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... * i Though our stock 1 is a wall, the ' Assortment is very chqice, and we :an show you some very pretty Vatteau Packs, English Overcoat tyles and Russians, which are the However, they won’t last long, as,there are not many of them. TAe prices are exceptionally low, but we WILL GIVE tQ purchasers this week a special "Sh discount of 10 per ceut. on any wrap in the house, as we don’t care to Carry Over coat of any kind, Are you wise £ Then take advantage of i« special offer. HOFMATER & JONES. 17 ui 191 WASHINGTON SI. Read W. S. Bell’s alphabet in anoth- er column. It may pay you. Chinquepins and persimmons can be found in abundance in the woods now, County politics Is quiet as yet, but theye may be some fun in (hat line af ter the iiity election. Albany will have a board of water- Ir meeting of the Council. The farmers are'anxious for a good freeze and spell of cold weather to come, so that hog killing may com mence. W-obk around the water-works sta tion continues to be lively, nlthough everything is about completed except the lower. From tbo Chicago Times. ■ How long will-it take to whitewash, varnish or paint a ton of hard coal Will be decided- this iweek. A young and enthuslaBtio Republican has tin- ,„„en the disk as Jim result of a bet with nil enthusiastic nembcrftt fiver the general result of the late eleotton. The bet is being paid in one of the Slate street windows. The lostjr be- gap his task at 10 o’olook yesterday morning, and is to keep at it each dny from 10 to 4 o’clock until .every piece of coni is made to resemble ilnsliiked lime. It will probably take the whole week to finish flie ton. At 8 o’clock yesterday afternoon iess than a bushel of It had been whitewashed. Several farmers around Albany have been fortunate enough to hold their cotton until now. Some of them are still holding on to It and wailing for the staple to go to ten cents, and It looks now as if it were going that way. Albany is right in the swim on pol ities. The National election Imd hardly been finished before the miini- cipal pot began to boil, and after the election on the first Monday in Decem ber, county politics will hob up se renely, nnd keep up a billowy surface until January. By that time the peo ple will be ready for their much need ed two year’s rest from political strife. your grocer for Weston 22-dil()t H stands for Albany—please mark that down., is the best hardware man in town, . stands for Charter Oak, cutlery and churns. is the door bell that rings when it turns. for enamelware, its col ors white and blue. stands for foot tubs pf va- rigated hue/ is lor guns "of Parker Bros'.i make. stands for. harness that a horse will never break. stands for Ir&n’ King— the best stove that's made' I is the jewel Range we sell the tony trade. ■ , K is for keys that locks your door at night. the best lantern that ever gave light. M stands for muzzle the pointer dog'must wear. is a nozzle throwing water in the air. stands for oil stove that y burns double wicks. P is a plumb bob for level ing bricks. stands for queen of all Southern grates. R best rat trap in the United States, is for scissors also for shears. T the best tumbler that’s been sold in years. fortinited our customers stand. V is the vagabond not in our band, \kn is for “wanted” all to know what we’ve got X is to xarnine whether you wish to buy or not. Y 'is for Yale, the best lock for any door. ^3 is what you use under , stoves on the floor. Call on oranges, Slityorttllbtirl’s Malinflf Thl, Morainic. From WcCnctitlity'd Kvimiiijc Ilorntcl. There was quite a lively time for a couple of hours this morning in the city police court.. Quite a number of oases were tried nnd disposed of, most of them being again Negroes. The oontliotlng evidence sometimes given by colored witnesses Is funny in the extreme. 1 Each one has his or her statements all cut and dried be fore going on the stand and a little questioning sometimes works a wonderful change in the effect of a batch of testimony given. One will make some statement and In a few minutes directly contradict It. A good maqy lines were Imposed by his Honor this morning, and the oity treasury was considerably benefited -—. ; r ; .' — ' Large shipments A oranges from Westonla Grove received Weekly. 22-d30t S. R. Weston & Sons. ' Alttil Fortune Is'Very Fickle. “Fortune playa soraomml pranks," said C. M. Chowen, addressing tho Mendacity club, assembled on tho Southern sidewalks. “I was three times a millionaire and three times a pauper in one "year. In 18(13 an un cle- in England left mo a large for tune. I was living in Charleston, S. C., nnd engaged in blockade running. Half a dozen Yankee shells piled my fortune up at tho bottom of the deep blue son, and I went tc. Colorado and engaged In mining. 1 located ono of the richest silver claims in the terri tory, but did not know'its value. 1 sold it for a trifle, went to Chicago and bought property on Wabash ave nuo. It did not look as though it would ever ho worth a plato of soup, and I almost gave it away. A frac tion of it was sold the other day for a third of a million. It is said that fortune raps onco at every man’s door. It has thundered three times at mine, but I did not know how to entertain the coquettish minx. That is why I am now making night trains and absorbing railroad sandwiches.” —St. Louis Globe-Democrat. A Ileal Kook Lover. A real book lover is like a horse lover—tho one will tend liis library as tho other will his stables. I can tell wlieu a person takes up a hook,if he loves it or not by the way he handles it. An open fire is a necessity in a library; books require good air like a human being, and gas ought nover to bo used where valu able books are kept. Cdndles are hard on the eyes, though, nnd there fore should he avoided; oil or elec tricity are all better than gas, which acts as readily on bindings as it does on silver. In lieu of tarnishing, how ever, it affects their elasticity and pliable qualities.—Interview in Now York Times. litom tliu Philadelphia Uncord. Of all the oild election bets recorded probably the oddest is that made by a Kensington couple. The ifinn Is a Re publican and his .wife Is nil ardent Democrat. .Shortly before the elec tion they became involved In a dispute over the relative merits of the two candidates, which nt one time threat ened to disrupt the household. This was renewed nt intervnls, until in des peration the husband nladethe follow ing startling proposition, Said he: “If Cleveland is elected, every night for n year I will clear off the supper table, wash the dishes, mid put them away. On the other hand, if Harrison Is elected, you must shave me and shine my slices every morning.’’ l'n this the wife readily agreed, and now the unfortunate follower of the 0.0.1*. spends the belter part of the evening Struggling with a dish rug and profanity, while his wife wears an angelie smile. * Fi-n!!'. ihe lisIlHniiitiiUg Sun. Henry Rudolph, residing In Evans ton, O., courted Miss Lawrence for years. Just after the ChlcngnConven- tiinj Miss Lawrence bet Rnilolph that Cleveland would win, her hand 111 marriage being the stake. Tuesday night Rudolph came to this city to get the election returns, ami he wns the must anxious mail in town. His hap piness, when he lenrned that Cleve land hud been elected, knew no bounds, Thursday morning he returned to Evanston and married the young wu- man. From-tho Hanger Commercial. A gentleman in Watervllle proposed to a member of the opposite party that they flip a cent and the winner should have hlB choice of States to bet $5 on. The Republican won and allowed that his tfi would go on Maine. “We won’t bother to put up the wager,” said the Demoorat. “Here’s your moneyj] - •arprfaeil the Queen. Old D. is the man who stirred up the royal household at Windsor—oh, thirty years ago, most likely., He was in a company that Had beon in vited— "commanded," in the lingo of royalty—to play at tho oastlfi beforo tho queen. Tho lufll used for theat rical performances Is a small one, aud the dressing rooms are do near tho stage that almost every word that Is sjiokon In a loud tone can be heard in front. It wns one of Shake- spoaro's tragedies or historical plays that they were to do that night, and it was a whim of the queen’s that they should be, dressed in tho old armor that .belongs to tho castle. It would give greuter verisimilitude to the piece. , An armorer, who was expert in putting; on the old' breastplates and helmets, was sent behind to wait on the company, and his hammer could he lieuvd clinking r.ow nnd tlion on a piece of steel, wlion suddenly old D.’s voice was heard, distinctly ■ audible to the people in front, “Where tho bloody blazes is that blacksmith, to tighten on these ’ero nuts!" The queen nearly fell off from her chair. —New York Sun. — Gave Him » Mlnuto, but Him Only One Second* of club loungers were ex- reminiscqnoes when the * of thigWijrtftpke to 14 ono that prbmisM a good story:' ‘I can tell you an experience I had ion i wns with an engineering party in Idaho a few years ago. A ,in;nent man in the camp had sud- 8 ^sioaT. —\ Receipts end Mklpmeaia—T*-daT’* Mar ket Quotation!. __nly disappaared. and it was gen erally believed that iMurphy—or Des perado Jack, as -he was familiarly own—was accountable for the dis appearance. Murphy was a typical westerner, was born in the wost, had roved in the west for years, and it' goes. without saying that he was an expert at poker nnd o crack shot. “There webe already eleven notch es upon the handle of his revolver when I met him. He was absolutely fearless and was regarded as the ter ror of the camp. Notwithstanding the suspicions that arose concerning the old colonel's disappearance, there was no positive evidence that Mur- ihy was the murderer, and probably ‘ ie right arm of the law would have proved a little weak anyway In a case in which Murphy was involved. "I Was playing poker ono evening. I had a dead cinch, I thought, on my opponent, and the chances were in favor of my becoming richer- by about : $1,500 when Murphy saun tered in. He lounged around for a few minutes,* blit finding nothing else to interest him he swaggered over to our table, and wntched the game. Seeing that I was about to win he remarked insolently to my companion, 'Don’t let that tender foot get the best of you. Put down that ten.' “I fired up in a second and was ready to knock him down., “‘Stiddy, now, Billy; stiddy,’he said to me jeeringly. “Of course I lost my temper, called him a murderer and accused him of killing Brown, and added that every body knew it. Eying me coolly, he drew out a silver mounted derringer, with the remark: ‘“Young man, I'll give you Just one minute to take that back.”’ "You killed the scoundrel with own gun of course,” remarked a tener in the tone of one who bad anticipated tho point of, his story. The narrator-tilted b$Ck his -chair and thrust his 1 thumbs in the arm holes of his vest. . , / , “Gentlemen,” he remarked dryly,' *’I had just fifty-nine seconds to spare,”—New York Herald. A Proud Wolsh Hojr. A proud Welsh boy at school, hear ing that, an English duke employed six men cooks during the period that he kept open house, or rather open castle, in the north, sneered at the alleged magnificences. , “My father does better than that," said Grifflthap Jones. "At our verf ,laBt party before I left* Cmydrdl- mnyndryfl'we had twenty-four men cooks,' all employed In dressing the supper.’* This would have gone down easily, and Grifflthap Jones would Have established his paternal mag for ever, had not a companion of an inquiring turn iojf ?miufi discovered the real statd br tiio" case and an nounced to his school fellows that, although the Welshman had spoken truly, the company at the supper to which he allude:} consisted of twenty-four of his near relations,’ aud that every man toasted his own clieese I—London Tit-Bits. By ral Received previously Total Shipped yesterday...... 4 Shipped previously .10,832—10,838 ’• Stook on hand..;..... .....6,282 Our market to-day Was easier with fair demand. Good Middling. 9 Middling .......ill.it ,8-H Low Middling 8 Good Ordinary..., 8 Savannah, Nov. 28,1882. Cotton linn. Middling 9><j. Low Midd’IgH 8%. Good Ordinary New Yoke, Nov, 28—2 p.m. Con tracts opened firm and closed steady at the following prices. Opened. 1 November 0.80 I December 9.30 I January 8.40 I February 9.60 I March 0.85 Spots steady—Middling, 9 7-18. Receipts for 4 days 148,476. Liverpool opened steady and oloscd barely steady. Mlddllng5:l. [Yfulled. j Ladles and gentlemen suffering with throat and lung Uilllonltics to call nt our drug store for a bottle of Otto’a Cure, which we are distributing free of charge, and we can confidently re commend It ns a superior remedy for Doughs, Colds, Bronchitis, Consump tion, and all diseases of the throat and lungs. It will stop a cough quicker than any known remedy. Wo will guarantee it to cure you. If your children have oroup or whoopinj cough It is sure to give Instant reltcl Don’t delay, but get a trial bottle free. Large size 60c. Sold by J. R. UeGraf- fenried & Co. MOCK & RAISON’S ' ’ • 1 [ “ Delicious Malaga and To kay Grapes, Finest Florida Oranges, Best Northern Ap ples, Finest Wallace Candies. Pure, Fresh Bloater Mack erel (these are elegar Fresh Salt Fish Roe. All Groceries Fresh and Pure. Very truly, CHOICE A Miftcnlqulution. Teacher—Johnny, how many pres idents has the country had? Johnny Know!tail—Twelve. . “You must be thinking of the twelve apostles. Now, let me hear you count tho presidents. Begin 1” “One. two, three, four." Whack! Wlmek! Whack!— 1 Texas Siftings. It is stated that ! hero are (SftOOOJHK) volumes in the public libraries of America, while there are but 21,000,(100 in Europe. I j Try the Hot Beverages served at Le- uen’s Beautiful Fount.' 10-2711'. Ciii-hmltiei nf Crave [lobbing. Under the laws of Draco, which you will remember as being tho mi severe code ever drawn up, all grave robbers were put to death without trial. The old Athenian laws put a slave to death for disturbing a body after interment; but in the case of a freeman a “confiscation of a moiety of his possessions" was the penalty. Constantine decreed that a woman might obtain a divorce if she could prove that her husband had dis turbed the remains of the dead. At one time (in the time of the seventh and eighth Henrys) the English law held that “it iB deemed unlawful to open a grave for a hecond person, ex cept for a husband or wife." If I have not been misinformed, grave robbers in this country only lay themselve liable to a fine and im prisonment for a short time, unless it can be proved that they took the grave clothes along with the body. For this reason ghouls (real profes sionals! ahvays strip tho 'remains stark-naked beforo depositing them in tiie “long sack" preparatory to their removal to some medical col lege.—St. Louis Republic.' Max Cnaell Sh Mister Have opened at tlieir new stand, No. SO Broad street, the finest stock of ittil- linery and ladies’ notions ever brought to Albany. An experienced hat dress- .er in our millinery department. Call mi us., Max O.issel A Sister. d t -v-3m. A Race Between licet and pigeon!. A pigeon fancier of Hitmme.ln West phalia, mado a wager that a dozen bees liberated throe miles from their hives would reach it in better time than'a dozen pigeons would reach their cote from the same distance. The competitors were given wing at Rhynhem, a village nearly a league from'Hainmo, and tho first bee fin ished a quarter of a minute before the first pigeon, three other bees reached the goal before tho second pigeon and the main body of both detachments finished almost simul taneously an instant or two later. The bees, too, may bo said to haye been handicapped in the race, hav ing been rolled in flour before start ing for thfi purpose of identification; — v—m„.v J. W. JOINER, JEWELER. Washington St., OrratiTS Commebciai, lusk. There are only two kinds Of hats—the good atid the bad. Per haps it will be on the, tip of your tongue to say that there "is a third variety, the “indifferent.” Not at all. The "indifferent” hat is a bad lmt, and only the indifferent man will wear it. With nothing short of a good hat will any be satisfied. All the properties of life demand it ; nothing but eccen tricity will tolerate anything else. We sell no hats that are not really good, and the figures that we quote are so law that you need not think twice about buying one. For instance, we are offering the latest shape tourist "crush hat” at #1.50,'$2.5o-and $3.00. We are acknowledged leaders in our special lines. When you want to dress correqtly call aud see us. Yours truly, ,, MUSE & COX. Watches, Diamonds, Sil verware, Musical Instruments and Table and Pocket cutlery, Fancy Goods, etc. Reliable Goods, Fair Dealing, Bottom Prices. Fine Watch Repairing—20 years experience—all work guaranteed. Spectacles and Eyeglasses accurately fitted at moderate charges.