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interim VOL 1-NO V.'-H. 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. - 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