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TIPTON AND NORTHEASTERN R. It.
’’SOLDIERS' COLONY ROUTE.’’
General Offices, Tlfton, Georgia.
No 1. NoII- j Feb. 11, 1897. |No. 2. |No. 4.
• A. M. P. M. p. m. p. JI.
7:3(1 4:00 Lv. Tlfton, Ga. Ar. 12:00 11:45 j 7:15 7:00
7:45 4:13 t f Brighton 11:38 0:51
7:55 4:22 If Harding. 1 11:10 , 11:01
8:15 4:43 1 Pinetta. 11:10 <1:25
8:31 ■1:48 if Irwin. 110:50 I 6:13
8:43 5:00 Fletcher. Lv.110:45 | 6:00
ILiiO 5:15 Ar. Fitzgerald.
Trains Nos. 1, 2.3 and 4 run daily except
Sunday. Nos. 7 and 8 Sunday only.
Trains run signal. on
(t) Trains stop only on with Plant System
Trains connect at Tlfton Georgia Ala¬
and G. S. & F. railroads, and and
bama at Fitzgerald.
H. H.TtFr, President.
IV, o. Tut, Vice-President. Traffic Manager.
F. (1. Boatright.
GEORGIA A ALABAMA RAILWAY,
“THE SAVANNAH SHORT LINE.”
Passenger Schedule, Effective Sept. 7.
P. M | A. M A. M . I- V . M.
G 30 ill 25 Lv. Fitzgerald Ar. 10 15 5 50
8 30 12 25 Ar. Abbeville, Lv. 8 15 4 50
A. M ; p. M. i 1 45 3 88
1 40 I 1 50 Cordeie 112 20
2 50 ! 3 25 Americus 35 2
P. M. A. )1.
7 40 8 40 Montgomery 8 40 ! 7 40
3 65 | 5 35 Halena U 35 111 18
8 10 ! II 40 Ar. Savannah Lv. 7 25 I 7 25
Close connections at nil junctions and ter¬
minal points for nil points. & Mgr.
Cecil Garret, Vice.Pres, Gen.
A. Pope, Gen. Pus. Agt.
( has. N. Right, Ass’tGen’l Pass. Agt.
En Stallings, T. P. A., Fitzgerald.
Postoflice.
Mail closes at 10:50 a. m. and 5:30 p. m.
Mail closes 20 minutes earlier Sunday even-
ing. Office , from 7 to 7:30 p. m.
open a. m. 10:30
Office open Sunday from 9:30 a. ni. to
a. m. D. G. DREW, P. M.
CITY DIRECTORY
at 7:30 p.m. Visiting brethren cordially Reporter. in-
vited. • - W. F. Way.
C. P. McMillen, Dictator.
TT”NIGHTS OF PYTHIAS—Unity Lodge No.
JlV. 8*5 meets every Thursday evening brothers 1 at 8 p.
m. and earnestly invites visiting 1 to
be present. T. S. Ross, G. G.
W. F. Thompson, K. of It. & S.
T OGAN CIRCLE NO. 1, ladies of the G. A.
JLi U.. meet every Thursday at 2 p. m. in the
G. A R. hall,on Pine avenue. Pres.
Elizabeth Fkink,
Emma Peipeh, Secretary.
1E. Church South, on Oconee a mU oh ns ton.
school 9:45 a. m.. Epvvorth League 6:15 p.m.
Every Sunday, standard time.
/CHRISTIAN SCIENCE-Servicesevery Sun-
KJ day morning at 10:33 a. m.; Sunday school
11:30 a. in., held in the K. of P. hall over the
Savannah shoe store, Pine street. AU are
cordially invited.
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"Presbyterian church— Corner of Palm and
JL Grant. Sabbath school at 9:30 a. m.
Christian Endeavor at 6:30 p. m. prompt.
Cordial welcome to all.
r 1ENERAL prayer and praise service will be
VT held at the “Free Gospel Tabernacle,”
corner Jessamine avenue and Hooker street
every Thursday night at 7:30. Also preaching
every Sunday at 7:30 p. Everybody com. j.
W. McIntosh, pastor.
TITHE First Baptist cnurch, corner Pine ave-
nue and Longstreet street, four blocks
west of postoflice. Sunday school at 11:00 a.
m.. young peoples’ meeting 6:30 p. m. Ser¬
vices following at 7.30 p.m. Prayer meeting
Wednesday, 7:30 p. m.
"CURST Methodist Episcopal cnurch, J. H.
X' Stoney. pastor. Preaching every Sab¬
bat n at 14 tV. m. and TifiO p. m. Sunday 2:30 school
9:30 a. m.; Junior Epwonh Epworth League League p. 6:15 m.
every Sabbath; Senior people’s
p. m. every Sabbath. League young 7:30.
prayer meeting, Tuesday evenings at
Regular church prayer meeting, Thursday
evenings at 7:20 p. m.
TXT C. T. U. 1st and 3<1 Saturdas’ of everd
TV month at 3 o’clock p. m. sharp, at the
residence of Mrs. Tebeau on Magnolia and
Sherman.
TXTOMAN SUFFRAGE association 2d and
Vi 4th Wednesday at 2 p m. at the resi¬
dence of Mrs. Frey on Fine near Lee.
T O. O. F. Fitzgerald Lodge No. 35. meets
-L every Tuesday evening at 8 p m. at Odd Fol¬
lows’hall on Grant street; visiting brothers
cordially invited to attend: John Seanor,
N. G.; C. M. Wise, Sec’y.
VTA SONIC LODGE— Pine Level Lodge, No-
Ji 353 A. F. and A. M., meets every first Sat.
urday. Members in good standing are cor-
diall invited to meet with us.
D. A. McCaskel, IV. M.
JI. Dixon, Secretary.
/'TATHOLIC CHURCH—North Grant street.
\J Services every 3d Sunday in each month,
Rev. Father Goar officiating.
T>HOTHER -D church WALDEN Lord’s will preach day at 11 at tho
Christian on a. m.
and 7 p. in. Bible school!!) a. m.
QEVENTH Day Adventists. Sunday school
► i and devotional exercises every seventh
day at 2 p. m. at residence ot' Rev. Reiber,
Altamalm street, between Lee and Johnson.
TpPISCOPAL CHURCH—Lenton Servlces-
J-4 Sundays 10:3u a. in.. 7:30 p. m., except on
2d Sundays. Sunday' school 9:15 a. m. Wed Hi —
days, Thursdays and Fridays at 4:30 p. m.
/"Iongrrgationalisf—P Cougregationalist, reach In if by Rev. the S.
VV C. Kennedy, at
Tabernacle, Sunday aftereoon at 3 o’cloek.
A welcome to all.
B. B. CHENEY,
ATTO R N E Y-AT-LA W,
Office—I n Paulk Building 1 , Grant Street,
FITZGERALD, GEORGIA.
WAY & JAY,
Attorney-at-Law,
Fitzgerald, Georgia.
Office— In tho Slayton & Kern building on
Pine avenue.
E. W. Kynuin, h. Kennedy,
Of South Dakota. Of Savannah.
RYMAN & KENNEDY,
Office—I n Fitzgerald Block..
A. T. CURRY,
Notary Public,
COLONY BANK,
Fitzgerald. Georgia
Srs. C. A. A l C. Holtsendorf,
Office— In Slavton & Kern building, ’oppo¬
site Commercial hotel. Fitzgerald, Ga
Phone 21.
DR. J. H. POWELL,
(Late of the Best American Hospitals)
Specialist in Chronic Diseases,
Of Men and "Women.
Office, 8. Grant street, near Magnolia. (Per¬
manently located.)
rca PC
Official Newspaper of Irwin County, Georgia.
Official Newspaper of City of Fitzgerald, On.
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COUNTY OFFICIALS.
C. C. Smith,Judge Sup. Court,HawkinviUo.Gu McRae,
Tom J. Eason, Solicitor Sup. Court.
It. Clements, Co. Judge, Irwinville,
J. E. Burch, Co. Solicitor, Fitzgerald,
J. J. Lee.Ordinary. 1). Paulk, Clerk Irwinville, Sup.Court,Irwinville, “
.1. B.
It. V. Handley, Sheriff, Fitzgerald,
O. L. Royal, Tax Receiver, Ocillu, Sycamore,
J. R. Paulk, Tax Collector,
James Walker, Co. Treasurer, Irwinville. ”
E. J. Hogan, Co. Surveyor, Minnie,
Marion Dixon, School Com., “
M. Henderson, Co. Commissioner,Ocilla,
CITY AND COUNTY.
The Brunswick Weekly Advertiser is
a gem of a newspaper.
Owing to business matters Mr. Fitz¬
gerald will not reach here until Satur¬
day evening.___
J. S. Wilson spent a few days last week
at Valdosta on business. He reports our
sister a nice, booming little town.
Not satisfied with building a new side¬
walk and awning, Druggist Goodman
has treated his building to a fresh coat
of paint.
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E. W. Ryman is buildinga neat resi¬
dence on west Magnolia avenue. When
completed it will be one of the prettiest
cottages in the city.
A light shower of rain visited this
section last Tuesday night. It is re¬
ported that the east part of tho county
received a heavy fall.
The weather we are having must be
of the made-to-order variety. The soft
sea breezes from the coast makes the
weather delightful and everybody
happy.
Editor Brown, of the Irwinville Dis¬
patch, was here seeing the sights and
learning the fashions, and also visiting
relatives and friends. He paid THE
Leader a fraternal call.
A great many society people of our
town, including the ladies, are going to
Tampa on the excursion, May 24th, on
the Georgia S uthern & Florida rail¬
way. We know they will have a good
time.
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Fred L. Bigliam, the contractor and
builder, left at The Leader office last
Saturday a fino sample oE this year’s
cucumbers, raised in his garden.
Thanks, Fred, and may your shadow
never grow less.
Mr. Warman presented this office
last Monday with a fine sample of ripe
wild plums gathered near town!' Mr.
Warman reports the “ woods full” of
this desirable fruit, which is now just
commencing to turn ripe.
Nearly everybody in town who have
very near broke their back in the
ancient game known as “beating the
carpet,” are wielding a brush with
plenty of paint attached thereto on their
dwellings and outbuildings.
Sixty-six tickets were sold to Abbe¬
ville last Saturday night by the G. & A.
R’y to people going to hear the celebra¬
ted evangelist Sam Jones. Most of them
report .Tones a big failure, while others
speak very highly of his lecture.
H. A. Burkhart is building an eight-
room residence on west Central avenue.
The building is 40x70, with the kitchen
detached. When completed it will he
one of the most durable and convenient
homes in the magic city among the
pines. _
Shall Fitzgerald celebrate the Fourth
of July V This important matter should
be[attended to at once. Several towns in
this section are already making prepa¬
rations for celebrating and Fitzgerald
should do likewise. By all means let us
celebrate.
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It is related that a certain farmer who
claimed that he was unable to spend a
dollar for a year’s subscription to his
county paper, sent that amount down
east for a receipt to stop a horse from
slobbering—he got it, and it is: “Teach
your horse to spit.”
At. Sioux City, Iowa, April 28, the
mercury crawled up to 82° in the
shade. It is either one extreme or an¬
other in that country. If the people up
there would only come down to wire-
grass Georgia they soon bo convinced
that life was worth living.
A Kansas school ma’am has intro¬
duced a new feature in her school.
When one of the girls misses a word,
the boy who spells it has permission to
kiss her, and now the larger girls have
a hard time in trying to spell the com¬
mon, every-day words.
E. Alphonse, living west of town,
left at this office last Saturday morning
a stalk of corn that measured an even
five feet in length. A more healthy
stalk of corn never came out of the
ground. Roasting ears will soon be on
the market at this rate.
Georgia has paid to foreign life insur¬
ance companinies during the past five
years $10,709,315 in premiums, and has
received in death benefits $3,8%,976.
As the comparative death rate in Geo-
gia is very low, there is a suggestion of
genuine profit in having state life in¬
surance companies.
G. A. R. regular meeting Saturday 2
p. in. Full attendance is desired.
The council met in spocia' session
last Tuesday evening, but nothing of
important was transacted.
Garden truck is fairly shooting out of
tho ground on account, of the copious
rains. Let the,m conic, wo need them.
Capt. R. T. Coverdalo was called to
Pniludelphia on Tuesday on matters
relative to tho machinery for the water¬
works.
A Minnesota editor says he wrote a
strong article on patronizing home in¬
dustries and one of the storekeepeis
wrote to him thanking him for the sen-
timeut on a letter head printed in Chi¬
cago.
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It is estimated that fully seventy-five
Fitzgerald people will take advantage
of the low rate and go on the excursion
to Brunswick to-morrow; $2 is the
round trip.
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G. Le [Forest Wood, impersonator,
will be at the G. A. R. hall on Satur¬
day evening, May 15, for the benefit of
the new hall. Admission, 25 cents;
children. 15 cents. Be sure and attend.
Your money will be well spent.
Those who love fishing should not fail
to take advantage of the very cheap
rates offered by the Georgia Southern
& Florida railway to Tampa and return,
May 24 to June 1. Tampa is quite near
St. Petersburg and other famous fishing
resorts on tho west coast of Florida.
The Georgia Southern & Florida rail¬
way is again advertising a cheap per¬
sonally-conducted excursion to Tampa.
See advertisement elsewhere in this
paper. We are sure all who go with
Mr. Macdonald will be well taken care
of, as he has made a wide reputation
for the manner in which he looks after
the interests of his excursionists.
A Chicago druggist has been con¬
demned by a jury to pay $10,500 dam¬
ages for the mistake of a prescription
clerk, who used carbolic acid in a lotion
for inflamed eyelids, which destroyed
the sight of one of the eyes of a little
child. Another druggist of the same
city was fined heavily for his negli¬
gence, a verdict oE $8,000 being giverf
against him, because one of the clerks
sold corrosive sublimate for calomel.
A timid Abbeville school ma’am, hav¬
ing an inordinate dread of contagious dis -
eases, sent a child home because her
mother was sick. The next day the
child presented herself at school with
her finger in her mouth and her little
bonnet swinging by the string, said :
“ We’se got a little baby at our house,
but ma said to, tell you it wasn’t catch-
in’.” The teacher is said to have
blushed slightly, said she was glad and
then told the little girl to take her seat.
H. N. Jones, who it will be remem¬
bered, erected the Fitzgerald block and
the corn and cotton palace building,
was in the city last Friday interviewing
old-time friends. Harry has just finish¬
ed a large building for the Armour
Packing Co., at Macon. Mr. Jones left
Saturday for Birmingham, Alabama,
where he has secured a contract for the
erection of a large warehouse for the
Armoiv,:,.
Mr. A. L. Butts, who recently arriv¬
ed here from Duluth, Minn., has pur¬
chased 5-acre tract No. 99, has already
cleared up one acre and erected a cosy
cottage, which will be finished in about
a week. He is delighted with the out¬
look here and intends purchasing the
adjoining ten acres. Mr. Butts is a
hustler and will help to build up the
Colony, and we are glad to welcome
him to the magic city among the pines.
The New York postoffice will soon
put in use the first horseless mail wagon
ever operated in the United States.
The wagqp will be employed in the col¬
lection of mail from letter boxes about
the city, and letters thus collected are
to be assorted, stamped and sent to their
proper railway stations without going
to the general postoffice or any branch
office. It is understood that if this ex-
periment proves a success that the
wagons will be used in all of the larger
cities of the country.
Peter Cooper, who died worth many
million dollars, gave some good advice
to the business men of every town when
be.said: “In all towns where a newspa¬
per is published, every man should ad¬
vertise in it, if nothing more than a
card stating his name and the business
he is engaged in. It nearly always
pavs the advertiser, and besides, lets
the people at a distance know that the
town in which you reside is a prosper¬
ous community of business men, and
that people may settle in it with a
chance to make a living. Never pull
in your sign in a home newspaper while
you expect to do business.”
“Uncle Jim” Barnes, southeast of
town, sent to this office last Monday a
magnificent sample of apples. On one
stem, about six inches in length, were
eight large apples. Mr. Barnes has
never failed, we are told, to raise a crop
of apples every year, and in his orchard
can be seen a number of the leading
varieties known to the lovers of good
apples, fctis trees (including Siberian
crabs) are loaded with fruit this year,
many of with the trees that being so limbs heavily will
loaded fruit the
have to be relieved of a part of their
burdeD. Mr. Barnes was formerly tax
receiver of this county for a number of
years.
A ^Northern editor is mourning the
loss of two new subscribers. Number
one wrote asking how lo rear twins
safely, while the other wanted to know
how to rid his orchard of grasshoppers.
The answers were forward by next
mail, but by accident he transposed
them into the wrong envelopes, so that
the man with the twins received this
answer to his inquiry : “ Cover them
carefully with straw and set, fire to it,
and the little pests, after jumpingabout
in the flames for a few minutes will be
speedily settled” ; while the man with
tho grasshoppers was told “ give castor
oil and ruh their gums with a bone.”
Dogs are more numerous than they
were a year ago. At that time there
were three dogs to .each legal voter but
at the present time time it is estimated
that there is a fraction over four. This
shows that the dog industry has greatly
increased. The city reaps a revenue of
one dollar per dog from this canine pop¬
ulation and other property will be taxed
light in proportion to iho number of
dogs. When this tax is paid into the
treasury it will be expended in general
improvements. It is evident prosperity
will soon be upon us. All that any
town ijeeds to make its citizens proser-
ous is plenty of confidence and lots of
dogs. Fitzgerald has ’em and we are
happy.
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All Are Gamblers.
In the homes, the churches, the
schools, business, from childhood to the
grave, this life is like a game of cards
which each one has to learn. Each
shuffles, cuts and deals his pack, and
each his trump doth turn. Some turn
a high card to the top, while others
turn a low ; some hold a hand quite
flush with trumps, while others none
can show.
When hearts are trump we play for
love, and pleasure decks the hour ; no
thought of sorrow checks our joy in
friendship’s rosy hour, and when the
heart is in the hand our life is but a
holiday. When diamonds chance to
crown the pack 'tis then men stake
their gold. Large sums are often lost
and won by gamblers young and old.
’Tis then that honest men become the
dupes and rogues and rogues each other
cheat, and he is fortunate indeed who
never meets defeat. When clubs are
trump, look out for war, on ocean and on
land, for horrid deeds are oft times done
when clubs are in the hand ; but the
last great game is when the spade'is
turned by the hand of time. 'Tis he
th/it finishes the game, in every land
r/id clime. No matter how much each
may win, or how much each may save
you will find, r.t last, that spades turn
up and dig the player’s grave.
The Directors Meeting.
The meeting called for the purpose of
electing a new board of directors of the
colony met at G. A. R. hall last Satur¬
day evening, with about 200 stock hold¬
ers in attendance,. Mayor Goodnow was
elected chairman, who, in a neat little
speech, said he thought it was bad pol¬
icy to try and elect new directors when
there was no charges brought up against
the old ones.
A number of “hot” speeches were
made both pro and con in regard to the
matler, and a copy of the charter was
read in which nothing is said in regard
to directors or when tney should be
elected.
A man by the name of French, who
had signed the call as chairman, spoke
for a few moments, in which he said he
was going to shake the Georgia dust
from his feet in a few weeks and that
ho thought there should be some new
directors elected by the colony stock
holders. He was given a rousing cheer
(nit) and the cries of. “Why don’t you
leave now? nobody has got a string
tied to you.” “These directors suit us
all right,” etc., etc. He sat down, but
in a few moments arose again and told
the large crowd that the reason he was
leaving was because his wife was sick.
After much discussion as to how di¬
rectors should be elected a motion was
made that a committee of ten be ap-
pointed to confer with Mr. Fitzgerald
in regard to the matter,
It is thought that Mr. Fitzgerald will
appoint some more directors to act in
conjunction with the old ones, but that
they will be men of business principles
and integrity, but will not-, under any
consideration, allow it to go to a vote,
as a person now days could not tell who
would be the men to look after the in-
terest of 14,000 stock holders. The
Leader believes that if there is to be
any new directors appointed that they
be appointed through Mr. Fitzgerald,
as we believe this will give the best sat¬
isfaction to everybody here and away.
Died,
At the home of his son, three miles
northwest of this city, on the 9tb.inst.,
William Sayre, aged 81 years, 8 months
and 24 days. The deceased, in his
earlier life, was a resident of Milford
center, Union county, Ohio. He enlis¬
ted in the army of the Union and after
the war made his home in Kansas, from
which he came to Fitzgerald. He uni¬
ted with the Presbyterian church in
which he served as elder during the
greater part of his long life. Pious and
cheerful in his home, a pillar in the
church and always ready for any good
service he could render. Comrade
Sayre filled his life with usefulness,
Rev. H. F. Long conducted the funeral
service. Text: Ps. 91.1-16. *
The average reader can t tell any¬
thing definite about the war in CJnba,
and an effort to predict the resultXvould
be only that much time given tpfrormu-
lating a guess. There are reports from
the islands of buttles and defeats, vic¬
tories, routs, etc., that road more like
election lies than anything else imag¬
inable.
B. J. Moran, special correspondent of
the Atlanta Constitution, whose arti¬
cles are appearing in that up-to-date
paper from different sections of Georgia,
on the wonderful development of the
wire-grass region, was in the city Tues¬
day and Wednesday gathering data for
an article that will appear soon in the
Constitution. Mr. Moran’s articles
from the different sections of the wire-
grass country are attracting much at¬
tention and are food for thought to those
who have never lelt the northern part
of the State to see just what there is in
tho wonderful southern section. While
here Mr. Moran was the invited guest
of Mr. Sidney Lascelies.
Mr. J. A. Justice, of this city, receiv¬
ed a letter from his sister, dated Rose,
South Dakota, April 25,1897. We are
permitted to copy a few extracts from
the letter, relative to the severe winter
just passed, deep snow, floods, etc.,
which will prove quite interesting to
resident Colony members and others in
this section of wire-grass Georgia, the
land of copious showers, sunshine and
flowers:
“ Dear Brother John We were
glad to hear from you again. We have
had a terrible winter, and then followed
the floods this spring. Water stood in
our house a foot deep all over tho floors,
besides spoiling our hay and feed, and
making us no end of work
Seeding is slow on account of the wet
condition ot the land. We have about
Every bridge in the county is out.
To go to Mellette one has to drive to
the James river, pay 25c to get rowed
across, and then another 25c to ride to
town and back in a ’bus. How very ro¬
mantic and inconvenient! Who ever said
this was a dry country ! when you can
sail all over in your house and around
it. The water was 80 rods wide from
the corner of Gregory’s and over the
grade east of our house, and in places
ten feet deep or more. Dug ditches
through banks of snow from 12 to 20
feet deep. To have dug it through the
trees beyond the well in tho old channel
would i ^tve been to dig it through
* he all the trees
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deep iw mjffit crashes
and breaks off nearly every tree, leav¬
ing no branches on the trees cottonwoods standing.
You remember two large
by the well. Just the’tips were seen
above the snow last winter. The hen
house was under over 12 feet of snow.
We put several joints of stove pipe
through the snow bank into the hen
house to give ventilation! We had to
tunnel every day down to the floor of
the house, throw in feed and then let
down a lantern for the chickens to see
to eat by. That was from Jan. 1st to
March 20th—then came the floods.
Never saw so n uch water in snow be¬
fore—7i feet deep on the level!
Wish I had some of your garden stuff
and strawberries. O, my ! wouldn’t I
feast myself! is looking big
Every one I do hope for a it. crop We
this year, and we get
intend to make a break this fall for the
Sunny South. Your sister, Mary.
P. S.—Kind regards to Mrs. Ryman. ?
Does tho baby grow pretty like his pa
General Manager Gabbett and Chief
Engineer Hammond, of the G, &. A.
railway, were in the city last Tuesday
on a tour of inspection of the railroad
between here and Ocilla.
Ed Stallings, the gentlemanly travel¬
ing passenger agent of the Georgia &
Alabama railroad, permitted his genial
countenance to shine in upon The
Leader this morning. He said he
brought the rain along with him, and
when vve desired any more just to tele¬
graph him and he would come down
and bring a couple of barrels.
A subscriber thinks eggs should be
sold by the pound, and expatiates as
follows why this should be thus : “The
past week, out of a ease of eggs in one
of our stores, we selected two
dozen eggs. One dozen of them weighed
just two pounds. They were ail bought
and sold at so much a dozen. The small
egg was in no way better than the large.
That is like buying cream by the inch
or gallon, as the creameries did in an
early day, some gallons of cream being
worth twice as much as others. We
have quit this foolishness, and should
sell our eggs by weight. The French
people do so and we will some day when
we get ready.”___
LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE.
SIZE OF GREECE,
Editor Atlanta Constitution: How
big is Greece? Please compare it with
some State in the United States. 2.
How big is Hawaii? F. S. S.
Atlanta, May 8.
1. Greece has 25,000 square miles and
is almost twice as large as the State of
Maryland.
2. Hawaii has 6,000 square miles, the
combined size of Connecticut and Del¬
aware.
CONFEDERATE SURRENDER.
Editor Atlanta Constitution: Will
you please tell me how many confeder¬
ate soldiers surrendered at the close of
the war? Macon.
Macon, May 9.
Army of northern Virginia, 27,805;
army of Tennessee, 31,243; army of
Missouri, 7,978; army of Alabama, 42,-
293; army of Trans-Mississippi, 17,586;
at Nashville and Chattanooga, 5,029;
paroled in departments of Virginia,
Cumberland, Maryland, Alabama, Flor¬
ida, Tennessee, Texas, etc., 42,189; con¬
federate prisoners in northern prisons
at the close of the war, 98,802; total
confederate army at close, 273,025. A
large and unknown number of confeder¬
ate soldiers were not present at sur¬
render.
COUNTY COURT IN SESSION.
Finos the Saloon Mon, But They Appeal
to the Supreme Court.
County court convened at Irwinville
last Monday with Judge J. B. Clements
presiding. A large docket of criminal
cases—such as gambling, assault and
battery and carrying concealed weapons
—wore disposed of, together with a
number of civil eases. A goodly num¬
ber from this cit}’ were in attendance.
The State oi Georgia versus the sa¬
loon men of this city, with selling
liquor contrary to the laws of Irwin
county, was up lor trial and the defend¬
ants fined $150 and costs. Notice, how¬
ever, of certiorari was given and the
eases taken to the supremo court. The
attorneys for the defense say the out¬
come of the cases will be that tho
whole of Irwin county will be “wet,” as
no vote was ever taken making Irwin
county a “dry” county. The eases are
attracting much attention. E. W. Hy¬
man and Hal Lawson appear for Frank
Papworth and Keller & Kirkland and
B. M. Frizello for S. M. Cohen.
The State vs. J. H. Ingresliaw for
practicing medicine without a license,
was given a fine of $35 and costs or four
months on the gang.
A. C. Calhoun on the charge of gam¬
bling, was given $50 or ten months on
the gang.
Zara Harper, a colored damsel, was
up on the charge ol misdemeanor,
pleaded guilty and the judge gave her
a fine of $75 and costs or ten months on
the
Ben Langley, on the charge of carry¬
ing concealed weapons, was given $50
or ten months on the gang.
A. J. Bennett, on the charge of sell¬
ing liquor, was given a fine of $150 or
twelve months on the gang,
Washington Wash, on the charge of
assault and battery, was given $40 or
eight months on the gang.
J. F. Cobb, on the charge of carrying
concealed weapons, to superior court
was fined $25 and costs.
Jack Griffin, on the charge of gam‘
bling, demanded indictment by* <the
grand jury and gave bond.
The case of W. W. Martin on the
charge of trespass, was dismissed.
The case of J. M. McDonald on the
charge of gambling, was nolle proses,
dismissed.
Case of Frank Papworth on the
charge of selling,iiqu^to montJfcon mmors, was
fined $125 or twelve the
Case carried to * reme
gang. was
court.
Case of Harold Papworth, on the
charge of selling liquor to minors, was
dismissed. Was also the case of T. S.
Kirkland.
Case of S. M. Cohen, on the charge
of gambling, was given a fine of $100
and costs or twelve months on the gang.
He appealed to superior court.
Case of Jake Hungate, on the charge
of gambling, pleaded guilty and given
a fine of $100 and costs or twelve months
on the gang.
Case of Chas. Richards, on the charge
of gambling, found guilty and given a
fine of $100 or twelve months on the
gang.
J. C. Cook pleaded guilty to the
charge of selling liquor, and was fined
$100 and costs.
Case of Thos. Luke for assault and
battery, pleaded guilty and given a fine
of $50 and costs.
A Word to Our Business Men.
The time has arrived when you must,
unitedly, put your best efforts forward
and work for the upbuilding of Fitzger¬
ald as you never worked before. It is
the duty of every one of you to be up
and doing, and the sooner you get to
work the better it - will be for the city,
and what is good for the city is good
for the people who reside therein. Do
not set back in your easy chairs and ex¬
pect the newspapers to do it all! The
newspapers of Fitzgerald can do no
more than what they have already
done. They have talked the city in
season and out of season, and the time
has now arrived when you must put
your shoulders to the wheel and assist
in the work. There’s no getting around
this, if you want to see our city go
ahead.
Say a good word for Fitzgerald at
every Opportunity. Hold your city up,
speak of the many advantages, its im¬
mense ] umber industry and the
fertility of its soil. In fact, talk at all
times for your home city.
This town needs a few more factories
to give employment to the young men
and women growing up ail about us. If
these young their people can’t find employ¬
ment in place home city, they will go
to some where they can. This
should not be thus. We should strive
to home, keep our they young men and women at
for will make good citizens.
Strive to get factories to locate here.
Be liberal in the inducements you offer.
If you want to see the city prosper and
to add value to your possessions, be lib¬
eral in your givings and it will make
you money in return. But don’t wait
for factories from other places to locate
here. While you are sending out in¬
ducements in that direction, get to¬
gether and build two or more factories
yourselves. Two or three men* can’t do
this alone, but by a united effort on the
part of all much can be accomplished.
Get the citizens in general and the
farmers interested,|for all will be equally
benefitted by the results. Men of means,
men who have large bodies of land
lying near the city, and the laboring
men and mechanics must stand shoulder
to shoulder and'work together if you
want the city to grow and the com¬
munity become prosperous. Now is the
time to act. Don’t stand back!