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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