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W«. PARKER, Paornnrro*.
J. SI. FREEMAN, Epnon.
WAYCROSS.
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THE WAR CORRESPONDENT.
the wounded, but that right *M nothing
like the horrible field of Isandlwana.
Later on I aaw the dead body of the
young Prince Imperial. He was a lad of
greatbrightnesa, and 01
Eeexi
The Greatest of all War Correspond*
ents Describes Some of the Trials
of His Profession.
Archibald Forbes, the greatest living
War Correspondent, add in the course of
with a locket attached,
picture of his mother. We took this off
and sent it to the Empress, and then care*
tire of the New York Hail and Repress:
“The peaceful citizen who reads in his
morning paper the full details of a battle
i perhaps fought the previous
s thinks of the perils and dan-
day, little ^
gers the correspondent on the field of bat
tle has togo through to tend the infor-
Prevkras to 1870 the duty
ions and cast a gloom over me, that I
should see this young Prince receive, as
his father called it, his baptism of fire at
* heron, and then a few years latersee
a corpse on a foreign field.”
Wayne—Third Mondays in March and
October.
Pierce—Fourth Mondays in March and
October.
Ware—First Mondays in April and
November.
Coffee—Tuesday after second Monday
in April and November. #
Charlton—Tueeday after third Monday
in April and November.
Camden—Fourth Mondays in April
and November.
Glynn—Beginning on the first Mon*
days in May and December, and to con
tinue for two weeks, or as long aa the
business may require.
Major General Crook says: “It la my
firm conviction that the Indian should
have the full rights of the American citi
zen, including the ballot. ■ I know that I
may bo considered hasty, but I says
‘Give them the ballot new.’”
The people of Dodge City, Kansas, are
now marveling over the discovery of a
large bone, which has recently been
brought into that city from a point about
sixty-five southwest, near the Ci
marron river. This mammoth fossil was
unearthed by some workmen while dig-
-gtin ■ Trill >i Slit iifft of about forty-
five feet, and below a stratum of sand
stone. The length of this colossal femur
is about 0 feet 81-8 inches; weight, 08
pounds;circumference of shaft, 20 inches;
head of bone, (femur,) 24 inches in circum
ference; lower end or knee, 89 inches in
circumference. Further excavations will
be made at an early date with the hope of
discovering the entire skeleton.
Do you know that people like to be
humbugged f’ asked a physician of a
Philadelphia OaU reporter. “It’s a fact,
and a large percentage of the practice
of the most successful doctors is pure
hurabuggery. A great many people are
filled with immaginary ache* and pains.
They’ve had them for years in their
to r
them with a
they consult a physician about them
they do not like to have the matter
pooh-poohed. They do not wish to be
told there is nothing the matter with
them. They want to be told they are
sick; to be sympathized with, and to
be prescribed for. They then pey the
fee willingly. Some of the best and
most persistent patients I have are as
sound as a dollar. I listen to their
recital of their symptoms right along,
prescribe some harmless as well as use
less doae and charge it in my little
bill. It'-is to this little diplomacy of
mine that I attribute much of my
. _ at present Then one
could stand on some hill, watch the bat
tle, decide how it had gone sad post off
his letters. In 1870 a reform came over
this method of doing the work. The sys
tem of sending by telegraph the full par
ticulars of the fight came into use. The
dangers increased. With the use of the
The Department of Agriculture reports
an increase in the total number of horses,
mules, cows ana oxen owned in tins
country as compared with last year. The
greatest.increase, says Bradstrest, is shown
in oxen, while mules show a alight excess
over last year. In the case of sheep and
hogs considerable decreases are shown.
The following table shows the total num
ber at this time and a
period last year:
Stock 1880. 1887. 1
. 12,077,637 13,496,743
1,117,141
14,532,083
33^11,750
44,750,314
Swine 46,002,043 44,612,836
At to values, the decline ha* not been very
•large, being greatest in the case of cattle,
which show the largest increase in num-
y her. Horses, sheep and hogs have in
creased in value, while mules have slightly
decreased. The total values of the va
rious classes of animals are shown in the
following:
Stock. *86. 1887.
Horses. 8*0.833^06 $901,683,735
Mules 163^81,076 107,057,338'
Milch cows 389,983,523 378,789,589
Oxen and other cattle 061,936,274 063,137,926
Sheep 92.443.SC7 89,872,839
Swine..... - 197,509,894 200,0434*1
Totals $2,305,159,562 $2,400,586,83S
The total value of all the farm animals of
the country is placed at $2,400,586,988,
a iucreasc of $85,427,070 over this time
last year. The greater share of the in-
c is due to the increased number and
The decline in the valoe
charged chiefly to the
kill at two miles, it is im
possible f<Jt the war correspondent to
stand out of danger and see how the bat
tle isgoing. He must be in the thick of
the fight, and statistics show that the
percentage of correspondents killed is
greater than the percentage of soldiers
killed. In the recent terrible fighting
Great works are accomplished slowly.
A drop of ink may make a million
think.
Be not simply good, but be good for
something.
Wise men make more opportunities
than they find.
Beware of poison—in books, newspa
pers, or conversation.
Genius without ambition is as useless
a cannon ball without powder.
in the Soudan, out of twenty represents^
.. ... - with the forces,
tires of the press who went
six lie buried in shallow graves
those burninsr deserts.
“Of all the battles I have witnessed,
the battle of Gravelotte was the most ter
rible. The French occupied the heights,
which the Germans tried to carry. The
fighting was done in a valley, which be
came one seething mass_of ■aifsa
wounded and dead. The
up a perfect hail of lead on the German
regiments, which were cut down as fast
as they were marched on to the scene.
Defeat seemed to stare the Germans in
the face, but the men fought for hours.
At last when all seemed lost and as dusk
was quickly settling down over that hot
summer day’s scene, the Prussian King,
now the Emperor William, came forward
showedhimself to the men. He sat
and
down on a board with his back to a
church wall on the top of a hill and
1 horse and one on a broken
saw him and cheering
madly again and again dashed themselvi
against the French heights. Night se
tied down and still the fight went o:
fight went on.
The King sat in silence watching throuj *
Bismarck sat atliis side,
and troubled. For hours they
. the battle gradually getting fur
ther and further away. At last the sound
of a horse’s hoofs was heard and a horse
man dashed out cf the gloom and dis
mounted in front of the King. '
Fa* ***.D .....
the voyage out
lout receiving a
He lay on the
naked, covered with wounds.
It v
WISE WORDS.
ries do not always bring happini
To live really is to act energetically.
Life is a battle to be fought valiantly.
Grand temples are built of small
stones, and great lives are made up of
small events.
Politeness is like an air-cushion; there
may be nothing in it,but it eases our jolts
wonderfully.
The proud have no friends; not in pros
perity, for then they know nobody; and
not in adversity, for then no one knows
Every one that has t
i long dead 1
a due proportion of praise allotted him,
in which,whilst he lived,h‘
his friends were
too sparing.
too profuse and his
—Addison.
Precept and example, like the blades
of scissors, are admirably
of a pair .. ,
adapted to their end when enjoined;sep
arated, they lose the greatest portion of
their utility.
All the good things of this world are
' than they are of use; and,
s tooth-
further good than
whatever we may heap up to give
ers, we enjoy only as much as we»
and no more.
is the most beneficial of all the
Hope
affectioi . . „
'e, if it be not too often frustra
ted, but entertaiueth the fancy with an
expectation of good.
That inexhaustible good nature, which
is the most precious gift of heavei
spreads itself like oil over the troubli
sea of thought, and keeps the mind
smooth and equable in the roughest
weather.
Holtke. For once he was excited,
face gleaming with excitement, he said;
‘It is good for us, we have carried all.’
The King said: 'God be thanked.’ Bis
marck heaved a sigh of relief, and the
cheers of the victorious soldiers burst out
above everything.
“At the capitulation of Paris the cor
respondents were eager to get into that
unlucky city, and send a description to
their papers. This was a somewhat dan
gerous undertaking. The morning after
the capitulation I secured a pass through
the German lines, nod walked* in to -the
city all well Words cannot describe
the condition of things. I carried in nv
me condition oz things, l earned in my
hand wallet five pounds of ham which
formed the first provisions that were sent
in. I met some of my colleagues there
who had been shut in daring the ‘
They were dining on dog soup and horse
steak, and were eating a peculiar-looking
stuff called bread, which was made chieflv
of sawdust and sand. The horse
was not bad. It bad an odd, sweet taste
with it, but one has to become accus
tomed to it to like it. The dog soup I
did not try.
* ‘After the capitulation followed the aw
ful days of the Commune, when, as M.
Labouchere put it, ‘they shot you first
and apologized to your body afterwards.
One day I had the misfortune to be set
upon by an excited mob who took me for
a German spy. I fought as long as I
could,but finally fell down. The ruffians
then danced a sort of war dance around
me, kicking me in the head as they
passed. I was just becoming unconscious
when a body of police rescued me, and
I was locked up. Next day I was taken
before a Magistrate, and on showing him
my British passport I was released^iorta-
nstely without any broken bones. On
another occasion I was taken a prisoner.
_ with several others stood
against a wall to be shot. The order had
been given to present when an officer
recognized me and I was released.
“In 1877, when operations broke out
“ A " Asians and Turk*,I gained
accomnanv Russian
army. There were alxrot eighty corre
spondents attached to the RussianTrmy,
ig them was the heroic Ameri-
army in Asia Minor.
** r and faithfully de
atrocities that made
civilized world ring with horror. He
went through the expedition with a lame
leg. Before hostilities commenced he
broke a bone in his ankle. When
IBs pen
pictedthi
the civili
the campaign in that cO
died at the early age of
thirty-two, a
martyr to duty. At the taking of the
Shipka Pass I stayed until I could form
a good idea how matters were going,and
then started to ride to Bucharest, a dis-
" of 190 miles. I commenced the
rid^in the evening, and early the next
*_ headquar-
; reached the Imperial '
Later on I saw the heroic Osman Pasha
with a handful of men hold Plevna
against the attacks of the Russians. Puck
has said he would pat a girdle around the
earth in forty minutes. In 1878; in the
Khyber Pass in Afghanistan, I sent a dis
patch to London; The difference of time
is five hours in favor of Afghanistan. I
of Afghanistan. _
10 a. sc., and it ap-
in the London papers in an 8
wonours *
o’clock a. m. edition—two
i before
it was sent off. It was telegraphed onto
and appeared in the re
New York and appeared in the regular
editions of the morning papers, and from
there it was sent on to San Francisco,
where it reached fifteen hours before the
battle actually took place.”
ae of the most horrible eights I
have seen was the field of the
Isandlwana in Zululand. It was four
after the disaster. The 1.000 dead
bodies had been lying bleaching in the
hot sun unburied all that time. The Zulu
had withered away to skeletons
encased in skins that had become like
leather. One could-trace how they
had fallen, and occasionally rallied in
groups to make a desperate stand against
their enemies. The corn which lmd
fallen out of the wagon had sprui
among the dead. I have seen bat '
[>rung up
ittlefielas
dying.
the shrieks and groans of
il&ilBiSliijrtfifii
A Duel with Lassoes on Horseback
Cowboys become very skillful riders,
and they are sometimes fond of “showing
off,” writes J. T. Trowbridge in the
Hunters Companion. In Southern Col
orado I witnessed some performances
which were as good as any equestrian
feats I ever saw. A cowboy rode through
picking up whatever was thrown
way before him—a lint, a whip, a hand
kerchief. This he did by shooting from
the ground, while he held on by the' oth
er and by his feet, and springing up into
his place again without even slackening
speed.
Then he galloped through the streets,
lassoing, dogs, cattle, and even his
friends. I noticed that the rope was
gathered in a coil, with a noose at the
end about six feet long; this was swung
around the rider's head several times,
and finally projected twenty to thirty
feet, with surprising accuracy, at the ob
ject to be captured. A dog usually
slipped his head out of the loop as it
tightened, and ran away yelping; but a
horned creature had to ’wait until re
leased.
But the most exciting fun was when
two cowboys, in picturesque * ‘
fantastically fringed leather
mounted on the briskest of ponies, at
tempted lassoing each other. As one
flung his rope, the other would dodge it
by dropping down on his horses neck, or
leaning over the side of his saddle; then
he would spring up and fling his rope in
turn. ✓
Once both were noosed; then it was
diverting to see the trained horses pull
and back and brace themselves, and the
men Haul at the ropes, each trying to
' * * s time to
free himself and at the same
drag down his antagonist. The
seemed to understanathe friendly v
and to enjoy it as well as the men,
though they themselves sometimes got
lassoed over the neck or about the legs.
Toiees or Spring.
Just listen! There is an old bull frog,
on the margin of the stream, with one
leg in the water, by way of a cooler.
How he thrums away on his bass-viol:
“Thung, thong, thong, thang,
poutchung?” The little frogess
plays the treble -to a charm,
uuss-viui:
BT, thing,
te-nee
down she darts into the water, her great-
toe awfully mangled with a stone from
cruel boy; but, boys, this is wrong.
mangled with a
>oy; but, boys, thi
Then there is the old leader, „
eyed monster! dressed in yellow breeches,
and white sash around him. Hear him
as he stands up so majestically against
that reed: “Paddy got drank, paddy
got drunk, oonk, unk.” And'down he
goes to wet his whistle. Then flutters a
tribe to go
‘Bobolink, bobolink, stingy,
stingy; so sweet, sweet, she’ll die soon,
oh, dear 1” “Pshaw, pshaw, chuck!”
thrills the brown thrasher. “Miw,mew,
mew,” squeaks the catbird. “Who whip-
poor-will I” cries one. “Katy-did, Katy
did,” thrills another. “I’ll come and see,
I will, will, will,” sings the yellow bird.
And so sing they all In their unwritten
music, without, perhaps, a discordant
note.—Ben: Perley Poore.
Two Kinds of Fools.
One evening I was walking in the lobby
f a Boston theatre with Dr. A. It was
the first night of a new play, and Dr. A.
was expressing his contempt of the work
in no measured terms when the author ol
the peace came toward us. “Well,” he
asked, with brisk abruptness, “how do
n “Mydeei
you like my play!” “My dear fellow, r
Dr. A. answered without an instant’s
should be so proud of it there
no living with me.” I dragged Dr. A.
along before the gratified author had
ceased to beam with satisfaction over this
compliment. “I only told him the truth,*
he said to me; “if I had been fool enough
to write that stuff I should be fool enough
There are nearly a million mor
males than males in England and Wales.
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Heavy Wagons and Harness.
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janlO-lfim-vogo
Wholesale Dealers and Manufacturers’ Agents,
WAYCROSS, GA.
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GENERAL MERCHANDISE.
C. C. VARNEDOE,
VALDOSTA, GEORGIA,
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has in store and is constantly receiving all the latest designs and novelties in that
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WAYCROSS, - GKH033^3KE A
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and this ia the reason why my goods are always so fresh
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by every arriving train
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