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Newspaper Page TextTHE ALBANY NEWS. OLD SERIES—Vol. 37.} ALBANY, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, JULY 31. 1880. ^ NEW SERIES-Yol. 14, No. 44. THAT 1 AX STILL ■BAHVi For tho Splendid Light-running WHITBWG MACHINE In 7 dlftront »* JleA at prices Cram I3S to MS Heauaber, sleo, ttafl cany * splendid suck of General Merchandise, Fine Liquors, Tobaccos, Cigars, eta V«y , *^ t ^ U, g TKpIIKNS LAWYERS Z. J. ODOM, ATTORNEY AT LAW, ALBANY, OA. CMJectloa^buzew’small, especially. Will »t- aawd promptly lo all bortoem eatrurt rd lo hi. care. JESSE 77. WALTERS. V. T. JOSES, JONES * WALTERS, attorneys at Law, ALBANY, OA. Lott Watren, ATTORNEY AT LAW :aleast. ga. DOCTORS- Drs. Holmes & DeMos, sehtzsts, Ullin, - - • l Office. THsMngton m.y 2, lS79*ly W. A. STROTHER, H. D. ALBANY, GEORGIA. Qfice over (filters Drg Store. ^jLUijetan Itfl at Ihe Drug Store will receiu>pr<nup< Dr. B.W. ALFBIEND, R HPECTFULLY tender, hi. aerrlees,Mn rUoabnnrhm.1 hU profemlon, (other yaadurroandlngeoaslry. ■aaa.aanae.reet. HOTELS The Old Reliable BARNES HOUSE, Flae SI., llfcaaj, 6a., In Iba ana aM acbcdule «f food aerei and hearty welcome lo all. THE JOHNSON HOUSE, SMITH WUJS, OA. I, the place to clop and get a GOOD, SQUABE MEAL. Planters’ Ml, market square, Sates $1.50 to $3%0 per day, according - ' —t of JOSEPH HEBSGHBAGH, April 29,1880—ly. PROPRIETOR J. W. JOINER, WATCHMAKER and JEWELER Will Planters Hold Their „ Cotton ? A notlcable feature of onr contract market last year, says the Near York Cotton, was the large sales of futures by planters who were covered by their own crops. There hare been very few such tales this year, farm ers being dissatisfied with the ruling rates for new crop contracts, and be ing abundantly able to hold their cot ton, in consequence of the high price obtained last' year. A New York broker who has recently returned from Arkansas, says that in that State, at least, new cotton will come in slowly, and that, if present prices continue, an unusually large propor tion of the cotton will be held by the farmers until spring. This broker thinks that, even in Arkansas, cotton cannot bo raised for leas than cts. a pound. A detachment of Mexican troops num bering four hundred, is following the In dian chief Victoria and his band of mur derers, while General Grierson, with a force of United States cavalry, is moving to head the Indians off. The army offi cers and War Department arc confident Out this marauding band of Indians will be canght this time; but Victoria is a bard one to catch. He seems to out ma noeuvre both the United States and Mex ican officers every time. Tlio Democrats in Congress have re- dcued expenditures at least 1150,000,000 within the last five years, anti the Re publicans appropriote this reduction, and urge it as a reason for the election of Garfield.. On Friday, dnring a rainstorm at West Point, Ga., Mr. Willie Carpen ter was struck and instantly killed by lightning. .He was attending a spinning frame in the Alabama and Georgia mills at the time of his death. Senator Thurman urges upon ev ery democrat in Ohio the necessity and importance of earnest, work.— He is very much encouraged at the political prospects ot the state. Wins A Change.—An Ohio man has been occupying, though fraud and force, the executive chair .for the last four years. An Ohio man is at the head .of the treasury. An Ohio man is at the head of the army. And now another Ohio man is seeking the presidency. It is now about time for Ohio to take a back scat. Either more the capital into Ohio and“Iet them run is exclusively, or recognize the existence of thirty seven other states by a distribution of the offices. —Wheeling (W. Va.) Register. "Not one American woman in twenty-five can walk five miles,” says an English physician. Sec here, Doc., you just show an American woman a street five miles Jong, with bonuet stores every ten rods, and see if she can’t walk the whole distance.—Bos ton Post. Unity and Hakxont.—One of the republican papers informs the public that the democratic factions in this city are fighting worse than ever.— This will be news to the democrats, who are really more united than they have been for years, and are coming together as fast as could be reasona bly expected. It is too bad that a lively democratic quarrel cannot be got up for the benefit of their dispir ited opponents. —New York Express. Some Recent Points in Eti quette. LOCATED AT yf. H. Gilbert, Ag’t, & Co., BROAD STREET. Sajr “Good-bye,” pot “Good morn- Upon leaving a roomjone bow should include all. Never wait over fifteen minutes for a tardy guest. Upon introduction, enter at once into conversation. A note requires as prompt an an swer as a spoken qncstion. “Genteel and gentility arc words tabooed in good society. Regrets In reply to invitations should contain a reason therefor. Strangers arriving should notify friends by card or by their presence. At the table you are not required to thank the one who waits on you. You should exchange calls with in dividuals before inviting them to your house. Only letters to unmarried ladies and widows addressed with their baptismal name. The custom of leaving a blank mar gin on the left hand side of each page of a letter is obsolete. To return a personal call with cards enclosed in an envelope signi fies that visiting between the persons is ended. Unless their is a great difference in age, a lady visiting should not rise cither on arrival or departure of other ladies. Married or Single. If we may believe our Paris contempo rary, U Globe, tlie married state is one which every limn and woman should de voutly pray for. Not only is life pro longed, but society is benofitted to a de gree that few have conception of. Ac cording to the statistics given, wbich arc said tone gathered from other countries beside France, marriage would appear to be the best assurance against death, sick ness, crime and suicide. It seems that the life of a single man at twenty-live is no better than that of a married man of forty-five, and a widower of from twenty five to thirty is not Ukely to live longer than a married man of from fifty-five to sixty. In fact, celibacy ages a man by at least twenty years, and the state ora widower is still more deplorable. Single women and widows are, it appears, similarly at a disadvantage, except in the ease of an early marriage, which Le Globe states is a fruitful cause of death in women when it Is contracted before the age of twenty- five. Widowers, according to these sta tistics are much more likely to be short lived than widows; in faet, below the age of twenty-five the cliances of death are three or four times that of a married man. This danger, however, diminishes alter the age of from forty-five to fifty.— Widows, also are, as a sole, much short er-lived than married women up to forty. With regard to crime, taking 150 crimi nals, the proportion of single to married is about two to one. In a population which furnishes 100 male married criminals, there arc 170 single men, and in one with 100 females the unmarried of the same sex reach the high figure of 240. The number of sui cides among single persons, including widows and widowers, is also out of aU proportion to that of married men and women, the relative rate being five to one. The same set of figures points to single life as most prejudicial to health. Consumption is a disease which cfl'cct single persons much more tlian those who arc married. M. Janusseus, of Brussels, has given his opinion that it is twice as fatal hi the case of widows and widows than it is with the married peo ple, and it is far more deadly with single persons from the age of twenty-five to forty. Le Globe sums up in view of all these facts that a married life is the most to be desired, and appeals to its countrymen to follow the example of other nations and not put off tlie happy state too long. The marriage de convenauce is too deep seat ed an institution in France for the con siderations set forth in our contemporary to have much weight, and we fear that however correct the statistics given may be, that few readers of the Paris paper will be induced to change their baelielor life and become good citizens and happy peres de familie. The Lovely Ladies. FACTS AND FANCIES ABOUT THEM— CHINESE WOMEN—HOW SMALL FEET ARE SECURED. Mr. Charles Stevens, a clerk of Hon J. C. Colby. 'American Consul in China, speaks as follows to an Interviewer in the Columbus (Ohio) dispatch: The highest ambition indulged in by a Chinese woman is to have her name put upon public record as having passed through forty years’ of widowhood. There are in certain places tablets of en during stone, upon which are inscribed she names of those women who have been widows for forty years, and lived during that time above suspicion. But few am bitious hopes of this character are real ized, however, as the scarcity of names on the tablets fully proves. THE WOMEN’S FEET Are smaller than many people would suppose. They are generally from three to three and a half Inches long, though they are often compressed to two and a half inches. The process of stunting commences early in childhood, and is cruel and painful in the extreme. The feet are broken just back of tlie root of the toes, which are then doubled under the foot so as to force their growth into the flesh. They are then incased in an unyielding steel appliance, which effect ually suppresses their growing tendencies. The more aristocratic the child the great er the effort to produce exceptionally small feet. When tlie rest of tlie body has sustained full size the woman is com paratively helpless on her feet, and can only walk with the assistance of a ser vant on either side. The lower class I jeiierally enjoy the luxury of natural eet, though they aspire to have one daughter in the family with feet aristo cratically diminutive. AND JEWELRY! ' stock complete! Repairing a Specialty ! nhfMMMUMvn. An American girl who marries an Italian Marquis gets on very well until His Serene Highness begins to spend all her money and talk of “her father ze shopkeepaire." Then she fires up and gives him a-little Fourth of July. The little girl who was disappoint ed because her name could not be found in the Bible says: “Never mind. I will besuch a good girl that, if ever another Bible is written, my name shall go into it,” Cotton Factories. Patron of Hubandrjr.] We can never secure independence until the day arrives when there will be a cotton factory in every neighborhood, to manufacture the raw material into cloth before it is baled. The cotton is grown in the Southern States, shipped a thousand miles north or three thousand miles across the ocean, converted into cloth and then shipped back past the Southern ports from which it came to East India, South America, and even to our own people. This is obviously an unnatural state of tilings. All that is needed to change it is a national commer cial Bystem and an intelligcngcnt spirit ofenterprise in the Southern States. If the Southern people have the wisdom to pursue the right policy in this matter the day is not far distant when they will have the satsffactlon of seeing British cotton machinery and tlie machinery of all the Eastern, Northern and western States, and all tlie skilled labor required to oiierato them, transferred to the towns, cities, and even the cotton Holds of the South. This would inaugurate a new industry in the South, and an increase ot population and wealth such as the South has never known. But our people must d. something more than boast and prate about their advantages and the future prosperity that awaits them. The cry of a want of capital Is a poor excuse, for more money is sent from each neigbor- hood annually to purchase the manufac tured cotton goods, to buy wagons, farming implements, flour, nay, corn, mules and bacon, than would be necessa ry fora more enterprising people to start and run a manufacturing establish ments. The South is capable of becom ing the most prosperous country on the civilized globe, blit our people content themselves by simply congratulating themselves on what they could do if they were an enterprising people. Thirty Thousand Knights. THE GRAND TRIENNIAL CONCLAVE' IN AUGUST—A I'AUADKWV UNPRE CEDENTED MAGNIFICENCE. A recent issue of a Chicago journal says: Among the occasions which wilt excite anil interest tlie citizens of Clil- n o, and draw crowds of visitors to uring the coming year, tlie most magnificent in point of numbers of people attending it, and in gurgeous- nc88 of display, will bo the Grand Encampment of Knights Templar.— Tlie official name of this meeting is “The Triennial Conclave of the Urand Encampment of Knights Templar of tho United States.” This is the su- iremo legislative body of tlie Sir f nights in tlie country, and is com posed of the present Grand Com mander, the Very Eminent Deputy Graud Commander, tlie Grand Gen eralissimos, and Grand Captain Gen erals of the several Grand Coiniiiaml- cries ill the different Slates, Territo ries and 1’roviifCes under tlie Masonic supervision of the Encampment, ami all Past Right Eminent Grand Com manders and Past Grand Officers of tlie Grand Encampment. This body of men, numbering about GOO, will meet upon the level in their official legislative capacity, ou Monday, Au gust 16th, and continue their session through the entire week, parting upon the square on the following Sat urday. The piesent Most Eminent Grand Master, who will preside over the deliberations of the Encampment, is Dr. Vincent L. llurll.nl, of this city. This Conclave, while it is of great importance to the Masonic fraterni ty, would not in itself interest the icople of the country generally. But ts great significance to. Chicago arises from the great numbers of Sir Knights, not members of tho Grand Encampment, who will attend in their representative capacity. They will come as an escort to accompany the Encampment on its passage to tlie “asylum,” which will be a cruciform building soon to be erected on the lake front. It is the presence of this body that will make tlie occasion one of so much importance to Chicago. For the last year the committees in Chicago have been at work sending out iuvitations to different Comtuand- eries of the United States and mak ing arrangements for their entertain ment. The way iu which there invi tations were answered early showed that a great crowd will bo here.— While the number that have made application for entertainment have not yet been footed np, an approxi mate estimate shows that not fur from 30,000 Sir Knights from different parts of the country and of the world, will be present to participate in the parade. There, the application shows, are many of them intending to bring their wives. Nor will these elements compose the whole crowd that Chi cago will have to accommodate at that time. These 30,000 Templars will form Ihe most cosmopolitan body that has ever visited this city. Every State of the Union will be represented by from 150 to 200 members. There will ifiso be representatives from tho Com- inanderies and priories of Canada, Great Britain and .other European conntdes, and from the Sandwich Is lands, Mexico, and, indeed, from al most every civilized and half-civiliz ed country in the world where this organization has a Commandery. The ranks of Tcinpiary are com posed largely of prominent men in all professions and avocations of life, so that this convocation will not be composed of one class of men, like the National Convention, which pro ceeds it, but of men who have achiev ed proniinonco in business, letters, politics, the law, the pulpit and every other honorable walk of life. A parade which occurs on Tuesday of encampment week will be n gor geous display. The committee who irvo it in charge assert that it will eclipse any civic display that has ever been seen in the United States. The parade at the last Grand Encamp ment, held in Cleveland in 1877, was considered a very grand affair, but only 6,858 Templars, representing seventy-six Commandcrics, took part in it. Not less than 30,000 finely drill ed men, representing 200 Command- eries, will march in the Chicago de monstration. There have been nu merous processions in Chicago, com posed of ail manner of heterogenous elements, large ^advertisements of different local industries, bat none anything like the orderly arrange ment and uniformity of discipline that will characterize this one. It is no easy matter to move a column of 30,000, but nrrangcuicnts have been in process of perfecting,and arc near ly complete, that wilt certainly in- suro success. The line of march will he five and onc-third miles long. Tlie men on foot will march twenty-four front, two files deep, with only twenty-five feet between ranks, to shorten tlie programme of which has already boon published in tlie Times. They have engaged Central Music Hal), Farewell Ilall, McCormick Hall, and the Exposition Building, for the four days. They will also treat. the visi tors to free seats in all the principal theatres. Boat excursions wil be given on Tuesday evening iu the Ex position building. Since the pro- g ramme was printed a new prize has sen added to the list, for which the Cominandaries will complete on Wednesday at the Jockey Club Park. It is open to Comninndaries entering tinder the name of the Grand Com- inaudcrics from which they hall. This sketch of thi conclave will serve to show that the occasion will not lie uu'worthy of the crowd gath ered to honor it. Sympathetic Women. “Sympathy,” says Adam Smith in his “Theory of Moral Sentiments,” though its meaning was perhaps or iginally the same as pity or compari son, is a word llmt may now, without much impropriety, be made use of to denote our fellow-feeling with ally passion, whatever,” This definition of a word round which clusters their most precious associations of the hu man heart applies to much shifting sentiment that passes for sympathy nnw-a-days, when the highly wrought nervous system is in the ascendant— A vivid fancy, an.tl excitable disposi tion ; a quick susceptibility to imme diate influences, arc essentially con- stiiients ot the sympathetic tempera ment. Women are pre-eminently gifted with that rapid iinpressioua- bility that puts them en rapport with their surroundings. In it lies much of their power and their charm.— Many thus endowed, however, lack the sustained force that gives cohe sion to character. Tlie influences withdrawn that called forth the emo tion, the purpose born with it begins to flag. These impulsive sympathis ers rejoice with the happy and mourn with the sad; they give you smile for smile and tear for tear; but tlie mo ment you leave them they forget you and the object of your ioy or of your pain is ns uotliiiig to them. For the time being they are entirely sincere; hypocrisy or uffeclatioii has not en tered into the tokens of feeling they have shown ; t’iey have simply been impelled by the impression of tlie moment. This kind of sympathy an swers better to the definition of the modern philosopher than that which inspired the injunction of the wise man, “Sorrow is better than laugh ter, for by tlie sadness of the couuten ance tlie heart is made better.” Successful Tea Raising in Georgia. A Washington dispatch says: “The officials of the Agricultural Bureau are very much gratified at the pro gress in tea raising in the South. A Mr. Jackson, who has over thirty-five thousand tea plants on his farm near Savannah, Ga., recently sent to the Commissioner of Agriculturo a tin box containing several samples of the tea raised on his farm. The Com missioner subsequently took the sam ples to New York and went incogni to to one of the largest tea establish ments there, representing that he had some tea to sell. An expert wns called in to examine the tea, and he pro nounced it India tea, worth fifty cents per pound. Commissioner Le- I)uc then had difficulty in convincing the expert that the tea was grown in this country and could be produced for onc-third tlie price named. Tlie tea is represented as being very pala table ami difficult to distinguish from the imported article. Provision hav ing been made by Congress for the cstablislimant of a tea farm, arrange ments are now making at the Agri cultural Bureau looking to the selec tion of a place in South Carolina for the experiment. There arc constant applications to tlie bureau for lea plants, and it is expected that in a short time hundreds of thousands of plants will bo growing in this coun try. Tlie Commissioner thinks that it is only a question of a short time when capitalists will bogin to see the immense profits to he realized from tea raising, and in a few years he ex pects that the United States will be producing as much tea and sugar as may be needed for home consump tion.” procession, which else would he of unmanageable proportions. This line will include a countermarch in one place, iu order that each limn can sec the whole procession. Besides the footmen, several of tlie Command erics, amount to 800 men, will be mounted. At the timo of tlie “Grant boom” Inst fall, it wns thought an ex traordinary thing that there should be cigliten bauds of music in tlie pro cession. But the committees arc as sured that not less tlian 120 brass bands, the most perfect in America, numbering from twenty to seventy Accident to Rev. R. J.Uorley The Savannnah News says: Ou Satur day last a private telegram was received in tlie city from mount Airy, nnouncing that Rev. R. J. Corley, pastor of tlie Trinity Methodist Church, had meet with a very serious accident, having broken Ids leg by a fall. No particulars were given beyond .the mere accident, but yes terday a letter wns recieved by a prom inent member of the church from a so journer at Mount Airy, which states that Rev. Mr. Corley was jostled from the cars just as lie was about alighting, by a man considerably under the influence of liquor, and, falling heavily to the ground, broke Ids ice 'in two pla ces. Whether tlie sliovmg was accident al or Intentional, Is not stated. Mr. Cor ley telegraphed himself that lie was do ing well, but it is feared that he will be confined for some time, and that the ac cident will prove more serious tlian at first apprehended, but we trust these fears will prove unfounded. J. IV. SHEFFIELD, Americas, Go. DEAIJBR9 IN ALL KINDS OF WE HAVE NOW IN STOCK (bought btfoie any advance.) HOGS! HOES! Upata Upadles. I We desire to call your special attention to our Improved Sweeps* THE STILL THE BEST ! If yon want to repair that old buggy or wagon, come and see us aud we will fit you up with new 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 foi Cash. Come and sec us whether you want to buy or not SHEFFIELD & BELL, Next Door te Gilbert’s Drug Store, Albany, Ga. Btorae, Imported and Domestic FRUITS, GANDIE8, CIGARS. TOBAGGOS, GROCERIES. FISH, OYSTERS, &c Impure Breath. Among all the disagreeable conse quences that follow the decay of the teeth, aiLimpure breath must be tlie most mortifying and unpleasant to its possess or, and it is tlie most inexcusable and of fensive tn society; and yet tho cause of it pieces cacR, will furnish tho music j maybe easily removed by cleansing the for this groat demonstration, Tltose, ‘Mly wtth thatjustfy popular den- in brief, are tlie components of tlie j t rifr lcc, fragrant SOZODONT. It puri- escort which will accompany tho ,‘J ,e *Aj?*JZ* Grand Encampnentmcnt through the lik f e to the teeth* GcntfTmen y r. u 1 ■ . I who Indulge tn smoking should cleanse Tlie Chicago Commandnrics have : thcir teeth with SOZODONT, as It re- prepared a most elegaut entertain- I moves all unpleasant odors of the weed, ment for their visiting brethren the I Ask your druggist for It. July 8 0. J. FARRINGTON, MERCHANT TAILOR, Announces to hit friends and former patrons that be bas opened a Merchant TaOorins Establishment In Willingham,* Build inr, upstairs. Will cut and make Coat*, Pants and VosU In fint-claas style and a* cheap a* any house in the State. I keep aliraya on bind a full line of doth*. Come and examine my goods, and have your 8pring Suits made right away. Rrapectfully, O. J. FARRINGTON. mch25-tf ATLANTA, GA. HUFF & BROWN, Prop’s. HEADQUARTERS -FOR- GREEH AID DRIED FRUITS, First-Class in Every Partiaular. WHEN YOU GO TO ATLANTA STOP AT THE MARKHAM. GROCER AND IMPORTER, SAVANNAH, * Circular* No. 8. Office of THE RAILROAD COMMISSION, ATUorr., Gx, Juno 19.1KS0. U PON » foil .bowing ot two month’* burton, by tho Colombo. A Room Railroad, the allowance of SS per cent, an ‘-SI.ed.nl Betee,* le ceoUnaed m the maximum mine an to Cotton. Fertilizer, and Lumber; and on nil other eh— (t00) one hundred per cent, on the -Standard Rum* te allowed as a maximum. JAMES M. SMITH, Chairman. R. A. BACON, Secretary. JnaalfMt

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The Albany news. (Albany, Ga.) 186?-1880, July 31, 1880, Image 1