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AS USUAL, Our New Prills AND Fancy Dress GINGHAMS Ai'c acknowledged to be the handsomest in the city. They are selling rapidly, especially those splendid patterns we offer at 8c a, Yard. Plaice your selections before they arc picked over too much. Our Fancy Ribbons ;i INCHES WIDE, Which we arc offering at the marvelously low price of 25g a Y ard, Arc the talk of the town. If you have not seen them yet, it will pay you to call at once and inspect them. Kor lO ets. We will sell you a beautiful Ladies’ Union Linen Kern- si itched HaiulJ'erehicf, which is certainly the best value over offered in Thomasvillo. For 5 cents You can buy a nice colored bordered handkerchief, plenty good enough for the children to lose at school. IN JERSEYS We have an elegant all wool Saxony wove Jersey at the as tonishingly low figure of #1.00, Never before sold for less than one dollar and fifty cents. These are but a few of the plums we have in stock for our friends; and lots more to show, if you will just take the trouble to come and look at them. We intend to make things lively this season, and we have the goods and prices to do it with. We extend a cordial invita tion to all to visit our establish ment, whether you buy or not. We are always glad to sec you and show you what we have. 132 MtOAD ST. The Piedmont Exposition. Atlanta’s great show, the riedmont Exposition, as most of our readers are probably aware, opens on Octo ber 7th, and closes November 2nd, 1880. All who ntlended last year will have some idea of what the ex position is, but the management assure the public that it will be far superior to the last one. They say that it will be better and larger than ever before, more counties will contend for the premiums, and more cattle and horses will be displayed. It will bo a finer exposition in every sense. The display of fire-works will be the largest and finest ever seen in America. The two largest tire-works firms in the world will contend ns to who shall win the championship of the world, and the world will he ran sacked for novelties in fire. Each of these firms will be paid 82,500. per night, and the gorgeousness of the display was never defore equalled. The Wild West show, with its two hundred Indians and cow-boys, with all their tents, ponies, horses and wild animals, coaches and emigrant wagons, will be the most drawing card ever seen in the South. This will be free to all visitors' to the ex position. It is a perfect picture of western life. Tho Indians will live in their tents and have their dances and sports just as on thfc plains. The exhibitions of riding, fighting and shooting, accompanying (his, surpass a circus in interest. The racing will bo better than be fore, and fifteen thousand doilnrs have been offered in prizes, and three men are*now traveling all over the coun try to secure the best horses. The railroad rates will be as low as ever, on two days in each week a cent rate will be charged on every road, and from every point. For points under 150 miles in will bo a cent rate each way, that is, a man nt, a poiut 75 miles away, will pay 81,50 for the round trip. And fifty cents will be added for the admission coupon. Tickets will be good for five days. This applies to every road in tho South, and on other dnys the rate is 1A cents each way. Under 150 miles the price is 88.50 for the round trip, with fifty cents ndded for the fulmis- sion fee. Let our people make their arrange ments to attend in force. Prospect of a Deficit. The administration is becoming a little uneasy at the financial showing which it is making. In July the debt increased over 81,000,000, and in August over 8G,000,000. The in crease for the two months was 87.- 094,008. Under Secretary Fair- child’s management of the treasury department the debt was reduced, in July and August of last year, 811,- 401 974. This remarkable difference is causing comment, and enquiries are being made as to where the money has gone. There has been no falling ufl in the revenue. On the contrary, there was an increase in the receipts of revenue last July over the previous July of 8500,000. One explanation is that Commis sioner Tanner has been making heavy drafts on the treasury. In July and August he paid out 810,000,000 more than Commissioner Black did in the same months last year. .The appro priation for pensions for the present fiscal year is 882,750,700. At the rate at which Commissioner Tanner is distributing it the entire amount will be gone in five months.—News. — <■»■»■ Heavy Rains in Texas. Dai.i.as,Tex., Sept. 11.—Dispatches to-night to the News from all sections of north and northeast and northwest ern Texas, indicate general damage to crops and property, and dolay of traffic from floods occasioned by rains, which have fallen incessantly in that territory during the past week. There is hardly a railroad that is not obstructed by bridges being washed away, and some points have been cut off from outer communication for 48 hours. The damage to the cotton crop will be large. The rain shows no sign of abatement. NEWPORT SULPHUR SPRINGS. Chicago Capital to Make Things Hum In and Around Tallahassee. The Newport correspondent of the Wakulla Times has the following to say of the recent sale of the Newport Sulphur Springs property to Mr. Charles G. Wicker and associates: The old city of Newpoit, which in years past ranked as one of tlic lead ing business and pleasure places in this state, is again to rise, Phomix like, and take its position as one of the principal watering places in the Land of Flowers. Chas. G. Wicker A Co., of Chicago, Ill., have purchased from the Ladd Bros., of this place, several thousand acres of fine farming and timbered lands, including the famous Sulphur Springs, whose curative powers are wull known throughout tho stato. Mr. Wicker and his company have arranged to purchase an interest in the Leon Hotel at Tallahassee and in connection with that popular house will erect a 850,000 hotel at the springs at Newport. The aim of this wealthy company from the Western Metropolis, Is to run a branch road from the St. Marks road direct to the springs, so that the people ot Middle Florida and South Georgia, can have, as of old, the ben efit ot these celebrated waters, and receive first class accomodation during the summer months, while during the fall ami winter the doors of this cost ly structure will be thrown open to Northern and Western tourists, who are in* search of health, comfort and sport, and no spot in the Land of Flowers can excel Eastern Wakulla in furnishing these. Those who have visited our town the past few sum mers can hardly believe that in years past our population numbered soinc- .thing over 1,000, with a dozen lirst- clasa store?, several large warehouses, cotton press, saw mill, ft foundry, two hotels, churches, Masonic lodge, liv ery stable, turpentine distillery, and everything that brains and wealth Could produce; besides this, all the mercantile supplies for Middle Flori da and Savannah, Ga., .were landed per boat at fit, Marks or Newport, This information is given tho writer by old and reliable citizens who knew all about this place when in full bloom, and it must indeed he a pleasure for them to know that the old dead city Is again to bloom forth and- shine in great splendor. Wo hope the time is not far dis tant when Thomasvillo people can reach the above delightful place with in a couple of hours. Dpfttfi of Hon. S. S. Cox. . The noblest tribute at the bier of the "Lion of the North” was paid, not by orators and statemcn, but by bis long time friend and neighbor, the honest farmer who, gazing upon the kindly lace of the honored dead, exclaimed: “Daniel Webster! The world will be lonesome without you.” A rift ot sunshine, broad as the con tinent, seems blotted from the heavens in the announcement that ‘‘Sunset Cox is dead.” The south, especially, will mourn his untimely end—and so will all sec tions of the country. His keen wit, humor and eloquence, no less than the logic ot his facts, have turned aside many a shaft aimed at those who needed his friendship most, and few men of the present era will live longer in history. The skies will smile softly, and the | sun will set with a kindlier ray upon | the mound which shall cover the mor tal remains of Samuel Sullivan Cox.— Timcs-Union, Jacksonville. The south will sincerely mourn the death of Mr. Cox. He was, in many respects, without a peer. Albany Reaching out for Cordele. Albany, Ga , Sept. n.—A survey ing corps will leave this city to-morrow morning on the survey of the Albany and Cordele railroad. L. W. Roberts, tonnerly chief engineer of the Macon and Covington road, has the survey in charge. A road from here to Cor- delc is considered of vast importance, and no doubt will he built in the near future. Stranger (stopping over Sunday in Kansas City)—‘‘Sir, can you direct me to the ball grounds ?” Resident— “Cert’nlv. There’s Dr. Dewitt’s con gregation coming out; just follow the crowd.” The Atlanta and Florida. From tlio Americas, (!u,, liocortler. President R. F. Maddox, ol tire above named railroad, has an inter- vied in Friday’s Constitution, in which he says some very interesting things. As some of our people own stock in this road, and as the road has, and may yet, threaten the commer cial interests of Amerieus, it maybe interesting to briefly note what Mr. Maddox says. , The road has a debt of about 8000,- 00O. It is proposed to issue that amount of twenty year 0 per cent bonds to envoi- this debt, and then issue 8100,000 terminal bonds to ex tend the road until it reaches some point where connection can be made with another line, or in some way- get an outlet for their road. As it is, it is conceded by everybody that the road is now bottled up. In this connection it may he inter esting to know that when Mr. Mad dox was trying to place the bonds last summer, to pay the 801)0,000 floating debt, he found that northern capitalists had heard of such a hill as the Olive hill, and were not inclined to trust their money in railroad bonds of a state which would pass or ap prove such hills —hence the bonds could not he sold. And yet when the Olive hill was first proposed, he was warmly in favor of it, hut we must do him the justice to say he has repented of his ways, and now ac knowledges the evil of such a hill. In our opinion, and one that we have held since the Imilding of the Atlanta and Florida road was begun, it could solve the riddle of its destiny by extending the road to Amerieus. Here it would find a city with an im mense freight traffic, (hut few cities in Georgin have a heavier traffic) an independent road that connection ,oould he made with, so that every part of Georgia could he reached, and a direct outlet (and a competitive one, mind you) to two of the best ports on the southern coast, What more could it ask for? By going to Cordele it ci^ld only reach the same road and a non com petitive port (for the Central can, at its own will close fiavamiah at any time to the Savannah, Americas and Montgomery road.) True, it would connect with the Georgia Southern at Cordele, but it would virtually do the same at Amerieus, as the Savau- ’nah, Amerieus and Montgomery has truffle arrangements with the Geor gia Southern and Florida, and the heavy freight traffic Amerieus would give it, would more than counter balance the odd sixty miles it would add to its Florida route, By reaching Americas the Atlanta and Florida would then compete with the Cential from Jacksonville, Fla,, and make it a strong line fur business from New York and eastern cities to Atlanta, and this point it cannot gain—and reach the centre of trade of southwest Georgia—by extending to any other city than Amerieus." Thomasvillo should keep an eye on the extension of this road. She can and does offer solid advantages for a connection in this portion of the State. Convulsions of Nature. Mammoth Hot Simuxus, Yellow stone Park, Sept. 11.—During the past twenty-four hours there have been great convulsions of nature, and a subterraneous commotion was followed by tremendous explosions of gas and steam in the upper geyser basin. As a result, ail the system is in active out break, the large geysers being espe cially demonstrative. The Giant and Giantess are in furious activity, as are many others which have long Iain dormant and were supposed to have been extinct. Scientists explain that all of this outburst is directly traceable to and connected with the atmospheric and sub-marine demonstrations of the great storm that prevailed along the Atlantic coast simultaneously yester day. Aii’Age of Aluminum. A Pittsburg company is turning out about 1,000 pounds of aluminum a month by a newly invented Ameri can process which reduces the cost largely below what was necessary in the production of the metal by the use of sodium. The cost is still too great, however, to allow the use ot aluminum in large quantities for the common purpose for which iron is employed. It can hardly he douhted, however, that tho cheapening process will go on, and will he immensely accelerated by the growth of a demand for the metal. Its cost has heretofore prevented its use tor many purposes for which it is pre-eminently fitted. When this objection is removed, alum inum will doubtless become as well known as iron and steel. But the scarcity of the metal in a form in which it could he used has caused its good qualities to he ex aggerated. It has been represented as harder anil tougher than steel, as well as lighter—as possessing all the good qualities of other metals as well as its own peculiar and valuable prop erties. In fact, the tensile strength of aluminum is less than that of wrought iron, and it is utterly unfit ted for many purposes lor which iron and steel arc .used. Hut it is endowed with many remarkable properties. It is the lightest of metals, while possess ing considerable tenacity and hard ness, being about two and a half times as heavy as an equal volume of water. Taking aluminum as a standard, iron is three times as heavy, copper, 3.0; silver, 4,0; lead, 1.8; gold, 7.7. The metal has a beautiful white color with a slight blue tint, and will take a very high polish, retaining this polish without discoloration or oxidization, as the metal is unaffected by the at mosphere and that great enemy of silver, sulphur, which is so largely present in the atmosphere of cities. The vegetable acids, such as strong vinegar, have no *fi’eet on the metal, hut the alkalies will slowly attack and dissolved the metal if it is left expos ed to their action. Light, tough, beautiful in color and exempt from rust, the uses to which aluminum could he put are almost innumerable. Every bank of clay is a deposit of the metal, and nothing is wanting but a method of cheap ex traction to start the world on the period of aluminum in succession to the period of steel. What great changes in the industrial world ami the distribution of wealth the discov ery of such a method might etlcet!— Telegraph. Two Grand Army Incidents- The late meeting of the G. A. R. occasioned at least two unpleasant in cident.-. Corporal Tanner told the veterans that the pensions ho was issuing would cause many of the widows of their dead comrades to retain their purity and virtue.. Such a senti ment as this of course caused the decent G. -V- R. men much indigna tion. Corporal Tanner could not have offered a greater insult to tho assem bled veterans than was expressed in the remark which has been attributed to him. Then, General Sherman insulted an old soldier who offered to shake hands with hint. The indignation created by this act on the part of the old in cendiary was afterwards plainly man ifested. General Sherman entered a ear crowded with veterans. The por ter announced his arrival, but not a veteran stirred and the general was forced to look for a seat like any or dinary individual. Sherman and Tanner area precious pair. The one an incendiary and in- suiter of honest men, and the other preaching that the pensions lie gives preserves the virtue of the widows of dead soldiers.—Enquirer-Sun, D'any state in the Union lias a de sire to change its name that state cer tainly ought to be Mon-Tanner.—New Yew World. $5.00 PEE ASTNTJM To the Front. AS ALWAYS, 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. IMitcliell House Block