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:■■■■■, / ■r'Wmmmmm ______' ■ t / ■ . > I M&fi/ * ~ iM - * 1 VM k “ ^ V01L. 1. ALBANY, GA., SATURDAY, MAY 7, 1892. NO. 18. ■ Hi IIILE SELE6TING -YOUR- D -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. > v 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. P. HUSIIIN, in. D., writ 18WJ, 1897, f Signed.1 19UI, l'.Ml. 1002, 10 8, llh,I, luufl, litmi, llk»7, IDO’S 11*01*, i0i0,’ iV*«t n*i2, 1W1B, 11*14, 1016, 101(1, 1017, 1018, 4,000, WVu?*** 4,000, ' “ 4.000, * 4.000, * 4.000, * 4,000, * 4,000 * 4,000, ** 4.000, 4,UK, “ 4,010, * •..On, v0J*, * 4.0. 0, * 4,010, *• » :2 ByUBO U»UM> UJtWQ 2040 2,400 2,100 J,020 US' 1,200 900. 720 480 240 J’.. n. u.JfABK* WM. Lockktt, Morris Wkblosky, Finance Committee. 4,000, and 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 ahee Companies and write i suranee (