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zmw&mg. "’V- 1 ,. ALBANY WEEKLY HERALD: SATURDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1892. 1V, IlilKTOSBJlta ul fn)riiltr, I-Mttor. Every morning except Monday. SuuscntmiiN : Hy mall, pottage paid, or do- ircred hy carrier 10 cent* a week or 45 cent* a momh- Onc year $ 5 00 BIx month* . * 2 50 Three month* 1 25 All inbacriptionH payable in advance; eeptiou to tlilH rule in favor of anybody. AnvRRTiaiNo Ratkh iikahonaw.e, and made known on application. Orpins tip atalra. wcat aide of Washington airoct, opposite the Commercial Hank. Entered at the poatofflee at Albany, Oa., ns aecond-c.lnM mail matter. SATURDAY, OCT. 20, 1802. Another diuinoiul tt Gainesville. 1ms been found TitE Congressional nice in Ninth In getting warm. the Hon. Paul Tiiammki.l, of AVhltfleld, has withdrawn from llie race for the Speakership of the House. Dry fails, like the present, arc get ting to be tlio rule rathor than an ex ception, in this part of the country. Th» AVonverltes of South Carolina have at last put nut an elcctornl ticket. The November sacrifice will be n large one. Statistics show that Georgia's wealth hns Just doubled since 1871). and that the property of colored tax pay ers lias nearly trebled. ir Blaine couldn't save New York for himself In 1BSI, how can the Re publicans hope that he will he able to save It for Harrison In 1802. Post—the said C. C. Post—hns Imd Ills day In Georgia, and Is probnldy now looking for new party pastures green somewhere In the Northwest. It Atlanta would just settle her city cleotlnn, like we d» down here and let a man vote for whom he wants they would get along a great deal better. Wiiknkvkh the tall of the Tammany tiger Is twisted his Dmiincratlo howl frightens the Republicans bnck Into their old stronghold—the corruption of the ballot box. Tiikhk Is a corn blockade In Texas. On the Hail Antonio and Arkansas Pass Railroad nlone, at Corpus Christ! and Alice, 500 carloads of the grain are side-tracked owing to the lack of engines and train orews. This railroads centering In Cliloago have given orders for the omistriiotion of more than 1B00 passenger cars and 400 locomotives, to be delivered prior to May 1, 1808, In anticipation of the inorease of biiajness during the World's Fair. Thk Inconsistencies of the Republi can tariff debaters are surprising. They dn morq to refute and undermine their own arguments thnn anything else. There Is no better refutation of the high protection theory than a good Republican high tariff speech. North Carolina has Just developed a sensation In the shape of an organ ized hand whose mission was to de liver the Alliance Into the hands of the Third Party. A considerable row was stirred up by Its discovery, and the hand will no doubt he nipped In the bud. And now the clergy is coming out for Cleveland. Rev. <jeo. Halnsford, a prominent Kplscopnl minister of New York, has surprised Ills congregation by announcing that lie will take the stump for Cleveland. Religion will always be in league with right and truth in government. Aktkr all, the Russian peasants who refused to light the oholera may have been right. According to the .Septem ber Ini I lot i 11 of the Connecticut State Board of Health, cholera “has been a be life factor or the human race, having snved more lives hy the reform it hns promoted than it hns destroyed," Ritcrtii.ir.iN campaign methods tills year are without precedent. Dlshon- «sty, corruption and fraud have been practiced hy them before now, hot the policy of potting not only cabinet ministers, hut also diplomatic minis ters on the stump Tor the Republican candidate is without precedent or pro priety. Anything for votes, however, or as Mr. IV III tela w Reid puts it, “III an election everything goes.” • From Monday', Kvcaing Herald. To-day Is the Daily Hkrald’s birthday. The paper made Its first appear ance on the 24th of Ootober last, and it Is, therefore, just a year old to day. We celebrate the day like wc do every other day—by getting out the very best psper we can under the oiroumstanccs that surround us. a Looking haok over the year that has marked the advent and witness ed the first struggles of the Hkr- ald, we feel that we have more to bo thankful for than to regret. Our little bantling, at first a small sheet printed one page at a time on a Job press, met with a most cordial reception, nud was given a liberal patronage by the business men and people generally of Albany from the day it made Its appearance. The people subscribed for it, nnd the business men advertised in It, and before It was three weeks old Its suooess as a newspaper enter prise was assured. The phenomenal growth of the paper Is so well known throughout Houthwest Georgia and to the press of the entire State that we shall not review It In detnll. Only a few of the most linportnnt forward steps taken by the paper during the first year of its career will serve to show that its progress has been rapid and oontinous. In December it became apparent that such a paper as the IIkrald had started out to be oould not be printed on nn ordinary job press and In one corner of a job oflloe. A new Campbell oyllnder press and a complete newspaper outfit was puroliasod for It. Then the paper was onlarged to its present size. In January the Mayor anil City Council, by a vote of six to one, awarded the olty printing to the IIkrald, making It the offlolal or gan of the olty. In January we commenced the publication uf nn eight-page weekly edition. In February the Sheriff of Dough erty oounty designated the Herald as tho official organ of the oounty, Othor favors of a public nnd po litical nature have been bestowed upon tile Hkiiald from time to time during the year, whloli are duly np predated and might he mentioned here, but we fgrbear. The pnst is now behind u», nnd, while we would not forget It, we must look to the present nnd the future. We Imve had our trials nnd adversities as all new newspaper enterprises must have, but we have reason to hopo Hint wo Imve had our worst ones nnd that smoother waters tlinn those through which we have Imd to pass lie before us. Our policy Ims been to keep the Hkiiald clean and make it, llrst of all, nn Albany paper. Local news and the things that concern and Interest the people ol Albany and vicinity have been first to receive attention in our column's, and, ns n reward, the Kvknino Hkiiald lias a much larger circulation at luune than any paper lias ever Imd in this oily, t'poll the whole, the IIkrald has prospered through Its llrst year, and, for the in format lull and grnti- Itentton of its friends, we are glad to be able to state that the circu lation of both its Daily and Week ly editions Is steadily increasing. Clkvklaxii is the greatest letter writer among all the public men uf tile present age in Ihe country. His great ness in this particular direction or con nection does not consist In the num ber of letters that he writes, but In the good judgment that is displayed in those that he does write. He seems to know just when to write and what to write. He never writes buncombe letters, either, but writes to the point and has a peculiar faculty for avoiding blunders. Tjikrk is food for thought in this little inoident related by a Chicago 'paper: An Indian girl, one of the students of the Carlisle School, while hi New York, was taken down to Rills Island and saw the swarms of immi grants landing. She turned to a New York gentleman and said: “Your people drove us out centuries ago. Now these are coming to drive you etlt. If you don’t make tiiem stop com ing you will be in a Tew centuries what my people are now." LET’S HAVE TBITHLTI1. they abb CNCOSSTITETIOSAL. From Monday's Kvenlng Herald, In the midst of one of the boasting, self-laudatory editorials so character istic of that paper of late, the News and Advertiser of yesterday morning says: By referring to Ueo. I*. Howell's American Newspaper Directory, you will leul'u Unit tlio Weekly News nnd Advertiser has a circulation exccuding 11,000. The IIkrald is not a patron of Row ell's advertising agency nor a sub scriber to the newspaper directory which that firm publishes. Having no copy of the directory at hand we can not sny whether It actually reports our morning contemporary as having a circulation “exceeding SOW or not; hut, whether it does or not, we chal lenge the correctness of It, and are willing to forfeit $100 to he given to the Ladles’ Memorial Association upon satisfactory proof that the News and Advertiser Ims even half the circula tion claimed. Now, to bring the issue squarely to a “put up or shut up” point: Tho IIkrald hereby offers to deposit 8100 in any bank in Albany against a like sum to be put up by Rowell A Co., the publishers of the News and Adver tiser or anybody else who may feel in terested In the matter, subject to the following conditions: If satisfactory proof is adduced before three impar tial judges, to be mutually selected and ngreed upon, tlint the Weekly News and Advertiser has a regular bona tide circulation of 1500, our $100 goes to the Ladles’ Memorial Association; if it is proven that said paper has not a regular bonu Hde circulation of 1500, then the $100 of the other party goes to tho Ladles’ Memorial Association. In either event, the money put up hy the party who proves to be correct ill the question at issue, shall be return ed to Its owner. Now, if the News and Advertiser has anything like, or even half the circulation It is claiming, here Is nn opportunity fur it to bIiow up with Hy ing colors and make a genuine ten stroke. Will It do it? The News and Advertiser nkvkrhas had 8,000 circulation. In its palmiest days, when It wns the offiolal organ of four oounties and was practically without competition as a local paper In tills territory,* the highest circula tion It ever reached was 2200—nnd then that prlnoo of newspaper can vassers, MaJ. T. J, Burney, was on the road for it all the time. What business is this of the Hkr ald’s, are wo asked? None, perhaps, we are free to say, and we are con scious of the faot, too, tlint there are those who will say we are actuated by jealousy; but our excuse for it is that our morning contemporary has been so thoroughly in love with itself and .has indulged in so inuoli blow, bluff nnd brag about Its circulation of late that It Is beginning to mislead adver tisers and operate against the legiti mate business methods to which the Hkiialu trlestondlierelu dealing with its pntrons nnd the public. UEOHUIA’S VONGHKMN.ilEN. The Congressional race In Georgia is narrowing down, and the candidates are coming ill on the home stretch. Every district outside of the Tenth is certain to go Democratic hy a good majority. This wns demonstrated |n the election of October 5th. The Tenth is somewhat of a lighting ground, for although a good majority was given the Democratic ticket under the circumstances, it was small as com pared with the majority in the other districts, Watson Is marshaling his foroes and doing everything In his power to overcome that majority, but the Democrats are making an open squareout light, and it is probable that they will win. However, help Is needed, and any aid that can be extended by Democrats in other parts of the State will be thankfully received by the Democratic committee in that district. Watson must be defeated, and eleven Democratic Congressmen will go up frhin Georgia. Very few people have ever consid ered the matter, but it is a faot that the plank In the People’a Party platform as well as the government ownership of railroads provision Is directly an tagonistic to the Constitution of the United States. Speaking of these two Issues of the Third Party, Mr. W. H. Fleming, of Richmond, said in an Interview the other day: “Both these planks Involve the legal question of eminent domain or the condemnation of private property for public use. That right, is nowhere lodged In tile Federal government. It rests exclusively In the states. “If the Untied States desires tn erect a government buildingfor a postoffice, or any similar purpose, It must pur chase the property at private sale or proceed to condemn It under State laws. It acquires Jurisdiction over the land only by actual cession from the State, ft has no authority of its own to condemn private property, whether in land or In railroads.” Mr. Fleming Is nn able constitution al lawyer, and when he undertakes the solution of such a question he goes to the bottom of It. JThere is no doubt that these propo sitions like many'others set forth ill the Third Party platform, propose vio lations of the powers delegated by the Federnl constitution to the states. The Supreme Court has never deemed these mutters of enough Importance to look into them, hilt we Imve no doubt Hint were they to examine them they oould pronounce half the People’s Party platform unconstitutional. WORTH COUNTY’S FAIR. AM MBBN BY OUB WOBT1I COUN TY COBBEIPONDENT. A Mallsfnclarr Exhibit of the t'onnlp Heaoarcea nnd n Plrnannt Time—To ihe Mime Fair. DEMOCRATIC! DOCTillNE. TV. Wallen* nl I.n.t NlKht. Tholunaville WATSON GONE MAD. From recent reports of Mr. Watson’s actions it would seem that he Imd de veloped a decidedly maniacal tend ency. It Is reported tlmt he said, Inn recent speech, that lii» followers must elect him at nil Imznrus, nnd tlmt the whites must shnrpen their knives nnd arm the Negroes and carry them to the polls; and tlmt If n Democrat should inter fere, to make short work of him. Mr. Watson 1ms been known to he somewhat on the incendiary line, but these remarks eclipse all his other ef forts on tlmt line, and stamp him at. once as a dangerous character, who oould better subserve the interests of Ills party behind I lie bars of a lunatic asylum. The truth of the matter is Mr. Wat son Ims grown desperate. A big Dem ocratic majority Is staring him ill the face, nnd lie is ready to use any means —fair or foul—to secure bis election. We want no incendiarism In Geor gia. The quicker tile people of the South put him on the shelf the better it will be for the State. From Saturday’* Kvonins Herald. Of the speech of lion. .T. W. Walters at Thomasville last night, this morn ing’s Tlmes-Enterprlse says: Hon. Jesse Walters, Elector of the fleoond district, spoke to a fair nudi- euce, including a number of ladies, at the court house Inst night. He was In troduced by Hon. W. M. Hammuml, who briefly reviewed the situat ion and paid a high compliment to Mr. Wal ters. Mr. Walters dropped Into his line of argument easily, readily and gracefully. He laid down three prop ositions for discussion—taxation, or tariff, flnanoo and the force bill. His Illustration of the Inequalities ami oppression of the McKinley tariff were so plain that nil were convinced. At least, If they were not, it was be cause they would not be. The subject wns handled in a masterly nnd moBt convincing manner. Under the head, of flnnnce he dis cussed the silver bill, showing that, while Mr. Cleveland mid the Demo cratic party were not In favor of stamping 86 cents worth of diver as n dollar, they were in favor of the un limited coinage of the white metal, provied 100 cents of silver was put in evpry dollar. His arraignment of the Infamous Force bill, and eloquent plea fur local government, carried the audience by storm. The distinguished speaker closed by warning the Democrats agnlnst over confidence. He said that tho Third Party, jvhlle badly demoralized, was lying low, and that the Republicans would no doubt have the mimes of every Third Party candidate on their ticket for Congress. At the conclusion of the address a resolution wns passed in fnvor of all places of business closing on election ilay. Messrs. W. M. Hammond, R. L. Ilieks and J. S. Pittman were appoint ed a committee to aid in carrying out the resolution. This is being done all over the district. MATED IIIM NEMC. Warren Crawford FoNod Gniltr Harder, Bat Becaatmead- ed ta Mercy. Atlanta is developing an anti-snap per faction. People are kicking against the city ticket nominated there by a snap convention a few days ago. Thk mayoralty ticket put out by the New York Anti-Tammany oounty De mocracy, will have little influence In the campaign. None of the promi nent anti-snappers are supporting it. Thk Health Board of New York em ployed fifty extra inspectors during the oholera scare, at a cost of $5000; and the Police Commissioners In curred an expense of $4201) by hiring tugs to enforce the quarantine laws. Thk country has been a long time about it—but It is better to begin late than never—in setting apart a day as a legal holiday In honor of the discov erer of America. But, if we continue to go way back yonder in the planta tion of time, and, bringing up men and events almost forgotten, and name and observe holidays in their honor, some arrangement will have to be made for increasing the numjer of days in a year in order to keep the holidays from recurring too often. «M.Y A FEW MODE ItuliupcUNtiblc Enlcrpritr* Doe* Albany Need-Will Hhc lie* Them? The last half decade of years has seen In Albany the establishment of. many enterprises, without which it would have been impossible to get along. They have al’» done well, too,and Al bany has supported each new venture without any trouble. We have secured waterworks, electric lights, telephones, street cars and dummy, more railroads, the oft despaired of depot, river navi gation, the Chautauqua has been estab lished, we will have sewerage in a few more months, and besides dozens of plants and factories have been put into successful operation. Still we need some more improve ments. It will be almost an impossi bility for Albany to go much longer without a hotel built with all the mod ern improvements, ami the people are bound to have one before they stop. And tho opera house! This has been a subject so often discussed by the newspapers and public generally, that the mention of it has become a chestnut. Yet, our primitive “she bang” must go some of these days, and the only way to get what we want is to keep hammering away at it. Let’s keep it up, and we will “get there by ami by,” A cotton factory is something, too, that occupies a little corner in the hearts of some of Albany’s best citi zens, who say they will see one run ning yet. Will they? Wait and see, A combined city ball and Chautau qua building will be one of the next things to be built in Albany. We just won’t get aloaig without it. The Chau tauqua exercises of 1893 will have to be held in the tent again, but in ’94, they will take place in a handsome hail, the property of the association. Mark what we say—these things are coming, and that soon. Special ColTcaiKiudeiieeaf tlio HKBAI.D. Isabklla, Ga., Oct. 21, 1892. The fourth annual fair of the Worth Agricultural Association closed at Poulan Thursday evening. The display in all the departments, while not large, was well assorted, nnd of the must choice variety. The dis play of agricultural products wns the best one on the grounds. The corn, peas, oats potatoes,' rice, sugar cane, forage, hay, cotton, etc., eto., oould not be excelled anywhere, and conclusive ly proved that Worth eonlity is one of the banner farming counties of South Georgia. In gourds nud pumpkins, Worth’s soil spreads itself, and some monsters were on exhibition. Mr. W. W. Monk made the best display of corn and oats, and received orders for large quantities of seed of several va rieties while on the grounds. But Mr, J. M. Watson came in with a flue gen eral assortment, that was hard to beat, of all Held products. The best display of fruit and veget ables was made hy the Ty Ty Nurser ies, some of the articles on exhibition, particularly the pears, being the finest the writer has ever seen. Jerry Han cock was in it when it came to pota toes, some of his Spanish variety look ing almost good enough to eat. Tlie children’s display, while not large, wns a very creditable one, es pecially ill the inntternf drawing and writing. But, probably, the prettiest nnd most templing thing on exhibition wns the display of preserves and jellies by Mrs. R. II. Lester, of Poulan. There were over an hundred different varie ties of these, and some of the linest it hns ever been the writer’s pleasure to see. Mrs. Lester also displayed over hr hundred varieties of growlngplants and flowers. The lot of bread, cakes and domestia wines showed that Worth would not have to go nwny from home to feed herself, while a few sides of home- raised bacon lent a substantial air to the display. A careful look over all these pro ducts could produce but one fault, llrst of all, that if these people, living In a county that could produce such a variety and quality of produots as these, should raise six oent cotton to pay for Western liny and corn nnd meat, they deserve to be sent off to the asylum or Third Party. In the department of “Ladies Handi work,” supervised by clever Tom Kitchens, Worth's dailies showed that they were the worthy helpmeets of husbands that oould raise such pro ducts as were seen in Ihe agricultural department. The display of painting, drawing knitting, quilting nnd other work ivns good, nnd showed that while the Indies were looking after the comforts of their homes and fnmilies, they were not neglecting the line arts by any means. Indeed, one would have to travel a great deal to And more intel ligent, cultivate^ and accomplished women thnn the wives ot Worth coun ty’s farmers. Outdoors the exhibition of live stock and poultry was excellent, and the showing made was creditable to any county or its citizens. There was plenty of amusement on hand. A bag race, which was won by a long-legged boy who will some dny represent his county, while his com petitors were falling over each other in n vain attempt to master the mys tery of the bags; a girl’s race for a nice rocking-chair, which was a walk over for Kate, the pretty daughter of County Clerk McDowell; a boy’s foot race, which was followed by any num ber of scrub races, afforded more or less amusement. There was, also, a contest for the prize offered for Ihe best musical per former, and a shooting match, which wns a source of a good deal of amuse ment to the sportsmen present. A prize for the prettiest baby, and n voting contest for the prettiest young lady, proved a source of a good deal of amusement. The best articles on exhibition will be curried directly to the State Fair at Macon, uuder charge of Capt. John G. McPhnul, who has been taking the lead in deicloping the resources of our county, and in forwarding the good work of the Agricultural Association, which is doing so much to bring AVorth before the eyes of her sister counties in the matter of progress. The attendahee was very good, es pecially on the second day, and the crowd, of which Albany furnished a considerable portion, seemed to en|oy From Friday’s Kvknino herald. The Superior Court has been ocou- pied this morning with the trial of AVarren Crawford, colored, who killed a white man by the name of N. Dj Meroer something over a year ago. . The murder occurred In East Doug]^-| erty. Mr. Meroer, it will be remem bered by those familiar with the case,] wns endeavoring to collect a debt froml Crawford by cutting off some meat] from a side which Crawford had pur4 chased, when Crawford struck hlm| with a fence rail and killed him. Most-of the day’s session has . beenl consumed in trying Crawford. Col.l AValters was counsel for the defense. The jury was out but a short time! when they brought In a verdiot- of] guilty of murder vVith a recommenda-f tlon to the mercy of the court.. Tbisl saved his neok. It is generally under-1 stood to mean Imprisonment for life,| and this will doubtless be tils sen tence. Col. AValters, however, says the case | will be carried to the Supreme Court [ and Crawford has another oliance to escape with even a smaller sentenee. A LUNATIC. Arrested nud Jailed Title Morning—lie 1 Will Gn to the-Aerlntn. , | n From Saturday's Kvenino Herald. Lem Johnson, oolored, was arrested about 10 o’clook this morning by Officer Raley and Mr. Frank Godwin and given quarters in the jail. Johnson is a lunatic, and of late his lunacy has taken such a turn as to render him dangerous to his associ ates. He has been living in Sand- town, beyond the Southwestern limits of the oity, and, until lately, has beeiio very quiet. It seems though that savage fits have? quite reoently been taking possession'! of him, and such an attack came on this morning, and he began lighting A J 1 Negro man, biting him badly on the hand, A messenger was sent to the olty for the officers, who arrested him without any trouble. He will be tried before Judge Sam Smith for lunaoy and will be sent to the asylum. Mnld Morlangcd Properly. From Saturday's Evening Horald. Mr. II. H. Nelms went before Magis trate A. P. Greer this morning and swore out a warrant for the arrest of Willie Lee, a Negro who lives in East Dougherty, near Mr. Nelms' place. The warrant oharges the Negro with selling mortgaged property. Some time ago Mr. Nelms took a mort gage on a lot of ootton seed belonging to Lee, in order to secure himself a debt. A few days ago the darky sold . the cotton seed and appropriated the money to his own use. He will, prob ably, be in jail by night. To Keep Blocking* Whole. Here is a case where the proverbiuf “stitch in time” saves a great many more than “nine.” Take your stock ings when they are new, and before ever putting them on, “run” them with soft darning cotton throughoutthe en tire length of the heel, toe and so*. You need not run them closely, nor must you draw the thread tight. AV hen you wear the stockings you. will And that this slender reinforce ment is sufficient to keep the stockings! from wearing in holes. Strengthened! in tills way, your hose will remain in tact down to nn honorable and respect-1 able old age. themselves thoroughly. It is a popular belief that while the poor man must be careful about his attire, the capitalist may dress as badly as he pleases. Yet a man with $17,000 in bank narrowly escaped a committal for vagrancy in New-York the other day. His ragged and filthy clothes were sufficient evidence’ against him until he exhibited his bank books. Herb’s a good one on an Albany po- ' lice officer. A Negro stole a pair of shoes. The oflicer employed another Negro to help him track the miscreant^ promising him a suitable reward. The amateur detective said he would collect the desired information and meet the oflicer at 12 o’clock at night with full particulars. The meeting occurzd nnd a paper containing the supposeH^, information was delivered. The officers put it carefully away in Ills pocket until he could reach n street lamp. There he carefully took it out, cau tiously unfolded it, and began to pe- ■ ruse its precious content’s, it was a druggist’s prescription for colds, and read at the bottom, “Cure guaranteed or mony refunded.” The officer is now doing his own detective work. One of the best equipped and most • thrifty enterprises in Albany Is the steam sausage factory that Mr. AV. AA r . Rawlins runs in connection with his butcher '’business. He has all tbe necessary machinery and appliances for manufacturing sausages of all kinds, and makes as good an article of jj Bologna as can be had anywhere. His ’ sausages are not only sold here, but he ships quantities of them to other markets. A Herald man went through the factory, from refrigerator to smoke oven to-day, and it was a revelation to him. Mr. E. L. Lkben bad a lively time with a kerosene lamp in his store early Saturday evening. The lighted lamp fell to the floor and went to pieces, making a blaze that threat-, ened to be serious. Prompt ac tion upon the part of Mr. I.eben I * soon landed the lamp, or what therm was left of it after the fall, into the s street, however, and the blaze in tbe 1 store was. extinguished before there was any alarm. .