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I ^y S: LOCAL AND OTHERWISE. Talks About People, Politics, Enter- * in the Live City of Bainbridge and the Grand Old County of Decatur. BY TUB MAN ABOUT TOWN. C. A. his horn*: it lent a year he «ys Monroe has in old Deca- in North there's no old Decatu:—and the ey is eminently correct. ,| e Dr Dick Coleman, D fed, so well known to id section, is one of istol shots living. Dur- he cut telegraph wires bullets. Dr. Dick is paign for officers of the is now on with a rush, ry occurs next June but re gett : ng hot and still Besides the candidates everything so pleasant, sugar mill and refinery iperation at Cohn’s in lays. 250 tons of sugar : crushed daily during The writer will visit industry of Decatur give it space in these in an article on South the A r gus some weeks r. A. Cook, Jr., of At** ad made $1,000 clear no acres of shaded tO' year. I was mistaken, , instead of $1,000, the two acres. And s duplicated in that part ity every year. alachicalico oyster will lesitate to make its daily in this city—the Flor- [o laws having expired instant. Judge Kerr, 5 opens the oyster sea- abridge, informs us that * 'in it’ this season at ; pulled down his shin- eathed his oyster knife. new hotels, the Ford- the New Lasseter are pleted. Bainbridge will ps have enough hotels iodate her rapidly grow- ition. The new hotels tuated, nicely arranged re to, not only help “fill want" but will succeed, mtels in Bainbridge! We coming! that nearly 2000 barrels nphave been sold «in l( *Y this season.' This pluck of the merchants c Thomas county town. °f this is the merchants d< e a market for the The y expect to handle ' fds this season. Moral: :iics centrally in the !->r and tobacco district >ited States *8 e might do a great business than she is l0bo,| v doubts this—but 'B splendidly neverthe fi'eat transportation nv «r and railroad not Her manufacturing re increasing—the coun- are srowi# * !>, Prospects are J," eed man v 1 kings, come after awhile. C' t r e bcforc thc "wttee appointed at <i* ? ng Soae n,on 'bB m»ke fteir re% If the Democrats can force the Republicans to fight the president tial campaign next year with the nigger as the main issue the Dem ocrats will win; but the Reps, will hardly he caught in that box. Yet it Roosevelt is the candidate, and no doubt he will be, the party can hardly escape it. Booker Roose velt and Teddy Washington would be a darling ticket. There is no town in Georgia which patronizes theatrical shows with more libe&lity than Bain bridge. Good, bad and indifferent exhibitions meet with liberal pat ronage here, which would lead one to think that our people lack dis crimination/ The average traveling show that exhibits here is generally n. g„ and if only the best were patronized we might have some •reform’ in the matter of enter tainments. We see no reason why the ma jority vote in a white primary election should not name all offv cers; Governor, senator, congress- man down without the interven tion of delegates. The man who carries the majority of white votes in a congressional primary should be the candidate. In fact it is the only fair and square way. Let each man’s individual vote be counted without intermediary terference. The “Man About Town" who runs this column will not scruple about “taking a stand" upon any subject, though he may not hope to “mould public opinion” to any alarming extent. However, he and he alone will be responsible for everything written by him. And there may percolate through 1 his column at times some rather hot mustard—not to say tobasco. See? In the year 1810, the state of Georgia was divided into thirty- eight counties. Randolph county was the only county in Southwest Georgia and covered the entire section Its population was 7,573. The chief, towns of Georgia at that date were Milledgcvilie, Savannah, Augusta Sunburg, Brunswick, .Frederiqka, • and Athens. Bain bridge was not born then. Among the ‘curiosities’ at the time of which we write was “a bank of oyster shells in the vicinity of Au gusta, 90 miles from the sea. Oys- ster shells are found here in such quantities, that the planters carry them away for the purpose of making lime, which they use the manufacture of indigo. There are thousands of tons still remain ing.” This information I take from an old geography printed in 1814 The cruel sportsman is out every day now making war qpon the quails. The crop of these birds is said to be greater than ever this year. Wild turkeys are reported plentiful in some parts of the county but we have seen no evidence of them in this. The possum and the coon seem to be n vogue over in Thomasville. Hon. Jim Griggs was over there the other night partaking of a possum supper. After this week the old court house will be given over to the bats and owls—the other birds having flown to their nests in the new Palais de Justice. The old building was occupied in 1855, and has been the capitol of the county for 48 years. What a history might be written of the scenes enacted withitV its four walls dur ing that nearly half century! The hopes inspirecj, expectations real ized, hearts and ambitions crushed, etc., etc., under the roof of this old building Would fill a book. It begins to look like the U. S. government means t^> give deep water to the harbor of Apalachi cola, Fla. The last issue of the Times of that city is full of hope in this direction. If the channel is Sufficiently deepened, which can be easily accomplished by the ex penditure of a few hundred of thousands of dollars, Apalachicola will become a great gulf port. It will vie with Pensacola, Mobile and even New Orleans as a cotton port. The benefit to Bainbridge would be great; as then there would be regular lines of steamers between Apalachicola and New York which would run in connec tion with our river steamboats, and then if we were not the big gest cotton market in Southwest Georgia it would be our own fault. Speed tho day. I went out with Mr. Henry J. Bruton last week to his plantation five miles up the river on the west side. That country is coming out and no mistake. I was astonished at the great crops made by Mr. Bruton. Many have an idea that the land, lying along the river is not fertile, but such is not the case. Upon the plantation 4000 bushels of corn have already been gathered. Sea Island cotton grows luxuriantly, and a big crop was made in addition to thc short staple cotton. Besides fine cattle and hogs are growing to perfec tion. There will also be several thousand bushels of peanuts to swell the crop. Mr. Bruton has sold a tract of his land to a Michigan canning company, who will come down here and raise all kinds of vegeta bles, fruits, etc., for the markets of the world. Mr. Bruton i9 also preparing one hundred acres of land for the cultivation of grapes, The truth is that every foot of old Decatur is valuable—north, east, south and west. Georgia, Florida & Alabama Ry. Co. Double Daily Passenger Service. Mouth bound. Gulf Const Limited, Sun. Only. P.M. Lv. 7 40 8 19 8 27 8 80 9 07 9 84 10 00 10 12 10 28 10 34 10 48 10 08 11 10 11 37 II Oft, 19 20 A. M. Ar. P.M. lv. 3 20 3 38 3 49 3 08 4 03 4 20 4 33 4 40. 0 10- ft 10 040 0 Oft 6 08 8 18 6 30 8 43 8 02— 728 7 40 8 20 P. M. A.M. Lv. ft 40 8 02 6 17 8 30 8 38— 8 02 7 20 7 33 7 00 8 20 9 01 9 10 8 27 9 38 9 00 10 03 10 12-10 20 10 48 11 00 11 40 M. Ar. Tallahaasee Lake Jackson Gibson Havana Hinson Latafkat Attapulgus Bower Rainbrldne .Kldorendo Boykin Colquitt Corea Damascus Kowona Arlington Kdiaon Grubbs Cuthbert SOUTH BOU'D. P.M. Ar 1 3ft 1 10 12 03 12-32 19 28 11 00 11 48 11 20 10 43—10 48 10 16 10 02 9 49 9 38 9 20 9 13 9 04- 8 08 8 20 8 08 7 40 A.M. Lv. Dally. Gulf Coast Limited -nm.Only. 8 40 S 22 8 12 8 00 7 88 7 31 7 20 8 07- 6 04 8 28 8 17 8 08 0 00 0 46 0 84 626 4 67 4 40 4 18 A.M. Ar. 9 03 8 37 8 2ft I 00 7 00 7 90 8 47 « 87 8 24 8 14 8 02 649 6 40 I'd 4 so kA.M. R. A. McTyer, Gen. AgU K. B. Coleman, Gen. Pass. Agu W. M. Legg, Gen. Mangr TC Atlantic Coast Line Railway Co. Florida and Cuba, Double Daily Passenger Service ■ ■■ TO TROY, OZARK, DOTHAN, BL3A, BAINBRIDGE, THOMASVILLE, VALDOSTA, WAYOROSS, SAVANNAH, OHALKLTON, BRUNSWICK, JACKSONVILLE AND ALL FLORIDA POINTS.^ Through Pulman Sleepers Port Tampa to New York via Atlantia Coast Line, also via Atlantio Coast Line and Southern R’y. To St. Louis, Cinolnati, Louisville, Kan.is Cit Nashville, Ghioago, Kansis City, Birmingham, ' rle; New Orleans, and all points East and North Leave Bainbridge going East—1:50 a.m., 5:45 a. m., 1:00 p. m. Leave Bainbridge going West—3:20a. m., 11:55 a. m. Connections at Savannah with Ocean Steamship Line and M. 4b M. T. Co for New York, Boston and Baltimore. Through Pullman Cars on all through trains and to *ew York, Baltimore Philadelphia, WashingtonRichmond and and all point* Quarantine Regulations between the United States and the Island of*' Cuba was raised October 15th, therefore, there will be no restrictions hereafter on passengers traveling between Havana and the United States. For further information, oall on nearext Ticket Agent, or addre.» W J Craig, W H Leahy, Gan. Pass. Agent, Divsion Pass. A.-ent, Wilmington. N. C. Savannah. Gx " H M Emerson, Traf. Man. T J Bottoms, Trav. Pass. Agent. ThomasviUe, Ga. BACK AGAIN. Rural Route Mail Boxes Approved By / gegtofflee Department. a. c Co.m *f°* ' T c„ ROOKS, stationery, veriodicalsi TYPEWRITERS * OFFICE SUPPUE- h tfWCWLATlNG LIBRARY, th* CREAM OP MODERN FICTION. : : • • A I have sold out my Florida interests, and have returned to Brinson, where I will again give my per sonal attention to my mercantile establishment there. A FULL AND COMPLETE LINE General : Merchandise. If you have a dime or a dollar to spend, I can save you money. I deliver all goods within the limits of the town. I shall sell for CAS H, although prompt-pay ing customers run 30 days on memorandum accounts. Yours Anxious to Please, W. W. McCULLEY, BRINSON, GEORGIA. THE * CENTRAL * STORE! U M. Rosenberg, Proprietor. A General Merchandise Store, that really sells goods cheap Large Assortment of Dress Goods in Fall and Winter Designs. Very Low Prices Will be given upon our complete stack of relia ble and Easy Wearing Shoes. Gents’ Underwear, Hate* Skirts and Furnishing Goods of all Kinds, Nice Ladies’Hats, on sale cheap. COS^S TO > Rosenberg’s Central Store!