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WAYCROSS WJd. PARKER, Proprietor. Vol. 3. B»<1 Trl»4 Pour or Flr«* Doctor*, and «»'l (iUcn np to IH«. v -*ld°« t a, Ga., January 13th, 1887— JUr. a!. A. Briggs: I have been sick f° r three year*, hardly being able to walk. I hao tried four or five different doctors without any benefit at all. All the doctors told me I was suffering With and affection of the heart. I was unable to walk or sleep and had no ap petite. My liver was also affected and .gave me lots of trouble. My face and .stomach were badly swollen also. I had given np to die, when I was advis- BIUGQS! NUXXBETTER TONIC PILLS, and after taking five bottles I was so much better I got more and now I am entirely well. I can t bJ fifc - mi waat 1IKXBY COLLINS. X © U © S* is <2 X LU © be < & © 2® *3 © be pC ^3 (3 V pfi © S3 « CS .. s a- 55 SS | UJ a CS pO* a © ► T* « pA wltn >• [flwi 91. A. Briggs, GUANO roll SALE. Persons wishing Guano, apply to 8. F. MILLER, who delivers for S. P. & D. J. JEFFORDS. Wavcross, Feb. 10-3t WEBBS WS WORSHIP. M. E. Church South—Rev. E.'J. Bareli, Past6r. Preaching every Snndav at 11 o'clock A. M., and 7 30 P. M. Sacrament of J esU u this week. the Lord * sunner ovprv fust Knml.iv “ Thursday xperiem-e meeting every Tuesday ght. ’ • - Baptist Church—Rav. . Scruggs, Pastor. Preaching fir.it and third Sundays in each month, morning and evening.— Prayer meeting every Wednesday eve ning and on the second and fourth Sunday mornings. Sunday School at 3 o’clock P. M., U. 1*. Brewer, Super intendent. Stewart Episcopal Church—Rev Martin, pastor. Preaching second and fourth Sundays each month, at 11 A. M. and 7 P. M. Also evening service Wednesday be fore second Sunday, and Friday even- at 7}4 P. M. Also Wednesday afternoon before the fourth Sunday at 31.2 P. M. and Friday eveninir nt*7U' P. M Sunday School at 2*., P. M. Sunday. The Ladies’ Episcopal Church Aid Society will meet at Mrs. Yulee Williams’ at 3,k» every Thursday. . E. Church (Col)—Rev. J. C. Allen, Pastor. " caching 2nd Sabbath in each month, at )l A. M. and 7 30P. M. Sab bath School at 3 P. M. List <f Jttrers for Aprl Term, 1887. Owen II Jones, David Silas, W It Bennett, Geo It Youmans, R McIJ Bennett, It J McQuaige, James A Murray, Win M Albritten Henry li Wilson, J J Barber, James I) Hendrix J 1) Smith, W A Cason, David A Jordan, WmR. Mallon, WPLee, I). C. Carmichael, W. 11 Cason John C Reynolds, Warren Lott, Joel Smith,' , D H Bennett, John Thornton WT Lott, Burrell Sweat J M Sweat W II Miller Robert Murphy, lien Simians. pktit jurors. * Chas E Waldron, Geo. M Lee, James Douglass, W It New Ambrose Woodard J L I.t W L Cason, H J Tbompso: IS Tuten, Nathan Deen James Booth, J W C arter, Win M Byrd, II M Jeffords, HEADLIGHT. $1-00 Per Annum, in Advance. Waycms, Georgia, |Iai’cli 1887. No. 51. EEACLIGET FLASHES. ACQUITTB The three men ft . • • . m n .• Smithville soine te Gathered ap Iu Tcwa, oa Both hy sheriff iiende Railroads, Up asi Com. j suspicion of having . to do with the rob Sirmnns* safe, we® Pic-nics and red-bugs are now i ast Fritlay by JugRtgrewer, in order. I without oven a hffljfffgsV- Lack Superior Court is in session at I of eyideuce. Mr. J. T. Ilale makes a good deputy sheriff. ' . Read what Editor Underwood Rev. J. M. Stiger of Glcninore, was in town last Saturday. We haver" heard some more “artesian-well talk” recently. The Sunday School of the A. M. E. Church will celebrate in May. Rev. Mr. Brett and Bro.Denton, of Waresboro, were in town last Satu-day. J. II. Wright, of Duke. Ga., was in town yesterday and left orders for job printing. Do the people of Waypross propose to drop the building of the school house? The entertainment last Wed nesday night at Kroms’s hall was another success. A cyclone struck Tampa, Fla., last week, demolished several houses and killed three persons. Tom Fogarty, who attempted to kill Dr. Keifer, of Savannah, some ten days ago, has been captured. Whenever you have a piece of news that 'you think the people ought to know, come tell us about Georgia, ere iii town, and will wait upon our merchants for cards for insertion during the present week. The guide will be neatly printed on substantial card hoard, each busiufess card gotten up in artistic skill and attractive beauty. It. will be posted along the principal rail road and steamboat lines, in this section and Florida. We hope our merchants and business men will take advautage of this opportunity to advertise. it. II1* White, Isaac Jordan, Allen Sweat, IIA Cannon W J Booth, J H Moody, William Jordan J A Barker, J W Adams, Win. J. Carswell, Geo W White, David Jeffords, A true copy from minutes of Ware Superior Court. W. M. Wilson. B J Minchew, W F Parker, Isaac Tavlor, Eugene McCall, Win. M. Cribb, Lemuel S Taylor,. Joe B Taylor, M W Rivers, B F AIcDanicl, Dec. 8,18S6. * An Enterprising, Reliable House. Folks & Morgan can always be relied upon, not only to carry in stock the best ol everything, but to secure the Agency for sued articles as have well-known merit, and are popular with the people, thereby sus taining the reputation of being al- woys enterprising, and ever reliable. Having secured the Agency for the celebrated Dr. King’s New Discovery for Consumption, will sell it on a ‘ positive guarantee, ft will surelv cure any and e\ Throat, Lungs, and Chest, and to show our aonfldcnce, we invite you to call and get a Trial Bottle Free. Dickey’s PiiLESS EYE WATER Relieves at once. Cures weak ami in flamed Eyes in a few hours without pain or danger. The best Eye prepara tion in the world. Price onl\- 25 cents; ask for it. Have no other. Sold by all No tic- of Sale. GEORGIA—Ware County. Under and by virtue of. authority vested in me by an order granted l»y the court of Ordinary of said county, I will sell at public outcry between the legal hours of sale, on tue first Tuesday in April, 1887, before the courthouse door of said county, the following prop- It is generally conceded that the recent cool capers of March have ruined early fruit and vegetables. Headlight cb'irs aid Sola- water at the the post-office. The cigar is the best in the land—like its namesake. A crazy negro woman was put in jail last Monday to wait until arrangements can be made to send her to the asylum. When the Marcli winds began blusteriug last week John Sharp commenced talking about F.or- ida. He has gone. The nineteenth annual meeting of the Georgia Press Association will be held in Valdosta on Wed nesday, May 11,1887. Five or six hundred dollars in the hands of Capt. Crawley, besides what ho already has will bore the artesian well. The large and growing con gregations at the Mei hodist church every Sunday is evidence that the churcn must be enlarged. See new advertisement of Dr. M: A. Briggs, Valdosta, in this* issue. He is a leading .druggist in this section, and offers, to the public some valuable remedies. The Drugists’ Association of the State of Georgia, 100 strong, will hold their annual meeting on Cum berland Island on April 12. The Jacksonville Times-Uinon win suren i j 8 - 0 oge( j to t ] ie con tinance of affection of |iri2e jj R ft ting jn that city . , The Tiiues-Union is right as usual. Joseph Weiss has returned from Atlanta with his diploma us a full- fledged book-keeper. Joe is a good boy and we wish him success in life. Mrs Geo P. Conoya, of Sander son, Fla. r was in town last Sunday, en route from Baxley to her home. She had been to see Ward’s babies. Mr Arthur Haines, son of Col. H. S. Haines, General, Manager of the Plant system, has been appoint ed the Savannah. Florida and Wes tern’s agent at Thomasville. The winter hotels of South Flor ida have begun closing up for this season, and the patronage of that portions is joining those in the northern sections of the State. Bristol, Tenn.' by W. M. Wilson as a grocery store.— Sold as the property of Charles E. Ca son, a minor of said couuty. Terais cash. This Feb. 7th, 1887. W. A. CASON Guardian of Charles E. Cason. v Notice. GEORGIA—Chariton County. Sirs. D. L. Johns, residing in thiB State, having applied to be appointed guardian of Warren L. Johns, Mattie L. Johns, Melissa A. Johns and Zilla K. E. Johns, minor children of S. V. Johns deceased. This is to cite all persons concerned to be and appear at the term of the Court of Ordinary to lie held next after the expiration of four weeks from the first publication of this notice, and show cause, if any they can, whvsa ...... .... .. The passenger train on the B. & lot m the town of W aveross, said coun- «,.«> i, . . . , .. - ty, known as the place now occupied^ - It. R. was delayed by an ac cident of some kind last Sunday,, and several of our people were prevented from visiting Waresboro. The Rev. R. Bennett and son have been down to DeLand, Fla., recently, and speaks well of that country, but we presume they will not ieaye Georgia for some time to come at any rate. The Patterson Advance contin ues to ndyauce, and Lucius Lanier advances to this place every Sun day to make favorable advances with the £■ iris. .Has Patterson no girls, Bro Wilson? Parker, in the brick house, has i a new line of Merchandise that He buys applicant should riot be entrusted’with the gnar.liei.ship ot the-persons.an.l j any pnrson . official sig-! anil sells low lor cash, an<l you ought to see how his note, shoes, ,] 7 <-\ C. * yo-aij ..ini clolhi.ijnregoin;' IiAIL.noAD AND Messrs. Wolf & 2 lishers of the Railn P^o^-n.'r.in.fos ji MIliLXVOOD. Our esteemed correspondent “Lost,” writing from Homerville, under di.te March 19th, says : Mill- wood, a small town on the B. & W. U. It. is said to be a lonely place, but we beg leave to differ with the opinion. While there a few days ago we had the, pleasure of being the guest of Hon. Ben Johnson, and among other dilic- ious dishes we enjoyed were fine fresh water fish, which abound in the. creeks and river near that place. Lonely! Not a word of it true. Here we met nine ladies, all single but three, and you know, Mr. Editor, it is impossible to be lonely with such fascinating surround ings. This is the place for the wife hunter. The lands around Millwood are high and dry, with an occasional creek or brook, making fish and game plentiful, while the beautiful locality make-these-ljiQd.s suitable for farm and truck-growing.' This is the place for the home-hunter. We find a church in course of erection, while a flourishing Sun day School has recently been or ganized, vith quite a bright pros pect for future growth. There is a turpentine still, also a sawmill at. Millwood, which goes to prove that it is. a good, place ‘or business, besides these, the splendid water facilities near here afford an excellent site for a fac tory of no mean dimensions. We return thanks to those clever people for courtesies. Lost. WANTS TO KNOW TUB NEWS A few days ago we received a letter irom our esteemed friend and subscrilicr, Geo Walters, of Cedar Falls, Iowa, asking why the Headlight has failed to reach him, as he and his friends were anxious to know the news fr this section. 4Ve ari sorry we unable to account for the failure of Mr. Walters to receive his paper, for it has been mailed regularly from this office, and can only imagine the fault of the miscarriagi to be with the postal employes. His inquiry is another evidence that the people of the North and Northwest have an eye on this section of the country. If we are not mistaken Mr. Walters owns land in this couuty, therefore his ’’anxiety to hear the news,” and we hope he will receive it regularly hereafter, for he pays ,for it. As the Headlight proposes to devote more energy-und enterprise in the publication and circulation of facts concerning this favored sec tion of God’s green earth ir fu.ure than in the past it is the only means bv which our Northern friends can know the ad vantages that,Ware, Clinch, Coffee arid other sister counties hold out to the prospector, and when, this fact becomes better known ws have confidence in the increase of an already large Northern circulation. If our'Northern brethren will ob serve the consen ative tune of this journal they will soon learn that FOR FIJN. Rev. Dr. Marshal! has had a fishing-cork built, and some fine day when his friends miss him he will be seated on a stump at the river bobbing for whales or anything else that may chance his way. ' WAYCROSS. Brother Underwood, of the OLKMAN’S 1IALL. Prof. Miller’s entertainment at Oleman’s Hall last night was worthy of a full house, and 1 splendid exhibiton. The jouring of water from a white ittlrTTriUTglasses where it was turned into wine, gin, etc, as well as his numerous other sleight- of-hand performances was mysti fying and amusing. He was locked to an upright beam, ankles, arms, neck, and body, and at a given signal was found in an iron cage around which Willie Folks and Churiey Hohenstein had wound several coils of rope. The enter tainment will bo repeated to night, with a change in the programme, and the reader has an opportunity of seeing for himself. on bautji-no mohe. The voice of Lola E. Tarver is hushed, the prattling tongue is stilled and the little feet are rest ing from the pilgrimage on earth of only four years and a few months. How sad it was to hear the wails of her mother, Mrs. J. 1*. Cason, when the earth was thrown back upon the coffin.that shut Lola from view forever, but what a consolatian, as Rev. Mr. Scruggs said, it is, “that il she can come to her parents never more, they can go to her.” Waycross turned out a long line of mourners who had so much respect for the bereaved, and who loved the little one so much. Such a gentle child—loved by all who knew her—and who had such winning ways. The Head light’s family knew Lola, and to know her was to love her, and so, too, we have had little ones shut from our view in the darksome tomb, but we have a hope that with Brother John P.' Cason and lady wc may meet those little ones, in that “land beyond the river.” The Headlight sorrowfully ten ders its most sincere sympathy to the bereaved ones, and admonishes them that death loves a shining mark, and Lola “holds a light in the windows for us.” Died March 19, of typhoid fever: buried in Waycross cemetery March 20th, Revs. Mr. Scruggs aud Burch officiating. PASSES OVER THE PL \Nf SYSTEM. , General Manager Haines, of the Plant 8vstcm, has issued an order c . in regard to free passes, in which , Ci % 1,a Clar,ou » after reraal, “ he says: Annual passes, and trip i i^g m our town a short while on - passes issued before April 4 hy the a recent visit has this to say: President, General Manager or „ Tlie editor of tlle c)arion jjovf . visit Of three days iast exchange wi thother railroad com-! "eek to this charming httle rail- panies, for their officers and em-j roa( * c, *y*. lwenty-tliree pas-" ployes will bo recognized as here- j senger trains pass the town dai- tofore. Annual passes and trip; ly, which, with the numerous passes issued prior to April 4 by ( freight trains fil the air with the President, General Manager or supqriotendent jtu persons not offi cials or employes of railroad com panies will be recognized as here tofore, except that they will not be good for passage from one State into another. Trip passes issued by heads of departments to em- ployes-will be recognized as hereto fore. After April 1 no trip passes will be issued for passage from one State to another except to railroad officials and employes.—Savannah News. Hardware, all kind, at Black- shear & Mitchell’s. Why don’t you try J. G. Nelson & Co’s 50 cents Tea? It is fine. Smith & Sharp receive fresh supplies every day. Years ago there was a citizen of Worth^vho owned a valuable deer hound. The hound would go driving without its owner, and kept itself poor through the exces sive exercise. Finally, the owner tied the dog to a block of wood. One day the dog could not be found. While searching for him the hunter heard the dog open some distance in the woods. Going to the spot the dog yjas not to be seen, but the animal opened several hun- dered yards further on. The dog barked only two or three times. When the owner arived at where he supposed the dog to be, he heard him open still further on. This was kept up for some time, till finally the owner saw the dog lay the block on the ground bark three limes, take the block up-in* its mouth again and move along on the trail. The dog was trailing a deer, and carried the block in its mouth, except when it paused to let its master know where it was. Car Load Stoves, at Blackshear & Mitchell’s. we do not recognize any dividing line berween our American people. The. wounds of the civil , war be tween the two sections have been healed, and to-day thore is no North, no South, but -one grand and glorious country. Our North-, ern and Northwestern brethren are informed that the South extends to them a hearty welcome. Let them come with their money and energy and we warrant them" hospitable treatment hnd good lands. You will make money by send ing your orders for family sup plies to Smith & Sharp. J. G. Nelson &. Co., Savannah, are selling the best Green Rio Cof fee six pounds to tne dollar. Silver plated ware, at Black- shear & Mitchell's. Smith & .Sharp presents ^you with half the profits «n every bill of groceries purchased from them. Mrs. Potter’s Sad-irons and Hern- at b: Engineer J. M. Smith, of the Savannah, Florida and Western, made the fastest run ever made in Florida on last Saturday. The afternoon train left Gainesville more than an hour late, and north of Fort White Engineer Smith made a run of sixty-two miles in sixty minutes. A quantity of thin, cheap note heads, ruled on one side, on hand, and will be printed and padded at $2 50 per thousand, or two thousand for $4 50—one form.— Send orders for plain and fancy printing to, this office. Prices' down, for cash or C, O. D. orders WILL bK ItUILT. Last week the IIkadligt gave its readers notice that a delega tion from the Boards of Trade of Albany and Columbus would visit Brunswick last Wednesday in the interest of the Columbus Southern railroad, which, if the readers remembers, connects Albany and Columbus, while the Brunswick and Western is to be run in co-operation thereto thriving city, her generous peo ple—full of enterprise and energy, her beautiful harbor— best on the Georgia coast, while the welcome they received and the enthusiasm exhibited proved that the “City hy the Sea” was alive to her interests. The amount desiret} from Brunswick was readily subscribed, 011 con dition that the Brunswick and Western raiload should bo put in shape to receive the enormous amounts of freight and the large volume of travel which would naturally seek this route if the Columbus Southern was built. Managor Gaddis stated that he was authorized by the owners of the Brunswick and Western to say that the road would bo in eondtion to manage all the freight secured hy the Columbus Southern. This, then, will'put Columbus and Albany from under the thumb of the Central, will give them a route to the sea thus gaining a Western feeder for Brunswick and-this section of Georgia, and giving Albany and Columbus an outlet to the sen. The contemplated building of this road has beeu met with approval from the citizens along the entire line, and there is nu doubt of the necessary amount being subscribed and paid at the proper time. Agricultural Furnace?, at Black- shear & Mitchell’s, The best Lard, 12 pounds for one dollar. J. G. Nelson & Co. Granulated and powdered su gars, fourteen pounds to the dol lar, at Smith & Sharp’s, and ev erything else in. proportion. Call and see for yourself. Wood-saws, Cross-cut and Diss- ton Hand-saws, at Blacksheai <fc Mitchell’s. Mr. Curtis of Darien, is in the city, engaged,, in ruising the nec essary capital to drain the Okefe- nokee Swamp, and erect a canal between £t. Mary’s and the Gulfs. Only $8,000,000 are required for the undertaking. Mr. Curtis says the prospects were never better for the early completion of his useful internal improvement.—-Savannah Times. All go'ods bought of Smith & Sharp delivered free of chargee. Grafoiteware, jqst arrived, at Blackshear & Mitchell’s. If you want a good article of Plug Tobacco, ask yonr dealer for “OLD RIP.” J. G. Neisori & Co., Savannah, are selling the best Gilt-edge- Butter at only twenty-five cents per pound. Nuns Veiling at B. Simians’ Safe burglars have been getting in their work in Macon. The safe opened was entered by boring exactly as was j. done in the Simians’safe robbery. uinl ’ They only got twenty dollars and Jn is believed to be the same gang that lias been “working” Griffin. Waycross, Jacksonville aud other places. There was no clue. the notes of the bell and whistle. The great Savannah, Florida and Western has two main., branches separating at this point, end here it is crossed by the Brunswick and Western. The former is pursuing a liberal policy toward the country and towns along its lilies, and their improvement is keeping pace with its prosperity. Waycross is its pet. Heie it maintains the finest railroad restaurant in the South. The grounds near by are being beau tified with shrubberry, while al most the entire southern por tion of the to\yn has been sold in lots on easy terms to conduc tors, engineers and other em ployes, who have been assisted iu building comfortable and at tractive homes on the eqstall* went plan. The beauty of the business part of the town was marred by allowing 4 thc courthouse trfeu- ple to be tilled up with stores.— A stranger can find himself lost or bewilded in the ceiitre of Waycross tfiore readily than iu any town of its size in the world. Away from the business pqrt thq streets are regular and tne neat residences well arranged. Way- cross has some good schools, but sadly lacks an academy. It has one or two churches, how ever, which are pushiiig forward and steadily growiug’. It ha$ two,, lively newspapers which, are receiving a steady increa** x of advertising patronage. Th» harder the times and the closer the competition the merchants everywhere are realizing the greater need of employing more newspaper help. The Waycross business men have found oub< that in these pressing times the merchant who docs not adver~ tise is sure, iu the long run, to. be left. Thanks to editors Brewer, and! Sweat, of the Reportei, and to. editor Freeman, of the Head light, for many brotherly at tentions May they never have- anything but good to Report of their town and of each other;, may they keep tlfe I1eadlight : of journalism undimmed by.- personalism; may tlicir brains never Brew any beverage* hbk wholesome truth aud hearty- good will; may success reward: their toil and Sweat, and they both live long to show the. world how blessed is the m:iu. who with all other privileges of. an American Freeman, knows, how to use the power of the press for the welfare of liis fel- lawmen,” The Headlight would be an ingrate should it withhold from Bro. Uuderwood . its thanks for the kind mention made of Way. cross,.her people and her press, but, we sorrow to note, our es teemed friend makes a serious aud damaging mistake when he writes: “Waycross has one or two churches,” leaving his nu merous readers tq conclude that this number was all we could boast of, or be thaukful to the great “Ruler” for. We have Methodist, Baptist and Episco pal churches, a Presbyterian congregation (uo church), and two or three churches for the colored people. Our brother did not intend to make a false im pression, by - the expres sion quoted, but his widely cir-. cuhited paper falls into the hands of many who might thiuk we should have more than “one or two” churches in a town of four or five thousand -inhabi- goods. 1 ei- or prosperity. : 'f/Uj v: : fr. : ,y; AVe trust we may -not bo considered too particular or sen sitive, and we hope Bro. .Uuder- wood's Clarion notes may ring out long and loud for “wisdom, justice and moderation,” aud 111:1V lie not be the Undkrwooi. . The Ladies are request-d to call and see B. Birmans' Xew spring • in the erection of Georgia's tow- itiliiy ram vis.-ii'...