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THOMASVILLE, GEORGIA, FRIDAY,' DECEM HOMASVII I.E TIMFS, VOL. V uomasville kntbkfrimf. vol. fi ber went to his train, which went north, he was ottered a baggage car In place of the mall car which he expected to find but refused to work .the mall in tho quarters offered. The mall did not, therefore, go out:. A number of clerks were jff of their regu ar runs, and the situation was not straightened out until today. All trains Into and out of Albany have been from one. to olght hours late, and the express company has been swamped. The congestion has been partially relieved. ■ cal, yet many'intelligent people are unaware that Adam was the first' labor leader. . While England possesses 6,000 dally and weekly newspapers, still she has only sixty, jails. It is even' more, remarkable, If possible, to find that we have only 1,000 cemeteries for our 70,000 doctors to work in. ' Fishmongers never advertise sales of old soiled stock. Nearly all the inhabitants of the great Sahara are total abstainers. three til Shackled and Starts 90 Days Work. following result: Miss Qoodwyn. Miss* Simpson.. Miss Stanaland. Miss- Cromartie, Miss Neel?,.. Miss Cassadiy.. LITTLE MAC GOES IN. nneb. i President Jordan states that' he would like to see M00 delegates at New Orleans and In view of the re markable and enthusiastic co-opera tion of the cotton producers during their eleven months of organisation, Mr. Jordan’s estimate may not fall much short of the desired number. Tlje New Orleans meeting will be held under tho nusplces of the New Orleans Progressive Union and New Orleans Cotton Exchange who are defraying all expenses. Secretary and costs and ninety days on the Henry Mayo of the liew Orleans Pro- streets after hearing the evidence of gresslve Union announces that Odd one white man and three negroes Fellows' Hall has been selected as against him. His attorney W. H. the meeting place. This Is one of Hammond, gave notice of'certiorari tho largest halls In the city and Is and S. Sampson furnished preltmln- on Camp street facing tho square ary bond In the amount of 61,500. opposite the City Hall, Just five The time for securing the certiorari blocks from Canal street, Is well heat has elapsed and none was secured ed and lighted and convenient to | hence Nick went to the city gang, the various exchanges, the hotels and; • A Tlmes-Enterprlse reporter vis- all street car lines. | Ited him In the guard house yester- ■ - ■ iday afternoon. He was sitting back Facts You Ought to Know. ln the cel1 corridor wrapped in an (From London Punch.) overcoat, *lth shackles around his The early Babylonians were un- feet an<1 looking thoroughly mlser- acqualnted with the use of the tele- able. He was asked if he had any- pljone. thing to say. He said that the Gill ie Is not generally known that by cers came right tohls place of busl- subtractlng the number of wet .days ness after dinner and took him away ln a year from 365 you can ascertain without a chance to put up his books approximately the number of fine or make any arrangements for carry days. lng on his business. Mr. S. Samp- Columbus discovered America to- ] son who was present asked that ward the end of the fifteenth century nothing be said ln the paper about and was very properly punished by a the matter. Nick said, “No put It long term of Imprisonment. In the paper, you must put It In the There Is no phrase ln the Thibetan paper. But be sure you say It Is language which will exactly express for selling liquor and not for steal- ’onsclence.” • lng or anything like that.” When ' It Is not actually libellous to call asked why he refused to work yester- i man a "newspaper Interviewer.’' day he said he had offered'to 1 pay Before damages can be recovered It out and* they would not let him and nust be proved that the term was besides he was sick. Mr. S. Samp led maliciously. son explained that Nick would work’ Though It has often been pojnted today and every other day for 90 >ut that the devil was the first radi- days and would give the officers no Its attention. indistinct print * V . v * ® ‘ South Georgia Iprogvess.. MISS RUTH WINS THE GREAT PIANO CONTEST A Urge Vote Polled During the Last Few Days of the Contest Puts Thomasville Girl Ahead. From Saturday's Dally. Miss Ruth Goodwin wins the pin- Indies who were voted for, had tin no. Th" contest closed last night I hearty support of their friends, and they are all to be congratulated, but | the rally of her supporters on th> 1 lust few days of the voting, brought ek i! ' Miss _Goodwill strongly to the lead, svlousJ -rim piano will bo sent to Miss rim of the contest The vote of, Goodwin’s home tomorrow, and she Miss Goodwin astounded even hth I will receive tho hearty good jrtshet best friends. Miss Flmpson, of . of o\'eryono for a happy Christmas Meigs, and Miss Stanaland. of Thom-; The statement of the judges fol asvillc, as well as'the other young'lows: This Is to certify that we,tho Undersigned, acting as Jud ges of (the Time.-■ Enterprise voting contest, have carefully canvassed tie ballot; and the riethods of conducting the con'ost. Wo find that all, fairness hoi -.bean* extended to every contest ant and thatfthe methods Col owed nre subject to no criticism. Miss Ruth Goodwyni, Jmvfng received the greatest number of votes, we hereby declare to b c the. winner of the contest and the piano. . ; J, I* BEVERLY, £ T. J. HIGHT, ' t ’. S. H. SUTTON, .1 udges. NEGRO HAS lives for at last accounts ho was still breathing. Ono of tho shots was In tho forehead. Eph la not as good nu anatomist ns the other else he would have shot at the heel. FIVE LIVES ' MYSTERIOUS MURDER. Train Porter Gets Cut in Discharge of His Georgia Mau Shot in TuIInliassee by Unknown Parties. Duty. 1 (From Wednesday’s daily.) ,E. Collins, an employe of the Tal-1 Memphis, Tonn., Doc. 27.—Threo financial Institutions tailed to open their doors for business today, the Merchants’ Trust Company, witty a capital of $200,000; tho American Sayings Bafik and Trust Company, and the Mechanics Savings Bank, BSoaller Institutions and allied'with the 'first named concern. According to a recent statement, the American Trust Company owed depositors $005,000. Merchants’ Trust Co. Statement. Memphis, Tenn., Dec. 27.—A coi densed statement of the condition the Merchants’ Trust Company at tlic close of business Dcccmbor 20, is given out ns follows: Total as sets, $3,665,065. Indebtedness of every cbt^acter to depositors, $4,- 112,319. All obligations, exclusive of capital stock, $889,058. Cash actually on hand, $30,000. Eph Jacobs, the negro porte the Albany train leaving here at 4:30 each evening Is at the City Hospital with a number of slashes ln his bod and with the prospectB of a serious time ahead of him./ The causes that * ? . •** • < led up to his predicament make an interesting story of Christmas trou ble. On board the train going north on Christmas night was an obstrep erous coon who made considerable trouble. It finally became neces sary to eject him from the train at Hardaway. The Job was not accom plished without a lively scuffle In the progress of which Eph hit the other negro over the head with 4 lantern. The ejected personage was not of a nature to quickly- froglve and for- . get. He nourished wrath In his bos om the long night through and laid for Ephraim. . He organized a party of his friends and when the train reached Harda way on Its southbound Journey y terday morning he and bis friends raided the tralnr and went for the porter. He cut Eph . four times. He^must have had a doctor's knowl edge of the Ethiopian anatomy for every slash w*as directed at an ar- ^tery. * None of the corpuscle car- was reached however, and Eph will probably recover. While all this was going on Eph wai by no means idle. He pulled, * his pistol and shot his attacker five times. The n*gro must ha^p nine luhasseo Light and Water Work Company was killed In a mysterious j |t New York, December 26.—Certi- leates of election were presented oday to Mayor McClellan and the other candidates who, on the return* were successful at the last election. 5ures have not been given out, but It is known that tho plural’ of Mayor McClellan has been re manner here last night. He was qt duced by about 300 from tho figures work in 'a water main with a negro helper when an unknown voice from the darkness ordered them to come out. Collfns replied that ho did not have timd and Instantly a pistol shot crashed through his forehead. A short time after this shooting Robert German, a young man prominently connected staggered into a residence in the same . neighborhood covered with blood and with his coat on fire from- a bullet wound in his left arm. It appeared that he had been dflnklng. He could not explain how he happened to have the wound' Collin* came to Tallahassee from WrighUvIlle, Ga. —- * • ■ -- T&urale,. Dec. 23.—The striking railroad men here have proclaimed provisional government and ed an’ appeal for support In set ting up a Russian republic. MAIL TROUBLES. Albany Dispatch Tells of Congested Conditions There. Albany, 06'., Dec. 26.—The mail service In this portion of the state has been In a more demoralized con dition during the last 36 hours than was ev6r known except when heavy rains had made roads Impassable. The mall clerks were In no end of trouble. When one of their num- given out by tho police on election night, giving him by tho corrected figures a plurality over William R. Hearst of about 3,400. Election bets, however, will be paid without more delay. About $1, 500,000 has been tied up in the hands of stakeholders since before election. «, KICK TO OBH STEVENS. Appointed by Railroad Coinitilslon to Hear Complaints Atlanta, Dec. 27.—The Railroad Commission has designated Hon. O. B. Stevens, one of Its members, a committee of one to visit various sections of the state whenever the occasion demands, to make personal investigation of all complaints which are brought to the attention of the commission such as those regarding depots and local freight rates. Mr. Sterns has traveled exten sively over Georgia and his knowl edge pf the people and various sec tions peculiarly fits him for (bis work.. He proposes to take It up at once and to be prepared to lay be fore the commission all the neces Nick Saippson is going to work on the streets of Thomasville as pen alty for being convicted of the keep ing pn hand and for sale, liquor, con trary to the city ordinance forbid ding that. He is the first blind tig er keeper who ever worked out sentence from the police court and the happenings of yesterday created tntehse Interest among the people of Thomasville. He was arrested yesterday at noon by Officers Step hens and Fuller,' carried to the blacksmith shop of Tom Everett, where he was shackled around the ankles and put to work on the streets He refused to work yesterday and was carried back to Jail. He was defiant at first, jingled the money in his pocket and said that he had too much money to work but later he grew more melting and said that he had a chill and was too sick to work but woujd go to work this morning. The case was an interesting one, Sampson conducts a fruity store on Jackson street. He was convicted of selling liquor and fined $700 at the October term of Superior Court. A few days later his cook was arrest ed for having in her possesion liquor that she claimed belonged to him On the 20 th of November he was ar rested and 105 half pints of liquor taken from his store. That after noon in police court Mayor Rodden- bery sentenced him to a fine of $99 and costs and ninety days on the streets after hearing the evidence of one white man and three negroes against him. His attorney W. H. Hammond, gave notice of certiorari and S. Sampson furnished prelimin ary bond In the amount of $1,500. The time for securing the certiorari has elapsed and none was secured sary -^cta In relation to any com plaint whlfefi might be brought td Bob Balfour and Charley me from Davidson Col- .1 Carolina to spend the The Rudolph piano has been deliv ered to Miss Ruth Goodwin, the win ner of the Times-EnterpHse voting contest. The following letter has been sent , by Miss Goodwin in ac knowledgement: Thomasville, Ga., Dec. 26, 1905. Dear Times-EnterprJse: Please accept my sincere thanks and believe me grateful for making it possible for me to .receivo such a valuable Christmas gift as the beau tiful Rudolph piano, which was vot ed to me In the Tlmes-Enterprise contest. r . - v Please also allow me through you to tender my heartfelt thanks to my kind and generousfriends, who sup ported me so strongly and'liberally. Sincerely yours, Ruth Goodwin. The Times-Enterprise tries- not \o do things by halves and we, too, are fond of giving Christmas pres ents as well as of receiving them. Although no promise, or even intim ation of a second prize had been made, after the result of the contest was made known by the Judges, the management of the paper wrote to in the voting asking her to accept as a Christmas present and in acknowl edgement of the splendid face run by her, a, sewing machine. In reply to this offer Miss Siirifeson accepts mdst gracefully. • Meigs, Ga., Dec. 25, 1905. Dear Tlmes-Enterprlse: Your letter informing mo of tho result of the piano contest has been received. I congratulate Miss Good- Win, and at the samo time, offer you my sincere thanks for the sewing machine with which you present mo, ns a second in tho contest. I also extend to my friends throughout tho county my thanks for their Interest. Yours very reepectfully, ' Zoo Simpson. The machine will be the best in the store of C. B. Quinn in Thomas- llle, and will go to Miss Simpsori before ever being unpacked. Mr. Quinn makes a specialty of sewing machines and he knows a good one n he sees It and he promises to that Miss Simpson gets the best that is going. ^ The piano .contest was a success and everybody seemB to be satisfied ith the result. In this connection, is interesting to note the fact that the first vote* cast for Miss Goodwin was put In by her father, and the last by Mr. B. F. Cochran. trouble. It . seems that the case against him was so plain that no further technicalities of law would be brought into play. Nick’s friends fixed him up a cot with bedding in the guard house where he spent the night and where he will reside for the next three months. The case is of considerable import ance In establishing the validity of the city ordinance against having on hand liquors for sale. It .Is also of interest Inasmuch as Sampson is the first white man to work on the streets for liquor selling. Predic tions were freely made that he would never work, but these seem to have gone wrong. The anti-tiger people feel that ah important step has been made in breaking up the traffic and that the sight of a white man on'the streets will do much to deter fixers from the illegal traffic. *