
Bitters wiH cure Dyspepsia,, Dix;
bates an<l nil Diseases of ttn> ( Kid
neys. Invaluable In affectK
and Liver, and ovj
Difficulties.
will be itgJJ^KTrfell.
Breech-loading Shot-guns and
Rifles, Ammunition, - etc
large and well selected stock.
Manufacturers of all kinds
Tinware.
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There are in the .‘•‘outh Georgia
Conference 213 preachers and <
30,000 church members, 451 fc
day schools, 2,800 teachers and
over 21,000 scholars.
The lighthouse at the mouth of
the Roanoke river in North Caroli
na was recently overturned by the
breaking up of the icc. The keep
ers were rescued.
The church of the negro Meth
odists in Bladen county, N. C., was
recently blown down by the wind.
This is the second time they have
lost their building.
Billy Cook, colored, aged nine
ty years, of Spottsylvauia county,
Va.. was married, last week. The
bride, who is the old man’s third
wife, is only twentv-five years
old.
The money safes of three differ
ent merchants Coffceville, Miss.,
were robbed Tn one night, recent
ly, and tbe burglars captured
about $1,800 in cash for their la
bor.
respect for a man wiio has a
million aud still hankers after
more. I have a contempt for
him. If he loses by fire or flood
or robbery I do not care. The
worthy suffering poor are in bis
sight every day, or he knows
full well where to find them.
1 see that Mr. Atkinson says
that if the government does not
stop the coinage of silver it will
bankrupt vVall street. If that
is so then let the coinage go on.
Horace Greeley said that no
man should be allowed to have
more than a million. St. Paul
said that the love of money was
the root of all evil. Tom Hood
sang the song of the shirt and
made London weep, but she
did not weep long. The strug
gle for money and power still
goes on reckless of all couse
quences. But we did have hope
and faith in the integrity of the
South, and when that is gone
ull is gone.
Bill Aiip.
Benjaman Sears, who was arres
ted on the charge of having fired
President J. E. Ingraham’s house
at Sanford Fla., several months
ago, jvas tried last week and con
victed.
J. W. Scott of Jacksonville,
aged 74, tried to end his life Sun
day by shooting himself in t)ie
head. The ball went through ' his
eye and lodged in the head. The
wound is a serious .one and may
prove fatal.
While excavating for the gas
mains on Marine street at St.
Augustine, Fla., a day pr two ago,
the shovellers threw up several
pieces of human skeletons, some
in fair state of preservation, while
others crumbled at exposure.
Stomach *
all Urinar
lies only 50 cfs, At Folks <
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During tlie gold waves says the
Florida Tallaliasseaff, Mr. Dave
Robertson found manv ducks
struck on tho surfaeo of the water
of I on tbe outer edges ofthe lake. It
, seems that it is their habit to roost
k Boti on the water, and ‘it froze solidly
around tbehi during the night
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Iron, Steel, Steam fixtures a: ad
MILL SUPPLIES, Belting, etc
Our Stock is the largest
Southwest Georgia, and Ajve
defy competition. Buyers eijin
always have their orders filled,
Send to me for what you want.
cpt9-6m-a sog!
G. C. VMNEB9E,
DEALER* IN
General Merchandise,
The president of the United
States never attended college. The
president pro tern, of the senate
received a common school educa
tion in Ohio. The secretary of
state is an alumnus of a small
Long Island academy. The secre
tary of the treasury was gradua
ted from a printting office. The
speaker of the house of. epresenta-
tives is a selfeducated man.
‘‘One
A Northern exchange sayi
by one the beautiful islands on the
Georgia coast are being absorbed
by the great wealth ftccumulatoj-s
of the North or their sons, and, at
no distant day, where once’ruled
the Southern -aristocrat with his
numerous’slaves, will be the man
sions, club hous.es, game preserves
and pleasure grounds of the mil
lionaire lords of the North.” Well,
there is no place where these great
absorbers can do a? little harm as
on our Georgia islands. N<i doubt
a diet of rich Northern bjue blood
will lie very acceptable to our sect-
coast mosquitoes and'sa^cMlies.
During the year juU closed
2,9fl6 persons died inlPhUadel-
phia of consumption, jind 1,485
of pneumonia.
One of the largest stocks in my line has recently licen opened, and
rare bargains w»u be obtained.
Millinery and FaneyDress Goods
and Custom-made Shoes Spek
eialties.
Orders from tlie country solicited, And I will make i: lo thc Tntcri,
all tobuv from me in preference lo sendang finilier away from home for
;ood$ which 1 sell at reasonale figures.\ I have one of tbe finest stocks
of Millinery A Dress Goods
in Southwest Georgia, from which purchasers cn.i select goods. Give i
a trial and l will be satisfied. sepi9-12ro a s o g
FOLKS & MORGAN,
'&mw&is »s,w®©s®m.
Purki&rs Brick Birtildmj, Waycros^^GaiQ - - ; -H
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Keep on hand a full stock of Drop*. Druggists Sundries, Snaps, }.
Ods, Ci ,r nr>, Tobacco, Snuff, Starionerv^ Patent Medicines, <Se«f -’. r
A Full Line of Fresh Gat'd
►Seeds always on hand.