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ALBANY NEWS
ALBANY, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, JULY 24 1880.
< NEW SERIES-Yol. 14, No. 41.
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General Merchandise,
Fine Liquors, Tobaccos, Cigars, etc.
I 01111 ^SafaaB.* 7 *°° d * befor* buying rise where.
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LAWYERS
Z. J. ODOM,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
ALBANY, OA.
COftsetkAs, large or small, a specialty. Will at.
SMK^geMapUy to all bosicess entrusted to bis care
er. T. JOKES, JESSE W. WALTERS.
JONES ft WALTERS,
Attorneys at Law,
ALBANY, OA.
Lott Warren,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
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Proceedings Worth County Con
vention, July 21st. [MO.
Isabella, Qa , July 31,1880.
The convention was called to order by
Col. W. A. Harris, who in afew remarks
explained the full meaning and Intention
of the meeting. *
The name of Dr. J. H. ticket was
named for chairman of the meeting and
was elected; after which the name of D.
O. McLellan was put before' the body,
and was duly elected to act as secretary.
The following delegates were elected
to the Gubernatorial convention by accla-
Second District—Berrien Hoblcy and
Henry Williams.
Sixth District—.1. H. 1‘ioket and S..
Thigpen, . o
Seventh District—Col. W. A. Harris,
and W. T. Tanner. ”
Eigtlt District—R. R. Jenkins, and S.
D. Parker.
Fourteenth District—S. M. Hunt and
J. H. Rutland. ‘ f/i
Fifteenth District—J. W. Fowler and
j.R-rnn.
Sixteenth District—IV. I.. Sykes and
David champion. • X^ c
CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATES.
A. J.Ailford, . r <: '' r .<
W. A. Harris,
R. ’ R. Jenkins. • : ' '
John Fowler; "v
S. -31. Hunt,
Dr. J. H. Pickett, ' *:
J. R. Hill,
David Charadton • . ‘J.
SENATORIAL DELEGATES.
Rip Hill, , ' £ .i
W. J. Kuril,
s. Thigpen,
T. S. Sumner,
IV. I,. Lane,
W. IV. Poulaln,
Henry Williams, " -
S.D. Parker. ' ‘ .
Nomination of representatives to meet
first Tuesday in September. Each dis
trict send a delegation of four to see
whether we nominate a candidate for
representative or not.
The following resolution-; were adop
ted: •
Whereas, We recognize with great
pleasure the past services of our imme
diate Representative In Congress, the
Hon. W. £. Smith. 1
Wheeeas, We admire and are proud
of, and fully endorse, his firm, hrslve and
manly record as our Representative dur
ing the past eventful sessions—be it
DOCTORS*
-J.C, HOLMES.
Drs. Holmes ft DeMoss,
ALBANY,
> GEORGIA.
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W. A. STROTHER, M. D.
ALBANY. GEORGIA.
Dice itr SilMOnSM.
JUjHfcn laft at the Dm* Stare *IU reretreprMapt
Dr. E.W. ALFRIEND,
HOTELS
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Old
The Old Reliable
BARNES HOUSE,
Put St., Alfcagy, Ga.,
THE JOHNSON, HOUSE,
Is the place to stop and get a GOOD,
SQUARE MEAL.
MARKET SQUARE,
SAW.
Bates $1.50 to 12.00 per day, according
to location of rooms.
JOSEPH HERSCHBACH,
April 29,1880—ly. PROPRIETOR
J. W. JOINER,
WATCHMAKER and JEWELER
LOCATED AT
W. H. Gilbert, Ag’t, & Co.
r " BROAD STREET.
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feeling of this county that he should be
the nominee of the-Convention to he held
at Dawson the 24th Inst., that he may
lead us to victory as he has ever done.
Adopted. _ _ _
Rest anti Vacation.
Mrs. Browning, many years ago,
wrote a beautiful poem, the burden of
which was the Scriptural passage, “He
GivethHis Beloved. Sleep.” The idea
was, that searching after rest and com
fort in which so many of the human race
are employed, and the fatuity of their ef
forts. This most always be the case,
with the exception of those occasional
periods of comparative repose, which
most people, exclusive of the extremely,
poor, are able .to enjoy.
The immense amount of .work necessa
ry to be done in this busy-world renders
anything more than this, in the vast ma
jority of cases, absolutely impossible.—
Duty with some men means the person*
ideation of all that, is dear in this life.
None can be blamed for placing this es
timate upon themselves. Is it not true
that all thinkers and walkers, feel at in
tervals the necessity notooly of a change,
but also of rest. . ■*
We cannot sympathize wtth those mis
guided souls whose heaven, as they con
struct it in their imagination, Is one lazy
at.
Eternal tranquility is quite too good a
boon, and those who look forward to it
are little to be complimented upon their
intelligence and taste. In this sceptical
ago, however, the nnmber of ihdivhhialc
who actually believe In this sort oftidng
is growing smaller every year,
When sensible, even balanced people,
who ate oot permeated with orthodoxy,
em
braced In Hr. Matlock’s singular and in-
if uninteresting work, “Is Life
Worth Living,” the tendency to believe
in no future, or In a future where endless
prayer is achieved by endless endeavor,
is on the increase.
If there “remains a rest for the people
of God,” there certainly remains no rest
for the people ofpositivism, and the only
rtstfor infidels in general, consists in
being “blown out of existence.'
latte, (Ms,
AND JEWELRY I
stock complete!
Repairing a Specialty !
I’m u, iM»-iiu mt n.
J. W. JODIE- B
The Prevalence of Suicide—A
writer in Blackwood’s Magazine, who
has made an intelligent study of the sta
tistics and authorities On the subject,
says that suicide has been rapidly in
creasing all over Europe during the last
hundred years, and that it is still on the
increase. No fewer than sixty thousand
Europeans, or about one in every five
thousand of the population, are reported
to kill themselves evenr year. The wri
ter cited asserts that the average rate of
setfdestruction is five times greater now
than it was a century ago. It is not im
probable that the percentage is much
higher now than formerly, but it may be
questioned whether the increase o
anywhere near the above estimate,
doubt suicides have hugely increas
numbers In the United States also, but in
no such proportion as the above would
indicate for European countries. Sut-
I brides, indeed, appear to be * feature
our modern civilization.
Among others are Mr. and Mrs.
Peter Solomon, Mr. and Mrs J. T.
Callaway, Mr. ami Mrs. S. B. Price,
and Mr. L. W. Hunt and Stowart
Jones, of Macon. One Calbcrt, E«q.,
and wife,- of Butler, J. E. Appier, Esq.,
H. J.' Thornton, Esq., and families,
and Mrs. J. U. Bussy and daughter,
oT Columbus; J.R. Sims and lady,
and-Mrs; Thos. Alexander, of Atlan
ta, and J. C. McMIchael and family,
of Barnesville. Among the young
ladies I notice Misses Ragland, Bus
sey, Howard, Williams, Swift and
Wynn, of Columbus; and Olliers;
The Fourth Estate has representa
tives there, namely: J. C. McMi-
cliaci of the Barnesville Gazette; D.
F. McCall of Uto Union Springs (Ala.)
Herald, and the writer—all of whom
are enjoying the brief respite .from
editorial duty.
To close. I will repeat that this is
a delightful place. Here is pure air,
good water, pleasant company, and
every inducement.to quiet, rest or
pleasure, that the heated, over-work
ed and tired people of our low coun
try so much need. I am very glad
that I caiue here,And believe that it-
is as healthy and pleasant a place as
one can go to. The proprietor of the
springs, Mr. Joseph Allen, seems to
undurstaud the management of such
a place. He has looked to the com
fort and pleasure of his guests, ond
everything is'arrauged -to that end.
I think If any of our readers content,
plate a change, they could not do
better than come-herc, and test the
truth of what I have written. -
L.w.
The Dark Side of Things.
Some people will persist In taking;
a gloomy view of everything. There
is a man of that kind living in No.
13. A neighbor happened to drop in
to see him the other day and found
everybody lively except the head of
tho family.
‘How ace you all coming on ?’
. ‘We are all tolerable except Bob.’
He is laughing and joking because lie
is going fishing. I just know he is
going to come home drowned, and
howling with a fish hook stuck in
him somewhere.’
‘Well, the rest seem to be cheer-
ftjl.’, T-l ;
‘Yes, sorter. Jemimy is skipping
and jumping about because she is
going to a candy-pulling, but I know
something will happen to her; I
read of a girl in Philadelphia only
last year who was coming home from
a candy-pulling, when a drunken
man threw his wife out of a three-
story window and killed her.’
■Killed who V
‘Jemimy.’. '
‘Why, no; there she is.’
‘Well, it-might have been her if
she had been on the pavement below
where tire woman fell.’
‘Well, you’re looking well:’
‘Yes, I feel lust like the man who
dropped dead in New Yorklast week
from heart disease. Ho was in high
spirits and had a good appetite, and
.them’s just my symptoms.
For Southern People to Bead.
It appears from the Congressional
Globe, part 3, page 2,463, first session
of the 39th Congress, that on .the 8th
day of May, 1866, tho first business
before the House of Rcprcscnatives,
being the fourteenth constitutional
amendment reported by the commit
tee on reconstruction, Mr. Garfield
said:
“Now, Mr. Speaker, if the gentle
man who reported that bill'will put
in a section that all who participate
in the rebellion shall forever be ex
cluded from the right of elective
franchise, in all cases relating to na
tional offices, then I will say the prop
osilion will be just, and one we conld
stand upon as a matter of principle.
Anything is just which excludes
from privilege and power those infa
mous men who participated in rebel
lion. The proposition, without any
modification, without any limitation,
would meet with my approval as one
eminently just, if it could be practi
cally carried out. But when yon at-
Editorial Correspondence.
Chalybeate Springs, Ga., >
July 19th, 1880. (
Dear News :—Riding behind one
of Col. DcLnncy Haul’s spanking
teams, on the finely macadamizod
roods over which the Now York
Coaching Club takes its pleasure
trips is a pastime somewhat different
from jolting along over the hills of
Middle Georgia In a rumbling, old-
fashioned coach. The latter, howov-
er, is not as unpleasant as it may
teem, when accompanied by the inci
dent of pleasant companions, such as
fell to iny good fortune in the trip
from Geneva to Talbotton on Friday
last. At the latter place we changed
horses and vehicles, taking a light
open hack, instead of the heavy, cum
bersome coach, and the fourteen
miles ride lay through a picturesque
country, and was beguiled by- agree
able conversation. -Nevertheless, it
was with a sense of relief that I saw
the whito cottages and twinkling gas
lights that betokened an end of the
journey, and—rest.. Sweet, indeed f
wa3 the restful slumber into, which
the delicious breezes beguiled mo,
and from which I awoke refreshed
and invigorated.
Of the watering places I "have vis
ited, I like this best. It is situated
at the foot of Pine Mountain, 1 at an.
elevation of about 1,600 feet-above
the sea level. • -
THE ACCOMMODATIONS
aro excellent, consisting of a spacious
hotel and numerous cottages, situated
a largo grove, that is always cool
and shady. The hotel and' grounds
are lighted by gas, tho rooms and
cottages are spacious, cool, and com
fortable, and everything is kept in
excellent order. The fare is substan
tial, abundant and well cooked, and
keenly relished by the appetite which
the water almost always gives. .
t springs . ... .
are four in numbor—Chalybeate
Magnesia, Sulphur and Freestone,
and are about two hundred yards
from tho hotel, just a pleasant aud
healthy distance to walk. The Cha
lybeate is the oldest and best of these
springs and is as fine as I ever saw.
is very invigorating, and taken be
fore meals awakens a keen appititc.
The water is conducted to a row of
comfortably arrauged bath houses,
and hot or cold or plunge baths are
to be had at all hours. Tho plunge
bath taken early in the morning is a
favorite with the younger men; and
can tell you it takes a great deal of
courage to take the leap into tho al
most ice-cold - pool. But after the
first dash is over, and you are well
rubbed down, tho . refreshing eRccts
begin to bo felt, together with a con
stantly increasing impatience for the
breakfast that will soon be ready.
The amusements are billiards, ten
pins, dancing, etc., and one good fea
ture about the place is that the baths
and amusements arc ail free of cost
Now as to the climate, it is simply
glorious. Of course out in the sun it
is hot here as well as elsewhere, but
there is always a delightful breeze
coming in from the mountains and
rendering impossible that stifling,
suffocating, debilitating heat we have
felt so often. I have slept under cov
er every night I have been here, and
last night I found it more comfor
table to let down both windows in
my room; And in the early morning
the air has a crispness and freshness
that feels decidedly “fallish.” Oh!
bow perfectly delight it is to draw a
deep, long breath did just drink in
the air; it U like a delicious draught
and you can almost feel it tingle in
your veins, and infuse new life - and
vigor. The scenery is pretty—high
hills surrounding the beautiful val
leys, and looking soft and cool- tempt to make it extend only for a
through the clear blue of the other, limited period, you thereby acktiowl-
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moan tain from which a magnificent -tod period. I am nnwilllug toad-
-view is to be. had/ I have not yet mit that proposition. As a matter
of principle they shonld either be
forever excluded or allowed to com
ply with such conditions as the loyal
people of this country, through their
represenatives in Congress, may pre
scribe. I do not think - wo can stand
'a mixed proposition like this.
been there; I have jnst given myself
up to the restful feeling that comes
upon me, and feel no desire to do
anything’but lounge about and en
joy St to tlie uttermost.
the crowd
ispretty large, about 150 being now
here. It is expected that next month,
the height of the season, the number
will swell to 400 or 600, as it did last
year. There are visitors from Savan
nah, Macon, Atlanta, Columbus,
Americas, Barnesville, Butler, Union
Springs and Troy, Ala., New Or
leans, Texas, and other points.
personal.
Our genial fripnd, Mr. T. J. Welch,
No
Midsummer Sky.
The stars of the summer night are,
with two or three striking exceptions,
mnch less brilliant than those that oc
cupy the heavens iu winter evenings,
but tho constellations Into which they
aro grouped are more' interesting.—
When the-brilliant Harp shinea over
head, the Scorpion is sprawledacross
tho southwestern sky, with Antares
the Scorpion’s heart, flashing red rays
that make it loos like a star in flames.'
Antares is now on the meridian at'
about 10 o’clock in the evening. At
tho same time tho Dragon, marked by
his two brilliant eyes, is overhead,
and Arcturus, the great leader of the
north, and the fourth in precedence
among all the start, is shining half
way down tho' west. The Great Bear
is rudgiiig his circle on the left. of,
the pole, and the little Bear is right
above it, and just beyond the reach
of Bootes, the Boar Driver’s whip.—
Andromedin, with uplifted hands,
chained to the rock for thc.sea mon
ster to devour, is just rising in the
east, while her coming deliverer,
Perseus is yCt . hidden m gloom.—‘
Andromedia’s royal mother, Cassio
peia,
u Hutren.troabled.<iucen, with scanty store,
fiut lasirou* !ii tbe lull moona) night.”
Is seen too far away.in the. north to
uid her chained child, lathe south
east chines the Northern Cross, a
wonderfully perfect figure, and at Ills
font is the Eagle of the Winds; so
called because the ancients supposed
tlmtliis constellation brought temp
ests,wlion, in December, it rose just
before the suit. Almost in a line be
tween Antares ami the Pole Star are
Opbiuchuscarrying theserpent; Her
cules, or the Phantom, as the old
Greek snpcrstitiously called him, aud
tho beautiful circlet or stars called
the Northern Crown. Spanning the
sky from northeast to souliiwost is
the 6jj)ky Way.
About a mouth later the splendid
Perseus rises at tliosamo hour, “strid-
ing gigantic in the north wind,” and
carrying in Ids hand the head of ti e
Gorgon Medusa, with which he Iron
ed the sea monster thaf was about to
seize Aiidroniedia into stone, there
after marrying. the maiden. In the
cluster of start that marks the Gor
gon’s head is the wonderful star Al
gol, sometimes called ,the winkling
demon’s eye. Algol shines for two
days aud fourteen hours'with the
brilliancy of a star of : the second
magnitude. Suddenly it begins to
grow dim, and in four hours it be
comes almost invisible. No one
would notice it unless lie knew just
where to look. Thus it remains for
eighteen minutes, and then it begins
to grow brighter, and in three or
four hours .it again blazes out as a
second magnitude star. These
changes have been going on with
great regularity for many years, and
of all tho thebnes invented to account
for them none has been universally
accepted. : -
Didn’t Feel as Bad as He Did.—
Someweeks' since, while a party of
Detroit surveyors were -running a
railroad line down in Indiana,, the
survey carried them across a ceme
tery. In the course of the survey a
small stake was driven into a grave
and before it was removed and car
ried ahead, a lathy, long-legged Hoo-
sier overhaulted the men, -palled off
his coat and danced around as he
yelled out: “Show me the man who
dared drive that stake iu that gravel”
“We are going to remove It,” qui
etly replied one of the party.
■I don’t care if you are—show me
the man I”
“Well I’m the man, and what are
von going to do about it?” said the
big man of the lot as he stepped out.
“Didn't you know that was my
wife’s grave?” asked the Hoosior
with a considerate fall to his voice.
“No, Sir.”
“Well, it is, sir—my first, wife’s
grave.”
“And what of that?”
“'What of that I Why—why, sir, if
I had not married a second one about
a month ago and kinder forgot my
grief, I’d take that stake and pin you
o tho fence with it! It's lucky for
you fellers—mighty lucky for you—
that I don’t feel half as bad as I did!”
J. W. SHEFFIELD,
Americas, Ga.
HOES! HOES!
Grain Gradies.
Deleware's Population.—The
Wilmington Gazette estimates that
the population of Delaware is 155,000
an increase of 30,000 over the popula
tion of 1870, which was 125,015. Of
this population New Costle-hos about
77,000, or almost one-lialf and the
balance is nearly equally divided be
tween Kontand Sussex—say 38,000
for Kent and 40,000 for Sussex.—
Since tbo last census the population
of New Castle county has increased
about 13,500, of which nearly 12,000
was in the city of Wilmington. In
Among nil the' disagreeable conse
quences that follow .the decay of the
teeth, an Impure breath must be the most
mortifying and unpleasant to its possess
or, and it Is the most inexcusable and of
fensive in society; and yet the cause of it
may be easily removed by cleansing the
teeth daily with that Justly popular den-
trifrice, fragrant SOZODONT. It puri
fies and sweetens the breath, cools and
refreshes the mouth, and gives a pearl-
dike appearance to the teeth. Gentlemen
who indulge in smoking should cleanse
their teeth with SOZODONT, as it re
moves all unpleasant odors of the weed.
Ask your druggist for it. july 8
Red is tho raging color. Even the
newspapers are read.
tho popular and courteous conductor 1870 the population of Kent" was 29,
of the S. W. R. E., is hereon hissum- 804, artd that of Sussex 31,f
mer vacation. This is a favorite re
sort of his, and bo looks vastly im
proved and is having a good time
generally. Among the more promi
nenl persons of our neighborhood
who are here J. note Mossrs. J. A-
Kendrick, Thornton Wlioatlcy, Jas.
Fricker, and familios, of Amoricus. ’ i would be a fool once more. I tried "it,
Corah silk, printed with cashmere
designs, makes pretty summer tea
gowns,
Some hygienist declares that ice-
water cuts off more lives than the
sword. Perhaps death has changed
his sickle for an icicle.
The man who drew a $25,000 hotel
in Wisconsin in a lottery tho other
day was at once asked to pay up a
mortgage of $30,000 on the property.
—Detroit Free Press.
The advocates for marriage with
a deceased wife’s sister in England
are-very actively organizing their on-
I suing campaign. They believe that
tho hew parliament will give the de
sired relief.
to her bed with such a complication of'l t,..„i„ t. „„i„ ,t„„
ailments that no doctor could tell what Much beauty is only paint deep,
was the matter or cure her, and I used
up a small fortune In humbug stuff.
Six months ago I saw a U. S. flag with
Hop Bitters on it but, and I thought
What does the pupil of the eye
study ?
Tell not your secrets in a corn-field
H lias thousands of ears.
W. 8. BELL,
Albany, Ga
SHEFEIELD& BEL
DEALERS IN ALL KINDS OF
- 1AB1WAXH!
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WE HAVE NOW IN STOCK (bought before any advance,)
We desire to calf jfotir special attention to oar
THE
JPgj |
STILL THE BEST!
If yon want to repair that old buggy or wagon, come and see ns and wo
will fit you op with new material.
If the flies trouble yon, come and buy one of onr FLY FANS or FLY
TRAPS. ' , \
We %eep the Largest Stock In the City!
Therefore we CAN and WILL sell goods cheap fot Cash.
Come and see us whether yon want to buy or not.
SHEFFIELD & BELL,
Next Door te Gilbert’s Drug Store, -Albany, Ga.
k® fit®j»u® #
Imported and Domestic
FRUITS,
6IGAR8.
TOBACCOS,
FISH, OYSTERS, &c
GANDIES,
W
GROCERIES.
WASHINGTON STREET, ALBANY, GA
0. J. FARRINGTON,
MERCHANT TAILOR,
Announce* to his friends end former patrons that
he has opened a
Merchant Tailoring Estalilisliment
in miltnrbtni ( c Bulldlnr, upaUlre. Will cut and
make Canto, Panto and Vau tn dnKlaa ityle and
as cheap aa an, house In the Stole.
I keepalvajann hind afnllUneof Ctotha. Come
and examine uur sooda, and bare poor Spring Suit.
” 4,ri,lU,,, b.MlNGTON.
qich25-tf
Malta House,
ATLANTA, GA.
HUFF & BROWN, Prop’s.
First-Class in toy ParBanlar.
HEADQUARTERS
GREEN AND DRIED FRUITS,
Raisins,
-„.^REEDyL
-^GROCER AND IMPORTER/
SAVACTSTAB, - -
Circular No. 8.
Office of THR RAILROAD COMMISSION.
ATLaXTA, Qa^ June I*. 1880.
U PONalullihovtnaot tvotonnth’. buifnre. by
the Cotembu. A Rome Rallrewl, the alhurenee
of 25 per cent, en ‘-Standard RuteV* I. continued a.
the maximum rain u to Cotton. Pertllinre and
Lumber; and on all other c1m.cs (too, one band red
per cent, on the “Standard BMmT (.allowed aa a
WHEN YOU OO TO ATLANTA
STOP AT THE MARKHAM.
Histlmm.
JAMES M. SMITH, Chairman.
R. A. BACON, Secretary.
juneltMt