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AY, FJEJJ. 3.' 1«86 J m 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. a I • 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., I - ' . YALDQSTA,. GEORGIA, > _ ' - 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. • h :■ 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. a,.- ot 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 < ' ^ •y' 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 111 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 ' ’ % A 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.