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THOMASVILLE, GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 20,.'1880
$5.00 PER ANNUM
— AND
ts
Fancy Dress
GINGHAMS
Arc acknowledged to be the
handsomest in the city. They
arc selling rapidly, especially
those splendid patterns we offer
at
8e 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
S5e a, Ya/rd,
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 1G cts.
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 buy a nice colored
bordered handkerchief, plenty
good enough for the children
to lose at school.
We have an elegant all wool
Saxony wove Jersey at the as
tonishingly low figure of
#3.00,
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.
Weave always glad to see you
and show you what we have.
Why not St. Marks and The Span
ish Hole!
To the Editor of TjieTam.ahasseean.
The Chicago Tribune of July 30th
says: “The much talked of scheme
of deepening the Tampa harbor and
making thnL a terminal port for South
and Central American and the West
Indian vessels, is now being brought
to the serious consideration of every
member of tlie commercial board in
the Northwest.
“It looks now as if we may yet wit
ness the shipping of Southern mer
chandise direct to Chicago and the
Northwest from Tampa instead of
taking it away around to New York
and having it shipped from there.
“New York now receives 81 '>5,000,
000, worth of commerce which by no
Sense of right belongs to her.
“All this nmount in shipment arrives
at the Eastern port annually and then
is re-shipped by cars to Chicago and
the Nwrtlnvcst. We want all that
merchandise to come by the way of
Tampa to save time and heavy insur
ance which ships and her cargo is
alleged to carry in traveling along
the hazardous Eastern coast. This
place will not only strengthen the
Northwestern commercial interests,
but wiiyievelop aud unify the com
merce of the South.
“The plan proposed is to run a fast
line of steamers from Aspiuwall aud
Tampa to connect oil the one hand
with coasters running along cither
coast of Central and South America
and on the other hand with the rail
road system to be made up of rail
roads running between Chicago and
the ports of Florida.”
Why should Chicago seek Tampa
for its harbor on the Gulf when they
can get as good ifffot"ti better harbor
nearer to it and save at least 200
miles of railroad £ The Spanish
Hole below St. Marks is the best an
chorage on the Gulf coast, -according
to reports of seameu who claim to be
well acquainted with the coast.
I have been informed by men who
pretended to know, that by dredging
about fifty yards in the St. Marks
river between the Spanish Hole and
the town of St. Marks and removing
stone obstructions that were placed in
the river during the war that vessels
drawing 20 feet of wnter could go up
to St. Marks and to Newport, where
they would be perfectly safe in case of
storm.
St. Marks at one time was a flour
ishing port, vessels have landed at
her wharfs and sailed direct for Eu
rope and other foreign ports. From
two to three million dollars worth of
cotton hnvc been annually shipped
from her wharfs. Tampa and St.
Marks were the first known ports in
Florida. When Navarez and DcSoto
landed at Tampa they sent their ships
to St. Marks.
St. Marks at one time was the best
known port in Florida. Why she is
in her present dilapidated condition
is a mystery to me. With two of the
most beautiful rivcis uniting at the
“Old Fort,” her historical prestige,
aud a splendid county North of it,
her immense oyster beds, and near
the greatest sponge fishing grounds in
the Union ought to make her a.thriv-
ing commercial city.
Near the town aud above it are as
fine mineral springs, long noted for
their medical virtues, as can be found
in the union, which ought to aid in
making it quite a watering place.
Every farmer aud planter in Mid
dle Florida ought to be deeply interest
ed in havisgarailroad from the North
west to go to St. Marks to connect
with a line of steamers to Central
and South America. This would
enable them to get a much boater
price for their products than they
now do. Would it not be well to call
the attention of the commercial boards
of the Northwest to the facilities that
St. Marks offers for a good shipping
port ?—Tnlluhnsscean.
132 BROAD ST.
Sam Jones, the renowned revivalist,
has been etirring up the animals in
G'artoreville. He is a stirrer.
Questions and Answors.
The Constitution submitted the fol
lowing questions to each of the farmers
who went West on the late'excur
sion tendered by the Central road:
1. What have you seen on the trip
that has impressed you most deeply?
2. What have you seen or learned
that, if adopted in Georgia, would
prove most beneficial to the State?
3. How do you account for the
Ohio farms being in such a superior
condition to ours?
4. Do you think the soil of Ohio
superior to ours? If so, cannot ours
be made to equal it?
5. Why can the Ohio farmers pay
so much more for labor than we, and
what do they say of negro Inbor? -
6. What benefits do you think will
result to Georgia from this trip?
To these questions every delegate
has responded. The answers cover a
variety of impressions, all compliment
ary to the thrift and push of Ohio
farmers, and all expressing hope for
the future of Georgia.
To these questions Mr. T. E. Black-
shear replied as follows:
1. The general fertility of the whole
country through which our trip ex
tended.
2. Intensive farming. This can be
done only by keeping more stock and
planting less cotton.
3. The farmers of Ohio lost nothing
by the late war, but on the contrary
it gave them opportunity to make
money.
4. i, think the soil, upon the! aver
age, better than Georgia soil,'and it has
greatly the advantage in point of lay.
I do not think our opportunities for
building up our soil as good, for they
have a level country nnd a stiff clay
soil. ( It is more practicable to utilize
live stock aud their products in Ohio
than in Georgia, they having an
abundanco of cheap ice to keep but
ter and cheese through the summer.
5. The Ohio fnrmers can pay more
for labor than the Georgia planters,
becaiiee they have small farms and
we have large plantations, and -be
cause 1 they have labor-saving machin
ery dud implements that only intel
ligent laborers can use.
C. I cannot say what benefit will
result to nn average farmer from this
trip, but as for myself I have learned
it is best to plant less land rthd use
more home made manure; have less
stock and better stock, nnd to take
much better care of stock, which can
be done by raising more liny and
buliding better barns.
Mr. C. L. Moses, of Coweta, replied
ns follows:
•1. The pike roads that cost 82,000
per mile. Land owners were taxed
per acre to build these roads.
. 2. More pasture land, thorough
preparation before planting, and the
planting of not one acre that does not
result in profit.
3. I did not meet a farmer who
said he was making more than a bare
living. Forty per cent of their lands
are mortgaged.
4. Yes, their iinmeuse popu'ation
renders it necessary for "every rood of
land to sustain its man.” The land
in middle Georgia can be brought up
to equal fertility and be made more
productive.
They ennnot pay more for the
same class of labor. They regard the
negro ns an “unprofitable servant.”
They rate him below his real merits.
f>. We are better satisfied with our
own State. We have found that we
have a better market for all farm
products. We shall cut down our
acreage and increase our net profits.
We will make our “living” at home,
and our surplus crop—cotton—will, in
time, make us rich.
The value and cost of roads will
strike the average Georgian. Good
roads are one of the imperative de
mands of the age. They make farms
doubly valuable. If this excursion,
and the observations of the gentlemen
who composed it, result in better
roads in Georgia, I hen much has been
accomplished.
FOR COTTON MEN.
Captain Gordon intrduces a Bill Bearing
On Tare...
From the Camilla Clarion:
Hon. W. D. Mitchell is the faithful
nnd popular superintendent of the
Thomasville Baptist Sunday school.
His school is flourishing.
Mr. M. Y. McIntyre, formorly of
Thomasville, now of Savannah, went
up to Albany on Monday. His firm,
M. Y. it D. I. McIntyre, is one of the
most substantial commission houses
of Savannah. He will visit Camilla
soon, where no one of his family needs
an introduction.
Mr. Gordon,of Chatham,lias introduc
ed an important bill. It is an “Act to
amen^l section 1,599, °* She code of
1882, which requires weighers of cot
ton, rice and other produce to be
sworn, and prescribes their duties by
adding thereto a proviso declaring
what tare, if any, may be allowed by
the weigher for the bagging and fasten
ings bn any bale, bag or package of
cotton, when it is weighed, and for
other purposes."
Section one prescribes that section
1,599 of the code of 1882 shall be
amended by adding thereto the fol
lowing proviso : “Provided that, if the
weigher, with the consent of the seller,
or his agent,-makes a deduction from
the gttiss weight of any bale, bag or
packagfe of cotton, bccuse of the bag
ging and fastenings on said bale, bag
or package, if covered with jute bag.
ging, the deduction shall be twenty-
four pounds, and if covered with cotton
bagging, the deduction shall be
sixteen pounds: except in the case of
any bale, bag or package of cotton not
fasteped with iron ties nor with ropes,
in which case the deduction shall be
ten pounds if it is covered with jute
bagging, or five pounds if it is covered
with cotton bagging, so that said sec
tion, when amended, shall read as fol
lows: “It shall not be lawful for any
scalesman, salesman, or other person
in any of the cities, towns or villages of
this state, to weigh any bale, bag or
package of cotton, tierce or half tierce
of rice, or any other article of produce
disposed of by weight, without first
and subscribing dn'oath before
some person authorized by law to ad
minister it, that he will justly, impar
tially and without deduction, weigh all
such cotton and all other articles of
produce that may be shown to him
for that purpose, and tender a true
account thereof to the party or- parties
concerned, if so required.
-■ “The weigher may, nevertheless,
make such deductions for wet and
other causes as is rcaso nable, when
the seller or his agent -shall thereto
consent; provided, that, it the weigher,
with the consent of the seller or his
agent, make a deduction from the
gross weight of any bale, bag or pack
age ol cotton, because ot the covering
on said bale, bag or package of cot.
ton, the deduction shall not be more
than twenty-four pounds when cover
ed with jute bagging and not more
than sixteen pounds if covered with I
cotton bagging, except in the case of
any bale, bag or package of cotton
not fastened with iron ties nor with
ropes, in which case the deduction
shall not be more than ten pounds, if
covered with jute bagging and not
more than five pounds if it is covered
with cotton bagging.’’
The provisions of this act are to go
into effect Octobet 1st, 1889. The
bill was refetred to the committee on
agriculture.
The Age of Electricity.
The century which is rapidly draw
ing to a close is appropriately called
the age of steam ; that which will
soon be ushered in will be the age of
electricity. In all probability peo
ple are now living who will ride from
Savannah to New York between the
rising and setting of the sun. Instead
of trains of many cars, there probably
will be two or three cars tp the train,
and many trains. The heavy “mo
guls” that now arc tho pride of rail
road companies will no longer pound
the life out of the rails, so to speak,
or shako bridges or trestles to pieces.
Every second or third car, possibly
every one, will carry a motor, taking
its power from stntjonary dynamos
placed at intervals along the track.
The loads will be lighter, and, there
fore, the grades may be made heavier.
The tracks of other roads and the
public and private roadways will be
crossed either by ttulncls or bridges,
and the danger at grade crossings
will be obviated; nnd an unbroken
line of fencing will otherwise protect
the trains. This lightning method of
travel will be both safer and quicker
than the present one.
The development of tho possibili
ties of electricity has been so rapid
that men who are well versed in other
sciences are comparatively ignorant
concerning that which is going on in
the field of electricity. One of the
latest experiments in rapid transit is
the Weems electric railroad, the pro
jectors of which have been so success
ful with their initial plant near Bal
timore that they propose having
another, on a larger scale. On the
Baltimore road, two miles ia length,
24-Inch iguage, a-speed of two miles ft’
minute is made under the Weems
system with all ease, and it is claimed
that n maximum speed of four to five
miles a minute can be attained, or, in
other words, that the distance bc-
twocn New York and Chicago could
be traveled in about three hours.
Estimating the distance by rail be
tween Savannah and New York to he
1,000 miles, it would require only
about one-third of the speed claimed
to be possible under tho Weems sys
tem for a citizen of Savannah to be
aide to eat his breakfast at home and
his supper in New York. It is true
that the Weems system contemplates
at present the carrying of mail mat
ter nnd light freight only, the necessi
ty for train hands, etc., being obviated,
hut the carrying of passengers is only
a question of time.—News.
Each year the local paper gives
from §500 to $5,000 in free lines for
the benefit of the community in which
it is located. No other agency can or
will do this. The editor, in propor
tion to his means, does more for his
town than any other ten men, and in
all lairness, man with man, he ought to
be supported, not because you mity
happen to like him or admire his writ
ing, but because a local paper is the
best investment a community can
make. It may not be brilliant or
crowded with much thought, but fi
nancially, it is of more benefit to a
conmiuity than the teacher or preacher.
Understand us now, we do not mean
morally or inlelcctually, but financially;
and yet on the moral question, you will
find that most local papers are on -the
right side of the question. To-day,
the editors of the local paper do the
roost work lor the least money than
any men on earth. Subscribe for your
local paper, not as a charity, but as an
investment.—Judge David Davis.
A New Car.
An inventor, backed by St. Louis
capital, is building a curious railway
coach. The distinctive feature of
the car is the fact that it is all iron or
steel. No wood will be used in its
construction. The roof, sides and
ends of the car are made of steel boil
er plates riveted together, and it is
nothing more nor less than a big boil
er. It is not quite round, however,
being somewhat in the shape of a
horseshoe—the round part being the
top. In the bottom are several steel
girders packed in cement much the
same as in the Pullman cars. Along
the sides is an array of windows pre
cisely similar to those of an ordinary
passenger coach. The top of the
car is destitute of Qie heavy roof and
ventilating arrangement that is seen
on ordinary cars. Ventilation is to
be secured by pumping air into the
car through pipes.
The Dueling Market.
From the Rome, Ga., Tribune.
There was very little business trans
acted in dueling circles yesterday.
Challenges is weak, with no takes,
and seconds were few and far be
tween :
I'm 11 .lnrli !t from ticorgia, I'm a fighter
brave and bold;
I use a seven-shooter that js aivful to behold;
I van hit n house at twenty yards—so
deadly is my aim—
Ami the barn doors creak and shiver at the
mention of my name!
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HOSIERY.
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 aud wearing qualities
to the fabric, and at the same time re
taining all the 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 stocking, for
every pair is warranted not to stain
the feet and clothing, and to withstand
the effects of perspiration as well as
repeated washings. Furthermore,
any pair not found as represented, re
turn them nnd your money will be
refunded. •
None genuine unless stamped with
above trade-mark.
FOR SALE ONLY BY
L Levy & Co.
Mitchell House Block