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The Fitzgerald Leader TyStablisHed 1890. VOL. II. COUNTY OFFICIALS. C. C .Smith, Judge Sup. Court,HawlwnvHle.Ga lorn Eason, Solicitor Sup. Court. MoKtto, “ v J. 5/ E. Clements, liurcli, Co. Co. Solicitor, Judge, Fitzgerald, Irwinvllle, “ “ J. J. Lee,Ordinary, Irwinville, “ J • B. D. Paulk,Clerk Sup.Court,Irwiuyille , tr R. V. Handley, Sheriff, Fitzgerald C. L. Royal, Tax Receiver, Sycamore, J. It. Paulk,Tax Collector, Ocilla, James Walker, Co. Treasurer, lnvinville, E. J. Hogan, Co. Surveyor, Minnie, Marion Dixon, School Com., M. Henderson, Co. Commissioner,Ocilla, Christian Science. Services every Sunday morning 10:30; Sun¬ day school 11:80, and Sunday evening services street. at 7:30, corner of Pine avenue and Lee A cordial invitation is extended to all ot' what¬ ever creed or calling. TIFTON AND NORTHEASTERN R. It. “SOLDIERS’ COLONY ROUTE.” General Offices, Tifton, Georgia. No 1. No3- Feb. 9, 1897. No. 2 . No. 4. A. M. P. ~ P. M. P. a oo oe oe to 5:15 isfeifss f f Lv. f f Ar. Tifton, Fitzgerald. Brighton Harding, Pinetta. Fletcher. Irwin. Ga. Ar. Lv. 12:00 11:45 10:45 11:36 11:10 10:59 11:18 SwSSSSS Trains Nos. 1, 2,3 and 4 run daily except Sunday. Nos. 7 and 8 on Sunday only. Trams run signal. (f) Trains stop only on with Plant System Trains connect at Tifton and Ala¬ and G. S. & F. railroads, and Georgia bama at Fitzgerald. President. H. H. Tipt, Vice-President. W. O. Tii-t, Traffic Manager. F. G. BoATittonT. ’ GEORGIA & ALABAMA RAILWAY. “THE SAVANNAH SHORT LINE.” Passenger Schedule, Effective Oct. 3, ’97, No. 19 No. 17 STATIONS. No. 18 No. 20 P. M A. M. m M. A. M. 7 20 7 55 Lv. Savannah Ar. GO 11 55 9 51 9 38 Claxton 9 48 10 26 10 03 Collins CC 23 « 42 10 05 10 31 Lyons O 8 03 A. M Helena w 15 r> 55 1 06 11 58 Abbeville CC * 4 35 2 14 12 48 P. M. P. M. I*. M. Abbeville Ar. 12 25 7 3u 7 15 3 35 Lv. A. M 9 15 4 35 Ar. Fitzgerald Lv. 11 25 »; on 10 00 -5 05 ■ Ocilla 10 30 5 20 p. M. A. M. 2 39 1 07 Lv. Rochelle Lv. 3 06 4 10 2 53 1 17 * Pitts 2 55 3 57 3 40 3 2 08 De Cordele Sota 2 1 20 27 11 2 15 25 4 20 40 A. M. 5 07 3 09 Americus 1 29 5 54 3 45 Preston 12 35 . M. P. M. 6 15 4 00 Richland 55 12 10 5 20 Columbus 4 15 M. 5 00 » 25 35 9 35 Albany A. M. Lv. -.■=33:7 28 11 43 6 36 4 21 Lv. Lumpkin Omaha 10 53 7 25 5 05 18 10 30 7 47 5 27 Pittsboro 9 56 8 26 5 59 Hurtsboro 46 10 45 7 55 Ar. Mont’meryLv 7 40 Nos. 17 and 18 day express trains, Georgia & Alabama new and magnificent fet parlor cars. > Nos. 19 and 20 fast night trains, Pullman palace sleeping ears between vannah and Montgomery. all junctions and Close connections at minal points for ail points. &Gen. Mgr. Cecil Garret, Vice.Pres. Gen. Pas. Agt. A. Pope, C. N. Right. A. G.P. A. Ed Stallings, T. P. A., Fitzgerald. CHENEY & BURCH, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, Office—I n Paulk Building, Grant Street, FITZGERALD, GEORGIA. WAY & JAY, Attorney-at-Law, Fitzgerald, Georgia. Office— In the Slayton & Kern building on Pine avenue. E, W. Hyman, L. Kennedy, Of South Dakota. Of Savannah. RYMAN & KENNEDY, LAWYERS Office— In Fitzgerald Block. W. F. THOMPSON, Arcli CORDELE. GEORGIA. DR. J. H. POWELL, (Late of ibe Best American Hospitals) Specialist in Chronic Diseases j Of TVXeii and. "Women, Office, S. Grant street, located.) near Magnolia. (Per¬ manently A Card to the Public. Being reliably informed that certain unprin- the eipled parties are spreading purchased a and report sold by to effect that a charm me was only pawned, I would, in order to disap¬ prove the falsehood, make the following statement: I have at present ovei $100.06 worth of customers’ watches on my rack which I have a right to dispose of because the time in which they must be called for inac- cordauee with the laws of this State, has ex¬ pired. Now, is it reasonable to suppose that I would dispose of an article I haye no right to sell, while holding over 1100.00 worth e£ ■watches left for repair over threo months ago without being called 7sr, and which I have, therefore, a perfect legal right to sell, but NEVER OFFERED TO SO IN SINGLE INSTANCE. Let an intelligent public answor. Also, know¬ ing full well in whose interests said black¬ mailing scheme was concocted. I will, until further notice, clean watches and clocks for 60c; Mainsprings 60c; Jewels from 25 to 75c: Crystals and hands luc. All other work in proportion and fully warranted. Best 3-day Clocks $2.50, worth $4. Rogers’triple-plated wo|th $2.75. (No. 0) Teaspoons $1.75 per set of 6, Trlpie-pla tod Tablespoons $3.50 porset. worth $5.00. Rogers' triple-plated (No. 12) Knives and Forks, $3.50 per set of 6 each. Other goods at proportionate reduction. H. WETTSTEIN. E. NICHOLSON, Auction e e r , 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. , “MAN WAS BORN TO HUSTLE.” FITZGERALD, IRWIN COUNTY, GEORGIA, NOVEMBER 18, 1897. THE FITZGERALD LEADER. Official Newspaper of Irwin County, Georgia. Official Newspaper of City of Fitzgerald, Ga. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY 15. F. KNAPP, j- Editors and Publishers. J. G. KNAPP, Subscription Rates:—O ne copy, one year $1.50; Six months, 75c; advance. Three months, 50c. Terms—I nvariably in Job and advertising rates made known on application. Your patronage solicited. It begins to look as if Mark Hanna would have to fix things with his little check book. J. I. Ponder, a policeman in At¬ lanta, was shot and killed by burglars he was trying to arrest. Several well known Atlanta men are under arrest charged with the crime. An exchange says the daughter of a San Francisco saloon keeper has in¬ herited 825,000,000. This young lady will find no trouble in securing her own acquaintances in the future. The yellow fever is being subdued. Only three or four new cases each day now where formerly there were from eight to one hundred. Frost seems to be a better physician than Govern¬ ment Surgeon Guiteres. Consul General Lee has sailed for Havana to resume his duties at that place. He will look after the interest of our citizens, and endeavor to keep a friendly and peaceable spirit existing between this country and Spain. The hotel San Marco, one of the finest in St. Augustine, Fla., was burned to the ground last week, en¬ tailing a loss of over $250,000, with only about 850,000 insurance. The fire was the work of incendiaries. G. W. Bailey, a creature who has been in Athens for some time, and who has recently been discovered to be the author of articles for northern papers slandering the South and south¬ ern women, has been served with no¬ tice to “ git” and has gone. The only regret should be that he was not ac¬ companied by ample coat of tar and feathers. Every man accounts for the in the recent elections in a entirely satisfactory to his peculiar bent of mind. McKinley says he is pleased; Bryan thinks its a ground swell for free silver; the goldbugs are satisfied and the silverites are rejoicing. Man is wisely, after all, as well as wonderfully constituted. The legislature passed a bill on Monday prohibiting a game of foot¬ ball played in the State of Georgia. Now, if they will go a step further and make it a penitentiary offense to smoke cigarettes the State of Georgia will be relieved of two great curses that have wrought death and destruc¬ tion to the youth of the community. The University of Missouri receives 823,023 from the estate of the late John C. Conley, under the operation of a law recently passed by the legis¬ lature, which provides that if a man dies leaving no father, mother or di¬ rect lineal descendants, a certain per¬ cent. ot his estate, excluding any amount left for charitable or religious purposes, must go to the State uni¬ versity. Abbeville has won a great victory in the court house election. The offi¬ cial returns give Abbeville 1,323, Ro¬ chelle 2,128. Then it w»l be seen that Abbeville received over 500 more votes than was required to keep the court house, being that much over the necessary one-third. The election was well fought on both sides, but was free from fights and any trouble whatever. Judge Gamble, in his charge to the grand jury at Swainsboro a few days ago, was very forcible, and amoDg many other things his reference to wine selling was very explicit. He said '. “ No one is allowed to sell wine who does not grow the grapes or other fruit from which it is made, and who does not do his own manufacturing, and it must be sold in quantities not less than one quart, on the premises where it is made, but the buyer must remove it to other, parts before he drinks it.” Subscribe for The-Leader. Congress will re-convene on the fu$t Monday in December next. <. The Georgia legislature cost a figure approximating 81,400 daily. There are 219 members, with clerks, pages, porters, etc. This sum multiplied by 50, the number of days to which a session of the legislature is limited, will give a 870,000 result—the cost of the entire session of 50 days. A most gratifying evidence that New Orleans is gradually freeing her¬ self from the embarrassments and difficulties arising from the prevalence of yellow fever and quarantine is the fact that last week $2,000,000 was for¬ warded from New York to this city • o meet the needs of business.—New Orleans States. A rich and childless widow of Chicago, Mrs. Celia Wallace, has off¬ ered to adopt the Cuban refugee, Miss Evangelina Cossio Cisneros, and to make her the heiress of a fortune of 8500,000. The girl is delightedly acquiescent to the plan and only awaits the consent of her father. The old man will consent of course. There is no question of public policy affectiug the public interest that the people cannot be safely trusted to de¬ cide. The fewer puwers the people delegate to agents the better, and, for this reason we are heartily in favor of the election of every public officier in the state, including judges, solicitors and state house officers, by the people. —Atlanta Commerial. Some newspapers have been making a great parade of the fact that a cranky old man in Warren county has been caught defrauding the State and county out of taxes which he owed. The miserly old sinner was sup¬ posed to be poor, but he had 83,000 in cash hid away, which was stolen. He notified the officers of the law that he had been robbed and they recovered the money, hut seized $500 of it v:'. ac¬ count of taxes for several years. The old man was forced to pay what he owed the State and county. But why such a fuss over his case when there are so many instances of tax dodging in Georg'a that are more outrageous? This old man held back only $3,000 from the tax receiver, while there are men in Georgia who conceal from tax¬ ation every year many times as much property as this old fellow is worth. Yet, he is hauled up and paraded be¬ fore the public as a bad and unpatri¬ otic citizen and made disgorge while thousands of others who are men of position and influence in their coni- munities give in their property below its value year after year and nothing is said about it. It is not hard to de¬ cide which class of these tax dodgers deserves the most censure.—Dawson News. Daniel Smith, the Bridgeport pio¬ neer, who enjoys the distinction of be¬ ing the oldest person in Michigan, if not in the country, and portions of whose history have been made public heretofore, was on the streets the other day greeting those who have long known him and making new acquaint¬ ances. The veteran is in his 105th year, and will reach the 106th year of his life the 21st of next January. He is hale and hearty as many a man of 76 or even less, and his cheeks are lull and rosy with apparent health. It re- quires but a few minutes’ conversation to discover that his mind is as vigor¬ ous as his body. Mr. Smith will tell you about the famous Decatur, who had the little difficulty with the Bey of Algiers, and also recite poetry of that event new to this generation. He was in the war of 1812, and served un¬ der Decatur, who the old gentleman claims, was his godfather. Mr. Smith was born aboard ship in Maine har¬ bor. His father came to this country in 1798, and he reached Michigan in 1826. It follows that very little of the early history of the Wolverine State is unknown to him. “At that time,” he said to-day, “ no one could make me believe that a farm could be made out of Michigan soil.” Mr. Smith lives with his daughter in Bridgeport, and although he is capable of doing con¬ siderable tramping and thoroughly able to take care of himself, he does not frequently visit the city. An honest man has been found by George Lowell, general superintend¬ ent of the Chicago, Indianapolis and Louisville, if the statement ot the New Albany “ Ledger” be true. His cow was killed by a train on that road, and in answer to the company’s interroga¬ tory as to the value of the animal, said she was only an ordinary cow, worth perhaps $35. By return mail he received a letter from the company inclosing a draft for $35, and saying this was the first common cow killed by their trains since the road was in¬ corporated. It was their misfortune, the claim agent wrote, judging from the claims sent in, to always kill the blooded cows—cows with pedigrees as long as moral laws ; cows that were most prolific milkers and the best but¬ ter makers in the township. He said that the letter ot the farmer would be filed away as an evidence that it was not impossible for a railroad to kill stock that was not the best of its kind. The Independent South. Tfis increase in the number and size of southern cotton mills during the last few years is a significant fact. Throughout the long season of depres¬ sion in textile manufactures the south¬ ern mills, most of them, notably of Augusta, have paid good dividends. It is only natural that the South, by rea¬ son of its proximity to the cotton fields, better climate and cheaper labor, should offer a more profitable field for the employment of capital in the cot¬ ton industry. These facts have all been pointed out before. The fact that makes brighter the outlook for the South is that the cotton manufacturers of New England are beginning to realize that they must come South if they are go¬ ing to compete with southern mills. Several New England mill men are now visiting the South on the lookout for sites on which to build cotton mills. Competition in all lines of business is growing stronger day by day, but the South’s advantages place it on an equal footing, and more, in any com¬ petition. The day ahead for the South is a bright one indeed. Cure for Pear Blight. Elder W. W. Stone, who lives in Florida, and who has been in Valdosta for several days, called at the Times office this week and gave us a receipt for the cure of pear blight, San Jose scales, bugs, insects; etc., among trees. Mr. Stone formerly lived in Washing¬ ton and Oregon and he stated that that section had suffered a great deal from blight among the trees, from in¬ sects, etc. He states that the State agricultural department in one of those States sought a remedy and when it was found laws were passed forcing fruit growers to apply it to the trees every year. He says the result was wonderful. The fruit growers in this section may be interested in the remedy, so the Times secured the receipt from him for publication. It is as follows, and known as the “Lime-Sulphur-Salt Wash”: “ Forty pounds of uuslacked lime, 20 pounds of sulphur, 15 pounds of stock salt and water to make 60 gallons. The mixture is to be sprayed on trees in winter and spring when in a dormant state. This wash is so cheap and effective “ that no excuse can be tolerated for a seriously infected tree,” says Mr. Alexander Craw, the dis¬ coverer. Another superior wash consists of 30 pounds of resin, 9 pounds of caus¬ tic soda, 41 pints of fish oil, in water to make 100 gallons. The wash is to be sprayed when trees are dormant. These receipts should be kept by fruit growers and used. If they come up to Elder Stone’s recommendation they of will be of great value to raisers fruit.—Valdosta Times. The negro lunatic asylum near Mill- edgeville was destroyed by fire Tues¬ day. The building was crowded with patients, and the work of getting them out of the building and the scenes about the fire, as the reasonless creat¬ ures dashed hither and thither, is said to have been wildly exciting. The burning of the building is a ereat loss, and the management will have trouble to accommodate the lunatics until some place can be prepared for them. B.r.KNAPP, | f Editors and Publishers; J. U. KNAPP, NO. 46. BACK TO BUSINESS! i <* I <S> €> $ 1/ IliM <•> <?> ( L 3¥\ A m IfSSfc: h i /, <*> -I I Y/y J ...... \7 - JlA \ \ i 77 f / I SINGLE CENTER SPRING C2 t EVANSVILLE IN O. ♦ E. H. WILKERSON y DEALER IN I 9 * s> Is again with us, and now has a stock in a complete line of Buggies, Carriages, Phsctons, Delivery Wagons, etc., and begs before nil customers in want of any kind of a vehicle to call and seo his assortment Vehicles. purchasing elsewhere. Remem¬ < 8 > ber, at a Vehicle Store is the place to get your • i Indiana Vehicle Store, Cor. Grant and Magnolia. - Wilfeerson,Prop. § <§> Wt "nmTTmmr § ’97 * Yv* uuaiuuiiAii iiiUkiUUkUii / V TV v/ Our stock of Dry-Goods, Notions, «§§• Flannels, Shoes, in fact everything ’is ** H usually k ct> t in a first-class store, now '0 'Z before complete have 1 . every the department. Fitzgerald Never <!> J? and people of be country selected seen stock a more from complete which or er to w make their purchases. # ■/x “ LOW PRICES MIKE LIVELY RLffili." X ¥ No firm in Fitzgerald realizes the A truth of the above expression more fully A than we do. This season we have priced 'h goods cheaper than, before. vf . A ever It is 77 m our constant best of the aim each season to better Tv our season past. *4 -4' Dress Goods! N- i t > s'> In this department we are better pared than pre- jp to serve von ever before. ^ Our stock is replete with noveltiesOso * vh popular this season for Shirt Waists. "G \\ e have made a special effort this season on Black and Colored Wool J i'* Dress Goods. Our stock is larger, 'i f assortment cheaper than more noth complete withstanding and prices ♦ : ever, the high this kind tariff higher will surely make goods ‘ of ifl SfC later on. -4* Shoe Department. ± ± We carry the largest and best stock 3$ of Ladies and Gents’ Fine Shoes ever sfe S§C seen in Southern Georgia. We sell the & X 3je finest Ladies Kid Button Shoe in the ^ X ci y for $3.00. Why pay $4.00 and J $5.00 EMPIRE elsewhere and get STOKE. no better? ± * * ®- PRICE & CO., Fitzgerald, Ga. #####*###!*######* FR£D G. bigham, Contractor # Builder. Plans and Estimates Furnished on Short Notice Address Lock Box 8, Fitzgerald, Georgia.