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VOL. 2.
ALBANY, GA., SATURDAY, JULY 15, 1893.
EHRLICH’S
ity Shoe Store.
LARGEST AND MOST COM
PLETE LINE OF
SPRING
BLAKELY HAS A SENSATION
EDITORS ISO HINSON AND HOW
ARD FIGHT.
Il W’m Brought About bj u Thrcr-I.lnr
I'eraonnl Iteui—Howard Slnppnt
RobiuMon’N Face nnd In
Return !■ Shot.
1 ATS! HATS!
OOOOOOOOOOOOO O
OOOOOOOOOOOOOO
GENTLEMEN BOYS AND
CHILDREN.
BBIililGBRBNT WASHERWOMEN,
Five of Then Engage In a Knock Down
and Drug Out.
BOOTH’S FIGHT WITH LIQUOR.
The
■^hoes! *
| Shoes!
OR LADIES AND GENTLEMEN,
MISSES, BOYS AND
CHILDREN.
WE HANDLE ONLY THE
JEST GOODS!
IN OUR LINES, AND NO
OTHERS. CALL AT
IE CROWN OP YOUR HEAD AND
THE SOLE OF YOUR FEET.
We propose to cover them
I , Cheaper
VS WEEK
Than Ever Before.
AN SHOES
-AND-
ITRAW HATSI
GO AT A SACRIFICE.
fan Shoes
$6.50,
6.00,
4-50,
4.00,
3-50,
now
$5.00.
4-75'
3-50'
3-25'
2.50,
ENTIRE STOCK OF STRAW
_ HATS GO AT TWENTY-FIVE
PER CENT. DIS
COUNT.
THESE ARE
TEST CLASS
joods at Prices Never Before Offered by
Any One. Call Early.
UR-SIZE
WILL BE THE FIRST SOLD.
ISE l COX GO.
90 BROAD .STREET.
Front Monday's Evening Herald.
At Blakely, Saturday night, about 8
o’clock, Editor T. M. Howard, of the
News, was shut ami seriously wounded
by Editor W. H. Robinson, of the Ob
server.
There has been some feeling between
the two gentlemen for some time,which
was intensified a few weeks ago when
Editor Robinson secured the legal ad
vertising for Early county. Since
that time they have been at logger-
heads, hut no serious trouble had re
sulted up to lust Saturday night.
But it was altogether a different
matter that led up to the light as men
tioned nbove.
In the Blakely News of week before
last something like tile following ap
peared in the personal column of thut
paper:
"Misses Ida Brown nnd Jennie
Vaugb. of Albany and other places,
are spending this week Witli friends
in tile city.”
In tho last issue of the Observer
Editor Robinson referred to the above,
and denounced it ns "an outrage perpe
trated upon a decent public.” He said
that the writer of it knew that the
women were prostitutes when the
item was written, and tlint it was a
shame, disgrace, etc., etc. The rebuke
was very strong, and was couched in
strong and unnnstaknble language.
Saturday night, Editor Robinson
went to the postofllce, and as he was
leaving tlie building lie encountered
Editor Howard, when, as the IIkiuld’8
informant relates, (be following con
versation took place:
Mr. Robinson, did you 1 intend the
article in your paper of this week in a
spirit of sympathy or as an Insult?"
asked Howard,
“You can look upon it as you please,”
replied Robinson.
As soon as Editor Robinson made
the reply Editor Howard slapped him
in the face, saying:
“Take that, then I”
Quick as a flash Robinson drew n
pistol and tired at Howard. He was
in the not of tiring again when How
ard threw up his hands and said:
“I am unarmed, but you can kill me
if you wish.”
Robinson lowered bis weapon and
walked out of the building, where he
remarked to the crowd that had col
lected :
“None of you can arrest me, but an
officer can. Tell Ed. Black (the sheriff')
that he will find meat home.” And
he was allowed to go.
As soon ns the excitement of the
moment was over, friends of Editor
Howard rushed to his assistance. It
was found that the bullet flred by
Robinson had shattered the bones in
Howard’s left arm near the shoulder.
The wound was dressed at once nnd
Beveral pieces of bone were removed.
It is a serious fracture, and amputa
tion may be necessary.
From parties coming to tile city on
tbo Extension this morning it was
Jearned that Editor Robinson had not
been arrested up to the time the train
passed Blakely this morning.
It is learned that the affair afforded
quite a sensation and that it is the
talk of the city.
At last accounts Editor Howard was
resting as quietly as could be expected
under the circumstances. He is, of
course,coniined to his room,and it will
be some time before lie will be out
again.
Died.
Near Mercer’s Mill, Sunday after
noon, Mrs. Margaret A. Joiner died
after a lingering illness.
Mrs. Joiner was a sister-in-law of
Mr. J. W. Joiner, of this city, and was
in lier sixtieth year. She leaves four
children to mourn her death, all of
whom are grown.
At the Iitu.
G. E. Weeks, Poulan; W. F. Ito-mes
and wife, Macon; Mrs. Jos. Phillip
and son, Macon; A. II. Merston, Chi
cago; D. Myer, City; R, II. Free
man,Hardaway ; T.N.Sumers, Blakely;
John Davis, W. J. Shackelford, A. C.
Plonsky, W. P. Burks, J. Scott, City;
W. R. Terry, Leary; II. R. Deane, Ma
con; E. B. Hornady, Atlanta; Jno. R.
Cortney, Macon; R. D. McLeod, Ogle
thorpe; R. n. Gray, Nashville; Jno.
W. Gan, Jacksonville; S. E. Prjxatte,
Savannah; J. II. Henderson, St. Louis.
Gooil Kniux.
Reports of good rains reached us
from every quarter this morning.
Rain clouds were lloating in all direc
tions yesterday afternoon and last
night, and, so far as the Herald has
been able to learn, copious showers
fell in every portion of this county,
From Tucadav'u Evening Hehald.
There was a lively "scrap” on the
Flint river bridge about 1:80 o’olook
this afternoon, In which live Negro
washerwomen were the participants.
No one knows just bow nnd nbout
what the tight started, but it appears
that they all met on the enst end of the
bridge, and agreed themselves to tight
out an old feud that had existed be
tween them for some time.
And they did tight. Knives and
sticks were brandished promiscuously,
nnd when the smoke of the battle
oleared away it was found that three
of them, Flbhy Wallace, Liza Moody
and Rebecca Sims lind sustained pretty
severe knife wounds about the bend.
The other two, Mattie MoPhaul nnd
t.iza Bercli, escaped with slight scalp
bruises, caused by lioks with a stick.
All ol' the parties came to the city
nnd went before Judge Robert and
sworo out assault nnd battery warrants
for each other. In a short while ottl-
Raley had served the warrants
Grail Aclor’a Strang and Lite
I.oim Struggle Agnlnal the
Appetite.
»KU kLVX» IN COI.UMBIA.
The Oar Oeal Insulted l.ndlea nnd
Wan Repaid For Itlo
Trouble.
and the dusky lighters were behind
the bars of Dougherty county jail.
They will remain there until arrange
ments can be made for their, commit
ment trial;
WORTH TRYING.
A New Method of Prenervlug Blent nnd
Kecpiug it Wholesome.
From tho Worth I.octil.
Mr. Joe T. McLendon, one of Ash-
burn’s clever citizens, who has made a
study and success of farming, has a
method of preserving meat and keep
ing it Biveet and wholesome, that is of
his own invention, and worthy of the
attention.of every farmer who raises
his own supplies, and llnds his meat at
this season of the year getting strong
and unpalatable.
Mr. McLendon lias built a “dark"
room to ills smokehouse, which is care
fully coiled inside and all of the crevi
ces chinked until it is air-tight. So
durk is it with the door closed that a
innn inside, holding up a paper before
bis face, cannot see it.
To the ceiliug, and to transverse
pieces, where the ceiling does not af
ford rooirt enough, he lias fastened
screw-hooks, and to these books he
hangs the meat as soon as It is taken
out of tile packing-box, and hung In
the air until the moisture had dried
out of it,. Being kept from tho light
and uir.it retains its freshness and
flavor, and meat hung up in that room
last fall Is now ns sweet and whole
some as when fresh cured.
The Local commends this plan to its
readers. It is not a theory, but a dem
onstrated fact, and tlie meat that be
comes unlit for use in one year under
the old system of curing, would pay
the coBtof building the room. It is
worth a trial.
Honlo College.
We take pleasure in inviting special
attention to the advertisement of tills
popular institution of learning, which
will be found on the. second page of
this evening’s Herald.
Soule-College is at Murfreesboro, in
the healthiest region of Tennessee,
and Is one of the most deservedly pop.
lnr female colleges in tlie South. The
advantages there afforded for the thor
ough education of girls and younfe
women are equal to any in the coun
try.
Soule College is presided over by
Miss V. O. Wardlaw, A. M., a lady of
rare qualifications and ripe experience
as an educator and disciplinarian, and
she has for her Associate President
Mrs. M. W. Snead, the widow of the
late Capt. Fletcher T. Snead, one of
tlie bravest officers of the gallant
Fourth Georgia Regiment, of which
Capt. J. T. Hester, Mayor W. II. Gil
bert, Mr. J. G. LaRoque, Capt. J. G.
Stephens, Mr. A. W. Cosby and a few
others of this city and county are hon
ored survivors.
Miss Daisy Green, of this city, is go
ing to Soule College next term, and she
and her sister. Miss Alice Green, who
has been elected as one of the teachers
in the Albany High School, will take
pleasure in furnishing information
that may be desired by any who may
want to know more about the college
than can be given in this notice or in
the advertisement to which reference
has been made.
Sonewhal Bauer*
The many friends of Mr. J. E. CroB-
land, whose critical illness was re
ported in Saturday’s Herald, and who
was reported dying Saturday night,
will be glad to learn that he was a
great deal better this morning, with
changes for recovery deoidediy favor
able.
Mr. Crosland is one of Dougherty’s
most prominent planters and has
scores of friends throughout the South
who will join the Herald in wishing
him a speedy restoration to health.
From an Interview in San Fi-Aiioieoo Kxntniner.
“Liquor had been his father’s ourse.
It was his enticement and his martyr
dom. His herolo scruggle against the
appetite endeared him more and more
to those who knew him best. He
would oome to my table—lio was tlie
godfather of my child, you know—and
men like Edwin Adnms and myself
would be there with our wine before
us. We’d say, ‘Ed, it's too bad, old
man, you oSn’t join us.’
‘Oil, don’t mind me,’ he’d reply. ‘I
only regret I dare not, I dare not—I
dnre not!'
“I remember once a leading painter
who lived iu Brooklyn gave a grand
fete ohnmpetre, wliioli was romanesqne
in its prodigality. Booth went.
Champagne flooded the place, lie left
the house ami wandered in the garden.
eople who met him urged him to go
bank to tho throng. He deoil nod. Af
terwards he said In me:
I suppose those people said, “we
met Ted Booth down in the grounds,
playing ’Hamlet.’ But if I’d gone
buck I mjglit have been tlie merriest
of all for an hour—perhaps as bright
as any. But when some of the guests
left they would have stumbled over
my prostrate flgure in the gutter nnd
said,‘The brutel Why can’t he stny
away?’
“It was because of his martyrdom
that ho took to liis strong pipe, his
strongoigars and his strong coffee;
and they undermined Ills system,
shattered Ills uerves and drove^ him to
n premature death,
“I remember when he was playing
Ingo to Snlvlni’s Othello one night in
NowYork, he lind taken a drink or
two before coming on the stage. With
his nervous organization and sto
machic troubles a glass of beer meant
almost drunkenness.
“When in the play Salvlnl pushed
him off, instead of staggering nnd re
covering, he fell full length with his
head right in tlie foot-lights. It was
an awful thing, and you could hear the
shivering‘ugh I’go through the then'
ter and across the stage.
“That’ugh!’sobered him 1" on in
stant, nnd they had to wntoh him all
that nlghlto keep him from self-de-
struotion. Ho felt that ho had dis-
graced himself forever, and it was
only by the moBt touching appeals
that lie could be persuaded to go on
the next night. But nt last he con
sented.
“The play was ‘Hamlet,’ nnd he hnd
the title role. You know the entrance,
When he appeared he couldn’t face the
immense audience. But men nnd
women rose in theli chairs and
shouted:
Booth I Booth! Booth!’ Just to let
him know that he was dear old Booth
yet, no matter what might come.
“Don’t you know, lie just stood on
that stago and sobbed aloud. He
couldn’t control his tears, and tlie peo
ple began to weep with him. But
then he turned—and, ah, ho played
‘Hamlet’that night as it wus never
played before 1”
HIGHER FREIGHT RATES.
Railroad GouimiMioa Makes
Concussion lo Ike Railroads.
Men are made manly, the old made
young and vigorous by Magnetic
Nervine. Sold by Sales-Davis, drug
gists.
An operation or injections of car-
bolio acid are extremely dangerous.
Try Japanese Pile Cure. Positively
guaranteed by Sales-Davis, druggists.
The State Railroad Commission has
rendered a deoision on the application
of the roads doing business in the
State for an increase In local freight
rates. The commission, which heard
voluminous arguments and state
ments on the situation, and after con
sidering the question for two months,
decides that the roads are entitled to
an increase and the order is to that ef
fect.
The average Increase allowed it 15
percent, on trunk lines and 80 per
cent, on branch roads. On certain ar
ticles the Central and East Tennessee
are allowod to raise their tariff 15 per
cent., while the Savannah, Florida and
Western gets only 10 per cent. Tlie
Savannah Americas and Montgomery,
Georgia Southern, Georgia Midland,
Columbus Southern, and Marietta and
North Georgia get an increase of 50
percent. Tho Western and Atlantic
road was the only one which did not
ask to be allowed an inorense.
The increase applies only to local
rate?. No increase is allowed any of
the lines on lumber, naval stores, cot
ton, meat and flour nnd corn in sacks.
A strong protest against an increase
of the rate on these classes was made
by representatives of business men at
the time of the bearing of the petition
of the railroads. Receiver Comer of
the Central was the first to start the
movement for an increase, and to him
much of the credit for carrying the
point is due. <
Thanks, Esteemed Canlcniporarr.
From the Savannfth'Frees.
The Albany Evening Hebald
seems to have about as good an idea
of the silver question as any journal
in Georgia. The EveviXo Herald is
a good paper any way yon measure it.
—The newest feminine fancy is to
fill the Angers with rings.
From Monday's Kvoiuiik Herald.
A gentleman, who oame to Albany
this morning from Columbia, Ala., in
formed a Herald reporter that there
was a ease of “Ku Killxing" III that
quiet little city Ins’- Thursday n’glit.
Tlie news niny be a little late, but it is
still fresh, as it has never been in print
before.
It ncems that there lias been a pho
tographer in Columbia fur about a
week up to last Friday morning.
During that time the artist hnd done
quite a deal of work for somo ladies of
the place, but. when lie would submit
proofs of the pictures they would in
variably prove a poor olass of work.
For this reason, several ladies de
clined to pay tlie photographer unless
lie would give thorn another' silting.
Ills lie refused to do, at tlie samo time
using very Insulting language to tho
ladies.
Of course that kind of thing could
not go on very long. And, in fact, it
didn’t, ns tho sequel shows.
Thursday nlglit a crowd of masked
and armed men called oil the pere
grinating artist, carried him to tlie
woods, lashed him to a log and pro
ceeded to lay on nbout 100 good lioks
with n rawhide whip.
When this exuroise liiul been ooui-
pieted the riot act was read to him.
He was turned loose in the woods nnd
up to lhst nccounts he lmd not since
been seen.
The Herald regrets that Ills name
could not be learned this morning, rb
suoh fellows should be passed uround
in order to protect other communities
into which lie is likely to find Ills way.
lie will hardly Hnd Ills way back to
Columbia, however, or any place near
It.
A National Bank Fropulllou.
•om tho Hnvnnnuh Nowh.
The comptroller of the currenoy is
being requested to roooimnend In his
nnnual report that national banks be
permitted to. issue notes to tlid full
amount of the bonds held by them as
a basis for their circulation. It is be
lieved that tho request will be granted
There is no reason why it should not
receive favorable consideration from
Congress.
At present national hanks are per
mitted to issue notes to the amount of
not more that 90 per cent, of the par
value of tlie bonds deposited by them
When it is taken into account that
United States bonds command a high
premium, it can be readily understood
why inanji national bank, do not And
it profitable to increase their capital,
In fnot, there are national hanks that
have never taken advantage of their
privilege to issue notes. When the
90 per cent, provision was incorpora
ted in the national hanking law
United States bonds were not at pre
mium and the oredit of the govern
ment was not as high as it is now.
The purpose was to make every rtn-
tional bank note as safe as possible,
Tho change proposed would have
tlie effect of increasing tho amount of
national bank notes in oiroulation
many millions of dollars. The na^
tlonal banks already in cxistenoe, on
the bonds now deposited, would have
the right to issue about $18,000,000.
more ill bills. No doubt many of them
would increase their capital and new
banks would be established.
There are indications of n purpose
to have the national banking law
greatly modified and liberalized,
could be so changed as to make nit
tionnl banks more acceptable to the
people. No good reason is apparent
why state bonds should not be used as
a basis for oiroulating notes nor why
national hanks should not have the
privilege of loaning money on real
estate. Suoh changes as these,
hedged out by proper restrictions,
would not lessen the stability of nn,
tional banks and would tend to re
move tho hostility to them that exists
in some localities.
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“The merciful man is merciful to
liis beast.” There are, however, says
the Savannali News, numerous owners
of horses in Savannah who are either
not “merciful men,” or else are very
forgetful of tlie proverb. For they
keep their dumb friends, for hours at
a time, in torture with check reins. It
has been noticed that not only are the
horses checked while being driven,
but frequently they are left standing
for three or four hours with the rei
drawn tight afid fastened. It is prob
able that this is the result of thought
lessness on tho part of the owner
nevertheless it is n cruelty to the
horse, especially in such hot weather
as the city has recently been expert
enoing. For humanity’s sake, leave
the cheek rein off, or loose, during the
summer 1 The horse may not look
spirited and dashing; but he will, „v
least, be comfortable, and more willing
to do hiS work.
When you want anything in the
way of
TOILET ARTICLES!
You should give us a call. Our goods ’
are excelled by none, and our prices
are the lowest. Consult your mter-
by trading with
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