The Albany News. (Albany, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. [39], Ed. 1 Friday, November 21, 1884 Page: 1 of 6
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SiSSI
LAW,
pjESiBR'iaP^w-wsi. fimL MfSf
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el ford County,
Texas.
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in the courts of Khackel-
joining counties, the Supreme
;oiq-t of Appeals at Austin,
« F*d<*'al Court at Graham,
PETEB HART,
ATTORNEY at LA W,
RKAL ESTATE AGENT,
HOT ART PUBLIC,
Albany, Bhaokelfard • County, T.xas.
OjBioo Mat Bide court square.
SR. W. T BilRD,
PWlai ml ODstetrici
JLLTUXY, TEX J. 8.
Oatli l«ft at our offloo, goutheaat corner
gflha eqaare, will rsoeive prompt atten-
W. M. POWELL,
Physician and Surgeon,
AX^B-A-JST'Sr, - • TEXAS.
All bills must be paid on di«charge or on
first of the month. 37
M^Offloe at Manning's Drug Store,"®*
J. T. CAMP,
Carpenter and Builder
Will furnish all plans and specifications
tor all classes of buildings.
Address through postofflc* will recelrs
* prompt atUBtfon. 83
HACK LINE.
FBOSt
ALBANY TO FT. GRIFFIN,
Throckmorton
AKD
Seymour.
■arid leaVe Albany dally for the above
>lKst at 8 A. M.
ifeeial attention given passenger and
■\m J* H. McCREARY.
SiMurry & Townsend,
| PROPRIETORS
Albeiy Barber Shop,
Cornp^Ulr, and Second street" near
Qulno
•oon. Kyerylhlng neat and
tfaa*. H juj cold baths in connection
Vttti shop
& ESIEIBLIKfl.
JflbiwqpMr# AnporQ Ghats,
to
fLYMOUTHIfCK CHICKENS
A few Bucks am) Nini„, Rn(j piy
tb Book ohtekens an eggs for snle.
v O.K. SV-ioLiNG,
17 Ft. Gffln
, Texas.
J. B, Gilctvf,
> SEAL ESTATE '
n
A1BAN7, XBXAj
fartlM wishing to secure lands
•onsnlt me, as I nave had many yeaiex_
jperience In the land department at J4g.
(in, and aw perfectly familiar with ,P
tend business. 2i
UCE EARL,
Tlio Old Reliable
Dealers in
II
luwiwuusm^n,
Cutlery and Qnecnsware,
FINE LAMPS AND LANTERNS,
A Specialty.
BOLE AGENTS FOB
BUCKS BRILLIANT STOVES
In Shaokelford County.
Main Street; Adjoining Bank ALBANY, TEX.
A. BARUCH,
DEALER IX
Family
ALL KINDS OF FINE CANNED AND BOTTLED GOODS
Tea, Coffkk, Sugar, Hams, Bacon and Flook.
A Complete and Full Assortment of
GENTLEMEN'S I"U"HNI8HXNG GOODS.
On Main Street Just Above the Bank, Albany, Texas.
BLACKSMITHING
and
&a?~9Iain Street, Near Depois19l
Albany,
Having removed my shon from the northeast corner of the square to the LARGK
NEW BUILDING on Main street, just below the Depot. 1 am prepared to do all
kind of biacksmithing and wood work on short notice in the best manner
«nd satisfaction guaranteed. Give me a call. All work warranted.
HORSESHOEING A SPECIALTY. 28
*•" S. FREEMAN.
ANTON GLESK,
and 8h.o© Maimer,
FINE WORK
-A-
8PECIAI.TY.
REPAIRING
NEATLY
RONE.
BhoP °n Main, Street two Loon Above Bank. 98
Albany. - - Texas.
First National
Oorner of Mala and Second Streets,
ALBANY, TEXAS.
Pool and Billiard Tables.
IMPORTED WINES, LIQUORS AND CIGARS.
Piper-Meldsto and Hnmm't Extra Dry Champagnes.
This house will keep none but the finest goods, and to convince you that what
we assert Is true we ask you to give our goods a trial, and if what we say does not
prove true we do not expect, nor do we deserve, your patronage.
T. <3. CHOWDER A CO.
Worth elds Court Square,
Albany. • • • Texns.
A. W. Duffy & Son,
CONTRACTORS & BUYERS,
Wholesale and Retail dealer in
Furniture and House Fur-
nishing Goods
OF A%L DESCRIPTION AND QUALITY.
Windo shades, carpets, rugs, lace curtains, cliromoa and oil
kinlings. Coffins and metalic cases of all sizes.
Iso a Complete Line of
%tes i
8b 00 o?
"SK
Extreme Rigor and Severity ef Winter
Weather In the Northwest.
Hand
mmm
The snow outside our house was
from six to ten feet deep from No-
vember to April. I tried to wear
boots last November and one of
my feet froze. Moccasins, made
by Indians of moose akin are used
instead of shoes to cover the feet,
which are first cased in several
pairs of stockings. For travel-
ing ofi foot snow shoes are best.
Mittens supersede gloves daring
the winter, as the fingers if sepa-
rated generally freeze.
We were forced to melt snow
for all the water we used last
winter. The cold was so intense
that when melted snow water was
poured from the boiler into a pail
and taken at once across to the
stable, the ice on it frequently had
to be broken with a stick before
the cattle could drink, it froze so
hard whilst being carried a dis-
tance of some sixty yards in the
open air. My hasband would
sometimes come in from a short
Visit to the stock yards with his
nozs frozen; indeed it is rather a
common sight to see people partly
frozen. The part affected turns
as white as marble and loses all
feeling. Unless you see yourself
in a glass or are told of it you are
not conscious of being frozen. In
this plight it is not, best to go near
a fire, as sudden thawing is very
painful. People generally try
friction, rubbing themselves with
snow, or b tter stilljwith parafinr.
Occasionally, when one is frozen
and far from help, the part fro-
zen, if an extremity will snap off.
My kitten's ears froze and broke
off, and a neighbor's pony lost its
ears in the same way.
I was surprised when I first
found the mustard frozen in my
mustard pot, which stood a foot
from the kitchen stove pipe and
two feet above the stove where
there was a blazing fire all day
and every day through the win-
ter .Yet the mustard froze between
every meal. Bread froze if left (
for half an hour in a room
without a fire. I once left a{
pitcher of milk in the kitchen all-j
night, and next morning on trying j
to,move it the pitcher fell to,
pieces and left the milk standing
solid in its place. We could buy
frozen milk by the pound frozen
so intensely that when I put a
lump of it in a tin on top of the
stove the first part that melted ^
would burn to the tin before the:
rest of it had been thawed. I
managed to melt it by first chop- j
ping the ice milk into very small
pieces. Clothes which had been,
washed froze before I could hang
them on a line to dry. I used to
leave them out for three or four
nights for the snow and ice to
bleach, and they always needed
thawing and drying again when
they were brought indoors. Even
after being damped and folded
they would freeze together, and
when I have been ironing the top
of a pocket handkerchief the low-
er part would freeze to a table,
which was close to a roaring fire.
Ironing under these conditions is
rather slow work.
Such stories must sound incred-
ible, except to those who, like
myself have witnessed the facts,
though of course in the most se-
vere weather. A bearded Eng-
lishman who stayed with us last
winter was often compelled when
he came indoors to thaw the icicles
from his mustache, which froze to
his beard and hindered him from
talking to us. A pail of water
left in the kitchen all night would
freeze solid to the bottom before
morning. This happened every
time one was left for two months.
In such a climate every one that
can afford it is dressed in fur.
The Winnipeg policemen all dress
in buffalo coats down to the heels
in winter. The keenest wind can-
not pierce them.
Winter is of course not equally
severe throughout. Part of my
description applies only to its
colder half. But to a W:
most try in,
zen for the same period. One's |
•yes grow very weary of the bare
blank whiteness and long for
something green to lodk at; yet
the bright, clean, still frost, with
brilliant sunshine, glorious skies
and moon-lit aurora colored
nights have great compensation of
their own.—[Harper'b Bazaar.
A Few Suggestions by Bill Nye to hit Son
at School.
My Dear Son:—Your letter of
last week reached us yesterday,
and I enclose $13, which is all I
have by me at the present time. 1
may sell the other shote next
week and make up the balahc? of
what you wanted. I will proba-
bly have to wear the* same old
buffalo overcoat to meeting again
this winter, but that doesn't mat-
ter so you are getting an educa-
tion.
I hope you will get an educa-
tion as cheap as you can, for it
cramps your, mother and me like
Sam Hill to put up the money.
Mind you, I don't complain. I
knew education came high, but I
didn't know the clothes cost so
like sixtyr
I want you to be so you can go
anywhere and spell the hardest
word. I want you to be able to
go among the Romans or the
Medes and the Persians and talk
to any of them in their own native
tongue.
I never had any advantages
when I was a boy, but your moth-
er and I decided that we would
sock you full of knowledge, if
your liver held out regardless of
expense. We calculate to do it,
only we want you to go as slow on
swallow tail suits as possible till
we can sell our hay.
Now regarding that boat pad-
dling suit, and that base ball suit,
and that roller rinktum suit, and
that lawn tennis suit, mind, I
don't care about the expense, be-
cause you say a young man can't
really educate himself thoroughly
without them, but I wish you
would send home what you get
through with this fall, and I'll
wear them through the winter un-
der my other clothes. We; have a
good deal severer winters here
than we used to, or else Lam fail-
ing in bodily health. Last winter
I tried to go through without un-
derclothes the way I did when I
was a boy, but a Manitoba wave
came down our way and picked
me out of a crowd with its eyes
shut.
In your last letter you alluded
tojgettihg injured in a little "haz-
ing scuffle with a pelican from the
rural districts." I don't want
any harm to come of you my son,
but if I went from the rural dis-
tricts, and another young goslin'
from the rural district undertook
to haze me, I would meet him
when the sun goes down, and I
would swab him across the back
of the neck with a fence board,
and then I w»uld meander across
the pit of his stomach and put a
blue forget-me-not under his eye.
Your father ain't fmuch on Gre-
cian mythology and how to get the
square root of a barrel of pork,
but he wouldn't allow any educa-
tional institution to haze him
with impunity. Perhaps you re-
member once when you trjed to
haze your father a little just to
kill time, and how long it took
you to recover. Anybody that
goes at it right can have a good
deal of fun with your father, but
those who have sought to monkey
with him just to break up the mo-
notony of life, have most always
succeeded in finding what they
sought.
I ain't much of a penman, so
you must excuse this letter. We
are all quite well except old Fan
who has a galded shoulder and
hope this will find you enjoying
the same great blessing,
Your Father.
ifMm
rious
under the name
Its juice can he used in
without any previous preparation
The letters traced with it are of a
reddish color first but turn a deep
black in a few hours. This juice
also spoils steel pens less than
common ink. The qualities of
the plant seem to have been dis-
covered under the Spanish admin-
istration. Some writings intend-
ed for the mother country were
wet through with sea water on the
voyage; while the paper written
with common ink were almost il-
legible, those with the juice of the
plant were quite unscathcd. Or-
ders were given in consequence
that this vegetable ink was to be
used for all public documents.
Eating Before Sleeping.
The notion is widely prevalent
that it is unhealthy to eat late at
; night or just before retiring.
This came from the severe denun-
ciation of "late suppers" contain-
ed in nearly all the old popular
works on diet. But it was the
object of attack, and even h ire it
was less the gluttony than "the
drunkenness which alarmed the
doctors and called .forth their re-
prehensions. A man may inducc
appoplexy by gorging himself with
food at any hour of the day.
Man is the only animal that can
be taught to sleep quietly on an
empty stomach. The brute crea-
tion resent all efforts to coax them
to such a violation of the laws of
nature. The lion roars in the for-
est until he has found his prey.
The horse will paw all night in the
stable, and the pig in the pen, re-
fusing all rest or sleep until they
are fed. The animals which chew
the cud have their own provision
for a late meal, just before drop-
ping off to their night slumbers.
Man can train himself to the
habit of sleeping without a prece-
ding meal, but only after long
years of practice. As he comes
into the world nature is to strong
for him, and he must be fed be-
fore he will sleep. A child's
stomache is small, and when per-
fectly filled, if no sickness disturbs
it, sleep follows naturally and in-
evitably. As digestion goes on
the stomache begins to emyty. A
single fold in it will make the
little sleeper restless; two will
awaken it, and if it is hushed
again to repose the nap is short,
and^hree folds put an end to the
slumper. Paregoric or other nar-
cotic may close its eyes again, but
without either food or some stupe-
fying drug it" will not sleep, no
matter how healthy it may be.
Not even an angel who learned the
art of minstrelsy in a celestial
choir can sing a babe to sleep on
an empty stomach.
It r. X fact established beyond"
the possibility of contradiction
that sleep aids digestion, arid that
the process of digestion is con-
ducive to refreshing sleep. It
needs no argument to convince
us of this mutal relation. The
drowsiness which always follows a
well-ordered meal is itself a testi-
mony of nature to this interdepen-
dence.
The waste of human life by the
neglect of the lesson is very great.
The daily wear and tear of the
body might be restored more fully
than it usually is if this simple
rule was not systematially viola-
ted.—[David M. Stone in Journal
of Commerce.
Names of Colors.
The peculiar, names given to
fashionable colors read quite for-
midably. We have had moon-on-
the-lake, and toad's-eye, and ele-
phant breath, subdued mouse and
crushed strawberry, and now to
exhibitions, .
day with some
ment; provid
diversions and e
bracing music, d
and games, to wl
vite their friends,
ly circumspect in r<c
friends. Have
edge of their ante
parents and their <
surroundings, as
own (the cbildi
associations. Inc
often results from
troducing among you
suspected germ of i
the person of some aj
nocent boy or girl,
tftmost vigilence is
guarding against sue
contamination. Yet, j
have been carefully
manner recommend
they will doubtless
intrusiveness from sue
and promptly report J
to you, who will knot
shield them from a poSfiMe t
f m)k, "
SjM actioi.
paiirig U»-
sunahijie,;
rence.
Have yonr girls to
boat or roam about
brothers and other ap
panions, to their full
thoroughly impresed
viction that a girl, tc
honored and respect
ever gentle refined, pt
less in thought, word
Do not dread their bee
ned or freckled in tl.
taking cold in the show or that,/-
they will grow coarse a: . nm. ei «
line under such regein' V'. ha
if they do? The frosts 1 i obi it
eratethctan and color ti , ; cheej^
withtho exqusite hue
exercise will dissipate <
habitual familiarity ||jth
manner, grace of persoi, ami gen-
tleness of deportment in the ho .mo-
circle, will dispel any Inuhieut ,
somblence of coarseness The ; i<.„
blood will flow unchecferl tfirougfi-
healthy veins and arte their
muscles will grow firm a; i atroogf
their sinews pliant aii % ,
their steps agile and elabi \ at
their bodies lithe,
capable ofvastendun
such treasure worth
Ho# To Make j.
A will to be valid
quire to be long. All
matter, such, as "In th«
God, amen," being in
health of mind and body,"
be left out. "I, John Smith,""
leave all that I may die possessed
of to my wife, Mary Smith, and
in the event of her dying befo e
me to . Witir . — - .
Signed, John Smith," Is quite
sufficient and will hoi good in
any court of law.
The shortest wills, .fit!- the
least verbage about thei a ih
best. That of the F rehchman
who went out fox-huntin , for iho
fiist time in England was short
and to the point. Whe !.o oarne
to the first stiff jump, ju ,i n. his1
horse was rising to it, b turned
round in his saddle and touted i,
"Take notice 1 I do lea « every-
thing to my wife."-—( aaati
Enquirer. ,
A western college refused to es
tablished a department of wood-
carving, for fear it would acquire
a reputation for turning out
"block" heads,
aid.
-Norristown Her-
We do not know why Talmage
should refer to us personally, but
ho says that "a genius is one of
the greatest curses a country can
have."—Texas Siftings.
Tom Green county, which is
about the size of Massachusetts
has an assessod valufttl
A Gigantic Oil We!
On Saturday Oct. 11,1 jo ChrS -
tie Brothers' drilling wdi
Phillips City, Butler cc ■ ; * Fa.,
struck the oil-bearing sa ; and be-
gan to flow at a tremem a wN,
gushing forth the crude ^
at the rate of 5,000 b.. '-Is pe
day, and the well will i
history as being one of . ^
est wells ever struci
region. The well
ing at the rate of ]
hour. This we
Brothers is only 36
famous Phillips
struck Aug. 30 and
ing 2,200 barrels per
wells.I
O.OOGandai
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The Albany News. (Albany, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. [39], Ed. 1 Friday, November 21, 1884, newspaper, November 21, 1884; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth444865/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1: accessed April 28, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting The Old Jail Art Center.