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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. ft i Give us a call ii you want eflRGfllfiS. i 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- £ B. JONBH, 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. yy t* Jones. ' ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. jjAjMnulUM, promptly nnd pomUtontly ut- qflloo In Willingham’, l!look, llroud alt-cot. Tvlophono 40. 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. w. P. MISHIN, IU. D., Having located permanently Ir Aibany.10- apootly tender, Ida pmreaalooni aorvlcoato town and anl-roundlng country. OtUoo un llronu atreot ovor Crnln A SOU Book Sffib n°E 00 S2S&S2? l?»»".««? . •■•'in o, o.ut; til 11 ;,1U u, jj|„ aanai wjuii 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 © !ffl- “ MHI 8,000 8,880* 8,120. 2,400- 2,100/ 1,»20 tfS 1,200 000 720 ffi ' 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 -i '