The Daily times-enterprise. (Thomasville, Ga.) 1889-1925, December 12, 1889, Image 1
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TEIOMASVILLE, GEORG) A. THURSDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 12, LSH!)
S5.00 PER ANN Ulf
HONOR TO THE DEAD.
Thoma9vil!e Pays her Tribute to the De
parted Chieflain.
The committee in charge of the
program for the services yesterday
did its.duty well, and at 10:30 when
the city hall bell tolled its first note
of sadness, the business houses closed
promptly. The .South Georgia Col
ledge Cadets, 20 strong, commanded
by Capt. Miller, and the Thomasvillc
Guards, 25 strong, Capt. Wilder
commanding, were drawn up in front
of the Guards hall on Broad street, and
the two commands marched with
reversed arms and with muffled drums
to the opera house, past the Gonfetlc-
rate monument which had been drap
ed in mourning.
.Seats had been reserved for the
Cadets and the Guards, and they
presented a soldierly appearance as
they filed into their places.
A few minutes past 11 the com
mittec, with Judge A. II. Hansell
who was to preside, appeared on the
stage. The opera bouse.was full, and
the feeling of sadness that showed
itself on the faces of the audience
showed that it was no empty pageant
but a heart-felt tribute to the memory
of the illustrious dead.
The stage was appropriately drap
ed in mourning. The black
emblematic of the shadows of the past,
the white was typical of the bright
ness into which he, in whose honor the
icrviecs were held, had entered. The
beautiful forest scene that fronted
the audience, over which the sun
light ihrt stole in from above cast a
mellow light like that we sec
autumn woods, when October days
have come, was a touching symbol of
the beautiful langunge uttered by the
immortal Jackson, “Itcsting under
the shade of the tre^s.”
The opening song service was a
dirge, rendered as a solo by Mrs. L,
F. Thompson, in an exquisite and
touching way.
Rev. \V. J. Williams read “Nearer
My God to Thee/’ and the choir,
composed of Mrs. L. F. Thompson,
Mrs. Arthur Patten, Miss Fannie
Evans, Messrs. T. J. Ball and C. II.
Williams, with Miss Emma Thompson
atthoorgnn, rendered it so sweetly that
the hearts of the audience responded,
ns thousands of hearts have done to
the wonderful power of the matchless
hymn.
At the conclusion of the hymn,
Ilev. A. W. Clisby made an eloquent
prayer, in which he invoked the
divine blessing on the wife and
daughter left desolate by the death of
their protector.
Judge Ilansell, in introducing the
first speaker, Hon. W. M. Hammond,
took occasion to pay a touching and
tearful tribute to the life and charac
ter of ex President Davis.
Capt. Hammond’s address was a
model of good taste, eloquent to a de
gree, rarely attained, and was listened
to with rapt attention.' The speaker
fu’ly realized the difficulties of paying
due honor to the memory of Mr. Da
vis, without invoking sectional feel
ings, but in our eloquent apostrophe
the magnetic speaker pitied the ereu
turc that could find it in his heart to
war with “poor dumb clay”—all that
was left of the departed leader. He
concluded by applying to Mr. Davis’
life and death the grandest of all eu
logies, the words used by Motley in
describing William the .Silent, the
founder of the Dutch Republic: ‘‘In
life l.e was the leader of his people,
and when he died the children cried
about the streets.”
The eloquent address was frequent
ly interrupted by applause.
The next speaker, Hon. R. G.
Mitchell, captured the audience as
soon as he appeared before it. He
pictured the dead hero first as the
chivalrous young soldier, wresting an
empire form the savages on the plains
of the great northwest; next as the
savior of the fortunes of the day at
Buena Vista; then as the peer of a
galaxy of giants in the Senate of the
United States; then as the head of
the department of war of; the na
tional government, and recalled with
touching eloquence the memorable
farewell speech of Mr. Davis when he
left his seat in the United States sen
ate, in 13(10, to join his falc with his
native state, Mississippi, which lmd
already severed connection with the
union. Col. Mitchell then spoke of
Mr. Davis as the dauntless
leader of the “Lost Cause,” and when
the war ended, how he stood and
suffered as the representative of - his
people, grand, heroic, patient amid
it all
At the conclusion of his ad
dress the chairman at the request of
Col. Mitchell, appointed Capt. Trip'
left, Mr. S. L. Hayes, Judge Hopkins
Messrs. J. S. Montgomery,
It is not amiss to state here that the
thanks of our people arc due the com
mittee for their zealous and successful
efforts in making the memorial serv
ices a success.
One of the most pleasant features
of the services wns the music. To
the ladies and gentlemen who com
posed the choir the committee and
the audience are under special obli
gations.
W. Reid and T. .1. Ball to pass
through the audience and recti
subscription and money for the Davis
fund.
The liberality with which the mi
diencc responded shows that our peo
pie realize the trust that lias devolved
on the people of the South, to care
for the wife and daughter of the man
who was their leader in war and their
patient, representative when the mad
assaults of partizan malignity was
hurled at him.
The sweetest of all hymns “Asleep
in Jesus” was sung by the choir a:
the conclusion of the song services
then the Rev. Mr. Clisby pronounced
the benediction and the audience filed
slowly out.
INCIDENTS or THE DAY
The following business houses were
draped in honor of the illustrious
dead:
Miss Rate Collins and Levy’s Dry
Goods, Mitchell House block; Messrs
F. N. Lohnstein, II. Wise, .Mitchell
it McIntyre, Mrs. Jennie Carroll,
the west side of Broad street; Messrs
II. Wolff it Bro., Steyarman it Bro.,
on the cast side of Broad street; Miss
Adilic McClellan, Jackson street.
Charley Stuart, of the Stuart House,
had the front of the hotel tastefully
decorated. This veteran Confederate
never loses an opportunity of doing
honor to the heroes and memories of
the “Lost Cause.”
The cadets and the Guards wore
crepe on their left arms, and their
soldierly appearance was the occasion
of many compliments. Thomasvillc
proud of her volunteer soldiers.
The subscription of $50 by the Guards
was characteristic of the liberality
with which living soldiers honor dead
soldiers. The cadets also gave a lib
eral subscription to the Davis fund.
Col. II. G. Mitchell made a touch
ing allusion to the pleasant incident
spoken of in another place,
in which Mr. II. K. Stearns, a visitor
from New York, gave $10 to the
fund. Col. M. said that the spirit
that prompted the gift was an evi
deuce that the time would soon come,
when our united country would know
no North and no South.
We do not believe any city h all
of the South bad a more suggestive
program or otic carried out in better
taste than Thomasvillc. The music
was good, the addresses gents of their
kind and the splendid attendance on
the memorial services attested the
interest our people felt in the sad oc
casion.
Those who desire to contribute to
the fund can still do so. Col. K. G.
Mitchell will gladly receive whatever
may he given. Do not delay to east
your mite to aid the grandest tiibute
that was ever paid any man, living or
dead.
The committee in charge of the
program desires to return their thanks
to (lie ladies who so kindly assisted in
decorating and draping the Confedc
rate monument and the stage, to Mr.
Will Taylor, who kindly arranged
the stage scenery, and to the liberal
and public spirited manager of the
Opera House for the use of the build
ing.
Through Western Connections.
Thomasvillc languishes for a better
through train service from Chicago
and oilier prominent western cities.
As the train service now is, it in
volves several changes, and changes
made at unseasonable hours.
The writer recently left Chicago by
the Mouon Route at 3:05 p. m., ar
rived at Louisville at 7 a. m. next
morning. Close connection was made
at Louisville for Btirgin, on the C'iu
cinnati Southern railway, and at the
latter place for Chattanooga. Again
close connection was made at Chatta
•tonga and Atlanta, and Macon was
reached at 2 a. in. next morning.
To eat breakfast in Louisville and
lie able to sleep in-Macon, 5t!0 miles
away, the night'of the same
means rapid transit.
The (tcntral railroad has put on a
train from Macon to Albany, airiving
at the latter place at 5 a. in.. If the
F. & W. Ry., will make the leav
ing time of the passenger train recently
[nit on from Albany to Thomasvillc
>:30, instead of 3:50, ns at present, to
arrive here at 3 a. m., the time from
Chicago to Thomasvillc will lie 5(i
hours.
Five changes arc necessary, how
ever, and modern travelers, especially
invalid travelers, shrink from these
changes. If the Monou will, in con
nection with connecting roads, put on a
through sleeper from Chicago toTliom-
asville over the route we have named,
it will prove a very popular one with
south hound travelers. The run
through the Blue Grass region of
Kentucky and the picturesque secta
ry of the Cumberland Slope in Ten
nessee, is in daylight; and returning,
the run over the historic Kenncsaw
Route from Atlanta to Chattanooga
is made in daylight.
The Motion lias proven itself very
friendly to Thomasvillc in the pa-t,
and the Times Entekh:isk believes
it stands ready to put on the through
sleeper over the route suggested.
If the people of Thomasvillc can
help in the matter, we violate no eon
fidence when we say that they stand
ready to give such aid.
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Better Roads.
At the time the road congress met
in Atlanta last May it was hoped that
perennial legislature would for
initiate and past a new system of road
laws for the state. But those modern
representatives of the ancient Solon
were taken up with weightier matters
and the bill presented and recoin
mended by the committee appointed
by the road congress was lost.
It woie useless to argue that we
need better roads, and that the pres
ent system of road laws is utterly in
efficient to supply the needed improve
ments as to state that light follows the
rising of the sun. What, then, is the
remedy ?
If Thomas county had a special
road law, which would levy a per
capita tax, to he devoted to putting
and keephig the public highways of
the county in better condition, the
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Thomas county has a proud name
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take the initiative in this matter of
better road, by asking tho next gen
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special law that will give her good
reads.
It would not he inappropriate for the
grand jury now in session to take up
this matter. There is no question of
greater importance.
Electric lights have been put in
Clewis’s bar.
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