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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,