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OLD SERIES—VoL 37.1
ALBANY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 12. 1880.
{ NEW SERIES-Vol. 14, No. 49.
THAT I AM STILL
HEAHQITARTEKS
Far the Splendid Light-running
A ho, K«Ua of aU klofe, OIU,
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ATTORNEY AT LAW,
ALBANY, OA.
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JONES ft WALTERS,
Attorneys at Law,
ALBA9T. GA.
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ATTORNEY AT LAW,
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DOCTORS-
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a of good a
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,ta the place to stop and get a GOOD,
SQUARE MEAL.
MARKET SQUARE,
BAVAJnTAB, OA.
Rates $1.80 to $140 per day, according
to location of rooms.
^JOSEPH HEBSGHBACSH,
April *9,1880—ly. PROPRIETOR
J. W. JOINER,
WATCHMAKER and JEWELER
LOCATED AT
W. II. Gilbert, Ag’t, & Co.,
BROAD STREET.
t uxuuau,
AND JEWELRY!
STOCK comflctk!
Repairing a Specialty !
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Charles Dickens’ Religion.
Dickens preached—not in a church
nor from a pulpit, but a gospel
which the people understood, the
gospel of kindness, sympathy—in a
word,humanity. His creed maybe
found in the beautiful extracts on
the subject of death:
Even when golden hair lay in a
halo, on a piliow, round the worn
fkce of a little boy, ho said with a
radiant smile: "Dear papa and mam
ma, 1 am very sorry to lease my
pretty sister, but I am called and I
must go.” Thus the rustling of an
angel, wing got blended with the
other echoes and bad in them tho
breath of heasen.—(Tale of Two
Cities, book ii, chsp'cr 21.
. The dying boy made no answer,
lie shall soon be there. lie spoke of
beautiful gardens stretched out be
fore him, and which were filled with
figures of men, and many children,
all with light upon their faces; then
whispered that it was Eden, and so
died.—Nicholas NicKloby, chapter 58.
"It’s turned very dark, sir. Is
there any light a’coming? The cart
is shaken all to pieces, and the rug
ged rood is very near its end. I’m a
gropiu’—a gropin’—let me catch hold
of your baud. Hallowed be Thy
name.”
Dead! my lords and gentlemen.
Dead t men and women, born with
heavenly compassion in yonr hearts.
And, dying thus around ns every
day.—{Bleak House, chapter 47.
Ho slowly laid his face down upon
her bpsom, drew his arm close
around her neck, and with one part
ing sob began tho world. Ob, not
this! Tho world that sets this
right.—[Ibid., chapter 63.
"If this Is sleep, sit by me while
I sleep. Turn me to you, for yonr
face is going far off and 1 want to be
near.” And she died like & child
that bad gone to sleep.—[David
Coppcrficld, chapter 9.
“Don’t cry. Is my chair there, in
its old place?” • * That face, so
full of pity and grief that would ap
peal to me, that solemn hand up
raised toward fleaven! It is over.—
[Ibid., chapter 33.
One new mound’ was there, which
bad not been there last night. Time,
borrowing like a mole below the
ground, had marked liis track by
throwing up another heap of earth.—
[Martin Clmzzlewit, chapter 19.
She was dead. No sleep so beauti
ful and calm, so free from trace of
pain, so fair to look upon. She
seemed a creature fresh from the
hand of God and wailing fur the
breath of life; not one who had lived
and suffered death. She was past all
help, or need of it. We will not
wake her.[—Old Curiosity Shop,
chapter 71.
The band soon stopped in the
midst of them. The light that had
always been feeble and dim behind
the weak transparency went out—
[Hard Times, chapter 9.
For a moment the closed eyelids
tremblpd, and the faintest shadow or
smile was seen. Thus clinging to a
slight spar within her arms, the
mother drifted ont upon the dark
and unknown sea that rolls round all
the world.—[Dombey & Son, voi. 1,
chapter 1.
“It’s very near the sea; I hear the
waves ? The light about the head is
shining on me as 1 go!” The old,
old fashion that came in with our
garments, and will last unchanged
until our race has run its conrseand
the wide firmament is rolled up like
a scroll. Oh! thank God for that
older fashion yet of immortality! and
look upon ns, angels of young chil
dren, when the swift river bears us
to the ocean.—[Ibid., chap. 17.
In this round world of many cir
cles within circles do we make a
weary journey from the high grade
to the low to find at last that they lie
close together, that the two extremes
touch, and that our journey's end is
hut onrstartiug place.—[Ibid., chap.
34.
A cricket sings upon the heavth, a
broken cliild’,8 toy lies upon the
ground, and nothing else remains.—
Cricket! on the Hearth, chap. 3.
“I am going to Heaven; the sunset
is very near!” and the child who
went to Heaven rose in tho golden
air and vanished.—[The Child’s
Story.
Care of the Eyes.
1. Rest the eyes for a few minntes
when the sight becomes in the least
painful, blurred or indistinct.
2. Have sufficient light; never sit
facing it; let it come from behind or
from one side. The writer considers
too much light as bad as too little.
He strongly recommends a moderate
light, so that surrounding objects
may not be too mncU illuminated,
and the wearing of a black shade, so
large that front and side light may
may not enter the eyes. With this
protection the light may he safely in
front—if reading, it is better that it
be to one side.
3. Never read in horse or steam
cars. •
4. Never read when lying down,
5. Do not read much during con
valescence from illness.
6. The general health should be
maintained by a good diet, air, exer
cise, amusement and a proper re
striction of tho hours of hnru work.
7. Take plenty of sleep. Retire
early and avoid the painful evening
lights. Ten hours sleep for delicate
eyes is better than eight.—Christian
at Work.
ma . » —- — -
Ho good Preaching.
No man can do a good job of work,
prrarli a good sermon, try a law suit
well, doctor a patient, or write a'gissl arti
cle wlieii Ik: feels miserable anil dull,
with sluggish brain and unsteady nerves,
and none should make the attempt in
such a condition when It can Is: so easily
and cheaply removed by a little Hop Hit
ters. See other column.—Albany Times.
A Pair of Heroines.
HOW TWO PLUCKY GIRLS CHASTISED
TWO TRAMPS.
Mary A. Wolf Is a tidy appearing
delicate girl of twenty, living with
her parents in the littlo town of
Wakefield, N. Y. On Thursday, at
noon, she started to visit a sister in
Kingtbridge. She was passing a
clutter of trees at a lonely spot on
Boston avenue when suddenly a mau
leaped in frol of her from behind a
tree. He was shabbily dressed and
bore every sign of being a tramp.
He inquired where sho was golug,
and as she started to pass on, he
threw his arms round her neck and
tripped her, and flung her violently
to the grouud. Miss Wolf struggled
to rise, bat the man held her firmly
by the throat. Seeing a sharp stone
within grasping distance, Miss Wolf,
by struggling, contrived to get it,
and dealt her assailant two heavy
blows wilh the sharp edge of the
stone. The blood gushed from two
scalp wounds, and the tramp, be
wildered and stunned, remained
motionless until Miss Wolf made her
escape and screamed for assistance.
Farm hands in a neighboring field
soon came, but the tramp by this
time had recovered and made his es
cape in the woods. Yesterday Po
liceman Keefe arrested a man who
was cr&ucliing, in a hedge on the
Kingsbridgc road. He had a scalp
wound on his head, and at the station
Miss Wolf identified him. He gave
his name as James Clifford. Justice
Bixby held him for trial.
At 8 o’clock Friday evening Miss
Wetehiess, who lives near Belleville,
N. J., as she was silting in the.parlnr,
was accosted by a tramp, and who
demanded money. She refused to
give him money, when he threatened
to strike her. She immediately
grappled with the fellow, tlircw hint
to the floor, and then rolled hint out
of the window. He fell to tho yard
below, a distance of ten feet, break
ing his arm in two places.
Mother Shi pton’s Prophecies.
The New York Journal of Com
merce gives the following tree ac
count of the humbug known
“Mother Sldplon
Mother Shipton was a veritable
character, who lived more than three
hundred years ago, and uttered n
number of so-called prophecies.
They , wore, for the most port, a
vague, unmeaning jntnble of seeming
predictions applicable to no spe
cial event, and without point or gen
era! interest.
In 1641, a pamphlet .containing a
medley of this sort, chiefly in halting
verse, was printed in London, and
her “Life and Curious Prophecies”
were given to the public in 1677.
In 1862, Mr. Charles Ilindley, of
Brighton, England, issued what pur
ported to be an exact reprint of “A
Chap-book Version of Mother Ship-
ton’s prophecies, from the Edition of
liifi ” Tia tliSu fm* tins fifut ISI tin
Debt.
Columbus Enquirer.]
It is the worst tyrant that ever
crushed viAim to earth. It destroys
all hope. Those who have enormous
obligations may be able to stand the
pressure and save something on
which to recreate splendor, but to the
poor man it is the bitterest curse
with which one can be afflicted. An
honorable man dislikes the sense ot
obligation. He who owes and has
not with which to pay, feels that he
is in some sense in the power of tho
creditor. He i9 ever apprehensive
of a dun. The thoughtis harrowing,
that no matter where he.may go, that
everlasting paper is shoved in his
face, and the settling of that little bill
becomes a torture. Whenever in
irescnce the eyes of tne creditor
ooks enquiry and wonders when the
money will conte. They measure ev
ery pleasure, and connt with every
cigar how much less it would he,
were the cost of that smoke devoted
to the liquidation of that small ac
count The tiny ones are magnifi
cent to hint who is poor but “incor
ruptible.”
The “pot it down to me,” is the ea
sel road to ruin. It costs nothing
to sav it In a little while the “puts”
are presented in the shape of a good
ly amount, and the promises of the
morrow come into play, and one be
gins to deliberately faisyfy tho situa
tion. Affairs becoming worse induce
to other vices that tend to degrada
tion. How differently would feel
ings and hopes be, if one were to re
solve to buy nothing for which lie
could not settle on the moment, lie
would, perhaps deny himself ficti
tious pleasures, but he is cultivating
better habits, and has never the sen
sation of a slave.
Jonh Billings’ Philosophy.
Cunning is a very cheap cdislinn ov
wisdum; it develops among the ani
mals, and I have even seen idiots who
had it.
A young sloven ends hi being a
filthy old man.
However mizerly a woman may be
she seldom shows it in her bonnet.
It allwuss bothers the devil to kno
on which side to attack a bizzy man.
We see in others the virtues and
vices we hnve got oureels, but we see
the vices the plainest.
There are but few things judged
by their merits, but rather by the way
they affect our opinions or interests.
The men who have the strongest
interlccts have tho weakest memories
they trust more to invention titan
memory.
Where there isonc man who knows
how to do a thing and docs it, there
arc three who arc satisfied by telling
how it oughtto be done.
The tttpov the ladder isaticklish
spot, yer are liable to fall enny time,
and can’t pick out the spot you are a
going to strike.
Mcnny a man who has made a fust
rate konstablc baz spilt liiz milk bi
being made a Deputy Sheriff.
The man who lmz no luv of ap
plause is either an angel or an idiot,
probably the latter.
The grate ov mankind llv just as the
birds do, from hand'to mouth,
A man better have no creed at. nil
than to have one hois always anxious
to fight for.
Jealousy sleeps willt one eye open
and the other ajar.
Hope is the half way house between
fear and fruition.
It is difficult to define our happi
ness without making it look suspic
ious.
The man who is original in manner
1448.’’ In this, for lltu first time,
there wore pith and point, and spe
cial application. All modern dis
coveries were plainly described, and
one prophecy which began,
“Carriages without liotpes shall go,”
and set forth the,railroads,telegraphs,
steamers, and other modern Inven
tions, wound up with:
“The world to an end shall come
In eighteen hnndcred and eighty-one.”
This, of course, quite startled the
public. If all other important events
of the nineteenth century had been
so aptly described, why should not
the last prediction be fulfilled! Wc
copied Ihc prophecy, and, without
knowing any thing ol its source, de
nounced it as a forgery. An English
paper replied that it wt f an exact re
print of the old edition for nearly
two hundred aud fifty years on file
in the British Museum. We sent our
correspondent to the Museum, and
•learned that there was a chap-book
of that title bearing date 1611; anoth
er of 1642, containing what purport
ed to be Mother Shipton’s portrait;
other curious prophecies dated 1648,
4j67; and “Mother Shipton’s Lite
aud Curious Prophecies,” complete
in an octave edition of 1797. We
then purchased the reprint, and sent
to have them compared. This prov
ed that a fraud had been committed.
The old prophecies were a vague
jntnble of local predictions that
might have been fulfilled at any and
every decade since their date. All
the pointed and interesting,.predic
tions in the new issue were not in the
old book, and were either interlinea
tions, interpolated, or entire new
fragments, evidently written after the
events they were supposed to predict
We pressed the point, and then the
secret came ont In the spring of
1873 Mr. Hindley wrote a letter, con
fessing that be had fabricated the
prophecy above quoted and ten
others, in order to render his little
book salable.
The Argument of Mr. Napo
leon, Who Didn’t Want
To Pay a Bill.
“Hole on dar,” said a colored man,
hailing an acquaintance. “Does yer
cross do street ebery time year see me
ter keep frum payin’ dat bill ?”
“No, I doesn’t,”
“Whatfur, den?”
“Ter keep frum bein’ axed fur hit.”
“Mr. Napoleon,” said the creditor,
“I lent yer $10 three weeks ago. Yer
tromised an’ promised ter pay me.—
>e udder day you said dat ’pon yer
word and honor as a gentleman ver’d
pay me ter day. Now, what’s yer
got ter say?”
“I al’ers zerves my honor. Yer’s
gettin’ yer lack of flosofy an’ my hon
or mixed.”
“How’s dat?”
“Donn’ yer know dot de udder day
nil de time in town was changed ?—
Da foun’ dat de time was wrong an’
da seut off an’ got what da calls a
transit aparatus. Since den all de
watches an’ clocks bab been overhaul
ed. Hit hah been, found dat our
time is gis oue day too fast.”
“Dat’s got tiuthin’ ter do wid my
money.”
“Course it hab. I promised ter pa’
yer terday. De oberliaulin’ ob de
time shows dat dis ain’t terday.”
“How dtts yor make dat”
“Why, dis is termorrow. Doan,
yer see ? Lentmc tell yer, if yer goes
roun’ dis town showin’ such iguuuce
ob flosofy de people will laugh at
yer.”
“Well, when is yer gwine ter pay
me?”
“Jes ez soon ez we kin get the time
straightened np. Da’s workin’ on
hit now. Jes take nty advice, fur of
de people onst gits inter dar heads
dat a man is a fool, ten years ob
knowledge won’t change hit.”
STORE
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Housekeeper’s
Supplies!
Always on Hand I
NONE BUT THE BEST.
In Dry Goods and Clothing
Inducements Extraordinary!
Dukabuc Wiiitkwash.—Take a barrel
and slack a bushel of fresh lime in it, by
covering the liine with boiling water.
After it is slacked add cold water enough
to bring it to the consistency of good
whitewash, then dissolve in water, and
add one pound of white vitriol (sulphate
of zine) and one quart of fine salt. This
makes a whitewasli that will stick as
well as paint. It owes its durability chief
ly to tlic vitriol, which hardens aud fixes
the wash. •
Impure Itreath.
Among all the disagreeable .conse
quences that follow the decay of tlie
teeth, an impure breath must be the most
mortifying and unpleasant to its possess
or, anil it is the most inexcusable and of
fensive in society; and yet the cause of it
may lie easily removed by cleansing the
teeth doily with that Just ly popular den-
trifrice, fragrant SOZODONT. It puri
fies aud sweetens tlie breath, cools and
refreshes the mouth, and gives a ncnrl-
like appearance to the teeth. Gentlemen
who indulge in smoking should cleanse
their teeth with .SOZODONT, ns it rt-
Court of Commissioners Roads
and Revenues.
July I7tb, 1880.
Under and by virtue of an Act of the General A*
sumbljr of Georgia, approved September 10th, 1879,
authorizing the Commissioners of Dougbeity Coun
ty to issue bonds to the amount of 880,000 to pur->
eba-e the Bridge acroe. Flint River at Albany, and
in accordance with the expressed wish of a meeting
of the citizens held this day.
It la orSerad, That an election be held on
Saturday, 21st Day of Aopt,
at the Court House and voting precincts In a Id
county, to determine wheth. r or not said Bridge
shall be purchased, and that a book for the
REGISTRATION OF QUALIFIED VOTERS
be kept open from this date until ike night of tbe
lltb day of August next, at the Ordlnarv’a office in
said county, for the registration of qualified voters,
as provided by said Act.
It Is further ordered. That this order be publish*
ed In the Albany News and Albany Advertiser once
week for four weeks.
C. M. MAYO,
_ . E* H, BACON,
. ommissloners Dougherty County, Ga.
A true extract from the minutes of the Court of
Commissioners of Dougherty County, Ga.
W. P. BURKS,
July 20th, 1880.*w4w Clerk County Comr’s.
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I keep always on hind a full line of Cloth*. Come
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u 1 ;
PON a full showing ot two month’* I
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the maximum rates aa to Cotton. Fartlltcora •and
Lumber, and on all other claasea (100) one hundred
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R. A. BACON, Secretary,
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