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nkxpxmt VOL 1-NO 1153. THOMASYILLE, GEORGIA, SUNDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 2:2, ’889 S5.00 PER ANNUM AS USUAL, Our Nsi Prints AND Fancy Dress ginghams Are acknowledged to be the handsomest in the city. They are 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 wo are offering at the marvelously low price of 25c a Yard, 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 Thomasvillof For 5 cents You can buy a nice colored bordered handkerchief, plenty good enough for the children to lose at school. IN JERSE7S We have an elegant all wool Saxony wove Jersey at the as- tonishingljdow 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. Weave always glad to see you and show you what we have. 132 BROAD ST. THE MOON NO LONGER COVERED WITH BLOOD. Huff and Patterson Submit Their Differ ences to Arbitration—Three Ministers as Umpires—The Correspondence. Whereas, in the Macon Evening News of September 17th, and the Macon Telegraph nnd Atlanta Con stitution of September 18th, articles appeared relating to an adjustment of the difficulty detween Hon. W. A. Huff and Hon. R. W. Patterson, which were unauthorized, incorrect and unjust to the gentlemen concern ed, though doubtless unintentionally so, we respectfully ask the public to withdraw all expression of opinion, and the pi ess all publications con cerning the whole matter, until au thorized to do so by this committee, who, we believe, will give in due time such a statement of the facts as will thoroughly vindicate the honor of both gentlemen. We state further, that the action of the citizen’s committee of twenty-one was not based upon any threat or threatened publication by either gen-, tlemen that would have resulted in imminent personal danger, and no appeals founded upon the apprehen sion of personal violence were made to either of these geutlejnen in secur ing their consent to arbitration by this committee. Furthermore, we state that this committee of three was chosen, not by the citizen’s com mittee of twenty-one, but by the two gentlemen whose honor is involved, and whose reasons for this choice will be fully understood by reading the following letters, which we give to the public. E. W. Warren, T. R. Kendall, W. B. Jennings, Committee. Macon, September 17. To Messrs. if. L. Willingham, K. If. Warren, W. B. Jennings, T. II. Kendall and others, Committee. Gentlemen—In response to your telegram I left ray scat in the house and came to Macon nnd met you last evening. At that meeting you m formed me that you desired to bring about a settlement of the alleged dif ferences between Mr. Huff and my self, and askeJ my consent to leave the entire matter to your committee. I requested that you" wait till this morning for my reply, which I here with have the honor to hand you : “According to ancient canons of chivalry no true knight should avoid either the lists or the coufessioual. I have not avoided the one and I shall not shrink from the other. I have been willing to prove the righteous ness of my cause upon that modern substitute for the lists, popularly termed “the field of honor,” and I beg you to understand that no com plaint lias come from me against this matter taking its natural -coutse. Since, however, so many prominent and pious gentlemen among my con stituents have seen proper to interfere while I was in Atlanta, consistency compels me to say that I am prepared to take my share of th'at uncomforta ble seat known as the stool of repen tance. “If grim visaged war has smoothed his wrinkled front,” and I his matter is to be adjusted on the high plane of piety and peace, I must insist that it be left to the peacefulness of the peacemakers, to-wit: the three clergy men, Dr. Warren, Dr. Kendall and Dr. Jennings, whose names appear on the telegram which.has summoned me hither from Atlanta, and I say unhes itatingly, that if this is satisfactory to all parties, I am willing to leave tho entire matter in the hands of these three gentlemen, and as my duty to my constituents requires ray prompt return to Atlanta, I herewith leave them full authority to sign my name to any documents which they may re gard it my duty to sign. ‘il have heretofore declined the overtures of gentlemen of high wis dom and undoubted courage, because I have an abiding faith that a man is himself best custodian of his honor. The clergy stand upon a higher plane, for through them speaks the voice of him whose wisdom is above all human ideas. ’Thanking all and each of you, gentlemen, tor the kindly interest which you have displayed in me and mine, I remain truly your friend, “R. W. Patterson.” “Vinevillk, Sept. 17.—Hon. Clifford Anderson, B. L. Willingham, W. R. Rogers—Gentlemen. In com pliance with your suggestions and acting on your advice, I hereby give my consent to a submission of all the facts giving rise to, and connected in any way with, the present difficulty between Mr. Patterson and myself, to a special committee consisting of Revs. E. W. Warren, T. R. Kendall and W. B. Jennings, and I will abide their decision. And in order that tho unpleasant duties thus imposed upon them may be made as light as possible, I suggest that they shall name their own time and place for conducting the necessary investiga tion, and I will hold myself entirely subject to their orders. Thanking you and each of you gen tlemen for your continued kindness in this rantter, I am yours very respect fully, W. A. Huff. Beer at Great Yarmouth. From the Savannah Times. At Great Yarmouth, England. Fisherman’s tap room, opposite lodg ings. The Hercules. Narrow street. Twenty feet from m.y windows. Empty by day. Full every night. Herring fishermen. Wives ditto. Partners for life in drinking. Her cules etiquette. One mug for two, man and wife. Sip alternately. Feminine power to drain pot equal to man’s. He sips. Sho sips. She sips. He sips. Mugemptyr - Pi to barmaid. B. M. at beer pump. Practiced muscle. Mind ditto. One stroke pump lever for half a pint. Two, a pint. Quarter stoke thrown in for good measure. Alternate con jugal sipping as before. Sanded floor. Long table. Rack of long stemmed clay pipes. Public pipes. For cus tomers. Smoke room full. All hands talk. Talk, noisy, exciting and at 11 o’clock confused. Commences to simmer down at midnight. Company at that hour at maximum of becriness and prosiness. Long • winded. Steam up. High pressure. Inspirational nocturnal anecdotage. Some old yarn. Hun dredth time. Five hundredth time. Midnight. Hercules puts up shutters. Turns ’em out. Patrorfs linger out side. Hate to go home. Mild night.. Soft moonlight. -High tide of beer iness. All nature at rest. Care driv en away. Recollection of debts, the morrow’s labors, rheumatism and waiting wives softened down. Rose ate hue over all. Lifted into tempo rary elysium by beer. No wonder they linger. I, abed. Within car shot of it all Without beer. Don’t want beer. Want sleep. Can’t get sleep. Cau get only herring fisherman’s midnight beer talk. Time lags. Leaden winged. One o’clock. Still hearing beery talk of men wo go down on great deep and now in depths of beer. Two o’clock. A week has passed. Turn and toss. Frame of mind malignant. Hope at last. Signs of breaking up. Of what ? Maritime beer talk. Subject? Best way of picking up anchor after slipping cable. Seven opinions given. All talk together. Differences of opinion. Talk loud. Energetic. Some profanity. Sub ject finally forgotten. Merges into something else. Then focuses into common subject. What ? Gibbons. Gibbons drunkest of lot. Beer inside of Gibbons suddenly boils over. Gibbons becomes volca nic. Eruptive. Gibbons differs from everybody. Becomes profane. Abu sive. Wants to fight. Lesser drunks argue with Gibbous. Coax him to go home. Gibbons won’t go home. But loves to be coax ed. Regards coaxing as sort of hom age paid him by party. Common drunken perception on part of the Gibbons type of man. Gibbons' real want ? A club mercifully adminis tered. Gibbons finally prevailed on to start for home. Home at upper end of court. Two hundred yards dis tant from my windows. Gibbons stops. Anchors to a gate post. Wants to go back forthe other drink. Forgot it. Gibbons’ friends argue with Gib bons. “No move to-night, mon. Go home to yer wife, mon.” Party deep ly solicitous for Gibbons. His moral welfare. His wife’s ditto. Such a comfort if the drunken, crazy Gib bons will but go home to his wife! Inference on their back that when Gibbons, crazy, brutal and insane, does but go home the domestic Eden will run over with bliss. Strange but true. Gibbons makes another move for home. Party accompanying. Occa sional halting and anchorings by Gibbons, With renewal of old dis cussion. Abuse, profanity, .desire to fight with anything, topped with de mands for more beer. Moral, peace loving drunks at last see him home. Leave Gib at front gate. Quiet at last. I may how sleep. Voices die away. I turn over. Gale to land of Nod appears. May I enter? No. Sudden up roar in ‘Hall’s court. Screams! Shrill. A woman’s. I arise. Open windows everywhere. Both sides of court. Heads out. Female heads. White nocturnal rigging. Masculine heads. Hall’s court again in uproar. Why? Gibbons beats his wife. Beer inside Gibbons has taken this' direction. Power must expend itself 'amM iKrmdIrhere. Target iJjp^rmjptee power inside Gibbons is Mrs. Gibbons. Nothing unusual in Hall’s court. And elsewhere. My landlady out. At front door. In white. Night robe. Comely young woman. Husband at sea. In a collier. Athletic young woman. Red and robust pair of arms. Loud voiced. By nature a driver. Drives broom. Drives arms over washtub like young healthy steam engine. Leads expression of Hall’s court pub lic opinion of Gibbons from front door. Friend to abused Mrs. Gibbons Heads the clamor. Shouts disappro bation of Gibbons’ conduct. Says she’d “like to smack Gibbons’ face!” Of this Gib. oblivious. I). D. Dead drunk. Asleep. Has done his •best and worst. Events in Hall’s court over for night. Quite forgotten on morrow. Gibbons will arise. Go to work. The court will go on as usual until another or the same Gibbous docs it all over again. Such is life. In Hall’s court, Great Yarmouth. Also elsewhere. Prentice Mulford. “It was very thoughtless iu your father to intrude so abruptly.” Clara—lie is not thoughtless at all, George. You see my elder sister lost her breach of promise Buit by not having an eye witness, and poor pa had to pay the costs and lawyer’s fees himself. It’s coming to this: Scene in Geor gia court room—Lawyer : It’s not ac cording to tho evidence, your honor, and not according to the “code.” I challenge tho witness. Judge—Mr. Sheriff, arrest that man for contempt. I’ll have no fight ing here, sir; you’ll have to go to Al abama for that. Take him out and bind him over to keep the peace !— Tribute of Rome. He—What would you do if I were to offer to give you a kiss ? She—See if my little brother is un der the sofa. Inquirer—“How docs your pro tracted meeting prosper, pastor ?” Parson—“Oh, very well. There’s a great awakening at the close of ev ery sermon.” New England and the South. For the greater part of the past half * century the New Englanders have concernd themselves in the afiairs of the south more, if possible, than with the affairs of their own section. The political, social and industrial regen eration of the south was long the fa vorite theme of the Concord philoso phers. Harvard professors and the rest of the superlatively correct people whose ancestors came over in the Mayflower. But the wheel of fortune has revolved and the south is found on top, and calmly discussing the regen eration of New England. Unfortu nately, the Sumners, Wilsons and Gar risons were not spared to witness the outcome ot their teachings as to the right status of the black race. Wendell Phillips, before his death, saw the hand-writing on the wall. In one of his last speeches he said: “The hand-writing is so plain on the wall that no one but a fool need mistake it. New England is doomed just as sure as natural laws will produce fixed re sults. New England has no soil worth mentioning, and her wealth has been derived from her manufactures. These are gradually leaving her, and eventually they will all go; some to the west, the most to the south, where the advantages of profitable manufac turing are all located.” The changes predicted by Mr. Phil lips had commenced in his day. The virgin soil of the west, commencing when “York State” was the west, has depleted New England of her most enterprising young men, who have left their native hills, cold, stony and ster ile, to revert to a state of nature. It is estimated that in Vermont not less than twenty thousand acres of culti- vatable land are now abandoned, and the same process is going on in the Vermoni working Tot‘l the Swedes particularly in view. Such efforts will avail nothing until all the valuable lands of the west are taken up. Then persons in search of cheap lands may be expected to be satisfied even with the abandoded farms of Ver mont. We hear of no efforts to in duce immigration from the south. If inducements were held out to the rest less negroes of North Corolina they might fill the bill to a T- They know yery well that in New England they would be among their “best friends,” and the "best friends,” if they are wil ling to do all that they exhort the southerners to do, will concede to the negroes all the privileges they do to foreign immigrants. We would like to see certain ideas put into practical test by their originators. While this outflow of native popula tion has been going on, there has also been a large inflow of foreign immi gration from Europe and Canada. This has been induced by the manu facturing enterprises which have been so largely introduced and devoloped in New England. Foreign immigra tion has been so great that to-day more than one-hall of the lotal popu lation ot these states is found to be ot foreign nativity. Where formerly Roman Catholics were treated with the utmost intolerance, this sect is the the most flourishing of all. Their churches are conspicuous in every town where formerly Calvinism reign ed supreme, and all other sects were regarded with holy horror. More than this, athesism is more prevalent in some of the New England states than in any other, and ‘general morality, at least in the manufacturing towns, is at a low ebb. Shades of Cotton Mather and John Edwards, what a change has been wrought in a few brief de cades! Puritanism is disappearing, the Yankee is being absorbed by the great west, the industrial supremacy of New England is being transferred to the south. What a subject for moralists, and especially for moralists of the south.—Times-Union, Jackson ville. I wouldn’t marry you for 820,000. He—But I have 850,000. She—O, well, that’s different. LEVY’S Latest Success, -FOR- , 11 READ, READ !| And Profit by the Same. «, inn. GUARANTEED, EVERY PAIR, Or Money Refunded. HOSIERY. GRft 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 lias stimulated us to still further improvement for this season, by producing the goods from Iugraiu 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 auy other stocking, for every pair is warranted not to stain the feet and clothiug, and to withstand the effects of perspiration as well as repeated washings. Furthermore, any pair not found as represented, re turn them and your money will be refunded. , , “•***"* None genuine unless stamped with above trade-mark. for:sale only by L Levy it Co., IMitchell House Block*