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Newspaper Page TextTHE ALBANY NEWS. OLD SERIES—Vol. 37.> ALBANY. GEORGIA, TUESDAY, JULY 27. 1880. < NEW SERIES-Vol. 14, No. 42. TIW.l AM flTltl . . For the SpleadM Uchl-mooJng WRITS ffl’C MACHINE ityka, at prifw (ton $25 to fiS * General Merchandise, Fiae liquor*, Tobaccos, Cigars, etc. ( Ckl HljfHia; IMS. Mn bojluj eb.wh.re. T«r II £ rt £ D g XKPHENS> LAWYERS Z. J. ODOM, ATTORNEY AT LAW, ALBANY, OA. OeaMtlMB.Ini.erMM|], mepeetattr. Will el- Men >mIhm eetraeici to hie cere. JOKES A VALTERS, Attorneys at Law, ALBANY, OA. Lott Warren, ATTORNEY AT LAW, =' 04 ^ m DOCTORS?* Drs. Holmes & DeMoss, DEHTUTS. GEORGIA k W W. A. STROTHER, If. D. ALBANY, GEORGIA. Oftee ner Gilbert’s Brir Store. »n Mi.nl to .1 HlT~l-f °—r~~I" Dr. E. W. ALFRIEND, l^nracnvLLT HOTELS The Old Reliable BARNES HOUSE, rne St., Alban, 6a., Bww.(h. MM MS mMwW ®r *#oa eeeonewdal ea4 hMrtr wrieone to ell. THE JOHNSON HOUSE, tHTBnUZ, OA, la the place to stop and get a-GOOD, SQUARE MEAL. General Items. A New York party of anglers is e to have paid $31,000 for a long lei amounting almost to a purchase, ofa Canada salmon stream. , General Garfield In Congress—the Chi nese shall remain. General Garfield In Ids letter of acceptance—on the whole, the Chinese had better go. The uncertainties of the theatrical bus iness are illustrated by the fact that Miss Neil son, after a season of great success in the cast, has been nlaying to almost emp ty bouses in San Francisco. London has a population of 170,000 Germans, and so large a share of the vo ters are German that during the late can vass Mr. Bryce, a liberal member from the Tower Hamlets addressed large meet ings In German. John W. Forney has never failed to support the winning candidate for Presi dent. He was for Pierce in 1832, Buc- h.tnnan in 1836, Lincoln in 1 SCO and 1864, Grant in 1SGS and 1373, Hayes in 1876 and is lor Hancock non*. Governor McClellan Is quoted as sav ing: “There is no question about the success of the democratic party in New Jersey next November. With the dem ocratic party it is only a question of the majority, which will probably be between 10,000 and 15,000. . The recent issue of the offical register of the United States, known as the Blue Book, contains the names of 97,500 gov ernment officials, including officers of the army and navy. Sixty-six thousand of them are employees of the postoffice de partment. According to the estimate of the Co lumbus, Ohio, State Journal,* republican, the population of Ohio by the new cen sus will be a little more than 3,200,000.— In 1870 the population was 2,055,260.— The state wilt probably retain the pres ent representation In Congress. Cotton Rust. The Colombia (S. C.) Daily Regis ter, whose editor is very well versed in Agricultural lore, has a two-col umn editorial on cotton rust, suggest ed by our receut article on the sub ject. The Register throws some much-needed light on this obscure matter. It says that educated South ern piantors consider It a mistake to confuse “rust,” “scald,” “sunburn" and “blight” with each other. Rust proper, they hold, it the •gmpton not the cause ordisease in the plant, and owed its origin to many variant A young lad..- living in 1 Miss, has in her possession a letter writ ten to her during the war by a Confeder ate soldier wbo being niiable to obtain ink, cut his arm and wrote it with his blood. It is slightly faded, and bqnite a valuable as well as j interesting relic. _ erstitious voter In Norwich, Con- necticntt, hes set two bens, each with twelve eggs. He has dedicated one hen to Hancock and the other to Garfield, and Is waiting to see which bird produces the greater number of jhickcns. As the ' — hatch, so, he says, will he vote. e colored voters of New York are holding meetings all over the State and condeming Governor Cornell ,in unmeas ured terms for bis course in regard to Chastine Cox. They say the governor did not give that worthy the they are should we continue to vote the can ticket?" iratoga from now until the end of Au gust wil be a racing centre, the two reg ular meetings being from July 17, to Ju ly 31, and from August A to August 21, with plenty of supplementary days to practically occupy all the time until the first of September. In the number of stables competing, the total number of entries, the large territorial range repre sented and the size of the stakes, the cur- A natural ice boose is one of the curi osities of Northern New Jersey. It behind Bine mountain. The ice gorge it several hundred yards in extent, ten to thirty feet deep, with caves and clefts where the ice lies. The shade at the gorge is very dense, the sun apparently ' —“—it. The bottom of the _ in Newton, marked "thirty-eight "degrees at the hot-, tom of this gorge. A few feet from one gafti* end a spring of the most dell water in MARKET SQUARE, IAB, OA. Rates $1.30 to $2.00 per day, according to location of JOSEPH HERSCHBACH, April 29,1880—ly. PROPRIETOR J. W. J0INEB, WATCHMAKER and JEWELER LOCATED AT W. H. Gilbert, Agt, & Co. BROAD STREET. AND JEWELRY I STOCK complete! Repairing A Specialty The Vanderbilts are creating a marked sensation in Paris, where nearly a dozen members of the family are quartered at present. One of William’s daughters is engaged to a third-rate British noble, marvwbo, as usual, is willing f- - change his title fora half million in Another is sitting to MeUsonier for her portrait, which will be the only one ever taken of an American lady by this artist. The cost may reach $100,000, but that is only a week’s income. William is also making purchases of fine pictures, the chief qualifications being, as it would seem, a high price. He wants nothing that would come within the reach of any other purchaser. How strange this ap pears when brought in contrast with Charles O’Comer’s reminiscence, recent ly delivered to the Nashville students, of the time when the- old Commodore and he went on foot to see a horse race. Ver ily the world moves, but where will Van derbilt stop? Getting on the Police Force. Well, my man,” said a philanthro pist to a hardened looking chap con fined in the New Orleans parish pris on, “what are yon in for ?” “In for thirty days, I reckon,” said the prisoner, sullenly. “No, not that. What oifense did you commit?” “Didn’t commit any thing, the Judge committed me.” “Well you most have been accused of some crime?”. “On, yes, I was accused of trying to get on the police.” “Nonsense. Trying to get on the police is no crime. I myself have rec ommended many worthy men for po sitions on the police force, and have helped to get them on.” “Is that a fact? That is all I was sent here for. You see there were two of us, and we both tried to get on the same policeman. We bad him down, bnt some of the other peelers thought we were crowding the man too hard, and”-— “That will do, sir,” said the pliilan thropist. “I understand your case perfectly. Here arc a few tracts for the improvement of your mind, which just now appears to be a little warped.” Wktt.im <mi mm a. The boy didn’t want to go to the beach wlien he heard of the shingle there. He bad enough of that at home. “First, there Is a close of soils that would, rust, the cotton plant if the land was just cleared. Thus not from tho poverty of the soil, but from su perlative moisture, and hence sour ness of soil, or from the presence of some injurious properties which at certain stages of the plants would in duce red rust ‘Hattcrberry’ land, a low, level, dark grayish soil common on the coast of the Carolines and a, is of this character of land trowing, loo, the low whortleberry >ush. So our dark bottom corn lauds on the coast have been nearly always proue to rust to nothingness either in the cotton or pea plaut, though they grew fine and healthy crops of corn. “So, again, there were lands pre disposed to rust cotton, though they would put up a luxurious growth of plant, which would show a most magnificent promise of fruit ubtil some time in July, or later, when the leaves would mottle over with rus set-colored splotches, and rust more or less. according to vicissitudes of season, rusting at times so as to de stroy any yield worth gathering, at other seasons leaving a lair crop, notwithstanding the plant would lose all of its leaves by the latter part of September, and the top fruit entirely. These lands were generally ‘dip’ lands—that is, lauds that were be tween the high and dry yellow lands and the dark, almost black, bottom lands. Usually these middle pitched lands were of a brownish hue, some times whitish gray, and if they escap ed seasons of an uneven character in temperature and rainfall, although rusting, they would yet make, good to fair crops, sometimes producing double the yield of lands that never rusted, let tho seasons bo what it “There were still other lands that would rust cetton aluiost at three inches high, and which actually re fused to grow the plant, although they would grow corn or ground nuts or rice profitably. “Besides this, there were a class of bottom lands full of mould or humus, which would not rnst in the ordinary sense, but would grow the plant to worthless weed or put on a condition of growth called ‘flaglag’ or ‘blueiug’ or ‘blue rust,’ owing to the dark blue ;reen appearance of the plant, the caves of which wonid crumple up in a thickened, irregular, contracted raannfir, the plant sometimes falling down and running upon the ground like a creeping plant. This kind of rnst has been held by experienced >lantors without remedy- It was the labit of old-fashioned planters of our coast to apply soft ulno mud from the contiguous salt marshes, but, so far as we remember, with little'or no benefit. This bine rust is fatal to the yield of the plant, the production, however promising, being utterly destroyed. An extra supply of wood ashes, a superabundance of marsh jrass used as a fertilizer, and too arge an application of cotton seed used as manure, will produce this blue rust. So the free application of use substances will prevent or mitigate red rust. “We have known lands that got up a magnificent growth of the cot ton plant, bearing most abundantly, which wonid habitually have more than half of promise of crop cut off by red rust. “It so happened that in the gale of 1854 these lands, lying fallow, were submerged on the'margin of sea wa ter, which rose in the arm of the sea contiguous to the field. The next year this field was planted. The marginal line of the overflowing sea water was tortuous, according to the pitch of the land. The plant below this line escaped all appearance of rust, and produced magnificently, whilst that portion of the field above the overflow ot sea water rusted, to some considerable loss.- “There is still another class of lands that, in the early periods of cotton planting, were never known to rust, which new habitually put ou ‘red rust.’ This is particularly the case iu the middle lands of Georgia and South Carolina, which have been planted over for many years consecu tively. This, evidently, is for the want ofhumus. “The suggestion of ‘taming under the stubble weed and other debris of last year’s crop’ is certainly a good one, and in the line of practical im provement, it will pay for the cost of doing it. In the long run, we believe it will more than pay. To measure somewhat the amount of mould or rotted vegetable matter which would thus annually be returned to tho soil, It would be well to see what propor tion the woody fibre and leaves of the cotton plants bear to the seed and lint annually gathered. Every acre of laud producing 200 pounds of lint gives a yield of 700 pounds of seed. We are inclined to think the stalks and leaves would weigh not less than five times as much as this seed, or some 3,500 pounds. “The question arises, why is it that in some seasons there is so large an amount of rust or blight and in oth ers almost an immunity is enjoyed.— This I* accounted for by the large dependence of the plaht on atmos pheric nourishment, ami lienee, al though tho atmosphere furnishes a large supply oi nitrogen normally, when it Is In an nlmurnnl or negative condition It may lie poor in this very important element, and unless the soil be rich in the nitrogenous ele ments tho roots cannot supply tho place of the leafy absorbents in fnr- nlthiug the deficit in the atmospheric supply; or, if the leaves be burnt or shrivelled by drought so as not to perform their normal functions as at mospheric feeders, the same demand on root feeders must take place; and, if the soil has lost its supply of hn- mus, and henco nitrogen-gathering property, the paucity of nitrogenous supply overtakes the plant and dis- b sets in.” To be Completed.—The Now Or leans Democrat announces that Mr. Jay Gould and other wealthy capi talists have signed a coutract for tho construction of the New Orleans Pa- eifle railroad, which is to be complet ed by January J, 1882. The con struction of this road will, It is claim ed, make New Orleans the great Southern terminus of the Texas-Pa cific railway, and wilt opon up to New Orleans a rich and populous region now tributary to St. Louir. The new road will run from New Orleans to Marshall, Texas, via Alex andria, Louisiana. Mr. Grady Denies It.—The At lanta Constitution says: Wo are in formed that ot a pnblic meeting in Bainbridge last Saturday a telegram purporting to be from one of the edi tors of the Constitution was read in which the reliability of Mr. E. T. Paine was vouched -for, and that the charges made by him against Gov ernor Colquitt would stick. If such a telegram was read it was calculated to mislead tho poopie. No such tele gram was sent by any editor of the Constitution. The Soldier Statesman. Charleston News and Courier.] “General-IIancock fought gallantly during tlie war, and both knew wha't tho war was for, and knew when the war was ended.” These words from Gen. George B. UcLcllan’s recent letter are worth quotation and re- inembcrancc, and account for the en thusiasm with which the democratic nominee is supported by the. major ity of the people of the Uunitcd States, north and south. When a man hands an editor a newspaper clipping and says, “Isn’t that awful funny?” ana, after read ing it, the inkslinger returns it to him with the remark, “I don’t think so,” the man glares at him savagely, stuffs the article in his pocket and goes off growling something about a fellow who can’t appreciate a joke, anyhow. The funniest part of the affair, bowuver, is the fact that the item was written by the editor him self, some years ago, and he is so ashamed of the stuff; that he didn't have the cheek to smile at the deform ity.—Hackensack Republican. The Crooked Tree. “Such a cross old woman as Mrs. Barnes Is! 1 never would send her jelly or anything else,” said Molly Clapp, set ting her basket hard on the table. “She never even said,‘thank you,’bnt. ‘Set the cup on the tabie, child, and don’t knock over the bottles. Why don’t your mother come herself instead of Sending you? I’ll be dead one of these days, and then she’ll wish she had been a little more neighborly.’ I; never want to go there again, and I shouldn’t think you would. “Molly 1 Molly! come quick and see Mr. Daws straighten the old. cherry- tree !” called Tom through the window; and pld Mrs. Barnes was forgotten as Molly flew out over the green to the next yard. Her mother watched with a good deal of interest the efforts of two stout men as, with ropes, they strove to pull the crooked tree this way and that, but it was of no use. “It’s as crooked as the letter S and has been for twenty years. Your’e just twen ty years too late, Mr. Daws,” said Joe, as he dropped the ropes and wiped the sweat from his face. Are you sure you haven’t begun twenty years too late on tobacco and rum, Joe?’’asked Mr. Daws. “That’s a true word, master, and it’s as bard to break off with them as to make the old tree straight. But I sign ed the pledge last night, and with Clod’s help I mean to keep It.” •With God’s help you may hope to keep It Joe,” responded the master. “Our religion gives every man a chance to re form. No one need despair so long os we have such promses of grace to help.” “That’s my comfort, sir,” said the man humbly,” but I shall tell the boys to try and not grow crooked at the begining. “Mother,” said Molly, as she stood by the window again at her mother’s side, 'I know w-hat is the matter with old Mrs. Barnes. She needn’t try to be pleas ant and kind now, for she’s like the old tree; It’s twenty years too late.” “It’s never too late, with God’s help to try to do better, but my little girl must begjn now to keep back harsh words and unkind thoughts; then she will never have to say, as Joe said about the tree, It’s is twenty years too late.—Childs’s World. Among all 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 dally with that justly popular den- trifrice, fragrant SOZODONT. It puri fies and sweetens the breath, cools and refreshes the mouth, and gives a pearl- like 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 When a man Is young he spends much of his time In parting his lialr in the mid dle; he is old and bald be wastes much more time In trying to make the ends of his sparse locks meet upon the top of his polished crown above. Old Jerry Turns Preacher. Services were first held in Calico Church last Sunday night. It, had been announced that a new preacher would address the congregation, and that a new method of presenting gos pel facts would 'be adopted. The colored-people wore very anxious to hear the now preacher. A new way of presenting the gospel excited curi osity. Sunday night the house was well filled. The preacher was rather late. Finally he came. All eyeB were turned toward him. He was Jerry, the ex-politician. Ascending the pulpit, the old man wiped the perspiration from his brow and said, “Let us pray.” The congregation bowed over, and the old man raised his hands and exclaimed: “Lord, de agent obull light, an’ de destroyer of ull darkness, hab massy on de sinnara oh de lan’. Take de lie outen de moufs ob de politicians, an’ 'hab ever servent ter discharge his sponsible duties. Amen.” The preacher wiped his face again, and after regarding bis congregation for a few seconds said: “>Ve r ll omit da singiu’. Dar hab been too much siugin’ an’ too lit tle action in dis worl’. De cricket sings au’ de bee labers. De cricket dies when winter comes, but de bee had luid up de sweet meets ob 'pen- tence. Afore I enters inter de tex’ it may not he outen place to tell ycr my spcrience. I kin do it liter few words. I foun’ dat I was on de wrong road, and dat a man ob my ’fluence could do much good ; I quit politicks, took out a license an’ am now n preacher. Now fur de tex’. ‘He dal libs by the sword shall perish by the sword.’ De nagotns ob dis ant, he what libes by de ballot box must perish by de bal lot box. De salvation ob a man’s 8ool is wuth mor’n all lie kin git, but de garden obligion babgrowed up iu de weeds. I ’poses to make a reform. Garfield was a preacher an’ den turn ed politician. I was a politician an’ den turned preacher. I leaves de path ob de wicked an’ goes ter de righteous, but he leaves de righteous and goes ter de wicked. Do bible says fur ter preach de gospel toebery livin’ creacher.. "What’s de nsen preaching ter de crcecher if de creecli- er wont hear? None. De bible means dat yer shall make ’em to hark- en. I sees a good many old tuffs in dis bouse an’ I wants ’em ter come up ter de mourners bench right now. Da’s got ter come. De Lord doan say I wish you would do' anything, but says yon’s got to do it Firmness is religion. De rock ob agers is made outen flint. Mr. Johnson,” said the preacher, addressing a sinner, “come up an’ put yer head on dis bench, I’se played kyards wid yer, but you’se got ter reform. Come on I tells yer; is yer comiu’ ?” “No I isn’t,’’ said my Johnson. “Den I’ll fetch yer. You’se been slandin’ off de preacher long’nough.” The preacher left the pulpit, ad vanced to where Mr. Johnson was standing and caught him by the col lar. “Turn me loose?.I doan want ter hab no truck wid you man ?” “Come up heah ter dis bench, or I’ll drag ycr dar. De gospel is rous ed. De time ob salvation is at han’.” “Turn me loose, I tells yer. I’se a bad man and toats matches in my hat” ‘Yas, an’ ye’ll toat sulphur in de hem ob yer garment Come on or I’ll jerk the stuffen outen you.” The two men begau struggling, and the wildest confusion prevailed. “Sing the ole tag boat of Zion,” said the preacher, and the congregation obeyed. Finally Mr. Johnston was dragged to the bench. He was warn ed not to lift up his head, and as a deacon was stationed over him with a club, he did not look up. “Go out an’ ’pel ’em to come in,” said the preacher. “De feast ob de Lord must he ’tended.” “Boy,” exclaimed the preacher, “put your head on de board of ’pentauce. Go on, ur yer’ll be lame fur a week. Git down dar, ole man t Young ooman, pnt yer head down dar I When de Moody and Sankura business fails, yer’s got to use de im proved plan. Doan let dat man out,” exclaimed the preacher as a large in dividual made a break for the door. “Hole him. Now, yer raskit, would yer run from de lam ? When do lam’ wont fetch ’em yer tnus’ use de ram. Da switched de lam’s tall at Jerico an’do walls stood still, but when da S ushed wind through de rani’s horn a tumbled. Oh, yer doesn’t wantcr come, does yer? Deacon, hit dis man.” lie sprang forward and was on the eve of Draining the sinner when he announced his willingness to go. Some fifteen or twenty were thus tak en up and frightened by so deter mined an example, the other sinners meekly obeyed. Within an hour from the time preaching began, sevoniy mourners were at the bench. Ola Jerry stood in tlie midst, exholting: “Dar’s a bright star shinin’ in de east —put yer head down dar,” ho said, as a boy lobked up as though hunting for the star. “De gospel car is rollin’. Sinners is cornin’ ter pentence.” A refractory mourner jumped up and attempted to run, but was promptly knocked down by one of the deacons. Tho meeting lasted until nearly day light, and the preacher left highly satisfied with the result It is said that other preachers are going to adopt this method, and that a sweep ing religious campaign will soon be instituted. J. W, SHEFFIELD, Americas, Ga. W. S. BELL, Albany, Ga SHEFFIELD & BELL DEALERS IN ALL KINDS OF 1AWW1B1 i WE HAy& NOW IN STOCK (bought bslbre any advance,) HOEN! HOES! UMin toadies. We desire to call your special attention to our . Improved Sweeps THE i my wire was confine, toller bed with sneh a complication of ailments that no doctor could tell what was the matter or cure her, and I up a small fortune in humbug stuff. Six months ngo I saw nU. S. flag with Hop Bitters on it but, and I thought 1 would be a fool once more. I tried it, There are moro than two hundred plants in one of the school-houses in Springfield, STILL THE BEST l If yon want to repair that old baggy or wagon, come and see us and we will fit you up with uew material. If the flies trouble you, come and buy one of our FLY FANS or FLY TRAPS. We 'keep the Largest Stock in the City! Therefore we CAN and WILL sell goods cheap fot Cash. Come and see us whether you want to buy or not. SHEFFIELD & BNT.t, Next Door te Gilbert’s Drug Store, Albany, Ga. Imported and Domestic FRUIT8, CAND1E8, CIGARS. FA ®f D T0BACC08, GR0CERIE8. FISR0YSTERS, &c WA8HINaTON t 8ra^ET?°ALBANY. aA 0. J. FARRINGTON, MERCHANT TAILOR, to his friends and former patrons that he has opened a ffiercliant Tailoring Establishment In Willingham* Bulldlnsr. up stain. Will cut and make Goete, Panto and Veato In finUclan style and as cheap as any house In t he State. I keep always on hind a full line of Cloths. Gome 8pring8u,u o. jTfarkington. HEADQUARTERS for GREEK ti DRIED FRUITS. ATLANTA, GA. HUFF & BROWN, Prop’s. Circular No. 8. Office of THE BAILBOAD COMMISSION, First-Class to Eraf Parttoilar. WHEN YOU GO TO ATLANTA STOP AT THE MARKS AM.

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The Albany news. (Albany, Ga.) 186?-1880, July 27, 1880, Image 1