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Newspaper Page Textt * « ii / * !*r THE ALBANY NEWS By'^bston & Evans. } “HERB SHALL TBS FIII8 THB PBOPX.B’A RIQHTS MAINTAIN. UHAWBD 87 POWER AND DNBRZBBD B7 OAIN.” {$2.00 Per Antmiri VOtmttE 12. ALBANY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7.1878. NUMBER 6 aHL* (ifairtw lawyers. - mdi'DtdKmaoafr, ATTORNEY AT LAW, And' R^rlstate Agent, ALBANY, GEORGIA. 8.1. of Load, a Specialty. ATTORNEY AT LAW, > fc DAVIS, JLTUW, 3RGIA ATTORNEY AT LAW. HBWTON. Baker C.m;, O A PETER J. STROZEB, WM". fe. SMITH, DOCTORS- DfoWAW.IglMii • to the riiicM of Altaor and j. tMke la WUUachUi^tSBttd* rl-lj M.D. ALBANf?fi^(mbl. OffiMHi Gtltai’i Drai Stare. ^AgotJera Ml U Um Prog SXiro «IU rtcl ttfrompl .KE jt awnuB ‘A < u OMn [ROBERT, • ettisess r , T 77r.. k ouMno HtWhifi DngMn^ ■ ud Tift atreeta. TkMgkis for the Monk. In oar lot. wo began a due anion of ••liana Economy," and promised a contin uance of iL No (object at preaent demanda mom eanieat attention from Southern farm era. Ills not tbe gro-e'income. bat the net profit*, that decides tbe question of soc- cera or failure. A merchant may aell a large amonat of goods, bat if he bays at “fit P»L«*- sella at email profits, makes bad debt*, pay* high rent* aad clerk hire, ha a pretty «nre to foil And eon farmer npAa4%opQrJg<Xe crops end yet clear n6 money, became they may cost more than they aell for. Few of onr farmers keep regnlar accounts or receipts sod ex. pendituree, and (hose who do not. fail to see clearly at the end of tba year the mat ter of foe* or gam; tat nearly every one in a ceries of yean find* out wbelber be is any nearer getting unt of debt, or whether ta ls increasing bis properly or not. We are compelled to believe that, as a general rale, oar farmers have cleared little money since the war. Even the apparently large craye they bate made, a*; interred from tbe size of tbecottoo crop compared with ante belinm times, is deceptive, became whilst more cotton has been made, that i, more then offset by tbe tact that so mocli leg* corn, wheat and other food crop* bare been produced. Almost oor entire hum. log energy has been expended upon cotton —hence the apparent large crops. Tbe South has not proepered since tbe sr. Why so? Is it because of exclusive cotton raising ? Is it because her smoke, teases and corn-cribs have been in the West? Nevf England end Old England have' bad their granaries largely away borne,'and^ret have thriven. What foilare? We apprehend E Benj. M. (Jr omwell, DBrUTFULLT tenders his sereiees. ln the ts- Afc rim brnaems ol his profusion, to tlie clUsen* efAftrayeedsamnadinseMinuy. Oflee kt GU» hh*sman~ H/jeer Welch's Dim let. Speculative forming, immediately alter the war—spending money lavishly on extended cotton crop*, bliodly expect, ing large yields and high prices, which were seldom realized. The inability to ob tain credit ef late year*, has pretty well stopped this, bat the debts incurred by it, f till bang like an incubus about Southern formers' necks. Could those debt* be dis charged. we believe tbe road to prosperity would now be open. 3d. Connected with the first, and great- increased by it. is tbe foci of tbe steady, and of late sadden, shrinkage of values— A thing which always proves disastrous to . raeople in debt. However much property mqr depreciate, debt never shrinks; with Interest add<m on, year after year, it grows with accelerated velocity. 3d. Tbe prejudicial effects upon sound form economy of almost exclusive cotton culture —These are: let. Employment of too muct labor. 2d. Subjecting the la borer to tbe Ugh rates exacted try tbe mer chant for (applies, and thus rendering la bor dearer. 3d. An almost complete aban donment of proper rotation of crops. let- Employment of too much labor.— Cotton is pre-eminently n labor-requiring crop—not only continuous labor through out the whole year, bnt much more to the it the l>inrft«M. Ira. HOLMES & DeMOSS ’ College.) AlfEJfTLY located in Albany, Georgia «-«- Dtoeaoqd Go**, Abomm* anof tbe mouth. Fill Teeth or Silver by tbe improved Lrti&rfal Teeth, from one to “ ’'hORlpain, by use o 14. Keep thoroughly rw-M ; aad a arientflc, dar»Ue xmC sprft*- IfcVY. Kirkraan. ^rS?#bOi^R ALBANY', GEORGIA. » t• T • I n HOTELS -4144 Ttfcf ■. .. .. RD OUSE, r Month. HOUSE, ”* towns bouse,) BROAD STREET, ALBANY, OEOROIA rpHEBcfsn Book 1. eov mj tor the recj,Horn A ef gem. TWaaarela s taOcint narantta hat the hooee will be kept In inbdui ttylr. •jGlf G. BOGLV, Proprietor McAFEE HOUSE, Smithville- : - ’• Geortfia- |B Depot. (fee . Proprietor. Brown House, MACON. - - - GEORGIA. • «*1b&<Pt:K DAY. 't MATES REDUCED. CUnpiaoA Alter tble dale our ratea will be 92 per X day. Inui rifipnl aod cotfortoble, UU« am good aa the market affvrdi Every exert lorn will ho ■ado to keep op the well-known rep.iraUoo of tbe Imam. Every attention given to ladira, atwl l»rgr zzgszl'- 4 *-'" what to buy ? We answer, raise all the pro visions needed by tbe fiunily. tbo servants and the slock, and in this wsy reduce to a minnimum wbat has to be boueht. The particular provision crops which each should cultivate must bo determined by soil and climate. The more varied they arc, tbe In* likelihood of failure. Sell tbe surplus of tbe provision crops, as much as practicable, after it has been converted into meat, or butter, or live stock. By so doing, nearly all the fertil izing elements abstracted from Uto soil by the crops, may be retained In the manure pile. Sell fruits and vegetable* wherever there is a demand for them. Cease to ra* gard cotton as tbe only source of lncomo. Valuable as it Is. tbe people of tbe North live without cullivatiog it, so do those of Orest Britiau and of Continental Europe. So did your own ancestors) in these Sonth' ern State*, at one time. What to bay—Just as little of every thing needed as you possibly can. Econo my should bo our motto for yean to come. We are too poor to bay mneb ofanything. Iron, salt, a few implements, and perhaps Ct'flee, pretty well make up the list. Tea we can make at home—sugar, also, in a large portion of the cotton Stales—ayrnp iu abundance everywhere, butter and cheese in any quantity—cotton and woolen goods, horses and mules wo can raise— plow stocks, axe handles, hoe. helves, wagon hubs, spokes and felloes, grain cra dles, snaths, our fathers made them all, sod we are no better, and need be no more helpless than they A tithe of a strictly surplus cotton crop ought to buy every thing needed on a form, and tl^e remain' ing nine-tenths pass to the account of ac cumulated profits. Bnt we have dwelt long enough at pres ent upon this subject, and must pass on to make a few euggestious about current work. Cleaoiug op, ditching and fencing are still in order. No time for these after crop work fairly begins. B»v Ell reruns Got Share* ill | Mine* the Trail. ■' Dbtroit, Nov. IS. This morning on a street here, a gen tleman banded me this card : mother Sblplen’s Prophecy. EMMA WILLARD, ’•Shaving, Bbampooning, A Hair-: • dressing, 8 Weolbridg* Si. • I | It Will not come amiss, at this lime, to reproduce so uto curious prophecies, The following lines ere said to have ^ published before tbo Crimean war of , somo authorities dating them as for back as 1453: “In tvlM two hundred year* tbe Beer The Cieeceut shall assail; But If the Cock and Bull unite The Bear ehall not prevail. But look ! In twice ten yean again— I ft Islam know aud fear— The Cram ahall wax, the Creaent wane, . Grow pale and disappear." | “Twice two bundred years,'* from 1453 brings us \o 1853. “Crimean war.* Prance, (tbo ‘cock*) and England (the PREPARING COMPOSTS. If not previously done, should be at once attended to. Tbe best are made of stable manure; cotton teed and acid phoflpgiate or dissolved bones. Proportioti of ingre dient* vary with the crop aad lan£ to which It is to be applied. For cotton on medium lauds, 5 bushels each of manure aod- seed to 100 lbe. of phosphate—on poor* cr lands, increase the quantity of manure aud seed, aod decrease them on richer soils. For corn, 10 to 15 bushels of each to 100 lbs phosphate. Put down a layer of cotton seed, say two inches thick, scat ter phosphate on this, then stable manure same thickness—cotton seed again, and so on, finishing off with a layer ofrichearty Wet the whole thoroughly as it is being put up, aod tramp down very firmly to prevent overheating. Thrust a stick down in the mass at intervals, and if, after letting It remain ten minutes, it ia found uncom fortably hot to tbe hand, make numerous boles with a stick or crowbar and pour in water freely to quench the beat. It is not Do yon mean to My that you have a woman barber In Detroit 1" 1 asked. Yes;ilr, two of’em ‘and two as pret ty girl* as there is in the city, too.'’ In a few minutes I walked np Wool, bridge street, and, sore enough, there was I ibull') declared war in alliance with Tur- lhe sign and a pretty girl standing in the I key (Islam) against Russia (tbe •bear') in window honing a razor. I wanted to go I March, 185-1. In 1866' peace was conclu in and get shaved, and still I could not ded by Congress at Paris. -The bear did make np my mind to do it. Three times I nut prevail.” -Twice ten years” from this I walked by and floaliv formed a conra-1 period brings io us 1876, during which goo us resolution, and, hanging my head I year disturbances commenced in Herze- as a member of the Young Men’s Chris, govina, Bosnia and Bulgaria; Montenegro t ian Association doe* when hejgora Into I and Servia, which finally involved tho tbo Mabel of Harry Hlll'v, I plunged In. j Porte la a war with the last two named I trembled from bead to (hot as soon aa 11 provinces, and although attempts at corn- entered the door. I couldn’t summon op I promises aud meditation were made by courage euough to speak to her. In foot. I lbe Congress which assembled at Constan- I had nothing to say. So I stood and I linople lu tho foil of 1876, Servia alone looked.very sheepish. I yielded to Turkish authority. Monteoe Have a shave, air;" said the pretty gro refused all overtures looking to sub- barberess, advancing with a razor in ooe mission, and Russia, having completed hand, and with the other pointing to tbe preparations for the war, made haste to chair. [ lake such action us has already given as. “Yes, shaved,” 1 gasped, aad Bung my- J aurance that self in a Chair. I . "Tho Cro. shall wax—llio Crescent wane. -Why, yon have Just been shaved 1” she pUe T " t , .. . V. a m . There seems to be ltulo doubt that said, drawing her ..iky palms across my \ Mother Bhiplou’s famous prophecy was administer upon hla sftate. When he,ra- •urned from Hot Springs, hi* flat question almost was la aaklf tbit .lawyer w*« ta. tbe city. ■ , v ;„., His property will, waiuppoea, go loht* wife anti children. Wa>l*aru that be ex pressed an intention of making a will just before he left for Arkansas A Otttfc-ke* seraoi. 8weet Sixteen. . We once shocked a lady friend vriy much by saying that we believed that the most beautiful of all Go&'e creatures was a beautiful woman, an* that tbieiiietuii most beautiful object in nature vrts a feclly formed hors*. Our fastidious f wa* shocked at the idea or oomVffjmf the two. Ofcoune tbe remark wee made u applying solely end entirely to physical beauty. Regarded In that tight then, we are confident that any true lover of fits beautiful In nature will agree with us |n thinking as we exp re—ad it aa Usat ooca. sion. If not prepared to aooept both pro positions thqy will at least admit tha torus face. area cultivated than moat other crops—Y necessary to protect from weather, but do from two to three times tbe amount re quired by corn, and very many times that demanded by small grain and grasses.— K ith extended cotton cultnre the demand ’ labor was great, wages went np, aod fadep sentence on the part of the laborer ran high, bat efficiency went down. The laborer instead of the land bolder became master of the situation. Hence, extrava gant rates were paid for labor, and with a large amount employed on a cotton crop, the lose was correspondingly increased.— Our first point then is, that the co'ton crop -bould be reduced to the smallest propor tions compatible with its ligitimate func tion, as a money nr snrplns crop 2d. Failure to raise provisions sufficient lor the form and the laborers on it. threw the latter into the elutebesof the merchant, who exacted from him exliorbitsDt rates. Dear living drove tbe laborer to high wages, or rendered him dissatisfied with low—in other words, demoralized the la borer. true policy of tbe farmer is to uk^^Krge of the Legro. who is incapa ble of taking care of himself, and reduce tbe cost of his living lo the lowest rate. — He will thereby undoubtedly secure cheep er labor. If preferred, let it take the shape of bit bauds working a provision crop suf ficient for themselves outside of hi* own crop, tat noder the same regulations, and charge them reasonable rent of land, teams and tools. In no other way can they be so eapiy supplied tvitli provisions. 3d. In no country is there so marked an absence ef systematic rotation of crops as in the Cotton Stales. And nowhere could iu absence produce more disastrous results, because clean and protracted summer cul ture not only destroys the stock of hamu* is the soil, tat render! it so terribly sue- ceptlve to weshiog sway by rain. These two disadvantages ere, so to speak, pecu liar to the cotton crop, and are eupersdded to those which In all countries are found le attach to the continuous cultivation of the samecrop year after year on the same We simply call attention to, but do not propose lo discuss now, this greet sub ject of rotation ol crop*. Suffice it lo say. that In all countries where advanced hus bandry prevails, it ia regarded as a matter of the very first importance. Reverting now to tlie questions asked in oor last: What toraiae? what lo sell? not put under tho eaves of buildings. A 1 compost prepared as above, may be used in lour weeks after it is put up—but 2 to 3 months is better. Tbe same materials may also be nsed without composting, by scattering the cot ton seed and stable manure ip the drill, and afterwards tbe phosphate upon them! Do Ibis in February, list with two lurrows f. and complete bed in April BEUDINO COTTOJf LAND. It is well either to bed np now and re verse beds in April just before planting' or else, to lay off rows,<appIy manure, aod list with (wo furrows and complete bed afterwards. Two points are gained by the latter. 1st, Where the land is rolling the washing is not so great with low lists as with high beds, aud 2nd. while time is gained by having half or more of tbe work done. - fresh surface and the weeds kill> ed, are secured at planting time. * WA9UIKO OF LAND. As this is one of the greatest of evils on a zotlou farm, atlention cannot be called tia, often to modes of preventing it. On ve:y steep hillsides nothing hut well con structed ditches can prevent it—but on moderate slopes, we suggest that lines of level be laid off at ordinary distances o* hillside ditches, and strips five to ten eel wide along these lines be sown in oats, rye. orchard grass and clover; No land will be lost, and these uncultivated stripe will quite effectually stop the washing, if care he takeu to lay off the cotton rows on a level. PHEI'AUINO FOK COHN. On stiff soils break very deep—drought is the great enemy of corn on uplands. Lay oil rows and put iu say half of the manure to lie given the corn, and list on it W0D —the remainder of manure apply in a sid ing furrow at first or second working. On uplands be sore to give good distance—it 1* better to err on the side of loo much than too little. TOP miKSSINO SI’IUNO CHAIN. If spring Open* early and grain makes a good etarl to grow, n top-dressing may lie given it tlie last of the mouth. The best for the purpose is nitrate soda, 75 to 100 lbs. per acre Tlie next best is recli ned Peruvian guano, 100 to 150 lbs. per acre. Have 1 ?” i^eaid, and then recollecting I stammered, “Ah, yra.ahavea this morn, ing enrly. I always ehave twice a day.’* Shavo doss ?’’ ask the pretty girl. "Yee, Itejeloaer-ihe better.". : Hair cut, too,?” Yes, everything.” And’then site commenced. With a lit tle camel s hair brush she painted my face with soap-suds. Then .put;’,her little fin- gcrs’plump againstjUiy face aud rubbed it proven 8he„stood behind me and put ktrerins around jiey'tack. 1 saw ) nr fcl* No in nty ht mm STS [ought. Stm everyooay aoca it, ana j why not;L" so 1 eluit.my eyes and let her go on. After rubbing her velvet Anger* over my cheeks and chin till the beard woe soltened. she took a razor, honed it, and ing one arm clear around my head aud I - her hand against my face to steady jt, Keetey motor, the Copernican system commencedUiodownwardmovementofthe UlnueU ’ CaIi " Once or twice I triedjto look the “"“f ^ f 6 a PP aralU8 ’ baN pretty barberess in the face, but I couldn't ,r0 “ «>>lpbullding. the marvels of 8o Ireland took it with my eyes.hut. ““ T™' aciCDC0 ' don’t think I enjoyed| ll? Art .till 1 let ? * P °^ " ra “ cl *" e,ne “‘ «* her go on. fiho shaved me, drew Iter f. ^P e0 ?' 0 in k"6 la rt> culminating in silky hand over my face to see if it was ‘^ predom naut power of Disraeli. Moth cioaely ahavon, art then combed my hrir. er fl 8U, P toah “ 8 “ re| y brought matters to -Shall I waxyourmouatache, air?” aho ‘““V? 1 " 1 8hema f' al1 n loua ‘ in S lbe | day of Judgment iu 188!, but who will -Yes wax away" I feci easy until that iateful year shall have Then she leaned over me till I could C A °“° “ d f , g0ne WiU *° Uta **“ d fiu.le- 1 Auguala Citron published inJISfi and revlwed iu 1641. ‘It ruus thus: “Carriages without horses (shall go, Aud accidents fill the world with woe. Around tbo world thought* shall By In the twinkling oi an eye. Water* ahall yet inoro woudera do. Mow strange, yet ahall be trne. The world u^aide down ahall he, Aud gold he found at root of tree. Through hills men ahall ride. And no horae or aaa ahall be at hla aide. Under the water pieu ahall walk, shall rido, ahall sleep, shall talk. In the air men ahall be aeeu la whlta,lu black, in green. Iran Jn the water shall float Aa easy as a wooden boat. Gold shall be found and grown lo a land that's hot yet known. Fire and water ahall wonders do England at last shall admit a jew, The wbrkl to an end shall come In elghteeu hundred andel^th-one." Hore wo have the disiinct antiounce* hear her breath and feel her heart; placed her little fingers under my moustache and waxed the ends. Now I never wear my moustache waxed, but I couldn't ask her to stop Col- Thomas Alexander. _ ... , ,. . , Tlle A-ftaufo Cuustiluliou gives some -There, dees it salt?" she reid .. she p^t, ttboul ^ li(c ofCol X1)0U1 „ AIex . duited off my neck aud removed the I tn( j er j t „ yi . V- te " ,, I The funeral of Colonel Aloximdor will “Yes, it is Joel right—JovelyT’ I raid, I ( , k |, e pi ace tlsis morning at 10 o'clock. ”Pio sweet for anything." aud then strodo I {fj s daughters arrived last night ut 11-30 down to tbe depot to find the train just on tbe Air .. Liue u >- m Hi „ llrr - ved gone, aud that this Detroit barberess hap ye ,terday. The luneral will lake place at caused me to miss a lecture engagement | hii reait]e „ ra aod a hundred dollar fee. No more pretty barberessev for me. Eu Perkins. SitiiBC’ Ball pa Ike War Palk. bis residence. SOMETHING A ROUT COL ALEXANDER. The death of so proniiucut a man Colonel Alexander ol cour»e brings to sur face many auecdotes concerning him that go lo show his character. It is said that he never wrote more then one or two letters iu his life. Noue of his children, we believe, ever had a letter There ir a prospect of stiriog times on the frontier this spring, A special dis patch from Bismarck. D T to the New [ ,0 “ wa8 uot causcd Tork Herald gives Ihe startling io . ^ ofleoderucas. fork was a devoted formation that Sitting Bull ba. left hi. re- f““ er ’ bul because ol b '* aversion t, writ- treat iu Caurta. Crot-ed the border, aud is in »' “ w “ a “"" 8 ‘ “ P r,nc, P le witb bi “ now encamped at Freuchmau's creek, w.th aever to P ut bls tb ° u 8 bt8 , U P°“ P“P«. Mr over one thou,and lodges, including the F “ r “ c,ved “ 8bort b ™ escaped Nez Perces art the recent desert' era from the ageneies. numbering two bun dred aud eighty lodges, with eight hun dred warriors. Sitting Bull’s own camp' numbers two IhoussDd three hundred war riors splendidly mounted aud equipped art five thousand women aud children, while he was at Hut Springs, which is probably cue of the half dozeu letters he ever wrote. Another peculiarity with hint, was that he never sold a piece of property. This rule of his late life had probably one or two exceptions; hut lie was accretive by All the principal hostile chiefs aril with h 0,ure and P'^'Phf He never bought them—Black Moon. Four Horne. LoDg 80 * P<e<* of property uotil he was able to Dog. Red Rear and others. The informs- P a * ,or “• and uutl1 be w ” '»«*«<«» that tiou comes trom General Mile’s headquar- " ** « «‘“ d l» v «UnenL After this he ten. at Fort Keogh. Tho General hod sent “*ve. cared to dispose of it. Ue thus ac- auch troops as ho could spare to the relief before his death an immense of Fort Peck, iu the neighborhood of ^ P™Pf* He owns about which a baud of the Ibdian. had liT ?,‘°° wor '* oft ' l YP™I«^y.“■‘<1 about It i, surmised that Silting Full f 00 acrca iu W “ 8t ^ nd ’ w <-rlh a very contemplate* an attack upon Fort Keogh- j ar *® * mount - imt m I Ue was very devoted m his fricudship The Telegraph .aye O.l Wagner 8°t “dkMwnohelf-way.grouud. IIo was oil a good thing on the high taxes of that P robab) * lbo be8t manager.ol the convicts ° I llisst StWIlH IlUilil Tin ...on el.. * a ta t_ city. Say* be. they used to be a tax but now they are Iod penny nails. Thus warbled tho poet of the Savannah News: lainsr ind Hill Went'xalnRt Um 1,111— oil, t-rrlbta (Hauler I— !solar full down And brokn lit. crown And tltll cam- tuinliltn* alter. that ever lived. He was tho best, it is retd, that Georgia ever produced, TUB DISPOSITION OF HIS PROPERTY. It is not known lo us whether or uot lie made a will. Ho had a will at ouo tiuio, but his scend uiarriago, of course, annuli* od this. Tlie nanio of Ills executor is no* yet named. lie unco expressed u desire to hire a proniiiieni lawyer of this city to But e-tde from ihe standpoint of admi ration sola for the physio*!.: endowed woman with tenth on art charms ofcbtndtmtWhteh^tlWMfew up |n a perfect womai 'MfMfeotaal and moral beauty ; and these chartitk begin early to develop 'themselves aud th such a degree as to render’s fair maiden of six' teen an object of particular attraction and interest. This will bo conceded readily when we reflect that aroupd tho foir sex who hare attained that interesting age hover and congregate *U age* of (he stern er sex. from the bachelor of fifty summers tnd a bald bead, to the gay youth wSp has just pul ou a Jong taU ooatand begun Jo part bis hair in Ihe middle Girl* at sixteen seem to poraeaee chain which is not found at any warHep er later period of life. It is at that ege that they are the most credulous art InnooealoffiM world's ways. Tie then, loo, that their maiden Crock* weave poetry into ovary sentiment and thought which they enter tain. Then they possess a coynce* art mischief-making the more stately maiden dt eighteen, or la the (buy developed woman of twenty owi. At this interesting utjei'Hs girl foels lea restraint than Wtah otder.and cdktsOqnent- lyshe is np to Ml adit* ofUtifi Jmn^, which can anow vent id her spirit or fun and coquetry k ' ’ A pretty girl or sweet sixteen can do more damage in an hodrVtlme, with On- pid’e arrows directed* towards susceptible masculinity, than could a regiment ot Amazons, armed with war clnbs. Anoth er reason why girls are so atteactiv* at sixteen, is because they Iuire harder |h »- at any other age, This is becau** they are more imigioaUvoT^iiid io cams out often they are apt to take afoucy to some fellow whom two. yeem ; I*iec Jkey would not recdgnise. This is alee doe to the imagination. At sixteen every girl le n heroine. She picture* to herself a pair of pantaloons and a post pn*iseeing all ef those grand qualities drbtch makes a admirable in the eyes of • woman, soon as her ideal is formed she lake* as e representative the first youth sh» When she merge* from sixtei finds that men are for from wb maidenly fancy had pictured them to ta. Then it is that her archness and credulity Is in a great measure gone, art her thoughts turn to practical meditation, art her mind centers upon more rational con clusions. The dream of street sixteen 1ms gone, yet experience of mere mature years gives aa a substitute a charm which rena ders her more capable of fattening too high miation given* her by providence. Sixteen then is an interesting age only ta- cause it is a transition period from the thoughtlessness of gray girlhood to the fuller development of a mature hood.—Ex. An Heiress Marrlea a Beggar. A bealiful youfig heiress In Hoscow has married a beggar eighty-alx years old. It has a queer look at first, but nothing coeld be more natural. The young girl—aha Is only twenty-two, could not enter into pos session of her fortnnee until ehe wee mar ried, and the young men whom her guar dian's introduced to her were empty- headed creatures, to whom she was un willing to bind herself for Ufo; so she re solved to marry an old beggar art gat the money without sacrificing bar indepee. deuce. The old man was oae of bar pen sioners. and readily consenuted to many her and then keep out of her way, retiring on a comfortable allowance. All the beg. gars iu town feasted and made merry ou the wedding night. *" The former who has' more litre stock than he has hay and grain to keep In good order should make up hi* mind to do one ol tho two things. He should either sell at once some oi his poorest animals or else be content to buy hay and meal vrith which to feed them when hie own’hay- mows and grain bins are amply. P°r our selves we prefer tbe former course. Ma ny farmers think differently, art would rather pay high price* for hay and grain than to keep only what cattle their forma will naturally sustain. If all formers would follow sither one of these example* their Interest would bo advanced much more rapidly than they are at present,— N E Homestead. , A $ew York racujsr paper gives the jiallowlag. IneUeat,,which we reproduce, •a a warning tolhe multitudes of poor irioh men whom we meet continently .- A gentleman died last week, at his res idence In on* of the uptown fashionable streets, leaving .f 11.0(K),000. He waa a “•mbsrofthe Presbyterian chorch, in ex- cellant starting, (a good husband and fath er, arts thriving citizen. On bis death* |be*. lingering long) be suffered with great agony of rain* art gave continual expres sions to Utstmone at whst bis conscience told him had been aa ill spent life. -Okt" ba exclaimed, ae bis weeping friends art relation* gathered about his bed—-Oh I if I eould only live my yean over again. Oh I If I could only ta spared, fora few year*. I would give all the wealth I have amassed in a lifetime. It b a Uto devoted to money-getting that I regret It to this which weighs me down and makes me despair of tbe lire hereafter ?” Hie cler gyman endeavored to soothe him. but he turned hls foce to the wall. “You have D *T* f •ypeorei my avaricious spirit." he paldto the minister. “Ton have called it . F*^,,£»o«n7—eoonomy and fotw iofigbt,tat tey sonl I I wauld give all I “W, ^ have hopo fbr my poor soul ?“ U tub state of mind, refusing to be consoled, this poor rich man bewailed a life devoted )to the mere acquisition of riches. Many •®te*e. away from his bedside impressed with the uselessness of such an existence e* Ih* wealthy man had spent adding ihotu* to house and dollar to dollar, until he became a millionaire. All knew him to ta • -professing Christian and a good as the world goes; but the terror and of hb death-bed administered a tot lobe lightly dismissed from memory. Ha would-h*** given all his wsallh focaalag;. hope of haavan. I««l Brevities. Without agriculture wa should not have manufactures, end w* should not have inuatre*.—Washington. What nobler occupation engages tha •ollvo power of maa ? Art os all others * b > 1L why should It not rank first In dignity ? - Farming b a calling which should raise (WllwBpWt. foGingS, soothe the rug. artepaw the vale of da ■ dinging yean with many a thornless flows er.ln tha racoltactloa of Innocent enjoy- God Almighty first planted a garden, art indeed .It is the purest of all human pleasure*. It is tha greatest refreshment to the spirit of man, without which build, tags aad palaces ore tat grow handiworks, and a man shall ever sea that when ogee CM* <e civility and elegance, men come to bolld stately sooner than to garden fine- Ijr.asif gardening were tha greater per- ftoften.—Lord Bacon, I-.'.' .• Married ike Spat. “I'll many any girl in the room that •m have m*v“ said a halbUpaj young Cel. low- ’Til take yon,” sold a fresh, clear- eyed young girl of 17. And in half an hour tha two ware married art being cos - grstulstad by their friends. This actual ly oocurrad only a few weeks ago in tho viotaity of FrenkllnvtUe. In this oonn- ty. The occasion was a country dance ttapEfttdpanta ware a former’s son and a former’s daughter,'neither of whom had exchanged a wort! with the other until the above scene occurred. Thryoung follow had been drinking and thought ha would fay something “smart” and astonish the gtrb with hb audacity. The girl, howev er, had heard that be waa a -good fellow,” pud being moved by that spirit which ’will not ’taka a dare If death oome.’Jtook him at hb word. They are now living with the young follow's parent’s and are studying each other's character at their le jure.— OrleonfN. Y.) Record. A I'arloas Win. A curious will has just been eettled to Berlin, containing a moral worth o wider circulation than a miser’s last testament oftenoMaini The poor dtan died, when, to general emprise. It waa found he left 34.000 marks. The 30,000 Ins package, signed and sealed was to be given to bu native town in Bavaria; 1,000 each to' three brothers, and 1,000 to a friend with whom he had quarreled. It was stipulat ed that non* of the tour should follow the body to the grave, which suggestion the three brother* gladly accepted, but the. quarreler walked alone art forfeited hb 1.000 mark*, for the sake of paying a last mitigating honor. When the package waa oponed for tbe town it disclosed 'another will, giving the 30.000 to any of the four Who should disregard the stipulation. A good conscience b better than two witnesses. It oonsnmes yonr grief as the eon dissolves ice. It b a spring, when you are thirsty; a stall when you are weary ; a screen when the tun borne yon, and s pillow in death. Wa have more power than will, and It b often by way of excuse to ourselves tha) we buoy things ore impossible. There b no man io friendless, but that he can find a friend sincere enough to tol him disagreeable truths.

Georgia Historic Newspapers

The Albany news. (Albany, Ga.) 186?-1880, February 07, 1878, Image 1