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p| ?e County News. Official Or “fan of Irwin County. A. G. DeLOACH, Editor and Prop’r. PROFESSIONAL CARDS. ■yy l. story, PHYSICIAN and SURGEON, Sycamore, Georgia. j^JAKK ANTHONY. PHYSICIAN ahd SURGEON, Sycamore, Georgia Will ba lor.,ted for the present at the Dod son House. Patronage respectfully solicited. ^ Dili.IS, PRACTICING PHYSICIAN, Ruby, Georgia. Culls promptly attended to at all hours. t respectfully solicit u share Cockrell’s of tho public patronage Office in B. H store. * JT)R. dr. V. GARDNER, PHYSICIAN and SURGEON, Ashburn, Georgia Cals answered promptly day or night. tSST'^peeiai attention to diseases of women and o.iiidrou. jgENTON STRANGE, M, D. SPECIALIST. Cordelle, Georgia. Diseases of -women, Strict ires. Nervous and all private diseases. Strictures dissolv ed out iu 2 to 5 minutes by a smooth current of Galvanism without pain or detention i of ram alcohol. business; Correspondence and given to patient solicited in a vial and best references given. Office north-east cor ner Suwaueo House. Jl> M. 1R1ZZELLE, LAWYER, McRae, Georgia. Practices in tho ‘5tat.o and Federal Courts. Real Estate und Criminal Law Specialties. A. AARON, LAWYER, Ashburn, Georgia. ■V Collections and Ejectment suits a Special ty. BfOfilce, Room No. 4, Betts Builuiug. W. EUIAVOOD, LAW, REAL ESTATE & COLLECTIONS, Tifton, Georgh, Fronips attention given to all business, igy*Office, Love Building, Room No. 1. JOHN HARRIS. SHOEMAKER, Ashburn, Georgia. My prices ait) low and all work strictly Guaranteed. , DIR T 'CTOR Y. Mayor—A G. DfrLoacli. Councilmen—W. Cockrell, R. B. Smith, Dasher. J. I. P. L. Fountain, Murray. W. R. and Superior October. Courts—First C. C. Smith, Monday Judge, Hawkins- iu April ville, Ga. Solicitor Gsneral—Tom Eason. McRae,Ga. Clerk Superior Court—J. B. D. Paulk, Ir win ville, Ga. Sheriff—Jesse Paulk, Ruby, Ga. Deputy Sheriffs—C. L. Prescott, Irwin viiie, Ga.; C. Wm. VanHouten, Monthly i-yeatnore, second Ga. County QuarterL urt — session, session, second Monday Monday; July ami October. J. B. in January, Judge, April, iriviuiille, Clements, Ga. County Court Bailiff—William Rogers, Ir ■(Tiiiville, Ga. County Commissioners’ Court—First Mon day iu each month. M. Henderson. Commis rforter, Ocilla., Ga. Ordinary’s Court—First, Monday in each month. Daniel Tucker, Ordinary, Vic, Ga. School Commissioner - J. Y. Fletcher, Ru by. Ga. i ounty Treasurer—W. R. Paulk, Irwin vil e, Ga. Tax Receiver—G. J. Mobley, Vie, Ga. 'iax Collector—J. W. Paulk, Ruby, Ga. Purveyor—M. Barnes, Minnie, Ga. Coroner—Dauiei Hull, Minnie. Ga. Board of Eilue iliou—Jno. Clements Chair man, Irwin vide, Ga.; .henry T, Fletcher, Ir wiuville, Irwinvile, G,.; L. R. Tucker, S. Vic, Go; L. D. Tailor, Ga,; E. Coleman, Oddis, G i. Juslieu Courts—901 IMst. G. M, Second Saturday in each mouth. Marcus Luke. N. P. uud ex-offl, J. P ; Wm. Rogers, Bailiff, Irwmv.Ue, Go. laSS Disc G. M-, Third Saiurday in each moot . V. Hanley, J. P ; David Troup, Bad ff. Minnie, Ga. 9a: DLt G. ill , Third Wednesday in each month. U j, R ,yai,J. P.. sycamore, Ga , A. Jones &P Royal, Bailiffs, Sycamore, Ga. ftSJDiiu G M. . i). A Riy, A P. & Ex [ oflic.o J. P.. Byir-ntioro. Ga. _ LO’JOa OifttCTORY. Sjorn... is)at,e, no 210 F. & A. M Rfgu .u cwnniumcatiOUS 2nd and 4ih Ba:u - da,.. W. L Story, W. M.; J. F. Ko, al, Sec. Ocilla Lo go, F. iSc A. H.—Regular com m.. icaiioii j hursduy before J, Henderson, the 4th Sunday W. M in , .cn uioutu, J. A. ; D. W. M. tt nitley, Sec’y, Ocilla, Ga. CHU ,tCM DlRECTO.-iY sycamore circuit. . Sycamore— 2nd Sunday and Sunday night. CVoionaCt— iGiey First Sunday. Grove—3rd Sunday and Saturday before. Chapel—4ih Clemon’s Sunday and Satur day beioie. Duma cus—4ih Sunday afternoou and 5th Sumriy. Fiuyer meeting at Sycamore every Thurs. day night; Sunday school Sunday morning at lO.Jj o’clock, J. VV. Connors, Pastor. union primitive baptist. Brushey Creek—4 h Sunday and Saturday oefore. Sturgeon Creek—2nd Suuday and Situr day before. Salem—3rd Hopewell—1st Sunday Suuday & Saturday before. before. Eld W. H. and Harden, Saturday Pastor. Little River—3rd Suuday and Saturday betore. Turner's before Meeting House—2ud Sunday and Saturday Oaky Gievo—lib Suuday and Saturday before Emauis—tat Sunday James and Saturday before EiA>. Gibbs, Pastor. NOTICE. Parties aro warned that no hunting or fish ing Will btiollavred on lota of land Nos. 18, 18, ** iU “ i iu o.pnn*? SYCAMORE, IRWIN COUNTY, GA., JANUARY 5 1894. GENERAL NEWS. Wholesale Summary of the News of the Week Gathered from Every Quarter. San Francisco had a $500,000 tiro the past week. The Santa Fe railttoad is in the hands of receivers. An Earthquake shock was felt in Pennsylvania (ho past week. A vote will not be taken on tho tar iff bill before the last of January. Mitchell, lhe pugilist, lias arrived at Jacksonville, lie was greeted enthu siastically. The Bakers’ Union, of Chicago is on a strike, and the consequence is a bread famine. President Cievoland and Secretaries Gresham and Earnout spent Christmas in hunting ducks. Anolher train robbery was commit led on the Kansas and Arkansas road, a few nights since. Pcndergast, Mayor Harrison’s slay er, has been found guilty of murder and will receive the death penalty. The prospects are that the balance in the treasury of available cash will reach the lowest figure ever recorded in its history tho present week. It is becoming-somewhat interesting now to see which will win in Florida, the Governor or the sporting men in charge of the Corbett-Mitchell fight. Gov. Fishback of Arkansas has written a letter to President Cleveland complaining that the Indian Territory is an asylum for dangerous criminals of all kinds. Heavy lighting is reported to have occurred at Bio, on Christmas eve. The result of the engagement is not fully known, but; both sides are said to have suffered severely. Rev. Dr. Samuel K. Lewis, a young Jewish rabbi, from Charleston S. C., was married a few days since, and while on his bridle tour went crazy and had to be confined in an asylum in New York. ,J. S. Malison, ex-speaker of the house and the present Chairman of Ways and Means Committee of the Mississippi legislature, died very sud denly at his home near Urookviile, Noxubef county. J 03 Dan Jam, who sent threatening letters to President Cleveland, Vice President Stevenson, Senator Mills and other prominent public men and fur whom the police in several cities have been looking, has been arrested. Governor Waite has issued his long talked-of call for a special session of the legislature to meet Jan. 10. The call consists of abont 5,000 words and mentions over thirty subjects on which legislative action should be taken, in the Governor’s opinion. At a meeting of the representative men of Atlanta a few nights since, it was decided to begin at once on the Cotton Stales and sub-tropical exposi tion which will be ready for opening about one year hence. The business men of the city have pledged them selves to raise any amount necessary for the movement. Corbett and Mitchell was arrested in Jacksonville on last Thursday. The arrest was according to a prearranged programme of the Duval Athletic Club in order to test the law in Florida in reference to glove contests. They gave bond. The Club will now pre cipitate the suit by making an appli cation for a writ of nabas corpus. EYances Ragan asked the city au thorities of Chicago to look him up for the winter as he feard that he would set fire to Chicago, lie said twice he had committed arson 1 , serving a term of seven years in a Canadian prison, and having been recently re leased from tiie Michigan City peni tentiary after an imprisonment of six years for arson. The man will be tield pending investigation. Are the Letters Genuine. Two letters were picked up on the streets at Abilene, Kansas a few days ago by a country woman and handed to the poliece. One letter is from Topeka, dated December 10, and says: “We have concluded to make two jobs out of the White House business. We will take the oldest child first. We can get her all right. Mollie will get her and hand her over to ns, and we will keep her till the reward is ottered. It means thousands to us to get this child Ruth, and we will get her, too, iu Jan uary. Address me in Chicago. We will go right on.” The other letter is from Minneapolis and written prior to the one already quoted. It said: “We have every thing ready for the White House and will send Grover to hades when the bugle sounds. We will also get our $20,000, We will start for the White House now., We have never failed in our job and won’t now. There is much in the houses of gold bugs and Vanderbilt,” The letters bear evidence of sinesri ty, and the police considered them the work of cranks. A queer acting in dividual who was around the city ear ly iu the week declaring that he soon would be rich is supposed to have been the recipient of them. He has gone east and has not been located. “In ITnion. Strength and Prosperity Abound,” DUN’S REVIEW. General Trade Is Quiet.—No Im proveinent Along Industrial Lines. It. G. Dun & Co.'s weekly review of trade says: Tho year is piaeU cally over, except the holiday business, which is remarkably sustained as re spects the number of sales, consider mg the state of industries and the army of unemployed, but is materially diminished in volume. 1 urchaseg ay erage much smaller in value than in recent years Probably the s ocks of holiday goods of the better class left on hand after next week will be larger than .usual. Oilier business, a l branches included, appears from clearing house returns 2o.l per m less than last year at tho same date. Hut much is done at prices which return no r «,, „.»d, a. (fetter or i-etam oi.tomoi., arid lire losses by numerous and heavy failures reduced profits even where the vol ume of transaction has given fair promises. Changes c uring the past week , . )ave not been cheering in character, but the minds of many are now turning to the dawn of the new year with hope of better things. I he delayed treasury report in favoi of coimng the silver bullion on hand, substitution of other issues for gov eminent paper currency, issues of bonds and a tax on incomes derived from corporations attracts not much atlention; but, notwithstanding the abundance of money, the market is rather less confident in feeling. It is believed, however, that the usual 1 pinch about January 1 will not occur Failures for tho week were 344 in the United States, against 288 last year, and 37 in Canada, against 18 last year. The liabilities in failures reported la8t week appear to have ex ceeded $6,220,587 in amount, includ ing $3,895,950 for manufactures and $2,084,919 for trading coucerus, against $5,459,409 for the previous BURNED IT OUT. Details of the Lynching of Sloan Al len in Mississippi. The particulars about the lynching of Sloan Alien, colored, in Holmes county Miss., Friday night are as fol lows: After he was arrested for burning Nabors’ body and house, af ter having hacked him to pieces, a regular inquiry began. It soon be came apparent that the negro was guil ty, though lie strenuously denied it. A fire was built up and the negro was thrown into it for tiie purpose of ex torting a confession. When the flames had burned him terribly be yelled that he would tell all he knew if released. He was promptly taken from the flumes. He said he and a white man named Jim Berry were the guilty ones. An investigation sliowid that Berry was innocent. The negro was for the second time cast into the flames and badly burned. On promising to tell the truth he was again taken implicated out,. This time, with himself, he three or four other negroes, who upon investigation, proved conclusively their innocence. For tiie third time Alien was thrown into the (lames, and on promising to correctly tell all about the murder of Nabors lie was removed, more dead than alive. He said that only lie was guilty, He told where considerable of the money stolen could he found, and where he placed the bloody clothes he had on when lie hacked the body of Nabors to pieces and burned the residence, All was found as he had stated, Allen was then turned over to some negroes, who then hanged him and burned his body. The negroes were as greatly enraged over the terrible deed as were the whiles, and insisted on burning his body as he had burned Nabors. Na bors was a respectable white man, an old bachelor, wiio lived alone with the negro youth, T ie sole motive of the crime was robbery. The amount se cured was $5 in gold. Big Strike Imminent. A conflict is on between the receiv ers of the Northern Pacific railroad and its employes, including all the en gineers, conductors, firemen, trainmen switchmen, etc. The new schedule of wages adopted by the receivers, which implies a cut of 5 to 10 per cent, in the employes’ pay, was rejected by the employes’ representatives. A confer ence was held iu St. Paul with Gener al Manager Kendrick and the pros pects are that on Jan. 1, when the new schedule is to go into eflect, 3,600 men employed all along the road will quit work. Worse Than a Comet. There is great excitemeut among the negroes at'Wsycross, Ga., on what they consider a sure sign that the world is coming to an end. They re port that there was seen a brilliant star of great size, oblong in shape, and having a tail at each end. It was en circled by a halo and had across it a dark belt, which, they claim, was like a coffin, and a cross distinctly seen, The result is that that the superstitions negtoes are gieatly excited, especially in the country, wher they are prepar ing for the end. WASHINGTON NOTES. Items of General Interest that are Occur ring at the Capital City. i u uiviu«n. In c.™. Tax. AVhile some of the members of the mld meang C0111Illi uee are work .J , d , „ others are mak & h oliday of it. In fact it is ehliuil , d tllftt jittie can be done until thy cleven „ mjol k . it 1IlCIIlbei . g come to » , bep and ae pt l cither majority or lin0l . u / , eports Avenue. of lhe sub . c „mnnttee ^ hlte nal Messrs. McMiL ljn and a roported 5 a plau in favor of W| lndlviduJ incomo tax . Ml , Moiltgomei . y sported | Jax against it and the 1 Hn of on the in from illve6ted woalth . Mr. Montgomery defends his plan and ”, , ed b 0 fi,„ of tire c0 ( 1 ldttee 'first llJu the £ place,” said Mr. Mont gomery| „ i£ a an has $100,000 and engages in any business enterprises be w jjj gj ve employment to many people and - g benefit tQ the community, if ) le makes $200,000 a year [ and spends j don > t CRre bow he money gets in circulation and benefits the people. if the profits are invested in stocks Bfld bonds, the man does not spend it bllt (g a ve£ul . n j u interest, and upon guch retul . ng he should pav ta kes for support of the government. The mon ey which a man earns and spends is kept in circulation, and, no matter where or how, it reaches many people, and is constantly doing good. 'When a man having $1,000 or any such man chooses rather than invest it himself to loan it to those who are more ven turesome, who have more energy arid enterprise and who wish to engage in business on such capital, he becomes a fiioue in society, is supported by the work of other persons, and he should not complain if he is taxed for a very small part of his profits.” While Mr. Montgomery was talking Mr. Stevens, of tho committee, said in a jocular manner that he believed he would win over members of the com mittee who disagreed about the in come tax to support a proposition to put a duty on sugar to make up the deficit, which was expected to be raised by the tax on incomes. This it only an indication that all the mem bers of the committee are not altogeth er satisfied with tho income tax prop osition, and that a duly on sugar is yet a question to be considered. A Big' Strike Imminent. A strike of alarming proportions will be instituted by 1,600 miners in the vicinity of Belleaire, O., on Jan uary 1st, if the operators do not re voke their decision to cut wages on that date. The miners affected are those employed alono the line of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. Some time ago tiie operators announced that they were unable to pay 70 cents per ton as heretofore and Jan. 1 would re duce to 60 cenls per ton, (he wages paid to West Virginia miners. The claim of the boss was that they could not compete against West Virginia, coal and pay 10 cents more per ton for mining, alleging under this arrange ment West Virgina coal could be sold at tho mouth of the Ohio mines for less than Ohio operators themselves could sell their own coal. On the other hand tho miners claim that the bosses can make a good profit with wages at 70 cents per ton. They have decided to refuse tiie reduction and unless some compromise is agreed upon within a few days ail will lay down their tools New Year’s Dav. Out of Work, Bradstreet’s agency has been trying to obtain reliable information as to the number of unemployed wage-earners succeeded in the United States and has in gathering some facts which are very impressive. Correspondents principal iu one hundred and nineteen of the cities in the country send reports show* ing that ihere are in enforced idleness in those cities 801,855 wage-earners and that nearly two million people are de pendent on those idle workmen. A summary of the reports is given as follows: New England, 6,200 unemployed; 154,400 dependent. 223,250 New York and New Jersey, unemployed; 563.750 dependent. Pennsylvania, 151,500 unemployed; 449,200 dependent, unemploy Central W’esiein, 227,340 ed; 443,310 dependent. unemployed; Northwestern, 64,900 175,800 dependent. unemployed; Pacific Coast, 25,800 47,000 dependent. unemployed; 122, Southern, 43,065 650 dependent. unemployed; 1,956, Totals, 801,855 110 dependent. The Crop of Cranky A man giving his name as Timothy Kane, aged 35 years, of No. 1776 Third avenue, called at the East 1041 h, street police station Chicago and announced that he was go ing to kill the Rev. Dr. Charles Park hurst and wished two poliecemen to accompany him and arrest him after the iL deed. , , After , „ a hard , , struggle , Kane ... was overpowered and locked up. An examination as to his sanity will be made. $1.00 a Year in Advance. 01)1) LITTLE ITEMS. There are about 250,000 words in the English language. The unclaimed funds in the English courts amount to $339,252,410. One-quarter of all the people born die before six years and one-half be fore sixteen. A year on Jupiter is equal to eleveu years, ten months and seventeen days on our globe. The fashionable cat at the national show in London this year is blue and long-haird. To perfectly proportioned be a man should weigh twenty-eight pounds for every foot of his height. In 1552 books on geometry and as tronomy wore destroyed in England as savoring of magic. Japan has no fewer than 700 earth quake observing stations scattered over the empire. With a load of 400 pounds a camel can travel twelve or fourteen days without water, going forty mile3 a day. It has been discovered that cholera germ is seldom fatal to a system im pregnated with tobacco, An inch of rain means a gallon of water spread over two square feet, or about 100 tons to every acre. Among all drinks, soda water is the seldoinest adulterated. Among intox ications beer is the freest from tire evil. The number of insane persons in Ireland has increased from 249 pet- 100,000 population iu 1880 to 369 pet- 100,000 in 1892, It was the vogue at one time in Venice to gild their rolls of bread and the oysters on the supper table. The candles were also coated with gold. The original of the word trump as U6ed in card-playing is said to be the French word “triomphe,” equivalent to the English “triumph.” HORRIBLE BRUTALITY. Two Babies are Brained and the Mother is Burned. A horrible story of the superstition of the Mojave Indians is told by a gentleman just from Needles, a town on the Colorado Rivev, on the Atlantic and Pacific Railway, He bad heard the details just before he took the train, and they seemed to be corrobo rated by an account given in a local paper, The Eye, which he brought with him. The Mojave Indian reservation is about half a mile from The Needles, and the aborigines are virtually their own masters, having their own laws ami superstition. From Saunders’s account on Tuesday last, a tripple murder was committed under the plea of a tradition bv the Indians. One of the prettiest souaws of tho tribe, known as Loneta. was married, accot dint'* to the savage rites, about a year av 0 ? She was a comely girl, only edn- 18 years old and had picked up some of tho cation. He husband was one bravest and appeared to be very fond q .£ j ier . twins, Sunday last she gave birth to and as a result, a grand pow-wow Mojave was called for according to the tradition, the squaw who has twins is a witch and a consort of evil spirits. The penalty has always been death for tiie babies anil the mother. Loueta’s husband was so fond of her that he made a strong plea for her and her babies, bat it was of no avail. The medicine men held that lhe old custom must be observed, and the two little ones were brought forward and brain ° kept for ed with a club. Loneta was aroore tryino ordeal, which she suf f C red without complaint. Evory one of her personal belongings were gath ered and put into her “shack” and she wa8 ordei . ed inside She bid her 1ms . band farewell and went in. The en terance was closed, straw and brush were piled about the frail structure and fired, and in two hours nothing but a few embers remained to tell tho tragio story- The Needles learned the officers at facts too ] ate to interfere, and tho poor g q UaW) w ith this horrid torture, passed to the happy limiting ground, nad preceded where b ei[ . ill-starred ofl-spring pg,.. Silver In Texas. Advices from San Antonio, Tex., tells of a great discovery of silver near the town of Shafter, Tex., where ex tensive mines are already being worked. The find is located near the Rio Grande river in Persidio county, and in a district which contains several old abandoned mines which were worked a century or more ago by the Spaniards. Two prospectors named Frank Harding and Theodore Wall ing were the discoverers of the new mine A Past, Run. Frances J. Dawes, a wealthy Chica go Brewer, received word at New Or leans that his child was dying there and chartering an Illinois Central train, the tracks were cleared and Mr, Dawes aud his wife were whirled over the 1,000 miles at, lhe rate of a mile a minute. He paid Records $1,000 for the trip a|ld broke a j t between New Orleans in and Chicago, making the run 25 1-2 h. urs. VOL,IV, NO. 34. Locks in Empire Style. A pretty, pseudo-classical fashion ot dressing tho hair comes from Paris. It really belongs to the period enough of with the Empire, but agrees •well some phases of the 1830 gown. The bands of satin ribbon are of a color 40 -fm III Ski, mm r ' An If /k / wmrm fMu harmonizing with tho gown, hair and complexion. the hair Many Parisians are wearing very much waved and puffed out at the sides over the ears m the way of char acteristic of the former days of big sleeves and berthas. A braided ’“knob” (or puff) or two of hair at tho crown completes the picture, and soft little stray locks waver over the forehead. Though this style, it would seem, must give width to tihe face, the effect in reality is the reverse, and it is par ticularly becoming to the round-faced woman. There has been a great revolution in the fashion of hair-dressing of late years. Time was whtn the girl who rejoiced in thick, long locks had dis tinct cause for triumph over her sisters who had been denied this special gift of Nature; and any one who possessed what was called “a wealth of hair” was admired, and her special beauty coveted in consequence, Unguents, pomades and washes innumerable were used in the vain hope of thickening tiie scanty plaits, and false hair was worn almost nniversally. Now, how ever, small heads are the fashion; lit tie fluffy curls and tiny knots of hair are do rigueur, and the smaller the better.—New York Tribune. THE SOUTH’S ADVANTAGE. The Cotton Mills Paying Good Div idends.—The Coming Industry. Augusta Chronicle: In a year of unexampled depression of cotton man ufaeturing in the eastern states, the nulls ot Georgia and South Carolina have been running on full time, With climatic advantages, cheap water power and raw material at first cost all large factories have made money and paid dividends. Mills iu and around Augusta make a splendid showing for the year just closing, The Augusta factory, capital $600, 000. paid a 0 per cent, dividend; the Enterprise Manufacturing company, capital $750,000, 6 per cent, the Sib ley Manufacturing company, $1,000, J00 capital, 0 per cent, and also the King Manufacturing company, capi tat $o00,000 and the Granite Mann facturing company has increased its capita! during the year from $400, 000 to $000,000 and will pay a semi annual dividend of 3 per cent, on the increased capital The records of these mills show that the south is the most inviting field for cotton maim facturing and the indications are that in the near future new factories will be started iu this section. In 1880, the south consumed 200,000 bales ot cotton. In 1893, the southern mills consumed 600,000 bales. There could be no stronger evidence of the south s superiority over the north in its ad vantages for cotton manufacturing than that during the past year north ern mills have been shut down whit* mills in tho south have been running on full time and have paid good div* dends. Will Wlitstle Hereafter. The major general commanding tha United (States army has approved providing that for part of the new tactics officers giving commands, under cer tain circumstances, by whistles ni stead of bv word of mouth, iha whistles are to bo placed in the cross pieces of tho guards of tiie swords, and an order has been issued to the commanding officers of the bpi mg - d armory and the Rock Island arsenal to make this alteration as promptly at possible. Ho is All Right. Thirty days haye passed since George, Woodruff, a wealthy farmer of Frankfort, Ind., has slept. Mr. Woodruff was afflicted with the same strange malady a year ago, when he went sixty-five days without sleeping. He is to all appearances healthy aud works each day. His case is attracting great interest among the medical fra ternity, his physician having utterly failed to produce even a stupor with drugs. _ Florida produces over tifi .rietie* of the orange.