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VOL. II—ISO. 179
THOMASVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MOROTNO, DECEMBER 11, 1890,
LOCAL, HAPPENINGS.
The News of the Day Told in
Brief—Personals, Etc.
-CHALLENGE—
COMPETITION !
-IN-
- OF-
DRY GOODS,
Notions,
CLOTHING,
XX T S
The hotels and boarding houses are
filling up.
Mr. H. Wolff went down to Boston
yesterday.
Have you seen that bigdollat Ilcid
and Culpepper’s.
The indies, many of them, were
out shopping yesterday.
The weather continues clear, ciisp
and delightfully cool.
of Metcalfe,
Mr. John Davidson,
was in the city yesterday.
Sunday is the day for the change of
schedule to go into effect.
the
Hon. Arthur Patten spent
jnorning in Boston yesterday.
of
. Mr Hamilton, proprietor of the
Masury, is expected about the 15th.
Yesterdav was a sportsman’s day,
mid several spent the day after the
quais.1
Editor Hawk, of the Camilla Clar
ion, .spent the morning i> the e : ty
yesterday.
—AND—
SHOES I
From this day, No
vember 29tli, until
The police had n dull day yester
day, but they are looking forward to
further notice, we of- hueioes9 being more lively during the
fer our entire
stock:
-AT—
ACTUAL GOST
i
To compete with the
bankrupt stock
thrown upon the mar
ket and hope to be
remembered by our
friends in this strug
gle.
A shooting case was up before Judge
Mitchell yesterday morning, bui was
continued.
Mrs. 0. B. Daniels and little
daughter, of Atlanta, are in the city,
guests (f the-Stuart.
Mr. J. L. Hughes, ot Charlesburg,
Pa., is among the late arrivals of
strangers in the city.
The stables did a good business
yesterday, and many handsome teams
were seen on the streets.
The Iast__r0se of summer wilted
somewhat yesterday "hadrhifigT " Bat
the roses will bloom again.
“A Comedy of Errors.”
Mr. E. E. Wilkins, the clever acting
Deputy Marshal of Meigs, is thor
oughly disgusted with his snort exper
ience as an officer of the law. His
tale is as follows: Monday morning
early lie started out to arrest Adam
Johnson, colored, at the latter’s house
near Meigs. Johnson asked to lie al
lowed to finish his bieakfast, and Wil
kins consented to wait outside, and act
that a more experienced officer
would not have done. Soon his would-
be prsioner appeared at the door
armed with a shot gun, and took
French leave of his captor. Later he
was surrounded by a posse with Win
chesters, and again made a prisoner.
To make sure of him this time he was
tied with a rope, and the other end
held by Wilkins. The pair boarded
the train for this city. Oil arriving
at the depot . ilkins walked on a'head,
and Johnson following; another serious
mistake, is customary to do just
the reverse. Suddenly the officer felt
a tug .a his lint and on looking .around
his prisioner was seen rapidly disap
peariug in die crowded depot. Pursu.t
was useless, and Wilkins- returned,
home, good natursdiy vowing to .throw
up the -ponge. Johnson, if caught,
will have to answer three charges, one
for misd-.ine.inor, one for pointing a
pisto 1 , and the othefor resisting arrest.
holidays
The Boulevard.
Work on the boulevard, under the
immediate supervision of Marshal
Spair, is progressing very rapidly.
The force reached the railroad, near
the Maynard place, yesterday after
noon The bridging—there are a
few places to be bridged—will begin
at Sanford’s this week, and the neces
sury structures put in right along
The work will be completed, so the
Marshal jmd Mayor both say, by the
1st day of January. 'And then for
the big procession. It will be a pleas
ant way to celebrate the coming in of
the New Year. Every citizen of the
place should feel an interest in the
completion oi this splendid drive.
BOLD TALK.
Would
Smash the
Party.
Democratic
Heavy failures are reported
throughout the country The finan
cial cyclone has hit. a hundred towns
and cities.
Santa Claus held a big reception
nt Reid and Culpepper’s yesterday.
The children, arid growu people, too,
were there.
■Terger’s was an attractive place
yesterday. His beautiful line of hol
iday goods attracts the . attention of
everybody.
their
The candidates are haviu^
tickets printed for the primnry on the
18th. The hustling for votes bus
begun in earnest.
Mr. Horace Thompson and party,
of St. Paul, Minn., will arrive soon,
and occupy their handsome home' in
East End for the season.
Mr. E. ft. Hornady, who has been
spending several days in the city, suf
fering from a severe cold, left yester
day morning tor Albany and Atneri-
cus.
The coaches on the pasenger trains
are coming out of the railroad shops
at Savanuali repaired and refitted
throughout, making them appear new
and bright.
Santa Claus, Headquarters.
Reid & Culpepper's book store was
crowded all day yesterday by ladies and
children looking for Santa Claus. The
novelties are handsome, and a larger
selection than ever before. The five
and ten cents counters that has lor
years been a most important feature
of the holiday trade, are overflowing
with pretty things to please the little
lolks. A miniature representation ol
Santa Claus, surrounded by numerous
toys, graces one of the display win
dows, while the other is filled with
beautiful presents for the older folks
Filling the Contracts.
Tiro Georgia Hedge Company is
filling the contracts mane last winter
for planting out hedges. The force
was at work yesterday putting a
hedge around the Piney Woods Hotel
grounds. The company has about GO
contracts placed in and arouud Thom-
asville, amoug them one from the city
to enclose Laurel Hill Cemetery.
President Polk, of the National
Alliance, in an interview published
in the Constitution, talks about smash
ing the democratict party, if that
party does not adopt the policy and
principles of tho alliance. We take
the following extract from the inter
view, containing, as it does, the gist
of the matter discussed. Mr. Polk
said :
If the democrats in the fifty-
second congress do not grant our
demands, the third party is inevita
ble, and tho southern democratic nl-
liaucemen will be in it. I know what
I am talking about in making that
statement. No man is nearer the
people in the southern alliance than
I am, I know that I represent them
correctly when I say they are deter
mined to gain tho end they are striv
ing for, and will not hesitate to smash
tho democratic, or any pnrty which
fights them.
Will Georgia alliancemen endorse
this? Will they go into the third
party? These arc vital questions,
affecting, as they do, the entire people
of Georgia and the South. The dem
ocratic party is the party of the Peo
ple. Its aims are to better the con
dition of the toiling millions. It has,
for long years, fought monopolies,
combines and trusts. It favors equal
justice to all, and special priviliges
for none. It favors unlimited coinage
of silver, to the end that the volume
of cuircncy may be commensurate
with the people. It favors a low
tariff, so that the poor man shall not
be unjustly taxed. The republican
oar tv favors combines, trusts and mo-
noplies. It legislates for the rich and
against the poor. It opposes the free
coinage oi silver and favors a high
tariff, a high tariff on everything in
use by the poor. If relief comes, ami
it will, it will he the work of the dem
ocratic party, not a third party. O,
no, the democratic party will not be
•‘smashed.” It will live as tho cliarn-
piou of the peoples rights, long after
the would bo smashers are dead and
forgotten.
An Important Bill.
“One of the most important bills
that has been introduced in the Geor
gia legislature in a long timo was
offered by Mr. Calvin, of Richmond,
last Friday. It provides for the crea
tion of a board of equalization in each
county whose duty it shall bo to re
view and supervise the returns ot
property for taxation to the end that
taxes shall fall equally upon all
When property is leturncd too low,
this bont'I would have the authority
to fix a fair valuation upon it; where
tho return was higher than might be
considered equitnble, it could be re
duced. Several of tho states have
boards of assessment and equalization
which adjust the taxes for the whole
state. Wherever the system has been
tried it lias worked well. Mr. Cal
vin’s bill is in the right direction, hut
it would be better if it provided for a
state board, such as that which equal
izes taxation in Illinois and other
states. There is no doubt that the
rato of taxation in Georgia could lie
very largely reduced, if all property
were fairly valued for taxation.
There is not a county in the state
where ridiculous and shameful un
dervaluations do not appear every
year on tho tax receiver’s books. The
man who intentionally returns his
.property too low imposes on every
other citizen. He plays the dead
beat, and torces his moro conscien
tious neighbors to pay part of his dues
to tho government. Mr. Calvin’s
bill presents a new proposition in
Georgia, but a full, intelligent and
honest consideration of it will surely
commend it to the legislature.”
Tho above from tho Macon Tele
graph voices the sentiments of thous
ands. Wo hope Mr. Calvin will bo
able to put his hill through. It ought
to pasa.
S5.00 PER ANNUM
Hampton Behind but Ho Stands
Firm.
Columbia, S. C., Dee. 9.—The
ballot of the two houses to-day for a
successor to Senator Wade Hampton
resulted:
Irby
Donaldson 48
Hampton
Another ballot will he taken to mor
row. Mr. Irby is Tillman's lieuten
ant Mr. Donaldson is tho alliance
candidate.
Senator Hampton stands on the
platform that he will advocate any
plan that is beneficial to the farmers.
It will lie a burning shame if Wado
Hampton is defeated. The people of
South Carolina owe him more than
nuy man, living or dead.
Very Respectfully,
Mr. and Mrs. II. H. Cole, of Whit
insviile, Mass., are among the latest
arrivals of visitors in the city to spend
the season. They are stopping at the
5tuart.
F. N. LOHNSTEIN,
132 Broad St.
Thomasville, Ga.
Tho foliowirg parties are late ar
rivals at the Willows: Mrs. Maria
Knox, Nashville, Tenn., Miss Julia
Sullivan, Jersey City, N. J., Mr.
Doyle,. N. J., and Mr. and Mrs.
Horner and chjld, of Dakota.
Happy Jack Austin, the advance
representative of Hettie Bernard
Chase, who was here early in the
season, was in the city yesterday, en-
route to Dawson. His company will
pass through the city Sunday irom a
tour of the “Land of Flowers.”
Country merchants will find large
and cheap stocks of holiday goods in
Thomasville. Several were in town
yesterday buying. Thomasville can,
and does, compete with the best mar
kets, in the line of holiday goods.
Small buyers will save money aud
timo by buying here.
A lot of game is being brought in
town for sale. Formerly the birds
were trapped, but now the farmer
buys a gun and brings down the birds
in a more sportsman like manner.
Quite a number of bales of cotton
were received at the warehouse yes
terday. Piles at cotton are stored
away in the warehouse.
The legislature should be liberal
with its volunteer soldiery. They
should be encouraged in every possi
ble manner. Georgia’s volunteer
soldiers stand as a barrier, in many
places, ^against rioters and lawless
characters.
Let It Como.
The Tallaliassecau says:
“Mr. R. L. Bennett is surveying
the line of the Tallahassee Northern
Railroad. Don’t doubt it, gentlemen,
the road is surely coming this time,
and activo work will he begun soon.
Wc predict the road will be running
trains between Tallahassee and Thom
asville before another year has come
and gone.”
We hope, sincerely hope that the
predictions of our contemporary will
continue. Let the road come.
A Dividend of 150 Per Cent.
Chicago, Dee* 9.—The board of
directors of the American Live Stock
Commission Company, after a length y
executive session to-night at the
Auditorium hotel, voted. to declare a
dividend of 150 per cent, to the stock
holders of the company, payablo Jan.
1. No othei|business,it was declared,
had been transacted^ except to vote
this remarkable dividend. The board
adjourned until March. (
Kcch’s Curn.
A dispatch from Paris says :
An analysis of Prof. Koch’s lymph
has been made in this city. It re
veals the fact that the remedy is
composed of ptomaines to tubercular
bachilli, which is a poison ns viiuleut
as tho venom of a serpent, cynanute
oj*gold and glycerine. The glycerine
preserves the ptomaines and the gold
gives the liquid its brownish color.
Tbe physicians in Franco do not
endorse the lymph, fully, but say that
further experiments will be necessary
Sucli golden op
portunities seldom
occur to buy wraps
a-t actual cost. Do
not neglect it, only a
few days longer to
buy in—what more
acceptable Christmas
present for wife or
daughters.
Savannah’s Building Dill.
Washington, Dee. 9.—Congress
man Lester got the Savannah public
building bill and Mr. Clements the
Route bill through the House this af
ternoon. Tho Snvonuah bill must
now go through the Semite. Senator
Colquitt will sco that Congressman
Lester lias every advantage in getting
it through, and both predict succes;
The Sub-Treasury Bills.
Washington, Dec. 9.—In tbe Sen
ate to-da.- the farmers’ alliance sub-
treasury bills which were last session
referred to the committee on agrigui-
ure, were at the request of that com
mittee transferred to the committee on
finance, as being more properly within
the jurisdiction ofthclaiUr commit
tee.
SIGNAL SERVICE BUREAU
R. Thomas Jr’s-126 Broad Stmt.
R. Thomas, Jr. Volunteer Observer
Weather Bulletin for tbe 21 hours tinting
at 7 o’clock p. in., Dec. 10,1890.
TEXPKBATCItS.
7 a. m 34
2 p. - 93
7 p. m f3
Maximum for 24 hours Gl
Minimum “ “ “ 32
[Uia-fall 00
For Christmas.
Toys, Canary Birds, Cages, and ail kinds
oi fruits, nuts, raisins, and lire works at
Sampson’s, The Fruit Man,
thursuutfd Jackson street.
Tho Finest in Town.
Sampson, tha fruit mau, ka3 tLe finest
fruits, nuts, etc., in town. See his toys and
canary birds.
thur sun tf d Jackson street.