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ALBANY WEEKLY HERALD: SATURDAY, AUGUST 26, 1893.
AFFAIRS OF THE CITY.
Ad DIKClMItED AT A MLLKD
nsKTiiio op COHHI'II,
LAHT NIOHT.
Action Relnlivo in MH-lcl Quarantine,
and in ihe Clly’n IVfiler Mupplr
—Ollier Mnller.*
At a called session of the City Conn-
oil Monday night there were present
Hla Honor, Mayor Gilbert, Aldermen
Wight, Livingston, Face and Clark,
and Clerk Bust.
After the reading and approval of
minutes of the last two sessions, regu
lar routine work commenced by the
acceptance of a bond submitted by
Waterworks Superintendent Lockett,
for the ensuing year.
Next in order came a report of the
Water Commissioners for last quarter,
ending July 1st. After being read
and ordered spread upon the minutes,
a discussion seemed in order, on ac
count of certain matters set forth in
the Commissioners' communication.
They brought to the attention of
Council the following facts, which are
not generally known:
The original caloulatiqhs placed the
number of gallons per minute that
would flow into tlie city reservoir at
880, which would have been a super
abundance. The present flow, how
ever; is only 120 gallons, and although
-this has proved sufficient for all pur
poses so far, there has been no water
to spare.
And the Commissioners argue that
when further water and sewer con
nection, are made, the time limit for
which will soon arrive, the present
supply will be entirely inadequate to
the demand.
Alderman Wight here arose, and
made known these faots: The origin
ally calculated flow of the combined
wells having been placed at 830 gal
lons, he thought the same flow ought
still to be obtained. Said he: “The
cause of the diminution in the supply
lies in the faot that the pipe through
which the water pours into the reser
voir has been carried up over its top,
and the laws of hydraulics decrease
the flow aeertain number of gallons to
•every foot’s rise."
'“Now the resevolr 1b built partly In,
but principally out of the ground, and
if the supply pipe were to be conduct
ed into the reservoir at a point even
with the surfaoe of the ground, an ad
dition of over a hundred gallons
would be the result.’’
“Another means of increasing the
supply would be by utilizing the
water that is continually going to
waste from the Broad street well. A
pipe already runs from within a few
feet of this well to a point very near
Che waterworks station, and if the
proper connections are made an addi
tional supply of thirty gallons can
thus be obtained.’’
Alderman Wight theu put his re
marks in the form ot a motion, and
the changes be reoommsnded will be
made. If this should still leave the
supply insufficient, the Commerce
street well will be oleaned .out and
utilized.
City Physiolan Hilsman appeared
before the Council by requestor the
Mayor, and gave it as his opinion that
the proper thing to do was to enforce
striot quarantine against all points
where yellow fever was reported.
Considerable discussion was indulged
in, and a motion was passed instruct
ing the Mayor to use the very strict
est measures of quarantine, to em
ploy necessary help and expend
what funds would be re
quired. All freight .from Bruns
wick and Tampa will be kept out, and
a rigid quarantine will now be in
force.
Clerk Bust read a proposition from
the Mayor of Fort Valley, offering $75
for the old Thronateeska hose reel,
which was acoepted. ' "
The Chairman of the Finance Com
mittee was instructed and empowered
to borrow <8,000 for the use of theoity,
after which, there being no further
bprir'"; r, Council adjourned.
TBIT RIP AND SNORT
Bui Slave la Submit la the Inevitable
and Keep Oul.
The quarantine officers have some
pretty riah experiences with passen
gers on incoming trains who have
failed to procure health certificates,
and who have not calculated on being
Refused admittance into the gates of
the city.
Sometimes they send long pleading
notes to the Mayor setting forth many
reasons why they ought to be passed
in, and the influence of an Albany
friend is frequently besought in the
most plaintive letters.
A good many of those quarantined
are disposed to rebel, and are free in
the use of oaths and threats that only
make the officers the. more hardened.
One country man who came in over
the Cordele road without a certificate
and was consequently taken from the
train, swore between oaths that-be
would never again bring another bale
of cotton to this market.
Many like incidents occur daily, on
country highways as well as on the
railroads, fn a day Or two the fact
that Albany has quarantined will be
come generally known, and persons
, will quit trying to,pass in without
proper health certijf^;;...
FROM BRUNSWICK.
The Fever Not Yet Epi
demic.
NO NEW CASES, BUT . ONE
SUSPECT REPORTED
TO-DAY.
THE REPORT ABOUT FLOODING
TI1E COUNTRY WITH PAU
PER* DENIED.
Rramwleh Almost Depopulated of
While People.
Special Telegram to the Herald.
Brunswick, Aug. 28.—The board of
health has issued a notice to the pub
lic to-day that tne yellow fever was
not epidemic here, and no probability
of suoh.
There have been only two cases here.
The Beound oase is reported as doing
well.
Another Buspect is reported, but the
general health of the oity is excellent.
The marine surgeons say that the
fever is notof Brunswick origin. The
cases were completely isolated.
The large exodus from the city baB
been caused by business suspension.
Beports of paupers being flooded over
the country are absolutely without
foundation. The oity is almost depop
ulated of whites.
Tiuks-Advkbtiskr.
NO FEVER!
That’s the Report From
Brunswick.
HARRIS DIED LAST NIGHT.
Tbs Flre-Venr-Olil Child I. Snld N.l
I. Hove the Fever—Not Even n
Mu.plclonn Ou.e I. Depart
ed To-Dnr.
Special Telegram to the Herald.
Brunswick, Aug. 24.—The board of
health announced at noon to-day that
there were no new oases of fever of
any kind.
The ohlld reported aB being sus
picious yesterday is convalescent this
morning, and it is denied that it has
ever been siok with fover.
The situation is encouraging and re
assuring to the public at large. There
Ib not a case of fever here now.
TlMKS-ADVKItTISEIt.
BXCIUNOE AND MONEY.
What the NnTnnnnh Bank* Are Doing
—Cash Easier In New York.
Yesterday’s Savannah News says:
“At a meeting of the Clearing House
Association, held yesterday afternoon,
some slight differences were made in
the rates of exchange on New York.
They will hereafter buy at one-half
of one per oent. discount and sell from
<100 to <600 Inoiusive at par. On <500
to <1,000 they will allow a discount of
one-eighth of one per cent., and on nil
amounts above <1,000 a discount of
one-fourth.
A telegram from New York, reoeived
yesterday morning, stated that our-
renoy was selling at a premium of ttyo
to four per oent, but reports yesterday
afternoon state that money was easier
and that currency conld be obtained
at to 2 per cent, premium. There
is a prospeot that there will be a fur
ther deoline in the preminm instead
of an advanoe, and that from now on
money will get easier.
The naval stores faotors are still ac
cepting New York exchange in ex
change for the product. They can
afford to do this, as they make ar
rangements to settle bills for goods
shipped the producers also in New
York exchange. The cotton men,
however, continue to purchase cur
rency in small quantities anl pay the
premium.
No clearing bouse certificates from
the banks In any oity using them
would or could be acoepted by the
banks here, because they oannot circu
late as a currency, being subject as
such to the ten per cent. tax.
ECIIOEM PROM THE FOURTH
GEORGIA REGIMENT RE
UNION.
Some Plena.nl Word. About Albn-
nlnna.
The following dippings were taken
from a letter to the Macon County
Citizen, from an old veteran, describ
ing the reunion of the Fourth Georgia
Regiment at Talbotton:
“The response to these addresses,
each a gem, was ably and beautifully
made JiyCJoLE. B. Jones, of Albany,
son of a brave officer of the old Fourth.
Georgia. He closed with a glowing
tribute to our own beloved, soul-stir,
ring “Dixie” which, was echoed iii
every heart. 1 > ■/■
.1) flflil«ifed£fc#a
The H 01 Gen - D °! eS .
from the artist hand of onA of the
lovely “Daughters of the Begiment”
Mis Daisy Hall, was presented by her
father, Dr. Boland Halt, of Maoon, and
gratefully reoeived by the old soldiers,
who were devotedly attaahed to the
first Colonel' of their regiment. Cap
tain John T. Hester, in his own inim
itable style, received the gift in behalf
of hia regiment.
“His glowing, patriotio sentiments,
straight from the heart, enthused his
comrades, while tears bedimmed the
eyes which looked upon the familiar
features portrayed so faithfully upon
the canvas.
**•*..
To President Gilbert and his staff
the Fourth Georgia Survivors owe the
unfailing sucoess of the reunions, for
they are untiring in their efforts to
keep up the organization, and it was
only a just tribute to their worth that
they were unanimously oliosen to suc
ceed themselves.’’
THE HERALD
Will Hire ib. New. and Tell IhoTruib.
Since the yellow fever sosre has
spread all over the country and al
most every town and oity in the South
ern portions of the South Atlantia
States has quarantined against the In
fected points, false and sensational
rumors about the existence or spread
of the yellow soourge are to be heard
on every hand.
We doubt if any town or oity in
this part of the country has been en
tirely exempt from the misobief that
the calamity liar and bad news mon
ger is oapable of making, in times like
these, during the past week or fen
days.
We do not know whether any of
these false and damaging reports have
gone out about Albany or not. If they
have they have not oome back to us up
to the present writing;but we have the
calamity liar in Albany just as they
have him elsewhere. No community
is entirely exempt from him, and when
the public mind has been put oil the
anxiouB seat for rumors of a calamitous
nature, there is no telling when or
where he will turn up. >
The Herald wants to say now at
the beginning of the seoond edition,
so to speak, of tills yellow fever soare,
that it proposea to tell the truth and
oonceal nothing if aoaee of the yellow
fever should make its appearance in
Albany. The readers and friends of
this paper, at home and abroad, may
look to it for the news and the truth
with reference to any oase of yellow
fever that may appear in this oity.
“LA aomnambula;»
A Young Mnn'a Thrilling Experience,
Last evening a certain young man
was returning home from a pleasant
evening call. It was near the “witch
ing time of night” when spooks, hob
goblins, etc., are supposed to take
their nocturnal exeroise, though no
suoh thoughts were bothering this
young man as be bowled along right
merrily on his faithful wheel, ebant-
ing a leve ditty. But as be reached
the corner of Mrs. Judge Jaokton’s
residence, on Pine and Jefferson
streets, he was confronted by a blood
curdling vision in flowing white robes,
whoso bare feet made no sound on the
walk. The song died away in a gasp
of tenor on the young man’s lips, his
hair stood up on his head like “quills
upon a fretful poroupine,” and bending
ail his energies he flew past his ghost
ly visitant, on his bioyole, and left the
lonely somnambulist to pursue bis
way unmolested, Tom o’ Sbanter’e
midnight ride was tame compared to
that young mao’s race home; and he
said while he was fitting bis latoh key
he kept one eye'over his shoulder.
A HUNGRY BURGLAR
Breaks lain Ml.. Mallle Slangin'.
Heme, and Gaea Par Her
Bn inkier.
A very bold burglar invaded the
prlvaoy of Miss Mattie Mungin’s home
and shop on Washington street last
night, and that lady now has a young
arsenal at her command in oase he
should ever oome baok any more.
About 11 o’olock, while Miss Mungin
was lying awake, she was startled by
an unusual oommotion among the
dishes and plates in the dining room
adjoining, where a quantity of vic
tuals were stored in a pantry.
Hastily arising and slipping on her
clothes, the lady cautiously opened the
door and glanoing within, beheld a
very dark-skinned colored man seated
at a table and helping himself t9 some
cooked fish, potatoes, eto.
“Well, sir, how are you?" and the in
truder’s hair stood on end. Fright
wouldn’t let him run, but he talked
and begged until Miss Mungin started
to the front entrance to summon an
officer, when he lit out, and ran like a
deer.
Miss Mungin sat up for the remain
der of the night, watching, and it
wasn’t long before the same marauder
returned, but was promptly run off
again. The officers .will probably
catch him in a few days.
In order to get ihto Miss Mungin’s
shop] the burglar out with bis pocket
knife an aperture sufficiently large to
admit his bamj, and managed- to undo
the latch to the window.
THE CLEARING HOUSE CER
TIFICATES.
ALBANY’M CLEARING HOUSE AS
SOCIATION
leasee Seme •( He llrlep “New Moser”
To-Dnr.
From Thursday’s Evkninu Herald-
Theolearing house certificate scheme
is great.
And Albany is in it.
A few of the certificates of the Al
bany Clearing House Association were
issued to-day, and they went like “hot
cakes,” Everybody Beamed anxious to
get hold of the “new money,” as some
want to call the certificates.
The one-dollar certificates were
ready at 6 o’clock yesterday evening,
and the “proof’ submitted from the
Hrrald job offioe was approved by the
Clearing House Association.
By 8 o’olook enough of the bills were
turned out to give the bank oashtera
all they oould do until bed time. The
cashier of the bank from whloh the
certificates are drawn lias to sign eaah
oheok, and then it is certified by the
President and Seoretary of the Clear
ing House Association. Thus eaoh
certificate bears three signatures when
it is issued.
Mr. B. L. Weston has been made
Secretary and Manager of the Clear
ing House Association, and he and
Capt. Jno. A. Davis, the President,
will have to sign and certify every
certificate.
The oertlfloates will be in very gen
eral olroulation by Saturday night,
artd will be extensively used In pay
ing off this week's labor in the oity.
The oity, whioh is now out of
money and two months behind with
its employes, has arranged to borrow
<8,000—<1,000 from eaoh of the oity
banks, and it is understood that the
oiearing house oertlfloates will be used
In this loan, the Mayor aud Counoll
having agreed to take them. The faot
that the oity takes them and ia glad
to get them gives the oiearing boose
oertlfloates a. .“send' off” at the very
start.
The Herald has it from a gentle
man who has just returned from a trip
over the Columbia Extension that the
business men all along the line of that
road say they are going to take the
oiearing house oertlfloates. And there
is no reason why every business man
who deals with Albany or does his
banking here should not make the
same use of these certificates that our
pwn business men do.
In juetloe to our banks and to
prevent any misunderstanding, it Is
proper that ire should state in this
oonneotlon that bank aooounts are not
to be affected by the isauanoe of these
oertlfloates. The certificates are
merely for accommodation and oon-
venienoe, and the bank aooounts
ot depositors will not be
affeoted by them. In
other words, where a depositor de
posits ourrenoy, he oan draw ourrency,
and his obeok drawn for ourrenoy will
be paid in ourrenoy, provided he has
the same to bis oredit.
The certificates are from the presses
of the Herald job offioe, and look well
alongside of any that were sent here
to our banks from other olties as spec
imens.
Free ooinsge or no free ooinage, re
peal or no repeal of the Sherman law,
Albany has solved the problem of a
local ourrenoy for herself, and on a
safe and conservative basis, too, that
makes It as good as national bank
notea.
GOLD AND SILVER.
WHENCE COMBS THE GREAT
HUE AND CHY
Per the Repeal ef ike Mheresas Silver
IjBWf
From the Augusta Chronicle.
In bis memorable speech in Con
gress, Mr. Bryan asked, the other
day, “Whence comes this demand for
the repeal of the Sherman law?” .That
ia a very important question for Con
gress to consider. Does it come from
the toiling masses or from the bankers
and money lenders? Is it a voice from
the people or from the money power!
Is it a demand from the masses or the
classes? Mr. Bryan stated this point
eloquently and strongly as follows:
“The President has recommended
unconditional repeal. It is not suffi
cient to say that he is honest. So
were the mothers who, with misguid
ed zeal, threw their children into the
nitlMO r Pha nnaafiitn la nn? ‘Tz' hn
Ganges. The question is not, ‘Is'he
honest?’ but ‘Is he right?’ He won the
confidence of the toiling masses of this
country because he taught that “pub
lic office is a public trust,’’ and be
cause he convinced thenb of his courage
and sincerity. But are they willing,
to say in the language of Job,
‘Though he slay hie; yet will I trust
him? Whence oomes this irresistible
demand for unconditional repeal?
Are not the representatives here as
near to the people and as apt to
kno.w. t|ieir wishes? Whence comes
the demand? Not frdm the -workshop
and the farm, not from the toilers of
this oountry.'who^oreatq its wealth in
time of peace and protect its flag in
time of ,war, hut from the middlemen,
from what are termed-! the 'business
interest's,’ and largely ftom that class
wfclun6ttitf$rce. Congress to let it
y ai a pecudiary prprtt to ,
Itself If silver is abandoned. The
President has been deceived. He oan
no more judge the wishes of the great
masB of our people by the expressions
of these men than he oan measure the
ocean’s depths by the foam upon its
waves. Mr. Powderly, who
spoke at Chicago a few days
ago upon the free ooinage of
silver at the present ratio, and
against the unconditional repeal of
the Sherman law, voiced the sentiment
of more laboring men than ever ad
dressed the President or this House in
favor of repeal. Go among the agri
cultural classes, go among the poor,
whose little is as preolous to them as
the noli man’s fortune is to him, and
whose family Is as dear, and you will
not find the haste to destroy the issue
of monev, or the unfriendliness to sil
ver whioh is manifested in moneyeen-
ters. There are thousands, yes, tens
of thousands, tye, even millions, who
have not yet bowed the knee to Baal."
Maj. Barnes also emphasized this
point in one of hia interviews. He
pointed out the greater faoility whioh
the money power has for getting its
views readily to the front. The banks,
exchanges and ohambers are easy to
oommunioate with, and always ptBB
resolutions that they are requested to
passtoo often without serious con
sideration of the consequenoes. and
upon hearing only one side. The peo
ple, widely separated in the country,
without suoh organization, and with
no means of speedy communication,
oannot so readily make their views
known. But they have their views,
and they know their rights. They
expressed themselves overwhelmingly
last November on the very question
now at Issue when they oarrled the
day for the principles contained in the
Democratic platform.
They were for gold and silver on
equal terms then, and they have not
changed their minds. The demand—
the unoonditional demand—for the re
peal of the Sherman sot, whioh means
the abandonment of silver as money,
does not oome from the people. Con
gressmen will do well to ooneiderthe
origin of the demand.
Curio* About Hulu.uTl.lr.
The study, of the hair upon human
species offers an extensive field for
inquiry and one which presents
many unsolved problems of the first
order of importance. Why man as
a species should present the kind and
the amount of hair which he does is
variously explained, and the differ
ences between the varieties of the
human race are so great in this re
spect that one of the most popular
subdivisions of species is founded
upon it That the human family
has the longest hair of any species
of animal is a well known fact, but
why they lost it over most- of the
body is a subject for much curious
conjocturo and speculation. — St
Louis Republic.
Soma Folks Mover Chonge.
“Who was it," said the man with
conspicuous clothes, “dnt went look-
in fur windmills when ho felt like
scrappint”
"Don Quixote?”
“I t’inlc dat’s de name. Anyhow
he was purty much do same as the
prizefighters nowadays."—Washing
ton Star.
A Theatrical Item.
' It is Baid that a black bat takes
inches off a tall woman. If the con
verse he true and a block woman
takes inohes off a tall hat, then give
us a black woman to sit behind at
the theater every time. — Boston
Transcript.
And Very Few Women.
Pugilist—Why, BlulHey can’t fight.
I don’t believe he could put a baby to
sleep I
Newwed—No; neither do I. There
la no man who can put a baby to
sleep.—Truth.
Dr. WWk.r'. Diamond Pin.
When Dr. Mary Walker discovered
that she had lOBta scarfpin from her
ncoktio in a Boston store the other day,
she made a speech to those about her in
which she stated that whoever possessed
the pin .would die suddenly within three
days. She evidently expected that the
thief would just tumble over himself in
his haste to give baok the pin, bnt be
didn’t. She is now reading the obituary
notices in the daily papers in the hope of
finding hia name among the list of the
dead.—New York Telegram.
A STRANGE CASE.
How an Enemy was Foiled.
The following grnphlo statement will b«
yad with lntoimolulere-d: “l cannot (Inscribe
' pp/Kun»at ion that existed in my
legs. 1 hud to rub and bout
thOMO part* until they were noro, to overcome
In a 1 *’ i ’ * ’ '• ‘ ’
inimsuro tlm dead feeling thntlmd taken
possession of thorn. In luldltlon, I had *
Htratigo weakness In my buck and around my
waist, together with tin Indescribable 'gone'
feeling In my stomach. I'hyslelnni mm
.I.vhIh. from which
was creeping paralysis, ftfort wide li, accord
ing to tliclr universal conclusion, thoro Is no
relief. m
Once it fastens upon a person, they!
kflousprogress until
any, it continues Its InsU
It roaches a vital point uml tho’sutteror dloe.
Buch was tny prospect. I had ba
Juch was my prospect. I had been doctoring
t your and a half nloadlly, but with no par
ticular honoilt, whon I an vr nn advertisement
tlculur benefit.
Mi lea' Re?
and began using It,
- ,j»ut
gfUrMiU* Rostorutlvo Norvlno, procured a
indie
U. return.
over did. and
Marvelous as it
fore
mo,
test
Well 08 1 U.UI sssu. inns
tunds lu weight, though
have gained ton
I had run down
jm 170 to 1117. Four o/fiers iiuvo used Dr.
.lies’ UostoraUvo Norvlno on my recomen-
atlon, and It has been as satisfactory in their
STr’jr.i'r.K^isjj
Juntos'Kano, La Ituo, O.
live Norvlno Is sold by all
iltlvo guarantee, or sent
—I irfft, express nropal
opiates or duugerous drugs*
FOR SALE BY ALL DRUGGISTS.
freer rum
FOR THE
CELEBRATED
LANDRETH
Garden Seed
CALL ON
We have 150 ponnds of Ills best nml
freshest Turnip Seed. We do not claim
to be the only one who sells them; others
may do so, Wc have nine varieties: The
Pint Dutch, Purple Top, Hutaluiga,
Seven Tops, White Globe, While r
Red Top Globe, Yellow Aberdeen,
Horn.
We also carry the most complete- line
Ever opened In Albany. When L
of anything in tills line give us 1
open
We can save you money.
J. R. dcGRAFFENREID A
BROAD STREET.
Git; Chinese Lai
e#li
INDSTINCT pdtkit
Only FIRST-CLASS HAND I
everything done nt remarkably
prices. You will find me on
street, next door to City Counci
ber and Police Barracks. Give mu
call. I guarantee satisfaction.
HARD WAR
THE BEST AND CHEAPEST PLOW ON EARTH I