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THOMASYLLLE, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY MORNING. OCTOBER 2, '.889
$5.00 PER ANNUM
Our lew Prints
AND -
Fancy Dress
GINOHAMS
Arc acknowledged to be the
handsomest in the city. They
arc selling rapidly, especially
these splendid patterns we offer
at
8o a, Ya,rcl.
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
25eaYard,
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 cent s
You can buy a nice colored
bordered handkerchief, plenty
good enough for the children
to lose at school.
IN JEESETS
Wo^have an elegant all wool
Saxony wove Jersey at the as
tonishingly low figure of
#1.00,
Never before sold for lcssjjthan
one dollar and fifty conts.
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
wo have the goods and prices
to do it with.
Wc extend a cordial invita
tion to airto visit our establish
ment, whether you buy or not.
We arc always glad to sec you
and show you what wc have.
132 BROAD ST.
IT NKVIiie PAVH.
It never pays to fret and growl,
When fortune seems our foe;
The better bred will look ahead
And strike the braver blow.
Your luck is work,
And those who shrink
Should not lament their doom,
Hut yield the play,
And clear the way,
That better meu have room.
It never pays to wreck the health
In drudging after gain,
And lie is sold who llnnks that gold
Is cheapest bought with pain,
An humble lot,
A cozy cot,
Have tempted even king*,
For station high.
That wealth will buy,
Not oft contentment brings.
It never pays! A blunt re gain,
Well worthy of a song;
For age and youth must learn the ■ nth
That nothing pays that’s wrong.
The good and pure,
Alone arc sure,
To bring prolonged success,
While what is right,
In heaven’s sight,
Is always sure to bless.
OPPOSITION TO THE W.U.
The Postal and Cable May Have Its Wires
• Here Soon.
The Postal and Cable Telegraph
Company claims that it will have its
wires to Savannah before long.
On next Thursday it will open an
office in Atlanta, and simultaneously
in a number of other southern cites.
For some time the erection of this
company’s line has attracted atten
tion, and the public has awaited wjth
a good deal of interest to see what
kind of service it would offer. The
indications are that it will be very fine.
It is not likely that there will be a rate
war, lor the new compauy announces,
that it will not do a qut-throat business,
but will make promptness its trump
card.
Mr. Milton Orr, the Atlanta mana
ger, is enthus-astic over Jhe prospects
for southern business.
“In the first place, we have the
finest line ever built in the United
States,” said he. "The company uses
nothing but the heaviest copper wire
strung on cedar poles, has fitted the
office with the latest and most im
proved apparatus. Promptness will
be the feature of the business. I have
Employed white messenger boys, who
will be unifotmed handsomely in gray
with gold irimmings, and I will see
that the messages are delivered prompt*
ly. Wc will put up call boxes at once
in the principal business houses, and
we will give the business men every
facility for communication with all parts
of the country with dispatch The
company is ten years old in the north,
and already covers all the points At'
lanla does business with. We cover
all the eastern, northern and western
states and the south as tar down as
Birmingham, Alabama. • In a few
weeks we will reach Savannah, Charles
ton and New Orleans.
“The promptness with which this
company does business is illustrated
by a case wjjich occurred in Philadel
phia the other day. Over the Postal
& Cable Telegraph Company’s line,
and over the McKav-Bennet cable,
owned by the same syndicate, a mes
sage was sent from Philadelphia to
Melbourne, Austraiha, and answered
in fourteen minutes. It is an every
day business for the McKay-Bennet
cable to transmit messages from the
New York to the London stock ex
change and back in six or seven
minutes."
"Has this company come to stay?”
“I should think so. It is ten years
old and has fifteen or twenty thousand
miles of wire, reaching trom Portland,
Maine, to California. It has forty or.
fifty lines from New York to Chicago,
and has invested alogether, $12,000,-
ooo. It is owned mainly by McKay,
the California bonanza millionaire,
whose wealth is e^timqted at $30,000,-
000. The other leading stockholder
is [qmes Gordon Bennett, proprietor
of the New York Herald. When the
Southern Telegraph company was
closed out, they said they would come
south and make a determined fight for
business, and that is what they -pro
pose to do now. Bonnett and Mc
Kay own the commercial cable, the
only direct cable out of New York, and
over this the foreign business of the
Postal & Cable Telegraph Company,
will be transmitted. We have direct
lines from Atlanta, to New York, Chi
cago, Cincinnati, Washington and
other large cities.’’
A Strong Man in a Crisis.
During the s to mi}' debate in the conven
tion of colored Baptists in Indianapolis, a
very sound and sensible position was taken
by Rev. C. T. Walker, of Augusta. He is
manager of the Weekly Sentinel, a colored
paper issued in this city, and is pastor of the
Tabernacle Baptist church. His resolqtitr,
which, alter a stormy debate, was adopted,
only to he reconsidered and tabled upon a
recurrence of hitter discussion,“contained
more strong sense and good advice than
anything uttered or recorded during these
proceedings. Rev. Walker recognizes that
the best and most conservative element in
the South does not endorse the outrages of
Baxley and East Point. He secs that there
is more hope for his race in nn appeal to
that element and in encouraging fricndJy
relations, than in fiery resolutions or incen
diary utterances. Following are the reso
lutions, which speak for themselves:
Whc-cas, Wc, the representatives of the
colored Baptists of the United States, repre
sentatives of one and a quarter million com
municants, are now assembled in the city of
Indianapolis, to devise plans for the relig
ious, moral and intellectual improvement of
our people, r s well as to give Africa the
gospel; and whereas, a weighty and respon
sible duty devolves upon our leaders, *n ac
celerating a settlement ot the vexed and
intricate negro problen^ and w'hercas,
coercive measures and i TOndiary speeches
will only make trouble .or an already op
pressed, defenceless people; »nnd whfcreas,
many of the speeches on the floor of this
house yesterday were calculated to put the
Baptist ministers of this country in a had
light before the American people, and mis*
lead many of our ignorant, helpless people
in the Southland thcrehy cause them to get
into trouble, from which they cannot excul-
fpatc themselves; and whereas fare are
many Southern white people nfo nre lifting
• up their voices in defense of the* Southern
negro, and the white Baptists of the South
give annually several thousand dollars, to
assist In paying our own missionaries to
labor among our people.
Be it Ite olved (1), That wc appeal to the
(»od of the universe, who presides over the
destines of naLions, and who is the friend of
the oppressed and needy, and has promised
divine aid to all who nut their trusts in
Him,
Resolved (2), That wc recommend our
people to petition the conservative element
of Southern white people to unite with us
in securing our rights as citizens as to bring
to justice those who perpetrate outrages
upon law abiding, inoffensive citizens.
Resolved (3), That we recommend our
people to cultivate a friendly relation with
those among whom they live, to acquire ed
ucation, accumulate money and property
and cultivate race pride and race unity.
The Philadelphia P^ess, an extreme Re
publican print, while deploring recent out
breaks of violence, feel encouraged by the
tone of the Southern papers. Says the
Press : “A public sentimont against them
must he growing, or the outspoken com
ments on the outrage which wc copy,
would not appear.” The Press agrees with
Rev. Walker that “it is the duty of all now
to sustain the element in the South which
is trying to create a public sentiment so
powerful aguinst the«c outrages that they
will become impossible.”—Augusta Chroni
cle.
The sentiments of this conservative
colored man is in striking contrast
with the incendiary talk and speeches
of some af tho delegates to the late
Indianapolis convention. Wo com
mend theso timely utterances to the
careful consideration ot those, both
white and colored, who arc engaged
in the work of. stirring up strife
between the races.
A Dead Town Lives Again, New
port.
Many of the oldest inhabitants ot
Waukulla county, who knew this town
in its by-gone days, have olten .pre
dicted that, though destroyed bv fire
and suffering Irom the ravages of war,
it would arise Phoenix-like trom its
ashes. The celebrity of its mineral
waters the fine farming lands which
surround it, the high hammocks,
which are abundantly supplied with
oak, hickory, magnolia arid bqy, with
a fine growth o| pine titnber, will no
Ipngev lip idle in the sphtyde • cf the
forest, but again become “a thing ot
beauty and a joy forever’’ to Waukulla
and the rest of the world.—Tallahas-
The Industrial School for Girls.
There is general gratification at the
passage of a bill to establish an Indus
trial school for girls in Georgia :
The provisions of tbmbill are as fol
lows:
That there shall be established in
connection with the State University,
and forming one of the departments
thereof, a college for the education of
white girls, to be known as the
“Georgia Industrial College.” Said
college shall be located, equipped and
conducted as hereafter provided.
That the governor of this state shall
.nominate and appoint, by and with
the consent and advice of tlic Sera.;,
five 'fit and discreet persons to he
known as the hoard of directors of the
Georgia Industrial College, who shall
serve without pay, except their actual
expenses while away from their sever
al places of residence attending todhe
duties of the said board of director'?.
When tho said directors 1 live selected
41 location for the Georgia Indr-n rial
College, as hereinafter provided, the
governor shall appoint from the coun
ty where located two additional d> ec
tors, who shall be appointed and con
firmed as the first five directors pro
vided for, and shall have like power
and duties.
It shall be the duty of the governor
to conveace said board- at the capitol
of the state within n’nety days after
the approval of this act.
LOCATING TIIE SCHOOL.
In selecting a location for said col
lege the directors shall consider acces
sibility, healthfulness, the morality
of its surroundings, general appopria-
tions and such other things ns in their
judgment should have weight, and
select that place where, in their opin
ion, the college can best accomplish
the purposes of its creation.
So soon as said directors have pro
cured suitable grounds they shall
proceed to remodel the same, if need
ed, and erect additional buildings that
may be necessary. The directors
shall procure and place in the build
ings of the Georgia Industrial College
the necessary machinery, powor, fix
tures, furniture, equipment, appliances
and apparatus to carry into effect this
act.
Said trustees shall have authority
from time to time to add such special
features to the college, and to open
such new departments of training and
instruction therein, as the progress
and advancement of the times re
quire.
DEPARTMENTS OF THE SCHOOLS.
The said board of directors shall
have full and ample powers, subject
to restrictions and limitations herein
made, to establish and maintain a
first-class college for tho education of
white girls, at which such girls may
acquire a thorough education. Said
college shall have a normal depart
ment for tho thorough training of
teachers, and an industrial depart
ment, in which shall be taught telc-
raphy, stenograph, typo, writing,
photography, book keeping, domestic
economy, cutting and making dresses,
printing industrial and decorative art
in its practical application, and such
other practical industries as may tend
to fit and prepare girls for those occu
patious wnion are consistent with
feminine refinement and modesty.
No girl shall be allowed to take a
course in said college who does not
receive instruction in at least one in
dustrial art.
The sum of 870,000, or so much
thereof ns may he necessary, be and
the same is hereby appropriated for
tho establishment of the Georgia In
dustrial College.
An Eater From Eaterville.
A Correspondent, whose early edu
cation appears to have been some
what neglected, writes as follows to
the Whigham Advance:
Mr. Edekter.—to you & Oothers
May Be News this A man Has Don
May 1880 ho Eat I Surpose 0 Bush-
shells of Mulburrys <fr in the Mouth
of June July & Auggust He Eat A
A Anaker of WatterMillion Dueu the
time 3 Becks of Peaches a Day the
WatterMillion Was A Bout 6 Feet A
Part over the J An Aker of ground.
Eating tho WnttcrMillions 3 Peck of
Peaches A Day and 3 Meals of Vict-
loars Dun in the time of 2 Wcaks and
1 $ Peck of Salt With Ills Raw
Peaches to Provent them From Mak
ing ii|m Sick And He Was Not Maid
Slick. Huckul Burrvs Bee urn Wripe
Dueu,the 3 Months Eating 12 Akers
of Huckul Burrys 4 Akers of Black
Burrys.
Sir i think your Advance Men
Hoo takes them Will Shew give him
A Prcmfi?!, He Will way ahut 120
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For Clerk’s to Read.
That it pays to be polite the follow
ing flora the New York Star, will at
test :
One of the most prosperous mer
chants in New York had his life
changed by a simple performance of
duty. He was clerk in a big Boston
dry-goods house at a small salary. He
always tried to effect a sale. One3!ay
a customer appeared who was more
than particular about his purchase.
In relating his experience with this
man the merchant said to a reporter:
“I have a quick temper, and at
times during the transaction I felt
that I could strangle the customer;
blit I quickly curbed my temper and
went at him tooth and nail. I felt
that my reputation as a salesman was
at stake, and it was a question of con
quer or be conquered. At last I made
the sale, and with it came a great sat
isfaction; but I was not done with the
man yet. I wanted to sell him more.
He said something about sending his
wife around to look at some dress
goods. I promised to send samples
of new patterns as they arrived. The
customer thanked mo and said:
“It has taken you a long time to
sell me a few goods. Arc all of your
customers as hard to please as I ?’
“ ‘It takes some customers but a
short time to make their selections,
while others wish to be slower; we are
bound to please them all,’ I answered.
“ ‘Does it pay your house to devolo
so much time to so small a sale?’ he
inquired again.
“‘Yes,’I replied. ‘1 have taken
pains to give you what yon want. I
know you will find the goods as I say.
You will have confidence and come
again, and the next time it will not
take so long.’
“After getting his packages lie
walked out of the store. In three
days I mailed samples of tho new
dress goods to bis wife, and the cir
cumstance passed entirely out of my
mind. I was promoted in a few days,
much to iny astonishment.
One morning I was informed that
Mr. B. w'shed to see me. I went to
the office with surprise and some fear.
I was more surprised when I Baw sit
ting beside my employer my custom
er of a few months back. He proved
to be the moneyed parter of the con
cern, whoso other business interests
kept him away from tho dry-goods
store almost entirely, and he was
known to but few of his employes,
although he knew that I was a new
man as soon as he saw me, and
thought to sec what metal I was made
of. That he was satisfied is proved
by his making me a buyer of the sev
eral departments whore I sold goods.
My prosperity began with the tough
customer, and now I thank goodness
that I got him, and that I did not
show my disposition to strangle him.”
—
A Big Railroad Scheme.
The Biimingham News says: “It
is known that the Alabama Midland
railroad, which is being built from
Bainbridge, Ga., to Tuskaloosa, Ala.,
via Montgomery, is practically con
trolled by H. B. Plant, president of
tho Plant system of railroads and
steamship lines. The completion of
the Midland will give Mr. Plant a
direct and unbroken lino from Tus
kaloosa to Charleston, S. C., via
Bainbridge and Savannah. The
Sheffield, Birmingham and Tennessee
River railroad is building an exten
sion from Jasper to Tuskaloosa. It is
rumored in railroad circles that Mr.
Plant lias either bought, or will buy,
tho Sheffield, Birmingham and Ten
nessee Ilivcr railroad, which will
give him a line on to Sheffield. It is
said that from Sheffield he will build
to Milan, Tcnn., and connect with
the Illinois Central. This would
make a direct line to the sea, with
splendid Western connections, and
would form a great railroad system.
The line would tap the mineral regions
of Alabama in several places.
Cordeles’ Railroad Surveys.
Cordele, Ga., September 27.—
People of Hawkinsville have raised
funds for the purpose of paying the
expenses of the survey of the Albany
and Cordele railraod to Hawkinsville,
and parties here have been written to
and questioned to have Chief Engin
eer L. W. Robert continue tho sur
vey. Cordele, Albany and Hawkins-
villc will be greatly benefitted by the
construction ofthis road, especially the
latter two cities, as it gives them inde
pendent lines and important through
counectious.
LEVY’S
Latest Success,
-FOR-
READ, READ!
And Profit by the Same.
GUARANTEED, EVERY PAIR,
Or Money Refunded.
BLACK
HOSIERY.
//V G R
THE GREAT SUCCESS
Which our “C hiyx’jJDycd 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, ami at the same time re
taining all the excellent qualities ot
dye, which have been so thoroughly
‘tested am! approved iu 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 ns well as
repeated washings. Furthermore,
any pair not found as represented, re
turn them and your money will be
refunded.
None genuiue unless stamped with
above trade-mark^
FOR SALE ONLY BY
I. Lei; l Co,
Mitchell House Block