The Thomasville times. (Thomasville, Ga.) 1873-1889, March 16, 1889, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextTHE TIMES Comer Broad and Jackson Streets •g f. nAwmxs, Jit. Attornej and Councellot Published every Saturday by TRIPLETT & B URR. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year, — Sis Mourns, Tubes Mostii3, PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. tltVEKTISlMO BrTES. TffOMASVILLE, GA THAT QUADRILLE PROB LEM. Will Its: Solution Become a THEY ALL WANT SEED. Notice. On account ot the indisposition ol Judge Mitchell, the March criminal > term of Thomas connly court will stand adjourned until the and Wed nesday in April neat. Parties, wit nesses and jurors will take notice and govern themselves accordingly. T. N. Hopkins, Co. Sol. T. a County Alliance. A meeting of the Thomas County AUiasee is hereby c,'.ld to most at the ccurt heure in ThomasviUo on Satur day, the 23rd of March, for bnsiaea*. Every member is urged to be present. A. W. IVKT, President. N. G. TULLI8, M.D. Regular Practitioner. Wocka. Month, 6 Months ^■ITCnELL * MTTCHSUt Attorneva-at-Law, twwuia, . OvoesU JJAXSELL * MEIUUU . Attorneya-at-Law amljj Initu] ance Agents. rheaunUl*. >• -• • tWoctu; Ofitce—Over Waif* store. Teiephoao communication, No. as (or M!f!k! CATARRH SlMtlShMfttrEaTn^^ypflP J. VEAXi3 & CO., Boatoi Vail Han «f tfao above akoos for CITY SHOE STORE. MOSE WILSON. Practical Painter AND KALSOMINER. Ie umr ready to do tidwninW ta drat ctaaa atjle, and otreaoooabto price:. Alt work KBorootood, I.ture order: it n. Tbomis, Jr. a, or J. L. a TV. A. I‘rint''e’-. uorW-dhw-ly The differences '‘reported side the committee will be with considerable intcreit, Count Cleveland in in 1892. will be there—or thereabouts. Cough Medicine. If you have a Couch without disease of the Lungs, a few doses are all yon need. But if you no- f gleet this 1 of safety, the slight Cough may become “a serious matter, and soveral bot tles will to required. CATARRH I OF PURE COD LIVER OIL S2B ETgPOPHOSPHITES Almost as Palatable as Milk. •« dlagclsrd that it can bo talc an. Algo alod, and asnlimlatcfl by the most •onaltlve stomach, tvhen the plain oil cannot be tolerated; and by tho com bination of the oil with tho hypopimo- pbites is mnch more ofltcacions. Remarkable as a Ge*h producer. Persons gain rapidly while taking It, SCOTT’S EMULSION is acknowledged by Physicians to bo the I'iuofit and Best prepo- f»hu» in the world for the relief and cure of CONSUMPTION, SCROFULA, GENERAL DEBILITY, WASTING DISEASES, EMACIATION, COLDS and CHRONIC COUCH3. The greti remedy f->r Consumptimn. and Wasting in Children. Svld by all Druggists, 0 wllrences tUo med :r ine mnat ,obo Tonic, Alterative and Oathnrtl.3 Properties. Speedily Bestore ta bowel"* their uutuni neriuiwitia motion, mo essential «o^rcgnlarlty. Sold Evarywliory. The Mutual Life Insurance Co, OF NEW YORK. RICHARD A. McCURDY, President. Tor the year ending Deo. 31st, 1808. -d«PC|c1, Isrresso In iMctu, Ssritlns st four per rent., lnrrtiuo Is Snrpluh, . Pollrl** la force, ■ Iocreave during year, > Policies written, • lncrer.se during year, fifeM Ittrssss daring year, • Risks in forre. Increase daring year, - Receipts from all soirees, Increase daring year, - Tald PoUry-Holdcrs, . THE / l ASSETS ABE DIVESTED AD FOUDWS: Hoads and Mortgages - - $49,017,874 02 United States sad other aeraritles, $4$,61«,704 14 Loans on cotlat- f21,78p,12J 24 Meal Estate •ml, If Basks and Trust Com- ftrred and in transit, Etc., $5,813,277 60 $3,248,17 8fiAK,7i9.....: AoSsea 60,457,468 427,628,933 C,29L443 4iA125,184 7\*o;063 iS»r R ?' fi S5 ANNISS. 'Tre-ProMret. ISAAC. F, LLOYD, — id \icc-PmtHm WILLIAM J. EASTON, ' s£22& Eli M. Mallett, Local Agent, Thomnsville, Ga. E. C. llcucdict, General Agent, At lanta, Ga. ^ Aa2= Tc-ur To? tho efAME-8 MEANS' S4 o SHOE JAMES MEANS $3 SHOE, Aocordlns to Your Seeds. From the New York San. That opening quadrille at the Washington centennial ball, at'the Metropolitan opera house, April 29, promises to become a burning ques tion, and in consequence the ball whicn it will open begins to throw into the shade all other arrangements for the celebration, including the great banquet of 800 covers at,$25 a caver. The suggestion-in yesterday’s World* which Emanated from a loqua cious member of the entertainment committee, and was to the effect that the ladies dancing in the quadrille must be selected on some basis other than that supplied by their long and distinguished American ancestry, was received with derision, not only by Knickerbocker representatives, but also by intelligent champions of what is also historically appropriate. An old New Yorker, whose rela tions to two of the ladies named for the quadrille prevent his identifica tion here, said that the only way to make the quadrille absolutely Amer ican, as benefited the occasion and the hero sought to be honored, was to have all the ladies dancing direct descendants of the soldiers and states men of Washington's time who were present at the first inauguration ball. This believer in American ancestry took exception to the list printed two or three days ago on the score that sev eral ladies named do not themselves represent old colonial stocki Their husbands come ol old families, but, according to American ideas, this 'would confer no position on the wile. This old gentleman was of the opin ion that the ladies selected must themselves be lineal descendants of revolutionary sires. Tried by any such tests as this, the selection, it is admitted on all sides, wil be made very difficult. It has leaked out that there is trouble in the committee already over who shill be chosen, and from the scanty infor mation which can be gained compli cations promise to multiply as the time for the final selection approaches. In the unidst of all the discussions, however, which naturally increase in bitterness of feeling as they are car ried on, there are two or three names, said, which the committeemen, without exception, agree are fixed beyond dispute. One of these is that of Mrs. William Astor. Not only is she a direct descendant of an old New York fam ily, resident here and distinguished during revolutionary times, Dut she is the acknowledged leader of Jfew York society to-day. It would be impossible to overlook her. Mrs. Astor would represent the Van Cort- landts, her grand-mother on her mother’s side having been a daughter of Gen. Phihp Van Cortlandt. He one of the youngest and most brilliant soldiers of the revolution and it is related of him that he bore so striking a resemblance to Gen. Lafayette that on the occasion of the French general’s visit here, in 1824, he took his place at a reception held the Cily hall. Gen. Lafayette be came very tired from seeing so many people and shaking so many hands and Gen. Van Cortlandt acted as his substitute without* exciting any sus picion or having his identity chal lenged. In addition to all this it is pointed out that Mrs. Aston's leadership in society here has not been questions during a great many years, aui his account alone she is eutitlj :ake her place in the quadrii! an illustration of what her leadership really means, it'was mentioned yes terday by a society woman who had something ’ to do v ith this year’s charity ball, that the afTair gave every promise of failure until Mrs. Astor came forward and gave her name to it. Then fashionable society sup ported it and everything went weli with it. This lady estimated that Mrs. Astor’s purchase of a box was worth from $4,000 to $5,000 to the cause in behalf of which the ball was given. It is known that Mrs. Asto regards herself as absolutely and finally selected as one of the dancers, because, Just before her recent de parture for Europe* she assured numerous friends that she would return in time to participate in the quadrille. Mrs. Grade King, the wife of the banker, it another who must be selected . according to those who in sist that the quadrille shall be purely American. She is a descendant of theDuers. Other ladies who are uuned are Mrs. Valentine Cfc HaB, descended from Chancellor ton, who tdminftfed the office to Gen. Washington; MrsJ Sid- , jfcF. Webster-and Mrs..Frederic.de ual glance at the namesofthe.com milteemen shows that several mem bers have a personal * and family interest in the discussion and the way it is settled. How much ot the controversy will become public it is, of course, impossible to predict, as motives which the committee might confess without hesitation to each other they would perhaps not care to have published to the world. That there will be entertaining develop ments, seems now tolerably certain. Two thousand five hundred tickets for the ball have already been spoken for, and the numbers of tickets which will finally be sold will, without doubt, sink all similar affairs into insignifi cance. The Grass For Georgia. The Greensboro Journal says that within one week one farmer has put on the market there and sold 75,000 lbs. of bermnda hay, and the demand and price are constantly improving. Sixty thousand pounds of this hay was sold at eighty-five cents per hundred, or 817 per ton; the last lot of fifteen thousand brought $18 per ton. This was only ono of many sales which are taking place in Greensboro. The crop gath ered on the bermuda grass farms the past year is bring put upon the market. It finds ready purchasers at good fig- 1, and thousands of dollars are be ing brought from other sections of the country and going into the pockets of the bermuda grass f/rmers. And from every ton of bermuda hay sold by the farmers of Green county there is a clear profit of eleven dollars a ton. A ton of hay at $17 a ton pays more profit •ban a bale of cotton at eight cents a pound. In a talk* with the edi-or of the Journal, Capf. J. M. Story, on the raising tf-bermuda, said: I have had s>m« considerable ex perience in this mater, and if you hink they will pnve of benefit to oth- :rs I will cheerfully give them. My own opinion is that bermuda grass pays a better profit as a hay than any other crop which can be put on the land. Every body knows that bermuda grass grows without any p-trlicular cultivation. The only expense attached to it is the cui ting and baling. It requires five years to operate and keep up with a mowing machine. A machine will cut three acres a day. I have made the follow ing estimate as to the oost of cutting: Five hands at 50 cents each, $2.50; four mules at 50 cents each, $2; one wagon, 50 cent?; baling per ton, $3; marketing, $1.5b; making a total of $9.50. But this'is the expense of one day*8 work for the ha*tkb, mules -and wagon, and consequently is not the oost per ton. These men, with the machine can cut three acres in one day as easily as one, so you must, in order to get the oost of the hay per ton, consider three acres as a unit, and its yield must bo counted before the approximate oost per ton can be ob tained. We will take it that an aero only yields ono ton, or threo tons on three acres. It will require two cuttings for two crops, or to obtain the three tons on three acres. This is $5 for the hand*, 84 for the males, $1 for the wagon, $10 in all, or $3.33* per acre. In puttiog the hfp on the market it ’ill cost $3 per ton for baling and $1.50 for marketing. Bat the oost of cutting and saving the two tons an acre will be no more than $3 33 J, for the machine will cut two or even four tons from an acre as quickly as it will one. Now, to get an exact estimate tf what the profit is per top, 9*4 to the eoat of cutting and housing of one acre $3 for baling and $1 50 per ton to iwket each ton gathered from this acre. But upon the basis that only one ton is gathrred, this is a cost of 87.831 per ton, and at $17—for which I sold so mo recently—a profit of $9 1 per ton. If two tens are gathered from an acre the cost would be $3.33! for labor, $6 for baling, $3 for mar keting, making a total of $12,331. The two tons would bring $34—a profit of $21.66! per acre, cr $10,831 per ton. Thu* the greater the yield per acre the greater is the profit per ton.” Comixtissioner Henderson Has .Sent Out About 100,000 Packages. Ailaxta, March 6.—Very few peoplem aware of the extent of the operations of the State Agricultural Department in the distribution of gar den and field seed. Early in the sea son the whole force of the department is put to work, getting the packages ready, and from that day until the supply is exhausted, there is no let up. The applications for seed came in a perfect rush and from every direction. During the present season the distri bution by the department has been by far the largest of any in its history. The whole amount of seed sent out aggregates 100,000 packages. Of this number 90,000 packages. of garden seed, 6,000 packages of cotton seed and 4,000 ptekages of peas. Where do they all go to? In the first place the bureau fur nished connty alliances in 112 counties. In addition to these there were li50 agricultural club3 on the list, and all of them had to have seed, and they were liberally supplied. Beside these seed were sent out to about 2,000 individual pplicanta in every section of the state. The applications arr still coming io, but the commissioners announced to day that the supply is now exhausted, and it wiil be impossible to comply with any further requests. Kentucky’s Epidemic. There appears to be no abatement in the ravages of the mysterious disease that has prevailed in Webster county, Kentucky, for the last six weeks. The impr-.Siicn is that it is increasing, and if the physicians were to express their opinion honestly they would in all probability declare it to be epidemic. There have been about 130 deaths from the disease up to the present Tho people of the couaty are gratly alarmed, and hundreds of them have sought safety in adjoining c?un- Our»Gas Works to be proved. It may be interesting to oar people to learn that the gas works wiB be ii proved sad reorganised. The gss mi agement in future will be much better, and, as far as possible, the prioe re duced. Contracts will be ’ made with cosumers by the month* if desired, for all the gas wanted. An impression prevails that the gas management is antagonistic to $e dee trie light plant about to be started. We are assured' by Me$s. Fitch (now in the city} that Stich * not tht case. On the contrary, thi r thtt look- upon it as an advantage.'*. Tt The physicians are in doubt respect ing the character of the malady, and, hence, they are at a loss how to treat The viotims are fir*t attacked by a chill, which is quickly followed by a hot fever, lasting from sixteen to twenty-four hours. When the fever subsides a peculiar eruption shows it self all over the body, and the victim’s head ia drawn back ih a very painful position. Death follows the chill 10 about forty hours. After death the muscles of the neck are so rigid that the body can be straightened only with the greatest difficulty. All the schools of the county are closed, and no services are held in the churches. The people are afraid to meet, because they do not know but that the disease may be contagious. By some it is thought that the souroe of the disease is a creek whioh runs through the county, and which for years his been clogged with saw-dust and other refuse matters from saw mills on its banks. Measures have been taken to clean out the creek. An ap peal has been made to the governor of the state for aid, as many people, hav- iog been thrown out of work, are act ually suffering for the necessaries of life. A call has also been made for physicians and nurses. It is not improbable that the creek is the cinse of the epidemic. Having been in an unsanitary condition for years, it has perhaps dually become the source of a deadly poison. Good saoi- taiion is the best preventive of diseases. —Morning News. How Boys Should Treat Girls* Schoolbojr, in Youth’* Companion Boys should always bo polite to tho girls, howcTcr Texing they may be. When anybody is gieing anything away always let the girls hare’ their torn first. They like it. Girls are not so strong at hoys, their hair ia long and thair facea are prettier, so yon thonld bo gentle wi'h them. If a girl scratch es your cheek, or spils ia yarn One, don's push her, and don't till her mother. That wonld ba Bean. Just hold her tight behind the mhais for a adnata at two, tfflehafeeb Ska yon eould grre it to bar if yon had a mind to. Then my ta hat kindly,-Don’t da it again, for ith wrong,” gin her a shako or two, and let her go. This is far better than being unkind tip, her, and she will thank yon for your pofilt- ness, if she’s inything of a giri. stimulates business,'and the history of electric lights prove that it edu cates the people to using more light Gas companies invariably get an in crease of business where it is intro duced. While every one will welcome the electric light, bringing, as it will, competition, yet we hope the gentle men who have invested money in gas works here will make their in vestment a profitable one. It is well known that The Times opposed, at the time, the extraordinary privileges granted to the gas company. We thought then—and think still—that twenty five years was too long a time to grant privileges to any cor poration tojurnish lights. The world is moving, moving fast, and in no direction more rapidly than in the lighting of cities. If the gentlemen who own and control the gas com pany will comply with their contract, which, in the opinion of many, they have not strictly done in the past, every encouragement should be giv en them to carry on their business here. If we invite capitalists here, ihey should receive every possible encouragement at the hands of the town and its citizens. We should regret to see any course adopted which would cripple or handicap either the gas or the electric light company. They will prove a healthy check, each upon the other. Com petition is what we want in this mat ter, as well as in other things. There room in Thomasville for both these companies and we hope both will be given a fair showing. It is creditable to Messrs Long and Fitch, rhat they welcome competition. It is a proper position, and their readi ness to meet this competition in a fair spirit, will be kccepted as an evidence of their intention to stay in the field, and to leivo nothing undone to merit a fair share of the patronage of the pub lic. We favor, in the broadest Eense, giv- ? every man and corporation who will invest in Thomasville, a fair field. But, at the same time, the town should look well and carefully to the granting of these and other privileges, to the end that no harm comes to the town, to the tax payers, from whose means comes the financial sinews. Let no factious or selfish interests divide us on this score. Each man should put his shoulder to the wheel aud endeavor to build up Thomasville, aud as far as possible, make her intant industries profitable. By so doing we encourage the new-comer, and proeperi. ty will be ours. “United we stand, divided we fall.” The Millionaires of the Senate. Washington Letter to Pittsburgh Pres*. There is a great deal too muoh truth in the statement that our Senate is becoming a rich man's club. It is a popular thing nowadays for a rich man, having achieved all the honors that the commercial world can give him, to seek to gratify his vanity by the practical purchass of a seat in the 8enate. There is no use mincing words, for this is very generally the case. When Ztch- oriah Chandler came to the Senate joss before the war I have heard that be could not find another millionaire in the chamber. Only fourteen years ago there were bnt nine millionaires in the Senate. There will b», counting Vice- President Morton, nineteen millionaires in the next Senate, which number is a third of the total I saw a man foot up to-day the fortunes of the members of the next Senate. Of course no oth er earthly thing is as hard to find out as how rich a rich man is. He, him self, very seldom knows, and the ha- imagiuation ia weak indeed when it contemplates a big aggregation of dollars. Most of the people of the country cannot understand the a tion of owing $100 in a lamp. D osed to be a comma* laying that A. Stewart was worth $100,000,000, hot I beliere his estate after death wm ed only to $30,000,000. Bat apon the .bails of popular guosers tho fig ures of sexutisia! wealth that I caw to-day footed «p $139,000,000. Think tf W $139,000*000 between 2L A rich man’s chh, indeed! Rev. Sam Small. We see in, an interview with the Atlanta Constitution,that the Rev.Sam Small has been compelled to rest from his heavy labors for a time, and aays: “I «u»y go to south Georgia and try, fer a few days, the effect* of sunshine ana pine balsam.” Thomasville can furni-h both, with many other good things, and wc cordially invite Mr. Small to come and try them. Editor Tints*: Dear Sir:—Some ten years ago, a prominent physician, in a visit to our city, called attention to the eomiog necessity for a sanitarium, and offered financial aid in its establisbmeaL At that time there really was no seeesrity for such an institution. Since then, in conversation with a distinguished specialist in the city of New York, I was reminded that there are fully as many poor as rich invalids who would gladly seek the advantages of our cli mate if they could do so oa terms commensurate with their n*n- Ho- tell are, atrictly speaking, business house?, and do not wish to take people, because it would injur* their bomsen, and our boarding he which might be wilHsg to take thorn are inadequate for the ——of all yrho would eooa. The dieutes of humanity require of who hold up to the invalid the hope of benefit from our climate, to provide for thdr earn CoLH.Kyd Doughs^ who it ore of the favorite aoua of the deakooraey of Western Maryland, and spirited and fiery eaavass in the last esmpeign has left the entire state in a glow, and ia believed to have been large ly the cause of the general mild weath er this winter, has recently fallen back, in good order on Thomasville, Georgia, where he is recruiting and reorganising Us forces. ' In his lengthy exile from Some ind friends his chief consolation and -rbafort is naturally The Sun, which, Eta a‘sort of journalistic Duke of Y<*k,~ baa been making the winter of his discontent at Thomaarille a glo rious Maryland summer. Ltks all ita readers, Col. Douglam not only expe riences great joy "from'the perusal of ita columns, but places the utmost con fidenoe and reliance in all that appears in it His friends may therefore im agine hi$ horror on receiving, a few days, ago a copy of The Sun on whioh appeared In black letters on a slip of deep red, the following portentous and terrifying notioe: “Col. H. Kjd Douglass expires April 14, Thomas ville, Ga.” Implicitly believing as he does in every utterance of The Sun, it is no wonder that the democratic Nej of Western Maryland was for a mo ment almost overwhelmed by the ap parently prophetic words of a journal whioh he knew was like George Wash ington in ita regard for truth, and whose conservatism was sc great that it would never have uttered so gloomy a prediction unless it had a dead sure thing on him. But his native oourage came to his relief, and indignation succeeding to despair, he sat down, and after quoting the somewhat depresbing notice served on him through The Sun, burled back the following bold defi ance: “I protest. I am advised by an em inent lawyer of Georgia that the above is actionable, bat I am not fond of an action for libel except as attorney for the plaintiff. True, I have been ill; true, I have oome here for my health; true, although I feel better and stronger, I may grow worse and worse. But I have no intention, if I can help it, of expiring on the 14th of April to verify a prophecy of The Sun. This hotel resents the suggestion; Thomas ville Is Indignant at the insinuation against its healthfulneas. I am calm but determined against this tyranical exercise of the power of the press! Rather than be bullied into doing thi* thing I will qnit this plea&nt place and notify one of the editors of The Sun that if he wants some one to expire on the day mentioned I will make room for him.’* The 8nn regrets exceedingly that it should have caused a moment's uneasi- to so amiable a gentleman as Col. Douglass, and hastens to reassure him and soothe his perturbed spirit. Its is not to kill; but liko that of its namesake in the heavens, b to givo life and health. The notice which has so shaken the Colonel's nerves docs not refer to his physical death, but is sim ply a figurative and poetical, but strict ly truthful form of expressing the idea that if Col. Donglsss permits his sub scription to the Sun to expire on April 14, and attempts to do without its light, he will be plunged into the darkness of a moral and intellectual night as deep as that of the grave. In other words, the notice meant to inti mate to the Colonel that he could not live, in aay way worth mentiooiofr, without The Sun, in which respect be Mbs Mattie Nutting, of Atlanta, b in the city, vbitiog her sister, Mr*. B. P- Walker. Mbs Nutting b a daugh ter of the late Hon. Cbas. A. Nutting, of Macsn, well known throughout the State. Mrs. Jennie L. Graves, and daugh ters, Misses Minnie and Ids, are spend ing same time with Mr. and Mrs. E. O. Thompson, corner Warren and Love streets. Messrs Hawk & Pruett arc now publishers of the Boston World. Prof Moody still occupies the po sition ot editor. I he World is a live, well conducted paper and should receive a liberal patronage at the hands of the business men and citizens ot Boston and vicinity. W. U. PATRICK Homeopathic Physician and Surgeon. VUOM .V8VILLK, . . . ;UWMU. bo fuund mi onin 1X1 B*>*4 MnM (i w man*) ot ml rr«IJ«ncv*. Calfcoan Stmt, rn UrxMfcl aud CrnwXord. vhon aoi pt%> ualljr eng*cv<J Sm A negro, while a-sbiing a policeman leading a hurso down Jookson street Saturday, was kicked ia tbo head by the horse, the kick Irasturing the skull. Dr. Mclntush gave ihe man prompt medical attention, aud says ho b get ting on very well. W. BRUCE, M. D., Office, up-stairs. CouierNil Brood aud LUtclnf airecU. («*f Mr. David McCartney is a firm be liever in the fu ure of country real es tate ia Thomas county. His latest purchase is the Walden place, belong- ng to Mrs. Fauni-j Hughes, embrao- iug oyer osc thousand acre*. It b a valuable tract of land. IJI 8. DEKLK, M. !»., Office in Hayes liuilding. Reuldeucts—Corner Colic** arena* and Hat Thomasville should offer every poa- sible inducement to parties disposed to invest in real estate here. Don’t run good man by extravagant prices. That is not the way to buiid up a town. Mr. E. M. Mallette reports the sale of the old Walden plantation, 1266 acres now owned by Mrs. Fan nie Hughes, to Mr. David McCart ney, of Wisconsin. Mr. II. H. .Sanford is putting out some handsome shrubbery in Mr. Van Duzer’s grounds, surrounding hir. new residence on Broad street. The attention of Alliance men is called to the notice of Mr. A. W. Ivey, president caking a meeting at the couit house, on Saturday, the 23rd. Thomasville lays over any town of its size in the South, in the matter of first class grocery stores. Thomasville has more Northern visitors here to-day than ever before in her history. The tourist travel has about struck high water mark. They arc here. March somelv. behaving very hand. 'The farmers arc getting in their work now. forms no ex ration to u great general Therefore let Cob Douglas*, Douglass, _ a stand in the far 8outh, with Tbomasrille as a base of opieratious, regard The San's uotiee not with trembling, but with joy, and aa a notification that ta may continue to receive intellectual and moral nutri ment at the regular rates. Like Goethe, be may eall for more light on April 14th, and unlike Goethe, he can get it without dying. Cot Douglas baa been a guest of the Mitchell for several week*, and we are glad to aay b improving greatly CoL Douglas wm a distin guished officer in the late war, serving on the staff of General Jao. B. Gor- He baa made many friends rhcnamOe who join the Times ia pteaaut sojourn and a toheahh^[Ep. In a lecture delivered in the Iloyal Institution by Professor Flower on •The Pygmy Racas of Men,” he referr ed to tho curious fsc*. that the * tallest and shortest races in Europe are •pccuveiy ihe Norwegians and Lappe, living in almost tbc same region. In Africa, also, the dimioutiro Bushmin and the talks: race of tbs country, tba Kaffirs, are close neighbor*. These tacts indicate that climate, soil and oth er physical conditions have but small in flaence on human Mature, and suggest the question whether it b due to aoeial In oral agency. The comparative history of the Norwegian* and Lapps indicates that it may be so. The Yi kings were always r fighting race; tbs Lapp* certainly are, and to far know, always have been, an exception ally peaceful people, and the Ewjns- maux, with whom they are 10 nearly concerned, arc the same. The Lapps live on the snowfields of Norway, and the Esquimaux on the bitterest parte of the Aretie regions, just the plaose to which the weakest would be drives by conquerors who have appropriated the fertile regions. Tho g G. McLENDON, Attorney-at-Law, TfanasTUls, • « ■ • o< Prompt atumUoa etrentoM trast«l 10 him. omr*—ow w«u*s store, corner Joeksou streets. Herring 4 Walker. THOMASVILLE, GA., BUM. CASKETS AND COFFINS, 3oth Motalic and Wood Xl.aaU^M item Ifjea ate ad im4 asjlMS| IS© Broad St. NIGHT CALLS, ln«wcr*d bj O. W, l(errtsf, IM door. Irom Wererl, Howe, it bv U. I*. Welker, el hie -Titfueo Car. Demoo eod Clejr fie. t>M> U . .

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The Thomasville times. (Thomasville, Ga.) 1873-1889, March 16, 1889, Image 1