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tbouabvihb TIMES, VOL. SO
THOMASVILLE ENTERPRISE. VOL. 47.
THOMASVILLE, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, AUGUSl'n tqo 5
New Sa> s, Vol XV—No.
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FLORIDA QUARANTINES I CITY COURT BILL
AGAINST THE WORLD.' IN LEGISLATURE
R«pr*sentatJv«s Propose Big Chango
i In L gel Affairs of Thomeevllle
Its a case of Florida against the
world. The Florida State board of
health has quarantined against all
potions coming from infected points. a
The matter comes close to Thomas- Tw0 bUte of Icc " 1 1 "‘* ,0rtanc6 hav ®
villa. A quarantine offleer boards been ,Qtroduced la the Hou “ ®f
the south bound trains at Metcalfe R *P recenUUv « a Messrs. Rountree,
and examines all passengers for Mont M ‘ tche “ aBd 8inf?letary - 0ne wa8 an
lcello before the state line Is reached. ! a< * to e,tal, " ,h tlle court
Such as are unable to show a health ' Thoma,vll,e aml the oU,cr an •«<! t0
certificate or account for their where-1 repeal the county conrt of Thoma «
abouts during the last ten days are “““‘S'- Ip “ m " c ' 1 88 “ *» thecustom
not allawed to set foot on Florida , of the Hou,e “J refer mattera 01 Io -
soll. Similar precautions are taken cal le * lalaUoa to * he tnemhere di
YELLOW JACK SPREADING
Several New Caeea Reported Outside
of New Orleens.
on all rallrods entering the State.
IN ORDINARY’S COURT
ROUTINE BUSINESS DONE
From Tuesday’s dally.
The regular term of ordinary
court was held yesterday and con
siderable business was transacted.
M. A. Fleetwood by special peti
tion of the relatives of the deceased
was made administrator upon the
estate of John Vick. Another peti
tion from his creditors asking far the
appointment of one of their num
ber was also handed in. Mr. Fleet-
wood was also given leave to sell
land belonging to the estate of Char
lie Carter, was discharged as admin
istrator of W. A. Burrows's estate
and was made permanent adminis
trator for the estate of Jlnkins
Smith.
Mrs. Mattie Green was granted 12
umonths' support from t he estate of
Charlie Green. J. W. Humphreys
was discharged as administrator of
Sallte Dukes' estate.
GEORGIA PEACH SEASON
TURNS OUT SHORT
Atlanta', Oa., Aug. 7.—The peach
shipping season In Georgia Is at an
end and from start to finish, It has
been any thing but a favorable one.
To begin with the crop wns short and
rains setlng In during the ripening
period, caused an epidemic of brown
rot, which meant destruction galore.
Up to Saturday night only 1,956
ears had moved by fright and ex
press shipments will probably aggre
gate 200 cars, which will make the
total around2,200 cars. Early In the
season It ldoked Ilk the yield would
reach between 2,500 and 3,000 cars
and the rains may be charged the fQURTH REGIMENT
shortage.
Few growers made money on their
peaches this season. Those who sold
on trees at prices ranging from 90
cents to 91.25 per crate are congrat
ulating themselves while on the other
hand there are some shippers who
rectly concerned, nnd ail three of the
members seem to favor the bill there
Is no doubt that H will become
law.
It will make quite a change In the
legal affairs of tile county,
understood that a majority If not
all of the lawyers of tbe town favor
the bill. A similar bill was ' pre
pared some time ago but was never
presented owing to a division of
sentiment among the attorneys of the
city. It Is suposed that the provi
sions of this bill me similar though
a copy of It has not been received
here. If the court Is established It
will do away with the county court
and Judge Hansell and Solicitor Luke
will be out of office, but would prob-
bly seek slmUIr appointments with
the city court. Tbo city court x wlll
have a wider jurisdiction than the
present county court. The latter Is
limited to cases of 9500 or less In
value. And can bo brought In city
court for any amouut.City court cases
can be appealed direct to tbe Su
preme Cohrt and the judge can decide
In a motion for a new trial. From
county court theuppeals can be taken
without a sayso of the judge, but
must go through the Su,trior Court.
The city court will practically relieve
the superior court of all cases except
land and divorce suits.' Tbe criminal
Jurisdiction of the city end county
courts arc Identical. .
The salary of the city court Judge
will be 91,600 a year. The salary
the county court Judge Is 91,000 per
annum. The now court will there
fore cost the taxpayers more for sal
ary and for Jurors, but the lawyers
saylt will more than compensate for
this In convenience. Quttmna, Cam
illa, Valdosta, Dalnbrldgeand other
cities of Thomnsvllle’s also all have
city courts nd I be plan seems to be
a favorite one.
New Orleans, Aug. a —Reports to
noon today show:
New cases In New t>; leans, 4; to
tal, 669.
Deaths, 2; total 115.
Cases it. Louisiana to date, outside
of New Orleans, 22, deaths, In Louis
iana, outside of'New Oilcans, 3.
There v-as no n:ctrri,.l change In
the attrition at on today. Two
deaths from yellow fever ate reported
from ShrevoiKirt. 'they tried to en
ter the city but were stopped and
sent to tbe detention hospital. Both
cases claimed to havo come from Ar
kansas.
There havo been 22 new cases re
ported In the parish outride of New
Orleana during the last 24 hours.
As far as known thcro l> not a case
of yellow fever In Mbutuslppl.
General satisfaction and confi
dence In the situation is expressed
since the Federal authorities have
taken chart?) of tbe fight against yel
low fever. Steps tosurd securing
relaxlngof quarantine against theclty
showing soras results. Several smal
ler places are suffering already from
lack of food supplies and other nec
essities and me allowing freer com-
muncation with the outside world.
PERSONAL EXPERIENCES
WITH YELLOW FEVER.
thomaavllla Lady Tails of Scenes
Duiinq Plague ef1S60.
TO CHOOSE MAJOR.
An election for major of the 4th
Regiment G. 8. T. will ce held on
August 15. This is to fill tbe posi
tion made vacant by the resignation
consigned their fruit and made good!®' MaJ. r. 8. Haw-, of Balnbrldge.
I His borne company t.'ua mustered out
money. * .
jot tbe State service and hla resigna
tion foiawod as a Clatter of course.
GOVERNMENT MAKES leapt. W. M Wilder of Albany at
ITS CROP REPORT present regimental adjutant Is an
avowed candidate fur the position,
and to date Is tbe only ore who make
known his aspirations. Several other
officers, notably Captain James Tift
Humphiics School Closes.
Misses Jennie and Trvdle Carter of
Meigs were visiting relatives here
last week.
r. .V U Wilder went out to
Meigs last Monday on buslnss.
Mr. W. H. Gowln, Jr., went out to
Meigs Saturday on "business.”
Mr. Dolphos Brinson, wife and
sinters, Misses Alls and Ora of Cairo,
took In the picnic Friday. They re.
turned to their home Saturday.
MUses Cathie and Zola Hand, of
Meigs, came out to the picnic Friday
also "Brutlsa.”
Our school which has been sucess-
fully taught by Miss Erie Hand, cloa
ed Friday with a very nice picnic.
Owing to the rain the crowd was a
little small but the picnic was a sue
ceas ln every feature. Th exercises
were floe. We were a little disap
pointed la not having Capt. Maclean
with us.
Miss Erie Hand was chosen to
teach the school next year. She
returned to her home ft Meigs Satur-
day. *■
INTERESTING MARRIAGE
OUT AT SALEM.
Washington. I*. C, Aug. 8.—Cot
ton shows come Improvement, in
Tennesse, Western Nnrtb Carolina, J M|inn of A ; bac .y wclo formerly men-
northern Albams. ltbslndppl. Arken- bu[ )t u „„ pro bable that
sas, Oklahoma and Indian Terttory, I Caft vviltior will be unopposed. All
northwestern Alabina. Mississippi, I 0Oc?rs ypg the tank of captain
northwestern Texas red portions of j lbo , e ar „ entitI( , rl to vote la
Louisiana, but clrewhere over the ^ election and also the captain and
cotton belt the crop U deteriorated. tWQ U(mter , mU of 03cn „mpany.
The prevalence of ruit is very gen*
ersftjy ^reported from the eastern
districts' and : !r> Iron portions of
the central and western districts.
Many Lawyers Argue.
Referee J. H. Merrill heard fur
ther proceedings In the case of the
Boll weevils and boll worms are Minnesota Lumber Co. yesterday,
doing considerable dsr.a* In Texas | This big firm la going through the
and western LonlsUns, but In tbe courts, nnd has quite sn array of
first named state they are less numer-1 legal talent arguing, the case pro
oat. Picking is general in south and eon. Among the attorneys Here
Texas and some central counties of yesterday were W. W. Gordon of
that state, and has commenced over Savannah, B. M. Davis of My»n
the southern portion o' the easternj. u Johnson, J. R- Walker, C.
district. Smith and Oscar Smith of Valdosta.
Elder A. C. Stephenson filled the
stand at Salem church Sunday, the
pastor Rev, A. J Tslor being sway
on a preaching tour. Elder Stephen-
sou prehched an able sermon on the
unity of the church.
The farmers In thli section are be
ginning to sell new cotton. They
are getting ten cents per pound. The
cotton crop seems to be somewhat
short of last year.
On last Sunday eveulnn at J.A.Sher-
red’s, Mr. O. W. Stephenson and Mlu
Emma Hancwk were united in mat
rimony In the preeence of a host of
admiring relatives and friends. Rev,
J. M. Shepherd officiating. The groom
Theoe many rumora about • the
dreaded je) row fever bring to mem
ory the terrible scourge which vlslt-
tlme Brownsville was a smaller city
summer of 1880 and 1861. At that
tome Brownsville was a smaller city
than Thomasvljls. It ly situated on
the Rio Grande river directly across
from Matamoras Mexico. My fath
er had J'.ri moved his family
BrownsVllle. About two weeks af
ter we reacbu.1 there while sitting at
a front window my mother and I
•aw a casket, brought out without any
funeral cortege from the house across
the street. Upon inquiring we learn
ed that a man bad come home alck
with yelow fever from Point Isabel
three days before. The doors and
blinds had 1 en kept closed In order
to hide thu fart from the pubic. From
that ono case the fever spread rapid
ly, my mother being the second vic
tim. Not one of our family escaped.
1 hreo passed Into the "Beyond where
their voices are not heard.” 1, my
self, hal three separate attacks.
My brother bad two stacks, dying
irom the second. These facts,
course, explode In my mind the Im
munity theory.
Six ofour negroes, too, were sick,
one of them "our old black mammy,"
90 years of age. All of them recov
ered.
Jn that day few railroads had pen
etrated Texas nnd most of the .const
towns depended on New Orleans for
we had no rallicad rnd within an In
credibly short time after the epidemic
started It wns lmpi rtiblo to get ltber
In or out of town.
The fever raged sc fearfully and
whs so malignant that people were
dying from morning till night and
from night till morning in almost
every family In both Brownsville and
her neighbor town, Matamoras.
Even after the lapse of all those
long years the memory of those sad
scenes Is still pu'nfully clear. Tears
dim my eyes ns I rc-cnl! the agony of
grief whereve- we turned. The
cemetery was crowded beyond Its
capacity, In a very nhort time nnd
other grounds taken In. The burials
were so numerous and ao hastily done
many of them during tbe silent wat
ches of the nlgtt that we lost In a
great many Instances tbe localltyof
our loved one's graves. To this day
I do not know Just where my father,
mother nnd brother are resting In
tbe sleep that knows no awaking.
Collins soon gave out, lumber was
so scarce and busleneas In such
demoralized condition that they could
Hot be made, so even people of mean*
had to lay away their precious <£ead
wrappcl simply in a winding sheet.
The poor were In many cases burled
In the clothing they died In.
One could stag qut on tire front
porch at almost any bourof the night
or day and see .a man, sometimes two
or three carrying Utile children In
their arms to tie burial ground to
be laid sway la trenches with not ao
much as a handkerchief over their
poor llttta saffron colored dead faces
This sounls \ciy exaggerated bnt I
have not told l'i.lf the sad story.
Sometimes whelo families were swept
out of life.
NEGRO DtSPORADO KILLED
BY SHERIFF BIRD’S POSSE.
OR. W. F.YARBROROUbH HELD
UP, HIS NEGRO DRIVER
KHLED’AND BUGGY
S0LEN, THE DR.
ESCAPED.
in the son of Eider A. C..Stephens in
and la well known in this and other J '"one case I recall as most pitiful,
parts of the c-.i.ntry as an upright A uttle gtrl> La„ ra Gary, was the only
Christian gentleman and well liked' 3U rvIvlng member of a family of
by all who know him. The bride Is J c tght. They were our next door
tho daughter of the late James Han-1 neighbors and that wee lone baby’s
cockof Mitchell county and Is a high | cri „ toe - mama ” still rings In my
toned lady. She Is highly esteemed ears. She wi-s four years old and
by all who know her. | waa adopted by a noble CathoUc wo-
Mr.Eddle Carter ni best man and raan 0 f wealth.who was an angel of
Mias Annie Hancock was best lady, mercy, going from house to house
Mr. Smlthand Miss Ida Carter were with gentle touch to soothe the dying
second. Mr.Lem Williams and Mist ^ aPd in accents soft nnd sweet eom-
Ida Varaler were th-rd. 1 fortlng the dmtreesed.
From Thursday's dally.
Visitors to tho city from northern
Biorlda yeaterduv brought, news of a
aeries of sensational ovents*by which
a negro deeperado. slater of two
pebple, met death at the hands of
Sheriff Dan Bird cf Jefferson county.
The desperado whose name le un
known quarreled with hie wife Tues
day night and shot her dead. Wish
ing to make a quick estaiie be visit
ed the barn of Mr. A. J. Wills, a pro
minent farmer, whose daughter la
employed In the telephone office In
Thomasvllle. Hors he stole a horse
and rode at a hot pace eastward to
Lloyd. At Lloyd'he met Dr. W. F.
Yrborough driving In his buggy. As
his first mount ws exhausted he stop-
pedAhe doctor at the point of a gun
and iirdered him to give uphls vehi
cle. The doctor nnd negro who ac
companied him resisted the desperado
The fugitive killed the negro and
made off with the doctor’s rig and a
shot gun whlchwusunde- the seat. He
then drove north to Mttcalfe and
abandoned the horse and baggy there.
Tbe Thomsvllle policemen nnd coun
ty offlclnlewere warned to look But-
for him and kept a ehnrp watch
nil day yesterday, lmt ho did not ahow
up.
He retraced hlspath nnd turned
back to Montlcollo. At that olnt he
was seen running thiough the woods
by members of the sheriff’s posse,
who were In hot pursuit. He was
fired at twice and missed. He return
ed the fire nnd took refuge
swamp.
Other Montlcollo people came to
.the sheriff’s aid end he was sur
rounded In a thicket. Here he made
a desperate resistance but was shot
by the sheriff. His end came about
4 o’clock yesterday afternoon after
a most bloody and exc.'Uug chain of
outlawry that has aroused the whole
of northern Florldu.
FAVORABLE TO GRADY
IS COMMITTEE REPORT
Opposition Will Be Carried to The
Floor of The House.
• Health OetlllWtas.
For the convenience of the travel
ing public health certificates have
been placed at the drug stores and
hotels as well as at the clerk's office.
These necessities for easy transit
state that there is no yellow fever or
other type of contagions disease in
ThomasviUe and that the holder has
been here for tan days. Every pros
pective traveler nboutd provide him
self with one of these.
Mr. J. W. Boyd nnd tsmily were
here from Pellian Wednesday.
She knew n' creed In the Master's
work. Twos she who closed the
eyes of my dear mother who bsd rest
ed In her grave one long month be
fore I recovered sufficiently to be told
•he sad news.
How mercilessly memory Is break
ing open tho sefled chambers In
which hate ben hidden long,- long
years the heart’ ending scenes of that
terrible summer—^1860. It seems
as If the very ssrfkta “swinging in
tbs golden htuimook of prayer,”
most ha*c wept as they looked down
upon tho events of “those days that
triad men's sonls.”
My father, being a physician, was
thrown Into tie most intimate con-
fact wlti the sce .es of sorrow and
from him I learned. Bnt finally he
himself wss stricken and could wft
be healed. I. E. M.
Reports In yesterday’s newspapers
state tbat Grady county has won the
first skirmish In tho battle for new
county hoods. The dispatches say
that the newcounty committee of the
House held an executive meeting and
decided upon I In report. While noth-
lgn official waa given oat and will not
be until tbe report la made to the
House It is said on good authority
that the House committee will recom
mend the formation of the following
eight counties in the order named:
Jenkins county, to be formed from
parts of Burke, Bulloch, Screven and.
Emanuel, with Mlllen as the county
seat. J
Tift county, to be formed fromr.
parts of Berrien, Worth and Irwin,
with Tlfton as the county seat.
Toombs county, to be formed from
parts of Montgomery and Tattnall
with Lyons as the county seat
Bleckley county, to be formed from
parts of Habersham and Franklin,
with Toccoa, as the county seat.
Cromartle county, tr- be created
from parts of Appling and Coffee
with Hailehur.it as tho county seat
Grady county, to bo established
from parts of Thuras and Decatur
with Cairo aa the county seat
Northen county, to be formed
from parts of Irwin and WUcox coun
ties, with Fitzgerald us the county
seat.
Crisp county, to l-o formed from
the lower half of Dooly county,wlth
Cordele as the county seat
It la stated that the plan Is that
the house committee will report tbe
foregoing new counties to tho House
Thursday, while the Senate commit
tee will make no teport lor the pres
ent, felt will wait the offect of the
House report and It it Is sufficiently
strong tbe 8enai9' committee will
probably make the some report.
Chairman Hall of tho House com
mittee favored reporting only two
counties at the present time, namely
Jenkins nnd Tift. It Is understood,
however that the other members of
the committee were agrlust him and
wanted to report the entire eight
There'will be a vigorous fight made
on some of the counties Cfi the floor
of the House and Senate. Not until
both bodies pass ths hills will the
new counties be created. The oppo
sition may-prevent the formation of
more than one or two counties at
this session. •.»
ONE HUNDRED BURIE0
IN CRASHING RUINS
Albany, N. Y . Aug. 8.—Three
hundred persons employed In the
Meyer's dtpiutment store were Just
going to work this mou tog when tho
entire center of the building collapsed
from the root to the cellar. Nearly
one hand red persons were carried
down in the wreck. At 11:20 three
persons bad died In tho hospitals.
Thirty Injured have Lccn sent to
their bonus and the hospitals and It
Is believed that fifty cro (till In the
rains. *
Cash Carrier System.
Tbe Staycrm.vi Co, It one of the
most alrrt firms la town and to con
tinually nuklig In prevements at Its
Broad street store. Yesterday they
commenced tbe Installation of a
modern cash carrier' system which
will facilitate business.
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