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SATURDAY, AUG. 2*, ISS3.
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Semi-Annual
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Faints, Oil, Glass,
YARN lap. ETC.
PERFUMERY,
FANCY GOODS,
TOILET ARTICLES.
DRUGGIST’S SUNDRIES,
The beat 5 and 10 cent Ci
gars always on hand. Pipes
and Smokers articles gener
ally.
Ox a recent visit to Worth au.l Dooly
counties, a representative of the News
and Advertiser found the crops gen
erally very promising. Nearly till the
crops he saw, however, have been In
jured by rust, and In some instances
the damage sustained from this cause
Is already serious.
“The popular and prevailing style
now in vogue in Americas in 'eyes’
as wel} as dresses, is ‘baby blue,’ ”
says the Recorder. The Albany girls
have a better Idea of the value of code
trusts than that; so their blue eyes
shine forth over the daintiest white
dresses imaginable.
I Tbe SchMl House.
Rives, Ga., Aug. 19, 18S5.
| JVews and Advertiser:
Your editorial in your paper of ye--
j terday has the right.ring. Build your
school house by subscription, and
J though I may not be aide to help
much, and would fight it to the end
built by taxation of the county, yet
will contribute my mite towards build
ing it by private subscription.
West Dougherty.
CHIT-CHAT.
J. Hotoyer l Cq.’s.
CHEAP K3HEAP!
Great Reductions !
IN EVERY DEPARTMENT AT AND
BELOW COS r.
On Monday, July 13, we will be
reaily with our Remnant Bargain
Dounter, consisting of Silks, Satins,
Cashmeres, and a great many other
Worsted Dres* Goods of every descrip
tion.
Remnants of White and Colored
Lawns, Check Nainsooks, Irish Linen,
and a great many other White Goods
usually kept in a first-class dry goods
store. *
Remnant- of Flannels, C.issimer^s,
Jeans, Waterproofs, Table Liuen,
Ginghams, Bleachiugs, Drillings ami
Sheetings.
Great Sacrifices in Ribbons, Laces
and Embroideries.
This Is no bogus advertisement. We
mean exactly what we say. Every
thing mentioned above at and below
cost. We always like to o|x*n every
season with as much new and fresh
stock as possible, and this fact we have
-established long ago.
J.Hofmayer*Co.
jTRESH turnip seeds
JUST RECEIVED.
FRESH GOOD & LOW PRICIS
•^-Prescriptions filled with care,
day or night.
F. (J. JONES; AGENT.
Rubber Paint.
This is the best paint in the world-
mixed ready for use. Inquire about
it. For sale, with full line of painter’s
material, at bottom prices, at
Welch & A gas’
w&sun Druggist, Alb ““
ARRIVAL AMD DEPART!. RE OF
HAILS.
Office opens at .. .. 8301
Western States, closes 1030J
Northern Mail. 230 p m and 330 p m
Brunswick and Western closes ... 12:00-pm
Brunswick and Western opens. . 2:40 pm
C. W. ARNOLD. Postmaster.
& LE
AT THE
DESIRING TO DISPOSE OP
ALL OF OUR LOW QUARTER
AND LIGHT SUMMER SHOES
FOR LADIES, MISSES, CHILD
REN, MEN AND BOYS WITH
IN THE NEXT THIRTY DA YS,
IN ORDER TO MAKE ROOM
FOR THE HEAKIRST FALI.
STOCK, NOW BEING MANU
FACTURED FOR US, AND
OTHER ADDITIONS WE IN
TEND TO MAKE, WE OFFER
THAT PART OF OUR STOCK
STRICTL Y
AT MB BFIOW GOST
Call umi Convince Yourself.
WANTED,
A n energetic young man as a
Salesman and Bookkeeper. One with
experience in retail store trade preferred.
* " —itJ.r
Enquire of
J. EHRLICH,
City Shoe Store.
Bradfields
An infallible and abso
lute specific for all the
diseases iMjculiar to the
female sex. A trial
means a cure.
I.Julies suffering from
troubles peculiar to their
sex, no matter what kind,
can find relief and cure
in a bottle of llradtleld'a
Female Regulator.
Send for our book containing valuable in-
format&n tor women. It will-be mailed free
to applicants. Address
The Brad field Regulator Co..
• Box 28, Atlanta. Ga.
Sold by all druggists.
N.L. RAGAN,
DEALER IN
Brain and Provisions.
JUST RECEIVED
ONE CAR LOAD SALT.
A LSO, Feed Oats, Corn Meal, Peas, Hay,
Bran, Salt, etc., always on hand. A fresh
lot of Bran just received. I sell at wholesale
and retail, and will be pleased to quote prices
on application.
HART BUGGIES.
1 am also agent at Albany for the celebrated
Hart Buggies, which are conceded to be the
best made in the South. A general assort
ment of these buggies on hand.
N. I. RAGAN.
Albany, Gfc„ Sept. 18,18S4.-Sept7dAwtt.
CAS BESOUGHT CHEAP
ANE 8-HORSE POWER ENGINE
” and FIXTURES. Good as new, and in
splendid running order. Also, One Good Sec
ond-Hand 50-Saw Pratt Giu.
alitf-dw G. M. BACON. Baconton. Ga.
Beast
is older than
more and
AT SOME.
Mr. E. C. Lippett Is one of Worth’s
jnoet prosperous bachelor farmers.
The weather is favorable to the In
crease of rust in cotton on light, sandy
lands.
Mk. Aknhkim has introduced a local
bill to enlarge the corporate limits of
Albany. •
To find the place to buj’ Shoes and
Hats cheap go to
sun&wlt W. R. Singleton & Co’s.
Our warehousemen are doing a
thriving trade just now, in bagging
and ties.
A Two-HOKSFi wagon load of corn, of
this year’s crop, came into the city,
Monday.
Use West’s Dead Shot Worm Powders.
Pleasant to take, astonishing in their
results. Use no other. Sold by W. E.
IIlLSMAX & Co. 2
All the crops on the river road be
tween Albany and Warwick, Worth
county, are unusually promising.
Betff shooting.
The lieef "shooting mentioned, in the
Xr.ws and Advertiser >everal days
ago came off Thursday at Mr. L. T.
Fields’s store near Leesburg, and sey-
eral of the boys from Albany took a.
hand in it. As was to hive beea-ex-
pectetl, most of the beef fell to 'the
Albany marksmen. Mr. A. P. Greer
won two quarters and hide and tallow,
Mr. W. W. Hooks two . quarters, Mr.'I
Montezuma has gone to work to raise ! *'* Flayed tnie quarter, Mr. \ . A. |
the $6,000 requisite for putting a cotton ! CIe SS one q uarter and Mile anil tallow,
boat on Flint river, to ply between that j 3Ir ; T - a, ‘ l1 JSf- M - ■ u * ras
point aud Warwick. A meeting was one quarter each. When -it com
held on Wednesday iastaud |2,250 were j'OM-kswanship, the Albany boys are
snbsoribed in a few minutes. The boat j *° < *° their own shooting,
will be put on in time for this year’s j inNeJ Quarter*,
crop. It will be a paring enterprise. Messrs. \V. R. Singleton A Co. have
left their old stand on the south side
We are offering Shoes and Hats at
prices that will surprise the natives,
sun&wlt W. R. Singleton & Co.
The county commissioners have not
yet fixed the tax rate for this year, but
it will probably not excceed one-half "
of one per cent.
The cotton men of Albany will
have their cotton dispatches placed on
file f<$L* reference at Lamar, Rankin A
Lamar’s, this year.
A bill to prevent stock from run
ning at large in that part of Lee county
west of Kincliafoonee creek has been
introduced in the Legislature.
Tiik municipal arm of Albany was
once bared in defence of the “poor
little” English sparrow. He has the
numbers now to take care of himself.
This month and the next are the
months for meteoric displays. People
that, feel disposed to sit up anil watch
for them are sometimes amply repaid
in meteoric currency.
Having moved to our new quarters,
we can do as well or better than here
tofore. W. R. Singleton & Co.
The “railroad” artesian well in
Americas is now 150 feet deep. AVhat
lias become of the other one? Our
contemporary, the Recorder, should
not let the artesian enterprise drop.
The best thing for girls to do, these
days, is to avoid romantic marriages.
Tlie less romance there* is about matri
mony the better it will wear. It it be
not a couuuon-sense affair there is no
sense in it.
Every day we see accounts of some
one who has had his “load of bile re
moved,” and bis system put in thor
ough repair by using Smith's Bile
Beans. Read their praises of this
wonderful remedy. 'For* sale by F.
C. Jones, agent.
The proceedings of the Legislature
show the introduction of a resolution
by Mr. Arnheim“appropriating money
to pay the expenses of the Jackson
Light Artillery of Albany in repair
ing Napoleon guns belonging to the
State.”
Cotton-pickers will soon be in de
mand. When the season fully opens
we hope to see a falling off in the num
ber of idle, lazy negro boys that throng
the streets of the city. How they man
age to live is probably a midnight
mystery.
Fulton Market Beef, (boneless),
Beef Tongues, Dried Beef and Break-
last Bacon, at (2t) A. Sterne’s.
Hon. J. B. Norman, and his son,
Mr. J. W. Norman and Mr. Miles
Monk and son, of Colquitt county, were
in the city, Tuesday. They report the
cotton crop in their section good, corn
has been cut off to some extent by
drouth.
The new engine for the ice factory
has arrived and will soon be in posi
tion. With facilities for manufactur
ing thus increased, the company will
see to it that the ice supply Is of the
very finest quality and always equal to
the demand.
Wr regret to learn that Maj. J. J,
Mash, father of Mr. H. T. Mash ot this
city, whom we spoke of a«
being bitten by a rattlesnake,
died within two hours after he was bit
ten. The bereaved have the sympa
thies of the News and Advertiser.
Messrs. Juo. D. Hope, D. C.
Gleaton and Alexander Taylor, of
Worth'county, were in the city yes
terday, aud reported heavy rains
throughout their section oil Wednes
day. They also stated that rust will
greatly diminish their harvest of cot
ton.
A hunting party, consisting of
Messrs. J. W. Walters, Joe S. Davis,
J. W. Che Yes and Tom Sibley, left the
city, Thursday morning, for a deer
drive. They returned about noon
with a flue doe as the result of the
hnnt. They went to the Dent place,
about five miles east of Albany, where
Mr. Sibley was fortuuate enough to
secure the prize. -
The A ugnsta Chronicle puts a truth
that amounts to nothing, and two
tmths that amount* to a great deal in
the following paragraph—a truth to a
sentence:
‘-‘The Southern truck farmers are in
the dumps and damning the Northern
middlemen. If we had a populous
home market there would be no trou
ble. The fact is, the South is a pigeon
that continues to be plucked.” .
Find the number of bushels of corn
and meal, the manlier of sacks and
barrels of floor and the Dumber.of
pounds of meat and lard that have
been brought to tliD market the pres
ent season, aud estimate Its cost in cot
ton at $40 per bale. It will prove au
interesting sum, aud will stagger some
people with its proportions. Let
farmers that are “good at figures” try
a iiand at it.
A man was going along the streets
of Albany, Sunday afternoon, softly
whistling a loveditty. Near Welch &
Agar’s corner he parsed a crowd of
street gamins, *when lie heard one of
them remark to another:
“That’s a mighty tall man."
“Yes,” responded the other, “but
he’s a powerful poor whistler.”
Tills broke him up. The tone wasn’t
prosecuted any further.
Horrible! Excruciating!! Why suffer
'O, when Tetter can Ik* cured? West’s
Dead Shot Tetter Remedy is an unfail
ing remedy. Price 50 cents per bottle.
Sold bv W. E. IIilsmax & Co. 2
You should go aud see the elegant
Shoe ami Hat Store of
snn&wlt. W. R. Singleton & Co.
The cotton compress has arriverd and
the work-of getting itr in position is
being actively prosecuted. It will be
erected in gift’s old warehouse, near
the B. & W. depot, and a track from
the B. A W. road will be run into the
warehouse for convenience in ship
ping cotton.
Messrs. John D. Hope and brother,
of Worth county, have one of the finest
crops we have seen. They have up
wards of three huudred acres In cot
ton, all of which is good. They have
one patch of twenty-six acres, from
which, they expect to realize at least
twenty bales.
Bncklan’S Arnica Salve.
The best salve in the world for Cuts,
Bruises, Sores,, Ulcers, Salt Rheum,
Fever Sores, Tetter, Chaped Hands,
Chilblains, Corns', and all Skin Erup
tions, aud positively cores. Piles or no
pay required. It Is guaranteed to give
perfect satisfaction, or money refund
ed. Price 25 cents cents per box.
or sale by Lamar, Rankin & Lamar
jane 28-ly
No citizen of Albany, to whom its
prosperity and good repute are mat
ters of any moment; will refuse to con
tribute to the speedy building of an
academy for the education of boys and
young men. Without some institution
of the sort {lie city will continue to
retrograde, and it isn’t worth the while
for one' to shut his eyes to the fact. It
will be bard work to recover the
groitud already lost by past delinquen
cy in this partic ular.
Mu. .1. II. Rutland,of Worth coun
ty, is one of the most prosperous far
mers in Southwest Georgia. He own§
a large plantation on the river, twenty
miles from Albany, for which he paid
three hundred bales of cotton. He
bought the place on time v and paid for
it from the proceeds of three consecu
tive crops. Tills shows whether money
can lie mode in this section by tilling
the ground,when good management,in
dustry aud economy are employed.
The citizens of Albany Should try to
familiarize themselves with the fact
that that school house lias to be built,
and that they will have to furnish the
funds for the work. When it is con
sidered that the school will do good to
every material interest in the city, the
lowest motive will be appealed to for
accomplishing the work; but it ought
to be sufficient, even were there no
other consideration, to iusure its ac
complishment. The school hou$c
must be built.
Mr. J. P. Brinson, whose farm is
six miles south of the city, came in af
ter a supply of London purple, Mon
day afternoon. He says that the cat
erpillars have made their appearance
in alarming numbers in his cotton,
during the last two days, and that his
crop will be destroyed if he does not
succeed in killing out the pests with
the London purple. Up to Sunday he
had seen no caterpillars in his cotton,
but now he thinks his fields will aver
age twenty-five worms to the stalk.
The only un&iling remedy for Chills
and Fever is West’s Dead Shot Fever
and Ague Tonic, Sold, everywhere.
Sold by W. E. Hilsmax & Co. 2
We regret to learn that some 6f the
natives are troubled on the prohibition
question. It will not do at all, during
dog days, to allow the mind to be har
assed by vexatious questions. It is
vastly better to attend to what is in
hand, and let the *futnre take care of
itself. The local option bill isn’t a law
yet, and prohibition will keep till there
is a fall ‘in the temperature. Mean
time, Col. Tift will probably add an
other bouncing artesian well to the
water resources of the city. There is
no fluid famine in sight.
A young man from an adjoining
county loaded up on benzine .in
city one night last week and
Into the uncomely quarter of thejelty,
where he raised an alarm by firing off
a pistol in a house. He was arrested
by Officer Cowan, who took his pistol
from him and, accompanied by Officer
Bennett, conducted him-to safe quar
ters. The yonng man replenished the
city treasury by a 10-doll:tr contribu
tion the next morning, and paid
$40 for the privilege of pleading guilty,
before Judge Jones’s court, of carrying
concealed weapons.
A representative of tins paper had a
short conversation, Thursday,. with
Mr. G. C. Hall, of Baker county, on
the crop outlook in that quarter.
•There has been au
rain in the county, not a
last twenty-five ha’
a shower. As would
from such a state of *
picking is backward,
pillars are largely on the increase. To
show the rapidity of their develop
ment, be stated that he passed one of
Mr. Bob Odom’s fields, one day this
week, without seeing a worm. Pass
ing it the next day, he found It strip
ped bare of its leaves, except In a few
spots. Rust also is on the increa.se;
but, in spite of ail the drawbacks, he
thinks the crop will be a good one: r - -
— — *
of Broad street and gone into the new
store’on the opposite side’of the street
next to the Bank, and Mr. W. M
Key, the business manager, looks hap
py. His new store, well filled with
new goods, all. nicely arranged, is
real gem, and he lias evidently made
np his mind to keep tbe handsomest
shoe and hat store in the country. He
has a full line of new* goods iu the way
of boots and shoes, hats, tranks, va
lises, umbrellas, etc., aud was never in
better trim'for business. Call on him
and see If you do not find jt so.
Bear* Numerous in Baker County.
Bears are sa numerous in Baker
county that farmers are. compelled to
waylay and shoot them, to prevent
their ravages on the coni crop. We
have beard of several instances, re
cently, where they have, made serious
havoc in corn fields. A few days ago
a negro man, a tenant on Capt. W. D.
Smith’s Sutherlifr. Diace, 10 or 12
miles below Albany, determined to
take a stand inhis corn field anti sur
prise the audacious intruders. He had
not long to wait before a large she
bear, accompanied by two cubs, made
their appearance. He concealed him
self aud waited tiU the brutes were
close upon him, w hen he took deliber
ate aim and with one barrel of his
well-charged gun brought the old one
down, l'he cubs were surprised anil
mystified, aud taking advantage of
their confusion be hastily reloaded,
aud dispatched them both.
We have just received the.Trunk
for you, call and see it, at
sun&wlt W. R. Singleton & Co’s.
Justice to Kir. Johu Mock.
We have before us two circulars pur
porting to come from the “office of the
executive committee of the anti-pro
hibition union of Georgia,” located in
Savannah. These circulars are both
concluded with what purparts to be
the names of the members of said “ex
ecutive committee” Among other
fiames, which inav be spurious Or gen
uine, appears that of “John Mack
Albany, Ga.” There is no such man
in Albany as John Mack. There is
such a man here as John Mock, but he
is not a member of the “executive com
mittee of the anti-prohibition union of
Georgia,” and is too much of a man to
spend his own money or solicit that of
other people, to corrupt the voters of
the State, in the interest either of pro
hibition or anti-prohibition. The use
of his name in auy such connection is
unauthorized and, to say tlie best of it.
decidedly, discreditable to the guilty
party. . 'Hie News and Advertiser
gladly sets Mr. Mock right in this mat
ter, l»y bis authority. It may be fur
ther said in this connection that if the
people of*. Dougherty: county desire
prohibition, no man In the comity will
accept the situation more willingly aud
unreservedly than Mr. Mock.
Wight, Dari* & Co.
This sterling and enterprising ware
house firm makes its annual bow to the
planters of Southwest Georgia in the
columns of the News and Advertiser
this morning. They have on hand a
good supply of bagging and ties,
bacon, etc., and are prepared to fnru-
ish such goods to "planters at the low>
est market prices. And when it
comes to
COTTON,
to handliug the staple and converting
tlie same into money for the producer,
Wight, Davis & Co. are on a jar with
tlie best warehousemen in the country.
Their facilities for weighing and stor
ing are all that could be desired,-and
they have a large and convenient
wagon yard for tlie accommodation of
those of their patrons who come from
a distance, or spend the night with
their teams in the city.
Mr. W. S. Fleming will be in charge
of the scales of this firm again this
son, and may be depended on, as every
one who is acquinted with him well
know’s, to do the_ “square thing.
The firm of Wight, Davis & Co. Is
composed of three active, energetic
business men, and they all give* their
persoual attention to the firm’s busi
ness. Capt. Wight is the salesman,
and his long experience In handling
the staple has long since given him the
reputation of an expert. Those w’bose
cotton passes through his hands will
always get the top of the maiket for it.
By reference to their advertisement
elsew'here in this paper it will be seen
that Messrs. Wight, Davis & Co. keep
an open insurance poliey eoveriug all
cotton stored In their warehouse. They
have, in short, made every provision
for tbe security aud best interests of
their patrons, and may safely calculate
to handle a good sharer of -the cotton
brought to Albany this season.
* Not Encouraging;.
The News and Advertiser : has
prepared Its readers for low prices far
cotton, this season, tfnd given the rea
sons that led to the conclusion. The
from the Anteri
or interest to the
buyers—in fact,
of them- are
-*tly interested
Says the
cotton buyers
a leading New;
following
cus Recorder
farmers and the
to all bur
either directly
in the price of
Recorder r
“Last week one
received an offer
Yoi*
250
pool, to be shippedTiefore Sept. 1. The
offer was declined, as Savannah was
quoted at the^same figures, but yester
day this buyer got a'letter from the
New Y^ork house stating that the offer
folk... As in Liverpool is at pres
ent just equivalent to 7 cents in
Americas, it will be’seen that cotton
men in the United States are actually
making sales on a basis of the market
being 7 cents before Sept. 1st in the
interior, a decline of 2 cents from.the
figures paid by our merchants here
for cotton last week. Somebody
had better stand from under, if tbi
'
Advice to Mother!.
It is just possible that the transac-
tion referred to may not indicate the
price that will rule later on, hut we
Mas. Winslow's Soothing Sybuf rather think it does. The only good
should always be used for children j thino- we can see in this connection is
teething. It soothes the child, softens ”
the gums, allays all pain, cures wind
colic, and is the best remedy for diar- sa>
rhoea. 25 cents a bottle. aull-lv L '
,siug powe
yean
Fer»ont mid Tliiuir* in an4 out of
^ w Tow ;i.
Will you tell me why colonel
la >iK.’Jietl in a stele so infolonel?
If Journal la not*spelle<t Jolonel,
Then tv by spell kernel, Colonel?
The pessimist exclaims: “Pray tell
What earthly good are flies:*'’
The optimi-tt r*.-pon<l*: “ l*o put
In huckleberry pies.”
—Boston Saturday Evening Gazette.
AT NEWPORT.
Belinda Smith met Nellie Brown
One lovely summer day.
Upon the rocks at Mt. Desert,
And onto her did say: . _ v-
**I*m happy as the little bird f S
That carol' in the tree.
I'm happy as the bnturfly
That flutters through the lea.”
* ■sBmrvUSr'
Said pretty Nellie Brown. .
“Is it your lovely Gainesboroagfa,
Or Mother Habbaid gown*" .
“Oh. no," Belinda Am repUt d.
In tender dulcet tones:
i
- “What, Harry Jones?” cried Nelly Brown,
As mad as she conld be,
“Why, ainee last Thursday at tbe bop.
He's been engage 1 to me.”
BAILEY & SHAFFER
Jesse D. Weston is in the city.
‘—Mr. H. T. Mash has returned to
the city*
—Charley Rawson has retained to
the city. .
c"thbStf* S. Davis spent Sunday in
—Capt. A. C. Westbrook has return
ed to the city.
—Mr. J. D. C-heves has returned
from the North.
—The brides are all w earing a bunch
of white heather.
i —Mr. Sidney Jones is back again
from Fort Gaines.
—Capt. R. Hobbs went up to Atlanta
JUohd»y.more^p§J lOETTlW
—It will cost $500,000,000 to complete
the Panama canal.
—It’s etiquette now to take the last
bread oil Uieqiljite. ± -
—Mr. L Tl Callaway has returned
from a visit to Atlanta.
—The pretty girls haven’t all left
Alliauy, by & great deal.
—Mr. -R. H. Warren is iii the city,
fresh from the mountains.
—Judge J. M. Boggs, of Camilla,
•was in tbe city Wednesday. :
—Mr. A. P. Coles, of Columbia, S.
C., has returned to the city.
—Mr. W. E. Cutliff has recovered
from his attack of bilious fever.
—Capt. John A. Davis aud family
went up to Indian Spring, Monday.
—Rev. J. O. Branch passed through
the city Monday, on his return to Dixie.
—Miv Henry Newell, of artesian
well fame, was in tbe city, yesterday.
—Fashionable ladies in Paris now-
wear short silk socks insteails of stock
ings.
—A little girl fitly described nerv
ousness as “just being iu a hurnr all
over.”
—Miss Willie Oliver has returned to
the city after au absence of about three
months.
—It takes a sharp Albany clerk to
know jiu*l when and how to visit his
sweetheart.
—Henry Clay bestowed the title
“Queen City of the West” on Cincin
nati iu 1828. V
—Belva Lockwood is described by a
San Francisco newspaper as an “earth-
earthy” woman.
—Messrs. Geo. P. Mims and Toni
Taylor, * of Lee county, were in the
city Wednesday.
—Mrs. W. S. Cowan and children
have returned from their visit to rela
tives in Conyers.
-Mr. W. II. Lippett, of Worth
county, is convalescing from an at
tack of bilious fever.
—Mr. Walter Hill left, Monday,
for St. Simon's Island, where lie will
take a few days’ recreation.
—The frequent jugglings of tw’O of
our youngish old bacuelors suggests
the suspicion of mischief ahead.
•A negro who' dived into a lake at
Apopka. Fla., recently, stuck his head
so fast * into the mud that he was
drowned.
—John Roach, the Philadelphia ship
builder,is an irishman from the neigh
borhood of Mitehellstowu, in the coun
ty of Cork.
•Dr. E. W. Alfriend has returned
to Albany after au abseuce of several
days in 11 aucock county, iu attendance
on a pui.L.t.
Mr. T. J. Pinson aud Miss Fannie
Johnson, noth of East Dougherty,
were married, on Sunday, the Rev. G.
W. Mathews officiating.
—The grasshoppers in Iowa having
eaten uearly every green thing, have
n«-w commenced on the authors of
Grant poetical eulogies.
—An Englishman has discovered
that kissing, to be Scriptual, must be
between those of the same sex. It is
evident that the B\hle needs to be re
vised just once more.
—Capt. Toni Welch, the well-knowu
aud popular conductor on the South
western Railroad, has taken the run on
the accommodation train between
Albany a.»J Montgomery.
—Messrs. J. A. J. Henderson and
Win. 1. Paulk, of Alapaha, T. J.
Thornton, of Dawson, and A. J. Har
rell, of Valdosta, were registered at
the Barnes House, Thursday.
—The rule of the Austrian court pro
hibiting Jews from enteriiig its pre
cincts should be brought to the atten
tion of tbe .Rothschilds the next time
the empire wants to raise a loan.
—Mr. C. W. Randall, who went up
to Carroll county with his family about
ten days ago, returned on Sunday af
ternoon, and is now a member of Bob
deGraffenried’ssad and lonesome club.
—Mr. Buskin’s illness is due to an
accident. Like Mr. Gladstone, be is
fond of wood-chopping, and while cat
ting trees on his estate at Brentwood,
his ax slipped and a gash was cut in his
leg.
—Mr. J. B. Roberts, of Union
Springs, Ala., spent yesterday in the
city. He came to visit his brother-in-
law, Mr. Will B. Dozier, who has been ,
laid up wi‘h rheumatism for a week
mst. Mr. Dozier accompanied Mr.
Roberts home last night.
Continue their vengeance against the stock
now on hand hy constantly cutting down
prices. These goods must be cleared out.
We don’t want to mix the new with the old.
Everything
AT AND BELOW ACTUAL COST!
Printer’s ink is too expensive to joke with.
When we advertise Solid Bargains, we do so
in solemn truth, and you can always be con
vinced of it by calling at the
Great Reduction In Store*.
Haring just bought a car loail of new
Stores at greatly reduced prices, we
have decided to give our customers the
benefit of the reduction. The
reduction is sufficient to induce
those who want stoves to buy
them of u.s aud to buy them
now. Xo such bargains in stoves
and store fixtures hare ever been of
fered in this market as we are now of
fering. Xowis the time to buy. Come
and see.
Sheffield db Hell.
A Car Load of Xew Stoves just re
ceived. Sheffield do Bell.
Shot Himself Through the Band.
The sharp report of a pi&ol was
heard on Washington street, near
Broad, Monday morning. It came
from Mr. S. A. Barnes’s meat shop.
Mr. Joseph Thompson had discharged
the weapon accidentally and shot him
self through the hand. Isaac Kimball,
colored, who works for Mr. Barnes,
went into the shop and. showed an old
pistol to Thompson. It was out of or
der, and he wanted Thompson to ad
vise him whether it was worth taking
to the gunsmith for repairs. Thomp
son, who was sitting down at a desk
posting some accounts, took hold of
the pistol to examine it. Ho cocked it
with his left hand, and carelessly held
his right hand over the muzzle or im
mediately in front of it. Anyhow,
the thing went off and shot him
through the right hand, breaking the
bone back of the middle finger and
cutting the'sinews. The wound is a
bad one, and will disfigure and partial
ly cripple the injured hand for life.
Thompson stood the shock manfully,
however, and deliberately walked over
to Dr. Bacon’s office for repairs, the
blood streaming from his had as he
went.
FfiOX DB. J. L. LLOYD.
A Tribute to tbe Late Hr*. D. A.
Yuan.
Gonzales, Texas, Aug. 11,1885.
News and Advertiser:
I am just in receipt of your weekly
issue of the 8th inst. It always comes
to me freighted with news of more or
less interest to myself and fam’ly. In
this issue you chronicle the death of
Mrs. Judge Vason. This sad event
will carry sorrow and grief to many
hearts. Not only to relatives and
friends, but thousands of the saints in
Georgia and elsewhere who knew sis
ter Vason as a very devout and conse
crated Christian and as an untiring
worker in the vineyard of grace and
truth. I never knew a more constant
attendant upon tlie services of tbe
sanctuary than she. The church, tbe
community, and the poor, will miss
her. More than all, the aged husband
will miss her love and ministrations of
tenderness. The Lord sustain him in
this time of great trial and sorrow.
Yours Truly,
J. L. Lloyd.
A Narrow Escape.
Mr. W. O. Watson, of this city, was
out in Worth county surveying some
land, on Thursday of last week,
and had a very narrow es
cape from being bitten by a
large rattlesnake. He had his eye on
an object ahead of him, and stepped
across a log. Feeling something
squirming under his foot, be looked
down and was horrified by the sight of
a large rattlesnake. His foot was on
tbe snake’s tail, and the venomous
reptile was struggling with all his
might to strike him. The snake seem
ed clumsy and weighted down nearthe
head, however, and Mr. Watson man
aged to get away from him
in time to escape contact with Iub dead
ly fangs. His snakeship was soon dis
patched, when Mr. Watson found the
cause of his clumsiness and realized
what a narrow escape he had made.
Tbe reptile had swallowed a rabbit,
andit had passed just tar enongh on
its way to the home base to weight the
fore part of the body down. With Mr.
Watson’s foot on its tail and the rabbit
in its neck, the snake was unable to
throw itself into a coil or raise its bead
high enough to strike.
Mr. Watson’s father was killed by a
snake, and he says it gives him the
shudders to think of his own narrow
escape on Thursday.
Many persons suffer from horrid
dreams and frightful pains, accompa
nied by nightmare. If the liver acts
properly it removes all objectionable
matter from tbe blood, and in order to
cause the liver to act properly take one
of Smith’s Bile Beans on going to bed.
Price, two bits per bottle. For sale by
F. C. Jones, agent.
A Romance spalled.
The Americus papers reported a ro
mantic marriage in that city last week.
The romance, boiled down, was about
this: A traveling phrenologist named
B. Diewes and Miss Stella Stokes “met
by chance’’ on the train at Smithville.
They had met before, somewhere, and
were infatuated one with the other.
Between Smithville and Americus they
talked of love and matrimony, and when
tbe train halted at the Americus depot
they got off together. The balance of
the romance is thus told by the Ameri
cus Republican:
“It was whispered around that a
Gretna Green affair was on the
tapis. And such was the case, for
soon the necessary papers were
procured and the services of Dr.
A. T. Mann called to celebrate the
rites of®matrimony between Mr. K.
Diewes and Miss Steda Stokes, of
Smithville. They returned on the
1:30 train, happy, jubilant and tri
limphant, conscious of the fact that
“love laughs at locks and bars,” and
likewise irate parents.. May their
lives be always as bright and nappy as
this wedding morn.”
And now comes the Savannah Times
and spoils this beautiful little romance.
It is the same old story. Tbe unsus
pecting maiden finds out, after it is too
late, that men betray, and that her
new-made husband is a man of Mor
mon proclivities. She “married in
haste and will repent at leisure.”
It turns out that Diewes
has another living wife who was a
daughter of the late Judge Williams,
of Camden, Ala. She was a widow
when she married Diewes. His mar
riage to the yonng widow, whose
former husband was named Hitchcock,
was a very sudden affair, and so in
censed the citizens of Camden that
they hang the professor in effigy. He
afterwards went to Jacksonville, then
to Savannah, his wife following him.
In the latter c;ty the professor distin
guished himseif by getting on a ramp
age, firing a pistol and threatening the
extermination of the family and man
kind in general. He was arrested.
Shortly afterward the home he occu
pied was burned, and the furniture,
on which was an insurance policy,
was destroyed. He Obtained $400 and
started for Atlanta, where he was fol
lowed by his wife. Nothing more was
heard of the pair until the notice in
the Americus paper of his marriage
with Miss Stokes.____
An Important Discovery.
The most important Discovery Is
that which brings the most good to the
greatest number, Dr. King’s New
Discovery for Consumption, Coughs
and Colds, will preserve the health and
save life, and 1s a priceless boon to the
afflicted. Not only does it positively
cure Consumption, but Conghs, Colds,
Bronchitis, Asthma, Hoarseness and all
affections of the Throat, Chest and
Lungs, yield at once to its wonderful
curative powers. If you doubt this,
A STANDARD WAREHOUSE.
3. dc A. F. Tift 4c Co., Warehouse
men and Dealers in General
merchandise.
It is perhaps not generally known
that Messrs. N. do A. F. Tift do Co’s
warehouse is now a standard ware
house—that is, one so constructed and
furnished as to comply with all the re
quirements of the American Under
writers’ Association for cotton ware
houses which, by reason of Btieh com-
pliance, are given the lowest or stand
ard rate of insurance. But such is the
case. By the exercise of that fore
sight so characteristic of this staunch
and enterprising firm, aud the expen
diture of a few thousand dollars, they
have hot only made their warehouse a
“standard” one, but have added every
convenience that experience and the
demands of their extensive business
could suggest for receiving, weighing
and shipping cotton.
With such a warehouse and facili
ties, backed by their reputation as bus
iness men; with the veteran Mr. S. A
Atkinson at the scales and tbe experi
enced, level-headed and ever ready
Mr. T. M. Carter in the salesroom
this firm is bound to handle a big share
of tile cotton that is marketed in
Albany.
But the business of Tift do Co. is uot
confined to the warehouse and the sale
and storage of cotton. They deal in
and are manufacturers’ agents for
steam engines, farm machinery and
implements. They also carry a full
stock of
GENERAL MERCHANDISE,
embracing all staple articles and a full
line of clothing, hats, shoes, dress
goods, etc., etc. They carry a large
stock, and know the wants of the
people of this region, with whom they
have been dealing for years. They
are now beginning to receive some of
their recent purchases for the early
fall trade, and are preparing to run a
lively schedule this tail and winter in
both the warehouse and the store.
LIST OF JURORS
Drawn (or September Term, 1885,
Colquitt Superior Court. -
GRAND JURORS.
Paten Weeks. Henry Swords,
Mitchell Hancock,John J. Welon,
S. M. Craft, M. E. Nesmith,
W. H. Murphy, Thomas Watson,
Joseph Weeks, Lewis Castleberry,
M. F. Baker, JudsonM. Roberts,
B. F. Merchant, J. R. M. Lindsey,
John T. Norman,J. J. Norman,
Miles Monk, Gibson Laucar,
Joseph G. Russ, Elijah MeCraney
D. T. English, T. 51. Allygood,
J. B. 5Iurphy, M. C. Weeks.
Absolom Baker, jr.,Thomas Suber,
James Murphy, sr.
PETIT JURORS.
Wm. Alexander, Charles H. Burney,
&
A Wet -Subject.
The effects of Wednesday’s nuns
were plainly visible, early Thursday
morning, in low-banging clouds,
dripping vegetation, washed streets
and ditches filled with sand. Last
year, abont this time, the great under
ground reservoirs were about exhaust
ed of their water supplies; but if they
are not now full, to the point of ran
ning over, it is because their capacity
is immeasurable. Undoubtedly, the
rainfall since the first of Jnly has been
much greater than usual in this section
of the State; and, considering the
drouths of the two years just past, it is
reasonable to conclude that the recent
supplies have been wisely designed to
replenish the exhausted reservoirs of
which we have spoken. Due consid
eration of this fact will be sufficient to
convince any reasonable person that the
ills growing out of the seeming excess
of water now are more than compen
sated by the fact that nature is laying
up in her immense stdre-honses sup
plies of moisture against the possible
drouths of the fnture.
This is borne out by the fact that the
great rainfalls of the past month and a
half have been principally in the sec
tion that suffered most from drouth in
1883-4. For instance, the mean rain
fall in Middle Georgia for the month
of July was 3.48 inches, while that of
Southwest Georgia for the same period
was 6.52 inches, or nearly 100 per
cent, greater. The reportfor the pres
ent month will show a still greater
fail of rain in this section, with no in
crease, and, probably, a falling off,
in that of Middle Georgia. Reports
from that portion of the State claim a
want of rain amounting almost to
drouth in some of the counties.
On the whole, then, it is better, all
things considered, just to let It rain.
It will be all right in tbe end; or, if it
isn’t, no one will be able to establish
the fact by any known method of rea
soning.
Diewes the Bigamist, Arrested.
The readers of the News and Ad
vertiser have already 'had the partic
ulars of the sudden marriage, at Amer
icus,about two weeks ago, of Miss Stel
la Stokes, of Smithville, to a travel
ing -phrenologist named Diewes and
have also been informed of the fact
that Diewes was a scoundrel, having
another living wife at the time of
his marriage. In the Atlanta Consti
tution of Monday we find the follow
ing special, by which it will be seen
that this traveling Mormon has been
arrested in Mississppi and brought back
to Georgia:
Professor R. O. Diewes, who married
Miss Stella Stokes, of Smithville, Ga.,
in Americus, on Tuesday of last week,
has been proven a bigamist and scoun
drel of the first water. Tbe relatives
of the yonng lady traced Diewes to
Newton, Miss., where he was arrested
yesterday and brought back to this city
to-day. He refuses to make any state
ment, but says the lady is innocent,
and all the blame is upon him. The
prisoner left this afternoon for Smith-
ville, Ga., accompanied by the father
and brother of Miss Stokes, the unfor
tunate young lad}'.
Use West's EyeWater. A sure cure
. for sore and inflamed eyes. Price, 25
;et a Trial Bottle Free, at Lamar, Ban- cents per bottle. Sold by W. E. Hils-
do Lamar’s Drug Stori
man do Co.
Berrieu Craft,
S. G. Burges,
J. M. Bennett,
Aaron Vick,
James H. West,
J. W. Walters,
Benj. Holland,
Lewis Gregory,
E. Crosby,
Jacob Plymeal,
T. H. Murphy,
Alvin Holland,
A. W. Mathews,
George Suber,
H. A. Tucker,
L. C. Hancock,
Thomas Sherley,
J. J. Baker,
Hiram Tucker,
R. J. Norman,
S. W. Murphy,
Charles H. Cook,
Lewis Gay,
M. 51. Blanton,
T. J. Fields,
T. R. Cooper,
I. C. Duncan,
Thomas Barrow,
J. M. Aycock,
John Bootright,
Lewis Phillips,
W. P. Murphy,
Joseph Richter,
Daniel Burney.
He Hod Something Fanny.
“I’ve got somethin’ funny to tell
you, and I want yon to put it in the
paper,” said a yonng man from Col'
quitt county as he walked into the
News and Advertiser office on Fri
day night, holding his sides as if lie
had laughed all tbe way to town.
“All right, let’s have it,” replied the
scribe.
“He-liyah-hyah-hvah! Jeems Mil
ler—be-hyah-hyah-hyah—Jeems H.
Miller says that lie catrhed a flfteen-
pound trout outer: Ockolocknee river
with a perch hook and line—he-hyah-
hyah-hyah!”,
“How many pounds did you say?”
Inquired the scribe as he commenced
to write the story down.
“Fifteen—be-hyah-hyah-hyah.”
“With a perch book and line?’
“Yes, sir, witli a perch hook and line,
snd he’s been a tollin' It all around—he-
hyab-hyab-hyah.”
“All right.”
“Now, have you got it all down ?
“Yes.”
“Got it all down now—fifteen-pound
trout with a perch hook and line ?”
“Yes, got it all down.”
“Now read it to me, and let’s see
bow she sounds.”
The scribe read—
“James H. Miller, of Colquitt conn-
ty.says he caught a fifteen-pound trout
in Ockolocknee river with a perch book
and line.”
; ‘He-byah-hyah-hyah! That’s it.
That’ll be a funny piece, won’t it? He-
hyah-hyah-hyab? But, say, don’t
you think we’d better tell what kind of
bait he used?”
“Yes; guess so.”
“Well just say, flat-heads.”
“Flat-heads? What’s flat-heads?”
“Worms; these white flat-headed
worms that comes off’n dead pines.
Don’t you know what flat beads is?
He-hyah-byah-byah!"
“All right flat-heads it is.”
“Got it all down ?”
“Yes.”
“Flat-beads an’ all?”
“Yes ”
“He-hyah-hyah-hyah! When will it
be in the paper?”
“To-morrow.”
“It’ll be in thar now certain, will it?’
“Certain.”
“All right. He-liyah-hyah-byali
That’ll be a funny piece, and there’ll
be lots, o’ fellers lookin’foritdown out
way—he-hyah-hyah-hyah! Good
uight; I’ll bring you some more funny
pieces some time.”
An End ta Bone Scraping.
Edward Shepherd, of Harrisburg,
IU., says: “Having received so much
benefit irom Electric Bitters, I feel it
my duty to let suffering humanity
know it. Have had a running sore on
my leg for eight years; my doctors
told me I would have to have the bone
scraped or leg amputated. I used, in
stead, three bottles of Electric Bitters
and seven boxes Buckien’s Arnica
Salve, and my leg is now sound and
well.
Electric Bitters are sold at fifty cents
a bottle, and Buckien’s Arnica Salve at
25 cents per box by Lamar, Bankin do
Lamar. 5
—It is a curious fact that wasps’
nests often take fire, as is supposed, try
the chemical action of the was upon the
material or whieh the nest is composed.
51 any of the fires of unknown origin in
hay sticks and farm buildings may thus
be accounted for.
Albany Markets.
The following are generally wholesale
prices, and to buy at retail higher price*
would have to be paid.
MEATS.
Bulk, clear rib sides, per pound
Bacon per pound 8
Hams per pound. : v 12l£@15
Shoulders per pound *.
COBS AND MEAL.
Corn, white per bushel 85
Corn, mixed, perbnshel 81
White meal per bnshel 85
FLOUR AND BBAN.
Flour, best patent, per bbl 6 75®7 00
•* choice, per bbl 0 00®6 50
44 extra family per bbl 5 25(g5 75
44 family per bbl 5 00
Bran, per cwt 1 10
LEATHER
Country kipper pound
Choice kip per pound 85@1 00
French calf each 8 7BMi 00
Sole hemlock per pound 85Q} 40
Oak hemlock per pound
HARDWARE.
Nails, basis. lOd, per keg .2 75@3 00
Bar iron, American, per pound.... i&5
44 Swedes, per pound
Plow steeLper pound 5@6
FAMILY GROCERIES.
Coffee, best Rio, per pound 10(5^11
44 common, per pound 8UXfcl0
Syrup, country per gallon 4S&5L
44 golden per gallon 75
Sugar, crushed, per pound 9
* r granulated, per pound 7K@7%
A per pound 7 V£7>4
white extra C per pound ... 7
brown, per pound 0@6k
common, per pouna 6@o
Batter, fine dairy, per pound 25<w85
44 gilt-edged, per pound.. ...SOfflSff
44 fair, per pouna
44 Oleomargarine per pound &; r >»
Bice, best, whole grains, per pound!/ 4
44 broken, per pound .
Tea, black, per pound
44 green, per pound
Driea Apple*, per pound 10(&12
44 Peaches, pound
Lard, in tierces
COUNTRY PRODUCE.
Eggs, per doz 10012}*
Chickens, spring, each 1502’
Hens, each 20@S3}* ' "
Beeswax, per pound 18»—
Tallow, per pound C@T
Fodder, per hundred pounds.. 100 '
HIDES AND SKINS.
Hides, dry flint, per pound II
salted, per pound 9@10'. , - ‘
green, per pound
Deerskins,per pound..... 25. WJ
Coon skins, each S@15 ’
WOOL.
Unwashed, clear of bora 10W
** slightly burry 10015
44 burry 801(X
LIQUORS. ■ '.
Whisky, common, per gallon 1 1001 50 .
Gin, common, per gallon 1 1501 50 -
“ Holland, per gallon 1 50@2 60 v
Tom Cat, per gallon 2 00.K-
Rum, New England, per gallon 1 5001 00 ■
44 Jamaica, per gallon 1 5002 00
Wine, sweet Malaga, per gallon 1 2505 00 '
* 4 Catawba, per gallon ... 1 2508 00 -
Brandy, red, common 1 2601 50
best, per gallon l 5005 00 —
44 peach, per gallon 8 0005 00
44 apple, per gallon .....2 0008 00
COTTON.
Cotton is beginning to come in rapidly, and
prices will fluctuate till the season is more
advanced. We quote to-day the best grades
at 9 cents. Received up to date 114 tales.
A. S. J. HENDERSON,
ATTORNEY-AT-L AW,
ALBANY, - - GEORGIA-
1X7ILL practice in all the counties of tbe
VV Albany Judicial Circuit and elsewhere
by contract. Special attention given to collec
tions and the examination of titles, papers,
etc.
Office upstairs over Collier's Store,
Broad Street. - dly
BALL’S
m ‘
M
CDBSETS
The ONLY CORSET made that can be returned by
Its purchaser after three weelcs* wear If not found
PERFECTLY SATISFACTORY
la ITRT respect, and it* price refunded hr weBer.
Made la a variety of Kyle* *od prices. Bmre ol
without BJTi
Amendments to tlie State Con.ti-
tntlon.
As there was a dispute, Wednesday,
between some of our citizens as to tire
process of securing amendments to the
State constitution, we give the provis
ion of that instrument on the subject.
Paragraph 1, section 1 of article 13
says:
Any amendment or amendments
to this constitution may be proposed
in the Senate or House of Representa
tives, and if the same shall be agreed
to by two-thirds of the memlers elect
ed to each of the two houses, such pro
posed amendment oramendments shall
be entered on their journal, with the
yeas and nays thereon. And the General
Assembly shall cause snch amendment
or amendments to be published in one
or more newspaper In each Congres
sional District, for two months previous
to tbe time of holding the next gener
al election, and shall also provide for a
submissionofsuch proposed amendme. t
or amendments to tbe people at said nex t
general election, andif tbe people shall
ratify sucbainendmentor amendments
by a majority of the electors qualified
to vote for members of the General
Assembly, voting thereon, such amend
ment or amendments shall dx come a
part of this constitution. When more
than one amendment ,is submitted at
the same time, they shall be so sub
mitted as to enable the electors to vote
on each amendment separately.”
OUR NEIGHBORS’ CHILDREN
look so rosy and healthy and are never
sick. Our children are so delicate and
have such sallow complexions. Your
neighbor keeps up with the times aud
gives Shriner’s Indian Vermifuge to his
children twice a year.
“The question is being discussed in
some of the cities as to whether it is
possible for a familv to live respecta
bly on a thousand dollars a year,”
says the Coinmbus Enquirer-Sun. It
is a question that-doesn’t admit of dis
cussion among common-sense people,
for there is only one side toit. A fam- o,. Hi n .r«' H,rk].s«rr7 corii.ii> ts.r«ts«othw.
. *. .. . , rcrooly for curing lMairliaa, I>IM*trry. CrMi^Coll*
ily can live honestly on a thousand m bo»«i action., ^ storing u.* muc o B . .uim-ih* m ^ -
Age upon the lystent from the cffocti
by mil drnggbU mt AO rente a battle.
FOB BAT/HI B’X"
J. HOFMAlEit A Co., Albany, Ga.
telig»r
alter’ions, *n4
dollars a year, and honest living is al- df ^ a *** the
* ; n eels by nil dm®
ways respectable. Dressing In purple
and fine linen and faring sumptuously
every day, with or without paying the
CORDIAL
For the BOWELS.
•Taylor’* f’hrrokrc R rmedy ofSweet Gam
and Jlnllrin will cur** roughs. Croup and Con*
•umptlon. Frlce 25c. a«id |1 a ooUle.
FOR SALE AT WHOLESALE BY
bills, don’t constitute the standard of "VVIEIjOU <& AQAB
respectability in this country. ALBANS’, UA.-