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THOMASVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY. MORNING, APRIL 24, 1890.
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LOCAL HAPPENINGS.
The News of the Day Told in
Brief—Personals, Etc.
L. H. Church, of Louisville, Ky., is
in the city.
Mr. J R. Hall, of Boston, tvas in
town yesterday.
W. H. Howell, of Valdosta, was in
the city yesterday.
J. R Mock, agent for the S. F &
'•V. Ry., was in town yesterday.
Among the latest anivals at the
Stuart are Mr. and Mrs. TafT, of Louis'
ville, Ky.
See the notice of auction to take
place, by auctioneer L. A. Drcyer,
Saturday at 12 o’clock.
Mrs. E. B. Bailey and daughter, of
Monticello, were in the city yesterday
stopping at the Whiddon.
Frank Jones, who was arrested here
charged with the burglary at Whigham
was taken to Baiobridge yesterday for
trial.
On Monday, Tues
day and Wednesday
inextv^ginijinff Moil
day morning at \
clock we will place on
sale 5,000 yards Plaid
white Nainsooks for
ladies’ and chilreris’
wear, at
TeguJar price 25c
no bettr bargain ever
offered in Thomasville
attend the
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The offenders were up in court yes
lerday, if heing criminal day. The
prevailing idea was to trust rather to
the mercy of the court, rather than to
that of jurors.
Attention is called to the chaiige of
Revoke, from Trout Lake farm to the
livery stable of H. B. Ainsworth, on
Jackson street. Ho will remain her
during the rest of the season.
Wilder Bostick who was with the
Southern Express Company here for
some time, is now express route agent
between Jacksonville and Monlgom
.ery. Mr. Pete Bone, the former ns
slstant clerk in tlTe office, succeeds
him, and Mr. Artie Stuart takes Mr.
Bone’s place iiHtho office, .. -
Mrs. E S. Burbank, who has been
spending the winter at her cottage on
Remington Avenue, left Monday for
Colorado Springs. She has spent
many .winters in sunny lands, bn both
sides of the Atlantic, but the one just
passed in Thomasville, was the bright
est in sunshine and flowers of them
all.
Miss Delano, Mrs. Burbank’s sister,
will spend some weeks with the family
of Judge Merrill, before going north
Married,
At the residence of the bride’s
mother, on Madison street, yesterday
afternoon, at 6 o’clock, Rev. W. J
Williams officiating, Miss Bettie
Bruce and Lieutenant Lunsford
Daniel, United States Army,
The bride has been a general favor
ite in Thomasville society and she
will be followed to her Western home
by the best wishes of old and young
for her happioes. Lieutenant Daniel
is a brilliant young officer in the 6th
Regiment ol Cavalry, U. S. A., and
has a bright future before him. The
newly wedded conplo left last night
for New Mexico, where Lieutenant
Daniel’s regiment is stationed.
_ What Public Spirit Say^.
Editor Times-Entebpse :
There seems to be, just now, con
siderable discussion as to what dispo
sition shall he made of the county con
victs. The writer has some views on
the subject, which will be given you in
a wholly abstract manner looking only
upon (he matter in a business, just
and moral way. First; if hired out to
any person, for any sum. the county
treasurv gets none of the money, but
the state and county solicitors get it.
The town and county do not wish to
support these. They are weffequipp
ed men and can take care of them
selves. They are neither mendicants
nor feeble children.
The town of Thomasville l.as been
using the convicts for 1 long lime and
should continue to use them. It is
not * practicable, and therefore not
profitab'e, for the county to use them
in the country, lor the extra guards,
transportation to and from work to
the jail, for safe keeping, would con
sume too much time to make the
labor a source'of profit. In the city
these objections do not apply and the
convicts cau be used to good advan
tage and should he so used. But the
town, like the legal gertlcman, above
mentioned, is not a mendicant, and
should he willing to pay the county
for the convicts, and what I mean by
paying for them, is simply to relieve
the county of all expenses attached to
their keeping. The ques ion of the
relative amount of taxes paid by each
district.o'town or county has no bear
ing upon the question at all, for upon
any basis, upon which the question may
bv settled, each district will share the
fcame relative proportion of expense
or profit. That feature of the subject
is as broad as it is long, as any one
.gpo readily see., Jltyt Jhotnasville, |*
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gets valuable labor, useless to' any
other corporation, the county is re
lieved of any part of expenses of keep
ing; they do not come in competition
with honest labor, as the work they do
is public work, which would have to
be done by individuals as public duty
or paid lor out of public funds.
It seems to the writer that no one
could possibly find the least objection
to this adjustment.
Public Spirit.
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Painting the Town Red.
Yesterday a Times-Enterpkise re
porter passed down Jackson street, by
Evans & Maclean’s carriage and wag
on repository, A Jong train, or more
properly speaking, several long trains
of wagons, in bright red, suggested
to the aforesaid reporter that these
gentlemen were painting the town
red, with wagons. They are both
very quiet, and would not, of course,
paint the town in another way.
They have the largest and best ar
ranged ware room for their latge stock
of wagons, buggies and carriages in
southwest Georgia, and they carry the
largest stock.
They are also making a specialty
of machinery, and can supply any or
everything needed to equip and run
a cotton gin, corn or saw mill.-
Besides their large stock and com
modious quarters, Messrs. Evans and
Maclean are prepared to sell as cheap
as anybody in this or any .other sec
tion. When yon need wagons or ma
chinery, go and see them. i
'a e rpora ion, has uved the’convicts
should continue to use them arid
should pay lor them. She should not
claim any advarltage as her right, be
cause she pays a large proportion of
the taxes of the county. The cost of
keeping the convicts should not be a
burden upon tax payers, whether from
town or coun'y, their work should not
be brought into competition with lion
est labor, and because the county can
not use them with profit, or hire them
so as to increase its revenue, and be
cause Thomasville is in a position to
use them to advantage, and with i
saving to the county treasury, I sub
mit that the true solution of the ques
tion is for the town to take them and
relieve the county from expenses after
conviction. I am not versed in the
law and cannot, therefore, treat the
legal side of the question, but I do not
believe there is any logal cnacmcnt
for hiring the convicts outside the
county, and I am positive ther- is no
moral enacmentfor it. If punishment
is meted out for any purpose, it is to
restr tin and prevent the criminal from
other crimes, and to make his punish
ment an example to society in general.
Fear of punishment prevents many
«eak or bad people from crime when
punishment meted out to others is
constantly visible, the effect is who!-
somely preventive on such people.
Again, while each crime should have
adequate and just punishment, it is
wrong in morals and law that in the
infliction of such punishment there
should come direct or incidental profit
to individuals; punishment for crime
should never be carried further than
the spirit of the. law intends, and
should not be made a bone of conten
tion for mercenary individuals a theme
for political demagouges, nor its sub
jects suffered to become the object of
cruelty from irresponsible keepers.
The convicts should be kept «t home,
well clothed, well fed and well worked.
With the chaingang used by .the
town, as it has beeD, humanely and
justly, and as a relief to the tax payer
of the town from street duty, which
would otherwise have to be paid for
out of the city treasury, and with relief
to the county treasury and citizens,
equal to the amount now paid by the
county for their keeping, the town
The Ammon’s Cotton Chopper.
Yesterday afternoon Mr. B. A.JBass
invited the members of the grand jury
aud a few others nraougithem a Times
Entertrise reporter, to go out to the
place of Mr. J. L. Farrior on the Tal
lahassee road, two miles from town, to
seethe Ammon’s Cotton Chopper at
work.
The machitle consists of a number
of small plows fashioned after the
sweep, arranged on a horizontal beam
at regular intervals. A mule is at
tached to the chopper, and it runs
down the cotton rows at right angles.
Sufficient room is left between the
plows to leave the cotton at proper in
tervals in tho rows.
The conditions under which the
chopper was tried were not favorable;
there was not a good stand of cotton,
aud the ground was so dry it did not
work well.
There was considerable division of
sentiment among the farmers present
as to tho value of the machine to the
planter. It was agreed, however, that
if the conditions were favorable, a
good stand of cotton, perfectly level
land, no stumps and no thisb, the
chopper would block out tho cotton
nicely. . •. X
But ns it is hard to find all these
conditions in combination, it was the
geuecal.v^^tUjtft9lW^
hoe and its usual accompanimen
the best cotton chopper yet brought
before the public. Mr. Bass will
make another test of tlft chopper on
his Miccosukie plantation next Tues
day 29th inst., under more favorable
conditions.
Auer the test half been made Prof.
A. Q. Moody, Rev/.A. C. Stephen
son and the reporter rode to Glen
Arven Park, by wa i ot the Boulevard;
the gentlemen express themselves as
being greatly pleased with the beauties
of ihe park and its surroundings
This afiernqo'n a party will go out
to see the stump pullers at work on
Mr. S. R. Van_Du?erV^Gi££nwood”
place.
In Court Yesterday.
The criminal docket was taken up
yesterday morning. .
The following cases were called and
disposed of:
The State vs Dawson McLeod,
..charged with assault with intent to
murder. The defendant entered a
plea ol guilty.
The case of the State vs Cassius
Cummings, charged with horse steal
ing. The plea of guilty was entered.
The Stale vs Willie Smart, charged
with forgery, was settled by the de
fendant paying the costs irmhe case.
The case of the State vs Wash
Anderson, charged with murder, con
sumed the greater part of the day.
Mess. W. M. Hammond and A. T.
McIntyre Jr., represented the defend
ant and R. G. Mitchell Esq., assisted
Solicitor General Rountree in the prose
cution. The case was given to the
jury late in the evening and at a late
hour last night no verdict had been
rendered.
SIGNAL SERVICE BUREAU
AT
K. Thomas Jr'r 126 Broad Street.
C.S.Bondurant Volunteer Observer
Weather Bulletin for the 24 hours ending
at 7 o’clock r. 51., April 23 1890.
Tesh-ehaturic.
7 a. m S3
2 p. 77
7 p. 71
51aximum for 24 hours - 78
Minimum “ “ “ 56
Rain-fall
Indications for rain, cooler..
The Convict Question.
We give place, elsewhere, to the
Boston World to reply to the article
of Judge Hopkins on the convict
question. , The writer „ asks if the
county has been ‘•bonefitted.” It is
not a question of benefit, but one of
avoiding expense. This tho town
proposes io do, by relieving the coun
ty of all expense. If hired out, the
county would, it is true, be relieved
of tho expense, hut that is all; not a
dollar would go into the county treas
ury. Tli3 county is under no obliga
tions to pay insolvent costs. There
are thousands and thousands of dollars
of insolvent costs in the counties of
the state. It is not a charge against
any county in the state.
The grand jury‘may he relied upon
,to do what is right and just in the
premises. They will deal fairly by
county and towns. They will see to
it, and this appears to he the burden
of complaint, that in the future no
cost attaches to the tax pay^ts of the
county on account of the chain gang.
This is what the people of the county
ask; this is what they have a right to
ask, and this is whnt the grand jury
will see is given them.
We had intended to say nothing
further on the subject, feeling full con-
. the ability, and fairness of
At LEVYS.
A job of 200Jpiece8 Embroideries
positively 25 per cent tinder val
ue.
the grand jury to handle tjie question
In fact, we declined to insert a com
munication, day before yesterday,
signed “Public Spirit,” ou the sub
ject,
But, as a matter of courtesy, as well
as of right, having again opened our
columns to the World, we publish in
this same issue, the communication
referred to. It goes to the heart of
the question, and treats it in a fair and
business like manner. As the article
meets some of the points made by our
Boston cotemporary, it is proper to
say that the author had not read the
Boston World’s original articles, nor
had ho seen the communication else
where from that paper.
The whole matter will be disposed
of by the grand jury in a way which
will he satisfactory to all parties in
terested.
The Alliance Mass Meeting.
The grand mass meeting of the
Alliances of the county, which will be
held at the Court House in this city,
next Thursday, May ist, promises to
be well attended. It is important that
all members of the order be present,
tor the most important question that
has ever come up for discussion and
settlement will he presented. The
question we refer to, isThe Fertilizer
tactory and Oil Mill that it is proposed
to build. In a question of as much
importance, it is better to have a full
and free canvass of the matter before
any discussiou is reached, and the
best way to secure this, is to have
full attendance of the Alliancemen.
At LEVY’S.
20 pieces Angora Homespun
Suitings 15c per yard.
At LEVY’S.
We have made a large purchase
of Boys Knee Pants from 4 to 14
years, which are now being of
fered much under regular prices.
Call early, they are selling rapid
ly-
At LEVY’S.
Have you seen our French
Batistas, our Domestic and
French Satines, our Foreign and
American Cballies. None pret
tier and cheaper in the land.
At LEVY’S.
Plenty Dry Goods in town—yes,
but few to compare with ours.
'Having established an outlet for
fine goods we can afford to buy,
aud do carry the finest line in the
city. Our popular low prices
for fine goods insures a ready
sale for them.
At LEVY’S.
We have brought out an unusual
large and exquisite stock of
White Goods. Our goods in that
line muet be seen to be appre
ciated.
At LEVY’S.
spring goods al
arly in t*
The prettiest
ways sell out early in the season
Wo would advise our friends to
call early to select their wants
for the season.
We offer at all times the most goods
for the least monoy.
LEVY’S
Drill To-night.
The Guards will drill to-night at 8
o’clock, in front of their Armory on
Broad street. They will be under
command of Lieutenant Walter Tay
lor and will be in full uniform.
pie Hussars received their new
uniforms yesterday. They are said to
be very handsome. Their sabres are
expected on Saturday. The company
will soon rank with the best organized
cavalry companies in the state..
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Florida’s New Marshal.
Washington, April 22.—The Sen-
ato to day confirmed the nomination
of E. C. Weeks as United States
marshal for the Northern district of
Florida.
Emperor William, of Germany,
says he wants peace. Then let him
disarm.
The big strike among the carpenters
in Chicago culminated in a riot on
Tuesday.
Another man was killed at White
hall street crossing, Atlanta, yester
day. Tunnel, or bridge, gentlemen.
HOUSE,
MITCHELL HOUSE CORNER.)