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Yoitnne XXXIX.—No. 18.
ALBANY. GA.. SATURDAY. JANUARY 24, 1885.
BOW.
How can a man on a dollar a day,
Charter a seat at a popular play.
And purchase cigars and tobacco, pray*
_ He can’t.
. How can be sport an elegant tile,
• : And ask Ms dear friends to step out for
"“smile,”
And stable a 2:40 animile?
He can’t.
EDITORIAL NOTES.
Carl Schukz will be well treated in
the South.
Minister Morton feels worse than
the boy that the calf ran over.
How can he frolic with better fed friends
When in cold perspiration, he’s at bis wits ends
. It his wash-woman alter her half dollar sends?
He can’t.
How can he bear to be called a “poor cad. 1
x How can be dress in a big, fancy plaid,
> ‘Mils credit won’t keep—it is “fragrantly” bad?
He can’t.
How buy perfumery, handkerchiefs too.
The edges all stamped with a reg kankafoo,
And changed linen cuffs every Sunday or two?
He can’t.
How can he go out to ride with his “mash”
When he hasn’t the requisite cold-blooded
cash?
Why that is his reason for not being
He can’t,
r can be claim his dear girl’s slender hand
' i guttering band.
nd circle her Anger with „ ,
hen bis check book's so weak it scarcely can
. stand?
He can't.
Th* Porter veto threatens to become
the fly in Chet’s pot of ointment.
The term of the Presidential dude
and his breeches is almost out. It is a
glorious fact.
The unhappy farmers of Louisiana
are kept awake now by apprehended
breaks in the levees.
These are symptoms of disaffection
amongst the braves of Tammany Hall.
It is a case of quickened conscience.
Emory Speer is not qualified to fill
a judicial position. His appointment
is a great outrage on the office and on
the people of Georgia.
Heir can he many and furnish a wife
the many small comforts which sweeten
this life?
.We must state the cold truth, tho’ it cuts like
fa knife—
He can’t.
SCRAPS.
Charles Dickens cleared $225,000 out
of hit
(B readings alone,
Lieut. Greely, Arctic explorer, Is
lick abed in Washington,
' 1 There is to be a revival of smooth
- faces among society men.
Jay Gould has predicted that this is
to be a “money-making year.”
Moat Washington ladies have day re-
• captions in evening dress.
The long, ungainly smelling bottles
'f* are laconically called* “snifters. **
Nearly five thousand patents on
churns nave been issued in this coun
try alone.
Dr. Hammond says Turkish baths
are hurtful if there is a tendency to
: heart disease.
“Grape milk” is the name of a new
temperance drink. It refreshes, but
does not intoxicate.
Leading firms of Boston merchants
and bankers have prepared a protest
against the Spanish treaty.
The New England Divorce Reform
League proposes to take measures to
make itself a national organization.
Prince Albert Victor enjoys the re
markable distinction of being the first
heir to the heir apparent to the British
throne who grew to manhood.
The acquittal of Mme. Clovis Hugues,
In Paris, was followed by an immediate
boom in revolvers, no less than 3,239
of the Bijou variety being sold the next
day.
Nevada’s Governor found some of
his wife’s diamonds, a few days since,
-.v in a tin box among some rubbish. The
jewels were supposed to have been
stolen years ago.
The llax seed crop of the past season
in this country is said not to exceed
7,500 bushels. Prices have ranged from
$1.08 in May to $1.33 in November,
and the average price for the year was
$1.46.
Another effort to secure bieunial
elections and sessions of the Legisla-
Massa-
ture will be made this winter in M
chusetts. Public sentiment in the
State has shown itself to be unmistaka
bly in favor of such a movement.
Prof. Mommsen has prevailed upon
the Royal Academy of Sciences of Ger
many to make investigations to deter
mine If possible the exact location of
the battlefield on which the army of
Varus was annihilated by Arminius
and his Teutons.
► is-* It Is now learned that the defalca
tions discovered in the office of the
Auditor of Public Accounts of Virgin
ia will at least reach $100,000, and some
of those engaged in the Investigation
l4^f the accounts say they w ill not be
surprised if the amount reaches $150,-
000.
The average duration of life among
well-to-do people is said to be forty-five
years; among the middle class it is
twenty-five years; among the laboring
class twenty years. Among 100people
the wealthy would not number more
than five,*the middle class no more
than fifteen, and the working class
eighty.
It being shown by test that 282,240
pounds of coal will propel a ship and
carge woigliiug 5,600,000 pounds a dis
tance of 3,380 miles, the Railroad Ga
zette goes to its arithmetic to show' that
an ordinary letter if burned in the
ship’s boiler will generate sufficient en
ergy to transport one ton of freight one
mile.
Several years ago a very aged man
died in the State of New York. Mr.
Bchoonmaker, the man w'ho often took
charge of funerals, managed this, and
J
The providing of fire escapes to
A TBKP l)OWH TUB B.4W.B.B.
A representative of the Sews and
Advertises made a short trip down,
the B. & W. R. B. * few days ago.
Stopping at Ty <Ty, he found that
thriving town suffering from the effects
of the depression, which is general all
•over the country at this time. Ty Ty,
however, gives evidence of life and
vigor. There are at present ten pros
perous business houses in the place,
the proprietors of,which, without ex
ception, assert that their business, al
though not so good as usual, at this
season, is satisfactory. Mr. John K.
Payne, who has been merchandising
here for several years, has gone to
Ward’s Station, where he will engage
in the mercantile business, leaving Mr.
J. E. Kedmund in charge of the busi
ness in Ty Ty. The town is also repre
sented in the legarand medical profes
sion. Mr. J. H. Murrow (the present
the popular, jocular and facetious trav
eling agent of oar jobbing house,
Mayer & Glauber. Notwithstanding
the depression hi the lumber and tur
pentine business, many of the larger
men engaged in these Industries are
hopeful of a reaction- in a short time,
and I trust that their most sanguine
anticipations may be realized.
- A loaaf Doctor’s Bill-
A romantic story is told by the Chi
cago Inter-Ocean. The charming
daughter of a wealthy gentleman resid
ing in the suburbs of Chicago was seri
ously ill, and finally her case was pro
nounced hopeless by all the eminent
doctors summoned to attend her. As
a last resort a young physician of the
place was called in. He modestly but
emphatically declared his ability to
save the patient, and be was entrusted
with the case. Constant watchfulness
and unremitting attention were crown
ed with success. In a week the inva-
SPEER’S no:
iMINATIi
Price $2.00 Per Year.
ON.
SENATOR
TAKES
And Declares it to be
Upon tke People—
Think* the Nomination Will be
•Confirmed, andean Heard it—
A Belated Applicant—Nothing
Against.
Special to Atlanta Constitution.*
Washington’, Jan. 20.
quitt will oppose Emory
Urination. To-night he
self very emphatically on
Said he: “The executive
the Senate is shielded by
publicity, but the nomii
yet been considered in
sion. It is a matter of.publ
and I am free to state my
reference to it. I shall op]
do all that is in my power
Speer’s confirmation. Th
has lain vacant fourteen months, and
there can be no great harm done to let
it remain vacant for six weeks longer.
on
it, and
prevent
Judgeship
THE BISTORT OF A .SPEECH.
Bow Ren Bill Came to Deliver hi*
Great Speech on the Amnesty Bill.
Senator Voorhees has been renom
inated, and will be re-elected. * He “is
afflicted with high tariff* crankiness,
and is one of the most flowery dema
gogues in public life.
The Democrats of the Indiana Legis
lature unanimously favor ex-Senator
McDonald for a Cabinet position. He
1b a pure, able man and a thorough
going tariff reformer.
physicians. Ty Ty also has a turpen- ,
tine s r tlll and a saw -W.
could sit up, and at the end of four
The Emperor William, of Germany,
is confined to his bed. He is an old
man, and doubtless is near the end of
his journey. His death will bode no
good to the peace of Europe.
A special to the Constitution from
Dalton reports extraordinary discove
ries of silver in the Cohuttah moun
tains. It is claimed that “the assays
have run as high as 80 per cent.”
Civil war is imminent in Panama.
The United States man-of-war Alli
ance has landed a force of marines,
with a Gatling gun at Aspinwall to
guard the railroad and canal property
at that point.
Converts to a belief in Bill Vander
bilt’s generosity constitute the painful
ly credulous elements of society. Bill’s
generosity is of the sort that would
swap a nickel for a quarter, with a
blind man, on any Sunday of the year.
Less than six weeks of existence re
mains for the 48th Congress, and the
necessary appropriation bills have not
been passed. It seems to be the pur
pose of the leaders in both Houses to
make a special session of the 49th Con
gress unavoidable.
The Constitution is attacking the in
efficient police system of Atlanta. The
capital isn’t the only city in the State
that is inadequately policed. Indeed,
we do not know one of them that
would not be the better off for the
doubling of its police force.
Emory Speer has been nominated
for the Judgship of the Southern Dis
trict of Georgia. This is the reward
of renegadism. We should like to
know that the Georgia Senators will
make an effort to defeat his confirma
tion. It ought to be defeated.
The Republicans are willing and
anxious to have private citizens de
nounce Jeff Davis as a traitor; but
they don’t seem desirous of having a
jury pass on the question. Will some
of the sanctimonious tell just why that
is so? Davis demanded a trial; why
was it refused him ?
in giving out the invitation at the close
of the ser
i
I
i services said: “All who desire
can now have the opportunity of be
holding the remains of the oldest man
living Til Ulster county.”
John J. Flynn, a dealer in boating
tackle at Cincinnati, answered a matri
monial advertisement and engaged
himself, on the strength of an attrac
tive photograph, to a widow in Mis
souri. When he found her an emaciat
ed person with a consumptive cough,
he made remarks which caused her to
sue for $25,000 damages for breach of
promise.
Engine No. 105, on the Philadelphia
A Reading railroad*- has run three
vears without being off_b"-w*‘eels «r
Mating a i—attor repairs, tier mile-
ui faTcnat time is 130,000, but this in
cudes only the distance between sta-
Itaa Bat tfcat tr&rcled in going to and
ffom tTre round house. Moreover, the
work done by tire engine is exception
ally heavy. It is frequently driven
over sixty miles an hours.
The anual revenues of the govern-
t of Great Britain are £210,000,000,
hioh sum the rovsl family draws
£537,000. Those of Russia are £106,-
000,000, of which the Czar spends or.
himself and family £2,450,000, while
the Prince of Montenegro takes a cool
'7 per cent, of the meagre revenues of
his principality, despite the fact that
he has another source of revenue yield
ing him $78,000 per annum.
“San Francisco,” says an inhabitant,
“has not been a clean" city from the
dav of Its foundation. There ■ is Ori
ental dirt and Occidental dirt. It has
come to be a foreign city. Merchan
dise fills the sidewalk, and in many
places crowds the pedestrian into the
street. The six month’s trade winds
of sumner and the six month’s rain are
the two sanitary agents which keep
watch and ward over the city.
Near the mouth of the Sutro Tunnel,
in Nevada, there is a small lake, the
water in which is kept continuously
warm by the hot water which flows
into it from the mines. Recently the
mine superintendent sent to Florida
and procured two healthy alligators.
When they arrived the temperature
was 12 degrees below zero, and the al
ligators were barely alive. Upon being
put into the warm lake, however, they
revived, and are now growing rapidly.
The spiritualists claim a larger fol
lowing than any church in America,
although but few make an open avowal
of belief. Beecher, pastor of an or
thodox church, denies the doctrine of
eternal punishmeut. and the venerable
Dr. Bartol, of Boston, avows his belief
thqt ‘-there is a djsowqiug or ignoring
of "bodily maladies by a holy will,
which has much to do with driving
It b> stated from Washington that
President Arthur has decided to make
\
them out or warding them off.” The
Mind Carers seem to have secured a
valuable ally.
Almost every European nationality
in New Orleans has its distinctive be
nevolent society of that name, and the
French, the Spanish, the Italian and
the Irish have in addition almost as
many different societies as the Ameri
cans. It is not a rare occurrence to
meet an adult male who doesn’t belong
to two, three, or a dozen different socie
ties, and it is not by any means an iSO- . StwisrocLW,
loted case where the badge of member- j Emory bpeer to a judgeship,
Repealing the taxes on liquor and
tobacco In order to provide for a re
duction of the duties on the necessaries
of life is the nice little scheme held out
to the people of the country by Sam
Randall, Pig Iron Kelley, and the rest
of the wicked generation of false econ
omists. It is a cheek} r and ridiculous
proposition.
The
Constitution thinks “it is but
proper that the (Grant retirement) bill
should pass.” Our contemporary
speaks from amiUennarianstandpoint,
we suppose. Will the self-inflicted
woes of that old mendicant be an ever
lasting public issue ? Would even an
enormous yearly stipend appease the
whirlpool of his wants ?
There are indications of a deadlock
in the Arkansas Legislature over the
election of U. S. Senator. Rhode Is
land has elected Jonathan Chace in
place of Anthony. Senator Vance re
turns from Nortlj Carolina, Vest, from
Missouri, and.Platt from Connecticut.
Leland Standford will be the Republi
can Senator from California.
The brakemen’s strike at Fort
Wayne, Indiana, has come to an end.
The brakemen have lost money by the
frolic, and established no principle
worth contending for. It was, from
first to last, a very foolish affair. A
man has a right to quit work, if it so
please him; but when he raises a row
about it he makes a fool of himself.
The Macon Telegraph refers to the
New York Times as “one of the leaders
of the Democratic party,” with a view,
we suppose, to making the Cleveland
Democrats feel badly. One thing is
sure: The New York Times did more
for the success of the Democratic ticket
in the last Presidential campaign than
the Telegraph did. Hence those tears.
There are indications of trouble be
tween England and Turkey, growing
out of a supposed purpose on the part
of the latter to station a military force
in Egypt. This is certainly very queer,
in view of the fact that ‘ Egypt is a de
pendency of Turkey. Nothing more is
needed to show that England does not
intend to relax her hold on Egypt, and
that her professions to . the contrary
have been hypocritical.
Senator Colquitt, as if in answer
t .> the almost solid Democratic demand
of the State, announces his purpose to
resist, in every way in his power, the
confirmation of Emory Speer to the
Judgeship of the Southern District of
Georgia. In doing this, he voices the
wishes of his Democratic constituents;
and the NkWa anp Advertiser takes
pleasure in testifying its appreciation
of his position in the premises. The
nomination was an outrage.
terially to the business of the town.
The country surrounding this place
is inhabited by honest, thrifty and in
dustrious farmers, who generally farm
on a moderate scale and plant a varie
ty of crops. These farmers, it is hard
ly necessary to say, are out of debt,
prosperous and pay as they go, never
thinking of contracting debt, and would
consider a man that would mortgage
liis crop or lands a fit subject for the
lunatic asylum. The LeConte pear
mania has struck this section, and your
reporter conversed with numbers of
men who are planting this and other
fruits extensively. Mr. E. A. Parish,
living a few miles from Ty Ty, has an
orchard of ten acres planted in peafs.
Mr. W. E. Williams, one of Ty Ty’s
foremost men, is engaging extensively
in fruit culture. There are many others
who are following their example, and,
in a few’ years, this section will teem
with luscious fruit and the handsome
revenue that will accrue from it.
From Ty Ty I took the back track to
Sumner, and found improvements of
various kinds looming up in every di
rection. The first object that attracted
my attention here was the academy or
high school building, w hich presents
quite an imposing appearance. The
structure is two stories high, large and
well adapted to the purpose for which
it was built. Its dimensions are 48x34
feet. On the lower floor is a large hall
with five fire-places. On this floor
there are also four smaller rooms, with
fire-places in each. The upper floor,
designed for boarders, has ten rooms
16x16, eight of which have |fire-plaees.
The instructors are—President J. E.
Witherspoon, principal and instructor
in academic department; Mrs. J. E.
Witherspoon, preparatory department;
Mrs. T. R. Lyon, music and primary
department. The first session of the
Sumner High School opened on the
5th of this month, with thirty pupils
in attendance. . Accessions to this num
ber have occurred daily since the open
ing, and the President informs me he
will have-at least one hundred within
thirty days. This institution is a cred
it to Sumner, and beyond doubt will
do more towards the development and
growth of the town than all her other
attractions and industries combined.
New residences are going up all over
the town, and more will be built in a
short time. Dr. Sikes, of Isabella, and
Mr. Lastinger, of Berrien county, have
recently moved to Sumner, and others
will take up their abode here as soon
as they can secure house room.
From Sumner I proceeded to Tifton,
and found this seat of Industry in
statu quo. The stores of Willie Pace,
Hutchinson Bros, and Mr. Tift were all
filled with customers, and the large
saw’ mill was rapidly converting huge
pine trees into beautiful lumber of all
kinds. This is one of the mills that
has kept constantly working (since its
establishment) through flush times and
stringest times. The proprietors evi
dently understand their business, for
they have made money and are still
making it. Mr. H. H. Tift informed
me that he is about to ..engage in the
turpentine busin^ss^on an extensive
scale. This, Kke^t£e lumber business,
is languishing just now, and men are
^getting away from It, fleeing from it.
But mark this prediction—Mr. Tift
will not only make it pay, but pay
handsomely. This gentleman informed
mpithat last year he raised twenty-four
bales of cotton on twenty-eight acres
of land, and that a farmer a few miles
from Tifton, Mr. Wiley Fletcher, pro
duced twenty-four bales of cotton on
twenty-six acres of land, using only
100 pounds of fertilizer to the acre.
This was done on the ordinary average
pine land. The former gentleman
(Mr. Tift) informed me that he has
700 three year old pear trees. This
seems to be a feature of the country on
the B. & W. R. R. I found parties who
have orchards at every point I visited.
My next point from Tifton was
Brookfield. This place has gone dow*n
considerably 6ince I was last here, the
falling off of the naval store business
the cause. There are four stores still
in Brookfield. I met Mr. Pope, of the
firm of Lennon & Pope Bros., who is a
thorough gentleman, a genial fellow,
and an admirer of the News and Ad-
vertiser. Mr. Euoch Bowen is anoth
er prop to Brookfield, and doingagood
business.
On arriving at Alapaha I found a
crowd in town, as usual. Will Walker
and Editor Griggs were moving active
ly about, and the crowd at large seemed
to be impatient and anxious, as It were.
I never was able to fathom the myste
ry, but I was told privately that the
supply of syrup in town had been ex
hausted, and that a good many orders
had been sent to Albany for jogs of the
same, as the Berrien boys are very
fond of it. Well, I reckon the syrup
went through all right, for I saw a
number of the boys walk off with jugs,
with a satisfied air, and a look of seren
ity, instead of expectancy, in their
eyes. Alapaha holds her own, and in
deed is on the upward grade. Will
Walker has built an elegant residence
on the site occupied by his old" one,
which was destroyed by fire. A new
two-story hotel has also recently been
was well and could take
long dr
He had indeed redeemed his pledge—
had saved his charge. Here is the se
quel.
One day, after the complete recove
ry of the young lady was positively as
sured, the father called the young doc
tor into his library. Taking him by
the hand, he said: “Young man, you
have saved mv daughter. 1 told you
‘ *“ *Td»
that if you did so you would be com
pensated at whatever price you choose
to fix your services. 1 am now ready
to carry out ray part of the agreement,
as you have so*nobly done your work.”
“Do you really wish to pay me my
own price?” asked the young doctor,
anxiously. “Indeed, I do, sir.”
“Then I ask you to give vour daughter
to me in marriage,” was the unexpect
ed request. The old geutleman was
naturally a little astonished at the na
ture of the answer. He hesitated a mo
ment, then touched a bell. A servant
answered. “Tell Hattie to step here,”
was the command. In a minute
the daughter entered the room.
The father and doctor stood fac-
ing one another. “Hattie,” said
the old gentleman, “do you feel
that you have fully recov
ered?” “I am as well as ever,
father.” “Do you imagine what your
doctor wishes in compensation for his
services in saving your life ?” was the
sternly put question. “No,” said the
girl, anxiously, “but I am sure he de
serves anything reasonable.” “But I
consider his charge extortionate,” was
the emphatic rejoinder. “What is it,
father, I feel sure that Doctor—would
not be unreasonable.” “Not unrea
sonable ! Why, Hattie, he asks that I
consent to his making you his wife.
What have you to say to*that?” Hat
tie blushed violently for a minute, her
little foot played with the rug on the
floor, then looking up archly, first at
her father and next at the young doc
tor, who had meantime uttered no
word, he said: “You say, father,
when I was sick all the other doctors
gave me up and assured me nothing
but death?”. “Yes, my daughter.”
“And Dr. — took my case under those
circumstances, told you he would save
me and nursed me back to health and
life?” “Yes.” “Then, father it
strikes me that if I was an auditing
committee and had to pass upon this
bill, I’d argue that the one who
brought me back to my health from
apparent death would be pretty safe
for me to be entrusted to when health
was fully regained. I would check
his bill O. K., and say nothing about
extortionate charges.” The wedding
will be duly celebrated in a very short
time.
No Redaction in Central Wages.
Constitution Special.
Savannah, January 16.—A Times
reporter called on President Raoul, of
the Central railroad, to-day, in refer
ence to the article in the Constitution
yesterday, concerning the declaration
of the intention of the Central railroad
to reduce.the wages of their employes.
“No, sir; there is not the least truth
in the report. No such order has been
issued, nor will it be for the present.
As long as the business of the Central
railroad will warrant it, no reduction
in wages will be made, but should the
necessity for such an event arise, as
much as it is to be deplored, a cut will
have to be made. I am pleased to say
uo such necessity now’ exists, nor do I
see it in the near future.”
‘Well, ba3 there been an order issued
for the discharge of a certain number
of men in each department?”
‘None at all. It is not the policy of
the Central to do business in such, a
manner. A corps of men sufficient to
do the business of the road is always
employed.”
Captain Raoul further stated that a
comparison of the pay roll of the Cen
tral Railroad with the other railroads
of Georgia would Bhow that the Cen
tral Railroad paid as high if not higher
wages than any other, and that it w’as
very slow to reduce wages.
“So far as I am individually con
cerned,” said Capt. Raoul, “I am de
cidedly in favor of largest possible
wages being paid to the employes of
the road, from the fact that we thus se
cure the best men, get the best work,
and have a more contented and happy
element around us. My policy is to
give the highest wages that the busi
ness can pay, and at the same time do
that business with profit.”
office, and will’be acceptable to the
_ e in the South Geo^gg. . district, answer that speech of .Blaine’s. .Vir-
I am confident that they* don’t want giiiia lias not a man in tne House that
Mr. Speer, and if I can prevent his con
firmation I shall do it. Without going
into details now, I feel that there are
f*»lly sufficient reasons why he should
not be confirmed, and it w ill be my
duty to present these as forcibly as I
may be able. I must say I was sur
prised when the nomination was made.
It is one unfit to *>e made. Under all
the circumstances I consider it an out
rage. I do not believe it will ever be
confirmed. I sincerely trust it never
will. I am confident that if other
Denocratic Senators feel as I do it can
not be confirmed, and I have reason to
believe that many of them agree with
me in this matter. I voted for Speer’s
confirmation as District Attorney, but
that was quite a different thing* from
supporting him for District Judge.
His present office .is temporary, and
that he seeks is for life. He was not
so objectionable for District Attorney
but what I could vote for him. I think
he is so objectionable for District
Judge that I ought to defeat him if I
can.”
SENATOR BROWN FAVORS SPEER.
Senator Browu, when asked what he
thought of the nomination said.:
“It came in only this afternoon. I
have heard little said a bo at it among
the Senators. I do not care to say any
thing for the newspapers just now, ex
cept that it is probable Mr. Speer will
be confirmed.” -
One of the greatest speeches deliv-
eredsince the war was that of Ben Hill
on;the amnesty bili/in the House about
ten years, ago, and Hill was coached for
this by a man whom you may now
see any night sitting in the lobbies "of
Willard’s HoteL This man who was
* Confederate officer:, during the w ar,
and Came from one of the first families
of Virginia, was .<ltagnrtefl with the*
bold orations of Blaine and Garfield,
and looked in vain over his State dele
gation to find a man strong enough to
answer them. There was none.
At last his eyes fell on Hill, of Geor
gia, and he walked up tojiim a$, Hill
sat in his seat at the end of the middle
aisle of the House, in his customary po
sition, one leg crossed over the other,
his head half hanging, and his bright
eye upon old Speaker Kerr, who, more
dead than alive, sat in the presiding
chair. He said to Hill, “You. piust
GEORGIA NEWS.
—Sparta has only one bar-room, this
can do it, and you are the only South-
SENATORIAL SOAP-EATING.
Joking Among Solon*—Butler
Even* up on Garland.
Big Steal* Unearthed.
Washington, Jan. 14.—After the
House District Committee ceased hold
ing regular meetings last session the
bill to provide for the adjudication of
claims of contractors under the old
Board of Public Works by the Court
of Claims was by some means reported
to the House. The report said that
claims to the amount of $300,000 w’ere
involved. The bill has created alarm,
and the House District Committee has
investigated. It is found that the bill
is so loosely draw*n, evidently by in
terested parties, that it will throw open
the door to claims amounting to about
$6,000,000, most of which are, in the
language of a member of the commit
tee, “clean steals.” Another meeting
will be held to-morrow, when the
committee will instruct one of its mem
bers to withdraw the bill from the
House.
no appointments between now and the
4th of March that would tend in the
least to embarrass President Cleve
land’s administration.' Democrats who
believe him to be sincere in it will give
him credit. Those who do not believe
him sincere will not be surprised at
anything that he may do. After nom-
in 20 and even
ly exhibited,
societies is ; nothing else that he may do will snr-
‘ prisons.
completed, and other improvements
too numerous to mention. The Alapa
ha people are proud of their water.
The artesian well here supplies the
whole town. Since the boring of the
well, the boys confine themselves to
this pure beverage mostly, and say
that it is healthier and cheaper than
whisky, which, by the way, is no long
er sold in the county. I also met Dr.
P. W. Alexander, an old Albanian,
Mr. Duff, another, and Major Owen,
The Mania for Making Laws.
Shelbyville Republican.
As a matter of fact we already have
more laws than we can either under
stand er obey. Yet most people think
the object and end of life is to get me re
laws. The cauldron must be kept
boiling and babbling, in order that the
fugacious will-o’-the-wisp, called hap
piness, may be secured by statuatory
enactment. Every fellow who goes to
a Legislature or Congress is big with
some scheme of legislation. He has
his pockets stuffed full of bills which,
he has promised his “dear constituents”
to have embodied into laws. Fortu
nately for all of us hut few of these
absurd hobbles get enacted into law,
but enough full legislation gets through
every winter to keep the people In a
constant turmoil.
A Little Gold wot Spent*
Mr. Z. A. Clark, of Atlanta, Ga., in
of $480.00 in grid, desires to
say to the readers of this paper, that
the whole of the above amount was
spent in a fruitless effort in finding
relief from a terrible Blood Poison
his body, limbs and nose—
ng ugly running ulcers. He
is now sound and well, having been
cored by the most speedy and wonder
ful- remedy ever before known, and
any interested party who may need a
Blood Purifier will learn from him
that three bottles of B* B, B. restored
his appetite, healed all ulcers, relieved
h^s ktdneys, and added twenty-one
pounds to his weight in thirty days.
Kansas City Times.
Not long ago Garland bit Butler
pretty hard. That is to say, he got a
very good one on him, and Butler laid
for the Senator from Arkansas. Know
ing Garland’s fondness for randy, he
produced some caramels and also some
cubes of brown soap, which, when
wrapped in their tissuepaper, precisely
resembles to the eye the caramels.
Butler knew that if he tried to put the
cubes of.soap off on Garland he would
fail, as the latter was, of course, on the
alert, so far as he was concerned. So
Voorhees of Indiana, who sits next to
Garland, was chosen for the confeder
ate. Said Butler to Voorhees “Here
are two genuine caramels. These
others are cubes of soap. Go to your
seat, lay the soap cubes on your desk,
eat the genuine caramels, .put your
trust in Providence, and 3ay nothing."
Voorhees did as he was told. Garland
observed the cubes on the desk, and
saw that Voorhees was eatiiig some
thing with an evident relisln
‘Hello,” said Garland. “What are
you eating?”
“I’ve got a cold and I'm eating some
candy,” replied Voorhees, very much
absorbed in some papers in his hands.
Garland looked at the counterfeits
wistfully for a moment. “Hum,” he
said, finally, as he picked one up.
•‘I’ve got something of a cold myself,”
and he popped the piece of soap into
his mouth. There was a crouching of
his jaws, and he saw he was caught.
Voorhees watched him out of the tail
of his eye, as did a dozen others of the
old boys sitting aroimd. Garland
knew that lie was uuder fire, and he
determined not to flineh. After chew
ing his soap for a moment, he looked
up at Voorhees with the inimitable air
of innocent earnestness that is charac
teristic of him, and softly asked: “Do
you eat many of these things when you
have a cold?” As Garland kept* on
chewing, an almost imperceptible strip
of lather formed on his lips. Voor
hees became alarmed, and went to
Butler. “The fellow is actually eating
that stuff. Why, it will kill him, won’t
it.” “No o-o-o” drawled Butler. “I
don’t reckon anything will kill that
man.”
Garland was game, He finished his
soap, and no man can say that he
looked as if he didn’t enjoy it.
emer equal to
Hill objected modestly, but the Vir
ginian persisted. “But I havn’t got
the data,” said Hill.
“I’ll get you the data,” replied the
Virginian.
“But the Speaker won’t recognize
me,” said HQL “I can’t get the
floor.”
T will arrange all that was the re
ply. “It is now 4 o’clock, and the
House will adjourn when the next
man is recognized, giving him the
floor when the session opens to-mor
row. I will arrange it with Speaker
Kerr that you be recognized, and im
mediately thereafter 1 will have one of
our friends to move an adjournment.”
With this understanding, the Vir
ginian, w’ho was an intimate friend of
Kerr, left Hill and sought ought Kerr’
son, who w’as in the House, and told
him to go and ask his father to recog
nize HOI as the next speaker and then
to adjourn the House.
The boy did so, and told Mr. Kerr
the plan proposed by the opposition,
and Speaker Kerr consented to it.
“I was standing,” said the man who
engineered the scheme, “by Hill at
the end of the aisle, and Kerr’s boj
left his father, and I saw Kerrlool
toward Hill and myself, and bow his
head in acquiesence. The boy came
around a moment later and told us it
was all right, and that Hill would be
ized.
“Nigger Ike” Effectually Cored of
Stealing Tiling* to Eat*
Hamilton Day in Detroit Free Press.
The thorn in Aunt Jinny’s otherwise
placid existence was her boy Ike, who
contained more deviltry to the square
Inch than any other colored youth I
ever had the pleasure of meeting. He
was a natural born thief, but with an
odd discrimination, always confined
his depredations to something in the
eatable line.
Expostulation was in vain, and per
simmon branches failed to effect a cure.
Finally she came to me and placed the
culprit in my hands with a request
that I should mete out due punishment
to him.
I had just been rending the story of
Tantalus, who was placed in a 'vat of
beer—the fall of the tide never passing
his goatee—and I concluded to try that
species of moral suasion on the refrac
tory Ike.
wit
ith much chain and many locks I
fastened him in a large arm chair and
placed him in the centre of my store
room.
it to
“For sooth it was a,
For one who had no
On two sides of the room hnng In-
dons, tempting hams and shoulders,
smoked to the complexion of a ripe
meerschaum, juicy, with a most fasci
nating sweetness. On various shelves
smiled complacently huge pumpkin
pies, corpulent cakes and succulent
puddings. Here and there were cans
of various -delicacies, pans of genuine
milk, platters of chitterlings, and va
rious other preventives of undue disin
tegration of the hnmaiLtissues.
In the
the midst of all this, forone whole
week, Isaac, son of Jinny,sat famished.
His allowance per meal was too slices
of bread, with water ad- libitum from
the horse trough. Sometimes, -with a
refinement of cruelty, I would hold be-
. .. deIi .
fore his ravenous eyes a rasher
ciously broiled bacon, so that the aroma
would penetrate bis flapping nostrils.
I confess with sorrow that I even
greased his upper lip, giving him the
shadow of a feast, as it were.
On the seventh day he broke down.
Throwing himself on his. knees, his
chain, perforce of many fastenings ac-
~ npanving him, he said:
‘Fer God-a-migbty’s sake, boss,
doan’ keep me yere any more. Whip
me all yer wants, but gimme sumfin ter
eat. I done mos’ dead.”
As long as he stayed with me he
never backslid; the core seemed per
fect.
Where Hurrah Came From.
The word “hurrah” was used by
the Eastern nations as a war cry. The
term it Slavonic, and signifies* “toPar-
and was used in the belief that
recognized. At this Hill got slowly
up ap and walked easily down to the
front of the chamber, and took a seat
on the front row. As the man who
had tbs floor concluded, a dozen men
sprang to their feet in different parts of
the chamber and tried to get the
Speaker’s eye. But Mr. Kerr said:
‘I recognize the gentleman from Geor
gia,’ before Hill was half way
out of his seat. Before Hill
began speaking, Beebe, of New
York, wlio had been posted by me,
rose, and asked Hill if he would yield
for a motion.. In his courtly way Hill
said, ‘Certainly,’ with a bow, and
Beebe moved that the House adjourn.
This was carried with a rush, and we
had from 4 p. m. to 10 a. m. to prepare
our thunder. As the House adjourned
Sam Randall and other prominent
Northern Democrats crowded around
Hill, and tried to persuade him not to
speak, on the ground that it would stir
up bad feelings and hurt the party at
the North. Hill, however, replied that
he did not intend to have the South
slandered without an objection from
him, and when the statesmen parted
they were not in the best of tempers.
I then went to the library and got
Stanton’s reports, which in themselves
proved the misstatements uttered by
the Republicans, and made the ex
tracts from these of which Hill con
structed his speech. As I gave them
to him, I told him 1 hoped that he
would use them for all they were
worth, and that he would not be afraid
of hurting the feelings of his opponents.
He replied with a laugh that he did not
expect to spare them, and you know
the result was the most powerful and
the most vindictive speech since the
war. The galleries were crowded
when it was delivered, and it made
Hill so popular throughout the South
that it secured his election to the Sen
ate some time later.
Examine tbe School Books.
Morning News.
Northern literature seems to have
permeated every part of the country
and affected almost every class of peo
ple. Attention has frequently _ been
called to the systematic manner in
which it has been attempted to poison
the minds of the young with sectional
ideas by means of text books used in
both public and private schools. In
many parts of- the South school books
have been adopted, the tone of which
is almost on a par with that of Repub
lican campaigu documents. This is
pecially true of school histories. In
them historical facts are perverted,
sectional views are recorded, and the
political history of tne country from
the days of the colonies down to the
present time is given a sectional color
ing.
'Pfc
Thousands of Southern parents are,
through inexcusable inattention, allow
ing their children to be taught incor
rect ideas of the causes of the war, and
of its conduct and results. The Re
publican party is glorified and given
praise to which it is not entitled.
As Democrats and Southerners we
want the truth to be known to the
world, to be taught to our children,
and to be proclaimed in history to fu
ture generations. Let the truth and
the whole truth Be recorded, hurt
whom it may. Perhaps the text books
of Georgia schools are selected as care
fully as they arc anywhere, but in some
parts of the South the tone and teach
ings of many of the school hooks, espe
cially of the histories, are very objec
tionable. .Let eveiy parent in the
South carefully examine the books used
in instructing his children, and see to
ft that they are not calculated to con
vey erroneous impressions.
She Could Not Hear Job Maligned*
New York Times.
Mrs. Bertha Brice is a colored
woman who.lives at No. 341 Gold
street, Brooklyn. She belongs to the
Fleet Street African Methodist Episco
pal Church of that city, in which there
has of late been so much trouble, and
is a faithful adherent of the deposed
minister, the Rev. Mr. Poyton. She
still attends the church, however, and
on Snnday night created a good deal of
excitement there. The Rev.M. Her
bert, the pastor, talked about Job, and
in the coarse of his remarks intimated
that that gentlemen^ did jaot strictly
adhere to the truth. Mrs. Brice
not stand this aspersion of the charac
ter of her favorite Biblical hero, and,
jumping up in her seat, she yelled at
the top of her voice.’ “You lie; Job
never lied.” There was *reat confu
sion for a moment, and then Mrs.
Brice was arrested for creating a dis
turbance, and taken to the Fourth pre
cinct station house, where she was bail
ed in $200 to appear before Judge Mas-,
sey. Yesterday morning, before that
magistrate, she maintained, the truth
fulness of Job, but his honor held her
* * * to keep the peace. The
bonds were furnished, and Mrs. Brice
left disgusted with human nature gen
erally—all except that part who went
berfaaiL
So Dry and Brittle.
■‘"What do yon i
hair so dry and Brittle?”
the glands which supplj
a slimulous. A hot
Hair Balsam will do the
each manwho had died in battle whils j leave your hair soft ana si
—The tricycle is to be introduced in
Macon.
—A new foundry is to he built in
Athens. - -
—In Savannah only 1,684 voters reg
istered.
—Whitfield’s delinquent tax list is
the longest for years.
—The Coweta Advertiser wants the
farmers to sow spring eats.
—Home hopes to have a street rail
road by the middle of June.
—Mr. D. B. Sweat is now “publish
er” of the Way cross Reporter.
—Borne is threatened with the estab
lishing of a brewery in her midst.
—The stocklaw carried the day in
the Bradbery district, Clarke county.
—There have recently been very
heavy rainfalls throughout the State.
—Savannah is to have “a crack base-
baU’team,” and will be all the worse
for it.
—Quitman has three flourishing
schools, as we learn from the Free
Frees.
■ —The Journal reports great suffer
ing in Atlanta, caused by the late cold
wave.
—The “unloaded” pistol has been
doing its usual devilment in Putnam
county.
—The Courier reports a fall in the
temperature, at Borne, of 43 degrees in
nine hours.
.—The body of a drowned white
woman was found in the Augusta canal
on Saturday.
—Mr. W. H. Hidell has bought the
Borne Courier. It -will still be edited
by Mr. Martin.
—Miss Maggie Sullivan, of Atlanta,
died from the effects of a fall received
in a skating rink.
—Darien needs a railroad badly, but
doesn’t believe it strong enough to go
to work and build it.
—It is said that liquor is unlawfully
sold in Dalton. It isn’t an easy thing
to break np the traffic.
—Book agents are required to pay
five dollars a week for the privilege of
attacking the peace of the natives of
Darien.
—General Lee’s birthday was enthu
siastically celebrated in Savannah. It
is a city that sets great store by glo-
riouB memories. -
—The Banner-Watchman -says: “If
the whiskey men don’t use money r
Clarke county will go for Prohibition
by a large majority.”
—Befus E. Lester has been renomi
nated for Mayor of Savannah. He has
made a very superior officer in that po
sition, and deserves re-election.
—“Perhaps after all, the next excite
ment will be a first-class Hanging;
says the Darien Oazcttc. Bather than
disappoint the natives we suppose a
second-class one would do.
—The Darien Gazette thus illustrates
the costliness of politics: “One candi
date last week got eight votes and they m ;
cost him twenty-five cents each, he
having paid two dollars for his tickets.
—“Is winter a failure?” asks the
Augusta Chronicle. Our contempora
ry can find out by volunteering to pay
all the bills for repairing bursted water
pipes, in Augusta, for the current
month.
—Tho Waycroas Reporter annqunces
itself in favor of a protective tariff, and
declares that it “does not expect to
swerve from its present position—party
or no party.” It is at least candid,
when it intimates that it takes that po
sition independent of the Democratic
party.
—Counsel from the Hartwell Sun:
“Don’t buy on a credit any more than
you can help; don’t mortgage your
property for things yon can get along
without. Be prudent and economical;
cat off unnecessary expenditures, and
the pressure of hard times will not be
felt so seriously.”
—Darien Gazette: Henry Rountre
a colored man who is serving oat
term in the chain-gang for a crime for
which he never committed, should he
released at once by the Governor. The
papers in regard to tbe matter are now
Id the hands of Governor McDaniel and
mi hope that he will act upon the case
at once. Rountree is an innocent man
and should be set free.
—Opposition to the local road law in
Whitfield county is thns spoken 'of by
tbe Dalton Argus: “That feature of
the Herndon road law which provides
for per capita taxation is to be met by
the same animosity which prevented
the operation of the Broyles law.
Some Dalton people affect to believe
that it is a great outrage to tax them to
build up the trade of the town, by
which they live and prosper.
—The Times says: “The Insurance
Companies doing business in Valdosta
have reduced the rate of insurance on
risks in Valdosta 20 per cent as prom
ised at last. Onr people were getting
Impatient but the reduction came in
good time enough since a rebate is
given on all policies taken out under
the new rate established last fall which
bad not expired prior to January first.
The rate now is the same it' was prior
to the 20 per cent advance made last
year.”
—Speaking of the advantages of
Borne in a manufacturing point of
view, the Courier aayt: “As an evi
dence of the fact that Home is a fine
objective point for the establishment of
manufacturing industries it is only
necessary to point to tbe success
being achieved by her cotton mills,
plow foundry, oil mills, stove foundry,
machine works, furniture factory, bug
gy factory, flour mills, tannery and
other manufacturing industries.
—Speaking of the Cnyler Swamp
canal, the Morning Reuse says: “This
important work of public improvement
is rapidly drawing to completion. The
canal is dug to a point immediately in
rear of the residence on the old Fair-
child farm, now owned by Mr. An
drew McCormick, and within 300yards
of the cnlvert on the Thunderbolt road
at the Catholic cemetery. There are
ninety-one convicts in the chain-gang,
abont seventy-five of whom are em
ployed on the work, the remainder be
ing engaged in taking care of the
camp,” or are on the sick list. The
good effect of this work is to be seen
by the drying up of the swamp in
places which were heretofore!
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Tickets only $5* Shore* in
portion.
Louisiana State Lottery Company.
“ We do hereby certify that toe super
vise the arrangements for all the Month
ly and Semi-Annual Drawings of The
Louisiana State Lottery Company, and
in person manage and 'control the Draw
ings themselves, and that the same are
conducted with honesty, fairness and in
good faith toward all parties, and we au
thorize the Company to use this certifi
cate, with facsimiles of our signatures
attached, in its advertisements.”
Commissioner*.
. Incorporated in 1868 tor 28 years by the Leg
islature for Educational and Charitable pur
poses—with a capital of $1,000,000—to which a
reserve fund of over $550,000 has since been
added.
By an overwhelming popular vote its fran
Uses was made a part of *
Constitution adopted Octobe
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IT NEVER SCALES OR POSTPONES.
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February lO, 1885-177th Montifij
Drawing.
CAPITAL PRIZE $75,000.
100.000 Tickets at $5.00 Each.
Fractions, in Fifths, in Pro
portion.
LIST or FRIZXS.
1 CAPITAL PRIZE $75,000
1 “ “ 2JL000
2 PRIZES OF $0,000
5 “ 2,000
10 «» 1,000
20 ** 500
100 “ 300
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500 “ 50 ..
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28,000
10,000
12,000
10,000
10,000
10,000
20,000
30.000
25.000
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1967 Prizes, amounting to
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full address. Postal Notes, Express
Money Orders, or New York Exchange in or-
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of $5 and upwards at our expense) adaress *
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It is tbe original, tbe oldest and the best. It
is a vegetable preparation containing no mer
cury or other mineral poison. An excellent
ntly adapted to
to woman. Itls an absolute -
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The following are fair samples of hundreds
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Echeconkxk, Hocston Co., Ox., June
1884.—I take great pleasure in saying I
half a dozen bottles of O. I. C. for a severe
case of scrofula of eight years’ standing, and
am fully restored to health. I cheerfully
recommend it’ to sufferers from blood dia-
we. _ 8. W. Smith.
Macon, Ga.—I have known some marvelous
cures of blood disease by O. I. C. Among
of Syphilis o ’
others I now rerall, was a case o
ten years standing, that come within my per
sonal observation. -The victim had tried al
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.— J. I. C.
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I had in my family a case of Poison Oak that
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^ It is " - -
_ without doubt the
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Agent C. R. R., Perry, Ga.
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SOLD IN ALBANY BY
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ang 29-dly’
Mrs. J. T. BROOKS
Has opened a full line of Millinery Goods in
Willingham’s Building, over Singleton, Hunt
A Co.’s Store.
HATS, BONNETS, PLUMES,
And a line Assortment of
Velvets and Ribbons
Ladies are respectfully invited to examine
these goods and prices before
e purchasing else-
DRESS MAKING!
m prepared to make dresses after ail the
latest styles, and guarantee to ent and fit the
same to tbe entire satisfactic n of patrons.
Albany, Ga., Oct. 23,1883.
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_ r prevent almost rr
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AT PRICES TOStTTTHKTfiSn A3IDTHE
PRICES TO FIT THE SHORT CROP
AND LOW PRICE OF COTTON.
OCR
Dry Goods Department
IS NOW
FULL AND COMPLETE
EMBRACING EVERYTHING KEPT IN A
FIRST-CLASS DRY GOODS STORE
SUCH AS
Prints,
Checks,
Sheeting,
Osnabnrgs,
Notions
LADIES 7 DRESS GOODS
Fine Silks,
Trimmings,
Laces of all Kinds,
SHIRTS,
LADIES’ AND MISSES UN
DERVESTS, Etc.
A FULL STOCK OF
WHICH WILL BE SOLD LOW DOWN.
Onr Stock of
O. I. c.
niin CLOTHING!
Is now complete, and was purchased with
If yon l ' ’ ' '
great care. If you wish to buy a Nice Suit for
a Small Sam of Money come and see ns and
we will save yon money.
.'VAMW
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We are
prepared to meet all competition. All
is for
„„ — lor you to come to see ns and price
onr Shoe*, and yon will be sure to buy. We
bought oar Boots and Shoes to sell and we are
going to nell them.
Fanners and the public generally will find
~ -partment almost overflowing
Department almost overflowing
— mthe way of FAMILY AND
onr Gi
with g. —. —
FANCY GB<— . . . . _
We buy onr Groceries in carloadloUand
can save you money in tbe purchase of all
kinds of goods.
FLOUR !
We handle the Best Brands of Flour shipped
to this market, and only boy by the ear load.
FURNITURE!
One cur load of BedstexcU, Ch,ire end Fine
Bedroom (Sets ju»t reeeired. Cell and examine
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