The Albany News. (Albany, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 32, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 7, 1889 Page: 1 of 4
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ALBANY, SHACKELFORD COUNTY.
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42d judicial District.
T, H. Connor.....................District Judge
B. D.'Shropshire.............District Attorney
J. C. Dodson......................District Clerk
Court convenes on tlie twelfth Monday after
the first Monday in February, and on the four-
teenth Monday after the first Monday in August.
County Officers.
J. E. Cons.........................Connty Judge
...................................County Attorney
J. C. Dodson.......................County Clerk
Henry Herron.........Sh’ff and Tax Collector
S. 0. Larchh.... ..............County Treasurer
W. L. Manning...................Tax Assessor
W. A. Eaheart........... ....County Surveyor
T. V. Baker..............Comm’r Precinct No. l
J. F. Bennett........... “ “ “-2
G. E. Waters............ “ “ “ 3
Terms of County Court: Second Mondays in
March, June, September and December.
Commissioners Court.
Terms: Second' Mondays in February, May,
August and November.
Precinct Officers.
James A. Pqage. ..........Justice Precinct No. 1
F.M.Palmick_____________Constable Preinct No. 1
Terms: Last Monday in each month.
A SHOEMAKER’S SIGN.
Here lives a man
That don’t refuse
To make and mend
Your boots and shoes.
His leather is good,
His work is quick,
His profits are small,
But he gives no tick,
-And when he dies
He fears no coals.
As he has saved
So matiyfsoles.
A little girl sent out to find eggs re-
turned without success, coniplaing
that lots of hens were standing about
doing nothing.
The Churches.
Presbyterian. — Jacobs street— Itev. It. L
Adams, pastor. Sunday services at 11 a. m. and
^*8:30 p. m. Sabbath School at 9:45 a. m.— D. C.
^flPcampbell, su erintendent. Prayer meeting on
^Wednesday eve at 8:30. Services open to all
Cumberland Presbyterian.—Services ev-
ery second Sabbath, morning and evening—Rev.
F. E. Leech, pastor. Sabbath school every Sab-
bath at 3p.m. Prayer meeting Friday nights.
All invited.
Baptist.—Sabbath school 9:30 a. m.—,J. F.
Collins, superintendent. Prayer meeting Thurs-
: - day nights at 8:30.
M. E. Church outii.—Rev. W. D. Robinson
pastor. Services on first, third and fourth Sun-
days in each month, at 11 a. m and at night.
Prayer meeting each Wednesday night. L. M
Keener, secretary.
CHRISTIAN.—Has Sunday school every Sun-
day at 9:30—Miss Bettie Baker superintendent:
social worship immediately after Sunday school
%i EPISCOPAL.—Worship in Christian church
'second Sunday in each month. W. W, Pattrick
1 pastor.
Secret Orders.
1 A. F. and A. M.—Albany Lodge No. 482 Meets
each Saturday night on or before the full moon.
D. G. Simpson, W. M. W. L. Manning, sec’v.
Albany Chapter R. A. M.—Meets on the ev-
ening of the first Tuesday in each month. J. C.
lynch, H. P. D. C. Campbell, scc’y.
. Albany Commanding K. T. No. 21.—Regular
conclaves on third Tuesday of each month, in
Masonic Hall.
Knigt-its Pythias.—Bayard Lodge No. 39.
Meets every Monday night. Officers: Guy M.
Smith, P. C.; J. J. Meyer, C. C.; G. a. IIows-
ley, V. C.; ,T. C. Taylor, P.; W. J. Wiglc.v. K. of
It. and S.; James Carrigan, M. a.; W. A. Wil-
liams, M. F.; W. A. Eaheart, M. E.; J. E. Cole,
Kli Meyer, O. G.
Maj. A. A. Anderson, of Texarkana,
an old man of 76 years, who not long
ago buried his fourh wife, was married
the other day to a seventeen-year-old
girl, imported to him from Vermont by
a matromonial agency . She arrived
in Texas as per contract, and when she
found that the Major’s property was
as he had represented by letter, the
“happy couple” hied to a justice and
had the knot tied.
The Mails.
Ar-
ffiumv. Fort Griffin and Throckmorton:
rives at 6 p. m. and departs 8 a. m.
IT. & T. G. mail service: Arrives at 7:40 p m
and departs at 7:30 a. in.
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U. R. WILSON, - - Prop’ r.
y'Fare First-Class,
^§22.00 E*er
This is one of the most
popular of the many,
popular hotels in Texas, and the traveling pub-
ic is-advised to give The Wilson House a call
while stopping in Cisco.
Tiid Hebrew Journal asks tins ques-
tion : Who ever heard of a Jewish vote ?
It then proceeds to remark that the Jew
never mixes his polities with his race
or religion. The race distributes itself
among the different political parties.
“We think we may say with pride that
such a thing as a Jewish vote has never
presented itself to our government.
Outside of the synagogue we are citi-
zens of the United States,” says The
Joural.
On the 5th of November Pennsyl-
vania will elect a state treasurer. Ohio
elect governor and state officers. Vir-
inia will elect governor and state offi-
cers. Massachusetts will elect governor
and state officers. Nebraska will elect
supreme court judge and two regents.
Iowa will elect governor and lieuten-
ant governor and other officers. New
York will elect state officers, except
governor and lieutenant-governor.
A Scotch paper devoted to the
dissemination of enelesiastical news
publishes a list of names of clergymen
who are to engage in a “preaching
match” for a vacant pulpit. The terms
of the contest are not given, however,
and we are left in doubt whether it is
a go-as-you-please match or according
to strict rules, and whether the man
who gets through first or the one who
holds out the longest is to have the
place.
There are signs of revolt in the uni-
versity of Pennsylvania on account of
the threatened introduction of co-edu-
cation into that institution. The male
students numbering 1200, have form-
ally protested against the feminine in-
vasion, and they declare that for every
woman that enters the university there
will be at least two men who will go to
some other university. Nevertheless,
the trustees seem disposed to hold their
ground, reminding the bumptious
young men that their places will be
promptly filled as soon as they quit.
BASIS OF INTELLIGENT VOT-
ING.
It is always best at the very outset
of any undertaking there should be a
full understanding all around. It
prevents subsequent unfortunate and
complicating misunderstandings, it as-
sures the scheme a good impetus from
the very first. Under the forkings of
such a rule we face the issues of the
approaching municipal contest. And
in taking a good observation of the
surroundings, it must first of all be ap-
parent that no man could afford to
present himself as a candidate for the
mayoralty or aldermanic honors,
simply on the strength of his inflated
ambition. Such a candidate must,
perforce, fail of success from the very
inanity of his claims for preferment.
It may then be taken for granted that
every candidate stands forth as the
choice of his friends and is the expo-
nent of their ideas as they find them
reflected in him. To know a candi-
date then you must know his friends
and learn their ideas. Men of great
individuality are often called leaders,
when as a matter of fact, if conditions
were more closely studied, it would be
found they stood oat prominently, not
because they led the way, but because
they were pushed to the front by those
who trusted them, by those who relied
upon them to champion their cause.
It is in this sense we say candidates in
all city elections should be judged by
their friends. Friends use men and
they promote thorn.***—[Austin
Statesman.
paper
go] to
A schoolboy in England hit upon a
novel plan of obtaining the answer to
an arithmetical problem. He dropped
-into grocer’s shop on his way to school
and said he wanted certain commodi-
ties at certain prices. After exhaust-
ing his list he said . “Now, if I give
you half a sovereign, what change
shall I get back?” The grocer told
him, whereupon he thanked the shop-
man and turned to go. “Wait for the
things,” called the grocer, and lus
disgust can be imagined when the in-
genious urchin told him he was too
late for school, and as he had not
learned his arithmetic-lesson, he had
adopted that method of getting the
sum worked lor him.
HAETF1ELD RESTAURANT,
And. S&tl&oirsr.
Day Week and Monthly Board. Terms Reas-
onable. call and jseejne.
R. JONES, : : : : PROP’R.
iNCE & SPEYER, Prop’rs.
B-AfiDsTYT, - - - TIEZKA-S.
fXinds Fresh Meats.
I3NSTANTLY ON HAND.
J&-. JL. OX«^l=LECXI,
Attorney at LawaMLaiApt,
ALBANY, TEXAS.
Every man who works for wages,
says the Memphis Avalanche, would do
well to bear in mind the words of Chief
Arthur to the locomotive engineers.
He urged them to save a little of their
earnings every year, if not more than
$25. “The posession of property,” he
said, “brings respect, and adds to the
comfort and power of workingmen, be-
sides gaining the esteem of citizens.”
The lack of property is no discredit to
a man when due to misfortune, but a
penniless man a tforty, fails to com-
mand any respect because his lmpecu-
niosity is attributed to habits and prac-
tices which are discreditable to any'
man, rich or poor. Poverty advertises
such habits, while they may be con-
cealed by wealth, and there are but
very few men who can hold on to
wealth when they are slaves to their
vices.
'. 0. MOODY, M. D.
perminantly located, offers his profes-
brvices to the citizens of Albany and sor-
ing country. Special attentiin given to the
■if Obstetrics and Diseases of Women
Tren. Ail bills due the first of the
Office at Goodings.
M. POWELL
Lician and Surgeon,
Equity many centuries ago was called
in as a sovereign triturating machine
to wear away the edges of law which
cut with severity. .Experience has
demonstrated the wisdom of thus sup-
plementing the decision of blinded jus-
tice with the pleading of more kindly
equity. Law does not now stand alone,
but has in equity a constant companion-
piece. In the conflict of the land titles
.Albany, Texas. "TIT aVT’ ‘aw has bee“ ap:
^ J ’ pealed to as the reason for the assault
on discharge or on first of -upon what had been deemed vested
|feca3t side Maitv-.....opposite rights. Answer is made by turning to
lip- ' law’s twin sister, equity. Redress is
there sou°ht by vvay ofpresent compro-
BSr s mis'h, or by delay until legislative ac-
tion may make that straight now de-
clared to be crooked. The state’s good
name and her prospects of present and
ETLGHMAN,
jr and Paper Hanger,
The Sweedenborgians have organ-
ized a state association and made Dal-
las the headquarters of the sect. At
their recent meeting they adopted a
constitution and published the articles
of their faith among which occur the
following: All power is resident in the
members of the association and not in
the officers, who are simply its servants,
nor does any power attach to the min-
esteriai office save the gift of teaching.
Woman is endowed with equal rights
with man, and the election to office
shall be fitness and not sex. Ministers
are only members of the association.
While everybody has heard of or
seen or used celluloid, only a few
know what it is composed of or how
it is made. The following is a inscrip-
tion of the process carried on in a fac-
tory at Paris for the production of cell-
uloid. A roll of papers is slowly un-
wound, and at the same time saturated
with a mixture of five parts of sulphu-
ric acid and two parts of nitric acid,
which falls on upon the paper in a fine
spray. This changes the cellulose of
the paper into propylin gun cotton.
The excess of the acid having been ex-
pelled by pressure, the paper is wash-
ed with plenty of water untill all tra-
ces of the acid have been removed. It
is then reduced to a pulp and passes
to the bleaching trough. Most of the
water having been got rid of by means
of a strainer, the pulp is mixed with 20
to 40 per cent, of its weight in cam-
phor, and the mixture is thoroughly
triturated under millstones. The
necessary coloring having been added
in the form of powder, a second mix-
ing and grinding follows. The finely
divided pulp is then spread out in thin
layers on slabs, and from twenty to
twenty-five of thesh layers are placed
in a hydraulic press, separated from
one another by sheets of thick blotting
paper, and are subjected to a pressure
of 150 atmospheres, until all traces of
moisture have been gotten rid of. The
matter is then passed between rollers
heated to 140 and 150 degrees Fah-
renheit, whence it issues in the form
of elastic sheets.—[Exchange.
THE PAPER AGE,
Many people live in paper houses,
while others wear paper ' clothing and
recline on paper cushions, in paper
cars rolling on paper wheels. We do
a paper business over a phper counter
them in paper books, and deal on pa-
per margins. We row races in p;
boats for paper prizes. We
paper theaters, where paper-puffed
actors play to paper audiences. As
the age progresses the ordinary man
will be more deeply immersed in the
paper net. He will wake in the morn-
ing and emerge from under his paper
clothing on his paper couch, and array
himself in his paper dressing gown
and paper slippers. He will meander
over velvety paper carpets, down pa-
per stairs, and seating himself on a
paper chair, read paper news in a
morning paper. A paper bell will
announce that his breakfast is ready,
cooked in. a paper oven, served on pa-
per dishes and laid on a paper cloth
on a paper table. He- will use a pa-
per napkin to wipe his lips, and hav-
ing put on his paper shoes, paper hat
and paper coat and paper cane, he
will proceed to promenade on a paper
pavement, or ride in a paper carriage
to his paper office, whose furniture
and adornments are made of paper.
He will organize paper enterprises
and make paper profits. He will go
to Europe on paper steamships and
navigate the air in paper Balloons.
He will smoke paper tobacco in a pa-
per pipe lighted with a
He will write with a paper pencil,
whittle sticks with a paper knife, go
fishing with a paper fishing rod, a pa-
per line and a paper hook, and place
his fish in a paper basket. He will
go shooting with a paper gun, loaded
with paper cartridges, and defend his
country with paper forts, with paper
cannons and paper bombs.. Having
lived his pap er life and achieved a
paper fame and a paper wealth, he
will retire to paper leisure' and expire
in paper peace. There will be a pa-
per funeral at which the mourners,
dressed in paper crape, will wipetheir
weeping eyes with paper handker-
chiefs, and a paper preacher will
preach a paper sermon in a paper
pulpit from a paper text. He will re-
pose in a paper coffin, wrapped in a
paper shroud, his name will be en-
graved on a paper plate,a : e irse adorn-
ed witn paper plumes, will carry him to
a paper-lined grave, over which will
be raised a paper monument. His
paper virtues will be extolled in a pa-
per manner in the papers of the day.
— [The Ink Fiend.
THE ROCK ISLAND COMING.
\r
J he merchant or manufacturer who
hopes to do a large and successful bus-
mess to-day while adhering to to the
popular methods of a half century ago,
be disappointed And so he
will
should. Any individual or firm who is
unwilling to keep pace with modern
progress and adjust h:s methods to
the wants of his age, does not merit
success; neither can he reason-
ably expect to secure it to any large
degree. One of the most important
innovations in modern business is ad-
vertising. By a very few it is still re-
garded with aversion ; .but the large
majority of intelligent purchasers re-
alize the;r indebtedness to advertising
xor much of the valuable information
which they possess about the qualities,
varieties and special features of the
goods which they purchase. They re-
gard advertisements as so many
speeches made to them, in which the
merits or distinctive points of the
article are more concisely and intelli-
gently presented than is frequently
done by salespeople, and if they feel
the need of such an article they nat-
urally ask their dealer to show it. ■ In-
stead of regarding advertising as sug-
gestive of questionable quality, they
are much more inclined to entertain
confidence in an article’s merit, acting
upon the common-sense principle that
it it were not meritorious it would not
pay to advertise it. It is true that
some exaggerations and misrepresen-
tations are made in advertising, just as
they are employed by salespeople, and
by some of all classes. The question
of veracity cannot be determined by
the method employed to describe the
goods, but only by the character and
principles ox the individual, and there
are hosts of honorable advertisers, the
number of which is daily increasing,
who would no more think of misrep-
sentlng in their advertisements than
they they would in their own office or
salesroom. It pays eon-umers to read
the announcements of responsible firms
for the sake of the business informa-
tion they gain, just as it pays them to
read the other parts of a paper for a
different kind of information._[Ex.
Boys and young men sometimes
start out in life with the idea that their
success depends on sharpness and chi-
canery. They imagine if a man is al-
ways able to “get the best of a bar-
gain,” no matter by what deceit or
meanness he carries his point, that his
prosperity is assured. This is a great
mistake. Enduring prosperity can not
be founded on cunning and dishonesty.
The tricky and deceitful man is sure
to fall a victim, soon or late, to the in-
fluence that is forever working against
him. His house is built upon the sand
and its foundation will be certain to
give way. Young people cant give this
too much weight. The future of that
young man is safe, who, eschews every
phase of double dea ling, and lays the
foundation of his career in the endur-
ing principles of everlasting truth.
The man who gives the shortest
measure in this world will want the
longes harp in the next.
The Board of Medical Examiners
for the 42nd Judicial District will meet
in Cisco, Texas, _Nov. 19, 1889, for
tne purpose of examining any person
§B£ '■ :iD- to practice
A railway officer says negotiations,
are in progress between Receiver Ben-
jamin G. Clark and Charles Dilling-
ham of the Texas Central and the
president and directory of the Chica-
go and Rock Island and Pacific rail-1'
way company for a lease-hold on the
former route by the latter. The Rock
Island route has for a long time, or
at least for many months, been exten-
ding it« southwestern division across
he Indian Territory into Texas, and
ts grading contractors are already
kouth of Fort Sill, within this state,
and are moving in a direction which
would easily take them to Albany, the
western division of the Texas Central.
In fact, the gap between the present
fermions of the Texas right-of-of-way
of the Rock Island route, and the
northwest terminus of the Texas Cen-
tral is very narrow. The Texas Cen-
tral is 178 miles long. It begins at
Ross Station, a few miles northwest
of Waco, and ends at Albany, in
Shackelford county. It is the north-
western division of the Houston and
(Texas Central system. Major J. M.
Lee of Waco is the division superinten-
dent and Mr. Pat Gorman, also of
Waco, is the road master. The divis-
ion headquarters is at Walnut Springs.
If the Rock Island route effects a lease
on the Texas Central by joining with
the San Antonio and Aransas Pass
railvvay, it will obtain the end it has
paper match, been seeking, at one bound—namely a
terminus on the gulf coast and com-
munication with the Republic of
Mexico.—[Waco Day.
“Put this and that together,” and
it is a strong indicator that the Rock
Island road is coming to Vernon and
will build south over the old cattle
trail route to Albany and a connection
with the Central at that point. Here-
tofore the Guard-has had but little to
say pro or con about the Rock Island.
Vernon has laid no claim to the road,
and has never made any attempt to
secure it. She might have paid out
of her own pocket for the running of a
preliminary survey, as Wichita Falls
did about two years ago, and then by
doing some loud blowing, as the Falls
did, thus get up a spasmodic boom
and gull people into bdlieving that
the road was assured. But Vernon
has never been favorable toward those
booms that are built in the air, founda-
tion and all, but prefers to wait until
there is at least some solid indications
to build a foundation on. But from
the tenor of the above extract, and by
putting this and that together the
Guard believes that indications are
now sufficient to warrant us in saying
that the Rock Island road will more
than likely build through Vernon. The
Oklahoma papers say that, to the sur-
prise of everybody, the Rock Island is
being constructed on a line consider-
ably to the west of the old survey
through Fort Sill, and which would
have taken it through Wichita Falls.
This being the case, the road is evi-
dently pulling for what is well known
as the most practicable north and
south route through Western Texas,
along the old cattle trail from Red
river to Albany via Vernon and Sey-
mour. The Guard is cognizant of the
fact that meetings have been held by
inlluential citizens along the above
nentioned route, sometime since at
Vernon and quite recently at Albany,
for the purpose of arranging some
matters in regard to the building of a
line of roitd along the above mentioned
route, but as the meetings have been
of a secret nature, we are not at lib-
erty to make known to the public such
facts as we are in possession of in re-
gard to what has been aecomplised.
Bat by putting all the indications to-
gether it is safe to say that Vernon is
pretty sure of getting a north and
south railroad inside of another year,
and that more than likely it will be
the Rock Island.—[Vernon Guard.
J. L. FISHER & :
Northwest Texas
la !■'■
(Meeting Agent
£3s1;^l3U32i.oca. 1880,
Over 100 Surveys to Select From
In Shackelford County. YFe have a well arranged liar of ■
the choicest land, in tracts to suit purchasers. Call j-r-d
examine our list and prices. They are low and ou tei ms
easy. We can sell you improved land ; we can sell you
town property, improved or unimproved, at bottom
We can rent you residence property, well located, at low
prices. We can sell you cattle, horses or sheep. Wo ren-
der property and pay taxes. Collections made and money
loaned. Call and see us before making your purchases, o|
before placing your property for sale. Information coni
corning land given free.
003*3?OSX>OX3lc3Lg:K3lOO Solicitocl.-
Having determined to discon-
tinue business at this place, wet,
will from this date, offer our
entire stock of goods at such
figures as will insure quick
sales. We have a large stock
many of them just received and
more yet to be opened up, and
we affirm our intention of clos-
ing out our entire business
And "Quitting the Field
We also offer for sale our splendid Rock S tori'
House^and lot, where we are now doing busi-
ness. WE MEAN BUSINESS, jm-
Gash- Bisters CPaa——SI
■Sot -Bargains 1'
dollar’s
J
WOl
every day until the last __
goods is disposed of. Ah persons indebtelfi
to us are requested to settle before the first of
November. All notes and accounts not paid'
by that time will be placed in the hands of a
collector.
Our Books Will be Close d
From tJaJjs Date,
And no Further Accounts Will e
’MADE
Terms
--“OABH
Or no trade. We will pay the highest market price
Cotton, Pecans and Hides. RESPECTFULLY,
-CENTER & KEENE
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JOBFltl!
IOET COMPLETE
Merchants and all others 'of this
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