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ALBANV WEEKLY HERALD: SATURDAY, MARCH 19. 1892.
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MOTHER ELECTION.
US? WEES'S ELECTION DECLARED
mu
ANOTHER ORDERED FOR APRII.
1UT1I, FOR WATERWORKS
AND SEWBRAOB BONDS.
FncmUav at Council nl Regular
III cellos liuoi Night.
The City Counoll met in regular
semi-monthly session at 8 o’olock last
night, with the Mayor and the full
hoard of Aldermen present.
Immediately after the minutes of
last meeting had been read and coil-
firmed,.Alderman Cassidy moved that
the opening and canvassing of the re
turns of the eleotion held on last
Tuesday on the question of Issuing
bonds for waterworks and sewerage
purposes be taken up. The motion
prevailed, and the returns of the elec
tion as made by the managers, show
ing 831 votes cast “for bonds" and 26
votes for “no bonds” were read.
The question of illegality, which has
already., been fully set forth in the
Herald, came up for consideration,
and City Attorney Woot
en, who had been requested by
the Mayor to prepare an -opin
ion on the subject, made a
verbal report. He olted a late opinion
of the Supreme Court bearing on the
aubjeot, and advised Counoll that the
-election was invalid on aocount of
Mr. Meads, one of the managers, not
being a freeholder. He advised that
the safe course to pursue would be to
declare this eleotion invalid and order
another at onoe.
Judge W. T. Jones was present, and,
It being stated that he had been in
vestigating the subjeot under consid
eration for the information of one of
his olients, he was asked for his opin
ion. He had prepared a written
opinion for Alderman Lockett, and
this was read to Council. Judge
Jones concurred with City Attorney
Wooten as to the illegality of the eleo
tion.
Counoll then passed a resolution
whioh was drawn by the City Attorney
declaring the eleotion Invalid and or
dering another eleotion on the 19th of
April. Official publication of the or-
, der will begin in the Herald tomor
row.
Ai the conditional trade that has been
made for the purchase of the Wight and
Commerce street wells is to tak$ effect
..on the ilrst of April, the question
of having the time extended came up
for consideration. Capt. Wight was
present and said be thought the matter
of extension of time could be readily
adjusted, and it was thereupon refer
red to the Contraot Committee with
power to aot.
THE OAF LET DOWN FOR THE KICKAPOO
INDIANS.
Hr. Gallctti, manager of the Kicka-
poo Indian Medloine Company, which
has been giving performances and
selling medioines in East Albany, ap
peared before Counoil and asked that
bis company, be allowed to oome into
the olty, paying a reasonable license
for the privilege. He submitted rec
ommendations and indorsements
from the Mayors of other oltles where
he had been.
After hearing the Dootor be was
politely informed by the Mayor that
he might retire. The subjeot was
passed over until it was brought up
again by a petition signed by several
citixena asking that the Kiokapoos be
allowed to give a performance at
Willingham’s Hall for the benefit of
the Odd Fellows Lodge. Alderman
Gunnison moved tliat the Kiokapoos
be allowed to oome. in.at a lioense to
he left discretionary with the Mayor.
“Then,” said Mayor Gilbert, “they
-won’t come in; for I tell you right
now if you leave any discretion to me
in the matter I’ll keep them out."
Alderman Weslosky here came to
the rescue of Alderman Gunnison, or
the Kickapoos, and moved that they be
allowed to come in by the day upon
payment of a license of five dollars a
day, Coilncil reserving the right to re
voke the license if the Kickapoo crowd
and their business should become ob
jectionable. Tills motion was adopted,
and so the Kickapoos can come into tile
city to-day by paying a license of $8.
Bills that had been properly audit
ed were, ordered paid, and a batch of
dray bonds were approved.
The City Sexton’s report for Febru
ary was read. It showed 5 Interments
—3 whites and 2 colored; 1 non-resi
dent.
The City Physician’s monthly re
port was read and showed 16 patients
and 2 deaths.
The Marshal’s report on the police
court docket showed $109.80 to be the
amount of the Apes imposed by the
Mayor for themonth of February. Of
this amount $104.50 was collected, and
$6 worked out on the streets.
-The Treasurer’s quarterly report
showed a balance of $3,898.89 in the
treasury.
/ A communication
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■litre offering to repaint the artesian
well railing for $12 was read and re
ferred to the Contraot Committee
with power to act.
The Mayor brought to the attention
of Council the fact that R. A. Hall afid
the Alliance'Warehouse had refused
to pay license for their drays, upon the
ground that they did not do a general
drayago business, but hauled only for
their own warehouses. Counoll de
cided that they were liable for the
usual drayage license, and directed
that proceedings be instituted at once
if the licenses are not paid.
Alderman Weslosky called attention
to thefaot that the ColumbusSouthern
Railroad has not filled in the bad place
by its traok near where its cars stop,
whioh it had agreed to do by the first
of February. Upon motion the
Marshal was instructed to notify the
■gent of the road that the promised
work must be done without further
delay.
The Mayor stated that he lmd been
asked to remit the pound fee on some
cattle belonging to Mr. W. W. Raw
lins. Alderman Jones had a similar
application with referonce to some
cattle belonging to Capt. John A.
Havls. The circumstances in both
oases were submitted to Council, but
Counoil declined to remit the fees,
and decided that the Mayor had no
discretion in the matter of remitting
fees.
AN OFFENSIVE PROVERB.
HON. C. B.-WOOTEN.
The Atlanta Constitution of Sunday
devotes a coium to the politics and
politicians of the Second Congres
sional District. The Congressional
candidates are discussed and cuts are
given representing the physognomie*
of the four most prominent in the
raoe. The representation of Col. C.
B. Wooten gives him a wide-cut, bull
dog expression about the mouth that
is not true to nature, but this assault
upon tho Colonel’s genial and placid
oountehanoe is somewhat atoned for
in the following kind allusions to the
man:
Dougherty County comes to the
front with the strongest kind of a can
didate in the person of a splendid,
liralny, strong man—Judge Wooten.
It - looks very much like n battle of
giants down in the Second, for cer
tainly Judge Wooten Is the peer of
any man in ab.llity. He is a very
strong man in every sense of the- word;
has the widest acquaintance, is greatly
admired by everybody who kuows
him, and is a man who has always
been prominent. He was for years
judge of the Albany.Circuit, has been
a member of the State Senate, and has
ever since the war been a leader. The
Judge is a man of simple tastes, of
modest-and retiring disposition, but a
man who has friends everywhere. He
Is In the race in earnest, and his
friends consider him a sure winner.
Hew MR Innocent Little Remark Caused
m Lot of Uartl Pooling.
“Folks that quotes, had oughter be
mighty koerful who they’re hittiH,"
said Abner Griggs, the wiseacre of
Brookviile Corners; “but then again,”
he added, “folks hadn’t oughter be
s'fearful tetchy, seems's ef 1" '“Have
you got anybody special in your
mind, Uncle Abner?” asked the young
man to whom the old farmer was
talking. "Well, yes, I don't mind
sayin t' I hev,” replied Mr. Griggs.
“O' course it's a statement't bears
on any number o' oases in a gen’ral
way. But what ye was jest sayin
*baout takin up them keerless words
o' Fred Jenkins’ put me in mind o'
th' Hill sisters, Susan an Rebecca:,
they died 'fore your day."
“What’s tho storyt I’ve heard of
’em both,” said the young man, as the
old farmer paused for a moment, ev
idently lost in recollection.
“Well," Baid Unde Abner, “ye see
they was gettin on id years, but they
didn't seem t' realize it. Twos com
mon fr folks t’ speak of ’em as them
two old Hill gals, but they never sus-
pidoned it, not fr a minute. But
tlioy was terrible tetchy, alius on th’
lookaout f r snubs an slights, ah lhade
it kind o’ hard f'r folks.
“One evenin they went to a Be win
bee t' Mis' Deao’n Emmonses. It ap
pears 't someways or ’nother they
thought's much's could he they was
expected, when they wa’n't That
partic’lar bee was meant f'r th'
young folks.
“Well, naow, Susan an Rebecca
was a good forty years older 'n th’
oldest o’ th’ rest on ’em. They didn’t
seem t’ hev sense 'nough t' go away
when they faound haow things stood,
so they stuck right there. Mis'
Deao’n Emmons, she was as perlite to
'em as she knew haow, but they
seemed t’ he kinder offish.
“Well, after th’ bee was over, some
o’ th’ young fellers come in—I was
'mongst th’ lot—an they got to play-
in games. Th' Hill sisters, they
staid right along, an th' young folks
took ’em inter their fun; but they
was kinder stiff, an didn’t ketch holt
o’ th’ games over’n above quick.
“Finlly one o’ th' gals said, ‘Lo’s
play Shoutin Proverbs,' an little
’Mandy French, t hed jest come
home fr’m boardin school, she spoke
up 'quick—she was kinder quick
spoken alius—an says she, ‘Oh,
Shouting Proverbs is as old as th’
hills I’
“An she never reTized what she’d
said till she see them two Hill sisters
rise up as stiff’s a couple o’ pokers, an
make a curchy, each on ’em, t’ Mis’
Deao’n Emmons, an say, ‘I’ll hid ye
good evenin 1’
“ Tw’n’t no use tryin t’ explain,’
concluded Uncle Abner with a remi
niscent chuckle of amusement
“They alius thought t’ th’ day o’ their
deaths’t ’twas intended fer a slap
right t’ their faces. ’Tw’n’t no good
tellin ’em ’twas a common sayin, a
kind of a proverb like I When folks
wanted them Hill sisters to a gothorin
after that, they alius hed t’ make a
p’int of invitin ’em special, by word
o’ maoutli. on they never went t’
’nother . sewin bee, long ’s they
lived I"—Youth’s Companion.
A Dootor for MeiMonler’a Dog.
Here is a good story of a doctor
and a painter's wife. The doctor's
name does not appear, but the painter
was Meissonier. Mine. Meissonier
sent for the family physician in a
great hurry. He came, thinking
some illness had overtaken the artist
But it was not tho artist; it was only
a lapdog. He pocketed his pride
and attended the patient, who soon
recovered. At the end of the year
the bill came in, but there was no
item for attendance on the dog.
Mme. Meissonier noticed the omission
and told the doctor to charge. He
would not charge; he said he could
not charge, he was not a vet He
was very glad to be kind to the dog,
etc. The lady insisted. Well, said
the doctor, the binges of my garden
gate ore rusty; ask M. Meissonier to
. . bring his brush and -paint them for
-11 from Mr. Shror- me .—Pall Mall Gazette.
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An authorized interview with Edi
tor Henry Watteraon,of tho Louisville
Courier-Journal, lias been sent out by
tho Associated Press from Chicago.
On the subject of the Presidential
nomination Mr. Watterson takes the
position that neither Mr. Cleveland
nor Mr. Hill should be nominated, and
his first ohoioe ii Mr. Carlisle. He
thinks that any good man outside of
New York would be better for the
Democrats to nominate than either
Cleveland or Hill. When aaked why,
Mr. Watterson said; “Because the
faotlons there have made the nomina
tion of any New Yorker Impossible.
Gov. Hill has killed Mr. Cleveland and
in doing so he has almost killed him
self; The nomination must come
West or go to Massaobussetts, Penn
sylvania or Maryland. If we could
not eleot Mr. Cleveland in 1888 when
he was In the White House and when
we had all the outer forms and shows
of harmony in the State of New York
whatohance would'we have against
the present vehement opposition?”
Statesman Henry WatterBon re
sents the Idea of Mr. Cleveland’s be
ing a Moses in the matter of tarjff re
form. He says; “Cleveland made us
a good President. In great aff$|rs he
has many of the. elements of to great
man. I am most sinoorely his friend,
But I must contest, and sometimes I
feel like resenting the notion- that he
is our sole, our only, and most- original
Moses in the matter of tariff reform.
Cleveland allowed three years of his
old administration to pass before he
declared himself. When other Demo
crats were struggling with the demons
of darkness he was passive and silent.
When hp did speak out he spoke well,
but was to skeptical of the issue he
had himself precipitated. He sent
Gorman and the late William L. Scott
to St. Louis with a out and dried plat
form, ignoring bis own message, ig
noring the Mills bill, and reasserting
as his party law tiie straddle we had
made in Chicago in 1884.”
Mxsesa. C. B. Pendleton, of Lowndes,
and E. P. S. Denmark, of Brooks, are
the members from their respective
oountles of the Demooratlo Exooutlve
Committee of the Second Congressional
Distriot, under the organization of the
committee at the last district conven
tion. Under the new apportionment
Lowndes andBrooks counties are
thrown into the new Eleventh distriot.
Now, will these gentlemen continue to
aot with the Second District Commit
tee until the next convention is held,
or will they, without any action upon
the part of the party in their respect
ive counties, go into the now district
committee? The Herald suggests that
they oome to the meeting of the old
committee in Albany on the 81st inst.
and apply for letters of dismission
from this committee to the one of the
“same faith and order” to be organ
inzed in the new Eleventh.
The Tifton Gazette takes the cor
rect view of the situation in the Second
Congressional district when It says:
“The Alliance and Democratic party
are seperate organizations—one Indus
trial and tiie other political—and Mr.
Stevens’ endorsement by the Alliance
should have no more weight in the
Democratic convention than a mere
individual request.
Tiie Albany (Ua.) Herald says:
“It doesn’t pay to sleep In the same
room with a strange Negro.” , What
in the world has Editor McIntosh
been up to now?—Savannah News.
.We haven’t been sleeping in the
same room with a strange Negro, we
assure yon, but some of our friends
have.
Capt. Evan P. Howell has been in
terviewed by the Atlanta Herald with
reference to his probable candidacy
for Governor, and declares emphati
cally that he has never had any Inten
tion of running, and will not run.
“Woman rules the world,” remarks
the Philadelphia Record. Chestnuts I
Everybody has known that since the
days of mother Eve.
a.
There are going to be more oaudi-
dates for office In Georgia this year
than ever before.
Allianormen Livingston and Wil
son are the subjects of the latest- ex
coriation from “near Cartersville.”
la parson Wadsworth to blame for
the discontinuance of that taffy col
umn of editor Bayne's from the Au
gusta Chronicle?
ItSLloioM lint got tho grip on Angnitiv.—
Anguata Now*. P
Well, that’s better than if religion
in Augusta had the grip.
The Herald doesn’t propose to eat
any crow after the Demooratlo nomi
nation for President, whether the
nominee be Hill, Cleveland or that
unknow “Western man."
Editor Qonn, of the Cuthbert Lib
eral-Enterprise, has an editorial in the
latest issue of his' paper which reads
like it had been written by a man who
was getting tired of being a Demo
crat.
Hon. O. B. Stbvrns will not receive
the oordial and united support of the
Alllanoemen of the Second Congress
ional distriot, and will not be the
nominee of tho Demooratlo conven
tion. Mark tiie prediction.
The Farmer’s Alliance, not only in
Georgia, but throughout the entire
oountry, seems to have too many
leaders. There are not enough offloes
to go round, and the leaders on the
outside are getting reBtive.
The fanners of Southwest Georgia
are beginning to show their appreci
ation of the Herald in a way that is
very gratifying to the editor. Tho
subscription list of tho Weekly Her
ald is growing very rapidly.
Trn years Is a pretty good slice out
of a man’s life to give up to oven
so good a cause as serving his oountry
in the capacity of a Congressman.
Yet, aoordlng to the way tho Wash
ington Post has figured it out, the
average member does not begin to
spend as much as a decade in tiie
National Legislature. Of the men
who began In the Forty-eighth Con
gress, and have served since then con
tinually, thus rounding out ten years
at the expiration of the present Con
gress, only thirty-six now answer to
the roll-oall, and eurlously enough,
the number of Democrats just doubles
the Republicans—twenty-four to
twelve.
The Washington Star says: “there
nr'o rumors of a serious split in the
Farmer’s Alliance. The Southern
members of the Alllnnce have never
taken kindly to tile third party move
ment and they have been oxpeoted to
give but little aid and comfort to those
who are engaged in the attempt to
build up a great people’s party. It is
claimed now that the St. Louis confer
ence, where the third party movemont
was fully started, was paoked. Charges
of that purport are said to be In course
of preparation, and it is expected that
there will be a split between tiie South
ern Alllanoemen and those from the
West.
It Is bad form and bad politioa, too,
for a Demooratlo newspaper to in
dulge in abuse of one candidate as a
means of helping another..
The Indianapolis News calls atten
tion to the disappearance of the
“dude.” A few seasons ago ho waa
with us In all ills glory. Solomon was
not arrayed like one of them, although,
no doubt in Solomon's time the species
existed under some other name. In
Shakespeare’s day the court of Queen
Elizabeth was infested by them, under
the title of the “enphuist,” one who at-
foots elegance aud refinement of man
ner. Along down tho ages he has fig
ured as the buok, the blood, the beau,
tiie dandy. The dude seems to be a
sort of degenerated descendant of the
lot. “The mere man of clothes has
thus run through all literature, brand
ed with one or another absurd name,
despised alike by wit and warrior, the
mark for the withering contempt of
the one and for the biting satire of the
other, yet admitted to the society of
both,” says the New York Sun. For
some reason his ranks seem to be
thinning out, but he will reappear I11
another form.
Thu Democratic Executive committee for tho
Second Congressional district lias hcen called
to meet in Albany March Dint. Does this mean
an early convention?—Cuthbert Liberal-En
terprises
Not necessarily. But suppose it
does?—wliat’s the matter witli an early
convention? The Alltnnoe of the dis
trict has already held- a convention
and put out- a candidate. This forces
activity in the campaign, and it is
well enough to fix the dale of the
Congressional convention in time for
the delegates to be chosen in the same
way and at the same time
delegates are selected to attend
either of the two State conventions,
whioh have already been ordered,
wherever the Democracy of the
several counties of the district may
desire to do so. But whether the Dis
trict Executive Committee calls an
early convention or not, it Is well
enough for those to whom the Demo
cratic masses of the distriot have en
trusted the interests of the party to
get together and “see how the ground
lays.”
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Just received a new supply of
Prayer Books and Hymnhls, which
we offer Cheap for the Lenten
Season.
BRRGflirlS.
We have a few Llppincott's 5th
Readers, a job lot. which, we put
on the market at 50c. each. Now
is your opportunity I
All orders for books, periodicals,
stationery, etc., filled promptly by
CRAIN & SONS.
I have just returned from tiie horn*-*
of the Manufacturers, where 1 made
some SPECIAL BARGAINS. There
is no use “making a mountain owl of a
moio hill," and life is too short for a
man to spend his days trying to mis
lead people, or In setting trajis for his
fellow-man, consequently I throw nil
of this aside and come down to
straightforward dealing.
Now, if you havoany desire to work
to your own interest, yon will call ai
my store on Broad street ami let os
glvo you some figures on a lot of tiie
most beautiful and durable Furniture
over displayed in Albany.
Furniture of every description am'
stylo. Will sell for cash, or on easy
torins. And in the same way wo can
fit you out with a Fine, Sweet-Tom-il
Plano or Organ, or a fine Hewing Mu-
ohlne. Yes, my house is headquarters
for Furniture, Plnnos, Organs, si
Musio, Hewing Machines and attach
ments. . I know tlmeB are linrd, but I
will treat you right and sell you what
you need to mako home pleasant and
comfortable, on almost any terms.
No troublo to show goods, hut a
pleasure to have you drop in and see
us. Yours obediently,
R. L-RACHAL8.
CAN YOU
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All right, then. Ring up No. 47
und order anything you want in the
GROC RY LINE.
And it will be sent to you. Orders
left at my store will receive prompt
attention. My stock; of Groceries,
Confectioneries, Tobacco, Cigars,
etc., is complete, but I am actually
too busy to give in detail the end
less quantity of good things I have
S. E. BUSH.
You must have absolute oonfldenae in
the source from which your table sup
plies oome.
There is no reason why you should
not know .exactly what you are buying
and there is just as little reason why
you should not be suited to perfection.
“Charity covers a multitude of
and so do some grocery bills.
There is suoh a thing as paying for
the best of everything and not getting
the best of anything. We believe that
prinolple should oome before profit
and we carry that theory intopraotiee.
Do you happen to want anything in
line of Fancy and Family Groceries.
We carry a full and oompiete assort
ment of all varieties of Canned Goods,
Coffee and Teas of the best, Postelle's
Elegant Flour, Pure Spices, and Ex
tracts, Butter, Cheese and every arti
cle usually kept in a first-class Fami
ly Grocery, and will make it to the in
terest of those favoring us with 'their
patronage.
Read My Message and
be Made Happy.
ATTENTION!
We have received the finest
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WE GAN FIT ALL,
The fat and stout, the long and
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A large and beautiful line of sam
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