The Albany Echo. (Albany, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 24, Ed. 1 Saturday, November 3, 1883 Page: 1 of 3
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T0BMST Oi LAW,
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District Attorney,
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^Criminal business—The thirdyXLaday
Clvtt and Prt
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third
March. May, July.
by a Hue-tooth comb in the way
many a mother redeems her
boy's scalp."
At this juncture another lot
of the precious kindling was
put in the furnace. The scribe
J dusted off his note book, shook
I the lapel of his
up his hands and
roofs encrusted with pre-[had hie finger nails inspected,
Op the second Monday in February,
May', August #nd November.
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in each inootU.at Fori
Preelnct No.
No. Fdur. on the second Mon-
*t and third Sabbath in t acit mouth, at
a. in. and 7 p. m.. N. K. Fair, P.C.
■■■■Pith**1 and 4th Sab-
baths in each mouth, g. 0. FifLxoB,
Pastor.
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T?U k^vtkhun.- Hervloes<m ttttteaoiid
* >bath n each month, at 11
ui., 8. Ead|l, Psator.
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RANT,
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AND BAKERY,
MASONIC.
a Albany Lo<lg< No.482, A. F.and
fyA. M-. roeeU Saturday night, on
' w\©r beforefull moon.
UAU SPXAR8, W. M.
J. A. McAiaU, Sec.
Fort Frifllri l.odtfe. Fo. 48#. A. r. «nd
A M. meet*fir- "n-day nigfatafterfUtl
moon. W. 8. lUutyurLa, W. M.
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Bayard I^ge, .No, 3U, nieeU
ilny eveuing in Castle
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J. A, McAmis, Sac. |
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Thursday in each
K. K. Manning,
month, is
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Commander.
W. W. gammons. See.
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Albany Lodge, No. —
in their hail every Wednaa-
day night. J. il. BIGGS,
C. ©. BUaNE iXSee. N. G,
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H. A T. C. B.*.
Arrive
Passenger and audi, arrive 4 16 in the
"Swmger and lUuii, depart* 56 in the
monilAit.
^ Phillip Wilson, Agent
io«tb, east and weet, vtafl. • f.C.B.
.. arrive dally at 6 SO p. .,■*
daily at 8 10 a m.
Fort Urlflln and the north, depart dally
ejwept Sunday, at 6 p. u ., and aril ve daily
except Sunday, at a. in.
Office open on Sunday from 8 to 10
a. ui„ ami from 4 to 0 p. ni.
Money order burfnesslV. nl 8 a. i . to 4
p. m. « **. iWnaon, P. M.
SOUR MASH
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to b - foutHi tt the Texaa
NEW
BILUAHIl 4 POOfc TABLK8
«l4*lf tiki AMD NIGHT.
BU88BLL, THE BARBER,
Shop West Bide Public Square
ta€hsrl«y'«
Albany, Texas.
Everything Beat and clean and tools aharp.
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CatUl* bran
oa botli sides.
Albauy, HI. .• Milord Co. t*u.
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Tlw> Srm of MeAuii* A VTUami
dsy diaaotvwd by mutual
Wuson aasumliig all HaMUtha
k«4lug all MM
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Mr.
Albany, Tar., HrpT T, I
MrAuta A WiUMMr.
Near York Evening Po4t.
The Yoseuiite valley, which is
nearly iu the center of the state
of California, in six miles long,
and varies in width ftom hall a
coat, looked to a mile; while it had the
peculiarity of being sunk sheer
down lor aboat a mile below
the level of the surrounding
country. It is. not more than
twenty years since this Valley
was discovered by white men,
though it bad long been known
to be haunted by the In-
dians. Many of these Indians
are of the low typ* called Dig
ger Indians; they are not held
in honor by aborigines of a
fiercer breed, yet they can do
many things which puizle the
most skilled . paleface. Give a
white man an Indian fishing
rod, and he will strive in vain to
catch one of the troat that
swarm in the streams of the
Yosemite. vThe rod is hollow
and the fly is blown through
the surface of the stream with
he. naturalness which can
scarce be obtained by a fly oast
in the usual nay. . Yet a white
angler cannot use this fishing
rod with the dexterity aud suc-
cess of his less esteemed Indian
this eifytp
plain looking from wifbout. but {honest, held
with
cious metals and floors studded j and left as poor as he came.
with bits of silver, gold and " We do not leduoeour sweep-
diamonds. there are eobwebs ings,M said another Jeweler.
hanging from the ceilings; but I "We take our sweepings, burn
they are sprinkled like the them and pulverize them and
spangled lace of an Oriental send out sample packages to
bride. The men ^nd women in [the assay er. The value of sweep-
the house are ill dressed and lings annually 1 should estimate
grimy; but their fingers are at over K000."
tipped with gold, and their hair At the United States mint,
is dusted with glittering ores j wheie more gold is used than
With all their riches however ii|s any other manufacturing
such houses are only greasy ! place in the country, the devices
shops, with rickety, dark stair- used to recover vagrant parti-
ways A reporter of the News cles of gold and silver are both
climbed three flights in one. .novel and interesting. Chief
He entered a room whence he clerk L. R. Copperwai (he said :
might have been sent away "The value of our sweepings for
well-off for. life • but all he re- the fiscal year ending June 30,
ceived was a choking whiff of was $14*204.40 gold, and $9. along with the line to which it
sulphuric acid or. some other 83012 for silver. We are very ** attached, ana it falls upon
acid, and all he saw and felt careful to reclaim all the gold
was ♦ furnace which a number! we can. Nearly every month
of workmen were supplying!we ha7e the roofs of *11 our
of an old floor. The buildings swept and the sweep-
ers being scraped into ings refined."
barrels. * . * "Does that pay you to sweep-
*|§sking pnlverired charcoal the roofs f"
or bilious people f" asked the "Pay us 1 The sweepings for
reporter. * one month amounted to $290
No, sir; Just burning some] We occasionally sweep the
precious wood,*' was the answer, roof of the Presbyterian church
You see when we moved from Yw wouldn't expect to find
our old quarters in the Peterson gold in a sewer, would you ?
wilding we brought the old Well, we scraped about sixty
floor with us and left a new feet of the the street sewer, and,
one. I expect these bits of fire-; apart from the rats we caught,
wood to yield us upwards of J reclaimed $600 worth of gold
$2000. The floor has been in £nd silver ihat had washed
use about ten years, and grain j from the robf of the building
by grain it has been tilled with during heavy Showers."
costly metals. This charcoal I ''Ho* often jlo you scrape the
will be ground Jn a tntll, and |sewer ?"
hence will go into a crucible "Well, we ahjUi scrape again
or amalgamation with mercury., «oon. But after that there will
By squeesiug out the mercury Im no need. We.are having a
through chamois sains we will well dug to catch our rain water
regain the gold and silver that!in the future. We bad a sur
has been ground into the floor; plus last year of twenty-one
by hundreds of feet." I ounces of gold over the amount
"What becomes of the metal allowed for waste." ■ |
dust that Is swept up f I "How do yoa guard against
We treat it in a simHar way.jyour
Our employes are required to! away ?"
wash their hands in a tank, audi "The workmen leave their
thedrty water passes through working clothes here, and they
a series of sieves before reach- are washed from time to time."
ing the waste pipe, so that very "Wbai^ becomes of the gold
little of value is allowed the j that escape* through the chim-
escape. A Newark firm uses neysf' |
no less than five tanks for its "Every time a crucible Is open
refuse water before it passes in I a certain amount of gold is
to a well. A few years ago the bound to volatilise, but it drops
firm took out the mud from the Ion the roof and in the street
bottom of the weH,«nd worked {OocasionalIy a orucible upsets
it and obtained several hundred! and tbpt causes considerable
dollars of metal. The sweep-j volatilisation. We bad >a felt
ings and settlings of a shop like j roof on one pf our sheds tba
ours are worth from $3,000 to was taken off and reduced
$4,00p, according to the kind of j yielding a large amount of gold
work done, if we get up many snd silver. The old Pennsylva
diamond settings and plain |nia depot, before Mr. Wanar
rings the waate is large. In maker bought it, hfM} a felt snd
chain making and watch case I gravel roof, which* for years
work th« loss is not so great." I bad been absorbing gold tba
wWhatis the value of a floor?" [ is, no doubt in some city dump."
"How valuable do you think
the root wast"
"Judging by the roof taken
brother. The Yosemite abounds
the larger game; it also
swarms with rattlesnakes,which
are as great a terror to the
intelligent tourist as the vulgar
sight seers, who, in North Amer-
ica as in European places of
merest, render the pursuit of
knowledge and pleasure a
grievous task. The striking
Mature of the Yosemite scenery
s the mas8iveness of the moun-
tain elevatious and the etfupen
dous character of the water
< <41(8. The Bridal Veil leaps at
one bound of 600 feet into the
Yosemite river. Immediately
opposite is the Virgin's Tear
"That is . hard to estimate.]
Dorison A Age, of Newark. |
burnt a floor 00x100 and obtain-
ed a return of $0000. A Jewel-1 off the mint yard, I should say
ry firm in Sansom street obtain
ed $000 for one recently burnt."
"Cannot the workman carry
away th* gold dust without de-
tection f'
"I hate heard of such tbW
We bad a man In our employ
who had curly hair and was
at least $1
see, Uncle
thousands in
around town."
per
foot. So you
has many
•ome ash heap
Porcelain * tombstones are in
use, and are said to weather
the storms better than memory
continually running his fingers]of the deceased.^
through On inquiry wej^^^U^^B
found he bad been discharged! The United States governmen
from a New York factory for baa made a pr« flt of $16,000,000
carrying gold away In hi* hair, by coining $0 cent dollar^ a
which was afterwards redeemed' 100 cents each.
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My Dkar Sow—What
yon think if yon should
to our bedside every night,
waking us, tell ns you would
not allow ns to deep any more t
That is jost what yon an> doii.6;
and that is just why I am up
a H..1. after mid-lA, i
writing to yon. '
is nearly worn out with
from side to side, and
use you won't
sleep. That mother who
you in your
you in -your
looked with pride and Joy
yon as you
manhood, as she counted on the
comfort anil su;
give her in her declining yeais.
We read of a most barbar-
ous manner in which one
Oriental nations
of its criminals. It is
ting the flesh from the
small pieces—slowly
the limbs, beginning with
Angers and toes, one joint
time, till the wretched
dies. That is just what
are doing; you are Killl
mother by inches; You
planted many of the white
hairs that are now appearing «o M
thickly in her head before the
(irae. Your cruel band iadraw
I
fall, which descends 1000 feet ed to
ing the lines of sorrow on her
dear face, making her look pre-|
maturely old. You might as
ell stick your knife into her ®
body every time you come near v
.for your conduct is stabbing
her to the heart. You might aa
well bring her coffin and force
ler into it, for you are pressing;,
ler toward it with very rapid
steps.
Would you tread on ber
if prostrated on the floor t Aad
yet with ungrateful foot you
are treading on,ber heart and
crushing out its life and joy-
no, I needn't say Joy, for that is
a word we bave long ago V
rom the point over which it
makes the final rush! The Yo-
semite fall descends vertically
1000 feet. The Nevada fall,
which pours down for 2,000
workmen carrying goldi***^ be<fB styM. not with
out reason, graudest in the
world. As with the falls, so
with the rocky elevations—they
surpass in their special cbaract
eristics any to be seen else-
where. We shall not name
them all or gl*« figures which
convey but a slight impression
of their grandeur. It will be
enough to mention the Cathe
dral Bock, rising almost per
peudicularly between 2,000 and
3,000 feet above the valley | the
Spires, twp columns of granite,
reeembliug in outline the finely
cut towers of a Gothic,cathe
dral, and rising to a bright of
000 feet. Conspicuous among
all the masses of graulle in this
valley is El Capitan, which
might have been transported
from the Land's End thither, so
closely does it resemble some
of the masses of towering cliff
between the Lizzard and Cape
Cornwall, or which may remind
travelers who have crossed
Lake Superior of the frowning
and singular shape of Thunder
Cape. It is not our intention to
describe these wonders In d«
tail, but, before passing from
this brief notice of them, let ns
add that both the enchanting
Mariposa grove of mammoth
trees and the Yosemite Valley
were expressly ceded by con
gress and the Stale of Califor-
nia on the expieas condition
that they should be reserved to
the use. resort and recreation
the public.
use, because you have
taken it away from us. Ol
course we have to meet otul .
riends with smiles, but they
itUe tyow of the bitterness
within. You have taken all the
roses out of >your sister's path-
way and scattered thorns in-
stead, and Irorn the pain they
nflict; scalding tears are often f
seen coorsinir down her cheeks.
Thus you are blighting her life
as ours.
Aud what can yon promise
yourself for the future f Look
at the miserable, bloated, rag-
ged wretches wbom yon meet
every day on the streets, and
see in them an exact picture of
what you are fast coming to,
and will be in a few years.
Then, in the end a drunkard's
doom I For the bible says:
"No drunkaid shall Inherit the
kingdom of God." Where then
will you be I If not in the
kingdom of God, you must be
somewhere else.
Will not these considerations
indpee you to quit at onoe, aud
for all time t And may God
help you, for he can aud he will,
if vou earnestly ask him. %
Your aflectiouate, but sorrow*
stricken father.
The New York Bible House
reports that not a single oopy of
the revised New Testament has
been sold In five months. The
old oopy Is good enough for
moatpaople.
Io a base bail match at Phil-
adelphia fl ye meu were disabled.
In a debating society In Arkun-
sas four men w*re killed and
five wounded. What this coun-
try needs 1s a rational amuse-
ment.
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Robson, G. W. The Albany Echo. (Albany, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 24, Ed. 1 Saturday, November 3, 1883, newspaper, November 3, 1883; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth393467/m1/1/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting The Old Jail Art Center.