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ALBANY WEEKLY HERALD: SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 3, 189*.
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SATURDAY, SEPT. 8, 1893.
Tiik Chilians have got the grip, nnd
the National Congress has had to ad
journ oo account of It.
Tom Watson, seems to have lost all
shame In politics and to have started
out to be a regular atinklng Jim.
Th» Tennr-see miners found that
General Carnes was made of very dif
ferent stnlf from Governor Buchanan.
Til BHITl'4Tf ON FAIKf.V BTATRD.
A ;;;
Connecticut tlila year happens to
be the leading peach State north of
Georgia. Her orop Is choice and large,
Fake stories from the Tennessee
riots are plentiful, but Georgians need
have no fear of au invasion from Ten
neasee miners.
Albany business men who have just
returned from New York soy that they
are betting lively In the metropolis on
Cleveland's election in November.
That European cholera scourge Is
getting to he serious, and It la almost
sure to cross the "pond.” All our epi
demic diseases Como from the East.
Tim Third Party In Georgia will
' peter nut before the election, unless
they get sonic abler leaders than Peek
and others who are trying to make the
campaign.
Tim patriots of the Nortb, Who are
giving themselves ao much trouble
•bout Hie Negro problem In the South,
bad better turn tliulr attention to the
labor question which surrounds them
at home.
Thk treasury department la getting
exceedingly louse In Ita methods. The
other day a stranger put a paokage of
money In Ilia pocket, which was not
discovered until he was outside the
door. It was recovered, however, and
was turned olf aa a joke.
Wk have an Idea that our good
brother Gunn,of the Oilthbcrt Liberal
..Enterprise, would feel much better
than he does over the whole business
If he could Juat shake hla linger at the
irxHAhD and say; In a fatlJky aort of
way, “I told you sol" Bnflta can’t.
Editor Dick Uhuhb, of 'the Darien
Gaaetto, will be elected to oarry the
Electoral vote of Georgia to Washing
ton, lie is s candidate for the honor,
and no man in the Stato Is more en
titled to It. Grubb la a Democrat on
purpose, and liss always done good
service for the party In III* part of the
State.
The Philadelphia Record has a sen
sible article on “The Situation In the
South,”’ in which the situation In this
section Is fairly stated as follows:
“At the close of the clvii war the total
debt of the States of Alabama, Arkan
sas, Georgls, Florida, North Carolina,
South Carolina, Texas, Virginia and
Tennessee amounted to $76,418,800.
At tile etid of six years of “Carpet Bag
Buie," during the period of “Recon
struction and Destruction,” the debt of
those States had swollen to $289,928,-
084. Of tbla enormous sum the greater
part was wasted or stolen, and the re
sult waaelther repudiation or finan
cial anarchy. Since the Southern
people have obtained control of tlielr
own governments, with the return of
industrial prosperity, a very consid
erable portion of this carpet bag debt
has been expunged, and the rest Is In
process of redemption.
In these figures lies the key to the
situation In the South. Thu Southern
people have no disposition to try or to
permit new political experiments that
threaten a restoration of Republican
rule among them. For this reason
they regard with Just apprehension
the coalition of the People’s Party with
the Republicans. Though many of
them have Inclined to favor a portion
of the programme of the Farmers’ Al
liance, they see in this coalition the
menace of a fresh regime of extrava
gance, waste* and corruption. Expe,
rlence has cost the Southern people
too mueh lo permit them to disregard
its lessons.”
THK ISKS2ISO IN POLITIC*.
Tub military spirit 4n Georgia has
nev«r been so rife nor resohed suoh a
high pitch slnoe the war as has been
manifest this year, and If suoh a war
as has been going on In the mining re
glon of Tennessee should break out In
this State Governor Northen would
not have to call twice for volunteers to
go to tin) front.'
EditorHowabd, of the Early County
Newt, la a patriot and a philosopher
aa well. Hear him: “When we calm
ly retrospect the severe drubbing
whloh we HteveUs men got in the Al
bany convention last week, the great
-eat, In fact the only consolation we,
have, la to feel that it was given us
for the good of the oountry and by aa
loyal Democrats aa we are.”
Tub census shows that there are
1,018,010 more females In the United
States than males. The proportion of
women to men seems to bo decreasing.
In eleven of the States and Territories
there la an exoess of women; In thirty-
seven there la an excess of men. This
la certainly a proof of faulty distribu
tion. aud those ambitious ladies who
are devoting themselves to the study
of eoonomlos might turn their atten
tion to Hading out a remedy.
Wanamakkb la making himself very
unpopular by hla refusal to comply
with the law to compensate letter car
riers for exoess work. Ble has found a
teohuloality in the bill whloh enables
him to avutd payment. The issue was
carried to the court of claims, whloh
deolded In favor of the employes, but
Wanamaker had it carried to the Su
premo Court, where it will be tied up
for at least three years. But the ques
tion la, what can the employes do In
.the meantime?
In hla Sparta Speeoh on Thursday
Tom Watson, according to the Atlanta
Constitution’s report, paid his respects
to Bid Lewis, as follows:
Watson had not spoken Iona before the great
majority of white, retired, leaving him speak*
Ing to a great audionoe of Negroes.
Mr. Watson began by stating Hint tic hnd
found Democratic linn ot all kinds. All kinds
of Has hnd been told upon him, but tho most in-
famous liar ol all was Sidney Lewis, ot the
Isbmselite. If tho contents of bis heart were
turned into hit stomach, he woald die of black
vomit la a few hottre. At this the crowd hooted
him, and cried: “Hurrah forSld Luvlst” The
Negroes sad a tow whites, however, hurrahed
for Wataon.
The Ishmaelite, always red-hot In
campaign 2tlmes, will doubtless be
‘ ' ver next week.
OUT OF THB AI.I.SANCSt.
Mr. W. O. Wsbss Can’t Stand Riling,
tan and Ike Drift nr Ike Alliance
Sale Third Partyleas.
There Is a good deal written in the
newspapers now about the Negro in
politics. It la the Republican organa,
however, that are giving themselves
the most concern about the Negro in
politlos. Here In Democratic Georgia
neither the Negro nor hla white friends
are giving themselves any trouble
about the Negro In politics. The truth
of the whole business la that the
Northern Republicans have com
menced to realize, after ao long a time,
that the Southern Democrats can con
trol more Negroes than the emmls-
aarles of the faithless “grand old
party" can, and that's just what pes
ters them now about the Negro in
politics.' The Negroes themselves are
beginning to learn from experience
who their beat and only real friends
are, and they are no longer the de
luded, willing dupes ot the carpet
baggers that they were when they
were being fooled by suoh promises
as the mythical “forty acres and a
mule."
MOW IT WOfiKB.
The cotton producers of the United
States sell their ootton In a free trade
market and then pay a protective
tariff of fifty per cent on nearly all the
ootton goods they buy.
Statistics sliuw that for tho Inst
fiscal year the exports of ootton fabrics
from the United States amounted In
value to $18,004,857, having fallen off
somewhat from the exports of the pre
vious year under the obstructive InflU'
ence uf im tariff. These exports con
sisted almost wholly of unaolored and
unbleaohed cotton cloths.
On the other hand, the Imports of
cotton goods during the year amounted
In valne to $28,828,720, and consisted
almost entirely of printed and painted
cloths, knit goods, laces, embroideries
and other articles of highly finished
production. Upon these Imports of
ootton goods American consumers
were obliged by the MoKinley tariff to
pay an average duty ot 50 per cent.
The effect of the Increased duty has
been to stimulate the efforts of foreign
manufacturers to produce artloles to
suit the tastes of this market. Upon
domestlo production of cotton goods
the tariff has Juat the opposite effect.
While every variety of fine ootton
goods comes in, none but coarse and
cheap cotton fabrics can go out.
Da. A. B. Duncan, of Lee county, Is
a candidate for the Legislature from
that county.
Thk good men who are being led
astray by the Third Party foolishness
need to he kindly admonished and rea
soned with, hut those of their friends
who try to do it find it a very difficult
matter. Many of them absolutely re
fuse to read anything hut Third Party
papers and oampaign documents.
Thx Hkbald la made the medium of
the first publication ot a local
campaign song, entitled, “I Want
to Be a Mossback,” inscribed to
the Democratic Club of Albany by Dr.
Then. R. Warden, of Batnbridge. It
la a gem of its kind, and will no doubt
become a very popular song in the
Democratic circles of the Second Con
gressional district. It appears on the
fifth page of this paper.
Secretary Foster, of the Treasury
Department, has felt called upon to
announce that the force bill is not an
issue In the oampaign, and that Presi
dent Harrison will wisely dispose of it
In his forthcoming letter of acceptance.
Secretary Foster evidently considers
Hr. Harrison a very smart man. Write
what he will in his letter of accept-
tance, Hr. Harrison will find that the
force bill will not down and that it is
here to stay until after the November
election.
TIIRRATRNRD RATR STAR.
A Spill In ike Snnlhern Rnllwnr nnd
Steamship Aaseclallen.
From Friday's Kraxixtl Hkhai.ii.
Mr. W. O. Watson, of this city, who
has been' a prominent Allianoeman
ever since the order was organized in
this county, and who lias been perhaps
the strongest man the order has had
in this Immediate part of the State,
announced to a party of hla friends
who happeued to come together in Gil
bert’s drug store to-day, that he was
done with the Alliance.
A representative of the Hkbald was
present and asked Hr. Wataon if he
had aotually withdrawn from the
order.
“No, I have hot formally resigned or
withdrawn; that la not necessary; but
I no longer consider myself an Alli-
anccman, and shall not liavaanything
more to do with the organization,"
was Mr. Watson's reply.
"Are you not President of the Albany
sub-Alllance?” asked the scribe.
“Yes; I have been."
“What has induced you to quit the
Alliance?”
“Well, I can’t stand Ellington. Hla
election as President of the Alliance
means, If It has any political signifi
cance whatever, that the Alliance is
going to be pulled Into the Third
Party. I’m a Democrat, and I hare
said all the time that whenever the
time should edme when I had to choose
between the Democratic party nnd the
Alliance I would be a Democrat and
let the Alliance go.
“Do you objeut to the Hkbald mak
ing this matter public?”
“Well, I was not talking for the pub
lic; but I'll tell you wlmt you may say
as coming from me. If you see fit to do
so: The Alliance has no place In pol
itics now between the Democratic
and Third Parties, There Is no Inter
mediate ground for it to occupy in the
present state of political affairs, and,
aa I said just now, I am a Demoorat
and don’t propose to affillnte with any
organization that interferes with my
Democracy. The Democratic party
has had a strong friend In the Alliance
organization hero In the Second Con
gressional dlstrlot, but It aeems that it
oan’t be ao longer, and hence my deter
mination to have nothing more to do
with It.”
Mr. Wataon’a withdrawal from the
Allianoe is a matter of no surprise to
the Herald, nor will it be to anyone
who knows the man.. He was a mem
her of the District AHianqa conven
tion at Cuthbertthatbrought'out Hon.
O. B. Steven; as ttie Alliance candidate
for Congress, and wasaoonsiatent and
faithful supporter of Mr. Stevens in
his oanvas8;yet he has been'just as
consistent in Ills Democracy and Just
as faithful to tho party.
When such men as Mr. Watson begin
to turn their baoks upon the Alliance
the days of Its usefulness and influence
In Georgia are numbered.
PHRK WASN’T THKRR.
THE THIRD PARTY IHWORTH
Tin Third Parir MmiIrb as Blalrolr
Ysalerdar.
Col. J. W. Walters and Capt. W. E,
Wooten, who went over to meet Col.
Peek and Dr, Hand in joint debate at
the Third Party rally In Blakely y#s,
terday, returned to the olty Friday,
They report that Col. Peek was not
there. He was expected, and a repor
ter of the Hkbald who was at the de
pot on Wednesday afternoon had a
man pointed out to him as Col. Peek,
and announced In that evening’s paper
that the Third Party leader had passed
through the city en route to Blakely,
but this proved to be a mistake. The
man who was taken for Col. Peek was
evidently somebody else;
At Blakely Heasrs. Walters and
Wooten were joined by Col. J. H.
Griggs, of Dawson, itnd this trio of
brainy young Democratic orators were
ready to meet whoever the Third
Party might have to pit against them.
Mr. L. O. Jaokson, of Bainbridge,
and Dr. L H. Hand, of Baker, came to
the soratoh for the Third Party when
time was called.
The Third Party people organized
the meeting by electing one of their
number ohairman, though it la esti
mated that the Democrats present
greatly outnumbered them.
Well, to make a long story short,
Walters, Wooten and Griggs spoke for
Democracy, and Jackson and Dr.
Hand spoke for the Third Party.
Those who are acquainted with the
gentlemen that stood for the two op
posing parties in the debate know
about how it turned out. The speak
ing lasted nearly all day, and when it
closed the Democrats had the. whoop
on the Third Partyites.
Tknnksskk seems to be badly In
need of a new Governor.
From 1846 to 1860, under the opera
tion of a tariff laid for revenue, the
Increase of domestic exports was 210
per cent. The increase in imports was
197 per cent. There has been no other
fourteen years in the history of the
country when Its trade showed such
astonishing advancement. In the last
fourteen years, for example, the in
crease in exports has been 61 per cent,
and. in imports 72 per cent. As Mr.
Blaine testifies in his political history,
the prosperity of the oountry after the
adoption of the tariff of 1846 was un
exampled.
1 The Southern Railway and Steam
ship Association has been in session
in Atlanta this week. The meeting
adjourned on Thursday night, all the
roads having renewed their member
ship except the Cinoinnntl Southern
and the Alabama Great Southern. The
Richmond and Danville held off until
a late hour, but finally announced flint
jt would sign. Major Fink, receiver
of the East Tennessee system, held out
for a differential of four cents per
hundred on grain from Illinois points.
The board of arbitration awarded lilm
three cents. He would nut accept that
and stuck out for the extra cent. The
members sat around caucusing, and
there was not much general diacus-
lon. Just before the adjournment,
President Thomas announced that he
would take out the Western and At
lantic if the Cincinnati Southern did
not come it. This startled Major
Fink, blit did not bring him to terms,
nnd the Association adjourned, after
giving the Cincinnati Southern and
Alabama Grent Southern seven days
in which to announce their decision.
If they do not sign, the Louisville and
Nashville, Illinois Central, Newport
News and Mississippi Valley nnd
Western Atlnntio will draw out. In
that event it Is predicted that there
will be a bitter rate war, and the threat
la made tliut the Cincinnati Southern
will not get a bushel of the Illinois
grain. It U aimouneed that the As
sociation will continue if the roads
named withdraw.
Thk cholera continues to spread In
the East. According to official re
ports there were nearly 6,000 newenses
and 2,740 deaths in St. Petersburg
alone on last Wednesday. Yet there
appears to be no altirin over Hie situa
tion ill this country. Dr. Syrus Ed-
son, sanitary superintendent of New
York, said ton representative or the
Assoolated Press yesterday tliut while
he did not think iliat the cholera
%’ould find its way to (Ills country
there was always a chance Hint it
would, and fur ibis reason he Imd pre
pared for any emergency. “The health
department,” lie continued, “is like the
fire department—It Is always ready to
fight anything that comes nlong. We
are fully prepared to grapple with the
cholera the moment it shows Itself.
We have to make preparations on a
much larger scale than is necessary,
so that under no circumstances can we
be caught napping. 1 do not wish to
alarm the public, but 1 do not think it
will do any harm, however, to tell you
that we are now ready to care for
cholera patients to the number of 5,000
at a moment’s notice. Of oonrse there
wonld not be suoh a demand upon us,
and I do not think that if the oliolera
should mnke its appenrancu here the
cases would he numerous; still we are
prepared to handle any number. Per
sonally, 1 feel very secure in regard to
this matter and dread an epidemic of
cholera much less than 1 would one of
typhus fever."
ADJCDtlKD INSANE.
A MKStTINO THAT Dll’N’T' PAN
DVT VERY WELL,
T. I*. KHrhPNs Nosnl Moled Fee Ike Lf|-
Islmure—County OMcere lo bp
Nominmed Voter.
ALBANY BETS A BETTE* BATE
TO nAVANNAIt AND nttVNN-
SriSIK TSBAN rOLlUBlS.
Tbo You MR nine Oise, YVho Was Car
ried From Albnur lo AVorlli Conn.
If, Strom Desprrnle nnd Violent.
spcelsl CiiiTos|K>mleneo ol the Hkkai.ii:
Isabella, Ga„ Aug. 27, 1892.
Ginn, the young Insu who was sent
over here rrom-Albany last week, un
der a charge of lunacy, was tried on
Tuesday last nnd adjudged a fit sub
ject Tor thensylum, where he will be sent
as soon as a vacanoy can be secured
for him. He has fits of despondenoy,
in one of which he tried to commit
suicide by tearing his blanket into
strips and twisting them Into a rope,
but was found out and the rope taken
from him.
Although, apparently, as sane aa
anyone at intervals, he has frequent
attacks of violent insanity, during
which he tries to tear up and destroy
everything in his reach.
His case, with all attending circum
stances, la a most pitiable one. H.
Gen. Carnks has acted with good
lodgment in suppressing the riot at
Coal Creek, and now all trouble is said
to be at an end and the law has fully
triumphed.
Editor Gunn, of the Cuthbert Lib
eral-Enterprise, is mighty sore over
the result of the Congressional con
vention, but he falls into line ju»t like
all good Democrats should do.
The District Court of the United
States in Northern Texas has deolded
that the Legislature of a State has not
a right to prescribe through the agency
of a State Railroad Commission such
low rates of freight as would prevent
the corporations affected from meeting
their obligations to creditors. Such
legislative regulation is violative of
the constitutional provision declaring
that “No State shall pass a law impair
ing the obligation of contracts.” The
decision of the District Court in Texas
is in harmony With the decision of the
Supreme Court of the United States in
the Granger cases in Minnesota. This
decision was to the effect that though
the Government of a State may right
fully exercise supervision over the
railroads within its limits, the State
exceeds its authority when it under
takes to impose conditions with which
the railroads cannot comply without
defrauding their creditors.
Special OrreiMiowlcneeof the JIkkai.d.
Isabella, August-26,1S92.
The Third, or Colored People’s
Party, meet at the court bouse in tills
place yesterday. It lias been an
nounced for over a mouth past that
they would meet here on that day for
the purpose of putting out a full coun
ty ticket, from representative down,
and the lenders, who have been claim
ing that the eon uty was overwhelm
ingly theira, doubtless expected that
the county would turn Itself inside out
on yesterday.
They were grievously disappointed
men, however, when only 182 of the
1600 voters Hint they had counted on
appeared, and several of these voters
were Negroes, while some that did ap
pear were very lukewarm.
Jones, of Tliomnsvllle, was there and
made them a weak-kneed speech, and
afterwards had men going around
among the audience trying to get up
money to pay Ills railroad fare. Tills
Is, I suppose, the first Instance on re
cord of a candidate for Congress ask
ing his constituents tp pay Ills travel
ing expenses.
The rank nnd file of the P. P.’s were
here, and a yelling, excited, cranky,
unreasonable horde they were, a dozen
trying to speak at once, and not one
knew wlmt lie wanted to tnlk about.
They have not thirty votes in the
county that were not represented here
yesterday.
Although they Imd announced that
they would put out a whole county
ticket, o beli they saw the size of the
crowd tlielr backbone caved in, and
they mini I listed a representative nnd
’lull. Fortliis office there were sixoan-
diilutes, hut Mr. T. L. Kitchens was the
longest pole nnd got the plum after
several ballots. Mr. Kltoliens Is a
rather conservative member of the
new party, nnd his nomination shows
that they have not lost nil tlielr judg
ment. They were to meet here ngnin
to-day to listen to a so-called speech
from IVnlker, who Imrrangucd them a
short time since, and is one of the mis
erable hirelings that Ellington and his
orowd are sending out here to preaoh
sedition nnd strife among our people.
They propose to meet again about
two weeks from now to put out candi
dates for county offloes. The reason
they did not put them out yesterday
was because their crowd was so small,
and, nearly every man present being a
onndldate, they decided to await the
advent of a few voters. H.
BltlOR By n ((round Stonier.
Mr. J. K. Miller, who lives down near
Baconton, brought his little ten-year-
nld buy, Master Kuymond Miller, to
the olty Friday afternoon and put
him under the treatment of Dr. W. A.
Strother.
The little fellow was bitten by a
ground rattlesnake on last Tuesday
niglit.and has been suffering consid
erably from the effects of it ever slnoe.
He went out to look the fowl house, be
fore the family retired for tho night,
and the snake bit him on the foot,
•Inking its fangs into one of his great
toes.
Mr. nnd Mrs. Miller cut open a frog
and bound it to the bite, and next
morning the frog was green from the
effects of the poison it had absorbed.
A tobacco’ poultice was then applied,
but the foot and leg of the little fellow
became so swollen tint it was thought
best to bring him to a physician. He
was taken to the home of Mrs. N. F.
Mercer, a sister of Mr. Miller, in this
olty, where he was* visited by Dr.
Strother.
The Doctor thinks that the worst
danger Is now over, but advised that
Master Raymond remain here for a
few days longer.
The snake that blithe child was a
very small one, but it drove its venom
ous fangs in deep enough to cause the
blood to flow freely.
The ground rattlers never grow to
be large, bnt they are among the most
poisonous snakes that we have in this
country.
Thk heart of the best block in Au
gusta was destroyed by fire Saturday,
Loss $250,000.
THESE PASH FOB JOKRS.
She—Oh, Charley! that mosquito has
come from your hand to mine.
He—Aw—beautiful thought! that
your blood and mine—aw—mingles in
the same mosquito.
Purely Mobjeelive.
Mr. Huckleberry—No one admires
me.
Miss Wallflower—No one admires
me, either.
Mr. Huckleberry—We bad better or-
F inize a mutual admiration society.
admire your eyes. What do you ad
mire about me?
Miss Wallflower—Your good taste.
Not to H«r Tula.
“I have a family tree,” he plead,
“To aid me in my enlL”
“Perhaps you hare,” the maiden said;
“But I don't like its fruit."
Only a Qaeotloa of Time.
Acquaintance—So your son has hang
out his shingle as a doctor—has he any
patients yet?
Proud Parent—Not yet—hot be has
raised a beard and bought a pair of
eyeglasses!
COLUMBUS IS KICKING
ABOUT THE FREIGHT RATES ON-
COTTON.
Why flfstf We Are (tteeer to These
Ports Thnn €ol«Mhns
The business men of Columbus, If
we Judge by what we see In the En-
quIrcr-Sun, are considerably exercised
over the new rales of freight on cot
ton to Southern and Eastern porta as
established by the Southern Railway
and Steamship Association for the ap
proaching season.
The new rate Is to go Into effect on
the 5th of September, and notice of It
was received In Columbus on Thurs
day. The circular announces that the
rates apply on uncompressed cotton
with the privilege of compressing by
the carriers at 10 cents per hundred
pounds.
The Enquirer-Sun says that the bus
iness men of Columbus arc indignant
at what appears to them to be a very
unncccessary and unjust discrimina
tion against that city, nnd in the
course of a long article on the subjeot
our contemporary brings out these in
teresting faots:
The two ports which most effect Co
lumbus are Savnnnah and Brunswick,
and the association deorees that 4A
cents shall be paid for each 100 pounds!
which is carried to either port. Both
Albany and Americus are considered
by the cotton men as being in the same
cotton territory as Columbus, and the
charge for carrying the same amount
from Albany is 38 cents to Brunswiok
aud 30 to Savannah, from Amerious
the charge la 86 cents to eaoh point.
Even Atlanta, where the merchants
and newspapers are protesting against
freight rates, receives better treatment
than Columbus, and 100 pounds of cot
ton can be taken from there to either J
of the seaports for48 cents. (
The ootton men olaim that if the proki
posed rates are carried Into effect In
calculable damage will be done, be
cause the whole country, both between
Columbus and Albany nnd between
Columbus and Amerious, whiob has
hitherto been tributary to ColumbuB,
will be diverted In order to seoure the
lower rates from the other oities. The
discrimination against Columbus will
make a difference of from 60 to 60 cents
on each bale of cotton. Taking It for
granted that 100,000 bales would bo re
ceived in Columbus during the season,
at the lowest figure Columbus would
have to pay $60,000 more for transpor
tation than her sister oities.
The Hkrald has no desire to meddle
with this matter between Columbus
and the rate fixing power of the rail
roads, but if distance, or mileage is to
be taken Into consideration (as It un
doubtedly was by the Railway and
Steamslijp Association, and as Is also
in accordance with the rules and reg
ulations of the Railroad Commission)!
we fail to see how Columbus oould be '
given the same rate that is given to
Albany—we being some eighty-odtj
miles nearer the ports thnn our slstq
city.
Albany’s geographical position is
not only In her favor as compared
with Columbus, but we also have the
advantage of direct competing lines to
the seaports, whloh is another import
ant matter to be taken into considers-:
tlon In fixing rates on cotton. Why j
then shouldn’t we have a lower rate
than Columbus?
Ho Mod Uls Roman,.
From the Detroit Free Prose.
Mother—Johnnie,' where have yoli
been?
Johnnie—In swlmmln’.
Mother—Didn’t I tell yon I’d whip
you U you went in the water?
Johnnie (frankly)—Yes’m.
Mother—Then why did you do it?/
Johnnie— 1 ’Clause the Bakin’ wAi’t
hurtmore’n fifteen minutes,'and the
swimmin’ ’ll feel good for a week.
•no Hretene ot Waterworks to Be n
Perfeet Dm.
When our waterworks are corny
pleted, the system will be aa perfect ly
can be found in any olty of Albany’s
size. The water that will run into the
buildings for domestlo purposes will
be perfectly pare and healthy, and it
will flow in unlimited quantity.
In many, and, in fact, most of Geor
gia’s cities where waterworks systenrt-
have been ereoted, the water has been
of a very inferior quality, badly stain
ed, Impure and unhealthy. When our
reservoirs and mains have been thor
oughly washed out, and all trash and
impurities removed, we will have the
purest water of any city in the State,
and have plenty of It.
Albany’s artesian water has already
done much for the city, and its repu
tation has spread on the four winds,
giving the city an everlasting
name.
The almost unbroken, level surface
or Albany, as well as her per
fectly straight streets, has made
the erection of the system a much sim
pler matter than if the streets had been
irregularand billy. As it is, the tower
* au enough above any point,
in the city to give a strong pressure;
sufficient for all Are purposes, with
out the aid of engines, ana the protect
tion’ against Are will be almost perfect,
and a burning building can be literally
flooded.
Yes, we will have a good system of
waterworks, and one that we may fes's
proud of. ' • - J v.y/1
_|If Tom Watson's political acrobatic
evolutions were originated to gain noj i
toriety he has accomplished that enjL
But Tom's fame is pt the worst Sort—
the derision of the whole Soath.