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THOMASVILLE'S HURRAH.
THK COUNTY REUNION A SUCCE33
IN EVSRY RBSFRCT.
List of the Prize Winners in the Cat
tle Display—The Successful Riders
In the Tournament, and the Fair Ones
on Whom They Placed the Crowns.
ThOMASVILLE, Gi., Nov. 15.—T0-iay has
been a red-letter day for Thoinasville. She
has been full to overflowing with old
veterans and people from the surroun ling
country for fifty miles. The annual exhibit
of the Thomas County Stock Breeders’
Association having been allowed to go by
default for several years, it |was deemed
best to combine a barbecue and veterans’
meeting with it to bring the people to
gether. and the wisdom of the plan has
been demonstrated. Fully 10,000 people
were on the fair ground and particpated iu
the festivities.
savannah’s contingent.
Savannah has won the gratitude of the
people by her kindness in sending a detach
ment of her noble artillery company, the
Ghatfcams, with two of their guns, and a i
excellent band. They constitute a very in
teresting feature of the exercises, as many
of those present today had never s-en a
field-piece. The Chatbams acquitted them
selves creditably in handling the guns, and
the band was complimented on all side-.
After the column, which was composed of
carriages with the speakers and committee,
Tbomasville Guards, South Georgia Cadets,
Valdosta Videttes, (Chatham and
confederate veterans. 1,000 strong, hod
reached the grounds, Mayor Hopkins wel
comed the crowd.
GEN. M’LAWS’ SPEECH.
Hon. Robert Mitchell, in a short but ring
ing speech, introduced Gen. Lafayette Mc-
Laws of Savannah, who made his old com
rades a fine address, after which the sur
vivors registered and were lodged.
THE STOCK DISPLAY.
After the speaking came the stock dis
play. In cattle from Jersey farms John
Chastain’s property took precedence. He
had one of the finest exhibits to be seen in
South Georgia. Judge Hopkins had some
fine Georgia stock also. In the horse exhibits
T. C. Mitchell took several premiums. He
had the best mare-colt in Bradford.
OTHER PRIZE WINNERS.
Other prize winners were as follows:
Best horse colt under 3 years, T. C.
Mitchell.
Best horse colt under 1 year, J. C.
Beverly.
Best’mare, Dr. T. N. Mclntosh.
Best mare under 3 years, B. A. Bass.
Best mare under 2 years, F. M. Jones.
Best gelding, J. T. Pittman.
In class tbiee, best siugie pair of horses,
H. W. Hopkins won the prize.
Best saddle horse, H. VV. Hopkins.
Best pair matched horses, H. \V. Hopkins.
Best mule, Green Linton (colored).
Best colt, J. W. Carroll.
Best colt under 1 year, H. M. Cankgill.
H. C. Quarterman took a special pre
mium for transfers of stock, etc.
P. Davis took a special premium for Re
vokes stock.
THE TOURNAMENT.
In the tournament Tom Livingstone took
first prize and was awarded the pleasant
duty of crowning the queei | of love and
beauty at the german to-night. J. S. Mal
lard took the second prize, R. R. Evans the
third, T. S. Phillipot and Clayton Dickin
son ranked next in order, and the last three
crowned the maids of honor to the queen.
In ihe tournament test T. N. Hopkins and
Charles P. Davis were the judges, and some
fine tilting was done.
T. M. Butner of Macon and Capr. Turner
of Floyd county w ere the judges in the
trotting races, only one of which came off
to-day, resulting in a tie. It will be run
over to-morrow.
At 7 o’clock to-night the Savannah guests
and the Valdosta Videttes and their friends
returned home.
The affair las been a complete success,
ard Thoinasville as well as the 10,000 visit
ors are jubilant.
THE GERMAN.
The day’s festivities were closed to-night
with a pleasant, german at the Stuart hotel.
The feature of the evening was the crown
ing of the queen and maids cf honor.
Thomas Livingston orowned Miss Marion
Davis queen of love and beauty; R. R.
Evans crowned Mis Birdie Woodson first
maid of honor; Clayton Dickenson crowned
Miss Lily Stuart second maid of honor, and
"Y. S. Phillipot crowned Miss Mattie Davis
third maid of honor. The programme
to-morrow will be interesting, including a
tournament and racing.
GUBERNATORIAL GUNS.
Livingston, Northen and Corput to
ISpeak at Perry.
Fort Valley, Ga.. Nov. 15.—The Fort
Valiey Enterprise will contain a notice
with the following heavy faced head lines:
“Grand mass meeting of allianeemen,
farmers and citizens, at Perry, Wednesday,
Nov. 27. Every one should go out and hear
the great trium virate—Northen, Livingston
and Corput.”
A few of the allianeemen say this meet
ing has no political influence whatever, but
many others, not allianeemen, say it is a
political meeting, and is virtually the
opening of the political campaign
by the two leading opponents in the guber
natorial race, Hon. W. J. Northen, the
head of the Georgia Agricultural Society,
and Hon. L. F. Livingston, president of the
state alliance, while Capt. Corput is
the head of the state alliance ex
change. The meeting will be largely
attended, as the two favorites will open
their discussion on the leading topics of in
terest to the farmers. The Enterprise says
“trey are all stanch, sound, reformed
democrats, and all who miss this meeting
will regret it.”
CLINCH COUNTY’S CRIME.
Two of the |Negro Suspects Sent to
the Jail at Valdosta.
Dupont, Ga., Nov. 15.—Sheriff Dicker
son of Clinch county took to Valdosta jail
for safe-keeping two negroes named Henry
Smith and Dan Hooper, who wore arrested
in the lower part of this county as being the
murderers of old man Hughes and his wife
in this county last week. Circumstantial
evidence is very strong against them, and
they correspond with the description of
three negroes who were seen in that neigh
borhood on the day of the killing. De
tectives are on the track of the third one
now, and think they will get him.
ROONEY SCOiIBS A SCOOP.
An Augusta Reform Meeting Scooped
by One of the Ring.
Augusta, Ga., Nov. 15.—A Third ward
reform meeting was scooped to-night by
friends of C. J. Rooney, the administration
condidate for council. Rooney’s friends
packed the meeting and in consequence the
session broke up iu a row, in which several
people were hurt with sticks. The reform
ers afterward met and nominated Andrew
J. McCarthy. The other side nominated C.
J. Rooney. The action of the friends of
Mr. Rooney in invading the meeting of the
reform committee does not strengthen his
cause in the community.
A Child Burns With a Gin.
Albany, Ga., Nov. 15. —The gin house
on the Walker place, in West Dougherty
couuty, was consumed by fire to-day.
John Benson's 7-year-old daughter (colored)
was burned to death. Friction from the
gin caused the fire.
Brown’s Bronchial Troches for Goughs,
Colds and all other Throat Troubles.—“ Pr
eeminently the best."—Rev. Henry Ward
hetUtrr,
FLORIDA'S METROPOLIS.
A Negro Convicted of Murder—A
Hand Crushed in a Press.
Jacksonville, Fla.. Nov. 15.—Oby C.
Parazo, the negro murderer of Wallace
Barry at Pablo Beach on July IS last, was
adjudged guilty of murder in the first de
gree to-day in the circuit court.
The Florida Yacht Club, the most swell
s A-ial organization in the city, inaugurated
the first of the season’s hops last ingot.
Mrs. Scott, residing at No. 13J East
Adams street, employed iu C. W. Dacosta’.
printing house as a job press feeler, acci
dentally got her right hand crushed to-day
in the press, and suffered extreme pain
until Dr. Stollenwerck arrived and gave
the wound attention.
A large number of orange growers and
buyers were in the city to-day.
FORT V ALLEY’S FREE SCHOOL.
Only Seven Votes In Opposition to Its
Establishment.
Fort Valley, Nov. 15.—A very full
vote was polled yesterday on the school
question, and free school won by 167 ma
jority, there being only 7 votes cast in oppo
sition. The people are jubilant over tho
result and preparations are being made for
a torch light processioD.
The handsome new school building will
be ready to lie occupied by Jan. 1, and tho
free school is expected to open with a larger
number of pupils than ever attended a
school here before.
BAVANNAH ENTERPRISE.
A. Falk & Sons Make a Heavy Pur
chase of Clothing at New York.
New York, Nov. 15.—One of the chief
topics in mercantile circles to-day is the
extensive purchase made by A. Falk &
Sons of Savannah, Ga., at the peremptory
sale of the stock of Naumberg Kraus,
Lauer & Cos. It is cited as showing the ex
ceilent condition of trade in the south.
A Mule Killed by a Shaft.
Albany, Ga.. Nov. 15. —A horse hitched
to Wesley <fc Farrington’s beer wagon ran
away ou Washington street last night, col
liding with Herbert Wilburn’s mule and
dog cart. A shaft of the wagon was run
nearly through the mule, killing it.
DIAMONDS ARE RISING.
The Queen of Precious Stones Will
Cost Big Money Now.
From the Philadelphia Inquirer.
“This will be a groat season for dia
monds,” said an importer of precious stones
to a reporter yesterday, as he fondled a
handful of loose bnllants that shone as so
many living stars. “Our orders from
dealers are far in advance of the demands
of previous years, and judging from that
you’ll see more diamonds worn during the
social season than you have for years.”
lay it all to one cause,” continued the
importer. “It is a well-known fact among
the trade that all precious stones, and dia
monds particularly, are rapidly advancing
in price. The advance starts at the dia
mond iniues and it takes nearly a season for
the rise to affect tho retail trade. Already
diamonds have advanced from 25 to 50 per
cent, at tho far away producing centers,
and the public has learned of it. Conse
quently all the diamonds on tho wholesale
market will be eagerly purchased by retail
jewelers in anticipation of the advance
next year. They’ll corner the market on
procurable stones and may buy enough to
last them for two years.”
GOOD REASONS FOR ADVANCING.
“There are two important causes for the
advance,” continued the diamond merchant,
“and in justice to the diamond trade, from
the operator in South Africa to the retail
jeweler in Philadelphia, I must say that
they are only just in their demands for
more money.
“The cost of mining diamonds has in
creased largely during the past two years.
Practically the big mines in South
Africa and Australia have been operated
without perceptible profit. As the mining
goes ou from year to year the operations
become attended with more expense aod
greater danger. The machinery in use
ten years ago is of no value to miners now.
The blue eurtbjjwhere the diamonds lie
bocorues harder and harder the deeper
operations penetrate, and has to be dug
with great care iu order to prevent a caving
in, and a loss of life and machinery. It is
also iu the deepest and most dangerous
places that the rarest gems are found, and
that same spirit of adventure that prompts
the explorer is just as markod in the dia
mond miner. He makes a bold stroke
which may yield thousands or nothing.
“Then competition has become so keen
that the different companies have all been
losiug money, and like the capitalists in
more civilized countries have formed a
trust. One of the most powerful trusts in
the world is the diamond trust. It is said
that the Rothschilds are interested to the
extent of $50,000,000. At any rate there’s
big money back of it, and people who wear
diamonds all over the world will have to
pay their little tribute to the magnates that
mine the stones away. The combination
includes the working, under one manage
ment, of the Buifontein, Deßeers and Kim
berly mines. These are the most powerful
in the world, and control the larger portiou
of the diamond output. In fact there are
few diamonds mined outside of these three
mines. South American diamond mines
are piaved out, and the world looks for its
queen of jewels to the wilds of South Africa.
NOW IS THE TIME TO BUY.
“It is owing to the fact that the public
anticipates an advance in demands at the
mines and are also aware that it may be a
season before the advance affects the con
suming trade, that they will flock to their
dealer and dem ind the choice of his stock.
The diamond dealer knows that thisis his
harvest of many years and will make the
most of It. Such things are good for the
trade and create a fashion for jewels. All
the talk about diamonds going out of fash
ion will be dispelled by the society people
the i selves, who will make most of the op
portunity while it lasts and buy all the
diamonds they can stand.
“This will be a great year for jewelry.
Watch and see,” concluded the importer, as
he returned the glittering gems to their
resting places amiu a mass of soft white
cotton.
Deep Sea Sounding's.
In the investigations that were under
taken by the Prince of Monaco in deep soa
soundings, extending from the banks cf
Newfoundland to the coast of Africa, a
most ingenious method was adopted to
bring up specimens of the living creatures
existing at great depths in the ocean. The
apparatus as used is displayed at the pavil
ion of the principality of Monaco at the
Paris exhibition. The cage in which the
submarine animals were caught consisted of
a cylinder of wire haviug three conical en
trances, like those of a lobster pot, and
weighted for submersion with detachable
weights. It was, however, very unlikely
that at these immense depths, whore the
darkness is practically total, any fishes
would voluntarily find their way into the
trap, and steps were taken to attract them by
a light placed inside it. Obviously, no light
wa available but an electric light, but to
get an electric light to burn a mile or two
under water was not easy. To send the
current from above was impracticable, as
the friction of the thick insulated wire
would eauso it to break before the trap
could be drawn up, and the only resource
waste supply the incandescent wire from a
battery in cbe trap. The difficulties pre
sented by the presence of salt water and
the existence of enormous Lydrostalic
pressure, were, however, ingeni u.-ly and
successfully overcome, and so effective did
the device prove that, not content with
capturing deep sea fishes with it, it. is pro
posed on the next expedition to send and iwn
a photographic apparatus and bring back
negatives of the bott im of the ocean, as
see a by the electric light.
THE MORNING NEWS: SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1889.
TOILERS AND TILLERS.
LIVINGSTON GOES BEFORE THE
KNIGHTS OF LABOR.
He Believes a Confederation of the
Farmer’s Alliance and Knights Will
be Formed at the Couventlon at St.
Louis—A Merge One of Powderly's
Dreams—Other Business of the Day’s
Session.
Atlanta, Ga., Nov. 15. —The federation
of the Knights of Labor with the farmers’
alliance is a foregone conclusion. AVten
Col. L. F. Livingston appeared before the
rational convention to-day and stated tbe
aims and objects of the alliance,over which
he presided, it was shown conclusively that
the ends for which both orders are working
are identical, and it was asserted that to
gether they could form an irresistible
power, and wbat each singly is obliged to
struggle for, united they could demand and
obtain.
the law report.
The first two hours of the morning
session wore devoted to the unfinished por
tion of the law committee’s report. It
stated that several of the most important
changes in the constitution tuey had ever
received had been suggested to the com
mittee after the time prescribed by law for
the consideration of such documents, an and
it was therefore impossible for them to
take definite action. It was impossible to
bring the subjects before the convention in
the form of gone-al orders.
THE VISITING ALLIANCEMEN.
The Visiting alliancemen were Preside it
Livingston of tho Georgia alliance. Col.
Sledge of Texas, president of the National
Economist, and R. F. Gray, editor of that
paper, and Commissioner of Agriculture
Henderson. Mr. Powderly went to the
door and escorted them to the platform.
The speeches of Messrs. Livingston and
Powderly were the notable ones, although
the other gentlemen made addresses.
PRINCIPLES OF THE ALLIANCE.
President Livingston devoted half an
bcur to discussion of the principles of the
alliance. He described the condition of the
farmer in the south, how he had to contend
against the greatest difficulties since the
war, and how ne was now laboring in the
hope that he might educate his c ildren.
The percentage of illiteracy in the south
showed the great odds against which he had
to contend. The mortgaged condition of
the southern farms formed one feature of
his talk. His address made a deep impres
sion, and was frequently applauded.
powderly’s reply.
Mr. Powderly’s reply showed that he is
thoroughly in sympathy with the federation
talk, and t tat he will urge some plan upon
both ( rders. He urged that the ends for
which they were aiming were identically
the same, and that some sort of co-operation
is essential to the welfare of both.
It was a regular love feast, and the strong
points made by all the speakers were loudly
applauded by the knights. The sentiment
in favor of a federation is growing. No im
portant action was taken to-day.
Several interesting matters were taken
up but were referred to different commit
tees.
Mrs. Barry of the woman’s department
was presented with a picture made of min
erals by Leadville miners. This was ac
companied by a poem composed by a
miner.
PHILOSOPHY OF FIRST LOVE.
Is it Only Preparation for Better Love
to Come?
From the St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
There are those who hold that love is
simply love, and that one can love a thou
sand times, and each time as deeply, truly
humanly and spiritually, with the same ex
altation and freshness. But I hold that
there is in that first stir of the emotion by
the opposite sox a turn given to life, a color
to our emotions and a lasting bliss to our
whole being that never is given again. One
may love more wisely the second time and
with a more lasting devotion, but only the
first love can give the absolute thrill
of unalloyed bliss and open the
world to you as a place of joysome
workjand worship. You are suddenly
awakened from b.yhood apd boyishness,
from irresponsibility and a carelessness con
cerning the future to a feeling of marvelous
responsibility. Behind you is the school
and play and obedience and the father’s
house; ahead is exquisite pleasure of work
ing for and tenderly guarding a wife, and
there is the new home to which your imag
ination summons only flowers and song
und peace and content. Your love has
not yet had a single jar. Here is a perfect
thing.
The first love is rarely ever wedded. It
is not so intended. Her mission is to pre
pare the way for a rational love and a safe
marriage. It is premature, preliminary, in
the nature of things is temporary, and has
nothing in its home-making. The married
love is economical, deliberate and practi
cal; the first love is neither of these. It
sees toe world iu a false light, because not a
full light. The color of all things is no
longer the red of life’s sunrise, nor is it yet
the yellow of sunset; it is rose color. If
our first lotos were often wedded the
result would be a vast amount of misery.
Marriage would indeed boa failure. The
worst of all are early marriages, and the
next worst are late marriages. Those that
are very early are sure to be lacking in
common sense. The first experiences are
babyish and the result is childish quarrels.
The two contend over trifles, and as for very
late marriages, here again there is quarrel
ing over trifles, because each one has learned
to have undisputed sway over persoual mat
ters. The ideal marriage follows so u after
the first love has faded and the disappoint
ment of burst bubbles and vanished air
castles has well healed.
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MAN AND WOMAN.
If, unfortunately, the first love ends in a
speedy wedding, there is, first of all. the
bosh and nonsense to bs got rid of. I do
not mean that the gush of fi st affection,
the overflow and flooding of spring tender
ness, are in themselves nonsense when car
ried over to our work-a-day world. They
have their place, but not m the family. If
they get there they have to be got rid of.
And the coming down from airy castles to
“cottages in some vast wilderness,” and
from that to plain city fiats, with a daily
round of dreadfully prosaic duties, is
neither easy nor often successful. The
chances are that the change will come as a
collapse and all affection will fall flat into
disgu-t. The woman is likely first to come
to the practical issue, anil will either
despise the spoony style of her partner, if
he be young and tender, or she will pUy a
pettish part, as she was used to do with htr
mother.
A |ewoman rarely, though sometimes,
takes first love in the serious way that the
boy does. She is never more different
from man than at this point. She is more
accustomed to affection and to its out
bursts. While it is true that a girl who
has loved is often unfit to be a true partner
with one, yet it must be understood that a
girl is always in love. Her friendships are
of the same nature as love. Most girls are
by nature prepared to serve as our first
loves.
A man can have only one first love; I
venture the surmise that a girl caa have
several. In this way a noble girl is able to
break in and tame and render marriageable
half a dozm la is. I think I know one or
two old maids who '-. ere peculiarly bur
dened in early life wit i lovers, but every
one of thorn first lovers. They were sensi
ble enough to comprehe >d this, and instead
of seizing on one of the susceptible youths,
marrying him out of baud and so securing
an escape from old maidism, tbey did
what was sensible and right, and aethe
haupier for it. But they keep souvenirs of
those days and look over them with a very
gentle touch. Indeed, I think those first
loves served then and still serve to keep
i their hearts warm. The benefit of first love
is most largely to ms . and the injury to
its dissipation less hurtful to woman.
FIRST LOVE.
First love affects different natures ac
corning t > their make-up. If one be already
of a ►en.itive, ge-tie and rather soft texture,
this first love is likely to make him actuall,
idiotic for a time. He becomes such a
simpleton that his friends feel Cat he must
be taken in hand. The wisest of them un
dertake to disiepline him, to induce him to
restrain bis gush and show so ..etr.floof dis
cretion, but entirely in vain. I know a
man, now of great note in the laud, who
carr ed her letters in his breast pocket till it
looked like a large wen over his heart. But
the worst was he would pull
i hem out and read them to
any sort of acquaintance. Ten to one,
he would visit someone not as familiar, for
no other purpoae but to tell the charms of
his inamorata and to read her letters. He
was a superb scholar and bright every way;
hut ou this topic he was the laughing stock
of tbe town. Tbe whole thing went to
pieces with a crash, for what girl’s love can
endure such silliness. He survived tbe dis
aster without impaired brains, which is
more than sometimes occurs. I never know
3 man to be love-cracked with a sec >nd or
third flame, but the end of a first love dis
appointment Is always serious and some
times disastrous. Itrnay lead only to a death
of sentiment and susceptibility to a woman’s
affection, or it may dislocate the intellectual
powers or the inoral.
But not too mucu can be said of the’evi
of entering wedlock without the discipline
of a first love. Men have sometimes done
this, and they are always untame I, hard
and severe. A man with keen, critical in
tellect can never be satisfied with au ordi
nary mate. He will do by her as he does
with Smith’s last essay—will pick out her
faults and see all her 'blemishes and fail
ures. The poor woman is only a magazine
article that he picks to pieces instinctively.
He has never had a first love teach him
to transform people and things, to give
the rose-color to dullness, and to tone
down the noonday giare of work-life. He
can not endure such bad habits as tie will
be sure to find in tbe best of wives. Then,
if wo have an imperious disposition and an
iron will, the consequences are injustice and
misery. On the other hand, a man of pe
culiarly sensitive, loving disposition is sure
to look for first love in his married life.
He has a longing for that ideal which he
has created audaciously out of hand, and
boldly declared he has found, and then
worshipped. A woman may be thankful
she is not her husband’s first love, but that
he had one that, having worshipped, he
learned after ail was one of our common
humauity, and that goddesses are not in
corsets.
YOUR OWN EXPERIENCE.
I need not ask you if you remember your
own first love. You could not love her
now, of course not. She is possibly a dowdy
of the worst sort, married to a coarse fel
low that you marveled she could tie herself
to, and you see now it was all right; or she
is a simple, plain, matter-of-fact wife of a
matter-of-fact husband, and the farthest
possible removed from anything ethereal.
How you ever came to see angel’s wings on
her is your puzzle. But she served you
admirably. A first love you must
have, or ought to have, and she was really
a very judicious angel. She did not
flirt, nor did she help you to be extravagant
in your fancies. When the spell was off
she became a good friend, and has been such
ever since. There is, however, quite a
chance tbit your first love has never
returned your letters and you have never
returned hers, and that you both need to
think over the warm sunrise of your life’s
loves, and that it helps your wedded state.
Your wife is not jealous, or ought not to
be. If she is sensible she will be thankful
that someone came before her to open her
Jimmie’s soul and teach him the amenities
of love; she has him now all the more to
herself, and all the more of him there is
to have. She would be in a sad predica
ment if he had never had a first love before
herself.
So you see that first love holds a place
wholly distinct and quite unique. It is not
love in the sense of any other love known.
It is not logical or commonsensieal. It does
not show persons in their true light; indeed,
is sure of false coloring and extravagance.
It is a development of immaturity. It is a
part of human evolution. Wedded love is
the wedding or welding of two who have
been carried beyond the period when they
can be carried away from reason.
That would make an interesting history
if one could read the loves of the fifty most
rounded strongest characters in history;
but not the first loves, for theso would be
almost the same story retold. They rarely
get into a man’s biography or are referred
to in his autobiography. He tries to let
them drop out of sight. He counts only
those later grapplings of his heart after
one whom he desires for a life’s partner.
The ancients never told anything of a man
without giving his love story. How
delightful the story of the patriarchs and
their wanderings after wives and their woo
mgi of kinswomen. But we need not be
lieve there was no romance of the other sort
in their lives. They, as we do, hid this
chapter of their lives. It does not count in
the same way as the rest of life counts.
One would suppose, in reading of the
Orient, that love had been reduced wholly
to a matter cf bargain and economy, yet
there is nowhere else so much of the idyllic
and romantic.
Our first loves linger with us in associa
tion with the old schoolhouse on the hill.
They make music with a brooklet that
tumbled down the shady willow bank; they
ore remembered as the perfume of the long
gone cinnamon roses; they resurrect them
selves iu our sombre moods to tell us that
our ideals are as real as the practical, and
that our plain-working life is capable of
richer phases. I think there may be hints
of a finer life hereafter. Have you any old
love letters? Any old souvenirs of your
dream life? It was well that you once were
soft and dreamy. Do not burn them.
MR. HOOK WA9 CAPTIVATED.
His Account of His Savanna h Visit in a
Private Letter.
From the Augusta Chronicle.
Savannah, Ga., Nov. 13,1889.
Ed B. Hook. Esq., Augusta, Ga.:
My Dear Son —I am here as one of the
state house officers —an invited guest of the
city of Savannah. A large number of
the general assembly, to whom the invita
tion was more specially given, are present
to enjoy the royal, glorious hospitality of
this beautiful City by the Sea.
I cave not what may be the preference of
persons for other cities in the state, all
must, and do, uuite in according to this
far-famed city a beauty in locality and
structure, and a thrifty and enlightened
citizenship, and a noble and elegant hospi
tably that place it, in the estimation not
only of all Georgians, but of all who visit
it from elsewhere, in the front rank of the
most prominent and progressive cities.
Many are going up, some of
them quite elegant and extensive—notably
the De Soto hotel, now rapidly reaching
completion. It successfully rivals the Kim
ball in Atlanta in exterior mangnificence,
style and finish. I wish I had the time and
the gift of description equal to giviug a
correct pen picture of it. But how could Sa
vannah lag behind with so much wealth,
energy and superior intelligence as are
possessed by her people? This great and
growing city has learned that capital
must not lie idle if progres is
desired, and would be glad, if time permitted,
to teii you how many enterprises her cap
italists are investing iu here. That capital
ist who tears off his coupons every time
they fall due, and immediately invests
them in other Jjouds to lock up and hoard,
may be a successful financier from a purely
selfish standpoint, but ho will never win for
himself a living place in the annals of
progress, or iu the hearts of his coun
trymen.
Everywhere the eve looks in this city of
genial clime are evidsne -s of the cordial
welcome with which its guests are greeted
and honored. From the hour of Gen. Law
ton’s admirable address of welcome at Ma-
sonic temple until the curtain of night
closed late this (Wednesday) evening upon
the festivities, the members of the ieg.sla
ture had a perfect ovation, wuich was not
only most grateful to tuem, but honoring
to the people of Georgia whom they rep
resent.
The view of the ori cipal point3 of in
terest about the city from carriages, the
trip to Tybee island by rail, the ovs er roast
there, a:d the ample and elegant lurch
provided in the Ocm i hotel on tte beach,
together with the fine music, made it an
occasion full of charm, and one that can
never be forgotten. That prince of gen
tle sen and master among railroad men
—Gen. E. P. Alexander—honored the occa
sion wltn his pre e ce, and was, as is natu
ral to him, pleasant and agreeable to all.
Savannah capital has nearly completed a
very large and commodious hotel, which
will furnish, together with the other hotels
already in operation there, ample accom
modation for the thousands of visitors ex
pected to be on the island next summer.
Tybee island is bound to be a famous sum
mer resort in future.
But th 9 ride to the sea down the broad
Savannan in the beautiful and spacious
ship Nacoocbee, belonging to the Ocean
Steamship Line, "as the glorious feature
of to-day. The beauty of this large ship
exteriorly, but especially in its superb in
terior elegance, commodious ness aud
style, make any language I possess too
poor for just description. It is a thing of
beauty, and I trust will ride the seas in
magnificence for many long years. None
of the large and delighted comoany on
board can ever forget the gentlemanly
attentions and courtly but unostentatious
bearing of G. >l. Sorrel, general manager
of the Ocean Steamship Company, whose
presence everywhere on board was as
genial and pleasing as the sunlight which
drove away the clouds of the morning and
smiled on that memorable trip to the sea.
The trip extended only seven miles beyond
Tybee, but that was s ifficient to make a
few members of the party conscious of the
fact that a
—Life on the ocean wave
And a home on the rolling deep—
was neither the life nor the home for them.
Still, when the seasickness passed away
and the smooth waters of the Savannah
were again reached and all were sum
moned to the truly sumptuous feast served
on board, all qualms were forgotten or
ignored around the table, and while the
rich and varied viands were being enjoyed,
and the champagne sparkled, and elo
quence and wit "flashed from fluent lips,”
ail gave themselves up to the delightful
inspiration of the occasion, and when the
ship anchored at the wharf it seemed as
though the spell of a weird dream had been
broken.
Chatham’s able representatives, Gordon
Reilly and Clifton, were every where p'esenfc
both and lys of the glorious entertainment,
making everybody feel at home and hiding
their own political prominence from view in
their desire and their zeal to keep their be
loved city, with all her grand attractions
and prophetic future, constantly before the
eye of the visiting representatives of
Georgia.
Gen. Alexander, Gen. Lawton, his gifted
son, Al. Lawton. Capt. Mercer, Judge Fal
ligant, Judge Harden, Capt. D. G. Purse,
Mayor Schwarz, heads of city departments
and other distinguished and influential citi
zens of Savannah, lent their presence and
kind words and attentions on the occasion.
But I am so intoxicated, not with cham
pagne or other stimulant, but with
the enchanting elegance of the occasion
that I have written too much. Still I
thought you would like to hear from me
while here,where J have more time to write
this sort of letter for home consumption
than when in my office in Atlanta.
Affectionately, your father,
James. S. Hook.
Fiahea Built for Speed.
From London Public Opinion.
The speed of fishes is almost an unknown
quantity, it being, as Prof. G. Brown Goode
says, very difficult to measure. If, says the
professor, you could get a fish and put in a
trough of water 1,000 feet long and start it
at one end and make it swim to the other
without stopping, the information could be
easily obtained; but fish are unintelligent,
and will not do this. Estimates of the
speed of fish are consequently only approxi
mated, and more or less founded upon
guessing. One can. tell, however, at a
glance, whether a flih is built for speed or
not. A fast fish looks trim and pointed,
like a yacht. Its head is conical in shape
and its fius fit down close to its body, like
a knife blade into its handle. Fish with
large heads, bigger than their bodies,
and with short, stubby fins, are
built for slow motion. The predatory
fishes, those that live on prey, are the
fastest swimmers. The food fishes are, as a
general thiug, the slowest, and consequently
easily captured. Their loss is recompensed,
however, by the natural law which makes
them very prolific in reproduction. Dol
phins hava been known to swim around an
ocean steamer, and it is quite safe to say
that their spaed is twenty miles an hour;
but it may be twice as much. The bonito
is a fast swimming fish; but just wiiat its
speed is is unknown. The head of the goose
fish is very large—twenty time as big as its
body. It moves about very little, and
swims at the bottom of the ocean. The
Spanish mackerel is one of the fastest of
food fishes. Its body is cone soaped and is
as smooth as burnished metal. Its speed is
as matchless as that of the dolphin, and, in
motion, it cuts water like a yacht.
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I have used Dr. Ulmer’s Corrector in my
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efficacy as a great family medicine. For ladies
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Blandon Springs, Ala.
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H. H. KAYTON, New York.
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AMUSEMENTS.
SAVANNAH THEATER.
FRIDAY AND SATURDAY, SATUR.
DAY MATINEE, NOV. 15 and 16.
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Paris Exposition 1889 : I
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