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THOMASVILLE, GEORGIA, SATURDAY MORNTNO, NOVEMBER 9, !889
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When out
shop
ping, ladies will do
well to drop in at
LOHNSTEIN’S
and inspect the va
rious lines t>f new
goods, just being
opened. They are
very handsome and
at very attractive
prices’
We are very busy
and havn’t time to
say much about
them in this issue;
but will be sure to
please you if you
will give us a call.
Respectfully,
i m uuuuywm,
TbelGreat Leader, and Benefactor,
132 BROAD ST.
OLD THINGS AND DEAR.
There is no song like an old song
That we havo not heard for years;
Each simple note appears to throng
With shapes that swim in tears.
It may hare been a cheerfull strain,
But ’twas long ago
That glee, grown old, has turned to pain,
That mirth has turned to woe.
There is no friend like an old friead,
Whose life-path meets onr own,
Whoso dawn and noon, whose cyo and end
Hare known what we haTe known.
It may be when we have read his face
We note a trace of care;
’Tis well that friends in life’s lost grace
bhare sighs as smiles they share.
There is no lore like an old lore;
A lost, may be, or dead;
Whose place since she has gone above,
No other fills instead.
It is not we’ll ne’er lovo anew,
For lifb were drear if so,
But that first love had roots that grew
Where others cannot grow,
There are no days like old days,
When we, not they, were young;
When all life’s rays were golden rays
And wrong had never stung,
Bear heart I if now our steps could pass
Through paths of childhood's morn,
And the dew of youth lie on tho grass
Which Time’s fell scythe has shorn I
Old soitg, old friend,'old love, old days;
Old things, yet never old;
A steam that’s dark till sunshine ploys'
And ciinnges it to gold; *
Through all winds memory’s rircr on,
’Mid hanks ot soro regret,
But gleam’s on the peaks o' tung-agone
That softcus sadness yet.
THEIR FAULTS AND VIRTUES
What One ot Their Race Has to Say
About Them.
Aw interesting article on tho status
of th# colored race in' Thomnsville,
appears in tho Southorn Christian
Recorder, of latodnto. It was writ
ten by a prominent colored clergy
man of this place. Hero is the arti
cle:
Mr. Editor :
I do not know that much is known
of our little city,—in fact it is my
opinion, that two little is known of
the Sunny South, at any,rate by both
northern whites and blacks; tho for
mer believe that all Southern whites
are lawless and the latter (with few
exceptions) believes that their breth
ren in tho South are a set of igno
ramuses and lacking manhood. A
fellow, hailing from the "north,” by
the name of Anderson, lecturing in
our churches here, told me to my
fhee, while in my house that, "You
should go east and north, hear some
lectures, and then you will know n
good lecture when you hear one,” He
also intimated that he must greatly
simplify his great learning (?) in order
that bis poor brethen could under-
stand. Of course he was making a
very great sacrifice in coming to la
bor in our midst, having refused char
ges that offered him from three to ten
thousand dollars in England and
elsewhere. He spoke contemptuous
ly of the Hon. Frederick Douglass
who lectured here, sometime before,
calling him “old Fred.,” that himself
had the reputation in the north of to*
tally eclipsing the oratory of "old
Fred;” Talmage hod a big name, but
if ho could not preach a better ser
mon than Talmoge he would throw
up his credentials, etc., etc.
I suppose . the gentleman referred
to, left here a sadder and wiser man:
such is to be hoped at least,
Thomasville, is on the South Flori
da & Western R. R., in tho southeas
tern portion of Georgia. She has
about 7,000 inhabitants, a little over
one third of her population are col
ored. This place is a popular resort.
Northerners come here in great
crowds filling to overflowing the large
hotels and other houses open to re
ceive them. .
The town is beautifully laid off and
surrounded by the tall, waving pine
trees. The city is lighted with gas
and electricity; in fact she has all
modern improvements and deserves
the appellation of the “Yankee Para
dise.” The Mayor, Hon. H. W.
Hopkins, is not only a progressive
man, alive to every interest of this
fast growing city, but he is a perfect
gentleman, and I believe particularly
a friend to the Negro race. There
are many of his kind. The genuine
aristocrat and high bred of the south
ern whites, are generally so. So far
as I can see, there is manifestly but
little discrimination between thoraces.
They are alike served at the soda
fountains, saloons, stores, etc., and
labor sido by side. It was a north
erner who advertised fur brick ma
sons, saying, "None but whites need-
appty.” . ,
There is one thing here though'
that sticks me, and that is the “chain
gang.” It is to be seen any day on
the Btreets, always with none other
than blacks in it. Horrible things
are l>cing told about tho treatment
of the prisoners. Last winter n gen
tleman caused the arrest and dismis
sal of one of the “overeecr8”Jbr the
cruel whipping of one of the prison
The negro is not altogether a pau
per here; ho is credited with property
valued at 81-50,000 and over, perhaps
8200,000. The Messrs. Zoke Ham
ilton, Randall, Mitchell, J. C. Few,
Gen. Linton, Jim Adkinson, niid
many others are individually worth
all the way from four to ten thousand
dollars. These men, by habits of in
dustry, hard labor and economy since
the war, beginning perhaps without a
dime, have accumulated their pos
sessions. As they have done, others
couljl have similarly prospered. There
are plenty’of whisky saloons, and they
are well patronised by tho negro,
believe they aro nlwa_,.,.
There are frotn six*to ten livery sti
bles hero, and every Sunday they are
emptied by “cuff,” who-toils and
sweats all through the burning rays
of an almost tropical sun during the
week, to hire a fine buggy to roll
Dina around, in borrowed glory, from
“early morn till dewy eve,” while the
class of men wo havo mentioned
above takes it afoot, while their
stock rests in pastures or stalls at
home, and they themselves spend the
day in tho various churches or with
their families at home. It is no use
to dilly-dally over this matter, there
is a class of negroes that will pros
per and do well anywhero, while the
buggy, ball, theatre, and excursion
crowd will always "make Rome howl”
about hard times and other hobgob
lins, The man, black or white, that
thinks he is going to receive the same
recognition when he is a non-proper
ty holder, ns the man who owns
broad acres and has a bank account
in thiaxountry, 1 say he is a “blamed
fool.”
As an educational center, for our
people, Thomasvlllo is being rapidly
developed. There are many fi no, well
managed schools hero.
The Connecticut Girls Industrial
Boarding School, established and
controlled by the American Mission
ary Association ranks first It has
eight highly graded and well quali
fied lady teachers, of whom Mrs. W.
L. Gordon is principal. Under her
excellent management tho school has
greatly prospered. I think, last term,
the school enrolled 300 pupils. The
girls are taught, besides|the coihmon
branches, sewing, music, cooking,
housekeeping, washing and ironing,
and fancy needle work. Tho school
is out on the suburbs of the town,
nicely situated, healthy placo, physi
cally and morally. AU in all, it is
doing a grand work, and tho patrons
ore highly pleased. God bless those
ladies.
Next in importance is tho Clay
Street School, with Mr. Chus. Rice,
a classical graduate of Atlanta Uni
versity, as principal. He is assisted
by bb handsome wife, also of Atlanta
University, she having taken the Nor
land course, and, in the primary de
partment by Miss Benetta Mitchell, a
modest, unassuming little lady, who
hails from Mrs. Gordon’s department
of the Connecticut School.
The school is well filled and they
have a'handsome, new building up in
town, valued at 81,200. I think I
can safely say that the honor of erect
ing this building is chiefly due Mr.
Rice. He is quite a worker, and should
have the united thanks of our peo
ple. Associated with him in this
grand work, and who contributed
more largely than others are Messrs.
J. C. Few, Randall Mitchell, Geo.
Linton and many others ot the com
munity, who are hold in grateful re
membrance. Although our people
generally, are well to do, and could
have easily done it themselves, yet to
their beggardly shame, the most of
the money used in the erection of the
school was given by northern friends.
Mr. Rice "and lady are members of
the A. M. E. church. He is n local
preacher.
[To be continued ]
Georgia’s Heroic Dead.
Tho Recorder on Sunday referred
to a visit mode by the Georgia delega
tion on their trip to Ohio last Sep
tember to Johnson’s Island in San
dusky Bay, where arc buried the gal
lant soldiers of the south, who died
there while in confinement ns priso
ners of war. The wooden headboards
which mark these graves, aro fast de
caying. and tho names thereon are
becoming obliterated. In a short
timo there will bo no possibility _ of
identifying them, unless some action
is speedily taken. It was resolved by
the Georgia delegation who visited
the island that on their return home
tho newspaper men should bring the
matter to the attention of thoir respec
tive readers with tho view of raising.a
fund sufficient to replace the dilapi
dated wooden headboards, marking
the graves of Georgia soldiers with
neat marble slabs. This determination
ia now about to bo put into execution;
a movement to that end having been
inaugurated at on informal gathering
of the Georgia-Ohio delegation at the
State Fair last week, at which it was
resolved to ask contributions to place
headstones on the graves of our fallen
heroes. It is thought that 8500 will
place a neat stone at every grave.
Subscriptions havo already been
made in Macon, and lists have been
opened in other cities. Americus
will certainly contribute her quota
of the small amount required for a
purpose which ought to commend
itself to our people.
.We would ask our ex-Confederate
veterans and our citizens generally
to give ready response to this appeal.
Contributions should be voluntary,
and we deem a canvass unnecessary.
Those who arc prompted by a memo
ry and regard for our patriotic dead
can call at the Recorder office and
leave such amount as they feel willing
and able to give. The object is too
sacred to he attained by importuning.
-Americus Recorder,
And this comes from Col. W. L.
Glessner, editor of the Recorder, a
northern man who has made his home
in Georgia. We would suggest that
the re-union of the ex Confederates of
Thomas county here, on the 15tb,
would be a most timely occasion for
us to contribute our share to the
worthy work. Who will tako charge
of this part of the programme ?
Preserving the Forests.
Hon. Carl Schurz, in speaking be
fore the American forestry congress,
said: "What, made me a forestry
man is the conviction I formed when
in official position as a practical pub
lic man, that the destruction of the
forests of the country will be the mur
der of its future prosperity and pro
gress. This is no mere figure of
speech or rhetorical exaggeration, but
I mean exactly what I say.”
Premising with the assertion tbatno
country ever so prosperous could vio
late the laws of nature with impunity,
the ex-Secretary of the Interior said
that in their reckless destruction of
American forests the lumberman
wastes os much as he sells, the settler
or miner devastates whole mountain
sides to get a few sticks, the. timber
thieves pilfer at their pleasure, while
tho tourist accidently fires hundreds
of miles of forest by carelessly leaving
a camp fire burning.
Good Use For House Slops.
From the American Agiicnlturist.
If you save all the slops from the
house, the wash-water and suds of
sundry occasions daring the week,
you will find that you have a supply
of nutriment nt hand to draw upon
which is far richer than you had any
idea. It will not make a poor
soil permanently rich, hut it will af
ford sufficient nutriment to nourish
such plants ns you grow in it during
tho summer in a very satisfactory
manner. We planted some annuals
on a stiff clay that had been thrown
out of a cellar. We water them reg
ularly with suds and slops, nod
they surpass in growth and florif-
orourncss those grown in the gar
den. -
"At South Salem, Ross county,
Ohio, Miss Ella Wilson, a popular
young lady of the neighborhood, is
reported os being at the point of death
as the result of internal injuries caus
ed by being hugged too tightly by
Will L. Lavery, a young man. The
girl, in fun, threw a glass of water on
young Lavery, and he gave her a
tight squeeze. As he is a veiy stout
man, hes queezed a little too hard, and
broke something. The girl fainted,
and for a long time was in an uncon
scious state, but may recover. The
young man is broken up over the
result of what he intended as merely
a little fun.”—Ex.
This ought to be a worniDg to
young men.
They were climbing up the moun
tain side, and coming to a steep place
he deemed it proper to assist her, and
turning, said:
"Please give me your hand?”
"Oh!” she replied, with a blush,
“this is so sudden. You must ask
papa.”
THE LEADING
IN THE CITY.
The Colored Legislator’s Speech on
The Law.
Tho following is the speech of Me-
Iver, the colored member from Lib
erty county, on the dog law bill. He
is anxious to havo it printed: “Mr.
Speaker, it gives me much pleasure,
sir, to address an able speaker as thou
art, sir, expert in all customs. It
gives me pleasure, I say, sir, to ad
dress you. I stand before you, sir,
as Paul did before Agrippa, sir. I
was once fur the tax of dogs, but when
I found my constituents are against
it, sir. I am against the dog tax, sir,
because the dog is the poor man’s
property. Ii a dog is vicious, put the
buckshot to him, sir. What would
some of the poor country people do
without a ’possum dog? A ’possum in
a poor man’s home is like a stall' beef
to you, sir. So I hope this honorable
body will vote down the dog tax, sir.
When the yankccs left us we had
neither a hoe nor an ax. If it had
not been for our good friends what
would have become of us? Multum
in parrox.
Let the man who wants nobody to
differ with him, go to the graveyard.
The dead keep silence, and have no
interests or convictions that clash
with his own. Tho intolerant man
can hold high sway and have great
satisfaction in the cemetery. But
among the living who struggle and
think and have a right to speak,
and an obligation to act their con
clusions, he must make up his mind
to meet many men who do not look
through his eye-glasses; and if he
will only accommodate himself to
iriction, it will polish his own sides,
and remove the rust, and warm his
own metal, and kindle the electric
current which blesses and impels the
world.—Rome Tribune.
Mrs. Briske—Johnny, did the doc
tor call while I was out?
Little Johnny (stopping his play)—
Yes’m. He felt my pulse and looked
at my tongue, and shook.his head and
said it was a very serious case, and he
left this prescription and said he’d call
again before night.
Mrs. Briske—Gracious me! It
wasn’t you I sent him to see; it was
the baby.
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 50c. 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 we are head
quarters, as we are
in everything else
pertaining to our
line.
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