The Albany News. (Albany, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 30, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 24, 1889 Page: 2 of 4
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ALBANY
jlu
WS.
Entered at the
seconcl-clasa mail in
poatp.fli.ce at Albany, Texas, as
1 matter.
T. E.
STREXGHT,
G. P. BARBER,
Editors and Proprietors
G. P. BARBER,
MANAGER
SUBSCRIPTION PRICE $2.00 per ANNUM
The pasture men of this section are
opening up their pastures, and will
gladly welcome the “man with the
hoe.”
; TIE CONTEST IN OIL!
'Ldie(j^jjtlcal campaign in Ohio is
attracting considerable attention all
over the c on n t ry (a m. .1 there are evidences
UltetrThe contest is close enough to al-
low the Democrats a good fighting
chance of electing a majority of the
State officers, including the Governor,
and of greatly increasing their
strength in the legislative branch of
the government.
Governor Foraker is, of course,
making a most vigorous canvass and
is using the full power of the Stat Ad-
ministration to secure his return, but
Never forsake the interests of your
town ; if you do, you should expect no
benefit to be derived from your busi-
ness pursuits.
• __
wce#i?raraed not ' so much as dust
gambling itself as to prevent snob
pastimes from tempting the English
youth to neglect manly sports. But
still, be the ground what it may, gam-
ing houses, too, were forbidden by
this monarch. James I was not
against them and left on record under
his own hand: “When it is foule and j attendance
storme weather there may be
play at the cards or tables” ; but in | has more energetic and Christian peo-
Chaides IPs reign the vice spread to [ p]e than our little town. Whenever
such an extent that more repressive j yon See ;v people come together and
measures than ever were taken against j work in union—especially in this
brought in, was the turkey gobler, at
least we thought so Sunday at dinner.
They report a pleasant time. May
these Saturdays come often.
We have a very excellent Sunday
school indeed, about fifty in regular
Show us, if you please, a
lawful i place, that according to the population
it and gaming was forbidden in all
he is considerably handicapped by the I forms. Queene Anne, too, carried on
the crusade, creating qniie a revolu-
The entire portion of West and
Northwest Texas has been visited by
eopious rains. Verrily, this is to be
the small grain section of the Union.
Bowie, in Montague county, is re-
alizing a very solid and substantial
boom, occasioned by the fact that the
Rock Island R. R; is soon to be an-
other addition to the city.
Thb Gas tte -ays Fort Wort needs
more [welling house . Thus it will
be seen that she is now reaping the
reward of the energy displayed in g;
ting up the world famed Spring Pal-
ace.
The-Fort Worth and Albuquerque
railroad project is now assuming such
iroportions that it is reasonable to
relieve that ere long the great North-
vest will be penetrated by another
teel strand so necessary to the com-
mercial interests of that proud city_
Port Worth.
Which is the most highly “civiliz-
d” robber, the man who sandbags
young girls in the North or the, lone
highwayman who holds up a stage
coach full of people in the South-
v est.—["Gazette.
Let some of the “bloody-shirt” or-
gans of the North delve into this We
‘ wait their decision. But, as a mat-
ter ot course, they have not sufficient
. gard for the safety of their souls to
“ ’fess up.”
The Great cry of too many large
• pastures is something of the past, in
this county. Mr. G. T. Reynolds in-
forms us that the entire pastures,
known.as tin? Monroe and Keyno 1 ds
Bros.1 pastures, are for sale and on
Tie market, at a very low price, easy
terms, as to payments and interest
'Sow all-persons wishing homes, in
cno of the best counties in the state,
can find them in this county at a very
little cost for lands. We would sav
to all prospectors and homeseekers
that this the place for thorn, so eome
without delay, as large pastures are
no more in your way. This is no land
honey and flapjacks, but you can buy
cheap lands here. Come now, as the
boom is not far in the future, then you
will have to pay $10 to $12 for the
same lands.
fact that he is aspiring to a third term
which is decidedly distasteful to a
large section of his own party, and,
besides, his course in administering
the affairs of the State has made him
bitter enemies within the ranks of the
Republicans, who are disposed to
throw him over altogether and vote
for Campbell, his opponent, as a pro-
test against the methods of his admin-
istration .
Foraker has also leagued agaist him
the influence of the aspirants for sena-
torial honors who are aware of the
danger in which his candidacy places
the whole Republican ticket; hence
they are willing enough to knife him
to assure the control of the legislative
branch of the State Government,
which, of course, carries with it the
United States Senators.
Thus Senator Sherman in the conn e
of the canvass has gone considerably
out of his way to impress upon the
people of the State that in his opinion
it is a very even thing for the public
good whether Campbell or Foraker
shall be Governor, provided the Re-
publican party retains controll of the
Legislature and consequently of the
State’s representation in the higher
branch of the National Congress.
Senator Sherman made an elaborate
reference to Foraker in his opening
speech, but the most conspicuous
thing in it was the absence of any as-
sertion or intimation that the Gover-
nor was honest. And when he gave
all the emphasis he could to the im-
portance of national issues, it was, to
say the least, open to Foraker’s
friends to interpret him as meaning
that if a Republican United States
Senator was secured at the coming
election, the defeat of the candidate
for Governor would be taken by Mr.
Sherman with the utmost cheerful
near
work
of August
At GANG of men were at
Johnstown, about the first
removing debris. Soon they came upon
.a pile of logs in the shape of a cone at
least a dozen feet high. The logs were
in such a symmetrical shape that it
looked as though they were puttogeth-
> e.t with human hands. The cone was
hollow and as the men proceeded with
their work they detected a smell sug-
gesting that there was a dead animal
at hand. Log after log was re-
m • * 1 when, to their amazement,
the) beheld a mastiff dog. The ani-
mal wagged his tail and whined when
hejsaw the men, and seemed., glad at
the prospect of being liberated from
his prison. In another portion of the
cone-, a aped cell was the carcass of a
cow. By some freak of the rushing
waters the dog and cow were caught
in this pen June 2, the cow being
‘••rushed in the jam of logs. The ca-
rmi" was sleek and fat when liberated,
an-.:, looked none the worse for his two
month imprisonment.
It is therefore evident that Gover-
nor Foraker is being deserted by Ins
own friends, and the Democrats of
Ohio as well as the whole country are
rejoicing accordingly, as the defeat of
so bitter a part san as Foraker would
carry ivith it a pleasure entirely sepa-
rate and distinct from tiie mere grati-
fication over party success.
tion in the fashions of the time by her
enactments declaring gambling debts
void and making playing for money
unlawful in itself. The record is much
the same in subsequent reigns. George
II, George III and George IY, all in
various ways and various degrees,
extended the penal statutes. Not
only were certain games—such as roly-
poly, roulet, Pharaoh, Basset and haz-
zard—prohibited by name, but meas-
ures were taken to prevent gambling
in prisons, ajehouses and licensed
premises.
Although gambling was prohibited
in England during all these centuries
and the laws grew steadily more strin-
gent, nevertheless the vice grew pro-
portionately with the severity of the
law, until to day it is admitted by the
English press that every town and
village in the three kingdoms is filled
with gambling hells.
One of the main reasons why the
law has always failed has been the
inequality of. its administration, the
poor having been forbidden the de-
lights ef gambling while the vices of
the rich have been connived at. This
was the case as far back as 1190 when
during the crusades Richard I of Eng-
land and Philip of France passed a
joint edict prohibiting gambling for
money among the crusaders, but at
the same time reserving to themselves
the right to play for any stakes they
chose. The edict also allowed knights
and clergy to lose as much as twenty
shillings a day, under a penalty if
they exceeded that amount of a line of
one hundred shillings.
That gambling is a great evil no
one will deny, and there Is no question
but that if it is practicable it should
•be suppressed, but any law that is not
impartially carried out and is extend-
ed to cover all sorts of games of
chance must necessarily fail, as simi-
lar enactments have failed without ex-
ception for thousands of years back.
Correspondence.
VICE AS OLD AS THE WORLD
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SOU.
N 1879 Texas was the third of the
so it horn states as regards the value
of assessable property. Kentucky
linking first with $218,000,000; Vir-
ginia second with $308,000,000, and
and Texas following with $304,000,,-
To-day Texas leads with $881,-
000,u. ;, while Kentucky follows with
$505,'. 80,000, and Virginia with
0,000. The enormous in-
crease shown by Texas is part and
parcel of the new wave of prosperity
whu - las swept over the south and
\ due to the development of
[resources of which this
j cot its mines and smelters ; its
hi and flocks; its agricultural and
nanufactnring. industries; and, more
‘ban rJU to the large number of immi-
and to the influx of outside
apitaf
been b;-.trumentn} in ard-
b'-vtb -i the hugest ;sb.ic in
the many
state can
hick has developed its re
,s well as to the railroads so their masters’ houses
It has often been maintained that
gambling is an acquired or cultivated
taste or habit and not the result of a
natural vicious inclination inherent in
human nature. The facts do not bear
out this theory, however, as history j
clearly proves that gambling has been
a prevalent passion with all nations
and all classes in all ages, and that
in spite of the most rigorous repres-
sive laws it has survived with undi-
minished vigor.
Ilie vice of gambling is as natural
an inclination as is the search after
preeminence and profit that engages
all men’s attention The only differ-
ence is that the former is the pervert-
ed impulse which disdains the com-
monplace method of patience and
earnest endeavor and risks all on the
chance throw of a dice or turn of a
card. Of all the most natural vices
gambling is the most dangerous, be-
cause the most delusive and fascinat-
ing.
Gambling is no new thing, and it
has unquestionably flourished with as
great vigor as at present in the most
remote ages of antiquity. The history
of gambling shows it to be a vice com-
mon to all ages and peoples, and its
repression is not merely a modern
hobby, but has engaged the attention
of jurists in every age.
In old Greece gambling was a rec-
ognized evil and laws were enacted
for its repression. Among the Goths
and Vandals dice playing was carried
on to such an extent that these barba-
rous people would not only risk their
whole fortunes, but their personal lib-
erty as well, on a single throw. The
gambling of the Saxons, Danes and
Normans are matters of English his-
tory, and when cards came into
fashion, which was in the reign of
Henry VII, it soon became necessary
in the eyes of the authorities of the
time to prohibit their use. There
was a curious exception made in fa-
vor of the Christmas holidays, during
which even apprentices were allowed
to play with cards provided they did
Ft. Griffin Gleanings.
Mud, mud, mud.
Rain, rain, rain.
We are looking for a norther.
Mr. Graham was in town Saturday.
Mr. Terry, of Chicago, was in town
this week.
Hon. Judge Smith, of Throckmor-
ton, was in town Sunday.
Mrs. Fore, of Sulphur Springs, is
visiting her mother, Mrs. J P Taylor.
Mr. W. D. Reynolds, of Albany,
passed through Friday on his way to
his ranch.
Mrs. Caperdore, of Midland, arriv-
ed Friday and is visiting her mother,
Mrs. McGonagill,
Mr. Thos. Taylor has been quite
sick for several days, but at present,
is improving.
Mrs. Weatherford, of Sulphur
Springs, arrived Saturday and is vis-
iting her sister, Mrs. J. P. Taylor.
Miss Lucy Bennett, returned Sunday
from Throckmorton, where she has
been attending the meeting.
Messrs Henry Coffee and Willie
Goff, of Throckmorton, passed through
here Tuesday on their way to Albany.
Mrs. Clark and son, of Crystal
Falls, were in town last Saturday vis-
iting friends.
Mr. J. P. Taylor left Sunday for his
ranch to begin fall work. He will
probably be absent a month or so.
Mrs. R. M. Coffee and daughter,
Miss Pearl, who have been attending
the meeting in Throckmorton, passed
through here Tuesday, en route to
their home in Albany.
Mr. Ed Strohm, the popular voung
ranchman, was in town Saturday and
Sunday.
What is the matter with the News?
It generally makes its appearance here
on Friday, but lately, it hasn’t been ap-
pearing until Saturday. We would
kindly ask the editor, if he lias chang-
j grand cause, you may know they are
: all right. And, if- we were going to
j settle in a new country, we would
want to settle among just such people.
Mr. Boggess, one of our popular
merchants, met with quite a severe
and painful accident last Thursday.
W hile holding in his hand a brass
shell, heavily charged, he attempted
to re-cap it; the load was discharged,
causing the shell to burst and cut his
hand in several places, the thumb be-
ing almost taken off. As luck would
have it, the sheel was pointing down-
ward, and the charge entered the
floor. Several gentlemen were pres-
ent at the time, but no one else was
hurt. Several though—just when the
shell exploded—thought they were
needed somewhere else. The neces-
sary remidies were administered and
Mr. B. is now doing very nicely. The
wound is quite a painful one, but we
hope not serious. This should be a
lesson to all those handling guns. A
gun is dangerous without lock, stock
or barrel—then beware.
Last Saturday evening, just before
that grand luminary that enligtens
this earth disappeard, we walked out
and took our stand on the summit of
the beautiful hill which overshadows
our little city; and, while pausing,
there, a message which seemed to
have been wafted across the waters
was dropped into our ears, which said :
“ Why is it that the poet and artist
never made Fort Griffin their head-
quarters?” We then, with a glance,
viewed the beautiful surroundings and
said iu answer : “This is one of the
many mysteries of life; we cannot
ansjver it.” It certainly is a grand
treat to walk out in the evening arid
please the eye by viewing this grand
scenery which entirely surrounds us
and extends for miles and miles in
every direction. We learn from
geography that “a portion of land en-
tirely surrounded by water is called
an island” ; but geography does not
inform us what “a town entirely sur-
rounded by adorning beauty is called. ”
Will some learned scholar be kind
enough to inform us. The poet and
artist could find no better place than
reputation. lie could
himself on this
summit and there, with ail the grand-
eur of a being, cast his eye over the
beautiful scenery and paint the pic-
ture and compose the verse that alone
would insure him a reputation that he
might well be proud. If you will
walk out in the evening, just before
sunset, and place yourself on this
summit and give your eyes and mouth
free action, you will see and say more
pretty things than you ever dreamed
of. We wish we were poetic enough
to describe this place to you, but we
feel utterly unable to do justice to the
subject. But, Oh, if we were but
poets and artists. . Amen.
lie re to gain a
walk out and place
Thu laws promulgated,
bling during the reign of
V(
ed the time of publication? We, how
ever, saw no notice of it in the News.
Probably he has forgatten it. [The
date of the News has not been chang-
ed. We have been unavoidably de-
layed. Everything is subject to de-
lays, you know.-—Ed.]
P&:T«re
Mr. Taylor and Family, Mr. George j v/e a,lVb t -0
am: family and Mr. Talk and family j py to lease -fin-
all went pecan him tin
H-ulltown Budget.
Here we are again, but not very
much to write about.
Another fine rain last week.
Grass is fine.
Bro. DeSpain occupied the pulpit at
the Christian church Sunday. Pie has
just returned from Thorp Springs and
reports everything prosperous.
Several has gone from here to attend
the State Fair at Dallas.
The Hulltown school will commence
Nov. the first.
On Thursday, Oct. 18, we spent
quit a pleasant evening at the resi-
dence of Mr. Jesse Teague, it being
Miss Winnie’s birthday. There was
several young folks of the country
were there, aud enjoyed themselves
immensely in singing and tatling. We
hope that will not be the last enter-
tainment of the kind, at Mr. Teague’s.
Mr. Casteel, our blacksmith has
moved to Carbon, Eastland county,
where he has bought a shop and will re-
sume his trade. Mr. Simpkins, of
Falls county will be here to take
charge of the shop, soon.
Mrs. W. T. Jones went to Albanv
Saturday to visit the family of A. A.
Clarke, and returned Tuesday.
The pecan crop is not very encoura-
geing, but some will be gathered.
Everybody come out to singing next
Sunday, as we have particular business
Pharos.
FI QW&.
i, of the citizens
of Albany, Texas, held at the Court
House in the town of Albany, Texas,
on Saturday, October 19, 1889, the
following resolutions were, on motion,
unanimously adopted :
Whereas, The sad news of the dire
distress and lamentable misfortune
that has befallen our fellow townsmen
and friends, Messrs Henry Herron and
D. A. Naee, has been conveyed to us
through the medium of the public
press, and
Whereas, The unfortunate gentle-
men have always evinced a sympa-
thetic feeling and an unswerving
friendship for the citizens of Albany,
e3])ecialiy around election times, and
have ever shown themselves to be
public spirited citizens, devout in
their religous duties and trustworthy
in their judgement concerning every
matter, that has in any wise, effected
the public weal, (except their judg-
ment of race horses), and,
Whereas, We are fully cognizant
of the Biblical proverb: “The bat-
tle is not always to the strong nor the
race to the swift.”—Ecclesiastes ix-11.
Whereas, We have always pointed
wuth pride to the brilliant record of
our worthy sheriff as a jockey, and
the success of our esteemed friend,
Mr. Nance, as an owner of “git thar”
horses, and we have hitheito rejoiced
in their success and merited good for-
tune in their respective avocations,
and have wept with tl/em in their
hours of darkness and misfortune,
and nqjv having a golden opportunity
of expressing tribute s of respect for
them,
Therefore be it resolved, That
the citizens of Albany extend to Mess.
Nnnee and Herron their heartfelt sym-
pathy, in this, their hour of distress,
and trust that He who rules over all
mankind may aid them iu recovering
from the untimely shock they have
lately experienced.
Resolved, That our sympathies be
likewise conveyed to “Bob Nance,”
iri his unfortanate selection of an own-
er and rider..
Resolved, That the stable of “Bob
Nance” be draped in mourning, as a
slight expression and mark of cut-
grief, and that the reeds of mourning
be permitted to remain undisturbed
until the “Pride of Albany and former
World Beater” shall have been enter-
ed in a race where there will be, at
least, a very slight chance of his
winning first, second or third money.
Resolved, That a committee of
seven Titizen; be appointed by the
Chairman of this meeting, to proceed
to Dtllas, without unnecessary delay
for the purpose of identifying the
mains of Messrs Nance and Herron,
as well as the late race horse, Bob
N.tiiee, and that said Committee be
and are hereby empowered to contract
for the transmission of such remains
to the town of Cisco, Texas, where
the supposed remains will find the
road to Albany in prime condition
Resolved, That the citizens in at
tendance upon this meeting obligate
themselves to contribute the sum of
five cents each, which funds shall be
devoted to he laudable purpose here-
inbefore mentioned. Be it further-
more
Resolved, That these resolutions
be presented to Messrs Nance and
Herron, in an appropriate speech by
the Chairman of the Committee on
Transportation and Relief, and a copy
transmitted to the Albany News for
publication.
Theo. Mack, J E. Cole,
Secretary. Chairman.
The following committee on Trans
portation and Relief was appointed:
Capt. June Peak, Chairman; Col.
S. O. Bull, L. H Hill, J. C. Dodson,
C. W. Zug, E. P. Duffy and G. E.
Waters.
HOrtli Bide
feed
Al[ stock entrusted to my care will receive careful attention and honest
Come around and give me a trial when you are in Albany.
/ The Albany House,
MR. and MRS. W. M. DUNN, : : PROPRIETORS.
St. Texas.
BATES, - $2.00 IPIEUtB TDAATT. A
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The First National Bank,
ALBAHY,
Authorized Capital, $250,000.
Surplus, - $25,000.
Paid up Capital,
Capital and Surplus
$75,00'.
100,001
Geo. T. Reynolds, President.
W. D. REYNOLDS, Vice-Pres,, N. L. BARTHOLOMEW Cashier
M. H. BTOHS & CO.,
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NURSERY.
-I HAVE THE-
Assorted of Fruit is
02-Zl.AXXLO'ZXtetl ■X’z'ggs,
Grape vines, Blackberries, Etc., ever offered for sale in
this section of the country. Leading varieties of Peach
Apple and Grape, per 100, $10.00, and everything else at
living pi ices. Call and examine my stock, or write for
what you want.
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