The Daily times-enterprise. (Thomasville, Ga.) 1889-1925, October 16, 1889, Image 1
VOL 1 -NO 133.
THOMASVILLE, GEORGLA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 16, ‘889
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Omq Letter.
"We have heard
people wonder why
it is that at Lohn-
stein’s you can al
ways find more
customers than at
any other place in
town.
This question we
can easily answer:
The people like to
trade at Lohnsteins
store,
1st. Because they
receive every possi
ble attention and
consideration from
the proprietor, as
well as from the
salesmen.
2nd. Because
they find a better
selection of goods
at Lohnstein’s than
at any other place
in town, and
Last, but not
leatft, because a dol
lar goes farther and
reaches deeper at
Lohnstein’s than
anywhere else.
Politeness,square
honorable dealing,
excellence and
great variety of
stock, small mar
gins and quick
sales; These are the
cardinal reasons for
our flattering and
unprecedented suc
cess. And the good
work still goes on.
Come and see us
this week. We
will divide profits
with you.
Dry good? cloth
ing, shoes, hats,
complete in every
department. Bar
gains in every line.
They are waiting
for you. Come and
pluck them. It
will pay ^ou.
Hie Great Leader and Benefactor,
132 BROAD ST.
TALMAtiE’S TEMPLE BURNT.
Church of the Great Preacher in Ashes,
New York, Oct. 13—The famous
Brooklyn Tabernacle, of which Rev.
T. DeWitt Talmage is pastor, was
to-day, for the second time in its his
tory, totally destroyed by fire.
At 2:15 o’clock this morning a pa
trolman discovered flames issuing
from the small windows over the
main entance and rushing to the
nearest signal -box sent in an alarm.
The firemen found that the fire had
assumed large proportions, and addi
tional alarms, calling all available
aparatus, were at once sent in. It
became evident that the edifice was
doomed. It burned like a tinder box
and the firemen, despairing of saving
it, directed their efforts to the adjoin
ing property.
SWEEP OF THE FI.AMF.S.
Many of the occupants of the neigh
boring dwelling.? were already awake,
and the police proceeded to arouse
those who were sleeping. The three
story frame structure, No. 353 Scher-
merhorn street, adjoining the church
on the cast, was the first to take fire
and No. 356, a similar structure, fol
lowed. No. 357 was also damaged.
On the west side of-the church the
flames extended to two brick dwell
ings and on the opposite side of
Sehei merhorn street a row of three
B‘ory brick dwellings, numbered 338
to 348, suffered from the intense heat.
The window glass was broken and
the wood work scorched.
PEOPLE IN A PANIC.
The residents of the neighborhood,
awakened by either the roc of the
flames or by the policemen pounding
upon their doors, became frightened
and rushed out half dressed or in their
night clothes and the police had great
difficulty in assuring them that they
were in no danger. Fortunately
there was no’loss of life or limb. The
police carried out one old lady of 80
year.? from No. 337 Schornierhorn
street and placed her in a house at a
safe distance. All the other inmates
were able to take care of themselves
TALMAGE SAW Ills TABERNACLE BURN.
But while the firemen and police
worked for the snlvation of property
nnd persons, the doomed church
building was being rapidly consumed,
and in au hour’s time only the totter 1
ing walls remained. Dr. Talmage
was on the scene soon after the first
alarm, and did not leave until he
had seen the edifice, which had been
his pride, laid in ashes. Then he
returned sorrowfully borne. All day
to day crowds visited the spot and
gazed upon the ruins.
ORIGIN OF THE FIRE UNKNOWN.
The origin of the fire is unknown,
Edison’s men were in the building
until 5:30 o’clock yesterday afternoon
arranging the new electric plant and
it is thought that during tho thunder
shower, which prevailed during the
night, lightning had been carried into
the building by the wires they intro
duced and which ran around the
gallery about on a level with where
the flames were first seen.
LOSSES AN’B INSURANCE.
The loss on the chureh building,
including the organ, which was ope
of the finest in the country, is 8150-
000. It is said to be covered by
insurance in a number of companies,
The losses on the adjoining property
is small.
Daring* Deeds of Matrimony.
From the Weekly Leesburger.
The bright, delicious autumnal
weather has had the effect that
roseate spring produces in more
northerly latitudes; it has aroused tho
youth of both sexes to daring deeds
of matrimony.
And Open to Another Proposition.
From the Taylor County Banner-
A lady of West Virginia who is
only 12 years of age is a widow and a
mother. -
New York Church-Goers.
If church attendance may be con
sidered an evidence of morality Dr.
Howard Crosby’s recent tribute to the
average virtue of New York is not
sustained by the facts. Last Sunday
the World set a brigade of reporters
to work to count the actual atten
dance at divine worship in the me
tropolis.
More than 300 .churches were visit
ed at morning and evening services,
and it was found that their total at
tendance for the day was only 164,-
526. A great many of these must
have been counted both in the morn
ing and evening, and it is fair to
presume that not more than 125,000
persons attended church in New York
last Sunday.? "The day was not very
favorable, it is true, hut former expe
riments of the same kind under more
favorable conditions prove that a
surprisingly small per centage of the
people in our chief city attend church
services.
The population of New York is
probably 1,600,000, and therefore,
last Sunday only about one person in
every thirteen in the city went to
church.
The proportion of church attend
ance in London is said to be still
smaller and, as a rule, it will be found
to decrease in proportion to the size
of a city. In nearly all- the towns
and smaller cities of the country the
per centage of church attendance to
population is much larger than that
which was ascertained in New York
Inst Sundny. The reasons for the
difference are obvious. Ordinary
business is more generally suspended
on Sunday in smaller communities
and there are fewer diversions and
public amusements to compete with
the churches. In all the great cen
ters of population, there is a large
class of people who never set foot in
any place of worship, and this cli
proportionately smaller in the minor
cities.
New York is probably as moral as
any city of its size in the world. The
aggregation of great masses of popu
lation anywhere is promotive of vari
ous forms of immorality. Blessed
are they whoso lot is not cast in a
great city.—Macon Telegraph.
Water For Infants.
Good Health.
Infants suffer for want of water
much more frequently than is gener
ally supposed. Water is needed by
young children in much larger quan
tities, in proportion to size, than
adults. It is necessary, to facilitate
the absorption of food. It is also
needed to aid in the work of the liver,
and other secretiug glands. Nearly
all ot the nutritive processes depend
largely for their activity upon the
presence of a sufficient quantity of
water in the blood. Water is espe
cially needed during the warm sea-
sop of fjjp year, when children ns
well as adult? perspire more freely
than nt other seasons. When the
child cries, it is usually given milk.
This is a mistake. Food should only
he given at regular intervals. It is
rarely necessary to administer fopd
more than once in three or four
hours, at least, after the first few days
of the infant’s life; but water should
be given much more frequently. The
same mistake is often^ made with
other children. When a child shows
signs of uneasiness, a glass of milk or
a hit of food of some kind is given,
instead of water, which is the thing
for which naturo is calling. Cow’s
milk should always he diluted by
water or a quantity of oatmeal or
barley gruel, as this prevents the for
mation of hard curds, which is one of
the greatest causes of intestinal dis
turbances and irritation ip small
children. It may he set down as a
very good rule, that a child two years
of age should take, iu some form, not
less than one pint of water daily.
Most grown peoplo as well as children,
drink too little water, and this prob
ably accounts for tlje fact that tho
need of water by children to so over
looked.
nw-W dishonest !
An Object Lesson.
New Hampshire and Vermont are
not the only states in New England
in which farms are being abandoned
and the fallacy of the home market
argument of the protectionists is being
defeated by the logic of events. The
complaint seems to be general through
out the rural districts in that section of
the country in which farms and manu
factures are thrown most closely to
gether.
Recent publications of the condition
of Washington township in Berkshire
county, Massachusetts, contain some
remarkable facts. There are fifteen
desreted houses in the township. Im
proved farms may be had there for
from $io to $u an acre, and grazing
lands are only worth $3 an acre. The
average assessment of. farming lands
in the vicinity is only $7 an acre.
This state of things exists within ten
miles of Great Barrington, which is
lull of manufacturing enterprises and
two railroads pass through these depre
ciated lands, giving ready access to the
home market lor all agricultural pro
ducts. And yet farmers are leaving
that vicinity every year, as they are
leaving other parts ot New England,
seeking homes further from the home
market that lies right at their doors.
It is because the prices of their pro
ducts are not fixed in the home mar
ket, but by competition with the
cheapest labor in the world, and they
enjoy no increase ot their income by
the operation of the tariff—-Telegraph,
Stand Up to Your Promises.
There is but one standard of hones
ty. Man is honest or he is not honest,
and that is the end of it. An honest
man will come right squaro up to his
promises unless prevented by unfore
seen circumstances. He who will
make a promise with the intention of
not complying with it is morally a
•man. Of. qqurse iia. njUD
need promise a thing against his will,
but after an obligation is formed it
cannot be recalled. And if promises
are binding in one instauco they are
binding in all. No class of men are
in any manner exempt from their
obligations, and no honest man will
oblige himself in any way to violate
an obligation. A promise to pay at a
certain time means nothing less, and
any failure to do so, short of tho prov
idence of God, is a crime whicli no
honest man will obligate himself to
violalo an obligation.
Imagination a Moral Force.
From tho I’asco Pcirocrnt,
No thinking and intelligent man
will deny that what people imagine is,
in some degree, the foundation of
what they are, as well as the source
of what they say and do. Take the
young and enthusiastic boy who re
solves to become somebody iu tho
great world and who selects a voca
tion. What is it that infuses into
him such hope and courage, that
nerves liis arm and fires his heart,
and leads him to make all sacrifices
and cheerfully endure all manner of
privations and hardships? What is it
that ennobles his aspirations, tefincs
his nature and sublimates his ambi
tions? It to the ideal that his imagi
nation has so beautifully pictured
upon his mind and has clothed with
heroism and glory that he longs to
realize.
A Berlin correspondent writes:
“Prince Bismarck is iu appearance
now a feeble old gentleman. Meas
ured by that of some of his great
contemporaries, his is not so very
advanced an age. He will m-t be
seventy-five until next April fool’s
dry, which means that he is nearly
fifteen years younger than Count von
Moltke, who is still hale and vigorous.
Bismark, too, is six years younger
than Gladstone, seven younger than
Cardinal Manning, five younger than
Leo XIII., and ten years younger
than Prince Gortchakoff was when he
died. But he to not robust at all,
and I believe that he frets a great
deal over the fear that ho may not
last much longer.”
A Queer Phenomenon.
San Francisco, Oct. 12—Capt.
Thompson of the schooner Challenger
has just returned from a long cruise
in the South sea and along the South
American coast. He had in his pos
session a little black earthenware jar
which was taken, with valuable jew
elry, from the tomb of one of the
Peruvian Incas near Pisaqua. No
tinted pottery is made' by modern
Peruvians, and it is estimated that
this jar was made in the time of Cor
tez. The captain also secured one of
the Inca’s teeth. He visited the bat
tlefield of Tarapaca, where the Chil-
lians and Peruvians met Nov. 17,
1879, and the Peruvians, after losing
4,000 men, wero forced to retreat,
leaving their dead unburied.
“In any other country,” said the
captain, “these unburied corpses
would have been reduced in a few
weeks to skeletons by wild animals
and the elements, but for over 100
miles on either side of the battle
ground there is not a spear of grass.
There are, consequently, no wild ani
mals, and the bodies remained undis
turbed by them. The soil, too, is
strongly impregnated with nitrate of
soda, and this, in connection with the
hot, dry atmosphere, has converted
men and horses into perfect mummies.
Seen on a bright moonlight night, a?
I saw it, the battle appears as it
fought hut a day or two ago, tho col
ors of the uniforms being still bright,
and the steel of their weapons untar
nished. Inspection by daylight, and
a curious phenomenon is observed.
The hair of the bodies of the men has
grown to a length of from two to four
feet, and the tails of the cavalry
horses arc now so long that, if alive,
they would trail far behind on the
ground.”
Speaking of railway track laying dur
ing the first nine months of the year
the Chicago Railway Age says: “The
greatest activity in construction has
been witnessed in the south. In
eleven southern states, counting Texas
as such, the track laid this year aggre
gates 1 478 miles, or nearly 45 per
cent of the total. Georgia leads the
country thus far, with an addition of
238 miles on twelve different lines, fol
lowed by Texas with 179 miles; Vir
ginia with 176 miles; Tennessee with
170 miles; North Carolida with 147
miles; Mississippi with 140; Kentucky
with 137, and so on. Aside from the
southern states, Washington Territory
thus far makes the largest showing, 214
miles having been laid on twelve lines,
and this will have been very consider
ably increased before the end of the
year. The greatest number
of new loads is reported from
Pennsylvania, where 152 miles have
already been laid on fifteen lines, with
much more in progress. The New
England States, together with New
York and New Jersey, have added 235
miles, and have several enterprises
under way.”
Jeff Davis’ Land For Sale.
Jackson, Miss., Oct. 12.—Tiic
Davis Land Company, which is a
regularly chartered institution under
the laws of Mississippi, to-day per
fected plans for the issuance of stock
at S10 per share. The object of the
company is to sell about 6,000 acres
of land owned by Jefferson Davis on
White River, Arkansas. This land
L? said to be very valuable, thc-re h
ing an estimate already made of timb
er per acre. The figures are placed
as high as 830,000. The state treas
urer, Hemingway, to the president of
the company, and books for •Subscrip
tions are open. Two men have been
selected to canvass the state iu be
half of tho company, and it is predic
ted they will soon raise the 8100,000
necessary to buy tho land from the
ex President of the Confederacy.
Simeral—Are Jones and Briggs
friends?
Grimsby—Friends! No indeed.
They couldn’t hate each other more if
they sang in the same church choir.—
Time.
DryMsHsu
Our Mr. Levy
having* closed out,
while in N e w York,
large lots of
-IN-
Walking Jackets,
New Markets,
Mjeskas.
ALSO A LARGE LOT OF
Kisses’ and Childrens'
Cloaks & Reefers,
direct from the
manufacturers, we
feel confident in as
serting that our
Prices
on them are
FAR BELOW
the cost of manu
facture.
Call early before
the choice ones are
picked over.
Levy’s
Mitchell House Block