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VO!, 1-NO 102. TEI0MASV1LLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 10, '8S1> So.00 PER ANNUM CLOSING OUT -ODK ENTIRE STOCK OF— White Goods HAMBURGS, * oftirtac^aig^t.y wtiftwrrtwiy a***”* 1 n—^wit«Hwr, ir4m —AND— REGARDLESS OF COST. They Most Bo, Look out for a stun ner next week. i F.N WHEN? From tlio Iti< Innnnd Dispatch. WIicii tlio lion cals gnus lik Aiul tin* fialiin^ worm swallows the wlinlr; When terrapins knit woolen socks And the Imre is outrun by the snail; Wlini serpent? walk upright ns men And doodle bugs travel like frogs; When the grasshopper feeds on the hci And feathers are fond upon hogs: When Thomas cats swim in the air; And elephants roost upon trees; When insects in summer arc rare And snuff never makes people sneeze When fishes creep over dry land And mules on velocipedes ride When foxes lay eggs in the sand And women in dre.-s take no pride: When Dutchmen no longer drink beer And girls get to preacing on time When Hilly goats butt from the rear And treason no longer is crime; When the humming bird brays like the ass And potato bugs sing like the lark; When plowshares are made out of glass And fleas can be caught in the dark; When gas metres cease to tell lies And the cow jumpeth over the moon; When Yankees forsake puuipin pics And the dish runneth after the spoon: When streams to their fountains flow hat: And limburger smells like cologne; When the skin of the white man turns blit And the hearts of Virginians to stone; Not till then will they follow the track Of thy treachery—Hilly Mnhone. Tobacco Culture in Gadsden County Florida—An Interesting Letter. Editor Times Enterprise: In this article I will endeavor to give your readers some idea of the amount of capital and labor that is being used in the cultivation and our ing of the fragrant weed, in Gadsden county alone. I will begin with the syndicate, as they are by far the Iarg, est producers of tobacco in the State, Two years ago, a company of New York capitalists sent an ag«!bt down hero to look at the country, its quality if they wero satisfied that fine cignr tobacco could he grown here. 'The result of their investigation was the purchase of several large plantations, aggregating about ten or twelve thou sand ncrcs of land. One of these plantations lies in full view of Quincy, and runs within 500 yards of the town This place is known us Bit 'I tn Clara Plantation, and is the largest of all their farms. Four miles west of Quincy is T.a Cn Ilona, a largo tobac co plantation. Five miles east is I.a Violeta, and eight miles northeast of Quincy is I.a Camelia, making four largo plantations owned nnd cultivated in tobacco by the syndicate and their overseers. Jt is estimated that very near two thousand acres were, set out in tobacco alone on these plantations, and a great many more would have been set out if the dry weather in the spring had not destroyed so many of the young plants. Some idea can he formed of the immense amount of la bor required on those farms, when you take into consideration the fact that cv< ry one of these yoilng plants have to he carefully reset in rows, out on the difTckcut fa,uw, Next to the syndicate, comes the farms of Carl Voght it Sons, also of New York. They own two or three good farms, hut arc cultivating only one in to'iiu-eo at prpsept. They plant from 100 to 150 acroe in tobacco. These gentlemen, like those of the syndicate, are growing tobacco for their own cigar factory, in New York. Messrs. Schrocder it Hon, of New York, also have a nice tobacco farm, one mile from town. Then, in addi tion to these, nearly every farmer has from five to twenty acres in tobacco, which makes the acreage in tobacco alone, in this county, somewhere near ten thousand acres. As a general thing; the tobacco crop throughout the county is considered good, in fact considerably above an average. North of Quincy, and in view of the town, lies a splendid plantation, formerly known as the Dupont place, but now known as "Alsace Planta tion.’’ This farm contains twelve or thirteen hundred acres of rich, rolling laud, and well adapted to tobacco cul ture. It was purchased last year by Mr. George Storm, of New York, for the sum of ten thousand dollars cash. It is n magnificent plantation, and Mr. Storm has spoilt thousands of dol lars in improvements, and in many ways added to the beauty of the place. He has had a beautiful circular road cut out oil the place, of about two mile in circumference, and had the high hillH cut down and the valleys filled up, and it is now a nice driving place for the elite of Quincy, as well as for himself. In addition tn this, Mr. Storm has had twenty-three nice houses built around and on this circular road. Those houses are nicely painted, and contain five rooms each, with an up stairs, underpinned with brick, good brick chimneys, ten large glass win dows, and well built, at. a cost of six hundred dollars each, by contract, making nearly fourteen thousand-dol lars for the houses alone. These houses are occupied by Alsatians, who came direct from Alsace, last winter, to Quincy. They have from live to ten acres of tobacco to each family, and as a general thing, have very good crops of tobacco. Mr. *S. is one of the largest stockholders in the syn dicate property, and owns "Alsace" separate nnd apart from the syndicate lands. It is indeed a rare treat to ride through Alsace plniiMition, and then right over on to f-aiita Clara planta tion, (there two plantations lie broad side to each other) and take in the beautiful views that ran he seen so frequently from the tops of the hills which abound all through this section One of these scenes is iudcliihly im pressed upon my memory. It was in March, ’R8. I had the pleasure of seeing this grand and enchanting pic ture, direct from Nature’s hand. Out mensc new ground had had the trees cut and rolled in large heaps, ready for the mutch. Late one afternoon your correspondent was viewing the surrounding hills from the window of a tall hnrn, when lie heard the voices of many of Africa’s Sons and daugh ters, singing nnd whooping, and then looking to the South, I saw that they were firing the hundreds of huge log heaps aluj piles of brush in that large field. In a lew minutes the scene was one that beggars description. All over that high hill, were large heaps of fire, nnd as the smoke ascended up ward, and the voices of the hundreds of laborers could he heard, it seemed almost like an enchanted spot. To the right, lay Quincy, in lull view, yet two miles away, with a quiet, dreamy appeiifftngp, nnd over in the west, was the grand and glorious sun. slowly disappearing behind the lofty hills, as if it was loth to leave a scene so lull of grandeur. In the presence of these lofty hills, appearing as they must have appeared in the morn c f creation, how insignificant one feels himself, ns he reflects upon his weakness and inconsistency, ns compared to the strength aiu| si.'tbiliiy of iiies,, iiilis. I intended, wlicu f started this nr tide, to say somethingnbout the mode ; tnl(1 t | lov ;m , f preparing land and planting tobne- j am | ’ rei „ij, t „ respond co, but I will have to leave that for another time. Yours truly, I. W. .1, Quincy, Fla., .Sept, 5, 188f), A Family Reunion of tlio Hursts. Just three miles west of Ochloeko- nce, Thomas county, the venerable Mrs. Maria Hurst lives with her grand children at tlio farm homestead of her son-in-law, the late John De- klc. He was known ns Little John Dekle, to distinguish him from two kinsmen, John and ‘Long John.’ The farm is now in charge of her grand-sons, ofj whom the kind heart ed Mr. Ira Dekle is the senior. Last Friday there was a reunion of the large family to celebrate the 75th anniversary of her birthday. She was born in North Carolina, lint lias lived in Thomas county more than forty years. Her husband, John W. Hurst, died in ISIS. She has had seven children, live of whom are liv ing; forty-six grand-children, of whom thirty live are living, and seventy great-grand children ; of whom fifty- two are living. It was a rare sight to look upon the hale and cheerful ancestress of a posterity of one hundred and twenty- three. people, ninety-two of whom are living. What a charming picture b> see her surrounded by a family gath ering of eighty-live. Her three sons, I lev. G. T. Hurst, of Cairo, Kev. \V. E. Hurst, ol this county, and Mr. W. A. Hurst, of the Hotel Georgia, are all strong active men and were all present !nt the reunion. With tears of joy the mutlier received the em braces oflier loved ones. The older ones talked of other days while the younger ones romped all about or gathered around the organ to join in grateful songs. The writer was an invited guest as the old pastor, of a large portion of the family, and to them lie is indebted for one of the most delightful days of his life. The children and grand children had prepared a sumptuous nnd boun tiful dinner which was spread on a long tablo under the large nnd shady grape arbor. The writer was called upon to preside, and at the close of the repast, he arose with a glass of water in hand and said: A great poet lias said, “The noblest work of God is man.” That is true, hut the sweetest work of God is woman, who weet as a wife, sweeter as a mother and sweeter still ns a grand mother. With this water, the heaven horn beverage our grand mother Evcilrank in Paradise, I propose a toast to the mother of all these children.” I!cv. G. T. Hurst., the eldest of the ,-ums, was called upon to reply which lie did most appropriately and gave good advice to the younger members of the family. The next toast was to the “grafted member.: of the Ilurst family,” to which a most graceful response was made by Professor Glenn, of Cairo who is also editor of the Cairo ion-uni and whose lovely wife is one of tin graud children. His congratulation to “grandma” were very touching Among other good, things ha said ' The Hursts, like other people, nun have their faults, hut one thing i.- TO USE THE 24-HOlJR SYSTEM. By 1391 Ail Railroads Will Run According to It. Said a well known railroader to day : “Railroads all over the South are interested in I lie 24 hour notation system, and next year may sec it in general use. "I5y degrees a uniformity in rail mailing in America is being adopted, and when the railroad system is uni form on railroads North and South, the 24-hour nolatio.i may lie inaug- urnled. At a meeting held in New York u shofl time ago the question was thoroughly discussed, nnd in- qnines were sent out all over the country to the general managers and presidents of all railroads, asking their views, and, if favorable to the system, to state when they consider an opportune time, to inaugurate it. ‘•‘The 21 hour system is a new tiling in tlie South, and, in fact, in all parts of the country south ot the border of Camilla, where the new system is in operation. It is prov ing immensely popular in Canada. The system dispenses with.the use of a. in., ami p. m. Instead of repeat ing the time in the afternoon the mu.i itimic lul is, when it is L'liu'k i). m. by the present time it lie by till' new time Io’clock nod n liil 21 o'clock, which is 12 irk ai night by the present time, reached. Then the time begins n at I o'clock. By this method the twenty-four hours are measured and a!I repetition is avoided. Railroad dispatchers in Canada lire finding this method to he invaluable railroad men say. There is now no cause for an improper or an obscure order to he given, nud there is never an occasion to mistake a. m. for p. m. Several years have been devoted to efforts to get up a system of more un ilbrmily than the present system. So many errorslinvc been made by dis patchers in giving orders, and so many terrible wrecks, telescoping of trains, etc., have resulted therefrom, that the railroad men all over the country see the great necessity of a system obviat ing the complexity of the present time system. Many of them believe that the 24 hour notation system is the requisite, nnd must necessarily displace the present time system.” To the Front AS ALWAYS, kind hearted tin Three Signs The first sign that a couple are in love, is when they tell each oilier their troubles.—Omaha World. The first sign that a couple are married, if the event is o| very recent date, is to sec a (lush of indignation and manful resentment sweep across the groom's face, when a fly alights on the bride’s butter. If the event dates back some lime, the first sign is, it the couple are on the street, to see the man carrying his umbrella so that the water drips down his wife’s back- -': i lien Russell has been promoted to a 'General” out in Ohio. The balance of the party are all colonels. IJcn must fee! lonesome, being the only General in the party. suffering The next toast was p, the ''grafted ieiiu'ilo luemliers of the family,” ami tite writer in response said, “It is a notorious fact that the Hursis can out marry any men in this country where the women are all better than tlie men." A remarkable coincidence among tlio grand sons-in-law is tliat four of them, Mr. Win. Bulloch, of Thomas county, Mr. Julius God bold, of Mitch ell, Mr. J, 11. Whstetield, of Ocala, Fla., and Mr. James I'inum, of Gainesville, Ga., all married Dekle sisters, and though not at all related hv blood, yet all resemble each other, everyone have a hale, ruddy complex ion ami a long mustache: are about the same age, and there is not a dif ference of two pounds in theirweight. . 1 hoy mm t all show up the same nuiu- j dealt very kindly with me, and 1 quict- ber ol children, however. It is hard j !v await the silent call front time to to find four more handsome men with ■ eternity. 1 am thankful that I can prettier wives. look gratefully upon the past and 1 he Clarion congratulates the hap- serenely upon tlie future. Life has py family, si-tuls a “God bless you” to j had but one sorrow for me, and that to the old mother, and returns thanks i is the death of my husband, and I view for many kindnesses. The day will ] that sorrow with a Christian's resign.!- never be forgotten.—Camilla Clarion.! tion.’ Elsctricity in the United States. According to reliable reports, there arc at present 3,351 isolated electric lighting plants and central stations in tlie United States alone, operating 192,500 arc and 1,925.000 incandes cent lights each night. There are cam enables of 359,395 horse power used for electric lighting The capital invested m tile Aincricon electric light ing companies during the past half year lias been increased to the extent < f 832,210,ico. In April last there were m tlie United States 59 electric railways, with 309 miles of track,oper uting 330 motor cars, and utilizing a!-out 8,000 horse power for stationary engines, l-'orty-r.ir.e new roads were in i-'i t.ruary la-.l being built, having a total ol 189 miles of track and to use r ears. Client are also sev er lactones, some cf them employing as many as 1,200 men.— Scientific American. The widow of President IViik cele brated her 86th birthday last Wednes day at her home in Nashville. To a friend who wished that she might be spared many years to come, she said: "I realize that your kind wish must fail. 1 am reminded that my course of life lias nearly been run, and that soon I must pass beyond the river. 'Chi s realization lias no terrors for me. I am content to hear the final summons, when it may. Providence lias The City Shoe 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.