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SlutlS %xm% V'OL. It—ISO. 101. .THOMASVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 11, 1800, $5.00 PER ANNUM LOCAL HAPPENINGS. SHOES!! We have just re ceived a line of ladies Kid Button Shoes from 21-2 to 7 which we offer at the ex tremely low price of $2.00 per pair. These shoes will compare favorably' with any thing you have been paying $3.00 for else where. All we ask is a trial. 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. Ask to see the shoes even if you do not intend to buy. Respectfully, The News of the Day Told in Brief—Personals, Etc. Cotton stiffened up somewhat yes terday. Miss Dora Dekle has returned from a visit to Cairo. Mitch Bryce, of Brooks, was in town yesterday. Keep your eye on Steyerman’s ad Ho has piles of goods. Miss Lucille Linton returned from Marietta last night. John West is doing a lively trade in grain, bran and hay. Mr. C. P. Springer, of Columbus, was at the Gulf yesterday. Dr. John A. Newton, of Philadel phia, is a guest of the Stuart. Mayor Hopkins made a flyiug trip day before yesterday to Tallahassee. Mr. B D. Fudge is keeping a fine line of hardware, stoves, &c. Give him a call. Mr and Mrs. W. M. Hammond have returned from their summer tour North. Sherifl Hurst and Hon. Arthur Patten went over to Cairo yesterday, on business. F. N. Lohnstein. Mr. It. It. Evans, of Dothnn, Ala arrived lost uight, and will spend day or two here. Mr. J G Spotswood, soliciting freight agont of theS., F. & W. Ity, was in the city yesterday. The pupils in both the colleges have increased considerably since the opening of these institutions. Remember that the Thomasvillo Marble Works are turning nut first class work. Patronize home institu tions. Boston will have an interesting meeting on October 2nd. Alliance men from all over the county will bo present. Rev. Robert H. Harris has been called to the pastorate of the Baptist church in Athens. It is not known whether he will accept or not. Farmers arc now buying up barrels, preparing for syiup mak ing time, which is drawing near, much to the delight of tho young people. Miss Rosalie Hawkins has returned from a pleasant visit to her mother at Marianna, Fla. Dr. John Coyle and litt’e Miss Kate have also returned. Mrs. W. M. Reese, of Thomaville, who has been visiting relatives here, leaves to day for Buena Vistn, where she will visit for some time—Ameri cas Times. Mayor Singletary, of Cairo, was in the city yesterday. Ho is very much pleased at the growth and progress of bis town. Cairo is one of tho coming towns of this section. Mr. Louis M. Kaine. of Baltimore, hae arrived in Thomasville. Ho will take charge of the notion department of I. Levy & Co, Mr. Knine is an experienced salesman, and a pleasant gentleman. During the thunder storm on Tues day, a tree was struck by lightning near the poor house, and a negro knocked down by a flash of lightning. Mr. Isaiah Dekle was, also shocked in the same vicinity. Mr. M. H. Connelly, the well know) and popular traveling agent of the Nashville Chattanooga and St. Louis Ry., was in the city last night. He is just back from a pleasant trip West. Levy’s new clothing department is to bo supplied with a cash railway service; the fixtures have already been shipped from Now York. Tho now system of cash railways will connect all the departments of tho extensive establishment of I. Levy <& Co. It is a progressive firm. , Railroad Notes. Mr. Sara Baker has returned to his camps on the South Bound. *** Mr. It. W. Glading left yesterday for a trip to Brunswick, Jacksonville and other points in the interest of the Motion route. Conductor Robiusou, of train No. 17, reports the killing of five half grown wild turkeys, near the Chat tahoochee river, Tuesday. Tho train was running down grade rapidly when suddenly a block of fifteen turkeys stepped out from under a trestle and attempted to cross the track. Five were run over. *** The Pullman sleeper is run charge of a porter. The sleeper is well patronized, and the sleepless all night ride to Savannah is no longer to be dreaded by travelers. *** The heavy rains make the new clay foundation of the railroad yards boggy, and somewhat hard to man age. *** President Inman, of the West Point Terminal company, says that there is absolutely no truth in the reported scoop of the Monon by the East Ten nessee, though the report that such a denL hnd been perfected grew out of a statement made by an East Tennes see official. V Mr. Lamb will soon lower the grade several feet in the cut beyond the guano warehouse. Engineers will be glad of this. Tbe Accident to the Electric Light Works Repaired. The break in tho electrio light cir cuit' that caused tho city to bo in temporary darkness Tuesday night, was discovered by the linemen yes terday to he in Fletchervillc, in front of Walcott Hall. The trouble was caused by lightniDg melting the lit tle copper wire, which is ocly about the size of a .piu, in one of the glass globes of an incandescent light. It is very unusual in the severest elec tric storms for such an accident to happen, ns there are many ingenious devices to proveut such accidents. No wonder tho lineman tbund it a difficult task to locate trouble the size of a piu, iu the darucss which envel oped the town. Died. Mr. J. I. Radcliflfe died at his home near town Tuesday uight, at 8 o’clock, of consumption. Mr. Radcliffe moved here from Brooklyn, N. Y., about two years ago, and during that time mado many friends. He was about thirty years of age and leaves a wife and ouebhild. The remains, accompanied by his family, will bo taken North to-day for burial. Funeral services will take place at the residence, this morning, at 9 o’clock. A Lady’s Loss. A lady in East End lost her pocket book, contoining quite a sum, and some other valuables, yesterday. It is thought that a little negro girl found the purse, but they have not as yet been recovered. A drunk white man was seen on lower Jackson street Tuesday after noon. It is n rare thing to see a drunk white man on the streets of Thomasville. And we may add, also, that the colored population of the place is notably free from this vice. There is not a more orderly town in Georgia than Thomasville. Justice Martin’s friends and patrons will hereafter find him in his new quarters, the store formerly occupied by Mr. Mac Clewis in the Bruce block. Mr. Martin keeps a full line of gener al merchandise, is prompt and polite, can issue a warrant on short notice, or tie the nuptial knot so fast that it will require a big divorce suit to loos en it. Mrs. Mary E. Bryan. Maude Andrews, who does the society work of the Constitution, has been interviewing Mrs. Bryan, who is now in Atlanta. In reply to the questions: How did you chance to enter a literary career, Mrs. Bryan said: “Oh, I was reared with the idea that I should make a writer. My father saw that I had talent when I was a child, and he set his heart upon my making a name. We lived in Florida. He sent me to Thomasvillo to school, and there I met my hus band. I married him when I was fourteen years old. My father was not willing to give up his ambitions for me. I had written for Mr. Seals, who was then editing The Crusader, in Atlanta, and he made an agree ment to employ me upon the paper. When I came here and met him he refused positively to take me. My hair was short and curly, and I looked even younger than I was.” '“You are nothing but n child,’ he said; 'why you can’t be over four teen. I believe your mother wrote those things you sent me.’” “ ‘I’m seventeen,’ I said, ‘and I’m married and have a baby two yoars old, and I’m sure I’m old enough to do good work for you, if you’ll only try me.’ And Mr. Seals did try her, and the re-ralt has been that tho brave little woman lias worked her way well up the slippery ladder of fame. Sho has stood where many havo fal tered and fallen. Many of our older renders will remember the little girl, in short-dresses, whose winsome ways and silvery laughter won friends right and left, in her girlhood days at old Fletchcrville. May the evening shadows of life fall very gently abont Maty. E-iBryan, as sho descends the slope on the other side. He Works off the Queer, Tho reporter was shown n conti dence letter yesterday from n writer in Ashley, Mass., to a gentleman here, in which the party was offered an opportunity to become rich in a short time by denting with him in tin “green goods” line. The letter says no man has ever hnd any trouble with their goods and many a man has made himself, and his family independent for life with the “queer.” The rates were three thousand for three hun dred, or twenty thousand for one thousand and so on at this rate. If his money is so perfect why don’t he keep it and use it himself? The would-be-swindler’s address is Leon ard W. Lyne, Ashley, Mass. Strange that some people will, after these rascals have been so often exposed continue to be taken in by them. Mr. Lync’s angling in Thomasville does not get oven a nibble at his tempting Imit. Cau’t the officers of Ashley locate the swindler an 1 nrrost him? Mrs. B. Mays and Miss Annie Thonras, of Madison, Fla., spent Tuesday night in the city, the guests of Mrs. Frank Thomas. They are just back from North Georgia, and left for their Florida home yesterday morning. Miss Birdie Woodson, of this place, is visiting Miss Bessie Allen, of Amer- icus. A Colored Preacher Kilied. Waycross, Ga.—Sept. 0.—Rev. J. S. Griffin, a heretofore leading col ored preacher in the African Metho dist Episcopal church, was killed on tho railroad track near herelost night. Griffin had jost returned on an excur sion from Brunswick, and was walking on the track when struck by an in coming train. The night policeman, who was summoned to him, states that a pistol was found in his pocket, and a broken flask of whiskey was found where he first fell. His arm was cut off and his head crushed, and 2 death was instantaneous.” Strange companions, a bottle of whisky and a pistol, for a preacher. 1 A Site at Last. Chicago, Sept. 9.—The directors of the world’s fair this afternoon reaf firmed iheir choice ot some months ago and selected the dual site of the Lake Iront and Jackson park as the place tor locating the great exposi tion. The lake Iront is a long grass- covered common on the edge of Lake Michigan and bordering the business center ot Chicago. It contains at present about ninety a res. It is the design to place thereon the grand en trance to the exposition and building for fine arts and Kindred displays. Jackson park is also on the lake shore, about five miles from the court house, and is to have the agricultural, livestock and other exhibits of that nature, besides other; of general inter est. Over 500 acres are available in Jackson park and the approaches thereto, which were recently added to the original tender, I he two sites are to be connected by rail and water accommodations, so that but a few minutes will be spent in passing from one locality to another. The final and decisive ballot on the site question resulted: Lake Front and Jackson park 23, North Side 4, West Side 8. The choice of the dual site was then made unanimous. South Georgia Would be There. The Macou Evening News says: Here is a good snap. Get Mr. Northern to secure ex-Prcsident Cleve land to deliver nn address here next month at the State Fair, on the ques tions of the day, on his way home from the Texas State Fair at Dallas, which he has promised to attend. The co-operation of the railronds is assur ed, and a large attendance from all points would bo certain. Mr. Cleve land is one of few ex-Prcsidents who have amounted to anything nfter ex piration of their terra of office. Ho is perhaps tho only one whose influence on public opinion when out of office has been greater than it was when he was in. Any public expression of his is fraught with interest to friends and foes alike, and lie enjoys the rare dis tinction of saying the right thing at the right time, in language that the ignorant can understand ns readily as the wise. If Mr. Cleveland will attend the stale fair, it will draw the biggest crowd ever seen in tho “Central City.” Nearing tho End. Washington, Sept, 9.—To-morrow, after three hours of debate on a side, the tariff bill will pass the Senate. The Senate got through with it practically this afternoon, hut for the oratorical finale, which is to be made interesting according to programme by speeches from Senators, Ingalls and Cai lisle, which will be worth waiting for We are the People, For the People, And With the People. Shoe leather has advanced, but notwithstanding the ad vance we have determined to male a still deeper cut into our immense stock. The pruning knife has been busy the early part of this week, and for the beginning of the season we will offer the largest, handsomest and best selected stick of the best makers in the market. In gentlemen’s shoes we show Williams, Kneeland .& Cos. famous fine hand-sewed pat ent leathers in all the different shapes. Our own well known $3.00 shoe needs no puffing, as every pair sold advertises us. We arc closing out the famous Zeiglcr Bros gent’s [shoes at QBT, Mrs, Wickwire—“If you go first, you will wait for me on the other shore, won’t you dear ?” Mr. Wickwire— suppose so. I never went anywhere yet without having to wait for you.”— Terre Haute Express. Something of a Corker.—I’rofecscr George Washington Jackson, a down town boot-black, displays the following sign over his establishment: ,‘Pedal Tegumnts Artistically Illuminated and Lubricated tor the Infinitesimal Com pensation of sc. per Operation.”— Philadelphia Society. Every gentleman who has worn a pair knows their dura bility and beauty, and will not have to be told twice before he takes advantage of this of fer. , In ladies’ foot wear, we put on our shelves the best select ed shoe slock in fine, fancy, medium and low grades ever seen in Thomasville, and Jwe believe in the state. Frangle—What do you think of this piece ol newspaper advice: “Tell your wife every day that you love her?" Cunso—I don’t think the papers ought to encourage lying.—Epoch SIGNAL SERVICE BUREAU —AT B. Thomas JrV 126 Broad Street. R. Thomas, Jr. Volunteer Observer Weather Bulletin for tbe 24 hours ending at -^o’clock p. m., Sept. 10, 1890. Teupebatcie. a. m ;2 p.m 88 p.m 83 Uaximum for 24 hour, 89 Minimum “ « •• «;> Rain-fall 0.21 Local showers stationary lompraturc. Parents know full well where they can save money on chil dren’s shoes, and that is why we are always busy in this de partment. We only want to call their attention to the most serviceable school shoes we have ever had. They are easily described. Honest, dur able, good lookers and worth k If as much again as we offer them for. See our stock. It's worth looking through, even if you don’t want to buy. Mitchell House Block. BEWARE! Don’t buy clothing, hats or furnishing goods until you see our new stock, which will be open in a few days. I. Levy & Go.