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V'OL 1-NO 7.
THOMASVILLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY MORNING, MAY 21, 1889.
Special
OFFERINGS
-FOR-
This Week,
News Notes About Town
About People You Know, or May
Not Know.
PUT IN PITHY PACKAGES.
Will Stegall was in the city Sunday.
Joe Beverly was in town yesterday.
New telegraph poles arc being put
up.
5,000 yards Checked Nainsook at 5c,
worth roc.
5,000 yards Checked Nainsook at 8c
worth 12 1-2.
5 000 yards Checked Nainsook at 10
worth 15c.
5,000 yaids F'igured White Lawn at
12 1-2C, worth 20.
This is a special
drive and is well
worth your atten
tion.
5,000 yards white India Linen at 5c
worth ioc. *
5,000 yards white India Linen at 8c
worth 12,1*2 „
5 000 yards white India Linen at ioc
, worth 15. .
We have the best
and largest assort
ttient of white lawns
ever offered in this
market. Would call
your special atten
tion to our
gOc Number,
which in width, tin
ish and sheerness of
woof, surpasses an) r -
thing ever shown at
this price.
25 dozen bleached damask towels,
knotted fringe, at 15c, well worth
25c.
25 dozen Huckabock Towels at ioc,
worth 25c.
For 25c we can give you the very
best towel, x 1-4 yards long, all linen
and last colored borders, ever shown
in Thomasville.
Our new and elegant selection of
Challies are still all the rage, and arc
selling at a very satisfactory rate. In
summer silks we have still some very
choice patterns left, which we are
offering at greatly reduced rates.
Our remnant counter lor this week
contains some very desirable bar
gains, and mothers would do well to
take advantage of this.
All lines complete..
Stock acknowledged
to be the largest.
Prices lower than
ever. Do not fail to
come and inspect.
We are anxious to
show you our goods
whether you buy or
not,
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Hon. A. T. McIntyre spent Sunday
in Bainbndge.
Mr. Ed. Stevens is erecting a resi
dence in Fearnside.
Mr. R. Turnburll, of Monticellolwas
in the city yesterday.
Mr. W. R. Barnes, of Monticello.
was in the city yesterday.
This is the last flower month; after
this come the fruits of the year.
Twenty-four commercial men spent
Sunday at the Stuart.
Mr. George Henderson retnrned
from a trip to Ohio Sunday.
The Gun Club shoot at the grounds
in East End this afternoon.
Contractor Eaves- went down to
Cairo on business yesterday.
The shower Sunday has made the
atmosphere much pleasanter.
Mr. James Evans left yesterday for
a business trip to Macon.
Reid & Culpepper are in the midst
of annual stock taking.
Hon. Isaac Alderman,' from over
the river, was in the city yesterday.
The Episcopal rectory is offered for
rent by Rev. C. I. LaRoche.
A fine rain is reported from the
other side of the river,-.—, ~ .
Yesterday was emaucipation day
with the negroes.
Mr. Aleck White was well enough
to be down town yesterday afternoon.
The rain seems as far away as ever,
aud the hearts of the gardeners grow
sick.
Steve Cook and Dr. Joel Coyle
went down to the lake yesterday on a
fishing frolic.
Messrs C F. Bodly and I’.G.Mooke
of New Orleans, were, at the Sluart
Sunday.
Rev. E. II. McGeheo was in the
city yesterday shaking hands with
friends.
Mrs. Julia B. Scott leaves this
morning for Atl ruta and other points
in North Georgia. •
Judge Hopkins makes daily trips
to “Greonwood” to overlook the work
■going on there.
Mr. James Watkins and niece, of
Watkinville, Mass , were stopping at
the Stuart Sunday.
Mr. J. Wyman Jones and family
leave for theit Englewood, N. J , home
to-morrow.
The light shower of Sunday disap
peared before the drying wind of yes
terday.
Moore <fc Williams have just closed
a kiln of 200,000 hard brick. It is
one of the finest burns they have ever
made.
Capt.. E. M. Smith, of the Bank of
Thomasville, left yesterday morning
for a visit of several days to Atlanta.
No police court yesterday morning.
All the cases on docket were postponed
until next Friday morning.
Mr. J. W. Masury and family will
leave Cleveland Park next Monday,
the 27th'inst., for New York.
Mack Bullock $as in town yester
day. He is taking it easy after his
splendid work as agent for the Home
Compound Guano.
Hon. Tom McIntyre, Jr., has been
over to Bainbridge on legal busmes
Court is in session there this week.
Col. A. T- McIntyre, Judge J. R.
Alexander and Hon: R. G. Mitchell
are in attendance on Lowndes Supe
rior court this week.
Mr. John S. Montgomery is with the
Bank of Thomasville, during Captain
Smith’s absence. John is one of those
clever gentlemen who is at home any
where.
The people of Thomasville have a
rare treat in store for them in the ser
mon to be preached by the Rev. R.
H. Harris, at the Young Female Col
lege Commencement.
Johu C, Wctheriugton, who was
convicted of stealing a watch a few
days ago, has paid the fine, 846.00,
:le
and has been released.
Mr. John A. Horvin, one of the
delegates to the Road Congress leaves
this morning at 9:30 for Atlanta.
Hon. A. T. MacIntyre Jr., will go
over to Bainbridge to-day to attend
Decatur couuty Hupeiior Court, now
A bad shooting scraped is reported
Saturday from Tifton, a town on the
B. & W. It. R. Mr. Jake Yeung,
justice of the peace, shot Mr. Arc
Golden, the marshal, killing him in-
itantly.
For the many kind things said of
ihe Times-Enterprise, sincere thanks
ate retained. We will fjo oqr best to
merit the good opinion of our people.
Thomasville has 40 pules of streets.
To keep then} in cyder U a work of
great magnitude, and that they irife
kept in fine order is apparent to those
that have occasion to travel them.
What’s the sign ? A drove of some
thirty or forty white cranes were seen
flying Northward over the town a day
or two since.
Miss Nena Tye, .of McDonough,
who has been spendiug the winter
with Mr. nnd Mrs. George Henderson,
returned home yesterday morning.
Au excursion train carried about a
hundred and fifty colored people
down to Metcalfe yesterday morning,
returning in the afternoon.
Mr. W. M. Reese an^Jamily, and
Mr. B. P.- "Walker. juyj* family, go
down'totimlal ;e I this morning on a
fishing and camping excursion. The
party will remain there the rest of the
week.
Mr. Alex. White has so recovered
from his wounds as ti be able to walk
around the house. Ho will bo on the
streets in a few days'.
Volunteer Signal Observer Bondu-
rnnt is lveartily co-operating with the
Times-Enterprise to secure for
Thomasville a correct report of daily
teraperuture.
“Merchant” joins issue with our
poet drummer of Sunday in the posi
tion he took thnt there were in
merchants in heaven. This idea, if
carried to its last analysis, would
involve the tradesman in somo hard
ship.
With the facilities the Times ;
Enterprise has for doing first class
job work, and its determination to
compete with prices from any respon
sible house; you have 110 excuse for
sending your, work away. Sustain
home industries, if you would have
them prosper.
Sheriff Hurst returned last evening
from Columbus,where he went on Sun
day morning. Mr. Hurst went in
charge of Mr. Warner Jones, a gentle
man who had been down to Appa-
lachicola, on a fishing frolic, and had
become deranged. Mr. Jones is a
prominent merchant of Columbus, and
it is to be hoped he will soon recover.
Qppd Pividends'.
Every mail, woman aud child in
Thomasville draws a good dividend
from every successful enterprise that
is started in the city. No matter
whether it he a bank, a’ hotel, a store,
a workshop or a newspaper. If this
be truo, and no one will gainsay it,
it is then incumbent on every mau,
woman aud child to help each of
these enterprises'. You may. not be
called on to take a money stock in
them, but you can aid them by speak
ing a kindly, hopeful word for them.
In short, you ought to cum your
dividends.
Step by Step.
Just now Atlanta is agitatiug the
question ot new and enlarged water
works. There is no opposition to the
move, but there is a division as to the
means to be provided for paying for
the increased supply. One faction
favors issuing bends to pay for the
new works; another one favors the
poliev of paying for the improvements
as they arc mode, as far as this is nos-
sihle. Mr. Inman, in an interview
published in the Constitution, gives it
as his opinion that Atlanta ought not
to increase her bonded debt, if she
can possibly help it, even to pay for
such a necessity as water. He says
that one strong point in Atlanta's
favor in the past lias been her small
indebtedness and low taxes. The
views of Mr. Inman are entitled to
great weight, for he is one of the best
financiers in the South,
It will be necessary in the near
future to make some costly improve 1
ments in Thomasville, in the way of
providing a system of sewerage.
The Times-Enterrrise has cited
the views of Mr. Inman to illustrate
the need of conservatism and caution
in providing the means for paying for
their improvements. It has been one
of Thomasville’s proudest boasts that
she had uo bonded debt, and the rate
of taxation has been so low that it has
drawn investments that would not
otherwise have come here.
It is, of course, impossible -to pay
for what we need as it is done, but it
would seriously retard the future
growth of Thomasvillo if she were to
be placed under the incubus of too
much debt.
The superb business man is the one
that strains a point to pay hiB obliga
tions as th'eiy accrue ralher than allow
them to accumulate, trusting to the
future to provide for the obligations
of'to-day.
'Conservatism is, therefore, the
watchword ol the hour.
Merchants in Heaven.
Your little drummer “Burgess’*
In his lines of yesterday,
“No Merchants are in heaven,”
He forced himself to say.
He says that he will stay there
But In this ho tells a —
If tradesmen do not live there
He will surely quit the sky.
The concentrated forces
Each of heaven, earth and hell.
Would not retain a drummer,
Where no merchant he could sell’
—MEBCHANT.
Council Meeting.
In the council meeting last night
it was determined to have an election
on the 2Gth of June to determine the
question of issue or no issuo of bonds
for park.
Col. AVright, chairman of finance
committee, announced that he had
borrowed 83,000 from Mr. Masury at
at eight per cent interest.
Mr. Mitchell was given control of
the chain gang to lay water mains.
The Videttes’ Fair.
-The fair given by the Valdosta
Videttes opens to-day and will con
tinue three days. The S. F. & W.
has placed round trip tickets on sale,
good until the 24th at one fare.
Thomasville ought to send down {a
delegation.
The Trade in Lumber.
■ Mr. John Beverly told a Times-
Enterprise reporter yesterday morn
ing that the demand for lumber was
better than he had ever seen it before.
Lumber means building, and building
means business for tho mechanics,
business tor the merchants, and
money for all.
Be Bald no More.
Good Roads.
Thomas county has long been noted
for its good roads.
Shakspear said that reputation was
often got without merit, arid lost
without deserving. This would not
apply to the Thomas county roads,
but a very close acquaintance with
them would not bear out the splendid
repntation they have acquired. The
truth is the number of public roads has
increased more rapidly thnn the road
working population, and as a result,
while our roads are the best in the
state, and this is no idle boast, an im
provement in the road laws, or a
more rigid enforcement of those we
have, would give us even better roads,
and that we need them goes without
saying.
The Best of the Season.
Mr. M. A. McKinnon has left at
the Times-Enterprise office some
stalks of cotton, taken from a field of
twenty-five acres. They measure
fifteen inches iu heighth, aud have
seven or eight forms on them. It is
now iu order for the man that can
beat this to come to the front.
. Burned.
We regret to learn that the resi
dence of Mi. James Hicks, at Patten,
this county, w?,s burned on Monday
afternoon, about one o’clock. Loss
about 8800, insurance 8500.
Action of t}je Southern Farmers.
The convention of the Southern
farmers at Birmingham adopted cotton
bagging, thus putting all the cotton
states on this line. We trust our en
tire southern section will now discard
all other kinds of covering for cotton.
Sabbath Services. •
The services in tho variouschurches
Sunday were well attended. Thomas
villo is peculiarly fortunate in having
devoted pastors and as a rule these
menu'good congregations,
Mr. Albert Winter left on last ove-
uiug’s train for Atlanta, where he
goes as £ delegate td the Road Con
gress, which meets on Wednesday.
This body is calculated to do much
good for the people at largo, and if is
to be hoped that we shall spa speedy
results from their action.
Mr. llenry Storm, vice-president,
Mr. Peter Miller, treasurer, and Mr.
W. M. Corry, general manager of the
Florida Tobacco Producing and Trad
ing Company, of Quincy, were in the
city last Saturday, registered at the
Whiddon. Mr. Miller left for New
York yesterday at 12:50. This com
pany has done much to develop the
lovely hill country around Quincy, and
better than all they have made theit
venture profitable.
A drummer wns in town yesterday
selling a nostrum that is warranted to
produce a thick growth of nair on tho
baldest pate. A reporter saw him in
close conference with a well known
mau about town, whose capillary ap
pendage has yielded to the ravages of
time and—he is a married man,
which may account for his lack ot
hiiir. Results will be given later.
PRICES AT
LEVY’S
The boys have a good joke on Jack
Linton, Ask him about it.
A neat fence is being put up to
close the depot yard from Flea
en-
eming
Go cut to the gun shoot this after
noon.
Tho largest Beining party of the
season will go out to the river to-day.
Latest Telegraphic News.
Niue colored people were drowned
near Vicksburg Sunday afternoon.
Forest City, Ark., has been indulg
ing iu a riot. Several people were
killed. The Governor is on the spot
with a force of military.
A party attempted to lynch a man
who wns in jail in Trinity, Alabama,
yesterday. The sheriff’s jiossee fired
on the lynchers killing one of them.
The officer succeeded iu protecting
his prisoner. Solid shot for mobs,
should be the motto, everywhere.
Atlanta, Ga., May 19.—Dr. A.
B. Ashworth, a prominent physician,
was found dead in his office this eve
ning. He was last seen on Friday.
It is not known whether his death
was suicide or the result of disease.
Jacksonville, Fla., May 19.—
Fire early this morning destroyed
seven buildings in East Jacksonville,
five dwellings, the Ladies’ Guild Hall
of the St. Audwcs Episcopal church,
and the chapel. The loss is 810,000.
Incendiarism was the cause of the
fire.
San Francisco, May 19.—Dis
patches from what is termed Middle
California, report au earthquake about
3:15 o’clock this morning. At some
points, especially iu the San Joaquin
valley, the shocks were quite severe,
nnd iu a few cases the tops of chim
neys were thrown down. The shook
was sufficiently heavy in this city to
awaken nearly all the slumbcrers.
New Orleans, May 19.—Fire
broke out at noon to-day in the ba
kery of Henry Hiehn, at No. 41 Jos
ephine street, ucai-Tchopitoulas. The
fire spread down Josephine street,
destroying seven double tenement
houses on Josephine street and five on
Rousseau street. The loss is 820,000.
The property is fully insured in local
companies.
Boston, May 19.—On Thursday
next three batteries of the Fourth
United States artilllery, stationed at
Fort Preble, Portland, Me., and Fort
Warren, Bostou harbor, will leave
Boston for Atlanta Ga., where a regi
ment will be quartered during the
epidemic season. They will be trans
ported by the steamer Gate City, of
the Savannah line.
Many reductions in
prices have been
made on fine goods
to close out for the
season.
Call and see our
10c line of assorted
Dress Goods. Only
about 20 pieces left.
We have another
invoice of Hemstitch
ed embroidered floun-
ings coming. They
will be open for in
spection on the 22nd.
For genuine good
goods, at closing out
prices, call at
Levy’s
Dry Goods Boise
Mitchell House- Corner
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