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' . v.. ■' . -S.-- 1 '' • , . - ALBANV WEEKLY HERALD: SATURDAY, JUNE 18, 1892. h ; >.„. A KTIRMIU) MASK. The Dwrlltnn* if Rln. A. B. AlkUn KHtl Mr. A. A. Knmttrr Burned. The town was alarmed by the clang- clang of the big tire bell at about X o’clock a. m. Tuesday, and those who turned out witnessed the most de structive Are that we have had in Al bany for some time. The dwellings of Mrs. A. K. Atkin son and Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Rumney were destroyed. These houses stood together on Pine street, between Washington and Jaok- son, in the very heart of the oity, and made a Are that imperiled a good deal of other property for a time. The Are originated in the stove room of Mrs. Atkinson’s premises, and soon spread to the main building and to Mr. Rumney’s house adjoining. The main buildings were of brick, but nil the attachments and outhouses were of wood. The Hremen found it diAloult to reach the Are alter it got into the main buildings, and both houses were pretty well gutted. 11 y hard and well directed work on the part of the department, the tailor shop of Mr. Rumney. which stood out. some tlfteen feet from his house, was saved, but nothing else on his lot or Mrs. Atkinson’s escaped. Mrs. Atkinson had $2,000 insurance on her dwelling and attachments, and $500 on furniture, with Molntosh & Lockett, and the loss falls upon the Northern Assurance Company. Mr. Rumney had no insurance at all. It took good work upon the part of the lire department to save the old oity market building now used by Eagle No. 2 and Lightning llook and Ladder companies. It stood only a few feet from the outhouses in the renr of Mr. Rumney's dwelling. Godwin & Son’s livery stable, aoross Pine street from the burning build ings, and the cottage belonging to Capt. Jno. A. Davis nnd occupied by Mr. H. H. Savage and family, Just West of Mrs. Atkinson’s, were in great danger from the shower of sparks that fell upon them during the progress of the Are. The roof of Capt. Davis’ house caught, on Are onoe, but the blaze was promptly extinguished. The usual criticisms and the expres sion of conAlcting opinions on the work of the Are department can be heard on the streets to-day, but any one who will visit the scene of the Are can see that some mighty good work was done by somebody. BON. C. B. WOOTEN. ThomasvlUe Tlmo8-Entoi*prl.e. Hon. C. B. Wooten, of Albany, passed through the city Sunday. He was en route for Suwanee Springs, Fla. Col. Wooten's physicians had ordered a change of climate and water. A reporter met the candidate for Congress from the Second on the train. “Col. Wooten, does your card to the Albany Herald mean an Indirect withdrawal from the race?" he was asked. ' • “It does not,” lie replied. "I hope soon to enter the campaign actively. Physically, I have been in the past and am at present, unable to prosecute the race as the situation demands. I ain sorry that while the campaign is on that I am forced to leave the district, but hope I shall return re cuperated and ready for work. How ever, as stated in my card to the IIeb- ald, I do not wish my friends to con sider my personal interest or ambition, but do what they think best for the interest of the party.” Col. Wooten says his return will be governed by his improvement. The platform adopted at the Repub lican convention at Minneapolis and tho re-nominatjon of Harrison resur rect the force bill, and that measure of Republican hate and iniquity is now held threateningly over the South. And while the Republican party is trying to impose this measure upon the country, there are white men in the South who are deserting the Dem ocratic party and allying themselves with the Third Party. They had as well turn Republican. Death •( Capt* J* ItI. Rouse. Worth county lost one of her best citizens Wednesday morning. Capt. James M. Rouse, whoso illness was reported in the IIkiiai.o a short time ago, died at his home in Warwick this morning. A few weeks ago one of Capt. Rouse’s feet had to be amputated. He came to Albany during the last March Assem bly of the Georgia Chautauqua, and after his return home one of his feet became badly InAamedfrom the effects of wearing a pair of tight shoes. Gangrene or blood poison Anally set in, and the offending member had to be amputated. The fact of his being an old man made his case a hard one for the physicians to manage from the begin ning, and he never rallied from the prostration that followed the amputa tion of his foot. Capt. Rouse was well known throughout this part of the State, and was a man who possessed the cond- dence and esteem of ail who knew him. He represented his county in the Legislature a good many years ago, and was elected to the State Sen ate from the Tenth Senatorial district in 1882. After the Fire. “Yea, the house is gone, Sue. ThU blackened and burned and empty shell is not our home; it is only the oorpse of our once pleasant home. There, there, dry your tears. We have each other, and can life seem quite at a standstill so long as we meet together its ills? Dry your tears, wife of my heart, ami take my hand while I help you over this pile of half-burned tim bers. Beware where you step—this was the door opening Into our snug sitting-room. Every night when I came in, weary from the day’s labor, it was always with a thrill of pleasure at my heart that I stood a moment at this entrance to feast my eyes on the scene of quiet, cherry, home-like comfort that I saw. Now the wind will sough and sigh around these charred boards that onoe marked the entrance to an earthly paradise; the sun nnd the rain will beat upon the Aoor, nnd now— there, there, cease your sobbing. Has not the good God above us been witli us always before in pleasure and in pain? Then lie won’t desert us now when in old age we are left with no child to care for us and no roof over our heads. Dry your eyes, clear, we have nothing to fear. “See, Sue, that corner over there has been spnred by the tlnmes. Oh, iny heart, it was twenty years ago that a tiny white coAIn stood justoverthere— a coAin that held the promise of a life dear to us. The clouds seemed very heavy and the way very dark then. And tliere, in that same corner, stood, yenrs Inter, another long and narrow box that held all that was earthly of our second child—aiur bright, promis ing boy. And there, too, stood Mary, when she plighted her trotli to the husband that carried her far away from the hearts that rejoiced at her happiness wtiile they bled at the thought of the long, lonesome. hours before them. Ah I dear heart, did the Aerce Annies know of ail the human joys and sorrows thnt that old corner has witnessed when they spared its timbers to remind us of the pleasure and pain of dayB gone by? “There, then, cease your orylng- cease your crying, and be glad tbat the daughter in the distant grave had not this sorrow of ours to add to hers. Be glad that none but two old hearts that have seen life in its happy antici pations, some of its pleasurable, and muoh, much of its dread realiza tions, are left to mourn over what comes now. -Come, dear, we have stayed long enough. Let us leave this scene of ruin and desolation. “See these poor, soorolied Aowers that always nodded so Joyously over the pathway from the ‘gate. Dear, burnt daisies! “Look back, Sue. See how the set ting sun clothes the jagged, blackened timbers with n rosy, softening light. Thus will God’s meroy and love en fold a life wrecked and burned with sin or with sorrow. “Good-bye, old home—safe refuge of halt' a life time, good-bye!" ADVERTISED LETTERS. FOUR PARTIED. List of letters remaining in the post- office at Albany, Ga., for the week ending June lli, 1892. It not called for in Afteen days will be sent to the Dead Letter oAlce: B—Miss Sallie Bilow, A. M. & M. M- Black, Luceale Bond, Mary Burns, George Brown. C—Hester Olark, Anna Cirlin, John C. Chase. D—Susan J. Deas, Mrs Leethy Dur ham. F—Sam Fields, Israel Fowtcr, George Franklin. G—Mrs. S. T. Greene, E. L. Guest, Pnul Geary. II—James A. Hays (2), .Tannic Ilark- ness, Miss Mary Hall, Miss Nanah Headn, Martin Henry, Miss E. R. Holmes, J. A. Humphrey. I—W. M. Ingram. J—Mrs. Oliver Jackson, Eliznbetli Jackson, Geo. Jackson, Henry Jefferson, Joe Jeffers, Eliza Jones, Mrs. Sophia Johnson. L—Anner Belle Laine, A. H. Lands, Math Lang. M—Allen Marche), D. A. Manley, J. McCoy, VV. L. Mize S. Co., Arreen Miller, B. B. Mosely, Mrs. Mattie Mongen, Isaiah Monroe. N—S. F. New. P—Tom Pearson, John Paster, Mrs. Ellen Price. Q—Kit Quiinby. R—Pinkie Randolph, Mary Rawson, Haiie Roberson. S—Lizzie Smith. T—Pinkie Talnions, Pattei Lee Tay. lor, Susan Thomas, Nellie Thomas, Grandison Thomas, Ellen Thomp son, Oliver Toney. W—Mollie Walker,.Johannnli Warren, Tom Washington, Elias Williams, Sialles W/shington,Henry Wooten, Leu World. In calling for above letters please say “advertised” and give date. B. F. Brimhkkky, P. M. Melon Shipment*. From Thurwhiy's Kvkntnc Hkhai.ii. There was a slight falling off in the loads of melons that went through Al bany to-day, from yesterday’s ship, ment. The Southwestern division of the Central railway reported 45 cars for yesterday and 82 for to-day. The total shipments to date have been 188 cars, of which the Northern and West ern cities have received the greater number. Cincinnati has had the lion’s share thus far, haring received 18 car loads. Bargains on all lines of goods this week at Hofmayer <fc Jones’. We now have four separate and dis- tinct political parties in the Second Congressional district—the Demo cratic, the Republican, the Alliance and the Third or People's Party. There are those who will stoutly deny that the Alliance ia a political party unto and within itself, and will undertake to support such denial witli the claim that the Alliance is doing its work inside tho Demooratio party and running its candidate for Con gress subject to the Demooratio nomi nation, but this claim will hold good only in those counties where the Alli ance machine has got control of the Democratic party organization. Ami such proscription and intoler ance! Wherever the Alliance is in the majority nono but Alllanoemen need apply. Suoli arrogant intoler ance has never before been witnessed in our politics ns has been exhibited by the Alliance In such counties ns Terrell, Randolph, Worth, Decatur and Thomas. Men who have been loyal Democrats all tlieir lives and have grown gray in tho faithful ser vice of the party in every conffict with tile common enemy, are proscribed and relegnted to the rear unless they belong to the Alliance and yield to its demands without regard for Demo cratic creed, platform of principles or party usage. Men who are Democrats in princi ple nnd on purpose, naturally look upon an oath-bound seoret organiza tion that seeks to control the party of their ohoice, with ail its snored mem ories that belong to the experience of the last thirty years In the South, with disfavor, nnd will not submit to hav ing the creed and demands of that party made secondary to those of such secret organization. Turn and twist It as you may, the effect of the Alliance organization in tills Congressional district will be to either control or destroy the Demo cratic party. Many Alliancemen are beginning to realize this truly serious state of affairs, and will not hesitate when the time eomes, as come it Inev itably will, to choose between the Al- lianee, which is now nothing more nor less thun a political party with its candidate in the field, nnd the Demo cratic party of their fathers. The Herald has never had any fault to And with the Alliance as an agrl- cultural and industrial organization. As suchit has bad our good wishes, and we have sympathized with it in many of Its demands and especially in its warfare upon monopolies; but we be lieve that the sober, thinking men of the order will agree with us when we say that the organization of the Dls. trict Alliance for political purposes in the Second Congressional district 1ms already proven to have been a great mistake. The Demooratio party is the white man’s party in the South. This is es pecially true here in the Second dis trict, and is made so by circumstances which we cannot control and con. ditions that cannot be removed, and It is not only unwise, but dangerous to society and tho best interests of our section, State and county for Demo crats to ally themselves withany party, order or movement that tends to pre ate division in the Democratic ranks or whose interests or demands are made primary to Democratic rule. AmV.lL REUNION Of the Fourth Oeorgla Regiment of Cou. federate Velerune. Tliu annual reunion of the Fourth Regiment of Confederate Veterans will be held this year at Jeffersonville, and the following letter received to day by Mayor W. II. Gilbert will be of especial interest to the survivors of that gallant old command who read the Hkhalu. The Fourth Regiment were given the name of “Jorees" when they Arst went out on account of the peculiar style of their coats, which fact is men tioned here for the information of those who may not “catch on” to the reference made to “Jorees’- in thin let ter: June 14, ld92, Mr. W. H. Gilbert: Dear Sib—’Your letter came in due time to the undersigned, and we say to you that the Arst Wednesday in July is the day that was set and agreed upon for our association of veterans to meet at Jeffersonville. Therefore you Will give the matter to the public, that there maynot .be any misunder standing. We, the citizens of Twiggs, are fuiJy awake, and will try to do all in our power to make our old brethren enjoy themselves. We want to Ihow you a full nest of “Jorees” on that oc casion that is not afraid to scratch anything from a grasshopper up to a lizzard. Come one, come all. Respect fully yours, Sim Th^iif. GOOD INTEREST ON A DOLLAR. lawyer** lUturn to n Brother Who 1M<1 lllm » Smell Fnvor, Senator Suwyer, of Wisconsin, ac cumulated an immense fortune in the lumber regions of the northwest. Ho left New York state comparative ly a poor boy. witli $200 in his pocket, which he earned by working on a farm. His brother was then a well to do farmor in his nativo state. As ,’oung Sawyer was bidding farowell lis brother asked him how much money ho had to begin life with in the west. “I've got $199 in my pocket," said the senator of tho future. His brother gave him a dollar to make it an oven $200. A few years ago Senator Sawyer, returning from a visit to Europe, stopped at. his brother's house in New York state to spend a week amid the scenes of his youth. He noticed a cloud on his brother’s face. One evening at supper tho senator cas ually inquired into his fortunes, and before tho conversation closed devel oped tho fact that he was troubled over some outstanding notes. They were not exactly pressing, hut as a thrifty fanner and a conscientious man generally they troubled him. By adroit questioning tho senator ascertained the amount of each noto and the name of tho holder. The next morning at breakfast he said to his brother: •‘I want to uso your horse and bug gy today to take a drive over the country and call on some of my friends. But I go alone.” The horse and buggy were got ready, and away wont tho eccentric old senator. They were sitting together that evening after supper, when out of his inside coat pocket the senator drew a small package of papers and banded them to his brother. They were the notes, representing an aggregate of $1,300. He had paid and taken them up. His brother was at first dumfound- ed. Still he woe not averse to the senator’s course. The notes had been scattered among three or four men. In the senator's bunds they were all together, and then the senator was his brother, and it was only natural that ho should prefer him as his cred itor. “Now, you make out a note for the whole amount, and I will Becure it," he said. “When I went west," said the sen ator, looking up at the border of the wall paper, “you gave me a dollar to make up the $200 with which I began life for myself. Probably you have forgotten it, but 1 never forget a financial transaction. Every dollar I took west earned $1,450. The notes I topk up today were for only $1,300, and so, instead of being in my debt, I still-owe you $1B0. Here it is.” And he handed him the amount in crisp bank notes already counted.— St. Louis Olobe-Democrat. A Dragging Match. A Parisian paper relates the fol lowing story of a contest in boasting which, it says, took place between three artists. “My dear,” said one of the artists, “yesterday I painted a pine board in imitation of marble, and did it with such fidelity that when the board was put into a pond of water it sunk like a stone.” "PoohI" said the second; “that is nothing. Yesterday I happened to hang up my thermometer on the back of the frame of my‘Viewrin the Artie Regions,’ and the mercury instantly went down to 20 degs. be low zero." “All that is nothing zt ail," said the third artist. “You know my portrait of the old Marquis of Cam- argne? Well, it is so lifelike that it has to be shaved three time a week. ’’ PlioijpItRtei In Food. A deal of rubbish has been written about phosphates in food. What is certain is this, however, that in the finest qualities of flour, from which tho best bread is made, there is a slight deficiency in phosphate of cal cium. The outer portion of the grain contains more phosphate than the inner part. Somebody has printed that “the quantity of phosphate of calcium contained in living beings is proportioned to their activity,” hut whether this activity is a physical or mental one is not mentioned. It does seem that the phosphates in food do not go to make bono entirely, but are used in other parts of the human economy.—New York Times. Cue of Books. A lover of books will always take good care of them. He never holds the book by the corner of tho cover, never turns down leaves, never lays Hie book down open, either with the face downward or on its hack, and never breaks the binding by opening the book too forcibly. He turns the leaves one by one, taking 'great care not to soil or tear them, and uses the volume gently. It makes no differ ence if the book be cheap or worn, he always handles it gently.—Jew ish Messenger. The Horse Liked Wood. Stranger (anxiously)—I left, my horse tied here to your post, and now he’s gone. What became of him ? Mr. Wayback (reflectively)—I dun- no for sure; but from the way that horse o’ youm was ehawin at my post I shouldn’t wonder if he’d eaten it up an gone off ter bunt another.— Good Nows. A REMINISCENCE OP WILD BILL. HIs Feet In Killing Two Men Who Hud Pistols Leveled at Him. Among the prominent citizens of Hayes City in the last days of Kan sas railroad building was "Wild Bill" (William Hickok), who bad been a serviceable pcout in Hie Union army along the Arkansas border during the war. Bill came to Hayes City with the prestige of having killed nine men, unassisted, who had cor ralled him during the war intent upon hid death. Ho, too, had fol lowed “the K. P.” railroad along every inch of its construction from Manhattan. His personal appearance and tho complexion of his white han dled revolvers had bocomo quite fa miliar all along the rood, and espe cially at Abilene, during its days us th» terminus of the Texas cuttle drive, whore, as city marshal, there was never a cowboy who got "tho drop" on Bill. Wild Bill in those days was "the Slade" of western Kansas, the man who Mark Twain says in "Roughing It” wns respected in Nevada for hav ing “killed his man.” In physique, as tho writer remembers him, lie wus as perfect a specimen of inunhood as evor walked in moccasins or wore a pair of cavalry boots, and Bill was a dandy at times in attire—a regular frontier dudo. He stood about 3 feet 2 inebes toll, bod a lithe waist and loins, broad shoulders, small feet, bony and supple hnnds, with taper ing fingers, quick to feel the cards or pull the trigger of a revolver. His hair was auburn in hue, of tho tint brightened but not reddened by the sunlight. He lmd a clean, clear cut face, clean shaven, except a thin, drooping, sandy brown mustache, which he wore and twirled with no success, even in getting an upward twist at either end. Brown haired as he was, he had clear gray eyes. He hud a splendid countenance, amiable in look, hut firm withal. HIb luxuriant growth of hair fell in ring lets over his nhoulders. There wus nothing in liis appearance to betoken the dead shot and froquent murderer —except his tread. He walked like a tiger, and aroused, ho woo aa fero cious and pitiless as one. Bill’s means of livelihood at the time ho was in Hayes City went un- S [uestioned, and there is no reason or agitating the subject at this late day. As “a killer,’’ however, Bill put himself on record very shortly after coming to Hayes City. His first exploit was a double shot, a right and loft fuBiUade. The writer witnessed the affair. J ’wo men come out of Tom Drum’s oon, and walked toward the newly built depot, surrounded by a raised platform. Each man had a pistol drawn, when suddenly from a group of four or five "crack I crack I” went two pistol shots and Wild Bill stood on the edge of the platform with a smoking bone handled revolver in each hand, and the two men who hail been approaching the platform were seen to totter, stumble forward and fall. Death was instantaneous in each cose, as if Jove had hurled a bolt at the men. A row over cards the night before caused tho double death and a double funeral as soon os the corpses could he prepared for inter ment.—St. Louis Republic. Nol.jr Toucan 1. I know no fowls of the air which more admirably typify in their own persons the effects of a foreetine tropical fruit eating life than the gorgeous toucans. Their big bill en ables them to reach out from afar at fruits as they sit at their ease on the trees that bear them, and to toss them off at a gulp in a large and airy manner that is very characteristic of all the whole-swallowing fruit eat ers. They are gregarious and so ciable birds, to a great extent organ ized into a fixed community; for they make common cause against enemies, such os owls and falcons, whom they surround and mob with ono accord after the fashion of all dominant races, os rooks do in England. Having thus little need for protec tion, they ore noisy and clamorous in their native woods, resembling in all these respects the other gregari ous fruit eaters, like parrots and monkeys. Cn short, they display for us in full perfection the free, demo cratic, fearless, open and gossipy life naturally engendered in tropical sur roundings among powerful and so cial frugivorous species.—Cornhill ATTKiarrKD assakki A Negra on Ike llrrou Fines ! in Red A.leep. Bill Williams, a Negro v out on Mrs. V. 1. Bennett’s plnoe, in the Oaky Woods, li.-ul call Monday night. He oaine to town this morn repairs, nnd was suffering effects of two pistol shots. Dr. Strother extraoted one ball Negro’s arm; and found the o the pooket of Ills shirt, where lodged after passing thr breast. It entered the breast, the breast-bone' nnd glanced, out at the left side, lodged 1 pocket of his shirt, where tin: !: found it. Williams says that he waB in asleep when he was shot, and would-be assassin Ared on him ernok near the bed. He not to know who Bliot him, 1 ia supposed to be a woman in 1 Blelan Mhipnirnl*. Finm Wedm-Mlny’. Kvknino Hkhald, Forty-Ave oar loads of melons shipped through Albany ove Southwestern division of tho C railroad to-day and yesterdny. makes n total of 1R7 oars over t to dnte. The shipments, bo far, been very well distributed, OF leading with IB cars, and A tin Ing next with 12 cars, while N leans, St. Louis and Chiongo tin 10 oars eaoh. Mrs. F. R. Sweat can furnish accommodation to a few table 1 For rates apply at 1BU Pino sti Baptist oburoh. About Mocioir Woman. The soolety woman is a orea ways muoh abused. Her tire fascination for young girls, tile woman herself Is held up of strong disapproval by fond Shots always eyed askance actions talked of with wise of tho hoad by the steady, jiri of the oburoh. But she them all to her shrine in » approval. In faot, soolety 1 among the most wondorfui the world, though they 1 oounted among the idle mid buttorliios of life, A writer in a recent issue azino for women says of their oxtravagant little likings give to the workers impetus in deslf perfecting the various and employment In 1 designs. But the remarkable I species of woman is, wears, or what she does, remembers! In tho variably remembers your hobby, if you after your last book, poem; your sick baby, your new bonnet or bn care u pin about It,but it and you like It. And how she can retail at the proper moment y name, face and inter tho emancipated womn is, or the poet about the remarkable part, she does it witli no and never seems to thin nt all witli tho fr her stylish bonnet, of social success is to self love,” and it is a gr woman who excels In it intelligence nor genius. NOUT’IIKItNKll* Tim *<> j®a&aafca _ Tho Judge Liked the Weed. A judge in one of the mountain districts told the sheriff to call in John Riddlespiker Lochinvar Hanks. The sheriff, after almost dislocating his jaw over this euphonious title, finally ushered Mr. J. R. L. Hanks into the courtroom and up to the judge's stand. “What is it. your honor?” said Mr. Hanks. “Ah,” said the judge, rubbing his hands, “I only wanted to ask you for a chew of that excellent tobacco you gave me yesterday." ■ He got it.—Dalton (Ga,) Citizen. A Lmm. for Papa. Little Pet—I dess those biscuits mamma made was dest wight, wasn’t they? Papa—Yes, they were delicious. Little Pet—I didn’t try zem, but I knew zay was. Papar—You did? How? Littte Pet—You didn’t Bay a word about zem.-Good News. We can understand for the people of the N their prejudices against sppak evil ot this seat; matter of surprise, to In- regret, that any of our should be willing to len to tho polioy of tlie Rep to slander and denounce political purposes. Yet there are those !» who are quite as re old cry of “Southern ou most ignorant and prej haters at the North. Of course it is all fo but it is strange that found in the South mean unprincipled enough to cry of slander against tion ithd people. At Minneapolis last lowing hand-bill was d the Republican couventl “NOTICE. “Men.of the North the true statement of the the colored people South. “speeches a “lion. Frederick I Pledger, Prof. B. B.) Wimbish, J. C.MoHe also other, prominent- the South, at Windom ton and Second nv~~ June 9. “In order tot meet hall, *&c., there will fee of 25 cents char - "Committee—A. R. Morris, Z. Thomas, M. B. Mo N. H. Johnson. F Pledger, the other Soutb-sian oept Fred and from held to an