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MBHHHBjj 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. ggg^ggigggl 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. gl ,;<yga