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VOL. IX—NO. 312.
THOMASVILLE. GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING, MAY 12, 1895).
$5.00 PER ANNUM
Worth
Reading
500 Yards colored
Piques, worth 12 1-2
and 15 cents, your
choice for 7 1-2 cents.
200 Yards colored
Organdies, regular
20 and 25 cent quali
ty. Come and get
first choice for 10c,
800 Yards Madras
Cheviot, all in desira
ble patterns and good
yaluc at 12 1-2 cents
your choice, 10c.
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—•BKAI>qOA!iTKKH FOR
Clothing, Gent’s Furnishings,
Dry Goods and Notions,
— AO ENT FOR —
Standard Fashions
AND
Dutchess Trousers.
Phone 108.
LOCAL HAPPENINOS.
The News of the Day Told In Brief
Personals, Etc.
Heywood llnll is upending a
day or two will) friends liere.
(’apt (I. T. F. Cardeng, of la-
nionia, was in the city yesterday.
John Parraraore, of Boston, was
circulating among his friends in
the city yesterday.
Mr John Lamh came up from
High Springs yesterday to see his
'Vboniasville friends.
Attention is directed to the new
ad of itie Levy Mercantile Com
pany ehewhero in tii day’s paper.
The summer schedule on the
Plant System will probably go
in’o effect next Sunday week,
the 21st.
Dan McClellan hag returned
from Gainesville, Fla., and ie
again at his ■ Id place in the de
pot telegraph office.
Marshal Stephens returned
yesterday afternoon from Charles
ton, where he has been attending
the Confederate reunion,
Mr K. Harnett and daughter,
Miss Fanny Harnett, of Toledo,
O , left yesterday after spending
the winter iu Tbomasville.
Mr. M. T. Woodward, who is
now travelling for the Standard
Oil Company; is on a visit to rela
tives and friends iu this city.
Joe Smith says he intends to
show the people of Tbomasville
some of the fastest amateur ball
this season they have ever seen
Judge Hopkins. Col. Robt G.
Mitchell and Mr. Joseph Fass
spent yesterday down at Walden's
bridge on the river. Get Mr.
Fass to tell you about the trip.
Attention is called to the notice
of Tax Receiver McKinnon else
where giving the date of his third
round. Tax payers would do well
u» heed the notice as this will he
the receiver's last round.
Rev. D. II Parker, former
chaplain of the Third Regiment
of immttues. which was mustered
out at Macon last week, was in
town yesterday shaking hands
with bis numerous friends in this
city, all of whom are glad to see
him again.
Mr. Sam Weldon, of Albany,
passed through the city yesterday
en route borne from Boston, where
he had been to see his father,
who, we regret to learn, is cjuite
ill Tbp senior Mr. Weldon id
67 years old and is very low with
typhoid fever.
Messrs. Arthur Patten, Theo
Titus, M A. Fleetwood, P. S
Ueeth, T. N. Hopkins. J. U.
Taylor, John Miller a id R. A
Perf.v yesterday tporning at
four o’clock for Hampton Springs, 1
Taylor coiitny, p.a. They drove
through the county and will
spend ten davs or two weeks
hunting, Ashing and enjoy tug the
mineral water and baths.
At the Stuart yesterday: C. J
Johnson, Columbus; M. D. Kild
win, City; I). II Pope, j^lbaipv;
J. P. Gibbous, Savannah; M. D
■Spligman, Montgomery; J. How
ell Green, Albany j 11. C. Powell,
Ga ; John Jones, Jonosboro, Ala.;
Stover K lvreps, Baltimore, Md ;
Albert Ketch, Joe Lovcustein, Si-
vauuah; A Hardy Ky ; D. M.
Carstarphen, St. Loins; C. II.
Stearns, Cincinatti.
A 9a'l
The Hobson Tigers and the
Rough Riders, two juvenile base
base hall teams, crossed bat" on
the vacaut lot ou McLean ave
nue yesterday afteruou. Both
sides claim the game, and
the two umpires are also divided
in their opinion. From the best
information we could gather after
listening to half a dozen boyB
talking at the same time, itseema
that the score was 22 to 17 iu
favor of the Hobson Tigers, when
the game broke up in a row and
one of tbe umpires gave the game
to tbe Rough Riders by a score of
ti to 0. Eruost Mallard and
Dodie Williams wae tbe battery for
tbe Hobsou Tigers and Charley
.Smith and Josh Smith Ailed tbe
same position for tbe Rough Riders.
To Improve the Fire Department.
Chief Martin has bit upon a
scheme to improve the efficiency of
the Are department, and be bas
been engaged for a day or two in
working it up.
It will be remembered that the
city council a few weeks ago in
structed that the horses belonging
to the Are department he used to
pull tbe street sprinkler. At the
same time bids were received for
sprinkliug the streets from several !
parties, the lowest hid being Af-
teen dollars per month
Chief Martin argues that, the
efficiency of the department is
greatly impaired by using the
Are horses on the sprinkler. He
says it is impo-eible to train them
as they should be when they are
used for diAfereut purposes, to say
nothing of tbe delay that, would
be occasioned if an alarm was
sounded while tbe horses were out.
of tbe engine bouse. Chief Mar
tin is ambitious to make the de
partment aa near perfect as pns
sible, and for several days he bas
been calling upon the business
men and has secured enough sig
natures to an agreement whereby
each ono pays twenty Ave cents a
month tor sprinkling to enable
him to hire tbe work dose and
thus relieve tbe Are horses from
this duty. He has just, about
closed up the deal and if nothing
intorferes with his plana he will
soon have matters so arranged
that the horses at the engine
bouse will be used exclusively for
Are purposes.
Good Ball dames In Algtit,
At a meeting held in the ball
park Wednesday afternoon, called
hv Joe Smith, the Tbomasville
Base Ball Club was organised for
tbe season of 1899. Tbe meeting
was largely attended by tbe ball
players of tbe town and cousidera
ble interest was manifested. Tbe
following team was organized and
it will be seen at a glance that it
is a strong one:
Joe Smith,
Oscar Groover,
Tom Davenport,
W. p Barbee,
Htrry Luton,
Will Watt,
Artie Patten,
Roy Dekta,
Beu Wetherington.
In addition to tbe above several
other boysbtve sigtiilied a desire
to join.
Regular practices will begin at
once, three practices being held a
week, on Monday, Wednesday
and Friday afternoons.
The club is composed of strict ly
atpateur homo players and they
will play only clubs af'this char
acter. Joe Smith is Captain and
Manager and he will soon have
the boys in good form. He ex
pects to have a game here iu about
ten days.
At Rest,
A large crowd of sorrowing rel
atives and frieuds attended tho
funeral of Mrs. M. M. T. Hutch
ingson yosterday morning at nine
o'clook. The services were held
at tbe resideuci ou Jackson street
by Dr. F. A. Branch, pastor of
the Methodist church, of which
tbe deceased was q membor, as
sisted by Dr. Robt. H. Harris, of
tbe Baptist church. After tbe
services at the bouse, which were
very impressive, tbe Hower ladeu
casket was placed in tbe waiting
hearse and conveyed to Laurel
Bill cemeterv, where the services
were concluded and gentle hands
tenderly lowered the casket into
tlq grave. The pall hearers were
as follows; Dr. J. T. Culpepper,
Judge J. H. Montgomery, Dr. D.
A- Shumate, Dr. N. G. Tullis, Mr.
C. B Quinn and Mr. John W. H.
Mitchell,
Confederate Monument At Montlcello.
Tbe Ladies Memorial Associa
tion have bad erected in their
beautiful little city a handsome
monument tp tbe Confederate
dead of Jefferson county, Fla.,
and the same will be unveiled on
tbe 17th iust., with appropriate
exercises. An invitation ii cor
dially extended tbe people of
Tbomasville to attend these exer
cises and we hope a goodly num
ber will accept tbe invitation and
go down. A diuner will be
served by tbe ladies on that day
to enable them to pay off tbe bal
ance due un tbe shaft,
THE OLD CONFEDS.
They Consider McKinley’s Suggestion
to Take Care of Graves.
Charleston, S C. May 10.—Al-
O'nst the Arst official act of the
ninth annual reunion of tbe
United Confederate Veterans,
which began its sessions to day,
was an attempt, by Gen. Stephen
D. Lee of Mississippi to secure an
indorsement of President Mc
Kinley's suggestion, made iu his
recent Atlanta speech, Ihat the
care of tbe graves of C'on'ederate
dead should be undertaken by
tbe Federal Government., Action
on tbe resolution, however, was
frustrated by a motion to refer it
to the committee on resolutions in
spite of a rather general senti
ment to put it through with en
thusiasm. As tbis committee is
yet. to be appointed it is not prnb
able that the matter will be taken
up to morrow, and the ultimate
fate of the resolution is problem
atical
Tbe motion to refer originated
with Dr. J. William Jones of Vir
ginia, arid met with some oppo
sition, and it is believed tbe mat
ter will eventually cause some
discussion, as there is a decided
factiou iu favor ot General Lee’s
seutimeuts, while tbe opposition
is also said to be very Btrong. The
reference to committee probably
will result iu amending tbe reso
lution, so that while thanking tbe
President aud acknowledging bis
action as a graceful one, it will
declare that the care of its dead is
a duty of tbe South.
Agulnaldo Wants Peace.
Manila, May 10.—Reports re
ceived from the insurgent line,
which, however, have not been
couArraed, says that a meeting
of the Filipino Congress bas been
held at Kan Isidro.
There was uo quorum present,
but iu spite of tbis fact, s ime
business was transacted.
The reports add that although
those who attended were partisans
of Aguinaldo, a strong desire for
peace was expressed. ••
Maj Qeu. MacArthor will prob
ably remain at San Fernando
until fresh troops can be forward
ed to him from this city to replace
some of tbe volunteers who have
become exhausted from tbe long
campaign.
Filipino riflemen to tbe unmber
of 8,000 are entrenched on three
sides of Baoolor. Tbe Americans,
however, are fully able to hold the
city, if Monday’s attack was a
specimen of tbe enemy's lighting
ability.
Dewcv Ottered A Whole Train.
Washington, May 10. — An ef
fort bas begun in the West to
have Admiral Dewey return by
way of San Francisco, and is be
iug supplemented here.
Tbe representative of one of
tbe large trails continental rail
ways called at tbe uavy depart
ment to-day and stated that if Ad-
juiral Dewey returned by way of
Sau Francisco tbis railroad pro
posed to place at bis service an
entire train, tbe Arst that ever
crossed the continent, and make
it subject to his wishes as to the
places and time of stopping on
the way east,
ft was urged also that this
would give piactically the whole
couutry an opportunity to join
iu the receptiou to the hero of Ma
nila, instead ot restricting it to
tbe stretch between New York
and Washington.
We understand that tbero will
be a big picuic at Boston to-day.
Quite a number will doubt-
| less go down from here and take
it iu.
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