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VOL 1-NO 59. THOMASVILLE, GEORGIA, SUNDAY MORNING, JULY 21, '889. CD O 3 >-i GO *3 crq p 3 Zu cc F 0 I K I H H % x o o (*r CD .CD” Zu et- tr CD - 1 ■§ » _ W §' CO jj CD 3 8S CO Cr* 39 * v.# ¥ g $■ CD "3 >-t >—■ • CD CD CO 3 O & CD CD o p p 3 & o 3 . go P- P a - jp «< 8 CD Ps & Q H f> H Local Matters. >a 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. paper. t 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