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WAYCEOSS HEADLIGHT.
WEDNESDAY, FEB. 17, 188C
The Unreel Town Clmlatlon.
The Unreel Cenntj Clrtelation.
The Urteet General flrealation.
The HIADUOnT elelu am nomee
mm* Is Bm4 bjr tmmrm Pwple tbmm mmy
mtkmv r*p*r paUliM te this Sretlon.
Official Organ of Charlton.
Official Organ of Ware.
K. LAK1KK.
AMU M. rRBIXAK,
Editors.
London, Eng, sras at the mer
cy of a bread riot last week.
Politician* are starving the peo
ple to terms.
Tobacco culture is engaging
toe attention of the newspapers
if not the farmers, throughout
Georgia and Florida.
Ex. Governor Seymour, of
New York is dead. His wife is
not expected to live, both having
been ill for a long time.
Gen. Winfield S. Hancock,
of the United States army, died i cur *
last Tuesday week. His death
was produced by a carbuncle.
Ware County—Advantages
to Home-Hunters.
We have said before that we
have great faith in the future
of Waycross and Ware county.
It is true that trade is dull here,
so it is all over the State, but
we venture to say that there is
no town in the State, of the
same size, that sells more goods
for spot cash than does Way-
cross. As a general rule the
farmers of our county do not
buy goods on long time, but are
able to pay cash for the needed
supplies when purchased. Our
fanners, so far us wo can learn,
are in better condition, more ill-
dependent than those of any sec
tion wc know of, most of them
making a sufficiency of the
staff ot life at home, with, usual
ly, some to spurc. Wnycioss is
known, far and wide, to be one
of the best pruduce markets in
the Stale, therefore, everything
not needed on the farm can be
readily disposed of for cash or
barter, at ull seasons of the
vgSsgmm
There was riotous trouble in
the coke regions of Pennsylva
nia last week. The men of the
mines are not satisfied with
their pay.
lion. Charles F. Crisp, of the
third district, is one among the
live members from Georgia.
Ills people know how to reward
faithfulness.
Senator Sherman has opened
his guns on the President for :c-
fusing information concerning
removals. The rebound of his
attack will likely result in the
discomfiture of his own party.
The Brunswick Advertiser
speaks in feeling terms of regret
concerning the illness of Dr.
tV. B. Folks. Our contempora
ry is assured of our thanks for
Ids tender words. “None know
him but to love him,” our sea
side neighbor truthfully says,
^_Tbo newgnnners of the State
divided oh almost everv
question, except prohibition.—
On that one point the press is
M unit, with few exceptions.—
The Valdosta Times is on the
fence, but we think when the
time comes she will fall on the
right sido and pull for temper-
once.
Quitman Free Press: “The
Waycross Hkadlioht is one of
the most readable and sprightly
papers that brightens with its
presence our sanctum. Its edi
tors, Freeman and Lanier, have
talent, energy and enterprise.—
A little—just a little ciieek is
all the boys n?ed to complete
their outfit.” We have cheek
enough—at least enough re
produce such complimejfts, and
return thanks forGjjs^mc. No
one is better quaffed to judge
A good ^aper jpan Perham, for
he makes one.
WAYCROSS
is steadily glowing in wealth
and population; new industries
and enterprises are springing
up continually, our merchants
are in a prosperous condition,
several new business houses
have been opened recently, and
others are to open soon. Our
hotels have done a heavier
business this season than ever
before known in the history of
the town. The P. I*. P. Manu
facturing Company is also do
ing a large business, the house
having just commenced the
manufacture of several medi
cines of merit, and is badly be
hind with their orders. Thier
sales aie so immense that they
will soon erect a labratorv and
introduce labor-saving machin
ery which will enable orders to
be tilled with more dispatch.—
There are several oilier towns
within the county’s borders
that deserve special mention.
WARESBORO
is a flourishing villago of sever
al hundred inhabitants, situa-
tod
several stores, stoam mills, cot
ton gins, churches and a good
school, presided over by a com
petent teacher.
GLEN MORE,
No. 10, on the S., F. & W. Rail
way, is also a prosperous little
town of considerable impor
tance. Principal business saw
milling, manufactui# of naval
stores and merchandising. The
surrounding country is^thickly
settled by^lirrftv ftumors. Near
The Dawson Journal, one of
the State’s leading papers, says
Terrell county is largely in fa
vor of Hon. A. 0. Bacon for
governor. Terrell county can
find Mr. Bacon’s equal nearer
home, in the person of Hon. W.
E. Smith, of Dougherty. lie’s
our man, and wc defy the Jour
nal or any other organ or power
In Georgia to show’ a purer, abler
man or sounder, truer Democrat.
We throw down the gauntlet;
who takes it up.
Gltmmorc is where Rev. J. M.
Stiger bought a large tract of
land several years ago and had
it surveyed up into small farms.
This place is now known as the
“Stiger Colony.” Mr. Stiger
has been instrumental in doing
a vast amount of good lor Ware
county, as some of our best citi
zens were influenced by him to
come out here several years
ago.
BRAGANZA
is situated on the Jacksonville
short line division of the S., F.
& W. Railway. Principal bus
iness, manfacturing yellow* pine
lumber.
Dawson Journal: “The Way-
croi-s Headlight has reduced
it* subscription to'fl.00 per nn-
MANOR, NEEDHAM AND BICKLEY,
ure also small towns-in the
county, l^inds are cheap, cli-
Tramps—How the Army is
Growing.
Since the war the army of
tramps has been growing steadily
year by year, until now its num
bers are countless. It appears,
too, that these knights of the road
are from the great cities of the
northwest and cast, s;ill, sometime
we find one who has forsaken a
home below Mason and Dixon’s
line for a tramp upon the highway
of the “land of the free and the
home of the brave.”
You find them in all conditions,
except luxuriousnesB and decency,
and now and then amusing inci
dents of the tramp-life are brought
to light; then, again, something
akin to sadness stirs the heart,
causing a feeling of sympathy for
these homeless, roving creatures.
A few nights ago four or five
boys from the northern part of the
State struck the town, and as they
depended upon “beating” the trains
out of town it appeared that they
would have to tarry, at least, all
night. We made it convenient to
visit them as they were huddled
off in a group to themselves (like
frightened sheep in a strange land)
to learn something of their inten
tions, if possible. Three of them,
apparently between twelve and six
teen, were sitting around a smoky
camp-fire, while near by, on the
wet grass, reclined the smaller ones,
(two boys, between ten and twelve
years of age, respectively) with no
covering save the blue vault of
heaven and their clothing, fast
asleep. We couldn’t learn any
thing from them, except that they
were going to Florida, from where,
they wouldn’t say, but an occa
sional sob from one of the sleep
ing boys arrested our attention.
“What is the matter with that
boy ?” wc asked.
“Homesick,” the spokesman of
the party said.
“How long has he been from
home?” wc asked.
“Three days; and he erics like a
babe everytime he thinks of home;
wc would be glad to get rid of him.”
We took a light and looked at
the little fellow, ns he lay on the
grass, moaning and sniffling, in
his sleep, while occasionally he
would mutter names of people.
Just before we finished our inspec
tion of the boyish face, he mur
mured some unintelliglbh^vords
his mother, ^ryiqg
‘Jome here, mother; I’m tired
and hungry.”
No doubt he was hungry, poor
little tramp, and no doubt the ten
der heart was troubled and want
ed to be consoled by the pitying
voice of “mother;” even in his
dreams he yearned to pour his tale
of sorrow into the ear of her who
had taught his lips to lisp her
name, for whenever he had whis
pered that he was hungry she was
never too tired to administer to his
wants. • No wonder he grieved, for
he had played the truant, and giv
en trouble to her whom he called.
These smart Alecks were recruits to
the tramp brigade.
Waycross is a great town, a rail
road centre, and wc have an oppor
tunity of seeing tramps in every
shape. Some of them have fine
forms and faces, some of them
carry on their visages the grim,
glaring stare of a demon, but all of
them are tramps; tramping toward
the gulf in the winter, and, like the
tide of the ocean, receding when the
first flush of the morn of spring
kisses our sunny land.
Well, yes, the tramp is a curious
creature—sometimes he tries to
get hash by force, sometimes by
]>ersuasion, sometimes by reciting
talep of woe, but lie tramps for a
living, tramps before bo will. work,
and the State of Ueorgia should
Hall county will vote on the
prohibition question on the 10th
of March.
Pulaski county votes on the
liquor question this week and
another county goes dry, while
the good work goes bravely on.
It is hoped the day is not far
distant when there is not a drop
of the vile stuff is sold in the
State.
An enterprising party of
Northern capitalists are drain
ing the everglades, in Florida
and have reclaimed over 4,000,-
000, acres of fine, rich land.
They hold a grant covering all
the land reclaimed, and the work
has only commenced.
Judging the intelligence of
the people of Ilumilt n county,
Fla., by the cross marks in a
wniskey petition in the Hamil
ton County Courier, it would
seem that a public school would
do those people more good than
a bar room.
Lack of comfort in animals hin
ders fattening.
The Mormons are contemplating
the purchase of the Sandwich Is
lands.
Bills are being introduced in
Congress at the rate of three or
four hundred a day.
Farmers are making prepara
tions for their crops, feeling assur
ed in the old adage that “fruitful
summers follow cold winters.”
New Jersey is excited over a
ghost that kisses the women and
climbs the lightning rods. A
ghost that will kiss a New Jersey
woman will climb almost any
thing to take the taste out of his
mouth.
The people of Southwest Geor
gia want to be -more self-reliant
This thing of waiting for Northern
people to come here and develop
our country for us will not do,
We must take the first step our-
s & Adv.
rERTISEMEJfT.S.
S BROS.,
ft
TA, GEORGIA,
Calls especial attention to| their,
and beautiful
Nil! Slop, ESTEY tjEGiN,
which they are oaring to deliver, free or
freight at any railroad depo^ ou receipt
Of Ten Dollars Cash.
and Sixteen monthly payments °f
FIVE DOLLARS each, including book
aud stool. We ^alao offer the
New JSstey Piano,
■elves—Albany News
vcrtis-
The Radicals.having failed to
bull-doze President Cleveland
into submission they are now
trying to haul the Secretary of
the Treasurv over the coals.
May be they’ll receive the in
formation after awhile that they
must quit robbing the treas
ury.
A correspondent writing from
Washington says: “The oppo
sition of the Republicans to Mr.
Cleveland is falling to pieces.”
Of course it is; where there are
many bosses and leaders
there’s always failure. Sher
man, Edmunds, and every other
Senator wants to boss.
Judge Richard Clark, of At
lanta, furnishes the press wit!
proof that Gen. Tecumsah Sher
man’s army burned the home
and plantation of his cousin, an
old, harmless woman 92 years
of age. Those Sherman’s are
brave, bold men, they’ll fight a
woman, it seems.
on installments /of ftoO Ca£>(I, and front
to 15 per month.
James L. Freeman, of Char
lotte, N. C.,Vhas been arrested
for parsing <5<lnntei feii HT<m«y.
He is said to have ©massed a
fortune since the war, and inas
much as he fails to divide with
his relatives we hope lie’ll be
sent to a chain-gang for coun
terfeiting. He’s a disgrace to
the* family.
A Real Necessity.
We. presume there is hardly a
lady to bo found in our broad land
who, if she does not already poss
ess a sewing machine, expects some
day to become the owner of one.
But after the mind has been
fully made up to purchase one ol
these indispensable articles, the
question arises as to what kind of
a machine to buy.
It should be so simply con-
The effort b^ing made to des
troy the monetary value of silver
is an effort to destroy one half the
money of the world, that those
who are in possession of the other
half, may be benefited. Give us
silver, silver, and plenty of it.—
Quitman Free Press.
The celebrated Armstrong ease
in Atlanta, closed last week. The
church found the doctor guilty of
drinking beer and visiting lewd
women during a rip to Chicago.
His congregation arc sticking to
him however, and it is probable
that he will lie reinstated in a few
months.
About ten o’clock Wednesday
•olored man named Richard
Wright, was caught in the shaft
ing at Cruger it Co.’s brick yard,
d thrown around several times
in a perilous manner. His right
s broken in three places,
and several of his ril»s were hro
ken. His arm was amputated.
His injuries are pronounced as not
endangering his life.—Albany Me
dium
A jourdalistie pliilosoplie
speaking of the virtue of advertis
ing says: **A man’s sign offers a
mute invitation to those only who
pass his place of business; his
circular can only reach these to
whom personal attention is given :
but his announcement in a news
paper goes into the highways anti
byways, finding customers and
compelling them to consider his
argument,
Munroe Odum, a very worthy
and industrious young man, who
been in the employ of Mr.
Tift fora long time past at the mill
at Tift on, was yesterday struck by
apieceofflyingtimlierthrown hack
from the edging saw and quite se
riously wounded in the face. With
good mertlcnt nricuuo
though* he will be all right again
in a few weeks.
Plain talk is always best. The
man who whips the devil around
the stump, or who is too cautious
to ever assert that his soul is bis
own. may pull through life by a
scratch, hut he is sure to leave an
unsavory memorv behind him) to
say nothing of the innumcriihle
lashings hi?conscience-bestows
him during life. Speak plain, J
what von think and have the man
hood to stand by what you flo
say.—Albany Medium. 1
iy Repaving and Tuning Organs and Pianos ma le a *|»eeiaty an 1
work guaiMiiiedo ir no cb'arg *. Oar terms are reasonable, and all we
ask is a fair anil impartial trial, and we will prove that we mean business
Write us fuf special 'prices of our different styles of organs an t
pianos. I' scpll) lime !> o g
H. L. BOONE,
Valdosta, Georgia.
Dealer in Hardware, .Stoves, Stove
Fixtures, MeclianScal Tools and
Farmers’ Utensils, Corn-shell ers,
Wheel-barrows,
Syrup Pans.
me Hills and
--All kinds
always
if PL0WS--
>n Hand.
Breech-loadii
liiflqs, Ai
SkJfel
' " Manufacturers
Tinware.
Shot-guns. and
inition, etc.* a
1 (selected stock,
of all kinds ot
Iron, Steel, Steam Fixtures and
MILL SUPPLIES, Belting, etc.
Stock is the largest in
Our
Last Friday evening Marshal
Kenslortook Bogue Selph to Lake
City for confinement in the Colum
bia county jail. Kcasler was feel
ing unweil and looked rather glum,
while Bogue had more the appear-
structcd that the most inexperien- ance of being on his way to a pic-
jSouthwest Georgia, and we
defy competition. Buyers can
always have their orders filled.
Seqd to me for what you want.
scpt9-6in-a s o g
ccd can successfully operat
The other points mainly to be con
sidered, and which are the most
desirable, are durability, rapidity,
capacity for work, ease of opera
tion, regularity of motion, unifor
mity of tension, and silence while
in operation.
The “Light-Running New
Home” fills the above require
ments, and is said to combine the
good points of all sewing ma
chines, with the addition of many
new improvements and laborsav
ing devices.
The price is no higher than tha
of other machines, and every lady
who is the happy possessor of one
may rest assured she has indeed a
treasure. See Advertisement.
rohte mild, soil productive, wa- rid the land of these pests by ap-
ter good, the people prosperous Pb** n S ^ie vagrant law.
and happy, and there is no bet-
ter section for home-hunters Judge Vann lias overruled
tlmu here. j the motion for a new trial in
the Bogue Selph case and it will
be carried to the Supreme court.
The leadership of the fight
te'rs VndBuchlcn’s Arnica'saive ~fbr 1 a g ai,lsl Hie President was accor-
Wondvrfnl Carrs.
W. D. Hoyt & Co., Wholesale
and Retail Druggists of Rome, .Ga..‘ (
sav: We have been selling Dr. j
nuni. Jim Freeman will have Kin*’* Near Discovery, Electric Bit-
to vi.it more than ever !in« v if i J*” B, £ hk “ » Arn , k '» fur , , . . „ _ . . ,
Jie gets enough to cat." There’. IX
where you are mistaken, broth- universal satisfaction. There have I hloody-shirt Sherman took
vt Rainy; our neighbors are pro- bwn * OUM! »°n»!erlul effected'
• . . • i . by these medicines in this city. Sev
ering to put 111 good, early | vtM \ case* of pronounced Consijmp-
«pri|lg gardens, jmd visions of lion have been entirely cured by use
an abundance of rot-liquor, veg
etables, etc., float before our
eyes, then, again, good brother,
U is better to havo a thousand
c*sb subscribers atone dollar
porannuni' than fifteen hun
dred at and fifty on
of a few bottles of pr. King’s New
Discovery, taken in connection with
Fleetric Bitters. We guarantee them
always, bold by Folkc & Morgan
advantage of Mr. Edmund’s ill
ness to shout the war-whoop.
A Macon man was offered a suit
of clothes to jrnik across on® of
the streets of that city ten times
several convicts, in as many
prisons in the Union have re
cently fallen heirs to large for
tunes, by the death of wealthy
relatives. Some of them have
been pardoned that they may
have an opportunity of enjoying
Intensive farming means highly
manuring land in order to pro
duce large results. Intensive farm-
ing pays the. small farmer better
than anx* other method of cultiva
ting crops. It lessens labor, doub
les and trebles the yield, and
makes farming a pleasant avoca
tion. Why should a farmer dig
and delve over forty or fifty acres
of poor land, when he can make a
better crop on'ten acres properly
prepared and fertillized? Echo an
swers, why?
The $artow county grand jury
finds that “our young men are, as
a general thing, improved in their
manners and lives, and cases of
drunkenness among thas class are
very rare, jiml those who are so
lost to self respect as to procure li
quors secretly, are forced to blush
and make excuses when any is
found in thoir possession. «w\nx-
ious wivo* feel that prohibition
ts ^ ‘"Bulwark with which thov
wonM not park despite the hov.L
ings $f opposition, and we ure
to note tliat the good color*
i!e of our country are so
their approval of ite
id that so few of them
ted to thf.i court
this law.” ^
nic than to jail, and laughed .and
joked pleasantly with those around
him. As they sat hand cuffed to
gether in the car strangers took
Keasler for Selph, marked his
downcast appearance and moral
ized about it, much to the amuse
ment of those who knew t’other
from which.—Live 0».k Inteligen-
cer.
Jasper, Feb. 9.—The condition
ot Mr. Silvester Sams, a well-
known citizen of this county, ex
cites considerable interest. Two
years ago Mr. Sams, while walk
ing over his farm, was bitten by
rattlesnake. He immediately re
sorted to the native remedy. Ivhis-
ky, of which he took co$)ioui
draughts. Nothing more{ was
thought of the matter untn six
months ago, when Mr. Sams
trayed symptoms of St. Vitus'
dance. He was never still, not
even in his sleep, twitching ,his|
muscles and moving incessantly.
Lately ho has developed vu>lerit|
svmptons and developed violeni
symptoms and has bcaton hii wife
and family, and, in fact, all -whi
conic within his reach. He no
acts like a man with a well defim
case of rabies, only instead of bar!
ing he makes a rattling soum
He has been taken to Canton jail
where a strong guard will be ke;
over him until the crisis is over. 1
|oe|
C. C. VARNEDOE,
DEALER IJf.
General Merchandise,
YaltetJ, Georgia. -
Ono L-Jhe largest stocks in my line has recently been opencJ, and
ba q»n* Cku be obtained. 4
iwmery and Fancy Dress Gooc
j anl Custom-made Shoes Spc
/ eilties. ~
Orrte from the country solicileil, ami I will make it to the interest of
lo hai om me in preference to sending further away from homo for
g< ods whi 1 sell at reasonale figures. I have one of the finest slocka
o’ Millinery A Dress Goods
y&oiithest Georgia, from which purchasers ca.i select goods. Givens
/trial ad ( will be satisfied. sepl9-12in a s o g
in
Aa EnterprUIn*, Reliable House
Folks & Morgan can always
relied upon, not only to carry
stock the I test of everything, but
secure the Agency for such ariii
as have well-known merit, and
popular with the people, thereby i]
taming the repulat.ou of being (al-
woya enterprising, »nn ever relli
Having secured the Agency for lllie
celebrated Dr. King’s New Discovery
fur Consumption, will sell it oi
poftitive guarantee. It will surdv
enre any and every affeclitm of
Throat, Lungs, and Chest, and to
sliow onr •.influence, we invite you
to call and get
FOLKS & MORGAN.
BKSXZL St&VO&Xggg.
Purker’s Brick BuiilJiig, Waycross, Ga. - ’ -
*n ».»nd » full slock of Drugs. Druggists Sundries, Foaps,
U,,J Cigars, Tobacco, Snuff, Stationery, Talent Medicines, &c,
A Full Line of Fresh Garden
Seeds always ou hand.
Ice and Soda water when ! i> season.
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