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JttJ£0~ Hnb South Georgia progress,.^ tbouabvihb TIMES, VOL. SO THOMASVILLE ENTERPRISE. VOL. 47. THOMASVILLE, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, AUGUSl'n tqo 5 New Sa> s, Vol XV—No. 37 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. ■ - W ,; sShI