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THOMASYILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 10,
'880
5.00 PER AUTNTTM
AND
Fancy Dress
GINGHAMS
Atc acknowledged to be the
handsomest in the city. They
are selling rapidly, espechdly
those splendid patterns we offer
at
So JX Y ard.
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
25o a YT axYL,
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 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 JERSEYS
We have 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 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. Wc 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.
• are always glad to see you
what we have.
Thoma9villo as a Health Resort.
Dr. T. M. McIntosh contributed
one of the most interesting, as well as
the most telling portions of the page
article on Thomasville, which appear
ed in the mammoth exposition edition
of the Constitution, last Sunday. Dr
McIntosh is no amateur; he writes
from close personal observation, wide
experience and extended observations.
The article is based purely on facts.
There is no attempt to mislead or de
ceive. No visitor coming to Thom
asville will find the picture of the
plnce and surroundings, as he has
drawn it, an over drawn one. As a
matter of local, as well as of general
interest, we reproduce the article.
Dr. McIntosh, says':
In regard to Thomasville as a health
resort, it can be said that there is no
climate in America where those afflict
ed with the various pulmonary and
respiratory diseases cau come and
stay with greater benefit. For gene
ral hcalthfulnes3 and low mortality
rate, Georgia and Thomas county can
not be surpassed by any in the union.
Below we give a comparative
statement of the meteorology of two
oth<r noted health resorts—Denver,
Col., and Los Angeles, Cal.
J OS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA —1889.
li
: s |£ |
a. ; H
January 55.401 80
February 51.60 82
March 59.10) 85
April 150.10; 87
November jGO.OOj $6
December 153.70j 73
DKWKR, COLORADO,—1887,
Month.
| MeanTem-
| perature
1 Maximum
| Tcmpcrat’e
a*
a £
'5 o.
s g
January
31.30
07
18
February
32.00
71
3
March
45.00
75
13
April
48.70
82
20
November
40.40
74
14
December *
28.80
07
14
TnOMASVlLI-E, UA.—
-1887.
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s «
S v
£ H
i S
5 2
Month.
a 2
*
'5 Z.
M **
£ s
33 r.
_ ~
H
H
58,70
74
27
February
52.58
70
2 6
57.25
80
35
April
G8.7'
80
40
November
•10.58
84
33
23
132 BROAD ST.
This will show that the climate is
almost identical with that of Califor
nla, as far as temperature is concern
ed, but it is a wolhknown fact that
the diflerence in the sun and shade
temperature in California is very
marked, and is quite unpleasant and
hurtful to invalids, who, when exer
cising in the sun, suffer with the heat,
and when in the shade A id overcoats
pleasant. This temperature ine
quality acts unfavorably upon deli
cate constitutions, and gives the pine
regions of lower Georgia quite an ad
vantage in this respect. The climate
of Denver, it will be seen, is very
cold, with wide ranges of tempera;
ture from cold to colder.
Most of those who seek the climatic
cure of disease have some of the respi
ratory diseases—pneumonia, bronchi
tis and consumption, various forms
of nervous and renal disease. In ex
amining the mortuary statistics for
the south Atlantic coast region, the
death rate is low for all respiratory
diseases, such 8-s pneumonia, con
sumption, bronchitis, nervous and
renal diseases. It is high for mala
rial diseases. The same is true of the
southern Appalachian region except
that there is littlo malaria. Thomas
county is m this last region, among
the pines, and has but few of the cpn-
ditions to generate malarial diseases.
The presence of the negro, among
whom the respiratory diseases is most
prevalent and fatal, gives infinitely
the larger proportions of death from
these causes. On the contrary in the
central interior plateau, tho Ohio
river belt, the north Mississippi river
belt, central regions, plains and
prairies and the Cordillera ii
region, wc find theso diseases
producing more than the aver
age death rate—all, however, in not
the same proportion as to consump
tion and pneumonia, in some portions
there being very high as to one or the
other disease, while in other sections
it is as low as in the south Atlantic
and southern pine regions as to these
two diseases. The death rate from
consumption in the high pine lands
of Georgia and Alabama is the lowest
of all the other regions, and for pneu
monia as low as any in the coast
region, and part of the pine table
land, and next to lowest on remainder
of the pine belt.
The middle, northern-middle and
north-eastern states have a high death
rate consumption.
Therefore, the reason is plain why
so many invalids seek the mild and
pure atmosphere of the southern pine
regious for pulmonary and respirato
ry diseases. Thomasville is fast be
coming the Mecca of the health seek
ing pilgrims, and among the pines
they find the palladium of their wast
ing bodies. The topography of Thoih*
asville is fine for natural drainage,
which, with its sandy soil, enables
one, half an hour after the hardest
rain, to walk with dry feet. The san
itary condition of Thomasville is as
good or better than any city in the
union. The large hotels and hoard
ing-houses have their waste and soil
pipes abundantly flushed with an am
ple water supply, which empties two
miles from the city, and each resi
dence and hut has its soil removed
from one to four times a week py the
cartage system, which has been recent
ly recommended by the British Medi
cal association. The drinking water
is pumped from an artesian well five
hundred feet deep.
A Projocted Railroad.
AVhile Thomasville is cogitating
over the situation—seeing her busi
ness drift away for want of compe-
tive rates here, Albany, not satisfied
witli three roads, and a navigable
stream besides, led on by that tireless
worker, Col. Nelson Tift, is reaohing
out for another road.
Col. Tift was shrewed enough, when
the road was built from there to Al
bany, to get his town made the com
petitive point, leaving Thomasville
a way station—and which she has
been ever since. This section will
soon he covered with nil the railroads
which it can support, and then, ns a
matter of couse, capitalists and olhers
will stop putting money in new roads;
and it looks very much as if the de
mands ot this section will be satisfied,
and its capacity to sustain additional
roads reached, without Thomasville
ever being touched by competing steel
rails.—Timb.sI3ntkupki.sk.
Albany has long since ceased rumi
nating over the situation and gone to
running lines of railroads. That is
what has made her the commercial
metropolis of Southwest Georgia.
With the Columbus Southern and
the Albany and Hawkinsville rail
roads completed, Albany will be the
largest railroad center south cf* At
lanta, and her growth will correspond
to her exceptional railroad facilities.
Col. Nelson Tift, indeed, has as
much rcstlc-ss energy and far-sighted
wisdom as any man. He is the pro
jector nnd founder of the city of Al
bany, and with the same prophetic
wisdom that characterized Romulus
in the selection of the site of Rome,
he chose the strategic position, com
mercially speaking, of this whole see*
tion.
Keep your eves on Albany, she is
moving along at n swinging pace nnd
is bcund to distance all competitors
on the road of progress.
Five years from to day Albany will
have developed into a large city, of
which she now gives promise.
Thomasville has the advantage of
Albany in large hotels, hut In solid
business prosperity and every clemenj
of future importance, Albany is far
ahead of our ambitious little neigh
bor.—News and Advertiser.
Albany has a right to be proud of
her progress. She has worked, work
ed hard for it, and we wish all the
success which pluck, will and direct
energy bring. Thomasville is not,
nor has she ever been, jealous of her
neighbors. Fighting for the front
rank she has always had a pleasant
and encouraging word, for other
places. We arc all in the same boat
down here ; what helps one, will help
all. That Thomasville will not, much
longer, rest on her oars, is becoming
apparent. She cannot do so with
safety. Her trade and progress
is being imperilled by new lines
of railway, and she is going (o
put in and take a hand. She is
obliged to do this. The dullest are
now convinced of this fact. We have
never lost faith in the ultimate action
of those who hold the destinics.of the
town in their hands. They will, in
the end, prove equal to the occasion.
But the end must soon be reached—
and it will be growth, or decay.
The Congress of American Nations.
This distinguished body convened
in Washington City the other day.
Mr. Blaine received them and made
an excellent address:
blaine’s speech.
Blaine said: Gentlenicn of the in
ternational congress. Speaking for
the government of the United States,
I bid yon welcome to this capito 1 .
Speaking for the people of the United
States, I bid you welcome to every
section and to every state of the Uni
ted States. You come in response to
an invitation extended by the Presi
dent nnd congress. Your presence
here is no ordinary event. It signi
fy s much to the people of all Ameri
ca to-day. It signifies more in the
days to come.
' TOE TERRITORY represented.
A congress of nations has assembled
to consider the welfare of territorial
possessions so vast and to contemplate
the possibilities of tho future so great
and so inspiring. Those now sitting
within these walls are empowered to
speak for the nations whose borders
are on both the great oceans, whose
southern limits are touched by the
Artie ocean for thousands of miles be
yond the straits of Behring, whose
southern extension furnishes human
habitations farther below the equa
tor than is elsewhere possible on the
globe. The aggregate territorial ex
port of the nations here represented
falls but a little short of 7,000,000 of
square miles, more than three times
the area of all Europe and but littlo
less than one fourth part of the globe,
while In respect to the power of pro
ducing articles which arc essential to
human life and those which minister
to life, they constitute the larger pro
portion of the entire world. These
great possessious to-day have an ag
gregate population approximate
120,000,000, but if peopled as dense
ly ns the average of Europe the total
number would exceed 1,000,000,000.
While considerations of this char
acter may inspire Americans, both
South and North, whith tho liveliest
anticipations of future greatness and
power, they must also impress them
selves with a sense of the gravest re
sponsibility touching the development
of the respective sections.
TO. ESTABLISH PERMANENT RELA
TIONS.
The delegates whom I am address
ing can do much to establish perma
nent relations of confidence, respect
and fiiendship between the nations
which they represent. They can
show to the world a pcacefid confer
ence of seventeen independent Amer-
ean powers, in which all shall meet
together on terms of absolute equali
ty, a conference in which there can he
no attempt to coerce a s ; ngle delegate
against his own conception of the
trust of his nation^ a conference which
will permit no secret understanding
on any subject, but will freely publish
to the world all its conclusions; a con
ference which will tolerate no spirit
of conquest, but will aim to cultivate
American sympnthy as broad ns both
continents; a conference which will
form no selfish alliance against the
older nations, from which we are
proud to claim inheritance; a confer
ence, in fine which will seek nothing,
propose nothing, endure nothing that
is not, in the general dense of all the
delegates, timely and wise and peace
ful.
ALL SONS OF A NEW WORLD.
And yet we connot be expected to
forget that our common fate has
made us cohabitants of two continents,
which at the close of four centuries
are still regarded beyond the seas as
the new world. Like situations be
little sympathies and impose like du
ties. We meet in the firm belief that
the nations of America ought to be
and can be more helpful, each to the
other than they now are, and that
each will find advantage and profit
from enlarged intercourse with the
other. We believe that we should
be drawn together more closely by
the highways of the s«a and that, at
no distant time, the railway system of
the North and South will meet upon
the isthmus and connect, by land
routes, the political and commercial
capitals of all America. We believe
that hearty co-operation and hearty
confidence will save all the American
states lrom the burdens and evils
which have long and cruelly afflicted
the older nations of the world.
LET JUSTICE RULE.
We believe that Ihe spirit of justice,
of common and equal interest be
tween the American stntes, will leave
no room for an artificial balance of
power-like unto that which has led to
wars abroad and drenched Europe in
blood. We believe that friendship,
avowed with candor and maintained
with good faith, will remove from the
American Btates the necessity of guar
ding the boundary lines between
themselves with fortifications-an mili
tary forces, that standing armies be
yond those which are neefflful for
public order aud the safety ot the
internal administration should be un
known to both the American conti
nents. We believe that friendship
and not force, the spirit of just laws,
and not the violence of the mob,
should be the recognized rule of ad
ministration between the American
nations nnd in the American nntions.
To those objects and those which are
cognate thereto the attention of this
conference is earnestly aud cordially
invited by the government of the
United States.
THREE ORE AT (JAINS.
It will be a great gain when we
shall acquire that common confidence
on which all international friendship
must rest. It will he a greater gain
when we shall he able to draw the
people of all the American nations
into closer acquaintance with each
other, an end to he gained by more
frequent nnd more rapid inter-com
munication. It will be the greatest
gain when the personal and commer
cial relations of America, south and
north, shall he so developed and so
regulated that each shall acquire the
highest possible advantage from the
other.
Before the conference shall formal
ly enter on this discussion of the sub
jects to be submitted I am instructed
by the president to invite all the del
egates to bo guests of the government
during the proposed visit to the vari
ous sections of the country, with the
double view of showing ourselves to
our friends from abroad aud of giving
to our own people in their own homes
the privilege and pleasure of extend
ing the warm welcome of Americans
to Americans.
Frost in Alabama.
Montgomery, Ala., Oct. 8—
There was frost in the middle and
northern portions of Alabama last
night.
For each $ioo worth ot property in
the state, Georgia is taxed twenty one
cents for public schools, Florida fifty-
cents. The average in the sou:hern
states is forty cents—Times-Umon,
Jacksonville.
LEVY’S
Latest Such,
-FOR-
lies,is
READ, READ!
And Profit by the Same.
GUARANTEED, EVERY PAIR,
Or Money Refunded.
BLACK
HOSIERY.
7/ Vg r
THE GREAT SUCCESS
Which our “Onyx” Deed Hosiery
met with last season, aud 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 all the excellent qualities of
dye, which have been so thoroughly
tested aud approved in previous sea
sons.
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 found as represented, re
turn them and your money will he
refunded.
None genuine unless stamped with
above trade-mark.
FOR SALE ONLY BY
L Levy & Ci.
Mitchell House Block