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VOL. H—ISO. 108.
THOMASYILLE, GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 19, 1890,
LOCAL HAPPENINGS.
flow wc 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 leavo for New
York and other north
ern and eastern mar
kets to-day to 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,
jipflce, >ye will just be
in tijne to select lor
our customers the
tatest and Bast,
\Ye do not wish to
DICTATE to the pub
lic what to do nor how
to do it, but respect
fully ask a continu
ance pf the many
jayors shpwn us here
tofore,
“Wait for the wag
on and v-o’i; all ^ a k e
a ride.”
Respectfully,
The News of the Day Told in
Brief—Personals, Etc.
Yesterday was quite warm.
Mr. W. T. Sims, Jr., was in town
yesterday.
Hon. Dan Rountree left yesterday
for Quitman.
Miss E. Connolly, of Selma, Ain.,
is stopping at the Gulf.
Mr. J. H. Davidson, of Metcalfe,
was in town yesterday.
Mr. W. T. Forrester, of Madison,
Fla., was in the city yesterday.
Miss Bessie Hopkins leaves to day
to resume her studies at the North.
Mr. J. II. Perkins aud wife, of
Monticeiio, were in town yesterday.
Mr. John F. Gilmer, of the A. F.
and N. Iiy, was in the city yesterday.
Messrs J. W. Walters and John
Pope, of Albany, were in the city yes
terday.
Dr. aud Mrs. C. A. Iientz, of
Quincy, Fla., were guests of the Gulf
yesterday.
Miss Aunie Sanford will leave next
week for Hincsville, where she will
teach an art class.
Mr. L S. McSwain, every one re
members “Mac,” lias a nourishing
school at Uiucsville, iu Liberty coun
ty-
Clerk Groover returned Irom Brun
swick yesterday, where ho went to at
tend a convention of Huporior court
clerks.
There arc two or three droves" of
Texas ponies in the city at nresunt.
The stock trade is said to ho very
good.
Emclinc Graves plead guilty to ns
sauit and battery upon Hagar Barnes,
in the county court yesterday, and
was let oil with the costs.
Sheriff Hurst reftrnefl Arorn Bruns
wick yesterday. He arrested and
brought back Gilbert Bailey, colored,
who is under indictment here.
Judge Bower, of the Albany circuit,
was in the city yesterday, cproute
from Athens, where he went to place
his son at the University.
Mr. J. W. Beid had a .monster
Keifer pear on exhibition yosterday,
It was grown by Mr. J. >S. Mallard,
and measured fifteen and a half inch
es in circumference.
Mr. A. A. Singletary, who announ
ced himseii in yesterday morning’s
paper as a candidate for the office of
sheriff, is a sou of Mr. Haines Single
tary, instead of Mr. Crayton Single
tary, as stated in noticing his candi
dacy.
The denial of the rumor that Liz
zie Mitchell, colored, of thjg place, had
been killed at Jacksonville, has been
confirmed. Parties from Waycross
say they have seen her, and that
there were no grounds for the report
of the killing.
A substantial brick culvert should
be put across Jackson street, where
it is interested by Mitchell street, and
the whole valley fi"<od oyer. This
would forever remove a very disa
greeable i ature on that otherwise fine
road. Permanent improvements of this
character qlwsyt pqy weji jn fte end.
The best indication ftqt ftp mer
chants expect a fine trade this m**-"
is ftp amount'-'" *
. w. goods bought, lherc
is no doubt that the trade here will be
supplied with a fiuer l’tic of goods
than ever before. The most casual
observer cannot but notice this fact.
In most cases the merchants have se
lected their goods personally. The
clerical force in many of the stores
has been increased. Boxes, cases and
barrels arc constantly being unloaded
from the drays. Drummers speak of
a lively trade, and the country mer
chants who visit our city seem cheer
ful.
Colquitt Court.
The growing little town of Moultrie
was crowded with the solid yoemanry
of that county on Tuesday, it being
the fall term of the Superior court.
Sheriff Nelson and Clerk Bryan had
everything in shape for business. On
account of the absence of several
members of the bar, most of the cases
were postponed. Judge Hanscll
cleared the docket during the after
noon. The grand jury completed
their labors next day. Their present
ments will be found elsewhere. It
was a strong, conservative body of
citizens. Messrs. Bush and Twitty,
ot Camilla, Pope, of Albany, and
Perry, of Ty Ty, were in attendance,
in addition to a good delegation from
the Thomasvillc bar. We were
pleased to meet Messrs. Underwood,
of the Camilla Clarion, and Allen, of
the Pioneer. They are among the clev
erest and most progressive of the
guild in this section. Colquitt county
is waking up. Her property increased
more than quarter ot a million last
year. The new road has worked—or
rather will work—wonders. Wild lots
of land, with good titles, readily com
mand one thousand dollars. Unfor
tunately titles, in many instances, are
clouded. There will be within (he
next few years, a great deal ot land
litigation in that county. This will be
unforunate. The farmers report
cotton short, but good corn crops.
There is a bright luturc before the
country.
Of course the bar stopped at Bear
den’s. Mrs. ilearde-n keeps a splendid
house. The rooms are well furnished
and comfortable, and the tare invaria
bly good. It was a genuine pleasure,
as it alwajs is, >o meet the kind,
clever people of our ncighb -ring coun
ty. 1'ney richly deserve the bright
prospect just ahead ot ihc-m.
We hope at the Spring Term to go
up on the G. 3. 6? F. Tnc road
passes within a mile and three quar
ters of the town.
Railroad Notes.
The officials of tho Plant, system
ate expected t« at rive to day on their
annuel inspection tour over tho entire
system.
V*
Conductor Joe Gilbert, who is 22
years of age, smoked his first cigar
yesterday, though during the time he
has been on the road he has had hund
reds of cigars offered him.
***
Operator Beazley went up to Alba-
uy yerterday to take n position as
night operator there. He will hold a
similar position here, when the tourist
tinvol commences.
V
The negro excursion to Brunswick
will be run to day-
***
A box car, partly londefi \yith brick
A'om Arnold 1 *; brick yard, was pushed
ofl the track yesterday, and some dif
ficulty was eneoqutorod by the yard
men in getting the car back ou tho
track again.
* *
♦
Baggage Agent, B. M. Comfort,
will return from his summer vacation
Sunday.
Wififer Visitors.
Mr. John W. Holland and Miss Ju
lia Holland, of Indianapolis, IiuJ., ar
rived last eypniftg, registered at
the Stuart- Tfiey bavp rental nail
wjU occupy fte Uapft* —
haiklititf. •*'' **- ■ ■ parsonage
. ~.uith Avenue, this win
ter- 1 ndiana scut quite a delegation
to Thomasville last season, and it
looks ns it that state would be well re
presented here ugain the coming sca-
ABiy Tibacco Trust.
Cincinnati, Ohio, Sept. 17.—The
tobacco warehouse men of Cincinnati
and Louisville formed a trust yester
day composing the leading warehouses
in the two cities. The trust is cap
italized at 83,000,000.
i This trust will probably end in
smoke.
Wanted.
By the Atlanta Exposition, four
brides, with an equal number of
grooms (of course there must be as
many grooms as brides; this is patent
to any well regulated mind) said brides
and grooms to appear clad from toe
to top of head, in cotton bagging; and
then and there, in the presence of
thousands, during the exposition next
month, 1j take upon themselves the
solemn vows which shall make them
man and wife, which shall bind them
together for belter or for worse, bind
them for aye. One hundred dollars
will be paid the first couple accepting
the proposition,and $50 to the second.
Numbers three and four will receive a
number of handsome presents, as will
numbers one and two.
This will be a drawing card, but
it looks too much l.k: making mer
chandise out 01 one of the holiest and
purest institutions of this or any other
age. The Savior would hardly have
turned water into wi.e at the wedding
feast, had the bride and groom been
dressed up in some fantastic toggery,
and trotted out on a public platform
to attract a crowd, a crowd which had
to pay to get in the enclosure.
However it is all right; some swain
and his lassie, will join hands there,
and hearts too, and be—we trust—
very happy ever afterwards.
Broke the Record.
Hillsiioro, III.—Sept 15.—John
Buruap of Butler took the special pre
mium offered at tbe county fair for
the man exhibiting the largest family.
Mr. Buruap, who is a young farmer,
lias been married ten years,and drove
out on tho fair grounds yesterday
with nine children, aged respectively
9, 8, 7; 8, 6, 4, 3, 2'and 1 years. Mr.
Buruap claims to have a record of sin
gles that cannot hu equaled by any
man in tho state.
When tbe new pension law gets
fully into operation, it is possible that
the government will be giving the old
soldiers $150,000,000 a year. Tho
avorngo price of common labor is
about $1 a day, and conssqucntly the
penisoners will be absorbing all the
earnings of about 480,000 men.—Ex.
Ileal 1ms finally cornered the dem
ocrats: lie sends pages out mid
counts them while they nre “imbibing”
thus constituting a quorum. Whilo
tbe member is looking through the
bottom of a gloss darkly, Reed calls
tbe name through his nose.
Great is Reed.
Even the fraudulent administration
of Hayes, is made tolerably respect
able, by comratfi tg it with Harrison’s
administration, loth will go down
to history as fiat failures; one, at least,
leaving behind it the a'.ench of jobbery
and corruption in high places.
■<•»-
Speaker Reed in a"speech which I10
made in his recent canvass said that
the surplus in tbe treasury could no
longer bo made an issue in politics.
Certainly not; it is n pretty difficult
job to make an issue out of a hole with
nothing around it.—Ex.
3
The National Grange of the Uuited
dates, Swill meet iu Atlanta on xath
of Nov. Mr. H. T. Kimbrough is
master of Georgia's state grange. A
few years sjnec this was a very power
ful order.
" ,an who expects to go to heav
en on his wife’s church membership,
or on the chickens he fed to tbe
preacher, is taking awful chances.—
Dover Sentinel.
During the coming long winter
evenings, it is feared that some one
will invent something similar to the
Fifteen Puzzle. Don’t.
Man wants n great deal here below ,
He always cries for more.
The man who wanted little
Died long before the war.
Ireland will soon be in the throes
of a famine. America, with her big
heart, will quickly respond to the first
cry lor help.
A Word to Teac herst
“The scholastic year Is M hands
Wilh it comes, as it has j 'early from
time out of mind, the questi W so vex
ing to parents and guardiaus : “Why
must we, who pay to have • out chil
dren taught, do all the teach ing our
selves ? Why must all pica: tant c on*
versation and family interc ourse be
interfered with, and the c hildreir *
home-life be rendered null by the
humdrum drudgery that wc ; ire forced
to put them through evening after
evening ?” This drudgery so irritating
at best to child and teach ;r, the six
times sevens and the nine lijnes sixes,
the multiplicans, divisors, dividends
and all the thousand and one rocks
against which the patience of child
hood so often splits, belong per se to
the school room, and should be mas
tered there. A teacher particularly
adapted to making clear the dark
place on the ro id to knowledge (and
many quite capable of hearing a lesson
recited, are utterly deficient in the arc
of explaining it to their pupils) should
have charge of the study hours, and
these hours should be devoted at
school, exclusively to preparing the
lessons for the morrow. Thus the
child would be really going to school
to learn and not merely to recite.
Then the home evenings would be a
delight. There would be time for
instructive reading, pleasant chats, a
little good music, something beyond
the eternal drive and grind of lessons
which now mar the harmony and per
fection of so many evenings with our
little ones.
“Hundreds of mothers complain of
this present system. Hundreds of
fathers who have worked hard com
plain that they come home, not to
enjov the society of wife or children,
but to sit and play dummy while Jack
says his spelling, or Johnny his multi
plication table to mamma ; or, worse
still, must come to the rescue them
selves and puzzle over interminable
sums. Hundreds of tired, puzzled
tittle brains which have not received
the proper explanations of lessons and
rules at school, look forward with ab
solute dread to the evening at home,
where interruptions to study are £0
many and the assistance, at best, so
unskilled. That principal who will
boldly change all this and inaugurate
full and careful explanations of lessons,
during study hours at school and spare
the evenings to happy parents and
children, will make friends of both
and will reap the golden harvest that
is waiting for just this progressive,
sensible man,"
The above from the Augusta
Chronicle will meet with a general
endorsement from parents. It is little
less than cruel to make a child, after
it has studied hard all day, remain up
late at night, poring over difficult
problems, and puzz'ing a tired brain,
in the effort to elucidate somejiteotty
lesson. Sound sleep, and pl^^Fot
it, is needed by every girl and boy.
Don’t crowd the little fc lows too
much. The “cramming’ - * process
is ruinous, tJ both mind and body.
$5.00 PER ANNUM
A LITTLE 0HAT-WITH PARENTS'
Topic—School Suffs.
Humphreys beat McCall iu Brooks
seventy-five votes. This scuds Mr.
Humphreys to fte legislature.
Your Uncle Jerry f, us | {) w ui attend
the AtU** a Exposition. And he will
wear hayseed in his flowing locks.
The surplus in the treasury may be
described as a big hole, with nothing
around it.
New finds of phosphate arc being
reported.
SIGNAL SERVICE BUREAU
B. Thomis irY 126 Broil Street.
R. Thomas, Jr. Volunteer Observer
Weather Bulletin for tbe 24 hours anting
at 1 o'clock p. m., Sept. 18, 1800,
TiurcBATcaa.
7 a.
2 p.
7 p.
Maximum for 24 hours - 9}
Minimum “ “ “ fli ’
[tain-fall 0.00
Local showers stationary tcuipraturr,
We do not advance fte argument
that school ltoys should be provided
with new clothes merely because tbe
school season has opened—Parents—of
co urso— are tbe judges concerning
the \ cquirentents of their children—
Wo refer especially to school stiffs—
becautt—in the natural order of
things—almost every boy needs new
clothes at this—the fag end of the
summer reason—and the harbinger
of coming cooler weather—when
stouter nnd warmer jackets aud pants
will be required—
There isn’t any marked point of
dillerence between trhool suits a-td
dress suits—save—that—the former
arc made front more durable and
serviceable materials of dark shades
—fabrics that arc more celebrated fer
wearing qualities than “pretty”
looks—
Our prices aro so absurdly low that
it might suggest the remark—“tco
cheap to be ym f”—
Wc have never yet falsified a single
line of our announcements in our
twenty-five years busiucss here—and
with the past fulfillment of every
promise as au assurance of our integ—
rity—you can justly feol encouraged
to visit our Juvenile Department—and
form your own conclusions as the truth
of our assertions—
A promise—with ns—always pre
supposes fulfillment—This rule is
infallible—When you have the pledgo
of this house upon any point you
kuow you may rely upon its execu
tion—equally particular arc we not to
mislead you by extravagant declara
tion—We never pass the reins of fact
into the hands of “cureless speech”—
Our shelves full of childrens cloth
ing—in themselves—constitute 'an at
traction for all economical buyers—
and fittingly celebrate the blending of
*•Florid summer anil rhamjeful „4n-
ttunn.”—
I, Levy & Co.
Reliable Merchants,
Three Mammoth Establish
ments,