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> “1 l to Fitzgerald Leader. 1896. vn*i. ii. ' 13. <rfinty Correspondence. r .Correspondent.—All letters Tor pubil- nation must reaoh us b.V Monday or Tuesday • of each week. T'nless the name of the cor- restfinder accompanies the letter we will not mm esame. 'Ve will not print the rjV the if ftirrespondent or evidence tell who of (rood they uH' w** the name as an anything ri. Write news, and do not write ItnBeSects on the character of anyone. Sparks From Wolf Pit. From Our llegular Correspondent. News Sef.rce this week. George Gaff is on the sick list with e ^ over - 'Dan Mclnnis was in this vicinity r > ursda y- Mrs. M.Gaff and Bettie visited Mr. zafford’s family Tuesday. '■« 31 r. and Mrs. Blood dined with VIat Kettles’ family Sunday. 1 Mr. Bollman and wife visited Mr. Wcbjk '-s at Fitzgerald Saturday. Tm WolfPit boys go to Dormi- neys’ Mill to play ball Saturday. Mr. Tollman has been harvesting his»millet and cutting up corn this .week. Fred Dunbar went to the mill to r ork at Laurence Lewis’ the first of ,the week. ■ On account of rain there was no F ‘eaching at the school house Suuday ■ ening. attended F The Wolf Pit people that I e fish fry and picnic at the river the i report a good time. K P Fred Ray, Jesse Gaff and Shorty L imed the timbers for Shorty’s barn is week, and have it about ready to ■ use. K Dick Kipple was at Young Peo- B Btin, s’ meeting Sunday evening. Come Dick, if there is any special at- Jon. ^^Normau Dorminy, Dick Kipple, Eddie Laufman, Dwight Foxworthy .and Shorty Pearson took in the ball t k ame at the city on the 3d. ’he Boy With One Eye Open. Good Hope Items. ~om our Regular Correspondent. \ D. Elder has returned from Cor- B ,T. F. Hoffman left Monday for Valdosta. I -i Etta Ayers is among us visit- Btiumerous friends. J. Hoffman has severed his con- ^Lio« ■Co. with and will the Irwin take County few weeks’ Lum- a ed rest. and Mrs. Worth, who have been on the sick list, are stopping with their son, Lute, the dairyman, regaining their health. ' John Duxler, who has been sick with a complication of diseases, is not gaining in strength as rapidly as his many friends had hoped for. This un- fortunate family are in want and need immediate assistance. Mr. Duxler has been sick for several weeks. Friends, please leave your contributions, pro¬ visions or cash at Tiie Leader office, as your correspondent will deliver line to this unfortunate family. Now, dear Leader, your where many ! aiders may want to know b jd Hope is located. Y ell, it is tu. e and a half miles from Fitzger¬ ald, on the Irwinville road, where you will find the nicest country to be ‘bund in Georgia. Observer. At a cabinet meeting of the officers of the Irwin County Sunday School Association held in Fitzgerald, July Sun¬ 7th, they decided to call all the day schools in the county together to hold a bible institute on Tuesday and Wednesday, Octocer 12 and 13, at Fitzgerald, in such building as the program committee may select. Each Sunday school will send five delegates and each district union will send five delegates, in whose hands all the busi- ness of the institute will be intrusted, including the election of officers for the ensuing year, the adoption All of dele¬ con¬ stitution and by-laws, will etc. be cared for at gates from abroad our homes. The program committee consists of Rev. H. F. Long, chair¬ man; Rev. Register, of Mystic, Rev. ^Adams. Mrs. S. D. Rayner, of Old B^' V' Mi L. -8 Mauldin, - Dr. Dorminey, of Irwinville, of Minnie, and BFr W o. A. Lomberlin, F. W. of I. Abbeville. C. S. S. A. C. J. Esty, Fitzgerald, July 10, ’97. Comrades, Attention? At the Grand Army hall, cor. Cen¬ tral avenue and Thomas street, next Saturday at 10 o’clock a. m., there will be an open meeting held, having as its object the formation of Fitzgerald Post G. A. It. The officers who were desig¬ nated at a former meeting are all ex¬ pected to be present with all papers which bear on the case, and all com¬ rades having an interest in the move¬ ment for or against, are invited to be present and participate. The depart¬ ment mustering officer is asked to be ► >-erent, as he may be needed. Committee. Everybody is respectfully invited to attend service 0 at, the Christian church next Lords daj, July 18, where Prof. II. te. McCroiw, of Romo, Ga., will preach Lt 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. “MAN WAS BORN TO HUSTLE}.” FITZGERALD, IRWIN COUNTY, GEORGIA, JULY 15, 1897. ELOQUENT ADDRESS By Gov. R. L. Taylor, Who Welcomed the Veterans on Behalf of Tennes¬ see At The Opening or the Confederate Vet¬ eran Reunion nt Nashville. Ladies and Gentlemen: —Why need I say welcome to the men of the South ? Every heart in Tennessee throbs a welcome to you, and every loyal home smiles a welcome. I think if 1 could draw back the veil which separates immortality from this vale of tears, you would see a vision of your old comrades who have answered to the roll call of eternity crowding the air, and you would hear them shout: “Welcome, thrice welcome!” I love to live in the land of Dixie, under the soft southern skies, where summer pours out her flood of sun¬ shine and showers, and the grateful earth smiles with plenty ; I love to live ou southern soil, where the cotton fields wave their white banners of peace, and where the wheat fields wave back their banners of gold from the hills and valleys which were once drenched with the blood of heroes ; I love to live where the mocking birds flutter and sing in the shadowy coves, and bright waters ripple in eternal melody by the graves where our he¬ roes are buried ; I love to breathe the southern air that comes filtered through jungles of roses whispering the story of southern deeds of bravery; I love to drink from southern springs and southern babbling brooks which once cooled the lips of Lee and Jack- son and Forrest and Gordon, and the worn and weary columns of brave men who wore the gray ; I love to live among southern men and women, where every heart is as warm as the southern sunshine, and every home is temple of love and liberty ; I love to listen to the sweet old southern melo¬ dies which touch the soul and melt the heart and awaken to life ten thousand precious memories of the happy long ago, when the old-time darkeys used to laugh and sing, when the old-time black mammy soothed the children to slumber with her lullabies ; but, O, the music that thrills me most is the melody that died away on the lips of many a con¬ federate soldier as he sunk into that sleep that knows no waking: I am giad I am in Dixie. I doubt if the world will ever see another civilization as brilliant as that which perished in the Souths third a century ago. Its white-columned mansions under cool-spreading groves, its orange trees waving their sprays snowy blossoms, and its cotton fields stretching away to the horizon, alive with toiling slaves who sung as they toiled from early morn until the close of day ; its pomp and pride and rev¬ elry ; its splendid manhood, and the dazzling beauty of its women, placed it in history as the high tide of earthly glory. But the hurricane of civil war shattered it and swept it away. Bil¬ lions of wealth dissolved and van¬ ished in smoke and flame. The South lost all save honor; but the confeder¬ ate soldier, the purest and proudest type of the Anglo-Saxon race, stood erect amid its charred and blackened ruins. The earth was road beneath him, his sword was broken, his country was crushed; but without a throne he was no less a ruler. His palace had perished ; he was no less a king. Sla¬ very was dead, but magnificent in the gloom of defeat, he was still a master. Has he not mastered adversity? Has he not rebuilt the ruined South ? Look yonder at those flashing domes and glittering spires; looks at the works of art and all the fabrics and pictured tapestries of beauty; look what southern brains and southern hands have wrought; see the victories of peace we have won, all represented within the white columns of our great industrial exposition, and you will re¬ ceive an inspiration of the old South, and you will catch glimpses of her fu¬ ture glory. God that the struggles of I trust in “ secession will never be lifted up again. The danger to the republic now lies in the mailed hand of centralized power, aua the South will yet be the bulwark of American liberty. If you ask me why, I answer that it is the only sec¬ tion left that is purely American ; I answer that anarchy cannot live on southern soil; I answer that the South has started ou a new line of march, and, while we love the past for its pre¬ cious memories, our faces are turned toward the morning. Time has furled the battle Hags and smelted the hostile gun. Time has torn down the forts and leveled the trenches and rifle nits on the bloody field of glory, where courage and high-born chivalry on prancing charg¬ ers once rode to the front with shim¬ mering epaulets and bright swords gleaming, where thousands of charging bayonets at uniform angles reflected thousands of suns, where the shrill life screamed and the kettle drum timed the heavy tramp, tramp of the shining battalions, as the infantry deployed into battle line and disappeared in the seething waves of smoke and flames ; ’there double-shotted batteries unlim¬ bered on the bristling edge and hurled fiery vomit into the faces of the reel¬ ing columns; where ten thousand drawn sabers flashed, and ten thous¬ and cavalry hovered for a moment on the flank and then rushed to the dreadful revelry. The curtain dropped long ago upon these mournful scenes of carnage, aiid time has beautified and comforted and healed, until there is nothing left of war but graves and garlands and monuments and precious memories. Blow, bugler, blow ; but thy shrill¬ est notes can never again call the matchless armies of Grant and Lee to the carnival of death. Let the silver trumpets sound the jubilee of peace. Let the veterans shout who wore the blue ; let them kiss the silken folds of the gorgeous ensign of the republic, and fling it to the breeze and sing the national hymn. Let the veterans bow who wore the gray, and with uncovered heads salute the national flag. It is the flag of the inseperable Union. Let them clasp hands with the brave men who wore the blue, and rejoice with them ; for time hath adorned the ruined South and robed her fields in richer har¬ vests and gilded her skies with brighter stars of hope But who will scorn or frown to see the veterans of the South’s shattered armies, scattered now like solitary oaks in the midst of a fallen forest, hoary with age and covered with scars, sometimes put on the old worn and faded gray and unfurl for a little while that other banner, the riddled and blood-stained stars and bars, to look upon it and weep over it, and press it to their bosoms? For it is hal¬ lowed with recollections tender as the soldier’s last farewell. They followed it amid the earth¬ quake throes of Shiloh, where Albert Sydney Johnson died ; they followed it amid the floods of living fire at Chancellorsville, where Stonewall Jackson fell; they saw it flutter in the gloom of the Wilderness, where the angry divisions and corps rushed upon each other, and clinched and fell and rolled together in the bloody mire; they rallied around it at Gettysburg, where it waved above the bayonets, mixed and crossed on those dreaded heights of destiny : they saw its faded color fltsunt defiance for the last time at Appomattox, and then go down forever in a flood of tears. Then who will upbraid them if they sometimes bring it to light, sanctified and glorified as it is by the blood and tears of the past, and wave it again in the air, and sing once more their old war songs ? When these heads are white with glory, When the shadows from the West Lengthen as you tell your story In the vet’ran’sward of rest, May no ingrate's word of sneering Beach one heart of all the brave,’ But mav honor, praise and cheering ■ Guard old valor to the grave. Public Meeting. A meeting of the legal voters of the city will be held at the G. A. R. opera house on Tuesday evening, July 20th, at 7:30 o’clock p. m., to consider the questions which are to be voted on at the special election on Saturday the 24th. C. C. Goodnow, Mayor. Dated July 15, 1897. The best flour in the city—Pills- bury’s best, in barrels—at Rousseau & Co.’s. Council Proceedings. The city council met in special ses¬ sion last Monday afternoon with Al¬ derman as the presiding officer, Mayor Goodnow being absent at Irwinville attending court. The resignations of Alderman-at-large Fockler and Al¬ derman Allen were read and accepted. Ordinance 49 providing additional salary ($150 per annum, a total of $500) to the city clerk was read and adopted and ordered printed. Adjourned to meet Tuesday morn¬ ing at 8 o’clock. The city council met in adjourned session Tuesday morning and was called to order by Mayor Goodnow. The matter of calling a special elec¬ tion for the purpose of electing two aldermen, caused by resignation, was discussed", when bv unanimous vote it was decided to call an election. Ordinance No. 45, providing for the registration of all voters within the city limits was read, approved and or- ordered printed. A resolution was introduced by Al¬ derman Merrill and adopted, author¬ izing the mayor and city clerk to bor¬ row a sufficient amount of money to pay all indebtedness of the city. Alderman Brunner reported the second well down 240 feet, and that the superintendent wanted to reduce the size of the bore from eight to six Inches. I’ennission not granted. The mayor read a letter addressed to the president of the council, rela¬ tive to the delay and want of proper management of the well now being put down, and also a letter explaining the matter. Also a letter to Mr. Coverdale de¬ manding $100 to defray expenses of special election relative to water¬ works and electric light franchise. A letter from Mr. Coverdale was read, reporting matters working satis¬ factory and asking for information relative to progress of well now being put down, Ordinance No. 41 Was igad the Sec- ond time, and after being amended so as to authorize the construction of a side track, under certain instructions, by the T. & N. E. railroad on alley ad¬ jacent to ice factory, was adopted and ordered printed. A resolution introduced by Aider- man Merrill providing for the calling of special election for the purpose of filling vacancies caused by resignation of Alderman-at-large Fockler and Al¬ derman Allen of Third Ward was adopted. The question of present standing of franchise for water and lighting sys¬ tem was taken ap and discussed. Ordinance No. 46, relative to grant- in a rebate to certain saloon keepers, was adopted and ordered printed. Reasons Why t’immbcrlain’s Colic, Chol¬ era and Diarrhoea Remedy Is the Best. 1. Because it affords almost instant relief in case of pain in the stomach, colic and cholera morbus. 2. Because it is the only remedy that never fails in the most severe cases of dysentery and diarrhoea. 3. Because it is the only remedy that will cure chronic diarrhoea. 4. Because it is the only remedy that will prevent bilious colic. 5. Because it is the only remedy that will cure epidemical dysentery. 6. Beeause it is the only remedy that can always be depended upon in cases of cholera infantum. 7. Because it is the most prompt and most reliable medicine in use for bowel complaints. 8. Because it produces no bad re¬ sults. 9. Because it is pleasant and safe to take. 10. Because it bus saved the lives of more people than any other medi¬ cine in the world. The 2.5 and 50 cent sizes. For sale by J. II. Good¬ man, druggist. NOTICE Is hereby given that a mass meeting of the citizens is called for Saturday evening, at 7.30 p. in., for the pupose of electing delegates to the city conven¬ tion, for the purpose of nominating a candidate for alderman-at-large. The city convention will meet at the Geor¬ gia Trading Co’s old store room, north Grant St., on Monday evening, July 19, at 7:30 p. The Ward caucuses will be held at the following places: 1st Ward—Colony Headquarters. 2d Ward—Georgia Trading Go's old store room, north Grant St. 3d Ward—Allen store room, Pine av. 4d Ward—Southeast corner Pine av. and Lee st. At their caucus Saturday evening the voters of the 3d Ward will nomi¬ nate a candidate lor alderman, to fill out the unexpirmedtermof Wm. Allen, resigned. By order of Committee. Sidner L. Miller, Sec’y. ClearanceSale Every one knows that a merchant must not carry goods over from one season to another. For 30 Days We shall make a GENUINE CLEARANCE SALE. You will realize that we mean just what we say when you come in and get our prices. We do just as we advertise. Our stock consists of Mens’ and Boys’ Suits, black Alapaca Coats and many other summer Coats from 75c to $2.00. Mens’ Pants, (light weight) will be closed out at almost your own price. Nice Laundred Percale Shirts and Gentlemens’ Straw Hats in latest stvles. You will save a little money by coming to us. D. C. McCOLLUM, JF»xxie Avenue. HURST BROTHERS. KHUVRST BROTHERSfi m l§! } The Corner G rocery. j|j m IS. W. WHITCHARD St BRO., Prop’rs. $*t '* tmt m We carry a full line of Groceries, Feed and Fertilizers. Mag-ic *:• Stock ana Poultry Food, the only reliable Condition Powder. .♦ *»* •> XXAX Acts like magic ! We sell the celebrated “ Atlantic Dissolved * A *£/"' *f ftkl? grades. Bone,” the Cull best and fortilzer pciceour on goods. the market,-at same price of cheap Y v «& > •*** Iti a a free Delivery' Thoms 13. $m I #!*:*: *; * :*»>» * t *>’ *>4v*>>>5Me+.t sX* P? at a » 33 w. g- 3* NO. 28. To the Public; :♦ Our assortment of Dry- Goods, Notions, Shoes and Millinery is incparable and wo — 1 most fill i J « In Dress .......r------ Goods such exquisite styles were never before seen in Wiregrass Georgia. Colors and designs modest and unobtrusive. And there are many other stvles of 0 PP 0S if e effects—brilliant tints criss-crossed reckless- ly and daringly. Quality unsurpassed. Ladies, you must see these goods to appreciate them. In Ladies fine Shoes we have nothing but what we j j /l r\ v» /'I —• r» rJ -i r»rt r > o a spe- io cialtv. *j Our Notion ^ stock is full and complete. We are headquarters for all kinds of late style Mil- linery. Hurst Bros. ,=5== :‘W “HURSTBROTHERSWW