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itoim VO i 1 -NO 1:0. TEOMASYILLE, GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 4, 1885) On lev Frists ANI) Fancy Dress GINGHAMS Arc acknowledged to bo ^ the handsomest in the city. They arc scllin" rapidly, especially those splendid patterns we offer at 8c a, Yax'd. Make your selections before they arc picked over too much. Our Fancy Ribbons 8 INCHES WIDE, Which we are offering at the marvelously low price ot 25a aYai'd, if Are the talk of the town, ji t seen them yet, it i 11 Mt. <»nr»n you have not. -- 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. For 5 cents You can buy a nice colored bordered handkerchief, plenty good enough for the children to lose at school. IN JEESEYS We|have an elegant all wool Saxony wove Jersey at the as- tonishinglv low figure of #1.00, Never before sold for lessThan 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 wo 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 see you and show you what we have. F. N. Lobnstein, 132 BROAD ST. Patronize Home Merohant9, Home indus tries and Homo Institutions and Enterprises. We have tried to show, time with out numherr, that it was the duty of every citizen ofThomasville to spend their money at home. This is one way, and a mighty good one, to build up a towu, Aud, as a rule, one will come nearer getting their moneys worth. There are magnificent stocks of goods here, dry goods, groceries, furniture, hardware, farmers supplies, fancy goods, fide goods, cheap goods, in fact every thing, almost, which can be called for. The competition is iharp and close. Prices are as low as in any town in the State. With the money, or gilt edge credit, one can buy as many goods here for the same money, as they can anywhere. Apropos of this question, the fol lowing, taken from an exchange, is entitled to a careful reading: “You would be surprised to sec a list of people who persist in the foolish policy of sending off for their goods. Some of them honestly believe they nrc getting their thing3 ehenper. They are ignorant. Others think tilings are more elegant because they conic from abroad—they are snobs. Xow look at it. Von send to New Vork or go there to buy n set of furniture or something else needed. Von do not know where to go. You nrc .at tl e mercy of a dealer who sizes you up and charges you two or three prices Your town merchant goes there, knows where to trade, lie un derstands where to get the best furniture for the least money, lie buys a large lot of it, and ten to one lie can sell you the identi cal furniture cheaper than you bought it in New York. There is n practical and a patriotic lesson in this. Von will litul that you will save money by purchasing your articles at home. Von arc sustaining a legitimate business, building up a good store, making your town a good market, aiding in lowering the prices and increasing the quality and varie ty of goods, you nre doing the best tiling for your own pocket mid your prosperity; (live your town dealer 11 chance, favor him with your order. If he hasn't got what you want he will get it. The way to get the best goods for th<\ least money, is to buy them at home. The way to build up your city, is by trading ut home. The way to serve yourself and help your nnighbnr, is to buy at home. ItoiTt “roast'' your town. Just believe Hint whatever you get in your town is better than anything you- can get elsewhere -which is probably true, and you will not regret it. Stirring Up the Negroes of Liberty County. A Tribute to Gordon. Branswick Tittup. Since John 15. Gordon has been governor of Georgia not a word of ad verse criticism on a single act of his has appeared in any, paper in the state. What a splendid tribute this is to the chief exceutive, nnd what a matchless one! Friend aud foe alike have applauded him in all his course, and not a finger has pointed out a flaw iu his administration, Gordon is simply the superb. A Georgian By Accident. Texas Dny. In the Georgia legislature the other day a home-born member twitted a brother member with the fact that he was born outside the state and was therefore “not a true Georgian.” The reply was: “Not a native Georgian, but I am a Georgian by preference, while the gentleman from Wilkes is a Georgian by accident." The gentle man from Wilkes subsided. It is a curious fact, remarks the New York Herald, that there are two hundred thousand people in the United States who have artificial legs or hands. This number does not in clude the veterans of the Union or Confederate army. In New York city aud vicinity there are about five thousand men and women who have supplied the place of lost limbs with the manufactured article. It is possi ble for a mau who has lost both legs to walk as the' best of us. Modern science has come to his aid, and by a curious contrivance enables him to go about his business with a very small amount of inconvenience. If he has only one artificial leg he can dance or ride a bicycle without so much ' as a hint that he had been crippled. JOHN, THE BAPTIST. John t lie Baptist has appeared in Liberty county, and for a week or two has been making things lively down here. A hundred armed negroes scourged him, and finally he had to flee to the wilderness. Senator Bradwell, who returned Irom there yesterday, tells the story as it was told him by a Methodist miriis- tet. St. Catherine’s island, off the coast of Liberty county, is inhabited by about 300 negroes under the direction of one white man, who superintends the estate belonging to the German consul at Savannah. About two weeks ago a strange ne gro appeared on the island, and ex hibited a scroll resembling a Masonic chart, which he said was the “golden chain.” a revelation from heaven. He announced himself as John the Bap tist, and called upon the negroes to believe aud be baptized. A few accepted his teachings, but the majority appeared to be indifferent and told him that if he would go over to the mainland in the-black belt of the county, he would get plenty ol followers. * He did so, and appeared at the grove where the orgies of the false Christs had been enacted. There be soon had a following. The nergoes collected about him, heard his teach ing and did his bidding. Me made them all submit to baptism as an ini tiation, and allowed none but the ini tiated to attend the orgies. The initiated were soon very many and very enthusiastic. They cut down the magnificent grove and began to build a circular canopy, which -they called the ark. Around ihis they built a lencc to ward off the unbeliev ers, and sentinels posted at a distance, admitted none Jbut those who could give the’pass-word. This did not suit the belter class of negroes. They understood that the same orgies that had characterized the reign of king Solomon and the false Christ, were going on in the ark, and they determined to break it up. Last Wednesday, a hundred ol the unbelievers armed themselves and went to the ark. The sentinels were brushed aside and the ark was polluted by the presence of one hundred infi dels. The believers made no resistance, and John the Baptist was taken out side of Zion and whipped. The next day John the Baptist came out of the wildnerncss. He ap peared at Hinesville with his head tied up, and swore out warrants for fourteen of the infidels. Since that time he has disappeared It is ru mored that he was notified that it he resumed operations again, the hundred would come again, and this time it would be a more serious thing th&n a whipping. Gut the scourging of their leader did not disperse the Baptists in the ark. They are still there carrying on things as best they can without John. The excitement among the negroes has caused a good deal of excitement and some anxiety among the whites. A whole settlement was thrown into an uproar in a moment of false alarm, a minister named Price was going his rounds, and called at the house of a gentleman he knew, though he did not know his wife. “Madam, I am Mr. Price,” said h£, introducing himself. She thought he said, “Madam, I am thp Christ,” and took it for granted that he was the madman, Bell, who claimed to be the Christ. Hastily snatching her baby, she ran out tljc back door, and fled to a neighbor’s house, where she spread the alarm, in a few minutes the entire neighbor hood was aroused, and a posse of armed men were gunning for the Christ. Finnally the excitement was allayed by the discovery of the error, The First Railroad Projected in the United States—Brunswick in the Long Ago. and the settlement sat down and laughed at itself. Nebuchadnezzar has come to his senses and quit eating grass. lie ac knowledges that he was crazy, and has been released from jail. King Solomon remains in jail to answer to the charge of bigamy, and there is little doubt that he will be convicted. From the Brunswick (In., Times. He was crazy. That is what the people of Brunswick said of William B. Davis, an engineer by profession, who came to Brunswick early in the ’20’s and seriously proposed to build a railroad from here to the Altamnha a history of the town, Brunswick’s growth ceased, its prosperity and ITS INHABITANTS DKSKRTKI) IT, and in 1S47 the peninsula upon which the thriving city now stands was a cotton plantation and only four or five families constituted its population. But the purpose and object of that road have been accomplished by oth ers, built since, and they reach into the rich agricultural and finely tim bered country which the men of 1826 intended to reach by way of the pro jected railroad and the Altamnha river and the Brunswick of to-day is a striking verification of the wisdom of the plans which they failed to live long enough to see carried out. Their incredulity about tho practi cability of a railroad across the marshy country between Turtle river and the Altamaha is ' somewhat ex cusable in the light of the facts that there was no railroad then in exis tence; that not till the year 1825 was one successfully operated in England, and that when Davis was talking rail roads in Brunswick there was none on the American continent. Crazy though they called him, lie found men here with brains, and en terprise enough to attempt to execute them. His efforts and those of his associ ates reached a practical result when, in 18?fi, two years before the Balti more and Ohio was built, and four years before the first railroad was op erated by steam in tho United States, the Georgia legislature CTIAHTEKKD A RAILROAD. The company was called tho Bruns wick Canal company, but by the terms of tho act the incorporators were “to build a canal or railroad or both from tho Altamnha driver to Turtle river or to Brunswick.” The descendants of those men are widely scattered throughout Georgia and the south, for the incorporators of that company were Thomas Butler King, Stephen G. King, James "Fort, John Burnett, Sr., and John Burnett, Jr,, James Gould, Joliu Iiardcc, Henry Dubignon (that is the way it is spelled in the act), Daniel Blue and William B. Davis. NAMES IIISTOTK.'AI, THEN, more so at the present day. The regulation of freight and pas senger tariff by law is no new idea in Georgia. In this old charter of 1820, the company is required to keep its books open to the inspection of legis lative committees and is forbidden to charge such prices for freight or pas sengers as would run its income over 25 per cent of the amount invested and the expenses of repairing and operating the railroad or caual. With the granting of this charter, however, matters seemed to rest for several years until 1850, when anoth er act was passed conferring the samo powers and privileges, but even under this act no work was done. In 1884, when Wilson Lumpkin was governor and Thomas Glasscock was speaker of the house aud Jacob Wood was president of the senate, a bill was passed cousolidatiug the pre vious nets, aud granting to William W. Hazard, Thomas Butler King, .Stephen C. King, aud their associates authority to construct the railway or canal, or both. And this act allowed Urbauus Dart and Win. B. Davis to associate themselves with the new company. It was under this act and by these men that the work was FINALLY llEliL'N IN 1886. But the road was never finished, though on the outskirts of Bruuswiek one cau sec a perfectly straight em bankment about twelves miles long, now used as the dirt road to the Alta maha river. Thu is the work done by slaves bought by the company under the act of tho legislature, and this is all that was ever done, for from one reason and another, to enumerate which it would be necessary to give LEVY’S Latest kcess, -FOR- Ladies, Missss nd Chldren The business ol the Eiffel tower turns out to be immense. M. Eiffel calcu lated that when everything was in working order tho gate money would he 85,000 a day. Since the lifts have been in operation he is thought to have averaged more than this. It costs twenty cents to enter the tower, forty cents to get up in the lift to the second floor, and eighty cents to the top. On any one of tho ordinary full price days, more than 20,000 people have paid admission, and, with the increased prices for those using the elevator, the entire receipts exceed 810,000. The original cost of the Eiffel tower, all included, was a little less than 81,000,000. The proprietor has to keep it in repair and hand over onc-fouth of his gate money to the exhibition. It is estimated that it will be half paid for when the exhibi tion closes, and then it will remain certainly three years more and per haps ten. READ, READ! And Profit by the Same. Wealthy men in New England nre setting a good example for men of fortune in other parts of the country by giving largo sums of money for tho establishment of libraries. The | latest instance of these commendable notions is that of the gift of a hand some library building, erected at a cost of 85,000, to the town of South Dartmouth, by John II. Smithworth, of Springfield, Mass. Mr. South- worth also stocked the library with 8,400 books. GUARANTEED, EVERY PAIR, Or Money Refunded. The prac ice of cremation is spread ing rapidly in Italy. In forty-two communities it has been adopted to the exclusion of every other meth od of disposing of dead human bodies, hi twenty-one communities furnaces have been in operation for several years. In nineteen communi ties the authorities are trying to raise money for the erection of crematories. The New Orleans Times Democrat, in a jocular vein, says : “The restau- ranters of the country are preparing to roast the great skewer trust, which has just been formed. With toothpicks, skewers, frying pans and stoyes all syndicated, the great Amer ican stomach is certainly in danger.” Before Tanner was bounced, the slightest criticism of his course was denounced by the republican press as a vile rebel or copperhead attack on the “heroes” of the late war. Now, however, the republican papers them selves criticise the corporal quite’ free ly, from which we understand that it was the man in control of $100,000,- 000 for whom they felt such a pro found respect,and not simply the ‘hero’ whose legs are gone.—Macon Tele graph. Georgia is at the front to stay, re marks an exchange. No, no; Georgia is not “staying” at any place, hut moving—moving continually, far ahead of the front itself.—Tribune of Rome. The number of comets discovered this season is almost unprecedented. Either astronomers are becoming more industrious or comets are grow ing less shy. Real estate iu New York city doubles in value every eight years now. There are only about 40,000 vacant lots left. BLACK HOSIERY. //V gr THE GREAT SUCCESS Which our “Onyx” Dyed Hosiery met with hist 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 good* from Ingrain yarns, thus giving greater strength and wearing qualities to the fabric, and at the same time re taining ail tho excellent qualities of dye, which have been so thoroughly tested and approved iu previous sea- Try a pair of Onyx, aud 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 foiiud as represented, re turn them and your money will bo refunded. None genuine unless stamped with above trade-mark.. FOR saie;only by L Levy & Co. Mitchell House Block