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Hornlii §orreufioi(dence. News of the Week Gathered from all over the County by The Herald Field Editors. ENAL HAPPENINGS. WILSON. Presiding Elder Lovett preached an excellent sermon last Sunday morning at Harville church to a good congregation. Mr. S. C. Morgan, of Effingham county, began teaching school at Geranium Monday morning. He has an enrollment of thirty-four scholars. The weather is still cloudy and raining, but the farmers still keep at work preparing the soil, for it is not so very long now until plantiug time. Misses Zulieme and Carabelle Lane, Bessie Lanier and Etta Hart, of Brooklet, and Mac Wil¬ son, of Statesboro, visited Har¬ ville last Sunday. Come again, young ladies, you are always wel¬ come. Mr. I. E. Nesmith, of this place, has recently had au additional parlor added to his residence, im¬ proving its appearance very much. Mr. Nesmith is one of our best farmers, aud has plenty of almost everything that it takes to make a man happy. - LUDOVIC LOCALS. VIOLET. Mr. Remer Proctor and Bister, Miss Lilia , were pleasant callers at Mi.A~J. Knight Misses Azalia and Susie Grooms entertained quite a number of young folks with a candy pulling last Thursday night. Miss Fronie Richardsou and brother spent Sunday with Mr. Joseph Grooms’ family; also Mr. H. It. Waters, of Callie. Mr. Joseph Grooms went to the river last Friday morning to his nets and decided to look about over the swamp, so he bagged a 17-pound gobbler. One of Statesboro’s young men Mr. Highsmith, was iu our midst Sunday and attended a sing at Mr. Joseph Grooms. Come again, Mr. Highsmith, we will be glad to have you. Rnite a uumher of gents, old and yqjung, attended an oyster supper at the residence of Mr. James Mikell last Saturday night. All seemed to enjoy it, only a few complained of too much pepper. They only had a baking powder can of pepper iu three gallons of oysters. ARLFN ITEMS. T ANGIE. Hello, correspondents, believe 1 will write a little too. Dan Richardsou spent Monday in Savannah. S«m Proctor, of Statesboro, is •pending awhile in this section. Miss Ethel Martin is visiting relatives in Statesboro this week. We are glad to report Mr. G. W. Burnsed, who has been suffer¬ ing with la grippe, up again. Col. Lee, of Statesboro, has vis¬ ited this place twice this week, having written several policies. He reports it a fine section to do insurance. The members of the Pioueer Agricultural Club iu this district are already preparing exhibits of various kinds lor the State Fair, which is to he held in Savannah next fall. W« trust the farmers will not be negligent in this, but exert every effort to make Bulloch the best county represented there. Last Friday Mr. M. F. Hagan passed away, afte’r an illness of three years. Mr. Hagan was per¬ haps the oldest and best known citizen in the couuty, having lived nere seventy-three years, His funeral was conducted by Eld. J. L. Smith at Lanes cemetery last Saturday, being attended by the largest crowd that ever attend ed a funeral at that place. He was a prudent member of the Pioneer Agricultural Club for twenty-five years, and also a faith¬ ful Mason. The good man adorn¬ ed his Ufe with a beautiful char¬ acter aud we do not feel to over¬ rate him when we point to his life as beiug in every way worthy of emulation. He leaves a grief-stricken wife seventy-five years old and seven grown child¬ ren to mourn their irreparable loss, besides a host of friends who will delight to hoDor his memory by ever speaking of his many virtues. ♦ « PARISH POINTERS. Editor Bulloch Herald: I saw in your valuable columns of last week some dots of our little town. Yes, indeed, we have a very nice town, and the three stores mentioned, those of Messrs. Blitch Parish, RaineB aud Croft, are not the only ones in Parish. We have six more, one large store coudueted by Mr. Durden, and five shops conducted by Messrs. Thomas, Oglesby, Holmes and Mercer and Mrs. Smith and Mrs. Mallard, but Messrs. Blitch Par¬ ish, Raines, Croft aud Durden’s are about the best conducted stores in the place, for they have no rows nor misbehavior. They close about 8 o’clock ou Saturday night and atey closed till Monday morning, aud go to chuich aud Sunday-school on Sunday, while some of the others at times are open selling drugs, I gueos, for I never saw so many drugs shipped to one little town before. Our freight only comes every other day, but most every other freight you will see some two or three men gathered around a box, one at each end and sometimes oue to each side. Yes, boys, indeed it is time to shut up your shops on Sundays and go to church or Suu day-scbool. Messrs. M. Olliff and B. Parish are now dressing lumber on their planer and are doing nice work. Miss Gertrude Etheredge was the guest of Mrs. W. A. Sikes this week. Come again, Miss Gertrude. Mr. H. L. Croft is preparing to build his ice house. He expects to furnish the town with ice this summons. We are glad to learn that we can soon ride to Statesbcro on the train. We are proud it is going to your town. Mr. G. B. Mercer has just com¬ pleted Mr. Holloway’s new resi¬ dence and it is occupied by Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Mercer. We have as nice a town as there is on the B. & P. railroad, aud as for the negroes of our town they are very polite so far aud under good control. There is no shov¬ ing on the streets nor squalling around al night, but some of the white ones do. Our town is high, dry aud healthy aud all that is necessary to have a large, good town is to stick to Messrs. Bbtch Parrish, Raines, Croft aud Durden and a few others here; aud we dou’t need so much drugs, especially in five gallon kegs. #• LASTON LACONICS. i’. E V B. Laston is here again with a few more laaonics. More rain, more rest. Master Lloyd Brannen was very ill during last week. Messrs. Will Raiues and Brooks Sorrier visited Laston last Sunday. Everybody in this section seems to be enjoying life to the fullest extent. Mr, and MrB. B. Cobb attended an oyster supper at Garfield Sat¬ urday Dight. Miss Daisy Cobb is very unwell at present on account of having chills and fever. Mrs. J. A. Brannen and her two youngest sons will visit Excelsior the latter part of this week. The man with the hoe aud the negro with the mule keep very busy preparing for hard times. Mr. J. C. Edenfield is doing quite art extensive business with his saw and shingle mill at present. Drummers are numerous these days. We are proud to see them come and prouder to see them go. Misses Cora aud Eva Cowart, accompanied by Miss McDowell, attended services at Pleasant Hill cbnrch last Sunday. Our popular young physician » Dr. J. Z. Patricjc, has au exten¬ sive practice and is very success¬ ful with his patients. .A large majority of the people from around here will attend the Masonic funeral of Mr. .T. Parish at the Lake next Sunday. Mr. Erastus Bird was here Mon day. He is one of Bulloch’s lead ing farmers and is quite popular in all business circles. Dauces are very numerous in this section, had two last week, each was largely attended and all report a pleasant time. Laston will have to be brief this week on account of no news. Though I am coming often to worry the sleeping correspondents, Miss Lola Cobb returned to her school Monday morning, after spending a few days very pleas¬ antly with her. friend, Miss Ethel Brannen. Services will be held at Upper Lott’s Creek church next Sunday, conducted by the pastor, JameB L. Smith, who has served them for over From the State University. Judge Bleckley, of Clarksville, Ga., ex-chief justice of the su¬ preme court was iu attendance at the University last week as the guest of Chancellor Hill. He is composing a political economy and, being confronted by some difficult mathematical principle, at the invitation of Chancellor Hill came over to seek the assist¬ ance of Profs. Barrow aud Suel liug, of the department of math¬ ematics. The Judge said it was his first time to attend college, and as he -is a man of mature years, beiug over seventy, he pre¬ sented a very interesting figure as he strolled about ou the campus, aud was the subject of much com¬ ment aud curiosity. With una batiug interest he has labored on his book for the past five years, nor does he seem to be in any hasthe, notwithstanding his ripe old age. He has bright hopes of seeing his book completed and receiving the popularity which he believes it will merit. Hon. Livingston Mims, mayor of Atlanta, is to deliver a lecture to the seuior class on Hamlet sometime in March. Mr. Mims, beiug a man of unusual ability and occupying a high social aud political position, should be capa¬ ble of giving the seniors a literary production of high merit. They are fortunate in obtaining him. There was an article a few weeks ago in oue of the leadiug Georgia newspapers on “hazing,” which created some surprise here on account of its accusing the stu¬ dents of the University of this justly condemned practice. The report was unjust because untrue, as every oue acquainted with the present condition is aware. The article .. , stated , that ,, . a certain , • young man wanted to attend the Uni versity but decided to go else where , , because of „ his ,- dread . , of c “haziug.” Years ago such prac tices were in vogue here, but they have , , long since . dted ,. , out. , XT No one need have any fear of the least maltreatment on entering here, as all ,, new students . , are now shown , every kindness and attention by those who, to use a slang expres¬ sion, are on to the ropes. The students are happy iu the prospect of two holidays this week. One is on Tuesday iu cele¬ bration of the annivers iry of the Phi Kappa society. The other is on Friday, to celebrate Washing¬ ton’s birthday aud the anniversa¬ ry of the Demosthenian society. To those students who have extra work on hand, such as preparing speeches for debate and other con¬ tests, these two days will doubt¬ less be taken advantage of. At the Demosthenian exercises the society will be presented with a new banner by the ladies of Lucy Cobb Institute. This society has been envious of Phi Kappa since she received a beautiful new banner last year from the ladies of Athens, but the envy of the Demosthenians will give place to gladness aud appreciation. A new chemical laboratory is now beiug V fitted up m Science H.M for use of ,ho sooior class. When this is completed Science Hall will contain the laboratories of the classed sophomore, inntnr junior and and senior senior classes, These l nese laboratories are excellently fatted up, and afford the practical meaus for obtaining a thorough scientific course. G. B. Franklin. Athens, Ga., Feb. 17, 1901, THE SEWS AT FLY. DAN. Messrs. Ben and Fed Womack were in Statesboro last Monday, Uur school continues to increase. ^ ^ ere 18 over fifty ou th e roll now. The warm, fair days we had last week made us thiuk that spring ' Vas us - 8otne of our farmers have got their land about ready for plant¬ ing, while others have just started. A number of young folks at tended at entertainment at Mr. J°e ben Canuou’s last Saturday night. A negro by the name of Sam Lewis was shot by another negro at Williams, Outland & Co.’s still test Saturday'. He was only slightly hurt. Some of our farmers were badly fooled iu buying their guano. They bought oue kiud but received a much inferior grade. They are dissatisfied about it. Misses Carrie and Cassie Marsh are now the possessors of a new organ, which they have recently purchased. They take pleasure iu showing it to their friends. Mr. Hicks Skiuuer has goue out of the merchandise business and has sold out the remainder of his stock, consisting of one box of cheroots and about ten gallons of cider—about half of what he orig¬ inally kept. Mr. Albert Coleman, of Egypt, and Miss Lucy Daughtery, of Echo, were married on the 10th iust-, aud on the same day Mr. JamoB Brady and Miss Susan Finch were married at Echo. Both couples have our best wishes. Dr. Temples carried D. T. Tem¬ ples and R Cannon out snipe huutiug one night last w r eek, aud left them iu the ditch to hold the bag. When they found the doc¬ tor he was snugly in bed. They failed to get the snipe. We have a young chap up here who is said to be matrimonialiy inclined. He is but fourteen, but it is reported that he went to the Ordinary to get license tor him¬ self and an eleven-year-old girl, but was refused on the grounds that he was too young. Rather a bad tale, B. The correspondent’s page was extremely flue last week; sorry 1 wasn’t iu it. I like to see them all write, Let us coutiuue to do so. Let us hear from several more next week. 1 see we have some¬ thing from Enal, Parish aud Las¬ ton. We give you all a hearty welcome; comeagaio, “X. Y. Z.” 1 believe it is owing to you that the correspondents have received again. I like you splendid even if 1 do not know you. evria«« African cnitomn, Among the human sacrifices of tft* ^’occupy tiTSnort honored place. They are at regular periods offered up to the gods, and id Stead of shrinking ” from this horrible <j oom thejr acc , p lt with pride aud gratitude. Nothing 1b refused to these ffen while they ore alive. If one of them sees a hamlsoae dress or ornn ment 0 n a woman and expresses a de tire to have it, the woman must give It her. Men are also satrlficed, though not for religious reasons, and they welcome death „ ^gort? as the girls. Couut de Cardl once tried to save one these victims, but instead of thnnk Ing him, the man reviled him so bitter , y for laterferinK ond BColded the by . standers so heartily for delaying to carry out the sentence that they promptly stopped his mouth by killing him. The worst Insult which oue woman can offer to another is to hold out the right hand in front of her with the in¬ dex and middle .finger forming the let ter V. This means, “You will become the mother of twins.” When twins are born in this region, they and their mothers are killed, as a rule, and when a mother dies in giving birth to a child the latter Is also killed and burled wltb her. It Is not superstition which im¬ pels the negroes to dispose of mother¬ less infants in this heartless fashion, but the great difficulty of rearing them. Altogether, the Information which Count de Cardl has gathered during his residence of many years in this portion of Africa la of rare value, espe¬ cially to anthropologists. Aa Anatere Philosophy. “Keep working,” said Senator Sor¬ ghum earnestly. “Don’t be discourag¬ ed by failure, but try, try again. Re¬ member that good old maxim 'Persist¬ ency's a Jewel.’ 11 “Are you sure It’s 'persistency Y" in qulred the young man mildly. “Isn't it ‘con’ Instead of ‘pert’ ” “Well,” he answered thoughtfully, i ) ,fe goeB nowadays I suppose L he 51 B g0 to U .? ore or lnlt . , . “ —— -- j H, » F*»r. ! Tho ““daunted Corporal 0althnes4 80 cons P |cu °usly daring In a “pinch” M the battlc of Waterloo, was asked If hc dId not fear they BbouId lose the day . -No, no,” said be. “I knew we could i Should not do that. all be My killed only fear before was that/ / wg tojfejr - •**•+• "2Tott> is tl/e time to J. r Subscribe,” J. r safe ^ Fhe Bulloch Herald TH E OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE COUNTY u > and contains more pure reading matter M section than any of other Georgia, weekly and newspaper is free from in this dis- § || § gusting infest medicine advertisements which §§ so many local columns. Subscription, $1 Per Year. "NOW IS THL TIME TO SUBSCRIBE.’ Cnrloo. Mexican Law*. They have some very curious crltni usl laws In Mexico. For Instance, it Is twice as much of an offense to muti¬ late the face of a woman as that of a man. The law seems to be based on the Idea that a woman’s best posses¬ sion is her beauty aud that to mar It does her a great injury. There Is another curious law. If a person should be wounded in an en¬ counter, the punishment to the offend¬ er is fixed by the number of days his victim has to stay in the hospital or under a doctor’s care. A line is fixed at 40 days iu the way of a general divi¬ sion. If the Injured man occupies more than 40 days in Ids recovery, the pen¬ alty doubles up. An Impudent Fraud. An impudent fraud was perpetrated upon a Manchester bank by one of Its customers, who opened an account With some few hundreds of pounds. The man, after a few weeks, drew two checks, each witlilu a pouud or so of his balance, and, selecting a busy day, presented bimscif at one end of the counter, while an accomplice, when ho saw that his friend’s check bad been cashed, immediately presented his own to a cashier at the other end. Both cashiers referred the checks to the ledger clerk, who, thinking the same cashier had asked him twice, said “right” to both checks. The thieves were never caught. Straw Horseshoes. Straw is put to strange uses in Ja¬ pan. Most of the horses are shod with straw. Even the clumsiest of cart horses wear straw shoes. In their case the shoes are tied around the ankles with straw rope aud are made of the ordinary rice straw, braided so that they form a sole for the foot about half an Inch thick. These soles cost about a half penny per pair, and when they are worn out they are thrown away. Everj^cart has a stock of fresh new shoes tied to the horse or to the front of the cart, and In Japan it was formerly the custom to measure dis¬ tance largely by the number of horse¬ shoes it look J#> cover the distance. So many horseshoes made a day’s Jour¬ ney, and the average 'shoe lasted for about eight miles of travel. lie Counted All Right, “You’ve been lu a fight,” said bis mother reprovingly. “Oh, not much of a oue,” answered the boy. “Did you couut 100, as I told you, when you felt your augry passions ris¬ ing?” “Oh, sure,” returned the boy. “I counted 100 all right, but I knocked the other boy down first. It’s the only safe way.”— Chicago Post Three Papers a week FOR ABOUT THE PRICE OF ONE. This paper and the Atlanta Twice/#-Week Journal for I $ 1 . 501 Here you get the news of the world aud all your local news while it is fresh, paying very little more than one paner costs. Either paper is well worth $1.00, but byspe cial arrangement we are eu abled to put in both of them, giving three papers a weak for this low price. anywhere You else, can not equal combination this is aud this the best premium for those who want a great paper and a home paper. Take these and you will keep up with the times. Besides general nows, the Twice-a-Week Journal has much agricultural articles of special matter aud other interest to farmers. It has regular contributions W. H. by Sam Jones, Mrs. Felton, John Temple Graves, Hon. 0. H. Jordan and other dis tinguished writer#. | subscriptions Call st this for office both and leave tout papers, rou eta get s sample copy of either pe *** here on eppUcadon. . . H. V. JOHNSON . . ^ Practical Watchmaker. REPAIRS BICYCLES, GUNS, PISTOLS // SEWING MACHINES, MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. cl Repair Work of All Kinds. Shop on Railroad Street opposite D. & S. Depot. i UP-TO-DATE. I i be MSI NEW HOME. DO YOU KNOW that tiie NewHomeSowingMachine the Co. the du not experiment at expense of public, by requiring a change of Shuttles aud Needles every your or two . 1 The same shuttle aud needle used in their I at cut im¬ proved machines will work equally as well in their machines sold fifteen years ugo. DO YOU KNOW that New the coir-gearing chniuless motion as used by the Home mid bicycle is re¬ cognized, universally, as the most posi¬ tive and unvariable power known? For t> at very reason your watch has “cog¬ wheels.’’ Why not buy the best? Office, 120 Whitaker, Uor. State St., SAVANNAH, CJA. WHEN IN METTER -CALK ON — F. B. SHUMAN k SON For your Dry Goods, Groceries, Etc. Good new goods and low prices. Good Calico 5c per yuril, Cereal Sc per yard, Good Suit of Clothes #4 up. And all other goods at lowest prices. When in need, come and examine, our stock before huvimr. Good Positions V^gECURED Y liM f. r B/actiVe,Y/ideaoifll£ \ X Young Men Tt/ glfe^Wllo l ■I 4 Women % •Tt W( jSKf oar practical ” * I' ..t.v.tt • ■ 3$; ~ usir^ess (oUrse 1 tSTABUSHECY 1882 . COLLEGES.! BUSINESS { Qtfk&dbnJ&rl Send for Catalogue? Savannah & Statesboro Railway TIME TABLE IN EFFECT DEC. 84, 1890. p. No m 3. I j a. No. m. 11 I (Trains Standard nm by Time.) Central No. 8 No. 4 . a.m. pun. _ Arrive 5 15 e no Leave Statesboro 9 M 5 30 «13 “ Pretoria 9 06 5 39 li 3(1 “ Nellwood 8 45 5 41 6 35 " Slieurwooil " 8 47 5 53 IJtl) •• pi,. •- 8 41 80s 6 50 “ Stllson ** 8*3 615 7 05 “ Woodburn “ 6 81 6 28 713 “ tvanhoe “ 816 6 33 7 30 “ olney “ 80S «40 T 37 “ Klilore 8 03 6 7(K)| 48 7 86 “ Blitohton 757 7 48 “ cnyler 7 45 8jj3j_N -Hi | Arri ve Sa van nah Leave 6 30 G. All A A. trains trains malte to and clone from connection Savannah. at Cuyier with W. F. WRIGHT. Gen’I Supt. Sever & Statesboro 23. 23. Schedule lu effect September Ilth, 1899. - .~|~No S~\ ~Nol Going Nor th No 3 No 7 L’ve -Statesboro ! 510am j 9 50am 315pm 715pm Cllto 15 5 25am 110 10 05ani 3 3<>pm 7 30pm Arr ive D over 4Sam 25am 3 50pm 7 50pm Thursdays Trains No. and 1 Saturdays and 3 daily. only. Nos. 5 and 7 Tneiityas For Passengers Macon, for Savannah take Trains 3 and 5. Augusta, Atlanta and all Western points take- Trains I and 7. Goin g Sm i th | No~ 8 7 No 2 ~TNo * I No 8 Leave Dover 16 liiam 111 00am 420pm BlOpni Arrive Cllto rol o45mn!ll30a 6 25am It 15am 4 35pm 8 25pm 6tatosb , l n 4 50pm 8 40pm Trains No. 2 and 4 dally. Nos. 6 and 8 Tuesdays, Thursdays and 2, Saturdays only. * . & . Take Truins 4, 0 and 8 at Dover for Statesboro. Ulnst of whistle 15 minutes before departure trains at Statesboro. J. L. MATHEWS, Supt. Save Your Money. What is the use in paying 2 l-2c for your Collars and 5c for Cuffs, when you can get them laundried just as good at 2c for Collars and 4c for Cuffs? The Georgia Steam Laundry has had an agent here for the P**St three years, and their Work has always given satisfaction. I am responsible for all laun¬ dry left with me, and will make good any and all losses. B. P. MAUItlt.