The Daily times-enterprise. (Thomasville, Ga.) 1889-1925, July 18, 1889, Image 1

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'-.W 'VOL 1 —NO 50. T EIOMAS VILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MO LINING, JULY 18, *880. .$5.00 PER ANNUM 0 K % m H CD H co w td »-< 0 P P. f 0 0 ct © CC *73 crq b CL. 5 g ft) CD B CD CD ©- 13 CD *-• 03 C P cn !-«• <1 CD CD ee CD CD © © »-s © 13 (-J ©" © CD S3 o © o p p 5 6 V! O B CD B"* P 5T © © © © H->. © CL P <r+ 0 9) (D 0 H 8> H H P H 1 Q Q o o & Q hi P 9 0 0 9) 5> P & 0 B tf 4 a & 0 4 H* 0 9) Q » i> jd tj cj Q id H 0 $ 00 H y h <i H &) H b H l> St) d ► H P 0 A A m 4 H H t » VI HI Local Matters. The Jackson street railroad crossing is still rough. It is understood that the railroad authorities will fill in between the tracks with stone. The water mains arc coming down Remington avenue and in a few days they will conucct with the stand |.ipc. Again the Times-Enterprihe is compelled to call attention to the high temperature giVen Thomasville in the cotton belt bulletin. It is about four degrees too high every flay'. The new Gulf House begins to show what it will be when finished. The roof is on the main building and the kitchen, nnd the outer walls arc being covered. Dr. E. L. McTyrc was in town yesterday. He was selling some very fine peaches. Whether the present year has been a phenomenal one for fruit, it is hard to say, but this much can be snid, Thomas county has pro duced as fine peaches this season- as I he most fastidious could ask. The Pear Markets.' The reports from nil the eastern markets yesterday was not very flat tering. New York market is full, and the other leading ones in sympa thy arc weak. Too heavy shipments to a few markets have done the work. Green Pears. The Ti.mes-Enterpri^jb has had much to say concerning the policy of shipping green pears. As giving emphatic point to what it has said, the experience of Mr. W. W. Thomp son, of Smithvillc, who shipped a car load last week, is valuable. The parties to whom they were consigned refused to receive t^em, because they were green. A few such bits of expe rience will convince shippers that it will pay to wait till the fruit is ripe, Pleasure Rules the Hour, The hospitable Itonttj of Mr. S. J. Gasscls, on Ilnnscll street, was thrown opcnTuosdny evening from 8 to 12:30, to a bevy of fair young ladies and their escorts. Mr. nnd Mrs. Cnsscls arc thoroughly familiar with the art of entertaining, nnd they made their guests comfortable ami-happy.. Misses Corn and Yallic, their charming daugh ters, were untiring in their efforts to make their guests enjoy themselves. Music, dancing and conversation were the amusements* of the evening, until 11.30 o'clock, when the guests were invited to the handsome dining room, where the choicest refreshments were Served. At half-past twelve o'clock, alter bidding host and hostess good night, all look their departure, feeling undei many obligations for this most pleasant affair. A Card. Okawlco, Oa., .1 nljr null, 188!*. K du o it Ti mkh-Kstrupriak: Please allow me space in jour columns to Direct 11 mistake in jour paper of July Oth. Mac," the writer oi McDonkM Dots, I am glad to say, makes a very incorrect statement oncoming myself, lie says while under the influence of whiskey I rode my horse through one buggy and into another, the occupants being thrown out, etc. The icholf of this is tm(rut, The facts arc about as follows: Mr. Jerry Tillman, Jr., ami myself, left my home Sunday morning, June the 30th, to attend services at Salem church and when about one mile from home my horse became frightened and dashed up against a buggy occupied by colored | eoplc, breaking bis leg and causing that man's horse to take a fright and run into another buggy just ahead. I was the only person that wafthrovn out or oft’, I being thrown from my horse and bruised up a little. I was able to walk back home immediately. I was not under the influence of whiskey, Vine, or anything else. I had not taken a drink of any intoxicating liquor in three or lour months. My horse only run against one buggy and not over it. I am very sorry that “Mac” advertises me as a drunken vagabond,without a cause. It he had been a friend to me I am satisfied he would not have done it. Very respectfully, John W. Chapman. ALABAMA AND KEARSAGE. Their Terrible Duel at Sea—“Follow U» to Sea; We’ll Fight.” From the Atlanta (Oa.) Journal. The fortune of war was never bet ter illustrated than in the fight be* tween the “Alabama” and “Kenrsa- gc.” The-grand duel between these two ships in the channel % of 'Cherbourg will go down in naval history as one of the most famous fights, even on that laureled sea-theatre of England. It was a conflict, the heroism of which was worthy the scene of Eng lish triumphs. The “mariners of England,” “whose march is o’er the ocean wave, whose home is in the deep,” never displayed greater skill •r greater gallantry than the men who fought under the Confederate flag, which from the maiutunst‘of the Alabama floated over the waters that had witnessed the destruction of the invincible Armada. The Alabama had sunk and burn ed a hundred ships along the ocean highways. She had practically driven the commence of the north from three sens; nnd here she, the destroy er, was brought to hay and forced to fight an armored nnd superior foe, or he cooped up in harbor by the federal navy. Of course she fought. Site must die ns she lived, on the free ocean, under a battle flag and in the ecstacy of the fight. “I have no doubt,” said Gen. Kell to me several weeks ago, in a conver sation about the Sumter aud tlic Ala bama, “that the federal captains had orders to sink the Alabama wherever they found Iter.” Such, too, was the opinion of Capt. Semrncs. All who saw the fight formed the same opinion. The Ala bama and her crew -had been sent to the bottom. After she struck her colors live shots were fired into her to make sure of her . fate. When she sunk, and her men were tossing in the waves and grasping nt floating tim bers nnd the wounded drowning, the Konrsagc made no effort to save them. Had it not been for Mr. Lan caster and his yacht, the Deerhound, Senuncs, Kell and their brave seamen would have been allowed to drown after their colors had been struck and their ship had sunk. But there is another incident of the fight which shows how futile- arc hu man skill and human hopes. By the failure of a single cap to explode the Kcnrsage was preserved from the fate her enemy mct,and the triumphant career of the Alabama ended in a watery grave. “It wns fate,” said Gen. Kell. As told me at that time by the gal lant lieutenant of the Alabama, the story of the fight near Cherbourg was more eloquent than it will ever he told again. The Alabama had returned to Eu ropean waters from a long and event ful cruise in the Indian ocean and the China seas. She was battered aud bruised, and needed repairs. Hardly had she moored ofl the mole in Cher bourg harbor, however, when Capt. Semrncs recognized the presence of a foe. The Kearsage ’ steamed in and anchored in the roadstead, off' the lookout. There was ao running out to sea without a fight, and a fight with the Kearsage was better than lying in port lor ten or twelve months un dergoing repair, while the federal ships should make a cordon around the harbor. Accordingly, with his famous south ern gallantry, Scmmcs sent a chal lenge to the Kearsage. “If Capt. Winslow will follow us to sea we will fight.” The closest scrutiny of the sides of the Kearsage could not discover that she wore chain armor, and other wise the Kearsage was not much the better ship. Her armor alone saved her. It was in the early morning of the brightest June day that ever smiled on the vine-clad hills of France when the Alabama swept out to her heroic death, as though she were the bride of the sea. The bights around Cher bourg were covered with spectators. Persons had come from Paris to see the famous Alabama in her last fight. As she steamed out of neutral wafers she fired the first shot of the fight. Capt. Scmincs mounted into the rig ging; his gallant lieutenant was at the guns. Soon the shots from the hows were succeeded by the broadsides of the two ships. “1'se solid shot, Kell; our shells are dropping from her armor,” shouted Capt. Scmmes from aloft. That was the first knowledge that the Kearsage had on concealed'armor. The Alabama’s shells fell from her sidcr as so many paper pellets. Solid shot was no heller. The powder was had and the solid shot hounded from her iron ribs. The combatants were fighting in a circle, thus keeping their broadsides on each other. On hoard the Alabama was one rilled gun, a hundred pounder. She was trained on the hull of the enemy and fired. True to the gunner’s eye, the shell, one hundred pounds of iron and powder, flew to its goal. Itstruck the Kearsage near her stern posts and buried itself in the wood. The hope of victory was gone. The percussion cap which should have exploded as the shell struck the Kear sage, had failed. The aim wns true. Victory depended upon a grain of permission powder being damp or dry. It was damp. This was thirty minutes after the fight had begun, and the Kearsage should have been on her way to the bottom with the Spanish galleons and the French ships of Tourvillc. In an hour more of desperate duel, the Alabama was riddled like a cul- - lewder* iiwl-it as- lit the will, “How- much longer will she float?” asked Capt. Semrncs. “Ten minutes,” responded Lieut. Kell. "Then put the wounded in boats and send them to the Kearsage, and take down the flag. Wc will not go down in the nineteenth century of Christ’s grace with wounded men on our decks.” Down went the flag. The wounded men were put in a boat and in charge of an officer sent to the Kearsage. But still the murderous guns of the enemy poured shot nnd shell into the sinking ship. Not until the white flag was run lip and the ship swung heavily to her grave did the enemy cease firing. ' The ten minutes had expired. - Capt. Semrncs and Lieut. Kell leaped into the sea, and, with a score of others, were picked up by the English yacht Deerhound. The Kear sage madenoefloit to rescue the drowning. The Alabama had finished her cruise. Her career had been one of unequal glory. Third Districts.S. Association, to me hei.d at boston, i:a., autjust 13 AND 14. This meeting of S. S. workers is giving evidences of being a grand success. Quite an enthusiasm and interest is being awakened all over the district. The officers appointed at Brunswick are leaving nothing undone to make it a success. Eminent work- cis will he on hand. J. M. Green, President of the Georgia Sunday School Association will give the con vention force by his presence. R. I). Kcppard will impart his enthusiasm to the children's meeting. J. W. Car mine will have charge ot thg children's meeting and already has his singers preparing to discourse sweet music. I.et^vcry school in the district be represented by report or delegate. Boston will give you a royal recep tion. Camilla, Bainbridgc and Whigham papers please copy. To Close Out. LEVY’S Has Made a BIG CUT IN ALL LINES OF If some men were half as big as they think they arc the world would have to be enlarged.—Ex. 108 Broad St. We are ottering our entire stock of Shoes and Hats at and below cost. These goods must bejsold by Sept. 1st, and wo are offcr- & ilByMWhMpi'‘W”»-» gains in our line. All goods sold for tlie cash. Positively no more goods charged. We also otter our store fixtures for sale, and store bouse for rent. All parties indebt ed to us # will please come forward and settle at once, as wc want the money. To Continue unti closed out. Our remnant table is ful of choice BAR- gains, and will be all Summer. E^^Still left, a few of our tt :3-l ets. Ging hams, worth 10 ets. Jl<evys Dry Soils House