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ARRIVAL AIVD DEPARTIUE Of
Office open* at
S xsssz;sks i-.-.ag
V. G. RITST. Pnrtmaater.
j.sii.tifi i m.
BARGAINS f
BARGAINS!
OVERCOATS!
Fall ami Winter—Li'ht an l II«mvv-
Genuine English Mellmw,
Cloth and Beaver.
Gent’s and Youth’s Suits!
Strotire Broa.’s Tailor Fit* Saits-. Bert
Goods In the City, fully warranted
in Color and Wear.
BOOTS AND SHOES!
Winchester Boot and Shoe Co.’s Beat
Hand-Made Goods, $5.00 to $6.00.
* Also large stock of medium and”
cheap goods. Ladies* fine me-
nShoes.
diuin Shoes. Mendel’s chil
dren’s and misses shoes.
Best Children’s Shoe
Made. Fully Warranted
TJmbre’las M Rubber Goods!
Large stock of umbrellas in a’l grad
rGreyi
also Ladies’Circuiars, Silver Greys
and Plain; Gents’ Rubber*
Coats, Shoe-*, Hats, Leg-
gons, etc. Buggy Aprons.
COUNTY Coart was in session, Thurs
day,and a number of cases disposed of.
The rain, Snnday morning, Inter
fered with the Sabbath schools of the
dty.
Tuesday was a motley of sunshine
and shadow, and was, withal, a most
pleasant day.
The farmer* have been getting In
some good work daring the propitious
weather they have had for ten days
past.
The small boy is now watching
eagerly the growing chlnaberry crop,
so as to be ready with his time-honored
pop-Kun- .
The Albany visitors to Americus on
the occasion of the firemanlc tourna
ment say that Americus v entertained
her guests royally.
Now that the weather and the state
of the water In the Kinchafoonee and
Muckalee creeks are favorable, picnics
and fish frys are In order.
Tux Columbus Southern railroad is
being pushed forward. When It Is
-•ora pie ted, Albany and Columbus must
cultivate closer social and commercial
relations.
The high waters have caused the
catfish to run, and they are being
caught In the river In unusual quanti
ties and offered for sale on the streets
of Albany.
The News and Advertiser re
ceived application for three pamphlets,
through the mails, Tuesday. The
good time for which we have hoped so
long, is going to come.
Did you see the colored dude that
paraded our streets in all his gorgeous
apparel, on Monday? He habitates
another region, but he gave Albany
the benefit of his wardrobe.
Chickens are still scarce, but by the
time that the broods of the city are
ready for use the country will begin
to pour in a supply. Now is the ac
cepted time to sell chickens.
A FULL STOCEi!
Of Blankets, Comforts, Flannels,Ra
dies’ and Gents’ Underwear, Driv
ing Gloves, Gauntlets, etc., In
large variety—Oasslineres,
Hosiery, Handkerchiefs,
etc., etc., etc.
New Stock—Just Received,
You will save money l>7 calling.
N.&iF.TIFT&Go.
ris Mayer s
DEPOT.
Now is the time to come and make
vour selection of
Spring; and Sumer
GOODS.
The Finest Line of
Dress Goods
Ever brought to the city, all in the
latest shades and colors.
Scovil Hoes, at -
21-tf Sukffieed & Bell’s.
Our stock of
500 Lyons Parasols,
Cannot be duplicated cither in styles
or prices. Come early and get
the first selection.
It seems that fewer chickeus are
offered for sale in our city; this season,
than during any previous spring that
we remember. A paying investment
would be a hennery with an incubator
of large capacity. Albany would con
sume its product run at its full capaci
ty-
Immense drive of
EM B ROIDERIES
Nainsook, Swiss and Haniburgs, in all
widths. Alsoanlce line of colored.
Onr display of All-Overs and
Flemmings cannot be Excelled.
Also, a large assortment of Laces,such
as Valenciennes, Torchon and
Oriental, iu all widths.
New goods arriving dally.
Call and be convinced
DEPOT.
Taetr Wait) E'ps Cup’}
RICHMOND. VIRGINIA.
iincwM ntabli«lie«i 1865. The moat cora-
Wlachlno Shop in the South*
lues. Boilers, saw-Mllls anu Ma
chinery.
t and Tramway Locomotives.
Hoad Locomotives a Specialty.
Solicited Send for catnlome
KSTA.BLISAKD IN 1865.
RICHMOND LOCOMOTIVE
MACHINE WORKS,
RICHMOND, VIRCINIA.
' Successors to
THE T.vTiN! U A DELANEY ENGINE CO
Light I-ocomotivc*. Engines, Boiler*. Saw
ills ami Heavy Machinery. Send for Cata-
Kills and Heavy Machinery,
ocue and Estimate-.
P. L. Dunlavy,
BUTCHER
AND DEAL I 1 It IN
Fresh Meats of All'Kinds.
Cor. Broad ami Washington Sts.
DelivervAVagons make daily roumis *f the
City. Ail orders promptly attended to.
FINE BEEF THIS WEEK,
And a hunch of Spring Lamue just purchased
for uiv customers.
P. L. DUNLAVY.
Albany. Ga., Match 16.-ly.
Return Yonr City Taxes
There are cranks and cranks, in tact,
mostly cranks, and we had as well
make up our mind to endure them, as
it has been truly said it takes all sorts
of people to make up a world.
Some of the boys who attended the
firemani; tournament at Dawson last
week want to have one In Albany next
fall. These tournaments always draw
a large crowd and make lively times.
The concrete walk in front of Morris
Mayer’s store, makes a splendid pave
ment. It would be well if other mer
chants would manifest the same enter
prise and put it iu front of their places
of business.
The finishing touches are being
given to the interior of the Commercial
Bank of Aihauy, and it is now expect
ed that everything will be iu readiness
for opening the hank for business by
the 1st of June.
The Court House lawn Is beautilul.
There is not a handsomer public square
in Georgia. The trees planted by
Mnj.W. H. Wilder, while he was Or
dinary, several years ago, add greatly
to the beauty of the grounds.
Some people are better than they
seem, until we know them well, and
such, as a rule, make the strongest and
most enduring friends. The world
would be better off, anyhow, if the
people knew each other better.
Little Jacob Mayer’s new goat
wagon and his team of milk-white
goats dm wing it, attracted a great
deal of attention, Tuesday, on Broad
street. The little fellows enjoy noth
ing more than a goat and wagon.
Roasting ears are being enjoyed by
the gaidners of this city and section.
There is no garden produbt that can
equal it. Dr. Woodrow might use the
love of corn that is common to man
and beast as a circumstances in
strengthening his evolution theory.
Ice Cream Freezers, at
21-tf Sheffield & Bell’s.
One of the most singular estimates
of the water of Albany’s celebrated
mineral artesian well came from an
historic lady of Georgia. She visited
the city several years ago,and drank of
the healing fountain. Turning to a
well known person she remarked. “It
tastes like it had beeu biled and sot
down to cool ”
Sweeps, Sweeps, at
21-tf Sheffield & Bell’s.
Jim Ghiffin, colored, was arrested
late Monday afternoon, aud committed
to jail by Sheriff Edwards, on a peace
warrant sworn out by Emma Harris,
who claims that Griffin made an as
sault upon her 15-yesr-oid daughter,
about May the 1st. He was released on
bond, yes'e-day, Col. J. L. Boyt be
coming his bondsman.
Grain Cradler, at
21-tf Sheffield & Bell’s.
The Street railroad should be in
operation by fall without fail. There
is no local enterpsise better calculated
to advertise the city; travelers detained
for half an hour at the depot betweeu
trains would gladly avail themselves
of the opportunity it afforded of rid
ing up to the artesian well’and drink
ing the water. The route would take
them through the city, which would
speak for Itself, and there is no ques
tion but many would determine to
tarry in so pleasant and attractive city.
Grain Cradler, Sweeps, Hoes, etc.,
at Sheffield & Bell’s.
The few mulberry trees on the streets
of Albany are a nuisance of the most
pronounced character, and should be
cut down. At this season of the year,
when they are in fruit, a squad of chil
dren is always under each one, and
keep pedestrians in constant dread of
falling stones and missies. Besides
parents are kept in a continual state of
solicitude, lest, by eating too freely
of the berries, their childreu may be
come ill. Lot them be cut down.
Why cumber they the ground?
The friends of TV. TV. Wilson can
find him at L. T. Field’s old stand, on
Broad street, prepared to furnish-iheiu
with any thing in the merchantile line
as cheap as any bouse in Albany.
Albany, Mach24-3m.
lly bocks for receiving: returns of .City
Taxes for the year 1SW. are«o»- open at the
Western Uukm Telegraph Office, on Broad
street, and all persons owning imiperty in wie
City of Albany on the lrt of April, *re re
quested to maxe return*of theeamein eom-
pliance with law. A, ^ UUST.
Albany, Ga^ April 5» 1888. City Clerk.
Dk. E. An SHINE,
DENTIST,
Qffioe In Ventniett’» Block, formerly
occupied by Dr. Bally.
Col.J. H. Gardner, the new man
ager of the Artesian House, puts his
best foot forward in a card in this
morning’s News and Advertiser.
Col. Gardner has induced the owners
of the house to purchase some new
furniture and make other improve
ments about the house, and is fast get
ting everything In apple-pie order. He
has taken hold of the Artesian House
with the determination of making it
one of the best and most popularhotels
in the country.
la Life w*rtk Livlag?
How often does the patient mother,
who has just laid away the died from
the effects of teething,ask this question.
If she had known ot Dr. Bigger “
Huckleberry Cordial, life might bai
been brighter. 1
length by a shrewd lawyer. In fact, a
lawyer, when he belongs to the debtor
class, if he Is disposed, can barrass the
most wary In the collection of a claim
against himself. Bat, it remained for
an Albany warehouse firm to bring to
quick terms a delinquent debtor who
adorns the learned profession of law.
The names and date will not be given,
bat the incident did not occur ten
years bark.
An Albany warehouse firm which
deals in gnano, sold a ton of the fertil
izer to a lawyer-farmer. The note was
not met at maturity, but explanation
an i promises induced the firm to carry
it for a short time. The days ot grace
having expired a second time, demand
for payment was again made without
success, but, again, promises served to
suspend a legal process.
Month after month passed without
the notes bring settled, until it was
finally agreed by the firm that its col
lection must be pressed. A, letter was
accordingly written to lawyer Snap,
in which the note on farmer Snap was
enclosed tor collection. The purport
of the letter was, that the note was due
and unpaid and that farmer Snap had
repeatedly promised to liquidate, but
bad as often tailed to keep his promise;
that fanner £nap was good for the
debt, aud that lawyer Snap must press
Its colh ction.
The reception of such a letter with
positive instructions to sue himselt if
the note was not paid, staggered the
astute lawyer, and he expressed in an
adroit letter his wonderment and exas
peration. To this a reply was prompt
ly returned urging the suit of the note
without further delay, with the assur
ance that they knew he was a good
collector from past business connec
tions.
Lawyer snap bad been .the attorney
of the firm for some time and be bit
upon his plan of proceedure; be
charged liis ten per cent, for collection
fee and remitted] the balance, using
the usual form of statement in making
such remittances.
Sunday Bain.
The expectation of rain that our
people indulged for several days was
realized Sunday in an old-fashioned
rainy Sunday. It came down beauti
fully; first a gentle shower prepara
tory to the steady down pour that con
tinued throughout the morning. It
was just such a rain to remind one of
the days of plenty that this section
knew in the years that are gone.
This season will suffice for two
weeks, aud by that time corn will
have tassled and begun to shoot.
Crops were never In a better condi
tion for such a rain. They are univer
sally clean and promising. In a drive
of twenty-five miles on Saturday last,
the writer scarcely saw a sprig of grass
in ail the fields that were passed. The
corn was green and of vigorous
growth.
The melon crop, perhaps, suffered
from the rain, as it will cause the vines
to throw off the young melons that
were rapidly being taken on. But a
week of dry weather will more than
amend the injury.
Farmers should exert themselves
now to work out their crops as rapid
ly as |>ossible, as the ground always
needs stirring after a rain, to soften
the crust so that the sun’s iayscau
prove of all possible benefit.
The four residences, now in coarse
of erection in the city, will be followed
by several more. Mrs. L. P. D. War
ren’s elegant new residence on Pine
street will soon be ready for occu
pancy. Mr. J. R. Forrester’s hand
some dwelling on Broad street,' will be
finished and the keys turned over by
August. Mr. Gary Pittman’s cosy
five room cottage on Tift street fs
being pushed rapidly forward, and
will be ready for its delighted owner
by the first of July. Captain T. N.
Wool folk’s commodious two-story
frame dwelling will prove an ornament
to his spacious and beautiful grounds
on the corner of Jefferson and Tift
streets, and will be turned over com
plete in all of its elegant appointments
by the first of September. There will
be five other residences erected in the
city during the summer, and others ar-
in contemplation; so while Albany Is
having no regular building boom, our
city is being improved by the steady
erection of beautiful and elegant resi
dences.
uics. There has not been a picnic in
section, this spring, but that'it
was given under the auspices of the
Sunday Schools.
The News and Advertiser is
pleased to note tbe religious character
given to this time-honored method of
enjoying a day of recreation in tbe
forest, God’s primeval temple.
Tbe‘Baker county Sunday School
ssoclaoon, as is its regular annual
custom, held a convention at Hanlup,
yesterday. Tbe oceaslou was most en
joyable.
The exercises were opened by a neat
welcoming address by Mr. G. Tom
West representing the Bethel Sunday
School, whose hospitality the Associa
tion enjoyed.
This address was most fittingly re
sponded to by Mr. Benton Odom, of
tbe Newton school.
Mrs. John O’Perry’s class, of tbe
Newton school, with scythes and
sheaves of golden grain, came forward,
aod, in turn, recited lines appropriate
to harvesting, with pleasant applica
tion to labor in tbe inviting fields of
Sunday school work.
This was Jollowed by the s^ng,
Harvest Home.” Miss Bessie Couch
most modestly rendered a sweet little
poem of appropriate sentiment.
Miss Mary Pullen read an essay on
tbe importance of Sunday Schools—,
what they bad accomplished and what
they were destined to accomplish In
Christianizing tbe world.
Tbe rest of the programme con
sisted of short pointed talks inter
spersed with delightful singing.
Dinner was announced at 12:30, and
in the shade of wide spreading oaks a
most sumptuous repast was spread for
refreshment of the hungry multitude.
The most elegant viands in superabun
dant quantities were spread by the
good housewives ol Baker, a county
celebrated for its accomplished women.
Tbe occasion was one of splendid
possibilities for enjoyment, and we be
lieve that all present realized them.
Ice Delivery.
By reference to an advertisement
by Mr. J. R. Forrester, superintendent
of the Albany Ic« Factory, published
in this mornings’s News andAdvkb-
tiser, it will be seen that on and after
this day an ice delivery wagon will be
run in this city.
This will prove a great convenience
to our people, as it is not always con
venient to send down for ice when it
is wanted.
Ice is not only a luxury, but a neces
sity, and its cheapness brings it within
the easy reach of even poor people.
Health and comfort both are preserved
by a judicious use of ice.
Sunday School will come to
next Saturday at tbe usual place, Dry
Creek, near the river.
—Can you tell us wby and where
fore our Sunday’s mall lias been stop
ped at this and a tew other places be
tween tiie Artesian City and Tbotuas-
▼flle?
—The Library Club of Camilla, will
meet on next Friday evening at the
Hotel Georgia. These meetings
have been interfered on with several
occasions lately, which in the future
will not be allowed.
—Mr. .Times Callaway paid us
visit last week and we were all glad to
see him aud hear him talk, which be
can do so well, whether on the tariff,
newspaper or any other subject.
—Judge Cullins has just returned
from a two months visit to Washing
ton, Wiiks county, Macon and otlier
counties ant] places. The object of his
trip was of a business and social char
acter.
A Rare Bird In Tbei« ram.
Mr. Ed. Wilder, of Acree, sent to
tbe News and advertiser, the bead
and bill of an immense pelican, a very
rare bird in this region. The feathers
on the head were perfectly white, and
die bill was about eighteen inches
in length. Attached to. the lower edge
of the bill was a salmon-colored skin
pouch capable of holding perhaps as
much as three quarts of water. It was
evidently the head of a genuine Ameri
can white pelican, (Pelecanus Ameri-
canus) and the bird from which it had
been taken must have been a fine speci
men of his family, though a long way
from home. Mr. Wilder killed two of
these birds in a pond near Acree on
Thursday last, aud tbe one from which
the head that he sent tbe New s and
Advertiser was taken measured eight
feet from tip to tip of its wings. We
have never heard of any ot these im
mense birds in this section before.
The Ittule 1 radera.
There is a fascination In swapping
horses and trading mules that seems to
captivate those who long indulge it.
Albany has two amateur mule trad
ers who, for more than forty years,
have occasionally met in themulearena
and measured strength of judgments.
The balance would be hard to strike,
as in the running account of years it
would be difficult to say which had
‘downed” tbe other tbe most. How
ever, the one worsted in the last trade
charges the amout up to the other in
the book of his recollection, and begins
to mauaeuver to “get even.” One of
these will be known as Bob Short and
the other as Bob Long.
Bob Long, in the vicissitudes of his
business, became possessed of a mule
so old that he had out grown all signs
of reckoning his age. Be pampered
him up,put hisfaithful henchman on the
mule’s back, and, with some secret
meansof addinganimation to its appear
ance, bad it ridden around where the
lynx-eyed Bob Short would be sure to
see it.
Bob Long appeared, casually, upon
the scene, and, in an indifferent man
ner, bantered Short for a trade. The
usual preliminary examination began,
and Short had one .of his “stock In
trade” trotted out with all the speed
that his weak frame -would admit of.
Of course boot was asked and demand
ed, which was denied by both. Finally
Long pulled outs five-dollar gold piece,
which Short could not withstand, so
he swapped, taking that as boot.
Elias chuckled to himself as he rode
Boh Long’s new acquisition hack to the
warehouse.
Months afterwards Long sold his
mule, getting in exchange a few thous
and shingles, while Short put his into
tbe hands of a mule drover, who kept
him until he had “eaten his head off,”
so to speak, and finally sold him for
$5.00. Both are now watching an op
portunity to get even.
holding
at D. K.
last Friday night, which
—We are having this afternoon,
nice showers, added to the thorough
drenching rains of Sunday.
—A sociable for the young
tbe town at Rev. E. B.
on Friday night, last. Many in
dance.
—’The annual picnic of tbe
Meeting: In Altmnr
the \ onue Hotel UlerK
by the Electrical
who
Traveled -with the Wonder,
of visiting Col.
x Tift’s fish pond in this city,
Flint *nd, with fifteen feet of line and
—‘■Ten Nights In * Barroom,-wlrf ©ol. Tift’s pond is supplied by the
be repeated in Bennett’s Hall, on the
night of the 8tb of Juue, next. A
large crowd will be expected, and an
improvement in the performances,
notwithstanding the success of the last
by the amateurs.
—Mr. J. W. Cochran, a well known
livery stable man, and his good wife,
are In our county on a visit to parents,
relatives and many friends. Mr. "C.
reports Thomasville and vicinity on a
progressive boom.
—Mrs. Dr. J. B. Twitty is now in
Thomas county, visiting her daughter
and other relatives and friends. The
Doctor says In is kinder lonesome with
out one with whom he has. tabernacled
for thirty-four years.
—Rev. Mrs. W. L. Curry, alter
spending some three weeks in our
town, returned home last week. and
we suppose to tbe entire satisfaction of
her good husband. Her health was
much improved by her stay in this
salubrious clime.
—There never fell on auy thirsty
land a more agreeable, timely and
propitious rain than fell in Mitchell
county on last Sunday morning and on
to 1 o’clock In the afternoon. Many
hearts were made glad, and all vegeta
tion given new life and an upward ten
dency.
—Prof. Baldwin A Son, of yonr
city are having rooms erected on the
public square In our town for the pur
pose of doing photograph work. The
Professor can draw out good pictures
as well as good music, even when he
has hard cases to deal with. All the
country is invited to visit his picture
gallery.
—Wilson Palmer, you ought to re
member, was not arrested in Thomas
connty, ms your copy from the Atlanta
Constitution read. You certainly
heard of his arrest in this county, jnst
above onr town. You will remember,
too, that he was carried to Thomasville
and turned over to the sheriff there by
the party arresting here.
—The delegates attending the M. E.
Church, District Conference, have re
turned home from Boston, Brooks
county, where the meeting was held.
Revs. Mr. Ainsworth, B. H. Gee,
Messrs. I. A. Bush, John H. Hall,
several ladies, and other male mem
bers, whose names are forgotten, were
in attendance from tins town and
couuty. An interesting meeting is re
ported, having had some able preach
ing and the dispatch of considerable
business. The next meeting will he
held with the Eastman Church.
—Mrs. Annie Holton, widow of Mr.
S. J. Holton, Sr., deceased some five
years ago, died on Saturday night, last.
Mrs. Holton was a good and Christian
woman. She died, no doubt, fully
prepared. She connected herself with
the Missionary Baptist Church in 1834.
She came to tills county with her hus-
banr. and family in 1851, from Stewart
couuty. Her remains were laid to rest
iu the family cemeteiy, on yesterday.
(Monday). Rev. W. H. Hoggard, offi
ciating. We extend our heartfelt
sympathy to the many bereaved ones.
T.
Little Henry Farkas, the eight-
year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Hermon
Farkas, was bitten by a dog, on
Wednesday, under peculiarly exasper
ating circumstances.
Mr. John Cannon 'was called into
Mr. Farkas’ house to repair a bedstead,
and was followed by his pet dog,a small,
white mongrel. Henry incurred the
dog's displeasure in some way, and
was attacked by him. The dog’s tooth
cut a gash about an inch long in one
of Henry's thighs.
Dr. Hilsman examined the wound,
and while it is not serious It, of course,
gave his parents occasion for alarm.
The News and Advertiser trusts that
no ill effects will result, hut that it will
heal rapidly.
Sunday afternoon, about half past
six o’clock, the two Texas ponies, be
longing to Mr. L. J. Crine, had been
driven into the vacant lot back of Mr.
J. W. Joiner’s, and Louis Ford, tbe
porter of Daniel Mayer, had unhitched
tiie ponies, and as he was backing the
buggy* the ponies became frightened
and dashed off towards the street. In
passing the sidewalk, an old Negro
woman who tnl.ks for Mr. B. A. Col
lier, aud known as aunt Lizzie, hap
pened to he passing the opening as the
panies came out. She was struck by
the breast tree, and her clothes in
some way became fastened to it, and
she was dragged to the middle of the
street, aud sustained several severe
bruises and cuts. Notwithstanding
her injuries, she walked to her borne,
near Mr. Collier’s,and had Dr. Strother
summoned. He made examination and
found that she had been severely cut in
the left thigh, and that her breast and
stomach were considerably bruised.
While the wounds are serious,tfae Doc
tor does not think them necessarily
fatal.
There are influences at work which
are calculated to lift Albany upon a
higher plane of progress. The Nkws
and Advertiser has forborne to
comment on them lest they he received
as mere possibilities to which newspa
pers are so inclined to give a -coloring
of probabilities. These influences are
working silently, hot surely,
the'
are always the most potent.;
A Nairow Escape
The complicated net-work of tracks
that surround tiie circumscribed
ground's for the public use and conve
nience at the passenger depot in this
city ^ increases greatly the ordinary
danger of running trains through the
streets of the city. The News and Ad
vertiser has time and again called the
attention of the managements of tbe
various railroads centering here to this
danger, and urged the imperative need
of more suitable arrangements and
adequate depot accommodations for the
city.
On Wednesday night, as Herbert
Wilburn’s omnibus was leaving the
depot with a load of passengers, it
narrowly escaped being telescoped by
an engine going around the Y. The
incident almost unnerved every one on
the ’bns, and intensified the public
dread of some calamity likely to hap
pen at the depot. It has not been long
since a passing train took the steps off
the omnibus. There is no use in longer
denying to Albany what is due her in
tbe way of depot accommodations, and
the railroads bad as well build a union
passenger depot.
Col. Nelson Tot has one thousand
yonng pecan trees now growing.
These trees came from the nuts of his
large trees that are now of huge propor
tions—from 40.to 50 feet high, and their
wide-spreading . branches cover
circumference of 150 feet. These trees
are about 25 years old, and fruit
most prolificacy. Tbe nuts an* of un
usual size, and are greatly relished by all
who have ever eaten them. The pecan
thrives as well in our soil and climate
as hickory nut, the native growth of
that family in tills section. Onr peo
ple are rapidly learning its value, and
many have planted, while many more
contemplate it, so the News and Ad
vertiser is encouraged to hope that
within tbe next twenty years Dough
erty county will be famous for its
Spain is for its olive
Iv the rich people knew how poor
people lived, there would be more sym
pathy and charity ; and if the poor peo
ple realized how hard rich people
worked ,there would|be les envy and
more wholesome emulation. The
world is in ignorance of jnst such
knowelge as would teqd to develop a
of a
P. W. Jones’Cotton Sale.
S. R. Weston & Son, commission
merchants, sold for Col. P. W. Jones,
yesterday, 99 bales of his last year’s
cotton crop.
The cotton was bought by Mr. Jacob
Lorch, one ol Albany’s livest mer
chants and cotton men, who is in the
market every day In the year, espe
cially when others are out and some
farmer wants to sell his crop.
Mr. Jones not only sells tbe first
hale of cotton, but be generally sells
bales all through a season, and has a
few to bring up tbe tail end.
P. W. Jones is one of the most solid
planters of Georgia, and deserves the
reputation he enjoys, which covers the
entire United States.
There are several patches of alfalfa ip
Southwest Georgia, planted on the
the strength of the Nxws and Ad
vertiser’s recommendation. Mrs. J.
A. Greer has a promising patch on her
place just outside of tire city limits.
The little plants are now abont eight
inches high, and were planted this
spring. The News and Advertiser
confidently expects those who plant
ed alfalfa to be delighted with their
experiment. Writers who are familiar
with it unite In pronouncing it the best
restorer for old, worn out land known.
It will not do to let stock graze ex
clusively on green alfalfa, but cut, it
is superb, being nearly as nutritions
as timothy bay.
Outside of those who are familiar
with the habits of tiie different fishes
that inhabit the waters of this section,
there is a decided prejudice against the
catfish. There never was a more
groundless prejudice so far as the gen
uine channel catfish that abound in
Flint river and Muckalee and Kincha
foonee creeks are concerned. They
are really among the cleanest and best
fish that ipbabit our streams. They
are entirely different from the other
members of the scaleless species of tbe
fish family. They are not scavengers
like the mud catfish or tiie broad-tail
ed, big-headed yellow fellows, but feed
only in ranning water and upon very
much tbe same food that the perch and
bream subsist upon: They are never
found in dead or stagnant water,
those that are taken from Flint river
and Kinchafoonee and Muckalee
creeks are among the very best fish
that are to be had in this region. Tbe
silver-sided, forked-tailed channel cat-
needs no defense with those who
are familiar with their habits and have
tut there are many who,
i hungry,” often let a
string of this
by*
rod, we enjoyed tne sport of
“pulling in” three beautiful carp,
varying from three to five pounds in
weight. We found- them “gamy,
and each one fought with a courage
and endurance that would delight the
most lastipious angler.
Two of the carp were taken home
by the writer, and Col. Tilt took the
other. Ours were skinned, (they
were of tbe scaly variety, but tiie skin
was tough, and we concluded it would
be best to take it off) split open and
dry salted. We had one of them for
supper on Monday night, aud the other
fordinneryesterday. They were cut up
and rolled in dry meal and then fried
In the usual way until brown, and
seven persons ate of it freely and pro
nounced it excellent. One lady bad
eaten carp on a former, occasion and
took only a very small piece on her
plate at first, bat that soon disappeared
and she called for more, saying that
she liked it about as well as any fish
she bad ever eaten.
overflow from his artesian well, and
the fact that the water is pure and
never stagnant may have something to
lo with the quality of bis carp; but
certain it is that they are a very good
fish.
That Union Panenfer Depot,
It is with feelings of the keenest
gratification that the News and Ad
vertiser announces this morning tiie
probability of a Union Passenger
Depot being erected at an early date
in Albany, commensurate with the im
portance and size of the city.
Col. H. S. Haines, General Manager
of the S., F. & W. Ry, was In the city
last Friday, and it is learned that his
purpose in visiting us was the selection
of a suitable site for the erection of a
passenger depot. He inspected the
grounds personally, and after consider
ing all eligible locations agreed upon
one which was thought to be tbe most
favorable for the public aud the i ail-
roads.
Col. Haines expressed perfect wil
lingness on the part of the S., F. &~W.
R’y management to join -with the
Central in the making of this much
needed improvement, and if it bangs
fire this time, we may know that the
Central, which has persistently pro
fessed readiness to join the S., F. &
W., has obstructed progress by its re
fusal to act.
The two managements surely must
be In full possession of the dangerous
character of the surroundings of the
present Inadequate building used for
the purposes of a passenger depot; it is
both inconvenient and dangerous to
the public and the roads. The voice
of ordinary prudence and diligence, to
which they are required by law to
harken, demand that they should act in
this matter without further delay.
Contentment is Wealth.
Money can bay nothing equal
to contentment. The gilded baubles
of wealth, with' their attendant heart
burns, are but a poor exchange for that
free and easy life that is to be found so
often in the humblest cottages of the
land.
The writer’s attention was attracted,
the other day, to a happy family that
had “come to town” iu an old-fashion
ed ox cart, and the serenity that sat
enthroned on the brows of father,
mother and children caused us to re
volve thoughts of the conditions most
favorable to contentment. We believe
that, like honor and shame, it from no
condition rises, but depends upon
mental and moral qualities which in
fluence our state of. being.
The responsibilities and cares of life
increase in proportion to one’s posses
sions, and he who develops a greed for
gold never arrives at that point where
he can honestly say, “I am content,
The avaricious man labors with in:,
creasing toil as the sun of his life de
clines, withdrawing himself more and
more from the indulgence of recreative
pastimes. His pleasure is found in
business pursuits, and he is ever goaded
forward in bis race after the almighty
dollar by tiie Nemesis of an uncon
querable desire. The poor man, with
no urgency bat the necessities of a fru
gal family which the labor ol his hands
can abundantly supply, with no ambi
tion, no aspirations, is he who is most
likely to cultivate contentment suc
cessfully.
Yet, there is as much discontent
found in one extreme as in the other.
The fact is, as Rasselas, whose weary
pilgrimage led him around the world
into the huts of tiie Jinmble and the
palaces of the proud, seeking the secret
of happiness, found that he alone is
contented who realizes life’s duties
and seeks honestly to discharge them,
and at the same time is sustained by
that unfaltering trust in God’s good
ness which enables him to receive with
equanimity every dispensation of
Providence.
In one sense, a man should never be
content. He shoal J always seek to im
prove his mental and moral cultiva
tion. The apparent discontent that
forces men to exert themselves to move
onward and upward. Is a wise dispen
sation of providence; like the restless
energy of ocean’s waves, the activity
it enforces purifies society.
It matters not what are one’s envi
ronments, “The mind is its own place,
and can make a hell of heaven or heav
en of hell.”
What a pleasant contrast the pres
ent clean conditions of our thorough
fares present to their unsightly appear
ance when the town cow held her in
decent reign. . This one advantage
is of itself sufficient to justify the
tion of the city fathers In denying
cows tiie right of our streets, say noth
ing of the danger to the children and
iedies. Tbe town cow is a very use
ful animal, and harmonizes with the
prospect of a beautiful, enclosed
meadow, but it is not an ornament to a
street, and can never prove a joy for
ever if allowed to roam at will on our
sidewalks. The blessed rest, that
mqst please our country friends who
drive their wagons into our streets,
offers, doubtless, fresh occasion for
unctions benedictions upon tbe beads
of our city fathers, every time they
visit our market. The town cows, if
their responsibilities are not circum
scribed by time, must have their rest
in cow heaven greatly disturbed by
compunctuous visiting? of conscience
when they reflect on the oaths they
caused farmers to otter here below.
Albany’s business will surely in
crease in volume from year to year, as
her banks discount paper at a less rate
of interest than farmers can negotiate
loan in neighboring cities, which
will gradually have the effect of en
larging the territory from which trade
will come to the city, as a f
Mr*. Dixie Hay good, the Georgia
electrical w onder, seems to be getting
her share of newspaper notoriety.
Not content with one husband, she is
said to have made a matrimonial alli-
went on tbe stage. She
says that T. L. Embry, a young Al
bany, Ga., hotel clerk, married her at
Tenn. Embry and his
friends, however, deny it.
Mrs. Dixie Haygood was in Savan
nah during Jasper Festival week, and
gave two entertainments at Odd Fel
lows Hall, which were Indifferently at
tended, and the third night’s per
formance, owing to tbe number of
empty benches, was abandoned alto
gether. .
Prof. Mallette, of this city, was one
ot the discoverers of the Georgia won
der, and talked very entertaingly to a
Morning News reporter yesterday
about bis experience with the Dixie
Haygood Company. Tbe professor
said that in January last he was at Ma
con. and was rehearsing and drilling
an amateur opera company, but that
Thomas B. Blacksher, a photographer
of Macon, who had heard of Dixie
Haygood, set his wits to work to dis
organize the opera company, so that
he coaid pat Dixie on the road, with
Prof. Mallette as advance agent, stage
manager and for vocal parts at the dif
ferent entertainments. As a result,
the prima donna of the amateur opera
company declined to sing, and then
another of the vocalists dropped out.
Prof. Mallette said that Blackshear
denied that he had anything to do with
ed Dixie Haygood
it, and then mentioned . „
as a drawing card, and with whom
some money might be made.
dixie’s debut as a wonder.
Dixie Haygood bad given some pub
lic exhibitions, in an amaieur way. of
her electrical powers, at her home in
Milledgeville, and her unexplaiuable
feats of strength were nine day won
ders. Prof. Mallette said that her
husband was an ardent anti-prohibi
tionist, and in a shooting affray grow
ing out of the prohibition fight up
there, he was shot and killed. He had
some insurance on his life, and left a
wife and two or three children. Homes
were provided for tiie latter, and Dixie
Hay good’s first debut upon the stage
under the Blackshear-Mallette manage
ment, was at Milledgeville. and was a
financial failure.
From Prof. Mallette’s statement the
lady was in bad humor the first night,
forming a dislike for her stage man
ager. which culminated at Savannah
by his withdrawal from the compahy.
It appears that the professor was en
cored, and when he came forward to
sing a second time there was no pianist.
Dixie had the pianist behind the arra«
scolding him for having repeated some
gossip picked up in 31illedgeville
which the electrical wonder was very
much out of humor about, and when
the Professor called the pianist to ac
count for the discourtesy the fair Dixie
took it as a personal affront. The
Professor, however, thought no more
about it, and came South, fixing dates
at Savannah tor the week before the
Jasper Festival, and from here he
went to Brunswick, Way cross, Val
dosta, Thomasville, Albany and
Americus. Meantime Dixie must
have wanted to take in the Jasjier
Festival, or imagined she would draw
better that week, and Blackshear can
celled the Brunswick date and changed
the Savannah dates to Feb. 22, 23
and 24.
THE WONDER IN SAVANNAH.
Prof. Mallette came back to Savan-
uah, and on the first night came for
ward, sang, was encored, as he always
is, re-appeared, aud after another vocal
rendition brought Dixie Haygood on
the stage and introduced her. She was
in a great pet, and between the acts
declared she would not carry out the
programme. Prof Mallette said that
lie iusisted that be must keep faith
with the public, and she complied, but
with poor grace, and while she did
carry out the programme, she did it in
a spiritless way. The next day the
Professor said he received the follow
ing note, which was sent to him at the
Screven House:
Savannah, Ga., Feb. 23,1888.
Prof. Mallatt:
I shall not appear on the stage with
you again* or have anything to do with
you after to-night.
Dixie Haygood.
The Professor said that he could not
account for her strange action, except
that he had insisted she should keep
faith with the public. He appeared
Thursday night as before, sang and In
troduced the pouting beauty, who did
no better that uight than the previous
one. Then, he said, while she was
going through tier part of tiie pro
gramme he circulated among his old.
friends in Savannah, who were among
the audience, and this seemed to add
fuel to the fire, for Blackshear hunted
Mallette up the next day and told him
that Dixie vowed that she would not
Acree, Ga., May 23,1888.
Metes aud Advertiser:
All crops are looking well since
Sunday’s rain, and onr people are
boayed up with 1 rapes inspired by the
flattering prospects. The farmers are
quite busy setting out potato slips.
We are pained to chronicle the death
of the infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
John Waiters, which occurred last
Monday. Our sympathies are with
the bereaved family.
Mr. J. B. Sims, foreman of the bush
gang of the B. & W. road, and Mr.
John Mannd, the boss of tbe bridge
gang, with Sears and Falkner, are
stopping at tbe Central Hotel in this
place. The rainy Sunday collected
them together, and tbe day was passed
agreeably in coversation, enlivened by
the jokes contributed to the amusement
of the crowd by those who participated.
Mr. Mannd has been here for several
slays engaged in repairing bridges.
The B. & W. railroad lias determined
to enclose its track with a substantia)
wire fence for the protection of stock.
Mr. Sims is expected to arrive In a few
days, when he will enter upon the
work of clearing the right-of-way of
shrubery aud doing other work neces
sary for the erection of the fence.
Our merchants have no reason to
complain, as business is exceptionally
good for the season of the year.
Our housekeepers are feasting on
vegetables, which we are able to culti
vate here with the most gratifying suc-
In dull seasons, like this, our
merchants go out and adorn plow and
hoe handles, and thus “keep the pot
a bUinV’ We commend this practice
a* useful as well as ornamental.
Mrs. J. H. Odom is visiting her
mother, at Alapaha.
The good people lu this neighbor
hood expect to give an elegant barbe
cue, sometime this summer after the
crops have been laid by, and the News
-vxd Advertiser must surely be rep-
represented. x
Acree has improved greatly within
the past few yArs, but we confidently
expect it to outstrip all past progress
in her future growth.
go on the $tage at all Friday night if
* all.
Mallette even eutered the hi
PARTED COMPANY WITH THEM.
As a result, the professor says he
severed connection with the company,
and he added that Blackshear said he
would not fill the other engagements,
but hurried back to Macon, the Friday
night entertainment failing to draw at
all. There were a few persons at tin*
hall, but even the absence of the pro
fessor was not wanting to keep the
electrical wonder from the stage. At
this point differences betweeu Black
shear aud Prot. Mallette sprang up.
Hie company left the professor
stranded at the Screven House, but he
says that it did go on and fill the Way-
cross, Valdosta, Thomasville, Ameri.
cus and Albauy dates, which wete
financially successful. Prof. Mallette
said that he was to receive one-third ot
tbe profits, and he has never received
a cent, but he received yesterday a
dun from Blackshear for $58 38 for
costume and cash expended in arrang
ing tiie advance dates. The professor
intends going to Macon to canva-s for
his newbook, about to issue from the
press, and while therc-he proposes to
ask for a settlement.
Returning to Dixie Haygood, it was
on the trip in questioQ where she
formed the acquaintance of T. L. Em
bry. Embry was the youthful, blue-
eyed and popular clerk of the Artesian
use at Albany, and he fell a victim
to the electrical glances of the electrical
wonder.
A LA FREDDY GEBHARDT.
When Dixie left Albany, Embry,
who was .an embryotic lover, so to
speak, resigued his position and blind
ly followed the magnet on her Western
trip, and back to Atlanta, where he
tired of her. Accordingly to her state
ment she says they were married at
Memphis and he deserted her at, At
lanta, taking all her money aud leav
ing her destitute. She wrote a letter
to a gentleman in Albany, tbe Albany
News and Advertiser says, in which
she said that she has .received a letter
from a woman claiming to be the wife
of Embry, and adds that she-intends
to have her faithless husband arrested
and prosecuted for bigamy and theft.
Prof. Mallette, in commenting upon
the denial Embry makes of his mar
riage, says that while ordinarily he
would have no reasou to donbt the
statement of a woman claiming to be
married, yet In this instance, if. Mr.
Embrv denies it, he prefers to believe
Mr. Embry. The professor says that
Mr. Blacksliear’s venture has proven
a poor investment, for he writes to jthe
S rofessor, “I am out of pocket $1,500.
Te failed to get up any enthusiasm on
our lart trip West/'
Early yesterday rooming; -Louis
Maben, a Negro hostler at Farkas’s
stables, bad a lively time with anew
horse that bad recently arrived from
Kentucky, and was badly hurt. He
rode tbe horse, with only a halter on
him, to the drinking basin on Broad
street, to water. While the horse was
drinking some one drove up in a bug
gy and frightened him. He turned to
run, and as he did the end of the halt
er line stmek him on the liip. This
only added to his fright, and he dashed
off at a fall ran. He ran around two or
three blocks, and finally turned into
Jfckson street. W'ben he reach the
stable a crowd got ahead of him and
le him turn into tiie stable. His
rider, who ^ had stuck to him, was
thrown against the stable door and
badly hurt. The horse and rider both
struck the door and knocked It down,
the rider receiving a severe scalp
wound and being severely
about the shoulders.
Slxty-Ninere Tfcka Year*
“I see y<?u hud to go clear across the
water to get the names of half a dozen
people who are, sixty-nine years old
this year,” said Mr. T. Pattison to a
News and Advertiser man
Wednesday.
The scribe recalled a paragraph pub
lished a last week stating that Queen
Victoria and five other distinguish-
peisons would be sixty-nine
years old this year, and at once knew
that it was to this that Mr. Pattison
had reference.
“Well, what’s the matter with that?”
asked the scribe.
Nothing, only I can give you tiie
names of four right here in# Albany
who will be sixty-nine this year along
with Queen Victoria.”
“And who are they?”
“Well, there’s old man Mroczskow-
skl, Mr. L. C. Shaw, Maj. W. H. Wil
der and an old mail by the name of T.
Pattison.”
“But there are a good many citizens
of Albany who are older than that, are
there not, Mr. Paui9on? Let’s see,”
went on the scribe, “there’s Col. Tift,
Judge Jackson, General Morgan”—
‘Oh, yes, I suppose you can couut
up at least twenty here in town who
are over sixty-nine, but the thing that
I was after,” explained Mr. Pattison,
was to show you that there are four
of us who will be sixty-nine this year. 1
TI»c Cad mean Fleeting.
The meeting of the Cadmean Club
held at the residence o! Capt. Weston
on Monday night, though not numer
ously attended, was thoroughly enjoy
able. 'The instrumental solos by
Misses Settle Sterne and 31 ary Muse
evinced skill in the execution and taste
in the rendition of difficult composi
tions which was thoroughly appreci
ated by all present.
Rev. E. E. Folk’s essay on the poet,
Robert Burns, was one of the very best
the club has ever enjoyed, and if possi
ble inspired his hearers with a more
exalted appreciation of Nature’s great
est poet.
The rendition by Mr. L. E. Welch
of one of the author’s most celebrated
poems, contributed greatly to the
evening’s entertainment.
The next meeting ot the club will be
held Monday night, June 4th, 1888, at
the residence of Mr. J. S. # Davi9, when
the following programme will be pre
sented :
Instrumental Trio—Mrs. ~C. M.
Clarke, Messrs. Sterne and Shine.
Pojie—31r. R. H. Warren.
Instrumental Solo—Miss Daisy
Smith.
Quotations from author.
Discussion of author.
Song—Mrs. .T. M. Tift.
Reading from author—Mr. B.
Weston.
Instrumental Solo—Mrs. L. Geiger.
A TtXM Fonjr and a Wire Fence
Dr. P. L. Hilsman had a novel and
alarming experience on Tuesday after
noon, but was preserved almost mirac
ulously from serious injury. The Doc
tor was driving one ol bis little black
Texas ponies to his sulky, accustoming
It to single harness with a view of its
safe use by his boys. He had occasion
to visit his farm near the city. The
road to the place is skirted on one side
by a barbed wire fence of five strans of
the most formidable barbed wire in
use, was within three feet of the fence,
and, the driver, slashing the pony
with the lines, caused it tospring side
ways into it. The wires, were only
about eighteen incites apart, yet the
pony In the force of his collision with
it, broke the middle wire, and dragged
after him tiie entire sulky except one
wheel, which engaged the post. The
driver was thrown out, hut the Doc
tor was carried under the wires which
lacerated his hands.punctured his litnbe
and cut his clothes, into doll rags.
Tne pony, io the same instant of his
exploit in getting through, turned and
passed back into the road, as if prond
of the performance. The Doctor
clasped the wire, whose shaip pointed
barbs punctured deeply his hand, bat
just at that time, fortunately, the har
ness, which was cut, gave way and
the animal was released by breaking
from the sulky.
An investigation discovered that the
horse was but slightly hurt, while tiie
sulky and harness were badly broken
up- The Doctor’s injuries were tri
fling, but It! seems miraculous that he
was not fearfully cut in the strange
and dangerous experience.
Our friend R. B. Odom, of Baker
county, who has a delightful country
scat about three miles from Newton,
sent the News and Advertises fine
specimens of black cherries from his
elegant trait orchard. They are larger
than ordinary pljims, and though not
quite ripe, are toothsome. The tree is
quite ornamental, haviag almost per*
fectiy black foliage, -and being sym
metrical and attnu tive. Tbe planters
of this section. are greatly improving
their lrames by the care bestowed upon
tiieir fruit anil ornamental trees. It is
a most healthy sign, for one who loves
liis home studies to improve it, and add
CHIT-CHIT,
fVMniuand Tilings in and ont«f
A STOAT OF ZDIX.
In aotre forgotten chronicle of ol«i
- Timitorj 1 bare read.
And I have heard ttmd
Roaetti wept when be bad beard it told.
When Etc from Eden forced had turned her
Grow dim the mei
within her mind
ory of that bUmful place.
Then daring many after daja of toil
Children of earth were bom
Who Knew not of that morn
Before in sweat they learned to tUl the aotl.
They were ooetent—ooctented with tneir lot;
ntmrn todast.
Thev liTed. as lire they must.
Contented, for ot Eden they knew not.
Thus God with merc> tempered what seemed
* Fa film
Their Corner blissful lot
They should not utterly be desolate.
: many years a child was born,
A child unlike t
the rest;
ABU wnen nnu> her o
Ere pressed it, then she wept,
•be said, “this child were in its
grave.
Fat
Glimpses of
For in his taudag eyes
of paradise
And everlasting is oar mother's pain.
For oft at eve or morn
Some poet child is born
’ —Bennett Bellman.
—Mrs. A. F. Hill, of 3lacon, is in
tbe city.
-A man’s wife alone knows how
big a tool be Is.
—Mr. J. L. Jay went orer to Shell-
man, Wednesday.
—Mr. W. E. Lunday, ot Richmond,
Va., is In tiie city.
—£lr. F. Kirk, of Aurora, Ind., is at
the Artesian House.
—Mr. W. A. Robinson, of Blakely,
was in the city Thursday.
—Mr. C. G. Johnson, of 'Columbus,
is at tbe Artesian House.
-Dr. O. J. Short went up to Ella-
ville, Thursday morning.
—This is a bad year for spring
poets ami early vegetables.
—Mr. W. H. Bennitt left for New
York, last Saturday afternoon.
—A pool player, like a thief in the
crowd, aims for the pockets.
—Miss Doncbska Holcombe returned
to Dewitt, 3fonday afternoon.
—The turning point in every maid
en’s life is the interrogation point.
—Captain R. Hobbs returned from
Savannah, Wednesday morning.
—Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Tift and
daughter, of Tiffcon, are in the city.
—Mr. Geo. N. Pace and son, of Ar
lington, were in the city, Modday.
—Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Tift and
daughter went up to Macon, Thurs
day.
—Mr. and3frs. Wallace Tison came
down from Leesburg, Thursday after
noon.
—3Irs.'C. C. Wightman and son, re-
“ iii
turned from Camilla, yesterday morn
ing.
—The custom for ladies to carry
walkingsticks is once more becoming
fashionable.
—rhe meanest man in the wot Id is
the one who is very mean, knows it,
and encourages the tendency.
—Mr. and Mrs. C. Relgger came np
from Ty Ty, Thursday afternoon,
their way to Indianapolis, Indiana.
—Mrs. S. F. Jennings, after a very
pleasant visit to Capt. T. D. Dupont’s
family, has returned to Montgomery.
—Miss Mary Eaton, of St. Louis,
arrived in thexity, Saturday after
noon, on a visit to Mrs. Samuel Hall.
—Mr. N. F. Tift returned from Mt.
Airy, Monday afternoon, and reports
Mrs. F. I. Nelson in mnbh better
health.
—Mr. S. M. Griffin, of Qnltman, was
in the city, Wednesday, and made a
friendly call on the News and Adver-
—Mrs. R. L. Bennett came down
trora Atlanta, Thursday afternoon, on
a visit to her parents, Mr. and Mrs. D.
W. Price.
—Soon the sweetest girl graduate
will be making her bow in various
parts of the country. Her other beau
will come late.
—Mrs. S. C. Moore came down from
Macon, Wednesday afternoon, on a
visit to her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wil
liam Oliver.
—Miss MoIIie Connally, after spend
ing the winter most pleasantly In this
city, returned to her home in Phila
delphia. Tuesday.
—31 r. A. W. Turenr came down
from Macon, Saturday, and retained
Tuesday, accompanied by Mrs. Tur-
* - * lldren
ner and the chil
—Mrs. E. E. Folk, after a pleasant
visit to friends and relatives in Nash
ville Tenn., returned borne, last Satur
day afternoon.
—Rev. E. E. Folk returned, Satur
day, from Richmond, where he has
been iu attendance upon the Southern
Baptist Convention.
—Mrs. Wm. Lockett a charming
lady, of Albany, is visiting her sister
Mrs. Love Wilder on upper Broad
street.—Thomaaville Enterprise.
—The general public ought to feel
pretty good. According to a manu
facturing chemist of New York, the
people of the world take about a ton of
pills a week.
—One of the worst hinderances to
clinrch growth is the habit that some
of the members have of always borrow-
rowing trouble and paying a high rate
of interest.
—Servant—The mistress says, mum,
that she is not at borne. Who
shall I say called? Caller—Yon may
say that a lady called who didn’t bring
her name.
—Albany is keeping up he^repnta-
tion for fine babies.' Little
arrived at tbe home of Mr. and Mrs.
John Irwin. Snnday night, and weigh
ed 14 poiiu<J6.
—Wedding bells will he heard in out
city before many summer moons shall
wax and wane, when Albany will lose
another one of her belles. One by one
the flowers fade away from our sight.
•A well-read man of fair ability is
said to nse from 6,000 to 7,000 words,
and to be able to define and under
stand 15,000 to 30,000. Shakespeare’s
vocabulary contained about 15,000
words.
—Fashion has decreed a new wed
ding anniversary, the “clover wed
ding,” upon the fourth year of mat
rimony. The gifts are four-leaved ta
bles, screen, glass dishes, portfolios,
frames and other articles with qnartre
folio designs.
Miss Rosa Mallory’s many friends
in this city will be glad to learn that
last Satu
she returned home, last Saturday after
noon. Miss Rosa will spend her va
cation with her mother’s family, after
a six months* term ol teaching in Clin
ton, Ky,
—Mr. J. H. Callaway, of Clinton,
Ky., arrived in tbe city, last Saturday,
and is one of tbe proudest fathers in
the land—doubly prond, as two fine
children awaited him with their moth
er, his wife, s.t the home of her moth
er, Mrs. Charles Mallory.
—Mr. Mike O’Snllivan left for At
lanta Sunday to have his eyes oper
ated on by Dr. Calhoun.' A filmy cat
aract has almost entirely destroyed the
aract has almost entirely destroyed the
sight of one eye and seriously impaired
the other, but we hope be will soon
return with the sight of both entirely
restored,
—Woman (to tramp)—And if I give
you a nice plate of bash you promise
to saw some wood? Tramp—Yes’m.
Woman (doubtfully)—I don’t know
whether 1 can put confidence in you
‘ ' ** ‘—You
to its cut
ever you see
aiid surroi
he does
an hour, but
a wise Pi
home iu
does not
ions. When-
•ving bis home
■■■■■
or not. Tramp (reproachfully)-
ought to. ma’am. I have confidence
enough in yon to eat tiie hash.
—Dr. W. L. Davis and his mother,
Mrs. E. C. Davis, have returned from
Marion, Ala., whither they were called
‘ ! sickness of Miss Edwina Davis,
two weeks ago. They brought
3Iiss Edwina with them, and she is
gradually regaining her former health.
—Mr. J. B. Rountree, of Qnitman,
Ga., was in the city Wednesday. Mr.
Rountree made a tour of the North,
East and West in the early spring, and
perfected arrangements with responsi
ble bouses in the principal markets
with the view of handling a share o!
the melon shipments from Southwest
Georgia thi£ season.
—Mr. W. E. Wooten, one of Albany’s
rising young lawyeis. went out to Ar
lington, Thursday afternoon, and will
deliver an address to the Sunday School
Celebration there, Sunday. The good
people of Arlington, may expect a
' * * for WiU has
treat in the oration,
all tho*e qualities which go to make
up a good orator.
NIGHT TRANSPLANTING.
Trees Transplanted mt Night Dm
Better than Those Planted In
the Bar Time.
The American Farmer says:
“It is claimed by some that trees, if
transplated at night, will do better
than if reset in the day time. We know
that the sun has an influence upon cer
tain plants and flowers, bat to what ex
tent it affects trees is not definitely
known.
A party who desired; to ascertain
whether or not there is any difference
between day light and night planting,
transferred ten cherry trees
same were In bloom, commencing at 4
o’clock in tbe afternoon, and planting
a tree every hour until 1 o’clock in the
morning, and the result would indicate
that tbe dark hours are better for the
work than the light. Those transplant
ed during the day shed their blossoms,
producing little or no fruit, while those
planted in the dark maintained their
condition fully.
He did the same with ten dwarf trees
after the fruit was one-third grown.
Those transplated daring the dav shed
daring
their fruit; those t
the uight perfected their crop, and
showed no injury from having been re
moved. With each of those trees he
removed some eaith with the roots.”
Syrup of Figs
Is Nature’s own true laxative. It is
the most easily taken, and the most
effective remedy known to Cleanse the
item when Bilious or Costive; to
dispel Headaches, Colds, and Fevers;
to Care Habitual Constipation, Indi-
tion, Piles, etc. Manufactured only
_ the California Fig Syrup ~
San Francisco, Cal. Fa
Lamar, Rankin & Lamar.
No Belief for Do.
You may feel this when under the
treatment of so many, and not get any
relief tor diarrhoea aud
Why not try Dr. Biggers’ Huckleber
ry Cordial, you will then have relief.
mountain of Cfcurcti Debt
The following, clipped from an ex
change, carries a suggestion with it
to the pastors of debt-burdened
churches:
At the Methodist Church in St.
Joluisbury, Vt, a few Sundays ago, a
•Jackboard was displayed upon which
ipiieared a mountain divided off into
geological strata, the upper one bear-
ng the figures $50.' Other sectiona
vere marked smaller sums down to $1,
he total representing the $706 of the
liurcli debt. This, Rev. Mr. Frost
•aid, he wanted to see wiped out, and,
is subscriptions were announced from
:he audience, the corresponding figures
and sections were erased from the
board. In twenty-five minutes the
whole mountain of debt had disap
peared and there was $50 to spare.
The prevalence of Malaria in large
sections of sjuntry where until recent
ly it has never been known, is noteasy
of explanation. If yon are a sufferer,
it will be more interesting to von to
know how to get well. A few doses of
Sballenbergers Antidote will do the
work, and do it immediately. Tbe
work, and do it Immediately. Tbe
medicine is prompt in destroying tbe
poison, and always safe; even for
young children. Sold by Druggists.
Oue mare Effort.
If you are growing weaker and
weaker from that bloody dysentery
which does not succumb to the treat
ment of physicians, make one more ef-
take Dr. Biggers Huckleberry
fort and
cordial.
Here’s A not Her.
An Americus man has handed in the
following to the Recorder, and a Far-
nnm House dinner ticket is offered for ,
the one sending in a strictly correct
answer to it:
A hunter spies a squirrel on the
stump of a dead tree, but before he can
shoot it, the little animual dodges
around off the opposite side. The
eager sportsman walks around the
tree seven and a half times, bat never
gets a glimpse of tbe squirrel, tbe lat
ter moving around at the same speed
of the hunter, and keeping tie trunk
of the tree always between them.
Question: How many times does the
hunter go around the squirrel in mak
ing seven and a half circuits of the
tree?
When In the course of human events
it becomes necessary for a person to rid
themselves of Malaria, Sick-beadache
or any disorder arising from a torpid
action of the liver, Cbipman’s Liver
Pills are the things needful. Sold by
H. J. Lamar & Sous.
Saved. Fly Child.
S ou not appreciate the feelings
ode in 3&r. W. L. Fain, of
, when he says Dr. Biggers’
Huckleberry Cordial saved his child
that he thought dying from that bowel
trouble.
Hales for the Husband.
We make no excuse for reproducing
from the Christian Index the following
excellent rules that should govern a
husband’s conduct toward his wife.
Husband’s are less thoughtful of thslr
faithful wives than they sbonld be, and
we recommend that there simple rules
be graven on the fleshy tablets of every
husband’s 1
heart:
1. Husband, love your wife.
2. Never find fault of her before
others.
Per contra, remember the counsel
of the good Book; “her husband shall
praise her in the gates”—that is before
folks.
4. Bear all her burdens for her; even
then she’ll bear more than you do, in
spite of you.
5. It you want her to submit to your
* ‘ ubmit to
judgment, never ask her to snb
you selfishness.]
6. A woman’s life is made up of lit
tle things. Maker her life happy by
little courtesies.
7. Love Is a wife’s only wages.
Don’t scrimp in your pay.
Advice to Homers.
Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Sykuf
should always he used for Childreu
teething. It soothes tiie child, softens
the gums, allays all pain, cures wind
colic, and i ‘ '
_ is the best remedy for diar
rhoea. 25 cents a bottle. aall-ly
Why should the Charter Oak Wire
auze Over Door Stove or Range he
in your kitchen? Because the health
ing so large
be without one
apri!20tf.
yon cannot afford to
Sheffield & Bell
Where Happiness Is Found.
Where Is happiness found ? In the
dictionary, and in tiie use ot Dr. Big
gers* Huckleberry Cordial, which saves
so much pain and anxiety in relieving
the little ones from teething and cholera
infantum. 1
Firemen’s Contest.
Special to tbe News and Advertiser.
• Americus, Ga., Hay 23.
There were only three companies In
the firemanlc contest here, to-day,
with a very small crowd of spectators.
Americus won first money.
S. B. L.
agree a
Liver
Consumption, Wasting Diseases*
And General Debility. Doctors dis-
asa the relative value of Cod
Oil and Hypophosphites—the
Jjplylng strength and flesh; the
other giving nerve power, and acting
as a tonic to the digestive and entire
system. But in Scott’s Emulsion of
Cod Liver Oil with Hypophosphites,
the two are combined, aud the effect is
wonderful. Thousands who have de
rived no permanent beqeflt from other
rations have been cured by its
use. Is not an assumption, but
facts that are substantiated by t
perience or the past 10 years, and tbe
of thou
thousands of the best
physicians throughout the country.
LIST OF LETTEHS
List of
Ga., Post
not called for
rent to tiie dead
Alderman, J T
Anastas 111 E<lwanJ
Bai%Mtu
Bell, Wm
Krrjoks, Henrietta
tiers remaining in Albany
Office. 3Iay 23, 1888. I,
or within 30 days will be
Daria, Amy
wen, 8
31r. B. A. Collir, in retiring from
the management of the Artesian
Honre, carries an eviable reputation
as a hotel man. He belongs to a iami-
ly of born hotel keepers, and in the
oontlis of his proprietorship of the
Artesian House has fully sustained the
repntation of the family in their Indian
Spring. liou;I career.
Cowell, Savannah
Emaanel, Wm
Gordon, Dora
HilL Gcorjria
MaCake, Lizzie
James, EJ
Johnaon. Albert
Kato, Goa
MeNaal, Boaa
McJIorzan, W C
Newton, Dave
William*. C F
In calling for above
“Advertised,” and give
White, Levi
Wiliams. Cornelias
Williams. Sarah
Rust P. 3L
Add|ti<
What word is that to which if :
add a syllable It will make it shorter?
Short. -Taylor’s Cherokee Remedy of
Sweet Gum and Mullein • will shorten,
your cold and cure your cough. 2
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