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THEASHBURNADVANCt Entered at tho Ashburu hostoffiec as second-class mail matter. Official Organ of Worth County’/ Ashbum, Ga., Aug. 2 (), Subscription $1 a year in advance GEORGE BlITLEIt, LOCAL EDITOR Ice at Walker's. List of jurors next week. 1'or keg pickles, go to Walker’s. Beet steak and roast at Luke’s. Col. Powell’s little boy j s qu it e sick. Beef 5 to 8 cents a pound at Walk- er’s. For additional local news see second page. Ice! Ice!! Ice!!! cheap at Walk¬ er’s. Rev. J. C. Flanders returned last Friday. Get your ice cold drinks at JVal ker’s. Durham & Co.’s new gin started up Tuesday. Plenty of lemons to squeeze at walker’s. ITof. Grubbs, of Sycamore, was in town Tuesday. For all kinds of smoking tobacco go to Walkers.’ R. P, Fain is attending the Indian Springs meeting. White Wine Vinegar, 30 cents per gallon, at Walker’s. IV. A. Murray went to Macon on business Monday. Col Powell went to Dakota yester¬ day on legal business- C. Dasher of Sycamore was in Aih- buru trading Tuesday. Several ladies from Daxotawere in town shopping Tuesday. I sell the very best steak at eight cents a pound.—Walker. Johnny Rogers, son ofG.K. Rogers, is quite ill with apeiidieitis, W. M. Biuce. formerly of Pelham, is clerking lor G. B. Gorday. Subscribe with us for the Southern Immigrant. Fifty cents a year. James Tifton of teyluester Was retr istered at the Clyde Monday. Walker gives a glass of soda water with ever collars worth of goods. Telephone subscribers will please add to their list J. IV. Walker, No. 33. J. E. Edmondson went south Sat¬ urday' with a drove of horses for sale. All the telephone subscribers say ihey ring off. The central kuows bet¬ ter. Rev. J. C, Flanders reports a good meeting from Johnson county last week. John Fountain of Sycamore is the proud father of a line boy born yester¬ day • Lester Stuart returned from Ella- villo Monday, accompanied by his mother. Cotton baskets are on the market now. W. A. Murray received 100 Monday. Sheriff Story was in Asliburn Mon¬ day crossing palms With his many warm friend-. A subscription paper is iu circula¬ tion for money to complote Liberty church house. The dove shooting season opened up Monday, and local sportemen are in their glory. J. S. Butts and wife, and J. IV. Ev¬ ans attended the Indian Springs meet¬ ing this week. Major VI liitc has returned from Americus, and reports haying had a royal good time. lie . Mr. Burgei is now holding a protracted meeting at tiie Bap'ist church in Dakota. Cotton is beginning to come in pretty lively. It is bringing 6 7-8 in the Ashburu market. Walter Whidby is assisting Mr. Daniels in Jeffrey & Roobin’s store, in the absentee of Mr. Jeffrey. J. W. Chapman was taken quite ill this week, and is confined to his bed at the Dew Drop Inn. Mrs. G. H. Snow left for Hard Fine R Sunday , to . ...... her husband, who has join secured a position iu the mill there- Rev. J. Lawrence went to Indian Springs this week to attend the Holi¬ ness meeting now in progress there. Go.s. I n we! , and Davis and Marshal Hall attended comity court Wcdues- day. 'They rep, rt a large crowd there Mr. and Mrs. Piyer and children went to A-jjerU-u- Saturday on a two weeks’ visit i" relat ves and fi ior.d . Did you ever bear ol tlio Ashworth buggy, luanufuelured in Macon, Ga., ami sold by Hie Ashbum Buggy Co.? W. H. Mash burn, formerly ol this place, but now- of Valdosta, was in town this week .ml rogi-tored at the Clyde. Mrs. A, D. Betls left last Saturday for Jonesboro. Ga., where she will vis¬ it relatives ami friends for a couple of weeks. J. S. Betts & Co. wero engaged in taking an inventory of s'.ock Monday, and as consequence their store was closed. Tax Collector Hall was m town Monday. Ho has not received Ins hooks yet, but thinks he will got them next week, The Journal says that smokehouse thieves aro getting iu their work at Arabi. llie shot-gun brigauc should go into training. Charley Green, aged about 18, who lived near Sibley, was found dead in bed ono morning last week. Ho had been ill for some time. Henry Rhodes, col, the wife beater and pistol thief, pleaded guilty before the county court, and was given two years on tho chain gang. One dollar now invested in In¬ ternational Stock Food mav save you forty dollars next spring. Eor sale by W. A. Murray. R. J. Mahoney put up agm ami boiler last week for Bowman & Wright in tho Dan Davis neighborhood. The gm is now ready for business. Tax Collector Hall has started up his new gin at Oakfield. lie makes discouraging reports of the condition of the crop m that neighborhood. Mrs. J IV Powe!', who has been very low for the past two mon lis. is, we are glad to note convalescing, and is able io sit up some each day. There is talk of a new railroad from Asliburn to Sylvester or Poulan. Also one from Sycamore (o Fitzger¬ ald.—Cut abort Liberal-Enterprise. J, J. Lee & Co., merchants of Ir- ivinSville, have dissolved partner¬ ship, Mr. Lee retiring. W. R. John¬ son will conduct the business here¬ after. It you want to see 'what Chat¬ tanooga plows aud Monarch guano can do, go out and see the corn on J. Lawrence’s place two miles from Ashburu. Mi-s Flora Monk, a charming > ourg lady from Abbeville, was the guest of Miss Willie McLendon several days the past week, and returned homo Wednesday. A little International Poultry Food for your chickens will keep off cholera, and make your hens lay. For sale by W. A. Murray, Ashburu, Ga. On account of Neal’s report of tho cotton crop, in which he estimates that 9,750,100 bales will be raised this year the staple fell off forty points in two days this week. Pv. Gardner, wife and baby, loft for Macon county Tuesday, where they will sojourn for a time. It is hoped the temporary change will prove Oen- efieial to their health. On Monday IV. A. Munay received from the TEtna Insurance Co. $7.)0, being payment in lull of his policy in that company, for loss on his store burned May lGtli. Miss Mattie Clark arrived here from Millcdgevillo Tuesday. She will spend a few days with her sistor, Mrs. J. P. Belyin and take a position with , Mrs. T. J. Slangier, Burning itching skin diseases in¬ stantly relieved by DeWiti s witch Hazel Salve, unequalled heals for without cuts, bruises, burns It leaving a scar—-I S Betts & co Some of the machinery m McLen- don’s gm broke down one day las' ■week, and as a re ult tho gin was idle several day*. The break has been re- panel., • red and a ginning ° re- timed. For low rates wos’, Texaq .. exmo. California, Alaska,or any other l"" llL " witn free maps. write to Fred D Bush, Dis’rict Fussenger Agmt Louisville « Nashville HR, Atlanta, Ga. ly B. h -1 to l ake Gity . Monday wneio Ue \\>-i 1 11144 some time, having secured .!■ posit' >i, saw ft er for the E ist Coast I jUm as remain here. V, e r Co. His family will Vim vm'or and victory: these ate he characteristics «>f He Wilt’s Ltttk i little p" ... , the famous •> io « nC ^ a i.j. g. Iviffco s J. G. Padrick and Miss Willie Lee ■ Fit’iwood were married at 1 ifto' 1 dnos!gv Mr. J’adrick is we I and w . A>bbur-i, and his ^ . ^ , u ^ noW n in ,n\ incaas bere uti WlUl , h e Adv'nc ■ in , , , . sle-wer hosts of c ongratuiau-i - -•• • b M wishes upon tk" ' ">■ b iniiic bride. A negro l*ov named George Wash¬ ington fell from a pile of sliiugloi at the mill Saturday, and received seri¬ ous brui«os. Dr. Turner was sum¬ moned, but found uo bonesor shingles broken. Don’t nauseate your stomach with leas and bitter herbs, but regulate your Uvt r and sick headache by using thoso famous little pills known as De- Witt's Little Earlv Kisers. J. S. Belts & Co. E. K. Hobbs and wife of Valdosta artived iu the city yesterday, and are registered at the Dow Drop Inn. Mr. Hobbs has secured a position at the still as woodsman, and will re¬ main in Ashburu. “They don’t make much fuss about it.” We are speaking of DoWitt’s Little Early Kisers, the famous littlo pills and for constipaation, billiousncss. all stomached liver troubles. They never gripe.—J. S. Betts & eo. J. S. Botts, J. W. Evans and J. L*. Belvin each tost a line calf this week, and it was thought for a time that a contagious disease had broken out amonst the young stock, but no more fatalities have been reported. The beautifully' engraved di¬ plomas issued by the American Business College, Omaha, Neb., are the finest ever seen. They are steel engravings 22x28 inches in size. The authorities of the town of Ash- burn, Worth county, have made a mid into the camps of the gamers and brought them before tho county court. — Cnthbort Liberal-Enterprise. The next issue of The College News, published by the American Business College, Omaha, Neb., will contain a large number of testimonials from students and graduates of the A. B. C.‘ Mr. and Mrs. Hargroves and two children, of Leesburg, arrived here Saturday on a visit to his son Will- They returned home Monday night, in order (o enjoy a moonlight drive. A lady’s cream silk handkeichief with needlework was iost near the Methodist church Sunday night- The person who found it will ph ase deliv¬ er it at this office and receive thanks, a bouquet and other compliments. Our method of instruction by mail is highly recommended by our patrons. Send for testimoni¬ als and list of names and address¬ es of students. It is free. The American Business College, Oma¬ ha., Neb. L. D. Simmons lias sold his half in¬ terest in tho Bedgood & Sitninoiis saw¬ mill at, Arab! to Greer Bros, of Dako¬ ta. The mill, which has been shut down for some weeks, will now mako full time, lo tlie joy of many idle la¬ borer-;. Work on Jeffrey & Roobin’s new storehouse had to bo temporarily sus¬ pended Monday, owing to inability to procure lumber. The frame work is up, and tho building will !>o pushed to completion as soon as the material can be oblaincb. Now is llie lime to decide what brands of guano io u-e next year, Ask your neighbors who u-ed Southern Phosphate Woras’ goods this year how they line the following brands: Monarch, Ocmulgee, Tip 'Top, etc. Sold by J. Lawrence. Asliburn. Ga. If you wish to he enrolled as a free student in the mail depart¬ ment of the American Business College, Omaha, Neb., send m your application at once. Their offer of a free course by mail will be open for a limited time only. * Jack Sumner gave Dr. Thrasher a watermelon tarly in the season, and the doctor traded it off for a log-. Sunnier has been missing melonsever since, and suspic en points to the aforesaid M. D. Now is tho time to subscribe. We dip the following from the High Springs (Fla.) Sentinel: Maj- Geo. Butler, late of tho High Springs Sen- tineJ staff, is now holding a position w j t j, t j le Ashbum (Ga.) Advance, 3 j.,j J or WI p ma ke a valuable co- srljutor to the editor of the Advance, Is your horse in poor condition? ^ as ^ ie a P 00 i’ a PpeDte? Then his system needs toning up Yon will never find anything to beat Internationol Stock Food. Get a package to-day. It will make , vou moue y. For sale l>y IV. A. | Murray, Asliburn, Ga. | <. Buttcr J 0 }jn” is a nickname given . ^ ^ reu^ ° - 0 kick bout butter at is ! hoarding house, z: nd he now ter to b .rn, furn.shen hy the es, who even cam'it in their pock- • t- to have i: i handy for him at the la- hi" or on the streets. Now if be would more ;* kick on egg-, with voI- ,iu ; ary contribution- alone lie could tor'-, an 1 o n ba y '.‘i- " ’■ Achbui Col Park, the lawyer who recently located in Poulan, was appointed by tho conuly eourt. lo defend Graham, one of the Aslibtun gamblers,IY« dues- day. He lost his case, but neverthe¬ less proved himself to be an able at¬ torney. The weeds on the street between the residences of Messrs. Fulth, Law and Rogers arc an abominable nui¬ sance, aud the couneil should have them removed. Ladies cannot walk on that street after a rain without gotting their skirts wringing wet. A Fouian special of tho 13th says: The first bale of cotton was put ou the cars at this point this morning. The crop will bo a fair average through this county. Robert Gannon, five miles South of Poulan, lias twen¬ ty-three acres in short cotton which will av rt rago over a bale to the aero, t orn is suffering, and will b" short. Some peddlers lost one of the horses Monday, and they are now camped on the street uo.ir the Baptist church. Lateu. —The peddlers will probably move now, for J. P. Newton has triuPd them his lino mare with dilapidated eyesight for forty chick¬ ens with good eyes 'I'he annual district convention of the Epwortli League will moot m Cordele on llie 10th and 17di of Sep¬ tember. An interesting program has been arranged for the occasion, and the city will be filed with visitors. No doubt. Asliburn will he well repre¬ sented. Look out. for hog cholera, You may have to buy meat next year. A stitch in time saves nine. A little International Stock Food given your hogs twice a week will keep the cholera off, and put your hogs in good healthy condi¬ tion for fattening. Try it. For sale by W. A. Murray, Asliburn, Georgia, People having farm lauds for sale would not do a bad tiling to leave de¬ scription and prices at this ofiico. We are receiving letters of inquiry aud calls from all over the Union- Farms left at this office for sale will bo de¬ scribed to inquirers. We now have a cal! for aone-faorso faun on 100 acres that can bo bought for $000. Did yon ever hear of the Ashworth buggy, manufactured at Macon. Ga.? Gall aud examine them, They are sold by the Asliburn Buggy Co. Strict!}' first class, high grade work, and the manufacturer places the strongest, guarantee on them t..at is placed on any buggy put up iu Georgia. The American Business College, Omaha, Nebraska, lias a notice in the local columns of this paper offering a thorough course of in¬ struction in bookkeeping and business methods by mail tree of tuition. Did you read it? To avail yourself of this liberal offer is the same as accepting a present of $50. Fall term Asliburn high school be¬ gins September 0, 1807. First grade, $125 per mouth; second grade, $1.50; third grade, $1-75. Those prices aro exclusive of any public funds. Inci- den als. 5 cents per mouth. Tuition payable monthly. Music department, Mias Ella Bacon; Primary department, Mrs. L. D. Passmore; Principal,L. D. Passmore. A fierce wind struck tins section Sunday, and for a time it looked as if a cyclone would como, but tho clouds proved to be too high. Many pears were blown from trees in this neigh¬ borhood. and a portion of the brick wall surrounding the slab pit at die mill was blown down. iVo have no information as to tho effects of the blow in other portions of the county. J. VV. Walker has put in a telephone at his place ol bu-iness. and his nurii her is 33, 'Tuesday a customer called him up and ordered a quart ol ice¬ cream. Mr. Walker then called een- tral and got connections, ami with the aid of a funnel scraped tho cream into the transmitter, expecting it to slide over on the u ire to bis customer, but it didn’t slide worth a cent. Ho is thinking of attaching pneumatic tubes tobis ’phone. Last week a coup e of boys got into . a scrap, and ihe 'legal fraternity cided to have some tun, so they ar- rested the aggressor, charging him with assault ami battery. A mock trial was held and the defendant was hou "' J °'’ or to k<Jep ll,,; P (, «,'o< look it ail in earnest, and, like patriarch of olde, he “Jilted up his *'*d wept.”-Poutau ilergld- Mo lo weep is quite an ac¬ compistuncnt, and a willingness to pop Ins'humbs in his ey. s and bawl to ihe moods 'ill the Water traces rail- r n,ds io In- thin i- sufficient proof i f j D In r-grot. After Lo gets through P»J "g off ; be mw;rere he might go on i i a ving. W. A. Mutiny is selling 1)) lbs. of good coffee for $1; 24 plugs of good tobacco for $1; package soda 5c per pound; fresh canned salmon 10c per can; Yard wide sheeting 5c per yard. New goods arriving every day. No shoddy stuff, hut. good goods, and him. no man Everything can or will undersell that people need, from the cradle for the l>aby in “swaddling clothes” to tho last thing you natd. Coffins and caskets cheaper tl nu i yon can find them*anywhere. Ho is brushing up for fall busines, and prices are being cut to the core. Try him, and you will bo pleased. Two star mail routes will probably be established from Ashbum during tho next few months. The new poat- offleo near Live Oak, over in Irwin, will be known as Exchange, and a route will be established from Ash- burn to Luke via Exchange, a dis¬ tance of 12 miles. That settlement is much in need of a postoffice, and we will bo glad when they get it. Ou the road from Ashburu to Warwick, a distance oI 2t) miles, two offices have been established, ouo at Ad Real’s named Marsh, aud one at Fate Qrtf- (lu’s on the Jake Young place namod Griggs. Then it will he in order to establish a mail route from Ashburu to Warwick to supply these two of¬ fices. The Georgia Southern and the B. & \V. (Plant System) aro at outs, and no lumber or naval stores along the line of the former road destined for Brunswick or Savannah aro being transferred to llie B & W at Tifton, but go via Macon. What caused the rupture we do not know, but one tiling is certain : While tho Plant Sys- leni controls to a great extent trans¬ portation in Florida, it does not in Georgia, nor never will. It cannot dictate terms to (ho Georgia Southern road, for that road is an independent and liberal ono, and tho only one en¬ tering that Stale charging but three cents a mile passenger rates along tho entire lino. As between the Georgia Southern and tho Plant System, in any kind of a wrangle, the people are with tho former. On last Sunday a daughter of Dock Simmons, col., ran away from home, and coming to town with Leonard Troulinan, got married at Daniels’ restaurant, A wedding dinner was ordered, and while tho dusky bride was (riumpha .tly ensconced ou tho hurricauo dock of an empty cracker box enjoying a luscious wateriuillion her parents put iu appearance with blood in their eyes, aud it is said that the old woman was armed witn a shot¬ gun aud tho old man with au axe. The wedding dinner was broken up, and the bride broke aud ran. Up to 9 o’clock that night the bride had not been found. The old uim declared that he “wasn’nt gwine toi feed no gal all summer ou pot linker and greens au’ den ruu off and git inar- married to a uiggali at cotton pickin’ time.” The old m in’s wrath was ap¬ peased, however, by the aforesaid “uiggali' 1 agreeing to help him pick cotton, and Leonard is enjoying his honeymoon under the parental roof. The parents of little Nina Mahoney sent to this office for publication this week a nice tribute to the death of their dear little one who died two week; ago, but we cannot publish the tribute because it is compiled of ex¬ tracts from poems of different iythni, thereby losing tho intended effect ol the effort. Poetry is nice in an obitu¬ ary, hut it should he original and lo the point, composed for the special purpose, and dedicated to tho person named- However, we have the deep¬ est sympathy for the bereaved parents m tho sad loss of their dear JitiJo who so shortly shone its little light in their home and faded so early in dewy morning of life. The little car¬ riage has been rolled aside, the -mall slippers stored away, and tho tiny feet gone lo snot her shore to pace in gold- on slipp-rs and rule in a carriage more elegant than the ono left behind. Let the parents be prepared to meet God and their ehi!d- Editor./. Lawrence of the Holiness Advocate giyos notice that he will change his chinch relationship and has called a meeting of the stockhold- era to decide whether lie or someone (; , He s|iftll b<J , }j(; editor of Ul0 Adrn . ca'e. It has been known “in the fam¬ ily” ff.r some time lhat Bro. Law- po(M . | . wys i|ltf l0 (ll0 Weslovan f -i, MrfJ h Tim We-Fysii church is claiming our extremists, he being the fourth wh<> ha- gone from the Metlio- church iu Ashbum. The Wesley- , ml-m^r-hij . . , of 20.000 To-day slit: 1ms 10.0 10 i !i-h* of only 4,COO in half a century, lire. Lawrence has been a pillar i.i the Mc'li Sis' church, but since he lias gone off in the Wes leyan faith it is heller for him to join the Wesleyan church. Harmony ha¬ unt prevailed i" the Methadist church of Ashbum 'hi- year, but when the chi dr it of Brael art properly divided the g pel ship inay be expect' '/ to I Itnoie - we I . ly. Blaokcappcrs iu Asliburn. Hiere never was a time when man could not. bo deceived, and lie is so much an animal that lie will run if you get him badly scared. Two young men from the country who recently spout a night in the suburbs with rela¬ tives can testify to the fact that, even a trained mind will succumb to deception, wits will depart, ac¬ tivity of limbs will appear, and tbe one thought of saving the body will wrap the mind and ex¬ clude facts and common sense. It happened that during tho time a negro woman was kopt in the lock-up here a day and two nights, that the two young men in question came to j>ay a visit to their uncles, Col. Z. aud W. T. Bass. It is customary at tho country home of the Bass family and their neighbors to play pranks on each other and “get a move on them” if they could. Logan Horne and Thomas Royal are bright young men, but. the first law of nature—the preserva¬ tion of self—is an instinct with them, and water would as much run up hill as they would delib¬ erately go into danger. Col. Z., lid and Wesley Bass conspired to frighten the young men with a practical war story, and talked low to each other in their hearing of the negroes being so mad about the woman being in jail, and how the colored race would rise up with guns that night and slay white folks fill none of us woro leTt, and the woman out of jail. Tho boys pictured in their minds a battlefield with Asliburn strewn with dead and wounded, with not enough loft to keep their graves clean. After the boys had retired, Kd. Bass appeared at. the window with blackened face, wearing a uniform plug hat with tassel, and carrying a stick in his hand fora gun. lie addressed himself to the boys and demanded their sur¬ render as ho pressed the stick to his shoulder and pointed it at them. Calling on a higher powor for mercy they tumbled over each other to the floor and went out in the hall to inform Uncle Wes that an army of negroes had come to kill them, and that one nine feet high stood at tho win¬ dow with a big gun reudy to shoot them as fast as thoy poked their heads out, Mr. Bass under¬ stood tho joko and told the boys to dross and go to Zack’s for his gutt and he would kill the last mother’s sou of them. Their ob¬ ject. waH to get the boys strung out down the Sycamore road and close in behind them, but, like the boy on the burning deck, they refused to go. Mr. Bass told them to go with him and he would get tho axe and slay the one that tried to come in. They went far enough to peep under the house and see the blocks of wood that lay scattered around. A fearful groan was heard from one of tho boys, and thoy went back into the bouse like rats to their holes. Again inside they whispered with deep breath that they saw nine great big strapping black negro men on all fours, with go us ready to shoot. Ed Bass, still at, the window, de¬ manded the persons of Ed Bass and the two boys. Wesley in¬ formed him that Ed had left there at throe o’clock that even¬ ing. Tho bovs spoke up and said the boys had gone, too. Kd then rapped at the door and demand¬ ed admission. The boys stuck spurs in the floor and plantod their backs against the door and commenced pleading for mercy. One of them informed the “gen¬ tlemen” outside that none of them had anything to do with putting the woman in jail, and ho thought thoy ought to go away and let innocent people alone. Then the rap would come from the other door and there was a rush pell mell inside to keep the door from being broken down and to save their own lives. They too, as the| Poulan Herald would say, lifted up their voices and wept. It i. as au awful hour; yea an awful age to the boys, and when the denouement came they me¬ andered off with the solemnity of a blind black mule returning from the funeral of a Porto Itico nigger, and ’rieath tbe branches of a swaying pine took an oath that the Bass home should never again be invaded by them—after dark. Davis A barbie Deliver Goo'ls Free. Lee $ I’, ri iu’- sauce is for meat-, [t nive- tie m i (a-firr si flivor, aiet is Used liy nii o people wlm .Sardines love ko and mo¬ th ini' good. Imported Prepar'd Fiencli Mustard. Fresli Dried apphs Fine Gandies and ( radii rs Fresh Mackoiel 111 k"f(s. Bent Tea. Rice and Coffee. ‘King of Patents” Flour is the bes 1 . Cabbage, Onions Potatoes. I)e-t Hams 12o. tVes orn and Country B-ef alwa; son hand. Oavis& Barbee, “Up >o Date *' 1 oetrs.” I*L‘ ue ly.