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Newspaper Page Textprofessional, carps- m WYBRS. TOOZK ft JONSS, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, ALBANY, GEORGIA doctors* On. Holmes & DeMoss, bbbbw. alm||j* qeoroia. ‘W W. A. STROTHER, U. D. AXBANT, GEORGIA. OicMfe W’s Dm Store. Wl Mlk. Onw S»«« »IM Dr.E.W. AlaFHIEND, ..nMETFCLLT UDdna.l* H t rtTul>nack««lhUFrofortov. MOwciUjiM B, AiMaTM4wmaDdl.xcm.lT7. OwW 1 ** CMit rbwauwt. ti'M©-. ittis HOTELS The Old Reliable BARNESj HOUSE, me Si., ilkaar. «*•» ©ad MW? t« rtl. •GEN HOUSE, rtowxs: SHOTS*) i. JILBAKT. OEOKGIA rnmrEMn - — mtjHr Ih M — ^““saaHEir if U. BOGKh, PropncMt THE ALBANY NEWS By WESTON, EVANS & WASREN.} Devoted to the Interests of Albany and Southwest Georgia. { $2.00 Per Annum VOLUME 13. ALBANY. GEORGIA, T H U It S D AY. AUGUST 21. 1879. NUMBER 34 HDTICE! W. &>4'u loctrd 1» Dt.Ma. Md odrtlsf uthepeopfooacol th© m«l Beautiful Monuments rnttetarfhewd «■«, llutk« bui.lifllrlwy ta4J-d<f Cm, who car In this Warm Climate —TO— KEEP OOOL1 A* mStffc pest ye*r». we again ofl*-. aw services to the citizens of Sou’hwi o Georgia la (be ICE and LEMON lit * We prepoie to rive satisfaction In all o r dealings, whether in receiving orders < ro o Lone or at e distance. lot) pound tickets. s » r ^r - . * : 1. * These who de oat purchase tickets will please send tbe money. as we will not charge small quantities of ice. bands, hears 9 salt A. M.. 3W5P.M. **W/E. * B. J. CUTLIFF. Bsrst, oMllesthspahUe test te L trtfutd to Repair all kinds of Cotton Gins, sat nspsetfsllr tolkiu puraasd*. Srtbfec ■WHMt. Writ., or emit Its, h.«d<liiirt©r> la LakwsaValioe, Jssksoa atnst. Altany, be. An exchange says that Senator Lo gan has. the smartest wife, Senator Conkling the gentlest born. Senator Dorsey the most bcautifttl. Senator Sargent the strongest minded and Senator Gordon the most distingue. The strangest sight to V'irginians of a colored lawyer defending a while man was witnessed in the police court of Richmond the other day. Robert Peel Brooks, a colored lawyer, ap peared as the counsel of a white shoe maker named John Dnnnrant. who was charged with assault. It is said to be the first case of the kind ever known in the South. The Courier Journal thinks nothing eonld be more ' ridiculous than the spectacle of New Yorkers setting themselves to exclude the Israelites. Whatever may be the Hebrew’s faults, a society whose ladies go about leading puppy-dogs by strings, and whose “young men" affect the manners of Englishmen, is not the one to til in judgment on any pait of tlie tinman family. When the robin jumps along the lawn or flies from treo to tree scat tering the dew-drops from the leaves; when the bee coquets with the open ing flower; when the first golden beams dart from the sapphire skies, •A* gild the filmy clouds; when the clover tremble* in the refreshing breeze, and all nature seems imbued with the charms of paradise; then, ah! thenjit^is sweet to“luru over in bed and—take another nap.—Uncle Sam. Tire Art or Borrowing.—It makes _ great difference whether you step into a man’s store leisurely, and say, ‘Pcggotty, old feller, lend me a twen ty!" or whether you rush in with a paper in your hand, and say. all out uv breath", “Mr. Peggotty, I was a passin thro and I met a man to whom owe $18 75, and I am extremely unxiui to pay him, and I haven’t a cent about ine. will yon oblige me with that amount until I git home ?” Yoo only lose $1 25, and voor chances uv gitting it are trebled.—Nasby. During the excursion on the North- eastern railroad on Wednesday, s singular occurrence took place. On approaching Gillsvllle, a horse and boggy was seen. Tbe former being apparently alarmed, the driver jump ed out and held him. As the trait approached, the horse appeared great- Iv frightened and trembled violently. His eyes seemed to start with terror After its passage, the driver returnee to his boggy to drive on, but finding the horse would not proceed, he ex amined and found him perfect!, dead. We do not remember of ever hearing of socli an Instance.—Athens Chronicle. Leon Peter Federracyer reached New York cjtv with a .wheelbarrow which be had trundled from Sai Francisco, accompanied by James T Fuller, who acted ns referee. The walk was the result of a wager made with Lvman Potter, who arrived in Sian Francisco last year with a wheel barrow which he claimed to have trundled across the continent from AlbanjyN. Y. The two men started from Ban Francisco on their novel tour on December 8th, and Kcder- mever made the trip to New York in six'months and fifteen days. Potter being behind somewhere in Illinois. Lower Price than Ever! $1.50 Per Barrel! IJse it as a Disinfectant'• ft X McUsttn. Flaatactn, Whlt**o*b*n, ©t©., ■ how id canmmmtor th©,©ryb.rt©rtlcta,either by lotter *ti: 9. I. J. BRINSON, Albany, Gt WESLEYAN FEMALE COLLEGE, SSAOOH. OA. Urw . ■y^IIA REGIS rn 12o ANNUAL SESSION ON Wednesday, September 17th The Best Advantages in the South at Moderate Rates. m nul l for CSUlOfB* tod Ml to Rev. W. C. BASS, D. D., L _ lbs oark b-Util _ I pleawot, and aucb a© «y .jrlrttat. Vbo«i who ©r© ftm who — lhl©o©tlo©trill ©©©do©th.tr©ddr-©wr- MbribaiilHi <*•“». <*«•*“0. , , Nawfsib.ua.. Tha»alrMdr«Mrt.r.toyl op Ur*, am. of ©Knar. Addna ISCt * AaAiaia t > vigiur Atlanta Medical College TbaTwratyaaood Aanaal Couna of Lrttor- Win Kami October IStb. U S, ud ctaa Nsr> **V*oo«OT—JO WataorUthd, W F Waiaa Lad. w a Lsm, V H tail .ism JooTbad John©- jTwcrthoaa.JH Lop*, JTBukr, Dcsautraiv, „ 0*fJ0rtaa|.y leal •dacatioo. ' with, ©ad Oa tlckrts aod dlylo- anry lc©dJ©( aodkal catfafa ’ IbtowaUAMliibtadCottefs i f— . anwh BMial ■duorttoo. ^to^dbs “A true girl has to lie sought for,” remarks a writer. Of course she docs, and any mother will tell you the same thing. Look for her in the parlor hammering a waltz out of the suffering piano; if she Isn’t there, she'll lie in from of her biit-enirglass, admiring her hair; should she not be there, maybe she's swinging on the rate with a young man who is the loppy possessor of a lender mous tache; if not there, she is promena ding the streets and flirting with a drummer. Oh, you’ll have to hunt for her. And after you find tier, say that her mother is washing the dish es and needs her assistance. A correspondent of the Philadel phia Tlines, an expert in cotton mill ing, writes that pupor as follows: As pertinent to the cotton spin ner's strike in Fall River, 1 contri bute a fact within my own knowl edge. During the past winter some time a member of a leading Balti more firm say they would have to stop spinning cotton and buy yarn in the South,.as they could buy cheaper than they Could spin. And they were bred to the business and themselves manage their factories. In March and April last I was in Georgia and Alabama, and then came to the con clusion tiiat the mills there could cer tainly spin yarn and make coarse doth much cheaper than those north could. The soutli has fine mills, lower taxes buys cotton from the wagons, lias water power and cheap labor. The people in Fall River are in fact in grinding competition with the darkey, who works and boards himself for nine dollars per month." Boots and Shoes eiiom a Neoro’s Hide.—The Penny Press says that Dr Schneider has taken the skin of a ne gro, which he has dissected, to the tannery situated on Franklin street, lust out of Columbus, where it is now tieing made into leather. A reporter who examined the piece of skin found it extremely tough, and liable to di good service if put into gaiters. I -eems strange use to make of human ity's remains, though. The tanner stroked and twitched it and dilated upon its good qualities. The proces' of tanning is to rub it with a mixtun •f alum, salt and eggs, which draw- out all the oil from the skin and save months of lime. Perhaps a new In lutlry is opening up in the city, and perhaps some of those who are per fectly worthless In life may be m-d A Woman Jockey—Sent for to Ride Horses that Men wapiti not .Ijare to Mount. In a certain London boarding house, not far from Regent’s park, tho guest who comes in late at night will sometimes see a side saddle ly ing on the floor in the lower hall.— Usually it has disappeared before lie is down in tlir morning. If not, a finely formed, healthy young English woman will be one of the Anglo- American company that gathers at the breakfast table. She is its own er. The boarding house is her home.— Riding horses at races and sales is her occupation. An orphan of re spectable parentage, obliged to sup port herself, the avenues to a liveli hood that opened before such a young girl as she; in the crowded, elbowing life of Eugland, were few and un promising. She had an English; Ro man's love of animals and out door occupations. And t>he had dauntless, magnificent physical courage. So she drifted into this strange life. She finds employment from one end of England to the other. One morn ing she is off by cab, her saddle be side her, for a horse market in the east of London. Tho next, perhaps, sho is hurrying from her early break fast to take the train at King's Cross for Doncaster. There is no horse so vicious that she hesitates to mount him. He may fall with her; he can not throw her. Sho is sent for to ride horses that men dare not and will not; horses that have killed their riders more than once, and that will do their best to kill her. But she has a reputation that, for bread’s sake and shelter’s sake, she cannot afford to lose, and she never declines to mount a horse because it is dangerous to do so. One night she comes home bruised and wealc—her horse fell on her to-day.— Another, her face flashes with satis faction as she tells her kind frl* the landlady, that her horse won. race. ‘ • Often she does not eat a mouthful from her early breakfast. before the rest of the house are up, until her day’s work is done. Success depends -m her being able tn command every particle of nervous force she possess es; she can spare none of it for the process of digestion. She is intelli gent and womanly—just as womanly is if her work kept her in an office nr rc-hind a counter, instead of among -table-keepers, jockeys and sporting nen.—Chicago Times. Mr. Jack Wordiow, of Northwest Texas, the champlou wild horse ri- ler, will have to look to his laurels should she emigrate to that State. Advice (9 a Young Man—A Graduate, for Instance. iurllnrtoa Hawkey©. And then remember, son, that the world is older than you are, by sev eral years; that for thousand of years It has been so full of sinarter iind better young men than yourself that their feet stuck out of tbe dor mer windows; that when they died tbe old globe went wirling on, and not one man in ten million went to the funeral or even heard of the death. Be smart as you can, of course. Know as much as you can, without blowing the packing out of your cylinder bekd*! shed .the;fight of your wisdom abroad in the world, but don’t dazzle people with it. And don’t imagine a thing is so simple be cause you sav it is. Don’t he too sor ry for your father because he knows so much less than you do; remem ber the reply of Dr. Way lap d to tho student of Brown University, who said it was an easy enough thing to make proverbs such as Solomon wrote. “Make a few,” tersely rc- ilied the old man. And we never ■card that the young man made any. Not more than two or three, anyhow. The world has great need of young men, hat no greater need than the young men have of it. Your clothes "fit you better than your’ father’s lit him; they cost more money, they are more stylish, your mustache is neat er, the cut of your hair is better, and you are prettier, oh, far prettier, than “pa.” But young man, the old gen tleman gets the biggest ualary, and his homely, scrambling signature on the business end of a check willdrain more money out of the bank in five minutes than you could get out with a ream of pager apd a copper plate signature in six months. Young men are useful, son, and they are orna mental, and wo all love them, and we couldn’t engineer a picnic suc cessfully without them. But they are not novelties, son. Oh, no, noth ing of the kind. They have been here before. Don’t be so modest as to shut yourselt p|ear out; but don’t be so fresh you will have to be put away in tbe cool to keep from spoil ing. Don’t be afraid that your merit will not be discovered. People all over tbe world are hunting for yon. and if you are worth finding they will find you, A diamond isn’t so easily found as a quartz pebble, but people search for it all tho more in tently. Tho history of the following ex quisite lines we gather from the Bal timore Bun, to-wit: A prisoner in the penitentiary, who beard Mr.MoooyV remarks last Sunday, retired after the discourse to a cell nnd toon emerged .vith verses hastily written in the meantime, which had been suggested Sv the discourse, and handed them to Mr. Moody, who iu the afternooi, iiad them read at Maryland Institute, as follows: ««loi tarrs. when It m'nbl bm baan wheat, ’'lucking tb« hod of IlVa wr**atb ail complete; ' he nightaloka down amid darknrm and feara. , ATiillawear*eoentityaowingthetaraa. The Georgia Gold Belt. The “gold belt,” of which the most productive portion lies at Ibis point, consists of a strip of land running somewhat irregularly nearly due northeast and southwest across the northern end of the State. It avera ges about leu miles iu width, nnd has been traced 200 miles in length, pa rallel with the Blue Ridge. While, Lumpkin, nnd Habersham counties embrace the richest deposits, so far ns now known, Iml tlicjimits of mining are gradually widening. The pres ence of gold here has been known from tlie earliest times. Cherokee Indians were the occupants cf tlie ter ritory when white settlement first be gan, and they were accustomed to seok the gold’ for ornamental purpo ses, and (o dispose of it in barter to ies. fortunate tribes. Evidences of their mining still remain, but are in significant. The methods adopted by the first white settlers, and in vogue until repent) ears, were very rude, consisting inerclv of washing out the gravel of the beds of Hie streams by running it through sluice-boxes and splint baskets into a “gum rockor,” which was nothing but a split and hollowed out log a dozen or so feet in length. While tho water from the sluico-box passed through this trough from end to end, the rocker was kept iu constant motion, and tlie heavy gold, permitted to sink to the bottom through tho constantly agitated slit, was caught by traverse cleats, with or without Hie aid of mercury. It is said that the first piece of gold ever taken in the United States belonged to this deposit, and was picked up in 1799 bv Conrad Reed, a boy who liv ed in Cabarrus County, North Caro lina. it was as large asa smoothing- iron, but was sold to a silversmith for 3 50. Afterward much largeriunips were found: one weighed twenty- eight pounds, according to tradition. This excited so much attention thut exploration was begun, and the gold :rnced southward, until the border© >f the Cherokee territory in Northern Georgia were reached, and prospec tors began to encroach upon the res ervation. Protests from the Indians laturaily followed, and Georgia sent i large police force to keep back the ‘nvaaers, but it was of little avail.— The rash to tbe mines was much like he stampede to the Pacific coast in .849, ana reckless, dissipated .men from all quarters of the country flock- id in, prowled about tho woods, set ip lcfg-hnts and shanty groceries on ,11 streams, and paid no respect to the ■igbts of the Indian, or any one else mable to defend them. Even United Slates troops were powerless to keep he lawless hordes west ol* tlie Chest- .tee, and here a* elsewhere the dis- :overy of gold was the end of Indian lossesalon and aboriginal simplicity md charm. These days are known as the period >f “the Intrusion”—one or tho two lates from which the mountain men ’eckon all events; the other being 'the late war.” Finding that no pro jection of the Indians by police mea sures was feasible, the State in 1830 iidopted the Indians, territory and all, und constituted the region a county .Tilled Cherokee, out of which several small counties have since been made. Then' the mineral lands wore divided up into forty-acre lots, and put up at lottery by the State. One of these tots, o’n the Yahoola River—No. 1052 —now a part of the Hand Company’s property, had already become cele brated. It was within the reserva tion, but t»en used l f> orpop across to it at night, and carry home a meal- bag full of dirt, out ot which they would pan from twenty to forty dol lars per day. The instant it was as certained that an old farmer down in tho central part of the State had drawn this prize, shrewd speculators set off post-haste to buy it from him. It soon came to lie found here, as elsewhere, that gold was not t° lie picked up in twenty-eight pound lunfps every day, nor did every bush el of soil pan out a double eagle. The worthless, lazy and dissolute majori ty of the early horde of invaders grad ually drifted away, while only the small minority of new-comers, whose accession was of real valuo to the community, staid. The population, like the dirt, was slowly panned out, and the current of events carried the dross away. At present the mines are largely owned by corporations, or by private capitalists who are not residents of the district. Only two of the companies, howevor, are rep resented in the New York Mining Board, if I am rightly informed. It was found that as the gold occurred ncithei in extensive placers, like those of California, nor in indestructible quartz lodes, the methods of mining iu vogue elsewhere would not an swer here if the best results were to be obtained. Tho inventive genius and practical knowledge of those in terested were therefore set to work to devise the best means of meeting the case, and It was speedily found that tho talisman which alone would open the riches of tho hills to human use was water. So far as this mere fact is concerned, it could hardly be call ed a “discovery;” but the utilization of the idea, and the practical methods by which the enormous power ot this natural agent has been put under the miner’s control, arc the work of Col. Hand, to whom, more than to anyone else, no doubt, belongs the credit of tho splendid development of this in dustry during late years, nnd the glowing prospects it now holds out. —Ernest {koersoll, in Harper’s Magazine for September. to do duty after they have quit. Im ! igtnc the sensation, however, of a w. d©«fbteti sight dainty lady caressingly put’ing oiu " glove made from the skin of a darkey ©he wouldn’t have touched without a •budder while in life, or of the thought* that must come to a maid when sho takes oil her gaiters at night with the knowledge that even so small a part of a man it alone with her. Ugh!—Rochester Democrat. *»wlog tba urwof aalloe sod *plU© Wo da r,t bltrk to port—PI -tooUo u«|u»; might h«v* aowed ro*« amid Ufa** Md care*. Dot we turned from tbelr btaatjr to sowing tbe tare*. ■v.wlr a tbe Urea—bo* dark tba black rfa, Mingling a cure# with UJ*'* awaeUet bjmn; Ilawilng no angulab, no pttiou* pray*ra While we art *o cruelly sowing tba tare*. Moving tbo Ursa to bring sorrow down That robe of Its jewels life's fairest crown; Toning to silver tba one* goldsa hairs That grew whiter and whiter as wa aowed the tag re A gentleman called on a family he had not seen for tome time. This morning he met the good man of tbe home on the street, and accosted him with, “Jack, yonr wife ia not to pen sive as she used to be." “No,” was tbe reply, H *h* bee ieft thet off and turned« obi butt iiirs toOs4 wllb njnlwsiud pnf©n- Aod ptoad for fwxlTBQB©© for sowlo( Lb© am. ' “I’m but a giddy thing.” said she, “Not given to reflection”— "Why, that i* very strange,” said he, (WhoYhought her all perfection.) IJp SUSIiaB IvlL wise via °uu t.uuu iwyvgw* 1 "** r** ,, ,, expensive.”—Austin Reveille. "You're snoh e good looking 'less.” The SrELLisa Reform in Tinnes sex.—Commissioner Raum has re ceived the. following: “PYBURNS BLUFF PO HARDIN COUNTY Tennessee July the 28 1879. to the commithner' inlumel revenoo. dcre Bur I hearn a man say that you end thet the reduckshun uv tbe tacks on terbeekor wood redoose the revenoo this yere ten milyuns dolars now wo bev to pay the same pryco fur a plug of terbackcr we did bciorthereduok- shuu uv tho tacks and hoo gits the benefit uv tbe roduckshun is wut I wood like tn no for It aint us fellers as chaws shure ynrs with respecks GEOItOE SMITH. A Texas letter to St. Louis says the people of that State are much dissat isfled with Governor Robinson ; Unit ho is opposed to free schools, emi gration, and every other enterprise looking to the welfare of tho State, and to crown all, has lust pardoned a negro sentenced to life imprison ment for a most brutal <rtme. HESTER S LOVE 8T0RY. Miss Payne was thirty-five if a day, lint she had maiitigcd far hotter than many of those who were girls with tier to keep some of the old freshness in tlie roses of tier checks nnd the old brightness niul luxuriance tn her brown Imir. Ami it must lie a very hotuelv wo man who doesn’t look well with a good, fresh color in her chocks and plenty of brown hair to add its charm to her face. And Miss Payne had never been homely. * She had been the prettiost girl in Hartley onro and had always held her own as one of the prettiest wo men In tlie neighborhood. And when I tell you that, yon will begin to wonder how she happened to lie Miss Pavne stilt. There was a little romance" about it. She had had a lover whom every body expected she would marry. Iudecd, she had expected as mneh herself, hut in some wgy things went wrong nnd there was a quarrel, anil he went away and had never been back again. And she had remaiued Hester Payne ever since. Not because site had had no chances to change tier untno. Oh, no I There bad keen plenty of them. But she preferred to stay single. She had a snug little home and could afford to live as she choose to, ard so she told those who came to woo that she could not say yes to their pro posals and everybody had made up their minds that Miss Payne had de cided to lire and dio an old maid. She was thinking of old times this morning as she rolled out her flaky crusts. Fifteen years ago she had been get ting ready for a picnic, just as she was doing now. But there was anoth er in tlie kitchen then—a young man with a handsome face and laughing eyes, and she remembered how sauci ly he interfered with her work and how she threatened to. shower him with the contents of (he flour-bowl if he didn’t behavo himself; and he had dared her to put hor threat into exe cution and she had kept her word, She could seo him now as be stood that morning looking ilka a verita-' bio miller with his eyes full of mis chief as ho begged so humbly for her to dust it off. And she remembered, as if it happened yesterday, how when site had undertaken the Job, all of a sudden ho took her In his arms and kissed her; and when she shook herself away from him she was such sight to see, with powdered hair and snowy eyebrows and cheeks as white as any ghost’s. And just'thcn her father had come in and stopped in surprise on the threshold, looking from her to John with a twinkle in his eye. And all he said was— ’•Seems to me you forgot to powder spot on your cheek, Hester,” and then ho went away chuckling, and Hester had proceeded to brush her self lip, with sundry threats of dire retribution directed at the laughing culprit who had retreated to a posi tion outside, where ho felt himself safe from feminino wrath. And the next day the quarrel camo which lias set his foot in paths far away from that in which she had trod for fiftoen years, and in which she had expected to tread until the end. And she thought it all over this morning with a little sigh here and there, Her romance was not forgotten If it was kept out of sight of curious eyes. Yesterday she had hoard that a new preacher was coning to the picnic. He was to preach his first sermon on Sunday, and everybody said he was a “powerful preacher.” Ami liis name was Ashley. That was what set Miss Payne to thinking so much about old times, for tier old lover's name had been Ash ley. ‘But of course It can't be him,” she said to herself, as she clipped the edges of her pics; “for he was one of the wildest, most rattlo-brained fel lows I ever knew, and I’m snre there wasn’t anything about him that could be made into a minister. But he had ono of the kindest hearts in the world, and I was tho one to blame.” “Somo one coming here,” called out Susan, her niece, from the bed room up stairs. “Where? Which way?” asked Miss Payne, all in a flutter Everything was in baking-day con fusion, and the room wasn’t swept out yet, and sne couldn’t attend to visitors until her cake was out of the oven ‘Up tho hill," answered Susan. “He’s turnin’ up.” “Dear me! what shall I do?” ex claimed Miss Payne, ‘<1*11 have to take him into the sitting-room and tell him 1 must be excused till my baking is done. If he’s got a family he’ll know something about what fix I’m in.” Click went the gate. Miss Payne dusted off her hands, omoothed her shining hair, gave her collar a twitch and was ready to answer tho visitor’s knock. The man who stood there was prob ably forty years old. lie had a minister’s coat on, but there wns nothing else very ministc rial looking about him. Something in tho laughing oyes which met hers as she opened the door made her start aud turn pale. “Hester Payne, I’m pretty sure,” he said, crossing the threshold. “Yes, sir,” she answered, with little catch in hor voice, and you”— “Don’t you know me?” ho cried, “I’m John" Ashloy. I didn’t suppose I’d changed so much that an old friend wouldn’t discover some famil iar look about mo. I should know you anywhere. “I’m glad to 800 you, John,” .she said, giving him her hand, with a ve ry suspicious moisture in liar eyes. “I’ve been thinking of you, for they said the minister’s name was Ashley. It can’t bo that you’re the one, can it ?” “I’m giad of It,” she answered.— “I always said you’d steady down, but I never thought you’d be a min' istor, Jshn." "That's right,” lie said, heartily.— “Don’t go making mo anybody but John ; I’m tho snmo man yon use to know, eomo back to renew old friend, ship and do tlie work I’vo undertnk en, and I don’t want anybody to in. sist on my going about clothed in tho awful dignity supposed to belong to a minister," aud thon tho old, well* rememborod laugli mado tho kitchen ring, aud Miss Payne had to Join in it, to the utter atnazem'eht of Susan, who was terribly shocked at the idea of a minister just like other people. “I'm getting ready for a picnic,” explained Miss Payne, “and I’m bu sy just now, so you’ll liavc to enter tain yourself for an hour or so till I get the things out of the oven. Then " II be at liberty and we’U have a good, old-fashioned visit.” “I’ll come into the kitchen and wc can talk.and you can work at the same time,” said John; and without waitipg for any reply he proceeded to do so, and put himself a chair close to the table, where he could watch her to the best advantage. For there seemed to be something wonderfully attractive to him in her face. How the morning flew t It was noon before Miss Pavne knew it But then they , had talked so busily that they could keep no note of time. Susan from the kitchen door, far enough back to be out of sight of John, aroused her by making ail sorts of mysterious signals, pointing first at tba minister and then toward- tbe road,.which she added a series of appalling 1 performance* by open ing and abutting her mouth, which waa afterwards ascertained to be a rehresentatlondn pantomime of the way that ..young woman supposed horses ate. Unable to understand what she wanted to communicate, Miss Payne wetft to find out aboutlt •There’s his poor old horse a-stand- in’St the gate the whole mornin." asserted Susan, with indignation, “an hea-eettin’ here an’ laughing.— If he was'a-horse now’’ But Miss Payne didn’t stop to heat the metaphysical argument Susa was about to an'nbhnco. “Why,- JohnP* she said, coming back to tho kitchen;'“don’t you knuu you’ve got a horse, out there? I’d forgotten all about it till Susan spoke of it. Just you take it rouud and turn it out tn the pasture, and I'll have dinner ready by the time you're back.” .v . She; watched him as he went down the path, with a soft light in tier eye© and a strange happitiees at her heart. 8h£ didn’t know why. She couldn’t have told if she had tried to analyze it. It must be that «ho felt the gladness near at hand.as-the trees know when spring is coming. “I’d like to know W that man’s go to’to stay here forever?” said Susan to the o'ld.brtodie. cow that night, as she droVe her up from' the pasture. “I should s’podC he’d fcel It bis duty to Visit other folks.' ’Stid o' that he’s a-settin’ round here, an’ Annt Hester an’ he’s h-talkin’ tho whole endurin’ time, an’ he ain’t, said a word about any of them things all the other min isters used to, as I’ve heard.” But old brindle didn’t seem to be able to enlighten Susan on any point, and that young person went to bed feeling that ministers weren’t what they used to be. The minister and Miss Payne sat and talked quietly in the still twi light He told her all about his life since she had known him fifteen years ago, and how the change had came into it which transformed hint into a minis ter. And thou there fell a little silence about them which neither broke for a longtime, if By and;by he spoke. “I don’t know : why I came here first, Hester, i suppose I ought to hare gone to Sawyer’s, .but I couldn’t ;et by here. From the time I kuew was goiug to be stationed over this iart I’ve been .'thinking; of you and onglng to ialk over old times with you as: I • have done to-day. And some .way it seemed to me as if God bad a plan to carry out iu stationing me ovqr here. I. don’t know what ; l ’ou’ll think about it, Hester, but I iiclieve I could do better work in the world if you would help me. We’ve been .parted for a good many years, but I’ve nevor loved any one else and I never shall; and it seemed to me to-day that 1 took up life just where we left it fifteen years ago—in thi© old kitchen, I’ve always blamed myself fur what happened afterwrad, and I want to ooufesa it to vou now whether yon think as i do about what I have told you or whether you don’t.” “No, John, I was the one to blame,” she salt}. “I was tpliiug-myself that this morning, not half an hour before you caipe. t oaw it all afterwards.’’ “Is it, yes or no. Hester,” he asked, tenderly. ■■. “We’re: old .enough to know ourselves better than we did then.' Can you help me in miy life- work without 'regret 1 for What you must give up?”!. “I will..help you!” she cried, her wbple fhee aglow. “I shall give up nothing but loneliness, and I shall gaiu-cyou P What! a speech to make to a minis ter! j If Susan could have heard it she would have become an immediate convert to the theory of total deprav ity. And to come from Miss Payne, tool “God bloss you, Hester, nnd may you never be sorry for this,’’ he said, and kissed her with a long, lingering kiss, whilo tbe mbonllght fell aboiit them like a benediction from heaven. GEORGIA LEGISLATURE. Proceedings Condensed. 36th Day. August 13th. THE SENATE. Mr. Bower moved to reconsider the action of the senate, the day before in not passing .a bill to prohibit lobby ing and prescribe Its punishment. He spoke; in flavor of his motion, and briefly; gave the reasons why ho thought the,, bill should pass. He re plied td the argument that the bill was Incomplete and impractical. He strewed,tho constitutional obligation to paw soofte such bill. He argued that the failure to. pass a hill «n lob bying would haye a bad moral effect. It' sounds high to talk about being beyond the reach of such corruption, bnt it it dangerous to feel so Boro. If we are incorruptible, there may be those coming after us who will need protection. Some of the best men in all history have been subject to temp txtiou and have fallen into slu ami er ror. Mr. PrOBton continued his remarks in favor of the motion to reoonsider been no good reason against its pos tage. It it a disgrace to the state that senators sit ana listen to the argu ments of hirelings who hang around and practice their crooked ways. Mr. Harrison opposed the motion to reconsider In a brief, strong speech. On the very threshold of this subject there Is great difficulty, which even the advocates of this bill admit. The proposed legislation on thiseubjett is too sweeping, and he could not ap prove it. The terms of the law are too harsh. It is the duty of the citi zens to inform legislators of tho wants of the people and there it danger here of restricting this libertv. He had 110 disposition in this dav of quarantine, to quarantine the Geor gia senate. Tho motion to reconsider w»* sgreed to on a call of the .veasand nays, the yeas being 22, and the nay© Mr. Cumming opposed all the pro •losed measures and reiterated his tatemeut of the day before that b< did not believe that the constitution imposed on him any obligation t« vote for that which would be absurd or void. After all. legislation on thi -ubject will be the merest mockerv ariff will bringsome shade of ridiculi on the men who attempt to make L the practicable legislation of the land. HOUSE._ Mr. Paine, of Chatham—A resolu tion asking liberal appropriations foi he rivers in southeastern Georgia. Mr. Strickland, of Clin h.—To ex «mpt employees upon railroads froii jury duty. Referred to committee on ailroads. Mr. Turner, of Coweta—To providi f ir proof of service by publication.— Referred to committee on thejudi- iary. Mr. Westbrook, of Dougherty—T< (■courage the use of printed trails, cript, briefs, etc., in the supreme • ourL Referred to the committee on judiciary. Mr. Walters, of Dougherty—To re vise section of the code requiring ap pnintments of Judges in certain cases. Referred to the committee on Jndicia- iy. THE BACON BILL was resumed, and Mr. Bacon yielded the remainder of his time-to Mr. Phillips, of Cobb, who made a favor of the passage Mr. Turner, of Brooks, .chairman of the judiciary committee, made a spirited defense of the.adverse report of the committee. His argument was a close-knit and legal exposition or the all-sufficiency of the law as it is, find the utter absence of any necessi ty for the passage of the pending bill. The question was pat apon agree ing to tho adverse report and Dy a vote of 73 to 52 the report was disa greed to and the bill passed to a third reading. THE JUDICIAL DIVISIONS BILL. The bill to divide the state into ju dicial divisions and equalize the la bors of the judges of the superior courts was taken up as the speofal or der. The bill was then put upon its pas sage upon the. call of the yeas and nays, and was lost by veasfil and nays 81. Mr. Hutchison, chairman of tlie financo committee—A resolution au thorizing the payment per diem. to families of deceased members— Messrs. Alston, Jamison and Bran- nan. Mr. Red wine, of Hall, o fie red a bill to establish common schools in this state and repealing existing laws.— Referred to committee on education. A lengthy report from the commit tee on lunatic asylum was/read and 300 copies ordered printed. Mr. Miller, of Liberty—To require county commissioners to give bond Referred to committee on judiciary 38th Sat. Ang. tsth. THE SENATE. Mr Harrison moved to reconsider the bill to exempt certain classes from j'Jfv duty. The motion prevailed.— Mr. Harrison moved to take up tbe bill, and offered an amendment, which exempted all persons over seventy years old from jury duty. Mr Holcombe moved to striko out all the amendments of the judiciary committee to the bill which exempt ed firemen, military, etc. On the passage of the bill, the yeas were 26 and the nays 12. Tlie message from the House an nounced that the House had prepar ed its articles of impeachment, select ed Its managers and was ready to lay the articles before the Senate at any time. Mr Boyd rose To a" question of per sonal privilege, and said that tbe statement be had made that a convict on the plantation of Col. B. G. Lockett had the marks of a cruel beating on him, did uot reflect in any way on Col. Lockett. He had not charged that Col. Locket had caused the con vict to be beaten. On tbe contrary he had nothing whatever to do with it. He made the statement in justice to Col. Lockett and himself. THE HOUSE. ARTICLES OF IMPEACHMENT. Mr. Turner, of Brooks, Chairman of the Judiciary Committee, submit ted a report embracing articles ot im peachment against W. L. Goldsmith, Comptrol-General, for high crimes and misdemeanors. Article I. Charges Goldsmith with charging and receiving cost <>u fl. fas. illegally from divers persons to the • mount of upward of $1,400. Article II. Charges Goldsmith with having illegally issued divers ii. las. Regally against lu»s of lands in the -ounties ot Dawson, Uuiun, Whuneld tud others. Article III. Charges . Gold-uiith with charging W. P. Anderson with costs on wild land, before the same iad been advertised. Article IV. Charges Goldsmith vith illegally refusing to receive tax es offered from W. P. Anderson on and owned by him, but extorted f om him cost on tax fi. fas. on said ■and, although the same had never been advertised. Article V. Charges Goldsmith for, tnd in consideration of $114.00 ille gally and fraudulently issue aud rausfer to one Samuel Lant, two •mndred and twenty-eight fi. fas. against the laud of Rondo and Fox and Fox Jt Co., when the said Gold smith knew that the said lauds were not in default of payment of taxes. Article VL charges Goldsmith with paying out certain moneys without execution warrant, to the amount of upwards of $8,000, illegally to per sons unauthorized to receive the same. Here follows a long list of the par ties receiving the said above men tioned money. Article VII. chargte Goldsmith trong and well-directed argument in \. u -. UoiasmtUt avor of the passage of the BUT. issuing totbe sheriffs of the State, certain illegal circulars the bill on lobbying He argued .that the substitute offered by the commit tee waeargobda law on the subject as eonld be devised, and there • had 37th Day* Auftut 14tbu| THE SENATE. By Mr. Holton—To make it unlaw ful to kill wild deer between March and October. BILLS ON THIRD READING. To confer additional powers on tax collectors, and to make them ex- officio sheriffs, etc. Amendments were agreed ter, and the bill was passed ; yeas $4, .Lays 13. TBE .SPECIAL ORDER. The special order was then taken 1 up, which was a bill to define ‘and punish a tramp. -■ ?;•' The que*tiou then was on the pass age of tbe bill; yeas 21, nays 16; to the bill was lost by failing to receive a constitutional majority. ’ ' J ' A bill to exempt firemen, members of military companies and others from jury duty ; yeaS 24, naya 13; in the bill wae passed. THE HOUSE. The special order of the day we- the eon-ideration of the billtoamend; an act to render more efficient and economical the inspection of fertili zers. A petition was read from the Geor gia State Agricultural Society, ask ing thut the Legislature do not abol ish the present system of inspection. A substitute for the bill was offer ed by the Committee on Agriculture. The original bill was read by sec tions and amonded. The substitute was read and an ad ditional section was offered. The substitute offered by the Com mittee on Agriculture was rejeclod. Mr. Cox. of Troop, offered a sub stitute to tbe original bill wfatcb re peals ail laws relative to tbo inspec tion and analysis of fertilizers. , The yeas and nays were called for, and the call- sustained. Tho result was yeas 70, nays 70. - The Chair vo ted nay, and the substitute: waa lost. The question was then as to> the passage of the original bill, upon which the call for the nays and nays waa made and sustained. The result was ay es 40, nays 88. Tha bill wae lost. . , i Mr. Fort, of Sumter, movodjto sus pend the rules for the purpose of ta king up the bill to lease the Macon & Brunswick railroad. The motion prevailed, and tho bill was read the second time and made (he special or der for next Tuesday at 10 o’clock. Mr Awtry, of Troup—A resolution that the Governor bo requested to furnish the House of Representatives with all tho facts connected .with the employment of W. CL,Tuggle, to col lect certain claims of tho State from tho United States Government as well as information he.can.give.upon the subject .of the claim of the Ron© Jas. A. Green. The resolution was adop ted. ' ’• delegating to them certain trusts and duties entrusted to him, the said Goldsmith, by the laws of the .State thus relegating the duties of his office illegally. Article VIII charges Gobismith with illegally and in disregard of the Constitution and laws aud Ills oath of office, failed on the first of Jane, 1870, to pay over to the Treasury of the State certain sums of money which he should have paid over by him by a certain date fixed by law, ©aid sums aggregating over $4,000 of legal taxes and costs. * Also another large sum of money cutirely retained, to the amount of $11,000 and more legal taxes. Article IX charges that the said Goldsmith did make false return of taxes, aud moreover to the Treasur er, John Jones, to the amonnt of up wards of $2,000, illegally defraudiug and injuring the State and the peo ple; at ono time and divers other times other sums of money equally falsely returned and credited to him, the said Goldsmith, illegally. Article X charges Goldsmith with having collected the amount of over $12,000 fbr insurance fees and only paying to tho State $2,000 thereof during tne years 1878 and 1879. Article XI charges Goldsmith with altering and falsifying certain mat ters of record concerning the wild land matter, to the inteut, to illegally deceive and misplace in the matter of Rondo & Fox and Daniel Lott. Article XII. Charges Goldsmith with retaining in his office one James M. Goldsmith, although he knew that ©aid Jaine* M. Goldsmith did make false entries above mentioned flle- gnlly- Article XIII. Charges Goldsmith with having made illegal, false and fraudulent returns and reports mon eys received on the Governor and Legislature, with intent to deceive the said Governor and the said Leg- istaturS illegally. Article XIV. embraces articles XII. and IX. Article XV. charge* ’"GUmUmith with-having conspired with Hinton P. Wright to bribe and corrupt one Hon. I1 D. Davis, a member of the Legislature, and one of a committee to inquire into the wild land office, attempting to procure by bribery the signaturo of said Davis to an exoner ating paper of the conduct of said Goldsmith, offering said Davis, by means of said Hinton P. Wright, the sum of $250 and a suit of clothes, il- XVI. charges Goldsmith with illegal and fraudulent endeav ors, through said Hinton P. Wright, to obtain the signature of Hon. Lew is Strickland to the same false and fraudulent paper above mentisued in Article XV. Article XVII. charges Goldsmith with abusing for his own aggrandise mont the trusts of his office to the dis grace of the State. The Legislature reserves to itself the right to add to the above articles of impeachment, or to answer any plea the said Goldsmith may make to the same. Mr. Hall, of Spalding, offered a resolution that the House adopt the above articles of impeachment The resolution was adopted unani mously. Mr. Hall offered a further resolu tion that the report be immediately transmitted to the Senate, and a time asked for the House to appear at the bar of the Senate ahd prefer charges, etc. Adopted. A 'messago from tlie Senato an nounced that-they would be ready at 10:3fr4o-iporrow in order to receive the House or its managers, and hear articles of Impeachment from said House against W. I. Goldsmith, Comptroller-General,for high crimes ahd misdemeanors. Tho report was received. A resolution by Mr. Hanks that the Attorney-Genera! make a report of the disposition or condition ot all cssesagainst railroads for taxes, what money on said cases has been paid tlie Comptroller, etc., what cases are unsettled, etc. Adopted. “Nover deceive your children,” says Prof. Swing. No; don’t do it. Many a child has been ruined for life by a pill hidden under a spoonful of ■praserVee.

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The Albany news. (Albany, Ga.) 186?-1880, August 21, 1879, Image 1