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DETAIL.
The Third
Party People
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ONLr 96 STRAIGHT DliJIOlBATS
snow UP ON A TENT VOTE.
The Meeting llnrrly Snred Prom Being
Turned Into n Third
Pnrlr Ilnll).
Isabella, June 0,1895.
Hpcnlnl Com»»iiim(lence of the Hkbai.ii.
This will convey a piece of news to
you, ns well ns to n number of Worth’s
citizens.
Several weeks ago, In obedience to a
call from the chairman of the Execu
tive Committee, a mass meeting was
held here, and n primary was called
for July 80th, for the purpose of
choosing delegates to the Congres
sional convention. This was adver
tised or published in the county paper,
and the majority considered the mat
ter settled.
East Wednesday evening, after the
fa'lure of the Third Party rally at
Foulnn, just as the crowd was dis
persing, word was passed by several
men, some Alllancemen, some Third
Party men and one or more that had
made Third Party arguments, to be
sure to attend the Democratic mass
meeting at Isabella that had been
called by the chairman for to-day,
June Gtli.
Democrats of tills county are gener
ally lukewarm about attending their
party mass meetings, there having,
heretofore, been little occasion for dil
igence in this respect, and very often
the mass meeting has consisted of
twenty-five to fifty voters.
The Third Tarty men were out to
day. They numbered nearly fifty head
while on a test vote the Democrats
only polled twenty-six. Enough others
were there to make the gathering near
or over n hundred.
The meeting was cnlled to order at
11 o’clock by Hon. W. A. Harris, ohnlr-
man of the County Executive Coin-,
mlttee. He mnde a short Bpeeoh, lay
ing stress upon the political crisis,mid
saying that there were but two legiti
mate political parties, tile Democratic
, and Republican. He did not consider
the Alliance as a political pnrty, but
as a farmers’ and laborers' organiza
tion. He repeated thrice that lie had
no yard stick to measure any voter by,
and appealed for harmony and unity
of Bentjment. Nothing was said about
the Third Party.
On motion of Rev. N. B. Ousley, the
chalrmnn appointed a committee of
one from each militia district of tfie
county to draw up and put in noininn
tion names for the Democratic Execu
tive Committee for the following two
years. The following was the commit
tee appointed:
Fifth District—N. B. Ousley.
Sixteenth District—6. O. Ford.
Seventh District—J. G. Pollllll.
Eighth District—A. P. Smith.
Sixth District—Win. Branch.
Fifteentli District—George Howard.
Fourteenth Ilistriot—W. J. Odom.
Second District—W. A. Davis.
Third District—Henry Shiver.
Fourth District—Not represented.
After nearly an hour’s deliberation,
the committee made the following re
port •
For Chairman—lion. Win. A. Harris.
Committee—
Sixteenth District — David Olmm-
pion.
Sixth District—T. S. Kitchens.
Eighth District—.!. E. Jenkins.
Second District—J. 8. Sliingler.
Fourteenth District—J. D. Houston.
Third District—W. B. Black.
Fourth District—George Warren.
Fifteenth District—J. J. Foreland.
Fifth District—J. M. Sumner.
The chairman and committee were
unanimously elected.
Mr. W. A. Allen, of the Eocal, was
chosen secretary.
The committee also presented the
following resolutions:
Resolved, That we indorse Gov. W.
J. Northen’s administration, and rec
ommend that our delegates support
his nomination for a second term. Re
jected—Ayes, 82; nays, 36.
Resolved, That we cordially indorse
all of our present State House officers,
and recommend that our delegates
support them for re-nomination.
Adopted.
Resolved, That we especially in
dorse the Hon. R. T. Nesbitt, Commis
sioner of Agriculture, for his wise and
economical administration of the Bu
reau of Agriculture, who has already,
in the short time he has filled the of
fice, saved to the State some $30,000,
and we earnestly invoke the honora
ble delegates to ubb their best endeav
ors to have him re-nominated as a can
didate for said office. Adopted.
Resolved, 1st, That we mutually
pledge, each the other, to abide the
nominations made at Albany, both for
Congressman and Senator, and that
we will use all honest effort to secure
their election. Adopted.
2d. That wo now proceed to elect
delegates to district, Senatorial and
Congressional conventions, and that
the delegates so elected, and their
alternates, shall cast the vote of Worth
county for that candidate who shall
receive a majority vote of thU Demo
cratic mass meeting, so long as there
Is any chance of electing him or them,
and that they cast Worth’s vote for
Dougherty’s choice for Senator.
Adopted.
The following delegates were nomi
nated by the committee, and elected:
Gubernatorial—W. A< Harris, W. J.
Hall.
Senatorial—S. J. McDowell, W. E.
Story, W. E. Sikes, C. J. Dell and J. G.
Pollllll.
Congressional—G. G. Fold, W. J.
Davis, T. M. Eippltt and T. I„ Kitch
ens.
Tlie.following was also offered by
the committee:
Wherens, The Hon. J. H. Guerry, of
the county of Terrel, is a candidate
for Attorney General, to represent our
State, we, the voters of Worth county,
duly assembled in mass meeting, in
dorse his candidacy for said position.
Adopted.
Mr. W. A. Allen then offered the fol
lowing;
Resolved, That we, the citizens of
Worth county, In mass meeting as
sembled, do hereby re-afflrm our alleg-
inneu to the time-honored Democratic
party, and that we endorse the plat
form of the Democratic pnrty as pro
mulgated by the State covention, and
will abide the action of the National
convention, and support its nominee.
This wa« like Blinking a red flag at u
bull to the Third Party element, and
they rose to a man and sat down upon
it. Only twenty-six votes were oast
in its fnvor, while nearly fifty were
against it, so many that it was not
neoessnry to count them.
Mr. Allen arose nnd said that he
considered a Democratic (?) conven
tion that would not abide by the ac
tion of the party, as composed of very
poor Democrats, and was accused of
bringing out nil independent two
years ngo.
Col. Polliill, one of the delegates to
the Senatorial .convention, arose and
asked that Ills name be stricken from
the list of delegates, as he had always
been n Democrat, was n Democrat
now, nnd did not propose to represent
any convention ns a delegate that was
oomposed of anything but Democrats.
Hjs resignation was accepted, and
J. El Boone, a rank Ocnlals't, and a
double-jointed crank with strong
Third Party tendencies, was appointed
in his stead.
Rev, N. B. Ousley then arose and
gave his ronspus for votjngagninst the
Allen resolution. He wns opposed to
Cleveland, and would not vote for him
if he was nominated, because he had
not done the Democratic party justice
In filling the offices. When asked if
Mr. Cleveland had not sworn to ad
minister the civil service law in all his
appointments, Mr. Ousley said Jiedid
not know. If he did, there were ways
of evading the law. Mr. Ousley, al
though a minister of the gospel, did
not seem to consider the oatli as hav
ing any binding influence.
Even the most ultra St. Eouis men
now began to see what a box their re.
fusing to endorse the action of the
party would put their delegates in,
and Mr. Ousley put the following as a
peace-offering to the State Democracy,
and it was adopted :
Resolved, That we, the Democrats
of Worth county, in mass meeting as
sembled, do hereby re-afllrin our alleg.
lance to the time-honored Democratic
party, and that we endorse the plat
form of the Democratic party, as pro
mulgated by the State convention.
A resolution was then unanimously
adopted, declaring Mr. O. B. Stevens
the choice of tile mass meeting for
Congress from the Second district.
Several short speeohes were then
mnde, and tile convention adjourned,
subject to the call of the chairman.
Tlie County Commissioners have
been considering for some time past
the matter of remodeling, enlnaging
and improving generally the Court
House, and have finally about reached
the conclusion that it is time to ant.
Plans drawn by Mr. W. R. Gunn, of
this city, and Bruoe & Morgan, of At
lanta, have been submitted, nnd the
Commissioners now have them under
consideration.
Both plans contemplate great Im
provements In our temple of justice,
and tlie cost is estimated at from $15,-
000 to $20,000.
The Hkhai.d had n talk with Chalr
mnn Tarver, of the Board of Commis
sioners, this morning,nnd learned thnt
the Commissioners are in earnest
about the proposed Improvement, and
thnt the iden is to have a building of
which the city nnd county will be
proud.
The plans have not been entirely
completed yet, but they are In such
shape lliat the Commissioners will be
able to olioogB between thorn in a few
dnys.
Mr. Tarver thinks thnt the county
will bo in condition to innke the de
sired improvement without creating a
bonded debt. It will necessitate q
floating debt for a few years, but it
will not involve the county to any
considerable amount.
The Commissioners will take final
action looking to the Improvement
within the next few days.
DEMOCRATIC HA1.1.V IN CAIy-
1IOUN.
A Spnolnl
Comment on tile above is unneces
sary. A primary had been called for
July 30th, and tlie voters of the coun
ty were resting nssured that they
would then have the opportunity of
expressing their preference. Thnt
this would have been for Mr. Stevens,
there is little doubt. Not a word was
said in the call for this convention
about declaring a choice for Con
gress, but only to elect an Executive
Committee and transaut other busi
ness. That this convention was i
packed one, is a fact that no reason
able man, who knows the circum
stances, can reject.
That men who iiave been, attending
Third Party rallies, and whooping
and yelling for St. Eouis utterances,
laid aside their principles and put on
the cloak of Democracy and came into
this convention to control it, there
can be no doubt, and that it waB not
turned into a Third Party rally, as at
one time seemed very probable, is due
to the conservative men on both sides,
who made mutual concessions, and to
the "efforts of Mr. Stevens and his
friends, who have been working in the
county for several days past. H,
At 9 o’olook a. m. Tuesday, at Mad
ison, Ga., Miss Rosa Stovall, of Madi
son, nnd £tr. H. Nott Parker, of Al
bany, were united In marriage.
Tlie marriage wns solemnized in the
Methodist Episcopal chpreh of Mad
ison, and n large number of friends of
tlie bride and groom were present.
Mr. and Mrs. Nott Parker left Mad
ison soon after the ceremony for some
point in Virginia, where they will
spend a few weeks before going farther
North for a more extended trip. They
will return to Albany—their future
liome—some time in August.
Mr. Parker is one of the lending
business men of Albany, and a gentle
man whose sterling qualities make
him one of tlie moat trusted men in
the city.
Miss Stovall has already prepossessed
Albnny people In her favor during
previous visits, nnd 'they will be
pleased to welcome her in their midst
as tlie wife of one of their popular
gentlemen.
Mr. Henry Tnrver was ninong tlie
invited guests at tlie wedding, and
Miss Fanny Holcombe, of De Witt, at
tended the bride.
EIRE AT WII.I.1ARIMHUKG. >
Joseph N. Daniel's store Burned.
Train to Go
Albany*
Oul From
There is to be nbigDemocrntlo rally
anil spenking nt Morgan, Calhoun
county, on next Monday, and arrange
ments have been made for a special
train to run out to Eenry on thftt day
for the accommodation of those who
want to go out from Albnny.
At Eeary there will be conveyances
to take tlie crowd over to Morgan.
Col. W. M. Hammond, of Thomas-
vllle, and Hon. Ben E. Russell, of
Balubridge, will address the people,
and an interesting time Is expeoted.
Make your arrangements to go. The
speolal train will leave Albany at 7
o’clock in the morning, and return at
7 o’clock in the evening.
Abant the PoeeenRer Depnt.
There aro murmurlngs of disap
pointment St what is now to be seen
of the union passenger depot. As yet
only the framework is up, however,
and tlie building should not be judged
by what can now be seen. ' '.
Our people generally seem to i)ave
received the impression that we were
to have a carshed, or a depot and oar-
shed nil in one. This is a mistake,
We are to have only a depot. There
is to bu no carshed, and the cars will
notenter the building that is being
erected.
Tlie difference between a carshed
and a depot, and the mistaken Im
pression which seems to have gone out
about what the thing wns to be, no
doubt accounts for much of the disap
pointment of those who are disposed
to kick.
Tlie original plan has been cut down
n little, but not enough to materially
change it.
A new difficulty was Drought to the
attention of Mayor Gilbert in connec
tion with the depot yesterday after
noon. It appears that the building,
which takes up the entire width of
Front street, will trespass upon the
lot belonging to the B. & W. road by
having the eaves extend over it some
two or three feet; and Superintendent
Haines has served notice on the con
tractors that it must not bu so—that
tbe trespnss will not be permitted.
When Mayor Gilbert’s attention was
called to tlie matter lie at once wired
Mr. Haines asking him to withdraw
his objection, which, under all the cir
cumstances, appears to be a rather
captious one; but up to the present
writing no reply has been received.
Tlie B. & W. road had its platform
around Its warehouse extend into the
street as long ns its little triangular
depot stood on tlie'lot which it non-
claims aerial rights for, nnd the city
never raised any objections to It.
Gunrdeil.
Bob Massie, a citizen of Rich Hill,
Mo., carries in his right pants pocket
a buckeye plucked from atree thirteen
years old, on a Friday night, when* he
saw the new moon over his right
shoulder. In another pocket he lias
a luck-stone, taken from a cross-eyed
perch’s head while the tide was out,
while about his neck he wears the left
hind foot of a rabbit killed in a grave
yard in the dark of the moon.
Nature's Evident lutentien.
From Puck,
Discouraged Parent—That boy of
mine worries me; he hasn’t a particle
of acuteness, doesn’t know anything,
and you can’t believe a word he says.
What can I do with him when he
grows up?
Friend (after a few moments’ reflec-
Wii.MAMs'niTUfi, Ga., June 7.
Special to tins IIkiiai.p.
The store of Mr. Joseph N. Daniel at
this place, together with nearly his
entire steak of general merchandise,
was destroyed by fire last night at
about 8 o’clock. Partly Insured witli
Messrs. Ed E. Wight & Co. Loss
about$2,800. No clue ns to tile origin
of the fire.
The work of numbering the houses
is not moving along as smoothly ns Is
desirable, and it seems like sometime
may elapse before letters can be ad
dressed to Albanians in regular city
style.
Mr. Shropshire, who has the work in
charge, said to a reporter of the Hkii
ald tills morning:
"I am getting along very slowly
with the work of putting up the num
bers on the residences, because 1 Iiave
not been provided with a map of the
city, without which It Is very difilcult
to keep the numbers straight. At
present I urn working on Pine street,
and have had a great deal of trouble
with its numbers.
“There are some twenty-four hun
dred labels to be placed, and if I could
get along without being delayed, the
whole town would be numbered in two
weeks.’’
Let us hope that Mr. Shropshire will
be provided with a map, so thnt the
work he Is engaged In may be speedily
finished.
HOT WEATHER.
Itoiv II Mnka Us Ad null Feel.
tion)—Well, from your description he
ought to make a first-class private de-
ective.
Two more stars will now decorate
tbe United States flag, and geographies
of ’93 will read forty-six States In
stead pf forty-four.
Savannah’s cotton reoelpts up to
date this year are 1,001,211 bales.
Turkic is no necessity for injecting
national politics Into local politics.
Madam Christink Nilsson has a
hobby for collecting fniiB. Tier collec
tion is valued at $50,000.
A Bnby'a Feet*
Fmm the C'hiougn Inter Ocean.
There is no getting away from the
fellows who are determined to en
throne, scientifically speaking, the
monkey as the prototype of the human
speoies. A Dr. Eouis Robinson, who
(has madea saorileglous study of in
fant anatomy, flings baby footprints
into our faces as Irrefutable evidence
that tlie unpoetie and irreveeent Dar
win wns right In deriving man from
the ape. In a provokingly knowing
way this English dootor, whom the
Nineteenth Century has taken up, de
clares that the study of comparative
anatomy informs us “that the human
foot is historically a climbing organ,
which has become adapted by the pres
sure of changed environment for lo
comotion on the ground,” and that tlie
design indicated by a study of the
bones, musoles, and tendons is plainly
to the purpose of climbing trees rather
than that of walking or running on
terra flrmn.
The evidence ndduced iti support of
this monstrous theory is so logically
precise that we lose patience with Dr.
Robinson and refuse to answer him.
He argues from the premise that na
ture creates nothing without a pur
pose, and thnt certain muscles iu the
human -foot, though now vestigial,
merely indicate conclusively a time
when the prehensile machinery was
serviceably in use. Heredity pre.
serves the evidence against us, despite
the thousands of years since we quit
climbing trees, because any part that
has been slowly and thoroughly bred
into the animal economy to preserve
the race from extinction tends to be
perpetuated almost indefinitely unless
its continued existence becomes inju
rious.
That is tlie scientific mode of escape
from the arguments of those who hold
to tlie theory thattlie foot of man was
in the beginning nn earth-treading
structure. DiBuse has spoiled the
primitive machinery of the foot and
even permitted a new process of bone
development to become established;
but if we will examine the foot of a
newly-born infant we will find, this
irritating doctor'assures us, that it is
oovered with lines of a character ex
actly similar to those on the hand, the
creases showing that they are “the
natural folding places of the integu
ment to facilitate the action of grasp
ing.” And lie splotches up a whole
page with imprints of an alleged baby
foot to demonstrate tbe conclusion.
These lines began to disappear as
the child takes to walking, liabltovcr-
comlng the testimony of heredity until
at the age of 2 years the child bears in
the lines of his foot scarcely a visible
sign of his simian ancestor. It is said
that “out of the mouths of babes cometh
wisdom,” but Dr. Robinson is the first
man to squeeze comfort and encour
agement for Darwinians out of
baby’s feet. What would he have?
Nature gives the baby’s foot tbe move
ments to strengthen the foot for use.
Because a baby kicks at a very early
age is it to be said his ancestor was a
mule?
Summer weather affects all the hu
man raoe who feel Its.power in pretty
much the Bame way.
As soon ns warm wenther has gotten
well under way, everybody begins to
feel lazy, drowsy nnd utterly unfit for
work. The heat seems to affeot us as
nn opiate would, nnd causes u» to lose
Interest In everything going on,
The merolmnt nnd his clerks either
sit In the shade in front of the store,
or lie down on a counter or dry goods
box nnd wntoli the flies chase one an
other across the ociling.
At licmc the ladles’ chief delight is
to swing lazily to and fro in a ham
mock and rend some new novel, or
sleep away tlie houra in a cool, up-
stnlrs room.
The smnll boy spends Ills spare
hours splashing nround In the river,
where he cun ooinbine things so ns to
keep clean, paBS away time and keep
uool. This is an enviable privilege
that the small boy enjoys, while it is
denied his seniors.
The Negro either mopes lazily about
his duties, or rushes hurriedly through
them, in order to lay down in the
shade nnd rest. The dumb animals,
too, seem to Iiave tlie lnfeot!on nnd the
most fiery of them merely pricks up
his ears at whnt would ordinarily
make him rim away.
And through it all, base ball is the
only thing thatexoltes more than pnss-,
ing Interest. That la nil. the rage, and
the mere mention of a'game of ball
will oolieot a orowd of enthusiasts in a
jiffy. Base ball alone is “In it.”
Pkachks are not such a rare sight in
the market ns they were a week ngo.
ADVERTISED I.EXTERN.
Out
,1 TV,,,
List of letters remaining in the post-
office at Albany, Ga., for the week
ending June 8, 1892. If not onlled
for in fifteen dnys will'be sent to the
Dead Letter office:
A—Miss Mill Als, Gooden Adams.
B—Jim Bailey, John Bateman, Ida
Baker, Mrs. Martha Bell, Carr!
Butler, T. Bunch.
C—Soipieo Campbell, Silas Carter,
Mrs. A. E. Chandler, Georgia
Clark, E. W. Clark, Fait Coach
man.
F—Billy Fulwood, Mary Fanesbore,
Abu Freemound.
G—Butler Gilbert, Annie B. Green.
HSusie Hayes, Ilnirty Holt, Mrs.
Einzzeny Hatcher, Harter Hnrri-
son, Biissle Howard, A. C, Holmes,
Mariah Hutto.
K—John W. Kelly.
L—Ella Wille Elaines.
M—Geo. Marsh, Ella Martin, Jas. A.
McLendon, Rosceaner McDonald.
N—Mattie Nlcholby.
O—Mrs. Annie Odom.
P—John H. Porter, Mrs. Abbie Pow
ers,
H—Charley Rich.
S—Euln Savage, Lizzie Smith, Clcnly
Smith, Geo. II. Spencer, J. 1).
Stewart.
T—Laura Tatum, Pinkie Tulmer,
Eliza Teasley.
W—Plemou Wallace, A. N. Walker, G.
E. Wasner, Sarah Woden, B. C.
Williams, Emma Williams,Thomas
Winters.
In calling for above letters please
say “advertised” and give date.
B. F. Brimrkrry. P. M.
On account of the prevalence of in
temperance among the men in Ilol-
land, says the New York Sun, women
have been employed at railroad
swltohes with great success. Not an
accident has oceurred since the wo
men were installed in their unique
office. If the precedent becomes es
tablished that a sober woman is
more valuable servant than a tipsy
man, there wilt be n great revolution
in the industrial world.
Plenty of Evlilt-ure In .
Where Cold Win On«
The legends of lost
wealth in Pima coi
numberless, and it
fully added, generally
old timers can toll of them
and a few persons liavo
glittering evidences in col
tlio wonderful tales relucts
with superstitious dread of
quonces of their perfidy by
peruuiiuuted Indians mid Moxii
That tho precioUB metals wi
on a gigantic scale in the di
many remaining evidences i.l
covered fully verify, yet tho
tion of those that chance Inis
line seldom proved flnanciall
ful. Old arrastres covered
cay of ceuturieB, and crude
furnaces that have almost ret
tlio dusty destiny of all matter,
industries once in aotlve operai
history and even aboriginal
fail to mention.
Some of the traditions told
fairy tales, and one, liowevor
cannot but become deeply ini
their recital. As a sample of
plausible, well authenticated
treraely seductive narratives,
loted by Charles O. Brown, of
may be received with interest.
Speaking of old mines,"
Brown,"! have spent a good di
time and mouey in hunting
and one mlno was actual" *
I can go to it any timo.
Silver Boll countvy I can tako
mountain so full of tunnels a
that, if they were in good -
you could travel through all i
and not rench the end.
A number of old timers
it, and, judging from
done there so long ugo, t
that a great mine of some 1
isted there; which had liki
ed out. Many times
and though its wulls, roof and
carefully scanned olid
suit, while showing some
couraging, assays showing’
up to several dollars per
■Many years ago I tnlki
Pap.igo Indian, with
very friendly terms, hm
tended him little favors,
and sllvor mines. In a
donee ho told me that
S ears ago, when he was i
oy, the Indians at San Nu'
made weekly trips to a'"'
mine. On Saturday ni| '
with tho products
priest in charge of the
small tablo in front of
With a white cloth,
bus toilers p
igs to tho chi
•‘This table was often
golden nuggets,
pea to one’s fist, and
After the usual sorvi
descend, und
precious piece he
name of the doni
call them forward to
bleteing of heaven.
Monday they would
march in a northwe
tho mines, and for a
was repeated, uni
driven out of tlio
abandoned
“The old Indian
with the miners,
beaten trail
try, nnd he u,.. r
Ho agreed to show
out of curiosity I
one day.
mine I have s|
country, and
tain gulch the
of the mountal
a shaft there,
bushes, out of
taken. The
ns the old Indi
use had filled up the
nearly full.
“On returning
not be found,
was not met for sevi
said he did not di
the white peopl
ho did not show
Spirit would toko
white man lmd
show it.
"I visited the
the work neo
shaft was too great
to undertake, and
touched.”—Arizona
On one occn
son had hired a :
house, in order I
there, and duri
of the artist, ]
the honors to si
friends. -
Ho was standing i
an unannounced
pearance. and of (
with her, greeting
other arrivals.
•:01i, I beg yonri
ed, "but, please, sir, ]
Barrett asked me to
pictures."
“And 1 am very f
turned Mr. Bri
courtesy. “Take
show yon round.”-
It seems to be Rudyard Kipling’s
intention to make bis home in Ameri
ca. The State of Vermont’and the
oity of Philadelphia both claim him as
a future resident. Many people won
der what inducement the United
States can offer to a man who has so
long used this country as a target for
his sarcasm and abuse. One would
naturally think that he would wish to
Albany is outgrowing all the other shake tbe dust or it off his feet
towns in Southwest Georgia. good and all.
A Chinese 1
On Nov, 28, 1880,1
Ng A Soo fell from
storied house, a c'
enty feet. Eer i
several places and t
incnce was deeply
to kill anybody, <
best, to induce
bitofitt Inc
left tho hospital, 1
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