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ALBANY, GA., SATURDAY, MAY 7, 1892.
NO. 18.
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IIILE SELE6TING
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-CALL AT THE-
lity Shoe Store.
We offer
Ladies’
a full line of
and Gents’
OILET SLIPPERS
in Plush, Alligator and
Ouze. A full line of
good and re
liable
toes, Shoes, SOoes;
[For the Ladies, Gents,
lisses and Childfen. All
lelected specially for the oc
casion.
A full line of Leather Bags,
Trunks, Umbrellas, etc., etc.,
at popular prices.
ACROSS THE WASTES.
Tho sullen day drags on, my dear,
The breeze blows cold, •
And like a weary child who strayi
From homo aud fold,
- 80 like a weary, wandering child,
’Neath lowering sky,
I cower to fool the chilly blast
That rushes by.
Bereft of single gleam of sun
Before my face.
All restless, all forlorn, I change ,
From place to place.
Could I but have you by, my dear,
To clasp your hand,
To hear you speak, my pains would cease.
My woes disband.
But thick and faster fallH the storm,
Tho darkness grows,
Like foam on tossing wave I float;
The end, who knows?
And ’mid the tumult and tho dread.
And darkness, too.
Across tho barren wastes, my dear,
I long for you.
—Arthur S. Kimball in Chicago Inter Ocean
A Western Snake.
From far western regions comos the,
tale of a man who was killed by a dcaO
snake. This story is so thrilling that i
is best not to mention tho namo of tin
placo whero the incident occurred.
Snake bites from live snakes aro b:u
enough, but when it comes to bites fix;:
dead ones, tho placo where such reptile,
live, or once lived, is a good country t.
avoid. It might be bad for tho growth
of the town if I revealed its location.
This farmer went out one morning t*.
chop wood. Perceiving a snaktf nca;
his wood pile he chopped it into lit. 1:
bits and.throw nil tho pieces broadcast,
as a warning to other snakes not to ven
ture too near liis wood pile.
As he picked up tho portion contain
ing the mouth of the snake, it doted
upon his finger, but he thought nothing
further about the matter. Two weekf
later, however, tho finger began to
swell and within a couple of hours lie
died. Thus we seo that in these districts
dead snakes are as dangerous as live
ones.—Now York World.
SANDBAGS OUT OF VOGUE.
The
SIGN GOLD BOOT.
She In Ratlim* Shrewd.
Milton cotinty, Oil,, lins n lady who ie
a elirewd trader. Not long ago the
■merchants of Roswell went wild in their
efforts to control the chickon trade. One
merchant raised the price of hens to
thirty-five cents. The Milton county
lady went down and purchased about
twenty dollars’ worth of goods. The
merchant, thinking he would got the
ensh, put the prices low. When the lady
naaSfinished tho trading she turned.to
the merchant und .said, “Well, I under
stand yon are giving thirty-five cents
apiece for hens, and I will send a suf
ficient number next week to pay for this
bill of goods.” The morohant was sold.
but ho just grinned and.endured ItUnHw,- from
And now, when he goes to sell a bill of
goods, he inquires whether it will be
paid in money or hens at thirty-five
cents each.—Philadelphia Ledger.
l1.L.WHT&C0.
Washington Street, Albany, 6a,
Nickel ami Silver Plating:*
Many articles said to he Rilvor plated
are really nickel, plated. Nickel plating
has many advantages over silver plat
ing. It does not so readily yield to tho
action of acids, it looks as well as silvor
and does not become black bo quickly
from the gases In the atmosphere; be
sides that, it is much easier and more
quickly done, and if people do not know
the difference, where is the harm? They
get the “silver plating,” and much
cheaper than would be the case wero
genuine silver used, and the result is
generally more satisfactory.—St. Louis
Globe-Democrat.
Floundering;.
Professor—How coulil any one write
such flat verses?
Popular Author—I don’t agree with
you, sir, I ought to say that the words
aro mine.
“Oh, I beg your pardon! I mean that
they are so horribly bungled by the
woman who is reading them. Who is
she?”
“She is my wife, sir.”—Texas Siftings.
Probability in Real Life.
Men must act, and men do act upon
probability. They act upon it in the
gravest and most serious questions of
social, moral and business life. They
act upon it every day and hour of
life, in the smallest and most insignifi
cant affairs as well as in the most im
portant and serious ones.—Exchange.
Aggravating.
There is nothing in this world so dis
gusting as gossip, particularly when two
Modern Highwayman Considers
Them Too Antiquated for Use.
“You hear a great deal about
‘sandbagging’ just now,” said a Cen
tral station dotoctivo. “The sand
bag is no longer used by a profes
sional criminal; there are better
ways of robbing n man than by
knocking* him over tho head with a
weapon which, if found on tho pos
sessor. would make it pretty bal'd
for him to excapo the rough band of
tho law.
“Tho sandbag, anyhow, is an an
cient weapon. If the pounding into
insensibility of a victim is desired a
‘billy’ is far handier than a sandbag.
Nowadays the crooks carry ns fow
evidences of their calling ns possible.
A vnst number of thorn go entirely
unarmed. As for the highwaymen,
many of them have neither revolver
nor ‘billy’ When pursuing their pecul
iar business.
“Tho old, old system of garroting
Li tho favorite method in vogue, and
this is invested with certain modem
details. The victim, instead of being
pounded into insensibility and hurt
so r.s to be permanently disabled, is
loft with a temporary feeling of dis
tress, while tho safoty of the liigli-
waymen is ns assured ns. it was under
tho old plan. The modem highway
men travel in twos, throes or fours.
Usually they go in pairs. It is late
at night. We’ll say. A street is al
most deserted. A pedestrian hurries
along. lie sees ahead of him two
men, walking slowly, almost side by
side.
“As the fellow in a hurry nears
thorn they separate to let him pass
between. W hen you see this movo
made you can gamble the fellows are
highwaymen. As our friend passes
between them the man nearest him
throws an arm deftly under his chin,
and the grip on his throat prevents
any outcry. The other fellow
punches him in tho bread basket.
You know how a man feels when
he’s hit in the stomach. In a minute
they have rifled his pockets, have
disappeared, and the victim, dazed
and distressed, is lying on tho ground
recovering from tho shock.
“With an occasional variation to
suit circumstances this is the favorite
method of the highwaymen. A few
try the plan of holding a revolver
under a man’s nose. Some still use
the‘billy,’sneaking up to their Vic-
behind. J3ut they are
bunglers. If two men ore walking
ahead of you, or are coming toward
you, and separate to let you pass be
tween them, don’t pass. Take tho
middle of the street and he prepared
to run.
"When highwaymen travel in
fours they work this way: The quai
tet stands at a comer waiting for a
victim. They see him in the distance
approaching. Two of the crooks
walk ahead. The pedestrian, uncon
scious of danger, walks niter them.
Behind him fall in the other two rob
bers. The man is surrounded—two
crooks half a block ahead of him, two
half a block behind. This procession
is kept up till a favorable spot is
reached. The men ahead Blacken
their pace. The men behind hasten.
The victim is hemmed in. i The
chances are that ho will meet with
violence, for these fellows aro des
perate. They use a revolver or ‘billy’
and drag tlieir victim into an alloy if
one is near.• It is a had trap to fall
into.
“A man who is held up generally
doesn’t care about the valuables he
loses so much as about the slugging.
Some highwaymon are unnecessarily
brutal; the expert resorts to no need
less violence.”—Chicago Tribune.
WUeu tho Lump Explodes.
Policemen and firemen ore fre
quently called into private houses to
put out exploding lamps or clothing
that has taught fire from an accident
of the kind. Whon a lamp is blazing
ceiling high it requires considerable
nerve to, take hold of it and hurl it
out of the window, but that is tho
simplest *and best way to prevent dis
aster. Bf that is impossible, or if the
burning oil has got on the carpot or
table cover, a shovelful of sand or,
failing sand, of common Boil will gen
erally do all that is necessary.
The same opplies to any one whose
clothing is covered with oil and on
fire. If he can lie down and have
some soil shoveled on hiB clothes the
the fire will go out instantly, whereas
a dozen lmckcta of water would hurt
him much worse than tho fire. A
bucket Of sand standing in a cup
board in a room where a coal oil
lamp is burned is a good precaution,
and may check at the start what
might otherwise bo a most disastrous
fire.—Interview in St. Louis Globe-
Democrat.
The Unfortunate Clam.
The first man who used the ex
pression, "Don't ho a clam,” should
be credited with a hit of advice chock
full of wisdom. Somohody is aftor
the clam, in season and out, day and
night. It is devoured in soft Bliolled
infancy by fishes, sea fowl and crows,
is sealed in cans, made into stows
and chowders, baked in big piles on
the seashore, boiled in free lunch
barrooms and dug for fishermen’s
bait.
The clam furnishes food for many
men of .many lands, and also for
seals, polar bears, tho walrus, foxes,
crows, gulls and fishes, and there
never was a bait, with the exception
possibly of porgy chum—1. e., ground
up porgles—that equaled the clam
for sea fishing. Tho clam is at home
on tho Maine coast, thriving in the
mud of sheltered beaches between
high and low water marks.—Cor.
Now York Bun.
THE NORWEGIAN SKI.
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
The Barnes Sale and Livery
Stables,
Win. Godwin & Son,
m
PROPRIETORS.
The Dross Suit In Kansas.
Seo a Kansas man in his first dress
3Uit! Gazo on him I Feast your eyes
upon his tout ensemble I Observe
his hands — his restlesB, homeless
hands! So undetachable—bo obsti
nately there I He knows them, hut
he cannot place them. His trousers
have no pocket at the side; one leg
feels longer than the other and his
people are gossiping together in a rail- j way. This is his first
way car and you are sitting half in and
half out of earshot, bo that yon can catch
only every other word.—Somerville Jour
nal.
Treatment of Poisonous Wounds.
Suck poisoned wounds, unless your
mouth is sore: enlarge the wound, or
better, cut out the part without delay;
hold the wounded part as long as can he
borno to a hot coal or end of a cigar.—
Professor B. G. Wilder.
H is new buggies and the best ot
horses, and will furnish you a turn
out at very reasonable prices. Ac-
;\V ccmmodations for drovers unex
celled. These stables are close to
Hotel Mayo, on Pine street, being
( centrally located, and the best
place in fown.to put up your team,
j Call on us for your Sunday tufn-
! outs.
it WM. 60RWIN & SON.
To Tighten Cane Seat Chairs.
Turn up the chair bottom and wash
the cane work thoroughly with soapy
water and a soft cloth. Let it dry in
the air and it will be firm as when
new, provided the cane has not been
broken.—New York Journal.
Tjyo People Who Know.
Every old maid knows the right
way to bring up her neighbor’s chil
dren. So does every old bachelor-
appearance in a swallowtail. His
mortal frame he ne'er before hath
decked in a toggery like this. Upon
his face ho wears a smile—a wan, ap
pealing smile—a smile that budded
and then frozo to death and stuck
fast whore it died. Look at that
smile and then go weep I—Topeka
Lance.
A Remarkable Clan*.
Few college classes have contained
so many men destined to be distin
guished in after life as there were in
a class that was graduated nearly
half a century ago from an unpruten-
The Largost Olivo Orchard In the World*
The largest olive orchard in tho
world belongs to Mr. Ellwood Cooper,
of Santa Barbara county, California.
Mr. Cooper purchased the land occu
pied by this mammoth grove of ori
ental trees away hack in 1871, the
entire orchard, including the portions
of it which aro devoted to the culture
of English walnuts, Japanese persim
mons, aliiionds, etc., comprising l|700
acres. The orchard now has 10,000
olive trees, 8,100 in'full Wiring, the
remainder being young trees set out
during the post year and a half. Bt
sides the olive trees, there are 8,000
English walnut trees, 4,500 Japanese
persimmon trees, 10,000 almond trees
and about 4.000 other fruit and nut
trees. The 10,000 olive trees yielded
40,000 quart bottles of oli ve oil in
1891.—St. Louis Republic.
Flying Five Kites Together.
On May 9, 1891, at Bergen Point,
N. J., I sent up five kites, from two
to four feet in diameter, all held by
one string at the surface of the earth.
The altitude of the highest kite was
probably nearly a mile, os roughly
calculated from the slant and length
. of the strings. It is therefore clear
that the number of kites to he flown
is limited only by the strength of the
string, its length, and the force and
steadiness of the wind. The various
ly colored kites fly one above another
with a very pretty effect. They look
like colored disks floating irregularly
at a great height, because each kite
is held at a slightly different angle
from every other, making differences
of position in the sky.—William A.
Eddy in St. Nicholas.
A Light Comedian.
Mrs. McMoriarty—Phatiflyour son
doin now, Mrs. O’Rafferty?
Mrs. O’Rafferty—Sure he’s adopted
th’ stage as a profession, Mrs. Mc
Moriarty.
Mrs. McMoriarty—A Fift’ avenoo
stage is it?
Mrs. O'Rafferty—Be away wid y’r
nonsense I It’s an actor he is. He do
bo a light comedian.
Mrs. McMoriarty—A loight com
edian is it?
Mrs. O’Rafferty—Yis. He stands
beyant the hack curtain, and his
mouth to a hole forninsta candle, an
whin Pawnee Ike shoots at th’ can
dle ho blows it out.—New York
Weekly.
A Novel Electric Light.
A novel application of the electric light
may ho witnessed in the vehicles of the
London General Omnibus company. The
inspectors have been provided with an
electrical apparatus, which, from a case
about the size of a hunting watch fast-
Novel Method of Traveling Which Beats
a Fast Trottor.
The new northwest is a land of
long winters mid intense cold. For
tunately for its people, however, the
air is still and dry, and a temperature
of 20 degs. below zero is not prohibi
tive of outdoor labor and sports, ns It
certainly would ho in more humid
climates.
Tho long wintor, which in some
sections of tho Union would ho re
garded ns a great calamity, is justlv
held by tho residents of the now
northwest to ho tho best season of
tho year. Tho lumbering industry,
a very extensive and profitable one.
is carried on principally in winter,
and tho list of winter sports is a long-
one. In addition to the coasting and
skating that are indigenous to all
northern climates, the snow shoo, o
the Indian, tho toboggan of the Can
adian, the curling of the Scot and the
skis of the Norwegian have been
pressed into service to afford rocrea
tion in the long interval between
November and May. Tho toboggan,
the snowshoe and tho curling rink-
are not unknown in the east, hut the
ski (pronounced sho) is soon only In
tho northwest and among tho moun
tains of Norway. The snowslioe.
Noi'wegian, so called, used in the
Rooky mountain districts 1b very
similar to tho ski—a little longer, and
half an Inch wider.
Tho ski is a stick of well seasoned
hard wood, preferably ash, 84 feet in
length, 24 inches wide, with the for
ward end curved upward. A strap
nailed on the sides at the conter al
lows the too to pass under for a foot
hold. Under the foot it is If. inches
thick, hut the tliicknesB decreases to
holf an inch at either end.
Aimed with an 8-foot staff, one
end shod with an iron spike, the ski
limner performs marvels in the way
of shooting down UillB that from the
tops appeal’ almost perpendicular,
and skims Along tho level surfaces
with a peculiar gliding thrust, totally
unlike the motioiuof skating, yet at
a rate that would puzzle an ordinary
trotting horse to keep up with. The
more oxpert users of the bUIb dis
pense with the staff, even in sliding
down tho sharpest hills and taking
the longest leapB.
In every Norwegian settlement in
the northwest one or more pairs of
skis will be found, Large oluhs haye
been formed at Red Wing, Stillwater
and Minneapolis, Minn.; Eau Claire
and La Crosse, Wis., and at Ishpeming
in the upper peninsula of Michigan.
For several winters past ski tomim-
•ments have been held in some of
these towns.
In a ski contest a steep hill Is select
ed, and not closer than 800 foot from
the top of tho slide a “jump" Is built,
which consists of logs and branches
piled up and covered with a solid
layer of snow. The aspirant for fame
comes down the slide, body bent for
ward, feet parallel, every muscle
rigid and every sense alert. The
"jump" is reached, and from a down
ward career ho suddenly strikes a
short level ending in a slight upward
angle. He leaves the “jump” and
shoots into space'. Mikkel Hemme-
stoedt, champion of Norway by the
king's decision, and of America by
the unanimous votes of tho judges at
all contests in which he has token
part, has the distinction of having
cleared 102 feet, the longest jump on
record. Had he fallen on striking
the slide again the leap would not
have counted. The contestant mUBt
finish the course.—Harper’s Weekly.
LAWYERS.
XV. WALTEBS,
ATTOllNEY-AT-LAW.
Prnctieo in nil tho Courts of tho Albany* Cir
cuit, and olsowhoro by special contract.
Oluce in Vcntulett Block, Washington street.
P* It. JON KM,
LAWYEB AND REAL ESTATE BROKER.
Local agent Equitable Building nnd Loan Aa-
looiation, Albany, On. 2-ll-d*w-ly.
C. B. Wooten. W. E. Wooton,
1MOOTUN Ae WOOTEN, City Att’y.
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW.
Olllco in Vontulott’s Blook, Washington atroot.
Albany, Gn. 2-U-d*w-ly.
W.
T. JONES.
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW.
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All bualncsa promptly and persistently at
tended to.
O/IJeo in Willingham’# Block, Broad streot.
Telephone 41*.
DOCTORS.
L| UGO KOIIINMON,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
omco over Gilbert’s Drug Store, Washington
itreet. Albany, Gu. 12-dAw-iy.
Uf I*. MAVIS,
** ■ PHYSICIAN and suhukon.
Olllco over H. J. Lamar & Soit'J Drag Htoo
corner Broad and Residence streets. Ucsidon
corner Flint and Jeffcraon htreats.
Having located permanently ir Albany, jv-
spootly tenders his professional services to town
and surrounding country,
onicc on Broad street over Crain A Sons Book'
Store. Olllco hours, 8:00 to 11 too a. m., and 2':80
to 6:80 p. in. Kosldenco on Washington street
near J. L. Jay. Telephone No. 68.
Wo ofTer for sate the following bonds of tho
eity of Albany, Gn.:
Bonds to he of the donomiunthm of one thous
and dollars each, and to bear interest from the
day of tlfOil* Issuance At the rute of six per
centum per annum, interest to ho paid annuuUy.
Bonds to he fully paid off In twenty-live years
from January 16, 18114, and In the ♦‘•Bowing ;
manner and amounts, to-wit:
On Jim’y 16, lbul, principal $4,000, iuton-st $0,750
** “ “ 4,000, * el fi.TlM
4,uoo, ,
tious and now unknown academy in ! ene( i to tho waistcoat, throws a steady,
Frankfort, Ky. In that historic class niild and effective light on tho dirtieBt
wero B. Gratis Brown, G. G. Vest, T. 1
T. Crittenden, Jog Blackburn, W. C.
P. Breckinridge and John Mason
Brown. They all lived within a few
and most tattered tickets,—New York
Post.
The WhltefUli of the Great Lake..
„ _ ,. , , . . The whitefish is, in the opinion of
oxen. mlle8 of Frankfort, were brought up most gourmets, tho most delicious .fish
only he would bringvthem up with 118 ^oys together, and were taught jj nown to Americans. Tho lake trout
* ° r . Lit +li« tinmn fiiiaulr.nlrl wr»nnmm nafat £ r *...■?.i *i,,, *-
1 round turn.—Somerville Journal.
Blunders in Future Buttles.
Caution will pay in a smokeless com
bat, enterprise and vigor will win as be
fore, but blunders will receive a terrible
punishment, fatal to armies and ruinqus
to nations dependent upon them.—Iron
Age.
by the same quaint old schoolmaster, ar0 mere food. j an, told that they are
a man named B. B. Sayer, who had rather related to the char than to the
more than a local reputation as a salmon. They are peculiar to our in-
disciplinarian.—New York World. land waters. . "’Key, average five to ten
pounds in weight, and yet grow- tc
For dust in the eyes, avoid rubbing; weigh 120 pounds; but whatever theii
dash water in them; remove cinders, weight-be, it is a mere pressure of ha,;.!
etc., with the round point of a load pen-, dry flesh, calculated, only to appear
til. 1 hnnger.—Jnlian Ralph in Harper’s.
indstinct print
Not Very Pleasant to Remember.
Remembering when you are half
way to the opera that you have loft
your box ticket at home upon’your
dressing table, and at the somo time
recollecting that tho overture was
what you wished most especially to
hear, is an incident not calculated to
add to tho pleasures of memory.
After you have sent a bouquet to
your ladylove with a note intimating
that the flowers were tho finest that
could ho purchased, hut that you
cared not a cent for oxpenses, it/ftdds
nothing to your pleasure to remem
her that the florist's card, on which
was written “Twenty-five cents, col
lect,-” was thoughtlossly permitted
to accompany tho bouquet.—Chicago
Tribune.
Intellectual Qualities of tho Negro,
Dr. Junker formed a somewhat
favorable opinion of the intellectual
qualities of the negroes among whom
ho traveled, and pronounces thorn
capable, without doubt, of higher
moral development. He everywhere
found the higher classes, princes and
nobles tho most highly endowed with
intellectual qualities. This he attrib
utes to the fact that tho negro ruler
is compelled to think and act in his
capacity of judge, lawgiver and cap
tain. He notices, too, the wonderful
fluency of speech acquired from the
custom of making long orations, em
bellished with «imile and metaphor,
in their public assemblies.—Boston
Herald.
Wliat Safety Matches Are .Made Of.
The essential ingredient in “safety
matches” is chlorate of potash mixed
with otlier combustible substances.—
New York Journal.
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Finance Committee.
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OFFICIAL STATEMENT.
Purpose of issue: For Waterworks
Sewerage.
Total amount of Issue: Ono hundred tiious-,
sand dollars. .
'Maturity: Four thousand dollars annually ■
for twenty-live years, beginning Jnn, 16,1894.
Rate: Six per centum, payable annually.
Principal and interest, whero payable: At
tho Mercantile Natlonul Bunk, New York.
IssuOd under what authority: Act approved
August 28th, 1889, Section 69 of Revised Code of
City of Albany, Gu., adopted Murch 9th, 1891.
Vote: Election held April 19m 1892. Four
hundred and eighteen votes cast for bonds, and
two votes against bonds.
Assessed valuation ol property for taxation
for years 1889, 1890, 1801, showing relative in
crease: 1889, »1,988^08; 1890, &271,lfl2; 1891,
$2^01,480.
Rate of taxation: Seven-tenths of one per
cent. ' ;
RESOURCES:
From taxation
From licenses...... -
Other sources * 4 ? wu
Total 100,000
Estimated revenue to lio derived Iron,
waterworks •s 000
Total WOO
Current $20,(00.
Surplus....*.... $18,000
This is tho only bonded indebtedness of tlio
city.
> o floating indebtedness,
Population: Between 6,000 and fl/)00.
I hereby certify that the'foregoing statement
is true nnd correct to tho best of my knowlpdfco
and belief.
[Signed.] W. II. Gilbert, Mayor.
Attest: Y. C. Rust, Clerk. . - f
* SEALED BIDS.
Bids for tho afore*tated bonds will bo re
ceived up to Juno la, 1892, at 12 o’clock noon,
for tho whole issue or any part thereof. ( - , { .
The City Council reserves tho right to reject
any or all bids.
Of (5itv of
Mayor akd Couwpu*. .
* Albany, Georgia,
Richard Robbs.
A. W. Tucker
Hobbs & Tucker,
ALBANY, GEORGIA.
to'M
Buy and sell Exchange; give prompt
attention to Collections, and remit for
same on day of payment at current
rates; receive deposits subject t» ’
checks, and lend tnonejr on ,appi
time papers. Correspondence solii
FIBE INSUBANOE.
We represent a good line of I
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