The Albany News. (Albany, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 24, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 12, 1889 Page: 1 of 4
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is at present the only pa-
per printed in the county.
WHOLE NO. 284.
Gron’l Directory
E ALBANY NEWS.
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J. I. SPENCE, : : P^dP7 ! [!
Work solicicited ; satisfaction guaranteed; ijj
Charges paid one way.......Albany, Texas. If
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VOL. 6, NO. 24
•42d Judicial District.
T. H. Connob.....................District Judg.-
B. D. Shropshire.............District Attorney
J. C. Dodson......................District Clerk
Court convenes on the twelfth Monday after
the first Monday in February, and on the four-
teenth Monday after the first Monday in August.
County Officers
J. E. Cole.........................County Judge
...................................County Attornej
J. C. Dodson............ County Clerk
Henry Herron.........Sh’ff and Tax Collector
S. O. Larchk..................County Treasurer
W. L. Manning...................Tax Assessor
W. A. Eaheart................County Surveyor
T. V. Baker..............Comm’r Precinct No. l
J. F. Bennett........... “ “ ‘
G. E. Waters............ “ “ ‘
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. Poagk.
F.M.Palmer.....
Terms: Last Monday in each month.
____Justice Precinct No. 1
.Constable Preinct No. 1
The Churches.
Presbyterian."--Jacobs street—Rev. It. I,
Adams, pastor. Sunday services at ll a. m. and
8:30p. m. Sabbath School at 9:45 a. in.—D. G.
Campbell, superintendent. 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 outh.—Rev. W. D. Robinson
pastor. Services on first, third and fourth Sun-
days in each month, at it 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
EPISCOPAL.—Worship in Christian church
second Sunday in each month. W. W. Pattrick
pastor.
The sunshine of the summer
Shines in at the open door,
But the dear old face at the window
Has gone to be seen no more.
She has gone away to heaven—
To heaven with angles fair;
A crown of pearls and rubies
In her pretty snow-white hair:
Sending down rays of sunshine
Into our hearts from above;
Sending down rays of pity,
Together with rays of love.
What could we wish that’s better—
Better for her you know?
From the summer’s burning heat
And the winter’s icy snow.
The sunshine ot the summer
Comes in at the open door,
And a silent thought is in my heart
That never was there before.
I seem to see her sunny smile
In every flower and bee,
And that is why the flowers
Are dearer than ever to mo.
The sunshine of the summer
Still shines as it did before,
But the sunbeam of the house
Has gone to be seen no more.
(Written by a young lady on the death of her
grandmother.)_
J. A. Nelson, a DeLeon merchant
forty years old, and Miss Effie Klutz,
a farmer’s daughter fifteen years of
age were married last Thursday. Nel-
son got the father’s consent and ob-
tained a license. Later the father
changed his mind. Nelson obtained a
writ stating that the girl was worth
$500 to him and that she was detained
against her will. The writ was serv-
ed, the girl was brought to town and
the knot was soon tied.
Secret Orders.
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’y.
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, sec’y.
Albany Commanding K. T. No. 21.—Regular
conclaves on third Tuesday of each month, in
Masonic Hall.
Knights 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.; J. C. Taylor, P.; W. J. Wigley, K. of
R. andS.; James Carrigan, M. a.; W. A. Wil-
liams, M. F.; W. A. Eaheart, M. E.; J. E. Cole,
I. G.; Eli Meyer, O. G.
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The Mails.
Albany, Fort Griffin and Throckmorton: Ar-
rives at G p, m. and departs 8 a. m.
11 T. C. mail service: Arrives at 7:10 p m
and departs at 7:30 a. m.
Reports from Chamberlain, in
South Dakota, show that the emigrant
with “land hunger” already has his
eye upon the United States territory
which will be thrown open to occupa-
tion when the Sioux reservation is for-
mally declared the property of the na-
tion. A large number of inquiries
about the 11,000,000 acres in the res-
ervation come from persons who say
they represent bodies of men who in-
tend to found colonies.
Wilsn I
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CISCO,
N. R WILSON, - - Prop’r.
Fare First-Class.
Hates, $2.00 I*or 3Day,
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.
HARTFIELD RESTAURANT,
And. Baliory.
Day, Week and Monthly Board. Terms Reas-
onable. call and see me.
R. JONES, : : : : PROP’R.
A-ltoanv, Texas.
. THE CITY BIT MABKET.
NANCE & MEYER, Prop’rs.
---TZEUZK-A-S.
VA11 Kinds Fresh Meats.
CONSTANTLY ON HAND.
W, C. MOODY, M. D.,
Having perminantly located, offers his profes-
sional services to the citizens of Albany and sur-
rounding country. Special attentiin given to the
practice of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women
and Children. All bills due the first of the
month.
Office at Goodings.
>
W. M. POWELL,
Physician and Surgeon,
Albany, Texas.
Bills must be paid on discharge or on first of
the month. Office east side Main, opposite
Manning’s old stand.
W. T. TILGHMAN,
Painter and Paper Hanger,
Is located in Albany and is prepared to do all
kind&of plain'painting, graining, paper-hanging
carpeting, etc.J*>-ive him a call. He guarantees
satisfaction, t
WESLEYAN,4!Atault'e.
1 ■ STAUNTON VIRGINIA.
Opens September 19th, 1889. One of the most thor-
ough ana attractive Schools for younir ladies
ipils from nineteen States. Terms low. Special
The assets of the Confederate Home
at Austin are officially stated to bo as
follows: Fifteen acres of land, with
buildings and furniture sufficient to ac-
commodate thirty-four persons, valued
at $8,000; the sum of $5000 at inter-
est, and $3037 cash in the treasury;
besides which there is about $2000
lately subscribed but not paid in and
the annul rental of the temporary cap-
itol, leased to the Home by the state
at $5 a year and sublet by the Home
for $1,8 )0 a year. The current ex-
penses amount to about $10 pe?* month
for each inmate, which is believed to
be less than is paid by any other ehar-
itable institution in the country. The
Home wants $100,000 for addit ional
improvements and an endowed fund to
put it on a sord financial bas*s.
The followiug special to the Ga-
zette, of Ang., 26, from Mineral
Wells, shows what Texas will pro-
duce :
“There is a child in town this morn-
ing only nine years old that weighs
205 pounds. You ought to see him,’
This was the remark made to a Ga-
zette reporter as he came into the
street yesterday morning. Further
inquiry led to the fact that the child
had left town but would return in the
evening. The reporter, somewhat
doubting the existence of such a being,
thought no more about it until return
ng home late in the afternoon. Pass-
ing the residencce of Mr. Calvert he
observed a crowd standing around the
door looking curiously at something
moving aronnd on the porch that more
resembled a big fat bear than anything
else. On approaching nearer the re-
porter discovered it was a human be-
ing, with a decidedly boyish look on
his face. It was the fat child, and
his father and mother were with him.
The father’s name is Godsoe, and he
resides in Jack county, about thirty
miles north of this place. Neither
father or mother are of medium size,
both being rather below the medium.
The father kindly consented to give
the reporter a brief history of his
wonderful offspring. His name is
John V. Godsoe, and he was born
June 15, 1880, at Newport, Clay
county, Tex. His weight at birth
was twelve and one half pounds. At
three months old he weighed thirty
pounds. He was paralyzed at one
year old and did not grow any until
after he was two years old, when he
was cured of his paralysis and began
to grow. At nine years old he meas-
ures forty one and one-half inches
around the waist, forty-eight and one-
half inches arounc] the shoulders,
twelve and one-half inches around the
arm above the elbow, is five feet high
and weighs 205 pounds. The boy is
healthy and eats more than an ordi-
nary man. Hundreds have visited
him, and all pronounce him the big-
gest child they ever saw.
Cheerfulness and a festival spirit
fill the soul full of harmony ; it com-
poses music for churches and hearts ;
it makes and publishes glorifications
of God ; it produces thankfulness and
serves the end of charity; and when
the oil of gladness runs over it makes
bright and tall emissions of light and
holy fires, reaching up to the clouds
and making joy round about ; and,
therefore, since it is so innocent, and
may be so pious and full of holy ad-
vantage, whatsoever can innocently
mimster to this holy joy does set for-
ward the work of religion and charity.
And, indeed, charity itself, which is
the vertical top of all religion, is noth-
ing else but a union of joys concen-
trated in the heart and reflected from
all the angles of our life and inter-
course. It is a rejoicing in God, a
gladness in our neighbor’s good, a
pleasure in doing good, a rejoicing
with him, and without love we cannot
have any joy at all.
-~t a distance. «®“For
of fhifl /’Eir.^up , miTiT.
ionjVfcflifiia.
Some of the newspapers are trying
to draw Judge Wheeler out on the
railroad commission bill. Judge
Wheeler is a good deal like a flint and
steel gun, (only he never flashes in the
pan.) He.is a little slow to go off
sometimes, but when he does he hits
the bull’s eye every time. It will be
remembered that the judge kept his
friends in suspense for two or three
months in the late prohibition cam-
paign before he let the public know
how he stood on that momentous
question. He finally came out against
prohibition and the friends of that
measure felt that the death knell of
prohibition had been sounded. Not
because Wheeler espoused the anti
side, but because they knew that our
astute lieutenant-governor had care-
fully, and as his course proved, dis-
cerned the signs of the times, and they
knew Judge Wheeler too well to be-
lieve that he would take sides with
any question that was likelv *o be dc
! ieated—[Roundup .
The Brown County Banner booms
its county and disparages its neigh-
bors :
Brown county, situated about the
geographical center of the state, being
just north of the rocky, sterile lands
of Lampasas and Mills counties, east
of the large, naked prairies of Cole-
man, Runnels and Tom Green coun-
ties, and south of the sands and cross
timbers of Eastland, Callahan and
Shackelford counties.
We would like to know where the
Banner got its information as to Shack-
elford having sand ridges and post
oak cross timbers? We say that the
Banner don’t know what it is talking
about, but wanted to say something
about its neighbors and didn’t know
how to say it without lying. This is
the way some fine editors do, they
blow up their own county, show up
its advantages, at ( lie same time show-
ing, or i-rviag to, Hie bad qualilies of
their neighbor. This is the way some
people try to get to heaven, bv prais-
ing their own good qualities and show-
ing the bad ones in their neighbor.
What shall become of such people?
Tiie Texas Appetite.
Sam Bell Maxey takes his steak verv
rare.
Dick Hubbard eats plain food but
wants it very highly seasoned.
Charley Stewart is about the small-
est eater, for his size, in the State.
Senator Coke makes yearly con-
tracts for clabber and souce meat.
Governor Ross would pass any dish
by to get a nice venison steak.
Governor Robert’s weakness at the
table is roast turkey or barbecued pig.
Senator Bill Pope thinks there is
nothing oti earth equal to a good fat
’possum.
Senator Reagan agrees'with the man
who says “there is no dish like bacon
and greens.”
Judge Stayton is rather effeminate
in his tastes. He likes ice-cream, wa-
ter-ices, frutts, etc.
Governor Ireland eats very sparing-
ly of meats. He is quite fond of cab-
bage and green pepper.
Barney Gibbs’s favorite food is cel-
ery, and on occasion he likes a cheese
with the boys.
Attorney-General Hog, fat as he is,
would walk a mile through the sun
any day for a big dish of fish chow-
der.
There are about a hundred species
of Mosquito in the world, occurring in
all climes. England has eight or ten
species, for mosquitoes as well as
Hessian flies are as common in Eng-
land as white butterflies. Most, if
not all of the British species, bite in
very hot weather, when apparently,
’ ' ” betters, they require more
1 liquid refreshment.
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A Convict at the Throttle.
A. number of the engineers who at-
tended the convention were sitting in
the billiard room at the Palmer House,
Chicago, says the Mail, that city. The
conversation had taken a reminescent
turn, and Robert Heriot, of Little Rock
I related the following :
“One of the most notable cases of
reckless bravery I ever saw, occurred
on the Sunset Route in Texas in 1876
I was a conductor at that time and had
charge ot a construction train. Con-
victs did all the work, and an armed
guard was stationed on each side of
the track to keep them from escaping.
There was a big force of the convicts
—about 100 if I remember right—and
about fifteen guards.
“Among the convicts was a Texas
sheriff, who had been sentenced to a
term of two years for beating a man
to death with a six-shooter. As it af-
terward turned out, the sheriff was
also a pretty good engineer. The
sheriff and another convict had put up
a desperate plan of escape. Some
time during the morning they manag-
ed to pull the pin between the engine
and the train. About noon, and at a
given signal, they dropped their shov-
els and made a dash for the engine.
They were in the cab and had the
throttle of the engine wide open be-
fore a guard could fire a shot. Chum-
ley and his fireman were laying on the
ground under the shade of a tree, and
the first Chumley knew anything was
wrong was when he heard her exhaust.
Quicker than I can tell it, he was dash-
ing after the engine, and before she
had made over a turn or two he had
caught on behind. He climbed upon
the tender, and, as he he hung with
his hands over the top, was met by
one of the convicts, not the sheriff,
but the other one, who threatened to
brain him with a stick of wood if he
didn’t drop off. But Chumley would
not drop, and he would have been
killed sure had not the sheriff taken
his part. He opened the box under
Chumley’s seat where Chumley had a
six-shooter, took out the pistol, and,
cocking it, told the other couvict to
drop the wood or he would blow the
top of his head off. Then he made the
other convict help Chumley up, but
made him stay behind the gangway.
“While these things were going on
Chumley was between the convicts
and the guards, so they did not dare
to fire their shotguns, and a moment
later the engine was out of range. The
sheriff-eonvict-engineer told Chumley
they would not harm him, but they
wanted liberty and would not be
thwavted. ‘You must think a heap of
this old engine to take the chances
you did to board her; ’ answered
Chumley, “and I didn’t want to see
her go into the ditch.” All this while
the engine was fairly flying. When
Chumley said he didn’t want to see
the engine in the ditch the convict
smiled g imlv and said‘: ‘I can han-
dle her as well as you or any other
man.’ They ran the engine a few
miles and stopped in the heavy timber.
The convict engineer threw her onto a
dead center, shook hands with Chum-
ley, and a moment later the two con-
victs disappeared in the woods. Catch
’em? No, no. Chumley ran her back
to the train, and I tell you we were
glad when we saw her coming back
and knew he was alright. Ever hear
of the convicts again? You bet I did.
I met the sheriff about two years ago.
He is running a cattle ranch and is
rich and prosperous, and I wouldn’t
give him away. He knew me at once
and did’nt pretend to avoid me, but
came up and shook hands. He inquir-
ed about Chumley the first thing. I
want to live my allotted time, and I
don’t think any man who sends
him back to jail two years would be
alive very long after he got out.”
What “Hustling” Hoes.
Ihe man of business and energy
throws himself body and soul into his
work. His invariable rule is business
first, pleasure afterward. Politics,
social enjoyment and the like are nev-
er allowed to interfere with business.
They are of secondary consequence,
and receive attention after business
hours only.
The community that seeks growth
and prosperity is forever reaching out
for some new developement just be-
yond its grasp. Like the man of bus-
iness, it is pushing unceasingly. Elect-
ions come and go, social events come
and go, but it is still devoting itself to
business. The question is not whether
the man has great business ability and
the community great natural resources,
near as much as it is whether he is a
man of irrepressible pluck, and the
community of irresistable push.
I he best business gauge of any
community is its newspapers. A pa-
per may be a personal organ more
than a mouthpiece of the public, yet
the general sentiment of the communi-
ty can be pretty cL». approximated
by studying even this personal organ.
To a close student of the South
J.L FISHER &
Northwest Texas
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Collecting Agem
lESst^lalliSlxeca. 1080.
Over 100 Surveys to Select F
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In ShcTckelford County. "Wg litive 3, well cUTcingee
the choicest land, in tracts to suit purchasers. (
examine our list and prices. They are low and 01
. r .. . , ........ easy- can sell you improved land ; we can *
believe it is not a difficult thing to j town property, improved or unimproved at bottom
gauge the growth of a community bv Wc can rent you residence property, well located,
prices. We can sell you cattle, horses or sheep. \\
der property and pay taxes. Collections made and
loaned. Call and see us before making your purch
before placing jour property for sale" Informal
cermng land given- free.
Correspondence
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gauge the growth of a community by
its local press. To use an expressive
word the press in a community of push
and energy is always “hustling.”
This hustle may not be directly in the
line of local developement or im-
provement every time, but it is that
restlessness ever on the alert for a
good thing, whatever it may be. Such
a paper is always getting what is call-
ed a “scoop” in newspaper parlence,
and the community it represents is
always attracting to itself new enter-
prises and new life.
On the other hand, where a paper is
constantly stirring up the political pot
to see if by some accident it has not
over-looked some little incident, but
seldom gives the business pot a stir,
that constituency can safely be set
down as conservative and listless.
A live town is always on the alert
and never allows anything to escape
its grasp. Were it to attempt to dis-
criminate, it would lose many a good
thing. It is like a magnet; it sweeps
in everything within reach. A mag-
net that would attract a needle but
repulse a nail would be of little use.
A community that would strive for a
cottou mill but overlook a saw mill
would not be on the main highway to
prosperity.
The Manufacturers’ Record hopes to
see every Southern community make
everything secondary to business.
What a boom many communities, now
stagnant, would have if the local press
would devote half the space and ener-
gy to local improvement and deveo-
opement that is now devoted to dis-
dussing political and like inconsequen-
tial matters.—[Ex.
Solioites
PRICKS - CUT
IN'
The Secret of Aerial Travel.
When human iugenuity can match
the product of nature ; when it can
make a machine posessing as much
power and endurance to the ounce of
weight as that of the homing pigeon
which lately flew from Detroit to Buf-
falo (225 miles) in less than four
hours ; when it can so arrange and
automatically shift a series of vanes
like shifting feathers in a hawk’s
wings, which suspend it in the air for
hours almost without apparent motion,
when it can solve the problem of how
this same hawk drops like a bullet
from the dizzying height of a half
mile, and cheeks itself unharmed
above its prey, then it may learn to
travel in the air.
Mrs. Maybrick’s sentence has
been commuted to penal servitude
for life. If the sentence is inflicted,
is worse than death oil the seaf-
Conguatalates Him.
Mr. E. Edwards, the gentleman who
was summoned to New York a short
time since on business, has returned
home again and called Monday and
subscribed for our paper. In conver-
sation with Mr. E. we learned that by
the death of his mother, which oceur-
ed in July, he had fallen heir to $50,-
000. The estate was valued at $100,-
000—$40,000 in cash and $60,000 in
real estate—divided equally between
himself and sister, who resides at Ne-
wark, New Jersey. Mr. Edwards is
to be congratulated upon his good for-
tune, and we indulge the hope that he
may see proper to invest extensively
in Iowa Park.—Iowa Park Texan.
This reminds us of an incident that
occurred in this city some six months
ago. A country lad of some seven-
teen summers walked into a certain
business house here where a friend of
his was employed, and walking up to
him with a grin on his face as broad
as a mugwump’s civil service ideas,
said : “Have you heard of my good
luck?” “No,” replied his friend;
“what is it?” “Oh, I’ve had a heap
a luck,” (with the grin still expand-
ing.) “Well, what is it?” “Why,
my brother in Kaintucky got killed by
the cars and the company offered me
$4000 to keep still about it.” Well,
will you take it?” “Take it? I reck-
on I will. I’ll tell you I’m a flyin.”
—[Wichita Herald-Light.
Isaac S. Dement, the winner of a
stenographic contest at Lake George
last summer, gave a speed exhibition
in Omaha, in which he wrote 225
words the first minute, 242 the second
and 260 the third.
m»THAN EVER BEFORE.-©*
HOTE! ou:
You can’t duplicate them anyv
You can get the benefit of this
cut if you come in time. Don
delay or you will miss a chan<
that you don’t have every da
These are genuine bargaii
and the shrewd buyer will not
be long in taking advantage of then
SEE HfESELES-
Children’s slippers at 25 cents—worth 50 to 75 cents
Ladies’and Misses’slippers and low cut shoes at 50
cents—worth $1.
Boys Tow cut shoes at 50 cents to $1—worth $1 to $2
Mens’ low cut shoes $2 to $3—worth $3 to $5.
ALSO BIG CUT IN OTHER STYLES OF SHOES
Dress lawns at 4 cents per ya
better grade at 5 cents, and
still better grade at 6 cen
Dress challies at 6 1-2 to
cents, worth 10 to 20 cen
Bunting at 8 cents, worth 12,.
Nuns veiling 10 to 15 c., worth 15 to 20.
R.BHUOEH FKIOES
CENTER •. & \ KEEI
Al’bany, Tex.
The luminous power of the electric
lights on top of the Eiffel. tower is
equal to 10,000 carcels, and the total
intensity of their luminous ray;, 8,000,-
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