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THOMASYTLLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY MOKIUUO, NOVEMBER 5, ‘889
$5.00 PEE ANNUM
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
Vein’s than
iny 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
honor&ble dealing,
excellence and
great variety off
stock, small mar
gins and quid
sales; These are the
cardinal reasoiisfor
our flattering and
unprecedented suc
cess. And the good
work still goes oh.
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 t&ehfc It
will pay you.
It i mmamm
The Great Leader and Benefactor,
132 BROAD ST.
A JLEGKXD.
BY BOSS OSBORNE.
There bos coino to my raipd a legend, a
thing I bad half forgot,
And whether I read it or dreamed it—ah,
well, it matters not.
It is said that in heaven, at twilight, a great
bell softly swings,
And man may listen and hearken to the
wonderful music that rings.
If he pnt from his heart's inner chamber all
the passion, pain, and strife,
Heartache and weary longing that throb in
the pnlses of life—
It he thrust from his soul all hatred, all
thoughts of bricked things,
He can hear in the holy twilight how the
bell of the angels rings.
And I think there lios in this legend, if we
open our eyes to see,
Somewhat of an inner meaning, my friend,
to you ind tome.
Let us look in our hearts and question, can
pure thoughts enter in -
To a soul If It be already the dwell! ng of
thoughts of sin?
So, then, let us ponder a little—Let us look
in our hearts and see
If the twilight bell of the angels could ring
for us—you and me.
After Many Years.
The statement the other day that a
man named Levernier had just, been
paid $p93 for taking.part in the cap
ture of ex-President Jefferson Davis
brings out the fact that there are yet
four people who took part in that cap
ture who have not been paid by the
government. Congress did not ap
propriate the money offered as a re
ward until three years after Mr. Davis,
was captured! and in the meantime
claimants came forward by the score,
many ol whom had not the slightest
connection with the matter. It was
very difficult to tell who was, and who
was not entitled to be paid, but a list
1
three subordinates received $3,000
each, captains received $1,281, lieu
tenants $976, non-commissioned offi
cers $402^'bhd privates $293, Near :
ly all bt the claims were paid soon
after. t,he list waCTnade out. but Lever
nier did not know until recently that
his name was on the list, and the four
who have not beep paid are supposed
to be ignorant ot (he tint that their
names are on it, or they may be dead.
The government does not notify its
creditors that they have a claim
against it-—News.
Florida’s Big Land ;TOM.
Jacksonville, Fla., Nov. 1.—One
ol thej largest transactions in land ever
consummated ip the South has receot-
ly been perfected and was made pub
lic-to-day. All the unsold lands in
Florida of the Plant system of rairoads
and steaiushipsj of the Florida South-
ereraiiroad, of the j>e|c?privi)le, Tam-
pa aiid Key West syitenS, ‘ Including
the Florida Southern railway, and of
the Florida Commercial Company
have been .consolidated under the
nariei of the'AssOciated Railway Land
Department ot Florida, with head
quarters of the syndicate; at Sanford,
under the management of Col. D. H.
Elliott as a general agent.
The former land headquarters of
the two corporations first named were
in Sanford; those of the Jacksonville,
Tampa and Key West were at Jack
sonyille, and those of the Florida
Southern and Florida Commercial
Company were at l’.ilatka. Over 6,-
000,000 acres of land qjp consolidated
under one management by the forma
tion of this syndicate, and the entire
business pertaining to its Improve
ment, sale and lease will be transacted
in Sanford. This consolidation is the
outgrowth of negotiations begun , fesf
spring.
It was not until Oct. to, however,
that the compact was finally sealed in
New York city by representatives of
all the parties in ipterpst. Since that
time the officials have been engaged
in perfecting the legal papers neces
sary, and getting matters into shape
for beginning business under the new
management. The new arrangement
went into effect to-daj'.
PROTESTANT EPISCOPALIANS.
The. State of the Ohuroh Set Out in a
Oolumn of Figures.
The Protestant-Episcopal conven
tion will abjourn this evening to meet
in Baltimore three years hence.
The report of the standing com
mittee on the state of the church con
tains some interesting facts. Among
other matters referred to in the report
are the.fbllowiog:
Number of dioceses................ ;.• 61
Missionary jurisdiction............. 11
Bishops and assistant Bishops...,
Priests... 3,632
Deacons 320
Total clergy : 4,021
Candidates for holy orders - 431
Lay readers........ 1,396
Communicants.. 488,10?
Increase. . 63,743
Ohnreh buildings.",**"..,... 3,794
Chapels and Missions 1,983
Academies...... 149
Colleges 15
Theological schools 19
Orphanages 40
Homes
Hospitals.... 67
Total offerings.. $33,316,514.44
Increase of offerings over ’8G....$2,533,462,16
Baptisms....... 174,700
Increase.. ....- 16,275
Confirmations 112,783
Increase 19,734
Marriages 46,668
Burials.... 91,114
Sunday school teachers..., 40,120
Sunday school scholars.... 383,426
Parish schools 134
Teachers 586
Pupils 10,386
Ten Bishops have died since the
last general convention.
Commenced the Reform at Home.
It is a strange sort of Phariaism
that white the fanatics in the north were
encouraging negroes to hold prayer
meetings for the amelioration of the
black man’s cruel lot in the south, the
veterans ot the Grand Army in Con
necticut were black-balling the colored
brother from fellowship. While
colored brother was urged to pray
way, so to speak, into the drawing
room cars and schools of the south.no
amount of fasting and lamentation was
enough to soften the hearts of ihe
grand army men of New England
towards an upright colored soldier who
applied for membership. Frank Ham
ilton, the colored veteran in question-
was a member of the Twenty ninth
Connecticut regiment, and his record
in the service was without a flaw of any
sort. He tried, to get admission into
one of the posts, and the only point
that could be raised against him was
that he.was a negro. Col. James T.
Shearman, who had been elected to
office by the grand army vote, declared
that “they did not want any , -nig
gerein the grand army.” After a
month’s struggle Hamilton’s applica
tion was withdrawn.
Speaking of injustice, this action
was the refinement of cruelty. Let
the colored brother at the north double
his lamentations.—-Augusta Chronicle.
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The lew in Politics.
The Hebrew Observer expresses
some views on the question, whether
Jews, as Jews, should affiliate with
any political organization. We think
we may eay with pride that suoh a
thing as a “Jewish vote” has never
presented itself in our government.
Outside of the synagogue we are
citizens of the United States.
The Jew has always been remark
able for his loyalty, because he so
completely adapts hinpeU to thoeoun.
try in which he lives. Where are
found heartier Englishmen than the
English Jews? Where more typical
Frenchmen than the French Jews?
Whero more patriotic Germans than
among tbo Germarf Jews? The
votes 770 past have nothing to do with
thwreligious creed of the candidate;
that is a private matter.
Neighbor—“That was a bad, fire
you bad, Jaysmith. Still you got;
out nearly everything, didn’t you?"
Jaysmith — “Everything but the
piano.”
Neighbor—“Then the fire was a
blessing in disguiso.”—New York
Sun. - • j~ -V
Is not ln| never
at rising overy time we fall.
Last Month’s Weather.
Washington, November 1.—The
monthly weather crop bulletin of the
signal service bureau for October is as
follows:
October has been cooler than usual
in all the agricultural districts east
of the Rocky mountains, except in
Dakota.
The daily average temperature for
die month, in the winter wheat belt,
including the states of Ohio and the
upper Mississippi valleys, ranges from
4° to 8° below normal.
OUR OWN THERMAL CONDITIONS.
About the same thermal conditions
prevailed in the Middle Atlantic
states, Southern New England, and
along the South Atlantic coast, while
in the Gulf states the deficiency in
the temperature ranged from about
j° to 4°. There was a slight excess
in temperature in the Rocky moun
tain districts, and thence westward to
the Pacific coast
LINE OP KILLING FROSTS.
The line of killing frost has exten
ded south to the northern portion of
the Gulf states, and the northern por
tion of South Carolina and westward
to the western portion of Washington
territory, central to Oregon and
Northern Nevada, and light irosts
occurred as for south as Southern
Alabama, Central Georgia and North
ern Louisiana.
RAINFALL OF THE MONTH.
There has been less rain than usual
in the central valleys, and generally
throughout the southern states and
New England. More than the usual
amount of rain occurred in California
and Oregon, in the Middle Atlantic
states, and in the control Rocky
■mimetain plateau region. The rain-
falfVas'greatest generally throughout
California, over the greater portion
of which the monthly rainfall
exceeded six inches. About two
inches of rein occurred during the
month in the winter wheat region
extending from the lake region, and
Southern Iowa southward to the gulf
states, and only light showers occur
red in the northwest, {including Min
nesota, Dakota, Nebraska and North
western Iowa.
THE DROUGHT BELT.
The drought condition which exis
ted . in the central valleys has been
succeeded by timely rains, which
have doubtless greatly improved the
winter wheat crop. The drought
continue^ ' during tho month in the
southern portion of tho Gulf states,
extending from Florida westward
over Southern Texas, over which
region only light showers were repor
ted, and the deficiency of rainfall for
the month ranges from 1 to 5 inches,
but this morn (Nov. 1) generous rains
wero reported from Texas, northern
Louisiana and southern Alabama,
and rains are heavy in the central
Mississippi valley and the lower Mis
souri valley, with heavy snows in
Nebraska and western Kansas.
Flemikgsburo, Ky., Oct. 31.—
Wm. Bowen, known in history as the
barefooted color bearer pfGen. John
Morgan’s Confederate brigade, was
married to-day at this place to Miss
Maggie Kyne. Tho first pair of
shoes he ever wore were taken from
the feet of a dead Federal soldier
whom he slew at Cynthiana with his
flag staff in a battle there in 1863.
His ex-comrades in arms remembered
him handsomely.
Because the colered preacher, Ar-
mistcad, is charged by a colored girl
with betrayal and breach of promise,
the Richmond Dispatch says: “a negro
will be a negro.” In view of lapses
fl-om grace by Caucasian ministers, let
us also (tn simple justice) add: “And
a white man will be a white man—
sometimes.”—'Times-Union, Jackson
ville.
Oar grand business is net to see
what lies dimly at a distance, but to
do what lies clearly at hand.
Good Roads.
We gather from the Philadelphia
Times that there is considerable agita
tion in the press of Pennslvania on
the subject of good country roads.
This agitation is timely, indeed, and
we wish that some of the enthusiasm
that is said to be behind it might be
transferred to Georgia. There is no
improvement, no species of develop
ment, that Georgia stands so much in
need ot as good roads. There is no
way to make an accurate calculation
in figures, but good roads throughout
the state would result each year in a
great saving to the farmers and other
tax payers of the state. The wear on
vehicles, the* delay in getting to
market, amount to an immense sum in
dollars and cents in the aggregate.
We have not observed that the rec
ommendations of the road congress
held in Atlanta a few months ago have
had any particular effect on the legis
lature. This is not because the legis
lature is not interested in the matter,
but because this question of good
roads is largely a county affair. The
legislature can change the road laws,
but it cannot strip the shell of habit
from those who have been accustomed
to bad roads, nor can it imbue the
citizens of the state with the energy,
determination and public spirit suffi
cient to bring about a change.
Nevetheless, the meeting of the road
congress was a very significant event,
for it showed that the people are
discontented with the present style ol
roads. It seems to us, as we have
intimated, that the solution of this
road problem is in the hands of the
counties themselves. Fulton has
regarded it in that light, and her com
missioners have gone forward in the
work of making permanent improve
ments. It is true that every county is
not as rich as Fulton, but it is equally
true that every county, however poor,
can do something each year, no mat
ter how little, towards the permanent
improvement of its roads. It only
half a mile a year, that would be
something, and the improvement once
begun would progress more rapidly
than most people suppose.
This road question is too important
to be allowed to die out, and we pro
pose to keep it alive if possiole,
—Constitution.
Only a Question of Time.
The Birmingham Age-Herald takes
up a point made by the American
Manufacturer and plainly reads be
tween the lines the decadence of New
England. The Manufacturer claims
that tho South can only succeed in
making up the coarser grades of cot
ton and iron because she is near the
raw material and can save the cost
of transportation; but the finer grades
of thread and steel and iron products
must be made in the North where
New England has by long inheritance
such skill as can he equaled by no
other section. By virtue of this skill,
it is held. New England has a para
mount claim upon the higher grades
of manufacture and must control the
industries of the country.
The argument is illogical. The
Birmingham paper shows true enough
that the same reasons which started
the manufacture of coarser cloth and
rough iron products must in time
bring about the finer grades of manu
facture. The cost of transportation,
which controls the one mast soon de
termine the other. With time and
experience come skill and thrift and
with these come the. trained artisan
and the finer fabric. The Age-Her
ald is right, not only, will New Eng-
land’s skilled laborers move to the
regions whero raw material is pro
duced the cheapest, bat her capital,
and in many instances her manufac
turing plants will be so removed.-
Augusta Chronicle.
The greatest known depth of the
ocean is midway between the islands
of Tristan and d’Acunha, and the
mouth of the Rio de la Plata. The
bottom was there reached at a depth
of 40,236 feet, or nearly nine miles.
THE LEADING
IN THE CITY.
Still another in
voice of choice dress
goods just received.
Our Ladies’ Broad
cloth in all the
leading colors is
certainly worthy of
your attention. We
are 60c. per yard
under New York
retail prices on
them.
In Carpets and
Rugs we down ev
ery in this market,
and we invite a
comparison of pric
es with other and
larger markets. •
In Ladies, Misses
and Children’s
Wraps weare head
quarters, as we are
fir
pertaining to our
line.