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VOL. 11—NO. 104.
THOMASVILLE, GEORGIA, SUNDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 14, 181)0.
$5.00 PER ANN DM
How we apples do
swim.
Talk is cheap, but
it takes money to
buy land.
Having ordered and
received all of our
ORDINARY lines of
goods for
Fall and Winter Trade
for some time past,
we beg to announce
that our
Mr. F. N. Lohnstein
will leave for New
York and other north
ern and eastern mar
kets to-day tor select
the
Real Novelties
In fabrics pertaining
to
LADIES AND GENT’S WEAR.
It is a well 'known
fact that the latest
style and real impor
tations from Europe
are never on sale un
til about Oct. 1st,
hence, we will just be
in time to select for
our customers the
Latest and Best.
We do not wish to
DICTATE to the pub*
ho what to do nor how
to do it, but respect
fully ask a continu
ance of the many
favors shown us here
tofore,
‘‘Wait for the wag
on and we’ll all take
a ride,”
Respectfully,
LOCAL. HAPPENINGS.
The News of the Day Told in
Brief—Personals, Etc.
Keep to day holy.
It is ‘‘Col.” Eason.
Don’t talk phosphate to day.
More rain yesterday altcrnoon.
Judge Hansell is expected back
this evening.
To some one, the ugliest face looks
beautiful.
Jake Menko, of Macon, was at tho
Gulf yesterday.
Mr. Ed Crittendon is now will) Ball
& Bro.
Kev. J. T. Ainsworth, of Cairo, was
in the city yesterday.
The man with a monkey nud a
hand organ will be along soon.
Work is progressing oa the road
from Tifton to Thomasvillc.
Miss Jimmie Jeter went down to
Whigham yesterday to visit her sister.
Every man carries a pocket full of
rocks. Phosphate lias the floor.
Mr. II. M. Solomons left last night
for a few days visit to Savannah.
Dr. J. E. White has returned from
a visit of some lime to Atlanta.
Tho Jewish New Ycnr commences
this evening at sundown.
George Fields, of the Gulf, mens
ures several inches taller: it is a boy.
Editor Glenn, of the Southwest
Georgian, came over from Cairo yes
terday.
One of tho delivery wagons ol the
Southern Express Company broko
down on Broad street yesterday.
Mr. W. II. Harvey, of Cuthbcrl,
was in the city yesterday, enroute
from Valdosta, where he bought out
Brigg’s drug business.
Mrs. India Royal left yesterday
morning for Chattanooga, to visit her
brother, Mr. John Hardaway, of that
city.
Mrs. Albert Winter left yesterday for
Americus to join Cnpt. Winter. Her
many fricuds hope she will be pleased
with her new home.
Messrs. Jumps A. Leary and Wal
lace M. Leary, of Philadelphia, were
in the city yesterday, guests of tho
Stuart.
Everett has declined to meet Felten
in joint debate, alleging that the
Doctor is outside the party. And it
looks very much that way.
Sherifl Hurst received a telegram
yesterday from Jacksonville denying
the report that onp of tho Thornes-
vjljo expansionists, a woman lmd been
killed there.
Col. II. G. Mitchell, of Thomss,
the senator from this district, is being
urged for President of the Senate.
Col. Mitchell would make a first class
presiding officer and the Press would
bo delighted to sec him thus honored.
—Quitman Press.
George McDoncll, son of Rev. G.
G. N. McDonell, will leave to-mor
row morning for Oxford, to enter
Emory College. George will win his
tray, and the host wishes of hU Thom
asvillc friends are with him,
Thomasville in Cairo.
From the Southwest Georgian:
Miss Dora Dekle, of Thomasvillc,
spent the week with her sister, Mrs.
Glenn.
Hon. J. L. Hall, one of Thomas-
ville’s rising young lawyers, was in
town Saturday on legal business.
2 Mr. James R. Dekle, of Thomas
ville, was in town Saturday. Wonder
if he was out grape hunting?
Hon. A. T. McIntyre, Jr., was in
town Saturday. Tom is one of the
boys, and they aro always glad to
shako his band.
WE’VE GOT IT!
OLD THOMAS LEADS IN THE
DISCOVERY.
SURE ENOUGH PHOSPHATE.
The Official Report of the State
Geologist—The Boom has
Struck us at Last.
Atlanta, Sept, n—The first re
port of State Geologist J. W. Spencer,
under the new act reorganizing the
geological bureau, was made to Gov.
Gordon to-day.
It is in reference to the phosphate
deposits of Thomas county and is as
follows:
In a letter from Mr. J. M. McCland-
ness dated July as, my attention was
called to the occurence of phosphates
in south Georgia, the analysis of which
showed a high quality. As these were
probably the first phosphates ol im
portance that hsvc been found in
Georgia, I deemed it advisable to
make -in examination ai the first op
portunity in order to ascertain if the
deposits justified investigation of tie
belt- Consequently, I visited the re
gion and now submit my first report
which absence, occasioned by the field
tv .irk. has dclaved.
■'lie phosphate bed is best exposed
about three miles Irom Boston on the
Thomasvillc road and at only a few
points is the deposit of phosphate
seen on the surface; but • large num
ber ol pits have been opened 1 y Mr.
Dunwody Jones. In these openings
the phosphates is found beneath a
depth from four to ten feet of earth,
and again appears to pass to even
greater depths henealh the earthly
coverings.
The mineral is in the form or nod
ules, varying in size up-to masses ol
too pounds or more. The color is
variable, var.ing Irom while loyellow,
brown anJ green. The nodules of
ten make up 50 per cent, or more of
the bed, which sometimes reaches a
thickness of over ten feet In the bed
with the mineral, flinty nodules com
monly occur, and even the two miner
als arc com ningled. The phosphates
arc underlaid by flinty beds, and these
rest upon limestope. The geological
age of these underlying flints and lime*
stones is lower miocene. Thi - wss
determinded by the fossils which I col
lected in the reeks and referred to Dr.
W. H. D ill ol Washington.
The phosphates are newer and con
tain fragments of the older shells. In
tact, both the (lints -rnd plios hales
were once beds of limestone, subse
quently converted into the secondary
forms.
SAME AS THE FLORIDA DEPOSITS.
Thu* it is found that the geological
position of the phosphate beds of
Thomas county is the same as that oi
some of the Flouda deposits.
The phosphate beds are lenticular,
or lie more or less in pockets, some oi
which are of large size. Besides those
deposits seen, the mineral is said to
occt r along the Aucilla creek and at
other places and at considerable depth.
I made several qualitative test of the
ore, but have depended for percent
ages upon Mr. McCandless* analysis of
Mr. (ones’ samples. Tne reports show
bone phosphates up to from 60 to 85
per cent. The percentage of clay is
low as also the iron. This can be seen
in the openings, as the iron colorations
arc limited and the clay is upon the
surface of the nonulcs and can be re
moved by washing, as in the case of
Charleston deposits. Water is ne.’r
at hand.
in paving Quantities.
The depth at which the phosphates
can be profitably wonted vatles with
the volume. The Charleston phos
phates have usually a thickness of six
to fifteen inches, although greater in
places. Under these conditions they
obtain from 300 to 1,200 tons to the
acre, and can remove from eight to
ten feet of earth, according to Dr. Shep
ard. Usually 500 tons to the acre are
necessary to pay expenses. The heav
iest Thomas county deposits would
reach 10,000 tons to the acre, yet such
a yield could not be expected to con
tinue over large areas, but would help
to tide over ‘the inevitable expense of
the poor ground. Although the de-
posies ol Thomas county phosphate is
confined in width, there seems no rea
son why it should be limite I in length.
The present outlook is sufficient to jus
tily further prospecting and further de
velopment ot an industry so important
to the state. I shall give this ques
tion of phosphates more attention at
an early date, as the preliminaiy in
vestigation warrants it, in order to
make known the modes ofoccutrence
and general distribution to the land
owners and others interested in the
prospecting and development of phos
phates.
Died.
Yesterday morning, at 2 o’clock,
Mm. Alice Wycho Linton, wife of
Mr. J. L. Linton. Mrs. Linton was
born Oct. 29th, 1840. Sho was mar
ried on the 23rd of Oct. 1860. She
has always lived in this county, and
was highly esteemed for her many
noble womanly qualities by a large
circle of friends. She was, for many
years, a member of the Presbyterian
church, and was a conscientious, Chris
tian woman. She leaves a husband
and fivo children to mourn the loss
of wife and mother. In all the rela
tions of life, as mother, wife, neighbor,
friend, tho deceased always, and
everywhere, was the samo gentle,
loving, forgiving woman, benring
malice toward none, and doing unto
others as she would hnvo them do
unto her.
Tho fuficrnl will take place at 10
o’clock this morning, from the Pres
byterian church.
Railroad Notes.
Ojicrrttor J. O. Beasley has returned
from a visit to home folks at Monti-
cello.
V
Engineer Sam Lord expects to leave
to day for Tampa,Fla., to spend some
time.
***
A party of railtoad men arc already
bciug made up to attend the exposi
tion in Atlanta next month, mid you
may be sure they will have a good
time.
***
The business of tho Southern Ex
press Company will soon show a heavy
increase, os tho fall and winter busi
ness more fully opens.
***
The cheap rato from Chicago to
Thomasvillc, to bo put on by the
Motion, is being extensively adver
tised throughout tho country.
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It was a False Rumor.
The negro excursion returned from
Jacksonville yesterday morning, with
n talc of woe to tell, saying a woman
excursionist bad been killed by a
policeman in Jacksonville, nnd that
the body had been kept for the coro
ners iuquest yesterday. Some of the
crowd reported the woman’s name ns
Mattie Williams and others as Lizzie
Mitchell. The affair caused consid
erable excitement among the negroes
here, but as the Jacksonville Times-
Union, has the following to say of
tho excursion, and as no such oc-
curancc had been reported at police
headquarters, the rumor is apparently
groundless.
“A very large excursion arrived
from Georgia yesterday over tho S.
F. & W. railroad and roturned at
night. Most of them were colored.
They numbered 620 and were orderly
aud well behaved.”
LIVINGSTON FOR SENATOR.
Tlt3 Colonel Sends out a Circular
Admitting his Candidacy.
Atlanta, Oa., Sept. 12.—Colonel
Livingston is again trying to nurse
into life a senatorial boomlet for him
self. He : s somewhat alarmed for
the success of his cherished hope, a
scat iu the Senate, since the flood of
indorsements for Gov. Gordon has
been coming in from every part of the
stato, and he is trying to stop them.
He is now engaged in sending a print
ed circular from Atlanta to a few se
lect alliance organizations. They arc
dated nt Cora, the colonel’s country
home in Newton county, nnd were
never intended to see the light outside
the secret chambers of the alliance.
The circular is signed by Col. Liv
ingston nnd states that Gov. Gordon
will never be elected senator, as he is
already defeated. Ho states further
that he is st<U being urged to enter
tho race against Gov. Gordon, nnd
that he is not opposing him os a can
didate, but on account of his opposi
tion to the sub-treasury bill. The
colonel, in the end of Ids circular,
says: “I, or some 0110 like me, will be
elected, and not Gov. Gordon,” and
yet in the next sentence lie commands
the alliance from indorsing anything
except the alliance platform, in which
is the sub-trersury plank.
Not a Pleasing Sight.
A bad sight was presented to the
passengers and others around tho de
pot yesterday. Four white boys who
appeared to be from sixteen to ciglit-
tcen years of age, were ingloriously
drunk. Each carried a pistolt and a
bottle; nnd they swaggered around tho
depot trying to appear “hold bad
men.” They made a miserable fail
ure, nnd if they had not left they
would nil lmvo been run in by the po
lice nnd given on opportunity to so
ber up iu the lock up.
In Jail.
Hcury Wycho now occupies a cell
in tho hotel de Husrt. Wyche’s of
fence is a serious one, and may get
him into serious trouble.
It seems that Wyclic and nil old ne
gro named C’ato Temple, who is well
known here, got into a dispute over
the weight of some cotton, when the
former became angered, nnd bent
Tcmplo terribly. The difficulty oc
curred in Ways district. Temple’s
recovery is considered doubtful.
I. Levy & Co.
Mitchell House Block.
FOB-
Ladies,
Gentlemen,
[Children,
it Less Than
An cxchnugc says:
“The majority of the State ticket
is stated at about 813,000.”
Do you see the point?
The S., F. & W. nnd the G. S. &
F. aro compressing cotton freo in
Valdosta. Thomasvillc has no com
press. Comment is superfluous.
Funeral Notice.
The frionds and acquaintances of
Mr. and Mrs. John L. Linton, arc in
vited to attend the funeral services of
the latter at the Presbyterian church
this morning at 10:30 a. m.
Burial immediately after at Laurel
Hill Cemetery.
A Tuscarora (Nov.) newspaper
prepares the young mind for the
coining of a new school principal by
the remark that the officials teaching
weight is about two hundred aud
twenty-fivo poundsnvoirdupuis, which
under certain ccnditious might lie
made to approximate a ton.
Brooks county decides between
McCall and Humphreys, next Wed
nesday. It is said to be 11 close tight.
May the best man win.
The Press says that tho matrimoni
al market is dull in Brooks.
SIGNAL SERVICE BUREAU
R. Thomas IrV 126 Broad Street.
R. Thomas, Jr. Volunteer Observer
Weather OuUetin Tor Ibc 24 hours ending
it 7,0’clock p. iu., Sept, la, 1890.
Txui-ibatcb..
7 n.m -4
2 p. m 8a
7 p. m 74
Maximum for 24 hours 84
Minimum “ “ “ 70
Rain-rail o.ll
Local showers stationary temprature.
Autumn and Whiter Novel-
ties coming in on us daily.
'Beautiful and durable in smart
est styles.
Aiming to double our busi
ness by haloing the profit with
our customers; for the small
price is the best trade builder
after all.
We are always perfecting the
quality and whittling the cost.
Few houses in this broad
South carry the extra—care—
quality we carry in all depart-
ments, and at such prices.
This season our buyer has
out-done himself, and has sent
us the finest that hand, head
and heart can produce.
Berlin, Paris & London Exhibit Here I
Baltimore, Neto York, Boston
and other popular marts con
tribute their best. Our market
has no boundary line. Noth
ing new in the world—worth
buying—that you can't kiy
from us.
For the Ladies.
We have no end of desirable
and seasonable fabrics. Shoes ?
Well, you know us.
For the little ladies there are
nobby dress patterns and cute
little caps, while in footwear the
styles are legion.
Fop the Gentlemen,
Our clothing department offers
the greatest inducements in tai-
lor made garments at ready
made prices ever shown in
Thomasville. Hard to find the
like anywhere.
We will tell you, though yon
ought to knozv it, that we do a
large business iu made to order
goods, and tee can satisfy the
■ost fastidious. See our (pan
taloon and suit patterns.
ITor the Coming Man.
Specially tailored rigs for
rough usage. An immense
line of them and at lowest pri
ces. No prudent parent will be
induced to buy elsewhere when
a clean first class stock like ours
is ;within reach and at lower
prices.
Hals for the seven ages of
man.
Never was a dollar so elastic,
never was its reach greater than
now It will go further, do more
ami last longer this season than
ver before with
X. Levy Co.’s
Three Mammoth Establish
ments,
Mitchell House Block.