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YOL. 1-KO 150. 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. . «-•-» 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.