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WE WAHT
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IMPRESS m,
-IF WE CAN, WITH—
Our Idea
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Low Prices
And in order to accomplish this re
quest you to read the following:
ForthisWeekOnly,
(Ending Saturday, Sspt. 28tli.)
50 pieces Lonsdale 4-4 Bleached, 8Jc.
50 “ FruitoftheLoom “ 8$c -
75 “ Lovely Dress Ginghams, 7Jc.
Never before sold tor less than 12-^c.
These goods you must have to begin
the season. 4
fa W8 Impressed You?
Read Still Further:
25 do/., fine Balhriggau hose, 20 cents,
worth 35.
25 doz. tine Balhriggau hose, 25 cents,
worth 40.
MGRELY’S SUPERIOR
English Hosiery
For Gentlemen and Ladies.
—SEE OUR—
Sanitary Black Hosiery,
GUARANTEED STAINLESS,
And the best on the market.
SPECIAL BARGAINS
THIS WEEK
-IN-
Towcls, Table Linens,
Bed Spreads, 5, C, 10 j Sheeting,
Lace Curtains and
House Furnishings Generally.
IN AMERICA.
The above are only a tew specialties.
Dozens of bargians in every depart
ment of our immense stores for
The Coming Week.
Call and get them, remembering
that the “Early bird catches the
worm.”
N. 11.—\\\* call )our attention to the tact
that our stores will he closed on Thursday,
26th, to observe our annual holiday.
Respectfully,
Leaders of Styles and Low Prices.
109 & 111 BROAD ST
THE DAILY TIMES-ENTERPRISE.
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1889.
SIGNAL SERVICE BUREAU
R. Tlinmas Jr’s - 126 Broad Sheet.
O. S. Bondurant Vountoer Observer
Weather Ilnllctin for tlic 24 hours ending
at 7 o'clock I\ M., Sept. 27, 1889.
TnuERATUim.
7 n. m - u3
2 1>-
7 p. 70
Maximum for 24 hours 81
Minimum “ “ “
Rain-fall
Local Schedule.
Passenger for Savannah Lv... G SO p m
Passenger from Savannah Ar... 7 00 a m
Fast mail for Savannah Ar.. .12 05 p m
i. •• <« u I«v...12 35 p in
4 “from “ Ar... 131P n*
“ “ from Savannah Lv... 200 pm
Passenger from Albany Ar... 5 20 p m
Passenger for “ L y * • • ® a m
Freight and Acom. for Albany Lv... 5 45 p in
.? •• .. from “ Ar... 7 20am
Freight ami accoin. from W’ayc..Ar... 4 50 p m
.. .1 •• for Chatt. Lv... GOO p m
.« .. u for Wave.... Lv... 8 00am
ii *. •• from Chatt. Ar... G30 a in
THOMASVILLE ANI) MON’TICELLO.
Freight aeeoro. for Monticello Lv.. .8 45 a m
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Fast mail for “ •• • Lv.. .2 OG j> m
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The drummers stormed the town
yesterday.
The weather yesterday was cool and
bracing.
The farmers were well represented
in the city yesterday.
SheiifT Patterson, of Decatur county,
was in town yesterday.
A new drinking fountain has been
put up in fiont of H. B. Ainsworth’s,
on Dawson stree*.
It is a noticeable fact that lower
Broad street is improving very rapid
>y-
Mrs. E. \V. Stephens and children,
who have been spending the summer
at Cartersville, have returned home.
Mr. B. Goldberg has opened a com
mission business in the store recently
occupied by E. Crine, on Jackson
street.
A. L. Tucker, colored, who was ap
pointed mail agent on the Savannah
fast mail over a month ago, has just
assumed charge.
The family of Mr. M. N. McRae,
who is now with his brother, Dr. F. B.
McRae, have arrived from Jesup, and
will make Thomasville their home.
An Otter, weighing 301bs, was
caught in n branch, some six miles
from town, by Ben Simmons’ dogs,
the other day.
Mr, Fred Bibb, of this city, will
open a grocery store at Boston short
ly. Ilis Thomasville fricuds recom
mend him to the citizens of Boston.
He is all right.
Mr. E. B. Whiddon, Dr. Jeff White,
and others, tried the ducks at Lake
Iamonia yesterday. Charley Davis
had sent up word that they were there
in large numbers.
Mrs. Emily Hawkins, of Marianna,
Fla., who has been visiting her
daughter, Mrs. John Coyle, on Jack-
son street, returned home yesterday
afternoon.
Col. William Bailey, of the Augus
ta, Tallahassee & Gulf Ry., and Mr.
D. S. Walker, Jr., a prominent lawyer
of Tallahassee, were at the Stuart yes
terday.
Mr. H. W. Semon, general advance
agent of the Haverly-Cleveland min
strels, which appears here Oct. 71I),
was at the Whiddon yesterday. The
minstrels will stop at the Whiddon
while here.
Mr. E. M. Mallettc has sold a small
farm below Boston to George Wil
liams, colored. Wc are pleased to
note the disposition of the colored
people to owu their homes, Mr. Mal-
lette is iu a position to accommodate
all who come.
The show windows in Thomasville,
if possible, are made more attractive
every season. They arc uot excelled
in point of arrangment, taste and
style, by any outside of the largest
cities. I11 fact they will compare
most favorably with auy of these.
We have been surprised to le.-tru,
in conversation with farmers, the
large number who have for years kept
their stock fenced in; and it is a
noticeable fact that these men have
better stock than their neighbors.
These men have been doing for years
past what all the farmers on the
south side of the railroad now pro
pose to do.
OURTRIGHT & DANIEL
Are now receiving a large and elegant assortment of the celebrated
Zeigler and Reed’s fine Ladies Shoes.
J. S. Turner’s, Stacy Adams’ and Bannister’s Men Shoes.
Boys’ and Misses’ School Shoes a Specialty.
Sign of tlie Bier Boot,
What a Leon County Farmer Says of the
No Fence Law.
Dr. J. A. Andrews, of Leon county,
was in town yesterday.
‘Ilow does the no fence law work
in Leon county?” the reporter asked
the Doctor.
“It is working well. While there
was some opposition to it at the start,
I know of only two— possibly three-
men in our section of the county op
posed to it. I am satisfied that when
it is tested, as is being done, they, too,
will be no fence men.”
“How do the colored tenants and
laborers stand on the question?” we
asked the doctor.
They, too, like many whites, were
opposed to the law, but I am satisfied
that after the law has been tested,they
will see the benefits and approve it."
“IVliat about the report that Leon
county is to build a division fence
along the state line*”
“I am glad you asked me that ques
tion," said the doctor. “I am one of
the county comm ssioners of Leon
county,and can give you definite infor
mation on that point. 'I here is a mis
taken idea among the farmers on the
Georgia side of the line about this
matter. The law does not require
Leon county to fence against Georgia.
It only requires that we fence against
surrounding counties in Florida. It
will thus be seen that farmers in Geor
gia, along the line, must fence in their
stock, or adopt some other method ot
keeping their stock from raiding on
tlie no lence section across in Florida,
i his is a strong argument in favor of
your people, especially those living
along the line, adopting the no fence
law, as they will have to fence their
stock in to keep them from intruding
on us, whether that section of Thomas
county adopts the no fence law or
not.”
We submit these views of Dr. An
drews for the consideration of the
planters, and all oihers interested, liv
ing south of the railroad. They will
do well to study them.
Nine Hundred and Fifty Bales.
Mr. E. W. Stephens returned a few
days ago from a visit to Maj. Bella
my's plantation in Jefferson county
Fla. Maj. Bellamy is the cotton king
of Florida, and Mr. Stephens says lie
told him that he expected to make,
this season, nine hundred and fifty
bales.
A Tribute to a Thomas County Preacher.
The Bainbridge Democrat thus re
fers to the Rev. T. A. White, one of
God’s most devoted ministers:
This accomplished gentleman and able
divine preached Ida last sermon at the
Baptist Church last Sunday night. lie has
been filling the pulpit of this church for
three years to tlie eminent satisfaction of its
members and the public generally. Owing
to his local charge in Lowndes county,where
he lives, lie could only fill the pulpit here
every 4th Sunday in each month. Our
whole people will part with him regretfully.
We’ll hot a good large sum that the prea-
sent Legislature adjourns without having
passed a dog law.—Leary Courier.
Of courso they will. The ynl-
ler eur and flop eared hounds are
so necessary to the happiness aud
prosperity of the state, that they
should be protected, not taxed. This
is the opinion of Major Buzzfuz ot
Doodlcvillc. And in this opinion.
Col. Bluster of Possum Trot, concurs.
Tlie soliciting committee for sub
scriptions to the picnic aud barbecue
of the Stock Breeders’ Association,
will call on the citizens of Thomas
ville next Monday for their contribu
tions, A big crowd will be present,
and a liberal contribution is necessary
to meet the demand. Wc hope and
believe the good people ot our com
munity will heartily respond to the
call. Respectfully,
B. A. Bass,
Chairman.
J. S. Montgomery,
Secretary.
We ask for a careful reading of
“Experience” on the fence question.
He evidently knows what he is talk
ing about. Read the article; it is in
structive and amusing.
‘Experience” on the No-Fence Law-
Some Sound Sense.
Ed. Times-Enterprise: The next
question to be considered is, what is
the greatest draw-back that Thomas
county has to contend with ? I answer
fences.” I own a little farm. I hire
a negro to help me, and he and I and
my children work the farm, and if it
were not for my neighbors’ cows and
hogs and goats, I could, with proper
energy, industry and care, make
enough one year.to support my family
two years.
But I wake up in the morning, after
a hard day’s work, and find six cows
and ten hogs in my field. A poor old
starved cow, r.ot worth a dollar, has
thrown down the fence and let in all
the cows and hogs in the neighbor
hood, and the bread and meat I ex
pected to make for the support of my
family the next year, is gone and lost.
When I remonstrate with my neigh
bor about the trespass of his cattle on
my place, he says, “You did not have
the right sort of a fence—it was not so
high, and was not so wide between the
rails, as the law requires.”
What can I do but submit to my
loss and grieve over the law which
subjects the fruits of my labru to such
a terribly disaster. Is it any wonder
that the farming community arrays
itself against other classes, when these
other classes usurp all the offices which
constitute government, and cither re
fuse or decline to make such laws as
will most effectually protect them?
But what can you say of a farmer or
land owner in your county who, in a
contest on this question, votes “lor
fence ?”. Echo answers what?
Suppose I own a farm on which
there is a hundred acres of open land.
I want to divide it into four fields of
twenly-five acres each—one for corn,
one for cotton, one for oats and one for
pasture. Every hundred yards of fence
will require four hundred rails. I have
to furnish the timber and pay a dollar
a hundred for cutting, splitting and
putting up the rails.
Now let us see what it is going to
cost me. The piece of land is a square,
that makes it seven hundred yards
long on each side. Add the four sides
together, and that makes twenty eight
hundred yards. At four hundred
rails to each hundred yards, it will
take a hundred and twelve dollars to
make the outside fence. Then, if I
divide it into four fields, I will have to
run two cross fences, one north and
south nnd the other east and west, and
each of these strings of fence will take
twenty-eight hundred rails, making in
the aggregate five thousand six bun
dred rails, which, at a dollar a bun
dred, is fifty-six dollars. Now add the
money it takes to make the outside
fenne, to what it takes to make the
cross fences, nud you will sec that I
am out one hundred and sixty-eight
dollars, and what for? Just to keep
about twenty dollars worth of old, no
account cows and a dozen razor-hacked
hogs from eating me out of house aud
home.
Again, I reckon it is not extrava
gant to say, that every year one rail
out of ten will get broke or rot, or in
such condition as will require a new
one. That will he ten per cent, an
nually, I will have to pay on my in
vestment iu rails.' Now, if I could
save that ten per cent, mid spend it in
sending my children to school, how
much better off I would be. But,
“Oh no,” says the fence man by his
opposition to the no-fence law, “I
can’t allow you to save your crop, aud
educate your childreu at the expense
of old Brindle,” (who has had one horn
knocked oil’ when I was driving her
out of the field), “aud my old spotted
sow,” (whose left ear was torn oil by
the dogs when she was run out of the
plantation.)
What next after this? The first
thing I know, along comes an officer
and tells me: “I have a warrant for
you.” “What for?” says I. “Ma
licious mischief,” says lie. “The other
day, in driving some cows nnd hogs
out of your corn field, you, or some of
your folks, knocked the horn off a
cow, and your dogs bit off a sow’s ear,
and Timothy Scruggs has sued out a
warrant for you before judge Mitch
ell.”
Well, I go to town and get some
body to go my security for my appear
ance at court next Monday. When
court comes, and Judge Mitchell takes
his seat oh the bench, Tom Hop
kins, county solicitor, presents an ac
cusation or indictment against me
for malicious mischief, swears his
witnesses, puts them on the stand,
aud proves by one, that at or.c place
my fence was only four feet and ten
inches high, and hv another, proves
that within less than three feet from
the ground there was a place where
there was a crack in the fence, where
the rails were more than four inches
apart. The Judge finds me guilty,
and I am sentenced to pny a small
fine and the costs.
Mr.,’ Editor, do you know what
court costs arc ? If not, you better
study up the question. Some day it
may be important for you to know.
I don’t know that I am exactly cor
rect about the rail fence matter, but I
think I am so nearly so as to show
the correctness nnd force of the idea
I wish to present. I have other
ideas on the fence question which I
may pieseut next week.
Experience.
Railroad Racket-
Ool. William Hailey, of St. Louis, General
Manager of tlie Augusta, Tallahassee A Gulf
railway, is in the city, etl route tor Carre
belle to boom the work of construction. .
large force oflmmls are engaged in cutting
out the right of way from tlie Ochlockonee
in this direction, and soon tlie work of track
I,'tying on this side will begin. The woods
will soon 1m full of railroad camps—tlie
road is coming this time sure.—Floridian.
Colonel Bailey was in the city yes
terday and held a conference with
some of our prominent citizens, in ref
erence to this line of road- Thomas
ville is deeply interested in a direct
route to a good harbor on the Gulf,
and with a connection with the F., R.
& N. system. The Augusta, Talla
hassee & Gulf road would give her
these. Let us leave nothing undone
to secure thsse advantages. With
this line to Carrabellc, and it extended
on to Augusta, Thomasville would be
out ol the woods. Both arc within
our reach. But railroads have quit
running rough shod over places;
something must he done to secure
these lines. Inaction has been the
curse and bane of Thomasville. Will
she now wake up?
For Rent.
By advertisement elsewhere, it will
he seen that the I’car Farm, contain
ing 175 acres of open land, lying with
in two miles of town, can be rented
on easy terms by a good tenant. The
place is a very desirable one, and is
conveniently located. See advertise
ment.
Mr. T. E. Dismukes, of Ilainhridge,
was at the Stuart yesterday.
m
are daily receiving
-OF-
Fall
Miss Eva Morehouse, of Talbotton,
is visiting her brother, Mr. Ward
Morehouse, on Dawson street.
See what the Red Front Grocery
says about new syrup. They have
the best.
Mrs. Belle Linn and daughter, Miss
Virgie, returned yesterday from a pro
tracted summer trip.
Tiles of cottou rolled into Thom-
asville yesterday—aud buyers paid
top prices, spot cash, for every hale.
Charley Cooper, the old time bar
her, who cut the first hair from your
upper lip, has opened up a barber
shop over Mr. A. F. Prevatt’s Char
ley has always been a favorite with the
people ol Thomasyille, and we hope
he will receive a fair share of patron
age. Give Charley a call.
New cano syrup just arrived, fresh and
tine, at the Red Front Grocery.
9-28-4td
If you want a goo-1 shave call on C. it-
Simpson, at S. Fleishcr's Ilarbcr Shop.
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Thomasville, Ga.
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