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Official Organ of Ware.
Official Organ of Charlton,
Official Organ of Coffee.
Publishes Legal Affairs of
Clinch County.
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The Largest Conntv Circulation.
Tho Largest General Circulation.
Tlio HsAoMout visits more homes
and is read hy more people than any
other paper published in this section.
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you to renew i'onr subscription at once.
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Four of the anarchists were
hanged, one suicided and two had
their sentences commuted to life
iniprisoniieiit.
Perham, of the Quitman Free
Press, is in tears, and will not bn
cotnfurted. The high taxes of the
town will keep the circuses away.
The Campbell County Beeord,
published ut Busthurg, Va., is
before us and is a neat seven col-
umn folio. We put it on our ex-
change with pleasure.
All the business man of
Quitman will close their houses
of busincs .lie 24, Thanks-
giving- day. Some of our peo
ple will close up too, and go to
the circus. Come over. Per
Imps wc will give you a ticket.
Wuvcross has a bottomless
Well. It lias been suspected
that the bottomless pit was in
that neighborhood —Quitman
fYeo Press.
You are mistaken about the
well, and if the bottomless pit
is in this neighborhood, we may
expect a protracted visit from
you some day.
The presentments of the Grand
Jury for the past regular term of
eourtwill not be published until
after the adjourned term, which
meets on the 19th of December.
We make this statement in order
that there may be no dssappoint-
inetits.
Gov. Rusk, of Wisconsin, says
lie will call out . the militia to
suppress the dens of infamy in
the northern part of Hint State,
if necessary. The horrible con
dition of affairs described in
the y.eteut newspaper articles is
saiij ,to liay.o existed for many
ycays. and the question natural
ly arises: What have the
courts beet) doing all tjiat time?
Traffc in “white slaves” must
have been notorious, if con
ducted upon the scale alleged.
The Board of Trustees at their
last meeting appointed the follow
ing commitee, to visit and ascer
tain, the progress of our schools,'
fit [ Mrs. H; Murphy, and Mrs- II.
W. Reed for the ladies; and Messrs.
W. J. Smith pnd T. H. Morton
for the gentleman. While this com-
tnitoe has been espeeinly selected,
remember it is the Imperative
duty of each person interested to
visit the school once a hiontb at
least, and ascertain for him or her
self the status of the school. This
will encourage both pupils and
teachers. Chimneys have been
erected during the past week and
stoves purchased, which will secure
the health of our students against
midden changes .of the weather.
chanees for success were against
her from the very beginning of
her canvass. Being young—
only 21 years of age—and
handsome, and having plenty
of money, she entered the cam
paign with a show of pluck and
energy wich seined to promise
victory. She rode from ouo vil
lage to another in a carriage
drawn bv four spirited horses,
and, in the public balls, made
speeches which, it is said pos
sessed a great deal of merit.
She was everywhere treated
with the greatest courtesy ami
won the praise of every one for
her modesty anil courage.
On the day of election many of
her young friends went to the
polls aud solicited votes for her.
In tier ewn village she had a
fine lunch- prepared for all who
supported her. Hundreds of
Republicans who liad never vo
ted anybing but the straight
Republican ticket sciatclicd
their tickets, and placed her
name upon them. She was
beaten by only a few
votes. Iu view of the fact that
her party was largely in the mi
nority, her canvass was a re
markable one. If she devotes
her life to politics she will cer
tainly make a very successful
politician.
Miss Clark did not display
the popular qualifications which
enabled Miss Cook to come so
close to victory. She was not
good at speech making, and
lucked the courage to ask for
votes. She was, therefore, badly
beaten. Miss Griffin it is said,
lias the honor of being the first
woman ever elected School
Commissioner in the Empire
Stale. The entrance of these
girls into the field of politics
may be only the beginning of
a movement on the part of wo
men in New York and, perhaps,
in other States to secure pos
session of the monor offices.
They are filling very acceptably
many positions to-day iu
which they were totally un
known a feiv years ago. It
would not be very strange,
therefore, if, in a few years, the
names of women should appear
Irequently on political tickets.
The YaHosta Times Attempts ta lis
ted the Peijle. -
Clinch Counties Legal Af
fairs.
Sheriff Mnttox will sell on the
First Tuesday in December before
the court house door at Homer-
villc, one dark bay mare about
eleven years old. Sold as the
of property James T. Touchstone,
said county, in favor of’- P. J
Simmons & Bro.
Girl PoQtleians.
Three girls.tyere candidates
for tbe office of ..School Com
% juissiouers in -different parts of
. tlie State of New Vork on the
Bth itist. Mias Ida M. Griffin
was the Republican -candidate
nt Cfewegn, Miss Nellie M. Qoolc
the Democratic candidate at
Walcott, and Miss Ellen A.
Clark the Prohibition candi
date at Maccdon. sMiss Grif
fin’s district was strongly Re-
piihticau, and she receive^ the
all support of he* party nu
. v l~- . -
Into the Pond
Mrs. George McNeil of Preston,
Ga.committed suicide on the 8th by
drowing. George McNeil, her hus
band is miller for S. Bell, of this
county, four miles north of Pres
ton. The family arose early, Me
Neil having to come to meet Mrs.
McNeil's sister, who would arrive
on the 6:55 a. m. train. As soon
ns lie got up he took a boat and
went up into tho pond to fish. He
tookjthcra in the house .and laid
them-on the hartli in the cdok
room.- His« wife became angry*
and began to abuse him, saying
she could not *aep anything
clean for him. He, in reply,
began cursing. She said she would
drown herself, and ljc told her
that he didn’t care a d—m it
she did. She immediately ran out
of the bouse nndjumped into the
pond where tho water was ten feet
deep. McNeil and his wife’s sister
both saw her when she jumped in.
McNeil can’t swim, but he and
wife'a sister made efforts to save
her by handing her a long pole.
Either from a determination to
commit suicide or exhaustion, she
tnade no effort to catch hold. . She
was. fibbed out iu a very short
time by some of the neighbors who
arrived. The unfortunate woman’s
sister. Miss Carreie Thornton;who
was present, say& that she is sat
isfied that she did not intend
drowning herself, bat thought she
would be rescued by her husband.
They had not been getting along
very agreeably} were continually
having little spats, and she had
threatened to drown herself several
times he'ore, when at last she
repeated her threat no attention
was paid to it.
TUB SHOE SSOM1 TO TOCS.
Tk. BKAELIGBT IU, KmrSUrpt
. a. Skills With Xaglect No tWflh-
■Uldlnttliilinei Kiteann ».
to Main Him SOIm Sad.
We are beginning to weary
over this prolonged controversy
with a paper that claims to be
too dignified to bandy epithets
with us. There is nothing to be
gained by it, we know, but we
will uncover *lie attempts of the
dignified Times to mislead the
people as to our intents, to the
gaze of the public. The last is
sue of the times contained a let
ter from Slierriff Mattox in
which it is’plain to be seen that
that gentleman believes we
liavesaid the last Grand Jury of
Clinch county recommended
the publication of the legal ad
vertising of that county in this
paper, when we said nothing
of the kind; nor can Editor
Pendleton show by any previ
ous issus that we ever claimed as
much. We did say, and say it
again tiiat tbe Grand Jury of
said county, some two years ago
made such a reconimeiulation,
and that tlie Ordinary publish
ed a notice in this paper that
legal notices front’ his office
would appear in the Head
light. Sheriff Jeffords
think it was, sefused to obey
sucli recommendations,and con
tinued to advertise in the Times
while the Ordinary was with us.
The Headlight made no blow
or bluster about- this partial
victory over the Times, then,
and when court commenced in
Clinch’ county nt. its subsequent
term the Times was there in
full force when the fight for the
legal advertising was again
opened and awarded’ to the
Times, but sucli would not have
been the case had not the pro-
pi ietor of the Headlight been
called away to attend the bed
side of n sick son at Jackson
ville, leaving the field open to
his opponents, and perhaps
causing his friends to think lie
had retired from the contest,
The Letter which the Valdos
ta Times published from the
proprietor of this paper to Sber-
itf Mattox, does not contain any
other importation than we have
already ’given. We offered tr
do the advertising of that coun
tv free, and to-day supplement
our previous offer with alimade
proposition. We are a ble to do
what we propose, and expect to
discharge our promises.
If the Times never proposed to
the Ordinary to publish “the
little county printing from that
office,” as we charged, we have
been misinformed. If the Times
lias been in the habit of pub
lishing the Grand Jury’s pre
sentments free we make the
same offer, and as ’ the Times
denies that it ever of
fered to publish ''‘the little
county priuting from that of-
fice”without charge we now of
fer to the Ordinary and Sheriff
of Clinch county the use of
these columns without charge,
We make this offer not "to the
officers, but to the people of
Clinch county, believing that
when they have found 'their
comity affairs in this paper
they will be better satisfied.
The Headlight .has never
charged, or intimated that
Sheriff Mattox Jhas ever failed
to discharge his duty as a pub
lic officer,^notwithstanding the
attempts of the Times to that
end.
The people of Clinch county
are taking notice of this affair.
They are beginning to open
their eyes;-We haw friends
there and we shall protect them,
if we can. Below is; another
latter to the Sheriff, and while
tbe proprietor makes that to him
the same'-is to the Ordinary.
No fee n§ed accompany the -Je-
gut notices from Clinch comity.
Me. Mattox:—As we learn
it was the sheriff before -you
who refused to give his adverti
sing to the Headlight when
it was recommended by the
another proposition. The law
prescribes other ways to pay;
hence xh«s proposition. The
Headlight proposes (as per
haps yon have seen,) to make
tho legal advertising free for
every citizen of * your coun
ty. Should it cost them a cent
after December the 1st 1887, it
flvill be through tho gross neg
lect of theit<£fficials. Remem
ber this is strictly private.
There are so many counties in
the state we could not afford to
make such liberal terms to all.
We simply do this to enable
your people to get with one
dollar , what has be-'n costing
two dollars and fifty cents.
Coffee, Clinch and Ware have
to] pnll together in all their po
litical affairs. The Headlight
has to do their political fight
ing, and while-tlrey are looking
for that they can see their legal
advertising without the neces
sity of liufltrng up another pa
per. The Headlight is pros
pering like a green buy tree,
the Valdosta Times and others
notwithstanding.
Wm. Parker,
Proprietor
A Convict at Eleven.
Probably the youngest murderer
in the state was sentenced at Au
gusta, Ga. on the 8th in the su
perior court for a life term in the
penitentiary; Charles Henry Lock-
sly is the boy’s name, and he is
only eleven years of age and as
black as polished ebony. It will
be remembered that about two
months ago Mr. Milo Thomas, a
wellkno'wn young man of this city
was stabbed and killed by the boy
above mentioned. At the time, he
was in front of the Central railroad
depot, when the boy passed and
held up a cigarette picture. In
order to tease him, Ml. Thomas
took it from him, when the boy
cursed Ipm. Mr. Thomas caught
and slapped him, when the boy
in turn quickly drew a large pock
et knife, with which he killed
Thomas instantly. Messrs. M.
Foster and Judson Lyons appeared
for the defense and Solicitor Wright
arid Hon. M. P. Carroll for the
prosecution. The Jury, after being
out two hours, returned a verdict
of guilty of murder, but rec
ominendej life imprisntinent, to
which he was sentenced. The boy
received the sentence withindiffer
ence.
A Charitable Appeal in Be
half of the Insane.
We make ail extract from an
article contained in * the Sc
entific American of Nov. 12th
The State Insane Asylum at
Millcdgeville.Ga., contains near
1500 patients, many, regard
less of their mental infirmities
are able to-read and crave liter
ature. The asylum has a hall
fitted up for a library, but the
State makes no provisions for
books. To’ supply this need
contributions of books, maga
zines, periodicals and the like
are solicited. No doubt this is
new field Jor charity, but we
trust there pre many who will
willingly render aid. We know
by personal observation that
there are thousands within the
walls of our asylums whose
minds are not a chaos, but arc
persona ®f learning,. and for
months at'h; time are as rational
03 any one. and to be confined
within the blank walls of an
insane asylum, with nothing to
while away the time,ft, to say the
least, very hard. In very home
ill tlm state there are books
laid aside never to be . opened
after tlie first perusal. Let
these books be gathered togeth
er an£ by fill appointed com
mittee be forwarded to Dr. T.
O. powell, Supt. of' the insane
asylum at Milledgevillo, Ga.
Let every toyrn in the state ap-
appoint a'committee to . receive,
these hooks, and let every min
ister herald, this appeal from
theipulpits By rendering such
aid, we shall lighten the bur
dens of iriaav poor unfortu
nates, who by the will.of a just
Cr.eator, are doomed to spend
the rest- cf tbeir days .within
the Walls of an insane
asylum; V-—-'
0WU you-avizh to reach the
mechanic’' advertise an tho-
grand jury, .ve beg to make you Headlight.
Unjust to Printers.
Mr. C. M. Milford the former
foreman of this office gave us a
very {dcasnnt call last Tuesday.
He is looking considerably better
than lie did when he left here two
montlis ago. He has been spend
ing the time in Florida. He is
one printer among the few on this
continent who is purity a gentle
man.—Baxley Banner.
It would have been better for
our brother had he learned tlie
printers trade himself, and then;
perhaps, he could write the En
glish language in be.ler style than
he now does, and he might too,
learn that there are as many gen
tleman iu tne printing fraternity
among newspaper scrib
blers or any other profession.
Printers have filled positions our
brother can never hope to occupy,
and ithc had Iearnd to be a print
er, the necessity ot his taking two
articles from cur columns which
appeared in his last issue, without
credit, would have been avoided.
We can name qnite a number ol
printers who are “purily gen
tlemen.”
TWO UNPRECEDENTED, COMPLETE EXHIBITIONS RAIN OR SHINE,
WAYGROBS,
Thursday, Nov., 24tli,
JOSEPH ABN OLE.
A Strong Certificate From
Texas,
TEXAS—Llano count;
To All To Whom '
Come Greeting.—We the undersigned
citezens of Llano county, Texas, take
great pleasure in stating that we
were personally well acquainted with
Joseph Arnold during his residence ‘
this county up to the time he was j
rested and carried back to Georgia
covering a period of seven or eight
ears, and that his character as an
lonest, honorable, peacable and law-
abiding citizen is good, withrut stain or
blemish, and compares favorably with
hat of any citizenrin the county:
G W Shaw,Tax Assessor; W J Rogers;
M C Roberts, Sheriff Lano; A W Har-
groW; J A Leact, Druggist; W A H
Miller. Attorney at Law. E C Bon
ham. Co. Judge; Ja8 Flack, Attorney
a.t Law; Knight Stith, Attorney at Law;
G McCrerry; J T Warden, Farmer and
Inspector; Ben A Ligon, Deputy Sher
iff; C C Curro, Deupty Sheriff, Moore,
Foster & Co., Bankers; J S Atchison;
J M Jensins, Merchant; Jenkins &
Wright. R LD; J A S Williams; JW
Reed, Tinner; W L Dalrymple, Attor
ney at Law; R H Lanning, J of P and
Cotunty Commissioner; John C Oat-
man, Attorney at Law; OF Golson;
N R Porter, Butcher; E L Handy,
Livery Man; J G Phillips, Butcher
R A Mclnnis, Merchant.
_ Tiie State Op Texas
County Op Llano, ,
1, M. M. Hargis, clerk of the County
•court, in and for the county of Llano
and State of Texts, do hereby certify
that I am personally acquainted
with the persons whose names
subserfbed above, and that
they are all citizens of the County of*
The Worhl’a Greatest an,l Most Famous Tcnteil Aggregation 1
S. H. BARRETT’S
New United Monster Show.
Great 3 Ring Circus! Enormous Menagerie/
Huge Theatre Stage! World’s Museum!
Classic Racing Carnival and Jo-Jo!
AN UNPARALLELLED CENTRALIZATION OF THE
World’s Illustrious Arenic Meteors!
200 Phenominal Champions !—SOMatehless and Dazzling Acts I
3 Big Rings, a Magnificent Theatre Stage, and a Grand Raring Circuit, thai
Blaze with an Uninterrupted Succession of in an clous and Perilous Deeds!
Notably and Triumphantly Reinforced this Seoson with the Did World’s Most
Startling Homan Phenomenon, the Czar’s Own Petted and Pampered Prodigy—
M The Dog-Faced
i Husssam Boy!I!
they
j entitled
their statements
to full credit.
I further certify that I am personally
acquainted with Joseph Arnold, and
have never seen or heard anything
against his character or his standing.
In the community where he lived
he was considered an honroable,
good citizen and his charcter was un-
i peach able.
Given under my hand and seal of the
County Court of Llano county, Texas,
this 26th day of Sept 1887.
M. M. Hargis, Cleric,
Countv Court Llano County, Tex.
A Meeting of Naval Store
Men,
The IIeadligiit is in receipt of
a circular from the Naval Stores
Manufacturer’s Protective Asseci
ation, from which we clip the fol
lowing :
A general convention of the Na
val Stores producers of Georgia,
Florida and South Carolina is
hereby called by the above Asso
ciation, to be held in Jesup, Ga.,
on Friday, Novem her 25th, 1887.
All manufacturers are earnestly
requested and specially invited to
be present on that occasion.
There will be a thorough and in
teresting discussion of the Naval
Storse question, the numerous
evils under which producers are
now suffering will be reviewed;
and a strong effort will be made to
inaugurate some practical and
business-like measure' to save the
Turpentine industry from destruc
tion. Let every Naval Stoics
Manufacturer come to this con
vention. It is just as well for
pioducers to remember right here
that unless they ‘‘come out of
their holes” for once, and co-oper
ate intelligently with their other
fellow-producers in this direction
their burdens will become heaveier
and even more grievous, 3 until,
finally, every dollar of capital
invested in the producing business
wilt be sunk and lost beyond re
call.
The Verdict Unmnlmou*.
W D. Suit, Druggest, Bippus
Ind., testifies: * I can recom
mend Electric Bitters as the very,
best remedy. Every bottle sold
has given’ relief in every case.
One man took six bottles, and
was cured of Rheumatism of 10
years* standing.” Abraham
Hare, druggest, Bellville, Ohio,
affims: “The best selling medi
cine I have over handled in ray
20 gears' experience, is Electric
Bitters.” Thousand .of others
have added their testimony, so
that the verdict is unanimons
that Elec.iric Bitters do cure all
diseases of the Liver, Kidneys
or Blood. Only a half dollar a
bottle at—Folks & Morgan’s
Drug Store-
The Human Skye Terrier.
AN UNSOLVED MTSTEICY and SENSATION OF TWO CONTINENTS!
“Beyond all question Jo-Jo is the most extraordinary and absolutely interes
ting curiosity that has ever reached these shores.'—New York Herald !
A Plavfnl, Brown-Eyed, Dog-Faced Bov—Covered with Silken Hair from head
to foot!—A Prodigious Intellect Veiled behind the Visage of a Dog—Four Laiw
guages issuing from Canine Lips! No Picture can Portray—No Pen Describe him!
Your Only Chance to See Jo-Jo,
~~ HECOMESNO MORE! ‘
By Command of the Czar^ie Returns to St. Pertersburg at an Early Day.
SUMPTUOUS AND SOUL STIRRING—
REVIVAL OF THE
Imperial Roman Hippodrome \
VIVID AND REALISTIC REPRESENTATIONS OF
LIFE IN THE “WILD WEST”
Monster Gathering of FamousScouts, Cowboys, Indiana and Bucking Bronchos 1
3 Times the Most Stupendous
JVEEJST A-GrELlIE .
- _ Ever Gathered hind Exhibited Under Tents.
GREATEST, GRANDEST AND BEST TRAINED HERD OF ELE
PHANTS EXTANT 1
EVERY MORNING) Passing through the streets of the Cities
at 8 o’clock i where we are to exhibit, will be seen the moat
Glorious Pagent that ever delighted Hnman Vision! An Illimitable
Line of Georgeous Pomp and solid splendor—unapproachable anil
ndiscribable !—Worth coming lOOmiles to witness !
1 to the entire As L Children under
combined show, usual} 0 years of age.
gJtTSO EXTRA CHARGE TO SEE JO-JO.
Half price.
Two Exhibitions Dailj\ Doors Open at 1 and ,M.
PERFORMANCES BEGIN AN HOUR LATER.
Cheap Excursions on all Railroads. See Station Agents Tor Particulars,
Marti M 25,
Vina 26,