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That Big Frets.
Negotiations are now pending
fbtt will soon place in oar office
an improved cylinder prow, which
in capable, with hand power of
printing the Headugut, one aide,
in two lioura, and will produce a
clear, fine impression, making
reading pleasant and easy. Our
patronage in the past six months
has forced us to this addition, and
we saw it some weeks ago and cut
oiT quite a number of delinquents
To the People of ITiiycross, i siiust like dot, (that may have
Coffee, Charlton, Pierce ! been the same tub, too) and
and M'arc Counties. j him sliust fit her so nice as
We have now in press our trade j never vas. 1 on and her bout
edition, of which so much has <Ier same size mens, and you
Iwen said, and of whicli many in- j take it along—I send it to der
quiries have been made. As set, depot free for you, shan’t cost
forth previously, we intended this ■ you von cent, for tree tollar
paper for the benefit of Southern 1 Hear, you?”
Georgia. We have exhausted our : "(.' an ’t see it ”
energies in an effort to have every | ll0y! ’ Vel> you dou > t
man represented, but, we sorrow
to say, wc have not been met by
all the merchants and business
men with the encouragement an
who were badly behind (and we may undertaking of this kind deserves.
add tnat they arc still behind, and
will he behind when Gabriel blows
his horn) hoping to push thr >ugh
on a hand press, but we now see
we can "go no father without a
cylinder power press. The Head
light is already the equal of any
country paper in the land, and
with a fast press, new type and
additional office help we intend to
claim the top round of the ladder.
During our editorial management
of the Headlight, we have lost the
warm support of some friends, but,
we are pleased to know we have
gained twenty where one has for
saken us. ft is impossible for any
inan to edit a paper to please every
•one, yet, we know, we have endeav
ored to discharge our duty to the
people with an eye to the welfare
of the populace, not to the ad
vancement of any particular party,
clique or denomination. That our
cflbr’s are appreciated is shown in
the growth of our business and
the general prosperity of the Head
light, for which we are profound
ly grateful.
A Communication.
H annex's School House, Charl
ton County, September 2.—The
spirit of God, which has been so
graciously poured out upon the
people of this section, is not con
fined to the whites alone. The
colored people have likewise been
aroused from their apathy, and
we are pleased to record a marked
improvement.
A highly inspected colored citi
zen, living near Rawls’ church,
has given the school house lie
built over to his brethren for re
ligious worship. Samuel Hannon
is well-known to white and colored
as an energetic, intelligent, honest
colored man. This act of his has
done much good aniong his peo
ple. Once a month, Rev. Samuel
Ross, of Waycross, in earnest and
forcible language, expounds the
scriptures to his race. We have
listened to many less intelligent
white people, ourselves, or so-
called preachers.
We wish there were many more
men of the same calibre as these
two Samuels. It would be better
for both racer. II.
Jesup Note*.
Miss Floy Caswell, of Homer*
ville, who has been visiting Mrs.
(S. W. Drn’wdy, returned to her
home cn Sunday afternoon.
We regret to note the severe ill
ness of Mm. George F. Armstrong,
and hope that she will speedily
recover.
A party of Jesupites, consisting
of Misses Frank Grady, FlorenA
Grady, Fannie Milikin, Mollie
Slater, and Messrs. Will Knight,
A. Nicholls and Rev. T. W. Ellis,
paid a flying visit to Dale’s Mill,
on Sunday last.
An ice cream party given at the
residence of Miss Minnie Sarvis,
•on Thursday last, was a most en
joyable affair.
Mr. J. B. Fain, one of Jcsup’s
enterprising young men, who was
married to Miss Frances Walker,
of Brunswick, on the 2Sth of Aug-
'ust, returned from Atlanta, with
his charming young bride, on
Sunday afternoon. They had been
visiting his relatives and friends
in the “Gate City.” *
On Thursday evening, the Jesup
Literary Society was organized,
and the following officers elected:
Mr. J. F. Slover, president; Miss
Henimic Little, vice president;
Miss Kiite Ware, treasurer, and
Mr, J; Pearce Smith, secretary.
Dr. F V ,B. McRae and wife, of
Thomasville, formerly of Jesup,
were In town from Sunday after
noon to Monday morning, and
during their short stay many of
their old friends called to welcome
• tliem back in their midst. They
had been visiting relatives in At
lanta, and were on their way
home. . Kappa.
Jesup, Ga.
JUackshear Mitchell.
We have often spoken of this
firm in a complimentary manner,
but have taken pains that we tell
nothing but the truth, because we
•can find enough in that line to tell
about them. Iu addition to carry
ing the largest stock of hardware
in the country they have fitted up
a ware-room lor buggies, wagons,
bells, etc., and in this line. These
gentlemen can compete with any
house in Southern Georgia in
quality and price of every article
in store. Write to them for prices.
Receiving new goods at B.
Airmans*, daily. My stock of
Some have helped us, for whicli
we are profoundly grateful, -and
we believe they will reap a rich
reward foi their enterprise. We
wanted to convince people of the
North and West that we had
homes for them, would sell them,
hut so far Glenmorc, Waresboro
and Race Pond are all the locali
ties that are bidding for emigra
tion, except one or two that have
small tracts of land and homes
for sale. Is this business? Must
w<? go to press with this eight-
page paper, three thousand copies,
with only Glenmore and Wares
boro, as colunics offering lands
for sale—holding out a hand to
home-hunters, as it were? Why,
Waycross will make ten of either
town and yet only through her
merchants who desire to sell
goods; has any citizen offered to
encourage us in advertising our
town as a residence, as a business
location, a school centre, railroad
point (the best shipping facilities
in Georgia) or anything in that
line. You are interested. The more
people here, the higher rents; the
more home-hunters, the better
the prices for rcul estate; the more
residents, the more trade; the
more consumers the higher the
prices for country products. This
is only the truth, and some that
are better able to advertise this
section, free gratis, for nothing,
have told us that it was our busi
ness to do so, as a public journal,
but failed to give us $2.50 for ad
vertising lands for sale. May be
it is our business, but from the
lights before us now, it is our pri
vate opinion that we will only do
so after they have returned from a
sojourn in the Land of Nod. We
arc willing to do more than our
share, and if you have lands for
6ale let us advertise them, or if
you want Waycross advertised in
full—take a full sweep of every
thing—let some person li?aviiy
interested start the ball, and we
will write up everything in town,
if it takes four pages. Glenmore
made up her share by going
around to merchants and farmers,
each giving a doflar or sue!) a
matter, some moie, some less.
Waresboro did the same, and as
each of those places did, so can
Waycross do. Some of our mer
chants do not need advertising—
have enough of that already,’ and
we hope they have, but all towns
need all they can get. Notice a
town that will not advertise, and
you will find a place where people
are too close to breathe fresh air,
and nearly everything like enter
prise is killed before it is given
life. Turn to a town where the
local paper is full of advertise
ments, and you fiind a people that
are progressive, pushing, and do
not sit, like a knot on a log, wait
ing for something to happen to
break the dull monotony of no
push, no vim.
winter clothing just in,
line in town. -
Best
Some Savannah Merchant*.
Lust Monday we were talking
to some merchants in Savannah
about advertising, when one of
them, a dealer in furniture, etc.,
plainly^informed us that lie
never advertised for anything
6ave local trade, but we noticed
he had a sneaking desire to sell
our Mr. Parker a bathing-tub.
Mr. Parker, as he was getting
ready to leave the store, on
Broughton street, where he
had made some purchases, hap
pened to look at a bathing-tub,
only a glance, but the Dutch
man saw him, and politely said:
“Say; doan you vant dot tub;
I sell id to you so scheap as
never vas before known You
see, der season is gone—now,
you shust take dot tub vieli cost
six tollar, For five sebenty-five.”
“I do not want it. I only
looked to see if it was a good
one,” replied Mr. Parker.
“Oh, dot vas it. Vy, sertain-
]y dot is a fine tub—ylarge and
roomy. Der very tings you
vants. Take id along* fpr five
tollar and fifty cents—I send id
to der depot free for nuddings
and .you shall not pay von cent.
Now, vat you say mit yerself?”
“I don’t want it/' was the re-
plv.
"Don’t, Ley?"
“No sir; that’s cheap enough,
but I don’t want it,” was the re
ply. as Mr. Parker attempted to
leave the stor£.
“You shall take him along
for four tollar and fifty ceuts,
and so help me mine gracious
I paid dot very ting for it mit
myself. I does not make Bud
dings.”
“Can’t help it; I don’t want
your tub,” Mr. Parker said,
calmly.
“Hold on a rnlnit ’till I shows
you all about It. Doan you see
dot is a good tub. Fine mate
rial^ pure tin, green paiut, J
vant de tub, no how, I pleve,”
and he mumbled something
about people trying to “jew him
down mit his prices.”
mail i u it eg r la kit ik*.
A correspondent of the Jack
sonville Times-Union, in a com
munication to that paper, offers
an explanation of the irregu
larities, which may be the cor
rect one. He says: “The fol
lowing lines have clerks on
them who cannot meet the re
quirements of the civil service
rules, viz: Waycross and Chat
tahoochee R. P. 0. has a clerk
that connot take a step without
the aid of a crutch. He was
thus crippled when he entered
the service. To say nothing of
the law, it is evident that he
cannot properly discharge his
duty on that line. But lie re
tains his position because of his
political influence, and contrib
utes (unavoidably, I think,) his
part to the demoralization of
the mail service. On *the Wil
mington aud Jacksonville R. P.
0. there is a clerk who is physi
cally disabled, because one of
his hands is almost fingerless.
From personal observation of
him I know that he cannot
handle the mails, pick up the
letters, etc., as quickly as it
should be done.
If the correspondent refers to
a clerk who lives iu this town
as the one who cannot take a
step without a crutch, he
simply mistaken, and knows
nothing of the gentleman. This
clerk is a cripple, but in his car
and at home gets about with
great activity. The fault must
be somewhere else.
TRAGEDY IN LOWNDES.
A correspondent writes: The
Nelson-Weaver tragedy has created
considerable excitement in this
county. Alexander Eunice, jusitce
of the peace, held an inquest over
body of Weaver. The jury,
after examining three or four wit
ness, agreed on a verdict, charging
Jack Nelson with tiie murder of
Ike Weaver.
The testimony as brought oil
by the investigation showed clearly
that Nelson shot Weaver without
any provocation whatever, Nelson,
who is a young man about twenty-
one years old, met Weaver, his
companion, at a house of ill fame,
kept by Mary Cribbs, on Lewis
Ayrc’s plantation, eight miles
north of Valdosta. All the witness
es testified that Nelson was drink
ing. One said that Weaver was also
under the influence of liquor
though this was denied by some of
the eye witnesses. Nelson and
Weaver got into an altercation
about some trival matter when
Weaver gave Nelson the lie. Nel
son said:
“Weaver, you called me a liar,
and you must take it back.”
“I won’t do it,” replied Weaver.
“Damn you, I’ll shoot you,” an
swered Nelson, and no sooner said
then Nelson drew Iris pistol from
his hip-pocket and fired upon
Weaver, inflicting a mortal wound
in his left breast.
Weaver expired without saying
a word Nelson has fled the coun
try and gone to parts unknown.
Ho is a wild, dissipated young
inan and has always been a source
of trouble and annoyance to his
father, Mr. Marion Nelson. The
deceased was looked upon as
sober and industrious man. He
has tew relatives in this section of
the State, and there is no one to
take an active part in the prosecu
tion of his assaileut.
A SHAME AND DISGRACE.
It is a disgrace and an open
shame for a city with such pre-
tentiops as Savannah boasts, to
allow intoxicating liquors to be
sold in her midst on the Sab
bath, in open violation of her
Sunday law. Don’t tell us that
this is not done, nor don’t tell
us that the police do not know
it. We wouldn’t believe you,
uor do we think that you would
find any one that would believe
you; not a bit of it. We have
heard intelligent, sensible men
say that they can get all the
liquor or beer they want on
Sunday. We have seen the beer
kegs—or that is what we be
lieved they were—smuggled
into the side door of a corner
grocery in open day on the Sab
bath. We have seen a man leave
his home in his shirt sleeves,
on the Sabbath, with a pitcher
in hand covered with a news
paper, who went to a neighbor
ing grocery ’round the corner,
slipped in the side gate, and re
turn to liis home with the pitch
er full of beer. Any Sabbath
we can see a side door to a cer
tain grocery on Montgomery
street, open to^admit negroes—
one. two, three, four and five
and six at a time—and the place
run by and in the name of a
white woman. Isn’t these things
enough to disgrace Savannah
aud cause all decent and re
spectable citizens to work to ex
terminate the dens in our midst?
Savannah has tolerated these
evil-creating and * murderer-
making places quite long
enough. Let her good people
arise to duty.—Savannah Local.
Worth Knowing.
Mr. W. H. Morgan, merchant,
Lake City, Fla., was taken with a
sovere Cold, attended with a dis
tressing Cough and running into
Consumption in its first stages.
He tried many so-called popular
cough remedies aud steadily grew
orse. Was reduced in flesh, had
difficulty in breathing and was un
able to sleep. Finally tried Dr.
King’s New Discovery for Con
sumption and found immediate
relief, and after using about a half
dozen bottles found himself well
and has had no return of the dis
ease. No other remedy can show
so grand a record of cures, as Dr.
King’s New Discovery for Con
sumption. Guaranteed to do just
what is claimed for it. Trial bottle
free at Folks & Morgan’s Drug
Store.
Summer clothing at cost ai
B. Birmans’.
A nice line of velvets at B.
Sirmaus’.
Pink and blue chambray at
B. Simians’.
Pocket and table cutlery at B.
Simians’.
E. & W.’s collars and cuffs at
B. Simians’.
-if
YOU WANT TO MAKE A
BIG NOISE
WITH A
Waycross Market Reports.
The prices given below are retail
figures. Our leading merchants will
guarantee wholesale prices to be 60
low that a trial order will invariably
give satifaction. We quote to-day
only such articles as are mostly in de
mand, still, all fancy and family groce
ries may be purchased as cheap as else
where.
BACON—Market firm .and advanc
ing: Smoked clear rib sides, 12 cents;
dry-salt clear rib sides, 11 cents; shoul
ders, ; hams, magnolia, 14 cents.—
Breakfast strips 12 cts. /
COFFEE—Marxet steady: Ordinary,
cts; fair,23)^ cts; choice 24>g cts;
Choice Rio 25 cts.
FLOUR—Market very fair: deraaud
moderate: Extra,$4 50; fancy, $5 25:
choice patent, $025.
LARD—Choice leaf lard, 50 lb. tins,
9 cts.
BUTTER—Market steady: Wc quote
ch-icc goshen, 20 cents; G^ E. Cream
ery, 25 cts.
SUGAR—Market dull, demand light,
Standard granulated, C^cts; Extra C,
white, 6^; Brown, 6%.
TOBACCO—Full stock, demand
light; common, sound, 30 @ 35 cts;
fair, 35@ 40 cts; bright, 40@50 cts;
Extra fine, GO®SO.
The wheat and coffee markets have
fluctuated considerably since our last,
and a decided change in prices may
occur at any time, but our patrons may
rely on the above figures for the pres
ent, as correct.
CBT Our merchants are paying the
following prices for country produce:
Wool, 28}£ to 28Ja cents; hides, 10 to
11 cents; eggs, 18 to 20 cents; chick
ens, 15 to 35 cents; beeswax, 16 to 17
cents.
LITTLE: MONEY!
CALL ON
J. A. JONES
Livery and Feed
STABLES.
[Opposite Methodist Church.]
WAYCROSS, GA.
WM. PARKFR
IN THE
BRICEB0782,
NEAR THE
COURT HOUSE,
Richard Cannon.
We have the satisfaction of see
ing on our streets every-other day,
a neat little fish, oyster and crab
cart, driven by Mr. Richard Can
non. He has built up an immense
fish trade not here alone, but he
re-packs and ships to towns on
the two iailroad3 centering here,
fifty or sixty barrels weekly. This
shows what energy and git-up-and-
jingel will do.
ripera flannels, in red, blue
and pink, at B. Simians’.
Crockery and glassware at B.
Sirmans’. All new goods.
Dandiest line of neck wear in
the city at B. Sirmans’.
A uice assortment of colored
plenty vide. My wife use oue shirts at B. Sirtnans*.
WAYCROSS HEADLIGHT.
Is the Official Organ of
Ware, Charlton and Cof
fee Counties.
Its circulation extends far into
Florida, and over the entire re
gion of Southern Georgia. As
an advertising medium to reach
the people of Coffee, Charlton,
Clinch and Ware, the public has
never been offered a better chan
nel, for, as it is published solely
for their advancement and ben
efit, it can be found in nearly
every household in ihese coun
ties.
J08W0RK.
We have the largest amount
of new and beautiful Job type
of any office in this section, and
the worK done in the past is a
sufficient guarantee for future
work. Send us your orders
for any job printing you may
want and we warrant satisfac
tion. Large and small posters,
checks, cards, note, bill and let
ter heads a specialty.
BUGGIES
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STOVES
SHIPPED FROM THE
FACTORY.
DRY GOODS
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CLOTHING
ON HAND—AT PRICES
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EVERYTHING CASH!