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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.