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THE TIMES. JOHN TRIPLETT, Editor, i tT CHASTAIN, ~ Publisher, THOMASVILLE.GA Saruupar, July 11, 1885 The Legislature. This body met at 10 o'clock on Wednesday morning. Bullet were absent from Senate or House. The Governor's message 18 confined mainl y to the issue of the State’s new bonds and the finances of the State. There is some very important legis lation before the body, questions vi tally affecting State and people. Mr. McLendon introduced a bill, on Wednesday, to amend the charter of Thomaeville, . Most partizane are “effssive.” —_—$— 0 —__$ Cleveland continues to work to his shirt sleeves and to “turn the rascala out.” Some discreet democrat aboard, eat Morrison's hamsrringe, before Congress meets. Black Jack Logan is being groom ed for the race in 1888. Cleveland would pass under the wire before Black Jack reached the three quar ter pole. Let them trot out Logan. ——— 2 The farmer who neglects his crops to talk politics need not be surprised to find grain in this cotton. Commencements are over. For these—and all other blessing—let us be thankful. Thy decision of the courts, on the polygamy question, has knocked the last props from under the Mormons. It is anid that they are making prepa rations to go to Mexico. The sooner this blot on our civilization is wiped out the better. Ed Callaway is catering to the public at New Holland this season. And that means that New Holland will be one of the best managed watering pla ces In Georgia—or elsewhere—this season, Ed will make everybody happy who stops at New Holland. = : The Westbrothers, who were ens gaged in the killing of the Messrs. Langford, in Madison Co., have been admitted to bail. —— The New Orleans Picayune says: “More sa required of the young Indies in society than of young men. A young man need not be beautiful, need not sing, play or say anything intellis gent. He may be positively idiotic, and yet get on well in society, as is shown numerous instances.” The Augusta Chronicle, speaking of the meeting of the legislature, says: The most important things for the people just now are the need of a gen eral registration law and of a proper system of tax assessment. Represen tatives from some sections are opposed to the one measure; many Legislators from all neighborhoods are lacking in the courage to establish the other. ———— We are sorry for people who have to get ready to go off to watering places. There's lots of trouble about it. Now one who has to stay at home is not subjected to any of these annoyances. (ae nce The Georgia watermelon has come to stay—some time. We may further add that ‘tis there by several majority. Dick Grubb daintily calls it ‘*'te sian water.” Well, Dick always was rather epicureal to his tastes and expressions, as it were, to to speak, Ke. Mr. C. A. Niles is the regular At lanta correspondent of the Macon Telegraph. And “Chick” can sling more readable paragraphs together in a given time than any quilt post er in Georgia. He is always up with the procession. “I have a baby boy,” writes an Arkansas correspondent to “Mr. Gro ver Cleveland,” “who was born on the 4th of March. I gave him the name of Grover Cleveland. I can say he is the Guest boy out of six I have. I did not name him for any present nor any favor but I write to say to you that if you will give me an office at Garner Station I will under many obligations to you.” $ The bar rooms close in Athens to day. It will be mighty dry there next week during commencement. once im ed, bloated bondholder, with his plathoric purse, bieth away to oe mountaing; here a lake a fork Tip on his coupons,while impecunious wretches, with Patches on their breech- An effort is being made to break the will of thetate David Dickson. In the end the parties litigant will be broke, whether the will is or not. One thing is certain: the lawyera will not be broke. O, no. ‘The 4th was very generally observ ved throughout the country. The naval chapter of accidents occurred. Only a few, however, were of a seri ous character. The Georgia State Horticultural Society will meet in Augusta on the 20th and 30th of July, 1885. Says the Hays county, Texas, News. *In his speech at Mitchell's Grove on Emancipation day, Lewis White, a colored orator from Dupre, said; ‘We have tried the Republican Party for twenty years. We have tried the Loyal League and carpet-bag role, and what have they profited us? They have made us slaves tn political notriguery, sod all that is les, as is broken promises and disappointed hopes. ‘ They told us that the election of Cleveland would mean a return to a livery of the colored race. Cleveland was elected, and the country was never more prosperous than us to day. If Democratic government means slavery, then I, for one, am glad to welcome such slavery.’
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