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MACQN. NOV 18, .875.
Tub Nestors of the press may just take
off their hats to Mrs. Sarah J. Hale, the
editor of Godey’s Lady’s Book, who is 85
years old, and is still vigorous in body
and mind. She has been a widow since
1822. -
Chief Justice Gray, of Massachusetts,
Is said to be one of the largest men liv
ing. He stands six feet four inches high,
weighs 250 pounds, has a fine figure, trav
els iiis circuit on horseback, and—atten
tion, ladies—is a bachelor.
Aw Ohio paper says: “Mr. Delano’s
friends assert that he will not, under any
druamstnnres, be a candidate for the
United States Senate.” Quite likely.
Noyes would have thanked them if they
had asserted so before.
The Knickerbocker, an iron freight and
passenger screw steamer of 1,800 tons,
has been completed at "Wilmington, Del.
Four more iron steamships, one of them
lar ger than the Knickerbocker, are build
ing at the same yards.
Ink is one of the things in which mod
em science seems to have made very little
improvement. A recent analysis of the
ink found cn a manuscript of the year
010 showed that its composition was
similar to that of the inks now in general
use. ^
The brick chimneys of the new San
Francisco Mint are turning a beautiful
green. This peculiar color is occasioned
by using salt water brick, or brick mgde
of clay taken from salt marshes, which
the acids used in the laboratory thus dis
color. _
William Meeker, who resides near
8ebastopol, Ca!., was lately bitten on one
of his fingers by a tarantula. He imme
diately swallowed three pints of raw
whisky, and next day didn’t feel very well,
but remarked that the tarantula was not
to blame.
A farmer in the vicinity of San Diego,
Cal., has discovered a new use for the
alkali springs which abound in that vicin
ity. He uses them for washing his sheep
before shearing, the strong alkali remov
ing every particle of dirt and grease, and
leaving the fleece perfectly white. ,
Aw Iowa editor says: “ Last season we
could not get five bushels of good pota
toes for one year’s subscription. This
year we consider ourselves lucky if we
get two bushels for the same equivalent.
Now we ask what encouragement is this
for a man with a growing family ?”
Thr Kewtucky Coal Miwe Strike.—
The Knoxville Press and Herald of
Thursday says the strike of the day
hands at the Knoxville Iron Company’s
miues, has suspended operations in the
mines, temporarily, the miners not being
able to work without the co-operation of
the drivers, etc. Work in the Black Dia
mond Company’s mines has been re
sumed, the men being pacified. The Mc-
£<ven mine is still idle.
• The Probable Loss of the Ismalia.
The loss of the Ismalia of the Anchor
Line is fully credited at the Ship News
Exchange in Pine street. She sailed for
the Mediterranean on the 29th of Sep
tember with a heavy load of freight, but
carried no passengers. The last seen of
her was on the 2d ult., when she was
stopped off the coast of Nova Scotia by a
sailing vessel short of provisions. The
vessel and cargo were valued at near half
a million.
Tint new Trinity College buildings at
Hartford, Conn., are .to consist of four
quadrangles, and they will contain with
in them nearly four acres of ground. The
plans contemplate furnishing accommo
dation for three hundred students, though
at first dormitories for only one hundred
and fifty will be erected. The plans have
been prepared by a London architect, and
the architecture is to be the early English
which flourished in the thirteenth cen
tury.
Harper’s Maoaziwe for December was
received yesterday at Brown & Co.’s—
early in tho field. The opening illus
trated article is upon “The Water Ways
in New York”—the Erie Canal. “Around
Lake Leman” is another profusely, illus
trated and excedingly inter ssting paper.
A third entitled to the same comendation
is the eecond paper upon Northern Cali
fornia. “The Golden Wedding,” a poem
of seven pages by H. E. Hudson, is a
lively performance, and full of spirited
pictorial illustrations.* Number one of
“South Coast Saunterings in England" is
also a maze of pictures. In short, there
is an extraordinary wealth of wood cuts
in Harper for December, and it is evi
dently a number of great interest.
A Mountain of Coal.—Capt. Harris,
of Bockwood, was in Chattanooga during
the Fair, and, according to the Commer
cial proposes to deliver in Chattanooga
for five hundred dollars, a column of coal,
to be taken from tbe Bockwood mines,
ninety feet in height, to be sent to the
centennial exhibition at Philadelphia. It
is to be taken from a vein of coal ninety
feet thick, in sections fifteen feet in
length. The column will be four feet
square, and each section will bo boxed
and branded for shipment. Each section
will contain about twenty tons, or one
hundred and twenty tons altogether. He
got out the lump that we sent to Vienna,
to which a premium wa3 awarded. He
•ays it will cost more than five hundred
dollars, but ho is willing to contribute all
above that amount.
Selling Off at Cost anj> Below.—
The World, of Tuesday, says the sales of
H. B. Claflin & Co., and Peake, Opdycke
A Co., under the liberal inducements
which they offer to cash or thirty-day
buyers, began yesterday and will continue
till tho present stock is closed out. Claf
lin & Co. offer a stock valned at $6,000,-
000, which they propose to sell positively
within thirty days. The large discount
offered by both these firms is a practical
return to a good basis for cash payments.
Such a step will naturally bring into ac
tive circulation the floating capital of
country buyers who have delayed their
purchases in anticipation of a sudden and
additional fall in values. Should this be
the result, the two firms will have solved
1 he problem of drawing ready money back
into the channels from which a loss of
public confidence had driven it. Yester-
<in;, a vriyal* brought a large number of
< 1 uyees, and an increase may be an-
lapate 1 in the sales of to-day, which
w. prove the so cess of the bold and
p . ) i' : pir.ted step taken by those
hou.es.
Negro Labor Convention.
A negro labor convention has been in
session the present week in the capital of
Alabama, and we see by the report of
proceedings in the Montgomery Adver
tiser of Thursday that the convention
passed the following preamble and reso
lution :
Whereas, We learn with pleasure that
a committee of gentlemen from the
United States Senate will be in this rity
on Monday to investigate the practica
bility °f the navigation of the Coo3a river,
which in tho opinion of this convention
will result in great good to the laboring
men of Alabama ; therefore, be it
Besolved, That a committee of five he
appointed by the President of this con
vention to wait upon said committee of
• gentlemen from the United States . Soil*
ate to urge upon them the necessity of
the United States government making
the Coosa river navigable.
We can well understand that if the
United States agree to ditch out the
Coosa river, labor at a dollar a day may
be in request; but then did the darkies
reflect upon the disturbance in the cat
fishery which might ensue. The Coosa
and Tallapoosa, as we all know from
Simon Suggs, are streams abounding in
“owdashus cats,” and no man can readily
comprehend the amount of support
afforded to the laboring Africans of Geor
gia and Alabama by these cat fisheries,
until he takes a trip np and down the
rivers in a steamboat. One such trip will
satisfy him that “ catting ” is the great
industry of the country, and more vital
to the colored population than any and
all others.
But next the Committee on Memorials
reported a memorial to the President of
the United States setting forth the des
titute condition of the laboring people of
Alabama owing to the failure of the cot
ton crop and asking the President as the
head of the Government to supply them
with bread and meat, which memorial was
adopted.
Now that needs no explanation, and the
“President as the head of the Govern
ment, ought to make permanent bread
and meat arrangements for its industrious
wards to the end of time. A good sup
ply of lard should also be added, because
the negro sometimes wants to fry his
cats. Stewed cats are good, but stewed
cats all the time become tiresome.
Again, the Committee on Homesteads
reported resolutions which were adopted
recommending that the Labor Union of
Alabama petition the General Assembly
to pass a law exempting all homesteads
within the State from taxation, provided
that the principal crops grown thereon
consist of corn, peas and potatoes, and in
lieu thereof that the taxes be increased
on all lands within the State held by mo
nopolists and speculators.
That is good, too, with two or three
millions of revenue to be annually col
lected out of wild lands, town property
and personal estate. It is very clear that
the African Labor Union of Alabama
would be left its sole occupants in the
course of about two years.
On labor and wages the Convention,
after a long discussion adopted the fol
lowing propositions:
1st. That the system of working for a
share of the crops raised be dispensed
with so far as the same is practicable;
2nd. That the interests of the laboring
masses will be best subserved by their
working for a fixed amount of wages per
annum, payable monthly in money;
3rd. A uniform system of written con
tracts, equally reciprocal toward employer
and employee;
4th. That wages should be secured by
a lien upon real or personal estate of the
employer, as the laborer is not respon
sible for any failure of crops; and
5th. That separate contracts be made
by each laborer, and that the “ squad”
system be abolished; and that wherever
it it possible, that laborers should pur
chase small tracts of land on long time,
securing the sams by mortgage.
After considerable discussion, the re
port of the committee was adopted.
The Committee on Civil Bights report
ed a resolution in favor of asking the Na
tional Council, which will meet in Wash
ington next month, to urge upon Con
gress the passage of Hon. Charles Sum
ner’s Civil Bights bill, which was adopt
ed. Delegates to the National Council
were elected, two from the State at largo
and three from each Congressional Dis
trict.
Florida News.
Oysters.—The Jacksonville Bepubli-
can correctly says the State of Florida
baa a mine of undeveloped wealth in its
oyster beds. The oysters of Matanzas
Inlet, Cedar Keys, St. Marks, Apalachi
cola and Pensacola are unsurpassed by
any in tbe world in size and flavor, and
they offer a fine field for lucrative invest
ment. An extensive trade is done at Ce
dar Keys and other points in shipping in
the shell, but if they were canned it
would be more profitable, and there
would be no limit to the extent to which
tiie business might attain. And in this
connection the Bepublican further says
that the business qf canning meats, fish,
fruits and vegetables has become very
extensive in all sections of the country,
and is enlarging every year. In Florida
we have an abundant supply of green
turtle, fish and oysters, which offer a
good field for investment and enterprise
in tbe canning business. Such vegeta
bles as corn, peas, beans and tomatoes
can be grown and pat up in many parts of
Florida with profit. In a few years we
may also expect to see a lucrative busi
ness in canning guavas, pine-apples, ba
nanas, figs, grapes and other fruits.
Discouraged.—The Tallahassee Flor
idian say8 the great scarcity of money and
the low price of cotton furnishes ample
ground to breed general distrust and
much discouragement among the people.
Times are indeed hard, and everybody
seemsto have the blues. Farmeis are blue,
business men are blue, printers are bine,
and everything has a bluish hue. What
will we do—what can we do ? Do the
best yon can, is Bill Arp’s advice.
Outrageous Thefts.—The Gainss-
ville Era says: “On Saturday night, Oc
tober 25th, the clock belonging to the
East Florida Seminary was stolen. It is
a valuable one, of polished case, and in-
dieating the days of the month as well os
the time. It is abont three feet long,
and made to hang against a wall. Also,
the same night, the altar cloth of the
Episcopal Church was stolen from tho
church building.’*
The catch of mullet at Jacksonville has
been extraordinary within the last week.
Singular Death.—We hear, says the
Floridian, of a colord boy in the Centre-
ville neighborhood being stung in the
mouth by a bee last week while eating
sugar, and dying from tbe effects thereof
in fifteen minutes.
The schooner H. G. Hands, from New
York to Jacksonville, was wrecked on tho
St. Johns bar last week. She was being
towed m over the bar in rough weather,
when the hauser broke and she drifted on
one of the banks and broke np and sunk
in eight feet of water. She was loaded
with general merchandise for Jacksonville
merchants. About 25 per cent, of the
cargo was saved.
Maj. H. B. Teasdale has a large
orange tree in his grove above Welaka, J
the trunk of which measures eighteen
inches in diameter. This tree will yield, i
the Major thinks, at least five thousand j
oranges this season. J
The Surratt Execution
Was-an act well calculated to harass the
minds of the perpetrators. To begin
with, unless the C institution is a farce
the parties were all unlawfully convicted,
They were entitled to trial by jury, but
were strangled by a military commission
organized to hang. The Northern mind
however, at the time, naturally excited
to madness by the assassination of Presi
dent Lincoln—a most cruel and deplora
ble event-more unfortunate for the
South than almost any other which did
Jjappen or could have happened—wo say
the Northern mind demanded a bloody
satisfaction, and took it in these summa
ry executions. It was not in the humor to
wait the slow process of law,
But the violent, disgraceful and, worst
of all, totally unmerited death of this un
fortunate lady, who is now generally con
ceded to have been entirely innocent of
the murder and a very estimable and con
scientious woman, has, no doubt, been a
heavy load on the consciences of all the
actors,
Judge Holt, as one of the most active
parties in the tragedy, writhes under it,
and some time ago appeared, in an article
in the Washington Chronicle, charging
the responsibility on ex-President John
son—alleging that Mr. Johnson disre
garded the recommendation of the court
for a commutation of punishment, and
was deaf to all his own suggestions of
mercy.
Mr. Johnson’s reply appears in the
Chronicle of the 11th instant, but by de
lay in the mails had not been receieved
here yesterday. A telegram of the 11th,
however, has characterized Mr. Johnson’s
reply as overwhelming against Holt. A
telegram to the Courier-Journal gives the
main point of it as follows:
After reviewing the evidence adduced
by Judge Holt, Mr. Johnson says:
“In the search for testimony Judge
Holt succeeded in discovering only one
witness who said he saw the record of the
case with the petition attached in the
President’s office. This witness is Hod
James Speed, then Attorney General, who
is undoubtedly mistaken in his statements;
for, as already shown, the findings and
sentence of the court were submitted on
the 5th of July, he (Holt) and I being
alone, were then and there approved by
the Executive and taken by the Judge
Advocate General to tho War Department,
where on the same afternoon was issued
the order to carry them into effect. Mr.
Speed doubtless saw the record, but it
must have been in the Department of
War, and not in the Executive office. The
record of the court was submitted to
me by Judge Holt in the afternoon
of the fifth day of July, 1865. Instead
of entering the Executive mansion in
the usual way, he gained admission by
tbe private or family entrance to the ex
ecutive office. The examination of the
papers took place m the library, and he
and I alone were present. The sentences
of the court in the cases of Herold,
Aizerott and Payne, were considered in
the order named, an l then the sentence
in the case of Mrs. Surratt. In acting
upon her case, no recommendation for a
commutation of her punishment was
mentioned or submitted to me; but the
question of her sex, which has already
been adverted to and discussed by the
newspaper columns, presented itself and
was commented upon both by Judge Holt
and myself.
JUDGE holt’s ARGUMENTS FOR HANGING
MRS. SURRATT.
With peculiar force and solemnity, be
urged that the fact that the criminal was
a woman was in itself no excase or pallia
tion ; that when a woman unsexed her
self and entered the arena of crime it was
rather an aggravation than a mitigation
of the offense; that the law was not mode
to punish men only, but all, without re
gard to sex, who violated its provisions;
that to discriminate in favor of Mrs. Sur
ratt, and against Herold, Atzerott and
Payne, who were sentenced by the same
court and at the same time to suffer the
penalty of death, would be to offer a pre
mium to the female sex to engage in crime,
and bribe the principal actors in its com
mission ; that since the rebellion began,
in some portions of the country females
had been prominent in aiding and abet
ting traitors, and he thought the time
had come when it was absolutely neces
sary, in a case so clearly and conclusively
established, to set an example which
would have a salutary influence. He was
not only in favor of the approval of the
sentence, bat it3 execution at the earliest
practicable day.
JUDGE HOLT WRITES THE ORDER.
Upon the termination of our consulta
tion, Judge Holt wrote the order approv
ing the sentence of the court, I affixed
my name to it, and, rolling up the papers,
he took his leave, carrying the record
with him, and departing as he had come
through the family or private entrance.
THE SPIRIT ANIMATING JUDGE HOLT.
Prom the above statement it will be
noted that the papers were not submitted
in the usual way by the Secretary of "VVar,
but brought to the President by tho
Judge Advocate General, under, of
course, the instruction of Mr. Stanton.
This doubtless was done to save time and
hasten the execution, and evinces the
spirit which animated Judge Holt during
the entire proceedings. Who can doubt
that, if his name and that of Judge Bing
ham had been attached to the petition
signed by five members of the court, and
the prayer had been brought to the at
tention of the President, such an appli
cation whould have been duly weighed
by the Executive before final action in
the premises?
JUDGE HOLT’S DILEMMA.
Mr. Johnson says in conclusion t “ It
being absolutely certain that, if the peti
tion was attached to the original record
before it was submitted to the President,
it is not to bo foimd in the printed copy
authorized by Judge Holt ancLcertified to
by Colonel Burrett, Special Judge Advo
cate of the commission the question
arises which of the two is the authentic
and genuine. If tho record in possession
of the Judge Advocate General is true,
then that is false which he has given to
the public. If on the other hand, the
record published with his official sanction
is true, then that in his bureau is false
necessarily. Judge Holt is at liberty to
accept either alternative, and to escape
as he may the inevitable conclusion that
he did not only fail to submit the petition
to the President, but suppressed and
withheld it from the official history of
the most important trial in the annals of
this nation.”
Trials of a Negro who Votes the
Conservative Ticket.—The Bichmond
Dispatch of Tuesday, in its police reports,
says: Lydia Taylor, Julia Brown, Ann
Jones, Edmonia Harris, Henry Harris,
Edward Taylor, Americus Dudley, and
Eliza Dudley (negroes), living in Bock-
etts, were brought before Justice White
yesterday charged with trespassing upon
the premises of William Bass and threat
ening his life.
From the evidence it appeared that
Bass, who is a colored blacksmith, had
announced his intention to vote the Con
servative ticket, and at once falling into
disfavor with his colored neighbors, was
threatened with social ostracism and
bodily harm if he should dare to do so.
Firm and open m his determination and
acts, he did vote the ticket of his choice,
Editorial Correspondence.
Cuthbert, November 15, 1873.
The trip from Macon to this place was
accomplished without the deviation of a
minute from the time table, and as usual
the cars were well filled with passengers.
HARD TIMES.
If the subject was not possessed of such
feeling significance to all, it would be
amusing to recount tho varied expe
riences, personal calamities, and shifty
plans for relief, which were suggested by
very many of the traveling sufferers.
At each station a fresh bevy of mourn
ers and grumblers got on board, compared
notes, shook their heads, and howled out
to the Savannah News, under .date of the
12th, gives the following sad intelligence i
The fever seems to have taken a new
THE GEORGIA PRESS. j mangled yesterday, by a gin on the farm j On Thursday ther\? Wtfe eleven steam
I °f Johnson & Books. It got in among - a hips, twenty ships, sixtedff barks, four
A special dispatch from Bainbridge the saws while feeding the gin, and was I, . . th - .
.. ~ , - mangled above the elbow. It is possible ! bn & 3 and tmrteen schooners
tho arm will be saved. J Savannah for various foreign and dom'6»
We heard a planter say yesterday, that | ports. Last year at the same date
, . T , , he would not feed the best hand and there were seven steamers, twenty-tso
ttssraMs-5 wsaftsssa
in a dying condition,
died of ‘ the plague yesterday. Business
is entirely prostrated. The death-roll to
date foots np nearly forty, and wo cer
tainly deserve the aid and sympathy of
the State.
Later.—The Mayor of our city, Captain
George W. Lewis, died this evening at
four o’clock of yellow fever. His wife was
buried yesterday. Your readers are alread
aware of his services to fio sick during
The Carters villa Standard and Express
has this:
Large flocks of wild pigeons are seen
daily in the vicinity, and a roost within
a few miles of the city is said to be
nightly swarming with' them.
The Albany News is “glad to learn that
the first installment of $150,000 of the
ships, thirty barks, nine brigs and seven,
teen schooners.
Mr. T. C. Warthen, of Washington
county, who made five hales of cotton on
cne acre of land, furnishes the Sanders-
ville Herald with the following account
of the land, its preparation, manuring,
cultivation, etc.:
The soil is sandy, with clay snhsoil
has been in cultivation for 60 or 80 years,
I suppose. Abont half of the acre was
A PBOTEST^^^g
> *•• , Tl,e w,fe of k Methodist n..
‘ A “- ! *», the Subject of a Mira C ui Oll K l 0, »ii
tatlon and Restoration to ' I,u
Great excitement has Wn _ , ”’
New Hampshire by an aoc<fturt22!? «
ttsaasrSMSSss -s-
Christian. The community and the
church sustain cn irreparable loss in his
! untimely death, and tho order of Free
Masonry loses its brightest member in
this section. Ho leaves four orphan
children. The fever has made a largo
number of orphan children, many of
whom are thrown upon the cold charities
of the world.
10th instant, and that the road will be
'pushed on to Eufaula as soon as circum
stances will allow.”
The Columbus Sun furnishes the fol
lowing items:
Clay’s Horses.—To those who were
interested in the late raffle in Macon we horse plow, breaking eight inches deep
give the information that the horses Gray Then with a sixteen inch scooter run
m__ -vr Q _„ -.oft, -u na Eagle and Fiying Cloud have been sold to i® the two horse furrow, breaking
The Savannah. News of the 13th has { Umted states Senator Robertson, of South I from 5 to 7 inches; in the whole 13 to 15
the following account of a murder in Carolina, and sent to Washington City. | inches deep. I then followed in the sccoter
1,400 pounds; raw pine-straw, from the
woods, 60 ox cart loads; green cotton
seed, 60 bushels; stable manure, well
rottqd, 400 bushels. The pine-straw, cot
ton seed and stable manuere I hauled out
in January and strewed broadcast over
tho land, then tnmed’under with a two
murder in
Glynn county s
On Sunday last Kandolph Aiken, a col
ored man, who had entertained a hostile
feeling towards a negro fireman employed
at Aiken’s Mills, near Darien, on account
of some fascinating damsel, met his rival
accidentally and after a few angry words
deliberately shot him, killing him in
stantly. The Slews of the tragedy spread j
Tbe wheel horses of the famous team are
still in Macon.
County Debt.—We heard Treasurer
Markham state yesterday that the total
debt of Muscogee county was $30,000,
including the bonded debt of $6,000. This
is not near so heavy as generally sup
posed.
Boute Agent Between this Point
rapidly, and in a short time a crowd of I AND Macon.—Belcher, the colored post
negroes gathered who were clamorous for I master at Macon, has appointed Mr.
justice perfectly poised, only causing
law, equity and right to “kick the beam.”
A PETIT 80UPER.
The writer enjoyed the honor of re
ceiving two invitations to banquets given
by members of the bar to their distin
guished visitor. The first, at which it
was not his good fortune to be present,
came off at the residence of that gifted
barrister and courteous gentleman, Col.
Herbert Fielder. Those who know his esti
mable lady, will at once be satisfied that
nothing was wanting to the comfort and
luxurious entertainment of her guests.
One of the Colonel’s sons, who is a very
Nimrod in the field, contributed six deli
cious teal ducks, the product of a single
shot, to his mother’s supper. Such boys
are no expense to feed.
The other feast was given by Eugene
Douglass, Esq., who is abrother of the la
mented Col. Marcellus Douglass. Nearly
all the members of the bar were present,
and their accomplished wives also.
Judge Hansell proved himself as agree
able and pleasant in social life as he is
trustworthy and discreet in the discharge
of his official duties. Tho entertainment
was superb, and if panic and disaster
brooded without, within those hospitable
walls peace and baronial plenty reigned
supreme. The host and his amiable
spouse exerted themselves to the utmost
for the .entertainment of their guests.
Nor is it any breach of confidence to
state that the turkeys, chickens, pigs,
sweetmeats, jellies, pickles, butter, and
even the pecan nuts on that crowded
board were all raised by Mrs. Douglass..
She is indeed a famous housewife and ex
cellent lady.
MUSICAL FESTIVAL.
On Friday night, Capt. Flowellen, the
popular president of Andrew College,
gave a free concert in the chapel of that
institution. The performers were all
members of the musical clasp, as
sisted by their teachers. The arator
on the occasion was Mr. Dupont Guer-
ry, of Americus, who delivered a very
chaste and beautiful address to an over
flowing audience. The young ladies are
nearly all verging into womanhood, and
acquitted themselves with great credit.
We have never seen •’•ore beautiful and
intelligent looking girls. It is a favora-
and was giving vent to his joy at the sue- mreu , 6 „,. ..
cess of the Conservative party by shooting I ble indication indeed, that despite the
fire-crackers before his door when he was terrible stringency of the times, Andrew
attacked and driven intohis house by the j and Bethel Colleges and the Male High
above named parties. They then threw
rocks at his house, broke Ids windows,
and otherwise damaged his property.
The Justice patiently heard the evidence
on both sides of the question, and then
adjudged all of them guilty. Lydia Tay
lor and Ann Jones were fined $10 each,
and the others $5 each.
School at Cnthbert, are all in a prosper
ous and flourishing condition. With ad
mirable building accommodations, excel
lent teachers, great salubrity of climate,
refined society, and an advantageous situ- j
ation tliis pleasant little city must con- |
tinue to be the principal educational ce
1 tre in Southern Georgia. H. H. J.
the life of Bandolph. Sheriff Bennett, of
McIntosh county, arrested Aiken and car
ried him to Darien, where he was com
mitted to jail by the negro magistrate,
Tunis G. Campbell. We understand that
bail in any amount was offered for the
prisoner but was refused, and that the
negroe3 swore nothing but the hanging
of Bandolph would satisfy them.
The Talbotton Standard furnishes the
following items:
A negro fellow was lodged in our jail,
last Wednesday night, charged with burn
ing the gin house of Mr. Benjamin Manes
The evidence produced against him at
the commitment trial was circumstantial,
though very .strong,
A man living near the line of Merri
wether and Talbot counties, a husband
and father, sold ten bales of cotton, pock
eted the money, went back home, bun
dled up his clothes and run away with
the daughter of one of his neighbors.
All of this occurred last week. We don’t
know how many children the man had J
our informant thinks he had three or
four. His wife is represented as an ex
cellent lady. If he is caught, he shonld
be flayed alive.
About the 27th of October, Mr. Henry
Fowler, a gentleman living in Marion
county, near the line of Talbot, left home
with his gun. He told his wife that he
was going to a shingle-tree, in the woods
adjacent to his home, and if anything
happened she might send for him. Late
in the afternoon she sent some one to the
place, but the husband was not there,
and could not be found anywhere. Noth
ing could be heard from him and it was
not until the Sunday following that the
mystery was solved. Church, was held
near the missing man’s house, on that
day, and after service a party set out in
search of him. They had not gone far
when the poor man was found lying in
the edge of a small pond, dead. He was
shot in the throat, the discharge ranging
upwards. He held his powder gourd in
one hand and the ramrod of his gun in
the other, and it seems that he was in the
act of loading his gun when the fatal shot
ended bis life.
The Sandersville Central Georgian has
the following brace of items
We regret to learn that Mr. John Pitt
man, residing near the line of Washing
ton and Johnson county, was killed on
Monday morning last, by being crushed
in a cane mill while grinding his cane for
syrup. So severe was the crushing that
Mr. Pittman died instantly from the ef
fects of his bruizes
A negro was killed near Biddlesville
in this county on Friday last, by another
negro, by cutting his throat. Coroner
Tennille held an inquest over the body of
the deceased, and after investigating the
facts, the jury returned a verdict of jus
tifiable homicide.
TAB Columbus Sun of the 13th has the
subjoined cotton itetfis 1
To Tuesday flight, the total receipts .at
Union Springs, Ala., were 2,977 hales and
shipments 2,216, leaf ifig a stock of 761.
The boats thus far have brought to Co
lumbus 1,786 bales, against 1,474 same
time lost year, showing an increase Of 312.
The large proportion of the receipts this
year have been from betow Eufaula.
Columbus has received since Friday
night 1,631 hales and shipped 752. Lost
week same time 1,513 were received and
834 shipped., Same week last year, 1,451
were received and 1.468 shipped. Since
August 31st, (Mniubus has received 17,-
162 against 20,832 last showing a
decrease of 3,670 bales. Prices are 4$
cents less than this date last year. Stock
last night was 7,606 bales against 5,501
last year.
The same paper narrates the following:
On yesterday in the Superior Court, a
colored member of a negro Methodist
church sued her pastor, also colored, for
two hundred dollars which she claimed to
have loaned him, and which he stated he
paid back with the exception of seventy
five dollars. Col. B. A. Thornton, ir
speaking for his client, the woman, said
the colored preachers, in many instances,
not only desired to care for the lambs but
the old ewe3 of the flock. The suit re
minded him of an election tally sheet,
where the managers made four counts and
then talliedop the fifth. In this action
the pastor discovered the woman had $200
and went for it in this fashion: No. 1—
Come and live with me and bring the
“children.” No. 2—I’ll be your“garjene.”
No. 3.—You’re a lone widow, and if peo
ple hear you have any money they’ll try
to get it from you. No. 4—If you’ve got
any money I’ll take care of it for you.
No. 5—I’ve got your $200, so this will
make the tally. It was told splendidly,
and court, bar, jury and spectators
'smiled audibly,” and the jury gave the
woman $185.
The five nuggets which follow are
from the Marietta Journal:
A report comes to town that a negro
woman hung herself near Powder Springs
last Sunday.
Died.—Mr. Thomas Bragg, a young
man.of this city, died very suddenly last
Tuesday evening, with meningitis.
Nothing is so demoralizing to a young
man as to see his sweetheart following a
circus band-wagon in their street parade.
"What young man pulled all of his hair
out and gnashed his teeth in rage over
such an occurrence ?
Preparations were made for a grand
illumination last Wednesday night, but
owing to the sudden change in the
weather, the affair was deferred to a
more propitious evening, when “Cobb’s
victory’’ will be properly celebrated.
A one dollar bill, “raised” to a twenty,
was passed upon a lady of this city last
Saturday, she giving back $19 and some
odd cents in change. The passer was fol
lowed to Atlanta by Sheriff Stephens and
made to disgorge. His name is Zacn
Gober, and he is now prowling round the
last named city, waiting to raise some
body or to be “raised,” for judging from
his wicked propensities, his “raising” has
been sadly neglected.
The Sanders rille Herald
this:
Mr. A. D. Carraway, a crippled man,
of this county, picked 220 pounds of cot
ton one day lait week from sunrise in the
morning to one hour and a half by sun in
the afternoon.
James Miller as route agent between here
and Macon, to succeed his brother, who
was killed in the late accident. The ne
gro who was put on acted only tempora
rily.
Payment of Taxes.—Notwithstanding
the plea of hard times, Tax Collector
Frazer reports that ho has collected more
of State and county taxes than he had at
this date last year. This speaks well for
the honesty of the section, and a little for
improvement in monetary matters.
Fine Cropping—An Example for the
Country.—Mr. J. A. Goodwin and his
four young sons raised, in Harris county,
last year, six bales of cotton, 800 bushels
of corn, 118 bushels of wheat, 150 .bushels
of potatoes and fifty-five bushels of oats.
They spent not a dollar for guano.
Bailroad Trains to Chattahooche.
It was expected the trains of the Jack
sonville, Pensacola and Mobile railroad
would run to Chattahoochee, Florida, on
the river this week and we presume the
intention has been put into effect. It was
thought the trains would reach Chatta
hoochee about four o’clock in the after
noon, and leave about half past ten in
the morning. This connection will be
very convenient to parties living on the
lower river; and may he of great benefit
to Columbus. The line is now under the
superintendence of Col. Holland. This
will be the route for our people who wish
to visit East Florida. It was once
thought it would afford a competing
route for cotton to New York and Savan
nah, but that idea has been dissipated
since the Central Bailroad Company has
obtained control of all the boats on the
river.
The Gainesville Eagle says the moun
tains in Northeast Georgia above that
point are covered with snow.
"White county farmers are selling com
at 50 cents a bushel.
Theory is pretty good, but practice is
better. A Putnam county farmer informs
the Eatonton Sunbeam that if a gin band
is wet to prevent it from generating elec
tricity, in accordance with the directions
of Prof. LeBoy Broun, it will slip so that
no ginning can be done with it.
The Atlanta Constitution and the Car-
tersville Standard erect their backs at the
proposition to hold the State Fair perma
nently at Macon. Well, gentlemen, Ma
con has never insisted upon it. In fact,
she has never even intimated any such
desire.
The Chronicle and Sentinel says it is
proposed to open a regular school of tel
egraphy in connection with the Western
Union Telegraph Office of that city, and
five or six, or more, young men can take
lessons if they desire it.
Georgia Coffer.—The Constitutional
ist says the first car load of ore from the
Bell Greene Copper Mines, in Greene
county, Ga., passed over the Georgia rail
road two or three days age, en route to
Baltimore, to be tested. The ore has
reached Baltimore, and we learn that the
enterprise will prove a success,
Bishop Beckwith was in Atlanta on
Friday on his return from upper Georgia;
where he confirmed large classes at Borne,
Marietta, Dalton and Carter3Ville. He
will be in Macon on the 30th instant.
Mrs. Westmoreland.—The Talbotton
Standard has these sound remarks in de
fence of Mis. Westmoreland. We are
gldd to read and reproduce them:
We ntilice with regret this lady is being
written against as the ‘Renegade daugh
ter of the South,” bf those who esteem
her action in the Woman’s Congress, re
cently assembled in New York, as un
friendly to the prerogatives of Southern
womanhood. "Whatever Mrs. Westfl^Sre;.
land might have said in that assembly,
and we read the entire proceedings as re
ported by the New York Herald, we are
inclined to think she did not mean to
place herself before the country as an ad
vocate of woman’s rights, as this p erase
is generally understood. We do not
doubt she advocates for her sex a higher
plane of action, in common with the pro
gressive intellect of the day, but that she
should advocate the woman’s rights, free-
lovism, etc., of Woodhull, Claflin & Co.,
is preposterous, while it world be running
counter to her education and Southern
nationality. We have heard Mrs. West
moreland express herself on the subject of
woman’s rights, as well as oh many other
social questions, and feel assured her po
sition on the rights of intellectualwoman-
hood is not in contravention of woman’s
duties to home, and the high destiny she
fulfills in the social economy of the world.
The people around Norcross, Gwinnett
county—a little town on the Air Line
railroad—and, in fact, all over that sec
tion, were crazy last spring on cotton.
Now see the result, as stated in the local
furij..- with the guano, or subsoil furrow,
so on, till completed. In February, I re
peated the breaking in same manner,
leaving off manuring. In March the
same again, breaking each time cross
wise, or in opposite direction. In April,
I harrowed the land twice, to level the
soil, and destroy the young vegetation.
Then I checked off my rows three feet
each way, with a small bull-tongue plow,
and on the 13th day of May I planted my
cotton seed in the hill, six or eight inches
deep, dropped by hand covered with the
foot. The seed when covered being on
level. The seed were the “Cluster Cot
ton” variety. I purchased them from Da
vid Dickson, Esq., Oxford, Ga., to whom
must confess I am indebted for my suc
cess, to a certain extent. The seed, I am
confident were half the battle. The cot
ton was thinned to one stalk to the hill
in June, with exception of the outside
rows, in which I left two stalks. Then
plowed with 24 inch sweep, “Dickson’s’
very shallow, one furrow to the row, and
about eight days afterward, I repeated
the same, running one furrow to the row,
scraping the earth enough to destroy the
young weeds and grass. Did not use
hoe in it, in order to avoid skining the
cotton, in fact, had no use for any, as the
cotton grew so fast the shade thereof pre
vented all vegetation from growing un
derneath.
their vaticinations as to the “blue ruin” the plagu0 . F- notonlv performed hi! purchase money of the Brunswick and ; “ old dung-hiU, the other half very poor
which impended over the country. This fhnfhmr iimriAnteni the town. * iv j « :j __ i E? fo * e manuring. The guano I used was
culminated at last into a perfect climax,
when a well known Methodist clergyman
entered the cars and declared that in the
counties of bankruptcy notices wero
the order of the day, and nearly every
debtor not worth over $3,500 (the sum
exempted) was about to pursue this con
venient and summary method of kicking
loose from his obligations. "Well, it is an
easy way to pay debts.* And provided a
man has an India rubber conscience and
don’t care a continental for future credit
or reputation, it may serve his turn at
this time.
But let the writer be understood. He
is not attacking the bankrupt law when
legitimately and judiciously administered.
Ante-bellum executions, remorseless cred
itors who who will extend no accommo
dations, security debts which others
evade and leave you to shoulder, though
beggary be the result, and other equally
potent conditions, may justify this dernier
resort, always provided that the bankrupt
subsequently, and just as soon as he is
able, will pay his just debts to the last
farthing. For it should be remembered
that the decree of no court or legislative
tribunal, in foro conscientia or in the sight
of High Heaven,.can justify a man in de
frauding his neighbor by withholding
that which is rightfully his.
This law was intended to defeat Shy-
locks, and to protect honest men from
oppression. Hence when a man has in
dulgent creditors who have been his
benefactors, and are still willing to allow
him a chance to wo.k out of his difficul
ties, it is little short of downright swin
dling and repudiation, for him to go into
bankruptcy. But are there any disposed
to act thus ? We hopa not for the honor
of posterity and a fair name. Those who
are driven to this extremity by rightful
causes, have our heartiest sympathy.
HYMENEAL.
Some of the guests of a wedding party
which came off the night previous in
Macon were on board, among them the
parents of the bride. Your correspond
ent was within ear-shot, and, as usual,
having an eye to the interests of his
readers, was all attention. And; oh, that
every young benedict, or candidate for
matrimonial honors, in Georgia had been
present. Husbands caught it right and
left from these excellent people, who had
just been deprived of a sweet and du
tiful daughter by one of their num
ber. It was voted unanimously (depo
nent assenting) that not one young man
in forty was worthy to loose the shoe
latchet or kiss the hem of his wife’s gar
ment. The men were ingrates, tyrants
and remorseless, exacting creatures—the
women martyrs and angels. “ Jest so.”
And we can’t understand why the dear
creatures will put on bean catchers and
set their trap? to ensnare such worthless
game. But “ woman is an enigma,” and
a very sweet one, too, even barbarian
masculines will admit.
cuthbert.
We found everything very quiet in this
lovely little city. Its merchant prince,
whose elegant brick store crowded with
goods presents an alnost endless vista of
merchandise of ‘every description, told
the writer that the bottom of his trade
“dropped out” ten days ago, when the
Superior Court began its sessions. Pre
viously he had been doing a fine business.
Northern failures and factory stoppages,
the low price of cotton and the panic gen
erally may have caused this result. But
it is also hinted that the enginery of the
Conrt-house had not a little to do with
it—
“ No rogno e’er felt the halter draw"
With good opinion of the law
and delinquents, debtors bnd impecu
nious people generally (the writer in
cluded) don’t like to venture within bow
shot of the sheriff’s stentorian call, and
can’t breathe freely in a small room in
the worshipful presence of the judge, a
host of bailiffs armed with staves, and
scores of eagle-eyed Lawyers ready to
pounce upon you. Hence wo predict
that next week, court having adjourned;
matters will begin to improve again.
JUDGE HANSELL.
This dignified and able jurist occupied
tbe bench of the Pataula Circuit tempo
rarily, having exchanged seats with Judge
Kiddoo, pending the trial of certain
causes in which he had been retained as
counsel. The new Judge has already ac
quired great popularity from his impar
tial and courteous rulings, and his substi
tute on this occasion, also won golden
opinions from the public. Calm, dispas
sionate and firm, he held the scales of
paper:
Of the two hundred and eighty-three
bides of cotton carried to Norcross du
ring the month of October, one hundred
ana seventy were for guano liens, sixty-
three for provisions, and fifty for other
liens and money lent; showing that ev
ery bale was brought to market for the
lifting of obligations, and none for free
sale. This exhibit affords a text upon
which columns might be written.
The Chronicle and Sentinel is of opin
ion that money is not, or onght not to be
very scarce in Augusta. On Friday a
large amount of currency was deposited
in one of the city banks—one firm alone
depositing $17,500.
The Cattain of the Virginius. —
Captain Fry, tbe ill-fated commander of
the Yirginius, was, says the Chronicle and
Sentinel, a gentleman well known in
Augusta. His brother—General Fry—
furnishes 1 commanded the post for sometime during
the war, and Captain Fry, at that, time a
commander in the service of the Confed
erate States, was often here.
A ten room house on Line street, At
lanta, was burned Friday night. It was
Some Soap.
From the Danbury News.]
"We see by the Troy Whig that Frank
D. Hatfield, the agent for the soap house
of McKeon, Van Haagen <£rCo., has re
ceived a vote of thanks from the Board
of Aldermen of that city, for a gift of
soap. Mr. Hatfipld is appreciated in
Troy, and had better stay there. At
least, he should keep away from Danbury.
Several weeks ago some of his soap was
left at a house, on Liberty street, where
it gave satisfaction, we learn. Two
weeks later the lady of the house bought
a box of fancy soaps of the same manu
facture. The cakes were of three colors,
yellow, white, and pink. She took the
box home, and meant to have laid it
away, but it caught the eye of her child,
some three years old, and so erercised
the throat of the youngster that she was
obliged to -ip t v e box and the con
tents. bein'* engaged in
baking she lost eigvtt- of the affair. In
the mo.'u‘ ! "i". the ciald looked over the
box, and fin ..lar 'N-* contents to be un
usually attractive, undertook to eat them
but falling in this, used them ai blocks
for laying out townships, erecting
towers, and performing a variety of
other engineering feats Pretty soon it
fell to knocking them down, with its hand,
and then to kjpking them around the
loom with its f<5ot, and when this amuse
ment lost its attraction, it suddenly set
up a dreadful howl of agony, and started
for the kitchen. It was about this time
that the man of the house, who had been
abed up stairs, came downstairs in pants
and shirt, to get some shaving water.
When within four steps of the bottom,
he stepped on something which immedi
ately disappeared with astonishing celer
ity and deposited him on the floor below
without tbe aid of the other steps He
jot up on his feet at once, and looked
about for the cause of the accident. It
was a cake of that soap. He picked it
up, and with wonderful presence of mind
hurled it through the glass of the first
window. Then he gathered up the shav
ing cup and brash, and went into the
room. He went into it just as any man
would who had missed four steps in com
ing down stairs ; and lighted on another
cake just as he was about to kick the
door shut. That leg shot away so vio
lently as to hurt the roof of his motith,
and he came down on one knee, with his
head against the bureau. The top of his
scalp wa3 somewhat bruised, and one
drawer was without it3 complement of
knobs, and he had bitten a piece from the
the tip of his tongne, although no" one
would have suspected that last by
the flow 6i conversation that followed
as he bounded id his foot. . The appe'ar-
ance of his wife, with her face depicting
emotions of the liveliest alarm, was Web*
corned as a providential escape-valve for
the wrath boiling within him, but he
found his rage turning to "astonishment
as he saw her suddenly change her mo
tion, and dash toward him with her head
down and uttering a hysterical scream.
As the instinct of self-preservation is the
loudest, he immediately proceeded to
move out of the way of his sliding spouse,
when he encountered another cake of
'soap, and was twisted completely around
and hurried headlong against the centre
table, and immediately across her line of
march. What became of Her or the cen
tre-table in the crash that followed he
cannot tell. He remembers when" strik
ing the tab!* ai seeing some twenty-five
new planet*, with a pyrotechnic' display
in the background, and thinks he must
have heard a million fire-crackers go off
under a barrel. When he came to, he
was abed in a darkened room, with two
persom whispering in a corner, and the
air thoroughly impregnated with a.flavor
of castor oil. If Mr. Hatfield can obtain
reasonable board in Troy within five
minutes’ walk of the depot and post-
office, he will find it a bargain.
-A Piano Hardy Gurdy,
The latest invention calculated to do
away with human skill is a patent piano
player, by which an aspirant for musical
distinction can perform the most difficult
pieces without the preliminary torture
known as practicing or those terrors to
the infant called scales. This wonderful
machine owes its birth to Paris. It occu
pies a position in front of the keyboard
of the pianv, and extends from above the
key board to the floor. Over the keys of
the piano are keys corresponding to the
keys beneath them. These are the fingers
of the machine, and they have this ad
vantage over the human hand, that they
have a finger, for every note. The top of
the machine is about one foot in width.
It has in the centre two rollers, which are
moved by a crank. These carry tho
music through, and as it passes the piano
plays it. The music is on paper, and the
notes are made by cutting holes in
squares. As these holes pass a certain
point they allow a hammer to pass
through, and the stroke of that hammer
is communicated to its own key on the
piano. Each key has its hammer. It
only requires that these holes be cut at
proper intervals to strike any number of
keys at any given series. The machine
can be adapted to any instrument with
keys.
Death of the Young Girl Outraged
by the Grant Parish Negroes.—New
Orleans, November 11.—The Picayune has
advices of the death of Miss Lacour. the
Mrs. Ellen' C. Sherman, wife o e
Moses Shermsn of PieipTnt of tH'
ing been rescued from the
grave by divme interposition^
Sherman is a woman of thirhr’c iIf3 -
fair education and strong rei;£r e ’
victions. Her reputatioS f®? 3 ® 0 *-
has always been unquestionable ^?^
remarkable story has natural W. her
rise to animated discussions amoL f; Vea
who were familiar with the *
case. ^ her
It appears to he admitted on „n
that Mrs. Sherman, just before
of tbe alleged miracle, was in anertV'T
dangerous condition. She m.
able to lift her hand to her m 0 nt? C <I
this incapacity for action wa., p?!!’ ^
nied with intense pain, which at « ^
was so severe as to render her
Then came a sudden and re fc, 3 "
change without apparent cau™ ! n a ? e
rapid progress toward complete a
tion to health. P Ce rest °«i-
jSssscbsss
? videj%S,'SShr,o“CS l " 1 J
is said that the Methodists o-enerX 11
cept her account as satisfactory evi^*
of miraculous interposition, while otW
sects are skeptical, and attributing
convalescence to natural causes,
her belief m a supernatural visitati™ *
the disordered fancies of a
to the highest degree of religious £
vor and physical agony. Here is
suss, shbrman’s story.
I have been a great sufferer for »
teen-years, my sufferings increasin!? Ja
the years. For years I have been! am.
firmed invalid, but not wholly, tbonS,
mostly, confined to my bed forac3
part of the time for several yeariM?
September 10,1872. From that time m
to August 28, 1873,1 was wholly co n ?
fined, not able to stand on my feet or to
raised to a standing posture, or get on or
off the bed alone, or help myself much in
anyway. I was growing more helpless,
and was especially so for a few ! e -h
previous to my great change. Much of
the time it required two persons to more
me. I had become discouraged
about ever getting up again, S
on that night being in unusual
pain and suffering, the prospect
looked dark and dreary. I looked for
ward to years of suffering in a bed ridden
state, and I-felt that I must have more
help from God to enable me to bearthh
life-burden with perfect submission and
patience. I therefore tried, and was di
vinely helped, to anew and fully and for-
ever surrender myself and all my bein®
and interests into His hands; to lie there
in-passive subjection to all God’s will.
"When T felt that the consecration was
complete, it was easy to grasp Jesus as
my Saviour; oh, so easy! My faith
reached out to take Him as my all; and
as I did so. I began to be conscious of a
Presence, His Presence, in my room, and
a voice whispered in my inner ear, “I will
come, unto you and will manifest myself
unto you.” . It seemed as if I might, if
able to get ilp, grasp Him with my hand
and feel Hi- form, so manifest was His
presence. I fel 11 knew Him as my Saviour.
He seemed to fill the room and my wholo
being with his loving smile But I can
never tell how much of bliss entered into
that hour. I said to myself, “Truly this
is the gate of heaven!” But I wss not
satisfied My heart (I did not move or
speak with my lips. It was a spiritual
manifestation, hut as real as though per
taining to the body) cried out: “Lori,
if thou wilt, thou const make me dean.”
Immediately that voice replied, so lov
ingly and sweetly, “I will, be thou
clean 1” and with the words came the
cleansing power of Christ’s most predons
blood. I felt “It cleanseth me! It
cleanseth me P*
i was too happy
and too full to speak or move. I was
overpowered—struck dumb by such a
Presence. I felt that I could not lose
such a Presence and be left alone. I re
membered “Ask what ye will,” andlsaid
“Lord, send me the Comforter that ht
may abide with me foreYer.” I knew he
could "do it, and it was instantly given,
going through my whole frame like an
electric shock. I felt it, and the words
Befining fire go through my heart,” etc.,
passed through my mind and were true
in my experience. And the voice of
Jesus whispered, “And when He is come,
He will take oi the things of Go! and
show them unto you,” and for a few mo
ments, truly, He did show me wonderful
and marvellous things out of God’s law.
Promise after promise came before my
spirit’s eye as vividly as if written in let
ters of light; and since then it has teen
constantly verified.
I lay there overpowered by the presence
of Jesus, who still remained, though I
saw not his form at all—only his presence,
and the baptism of the Holy Spirit
"While “lost in wonder, lore, and praise,”
I said to myself, “This poor, sick, worn-
out body is a poor offering to make him
for his dwelling in return for suet won
derful love.” The Spirit whispered to
me—the first intimation I had of the de
sign of the Great Physician—“He is able
to restore and fit up for his own temple."
Instantly Jesus' passed near my bed ana
spoke, “Believest thou that I am able to
do this?” and it wa* repeated many tines,
while I moaned, “He is the same yester
day, to-day, and forever.” “All power is
given Him,” etc. Me did heal the rick,
and my judgment was convinced, f knew
he was willing. He had comebecatis
he was willing, yes, and anxious, to doit
Power to yield and believe was given. 1
said—my whole being, it seems to me,
said—“Lord, I "beHeve; help thou mine
unbelief.” He saw me and knew my
whole heart believed. Then He came
still nearer, and I heard the words, “Ana
He breathed on them and said. “Receive
ye the Holy Ghost,” and they were
accompanied by a breathing, and l
felt- - it on my face. A warming,
invigorating influence was breatjea
upon me. It passed down my body,
RELIEVING MY PAIN INSTANTLY,
and all through my frame I felt retak
ing strength and life. It was as if a
current from a galvanic battery was pac
ing through me. After a time I wa^.^V
to move, then to turn in bed. I "
without effort. Before it had taken tw
person®, and caused great 6U ® er ?§
Then “Call your husband.” I wo*
him and told him the Saviour was P re
at work on me; and while telling nun
there came the command, 1
people may know the Sou of Mint’. _
power on earth still , to forgive sins, arn»
and walk!” And as I finished
what He was doing, I arose without he,
and without effort and walked n® 5 ’,
the room several times, and gain
strength while so doing. . i
In a week I went to the Weirs
gained while there. I have been to ch
lalf the day for three Sabbaths, and 7
terday to the prayer meeting besides,
am a new creature in all respects,
cally, mentally and morally. I
awakened to newness of life. I l
from pain unless I get tired, and too -
still weak I am gaining rapidly. _/
diseases, and they were many andP
nounced incurable, are gone. My
Tiie subjoined are from the Griffin i untenanted and insured for only $1,000.
Nows of the 13th : ' l lt property of the Fulton Loan 1 ^‘ngMyvhom ^oentiy outiTedln
{ Johnny Elliott had his arm terribly and Building Association. j Grant parish.
apparently well, and I have . .
the sick headaches are removed, it J-
God in all- his laws. I am
obey the slightest whisper of H’ 3
and I would rather die than to dou ^
work He has performed on me- ,
noimce it a miraculous work to ail, oe
ers and unbelievers. Jesus saved ,
made me well. After I had walked ^
the room and gone back to rest - ^
again stood and conversed with ^
said I would now have a chance
called a fool for the sake of ^ ,
“ Would I confess it to be a e :7 T .
be called a fool?” I said, s ’ , He,
thing. I am willing to die, it
for the Lord Jesus.” I feel that ^
given all for Christ, and He is „
day. He bade me tell the “
great things the Lord had done _
I am trying to do so as far a* 1
I portunity. • Ellkn C.
faith th* 4