The Daily times-enterprise. (Thomasville, Ga.) 1889-1925, September 04, 1889, Image 1
VOL 1-NO 07.
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“Scncx” Takes a Whack at the Park.
Tiiomasvim.k, Ga., Sept. 2,1889,
Emtok Times-Enterpiuse:
By reference to your columns I sec
you permit both sides of the bond
question to be heard. Will you allow
me to be heard also ? I have some
interest in the town, and I desire to
present my views of the question.
First, is it wise for the corporation
to buy the park property at this time?
The town has on hand an unfinished
water works and sewerage system. It
will cost big money to finish the water
works so that each citizen can have
access to the water.
The work on the sewer is just begun,
if the town intends to let every citi
zen have a chance to use the sewer
I understand the proceeds of the
sale of bonds already issued has been
exhausted, and yet there is great work
comparatively not begun. The hotels
hnve made connections with the main
sewer, and not a dozen citizens have
done so; and more than onc-lmlf of
the lots now occupied could not con
licet with the present system of sewers
if so the owners desired to do. The
property holders on the west side of
the town cannot cross the ridge on
which IIroad street is located, if they
so desire. Then, to meet the wants
of other part® of the town, 'another
main sewer will have to ]jo construct
ed, say in or along thc.btanch which
runs by the railroad depot. Let the
two sewers connect northwest of the
town. Now it will take thousands to
perfect the system of sewers so that
all the citizens can have the benefit
thereof.!
When the town authorities com
menced the system of sewerage it was
alleged that it was for the health of
the town that made it necessary. To
continue to bury the filth of the town
would certainly produce typhoid fe
ver. This I believe then, and still
believe. Now, which would bo the
part of wisdom, to preserve the health
of the citizens or to cater to their
pleasure or the pleasure of the winter
vistors of the town? Common sense
will ’settle it. The people must de
cide. . .
The other question is this: Is it the
part of fairness to fix- the park on the
south side of the town, where only
about one third of the citizens could
enjoy it, and then tax all the others to
pay for it? Hut fix it as you will,
there will be many "t the citizens
who cannot enjoy it, yet such will be
taxed annually to pay the interest on
the bonds, and taxed at maturity of
the bonds to pay the principal. All
the real estate lying within the radius
of one mile of the court house, is tax
able, under the charterof the town;
and if any of said real estate is ncj.
taxed it is because tlic sharp eyes of
the town officers cannot find it.
Now, here is a poor widow living
near the opposite limits of the town,
and cJn but occasionally sec the park,
much less go there and enjoy it, be
cause her days and parts of her nights
are devoted entirely to constant efiort
to support herself and children. She
has no other property but the little
home. Is it right to tax that widow's
little home to furnish a park for those
who have leisure to bask in its sun
shine? No! No!! •
Senex.
For the Tim Es-KxTKnrnisK.
SYLVAN SONGS.
Sweet the song-bird's note.', hut baton,
While n gently moving breeze
Soemeth like n thoughtful spirit
Holding converse with the trees;
Dr a magic voice chanting
Softly all among the trees.
Listen where the towering poplar
Ami the oak ami maple .stand,
Decked with summer crown and mantle,
And by summer zephyrs fanned;
As they touch the pliant brandies,
Thrilling the responsive leave.*;
Hear the floating trills of music,
Sounding there among the trees.
Listen where the lightsome wind-waves
To a burthened tone iiujfctc.
As they lave and rock the branches
Of the cedar or the pine.'
Mingled with what seemeth sighing,
Music’s sylvan strains are there;
Spirit-wakening, mystic accents,
Softly sounding through the air.
Mother Earth, thou art the singer,
Wenripg thy fair veil of green.
Never old and never weary,
Though thy circled years have been
Thousands; thou art ever singing,
Songs so earnest, sweet and l«iw:
Thought uplifting, soul refreshing,
Sylvan songs, so sweet and low.
• * M. V.S..
Livingston and the Farmers-
From (lie Augustn Kvi ning Xnr;.
The re-election of President Living
ston of the Farmers’ alliance in Macon
without opposition places him at the
head of the farmers’ movement
Georgia, and makes him llieir real
leader if they shall decide to contest
for political influence or office. It is
known that Mr. Livingston aspires to
the governorship, and that he has been
on a still hunt tor some time, and his
unanimous re-clcclion on yesterday
If he docs take hold, farewell to
Norlhen’s chances, for the. alliance
lias a great deal more influence and
more numbers also than the State
agricultural society. And it is thought
almost certain that President Living
ston will be 1n the race. He is
shrewd and wise, however - , and wifi
hide his time and not announce him
self until the right tinje. He and the
other aspirants arc laughing in their
sleeves at Colonel Northcn, for they
know very well that he will wear him
self out before the campaign opens
and be a dead issue long before the
election.
Yes, the Farmers’ alliance and not
the Agricultural .society will dictate
the farmers’ wishes and name the
farmers’ candidate, and it looks like it
will he Livingston and not Northcn
will win the hayseed votes in the next
campaign.
Oppose^ To the Alliance Going Into
Politics.
A correspondent of the Daily Jimcs,
Savannah, writing from Atlanta, says:
There is a good ileal of political
talk going on around the legislature
in a quiet way. As predicted in the
Times several weeks ago, Col. Lon.
Livingston is in the field forgovernor,
and with his official connection with
the Farmers' Alliance, he proposes to
make an act've campaign. Every
body who knows this ambitious politi
cian have looked for his entrance into
the field, and knew it was only a mat
ter of a short time.
Hon. W. S, Northcn will divide
“honors” with Livingston from an Al
liance standpoint.
Those who think that Northcn and
Livingston are going to make a politi
cal machine out of the Farmers’ Al
liance are greatly mistaken, if what
some of the more prominent and con
servative member? of this organization
tell me is true.
The sentiment among the more con
servative alliance men who arc in the
Legislature is to keep it out of polities.
They know that the organization will
he very short-lived if it is to he used
as n political cat’s paw, for a few so-
called farmers who arc in the organi
zation for the loaves and fishes.
A prominent Senator and alliance
man, who represents a Southwest
Georgia district, told your correspond
ent, a few days ago, that the alliance
people in this section were dead
against the organization being thrown
into politics. “We arc a conservative
people in our section,” said he, “and
we can see no reason why any man
should announce himself a candidate
for Governor and assume that support
simply because' we believe in the prin
gives him the reins of the Farmers’
alliance, if he chooes ^
pose to have our alliance principles
have anything to do with who is to bo
the next Governor.”
A Natural Genius.
Visiting'the manfactoryof Snodgrass
A Smith on yesterday we were much
interested in some very pretty work
being done there. They have just
turned out some very handsome turned
columns for the Hank of Valdosta,
which arc beauties, and we learn that
young Arthur Snodgrass was the
workman who did it. He is a natural
mechanic, and has, ever since he was
quite a small lad, had an inclination
for mechanics. In the office we saw
a really ingenious machine of his in
vention, which we think worthy of a
patent. It is the most simple, at the
same time effective and easily and
quickly operated letter press we ever
saw. Messrs. Snodgrass & Smith are
doing a fine milling business, both in
the wood-working and grain line.
The Daily Toothpick.
From the Boston Herald.
“Do you know,” saida physician
to a Herald man yesterday, “that the
great American habit of toothpick-
chewing is resposible lor a very large
number of human ills? If you have
noticed these things much you have
onserved that a good many people
who take their meals at restaurants
or hotels cat and rush out immedi
ately afterward to business, snatch on
their way a toothpick, sometimes
sacral of them, and thrust the little
wooden spears in the nioijth. In nine
cases out ot ten they don't use the
toothpick quickly and as a matter of
business, hut they retain it in the
mouth after all necessity lor its func
tions has ceased. They chew on it
and wobble it about under the jaws,
and finally the piece of wood is re
duced to a ragged pulp, and then
it is usually cast away. Very fre
quently small particles of the wood
are swallowed, and I know one man
who was in the habit of eating his
toothpick. I became acquainted with
him beause he wanted me to give him
something to heal his stomach, which
was really in a lacerated condition.
The small particles of wood that are
swallowed frequently lodge in the walls
of the stomach somewhere and induce
gastric disturbance. I know several
cases which proved fatal,"
A Now Material.
A compnritively new material in
building is adamant wall plaster, and
it produces a hard and practically in
destructible wall.
Three years ago it was alihost un
known, but to-day it is considered an
essential material in all good buildings,
and is manufactured in twenty-one
factories.
Thu adamant is as hard as marble
and cannot lie chipped by chair backs,
furniture corners or slamming doors.
Even a partition door-knob thrown
against a wall constructed of adamant
will notbrenklit. A nail driven in it will
hold rs well as if driven into timber,
and a hole can be bored through it
the same as through wood.
It does not take an age to dry, but
within twenty-four hours after it has
been spread the walls arc solid and
hard,
The adamant comes In kegs and is
ready to he used when water is added
to it. It adheres to the lath itself and
cannot lie removed without great
force. Painters can do as good work
with two coats of paint on adamant
as tiioy can do with five on- ordinary
work. Adamant costs but a few cents
more per pound than good lime plas
tering and will save weeks time in the
building' of tiny house, This fact
alone makes it worth more than the
difference.
Look at some of the parties who in
dorse it in Atlanta:
Brown & Morgan, E. G. Lind, J.
G. Thrower, Gustave Leo, A. Me.
Nixon, who have used it practically
and can verify the above statements.
Mr. W' B. Milii, whose opinion on
such matters is law in Georgia, in
dorses it without reserve.
A company is now being formed to
oporatc the stato of Georgia and to
place a factory in Atlanta.
Atlanta’s well-known encouragement
of good manufacturing enterprises
will be a guarantee that the Georgia
Adamant Plaster Co. will locate its
plant within her hospitable limits.—
Constitution.
COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS.
CouNctr. Room, )
Tjio.masviu.k, Ga., Sept. i. (
Regular session of council. Mayor
Hopkins presiding. Aldermen I Iaycs,
Wright, Mitchell, Jerger and Merrill
present.
Minutes last meeting read and con
firmed.
Petition ol W. C. Pittman to enlarge
his warehouse referred to committee
on fire department.
On motion of Alderman Wright the
finance committee was authorized to
borrow two thousand dollars for the
city, and the Mayor and clerk were in
structed to make note for same to fall
due December i, 1SS9.
Mayor Hopkins called Mr. Merrill
to the chair and offered the following,
which was adopted, viz:
Whereas, the question whether the
city will purchase the park, now held
under lease from Mr. S. Alex. Smith,
will he determined at an election to be
held Sept. 20th. And, whereas, many
of the citizens of the city favor said
purchase with the condition that no
money be expended in permanent im
provements.
Thcrclorc, Resolved, that this coun
cil hereby place itself upon record that
in the event of the purchase of said
park, it will pass an ordinance prohib
iting the appropriation of any money
of the city for said improvements until
such time as the system of sewerage
and water, and the street lights have
been extended to answer the reasona
ble requirements of the city, and the
finances of the city will permit the
same without detriment to cither of
the three subjects mentioned.
Resolved, That this resolution and
said ordinance shall not apply to do
nations made by individuals for the
purpose of improving said park.
On motion of Alderman Wright,
Mayor Hopkins and Aldermen Hayes
and Merrill were appointed a commit
tee to offer the lot on Broad and Mad
ison streets, between the old white
cemetery and old colored cemetery to
the county for jail lot at a price not
less than $s,ooo.
• Dr. McIntosh was present and made
some suggestions to council, and he
was authorized to carry them out.
Marshal Spair was instructed to
repair crossings on streets where ncccs
sary.
Following account ordered paid:
A. S. Goff $7.00; John Miller $142.00;
W. II. Henderson $18.00; Beverly &
Bro.S2.55; Griffin & Sturdivant $29.80
A. S. Silverbcrg $25.00; B. I’. Walker
$5.00; Thoniasvilic Ironworks $2.to;
II. R. Cooke & Bro., $0.25; Mitchell
& McIntyre $38.38.
Council adjourned.
K. T. McLean, Clerk.
To the Froflt
AS ALWAYS, ’
IN THE LEAD.
The extra session still hangs fire.
Shoot it off.
The Secret of Aerial Travel.
Referring to the sad fate of l’rotcssor
Hogan, who lost his life in attempting
to navigate the Campbell aerial vessel,
illustrated in these columns a few
weeks ago, some one says :
When human ingenuity can match
the product of nature; when it can
make a machine possessing as much
power and endurance to the ounce of
weight as that of the homing pigeon
which lately (lew from Detroit to Buf
falo (225 miles) in less than four
hours; when it can so arrange and
automatically shift a series of vanes
like shifting leathers in a hawk’s
wings, which suspended it in the air
lor hours almost without apparent
motion, when it can solve the problem
of how this same hawk drops like a
bullet from the dazzling height of a
half mile, and checks itself unharmed
above its prey, then it may learn to
travel in the air.- -.Scientific Ameri
can.
Messrs. Hardy and Mack Paulk
have already marketed upward of thir
ty-five bales ofjeotton, at an average of
iol, per lb. These young men are
among the leading farmers ol the
county; indeed we may say in the
state. Tney marketed last year up
ward of one hundred bales of cotton
and made corn and other things in
proportion. This year they expect
about one hundred and fifty bales.—
Cairo Record.
A system of building houses entirely
ot sheet iron has been communicated
to the Society of Architecture in Paris.
The walls, partitions, roofs, and wain
scoting arc composed of double me
tallic sheets, separated by an air mat
tress, which is surrounded by different
non-conductors of heat.—Ex.
The City ShoeiStore,
(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
lull line of ladies’,
misses’ and children’s
shoes.
Mitchell House Block.