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CHENEY & BURCH, Office—I n Paulk Building, Grant Street, FITZGERALD, WAY & JAY, Attorney-at-Law, Fitzgerald, Georgia. Office—I n the Slayton & Kern building Pine avenue. E. W. Hyman, L. Kennedy, Of South Dakota. Of RYMAN & KENNEDY, Office—I n Fitzgerald Block. W. F. THOMPSON, CORDELE. GEORGIA. DR. J. H. POWELL, (Late of the Best American Hospitals) Specialist in Chronic Diseases Of TVIen sind 'Women, Office, S. Grant street, near Magnolia. manently located.) Drs, Ci A, & L* C. HoHorf, Office— In Slayton & Kern building, site Commercial hotel, Fitzgerald, Ga Phone 21. E. NICHOLSON, Auctioneer, East Pine Avenue FITZGERALD, GEORGIA. Is now prepared to give rates on short notice. Having had fifteen years experience, perfect Satisfaction is guaranteed. For rates and bills call at Leader office. BEFORE YOU BUY Or order anything in the line of WATCHES, - JEWELRY, Silm Diamonds. Clocks and Spectacles, EXAMIME Wetfstem’s Goods and prices. Remember that we give from 25 to 40 per cent from the prices quoted in any illustrated catalogue, with a guarantee that everything is just as represeted. Repair¬ ing in best manner and at lowest living rates at the oldest established “Pioneer” Jewelry Store, Grant St., between Central and Pine. For Tailor Suits CALL ON E. J. DANCY, Fine At*, Next Door to Commercial Hotel A perfect fit guaranteed. A trial is all I ask. AU garments cut and made on premises. Cleaning. Repairing and Pressing a Special WE List - Property ♦ AND ---= + Pay : Taxes For non-resident property owners. Small and large tracts of- land for sale. Enclose stamp giving full information. F, WILLIAMS, M A 00, Fiasgerald, Ga, Real EstateDealers. Wanted to Buy. Twenty to thirty acres of land near Fitzgerald, Ga.. improved or not. Must be a bagain. Address. J. L. S. Hall, 4712 S. Ashland ave., Chicago, Ill. Wanted— To buy or trade for a milch cow. Address Box 94. 43-1 w x Choice Ohio butter for sale. Call at residence of J. M, Earnest, S. Grant. 42-4wx Advertising Asks Would you have your business pay ? and answers, “ Then make it better yourself—you can do it. But not waiting on the future. Advertising Proclaims High tension throughout is the prime necessity. Given this, then Brains, Courage and Energy will compel success. Your move is to advertise—ad¬ vertise to-day, to-morrow and next day. Don’t quit till you quit business. Advertisers Say That the medium with which to “cover the field” is the THE : LEADER, A Straight Story, Of Straight Goods In a Straight Paper Is bound to bring business. you have a good thing, adver¬ tise it in The ► ► Leader. And you’ll through hit a market you can¬ not hit any other Fitz¬ gerald whole medium. family Each copy has a for its audience. Clean, newsy, truthful, fair and square. THE FITZGERALD LEADER. Official Newspaper of Irwin County. Georgia. Official Nowspaper of City of Fitzgerald, Ga. PUBLISHED SVERY THURSDAY BY J 'o’ knaI’1*’ i Editors and Publishers. Subscription Rates;— One copy, one year 11.60; Six months, 75o: Three months, Terms—I nvariably in advance. Job and advertising rates inado known application. Your patronage solicited. A man who can’t read and will not be allowed to vote in necticut. O. B. Joyful has not yet got an office, but the new postmaster at May- field, Ky., is O. B. Happy. No doubt the bicycle will prove a useful militiary adjunct; the [tandem is said to be very useful in engage¬ ments even now. The bicycle rider may make what speed records he pleases; he will never be as beautiful a sight as a high bred horse in full action. A firm in Omaha, Neb., advertised the other day “the most highly sensa¬ tional bargain sale of line shoes since Adam went barefooted.” With regard to Klondike and gold seekers being frozen to death, some will remember in other late get-rich- quick schemes how many were laid out cold. The Fitzgerald Leader is now a full-fledged democratic paper. And it will do yoernan work for the party. Success to the Leader.— Thomasville Tirues-Enterprise. Counterfeit money is being made in a Pittsburg prizon. The only way to reform the Pittsburg criminals is to remove them from the evil influences surrounding the jail. There are 90,000 lawyers in the United States, or one to every 800 in¬ habitants, and their numbers are still increasing. Unlike the editors they seem to be hard to starve out. If Cleveland were president it would doubtless be charged that he was res¬ ponsible for the low price of cotton and the prevalence of yellow fever.— Thomasville Tiines-Enterprise. A circus visited St. Joseph, Mo., the other day, and the News, of that city, declares that attending a circus in October is “too much like eating ice cream at Christinas dinner to be enjoyable. Nearly 600,000 voters will decide the fate of New York City in Novem¬ ber. The registration was unexpect¬ edly large and the election will be closely contested so long as there is a vote outside the ballot box. Les Miserables is excluded from the Philadelphia girls' high school as an unfit book because it tells of the French grisettes. The new testament must be an unfit book also. It tells of Mary Magdalene and the scarlet woman. The Klondyke seems to be rich in names as well as in gold. It has been known as Clondyke, Klondyke, Chan- dike, Chandill, Deer, Reindeer, Throndike and Throndluck, And the time will come when its name will be plain Dennis or Mud. The New York World and the New York Journal each has a press that will print 75,000 eight-page papers. The press holds sixty-four plates, making eight papers at each turn of the press. These are the fast¬ est machines in the country. A bishop once gave this advice to a boy who was greatly helped by it. “When in trouble, my boy, kneel down and ask God’s help; but never climb over the fence into tbe devil’s ground, and then kneel down and ask help. Pray from God’s side of the fence.” They talk about greater New York and greater Atlanta, now what’s tbe matter with annexing Irwinville to Fitzgerald and have greater Fitzger¬ ald. This would do away with all future court house trouble, We could just move the building from one side of the town to the other and save the expense. Rejoice that you don’t live in Great New York, where big ratifica¬ tions are being held at the rate of a dozen a night, with oratory emphasized by megaphone accompaniment and electioneering wagons, blazoned with candidates’ names, clangs their big gongs in the streets day and night. It approximates Bedlam broken loose, Fitzgerald demonstrated the fact she could cast the ballots, but ns a “ counter” she was a total fatlure. If Miss Cisneros lias recovered from the fatigue of that great reception by the New Yorkers she ought to be as¬ signed to duty as a reporter on one the yellow journals. _ General Miles returns home from a visit to the leading capitals of the old world and writes out a recommenda¬ tion for an increase in the size of the regular United States army. The general’s recommendations surprise nobody. _ Will the United States give up Senorita Cisneros? Never. Every American with a drop of red blood in his veins stands ready to throw his arms around her, paregorically speak¬ ing, as Mrs. Malaprop would say. Fitzgerald fails to pet the Irwin county court house. Fitz seems to have been a little too previous. Per¬ haps she will succeed better next time.—Waycross Herald. Yes, we admit the corn. We have learned a few things about Georgia politics. Pass the bitters, please? Take something?. Says an agricultural exchange: These are hard times. We let our timber rot and buy fencing. We throw away ashes and buy soap. We raise dogs and buy hogs. We grow weeds and buy vegetables and brooms. We catch fish with a 81 rod. We build school houses and send our children to be educated away from home, and so forth and so on until we are broke. Yes, these are hard times. South Georgia has been the home of conservatism and common sense for years. The people have been slower to run off after revolutionary doctrines and vagaries than in any other section of Georgia. In the wiregrass regions can be found the sturdiest citizenship of the country. It will remain for them, if they stand together and by the old lines to furnish the brawn, the muscle and brain that will bring to Georgia its highest and most perfect type of development.—Valdosta Times. An exchange reports they have found one editor in heaven. How he got there is not positively known, but it is conjectured that he piously passed himself off for a Christian and stepped in unsuspected. When the “dodge” was discovered they searched the beautiful realms of felicity in all their length and breadth for a lawyer to draw up the paper of ejectment but they could not find one and of course he held the fort. Lucky editor! How did he thus manage to make his “call¬ ing and election sure?” This immediate section of old Georgia is indeed a delightful para¬ dise to those who desire to better their condition. Here we have no drouths, no floods, no blizzards, no colds snaps, no hot winds, no heated terms, no long, cold winters, no grasshoppers and no cyclones. As great advant¬ ages, and as few objections are found here as in any other section of country either North or South, and the man who is looking for a prosperous, prog¬ ressive community, should investigate the advantages of South Georgia be¬ fore locating. The Columbia, S. C., negroes, who have subscribed nearly three-fourths of the 8100,000 capital with which to start a cotton factory in that city (which will give employment night and day to 600 of their race) have shown a degree of thrift and enterprise that cannot be too highly commended. What the Columbia negroes have done their brothers in other southern cent¬ ers of population can as readily do with advantage to all their kind. That way lies the best solution of the race problem, and the way is open and inviting. The editor of an exchange has been making some purchases since the Dingley hill has begun to alter prices in the necessaries of life, and the theory that the foreigner pays the tax finds no favor with him. He says: “Soon after the passages of the Ding- ley bill we read a labored article in a republican journal trying to show that the foreigner paid the tax. We bought a dollar’s worth of sugar from the grocer and found that we got two pounds less than before the passage of the act, and a bill made at a dry good store showed an advance of 20 per cent. We paid the grocer and the merchant. When will the for- eigner pay us?” A good old mother received a dreadful shock the other day through a telegram from her boy who is in New York city enjoying himself. As enjoying one’s self sometimes cost money it is not strange that the young man sent the following somewhat slangy dispatch for more funds to his father: Had my leg pulled. Broke. Send me 850 by wire.” When the mother read this appeal she was plunged in grief. “My poor boy,” she moaned. “He must have been in one of those cable car things. Send him 8100, father, and tell him to get the best doctor in the city.” The invention and proposed appli¬ cation of the new missile called “the infernal bullet,” will certainly add an¬ other terror to war. The latest death dealer is a projectile intended for the rifle, and so constructed that it enters the human body as a die cut into steel. The entering end of the projectile is cup shaped, as it cuts its way into the opposing flesh broadens and expands, producing a wound that no surgeon’s skill can heal. Usually it adminis¬ ters instant death. Rival military au¬ thorities of Europe have raised the question of the admissibility of the new bullet into the uses of modern warfare. It is seriously regarded by some au¬ thorities as a barbarous and unfair ac¬ cessory, to be tabooed by civilized na¬ tions. Judge W. B. Butt held court dur¬ ing the past week at Clinton, Jones county, repaying the service Judge Hart rendered him when he presided over the special session of the Talbot court last summer. A rather remark¬ able feature of the Jones court is the fact that the docket there has been in use since 1817. For exactly eighty years the cases tried at this court have been entered upon the same book. The book is of old style make and some of the earlier entries in it are quaint and amusing. In those days the minutes of the court were also recorded in the docket. None of the space in this re¬ cording volume has been wasted. The big book has been styled “doequett,” which is the old way of spelling the word. The time-honored docket is nearly used now, after it has done nearly a century of service, and will soon have to be replaced by a new one. Hensons Why Chamberlain’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. A. 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 has saved the lives of more people than any other medi¬ cine in the world. The 25 and 50 cent sizes. For sale by J. II. Good¬ man, druggist. OPTICIAN, Have your eyes fitted by John Ad¬ ams, a man that has had twenty-seven years oxperience. I have the best as¬ sortment of goods in tbe city. Gen¬ eral line of optical goods in stock. Lenses, spectacle and eye glass frames, cases, also opera and field glasses, tel¬ escopes. barometers, microscope, com¬ passes, etc. JOHN ADAMS, GRANT STREET, FITZGERALD, GA. 43 Sealed Bids Wanted. Sealed bids for fifty (50) cords stove wood, thirty-five (35) ctrdsto be twen ty-four inches long; fifteen (15) oords to be sixteen (16) inches long, twenty- five (25) cords to be delivered at the First Ward school building, and twen¬ ty-five (25) cores to be delivered at the Third Ward school building on or be¬ fore December 10, 1S97, will be re¬ ceived by the clerk of the Board of Education of the City of Fitzgerald, Ga., until Tuesday next, Nov. 2, 1897. The right is reserved to reject any and all bids. W. II. Maston, Sec’y. Take Notice. All owners of stock running at large in the city of Fitzgerald, Ga., must be taken up at once, in compli¬ ance with ordinance No. 14. J. S. Jones, Chief of Police. For Sale or Trade. A farm of 100 acres, one half mile from Fitzgerald. Improvements and thirty-five acres old ground, Ad- dress P. O. box 335, Fitzgerald, Ga. 43-31 Legal Legislation. i-N \TOTTCEls horeby the given that applicatlcn assembly win be made to next general the following lo¬ of Georgia for the passage of cal bill of which the following Is the caption: A bill to bo entitled #n aot to incorporate the town of Irwinvllle in tho county of Irwin, State of Georgia, to provide for a mayor, coun¬ cilman and other officers of said town; to au¬ thorize the officers and corporate au thori ties of said town toexerclse such powei-6 and do such things as may be necessary or propor for the best interest, benefit, peace, good order, health ami general welfare of said town, and the in¬ habitants thereof; to confer other and addi¬ tional powers and authority upon suchotfloers and authorities; to authorize tho corporate authorities of said town to pass and enforce proper rules, by-laws and ordinances for the government of said town; to authorize pun¬ ishment for any violation of said rules, by¬ laws and ordinances; to regulate or prohibit liquors the sale of spirituous and Intoxicating anil license the same, and impose penalties in for soiling the same without license said town: to repeal or amend an net entitled an act to prohibit the sale of Intoxicating liquors far In 1 rwin oounty approved Sept. 26,1879, so as the same relates to the territory included in the corporate limits of Raid town and for other purposes. Oct. 26. 1897. Local Legislation. IVJOTICE -In is hereby given that application assembly will be made to tho next general of Georgia, for the passage of the following local bill, of which the following is the caption: A bill to be entitled an act to incorporate the town of Ocilla, in the county of Irwin, State of Georgia, to provide for a mayor, counciltnen, recorder and other officers of said town; to authorize tho officers and corporate authori¬ ties of said town to exercise such powers and do such thiugs as may be necessary or proper for the best interest, benefit, peace, good or¬ der, health and general welfare of said town, and the inhabitants thereof: to confer other and additional power and authority upon such officers and authorities; to authorize the cor¬ porate authorities of said town to pass and en¬ force proper rules, by-laws and ordinances for the government of said town; to authorize punishment for any violation of said rules, by¬ laws and ordinances; to regulate or prohibit ihe sale ol' spirituous and intoxicating liquors, and license the 6ame, and impose penalties for selling the same without a license in said town; to repeal an act entitled an act to prohibit the sale of intoxicating 26, 1879, liquors far in Irwin the county, approved lates the Sept. territory included so as in the same re¬ to corpor¬ ate limits of said town, and other purposes. Petition for Charter. State of Georgia, i f Irwin County, To the Superior Court of said County: The petition of MadiBon Buice, Z. V. Borden andJ.J. Borden,respectfully shows: First—That they desire to form themselves and such other persons as may be associated with them, Into a private corporation under the corporate name and style of Ii win County Dry Goods Company. this association Second—That the objectof is pecuniary gain, and the business they pro¬ pose to engage in and carry on classes is as follows, viz: To buy, store and sell all of dry goods and wearing apparel for male and fe¬ male customers, including boots, shoes, hats, cap«, bonnets, millinery goods, notions, etc , and to own and run a first-class dry goods store, to buy and sell all kinds of personal property, and real estate and convey the same, to lend or borrow money on note, bills, deeds, mortgages, or other liens or obligations, to sue and be sued, to plead and be impleaded, to have and use a corporate seal, to enter into and carry out contracts, and generally to do all acts and things necessary and proper for the promotion and maintenance of the busi¬ ness of the corporation. of capital employed will Third—The amount be twenty-five thousand dollars, ten per cent, of which is actually paid in, and the capital stock shall be divided into shares of one hun¬ dred dollars each. No stockholder shall be personally liable except for the stock sub¬ scribed for. That the principal place of doing business shall be in Fitzgerald, Ga., and other places as may be necessary for the promotion of said business. Fourth—In addition to the powers aforesaid necessary to carry out the purpose and objects of said corporation, and the the powers this common to all corporations under laws of State petitioners desire the following special pow¬ ers, viz: To increase the capital stock from time to time to the sum of seventy-five thous¬ and dollars; to receive in payment of stock to be issued, moneys, lands, or other property as may be determined by the board of directors; to make by-laws not inconsistent with the laws of this State or the United States, and gener¬ ally to have and enjoy and exercise the cor¬ porate powers and privileges incident to cor¬ porations under the laws of this State. Wherefore petitioners pray that, they and their associates be incorporated with the rights and privileges aforesaid for the term of twenty years unde^ the name aforesaid, with the privilege of renewal at the expira¬ tion of that time. Cheney & Burch, Petitioners’ Att’ys. Original filed in office 25th day of Sept., 1897. State of Georgia, Irwin County. \ 1, J. B. D. Paulk, clerk of the superior court, of Irwin county, do hereby certify that the foregoing filed is a true office and this. correct September copy of the pe¬ tition in my 25.1897. J. B. D. Paui.k, Clerk S. C. I. C. Petition for Charter. State of Georgia, i Irwin County, f To the Superior Court of Said County : The petition of R. M. Pearson, I). M. Pear¬ son and J. Evans respectfully shows: First—That petitioners desire to form them¬ selves and such other persons as may be as¬ sociated with them, into a private corpora¬ tion under the corporate name and style of Fitzgerald Lumber the Company. object Second—That of their association is pecuniary gain, and the business they pro¬ pose to carry on is as follows: To operate a steam saw mill in the manufacture of all classes other of lumber, shingles, laths, staves and all building material; to lease, buy and sell all kind of lumber, to load and ship the 6ame. Third—To build and operate a nava! store factory or turpentine distillery, for the-pur¬ pose of manufacturing naval stores; to lease, box, chip, hack and dip all sizes and classes ol pine timber for the crude turpentine therein, t o buy and sell crude and manufactured rosin and turpentine. Fourth—To build mill and turpentine sheds, stores, warehouses, platforms, landings, shops, barns, stables, log-wuy, tram railway and equip same, and to use and run locomo¬ tives on same, and to operate all kinds of ma¬ chinery necessary to carry on said business. Fifth—To do ageueral trade and merchan¬ dise business; to buy and sell personal prop- ert>**md real estate, and to convey the same by the president and secretary under the seal of said corporation. Sixth—To clear, fence, plant and cultivate farms, and to generally do all acts and things necessary and proner for the promotion and maintenance of the business and objects of the corporation Seventh—To lend and borrow money on notes, bills, deeds, mortgages and other'liens and obligations; to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, to have and use a corporate seal, to enter into and carry said out contracts for building and operating tram railway and manufacturing Eighth—The machinery. amount of capital employed will be forty thousand dollars, ten percent, of which is actually paid in, and the capital stock shall be divided into shares of one hun¬ dred dollars each, the stock holders shall not be liable except for the 6tock subscribed for. Ninth—The principal placeof doing business will be in Irwin county, Georgia, and such other places as may be necessary for the pro¬ motion of said business. Tenth—In addition to the powers aforesaid necessary to carry on the purpo sea and ob- jects of said corporation and the powers com- mon State, to all corporations desire under the laws special of this petitioners the following powers, viz: to increase their capital stock from time to time to the sum of one hundred thousand dollars, to receive in payment for stock to be issued, money, lands or other prop¬ erty, as may be determined by the board of d ! rectors, and to provide for the stock sub¬ scribed to be paid in installments or other¬ wise called for; to make by-laws not incon¬ sistent with the laws of said State and the United States, and generally, to have, enjoy and exercise the corporate powers and privil¬ eges incident to corporations under the laws of this State. Wherefore petitioners prays that they and their associates be incorporated with the rights, powers, privileges, etc., for the term of twenty years under the name aforesaid with tbe privilege of renewal at the expiration of that time. Oct. 1897. Original filed in office this 19th of Cheney & Burch, Petitioners’ Att’ys. I, J. B. D. Paulk, clerk superior court of Ir¬ win county, do hereby certify that the forego¬ ing is a true copy of the petition filed in my office, this. October 19,1897, J. B. D. Paulk, Clerk of S. C. I. C. Irwin Sheriff Sales. Statu or Georgia, i Irwin County. | Will Unsold on the flrst Tuesday In Novem¬ ber next tit the court house In said county, within the legal hours ot sale, to the highest bidder for cash, the following property to-wlt: One ten-aero tract number ilHtli of the colony domain as shown by the recorded plat of the Amerioan Tribune soldier colony company, same being part of lotof landnumberoi in the 4th district of Irwin county. Said land levied on as tlio property of D. I:. Carpenter, to sat¬ isfy an execution Issued from the justice court of the 1637th district, G. M., of said coun¬ ty. in favor of E. K. Nelson against said D. 0. Carpenter. K. V. Handuky, Sheritt l. C. This Oct. 6th, lb97. Will be sold before the court house door of gal Irwin hours county. Irwinvllle, the Ga., between the le¬ of sale, on first Tuesday in No¬ vember next, the following property, to-wit: Seventeen acres of lot of land number ninety- four (04) in the second district of Irwin county, Ga., Deloach; bounded on the west lands by lands of Murray & north by of W. A. Story; east by lands of Mrs.T. D. Swcaringain: south bv original land line, one acre excepted of lands of Mrs. Susan Williams, levied on and to be sold as the property of A. J. Dyess, jo sat- isfy one county court fl. fa. Issued from the court of Irwin county, in favor of H. H. Sut¬ ton vs. said A. J. Dyess, levied on and re¬ turned to me by Wm. Rogers, county court bailiff. Written notice given tenant in nos- scssion ns required by law. D. A. McInnis, Deputv Sheriff I. C. This Ootober 5,1897. Also nt the same time and place will be sold the following property, to-wit; One tive-acre traetof land number nine hundred and twelve of the domain of the American Tribune sol¬ dier colony company, in Irwin county, a plat of which domain appears on record in the clerk’s office of superior court of said county, together with the buildings and improvements thereon. Said property levied on and to be sold as the property of O. L. Jay, to satisfy one county court fl. fa. issued from the county court of said county in favor of L. F. 'i'ho.mp- son vs. said O. L. Jay, levied on and returned to me by Wm. Rogers, defendant county court bailiff. Written notice given as required by law. D. A. McInnis, Deputy Sheriff I. C. This October 6,1897. Petition for Charter. State of Georgia, Irwin County. To the Superior Court of said County: The petition of J. B. Paulk, J. T. Boyd, F. J Clark and D. VV. Paulk shows: First—That they desire to form themselves and such other persons as may be associated with them, into a private* corporation under the corporate name and style of “Fitzgerald Mercantile Company. ” Second—That the object of this association is pecuniary gain, and and the business they pro¬ pose to engage in carry oa is as follows, viz: To buy, store and sell all classes of dry goods, notions, shoes, hats, caps, groceries, hardware, and in fact everything that is kept and sold in a first-class general mercantile es¬ tablishment, and to do a general mercantile business. To buy and sell all kinds of personal property and real estate, and to convey the same, to lend or borrow money on notes, bills, deeds, mortgages, or other liens or obligations, to sue and be sued, to plead and be impleaded, to have and use a corporate seal, to enter into and carry out contracts, and generally to do all acts and things necessary and proper for the promotion objects and of the maintenance of the business Third—The corporation. amount of capital employed will ten thousand dollars, ten percent of which actually paid in and the capital stock shall divided into shares of one hundred dollars No stockholder shall be personally lia¬ except for the amount of stock subscribed Fourth-Theprincipal be in place of doing busi¬ will Fitzgerald, Ga.. and such other as may be necessary for the promotion said business. Fifth—In addition to the powers aforesaid carryout the purposes and objects of said and the powers common to all under the laws of this State, pe¬ desire the following special powers: increase the capital stock from time to to the sum of twenty-five thousand dol¬ to receive in payment of stock to be is¬ money, lands or other property as may determined by the board of directors, to by-laws not inconsistent with the laws this State or the United States, and gener¬ to have, enjoy and exercise the corporate and privileges incident to corpora¬ under the laws of the State. Wherefore petitioners pray that they and their associates be incorporated with the of powers and privileges, etc., for the twenty years, under the aforesaid Ex¬ with the privileges of renewal at the of that time. Cheney & Burch. Petitioners’ Attorneys. Original filed in office Sept. 25th, 1897. Ik of County, Georgia, f ) win I. J. B. D. Paulk, of the superior court of county do hereby certify that the forego¬ is a true and correct copy of the petition in my office. J. B. D. Paulk, C. S. C. I. C. Notice. In requirement of the statute in such provided, notice is hereby given that at the next ensuing session of the Assembly of the State of a bill will be introduced to au act entitled, “An act to in¬ the city of Fitzgerald, in tbe of Irwin, in the State of Geor¬ to define the corporate limits of city ; to provide for the election a mayor and aldermen, and other officers, for the government there¬ ; to enact all necessary ordinances, to provide penalties for violation tbe same ; to regulate the sale of malt and intoxicating merchandise and other com¬ ; to provide a system of pub¬ schools ; to construct and maintain system of sewerage ; to regulate fire, and police protection ; to revenue by taxation and specific or otherwise; to defray ex¬ of the city government; to franchises to railway, electric telegraph, telephone, water ana other companies, and such franchises as may be deemed ; to provide for the laying of streets, alleys, sidewalks, parks and other public grounds, and maintaining the same, and for purposes,” and approved De¬ 2, 1896. Said bill will seek to amend said act of incorporation by repealing sections tliirty-eight (38), thirty-nine (39) and forty (40) entirely ; and also all that part of section one hundred and three (103), which has reference to said sections 38, 39 and 40. Also an amendment to said act of incoporatlon by introducing into ttie same a section wholly prohibiting the city council of said city from reg¬ ulating or licensing the sale or giving away of any spiritous or malt liquors, wine or cider, or anything else which can intoxicate, within the limits of said city, or within the police jurisdic¬ tion of the same. Also at the same time a bill will be introduced into the General Assembly to repeal tbe entire act of incorporation hereinbefore re- to by its title, and a new bill in¬ with the same title. Rev. J. H. Stoney, President Citizens’ Reform League. W. W. Biieese, M. D., Secretary. Fitzgerald Cotton Market. Thursday, October 14, 1897. Tho market is quoted as follows: middlings 5% 511-16 For all the news read, The Leader.