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VOL 1-NO 59.
THOMASVILLE, GEORGIA, SUNDAY MORNING, JULY 21, '889.
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Local Matters.
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A thrifty colored farmer was in
town yesterday. “I wants to take up
dat morgig, boss,” he said to a money
lender. And he planked down 8475.00
and took up the mortgage.
Mr. MacDoncll having gone to Mar-
shallvillc to preach a Missionary ser
mon for the Woman’s Missionary
Association of the Macon district, his
pulpit will be filled this morning by
Rev. A. AV. Clisby. No services at
night.
Mr. Charley Andrews, who was
wounded in the wreck near AVaycross,
w.ill come to Thomasville in a few
days, so as to be under treatment of
Dr. Taylor. He will be a guest of
Oapt. Paine.
Fine Melons.
One of the finest watermelons ol the
season (saving, of course, those sent
to the Times-Enterprise office, with
compliments, etc.,) which we have
seen was on exhibition at Pringle
Bros.’ on yesterday, weighing, by
accurate weight, 6i pounds. It was
grown on Judge Hopkins’ Bay Brook
Farm, and purchased by Tobe, the
polite porter of Pringle’s, who could
not be convinced it did not weigh 75
pounds, it looked so Igrge. It will
take him all day to eat it..
South Georgia College.
Prof. Lovejoy, the principal of the
South Georgia College, states that he
will start out about the ist of August
to make a canvass ' of the coun'ry at
large in the interest of his syhool.
This is the proper thing to do.
Thomasville offers unexceptional facil
ities for education, and the surround
ing country offers a fine field for pupils.
A proper effort would bring the two
run with pupils.
Tie9 that Bind.
Our old friend C. L. Bowkcr shows
us a copy of “The G'ongrcgntionalist,”
Vol. 74.—No. 29, which has been
coming to himself and fnmily for 54
years, consecutively, and in which he
take's air interest ns if it was one of the
family. The beauty of this associa
tion, unlike some we wot of, is that,
having pnid for it all that time, lie
has the satisfaction of knowing thnt
the tics of association arc equally
pleasant, as between himself and the
publisher. He hns never once gotten
behind from five to ten years and then
concluded ho would discontinue the
Badly Needed.
This season has shown the necessi
ty for a canning and evaporating es
tablishment in Thomasville. A note
from a friend, requesting us to place
fifty bushels of fine peaches for him,
resulted in our calling on Capt. Walters,
who is running a small evaporator, to
dispose of them; but he informed us
that he was over stocked—had more
than he knew what to do with, and
did not want them as a gift. At the
same time a gentleman stepped up
and wanted 50 bushels of pears evap
orated. It could not be done, and
hence it is probable that many thous
and bushels ol fruit will be wasted,
that would have paid handsome prices
if canned or evaporated. Will not
some one, who has the energy to run
the thing, take hold of the matter ?
Stock will be readily taken by our
people, if some enterprising man will
work it. It would be a paying invest
ment to grow and can vegetables, as
well as fruit, in Thomas county.
The Wreck.
Dr. A. P. Taylor, surgeon for the
S. F. & \V. R. R., who was called to
AVaycross to look after the wounded,
incident to the wreck near that place
on Thursday night, returned Saturday
morning. He says that Mr. Andrews,
who was injured, is doing very well,
and that the fireman who was killed
was named AVnlling, from South Car
olina; also that a negro ntan was so
badly scalded that he would die. lie
was sent to Savnnnah.
The accident was caused by a negro
switchman, wlio had gone to Sleep
while waiting at the switch for the
passenger train to pass. Hearing the
train coming, he jumped up and
threw the switch open, when lie
should have left it alone until the
train had passed. The switchman
was taken to Savannah under arrest,
learn.-sTho freight tram was
waiting its time on the siding, under
projier regulations, and had not the
nqgro thrown open, the switch, the
passenger would have passed on with
out trouble.
Fine Grapes.
Wc arc indebted to Mr. J. G.
McPhaul, proprietor of the Moselle
Vineyard, at Poulan, Ga., for some
very fine varieties of grapes, crown at
his vineyard. The growing ot grapes
ought to be encouraged in this section,
as they do remarkably well here. Mr.
McPhaul says his section is as well
adapted to grape culture n,s France or
Italy, and from the samples sent we
are disposed to think it is true.
MURPHY ON PROHIBITION.
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All Quiet.
Sheriff Hurst says it is remarkably
quiet—nothing doing in his line.
This speaks well for the county, and
we could utter no better sentiment
than to wish thnt the sheriff might
never have a thing to do. AVhile it
would be a hard lot for the sheriff, it
would lie well with the public; and wc
think even Gus Hurst would be glad
if it was so.
There is not now a single prisoner
in jail, and there has not been a case
of felony booked since last superior
court, about four months, and only a
few trivial cases, which came before
Judge Mitchell, of the county court.
This js a good record fbr so large a
county as our3.
Not the New Road.
It is not the new railroad from
Thomasville to Cordele, that is being
graded up Jackson street, as some
might suppose from the immense pile
ol dirt on that popular thoroughfare,
No; it's only the big sewer going
down. Having reached the crossing
on Crawford street, the engineer in
charge determined to tunnell, and
hence immense wells, 20 feet deep,
arc sunk about 20 leet apart, and the
tunneling is carried on from the bot
tom and the sewer laid. The sewer
will be 20 feet deep from the surface
along Brpad street, and is now laid as
far up as the City Hall,
“Peach and Honey.”
This would be a good year to make
peach brandy. Alexander Stephens
once said that “a man had as much
right to make His oarn into whiskey,
as into hread.” Tho same might ap
ply to poaches. “Peach and honey”
—hut why harrow up the feelings of
our readers? AVliy paint a picture
which they nmy never sec? Why cre
ate a thirst whicli may never he as
suaged? AVhy make a mam's mouth
water? AVhy—well there are many
reasons why wc should not, in mere
wantonness, tantalize the bibulous-
ly inclined, by suggesting ‘old pencil
and honey.” AVc charitably draw a
veil over tho picture, leaving the
reader as dry as this dissertation ou
peach and honey.
Cotton Bagging.
The J. B. Gordon Alliance adopt
ed the following resolution, with the
request that it he published. Resolv
ed:—That if any member of this
Alliance shall refuse to use cotton
bagging the coming season, of fail to
make a reasonable effort to secure it,
if it can be had, lie shall he expelled.”
J. J. Ragans, Pros.
B. H. Pope, .Sec'y.
Elsie and Charlie arc out walking.
Elsie—“Oh! I feel sick; I am
going to faint!”
Charley—“Oh my! AVhat will I
do*if you do ?”
Elsie (feebly)—“Carry me into
that ioe-crcam store.” (faints.)
He Does No Believe Drink Can be Killed
by Law.
Francis Murphy, the eloquent apos
tie of temperance, who has in the last
twelve years carried his blue ribbon
pledge, with its “malice towards none
and charity for all” motto, all over
Europe and America, is at the Gilsey
House. Mr. Murphy has grown gray
haired and stout since his cold water
crusade in Ncfr York, nearly ten
years ago, but *s still in the harness
aud still nn enthusiast. He lives in
Pittsburg, the scene of his first great
success, and where several of his
children are married. I had a talk
with Mr. Murphy Inst night about the
recent prohibition defeat in Pennsyl
vania, in which lie said:
“I took no part in the fight because
I do not believe the evil can he legis
lated out of existence. I wish that it
could, just as I wish that every man
might be a real Christian. I think
the world would he better for it. The
plan of making people Christians by
law lias been tried before now and it
wasn’t altogether a success. I thiuk
that prohibition meets with the same
objections. I don’t Avant to he con
sidered as opposing the prohihitiouosts,
but I think that the opposition that
they arouse by saving to men, ‘You
shall not sell’ and ‘you shall not
drink’leads men to drink who would
not drink otiicrwise. Men must be
led and not driven. Nino out of ten
drunkards can lie reclaimed by kind
ness aud patience, and until tho man
is mastei of himself you cannot keep
him from drinking by law. There arc
rural sections where the sale of liquor
can be prohibited. Such sections
should have local option, hut when
prohibition is attempted in a big city
it simply gives a liceuso lor irrespon
sible men to sell in jvcry, ; HpJfLJMjd:
corner iu the city. I believo in a
high license nijd a strict administra
tion of the law, and then iu. leading
people to a sense of their own respon
sibility, with “charity for all and
malice towards none.”
Air. Murphy will attend a scries of
temperance camp meetings i:i Indiana
this fall, and resume his platform
work again in the winter.—New
York Star.
Cerdele’s Factories.
Cordele, Ga , July 18.—An adver
tisement has been inserted in the
Macon Telegraph for 600,000 brick
lor the Cordele Manufacturing Com
pany. This means that work on the
cotton factory building will soon be
begun. Maj. J. F. Hanson of Macon,
president of the company, has gone to
Lowell and other eastern points to
purchase machinery.
The capital stock of the company
is $65,000, and, as the factory will be
bonded for-that amount, the actual
amount of capital employed will be
$130,000.
The Cordele Security Company has
been recently organized with a capital
ol $100,000. Itlias purchased from
the Amcricus Investment Company all
the land in and around Cordele which
was owned by the Amcticus company.
Judge J. B. Scott, recently with the
Amcricus Guano Company, has been
elected president of the Cordele
Guano Company, and Joseph E. Biv
ins, cashier of the Bank of Cordele,
has been made secretary and treasurer.
Judge Scott has been at work for two
weeks maturing plans for the factory.
To Close Out.
We are offering our
entire stock of Shoes
and Hats at and beloAV
cost. These goods
must be sold by Sept.
1st, and wo are offer
ing unheard of bar
gains in onf line. All (
goods sold for the
cash. Positively no
more goods charged.
We also offer our
store fixtures for sale,
and store house for
rent.
All parties indebt
ed to us Avill please
come forward and
settle at once, as avc
Avant the money.
Has Made a
BIG GUT
IN ALL LINES OF
To continue unti
closed out.
Our remnant table
is ful of choice BAR-
gains, and Avill be all
Summer.
108 Broad St.
The Kuycr estate in Kingston, N.
A’., has been “eaten up” by court
costs and lawyers’ fees. It was valued
at several thousand dollars, but when
Mr. Kuycr died he left a will which
was not satisfactoiy to all ot his rela
tives. The consequence was that
when the lawyers got through with
the case there was 81 left to he di
vided anmift the relatives. As there
were five heirs, it will he seen that
they received twenty cents each, at the
end of the law suit. Tho wonder is
that the lawyers did not get this one
[one dollar, also. AVhcu will people
earn that litigation is, generally, a
Hosing game?
HB^ghStill left, a few
of our (i d-d ets. Ging*
hams, worth 10 cts.
Levys
Dry Ms Hoist