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U.- - '* y YOL. 1-NO 174. JSi 8® 0 tttennri 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