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THOMASVELLE, GEORGIA. WEDNESDAY MORNING. DECEMBER 4, '889
;$5.00 PER ANNUM
GORDON GETS THERE.
HIS RECEPTION IN CHICAGO.
GEORGIA’S GOXERNOR STIRS THINGS
UP.
Ho Thrills His Audicnco With His Elo
quence and Sends Them From the
Hall Singing the National Hymn
"America.”
Chicago, Nov. 30.—Cheering ami
shouting to bo remembered for a life
time shook the Central Music hall to
night. Nearly three thousand typi
cal people of the Northern caste were
applauding the famous Confederate
general, who, carried away by the
spirit of the moment, was grasping
in his hand the stars and stripes, and
in buruinsr words apostrophizing the
flag he fought on many a bloody field.
GEN. J. 1). GORDON,
Governor of the State of Georgia, was
the speaker. The assemblage had
gathered in the interest of a monu
ment to the Confederate dead in Chi
cago and the coffers of the box office
were full. On the stage were a score
of the most prominent professional
and business men of Chicago, and
presiding as chairman was the mayor
of the city.
The familiar strains of "Dixie”
greeted the Southern leader as he
firet entered the hall, and when the
great audience caught sight of his
erect, soldierly figure, and gray-mous
tached, deep-scarred, noble-looking
countenance,
A YELL OF DELIGHT
went up that told him he was among
his friends.
Another storm of applause began
when Mayor Crcigcr introduced Gen.
Gordon as “The governor of the sister
state to Illinois, Georgni, of the United
States, and may it be united through
all time with all the states constitut
ing this great Union; the statesman
and the soldier.”
Outbursts of cheering hereout short
whatever followed of the introduc
tion, but all was suddenly bushed as
Gov. Gordon, in a voice tremulous
with emotion, began:
I tlmtik you with all the sincerity
of nature for this generous reception.
What more appropriate moment than
now could there be to analyze some
of the effects of the late civil war and
how it lias landed our heart 0 . From
incidents of the past let us come as
one now and consider the welfare of
the people’s republic.
War, declared Governor Gordon,
though often calamitous, is not always
an evil. A justifiable war, however
grievous for the present, may work
for the people a might of .popular
good and national glory. Even a
war waged against rebellious subjects
may be such.
The revolution of 177b is a living
exumplc. The resistance by our
fathers was first. It was a rebellion,
deliberate rebellion, but it was a par
adox of history, a rebellion for de
fence, defence against demands,
against personal liberty.
Our war of 1801 was the only war
where it might be safely claimed on
both sides to be a war of defence—
for the North a defence of the inte'g
rity of the republic; to the South a
defence of the rights of states, of
home, property, guaranteed rights
and, therefore, guaranted freedom.
It is immaterial to inquire which
was right. The war aud all the ac
tors in it will yet be tried before the
Impartial Judge of all in an impartial
forum, although when the final ver
diet is given no more consecrated pur
poses, no more exalted ideas can DC
shown than those on both sides in the
great contest.
The awful joining ot these two
great crowds, the dark blue of the
North and the sombre gray of the
South was the phraseological way the
speaker eloquently sketched the strug
gle which he said had transformed
the colored race from useless barbar
ism to the best clad, best fed, most
•contented class in the civilized world.
The speaker paid fervent tribute to
the fidelity of the negroes during the
war, to the protection of life and
property, and claimed that it proved
conclusively the kindly treatment the
negroes had been receiving.
He said that since the war in some
instance misguided philanthropic and
politician influences have in some way
antagonized the two races, hut in the
end Christendom will applaud the
treatment of the negro by the whites
since the war.
The negro problem, he contended,
should be left to the two people most
interested, and the negro problem, if
there were such a problem, would be
settled to the benefit of both.
Agitation, he said, begets appre
hension, apprehension turns to dis
trust, and distrust to alienation, the
forerunner of strife.
In the not remote future the North
may need whatever patriotism there
is in the South just as the South would
need the North.
Already the country was grappling
with the Socialistic spirit that has
doomed other nations and even threat
ened this fair city.
Could they avert the evil byjTuild-
ing walls ot prejudice?
Perish such thought, perish all
doubt and distrust.
Long live American manhood.
Long life American self-respect, the
spirit of justice—>the Union, these
co-equal#ates defended, the manhood
of the entire American people.
Long float this banner, said he
impulsively, grasping the national
flag, the proudest emblem of law and
honor and freedom ever in the world,
emblematic of as complete harmony
as that of the sphere, guiding our
sister republics of France, Brazil and
all the peoples of the earth in learn
ing how to be free.
AN ELECTRICAL EFFECT.
The effect of the earnest words were,
electrical. It was several minutes
before the cheering subsided and the
audience dispersed singing “Ameri
ca.”
Cotton Crop Estimates.
One hundred and fifty-nine cotton
firms of Memphis have made estimates
on the cotton crop of 1889 90, which
range from 6,575,000 bales to 7,600,-
000, averaging 7,178,1^4 bales.
Estimates have also been made by
fifty-nine cotton brokers, buyers and
factors, members of the New Orleans
cotton exchange, the highest being
7,800,000 bales, the lowest 7,200,000
bales, and the average 7,499>3 2 3 bales.
The Financial Chronicle says that
the average of estimates made by one
hundred and foity-five members of
the New York cotton exchange, on
Monday, is 7,330,000 bales.
Cable advices from Liverpool state
that Messrs. Neill Brothers estimate
the crop at Irom 7,600,000 to 7,800,-
000 bales.
The Chronicle’s telegraphic reports
from the south indicate that in the At
lantic and Gulf states the weather has
in general been favorable for the gath
ering of the crop. In parts of north
Texas and Tennessee, however, rain
has caused some interruption to pick
ing. The temperature is lower at the
close of the week, and frost is reported
in some districts ol Alabama.
The Chronicle also says that the
speculation in cotton ""for future deliv
ery at New York was much less ac
tive early in the week, under review,
with prices fluctuating within narrow
limits. Better weather at the south,
liberal receipts at the ports and a dull,
weak market at Liverpool, were coun
terbalanced by a large export move
ment, which prevented any parked
accumulation of stock in this country,
such as is usually seen at this stage of
the season.—Constitution.
COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS.
Council Room, Dec. 2, ’89.
Council met in regular session,
Mayor Hopkins presiding. Aldermen
Wright, Hayes, Mitchell, Merrill, Jer-
gcr and Whiddon present.
Minutes last regular meeting and
for called meeting were read and con
firmed.
Alderman Mitchell reported that he
had seen most of the property holders
through whoso property the Jncksen
street sewer extension will be made.
Committee was continued, and on
motion of Alderman Wright, Mayor
Hopkins and Alderman Whiddon
were added to the committee.
Ordinance introduced by Alderman
Merrill at last mooting, was put on its
second reading, and, was amended as
follows:
"That Sec. 10, of Ordinance 12,
be amended by striking out the word
“provided,” and all that follows it.
License granted H. W. Hopkins
for liypry business, was transferred lo
R. C. Yarnadoe.
City attorney was instructed to pro
ceed to collect the claimsduc the city.
On motion Mayor Hopkins was in
structed to make notes of the city for
balance due Bank of Thomasville
and Thomasville National Bank.
Mayor announced salary for keener
of the'chain gang.
Council went into an election to fill
unexpired term of A. J. Goff, which
resulted in choice of II- J. Ward as
keeper of the chain gang, and D. W.
Waldtr as guard in place of H. J.
Ward.-.
Alde^nan Hayes moved that D. J.
Sheffield’s claim be paid upon his
making proper deed to the city. ■
Matter of employing hand 'for hose
reel, was referred to the fire commit
tee with power to act.
Following accounts were passed for
payment:
Mitchell & McIntyre $230 2n
S. J: Cnsse’.s ' 1 33
James Wntt k Bro 1105
John Miller 112 00
Keid k Culpepper 3 03
E. O. Thompson 2 17 K:
C. It. Thompson 11 75
A. VV. I’nlin 34 so
W. A. Davis 12 00
Moore k Williams 33 -15
U. F,. ,fc T. C. Beverly 18 01
E. S. Law 3(1 on
South Gn. Metal Works 3 10
Mrs. F. C. Pittman 3 00
Council adjourned.
K. T. MacLean, Clerk.
Watch the pension grabbers during
the 51st congress. They are a rapa
cious set.
Insincerity is often mistaken for
lack of honesty.
Beecher on Death and Sorrow.
From His Sermons.
A plow is coming from the far end
of a long field, and a daisy stands nod
ding and full of dew dimples. The
furrow is sure to strike the daisy. It
casts its shadow gaily and exhales its
gentle breath as freely, and stands as
simple and radiant and expectant as
ever; and yet, that crushing lurrow
which is turning and turning others in
its course, is drawing near, and in a
moment it whirls the heedless flower
with sudden reversal under the sod.
And as is the daisy, with no power of
thought, so are ten thousand thinking,
sentinent (lowers of life, blossoming in
places of peril, and yet thinking that
no furrow of disaster is running on
toward them, that no iron plow of
trouble is about to overturn them.
The Cost of Bad Roads.
The main obstacle to the enact
ment and enforcement of good road
laws, the chief difficulty in the way o
the construction of good roads, is the
apprehension of heavy expense. Th s
is an illustration of extravagance in
the guise of economy. It requires a
liberal expenditure to make good
roads, it is true, but the sum thus in
vested is small in comparison with
the cost of bad roads. The loss sus
tained by reason of bad roads is be
;ond computation, and there are few
belter investments possible in any
community than in the expenditure
cf sufficient money to construct and
maintain good public thoroughfares.
An agitation of this question, now go
ing on in Texas, promises valuable
practical results. The people of that
state arc beginning to realize the im
portance of better highways, and the
heavy tax imposed upon them by
their neglect in this matter. The
Galveston News says: "Over a very
large area of Texas the roads are im
passable in wet weather, during which
the farmers are as effectually prevented
from marketing their produce as are
the farmers of Dakota during a bliz
zard. It may he estimated that in
consequence of bad roads this tall, the
farmers, unable to market their cotton
early in the season, lost $2,500,000—
the difference in prices in September
and October and November.” This
sum, enormous as it is, represents only
part ol the loss which the miserable
roads ot Texas caused the farmers of
that state this fall. The only insur
ance against the recurrence of such
losses lies in the construction of good
roads and toward that intelligent duty
the people ofTexas are moving.
In Georgia something is being done
toward road improvement, but it is far
too little. The press of the state has
endeavored to awaken popular inter
est on this subject. In almost every
community there arc a few progres
sive men, who continually appeal for a
better public policy touching road im
provement, but the state is yet far be
hind the condition it should have at
tained in this sort of internal improve
ment. It is hard to make the people
realize the importance and value of
cood roads or understand how expen
sive bad roads are. But because
progress in road reform is slow, those
who do understand and appreciate its
value should notdespair. Their num
ber is increasing, and the wise policy
they advocate will prevail just as sure
as Georgia is to" keep pace with the
times. The severe weather of winter
will soon be upon us, and perhaps
some of our conservative citizens, who
have been backward or indifferent in
the matter of road improvement, may
have an experience with the average
road in Georgia, which will convert
them to more progressive ideas.—
Telegraph.
When the sun disappears below the
horizon, he is not down. The heav-
ans glow for a full hour after his de
parture, and when a great and good
man sets, the west is luminous long
after he is out of sight. A room in
which flowers have been is sweet long
after they have been taken av/ay.
They leave a tragrance behind. And
a goodly man, who lives unselfishly
and disinterestedly, and seeks the good
of other men, cannot die out ot this
world. When he goes hence, he
leaves behind much of himselt. There
have been many men who left behind
them that which hundreds of years has
not worn out. The earth has Socra
tes and Plato to this day. The world
is richer yet by Moses and the old
prophets than by the wisest statesman.
We are indebted to the past. We
stand in the greatness of ages that
have gone, rather than in that ol our
own. . But ol how many of us shall it
be said that, being dead, we yet speak
The Telegraph says:
The associated press agent who
wrote the account of the great fire in
Boston last Thursday, is the possessor
of a wild, poetic imagination. He
speaks of “embers, some of them as
large as bricks, falling like snowflakes
in all directions.” The image of burn
ing snowflakes as big as bricks can
not tail to strike the dullest compre
hension.
Bishop Keener takes no stock in the
holiness craze. He told the North
Georgia conference last Saturday that
when a man got too good tor the
Methodist church it was time for him
to leave. The bishop seems to have
a level head and a well regulated liver.
Mr. William A. Peffer has an article
in the December number of The Fo
rum, in which he puts the number
of members of the farmers’ alliance at
400,000. His estimate is ridiculously
small. The alliance has nearly 100,-
000 members in Georgia and mauy
more than that in Texas. Mr. Peffer
ojght to add 300,000 or 400,000 to
his estimate.
We have just re
ceived 12 pieces of
Dress Goods in all
the leading colors.
These* goods are
36 inches wide,and
we offer them at
the extremely low
price of 25 cts. per
yard. At this low
price we expect to
close them all out
this week.
10 new rolls ot
Carpets, entirely
new patterns, just
received.
Levys
Mitchell House Blocic