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VOL 1 -NO 79.
TIIOMASVILLE, GEOJiGLA, WEDNESDAY MOllNING, AUGUST 14, ’889
$5.00 PEll ANNUM
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Preparatory to going North for my fall stock, I Will sell, for the next thirty days’, my entire stock of summer clothing at ACTUAL COST. This is
a bona fide closing out sale, as the goods must be sold to make room for fall purchases. This sale will be for the Spot Cash only.
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The Duel.
I’ublic iulcrest has been wrought
tip for several days over the details
of the duel fought in Alabama, on
‘Saturday evening, between Messrs
Calhoun and Williamson. The fol
lowing details, taken from the Con
stitution, will be read with interest:
When Mr. Calhoun and Mr. Wil
liamson were in position Mr. King,
the second of Mr. Williamson, took
one . pistol, and Capt. Jackson, the
second of Mr. Calhoun, the other.
Mr. King placed his in Mr. Wil
liamson’s hand. Capt. Harry Jack-
son walked over and handed his to
Mr. Calhoun. The two seconds took
their positions. They faced each
other, Capt. Jackson on the north side
of the line, and Mr. King on the
south side. The principals and sec
onds formed the four corners of a
square. Mr. Calhoun’s right hand,
holding the pistol, hung square down
at his side. Mr. Williamson raised
his to examine it, when Capt. Jack-
son cried out:
“Hold that hand down at your
side."
Mr. Williamson immediately drop
ped it without a word.
COl.OXKI, SEAY CAI.I.S KOI! PKAt'K.
Then Col. John Seay, of Rome,
rushed in and begged the seconds
to settle the matter and not allow the
fight.
“It is a shame,” he said, “to have
two such fine men stand up here and
shoot at one another.”
The, seconds could not agree upon a
settlement, and so announced.
“Then I shall stand between them,”
said Col. Seay, as lie took his stand
right in front of Mr. Williamson.
He was removed by main force.
Then for fully ten seconds there was
not a sound. ■ - “
It had been arranged that each
principal was allowed to empty his
(Jistol—to shoot five times. Sudden
ly Jack King’s voice rang out:
“Are you ready, gentlemen ?”
“Yes,” answered both.
“Then lire.’'
the Fiiwr snot's
were simultaneous, and the flames
and sparks that flew from the pistol
barrels illuminated the scene for just
an instant. Mr. Williamson emptied
his revolver, the five shots being fired
very rapidly. Mr. Calhoun fired only
once, and then slowly lowered his
pistol as Mr. Williamson’s bullets
were whistling past his head.
“Are you hurt, I’at?” some one
cried.
“No, sir,” he coolly replied.
“Williamson, did he hit you ?”
asked Mr. King.
“I was not touched.”
Right here the sconce was pictur
esque. Roth gentlemen, with smok
ing pistols in their hands, stood as
calm as statues. Mr. Calhoun wore
a dark suit of clothes, sack coat and
a smoking cap. Mr. Williamson was
also dressed in a dark sack suit, and
his head was covered with a tan col
ored traveling hut.
Then tor a few minutes not another
word was said cither by principals,
seconds or spectators. The scene at
that time was never equaled in an
allair of this kind. It was dark, and
to an observer fifty yards off, the little
crowd of a dozen witnesses on the edge
of the grouuds, with the principals
and seconds facing each other, the
principals each bearing smoking re
volvers, and appearing against a
back-ground of dense, dark woods,
formed a wild and picturesque scene,
the equal of which will never again
lie witnessed.
Till-: DEMAND KOI! KKTUAl'TIOX.
The silence was quickly broken by
the ringing voice of Mr. Calhoun :
“Air. Williamson,” he said, “I have
•four remaining balls which I have
the right to fire at you. I now ask
it you will withdraw the statement
you made before the legislative com
mittee ?”
“I will,” replied Mr. Williamson,
in a clear voice, “provided you will
say that you intended no personal re
flection upon me.”
The spectators drew a little nearer
to hear and sec better. Mr. Calhoun
then said :
“When I made those statements I
did it to impress upon the legislature
that your railroad had been offered
to the Central. Will you withdraw
your statement? Isay this, holding
four balls in'my pistol which I have
the right to fire. I have no desire to
take Mr. Williamson’s life.”
“I will withdraw it,” replied Mr.
Williamson, “when you say that you
meaut no pcrsonnl reflection.”
“What I said,” Air. Calhoun re
plied, "is that I wanted the legislature
to {understand that your road was
offered the Central in 1887. You
came to the Kimball house to sec me.
Do you remember that? All I want
before firing my remaining balls is
for you to say that you came to my
office in 1887.”
Air. Williamson stood firm, and
said, turning toward bis seconds, that
lie wanted Judge Tompkions to come
from the car and decide as to how
the shooting should be continued.
The judge was familiar with the code.
Air. Calhoun, in a clear voice —
Will you unconditionally withdraw
your statements made before the leg
islature?
Air. Williamson, equally ns firm—I
will do so, provided you say you
meant no personal reflection.
Air. Calhoun —I want Air. William
son to understand that I want an un
conditional withdrawal.
Air. Williamson—When you say
that you didn’t intend to reflect upon
my personal integrity.
Air. Calhoun will you withdraw ?
Capt. Jackson intcriuptcd with:
“Air. Williamson, linvo you any re
spect for me as a gentleman of hon
or ?”
“I have,” replied Mr. Williamson.
“Well,” said Capt. Jackson, “I say
as a gentleman, that I would with
draw the statement.”
Mr. Williamson— Mr. Calhoun
will say that he intended no personal
reflection.
Mr. Calhoun—Will you withdraw?
Air. Williamson- If you say it.
“Will you withdraw ?” again asked
Mr. Calhoun. “1 hold four balls.”
Air. Wil iamson, with firmness—“1
am ready for you to fire.”
“Then we will load and lire again.”
ax Kxrrnxi: inthkiimtiox
“Allow me to speak to Air. Wil
liamson,” said Mr. King hfs seeond. •
Capt. Jackson, quickly—No, sir ;
do not approach him. I will kill the
first man who crosses this line.
Capt. Jackson drew his revolver.
As the moons rays played upon its
glittering barrel, every one saw that
he meant business, and the spectators
drew back.
“Rut I have a right to speak to
him,” replied Air. King.
Then Capt. Jackson lowered his [
revolver and said :
“Yes, I believe you do have that
right.”
Air. King approached Mr. Wil
liamson, and while talking began to
examine bis revolver Capt. Jackson
approached quiekly, and asked what
that meant.
“I am simply examining Air. Wil-
liainson’c revolver,” replied Air. King,
“to see if lie fired all five balls. You
may come up and sec.”
“That’s all right,” replied Capt,
Jackson.
Air. Calhoun had remained quiet
during this colloquy, but as soon as
it ended, and Air. King was with
drawing, his voice rang out clearly :
“In my remarks before tho legisla
tive committee Air. Williamson per
sonally did not enter my mind.”
Then raising his pistol aloft he
said :
“With the understanding that you
withdraw your remarks after my
statement, I fire the remaining shots
in the air. I expressly reserved my
shots to do this.”
With these remarks four shots rang
out and four balls went skyward.
Then Air. Calhoun approached
and the two principals shook bauds,
and the party started quickly for the
ear. Entering the car, Air, Calhoun
said:
“Air. AVilliamson, we will let this
matter end here.”
“We will,” replied Air. AVilliamson,
giving his hand a hearty shake.
“You arc as brave a man as I ever
s^v, and I don’t believe I lack in it."
“You certainly do not,” replied Air.
Calhoun.
A New Theory About Foreheads.
From the Chicago Journal.
“That man has a fine forehend,” I
said to-day to friend on the street, as a
person with a perpendicular forehead
of great amplitude passed us. Rut
my friend, who was a physician and
something of a phrenologist, remark
ed : “Humph! Not necessarily.
There is not a more groundless fancy
abroad in the land than that about
fine foreheads. Any mail of ordi
nary reading and observation, if he
will reflect for a moment, will see
that a perpendicular forehead is not
an invariable accompaniments of
great intellect, and that a narrow or
retreating forchcard is not always a
sign of mental weakness. Sonic of
the greatest men that ever lived,
whose genius and force ol character
have exerted the greatest influence on
history and civilization, have hud
these low or retreating brows, which
are popularly called weak foreheads.
The list of them includes Alexander
the. Great, Savonarolo, Sir Thomas
Rrowne, Calvin, Runyan, Darwin,
Emerson, Gamhcttii, Lafayette,
Washington, and even Lavntcr him
self, tlic founder of phrenology, who
says that perpendicularity of the fore
head indicates coldness of tempera
ment and a want of capacity, while, a
retreating forehead is a sign of orig
inality, brilliancy of conception and
moral courage.” As I was not ready
to dispute my friend’s theory, and in
deed bad no interest in doing so, I
merely passed my baud proudly over
the upper end of my physiognomy
and bade him good morning.
A Great Railroad-
I'nder the headline—A Great
Railroad—the Louisville News and
Farmer reproduces in full the article
which recently appeared in theChron-
iele about the Augusta and AA'est
Florida railway, and adds the follow
ing:
If this road could be brought down
the narrow gauge, to Noah or Alnt-
tlicws, then to this place and over the
route of the Louisville mid Wad ley
road, and then follow the Donovan
and Perkins road, only sellout seven
teen miles would have to be built,
and we would have a road to start
with eighty-five miles long. To
Wren, it is thirty miles, from Louis
ville to AVadlcy ten, and the Donovan
and Perkins road twenty-eight, mak
ing sixty-eight miles for a start. Then
build tiie seventeen between .Matthews
and Louisville, and we have eighty-
live miles, which is one one-third of
the line from Augusta to Thomasville.
Let our railroad magnates think
about this route, and they must con
clude we arc offering a good route
and line inducements. If they will
talk right, perhaps the inducements
will he made stronger. Try us, gent
lemen.
A Tennessee editor gives this ac
count of the difficulties under which
he labors: "Ilow is it our readers
can expect us out here, 20 miles from
a railroad, 25 miles from a river, 25
miles from a city, millions of miles
from heaven, about two miles from
the devil and only 200 yards from a
whiskey shop, to get out a newsy,
lively and interesting paper.”
Captain Kidd’s treasure has been
located again. It is concealed, this
time, on the Connecticut coast. Kidd
was unusually ubiquitous, and so is
the treasure he left.
Ladies at the Polls.
The new south is in danger of bor
rowing too many isms and cranky
methods from the north.
In tlic good old times, southern la
dies would have been shocked at the
idea of going to the polls and mingling
with excited crowds of voters on elec
tion day. They would, have said that
such a proceeding was outside of wo
man’s sphere, and they would have
been right.
Rut tlic craze for woman’s rights in
tlio, north, and the successful attempt
in that region to identify vomep act
ively with alleged moral reform move
ments, have, to sonic extent, influ
enced society at large. The prohibi
tion campaigns in Atlanta and other
southern towns, have induced ladies,
under tlio mistaken advice of thought
less leaders, to appear at the polls and
do regular campaign work with the
voters. Our correspondent in Rome
gave a graphic and startling descrip
tion, yesterday, of the scenes in that
city during the prohibition election.
Some of the Roman ladies were at the
polls as early as half-past four o’clock
in the morning. They spent the day
praying, singing and exhorting.
Avliat a sight! Tender women
abandoning their homes to be jostled
about in a crowd of voters oi all
classes, conditions and colors!
It is all wrong. No matter wliat
the issue is, so long as men do the
voting women have no business at the
polls. " If our ladies, however, think
differently, then it is high time togivc
them the elective franchise — that
would give them a substantial ex
cuse for taking an active part in out-
elections.—Constitution.
It will be a sad day for tin: South
when her fair women engage in tbe
dirty work of the politician. It is
bad enough for men; it is infinitely
worse for women. There is some
thing repulsive and unnatural about
the thougnt of seeing women- refined,
cultivated women-—smirched and be
draggled with the scum of politics.
Her home is her empire. There she
may, and should, reign supreme.
And right there sho can do more' to
ward shaping the destinies of the
country and race, than anywhere
else. Hers is a high and noble mis
sion-hut it does not lie in tbe line of
tlic hustings, or around polling places,
where, too often, scenes are witnessed,
and language heard, which would
tinge the check of modesty with crim
son blushes.
We Must Feed tho World.
Ours is the only civilized country
blessed with good crops this year.
It is now tolerably certain that in
addition to the food yield in the
southern states the great northwest
will produce a surplus crop of wheat
(or export.
The general failure of the farmers
abroad will make the demand active
lor everything that we cannot use at
home. Russia lias a had wheat out
look and dreads a famine. The grain
prospect in iltmgaria, Kmimaiiia,
Galicia, Silesia, Rohcmia and Moravia
is very gloomy. India will be short
15,000,000 bushels of wheat. In
France the estimates have fallen
twenty per cent. England will be in
a bad fix withoutsix weeks of unbrok
en sunshine—something not to be
luqicd for.
Rut the situation is not as bad as it
might be. There will be no famine
anywhere in this country, and our
farmers will be able to feed tbe world,
and fill their own pockets at the same
time.—Constitution.
On the Fonce.
Tlic announcement of Mr. Nortlicn’s
candidacy for governor has kinder
forced the issue. Livingston lias nut
been heard from, though it is fair to
assume that lie is “willin’;” Dullignon
is comfortable astride of the fence,
ready to jump—and lie is likely to
jump into the ring, while numerous
other perspiring statesmen mop their
brows and keep away Irom lightning
rods. Really it is too soon to com
mence talking about the next governor
of Georgia. The election is a long
ways olf. The whirligig of time may
make many changes between now and
the time for the election.
The Amateur Actor : She—Were
you ever stage struck ? He— Yes ;
with a bad egg.
PRICES!
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LEVY’S
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Our Mr. Levy is now
in New York making
Fall purchases, and
lie lias sent us word
to KNOCK DOWN
PRICES on all sum
mer goods, and make
room for our immense
Fall and Winter stock
that is coining. So,
from now on, all
Spring and Summer
goods go at old
“Knocked Down
Prices.”
Remnant table full
of choice bargains
every week.
JLiovys
Dry Ms House
Mitchell House Corner.