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T.HOMASVILLE, GEORGIA, SATURDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 5, ’881)
S5.00 PER ANNUM
AND
Fancy Dress
GINGHAMS
Are acknowledged to be the
handsomest in the city. They
arc selling rapidly, especially
those splendid patterns we offer
at
8o ci Yard.
.Make your selections before
they are picked over too much.
Our Fancy Ribbons
3 INCHES WIDE,
Which *vc are offering at the
marvelously low price of
25o a Yard,
oAre the talk of the town. If
you have not seen thorn yet, it
. will pay you to call at once
and inspect them.
For lO cts.
Wc will sell you a beautiful
Ladies’ Union Linen Hem
stitched Handkerchief, which
is certainly the best value ever
offered in Thomasvillo.
For 5 cents
Yon can buy a nice colored
bordered handkerchief, plenty
good enough for the ! children
to lose at school.
Wcjjhave an elegant all wool
Saxony wove Jersey at the as
tonishingly low figure of
#1.00,
Never before sold for less’than
one dollar and fifty cents.
These are but a feu 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
tilings lively this season, and
wc have the goods and prices
.to do it with.
Wc 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.
syrup hath lost iti
the call,
TUO'IK BACHEIiOR DAYS OV YORE
Front the Chicago Herald:
In the colicky hours of the nights to come.
When the hands glow cold and the feet are
numb :
When the soothin;
charms
And the soul is thrilled h
arms!”
How the spirit will yearn for the days gone
When never was heard that sharp, shrill
cry— „
When the brain lay buried in dreamland
deep —.
And the night was a Ion?, unbroken sleep!
Heigho! for those bachelor days of yore
And the blissful pence which will come no
more!
The clock ticks on and the babe still yells
And his injured feelings to his parents tells
As up from his heart this dictum wells:
Drat
That
Unit!
JAKE YOUNG JUGGED.
Tiflon’s Incendiary and Murderer Placed
Behind the Bars.
COL. ANDREW YOUNG DEAD.
132 BROAD ST.
A Gallant Soldier and Citizen Called to
, His Reward
A brief notice of the death of Col,
Andrew Young, at hi? home at Cle
burne, Tex., appeared in the Georgia
columns of the Norning News of ves
terday. Col. Young is remembered
by many citizens of Savannah, who
formed his acquaintance when be was
stationed here at the beginning of
the war ns surgeon of the First Gcnr-
gia regular?, to which position lie was
appointed by Gov. .Too Brown.
When Paul Scmmes organized the
Second Georgia Volunteers, Dr.
Young was appointed surgeon of the
regiment, and accompanied it to Vir
ginia. Desirous of participating
more actively in the war, Col. Young
resigned the position of surgeon, and
returning toTifsTionie, in Blairsvf
bo organized wbat was known «» the
Young Volunteers, a company which
was attached to the Twenty-third
Georgia, and participated in the pe
ninsular campaign in the neighbor
hood of Ynrktown, Va.
At the battle of Seven Pines, Col
Young was wounded, a minie hall
passing through his breast and making
its exit in the back. He was left for
dead on the field, hut friends found
him, a silk handkerchief was passed
entirely through the wound, and lie
so far recovered as to he able to lie
taken home. When he became con
valesccnt lie revisited his old regi
incut, and while in Richmond was
given a commission to raise a cavalry
regiment, which was known
Young’s regiment of cavalry.
After the war closed, Col. Young
located at Monroe, Walton county,
and practiced medicine a year, when
}Jti removed to Cleburne, Tex., a
town at that time of only fifty inhabi
tants, hut now a city of nearly 5,000
population. (.’ol. Young retired
from the practice of medicine some
years ago, the appreciation of his
town property enriching him. At
the time of his death lie was editor
of the Cleburne Tribune, a paper
owned by his sons.
Col. Young was an active politician
before the war. and had served in
Both branches of the Georgia legisla
ture as a representative of Union
county and that senatorial district.
He was an active friend of the late
Iloifell Cobh, whose political ambi
tions he always sought to advance,
nnd he was also a partisan of the
Hon. Joe Brown before the war.
Col. Young was a graduate of the
Augusta Medical College, and of the
.Jefferson Medical College of Phila
delphia. His wife died last year.
Qol. Young was horn at Mount Ver
non, Marion county, Tennessee, and
was in his 73d year at the time of his
death. He was an uncle of Capt. A.
A. Winn, of this city, and a brother-
in-law of Col, Barkley, who was kill
ed at Antietam, and bore the same
relation to Gen. John C. Vaughn,
who died at Thoraasville since the
war. Col. Young leaves five chil
dren, who haVe reached their majori
ty, and reside at Cleburne, Tex. _
Tv Tv, Ga., Oct. 2.—Jake Young,
who has eluded the officers since he
killed Arch Golden at Tifton, early in
the spring, was captured this evening,
near Tifton.
Some one, in the night, fired the
new Methodist church at that place, a
few weeks ago, before its completion,
but the fire was discovered in time to
prevent much damage, and the mem
bers placed a watch at the church.
Monday night last the watchman saw
a man approach the church and pour
kerosene oil against it. The man then
raked shavings up under the building
and, with a match, set fire to the pile.
As the Irght blazed up the watchman
fired five shots at the man with a Win
chester rifle, but he escaped. The
watchman then extinguished the flames.
Next morning there were signs of blood
on the ground near the church. A
posse was summoned and the incen
diary was tracked to a house near
Tifton. All day yesterday the house
was guarded, and to-day it was raided.
After a desperate fight, Young, who
was the incendiary, was caught. He
had been shot in the hip.
Young is a desperate character. It
is supposed that he burned the Ma
sonic hall and the Methodist church at
Tifton last-year. He seems to have
had no motive but revenge upon some
of the members of the church, who
refused to uphold him in Ins lawless
course.
The murder of Arch Golden was a
cold-blooded affair. He was shot
from behind without warning.
Senator
Senator Hampton, of South Caro
lina, said to a Washington Star repor
ter the other day : “My position in
regard to the colonization of the
negroes lias been misinterpreted by
numbers of people, who think that I
am in favor of using, force to get
them out of the country. In- conse
quence of this misinterpretation, I
have recently received scores of let
ters most of them anonymous, of nit
exceedingly abusive and denunciatory
character. I never said a word nbotit
forcing the negroes away. There is
no doubt in my mind, though, that it
would he better for the south, better
for the negro, and better for the
whole country if the ‘darkies’ could
he put by themselves. Gen. Grant
favored something of this kind when
he advocated the purchase of some of
the western islands. For myself, F
would favor a hill giving governmen
tal aid to the removal and settlement
of those willing to emigrate. Then
the negroes would have an opportuni
ty of seeing what they could do for
themselves in the way of self-govern
ment.” Senator Hampton thinks
that Mexico, or one of the coast
islands, would be the best place for
the colored people to go to.
Lost His Grip.
Thomas Feltcrs, a very green coun-
tr.man from Thomas county, was
pirouting about the docks yesterday
afternoon in search of his grip, which,
he said, he had left under a lumber
pile, but just where the pile was was
what troubled Tom.
“Them darn piles is all alike, so’s I
au’l lei! one from t’other,” he com-
plained, "hut I’ll look under everyone
of ’em ’fore I quit.”
The suggestion that possibly a pirate
had collarod the grip and made off
with it, was not accepted by Thomas.
They ain’t smarte’rn I are,’’ he
proudly affirmed, "'cause I hid it sho’
huff.”
It looked that way. — Brunswick
Times.
The four largest churches in the
United States are the Roman Catho
lics, 7,855,294; Methodists, 4.723,881;
Baptists, 4,078,598, and Presbyterians,
,180,113.
Bermuda Grass.
As considerable discussion is going
the rounds of the papers on Bermuda
grass, says a correspondent in the
Florida Agriculturist, I will give a
little of my experience with it. .One
of my neighbors had a small patch
in a field where some early settler
had built a cabin of logs and had set
some Bermuda in the yard. The old
cabin was either burned or torn away,
and this patch of Bermuda was
spreading so rapidly that, he had fears
of its taking his place. As he was
about to plant the field- to cotton the
next spring, I suggested to him that
he plow it under thorougly and keep
the ground well cultivated. This was
in August, and his stock had fed it
down very short.’
He followed my suggestion, turn
ing under all the grass nicely, and
with harrow and cultivator kept it
clean as a summer fallow. The fol
lowing spring a few spears made their
appearance, and the ground was plow
ed and harrowed again and laid off
with the rest of the field and planted
to cotton. A few more spears made
their appearance hut the season’s
cultivation did them up and no Ber
muda has since appeared. There is
no more being heard about it.
Thorough cultivation will destroy it.
And now, I wish to say, one may
search the vorld over and not find a
more valuable grass for a hot climate
than Bermuda. It grows on the poor
est land and makes one of the finest
pastures to be found, and the same
area will afford more feed, keep more
stock and thrive under more diffictil
ties than any gross yet discovered and
it is within the reach of all. A man
with but five acres of land can plant
aronndit even on a sand ridge
jgL and with a little cotton seed meal,
or n few loads from the hen house,
hog pen or co\V lot, can keep it in
good growing condition and it will
feed a horse and cow the year round,
with a ' little fodder and corn two
months iti the winter. Run a fence
through the centre of the acre lot,
to divide it, and pasture half at a
time. If the pasture is convenient to
one of Florida’s numerous little lakes
the stock will require hut little trouble
and he hut small expense. Without
it the poor titan must let the stock
alone and build a tight fence. A
pig or two can also he kept in the
same lot.
Now, there is nothing to hinder
every farmer who owns land, whether
much or little, from having a fine
pasture in Florida as on the best blue
grass region in Kentucky, and at half
the cost and expense of any other
grass in existence. The light ditch
keeps it from spreading, witli a little
care once or twice a yenrto go around
with a shovel and throw the stray
shoots hack into the field.—F.x.
Broken Promises.
Mr. George William Curtis deliv
ered the address before the national
civil service reform league at the an
nual meeting in Philadelphia on
Tuesday night. He delivered the
address before the league last year,
fit last year’s address he stated that
Mr. Cleveland had failed in some re
spects to enforce the civil service re
form law, but that there was reason
for thinking that he had endeavored
honestly to cnforc it, and had succeed
ed better than it was generally
thought lie would. He saw more to
praise than to condemn in Mr. Cleve
land’s civil service reform record, hut
lie did not hesitate to point out his
short-comings.
Rut what does Mr. Curtis say
about President Harrison’s civil serv
ice record? In his whole address there
is not one expression from which the
President can derive satisfaction. He
says that the President was elected on
a platform in which the party was
pledged to promote civil service re
form, and that the President, in his
inaugural address, took oocasion to
say that he would do all in his power
to enforce the civil service law in let
ter and spirit. lie also points out
that the President declared that he
would make removals from office on
ly for cause, aud would make ap
pointments only for merit. lie asks
whether the President has kept his
pledges, and answers that so far from
doing so ho has violated them from
the start—that, in fact, lie lias almost
ignored the existence of the civil ser
vice law. The republican party, he
declares, lins repudiated the civil ser
vice plank in its platform, and a ma
jority of the organs of that party
Berpiicla gra^a, run a light openly sneer nt civil service reform.
Mr. Curtis apparently has no hope
that civil service reform will prosper
while the Republican party is in pow
er. There was never any ground for
thinking that it would. Before the
election of Mr. Cleveland no progress
was made in the effort to reform the
civil service. Under his administra
tion, however, the people began to
hope that the reform would eventual
ly become firmly established. The
Harrison administration Inis destroy
cd that hope. It made great promises,
hut it lias not kept any of them.
News.
A Backset, but not A Defeat ?
The abandonment by the New Or-
lcrans Exchange of a demand of l(i
pounds tare on cotton packed in cotton
cloth, is by no means significant that
that rate will not finally he agreed
upon. The claim of the New Orleans
Exchange, that its action was forced
by that of other exchanges, is no
doubt true. Memphis never accepted
the proposed rate, and the Charleston
Exchange reconsidered its action
accepting it. What other exchanges
may have done, we cannot state posi
tively. but 110 doubt some of them
acted as Memphis or C'hSrlcstoii did.
A complete triumph of the move
ment for the substitution of cotton
for jute bagging could hardly have
been expected this year. The change
was too great for that, with the scant
means possessed for the manufacture
of the cotton bagging, aud the cus
toms, fears and rivalries of the ex
changes to he overcome. But suffi
cient progress has been and will be
made this season to give assurance of
success if the policy of the alliances
and the planters is resolutely adhered
to, and wc are gratified that there are
no indications of weakening as yet.—
Atlanta Journal.
From the Camilla Clarion.
His name is William Russell Hu
ghes, a seven year old son of Mr. Ed.
Hughes, of the Bethany neighbor
hood. The little fellow had picked,
up to the 20th of September, 1650
pounds. We send him the Clarion
for six months, as a premium, and will
send it to any other little hoy who
beats his record.
“1 am out ot debt.” That is the joy
ful news many a happy farmer tells us
this season. We have seen more
cheerfulness among the farmers lately
than wc have known since 1SO9, when
cotton brought twenty cents.
Speaking of Ohio’s big hogs, Mitch
ell county is the Ohio of Georgia. Mr.
William M. Boynton killed a • hog in
March which weighed four hundred
and seventy nine pounds, and we kill
one this season that will draw six Inin
dred pounds.
Young Mr. J. E. Hughes is a young
farmer living on the Branchville road,
on a two horse farm. He is just old
enough to sport the most modest of
mustaches, and yet, with one negro to
help him, he has made ten hales of
cotton and picked it out with his own
hands. Besides, he has raised corn
and hogs and other things in propor*
tion. One thing the Clarion objects
to. The prosperous young farmer is a
bachelor and keeps bachelor’s hall.
That must be broken up. Go forhim,
girls.
Watermelon seed were found in nil
Egyptian tomb that was 3,000 years
old. There was 110 doubt about tlieii^
being watermelon seeds, because the
mummy was all doubled up.—Texas
Siftings.
LIVY’S
Latnt Success,
-FOR-
lies,
HEAD, HEAD!
And Profit by the Same.
GUARANTEED, EVERY PAIR,
Or Mone^ Refunded.
BLACK
HOSIERY.
THE GREAT SUCCESS
Which our "1 Mtyx" Dyed Hosiery
met with last season, and the univer
sal sati.-l'n, tion given by these abso
lutely fast live 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, and tit 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 and your motley will be
refunded. -
None genuine unless stamped with
above trade-mark.
FOR SALE ONLY BY
L lev? & Co.
Mitchell House Block