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St: VOL 1 -IN' O 72. THOMASVILLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY MORNING, AUGUST G, '8SD $5.00 PER ANNUM CD J* i-« THE SOUTHERN GIRL. Montgomtry Advertiser. Her dimpled checks are pale; She’s a lily of the vale, Not a rose. In a muslin or a lawn She is fairer than the dawn, To her beaux. Her boots arc thin and neat, She i3 vain about her feet, It is said. She amputates her r’s, Hut her eyes nre like the stars, Ovi rliead. On a balcony at night, With a fleecy cloud of white Round her hair. Her grace, ah, who could paint? She would facinate a saint, I declare. 'Tis a matter of regret, She’s a bit of a coquette, Whom I sing. On her cruel path she goes With a half a dozen benux On her string. Hut let that all pass by, And her maiden moments fly. . Dew empearled. When she marries, on my life, She will make the dearest wife In the world. WILL THE ROAD BE SOLD? There is a Strong Sentiment in the Sen ate to sell. From the Augusta Chronicle. Atlanta, Ga., Aug. i. -It is not by any means certain that the Wes tern and Atlantic railroad will be re leased, and the present lease bill may be killed. There is a strong sentiment in the Senate favoring a sale of the road, and the House has a number «f un compromising advocates for such a disposition ot the property. The squabble now going on over the betterments question and the fear of enacting a defective lease act, may make other advocates for the sale, aside froth the objectionable policy invoked in the ownership of the cojn- petitive property by the state. A DISTURBING ELEMENT. The road is regarded as a disturb ing clement In politics. Then also the Legislature is badly divided on the question * ot higher education and common schools. II the road were leased some; would want the rental to go exclusively to com mon schools, and others to the univer sity. All of these factions combined are liable to defeat the lease hill and put the road on the market tor sale. THE senate’s SCHEME TO SELL. The resolution in the Senate for the examination of the road by joint committee is regarded bv many to mean, that while action on the House bill is pending in the House, the Sen ate will go to work and pass a hill to sell the road to the highest bidder. Whether these prognostications arc correct or not the next few days will tell. The Ocean Harnessed. From the Baltimore Sim. The problem of utilizing the force of ocean waves lias hetfii solved to a certain extent, by an invention of Air, N. O. Bond of Fairfax Court House, Va., which is now in use at Ocean Grove, New Jersey. ■ Air. Bond has mounted gates in such a position out in the water that the wave coming in heats against them nml shuts them. When the wave retires it opens the gate, to bang it shut again at the next advance. Connected with the gateo arc piston rods working the force |‘limps with tanks elevated to n hight of forty leQt. The device is a success. Last Friday 40,000 gallons of sea water were pumped into the tanks for use in laying the dust of the streets. The authorities hold that the salt wa ter is better than river water for lay ing the dust. Air. Boud is of the opinion that by the use of big floats, instead of gates, he can get results six times ns great. But the pump oper ated by a gate is a practical device which is destined, it appears, to have wide use. Tlic railroads now charge $13 per car more hauling melons from Albany to Cin cinnati than they did at the opening of the scniaa, The railroads make more than the growers. Partial Prohibition. Air. Foute, of Bartow, has intro duced a bill iu the House prohibiting the sale of spirituous liquors in Geor gia, outside of incorporated towns containing not less than 500 inhabi tants. It has been demonstrated again and again, that prohibition is inop erative wherever public sentiment, or the wishes of the people arc against it. Georgia has a law already, by which any county can vote out whis ky. Let these counties settle it for themselves. If they want prohibition they will have it; if they don’t want it, they wilt not have it, State statutes to the contrary notwithstanding. Georgia’s wise local option law comes ns near solving the problem ns it is possible to solve it. As an evidence of this, State after State has adopted, virtually, Georgia's law on the sub ject. The majority of the people of Georgia are satisfied with the law. Let it stand. Local option nnd high license should lie the line pursued. Results will be more satisfactory to the tem perance people—and everybody else. The Morning News, in discussing Mr. Foute’s bill, says: The Morning News li:is always strongly urged local option, and doubted the wisdom of either statutory or constitutional prohi bition. The reason for its position is this: It is about impossible to enforce prohibition where it is not supported by public senti ment. In the states which have constitu tional prohibition there is a great deal of drunkenness. It is doubtful if Representative Foute’s hill is ft wise one. In some localities it would not be possible to enforce it, because the oflicers charged with its enforcement would he controlled by the prevailing senti ment of the coinmunitjr. A failure to en force it in one community would bring it in to disrepute in other communities, and it would not he very long before it would be virtually a dead letter. If it wero uot enforced it would injure the cause of temperance, because it would make the opponents of temperance more active. The enthusiasm ot tlic friends of local option would be dampened, because they would re gard statutory prohibition an interference with local option. In view of the fact that incorporated towns of at least 500 inhabitants, are pretty thickly scattered over the state, Representa tive Foute’s bill would not perceptibly check the sale of intoxicants. Those who wanted intoxicating liquors might have to go a little further for them but that would be all. If Representative Foute were to substitute a high license bill for bis prohibition bill,’he might assist greatly in advancing the cause of temperance. High license would force a majority of the dram shops to stop business. If adopted, it should he made applicable to cities as well ns the rural districts. Public sentiment would favor it, nnd there would be no difficulty in closing the dram shops that could not pay it. , High license is favored by many of the ablest and purest advocates of temperance. The Alorning News has, for years, been a consistent and persistent cham pion of temperance, and its views arc entitled to the respectful consideration of all. Extreme measures will never reform the evil. It is “agin” human nature. Murphy, the great apostle of tem perance, the man who has blue- ribboned two continents with his motto: “Charity for all; malice to ward none,” says prohibition is a fail ure, and that moral suasion is the only road to success. Montgomery’s First Bale. Montgomery, Ai.a., Aug. 2.—The first bnle of new cotton was received here this morning nnd sold at nuc- tjpn at 19 cents per pound. It wns rajgpd by Peyton Hall, who has sent in the first bale for several year?. Last year’s date was July 31.. Will Get the Navy Yard- Washington, Aug. 2.—The com mission to select a site for a South Atlantic navy yard is preparing its report to the Secretary of the Navy. Meanwhile its members will not talk about the matter, but the Impression at the navy department is that the commission will recommend the es tablishment of a navy yard at Dept ford plantation near Savannah. A Good One. Col. Snead, iu his speech at Fort Valley last week, at tlic reunion of the old 3rd Georgia, told the follow ing anecdote: “Nor will l follow some in bowing flown to a golden calf bespangled with the allur ing name of the “The New South,” for there is no such anomoly as "the New South in contradistinction to t*ie Old South, unless our people have undergone some wonderful change. And that reminds me of a fraud once practiced upon a preacher by some had hoys whom he taught at school in ad dition to trying to save their souls. Learn ing on Saturday where the old man’s text would he, that it would commence with the last verse of the page, they pasted that leaf and the next one together. Opening his Bible an the following Sunday, he informed the congregation that his text would be found in such a verse of such a chapter of such a hook, and commenced to read : “And Noah took untohiinSclf a wife,”(turn- ing the leaf) “which was three hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide and thirty cubits deep.” Thinking it was a very large woman, and thinking lie must have made a mistake, turning hack the leaf, he commenced again: “And Noah took unto himsell a wife, which was three hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide nnd thirty cubits deep, pitched inside and outside with pitch!” Laying down his Bible, he raid. “Brethren, I have been preaching, lo! those forty years past, hut I never came across this strang> text before, and well may I exclaim in the language of the Psalmist, that we are wonderfully and fearfully unde!” And so say 1, if the theory of some gentlemen he correct as to a new south, our people must he wonderfully and fearfully constituted. Down with Mormons. Slyvania Telephone. The Mormons arc going it at a High rate in Augusta. Tlic Chronicle re ports a ciiao in which two of the so- called Alortuon elders so worked upon the credulity of a Mj\ Rhodes, who was very sick, that he discharged his physician and depended on them to cure him by prayer and laying on of hands. The consequence wns he died in n day or two. A warrant should be issued at oucc for these murderers. No civilized community should allow such brutes in human form td tarry in their midst. The legal authorities of Augusta will be derelect of duty if they lail to vigorously prosecute tlic slayers of this man. It is a matter of surprise that an enlightened city like Augusta should permit these polyga mist scoundrels tofindlodgmcnt there, to say nothing of establishing a station from which to disseminate their infa mous doctrines and practice. Kappa Alpha Convention. The Fourteenth Convention of tlic Kappa Alpha Fraternity will be held in Augusta, Ga., Sept. 11,12 and 13th, 1889. Delegates from twenty-five colleges will be present and also a large number of distinguished alumni. The management of the Convention is in the hnnds of the Alumni ('linpter at Augusta, who are making extensive preparations for the entertainment of visiting members of the Order. Frost in Illinois. Galena, III., Aug. 2,—The low grounds in this section were visited by a frost early yesterday morning, which did considerable damage to growing vegetables. Corn suffered in the most exposed places. Tobacco was also severely injured. It is suiil that Hie West Point mills will soon he^in to run 150 anti-triRt haloing looms,which will produce one hundred and lilty yards to cnch loom per day, total per day, *22,1:00- Tile Roscdale Manufacturing company will run one hundred anti-trust bagging looms which will make 1 <50 yards to each loom per day; total, 15,000 yards per day. Add tlic 22,000 yards from the West Point mills on the la,000 yards by the Kosedaie Manufacturing company and it gives >7,.'Oil yards of anti-trust bug ging that West Point will be able to furnish daily as orders continue to come in. Mul tiply the daily product hy 125 and you will see what they are doing to prevent the jute hugging outrage.—llaitibridge Demo crat. Oid jute, the jade, is being given some healthy whacks. Keep it up. A good stiff leather strap, well used, would go very far toivardstraightening out things in Liberty county. A SAD AND LONELY TIME. The wugwunip roosts in the hollow log, The sugiig sits in the tree; Whenever I hear the hogwig sing My henrt is sad in me. Whenever the shagpop toots his too, To the wail of the mipwag hen; And the migfunk chirp3 in the stilly ni^ht, You bet I’m lonely then! Adam’s Politeness. A mother on Delaware avenue was, on Sunday, giving her child, a boy of seven years, some Bible instruction. She was telling him tlic story of Adam’s fail. Having narrated the tile of the apple and what mischief it did, the mother then asked : /‘Now don’t you think Adam did very wrong to eat the apple?” The little fellow thought a moment and then answer ed : “Why, would it have been polite to refust) the apple the lady offered to hint?”—Buffalo Courier. In New York poor people arc im prisoned for debt. Illinois, too, is just as barbarous, if the following from tlic Chicago Herald is true: “A delicate women 1ms been in the coun ty jail/ The offense which consign ed her to a dungeon was an indebted ness to some Shy lock of a sum less than thirty dollars. She had a fami ly of small children who, it is said, needed their mother. It is also stated that she was a woman of not robust health ; that she was sensitive, and is heart-broken over her disgrace. Where were all the organized chari ties of Chicago at this critical mo ment? If the news should come up from the south that some sooty wench had been thrown into prison fir a debt of §28, there arc at least four leading newspapers iu Chicago whose columns would scintilate with indig nation, and each of them would offer to receive subscriptions in aid of the sufferer. What ailed poor little Mrs. Walters, the mother of several chil dren, who for days pined for liberty in the north side pen ?” New York and Illinois should, adopt some of our southern codes bodily. The change would be a vast improvement upon their present system of laws.—Ex. The tax returns of the sixty-four counties so fur received at tlic comp troller-general's office show an in crease of value over last year of $5, 263,238. Muscogee leads tlic in crease with 81,739,133. Sixteen counties have decreased in value.” Of these Dade county lias lost the most, with a shrinkage of 887,883. There are seventy-three counties to be heard from, and in these all the big cities arc located. It is estimated that there will be 813,000,000 more taxable properly this year than there wns last. The Athens Banner says : It is be lieved hy many that the University will open in September with more than throe hundred students. The work of I)r. Boggs throughout the state in behalf of the college has had its effect, and if is universally conceded that Chancellor Boggs is the right man in the right place. Mrs. Brown—“Is this hotel on the European plan?” Mr. Brown (in pro-occupied tones from behind Iris paper)—“Yes, ray dear.” Mrs. B.— “I’m not feeling hungry this morn ing. I think I’ll merely take some coffee and roll.” Mr. B. (laying aside his paper)—“What were you asking me, my dear ? On the Eu ropean plan? No, it is not.” Sirs B, (to waiter)—“You may bring me an omelet, some shad, mutton-chops, witli a bit of bacon, linked potatoes, rolls and coffee, and afterwards some griddle-cakes and syrup.”—Harper's. Claude—“Let’s play we are keep ing house.” Clara.—-“All right, and I’m your wife.” Claude—“Well, then, pull of my hoots and bring my pipe and slippers.”—Omaha World. If wc were ricli wc would have “hay fever,” hut as it is we are suf fering from a derned bad cold.— Waynesburg Messenger. Knocked Dow PRICES! KNOCKED 'DOWN NOB -AT— LEVY’S Our Mu. Levy is now in New York making Fall purchases, and 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 and Snmmer goods -go at old “Knocked Down Prices.” Remnant table full of choice bargains every week. Levys Dry Ms House Mitchell House Corner.