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6K!» E. Kl'SSKI.L.. Editor and Prop’r
The Weekly Democrat.
THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 2J, 1882.
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\USINESS & PROFESSIONAL.
MEDICAL CARD,
j r. M. J. Nicholson,
■ Has removed to Twilight, Miller coun-
l Georgia. Office in J. S. Clifton’s
ore. feb.9,’82.
MEDICAL CARD. ~
E . J . Morgan
[Has removed his office to the drug store,
jrmcrly occupied by Dr, Harrell. Resi-
pnee on West street, south of Shotwell,
here calls at night will reach him.
CHARLES C. BUSH,
ttorney at Law
COLQUITT, GA.
h’rompt attention given to all business en
listed to me.
D ENTISTRY '
|. C . Curry, D. D. S.,
Jan be found daily at his office on South
kind street, up stairs, in E. Johnson’s
Hiding, where he is ready to attend to the
Ints of the public at reasonable rates.
• dec-5-78
XL, m. o’nkal
McGILL & O’NEAL.
Ittorneys at Law.
BAINBKIDGE, GA.
[heir office will be found over the post of-
Bainbridge Democrat.
BY BEN. E. RUSSELL.
BAINBRIDGE, GA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1882.
j YOL. 11.—NO. 20.
Only Going to the date.
Liko a bell of blossom ringing,
Clear and childish, shrill and tweet,
Floating to the po&rcbe’s shadow,
With the fainter tall of feet,
Comes the answer softiy backward.
Bidding tender watcher wait,
While the baby-qneen outruns her,
“Only going to the gate.”
Through the moonlight, warm and scented,
Love to beauty breathes a sigh,
Always to depart reluctant, ,
Loth to speak the words good-bye;
Then the same low echo answers,
Waiting love of older date,
And the maiden whispers softly,
“Only goiog to the gate.”
Oh, these gates along our pathway,
What they bar outside and in I
With the vague outlook beyond them,
Over waves we have not been.
How they stand before, behind ns 1
Toll-gates some, with price to pay;
Spring-gates some, that shut forever;
Cloud-gates Borne, that melt away.
So we pass them going upward
On our journey one by one,
To the distant shining wicket
Where each traveler goes alone—
Where the friends who journey with ns
Strangely falter, stop and wait;
Father, mother, child or lover;
“Only going to the gate.”
THEY OUT-VOTED HIM.
What Foliarcd Sam Jolinslng's
Resignation as u Future Son
in Law.
I), B. DONALSON,
nyaoN B. bowbu.
BOWER & DONALSON,
Itorneys and Counsellers at Law.
LHlico in the court house. Will practice
■Decatur and adjoining counties, and
ewherc by special contract. a-25 7
lOCTOR M. L. BATTLE,
Dentist.
)ffice over 1 Tunis Store, West side
krt house. Has fine dental engine, and
11 have everything to make "bis office
L-class. Terms cash. Office hours 9
pi, to 4 p. in- jan,13tf
DR. L. H. PEACOCK,
ipect fully tenders his professional serv-
to the people of Bainbridge and vicini-
kffice over store of J. D. Harrell & Bro
[iifcnce on West end of Broughton
et, where he can be found at night.
Lpril 6,1881—6m.
H. F. SHARON,
torney at Law.
Office in Court House,
fill practice in all the courts of the
sny Circuit and Supreme Court of
. In the Circuit and Supreme
fts of Florida, and elsewhere by special
pact.
kinbridge, Ga., April 23,1881—ly.
ibor Omnia Vincit.”
new spring and summer samples are
[in. For excelency of qnality, beau-
“ design and economy of prices they
any heretofore exhibited. Will
lake clothing to order here and
^ntee the style, fit and workmanship-
1 to any of the northern trades.
J. 1 HAHN, at
B-4t. C. K. Daniel’s store
FG&BES,
ger in, Furniture, Looking Glasses,
| Taper, Window Shades, Picture
Child’s Carriages, Baskets, etc.,
IASVILLE. - - GEORGIA.
ep -a first-class stock of Furniture,
Oil-cloths, Rugs Mats, Mattresses,
s, Brackets. Ac &c.
i goods I will sell to anybody living
keventy-five miles of Thomas ville for
ney than they can supply themselves
kny other market. J. FORBES.
19, 1881.—ly.
ED SMITH.
sr and Confectioner
6 Sharon House Block.
| breads, cakes, fruits, candies, nuts,
■ys on hand. Also, best stock of
enes in town.
Undersold by no one. Give him a
Yon make this affidavit against the
Snowball family, do you ?” asked the jus
tice of ^am debasing, holding up the doc
ument,
‘Yes, sah, I does. Dey put on heap a
style and paint, but dey am de ordinariest
family in the whole city ob Austin. Dar
ain’t ten dollars in the whole family. I
know because I has been dar.’
‘You must not use such language,’ re
monstrated the justice,- ‘but please state
your case.”
•Well sah, I was engaged to be married
in de Springtime to dat ar piece of calico
on de mourner’s bench, and on de day be-
foah New Year’s 1 madff up my mind to
tap my future fodder-in-law for a ten dol
lar bill. What am de use of a future fod
der-in-law ef you can’t tax him fur a ten ?’
‘Did he give you the ten dollars?’ asked
the justice.
Sam Johnsing then went on to state
that when he asked his future father-in-
law, old man Snowball, for a ten. the latter
snorted like a cow pony when he hears a
brass band for the first time, but finally
cooled down and said as soon as he cashed
off a little check he would hand over the
X.
‘I said ‘all righ’ and went off,’ ‘but seems
dat after I was gone old man Snowball
asked his darter, Matildy, to let him hab
the funds, but nebber tole her it was for
me. She said she couldn’t find her port-
monia, and asked her brndder Bob, who
am sitting on the bench dar, did his bead
tied up far de ted dollars. He said he
would get it as soon a3 the bank opened,
ns hedidn’t hab no small change; and he
hunted me up and down on Anstin avenue
and asked me to loan him ten dollars, and
I said I would next day, but I nebber
meant to do no such foolishness, nohaw
Yon see. judge none of ’em tole de udder
dat hit was me what fust started de busi
ness."
‘‘Well, what has all this to do with the
assault ?’ asked the justice.
‘Next day, New Yeah’s day, I called at
de Snowball mansion on Anstin avenue.
Dey was all dar. 1 axed de ole man if he
had de ten dollars ho promised me. He
said sartiuly, and went ober to Matildy
and axed her fur de money she had prom
ised him, and she said sartinly too, and
goes ober to Bob fur de money he had
promised. Bob said ob coarse,’ and I
hope I may be struck dead iu my tracks ef
dat fool niggah didn’t coxie up ter me and
say: ‘Brudder-in-law what’s gwine ter be,
has yer got de teu dollars yer promised
me?’
•What followed !’
‘I jes riz. up, aud putting my stove-pipe
on de side of my head, I said : ‘I tenders
my resignation as a future son-in-law, de
same ter go inter effect from right now. If
yer suspects dat Sam JohDsing am sich a
sucker as ter play matrimony in a family
dat hain’t got ten dollars on New Yeah’s
day, you am whistling at de wrong pap,
dat’s all,’ and I made for de door.’
‘What next ?’
‘What next! Come here, jedge, and
run yer band ober my wool and feel dat
bumb like and egg-plant. Dat’s a New
\’ eah’s giff from Matildy. Does yer see
dis here gouged eye ? Dat’s what I got
from de ole man ter remember him by;
and Use got anudder New Yeah’s gift on
my pnsson whar Bob took oat a mouf-ful
wid his teef. Dat’s why I walks wid a
cane. I tried mighty hard to return the
compliments ob de season, bat when de
ole woman poured bilin water down my
back, I drew ont as an independent candi
date. Dey out-voted me, j«ige.”
In consideration of it being the holiday
season, and about the justice's time for
diuDer, the cases were dismissed.—Gal-
vestotoNews.
Didn't
Rook
Like Female
Agents.
Detroit Free Frets.
A week or two ago a bright and chat
ty young woman called at a house on
Cass avenue and endeavored to make a
sale of a book entitled. “Home and
Mother." The lady of the house re
ceived her in the usual ten degrees be
low fashion and utterly refusing to look,
she said .*
“I haven’t any money, and I know
that my husband wouldn’t pay for it.”
“It is a book highly spoken of by the
press.”
“Yes. I know, but my husband is
queer.”
“And you see the superior style of
binding.”
“I know but my husband would call
it bosh and trash.”
“Shan’t I call when he is at home 7”
“That would be useless. He wouldn’t
even look at it, and he hates female
book agents.”
“Does he ?”
“Yes, he abhors them. I know he
doesn’t even treat them civily when
they call at his office.”
“Is that so f" mused the girl, and
when she left the house she for some
reason or other started right down
ttfwn.
The lady of the house might have
forgotten the incident in five or six
years but for a sort of climax. When
her hu band came up to dinner he hand
ed her a copy of “Home and Mother.”
with tii2 remark:
Happened to see it as I passed a
second-hand book store and thought
perhaps you’d like it.”
GEMN OF THOUGHT.
From George EUoCt “Adam Bede.”]
The beauty of a lovely woman is like
music.
Our dead are never - dead to us until
we have forgottou them,
A woman may get to love by degrees
the best fire does uot flame up the
soonest.
A man may be very firm in other
matters, and yet be under a sort witch
ery from a woman.
When death the great reconciler has
come, it is never our tenderness that
we repent of, bat our sove rity.
If you would love a woman without
ever looking back on your love as a
folly, she must die while you are court
ing her.
We are apt to be kinder to the brutes
that love us, than to the woman that
loves ns. Is it because the brutes are
dumb 7
I don’t want to know people that
look ugly and disagreeable, any more
than I want to taste dishes that look
disagreeable.
Then they looked at each other, not
quite as they had looked before, for
in their eyes there was the memory
of a kiss.
There’s no pleasure in living if you’re
to be corked up forever, and only drib
ble yonr mind out by the sly, like a
ieaky barrel.
One may be betrayed into doing
things by a combination of crimes
which one might have never done oth
erwise.
“But, mother, “thee knew’st we cau-
“Yes—ah—but, Henry, a girl was
here trying to sell me this very book) not ,0 _! e j U8t "heather folks '^huve
not over two hours ago, stammered the
wife,
“Wa6, eh? Well, she probaply got
discouraged, sold out to the second
hand dealer and has skipped the city.
Is dinner ready ?”
Dinner was ready, but somehow the
wife had no appetite, and since then
she has fits of abstraction, glances sus
piciously around at times and has been
seeD going in and coming out of
second hand book stores*
Bill Arp on Capital and Politics
Capital don’t care anything about
our politics. Capital don’t care wheth
er Dr. Felton goes to Congress or stays
at home. I reckon our politics aod
politician and our gubernatorial and
congressional conventions will compare
favorably with New York and Ohio
and Pennsylvania, or any other North
ern State. Politics is a fraud and a
trick everywhere, bat don’t let us sad
dle our poverty on the organized Demo
cracy. I have no doubt the doctor
thinks it is the devil’s brother-in-law,
and looks upon the failure of last year’s
crop as a visitation of Providence upon
Democratic iniquity, for what is born
in the flesh is bred in the bone, and it
would take a mighty pure Democrat to
command respect from an old line
whig.
Now let us hold on a while. We
are doing pretty well considering, and
more northern capital has been invest
ed in Georgia in the last twelve months
tlfan in five years preceeding. I don’t
hear of any northern man who has
moved here making any complaint about
our treatment. Major McCracken did
have a little skirmish with your city
council about his railroad, but that has
been amicably settled and I am glad of
it. I traveled through the country one
day with the Major and heard him say
as he looked at the wheat fields all
rough with corn stocks and bad plow
ing, “You must have a blessed country
down here in Georgia, for if we put
our wheat in the ground that way in
Ohio we would not expect to make the
d we planted.” Jesso. That is
what is the matcer. We want no bet.
ter farms aad better farming and I
don’t believe an independent succeeds
any better on that line tban a regular
Democrat. At least they don’t in my
neighborhood. Bill Arp.
—Atlanta Constitution.
Six Girls” is the title of the latest noveL
It is expected that a sequel, entitled “Onr
broken Gate” will be issued soon. A bro
ken gate would naturally follow six girls;
said broken gait belonging to the bald-
headed old reprobate who ought to be old
enough to know better.
There’s nobody but God that ban
control the heart of man.
The vainest woman is never thorough
ly conscious hf her own beauty till she
is loved by the man who sets her own
passions vibrating in return.
Because, dear, trouble comes to ns
all in this life, we set our hearts on
tilings which it isn’t God’s will for us
to have, and then we go sorrowing.
A man never lies with more delicious
languor under the influence of passion,
than when be has persuaded himself
that he 3hall subdue it to-morrow.
When I have made np my mind that
I cannot afford to buy a tempting dog,
I take no notice of him, because if he
took a strong fancy to me, and looked
lovingly at me, the struggle between
arithmetic and inclination might be
come unpleasantly severe.
It’s a deep mystery—the way the
heart of man turns to one woman out of
all the rest he’s seen in the world, aod
makes it easier for him to work seven
years for herlike Jacob did for Rachel,
sooner than have any other woman for
the asking.
But I believe there have been men
since his day who have ridden a long
way to avoid a recontre, and then gal
loped hastily back, lest they should
miss it. It is the favorite strategem of
our passions to charm a retreat, and to
turn sharp around upon us the moment
we have made np our minds that the
day is our own.
G1 ramblers.
There are some persons who will
ever complain of their lot in life and
endeavor to convince their friends, if
not themselves, that they were always
unlucky, and that nobody has as many
trials to undergo as they do. This is
your chronic grumbler. He sits down
and mopes, while his neighbor is up,
pushing on against contrary winds, and
battling with adversity with every poll
of the oar, and finally sncceeds in moor
ing his bark in a safe retreat. His
idle nighbor Bees his prosperity, and
calls it luck. Every community has
these croakers and grumblers in their
midst. If the able bodied map would
get up out of his old lazy ruts, and
strike oat a new road, and quit compar
ing his lot in life with his neighbor’s
(who is only more prosperous because
more patient and industrious,) there
would’nt be so many useless stomachs
to fill, and more food wonld be made
to feed thewilling workers.—MiUedg-
eville Recorder.
Social tllqaei.
Augusta Newt.
One item of gossip concerning the
reception at the Vapderbilt palace re
cently represented that some of the old
families—the Knickerbockers, we pre
sume, or some other b ockers—dec! i ned
to attend, though invited,
because the Vanderbilts were not yet
included in their exclusive circle
“What fools these mortal be.” The
Knickerbockers, if they are the ones,
are fools for supposing that their little
sapling of a pedigree, extending back
only a couple of hundred years and then
beginning in a lot of logy old Dutch
burgers, entitles them to assume airs
in American society; Vanderblt is
fool for earing a fig, if he does care
fig, whether these people “recognize
him or not. These cliques aud circles
founded on pedigree and not on merit
or taste, excite only the contempt and
ridicule of sensible people. Every man
or woman is entitled to be select in the
choice of acquaintances and associa
tions, but the assumption of social su
periority some society people set up,
exposes them to an estimate of their
character among shrewd observers that
is decidedly uncomplimentary.
On the other hand, people of fastidi
ious or special tastes often are mis
judged on account of their choice of so
ciety in accordance with such tastes
The selection of one’s friends, like the
other choice of a husband or wife
ought to be left entirely to the individ
ual most interested. The criticism of
outsiders upon social exclusiveness is
impertinent except when it deals with
manifest assumption of superiority
based upon the accident of birth or
wealth, when the keener the shafts of
riddiculc, of satire, of sarcasm that can
be hurled at the pretenders and up
starts, the better for the soundness of
society.
The Doctor and the Lawyer.
A smart young sprig of a lawyer had
a gravs old doctor on the witness stand in
a case of assault and battery, and he queS'
tioned him unmercifully.
“Ah, doctor.” inqnired the lawyer, ‘‘did
I understand yon to say the cat in the
man’s head was dangerous?”
“Yes, sir,” replied the doctor.
“Well, doctor, doesn’t it sometimes hap
pen that even a less cut than this one is
dangerous ?”
“Yes, sir.”
“And. doctor, is it not true that even a
scratch is dangerous ?”
“Yes, sir, and I know of cases resulting
fatally when not even a scratch was visible,
Only recently a man died under such cir
cumstances.”
“Ah. indeed,” qaickly pat in the attor
ney in a pleased and satisfied wav, “will
yon be kind enough to tell the jury the
facts ?"
“Certainly, if yon desire it.”
“Yon say there was not a scratch on
him ?”
“Not one that I could find.”
“And be died ?"
“Yes.”
“Now, doctor, just tell the jury bow it
was.”
Well, you Eee, he had the colic aud he
was dead before I could get him untangl
ed.”
The young attorney called another wit
ness.—Steaubenville (0.) Herald.
No,Effie,my child. We are not aesth ete.
We only love the beautiful as it is mate
rialized by the presence of the sex. We
couldn’t think of worshiping a sunflower
or adorning a lily as long as yon persist is
sitting on the sofa beside os.
Peculiarities of the Boy.
An exchange Bays a boy will tramp
247 miles in one day on a rabbit hunt
and be limber in the evenimg; when,
if yon ask him to go across the street
and borrow Jooes' two-inch auger’ he
will be as stiff as a meat block. Of
course he will. And he will go swim
ming all day and stay in the water
three hours at a time, and splash and
dive and paddle and puff, and next
morning he will feel that an unmeas
ured insult has been offered him when
he is told by his mother to wash his
face carefully so as not to leave the
score of the ebb and flew so plain as to
be seen under the gills. And he’ll
wander around a dry creek bed all the
afternoon piling up a pebble fort, and
nearly die ofl when his big sister wants
him to please pick up a basket of chips
for the .parlor stove; and he’ll spend
the biggest part of the day trying to
corner a stray mule or a bald-backed
horse for a ride, and feel that all life’s
charms have fled when it comes time to
drive the cows home; and he’ll turn a
ten-acre lot upside down for ten inches
of angle worms, and wish for the voice
less tomb when the gardea demands his
attention. But all the same, when you
want a friend who will stand by you
£nd sympathize with you in all kinds
of weather enlist one of those small
boys.—Hawkeye.
WIT AND WISDOM.
Breakfast rolls—turning over in bed.
A criminal soldom sits down to take ar
rest.
An lioneet man is themoblest pursuit of
woman.
The key that winds np a man’s basinesa
Is whiskey.
The best armor is t# keep eut ef gun
shot.
Thought is invisible nature—nature is
invisible thought.
Martin, if dirt was tramps what hands
you would hold.
Principles like troops of the line are un
disturbed and stand fast.
Genuine suffering often jestB best, for it
knows no idle longing for tears.
Those who never retract their opinions 1
love themselves more than they lore the
truth.
Upon the margin ef celestial streams
alone those simples grow which cure the
heartache.
The seeds of knowledge may be planted
in solitude, but must be cultivated in pub
lic.
“Boyce will be Boyce,” remarked a
young lady of that name, as she rejected a
suitor fer her hand.
If the best man’s faults were written on
bis forehead, it would make him pull
his hat over his eyes.
A Sunday-school boy upon be’ng asked
what made the tower of Pisa lean, replied :
“Because of the famine in the iar.d.”
Why need one always explain ? Some
feelings are quite untranslatable. No
language baa yet been found for them.
Success soon palls. The joyons time is
when the breeze first strikes your sails,
and the waters rustle under your bows.
Jealousy sees things always with magni-
fying glasses, which makes little things
large, of dwarfs giants, suspects truths.
If you wonld convince a man that he
does wrong, do right; bat do not care to
convince him. Men will believe what they
see. • •
“Thera is no rest for the wigged,” is
what the baldheaded man said when he
chased his false hair np the street in a De
cember gale.
Bolling hair in a solution of tea will
darken it, says an exchange; bat some
folks don’t like to have tbeir tea darkened
that way.
“Well, dear little boy, what shall I get
you for a present ?” “Well, papa, 1 think
I should like a little House of Representa
tives.” “Oh, my dear, not one of those
noisy toys 1”
Guiteau says, “The jury may put my
body in the ground, but n»y soul will go
marching on.” If a compromise can be
effected on this basis, the public will be
satisfied.
Made as Mistake.
Young Charles Augustus, more pf a
masbef than a reader of standard au
thors, not long age found a new girl
and went to see her. The next daj he
was met on the street looking like a last
year’s birds’ nest generally, and with
four or five long scoatehes oa his face
particularly.
“Hello,” said a friend, “what’s the
matter 7”
“Nothing,” he replied, “only I've
found out that the poet told the
truth.”
“Why, how's that 7 What do you
mean 7”
“Don’t you read poetry ?”
“Yes. some.”
“Well, didn’t you ever read the vers#
which says :
“ *Oh woman in our hours of ease
Uncertain, coy and hard to aqueese?’
“That’s what 1 mean.”
“Oh!” remarked the friend, with tt
significant wink, “I Understand,” and
they parted.—Ex.
SPKiHOFiSLD, Robertson Co.. Tin*.,
November 27, 1880-
D*. J. Bradfibld—Sir : My daughter
has been suffering for many years with that
dreadful affliction known as Female Disease,
which has cost me many dollars, and not
withstanding I had the best medical attend
ance, could not find relief. I have used
many other kinds of medicine without any
effect. I had just about given her up, was
out of heart, but happened in the store ef
W, W. Eckler several weeks since, and he
knows of my daughter’s affliction pursuaded
me to try a bottle of your Female Regulator.
She began to improve at once. . I was so de
lighted with its effect that I bought several
more bottles.
The price, $1.50 a bottle, seemed to be
very high at first, but I now think it the
cheapest preparation on the globe and
knowing what I do about it, if to-day one of
my family was suffering with that awful
disease I weuld have it if it cost $50 a bottle,
for I can truthfully say it has cured my
daughter sound and well, and myself and
wife do most heartily recommend your Fe
male Regulator to be just what it is recom
mended to be.
Respecttully,
B. D. FbatheB3ToSi-
For Sale by all Druggist.
Woman’s Best Eriend.—.To relieve thef
aching heart of woman, and bringjoy where
sorrow reigned supreme, is a mission before
which the smiles of kings dwindle into nt-
ter insignificance This is the peculiar
yrovince of Bradfield’s Female Regulator,
which, from its numberless cures, is appro
priately styled “Woman’s Best Friend.”
The distressing complaint known as ‘whites’
and various irregularities of the womb, to
which woman is subject, disappear lik<er-
magic before a single bottle of this wonder,
lul compound, Hhysicians proscribe it.
Prepared py Dr, J, Bradfield, Atlanta, Ga.,
and sold at $1 50 per bottle by all druggist.
There seems to be no end to the variety
of woman’s whims. A Mrs. Miller, of
Washington City, has swapped a one-eyed
husband for a one-legged lover, and has
thrown in a ready-made family of children
to boot.
It is well to have yonr zeal for reform
ing the world begin on yenrself. After
yon have finished the work needed then
yon may with justice extend your (Sorts
to year neighbor’s case.
A folora-loekiag American said: “I’ve
tried everything I could turn my hand to,
but couldn't make anything answer aod
now I’m going np among the rocks, where
they say there’s a wonderful echo, to see
if I cant make that answer.”
“I’m glad Billy had sense to maty a set
tled old maid,” said Grandma Winkum at
the wedding. “Gals is so hitytity, and
widdere is so kinder overrulin’ and upset
tin’. Old maids is kinder thankful and
willin to please.”
I’m a painfully sore young girl,
A pathetically sad young girl,
In a bad situation
From this vaccination,
A mad as tarnation young girl.
The laziest boy exists in Danbury. His
mother sent him to a neighbor’s house
after cup of sour milk. Oa being told that
there was none but sweet milk to be got,
helped himself to a chair and said: “Well,
111 wait ’till it sours.”
, who “ran” a country store, and
employed a number of wood choppers, one
day met an old debtor. “Well, Jones,
said B , are you out of work ?” “Yes,
sir,” he replied. “Would you go to work
for me and have it credited to your ac
count, If I should make it very easy for
you ?’’ inquired B . “I don’t know;
how will you fix it?” answered Jones.
Well, I’ll tell you,” said B .•“You
know I am paying my choppers a dollar a
day; but if you are disposed to work out
your old indebtedness, I will allow you
four dollars a day until the old account is
settled. What say you?” Jones, after
meditating a few moments, suddenly ex
claimed : “By golly 1 111 do it, if you’ll
make it half eash.”
AMERICA STILL FURTHER AHEAD t.
COTTOX.
ATLANTA IXTEKSATIOSAL
TIOH.
WTUJMtimO spool. COTTON PBOauUNUED THS
THBSAD Ton Bivno KACBDtn—TWO OOU> Id
AND XHJC GRAND PRIZE.
The thread exhibit* made by three of the ]
manufacturer* of epool cotton were a distingoiahiwi
feature of the great International Cotton Expos! ti an •*
Atlanta. The Willi man tic Thread Company, • dto»
ttnctively American Institution, displayed what we*
generally admitted to bo the moet complete
ever made of any industry at any World’s Ha
whole system of machlnary in operation was ahai
in this company's space, and taking the raw <
from the bale, it waa turned oat ee i
reedy far market, passing through all the way
requisite and delicate processes in plain view of it*,
tore, even the spools npon which the thread we*
wound, and the boxes .In which it was packed tetag
made on tho spot.
The wmimnnHe Company, is *»niiy to large am
exhibit et the first great Southern fair, showed a proper
appreciation of Southern intelligence, end the judge*
In bestowing upon this company all the
awarded for spool cotton at the Exposition, only ■
the public sentiment formed et the South aftpr I
how Willimando Thread is made. Governor <
of Georgia, rasponding to a toast at a reception 1
Atlanta, also added his Indorsement by saying: ^
“Saving worn and found good a rail of (M*
made from cotton picked in the morning tram tote
Seld and before night woven, eut, made —* page,
tented to him by the Wllllmantio Company, he mas#
in a position to endorse the WUlimautlc Thread, atel
recommended it to every family in Georgia and See
South.” ^
The completeness of this latest victory achieved Ig
the Wiilimantic Company can bo better undasafcmd
by reeding the following extract* from tho alficial *.
ports of tlio judges of award:
GOLD NZDU. NO. 1.
“ For the Best Six-Cord. Soft Finish, Spool Oothejkr
Machine and Hand Sewing. The elements of marts
and superiority recognized are great strength ad
elacticity, rendering this thread peculiarly adapted to
sewing machine use. Tho colors shown are
able for their beauty and variety. Gold ]
mended.”
COLD VXD at, no. 2.
“ For a magnificent display of thread-making' to all
its various operations, from the raw material to (h*
finished goods, » * * » giving a —■ -
plete, practical exhibit of this Important and Into *1
ing industry. In closing *hi» report the judges dads*
to express their unanimous commendation of to*
Wiilimantic Thread Company fer their enterprise
liberality in making this notable exhibit, end raecte*
mend e special gold medal award as a deserved to*
oognittc* of the same.”
** For an excellent exhibit of an
of organization and special Institutions for ]_
harmony aud increasing the material, moiata*d **
teliectual well-being of work peep*- in ;
— t * tJt Tbmfntn • • *
committee recommend that an exemplary i
shall be made of the value and importance ef to*
exhibit by the award of a grand prize of a xaodteaw
piece of plate of tho value-of $500 to the uTillilto ef
this admirable exemplification of new methods (to to*
convenience sod improvement of the employees tea
the manufacture of cotton, considering such p*te
vision is of even greater importance than any wmrn
improvement in mvM*— for p—p-r*"g and tetetoa
Cotton.**
son emu awash* I
In addition to the above, four other mb* *toP
recommended by the judges for exhibits shown by Ik*
Willi mantle Company, among tiu-m being tea mjg
amid for a spool eottoo winding machine. .
