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" ' ' ALBANY WEEKLY HERALD: SATURD\Y, DECEMBER 31, 1892. ' ■ * " " . 1 . . ■ . ' . * ’ (•L,: '‘ ALL SORTS OF RUMORS M BBOARD TO TDK OTIOOTSNU 1 OE DR. WOBIHItn, EM *f Them are Anbelaatlaled— Ulakle Did Nel Cenamll Halelde ae wm Repaired—A Oaard Areund the Jail tail Night* Special to the Hr.it ami. Amxricus, Dec. 23.—It was rumored on the streets yesterday afternoon late that old Dr. Hinkle had swallowed poison with suicidal intentions, but it was found to be false. The rumor Is supposed to have been started by some friend of tbe Hinkles with the Intention of preventing any Attempt on the part of the oltixens to lynohing either the doctor or his son. Both of the Hinkles are safe in Jail. It was also rumored, started by one ■of Hinkle’s friends, that an attempt would be made last night to lynch the mprderers probably in order to exalte sympathy in their behalf, and Sheriff Forrest wired the Governor for help. Tbe military was ordered out and guarded the Jail all night. It was re ported that THS niNKLKS WKRK VRBV UNKASY, but there was no cause tor them to be, And the guarding of the jail was un called for. Dr. Worsham was buried at 10 o’clock this morning. His wife, whose infant is but a few days old, is in a very critical condition and her death, as a result of her kind husband’s mur< der, would not surprise any one here. The Hinkles are very rich, so 1 learn, but their friends are few and far between in this community. Worsham was loved by ail classes, and was shot down WITHOUT A WOBD OP WARNING. He never spoke after being shot the first time. The cause of Che killing Vas that Worsham testitled in court against the Hinkles, and I heard last night that old Hinkle said before the murder, “we will kill him, damn him, and pay for him.” An Obtuse Fellow. Ono of Tennyson's old friends has ■described the odd fate of a manu script of “The Princess.” He was staying with tbe poet while the poem was going through the press, and while alone in the study one night and seeking a light for his pipe found some paper sticking out of his coal scuttle. From it he supplied his need, and on looking more closoly at the bundle found it to consist of ’•The Princess” manuscript, the Inst proofs of which had just been re turned to the printer. Looking it over ho abstracted a few sheots which specially took his fancy, nota bly that containing “Tears, idle tears,” and which now hangs framed in an honored place. But such is tko native obtuseness of man in unfa miliar circumstances that when the poet came in and told his guest to put the whole in his pocket if ho coveted the rubbish, the two made spills of a portion and returned the remainder to the scuttle I—Boston Journal. | A Quaint Species or Crow. 1 In his subsection on “modifica tions" of types of birds and animals Sir John Lubbock cites what is new est and most marvelous. He tells us of a particular crow in New Zealand where the male and female differ widely as to the structure of their Mila. The male bird has a hill, stout and strong, adapted to cutting and digging into the tree, but he is defi cient in that horny pointed tongue which would permit him to pierce the grub and draw it out. The hen bird has, however, an elongated and straight hill, "and when the cock baa dug down to the burrow the hen inserts her long hill and draws out the grub, which they divide between them—a very pretty illustration of the wife as a helpmate to the hus band.”—Buffalo Commercial. Paternal Advice. Medical Student—! think, father, when I have graduated J will be come a specialist. Father—What sort of specialist? 4 ‘I think I will make a specialty of ear diseases.” “I think you had better become a tooth specialist. Man has only two ears, but %e has thirty-two teeth that are always more or lees out of •order.”—London Tit-Bits. Preferred Their Own Society. Emerson suggested to his wife that Bridget and Mary, instead of taking their meals in the kitchen, should thenceforth he accommodated with seats at the family table. It being case of conscience, Mrs. Emerson, like a good wife, acquiesced in the proposal, and an attempt was made to carry it out. But the servants ob jected; it made them very unconi fortable; they preferred their own society and surroundings', and the family of course cheerfully acqui esced.—Buffalo Commercial. yVHITTIER, v DYING. Breathless the mist of amethyst That taints upon the tea. The sun moves like a musing god—' What sacred sight sses he? The goldonrod doth gravely nod Unto the beckoning bay: The aster watches for a sign— What alls the happy day? On its pale lip a finger tip The stern white Immortelle Lays softly, like one murmuring} "Hush! Ask not. It is well.” Smile ye or weep, jre cannot keep The secret that ye hold; Deep hearted autumn that he lovedl The solemn word is told. Wind of the northl It has gone forth} Breath of the pines—he dies. Ye had eternal kinship's right To kiss his closing eyes. To us, wtfo Ipve as men may love, Tender and loyal he: But Nature was his confidant, Sols intimate was she. We kneel afar, where thousands arm Gray light is on the grass: The tide is calling from the ebb: Lord, let the great soul pass! Thou spirit, #ho In spirit and la truth Didst worship utterly tbs unseen God, Thine age the blossom of a stainless youth: Thy soul the star that swings above the sod No prayer to heaven ever lighter rote Than thy pure life, escaped, ariseth now. Thou husheet like a chord unto Us does: Thou ctassst as thk amen to a vow. Sacred the passion flower of thy fame, To thee, obedient. “Write," the ange* •frith. Proudly life's holiest hopes preserve th> name. Thou poet of the people's Ohristlan faith. Master of song! Our idler verse shall burn With shame before thee, Beauty dedieatel Prophet of God! We write upon thine urn. Who, being Genius, held It consecrate; To starving spirits needing heavenly bread, The bond or free, with wrong or right a' strife; To quiet tsars of mourners comforted By mnalo set unto eternal life. These are thine nshers at the 8tlent Gate: To these appealing, thee we give in trust. Glad heart! Porgive unto us, desolate. The sob with which we leave thy sacred dustl —Elisabeth 8. Phelps in Atlantic Monthly. Substitute for Candles. There were two substitutes for candles. The one was the ancient oil lamp, the croosie (Fr. creuset). triangular metal saucer with au upright hook at the baJe to he hung up by. There was au inner saucer, moveable, to graduate the use of the oil. At the apex of the angle was flame, coming from a wick made of pitch of rushes, which must be cut at full moon, as the flame was thought to wax and wane with the moou if cut at any other time. The other substitute for the candle was the hog can’le. It was mode by splitting up the resinous logs of the primeval firs that are found imbedded in the bogs. They were left to dry at the fire side over the crack or chain that held up the pot over the fire. The candlestick, called the peermon, was a stone with a hole in its center, into which was fixed a pillar of wood about four feet high and tipped with a cleft piece of iron, into which the candle fitted. The nose of the candle was always turned to the door.—Black wood’s Magazine. -- A Legacy to Secondhand Dooksellera. By a clause iu his will M. Xavier Mannier, a member of the French academy, leaves forty pounds to be distributed among tbe sellers of sec ondhand books who ply tlieir trade on the quays of Paris. The money is to bo spent by the legatees in a feast of dinner, during which they are to think of the testator, who is grateful for the happy moments which lie spent wandering from one bookstall to another on the banks of the Seine between the Pont Royal and t..e Pont St. Michel.—London Tit-Bits. . To Seo the Heart Heat. M. Marcey, the well known inves tigator of aflimal movements by means of instantaneous photography, and the zoetrope, has now succeeded in rendering the beating of a living heart visible to the eye. All the ■hoses of the movement can he fol- ewed and properly examined by this new method. The heart employed in his experiments was that of a tur tle.—Pittsburg Dispatch. Th. '(mi «r a Billiard Ball. A Cairo doctor describes the man ner in which an elephant raid is con ducted and the loss of life caused in the hunt and in carrying the ivory to tbe shore. He calculates that a me dium sized, faultless tusk yields two or occasionally three billiard balls, and every ban means at least one murder and one great crime.—Lon don Tit-Bits. A Proverb. "Johnny, give me a proverb.” “Amputation is the thief of legs.” —Harper's Bazar. Tlley Freeze and Still Live. Fish, flies and caterpillars, though frozen solid, retain life because their construction admits of frost expan sion without disruption; a freezing temperature only results to them in torpor. —Exchange. RON W. A. LITTLE. THE DYING EDITOR.; An Unknown Contrlbntor Toll.- of HI. Wo., in Blank Van*. The owner of n paper lay dying in his lair, and the dew of death had gathered on his brow so calm and fair, but a printer knelt beside him as his lifeblood ebbed away and tisked the dying editor if he had a word to say. The doomed man mur mured softly as he grabbed the printer’s fist: “Well, at last the straggle’s over, and I never will be missed. Take a message and token to that city man of mine—that all his worn out chestnuts he had better put in brine. -There’s his joke.about the weather, which he lisod this many years, and the gag about the fellow who is always hunting beers, and the item he's so fond of on the man who peddlee books, and the chestnut based on people who go fishing in the brooks. Just to save the paper’s credit and to cast no Blurs on mine, 1 would ask him as a favor to put such gags in brine, and the lies ho's fond of telling of the street cars and the tackB, and tho one about some dandy who will never pay for clothes, and the one on' womon cleaning house—it’s weary heaven knows I Oh, 1 know ITl slumber happy in my grave beneath the vine if the man who does the city work will frnt those jokes in brine. Toll the man who tends to business not to weep when I am dead, but to buy himself a club and hit the first man on the head who comes in with strings of items and requests them printed free when the regular rates are cheaper than they really ought to be. Tell the foreman when he makes up not to turn a rale for me, but to simply print an item saying that my soul is free, for I want no eulogistic taffy of that kind in mine, and I think such hoary chestnuts should be pickled well in brine. "Have that gay and fresh reporter I engaged the other day put a stop to saying ‘Belahl’ also ‘Wo have come to stay 1’ And if .he should' say Ye looal' you must trample in his gore, for you know I'd ne'er allow it- in the happy dayB of yore. And the man who comes to tell you how to run the paper well should he greeted with a pewter chestnut hell. And you’ll print the paper promptly, he the weather full of storms, and the foreman must he careful when he is making up the forms that the beauty of the paper may through all like its neigh ages shine, and not be bors, only fit to put in brine.”—Yen- owine's Milwaukee News. A Heroic Little Itody. A delicate little woman, who has for years supported four persons by giving music lessons, feels her health failing. Her physician tells her that she will soon be blind and may be come insane as well. No one outside the home has heard the statement from her own lips, and she has taught her family to view the blindness and insanity as remote possibilities. She has others to help while she may, and she will waste no time in self pity, nor will she" accept anything that she does not earn. While sight and uncloud ed mind are hers she labors on, now, as she has ever been, the good angel of the household. She sees two things demanded of tier—that Bhe do the work of today, trusting God for the morrow; that she mnintain a resolyed and patient cheerfulness, making no addition to the world’s burden. It 1b not easy for her to suffer and make no sign, but she can hear anything so long as her loved ones do not suffer because of her.—'Youth’s Companion. AFF*latrA t. Loak Alter Ik. Slat.’. la- trrr.l AI.HK Ike W. A. Rend. Special to the Hzrai.d. Atlanta, December 28.—Governor Nortben today appointed Hon, W. A. Little, of ColumbDB, special attorney to look after the State’s property along the West' ern and Atlantic Railroad at a salary Of 12,000, A Orttl.lsm ef Jenny Lind. One day—it wad many years after her marriage—when Jenny Lind was staying with a relative of mine not far from Peterborough she attended a servioe in the cathedral. The dean who, probably without much critics I musical judgment, thought the stni ing very perfect, was rash enough I ask Mme. Goldschmidt how she liked liis choir. Bhe looked at him with a quiet smile and replied with an emphasis which could not be mis taken. "Oh. Mr. Dean, your cathedral is indeed most beautiful 1"—R. J. Mo- Neill in Century. Tli« Highest Pie azure. The man who owns a railroad never getH half as much joy out of it as the man who travels on a free pasR.- Rain’s Horn. Near the Sight ef the Crucifixion. Tlie hill niar Jerusalem where the crucifixion of J esiis occurred is formed of limestone. Tho shores of the Dead sea are lined 1 with pumice stone, showered out of some volcano that destroyed Sodom and Gomor rah, which cities finally sank be neath the waters of the Dead sea.— New York Press. All from Rending • Novel There are two men in this city who are thoroughly convinced that much good may come oat of tbe perusal of ! lasliy novels They have been sojourn ing iu state prison for the last live years —one in Slug Sing and the other in Au burn. A (lay nr two before Thanksgiv ing they returned to their respective homes free men. The governor had be come satisfied that they were innocent men. wrongfully cnnvloted. sou had pardoned them. Tbe reading of a flashy novel by one of the eonvlcte while lounging in the corridors of tbe prison led to sn inveeti- ;stion which convinced a mat many ufluenttal persons (n this city that two men had been railroaded to prieon—one for afteenyosfs and tbs other for eight een years—simply because of lack of proper legal defense. Tbs reader of the novel vtss so Impressed by the exu berant sentiment that trickled through the narrative that he made np his mlpd that tba authoress, for it was si woman's itory, most be very soft hearted. He therefore lost' no time in sending her a written statement of hia caae, with an appeal to aid him in securing his 1 th irty. The story touohed the heart of tbs novel writer, and she supplied the KOMsaiy money to have a complete In vestigation of the case made by an em inent New York lawyer. The active in terest of a Naw York newspaper man waa also enlisted, and a good deal of hard work was dona within a .few months. The producer of lurid novels forgot her oalling in her enthusiastic fight for justice, and It is safe to ssy that the two liberated men will never be found In the ranks of those who treat her stories with contumely.—New York Times. ________ For th* Greater United BUtM. At a meeting of the youth Norfolk Liberal association oil Haturday thore was an almost unanimous expression of opinion tu favor of the political union of Canada with the United States. Fol lowing upon the resolution passed by the Liberals of the town of Blmooe on tbe previous day this event indicates a drift of pnblio sontimont which it would be useless to Ignore or belittle. Poli ticians of the small sort may try to make capital ont of the foot that these declara tions were made by Liberal conventions. It would be easy to point out, on the other hand, that two of the leaders in the annexationist movement, Mr. Solo mon White, M. P. P., and Mr. T. M. White, secretary of tbe Political Union association, are Conservatives, and that a majority of tbe signers of an annexa tionist document published in this city ere of tbe same political faith.—Toronto Globe. BlsvaWd Klee trie Railway. A syndicate of engineers has applied for the privilege of constructing an el crated railroad In Paris to be operated by eloctriclty. Tho project divides the city into two parte by a line tunning north and south. A uew street, 185 feet In width, will be built, which will open Into the prin cipal quarters, tbe Bourse, tbe Halles Centrales, the Palais du Senat and the Jiinlin des Plantes. The central part of this route will be reserved for the elevated line, which will have two trucks resting, on four rowa of iron columns twenty-three feet In height. The projected line will con nect with the Metropolitan railway and with the important lines which ulroudy exist.—Electrical World. Made to Repoiit. In his memoirs tho Marshal do Luxembourg relates the follow mg in cident, Tlie occurrence took place during his service,in the army of Flanders. Noticing ono day on a march that several soldiers wero not in their places, ho sent an aid-do-camp to re call them. All obeyed promptly ex cept one. Tho marshal, then Count do Boutteville and a lesser officer, hastened to him, stick in hand, and hreatened to strike him. "If you do that you will ropont. it," cried the soldier. Boutteville struck him several times and forced him to return to his regiment Two weeks later the count offered large sum of money to any man who would execute a perilous errand tor him. A soldier who was con sidered the bravest in his regiment presented himself for the commission and acquitted himself with great suc cess and courage. Boutteville praised him highly and (resented him with the reword which lehad offered. The soldier imme diately distributed the'money among his oomradea and said: "I did not serve you for money, but if you think I deserve some rec ompense will you moke me an of ficer! Do you recognize me, sirf" The count replied that he hod never seen him. "I am the soldier to whom you gave a severe beating two weeks ago. I said that you would repent it.” The count embraced him with emotion, promised to bo his friend, and the man received an officer's commission that very day. Women in tbe Government Sorvlee. At present womon are gradually disappearing from the departments, and within a few years there will be lomparatively few of them in the employment of the government at 'Washington, notwithstanding tho fact that twice as many women men apply for placeB. This rosult will be brought about Inevitably by causes which aro now in operation, All persons entering tho classified servioe must come through tho com petitive examinations held under the civil servico law. When there is a vacancy the civil servico commission- era send in three names, from which one is selected by the appointing of ficial. In five cases out of six, i osing that the three names incl oth sexes, a man will be chosot preference to a woman. This seems very unjust, but reason for it is evident enough, chief of bureau prefers men as sub ordinates because he feels no re straint in their presence. Hi Mol Me«le for Concert*. Bobby Do Style—Where is mamma goin? Ethel De Stylo—To zee symphony concert. Bobby—Why don’t she wear her new dress f Ethel—I dess it’s so tight she can’t talk in it.—Good News. A New England college numbers among its students scholars from Kioto, Japan, Thessalonica, European Turkey and Iceland. Sailors’ Trousers In (faience. A sailor’s trousers are the foundation on which the learned Professor Heilprin, of the Philadelphia Academy of Sciences, rests his theory that tho north pole can he discovered, and that within a few years This garment was tlie property of a seaman whose ship entered tbe arctic regions by Behring sea. Some how the apparel got into the ocean cur- rent, was swept away up toward the l>ole and finally came down along the •bore of Greenland, where it was dis covered. A ship, argues Professor Heil prin. can go where these trousers have been. And it is a fact that an expedition la going to start from Norway in the spring of 1898 to.try it.—Boston Journal. Would Uko Tennyson's Fiscs. Since Mist Monroe, of Chicago, ap peared already laurel crowned nod with an ode that she had written herself the bee of poetio ambition has Bitted away and now bnixes In tho plug hat of tbs Marquis of Lome. He waste to garb himself in the mantle of Tennyson. With this laudable end in view he is boilding some verses to his distinguished mother-in-law, and it la feared ho qpe will dare to tell tier bow bad they are. (Somebody who really respects the late laureate’s mantle should swear ont. an injunction.—Ban Francisco Examiner. Philadelphia's Monument to McClellan. William Waldorf Astorhas sent to the McClellan association, payable to Gov ernor Pattison's order, a certified check Tor $1,000. (Sculptor Ellioott gets $8,000 for bis completed model. The stato pays $3,000 for the pedestal, and the entire work Is expected to coat EkUIOO. Bid* will be opened in a and tbe ( ■resent Intention Is to unvK^the statue u May.—Philadelphia inquirer. General Longstreat an Author. General Longstreet will soon have the manuscript for his book iu the hands of the publishers, it will be remembered that it was nearly finished when de stroyed by fire a few years ago. His handsomely furnished residence, with library, war records and manuscripts, was entirely consumed, and he had to rewrite the book.—Exchange. ah Genesee county, N. Y., there are 185 families who have never seen a Bible. So says - an agent of the American Bible society. The administrators of tbe Tift es tate will sell, on the Lawton place, on the 2nd day of January, a lot of per sonal property. See advertisement in another column. GO TO Surprise Stoi FOR THERE YOU FIND flecn Goods -AND— LOW PRICJ We WE ARE THE PEOPI.I LOOK AFTER YOUR INTEREST likes, or ask them to do odi which ho would not Uko to de of women clerks. Thus It ha that tho grqat majority of tho w now in office here were appointed be fore tho days of the civil servioe lav —Washington Cor, New York Sun. Northern China Has Many Palm. Northern China is the country of fairs. In any given district there 1b a constant succession of largo gath erings at which it is not uncommon for ns many ns 10,000 persons to bo' congregated. The fairs aro some times called tho “poor man’s market" for tho display of secondhand cloth ing which the owners wish to dis pose of. At Tochou and at another point on the Grand canal there aro annual fail’s held from tho beginning of the twelfth month to tho fifteenth day of the same month, at which there is a great display of foreign goods, especially woolens, sold at cheaper rates than at other times. This is called the fair of the grain fleet, and is one of the products of the vicious system of grain taxes. About 400 vessels are annually em ployed for transporting the Shan tung grain tax to Tungchow, near Peking, and upon their return these vessels bring large . quantities of goods from Tientsin, which aro sold at the fairs. While some of tbe fairs ore held at times rigidly fixed and never varied, most of them are wholly uncertain as to time.—North China Herald. acnnnl Work Reduced (o nn Art. A thoroughly good school leesoi a work of art. To witness one such affords as much genuine pleasure as a performance by a genius upon a musical instrument. In conducting a recitation the German school master in my opinion stands pre eminent. But even the best of schoolmasters seldom gives a les son which is in every way satis factory to himself. I have attended many lessons in Germany—and par ticularly in Jena, one of the world's centers of pedagogical thought— which were thoroughly planned, beautiful, interesting, but which were in spite of all considered fail ures because they were weak in one or more elements. This is instruc tion converted into a fine art.—Dr. J. M. Bice in Forum. What W*«da Are* A weed is a plant that grows in abundance out of desired limits. Any plant may become 'a weed by escaping from cultivation. Many plants that with us' are highly teemed in other countries grow as weeds, while, on the other hand, our weeds are in other countries some times highly prized. The correct use of the word depends altogether on circumstances.—Exchange. want -you to fed that when are deeling with ns -WHO WILL- SHOES J_SH0ES! CASH BBFORB DELIVERY gives . you goods right. t Waldrop & Williams, | 25 Washington Street. A NEW ROUTE I BETWEEN Thonasrille & Atlanta, With Through Coaohei Sail: Via C. S. R’y and 6, M. & G, R. R. SOUTH HOUND. +NO. ]. tNO. 8. Louvu Atlanta, Ga * Mr.Honougli.Uu... H Columbus, Ga u •Richland, Ga u Hudson, Ga * illmny, Ga Ar’vo ThotnuHvillu, Ga.. ** .Jacksonville, Fla.. u llriinswiok. Gn 8:S5 a.in. l*:o& p. in. 1:40 - am * »:45 •* oiso * 8:25 u.m. 7:S5 * H:45 p. 111. 0:80 u n:‘J 7 - 10J00 “ 5 NOIITII HOUND. +N0.1 (NO. 4. Leave Rruirswick,Gn “ Jacksonville, Fla.. ** Thoinn*vlllo,Go... M Albany, Gn 44 Dawson, Gii * •Richland, Ga u Columbus, Gn ** McDonough, Gn... Ar’vfl Atlanta. Gji 7::iu p, m. o:8o * 7J5f. n. m. 11:25 * 13:10 p.m. JJ85 * OjJO * 0:65 * 7:50 * 8:07 u losnn *» +Dnlly, JTrl-weokly, Mondnys, Wcdn and Friday*. •Dlnnnr Htatioa. 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