Newspaper Page Text
Vol. 4.
Waycross, Georgia, April 6, 1887.
No. 1.
A 1IOU.VED SNAKE ' |
tenant on Mr. Robert
nftd TlM T»nr -r PlTfl u<
lu»4 UItn up tm III*.
Yammmta.Ga., Jurtntrr 15th, 1887—
Mr. M. A. Briggs: 1 have been tick
for three year*, hardly being able to
walk. -I hao trlrsd fear or five different
doctors without any benefit at all. All
the doctors told me I was saffering
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 fare and
atomarh were badly swollen also. I
had give!* up to die, when I waaadvia-
*1 to try BRIGGS* BETTER
TONIC PILLS* tad after taking five
bottles I was so much better I got more
and now I au» entirely well. lean
RIP. _
J. G. Nelson & Co., j&vannah,
are selling the best Gilt-edge
Butter nt only twenty-five cents
per pound.
Smith & Sharp’s City Bell is the
best patent flour on the market
& Co’s 50 cents Tea? It is fine.
and now I aut tnUtWr mu. lean Smith & Sharp receive fresh sup-
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Special Notices.
szabliget flashes.
ZlZ ST Bather,* np to Tcwu, <m Both
SaUroadt, Bp and Down.
Garden truck lifting up again.
Suliscribefs rushingin before we
clone uur hooks.
.... ... . . „ .. * | Mi«s Mnie Stead u teaching a
Why don’t you try J.km. Nelson gchmll at || ob ,,t e n.
k/ 1 aam#. Tnn9 T* ia finn
Gordan Parker, ot McDonald’s
mill, was in town last Saturday.
■
ware,
shear & Mitchell's.
Send on your orders for Job
work. A fine lot of stationery just
Prices down for cosh, or C. O.
D. orders. ’
J. G. Nelson 4 Co., Savannah,
are selling the best Green Rio Cof
fee six pounds to tne dollar.
Car Load Stoves, at Blacksbenr
& Mitchell’s.
Silver plated ware, at Black-
shear 4 Mitchell’s. •
Five dozen pairs of Opera Slip
pers at B. Siuians’.
Don't fail to see B. Sirinans’
straw hats. Prettuet line in town.
The best Lard, 12 pounds for
one dollar. J. G. Nelson A Co.
Wedding cards printed nt this
office with neatness and dispatch,
good wishes thrown in.
,of Ware county} was in town this
week.
Over 1,500 crates of tomatoes
have hern shipped from Florida
to. New York.
Orders for job work reach ns
from Graham, Ga., on the E. T.,
Vn. & Ga. H. R.
We have it, on authority, that
Spring has come, this time, cer
tain, gentle Annie.
WHERE WE WORSHIP.
M. E. Church South—Rev. E. J.
Burch, Pastor.
Preaching every Sunday at 11 o'clock
A. M., and 7 30 P. M. Sacrament of
the Lord** sapper every first Sunday.
Prayer meeting every Thursday night.
Experience meeting every Tuesday
* ;nt. Sunday School at 3 o’clock I*.
Baptist Church—Rsv.
Scruggs, Pastor.
W. II.
Homerville came in too late.
Ki; 6. fiorbiu of Cinch, was in i tu %ww iotv>
town to day. if I ‘ ol Brunswick, I - „ Wn,«1
_ . ... .. . ! «nakelast^k.aud Mr Bev1l
tti&ZS&SS; and i visiting Way cross/ ‘’jb-ght it to town, and gave it to
enternrisine. ■ - .... to Dr. Berton. We have always
arc in a prosperous condition yoh
will find: the “
enterprising. i. I Ltiis Arnheim, Esqr.,of Albany.
Mr. J. H. Sweat’s meat and veg-' ia attending court,
ctable stand, near Mr. B. Simians’ j Mrs. Furlong, late of Brunswick,
store is growing in favor with the . is at the Satilla house.
»?bhc.. Aj°»M^tr6nago Misses Susa and Fannie Wide-
to Dr. Berton. We have always
[thoughtthe horned snake was
count, sonam.
We understand that CoL G.
Gunby Jordan will leave Colum
bus very soon for How Ygrk, to
make arrangements for the
buildingof the Columbus South
ern. We trust that this may
will make it a greater convenience.
On Easter Sunday, April^.lOth
tliere will be scrviceiyn _ t)ie^ Epis
copal church "
a-A '
P. M. No morning service. Sun
day-school 3 P.’M.
Last Friday tire South Florida
Railroad placed its fares at, if col
lected by the conductor, 5 cents
per mile; straight tickets, 4 j cents
per mile. This is a .reduction on
the last two of 12 J per cent.
We hear it reported on good
authority, that Editor Ellenwood,
of the Blackshear' Georgian, who
has been for some yca.rs a Methodist
Lanier 4 Yonmans are author- preacher has renounced the Min-
:rugg?», l iuiur.
Preaching first ant] 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., H. P. Brewer, Saper-
ized to take and receipt for sub
scriptions to this paper.
The town-cow that will un
fasten a gate and nip shrubbery
should be suppressed, and her
hide tanned.
HEADLionT cigars and Soda-
water at the the post-office. The
rignr is the best in the land—like
its namesake.
It is almost impossible to mnke
room in the Methodist church for
the Sunday school when there is a
full attendance.
The mnii with those little bills
was abroad in the land last Fri
day. Friday is always and un
lucky day for us.
The past week dosed in a
drizzling rain, but the warmth
of our people in religious mat
ters was not cooled.
The fruit crop in this section
was not entirely destroyed by tho
recent cold weather, but received a
terrible black eye, so to speak.
■BMC'J. W. Walters,- of the
Albany Bar, was in attendance at
Court diiring the past two or three
EriscorAL Ciicrc-h—Itev. Stewart
Martin, pastor. .
Preaching second and fourth Sundays | One of tho brightest legal
in each month, at 11A.M. and 7 P.M. •• i t „
Also evening service Wednesday be
fore second .Sunday, and Friday even
ings at 7% P. M. Also Wednesday
afternoon before the fourth Sunday at
SJ£ P. M. and Friday evening at 7*4
E. M, Sunday School at 2& P. M.
every Sunday. The Ladies* Episcopal
Church Aid Society will meet at Mrs.
Yulee Williams* at Vs every Thursday.
M. E. Church (Col)—Rev. J. C.
Allen, Pntoo
Preaching 2nd Sabbath in each
month, at 11 A. M. and 7 30 P. M. Sab
bath School at Z P. 1L
&JJ
An EnS t. Don. tieraping.
Edward Shepherd, Harrisburg,
111., says- ‘'Having received so
much benefit Trout Electric Billers.
I feel i* my duty to let suffering hu
manity know it.. Have hail a run
ning sore on my leg for eight years;
my doctors told me I would Imre to
have the boje scraped or log ampu
tated. 1 used, instead, three bottles
of Electric Hitters seven boxes Buck-
lea's Arnica Salve, and my leg is now ,i • - ,
sound and well.” Electric Bitters are * ®
lights of Georgia.
Tho Salvation Army was dis
turbed in tiieir hall at Savannah
last Sunday night, ..nil a riot lto-
tween roughs was the result No
one seriously hurt
Contracts for job printing can
ito made with Messrs. Lanier &
Youinans, when neither ourself
or Mr. Parker enn be found, and
will be faithfully tilled at this of
fice.*
Tho lady that patches onr sor
rows and darns our pleasures has
lieen sick during the week, and
this must account for the short
comings of this issue to a certain
extent
Miss McDonald, of McDonald’s
mill, was in town last Sunday
mmnipg. Two years ago she wss
a little girl, and now Bhc is a
grown young lady. How we girls
istry and given up his credentials.
At Eramit Anderson’s fruit and
candy stand, just beyond the post-
office, near the B. 4 W. Railroad
crossing you will find splendid
taffy candy, pea-nuts, oranges,
bnnaniias, etc. Trade some with
Emmit
' Whenever the people of Wav-
cross are appealed to in behalf of
hencvolent or missionary purposes
there is generally a liberal re
sponse. Two hundred and nine
dollars wus raised within a few mo
ments Inst Sunday.
Brother Wilson, of that , pretty
little sheet, the Patterson Advance,
was in town this week. We were
pleased to learn that our brother is
succeeding admirably with his new
enterprise, while he rc|iorts
bright future for blackberries
Coffee Cnuntv Gazette, South
j Georgia Land Agentnnd Waycross
Headlight subscription list con
solidated, and reaching, all ovet
five counties in Southern Georgia,
offer to the advertiser the best
nicdum ever before, given them.
Mesdim.es TfT—T. Kcttwm, and
T. K. Tindall, of Hoboken, were in
town last Monday, and came to
seethe Headligbt. nbnat printing
bv-laws and < nnsljtution for an
Indeimndet Order "ot Good Tem
plars, recently organized at that
place.
Before many years have pass
ed seine of the Streels of Way-
cross will present a most beau
tiful appurauce. Tlie-trees in
sente places will have formed n
arch across the Stiects, beneath
which the treaty pedestrian
may hide from* the Summer
sun’s heat.
sold at SIty cent} a bottle, and
Bucklcn’a Arnica Salve at 25c. per
box by Folks & Morgan’s.
Dickey’s
EYE WITH
Believes at once. Cures weak and in
flamed Eyes >n a few bouts without
pain or danger. The best Eye prepara
tion in tho world. Price only 23 cento;
ask for it. Have no other. Sofdbyall
dealers. Dickey Jc Anderson,
aprii 7-80. Bristol, Tcnn.
man, of Jacksonville, aro in town.
Tho Ladies are requested to call
arid see B. Sirinans’ Now spring
goods.
The ’ Lillies r oY tlie Episcopal
Church Aid Society will have an
Easter Festival at Oleraan’s Hall,
on the 12th of April. Donations of
any kind will bcthankfully receiv
ed, from the citizens of Waycross,
at the hall during the day.
C. C. Crawley, the foshinablo
barber, whose dll'll is elsewhere, is
a skilled artist, and keeps a neat
shop,- where patrons are always
served in a becoming manner. J.
W. Wiliams, an expert with the
shears and razor is at this shop,
at which he has made an ex
cellent reputation. Strangcts will
receive polite attention at Crawly’s
shop.
All ASSURED FACT.
At conference last Saturday
uight the subject of education wus
under discussion, when Mr. H.
Murphy informed the meeting that
all, or most of the material for
building an academy had been so-
secured and tho work would he
pushed forward at once. This is
good news, and when Mr. Murphy
says anything like that there is
sure to he something done right
away.
CABKYIXO 1
a myth, but erred. It was | prove true. There is a bitch
Bevil’s tenant approached, the
snake was making venomous
efforts to strike them with its
tail end.—Valdosta Times.
Perham, of the Quitman Free
Press, says one of the merchants
of that town, leaves his shfe wide
open, inasmuch as there is noth
ing in it and he does not want the
burglar to ruin it by boring holes
in it.
Editor Ellenwood, of the
Blackshear Georgian, advises us
to tarry at “Jericho until our
beard grows longer.” If he is a
living specimen of those who
“tarried,” we beg to be ex
cused.
Brother Bennett, of Waresboro,
was at Love-feast last Sunday
and interested his friends by an
enjoyable recital of his experiences
in different phases of religious
life. Brother Bennett must come
again.
The Sunday Excursion Tickets
sold by the Brunswick and West
ern railroad are becoming very
popular at all points along the
line. We are glad to see the ef
forts of the management in giving
An anniversary and children’s
meeting will be held ot the M. E.
church, bh Hazzard’s hill, next
Sunday evening at’ 2 o’clock, P. M.
All the Sunday Schools inviLed to
attend. General P. Washington,
Misses Emma Roberts, Este.la
Todd and others will leisure on
thcoccasiou.
J. C. Alley, P. C.
We call the readers a.tention to
the card of Messrs. J. E. Hendrick
son it Co., Fruit,- Produce and
Live Stock Commisinn Merchants,'
Philadepbia Penn. These gentle
men are recommended by the lead
ing banks and fifths of tho coun
try as fully responsible, therefore,
-shippers of fruits and melons
' would do well to patronize them.
A young man employed by
Mr. H. W. Reed as milk-peddler,
will leave for his home nt Balti
more this week, but will return
this Fall. He says he is in love
with the South and thinks our
country the best ho hits over
lived in. This opinion is ex
pressed by Hr. Geo. Walters, of
Cedar Full, Iowa. Como South,
brethren: come south.
Space in the Trade Edition
the Headlight for September is
being taken np this early in the
day, and from the present outlook
we' will have to’publish twelve or
sixteen pages instead of eight as
announced. Aside from our reg-
CEDAK FALLS, IOWA.
Waycboss Headlight: I re
ceived the papers you sent mo
and am ever, so much obliged to
you for your kind ness in sending
them ns we are always glad to
read the news of the piosperous
town of Waycross. Please con
tinue to send the papers regular-
ly-
Iu the Spring of tlio year
1883 I went North to Dekota to
invest, and February 1884 I
went through I linois, Indiana,
Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama
and Georgia, through Waycross
to Florida, and there was no
place that suited me as well as
Waycross, which is a railroad
center, and lias the natural ad
vantages to become one of the
best towns in the State. I invest
ed some in your beautiful little
town, and have a considerable
amount of property here which,
as soon as 1 can dispose of, I
intend to come there and in
vest.
If the Northern and Eastern
people knew the kind of land
and climate you have they
would all sell out here and coino
and invest there.
This Northern land is ail
rjghl, but the winters are too
long and severe, lasting from
six to seven mouths. We had
very heavy snow storm on the
night of March 26lh, and there
is a foot of snow on the ground
now. In the coldest weather
the ice is from two to three feet
thick ou the river,
I will close hoping it will not
be verv long betore I will be
enjoying tho genial climate of
Georgia.
George Walters.
Cedar Falls, Iowa,
March 28, ’87.
The Headlight is delighted
to know it is so woll received
in the land of “ice and snow,'
and carries on its face an in-
.„ vitatiun fromonr people to those
METHoDisr cuuacu service. who read it to “come and abide
Ihe ; service at the Methods with U s.” Here there is room for
thousands, on lands that are
cheap enough to come within
the reach of all. Our winters
Last Sunday Rev. Mr. Loyd,
our able and beloved Presiding
Elder, preached a sermon oil
Foreign Missions, which was not
only one of the most forcible we
ever had the fortune to hear, hut
was tbrillingly .interesting, and
pronounced by friends, both crit
ics and adutirers,aS a noble effort
lit behalf of the-fiBosfer’s -cause:—
After the sermon the congregation
furnished the finances, $200 10, to
carry the war against sin into for
eign lands.
SUNDAY SCHOOL convention.
The Georgia State Sunday
school Association trill hold its
fourteenth annual session
Americus, Ga., Wednesday, Thurs
day and Friday, April 27th, 28th
and 29th, 1887. AH County Asso
ciations are expected and earnest
ly requested to send delegates.
One delegate for every three hun
dred scholars in each County As
sociation is required, whose names
should bo forwarded to Rev. A. M.
Williams, at Americus, and to J.
C. Courtney, State Secretary, At
lanta, Go.
somewhere—tho precise location
we do not know, (tbout the right
of wny, but we presume that wilt
be amicably arranged. Dough-
county ha9 -i aised $16,000 of tho
$25,000 asked of hor. Columbus
about four feet and six inches
long, and the horn on the tip of
his tail was about a quarter of
an inclt in length. The teptile
was of dark reddish brown col
or, reaembliug a chicken snake
somewhat. It was found and has raised $51,500 being $1,500
Mr. more than, her quota. Dawson
' has raised her share, and Chat
tahoochee county is iu the same
category. Every thing is prop-
itons for the early commence
ment of work on this enterprise,
and when once inaugurated, CoL
Jordan will push the work with
nil possible expedition.—Bruns
wick Herald.
WASE SUPERIOR COURT,
Superior Court, with His Honor,
Judge Spencer R, Atkinson, on-
the bench, the Solicitor and the
usual number of lawyers, conven
ed last Monday morning.
The Grand Jury waa sworn in
and received an able and lucid
church from Judge Atkinson after
which it retired to weigh the mat
ters of the county in the scale of
reason and justice. Composed of
intelligent, honest men, the pro
ceedings, which will appear noxt
week, will doubtless be interesting.
The civil docket waa taken up
and tho following cases disposed
of up to Tuesday evening: Darnell
& Susong va. W. F. Monroe—ver
dict for plaintiff; Wm. Mosely vs.
Ann Eliza Wosely, libel fbr divorce
dismissed; Lemuel Wcathevy vs.
\V. P. Hancock and T. P. - tie,
claimant—verdict for plaintiff
Tho dockets are heavy and the
Court may bo detained most of the
week.
The Headlight ia under obliga
tions to the efficient Clerk of
Court, Mr. \V. M. Wilson, fur cour
tesies. Full proceedings next
week.
highly encouraging. During the
meeting now in session daily, fif
teen have been united with tho
church, making a total for tbc
year of forty-six.
Miss Jennie Smith, National
Superintendent Railway Depart
ment of “Woman’s Christan Tem
perance Union,” will arrive this
evening and Dike part in the ser
vices now pending. The morning
services each day- are highly en
joyed by all who go.
UR. J. E. B. LOVE.
This gentleman, who has been
our local passenger agent for so
long, has resigued his position at
this place to accept another else
where.
Joe leaves a host of friends be
hind him, who wish him success
wherever he goes. His familiar
face will be. missed at the depot,
not only by the local patrons of
the road, but by hundreds of our
northern visitors, who have re-
the public advantages never before 1 ular subscription list the copies
enjoyed, so highly appreciated. “* -«n
The Blackshear Georgian, in
alluding to us declares it has no
ammunition to “waste on dead
ducks ” No, brother, it would
be useless, it takes something
stronger titan gas to maicc dead
ducks.'
The iufallible editor of the
Blackshear Georgian intimates
in strong language that he nevet
makes mistakes, still, he claint-
that Cleveland's admistration is
a mistake. What a pity it was
that Editor Ellenwood was not
elected instead of Mr. CTcvc-'.aud,
a* President,
are short and never very severe,
while the piue. forests furnish
millions of cords of wood to
build firesWith that we may
make our homes comfortable
“while the bowling blasts rage
without.” It appears to us that
if there is one particular part of
God’s earth blessed more than
another, it must be South Geor
gia. Here we have good water,
good health, fertile lunds, im-
ineuso forests for timber for
houses, fences and manufactur
ing purposes, good schools,
pleuty of churches, ample rail
road facilities and everything,
apparently, a person may desire
fur comfort on this earth, while
the religious influences brought
to bear upon every one who
“tarries with us” will afford an
opportunity to transfer the
ceived many official courtesies affections of earth on “Eden’s
at his hands.—Thomaiyille Eli- lands of rest,” beyond the dark
terprise.
UOHICIDE IS CLINCH.
Information just reached us
this week of a homicide in the
lower part of Clinch county,
near the Okefenoko Swamp;
The difficulty occurrrcd three
week ago.
Mr. lianfoord Allen, Jr., and
neighbor named Tumbliu,
river.
Let our brother at Cedar
Falls come to us as soon as his
private uffairs will ailow him to
do so, and bring along others
who desire to come where the
trees are now dressed in Spring
array, corn is up, vegetation
growiugaud the macking-bird
trilling his S a n.nsr sou-;. God
bless our country, God bless our
a neignoor namea iumDiiu,
quarreled about burning the i Northern friends,
woods. Alien turned to walk I M rite again, brother \Y
sent out gratuitously will reach
near five thousand readers.
mean business, and wiQeclipsc
anything ever published in South
ern Georgia. . p-, :
The Blackshear Georgian is
nnerv with Mr. Cleveland be
cause lie has not turned all Re
publicans out, nud says if the !'"' Write again, brother Wa'lcri.
Rvpublicnna were m power all woods. Allen turnon to waa
the Democrats would bo turned iaway when rumbiln struck him | , ,,
*l>,i, , wo vearp jj r I n the head with an ax, from Fine Florida Svrup and Msg-
Clew! m'd i» renderin'- "got*i which Allen died a week after, nolia.hams, together with a ltn* of —- —
rnr e-'M ” while our able chris-' Tumbliu has so far escaped family and fancy groceries sold | conferned.-Cnnstutioo.
fore-.,I, wnue our aoie. enris . 1 under a quarautee at South A . ■ .
tain brother would have lain to ar ^, * . ,, • <tharn v a 1
that ti-.A rW-1 Ihese men were connected by * W ood-sawn. Cross-cut ana Dte«-
ofj Agricultural Furnace*, at Black . ton Hand-pawn, at Blackfthmu £
Lour Mitchell’*. .IF*.
iiF
THE NAVAL STOKES IXTKRE.iT.
’ reAaps the busiest, most
cnegetic and most earnest of
associate bodies in this state is
the Naval Stores Manufacturer’s
association, which was organized
in Georgia last year. There
seems to be nothing perfunctory-
about the purposes of this as
sociation. Tho officers selected
to look after the interests of"the
naval stores men huvo hot per
mitted the gra$3 to grow under
their feet. They have insisted
on the rights of the men they-
represent; they have instituted
and pushed forward-investiga
tions into abuses in ihe trade,
and they have secured lower
rates of freight over the roads
iu this state.
In fine they have pushed tint
interests of the naval stores men
so effectively that they have
succeeded in etirring up some
of the slow-coaches in Savannah
and other nova) stores markets.
This has been the result of their
attempts to rectify certain
serious abuses in the handling
and-marketing of naval stores.
They probably have a tough con
test before them in this matter,
but that they will finally succeed
cannot be doubted.
This much is carlaht, that (he
agitation which has been tl^e '
result of the officers of the as
sociation has already accom
plished great good and has ben
efited producers in all parts of
ttie slate. The association is
not only firmly established but
is regarded as a necessity.
A circular signed by President
Johnson and Vice-Preident
Brantley informs us that a con
vention of naval stores manufre-
turers of Georgia will be held at
Jssup on Monday, April II.
This convention has been called
by the association for the pur
pose of discussing various
matters of vital importance to
naval stores producers. The
convention will also consider
the several features of the pro
posed naval stores bill which ia
to bo submitted to the general
assembly at its July session. It
is understood that tbe proposed
act shall remedy many glaring
evils that aro the result of the
present system of inspection at
the ports, which, os is feared,
has brought Georga roiin into
f | suspicion so far us the trade is
do otherwise
trine you have preached, gooJ marriage and lived in a ntilo
brother ’ each other.— \ aldnstn Tinf-p.
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