The Wiregrass cracker. (Homerville, GA.) 1883-1???, November 03, 1883, Image 3

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Newspaper Page TextCOURT CALEHDER, Superior Court--Brunawlck Circuit. Clinch—1st Mondays in March and October Appling---£d wayne—3rd Mondays in March and October Fierce—4th Mondays Mondays in March and October in March and October M are-lst Mondays in April and November and November Tuesdays after 2d Mondays in April April Charlton—Tuesdays and November after 3d Mondays in b Mondays in April and Novem- Olynn—lsi Mondays in April and Novem¬ ber; ana tctcontinue ** two weeks or longer if ihsarys* sASteHtlJf, ML Brunswick,, Juuge. G B MA BRY. Brunswick, Soliclto r General Clinch County Court. month Monthly session—2d Mondays in every May, Quarterly August session— 3d Mondays in February. and November C. A. SMITH, Homerville, Judge. Clinch Justices Courts. Homerville—1st Saturday In every month. Mud Magnolia—2d Creek—2d Saturday in every month. Dupont—3d Saturday in every month. Saturday in every month Stockton—4th Saturday in every month. Clinch County Officers. Ordinary—J Clerk L Morgan Sheriff-} Superior Court—B R Johnson M Jeffords Receiver of Tax Returns—John Jones lax Collector—W J Rivers Treasurer-R C Moore Coroner—G A. Register Surveyor—George M Dame County Board of Education. A J Caswell N S Knight E W O’Quln James M Kigl James R Dick erson bern County School Commissioner—G W New- Homerville Municipal Covernment. Board or Commissioners. J L Sweat M M Caswell WH Gary W L Ecord Sherod Smith President of Board—J L Sweat Clerk—Joseph Treasurer—w T P Smith Maddox Marshal—Thomas Singletary Masonic. Cassia Lodgk No. 224. F. and A. M. W M—J L Sweat S W—M M Caswell J W-J M Right S D— Benj. Johnson J D—B A Whittington Secretary- Treasurer—A W T Smith J Caswell Tyler—H Regular A O’Quin meetings 2 d and 4th Saturdays in every month, at 7;3Q o’clock p. m. Appointments--Religious Services. BAPTIST CHURCH, Rev. Mr. Bennet, pastor. Preaching on Third Sunday in each month, morning and night Prayer meeting every Friday night. Sunday School every Sunday at 9:30 a. m. METHODIST CHURCH. Rev. 8. G. Chiles, pastor. Preaching on Second Sunday in each month, morning and night. Wednesday Sunday at night. 3:30 p. m. Prayer meeting every The Wiregrass Cracker is regis¬ tered at the Post Office in Somerville, Ga., as Second Class Mail Matter. LOCAL ITEMS. Messrs. Bryant, Johnson, George and Joe Tomlinson, and Joe Jones caught and killed the “Boss” alligator in “Devil’s Bay” the other day. He pul le i so hard, with his upper jaw braced against the roof of his cave, that it was a long while before four strong young men could bring him out. Two shots fired underneath lower jaw into his throat, made him .‘relax his brace. When pulled out and killed, he was found to measure 10 feet 2 inches in length, 15 inches from his eyes to end of his nose, Hi inches across the head, his foot was 12} inches from heel to end of longest or middle toe. Mr. Jones placed one foot on lower jaw up¬ on the ground and upper jaw when raised reached up over his knee. “Of course we raise gophers and ’gators, But they are for fellows that hate us.” The association ia over and W>11, and Reilly, and Charlie, and Charlton, and Isban, and Joe, and Jim look as if they needed some one to comfort them. We can do nothing for them unless we advise thtm all to follow our Bailiff’s example—iun away. He is gone 1 Alas I we shall never see just such another Bailiff. We are sorry. He was a good sort of a Bailiff, though some of the committee thought he wa3 rather stingy in “spiking” the lemonade. Dr. 8totesbnry said he or the lemonade ones was no account. We thought that the telegraphic sounder in the office was for tbe use of Willie Smith, bnt discovered Brother Crum and Gary hanging around it. We reckon he was trying to make the “pesky” thing talk. We hope for the sake of onr town, that the instrument may be kept away from the prying of these old fellows, for it would be a pity for them to get hurt. It might “blow up,” you know. Be sure and read Joe Mattox’s ad- vertisment in this issue. Joe is a good fellow, plenty of business grit and will ahow you a large variety of cheap goods, with pleasure. All that Joe, now lacks is a good little wife, to take care of him. “Hurry up,” Joe that V belongs ,o “we uns.” -#■ These Baptist Associations have elect¬ ed Heal Smith, Moderator, soofter, till it has puffed him so much with conceit that we can hardly put np with him. He was also elected a delegate to the Bapt ; ;t State Convention to be held in April next, at Atlanta, NAVAL STOItJES. A Call lor a Convention. Thomasville, Ga., Oct. 23.—We, the undersigned, producers and manu¬ facturers of naval stores, in convention assembled, in view of the low prices now received for stores, the high prices paid for and, labor in and material for produc¬ tion, our judgment, excessive freights urgently charged on this class of goods, request that all parties inter¬ ested will attend a convention to be held in Savannah on Wednesday, the 14th of November, to consider a reme¬ dy for the evils mentioned; and that all commission merchants dealing in naval store and the officers of the vari¬ ous railroads at interest he invited to meet with us and to confer upon the subjects mentioned. All papers friendly to the interests of the naval stores manufacturers in Georgia [Signed) and Florida will please copy. J M. Paxton, Chairman. G. F. Westmoreland, Secretary. J. H. Stephens; Paxton & McLane; G. F. Wes'moreland & Co.; Boynton & Roberts; F. H. Butler; Collins & Bagga; J. M. Borwick; Brimberry & Stephens; Park> r & Hayes; McLane, Ballard & Co.; J. W. Bryan & Co.; C. Lightfoot & Co. We clip the above from the Savan¬ nah News, of 25th October. The mat¬ ter presented is of vital importance, not only to the manufacturers, but to the several localities where this inter¬ est is. Announcement. Finding that many of our Sunday school brethern wish to have something to say weekly in our “Sunday School Department,” and trusting that in time the various publishing houses will fur¬ nish us with plain common sense Les¬ sons for our young children, we will discontinue the “Lessons” for the present. We would urge upon the publishers the necessity of getting a “Quss. and Ans.” lesson, with but few references for the young folks. If none of the kind appear after a reasonable time, we will publish the lessons regu¬ larly. Waresboro Items, Cloudy, damp, cool, windy and driz- ly- Sugar “biling” is about to be the order of tbe day. Mr. E H. Crawley begun on his to-day. Some of our people are getting real hungry for a “home-made” corn hoe- cake. Oapt Crawley and W. K. Mallon, so we are informed, have sold out their farms in Waresboro to Messrs. Calvin and Gorden Parker. The former par¬ ties will move to Waycross. The lat¬ ter will become, a citizen of our village. Our young friend Tommie Hilliard was in town to-day. He expects to open up a stock of goods here next week. D. H. Bennett and B. S. Key are anxious to see a good shower. They want to transplant cabbage. Tbe sturgeon we spoke of last week was 5J feet long, instead of 3i as you have it. Whisky selling will soon be a thing of the past in Ware county. It will do us good in several ways. It will improve the morals of the dram-drink¬ er, cause him to save his dimes, pre¬ serve his strength to work and live like a white man. Methlnki X hear the tippler say Farewell to whisky; gin, get far away I You’ve robbed my bride, so fair, so gay, Of many comforts, night and day. Tbe coffee pot sat on the flr», While X did wallow in the mire; For me she sighed and did Inquire ’Cause my return was her desire. Now, by my labor and God’s grace 1 look upon a smiling face; X live no longer in disgrace, Or bring dishonor on my race. Thank God, the cursed stuff is gone. That caused my bride to sigh and moan— She sits no longer all clone In sighs and want hard to be borne. Oot. 23,1883. Lsbkuii. Population ol Waycross HunJe.y School District by Counties. V. 8. CENSUS, 1880. 1. Appling. 5,276 2. Berrien... 6,619 3. Brooks.... 11,727 4. Camden,. 6,183 5. Clinch.... 4,138 6. Coffee..... 5,670 7. Charlton.. 2,154 8. Echols... 2 553 9. Glynn..... 6,497 10. Liberty... 10,0f)0 11. Lowndes. 11,049 12. McIntosh 6,241 13. Pierce.... 4,538 14. Tattnall.. 6,988 15. Ware..... 4,159 16. Wayne... 5,980 Total 100,412 This district embraces a wider eoope of territory than any one or two of tbe other twenty-five Sunday school dis¬ tricts in Georgia. “Go labor in my Vineyard I” Brethren, are yon ready ? The cam¬ paign has been opened in Qhailtoo oounty. Population of Clinch County by Districts. U. S. CENSUS, 1880. Mad Creek District 756 Magnolia U 386 Stockton 465 Moore’s Mill 724 Morgan 392 Jones Creek <( 253 Homerville 607 DuPont 655 Total 4,138 The fourth Quarterly Conference for Homerville Circuit will be held at Homerville, commencing on Thurnday night before the first Sunday iD Novem¬ ber next, aDd will continue to Friday night It is expected that the services will be protracted. The pastor hopes to see a full attendance of the official members of the conference. t No rain yet. Gardens are dying oat. The ponds and branches are nearly all dried np, end unless it rams soon stock will suffer terribly. There is but little complaints as yet about the supply of drinking water in our wells around town. In Alexandria 256 white votes were added to the lists at the registration. Tbs total jegistered vote of the city is 2,233 white and 1,231 colored. In Pike oounty, Ps., Sunday, Jerry Greening found the body of A. 0 Cbee- ver lying on a woodpile near the house with a bullet bole in the breast. PUBLISHER'S DEPARTMENT. Attention! Ladies!! Read our Premium List. Just t a. al the mi Thing; • You Need.? „ c> 'VTOU can earn it by the expenditure ol a 11' tie time and labor With a view of increasing our circulation and at the same time please the ladies, we have made up and offer the following liberal List of Premiums i From October 13th, ’83, to May 1st, ’84 For Ten Subscriber—One elegantly Jfiinsbed Lady’s Work Box,'or;one beautiful Photc graph Album For Twenty Subscribers—One elegant Cane Seat Rocker, or one beautiful Family Bl j For Thirty Subscribers—One Best Clothes Washer, or onejelegant Eight Day Clock Fi Jty 8nbaeril*f)Aj^$a4Mti>K' Cottage Chamber me Set of Furniture For Ore Hundred Subscribers—One superbly equipped Coo) ing Stove, or one fine Organ- ita, or Baby Organ For Two Hundred Subscribers—One elegant Parlor Organ, or one su perior Chamber Set of Furniture These premiums are Not “Shoddy" articles but Real Serviceable Goods by most approved makers r It you wish to earn one of these premiums go To Work at Once Send on your subscribers’ names and money as fast as you obtain them Notify me, at tne start, which premium you are working for You i an send names of subscribers for any P O address We will keep a “Premium lust Book,' in which will be entered the nam s as fast as received Remember the Time! From October 13th, '831 May 1st, ’84, When you have completed your number of names, we will order the particular ■ remium selected by you, shipped to your address, at once Subscription price only $1 Per Annum. Fend money by Registered Letter or Ex- press, to E J BENTON Homerville, Clinch Oo., Ga. ADVERTISEMENTS, A Valuable Truck Farm For Sale, Cheap. T OFFER my farm, situated one mile north jL or jDTJPOISrT, CLINCH COUNTY.. FOB SALE, Cheap, for Cash, or negotiable paper It Is pleasantly situated, with good water and good farm buildings, all conveniently arranged. and there The field contains twenty-five “old field” acres, lying are about ten acies of out. The ya'd and horse lot are shaded by magni¬ ficent Live Oak trees. The field and settle¬ ment are well drained. The soil is a light, sandy one, which yields well to cultivation. It Is so high compared with other farms in our seotloti, that it, is not affected by cold or wet to an; y appreciable extent Ihaveprodue- ed ae fi ie i Watermelons, Sweet Potatoes, Irish Potatoes, Corn, Cabbage and Sugar Cane tbele as I have ever Been anywhere There are sev¬ eral ‘true” muck ponds In fann, 100 to 4t0 yards distance, which will yield Inexhausti¬ ble,quantities of manorial matter for compost¬ ing. Withtng 100 yards of tbe dwelling house Isa fine “spring” pond, stocked with abundance of fish and turtles The tract oonlalns 429 acres of land (more or offer less) It Titles for sale, perfect but that Nothing I need moves n money; me and to auy one applying, get good who trade really “means busi¬ ness” can a » Call upon, or address, E J BENTON. IHomerville, Clinch County, Ga A cyclone passed over Catabonla and Tensas parishes, La., demolishing a number of houses and other build¬ ings, and injuring twenty persons or more in its course. -V——--- 4 ADVERTISEMENTS. HONEYLOANED A.T 8 FEE, CENT. I .am prepared to negotiate loans on Real Estate In Clinch County, at 8 PER CENT, per annum and expeuses J. L. SWEAT, 2-27 E Homerville, fGa, Hie Place to Get Cheap Golds I FAMILY GROCERY, W. _A_. EOOBD, E® HOMERVILLE, CA. EPS on hand'and constantly receiving a choice supply of Family Groceries, FRESH n CHEAP!! 6 ' 1 * 8 * Brices paid for country pro¬ dime of ve me a call before purchasing elsewhere Goods at Bottom Prices. W. T. SMITH, homerville, GEORGIA. —dealer in— Dry Good b. Groceries, Boots. Shoes, Hats. Drugs and Medicines. In fact any and everything friends needed by our Far¬ mer of Clinch and adjoining counties. Times have changed ! c The “days of our daddies were, perhaps, good days after a fashion, but you will find these days better when you discover that by the outlay of a few dollars, ter goods, you than can make better bargains for bet Come ever before. and see for yourself! Bring the good 'With you ! No trouble to show goods ! I defy competition ! All kinds of country pro¬ duce taken in trade. Highest market prices rP* 1 ** 1 .Honey, Wax, Tallow, Hides, Cotton, Ri ce * Eggs, Butter, etc., In fact sell an v goods produce . cheap, of the farm. I am determined to and guarantee satisfaction. W. T SMTTH. W. A. RAMSEY AND MERCHANDISE BROKER, Jackson St., - Augusta, Ga. ■-- IJL IIT ^VlNG thirty years, a business and confining experience myself of strict ove ing jy to on a my Commission own account, Business, respectfully without operat¬ solicit your consignments of Bacon, F»our, Lard, Corn, toes, OnionB, Oats. Hay, Kggs, Butter, cheese. Whe t, Pota¬ Florida Fruits and Vege- tab.es, and all kinds of produce. 1-18 W. C. Newbern & Bro. —DEALERS IN— am GOODS. NOTIONS, CLOTHING, SHOES, TOBACCO, SEGARS, &c., Family and Fancy Groceries,] HOMERVILLE, GA. NEW FIRM I NEW GOODS ! I ROCK BOTTOM PRICES ! ! I YX r Eare prepared to compete successfully r '■ with any house in the county, pud in¬ vite all of our country friends to give us a trial before purchasing elsewhere We wiif pay tbe higheet m-rket prices' for all a kinds of farm produce OUR MOTTO: i i Quick Sales and Small Profits!” 2-.J _ Brunswick & Western Railroad. Ou and after Sunday, September 16, 1883, Passenger trains on this road will run asfol- lows: WE8TWARD. No. 3. Arrives al Waycross. .9;3 r > p m Arrives at Albany... .2:25 a m MAIL EXPRESS NO. 1. Leaves Brunswick..... .....9:15 a m Arrives at Waycross. ...12:20 p m Leave Waycross......... .....2:U0 p m Arrive at Albany......... .....7:00 p m ACCOMMODATION. Leaves Brunswick....... ............... . 6:00 a m Leave Waycross......... ...................9:10 a m Arrive at Albany.......... .................7:45 p m EASTWARD. NO. 4 . Leaves Albany..................... .............12.10 am Leaves Waycross...................... ...........—4:50.: m MAIL EXPRESS NO. 2. Leaves Albany............ ..7:15 a m Arrives at Waycross. .12:20 p ra Leaves Wayoross..... . . ..5:00 2;00 p m Arrive at lirunswlok. p m ACCOMMO DATION. Leaves > lbany............ .5:00 a m Leaves Waycross.......... .3:20 p m Arrives at Brunswick .8:00 p m Passenger both trains connect at W. Waycross with * trains ways on 8., F. & Railway. H. 8. MORSE, General Manager, Brunswick,jGa., June 30,1783. “Harnett House,” SAVANNAH, GEORGIA. As now conducted is Just as good as those that claim to;be First-Class and oharge twice as much IT IS CONNECTED [BY STREET CARS WITH ALL THE DEPOTS. JSj-Point thlB out to your neighbors Don’t pay $4 per day, or even f3, when you can get fust as good accomodation ana reeelve more attention for 82 per day 1 - 5 ! J. S. MATTOX, HOMERYILLE, GA. TRICEPS on hand and is constantly reoelv IV. ing a choice selection of Fresh Groceries and Canned Goods, Hardware, Crockery, Tinware, Druga and Medicines, Fanoy Notions of all kinds, Candies, Nuts, Etc., £tc. CASH XS HUN G. I will pay highest market prioes for all kinds o'country produce 1 do not fear com¬ petition Coll and see me before purchasing elsewhere 34 THE IrijM Gruktrli NOT A MERE A Live, Newsy, In¬ teresting FAMILY NEWSPAPER!*! It will interest YOU; your WIFE will find pleasure in its perusal, and your CHILDREN will love its fresh, healthy teach¬ ings. It is, Undoubtedly, The Best And Cheapest FAMILY NEWSPAPER Published anywhere, or any¬ where else. Read Our Premi¬ um List! Every week a welcome visitor, entering heartily into all the de¬ tails of your everyday and Sun¬ day life, helping you by its friendly counsel to more suc¬ and cessfully fight for the True the Good. Now is a Good Time to Form Clubs. Only One Dollar Per Year Fifteen Columns OF Choice Heading Matter. EVERY WEEK. We expect a Rousing Major¬ ity from all the Wiregrass Pre¬ cincts. We Will Get it, Too, JAND TIAWV DUll 1 VAIT lUU r lUHuJul AD ft FT TT1 11 ■ Send money by registered ® ter, , ,, or „ expitss, to ■**** J BENTON _ w HOMERVILLE, Clinch County Georgta. . LAUQH AHD CROW FAT. Wyune’s 30,000 Kisses. Fashion circles are again excited over of in Brooklyn. The William present centre attraction is Mr. Wynne, better known as “Willie, the Bine-eyed Masher, of Coney Island.” It is said that if Mr. Wynne were to put all the hearts be has oaptured from time to time on one string they would reach from Manhattan Beach to the iron pier. His latest conquest was Miss Alice Lamb, a deliciously beantiiul, pink-fin¬ gered young miss, who resided on Brooklyn Heights, and was wont to set the fashionable young men of that locality Mr. Wynne half crazy. Miss Lamb met first at the last annual pic¬ nic of the famonB “Hungary Three As¬ sociation.” It was a case of love at first eight. Miss Lamb’s escort home on that occasion was Mr. William Wynne, and from that time time forth the relations between the two Miss were Lamb’s those ot acknowledged lovers. father was impressed by the martial demeanor and bearing of his daughter’s suitor, and, having satisfi¬ ed himself, after conversing with Mr. Wynne that the latter was a gentleman of brilliant pecuniary expectation?, en¬ couraged, it is said, his attentions to his “I’ve been married myeelf, and I’ve seen others get in the same box," re¬ marked Mrs. Ophelia Quinn, a neighbor of the Lamb family, "but I never saw such billin' and cooin’ as them two car¬ ried on. It would make you sick to look at them. It is generally conceded that Mr. Wynne was exceedingly attentive to the young lady, and that his love was tally reciprocated, Mr. Wynne is tall, graceful and very handsome. His eyes bulge a little and there is a disposition on the ’part of one of his feet to tread ou the u corns of the other, but in every otb r respect he is the sort of person a sculptor would travel miles to see. When he had been aD accepted lover for three weeks Mr. Wynne’s frmily physician recommended a trip to Coney Island, and when be arrived there he sat down and wrote the following epia- le to the idol of his heart : “Coney Island, February 1, 1883. “My Own, Owd, Owd: It seems ten years since last I saw you. Oh, Alice, Alice, do not think I am going to for¬ get you because I have come out here. I will think of you every minute until we meet. 0 Alice 1 Can’t you come down to-morrow? Telegraph me if you can’t, but don’t mark it ‘collect’ It might never reach me. 0 Alice, why, whv, did I leave jou.” Willie. “P. S.—O Alice!” The next day brought the young lady the, following epistolary aalys to 'her fcnrBtiTTg'' l !tM»*t; “Coney Island, February 5> “0 Alice, Alice—I t seems f.e me, dear Alice, that you cannot have much cimlort in thii- world until we c»u eit on our stove. Come to me, oh! come to tne I" Your-illey Willie.” ’iris letter was the first blow Miss uatub had received during her tumul¬ tuous courtship, and she pined to know what her Willie could mean by say» mg there could be no comfort for them until they could sit on their own stove? She asked the question ol herself a hundred times over, but ber aching heart gave the old stereotyped re¬ sponse: “He wants to burn you Alicel Watch him!” When she could stir her soul up to the cruel ordeal, she wrote “Willie,” a letter, in which ebe “said that she wouldn’t allow him or any other man to “ait” her on a stove. The letter which “Willie” wrote in answer to this was soiled with tears. It runs as fol¬ lows, and the irregularity of the pen¬ manship indicated that “Willie” wsr either Buffering trom a broken heart or had taken too much of the “intoxica¬ ting spirit of turpentine:’’ “Dear Alice; Accept thirty-three thousand kieses. I am heart-broken. I never said anything about sitting on a stove. What I did say was that you and I would never be happy until we could spit—s-p-i-t—on onr own stove. Write me two letters to-night and one in the morning. I wish to discover whether yonr heart is as true before breakfast as it is by moonlight. “Yonr unalterable Willie.” Shortly after the last letter Mr. Wynne returned to Brooklyn. H'e heart was so fall that it was with diffi¬ culty that he could button his vest. Alice met him At the front door, and ihe neighbors came out to witness the fond greeting. “Dearest,” exclaimed Mr. Wynne, “this is the quintessence of joy!” “Excuse me,” said Miss Alice, who had just been informed that Wynne had a wife and two children, “you are on the wrong door-step.” Mr. Wynne was paralized, and didn't fully recover until a policeman darted f-om behind a tree-box and seized him, He was taken before Jue- *«>• Walsh yesterday, and charged by Miss Alice with having trifled with her nffeotious. When Justice Walsh c 0rr68 P?. ndeQC « h “ g«at- (mooted, , and held Mr. Wynue for further hearing next Friday. “He is tbe first man that ever naked me t0 “P * 1 on 1” said Miss Alice, as she danced Out ol tbe oouri-roinn, “sod he’ll be the last.”— N. Y. Journal . Two thousand bales of cottou ware burned in the yards of the South Uar- Railway Company at Charleston, S. 0,, on Monday. The lose is $100,- 000; covered by insurance.