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VOL. XV#.
THOMASVILLE, GA., SATURDAY, FEBRUARY IS, 1888.
by o. w. wiLLie.
Fifty courtiers entered walking on their
hands, were bright.
Set In rings of gold .and silver; wbat a
rare and splendid sight.
Four and twenty nobio ladies, proud
and fair and ten feel long.
Were the trains that flowed behind them
borne by pages stout and strong.
See the queen, how sad and tearful, as
the king cuts off her head,
One bright tress of hair at parting, and
she wishes she v
jdead.
An Alarm Clock Under the
Sola*
(From tho Albany Journal.)
A mother on Madison avenue late
ly requested her daughter, who is just
approaching womanhood, to give her
beau a hint that she must not sit up
later than io o’clock. This the girl
was reluctant to do, but her little
brother threatened that unless she
did he would open the parlor door
and announce the maternal edict.
'1 he sister supposed that she had put
a quietus on her brother by remind
ing him of his playing licokey and
forging his mother’s name to excuses
from schoal to go skating, not forget
ting to mention the little riding whip
has mamma kept in her room. All
this, however, was not enough to
keep the youth from getting even
with his sis's beau, for not giving
him anything Christmas. The other
evening he got an alarm clock with
a bell as loud as the • gong on the
“Brooklyn Bridge” bob, and placed
it under the sofa where his sister and
her betrothed were to do their spoon
ing. The hands were pointed at ten.
The unsuspecting girl heard the tick,
but took it to be her lover’s Water-
bury. He was just tickling her ear
with a yarn about a horse his papa
was going to buy when the gong
sounded. There was a pause—and
then, as though understanding the
meaning, he grabbed his hat and
never stopped running until he struck
the door stoop, when he flew. The
boy had iced the steps. The little
brother now takes a cushion to
school with him.
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ACADEMY
-iost-on <3ha.,
FOR MALE AND FEMALE.
A (j MOOLlY, Principal.
3STEW
MILLINERY
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Anno • n**i—* • • liar M e -, !■» I tautomer*
her st ick «.f Mi.hn ry, 1. tne’
MITCHELL HOUSE BLOCK
I*n»u lt>r «n; «'«/««. Hor -lock of huts,
Manila. »• luii*. fo.tilier*, tuibroi ifxj, ailki
etc., e 'I'liucei h11 the v- rj
LATEST STILES & SHiDE
A full it&« of Liuil.alo atocW. * A full It
of etaiupu g oi«k*r a! cn lund ami aUmpti
d>nopromptly an I r>-.-tronablr.
Dressmaking
In all. f l:« ilai-ait jh ntf carried on. gat_
factl->u eiumatteA Special alts dUob Is called
BL ACK KID GLOTO
an l «U¥j» Murriwiu. Tbo IMa ire tu-
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BnBHin
Local Department.
See list of grand and pettit jurors
for the spring term of Thomas Supe
rior court.
Post Master Sapp has had a hand
some sign, with the words U. S POST
OFFICE on it, put up in front of the
post office.
Hon. H. G. Turner has appointed
Mr. C. S. Parker, of this place, a
weigher of mails. The position en
titles Mr. Parker to a months salary,
at $90.
The town and county are paying
more attention to streets and roads
than in the past. Nothing is more
important. Let the good work go
Judge Williams, oi Aiken, S. C.,
who is stopping at the Piney Woods
for a few days, and Mr. A. J. Feucht-
wanger, killed 50 quail on Monday
before 2:30 p. m., notwithstanding
there were four other shooters in the
same field. The Judge thought there
was no place like South Carolina for
quail, but has changed his mind since
shooting in Thomas county.
Matters are crystalizing on the
part of the young gentlemen of the
place, lor a return party to the young
ladies. The young gentlemen are
going to do the handsome thing by
their fair friends, in consideration of
the elegant entertainment tendered
them (the young gentlemen) last
Friday evening. The boys will have
to exert themselves if they get up as
elegant an affaii as did the young
ladies.
The Moss Manufacturing Co, have
secured a place in the great Trades
Display, which will be made in Sa
vannah, on the 23rd. Mr. Moss, the
manager, has kindly shown us a most
elaborately gotten up bed-stead and
two handsome card or center tables
Which he has made and will send to
Savannah for the display mentioned.
The panels of the bed-stead are of
native curly pine, trimmed with wal
nut. The finish is both exquisite
and artistic. The work will show
that the Moss Manufacturing Co, at
Thomasvillc, is doing work which will
compare with the best work done in
any portion of the country.
Tlic Human Race Groiring
Taller.
I have measured a great many Ro
man coffins, and my average shows
that the Roman could not have greatly
exceeded five feet five inches. In
taking maasuiements of ancient ar
mour, I find that the English aristo
cracy have decidedly increased in
average height within 500 years.
I measured twenty-five mummies in
the British museum, as nearly as I
could through the cases, making esti
mate for wrapping, and I found the
average height of males sixty-one
inches, females fifty-five inches.
The mummy of the celebrated Cle
opatra measures about fifty-four inch-
, about the height of the present
European girl of 13. The most an
cient mummy of an Egyptian king
yet discovered measured fifty-two
inches.—Nature.
Governor Gordon received a letter
from a lady named Mrs. Louisa
Marrill, Wednesday, dated Wood-
stook, Grafton county, New Hamp
shire. Her maiden name was Mary
.ouisa Thompson. She was born in
Columbus, and at the age of 13 was
carried North by a cousin, and left
there without money or friends. She
alone in the world, has been sick
six years and is now hardly able to
t up, even lor a little while. He^
parents died when she was very
young. Their names were Ander-
Thompson and Catherine
Thompson. They were cousin/. She
had relatives named Dayton anfa Har-
in Georgia. She was takep North
just before the war broke out and
asks the Governor to try and/find her
people and let them know her situa
tion and why she was deserted. She
has tried to find some one tofielp her
but cannot, and thinks that Her peo
ple don’t know where she is. I
sSallic Sanders, of Lci&ugton,
ball of cotton t broad spun by a
jrcat-grcat-jrrcat aunt of the\editor
of the Echo during the revolutionary
The cotton from which n, was
spun had to be picked from the “seed
by band and the spinning done o\» a
rude flax wheel, yet it is as tine af*l
smooth as line spool thread of thA
iitjiay. It is still remarkably
ifStiYd bids lair to l>o handed
To the de seen den Is of another
Hon. Edivar«l« Pier report arrived yes
terday and took rooms at the Piney
Woods. Mr. Picrrepont, though well
advanced in years, retains mncli of the
vigor, physically and mentally, of early
manhood. 3Ir. Picrrepont has more
A German.
Thai was a most delightful german
at the Virginia House last night. The
proprietress, Mrs. Whitfield, and her
Manager, Mr. Willie Palmer, proved
themselves charming host and host
ess on the occasion. Although an
impromptu affair it was a complete
success, many of the most charming
young ladies and gallant bcanx of
the place participating. At 11:30
the gay dancers stopped long enough
to partake of choice refreshments
furnished by Mrs. Whitfield. Danc
ing was soon resumed and kept up
until half past twelve o’clock. The
following ladies and gentlemen were
present, and with but a few excep
tions, took part in the dance:
C. M. Snclliug and Miss Honorine
Mitchell; Albert Riley and Miss
George Mitchell; Charles Stegall aud
Miss Mamie Blackshear; A S Haines
and Miss gallic Stark; Willie Ham
mond and Miss Annie Paine; T. N.
Hopkins and Miss Lena Paine; J. G.
Holmes and Miss Goodwin Sapp; Mr.
Crawford and Mrs. Ladsou; B. H.
Wright and Miss Fannie Aiken; D.
T. Boozer and Mrs. Baldwin; Spaul
ding Paine and Miss Clara Hunter;
Joe Love atul Miss Sadie Hall; W.
L. Mardrc and Miss McCall; Ansau
Ball and Miss Mamie Hansell; Willie
Palmer and Miss Crandon; W. It.
McIntyre and Miss Rosa Palmer;
Mr. Hammond, of Baltimore, and
Miss Rosalie Hawkins; Col. McLain
and Mrs. Whitfield ; P. J. Franklin
and Misses Stark and Waller.
The german was led by Mr. James
G. Holmes. It was given in honor
of —UjomasviJJe’s most
elianning visitors, Mlsn^s Sadie Hall
and Clara Hunter, of MHledgeville,
and Miss Fannie Aiken, of Pensaco
la. Miss Clara Hunter and C^apt. T.
S. Paine presided at the favor table.
Real Estate Sold.
Judge Hopkins sold to - Dr. David
W. Yandall, of Louisville, Ky., this,
morning, a solid block of Thomasville
dirt. It is located on Carroll hill, be
tween Madison and Stevens streets,
and is one of the most desirable pieces
of property in the town. It fronts the
boulevard and is admirably located
for residence lots. Dr. Yandell is a
prominent physician of Louisville./
We gladly record the fact that he ii
interested in the growth and prosperity
of Thomasville. *
than a National
addition to lilting the high ji
Attorney General, in President Grant’s
Cabinet, been tlie representative of this
government at tho court of St. Jamo3,
during one of General Grant’s Adminis
trations. Tho distinguished gentleman
was in Thomasville two years ago, and
was so much pleased that ho returns, at
the first opportunity, to spend some
weeks in our little piney woods city.
Work of a Woman.
Columbia, S. C., February 1 a —
[Special.]—Another “model woman
the state’ has been heard
from in the person of Mrs. Philips, a
handsome widow about thirty years
old, who runs a farm in Cypress town
ship, Barnwell county. Last year,
without any assistance, Mrs, Philips
made thirty-eight bales of cotton and
plenty of corn, peas and potatoes.
She plowed with an ox and did aff
the work of preparing, planting, cul
tivating and gathering. This year
she has bought a mule and is already
ready to plant.
Walter Flake. 14 years old, and
one of the seven orphans of J. G
Flake, murdered by Driver and
George two years ago in Pulaski
county, Arkansas, has arrived at
Camilla. The mother died two
weeks before the shooting of the
father. Two of the orphans are in
Arkansas, two arc in Mississippi, one
is in North Carolina, and two In this
State. Their ages are froin ^ to xS
years. -
Darien hopes to double her popula
tion within the next twelve months.
- ' ' a ,
L-putation, having, in |T)aUy State Democrat, published and
edited by Mr. J. D. Calhoun, at
Lincoln, Nebraska. It is bright,
spicy and newsy. We take the fol
lowing pungent paragraph from its
columns:
To judge from the clamor and
clatter oi our republican exchanges
conclude that the greatest want of
this country is a text book of history
hich will present the war of the
rebellion as having lasted about forty
years and that will give the names of
about 70,000 more brigadier generals
and two million colonels than are now
amed in the books current.
Alfalffe.
South Georgia’s great need is grass
idaptcd to this section. Any grass
hich even remotely promises to fill
lis long felt want, should be given
fair trial. Much is being said and
lit ten about alfalfa. If what is said
' it is true, the problem would ap-
iar to be solved. The News and
riser, Albany, which has given
ubject,
A (Vrtninij-.
It will be seen by the following let
ter that our Ice Works are now a cer
tainty. We are glad to announce, for
sure, that Thomasville will, at last,
have ice works:
Covington, Kv., Feb. 11, 1888.
Col. A. 1\ Wright:
Dear sir—Have completed all my
arrangements, aud will leave here on
Wednesdayja exL * * I
shall, be"bn the ground” during the
next week positively. I am,\
Yours truly, \
W. 8. Keefer. \
Mialnkvn for a I>rtiitiuicr,
One of those big-hearted, liberal
esterners, stopping in Thomasville
for the winter, and who, by his geni
al and pleasant manners, has made
host of friends here, concluded, a
tew days since, that he would aid a
local enterprise here to the amount
of a hundred dollars or so. Calling
upon a gentleman who had the
ter in charge, he was mistaken by the
resident for a drummer, and told that
nothing was wanted in his line. The
western gentleman, who is both
wealthy and liberal, took the joke
quite good-naturedly, and says that
he will chip in the hundred dollars
anyhow, if he was mistaken for a
knight of the gripsack He thinks
the joke is worth at least $25, so
that he will really be out but $75
^ Very Cold Wcatlieri
Agtmkman frftar&aTnt Paul, gives
us the following extract from a letter
he has just received. As few of our
readers are aware of the terrible
cold weather tfiey have in the north,
: publish it for their benefit.
The writer says: “My father had
tee form on his teeth one inch
thickness- -whilst they (the teeth) re
posed in a glass after the labors of
the day.” This, we think, beats the
record, and should fully satisfy
readers that rhomasville, with its
perpetual sunsmne and just moisture
enough, is indeed God's own country.
Wc
i in receipt of a- copy of the
THOM ,1STILLE, GEORGIA.
What a New York Editor
Thinks of the Metropolis
of South Georgia.
side cable study to the
It would prove injurious to the plant
Hi cut it the first year of its growth, or
rather it would destroy the prospects
>f\thc rapid occupation of the soil, as
Jd prevent it from dropping ma-
urA<l seed. The alfalfa plant being
‘rejinial and of groat longevity, its
■owth is of necessity slow, and by the
ultlplication and greater strength of
s roots in its second year tho todder
yield b consequently greater in propor-
Thq greatest advantage of alfalfa is
its merit as pasturage. For cattle It Is
ipassed. Yet, if properly cut and
cured; its bay Is tender and nutritous.
Mr. 8. P. Salter, of West Dougherty,
says: there is no doubt but that It will
ro\f luxuriantly in our soli, but his ob
jection to it was tho height it attained
and tho consequent toughness of its
wqody fibre. In discussing its merits
with this intelligent farmer, wc
soon learned that his want of acquain
tance with the nature of the plant and
* L e method of its successful cultivation
as the trouble.
He planted it in a very rich spot and
it grew about six feet high the first year,
and when he went to cut it it had yielded
riding switches insteaal of producing hay,
and he ploughed it up without giving it
another trial. If planted in moderately
rich soil and left unmolested for a year,
grazing or cutting it down will tend
materially to its rapid spreading by the
multiplication of its roots, and its foliage
will be green and tender as the yellow
clover. Any acre fully possessed by
alfalfa is worth $100. It will maintain
from three to five bead of cattle at all
•asons. last's grow alfalfa.
Arthur Buddie is the latest victim
of the practical joke of pulling a
chair from under a person. In Ames,
N. Y., the other night a friend at
tempted that joke on him. His head
struck the wall of the room with such
torce, that be died in great agony a
fear hours afterward. It looks like
the New York Legislature will have
to make it a penitentiary offense to
perpetrate such ghastly jokes. Only
a few weeks ago a similar case was
reported from Brooklyn.—News.
The smart Aleck who performs
this trick ought to be tied up by the
thumbs.
Beware of the convenient store ac
count on which goods are bought
from time to time. It has been the
in of many a man.
Jt is called “open account,” and
appropriately so, for it is the broad
way to bankruptcy. It is called a
“standing” account, and properly so
called, for it stands in the way of
prosperity. It ts called a “running"
account, and well it may he, for only
a lew men aye able to keep up with
it-rJIarietta Journal.
The above !r commended to the
•or bv.c.wv.lgu in it. ^akiug pa up. 1
Minister (dininr with the fhmilr)
—You were a dee little boy in
~ this morning, Bobbie; I
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The following very able and accu
rate letter is written by Mr. Moms
Phiffips, the editor of the Home Jour
nal, New York, who recently spent
some time at the Piney Woods Hotel.
We regret that we have to abridge the
letter, (which is about twice the length
of what we print), and our limited
space is our only reason for doing so.
This letter will be found interesting
reading:
February i, 1888.
Time, eleven a. m.—Your corres
pondent is seated at his bedroom
window; there are two large windows
in the room, and both are wide open.
The apartment is twenty feet square,
with a twelve-foot ceiling; it is not
heated artificially and yet the temper
ature in it is just seventy-two degrees.
This is not said from hearsay, nor is
the record taken from the hotel ther
mometer, which may be unreliable,
but from a portable thermometer
which the writer has a habit of drop
ping into his satchel when he starts
off as a tourist
WHEN THE PLACE WAS SETTLED.
People ask, “How old is Thomas
ville : when was it first settled ?” The
writer can answer this question be
cause he had the good fortune to be
presented to no less a personage than
Mrs. M. A. Bower, a most charming
woman to look at and to converse
with, who is proud of her fifty-six
years, but whom you would judge to
be at least ten years younger. Mrs.
Bower was the first white child born
in Thomasville, and in the first real
house erected - in the place. If stood
on the present site of the Mitchell
House. Mrs. Bower is the daughter
of Colonel and Mrs. Edward Rem
ington who came here from Pawtuxet,
R. I., in the year 1828. Set it down
for a fact then that Thomasville is
three score years old.
LOCATION.
Thomasville, the capital of Thomas
county (this is not from a gazetteer,
please believe), stands three hundred
and thirty feet above sea level, being
(m thh highest ground between Macon
knd the Gulf of Mexico, in the uplands
(of Georgia. It is two hundred miles
from the Atlantic, sixty miles from the
Gulf of Mexico as the bird flies, twelve
miles from the Florida State line, a
thirty-three-mile drive from Tallahas
see, and is reached from Jacksonville
at the South or from Savannah com
ing from the North, iD a few hours, by
way of Waycross or Jesup, two places
not particularly attractive to the tourist
but quite useful as way stations,
affording junctions for several lines of
railroad.
HEALTH AND PLEASURE.
Thomasville was at one time simply
a. health resort: people with consump
tion or other lung and throat diseases
came here for relief, and they found
it. They, the sickly people, still come
to get well; but besides being a health
iesort this is also a place for pleasure.
Fashion has set its seal on Thomas
ville. New York and Boston are well
represented among the visitors, but
the West especially favors Thomas
ville, atid St. Paul, for its size, sends
more people probably than any other
city. A number of St. Paul citizens
have cottages here and have set up
fine establishments. Ladies dress for
the morning ride or drive; they dress
for the mid-day dinner ar.d again for
the evening dance. Ladies at the
hotels exchange visits with the cot
tagers, also with the towns-people, the
permanent residents giving strangers
a real warm Southern welcome.
FEATURES OK THE TOWN.
To-day Thomasville has churches
of all denominations (including a Jew
ish place of worship), two hotels far
superior to any between Baltimore
and Jacksonville, unless exception be
made of the new Oglethorpe at Bruns
wick; a number of smaller hotels,
numerous boarding houses, two daily
newspapers, several good private
schools, a flourishing college for girls
and one for the other sex, a railroad
direct to the town—and five thousand
inhabitants. The boys’ college is
branch of the State University and has
at present two hundred and fifty pu
pils. The other institution, called
“Young’s Female College,” was
dowed by a Georgian, and the charge
for tuition is so low as to be nominal,
ten dollars per year to each pupil. So
the religiously inclined have ampl
opportunity to worship at their favor
ite shrine, and the educational advan
tages of Thomasville are uncommon;
good.
nature's gifts.
The reputation of this place w;
gained by its dry and balmy atmos
phere, its even temperature, its health
giving pine foiests and by its freedom
from cold or sudden changes.
United States Signal Service report
shows that the average winter tem
perature is about fifty-five degrees
and the average temperature last July,
the hottest month here, was eighty-
two degrees. While the winter days
are warm the mornings and nights are
pleasantly cool, and snow is Fomething
only seen on t^e steam cars as they
come from the North. Once during
the past fourteen years they did hare
a flurry of snow. It happened on a
Sunday and the churches remained
empty; so interested were the inhabi
tants in the uncommon right that they
neglected the church and all took to
snow-balling. You need no overcoats
nor wraps for outdoors wear, except
pofaaps for an evening drive, or lor
rainy days; but an umbrella or para
sol to protect you from the beat of
the son is indispensable. Iamspeak-
mg of needing such an article at the
present time, Fdxauy 1.
agreeable as it is strange. The pine,
live oak, hemlock and holly all nave
their branches thickly covered.
There is a gorgeous live oak on the
grounds at the Piney Woods Hotel
whose spreading branches measure
sixty feet across. There is a still lar
ger one in the town, which people
travel miles to see. It spreads nine
ty feet across. But beauty does not
always consist in bigness. The Piney
Woods oak is both beautiful and big,
but its symmetrical beauty is its main
attraction. Is it too warm on the
piazza? Cross over the road, fifty
yards distaut, and seek a comfortable
bench 01 rustic seat in the grateful
shade of the pines, in what Is popu
larly termed “Yankee Paradise,” but
is known more correctly it somewhat
tautologically, as Paradise Park. It
includes thirty acres laid out in walks
and drives. There is no ice to make
your step unstedy, but the needles of
the pines render the paths rather slip
pery.
WHEN TO COME.
You can pick violets in the open
air and pluck in the fields a small
bouquet of daisies at this writing, but
to see Thomasville at its best, I am
told that you must come a little later
than this, when the grass is all green.
You can then pluck wild roses to your
heart’s content. Then the pear or
chards will be in full bloom, and the
dogwood blossoms are a sight to be
hold. I have been here only three
days and have seen no rain, but the
soil is sandy and one can readily be
lieve what enthusiasts say, that an
hour or two after a long and heavy
rain, walking is again pleasant, the
rain having percolated through the
ground, leaving the surface perfectly
dry, if not hard. And there is seem
ingly no end of lovely walks. You
get out of the town in five minutes,
and if you are bent on pedestrian ex
ercise, and have an eye for beautiful
scenes, turn your steps in any direc
tion and you will make no mistake.
WHAT TO BRING.
If the ladies of your party are
equestriennes, by all means let them
bring their riding habits with them:
everybody rides. Driving, too, is
largely indulged in, the roads being
hard, smooth and unusually wide.
They extend for miles and miles
through the pine woods, and their
picturesque beauty you will please
imagines, it is not easy to describe it
without using more adjectives than I
have at my command en route. To
sportmen let me say, do not come
without your dog and guns or you
will never forget or forgive the error.
Wild turkeys abound, there.are snipe
in plenty, quail can be bagged by a
novice. You see them on the roads
while driving, and the crack of the
rifle is heard almost constantly.
Quail on toast is a regular dish at the
hotels at least once a day.
UPLAND PRODUCTS.
Cotton is still king in the South,
and Geoigia produces its full share,
but Thomas county is also noted for
oats. More oats are produced in
Thomas county than in any other
county in the United States. This l
have from one of the prominent citi
zens of the town whose imformation
extensive as his manner of im
parting knowledge is agreeable. If
you come to Thomasville try to meet
Dr. Bower. He practices his pro
fession no longer, being interested in
many large enterprises, lie can give
you more interesting information con
cerning these parts than probably
any other person hereabouts, but you
must allow a little for Dr. Bower’s
enthusiasm. He is apt to look at
Thomasville and Thomas county
through a rose-colored glass.
From I)r. Bower your correspon
dent learned, among other things,
that the Le Conte pear, which grows
in such profusion here and in Florida,
was brought to this country from
China about fifty years ago and pro
pagated by Commodore Lc Conte.
Georgian of French descent, ft
does not equal the Bartlett in flavor,
but its skin ir, tougher, and it bears
transportation better. You may see
orchards containing thousands
», acd the trees average a pro
duction of twelve to fifteen bushels.
•Some trees are said to yield 2s many
as thirty-five bushels. They boast
here of the largest pear orchard ir
the world—two hundred and twenty-
"ive acres. Last year twenty-five
housand crates of pears were ship
ped from here to various points in
the North and West. Some found
their way to New England summer
resorts, and were received with favor
Still from all I can learn, while the
North has its Bartlett, it r.ccd not
envy the South its I>e Conte.
them alphabetically) are both large,
new, handsomely furnished and per
fectly appointed houses, containing
all the modem improvements and
erected with strict regard for the laws
of sanitation. The Mitchell Ho use
is an imposing solid brick structure,
four stories high, two hundred feet
square, with a beautifully cultivate d
park of about two acres sweepm g
before its front piazza, which is re
served for the hotel guests and their
triends. The Mitchell House is kept
by Mr. Uriah Welch, who Vas pro
prietor of the St. Nicholas Hotel,
New York, for many years, and as
present proprietor of the New Ameri
can, at Richfield Springs, caters in the
summer time to many people of dis
tinction from New York and else
where.
The Piney Woods Hotel is within
gun-shot distance of the Mitchell
House, on the same street, with a
front measuring three hundred and
fifty feet, the other side overlooking
Paradise Park, of which I have al
ready spoken. The Piney Woods
stands, as it were, and as its name
might indicate, on the very edge of
the pine forests, and yet it is only
five minutes walk from the post-office
and a ten minutes drive from the
depot. The pamphlet issued by the
proprietor tells you that “the Pmcy
Woods is modelled similar to the
Grand Union Hotel, at Saratoga
Springs,” but this is a mistake of the
compiler of the work, and is no com
pliment at all to the house under con
sideration—which is far more pleas
ing to the eye, exteriorly, than the
old-fashioned affaii at the Springs.
The Piney Woods Hotel is built after
plansotJ.A. Woods, a New York
architect, who planned the new Grand
Hotel in the Catskill Mountains, and
with its wide and lofty verandas, its
projecting towers, its pretty corners
here and there, is a fac-sunile, on a
somewhat smaller scale, of that favor
ite and beautiful house. Any one
who has seen the hotel on the line of
the Western and Delaware Railway
picture to itself the Piney Woods
Hotel at Thomasville. The late
Captain Gillette, who kept the moun
tain hotel, kept this one also for
years, and William E. Davies and
ey S. Denison, officers of the
Grand, now manage the Piney Woods
of which M. A Bower is proprietor.
Each hotel, the Mitchell House and
the Piney Woods, will accommodate
nearly three hundred guests. Each
1 orchestra of five pieces, and
the cuisine and service of both are
equal to those of the best of hotels in
the land.
THE COTTAGE COLONY.
Beside the Mitchell 1 louse ard the
*iney Woods Hotel there are one or
two smaller hotels not so well known,
and any number of boarding bouses,
large enough to be called hotels, and
yet there is not sufficient hotel ac
commodation Jno. W. Masury. the
ealthy mint manufacturer of New
York, has invested a great deal of
money in Thomasville. He sees the
ncccs«ity for increased accomodation
for visitors, and is now putting up a
large brick hotel on the corner of
-road and Jefferson streets, opposite
the Mitchell House.
Thomasville is also becoming the
centre of a cottage colony ot n mter
residents from the North and West
who arc building for themselves
beautiful homes. Nobody is mc T c
enthusiastic concerning the climate
of ThoruasviUe, nobody has more
faith in its future prosperity than
John W. Masury. Not satisfied with
furnishing accommodation for stran-
by building a hotel and in invest-
icre for speculative purpose, he
has purchased for his own use a do-
ot no less than fifteen hundred
, within a four-mile drive ot the
Piney Woods Hotel, where he is now
ing what will be the most luxuri-
ounty scat in this part of the
State. The mansion is one hundred
y fifty-two feet and contains tlurty-
ivo rooms, and in its architecture
resents a beautiful and picturesque
grouping of details. A beautifully
ppointed stable and coach-housc arc
omplctcd, and the towers and roof
of the mam building are already ir
position. In the early spring Mr
Masury will be in condition to :nvitc
his city friends lo go a hunting on
his domain.
DR. n. M. WILSON, JR.
—rBACncE LU1ITED TO—
Disease* of the Throat and Chest.
OFFICE HOUB3—9,. a. t. U ». u4>U
Ip. a*.
Bn>*4 a«f**r, M*a-WU JlMM
A. P. TAYLOR, M. D.
Physician and Surgeon
OFFIOB-Ow tukl A 4r«
NMt^iaoae* Urmttiy •oc«pt**l t>y Mr.
orriou not' u*—• aid a. m. j 11 a.
aa.uip.rn.
BED :e, m. d.
of five ur-sr.vh^.
r -etcher Street*
Cornei bro»u
»'•* 1My-
It a tract of eighteen hundred acres
owned by F. J. Winn, several hundred
acres of which are under cultivation
They make good wine, too, at W
Farm, and it is offered in hospitable
qualities from the hand of an attrac
tive cultivated woman, the presiding
genius of the place. Mrs. F. J. Winn.
The luscious, juicy oranges which
are put on the tables of the Piney
Woods Hotel in such hbcral quanti
ties, come from the grove on Indian
River, F.orida, owned and cultivated
by Dr. Bower. The grove contains
four or five thousand orange tree* ii
bearing.
THE HOTELS.
There is a standing joke about cer
tain Soo\hcm dries where there arc
only two hTteis, that, which ever one
you select, yea will wuh you had
chosen the other. Although the
hotels sooth of the line bare greatly
improved of latt years, the old joke
wili stiff apply in certain towns and
cities. Notso.Tjpwever, at Tbomas-
rilk. There ate only two bolds here
known to fame, and you will make
no mistake if yoa select either. It n
a matter ofserprise to find rwosoch
JONES & FRANKLIN,
Attomovs at Law
Raai E'tato Agents au 1 Low a Bro
ken.
DF'P'TOHl—In Kata’* r.uUatv, Brand
Tnoiunvilta. Un. .:«aS-it
T S. DEKLE, M. 1).
Office initie Unyrs ttotwiioc.
Residence, corner College Avenue ami
Magnolia street
Telephone comm uni No. £3 fo
night calls. j»u ably
N. O. Mcl^ostdon,
Attorney at Law
TH0UABVIU.U, a A.
Plot'll *ncotl0B to *11 amu*m
Hi to Uttu
»tract.
t*n IS. ly
HANSELL & MERRILL-
Attorney nt. 14iw
AND
INSUU\N('K AGE* IS.
w.d. Mi rciiri.i- H.o.utrcuK)
MITCHELL ik MITCHELL
Attorneys at L**<
moMASVILLK. » . 3A
J H COYLE, I). IMS*
Keiiidoiu lentist,
E. II. BALDWIN,
TKACUEU ox
VIOLIN & GUITAR.
At .HO
'iano Tuner and Repairer.
I*!»: Grand and I*e!tlt Jurors,
Joh&w Miu
A. fV«i4t
John K. f|*!
J. W.
W. Jt. JUcnbU
K. K. Y'/OBjr.
K. L McT/rr.
H. L. H>jorr,
J .J. &•**«.., -
JrAoMilUf,
V. If. fUoiajri'
W K. Dane*.
K h. 5«4,
A. C. Uicktr,
J. C firm*ft,
W*a. Hit/ltUfr,
A. Z. DekLr.
w. E. tw«,
WT.W*|faA,
M.C. fkejrsll.
Great interest » being shown in
Florida, about the future of the F. R.
6c S. railroad.
The Chaplain of the Home was iff
the other morning, acd could not
perform his dories. When speaker
Carlisle called the House to order,
be whispered to the Oak to read the
journal, bat the members all arose,
expecting prayer. It ts raid that a
Bomber of thcra did sot discover for
JFO. TV. 11KM11N
». i* Walk kb
Herring & Haller,
TIKjMA.IVIIXE, U.1
BURIAL CASKETS
and
COFFINS,
3oth Motalie and Wocd.
Jl mo4 t/ fvm rjjta/ifesf
IQ© Broad. St.
NIGHT CALL8.
iitweM*] fir <*. W. llr-rioff, 1*0
ifoorsjrum Wsverly Jlov*e,
Ot t»v !J. P. Walker, ot Lia rt«t<knc*»
Cor. D* »v.o tod Gay
«•**> u
Diamonds,
Watches and Jewelry
JOSEPH JEKGERN
Repairing aad Eognnfle
i'<«%|rU} V; a AStwIiMa.
e««/tt*wSr tmruu «;i: m
p*>.< u'O* <»*/■>« 'mi
Jir* nically Pore
<te un Tarter and Soda.
atria SPICE,
Black Pepper, Ginger, Cl/
Mace, eta, ete, /
V 1JXQ
Cider and '
▼ery
Soda
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