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yjHivan Brothers. Publishers. \ Subscription Rates: j) ie Copy one year - - $2 00 THE TRUE CITIZEN six months three months - 1 00 501 POSITIVELY CASH.! Volume 8. Waynesboro, Georgia, Saturday, November 16th, 1889. Number 29. L. C. Havnf, J.T New bury, President. Cast ier. Plantars Iican 5'jSaYings Banfi, S2I Ur.Kid St., AUGUSTA, Ga, Capital—All Paid in Cush,:fl00,0C0. \\ ith Stf efe holders liability which guaran tees absolute safety to all depositors. This is the oldest Savings Hauls in this city with an nr broken record of nearly 2f' years. It transacts a general Hanking business in alp of its branches, and is authorized lo rc- ceive and disburse money, seeuntiesor prop- ertv in trust, and to act ps financial agent for any person firm oreorporation. Interest allowed cn deposits iri tfeo Savings Department. aprJ0,’39-by 1 0g- it costs $1,200 to fire one S f 'the 110 ton guns of the British Ar tie ship Victoria. jr gr Ex-Secretary Bayard was married on the 7th instant in Wash ington, D. C., to Miss Clymer. i ffT The cold storage floors of a THE BLOODY AXE AGAIN. A Double Murder lu Clinch Countj tieorgia. refrigerator warehouses were blamed and 10,500,000 eggs were eon- Juned. in 1873 the naval stores re- cA'hs of Savannah amounted to o n! y $50,000, th ei r va 1 u e i u 1889 will fl {fji up over $5,000,000. \tfBT The city government of y r ,v York cost 0 annually $37,037,000 , 0 i this amount $4,000,000 is expend ed for public schools and $1,200,000 filr parks. Valdosta, Ga., Nov. 8.— A most horrible and brutal double murder has just come to light from Clinch county. The victims were an old man 78 years of age, and his aged wife. The murderers are negroes, It is supposed that the murder was committed iate Wednesday even ing but was not discovered till late yesterday evening, twenty-four hours later. Mr. Hughes and wife lived seven miles south of Dupont by themselves. They were good citizens, and had raised a large family of respectable sons and daughters, who had grown up and j Bolin and Carbuncles Cured. St’FFEKlXU IN THE SNOW. Forbears I have been constant ly troubled with humors in the blood, which caused the breaking out of 1 oils and carbuncles all over my body”, that when braised would make a lasting, ugly sore. I con sulted many eminent physicians and took a great deal of medicine without any preceptible benefit. Nothing helped me but Swift’s Spe cific (S. S. S.) That medicine cured me! I am now enjoying excellent health, and there is not a blemish of any kind on my body, Miciieal McHale, Bulo, Nebraska. INHERITED SCROFULA. Swift’s Specific (S. S. S.) cured m.y Forced to Eat Baw Meat or Starve. ! f gT From the Atlanta Constitu- the information is had that in qj. last census year consumption ■kill'"' i".'- 70 " 1,ile only W® 8 ol j geiitloman'told "h from drink. left home. One of their boys rides the mail fromDupont to Dames’mill, ( uttle boy of hereditary scrofula, arid the route goes by the old man’s; which br&ke out all over his face, house. On Wednesday morning p or a year he had suffered, and I last, young Hughes stopped a few bad giver, up any hopes of his re- the es- New dipt Hie supreme court has set aside thh clause of filden’s will where hohmulo large bequests for tailishment of libaries i ydrkand other places. Agr The business receipts of the ti,|. Savannah post office for the f, r ;t ten months of 1889 shows an in- enia-e of over five thousand dollars foil the same number of months for iiqgr The steamship, eity of Paris, recently crossea the ocean in five drtfs, twenty hours and fifteen min utes, thus beating its previous re cord by one hour and twenty-three mi,mtes. VS~ T he Piedmont Exposition panned out a net profit of over $20,000. Its management was so much enthused, that it has already announced that is doors will he again opened about the same time next year. Countv Al- &r The Johnson bailee boycotted the vlofis to its coming passed a resolution imposing a fine offve dollars on every member who attended, and on refusal to pay such fine expulsion would fol low, 0ST Mrs. Caroline Donovan, a ■widowed lady of Baltimore, has made a fortune by wise invest ments. She is only 25 years of age and last week gave $100,000 to the trustees of the John Hopkins Uni versity to found a chair of English 'literature. Snow fell in New Mexico am the 7th to the depth of 20 inches j ; •andithe weather became so cold thatjeverythiug in the way of flesh tliatfwas unprotected had to suc cumb. It is not known how many lived were lost. The loss in sheep and cattle is yery serious. Several traiijs are snow bound. And yet in q>ihi of all this sensible peoule go to this [country of snow storms and blizzards in preference to the mild and genial ciimate of Georgia. The president ol the Savan nah Sutton Exchange “had request ed tlje Liverpool Exchange to take suchjaction as would result in a fair adjustment of the question of tare so that there might be no discrimi nation; against cotton bagging. This I he Liverpool Exchange and the ether exchanges in controlling Markets declined to do. Until the Jjaattjdr of tare is adjusted in con- :r ll*ng markets no change can be niadp in the selling of cotton by k r ros| weight.” minute to see the old folks, and the im that three negroes, a mulatto and two blacks, bad been dodging about his place in a suspicious manner, they called, ostensibly, for water, ancl inquired if anyone lived with him and bis wife. They then disappeared, and. later when he went into toe woods to cut some posts, Mr. Hughes came up on them lying behind some logs. On the return of young Hughes, later in the day he top ped again, and found his parents safe and all right. He supposed the negroes was likely’ after pilfer ing, and did not give the matter much further thought. On Turs- day afternoon two of Mr. Hughes’ grandsons, Thadeus Hughes, and Jimmie Rice, young lads, went to spend the night with the old peo ple, and when they enter the yard they found their grandfather lay ing near the steps dead. They immediately lied and car ried the news to the nearest neigh bors. A crowd soon gathered, and when they 7 returned to the old peo ple’s residence they 7 found the old circus. Pre- 1 lady 7 dead in the kitchen. She had the alliance I evidently been killed first, while the old man was probably m the lot ered that feeding his stock. She was pi-epar- j place had ing supper and had some raw meat in a bowl in her hand when the fa tal blow was struck with an axe from behind. She fell upon her face and the bowl broke as the fell, and another lick on the back of the head shattered her roach comb and crushed in the skull. The old man was met or overtaken in the front y 7 ard and dealt two blows which crushed bis skull and killed him immediately 7 . The bloody axe which dm the work was found lean ing against the piazza in ten steps from where the old man lay 7 . Mr. Hughes is supposed to have over two hundred dollars an trunk, which was found out in yard, broken open and rifled. The people in the neigh borhood are greatly excited about the affair, and every 7 effort will be made to hunt aovvn the red handed Gllians but they got twenty-four or thirty-six hours the start if they left the country as soon as the crime was committed. Sheriff Dickerson has offerrecl a re ward for the murderers,and will use every endeavor to catch them. covery, when at length I was in duced to use S. S. S. After using a few bottles lie was entirely cured Not a symptom now remains of the dise ase. This was three years ago. Mrs. T. L. Mathers, Matherville, Miss. A SEXTON SPEAKS. Mr. John A. Cleary, sexton of Oakwood «eemetery, Waco, Texas, says: “Swiifit’s Specific (S. S. S.) is a sure cure for any description of blood poisonS About a y T ear ago I contracted a poisonous blood dis ease, and tried a number of reme dies without avail. I was about to become disheartened* and a lriend induced me to try 7 S. E. S. After taking a part of one bottle l was a sound man, and no symptoms of the fell disease have .ever a - e- turned. Treatise on blood and skin dis eases mailed free. Swift Specific Co., Drawer 3, Atlanta Ga., Trinidad, Col, Nov. 12.—Va rious parties who spent ten days in the snow blockade between Emery Gap and Folsom, New Mex ico, arrived in this city 7 yesterday. They 7 report the suffering to man and beast fully as great as show 7 n in the former reports. Patrick Casey, the engineer, spent eleven days in making the trip from Trinidad to Texline, and re turn. For two days and nights he was without food. One meal he made on a jack rabbit caught in the snow. Seventy-five men shoveling snow at Mt. Dora were cut off from food for two days and nights. They 7 got some sheep out of a snow drift and roasted and ate them. A de layed passenger train was cut off from eating stations three days, they drew on the express cars for food supplies. Laborers who shoveled snow when hungry tap ALFRED BAKER, President. AUGUST 811 Solicits the accounts of Private FOUR PER CENT. INTEREST THREE PERCENT. INTEREST TWO PER CENT, for sixty days. No better investment can be and is always available for use Su-nt-d liy the Governor. Atlanta, Ga., Nov. 12.—Gov. Gordon signed the following acts and resolutions to day: To require persons or corporations employing females in manufactur ing, mechanical or mercantile es tablishments to provide suitable seats for them ancl permit their use. To requ.re owners of buildings more than two stories high, used for factory or workshop, to provide more than one exit for each story; to have the main doors open out- WILLIAM B. YOUNG, Cashier. A savings bank, BROAD STR EET. Individuals, Guardians, Trustees, and others. paid on Deposits. Accounts writ- allowed on certificates of deposits made, as money deposited with this should necessity require it. What a Lemon B ill Do. ped freight cars containing canned j wardly . to provide ample means tor goods. The hungry 7 men would A Fosiofllce Bobbed. had his the Of Miss Drexel, a daughter of 1,10 rich Philadelphia banker and to about $6,000,000, has de- : 'k.e(| to take the white veil of a •-.lovi-iate at the convent of the Sis- t er ’s pf Morey 7 . At this act she cuts 'ktsc;!! lose from the world and JuiL herself within the doors of r *' e c ?oLture. While she is doing ,llis |er friend Miss Caldwell who *' Ms-h a Catholic is making bids "‘'i’jli-r patrimony to buy a titled •>u.sb|irul. The many men of many 7 3nin (^ s must surely have been meant •for ti|e ladies. xMF Last week a negro boy 7 fell ( >ni|a boat while fishing on a mill pond? in,Camden 1)1 e ek ld county. Before regain the boat a large a lighter, seized him. The boy Hl rie^ed tor help, but his cries were Utl;l veiling. His body at once dis- jTheftrd never to rise again. A par- ' a short while assembled * r( ' u '; !(J the spot armed with guns, htile dog was thrown into the P° r| clj and at once the alligator It, for him, but the well armed soon riddled his head with ,u els. The alligator was cut open pune of the flesh found in its Dowels., A fhc Drtiri, , ” t-.v-pecioraiion Mr i k* v a ^ ew doses of Dr. J. 2 1( Lean’s Tor i t .. H. Biirw 8 ” 8 riar Wi ne and Lung dlrn ;i m nn - . 6 sor.i fi c ‘ases of hoarseness, ing" !roat or difficulty of breath- l’lij slcians Confess. All honest, conscientious physicians who give B. B. II. iBotanic Blood Balm) a trial, frankly admit its superiority over all other blood medicines. Dr. W. J. Adair, Rockmart, Ga., writes: “I regard B. B. B. as one of the test hlood medicines.” Dr. A. H. Roseoe, Nashville,Tena., writes: “All reports of B. B. B. are favorable, and its speedy actions is truly wonderful.” Dr. J. W. Rhodes, CrawfordviUe, Ga., writes: “I confess B. B. B. is the best and quickest medicine /or rheumatism I have ever tried.” Dr. S. .1. Fanner, CrawfordviUe Ga., writes: “I cheerfully recoinmed 11. B. B. as a fine tonic alterative. Its use cured an excrescence of the neck after other remedies effected no perceptible good.” l)r. C. H. Montgomery, Jacksonville. Ala,, writes: “My mother insisted on my getting B. B. B. for her rheumatism, as her east stubbornly resisted tiie usual remedies. She experienced immediate reiief and her im provement has been truly wonderful.” A prominent physician who wishes Ids name not given, says: “A patient of .mine whose ease of teriiary syphilis was surely killing him, and which no treatment seemed to check, was entirely cured with, i.bout twelve bottles of B. B. B. He was fairly made up of skin and bones and terrible ulcers.” Hornier Hu)s Sunole. New York,Nov. 11.—Robert Bon ner has purchased the greatIhree- year-old Sunole from Goy. Stanford, of California. Sunole on Saturday Fort Valley, Ga., Nov. 12.— Yesterday morning it was discov- the postoffice at this been robbed in the night of a few hundred dollars and nearly all the postage stamps.— From the manner in which the burglar entered it is evident that lie was a i rofessional. The report made in blowin g open the safe did not altract the attention ot the par ties sleeping overhead or of the night watchman of the town, who was on duty the entire night. The post office is in fhe dry goods store of S. B. Brown & Son, and the burg lars made their entry by boring out a, block in the back door large enough for one’s hand and arm. It v as an easy matter then to unlock the door. Money was the only booty sought. The cash draw'er of the store was rifled of some change.— The posfoikee safe was completely wrecked. There w 7 as about $250 in the safe, besides a number of regis tered letters which were going through this office to other points, and oi course their contents are un known. Superintendent Terrell has been notified. The postmaster, Mrs. I»f. A. Brown, a widow of some business ability, is completely un nerved over the affair, as her ad ministration for the past five years has been very satisfactory to the people here and to the government, and there ha3 never been a word of complaint against the office. knock a hole in can of corn or to matoes and then drink the can empty. Sometimes this raw food was frozen, but “it went” among the men so hungry. Two live goats were being ship ped in a caboose, but the hungry men cut their throats and ate them raw. Report says a sick man trav eling with two children lay on his back two days helpless. He had only crackers for nourishment. A sheep grower near Ute Creek, a Mr. Garcia, is reported to have lost 5,000 sheep from a flock of 8,000. Engineer Lyon said that he saw more real destitution during ten ! days in this snow blockade than in all his life before. The road was opened only a few hours. Yesterday morning’s snow and wind blocked the cuts again and rhe passenger train due here this fobqpQon is stuck in the snow altogether, ttihe blizzard has been a terrible ,qne. No one ever heard of such a one in Soufh Colorado or New Mexico. It was a Dakota storm that got off its range and struck an ususpecting people. Favorite. F ame is a word ambition loves. A ml art has ne’er its potraits painted,' V irt ue the heart of avarice moves, 0 biivious to the ‘shekels” sainted; R arer than even these, by far, 1 s health, defying poet’s diction. T lieu with it trit e no:, nor mar— E nd ills-that. female pleasure bar by taking Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription—a remedy so satisfac tory for all those weaknesses and diseases peculiar to women, that they need no longer suffer from them if they will but use this world- famexl remedy. Dainties ot tee l’rnneTai Land. From a Greenland Explorer’s Diary. Snakes, lizzards, grasshoppers, treegrubs, the lax vie ot beetles, brus h turkeys’ eggs, wild honey—in fact, the scrub is full of food when you know how to get it. The best part of a snake is the liver, which is over last trotted a mile in the unparal-j h foot in length in the big snakes. led time lor a three-year-old of 2:10}o. Considering her age, Sun- ole’s performance is regarded as- the greatest ever made by a trot ting horse. Mr. Bonner’s offer for Sunole was made and accepted by Stanford before she made this great performance, Sunole has also the fastest record ever made by a two- year-old, she having trotted last year in 2:18. Time-tried, Truly Tested. Tried for years; severely tested, and still growing in popular favor and use, is the record enjoyed by Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Purgative Pel lets—the little sugar-coated laxa tive granules, sold by druggists, anti-billious and cathartic. —All goods strictly first-class £.t Scherer’s. By-the-way, the natives never eat food that is not ccoked. A snake’s liver is decidedly good, and has a gamey flavor. Lizard’s is like chicken. The beetle larvae are pop ped into the fire, and eaten with wild honey; they taste like an ome lette. Grasshoppers grilled are also capital eating, with a nice nutty flavor. A DUTY TO YOURSELF. It is surprising that people will use a common ordinary pill when they can secure t valuable English one for the 3ame money. Dr. Ack er’s English Phis are a ptisitive cure for sickheadache and all liver troubles. They are small, sweet, easily taken and are for saie by "Whitehead A Co., Waynesboro find IE. A. Harris & Co., Midville. GUARD AG A IF ST TIIE STRIKE, And always have a bottle of Acker’s English Remedy in the house. You cannot tell how soon Croup may strike your little one, or a cold or cough may fasten itself upon you. One dose is a preventive and a few doses a positive cure. All throat and lung troubles yield to its treat ment. A sample bottle is given you free and remedy guaranteed by Whitehead & Co., Waynesboro and E. A. Harris & Co., Midville. A Few Scrlyen County Dots. Sylvania Telephone, Nov. 11. Married, at the residence of the bride’s father, Mr. Wm. Beard in this county 7 , on Sunday tfie, 3d inst., Mr. Thomas Beard to Miss Lula Beard. Married, at the residence of the bride’s father, Mr. Edward Boykin, on last Wednesday, Mr. Thos. Wild er to Miss Loci a Boykin. Last Sunday morning a sad and fatal accident occurred at Mr. Jas. M. Newton’s place in this county. Mr. Lester Zeigler, the eighteen year old son of Mr. Israel Zeigler, had a pistol in his hand, and being asked by a comrade if it was load ed, replied that it was not, and to assure his lriend that it was not, placed it to his head and pulled the trigger, when, to the horror of the young man, it fired, the ball passing through his head. He lingered un til some time in the night, when death resulted. WE CAF AFD DO Guarantee Acker’s Blood Elixir for it has been fully demonstrated to the people ot the country that it is superior to all other preparations for blood diseases. It is a positive cure for syphilitic poisoning, ulcers, eruptions and pimples. It purifies the whole system and thoroughly builds up the constitution. White- head & Co., Waynesboro and E. A. Harris & Co., Midville. A Ueuclon of Kx-Prlsunprs to be field in Old Libby rrlbon. Chicago, III., Nov. 11.—The union-ex-prisoners of war of the northwest have been offered the use of Libby prison by the mana gers of that institution for a nation al reunion of ail who were prison ers during the late war. At a meet ing of the Chicago association at the Grand Pacific hotel to-night the offer was accepted, and December 10th, afternoon and evening, was named as the time of the re-union. HAPPIFE88 AFD COFTEFTMEFT Cannot go hand if we look on the dark side ol every little obstacle. Nothing will so darken lile and and make it a burden as dyspepsia. Acker’s Dyspepsia Tablets will cure the worst form of dyspepsia, consti pation and indigestion, and make life a happiness and pleasure. Sold at 25 and 50 cents by Whitehead & Co., Waynesboro and E. A. Harris & Co., Midville. Advertise in The Citizen, extinguishing lire.s; to require an nual examination and reports on such buildings, and to authorize mu nicipal authorities to extend these provisions to all buildings, not pri vate residences, three or more stories high. To require every miller or manu facturer of flour or corn meal, and every merchant or dealer selling or offering for sale -aid articles to stamp or p; int plainly on each sack the number of pounds contained. To appropriate $7,200 for annual encampments cf thle Georgia mili tary. To organ ze and incorporate fhe first regiment of Georgia cavalry. To amend the military law so as to fix the minimum number of pri vates of a military company at twenty instead of twenty-eight. To authorize the governor to lease the Indian ripring reserve. To prohibit cock-fighting or bet ting thereon. To incorporate the American In ter-Ocean C'.nal Company. To incorporate the Turtle River railroad. To permit guardians to sell corpus of estates of wards for reinvest ments. To incorporate the Albany, Flor ida and Northern railroad. The resolution requesting Geor gia’s senators and representatives in congress to secure the repeal of the ten per. cent tax; on the issue of state banks. Lemonade made from the juice of the lemon is one of the best and safest drinks for any person, wheth er in health or not. It is suitable for all stomach diseases, excellent in sickness, in cases of jaundice, gravel, liver complaint, inflamma tion of the bowels and fevers. It is a specific against worms and skin complaints. The pippin crushed may be used with sugar and water and taken as a drink. Lemon juice is the best antiscorbutic remedy known. It not oniy efires the dis ease, but prevents it. Sailors make daily use of it for that purpose. We advise every one to rub their gums with lemon juice to keep them in a healthy condition. The hands and nails are also kept clean, white and supple by the daily use of lemon in stead of soap. It also prevents chil blains. Lemon is used in iuterniit- ten up every January and July, remaining ninety days or longer. bank pays a goo ! rate of interest, Dun by an expert- debt collector. ■Call from the The nation which many politicians tion. most is the interests nomiua- There are some things a dwarf can’t tin, but he can catch just as big a told as a giant. When musicians need a t ining for then 7 instruments why don’t they take a pitch fork ? It ought to be just the thing.. The orderly mother, with a walk ing baby in the house has a place for everything—and the baby knows where it. is. “Does your teacher ever get mad ?” “Yes, Indeed. I am often the vic tim of his ruling oassion.” Funny Passer By—What are you digging for, my friend? Trench tent feyers, mixed with strong, hot, j Digger—Money. E. I*. B.—When black coffee, without sugar. Neu-1 do you expect to strike it? T. I).— ralgia, it is said, may be cured by j Saturday night, rubbing the affected part with a cut j Sure signs-To meet a funeral procession is a sign of death; to lemon. It is valuable, a!°o, to cure warts. It will remove dandruff by rubbing the roots of the hair with it. It will alleviate and finally cure coughs and colds, and heal diseased lungs, if taken hot on going to bed at night. Its uses r-re manifold, and the more we employ it internally the better we shall find ourselves. A doctor in Rome is trying it expe rimentally In malarial fevers with great success, and thinks that it will supercede quinine. lose a pocket-book containing bills of large denominations is consider ed very unlucky. (Extract from a young lady’s let ter from Venice)—“Last night I lay in a gondola on fhe Grand canal, drinking it all in, and life never seemed so full before. Indigestion results from a partial paralysis of the stomach and is the primary cause of a very large ma jority of the ills that humanity is neir to. The most agreeable and effective remedy is Dr. J. II. McLeans Little Liver and Kidney Fillets. 25 cents a vial. There are more pictures of George Washington sold in this country in a year than any other person. For figures appply to the postoffice department. Early Customer—What’s the price of coal ? Belated Clerk—Don’t know 7 ye t. Haven’t had time this morning to look at the thermometer. Browu-Sfquard’s Elixir Improres an Atlanta Xian. Sympathy for Gen. Loi_(fstreet’s Wife. The old w 7 £,r veterans in New’ton county have adopted! the following timely resolution to Gen. James E. Longstreet: \ Whereas, The Confederate vete rans’ Association of K'ewton county has learned with de;e‘p regret and sorrow of the serious: illness of Mrs. James Longstreet, the honored and noble wife cf Gen. jLongstreet, at Gainesville, Ga.; therefore— Resolved, That we jtender to Gen. Longstreet, and through him to his afflicted wife; our heartfelt sympa thy in their great ^affliction, and earnestly pray that Mrs. Longstreet may be resto red to utjual health and usefulness. Atlanta Journa'. Colonel I. W. Ayery, upon whom the Brown-Sequard Elixir was tried some time ago, is improving very much, he thinks, from the effect of the treatment. Recently he has had hundreds of communications from all parts ot the country, and from very scientific men, asking from his hands a detailed and ac curate report of the experiment which he has for several days been engaged upon and which will ulti mately be published. Colonel Avery feels confident of even better re sults from the trial made upon him and says that his balance power is better than it has been for many months, which he attributes wfiioily to the use of the elixir. “Heaven never burns down,” says brother Tabu: go; and tip rises the mean old editor of the Courier- Journal and: says, says he, “Well, the other place never burns down either.” StCTunson Arqi’lttrd. Undue exposure to cold winds, rain, bright light or malaria, may bring on inflaxnation and soreness of the eyes. Dr. J. H. McLean’s Strengthening Eye Salve wfill sub due the inflamation, cool and soothe the nerves, and strengthen weak and failing eye sight, 25 cents a box. Swains bo ao, Ga., jNov. 12.—'The preliminary trial of C?ol. Samuel D. Stevenson president of the Swains- boro Bank, u ho was ; charged with forgery, was ended yesterday morn ing, and the defendant discharged for the want of sufficient evidence to-convict. Tfre opinion prevails here that the charge should not have been brought against Col. Stevenson. ! Da till I lgton Now $ Slate. Washington, Nov. 11.—at 5:27 o’clock this afternoon 7 the president issued his proclamation declaring that the cond itions mil posed by con gress on the state of Washington to entitle that state to admission to the Union had been ratified and ac cepted and that the i d missi on of said state Into the Union is now com plete. The following is an extract from areal composition written by a small schoolboy in New Jersey. The sub ject given by the teacher was the extensive one of “man.” Here’s what the small boy wrote: “Man is a wonderful animal. He has eyes, ears, mouth. Ilis ears are mostly for catching cold in and having the earache. The nose is to get snijftles with. A man’s body is split half way up, and he walks on the split,ends.’ ; A Cronin jury having been se cured, it may now be hoped 1hafc the guilty parties will he llianged some six months after they have died of old age. Modern training—Mother—Now you have broken my cup. You de serve a whipping, come here. Fritz—No; I won’t come. Mother—Gome, Fritz, till I whip you, and thf n you shall ha yd a slice of cake. She—Why do you look so unhap py, George. Don’t you know we are one now? . “He—Yes, I’ve heard that ibefore, but when it comes to paying the hotel bill the landlord doesn;t seem to think so. Wiggins—That girl singing now is dreadfully made: up—false hair, false comple xion, false teeth, anil false notes. Higgins—She’s the kind of v hom we would say that w ith all her faults we love her still. —If you buy a bottle of Frog Pond Chill Cure, and it fails to cure, the chills, go back to the store where you bought and get, your 50c. No cure no pay is the way to buy Frog Pond. A CHILD KILLED. Another child killed by the use of opiates given in the form iff sooth ing syrup. Why mothers give their chi ldren such deadly poison is sur prising when they ta'n relieve the child of its peculiar troubles by us ing Acker’s Baby Soother. It con tains no opium or morphine. Sold hy Whitehead & Co., Waynesboro, and E. A. Harris & Co., Midyille. About 100 negroes met in Atlanta on November 12th jn response to a call' for a convention. Matters of interest to the colored race w ? ere discussed. Among other things the speakers urged the negroes not to give their names to the census tak ers, in order that the number of Democratic congressional represen tatives may be diminished. The clothing of the piece of Tom Hood, living a mile and a half east of Sandeirsville, caught on fire Sat urday morning while she w 7 as standing near the fire,! and she was badly burned. Dr. A. J. Irwin, who was there in attendance upon her aunt, who is critically! ill, succeed ed in siuioth' ring the flames, and hopes are entertained that fatal consequence wilt, not follow. Alany people think that the word “bitters' can be used only in connection with an in toxicating beverage. This is a mistake, as the best remedy for all diseases of the blood, liyer, kidneys, etc., is Prickly Ash Bitters. It is purely a medicine and every article used In its manufacture is of vegetable origin of known curative qualities. —The sure cure for chills is Frog Pond. Sold everywhere at 50c.— see that you get the Frog, and take no substitute. Merchants with more enterprise than honor some times offer substitutes and urge they are just as good. Ask for Frog Pond and have no other. Big Siste: —Dick. I wish you would go and get Mr. Niceffillow a glass of water. Mr. Nicefellow— Yes, my boy, and here’s a dime for you. Little Brother—Thank you; I’ll go pretty soon. Mamma said I shouldn’t leave the parlor until she came back. I Mose Schaumburg, Jr.—VAder, a shendleman vants to know fif dot unshrinkable undershirt '■ don’t shrink a leedle anyvay. Mose Schaumburg, Sr.—Does (lot shirt fit him ? “No; it vas shoost leedle too pig.” Of course it viil shrink. Vy don’t you have some head for pish ness?” * t “A nice loc king, well-dressed fel low, and a good talker,” is reported to be swindling the merchants in South Georgi a by representing that lie will deliyer printed paper bags from Atlac.tR, collect the money and skips oir leaving however, the merchant with no bag to hole.—At lanta Journal. One-third of the fools in the coun try think they beat lawyers m ex pounding the law. One hqlf. think that they car beat the doctor; heal ing the sick. Two-thirds ot thera think they can put the mini3jer in a hole in preaching the gospel; and ali of think they can beat the editor in running a newspaper. Itch, mange, cm! scratches on human or animals c»red in 30 minctes by Wc-allord’s Sanitary Lotion. This never faiis. :md by Whitehead A Go, Way net boro. nv2hia 11 _ gig -