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TIE IRWIN iMTIEWS
Official Organ of Irwin County,
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J?utoli®iiecl Woclxly,
A. O. DeLOACH, Ed. & Prop’r.
Bills of uon-resideuts for advertise¬
ment* art* doe after first insertion un¬
less otherwise provided.
Entered si tho Sycamore, Ga. , Post-
office us second-class mail mattco.
FRIDAY JANUARY 17. 1N93.
Hr. Talmiigo ou the Turks.
Hr, Til mage made a manly at¬
tack upon tne Turkish government
in hia last Sunday’s sermon at
Washington, D. C., before many of
the heads of several departments
' of ourguvernment. He shows that
500,000 prutestants havs been mer¬
cilessly uutoherei by henchman of
toe Sultan, and insi-ts that Amer¬
ica should demaud indemnity of
the Turks for the wholesale des¬
tructions of me institutions of
Ghristiau in Armenia, in the midst
of which uiscouse appear the ^
woids:
“Tne fact is Turkey has got to be
divided up among uther nations.
Of oouse the European nations
must take tne chief part, but 'Tur¬
key ought to be compelled, to pay
America fur the American missions
uuildmgs and American school
houses she has uestroyed, and to
support the wives and children of
t»e Americans ruined by this
wholesale huicUary. When the
English lion ami the Russiau bear
pat their paws ou ttiat Turkey tne
American eagie ought to put in ns
mil.
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Meat and to Spare.
One ot the most favorable signs
u. u,e limes is the iact mat people
,.oi only in irvviu caunty, but gen¬
erally, mroughout the country,
seem very determined m tne Wise
movement tu mak'.i then own pro
V LfcLill it appears that spee.al
,4Drt has been made to latse meat.
fVopie iu this county, umny of
u.em, wnu, live yearo ago bougut
every pound of moat consumed in
tueir iamilieS are today selling
meat at remunerative prices.
Mi. H, W. Bussey stands head
among tnose vvno nave xuled largo
iimouuts of meat this season, he ai
fen, iy having Killed 7,50d pounds
mro hai over 1 50 U uounns to Hill
,
He has over iOd gallons ot
mru and lidU pouuus ol saudage.
Mr. Bussey is a maoulacturer oi
naval stores and may he oousid-
mod as only an amateur larmer,
making no pretenstions to big
farming.
Our readers muM not inter that
Mr. Bussey has ted ms crou away
To made meat, for ha made over
/1,0lA> bushels of corn and now has
],3UJ bushels or more iu his barn.
We record these figures to show
wtial can be done on our average
Wiregrass lands tne second year
alter clearing.
The Eastman Times-Journal
says it is authorized to auuounce
that ex-Judgc David M. Roberts
will be a candidate ior judge of
tne superior court of this, tne
Queue circuit, at the ensuing eiec-
ion.
Whether considered as the seat
of agriculture, mining or maau-
Jacture, the south is still virgin
(mil. Its possibilities are even
more remarkable than its recent
progress, and as the one is devel -
oj>e*l and the other expands, it is
destined to add iu the near future
more than any other part of the
country to the aggregate wealth of
the nation.—Boston Journal.
Telfair Enterprise; “0olo nei
IT. Burch, of Eastman, has an¬
nounced himself as a free silver
candidate for congress from this
riLtrict to succeed Mr. Turner.
Tne Eastman Times-Journal gives
him a hearty endorsement, and
states that he is a good man, and
promises him its support, This
may all be very true, but. we do not
think that an ar vouata of free sil-
wiil pace the halls [of congress in
the place of Mr.Turner.”
Judge Hill ou the.Wing.
Mr. Editor : After getting baok
from Atlanta and Alabama and
spending two weeks in Dooly and
one week in the Brushy Creek
country, I urn now at home only
ior a few days. I was “strapped,”
but saw Dan Davis today and he
set me up, so I am alright now, but
not out of debt.
There is more moving around
among the people than ever has
beqg before in the recollection of
man. Tho people are in better fix
financially tnan they have been in
several years, but there are some
behind, and there would be some
few behind no matter what, the
circumstances were.
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There is more guano oeing emu
now than ever nas been sold in
one season in this generation. 1
saw Buck Harper the other morn¬
ing near thr edge of Coffee county.
He had traveled about 13 or 14
miles and sold two or three bills of
guano, and said he had to travel
about fifty miles that day. Buck
is a good guano man and is mov*
ing around like fighting fire and
snakes both.
The Hon. J. A. J. Henderson
made a land trade Iasi week. He
bought of Mr. Fitzgerald five lots
of land lying east and southeast of
Irwinville ; price paid $S,500.
There has been more marrying
than has been before in any two
years. Ou last Wednesday eve¬
ning I was at the wedding of Mr.
Tommie McMillan and Miss Allie
Henderson, at the residence of the
bride’s father. Win. Henderson.
They had prepared k magnificent
supper for about 50 or 60 of their
friends and relatives. The mar¬
riage ceremony was performed by
Elder W. H. Harden, who said to
me:
Allie and Tommie
Did fully agree,
To hitch up in wedlock,
And only one be.”
I suppose that I am the one the
man “Standing Round in the
Hall” reters to, when he says “the
old gentleman on tho wing.” I
do wish he would stop saying
“old. 1 ’ as I am trying to be one of
the boys. And so far as my
answering the roll-call in Atlanta
next fall, I am j ust doing the very
best I can, but can’t say exactly
yet, but I have as good encourage¬
ment so far as a fellow could ex¬
pect. It all lies with the colony
people. “Old 44,” in hie short
letter last year, covered the whole
ground. There wili be from 600fto
1,000 registered voters at Fitzger¬
ald, and I have been there only one
time. I have been to Lige Young’s
four times to see if I could get him
to come down and wait till an¬
other time. His wife tells tne every
time, he has gone to Fitzgerald,
and from tho best I can learn he is
there every other day, and Lige
never forgets to tell his business.
So while I am having much hope,
there ia some doubt about the thing
I see in the Ashburn Advane
that a wagon has been stolen from
hare. It must come back, as
Jesse Hickman and myself are on
the hunt for it.
INAHA,
Editor News: No spring time
yet, “gentle Annie.” The wind is
blowing this morning at an angle
of something like 140 degreas, with
the mercury a good deal below
blood heat. Nevertheless, the far¬
mers of this section are moving
things at a lively rate,making prep¬
arations for the large cotton crop,
anticipating a fancy price, some¬
thing like four or five cents.
The Inaha farm will have one
hundred acres of short staple cot*,
tbn this year. A long cotton fel¬
low wanted to bet us a few days
ago, that one bale of long cotton
would bring as much as three bales
of short. 1 told him I expected to
have three bales of short to his
one. So I would be ahead at le ast,
for I would have so many more
seed than he would.
Miss Nita Allison, of Abbevile,
is visiting Inaha this week, the
guest of her aunt, Mrs. J. T. Monk.
Mr. Ben Gravy has a car load of
guano on the sidetrack. So you
see we “clod hoppers” have to have
a little sweetening for the soil. ^
Nothing strange ’has happened
during the past week, except the
,
old man "‘in the hall” attended a
party last night, and I just declare
1 didn’t know I wak so young, bat
be careful how you talk to the
preacher about this, but nearly
every one of us was member of the
church, Methodist and Baptist of
various kinds, and we all had an
innocent time
Standing Round in the Hall.
AN AERIAL ELECTRIC ROAD.
The Rapid Transit Soheme Proposed bp a
San Francisco Capitalist.
A railroad on wire.
Such is the soheme which D. R. P.
Thomas, a San Francisco capitalist,
now lias on foot. He proposes to build
what he calls an aerial road from San
Francisco to Los Angelos up the cele¬
brated San Joaquin valley. The cars
will be suspended on cables and operat¬
ed by electricity. They will run at the
rate of 100 miles an hoar. No grading
will bo neoessary for the oonstruotion
of this road, no ties, and no rails, no
bridges and no fencing in of traok. No
seotion gang will ba required in its
maintenance.
It will, so its projector thinks, bo the
first road in America to bo absolutely
free from smashupa Tho oars can’t
collide head on because the road is a
double track, and they can’t be tele¬
scoped because, by a simple little meoh-
anlsm, if one train comes too close to
another the eleotricity is shut off. No
obstructions or blockades oan interfere
with its running. The cars cannot jump
the track. The wear and tear on its
mochanism and rolling stock is compar¬
atively slight It costs from one-third
to two-thirds less to construct and
maintain than any other kind of rail¬
road. It almost solves the question of
the right of way. The road may be
quickly constructed and will be sightly
wh6u finished.
This new railroad is not the invention
of the capitalist, but of his blind broth¬
er. “He planned it all out in his dark¬
ness, ” says Mr. Thomas, “and you will
see, one of these days, that it is such a
perfectly feasible and admirable plan
that it will one day supersede the sur¬
face roads, both in the city and in the
country.
“The cheapness of construction and
the high rate of speed attainable by
such a railway are of course its main ad¬
vantages. As far as speed is concerned,
it is now only a question of atmospherio
resistance. And this natural factor can
be largely overcome by oonatruoting the
cars either oone shaped or with pointed
ends like the prow of a boat. But that
of course is an after consideration, and
no such device will be needed to attain
a speed, say, of 100 miles an hour. And
such a rate can be maintained easily
and with entire comfort and safety to
the passengers in this midair railway.
There oan be no obstructions on the
track, for there is no track, and no
snows or washouts can retard the trains.
There are no dirt and dust or smoke and
soot to make traveling a hardship, no
jarring and rumbling and ear splitting
noises to make one deaf. ”
Conoerning the motive power, Mr.
Thomas believes that wo shall eventual¬
ly find a force superior to eleotricity—
that is, oompressed air, the possibilities
of which, Mr. Thomas declares, are as
yet but little known.
“My plan, ” says Mr. Thomas, “would
be to build compressed air tanks along
the road in the country where trains
could stop for a moment or two and re¬
cuperate the motive supply. I am satis¬
fied that in the end compressed air would
be cheaper and more satisfactory than
eleofcrioity. ”
The road will be elevated from 10 to
20 feet above the ground, according to
the requirements of the grade and
whether tho road bo passing through the
country or the oity. The oars Will be
considerably smaller and lighter than
the present railway cam now in use.
They will bo lighted by eleotrioity and
heated in this way also, and, for that
matter, oould easily have telegraphio
communication all the time with the
outside world.
The California idea does not vary in
its essental particulars from two rapid
transit systems whioh were exhibited at
the World’s fair. One of these, known
as the Cook system, proposed to have
oars suspended from a single traok,
placed at the top of a series of poles.
The idea was that the oars were to bo
somewhat in the shape of a present rail¬
way oar out lengthwise in twain. One
set would move in one direction on one
side of the pole, and the other sot on
the other side in the opposite direction.
This was an invention of L. D. Cook of
Tacoma, who oonstrnoted a trial track
on the outskirts of Tacoma and claimed
to have run his cars successfully at the
rate of 100 miles an hour. _
Imported Politeness.
A man walking along a street In
Rockland one of the cold days last week
■was surprised when a stranger stepped
up to him, grabbed his shoulder with
one hand, and with the other began to
vigorously rub his nose with a handful
of snow. Was he offended? On the con¬
trary, he was profuse in his thanks as
soon as he recovered his breath and his
wits from the attack, for the assailant
quiokly explained that he was a native
of Russia, and, notioing that the man’s
nose was freezing, had only attended to
what was a matter of course and of eti¬
quette in that country.—Lewiston Jour¬
nal.
A Necessary Exception.
The Utioa Herald is doing its beet to
hasten the spelliing reform by omitting
the letters “ugh” from words ending
with them, suoh as though, through, al¬
though, eto. It makes an exception,
however, in the oase of oough.—Chioa*
go Tribune.
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Fitzgerald’s New Site.
President Fitzgora.ld gave notice
recently that the coiiniets should
vaett the temporary town by Feb.
1, and settle on their own prop*
erty in the ne» town, one mile
westward. The temporary town is
not Fitzgerald proper and contains
no permanent buildings. All the
tents and “shacks” shall be torn
down and removod from the place.
Many of them have already been
vacated by persons who have set*
tied in the new town or Fitzgerald.
The postoffice of Fitzgerald is
centrally located, and that portion
of the town£ will be the business
center. ^About&tbirty stores have
been erected in. the vicinity., of the
pcstoffiee. ten being occupied.
The new.and (permanent business
houses aie as follows: Twelve
general merchandise stores, several
dry goods stores, six hardware
stores,’two millinery stores, one
bank, two® photographic [galleries,
four hotels (temporary), and four
meat markets.
In the temporary,[towWare lum«
ber mills, shingle \[Jmiils,';,a s .brick
yard, blacksmith shops .“.real; es*
taie offices, livery stables,"a num¬
ber of general ..merchandise^ stores
and the offices of the colony.
A weekly n e wsp a per “was^re-
cent’ly established. The bank of
Fitzgerald was; organized " last
week and its doors were Ho have
opened; thisjmorning for gtuBiuess.
Fitzgerald has aiEeslimatedgpop-
ulation of 6,000 or 7,000. Rea)
estatejagents are«®numerous, and
they„are easerly ; sought ^after by
prospectors. Colonists;and individ¬
train",and ual pro8pectorsj[arrive_ onj every is
the';daily,[.average
about 125 persons. TheHhotel ac¬
commodations have been inade¬
quate, and the boarding houses and
private^residences have^been liber¬
ally patronizud. xYn average
store house in the] business "center
can be rented ■ for;*$20 a ^rnontb.
Twohardware^storea^employiSeven-
teen clerks and 4 the [grocery^ stores
are also [doing a lively business
The meat markets; are,. liberally
patronized.
Mr. Wel ch, the! genial superin-
temlentT"and his daughter, Miss
Miss/Emma Welch, Aim
and affab!e'!secrelary, are the bus-
iest persons in Georgia. They
treat all visitols^mqst cordially and
furnish them|jinformation | abm t
the colony.
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Beading The News?
If not, WHY not?
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mV. G. DeLOAOHj? A. gent 9
SYCAMORE, GA.
If facilities for handling leal Es¬
tate in Irwin and adjoining counties
are unsurpassed.
leal Estate and Colony Exchange,
Colony Lands and. Oity TLots
OLD and HLXCHANQ-EE>.
Farms adjoining CoSony.’andlvicinityifopsale
Fire Insurance and Building & Loan Solicited.
BBON •9
FITZGrERALD, GEORGIA.
COLON Y DBU G sTOEE
FITZGERALD, GEORGIA,
J. E.jfSOODMAlI & CO. P.op’rs.
Patent Medicines of all Linds, -------
Toilet\Articles,lFine'Stationery,
Lampgoods an d garden seed.
F^HSTE CIG-ARS and TOBACCOS-
D.W.FAULK&CO,
general merchandise,
FITZGERALD, GEORGIA.
FIVE QARLSfiDS NEW GOODS!
liave just been placed in our large new store, and every train
BjEIIWGS Mill MOIRE.
Come to see us and if we cant convince you that it is to your
nterest to trad with us, we’ll quit the business.
Alex Mclnnis,
—DEALER IN—
0 ESTERAL MERCHANDISE,
JElteggei^alcI, Georgia,
I propose to meet the closest L
prices on all goods in my line, /
and will appreciate the patron¬
age of my friends and the pub¬
lic generally.
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Id s Iglebeart’s Swans Down Ion'll
' find it as white and as lijfl -swans l
jj down. Eat a slice of it ndfl find its ^
p goodness and sweetnes^B looks.
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at your grocei put the best
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