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LAWYERS. ti Y f^. ,
Lewis Arnheim,
Attorney at Law*
ALBANY, OA.
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Attorneys at Law.
OFFICft:
D. A.VASOW*
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ATTORNEYS ij^LAW,
ALBANfc,C
LAW NOTICE-
PETEK J. 8TR0ZER,
WM. E. SMITH.
3.T. HOLMES.
Dre. Holmes & DeMoos,
ALBANY,
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a'd'ee*;
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DR. W.W. BACON
By WESTON & EVANS.}
Devoted to the Interests of Albany and Southwest Georgia.
{$2.00 Per Annum
VOLUME 12.
ALBANY. GEORGIA. T H U K S l) V Y, DECEMBER 12. 1878.
NUMBER 50
W.A.
Office over
UmMM Ih. !*■«««•
Dr. E. W. AliFRIET^D,
•f tibuyulnmaUunuuy'
Dr. P-I*. HILSMAN,
h^TEftS'
The Old B^iat:
BARNES
flie Si., Alkali, 6a.,
BOG BN HOUSE,
ifUBMRRt.V TOW SIS HOLSiy. .
BROAD STREET, ALBANY. GEORGIA
T HE
School Exhibition at Hillsdale
Hillsdale, B. & A. II. It, Dec. 2.
Editor* Albany Weirs:
The people of Hillsdale were very
y entertained at the school or
ison of MU* Georgia Watson on
29tli nit. At nn
school rooms were
crowded by an appreciative audience.
I never heard such exclamations of
wonder and admiration as when the
curtains were first drawn. My pen
fails to do justice to the beauty of
the stage, which was handsomely
decorated with pictures, evergreens
arift flowers. The lovely strains of
ittusfe from the organ, by Mrs. Rob
erts, was soul-cheering, and came in
very appropriately.
The chjldren were thoroughly
played their parts to per-
Gcorgia had only a
small school, but tlic training made
up for deficiencies in number. Lu
na Graves’ composition deserves spe
cial mention. Subject: “The White
Paper." It was bcauliliil ami well
read.
Freddie Graves will undoubtedly
an orator, liis speech took
;e a charm, it was so well delivered.
John ^McKinnon and Spencer i’or-
werc very important characters
the exhibition.
Alter the pupils were through will)
OMTpMC we were treated to some
excellent charades, tableaux, songs
etc. The friends of the school kindly
Mrs. Spencer Graves, Mrs.
Hailey, Mr. Cyrus Graves, Miss Car
rie Porcher, Hr. Perry J. Luke, Mr.
.itlfj Mr. Holmes, Joe For*
J. M. Roberts auil lady
each pitt ed their part well.
Messrs. Luke, Graves and Roberts
played the part of negroes so well
that it makes the negro ashamed of
himself. I wish I could give even-
one the credit due them. C. W.
Graves was master of ceremonies.
ljitacerelyhope that every eflbrt in
Miis Georgia’s life may be crowned
with as perfect success as her exhi
bition. Everybody went away high
ly pleased. M. M.
Instructions to a Jury.
Speaking,*>f the courts reminds us
of' a funny instruction said to have
been given by a Judge lo a jury in—
well, we won’t say in what Slate. It
«.~f.Waikii
d* W'
rune in this way:
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JOHNSON,*
salihTlIIe. 6a.,
wSrSSSaSSWSSSS:
<i tei£SS!Bw*wuw.
MeAFEE HOUSE.
* n «, VIcAFEE. Proprietor.
■ >Clayton Hoaqe,
Margaii 6a,
P. P. Clayton, proprietor-.
cooqut hoyfrW.taa tag M •kff-tk*
BARLOW HOUSE.
bSfiros tic
Located la the Cater *f bariaew—Ofpew
tilt the Court House.
Board Per Day $200
B.r. COLLUTS, Proprietor.
B* & A. R. R. Company.
ion
Extract from nil Essay rentl Be
fore tlic State Agrleultnrnl
StH.iety, on Agricultural Jour
nals, by Ur. J. P. Stevens.
“Tlic first work in tlio English lan
guage on Vegetable Physiology was
published bv a Scotch nobleman,
Iluiidonald, in 1705. And tho only - - ... ,
account.lie could give of the composi- fi*vo been transmitted I rom genera
tion of plants was tlic following:- to generation. Tl.o same old
tamed coll, wns restive under re
st 'lint and probably will never he
broken in.
Farmers ns a class arc unsocial.—
Their isolated life engenders u spirit
of self-satisfaction and self-compla
cency, and not untVci|uently, of con
tempt for the opinions of oilier.-.—
His very isolation lends ion stei-eo-
typed addition of the same Ideas ilml
f this jury believes, from the evi
dence, that the plaintiff and defen
dant were a partner in the grocery,
and that the plaintiff bought out de
fendant, and gave his note for the in
terest, and defendant paid for note
by delivering to the plaintiff a cow.
which he warranted -not brcachy,’
and the warranty was broke by rea
son of thcbreactiiness of the cow, and
[tiff drove the cow back and
her to the defendant, but
' int refused to receive her
>> and put a heavy yoke or
poke upon her, to prevent her from
jumping the fence, and the cow in at
tempting to jump the fence, by reason
of the aforesaid yoke or poke, broke
herlnfck. and died, and if the jurv
further believes that tlic defendant's
interests in the grocery aforesaid was
not worth anything, and tlic plaintiff's
note was worthless, and the said cow
good for nothing, either for milk or
for beef, or for'green hide,' then tin:
jury must find out for themselves
how they will decide tho case, for I lie
coiirj, if she understands heisclf, ami
/ Isfcfl thinks she do, don’t know how
i-i.V sacha missed case should be decid
ed.”
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»pr l». IK7S-IJ W.tl. RAOUL, Hope.
History of a Dead Letter.
Home time in 1877 a soldier station
ed with the cavalry in Texas (lied
very snddenly and was buried with
military honors by his comrades, and
the spot carefully marked. On his
person was a discharge which lie hud
received the day before for pliysiea!
disability, and a letter from his fnotii-
]n England,' and one evidently
his sweetheart, but signed only
r first name. These were care’-
’ully preserved by the lieutenant of
he company and forwarded, witli a
letter of sympathy, to tlic bereaved
mother in England. In due course
of time the letter was returned to the
United States dead letter office as un
delivered, the mother not being at
her former address. It was then
opened, and after examination, re
tained in its open condition with the
suggestion that the contents would
enable the English post officials lo
discover the person it was intended
to reach; but in due course of time
it caine back the second time as unde
livcrable. The teller was turned
8 ver to one of ihe lady clerks in the
citfT-letler office, iv h ,oD rending I In
cont nt-. with i .v > n in' iu-iinct, Ii-
vinel lint ih “(Me - wh . wrote lb
on*- 1 tie ,>.n lln Mi - i,-, -pok ;
f in ill iiolli r'- I ltd. wove ide: :.
mi. What ;s Ice!.me ill? lerin- t ;i
“Iclt.-r of di-covei. ” iv i a I' es c
to the aupposil.ti »n* 1.1 t h; nil
dre-s i.i acollni.d, |io.ni..r.,cil oo i.c
letter. The letter, on reaching Ilia
office, was forwarded to London
whither the young lady had gone
and tbe dead-letter office here recciv
eil a letter from her, with thanks for
the diligence displayed in endeavor
ing to secure the delivery of the let
ter, stating that it was Hie first tii
had heard of the soldier’s death, and
giving the present address of tin
mother of the soldier, lo whom Hit
original package has lieeu forward
ell,'making its fifth trip across llie Al
lautic ocean.
Moo r»k o*n«.
Bets. W. raUooo,
Ut Kioot Wort. . . . asocial f snort
E. E. CUEA1THAM,
H. FRASER GRANT,
General Commission Merchant,
eoarooaljai
iraaioolfbi
Xbw Cubk run lino ('uoi.riiA.—
Mr. Elam Sanford, of llaucork conn
ty, informs the Times A: Tinnier lln
cotton seed will cure the cholera i
hogs, lie is satisfied from his ow
and the experiment of others, Hint
cotton seed will cure this disease, ami
their use will prove an effective pre
ventive. When tmi far gone to eat
fbf seed, a strong tea made from
“hem may be used with good results.
This Is an important discovery, and
should be generally known.
Tho paragrapher that was hanged
raid to the guard around the gallows:
“This life Is but an beinp-tle show.”
plants _ wl _.
Vegetables consist of inticUaglous
mailer, resinous matter, matter auai-
agous to Hint of animals, and sonic
proportion of oil.' But the first im
pulse given to the science of vegeta
ble physiology was in 1810, when
l/cihig shed the light of his splendid
genius upon tliiscxtrcmly interesting
nml important subject. Siuoc his dav,
a large number of investigating minds
have entered ii|k>ii tho inviting field.
Until now, llie structure and func
tions of the plant, the physical forces
that operate in the germination of the
seed ami in its subsequent growtli and
development, its method of feeding,
ami the kind of food best suited to its
necessities; indeed, nil the circum
stances and condition*necessary toils
healthy and perfect development, are
so closely comprehended by the intel
ligent ami progressive agriculturist,
that, given a .sufficient amount of
moisture, the certainty of crop re
sults amounts almost to a demonstra
tion. And this congratulatory stage
of progress is due mainly to tlic pa-
licnt researches and investigations of
llie agricultural physiologest and
chemist. In ante helium times, witli
our rich virgin soil, and with an
abundance and absolute control of
-killed labor, the rudest methods of
agriculture were rewarded with re
munerative lesiilts. Then, Cuffuc was
lithe ami pliant, nml we skinned and
butchered our soil, nml having glean
ed the last penny's worth of substance
from its ever willing bosom, with Cuf-
fee and our flocks and herd, wo mi
grated to more nbuudniit pastures
and a virgin soil, to repeat the same
routine of iinpovcrishmeiitand waste.
Sow, tho virginity of our soil has
passed into the “seer and yellow leaf,”
and in our altered circumstances it
becomes us to follow the beacon light
which applied science suspends over
the pathway of progress, auil use
every available means for resuscita
ting our exhausted soil. This benifi-
,-cnt result can lie accomplished main
ly by a diffusion of huoirlcdtie among
agriculturists. It is not lo lie expect
ed that every farmer can become an
agricultural cheinisl. His manner of
litc tends rather adversely to high in
tellectual culture. His personal su
perintendence. in tlic performance of
bi* daily duties, is demanded for se
curing the proper efficiency of his la
borers; ami nt nightfall he naturally
-eeks relief from harrassiiig cares, in
the hallowing and consolatiiig influ
ence* of tho domestic circle. His
mind is not properly fitted for earn
est, intense study, and “nature’s
sweet restorer” soon wood him to her
embrace. Yet lie cannot attord to
pursue the daily humdrum of a list
less, plodding life. Other industries
are steadily marching on, with ever
accclerating speed to higher, and
still higher achievements in the line
of progress mid perfection. Intellec
tual as well ns physical activity is the
watchword of tlic present day. In
vention is ever busy in substituting
brain-work for innscle-work, and the
mere plodder and routinist will soon
lie left far behind in the race. The
farmer must ever he impressed witli
tlic exhnltcd dignity of his calling.—
Every phase of intellectual develop
ment is demanded in the exercise of
liis art, every industry Jeans upon him
tor support, amt were lie to withhold
iiis hand, they would perish from in
anition. He must awake from his
ietlmrgy, nml enter the lists in the
race lor intellectual and moral pre
ferment. Now, for the accomplish
ment of tills purpose, tlic inaintain-
ancc of an ixtkllioent periodical
AtilEICULTVKAL LITERATURE is impertl'
lively demanded. A periodical liter
ature is peculiarly suited to the wants
of tlic farmer, on account of the di-
rersijieil contents. It contains a bill of
fare suited to the aptitudes and tastes
of every stage of mental develop
ment. I-cibig, thirty-six years ago,
ventured tlic prophecy, that the time
would come “when fields will be ma
nured with a solution of glass—sili
cate of potash—with the ashes of
burnt straw amt with the salts of
phosphoric acid, precisely as inedi
incs are given for fever and gaitre.'
For many years this prediction has
been literally verified. Now, a fnrm-
r will scarcely venture to make n
rop without the application of phos
phoric acid, potash, lime, magnesia,
and tlic elements of amonia, either
prepared according to scientific for
mula, or by the addition of soluble
phosphate of lime to his composts of
cotton seed am) lot manure. It is of
vital importance to liiintobenequain
ted witli llie mutual interactions of
liffcrent chemical ingredients, as well
is with their purity and relative per
centage of desirable qualities, and
their relative solubility, and adapta
bility to yielding immediate returns,
in llie growth and fruitage of hiscrops.
Information of this mitiire is given in
all intelligently conducted agricultur
al jnu mils, in language in a great
(leisure devoid of technical terms,
n I suited to tlic comprehension ol
ven the unlearned. The table of con-
**i:ts indie ties articles upon almost
verv subject connected with lie
■v-ry da. lie of the farmer; so that
ii . directly relieves Hint tension ot
lie mind experienced in studying in-
>1 uteri treatises, so often attended
ivnh weariness, and, not iiiifrcqiicnt-
ivilh disgust; and it is peculiarly
Inpled to tbe consumption of frag-
ieiils of time in the daily routine of
labor. Agricultural journals are val-
uahlr nlurotors of the home circle.—
Children and youth, especially those
engaged in farming, soon begin to
look for tills periodical return as wel
come visitors. A spirit of mental im
provement is thus eiiltivated, and u
discipline of the iiiiud will be acquir
ed, Which will increase with advanc
ing years, and lie of inestimable val
ue lo the recipient.
A young man in my employ, as
manager, exhibited sueli maturity of
judgment in nil ilia! appertains to
farm work, and sneb capacity for ob
servation and comparison in the de
tails of Ids business, dial I wns in
duced to urge upon him Hie reading
of my agricultural journals as n means
of cultivating Ids valuable faculties.
I was not a little disappointed when
lie replied, “I would rather split one
hundred rails than read a half nil
hour." His iniml was permitted to
run wild in youth, anu, like an un-
plows that his grandfather used nr
tho best that wns ever invented, as
well as tho same old notion of fatten
ing hogs; witli ear-corn on a dirt floor,
otenosed to the pelting rain and tiie
chilling blast, knee deep in mud and
tilth. “Mud is good for hogs, they
love to wallow iu it, and nature, in
tended that they should revel in it.—
Kar-.torii keeps Ilium from gelling
the ‘lampns.’ Your modern notion
of protecting them from the weather
with a good warm sty, and an
nhuudnnco of straw upon which to
repose in ease and comfort lends, to
give them tlic measles; and besides
tlds practice is contrary to nature be
muse they havo no use for their teeth.”
Now, agricultural journals exert a
liberalizing influence upon the mind
and heart. They lift up tlic cloud of
unbelief in tlic progressive tendency
of tlic present age, and stimulate a
plrit of inquiry and research. They
produce a bond of sympathy and
friendship between fanners, nml elic
it respect for each others’ opinions,
mil n desire to Irani from one
mother. They try the value of theo
ries in tlic crucible of experiment,
and separate the dross from tlic pure
gold, and thus tend to give stability
and certainty to authenticated facts
mid stamp with the impress of truth.
They are of great value in suggesting
new thoughts, new methods, new en
quiries, outside of a< Inal knowledge
imparted. Tims llie mind is led to
liiuk for itself—to intelligently use
t* faculties in deducing valuable con
clusions from facts, that may occur to
it in the daily routine of business.—
The faculty of observation is stimu
lated in noticing peculiarities of form,
structure and fruitage of plants, nml
the effects of different kinds of lertil-
zers, and different methods of culture,
upon the growth and development of
the plant.
Agricultural journals are especial
ly valuable in collecting all the recent
discoveries in the art and science of
agriculture that may be evolved from
llie labors of earnest workers in every
part of the world, and placing tlieiii
directly before their renders witli such
explanatory remarks and valuable de
ductions as may be drawn from tlic
objects discussed, and iu language
comprehensible to the plainest intel
lect. Iu almost all enlightened coun
tries a large number of highly ed
ucated men are engaged in applying
llie principles of science to tlic art of
agriculture. Ten years ago, experi
ment stations were established in va
rious European countries as follows:
“For Prussia, 10; in Saxonv, 4; in Ba
varia, 3; in Austria, 3; in Brunswick.
Hesse, Thuringia, Anliart, Wertem-
berg, Baden and Siveden, otic each,
making a total of 20, chiefly sustained
by, auil operating in the interests of
llie agriculturists of those countries.—
These statious give constant employ
ment to 60 chemists and vegetable
physiologists, of whom a large num
ber arc occupied largely or exclusive
ly with theoretical investigations,
while the work of others is devoted
to more practical matters, ns testing
the value of commercial fertilizers."
England and France have furnished
some of the most earnest anil success-
fill workers in this field of enquiry
and research. Our National and
■State bureaus of agriculture have
been assidiously engaged, for man)
years in testing the value of fertil
izers best adapted to the production
of our own crops, and, indeed, em
ploying tlicir best cncgics in every
field of enquiry that conduces to the
material prosperity of the farmer.—
The results of the labors of these
enrnest workers arc published in the
form of reports. The intelligent jour
nalists of the country receive them as
soon as published, carefully collate
valuable principles and facts, and re
produce them for the benefit of tlicir
teaders. It will readily be perceived
wliat a vast fund of valuable inform
ation ’ is communicated to the intelli
gent and inquisitive reader, and at a
merely nominal cost
Another aspect in which tho value
of agricultural journals may be view-
od is that they afford the cheapest
methodof accumulating an agricultur
al library. By carefully preserving
and annually binding the numbers
periodically received, a complete com
pendium of fhets and principles rela
ting to every department of the
science and art of agriculture is sc-
cured which is of inestimable value
not only for study, but ns books of re
ference iu times of doubt anil extrem
ity. Iu these times of general tinn.i-
cial stringency, comparatively few
have the means for supplying them
selves witli agricultural works, even
if they had tlic time nml inclination
to study them. Periodical journals
supply a general want in this regard,
for almost any farmer can afford tlic
Inconsiderable amount of money that
is required in exchange for sueli a
treasury of knowledge.
Let us, therefore, take a “new de
parture” from the pervading negli
gence in this respect that seems to
characterize us as a class. Let us, hy
a more liberal putrotmgc of these in
valuable factors ol our material pros
perity—for knowledge is wealth as
well as power—endeavor more gen
erally to diffuse a knowledge of tin
science as well as llie art of agricul
Hire among ourselves. In our vast
domain we have tho material, npiiar
ently unappreciated, of hotiinllea
wealth, and an exalted civilizalion.-
Witli our genial climate, diversified
mineral treasures, unlimited wait
power, versatility of soil, benign
Stale governments, and valuable sc
iiiaric* of learning, and in llie use
proper cnargy and skill iu Iheir de
velopment and mainlainnnce, may we
not lio|ieHiut this grand old common
wealth of ours, the “land of beauty,
valor, virtue, Irufli,” endeared to ij
hy llie rreollnetion ol' past suffering
and past joys, ns well ns hy tlic cheer
ing prospects of n common In Inn
will, ut no distant nay, realize tier in
evitable destiny as one oftlielirigheKl
stars that compose the galaxy of the
American Union "
l>r. L. Pierce's Vision
iiv NiNErv-rnintTii unmi-liAV-
21th, ls7S.
Beloved Friends: Instead of a
oiiiinoiipi.'iee salutation, I will make
ii you a eoiiiliiuuieation of hroador.
brighter, and morn pleasing content*.
I have purposely postponed this com
munication for ibis glad day.
About llie middle of last Novcm-
ner, after the shock of my severe at-
Uick had passed oil; it left me full of
relh-elion on Cliureli interests, and ill
llu* midst thereof I had a vision. 1
had never before had one, and was
always at a loss to comprehend the
true idea of a Scripture vision. As,
for instance, Joel, iu prophesying tlic
effects Hint would follow the pouring
o it of the Spirit upon all flesh, says,
“Your young men shall see visions.”
One would very nnturally ask—what
is a vision hut seeing, and how then
can it be said, “shall see vision. ?”
This is a sufficient answer: A vision
is i.uprinted on the utind hy some su-
pern .tnral agency; and it is said to
lie seen, because the mental conscious
ness of a vision is most strikingly
scenic. But llie very conscioii.ne sof
a vision differs widely from that of a
ran. oni dream. There is always in a
vision prophetic revelation of the ap
proaching fulfillment of some event
iu the prophetic programme of prom
ised epochal events m the on-coming
kingdom of God. My vision was of
this order, in llie language of the
ancient seers, 1 was carried and placed
in an arched entrance into a very
large house, the inside of which I did
not see. The open space belli ml me
seemed to lie a plain vestibule, Imt
cut off from the main building hy a
cross wall perfectly close. Here J
stood at the utmost verge of the floor,
perfectly erect, unwearied, nml en
tranced at Hie vision.
Witli a due sense of my great dis
tance iclnw Si. Paul. I will quote liis
words for explanation's sake. He
said, “It is not ex e. ient for me
doubtless lo glory; 1 will come to
visions and revelations of the Lord.”
As both terms are in the plural. I
presume it is because thev arc always
• l.: G..... «i...
Four of the . House of Washburn
have been ulected to Congress, W. I>.
Washburn, of Minnesota, being the
lost of the brotherhood so distinguish
ed. The country is draining llial
family protty heavily.
oiiihination ; so that, while a vis
ion is not a revelation, so neither is a
revelation a vision. But, while a vis
ion is a scene of something substan
tial about to he developed into a re
alization—photographed on Hie mind,
as tlic figure of a natural body is, by
light on the retina—revelation is tlic
intention of its moral teachings.
In my vision. Hie earth became a
vast, beautiful landscape, freed from
every natural annoyance. It was un-
dtihuiug enough to relieve it entirely
from tlic monotony of sameness.—
There was not a sharp hill in sight,
nor a dull plain. Tlic face of the
earth was revered closely with a
beautiful brown-colored grass, that
lay upon it as gracefully as a parlor
earpcl. As to tlic trees, they were of
our common woodland growth, hut
all full grown and singularly beauti
ful. There wns not a defect in
single one of them—all straight up,
with large waving tops. There was
no undergrowth. All tlic diflercncc
was, that the appearance was that of
a grove, and not of a forest, in that
the trees stood in rows with open
avenues between them whirh seemed
to run interminably on. There was
nothing of the promiscuous, or wild,
accidental appearance, of common
woods; anil yet there was not the
sign of art or labor in alt this
lovely landscape, unless it was in
these’ rows of trees and open ave
nues between. Ail looked like the
development of latent elements from
nature’s fruitful resources. Its moral
must lie easily seen.
But now I come to tho soul of tlic
vision. About fifty yards in front of
me was passing a succession of beau
tiful little boat* in form—in other
respects they resembled a paper ear,
having top anil side openings with
out shutters. They were heautifully
ininteit all alike—colors (resit and
ivelv, simple nml chaste; they rati
upon a straight line, seemingly self-
moved, there being no visible force.
These bouts wore all foil of children,
lean nml tine looking, ranging from
live, to ten years, hoys and girls.
There was no noise, lint their smiling
faces were Hie simple blooming of
inward innocent pleasure—a species
of pleasure loo well tired to become
boist rous as its exponent. They said
they were all going to the World's
Sunday-school*-by whieli I under
stood a Sunday-school at which all
the children were summoned togeth
er on some grand account. In some
way I found myself at one of the
last of Hie train of bonis, engaged in
tlic following conversation with
very pleasant, promising boy of
about ten years old. I said to him
Mv son, wlmt is the reason we old
people cannot be always happy like
you children arc?” To tills he re
plied in terms that threw me upon
tiie thinking plane again, lie said,
“It is because you arc not iu sympa
thy witli Christ like wo are. If you
work only for Christ you
would lie always happy.” The
piiry instantly arose iu my tiiinil
What does he mean? fort felt, folly
ttislicd from Hie moment of his tir.*
deliverance Hint it was a divine mei
And the revelation of Hie vi
inn was iu this wise: You ilo not
work for ('lirist. alone in your Sun
lay-school work, in Hint while yon
ire working iu your way to nmkr
Christians of I belli, you arc just as
truly wishing to make Methodists of
nml you cannot work only
Christ witli any divisive motive
deriving it. A rush of llioiights, on
Christ’s chosen mode of sound on
version—reducing us to the simpli
ily of a little child—came upon mi
But I must continue iny vision
with its accompanying revelations.
I saw during the vision only a few
say a half dozen—adult persons with
in tiie vast field of my vision, nml
Iliey looked old, poor, and passing
away. Ilerothu moral intention was,
that the world was to lie saved by
Hie children ; and they were to lie lit
led for I liis moral eniiquc-t through
this Sunday-school drill;nml Hit
inciicicnl Sunday-School was called
to let all know that the time was
drawing nigh.
Finding myself hack again at my
first standing place, I saw a fen-
young men on my right hand, on tin
ground, close up in the basement wall,
very busy writing like enrolliui
clerks. I asked them what they wer
loing, and tlicy said, “we are ninkiii):
nit llie roll of all Sunday-school chi
Iren." And here the vision itself
ramc to its close, Imt left me a deuplv
interested subject, seeing nothing
more, lint being overwhelmed with
llie revelations that unfolded lo my
mind llie reuson nml the in port of
lie vision. It was for tiie . pccial
inlorl of the discouraged. And
tills was the way of it—that in llie
working out of God’s grand design I
became discouraged because awken-
ings nml conversions seem to become
more difficult, mid rare; but llial. the
world was to lie brought finally to
Christ hy the children of the (."nircli
—mind tlic significant phrase—
the agency of Sabbath-schools;
that those were to become nurseries
out which would bo transplanted in
fo the Church in increasing numbers,
until, as the prophet Jeremiah has it
—T, God, will put my law in their in
ward parts and write it in their hearts
—just tiie work which can lie done iu
Salibntli-Hchoois and B : blu-rl .s.-es,
ml will bring about tlic • o t v dge
of (foil which will nt Inst p opio the
world with a theoretical population
of firm believers in the God of the
Bible. My belief is, that much of
what is culled millennium will he tiie
sstorntion of a tiue theocracy—a
,-ork that never will be accom plished
Hi ougli mere pulpit exegy.is. But
three generations, if ail nations v/cre
Christianized, can, by Sumtuy-sclioo!
and Bible-clnss instruction, bring on
Hint state of society meant hy all
knowing God, from the least of’tlicin
i n.o the greatest of them—most like
ly fro..i the rule - s to their ..c .a its.
The very esthetic dress of naf _c in
its freedom from all noxious growtli,
only a prefigur tion of wliat is
me ut by the digging Cowu of iro.'ii-
tains, tilling up of valleys, smoothing
of rough places, aud making crooked
ways straight—in a word, filling tiie
earth with His glory. But, all wise
.nimls say the ino -al forces ncce ary
to bring on these grand re .ults
through our Sum-ay-scaoo s, must be
greatly increased ami more efficiently
worked. My revelation was that God,
through the Church, is mnkin„ re dy
. people prepared for the Lord. This
vos not so in my day; tire Lord nev or
found a single so.tl prepared and
made reedy for Him. Made ready for
Him! Wonderful words! I li’ca -d
one of our chief pastors say within a
ontli, while lookingat some Sunday
tool children co itributing to a mis-
ionary collect io >, that it had been
impressed upon liis mil d fo - some
time that God would convert the
world through the c'lildrc t I re
joiced to .ic r it. The Lord had shov. il
me this several years ago while I w.'.s
Sunday-school A ,e’it, in pre chit
on its Scriptural ground, from Mala
ria iv: 5,5; and the ref rcncc to there
words by the angel while fortclling
o Znclinrins beforehand tiie eltarae-
r of tiie ministry of John. I saw-
hat tliis reciprocal interest bclwccn
>arents and children was unceasing,
and understood that—considering the
tendency in the Church to backslide,
ami that the pronciicss grew wot- c ns
tiie converts came in, from dent- .vcd
habits—that there was no way in
which the necessity to smite tlic earth
witli a curse could be prerented but
to raise up a better race.
My own state. A trance is said to
lie a state in which [the soul scents to
have passed out of the body—a state
of ccstacy. Peter fell in a trance at,
■loppa, and in that trance lie had a
wonderful vision. But whether the
mind is simply denaturalized or su-
pcrhuinanizcd is unknown. One
tiling, however, is certain—the state
itself is a reality. 'When I passed out
of it into my common seif, I had the
ccstacy. 1 was foil of divine comfort.
The room seemed to he tilled with
tlic glory of God. SIv bliss was that
of a seeming bathing in spiritual life;
and strange to say, 1 made no procla
mation of it, though it remained on
,te with slight variations lor three
days. Nor lias it passed entirely
away.
So my ninety-third year ends. “Oh
give thanks unto the Lord, for lie is
good: His mercy endurrth forever.’
Allow me lo open my ninety-fourth
year among yon with an earnest ex
hortation to all concerned to enter
heartily into every good work, espe
cially Sunday school work—heeding
nothing else but this one great end :
to make ready a people prepared for
tlic Lord (See Luke i :17) and keep it
in mind that this is what is meant bv
training up children in the way they
should go. It ia only one way—anil
in your work remember my Siindnv-
seliool boy in hia meaaage to me—“if
you would work only for Christ you
would alwaya be happy like U3.” ’ So
we would.
L. Pierce.
Decline of the Moflt'et (Register.
The Moffct register lias come down
like a rocket. A year ago this law
wns in force in one State, Virginia;
had been passed in another, Louis
iana, hut was not yet in force, and
was before the Legislatures of New
York, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, South
Carolina ami Mississippi, with every
prospect of being adopted in these
States and becoming a law. Rut to
day tiie Moffett register lias fallen
into disrepute everywhere. A Dill
proposing tliis law was presented be
fore llie Legislature of Georgia tiie
oilier dny, imt there is no hope or
possibility of its passage. Tlic press
ami people of Georgia are unani
mously opposed to it, and it
-areeiy likely that it will get
dozen voles in the Legislature. Tlmt
our Mofl'ctt register law will lie
abolished at tlic coming session of
the Legislature, the results of tlic
late election leave no doubt. Even
ill Virginia, the originator of this
new mode of raising taxes, the Mof
fett register lias proved a fraud and a
failure. Thu revenue derived front
tliis source lias dcrrcased’from month
to month, until it now yields little
more than Hie old revenue from
liquor licenses used to return. It is
tid that at the verv next session of
the Virginia legislature tliis law
will lie repealed and Hie old system
readopted. As for the Moffett resis
tor hill now before Hie Legislator
of New York, Pennsylvania. Teum
see ami Mississippi, they have mys
teriously disappeared since the fail
tire of (lie law ill Virginia lias been
made apparent, amt are to-day de
nied ami repudiated lo those who
advocated their adopiimi.—.V. O.
Democrat.
Concentrated force is what accom
plishes wonders. A little green ap
ple not so hig ns a haw- hall, wil|
double a bov fourteen years old up
so tight, and close that it will take a
mustard plaster as hig as a water
melon three hours to straighten him
out.
Torn Hotter’* Shooting-.
They had been talking about the ro-
marka’hle performance of Dr. Carver,
the marksman who shoota with a rifle
glass halls which are sent into tneair
as fast ns a man can throw them.—
Presently, Abner Bying, who wuait-
ting by, said:
“That's nothing.”
“What is nothing?” P
“Wliy, that shooting. Did yon ever
know Tom Potter?"
“No.”
“Well. Potter was the-bett hand
with anfllelevcrsaw: beat that man
Carver all hollow. I’ll teQ yon what
I've seen Potter do. Von know, may
be. along here in the cherry aeason,
Mrs. Potter would want Game cher
ries to preserve; so Tbth’d pick ’em
for her, and how do yon think he’d
stone ’em ?”
“I don’t know. How ?”
“Wliy, he’d fill his gun with bird-
shot, and get a boy to drop a' half
bushel of cherries at one time' from
the roof of the house. A* they ante
down he’d fire, and take the ttone
clean out of every cherry in the tot
It’s a positive fact. Her might occa
sionally miss one cherry, maybe, but
not often. But he did nigger shbot-
ing than that when he wanted to.”
“Whet did ho do?”
’‘Why, Jim Miller—did yon know
him? Well, Tom made a bet onoe
with Jim that he could shoot the but
tons off of his own coat tail by aiming
in tiie opposite direction, and Jim
Miller took him up.”
“Did he dojt?”
“I>o it 1 Ho fixed himself In position,
and aimed at a tree in front of him.
The ball hit the tree, caromed, Ut the
corner of the house, caromed, struck
a lamp post, caromed, and flew behind
Tom, and nipped the button oflT os
slick as a whistle. You bet he did ,L'
“That was fine shooting.”
“Yes, but I’ve seen Tom Potter beat
it. I’ve seen him stand under a flock
of wild pigeons, billions of them com
ing like the wind, and kill ’em so fast
that the front of the flock never passed
a given line, but turned over and fell
down, so that it looked like abrown
and feathery Niagara. Tom did it
by having twenty-three breach-load
ing rifles and a boy to load ’em. He
always shot with that kind.
You t .y you saw him do this sort
of shooting ?”
“Yes, sir; and better than that too.
Why, I’ll tell you what I’ve seen Tom
Potter do. I saw him once set up an
India rubber target at three hundred
feet and hit the bull’s eye twenty-
seven times a minute with the samt
ball. He would hit the target, the
hall would bounce back right into the
rifle barrel just as Tom had clapped
on a fresh charge of powder, and so
lie kept her a going backward and
forward until at loathe happened to
move his gun and tiie buUet mfcsed
tiie muzzle of the barrel. It was the;
biggest thing lever saw; the very
biggest—except one.”
“What was that?”
“Why one day I was out with him
when he was practicing, and it camei
on to rain. Tom didn’t want to get!
wet, and we had no umbrella, and
wliat do you think he did ?”
“What?”
“Now what do you think that man
did fo keep dry?”
“I can’t imagine.”
“Well, sir, he got mo to load his
weapons for him, and I pledge you
my word, although it began to rain
hard, he hit every drop that came
down, so that tho ground for about
eight feet around ns was dry oa punk:
It was licautifo], sir, beautiful.” f
Aud then the company rose up
slowly and passed out, one by one,
each man eyeing Abner, and looking
solemn as he went by; and )?hen thej
had gone Abner looked qtteerly fora
moment, and said to me:
“There’s nothing I hate so math as
a liar. Give me a man who is th*
friend of the solid troth and III tie to
him.—Max Adtler.
An Old Kentucky DseL
A duel was fought at Soap Island!
iu Bridgeport, in 1836. The partici:
pants were Shelton and Kingsbury^
Shelton thought it was real l Kings
bury knew it to be ajoke. The gnat
were loaded with soft soap. Shelto'
won the first fire, banged away an
dropped behind a log. Kinnbnr
walked up, put the muzzle of the go
against tbe head of Shelton and pul
ed the trigger. Snch a looking ms
was never seen. Soft soap. eovere
liis head entirely. In the agony <
despair Shelton reached np, got
handful of soap and exclaimed: “O!
my poor brains!” Realhdng the
hoax he sprang up and chased Kings
bury off the island with rocks, swear
ing all the while like a sailor.' Shel
ton afterward enlisted in Sam Hous
ton's war, and made a good soldier.
Coming back from JTexos. he passed
through Hardinsville with his gun oh
his shoulder. One of his old friends
cried out: “Halt I” He did ao. “Pre
sent arms!” Ho presented. “Moke
ready!” He did so. “Take aim I”
He aimed. “Fire!” He wheeled,
fired at tho fellow, the bnllet just
missed his head, went through the
door and dropped on the floor inside.
Shelton took to his heels.
In the civil war he made a brave
soldier, was unflinching in his atten
tion to duty, and died Rke a soldier
at Missionary Ridge.
Smxo at the Head—Young man,
if yon arc going to be n farmer, be a
good one. Do not. play second fiddle
to any one. Be the chief musician
yourself. Tliis being second, third,
fourth or fifth rate is not just the
thing. It is the first thatalways wins
esteem and respect. Study, observe,
listen and gather information per
taining to your business from every
source, ana can soon' know as much
ins any one. Let no day pass without
some increase of knowledge. What
ever stock you have let It be good
land take good care of it, and improve
it as Cut as your means will admit.—
{Whatever frnitvou have let it be
chojre, and stndy how to improve it,
how to market it so as to get the high
est price. If you have a garden, let it
ibe the first in the neighborhood. Be
jat the bead of the class, not third or
fonrth or at the foot
Query : “Why will men smoke com
mon tobacco, when they can buy Mar
burg Bros. “Seal of Worth Carolina,”
at the some price ?” jan31st-ly
“VHGETINB,”
(An » BoMoa -jh». no rquml u * Mm4
penMos. Hearingni Iu mu, woaa.rnil cum silts
mU oU>er rmnoltrs hadUlird, I rl iud u» lAbnato-
tf u4 eouvloc-xt in; Mlf oi iu gi-niUD« turrit. It b
MU*4 Mm buki, M. awl ktrba, Mb ol wfcKb
» ilSfelj tfteuw, list they are ouatpxiwl.d ta
•aafeaauaaaraatopmdautalonbUkg reuilu.*
VEGETiNE
ta lha great Blood Purifier.
VEGETINE
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VEGETINE
by phy»irUnfl and apoUMcartn.
VEGETINE
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VEGETINE
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Vegetine
IFUI rndteate^alt Rheum frocn the *yUrm.
Vegetine
Humor* from the far*.
Vegetine
Cam Constipation ami regulate* (he Bowel*.
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fa a ratoabla randy Tor llcadn ka.
Vegetine
mUciraDnprvaia.
Vegetine
Bmw the entire ejsusn to a h titbyJrooditJonjI
Vegetine
Vegetine
Belter** (hint cm at the Stomach.
Vegetine
the Bach.
Vegetine
• Kidney Complaint.
Vegetine
Crnna Fains in the Back.
fseflhcUre io its enre of Female WMknsta.
Vegetine
Is the grad Remedy for (ieoeral Debility.
Vegetine
Is acknowledged br all cluee* of people to he the
baal end wnet reliable blood purifier lu the world,
VEGETINE
8. B. STEVENS, BUSTOS, MASS.
Vegetine is Sold by all Drug
gists.
Among the good provisions adopt
ed by the Constitutional Convention
<>f California, is one making the di
rectors of banks and other corpora
tions jointly and severally liable for
all ln.-s occasioned to stockholders
and depositors by fraud, embezzle
ment, or mismanagement during their
term of office. A sweeping change
lias boon affected also in the taw of
arrests, a provision being adopted
I hat in no civil actions shall impris
onment hereafter bo allowed except
in oases of fraud.
We love tlic sweet glory of tho set-
tine sun, and we can gush a little
over the rising moon, but when we
come unexpectedly upon a free fight
in which we have no interest, and
meet a brick-bat going somewhere in
■ hurry, the stars we sec are not that
kind of astronomical study iu which
we lake much interest.
••I’risoucr at the bar,” said the
Judge, “is there anything you wish to
-ay before sentence is passed upon
you ?” The prisoner looked wistfully
t o w a rd the door, remarked .that he
would like to say “good evening,” if
ilmt would ho agreeable to ihe com
pany. But they wouldn’t lei him.
THE GENUINE
DR. C. MoLANE’S
Celebrated American
WORM SPECIFIC
OR
VERMIFUGE.
SYMPTOMS OF WORMS.
mH E countenance is pale and leodeo-
-*• colored, with occasional flushes, or
a circumscribed spot on one or bMi
cheeks; the eyes become dull-
pits dilate; an azure semicin
aiqng the lower eye-lid; theftose is ir-
ritated, swells, and sometinfos bleeds;
a swelling of tiie upper Kp; 'occasional
headache, with humming of throbbing
of tiie ears; an unusual secretion of
aohva; slimy or furred tonfeue; breath
very foul, particularly in tpe morning;
appetite variable, sometimes voracious,
with a gnawing sensation of tiie stom-
ach, at others, entirely gone; fleeting
-L -’“'” in the stomach; occasional
i and vomiting; violent pains
throughout the abdomen; bowels ir
regular, at times costive; stools slimy;
not (infrequently tinged with blood;
belly swollen and hard; urine turbid;
respiration occasionally difficult, and
accompanied by hiccough; cough
sometimes dry and convulsive; uneasy
and disturbed sleep, with grinding of
tiie teeth; temper variable, but gener
ally irritable, &c.
Whenever the above symptoms
are found to exist,
DR. C McLANE’S VERMIFUGE
will certainly effect a cure.
n DOES NOT CONTAIN MERCURY
in any form; it is an innocent prepara
tion,. act capable of doing the slightest
injury to At most tender infant.
The genuine Dr. McLank’s Ver
mifuge bears the signatures of C. Mc-
Lane and Fleming Bros, on the
wrapper. to:
DR. C. McLANE’S
LIVER PILLS
ore not recommended as a remedy “ for all
the ills that flesh is heir to.” but in affections
of the liver, and in all Bilious Complaints.
Dyspepsia and Sick Headache, or diseases of
that character, they stand without a rival.
AGUE AND FEVER.
Nobetter cathartic can be used preparatory
to, or after taking Quinine.
As a simple purgative they are uncqualed.
BEWARE OF IMITATIONS.
The g< :nuinc are never sugar coated.
Eadkboz has a red wax seal on the lid with
(he impression Dr. McLake's Liver Pu ls
Each wrapper bears the signature* of C
McLanx and Fleming Bros.
Insist upon haring the genuine Dr. C. Me
Lake's Liver Pills, prepared by KlemiuJ
Bros., of Pittsburgh, Pa., the market beitt
fell of imitations of ' -e name McLani
gpotled differently but same pronunciation.
OPUMl
wa4 n.rohtn, hast tenxvt
assaewsm
