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HIE MOYUQK \u\ u;I ISKI:. OFFIfIaUWRNaLOFWONROEIOUN Y * 'terms of subscript:'. Per Annum, Cash in Advance - $2.00 Six Months, 1.00 in the lV#*t Olfic,' of For *yfh, fn., a* second class matter. *3**Thk Monroe Ahvkhtiskr lias a large Circulation in Monroe. Butts, Jones. Jasjwr. of li’r Counties. **l I’.I.ISIIKU KYKRY FRIDAY MOKMXO. MONROE Female College, FOKSYTH, O-JL. 1* fast regaining its former prestige fi <1 popularity. Tin: present -<•-■•! ,it uiii F<* ri-nd'-red iil> interesting bv f Jcclure.* with exjH-rinumU in Chemistry and Ptiyuux. I:r. j. 11. Lotran, Pr ifi,,r in Atlanta Mixiicul College, the nutlcr of a work on Chemieo-l’hysi'>. also author ul 11m Uisirt of 4 |,p*rN.utlt i law lina, a memla-r of the Academy of Sieno' of (ieorgia a gentleman of iiigh attuinnient io4rt= hm been engage.] for the ; lie will -e u> it that the |oung IgUie* uti'lgr hift.<-harge are innAfc nrqnniiit e<l xrfftt tfte laws of Chemistry that atfeet so materially the interest* of life. Parent*, nppreeiuting a systematic divis ion of lalsir and seeking a school where i tfieienev and diversity of teaching talent, are sM’urisl. will pleas,- step forward and enroll a- patron.- of Monroe Female College. For further particulars addre--. K. T. ANBI’IJY, President. HILLIARD INSTITUTE! SPBING TBBM llegina tilth .January Kiids 2'>ili .June. B’A.X.X* TIEI^IVL Ilegins olst August. Kikl.s 18th December. TfITION: Primarv t irade, per month £2 0O (irammar School tirade, per month... -5 00 11 igh School <lrade, per month 4 00 Incidental Fee oO cents each Term. All account- due and to he paid prompt- I\ nt eml each scholastic month unless oth erwise arranged. A high standard will be maintained in each grade in every study suited to their advancement. Mis- Mat riK Dr ns will have immediate charge of the primary tirade, and he assist ed bv the Principal in ora!, object and kin dergarten exercises. Prof. It S. \Yii.i.inoham will assist in Languages, Mathematic-, Sciences, Arc. Cupt. Ponokk will have charge of the Military Department and he a>-i-ted l>\ other gentlemen of proficiency. (Irainniar and High Sehiail hoys compose llillinrif litiUiitr ('n'/i fx. No extra expense incur red hv this splendid new feature in the sehooh Vocal Musie, t'a'istlienii's and Drawing will he taught the little hoys. Hoard in Private Fami.ies .'58.00 :<>,'?l2.ot) per month. No change in Text Hooks. All Text Hooks a,,., materials free niter Spring Term. School building substantially repaired and -••furnished w ith modern furniture, materi n s. iVc.. and is comfortable in every, pnr t eti'ar. Kilter vour boys on the first day of each sc—ion. K' r full announcements of the school, conveuii'i.t calendar for IHBo, and further in formal ion, gddr**ss \. E. 011ß, Principal, Forsyth, Ga. BRAMBLETT& BRO, UNDERTAKERS FORSYTH, GA. HAYING purchased the stock of under taker's goods recently controlled bv the late K N. Wilder ,is agent, we arc pre pared to carry on the the undertakers busi nos- in all its details. We have added a t:cw line t>f ifoixls to those already in stock, with new and complete stock of goods, ele gant new Hearse and good reliable team, prompt and careful attention we hope to merit, the patronage of the public. Burial llobcs for gents and ladies, much nicer and at half the e-ist of suit of clothes. The Hearse w ill be sent free of cost with coffins cestb.g *s*2o and upwards, where the dis tance is not too great B'JAMHLKTT A HltO. D. H. GREEN & CO., REPAIR CLOCKS, GUNS, Pistols, Sewing Machines, Etc. All kinds ,<f lieht Repairing executed promptly and faithfully. We give strict attention to httsine.-s. and expect to merit patronage hv good work. Also we keep on band a good sKw*k of CONFECTIONERIES, STATIONERY Tobacco and Cigars. Dive us a call in the f ost-office building. F'or-\ tli. (ia. wmm cores MOUTH WASH and DENTIFRICE (’ntfs I T lecr. Sore Sor Throat, Cleans'* the T*et: and Purifies the Breath; \jsed and rrcoa|mt‘n<l 1 by leading P.erttsts. Fre jv-\rx*\l bv Dux. J. 1* A TV Ih'i.MFs. IVntDts. Mao L*- For Sale by all druggists and dentisti. FORSALE ENGINES, Boilers, Saw Mills. Corn Mills, Power Cotton Presses. Pulleys. Shafting. Hanger Water Wheels, Mil! Spindles. Castings of a.’V-*!>** , Hancock Inspirator. Steam Gauges, 'Whistles, Piping, etc. Machinery of all kinds re paired. For information anti prices, write K. D. COI.F & CO.. New nan. Ga. Manufacturers every variety machinery. B. S WILLINGHAM, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Forsyth. Ga. XYil] practice in allthe courts of this state • i pt tfc stu irt Sw cutl atten tion given to the collection of claims. Office with Berner & Turner. Opium ”■ r.' 1; HABIT Reliable evidenv giv ,en and reference to PI IDIT TA cured patients and L U lv L U phy scians. Send for my book on the Habit and its Sure. Free. * feblo (i EOKGIA.—Monroe Countv.— l'o all whom it may concern: Cyrus JI. Sharp. Administrator of Matthew (libbs. deceased, has in due form, applied to me for leave to sell the lands belonging to the estate of said deceased, and said application will he beard on the tirst Monday in Jan nary next. bee. Ist. 1 S>4. ,•> ipi, J j\ \J <filNT V . tJrdillHfV. Aw . ‘ VOL XXIX. SHERMAN’SMENDACITY. 1 ZEB VANCE UNMASKS THE great plunderer. His Falsehood and Hypocrisy Brought to Light Eloquent Words of the North Carolina Senator. Mr. President, as the senate will probably pass this resolution and place upon it* record* an unofficial puj*er, tiled in the War Department by General W I'. Shcriaaii, which Contains staG-ment* affecting certain persons, it is but right and proper that all persohs so affected should be heard in the same forum. As one thus interested. I desire to notice some statements made in that com miinieatiOii to the War Department. In order that 1 may not he misinter preted I have placed in writing the material portion of what I desire to say, which shall he very brief. It is understood and, 1 believe, not I denied that in a speech made not long since in .'saint Louis, Mo., General I Sherman said he had seen a letter • written by Mr. Jefferson Davis to a govcrnorol a Southern State during the war. now a senator, in wiiich Mr. Duvi> threatened the coercion of j any Southern State that should at i tempt to secede from the confederacy. !As there are, 1 believe three sena i tors at least on this floor who were governors of Southern States during the war, myself being one, 1 immedi ately on the appearance of that state ment denied through the Post of this city that any such letter had ev er been received by me. The news paper.- soon afterward stated that General Sherman had been inter viewed as to my denial, and bad stated that he bad not alluded to me as the person to whom the alleged letter had been addressed. 1 very naturally thought that this denial at both ends of the line had concluded the matter so far as I was concern - Sed ; but it seems not. In the state ment filed in the War Department, as published in the papers of the country, 1 find the following asscr i lion : At ltaleigb, though tlx* ma>s ofthepnl)- j lie record* had been carried otf, yet a limn ; her were left behind at the state-house and j at the governor’s mansion, called the ace, ' which we occupied is h a lqnarters during our stay there, namely, from Aptil 13 to April 2U. 1 he.-e records and papers were overhaul ed hy provosts-maxshal and c erks, who de livered to Adjutant-General Sawyer such as contained material information, and im personal attention was only drawn to such as were deemed of sufficient impor tance. Among file books collected at the palace in Huleigh was a clerk's or secreta ry's “copy-book,” containing loose sheets and letters, among which was the particu i Fir letter of Mr. Davis to wiiich 1 referred l inmy San Louis'sp eh. iga.ci, little attention at tne time, because -Mr. D.,vis was then himself a fugitive, and his opin ions hud little or no importance, hut it ex plained to my mind why Governor Yano * j answer. It was the subject of common i talk about m v headquarters at the time, or. j as stated by Colonel Dayton in a recent letter to me from Cincinnati, “1 am quite ; sure that we generally talked [that] ii was ( ‘he desire of Governor X’nnce and tne state ' officials to take North Carolina out of the Conl'cderatty, as 1 have stated, but they were afraid of Jefferson Davis and wanted protection.’ Concerning tins 1 have the follow ing observations to make: 1. That no letters or documents of a public charm- or were ever left at my residence in the governor's mansion, while 1 was governor, at any time. No clerk or secretary of mine ever used as a repository for my correspondence a “eopv-book ; till oflicial or public letters being first copied in the letter-book required by law to be kept in the exexutive office, ami then bound into bundles and plaeed in the tiles, where they remain to Ibis day. 3. General Sherman did not find in that copy-book “the particular let ter of Mr. Davis to wiiich he referred in bis Saint Louis speech," for the simple reason that there was no such letter there. 4. 1 aver most positively, on the honor of a gentleman and an Amer ican Senator, that no letter contain ing such a threat was ever received by me from Mr. Jefferson Davis. All letters from him to me of anv nature are to be found copied in the letter-books of the executive depart ment of North Carolina, now in the War Department in this city. The reasons given by General Sherman by way of corroborating bis statement are stu b as would seareely be relied upon by a respectable law yer. lie says be paid “little atten tion to it at the time.” and does not say that he ever saw it afterward ; and further, that Mr. Davis was then himself a fugitive, and bis opinion bad little or no importance ! It was perhaps, the little attention given to the opinions ot an unimportant man that enabled him to remember so well the contents of the letter in which they were expressed after the lapse of nearly twenty years! The suggestion as to the probable fate ot , that mysterious letter, that it was 1 burned in the great fire in Chicago, is a mere apology for its non produc tion. which at the same time con tradicts the idea of its importance; for had it been such as he savs it was. it would certainly have found it> way to the public tiles. But there is another matter aver red by General Sherman that more nearly concerns me, and to which l shall very briefly a-k the attention of the Senate. It may t>e tnat northern gentle men who were on the victorious side during the civil war can not proper ly appreciate the feelings and senti ments of those who were on the side of misfortune and defeat. They seem to regard it as quite a sin that we do not readily join in the de nunciations ol him who was our lead er in the war. and hasten to con , demn him on all occasions as the surest way c* excusing our conduct FORSYTH. MONROE COUNTY. GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING. JANUARY 23. 188'). and commending ourselves to the good opinion of our late opponents. i Surely no man of even the slightest ( sense of honor could respect u south ; ern man who would thus debase himself. Surely the most flagrant and rampant trafficker in the issues <t sectional hatreds would prefer an adversary who walked upright on his feet to the one who crawled upon his belly. If not, what must be thought of his own uanhood? Now, sirs, be it ki jrn to 3*ou, that those of us who pledged our faith to each other tor the establishment i of the confederacy gave up all for which wo contended when it failed, retaining to ourselves onlv one soli tary satisfying reflection, and that was that we bad at least served our country faithfully, honestly, and de | votcdlv. as we understood it. This satisfaction General Sher man's statement would to some ex : tent take fiiotn me. and this it is. sir, i which f resent. D is well known that I was drawn into secession unwil lingly; it is also well known that in regard to many of the details of ad minstration I wasat variance with the authorities of the confederate gov ernment; but itisequally well known 1 hope, that titter my own honor was engaged and the honor of my native state, there never was an hour during all that unhappy time in which I did not give every energy of my body, mind, and soul to the success of the cause to which J had pledged my allegiance. Gen eral Sherman, professing high re spect for me, for which 1 thank him, thinks, perhaps, that he does me a kindness and commends me to the people of the country by holding out the idea that I was disaffected while governor toward the cause for which 1 was ostensibly fighting, and that I was anxious to separate my self and state from the confederacy, but was restrained hy fear. Sir, 1 want no man's respect or good-will based on the supposed virtues of treason to my country and the deser tion ot my associates. The good will of a man who would respect these traits in another is not worth picking up from the dust ofthe com mon highways. General Sherman says that the commissioners whom I sent to meet him as he approached Raleigh, to-wit, ex-Governor Swaim and ex-Governor Graham and Sur geon-Goneral Warren, told him that I wanted to make separate terms for the state, but was afraid of “Jeff Davis." Ido not believe it. It can not be true. The two gentlemen first mimed are dead ; they were emi nent North Carolinians of most ex alted character in all respects, and most especially for truth. They knew I was faithful to the confeder acy. They knew that I was not afraid ot opposing Mr. Davis when 1 differed from him, because they had seen me constantly doing it. ''i . ‘ man or any otner In nig *{hc contrary of what they knew to he true as perfectly as any men in North Carolina, The other commissioner, Dr. Ed ward Warren, was surgeon-general of the state of North Carolina, is now living, and is an eminent phy sician in Paris. Ilis statement would surely cany as much proof of what was said there as that ot the witness cited to prove that there was talk about cam]) of -the desire of Governor Vance and other state ollk-ials to take North Carolina out of the confederacy, but they were, afraid of Jeff. Davis and wanted pro tection.- ’ True it is that I sent a commission to him under a flag of truce to ask protection, not separate terms for the people ol my state, but at that moment the war was vir tually ended. Lee had surrendered. Richmond had fallen, President Davis and his official household were fugitives, and General Johnston, commanding the last remnant of an army devoted to the smth, was about to march westward, no one knew whither, and uncover the cap ital of the State. With his consent and approbation that embassy was sent, and through his lines under his permit it went. Before its return Raleigh was uncovered and I had left to join Mr. Davis, at Charlotte, where the surrender of General Johnston was authorized and the finality of things brought about. Then and there I took my leave of Mr. Davis and of the confederacy, and went back with his full appro bation to share the fate of my peo plo. General Sherman finds an explana tion of mv failure to await the re turn ot the embassy in the contents of the mysterious letter—that I was afraid of Davis, then a fugitive with out an army. Bold enough he savs I waste send an embassy to the en emy. but I was afraid to await its return! Was ever conclusion more absurd ? The reason why I did not wait was that I had been told my embassy after passing through the confederate, lines had been captured by Kilpatrick's cavalry, promptly robbed of their personal effects, and taken before General Sherman as prisoners. Not returning up to midnight ofthe day on which they were sent. I concluded this to be true, and left with the retreating troops. How well and how faithfully 1 served the lost cause, the country knows. My own people, sir. about whoso opinion I am most concerned, will wonder that anybody can be found to question it “Huckleberries.” The soldiers, in the late war estab lised the fact that the huckleberry was much more efficacious in chron ic bowel troubles than the blackber ry. Dr. Diggers' Huckleberry Cor dial. the Great Southern Remedy, will restore the little child suffering from tho effects of teething, and cures Diarrhoea. Dysentery and all bowel affections. For sale by all druggists at ho cents. ITEMS OF INTEREST. Gathered Here and There From the Papers. No whisky is now sold at any of the towns between Atlanta and Chattanooga. •* i Two men were arraigned in Chat tanooga tlie other day under the charge of stealing two quarter dol lars off a dead man's eyes. Capt. Edward Aleott, of Coving” ton, paid to Hon. Jefferson Davis the first money he ever drew as sal ary for President of the Confeder ate States. A Lady was elected Engrossing Clerk of the Tennessee House of representatives Thursday. Ala ly has been Librarian of that state for ■several years. Enough liquor was consumed it* Great Britain last year to make u lake a mile long, a mile wide hCo> thirty-five leet deep. What a lake of tire that would make if lighted. j An unfortunate infant in an infe rior county ot Pennsylvania i weighed down with the name, sjjjf George V infield Scott Hancock ffa,?- tiold Patti son Hendricks! Cleveland Yerks. A Pennsylvania genius is not one ofthe men to rail about mothers-in law, He married two sisters in sic cession, and becoming a widower t!yo second time, he married their st mother. No more preferred creditors in South Carolina; the Supreme Cffiir has rendered ,u decision against- ii and now all creditors must stun ; n the same footing when an ass n ment it made. The managers of the Confcdc at< Soldiers' Home in Richmond renori that they have received altogr h §31,000, have purchased a In and that few inmates are air s being cared for. A great deal of cotton was ia in Georgia last year. The vain the crop was at least thirty rn dollars. But the proceeds —xvL A are they? Gone west, to grow up. with the country. Gone wes; pay for supplies that ought to ha been raised at home. Wt J Albert Sidney Johnston, son*.t C m. Johnston, of New an 1 grandson of Gen. Albert Knimy Johnston, the confederate commay f or, died on Sunday at the hospital *n Harrisburg, Pa., of typhoid tevi ’ He was an only son, and had been employed-in Harrisburg as a clerk. The Baltimore Sun says that mi the fact that cotton lias scored ai advance of cents per pound fron the lowest rates of tho season, ami also in the fact that within an onT wheat has advanced 1-3-' cm '**■ ” ° bushel and flour 50 cents a many observers mmy Uiev growth, - !c':'' t: -”“ f e dm ' tl: ’ “ , - V’t awvg of a period ot 'SIUiTtV/. Bnrnum appears to have i-, s t a good deal of his Connecticut skew ness, or he would not have got loft so far in the matter of the Grant relics. He offere l tho General SIOO,- 000 and an interest in the business to be allowed to exhibit the gifts in anew war museum ho. proposed to establish, but be was a little too late, as arrangements had already been made with Mr. Vanderbilt to send them to Washington. Wilmington Star; The Augusta Chronicle thinas Vance a dema gogue and that Joe Brown wooled him in some railroad discussion. \\ eil, if \ ancc can beat old Joe in the arts ot ilic demagogue he must be peerless. Vance, as a Washing ton correspondent said of him re cently. has the “eccentricity of being honest." The Georgia editor does not seem to understand that trait in N auce. Old Joe could not have the slightest glimmer of what that meant. And now the Covington Enter prise has entered the lists. It savs: “Never an. election comes off in Newton countv but wc see and tcel tho necessity of a registration law. Every honest and patriotic man must admit that the promiscuous wav in which votes are cast is de moralizing and a disgarce to a free people. Illegal voters cast their bal lots without appearing to know or care whether they violate the law or not. Our elections are not con ducted upon fair, legitimate grounds, and well a majority of law-abiding* citizens know it.” It has been currently rumored that the Hon. A. O. Bacon had been tendered the position ot chief coun sel ofthe Pullman Palace Car Com pany, of Chicago, made recently va cant by the resignation of Judge O. A. Lochrane. and that he had ac cepted the position and would move to that city. He said at Macon Tuesday: ‘lt is not true. I resign ed the position I held with that com pany in October last. I have been retained as counsel, with my part ner, Col. Rutherford, for the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railroad, and will live in Macon in the future.” Gen. Sherman, says the New Or leans States, has shown how he treats -a controversy between two gentlemen, as he characterized Mr. Jefferson Davis’ impailnient of Ids litlse and slanderous charge of con spiracy. Like a garulous old wo man. indulging in biihngsgate, the ex-General of the army publishes a letter in the Washington Republican, in which he makes a teebLe effort to reply to his arruignement as a slan derer and falsifier of Mr. Davis. The letter is one of vulgar denuncia tion and a repetition of falsehoods. It avoids the main issue, and makes himself appear even more ridiculous than ever, and is tantamount to an admission that he had rendered himself open to rebuke by bis St. Louis harangue, which elicte l Mr. Davis stinging reply. CURRENT COMMENT. Docs Blaine Indorse Thrs ? ! > Rossa and his thugs have outra ged humanity,justice an 1 civiliza tion. and it is hard to believe, when ! th • re is so much apparent reason for | hi- apprehension, that lie still at largo. When he is “wanted" it may be that he will be found missing,— Pi '.ladeiphiu News fßep.) A Profitless Question. fhe time has passed when the people ofthe north or the south will approve ot these interchanges of re crimination in the haMs of Congress, "wiiich result in no good to anvbodv. <>i any vital interest. The southern people cannot be made to bate Jef ferson Davis by such means. What s the use of goading them to his de fense ?—Boston Advertiser (Rep.) Errors of the Heait and Head. VV bother there is a lack of mental balance about Gen. Sherman wc know mV. Wc know that he is a good .-ohiier; that he made one of the most brilliant campaigns of the war; that he battled Hood and brought Gen. Johnston to surrender. We know, also, as shown by overwhelm ing testimony, that he was in error in charging Wade Hampton with the burning of Columbia, and it is a fair inference that he may be equal ly in error in his charge against Jef ferson Davis. In any event, it is no concern of the Senate.-—Baltimore Sun (Dcm.) Randall on the South. Mr. Randall received enough at tention as a democrat in the south-to give him great joy as a protectionist and as a possible Presidential candi date. \\ it!i a lively recollection of the courtesies shown him and the good things sot before him in that section, lie raises both hands and '.uys: “Glorious! Glorious! The south is simply glorious! Noth ing could bo more de lightful! They are a grand people, a remarkable people. I can not express my delight.” One of these days, when Mr. Randall calls upon this .s“.ni“ south to support his monopoly tariff campaigns, or his Presidential aspirations, and finds that it does not respond, he will •shrug his shoulders and invite it to go to . —Chicago Herald (Ind.) Gen. Sherman's Mare’s Nest. It is obvious that if the plans of those who organized secession had not miscarried, they would not. now be described as conspirators. It is small business, therefore, for Sena tors to wrangle over words wiiich borrow their whole significance from the fortuitous results of war, and which merely affirm in an offensive way the notorious failure of the at t‘ --f to break up the Union. We adcT, in simple justice to {Jef ferson Davis, that, from all the evi dence thus far before the world, he seems to have been reluctant rather than eager to precipitate the rup ture, and to have held aloof for some time from the active measures taken to give effect to southern discontent by organizing a separate govern ment. As to the famous discovery which Gen. Sherman believes himself to have made in a private letter, this may be coarsely designated as a mare's nest. —Now York Sun. IEFFERSON DAVIS. The life and virtues ot Jefferson Davis are a shining light wherever in the world brilliant talent is ad mired, devotion to principle honor ed and patriotism beloved. There is no stain on his brow that all the cleansing power of truth will not sometime wash away. There are shadows on his heart and life, but they would vanish like tears in Heaven if his people’s love and trust could make sunshine with the wish ing. Jefferson Davis is one of histo ry's few great men, grand in the solemn hush of the night that has fallen on his hopes. Heroically and uncomplainingly he treads his thorny way to the grave, bearing on his single head the weight of a thousand wrongs and wearing in his single heart a million shafts, and wards them from his people. He did no more than a thousand others. He was no more a traitor than all the millions whom he led. Jle was true to us. and we will be true to his name and fame. lie is the grandest character on the stage of life to-day. and amid the sombre shadows of his setting sun, he stands the image of all that is dignified In character and manly in sorrow. Beside the smirched and loud-pitied hero of the victors who spit at him, he is like the statue of a god beside a question mark. Jefferson Davis is not an issue in politics. He is not an issue between tiie sections. His life belongs to the past and to history. The Southern people sorely deplore any dragging of bis name before the public. They shrink from listening to the mean hissing they are powerless to stop. But u*til the end of time no swarfn of poison flies will ever buzz around his name-and the Southern people be wanting in acclaim that he and they arc one. That he has been made to bear so much of their mis fortune is pitiful, and wc can at least say to his accusers. “The strokes at him are strokes at us. M e shuffle nothing on his overbur dened shoulders. He is a well be loved leader in misfortune, wc are part and parcel of'a reunited people, and secession L dea I.” Although Grant is not as rich as he was. he has still a comfortable in come. but the family and descen dants of more than one hero and President areactualy impoverished. Custer s widow is by no means well provided for and the surviving rela tives of Jefferson and Jackson are in want. It is well to be just as well as generous, THE SP.-xNISH EARTHQUAKES. Again the nvorld has been visited by a seismodieconvulsion. The earth quake that has just visited Spain, destroying so many buildings and causing such a loss of life mat' not have been as destructive or as vio lent as that last year at Java, but happening as it did, in the civilized world, in a country of which wc know so much, it demands more of attention and arouses more of our sympathy. It is certainly had enough. In Granada 653 lives have been lost in Malaga 9bH. m Albania 269. in Abun etas 100. in Arenas del Rev 135. in all Spain something over 2.900. When we add to these the wounded and mained throughout Southern Spam, it makes the figures ofthe loss formidable indeed. And as with all earthquakes the worst is not the mere loss of life and proper ty. Li catastrophes such as these, the cataclysm is generally followed, unless the utmost precautions are taken, by an epidemic similar to the plague, the result ofthe decomposi tion of the cattle and bodies buried under the ruins of fallen buildings. It will be remembered that the great earthquake of Lisbon was fol lowed by an epidemic almost as de structive as the earthquake itself; and at Ischia, a few years ago, noth ing but the assistance and exertions of civilized Europe prevented dis ease from breaking out. A similar fear is now entertained as to Spain. In view of the fact that 10,000 cattle have been killed in Albania alone, the danger is mi ni i non 1, especial!}* as nothing is being done towards removing the carcases which are poisoning the air. The people are panic-strick en. As the earthquake continued during three days, it is not to be wondered at the people should have deserted their houses and should be camping out in tents in the open field, and indisposed to do anything in the way of searching the ruins and removing the dead. This con tinuance of the scisinodic movement. of the trembling and wavering of this earth for three continuous days, is something out ot their usual line. Some of the greatest earthquakes have lasted only a few minutes but in that time have been able to de stroy thousands of lives. That the loss of life in Spain was not greater was really providential ; and due not a little, perhaps, to tho good sense the people displayed in flying to’and remaining in the open fields. 'The other features of the earth quake, the fissures in tho earth the sulphur springs disappearing and reappearing, the hot vapor pouring from the sprinsg, are common to all these convulsions. The fact that tremblings ofthe. earth were felt in far distant portions of the world, at the same moment that this Spanish catastrophe was "cmin-mg. at (.’aiin thia in Austria and among the. mountains of Western Wales is some thing that is noticed with all earth quakes. It is not impossible that when we receive news from tho ex treme portions of the world not within telegraphic distance of us, that we shall hear of some sister earth quakes occurring at the same mo ment and time as that which devas tated Andalusia and Grenada. — Times-Democrat. Prohibition the Great Issue. This calls to mind the fact that the American people are getting to be in dead earnest about the evil effect of unrestricted liquor dealing. The most signficant vote given re cently was that in Maine, where there was a majority of over 40,000 for a prohibition constitutional amendment. Maine was the first state to legally discountenance the sale of all intoxicating drinks. A whole generation has grown upunder a rigid enforcement of the prohibi tory law. After a trial of over thir ty years the people of that State are all but unanimous that liquor shall not be sold as a beverage. It is a notable circumstance that on every direct vote, the popular will is also against free liquor selling. When ever the naked issue was presented, as in lowa and Kansas, prohibition was adopted by large majorities. So great is the progress of this feeling that it is morrally certain if a vote was taken by the whole nation for or agin st liqnoi, that the prohibi tionists would poll two to one. In Maine, the women stood at the polls ail da}' long, beseeching the men to cast their ballots against liquor-sel ling. Should women ever vote in this country, they would put a stop to nine-tenths of the liquor selling within a decade after they had re ceived the franchise. Prohibition has come into tho politics of our country and has come to stay. — Demorest’s for November. “The Novelist.” “The Novelist” is the character istic title of anew paper just started in New York, by John B. Alden. the “Literary Revolutionist. The price, also, is characteristic, —only 81.00 a year. It is not intended to enter into competition with the high priced. but low character, story pa pers which darken the country like a pestilence, but will be devoted almost entirely to high-cla>s fiction, such as finds place arid welcome in the best magazines of the day and tiie pure-t homes ofthe land ; mak ing the paper an unrivaled (as to cost, certainly,) source of mental recreation for the weary, and of en tertainment for all. During the vear there are promised serial sto ries by William Black. Mrs. Olip hant, James Payn. Hugh Conway. B. L. Farjeon, and others —certainly a good variety, as well as good quan tity for the dollar. It is printed in large type, and is a handsome pa per. For free specimen copies ad dress the publisher, John B. Alden, 393 Pearl street, New York, NUMBER s*?. THE FARMERS' FRIENDS! —AT THE — Empire Warehouse! W. T. MAYNARD & CO. Announce to the public tliat tnev have taken the EMPIRE WAREHOUSE Forsyth ! Ga.. the presentNoason. We have served you faithfully in tne past, and tried to treat ! you right in every instance. We >k your patronage in the belief that we can giro satisfaction. We have ample facilities for storing and handling cotton to the best ad | vantage. The warehouse will W under the immediate charge of Mr. WILEY E. ZELLN ER, assisted by the senior of the firm. An expert cotton buyer on hand all the time, AGENTS FOR WINSHIP, GIN SONDENSER & FEEDER. tSrtiivc lisa trial. W. T. MAYNARD A CO. F. S. JOHNSOM. 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