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=5 iSSU VOJL 1 -NO 13. THOMASVILLE, GEORGIA, SUNDAV MORNING, MAY 26, 1886. $500 PER ANNUM Special OFFERINGS -FOR This Week, AT 5,000 yards Checked Nainsook at sc, worth toe. 5,000 yards Checked Nainsook at 8c, worth 12 t-2, 5 ooo yards Checked Nainsook at io worth 15c. 5,000 yatds Figured White Lawn at 12 i-2C, worth 20. This is a special drive and is well worth your atten tion. 5,000 yards wh-te India Linen^at 5c, worth ioc. ^ 5,000 yards while India Linen at 8c, worth 12:2 5 000 yards white India Linen at ioc, worth 15. We have the best and largest assort ment. of white lawns ever offered in this market. Would call your special atten tion to our 80c Number, which in width, fin jsh and sheerness of woof, surpasses any thing ever shown at this price. 25 dozen bleached damask towels, knotted fringe, at 15c, well worth 25c. 25 dozen Hnckabock Towels at ioc, worth 25c. For 25c we can give you the very best towel, 1 14 yards long, all linen and last colored borders, ever shown in Thotnasville. Our new and elegant selection of Cballtes are still all the rage, and are selling at a very satisfactory rate, in summer silks wc have still some very choice patterns left, which wc -are offering at greatly reduced rates. Our remnant counter lor this week contains some very desirable bar- gains, aud mothers would do well to take advantage of this. News Notes About Town About People You Know, or May Not Know. PUT IN PITHY PACKAGES. Dr. McTyre was in town yesterday. Thomasville dirt is still advancing News was hard to run down yester day. Union Meeting. All lines complete. Stock acknowledged to be the largest. Prices lower than ever. Do not tail to come and inspect. We are anxious to show you our goods whether you buy or not. Mr. J. R. Stoner, was in town yes tevday. The Virginia House will soou be opened. Capt. Hammond has returned from Valdosta. Dr. Ashe, of Albany, is visiting Capt. Hammond. Four shoe drummers were iu the city yesterday. Sore eyes are going the rounds iu Thomasville. Mr. M. A. McCrea, of Marietta, was in the city yesterday. Mr. R. S. Williams, of New York, was in the city yesterday. Walt E. Carter was registered the Stuart yesterday. Lowndes county court will very likely lust all this week. Editor Moody," of the Boston World, was iu the city yesterday. A select picnic party enjoyed the day on the river banks yesterday. Mr. Shelby Davis, of the Whighnm Advance, was in tin city yesterday... Mr. J. W. Hinson, who lives near Boston, was in tqwn yesterday. Messrs. Stark & Jerger are prepar ing their silk worn: cocoons for ship ment. The.cool mornings are doiDg the cotton more harm than the want of min. Mr. B. F. Howland, of Talluhassec, was among the Floridians in the city yesterday. Mrs. Hopper has an "interesting painting on exhibition nt Reid & Culpepper’s. Mr. Horn has had a large refriger ator put in, in liis market on Jncksou street. It is amusing to see the "city fath ers” wrestling with the “pigs in pen” puzzle. See the advertisement offering a saw-mill outfit for sale. This is a bargain lor some one. The regular monthly term of the justice court will be in session at the court house to-nforrow. been thor- A union meeting of the Bowen As sociation is to he held with the Baptist church at Whigham, commencing Fri day before the filth Sabbath in June. Preaching on Fr’day, Saturday and Sunday at ti a. m., each dav; also at night. The following questions are propos ed for discussion on Friday evening and Saturday morning and in-ike after noon. 1st. When persons make applica tion for membership in a church—in the sense of this body, what is the best mode to be observed in extending the right hand of fellowship? and who should have the right to extend the hand? 2. When the church meets to cele brate the ordinance ol bread and wine, in the mind of this body who has the Bible right to administer the elements, and who has the right to partake of the same? 3. In the judgment of this body, wh^t are the benefits to be derived by a union meeting? It is also expected that we will have a Sunday school mass meeting on Sun day morning. Speeches will be made, and we will have some fine singing. The school ot the Methodist church is invited to attend. Basket dinners will be served or Friday and Saturday. The communi- ty is invited to assist and partake. Joshua Martin, Pastor Whigham Church. WHITE SHAO. Mr. and Mrs. Small and child, who have been spending the winter and spriug at Mr. T. B. Pollard’s,on Han- sell street, have returned to Poston, Mass. Mr. J. G. Mays, the new division superintendent of the Southern Ex press company, was in the city yester day. He is well pleased with the management of the office at this place. the largest and handsomest soda water fountain in the, city for his establish meat on Jackson street. It will con tain twenty-two varieties of syrups. Mr. B. P. Walker, Mr. Mac Reese, Mrs.Reese, Miss Cora Walker, Masters Presley and Charlie Walker, have returned from the lake. They report plenty offish and a pleasant time. Quite a crowd wcut down to Wal den’s bridge to-day to the nicuic. Judge W. D. Mitchell and family, Mr. S. J. Cassells and lady, and a number of others went. A happy party of commercial tour ists, accompanied by some ladies, went out to Heard’s potld afternoon. The party were equipped with poles ami bait. yesterday were well A beautiful meteor, illuminating the heavens, was observed a little af ter eight o’clock Friday night. It was visible lor several seconds. The small pump has uughlv 0 vet hauled and is now in first- class working order. ^ctor McTyer says there .will be a good peach crop this season. And the doctor is a dose observer. Mrs. Jpe Loveustein is the guest of Mr. and tlrs. I. Levy. She will be here several days. Mrs. Pryoi Craigmiles returned yesterday from Chattahoochee, where she went to visit her daughter, Mrs. E. W. Scarborough, Mrs. J. L. Linton and daughter, Miss Lula, left ycsteiday morning for Marietta, where they will spend the summer months. A tiioof the cleverest and most widc-a wake drummers this side of the Rio Grande, are in tho citv; wc allude to Jo Lovcnstein, Dan Hccht, and Henry Smith. They are hustlers. Times- 132JBROADJ3I,. lOOR.IJAOKBOHJ > The city editor of the Enterprise, has keen taking in tho scenery of North Georgia. He will return to-morrow, refreshed ami in vigoroted, ready to make tho columns of the Twes-Esterpbisb sparkle, Capt. Isom and J. S. Stewart while coming to town Saturday morning had a runaway. The mules took fright and ran, throwing Mr. Stewart oul, cutting two gushes iu his head and injuring his side. The mules were stopped in front of Greenwood. Mr. Isom was not hurt. Our Streams Alive With Them. Week before last Mr. A. V. Simms, of this county, brought in a wagon load of shad. Some contended that they were white shad, while others were equally sure that they were what is known as hickory shad, the boniest fish that sported a dorsal fin. lion. II. G. Turner, in order to settle the dispute, as well as gratify a little curiosity of his, sent two specimens of the fish to Fish Commissioner Mar shall McDonald, 'Washington, D. C. The following letters are the result. Washington. D. C. May 7, ’89. Hon. II. G. Turner Quitman, Ga. —Dear Sir: You will he gratified to receive the following letter of identi fication from Dr. Doan our ichtyolog- ist. This result is promising for the future. Both specimens are males, the oldest, probably two, possibly three years old, the youngest tho plant of last June. Yours truly, Marsiiai.i. McDonald. Washington, D. C. May 0,1889. Cot,. Marshall McDonald, U. S. Com. Fish and Fisheries: Dear Col.— •The fishes just received irom Withla- coochee are shad (Clupeu sapidissitna) and in a fine siate of preservation. Mr. Turner need have no question of their being white shad. The lar ger example is fourteen inches long, a male, with the spermeries moderately developed. The smal er, eight and one-half inches long, is also a male, with small spennarics. Yours very respectfully, T. FI Bean, , Ichthyologist. —Quitman Herald. This news will interest fishermen. It will he remembered that thousands . d in ifr: L. Schmidt has just parchTwetff jbhtohee,-neat'Thnmasvtile, a t 0! young shad were years ago. What has become of them. Has anybody caught shad out of the river this season? It would be well to look out for tho white shad. SIGNAL SERVICE BUREAU R. Thomas Jft-126 Broad Sired. O.S. Bojiurant Voaatasr Observe Weather Bulletin for the 21 hours ending at 7 o'clock I*. M. May 25, 1889. Temperature. 7 a. m 67 2 p. m 90 7 p. m 74 Maximum for 24 hours 90 Minimum “ “ “ 60 Rainfall Latest Telegraphic News. Queen Victoria’s 70th birth day was celebrated in London yesterday. Mr. Joseph N. Strickland,well known here, and a citizen of Madison, Fla., was appointed United States Attorney for the northern district of Florida yes terday. Brunswick, Ga., May 24.—Fifteen acres of land located two miles from Brunswick was sold to a local syndi cate today for $15,000. This is the largest sale of the season. London, May 24.—Robt. T.' Lin coln, the new minister, will leave here for Windsor at 1:40 to-morrow after noon, when he will be presented to the Queen. Mr. Lincoln will he conveyed from the railway station at Windsor to the castle in the court carriage. Chicago, May 24.—A dispatch from. Guthrie, I. T.,says: “Thesoldiers wers yesterday called out (or the first time since the opening of Oklahoma, and for several hours the city of Guthrie was practically under martial law.Meet ings held every night for a week, by men who lost their lots by contests and by opening of streets, culminated in a riot yesterday. Washington, May 24.—The cele brated Twiggs swords,wh ch have been • n custody ot the government since 1862, were to-day delivered by Secre tary Windom to A C. Meyer,executor • >t the Twiggs estate This 1* in. ac cordance with pro/isions ol an act ’ ’ ' e late congress and tf ashing the ownership of the s' Washington. May 24.—The-col Mr. Herbert Dean Warner, a young mau of Boston, Mass., who spent last wiutcr here, died uiglit be fore last at his boarding house on .Jackson st. He was buried iu Laurel Hill cemetery yesterday morning, loving and bereaved mother, who has nursed her darling boy through his long illness, has the sympathies of overybody. Very Much of a I'nit. Cbauucoy M, Jlepew is being criti cized for saying in his oration, “tho United .States nrc.” Undoubtedly the singular is better, but Mr. Depcw can easily quote authority for his use of th'c plural. For instance, iu the constitution is this: "Treason against the United States shall consist enjy in levoying war against them _ or in adhering to their enemies.” George Washington used the United. States as a plural noun and so did Chief J us- tice Fuller. In spite of these, how ever, the United States is very much of » 4Plt, The Growth of Southern Georgia. To one acquainted with the coun try the growth and prosperity ol southern Georgia is something mar velous. At the clos of the war that section of country wns almost a wilderness. The towns dong the line of the old Atlantic and Gulf railroad were little dirty villages, and except the planta tions along the river bottoms the country was a vast forest of nine, and known only as n stock range. The stock business began to fail. The pasturage was insufficient to sup port large flocks of sheep and cattle, the winters grew harder, and men be gan to realize that they must turn their attention to something else. The small farmers began to adopt the intensive method, and by careful tillage, and the use of fertilizers, they brought the land up to a high state of cultivation. The timber and tur pentine interests paid well for awhile, and are still payiug. Blit the salva tion of the country was its fine cli mate, its health and its pure water, and its great adaptability to fruit and vegetable growing. | And to-day the lands that were not | valued at more than twenty-live cents ' an acre, at the close of the war, are worth five and ten dollars' an' acre. The country looks like a big flower garden, all along the line of railroads that have been constructed, and there is not a day in the year that the householder cannot go out aud gather something iu the way ot fruits aud vegetables for the tablo. Finer breeds of stock have been introduced, aud the fat beef aud mutton, the rich milk and butter, and a huudred other things ot the very choicest variety, arc to be had iu that blessed laud. Aud it is tilled witli a happy, pros perous and progressive people, who nave turned the unlovely, barren wilds into a favored regiou that blooms like the rose.—Constitution. South Georgia is, undoubtedly, the garden spot of Georgia—if not of the South. lection of infernal revenue for the first en months of the fiscal vear ending lune 30. 1889. were‘$104 821,921 etna $4 415 516 more than for tin enrre-poiiding period of the last fiscal v.ar. The receipts w. re as fullows: 1)11 spirits *50484.815. an increase 01 $3 405.461; on tobacco $25,745^04, in increase of $682 834; on tcrmenleG quors, .$18 808 600. an increase of $357429 on oleoniargerine $703,816. .in increase of $37,749; on banks and bankers $6,028, an increase of $4,913; on miscellaneous $72 858, a decrease of $72,871. The collections for April, 1889. were $810,027 greater than for April, 1888. Wadash, IsD.,May24.—Great dam age was done to the corn and potato crops in this vicinity by the freeze, VVednesday night. Corn plants are down and withered, and the crops will be cut short, if indeed wholesale re planting is not required. Wheat is also injured. The weather is the cold est ever known in this locality at this season. A WHITE FKOST AT COLUMBUS. Coi.umaus, O., May 24.- -There was a heavy white frost here last night, which did considerable damage to fruits and vegetables. Wheat, which is heading out, is also somewhat in jured. PRICES AT LEVY’S Many reductions iiv prices have been n fine goods se out for the Allen Fearn, who has been attend ing sohooj at Tuscaloosa, Ala., got homo yesterday morning. 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 Meeting. THo young ladies of the Methndiet church are invited by the pastor to meet him at the lecture room on Mon day afternoon at 4 o’clock, to com plete the organization of the "Willing Workers” society, V It costa J3rooks county SI,605.73 to run her superior court two weeks. Much Surprised. Not long since Louis Hertz met up with a yaukee in Macon and the old gentleman asked him a great many questions about Audersonville. “How far do you live from Ander- ville?” asked the old fellow from the north. “About twelve miles I guess.” “How large is the place?” “Between twelve and fifteen thou sand.” "Must be quite a large town.” "No, it is a small place.” “Well, how do you make that?” “Why, they arc all dead except about cue huudred aud twenty-five.” The old man wilted.—Montezuma Record. The Quitman Free Press rises right up and inquires what has become of the newly projected line ol railway from Ousley, Ga., to Marion, Fla. be will bo fieard from in 1892. And OLD PAPERS FOR 8ALE —Several thousand old newspapers, not cut, for sale at 25c. yer hundred, at th 8 office. Dry (Ms Hoist Mitchell House Corner