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■;:i : '^Pw’rn^ /■ ALBANV WEEKtV HERALD: SATURDAY, JULY a, 1892. : , DROWNED. A NBOMO BOV KTBICKKK WITH CHAMP AH Dro.ru* While Ilnlhina la a I’nud ee the Keatea Plaee Tn-Dnr* A NKiV CAPTAIN, Mr. B. K. Smith la Char|e of the • Mleaaier “Cllf al Albnujr.” "Bolsy Wallace, sonof John Wallace, •was drowned, in a pond out on the Keaton place at noon Tuesday. He was In bathing with some other ’boys, and took cramp in his limbs and :sank out of sight and was lost before tils companions realized that he was in meed of help. The body was recovered soon after the boy was drowned, and his arms were drawn and perfectly stiff from tfche effeots of the fatal cramp. The unfortunate boy was twelve or fourteen years old, and lived with Ills grandfather, Mose Wallace, the well* "known one-legged mnu who peddles •ohiekens and eggs. The old man was In the city when the news of the boy’s death readied him, and his walls of grief were piti ful. A Picture ef the Third Purtv. There Is a photographic cartoon In the oigar case in the offloe of the Al bany Inn that ought to make the per son who got it up Immortal. It’s title is, “The Third Party Marc’s Nest.” Standing on the shore of the rolling •sea—and It looks like It might bo the •dead sea—a mule is represented. The heavens are o’ercnst with blaokness and the ground seems boggy and un even. The solitary beast is merely a raok of bones, covered with a hide that can’t hide the hide-bound condition of the rickety structure, and there are large, clean spaces of skin where no hair appears. A pair of large, slecpy- iooklng spectacles are over the eyes, and a long corncob pipe lends enchant ment to the hungry looking mouth. One foot is encased in a very dilapi dated boot, another in a broken oream pitcher, and the tail that has been cut off close to the root has had its place supplied by a flag bearing the stars and stripes. An ugly looking revolver is stuck in a slit of the sorry hide, and an umbrella that was new years ago is tied to one leg. To another leg is chained a sad looking cur dog, that looks in vain for a bit to eat. And Inst of all, seated complacently on the poor mule’s baok, Is a happy-looking turkey of the buzzard species, that signifi cantly holds a fork in one olaw, and is patiently waiting ’till the decaying specimen on which it is seated gives its last gasp and goes the way of its predecessors, Into . Adlai Stevenson’s onreer Is being looked up by Republican spies who Are in need of Campaign matter. Rut they fail to find any Haw in his ohar- .acter as a man of honor and worker for the public good. The Republican politicians at the North would be glad enough to see the force bill In operation and havethe South Africanized, but the conserva tive business men will not vote for the candidate of any party that is commit ted to such an outrage. Another instance of where the bl- chloiide of gold remedy proved fatal has come to notice. It is in the case cf Henry Drayton, of New York, cousin of J. Coleman Drayton, of llor rowc scandal fame. He died in Wash ington Friday evening from an over dose of the “gold cure.” Near Valley Forge, l’ennsylvauia, an old oak tree was recently chopped down on which was found about six feet from the ground, this legend: “G, W., Continental Army.” The inscrip tion was two inohes from the surface, underneath the bark, and it is believed was placed there with a knife by George Washington when he wintered at the Forge during the Revolutionary War. A lki'kr who had been confined in tile county house at Lima, Pn., slipped away and Indulged in drunken spree on Saturday last. Naturally he was given right of way as soon as his identity became known and a muscular blacksmith of Chester Pa., who undertook to take hold of the man was badly bitten by him. Reports rot lepers in different parts of the coun try who are allowed to associate with otter people are getting too frequent ,to give one a comfortable feeling. A movement is on foot to have the future inaugural addresses delivered from the west front of the Capitol Congress lias appropriated $1,260,000 to build a terrace on the western front of the buildlngiSO that that side will pre sent less of a back door appearance. It js argued that the President, in deliv ering his Inaugural address, should turn his face toward the great mass of the people that have elected hint, in stead of standing on the east terrace of the Capitol with his back turned on the great empire that he represents. Maybe he ought, but this seems more like a foolish whim gratified to the tune of over a million dollars. A writer recently undertook to show that what is called geuius is merely a form of insanity, or the in tellect warped into a particular direc tion. H this be so, it is best to keep 1 an eye on those men who have shown such marked genius in party organi zation. For several days past the Herald has been hearing rumors of a split be tween Capt. M. H. Rouse and the own ers and directors of the steamer City of Albany. It will be remembered that the Her ald published, about ten days ago, a telegram whluh came from Capt.Rouse at Bainbrldge, in which the steamer was reported disabled. Later Capt. Rouse oame and had a conference with the directors and reported that the boat would have to be taken to the dry dooks at Apalaoblcpla and overhauled; that it was leaking so badly that he had to keep the pumps running all the time to keep the boat from sinking, and that he feared nothing short of a new bottom would put it in good re pair. Meantime the directors had sent Mr. Bolly Hall down to Bainbrldge to in vestigate, and upon his arrival there he was greatly surprised to find that the boat had gone off up the river after a load of naval stores, instead of being tied up as lie had expected. And it nppears that the boat lias been running right along ever since. O11 Saturday the directors sent Mr. Bolly Hall baok to Bainbrldge with in structions and full authority to take such steps for the protection of the in terests of the owners of the boat as he might deem best after further investi gation. Mr. Hall evidently concluded that Capt. Rouse was either incompetent or had acted in bad faith with the owners of the boat, for ho put Mr. B. K. Smith, of this olty, in command of the craft and told him to go to work with It. For the present the boat will con tinue to run in the lower river, where there is good business for It just now, nnd later It will probably come baok to Albany and resume her former schedule between this olty nnd Bain bridge. . om of jrnil. News reached here Wednesday that Barney White, one of the lynchers of old man Nix, in Mitchell county, broke jail last night and made his escape. Mitchell county has n new jail, too, run explanation of cle V* LAND’S STBENUTII. IT WAS NO FAKE. BOIMV WALLACE WAS BBOWNBD ON THE KEATON PLACE 1 VSSTEHD.IV, Anil the Pitiful Walls of OM Mna Mose, Wore Wnlls of Uenolae Morrow, All of us seem to understand some things better now than wc did before the Democratic convention at Chicago was held, and all loyal Democrats are united in support of the ticket. But what was the true cause under- lying the demand that went up from every section of the country for the nomination of Grover Cleveland? What was It that made Mr. Cleveland seem the natural oandidate to turn to, for every delegation that found the nomination of a “favorite son” Impos sible? “What," asks the New York Gazette, “lias so endeared Mr. Cleve land to,the party led by him to defeat four, years ago? What has given liiin In Ills private station Ills tinapproacli. nble popularity, while other states men, sound and tried Democrats, have been at the front, In position t-o take advantage of every new opportunity for distinction—without an olllco 111 his gift, with all the obloquy cast on his former administration by those who failed to get office yet unremoved without any superficial graces of line presence, ready wit and courtly de meaner? Those who teach that deni ocracles are fickle, and especially those who delight in ventilating pleasing fictions nbout the ‘unappeasable bun ger for spoils’ and ‘hunger for free silver’ which they affect to find In our party, should ponder well.” And then proceeding to answer its own queries, the Gazette says: “Is there any escape from the conclusion that Cleveland lias the standing he lias because he pre eminently represents private and pub lic integrity? Defeat easily kills the mere self-seeker; the man sustaining and sustained by principle rises from it unscathed.” The editorial columns of the es teemed Thomasville News of yesterday were devoted entirely to the Herald and articles from this paper. A few days ago the News addressed some pointed questions to the Herald, and we endeavored to answer them, but the answer doesn’t seem to suit Editor Winter, and he comes at us with more Interrogatories. We like to aid those who are seemingly honestly trying to pass from a--state of darkness into world of light, but there must be limit to all things. To keep up with Editor Winter in all bis verbosity in the discussion of Second district politics would force us to bring out a supplement. Our esteemed neighbor is evidently very unhappy with the yoke of the Alliance political machine about bis neck, but wc don see wlmt more we can say to him than we have said until he gives some evi deuce of sincere repentance. The hydrographic bureau at Wash ington for two years lias been trying to learn something of the character istics of the Atlantic ocean as a great moving.body of water by means of bottles. As a result the whole Atlan Yesterday’s Evening Herald re ported the drowning of a Negro boy, Bolsy Wallace, on the Keaton plaoe, at about noon yesterday, and Incidentally alluded to the faot that the wails of grief that went up from old man Mose Wallace, the grandfather of the drowned boy, who was in the city when the news of the drowning reached him, were pitiful. And all of this was true. It Is true that the boy was drowned, and that the “pitiful walls” of his old grand father, with whom he lived, were gen uine. And yet the News and Advertlserof this morning oame out with a “four, decker” denounolng the whole tljlng as a “fake.” It deolares after “Invest! gating the matter” that no boy was drowned, and that Mose’s lamentations were due to the effeots of too tnuob whisky, and that he feigned grief over an imaginary death merely to “escape the clutohes of the polloe." Our morning contemporary devotes half a column or more to exposing a “fake" that was not a fake, and to spoiling a “good sensation," that was not a sensation, in the sense it would have the publio believe. It was a gen uine item of news as reported by the Herald. Several persons called on the Her ald this morning to furnish proof of the reality of the reported drowning and of the correctness of our report, Mr. J. S. Whiddon, from whom we got the particulars, and who brought the news to old man Mose, being among them. Mr. Whiddon had been out to ills plantation, and, while he did not see the body of the boy, drove within a hundred yards of the pond In whioh he was drowned, and was hailed by some of the Negroes who had just re covered the body, and was requested to carry the sad newB to old man Mose. Mr. Love Wilder Informed us that he sold a coffin to the boy’s father, John Wallace, and showed us a writ ten order for It from Carter & Wool- folk. Grandlson Winn, the oolored County Coroner, informed us that he had been out to the Keaton plaoe and seen tlie body of the drowned boy, and that he wns “aho’ dead,” but no Inquest was deemed necessary after inquiring Into the clrouipstanoes. No; this was no fake. The Hebald doesn’t deal in fakes. Upon the con trary, It has broken up the “fake” business in looal journalism, whioh was being so extensively worked on the people of the community for a year or more previous to the commence ment of the publication of this paper, TALK OF NORWOOD Ah a Possible Third P.’lr Candidal*. The Atlanta Constitution of to-day prints the following. The IIiIrald doesn’t take much stock in it, for It believes Mr. Norwood to be n Demo crat; but we publish the story for what it is worth: The Third Party people are talking nbout nominating Hon. Thomas M Norwood for Governor. It comes pretty straight from Col. Peek, one of the controlling spirits in the Third Party, that the ex-Senator will he their oandidate. “Mr. Norwood’s famous book, “Plu tocraoy,” brought him to the attention of the Third Party people, very much as Ignatius Donnelly was brought for ward by his book, “Caesar’s Column.' The position of both, men wit-li refer ence to the labor movement Is unique and striking, and Mr. Norwood’s is hnrdly less so than that of the erratic Shakespearenn student. His book and his pliillippics on the old leaders made him a prominent figure before the Al Iiance Legislature when Gen. Gordon had to fight so hard for the Senator- ship. From his contributions to tho press it would not be surprising to see him accept the Third Party nomina tion. Financial relief on the line of the Third Party movement has oecu pied the ex-Senator’s serious thoughts, and lie worked out tils theories so as to embody them In a plan for legislative reform. It was got the sub-treasury scheme, but was evidently Intended to be the “something better,” to which the Alliancemen constantly referred With Mr. Norwood and Torn Watson on tliu stump and the ex-Senator'^ caustic pen In workingorder, the com Ing campaign will be anything but tame. The result of the Third Party nomination;will be awaited within terest, The bl-cliloride of gold cure is get ting into trouble. The Indianapolis News tells of Mr. J. J. Brooks,,a well- known attorney of Memphis, Tenn, who died at the Southern Bi-Chloride of Gold Institute last Thursday. The first hypodermic injection of bi-chlo- ride of gold made him a raving maniac, and it required four strong attendants to prevent him from injuring the other inmates. Thursday night he THE PREACHER 8LIPPED HI8 HOLD. Banged If Be Didn’t Believe Re and Drowned the Denr Old Soul. A Newton county local Methodist preacher, who worlra for himself during the week and labors for the Lord on Sundays, was called upon to baptize an old lady by immersion. He tried his best to get Brother Bridges and other preachers to do the work, but failed, so he went forth in search of a good plaoe, and found a washed out hole of calm water in a spring branch, but was forced to cross a shallow run of tho river in order to get to the branch. Tho main run of the river was too swift for baptismal purposes, because the old lady was too heavy and clumsy to hold against the current. The banks of both streams were lined with people, and aa the mourn ful melody of a “Hark from the tomb” song went over hill and dale the preacher proudly led the happy Bister to the water's edge, and as her feet oame in contact with the warm river water she exclaimed, “Oh, how nice this sweet water feels," “I thought to myself," said the preach er, ‘Old lady, when you strike that hole in the spring branch you’ll change your tune.’” And report said she did, for when theoold water began to dose around her she went to piecee, as it were, for her form trembled and her teeth chattered, while the preacher showed that he was freezing about the body, no mat ter how warm he felt around the heart. At this point his foot struck a log in the hole, and he ‘‘got on it with both feet, "in order to have a leverage, so as to let the old lady down and bring her up Bafely, while his brother stood by her side to aid him if necessary. Everything was now ready and the minister began, ‘‘I baptize thee I” and both feet flew out from under him, ns the log was round and slick, and sister and preacher disappeared un der the water, the log diving them; but in a moment both came up and the brother caught the sister by tho hand and led her gently to the bank, while the preacher wiped the water from his eyes and ears with a red handkerchief and looked up and down the branch to see what hod be come of the old woman. As he be held her Bhouting on the shore and shaking hands with the multitude who thought that the baptism hail been administered according to the custom of the Scriptures, be raised both of his own hands and exclaimed ‘‘The Lord be praised, for yonder she is safe and alive on land. The fact is, Hawkins, ”■ said the tender hearted preacher, “hang me if 1 didn’t believe for the time being that I had drowned instead of baptized the dear old soul. ’’—Covington Enter prise. ' Why a Hnlloil Lobator Is Bod. In all crustaceans, as, indeed, in almost everything in nature, there is a certain per cent, of iron. Upon boiling, the lobster is oxidized; the effect is largely due also to the per centage of muriatio acid whioh exists naturally in the shell. The chemi cal change which takes place here Is almost similar to that which occurs in the burning of a brick. In boil ing a lobster its coat ceases to be a living substance, and to a certain ex tent it takes a new character. It is as a brick would be after burn ing. This effect con also be produced by the sun, but necessarily not so rapidly, as the heat of that luminary, although more intense, is not con centrated .sufficiently to produco the result. The sun also exercises bleaching influence which consumes the oxide almost as fast as it formed, leaving the shell white, or nearly pure lime.—Gloucester Times. tie is shown to be slowly circulating round ami round, like, an enormous | displayed all the symptoms of hydo- pool. phobia and died In convulsions. A Vuluabls Cares... A poor peasant in a village of the Odenwald fell into such reduced cir cumstances that he resolved to sell his only cow. He took the wretched and scraggy beast to tho butcher of the villago, who said ho could not give him more than sixty marks for it. So the peasant determined to slaughter the beast himself, and try to sell the meat among his neighbors. In the stomach of the cow he found seven gold coins of twenty marks each, too silver thalers and two small keys. The cow thus brought him double the sum which the butcher had offered for her. The cow must have swallowed a purse at some place or other, but where or when her owner could not guess.—London Tit-Bits. Prodigious Seaweed. “There is much that is wonderful to bo told about seaweeds,” said naturalist. ‘ 'Some of them are giants in size. One species, common in the North sea, frequently grows to the length of thirty or forty feet, devel oping in the shape of a long cord about the size of a quill, attached at one end to the bottom and the rest supported by the water. This is nothing, however, to tho prodigious ‘macrocystis,’which attain 1,600 feet in length. Another variety found in the tropics reaches a length of twenty- five or thirty feet, with a trunk os thick os a man's tliigh.”—Washing ton Star. Thumb Bins. In Queen Anna'. Tima. In' the days of Queen Anno the feminine thumb ring was tho badge of widowhood, and women tired of single blessedness were wont to don it, and as “jolly widows” achieve conquests denied to them as spin sters.—Irish Times. SWINDLED HIS OWN WIFE. B. Let Her Into . “New” Schama and Beat liar Out of Fifty Dollar.. It was a mean advantage to take of a weak, trusting little woman, and he knew it, but the fellow actually gloried in his utter depravity and shame. It all came about over one of thone startlingly realistio money making machines that you see in saloons and other places, and this is how it hap pened! He paid fifty cents for one, loaded it with ten new dollar bills, and, with malice in his heart, set coolly to work to “do” his weak little wife, who he knew had Borne money set aside for a cold day. When he reached his home he locked all the doors, closed all the window shutters, acted mysteriously, spoke in hoarse whispers, and of course his wife became interested. “Henry.’’ she gasped, “what’s the matter!” “H-u-s-h,” he said, with a stage shudder. But she would not hush. “You haven’t killed a man,” she whimpered. “Keep quiet, now,” he murmured, “and I’ll let you in on one of the big gest schemes ever struck.” And from an inner pocket he drew the infernal machine. And then the villain ground out half a dozen crisp new dollar bills. “But those are counterfeit, ”■ she said. "Counterfeit nothing,” ho con temptuously remarked. But she would not be convinced. She argued and he argued. He dared her to discover any difference between tho money he made and some she had. She said that she could not see any difference, but then, she said, she waa not an expert. “Now, I'll tell you," he said; and as he said it ho nover oven blushed. “This money is ns good os that turned out by Uncle film. All (hero is to it you must keep dead quiet about it. Don’t oven talk to yourself about it Bo as still as the yawning graveyard. Do not even think hard about it Now rll let you In." And he explained how the (1 machine cost $50, the $8 ones $100 and the $50 over $1,000, and so on. She hesitated—and was lost All night she thought it over. She woke him several times to bd assured that the scheme was all right. And in the morning sho allowed him to swindle her out of $60 that she had laid aside out of her pin money. He took the machine away with him, told her that.he had to keep it In a safe deposit vault and now he goes around telling his friends, with a chuckle, what a "“soft mark” his own little wife is on a “sure thing” deal.—Chicago Inter Ocean. Notbrjftty nnd Literature. Notoriety is in England so much considered a pass to commercial suc cess in authorship that if a man (who might never have tried his hand at literature before) oould manage to stand on his head on the point of Cleopatra’s needle for say twenty- four consecutive hours, ho would very probably be asked to write for some of the most important maga zines, and as probably would receive offers from enterprising publishers of books. In America he would be asked to undertake a series of lectures. In France, however, the "best he could hope for would be an engagement either as waiter in some brasserie' or cafe, or as a "number” in the pro gramme of the Folies-Bergeres. Lit erature in France is considered as much a metier, requiring training and apprenticeship, os the croft of the locksmith or the Jewe" Author. Why Our Women Fide. Many grievous reasons confront me as to “why our women fade,” but I shall touch upon only a few of the strongest I look at the many women of my acquaintance; I see lines on brows which can only he brought there by worry, and “worry" I take to be one of tho greatest foes to a woman’s youth. There are dolls to be sure, who never think, work or act; I do not here discuss such creatures, but woman in her voca tion as a sentient being. In this country, as in no other, do women have to struggle in the effort to keep up an appearance of great wealth' they do not possess.—Felicia Holt in Ladies’ Home JournaL Plant Lore* It was generally believed in Mans field, O., many years ago that the seeds of the Job's Tears (Coix lachry mal, if worn about the neck, would cure goiter. In Portland, Me., and Boston it is thought that children teething should wear a string of Job’s Tears. They are somewhat commonly sold for children to wear ■at this critical period in Philadelphia and Cambridge, while in Peabody, Mass., they are generally kept ‘for sole at the drugstores, not only for this purpose, but also as a prophylac tic against or cure for sore throat and diphtheria.—Folk Loro Journal. A Wonderful Hebrew Diamond. The Pontiff Aaron wore a diamond of astounding virtues. It became ob scure, almost black, when the He brews were in a state of mortal sin. If tho guilty deserved death : it be came red, but in tho presence of in nocence it came back to its original purity and brilliancy.—Paris Figaro. The New VerU Hun The New York Sun, In its is; the 24th Inst., flares on the from in fan simile the protest of the t ty-two New Yorkers against land’s nomination, wldeh wa seated to the recent Chicago c tlon. Then under the signntu Sun prints In large heavy type t lowing declaration t “Every the seventy-two signers of this 1 ordinary protest and warning Democrat, and every man of the s ty-two will now do his whole a loyal Democrat In tho battle i success of the Demooraoy of the I States.” On its editorial page the Sun I “double-leaded” leader whioh 1 the following! “There la one question depemlin the election of the next whioh in Its momentous impor and vita! imperativeness must s every philoaophio observer to every other politteal question th people are now oalled upon to mine.' » • • We mean the qu whether those Southern States have Inherited a Negro popu surpassing the number of their - citizens, shall, by t’ederal lav Federal military force, be sub the political domination til groea, to Negro legislature Governors, and Negro judges ii courts, or whether they shall to be governed by white men r • There will become mnvilli ness on the partnf a patriotic min among the Republicans, who v volt at the consequences of measure, but their opposition avail. The necessity of the will suppress all such rcsl foroe bill Is the first and the ine result of a sweeping Republic tory In November. On the "i her 1 and by the nature and neoesslt; ideas involved,the success moorsay is death to tho foree-h ect. Killed in tins election, never be revived. In tills vie content, what conscientious oan hesitate about his duty vote for the liberty and tin- - eminent of the Southern If the candidate) were tin- self, rather than consent to 1 tlon of respectabio Benjamin 1 with a foroe bill in his pocket TO.tA.HO nilOWINL TOE I Draws Experiment. Thnf Will, the New Or (leant f. INDSTINCT PRINT I - mssmaw A gentleman who lias serving eye on the vary 111 of the crops in Dough surrounding counties, in questions propounded b reporter, said yesterday portion to tho amount plant money expended, no crop such a profit ns the tobacco 1 Last winter, thequestlon 1 tobacco wan discussed at I; planters around Albany, oases it ended in talk, 11 of fnnnora preferred 1 railing of props that to, and take tile risk taken before rather Hi they-knew not of. However, those who v experiment find that, so f riment bids fair to turn 1 “The tobaocp crop, wii it in this part of C informant, “Is one of th islng crops there is.” Cotton merchants« price of cotton is until there Is gene throughout tlie country raised. Rut in the question of ing there docs not possibility of overli for, in the words of a j has traveled all throu States and given I able attention, “the ing tobacco in I which Southwest ( are so ntuoli greater t Virginia and the Ca it becomes a gem Georgia planters tlie raising of It, they . compete with us in I If this be true, and reason fqr placing informant, the outlook i of this vicinity is one. linked Biniusi 1 - South Americans say 1: are an excellent substiti They travel, fisb and 1 n banana diet. For meat, or unable to eat it weather nenfly all o do without it), il the baked banan cured, being 1 and requiring no'y for the table, oft", the jackets t fruit is washed. utes are needed for b placed upon tlie.ti “ and pno served of his usual They shot and biitte , proves the flav