Albany weekly herald. (Albany, Ga.) 1892-19??, September 16, 1893, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextWEEKLY VOL. 2. ALBANY, GA„ SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1893. HE’S WORTH 930 Officers Baler and Barron .Hake a Good Pall. The officers of Albany have been on ithe lookout for a Negro by the name r*-of Lee Denard for some time, but it ’ was not_untll last Friday night that Officers Barron and Baley succeeded in looating tbelr bird up about the Hines lot, in tbe northern portion of the oity. I . And they got him and put him in jail. Denard is an escaped convict from the Gress camps on tho S., A. & M road in Wiloox oounty. ne is a pris- 1 oner from Irwin county. - There is a reward of $50 for Denard, and the two Albany officers are in luck. Growing Brighter. Mr. T. S. Kirkland, of Pearson, on the B. & YV. railroad, one of the most prominent turpentine factors in this . section, was in the oity this week. In course of a conversation^with a | Herald reporter, Mr. Kirkland said : k “I don’t think there is any cause for ■alarm on account of the report that Ho,000 turpentine Negroes would be Hbrown out of employment. I “In fact, a great many of the faotors 1'ho were suspended a short time ngo, have resumed business, and the pros- peot is growing brighter every day. “You have, no doubt, noticed that the price of rosin is on the upward tendency, and this has caused a gen eral good feeling to take the place of the despondency of a few weeks ago. “As to the idle Negroes, we antici pate no serious trouble with them. I Have no doubt but there will be a large nimberof unemployed ones—there al ways is—but in most cases it is their fault. r '' “Next year, I think, the turpentine interests of South Georgia will be bet- ;er than ever, and to’tbat end I think we ought to be thankful that the hard times this year have been no worse than they have been.” Notice! As I own the land on both Bides of tbe creek formed by the union of the Kinohafoonee and Muckulee, and which flows into Flint river, I alone •claim the right to name it as I see fit, the suggestions of outside^ parties to the contrary, notwithstanding, T. M. Nelson. , Albany, Ga., Sept. 11, ’93. STYLES JUST IN. KHOX HATS $5. h ii $4. ABOUT ARC LIGHTS On the Itlnln Tlioronghfnros of the Oliy. There is suoh a unanimity of senti ment on the part of tbe people of A1 bany with reference to the much talked of improvement in the electrio lighting system on the main streets, that little doubt oan exist that the change will take place at no distant date. The eleotrio light company’s new and improved facilities can leave noth ing wanting save action on the part oj tho oity. On account of the heavy ex penses which have had to bo incurred during the past year, it is hardly prob able that arc lights will become a real ity until after January. Tho line will probably run from tbe Union depot, west to YVashfngton street, up this thoroughfare to Broad, east and west on Broad to tho river and the artesian well. Pine street, be tween Washington and Jnckson, will also be included in all probability. Theohange will entail an extrn ex pense on the city of only $1,000 or $1,200 per nnuum, nnd all citizens favor their Introduction. No incan descent lamps will be needed in the nro circuit, nnd the ones thus dis pensed with can be moved to the sub urbs, which are now only imperfectly lighted. Albany can well afford the. arc lights, and their advent will be hailed with genuine delight. «‘I TOLD you ISO.” Doulnl of the Bugegeuieul of mien Wright to Prealttrul Kona. The Thing Went Off. Master Willie Brnsnan, the twelve- year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Brosnan, happened to a very painful accident Tqursday afternoon about 8 o’olock. The youngster was handling a small .22 caliber pistol in a back room of his father’s residence on bommeree street, when the “thing” went off and Willie got it in the right leg just above the knee. But he had good nerve nnd never told any one about it for an hour or longer, when, after he had walked a block or more, he confided to his mother that he had accidentally shot himself. Immediately Dr. HUs man was summoned and the ball was extracted. To-day, Master Willie is getting along all right and no serious results are anticipated from the wound, which was merely a flesh one. The Improvement In' Orninnge. During a steady, unremitting rain like that which has fallen on last Thursday, for instanoe, a practical illustration can bs had of the marked ohanges for the better which have taken place in the surface drain age system of Albany during the last few years. Six or eight years ago, there were numerous localities within the muni cipal limits, where water collected in quantities during the rainy spells, and remained stagnant and exposed to tbe baneful effeot of the sun’s rays. Of course such places could but be creative of unhealthful influences, and Albany could not have enjoyed the best of health. But now, what changes have been made. There is hardly a place in the oity where there is an accumulation of water during rainy spells, that does not run off immediately. The sewers and dltolies keep busily at work, and show that their construction was superintended by level heads. Twelve hours after a hard rain there is not a sheet ot water to be seen in the city that is muoh larger than a table cloth, and this fact when taken into consideration can account, some what. for Albany’s universally good health. J'HF-Y ARE THE.BEST HATS ON EARTH FOR THE PRICE. ELEGANT LINE OF •NECKWEAR! LATEST NOVELTIES IN SILK AND LAWN NECK RAGA. CALL AND SEE US. 90 BROAD STREET. School OpeUM. From Monday’s Evening Hkkai.ii. For the first time iu several days the sun rose clear, ushering in a bright morning fer the opening of school. At an early hour tile streets were lllled with happy children, with bright faces and merry voices, wending their way to the Academy, to resume their studies after a long vacation. There were the sweet girls and manly boys, in their teens, who are begin ning to assume the dignity befitting their higher studies; there were the younger girls nnd boys, full of fun and mischief; and dearer .than all were the little ones, with their sweet faces, who were timidly going to real ize that wonderful experience, their first day at school. YVhat a crowd of them there were, these little women and men, Albany’s pride and future hope. Next to the children, the pride of Albany is cen- tenered in her nigh School, which opened so auspiciously this morning. May this year, under the new regime, fulfill tbe brightest hopes of those who have labored so faithfully for the success of the school, and may it be an earnest of increasing prosperity as tbe years pasG by. God bless the dear children! May they have a happy, successful school life, and may tbe teachers be strength ened in every way, to meet their great responsibilities, and to carefully train tbe tender minds submitted to their instruction. A recent dispatch from Atlanta to the Savannah News says that private letters received here this week, the contents of wliioh have just leaked out, corroborate the recent official de nial by the Salvador Consul, at San Franoisoo, of the reported marriage engagement of Miss Ida Dent Wright to General Ezeta, a brother of Presl- dent Ezeta of Salvador, South Anicr- ica. The letters referred to were writ ten by a Georgian, who is now filling an important government appoint' ment in South' Americn adjacent to Salvador. YY’hen the announcement of the approaching marriage of Miss YVright to General Ezeta was reoeiveil in Atlanta from New York, where tiie young lady was at the time pre paring to sail for Europe with her mother to purchaso her trousseau, as her mother stated to the press, It oreated considerable surprise. WI1K1IK TIIE SURPRISE COMES IN. Mrs. Marie YVright is well-known by reputation here, though she has not re sided here for a year. Her daughter atttended school here also, while her mother traveled. YVhen she finished school she began traveling with her mother, who is connected with the New York YY'orld. It was during Mrs. YVright’s trip to South America in the Interest of the YVorld that the daugh ter is reported to have become engnged to the dashing brother of Salvador’s President. Mrs. YVright is, perl|Rps, better known in the State as the trav eling agent of the Sunny South, under the direction ot Col. J. II. Seals, this being the position in which she first oame before the pubiio. She belongs to a good Georgia family, of Coweta county, but through her roving life as a newspaper woman she lias never taken a place m society. This fact caused the surprise when the ap proaching marriage to such a digni tary as General Ezeta was announced here, nnd now, slnoe the denial from the reported groom-elect, Atlanta peo ple are prompt to say, “I told you so.” IT 1M FAI.8E. MTANJON’tS INSPIRATION. AIVIlTn f X lift 1 I* No Increase la InMurnnco How Ilia Ulolher Tnuglit Him Veracs I1Ut| I /I mv 1 ItnirM In Albany* When n Child* urii-uiAnD' morning, a Herald reporter Leo Langley in Maeon Evening Nows. was apprised on several corners of the fact that the insurance rates in Alba, ny had gone up 50, 100 or 200 per oent. In fact, several people seemed d s- posed to raise a mighty howl over the rumored increase. They could not see why Albany’s insurance rates should be raised when tbe city has one of the best waterworks systems and one of the best fire departments m the State; and, they kicked, and great was the kiok thereof. These facts taken into consideration caused n Herald reporter to take it upon himself to investigate the matter. It was found, after a brief Interview with those in position to know, that the rumor was absolutely unfounded. The investigation, however, die closed, how the rumor had gained currency, and it is explained in this way: This year, the secretary of the local board of insurance agents did not, ns heretofore, send in his sur- veys of the warehouses of the oity, but let the warehousemen make out their -own reports, wliiah they did. On this account there was an increase of about 100 per oent. on warehouse property, caused solely by the indi vidual reports of one or two of the warehousemen. These reports were merely preliminary ones, and just ns soon ns permanent reports can be sent in tl;e increase will likely be offset and the regular rate resumed. By those who are prominent in in aurance matters, tho Herald is as Uolton Picker* Scarce. Scarcely had the first peep of break ing day showed itself upon the olouds that lined the eastern heavens Monday morning, when the lumbering Of many big, two-horse country wagons began to be heard coming in toward the center 6t the oity, and moving from one street to another. Persons who have resided long In this section of the oountry know that it is customary for plantation wagons to come into town every Monday morning during the cotton senson, to get hands for a ’week’s work picking the fleecy staple. Some wagons drive up to the loaf ing haunts of town darkles; and jug gle with these individuals separately. Others take the middle of the street and go through calling loudly for “pickers at forty or fifty cents a hun dred,” as the cas ■ may be. YVhen a wagon is Anally loaded, there Is a craok of the driver's whip, and away they go for the cotton fields. It is often a matter of considerable difficulty to prooure the desired num ber fora load, and the wagons often re main in town until away after 10 o’clock. Not a little trouble is being experienced this year in procuring hands, and they are badly needed on account of the rain wetting the staple and beating it from the bolls. sured that there is no increase that affeots other property in the oity. Just as soon as one or two of the ware housemen of the oity oan make several minor Improvements, in the way of barrels tilled with water, in their ware houses, the matter will be adjusted to the satisfaction of all concerned. A Larger Rainfall* The rainfall for. this immediate sec tion of the State for 1898, promises to exceed that of any previous year for quite a long time. It will bo another feature of a year full of strange inci dents and aocidents. Already we have had a greater amount ot rain than has fallen in an other single year for the last several, and there are yet nearly four months of. l c /.’8 left. The ponds have been tilled, and the woods and fields are full of water. It may be, and it is feared by many, that the excessive fall of rain up to date will give us a dry fall season, but there is a probability of nothing happening that will be very surprising in such a remarkablo year. Pan Him Around. One Chas. T. Leone, olaiming to be from Kentuoky, originally, and from Montgomery to Albany, applied to B. F. Manning for work, olaiming to be a coaoh painter. He Beamed to be a gentleman and was anxious for a situ ation, whioh he succeeded in procur ing at wages of $2 per day. He proved to be an impostor, and was dis charged on Friday, having received $27 for thirteen and a half days’ work. He slipped his baggage from his room and beat his board bill for one week with Judge F. R. Robert. Every parent should read “Ye Olde Booke Shope” advertisements. lie Deieried Hia Family. Sumlny night nbout 11 o’clock Officer Raley arrested Harry Twiggs, colored on a warrant sworn out by Twiggs’ wife; charging him with deserting his children. It appears that Twiggs has been do ing farm work down about Hardaway for some time, but recently he desert ed his wife and live minor children, leaving them penniless and destitute. Sunday, his wife came to tiie city and swore out the warrant against him. Officer Haley spotted Twiggs and ar rested him, ns above stated, and lodged him in jail. Twiggs is an old offender, and it is probable that this case will go hard with him. Go to “Ye Olde Booke Shopc if you wish to sa\e money on school books. The Ucrald’ii Telegraphic Mrrvice From the Columbia (Alji.) Breeze. - The Albany Herald comes to us this week greatly improved by the addition of a telegraphic news ser vice, having become a member of the Afternoon Associated Press Associa tion of the Southern States, headquar ters at Washington. The Herald ed itorially informs its readers that A! bany is the smallest city in the coun try enjoying the privilege of member ship. Success, Brother McIntosh. Buy your stationery, art materials ‘ ‘ ink books at ‘Ye Olde Booke andblaDk Shope,” where the most complete line in the city can be found. Odlw Codon U Damaged Considerably* The heavy beating rains which have fallen dally during tbe last week have wrought a very considerable amount of damage to the cotton orop. Farm ers are responsible for numerous statements to the effeot that the con tinued wet weather has hail the effect of producing rut in the half matured and green bolls, besides beating out a great deal of the open cotton. The loss will be considerable; and will miss none of the farmers, as the recent rains have been general. YVhen a man becomes great or fa mous, every incident and detail of the story of his early life, nnd espeoinlly those having a bearing on his future sucoess is rend with enger interest so far as his name, nnd fame extends. In view of this and the fact that Mr. Frank L. Stanton, ot Atlanta, is without question the foremost nnd most popular poet in America—a writer of verse whose fame 1ms long since orossed the borders of the con tinent, I nni tempted to tell a pretty story connected with his early life, and the foundation upon which his success and fame has been built, wliioh was told me by a close friend of the poet, YVhen wo meet a poet or bcoome in terested in the writings of one we often wonder how nnd why lie first ever suited to' writing verse. YVe wonder if it was a case of “love’s young dream,” one of those love born visions that transforms nature's whole kingdom into n garden of Eden; whether it was a sentimental sympa thy for the world and its weaknesses or whether the soul was tired by n divine inspiration from some heaven ly source. And strange to say this is one of the few mysteries that general ly surrounds the life of a poet. Thu thousands ot readers of Mr. Stnnton who have boon charmed beyond dr scription by his pretty poctionl stories have no doubt wondered wlint first ever inspired the musio of his sweet songs tempered with thetemlerostand noblest sentiments of the soul, nnd for the pleasure of the News renders I will take the liberty of relating the story ns It was told me by a friend of Mr. Stanton: Said Stanton’s old friend; It’s a pretty story that explains Frank Stnn- ton’s first effort at writing poetry. He was reared by his grandmother down In the beautiful mendows of Lee county, which he has since immortal ized by his “Songs of the Soil.” Sho was one of tbe moBt devout Christians that ever lived and a great churoh and Sunday sobool attendant. YVhen Frank Stanton was a little chubby, bow-legged tot, handsome, however, ns he 1 always has been, she used to make him get down before her on a foot-stool every night and mem orize two or three verses of some fa vorite hymn from the Gospel Hymn and other similar song works before he said his prayers. This was kept up till Frank oould repeat any song in several of these books. In this way hlB little soul became thoroughly sat urated with rhyme and meter and he would form all his conversations around the house into verse of hymn meter. YVhen he first began to sorib- ble, his compositions were all In this snme style of verse and he continued in this way till he first ventured to put seme of his work in print In his paper, the Smlthvllle News. And that is why he Is a poet to-day. You will find much of the hymn, style and meter in his writings to-day, many expressions from the familiar old songs, such as “Not a AVave of Trouble Rolls Aoross My Peaceful Breast,” “Salvation’s Free,” “Praise Ye the Lord From Whom All Blessings Flow,” and tbe same sentiments that those early Christian writers ex pressed, runs throughout his work. If this story be true, the world owes the good Christian woman who had the direction of the now famous pout’s young mind an everlnsting debt of gratitude, The (.lenrlua House Cerllflcnle*. From till) Loo County Kntorprisb. Hurrah for the Clearing House Cer tificates! They have given one black eye to' Wall street. They are ns good gold. Everybody accepts them readily. They will pay your bank notes and your provision bill. Every mcrchunt in Albany stands pledged to accept them at their fnce value for anything you wish to buy. The banks will give you New York exchange nt par for them if you wish to make a re mittance. It only remains for Con gress to blacken the other eye of YVall street and the South will be all right. If you want the korrect shape, buy a Knox. Muse & Cox Co. 9-0-dtf The Memphis Appeal-Avalanche sayS: Taxes never stop for rain or shine, night or day. They go on for ever, like Tennyson’s brook. Taxes fluctuate upward. It takes as many dollars to pay taxes as it ever did. Yet it takes three or four times as muoh wheat, wool or cotton to get the dollars as it used to take. Down with all class legislation I School books and sobool furnishing goods a specialty. Second hand school books, in good condition, bought, sold and exchanged at “Ye Ol3e Book Shope.” 6dlw Parents who wish to save money on school books, etc,, should go to Ye Olde Booke Shope" to buy them —Choose any shade of green or vio let and you are “in the fashion.” YVe have received a large stock of boy’s clothing, and fine assortment of gents neckwear. 8-lw Cutliff & Jordan —That which one has the least of is what one likes the Iftst. A dollar saved is a dollar made, nnd you can save several dollars by buying your childrens’ school books ut “Ye Olde Booke Shope. Odlw New goods arriving every day nt ‘Ye Olde Booke Sliope.” Odlw —It is a curious fancy in England to gives brides-maids and brides presents of gold safety pins. At a recent wed ding the bride’s gifts to her brides maids were gold safety pins with her initials on them. KulinB, the Potographer, is back and ready for work again, with better facilities than ever for making the very finest photographs, crayons and pastels. Call and see him at 111)4 Broad street. 0d4t The company that proposes to lay a cable between Australia and California will obtain a subsidy from the German government for the sections of the,line between the Feejee and Samoan islands and Honolnln. -The place to buy cheap sohool books is at “Ye Olde Booke Shope.” Odlw Preserve your Eye Slglit- waste no time in giving it atten tion. Do not postpone the use of Glasses h moment; A Stitch in Time Often saves nine. Keep nil 'eye on your eyes. One of Heaven’s greatest blessings is GOOD EYE SIGHT Remember that the longer eyes are deprived of what they need, the worse they become. Consult expert opticiaus, Mr. and Mrs. Phil Harris THE HEADLIGHT! Our gems sparkle like the the engine. Al- headllght on ways come to the leading store for cheap prices. Our display of YVatches, Jewelry, DIAMONDS, Wedding Presents, etc., are beau tiful. Wc undersell all others. Call on the Leading Jeweler, PHIL HARRIS ALBANY, - - GEORGIA. FOR THE Sil CELEBRATED LANDRETH Garden Seed CALL ON 11. iratesid 2 Co. ...' We have 150 pounds of his beet and freshest Turnip Seed. We do not claim to be the only one who sells them ; others may do so. We have nine varieties: The Flat Dutch, Purple Top, Rutabaga, Seven Tops, White Globe, White Eger. Seven Tops, White Globe, White Egg, Red Top Globe, Yellow Aberdeen, Cow Horn. We also carry the most complete line ■ FRDIT JARS Ever opened in Albany. YVhen in uecd of anything iu this line give us a calL Wc can save you money. J. E. deGRAFFENRElD A CO. BROAD STREET. City hinese GUAM,BY OSH LUNG, Frop’r. . ' is Only FIRST-CLASS HAND W( everything done' at remarkabl; prices. You will find me on street, next door to City Oounci her and Police Barracks. Giv call. I guarantee satisfaction. .....

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Albany weekly herald. (Albany, Ga.) 1892-19??, September 16, 1893, Image 1