Newspaper Page Text
mm
—
ui Proprietor.
Editor.
lil, pohUko pxld, or de*
nta a week or 4ft cent* a
.. t 6 00
2 60
L 1 25
• imynltln in advance; no cx-
... „ or of anybody.
atm RKANONAMJC, and mado
atlon.
dm, west Dido of Wuahlngton
Iho Commercial Bank.
—
poHtofllce at Albany, Ga., na
matter.
kY, AUGUST 20, 1898.
oh draw* about ns well
a circus.
i are added to tlie list of
nployed dally.
a Is money,” and Congress lias
ntly set out to take plon'y of
lanta has gone to making pianos,
will likely strike a popular
ling fall trade in Albany Is
o be one of great and substan-
ilume,
rr one rye on the Hxralo and
r on tho business man who nd-
i in It.
akkr Crisp’s committees seem
re aatlsfaotlon to all seotions and
classes. ’
Democrat should be a Democrat
at—with both feet squarely on
' platform.
ll claimed that Congress will do
fling this week. It will be quite
lange In business.
lbant’s Clear! ngfruuso certificates
a good as silver dollars or gold
i either—in Albany.
in Congress gets back on the
t line again Nancy Itanks ought
i harnessed to tbo concern.
as, Pauline, dear; this talking
i the hat business in Congress
snd wltfy the present week.
a Congressman who didn’t make
oh on the silver question is re-
ng the congratulations of his
a Brunswick Call, aftor a brief
r, has suspended. Hard times
) yellow fever eoare are assign*
he oause.
Congressional debate has de-
i hitherto unheard of sll*
cd orators, at least, and the
Fourth of July Is safe.
Brunswick Timcs-Advertiser
anged its sobedule and now
is out as an evening paper. The
pie like to-day’s news to-day.
r there are any now nails to bo
riven into the Democratic platform
them be half and half—silver and
dd—and there will bo no oontrast.
Very little attention is paid toMln-
r Blount and his report. With an
ant people watching Congress
I Bustard’s Bay, the Hlnistor just
n’t In It.
r all the wind that has escaped In
ashington during the past fort-
Ight could be exploded at one big
, Kansas oyolones would throw up
j sponge.
Fat yonder before anything at all
on done In Congress they are
fklng about adjournment. As talk-
{ is about all Congress has done It,
lust be oontaglous.
Tub Southern Congressmen came
very near getting the lion’s share of
Chairmanships. Speaker Crisp
i a very keen appreciation of men
of ability and worth.
Ip you start or repeat wild yellow
; fever rumors in Albany you will have
to tell who told you or go to jail. So,
you had best, in this Instanue, saw
wood and let somebody else do the
talking.
Thb Dawson Nowb announces that
Judge Jim Griggs, who was being
v groomed by his friends for Congress,
. has been removed as a Congressional
probability by his appointment to the
Judgeship of the Pautaula circuit.
Mayor Prior, of Macon, has made a
very sensible suggestion to Mayor
amb, of Brunswick. He proposes that
tents be ereoted In the country near
Brunswick for the poorer class of the
1 refu
panioky re'fiigees. If the worst should
come it is very probable that the plan
till be ad^l, instead of throwing
thousands yof refugees upon the
•ity of“8“^i^>ple who dread their
;noe, thouglbsymp.it hizing deeply
them.
Conorkss still in debate, and the
people in suspense.
Kkrp one eye and one ear open for
the calamity liar. He is abroad in the
land.
Quarantine that doesn’t quarantine
ts like prohibition that doesn’t pro
hibit.
I.IVINO-
CONORESSMAN I.RONIDAS
ston has had his say, and he talked
sense, too.
Senator Shebman—he of silver law
fame—says that he believes the money
stringency is being relieved and that
the panic is about over.
The Macon Evening News calls
upon the authorities of that city to
quarantine against Brunswick and
other fever infeoted oitles.
While all this fuss is going on at
Washington over the silver question
the boa constrictor protective tariff is
getting In Its work on the country.
Tna goldolators who claim to bo
Democrats find consolation in Repub
lican company only when it comes to
seriously considering the financial
question.
How some of tho organs that think
President Cleveland bigger than the
Democratic party have ohangud on
the silver question since the Presiden
tial messnge was issued!
It seems that hard times, bus
iness failures and orlmes go hand in
hand. A glance at the telegraphic
columns of the average dally news
paper will bear out this assertion.
Brunswick, the benutiful City by
tho Sea, Is hnving a hard time of It
this year. But she has brave men and
noble women who will not forsake
her oven in tho darkest days of her
adversity.
There Is a man in Missouri who is
drawing a pensiou because he is bald-
headed. Secretary Smith is after him
and it will not be a great while before
the bogus pensioner will be headless
as well as hairless.
The Idea whloh some peoplo seem
to have of “free silver” is that the big
white dollars will be piled up in con
venient places and that every fellow
will bo allowed to walk off with as
much of the coin as he wants—free.
The straightforward and determined
manner in wliioh Albany’s business
men have acted in regard to the clear
ing house matter, is eliciting a great
deal of favorable press oommont
throughout the South, and other cities
are contemplating a like move.
Ir all the Congressmen who are
loaded are allowed to speak on the
currency question there will be no
voto on the repeal of the Sherman law
before frost. Some of the statesmen
will havo to be content with having
their speeches printed in the Con
gressional Record.
Ir the cotton plnnters down Suuth
are really anxious to raise money to
move their ootton crop, says the Bos
ton Herald, let thorn communicate at
onoe with their Senators and Repre
sentatives in Congress and request
them to vote for repeal. If they will
do that, and if their request is respect
ed, rb It should be, confidence will be
restored in the great money centers,
and the necessary funds will be forth
coming much sooner and more freely
than is possible in any other way.
A Rki-ublican pension ring organ
nt Washington has the gall to suggest
that a sure way to" relieve existing
ilnanclal stringency would be to al
low at onoo about 100,000 pension
cases, most of wliioh would carry ar
rears, and make the flrst payments
from the $00,000,000 or more of seign
iorage that might be derived from
coining into standard dollars the 140,-
000,000 ounces of silver bullion now lit
tho Treasury. Truly, the pension
shark is unexcelled in his insatinble
appetite and keen scent for public
plunder!
There is plenty of gold ill this coun
try—somewhere. There was brought
Into the port of New York during last
week alone $11,253,000 in specie, a!)
but $4,246 of which was in gold. Dur
ing the same period the bonk
reserves in New York increased about
$4,500,000, showing, ail absorption by
the country at large of about $1,000,000
a day of the imported gold. A con
siderable share of the specie was sent
to Chicago, and the rest probably went
to strengthen the reserves of banking
associations in other financial centres.
In a season of hoarding the capacity
for taking up currency far outruns aU
ordinary or even extraordinary sour
ces of supply.
The Herald has seen evidences of
much concern among the people and
heard more than one complaint to-day
on the subject of our quarantine
against Brunswiox and other places
that may be infected with the yellow
fever.
It is not the intention of the Herald
to prefer charges at this time, nor to
find fault with any one for what has
been, or has not been, done
by the authorities and officers of the
city in enforcing the quarantine de
clared against Brunswiok and Pensa
cola about ten days ago; but the pur
pose of this article is to give voice to
an evident desire upon the part of the
people of Albany to have tho quaran
tine regulations more rigidly enforced
from now on, until all danger from
the spread of the yellow scourge is
passed.
A quarantine that doesn’t quarnn
tine Is useless. Until now there has
been some excuse, perhaps, for not be
ing too rigid in the enforcement of
our quarantine regulations, but the
situation has become more serious
and now calls for a quarantine that
quarantines, If we hope to keep the
infectious disease from being brought
into our city.
Not only is tho health of the city
hazarded by a laxity in the enforce,
ment of our quarantine regulations at
this time, but tho situation demands
close attention and thorough discip
line upon the part of our authorities,
If viewed from a purely mercenary or
business standpoint. While the Her
ald Is not inclined to believe that yel
low fever would spread in Albany
even if n few cases of the disease
should be brought here, we oan readily
understand how the appearance of
even n single case would cause alarm
and prove disastrous to tho business of
the city.
Let us have a quarantine that quar
antines.
AFTEHNOON PRESS BUREAU,
The following, announcement from
the Washington Evening News, one of
the leading papers of the National
Capital, will be read with interest by
the readers and friends of the Herald,
when they are Informed that Albany
and the Herald are “in it”:
“We are happy to announce thatour
Southern news service, whloh has al
ways been conspicuously full and ao.
ourate, has now been still further
strengthened and broadened by the
formation of the Southern Afternoon
buruau, of which the Evening News is
a member, and by means of which we
shall hereafter be In constant and In
timate communication with all the
Southern cities and centres of inter
est, with the result that we shall be
able to cover the Southern news field
with a degree of thoroughness never
even approaohed hitherto by a Wash,
ington newspaper, or, indeed, by any
newspaper whatever.
The new bureau consists of forty-
two Southern afternoon papers, situ
ated in as many Southern cities and
towns, and comprising, in faot, all the
leading members of the Southern
Afternoon Press. From all these cen
tres of Information reports will be
regularly reoeived and published by
the Evening News and by the other
members of the bureau.
Contracts have been concluded with
both the Western Union and Postal
Telegraph companies, insuring speed
of colleotlon and transmission of dis
patches from all parts of the South.
Our readers, and especially those
from the South, will doubtless appre
ciate this latest addition to the excel
lences and advantages of the Evening
News as a newspaper.”
The Herald is a member of the
Southern Afternoon Press Bureau,
and will be served with its telegraphic
news, giving this city a prominence
and a news service that it has never
enjoyed before.
The circuit of the Southern After
noon Press Bureau embraces all the
Southern States and extends to Wash
ington, where it will have a most im
portant ally in the Washington Even-
ing News, wliioh controls a leased wire
to New York.
Albany will be the smallest town on
the circuit of the Southern Afternoon
Press Bureau, and the only town, in
faot, with less than twenty thousand
population, that will have the benefit
of the press dispatches which the
Bureau will serve to its members.
The Herald, with other afternoon
papers of the South, has been at work
for several months, and has spent con
siderable money, on the the scheme
whloh has finally been perfected, and
feels that it has accomplished muoh
for itself and for Albany.
' The service will begin on the flrst
Monday in September.
The standing committees of the
House of Representatives have been
announced by Speaker Crisp, and the
significance of the personnel ,of the
more important committees is the
subject of wide dlsoussion and all
sorts of comment.
The Georgia members appear to
have fared well at the Speaker’s
hands. Mr. Turner being the oldest
member and a man of recognized abil
ity, was, of course, given the most
prominent assignments He goes back
on the Ways and Means Committee,
and Is moved up to third place on the
list. - He is also made chairman of the
Committee on Expenditures in the
Interior Department, by reason of
which he will be given a committee
room and a clerk.
But two other Georgians were given
chairmanships—Mr. Lester getting
the chairmanship of the coommittee
of Expenditures in the State Depart
ment, and Mr.Moses getting the chair
manship of the Committee on Pen
sions.
Onr own Mr. Russell is second man
on the Committe on Enrolled Bills
and !s also on the Committee on
Claims.
The Spenker appears to have given
the Committee on Coinage R decided
silver lining, nowithstanding “the
message,” and Mr. Bland stands at the
head of it, despite the pressure that
was brought to bear upon the Speaker
to give this important assignment to a
man of less pronounced free silver
views. ' *
The wishes of the Administration to
havo Mr. Wilson, of West Virginia,
made Chairman of the Committee on
Ways and Means Instead of Mr. Sprin
ger, of Illinois were respected -by
the Speaker; but Mr. Springer was
planed at the head of the Committee
of Banking and Currency, with a ma
jority favorable to the repeal of the
ten per cent, tax on State bank issues.
Upon the whole, Speaker Crisp ap
pears to have done the very best that
he could have done in forming the
oommittees out of the material that
he had, and, while there 1b some kick
ing, Democrats who are fair-minded
will bo satisfied to know that he gave
safe Democratic majorities to the most
important oommittees and a decided
silver lining to the Committees on
Banking and Currenoy and Coinage
and Weights.
PRRDIDTENT INIMRBl'HBDBNTA.
TION.
There Is so muoh misrepresentation
of the ourrency plank of the Demo
cratic platform that it is well enough
to keep the document itself before the
public. Some newspapers in Georgia
are pretending to stand upon the pern-
ooratlc platform, and yet have the
gall to declare that there is no free
ooinage in it. If the clause—
“We hold to the use of both gold and
silver as the standard money of the
country, and to the coinage of both
gold and silver, without discrimina
tion agaliiBt either metal or charoe
FOR MINTAGE—”
doesn’t mean free coinage, will some
of the gold-bug organs please tell us
what it does mean?
But here is the money plank of the
Democratic platform, and any man
who can read need not be in doubt as
to its meaning:
“We denounce the Republican legis
lation known as the Sherman act of
1800 as a cowardly makeshift, fraught
with possibilities of danger in the
future, which should make all of its
supporters, including its author, anx
ious for its speedy repeal. We hold to
the gold and silver as the standard
money of the country, and to the coin
age of both gold and silver, without
discrimination against either metal
or charge for mintage; but the dollar
unit of coinage of-both metals must
be of equal intrinsic and exchange
able value, or be adjusted through. in
ternational agreement or by such safe
guards of legislation as shall insure
the maintenance of the parity bf> the
two metals, and the equal power of
every dollar at all times in the markets
and in payment of debts; and we de
mand that all paper currenoy shall be
kept at par with and redeemable iu
coin. We insist upon this policy as
especially necessary for the protec-
of the farmers and laboring people,
the first and most defenceless viotims
of unstable money and a fluctuating
currency.”
Albany has a firm hold upon ad
vancement, and now if everybody will
give a strong pull, a long pull and a
pull ^together, this brave little city
will, span the chasm of hard times and
land safely on the peak of prosperity
“Greater love hath no man than this,
that a man lay down his life for his
friends”finds a true exemplification in
the death of Surgeon John W. Bran
ham, whose recent demise m Bruns-
wiok of yellow fever is well known to
the reading public.
There was no written law that com
pelled him to go to the bedside of those
unfortunates stricken down by the
terrible scourge; Ills resignation
would have saved him. But he looked
upon the great human law as manda
tory, and he went out as the Samaritan
did of old to minister unto those who
were tossing upon the fevered beds of
illness. His was not a selfish motive;
he had nothing to gain by subjecting
himself to the ravages of this scourge.
The pittance of glory or fame that he
would have gained hail he lived would
never have compensated him for the
anguish that he underwent when he
printed the farewell kiss upon the lips
of his doting wife nnd loving child
when he left them in far away Mary
land to go to Ills post of duty In quar
antine In this beautiful Southland, not
knowing whether he would ever see
his loved ones again.
And so, after many days of weary
watching to check the spread of the
terrible plague, he also was stricken
down. During the last hours of his
severe illness he was unconscious, and
never knew that his affectionate
wife had telegraphed him to “please
live for hey sake.”
Surgeon Branham died the death of
a martyr—as few men ever die—and
his last resting place should be marked
by a marble shaft as a fitting tribute
to his heroism.
There are two kinds of Democrats
now—Clevelandites nnd Democrats
who stand squarely on the Democratic
platform on which President Cleve
land and the Fifty-third Congress
were elected. The Herald will be
found in the line with those who stick
to tlie platform ns long as there is a
plank of the structure left.
The Chicago platform is the chart
to be used by the good ship Democ
racy. Destroy it, and you may as well
make stove-wood of the rudder. As
Senator Gordon has said, Democracy
haB the grandest opportunity ever
given a political party, nnd its future
is soon to be determined.
Hard times—World’s Fair—money
famine—Congress in session with
every member loaded with a speech
on the financial question—yellow fever
to tho South of us—cholera to the
North of us and—well, the country
that survives ’em all must be solid.
Ed. Barrett, writing from Wash
ington to the Constitution, says that he
will venture tlie assersion that there
is not a man in either House of Con
gress who has any idea of wlint the re
sult of tbe pending discussion will be.
Judging from what has been said and
done up to date we would count Bar
rett a fair prophet.
The Worth Local says that it is re
liably informed that the B. &. W. will
discontinue the running of the day
mail and express trains, No. 1 and 2,
after next Sunday, in order to out
down expenses. The mail and express
will be carried on tbe Cannon Ball
train.
VROIH ACRES.
A Batch of ■■imiliii Item* From this
Thfirlna Lillie City.
—Very little sickness In this burg.
—The farmers of this section are in
a splendid condition.
—Mr. A. 8. McColumn, of Baconton,
is visiting friends in Aoree.
—Cotton picking is the order of the
day, but tbe farmers look mighty blue.
Low prices tbe cause.
—The annual protracted meeting of
of the Baptist church, at this place,
will commence on Friday next.
—Dove shooting is good in these
parts. The partridge crop, wliioh is
coming on, is said to be a good one,
indeed.
—Mrs. O. E. Rtngland and family,
of Jacksonville, Fla, are visiting
friends in this city, being at present
the guests of Mr. C. E. Wilder’s fam
ily.
—Mr. George Barker, who has been
spending tbe summer in Montezuma,
has returned home. He left Mrs.
Barker and the children thore, but
they will soon be home.
—Miss Della Shiver, the seventeen-
year-old daughter of Mr. Falton
Shiver, died on tbe 21st inst. of hem-
moragic fever. She was taken siok
Saturday and died. Monday. She had
many friends in this place and otblr
sections of the county who will 1 be
Jjr)§$f9-to hear of her. death.'’ •
ADDRESS A UONUII UNICATION TO
THE CITY COUNCIL.
Smtlhlai Abaat the Water Dupplr—
Kiptrlntau M bs Slade With .lie-
lem—Receataseadaliea Thai,
the Commerce Direct Well
be Overhauled.
Office of the water Coehission, i
ALBANY, GA„ Aug. UtlulSlH. <
To tho Honorable Mayor and Counoil.
Gentlemen : Since formulating the-
quarterly report of the Superintendent
of Waterworks for the the term ending
July ist* herewith transmitted, we have
made some investigations and formed
conclusions which should, in our opin
ion, be brought to your attention, and
we respectfully submit this communica
tion with the suggestion that you have
the same published for the information
of the public.
The monthly rentals of the water
works system now amount to about
$525.00 We have endeavored to enforce
prompt collections, and consumers ap
pear to be satisfied with the rates we
have fixed and with the service. The
consumption of coal at the atation for
the last quarter has averaged 1,500
pounds per day.
Investigation and careful calculation
reveal the following facts with reference
to our water supply: The total natural •
flow of water into the resorvoir is only
120.43-100 gallons per minute. This
conies from the big well at the Station
and the Wight well. The Commerce
street well now barely flows at all, and
nothing goes into the resorvoir from it.
The original estimate of the flow from
tbe two first named wells was 330 gal
lons—the big well 225 gallons, and the
Wight well 105 gallons—per minute.
Thus it will be seen that, without taking
tbe failure ot tbe Commerce street well
info consideration, there has been a di-
mi nation in our water supply of 210.
gallons per minute, or 302,400 gallons,
per day. We are not sure that the ac
tual flow of these two wells was accur
ately estimated at first, but are satisfied '
that the estimate made by our Superin
tendent of the present flow into the res
orvoir is correct.
The present supply of water is barely
adequate, and yet there are many more
connections to be made, and sewer uses
will soon begin to increase the consump
tion. We now find that during any dry
spell tbe nitural flow of the wells into-
the resorvoir is unequal to the demands,
of consumers. The increased consump
tion of water during dry weather may be
accounted for by its liberal use for
Bprinkling lawns and irrigating gar
dens, in which there is great waste. We
hope to be able to stop all waste of water
and the carelessness of consumers by
adopting the meter system wherever
water is used for mechanical purposes
or for sprinkling or irrigation.
But it appears to us that'we will have
to economize in every way possible to
make the present supply of water meet
the legitimate and reasonable demands
that will be made upon the system if we
should have a dry fall this year, and we
would now respectfully urge upon you
the importance of having the Commerce
street well overhauled with the view of
having its flow restored, if possible, as
early as practicable.
That our water supply is far short of
what it is generally supposed to be, and
that tbe supply is now barely sufficient
to meet our necessities, with but little
or no reserve for emergency, are facts
which should be understood by your
honorable body and by the public, and
if you agree with us that something
should be done to restore the flow of the
Commerce street well we would recom
mend that the work be done as earlyas-
practicable.
Respectfully submitted,
Y. G. Rust,
A. W. Muse,
H. M. McIntosh,
Water Commissioners.
“Ye Olde Roelte Shape."
This is the name that those enter
prising young business men, Messrs.
Winberg & Scott, have given > their
new book store opened at the oTu
bookstore stand, Weloh’s Corner.
Tbe old store looks brighter inside
to-day than it has in many a day.
New goods are displayed on the
shelves and in the show cases, and
there is an air of business about the
place that is pleasing.
The Herald predicts a prosperous
business career for the new firm of
Winberg & Scott. The young gentle
men composing it are popular and
seem to be especially adapted to and
qualified for the line of business they
have cbosen.
Visitors to “Ye Olde Booke Shope”
will now find, besides a full line of
books, many new things in the way of
stationery and such notions and fancy
goods as are usually kept in a flrst-
olass book store, and tbe readers of the
Herald are invited to call.
Special attention is directed to the
announcement of Messrs. Winberg &
Scott in onr advertising columns.
Though a little warm during tbe
day, the weather for the past week bas
been all that could have been wiabed
for.
Farmers report that they are ex
periencing more trouble from rust'
than caterpillars. They say that the
rust is apparent and very damaging
m
oil the other side. .$••••• r . .. if,;. ■, . x n W. in the dry and wet strips of land alike.
-l-vi;.. ■ wyy-yy-y- -v-y ‘v — ; -v a s&y.
« - . .. r». ■ • •, ii; ! /y -idSIiSSP'* < '