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VOL. XXVIII. NEW GOODS! NEW GOODS! GEESLNIG & HOBBS, We are now receiving our STOCK FALL and WINTER GOODS, Consisting in part oi DRY GOODS, CLOTHING, BOOTS SHOES HATS, DOMESTICS, CALICOS, I HIESr GOODS, NOTIONS, Etc, GROCERIES, Our lines of Groceries are full and coni plot*'. BACON, LARD, MEAL, FLOUR. GRITS, RICE, SUGAR, COFFEE. Full line of including everything in Hard ware, Cutlery, &c. GEESLING & HOBBS. Main St., Thomson, On. U. T. POSAILi, J> LNTIST, Will be found at his office in Thomon tn first Monday in each month and remain two weeks. TEETH EXTRACTED WITHOUT 1A IS rj.WE If </,•/ A SPEC fA LTY —— or* 11 a Phoenix Xlkug ©twice 11 '** *■ Lnr J 0~-i Inwt a Lh. I* IJII I£s*rjT and SST OiC , NJIW ateoo th tun murablw Era. WOLDuIWOI rHLUK DHUUB. Full- .ud BM T , n u. * DRUGS and PATENT MEDICINE *' sr- ' -.EADERsVoTO L^ 8 ' WE AHE TH * UR. A. J. MATHEWS. (Hucc.Haor to IJK. J W QUILLIA’f,) MAIN HTKEKT, THOMSON, GEORGIA JAMES JLQ. CMATt, DEALER iy DRY GOODS, DRESS GOODS, NOTIONS, BOOTS and SHOES and HATS. / carry a Large and Select Stock of Vlrnt-CldT G-roceries, —CONSISTING OF- Bacon, flour, Moal, Lard Sags*, Coffee, Tobacco, ALSO PLOWS, SHOVELS, HOES and all Farming Implements. Gibson Drug Gompnay Eare offering DRUGS and I’ATENT MEDICINES at prices that defy competition. Look atourprices and judge for yonrseif, ans. when you need medicines, come trade with the people v/bo bring prices dorn. Regular Onr Pries. Price. SYRUP SARSAPARILLA $1 00 75a SCOTT’S EMULSION COD LIVER OIL.. 100 750 S. s. S I 00 750 ESSENCE JAMAICA GINGER 50c 30c FOUTZ’ CATTLE POWDEItS 25c 15c GILDER’S PILLS 250 150 CARBOLIC SALVE 25c 150 ALLCOCK’S PLASTERS 20c 10 c HOUSEHOLD AMMONIA 15c 10c SALfS ........1b.... 10c 5c Everything else in proportion. GIBSON DRUG Cos. MAIN STREET Thomson, Georgia A PLEA FOR CHILDREN Dr. J, L, M, Curry Addresses Georgia Legislators. HIS SUBJECT WAS “EDUCATION.” Favor* DigfV&nrhlseraput of tvor) Voter Who Cannot Head Hl* Hal lot— v raises tho State School Coinints*loncr. Dr. J. L. M. Curry, the agont of the Peabody fund* addressed the geu ehal assembly of Georgia at noon Fri day on the subject of education. The two houses had convenod in joint session for the purpose. A commit* tee from the two bodies escorted the speaker In, who was accompanied by Governor Candler, State School Com missioner Glenn and others. Dr. Ctirry said that the proudest boast of Georgia should be made of her state school commissioner, who was one the best iu the entire country. He represented no corporation. While the lobbyist were abroad, ho oue bad engaged the members ill be half of the Children of the state. He came to plead for these and for all of them, “Yv list are Tiin going to do with the pcolter class of children?'* he asked. “How are you going to educate them to make usefull citizens of them, and how many are handicapped by their unfavorable environments?” The wealth of Georgia is not alto gether in material things, ho said, blit is more in these children who are in the homes of those who sent the law makers here to enact laws for them, 'i hero was a waste of brain power in the Rtftto. “Georgia lias doUhte tlio territory of Mas-AehUsetts, Rhode Island, Con necticut, and yet Massachusetts iu in vention, in science, in literature is far ahead of this state in the education of her children. There they have a niue months’ school term, while here we have three or four. The average school aitendance hero is two or three years, while there it is seven years. Massa chusetts gives S3O for the education of a child, while Georgia only gives per child. Horace Matin did more for this ccnutry than Daniel Wohler, yet Mus pnrhuFoUs erected a monumon to both. Man gave that state its admiral t-ohool system. Isn’t a Georgia child as good as a Massachusetts child, and isn’t there as much latent talent iu your children to be developed? “The state can educate all the chil dren at half the price that the church orludividuals can educate one-fourth of the children. “ 1 alk about the paramount issue! I have been through many of these crisis, and yet we are still going on. The confederate constitution is the most perfect instrument iu the world regarding political wisdom. It provided that the president should hold six years and be ineligible for re election. Exalted citizenship is Ibo remedy for the evils of governmental partnerships in private affairs iu vogue iu onr country today. “Every School in the land should have industrial education:” Dr. Curry favored the disfranchise ment of any voter who could not read the ballot he put in the box, be bo white or black, Horae oue had said that this was an inherent right. This is an absurdity stuffed down the throrts of the people of this country, and is done simply to justify negro suffrage. Ho was going to speak bis mind and not those of the members, and he expected to say some things that would not be relish ed by his auditors. “The Republican party, to punish the south, gave the balance of power to the negroes of Louisiana, Missis sippi and South Carolina by enfran chising them and disfranchising many of the whites and then they establish ed tho Frood man's bureau. ‘‘Homo people say the negro is in capable of education, if they will go with him to Spilrnan seminary, where everything is a neat us a pin, and which is in charge of such godly women, if they do not think tho negroes there capable of some degree of education they should go to their homes on the backs of jackasses ” “►Shall Georgia Rettle this educa tional problem for herself,” ho said, “or shall it he left to others. We must uplift the negro or he will drag us down. No two such races can oc cupy the same territory without fric tion and it is our duty to provide for these.” “It all depends on tho legislature as to the future progress of the state. Is educational legislation of this session to be generous and full, or niggardly and hurtful? “Georgia’s children should bo en abled to compete with any in tho land, and it is due the members to vote their convictions irrespective of their constituents, as the conscious ness of duty well done would bo their highest reward.” DIVERGENCE DEVELOPS. FuiiUliment of l'rlnce Tuan and Other* C aiiHe* Division Amonc Power*. “A serious divergence has arisen in Pekin,” says the Tien Tain corre spondent of the London Daily Mail. “Japan, the United States, Russia and France favor demanding a milder pun ishment than the execution of Prince Tuan and the others, while Great Bri- Inin, Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy deem anything less tbau the death penalty uuelesa. THOMSON. (JA., FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 30. 1900. §The Red Dot Shoe Man Always has Red ■Hot Bargains in First-class Slues. R. G. TARVER, Mgr. Good Sol Sloes A Specialty. Your Shoe bill will be just half what it is now if you buy your Shoes from IE GREAT EASTERN SIDE CO. R. G. TARVER, Mgr, 1)07 Broad St., - Augusta, oa. MUST PAY SPECIAL TAX. I llipoHiliit tlrcisiotl of (liuii'itln ditto Cottri Anont Stvcet Hallway*. The supremo court of Georgia has rendered U highly important dettisirin affecting the l ight of Cities to levy a special tax ou street railway Compa nies. Tile tinso w..s that ol tlto SaVriilmtlij Thunderbolt and Isle of Hope railway vs. mayor and aldermen of the city of Savannah, beforo Judge Falligant, iu the Chatham superior court. Tho city of Savannah levied a lax of 8100 per mile on tho street railway above mentioned, or $1,300 for its 13 miles of Iraek. Tho company refused tt> pay ftnd the matter was carried be fore the superior court of Chatham, which hold that the tax could be col lected, ThS supreme court affirms Judge Falligant, and makes it ptissiblo for alt municipalities of Georgia to lovy a special tax ou street railways. ZINC DEPOSITS ARE FOUND. .Shaft* Aro To ll Huttk ami Work Hctfun ai Onco N*mm- Knoxvlllr, Tcttit. Another extensive deposit of zim* has heed found near Knoxville* I’eun., on the farm of Captain Frank M. tfmith. A company has leased the property. Shafts will he sunk 300 feet. The ore is said to be richer than any found in the Joplin, Mo., district. George Currans, of Mattooca, 111 , has leased extensive zinc properties at New Market, Tenn., and will develop it without delay. Roe us lost heavily. They Havo Two Knirag;mnnf h "With Brit ish and urn Badly WoiHted, A special dispatch received in Lon don from Middleburg, Transvaal col ony, says that in the surprise of tho outpost of the “Buffs” (Third artil lery) southwest of Balmoral, Novem ber 10th, Boers lost sixty men killed and wounded. The burghers, tho dis patch adds, simultaneously attacked a garrison of Fusiliers on Wilge river, but were beaten off with tho loss of 120 men killed and wotuded. Cement Mills Combine. The Louisville Courier-Journal says that .ho fourteen cement mills located in the vicinily of that city and Jeffer sonville, Jnd., which supply the greater part of the United States, have in contemplation the formation of a combine. Kruger Observes Subba h. Mr. Kruger passed Sunday with his family at the Hotel Scribe in Paris, observing tho Sabbath in accordance with tho customs of his futheilund. Jfis apartments wore closed to visit ors. GOOD .•SHOWING MADE. I'ostal Affair* In I * *•. *ll pplnes Are In Fir,* Shape—llia; Surplus Shown. J. W. Valiie, director general of posts of the Philippine islands, in his annual report to the postmaster gen eral, shows a surplus of 810,023 to the credit of the Philippine-postal service. Tho revenue to June 30 last was 8117,- 818 and the expenditures 888,220, making both years of the departments existence show a surplus. Decided progress has been made in opening pos toffies. EPEDEMIC OF SMALLPOX I* Canning Mitch Alarm Among tho Peo ple of itoHne County, Tenn*oe. A Chattanooga special nova: Tho citi zens of Ito.ne conniy, Tenn., are greatly alarmed over tho many cases of smallpox in that vicinity. All along tho Cincinnati Southern road in that county there aro numerous bad eases and it is daily spreading. At Kings ton, which is the county seat of the county, gourds have been placed out ou all roads to prevent any suspects from catering the plane, but still a number of eases have shown up there. lIS MIS ItSA D Y TO ENTHH TOC* SA HE OX OUR SVIIBCJIIJ'TIOy is OKS. you WILL SOT MIHS Tits SMALL HUM XSOSSSAIiI TO J 1 ROOMS OUB (IUHTOUSB. (KWHY CONCEALED' T-VllA Colnli:Ion of (Kur of llttHtifn Ib ’S* Rill y fil lup NVithlic.lili tfrditi three sourocß of information, diicdt y connected With us many min if tiles of date* tho St, Petersburg >. orf< spofidelit of the Associated Press, .°i: , .vlnv l - Afot i iainod tfcftfc imperial offieiala are becomiug eiifemciy pessi mistic regarding the condition of Emperor Nicholup, and assert that the j Livartia bulletins conceal the guitity | of his illness. | In spite of the notorious case with j which an alarmist rumor can be circu lated in the Russian capital, many good judges believe that the chances of tho cfcai 'fl reCoVery tue diminishing. Ono report says that the emperor, in addition to typhoid fever* With pec- complications, has brain icvcr, ibd result of the blow he received from afauatical pobecman during his tour in .la) an; and it is even asserted in some quarters that trepanning has be come necessary. McKINL! Y IN PHILADELPHIA* IVft* CUdhl at lU|5 llunqnet of Union Lcittfuit Ciiuh. Saturday night, at Philadelphia* : President McKinley was the guest of j honor at the “Founders’l)ny” banquet j of the Union League, one of tho oldest ! and most influential Republican organi- I zations in the country. In addition to Mr. McKinley, there j were .present Theodore Roosevelt, • vice-president (dec!; tho members of ■ the cabinet, with the exception of Foe i rota? yof War Root, who is in Cuba, I and Senators Lodge and Wolcott. President McKinley's reception ivos ! most enthusiastic, and much import ance was attached to bis address, ns it | was his first public utterance since his recent victoi y. BBY AN NOT PH A ZEI>. IIIh Frequent Staloinontfl Irullcuto That Hn Will Try A^uln. In a letter received at Mexico, Mo., Friday from W. T. Bryan he says: “Still believing in the principles set forth in the Chicago platform, I shall continue to defend them, believing tho American people w-ill yot seo the ne | cessity for tho repudiation of Repub licanism.” This statement is the third made by Mr. Bryan since election indicating that ho intends to continue in the po etical field just as lie has been. VIOL AT LI) LtXAL OPTION LAW. | Colored er In Florida Charcon With I<urmlng llllixl Tljjer. 1 James K. Clark the negro postmas ter at Eatonville, Fla., a town popu lated entirely by the Colored people, lias boon arrested on a charge of vio lating tho local option law'. Clark is the leading citizen and . practically the emperor of the town It is not the first time that he lias been before the court on this charge. He gave bond and is again bad: I transacßng Uncle Sum’s business at bis reetilar Dost. ALOEH3IEX SOL!) VOTES. ScrloitK ( lutrypH Jiltwlc A (fit hi rI JU.mher* of Cievclniid, Ohio, City (otiidl. A sensational affidavit by Cbailes W. Lapp, a member of the Cleveland, 0., eily council, has been made public. Councilman Ijapp swears that, Council man White told him that “the Rant?,” meaning certain members of council, received £5,000 for Ibeir votes ou tho ' Gamewell police alarm contract,and in timated that £5,000 more was to bo paid for their votes on a contract for the new city fire alarm system. Scarcity of Coal In Birmingham. Because of a scarcity of coal tho Gate City rolling mills and all of tho departments of the Birmingham roll ing mills except the sheet mill were idle Monday. Tho shutdown waa tem porary and tho fires were lighted again Monday evening. This is the first sign of a scarcity of coal in tho dis trict. fifty Demands Ilcr Streets. Suit was entered atDes Moines, la , Tuesday to oust tho lowa (Bell) Tele phono Company from tho streets ol lies Moines ou tho ground thot tho franchise was expired. Men’ Stylish Single and Double=Breasted Suits. IVo are well aware that wo can offer an exceptional op portunity to onr many patrons amt friends of (his county, when wo show you onr large and excellent stock of SUITS of all sizes, patterns and the very best of quality. For Furnishings and Hats we can certainly please you. Soixxetliiiig: 3XTew Is our Ladies’ Department, tilled with the latest Tailor- Made Suits, Skirts, Silk Waists, Flannel IVaists and many other handsenio novelties. IC. LEVY’S SON & CO., Tailor-Fit Clothiers, 338 BROAD ST., - AUGUSTA, GA. G. E. LYNDON ...DEALER 1N... Camps, Buies, Ptalois, Sorrow and Waps QT* iYXjIj JSISSX2JOG I have on hand one of the largest stocks of CARRIAGES, BIJGGIEB, riIAETONS, SURREYS, TRAPS and ROAD WAGONS ever brought to this section of the state. Also a large and well selected stock of Harness, Hailes, Biles, laws lateral, wapi and Bio Malarial, Lap Bote, Whips, Collars, Horse Boots, Axis awl Harness OH And everything usually kept in a first-class ( arriago Repository, Cheap for Cash, or on timo to responsible parties. Those wishing to buy on time and who are strangers to us would save time and trouble by bringing letters of credit from reliable parties. I am now opening up A CARLOAD OF BUGGIES AID CARRIAGES which I intend to sell at old prices. If you want a Good Vehicle cheap,writo or come to see mo. J. S. BARNWELL Manager. Washington, Ga., July 27, 1900. G. R EMBREE, WITH O. -A- WYLIDS, DISTILLER OE Pure Corn . AND DEALER IN WINES AND LIQUORS OF ALL KINDS ioo Proof Corn Whiskey at $1.50 per Gallon. Country Trade Solicited and Prompt Attention Given to All Orders. 803 Broad Street, - - Augusta, Georgia. Cottcn. BF’suctor, —THOMSON, GEORGIA— — —.mmrnrnm I hereby announce *o the Purmora of MoDnfflo and neighboring countloa that I have built in Thomson a COTTON WAREHOUSE IOR THE PURPOSE OF Storing and. Selims Cotton. I giva this business ray strict personal attention, and by selling direct to export buyers, hope to bo able to givo the farmers the benefit of the Ytryßest Prices fur their Cotton I am prepared to make advances on Ootton at a reasonable ruts of interest, with goodsecurity. I solicit and hpe to merit a liberal pa ronage. Very rosp:ctful!y, JOHN E, GEOS9, Our Job Printing Department Is complete and up-to-date. We are prepared, therefore, to fill your order with promptness, assuring satisfaction by doing good work at such prices as WILL SAVE YOU MONEY. NO. 43.