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w BSgpTjvl 5 '! -a r=== = t * 'W>1*l ;*'*3V $>*• *-,■ i, 1891. ' WHERE IS ACRES? TlIK DIMIOVJiltrOV ,1.V Oi.l> LAW AAKKH IIONFI’NION. Noun' k*«moMitl null Noivo llriHN Ei-oiu the Two-County Ton'll. Sjieciat ContSiHmilLiicq nr . I.V'Jl 1;" A U 1 . Aurkb-Davis, Ga., Worth ani> DoUOIIERTY COUNTIKH, May 24th, 1892. —There seems to be as inuch ntieer- tninty as to the exact location of Acree as there is to the correct name of the plnce. It has always been thought that the town Ihy on the county land line, and that n portion of it lay in each of the oounties nod was incorporated with that impression, taking the original county line as a basis from which to stnrt and thereby having the corporate limits to cover and include the town as it stands; but by investigation or perhaps by chance, it 1ms been discovered that by a special act of the Legislature nbout the yenr 1858, the lot of land on which Acree is situated was cut off from Worth county and added to Dougherty. The people of Acree have been pay ing taxes in Worth and claiming it ns their home and have given in their taxes this year in Worth, butt since the above fauts have been discovered the Tax Receiver of Dougherty has noti fied the tax payers to give in in Dougherty. 80 where is Acree? Is it in Dough erty or Worth? The charter makes the county lino the starting point nml says nothing about original line or the one tlxed by the Legislature. ‘ The liquor dealers are a little ner vous since the recent discovery, and each seems anxious to move up town where they can be more centrally lo cated. The drouth still continues and the farmers are very much discouraged. Mr. IV. J. Pinson Is |ust completing a two-story dwelling with nine rooms to it. The painters will finish in a few days when it will be a very desirable and comfortable residence. Mr. if. C. Wilder Is, we learn, to be the next railroad agent at this place. Mr. Wilder is a competent and deserv ing young man, and will discharge the duties of tlie office with a credit to himself. Mr. J. T. Miller, the present agent, hns merited a better position and will leave soon to tnke..charge of it. Respectfully yours, Special. THK ’84ILBOAO TAX CASES. It Will be Fought llrforc the States Hapreme Court. The test case made by the Columbus Southern railroad growingoutofwhat is known as the Glenn rallrond lax bill will be carried to the United States Supreme Court. The J1 KHALI) recently published n table showing Dougherty county’s in crease from the bill, and the following from the Atlanta Journal will he of interest: Mr. W. A. Wiinbish, attorney for the Columbus Southern road, returned from Washington, D., C,, this morn ing. 'While In Washington Mr. Wiinbish obtained a writ of error and superce- deas in the case of the ColumbiiB Southern Railroad Company vs. Wright et. al. This case grew out of the Glenn railroad tax bill. When this bill went into effect the Columbus Southern applied to the Su perior Court of Fulton county for a writ of injunction to restrain the Comptroller General from collecting taxes under the law. The petition was refused and the railroad enrried the case to the State Supreme Court, where it was argued twice. This court also refused to grant the injunction. , Mr. Wiinbish, attorney for the Co lumbus Southern, a few days ago left for Washington to obtain a writ of error and get the case into the United States Supreme Court. The writ was granted and this morn ing was filed with tile clerk of the Su preme Court and the Comptroller Gen eral served with a copy. The case is a very important one and instead of being held for three years, the rule in eases before that court, it will probably be argued next Decern ber. Mr. Wiinbish says that while In Washington he heard many compli mentary remarks made of the able manner in which Mr. W. C. Glenn pre pared and argued the Sanges case. He also says that Associate Justice Lamar will not go out on his circuit this spring, but will go to the White Mountains for his health. A New Floral, From the Jeffersonville News. The project of a deep water channel in the JffissiBBippi river, if it is feasi ble, and if it is enrried out, will ulti mately build up a series of inland metropoli. j ' "lan." I>r. A; T. Pierson. The word “Amen” do.es not. mean “Let it be so.” In that case the word would simply be an additional prayer. “Amen” means, “It shall be so.” It is a declaration of faith, not a word of supplication, —A. Philadelphia firm advertises for “a strong man to handle butter.” HUME I'UI.ITItS AND POLITI- - v • .v V.' -bunat '.a-I a Col. C. B. Wooten and II011. O. B. Stevens arc the only avowed candi dates for Congress In the Second dis trict, though there is talk of others en tering the race. Mo3t prominent among tho probable candidates men tioned is Editor Ben E. Russell, of the Bainbridge Democrat. It isalso known to the IIkkai.d tlmt Capt. W. M. Ham mond, of Thoinasville, has been urged by friends to enter the race. ■f F Judge B. B. Bower has received the indorsement of several counties, Dougherty among the number, for re- election to the Judgeship of the Al bany Circuit, and may l>e considered as a candidate. The only other candi date that the I1f.rai.d 1ms heard men tioned In connection with the Judge ship is Col. I. A. Bush, of Camilla. It is understood that he amt his frieiids are doing some quiet work and that he will mensure conclusions with Judge Bower when the Legislature meets. ++ Col. W. N. Spence, the present Soli citor General, is also a condidate for re-election, and will have a strong competitor in the persou of Mr. J. D; Pope, of Albany. Mr. Pope hns won his spurs as n prosecuting attorney ns Sollidtor of the County Court -of ltougherty county, and has received the indorsement of this county, through the Grand Jury In their gen eral presentments at the late term of the Superior Court, for the higher po sition to which he aspires. +■+ It is Dougherty county’s time this yenr, under the rotation system whloh hns obtained so long in the Tenth Sen atorial district, to nanio the Demo cratic nominee for the upper house of the General Assembly. There are no avowed candidates for the nomination ns yet, but Capt. W. E. Wooten is very frequently spoken of in that connec tion. The Herald lias also heard— though not by that gentleman himself —that Mr. W. 0. Watson would prob ably be brought out as a candldnte by the Alliance. We give this as mere political gossip, and without knowing whether Mr. Watson really hns an eye on the Senatorship or not. ++ But little talk has been heard, ns yet, with reference to who shall be sent to the House of Representatives from Dougherty county. The Herald hns heard very favorable mention made of Judge Samuel W. Smith in that con nection, and he would probably hnvc no trouble about being nominated and elected if he should decide to make the rnce. . held GIRLS’ G tVU.IT TO l>l> FOR THE MUMMER. Said one of Albany’s fairest and most pleasant young girls yesterday: “I declare, these are thediillest times I ever knew. There is absolutely noth ing to do.” Well, she was right—right <in one way. She continued to complain. “I’m not goihg any where this sum liter (0I1, dear! is there anything on earth worse than being poor?) and what shall I do with, myself, through nil those long, hot dnys to come? Wish I could go to sleep now, nml sleep ,ti|l fall.” And she pueUereti up her fair l|row into a charming frown,, and drew down the corners of her mouth until it resem bled the top half of a circle. The girl unconsciously struck the keynote of a vast amount of discon tent— nb money for a summer vaca tion, and consequently a dull time. Pslmw 1 don't spend your time in complaining, my dear girl. Do something. What? Oh, a dozen tilings. Form a little club of three or four, or n half dozen chums. Decide on some definite plnn of work that will occupy an hour or two each day, and accomplish something before the sum THE GREAT FI.OUD IN TilK WENT. The 1'rrnchera Pmy While the ITInd- ilmed People Cut the nykea« Ozark, Ark., May 28.—Reports from Mulberry, White Oak and Altns show, that at least twenty thousand acres of the best farming lnnds in Franklin county arc covered with water to the depth of from six inches to six feet. It is now'settled that the cotton acreage In this county will be reduced 28 per ciint. Hundreds of families ar? home less nnd but for the kindness of neigh bors would now be starving. The low est estlinatimif loss Is $100,000 nnd the highest $250,000. THEY OUT Till! DYKE. Ottumwa' In., May 28.—At Eddyville fifteen families have been driven from their lionises’ and the entire town Is III imminent danger. Thu Mississippi is rapidly backing up into the Des Moines and no amount of fall above can help Ottumwa until the waters in the Mississippi recede. When the old ferry house went out It struck an ap proach to the now.wagon bridge lii process of erection nml enrried away 150 feet of it, thus completely cutting off connections with the two parts of thooity. With the swollen condition of the stream It will be Impossible to repnir the breach for days. In South Ottumwa the river is rapidly cutting Into the principal streets. So desper ate has become the condition of the THAT LETTER. The I.filer That Hal. Woolru Wrote la Green Ferd le Rreuahl Gal at East. Mclenllfle Inquiry luto 1 “Oorh-n-I>nn,ll, nier Is over. Study something—as- „ tronomy, or botany,or some one of te^ T eo Pi e fn this city that yesterday sciences that best please your mind. N,fti (every pulpit here Bent up prayers for the cessation of the Hoods. Fifty armed citizens cut the levee at this point yesterday to save their property from destruction, wlitoh they judged would otherwise follow from the oontlnunlly Increasing flood. As the outting was calculated to injure the property of the water uompany It was necessary to carry out the work at'the point of pistols, and this the citizens did. The city marshal was appealed toby, the company, but ho was powerless. The water company's superintendent endeavored to clieok the men in their intention, but withdrew when n re volver was leveled at Ills head. Tile dyke was soon opened in three plnces, allowing the venter to escape. A Congress on Africa Is to bo in Chioago during the World’s Fair. It is proposed to bring together not only explorers and missionaries In Africa and experts in the sciences hearing upon the African question, hut aisn natives, who may tell their own story and give their own opinions as to the best way of bringing their great Con tinent into the line of the world’s progress. The Philadelphia Record suggests tlmt tlie practical discussion of questions affecting Africa by men who are thoroughly acquainted with the subject will doubtless prove help ful nnd suggestive- to the earth-bun- gerers of Europe. Charles W. Gardner and Miss Florence A. Collins, both of New York, were married last week in the head of the Statue of Liberty on Bed- loe’s Island. The marriage was wit nessed by the bride's mother and a few of her friends. There is no eleya tor in Liberty, and so they had to climb up 300 feet of narrow winding stairs. The bride had to go up unas sisted, as there is not room enough for t(vo on the stairs. The other members of the party shouted encouragement to her and her mother as they toiled up the steep steps. There are .niches on the several platforms on the way for weary folks to sit in, but the bride and groom didn’t tarry on the way up. Mr. Batson, the fisherman, has been catching a good many sturgeon in his fall trap in the “Two Creeks” above the city, recently, and there has been a desire upou the part of sportsmen to see one of these big fish hooked and played down with a light rod and reel. Mr. J. M. Tift tried the experiment yesterday afternoon, but was rather disappointed in the fight that tlie fish made. He took a sturgeon weighing from twenty to twenty-five pounds, and, running down to the river, had his boatman cast the fish overboard. He had, of course, securely hooked tlie fish beforehand, and was expecting some lively sport; but tlie thing made but little fight, and was soon landed. Col. L. A. Jordan,-who Wiis in the- city to-day, said that he had. made about forty crops in Southwest Geor gia, and that lie had never before had so unfavorable prospect for a crop at this season of the year as he lias now. His plantations In Lee county are in the same dry belt that Albany is in, in which we hove hot had enough rain to wet the ground since the 25th of March. _ '' Krroiene, ISO Proof, Ten Ceuta. Best Water-white Oil, 150 per cent., at 10c. per gallon. L. 8. Plonsky, the grocer. - - ■ • - 25-tf Now you can get keroJene 611 in Al bany at ten cents a gallon. In the parrot style that you are apt to fall into at sohool when you commit to memory and rattle off to your tenelier six or eight pages of text book matter, but study with the enthusiasm that will come of free and informal discussion. You will be astonished at the amount of information that can be stored $way in one girl’s head from two or three months study of that kind. Try It, and you will find the summer dnys passing all too quickly.- **• It Is a little surprising that there are not more excursions like the one that was taken yesterday. A small party of young people'drove up the creek nnd enme down by boat. Do you know what a beautiful little stream of water Kincliafoonee creek is? Some of the prettiest and most picturesquo scenery tliat you will find anywhere among tine scenery on a small scale, you .will find on Klnelm- foonce creek. I11 some places the stream flows be tween high, jutting rocks that are, in places, covered over with the vivid green of the graceful maiden-hqir fern. When you are coming down the stream, with the bright sunshlneglint- ing across the fern that Is blown by the wind into long, graceful undula tions, it Is one of the prettiest sights you've ever seen. And there Is an ex hilaration in Bhooting some pt the rapids that Is but increased by,the spice of danger in it. There is one source of enjoyment for people wljo spend the summer In 'Al bany, and we wonder that more young people do not appreciate it. Everybody says, and what every body says must be true, tlmt the illness of a young lady in Madison is liable to interfere with the arrangements for n certain wedding expected to take plnce soon. Understand? #“* There is something else that might he done to add to the pleasure of the young people. The girls complain that boys take so little interest ill it. In wlmt? Why. tennis, of course. Some dozen or so ladies in the city have the prettiest tennis suits imagina ble, and they can play tennis fairly well, too. But it is no particular fun to play by themselves when there is nobody to run after the balls, or to ad mire the pretty nttitudes tlmt tennis playing brings out—not a bit of fun. There are three or four boys at Blftkely wlio want to clinllenge an Al bany crowd to play tennis. There are some good players, ladies nnd gentle men, at Blakely, find they are anxious to have a bout at tennis with Albany. Why not? Some Aniericus young people have intimated the same thing. Why not? It might not result in anything par ticularly creditable, in the way of ten nis playing, to Albany, but a good deal of amusement would be gotten out of it. The girls say that they menu to stir up the question. Everybody that ia taking any inter est In the Congressional race in this district Ims heard about a jettcr tlmt Col. C. B. Wooten wrote to Mr. Green Ford, of Worth county. It 1ms been represented as something tlmt hope lessly compromised Col. Wooten as be tween ills present nttitmle toward tlie Alliance and tlie position he occupied before the Alliance nominating con vention met, at Cnthbert, Tlie letter Ims made i's appearance at Inst, nml the Herald is glad to give circulation to It. We find it in the Dawson News. Those of Co). Wooten’s friends who have heard of tills terrible letter will be agreeably disappointed when they rend it. Hero it I's; I Albany, Qa., Feb. 18,1892. lloii, (j, (!. I’-mil, Isutii'lUu Gil: Ffii:: ! N0 OitKKN—All Llppltt told me you were in town this week nml in quired for me. Sorry I slid not see you. 1 wrs over In Calhoun, where I find everything solid. Thcro is no doubt about that euunty. - The know ing ones shy it is shout iiimnlmous for me. 1 wish you would do me the favor to see the delegates from Worth to tlie Cnthbert convention, whloh meets next Thursday. In avent tlmt they do not take an Allianccmnti, nnd decide to tnke a man who is not. a member of the Alliance, I would like to have their support nnd influence. Of course l would like to have it in the first instance, but I pre sume a man who is a member of tlife Alllnnce'wlll bo tho first choice. Tills I infer from what you told me., I am not a member of the Alliance. 1 would if I could, for 1 am in sympathy with theln, ns I am a farnior myself. Anything you may do for me will be appreciated by your friend, C. B. Wooten. FROM THOMAS COVNTV. Wlmt Arr Von GoinglnDoAbnallt, Mr. Mmuejif Gooil In All Mennnmi. From the New Allmny Ledger. The summer is the time to rend after noon papers. They reaoh you before dark, and you get substantially the same news that you will out of the next morning's papers. FIRE IN RAKER. Got. Reuben .Venea’a alrored. Ravelling l>r- Col. Reuben Jones, of Baker county, was in tlie city to-day, and reported the loss of his dwelling by fire on last Saturday afternoon. • The fire originated In the kitchen, and is attributed to u thoughtless net upon the part of tho cook. She left some old papers ami trash burning in an open flrc-plaoe In the kitohon, nnd when she went off to her house In the Negro quarter, closed the kltohen door, but left a window open. It is supposed tlmt the high winds which prevailed on Saturday afternoon blew through the window and sonttered some of the burning trash, thus setting lire to the kltohen. Col. Jones was first to discover the fire. He had been taking nn afternoon nap, and when he awoke and went out to the well for a bucket of fresh water, lie found one entire end of the kltohen in a blaze. He at once gave tho nlarm and went to work to save what lie could from the house, as he knew this was doomed fo go with the kitchen. By linrd work he saved most of Ills wearing apparel afid the furniture from four rooms of the house, but his pnntry, and the winter clothing nnd bedding that were stored in a room adjoining tlie kitchen were totally lost. Col. Jones had $1,200 insurance on the house and contents, but this amount, will not cover his loss. Why No* Morel From Uii! Muncio Herald. If you have no good words for the place in which you live you had better say nothing. TnoMASViLLE, Ga., May 25, 1892. To ttic Editor of tho Behalii. I hear it (.aid tlmt tlie AillanaemOt) were “In the ring" mid ruled the ooun- ty convention tlmt elected delegates to the State Convention, and indorsed Capt. C. P. Hansel-for delegate to the National Convention; bdt It aeems that the Alliance wasn’t “ill the ring” at the State Convention, nnd tlmt Capt. Triplett waajelected Instead of the Alliance candidate. And It further seems from Mr. J. M. Massey’s artlole In Saturday's News, that lie is mad about having been so completely Ignored by the State Convention Now, Mr. Massey, wlmt nre you going to do about It? Ilnng Capt. Triplett, or rescind tho State Convention, call another and have your wishes obeyed? Democrat. FI BN DM INCARNATE. They Rob nud Kill no Aged anti He- •peeled CitUen off McDonough, fln «nlt After the language of < and monkeys, the laug Ims oome forward ns a sub scientific study with the phi The Youth’s Companion is ; for the statement that a 1 Frenchman, M. Prevot ,du ] Ims become convinced that fowl lmvc a real language and t h onrlotts sounds which they are ei nelly uttering are perfectly v stood by one nnother. He has for some time n ph hung lip 1n a eoop lii which s cocks, hens and chickens nre c He Imp causal, ns |t were,, the f talk about ail,sorts of tilings by a Ing them In pile way nnd nnother, letting them become hungry feeding certain Of them w others “complain," am! in' many 1 Ims induced them to utter , sounds of whloh they seem to be 1 hie. These sounds tho pbonogrnp faithfully recorded,nnd M. Ilaiidray declares himself able t nnstratc from them tlmt tho have a means of communication wh mny properly bo oplled a Inng WHAT THE, ROOSTER SAYS. M. PreVot dll ilniidrny’s pho mny also settle the vexed quo what nre the syllables aotimll; noiinceil by a rooster when he c It is traditional among Engllsh-s Ing people that- the cook says n-doodle-dool’t Bntnl resents the sound—’Whloh, by tl he calls the ooek’s “singlng"- syllnble* “Cooorleo." To the German the rooster 1 say Klkirlkl—the i’s in this 1 have the sound of the English ee, Italians represent the sound another and different c syllables. Every nation its own Idea of the way to 1 thin familiar remark of olmnt But it Is hard to see liow be any variance In tho rep of the oaokling of a hen nfto laid an egg. She nrtf great plainneBB. anil pos syllables, “Out-oiit-out-ciit out 1" ' Work on tho founds... union passenger depot is w way. ' Mrs. Emily C. Pullman, mother of George C. Pullman, of the palace car fame, died in Belgravia, N. Y., on Sat urday last, at the ripe age of 84. She was tlie mother of three ether sons; all men of note.' —“Go'n’ to start a paper here?’’ “Yes.” “What’s your qualifications?” “Fasted ’ forty dnys ill tf'dime mu seum.” —“If any one should oall, Higgins, I shall not See them.” “&hall I say madanUs out?” “6, dear, no! That woiitd be a falsehood. Say. I am not at home.” —It is said tlmt $65,000,000 Is spent in the saloons of Chicago every year. •An Indiana schoolboy asserted in an examination paper that “you can't no to much.” Probably lie was pay ing the penalty for having yessed too much when invited to go astray. —Summer Hotel. Keeper—You see tlmt ragged man over yonder? Guest— The fellow cleaning fish? Hotel Keep er—Yes. When he came here to board, less than a year ago, he was a pillion- aire, —Ventura, Cal., claims tho largest rose tree in the United States. It'is a Lapiarque, and often'has 10,000 roBes omit at one time. 1 It is three feet in circumference, and its first branch is -twenty.-pne inches around. —A gentleman from Boston, in the course of an address' that he delivered on Sunday t-o a Sunday -School “Infant Glass," used tlie words abactor, mesymnioum and keeve. —“I told you," said the teacher, apol ogetically, to Tommie, “that I should whip you If yon didn’t tell - your father you had run away from school, didn’t I?” “That’s all right," respond ed Tommie, “I didn’t tell blub One of your licken’s is a picnic by the side of one of dad’s.” A special from Jackson, Ga., to tho Atlanta Evening Journal of yesterday says that Adam Sloan, an old respeoted citizen of McDonough, was shot by burglars on Sunday night at 9 o’clock, and is dying, lie has been sick In bed three weeks. He was awakened by noise nnd asked who was there. The burglars replied With five shots, one striking him Above the left nipple. Ills aged wife, who Is Hearty deaf, ran to the nearest house for assistance. She returned and fonnd her huBbnnd lying with his head on the floor nnd tils feet on the bed, insensible. A satchel con taining money was rifled, but a book which contained money was not touched. Mr. Sloan Is one of McDonough’s oldest and most respected oittzens.nnd the father of ex-Ooiigressman Andrew Sloan, of Savannah. Tlie country Is wild with excitement and It is predicted that If the guilty party is caught Governor Northen'B manifesto will not be worth a snap. Chopped Pickle—How lo Mnko II. Sometimes the housewife neglects in summer to lay in sufficient store of pickles.. The following may be made at.ttiiy time,, is good when fresh and improves with age. Take two large cabbageB, one and one WaH pints of salt, two pounds of brown sugar, ten large onions and one gallon of 'vinegar. Put into a vessel a layer of cabbage, chop ped fine, and sprinkle - with salt. Re peat till all is used. Proceed with the onions in the same manner. Let all stand over - night. In the morning squeeze out the moisture. Put On tile vinegar, having mixed in it tlio sugar and two ounces of white mustard seed, two ounces of celery seed,- two ounces of tumerio apd a half pint of gritted- horseradish. When it comes to a boll add tlie cabbage and* onions, and let bo)Vhnlf an hour. TilE ONLY ONE EVER. PRINTED. Can You Find Ibe Word? There is a 3-inch display advertise ment in this paper,-this -week; which has no two words alike except one word. The same is true of enon new one appearing each- week, from the Dr. Harter Medioine Co. This house 1 os a “Crescent” on everything they lUbllsh. Look for it. send them the name of the word, and " The dry goods me are constantly receiving 1 of summer goods. Why Matty Tronti “Tho fault la not of t patient," is tho phrase plied to tjioso c" correct : circumstances fail to 1 purpose, because the p does not or cannot No treatment can from his throat catan-i persists In his habit. This aspect of the ci pertinont to the r are one of the age. Incapacity and ; force of outer i of business too ( rupt a cure which 1 possible.—Professor E Popular Science I A Typ A young woman 1 typewriter makes ' arestauraut a most satisfactory ( she gets is a plate t a bottle of ginger 1 brown broad and butter, poor sho omits tho alo,' preciable item, and c the’oysters and bri few things to be bad at taurantthat are si “but you may really rely* and Boston Times. ■ j_ Iiuportniicu nf Plate* to I Tlio affixing of tho pletes, in a certain : describe, which most t readily recall, the a possession. Audi ed in the label bee of a cherished volu rare cases meant 1 of definite beauty, many interes v°ew!° P 011 — - " 1 ■ *. * «W- ■ ir tt eon there ''SfiSih-*.!.* there! . • ’ Miss. Candide—V comedown. A you been- almost unattractjvo.- they. INDSTINCT PRINT I and publli the name will return you book. —The, Rector: My dear yo.ung lady, I hope I am mistaken, but I thought I saw you talking during the sermon yesterday. Stray Lamb: You certainly are mistaken, Doctor Why, I never talk in my sleep, dfeiagar __ Numi) At the present* of doublet ' astronomers : far exceeding the J visible to tho naked firmament (about being frequently d telescopes now in e Journal. j era of salmim-v C