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ol i — xo or,. m V* ® U L. o H e p, y cd «T ! T3 CD w OB LJ I C B 0 P £ c £ 03 CD <j # H 5 !*} r\~ (b CD S* H H o .a - 'O fel i> @2 P P- 0) l <! O £ cr CD <5 ® £- gs c*- THOMAS VILLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY MORNING, JULY 30, T $5.00 PER ANNUM ‘NAUGHTY BUT NICE.” 5' cd What E. M. M. Says About Surf Bathing at St. Simon’s. St. Simon’s Island Hotel, "I July 26,1889. j I '■ * Editor Times-Entkrphike.—Our TlminasvHle party lias now been en joying tho pleasure of this delightful dace for four days and can write and speak of its virtues .from experience. Tho weather has simply been perfect. In the afternoon when we bathe a soft reddish haziness, such as is seen some evenings in autumn, obscures the brightness of the sun, and makes Ihc hath doubly delightful; Everything is novel to the ladies of our party, who have never been on the sea-shore before; . the fidlers and sand crabs, as well as the roaring, rest less waves and the immense expanse ot smooth white, sand. They stroll along the shelving beach and gather sea shells and sing songs about the sea, and tell wonderful things they have read about curious sights and awful catastrophics on the great deep, which now they can realize as never before. They stroll and talk and watch the distant white caps like great masses of cotton tossed upon the face of the waters, and the gulls who seem to be ms restless as the waves above which they fly. They let the great waves, which the sands ofthehcach have rubbed of their fu ry, break harmlessly at their feet and bathe their bodies in the salubrious breezes which rise from the mysterious bosom of the deep. In the early evening, ms one walks, in the presence of this mighty ocean, a strange feeling comes over him, a feeling of sadness, but not a sadness withot t .pleasure, It is oteqsfcthp same feeling of which py &.'»ako- - Tino«WSfrtb HI fl H H iP.t « be good, but too listless to be active, for a happy reverie has taken posses sion of him. It makes thoughts of home and love and peace spring up in the soul. Who can analyze this feeling and who can tell whence it comes. But there arc other pleasures as Well. We went seining this morn ing on the beach, almost in front of the hotel. Mr. Arnold, who keeps a popular hoarding house on the beach, furnished the seine, it was 342 feet long. We made three hauls and dragged ashore hundreds of fine cro cuses and trout, besides ent fish and flounders, whiting, stihgarccsan'd bar rels of crabs. It was rare sport lo us landsmen from the interior and espe cially to the ladies, who could get di rectly at the place without soiling the most delicate slippers. Among the fish there was a monster which could scarcely be called a fish. It was a whiprig, so called from its tail which was seven feet long and about the size of ajiuggy whip, and much more flex ible. The moustcr was five feet across and must have weighed two hundred pounds. lie was armed with four dreadful stings, which pro jected from the upper part of tho tail near where it leaves the body. It had little round yellow eyes -on the side of the head and siiout holds on top. The mouth was under the head like a shark. No ho<ly here had seen one before. We had heard that there was no fishing at fit. Simon's but that it was good at Cumberland. This is a groat mistake. Among tho many other good things at this line hotel, we have fresh fish three times a day, and guests cau go seining or fishing with hook and line any day. Bat we promised to tell about the bathing, about which wo had also been misled, having been told it was very poor at this place. The beach is splendid and the surf bathing most excellent and delightful, especially to ladies and children who prefer milder surf to the fierce breakers so much courted by stronger arms. The slope is so gentle and the roughness of the waves is so softened by the bar which extends for three and a half miles in front of the beach, that there is no undertow, and there is absolutely no danger to bathers. Some may prefer the mountains, but for pure unadul terated pleasure,as well ns health, our whole party unite in prefering the surf bath, at least for a short vaca tion. You would split your sides with laughter to see dignified and portly Tom Ball in a liberal bathing suit. He is a dude, And changes his suit every day, sometimes he looks like he might be a convict, only his stripes arc red. These suits are very mca- re, and the cloth is cut scant, but Tom looks fairly well in them, for all that. He says he wanted to go to Tallulah but will never want to go again. lie is bound to come here every season, and then he looks seri ous a while and says nothing, for he knows he has a new want and an ad ditional expense. Your correspond eut is entirety too modest to speak of himself in his bathing suit.. He only trusts that the sea side style will nev er become the general fashion, for he candidly does not think it suits him. Bony limbs may do very well in the surf or in padded, tailor made clothes, but bony limbs in a bathing suit, especially if by any chance it should become wet, would be bad, yes, very bad and unpleasant to behold. The girls, of course, are simply charm ing in their pretty costumes. Pretty girls look well in anything. It mat ters not how much or how little they wear, when they come tripping, light fohted, down to the water, they call to mind pretty French peasant girls, When they come up out of the water thev lock more like the dryads of the ohl\>oet8. One can imagine he sees among them the real Undine. They have learned to swim and can ride feeling ot which the breakers liko a sailor. • ' The spravfrtjv *aml the paIt whf?rTliDhc»o‘and v moulF and cars, but they don’t care, they come up serene and smiling and a hearty feminine cough mingles its tenor with the bass of the roaring waves, and so it goes merrily on. To sum up wo have this to say: for sport tho surf bath is absolutely per fect. It includes grace ot movement, exhilarating and healthful exercise and more down right enjoyment than any other amusement. It may be naughty but it is nice, and conven tionality makes it right. - ' E. M. M. THE FALSE MESSIAH. How a Town Won a Prize. Nine years ago, Chattanooga, Teun., raised a large sum of money for advertising its advantages. The sum was well spent although it did not briug in an immediate return. It made the town talked about, in duced capitalists to go there and ex plained its advantages. These visits resulted in large investments and immi gration. The result is seen pfainly to day in acity of nearly 50,000 people, where nine years ago there were but 15,000, and possessing hundreds of new andprofitable industries. Chattanooga has proved what great advantages come from advertising, mid every southern city will reap similar rewards by making known her resources. We have noticed the disposition on the part of some to ex pect immediate returns from an in vestment of this kind. They expect to see capitalists and immigrants pouring in the very moment the ap peal is made. Chattanooga has His Black Followers Fall at His Feet and Worship Him—Liberty County De moralized—Tho Craze Spread ing—The Falso Christ in Jail, take tho following from the Atlanta Journal: Excitement is still at fever heat in Liberty county—false Christ and false Christ deacons arc still holding sway. Crops arc, as before, neglected, and the craze is as pronounced a3 ever, hut there is reason now to believe that the fanatics may be halted in their madness and peace and quiet be re stored. 'flic better • class of colored people have taken tho matter in band and have appealed to the law custo dians to take charge and enforce order in tiie locality. The true picture of events in this county has never been given—never can be faithfully pictured. Huts arc desirted by their tenants, little patches which have been cultivated by the women have gone to the dogs through neglect; the. turpentine farms and cotton fields arc without bands, cloth ing remains unwashed, cooks - have deseitcd the stoves, servants have left their positions. Men and women, even children, get together and talk over the new Messiah, extol his quali fications and submit proof ot his divine origin and supernatural power. The sway of James, ns was that of Bell, is all-power'ill, and his authority unques tioned. Ilis word is law—his com mands' unquestioned. "Yh e negroes are crazed into blind simplicity ami utter worthlessness. The blind faith with which they follow in the wake of tho ugly pretender, the manner in which they beat aud kill and off* EE f2 his every wish—endeavro to antici* pate his wants and provide for his comfort. He is the lion of the hour, and could to-raorrow morning cause the massacre of every white person and the burning of every residence in Liberty county. Hon. T. M. Norwood, who has just returned to Savannah from Liberty county, confirms the wildest reports in regard to the new Messiah business. James is or was a justice of the peace. Court was to have been held yester day, blit he dismissed all cases and said that as he was soon to lead all people into Canaan there- would be no further use for courts. As an indi cation of the madness'of the negroes, Mr. Norwood says they fall down and worship .Tames wherever he goes, aud believe he is Christ, though lie was born and raised in the neighborhood. Mr. Norwood says the negroes at the meetings practice voodooism in its most immoral, disgraceful and inde cent forms. The congressman con firms the report of the killing of the child, the beating ot the devils out of unofiendiug lookers-on, the throwing away of money, eto. Mr. Norwood hears that James and his immediate followers have been arrested, and is hopeful that their detention may have the effect of allaying the excitement. Laykis-’-McIntosii, July 27.—The posse of the sherilf has succeeded iu landing James and twenty-nine of Bis most noisy followers in jail. A jury has found James to be a lunatic, aud has asked his incarceration as such. The sheriff had a crowd of forty citi- Albany and.Cordele- It is a well known fact that our neighboring sister, Albany, has been for some time desirous of railroad con nection with Cordele. Much has been said about thisroad, and now it seems that our Albany friends have determined to build the road at once. One of our prominent citizens, Mr. W. B. Bothwell, who owns property in and near Albany, has just returned from there. He states that while in the “Artesian City” he was present at a nicceting of the projectors of the road, and that it was determined at the meeting to.take immediate steps to consummate the project. Mr. Bothwell owns a large tract of land twelve miles from Albany, in Lee county. The road will go through this tract, and Mr. Bothwell offered the company the right-of-way through his plantation and a check for one thousand dollars it they would give a depot and a full station on his place. Mr. BgthwcU’s proposition was readily accepted. From this there seems to ho no doubt that the “Arlesian City” and the “Magic City of the Pines” will be more closely connected and tlicir mu tual interests ftiore closely blended.— Cordelean. * 8 takessomc years for this advertising to have an affect, hut that if the advan tages of a town are really what it claims; it needs have no fear that cap ital will ultimately find it and build it up. C'lmttanooga was one of the first Southern cities to advertise; it is consequently the first to secure the benefits of advertisements.—Ex. There is lesson in the above for Thomasville. Chicago wants the 400th anniversa ry of the discovery of America, but New York seems to have the inside track for the big show, with Washing ton a good second. peal is mauc. unauanooga mu . . . • , . . learned better, has discovered that it to assist him ... mat mg the arrests. It is hoped that this will put a stop to the trouble. Flour ought to lie cheap this year. The wheat crop will amount to at least 500,000,000 bushels in spite of the damage in the Northwest. The crop has never reached those figures except iu 1882, when it was 504,000,- 000 bushels, and in 1884, when it was almost 51-'1,000,000 bushels. Last year’s crop jvas only 416,000,000 bushels. A great wheat crop, and the magnificent corn crop which wc have reason to expect, ought to make this a year of plenty in the land.— Telegraph. Heeled For the Hereafter A Chinese funeral took place it New York the other day. The Chi ncse provide their dead with food to last them on the journey to that bourne from which no “pig-tail ’ has ever been known to get back. The fol lowing articles were placed in the grave of Mr. Chung Hung, the gentleman who had shuffled off his Chinese coil: A Chinese outfit ofctothca.,^ ;.;a Chinese duck cooked mother country. A pot ot tea and a cup to drink it from. Paper and matches to make a fire to cook the tea. .Two loaves of bread. Five pounds of rice. A plate, knife and fork. Plenty ofluck sticks. A fine tooth comb. A porous plaster Plenty of slips ol paper to keep off evil spirits. Unless Mr. Chung Hung lias a bet ter record than many of his more or; tliodox brethren, he will not need any matches to kindle a fire. The fine-tooth comb is suggestive. It is likely Mr. Hung will stick with out the aid of Allcock’s porous plaster —for sale by all druggists. P. S. —Mr. Allcock will please remit whatever amount he thinks is proper in the premises. - I - * .! PRICES! AT- LEYY’S Ojir Mr. Levy is now in New York making Fall purchases, an( In Three Paragraphs. They sat together at the eventide and gazed upon a star, which smil ed upon them from the bright un known beyond, and called it theirs. To her, to him, it was the witness of the troth they plighted then in the blest twilight of a dying day. Twelve years have come and gone, and at the eventide they sit together as of old, and sidle upon the witness of a pledge redeemed. The star which they called theirs is still their own r.nd their children’s—beaming out upon them from afar—and they are happy. Another year completes its cycle, and once again there arc watchers of the bright-faced star, which shines upon them with the old time light, softened rs they look up to it through sorrow’s mist. One of the watchers of thirteen years agonc—the fairest— watches no more. The star which shone upon them on a happier even ing, 'ong ago, is shining on her grave. —Ishmaclitc. It has been computed that between 36,000,000 and 37,000,000 babies are born into the world each year. The rate of production is, therefore, about 8 eventy a minute, or rather more than one for every beat of the clock.—Ex. What an awful amount of flannels and paregoric is thus called for? he has sent us word to KNOCK DOWN PRICES on all sum mer goods, and make' room for our immense Fall and Winter stock that is coming. So, from now on, all Spring aud Summer g 0 0 d s * go at old “Knocked Down Prices.” Remnant table full of choice bargains every week. -Lievys Dry Ms Hod Mitchell House Corner. -3#