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■mmi VOL 1-NO 110. THOMASVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING. SEPTEMBER 19, '889 $5.00 PER ANNUM AS USUAL, Oar lev Prints AND Fancy Dress ginghams Are acknowledged to be the handsomest in the city. They arc selling rapidly, especially those splendid patterns we offer at 8c a Yard. Make your selections before they are picked over too much Our Fancy Ribbons ;3 INCHES WIDE, Which we are offering at the marvelously low price of 25e aYard, 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 cts. We will sell you a beautiful Ladies’ Union Linen Hem stitched Handkerchief, which is certainly the best value ever offered in Thomasvillo. JFor 5 cents You can buy a nice colored bordered handkerchief, plenty good enough for the children to lose at school. Wc 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 vou what we have. Plant Trees. The crowning glory of Albany is her wealth of forest trees, that spread their umbrageous houghs protecting- ly over her beautiful streets. But they arc not as numerous as they should be, and the News and Adver tiser desires to encourage the planting and caring for trees. There are many ugly gaps in the rows of beautiful trees that fringe our streets and side walks, and those gaps ought to he filled in. The News and Advertiser ran across the following directions for the successful transplanting of evergreens the other day, and commends it to the careful consideration of those author ities who have charge of setting out trees on our streets: “In reply to an inquiry, Editor L. B. Benedict, of the New York World, thus rdvises: Commouly, it is said you may trnusplant trees at will, either in the fall or spring, and for deciduous varieties either way will be successful If done carefully. Many think fall the best time, for the rea son that through the dormant period the earth settles firmly around the roots, and the young tree takes an earlier and more vigorous start in the spring. For evergreens the best time is when the sap is just starting in the spring. This is especially true in sec tions where the winters are long and cold. All plants exhale moisture from their leaves, and with evergreens this process is going on to some ex tent through the whole dormant pe riod, so that in a cold climate there is danger, while the roots are inactive and also mutilated by the removal, that the plant may become weakened, or perhaps entirely deprived of its natural juices by this evaporation through the leaves and twigs, before the roots can obtain a fresh supply from the soil. Merc contact with the soil will not produce absorption of nu triment by the roots. Along with contnct. there must also be moisture and root growth. In removing large evergreens it is important to have at tached to each as large a clump of earth as possible, in which the minute feeding roots will remain unbroken. In all cases of tree removal of any variety, where there is a great loss of roots there must he a corresponding reduction in the brnnehes, for the parts above the surface of the ground and those below it are so mutually dependent on each other for support and existence that a too serious dis turbance of the equilibrium will not he sustained.—News and Advertiser. We have urged, for years, the im portnnee and advantages of a liberal planting out of shade trees. Nothing adds so much to the beauty, attrnc tions and comfort of a town. We hope that our city fathers will / favor ably consider the suggestion that, they could build no higher or more endur ing monument to themselves than by lining the resident streets, avenues aud thoroughfares of the town with shade trees. I ill 132 BllOAD ST. Waving the Bloody Shirt. It is now generally supposed that the editor of the Chjpgo Tribune has inserted a clause in his will, directing that his remains be wrapped in a bloody shirt when he is buried. Not withstanding the fact that Chicago is trying to get the support of the south for the location of the great exposition in 1892, the Tribune continues to fran tically wave the deep dyed garment. The Herald of Chicago thus excoriates the bloody organ: The mossback Chicago Tribune snivels about surrendering a principle for the sake of gaining votes for the world’s fair in Chicago. The bourbon Tribune has but one political principle —which is lying—and the Herald, speaking not for a Chicago of war times, but for a Chicago of peacc,asks in behalf of Chicago merely the tem porary abandonment of a vicious hab it. There are times when lying will react upon the liar, and the occasion a few weeks hence, when Chicago will ask the vote of the south for the world’s fair, may be one of them. The pre tense of these hateful and mendacious writers of the republican press of Chi cago that any moral issue is involved in their monstrous libels upon the southern states will deceive no one. The question of to-day is this, simply: Wil^hese bloody fools shut up, or will they continue to drive men who are naturally friendly to Chicago into the New York camp ? Common Schools Six Months. The bill by Senator Bradwell that passed the senate is a very important o.ie. It provides that oil and after the year 1800, the term of common schools shall consist of six months, 120 school days. The county hoards of educa tion in each county shall have author ity to determine what months of the year the schools shall he closed, on or before December 15. All children witliin the school ages studying the elementary branches shall he entitled to draw from the common school fund their pro rata share for the time actually in attend ance at school during the common school term or terms of the yeai prior to the 15th day of December of each year. All white aud colored children be tween the ages of 6 and 18 are free to attend, except that white and colored children shall not attend the same school. The governor, the attorney-general, the secretary of state, the comptroller- general, and the state school commis sioner, shall constitute the Georgia stare hoard of education. Of this hoard the governor shall be ex-officio president, aud the state school com missioner the secretary and the chief executive officer. The bill provided that the Bible should not, under any circumstances, be excluded from the common schools; hut this provision was stricken out. The state school commissioner shall be appointed by the governor and confirmed by the senate. An appeal can he made from his decisions to the state hoard of education. His salary will he 82,000 per year. He shall visit the various counties os often as possiblo and examine into the admin istration of the school law. The school fund shall be appor tioned equitably among the counties. Each county shall constitute a school district. The couuty hoard of education shall have power to establish as many schools in their county as they may deem proper; provided that the num ber of pupils taught by any one teacher shnll not be less than ten nor more than fifty, and shnll appoint three trustees in any sub-district when three competent men of such sub dis trict fan ho induced to serve.” The license obtained in any county ^hnll be good in any other county,and the children in any sub-district may attend school in any other. Iowa’s Wonderful Lake. The greatest wonder of tho Htatc of Iowa, and perhaps in any state, is what is called the “Walled Lake,” in Wright couuty, twelve miles north of the Dubuque and Pacific Railway, aud 150 miles west of Dubuque city. This lake is from two to three feet higher than the earth’s surface. In some places the wall is ten feet high, fifteen feet wide at the bottom, and five feet wide on top. The stones used in its construction vary in weight from three tons down to a hundred pounds. There is an abundance of stones in Wright county, but •sur rounding the lake to the extent of five or ten miles there are none. No one can form an idea as to the means employed to bring them to the spot or who constructed it. Around the entire lake is a belt of woodland one- half mile in width, composed of oak. With this exception the country is a rolling prairie. The trees must have been planted there at the time of the building of the wall. In the spring of the year 1856 there was a great storm, and the ice on the lake broke the wall Jn several places, and the farmers in the vicinity were com pelled to repair the damages to prevent iuundation. The lake occupies a grand surface of 2,800 acres; depth of water as great as 25 feet. The water is clear and cool, soil sandy aud loamy. It is singular that no one has been able to ascertain where the water comes from, or where it goes, yet it is always clear and fresh.— Burlington Hawkeye. A Solid Foundation of Prosperity. In the current, issue of the Manu facturers’ Record there are some sur prising figures relative to the recent progress and development of the in dustrial resources of the south. Sur prising ns these figures are, it is prob able that they do not cover the whole ground or tell the entire story. The Record, which is a recognized authority on these matters, says that the railroad mileage of tlie south has been increased by the addition of over 20,000 miles since 1879. Since that ’year over 8800,000,000 have been spent in lmilditig new roads and improving old ones, The assessed value of property has increased over 81,300,000,000 since 1880, aud the increase in 18S9 over 1888 will prob ably be about 8175,000,000 or more. This does not show the full iucrease in the value of property, since there is a very large amount of manufac turing property created since 1880, which does not appear in the tax assessments, being oxempt by law from taxation. In 1880 the south made 397,301 tons of pig iron, in 1888 over 1,100,000, and in 1889 it will produce about 1,500,000 to 1,600,000 tons. In 1880, 6,048,571 tons of.coal were mined in the south ; 1888 the output was 18,000,000 tons, and in 1889 it will probably be not far from 23,000,000 tons. Cotton mills have increased from 161, with 14,323 looms, and 667,854 spindles, in 1880, to 355 mills, with 45,000 looms arid 2,035,000 spindles, while many new mills are under construction, and many old ones being enlarged. In 1880 there were 40 cotton seed oil mills in the south, with a capital of 83,500,000 ; now theso are 263, repre senting an investment of over $20,- 000,000. The value of the south’s agricultural products for 1888, was about $800,- 000,000, against $571,000,000 1879, while 1889 will probably show S900,000,000 to $950,000,000. The value of the south’s live stock is now $575,000,000,. while in 1879 in was $391,400,000. The production of grain rose from 431,074,630 bushels in 1880 to 632,666,000 bushels in 1888, and this year will probably show over 680,000,000 bushels, an in crease of nearly 250,000,000 bushels. In the last three and a half years the Record has reported the organ i zation in the south of upwards of 11, 000 new industrial establishments, covering every line of manufacturing from making pins to building loco motives, and the building of over 8,000 miles of railroad, and the pro duction of the largest crops ever raised in this section, which yielded good profits to the farmers. Thus in three yea's the south lias raised about 21,500,000 hales of cot ton, over 1,500,000,000j bushels of corn, nearly 150,000,000 bushels of wheat, aud 240,000,000 bushels of oats, the total value of these ami other agricultural products, according to official government figures, reach ing the enormous aggregate of up wards of $2,500,000,000, or an aver age of over $830,000,000 for each vear.—Constitution. Close of the Cotton Year. (Kron the MnconTelegraph.) In its issue of last Saturday, the New York Commercial and Financial Chronicle giyes its statement of the cotton crop of the United States for year ending Sept, ist, 1889. The Chronicle puts the total crop for the year at 6,935,082 hales against 7,017,707 for the year iS87-’8, and 6,513,623 bales for the year 1886—’7. It states the weight of the last crop, however, at 3,437,408,499 pounds, as against 3,407,068,167 pounds for the preceeding year. The stock on hand Sept, ist, 1889 is 56,364 bales against 181.225 hales Sept. 1st, 1888 and 82,- 068 bales Sept, ist, 1887. The total receipts at Atlantic and Gulf ports for the year just closed are placed at 5,547,757 bales against 5,- 602,632 bales last year, and 5,320,642 bales in i886-’7. Exports—1,742,745 bales against 4 938,981 bales last sea son, and 4,458,326 bales the previous season. Liverpool received out of the crop of i888-’9 2,779,248 bales. The number of hales used in manu factures in the south is given by the Chronicle at 485,603 against 443,373 in ,887-’8, and 397,927 in i886-’7. In reference to the new crop, the Chronicle has this to say: “It is several years since the 1st of September has afforded so clear and definite a promise of a large yield of cotton as that date affords this year. Ufcourse there is some room for dis appointment even yet. But the fact of a larger yield than has been obtained in either of the past two seasons, seems to be generally accepted now. Beyond that it would be premature to speak with certainty. “With regard to the date of maturi ty, there is no doubt that the crop is properly called a late one, as last years crop was. It does not tollow, how ever, from that circumstance, that the receipts of the first three months will not be consideraly larger than they were in the same months of’88. There are fewer obstacles to a free move ment. Morever, the high prices ruling are a special inducement for rapid work, leading the planters to hurry forward their early cotton. But an in fluence contributing more than all the others to swell the first arrivals, is that this season's crop is very abundant in certain sections of the Gulf states, where the earliest cotton is raised, so that the marketing from these quar ters in September and October will no doubt be materially in excess of one year ago. It is satisfactory to know that this cotton will find an eager market, the mill stocks of the raw ma terial being, as we have, -shown? low, riot only in this country, but in Eu rope.” Bradstreet’s, of Saturday, says : “The actual count of the cotton crop of the season ending Sept. 1, ac cording to the former statistician of the New York Cotton Exchange, was 6,939,284 bales against 7,046,833 bales in the preceeding year. The decrease here shown, of about 107,000 bales, was more apparent than real, when the relative weights of the hales are considered. The high price of bag ging, rain in harvest, and other condi tions caused the bales in the season just closed to exceed the previous season’s weights by about nine pounds per bale, the proportion being 497.06 pounds to the bale in r8S8 ’9, against 488.05 pounds in i887-’8. The re sult is that the crop for the season just ended was equal in weight to 7,067,- 000 bales ol the preceeding season’s weight, an actual production of 11,000 hales gam. As regards spinning ca pacity, however, it is probable that no gain can be shown over the preceeding year’s crop. Bradstreet’s cotton re port, published December 15, 1888, indicated a yield of 6,850,000; 89,000 bales, or about 1 2-10 per cent, less than the actual count of crop made nearly nine months later.” New Mode of Tanning. Sax Francisco, G'ai.., Aug, 22.— From the State University at Berke- ly conies the report tL.:t experiments have determined that a certain com bination of fat and oils, with sulphur compounds, when used for tanning purposes, have the effect of rendering leather impervious to wnter and so pliable as to render it almost indes tructible. Before the war the higwatcr mark in cotton was 5,300,000 hales. The crop of last year is not yet entirely out of tho hands of the planters, hut those whose business attention is ab sorbed by the staple place it at 7,400,- 000 hales, au iucrease of 300,000 over the year preceeding. This season, with average weather, it will be 8,000,000 bales, worth ncnrly four hundred million dollars, or five times the value of all the gold and silver produced in the United States in one year. LEVY’S Latest Success, -FOR- , Ml! READ, READ! » And Profit by the Same. GUARANTEED, EVERY PAIR, Or Money Refunded. BLACK HOSIERY. G THE GREAT SUCCESS Which our “Onyx” Dyed Hosiery met with last season, and the univer sal satisfaction given by these abso lutely fast dye goods has stimulated us to still further improvement for this season, by producing the goods from Ingrain yarns, thus giving greater strength and wearing qualities to the fabric, and at the same time re taining all tho excellent qualities of dye, which have been so thoroughly tested and approved in previous sea sons. Try a pair of Onyx, and you will never wear any other Rocking, for every pair is warranted not to stain the feet and clothing, and to withstand the effects of p^rspiratiou as well as repeated washings. Furthermore, auy pair not found as represented, re turn them and your money will be refunded. None genuine unless stamped with above trade-mark. FOB SALE ONLY BY I. levy & Co. Mitchell House Block 1