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The Fitzgerald Leader
stablished. 18QG.
/OL. II.
JOHN B. VINCENT,
Attorney-at-Law..
Lunberger Building, Cor. Pine and Grant St.,
~itzgerald, : : Georgia.
CHENEY & BURCH,
ATTORN E Y-AT-LA W,
Office— In Paulk Building, GrantStreet,
FITZGERALD, GEORGIA.
E. W. Ryman, JL. Kennedy,
Of South Dakota. Of Savannah.
RYMAN & KENNEDY,
Office— In Fitzgerald Block.
JAY & HENDERSON,
Attorney-at-Law,
Fitzgerald, Georgia.
Office—I n the Slayton & Kern building on
Pine avenue.
W. F. THOMPSON,
ArcK itec t, 9
CORDELE, GEORGIA.
DR. J. H. POWELL,
(Late of the Best American Hospitals)
Specialist in Chronic Diseases,
Of IVIen and. 'Women,
Office. S. Grant street, near Magnolia. (Per¬
manently located.)
W. J. LAYMAN & CO.,
Real Estate & Insuranc Agents
Loans Negotiated.
“rant Street, Fitzgerald', Georgia.
Drs. C. A, & L< ff. Eoltzeniorf,
Office— In Slayton & Kern building, oppo¬
site Commercial hotel. Fitzgerald, Ga
1-hone 21.
PINE STREET
Meat Market
Carries a full line of Fresh and Salted
Meats of every description. Armour’s
celebrated Western Beef always on
hand. Turkeys and Chickens bought
and sold.
H. L. BEAUCHAMP,
Proprietor.
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List ■ Property
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Pay : Taxes
— petty owi. ers. Small and
large giving tracts of s for sale. Enclose stamp
full information.
, , I 1 KIMS, SDK S CD, fiisjtnli, St,
Real EstaleDeafers.
OPTICIAN,
Have your eyes fitted by John Ad-
ams, a man that has had twenty-seven
years experience. I have the best as-
sortment of goods in the 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.
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For Tailor Suits
CALL ON
E. J. DANCY,
Fine A h M Door to Commercial Hold
A perfect fit guaranteed. A trial is all I ask.
All garments cut and made on premises.
Cleaning, Repairing and Pressing a Specialty
WHY 00 TO ATLANTA
To have your Eyes fitted with glasses?
You can save time and money by call¬
ing at Baldwin’s, the Eye Specialist,
who is a graduate optician. Have a
room especially for examining the
eyes. Headache, vision blurred, can¬
not read by lamplight, can be relieved
by proper glasses. Take no chances,
but have your eyes fitted with glasses
eorrectly. BALDWIN,
C. S.
Two Dooas East of Postoffice,
Fitzgerald, : : Georgia.
“MAN WAS BORN TO HUSTLE”
FITZGERALD, IRWIN COUNT!, GEORGIA, DECEMBER 2*3, 1897.
Merry Christmas.
It is with much joy we herald forth
the words “ Merry Christmas” to our
readers here and those living in the
bleak and cold North. The year that
will soon be behind us in the march
of progress, has been a year of happi¬
ness for some, while others it has
brought forth sorrow and regret. To
those that prosperity has chosen to be
with, we trust will be with you for
years to come, and that you may al¬
ways be happy and in the best of
health. To those who have had sor¬
row and business troubles, it is our
ouly wish that, beginning with the
new year they will be a thing of the
past. “Trust in Him who knoweth that
all things are for the best and your
happy days will begin.”
In looking over the files of The
Leader for nearly two years, we can
find so many things that bring up old
memories. To be sure, two years is
not long, but it is 730 happy days
spent in the sunny South. For 100
weeks The Leader has gone to thous¬
ands of homes, and in all probability
will go for more than 100 mole weeks.
In going back Over these old papers
we touch the strings of joy or woe
which leads to the heart of almost
every enterprising citizen in Irwin
county. As an abler writer once said:
“ None lie in the city of the dead, who
have not had from us the rites of
charity and grief.” The marriagfe
bells have never chimed but stray
echoes wafted through the press. None
were born, or come, or went away,
who have not passed in bright review
along our columns. Out of these
musty columns of ink and paper we
could write the history of many lives.
Done well? Yes, as well as we de¬
serve. Not much in the way of dross¬
ful wealth, but wads and loads and
oceans of treasures in that happy
bourne whence toil and trouble never
come. Many people owe us; we owe
nobody, hence w%have something to
be thankful for. Possibly it might
fetch us a few dollars to dun, rip and
snort on this auspicious occasion, but
we shall not try it. >Ve need the
money, the Lord knows, but from
long years of experience with
quent subscribers and others, we are
inclined to think that only the devil
knows whether we will get it. This
will fall under the eye of many a sub¬
scriber who knows he owes us and is
able to pay us. We leave him alone
with his chewing tobacco and con¬
science.
Once again. A merry, merry
Christmas to all,
At the beginning of each of con¬
gress, with a considerable show
virtue it is announced that liquors will
not be sold or served in the capitol
restuarants. The spasm of goodness
on the part of the congressmen usually
lasts about three or four days. At
the current session, however, it is said
to have passed off in less than thirty-
six hours. On the first day the
statesmen slaked there thirst with
milk, soda water and various carbon¬
ated mineral waters; but these soon
proved too thin drinks, and the faces
of the guardians of the nation began
to take on a look of worry. At the
beginning of the second day the mem¬
bers took suspicious looking draughts
from cups. It might of have been
“cold tea,” and it might of have been
something else. The strain was so
great that before night plain, straight
whiskey was being called for and
served. The House and Senate have
both now authorized the dispensing of
liquors in their restaurants.—Savan¬
nah News.
The Chicago Post thus quotes a
lady of that city as to bow she found
a sermon helpful: Our minister
preached a sublime sermon on Sunday.
I did enjoy it so much. And right in
the middle of it I hit on how to have
my black serge fixed over. The whole
scheme came like a miracle, and will
work out no end of swell. That frock
has been of such a torment—I have
had no good of it at all. It hung in
the wardrobe, a reproach and a waste
of material. Sermons are so benefi¬
cial. You really ought to go to
church oftener. I am ashamed that
you missed that one last Sunday.
LASCELLES IN MEXICO
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The Great Adventurer Is Now
In the Land of Free Silver.
MRS. LASCELLES WITH HIM
l*oses As a Man of Extensive Business,
but Who Has Had Reverses Which
He Will Overcome—Some Big
Contracts in Sight.
The flight of Sidney Lascelles alias
Lord Beresford, from this city last July
has been located at least twenty-five
times or more in different parts of the
world. This time it is in the city of
Mexico. The whereabouts of Mrs.
Lascelles has been known to The
Leader for quite a while, as she has
been in communication with Judge
Moore, of this city, in regard to her
father’s estate. The following special
appeared in the Atlanta Constitution of
last Saturday dated at City of Mexico.
It says:
Among the notable visitors in this
city at the present time is the notorious
Lord Beresford, otherwise Sidney Las-
eelles, who has but recently been par¬
doned out of the Georgia penitentiary
by Governor Atkinson, of that State.
About five weeks ago Mr. and Mrs.
Lascelles, registering as from Monterey,
made their appearance here and se¬
cured quiet apartments with an Amer-
can family who had preceded them. It
was not until the lady fell in a swoon
while heading an American newspaper
that the identity of the couple became
known to their hosts. The paper an¬
nounced the death, in a little town in
Georgia, of Mr. Alexander Pelkey, the
lady’s father. Upon her recovery she
told the story of her life. She was tile
petted and only child of a wealthy citi-
zer of Rhode Island, who had gone to
Georgia to invest in some rising real
es'ate. There she met Lascelles, wir-
ning and polished, and though she
knew te had been in the penitentiary
for high-rolling, she looked upon the
pardon which the governor had given
him as a complete vindication, and de¬
spite parental objections married the
gay lord, since which time she had not
seen her father. Now that he was dead
she became the sole heiress to his pos¬
sessions.
In the meantime Lascelles had not
been idle in the city. He had made the
acquaintance of those in charge of fed¬
eral district affairs, and was so full of
schemes of municipal improvement that
he began to catch the official ear. He
had extensive bundles of letters from
dealers all over the United States,
showing that he had been engaged in
extensive works which claimed their
attention. It is true that these letters
all referred to pending negotiations,
and not to completed work, but they
were sufficient to prove that ho was a
man of affairs. The news 0 ? his father-
in-law’s death came in good time, for it
afforded Lascelles an opportunity to
talk of landed possessions in various
States of the American Union. He em¬
ployed an English barrister to open ne¬
gotiations with the representatives of
the estate in Fitzgerald, Ga., and based
upon this coming wealth, Lascelles has
been heartily welcomed into local of¬
ficial circles.
There was one notable feature about
Lascelles’ presence, and that is, while
he made himself at home at the British
consulate, and affected great fondness
for the French, he avoided the head-
quarters of United States Minister
Powell Clayton, and the American col¬
ony in general.
It was only within the past week that
Lascelles’ record has leaked out, due to
a chance meeting with an Alabama
gentleman, who had known him in
Fitzgerald.
“I have no disposition to deny my
identity,” said Lascelles, “but I would
have preferred quiet until my wife’s
mourning for her father’s sad death
was over.”
With admirable Sangfroid, Lascelles
has met the whispers which have
reached the ears of his Mexican friends.
He explains that he is a man of large
business affairs; that in the course of
immense transactions he has had re¬
verses; .that full settlement will set him
straight again, and that he will return
to the United States and put his sland¬
erers into something worse than Belem,
All this is told with so much self-pos-
sessidn and plausibility that it is be¬
lieved, and the former Lord Beresford
is living in clover.
Mrs. Lascelles has the utmost faith in
her husband and fully believes that he
will come out on top.
Ex-Buteher Weyler says “ Cuba is
lost to Spain.” He should have read
American newspapers and learned the
true facts long ago.
Confederate Bead in >>’1800118111.
Under the caption of ,l A Message to
the South,” the Chicago Times-Herald
of a few days ago had the following
pretty article:
“A modest corner in Forest Hill
cemetery, Madison, Wis., lias been
known as “Confederate Rest” ever
since 1863. The winter of 1862 con¬
siderable numbers of confederate pris¬
oners were sent to Camp Randall,
near Madison. The change from the
sunny South to the blizzards of the
North swept the poor fellows away
rapidly, and the camp was soon aban¬
doned as a prison. The dead were
buried in Forest Hill cemetery. For
nearly thirty years the graves of these
American soldiers have been looked
after by Mrs. Alice Waterman, a
southern-born lady, who went to Mad¬
ison in 1868. Often and indeed reg¬
ularly in these later years flowers have
been sprinkled upon the confederate
graves by the Union veterans on Me¬
morial day.
“A few years ago Mrs. Waterman,
highly respected by all the people,
died, and, and at her request was
buried with “my boys,” as she called
them, in “Confederate Rest.” Now' it
is proposed to erect a monument to
her memory and the memory of “her
boys,” one that will bear the name of
the noble woman and each confeder¬
ate sleeper there. What adds inter¬
est and pathos to this proposition is
the fact that two Union soldiers have
undertaken the task, one of whom,
Major W. F. Oakley, of the Seventh
Wisconsin, lost one arm at Rappan-
onck Station in 1862, and the other.
Capt. Hugh Lewis, Company A, Second
Wisconsin, lost an arm at Second Bull
Run. Both are still men of energy,
and can be depended upon to carry
the work to a successful issue.
“There will be many to 'aid them—
many in the ranks of the Union ve\
emus. The monument, without doubt,
will be ready for dedication the year
that Wisconsin is half a century old
—1898. Its dedication will be another
message sent to the South—a message
of peace, good will, fraternity, Amer¬
icanism.”
It is an extremely handsome action
on the part of the two Union soldiers
of Wisconsin, Major Oakley and Cap¬
tain Lewis, to thus interest themselves
in and to undertake the erection of a
monument to Mrs. Waterman and the
confederate dead who lie buried in
Forest Hill cemetery, Madison, Wis.
They must be brave men themselves,
must Major Oakley and Captain Lewis,
as well as good-hearted men, to thus
spend of their time and their money
in the perpetuation of the memory of
deceased strangers, probably known
to them only as “destroyers” of that
Union which they themselves fought
to uphold.
But while Major Oakley and Cap¬
tain Lewis and the deceased were on
opposite sides in the great intercine
struggle, Major Oakley and Captain
Lewis had no doubt experience of and
acquaintance with the courage of the
southern soldier; and, now the “un¬
pleasantness” is long since past, and
that each side has come to recognize
the honest convictions of the other in
the cause for which they respectively
stoop and the courage with which they
fought and died for those convictions,
admiration has replaced rancor, and
sectional bitterness has given way be¬
fore a return of human kindness. Of
that admiration of honesty and
bravery, and of that human kindli¬
ness tow’ard fellow-soldiers, Major
Oakley and Captain Lewis, of Wiscon¬
sin, are giving a noble example; and
there is no ex-confederate anywhere,
nor any southerner who will learn
their action, but in his heart will “rise
and bless” them for their courteous
comraderie.
The probabilities are that there are
southern soldiers who would like to
show their appreciation of the beau¬
tiful action of Major Oakley and Cap¬
tain Lewis by contributing a trifle to
the furtherance of the purpose which
those gallant Wisconsin soldiers have
in hand; such contributions, it will be
carefully observed, are not solicited,
directly or indirectly, but, were they
offered, the chances are they would be
received and devoted to help on the
work. The suggestion is the Times-
Democrat’s; but whetherjit be worth
taking up must be left to the decision
of southern soldiers themselves.—N.
O. Times-Democrat.
J. 11. G. F. KNAPP, KNAPP, : Editors and Milks
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M, Baldwins Jewelry 'V* 'i'
M. PIONEER JEWELER,
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Has the best and largest stock of Jewelry in Fitzgerald: Solid Gold Goods
and lots of them. See our genuine Opals, set in Kings, Pins and Earrings!
Sterling Silver Novelties—Latest Designs!
@§11® 6 each! We have We Rogers’triple-plated have Teaspoons at 75c No. 12 Knives set of 6 and Tablespoons Forks for at S3 $1.25 25 per per set set of Jijj|
per ;
-Y- of six. Bee our Ladies’ Guard Chains!
W A Card To The Public:
# No No Rolled Gold filled plate sold sold for for Solid Gold Gold! filled! Every article sold for just what »
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You will not buy a Rolled plate natch chain from us that the
2£ ■” ' “ 4 weeks unless you take sand paper to do it ! Come and look
-V- get our prices, and you buy 1 No trouble to show goods!
m First-Class Repairing Done!
:V/: Our Motto: The best work at fair prices and a pleased customer!
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Mondays t Here
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The Holidays will soon be here, and of coursejtliat boy of yours
will need a nobby suit for a Christmas present. What is nicer
for your boy than a suit of clothes or a nice pair of shoes? Make
him a present.of something that is of value and which will do
him service. It is money in your pocket. Perhaps the men
folks are in need of a new suit, pair of pants, hat or shoes.
E a present above all others,
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^ Our Holiday Pripes.
Mens’all-wool suits, were $15.00, Holiday Price -ftf>
$12.00.
sk Mens’ ail wool suits were $12.00, Holiday Price
Yj X $10.00. Mens’ all wool suits $10.00, Holiday Price
were
j; $8.00.
Mens’ all wool.suits were $8.00, Holiday price $6.00.
Mens’ all wool suits were $7.00; Holiday price $4.00.
Boys’ all wool suits were $2.00; Holiday price $1.50.
the Our city. assortment AH of Boys’ and Childrens’ suits is the largest in ^
we ask is a visit. No trouble to show goods.
_■ Jones : Clothing: Co. &
Fitzgerald, Georgia.
®TAsk for our Store when in town.
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I ►j JOSEY’S DRUG STORE.
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Of all kinds, Druggists’ Sundries, etc. In fact I am
better prepared to serve my patrons than ever before. I
Remember I keep in stock a fine line of 3
Toilef 5oaps If Perfumery.
Prescriptions Carefully Compounded Day or Night. I
JOSEY’S DRUG STORE ■
South Grant Street, Fitzgerald, Georgia.
FRED R. BIGHAM,
Contractor # Builder.
Plans and Estimates Furnished on Short Notice.
Address Lock Box 8, Fitzgerald, Georgia.