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1'he True Citizen.
WAYNS8BOKO. GA., FRIDAY, FEB. 2, 1883
Entered at the feost office at Waynesboro, Ga.,
as sebonrt bias* matter.
NEW BARBER SHOE.
—“Times is dull and money are
growing scarce.”
—We regret to hear that Mr. Wetb-
orhahn’s baby is very sick.
-The main water courses in our
L.ounty are reported to he still high.
Mr. J. V. Burton has returned to
Burke after an extended trip through
«r Georgia and gone to farming.
While the roads hare dried off
ewhat, they are in a miserable con-
)n—in some places almost impass-
j
/apt. J. P. Thomas was in town
[week. The captain is one of the
*t and finest looking men in old
frke.
-There is a letter held for postage
the Savannah postoffice, for (Ben-
|i t Alexander, Ga., we suppose, this
ty-
kr. D. C. Blount, el< rk at the
j, has been quite indisposed the
Fsent week. We are glad to, see
on his feet again.
-Eight and ton pound trout come to
surface and float about in sport in
itcher’s Mill when there comes a
feasant sunshmny day. On ait.
-The music of the musquito is heard
fon every warm evening, and the pros
icts are for an abundame of the pests
luring the coming spring and summer
—The weather which has been fair
[•d pleasant, most of the week,
tlouded up again to-day (Friday)
wd bids fair to give us another b;-.ci
ffl.
-Mr. Geo. G. Carpenter, formerly
[Burke, but now of Hampton, Ga ,
/on a visit to his mother, a few
dies from town. We wish him a
|casant visit.
—Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Jones, and
lisses Lillian Wilkins and Napier,
burned Thursday, from Augusta,
^herc they had been to attend the
felentine ball.
-Mr. T. S. Blanchard, our clever
Jtstmasfer at this place, will move his
(mily to town shortly. We always ex-
l>nd a hearty welcome to all such good
feitizens as Mr. B.
— Owing to the extreme cold weather
for some other cause Waynesboro is at
bis time very healthy. We hear of
tally a few cases of sickness, and those
ire not of a malarial character.
—Our gardeners are industriously
gaged every fair day upon their
rdens. There is no greater luxury
an a good warden, and no location
i the globe hears more perfect
'getables than Burke county,
i —Our young friend, W. B. Mitchell,
is opened a news stand at the store of
. S. B1 oun tr where he will keep all
I e latest and best newspapers and mag-
Jea of the day. They will also be on
le Sundays. Give him a trial. It
—Th« most reliable agent for de-
roying and expelling worms from chi] •
( •en and adults is Shriner’s Indian Ver-
ifuge, 25 cents a bottle. Try it.
very bottle guaranteed to give satis-
fection. For sale by W. F Holley man.
-Mr. John Hamill has moved to
fugusta, and will go into business
fith his father. We regrq£ the loss
Mr. Tom Hamill and family, as
re suppose it will be sufficient to
mre the sore eyes to see Tom down
ire now.
'—There is a little darky in town
Ibout two years old which rejoices
to the high-sounding title of Arthur
rarfield Crews. His mother eavs he
ras named after President Arthur
id the J * 4 ,e President Garfield. He
>e smart.
kaiusboro Itemizer has this
r quondam townsman, Mr.
bee }' ! “Mr. Lee Dixon of Lo-
’n county, is now ono of us.
plates plying his trade (mond-
jiecos) here. He is said to be
iff” at bis trade ; we know he
( fellow,
i
appointment of Collector of
Revenue at Savannah seems
,te. The chauces of Hon.
’bnberly haye not appeared
6 all the week. The follow-
Itch to the Savannah Times,
i'\» Itself :
boTON, D. C., Feb. L—Rev.
rstman, of Savannah, for-
in business in that city, to-day
lapers in application for the
>fInternal Revenue Collector
tnnah.
Henry Jones will be pleased to see
his old patrons and the public generally
in his profession up stairs over S. A.
Gray’s s'ore, where he will give them
the beBt attention.
RAILROAD TO SWAINSBORO.
We learn that Thompson & Heindel,
enterprising mill men of Emanuel enun
ty, are going to extend to their railroad
from Midville, where it joins the Cen
tral, to Swainsboro, 17 miles, And so
our sister town of Swainsboro is at ! ast
to have railroad facilities.
FOUND DEAD.
A negro man who was at work upon
Mrs. Godbee’s place, in the (58th dis
trict, this county, was found dead one
day last week in the woods His head
was hurst to pieces, and his brains seat
tered around upon the ground. The
man had went in the woods to split rails,
and when found be was in such a posi
tion os to induce the opinion that he had
been killed by the falling of a freshly
cut free which lay nearby.
THE ARTESIAN WELL.
The derrick tor the artesian well,
built as it is upon the highest point of
land in town, and looming up with such
huge proportions and to so great an al
titude, is now the most conspicuous ob
ject in town. The contractor is now
engaged in building the foundation for
the machinery, which will be placed
upon large oak sills, and will be as firm
ly fixed as the lock of Giberalter, The
J?oringhas not yet commenced, and while
we do not wish to hurry up matters too
fast, we are anxious to sec the auger
enter the ground. The cautions prep
arations making give us full faith in its
success, and we feel only anxious to see
the previous liquid “spout.”
THE CHINAMEN MUST 00.
On Thursday night a party of men
entered the store of Loo Chong & Bro ,
the Chinamen who opened a store in
this place last Friday, and tied the Chi
namen head, hands and heels, gaged
them with rags, and administered a se
vere whipping upon them with knotted
ropes, and otherwise mal treated them.
One of the Chinamen was taken off
with threats of hanging, which, howev
er, was not done. We give the above as
rumors current this morning, not know
ing the facts. The crime of the China
men seem to be that they were selling
goods too cheap. The Chinese this
(Friday) morning are gone, and their
place of business locked up. The oc
currence is severely condemned by the
community. For the reason that we
understand that the affair is to undergo
judicial investigation, we refrain from
saying anything that will bias pub ic
opinion.
DIME PARTY AT THE ARLINGTON
The dime party at the Arlington Fri
day evening, was not only a success for
the church, as, in spite of the very in
clement weather about $80 were made
for it, but was o#e of those neat social
gatherings which mark Waynesboro
society, and which is so much en
joyed by our young people. The
sacque for the most popular baby was
awarded to the pretty baby-son of
Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Jones. Patience,
the magnificent doll, was won by Mr.
W. M. Fulcher, and the beautiful
pound cake was won by Miss Ninna
Wilkins. We saw one of our young
friends this morning sporting a
pansy blossom pen-wiper that he
seems to value, not so much for the
beauty of its design or its intrinsic
value, but for the fuir ono who made
it. Mrs. John D. Munnerlyn and
Prof. Wallace made some splendid
music during the evening, which
was highly appreciated by our muric
loving people. Among the young
ladies present were many, of Waynes
boro’s fair oucs, than whom no town
in the State cau boast* f more beauti
ful. The social gatherings are char
acteristic of Waynesboro society, and
have a softening influence upon the
asperities of character of the young
of the »terner sex. »u»d wo hope will be
more frequent in their recurrence.
Subscriptions are positively cash
—There are but two prisoners in our
jail at present.
—We acknowledge with pleasure a
visit to our sanctum <*f Mrs. A . W.
Clark on Thursday evening, in com
pany with Mr. Clark. Hor presence
fell like a ray of light across the som
bre confines of our sanctum. The
ladies are ever Welcome.
—Col P. B. Hall has rented Mr.
Tom HamilPs store arid will put in
a stock of goods in a few days. Thus
does Hall boernethe proprietor of
two stores, Chinamen or no China
men. Well, Hall is a go ahead man,
and is bound to succeed.
—One of our young men, who
proposes to take music lessons under
the direction «»f Prof. Wallace, find
ing his guitar out. of repair, sent, it
I to a blacksmith shop to have it re-
I paired. We ko-uv O’Byrnsis a go-.,!
| -ne, but don’t think he cm manipu
! ate n line guitar.
— Mr. S A. Gray and Pr. A. G
; Whitehead left Wednesday nighf to at-
i tend the Mardi Gras exhibition in New
| Orleans, for which it is said prepara
tions have been made to excel any for
mer exhibition in that famous city.—
Mr. Gray may be absent, a month or
six weeks, Dr. Whitehead will not re
main so long
—St. Valentine's Day is near at
hand, and Dr. Polhiil has made prepa
rations to meet it with a large stock
of valentines. We think everybody
can be suited, as the doctor has in his
stock from the finest and most exquis
ite valentines to the most ludicrous car
icatures. Timid young men can thusly
express their pheiinks.
—On Tuesday, conductor Young
blood had the misfortune to have one of
the piston rods of the engine of his train
to break at this place, and after tele
graphing for another engine to Augus;a.
conducted his train off with only one
si le of his engine at work. Several
small accidents of a similar character
have happened to the trains on this road
within the past few months.
—Let our farmers prepare and plant
for a dry summer. Every sign portends
a hot, dry summer, and our farmei s
should prepare against it by breaking
their lands deep and well, and planting,
corn e-pecially, just as early as possible
Late corn, unless very late, we fear will
not do well for the lack of rain. “Fore
warned is forearmed,” and whether it
is an abundant or scarce crop year, the
advice is good anyway.
COTTON ,S"T.t TEMENT.
HOW TO PLANT RiCE. !
Our farmers seem to be taking some 1 —
interest in rice culture,and last year J The followng is a statement, of the
many of them-planted small “patches,” i cotton received at this depot for ih
as an experiment, but we are afraio the ; weekending Friday, Feb. 2, 1888:
—Several of or.r young married peo
ple are going into the chicken-raising
business with no protection for their
gardens against the depredations of the
fowls. They must choose between chick
ens and a garden, the two won’t work
together.%nd with a year or two’s ex
perienee, in our opiuion, they will learn
that chicken-raising on a limited town
lot is an expensive investment, as every
chicken raised to be grown will cost
them a dollar. This does not include
the loss of a garden, either.
—Mr. A. W, Clark, the picture
man, is engaged in painting two of
the ip<»st beautiful pictures we have
seen in sometime, one “Youth in the
Voyage of Life,” fr >m oi e of T. Cole’s
pictures, and the other “Tinturn
Abbey,” from an English picture.
Mr. Clark Iud proven himself a
skilled artist, and we say to those
who wish a good picture to “make
hav while the sunshines,” although
Mr. Cl ark take pictures m cloudy as
well as fair weather, Mr. C’s. stay
among us is limited.
- -Messrs. L H. and M. H, Routz-
ahn design leaving for Florida on or
about the 10th inst. These gentlemen
will first go to Jacksonville, and from
there they wil go to Ooalla, where they
have lands located, and will there oi-
thor make arrangements to have an or
ange orohard set or buy one already in
bearing. They also expect to visit
Fort Mason, in Orange county. They
will bo rather on a prospecting tour
of the Slate, and will likely be absent
several months. We wish them a
pleasant trip through the Land of
Flowers, and a safe return to the bo
soms of their friends.
—Wo extraot the following remedy
foi chills from the Augusta News.—
While we do not vouch for the curative
powers of the remedy, it is simple, and if
it doosi uo good it oan do no harm, and
we think it surely worth a trial. “Col
A, F. Pope says ho has discovered a
sure remedy for chills, it has never fail
ed in a case where ho has tos ed it.
Take one-third part cream tartar and
two-til itfls sulphur, mix well, and for n
dose take about ten grains three times a
day. lie has given this remedy t > the
employees at Powell’s Mills who were
nearly all down with the chills, and it
perfectly eradicated tlio disease.”
meager yield occasioned by the entirely
wrong planting of the grain wil. have the
effect to drive them off from its culture,
and the fine rice lands of our county
—and there is much land here as well
adapted to rice culture as auy land on
the globe, and for little else—wil! be
given up to weeds and bushes. In our
rambles through the county last sum
mer we saw many “rice patches,” but
not a single one which could possibly
yield anything within the neighborhood
of a crop. Rice, like sugar cane and
the pea family, will not grow well
when planted too thin. Being familiar
wiih the p anting and cultivation of
rice, we venture a few plain directions,
which we guarantee, if followed, will,
return a satisfactory resu t. Choose
your land for planting, if possible, of
j rich, light, loam soil, break up and
pulverize well, then lay off shallow
drills with a yery suiail “scooter,” two
feet apart, eighteen inches is plenty of
distance if you do not use the plow in
its cultivation. !Sow your seed in the
drills so that the grains will lie not more
than a quarter to ha’f an inch apart—by
no means thinner—and cover lightly
with a rake. It wi l require ten or
twelve days ' for the rice to come up,
and the grass with it. It needs attention
early, as the sooner it is worked the
easier it can be done. Break out middles
with a small “scooter,*’ letting it run
just deep enough to take up the young
"rass and weeds which will have made
its appearance, taking the precaution to
nail a board from the beam to the foot
of the p'ow stock to protect the young
plants. The drills must be cleaned with
the hoe and fingers—the grass and
weeds being picked out. The second
working should be done inthe same man
ner, and will still be a little tedious,
but by no means as much so as the first.
After the second working, rice is little
trouble, as it only needs the middle to
be shaved oyer with the hoe once or
twice more. When grown, rice should
cover the ground in a solid mass, and
when ripe, which will be the latter part,
of September, it must be cut with a cycle
or reap hook. Rice is no lover of poor
land, and in good land will produce 50
to 60 bushels of rough per acre.
To Savannah 350 bales.
To Augusta....... 20 “
Total.
870
Number ba’es shipped during Jan. 1888
To Savannah 1,284
“ Augusta 211
Total.
1.495
Total number of bn'os shipped fur the
season, lo Feb. 1st, 1883 :
To Savannah 12,573
“ Augusta 2 083^
Grand total..
14.656
Prices to-day, Saturday. February,
3 : Middling', 9 ; Low Middling, 8i :
Good Ordinary, 7f ; Ordinary, 61.
Market quite and steady.-
Garden
I ONLY SELL BUJST’S SEEDS, and am con
stantly receiving them in quantities to snit the
demand. I buy what I oan sell each season.-
Ttiusty avoiding SPIED BONFIRES, uud gnaran
mmmmmammmmmmmmmmmmmm — i wit—
tee to my customers none but fresh and genuine
VATS m BA!fB
Buist’s Early Rose Potatoes, Vermont, Early
<; .r.: Rich Potatoes, Vermont, White and Red
Onion Sets, Champion of England Peas, Black
Eye Marrowfat Peas, Extra Early Peat?. Me
.can's Liitle Gem Peas. Dwarf Forty Tow
'dumb Peas, Yorkshire Hero.
i
TRAGIC ACCIDENT.
On Thursday evening, while the fit-
tie sons of Mr. Thomas Quinney and
Rev. Mr. Breedlove were riding their
velocipedes up and down on the pave
ment in front of Mr. S. A. Grey’s store,
little Gray, son of Mr. Quinney, some
five or six years old, happened to a most
tragic accident and miracu'ous escape
from death, The little fellows were
riding rapidly, when Gray passed the
south corner of the store and ran be
tween the fore and hind wheels of a
dray heavily loaded with guano passing
along the alley way between the store
and the public square. The velocipede
was knocked over, throwing the child
flat on its face by the side of the veloc
ipede. There was no 'imo to check the
horses, and the dray wheel, rising upon
the velocipede, rolled off on the child
and passed diagonally entirely across
his litt : e body from the left hip to the
right shoulder. Mr. Lanier, one of
Mr. Gray’s clerk, who was standing in
a few feet of tho place when the acci
dent occurred, pick tho little fellow up,
and oarryinf him into the store laid him
dertvu in an uneoncious state, fully im
pressed with the idea that he was
crushed to death. Drs. Ford and Ql-
iver were called in, and the child soon
revived. He was up Friday morning,
showing no signs of injury except a skin
ned place on his chin and one on his
knee, and *as anxious to carry his ve
locipede whioh the dray had made a
perfect wreck, to the shop to have it ro
paired. Nothing could have saved the
child’s life except the vclocipodo, and
it may he set down as a most mir
lous escape.
NOTICE.
l)r. J. A. Pod fill i 1 - the July mono -
izefi agent of Dr. Whitehead duibc
bis absence, and those having busine.-
ith l>r. W. can call on Dr
Black Wax, Giant Wax. Dole. White
dwarf, Lima, large uud small-
at POLH ILL'S,
BEETS.
Extra Early, Early Blood Turnip, IFhitte Sugar
and Long Blood.
RADISH.
Farly Long Scarlet, Early
and Early Turnip.
SPRING & SUMMER TURNIPS
Red or Putple Top, flat, Red or Purple Top
strap leaved, Largo Cow Horn. Yellow Ater
dine, Golden Ball. Early Flat Dutch.
TOMATOES-
Trophy, Selected Tilden, New Early Acme.
Ilalhovoys Tomato, Golden Trophy, Buiet’a Se
lected Tropy, etc.,
Cucumbers fy Squash
Cucumbkbs.—Early white Spine, Early Russiau
London Long Green, Early Chester.
Sou ash.—Early Bush or Patty Pan, Yellon
Summer Crook Neck, Buist’s Improved Marrov,
Marblehead, otc.
Golden Dent, Hoist's Large White Flint, Elti lv
Canada.