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ALBANY, GA., SATURDAY; JUNE ii, 189a.
NO. 23.
SELECTING
-YQUR-
BLAINE RESIGNS.
It KWMJ NATION TENDERED
AND VERY PROMPTLY
ACCEPTED. *
PRESENTS
And v Now All the PollllclmiM Mur Ho
Will Be ihe Republican Nom
inee for Preuldent.
CALL AT THE-
Jity Shoe Store.
We offer
Ladies’
a full line of
and Gents’
EVENING.
The sun no longer shine*
’Mid glories of tho west.
But on xnpplilro robes decline*
On couch of gold to rest. ,
The moon and her silvery sheen
Sheds an effulgent light.
And tho low lumps of tho stars between
Surround the queen of night.
-Gertrude S. Buillie in Philadelphia Ledger.
A royal pork butcher.
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good
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re
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asion.
A full line of Leather Bags,
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it popular prices.
SIGN GOLD BOOT.
3$
Secretary Blaine tendered Ida res
ignation to tile President on Saturday
afternoon, and the same was promptly
accepted.
Following Is the brief correspond
ence, which explains Itself:
Dki-aktmknt or Stack, )
Wa&Unoton, June 4,189-2, 12:45 p.m. \
To the President:
l respectfully beg leave to submit my
resignation of the office of Secretary of
State of the United Stales, to which I
was appointed by you oil the 5th of
Marcli, 1889. The condition of public
business in the Department of State
justifies me in requesting that my res
ignation may beacoeptud tum(ediately.
I have the honor to be, very respect
fully, your obedient servant,
Ja.mks G. Hi.aink.
THr: 11KCI.V,
■ExbcutivK Mansion, June 4.
To Him. Julia 1 , II, llhiino, Hi'rrrhirv' of stiile:
Your letter of this date tendering
your resignation of the office of Secre
tary of State of the United States, ImB
just been received. The terms in
which you state yoyr desires nee such
ns to leave me no choice liut to accede
to your wishes at once. Your resigna
tion is therefore accepted.
Very respectfully yours,
Rkk.iamix, IfAmiiso.N.
A 1,1. WITHIN AN IIOUK.
A Washington dispatch says that
Secretary Blaine's reslgjudiurf was
taken to the White House by his pri
vate Secretary, Mr. Dent, who placed
It into the hands of the President.
This wns a little before 1 o’clock, nnd
within ilfteen infinites lifter It tens
written. Soon after reading it the
President descended to the East
room nod liejil his usual Saturday after
noon reception to the public. There
were about 20(1 people present. Not
ohe ns he shook the'President’s hand
could have told from Ills cool and col
lected manner that aliything unustia!
had happened. Indeed, an official of
the mansion said the President really
seemed to be in better, spirit.-than
usual, making felicitous replies ill
greeting some of his visitors.
The reception over the President ne-
ttirned to liis library And addressed
the letter to Mr. Blaine, accepting his
resignation. Tilts was gtvoti to Pri
vate Secretary Halford, with instruc
tions thnt it be delivered at once, nnd
Jin Ilalford thereupon took it. over to
Mr. Blaine’s house nnd put it in his
hands. Thus the whole transaction did
not consume more than.an hour’s time.
THE R. A D. INSOLVENT.
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Crowded Cities of the Dead.
Long Island is the burying ground
for New York’s dend, nnd n round
trip to the present cemeteries is now
a day’s journey. But little space is
left in Greenwood, ETergreen, Cal
vary and Cypress Hill, tho big cities
of the dead across tho East river, and
if it becomes necessary to seek new
burying grounds farther away, busy
New Yorkers will never find time to
go to funerals.. As it is now, fune
rals are rushed with a haste that
would shock people in slow going
communities. New York is too busy
to waste any time over tho dead.
Tlioy are in the way and tho sooner
out Of it the hotter, seems, to lie the
idea hero.
Hearses are driven tit u swift trot
from church to cemetery, and there
is often an exciting race between
funeral processions to bo (irst on
board tho ferry boat. Tlib first thing
a Now Yorker Icarus is to, run to
catch a.'feiTvtftat. Whufl.. he crosses
tho Wvertorflio last time lu> lends
tho rushing, el niggling procession,
audit ought to bo some consolation
to him toi know that ho wns iiifst on
boardU'or mice. Now York is a great
place to live, but it must bo an un
satisfactory placo to ilio for those
who cure to l>o hurled iii the bid fash
ioned,slow and solemn way.—New
York Cor. Pittsburg Loader.
An AkIoiiIhIhmI.l*rliioenn.
Mr. George Manners, nbphbw -of
tlie Duke of Rutland, tolls the fol
lowing good story of H, R, H. the
Princess of Wales: Tho prince and
princess paid a visit to longshnw
(the Derbyshire shooting box) in 1875.
Tho latodukehad u favorite retriever
called Prince. One night at dinner
the conversation turiled bn his dog
and tho duke said that lately he hod
not been behaving well. Tho subject
dropped. Next day tho princess
camo out to luncheon ,\yith, the ^hoot
ers. The enmpgo dnivo up jyht be
fore the drive. 1 Her' royal highness
wuitod until it was over junl rhen
walked on to whore tho duke, \yho
wu3 tho nearest gun, was daisy- pick-
ing up his birds.
, AWeJl, {luke," she said, “and how
is thoTYince behaving today? Pretty
will, I hope?’’ “Very bnoly, indeed,
nm’iuti,”’ tho dulco replied; "He
won't pick up his birds. If he doesn’t
beli«.ve better after luncheon I will
send him homo." The princess was
naturally astonished, but she said
nothing and w6ut on to luncheon.
A little later the duke whs informed
that it was the priheo that had been
inquired after—not fte dog—and so
hastened to make fils apologies.—
Manchester (England) Times.
A LANGUID DEFENDER.
;E.L.
1 INSURANCE AG’TS,
Waihingtoa Strut) Albanj. 61.
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AND A RECEIVER IN AHKED FOR.
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Pt-HfiiCul Comer, of Ihe Cenlrnt, Filer
a Bill Before Jud|c Speer.
Judge Speer is still the official me
dium of railroad sensations in Geor
gia. The latest case before him is a
bill for a receiver for the Richmond
and Danville.
Judge Speer passed an order on
Saturday, and the papers have been
served on the agent of the Richmond
and Danville at Augusta.
President Comer, , of the Central,
swears to the bill. He swears that the
Central was leased to the Georgia Pa
cific, an insolvent company, in order
that the Central might be dismantled
and robbed by the Richmond and Dan
ville. v
It is further claimed that the Rich
mond and Danville has damaged the
Central two and a half million dollars,
and the details are set out in the bill.
The lawyers who represent the Cen
tral are Lawton & Cunningham and
Adams, Denmark and Adams, of Sa
vannah, and Marion Erwin, of Macon.
The bill was served in Augusta be
cause there is no agent of the Rich
mond and Danville in Savannah or
Macon.
The bill alleges that the Richmond
and Danville is insolvent.
It looks like the worm lias turned
and that the Central is about to get
the Richmond and Danville on tlie run.
The case will be heard June 25.
Thing! Useful ts Knew.
from Good Housekeepins.
To whiten the nails cut a lemon in
two and rub in well at night. Wash
off in warm water the next morning,
It is claimed that a preparation
made of two-thirds lemon juice to one-
third Jamaica rum will remove
freckles.
Clean hairbrushes with warm water
and a little ammonia. It is best to
clean two brushes at the same time, as
they can be nibbed together. Let
them dry In the hot sun.
It Is frequently stated that granite
ironware cannot be mended after it
leaks, and so must be thrown away.
But in fact it is quite possible to mend
it in the same way as tin, by soldering.
The Bath Signal.
At a Turkish bath in Paris a visitor
patiently submitted to the various
operations of nibbing, kneqding and
pummeling comprised in thistroat-
ment. When the shampoo was over
the attendant dried him with a towel,
after which he dealt the patient three
heavy find sonorous blows with the
flat of the hand.
“Mille tonnerres I" the victim ejac
ulated; "what did you strike me
fort”
‘Ah I monsieur, don’t let that
trouble you," was the reply; "it was
only to let the other/man know that
I have done with you, nnd that he is
to send me the next customer. You
see, we haven't a bell in this room.”
—Siecle,
What Meerwiheum Really I*.
There is a very general impression
in the minds of smokers that the
meerschaum part of the pipe, which
they treasure so carefully and take
so much pride and satisfaction in
“coloring," is compressed sea foam.
Such, however, is not the case. The
German word meerschaum means in
English foam of the sea, but its for
mation has nothing to do with the
sea. It is a kind of clay, comes out
of mines like coal and is found only
in Turkey.—New York Times.
Two CImmi of Parent*.
Parents may be roughly divided
into two classes—those, to use a pro
verbial expression, to whom all their
own geese ore swans; and those who
are persuaded that their swans are
geese. There is a middle class, hut
it is so very small that it may al
most he disregarded in a description.
Strange to say, the second class is
quite as large as the first.—Anna C.
Brackett in Harper’s.
TbouMUid* la It.
"Bow l* that little mining scheme of
yours getting along? Any money in itT
“Any money in it? Well, I should say
sot AU of mine, all of my wife’s and
atflnt Jf,{)00 that I got from my friend."
A musical. prodigy has been discov
ered at Albany, G*., in the perm of
Tom May, who can reach low P, and
A King Vhose Sole Ambition lYu to
M ko llolouteblo Smteegeit.
Cbai'li i VI, king of Spain and tlie
Indies, tad a brother named Don
Antonio who excelled as an amateur
sausuge maker, and after awhile
nothing would please tho king but
that he. too, should he initiated into
tho secrets of the wonderful art. He
hoped ultimately, he said, to produce
sausages which should rival, nay,
even excel, his brother’s. Accord
ingly a pavilion was built in a so-
oluiled part of Aranjuez, whither,
liberally supplied with clioptiers,
pigs and tho necessary spices, tlie
monarch retired from public view
and, dressed in a butcher’s white
blouse and apron, wont through n
severe com™ of training.
At last he was ready for a test, and
a piece of sausage solomly tasted by
Don Antonio, was declared worthy
of his own making. Tlie dish became
fashionable nt court, but Charles, in
sisting that ho had not yet acquired
his In-other's delicacy and finish, con
tinued his labors toward tho perfec
tion of his culinnry skill. Ono day
tho Icing, at table, began to find fault
with ills sausages.
■ Naturally the courtiers all do-
murreef at this and declared that ho
was mil taken, btlt a young dulco who
liml justobmo up from tho country,
and did not know how matters stood,
thought ho saw an open road to fa
vor, and remarked, "I venture to
ngrdq with your majesty." "What
would you do with tho cook?” asked
Chariest "Expel him,” was the re-
pljL. Op.itliis Charles rose from his
scat, left tho hall and quickly re
turned, dressed in his professional
costume!
Approaching the bewildered young
/.mag)' lie said, "Sir duke, will you
beg my pardon of the kingl" "Morey,
siro I" cried the duke, throwing him
self on his knees. Charles good
hum uredly passed over tho offense,
and titado the'cplprit ono ot his per
sonal attendants.
This whim degenerated into sheer
monomania; matters of the grav
est importance were neglected; the
king could not be got away frdnt his
self inflicted labors; sausage ntiik-
ing boeaniq tlio solo interest of his
existence!. • In the end, however, ho
was undeceived by a fortunate oc
currence. An English lady of rank,
wlm wiw VCry curious to seo the royal
pork bfitener at work, was secretly
introduced by the British embassador
into tho grounds surrounding the pa
vilion. By some mischance Charles
discovered her, and thinking it the
best tiling to do Went up to her and
embraced her, forgetting that bis
hands nnd clothes were all smeared
and dirty.
Of course tlio lady's dress was
sjxiiled, but Charles had recognized
how utterly absurd he must seem to'
other people, and his eyes being thus
opened he nt once desisted from his
degrading occupation. Nevertheless,
during his absence from business,
feeble prince ns he was, incalculable
damage bail been done to the empire
—damage from which it never re
covered under his after rule.—Massa
chusetts Times.
The Young Man Who Turned Up Hit
Troll Her* Before Fighting.
It was about dusk on Tremont
street.
Good and wicked Boston was pre
paring for the night before the Sab-
Lots of pretty girls were coming
out of many stores, hurrying along
to catch cars or trains for many a
suburban homo. There were shop
girls apd girls that lived on Beacon
Hill, who had delayed buying their
candy here and trinkets there.
Ono fair one looked strikingly pret
ty ns she sped out on tho dark street.
Two youths sauntered up tho thor
oughfare and saw the pretty girl.
“Ah, there I" said they, but tho
pretty girl didn’t answer.
"That will do," said a young fol
low of medium hoiglit, tho typo of a
modern dude, ns ho threw open a
capo coat, which disclosed evening
clothes.
He said it with a very bored air.
Life didn’t seem to bo worth living
to him.
Tlie youths looked first at his silk
hat and then down nt his patent
leather Bhoes.
“Guess we can do him," sold they.
“Hold my coat, will you?" Boid ho
of the evening dross to the pretty
girl, arid she helped him take it off.
Then he started to turn up his trou
sers and tho biggest youth hit him
on tlio head. He finished turning up
his trousers, then turned on the big
youth-.
"Do so hate a scone,” Baid he, as
ho gave tlio big, youth ri blow right
between tho eyes that knocked him
tprawlirig into tho gutter.
Tho other youth ran.
Of course n crowd gathered and
wondered at the pretty girl holding
tho topcoat and tho fellow in evening
dress.
Then the pretty girl's champion
put on Iris coat and brusned some
mud from his trousers, He was
troubled to think liissbirtbosom was
wrinkled.
"Who's tho fellow?" asked an elder
ly gentleman of a young Harvard
hum who’sauntered by.
"URed to bo tlie boss sparser whop
ho was in collego; guess somebody
insulted his sister."
’ ‘Jove 1 how annoying tlieso Crowds
are,- Marie J’l said tho young man in
evening dress, ns lie called a cab and
tho two drove nwiiy up Beacon Hill!
—Boston Herald.
Wherein Liverpool Wo* De«ir*bl«*
1 wns invited by an American friend
of mine in Liverpool to meet Hawthorne
soon after his arrival. His appearance
wuh very striking, his face handsomo
and intellectual, and tlie large liquid
eyes were fnll of latont fire and poetical
imagination. Ho was not only reticent,
but almost taciturn, and when he did
speak was apt to pause and then jerk
out the rest of tlio sentence. Americans
have, as a nils, o very remarkable facil
ity of expression. Here was a ouri-
ous exception. 1 remember condoling
with him for having exchanged Bos
ton, the hub of creation, for nneongenial
Liverpool, when ho replied, “Oh, Liver
pool is a very pleasant place” (then a
pause sufficiently long for me to look
surprised, and then suddenly tho end of
tlio sontonce), "to get away from,”—
Cornh<ll Magazine.
No Safe Dapa.lt Vault. Needed.
Thore is no tremble about living In the
polar regions except look of food sup
ply. Mo danger exists that the provi
sions once placed would be disturbed.
Among the people who dwell in those
frozen regions a cache is sacred. Noth
ing short of starvation will compel a
native to Interfere with one, and even
in such n casq ho leaves payment behind
for what he takes. Hnow shoes and ex
tra clothing are hung up In the open air
in smumor and are as safe aa the aocou-
termeiits which city persons "hang up”
at their uuclo’s during tlie warm season.
—Chicago Herald.
the Lidr of the House.
In these latter days we are right
fully weary of the influx of ladies
among us—the lady in the kitchen,
the wash lady, the cleaning lady, the
saleslady, ad infinitum. But we must
never put aside nor allow any other
to supplant the gnfnd title of the
lady of the house. That Anglo-Saxon
word which holdsin it “the vision of
the ideal of the true lady, the noble
woman rifling well her household,
the woman of wisdom to learn and
teach the laws which order bread
keeping, the mistress of domestic
economy—the science of establishing
in every house the house law of thrift
and comfort.”
Words are indeed “monumental
thoughts,"and there are few in our
tongue which stand out more dear
cut and strong, showing us what true
and noble reality as well as ideality
lies within compass of her who is the
lady of the house.—Harper’s Bazar.
SpnrgM* SaDriaf from Goat*
Rev. Newman Hall narrates that
he once saw Mr. Spurgeon lying on
a couch and twitching in great pain
from gout He said: "Some of our
friends think themselves perfect
saints. We all thought a certain
brother perfect till he said he was.
Mqpt of these are old maids or re
tired officers with few cares.” (An
other twitch of pain.) “If they had
gout and the hell was not answered
quickly, they would find some of the
old devil left in them.” He asked
Dr. Hall to pray with him, saying:
“I know you can be short A dear
brother was praying with me one
day at such length that I had to say,
‘Stop, stop 1 I can’t bear any more.’ ”
—Good Words.
Bow Silk X. “Watered.'*
The satin weave throws the fine
warp threads all upon the right side.
Twills have the warp in three sheets,
whereof one is drawn down and tile
other two left on the top. Watered
silk is made by pasting the fabric,
double, between hot rollers under
pressure.—Chicago Tribune.
American,Silk Weaving and Printing.
American silk weavers fall but lit
tle short of the glory of Lyons, In
printed silks tlioy even go beyond
them. It would bo strange if they
did not Printing silk is compar
atively a now process. In whiro
China and natural colored pongee
American makers havo little to learn,
Tliey import patterns and processes
from France, and so improve upon
them that in the year of grace 1900
there will he no need—in the opinion
of experts—for good Americana to
go to Paris or Lyons or Genoa for
anything whatever made from silk.
Genoa the superb was 6nce pre
eminent for velvet, but now Lyons
beam the palm, as she does for the
gauzes that got their name from
Gaza, tho eastern city where first
they were made.—Chicago Tribune.
Lost Mines.
Everywhere throughout the west
are lost mines. Every state and ter
ritory that has gold or silver has
several of them. Around each there
clings a halo of romance. There is a
Lest Cabin mine near Crater lake in
Oregon. Montana, Wyoming, Idaho
and New Mexico have lost mines of
some sort or other, all rich, and
locked in the depths of the Navajo
reservation in Arizona is another tact
mine. Men with guns and picks and
burros steal in from time to time in
quest of the latter.
Sometimes in referring to the vari
ous lost mines they are singularly
mixed, until the problem is made
harder to solve as to just where they
are. "There are at least a half dozen
or a dozen Lost Cabin mines in the
west,” said an old mining man yes
terday. ‘‘Anything that is strange
and hard to get at will have many
hunting for it The lost mines are
hard to find, but there ore all the
time expeditions in quest of them.”
-tUan Francisco Examiner.
Education and Nature.
The province ot education ig to lift
the individual out of her natural
ness and not to allow her to remain
in it. All education is this. The
child would prefer to take her food
in her fingers, for it is natural for her
to do so; but education takes her im
mediately in hand and makes her est
in the way not of nature, but of
civilization. There is no natural way
of education, it is all completely un
natural and must he so.
The natural child protests against
discipline of whatever kind, and seeks
to follow her cravings; hot out of
this fools' paradise—which would be
no paradise at all, , as her teacher
knows—she must be driven, and out
of it she must be kept, though it he
with a flaming sword.—Anna C.
Brackett in Harper's.
Gtiat'dlug Against Sparks.
A new arc lamp has a wire gauzo pro
tector upon tho top of it, the object
being to prevent tho escape of the dan-
gerons sparks which occasionally fly
from the carbon poles and uro the cause t ,
of fires. The gauze ts flue and ’doea not ,
interfere with tho diffusion of the light
nor with the placing of the carbons.—
Now York Journal.
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Ilousuhohl Workshop.
Carpentering sounds a big woiVI
porlmps, but it is wonderful wbat
rail be dono at haute, and UoW much
troublo is saved . by the judicious. .
keeping and handling of some few
tools; it is neither hard nor, dirty <
work, in times ot moving, or rea
ranging of rooms, for instance,’ ai
it rntlior increases tho pleasure
havo really hud n linnd Inmtotqf tl
innovations that ran he sug“—* ij " t
a fertile brain or a love of '
There is generally some corner i
a houso which can ho setupartins a
workshop, and oven if this be i
Bible, or the title sounds too 1
like, it is well to have a specie
ceptaclo for tho tools, or they w'
evitably he scattered about in d
ent places and not to ho found wh
they pro wanted. Of course the car
penter or tho handy man close by
can he sent for, but why should the
housewife ho doubtful of her own
capabilities?—London Queen.
W*xn* r on Bl. Head.
In "Wagner ns I Knew Him,”'J
Ferdinand Praegor, writing of t
great composer's buoyancy of spiri,
says that oho day when they were
sitting together in the drawing room
at Tribschen on a Bort of ottoman,
talking over the events of the years
gone by, Wagner suddenly arose and
stood on his head upon tho ottoman.
At tlio very moment he was in that
inverted position tho door opened
and Mmc. Wagner entered. Hpr sur
prise and alarm were groat, and she
hastened forward, cxcluiming, "Ah I
liobe Richard, Richard!”
Quickly recovering himself, he re
assured her of his sanity, explainir
that he was only showing Ferdinai
he could stand on his head at sixtr
which was more than the said Fe
dinsnd could do.
Rout Mouse Was No Good.
As an example ot folk medicine an
English surgeon writes ot a case ho
attended in which a mouse was ad
ministered to the patient, a young
child, in the hopes of cutting short
an attack of whooping cot
cording to the mother,
mode of preparing this potent reme
dy with any hope of therapeutio suc
cess was by roasting the mouse over
a tallow candle. To the surprise and
disappointment of the parents, the
only effect this delicate morsel had
upon the unhappy little sufferer was ‘
that, in the broad dialect of the Boe-
eendale valley, “It nobbut set 1m
agate o piking.” (Anglioe, vomiting.)
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Where Banket Go During Cold Weather.
The snake hibernates; that is, it
passes the late autumn and winter
seasons in a state of torpor coiled up
in the hollow roota of trees or cavi
ties protected by bushes. With the
return of warmth it issues forth in
pursuit of prey and to breed. The
female lays from sixteen to twenty-
eggs in a string, and leaves them
be hatched by the sun or by tl
Warmth of decomposing matter.
(they are often found in dungheaps.
-Quarterly Review.
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Scott’. Method of Exercising.
Sir Walter Scott’s chief j
ware riding and c
and he appear in the t
Later in life fce i
ing, in which the Ai
Bancroft, has since 1
pany.—Hygiene.