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V'OL. tl—NO. 87.
THOMASYILLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 20, 185)0.
$5.00 PER ANNUM
LOCAL HAPPENINGS.
The News of the Day Told in
Brief—Personals, Etc.
SHOES!!
We have just re
ceived a line of ladies
Kid Button Shoes
from 21-2 to ¥ wWoh
we offer at the ex
tremely low price of
$2.00 per pair. These
shoes will compare
wityw
jijiiqg ybu have been
paying $3.Q0 fqr e|sq-
[yflpre. \\\ WO asl$
is a trml. We guar-
a n t e e satisfaction
with every pair, and
besides we promise to
save you from 50c. to
$1.00 on every pair
you buy of us. . As^
to sec the shoes even
if you do not intend
to buy.
Respectfully,
l H, Lohnstein.
The thermometer keops on the up
grade, r
County commissioner Bullock was
in town yesterday.
Mr. Hall Parker has returned from
a trip to the far West.
Professor Miller, of the South Geor-
College, is expected soon.
Mr.J.L. Hall made a business ttip
toOchlockonee yesterday.
Miss Je6sieJ3tuart returned from
Albany yesterday afternoon.
Mr. C. II. hill, of Montgomery,
was at the Stuart yesterday.
Are you going to run for a comity
office? If so, let t^f. people know it.
Miss Emma Lane and daughter, of
Tampa, Fla., was at the Gulf yester
day. •
Mf. H~M. Hdi, ol Augusta, is
among the guests registered at' the
Stuart.
Tnere is ample capital—if it was
Utili«-d—to erect a cotton factory in
rnomasvillo.
Mrs. Frank Thomas went up to
Meigs yesterday, to vi.-it her husband
at his mill.
Mrs. Oscar Jackson and daughter,
Miss Bennie, are visitiug Mrs. K. H.
Smith, on Jackson street.
See notice of thp qpentog ot Jafk-
son'street colored school. The Wl
term opens on Monday, Sept. j.
Mr. and" Mrs. John L Finn return
ed yesterday, from a pleasant visit to
the Northern resorts. AH are pleased
to see them at home again.
fetters (rflrp tyv! Clara "lleisher re
port her well and anxious to be in
Thomasville again. She is in Penn
sylvania, but is expected soop.
Mr. James lijngsfijyrry, son oil Cap
tain .S.T.Kmgsberry, of Quitman,
was in the city yesterday, accompa
nied by his sjstcr, ar,d cousin, Misses
Alice, and Susie Kingsberry.
Some ot the benches in the park are
sadly in need of repair. In their pres
ent conditio’i they detract from the
pretty appearance ol the place. They,;
should be painted up, and properly
distributed in tha ptpjj.
• The colored gentleman who broke
into a B. F. & W. Ry ear at Boston,
last Saturday, was fined 650 and costs,
or to work on the chain gang twelve
months, in Judge Mitchell’s court, yes-
day. He will shovel dirt.
A roadway train ran otjt $3 track at
Hart^awny Xtatiom yesterday, derail
ing four cars apd iujuring three color*
gd bauds. Dr. A. P. Taylor went up
and had the injured men brought here
ou No. 6, and is giving them good at
tention. One of them is badly injur
ed about the head. He was uncon
scious wbaq taken front tb*> H«ln yes
terday afternoon, Another one had
a leg broken, and the third bad his
ankle injured*
Borne one entered the residence of
Mr. James T. Kottman, on Saturday
afternoon, and stole something over
sixty dollars i.i money.. A negro
woman against whom yjierg ^ strong
evidence of gujit, has ijcgn areqsted
jtfld lodged in jail. • ‘ ‘ •
The prisoner gave bail in the sum
of 8300 yesterday, and is now at lib
erty.
The banks are a mighty safe place
to put your money—when thieves arc
about > ; ‘ v . K
**-
The Colored Men gf Q^fq Speaks.
An exchange says:
A pall for a convention of colored
people to meet at Springfield, Qv ftn
August 2fl Is an indication that they
ape at last beginning to realize that
tub price of their emancipation > was
political serfdom to the republican
bosses. Their call rends like a decla
ration of independence. It is a strong
indictment of the Republican party
for wrongs done the colored race.
Stanley Talks.
A Morning News reporter has been
interviewing engineer Stanley of the
Georgia Southern and Florida. Mr.
Stanley is surveying and locating the
Macon and At'aitic road, running
from Macon to Savannah Wo ap
pend the, following from the inter
view ; * ‘ '
The- road', Mr. Stanley says, after
getting out from theOomulgee fur the
first ten miles will be heavy, and af-
t- r that it will be medium. From
Savannah to the Ogeechcc he says the
work will only be grubbing and clean
ing. Tho rails be be 701b steel rails,
with 54 inch’anglo barscovering three
ties. The maximum grade willbe but
52.8 to the mile, a very light grade,
and one used on the entire system,
enabling an engine to draw a greater
number of loaded cars into and out of
Birmingham, it is Qlffim.ed, than by
any road running into Birmingham.
Thp system alluded to contemplates
727 miles of railway, as follows: The
Georgia Southern and Florida, 285
miles from Macon to Palatka, Fla.,
and built hy the Macon Construction
Company. The Macon and Birming
ham, 23ft. miles; iron is now being
lain on that road at the rate of 2 miles
per day, and It Is expected to have 95
miles of the road in operation by. the
middle of October, that is from Macon
to LaQrange This road is being
built hy the Macon Consi fuation Com
pany. He Tiflan and Hiomasville
branch of the Georgia Southern and
Florida. This branch will be 52 milts
in length, llic road in under contract,
the contractors arc at mrh on it, and it
is to be completed by April 1. The Ma
con Construction Company is building
this branch road. The Macon and
Atlantic road, from Macon tq Savan
nah, being -btiih by yhp Mac^n ‘ np0
Savannah' Construction Company,
composed of stockholders In tho Ma
con Construction .Company,, and nth
er capitalists of Savannah and of tho
north. '
I r CouflSirWoceedingr.
Cotixcit, Uog^s, -Vmf. 25tli, 180U.
ru.,i:cll met In regular St-Sciuu. Mayor
Hopklis presiding.
Alderman Wright, llnj-cs unit fatten pro-,
sent.
Minute', ftf iu't peeling rend anil continu
ed.
Petition of Kvani iViv(s (to mercantile li.
ccnrc was granted,
Petition of J. 8. Muiilgoinery was refered
to Mayor llupkins wilp power to act.
The ordinaucc introduced hy Mayor Hop
kins nt last meeting wna put upon iU final
reading and passed to read as follows:
Re it ordained hy the Mayor and Aldermen
ot the city of fhoninsvillc.
Sec. 1 That it shall he unlawiul for any
engineer or other person hJ, VV.S " ii‘V
tlc of nn^ ^Urgafi’ locomotive within the
corporate Intuits of the city.
Sso. 2 That any person rlolating the
first section of this ordinance shall lie ar
raigned as other offenders against the ordi
nances of the city, and upon conviction
shall lie lined os provided in ecct'on 1 of the
general penal ordinance of the city.
Sac. 3 That this nrilia^n.* suntl take 9I-
fectan the first day of October next.
On motion of Alderman Patten, Policeman
Drown was ordered paid for the tityichc was
sick.
Mayor Hopkins offered the following reso
lution, which was adopted:
Resolved, That a “time book” shall he
kept by .the superintendent of water works,
which shall show the number of days labor,
the party performing it and character of the
work done by C*¥fi person employed; nn'd
that said time book - shall' utcrimpa'ny all
bills pre'seritca for approval to the chairman
of the committee ori'whtcr works.
Matter of buying a sprinkler was refered
)o the Mayor and Alderman Hayes.
Account of John Spair for $31.03 was or
dered paid.-
Account of Moore and Williams was re
fered to chairman finance committee.
Following nocctints passed for payment.
Mitchell and McIntyre, $345.10,1.1, Jj W.
4. Pringie, 25c; I,. F. Thompson & Oo., $3.43.
Council adjourned.
K. T. Maclkax,
Clerk.
• —
Vance and Gordon.
In North Carolina, where Senator
Vance opposed the sub-ireasury bill,
the Alliance has announced that there
will be no effort to defeat a man 01 the
broad views and tried experience of
the senior senator. To say that the
farn.ers o. Georgia are less sensible or
conservative than the farmers of North
Carolina is to utter an absurdity. The
leading politicians” who are fixing up
a slate against Gen. Gordon and who
are trying to wheedle the Alliance into
their scheme are “reckoning without
their host-’’
# * * # * #
What southern govemot to-day has
anything like the reputation or the
prestige of John B. Gordon? What
state is so prominent as the Emp-re
State of the south, and what figure
since the honored form of the Southern
Chiettan was laid to rest in Metairie
last December, is more noble, more il
lustrious than that of Gen. Gordon?
Whether in Augusta where he started
the wheels of a National Exposition;
whether in New York where he rode,
the knighlliest figure in the Washing
ton centennial; whether in Chicago
where he preached the peace evangel
to the Grand Army ot the Republic,
or whether in New Orleans where he
led the band of mourners behind the
bier of Jefferson Davis, and was saluted
himself as the living “Father of the
Confederacy,” John II. Gordon has
borne the noble title of a soldier,
statesman qpfi Ghjispap gentleman.—
Augusta Chronicle.
True Poetic Inspiration-
Edgar Alien Poe thus tracos and
outlines with the artistic and fadeless
touch of & Master the true poet’s in
spiration:
“He (the poet) perceives it in the
blue distance af mountains, in the
tinkhpR of half-hidden brooks, in the
star-mirroring depths of lovely wells.
He perceives it, too, in the songs of
birds, in the sighing of the night
wind, in tho repining voioo of the
forest, in the surf that complains to
the shore, in the scent of the violet,
in the voluptuous perfumo of the hya
cinth, in the suggestive odor that
comes to him at eventide from far-dis
tant, undiscovered islands over dim
oceans illimitable and unexplored. IJo
views it besides in all noble thoughts,
in all unwordly tMtWeck In all holy
impulses, m i\l\ chivalrous and soil—
sacrificing deeds. ' He feels it in the
beauty of woman—in the grace of her
step, iu the luster of her eye, in her
soft laughter, in the harmony of the
rustling of her robes. He deeply
feels it in her winning endearments,
in her burning enthusiasms, In her
gentle charities, in fier meek and de
votional iudurances, but above all—
ah) far above all—he kneels to it—lie
\yorehips it—in the faith, in the puri-
2 , in the strength, in the altogether
vine majesty of hor love.”
There’s poetry in this prose, a
poetry of thought which elevates and
refines, which robs life of much of its
coarser elements, and robes it in tho
hues of beauty and loyoUness.
A Plucky Georgia Girl.
Miss Mattie Hester is the United
Stated mail carper qvey thp route
from Cofldar, Laurens county, to
Montgomery county, Georgia, a dis
tance of forty miles, through a sparsely
settled region, which she traverses
three timea a weeVj. She drives her
own mail cart, carries a revolver, and
is punctual as the sun at all seasons
and in all weathers. Besides trans
porting the mails, she manages a
farm, gets out lumber, splits fence
rails, and contrives to support a wid
owed mother, two young sisters and a
brother, while she is not yet 20 years
of age.—Ex.
This Week in Congress.
Wasiiinuton, Aug. 24.—The or
der of business for the remainder of
tho session arranged by the republican
committee ot the Senate provides that
consideration of the tariff bill shall be
completed without interruption, ex
cept by appropriation hills and con
ference reports.
Senator Aldrich, who is in charge
of the tarifl hill, will, before the Sen
ate meets to-morrow, endeavor to
reach an agreement with the demo*
cratic senators as to the date on which
voting shall begin on the bill and its
ameafiments. If successful he will
then ask unanimous consent to have
voting begin on tho date agreed upon.
He will also ask that the debate dur
ing the last three days shall be con
ducted under the fivo minute rule.
Tho democrats desire that the six
hours just preceding the final vote on
the bill shall he occupied in general
debate, to he equally divided between
the two sides. Under this arrange
ment, if it is carried out, Senator Car
lisle will close for the democrats, and
Bewttor Aldrich for the republicans.
Crisp Will Lead.
Speaking of tho organization of the
next house, the well informed Wash
ington correspondent of the Augusta
Chronicle says:
“The fight for the speakership of the
next House will open immediately af
ter the November election, and ns
there is no longer any doubt of the
success of the Democrats, the next
speaker is certain to be a Democrat.
The fight will possibly be between
Judge Crisp, of Georgia, nud Mr.
Hatch, of Missouri, Mr. McCreary, ot
Kentucky, Mr. McMillen, of Tennes
see, and Mr. Springer, of Illinois.
Mr. Hatch who is a farmer and who
has recently joined the Alliance, will
bo the farmers’ candidate while the
other candidates will run on their
personal strength. Judge Crisp is,
however, the strongest man in the
field and probably nns more followers
than any two of the others combined.
There is danger, however, of a combi
nation or of the seuscless cry that the
Democrats should not put a Southern
man in this place. The latter has,
however, about played out. The
fight, if one can judge at present, will
be between Messrs. Crisp and Hatch.”
1* •
Killed in Sayannah.
Frank Barclay, a fireman on the
Central, shot and killed J. E. Kespass,
a clerk in the auditors department of
the road, in the depot of that system
at Savannah on. Sunday night, just
as three trains were about ready to
pull out. One thousand people were in
and around the depot at the time.
The shooting aaused great excitement.
The men had fallen out about a trivial
matter. The following was the ver
dict of the coroner’s jury :
We, toe jury, find that J. E. Res-
pass came to his death hy a pistol
shot, which we believe to be at the
hands of one Barclay, and consider it
manslaughter.
Respass came from Barncsvillc and
Barclay formerly lived in Gordon
county. Both were young men.
Cotton Rates Cut.
The Central railroad has announc
ed a large reduction in freight rates
on cotton to Savannah from all points
on tho southwestern division, and on
the Alabama lines. The rate from
Dawson to Savannah has been reduc
ed from 44 cents to 40 cents, and in
consequence Savannah factors are al
ready receiving shipments from Daw
son, with tho prospect of the greater
portion shipped from that place com
ing to Savannah.
The rate from Troy, Altu, has been
reduced from 55 cents to 45 cents;
from Ozark, Ala., front 50 cents to 45
cents, and other points in Alnbama
correspondingly.”
The Alabama Midland, now a part
of the Plant Bystem, is cutting into
the Control's Alabama business. This
reduction is the effect of competition.
Tho force bill is dead—for the pro-*
sent.
During Mr. Cleveland’s administra
tion it was noAunoommon to hear dis
gruntled democrats say that they saw
no difference between it and a repub
lican administration. Possibly these
soreheads sec now what they did not
sec then.—News.
-AND A—
Clean Sweep
—AT THAT—
Will be inaugurat
ed at
Levy’s! Levy’s! Levy’s!
All of our Clothing,
Furnishing Goods,
Straw Hats, Etc.,
must be closed out in
30 D ay
WITHOUT -:- FAIL
Knoxville to Atlanta.
Knoxville, Tens., Aug 23.— The
Knoxville Southern railroad, from
Knoxville 10 Atlanta, Ga., 220 miles,
has been completed and trains are
now tunning regularly.
A committee of citizens haw passed
over the road and inspected it. Three
years ago the city voted $275,000 to
the company, city bonds at 5 per cent,
far twenty years, to be issued for stock
to that amount.
SIGNAL SERVICE BUREAU
AT
R. Thomas BY 120 Broad Street
O.S.Bondurant Volunteer Observer
Weather Bulletin for the 24 hours ending
at 7 o’clock p£m., Aug. 2,5 1890.
TixrxttATcaa.
7 a. m 75
2 p. m 92
7 p. m 84
Maximum for 34 hours..! - 91
Minimum “ “ “ 71
Rain-fall 0.OU
Fair stationaty.
Our customers are
aware that Mr. Levy
is now in New York
making big purchases
for
F j^i)Li Li
and room we must
have at any sacrifice
ot goods.
Desirable front office to rent over T, J.
Balt 4 Hro'ii. store, apply within.
8-23.21
We mean exactly
what we advertise,
and to be convinced
call at once at
LEVY’S
Dry Goods House.
Mitchell House Corner.