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ALBANY WEEKLY HERALD: SATURDAY", AUGUST 20, 1892.
2 ML1EX WALL.
JA NtMgNlAr Accident to n Bronti Street
Storey CntMcd bj- the Xlcarr Rnlnfnll.
“The corner of your building lias
caved in 1”
This was the astonishing announce
ment made by Mr. Wm. Ganns to,
Messrs. Greer & Floyed, the Broad
street nieroliaiits, Wednesday after
noon.
Hastening to the scene of the acci
dent these gentlemen found his asser
tion more than verified.
The northwest corner of their brick
building located on the Broad street
and Court House Avenue had fallen
outwards, lenyinga gaping rent in the
wall about twelve feet in width, and
extending to tile oelling of the npnrt-
ment. The guttering had fallen with
the debris and a perfect stream of
water was pouring down upon tile
mass of wreckage.
Mr. Ganus, the gunsmith, who was
sitting in Ins doorway watching the
ram at about 8 p. m., heard a slight
rattling noise, uml, thinking it was the
lightning striking some of the tele
phone wires, started out to see the re
sult. He was astonished to find that
the corner of the adjoining brick
building hnd fallen. A large window
was among the wreckage. It was torn
bodily out from the building and the
crooking ol’ the blinds ns they fell was
the only noise lie hoards But two
panes of glass were broken in the
fnllen sash.
The noise was not heard by any per
son in the store. The injured build
ing was a large brick room which was
erected some four years ago ns an ad
dition to the store and a portion of the
foundation was built over an old cis
tern. A gutter emptied at the corner
of the building, anil the constant flow
must have loosened the earth below
the foundation, causing it to give way.
The cistern arch lias also fallen in,
showing this old-fashioned reservoir,
'some twenty feet in depth and circum
ference, partly lllled with water,
Other (portions of this room appear
ready to fall, the wnll being badly frac
tured, the thick brink walls being sim
ply held together by beam" and sills.
Messrs. Greer & Floyed will at once
E roceed to repair this damage, and re-
ulld the damaged apartment in
more substantial manner.
J. A. SIMh.—Dentist.
THE INQUISITION.
AN INSTITUTION THAT EXISTED IN
SPAIN FOR GENERATIONS.
Its Victim, Are Numbered by Hundreds
of Thousumls—First, Directed Against
dews. Afterward Horatio Christians
Were Tortured and Killed.
J. G. CUTUFF.—Dentist.
W.T.KoHNS-Photographer, Albany.
Beautiful China Silks nt 89c., worth
76o. at HoKMAYKn & Jonhs’.
A Howard Is Offered.
Gov. Northen lias authorized the Sec.
retary of State to offer a reward of
♦250 for the arrest and delivery of
Julius Spikes, the murderer of Marshal
Huff, to the sheriif of Terrell county
It has been announced several times
that Spikes had been captured, but'
each time it seems that it was the
wrong man and Spikes is still at large.
The reward will put diligent parties
on the lookout for the Negro.
I'm it Growing.
Horticulture is in its'lnfanoy in this
section, but promises to become one of
our leading and most remunerative in
dustries. With soil and climate as fa
vorable as those to be found on the
sunny slopes of Italy or the south of
France, fruit attains to great perfec
tion here.
Tilts year our growers have not ex
perienced very satisfactory returns, as
a general thing, from fruit shipments,
They attribute their lack of success to
■want of experience in packing and
shipping, the extreme warmth and
heavy rains during the shipping sea-
son, and, above all, to the greed of the
commission merchants and many glut
ted markets where fruit sold at a sac
riflce.
Wisdom will be gained by experi
ence, and our fruit growers will even
tually reap rich rewards for their la,
bor.
ADVERTISED LETTERS.
List of letters remaining in the post-
office at Albany, Ga., for the week
ending August 17,1892. If not called
for in fifteen days will be sent to the
Dead Letter office:
B—Miss Isabella Berry, Mrs. Mana
Brown, Miss Patsy Brown, Miss
Vina Brown, Miss Lula Brown
Miss Lula Burer.
C—Miss Minnie Carter.
D—Miss Anna May Daniel, R. G. Dunn
& Co., Miss Nancy Punier, Miss
Margaret Dykes.
F—C. A. Frctwcll.
G—Mrs. A. S. Gray, Nelson Glardin
II—Miss Amy Ilarten, Miss Nancy
Haywood, Miss Sue Hawkins, II
H. Holder.
J—Miss Roser Jackson, Miss Sarah
Jackson, Mr. Love James, Miss
Rosen J. Jeures, Lee Jones, Tommy
Johnson, Miss Parlen Johnson
Miss Sarah Johnson.
I,—Henry Lowe.
M—Miss Ella McGunn.
N—John Nelson. ■
P—Dock Parks, F. Pride.
R—Grise Reynolds, Columbus Rich
artson.
S—James Simmons, Ransomo Shaw
M. W. Smith.
T—Mrs. M. E. Thompson.
W—James Ware, Augustus Walters,
C. M. Williams, Miss Belle Wise 2,
Hardy Wood 2, Sam Wright.
Y—Master Charlie Young.
In calling for above letters please
say “advertised” and give date.
B. F. Brimbekry, P. M.
Perhaps those who have accused Chris
topher Columbus of narrow, sectarian
bigotry uucl of cruelty have not suffi
ciently taken finto account tho spirit of
the age in which he livod. The intol
erance, the bigotry und the merciless
cruelty of that time aro sufficiently illus
trated in that most monstrous of institu
tions, the Spanish inquisition,
Wlmt is called the modern inquisition
was established in Spain under tho reign
of Ferdinand and Isabella—sovereigns
who possessed many of the elements of
greatness, and who certainly brought
Spain to a high position among the na
tions of tho world. Yet it was under
the reign of these two sovereigns that
the monstrous inquisition was estab
lished.
This inquisition consisted of a com
mission consisting of soveral judges,
whose duty it was to hunt out heretics
and punish them. The primary object
of tlio inquisition was to extirpate
every trace of heterodoxy, and make a
land where none but tho orthodox could
live, it succeeded in its attempt, but
the history of its proceedings fur
nishes one of the moat bloody nar
ratives to which tho race 1ms evor lis
tened.
Thu attention of the inquisition was
first directed against tho Jews, This
thrifty race of poople then, ns now,
were conspicuous for tlioir financial im
portance. In tho course of time many
Christians became their debtors, and it
is probable that tho desire to escape
those just debts frequently occasioned
the seizure of these unfortunate Jews
for heresy. The Christian not only did
not feel it incumbent upon himself to
pay liis debts to heretics, but even all
their property was confiscated.
These heretics could bo accnsod anony
mously, and it was not considered neces
sary to bring the accused and tho ac
cuser face to face. Tho accused heretic
was seized without warning, convoyed
to tlie chambers of tho inquisition and
rigidly kept from all intercourse with
tho outside world. No rolative or friend
to condolo with him or to advise him
was permitted to como into his presence.
He was kept in ignorance of the charge
upon which he was incarcerated. Coun
sel was allowed him, but this was a mere
formality, for this counsel was not al
lowed to confer with him.
If tho prisoner refused to confess his
guilt, or was caught in evasions or con
tradictions, he was conveyed to tho tor
ture chamber, where he was submitted
to the intenseBt agony which it is pos
sible for human nerves to sustain.
Doubtless many innocent men declared
themselves guilty under this exquisite
torture in order to escape the terrible
agony. Indeed dcatli was preferable to
the torment.
The evidence upon which the heretics
were convicted seems to us entirely in
sufficient. “The presumptive proofs,"
says Prescott, “by which the charge of
Judaism was established against the ac
cused aro so curious that a few of thorn
may deserve notice. It was considered
a good evidence of the fact if the pris
oner wore better clothes or cleaner linen
on the Jewish Sabbath than on other
days of the week; if he had no
fire in his house tho preceding even
ing; if he sat at table with Jews,
or ato the meat of animals slaugh
tered by their hnnds, or drank 11
certain beverngo held in much estima
tion by them; if lie washed a corpse in
warm water, or when dying turned his
face to the wall; or, finully, if he gave
Hebrew names to his children—a pro
vision most whimsically cruel, since, by
a law of Henry H, he was prohibited
under severe penalties from giving them
Christian names. He must have found
it difficult to extricate himself from the
horns of this dilemma.”
If the accused was found guilty, as he
usually was, he was led forth in great
ceremonial state, accompanied by a pro
cession of high ecclesiastics, submitted
to revolting insnlts and ignominionsly
burned fct the Btake.
While Torquemada was inquisitor
general, a period of eighteen years, over
10.000 heretics were burned at the stake,
nearly 7,000 burned in effigy and almost
100.000 subjected to heavy and igno
minious penalties. This makes an av
erage of over 0,000 persons annually.
The inquisition was at first directed
against Jews, but afterward against
heretic Christians themselves. It con
tinued its awful work through many
generations, and its unfortunate victims
were numbered by the hundred thou
sand,
The present degradation and degener
acy of Spain is due to this cause more
than any other. Wherever fetters are
put upon the human mind tho race de
cays, shrivels and degonerates. Wher
ever freedom of thought is prohibited a
race of intellectual pygmies must neces
sarily result. Humanity progresses
through the influence of original minds,
which do not think along the accepted
lines of thought. This order of men it
is which leads the world up to ever
higher and higher conceptions, to higher
and higher planes of living. It was this
kind of men that tho Spanish inquisi
tion could find no better use for than
burning at tho stake.
So all the noblest thinkers of Spain
were burned, alj her original thinkers
were either killed or suppressed and
only commonplace minds, which ac
cepted existing standards witnout in
vestigation and without thought, were
spared. It is no wonder that Spain
dropped into an intellectual lethargy
from which she has never revived. The
inquisition was one of the most colossal
mistakes in all history.—S. Wattcrson
Ford in Yankee Blade.
HAD TO GIVE IT AWAY.
Hurry Found tho Ksperlonoo Too Doll-
Uelouo to Keep to UtpiHelf.
An old east Boston bachelor lives
with his housekeeper in n pretty little
house .with an L on Maverick street.
One day during a hot spell be had
company, consisting of his married
sister and her two sons, who came to
spend the day.
They remained and spent the
night. Harry, the elder of the two
boys, was assigned to sleep with his
uncle, and Joe was to sleep with his
mother in tho spare bed —that is, if
Bleep wore a possible thing.
All vetired about half past 10
o’clock, and after tossing and floun
dering around in his bed for an hour
or two, the old man, not being used
to 11 bedfellow, turned to his nephew
and said;
“Harry, 1 can’t stand tills any
longer; lot us slip out on the roof of
the L; it will bo so nice and cool out
there."
Suiting the action to his words,
the old gentleman got up, and slip
ping on a pair of slippers stepped
through the open window to the
roof, his nephew following suit.
When slightly cooled off Harry be
gan to look around and soon ospled a
long wooden beam running from the
end of the roof to the end of the
house.
"I’m going to set up there on that
beam, uncle," he cried.
When he had reached the desired
position he said to his uncle:
“You’re missing it, uncle; tho
■wind comes over the roof of tho
house In a fine breeze, and you can’t
feel the least bit of it down there."
Tho idea of a cool breeze was too
much for the old man, and with
great difficulty, owing to his flowing
nightdress, he managed to get as
triile of the beam.
Tho wind did feel good, and the
old bachelor felt fully repaid for the
trouble of climbing up.
Presently the sound of someone
whispering was heard by the two on
tlie beam, and they strained their
earn.
“Oh, uncle, it is some women over
in that window,” whispered Harry,
pointing to a window in the back of
the house next to the L.
The old man looked and great
beads of perspiration stood out on
his body as he saw dimly outlined in
the black of the window no less than
three unmistakably feminine faces.
What could he do? There they
stood, wildly gesticulating to each
other and evidently, from their ac
tions, taking himself and Harry for
ghosts.
With a hurried caution to his
nephew to be motionless the old gen
tleman tightened his hold on the
beam and remained rigid, hoping
that something might induce the
watchers to leave the window. For
fully twenty minutes he remained
thus, and then one of the faces dis
appeared and in a few seconds re
turned re-enforced by several others.
At the sight of the additional faces
the old gentleman’s fear overcame
his well formed plan of sitting out
the patience of the women, and with
"I can’t stand this any longer” he
flopped off the beam to the roof and
then into the open window, followed
more nimbly by Harry.
He was almost ashamed to appear
on the street next day, and innumer
able were the cautions Harry re
ceived not to give the joke away,
but in “a moment of forgetfulness"
Harry told.—Boston Herald.
A HARMONICON FIEND.
now Ho ( l<'li>urlnlieil for n Scm*on, but
W»» 8|)«nyml by 4 Girl.
It is a peculiarity of tho hnraoni-
con habit that it deadens its victims
to the rights of others. It is esti
mated that only ono person in every
million, outside of tlie victim of the
disease, enjoys the alloged “music”
of the liarmouicon. Yet it may be
noticed by an observant porson that
a hnrmonicon fiend will throw all
tho force of his invariably robust
nature into playing “chunes” every
time he gets into a street car.
One of tho outlaws boarded a Third
avenue elevated train at One Hun
dred and Twenty-ninth street ono
evening recently and promptly began
“entertaining" the other passengers.
An elderly man, after enduring the
evident ngony for awhilo, remarked,
“Young man, will you please desist?
That noise is very annoying."
“Noise I" roared tho fiend. "You
don’t know nothing about music.
Well, I ain’t ’er goin ter stop. Soo :"
Jho elderly man evidently realized
that further remonstrance was vain
and said nothing. At tho next sta
tion a well dressed young man, ac
companied by a lady, boarded tho
train, and at once both of tlio new
passongors began showing annoyance
at the noise, which prevented tlio
continuance of their conversation.
The young man filially appoaled to
tho trainguard to stop the racket
made by the liannonicon, and called
attention to the fact that soveral pas
songors had been driven from tlio car.
Tho guard cast n seven pound look of
scorn upon the complaining passon-
ger and remarked: “Why, lie ain’t
doing no harm. Ho only wants to be
a little bit socinblelike.”
Other passengers also appealed to
tho guard, but with no hotter result.
At lust^the young man apjiroachod
tho fiend and said: “My friend, that
may bo very sweet music to you, but
the other passengers prefer less noise.
Won’t you please stop it?" Thofiond
grew as angry as though one of his
constitutional privileges was at
tacked, and addressed profano lan
guage to the man, loud enough for
all of the passengers to hear, and
then resumed his campaign of tor
ture.
Tlie passengers were very angry,
but did not care to get into what
promised to be a fight with the fiend.
Over in the corner of the oar sat a
girl about sixteen years old and by
no means robust. She seomed to
pay but? little attention to tho contro
versy. When the other passengers
settled themselves down to endure
the torture as best they could the
girl got up and walked over to the
harmonicon fiend.
“I ban lick any man myself who
has no more sense than to try to
drive people crazy with such a racket
as you make," she said to the fiend,
and before he hod recovered from
his astonishment she grabbed the
harmonicon and hurled it through
an open window and then resumed
her seat in the comer. And that
young, would be “bully" shrivoled
up in his seat till he was scarcely
visible, and did not utter a word of
protest even. When the girl left the
train every passenger applauded her
with their hands and some cheered
in addition. She evidently knows
what harmonicon fiends are made of.
—New York Recorder.
Xe Dlnrrlnge n Pnllurrf
Hare you been trying to get the best
out of existence without health In
your family? Have yon been wearing
out your life from the effects of Dys
pepsia, Liver Complaint ami Indiges
tion? Are you sleepless nt night?
Do you awake in the morning feeling
languid, with conted tongue and sal
low, haggard looks? Don’t do it. A
shout tn the camp tells how Aunt
Fanny’s Health Restorer 1ms mired
others; it will cure yon. Trial pack
age free. Large size 60o, at J. R,
deGraffeuried <& Co.
' I
An Interesting Indian Legend.
A curious Indian logend was told
to some people way out in Omaha by
a full blooded Sioux, who lives at
Pine Ridge agency.
He said the belief was that every
time a new moon appeared it was a
signal for all the mice in the country
to gathgr themselves together in one
spot. When they assembled they
then separated into four great ar
mies. One army went to the north,
another to the south, a third to the
east and a fourth to the west These
armies of mice traveled until they
reached the point where, from the
place of starting, tho heavens seemed
to touch the earth. Then they
climbed up the sky until they came
to the moon, which by this time was
what we coll full.
All of the four armies then com
menced nibbling at Luna, and when
they had eaten her all up the mice
would scamper bock down the
heavens to the earth and wait for her
to show herself again, when the
journey and the nibbling would be
repeated by the mice; and this is
what the Indians of early days be
lieved was the cause of the moon
growing old and finally disappear
ing. — Goldthwaite’s Geographical
Magazine.
Ho Let* tlie Tailor Whistle.
Cobble—Widner is the strangest fel
low about some things. He wears a
twenty-five cent necktie with a fifty dol
lar suit and thinks he is saving money.
Stone—Well he does, doesn’t he?
Cobble—I don’t see how.
Stone—He has to pay for the necktie.
—Clothier and Furnisher.
Thoughtless Characterization.
Many a man is called a corker by his
convivial friends, when, as a matter of
fact, lie is mainly an uncorker.—Phila
delphia Press.
No man can question the Democracy
or the loyalty of Hon. O. B. Stevens
to the Democratic party organization
now.
Proof Positive That Girls Like Antiques.
Nothing more plainly illustrates
that the girl of tho period is partial
to things antique than her persistent
fondness for the long trained skirt.
It is foundon investigation that this
abominable costume was invented
first in England by Anne, queen of
Richard H, nearly 600 years • ago.
This was probably the first Btreet
cleaning apparatus to be invented,
This same queen should also be
blamed for the large hats, those of
abnormal size, with great flaring
brims. Intimate relatives of our the
ater bonnets now in voguo. Surely
this estimable woman had much to
be responsible for.—Chicago Herald.
When It Balned Toad*.
There are soveral instances on rec
ord of the fall of live insects, ser
pents and animals from the clouds—
in short, instances when it has liter
ally “rained" such creatures. At
Lyons, France, in 1606, “it rained
for a goodly spell toads of the big
ness of a man’s hand, and the stench
from them some days later was in
tolerable.” At Limerick, Ireland, in
1827, Wyatt records “a shower of
small, live toads." As late as June,
1888, there was such a “shower” at
Wickford, R. I., when thousands of
lively little.toads tumbled down dur
ing tho prevalence of a thunder
storm.—St. Louis Republic.
Ancient Superstition..
The ancients peopled all distant lands
with monsters and all distant seaS with
horrors. Unknown and distant coun
tries wore, to their superstition, peopled
with “gorgons, hydras and chimeras
dire." Tho distant seas were filled with
monstrous dragons and serpents, of
which the sea serpent is today, perhaps,
a survival. Tlio unknown oceans were
filled with whirlpools that sucked in
mariners, who were sacrilegious enough
to approach them, to an awful death.
Perhaps these superstitions, as mnch
as any one thing, kept the world for so
many centuries an unexplored and un
known waste.—Yankee Blade.
Fulton county’s six legislative can
didates meet in joint debate on Au
gust 25th to discuss the merits of their
respective platforms and records..
SALE 1H $TMW tylS,,
STRAWS
Show the way tlie wind blows, hut they
don’t show what laird blows we have
been striking nt Straw Hat prices. You
can have them
Nothing tends more to the advancement
of any enterprise than doing what
is to be done in a correct and
BUSINESS m
We work for the interest and pleasure
of our customers just as sincerely as for
our own behalf. It is a fact that our
Steady Increase
in business is entirely due to the low
prices and our endeavor to satisfy
those who favor us. No one
Will Refuse
to acknowledge that, taking into con
sideration square and honest weight"
and ineasurea, pure, reliable gooda, ant
our
Fronpinsss ii DM
THIS WEEK
that they save, always, a good per cent,
by their trading witli us.
amt every other week until tiiey are
gone AT COST,
And when we say cost we meau it.
We cut tlie
Prices Docun
WE INVITE A TRI
from those who wish to decrease
monthly accounts, believing we
compllah all we claim.
Very Truly,
because we want to cut our atock down.
Our Summer Underwear is in the
SAME BOAT
Our complete stock of Underwear at
cost Now is the time to buy a straw
hat; ’tls just hot enough, and August is
tlie correct month to wear one.
CALL AND SEE THEM.
MDSE & COX.
-AND OUR-
90 BROAD ST.
Uib are Mi
That they are saving more mon
purchasing their good from us, <
invite others to take advantage
low prices, and they will also '
customers.
SEE HERE, LADIES! oor sales increase d
Preparatory to removing from our
present quarters to the store owned by
Mrs. M. A. Randall, on Broad street, we
will sell our entire stock of
MILLINERY
AT NEW YORK COST.
We have in atock all the latest styles
in Millinery and Faicy Goods. Don’t
buy elsewhere until yon have seen and
priced our goods.
MAX CASSEL S SISTER.
rohis
THE PALACE SALOON
WASHINGTON STREET,
Under New Management,
We are underselling ail of our
petitors in all grades of
can and do save our customers
15 to 25 per cent, on all goods
purchase from us. Call and be
vlnced, and compare our
prices with other merchants’ and
will be compelled to trade wit
your own interest.
We still continue to give i
which entitle you to 6 per cent,
your cash purchases. This :
inducement for cash trade.
OUR STOCK
MORRIS ROSENTHAL
Respectfully announces to his friends
and the public generally that he how has
charge of the Palace Saloon, on Wash
ington street, and will keep always on
hand the
Finest of Wises, Liquors, Cigars, Etc,
■ BILLIARD AND FOOL TABLES.
LUNCHES at all hours. Warm lunch
to ou customers daily from io to 12
o’clock.
We study to please, and gentlemen can
always find something good to eat, drink
and smoke at the Palace Saloon. Call
oil us. MORRIS ROSENTHAL,
inyu-.tni Manager.
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Imported Black Hosi
RECEIVED.
100 doz. Ladies’ Fast Blaok
25c, worth 50c.
50 doz. Gent’s Fast Black )4 Hose
25c, worth 50o.
25 doz. Boys’ Fast Blaok Hose, 6-“
25c, worth 60o.
50 doz. Misses’ Fast Blaok Hose, 6
10c, worth 20c.
All these goods we warrant n
smut or fade.
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