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C|p|)Milton^is : lDr
BY Ik 'W, D. BOULLY.
rMPAY SEPT. 5,1873.
Nfirth and South Railroad.
It w to be hoped that operations
Will shortly le resumed upon this
line, and that the road will be run
ning to Chipley in time to carry off
a portion, if no more, of the coining
<crop. Several of our farmers in this
Vicinity, who have heretofore shipped
il their cotton to West Point and
La Orange, and obtained their sup
fdiea from there, state that, as soon
as the road oroeaes the mountain, Co
lumbus will be their market. Co
lumbus will realime a large increase
of trade as mm m the road reaches
Hamilton, ew>
Superintendent Chipley, in a letter
from New York to Mr. Jarboe, of
lia Orange, speaks encouragingly of
the prospect* •of tlie road, lie says
•that in addition to shipping anew
'engine, he has a!bo purchased fish
plates, bolts aud sfiikee, and some
iron.
The further this road goes the bet
ter it will pay. Once flntehed to La
Grange, and the Company can then
extend it at pleasure. Rut tlrey need
help, end need it nme, to push on the
next twenty miles.
What say you, citizens of Harris?
Will you longer let this great enter
prise lie dormant for want of your
assistance? or will you not help it
onward with new subscriptions, and
by increasing the old ones ?
The Oldest Negro.— The Mount
Sterling (Ky ) Sentinel says that tho
“ father of all the darkies ” lives 111
Hath county, and his name is Sam
Howies. Sam claims to have been a
cook on the vessel that Brought Chris
topher Columbus over, and thinks lie
was over forty then. Ho has been
bald-headed all over for nearly 200
years. The last thing he saw before
ho went blind was Pouoe de Leon
kissing an Indian princess at San Au
gustine, Fla. llin blindness was
brought about by his being stung in
the eyo by a mosquito, or an alliga
tor, or a buffalo—he doesn't know
which, as he was asleep at the time.
He lost his last tooth 160 years ago,
and owing to chronic rheumatism in
the gums, has been compelled to sub
amt by smelling his victuals.
“Mcsbxb will Out.”—A widow
and her , daughter woro murdered in
Germany in 1862. No due was ob
tained to the murderer. Last July
the bouse in which the murder had
been committed was torn down. Be
tween it and the adjoining house there
was e space about e foot wide, and
hemmed in there waa found the skel
eton of tiie murderer. At his feet
lay a leather bag containing tho dia
monds, money and bonds of the mur
dered wfdow. It is supposed, that
in escaping over tho roof, his foot
•lipped, and he fell into what proved
to be his Kving tomb.
CdßEEcnox.—A week or two ago
we denounced as a foul mnrder tho
killing of Wm. Clark, at Cowles* Sta
tion, Ala., by Ed. Walker. Wo have
aince been informed that Mr. Walker
is a peaceable citiaen, and that Clark
had threatened to kill him on sight,
Mr. Walker gare himself up after the
killing, nd was acquitted.
Onr opinion was formed from the
particulars in the Columbus papers,
and we make the above statement
cheerfully.
ST A copy of the SavannAh News
cornea to this post-office addressed to
the H Expositor,” and another to the
** Dispatch.'* There ia only paper
here—the Visitoh. Will Mr. Estill
please have the Visitor entered upon
his mail-book, and send only to it?
Wa appreciate the News highly, and
do not desire the proprietor to incur
the extra tnx of sending a copy of his
paper to one that doe* not exist,
GT Ex-President Millard Fillmore
is seventy-three years old. Fillmoro
and Andy Johnson are the only ex-
Presidents living, aud neither of them
were elected to office. Mr. Fillmore,
at Vico President, succeeded Presi
dent Taylor, who died a little over a
year after he was inaugurated, and
Andy Johnson succeeded Lincoln.
Goon Pxpkrs.—The Cotumbns pa
pers don’t make much font about
their circulation, and are not quite
*o large as some of their contempo
raries, bat, in our humble judgment,
they arc unexcelled by any of the
dailies of their sister cities.
WBf Jem Clark, a well-known ool
ared harbar ef CoUimhw*, died there
last Sunday. Ha waa respected ly
whites and Blaeka.
The new engine for the N. fc
8. Hoad his arrived- sMMumbus.
Georgia Railroad Frauds.
Tho Augusta papers give tho fol
lowing about certain irregularities
discovered in official* of the Georgia
Railroad. Mr. Carlton Hillyer has
been investigating the matter.
Mr. U, I. Rhodes the General
Freight Agent is a defaulter. He has
beou some fourteen years on the road
By ingeniously manipulating claitus
and appropriating money tor trans
porting United States troops be
scraped in between $7,000 and SB,OOO
of the road’s money. lie also drew
money for fictitious bands.
The largest defaulter was I\ W.
Printup, Road Master. He has been
thirty years on the road* He used
road timber for private use, trans
ported grain and supplies for bis pri
vate plantations, paid himself for
slock not killed, built mills at the ex
pense of the company, paid fictitious
pay-rolls. His pickings, it is esti
mated, sum up to SIOO,OOO.
The third person who gobbled
road things was J. S. Shipley, Super
visor. He imitated Printup cleverly,
lie was a nepotist on a small scale,
putt ing lots of kin in office.
These men have been dismissed,
and also the entire force in the Road
Master’s and Supervisor’s depart,
inent.
The new Road Master is Air. New
non Hicks, and Supervisor, Mr. !
Thomas C. Hendricks.
Tito Reign of Corruption.
Never, sinco the foundation of this
government, lias there been as much
corruption in the laud as exists at tho
present time—corruption in church
and state—in high places and low
placet—in office atid ottt of office
corruption everywhere 1
One of the latest eases of official
rascality recorded is tl).it of Bryce
McLellan, chief postal clerk between
New York and Washington, who has
Just been detected in robbing the
mails, and allowed to resign I
Just think of it! He was Informed
ou by an accomplice, who still retains
his position, and not even arrested,
but allotted to resign !
McLellan has stolen some $40,000.
Ills thefts have been going on for
some time, and consist of sums of $2
and sl, taken from letters Bent by
Southern subscribers to Northern
publishers.
Tho old adage, “ Like master like
man,” is fully verified hero.
Now let those Southerners who
have lost their money make another
remittance, It may go safely this
time, if McLellaids accomplice is also
allowed to resign!
A You no Suicide.—'Tho attempt
of Nellie Smith to commit suicide
nt Cincinnati, on Fridny last, camo
very near being successful. The
young man who saw her throw her
self into the canal was a good way off,
anil when he got her out she was
insensible and nearly gone. Af
ter being taken to a hottso near by
and brought to, she explained that
life had beoomo a burden to her, be
cause her home was an unhappy one.
She said sho had prayed before tak
ing the awful plunge, and was ready
to go. This desperate littlo Nellie
was just seven yean old, and her im
mediate reasons for being so *' rashly
importunate *' ivhs a medium sized
spanking which her mother had ad
ministered that morning. Mrs, Smith
heard hor suicidal threat, had seen
her take tho earrings out of her ears
and deposit them in the box with the
rest of her toys and trinkets; but Mrs.
Smith was astonished when Nellie
waa brought home in a strange suit
of dry clothes. She had no idea
what precocious desjairadoes the
modern dime novol makes ont of the
infanta of this generaliou.
X3F“ The Nashville Republican says
that a great deal of excitement pre-
Tailod at Chattanooga one day last
week. A negro aud a man named
Pearson, formerly a representative
to the Legislature, having had hot
words in a saloon, the negro attempted
to strike him, when young Pearson
stabbed the negro with the blade of
a poeket knife in the chest, produc
ing a mortal wound. As soon as the
difficulty aud its supposed fatal ter
mination had become known to the
negroes, about two hundred of them
assembled together, flourished pis
tols and knives and swore vengeance
against young lYarson. They de
clared openly, it. is said, that they
would mob him. By the prompt in
tervention of tho police, however,
tliis was prevented and the mob dis
l*ofsvd. Had one shot been fired
at any time daring tho excitement
there would hare been Woedv work.
Young Pearson was held in the sum
of $20,000.
Snakes are said to be more
numerous in Georgia than before the
war, and the cause is attributed to
the absence of hogs, which used to
1 kill numbers of thru*.
Mailers in Georgia. *
Mr. Kinley, of Millcdgeville, lias
sent to the Smithsonian Institute
several valuable Indian relics.
Two negroes have been ari'efeted
for the murder of young Johnson at
Smith villev
Air. Charles Hammond, of Pike,
is 81 years old, and still enjoys good
health, lie doesn’t drink “pop-scull,”
but don’t refitse the pure stuff. His
wife Is 78, and aoes her own work.
The Mayor of Columbus, last week,
Very properly cleared the court-room
of a crowd of hoys In attendance.
Would that the Mayor of every city
in Georgia would do likewise, if
parents wotlld exercise a little more
watchfulness over their children-, it
would bo better for both.
Toe new Masonic Temple at Ma
con is nearly completed ; the cost of
tho building will be $02,00; furniture
and necessary fixtures will make the
cost near $75,000. It will be the
finest and most imposing Masonic
Temple in the South.
The State Grange, at its meeting
in Athens, passed a resolution asking
the Legislature to regulate the num
ber of pounds of cotton seed to the
bushel.
The “Native Georgian’’ was the
name of the first steamboat built in
Columbus,
Gov. Smith, in reply to a question
in private conversation as to who the
people should send to the Legislature,
said: “ Send those who do not want
to go —men who have no business of
their own to look after, You may
rest Well assured that the man who
is most anxious to go is precisely the
man who ought not to be elected.”
A fifty dollar prize in gold for the
best base ball club will be offered as
an additional premium at the Macon
Fair.
A Oriffin gentleman has made a
Wager ou the cotton crop of 1873 of
a suit of clothes valued at siso, and
which has been taken up, as follows:
1. That thy shipment from Griffin
for the cotton year, commencing ou
Ist of September, will not be ten
per cent, less than that of the pro
ceeding year. 2, That the crop in
Georgia for 1873 is not less than that
of 1878. 3. That the 1 growing crop
will exceed four millions of bales. 4.
That the crop of 1573 will exceed
that of 1872. 5. That there is a
seventy acre field of cotton not a
thousand miles from Griflin that will
muke forty bales.
Says tho Gwinnett Herald of Wed
nesday : “It is estimated that the
corn crop of Gwinnett this year will
be sufficient, if equally divided, to
furnish thirty-seven bushels of coin
to each man, woman and child in the
county.”
Governor Smith wants thieves
disfranchised.
A disease taking thb form of a
swelled neck anil ibver blisters on the
lips, has htttde its nppoarance among
the children, black and white, in the
neighborhood of Thoiuastom
Anew hippodrome is te he built
at Central City Park. The contract
lias been awarded to Mr. Petit nt
$3,200. Tho material used is the
brick in the old one.
Judge Hill has granted flu injunc
tion restraining tho city of Macon
from collecting taxes on tho property
of the Macon and Western Railroad.
The ease goes tip to the Supreme
Court.
Bainbridge claims a dog sixty-five
years old.
Mr. Pleasant Lawson died suddenly
in Fayette county last weok. lie
had split boards that day, and retired
in his usual health. Soon after lay.
ing down, his wife heard him cough,
and calling him and receiving no an
swer, struck a light, and found him to
bo dying.
Mr. J. N. Cardoza died in Savan.
nah, last Saturday, aged 87. lie was
a contributor to tho Savannah News
up to about a year ngo, when the
failure of his eyesight compelled him
to quit writing. He was tho oldest
editor in the South, if not in tho Uni
ted States.
A Cartersvifie cow enme home the
other day, after a few days’ absence,
with a part of her tail missing, which
was afterwards found wrapped round
| a sapling, where she had left it while
| lashing off flies. The Standard is
responsible for tho above.
Tho Thomasville Times slops to
I the front and says it has seen a
| horned worm foui inches long, with
i twelve legs, eight horns on its head,
| and several smaller ones on its body.
A horse in Cartcrsville, a few days
I ago, fell at® a dry well some 30 feet
’ deep, after holding on to tho top of
the well With his fore feet about
twenty minotca. lie was taken out
almost unhurt.
Matters in General.
The steamer City of Limerick was
nearly wrecked at New York, last
week, by coining in collision with the
Castle Garden pier. Cause, a drun
keu pilot-.
A balloon left Philadelphia, a few
days ago, and went fifty-two miles
in fifty minutes.
The yellow fever exists in New
Orleans.
The Bank of England forgers have
been found guilty, and sentenced to
penal servitude for life.
A dispatch from Halifax reports a
disastrous storm in that vicinity.
Many buildings were prostrated,
crops devastated, and bridges Washed
away-. Some $75,000 damage was
done to the shipping.
The president of a national bank
in Boston and the cashier of a na
tional bank in New York, both com
mitted suicide one day last week.
At tJnion City, Tenn., 72 deaths
from cholera have occurred, out of a
population of 1,000,
A man Was prepared for burial last
week, in Maryland, when it was no
ticed that the skin had assumed a
natural appearance, and an examina
tion showed that life Was not extinct.
Physicians were called in, and the
man is recovering. This case is the
more remarkable, as the man had
died, as was thought, three days be
fore, and his body had been placed
on ice.
A lady in Olney, 111.-, claims to be
able to heal the sick by the imposi
tion of hands accompanied by prayer
ahd the repetition of Scripture. Ma
ny prominent citizens are reported
to have been cured. The lady is not
a Spiritualist, and claims that she
has been instructed by God to exer“
Hence her supernatural power.
Gibson county, Tenn., claims a
negro who is 124 years old, and has
his second eye-sight, and anew
growth of hair. He can read, or
shoot birds and squirrels, without
glasses. He is in good health; says
he was never sick iu his life, nor
ever look a dose of medicine from a
doctor. lie hasn’t a tooth left.
Alligator leather is superseding
the Russian for ladies’ belts and trav
eling-satcliels.
The cxDcputy city of Brooklyn
Treasurer, Rodman, has been arrested
on the charge of a $203,000 defalca
tion.
Tho list of i'efuiiders of back pay
now includes sixteen senators aDd
thirty-six popular-benchers. The ag
gregate refund to date is $218,045 84.
A drove of 1900 goals lately passed
through Dallas, Texas.
The daily receipts of some of the
Saratoga hotels arc fully $5,000.
Michael Angelo McFarland, who
spent $25,000 in defense of his brother
Daniel, for the murder of Albert
D. Richardson, died in Bellvieu Hos
pital, and having no friends, was
buried in Potter’s Field.
A Grand Rapids, Mich., woman
keeps seventy-six eats about her prem
ises. When one dies she has a funeral
procession half a mile long, com
posed entirely of cats. As soon as
the gfave is covered she gives a slg.
tial, and the whole company bowl in
concert;
An loWa farftier sprinkled Paris
green on his potato tops to kill the
bugs, and throe valuable horses died
from nibbling the tops, find then the
bugs laughed at him.
So great is the tnania for betting
at Saratoga that thp ladies make wa
gers as j,o the color of the next gen
tlemau’a hair who will turn the next
corner.
Judge Advocate General Holt de
nies having withheld from President
Johnson a petition signed by five
members of the Court when present
ing the record of the trial of Mrs.
Surratt.
Up to August 12 there had been
over forty-four million postal cards
furnished to postmasters.
The United Stales Hotel at Sar
atoga will cost $1,000,000, aud will
inclose five acres of ground.
A sunken steamer has been dis
covered in the Missouri river, with a
cargo of 300 barrels of whisky, which
has lain there fourteen years.
Out of seventy-four Senators of
tho last Congress, eight have still
their back pay standing to their
credit; ami oot of two hundred and
twenty-five members ami delegates,
five have still their back pay an
drawn.
A man in Terre Haute, Oafrted
John Branch, had a finger pnlled
out by tiie roots in jumping from a
car; a ring caught in a screw.
The burning of Blatz's brewery in
Cincinnati caused a loss estimated at
; $300^0:
Rough Times lit Texas.
The news brought by our Texas
exchanges is, as usual, of a sanguinary
east. A gang of horse-thieves, over
taken in Eastland county On the 14th,
numbered four when the pursuers
first came up. One got away; the
other three were left lying on the
ground for wolf bait, Mr. Savage,
recently from Georgia, was found
dead with thirty-two buckshot in his
body, on the road between his home
and a school he was teaching in Ti
tus county, A neighbor whose dog
had been scalded is suspected of hav
ing taken satisfaction in this way for
the indignity offered to his canine
companion, Ambrose WheCler had
been carrying his arsenal with Inin
and keeping his eye skinned on ac
count of a misunderstanding with two
of the Reeds in Bosque county. They
met him with such friendly oveittireS
that he disarmed. In a day or ttJro
the Reeds left the county, after giv
ing direction where Wheeler’s body
might be found. The prolonged hos
tililies between the Hardin and Tay
lor “crowds” in DeWitt county
were suspended two weeks ago.
One “ crowd ” to the number of sixty
were besieging about twenty of the
other “ crowd ” in a fortified house,
when the sheriff arrived with a strong
poSse and offered his mediation, and
Succeeded in effecting a temporary
truce. Indian robberies and minders
in Palo Pinto ahd Young counties are
tile latest reported in that line.
What a Railroad has Hone,
The Atlanta Constitution says of
Gainesville i
“Two years ago there were not
500 inhabitants, and not a single
house had been built in twelve years.
Now there are at least 2,500 inhab
itants, and Sihcfe tken hot less than
30(1 houses have been built!
In 1870 there was less than $30,000
worth of merchandise, all told, sold
in the place. Last year the sales of
merchandise footed up the grand sum
of s4oo,Odd—nearly a half million.
In 1870 the assessed value of all
the property in the town, both real
and personal, was $89,000; ih 1872
it was $578,900. (The corporation
has not been enlarged.)
In 1870 there were eight bales of
dottoh sold by planters ill this mar
kef ; in 1872 there were over 2,300
bales sold by planters to the mer
chants here! and from 300 to 400
shipped by planters at this point—
making some 2,700 bales in all ship*:
ped from Gainesville last year.”
A Baby Frightened to Death by
Thunder. —The Boston Herald as
serts that an infant, only five days
old, died from fright in Newtonville,
Mass., on Friday last, under the fol
lowing circumstances: On that even
ing a very heavy thunder storm pie*
vailed in that Vicinity, and at each
report of the thuuder the babe jump-*’
ed spasmodically, and gave every eVi
dence of thorough fright possible ih
so young an infant. At last a terri
ble clap came, the child’s limbs
twitched convulsively, and it died in
stantly. The lightning struck it
house only a few rods distant, but it
is not thought that the electricity
had any effect upon the child, for it
was not felt by any others.
IS” Suppose a ship in distress
fires a gun, the light of which is seen
on shoVe, or by another vessel,
twenty secohds before a report is
heard, it is known to be at a distance
of twenty times 1,142 feet, or a little
more than four and a half miles.
Sounds of all kinds, it is ascertained,
travels at tho rate of fifteen miles in
a minute.
SST* A Dull Season—Boarding
house pepper.
Ftfr Loss of Appetite, Dyspepsia,
Indigestion, Depression of Spirits &
General Debility, in their various
forms, Ferro-Phosporated Elixir of
Calisaya, made by Caswell,Hazard fc
Cos., New York, and sold by all
druggists, is the best tonic. Asa
stimulant tonic for patients recover
ing from fever or other sickness, it
has no equal. If taken during the
seasou it prevents fever and ague
and other intermittent fevers. 4w
HOUSE AND LOT FOR SALE.
I offer for Kilo a House and Lot in Hamil
ton, on the west side of the public square,
with 100 feet front and 200 feet back. On
the lot is a good kitchen and stable, and one
of the test wells of water iu town. Terms
reasonable for the cash.
seps-lm LEE DOGGETT.
GEORGIA —Harris County.
James Forbes, administrator of John West
wood, decease;l. makes application for leave
to sell the land tekmging to said deceased:
All persons concerned are hereby noli Ik'd
to show cause, if any they have, by the first
Monday in October next, why said applica
tion should not be granted.
Given under mr hand and official seal.
sepo-td J. F. C. WILLIAMS, Ord y.
GEORGIA —Harris Ootirrr.
George A. Redding, administrator of Mi
nerva A. l’aulkenbeirv. makes application
for leave to sell the land of said deceased:
All persons concerned are hereby notified
to show cause, if any they have, by the first
Monday iu October next, why said' applica
tion should not be granted.
Given uuder my hnnl and official seal
icpiktd J. F. C. WILLIAMS, Ord’y.
JNO F FIOUBNOY. H. H. EPPJNG.
C. C. M’GEHEE. B SN- S- HATCHES.
ALSTON WAREHOUSE,
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FLOURNOt", M’GEHEE CO*,
WAREHOUSE AND COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
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®gy Give Special Attention to the Storage and Sale of Cotton, "“©a
Make Liberal advances on Cotton in store or for shipment’to other markets.
Lagging and Thy always on hand at Lowest Market Prices. sug29-3m
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THE GOOD TIME'HAS COMB
When no good liousekvieper can afford to do without one of the celebrated
Wiat are sold and warranted by tV. H. KOBABTS & Cos., Uolumbus, da ,
Manufacturers of Tin, Sheet Iron and Copper Ware of every description.
Wholesale and retail dealers in Stoves, Hardware, Wood and Willow Ware; Crockery;
Cutlery, arid HottSe-ftirnislung Goods generally.
We are prepared to furnish Goods in our line as
LOW as the LOWEST, wiTrt a GUARANTEE ON EVERY ARTiCLB) SOLS
Call and see us before buying elsewhere.
Columbus, Ga., Aug. 1, 1873 —3m W. It. ROBARTS & CO.
L; M. BURRUSr G. M. WILLIAMS;
BURRUS & WILLIAMS,
COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
ALABAMA WAREHOUSE,
ColuraLms, G-a.
Special attention p-.id to storage arid sale of Cotton.
Large lot of Bagging and '1 ies on haiid and for sale at the lowest matket price.
We also sell the Brown Cotton Gin. angl-3m
IIAMTO3! MALE COLLEGE,
HAMILTON, GA.
The Fall session begins on Tuesday, tiie
9th of September, and closes on Friday, the
"28th of November.
Tuition is from {2 to $5 per month, ac
cording to grade of studies, with an inciden
tal fee of twenty cents per trionth.
Mtisic on Piano, Organ or Guitar, is $5 per
month, with a charge of fifty cents per mouth
for the use of instruments.
Pupils will be charged from the beginning
of the scholastic month in which they enter,
to the close of tho session.
No deduction w 11 he made for absence,
except in cases of protracted sickness,
Oue-lialf of the tuition will he required in
advance —balance at close of session.
Board can be obtained at sls per month.
J. H. IiOVELACB, President.
GEORGIA —Harris Cobnty.
Wm. Nelson, executor of Abe! Nelson, de
ceased, applies for letters of dismission:
All persons concerned are hereby notified
to show cause, if any they have, by the first
Monday in December next, why said letters
should not he granted.
Given under my hand and official seal.
aug29-td J. F. C. WILLIAMS, Ord'y.
(with LATEST IMPROVEMENTS.)
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it wtll pay you to examine tin- records 6’f
those now use, and profit hy experience.
The Wbekmsr & WnaoN stands alone as
the only Lwrrfr lU'n.mm; Machine using the
Rotary Hook, making a Lock Stitch alike on
both sides of the fabric sewed. All shuttle j
machines waste power in drawing the shuttle
Iwek after the stitch is formed, bringing don-1
ble wear and strain upon both machine and
operator; hence while other machines rap
idly wear out. the Wheeler & Wilson lasts
a Lifetime, and proves an economical invest
ment. Do not believe all that is promised
by so-called ‘cheap’ machines: you should
require proof that years of use have tested
their value. Money once thrown away can
not te recovered.
Send for our circulars. Machines sold on
easy terms, or monthly payments taken. Old
machines put ijj order oi received in exchange.
Wheeler & Wilson Mf'g Co.’s Offices:
Savannah. Augusta, Macon and Columbus, Ga.
IF. B. CLB YES, Gen. Agt.,
‘ augl-lyr Savauuali, Ga.
THE CHRISTIAN INDEX,
Atlanta, Georgia.
Organ of the Baptist Denomination
Rev* D. Shaver, D. D., : : Editor.*
ASSOCIATE EDITORS!
Re V; E* Butleß, Dr. J. S. Lawton*’
CORRESPONDING EDITORS I
Rev. S. Renders ofa, D. D., Alpine, Alai
Rev. E. B. Ykague, D. D., Selma, Ala
Rev. T. G. Jones, D. D, Nashv’e, Tenil
Steadfastly devoted to the tcifei# ail'd great
interests of tiie Baptist denomination, this
paper, which, for nearly half a ceutniy, has*
been the organ and favorite of the Baptists
of Georgia, and for the past seven years bear
ing the same inti-nato relation to the broth
erhood of Alabama and portions of Tennessee,
South Carolina, Florida and Mississippi, will,
in the future, merit, by the excellcncjr of its
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