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THE ASHBURN ADVANCE.
11.1). SMITH. EDITOR.
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thought to be a false
report, but was found to be
true.
News broke out among the
people of Worth county that
McGirt &
MePhaul
Were selling Goods cheaper
than any other merchants in the
county , which was investigated
and found correct.
flow we ash the people of
Worth and adjoining counties
to come and examine our line ot
IVc Carry a Side Line of
Wash Pols,
Dinner Pots,
Stoves,
Stove Furniture,
Plows,
V Plow Dear
And All Farming: Utensils.
FURNITURE!
FURNITURE!
FURNITURE!
-AND ALL—
Heavy Groceries.
CLOTHING!
We have a large lot of
Clothing selected for the Fall
Trade , and we want to sell
them rapidly. We have put
them at very low prices. We
can save you enough of money
oti one suit of Clothes to pay
you for coming to Poulan.
When you want Hats, come to
Bee us.
When yon want Shoes, come to
Bee ns.
When you want Suits, come to
see us.
When you want Harness, come to
Bee us.
When you want Groceries, come to
see us.
When yon want Stoves, come to
see us.
When you want Furniture, come to
see us.
We have good an e salesmen,
bo that when you come to see us,
goods will he thrown down to you for
your examination.
AVe carry everything in the HARD¬
WARE LINE from a handsome File
to a Grind Rock.
o r ^ -‘A- c c o ■
Everything from a pinch of Snuff tc
a box o'f Tobacco.
Call and examine our Goods and get
p r ; ce g. We will take pleasure in
showing you. of the best RICE
AVe have one
MILLS in the country. Bring your
rc)ll gh rice and let us hull it.
Have your corn ground here.
We will gin your cotton for you and
then bny it or ship it from our ware¬
house free of drayage.
Turn vonr face this way and make
0 v store headquarters for trade.
McGirt «fc McPbanl.
REY. DR. TALMAGE.
THE NOTED DIVINE’S SUN¬
DAY DISCOURSE.
Mi# ChrUtlnu lloine nml IVhnt It Should
15r«-A Powerful Test of ChtU'Seler—
Various Mcnulnj?* of 11 (!ifl^«Can lie
Made the •tvifeiitest Place on Kartli
TtiXf: “Go homo to thy friends and tell
thorn how great tilings the Lord hath done
for tlioe,” Mark v., 19i
There are rt ktd'eiil many people longing
for swrtlft grand sphere in which to serve
God. They admire Luther nt tho Diet of
Worms, and only wish that winch they had some
such their great Christian opportunity hi They to display
prowess-. admire
Paul making Veil* U'ihnble, and they only
Wish thflt llttvy had some such grand oc¬
casion In which to preach righteousness,
temperance and judgment opportunity to come: Id nil
they want is only an exhibit
their Christian hebMfnfl. Now tho evange¬
list come* t" \1S, and lie practically savs:
"f will fchow you a place where beautiful, you can
exhibit all that is grand, and and
glorious, in Christian circle,” character! and that
is the domestic falthiul
If one is pot in an Insignificant
sphere he will hot bo faithful in a resound¬
ing cripple sphere. If Peter will not help tho
never lie at the able gate to ot preach tho temple, three thousand lie will
souls into the hot kingdom at the Pentecost.
If Paul will take pains to instruct in
tho Way Ot salvation the jailer of the Phil¬
tremble. ippian dungeon, ho will rnver make Felix
He who is not faithful in a skir¬
mish would not bo faithful In an Armaged¬
don. the position The fact in is, which we are nil placed grAndly in just
we can ilirtst
serve Ood: and we ought hot id be chiefly
thoughtful About bomb Sphere of useful-
lies Which We may niter a while gain, hut
the all-absorbing question with .you and
with t hou Vue ought to lie: “Lord, what wilt
have roe now ana here to do?”
There is ulib Word in ray text around
Which the most of onr thoughts will this
morning revolve. That word Vs “Home.”
Ask ten different itien the meaning of that
Word, and they Will give you ten different
definition!!. To one it means love at the
health, it means plenty at the table, in¬
dustry the books, nt the workstand, intelligence at
devotion at the altar. To him
it means a greeting at the door and It Smile
at tlie chair. Peace hovering like wings.
Joy clapping its hands with laughter. Life
a tranquil lake. Pillowed ou tlie ripples
sleep the shadows. homo
Ask another man What is, and he
will tell yntt It is want, looking out of a
empty uhowlwra fire-grate, The kneading hunger in an
With bread tray. Bible damp air shivering
curses. No on tho shelf. Chil¬
dren robbers and murderers in embryo.
Every face a picture of ruin. Want in the
background and sin staring from the front.
No Sabbath wave rolling over that door-
sill. Vestibule of tho pit. Shadow Of in¬
fernal walls. Awful Furnace word! for It forging spelled everlast¬
ing chains. with is with
eurses, it weeps ruin, it chokes With
woe, It sweats with the death 'Agony of de¬
spair, Tho "ttbVne”
word in the one case means
Urn everything other bright. Tlie word “Home” 111
I shall case means everything terrific.
speak to you this moruingof home
as a test ot character, home as a refuge,
homo as a political safeguard, home as a
school, and home as place a type of heaven,
And in tho first I remark, that
homo is a powerful test of character. Tho
disposition in public may be in gay cos¬
As tume, while in private it Is it! dishabille.
the play actors may appear in Another blip Why on
stage, and may appear fit way
behind the scenes, sd pViVdle character may
be very different from public character.
Private Character is often public character
turned Wrong side out. A man may re¬
ceive you into his parlor as though he were
a distillation of smiles, and yet ids heart
may be a swamp of nettles. There are
business men who all day long are good-na! mild,
and courteous, and genial, and
lured tin commercial life, damming back
their irritability, and their petulance, and
breaks, their discontent; but at. night-fltil the dam
nud scolding pours forth in floods
and freshet*.
The reason men do not display their had
temper in public is because they do not
Want to be knocked down. There are men
who hide their petulance and their irrita¬
bility just for the same reason that they do
not let their notes go to protest, It does
not pay. Or for tile same reason that they
do not want a man in their stock company
to sell ids stock at less than the right price,
test it depreciate the value, As at some-
times the wind rises, so after a sunshiny
There day there may be a tempestuous til night.
are people who public act the
philanthropist. to Who at home act tlie Nero
with respect their slippers and tlicif
gown, Nov?, hfi'able
that man who 1*. in public
Rnd who is irritable In private is making a
fraudulent overissue of stock, and he is ns
bad as a bank that might have four or five
hundred thousand dollars of bills In circu¬
lation with no specie in tho vault. Let us
learn to show piety at home. If wo have it
not there, we have it not tn anywhere. If we
have not genuine graeo the family circle,
ail merely our .springs outward from and fear public of the plausibility world
a or
from fishness. the slimy, putrid pool o( our own sel¬
I tell you the home is a mighty
test of character. What you are at heme
you are everywhere, whether you demon¬
strate it or not.
Again, I remark that home is a reiuge.
Life is tile United Htates army on the na¬
tional road to Mexico, a long march with
ever and anon a skirmish and a battle. At
eventide we pitch our tent and stank the
arms, bead we hang up the war cap and Jay our
on tho knapsack, we sleep until the
morning bugle calls u.s to inarching and
action. How pleasant it is to rehearse the
victories, and the surprises, and the at¬
tacks of the day, seated by the still camp-
lire of the home circlel
There is the place where we may talk of
wliat we have done without being charged
with self-adulation. There is the place
where wo may lounge without being thought
ungraceful. There is the place where we
may express affection without being
thought silly. There is tlie place where wo
may forgetour annoyances, and exaspera¬
tions, and troubles. Forlorn earth pil¬
grim! no home? Then die. That is better.
The grave is brighter, and grander, and
more glorious than this world with no
tent for marchings, with no harbor from
the storm, with no place of rest from tills
scene of greed, and gouge, and loss, and
gain. God pity the man or the woman who
has no home.
i- urther, I remark, that home is a politi¬
cal safeguard. Tlie safety of ihe Htate
must be built on the safety of the home.
Mill’cannot France come to a placid re-
puMic? Ever and anon there is a threat of
National capsize. France as a nation has
not the right kind of a Christian home.
The Christian hearthstone is the only cor¬
ner-stone for a republic. The virtues cul¬
tured in the family circle are an absolute
necessity for the .State, If there be not
enough moral principle to make the family
adhere, there will not he enough political
principle to make the State adhere. "No
home ’ means the Goths and Vandals,
means the Nomads of Asia,; means the
Numideans of Africa, changing from place
to place, according as the pasture happens
co '-hange. i unfounded be all those Babels
ot iniquity which would overtower and de¬
stroy the home. The same storm that up¬
sink sets tlie the ship frigate in which the family sails will
of the constitution. Jails
and penitenliarie,.sand armies and naviesare
not our best defense. The doorof the home
is the best fortress.
Further, f remars, that home is a school.
Old ground must be turned up witli sub¬
soil plow, and it must be harrowed and re-
barrowed, and then the crop will not be as
large .-is that of the new ground with ler .
cultur- Now, youth and childhood are
new ground, and all the influences thrown
over their heart and life will come up iu
ASHBURN, r, vn X).. GA.. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 12. 1897.
after life luxuriantly. Every time youliavo
given a smile of Approbation, nil tho good
cheer of your life will come up again In tho
geniality of your. pHlIdreiii.. And every
ebullition of angot Mud UltAdtltt'ola-
ble display of indignation will Do fuel to
their disposition twenty, or thirty, or forty
years from now fuel for a bad lire a quar¬
ter of a contjlry Ronl Ull j : . .
011; mitt * yoiii Lome the brightest piaeo
on earth, if you would charm your chil¬
dren to the high path of virtue, and reeti-
tude, blind? and religion. Do not lijwrtyfi ilfliit turn
tho the wrong Way’ bd M*d
tho which pins gold oil the gentian dwellings. and spots Do
pansy pour Into your
not dead expect tho little feet to keep step walls to a
ranroh. Do not cover up your
with sueh pictures bf Tint<lreft^’s ns West’s ."Death op a
Pale Ilihbeents.’ Horse," “MiAMseiird of
thd llather cover thorn, if you
have pictures, with “The Hawking Party,”
and “Tho Mill by the Mountain.Stream,”
and “The Fox Hunt," am} "The, Chil¬
dren Amid, FloWers," end "Tlul Harvest
Scone, and "The Saturday Night Market¬
ing.”
Above all, my friends, take, into your
homes Christian principle, Can 11 bo that
in any of tjin ontnfoHiUno hdnies fit riiy con¬
gregation the voice of prayer is never lifted?
What! No application at night for protec¬
tion? What! No thanksgiving In the morn¬
ing for care? How, my Li brother, njv Uf Sister, Judg¬
will you ansWer God the Daj?
ment, Witli reference to your children? ft
is a plain question, and therefore [ ask it.
Tn the tenth chapter of Jeremiah God says
ito will pour out His fury upon the families
that cull not upon Iils name. 0 parents,
when you are dead and gone, aud the moss
is covering (he Inscription of the lombstoiie,
will your children look hack and tlfiiik t>f
father amt itldtlH-l’lit family pfayer? Will
they take the old family Bible and open it
and see the mark of promise tears of cprit.ritiqii Wct*T and
tears of consoling Into darkness?
long before gone out
Oh, if you do not Inculcate Christian prin¬
ciple iu the hearts of your children, liifd and
you do not warn them holiness against oVil,, and to God, yoii.
do not Invito them to
and they Wander off into dissipation and
into infidelity, and at last make their shipwreck death-bed
of their immortal soul, on
and in their Day of Judgment they will
curse you. Seated by the register or the
stove, what if on the wall should oome out
tho history of your children? What life a his-
tory—the mortal and !malarial of your
loved OiiCs. Every parent is writing tlid
history of ills child; llo is writing it; com¬
posing if into d song HF Idiming it Into a
groan:
My mind runs back to one ot the best of
early homes. Prayer, like a roof, over it.
Peace, like an atmosphere, in trial it. Parents,
personifications of faith in and com-
fort in darkness. The two pillars of that
earthly homo long ago orumlded to dust.
But shall I ever forget that early home? Yes,
when the flower forgets lflilfltter the suu
that warms It; Yes, guided Wilde t.hd for¬
gets theetaf hits that him. Yes, when
love gone eiflpiled out df the heart’s altar
and memory lias Hvi ills urii into fdrget-
fulnpss: Then'. hdinh oi my childhood,
I w!H fUbget thee! the family altar of a
father’s importunity aud a mother’s tender¬
ness, the voices of affection, tho funerals of
our dead father and mother, with inter¬
locked arms like intertwining branches of
trees making a kindness-then perpetual arbor 1 of love,
and peace, and Will for¬
get them then and only them You know,
my brother, that a hundred times you have
been kept out of sin b,v the memory
of such a scone ftfton as had.raging? l hdve been, temptations, describing.
You have
but you Ijii.dw whit! lids hold you with su-
pernUHHa. „. 0 -p. i tell you, a man who
has had such a good home ns that never
gets over it, and a man who lias had a bad
early home never gets over It,
heaven. Again, I remark, that home home is a typo of
To bring us to that Christ
left His home. Far up and far back In the
history Its of heaven lllilstl'idUs there citizen came a period
when most was about
to abSOilt liimseif; lie Was not going to
sail front beach to beach; wc havrt often
done that; liemlajih-rh lie.was lidt to ftolnjjf td put out
from bile another hemis¬
phere 1 many of us have done that. But
,
He was to sail from world to world, the
spaces unexplored and the immensities un-
traveled. No world had ever hailed heaven,
and so far as wo know heaven had never
hailed any other world. I think that tlie
windows and the balconies were thronged,
and that the pearly beaoh was erowde 1
with those who lisnl come to see Him sail
out the harbor of light Into the ocean be¬
yond, and and out, and
Out, and down, out, down, on, And and down on, and
on, and lie
sped, Until one night, with only one to
greet Him, he arrived. quiet, His disembarka¬
tion, so unpretending, so that It was
not known on earth Until the excitement in
the ciemd gilve intimation that something
gland and glorious hud happened! Who
comes there? From what port did He sail?
Why was this tho place of his destination?
I question the shepherds, I question the
camel drivers, I question the exile, angels. I
have found out! lie was an But the
world has had plenty of exiles—Abraham
anexilo from Ur of the.Chaldees) John an
exile I’olands from Ephestlsj Mazzinl KosCiiiskO exile from itn Rome; exile
from au
Emmett aa exile from Ireland; Victor
Hugo an exile from France; Kossuth an
exile from Hungary. But this one of whom
I speak to-day had such resounding fare¬
well and same Into such chilling reception
for not even n hostler went out with his
lantern to help Him in that He is more to
bo celebrated than any other expatriated
one of earth or heaven.
It is ninety-five million miles from here
to the sun, and all astronomers agree in
saying that our solar system is only one of
the small wheels turning of the round great machinery of
the universe, distant some onegreat it Is be¬
center, tho center so far
yond all imagination and calculation, and
If, as some think, that great center iu tho
distance is heaven, Christ came far from
home when He ca ne here. Have you ever
thought of tho homesickness of Christ?
Some of you know what homesickness is,
when you have domestic been only a few Christ weeks ab-
sent from the circle. was
thirty-three years away from home. Homo
of you feel homesickness whon you are a
hundred or a thousand miles away from
tho domestic circle. Christ was more mil¬
lions of miles away from home than you
could calculate If all your life you did noth¬
ing but calculate. You know what It is
to be homesick even amid pleasurable
surroundings; but Christ slept in huts,
and He was athirst, and He was u-iiungered,
and He was on the way from being born in
another man’s barn to being burled in an¬
other man’s grave. I have read how the
Swiss, when they are far away from their
native country, at the sound of their na¬
tional air get so homesick that they fall in¬
to melancholy, and sometimes they oh, die
under the homesickness. But, tho
homesickness of Christ! Poverty homesick homesick
for celestial riches. Persecution
for hosanna. Weariness homesick for rest.
Homesick for angelic and archangelic com¬
panionship. Homesick to go out of the
night and the storm and the world’s exe¬
cration, and all that homesickness suffered
to get us horn".
At our best estate we are only pilgrims home.”
and strangers here. "Heaven is our
Death will never knock at the door of that
mansion, and in ail that country there ts
not a single grave. How glad parents are
in holiday times to gather their children
home again. But I have noticed that there
is almost always a son or a daughter ab¬
sent-absent from home, perhaps absent
from the country, perhaps absent from the
world. Oh, how glad our Heavenly Father
will be when He gets all His children home
with Him in heaven! And how delightful
it will be for brothers and sisters to meet
alter long separation! Once they parted
at the door of the tomb; now they meet at
the door of immortality.
Gates of pearl, capstones of amethyst,
thrones of dominion, do not stir my soul so
much as the thought of home. Once there
let earthly sorrows bowl like storms and
roll like seas. Home. Let thrones rot and
empires wither. Home. Let and the world die
tn earthquake struggle, be buried
amid procession of planets and dirge ot
spheres. Home, Let everlasting ages roll
Irresistible swoop. Home. dentil. No But sorrow, home, no
crying, no tears, no borne,
Sweet heme, homo, beautiful over-
lasting itomr!, lWnib with e;ioh other, homo
with God. when very
, One night lying on my lounge, in
tired; [illl Idnip, my children flllarlU; all ground imtgliter about me oil
dad and liitlt rielcop. r
the lounge, half awake and
dreamed this dream: I was in a fur coun¬
try; ft was hot Persia, although more than
fiel.oiibll UtyurldOtfO.i’Ivvfuml the pities. thail It
was not 1 11 o tropics, ntoro
tropical fruitfulness tilled the gardens. It
was not Italy, although more than Italian
softuoss tilled tho air. And I wandered
around looking for thorns and nettles. b'U
t feibni Chit node of .then) grew there, and
isawtiiositn it vise, and t hatched to set* jt
set, but sank not. Au d 1 saw the people will
in holiday attire, ami 1 said: "When
they put .off this and put on workmen’s
Slid rtgrtlti delve hi the mine orswel-
ter tit tho forge?” But they never put Off
the holiday attire.
And I wiMxde.ted in tho suburbs of tho
fa ttWlfte IhWaf The
tiful hills, the place where the dea l might
ztixiWfi&its sbib svssi
nieut or ii \yiilte hhitpui uqnlij Hie f sea. And I
went tc Hie t‘f profit town, limt
I said: "Where do the poor worship am.
where are the hind honchos on which they
sit?” And the answer was made mo: “Wo
have no poor In this country.'' And then
I wandered out to hint the hovels of the
destitute, and 1 found mansions of amlmr
and ivory slghfidijid and gold; but not itnd a tear could J.
add, wildereo; ilrit .it I heat, I was be-
and 1 sat dowa Under t lie
branyhes of a great tree itml said: "Wnort
rim And I?, Aiul whence «omoa all this poone? .
then out Horn fiirioug* liieleaves, itnd
Up tho flowery paths, and across the bright
streams there eatno a beautiful group
they shout otl 1 thought I knew their arrayed voices;
bat then they were so gloriously wit-
in apparel suoh as I had never before
nessod that l bowed asslrangnrto stranger,
But when again they clapped their hands
and shouted: “Welcome, welcome,” tho
mystery all vanished, and I found that time
heaveii; Ami 1 looked and around, and said:
teSlSfJsJSfjrdiK “Ard we all beret'* tho voices of many j’:;I
our cheeks, ami the branches of the Lebanon,
cedars were clapping their hands, and the
towers of the great city were chiming their
welcome, wo all together began to leap
and shout and sing “Homo, homo, home,
homo!”
A FEATHERED FIGHTER.
Hunter* Tnke Advantage of the Red Bird’s
Ptignacitjp
The redbird, when it lias gotten
down hard to home-making, develops
a remarkable tendency to light. At
all other times of tho year he is as
docile and gentle as any in the woods
■—indeed, rather inclned to take a deal
from other birds—but ns soon as the
nest is completed and Mrs. Redbird is
Installed queen thereof lie gels on his
tvsr paint end will light, anything that
comes along, it is by taking advan¬
tage of the bravery of the redbird in
defending the home that the hunter is
enabled to snare it. The trap used is
a wire cage. Within this cage is a
tame bird, one which has been in cap¬
tivity a year nr two and sings freely.
F j’h6 liiintdr tvafiders intfi the Woods
and slowly makes his way through the
swamps until he reaches a dense por¬
tion, Wilcii lib iirtltsj says a writer in
the Philadelphia Telegraph.
Pretty soon the bird in the cage— 1
delighted, doubtless, at being again in
its native woods, even if bars stand
between it and liberty—begins singing
With ail its might. If there is a red¬
bird within sound of the caller’s voice
It hastens to investigate. One of the
peculiar habitB of the redbird, hunters
Nay, in that there seems by common
consent to lie a division of the woods
among them—each bird having ap¬
propriated to his especial jurisdiction
a certain allotment of woods. Some¬
times other birds, either by mistake or
for the purpose of acquiring more ter¬
ritory, invade the domain of another,
whereupon there is a fierce fight, which
Is called off only when one or the other
of the birds conquers, in which case
the victor becomes the possessor of tho
tPrritoi-y of the two, together with the
defeated bird’s mate, who, it seems, is
no longer willing to share fortunes
with her former lord after he has
proved himself a poor fighter.
The hunter has on one side of his
cage a light net, bound about by a
light frame, and to tho center of a
light iron rod stretched perpendicu¬
larly across this frame is attached, in
swinging position, a short, rounded
stick about six inches In length. This
gate of netting is opened and kept in
that position by tho wooden trigger
attached to the sides of the cage where¬
in Is the call bird. This connection
Of the two triggers Is very delicate,
and the slightest touch will suffice lo
throw it, whereupon the netting-frame
door is quickly closed by a spring
against the. sides of the cage. This la
what holds the redbird captive.
As soon as the hunter has set the
trigger of the cage he hangs It to a
limb somewhere or places It. on the
ground anil go“s away some distance
to await results. 'I he Imprisoned red-
bird soon begins to sing, and presently,
if there is a redbird anywhere within
hearing distance, there Is a flutter of
wings, a series of shaip cries, and lie-
fore the hunter can say “scat” the wild
redbird flies headlong at. his supposed
enemy in the cage, throws the trigger
and is captured. It. takes very little
longer to capture a redbird than it
does to catch a fish. Tf once the caged
bird is placed in the right, spot, within
the territory of the other redbird, and
he hears it singing, the rest, is very
easy, for, regardless of all personal
safety and everything else, he rushes
madly to the fight.
ringing the changes.
“I tell you, the man I respect is
the man who can change his opinion.”
“And the man I respect is the man
who can change a thousand dollar
bill.”
THE COUNTRY’S NEEDS.
“What this country needs,” said
the earnest citizen, “is more war¬
ships. ” Sorghum,
“Yes,” replied Senator
reflectively, “and more Consulships.”
CONFEDERATE VETERANS WILL
MEET IN ATLANTA NEXT JULY.
ANNIVERSARY OF THREE BUTTLES.
C.imnmdem of Georgia Camps Hold Meet¬
ing In Atlanta nml Make Arrange-
meats for the Oecaslon.
rpi _ cnnfoilei'AU/ Veterans have ilo-
tinl great . .
citled on the date for reunion
to be held In Atlanta next year.
\ meeting of Inti ^owmandors ana
representatives of all the Georgia camps
* veterflnS hold in Atlanta Friday
•. «*. n.« «-.* » T < <« «<«•«•»« <«
the great event. It V as tilt raeoia*
rnendation of the meeting that the re-
.***,. ; til'bl at some time between
the 20th of July , , s ,, <be . ,,,
onu "
gust. The two battles of Atliintll tvKrH
f j . j u ] T 20 and 22. Tho first
* ' July r„i„ ■>< Tlie
battle . of , Manassas ,, on rn-
union will continue during three days
Hlu ( jj, pail thus be made to celebrate
u U1, Important 1 anniversaries.
Thd .„ fliifil j deoisiotl , . . 111 tho ,* matter „««** *•. ;«
h-ft with the committee appointed is at
tho Nashville teunion, but it custom-
tiiins ilK Is iiibfti to nclib people
AV bere tlio reunion is to be
,,,, * tj , p T waR CA ]]e<l several
weeks , by ueneral lenient 4 /\. *
ago t
Evans, ’ for tho purpose of inaugurating
i f or ontertaininont of tho
»«i «»«>« «< a. «««•
City in IHOo. Mufo than 100 lepio-
sentativea of tho Georgia camps were
.........., opened tlie wvib n> hrnn o«;l
gtirviuR address.
A roso l u tion was passed 1 calling upoil
the , representatives . of , l ,, iie various
camps to exert every effort to bring
every Confederate veteran in Georgia
to tlic Atlanta reunion.
Another resolution thanked tho city
council for its cordial invitation in be¬
half of the people of Atlanta, and
pledged the hearty eo-aperfttiml of nil
the state camps ill making the rettulotl
a grand success. in anticipation of
Thus the first gun
the reunion lias been fired. It is pro¬
posed to have a great crowd in Atlanta
in ’l)S>, and a resolution was passed
calling upon the camps in all t he coun¬
ties of tho state to appoint u commit¬
tee for I.lid purpose of collecting suV>-
sistence stores and money to assist
Atlanta in taking care of the v tore ns.
There are at present ill) camps of
Confederate veterans in Georgia and
others will be formed before the re¬
union occurs.
General Evans is highly pleased and at
the success of the first step taken,
looks forward to all unparalleled cele¬
bration.
TRAIN MAKES FATAL RUN.
Carried Deatli All Aleng tiic "Cotton
Belt” ltouto.
The passenger train on the Ht.Louis
and Southwestern road, known as tho
“Cotton Belt” route, was ill-fated and
death marked its run Friday. Near
Mount Pleasant, Texas, tho train rail
over J. C. Beasley, an ex-section fore-
man, who had fallen asleep on the
truck. He was killed.instantly.
About thirty miles further west, near
Greenville, three negro children were
playing down among the timbers of a
trestle bridge. They scampered up had to
the track trying to escape. They
not been seen by the engineer and
were so close to the engine that they
w ere run over before being discovered.
Two were killed between the rails.
The other died un hour later.
A few miles further west, near Wy¬
lie, a passenger named J. C. Davis,
entered a toilet room and committed
suicide by shooting himself through
tho head. 11 is home was at Cedar
Hill, near Dallas. His friends cannot
account for his killing himself.
TRIAL OF ( HEW.
Competitor’* PrlHonern Will Ito Arraigned
lie fore Naval Court.
A special of Friday from Havana
says: the of tho schooner
The trial of crew
Competitor before tho naval courtmnr-
tial, whoso decision must he confirmed
by the Madrid government, will begin
Monday morning,
Henor Masa Domingez will conduct
tho defense.
THE SOUTHERN WINS
In tlie lilntlienthal & HP ki rt "Original
I’aukutf**,” Wliiftkay C.-t nr,.
Judge Pardee made a decision at
Atlanta Friday morning in tho United
Htates circuit court in the case of Blu-
thenthal A Bickert against the (South¬
ern Railway company. de¬
'The judge refused to sustain the
murer of the railway company, hut
did not issue the mandatory order
compelling it to haul the goods of
Blutlienthal k Bickert into the state of
South Carolina.
The defendant was allowed five days
j n which to file an additional answer
to tho allegations in the petition for
injunction,
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INDIAN FIGHTER DEAD.
Col. “Kip” Ford I’aMM Away at th« Ag«
of KI|fI»ty-Tvro#
Colonel John H. Ford, known
throughout Texas at Colonel “Rip”
Ford, the Indian fighter, died at his
home at Ban Antonio, Texas, Thurs¬
day, after a month’s illness.
Colonel Ford was stricken witli
paralysis on October 1, since which
time he gradually sank. The deceased
was 82 years of age, a native of South
Carolina.
Dr. J. F. Gardner,
riiysician and Surgeon.
Calls Answered Promptly
DAY AND NIGHT.
Special attention given to diseases
of women and children.
Residence at the Ilicks place.
ahhuukn, GF.OHOIA.
DR. .T. F. GREGORY & CO.,
SPECIALISTS.
Rupture, Catarrh, Roctal Disoasoa,
(L’iles), Fistulas Cured.
NO KNIFE, NO TAIN.
Room No. 1, Heard Building,
Cordole, Ga.
1(17 Cotton Avo., Macon, On.
WARREN L. STORY,
Physician and Surgeon,
SYCAMORE, OA.
Diseases of Noso and Throat.
DR. W. ,T. TURNER,
Physician and Hurgoon,
ASHBURN, OA.
Special Attention Given to Diseases of
Women and Children.
Office in Room No. 2, Betts Build-
ing.
Residence: W. A. Shinglcr’s.
Calls Answered Day or Night.
Telephone No. 18.
DR. T. H. THRASHER,
Physician and Surgeon,
A sn bit un , ' G no no i a .
General Practice Solicited. Office
in tho Christian Building.
C. E. WALKER,
Physician and Surgeon,
Sycamore, Georgia.
GEO. W. COOPER,
DENTIST,
Ashburn, Georgia.
Office, Room No. 4, Betts Building.
AV. B. CONE, 1). D. S.
7 Make a Specialty of Grown, Bridgos
and Replantations,
Teeth Extracted Without Pain.
Ashburn, Georgia.
W. T. WILLIAMS,
Attorney at Law.
Land and Collections.
Sycamore, Georgia.
A. J. DAVIS,
Attorney at Law,
Ashburn, Georgia.
Real Estate and Collections.
Prompt attention to all business placed
in our bands.
iF f{. WHITE,
Attorney and Counsellor at Law,
Ashburn, Georgia.
Will practico in all the Courts, State
and Federal.
,T. G. POLHILL,
Attorney at Law,
Sylvester, - - Georgia.
Practice in all the Courts. Patronage
Solicited.
AV A . HAWKINS,
Attorney at Law,
e Building, Rooms 4 and 5.
Cordele, Georgia.
Prompt attention given to all business
intrusted to my care.
Jons V. Tovt.lv, J. AV. Fowki.i,,
Vienna, Ga. Ashburn, Ga.
JNO. F. POWELL A SON,
Attorneys at Law.
AVe practice in all the courts. Im¬
mediate and careful attention given to
business placed in our hands. Em¬
ploying one secures services of both.
Business solicited and inquiries
answered.
PRANK PARK,
Attorney - at - Law,
Poulan, Georgia.
B. W. ADKINS,
Attorney at Law,
Collections a Specialty,
Poulan, Georgia.
Lanier & Dekle
DEALERS IN
Buggies, Wagons,
Harness, Saddles,
Baby Carriages,
Express Wagons and
Collins and Caskets,
COBDELE, OA.
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• • • DEALERS IN • • •
Yellow Pine Liber,
Ashburn, Ga.
V ^s. '■sJP.v-.vxxtAXiiU.UJUjUAX’uUj^. .VTmTfYrnrYYxvorrrn,j^»w
Ml Criers lor
Laths, Shingles, Staves ,
Car Sills, Bridge Stuff,
Flooring , Moulding, Brack•
ets , Ceiling, Etc.,
Will Receive Praipi Attention.
i)i:
Wo oarry a well selected and assorted
stock of
Dry Goods,
Hardware,
Groceries, Etc.
If in neod of anything in
CLOTHING,
Such as MEN’S AND BOYS
SUFfS, We Can Fit You.
AVE HAVE A NICE STOCK OF
LADIES’ DRESS GOODS AND
TRIMMINGS
would be pleased to show
tho ladies of Ashburn and sur¬
rounding country.
Tmks. YalisB uiSatelds.
OUR CAN IR ES • It
Arc Fresh and Fine,
Flour,
Meat >9
Grits,
Rice,
Sugar,
Coffee,
Meal,
And in fad any and everything that, is
kept in a lirst-class Grocery House can
be had at our Large Brick Btufo as
cheap as tho cheapest.
We Carry a Full Line of
fuhniture.
UP STAIRS
Our Stork of SHOES is Complete, w ith
a Specialty of Ladles’ and Chil¬
dren’s Fine Sunday Wear.
We also handle the best brands of
Cigars, Tobacco, Snuff, Etc.
Full line of the best makes of
STOVES NOW ON HAND.
All kinds of STOCK FEED at
REASONABLE PRICES.
The citizens of Ashburn and sur¬
rounding country are cordially invited
to call and inspect our stook.
We have a Wagon Yard and Stall*.
Feed Troughs, eta., for the oonrefiu-
ence of our customer* eapaoially.
Respectfully,
.J. S. BETTS & CO.
