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THE BLACKSHEAR
E. Z. BYRD, Editor and Proprietor.
VOL. XX NO. 49.
Pierce County Directory.
Ordinary—J. I. Summerall.
Clerk Superior Court—John Thomas.
Sheriff—J. R. Carter.
Tax Receiver—J. O. Waters.
Tax Collector—J. A. Jacobs.
County Treasurer—B. D. Brantley.
Con ry Surveyor—W. H. Bowen.*
Coroner—Dr. J. M. Brown.
Superior court liist Monday in May
and third Monday in November.
COUNTY COURT.
Robt. G. Mitchell, Jr., Judge.
W. A. Miltou, P .icitor.
Monthly sssrf second Friday iu
each month; quarterly sessions, third
Monday in March, Juue, September
and December.
TOWN DIRECTORY.
Robert G. Mitchell, Jr., Mayor.
B. D. Brantley, W. G. McMillan,
John A. Strickland, Jos. A. Harper,
Councilmen.
M. C. McAlpin, Clerk and Treas
urer.
W. L. McMillan, Marshal.
Police court every Monday morning.
SECRET ORDERS.
Blackshear Lodge No. 270, F. k A.
M., meets first and third Friday nights
in each month.
A. B. Estes, W. M.
Ro3T. G. Mitchell, Jr., Sec.
Alabaha Lodge No. 16, K. of P,,
meets every Monday night.
B. D. Brantley, C. 0.
E. Z. Byrd. K. of R. & S.
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
\ * EMMET COCHRAN,
Practices LAWYER,
in United States courts,
district, circuit and supreme courts,
aud in all counties iu Brunswick cir
cuit. Telephone No. 26. Office a n
residence upstairs Phoenix Hotel,
Waycross, Ga.
1) G. MITCHELL, Jb.,
Attorucy-at Law and Judge
County Court, Blackshear, Ga.
A. B. ESTE1. e. l. walker,
1/STES & WALKER,
Attorneys at Law,
Blackshear, Georgia.
Walter a. milton,
Attorney-at-Law and Solicitor
County Court. Office in the court
bouse. Blackshear. Ga.
A L K AVANT, M. 1>. J. L L. GRIN SB, M, D.
A VANT & GRINER,
Physicians & Surgeons,
Calls Patterson, Ga.
promptly answered day or
night from residence or office.
\V7 N. BROWN, Dentil,
* ’ • Office Near the Courthouse.
Offers his professional services to
the citizens of Pierce and adjoining
counties. Guarantees satisfaction.
Crown and bridge work a specialty.
Blackshear, Ga.
A LLEN BRO’ v N, D. D. S.
sV Office upstairs in McCulley k
Walker’s new building. Tenders bis
professional services to the public.
Crown and bridge work a specialty.
Waycross. Ga.
BRUNSWICK CIRCUIT.
COURT CALENDAR.
Appling Superior Court—First and
second Mondays iu March; third and
fourth Mondays in September.
Camden Superior Court—-Tuesday
after the third Mouday in March;
Tuesday after the first Monday in
October.
Coffee Superior Court—Fourth Mon
day in March; second Monday in Oc
tober.
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Charlton Superior Court—Tuesday j
after the first Mond.ty in April; lues
day after the fourth Monday in Oc- j
toher. i
Clinch Superior Court Second Mon- j
day in April, third Monday in Octo- J
her.
Ware Superior Court—Third and
fourth Mondays in April; first aud
second Mondays iu November.
Pierce Superior Court—First Mon- i
day iu May; third Monday iu Novem- j
ber.
AA'ayue Superior Court—Second j
Monday in May; fourth Monday in
November.
Glynn Superior Court—Third Mon
day in May an.1 first Monday in De
cember; to continue for such time as
the business may r< qirre.
be* 3*3 TEETH , _
J. C. BREWER,
DENTIST,
BLACKSHEAR, CA.
Gold Crowns and Bridge Work a
specialty. 5-5. ’99
BARBER • • J^J£QP <
JOHN ALDRIDGE, Proprietor.
blackshear, geokoia.
HairCutting,Shaving,Dyeing.Sham
pooing, etc., dobe at the following
prices:
Cutting hair, 15 cent*.
Shaving, 10 cents.
Shampoo, 20 cents.
Blacking, 25 cents. Dec 9-’97.
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GENERAL HARRISON DEAD
Passes Peacefully Away at His
Home in Indianapolis.
ILLNESS OF SHORT DIRATION
Demise Was Quiet and Painless
Being Preceded by Many
Hours of Total Un
consciousness.
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General Benjamin Harrison died at
his home in Indianapolis Wednesday
afternoon at 4:45 o’clock. His death
was quiet and painless, thero being a
gradual sinking until the end came,
which was marked by a single gasp
for breath as life departed from the
body of the great statesman. The rel
atives, with a few exceptions, and
several of his old and tried friends
were at the former president’s bedside
when he passed away.
The generaPs condition was so bad
in the early morning, after a restless
night, that the attending physicians
understood that the end could not be
far off, and all bulletins sent out from
the sick room were to this effect, so
that the family and friends were pre
pared when the final blow came. The
gradual failing of the remarkable
strength shown by the patient became
more noticeable in the afternoon,
aud there was an apparent break down
on the part of the sufferer, as he sur
rendered to the diseaso against which
he had been so bravely battling for
so many hours. The change was
noticed by the physicians and the
relatives aud friends who had retired
from the sick room to the library be
low were quickly summoned, and
reached the bedside of the general be
fore ho passed away.
News of the death spread quickly
through the city and several of the
more intimate friends at once hurried
to the Harrison residence. The word
was flashed from the bulletins of all
the newspapers and thus communica
ted to the people on their way home
in the evening. The announcement
produced the greatest sorrow. Within
a few moments the flags on alt the
public buildings and most of the down
town business blocks were hoisted at
half maBt and other outward manifest
ations of mourning were made.
General Harrison had been uncon
scious for hours before his death, the
exact time when he parsed into a com
atose state being difficult to deter
mine. He spoke to no one during
the day, failing to recognize even his
wife. The greater part of Tuesday,
also, he was in a semi-comatose con
dition, although he was at times able
to recognize those at bis bedside.
None of General Harrison’s children
were present at his death. Neither
Colonel Russell Harrison nor Mrs.
McKee had reached the city, although
both were hurrying on their way to
jbe bedside of their dying parent as
f as t as steam could carry them,
Elizabeth, General Harrison’s little
daughter, had been taken from the
g j 0 i{ room by her nurse before the end
came.
The group at the bedside included
Mrs. Harrison, William H. A. Miller,
Samuel Miller, bis son, Bev. Dr. M.
L. Haines, pastor of the Fifth Presby
terian church, which General Harri
son had attended for so many years,
Secretary Tibbets, Drs. Jameson and
Dorsey; Colonel Daniel M. Randsdell,
sergeaut-at-arms of the United States
Henate and a close personal friend ef
the dead ex president, Clifford Arrick
and the two nurses who have been in
constant attendance. General Harri
son’s two sisters and an aunt were also
piesent.
fue general’s little daughter, Eliza
beth, was brought into the room for a
few moments to see her father, and of
fered him a small apple pie which she
herself had made. General Harrison
smiled his recognition of the child and
her gift, but the effort to speak was
too much and ho could do nothing
more to express his appreciation.
Wednesday all efforts to arouse the
sl ° ] 7 d y> n R man to consciousness
failed, and he died without a word of
recognition to any of those who sur
ronnded his bedside.
The Gallows For Minder.
j Minder, the Macon, Oa., tailor
who last fall stabbed Andy Mahoney,
another tailor, to death, was convicted
of murder and sentenced to hang on
April 30th.
Money For Utah Library.
Andrew Carnegie has offered to give
$25,000 to the Ogden Library Associ
ub. zssr*-
DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF PIERCE COUNTY.
BLACKSHEAR. GA., THURSDAY. MARCH 21. 1901
HE TALKED OF BOERS.
From one who was present at the
death-bed it is learned that the allega
tions of cruelty and injustice dealt out
by England to the Boers in their strug
gle for liberty had been a subject for
thought in the mind of General Harri
son.
In his semi-conscious condition,
■when the sentinels of discretion and
propriety had gone from their posts
and the mind of the man was wander
ing, he began to speak of the Boers
aud their hopeless struggle for na
tional life. His voice was weak aud
trembling, his thoughts were not con
nected, but the listeners bending over
him could hear words of pity for the
dying farmer republics.
A deep interest was manifested
throughout all the executive depart
ments in Washington in the reports
that came as to the condition of ex
President Harrison. As office hours
had closed for the day before the end
came, the first official action regard
ing the death were deferred until
Thursday.
It was decided at a meeting of Gov
ernor Durbin with other state officers
that the body of General Harrison
should lie in state in the rotunda of
the capitol all day Saturday.
The highest honors which are iu the.
power of tbo state of Indiann to pay
will be rendered to General Harrison.
It was decided to ask the former mem
bers of bis cabinet to be General Har
rison’s honorary pallbearers. Notices
to this effect were sent to ex-Secretary
of State John W. Foster, Mexico; Sec
retary of tbo Treasury Charles W.
Foster, Fostoria, O.; Secretary of War
Stephen B. Elkiup, Elkins, W. Va.;
Secretary of Navy Benjamin F. Tra
cey, New York; Secretary of Interior
John W. Noble, St. Louis; Postmaster
General John Wanamaker, Philadel
phia; Commissioner of Agriculture
Jeremiah M. Rusk, Milwaukee.
General Harrison’s wealth is vari
ously estimated, public opinion rating
it as high as half a million dollars,
Those who are best informed about
the dead ex-president’s financial af
fairs, however, say that he was worth
about two hundred and fifty or three
hundred thousand dollars. At the
time he was elected president he was
reputed to have accumulated a fortune
of 8125,000 from his law practice and
this has been doubled at least since
that time. Of late bis practice, owing
to his great reputation as a constitu
tional lawyer, was very lucrative.
His fee in the Venezuelan boundary
dispute, in which he represented the
South American republic, was $100,
000 .
BLIZZARD IN NORTHWEST.
Immense Mountains of Snow Wall In
anil Block Uaflivsv Trains.
A special of Wednesday from Grand
Rapids, Mich., says: Raging along
the entire coast of lake Michigan north
of Grand Rapids, and reaching out
over the Saginaw valley is one of the
most disastrous storms in years. Rail
road reports show that all lines are
blocked and that not a train on the
Grand Rapids and Indiana or the Pere
Marquette north and northeast is able
to move. So far the winds have been
southeasterly, but railroad men fear
that it is turning to northwesterly and
that the worst is yet to come.
Five passenger trains are stalled be
tween Grand Rapids and Mackinaw
City. Two Pere Marquette passenger
trains are fast in the snow and are
rapidly being snowed in completely,
and there are freight trains out on
both lines which are banked in with
walls of snow and frozen slush. Rail
road men say that the storm is one of
the worst that they have ever encoun
tered.
The strength of the blizzard may bo
understood when it is known that the
windows of the coaches and the cabs
of the engines were in some instances
broken in. The trainmen in reporting
from the north say that their situa
tions are perilous and ask for immedi
ate aid. They say the snow is falling
in clouds and that they are unable to
assist themselves.
CARNEGIr, It) ills EMPLOYEES.
Big Hearted Philanthropist Donate! Mil/- j
Inns Por Their Aid.
1 wo letters from Andrew Carnegie, .
made public at Pittsburg Wednesday,
tell of his retirement from active bus
mess life and of his donation of
$5,000,000 for the endowment of a
fund for superannuated and disabled
employees of the Carnegie company.
This benefaction is by far the largest
of the many created by Mr. Carnegie,
and is probably without a counterpart
in the world.
This fund will in no wise interfere
with the continuance of the savings
fund established by the company fif
teen years ago for the benefit of its
employees. In this latter fund nearly
i $2,000,000 of the employees’ savings
are on deDosit.
CRIMINAL LAWYER HEAD.
No toil Chattanooga Attorney Made a Mott
Keruarkable Record.
Colonel W. Joe Clift, one of the
most noted criminal lawyers in the
south, died Wednesday at his home
in ChattaDooga, ienn. Colon*, (.lift
had defended every notable criminal
in that section for many years past.
He has defended 290 criminals charged
with capital offenses and has never
had one hanged or one go to the pent
tentiary for over twenty years.
il'ONES &
THOMAS
W ay cross, Gel
In a 5 dition to the very large stock of Buggies,
Wagons and Harness we have on hand, we have
just received a car load of the celebrated light run
ning Florence Wagons.
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Also a car load of Buggies. We are better prepared
to serve you than ever. Write us for prices.
JONES & THOMAS,
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NEOROES OFF FOR HAWAII.
One If(imlro<l Go From Knoxville, Tonii
to Mnkit Sugar Cano.
A colony of 100 negroes left Knox
ville, Tenn., Monday for the Hawaiian
islands, under a three year contract to
the Hawaiian Commercial and Sugar
Company, which company is paying
for their transportation. The party
has boon raised by H, 11. Maples, an
intelligent negro who goos with tho
colonists. The party is to bo used on
a large Biigar ulantation.
COSTLV KISS AM) HUB.
Married Woman Htion Gay Pottmatter and
1 h Awarded Damages.
The cost of a stolen kiss and an em
brace was on Monday fixed at 81,500
by a jury in tho supreme court at In
dianapolis in deciding Lillian Bonni
field s action for 82,000 damages
against James C. Wheat, formerly in
charge of u postoffice station.
Mrs. Bonnifield charged that Wheat
forcibly entered her apartments near
the postoffico January 20, 1898, while
her husband was away at work, press
ed a kiss upon her lips and embraced
her.
GOLD RECORDS SMASHED.
Uncle Sam 1. Uo*.cased of More Yellow
Metal Than Kvnr,
A Washington special says: On
Friday the gross gold in the treasury
amounted to 8482,913,023, Compared
with $416,218,209 at the same period
j agt y(;ar- The day’s figures break all
records. The increase in tho , gold
of the department during the
J , S0 6 694,814.
COAL COMPANIES AT OUTS.
Suit Brought In Birmingham, Ala , Court
For S# 1.00,000 Damage*.
Buit has been filed in the Birming
ham, Ala., city court by the Alabama
Coal and (!oke Company against the
Ivy Coal and Coke Gomjiuny for $100,
000 damages. The plaintiff claims
that tho defendant, during the year
1898, removed about 200,000 tons of
coal from certain lands belonging to
j the plaintiff. The land in question is
'ocated in Walker county,
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BROWN IN HONDURAS.
Krwtk I>*fi»ult*r Said to Be Jtepnlrlnff Ili»
Broken Fortune.
A Cincinnati newspaper prints a
dispatch from a special correspondent
a t (Jeiba, Honduras, telling of the cor
respondent’s search for Frank Brown,
the defaulting official of the German
Rational Bank of Newport, Ky.
q-fie story runs that Brown is in
Honduras in partnership with S. A.
j.; pcri (J f Montana, both engaged in
seeking to repair their fortunes,
V bOOD POSITIONS
^c^ECURED
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Young Men
Ir* Women
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INSTRUCTIONS BY MAIL
Ex-Confederates to Parade,
j George B. Eastin camp, Confederate
Veterans at Louisville has decided that
a parade of Confederate veterans will
be one of the features of the twenty
eighth triennial conclave of the
Knights Templar in that city August
17th to 30th.
RICHMOND HAKERH STRIKE.
I)« iti■» nded ’Mi>tt Inibtd Ho IMueed on
I.oj.vim Mmlo By Thom.
Nearly all of the union journeymen
bakers iri Richmond, Va., went on a
strike Monday because of the refusal
of the master bakers to agree to place
the union label on their bread. As a
result, the master bakers had to roll
up their sleeves and go to work in
dead earnest over their ovens. One
of the largest bakers made tho con
cession asked by the journeymen,
but none of the others have us yet
consented to do K>.
EVANS MAY SUCCEED BUCK.
.
Humor In \Va«hf ngton Tliwt. Tenrietneenri
Will Go to Jupitn
Tbere is a well defined report in ad- i
ministration circles that II. Clay
Evans, the present commissioner of
{tensions, will bo apjrointed to succeed
Colonel Buck ss United Btates minis
ter to Japan, The Georgia leader is
to be provided with another jioaition
either in the diplomatic service or ;
'‘something equally as good,”
DIED DEFENDING (ASH.
Would-B p. It Mink Bobber* Murder (*n«blor
In I'Miinirlviinlii.
Charles W. Ryan, cashier of the
Halifax, Pa., National bank, was shot
to death by Henry Rowe and Weston
Keiper, of Kykens, at noon Thursday
in an attempt at bank robbery.
The robbers were captured by a
party of citizens soon after the crime
and were landed in the Harrisburg
jail, together with F. H. Htraley, of
Lykeus, suspected as au accomplice.
Subscription, One Dollar a Year.
ESTABLISHED 1880
Waycross Sir Line Railroad Co.
Schedule in KffVct February lid, 11)01.
SOIIKDIILIC SHOWING I,(CAVING TIME
No. 1 | No. it I No. 15 No. 17
STATIONS. Daily Sunday | Daily i Daily
Only Ex. Hun. Ex. Hun.
Jamestown......... Waycross......... I I 00 am| 5 15 pm 6 eO am 12 00 m
12 16 pm
Upchurch.......... Waltertown........ 11 11 22 15 1 5 5 30 37 pin| 0 6 28 10 nirijl2 12 38 24 pm
Elsie............... pm 1 aim pm
12 29 5 44 pm 6 35 am 12 51 pm
Bolen.............. Beach............ ! I 36 6 51 pmj pmi 0 45 am 1 06 pin
I 1 46 6 01 6 57 am 1 25 pm
Bessoms............ Murrays............ 1 12 I 54 6 6 09 17 pmj pmj 7 7 07 19 am! ami 1 I 39 57 pm
Granville.......... pmj j pm
6 20 7 20 urn 2 01 pm
Nicholls........... 12 14 6 29 pm! 7 35 am| 2 16 pm
Saginaw........... Clmtter ton........ 12 12 30 20 6 35 pmj 7 48 am 2 34 pm
6 45 pm 8 00 urn 2 49 pm
Douglas........... Upton 12 I 53 02 7 7 08 16 pmj 8 8 30 26 ninj 3 3 49 20 pm
Wadleys ........!........j pm am pm
Mill I 4 30 pm
'[Vary Ambrose 1 26 pmj 7 41 pm! pmj 9 04 am! 4 40 pm
1 49 pm! 8 04 9 30 am 5 12 pm
Fitzgerald 2 15 pm! 8 30 pm 10 00 uni; 5 50 pm
No. 2 No. 4 No. 16 No. 18
STATIONS. Daily Sunday Daily Daily
j Only Ex. Hun. Ex. Hun.
Fitzgerald . ... 8 09 pm 7 00 am 0 00 am 12 00 m
Tracy .. ..... 6 27 pm 7 27 am 0 30 am 12 36 ] m
Ambrose Wadleys Mill .............j....... ..... 6 51 pm 7 51 am 6 55 amj j 1 1 08 25 pm
Upton ;........ pm
..... 7 16 pm 8 16 am 7 25 um 2 00 pm
Douglas . ..... 7 25 jim 8 25 am 7 35 mu' amj 2 20 pm
Clialterton ...... 7 48 pm 8 48 arn! 8 00 2 49 pm
Hagmaw..... ...... 7 58 pm 8 58 amj 8 11 am; 3 02 pm
N icbolts ..... 8 05 pm 9 04 arn 8 21 am 3 18 Jim
Granville ...... 8 13 pmj 9 13 am 8 34 tin 8 35 pm
Hessorns,.... .... 8 15 pm 9 15 arc 8 40 am 3 40 pm
Murrays ......' 8 23 jnn 9 23 am 8 51 ami 3 58 pm
Beach...... ...... 8 30 pm 9 30 am amj 9 05 am umj 4 13 pin
Bolen....... ...... 8 40 pm 9 40 9 13 4 32 pro
Elsie....... ...... 8 47 jim 0 47 am 9 23 amj 4 50 pm
Upchurch. Waltertown .. ...... 8 00 53 pm it 53 am 9 32 am 5 02 pm
...... 9 pm 10 00 am 9 41 am 5 14 pm
Jamestown, . .............. .... 9 48 am........
Waycross , . ..... 9 15 15 am 10 00 am 5 40 pm
Connkotionh Waycross with Plant Hystem; Fitzgerald with Seaboard
Air Line Bailway; Fitzgerald with Tiftou and Northeastern Railroad.
Gkoiiok Dolk Waoi.kv, II, C. McFadiien,
Vine I’res. and Gen. Mgr. Gen. Freight and Pass. Agent.
Alrx. Bonnyman, Superintendent.
General Offices, Waycross, Ga.
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