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SspWif vOTTyr r- ALBANY WEEKLY HERALD. VOL. 9. ALBANY, GA.. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1901. NO 29 ■Mi MONUMENT UNVEILED; CEREMONY IRriion, SB. Large Concourse Yesterday Afternoon Heard the Address of Hon. Jos. E. Pottle, of Milledgeville,| and Saw Veil Drawn From the Marble Fig ure'—Ceremony a Gratifying Success in Ever} Particular. From Friday’s Herald. Albany’s monament to her Confed erate dead was nnveilod yesterday after noon with ceremonies; impressive and appropriate. The exercises were wit nessed by a large concourse, there being probably two;thonsaud persons present, and all evidenced a deep interest in everything that occurredias a part of the afternoon's programme. The Ladies' Memorial Association had made thorough preparation for the ooca sion. Against the pedestal of the mou ament, which stands at) the intersection of Pino and Jackson streets, n platform had been erected, facing eastward. In semi-oiroular form and| in front of this platform, a large unmber.Jof ohairs had been arranged, providing seats for many of the ladies present Jand the Invited guests of the Memorial Association Bat after all the scats had been occn pied, there were still hundreds of per sons standing, the crowd Riling the Btreet and extendingSback over the side walks on three sides of the Bqnare. Many took their stations on the veranda of theNew Albany, whenoe they oould witness the exercises 1’and hear every thing that was said. A few minutes after,8 o’clook, the yonng ladies representing the thirteen atates of the Confederacy, with their maids of honor, moved in a body from the Auditorium to the monument, occu pying seats whioh had been reserved for them immediately in front of the plat form. In all, there were; forty-five of these young ladies. All were dressed -in white and red, and as they moved to their stations they presented a very •oharming pioture.. Miss Daisy Massey bore the Confederate flag, and the five wreath bearers were Misses Hilda Wright, Sarah Hall, Jeannette Mitchell. Annie Joiner and Laura Pate. 1’h'e -sponsors for the several states, with •their maids of honor were as follows: South Carolina: Miss Lnoy Man ning, sponsor; Maids, Misses Miohelle Ticknor and Carrie Sterne. Alabama: Miss Julia Baoon, spon sors Maids. Misses Eula Jones and Helen Crews. Georgia: Miss Daisy Hester, spon sors Maids, Misses Marguerite Hester and Lottie Tilt. North Carolina: Miss Julia Tift, sponsor; Maids, Misses Mattie Bush and Maria Mitchell. Texas: Miss Marion Gunnison, spon sor s Maids, Misses Victoria Collier and Sherrie Lewis. Missouri: Miss Pearl Forrester, spon sor; Maids, Misses Oena Whitehead and Carl deGraffenreid. Arkansas: Miss Bennie Brimberry, sponsor; Maids, MisseB Catharine Muse and Angelina Davis. Florida: Miss Bessie Gilbert, spon sor; Maids, Missos Martha Alfriend and Mercedes Tift. Louisiana: Miss Gertrude Mook, sponsor; Maids, Misses Cora de Hester and Jennie May Conaghan. Kentucky: Miss Ohloemily Gilbert, sponsor; Maids, Misses Dora Belle Gil bert and Helen Davis. Virginia: Miss Myra Hilsman, spon sor; Maids, Misses Fannie Mayer and Helen Bawlins. Tennessee: Miss Ella Bust Vason, sponsor; Maids, Misses plleighpage Tucker and Alioe Dennison. Mississippi: Miss Mattie Cox, spon sor; Maids, Misses Felix Godwin and Helen Whire. Just at this jnncture companies E and G, Albany Guards, arrived and took their static: s on opposite sides of the monument, the former to the south and the latter to the north. The mayor and members of the city council ooonpied seats near the Btand, and nearly all the secret orders of the c'ty were represent ed, having received speolal invitations. There were tunny Confederate veter ans present. They were in a seotion of seats reserved espeo ally for them, and appeared deeply interested in the exer- oises throughout. The commencement of the exercises vas signified by the sounding of reveille by Ithe Guards’ buglers. Bev. H. T. Darnall delivered the opening prayer, and was followed by Oupt. John T. Hester, who introduced the speaker of the occasion. Oapt. Hester is at all times a graceful and pleasing s; eaker, and his remarks icsterday were par ticularly eloquent. He took oooaslon to say a word on bohalf of the Confederate veterans whom he represented, and'paid glowing tribute to the ladies of the Memorial Association. The address of Hon. Joseph E. Pottle, of Mill: dgeville, was a splendid effort. Nature h is endowed him with pleasing A great many women are subject to spells of dizziness, spots before the eyes, and n ringing noise in the head. These symptoms are commonly associated with liver "trouble * as the result of a diseased condition of the stomach and other or gans of digestion and nutrition. Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discov ery cures diseases of the stomach and the allied organs of digestion and nutrition. It cures through the stomach diseases seemingly remote front that organ, but which hnve their origin in a diseased condition of the stomach nnd digestive and nutritive system. Hence, cures of heart, lungs, liver, kidneys, and other organs are_ constantly effected by the •* ” .1 r use of Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Dis covery. There is no alcohol in the " Discovery" and it is free from opium, cocaine, and all other narcotics. discovery. in substitutes for the dealer. There’s more health in the "Discovery” for you. Don’t be imposed on. - It Is with the ffrentest pleasure I write you the benefit my mother has received from your 'Golden Medfcnt Discovery,"' says Miss Carrie i ohnson, of Lowcsvllle, Amherst Co., Virginia. he suffered untold misery with uterine disease and nervousness, and had n constant roaring and ringing noise in her head. After taking six hottlcs of Dr. Pleree’a Golden Medical Dis covery she was entirely cured." When a laxative is required use Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets. vate soldier, “whose equal we have seen nowhere in history and whose counter part the fntnre will not see.’ 1 The speaker paid his respeots in scath ing langnage to some of the oonspion- one figures on the Federal side during the war. He woald open no graves and e their corpses before his hearers' i, but he would never consent to take hand in raising monuments to the memory of Abraham Lincoln, or pile wreaths of flowers on the tomb of Wil liam TeonmBeh Sherman. “The war is ended, the verdiot of history is mad6 np, and the vindication of the South is at hand,” he said. The address was frequently interrupt ed by applause. At its oono'.nston, Mr, Oragsr Westbrook, master of ceremo nies, oalled np the sponsors of the sev eral states, and eaoh grasped a oord at tached to the veil over the monment. At a given signal, the veil was drawn, and on the same instant both oompauiea of the Gnards fired a volley in salnte, the whole crowd'rising and ohoering. The buglers sounded tattoo, and the oeremoDy was ended, with the exception of the piling of flowers around the pe destal of tho monument by a number of little girlB of the olty. Hot Rolls, VETERANS APPRECIATIVE. Last Saturday s flood Day With Those Who Received Their Crones in Albasy. BaoontoN, Ga„ Nov. 11,1001. Editor Herald : < Will you do us the klndn .ss to Bay to the Albany Chapter, United Daughters of the Confederacy, that as veterans we have had one more bright day thrown into onr lives. It is all well and right for tho veter ans to go to Macon and reoelve their crosses at the hand of Mrs, Stonewall Juokson |(and we honor her), but we have had onr pref erenoe, that of receiv ing ours at the hands of our own dear home folks. Yos, Saturday was a good day with us. 'We ars getting too old to be viry demonstrative, but wo will wear onr orcsses with pride, remembering when and where and wh 5 bestowed them, the splendid dinner and the kind attentions, all of whioh went to the hearts of vet erans and caused us all to feel that we t an all we had ever aspired to—a place in the hearts of our people. A, S. McCollum. hot muffins, hot cakes, made with Royal Baking Powder may be freely eaten without fear of indigestion. STILL NOT SETTLED. DOTH SIDES ARB CLAIMING A MAJORITY IN ALABAMA. Cbslrmsa Underwood Persists Is Hit State ment Thai New Conitllutlss Has Bees Ratified by 27,000 Majority, While the Opposition Declares It Hse 20,000 Ma jority. Birmingham, Ala., Nov. 18,—Botorito from tho eleotlon for tho ratification or rejeotlon of the new oonstitntlon are not ooming in os rapidly ao usual. It will tako an official count by eaoh oonnty to definitely determine tho re sult. Chairman Underwood, of the demooratio etate oampaign committee, still adheres to his claim of 8,700 ma jority, and Chairman Shelly, of the antt-ratifloatlon state oommittee, claims that he has a majority of twenty thous and. TERRIFIC GALE HAS SWEPT OVER OREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND POR TWO DAYS. SOUTHERN SPINNERS. Aasasl Meeting Convened la Atlanta To- ALBANY’S CONFEDERATE MONUMENT, Unveiled Wednesday Afternoon with Appropriate Ceremony In the Presence of a Largo Concourse voice and graceful presence, and he im presses one as the typical Southern ora tor. Open air speaking is trying nnder the best of conditions, bnt particularly so in the presenoe of a large andienoe Yet not a word of Mr. Pottle’s address was lost yesterday, and it may be added that none of his hearers oared to lose anything he said. He departed some what from the line followed by most public speakers who have the war be tween the states fur a tbeme, being more than oommonly vehement in his denunciation of the policy of the federal government Immediately p ior to, dur ing aud fallowing the war, and in de fending the principles which the Con federacy sought to maintain. That a majority of his audienoo sympathized with his sentiments was evident. Mr. Pottle referred affectionately to the late Mrs. Samuel Hall, of this city, and to Mrs. A. M. Wolihln, now of Ma con bnt formerly of Albany, who were two of the devoted band of five women to whom was dne the oredit for organ ing and laboring to perpetuate the memory of onr Confederate dead, these five having organized the first Confed erate relief oorps. He also referred to the fact that it was a Dougherty county lady, Mrs. J, O. Talbert, whose fingers made the first Confederate flag inGeor gia. He was speaking on an old theme,Mr. Pottle Bald, bnt declared it Jo be one that would ever be new and precious to him, and one whioh he would delight to GALE STILL RAGING. Many Casualties Reported on England'! Cosit. London, Nov. 14.—The loss of a life boat and eleven of the orew near Yarmonth heads the list of today’s wreoks by the contlnned gale. The life boat was on tho way to resone a die- tressed vessel, when it was struck by a great wave and oapsized. Innumerable miner casualties continue to be reported. tell as long as be lives. He paid tribute to the Bpirit which animated the Con' federate Boldier, and said it was the same spirit whioh had sustained the Amerioan patriot at Valley Forge and made our country the greatest on the globe. It is the same spirit which is still kept alive in the hearts of oar sons nnd daughters, and makes them honor the oanso for whioh their fathers oot tended. He declared that after oarefnl study of the causes of the war and the principles Involved he had been unable to find room for a single honest difference of opinion. He went alj some length into a review of the history of the great oon- fllot, the causes that led np to it and the principles involved on both sides. He deolared that the men of the uonfed- cracy, could they have foreseen all the sorrow, bloodshed and desolation which accompanied the war, woald not have had the oondnet nf the South at that time ohanged in the smallest respeot for all the wealth of the Orient, nor would he, as a representative of the Sooth’s yonnger generations, have history show a different reoord. The truest testimo nial to the coarageof southern men and women, he deolared, was the prowess with whioh they had faced the trying situation after the devastating struggle was ended, and turned to make of their seotion the greatest and most prosper onsinthe whole country. He paid a beautiful tribute to the Confederate prt THE HOWARD FRANCHISE BILL Reported Unfavorably by tbe Senate Judiciary Committee. Atlftr ta, Ga , Nov. IB.—A unani mously adverse report was made to the senate this morning on the Howard franohise bill, whioh provides for the taxation of oorporatiun franchises. The reoommendatlon of the general judloiary committee is “that the bill do not pass,” The bill passed the house last week. Atlanta, Ga., Nov. 14.—The fifth an nual session of the Southern Cotton Spinners' Association convened this morning at tho Kimball House. The at tendance is large. After the weloomlng address, Dr. J. H. Mo Aden, president of the association, delivered his annual address. He reoommended a declaration by spinners in favor of a merohant marine "npon a basis that will give all Amerioan oili- zens an equal ohanoe, prevent favorit ism to entrenohed Interests and recog nize the producing classes in the reduo- tion of freight rates.” He also favored tbe building and construction as soon as possible of the Isthmian oanal. On reolproolty Mr. MoAden said; "The immense balapoa of trade in onr favor or sates the neoesslty of onr finding a market for onr surplus produots. We should do all we oan to advanoe both the letter and the spirit of reoiprooity. We especially desire oloser oommerolal relations with South) America and the Orient. London, Nuv. 18.—The gale whioh has been sweeping over Great Britain and Ireland for the past two days is no- abated. Over the Welsh lowlands tor- rental rains arc increasing, oanslng dis astrous floods. Beports of wreoks and casualties con tinue to (low in. The death Hat already ronchos 188. Tho mail boat Nord front Dover for Calais, whioh last night rah down tho light ship off Dover pier, hoi snooeoded in returning to Dover; and the mails and passengers are safe. The orew of the lightship also landed this morning after passing a terrible night at Boa. The British stoamor St. Elveo Is beaohod at Dover. Early today a French bark strnok off Hendon, and nineteen of the orew were drowned. The revenne ontter Aotiva was wreoked In the Firth of Forth. - x —• ... Jfl* NEW CONSTITUTION RATIFIED. NO CLUE YET. Negro Suspected of Robbing Paymaster Stevens Turned Loose. Atlanta, Ga., Nov. 14.—The negro Alexander, hold on snsploion of having robbed Paymaster Stevens, U. S. A., was released today by the polioe. There is no olue yet to the robbers. Deteotives are working on the oase. THE ESCAPED CONVICTS. CIVIL SERVICE PRINCIPLES To be Applied by Ibe Presidio! to Isiulor Appointments. Washington, Nov. 14.—The President announced today that In making civil appointments for the insular possessions of the united Stales he would adhere to the principles of oivil service. He de olared to Clinton Woodruff, of the Na tional Civil Service League, that abso lutely no appointments for the insular possessions woald be diotated or con' trolled by political considerations. TWENTY-FIVE ENTOMBED. Retltlcatloolits In Alabama Claim Thirty Thousand Majority. Birmingham, Ala., Nov. 13.—Tha new oonstitntlon was ratified in yester day's oleotlonby a large majority. The majority will probably reaoh thirty thousand and will not fall below twenty- five ohousand. The antl-ratlfloationlstl oharge f rand in a number of oonntles, notably Jefferson, Dallas aud PI tkeni. General Shelly, ohalrman of tha anti- ratlfloationisti, olalms he has won the fight, but rather indtoates that he doe* act expoot.to bare It so recorded. ■' J- KILLED ON A TRAIN, Arch Hsrby -Both Shot by Jos Reddlng- Promlsest Mod, Quitman, Ga., Nor. 13,—Joe Bedding shot and killed Aroh Harby on a South Georgia railroad train three miles front Greenville, Florida, yesterday. Both were prominent citizens, and from all information obtainable there had been bad blood between them for some time. Bedding left for Greenville by the mom- train. He asked to be let off at bid farm, three or four miles from Green ville. At Dennett flag station, five miles from Greenville, Harby got pn the train. Bedding had already gotten his baggage, thinking the train would atop for him, bnt when ho saw Harby he moved book into the rear oompartment of the train and took a huge pistol out ofhta grip and walked forward nntil just behind Harby, and, holding the pistol in both hands with the muzzle aboat eight inohes from Harby's back, m As Eves Dotes of Them Still At Large. Kansas City, Nov. 13.—An even dozen convicts srom the Leavenworth prison are still at large this morning. A CEORCIAN APPOINTED. Blaotos Wlusblp 1s Made a Pint Lieutenant of Isfsntry. Mine Explosion si Pocsbontac, West Virginia, Today. Huntington, W. Va., Nov. 14.—It Is reported here that twenty-five men were entombed at Pocahontas, where there was a mine explosion today. MANY DROWNED. Ooly Partial Retnras Prom tbs Storm British CossL London, Noy. 14.—An Inoomj of the persons who have lost tlxelr live Washington, Nov.. 14.—ThePresident| ... . to appointed Blanton Winship, ot | by d-ownlng during tho storm already Georgia, a first lieutenant of infantry.! aggregates one hundred and sixty. he fired the fatal shot at him. FIRED ON UNITED STATES MINISTER. Colombian Government Severely Puslibel Sentinel Wbo Fired Sbat. fJNew York, Nov. 13.-A Bogota, Co lombia, special to tho Herald is as fol lows; "A sentinel at Tequindama Falls on October 3S declined to honor the pass port of United States Minister Burdett. I and fired one shot at the diplomat. The •minister was not hit. The government ha? severely punished the sent'-'*' ’ Is seeing that the minister Li 1 m m