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nterpri. V'OL. 1—NO. 006. THOMASVILLE, GEORGIA, SUNDAY MORNING, MAY 11, 1890, $5.00 PER ANNUM Change-of-Venue CLOTHING This week instead of DRY GOODS. ATTENTION MEN, YOUTHS' AND BOYS. LOOK .A.T QUOTATIONS, Reflect and Act NO BAITS, NO CLAPTRAPS. NO MISREPRESENTATIO Men’s Black Corkscrew 4-button Cutaway Suits Worth §16.00 for §12.00. Men’s Black Corkscrew Sack Suits Worth §15.00 for $12.00. Men’s Fancy Cassimere Suits worth $15.00 for $10.00, Men’s Fancy Cassimere Suits worth $12.00 for $8.00 Men’s Fancy Cassimere Suits worth $10.00 for $6.50 Youths wool suits worth $7.00 for 3.50. Youths woo! suits worth $0.00 for 5.50. Youths wool suits worth $10.00 for 6.50. Youths wool suits worth $12.00 for 8.00. Boys fall suits from $1.50 to $6.00. Boys knee pants from 35 cents up. The best unlaundriea shirts in the world for 50 cents. We always do what we promise. Try us. LOCAL HAPPENINGS. The News of the Day Told in Brief—Personals, Etc. It is to come off very soon. Good advice to melon growers: sell at home. All the churches will be open to day. have cotton Thomnsvilie mn.4 compress. Close up the Railroad Sub scription. The mornings for the past few day have been quite cool. Thomasville merchants are carrying splendid stocks of goods. The summer schedule on the rail roads goes into effect to-day’. The drummers will be here to-day by several majority. Both the colleges are getting ready for commencement. A.TRIP TO WHIGHAM. Picnic Pointers. Mrs. A. J. Branham, of Brun wick, was in the city yesterday. T. S. Marks, of Cleveland, O., is among the strangers in the city. Mr. W. I). Peeples, of Valdosta was in the city yesterday. Dr. A. P. Taylor has returned from a trip to Baltimore. An awning has been put up in fron of Curtright ifc Daniel’s. The most of the Thomasville party- have returned from the lake. Don’t get left to-day on account of the change of schedule. William Kelly, of St. Louis, Mo. is a guest of the Stuart. Next Wednesday is county court day. A number of cases have been set for trial. Two colored women had a fight on Madison street yesterday morn in The police gathered them in. Judge A. II. Hnnscll returned yes terday' from Brooks court, which has been in session during the past week. John W. Masury and family dirt not leave yesterday as expected. They expect to get off on Wendcsday. A few uusightly china berry trees still mar lower Broad street. Why cumbereth they the ground? There is a great variety of opinions about the LeConte pear crop. One thing i9 pretty certain; it will be short. Capt. W. M. Hammond returned yesterday afternoon from Quitman, where he 1ms been attending Brooks county court. The cases which were on docket fur last Friday, have been set for Monday. Several eases will then he disposed of. W. W. Linn, who has been con nected with the depot for some time, is now with L. F. Thompson it Co. He is popular any where you put him. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Itipicy, of Buffalo, N, Y., who have been spend ing tho season at Tallahassee, Fla., were guests of the Gulf yesterday en route home. 132 Broad Street. Several private picnic parties went out to tho river and other points Fri day, and judgiugfroni the jolly crowd that passed down Broad street Friday afternoon, in wagons decorated with moss, evergreens and vines, a merry day in the woods was spent. Commencement is the next event on the tapis in Thomasville. Invite your friends to come; it is a good way to advertise these institutions. Do this much for your colleges. Mayor Hopkins will bpgin work on the boulevard very soou. A thirteen mile boulevard will be something to he proud of. And Thomasville is go- iug to have it. Close up the Railroad Sub scription. I Thursday afternoon aTiMEs-E.NTER- i’RIse reporter and Mr. Joe Love boarded the west bound train for Whigham. The big picnic was to come off next day, and with the foresight that is ha bitual with the reporter and his com panion, they set out to he the first on the ground. At least this is what a gentleman said who saw the reporter and his companion on the way to the depot. The truth is, the two gentlemen were hooked for a trip to Forest Falls and a night at the hospitable home of Hon. Rufus II. Connell, a few miles north of Whigham. The trip was made without incident, and when the prosperous little village was reached, the first thing seen was a busy prepa ration for the affair of the next day, by the kind people. Ill the beautiful grove near the pas senger station seats and long tables were arranged, and a few yards away the historical spring sent forth a boun tiful supply of water for the crowd that would attend. A lew minutes later Mr. Connell made his appear ance, and another half an hour after tiio arrival of the train we were oil our way to the falls. We rode past the mill of Dr. G. M. Jones, on a creek fed by never failing springs, which no drought affects ; past Trinity Church, past the sawmill of Win. Maxwell, and Spring Hill Methodist church, where a new and commodious church building is soon to lie erected. On either side of the road were prosperous and well cultivated farms, and rolling hills, covered sometimes with pine forests aud again with hard wood, as fine as any thatoan ho found in tiie south. At last we reached the falls, the Lime Sink” as it has been erroneous ly called. Tho scenery around the falls is a9 picturesque as any tiiat can In; found ; high hills enclose a basin into which pours a stream of pure and sparkling water, a sheer descent of 83 feet. The water falls over a rock wall ami half way down it strikes a pro jecting point that breaks it into sheets of spray. The face of the rock wall is covered ith ferns of several varieties includ ing the maiden hair, and mosses that grow green the year round, fed by the moisture of the spray. At midday the breezes that blow in this “cave of the winds,” set in motion myriads of tiny rainbows that mingle with and cross each other in a most fantastic fashion. At the bottom of the basin the water gathers and rushes off in a parkling stream that find a subtorra nean passage to, who knows where? The hidden stream gives back a last note of gladness as it tumbles over un seen rocks, as if rejoiced to leave the world behind. Whether it finds its way into some of the beautiful lakes to the south a few miles, or bursts up in mid ocean no one can say. Just under the sheer wall over which the water pours, there is an entrance to a cave of unknown depth, that has been explored several hundred feet. One adventurous party went into its mys terious depths till they camo to a sub terranean lako of unknown size, and over whose dark waters the lamps east the first light they ever reflected. The sloping sides of the basin are covered with a forest growth of many varieties of trees, and huge boulders of rock stand grim sentinels to guard the mysteries and beauties that are a part and parcel of their domain. As wc came up the hills that hold the falls in such a tender embrace, the last rays of the setting sun shed a flood of mystically soft light over the scene, and under the spell of this and with we left, wc could feel that we were welcome. A night ol peaceful sleep, preceeded by a beautiful supper and succeeded by a fine breakfast and we were ready for the days duties. Mr. Connell has a farm of nearly 2,000 acres, and he has planted for ioo bales of cotton this year. He raises plenty of provisons and lives at home. Of course he is making money. After breakfast he drove us over the country north and east of his farm. The first thing that attracted notice was a commodious academy that he has built. It stands in a beautiful grove and it would seem that the some time steep ascent of the hill of knowl edge had been so smoothed down that it can be easily mounted amid such pleasant surroundings. We drove past fine farms, beautiful forests, rolling hills, and acres? sparking brooks, fed by springs of as pure free stone water as anv that bursts from the sides of mountains. AT THE PICNIC. We reached the picnic grounds a few minutes before the special train bearing the children and the grown people pulled in. It was a sight to see the little fellows tumble off the train; their faces were as bright as so many sfars, and their happy laughter was pleasant to hear. Tnomasville was well represented, Cairo sent a delegation,Duncanvillewas there and half a dozen other schools sent 'heir quota ol liltle folks and big folks. The Whigham Hand played k salute, the oak trees waved their rustic arms in sympathy and the hearts and hands of the citizens of the town and neigh borhood spoke in no uncertain tones of the kindly reception they gave to their guests. Rev. L. B. Wilson of the Advance made an address of welcome that was cheered, and Mr. J. L. Hall responded in the name and behalf of the visitors, and then the fun and frolic began. It is just as much an impossibility to describe the pleasures of a picnic as it is to paint a rose or bottle its fragrance. As a lady said of her beau, he must be seen to be appreciated; so say we, a picnic must be gone through with to appreciate. Every one into whose hands these lines will fail has had and expects to have experience on tins point and so it is left to their imagina tion to picture w-iat the delights of the day were. Dinner plays a conspicuous part on such occasions, and there was plenty dto spare of good things; more than the seven baskets of fragments were left, and everybody had enough. At s o’clock, sharp, the return trip was begun and an hour later the Sun day school picnic of 1890 was over. 1 NOTES. Ben Russell come down to “shake” with his Thomas county friends. New Oehloekonee church Sunday School had some charming represent atives. Whigham is a growing and coming town. Editor Wilson had a plcasnat word for everybody. "Is he married?” asked a young la- day from Thomasville. "O, yes,” said the gentleman ad dressed. “That’s too bad ; I thought he was single,” she said. We hope editor Wilson will not let his wife sec this item. Baiubridge sent over two pretty young ladies. Whigham will soon have a crack brass band. They play well lor ama teurs. 1'owltown was represented by two charming ladies. Not an accident occurred. The dinner was bountiful: and of early love budded and bloomed, in sylvan nooks and shaded retreats. Ah! well, ’tis the same old, old story The speeches of Messrs. Wilson and Hall, tho first welcoming the crowd to Whigham, and the latter accepting the hospitality, in behalf of the Sun day Schools, were models of brevity, being to the point, and expressed in the happiest language. The ride on the earn, going and coming, was very much enjoyed Jo Gilbert is a model conductor; he is careful, kind, attentive and pru dent. Whigham has a spledid new depot Wc should like to have our county line extended so as to take in Whig ham. But then Ben Russell would raise a row about it. A party was made up to attend the camp meeting at Green Shade, August. The lemonade stand was well pat ronized. In this connection we would not forget to mention the kindness and labor of Mess. J.F. Evans, George Carroll, Remur McIntyre, B. P. Wal ker, F.rny Dekle, Mr. Moss, and per haps others, in preparing the cooling drinks and waiting on the children and crowd. These gentlemen worked faithfully. Ant! they were kept busy. Most of the party strolled around and took in the pretty little town. “Whigham” was indulged in by a good many. But there was no nickles dropped in the slot. This, like every thing else, was free. The ladies in charge of die baskets, and the preparation of dinner, deserve the thanks of all. They acquitted themselves well. The train, when it pulled out on the return, was a moving mass of waving green boughs. Joe Crovatt handled the train care fully. He had a precious load of liv ing freight. Tired, but happy, the little tots re- j turned to tumble in their trundle beds, and sleep,—perhaps to dream of the days pleasures. May their lives be as full of sunshine in all of the future, as was the case at the picnic. Odd Fellows Picnic. Tho Odd Fellows Picnic partici pated in by the colored people Friday was largely attended. They made quite a procession ns they marched down Broad street to Paradise Park, where the day was spent in various j amusements. The Guards Inspected. Capt. T. A. Clayton, of Albany, Adjutant of the 7th Georgia Battalion, inspected the Guards Friday morning, and they stood the test well. Capt. Clayton, in a conversation after the drill with a citizen, spoke in fluttering terms of our company. He says tho uniforms fit well, and the drilling was especially good. His report to Adju tant, Kell will no doubt be favorable. Methodist Church. The pastor expects to hold services at this church, during the coming week, every morning at !) o’clock and 7. Jo p. m. Rev. J. M. Lovett, of Quitman, Ga., is expected to assist : him. The public is invited to attend these services. the music of falling waters in our cars 1 we drove away through the silent 61c best. forests. j Whigham is proud of her splendid at home. I grove and beautiful spring: and she I’here is a peculiarity about Mr. I l |; is a right to lie. Connell that is worthy of comment; There were a good many soft things from the time we entered his home till! said. At least three or four cases of If there are any teachers in Thom asville, Thomas county, or this section I of Georgia, who would like to make a cheap and pleasant trip, the opportu-1 nity will soou present itself. A tench- ers excursion is being mode up lor Ju- | ])•. The primary object is to attend ! a meeting of the Northeastern teachers ! at .St. Raul. The trip will carry the excursionists through Manitoba, Ycl- j lowstonc Park and Alaska, returning j through California and western Uni- j I ted States. Arrangements have been | I made for two hundred teachers, and ; the entire cost of the trip, including | hotel, sleeper and railroad charges,! will he about 810“ for each person, j the trip lasting thirty days. For fur ther information, address Prof. V. E., Orr, Atlanta, Georgia. ; Call and see our New Challies, New Drapery Nets,New Fans and many other New Goods. LEVY’S