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ClmlMi! Presents!
•—CALL AT THE-
Jity Shoe Store.
We ofter a full line of
Ladies’ and Gents’
TOILET SLIPPERS !
in Plush, Alligator and
Ouze. A full line of
good and re
liable
Poes, pots, Pots;
I For the Ladies, Gents,
isses and Children. All
elected specially for the oc-
asion.
A full line of Leather Bags,
Trunks, Umbrellas, etc., etc.,
f at popular prices.
lEkrM’s city Shoe Store.
SIGN GOLD BOOT.
LET’S ME A El!
The Barnes Sale and Livery
Stables,
ftwm. Godwin & Son,
PROPRIETORS.
Though Mninlr About tho Minor Mont>
btrl Thereof.
From Ilitrpor’a Young People.
A little olty girl tens spending the
dny in the country. On noticing a
cow with a bell about her neck, she
exclaimed: “Oh, see the cow’s watoh 1
It ticks as loud as a bell.”
WATCIIKB AND MEN.
When Charles V, Emperor of Ger
many, abdicated Ills thorne and be
came n monk he amused himself with
the mechanical arts, and beoame an
expert wntch-mnker. His watch-mak
ing taught him a few truths which he
never had learned during Ills king-
ship. One day he exolaiuied in amaze
ment: “What an egregious fool I
have heen to have squandered so long
so much blood and treasure in a fool
ish attempt to make all men to think
Alike, when, with all my attempts, I
cannot make a few watches keep time
together 1”
may’s doll.
My dull loll down tho cellar stair,
And lost ’most all lior golden linir;
She scratched her face, and broke her nose,
ller bluo eyes will no longer close,
And papa says she -heats the Dutch,”
Ilut still I love her just ns much.
UK WAS SLKKl'Y IN BKCTIONB.
Wilbert was gaping. “Are you
sleepy?” naked his brother. “My eyes
nre not sleepy. They keep open,” an
swered Wilbert,'“but my mouth is
sleepy, and won’t keep shut.”
HOW PItKD FILLED HIS BANK.
By earning a cent eyery time lie
hung up both cap nnd cont on coming
home from school.
By earning 5 cents for having good
lessons. '
By receiving 2 cents whenever he
went a whole day without quarreling
with anybody.
By going without the candy he used
to buy every recess, and saving what
it cost for Ills bank.
H ts new buggies and the best ot
ho;ses, aud will furnish you a turn-
■ ouc at very reasonable prices. Ac-
’ commodatioiis for drovers unex
celled. These stables are close to
Hotel Mayo, on Pine street, being
i centrally located, and the best
place in town to put up your team-,
t’jf Call on us for your Sunday turn
outs.
WM, GODWIN & SON.
f Still in the Ring.
A TlttlK PROPHET.
Hallett (aged 4, and his sister, drag
ging ill mamma’s new French bonnet
by the strings)—“Mamma, I told sis
ter we’d get Into mischif, and wc did,
didn’t we?”
Then, relinquishing the bonnet,
“now what do you say to it?”
A GREAT DISCOVERY.
Hallett (measuring ills thumb with
ills mamma’s)—“Why, mamma, both is
as big ns eacli other!” .
A OOOD QUICK PARRY.
Mamma (to Hallett, who has con
tinually broken in on her attempts
at conversation)— 1 "Aly dear you must
be quiet, nnd you must learn that
there are some things in this world
that are none of your business.” llal-
lctt (with a wink in his eye)—“Papa,
mnnimn’s tnlking to you 1”
\VAMUIN«TON>S LOVE AFFAIR.
No Telltale Letter* Left br the Father
of HI* Country
We are still selling
(Groceries i
h
Cheaper than any other house
in town, and expect to
continue to do so, as
we are here to
stay.
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Give us a call ii you want
eflRGfllfiS.
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Harris & Collier.
Edward Everett Hale gave a lecture
before the Daughters of the Revolution
in Washington the other evening on
the “Home nnd private life of General
Washington.” In viewing the many
phases of this great man’s life, the
lecturer wittily remarked that the
sole record loft to prosperity of
“puppy love” were some ntrooiously
poor verses; that while it was well
known by those w*io had looked into
the matter that General Washington
prior to his mnrrlage, was a great gal
lant there is not a single love letter
extant written by him. This state
ment having been made after careful
ly looking over the letters left by tile
many belles of bis day who in turn
claimed him ns an ardent admirer, the
supposition is that the Father of his
Country was unusually wise in his tiny
and generation. Whatever sweot noth
ings he hnd to whisper in their ear
were doubtless conveyed in the most
impressive manner possible, but no
telltale’reeords in writing of his sweet
infatuations has .he left for others to
laugh over. Not even one note of this
description is to be found among the
papers of his wife, who, if any one,
would he supposed to have received
them during the period of their court
ship. So that ns a lover General
Washington has left no trace of him
self.
Most Eocentrlo of All II«n Who Got Uleb
Quickly In the Oil Regions.
The wealth of Mr. Steele, better
known as “Coal Oil Johnny,"has un
doubtedly been overrated—that is to
say, his wealth in cash. At the time
the Pittsburg sanitary commission
made an offer to donate a soldier’s
monument to the county making the
largest contribution, the producers
of this section agreed to Bet aside for
that purpose the proceeds from their
wells for one day. Mr. Steele’s con
tribution for that day was $2,500,
which was a fair gauge of what his
wells were doing.
The farm and the conjunctive inter
ests bequeathed to him by his grand
mother he probably could, have dis
posed of for $500,000 or more when
the same came into his possession,
but it is doubtful if at any time he
possessed more than $100,000 in cash.
His expensive eccentricities were
many, but did not include, ob often
reported, the purchasing and giving
away of a hotel in Philadelphia. The
story probably grew out of the fact
that while in Philadelphia at one
time ho experienced some difficulty
in securing a hack and finally bought
one outright; that when he got
through with the rig the driver
asked him what to do with it and he
told him to keep it. It was on that
trip to Philadelphia that ■ he, while
with Slocum, the fellow who was
“showing him tho world,” attracted
so much attention by going about
with bills of various denominations
tied in the buttonholes of his cloth-
iug—by making small purchases
with good sized bills, taking no
change back, and even lighting cigars
with his money.
Another of his eccentricities on
that trip was tho forming of a negro
minstrel troop at random, for each
of the members of which lie bought
a suit of clothes when he engaged
him. He brought his troop here,
and that was about all ho did with it.
The dotails of his doings in Phila
delphia, New York, Saratoga and
olBewhoro, including his experiences
with sharpers, notably his $10,000 ac
quaintance with John Morrissey,
have heen written threadbare.
Summed up briefly the main points
in his life are these: When quite
young ho became an orphan and was
adopted by his grandparents, Mr.
and Mrs. William McClintock. He
wps married two or three years be
fore he became of age and worked at
farm work until the oil excitement
began. Ho thon engngod in hauling
oil down Oil creek anil hauling coal
back with a pail’ of old plugs. The
rosult was the possession of a good
team of his own. The McClintock
farm became one of the most valu
able ulong Oil creek. Mi’s. McClin
tock survived her husband several
years, and when she died, in 1865,
the adopted son, Steele, become the
sole heir to her property.
He soon concluded to see some of
the world with his woolth, and he
saw it. He sought notoriety and he
got it. He spent his money like a
man with Monte Cristo backing—
was bled by leeches, fleeced by sharp
ers nnd in a few years, his oil inter
ests in tho meantime rapidly depre
ciating in value, he found himself
again a poor man. But no one ever
heard him express particular regret
over tho return he received for his
The Mhnme of Typhoid Ferer.
From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
“There was a time when people all
over the world suffered from the itch.
Now if a person had the disease
they would keep it quiet and be
ashamed oi it,” said Dr. Whittaker.
“In a few years, as knowledge spreads,
they will be ashamed to say they have
had the typhoid fever, for it is simply
an admission that they have drank
water polluted bv the vilest of corrup
tion."
Don’t confuse the successful man
with the great man. Many men are
one or the other, but comparatively
few are both.
money.
At one time when he was highest
in his eccentric extravagances Cap
' ‘ Wil-
lmportant Information.
A Texas lawyer undertook to cross
examine a colored witness, Jim Web
ster.
“What’s your namet"
“Jim Webster.”
“What’s your occupation!”
“I drives a dray."
“Have you a brother who looks
like you and drives a dray I’’
“He am dead."
“What was he before ho died I”
“Alive.’’-Texas Siftings.
The Age of m Bison*
The hiBon lives to an age of from
thirty to fifty years, the bull being
more long lived than the cow. When
they grow very old both bull and
cow become blind and lose their
teeth, so that they cannot provide
themselves with sufficient food, and
finally dwindle away and die!—Phil
adelphia Ledger.
Women Fearless In Rattle.
The French never faced a more
valiant savage enemy than the wom
en of Dahomey proved to he.
Time find again they rushed up to
the French intrenchments in spite of
a storm of bullets which laid hun
dreds of their number low.—Gold-
thwoito’s Geographical Magazine.
An Awkward MIntake.
A handsomely dressed young wom
an stepped up to a clerk In one of our
leading dry goods' stores, and laying
a package on tho counter said with
dignity, "I would like to have you
exchango these goods." A moment
later a boiled shirt nnd several pairs
of stockings' met tho cleik’s gaze.
Before ho could rally from his as
tonishment the young woman had
gathered up the bundle and with a
face of scarlet rushed from the store.
The next time she starts out to ex
change goods she will be sure she
hasn’t got her brother’s laundry.—
Springfield Homestead.
Meat the Most Expensive Food.
Twenty-two acres of land are need
ed to sustain a man on flesh meat,
while the same amount of land under
wheat feeds 42 people; under oats,
88 people; under potatoes, Indian
com and rice, 176 people, and under
the plantain or bread fruit tree, over
6,000 people.—New York Journal.
tain J. J. Vandergrift, T. H.
liama and others sent for him and
kindly expostulated with him on the
point that he ought to save some of
his money. He thanked them for
their friendly advice, but said that he
had made a living by lmuling oil nnd
could do it again if necessary. Ho
couldn’t rest until ho liad spent that
fortuno. Ultimately ho got the re
quired rest. «
A cousin of Mr. Steele maintains
that the estimates which have been
put upon Steolo’s wealth have not, as
n general thing, been exaggerated.
Ho says that he personally knows
that when Mrs. McClintock died
Steele inherited $125,000 in gold and
about $100,000 in other monoy. The
incomo from his wells then was from
$1,000 to $2,000 a day. Tho cousin
says that from his knowledge of
Steele’s affairs ho should say tout at
one tirno “Coal Oil Johnny” could
hive produced $1,000,000 in cash.—
Oil City Cor. Pittsburg Dispatch.
Bllstitken Identity.
A Texas man is the owner of a very
fine imported Kentucky jack, and
stockmen ore continually calling to
see it. One day he happened to be
up stairs when a friend called to see
the animal. His little son called:
“Father, come down, a gentleman
wants to see yon.”
“What did you say, my son?"
shouted the father.
"I said, ‘come down’—a gentleman
wants to see our big donkey.”—Texas
An Inquiring Mind.
Father—Everything I say to you'
goes in at one ear and out at the
other.
Little Son (thoughtfully)—Is that
what little boys has two ears for,
papal—Good News.
A Famous City of Europe.
Lauingen suggests one of the once
rich cities of northern Italy, the
creatiop of merchant princes who
thougM no tax too heavy if it made
their home more beautiful, and
amidst whom to be an alderman was
to he an artist os well as a patriot
Facing the central square is a town
hall of noble and harmonious propor
tions, fit to embellish a great capital;
on one side, a lofty clock tower that
would lose nothing of its effect were
it in Florence and called a campanile.
Ancient and noble mansions are here
in abundance, each with its carvings
and massive arches, reminding the
spectator of a greatness that is past
And to comploto this picture of
beyond the Alps, there runs along
one side a stone arcade, whose well
carved pillars and arches shield the
pedestrian from the sun and rain.—
Poultney Bigelow in Harper's.
Footed lijr » Painted Tree.
In some manner a cat found its
wav into a cydorama building sev
eral days ago. The man in charge
attempted to chose the trespassing
feline through a door, but the cat
evidently thought there Was a better
way of escaping the rising temper of
the irate man. It looked cautiously
about, as if to avoid stepping on tho
prostrate forms of heroes slain in
battle. Finally its eyes caught sight
of a tree. A projecting limb hung
very low, and here tho cat thought
to find a place of safoty. It gave
one leap, and no doubt was the
most disgusted cat in Portland when
it learned by sad experience that the
tree was on the canvas. It picked
itself up and slowly slunk through
tho door, down tho stairs and out of
tho building.—Portland Press.
An Accommodating Conductor.
An elderly lady, a member of
Springfield’s Four Hundred, boarded
a Central street car the other day,
and upon arriving at her destination
asked the conductor to assist her in
getting off, os she had difficulty in
walking.^ Tho conductor stepped to
the ground and offered to assist her,
but she wanted more substantial aid.
Placing her hand on his shoulder,
she exclaimed, “Lift, young man,
lift I” The polito conductor placed
both arms around her, and lifted her
gently to the ground, with applause
from a carload of passengers.—
Springfield (Mass.) Homestead.
Genuine Hand Fainted Picture In Oil
Turned Out by tfco Yard.
There is an artist on the Bowery
who not only takes the cake, hut ap
propriates the cako basket and has
designs upon whatever cold, artistic
pie there may be lying around. His
studio is a big plate glass show win
dow, and ho paints all day in full
view of the enthralled populace pe
culiar to the Bowery. The throngs
along the old Dutch eowpatli have
never heen known to become en
thused over any work of art beyond
the portraits of the tat woman and
the lean man in fruut of tho dime
museums. A ulevur sign in u saloon
window announcing that the tree
lunch therein is of an extraoixUuury
good quality sometimes draws atten
tion, hut as a rule genuine art is sub
ordinated to other'attractions.
This artist, however, who does real
oil paintings "while you wait," is
rapidly educating the Bowery boys
to the higher plane .of art, from
whence it con be looked with plea
sure on the beauties of a landscape.
He paints with his hack to the audi
ence, who can, however, seo the
growing richness of the canvas, and
at the some time observe that one of
"these real hand painted pictures is
given away to the purchaser of every
five dollars worth of goods withiu.”
From the amazing combinations
that grow and glow under the touch
of tho brush ono would think that
some of Fra Angelica’s angels wore
invisibly at work for him, and cer
tainly Turner's ghost would flee gib
bering to the remote confines of the
other world at the wonderful color,
the striking studies of tho Swiss skies
nnd snow cupped mountains, blue
lakes nnd forests.
Artemus Ward once said that be
exhibited ouo of his pictures and the
critics said it was tho only thing of
the kind they had ever seen. The
same critit* would say the same of
these works of art. Tho amount of
green, blue, orange, rod and purple
that are used in depicting real Swiss
mouutuiu scenery undoubtedly
stomps with truth tho cluim of the
proprietor that “the oil paint used,
gentlemen, is alnno worth the price
of tho picture." It is a now valua
tion to bo pilt upon a work of art,
but there are muuy now hanging in
great galleries of which the some
thing could truthfully bo said.
As the artist paints, wearing a pair
of huge overalls and using a large
palette, his audiouco crowds throe
deep on the sidewalk outside.
“Toll ye w’ot, Smuggy,” soys one
unsavory individual who has been
turning his- houd from sido to Bide
and half closing his oyos after tho
manner of more renowned hut equal
ly ignorant critics, “that mug’s jist
chain liglitnin on doin up them pic
tures. He'd he great if he wasn’t a
advertisin dodge for the bloke that
runs the joint."
"That’s so," remarked an old and
tattered guest of a cheap lodging
house. “Guess he must be makin a
pile of money if ho works by do piece.
Gits paid for it by de square inch,
seet Dot's de way all d«se blokes
work. Bettor’n bricklayin."
A toll, lean, melancholy young
man, with long hair and a faded
nlstqr, who might, have been on art
ist himself, turned sadly around and
said:
“No, it isn’t, my vory good friend;
no, it isn’t."
A neighboring hand organ played
“Annio Rooney.’’—New York Adver
tiser.
A Reason for Ik.
He caught her to his manly bosom
with a wild, impetuous, tumultuous,
tempestuous hug and held her there
for as much as a minute.
“What a slugger you are," she
said admiringly as he released her.
“And why shouldn’t I be,” he re
plied proudly, taking a velvet case
from his pocket, “haven’t I brought
the prize ring with met"
She opened the case joyfully and
her eyes rested upon a solitaire which
was really a corker.—Detroit Free
Pceaa.
Hugo Stonos from tlio Moon.
In a catalogue of Mexican meteor
ites prepared by M. Antonio del Cas
tillo one mass is mentioned which
exploded in tho air and fell in widoly
dispersed fragments, portions of it
being found in three places at the
angles of a triangle whose two longer
sides wero somo fifty.-five and thirty-
five miles in length. In ono of tlieso
places two plates of stono wero dis
covered, lying about 250 yards apart,
which had evidently onco formed ono
huge block. Measurements and esti
mations place the combined weight
of the two blocks at eighty tons. In
this one shower of “moon stones,”
according to M. del Castillo’s paper,
not less than 3,000 tons of rocks fell.
—St. Louis Republic.
Common Names of the l.llnn.
Even in so small a place as Eng
land, of which it is said that a man
may land on one side in the morning
and fall off tho cliffs of the other side
before night, the lilac is known by
different names, traveling ovory few
score miles. In oue place it is called
the May plant, in another it is the
princess feather flower, in another it
is called duck’s bills, while laylock.is
a common variation in those local
ities where it should he known as
lilac. Possibly if one were to search
in other countries than England he
should find it with a score or so of
other names.
The great difficulty with English
names for flowers is not that their
English names are improper, but
there is no authority as to which one
should be generally adopted. No
system for the general adoption of
any one particular name has ever
been suggested.—Meehan’s Monthly.
LAWYERS.
W. WALTERS,
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW.
Practice In «U the Courts of tho Albany Cir
cuit, nnd olsewhoro by spcoinlcontraot.
OUloo iu Voutulctt Mock, Washington street-
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LAWYER AND REAL ESTATE 1IROKER.
Local sgont Kqultablo Building Mul Losn A»
■octntlun, Albany, On. a-ll-daw-ly.
O, B. Wooten. W. E. Wooten,
yyOOTEN & WOOTEN, City Att’j.
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW.
OMoo iu Yentulott’a Block, Washington atreet-
Aliiiiiiy, Ua.2-11-11,nr-ly.
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' ATTORNEY-AT-LAW.
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DOCTORS.
H
EGO ROBINSON,
rnygiuiAN and surgeon.
onicc over ulllMrt’a Drug Stoic, Wnahlngtoi
atreet, Albany, Un. 12-d.w-ly.
w.
I.. DAVIS,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
Oilloo over 11. J, Lamar A Son’, Drug Steot,
Ciirnur Ilrouil and Itoaldonco strouta. Itusldonce
cornur Hint and Julftn-aou atroots.
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P. MISHIN, IU. D.,
Having located permanently Ir Aibany.10-
apootly tender, Ida pmreaalooni aorvlcoato town
and anl-roundlng country.
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to 6:80 p. m. Uuriidoncu ou Washington street
near J. L. Jay. Telephone No. 68, *
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
FOB BENT.
Two largo rooms,cuntrully ioeated nnd suit
able for busInoHi) ofllcus.
MCtNTOHU A LOUKKTT,
BANKING noun* BUBINH OIIAII-
taitqva.
Iii order to allow our employees to attond the
exercises, we, the undersigned banks and bank
ers In the city of Albany, will have our res- -
peetlvo banking housos open for business dur
ing tho hours from Un,m, to it p, m- ouch day*
while tho Georgia Chautauqua is in sesslor
from Monday, March 27, to Saturday,* April
inclusive.
Mssfs nation^ uranic.
COMMERCIAL RAN
II OR IIS A TUCKER.
ELECTION NOTICE.
City ok Ai.nAsy,
DOUtiUKHTY ClU.n'TY, Ga.
Notice u hereby given by tho Mayor nncf
Council of tlie city of Albany, Ga^ that an elec
tion will ho held on the JUth day of April, 1802*
as provided for by tho constitution and laws ol
tho State of Georgia, to dotormino the question,,
by tho quallflod voters of tho eitisens of Albany*
Ga., whether or not tho amount of one hundred
thousand dollars of bonds, or so much thereof as*
may ho necessary, shall bo Issued by said city oft
Albany, Go, for tho purposoof erecting a sys
tem of public waterworks, and laying and con
structing a system of seweruge for said city*
Tho said bonds to bo of tho denomination odT
ono thousand dollars eacli, and to bear Interest,
from the dato of their issuanco at the rate ot
sixpor centum per annum, said interest to bo
paid on said bonds annually.
That said bonds bo fully paid off In twenty-
flvo years from tho dato of their issuance, nnd
in the following manner and amounts, to-wit:
On J on. 15, 1804, principal IL000, Interest |0,T60ft
18116,
181X1,
1807,
1808,
1800,
1000,
1001,
1002,
1008,
1004,
11X15,
1000,
1007,
1008,
1000,
1010,
lull,
1012,
1018,
1014,
1015,
1018,
10)7,
1018,
4,000
4y000
6,700.
4,000
4,000
4,000
4,000
4,000
4,000
4,000
4,000
4,000
LOW
Looo
4,000
4,000
4,000
4,000
4,000
4,000
4,000
4,000
4,000
4,000
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“ MHI
8,000
8,880*
8,120.
2,400-
2,100/
1,»20
tfS
1,200
000
720
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That ut said election all the voters favoring ■
tlie iHSitnncu of said bonds for said purposo
shall veto “For bonds,” and nil those opposed to
tlie issunneo of said bonds, shall votb u No
bonds." ,
Witness our hands and ofllcinl signatures, this
16th dav of .March, 1802.
W. II. Gn.iii.uT, Mayor
it. I.. .Jones,
8. W. Gunnison,
Wji, Lockett,
.7. C. Camhuiy,
.MOKUJ.S WKHLOHKY,
E. N. ClaAIlK,
Conncilmeo
Richard Hobbs.
A. W. Tucker
Hobbs & Tucker,
ALBANY, GEORGIA.
Buy and sell Exchange; give- prompt S
attention to Collections, aud remit for
same on day of payment at current
rates; receive deposits subject to sight
checks, and lend money on approved
time papers. Correspondence solicited.
FIBS I.YSl it
We represent a good liiie c. .
ahee Companies and write
surance on all properti
of Ini
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