The Daily times-enterprise. (Thomasville, Ga.) 1889-1925, October 08, 1889, Image 1

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ttofrrige. VOL 1—NO 1:'G. TEEOMASYILLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 8, 'BSD S5.00 PER AMdM AS DSDAL, hr lew Frists 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 picliedjover too much. Our Fancy Ribbons 3 INCHES WIDE, Which we are offering at the marvelously low price of 35c a Yard, Are the talk of the town. If youjjhave not seen them yet, it \vill pay you to call at once andfinspeet them. For lO cts. We will sell you a beautiful Ladies’ Union Linen Hem stitched Handkerchief, which is certainly the best valuc'evcr offered in Thomasvillo. For 5 cents You can b«y a nice colored bordered handkerchief, plenty good enough for the children to lose at school. Wcflhave an elegant all wool Saxony wove Jersey at the as tonishingly low figure of $1.00, Never before'sold for lessjthan one dollar and fifty cents. These arc 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. We are always glad to see you and show you wnat we have. 132 BROAD ST.! I.1STEN TO YOl'R WIFE. You may say that girls are silly, That even women’s minds a*-e weak; Ilut the foolishest among ’em s Sure sometimes to show a streik Of sound common sense w hen needed. And their wits a r c like a knife When tlieyve shaipened by love, so, Just listen to your wife I Women know, by intuition (As philosophers admit,) What you d dig your brains a lifetime For, and then most likely quit A loser. Tho’ my brothers, With your rnilleues you are rife, Not a one of yob’ll regret it IT lie listens to his wife. “From the mouths of babes and suck lings”-- But you know what says the book, Or yon ought to- -and a woman Can do something besides cook; And that man be is a tool, who, In this muddled mundane strife, Thinks that he's too high anu mighty E'er to listen to his wife. You can’t a*way3 measure w isdom, Nor know whe»e it mayn’t be hid. A solon might take lessons From a chit that you have chid; And you’ll own up, if you’er honest, T hat many times in life You’ve missed it, when you wouldn’t If you’d listened to your wife! —Boston Globe. EDITOR UNDERWOOD. Of the Camilla Clarion, On tho Baxley Trouble-What This Baptist Preach er Thinks of the Course of Lovo and Williams. •'Well, about that negro trouble at BaJdey, and the noise the Indtznapolis Baptist convention made about it?” The Clarion repeats its sorrow that a negro preacher, who has hitherto con' ducted hitnself so well, and stood so high in the esteem of the white people of Georeia, as Rev. E. K. Love, of Savannah, allowed himself to get in such a scrape. Love once taught school here in Camilla, aqd at the same time studied under Prolessor Sheats. The editor ot the Clarion esteems him highly, and he is a sub scriber to our paper. But Emanuel got off his guard that time. His head got turned. It was this way. The best oT nc groes and white men have a big streak of vanity in them. Now, Love and Parson Williams, of Brunswick, had started to a great national convention at Indianapolis in the north. That’s a big thing, you know. Your coni' mon cornfield darkey couldn’t take that trip. Now, instead ot taking a seat in the comfortable car assigned to negroes, they all tn a bunch march ed into the white people’s coach and put on airs. “We are city folks, you know, going to Indiarapohs.” Now, the Georgia railroads wisely give sep erate coaches to white and black. We all like it. All parlies travel more comfortably.by the arrangement. The negroes enjoy having the coach to themselves, and many a time have the conductors asked the writer to get out of the negro coach, and we always “get.” We respect the law. We re spect the liberal arrangement of the railroads, and we respect the rights of negro passengers. But love and Wil liams didn’t feel that way. They could ride among Georgia negroes very contentedly on ordinary occa sions, but they were going to "de norf’ this time, right to the home of President Harrison, so they perched themselves in the wrong box and wouldn’t get out when asked to do so. Somebody telegraphed on ahead to Baxley, and when the train reached that village, a mob rushed in and made the negroes get into their own coach. They could expect nothing but rough treatment, and they got it. Love and Williams failed to remem ber that being messengers from hum ble Baptist churches to a large meet ing ot their brethren, doesn’t give power to preachers to change customs agreeable to all parties, to alter rail road regulations that have been agreed upon by' all, as the best that can be made under just laws, and to ride over social customs which are in- {jpitely best for black and white. If they got hurt, we do not justify the hurting, provided they were acting like humble Christians and gentle manly passengers ought to act. But we can safely say that we never saw a negro at all rudely treated who was conducting himself in that manner, and there is reason to believe that in this instance, Love and his crowd were trying to bully customs and social in stincts and to defy authority. When a negro or a white man attempts that in Georgia, he will be rudely treated, and we are not surprised at the treat ment. But it looks as if Love, led on by the more turbulent and bloody Parson Williams, of Brunswick, was trying to make a case for a sensation at Indian apolis. We don’t know about that, but they are shrewd men, and they know that a little bump on their heads o- scratch on their faces would make heroes and martyrs' of them when they reach Indianapolis. And this brings us to a quasi justification of these Georgia darkies. It was a splendid policy. They are not hurt. They are glad of it. They made a de liberate bargain and gained what they wanted—noteriety and promotion. You see, Georgia is alwas ahead, even among her darkies. What negro but a Georgian, and a sharp Camilla one, at that, would have been willing to have himself kicked out of the white folk’s coach, and get a few knocks on the head. These Mississippi or Alabama negroes are not up to snuff and never would have thought of it, Our Geor gia darkies captured the northern part of the convention, the republican pa pers and northern south haters, by the hundreds.^Love was made president of the convention and Williams at once sprang-to the front as the biggest man in it. Hurralf for Love and Williams! Hurrah for Georgia! But here comes a more serious matter—the horrid crime of it alt. The indianapolis convention, under the inspiration of the pitiful tales and rampant harangues of Williams and Love, passed very incendiary resolu tions, breathing a spirit of vengeance, and calling upon their people to a course which would plunge the coun try into trouble and annihilate the ne gro race. To put it more mildly 1 they call for the use of the pistol. In other words, the Indianapolis convention passed resolutions directly encoutaging the negroes of Georgia to break the laws of the state. Morever,the pream ble stated that the negroes are being “shot down like dogs.” Now, Wil liams and Love both know that they are not shot down like dogs, but are shot down just like white people are shot down, and the people of Georgia can no more prevent murder here than the people of Indiana can prevent murder there. These expressions of the convention wete murderous, bloody, false and malicious, and as much unhke'Christ as midnight is un like day. The Georgia delegates should have been the first to repudiate them, arid we know Love well enough to say that if he hadn’t been betrayed into that Baxley folly, he would have been the first to protest against a! such action. Thank God, the Missis sippi delegation were honest enough, cool enough, Christian enough, wise enongh to enter their written protest against all such incendiarism. Wil liams and Love assumed a fearful re sponsibiity by their course, and if their fair names suffer on account ot it, they must bear it. And if good men and the God of peace bring them to ac count for their arrogant and unchrist ian course, and their infamous slander upon southern society, they must meet the judgement. The peaeful negro Baptists ot Geoigia were not represent ed by their delegates this time. We judge them not. In horror of their action in their convention, we honor the delegates from Mississippi, and we pity those from Georgia. HUFF AND FOLSOM. The Latter’s Book of Poems—How Fol som Started Hi9 Career. Cora—“I really must be careful not to give Mr. Smythe any more en couragement, for I do not want to hurt his feelings.” Edith—“Ho has not proposed, has he?” Cora—“No, but ho has been asking me if I thought I could keep house on 810 a week.”— Epoch. Everybody in this city knows Montgomery Folsom, the ex-Macon correspondent of the Atlanta Con stitution. A large number of copies of Fol som’s new book—“Scraps of Song and Southern Scenes,”—have been sold in Macon. It is a neat volume of two hundred pages, and is filled with choice selec tions from the author’s best newspaper work. Some of the poems evidence rare poetical genius, and the stories are graphic and true to life. Tho Atlanta Carrcspondent of the Augusta Chronicle publishes the fol lowing: “Speaking of Folsom tho other day, Hon. W. A. Huff, ’of Macon, said there wrn not a man in Georgia that deserved more credit. ‘He can write like the devil,’ said he. ‘The first time I ever saw him he wa3 the most insignificant looking little mustard I ever saw. “Col. Willis Hawkins brought him to' Macon to see what he could make of him. He brought him to my office and said: ‘Huff I want you to take care of this thing for I think there is something Tn it’ “I surveyed the little mustard from head to foot and asked Hawkins how he would manage to get something to eat. “ ‘Oh,’ said lie, just give liitn a brick bat or anything that comes to hand. He had lived on pipe clay all his life and don’t care much about eating anyway. Just turn him ajposc and let him write. “I gave Folsom free access to my office, and he went out and got a tal low candle, a lead pineil and a table about as big as my hat. He then begun work and kept it up both night and day. How the little devil man aged to live in the meantime I was never, able'to understand, but one day lie canto to me and .said lie had found a piece of property lie wanted to buy. I gave him a little help, and the first thing I knew he had the property paid for and a nice house on it. “About that time lie was unearthed by Henry Grady and brought to Atlanta. Now the little mustard has written a book and I will hot ten dollars some of the pieces in it were written by the light of that tallow candle in my office. “As Col. Ilufif told this story he, handed Folsom one dollar and told him to send a copy of his hook to his little daughter.—Macon Evening News. Sell Eggs by Weight. The following from Farm, Stock and Home needs no comment: Two farmers brought in some eggs to sell. One was evidently proud of his eggs aud proutid of the birds that laid them. He had a flock of Plym outh Hocks, and the eggs they laid were beauties. A dozen of them weighed thirty-nine ounces. Tho other farmer brought in his eggs without saying n word; had nothing to say of them or the fowls that laid them. A dozen of his eggs weighed twenty-one ounces, an average of one and three-fourth ounces each. Both lots were carried to the rear of tho store by a clerk and counted, and each ' man got a cent apiece for his eggs. As he ot the small eggs passed a bystander in going out, he winked kuowingly and said: .“That raau with the big eggs is a fool; his hens cat a heap mere than mine, make no more eggs—though they are bigger— but he gets no more for them.” Young man (proudly)—“I am building a great reputation, sir,” Old Gent (sitting near by)—“Maybe, maybe, but it strikes me you’re put ting in a lectio too much liquor to moke a strong foundation and a steady upper story.” - The Smokoloss Powder. From the London Globe. The Militarischo Zeitung publishes an article pointing out many disad vantages which will nttend the use of the new smokeless-powder, which was tried at the recent review at Spandau. The duties of the guard and the patrol will be made immeasurably more difficult by the absence of tho smoke and noise, which, in the case of the employment of ordinary powder, at tracted their attention to, and pointed out the position of the enemy. On the other hand, it will render capital service to the franctireurs, whose object it is to escape from’ and confuse the guard. ;; Sudden attacks and surprises will become matters of such daily oc- cdircncc that outposts and patrols will have to be immensely strengthened and kept at the utmost tension of watchfulness. Firing drill and disci pline must necessarily be made much stricter than at present. The most important fault of tho smokeless pow der is, however,'the terrible clearness, the overwelming distinctness with which, when it is used in battle, every man will be able to sec the carnnge and slaughter around him. Hitherto the heavy roll of the firing lias merci fully smothered the cries and shrieks of the wounded ; the cloud of smoke has veiled the horrible sight of men piled in heaps, dying and dead, their dreadful sufferings, their agonized end. Each man, fighting behind a thick fog of smoke, which was only wafted aside now and then by a gust of wind, or lightened by a pause in the firing, felt a certain sense of screened security, mistaken, indeed, but none the less reassuring, until ha himself was struck by the fatal bullet. How will it be in the future? The fall of each man who Is shot down will bo clearly seen by his comrades; every cry of nnguish will bo heard by half the company; thcleast hesitation, the least vacillation which, through the rapid change of commander that a death or a severe wound oftcu ren ders necessary, will be immediately observed by the tneu and rob thcrajof that feeling of perfect confidence they ought to have in their officers. The Latest Shot of the War. A dispatch from Chicago says: A peculiar accident occurred Sunday afternoon in the Libby prison. Many persons were frightened and some confusion resulted. Resting against one of the pillars were a number of old war muskets. No one was nearer than five feet to them. Suddenly one of the muskets discharged, the con tents tearing a hole in tho ceiling above. The report was terrific, and several people were greatly excited over its suddenness. IIow the old musket was exploded no one can ex plain. It had done service during the late war, and some soldier had loaded in readiness to fire. The charge must have been in the rifle at least twenty-six years. We DoNot Credit It. The Constitution gives a report that the Alliances contemplate petitioning the governors of the .Southern states to call the Legislatures in extra ses sion for the purpose of passing laws to suspend for six months the collection of debts. Such an extraordinary proceeding could ouly be justified on one or two grounds, to wit:. In case of a revolu tion or a general calamity to the crops and industries of a slate. Neither of these grounds exist as a justification. Such a step would ruin the credit of the planters and destroy the commercial credit of our people. We cannot believe that any such movement as is rumored by the Con stitution is in contemplation by the Alliances. It would be suicidal.— Augusta Chronicle. A City’s Mail.—Stringer (in Chica go)—What is that moving speck out there in the prairie? Chicago man (straining his eyes)—I can’t make ou whether that’s an Indian or a letter carrier.—New York Weekly. “ LETT’S Latest Such, -FOR- , mm yarn BEAD, BEAD !|: And Profit by the Same. GUARANTEED, - EVERY PAIR, Or Money Refunded. BLACK HOSIERY. GR l\ THE GEEAT SUCCESS Which our “Onyx” Dyed 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, and at the same time re taining all tho excellent qualities of dye, which have been so thoroughly tested and 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, aud 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 I. Levy & Ci, Mitchell House Block 8