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OLD SERIES—VoL 37.1 ALBANY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 12. 1880. { NEW SERIES-Vol. 14, No. 49. THAT I AM STILL HEAHQITARTEKS Far the Splendid Light-running A ho, K«Ua of aU klofe, OIU, Iwlir.iHttiHonfUlMlH aiock of General Merchandise, Mae Liquor*, Tobaccos, Cigars, etc. J CM* .^o, coos. brfbro tcflgf VtrT "kTs^stbphens. ■ LAWYERS Z. J. ODOM, ATTORNEY AT LAW, ALBANY, OA. ClrtlwtlM.. laicorIBU1I, s qwcteltr- Will »t- JESSE W. WALTERS. JONES ft WALTERS, Attorneys at Law, ALBA9T. GA. Lott‘Warren, ATTORNEY AT LAW, 'A LEANT. OA. DOCTORS- LLBoum w.M.DoMoes Drs. Holmes & DeMoss, SEVTIITS, AUUnT, . - • GEORGIA. ^USk* ud ubt*u£j otct Port omcr. »uhh^,ton W.iLSTEOTHSOLD. ALBANY. GEORGIA. Ofice oTer Gilbert's Drir Store. . AnortM, loft nth. Prog Store wUlrwxirepn>mp« Dr. B.W. AIsFfflEND, XMHFSCTFULLT UaSmhlo •.nfcM.ln I her*. UriMteiKkaol MomCmOso, lotteeUtaone MSAaorondaorrooDdlDgcoantr,. OBe..n«Il* COll niiim. sa WmoWL HOTELS The Old Reliable BARNES HOUSE, n. si. mm, 6.. a of good a THE JOHNSON HOUSE, ,ta the place to stop and get a GOOD, SQUARE MEAL. MARKET SQUARE, BAVAJnTAB, OA. Rates $1.80 to $140 per day, according to location of rooms. ^JOSEPH HEBSGHBACSH, April *9,1880—ly. PROPRIETOR J. W. JOINER, WATCHMAKER and JEWELER LOCATED AT W. II. Gilbert, Ag’t, & Co., BROAD STREET. t uxuuau, AND JEWELRY! STOCK comflctk! Repairing a Specialty ! VSkn.UMMlUaert*. Charles Dickens’ Religion. Dickens preached—not in a church nor from a pulpit, but a gospel which the people understood, the gospel of kindness, sympathy—in a word,humanity. His creed maybe found in the beautiful extracts on the subject of death: Even when golden hair lay in a halo, on a piliow, round the worn fkce of a little boy, ho said with a radiant smile: "Dear papa and mam ma, 1 am very sorry to lease my pretty sister, but I am called and I must go.” Thus the rustling of an angel, wing got blended with the other echoes and bad in them tho breath of heasen.—(Tale of Two Cities, book ii, chsp'cr 21. . The dying boy made no answer, lie shall soon be there. lie spoke of beautiful gardens stretched out be fore him, and which were filled with figures of men, and many children, all with light upon their faces; then whispered that it was Eden, and so died.—Nicholas NicKloby, chapter 58. "It’s turned very dark, sir. Is there any light a’coming? The cart is shaken all to pieces, and the rug ged rood is very near its end. I’m a gropiu’—a gropin’—let me catch hold of your baud. Hallowed be Thy name.” Dead! my lords and gentlemen. Dead t men and women, born with heavenly compassion in yonr hearts. And, dying thus around ns every day.—{Bleak House, chapter 47. Ho slowly laid his face down upon her bpsom, drew his arm close around her neck, and with one part ing sob began tho world. Ob, not this! Tho world that sets this right.—[Ibid., chapter 63. "If this Is sleep, sit by me while I sleep. Turn me to you, for yonr face is going far off and 1 want to be near.” And she died like & child that bad gone to sleep.—[David Coppcrficld, chapter 9. “Don’t cry. Is my chair there, in its old place?” • * That face, so full of pity and grief that would ap peal to me, that solemn hand up raised toward fleaven! It is over.— [Ibid., chapter 33. One new mound’ was there, which bad not been there last night. Time, borrowing like a mole below the ground, had marked liis track by throwing up another heap of earth.— [Martin Clmzzlewit, chapter 19. She was dead. No sleep so beauti ful and calm, so free from trace of pain, so fair to look upon. She seemed a creature fresh from the hand of God and wailing fur the breath of life; not one who had lived and suffered death. She was past all help, or need of it. We will not wake her.[—Old Curiosity Shop, chapter 71. The band soon stopped in the midst of them. The light that had always been feeble and dim behind the weak transparency went out— [Hard Times, chapter 9. For a moment the closed eyelids tremblpd, and the faintest shadow or smile was seen. Thus clinging to a slight spar within her arms, the mother drifted ont upon the dark and unknown sea that rolls round all the world.—[Dombey & Son, voi. 1, chapter 1. “It’s very near the sea; I hear the waves ? The light about the head is shining on me as 1 go!” The old, old fashion that came in with our garments, and will last unchanged until our race has run its conrseand the wide firmament is rolled up like a scroll. Oh! thank God for that older fashion yet of immortality! and look upon ns, angels of young chil dren, when the swift river bears us to the ocean.—[Ibid., chap. 17. In this round world of many cir cles within circles do we make a weary journey from the high grade to the low to find at last that they lie close together, that the two extremes touch, and that our journey's end is hut onrstartiug place.—[Ibid., chap. 34. A cricket sings upon the heavth, a broken cliild’,8 toy lies upon the ground, and nothing else remains.— Cricket! on the Hearth, chap. 3. “I am going to Heaven; the sunset is very near!” and the child who went to Heaven rose in tho golden air and vanished.—[The Child’s Story. Care of the Eyes. 1. Rest the eyes for a few minntes when the sight becomes in the least painful, blurred or indistinct. 2. Have sufficient light; never sit facing it; let it come from behind or from one side. The writer considers too much light as bad as too little. He strongly recommends a moderate light, so that surrounding objects may not be too mncU illuminated, and the wearing of a black shade, so large that front and side light may may not enter the eyes. With this protection the light may he safely in front—if reading, it is better that it be to one side. 3. Never read in horse or steam cars. • 4. Never read when lying down, 5. Do not read much during con valescence from illness. 6. The general health should be maintained by a good diet, air, exer cise, amusement and a proper re striction of tho hours of hnru work. 7. Take plenty of sleep. Retire early and avoid the painful evening lights. Ten hours sleep for delicate eyes is better than eight.—Christian at Work. ma . » —- — - Ho good Preaching. No man can do a good job of work, prrarli a good sermon, try a law suit well, doctor a patient, or write a'gissl arti cle wlieii Ik: feels miserable anil dull, with sluggish brain and unsteady nerves, and none should make the attempt in such a condition when It can Is: so easily and cheaply removed by a little Hop Hit ters. See other column.—Albany Times. A Pair of Heroines. HOW TWO PLUCKY GIRLS CHASTISED TWO TRAMPS. Mary A. Wolf Is a tidy appearing delicate girl of twenty, living with her parents in the littlo town of Wakefield, N. Y. On Thursday, at noon, she started to visit a sister in Kingtbridge. She was passing a clutter of trees at a lonely spot on Boston avenue when suddenly a mau leaped in frol of her from behind a tree. He was shabbily dressed and bore every sign of being a tramp. He inquired where sho was golug, and as she started to pass on, he threw his arms round her neck and tripped her, and flung her violently to the grouud. Miss Wolf struggled to rise, bat the man held her firmly by the throat. Seeing a sharp stone within grasping distance, Miss Wolf, by struggling, contrived to get it, and dealt her assailant two heavy blows wilh the sharp edge of the stone. The blood gushed from two scalp wounds, and the tramp, be wildered and stunned, remained motionless until Miss Wolf made her escape and screamed for assistance. Farm hands in a neighboring field soon came, but the tramp by this time had recovered and made his es cape in the woods. Yesterday Po liceman Keefe arrested a man who was cr&ucliing, in a hedge on the Kingsbridgc road. He had a scalp wound on his head, and at the station Miss Wolf identified him. He gave his name as James Clifford. Justice Bixby held him for trial. At 8 o’clock Friday evening Miss Wetehiess, who lives near Belleville, N. J., as she was silting in the.parlnr, was accosted by a tramp, and who demanded money. She refused to give him money, when he threatened to strike her. She immediately grappled with the fellow, tlircw hint to the floor, and then rolled hint out of the window. He fell to tho yard below, a distance of ten feet, break ing his arm in two places. Mother Shi pton’s Prophecies. The New York Journal of Com merce gives the following tree ac count of the humbug known “Mother Sldplon Mother Shipton was a veritable character, who lived more than three hundred years ago, and uttered n number of so-called prophecies. They , wore, for the most port, a vague, unmeaning jntnble of seeming predictions applicable to no spe cial event, and without point or gen era! interest. In 1641, a pamphlet .containing a medley of this sort, chiefly in halting verse, was printed in London, and her “Life and Curious Prophecies” were given to the public in 1677. In 1862, Mr. Charles Ilindley, of Brighton, England, issued what pur ported to be an exact reprint of “A Chap-book Version of Mother Ship- ton’s prophecies, from the Edition of liifi ” Tia tliSu fm* tins fifut ISI tin Debt. Columbus Enquirer.] It is the worst tyrant that ever crushed viAim to earth. It destroys all hope. Those who have enormous obligations may be able to stand the pressure and save something on which to recreate splendor, but to the poor man it is the bitterest curse with which one can be afflicted. An honorable man dislikes the sense ot obligation. He who owes and has not with which to pay, feels that he is in some sense in the power of tho creditor. He i9 ever apprehensive of a dun. The thoughtis harrowing, that no matter where he.may go, that everlasting paper is shoved in his face, and the settling of that little bill becomes a torture. Whenever in irescnce the eyes of tne creditor ooks enquiry and wonders when the money will conte. They measure ev ery pleasure, and connt with every cigar how much less it would he, were the cost of that smoke devoted to the liquidation of that small ac count The tiny ones are magnifi cent to hint who is poor but “incor ruptible.” The “pot it down to me,” is the ea sel road to ruin. It costs nothing to sav it In a little while the “puts” are presented in the shape of a good ly amount, and the promises of the morrow come into play, and one be gins to deliberately faisyfy tho situa tion. Affairs becoming worse induce to other vices that tend to degrada tion. How differently would feel ings and hopes be, if one were to re solve to buy nothing for which lie could not settle on the moment, lie would, perhaps deny himself ficti tious pleasures, but he is cultivating better habits, and has never the sen sation of a slave. Jonh Billings’ Philosophy. Cunning is a very cheap cdislinn ov wisdum; it develops among the ani mals, and I have even seen idiots who had it. A young sloven ends hi being a filthy old man. However mizerly a woman may be she seldom shows it in her bonnet. It allwuss bothers the devil to kno on which side to attack a bizzy man. We see in others the virtues and vices we hnve got oureels, but we see the vices the plainest. There are but few things judged by their merits, but rather by the way they affect our opinions or interests. The men who have the strongest interlccts have tho weakest memories they trust more to invention titan memory. Where there isonc man who knows how to do a thing and docs it, there arc three who arc satisfied by telling how it oughtto be done. The tttpov the ladder isaticklish spot, yer are liable to fall enny time, and can’t pick out the spot you are a going to strike. Mcnny a man who has made a fust rate konstablc baz spilt liiz milk bi being made a Deputy Sheriff. The man who lmz no luv of ap plause is either an angel or an idiot, probably the latter. The grate ov mankind llv just as the birds do, from hand'to mouth, A man better have no creed at. nil than to have one hois always anxious to fight for. Jealousy sleeps willt one eye open and the other ajar. Hope is the half way house between fear and fruition. It is difficult to define our happi ness without making it look suspic ious. The man who is original in manner 1448.’’ In this, for lltu first time, there wore pith and point, and spe cial application. All modern dis coveries were plainly described, and one prophecy which began, “Carriages without liotpes shall go,” and set forth the,railroads,telegraphs, steamers, and other modern Inven tions, wound up with: “The world to an end shall come In eighteen hnndcred and eighty-one.” This, of course, quite startled the public. If all other important events of the nineteenth century had been so aptly described, why should not the last prediction be fulfilled! Wc copied Ihc prophecy, and, without knowing any thing ol its source, de nounced it as a forgery. An English paper replied that it wt f an exact re print of the old edition for nearly two hundred aud fifty years on file in the British Museum. We sent our correspondent to the Museum, and •learned that there was a chap-book of that title bearing date 1611; anoth er of 1642, containing what purport ed to be Mother Shipton’s portrait; other curious prophecies dated 1648, 4j67; and “Mother Shipton’s Lite aud Curious Prophecies,” complete in an octave edition of 1797. We then purchased the reprint, and sent to have them compared. This prov ed that a fraud had been committed. The old prophecies were a vague jntnble of local predictions that might have been fulfilled at any and every decade since their date. All the pointed and interesting,.predic tions in the new issue were not in the old book, and were either interlinea tions, interpolated, or entire new fragments, evidently written after the events they were supposed to predict We pressed the point, and then the secret came ont In the spring of 1873 Mr. Hindley wrote a letter, con fessing that be had fabricated the prophecy above quoted and ten others, in order to render his little book salable. The Argument of Mr. Napo leon, Who Didn’t Want To Pay a Bill. “Hole on dar,” said a colored man, hailing an acquaintance. “Does yer cross do street ebery time year see me ter keep frum payin’ dat bill ?” “No, I doesn’t,” “Whatfur, den?” “Ter keep frum bein’ axed fur hit.” “Mr. Napoleon,” said the creditor, “I lent yer $10 three weeks ago. Yer tromised an’ promised ter pay me.— >e udder day you said dat ’pon yer word and honor as a gentleman ver’d pay me ter day. Now, what’s yer got ter say?” “I al’ers zerves my honor. Yer’s gettin’ yer lack of flosofy an’ my hon or mixed.” “How’s dat?” “Donn’ yer know dot de udder day nil de time in town was changed ?— Da foun’ dat de time was wrong an’ da seut off an’ got what da calls a transit aparatus. Since den all de watches an’ clocks bab been overhaul ed. Hit hah been, found dat our time is gis oue day too fast.” “Dat’s got tiuthin’ ter do wid my money.” “Course it hab. I promised ter pa’ yer terday. De oberliaulin’ ob de time shows dat dis ain’t terday.” “How dtts yor make dat” “Why, dis is termorrow. Doan, yer see ? Lentmc tell yer, if yer goes roun’ dis town showin’ such iguuuce ob flosofy de people will laugh at yer.” “Well, when is yer gwine ter pay me?” “Jes ez soon ez we kin get the time straightened np. Da’s workin’ on hit now. Jes take nty advice, fur of de people onst gits inter dar heads dat a man is a fool, ten years ob knowledge won’t change hit.” STORE IS HEADQUARTERS FOR Housekeeper’s Supplies! Always on Hand I NONE BUT THE BEST. In Dry Goods and Clothing Inducements Extraordinary! Dukabuc Wiiitkwash.—Take a barrel and slack a bushel of fresh lime in it, by covering the liine with boiling water. After it is slacked add cold water enough to bring it to the consistency of good whitewash, then dissolve in water, and add one pound of white vitriol (sulphate of zine) and one quart of fine salt. This makes a whitewasli that will stick as well as paint. It owes its durability chief ly to tlic vitriol, which hardens aud fixes the wash. • Impure Itreath. Among all the disagreeable .conse quences that follow the decay of tlie teeth, an impure breath must be the most mortifying and unpleasant to its possess or, anil it is the most inexcusable and of fensive in society; and yet the cause of it may lie easily removed by cleansing the teeth doily with that Just ly popular den- trifrice, fragrant SOZODONT. It puri fies aud sweetens tlie breath, cools and refreshes the mouth, and gives a ncnrl- like appearance to the teeth. Gentlemen who indulge in smoking should cleanse their teeth with .SOZODONT, ns it rt- Court of Commissioners Roads and Revenues. July I7tb, 1880. Under and by virtue of an Act of the General A* sumbljr of Georgia, approved September 10th, 1879, authorizing the Commissioners of Dougbeity Coun ty to issue bonds to the amount of 880,000 to pur-> eba-e the Bridge acroe. Flint River at Albany, and in accordance with the expressed wish of a meeting of the citizens held this day. It la orSerad, That an election be held on Saturday, 21st Day of Aopt, at the Court House and voting precincts In a Id county, to determine wheth. r or not said Bridge shall be purchased, and that a book for the REGISTRATION OF QUALIFIED VOTERS be kept open from this date until ike night of tbe lltb day of August next, at the Ordlnarv’a office in said county, for the registration of qualified voters, as provided by said Act. It Is further ordered. That this order be publish* ed In the Albany News and Albany Advertiser once week for four weeks. C. M. MAYO, _ . E* H, BACON, . ommissloners Dougherty County, Ga. A true extract from the minutes of the Court of Commissioners of Dougherty County, Ga. W. P. BURKS, July 20th, 1880.*w4w Clerk County Comr’s. Per Fifty Cents —THE— louistille Courier-Journal [Hon. HENRY WATTERSON, Editor.] Will be found, as usual, at the front in the rreaent Presidential Canvass. As (he Representative Southern Paper' and a leading organ of the Democratic Party of the United 8tates, it will be a guide to Democrats throughout the land, valuable to the ffclr-mlnded everywhere and foil of instructive points to Re publicans. - As a Family Newspaper It will continue, as now, to be filled with attractive features for the home and family circle. Fifty cents will secure the Weekly Courier*Jourual until De cember 1st, from time subscription is received, or eleven copies for Five Dollars. Address W. N. UALDLMAN. President Courier-Journal Co.. Louisville, Ky. 300,000 FOR BALE. Apply to L. & ALFBIEND, Junc3- at Welch A Bacon’s, Albany. inovea nil unpleasant odors of tho weed, is generally more or less so in thought. AbU your druggist for it. July 8 GEITLEMEI'S AND YOUTH’S FASHIONS —AT— D. W. PRICE’S TAILORING Establishmeatj (Over Central Railroad Bank.) Please call and examine Sam pics, Plates and Patterns. No Bogus Material 1 Good, Honest Work! Albsor, August 28,187tMf D. W. PRICE, Merchant Tailor. J. W. SHEFFIELD, Americas, Ga. WHOLESALE AMD DETAIL DEALERS XH HOKTSEFUIINISHING GOODS! BUILDER’S MATERIALS, &c. ;;l{ SPECIALTIES: Table and Pocket Cutlery, Buggy & Wagon Wheels Timbers, Plow Stocks and Plow Hoes. WE ALWAYS KEEP ON HAND Rubber Belting*, Lace Leather and Belt Hooks, NAILS, IRON and STEEL, Guns. Pistols, Powder, Shot Caps & Cartridges And in fact EVERYTHING that ought to be found in a First-Class Hard ware Store. We respectfully invite you to call and see our stock. SHEFFIELD & BELL, Next Door to Gilbert’s Drug Store, BROAD STREET, Albany, Ga. Imported'and Domestic FRUITS, GANDIES, AiniBQ FANCY AND (l.lbAltOl FAMILY • TOBACCOS, GROCERIES. FISH, OYSTERS, &c 0. J. FARRINGTON, MERCHANT TAILOR, In Willingham,* Building, up atalr*. Will cat and make Coate, Pant* and Vert* In first-class style and a* cheap aa any house In (he State. I keep always on hind a full line of Cloth*. Come and examine ray goods, and have your Spring 8ulte “■‘•r^^o.SrffifelNGTON. > mch25-tr MarM In, ATLANTA, GA. IIUPF & BROWN, Prop’s. First-Class in Every Partianlar. WHEN YOU (W TO ATLANTA STOP AT THE MARKHAM. HEADQUARTERS -FOR—— - GREEN AND DRIED FRUITS. GROCER AND ] BAVAHSTAB, - - GA. Circular Wo. 8. Office of THE RAILROAD COMMISSION. Atlanta, Ga. June IS, ISSOi u 1 ; PON a full showing ot two month’* I the Columbut A Rome Railroad, the allowance or 25 per cent, on ‘•Standard Rates,* I* continued as the maximum rates aa to Cotton. Fartlltcora •and Lumber, and on all other claasea (100) one hundred per cent, on the "Standard Rates” la allowed aa a maximum. JAMES M. SMITH, Chairman. R. A. BACON, Secretary, ju ne!99-4t