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THE ALBANY NEWS.
01,1) SERIES—Vol. 37.
ALBANY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JULY 1. 1880.
i NEW SERIES-Vol. 14, No. 32.
THAT I AM STILL
HEADQIARTEBS
For the SplekllJ 1 .Ight-runnlng
WHITE W’G MACHINE
In Tdlftmil itjla,at prlco from 92S to $45 com*
Remember, alio, that I cany a splendid stock of
General Merchandise,
Fine Liquors, Tobaccos, Cigars, etc.
rail a ad price my goods before buying elsewhere.
I mean business.
Very respectfully.
It, S. STEPHENS.
January 22, iSSrt-t'm
LAWYERS
Z. J. ODOM,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
A I. BA XT. GA.
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Attorneys at Law,
ALBANY, GA.
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Rates $1.50 to |2.00 per flay, according
to location of rooms.
JOSEPH HERSCHBACH,
April 20, 1830—ly. PROPRIETOR
“GOOD-BYE TO EDWl.V BOOTH.
KKAl> BY WM. WINTER AT T1IK BOOTH
BREAKFAST IN NEW YORK, .lUNK 11*.
His barque will fade in the mist and
night.
Across the dim sea line,
And coldly on our aching sight
The solemn stars will shine—
All, all in mournful silence, save
For Ocean’s distant roar—
Heard where the slow, regretful wave
Sobs on the lonely short*.
But, O, while winged with love and
prayer.
Our thoughts pursue Ids track.
What glorious sights the midnight air
Will proudly waft us t>ack!
What golden words will flutter down
From many a peak of fame,
Wliat glittering sh:i|H*s of old renown
Thai cluster round his name!
in.
O’er storied Denmark’s haunted ground
Will darkly drift again.
Dreamlike and vague, without a sound,
The spectre of the Dane;
And breaking hearts will be tlie wreath
For grief that knows no tear
When shine on Cornwall’s storm swept
lieatli
The blazing eyes of Lear.
IV.
Slow, mid tlie portents of the storm.
And fate’s avenging powers.
Will mood}* Richard’s haggard form
Pace through the twilight hours,
And wildly hurtling o’er the sky
'Hie red star of Macbeth
Torn from tlie central arch on high—
Go down in dusky death!
But—best of all!—will softly rise
His form of manly grace—
The noble brow, the honest eyes,
The sweetly patient face.
The loving heart, the stately mind
That conquering every ill".
Through seasot trouble, cast behind,
Was grandly steadfast still.
VI.
Though skies might gloom and tempest
rave,
Though friends and 1io|k*s might fail.
His constant spirit, simply brave,
Would meet and sutTcr all—
Would calmly smile at fortune’s frown.
Supreme o'er gain or loss;
nd he tlie worthiest wears the crown
That gently Itori* the cross.
Be blithe and bright, thou jocund day
That golden England knows!
Bloom sweetly ’round the wanderer’s
way
Thou royal English rose!
And English hearts (no need to tell
How truth itse If endures!)
This soul of manhood treasure well.
Our love commits to yours!
Farewell! n«»r mist, nor flying cloud,
Nor sight can ever dim*
The w reath of honors, pure and proud,
Our hearts have twined for him!
But hells of memory still shall chime,
And violets star the sod.
Till our last broken wave of time
Dies on the shore of God.
State and General News.
There is a negro man In Talbot county
ninety-eight years old.
The grasshoppers are at work on the
oung cotton in the vicinity of Milledge-
ille.
The survey of tlie Jefferson andGainu
ville railroad is being pushed forward
rapidly.
Copious showers have fallen in the
neighborhood of Conyers during tlie
past week.
Complaint is made of the iincleanlines.s
of Augusta and a typhoid fever is predic
ted as the result.
At the Athens Commencement this
year the State University will graduate
twenty-five students.
Talbot county has sent four crazy peo
ple to the State lunatic asylum within
the last eight weeks.
Tlie nominating convention of the
second Congressional district will be held
on the 21th of August, at Dawson.
News from all over the State report
tlie crops in excellent condition, hut just
now in most localities needing rain.
Mr. Banks Winter, of Macon, is second
tenor of Haverly’s Mastodon Minstrels
and will go to Europe with tlie troup.
Colonel Tom Hardeman will to-mor
row night deliver the literary address at
South Georgia Agricultural and Mechan
ical College.
The revenue collectors are hunting up
the moonshiners in the vicinity of Elber-
ton. One still and one thousand gallons
were destroyed last week.
J. W. JOINER,
WATCHMAKER and JEWELER
LOCATED AT
W. II. Gilbert, Ag’t, & Co.
BROAD STREET.
Speci-lies Nominating Hmii’ock.
Mr. Dan Daugherty, of Pennsylva
nia, then proceeded in the |>lnlfonn
amid {treat applause and spoke as
follows:
I propose to present to the thought
ful consideration of tlie Convention
the iiniue of one who on the field of
battle was styled "the superb”
leliccrs], yet won the still Holder re
nown ns a military Governor, whose
lirst act, when in command of Louis
iana and Texas, was to snlutc the
'onstitutioii by proclaiming that, the
military rule shall ever he subservi
ent to the civil power. [Cheers.] Tlie
plighted word of a soldier was prov
ed by the neks of a statesman. I nom
inate one whose name will suppress
all faction [cheers]; will he alike ac
ceptable to the North and to tlie
South; a name that will thrill the
Republic; a name, if nominated, of a
man that will rriisli the last embers
of scctiounl strife, and whose name
ill lie the dawning of that day so
long looked for, the day of perpetual
brotherhood among the people of
America. With him ns our cham
pion, wc can fling away our shrouds
and wage an aggressive war. Witli
him wc can nppcnl to the supreme
majority of tlie American pcoplo
. ainst tlie corruptions of the Repub
lican party and their untold viola
tions of Constitutional liberty. Witli
him ns our standard-bearer the
bloody banner of Republicanism will
fail palsied to the ground. Oh, my
countrymen, in this supreme hour,
hen the destinies of the Republic,
lien the imperilled liberties of the
people are in your hands, pause, re
flect. take liccii, make no misstep. I
say I nominate one who will carry
every State of the South. I nominate
one who will crrrv Pennsylvania
[loud eliccrs], carry Indiana [cheers],
carry Connecticut [cheers], carry New
Jersey [eliccrs], carry New York
ork [loud cheers.] 1 propose the
name—[a voice : “Carry Ohio”]—aye,
and carry Ohio [cheers], I propose
tlie name of the soldier statesman,
hose record is as stainless as his
sword, Winfield Scott Hancock.
[Loud cheers.] One word more, if
nominated lie will take his scat. [ Loud
cheers.]
After Mr. Daugherty left tlie plat
form he turned and rnnic hark. “Al
low me to say one word more,” lie
said to the Chair. Permission was
accorded, when Mr. Daugherty cor
rected his speech, ns follows:
Gentlemen of the Convention, I
pray your pardon for one word. I
said that “(/"nominated;'’ I should
have said “if elected” General Han
cock will take his scat. [Cheers.)
The Chair—The name of Wintielil
Scott Hancock is nominated for Pres
ident of the United States. [Cheers.]
Prejudice Kilts.
“Eleven years our daughter suffer
ed on a lied o< misery under the care
of several of the best (and sonic of
the worst) physicians, who gave her
disease various names hut no relief,
and now she is restored to us in good
health liy as simple a remedy as Hop
Ritters, that we had poolicd at for
two years, before using it. Wo earn
cstly hope anil pray that no one else
will let their sick suffer ns wc did, on
account of prejudice against so good
a medicine as Hop Ritters.”—The
Parents.—Telegram.
AND JEWELKY!
8TOTK COMPLETE!
Repairing a Specialty!
4^-Custom solicited.
Ftb It, 1880-till no* 23.
President J. If. Estill will please
accept our thanks for a copy of the
Constitution of the Georgia Press As
sociation anil minutes of its last meet
ing in Cuthhert.
The Chair—The Chair has the hon
or to present to tlie Convention Gov.
Hubbard, of Texas.
Governor Hubbard—Gentlemen of
the Convention : I have but a word
to say. I rise by request, a request
which meets the impulses of my own
bosom, to second the nomination of
the soldier statesman, Winfield S.
Hancock. [Applause.] Men of the
Convention, it is peculiarly til that
Texas, thatLoiiisinna, should respond
to that nomination. Hear me for a
moment.
When the war closed, when the
flag that some of us followed was
furled forever, when again the Con
stitution of the fathers was tlie su
preme law of the land, as it is now
and ever shall be [great applause and
cheers,] there came down through
tlie Southland, through my own
State, and Louisiana especially, a race
of carpet-baggers like tlie Vandals of
old, preying upon our wasting sub
stance. Military Governors filled
the bastiles with prisoners from civil
life; men who had committed naught
but fancied offenses against tlie Gov
ernment were crowded in every jail
and in every bastile, front tlie Rio
Grande to the “Father of Waters."
In that hour when wc had lost all,
when by the side of every hearth
stone were weeping Rachels, when
the wolf was howling at almost every
door, when there was widowiiood
and orphanage everywhere, there
came a voice in that darkness of the
night-time that said to us, “I am
your military ruler; the war has
closed: unbar your dungeons; open
your Courts and be tried as the Con
stitution prescribes. [Great applause
and cheers.] That man was Winfield
S. Hancock. [Renewed applause.J It
was an easy thing to he a summer
friend [laughter], hut nt the time of
our sorrow, when lie held his office
at the hands of the great Republican
party, who could cut off his bread,
and did remove him, there stood a
man with the Constitution before
him, reading it as tlie fathers read it.
that tlie war having passed, wc re
sumed tlie habiliments that belonged
to us—the rights, not ns a conquered
province, but as a free people. The
voice of a man like Hancock, who
risked his rcputntiou anil Ids place
and power in the very frown and
teeth of the Republican party, is
man that it will do to trust the stan
daril of your party to. [Great ap
plause and cheers.]
Sir, he is not only a solilici—that is
something in tlie coldest that is to lie
waged, as tlie gallant Hampton lias
told you. The South will be united
whoever you may nouiinntc. Rut
failing in principle, failing upon ev
cry issue upon finance or ol reform
or of good government, to attack the
record of the Democratic party,
mark it, tlie slogan will he “Tlie
bloody South ; the old haven of re
hellion still lives.” You will hear of
it from the mountains and your high
lands; you will hear it all along the
lines. If you nominate Hancock [up
plausn], if you nominate Hancock,
where is the argument? We can say
everywhere, here is a soldier second
not even to tlie silent man on horse
hack. [Applause.] Here is a sold
icr that bore down even upon us like
i<- brigade at linlnchtrn, like a plum-
I knight to the Iron) ; here is a man
hem one hundred llinii-iiiid Norlli-
rn soldiers, if they are tike S uitherii
diliers, will rally armnid Ids stand
ard. heeause he was a great soldier,
and a good man and a faithful eiti-
I hen the war was over. I Ap
plause.]
Oentleineii, 1 believe him to lie timliiy
tlie most aviiiltthle candidate of all tin:
great names that have been presented in
this great presence And, us 1 said nvlnlu
o. wliat wv want is vntes, more of lliem.
in God's iinuio. whether from Republican
soldiers or otherwise, | Applnuso and
laughter ]
General Hancock is not wanting in all
tlio eloquence » the statesman Rend Ilia
letter to Governor Pease It is worthy to
be enshrined. It is worthy of bviug pine
cd ripou tlio proudest pages of American
history. In tlie letter lie discussed and
asserted the superiority mid supremacy
uf the civil power over tho sword speur.
have imthhig more to say except this,
that if you nouiimitc him, uol only the
Smith will stnnd around him as the old
guard did around Napoleon, but 1 believe
soldiers ol the groat North, the meu who
honestly fought its in the greatest of hu
man conflicts, Amt with Hint a record
that is willmul statu mid without reproach:
with no Credit Moliilicr scandal or Hu
Golyer fraud, armnid him [Laughter and
chers.] With n stainless name blending
together the soldidr and tlie stales un
we will win after a quarter of a century
Wc w * 11 wiu the contest, and when won
if there is a mail living in the broad con
fines of this great country wtio will wear
these honors, it is Winfield S. Hancock
of Penusy'.vanin. [Loud and loiig-coii><
tinued applacsc ]
.
Beautiful Wisdom.
CHOICE EXTItACTS KIIOM MU. IIOUATIO
SEYM OP It’s AIIIIKESS TO THE STU
DENTS IIP WELI.s’ FEMALE COL
LEGE, AU1IOI1A, N. V.
Youth Is beautiful in the eyes of
jo, ami it looks with admiration up
on the courage witli which the young
on front the uncertainties of the fu
ture, and the faith that lends them to
look forward to happiness amt gne
iss.
Seif-cheating is the most common
form of fraud. It is a good rule,
when you find that subject* of im
portance or objects of value are mat
ers of indifference, to conclude that
there are some things which you do
not, hut which you ought to know.
There is nothing you can learn
about any subject which will not
jive it new interest in your eyes.—
The deeper your learning the better,
hut the quality of knowledge is like
that of gold, which, although it is
is reduced to the thinnest leaf, yet
makes all things glitter that it touch-
Atiiong tlio Turcoman.
A PEOPLE WHO AltK PAINFULLY *r-
KI.ICTKII WITH POVKtlTV AND
1IILIOUSNKSS.
A correspondent of tho London
News now in Gentral Asia, writes us
follows of tho liahlts of the Turco
mans: “Here, in the midst of possi
ble plenty, the Turcomans lead but a
Tlio Gubernatorial Knee.
Meriwether Comity Vindicator.]
In a quiet way the gubernatorial
problem seems to lie claiming consul
erablo attention from our citizens.
From the best information that we
can gain there is no use disguising
the fact that Governor Colquitt's
friends in Meriwether are growing
in numbers and confidence every
day. Were a test vote to he takeit
miserable life. Indeed, thcseGoklan ''""a ' . L, ,. V: 1,6
Tcpc Turcomans aro the very poorest nZu .-ne ZLel v « „ r
I liiLVt* v<*t tin*! with OrtllMfLiMlv tin* » J imfsoiiio majority. One worGt of
nomads may he miicl to Vo ^relatively T {" Mn C """ iy *" t,ie
lo. They have food in aim..- . a ,
It is true that some whose judg
ments are impaired by the end
less exhibition of forms and develop
ments of life have tallcn into the
strange superstition that the world
lias made itself, and that the sources
of this power of production and pro
gress must lie looked for in the low
est forms of matter.
Surface knowledge is lightly spok
en of by the learned, but it is infor
mation worked out in the past by
toil mid study until it is brought
within the reach of all.
In the course of my lifo I have
studied all classes of men with care,
and, as a rule, I have found those to
be most cheerful and wise whose
habits of observation have given the
widest range to their mental action,
and have brought within the scope
of their thoughts the most varied
topics, although they may not have
been learned with regard to any of
them.
Men do not live in the same world.
When wc look around us, we sec
that they live in very different hous
es; 'some arc humble houses, hut
poorly furnished ; others are costly
residences, adorned with paintings
and statuary and everything that can
'O to gratify tlie taste.
We make the world in which we
live. It is more disreputable to live
in one that is dull nml barren than it
is to make our homes in poor anil di
lapidated houses.
Intelligence will enable you to
cope with the problems of life, to en
dure its-mistortuncs with fortitude,
anil to bear its successes with moder
ation end wisdom.
The office of tlie eye is to give facts
to the mind. Things arc not seen in
their true sense merely because they
arc brought within the range of the
vision, hut when they have stirred
the miml anil thoughts have been
evolved.
So strong arc the enjoyments of
looking upon famous objects, or
treading upon ground made sacred
by events, that men cross broad
oceans to visit them. And through
after life they are wiser and happier
for the knowledge thus gained.
It may bo that some arc gifted with
aptitudes in certain directions beyond
others; that some have faculties for
icaruiug, for nrts, or for science, that
give them peculiar advantages in
their pursuits.
When I am visited at my farm by
those who feel no sympathy with na
ture, and say that they have no taste
for country life, I make up iny mind
that they do not like it because they
do not know enough about the world
around them to enjoy its beauties.
No one who 1ms reached the age of
three score years and ten would, upon
reflection, lie willing to rub out from
the experience ill life, tho sorrows
which.have softened his character,
the mistakes which have taught him
wisdom, or flic wrongdoings which
ho Ims ever regretted nml which, liy
their influences, have made the gold
en threads which may he formed in
the texture of his moral character.
well lo do,
dance, such al it is, and are always
well clothed, and one rarely meets
one who, besides his herds, has not
also at least a horse, and that, too,
usually of a very superior breed.—
Hero, on the contrary, tho people
seem wretchedly poor. In the kibit-
ka, where I am staying, there is but
one ragged patch of felt horse-cloth
on the bare ground beside the lire,
on which my host mid his wife sit all
day long. Resides mi old Russian
musket, a Koraisnu salire, nnil two
worn saddle-bags, there is little else
in the place. The only food they
could oiler me was coarse, hitter,
brown bread, baked among the wood
ashes of the hearth. At first I thought
my host might he exceptionally poor,
hut visits to the other kibilkas show
ed mo that tho other people were in
the same condition. The moiiilah,
or priest, seemed the only person tiil-
e'alily well off. This extreme pover
ty seemed strange, nomddcriiig tho
propinquity of tlie Russian camp,
mid the amount of trade which goes
on between it nml the border Turco
mans, in hay, firewood and cattle.—
Many of these people seemed alleet-
cd by a bilious malady, which 1 have
frequently observed at Gumucuc
Tope and elsewhere, and from which
I ntysclf have occasionally suffered.
Its symptoms are soreness in the re
gion of the stomach, violent vomiting
mid headache, accompanied by wast
ing away of the body, tlie face assu
ming a jaundiced appearance. 1 at
tribute it to continual attacks of
marsh fever, a malady for which they
follow no medical treatment, anil
which, I believe, when long neglect
ed, ultimately affects the liver. I ain
continunllv licing plagued by these
people for medicine, as every Euro
pean is not. only supposed by them
to be skilled in the healing art, but
also to carry about him a large stock
of medicine for the sick people he
may meet during his travels. This
malady produces many deaths, and
those who remain alive are the
wrctchcdcst-looking objects imagi
nable, As the Turcomans keep tip
their mourning for the dead for many
months, one rarely passes a lady in
one of these delta villages without
witnessing their singular manner of
demonstrating their grief by walking
round the hut which had been occu
pied by the departed person and
howling in the direst fashion. It
was no later than last night, as I sal
writing, a little past midnight, that
some Turcoman, either coming in
from a journey or from a neighbor
ing village, passed by the kibitka in
which I was. A light at that unusual
hour probably called tip slumbering
recollection,and apparently recalling
that some one of liis friends had (lied
there perhaps six months before, he
suddenly broke out into the most
lamentable erics, wailing and sob
bing ns if his heart were broken.—
The old woman within answered by
whining in an odd, rhythmical way,
clapping her hands in unison. To
do this with bettor effect she rose
from the miserable mat on which she
had been sleeping for the last four
hours. It is a curious fact that
though the village dogs will ordina
rily, on the slightest nocturnal noise
occurring, bark savagely, they took
not the slightest notice of the car-
piercing outcry around by lodging.
I suppose they were too accustomed
to it to pay attention.”
ed largely of our lies! citizens in his
old army brigade. These men fol
lowed his lead during the trying
times of the Into war and learned to
love and trust him then. The confi
dence then inspired has not been
shaken by subsequent events. They
ndmit that, liku other mortals, their
old commander may have made mis-
akes, hut they claim that his motives
are ns pure and his integrity as un
doubted ns when he stood shoulder
to shoulder with them beneath the
stars anil bars of the Southern Con
federacy.
Another source of Colquitt’s
strength here is the bitter and relent
less war that has recently been waged
against his spotless record ns a true
Christian. That we have “Christian
statesmen” who “steal the livery of
the court of heaven to serve the devil
in” is true, but in such cases theclov-
n foot always appears. Rut when n
man stands for years before the pub
lic without the slightest stniu npon
his personal character, they are not
slow to resent insinuations and vague
hints of wrong-doing which arc un
supported by any tangible proofs.
The fact that good men will not de
sert a man whose life presents every
day evidences of honesty mid integ
rity is one of tlio strongest safe
guards public men possess. The oili
er fact that charges savoring of per
sonal dislike or malice force the best,
men of the country lo rally around
an honest man unreasonably assailed,
explains the secret of Governor Col
quitt’s strength with the good men
of the county. The time lias not yet
conic for a man to be condemned be
cause of railings against his private
life and character when his daily
walk affords no evidence of these ac
cusations. Like the official record of
all public men, something may be
found which is open to criticism but
these mistakes of General Colquitt
arc to be set down to a mistaken judg
ment and not a corrupt heart.
General Gartrell has developed
strength in the contest and number*
among his friends some of the Icail-
g men of the party.
Although many of his old friends
would lie glad to see him Governor,
yet Judge Hiram Warner’s age seems
to have practically ruled him out of
the race. It is true that few men of
eighty possess his physical vigor, and
it is also a noteworthy fact that his
friends at our late county meeting
mssed some resolutions rccapitnlal-
ng his public services and recom
mending him as a suitable candidate
for Governor, yet these resolutions
scent to have been intended as
compliment to Judge Warner’s long
public career anil residence in our
midst, rather than an entering him
as a candidate for Gubernatorial
honors. Many of his friends arc open
advocates of Colquitt's re-election,
upon the idea above mentioned, that
tlie Judge is not really a candidate.
Judge Warucr not being in the race
and a hitler war being waged against
Colquitt, these men feel that they
owe it to themselves to stand by the
friend needing their aid.
A darkey at. Sparta had his skull frac
tured liy a base hall a few days ago.
Senator Brown’s Last Speech.
Boston Post.]
The new Senator Brown, of Geor
gia, made a speech in favor of pen
sioning tlio soldiers of the Mexican
and Indian wars, and, independent
of the merits of the measure, placed
himself at once in the front rank in
point of forensic ability. He com
pletely turned the tables on Senators
Coukling anil Blaine in discussing
the old questions of slavery and se
cession. He pointed to the fact that
New England and old England plant
ed it in this country, alter which the
South took the system prescribed for
them and the guarantees which the
statesmen of all sections established
after its ndoptipn. But notwithstand
ing this, it had been overthrown by
the war, and though lie would have
given his life in defense of constitu
tional rights the issue was by that
settled forever. The issuo of seces
sion he also considered forever set
tled. lie gave an array of facts
touching the education of blncks in
Georgia, which is highly coinplimcn
tary to that State. As to their treat
ment and the feeling toward them,
the following extract will show: “Wo
employ the colored people. They arc
the best laborers wc enu get. You
may talk aboutGcrman immigration,
Chinese immigration, or any other
immigration into the State, I would
not give the negro as a laborer in the
cotton field for any man of any race.
They arc laboring there faithfullv
and we are paying them justly, anil
wc intend to continue to do so
Many of them are accumulating
property. AVe arc glad of it. Wc
feel kindly towards them. AVe wish
them well. You made them citizens
and we now wish to aid them to he
good citizens, nml to become useful
members of society. To tlmt cml we
shall do all in our power.” Agita
tors and Southcrn-halcrscannot make
much out ot him.
WILLIAMS & WATSON
COMMISSION TOUTS
12G% Bay Ktkekt,
SAVANNAH, GA.
April 20, 1880-1 y.
Tlie Vesuvius Railway.
It is not only in view of a possible
sudden eruption of Mount Vesuvius
that the railroad to the top of that
volcano is encircled with a halo of
romance. There are other possibili
ties which make a trip on it different
from one on any other known rail
way. The ascent is on n frightful
steep grade. For tlie first quarter of
the road it is at the rate of forty feet
in a hundred. Then for a considera
ble distance it is sixty-threo in a hun
dred. As soon as a passenger begins
to go up iic feels sca-sick and wishes
he was somebody else. As lie rises
higher, holding nervously to the car
for fear the cable will give way, he
becomes hot and hotter and is lialf-
suffocatcd by sulphurous atmosphere
Near the top of the ground on which
the road is laid presents a singular
phenomenon. Great puffs of smoke
sometimes burst out from where they
are least expected, and these cause the
passengers to sneeze and feel as if
they were going to be smothered. In
most cases the inconvenience is but
temporary. Tho speed is quite rapid,
the whole ascent being made in about
seven minutes. There aro instances,
however, in which, with the issue of
a puff or column of dense sulphurous
vapor, tho ground opens into a great
chasm and suddenly closes. In such
cases anything that happens to be in
tlio way runs the risk of being swal
lowed. Some of these days a section
of tlie railroad will ho suddenly call
ed in, possibly witli a train on it.—
The cable which pulls the cars up is
composed of forty-nine strands of
steel wire, and covered with tar to
preserve it from rust. Mark Twain
wrote that lie made tlio descent of
Vesuvius in four minutes. If this
forty-iiiiic-strand cable should hap
pen to give way all of a sudden, the
descent will be made in much less
time than that. Notwithstanding the
romantically dangerous features of
this enterprise, the road is already
well patronized. The old fashion of
clambering up on foot was terribly
destructive to good hoots.
The Baptist Seminary at. Gainesville,
graduated six young ladies last week.
HEADQUARTERS
GREEK AND DRIED FRUITS,
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J. B. REEDY,V)
GROCER AND IMPORTER,'
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FOR SALE
OR
RENT!
LARGE TAVO-UOOMED
STORE HOUSE
Arlington, Georgia.
8SP* APPLY TO
A. W. TURNER,
LEARY, GA.
GENTLEMEN'S AND YOUTH’S
FASHIONS
—AT—
D. W. PRICE’S
TMLORI3S6
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UstalrZlgliMCBt,
(Over Gentral Railroad Bank.)
Please call and examine Sam
ples, Plates and Patterns.
No Bogus Material 1
Good, Honest World
D. AV. PRICE,
Merchant Tailor.
Albany, August 28,1879-tf
LIME!
LIME!
Lower Price than ever. $130 per Barrel. Use it a
a Disinfectant.
Bricklayers, Plasterers, Whitewashes, etc., should
call on me for the very beat article, cither by letter
or In person.
I. J. BRINSON*
juiylO
Albany, tin.