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THOMASYILLE, GEORGIA, SUNDAY MORNING, AUGUST 25, ’88!)
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The Park Question Discussed by a
Citizen.
Editor Tim es-Enteri-k ise:
It lias been suggested to the writer
by two or throe citizens, who are at
present opposed to the purchase of the
Smith park, that the town ought not
to buy a park for the Pinny Woods
Hotel, and that the “Smith heirs”
were too much interested in the pres
ervation of the park as it now stands,
to ever cut it up into lots. For the
benefit of these, and of any' others
that may be likewise minded, I think
the publication of some facts in the
case, with which the public generally
may not be conversant, would proba
bly be a good idea
In answer to the first objection, the
fact stands that the Piney Woods
Hotel Company has a park of its own,
and is entirely independent of the
purchase of this park by the town
As a part of Mr. Smith’s proposition
to the town, there was an agreement
on the part of the hotel company with
him to let their’s go in with the re
mainder, that the town might have
the whole tract, from the hotel to Mr,
Smith’s old homc v and from IIroad
street to Hanncll street. So that if
the purchase is made it will he from
the hotel compauy and the heirs of
Mr. Smith. The part that is owned
l>y the hotel company is five ‘or six
acres, extending from Broad street
along the railroad to Moony & Wil
liams’yard, and out Broad street to a
point opposite the far end of the place
where Stocklien lived. A gentleman
familiar with Savannah, remarked, in
commenting on it: “It is larger than
Forsyth park, in Savannah, and all
that the hotel company could want.”
A look at the ground, which can be
had at the expense of a short walk,
in need of having the town purchase
this park. While it is true the com
pany would get some money and the
park would be larger, in case the pur
chase is made, it is also true that it
would part with some valuable prop
erty for that money, and would lose
the right to fence in their present
park and have it for the exclusive
use of the hotel, in exchange for the
increased size,
Xoyf, as to the interest of the
“Smith heirs:" Prior to ids death,
Mr. Smith sold the entire front of his
old home place, facing the park, from
Broad street to Mason’s house, about
two hundred feet deep. So the heirs
haven’t much interest on that side to
be beuefitted by the pnrk. It is per
haps needless to say that the property
from Mason's, ground to the railroad,
does not belong to any of Mr. Smith’s
people. The strip then, from the far
end of the old Stocklien lot out, is all
the “park front” they have to be
benefitted by the purchase of the
park, I again ask that voters go out
and look at this, observing the streams
through it, and their banks, and de
cide whether this interest be very
great,
On the other hand, I thin! I cgn
assert, as a fact, that the property
with the Piney Woods Hotel Com
pany’s park taken out, would sell
readily for twenty-five thousand dol
lars, cut into lots, facing the reserva
tion of the lyotel company, and Broad
street and Hansell street as it curves
round the far side. The property
constituting Mr. .Smith’s old home is
held at twelve dollars quil a half a front
foot, tuny. 1'he part, of the park fac
ing Hansell street would certainly be
worth not less than thnt, and that fac
ing the I’incy Wooils Hotel Compa
ny’s park would hying more. In view
of these facts, it seems to me that none
will claim that tbo town, by purchas
ing this park, will bestow any favor
on the “Smith heirs.”
Another objection has been urged
that there were too many restrictions
made in Mr, Smith’s proposition.
In answer to this, it is only necessary
that the proposition bo read, ft re
quires nothing but that the property
will be used “In porpetuity" as a pub
lic park. This will not prevent the
cutting of any, or indeed all, the trees
on the land, should the town at any
time desire to replace them with flow
ers, shrubbery, pavillions and statu
ary. And is it not better that this
restriction should be in it, in order to
prevent its alienation and destruction
at any time in the future? If we need
a park now, the addition of every
single person to onr population makes
that need greater than before. The
“pure fresh air of the country,” thnt
even citizens of Thomasvillc long for,
is due to the extensive parks that sur
round country homes. Let us have
parks, then, in town, and around
town, thnt the health of Thomasville
may be ns good, and its air as fresh
and pure as that of any place to be
found even in the country.
But I am attempting’too much ar
gument for a witness, as I set out to
be, and will stop here.
A Citizen.
Ten Train Loads.
The most remarkable of processions
will invade the South at the next
meeting of the Republican League in
Tennessee,
The plan is to have eight or ten
train loads of delegates go in an im
posing Republican pageant through
the.chief places of the South. The
New York Tribune thus describes the
aim of the procession :
“The chief object will be to present
in the most attractive form the econo
mical principles of the Republican
party; not to revive any unpleasant
memories. In other words, the pro-
cession will be a propaganda of peace
and prosperity. Only the best, speak
ers in the party will be taken, and
only the soundest political literature
distributed. The idea is to begin the
. Republican campaiu in -the South,
will satisfy any one, I thjglu JUich to qgive the Southern voters a
Pindy'Wootls TfofeTCom'pany 4 is not clear,
correct and agreeable idea of
the party audits principles. It will
be the endeavor of the League offi
cials cvcrywdicre to secure the elec
tion of only the most representative
men as delegates to the convention,
who will make the trip with a serious
purpose in view. Many capitalists
will be included in the delegations,
and in truth, no ono is wanted who
will not hv his action reflect credit
upon the party.”
How delightful! We are to he
taught from the rear platform of a
moving train “clear, correct, and
agreeable” ideas of the Republican
party. Ideas that arc not agreeable
will be excluded. The Tribune
should not so far forget its logic. We
would prefer the ideas to he clear,
adequate and complete.—Savannah
News.
An “agreeable idea of the republi
can party” is good, very good. It
there is anything “agreeable” abrtut
the G. O. P., it has been kept in the
back ground. The gentlemen will,
however, bo given a fair opportunity
to ventilate the “agreeablencss” of
their principles. Come ahead with
your menagerie.
Republican Hypocrisy,
T he Toledo (Ohio; I ice expresses,
in a quiet way, the canting hypocrisy
of the northern republican papers rel
ative to the social status of the negro.
In Favor of Colonizing the Negro.
Senator Hampton, of South Caro
lina, being asked the other day if the
protection sentiment was growing in
the South, replied:
“I think the tendency is more like
ly to be the other way, especially in
the mining and manufacturing dis
tricts. The interest of the States of
Virginia, Tennessee and Alabama,
particularly, are advanced by low du
ties. They can produce iron and coal
much cheaper than they can he pro
duced in the east. Protection only
assists the eastern manufacturers to
keep up this rivalry. Without pro
tection the rivalry would he greatly
lessened. The less protection the
more capital will go to the develop
ment of the industries of the south.
Seeing this, I do not think our people
will bo led oil by this question, The
efforts of the republicans will be in
Virginia, Tennessee, North Carolina
and, perhaps, Alabama.
iiritT iiy two fa crons.
“1 do not think they will meet with
success in either. The exodus of the
negroes from North Carolina, if it
keeps up, will hurt them there, hut
they could not carry the state any
how. Harrison’s appointments in the
south have been of a character to
strengthen us in resistance of any at
tempt made upon the southern states.
I know it has been so in South Caro
lina, and I presume it is the same
elsewhere.”
OI.AI) TO (JET mi) OF THE XEdl'.OKS.
He thought that inconvenience, but
no injury would result from the ex
tensive negro exodus in the south.
“We,” ho said, “would gladly sec
the colored people move elsewhere,
and we would bn willing to suffer any
reduction in the elective college and
congress that might result from their
departure. It would make things a
little harder for the present genera
tion, but would be the salvation of the
future. I would gladly vote to ap
propriate §50,000,000 for the purchase
of Cuba or some other place in which
they might settle.”
Warmoth’s Magnificent Plantation.
From tlicPittslmrg Dispatch.
Ex-Gov. Warmoth, who as collector
of the port of New Orleans, will re
sume his old place as dictator ol the
party in Louisiana, is an Illinois man,
who found himself in New Orleans
after (he war as provost marshal under
military rule. He owns what is prob
ably tl'C finest plantation in America,
on a bayou of the Mississippi, about
one hundred miles from New Orleans ;
7,000 acres ol rich lands ari under
cultivation, and a dozen or more sugar
houses turn out an immense production
every year. The house in which War-
moth lives is descrided as an American
palace. This property was inherited
by his wife, whose family are all demo
crats. Sirs. Warmoth’s five young
sons she declares she is rearing to be
good democrats,like their grandfather.
\\ oodnicn say that much mure than
one-half the moss on trues grows on
tin' northern side ; ;th;vt the heaviest
A Fruit Exchange.
From the Albany News and Ad vert i.-
The fruit industry in Southwest
Georgia, is in its infancy, but it is the
most promising infant that the country
ever nursed. There are large possi
bilities in its proper dcvclopcment,
but care and constant attention are
required to guard it from the ills that
attend all infant industries, lest it
should be dwarfed and deformed if
not killed outright.
Nearly everybody, and especially
the average editor, lias something to
suggest, wherein the success of the in
dustry would he promoted if adopted.
There are many wise plans that are
formulated and put into active opera
tion that grow out of suggestions of
men who arc supposed to know little
or nothing of the practical operation
of the business. Cranks turn the
world and we know not wiio may offer
a suggestion that may contain the
crude plans that will insure success if
put into operation.
There exists a very apparent need
for some plan to secure co-operation
and system in marketing the small
fruits of this section. The history of
tiie small fruit industry for the season
just ending, would be a recital of fail
ures and disappointments. Not hut
that the crop was large, and the fruit
was luscious, for it certainly excited
expectations that the prices received
disappointed.
The trouble is that the express
charges on small shipments amount to
a prohibition, when if all fruitgrowers
could ship their product through an
exchange, they would receive the ben
efits of the reduced through rates by
the car load by freight. Sir. J. G.
McPhaul, of Poulan, ships large quan
tities of grapes in consignments of
from 25 to 100 crates. During this
last season, which was very successful,
he shipped at various times to Chicago,
as his grapes ripened, just about one
car load in the aggregate. On this
he p lid express charges of §900, ap
proximately, and if they had been
shipped by car load the freight would
not have amounted to more than §150
To secure this benefit, the fruit
rowers should band themselves to
gether and establish an exchange, put
ting in the management their best
men. There have been car loads of
pears in this section allowed to go to
waste, when, if all small growers had
combined and shipped in ear lots
hulk, as they arc shipped, §400 to 8000
per car could have been easily real
ized.
To the Front.
AS ALWAYS,*;
houghs on spyiico iiess are always on
the- ^oiiih side, and that the topmost
\ great many of them have made a j twig of every hemlock tips naturally
tremendous fu;s in regard to the pro
test In Atlanta ngaint the attempt to
bring a negro in association with a
white lady in the post office; hut the
Bee says that three years ago when a
negro doubtable was elected on the
publican ticket in Toledo, every one
ol the three republican justices of the
peace refused to accept him, and final
ly Justice Wcott, a dyed-in-the wool
democrat, picked up the colored out
cast and attached him to his office.
This is only one of thousands of in
stances that have been occurring at
the north every day in the year. Only
the other day, at Minneapolis, the
American branch of the Ancient Or
der of Foresters wanted to sever its
connection with the English body be*
cause the latter insist? «u admitting
colored members,
In other words what is fashionable
at the north for white republicans to
do becomes a southern outrage if it
happens in the south—Constitution.
to the east.
Wife (tearful)—You’ve broken the
promise you made me!
Husband (kissing her)—Never
mind, iny dear, don’t cry ; I’ll make
you another,
Teacher—For what was tli
14475, remarkable, Tommy?
Tommy—Why, that’s the year
was horn,
year
.Mrs. Cuitiso—I see, John that some
people think Eve spoke French.
Mr. Cumso—I don’t know about
her language, but her costume was a
trifle Frenchy.
■Since 1800. the population of Eu
rope has just doubled itself. Then the
population was 175,000,000 ; in l.S.'iO,
210,000,000; in 1800, 289,000,000; in
1880, 331,000,000 ; in 1888, 350,000,-
000,
Spinning Cotton From tho Seed
Much interest is felt in the success
<»f the new invention of Mr. Allen, of
Tuscaloosa, Ala., which, it is claimed,
will spin cotton trom the seed, without
going through the process of ginning,
arranging the fibre, etc.
It is apparent that if this invention
proves successful, it will not only be
an important and valuable one in re
ducing the expens ■ of manufacturing
cotton, but it will hasten the transfer
of tile cotton mills of tin: country to
the cotton producing region, The
mills would then take the cotton
the seed, without ginning or baling.
1 lie transportation of seed cotton to
distance would be so heavy an expense
as to give a great advantage to mills
that could obtain it from their immed
iate neighborhood, to say nothing of
the superiority of lint that docs not
pass through the saws ot the gin.
We arc very hopeful of the success
ol Mr. Allen’s invention, and will
watch with much interest for reports
of further experiments with it.—At
lanta Journal
Mahone, has been nominated for
governor by the Virginia republicans.
And the democrats will smash the
“little boss” into smithereens. Billy
Malionc can’t carry Virginia. Not
much.
TheCityShoe Store,
(Mitchell House Block.)
Has just opened up
to the young and old
gents the handsomest
line of shoes ever of
fered in our city, in
all styles, from the
narrowest to the wid
est lasts. Patent
leather shoes, hand
some line of gents’
toilet slippers and
full line of ladies’,
misses’ and children’s
shoes.
Mitchell House Block.
And Edison lias been made a count.
Well, that docs not. make him more
ac-eount. Edison is a bigger man
than the ellctc monarch who conferred
the title.