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VOL. 1 -NO 144.
THOMASVILLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 29,
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We have heard
people wonder why
it is that at Lohn
stein’s you can ai
rways 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
least, 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 goods, 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 you.
iiigl
The Great Leader, and Benefactor,
132 BROAD ST.
GATHER LEAVES AND GRASSES.
Gather Iciycs and grasses,
Lore, to-day,
For the autumn passes
Soon away,
Chilly winds are blowing,
It will be snowing.
Fill the vacant places
With them, dear,
And the empty vases,
Brown and sere.
Sprays and leaves yet hold
Glints of summer’s gold.
“In the dear December"
When it snows,
And the dying ember
Faintly glows,
Leaf and spray bring
Thoughts of rosy spring.
Ah, we fondly cherish
Faded things
That had better perish.
Memory clings
To each laaflt saves,
Chilly winds are blowing,
It will soon be snowing
On our graves.
—John Henry Boner.
FRUIT SOLD AT AUCTION.
An Effort Made to do Away With Com
mission Mem •
Now York 8tar, cf yesterday:
Commission men in the domestic fruit
business are panic stricken according
to a story told mo yesterday by E. L.
Goodsell, a wholesaler. He says that
in a very short time the entire re
ceipts of fruit in this city will be sold
at auction.
“The first sale of Eastern fruit by
the new plan took place at n Park
place bouse last Tuesday,” said be
“and it was a great success. The
sale consisted of one carload of Con
cord grapes shipped by a grape grow
ers’ association. The fruit arrived on
the same day, each bosket' being
stamped with the associations’ brand,
and also tho grower’s name. It was
packed in ten-pound baskets and
evenly graded. Each grower’s fruit
was placed in a separate lot and sam
ples of each were exhibited. In this
way, if any grower had packed in
ferior fruit or graded it imperfectly
his negligence would have resulted in
his own injury only. The grapes
were offered in lots of forty baskets,
the highest bidder having the privi
lege of choosing from any lot that
number, or taking tho whole lot.
Then the balance were offered in the
same way, and so on until all were
sold. It took fifteen minutes to con
clude the sale. It proved,' this first
experiment, that in the matter of
quick sales and prompt returns the
auction system is beneficial to the
grower. The carloadof fruit averaged
27 cents a basket, and within twenty-
four hours the check for settlement
wgson its way to tho shipper.
“At the time of this sale,” contra
ued Mr. Goadsell, “commission mer
chants were selling the same grade
of fruit for 25 cents per basket in lots
to suit tho purchaser, and many were
carrying stocks that could not all be
sold, and would bo thrown on tho
market next day at, in many cases,
greatly reduced prices
“This new plan of disposing of
fruit in New York will revolutionize
the business. Twenty years ago the
auction system of disposing of perish
able fruits was adopted by several
firms in Loudon and Liverpool, in
deferenco to the growers, who were
dissatisfied with the system of selling
and the returns they, were receiving.
Three years ago the California fruit
growers did uot believe in this system.
To-day the by-laws of two large unions
of growers say that the fruit must be
sold at auction.”
“What are the principal advan
tages ot this system over the old meth
od of consignment to commission mer
chants ?”
“They are many. One of the most
important is the immediate and total
sale of the fruit on its arrival in the
city before it has'had achanoe to
deteriorate, losses of this kind, of
oonne, being borne by the grower.
In selling through the commission
merchants, fifty growers ship to ns
many different agents or commission
men. The jobbers in search of fruit
go from ono commission man to an
other bcatiug down the price, and
these fifty commission men are virtu
ally competing with one another to
make sales. This cannot fail to de
preciate prices. Under tho auction
system the fifty growers will combine
and ship their fruit together to one
house in this city. The time of arri
val is definitely known and the sale
can be advertised. The jobbers meet
and are forced to become competitors,
and the highest bidder take the fruit/’
Do you believo the auction system
will succeed 7”
*T have no doubt about it. Of
couree there are many obstacles to
overcome. Florida orange growers
are adopting tho same plan and there
is no reason why the system should
not extend to include all perishable
fruits and vegetables. The system is
firmly established in England and
California fruits are sold in this way
in all Eastern States.”
“Will not the commission mer
chants be a source of powerful oppo
sition?
“To be sure they will fight the new
plan bitterly because, as they say, it
takes tho bread and buttor out of
their mouths. The commission men
number hundreds and they are very
strong, too. As the auction houso
nets as an agent of the shipper a vast
number of middlement are dispensed
with, and this, ot course, must result
in a considerable saving of fees ”
“What about the grower??”
“Before tho new method of dispos
ing of fruit hero is a success in this
city, the producers must combine.
They must ship ail their goods to tho
auction house. This gives them con
trol of their product? anu ibe JUDMra
charged on the run, and though hund
reds went down, other hundreds kept
on. We shattered and schorched and
withered them with our musketry fire,
and I finally heard some one sound
"retreat!” We sprang up, gave them
a last volley, and then dashed forward
a few rods with the bayonet. Out of
the smoke and darkness suddenly Jap-
peared a figure. There was a
blaze, and a man on my right went
down, shot in the shoulder. There
was a whiz z z! and the butt of a mus
ket just cleared my head and knocked
the man on my left flat to the earth.
I had my musket at a charge, wlien a
voice called out:
“Hold on. I surrender!”
I went forward and took, hold of him,
and who or what do you suppose he
was? A boy not yet fifteen years old,
and as pale laced and gentle spoken as
a girl. More than that, he was wounded
on the side and the leg and in the
head. We had them driven back to
stay, and our boys were cheering and
yelling, and I took the boy on my
back beyond the creek into our lines,
He must have been suffering painfully
lrom his wounds, but he never uttered
a groan, I heaped two or three blank
ets together and made him a bed, but
I could get no one to do for him.
There were dead and wounded ’ men
almost without number around us, and
that last desperate charge had hardly
been driven back when McClellan is
sued his orders to fall back to the river
under cover of the gunboats. As my
brigade was nearest to the confederate
lines, we were the last to move, and it
was long after midnight before we got
the word.
Meanwhile, I had inspected the
boy’s wounds and soothed him as best
I could. It was plain that he was fa-
must como to them. Then, again,
all products must bo evenly graded,
and packages must be ot uniform size.
This necessitates organization and co
operation on tho part of the shippers
and producers.”
THE LITTLE CONFEDRATE.
Heroio Chargo and Death of a 15-Year-
Old Soldier. ’
When the confederates came swarm
ing across the Crew farm to meet ’us
on Malvern hill, we knew they were
cbming to death and defeat. Wc had
been driven hack from the Chlckahom-
ioy, step by step and day by dayi
lighting fierce baitlcs at every rallying
point, but this was the end. Malvern
hill, crowded with troops and bristling
with canncn, was Impregnable I was
posted on the point looking towards
the Crew house, in the dry bed of a
creek. It was a capital rifle pit, and
we were packed in there so thick that
we scarcely had elbow room. As the
legions in gray attacked, our rapid
fire, assisted by the batteries above
us, was enough to demoralize their
lines without the infantry, higher up,
firing a gun.
Magruder must have been insane
that day, to se d the men to their
death across the open field as he did.
We could see them come out of the
forest in splendid formation, and as
they got the order to advance, their
step was like clock work. There was
a meadow with hardly a stump in it
stretching away before us lor half a
mile, and the confederates hadn’t the
slightest cover. Being so low down,
we could see below the smoke, and it
was enough to make our flesh creep
to see the havoc worked by our shells
before the lines came within gun range.
The man on my left laid down his
musket and prayed God that the con
federates would go bark and thus put
an end to the horrible work. Then,
when they pushed on and got within
range, there was a flame all along our
mile Iront—flame alter flame—and not
a confederate got within a stone’s
throw. • *
The last charge, made just at twi
light, was the most desperate of all.
The lines started with a yell and
urt, and when^rc
re sals':
I—I don’t care for myself, but
mother—poor old mother! And sister
Mary—and little Jim.'It will break
their hearts.’’
Bye and bye he fell into a sort of a
stupor, which lasted for a quarter of
an hour, then he roused himself and
exclaimed:
• It was a glorious charge! We
knew that wc were going to death, but
never a man hung back—never a man
lost the step. Were they driven back?”
• “Yes.”
“But we reached your lines? - ’
"Yes, a few.”
“And I was one?” >
“Yes, poor boy. Never a one came
nearer than you.”
“That’s grand! They said I would
be afraid, but I wasn’t. I didn’t leel
it when I was hit. We were on the
double quick. I was cheering. Hur
rah! Hurrah!”
Half an hour later he was dead.
There were three of us bending over
him, when he suddenly sat up, waved
his arm and sought to cheer, but the
blood choked him and he fell back
dead.
Twenty long years alter, in a Geor
gia farm house, I found his mother,
old and bent and gray, and little J:m,
now grown to manhood, and sister
Mary, now a woman, wife and mother.
They knew he fell at Malvern hill, but
he had been buried among the un
known, and how he died they knew
not.—Detroit Free Press.
A Massachusetts republican paper
very wisely says: “We have not ob
served a consuming desire to give the
negroes office among the negro-loving
population of the north, concerning
which we hear so much. What colored
man in New York, or Massachusetts
either, has been given an office above
that of Janitor or messenger? Let us
remove the beam from our own eye,
and then wc may be able to see the
mote in the eye of the democratic par
ly in the south.”
Insurance Agent—“Now that you
are married, I suppose you will take
out a policy?” Young Bigg—“Oh,
no, I guess not, I don’t think she is
going to be dangerous.”—Terre Haute
Express.
Philadelphia Record.
The bridge across the Frith ol Forth
at Queen’s Ferry, Scotland, now ap
proaching completion, is a work of
such magnitude and presents so many
points of novelty that it has attracted
the attention of the whole engineering
world.
In 1804 a surveyor published designs
lor a bridge across the Forth at the
same spot, and with spans of the like
magnitude. That, however, was to be
a suspension bridge, with chains like
the cable of a filly ton yacht, and the
total weight of iron was estimated at
300 tons, as contrasted with 50,000
tons of steel in the present structure.
While a bridge 1,700 feet in span
was thus conceived of nearly a century
ago, it may also be said that the can-
tilevei principle ot construction can be
found in Egyptian and Indian temples
built before the introduction ol the
arch. An eminent engineer says that
the cantilever was in all probability in
vented by some intelligent savage,
wanting to get across a stream too
deep to ford and too wide to jump,
utilized the projecting branches ol two
opposite trees as cantilevers or brack
ets, and connected them by a short
independent piece of timber, and so
formed a cantilever and central girder
structure.
The true principle ol construction
and the nature of the stresses may be
illustrated in a simple way. Two men
who sit on chairs extend their arms,
which they support by grasping sticks
hutting against the chairs. This rep
resents the two double cantilevers,
ntral, girder is represented by
each man, and the anchorage by ropes
extending from other arms to two piles
of bricks. When stresses are brought
on this system by a load on the central
girder the arms ol the men and the
ropes come into tension and the sticks
and chair legs into compression. In
the Forth bridge we must imagine the
chairs to be placed a third of a mile
apart, the men’s heads to be 360 feet
above the ground, the pull on the arms
10,000 tons, and the pressure on the
legs of the chair? on the ground too.-
aoo tons.
As regards size and weight no exist
ing bridge at all approaches the Forth
bridge. There are two spans, each
1 700 feet long; the width ot the bridge
at the piers is 120 feet; there is a clear
headway lor navigation at high water
of 150 feet; the deepest foundation
below high water is 89 leel; the highest
part ot the bridge aoove high water is
360 feet, and the depth of water in the
centre of lh« channel is 210 feet. With
this depth the bridge could never have
been built had it not been tor an island
in the middle of the Fotth.
The train weight that will be put
upon the bridge will be small compar
ed with the wind pressure needed to
be overcome, and to resist wind the
lofty columns over the piers are 120
teet apart at the base and 33 teet at
the top. As furnishing an idea of the
enormous lorce which the cantilevers
arc capab’e of resisting, it may be said
that a pull of 45,000 tons would be
needed to tear asunder the top ties.
The greatest pull from passing trains
can be only 2,000 tons. *
The bridge is looked upon as a rail
way necessity. Indeed it will furnish
the missing link in a great chain ot
communication throughout the United
Kingdom.
When we read of such structures
and know that trains reach a speed of
sixty miles an hour, we cannot but
smile at what the staid old Quarterly
Review said in 1825: "We trust that
will, in all railways it may sanction,
limit the speed to eight or nine miles
an hour, which is as great as can be
ventured on with safety.”
The rolling seasons in their round
Have brought us autumn still and solemn
And chestnuts in the woods arc found
Aa well as in the Innny column.
Noi Going on
LEVY’S
DrjUHna
Our Mr. Levy
having closed out,
while in N e w York,
large lots of
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New Markets,
Modjeskas.
ALSO A URGE LOT OF
Misses’ 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.
Levys
Mitchell House Block 1
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