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VOL, 1 —NO 10S.
THOMASVILLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 17, 1880
$5.00 PER ANNUM
AND
GINGHAMS
Arc acknowledged to be the
handsomest in the city. They
are selling rapidly, especially
those splendid patterns we offer
at
8e a Yax'd.
Make your selections before
they are picked over too much.
Our Fancy Ribbons
3 INCHES.WIDE,
Which we are olt'ering at the
marvelously low price ol
S5c a YarcL,
Are the talk of the.town. If
you have not seen them yet, it
will pay you to call at once
and inspect them.
For lO ets.
We will sell you a beautiful
Ladies’ Union Linen Hem
stitched Handkerchief, which
is certainly the best value ever
offered in Thomasvillo.
For 5 cents
You can lmv a nice colored
bordered handkerchief, plenty
good enough tor the children
to lose at school. •
i sum
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 fitly 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 conic 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 arc always glad to sec you
and show you what we have.
F. N. Lohnstein,
132 BROAD ST.
m
What Mr. Blackshoar Saw in the
West.
Timks-Enterprisk: The Atlanta
and other papers give you the news
from the Georgia farmers’ excursion,
but I presume you would like to hear
from your immediate representative.
It is certainly a very generous thing
in the Central R. R., of Georgia, to
tender two ot their best sleepers to the
press and farmers to make ibis tour.
Each man in the party has a berth to
himself, and we are as comfortable as
we would be at most any hotel. I do
not know of any road that would have
done up this thing so nicely as the old
Central of Georgia. As you are aware,
wc left Atlanta on the 31st of August,
and we took our first meal (supper) at
Boyce station, Tcnn. There wc struck
the .Cincinnati Southern, and after
supper our berths were made up and
party retired, to find ourselves next
morning at early dawn in Lexington,
Ky, having made during the night a
transition Irom wire grass to
blue grass — fine fields of corn,
oat and wheat ricks, large barns; fine
cattle and horses were to be seen on
every side from our car.
In a few hours wc were at the Ohio
river, and soon we rolled across and
were in Cincinnati. \Ve did up this
city the best we could in the two days
allowed, and struck out for Columbus,
the capitol of the slate. Our trip
began by going up the Little Miami
valley to Xenia, and from thence
across the country to our destination.
All along this Miami valley we went
through continuous small farms, rich
in fields of corn, the ‘grasses, clover
and fine stock ol all descriptions. It
looked, all along-, like one big farm
cut up into small ones. From Xenia
wc left the valley, went through a rich
level country, an-d were out .of one
farm into another the entire way, and
here the appearance of thrift was visi
ble on all side. On reaching Colum
bus our party were met by a committee
of her citizens, and the first thing was
to lake in the great Columbus buggy
establishment, the penitentiary and
the experimental farm, all of which is
a credit to the slate. This farm is
beautifully located, well laid out, and
I should say its appointments arc well
filled.. Wc had a talk from the su
perintendent and each officer, and it
was our general impression that the
right men had been found for their
respective places. The second day in,
Columbus we spent in looking around
the fair grounds.
The weather was not propitious, but
it seemed to me that everybody and
their cousins were there. There
were acres of ground devoted to ma
chinery, and all in operation, and the
general rush l-emtndcd me more of the
breaking up of a circus than anything
else. The displays-were very credita
ble, especially the stock show. I had
seen photographs of large domestic
animals, but.I could not realize that
they were such monsters. I saw a bull
that weighed 2 800 pounds and a
horse that weighed 2,350 pounds, all
well proportioned, and milk cows that
gave 8 gallons per day. The Colum
bus people were very attentive to our
party, and we left the -place with re
grets and thanks for every attention
shown us, to make our next stop at
Wellington. I will not forget to men
tion our journey from thence, which
took us through the same nice, level,
rich, well improved country, to which
we called your attention all along. At
Wellington we were met by a commit
tee of citizens and invited to the,hotel,
where a nice dinner was served, and
cigars after dinner, tendered all ol us
at their expense. After walking us
through some of the prettiest streets
and public buildings, wc were divided
out among the citizens to enjoy their
home hospitality during our entire
stay.
The next day our party were driven
around in carriages around the country
10 the numerous dairy farms, where
they make butter and cheese and raise
calves and pigs on the butter-milk
and whey. The butter and cheese is
put in cold storage and can be sold at
pleasure. The lands in the slate of
Ohio are all day, so far as I have
seen, and susceptible of the greatest
improvement. The farms arc all small
and the farmers all keep stock and
make a great deal ol manure, and with
this and clover they keep up the fer
tility of the soil, not forgetting to ro
tate their crops and to rest a part of
their land every year. I am sure this
is partly the cause of their success.
Our parly left Wellington with regret,
and the people lollowcd us to the
depot as though they were bidding
adieu to dear friends.
Our stay in Cleveland was spent
simply in riding around the beautiful
city, taking in Wade Park and Gar
field’s monument. The next stop was
at Sandusky, and from thence we came
to Toledo via boat, over Lake Eric,
visiting, en route, the numerous islands
to see the orchards and vineyards,and
last but not least the wine cellars. In
these, great caverns in the rock two
stories deep, wc saw casks thaij held
14,000 gallons and casks enough in
one cellar to hold 500 000 gallons ol
champagne. The day was clear and
cool, and the ride delightful in crossing
Eric, and we find to-day in Toledo
011c of Indian summer. This morn
ing wc took in the city, and this after
noon we go to the fair grounds.
Thus far, Mr. Editor, wc have been
received with great kindness and
marked attention. To—night wc leave
for Dayton. Yours truly,
T. E. Bl.ACKSHF.AR.
Toledo, Sept, it, 1889.
THE OLD TRAMP'S SERMON. '
Young Man Keep Your Record Clean to
the Very end.
From the TimcS-Uniou Jacksonville.
I waa watching ywlcrday ■ ay
cloud floating cm The great ocean of
blue we call the sky’. It seemed to
bo drifting aimlessly, and yet I knew
that, like everything else held in the
hollow of the Almighty’s hand, it had
a mission to preform.
It might be merely as a beautiful
oasis in tracks of endless monotony,
breaking a wido expanse of weariness,
baptizing in glory u wayward thought
of that immensity that is infinite, the
only dream that has a sublime awak
ening.
But that cloud had a practical pur
pose as well as one borne of our
strange longing nftcr beauty. It held
in its heart a spring of living rain,
which it might pour down upon some
fninting soil blazing beneath the sun,
or send upon some form of life a fen
der coolness that would renew that
life. It might hide behind its soft
grayshndo some swinging world, a liko
eager with ours, tragic with its weight
of toil, and sorrow, and distress, where
men battle and die, and women stiller
and fall.
The clouci hung low above a city
filled with youth, nnd I seemed to
hear a voice from it saying, “Sccst
thou a man diligent in business, lie
shall stand before kings; he shall not
stand before mean men.”
The great trouble with the youth
of the present dny is that they live
too much for the present, forgetting
the hope and promise of the future,
the happiness of which one’s own con
science is the guardian.
Selfishness is the banc of the hu
man race, that desire to have the
sunshine enter our own home and not
that of our neighbor; that disregard
of duty where it interferes with pleas
urc; that disinclination to labor where
tho rewards are not entirely physical;
that lack of dentification with the
business of those we serve.
The pleasures of the present, the
haphazard routine of daily life are as
worthless as the shadows that flit over
summer walls, or the rainbows that
span sky for a moment and then die
into blacker darkness.
I remember, years ago, to have
heard the great orator, John B.
Gough, exclaim in ouc of his impas
sioned moments, “Young man, keep
your record clean.” I repeat that
warning here, aud wish it could be
written upon every young man’s heart
in lettccs of living light.
Young man, keep your record
clean 1 It should be written in every
school book, nnd thundered front
every pulpit, and he seen shining in
every star, and trembling upon every
drew-drop, and waving with every
blade of grass and budding flower;
heard in the song of happy birds,
blazoned in every lightning flash that
illumines the yawning mouth of night
—young man, keep your record clean,
so that in the last sweet hour, when
death comes to make all things right,
the nugels of peace may sit by the
dying bed, and the music of fast ap
proaching glory sound in thy entranc
ed ears.
The most prevalent vice to which
young men arc addicted is the use of
profane and obscene language. It is
a vice that lias no possible excuse,
no shadow of recompense. It is not
only wicked, but disgusting and 1111-
gentlcmnuly. Young men keep yotir
lips clean ! Allow no oaths or inde
cency to stain them ! Keep thSni so
that you will not be ashamed to have
them touch the flower-like glicek of
your sister, or meet a mother’s kiss
when the hour of slumber arrives,
and you see that tender, loving look
that can only shine in a mother's eyes.
Profanity is the most foolish of all
vices; there is nothing trained by it.;
it adds 110 weight to argument, and is
shocking to every moral sensibility.
Think of the horror and the infamy
of using as a coarse by-word the name
of One who died upon the cross in
more than mortal agony, that all hu
manity might have eternal life.
Young man, avoid tho rum shop,
Noble aspirations and immortal am
bitious lave been drowned Tn^ thg
Uidnous sea 0? in temperance. Ttstur-
bid waves hide the wrecks of splendid-
lives’ and the broken hearthstone of
once happy 0 homes. Intemperance
kills every impulse that had its birth
in God. It destroys all honor, mur
ders every attribute that is of infinity,
slays every happiness nnd hope, and
promises that speak of heaven. It
washes the happy light from womens’
eyes with tears of bitterness and blood.
It rolls little children of the birthright
that is their’s by divine right, and
throws them upon the charity of a
world that is very cruel, naked and
homeless.
It fills the jails nnd prisons with
shadows of lives that might have
grown to sublime perfect ion ; it makes
the silent cells of the grave-yard heavy
with ruined hopes. It tears oil the
crown of manhood aud despoils the
glory of womanhood. It lias caused
more sorrow; and distress and woe and
terror than all the voices ever born
in the foul abyss of hell. It is tiie
spawn of a triumph over which devils
gloat—young man keep your record
clean. No drunkard shall inherit the
kingdom of licnvcn. There can be
no success if the ladder up which you
essay to climb rests against the bar
room. *
Young man be diligent in business,
making your employer’s interest your
own. Be not an eye servant, but
faithful at all times, thus slialt thou
stand before kings. Be honest, claim
ing only which is your own, the fruit
of your own eudeavor, giving to others
all that is their due. Be honest and
truthful; a dollar gained unjustly
stains the soul; a lie is a coward’s ref
uge, a trap into which you arc the
only victim that falls.
Be gentle and courteous; gentleness
and courtesy arc twin stars, whose
natural home is the soul of chivalry.
Every man counts one on God’s grand
muster roll, and politeness;even ton
beggar, is not misapplied. It costs
nothing, and is the badge of a gentle
man.
Never speak lightly of a woman.
If ever tempted to do so, think of the
mother whose breast nurtured you;
whose arms were your cradle; whose
knee was your childish altar, an altar
very near to God. Remember that
a woman was last at the cross where
Christ was murdered, and first at the
cave where the stone was rolled away,
and the skies became radiant with life
that is eternal.
The soul of woman is a delicate
plant that, if cnrofully nourished and
watered with the precious dew of love,
may blossom into a perfect splendor;
no man horn of woman can fully
understand and appreciate. If rudely
handled it may wither and die, or
sink into the mire of rank despair,
and become a noisome weed. Ful
filling tho mission designed by its
maker, it reaches a height we can
never hope to attain, and becomes
at once a blessing and a prayer. It
conquers a dauntless attitude over
which no clouds can break, and tho
stars become its footstool, the white
light of immortality its garment.
MACON’S ROAD BOOMING.
Tho New Connections That arc Mapped
Out For If.
Macon Telegraph.
The Georgia Southern and Florida
is already one ol the best known roads
in the state.
In nearly every issue ol the leading
induitral papers something can always
be found which advertises Macon’s pet
road.
The latest, about new connections,
comes from the Industrial Record, and
it seems from this that all Florida is
reaching out its arms to welcome the
Sutvance River Route. The Record
says:
“The construction of a railway is
advocated front Thomasville, Ga.,
northeast to Tifton, on the Georgia
Southern and Florida road. Between
the latter point and Augusta there are
two private railways, fifteen and twen
ty-five miles long, of standard gauge,
and iron rails, which could be made to
form a part of the proposed line to
Augus'ta.Ieaving’altotrcthir-no'm'iles
of road to be constructed.”
Here is another also of interest. It
means, that the tobacco raisers will
use the Georgia Southern road for their
northern outlet. Around Madison
there are hundreds of acres in tobacco,
and the growing of the weed is rapidly
on the increase.
I, B. Plumer, president, Madison,
Fla., sends the following statement:
“The Tobacco Belt railroad is now
in operation from a point near Madi
son, Fla., on the Iqorida Central and
Peninsular, about seven miles north,
and the road is process of further con
struction. It is projected from Val
dosta, Ga., connecting with the Savan
nah, Florida & Western, and the Ga.
Southern & Florida on through Madi
son and Taylor counties to the Gulf.
It opens up a new country and brings
into market lands particularly adapted
to the growing of tobacco as well as
cotton.”
How Cotton Factories Pay.
The Chattooga (Georgia) News has
the following in a late issue, in refer,
ence to the manufacture of cotton
goods by the Trion Manufacturing
Company:
“Eleven years ago the Trion Manu
facturing Company, with a paid up
capital of $225,000, commenced the
manufacture ot cotton goods. Last
week, the managers of the company
published a petition for an amendment
to its charter, allowing an increase of
its capital stock to $520,000. The
company is able to make this increase
out of the earnings of the factory,
without assessing the stockholders a
single cent. In addition to this, the
factory has paid in dividends of oyer
§225,000. Every stockholder has got
back in 11 years in dividends what he
invested, and has seen the factory grow
to a $520,000 one. This is an excel
lent showing. It is equivalent to 20
per cent, per annum,
“In addition to this, many thousand
dollars have been expended in im
provements. A new race, a brick gin
house, an elegant brick store, many
new dwellings and other improvements
have been made, all conducing to
make Trion what she is, one ol the
picaicsi towns in Georgia, as well as
one of the best paying lactorics in the
world,”
Thomasville has enough surplus
capital to erect a cotton factory. And
she ought to do it. There are doubtless
many farmers who would take stock.
Who will start a movement looking to
a cotton factory here?
To the Front
AS ALWAYS,
' (Mitchell House Block.)
Has just opened up
to the young and ola
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