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WAY0E06S, - - - GEORGIA
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The Largest Town Circulation.
The Largest County Circulation.
The Largest General Circulation.
IN WASHINGTON MARKET.
Guarding the 800 Stands From
Thieves—Busy Butchers—Every
thing Eatable Sold.
“The Sixth Avenue Elevated trains at
4:80 o’clock on spring mornings,” says a
New York correspondent of the Detroit
Journal, “are sparsely occupied with
passengers, more than half of whom carry
great empty baskets or wear the rough-
is read by more people
taper published in this sc
Organ of Ware.
Official Organ Of Charlton.
Official Organ of Coffee.
alight at the Park place station
scurry down through narrow streets that
lead toward the North River. They are
any other on to Washington -'Market,
which occupies a square pn the west side
of Manhattan Island. It is always open.
A thief, unversed in its workings, would
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Court Calendar —Brunswick Circuit
Clinch—First Mondays in March and
October.
and^JctllferSecond Mondays in March
Wayne—Third Mondays in March and
October.
Pierce—Fourth Monday* in March and
October.
Ware—First Mondsys in April and
November.
Coffee—Tuesday after second Monday
in April and November.
Charlton—*
in April and Noveml
Camden—Fourth Mondays in April
and November,
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tinue for two weeks, or as long aa the
»m*r require.
Dr. Henry D. Cogswell, a San Fran<
cisco millionaire, has given $1,000,000 to
found a trade school for boys and girls in
thnt city. This is a princely sum given
for an object worthy of all praise.
This rhythmical invitation is extended
by the Louisville Courier-Journal:
Come South, young man,
Where the boom is;
Come South, young man,
" Where the room is.
Jose Sevilla, a Peruvian, who has
eently bequeathed $500,000 to found an
asylum for young girls ih New York, laid
the foundation of his fortune by the im
portation of Chinese into his native
country. He came to this country and
invested in bonds and railroad securities.
He was mercenary in the extreme and
never indulged in the amenities of social
life. He was a very successful specula
tor, and his fortune is estimated at
$1,500,000. Before coming to this coun
try he had occupied the position of Min
ister of Finance in Peru. His great
hobby was to be known after death as a
great philanthropist He had a high ad
miration for New York. Sevilla left this
country about a year ago, and died in
January at Lima.
A writer in the Chautauquan says that
“the applications of electricity are daily
becoming more varied, and the remark
able growth of electrical industries is
subject of interest to most observing
people. It is difficult to realize that
only ten years ago the cpmmcrcial appli
cations 6f electricity with which the
public was familiar might have been
summed up in the electric telegraph and
its subsidiary systems, and yet, such is
the fact Nevertheless, the money value
of the capital invested in electrical enter
prises at the present time is probably
only exceeded, in any single industry,
by the amount invested in steam trans
portation and in municipal gas lighting.
This rapid extension of the electrical arts
is not largely due, however, to the dis
covery of new principles nor to inventions
of a revolutionary character, bat chiefly
to the perfecting of details and practical
modifications in old systems operated by
well-known methods.”
A farmer residing near Vandalia,Ohio,
is the last victim of the “paint swindle.”
A short time ago a man called at his resi
dence and claimed to have a very supe
rior and cheap article of <( patent paint,”
and backed up the claim by making a
contract to paint the fanner’s house and
barn for $50 complete. 4 The fanner
sighed an “order” for the job, and this
order afterward presented itself in the
shape of a note for $350. Shortly alter
two men drove up to the farm house and
proceeded to go into spasms, claiming
the “patent paint” as the& own inven
tion, which was being infringed on, but
finally offered a compromise in the shape
of doing the job themselves for a certain
sum, and -standing between the fanner
and the former Contractor. A sum of
money was also paid this cargo of swin
dlers, and another contract drawn up,
which turned up promptly as a note for
$155, with the first note for $350 being
pressed for payment, besides the cash in
vested. Notwithstanding the many
warnings of the press, farmers all over
the country are continually allowjpg
themselves to be swindled by signing ap
parently harmless papers presented by
strangers
fresh meat hanging apparently
w led at the stalls, but before he
would have time
on? of the six watchmen on duty in the
market would appear from its fleshy
i and arrest him. Before leaving
each meat dealer makes out a list
of his wares exposed. The watchmen
carry a corresponding list, and are held
responsible for the loss of any goods by
theft. The six watchmen guard the 800
stands so closely that thieves find the
lace a barren waste for their trade. At
o’clock the stands in the retail market
begin to open.
The eminently healthy butchers in the
place whistle merrily and several of them
are cutting beef kidneys out of great,
masses of fat and tossing the suet over
on counters, whence it will be taken to
the big factory known as the fat associa
tion, and there made up to the base of
“genuine dairy butter.” Beyond the
retail market, and bounded on one side
by the North River, is the wholesale de-
. * of Washington Market. It
i street intersected community
ry structures, peopled with
carcasses of beef, veal ana mutton, and
crates of quacking, cackling fowls.
A wheezing tug tows up to the wharf a
lighter, on which are several refrigerator
cars that have been hurrying from Chi
cago with their loads of beef. The car
casses are passed out of tile car, hung on
hooks that move on iron ways
and thus rolled into great ice
houses, where the retail dealers have
already begun to come for their stock.
On Friday and Saturday mornings busi
ness begins at 2 o'clock. Roosters in the
crates full of fowl crow as blithely as if
they were on their perches at home and
not doomed prisoners. Philadelphia is
the great fowl-producing centre, and
many Washington Market firms display
plackards reading: ‘ ‘Philadelphia poul
try a specialty.”
Four o’clock comes and the retail de
partment of the market has become quite
densely populated. Half of the 3,000
persons who do business in and about the
market have already arrived and begun
to arrange their wares. A few early pur
chasers arc on hand for choice bargains.
Several shivering bummers who frequent
the place and sleep, Heaven knows where,
are standing about and looking wistfully
in at the windows of the little restaurants
in the market. They will, late in the
day, run the chance ot earning an odd
dime or so carrying baskets.
The poultry dealers have come and are
unpacking boxes of frozen turkeys. Of
the Western States Iowa is famous for
its frozen turkeys, which now sell at 14
to 15 cents a pound. Vermont and
Rhodc-Island turkeys, however, sell for
20 to 23 cents.
On the bills of fare of recherche
restaurants one learns that prairie chicken
can be had. They are not in the market,
but long rows of Guinea hens are hang
ing there, and the brunette flesh of the
Guinea hen is palmed oil on the 'un
suspecting customer for prairie chicken.
Rows of adult pigeons that sell at $2.50
a dozen are on sale, and clusters of young
pigeons, alias squabs, are worth $5 a
dozen.
At six o’clock the oyster stands are
peopled with files of oyster openers who
begin their unromantic toil of turning
3,000 oysters a day out of house ami
home. These oyster openers get $17.50
a week and work from 0 in the morning
until 7 at night, and on Saturday until 10.
Skilled oyster openers in other sections
of the city work for $1 a thousand and
make $30 or more a week. Anglomania
has evidently entered into the game
trade, for English snipe are selling at
$2.75 a dozen and sand snipe at bi
$1.50.
Everything eatable is sold in this great
market. At one stand that has a foreign
air and odor a customer is buying little,
hard, spiced cakes from Germany. Over
another stand in the fish community is a
placard announcing that the dealer has
worms that can be had there for 10
and 16 cents a dozen. They are sand
worms, used by fishermen for bait. Over
the fish stands hang bottles of cod liver
oil, and under one of these bottles a big
cod, still alive, is gasping in horror, as if
at the tight of the essence of an ancestor’s
liver.
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL
A map showing the distribution of fog
a the various parts of the earth has just
een published by Admiral T. de Bort.
The observations upon which it is based
ere made at 1,600 land and 112,000
arine stations.
A French traveler recently discovered
some bee-hives in a gigantic eucalyptus
tree in Australia. The honey was strongly
scented with the perfume of the' Bowers
of the tree; and Prof. Thomas Karaman,
who has examined it, believes it to have
medicinal properties.
A German inquirer has, it is stated,
taken four heads of hair of equal weight,
and than proceeded to count the indi
vidual hairs. One (red) was found to
contain 90,000 hairs; another (black),
108,000; a third (brown) had 109,000,
and the fourth (blonde) 140,000.
A committee on lighting the Paris Ex
hibition of 1889 has reported favorably
on a plan for the use of every known
means of illumination. The total amount
of light to be furnished is estimated at
2,850,000 standard candles, said to be
upward of five times the intensity pro
duced by the whole of the gas lamps of
Paris.”
The most healthful temperature for the
human body to live in, ssys a writer in
the Scientific American, is about Seventy
degrees Fahrenheit. The more rooms
that are kept heated in a house, the less
draughts will be found. Especially heat
the halls; it will not take much more
coal, and will avoid forcing your heater*
or stoves, and enable you to keep easy
fires.
A new industry in the South has
developed another use for pine needles
beside that of spreading an aromatic odor
through the embroidered covering of a
fine pillow. One product of the pine
needles is a remarkably strong oil that
possesses many medicinal virtues. Another
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and'
woolj which is bleached, dyed
woven. The wool is a fleecy brown
given It value as a moth destroyer when
used as a carpet lining. A strong, cheap
matting is made from the wool, useful
for halls, stairways and offices.
The Engineering News, in the course of
a long article on the substitution of steam
heat for stove heat in railway cars, shows
that no more than from 2J to per cent,
of the locomotive’s supply of steam is re
quired for heating the average train. It
Tbs Bar. Canon WHberforoe, M. A., ot
England, arrived in New Yorkrecently. He
is one of the ablest and most eloquont
be obtained
without reducing t
heating surface, decreasing the speed or
decreasing the loss by radiation. It is
only necessary to push the fires a little
when the locomotive is on a level or
down a grade, and .to use steam that can
be spared while the train is resting at
stations.
N. 8. Shaler, in a lengthy article in
Scribner'sbn “The Stability of the Earth,”
sums up his considerations as follows:
“ The continent of North America north
of Mexico seems, from historic as well as
natural evidence, to be in the main free
er of earth-
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A. R. BENNETT,
(Near Grand Central Hotel)
WAYOROSS, Q\A..
DEALER IN
General Merchandise,
Gents’ and Ladies’ Furnishing Goods,
Gents,’ Ladies’ and Children’s Boots and Shoes,
Full Line of Family Groceries, Com Oats Bran
and other Plantation Farm and Sill Supplies.
PM limes, Heals and Other Necessaries.
Saddlery, Stoves, Sewing Machines, Buckets,
Tubs., and Other Articles too Numerous
To Mention.
—GIVE MB ^ TRIAL.
May 25-12m
A. R. BENNETT.
MONEY TALKS AT WAYOROSS!
Hardware, Tinware, Agricultural
Implements.
Heavy Wagons aud Harness.
For Mills and Turpentine Distilleries,
Buggies and Rugy Harness Ranges,
Stoves, and House-Furnish
ing Goods, Guns,
Pocket and Table Cutlery, Powder, Shot, &c.
Blackshear & Mitchell.
W. M. WILSON,
WAYOROSS, - GBOBGIA
DIALER nr
•FANCY AND FAMILY
GROCERIES.
SPECIALTIES s
Magnolia Hanots, High Grads Sugars, Coffees, Rico, Butter, Lard, Bacon, Dried
Fruit, Irish Potatoes, Scgars, Pipes, Tobaccos, Canned Goods, Eta
whom the marketmen treat 3
l great
.venue Hotel is one of the
first in the field; the Union Square Hotel
steward comes at 9 o’clock, and of Tay
lor’s Hotel, in Jersey City, half an hour
later. At that hour the business of the
market begins to be confusedly brisk.
The marketmen cry their wares, but do
it with an air of “I don’t care much
whether you buy ox not.” Everybody
seems independent He owns his stand
privilege, worth from $2,000 upward,
and holds it as long as he behaves him
self and pays his rent of $7 or more a fort
night Failures in business are rare. The
dealers are healthy and contented, and to
them Washington Market is the universe.
One who has not been in business in the
market over forty years is considered a
newcomer. One bustling old woman,
who was selling Florida-strawberries at
thirty-five cent* a quart, is up at 2 o’clock
every morning buying her stock. She is
Mrs. Fowler, and a cordial neighbor ex
plains that she has been on the market
forty-one years. She made a fortune
once, and owned a brown-stone front, but
misfortune and the sickness of her chil
dren turned the tide against her, and now
she is comparatively poor, bnt as happy
as ever.
The tradesmen are very neighborly and
take pride in relating the history of .the
old market. Trinity Church gave the
city a part of the market, and what is
. now-known as the Trinity Church section
is a long alley where the butter dealers
are. The tradespeople point out their
with pride. Among
quakes, which a
to architecture,
part of its surface appears to be liable
shocks which, though slight, may be very
destructive to* life and property, if we
presist in our present flimsy methods of
arcitectural construction. Good for
tune has given us a tolerably safe abiding
place for our race in this country. We
can almost everywhere safely put our trust
in it, provided we are willing to take
some care as to methods of constructing
buildings.”
WISE WORDS.
That cheerfulness is the weather of the
heart.
That sleep is the best stimulant, a
nervine safe for all to take.
That it is better to be able to say “no”
than to be able to read Latin.
Hope is the mainspring of happiness;
resolution is the secret of success.
TJie first symptom of a mind in health
is rest of heart and pleasure felt at home.
That it is not enough to keep the poor
in mind; give them something to keep
you in mind.
That men often preach from the house--
tops, while the devil is crawling in at the
basement below.
Wc may choose a life of sin with all its
consequences, but we cannot choose a
life of sin without its consequences.
That life’s real heroes and heroines are
those who bear their own burdens bravely
and give a helping hand to those around
them.
A wise man will observe the rules of
propriety; jet there are cases where it
That hasty words often rankle in the
wound which injury gives, and that soft
wprds assuage it; forgiving cures, and
forgetting takes away the scar.
Big Doctor’s Bills.
The public often marvels at the prices
paid by rich persons for art objects.
Greater surprise might be caused by the
urns given to physicians for the pn
ration of health. It has been said
Miss Wolfe, the hopeless invalid, owner'
of $10,000,000, pays Dr. William Tod
Hclmuth $6,000 a year to doctor her. She
confirms those figures. Mrs. Alexander
T. Stewart retained three doctors at an
aggregate cost of at least $40,000, and
called in one of them nearly every day.
She had what seemed like a system,, by
which she abided by the decision of two
out of three in matters of diet and medi
cine. Mrs. William Astor. pays to' Dr.
Fordice Barker personally an average of
$20,000, always sending a .check for
double or treble the amount of each bill
rendered. Her idea is that by rewarding
his skill and vigilance liberally she will
get the very best service of which he is
capable. Airs. Cornelius Vanderbilt’s
physician is Dr. W. S. Belden, and
though her health is excellent he is con
sulted often, prevention being preferable
to cure, doubtless, and the belief is that
the prevention costs not less than $10,000
annually.—Nete Tort letter.
“Bignlflers.”
A super-refined lady entered a St.
' * ' other day and
“dignifiers.”
started up the center
state of bewilderment
wanted. At length he
plucked up courage enough to request the
fair customer to be a little more explicit,
as he was ignorant of what she meant by
“dignifiers.” With a look of scorn she
replied: “Bustles, sir.”
celebrities withp
'these is a
million and works at his meat
stand as if to keep the wolf away.
An experienced mother, who had
brought up a large family of children with
eminent success, was once asked by a
younger one what she would recommend
In the case of some children who were too
anxiously educated; and her reply
“I think, my dear, a little whole)
neglect.” ? : * ’ . .. -, “Vj
BILLIARD & POOL ROOM
All Goods Delivered Free.
UHLFELDER A CO.,
Waycross, Georgia.
Furniture of a! Styles ini Qnaltttes!
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CHAMBER SETS, IN PINE, POPLAR ft WALNUT.
Mattresses, Springs, Matting.
Mow Mis, Ml Criis, Bosil Hols,
ETC., ETC.
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HOT WEATHER SUITS.
Country Merchants who cater to a trade that they i
no better medium than o
d anxious to hold, can hav.
Fashionable Clothing.
Having all our 8uits made under Personal Supervision, and con-
, suiting always the prevailing requirements as to Fabrics
and Cut, we are able to offer superior in
ducements to the trade in the way of
Job Lots and Extra Drives, always
the latest Metropolitan Fashions!
Special Sizes In Saits to fit Fat, Thin, Short or Tall men. _ /SFl
Our C. O. D. System
Han our most careful attention; rules for self-measurement sent free on request
Suits sent to responsible parties with privilege of examination before pay
ing. Money refunded in every case where satisfaction is not given.
OUR SPRING AND SUMMER SUITS, HATS-Soft, Stiff and Straw,
UNDERWEAR, NECKWEAR, FURNISHINGS, ETC.,
Excel any Similar Stock South.
Prices always the Lowest Consult us before buying.
161 Congress St., - - SAVANNAH, UA
B. H. LEVY a BRO.
REDDING & WALKER,
Physicians and Surgeons,
The Carious Kernes Oak.
The Botanical Gardens, London, have
succeeded in cultivating the curious
Kermes oak which, when punctured by
one of the coceus insects, produces the
ancient, blood red dye supposed to have
been usedby Moses to tjnt the hangings
of the tabernacle. The Kermes oak is a
dwarf, bushy shrub, somewhat resembling
a hrilj^and grows profusely in Spain.—
There are about 1,100 more children
between t v c ;i„a*s of four and sixteen in
Conn'cliru. this year limn l:ist.
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL
Druggists and Apothecaries.
PAINTS, OILS AND
VARNISHES,
Perfumery, Soaps and Brushes
Wholesale Agents for I*. I*. P.
Our Prescription Department is under the care of one skilled in the theory and
practice of pharmacy, and customers may rely on the careful preparation of pro
•criptions.
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Orders for Fancy and Plain
Job Printing receive prompt at
tention at this offioe.
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Wholesale Dealers and Manufacturers’ Agents,
WAYCROSS, GA.
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Ig^Tlease call and Examine our stock and we will Convince You._^Fl
Agents for LUDDEN & BATES S. 2#. H. Pianos and Organs, on Easy Terms
may 20-12m
’ FANCY DRESS GOODS, ~
MILLINERY, NOTIONS
C.
GENERAL MERCHANDISE.
C. VARNEDOE,
VALDOSTA, GEORGIA,
. Is headquarters for Millinery and Dress Goods in this section of Georgia. H
has in store and is constantly receiving all the latest designs and novelties in that
line. He is headquarters for
OTJSTOM - IbAAJDIES SHOES.
He is also headquarters for General Merchandise, and all other articles found in
an elaborate establishment dealing in specialties and first-class goods. Orders by
matt promptly attended to and satisfaction guaranteed. *op0-18-m
E. H. CRAWLEY
DEALER IN
DRY GOODS AND .NOTIONS,
BOOTS, SHOES AND HOSIERY,
»i figures ao low that I defy competition. I eleo cany » foil enppij
HUE, STOVES AID MM! OF MIS,
A (till line of Fencj end Family Groceries elweje on heed. norl-8Mm
GENERAL MERCHANDISE,
WAYCROSS, GEORGIA
My Stock is complete, and embraces everything usually kept in a flrst-elas
store. I make a specialty of
JOB PRINTING
Neatly and Expeditiously
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