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VOL. 2.
ALBANY, GA., SATURDAY, JULY 22, 1893.
■h
Ehrlich’s
City Shoe Store.
THE LARGEST AND MOST COM
PLETE LINE OP
SPRING
THAT NEW ORDINANCE.
THERE WAS LOT* OF KIOKINO
SATURDAY NIUI1T.
Allrgt'd That It Vutnrferea With Trade—
It %Vna a Surprints an the Lnw
Wan Not ISeueralljr
Known.
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HATS! HATS!
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FOR GENTLEMEN BOYS AND
CHILDREN.
LIGHTNING’S FATAL STROKE
KII.L4 VDUN.i J.1V. HIIRKR AT «T.
gliMONS I'EltTEBOAV.
BANKS AND BUSINESS MEN.
TUB RELATIVE RETIES OF ONE
TO THE OTHER.
He Wbn the VonBRiMt Son of Rev. J.
W. Burlut, of Itlncon, and Wan
a ITlember of the
Floyed Rlflr*.
Shoes! *'
p Shoes!
FOR LADIES AND GENTLEMEN,
MISSES. BOYS AND
CHILDREN.
WE HANDLE ONLY' THE
BEST GOODS!
IN OUR LINES, AND NO
OTHERS. CALL AT
Mcli’s City Sk Store.
THE CROWN OF YOUR HEAD AND
THE SOLE OF YOUR FEET.
We propose to cover tliem
Cheaper
Than Ever Before.
TAN SHOES
-AND-
MAW HATS!
GO AT A SACRIFICE.
Tan Shoes #6.50,
“ “ 6.90,
“ 4-50.
<• “ 4.00,.
“ “ 3-5°.
now $5.00.
" 4-75
“ 3-5°'
“ 3-25
“ 2.50,
Last Friday afternoon, there wiib a
called meeting of the City Council, at
which an ordinance was adopted de
claring that it would be a violation of
the city laws, after the date of the
first publication of the said ordinance,
for any woman without a male escort,
and unless good cause could he given,
to be found on the streets of the city
later than S o’clock at night.
According to the Council’s instruc
tion and desire the ordinance ap
peared in Saturday afternoon’s Her
ald, and, of course, was thus legalized
and made binding. The ordinance
was read by some of the readers of
this paper, but it was not generally
known, especially among the Negroes,
that such aotion had been taken by
the City Fathers, and when; on Satur
day night, the hour of 8 o’clock rolled
around, the police began to inform all
unattended females that they would
have to ’’vamoose the streets," as Ar-
temus Ward would have said, there
was a great deal of kicking among the
colored “slsterin’.” It was something
new to them; they had not been
warned; they had never heard of such
a tiling before, and they did not pro
pose to silently and peaceably Bubmit
to the abrupt and complete abolition
of their erBtwbile unoneckered and ab
solute liberty. They could not be con
vinced that there was a power suffl
oient to deprive them of their con
tinued nocturnal pleasures, and when
an officer would inform them that
"time was up” not a few of the dusky
maidens grew eloquent in defense of
the fame and glory of Free America.
But their little speeches did not
amount to anything, for the police ar
rested them in regulnr order and car
ried them before Mayor Gilbert for
correction.
Five or six were arraigned for vio
lating the ordinance, but that was all.
The ebony-hued Amazons bow that
the police were hot perpetrating f
jok% but were in earnest as to pur.
pose and to aotion, and by 0 o’olook
Smokey Row looked like a Kansas cy
clone had struck it and the other streets
resembled the barren waste of a newly
mowed oat Held, while numerous
belated females dodged up and down
the alleys in order to reach their
homes unmolested. The only women
on the BtreetB at that hour had escorts,
and when, occasionally,an unattended
female was encountered by a police
man she was required to give the
countersign and show that her mis.
sion was urgent and necessary.
The new law was quite a suooess
and was carried out to the letter, but
there will, very likely, be an effort
made to have it muditied. Many of
the merchants claim that it inter
feres with trade, and advocate that
the ordinance be changed so as to ex
elude Saturday nights. It is claimed
that shoppers cannot complete their
purchases by 8 o’olook, especially the
Negro women who work during
the day as servants and who
are kept until a late hour by their la.
bors. To this end, a petition, looking
to the rescission of the ordinance or
its modification was circuited Satur
day, and was pretty generally signed-
many of the oity’s representative bus.
iness men voicing it by adding their
names to the petition. There are
others, however, who think it a good
law and believe it should be carried
out.
It is not known what action the
Council will take should the petition
be formally presented, but it is very
probable that there is going to be ~
tight made against the ordinance as
now stands.
Special to tllO IIERALl).
Brunswick, Ga., July 17.—Mr. J. W.
Burke, Jr., or Maoon^Che youngest son
of Rev. J. W. Burke, of that city, was
struck and instnntly killed by light
ning on St. Simons Island yesterday
afternooA about 1:80 o’cluck.
For nearly a week the Floyed Rifles,
orack military company from Macon,
hns been encamped at St. Simons Is
land, and young Burke was a member
this company.
Yesterday, about noon, a dark omni-
oiis thunder cloud appeared at St. Si
monB, from which the lightning
flashed vividly. At the time young
Burke was in his tent a short distance
from the other members of the com
pany. Suddenly a sharp flash of light
ning was seen, followed by a heavy
peal of thunder, and every one knew
that it had struck something in the 1m.
mediate grounds. Some one saw young
Burke fall, his hands and head part
ing the curtain of his tent. Instantly,
his companions rushed to the soene,
but they oouid render no aid, as the
■■fortunate young man was dead be.
fore they reached him.
Lightning had struck him and he
was killed instantly. The only visible
marks of the violence of the stroke
were the singed flesh on his breast and
the demolition of the shoe on the right
foot.
a The sad fate of young Burke oast a
pall over ail the visitors at the Island,
and it was a sad sight as his comrades
wrapped his body in a sheet and oon
vcyud it to the boat where it was
taken to Brunswlok and shrouded, and
was thence taken over the E. T., V. &
G. road to Macon, followed by the en
tire company, barring the quarter
master and his assistants.
Nothing has ever oOourred at
the Island to cause suoh general re
gret as the untimely death of young
Burke, lie was about 24 years of age,
and was the wit and life of the Floyed
Rifles. During the few days whlob
he spent at the Island he made friends
by the score and was courted on all
sides fur his bright repartee and keen
InteUeot. He was a prime favorite in
social circles and an acknowledged
leader in all amusements.
Probably, the largest orowd of the
season was at St. Simons yesterday.
PEVIUSH WORK.
OUR
„ ENTIRE STOCK OF STRAW
HATS GO AT TWENTY-FIVE
PER CENT. DIS
COUNT.
Bridges Burned on the If*
Railroad.
F. Sc W
k f t
THESE ARE
FIRST CLASS
Goods at Prices Never Before Offered by
Any one. Call Early.
YOUR-
WILL BE THE FIRST SOLD.
There has been some very
work going on down about Thomas,
ville lately.
Two or three unsuccessful efforts
have been made to wreck trafnB on tho
S, F. & W. R’y, by placing ties and
other obstructions on the track.
These obstructions have been in
variably plaoed at culverts or trestles,
tha • evident purpose of the fiend or
fiends placing Them there being to
make a bad wreok.
And now comes the news of the
burning of two trestles on the 8, F
Wh a few miles below Tbomasville, on
Saturday night. The long trestle at
the Osoilla, at the 190 mile post, and
another trestle at or near the 191 mif-
post, were both fired by incendiarii
on Saturday night. One of the bridges
>wa»*lmost totally destroyed, and two
or three sections of the other were
burned away. ,
Mouic Timely and Hmiible Talk For
Iho Prevailing Hard Timet..
COLD NERVE.
BEAT* THE HAW OWING A HUN
DRED fITIIIKING FOR
ANOTHER.
MELON CROPS.
IXPEBIHKNTS THAT 11.1 VK
■EIIIIUOK BY«K«1V.
■ns.
An Opinl.n n (a Ike Kffrcl ml Fcilill
Err. That Are Free Pram O.i-
■on Bard Hl.nl and
Gharleelen
BecU.
A. H. Harrell, writing in the Macon
Telegraph, says:
I have been taking the views of
watermelon growers: “Why will not
two crops of watermelons grow on the
snme piece of land?" I am not
grower, but have for the past two or
three years given this subject some
thougnt and investigation. G. W. Ott,
a grower of melons, using a commer
cial fertilizer free from ootton seed
meal and Charleston rock, raised a fine
crop of melons on land planted the
year before in melons. James H
Bnggs, using same fertilizers, 400
pounds per acre, made a good orop of
melons tills year on land that had
made two crops of melons before, hav
ing no melons planted on it in '91 and
'92 and belnfc planted this year. Mr.
Baggs has loaded three cars and thinks
he will get another off nine acres. W,
L. West, UBing same fertilizers, made
line melons this year on land planted
in melons in '91. I could give another
instance, but this, in connection with
what Lee county melon growers say
as per Albany Hkrald, and also in
connection with what some of our
most reliable farmers here say, “that
we may use a considerable amount of
ootton seed meal and rock mixtures on
our garden, but the next year it will
not make anything," and also our
agricultural department two or three
years ago In a bulletin, stating: “It
takes 100 pounds of sulphuric acid to
dissolve 100 pounds of Charleston
rook,” leads me to believe that it is in
the fertilizers used. Still I do not
know it, but would suggest that our
experimental farm try this experiment
and see if there le anything in It.
—A comet has;been discovered in
the constellation of Ursa Major and it
Here Is a most timely and sensible
artidle from the Maoon Telegraph. It
was written with speolal reference to
the condition of affairs at Maoon, but
the samo'conditiona obtain in Albany
and elsewhere, and the article may be
considered as applicable to every busi
ness community :
he money strlngoncy thnt Is upon
us is perhaps greater than it has been
for twenty years. Why it exists it
would be dillloult forone tosny. These
ohanges from an ensy to a tight money
market are not common, and are al
ways unexpected and inopportune.
There is, however, no ground for real
alarm. The money which was suffic
ient for all our business demands a lit
tle while ago is still in the country,
and is only for a time unavailable, but
in that time great disasters may befall
individuals, and there is little oomfort
to a ruined man in knowing thnt the
storm will soon be over. There are,
however, some things whloli we may
do to better matters and which we
should do. \V lint are they?
“A large part of the business done in
this and all' other lands is done on
credit. The fewest number of eqmmer-
oial men, or those engaged In manu
facturing or in speculation, use alto
gether their own capital. They bor
row largely, and when unexpected
stringency comes, unless they can get
the usual accommodation, they are
compelled to discontinue their opera
tions.
. “The money lenders are generally the
banks. We deposit money In banks,
knowing we oan get money from them
when we need it. The banks lend their
own money, and. not only that, but a
oertain part of the money plaoed with
them to be kept until called for. They
are expected to keep a proper reserve
idle, so as to be ready to respond to
any oall from their depositors, but to
lend the rest on good security. In
times of perfeot confidence they lend
freely; in times of distrust they con
tract. If we distrust them and draw
out our funds they are compelled to re
fuse |ielp. If we trust them they oan
help us. There Is money enough in
Maoon held in perhaps not large
amounts in private safes wbloh, if it
was ail in the banks, and ail in use and
was to remain for sixty days, to ma.
terially aid in relieving the present
condition of things. We owe then to
the banks to give them our confidence.
To pay at least a part of what we owe
them, if we are in their debt, and to
deposit as largely as possible. There
are, perhaps, few more cautious and
yet more liberal banks than those in
Maoon. They make full exhibits in
the publio prints. The exhibits show
that they are managing affairs care,
fully and safely. To exaot more of
them than they oan do, to ask them to
aid now, in new and 'questionable en
terprises, and to abuse them because
they refuse, and especially to get
A Clinic Carted Awnr and Sold Foe
8300, and Ike Heller Then
■Keen mo Rich#
“That fellow,” said a man who stood
in the lobby of the Iroquois Sunday
afternoon, to a Now York lteoordoi
man, “has the oddest nerve I ever
hoard of.”
“What did he do?” naked a friend.
"Owes me a hundred and has owed
it to me for three years. Tried to bor
row another from me,”
“Huh!” said the friend, “that man’s
nerve Is Infantile compared to thnt of
a young fellow who was broughc up
with me. He had the most gigantio
nerve that was ever placed in a innn’s
body. He lived In New York and got
out of a job. He wandered around for
days looking for nnother one and oouid
not And it. He imagined that every
body’s hand was against him. He
slept in the parks and lived on free
lunches. One day he was walking
down a street on whioh a good many
of the wholesale houses are situated
and he saw that one Arm was having
an old slide, whioh ran down from the
walk to the oellar, taken out and a new
one put in. It was oiip of those oarved
iron affairs that most big firms use to
get boxes and bales out of their oel-
lars. The wholesale house was on the
oorner. He walked afoutid on the side
street and saw the old slide lying
there beside the walk. He went up
town and engaged two truoks, telling
the men he would pay them after the
job was done.
A high noon he went down to that
place with ill's trucks and drove off.
Nobody molested him. Everybody
thought that he had bought them. He
took the slide to a dealer in junk and
spld it for old iron for $800, paid Ills
truckmen and walked away. That
money put him on his feet. He got a
Job and Is to-day a respected business
man. That was nerve.”
“That reminds me of a similar exhh
bitlon of the Bame artlole," said'a by.
stander. “A fellow drifted into Roch
ester onoe. He was broke. He oouid
get nothing to do and lie was hungry,
He waB walking up on EaBt Main
street one day and he saw. a farmer
drive by with a load of hogs. The
hogs put an idea into bis head. He
went out the street farther and waited
Another farmer came by with a load
of hogs. He stepped out nnd began to
dicker with him. The upshot of the
matter was that he bought the hogs at
a good price and told the farmer to de
liver them at a oertain.store down tba
street aways. The farmer drove down
and unloaded them by the side of' the
store. He was to come baok at night
for his pay. The man who bought
them hired a truok, oame np and took
the bogs away, and sold them to
down town butober, paid bis truck
man and skipped. I don’t know
whether he was ever oaught or not."
Have your eyes attended to at onoe.
EYE GLASSES
-A N D-
SPECTACLES!
SKILLFULLY ADJUSTED.
Eyes Examined Free.
Hr. and Mrs. Phil Harris
SCIENTIFIC OPTICIANS.
ALBANY. - - - - - GEORGIA.
WATCHES
FOR BARGAINS
IN FINE WATCHES; j
ELRY, WEDDINGPRESE
AND NOVELTIES, Oi
THE LEADING JEWELL}
STORE. •_
PHIL HAIL
ALBANY, - • • BEORQIA
CALL ON
1 —
WHEN HfS SHIP COMES IN.
alarmed and draw out deposits,
neither wise nor fair. Now is the time
to stand by them and sustain them.
“On the other hand the banks owe
much to their customers. The most
oareful man oouid not have provided
against this state of things. If he had
good seourlty for bis indebtedness, if
he is prudent and careful, he should be
helped over the bar. This the banks
should do and doubtless will do, and
especially should the banks deal kindly
with their small customers. They do
not need much nor ask for much, but
what they ask for they are compelled
to have or go to the wall. Their small
balances make up very largely the un
used deposits in the banks on which
the banker works, and when these men
of moderate means need help It is wise
to give it to them,
“The people should now help each
other. In sixty days cotton will be
here, debts will be paid, and, as far as
we are concerned, things will be com,
paratively easy, but the sixty days are
yet to pass. Let us stay from Chicago,
pay our small debts, reduce our large
ones, be easy with our debtors, borrow
no money and trust in Providence.
The West is swept by a tornado of
financial ruin, but inalmostevery case
it oan be traced to wild speculation,
There has been of late no wild specu
latlon here. The price of good prop
erty Is not less than it waslbree years
ago, and there are no promoters of
wild schemes in our section. We neetl
not to be Alarmed, and above all need
not be distrustful of and hard on eadh
other. We will, perhaps, be compelled
to call a bait In new enterprises and
be more careful in i
From tho Washington Evening Proas.
1 will have a span of paoors, fastest sort of
lightning ohasors, rogTar got-thero eon-ol
racers.
When my ship oomes In.
if will have a costly dwelling, servants Hying
at my yelling,pictures hanging,music swelling.
When my ship comes In.
I will dress my wife so finely that she'll shine
In crowds divinely, nnd the gods will smile be
nignly.
When my ship comes in,
I will seek the weeping panper and npply
golden stopper to his great tank, as is proper.
When my ship comes In.
I'll harangue tho voter stntolv, and I’ll go to
Congress gayly, there my volco will thunder
daily.
FOB THE PUBEST AND
MOST DELICIOUS
Soda Wati
-AND-
PINEAPPLE FLOATS.
tlfWCire
When my shlpcomcs in.
Come, my vessel, o’er tho. ocean I Sadness li
my dally potion, sorrow is my emotion.
Till my ship conics In.
I must sling my creaking Fabers, I must not
forego my labors, living largely on my netgh-
1,1,1 ' Till myshlp comes in.
The great care taken to make
Columbia bicycles as nearly per
feet as possible in design, ma
terials, workmanship and finish,
the value put Into them, the
conservative methods by whioh they
are sold at standard fixed prlees, with
fair discounts only to regular agents,
the watchfulness with which every
machine is followed after It has left
our Hands, the value of the Columbia
guarantee, and the liberal manner 1n
which it Is applied, these are the Im
portant faotors In the_5°P_uIarUy ^of
Colne “ ’
den are
nqw-
We also oarry a Full and Complete
Line of H
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When you want anything in the
way of
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