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8 INDEX AND BAPTIST. Publishers' Pepartment. —The Christian World thinks a roost appro priate and beneficial method of celebrating the national centennial would be the diffusion of religous knowledge to every family in the country through the medium of the religious press. The poor as well as the rich are com manded as beneficiaries in this suggested plan. It would be a most powerful influence for good if a religious weekly should pay its visits to the home of every citizen; and we Bbould greatly rijoice if a movement for tin’s purpose were practical! y inaugurated and carried into effect. As stated in an editorial last week, it would be a mast praiseworthy and fruitful charity if The Index were sent by those who have been blessed with abundance, to the homes of those members of our denomination in this State, who, by reason of their financial condition, are denied regular religious in struction. What we have said in regard to Ibis paper applies, with equal force, to other established religious journals, within their sev eral fields. The most feasible plan for accomplishing this object is the endowment of the papers with a special fund, to be equitably applied in send ing them to the poor. The number of tliiz class in the State should be ascertained, and each enjoy, pro rata, the benefits of the endow ment fund. Who will remember the poor, and commence (his good work in earned f In suggesting an endowment fund for the purpose of furnishing religious journals to the poor of the country, we do not intend to dis courage individuals from doing their part of this work by direct action. Such as prefer to give special direction to their charities, should select the preferred beneficiaries, and send them the paper. There is no better time than the present to do this work. Its fruits will most richly reward these benefactors. ITALY OF AMERICA. How to do Florida In a Work The Cost iu Detail—An interesting Paper Tor Tourists. Can anything new be written about Florida? is a very natural inquiry, and one that a ma jority of people who have not visited the "Land of Flowers” would answer in the neg ative. To one who has just witnessed the in describable richness of the glorious country for the first time, it seems that not one-half has been said. Notwithstanding this feeling is strong enough to be convincing to my own mind, 1 have not the vanity to undertake a description of the beauties of this land, where perpetual summer reigns, so often and so eloquently des cribed. It would be so utterly impossible to do the subject justice, that I have concluded to give it up in despair, and send you, instead, a practical letter, and treat of dollars and cents, and not scenery and sentiment. Many people are deterred from enjoying a tour to Florida by reason of time and expense. To remove these seeming obstacles, I propose to explore Florida in a week,and at an expense of SB7 and less. I will take the Macon route first. Leave Atlanta at 10:30, v. m., on Friday, and Satur day, r. M., at 10:15 you are at Jacksonville. Go to the Grand National Hotel and remain Sunday, lly Monday you will certainly meet with Walter F. Coleman, the gentlemanly agent of tire Starlight, the best boat on the St. Johns river. At 9 o’clock, Monday morning leave, Jacksonville on the Starlight. On the vessel you will find good fare, comfortable staterooms, and attentive, and experienced officers. At 4r. M. you will reach Palatka, having passed all the points of interest on the lower river by daylight. As the Starlight re mains at Palatka until 12 o’clock at night, you ■will have time to see the town, and visit Hart’s seventy-five thousand dollar orauge grove, on the point opposite Palatka. It is reached by means of row-boats, which can be hired at all times. When you awake on Tuesday morning, you will find that the Star light is fairly into the upper river, and you will, no doubt,like the exchange from the broad,lake like expanse of the lower to the narrow, tor tuous course of the upper river, with its troph acal growth, often overhanging the very decks of the boat. At 3 o’clock Tuesday, the Starlight is safely moored at Enterprise, and a half hour later is heading across the lake toward Sanford. Reaching the place at 4, you should take a carriage through the country to meet the boat at Mellonville. After visiting the groves of Ginn Marks, Hayden, Vaughn, Markham and others, take tea at the Orange House, and and return to the Starlight at Mellonville, which is a mile or more from Sanford, the landing at which you left the boat. By 9 o’clock you are at rest in your pleasant cabin on the Starlight, and when the breakfast hell arouses you the next morning, you will lind that you are on your return trip, having left Mellonville at daylight. At 7 Wednesday evening, you are at Palatka again, where you leave the Starlight and go to the Putnam House for a night’s rest, a bath, and a chance at your trunks. Thursday morning, at 7, you leave on the steamer Pastime—and an elegant and well officered one she is, and no mistake—for Tocoi, where you take the St. Johns Railroad for St. Augustine. This ancient city is reached at half-past ten, and you have ample time to see the Cathedral, old fort, Indians sea wall, date palm, and other sights, and dine at the Flori da Hotel before three o’clock, at which time you take the return train for Tocoi, connecting with the steamer Hampton, and arriving at Jacksonville at half-past seven. Another night at the Grand National Hotel, which is situated as near the passenger depot and the steamboat landing as to obviate the necessity as well as the expense of hack hire or omnibus fares, thoroughly rests you for a start at 7:45 a.m. Friday, in a through palace car, via Jessup THE CHRISTIAN INDEX AND SOUTH-WESTERN BAPTIST. and Macon, for Atlanta, reaching the latter city at 2 o’clock Saturday afternoon. By this pro gramme, the trip can be accomplished in eight hours less than eight days at the following cost: Railroad fare, Atlanta to Jacksonville, $lB 65; meals en route —three, $2 25; Grand National bill two nights, 4 meals, $6 00; Star light fare to Mellonville, $9 00; boat to Harts’ Grove, 50 cents; carriage, Sandford to Mellon ville, $3 00; supper at Orange House, 75 cents; Starlight fare to Patalka, $0 00; lodg ing and breakfast at Patalka, $2 00 ; Pastime fare to Tocoi, $1 00 ; railroad fare to St. Augustine, $200; dinner at St Augustine, $1 00; carriage hire at St. Augustine, $3 00; railroad fare to Tocoi, $2 00; Hampton fare Tocoi to Jacksonville, $2 00; supper on Hampton, $1 00; lodging and breakfast at Grand National, $2 00; railroad fare to At lanta, $lB 05; three meals en route, $2 25; fruit, porters and waiters, $5 00; total, SB7 05. The start should be made on Friday or Sat urday, so as to connect with Starlight, Mon day or on Tuesday, to connect with the same boat on its Thursday trip. By starting Satur day night, the trip can be made in less than a week, but requires Sunday traveling, and a lay over of seven hours at Jessup, which is avoided by starting Friday or Tuesday. The route via Macon and Jessup runs through cars from Atlanta to Jacksonville. The other route is via Augusta, Yamassee (Magnolia line) and Savannah. By this route passengers leave Atlanta at 12 o’clock noon, going through Jp Savannah in a Pullman Pal ace car without change. At Savannah, the change into a through parlor or sleeping car from the Atlanta sleeper is made across a twelve foot platform. Leaving Atlanta by this route at 12 o’clock noon, you reach Jackson ville the next evening at 10:15, or by leaving at 10:30, J'.m. (the route runs a double daily) you reach Jacksonville the second morning at 7:45. This line sells round trip tickets at $27 30, which reduces the expense from SB7 05, as given above, to $77 05. The idea is to so time your departure from Atlanta as to strike the Starlight on its Monday or Thursday trip. It leaves Jacksonville at 9 A. m., and its gentle manly agent, Walter Coleman, will treat you like a prince. K. I). Mann, No. 4, Kimball House, Atlan ta, sells tickets by both routes, and will be found a most accommodating and well inform ed gentleman by those who desire any further information on the subject. \ COMMENDABLE ENTERPRISE. As paper, printing, and binding costs much less in Europe limn in America, the “Ameri can Bible Union” lias engaged in importing Bibles of the common version sufficient to meet demands for the Hame in our country at the following low prices: 24 mo. Bibles, pearl, at prices varying from 28 cents to $1 10, according to the binding. 12 mo. Bibles, nonpareil, at from 00 cents to $2 00. 8 vo. Bibles, small pica, at from $2 00 to $4 00. Teachers’ Bibles, pearl, 24 mo. at from $1 45 to $5 10. Nonpareil, 1G mo., at from $3 00 to $0 25. Minion, 8 vo., at from $4 75 to $8 00; also, 32 mo. Bibles, diamond, morocco, limp, red nnd gold edges, very thin, the smallest Bible ever printed, at $2 50 ; also, Hebrew Bibles, Greek Testaments, Concor dances, and Bibles in the different European languages. The postage, which should be enclosed in all orders for Bibles, is six cents per volume for 32 mos. ; nine cents for 24 mos.; twenty-one cents for 12 mos.; and forty-live cents for 8 vos.. We would recommend all in want of Bibles to send their orders to llev. W. H. Wy choff, LL.I)., 32 Great Jones street, New York. It. MARRIAGES. On tho 23d of Doconiber, 1875, at tlio resi dence of Rev. Y. Wood, the bride’s father, at Franklin, Ga. ,by Rev. M. Owensby, Miss Colum bia Wood to Mr. J. W. Few. On tho evening of the 20tli, at the residence of the bride’s father, by Rev. E. 8. V. Briant, Mr. James Mubphy to Miss Bell Dunlap ; all of Atlanta. By Bev. 0. 0. Willis, on the 22d of December, at tho residence of the bride’s father, J. I. David, Esq., Mr. It. H. Almond and Miss M. A. David : all of Muscogee comity, Ga. By tho same, on the 23d of’ December, at the residence of the bride’s father, Wm. Greer, Esq., Mr. J. Oabtlege, Jn., of Muscogee county, Ga., and Miss Ella Greek, of Harris county, Ga. By the same, at the bride's residence, on the 4th of January, Mr. J. W. Thbelkeld. Sen., of Muscogee county, Oa.. to Mrs. Maby TnoMrsoN, of Russell county, Alabama. At the residence of Mr. S. A. Orr, in the city of Atlanta, on Thursday, the 20th inst., by Rev. E. M. Hooten, Mr. W. H. Head, of Milner, Ga., and Miss Eula Lee Owen, of the former place. In Ilawkinsville, Ga., the 6th of January 1876. by Rev. G. R. McCall, Miss M. H. MoCaix, daughter of the officiating minister, and Mr. W. R. Taylor, all of Hawkinsville. OBITUARIES; GLAIZE Mr. Grant Glaize, of Lincoln coun ty, Ga., died Sunday night, the 9th instant, lio was in his 77th year. He embraced the Christian religion in early life, and joined the Goshen Baptist church. He was afterwards ordained deacon. But few men have lived a more exemplary life than did this agod saint. KENDRICK—Robert Edwin, oldest son of brother Robert S. and sister Mary A. Kendrick, was killed by the terrible cyolone of May Ist, 1875, near Valley Grove Churoh, Talbot county, Georgia. He was born Doeomber 14th, 1865, and was, therefore, in his tenth year. Dear Eddie was remarkable for his truthfulness, liiß obedience to hiß parents, and his affectionate disposition. He was a member of the Sabbalb-scUool at Val ley Grove Church. I have never known a moro promising, or a more lovable child than he was. lie gave cvideuce of a change of heart and of love for Jesus. Wo believe he has gone from the sorrows of earth to the joys of Heaven. T. H. S. Thomaston, Ga., Jan. 17, 1876. LITTLE.—Died at Louisville, Ga., January 6th, 1876, Mrs. Rosa Little, wife of Mr. William Little, in the 21st year of her age. Mrs. Little had been for some years a member of the Baptist Church, and was an earnest, pious Christian, and tho last articulate words uttered by her wero these, “All is well." With ont a struggle, she passed away, and was at rest. Although it had been but a brief year since she stood a happy bride at the altar, but a single month since she stood bv the grave of her only child, and although she' had many “wearisome days and nights of pain.” no mur mur eve - passed her lips, and although to human eyes it did seem hard to part with a husband al ready stricken, from a widowed and aged mother, and from a wide circle of friends, well-beloved, yet the same calm assurance which had distin guished her in life was present in her death, and its language was not “my will, but Thine be done.” While it is true that death has again been victorious, and the grave claimed another victim, yet we know that “the righteous hath hope in His death,” and although separated here, there is another world where friends do not part, and families are never sundered, where there is no death, and no grave. To this blessed abode we point them, with the prayer that they, too, may be able to say, when they stand at last in the presence of death, “All is "'oil.” j. c. G. —About 1,400 young men from this country are said to be in attendance at the schools and colleges of Germany. Strengthening the Hold on Life. Life is dear to most, if not all of us, and those whose tenure of it is rendered uncertain by fee ble health, would gladly strengthen their hold upon existence. The best advice that can be given to the debilitated, is to in-’igorate with that sovereign vitalizer, Ilostetter’s Stomach Bit ters, which fertilizes the blood by ensuring com plete nutrition, and is an excellent remedy for these maladies which are the main causes of physical weakness. Indigestion, inactivity of the liver, urinary troubles, rheumatic complaints, and many other ailments and disabilities are speedily coaquered by this safe, prompt and agreeable corrective tonic, which is, besides, a reliable preventive of chills and fever, and oth er malarial disorders, counteracts the effects of fatigue and exposure, and is a beneficial solace to the aged and infirm. Burnett’s Cologne (four sizes,') prepared from the purest awl best materials—unrivaled in richness and delicacy ofperpime. V Continental Hotel, Philadelphia, Pa , June2oth, 1808. Messrs. Joseph Burnett <6 Co. —Gentlemen: While travelling abroad last year, we took your Cologne with us, and after testing several of the best “ Gorman,” found none of them equalled yours. I know of many friends as em phatic in its favor as I am. Vory truly yours, J. E. 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If not, you 000 000 will certainly find that Journal in the 000 000 American Agriculturist, which issues 000 000 its 35tli Annual Volume during tho Cen- 000 000 tennial Year. The flrsJ number is now 000 oo ready for 200,000 old readers, and 000 000 500,000 new ones, who ought to have it, 000 000 and will have it, if they learn its real 000 000 value. 000 000 000 000 41 double (or quarto) pages in every 000 000 number, beautifully printed on fine 000 000 paper. 000 000 000 000 15 to 410 Engravings, beautiful, 000 000 pleasing, and instructive, in every 000 000 number. • 000 000 000 000 A Great Varioty of Practical, Bella- 000 000 able, Instructive Reading iu every nnm- 000 000 her, useful to every MAN, WOMAN 000 000 and CHILD ill CITY, VILLAGE and 000 000 COUNTRY. 000 000 000 000 HOMES FOR THE PEOPLE.-Every 000 000 number of the American Agriculturist 000 000 gives engraved House Flans, common- 000 000 sense ones, with all materials required, 000 000 and the cost in detail. Everybody 000 000 wants a Houbo, or to improve one. 000 000 These articles give a world of useful, 000 000 practical information. 000 000 000 000 HOUSEKEEPERS will find in every 000 000 number much to aid and relieve them 000 000 in their Work and Care—not fancy no- 000 000 tione, but really useful hints, sugges- 000 000 tions, and information. 000 000 000 000 OHILUREN of all ages will find in 000 000 every number much to interest and 000 000 instruct them. 000 000 000 000 A CALENDAR of WORK to be done, 000 000 with useful hints thereon,in the House, 000 000 iu the Garden, Orchard, Dairy, and 000 000 on the farm, given in every number, 000 000 is alone worth the whole cost. 000 000 000 000 HUMBUG EXPOSED— No other 000 000 journal in the world so constantly, per- 000 000 sistentty and fully exposos the tricks, 000 000 schomes and wiles of tho swindlers 000 000 that prey upon overy community and 000 000 every individual. Those exposures 000 000 alone save its readers millions of dol- 000 000 larß, and will save every individual 000 000 reader many times the cost of the pa- 000 000 per, in bad purchases and bad invest- 000 000 ments, if not in avoiding bare swin- 000 000 dling. , 000 000 000 000 The above are only a few of the good 000 000 features of the American Agriculturist, 000 000 that for 34 years have made it so ac- 000 000 ceptable and so useful to its great 000 000 army of subscribers,who are so nunior- 000 000 oub that the Publishers are able to sup- 000 000 ply tho paper at a remarkably low 000 000 price. It combines Boauty and Use- 000 000 fulness to a wonderful degree. Taking 000 000 into account .its Beauty, Value, and 000 000 Size, it is the Cheapest Journal in the 000 000 World. Everybody wants it, and should 000 000 have it. The Centennial Volume (for 000 000 all of 1876) will far excel in value any 000 000 previous volume—TßY IT. 000 000 000 000 Terms: Only $1.60 a year, sent 000 000 post-paid; 4 to 9 copies, 11.35 each; 000 000 10 copies, $1.30 each. 000 000 000 000 ORANGE JUDD COMPANY, Pub’rs, 000 000 245 Broadway, New York. 000 000 000 000000000000000000000 00000000000000000000 000000000000000000000 00000000000000000000 000000000000000000000 00000000000000000000 feb4-lt ATLANTA PAPER MILLS WM. MoNAUGHT * CO.. Whitehall street Atlanta, da. FOR sample of newspaper see The Christian Index, which is printed on paper made at the above Mills. Cotton and linen rags wanted. 19-tf 500 Volumes in One. Agents wanted for the Library of Poetry and Song Being Choice Selections from the Best Poets, English, Scotch, Irish and American. BY WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT. If one had the complete works of all the poets, itself a large library, costing from *SOO to SIOOO, he would not gain in a lifetime, perhaps, so com prehensive a knowledge of the poets themselves their best productions, the period during which they wrote, and the places honored by their birth, as from this elegant volume. The handsomest and cheapest subscription book extant. Having an immense sale. Extra terms! Send for Cir cular J. B. FOBD & CO., jan27.tf 27 Park Place, New York. Farm Implements. Without Brag in regard to Frightful Tumbling in Prices as Some Advertisers Proclaim ! ATLANTA, GEORGIA. Wholesale and Retail Dealers in Farm Imple ments, Seeds, Fertilizers, Wagons, Buggies, Carriages, Stoam Engines, Improved Live Stock, etc., now in store and offer at prices greatly re duced, the following active stock, to-wit: 500 Boy Excelsior Steel Plows. 50 No. C 1. Excelsior two-horso Steel Plows. 500 Dixie Cast one-horse Plows, at $3.00, 0 at one order for $15.00. 500 One and Two-Horse Farmers’ Friend Cast Plows, the best Turning Plow ever offered to the public. 500 FIELD CUTTERS. ALL SIZES AND PRICES 150 Corn Shellers, from $9 50 up. 500 doz. Handled Farmers’ Shank Hoes, cheaper than ever before offered. 75 Two-Horse Iron Axle Farm Wagons, from $75.00 up and warranted. BUGGIES We have the largest Repository in Georgia, aud can suit every taste and every pocket. FERTILIZERS 3,000 Tons of the best standard Fertilizers, now ready for delivery, consisting in part of 1,500 Tons Russel’s Ammmouiated Bone Super phosphate. 200 tons Stono Soluble Guano. 500 tons Stono Acid Phosphate. 50 tons Potash Compound. 100 tons Pure Flour of Raw Bone. 150 tons I.and Plaster. 500 tons Oyster Shell Lime, also, 2,000 pounds Sulphate of Ammonia, Nitriate of Soda, Muriate of Potash, etc. SEEDS. Our seed department is the most complete to bo found North or South. No seed can bo called for that we cannot furnish. We have now ar riving : . '• 10,000 doz. papers of choice and genuine Gar den Seeds; 1,000 bids. Early Rose Snow Flake, Browuwell’s Beauty and Peerless Potatoes. Order at once. 250 bushels of the celebrated St. Doiniugo Yam, very fine aud early. 2,000 bushels German Millet. 500 bushels of Red Clover. 1,000 pounds Lucerne, White Clover, Crimson Annual Clover, etc. And right here let us urge every farmer in Georgia to order at once one or more bushels of this German Millet. We know of nothing to equal if under she sun as a hay or forage plant, aud tho seed will be scarce. 1,000 bushels Hungarian Grass. 500 bushels of Timothy. 2,000 bushels of Blue Grass, Orchard Grass, Rye, Grass, Vitclies, etc. 5,000 bushels Red Top or Herds Grass. 10,009 bushels of Red Bust Proof Oats, the only Oat worthy of planting from January to March. 500 bushels of new, rare and desirable Cotton Seed, etc. We are in earnest. Wo mean to sell cheap, and will give one of Warren’s Patent Hoes to all who send us an order amounting to 10. Send for price lists. We will sell Farm Engines cheaper than any other Southern House. Try us; MARK W. JOHNSON A WOODRUFF, feb3.tf Atlanta, Georgia. JOHN D- CUNNINGHAM. Attorney and Counsellor at Law, CORNER WALL AND PEACHTREE STREETS, Railroad Block ATLANTA, GA. WILL practice in the Supreme Court of the State, tho United States Circuit and Dis trict Courts at Atlanta ; the Superior Court and Court of Ordinary for Fulton county, and in the City Court of Atlanta. Strict attention given to business. Collections promptly remitted. Refers, by special permission, to —V. R. Tommey, Esq., President Georgia Banking and Trust Company, Atlanta, Ga.; Gen. A. Austell, President Atlanta National Bunk, Atlanta, Ga.; Mai. Campbell Wallace, President State National Bank, Atlanta, Ga.; Hon. R. C. Brickell, Chief Justice Supreme Court of Alabama, Huntsville, Ala.; Hon. W. B. Woods, U. S. Circuit Judge, for this Circuit, Mobile, Ala.; Hon. Thos. J. Judge, Judge of Supreme Court of Alabama, Mont gomery, Ala.; Geo. B. Holmes, Esq., President Mer chants’ and Planters’ National Bank, Montgomery, Ala.; Lehman Bros., 133 Pearl street, New York. aprl.l2ai Telegraph and Messenger FOR 1876. Great Reduction 2 ON and after Ist January, 1876, our Mammoth Weekly, the Great Family Paper of Geor gia, and tho largest in the South, will be sent to subscribers at *4 A YEAR, and postage. This is but a small advance on ost of blank paper. Weekly for six months, sl, and postage. The postage is 20 cents a year. The Semi-Weekly Will be reduced to THREE DOLLARS a rear and postage—2o cents. For six months $1.50 and postage. DAILY EDITION Ten Dollars a year and postage. Five Dollars for six monts. Two Dollars and Fifty Cents for three months. The stirring events of the Great Centennial Y’ear of American History, which include the Presidential Struggle, will render 1876 one of the most memorable in our annals. Everybody in this region will need the Tbleurai'H, and we have pnt down the price to accommodate their necessities and pecuniary status. feb4-tf CLIBBY, JONES * REESE. to P er day at home. Sample worth $1 free. STINSON* CO. Portland, Me. sept 9. ly HAVE YOU A DOLLAR? For One Dollar we will Send, Postage-paid. THE WEEKLT WORLD ONE YEAR. xfwYoA Da^lUrW o lndln P fuLe e sa eU Colte ‘j ted b - v the agents and cor is unequalled ' J ■ and m “Aness, accuracy and enterprise in this respect days. In addition to this weekly record, The World gvesthecrlam of a)V X L i h ° paßt 80V6n rbS “■ ■> * *-“£““sarys.'SK ~ , &s£Sß!&*&iSgST! > ‘S'-'SlSi.*'* ■" ““ that i,, ! A 1 if’ V isEI 011 rs, brought down to the hour of publication are the best . made. Each market is reported by one whose special kunwledge and training make him the best authority upon that subject m the United States. For accuracy and the market reports of The World are unrivalled. accuracy and completeness v’^4 e i£ eßt bu ii he cheapest newspaper ever offered the farmer.” SEMI-WEEKLY (104 No*. , $2 a year. DAILY (313 Nos ). 810 oer rear Specimen copies sent upon application. ' er F R ar. feb4.lt Address ’’Till: WORLD,” S3 Park Row, .Mew York. 1876. The Nation's Centennial. 1876 THE PRESIDENTIAL YEAR, SUBSCRIBE FOR The Louisville Commercial. (PUBLISHED DAILY AND WEEKLY. The Leading Republican Paper of the South. "VfEXT year anew President is to be elected, Lx and the International Exhibition, celebrat ing the close of the first hundred years of our country’s existence, is to be held. These facts will make it necessary for every intelligent citi zen, who wishes to keep up with the progress of events, and be well informed on political issues, to take a good newspaper. The publishers of the Comm eh (Hal confidently offer it aB such a paper. While rendering an earnest support to the candidates and principles of the Republican party, the Commeiicial will make its news de partment full and accurate. In order that it may reach as many readers as possible, it offers low rates of subscription ; and the friends of the Republican cause are requested to aid in increas ing its circulation. Daily and Weekly Subschiption Rates. Terms for Daily, by mail, postpaid: One copy, one year, $8.00; one copy, six months, $4.25; one copy, three months, $2.10; one eopv, one month, 75 cents. These terms make the daily the cheapest daily newspaper in the West or South. Terms for Weekly, by mail, postpaid: Single copy, $2.00 ; five cepies, each, $1.60; ten copies, each, $1.50; twenty copies, each, $1,35 ; fifty copies, each, $1.25; and one to getter up of clubs of ten copies gratis. Special rates and inducement given to parties who will act as agents, and interest themselves in extending our circulation Subscriptions pay able in advance. No paper continued after the expiration of the time paid for. Specimen copies sent on application. Remittances must be made by draft, post-office order, express, or registered letter. Address all communications LOUISVILLE COMMERCIAL CO., feb4-tf 102 W. Green st.,; Louisville, Ky, TO AGKNTS. What Every Man Wants in His Daily Business, A NEW INVENTION. Meets the wants of Bankers, Lawyers, Physicians, Clergymen, Edi tors, Accountants, Merchants, professional and business men, protecting and keeping in alpha betical order Letters, Bills. Receipts, Contracts, Orders, Invoices, Bills of Lading, Insurance Policies, Briefs, Private Correspondence, and business papers generally, always filed in alpha betical order for ready reference. It is the most compact and convenient series of cases, or Letter File ever invented. No office or desk is complete without this new and useful fixture. 11l this small cabinet 4.000 letters can be tiled and kept always at hand for ready reference. It is made of black walnut, is quite ornamental, and can be used on the desk or hung on the wall. These files are rapidly finding t heir way into the offices of Business Men, and at the houses of Libraries of others desiring to keep their pa pers at home, always in order, for immediate re ference, free from dust, and away from the ob servation of the curious. Adrantages, It economizes space in every particular. It keeps all papers iu perfect alphabetical or der. It will hold four thousand letters or papers. It is to be placed on the desk, always before the writer. It can be hung or attached to the wall, if de sired. ft makes every letter of the alphabet accessi ble. It refers to any and all letters on file at once. It is portable, and easy to move in case of fire. It can be put in the vault at night if desired. Its Sliding Doors are always out of the yray. It keeps the contents clean and free from dust when closed. We have made arrangements that enable us to give one of these “Let ter Cabinets” as a premium to any agent who will send thirty cash subscribers for The Index. Who will be the first to comply with this proposition ? The entire correspondence of The Index— numbering many thous and letters—is kept in one of these. So great is their convenience that we would not be without one for any reasonable sum. Atlanta, January 1876. Improved Evergreen Broom Corn. Anew variety, the result of five years experi menting, much superior to any other kind both ia yield aud quality. Seed is equal to corn for feeding, and the bush will bring one-third more in the market than the common broom corn. Two quarts will plant one acre. By mail on re ceipt of price, with full directions how to culti vate. Fifty cents per quart, by express ; four quarts, $1.50 ; one peck, $2.00; $6.00 per bushel. Address SAMUEL WILSON. jan27-tf Mechanicsville, Bucks County. Fa. To Parents and Teachers. WIBHING to aid in placing a copy of the Bible in the hand of every child that can read, I will send, by mail, postage prepaid, three copies of an English Bible, common version, 24 mo. Pearl, cloth, sprinkled edges, for every One Dollar received. Address JOS. S. BAKER, feb4-3m Quitman, Brooks co., Ga. INDEX AND BAPTIST. A RELIGIOUS and FAMILY JOURNAL, $3.00 PER ANNUM, IN ADVANCE. JAS. P. HAEBISON & CO. t Proprietors. Rev. D. E. BUTLER..... President. A. K. SEAGO, Esq .j Directors. JAS. P. HARRISON..... Secretary and Treasurer. 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Only a few columns are allowed to strivtly first-class advertisers, and only those willing to pay our rates. •WT* Remittances at the risk of party sending the money. THE WEEKLY SUN. U 776. NEW YORK. 1876. Eighteen hundred and seventy-six is the Cen tenuial yoar. It is also the year in which an Opposition House of Representatives, the first since the war, will be in power at Washington ; and the .year of a twenty-third election of a President of the United States. All of these events are sure to be of great interest and im portance, especially the two latter ; and all of them, and everything connected with them, will be fully and freshly reported and expounded in The Sun. .he Opposition House of Representatives, taking up the line of inquiry opened years ago by The Sun, will sternly and diligentlv investi gate the corruptions and misdeods of Giiant’s administration; and will, it is to be hoped, lay the foundation for anew and better period in our national history. 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