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A LARGE CONFLAGRATION.
THREE RKMIDUKCBH TOTALI.V
liENTBOVBD IjAMT NIOHT.
They Arr Knduned to Avhea While the
Fire Deportment la Finable to
Cheek the Flautra for Wnut
of Wnter —The Full
Dentils*
BOILED.
From Fridttv’* Kvkning Jlr.n.vi.n.
Albany whs visited this morning by
one of the most disastrous fires that it
hns been the city's misfortune tosuffer
‘ in quite a long time, and to-day three
smouldering piles of charred timber
mark the spots where stood yesterday
as many neat homes.
About a quarter after 8 o’clock per
sons living in the northern portion of
the city were awakened by the con
tinued blowing of the oil mill and
compress whistles, followed shortly by
the clang of the alarm bell.
Ity the time half-awakened citizens
could hurry on a few articles of cloth
ing and get out of their houses, the
lurid glare of a lire, rapidly growing
• larger Mid gaining headway, was
painting the blackness of night a
bright red in the vicinity of the ice
factory.
A large crowd quickly thronged to
the scene of the contlagration, and
found the handsome new residence of
Mr. J. I.. ,Tay, on Washington street,
just north of Society, enveloped in
dames, which had gained such head
way that no hope of saving the dwell
ing could be entertained.
Willing hands, however, went en
ergetically to work to save the house
hold effects from destruction, and a
large part of the furniture was saved,
though many articles had to be left in
the burning building.
In the meuntime the fire department
was having n hard tlmo of it, and were
meeting with obstacles that caused
dangerous delay. Tom James, seeing
that the fire wns outside the city lim
its, stopped Detlnnce engine at the
Central freight depot, but sent the
hose reel for the use of ThronteeBka,
which had gone far ahoad, taken
suction nnd was waiting for hose.
The city ordinances give no authority
to the companies to take tho engines
and hose out of the city, nor do they
prohibit them, but at any rate Tom
thought it best nut to play.
The Defiance nnd Thronateeska reels
each laid a section of hose from Tltron-
ateeska engine, nnd two streams of
water were finally thrown.
But by this time the unchecked
Haines had played sad linvoc. Mr. Jay’s
residence was almost, ready to collapse,
and had fallen through in several
plaoes; but, worse than this, the (lames
had communicated themselves to two
other residences, one on either side of
this one, nnd were taking hold so rap
idly that It was soon clearly evident,
that they would have to go.
The residence to the north was oc
cupied by M. T. F. Pruett and family,
and the one to the south wns rented to
colored tenants. They also belonged
to Mr. Jay, and nil the furniture was
saved from them both.
Several other adjoining buildings
were now in imminent dnnger, but
water wns thrown in time to insure
their safety. The two Negro compan
ies did some excellent work at this
critical time and deserve a great deal
of aredlt for their indomitable perser-
verence. Defiance, under order of the
chief of the fire department, finally
reached the Oil Mill cistern and pro
ceeded to lay a couple of mains and do
some good fighting.
The flames were then under control,
hut woeful had been their work. All
three residences were totally destroy
ed, and only a few chimneys and
blaokened timbers remained. Before
th’e smouldering embers could be en-
tirely put out the water in the cistern
gave out and the engines had to quit
work.
Had there been a fire cistern near
by the loss would not have been near
sA great, and the damage could have
been confined to one house, but all
three of the buildings were outside
the oity limits, and the nearest fire
cistern was in front of the Col. Nelson
Tift place, a block and a half away.
Everybody agrees that the department
was unusually slow, but they met
many obstacles, and the engine houses
are a long ways from the scene of the
fire. Thronateeska threw water ten
minutes before Defiance.
It is thought that the explosion of
a lamp caused the disaster. Mr. D. B.
Jay had been up about hair-past two,
waiting on Ills sick child, and a lamp
had been left burning in the bath
room, where the flames were first dis
covered.
’ The property was pretty well covered
by insurance. Mr. Jay’s residence
was insured for $2,500, in the Aetna In
surance Co., the residence occupied by
Mr. Pruett for $1,500 In the Central
City, and the corner house for $1,350 in
the Guardian. Mr. Jay also had $1,200
on his furniture, and Mr. Pruptt:$500.
Altogether the tire was an unusual
one for Albany, and more clearly than
ever demonstrates that it would be
folly to keep the city longer without a
complete waterworks fire department.
e in Messrs. Reich
Or RoW the Peachy Cheeked Lady Did
the Ileal liitutu Agent.
Tito real estate agent experienced a
feeling of exultation when the Walnut
Hills young 1 lady, with peachy cheeks,
admitted that house renting was a new
experience for her. The agent’s con
science had become hardened, and with
tho thought of his wife and children
there took possession of liis mind a fell
determination to show tho peachy
cheeked young lady absolutely no mercy.
'*1 have,” I10 pleasantly remarked, “a
splendid house light here.”
Tho agent stuck a pin in his map to
indicate the location.
“Is it—er”
The young lady’s poachy cheeks were
suffused with blushes.
“Adapted to housekeeping?”
“Oh, perfectly.”
The agent had never seen a domicile,
to be confidential, that was better
adapted to housekeeping.
“Really,” declared the young lady
deprecatiugly. “you must excuse my
ignorance.”
Tho agent bowed and begged her not.
to mention it.
“I’d like to ask yon one or two ques
tions about the house, if 1 may.”
Tho agent was delighted, lie was sure.
“Thank you. Does it face tho north
and have a woodshed with three sepa
rate bins for coal, and room for a re
frigerator in the corner farthest from
the film?”
The agent remembered afterward that
r.lio looked very sweet and unsophisti-
tated ns she propounded the inquiry,
with an expression of the most bewitch
ing anxiety,
“Y-ye-yes—that is, I believe so.”
“And I hope you can assure me that
the window frames are tight, and that the
doors have not sagged until they won’t
shut. I suppose, of course ”
The agent drew copiously from a
draft of fresh air that chanced to wander
his way.
“ Tho walls are not cracked, the floors
are not shrunk, the varnish is still on
tho woodwork, the chimneys are clean
and safe, the cellar does not flood.
and”
“ Madam ”
“ We should certainly want at least
lix latch keys for the front door.”
" Madam ”
“ Hoy ? ”
The agent pressed n handkerchief to
nis brow.
“ 1 think, perhaps, er—I’d—a—better
:all your attention to this house.”
The agent’s voice was a trifle faint,
»nd as ho stuck the pin into another part
of tho map ho felt that he had overesti
mated his ability to read character at
first sight.—Cincinnati Commercial Ga
zette.
Handshaking Was a Trial.-
George MeikleKeinp, the architect of
the Soott monument at Edinburgh, was
a man who raised hiwsolf from ob
scurity by the sheer force of talent and
determination. He had a retiring
nature, and a shy aiul shrinking manner
toward strangers. The luibit of hand
shaking created in him an embarrass
ment and aversion which he could
scarcely control, and one of his friends
CULTURE.
WELL MEANING HINTS, BUT NOT
TOO KIND FOR, THE AMATEUR.
Mn*ta In ami Suicidal—It Do-
Toum It* .Own Children ami Slay*
Itself — ltnShul Changes Concerning
Instrument* amt Sex.
« iv * a au ? i As speech to thought, as pictorial art
,mne \ c u , 1 to external nature, is practical music to
the deed when it became mevitub e | , m ^ i f thta 0M .
Tue two were walking along one of the I , .... . , . . ••,,
streets in Edinburgh in the full flow of i "' ari ’ ,1,ld ,u | <liblc nrt f °T m im,su r ’* 1 '“
tutted conversation, when Kemp on human mediums, and those
ah animated t
THE SUMMER COTTAGE,
It* Growth In Bice and in Important
During Recent Year*. » t
There have been signs that the in
stitution known as the summer hotel
has readied tho height of its popularity
and power in i..is country, uud that its
continued progress is more likely to
alaut down than up. Tho reason is not
that city families are learning to spend
their summers at home, for they flock to
tho lakes, the mountains and tho sed-
Sltoro in greater numbers than over, blit
a smaller proportion of them live tn
hotels and a considerably greater pro-1
portion in cottages. At Bar Harbor
suddenly became aware of a friend ap- [ b, to.an mediums r«,nire a certain prep,,- j 80Vt , rB | „f the largest hotels have re-
preaching them from the opposite ilirec- ! ' ati " H to Ht tbem tm tb . < ’ reception and mu to|fl closed, not because tho vogue of
[ ion “ tho transmission of their message, /lo j Mount Desert Inis waned, for it was
Instantly tho current of bis thought ! nwver 80 ,mw '“ tho fashion, but chiefly
was arrested, ho lost the
vernation, and then became auvm. »»*>»- i n ... - „ i ■* » :«
Rut the great majority need n kindof ; damaging the hotel.- directly by the
in*
lining in -erve them ns
less strangff to them, and this accliua-
oi ms cnougiu i ‘ . ... ,. i iw'w •»»*»*»*• I'"- to'Mi.w.i, utuidiiciij
thread of con- R >* ln P l 'thy is strong, tins preparation j because the island is full of cottages and
_ame silent alto- conltiS easily and almost unconsciously. | llu . .* lwjSt p^ph'” livo in thorn, thereby
getiier. A whinisically troubled expres- ; n ’ ,t tbe K rc ;’. t ma.pirity need il li ‘ ud | of damaging the hotel., directly by
Sion crept over his face, and a nervous acclimatization before they can breathe of Uieir own .pair. mago. and
.1 1 .1 i,....H- 1,1. ; and move freely in an element more or i ..u-cctlv, by
commotion developed itself in his man
ner.
Extraordinary movements began in
his right hand nml arm, which ho kept
dangling and jerking backward and for
ward in a helpless way, us if be lmd en
tirely lost control of them. Gradually
tho hand appeared to stiffen, and rose,
with tho arm; until they were at right
angles with the body.
With a powerful effort be shot out his
hand and grasped that of the friend who
had approached, and tlieii, tho ordeal
passed, with a sigh of relief, he briskly
resumed his part of the conversation
with tho air of a man who has performed
an unpleasant but meritorious action.—
Youth’s Companion.
The tendency which h illustrated in
The Philosophical Fad.
Possibly it is tlio lingoring influence
of the Purltun maxim that whatever is
pleasurable is wrong, unil that rest is
indolence, that impels the American to
make his vacation a change *of occupa
tion, and to seek to “ improve ’’ every
moment of his timo. Certainly in no
other way can wo account for the deter
mination witli which tho man or woman
who ought to batho his or her tired
mind in lest irritates it with lectures,
and plunges into summer schools as if
they were summer pools. The tired
school teacher, who ought to bend all
his energies to doing nothing, will sit
for hoars on a bench in a grove to listen
to a college professor, who ought tp bi
idle, too, lecture on Plato’s self efface-
inont or Socrates’s synthesis,
Wo have not tho slightest desire to
disparage the excellence of such buhi-
mor schools; wo only point to their suc
cess as indicating a development of the
national temperament and the national
desiro for improvement. Possibly at
tendance on them is only a compromise
between this temperament and th.
human craving for rest, and that the
man who sits apparently wrapt in ad
miration of Professor Strawthrasher’s an
alysis of Plato’s self effaoement is send
ing his thoughts far distant and is really
resting them in a way very uncompli
mentary to that learned lectnrer. Let
ns hope he is.—Boston Transcript.
Miniature Photographic Outfits*
Among the latest fancies in photogra
phy is thq cane camera, which consists
of a walking stick with ebonized handle,
in whioh the camera is surrounded by a
wide silver band and accompanied by
all the necessary apparatus for making
photographs. The handle is fitted in
side with a neat metal drop shutter,
which connects with a spring and pin
underneath, and is operated noiselessly
with one finger.
Even smaller than this Is the pocket-
book camera, which makes a picture of
about 1X inches square, and when not
in use folds np in an ordinary lady's
puree about 8 inches long, inches
wide and }£ inch thick. The lenB is an
excellent qnick working medlnm, and
it may be need either with plate or ent
films. Besides its special characteristic
the pnrse is snpplied with sections for
containing silver, postage stamps and
cards.—New York.Telegram.
Friendship and hove.
In the hierarchy of the affections,
women place love before friendship; men
place friendship before love, ae did the
man of whom Alphonse Karr told, who,
on being refused by a lady who offered
to remain hie friend, replied; “Thanks,
madam, but I do not know you well
enough. 1 love you. 1 desire to marry
you, but my friend—no. Friendship im
plies knowledge, respect, congeniality
of tastes. I would hare to know yon
better before accepting yon as a friend,
—San Francisco Argonaut.
Mb. Theodore Sweeting left Tues
day morning for Dawson, where
he will open up a branch bouse of the
firm of Crain & Song of this city. Mr.
Sweeting has been with Mesrs. Crain
& Sons in their book and stationery
business since tlie firm began opera
tions in Albany, and bis many friends
here will be glad Co know that he will
probably return to us after seeing the
business in Dawson well established,
Tho Irrigation of Orchard*.
It has been demonstrated in California
that surface irrigation is not the best
mothod for orchards. The system is un
tidy, wasteful and causes an unneces
sary growth of noxious weeds. It also
stultifies tlio tree growth, i-uusing tho
roots to form in a ball near tlio surface.
An orchard designed for market fruits
should bo irrigated by means of under
ground conduits or cement pipes.
These are laid below tlio freeziug
point and made of sufficient dimensions
to carry the requisite quantity of water
within throe or four feet of the true.
Small holes cat in the top of tlio pipes
and covered by boxes to prevent tho
holes filling with earth allow the water
to percolate slowly out from the pipe
and moisten the soil at the roots of tho
tree.
By tills method the roots go down
ward, giving tho tree a firmness to resist
rainstorms und withstand the effects of
continued dry weather in cose the wnter
supply is temporarily exhausted. Tills
system may bo considered expensive, but
the additional yield of fruit will justify
such expenditure. The field of the future
irrigated fruit market will bo largo
enough to justify systematic under
ground tiling as well as piping. Drain
ages will he more extensively practised
as tho market orchards tncreuse, and al
though expensive ns it may seem, these
orchards will be valuable dividend pay
ing properties.—Irrigation Age,
taciturn is what wo know ns “ipuMcul
culture.” • ,in exceptional degree at Bar Harbor is
Most people have some latent musical morally noticeable in the majority of
faculty, and this is capable of develop- tbo summvi- places, and a hatm-ul and
moot. The notion has at any rate died co , liaipm)l , We >,.„ 1 i cul . v it i>. The part
out that it was effeminate for a man to , of „ u ,, uioU tl> ^fltch it is most os-
piny the piano and impossible for a | Be ntial to get out of town are the worn-
woman to play the violin. It is not so . c muu-en, and for thorn hotel life
long since, iu tho upper classes, no girt s | ovcn th „ j, decidedlv a see-
education was considered even approxi- ; mu , , )Bgt client. The American
mutely complete without a largo amount I p ot( q i m ,d infant, with whom Mr. Henry
James in, the curlier yours of his litorury
FREE SCHOOLS.
THE Bll.Ie TO €30 ai i oiti:
NEXT IifiOIfSIiATFKi:
Proridiug n Public School Bfairtu
Albany— A Nlntlcr of Public
lutcrcNi to the Cill-
sernn ft Albitny.
•Senator W. K. ‘Wooten wlJMntn>-
dlice a measure in tlio next General
Assembly providing for a system of
free schools for the city of Albany.
This is not the first time this que*$
tion has been agitated. Mr. Wooten in-
trod need a bill to the same affect in the?
last legislature which was passed by
that body. It contained the Jimifn-
An Accommodating Burbor.
Some of the rural towns in Now Eng
land do not support a barber, and hair
cutting is usually done by an accommo
dating neighbor. A writer recently fell
in with one of these amateur barbers,
and humorously describes his accommo
dating ways:
Soon I was perched astride of a mo
lasses hogshead, with a meal hag about
my neck to protect it from the fall of
hair. I might say the possibilities of a
fall from the hogshead were great, as 1
squirmed about it to have the light
strike my head right, so the gores would
be even. He was no moan barber, for
he scorned to receive any recompense.
I wish all barbers were as charitable.
After our cutting acquaintance 1 saw
mnch of the barber. One time he was
on the school house steps cutting a
man’s hair. Again 1 saw him hard at
work on a man’s head in the middle of
his vegetable patch. The fanner was
leaning against a bean pole with his hoe
in his hand, evidently making the most
of his luxurious ease. Anywhere and
everywhere he happened to catch his
man the enterprising barber wonld
work. 1 was on the shore one day
watching a fisherman at his salmon nets.
Shortly a small skiff went out from a
neighboring cove. In it was the barber,
who rowed out to where the fisherman
was and was soon outting his hair.—Eel-
fast Age.
An Indian Amulet.
In India a variety of gems and stones
are used as amulets. The most common
is the salagrama, a stone about as large
as abilliard ball, and which is perforated
with black. This is supposed to he
found only in Gandaki, a river in
Nepaul. The person who possesses one
of these stones is esteemed highly for
tunate; he preserves it in a clean cloth,
from whenci it Is sometimes taken to be
bathed and perfumed. He believes that
the water in which it is washed, if
drank, has the power to preserve from
sin. Holding it in his hand, the dying
Hindoo expires in peace, trusting in a
stone rather than in the living God.—
Detroit Free Press.
Th* ’'Third Founder.”
“Third founder of Home” was the title
given to the Homan general, Cains
Marins, on account of his repeated tri
umphs over the public enemies of his
country, particularly for his successful
conduct of the Jngurthtoe war, and for
his decisive victories over the combined
forces of the Ambrones and Teutones,
near Aquae Sextiae (Air), in 103 B. C.,
and over the Cimbri on the plain of Ver-
cellae (Vercelli). in 101 B. C.—Brooklyn
Eagle.
Notice to the debtors and creditors
of the late James Weiss, by Mr. C.
Wessolowsky, administrator, appears
elsewhere In the Herald.
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Specially. .
A Knox always feels as though you
had It made specially for your own
head. Muse A Cox.
bo called—while a certain proficiency in
this respect was too often held to atone
for the absence of all other culture.
The violin on the other hand was
held to ho good only for men: perhaps
we should restrict tho term and say for
fiddlers. Boys now and then learned n
\jttlo of tho instrument at school—a
knowledge sor.u to ho dropped and for
gotten. Thu difference now scarcely
needs to ho pointed out. Boys und girls
in numbers, and not a fow who are no
longer boys or girls, are learning to piny
on the violin and other stringed instru
ments. The discovery has beon made
that, though a virtuoso must begin early,
It is not necessary to practioo half tlio
day at four or five years old in order to
be a good useful player at twenty.
Ensemble classos and school orches
tras show that on our amateurs the truth
Is at last dawning that unlimited solo
performance is not tho ultimute aim of
all music trnining: that while only a
gifted few cun attain to high individual
excellence and finish, tho combination
of many atoms of good, too small to bo
of nny nse singly, may result in an ef
fect which is not only good, but great,
so long as music, not self display, is the
object sought after.
It may he roundly stated us a general
truth that musical study proclaims itself
on the housetops, without ceasing for an
instant to assert itself in the (farrot, in tho
basement uud at sundry IntormoiUate
points. Tho student’s friends assist at
every stage of his progress; they avo in
voluntary and mostly unwilling partici
pators in his difficulties, his perseverance,
his triumph atid his despair. Well for
them if two or three such dramas are not
going on in tlio honso at once, to say
nothing of probable puffs of melody and
harmony from next door or over the way.
That the character of musical practice
ie far superior to what it used to bo avails
these helpless ones but little.
To them it is an insignificant fact,
compared with the fact that for every
victim of coercion who formerly pound
ed a wiry piano for u conple of hours a
day there now are a dozen students of
various instruments and singers galore,
all practicing uway for dear life. Should
any link be missing in the continuous
chain of sound, it is fillod up by barrel
organs, street bands, wandering ballad
singere, solos on tho whistle and other
peripatetio instruments.
Good, very good, no doubt. The mu
sical crusader looks on the work and
congratulates himself. There must be
means to all ond. Music requires ma
chinery, and the machinery for music is
being brought into a most forward state
of efficiency. Bat the music itself,
whenco in the future U that to come?
The “enraged composer” and his troubles
have long been a favorite themo for the
efforts of hfimorists. Yet the fact thus
comically represented is no joke, and in
the present condition of things it threat
ens to resume ufcly proportions.
Music is homicidal, suicidal. It de
vours its own children and slays itself.
Silence, the absence or cessation of
musical sound, is an absolute necessity
for musical thought. But putting on
one side the troubles of composers, who
after ail are comparatively few and far
between, the born poor things! to be
lshmaels, their hand against every
man and every man’s band against
them, what on the rest of the world is
the effect of this unceasing, often incon
gruous sound? It is easier to complain
than to core, and far easier to point ont
these evils than to suggest any effective
remedy for them.
U architects and bnildera would take
into consideration the diffusion of noise,
and would do something to make walls
and partitions music proof, it wonld be
mnch. There are continental towns
both in France and Germany where
practicing is prohibited by law, except
at certain stated hours. For a large
and enviable portion of mankind the
remedy against the evil lies in getting
need - to musical sound, and' so uncon
scious of it.—Nineteenth Century..
ted
afr
A Lost Sermon.
Brown—You shouldn't make fun
of the old, my hoy.
Little Johnnie—Why, dad, themin-
ister said we should humor the in
firmities of age.—York Evening
Sun. . '
F*r Sale.
Two beautiful building lots, one-
quarter aere each, between Mr. John
I). Pope’s and Mrs. Greer's residences.
Apply to either 8. Stehne, or
10-10-dtf Morris Weslosky.
Comfortable.
4 The Knox Is the lightest, most com
fortable hat in the world. Sold only by
9-24-eod-tf . Muse & Cox.
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Industry bellied to make flio world lu-
niilmr. is a type Which it is as well
should not Mirvij-e outside of tlio fiction
of the last decade. Without admitting
that it ever was a very prevalent type,
it is sate enough to assume that the
more American children are enabled to
substitute the atmosphere of u summer
homo for the garish delights of a sum
mer hotel the bettor It will bo for the
tuuunors of tlio rising generation.
Of course it is by no means a new
thing for rich Americans to liavo sum
mer iiomeH, The growth of moss nml
ivy on scores of tlio Newport bouses at
test that. Of course, too, a snuuuer cot
tage is a luxury, und luxuries are over
prone to make tlieir first bows to tho
people wjtli tlie moat money. Noverthe-
ess there nre cottages and cottages, and
whenever families that have boon UBed
to taking refuge in summer hotels once
make np their minds that they wonld
like a cottage bettor there is no sound
financial reason why they slionld not
eventually have ono. Tho mate diffi
culties are to decide where it shall he,
and to bring the family’s mind to tho
point of giving hostages to return to the
same plnco several snmmore in succes
sion. For of course, unless ono is rich
enough to have an assortment of scat
tered dwellings, it 1s an extravagance
to build u house unless ho Is going to
occupy it or can rent it.
No doubt tho possibilities of vagrancy
in the summer hotel lnotjiod constituted
originally ono of its chief charms. It
enabled people to try at loarft ono new
place every year, and ascertain finally
wliore they preferred to go. But this
very quality in it lias helped the devel
opment of cottages, slnco, after a dno Be
rios of vagrant seasons, tlio family is
able out of its snffloiont experience to de
clare a settled preference for Homo par
ticular spot. There, the spirit of adven
ture having given plneo to the desire for
assured comfort, tlio cottago begins its
growth nnd finally develops Into a true
home, with Its uceoinpnnying possibili
ties of hospitality and of continuous ac
cretions of grace nnd strength.
The observer who watches th* prog
ress of American civilization must bo
both interested and edified at the spread
of the summer cottage. Ho finds in it
another sign of the settling population
which is in process, and which makes
the land constantly pleasantor and
more habitable as it goes on.—Harper's
Weekly.
An Improved Shuttle.
A shuttle manufacturer to Massa
chusetts has effected sn tmprovoment tn
that mechanism which promises to bo of
considerable practical value iu tbo oper
ations of woolen mills, tn lieu of the
ordinary binged spindle for receiving
and holding the bobbin of yarn, a short
rigid spindle is employed tn combination
with two holding jaws, one above anil tbo
other below the head of the bobbin; the
latter they clasp and securely hold In a
central poeition, a single spiral spring
being arranged in the base of the Blint-
tlo so as to exert an equal pressure on
the bobbin holding jaws, between which
it is placed. Asa result of this unique
construction all splitting of the bobbins
arising from tho use of tbo long pointed
hinged spindle is obviated, with n conse
quent saving of waste yarn. Thetronblo
from the breaking of this yurn by the
canting of the epindle point in the weav
ing operation ie also overcome.—New
York Bnn. ,
The i>*c Pelsewer.
For the past six or seven years there
has been a custom In Albany, Inaugu
rated by—no one knowe who, of pois
oning dogs. The perpetrators of this
degrading work are very choice, too,
In selecting subjeots for operation,
ar.i their sentiments are of such a re
fined nature that they will only be
stow their attention upon fine bunting
dogs that are of some use, and when a
flee or a useless cur dog gets a poison
ed delicacy it Is by an unintentional
accident on the part of the poisoner.
This practice is one that only those
persons whose morals.are down in the
■boots—as low as they ever get—oan In
dulge lu—and, if ever one of these un
fortunates of the most extreme degra
dation is discovered in the aot of car
rying on the dirty practice, life in AI
bany will, forever more, be an unbear
able burden. And these dog pois
oners will be caught up with yet—see
if they are not. l’eople are continu
ally on tho lookout for them, ami they
are bound to come to grief.
tion, however, that It wns te.be ni
on by, the people within sixty days
ter it became a law..
Before ll wns eonslilereil by theclty,!
however, I here came a supreme court
decision whioh so affected the measure I
as it was drawn, that the Oity Oounctt i
decided to let the matter -drop, sub
jected, »s it was, to many inconveni
ences under Hint decision nnd other!
1 hen exist log olmimstnnees.
But now tlie question is being agi-i
fated anew. The legal advertisement \
hns been published for several days'
past, notifying the public that a meas
ure will be introduoed at the Homing
session of tlio General Asse nbly t->
continue the former not In force. A t -
ter il hns been passed, the mailer will
he voted upon by the people of th -
city, nml n board of sc jhool commit'-
sinners elected.
This Is nil Important step in He-
right direction. Nearly every town
in Georgia of the size of Albany 1ms n
system of graded public sohool-, nml
Albany should by no menns he behind
the times.
Graded schools have oomu to be a
necessity in a oily where many arc
to be prepared for collegiate oourses.
nnd Albany certainly furnish's In i-
full quota to the various colleges m
the. State. Then they provide, loo, a
regulnr nnd systematic plan of edm-u-
tlon whioh Is of course highly bendil-
oinl toauy community.
Under tho law these aro to
white and oolorod schools,llu
of course being made' nn
one.
This will he a great ailvs
Albany, placing tho educuti
tern on a higher basis, and ennhling
tliose who go from here, to college lo
compete suooessfully with M-lmlnrs
from any other points In the Stuli-.
VIVK tV Alt It ANTIS
lb
be I
division
equitable
ni age lo
nml svs-
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from Muse* Cox. | idence on K
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For Ki-mildiitf l-iiy, VonuifiimJ I niii-il
Niiiicm I.nwa*
From Frldiiy'a Kvknino Hhhald.
Yesterdiiy nftonioon about linir-past
4 o’clock, fully half nil hour after i )>**
Hkuald had gone to press, Henry
Wilson, a ,woJI?knoivn colored hurber
of the city, \Vas placed under arrest by
Officers Barron and Raley, who had
sworn out two warrants against him,
one for soiling liquor on Sunday, the
other for selling it without liernse,
both county cases.
Henry has, for a long time, been
running ft barber shop in Smoky Row,
but shaves and hair culs not coining I
the ‘’geld” as rapidly ns ho desired, lie |
has lately been secretly selling the
fiery liquid to secret customers, not I
even taking the Sabbath for an “off”
day.
The two officers have been shadow
ing him and gathering evidence for
quite a while, and lie was uotmoieslrd
until a dead case was worked up]
against him.
lie gave bond last night and was re
leased, but tie wilt have to do some
wonderful maneuvering if he doesn’t ’
serve his time in the near future. Be
sides the two warrants before men
tioned, there are two city cases against I
him for the same offense, and ti»e f
United .States Court will handle him [
for dealing in liquors without paying!
the revenue tax.
Hr l)i'*rrlcil thr
From Saturday's Kvknino JIkbald.
About 4 o'clock this morning Officers!
Barron ami Itnley arrested George I
.Stubbs, and he now occupies a cell ln|
tho Hotel, de Edwards
The hour wns a inosl untimely otie|
to disturb the slumbers of a sound
sleeper, but the officers wanted to In
sure to get their man.. The warrant!
under which Stubbs was urn-Med wa-J
ono sworn ont by his mothi-r-fn-lawJ
charging hlmT with desertion, he hav-J
Ing left nis children to shift for thom-l
selves. Stubbs’wife, and the mothera
of the children, is somcvvlo-i--- dowif
the B, & W. road. •
A llnbc'. Death.
From Safimlny'. Eyssiso. JIe»at.i>.
Yesterday afternoon, about < ovtoekl
little Perry, the infant son of M r. nml
Mrs. D. Vf. Kirkmnu, died, after a lqoJ
and severe illness. -Whooping ouogl|
was the immediate cause i
though he had been sul
other troubles prior to beiiq
with that dread malady whic
hard with infants.
The babe wns jus
of age, but ’twill be a lo
the aching void, left i
its parents, can be tlllei
of time, whioh heals n
their alllietion they have the
sympathy of the
Till- funeral t