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V'"“ dM ,„, Merchant. Out.
»*<• '‘•’‘” ,rd hr *’ ,me,n *
„,.,orl»nce of Ather« as a busi-
, is claiming increasing atton-
,(,»c* 1 "™. r commercial men and
: •’» w0 n,l«r at the amount of goods
ca|" ,1 I l> ". sUTibute it to the fortunate
business enterprise and the
*TV, back country of Athens.
,0 " , n | f rue* with our prominent
1:1 ‘" 'men thertalk most encotirag-
bus"-'-'* h|nk t be outlook brighter than
1 t f llt en dreampt six months
\ prominent banker in the city
Mbens has wonderful factlt-
*‘ 5 V r ili’e lobbing trade and is notsur-
fS “ • r,,ods ar* shipped right un-
"‘‘‘^"^"both Atlanta and Augus
lullMba’-he would pre.fer Ath-
ta 1 . for a jobbing buainesse.
,:,s ,,tion to know the financial
11 7‘omintrc.al condition of eur city
*1'. the utmost confidence in both.
M llodg-on l'.ios. since begin
5 7n'. 1, iiisivlyjobbing trade hare
* '1 1 ,bcir sales wonderfully and de-
** uetition within »«y reasonable
; unc ■ from Athens. They are placing
7 .. Is of goads all erer Northeast
1 and*South' Carolina. Their
J', 1 ,;,!,, often run way up into the
^ iVniad ’e Bros, are too busy to talk to
liner Slid say they are doing all
b I be r sales for this week
, rod> nted and keep their whole
of door« in a continual
»r*l"
Ik
far u|
Jok
ihr ol
M tii
” a • >1 r a! iirtftrc in a continual
;,b., do both a retail and jobb.ng bi a
,B ju"i » beaeT bn' of both. The firm
" „ u i« ih* utmost canfidence every
•Vre ind tl.fir year s business will foot
* ' ' ,be hundreds of thousands.
u,i :’.ros are pulling abreast with
atahhskod linns, and their sales
, handsomely.
ri ib Hodgson .V Co. sustain the
,» „f the fauion* firm of Reaves,
,1! A Co., whom they succeded,
bn.iness repruaen ed by 40,000
,.,,11,01. I'beirl establishment is
. , n for ilile country mer-
il through this! section. ‘Their
I. , I dieted by the firm
K :J w/ho say:
Out tbcwutloik was never
1 >ur tiu-im V ** certainly on a
, ,1 ifc.intunues like it has
m twelve Iinonths it will
A 1 mafoi 1 Icii/e just commenc-
. e..ri bu-p e.siand are delipht-
,b | 1- 1 We arc hound
. 1 1,. . > and we predict a
r hit year.
; o ■- 1 - .ks tiieke is no doubt
, 1 the pi'l bis been one of
, . il.nl Athens has ever
. Ins been all and more
I lie feels sanguine as
“|b, f.uure-.1'ispects of Athens at a
„. .. 1 in', nl one of tlie best sec
M, n .in which will lie manfully
: v the proposed taiiroads
■ h. 1. U1- ' - .’His t.i be ne doubt will
.„. . • > my in the near future.
. r'l .V t'o's. busines this veal
». l.-ea li..e and I be prospects fur a
. p, mg trade. We
n'. of a vast increase in our
. ,-e . i.l.iicn g "iir store and
| . ,,m.r stuck, especially
V *[, t* i . 1 . — An increase? “Well, I
i-,. u. 1 -. > - .aid it is fully 40 or 50
l*r r la.t rear. The prospect
rin al ,n,M.r .(.ring trade is just love-
; T v,,. ar» nub 1 g arrangements to in*
..... ..i.r ,t ck To per cent. Wo are
Itm.g me un stairs lived up, and will
Bare ear go.'.Is up there. You can just
ut that tile outlook is all that could be
i-.ri for.
M M Maddrey has » large corps at
» .is. hoth in his establishment supply-
i; - his custom, ar d ee jobs all over the
car. Hr is shipping goods iTJtn North
1 ar.'lina i*. the t iiattahoochee. He re-
jioii. a 11 cmrtuleus business, but is de-
leriiiiin d t<> increase 11 largely.
I', n.nimg A-Sons'are doing a larger
kn.iness than eaer before, and are sup-
pijiug Northeast Georgia with hardware.
W. liat.i. n A Co. are doing a heavy
ii.olr.a'i and retail business, and re-
yrt atn mendous increase. There isn’t
1 letter linn in the tote, and they de-
nix' all they get.
> Ibihhs—For the past year or two
I fare noticed, with pleasure, the very
npid increase of the population of A th
en 1 he public schools and the pros
per! (.f two railroads; one leading direct
to ike Ea»t: the other connecting direct
ly lien, have turned the eyes of the
pevple to Athens. Many ate moving
kt.tfront rdhersections. Abetter feel-
it.’irj hu.iness and business prospects is
tuihie among nearly all classes of busi-
i rw nun. As regards my own business.
1 ran say that a healthy increase is con*
iumIt noticeable. I am selling more
tords to the planters now than 1 have
uvpruioua winter and spring, and they
are faying more cash for what they buy
thairtor previous years. I am gaining
territory and 1 am sellp g tnora goods at
way of heavy grocer-
ns. than 1 have in any
r m "i, y.-ar In fact, I must believe
' * a oi.r wholesale merchants arc en-
J'g a experience. I have cotne
lidehne that there is nothing in the
comm at tal line that Athens merchants
too. t 1 nr:.i-h and compete fully with
any other cuy.
hpace forbids our mentioning other
fitttia «|." are equally as popular end
™i: tjust aMlirtving and growing busi
those mentioned. I Hirer lines,
drugs, Ac., will be quoted at
lime fiuflicient to prove that
I.as every reason for self gratula
FROM THE WIRES.
Uatmel Calo.witb innumarablo aliases,
a notorious burglar.aged 23,was captured
Wednesday night, in Philadelphia. He
is known to have committed at least 25
mysterious robberies in the city since
D tcember lest.
Lee Firth, the Wsyne county, 111%
murderer, who cut his wife's throat on
a public road last Monday, was found
in s barn near by, where he had crept
and cut his own throat with the same
razor with which he had killed his wife.
The court of Queens bench, at Dublin,
Ireland, liberated Mr. Oillhooly, M,P, on
bail, pending an appeal of his case.
Annie, the three-year-old daughter
of Rev, Sam Small, died yesterday in
Washington City.
The Bank of England has reduced its
rate of discount to 2,% per cent.
A fire broke out in Providence, R. I.,
Thursday night, and an eDtire square
was soon in ruins. The loss is estimat
ed at from $500,00"0 to $700,000.
It is a certain fact th it the Crown
Prince of Germany is slowly dying. Hia
disease is cancer, despite the reports of
the physicians.
The case against Kent whom Mrs.
Burrell accused of having taken her hut-
band off to get him drunk, was dismiss
ed in the police court in Atlanta yester
day, owing to conflict of testimony. Some
fifty witnessess were examined.
John Mabry, a colored brakeman, fell
off a moving train at DongliasviUa, yes
terday morning, sad was killed.
The Salvation Army in Atlanta,yester
day had a row at their headquarters.jTwo
young men became disorderly, and were
put out by the officers of the army. Thu
recorder put a heavy fine on the two.
Robert Joaie, who was charged wtth
beating his daughter unmercifully in At
lanta, haa been set free, as it was prov
ed that his daughter’s conduct demanded
harsh treatment.
The Manhattan life insurance compa
ny, of New York, and the American
surety company have filed their arnual
reports with the Comptroller, and will
be licensed to do business In the State.
The report of the ordinance committee
of Atlanta, after elating that they had
carried out the anti-prohibition platform,
with perhaps higher license and more
THE I^EKLY BANNER-WATCHMAN TUESDAY FEBRUARY 21 tSSS
THE TRUSTEES MEET.
DR. L H. CHARBONNIER VICE-CHAN
CELLOR-
No Permanent Chancellor I'atll July-A
Pull Attendance—l>r. A. A. Lipscomb to
Fill tha Vacant Chair In Metaphjilco.
Twenty out ef thirty-six members of
the Board of Trustees o( the University,
arriued on yesterday, and at 3 o'clock
they assembled in the library for the
purpose ol taking action iu regard to
electing a new Chancellor, to fill the
place vacated by the death of the late
Dr. Patrick H. Mali. Judge J J Gres
ham presided over the Board, and Maj.
Lamar Cobb acted as secretary.
On motian of Hun N J Hammond, of
Atlanta, a motion was introduced post
poning the election until the annual
meeting of the board, which comes off in
July. Long and animated discussions
followed. The motion was finally adopt
ed by a vote of 11 to 8. A) es- H V M
Miller, J A Biilups, Jas S Hamilton, H
I) McDaniel, W M Keese, A S Erwin, N
J Hammond, C Z McCord, P A Stovall,
RC Humder, D B Hamilton. Nays—\V
A Little, It B Russell, P W Meldrira.
Harry Jackson, H W Grady, \V W
Thomas, A L 11 all and Lamar Cobb.
It was then moved and carried that
Dr L H Charbonnier, be requested te con
tinue the duties of vice-chancellor until
J uly, and Dr A A Lipscomb be asked to
finish the course ef lectures on meta-
pnysics begun by Dr. Mcll.
The petion from the council and citi
zens asking that the Rock College be
giveh the city of Athens for a term of
J iears to be used as a city hospital was
aid on the table. A committee was ap
pointed to look into the present adminis
tration of the Undscript fund as well as
the Hatch bill appropriating $15,000 te
each State by the general government
A committee consisting of Dr. Miller
Col. Billups and Mr. McCord, was asked
to draft resolutions on the death ol
Dr. Mell.
After the tranaction of routine business
the board adjourned after a session of
two hours.
It is rumored that Dr. White will ac
cent the Presidency jf the Technologi
cal school although strong attempts will
be made to induce him to remain in Ath
ens to continue in his chair of chemistry.
Uon. Henry W. Grady was called on
by the students ifter the meeting and
A PROMINENTjrusTEE TALKS. I
UU Opinion of tho a^ion on Friday and
the ultimata dlclaloa atVfc.Ir j olj •
In a talk with a member of tha board
•f trustees, yesterday, said: “The!
vote of Friday evening dot* not necessa. I
rily prejudice .the caadidaey of Pref.
White or Dr. Hopkins, or Col. Jones, or
any man whose name might have been
suggested then. As a matter of fact, no
nominations were made, and the merits
of no candidate were canvassed at all.
The vote simply meant that the m-s^bers
of the hoard bad not made u> 'heir
minds as to who was the best man to
THE ROAD TO HAPPINESS
Da TALMAGE SEVENTH SERMON TC
THE WOMEN OF AMERICA.
"What Can and What Cannot Make a
Woman Happy” HU Subject—Th. chla
takes or Toons People.
Brooklyn, Feb. 19.—This morainj
the Rev. T. Do Witt Tal mage, D.D.,
preached tho seventh of his series oi
elect for life to the position of Chancello. f,^ u: “ ed ® eTOnt * 1 Wa
and were not prepared to go into such an 'Sermon* to the Women of America,
election at that time. I w ith Important Hints to Men.” Tht
Some of the members seemed to think] opening hymn begins:
that the Chancellor of the University
should be a minister of the gospel. Th
has been the general custom, althouj
not the unvarying rale. The board pi
anmed that the affairs of the University
would be faithfully conducted in the in
terim by Dr. L. H. Charbonnier, whe,
was entrusted with the duties of Vice-'
was entrusted wttn the duties or vice- 1 f— j— rr*
Chancellor under the title of Chairman ( question-^Whafls the foad tohlm?
ofth. Faculty. He will vi.it the Branch 2^ ^ d> Xht“ft
Col ages, confer dtplomas at the Medical chief turn of life?" Mv answer was-
restricted limits than was expected, add- I s " ,upn „ - ■ V'V , ‘ ...
ed, “that politics and legislation shall be m " le * f U,k 1 “ wh ‘, h h . eeul ?S’” 1 lhe
- - " - college and created enlhuswsm hy,saying
that he would try and induce Dr. White
not to go to Atlanta. A speech was also
made by Hon P W Meldritn, of Savannah
ir. which he expressed his wish that the
board had elected Dr White.
All the trustees will leave this morn
ing for their homes.
P r
lerh >
an.tl,,-
ELVERS INDIGNANT.
KiiiK ami rialing Colton
■ • llrarlnc lie to re the «'•
Itier-Watchman met up with
>1 the h.->t cotton buyers and samp-
• r i.v yesterday,'he said, “Y'ou
: : put n it. -trong enough about the
•-:> i'V-kin • cotton. Come right in
» ! ' 11 * ill -how you a hale that has
' ■' l '’ packed or plated.” And the
►t ni.l report! r went into the large
' te ire of the Reaves Warehouse Co,
• tan,..ed a liale that was middling
"ii0:, the outside and in the middle
*' pout "'lion as could be picked.
freed from every vestige ol the domi
nation and contaminating influence of
the liquor power. The traffic in intoxi
cating liquors must be made obedient to
law, and bar-room dictation must be for
ever unhorsed and unhelmeted and
trampled in the dust. It is sincerely
hoped that we have reached, or may
very soon arrive at a permanent adjust
ment of this vexed momentous ques
tion.”
Yesterday Mr. Allie E. Garmony and
Miss Annie M. Barker, both of Atlanta,
called at the residence of Rev. Mr. Ellis,
on Walker street, and producing a li
cense. were hurriedly married. The
young man sighed deeply and said: “A
big burden is off my mind.” The bride's
parents live in Delaware.
A I’iltsburg special to the X. Y. Tri
bune, stating that Capt. Sam Brown,
knew of a Kentucky Derby having been
"pulled” in the interest of bookmakers
has created great stir in Louisville.
Capt Brown said:
“The well known pool firm. Watts,
Catheral A Hughes, had made big winter
money, oa the Derby, and just before
Derby day found that they stood to loie
nearly $275,000 in case Runnymede, the
favorite, won the race. Thera were no
other horses in the race sufficiently
speedy to best him .'airly. A pool won
however, with Runnymede second, and
the owners of Runnymede made $40,000
by failing to win.”
An investigation will be made after
securing an affidavit from Bown.
A movement is on foot to establish a
beer garden at Ponce l)u Leon springs
near Atlanta.
Chicago, February 17.—Wheat open
ed. May, 80? B c. Corn, March, 46i 4 c.
Oats, May, 31c. Pork, March, $13.77)*.
Lard, May, $7.75. Short ribs, March,
$7 25.
Dr. McGlynn has no ides of running lor
President. The labor party may nomi
nate Congressman Henry Smith of Mil
waukee.
There is great excitement in Fredonia
Caldwell county. Ky., over the ccnduct
of a party of drunken roughs, who at
tacked and fired into the houses of sev
eral prominent citizens night before last.
There was no one hurt hut several nar
row escape* from bullets. They also
broke open Hannan’s store and stole a
considerable quantity of goods. The
men whose bouses were visited have
been leaders in a crusade against viola-
tors of the prohibition laws of Fredonia.
'I here is considerable fueling over the
matter, and efforts are being made to ap
prehend the guilty parties.
One ”f the greatest fires ihat ever vis
ited Westerly, It. 1, raged for three
hours, yesteaday morning, destroying
several buildings and cau-ing a loss of
$150,000.
The Cro. n Prince passed a good night,
and to-day he is free from headache or
fever. He arose this morning, but re
mains in his room.
Mr. Julius Yaarwood, who lives about
three miles from Clarksvilte, Ga., killed
five mad dogs on last Sunday. Sometime
since a dog bit his dog and four more in
the neighborhood. He tied his dog, and
ton last Sunday morning he commenced
to show signs of hydroyhobia. Mr.
Yeartvood shot his dog, hunted up the
ulhers and killed them alt.
The Michigan Beer.—There is a great
deal of uneasiness in thia section over a
report that every person who sold the
Michigan Beer, manufactured by L. 1).
Lamar A- Co., Athens, must pay a spe
cial tax as dealer in malt liquor, which
is at the rate of $20 per annum. This is
true, unless the Commissioner of Inter
nal Revenue can be prevailed upon to
omit this tax, in view of the fact Ihat the
dealers in Michigan Beer bad no knowl
edge of the fact that it was taxable. Be
sides the tax, they must pay a penalty of
50 ptrcenL Messrs. Lamar A <?o. have
petitioned the Commissioner, through
Congressman Carlton, to have offender*
College in Augusta next month, and in
Dahlonegs in June. At th* maeting of
the board in July it wilt bn necessary to
elect not only a permanent Chancellor,
but also a Professor ot Metaphysics, and
one of the trustees, in his remarks, sug
gested a possible reorganization of th*
faculty. When the question of Chan
cellor comes up at that time, the name
of Dr. White will probably be present $1
along with those of Dr Curry, Dr. Hop
kins, Col. Jones, and perhaps others.
Prof. White’s friends should not allow
him to retire from the contest until his
claims have been canvassed along with
those of other men. Dr. White will cer
tainly hold his own in this comparison,
and his friends on the board will be in
creased rather than diminished. Some
of those who voted for a postponement
yesterday, will probably be in his favor
in July. Certainly the vote to postpone
the election should not be regarded as
prejudicial to Dr. White’* chances any
more than those of any other gentleman
whose name has been or may be sug
gested for the place.
The Athens friends of Dr. White; in
fact, his admirers all over the State,
trust that he will remain in Athens and
allow his name to be presented before
the board at their annual aieeting in
J uly.”
Dr- White’s name was certainly the
most prominent before the board on
Friday, and had the question been
brought to a vote he would have un
doubtedly been elected.
Then let our aoaga abound.
And every tear be diy,
wo’re mairMn* through Immanual’a ground.
To fairer worlds oa high.
Dr. Talmage took for his text the fol
lowing words: “She that liveth in pleas
ure is dead while she liveth.” He said:
Tho editor of a Boston newspaper, •
GETTING HIS MONEY-
A Talk With Col. C. W. Powoll.
Col. Toon Powell passed through the
city yesterday on his way to Pleasant
Hill, in Oglethorpe, to settle with Col.
Smith, for the work done on the Macon
and Covington road. Col..Smith has al
ready received the money, and will pay
off the gab-contractors as soon as the
estimates are footed up. Mr. l’owcl!
will receive about $22,000 and Hampton
and Uradeen $0,000. Col. P. has his
hands at work between Madison and
Monticello, and says that tracklaying on
the M. A C. road is being pushed from
Madison and Montisello, and everything
is moving along as fast as possible. It
will not be long before there will be a
large force of hands put on the line be-
tween Athens and Madison, and work
will commence all along the line. The
engineers are now on the line between
Madison and High Shoals, and it is not
yet settled whether the road will come
t by Watkinsvilie or High Shoals. Col.
Powell says he has got rid of all his
convicts, except a few trusties, and now
empioys only a night watch to look af
ter the tires. He is very hopeful about
the railroao’.situation.
T1I1C ANDEHSON VILLE PRISON.
A Wonderful Freak of Nature
is sometimes exhibited in t>ur public ex
hibitions. When we gsze upon some of
the peculiar freaks dame nature occtsion-
ally indulges in, our minds revert hack
to the creation of tuan,“ who is so fear
fully and wonderfully made.” The mys
teries of his nature have been unraveled
by Dr. R. V. Pierce, of Buffalo, and
through his knowledge of those myster
ies he has been able to prepare his “ Gol
den Medical Discovery," which is a
specific for all blood taints, poisons and
humors, such as scrofula, pimples, blotch
es, erraptions, swell.ng, tumors, ulcers,
and kindred offections. By druggists.
Hillman Electric Shaft.—Dr. Ed
Newton, who has recently returned from
a trip through Georgia and Florida, tells
as that the most attractive and wonder
ful places in his route were the Ponce de
Leon hotel, at Jacksonville, Fla., which
is fast gaining a national fame as one of
the most magnificent inns in the South,
and the Electric Shaft at Hillman’s, just
below Barnett, on the Washington
Branch. The hotel at the Shaft is kept
open the entire year, a id will be filled
with visitors the who).; time. The Shaft
has effected some remarkable cures, and
is one of the unexplained wonders of the
day. Dr. Newton suggests that as soon
as the weather moderates a little he will
get up an excursion from Athens, Au
gusta and Washington, to meet at Hill
man’s, take tea and return the same day.
This will give all an opportunity to see
the Eighth Wonder, and will be a most
enjoyable trip.
Fine Farms.—Greune is one of the
best counties in Middle Georgia, and
boasts a highly intelligent set of farmers.
In passing through it you see many
beautiful country homes and well im
proved premises, denoting tho thrift and
enterprise of the owners. The farmers
seem to be doing well, too, as many
barns are filled with home-raised pro
duce. There is no doubt but that the
farmers of this section are in a more pros
perous condition than since the war,
and all they now lack it. a reliable class
of labor. The negro don’t seem to im
prove with years since emancipation.
Something must be found to take his
plaee.
Education and Starvation.—A gen
tleman informed a B.-W. reporter that
Ileiiiiuesencc* by one who Wm There.
Was Andersonyillc as bad a place at
the papers North make it out to be said,
a full-fledged Yankee just from the boun
daries of Massachusetts to a South
erner.
The Southerner who looked like he
had seen service in the war of 1812,
turned his quid of tobacco to th* south
side and commenced:
“Stranger,” said he, “from your looks
I think you are a Yank, the kind we
fought during the war, but as the bloody
shirt has been buried I am willing to give
you the benefit of all I know. I was at
Andersonville after serving along time
in the Virginia army, and you can bet if
there is such a thing as a hell on earth
Andersonville was the place. There were
four regiments composed of the old and
the young men of Georgia, those that
were too old and too young to go into
the regular army were sent to Anderson
ville to guard the prisoners. The troops
were all gteen and ao were the officers,
and af the 35,000 prisoners had broke out
during the night they could have cap
tured the euarda and all of the regiments.
The stockade was on the slope of two
hills with a branch running centerally
through it and out of this branch the
prisoners got their water. There was
about 40 acres in the enclosnre which
was made by digging a deep ditch and
splitting pine trees in half and setting
theui in the ditch and filling in the bot
tom with d>Tt. The split pines made
the stockade about twelve feet high, and
it was impossible toaca’l this . wall, ev
ery fifty was a place 'fixed for
a. guard to . stand and he 'faad
his orders never to.let a prisoner pass thF
dead line, which was eighteen feet from
the wall, to a railing inside of the stock
ade; to pass this line was instant death,
as the guards had orders to kill all who
attempted to cross it.
There was about 150 guards stationed
around the stockade at the time, and ev
ery fifteen minutes the word was passed
around fr< m post to post as follows:
Post No. J, 9 o’clock ‘and all is well’
Post No. 2 announced that‘all was well
with him,’ and so it went around.
These guards csrrried on a regular
trade during the night with the prisoners
and many a good hat and blue overcoat
was fished out for a mesa of turnip
greens. It was positively agaiust orders
but the trading was done while the offi
cer of the guard was out of the way.
There was at one time 35,000 prisoners
confined in this stockade and they were
so thick that they couldn’t all lie down
at the same time. The dead house on
the outside of the stockade was a ghastly
place, and two and three hundred were
hauled out every morning to the grave
yard. There was two sqnads of prisoners
kept busy day and night digging graves
and burying the dead. The night squad
would dig a long ditch during the night
and when the dead was brought out the
next morning the day squad would bury
them and if they knew the name of the
dead person they would put up a head
board for him.”
“Did you have dogs?” said the thor
oughly disgusted Yank. “If you could
have been there and heard Captain Tur
ner after some escaped prisoner you
would have thought that there were
dogs by the thousand. The prisoners
often attempted to escape but thqy nev
er got verv far from the stockade before
they were treed.”
At this point the old soldier com
menced telling about how Captain Wiry
counted the prisoners with the paint of
his pistol and left the Y’ank with the be-
lief that it must have been a rough place
- _ life!" My ———
The rood to happiness is tha continuous
effort to make others happy. The chief
Mm of life ought to be usefulness, not
cappings, but happiness always follows
Uaefulnffis.” This morning’s text in a
ationg way set* forth the truth that a
woman who seeks in worldly advantage
her chief enjoyment will come to ‘disap
pointment and death. “She that liveth
in pleasure is dead while she liveth."
My friends, you all want to be happy.
You have had a great many recipes by
which it is proposed to give you aatis-
faction—solid satisfaction. At times you
feel a thorough unrest. You know as
well as older people what it is to be de
pressed. As dark shadows sometimes
fall upon! the geography of the school
girt as upon the page of the spectacled
philosoplier. I have seen aa cloudy days
in May as in November. There are no
deeper sighs breathed by the grandmother
than by the granddaughter. I correct
the popular impression that people are
happier in childhood and youth than they
ever will be again. If we live aright, the
older the happier. The happiest woman
that I ever knew was a Christian octoge
narian; her hair white as white could be;
the sunlight of heavdp late in the afternoon
gilding the peaks of ynow. I have to say
to a great many of the young people
that the most miserable time you are
ever to have is just now. Aa you ad
vance in life, as you come out into the
world and have your head and heart all
full of good, honost, practical Christian
work, then you will kxfew what it ia to
begin to be happy. Th%ro are those who
would have us believe that life is chasing
thistledown and grasping bubbles. We
have not found it so. To manv of ua it
has been discovering diamonds larger
than the Kohinoor, an^T 1 think that our
Joy will continue to increase until r th
ing short of
heaven will 1
Horatio Gr
hardest life t
an American
want to leave
rlasting mb'
| express it.
the close of tha
r lives—the life of
“I don't
until I give
relieved of this tax, apd Deputy Collec- be stopped several little colored sch ool
tor (isnlt has consented not to enforce children on the road and opened their
■‘i-i,-uoil cotton, said ibe buter, ce n cct ; ong against aay parties pending I buckets, to aec what they really had to
” » • f t. I he farmer thinks it a jhis decision. This is just where the e>t while getting an education. He found
u id. to — .‘1,1. 'bo mgtter stands. We hope that the tax in each bucket a little piece of corn
“ " bread, about as large rs his two fingers,
and this was all the children had to eat
all day. The negroes say they are de
termined to educate their children if
thev have to starve them down to skele
tons to do se. that the next generation
can hold their bants with th* whites
The women have ali quit work, the chil
dren are at school, while the men de
m*nd an eight-bourrule. What will be
come of these people is a serious consid
eration-
Come South.—Several patties from
Chicago are wintering at Union Point and
express themselves a* delighted with
the country and climate. If there was
a fine hotel in Athens it could bo kept
filled both winter and summer with
suest*. There is not a healthier spot on
the globe than the Classic City. That
new hotel must be boilt the coming sum
mer. It is badly needed, and will pay
handsomely. Who will sot the ball in
mstion?
$500 Not Cited For,
It seems strange that it ia necessary to
persuade men that you can cure their
diseases by offering a premium to the
man who rail* to receive benefit. And
vet Dr. Sage ondoudtedly cured thous
and* of cases of obstinate catarrh with
his “ Catarrh Remedy,” who would never
have applied to him, if it had not been
for his offer of th* above sum for an in
curable case. Who is the next bidder
for cure or cash?
Cut His Thboat.—A dispatch was re
ceived here yesterday eveniag from
Greeneabaro, which listed that Lucres
Holt, a colored barber, who left Athena
some time «go for shooting at Tom Rob
erta, had cut hia throat with a raxor and
cored not live.
t-ick to get siich cotton off 00 th*
■"•f". but we detect it
“f Wing with our gimlet
•'‘I tv-lunation is mad# at once. Thia
r* 'farim.r sold at a good price, but
ti- fr»n t w is iletected and h* had to
back ft ko on the bale.
buyers are getting tired of this
us,,l,s '. »nd arc determined to prose-
c “b ibe 1, xt man who attempts to palm
* k : «!"1 bale of cotton and give him
* Soo*l line and a term in the Georgia
turn ua:.g. Said the cotton buyer;
1 t.rr» are farmers who stand high in
be c.iurcli and occupy the amen seat*,
. 10 , been caught bringing these
' Vae'sed hales to market-
‘ nun the way the buyers talk, aom*
X * ' lots 'bis kind of work will have
, in the courts. The buyers are
in tool,, and they sample the cotton to
f JjMdle, and if they find it false pack-
ii.. merchant has only to look on h‘
0l '»e and sea wbo he bought it from.
•WSwarmo Ground.—It is now a
"•at Athens has a veritable swap-
, ® E'nund equal to Jefferson or Mon-
iT * '“Jerday we paid a visit to the
"Vie yard** it is commonly called, and
n j‘d -ieeter, the king of the grounds,
ef ill ’* * nt I I***® horses and mules
„, * ,1M Anil colors, ages and previoua
Je iter is the George Wash-
noV'i" " lhr ,lors * *"»ppers, for he will
c,1 ' e » buyer under any circum-
»**« hi * horses. While we
• I .Hiking on, a gentleman came up
il« r ,0 huy a good, gen-
, .'fly burse. Jester picked out
that looked like
black
htdbl . , 1,141 looked like
Thc. f * rJ , lh * ‘hnnder of thirty sea
l-on.' ? sUr ' 18 * good clear limbed
1*. ,. u R el “i» ** Mary’s lamb. I must
atiJr 0 "*’? he is a little aged and also a
*»4 du! 0 ***!' m4 7 have other faults
««L a.**!* kfteo.far I hav'nt found it
4 uuo'V lh *. men t>en of tile horse being
lhe buyer left and as he
kL,*. aur “id to th* reporter that
the beat policy and that he
Jwt.Yti®, ' 1 ‘h* truth about his horses,
beheve* that it is as easy to bn n
4 * *he horse reck aa it la in tha
ho art hot fair hone awa-d
will not be instated on by the Honorable
Commissioner, as it would work a hard
ship ou many parties
C11 E*P Rates.—A convention of 110
delegates repreaanting 45 Southern cities
met ia Chattanooga some weeks ago to
confer on cheap rates South for emigrants
settlers and investors during a certain
season of the year. The convention ap
pointed John T. Graves, cf Rome, chair
man of tlie committee of seven to pre
sent a request for one cent a mils rate to
the Central Traffic Association at Cin
cinnati. Mr. Graves has received notice
that on February 28, March 13. and 27.
April 18 and 24, that ticket will bo
placed on sale at pointa North and West
to all points South, good to return in 30
days at 1 oeot a mile eaoh way with atop
over privileges.
A gentleman in Atlanta is peculiarly
afflicted. Oue dof his eyas is dark blue
in color, and the other la a light gray.
In the day time—from sunrise to sun
set—he cannot see anything out of th*
blue eye, but see distinctly and well
with the gray eye; and from sunset to
annriae he cannot see anything with the
gray one. Hia hearing i* similarly af
fected. He can hear with only th# blind
side; thus be can hear with one ear
during the day time, and with one ear
during the nignt.
Located at Union Point.—Dr. Ben
Daniel, formerly of Oglethorpe county
and one of the brightest young men in
the South, has located at Union Point,
and w* are glad to kaow is doing a flue
practice. Dr. Daniel at one time thought
of settling in Athens, and w* hope he
will yet decide to do ao.
~K Rital Hotel.—Mr. Vt. O. Flutter,
at Union Point, haa been forbidden by
the Georgia railroad from coming on it*
depot or platform to dispose of lunches.
Fluker ha*, iu oeU defenae, set up a ri»a»
hotel to the Terrace*, and apened in his
residence, 100 feet from the dapat. H#
a a clever gentleman, and, we are glad
0 know, doing a fine business.
ufbc Sentiment of !*ortliea«t Gear*
fi»* M
Editor Banner-Watchman: Last Sun
day the Atlanta Constitution contained
interviews with ten men living in the va
rious counties of Northeast Georgia—and
every one was a lawyer, or profeasienal
of some kind—on the repeal of the inter
nal revenue laws, and of course they all
agreed wtth the great Atlanta daily.
Wiley C. Howard and Lawyer Stlman
xpreased the sentiments of Jackson
county. The Constitution had a flaming
head to these interviews, and gave them
aa the aentiment of Northeast Georgia.
The Constitution will discover that “one
swallow don’t make a summer,” and
neither does one or two lawyers voice
the sentiment of the great people of a
county. If the Constitution wants to see
how Georgia stands on free liquor and a
high tariff, let that paper interrogate a
few of the horny-handed sons of toil.
Democrat.
Sent to the Aitlum. The Macon
Telegraph states that Mr. Tom Burney,
a w«U-kncwi» newipapw* man or Qaor-
gia, had beet sent to the
friend* to Mad him to ItflledgeviUi
come sign that, b^m by the grace of God
iu this laud, 1 have found life to be a
very cheerful thixig, and not the dark and
bitter thing with; which my early pros
pects were clouded."
Albert Barney, the good Christian,
known tlie world} over, stood in his pul
pit in Philadelphia at 70 or 80 years of
age, and said:
“This world to ao very attractive to
me, I am very aoqvy 1 shall have to leave
I know that Salomon said some very
dolorous things (about this world, and
three times declared: “Vanity of vani
ties, all is vanity!” I suppose it was a
reference to thfose times in bis career
when his seven hundred wives almost
pestered the mfe out ef him. But I
would rather turn to the description he
gave after his conversion, when he says
in another plaae: “Her ways are ways
of pleasantness! aad all her paths are
peace.” It is reasonable to expect it will
he so. The long&r the fruit hangs on the
tree, the riper an cl more mellow it ought
to grow. You y plant one grain of
com and it wiiil send up a stalk
with two eare, \each having 950
grains, so that one t grain planted will
produce 1,900 grains! And ought not
the implantation of algrain of Christian
principle in a youthfutTsoul develop into
a large' crop oT gladness on 'eartK, to a
harvest of eternal joy in heaven! Hear
me, then, while I discourse upon some
of the mistakes which young people
make in regard to happiness, and point
out to the young women what I consider
to be the source of complete satisfaction.
And, in the first place, I advise you
not to build your happiness upon mere
social position. Persons at your age,
looking off upon life, are apt to think
that if, by somo stroke of what is called
good luck, you could arrive in an ele
vated and affluent position, a little higher
than that in which God has called you to
live, you would be completely happy.
Infinite mistake! The palace floor of
Ahasucrus is red with the blood of Vasb-
ti’s broken heart. There have been no
morn scalding tears wept than those
which coursed the cheeks of Josephine,
If the sob of unhappy womanhood in
the great cities could hreak through
the tapestried wall, that sob would
come along your streets today like the
riiuoou of tho desert. Sometimes I have
heard in the rustling of the robes on the
city pavement the him of the adders that
followed in the wake. You have come
out from your home, and you have
looked up at the great house, and covet
life under those arches, when, perhaps,
: that very moment, within that house,
there may have been the wringing of
hands, tlie start of horror and the very
agony of hell. I knew such a one. Her
father’s house was plain, most ef the
loople who oomo there were plain; but,
>y a change of fortune such as some
times comes, a hand had been offered
tliat led her into a brilliant sphere. All
the neighbors congratulated her upon
ber grand prospects: but what an ex-
rhange! On her side it was a heart full
Of generous impulse and affection. On
liis side it was a soul dry and withered
te tlie stubble of the field. On her side
it was a father’s hotise, where God was
honored and the Sabbath light flooded
the rooms with the very mirth of heaven.
On his side it was a gorgeous residence,
and the coming of mighty men to be en
tertained there; but within it were rev-
win Do extinguished. ’When’that period
comes, you will look bock to see what
you did or what you neglected to do
in the way of making home happy. It
will be too late to correct mistakes.
If you did not smooth the path
of your parents toward the tomb; if you
did not make their last days bright and
happy; if you allowed your younger
brother to go out into tho world, unhal
lowed by Christian and autsrly influ
ences; if you allowed tho younger sis
ter* of your family 40 come up without
feeling that there had been a Christian
example set them on your part, there,
will be nothing but bitterness of lamen
tation. That bitterness will be increased
by all the surroundings of that home; by
every chair, by every picture, by the old
time mantel ornaments, by everything
you can think of as connected with that
home. All these things will rouse up
‘ ‘ag memories. Young women, have
you anything to do in the way of making
your father’s home happy? Now
ia the time to attend to it, or leave it for
ever undone. Time is flying very quickly
away. I auppoee you notice the wrinkles
are gathering and accumulating on those
kindly faces that have so looked upon
you; there is frost in the locks; the foot
is not as firm in ita,step as it used to be;
and they will eoon be gone. The heavi
est clod that ever falls on a parent’s
coffin lid ia tlie memory of an ungrateful
daughter. Oh, make their last days
bright and beautiful. Do not act as
utough they were in the way. Ask their
counsel, seek their prayers, and, after
long years have passed, and you go out
to see the grave where they Bleep, you
will find growing all over the mound
something lovelier than cypress, some
thing swcoter than tha rase, something
chaster than the lily—the bright and
beautiful memories of filial kindness
performed ere the dying hand dropped
on you a benediction, and you
dosed tho lids over the weary eyes of the
worn out pilgrim. Better that, in the
hour of your birth, you had been struck
with orphanage, and that you had been
handed over into the cold arms of the
world, rather than that you should have
been brought up under a father's care
and a mother’s tenderness, at last to
scoff at their example and deride their
influence; and on the day when you fol
lowed them in long procession to the
tomb, to find that you are followed by a
still larger procession of unfilial deeds
done and wrong words uttered. The
one procession will leave its bur
den fh the tomb and disband;
but that longer procession of ghastly
memories will for ever march and for ever
wail. Oh, it is a good time for a young
woman when she is in her father’s house.
How careful they are of her welfare.
How watchful those parents of all her in
terests. Seated at the morning repast,
father at one end the table, children
on either side, and between, but the
years will roll on, and great changes will
bo effected, and one will be missed from
one etW the table, and another will be
missed from the other end tho table.
God pity that young woman’s soul who,
in that dark hour, lias nothing but re
gretful recollections.
I go further, and advise ,|ou not to
depend for enjoyment upon mere per
sonal attractions. It would be sheer
hypocrisy, because we raav not have it
ourselves, to despise, or affect to despise,
beauty in others. When Go<l gives it, he
gives it os a blessing and us a means of
usefulness. David and his army were
coming down from the mountains to
destroy Nabal and liis flocks and vine
yards. Tho beautiful Abigail, the wife
of Nabal, went out to arrest him when
he came down from the mountains, and
she succeeded. Coming to the foot of
tlie hiH she knelt. David, with his array
of sworn men, came down over tho cliffs,
and when he saw her kneeling at the foot
of the hill he cried “Halt;” to his men,
and the caves echoed it “Halt,
halt!” That one beautiful woman
kneeling at the foot of tho cliff
had arrested all those armed troops. A
dew drop dashed liack Niagara, The
Bible sets before us tlie portraits of Sarab
Again: I charge you not to aepenu tor
happiness upon the diacipleship of world-
liness. I have seen men as vain of their
oldfashioncd and their eccentric hat as
your brainless fop is proud of his dang
ling fooleries. Fashion sometimes makes
a reasonable demand of us, and then we
ought to yield to it. The daisies of the
field have their fashion of color and leaf;
the honeysuckles have their fashion of
ear drop; and the snowflakes flung out
of tho winter heavens have their fashion
of exquisiteness. After the summer
■hower the sky weds the earth with ring
of rainbow. And I do not think we
have a right to despise tho elegancies and
fashions of this world, especially if they
make reasonable demands upon us; but
the discipleship and worship of fashion is
death to the body, and death to the soul.
I am glad the world is improving. Look
at the fashion plates of the Seventeenth
and Eighteenth centuries, and you will
find that the world is not so extravagant
and extraordinary now as it was then,
and all tlie marvelous things that
the granddaughter will do will never
equal that done by the grandmother. Go
Still farther back, to the Bible times, and
you find that in those times fashion
wielded a more terrible scepter. You
have only to turn to the third chapter
of Isaiah, a portion of tho Scriptures
from which I once presetted to you a
icrmon, to read: “Because tlie (laugh
ters of Zien are haughty, and walk with
itretched forth necks and wanton eyes,
walking and mincing as they go, and
making a tinkling with their feet: In
tliat day the Lord will take away tlie
c. n. nun it co.
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New Citizens.—A gentleman who
baa recently extensively traveled over
the couaty, tells us that nearly half the
people he meet* contemplate moving to
Athena, to take advantage of our splen
did free school system. Moat *f the#*
families are well to do, and will *■*]“ a
superior class of citixtns. Some of them
want to boy property and permanently
settle among oa. W* will extead all
such citiaona the right hand of fello
ship and bid them a hearty welcom
There is plenty of room aad employment
for all.
Bbidoe Heeded.—A bridge across the
Appalacbe* river, at Dr. Frire’a miU. U
badly needed, and no time should be lost
in building it. This river, except at I
High Shoal*, isnowcreaaad by femes,
and the flat at Wallis' ferry is tn a dan
gerous condition. Greanaoounty of**'-1
atas thia as a free ferry, and the commta-
aioners have poated n notio* that tiieyl
will not be lesponribio for *»y w»d#nt
that may occur in crossing unbl^d|K
fiat 13 built.
elry and godlessness. Hardly had the
orange blossoms of the marriage feast
lost their fragrance than the night of dis
content began to cast here and there its
shadow. Cruelties and unkindnesses
changed all those splendid trappings into
a hollow mockery. The platters of solid
silver, the caskets of pure gold, the head
dress of gleaming diamonds, were there;
but no God, no peace, no kind words, no
Christian sympathy. The festal musio
that broke on the captive’s car
turned out to be a dirge, and
the wreath Ip the plush was a
reptile coil, and the upholstery that
swayed iu the wind was the-wing of a
destroying angel, and the head-drops oq
the pitches were the sweat pf everlasting
despair. Oh, how many rivalries and un.
happinesses among those who seek in so
cial life their chief happiness | It matters
not how fine you have things; there, or*
other people who have it finer. Taking
out your watch to tell the hour of the
day, some one will correct your time
piece by puffing out a watch more richly
chased and jeweled. Bide in a carriage
that cost you eight hundred dollars, and
before you get around the park you will
meet with one that cost two thousand
dollars. Hava on your wall a picture by
Copley, and before night you will hear,
of some one who haa a picture fresh from
the studio of Church or Biexstadt.
All that this world can do for yon in
■Over, in gold, in Axminster plush, in
Gobelin tapestry, in wide halls, in lordly
acquaintanceship, will not give you the
tothousandthpartol!•grain of solid
The English lord, moving
in the very highest sphere, was ooe day
found seated with his chin ou his hand
and hia elbow on the window rill, look
ing out and saying: “Oh, I wish I could
exchange placet with that dogl” Mere
social position wiU never give happiness
to a woman’s souL I have had wide and
observation, and I tell the
young women that they who build on
meresodal position their soul’s immortal
am building on the sand
amass that* young woman expend*
the taightnsas of ber early life in thiq
unsatisfactory rtrugge and qmift tbq
go surely *» the year* roll around, that
in which you nosr dwell wip be-
ritinnts Big J
pmrfswffltecooat
a*
——y. ■—horn* which, only *
year sgp, was full, of «agmtnlttkm*
and Rebecca, and Ahishag, Absalom's
sister, and Job's daughters, and says:
“They were fair to look upon." By
out door exercise and by skillful ar.
rangement of apparel, let women moke
themselves attractive. The sloven has
only one mission, and that to excite our
loathing and disgust But alas! for those
who depend upon personal charms rfy.
their happiness. Beauty iajaMf a subtle
»lhHgy-ri*dteg“iKAl t ettWHff depend upon
facial proportions, or upon the sparkle of
the eye, or upon the flush of the cheek.
You sometimes find it among irregular
features. It is the soul shining through
the face that makes one beautiful. But
alas! for those who depend upon mere
personal charms. They will come to dis
appointment and to a great fret. There
are so many different opinions about
what are personal charms; and then sick-
r.ess, and trouble, and age, do make such
ravages. The poorest god that a woman
ever worships is her own face. The sad
dest sight | in all the world is a woman
who has built everything on good looks,
when the charms begin to vanish. Oh,
how they try to cover the wrinkles and
hide the ravages of time! When Time,
with iron shod feet, steps on a face, the
hoof marks remain, and you cannot hide
them. It is silly to try to hide them. I
think the must repulsive fool in all the
world ia an old fool!
Why, my friends, should you be
ashamed to be getting old? It is a sign
it is prirna facie evidence that you have
behaved tolerably weU or you would not
have lived to this time. The grandest
thing, I think, ia eternity, and that is
made up of countless years. When the
Bible would set forth the attractiveness
ot Jesus Christ, it says: “His hair was
white as snow.” But when tho color
goes from the cheek, and the luster from
the eye, and tho RpriDg from tho 6tep,
and tlie gracefulness from the gait,
alas! for those who have built their
timo and their eternity upon
good looks. But all tho passage
of years cannot toko out of one's face
benignity and kindness, and compassion
and faith. Culture your heart and you
culture your face. The brightest glory
that ever beamed from a woman’s face ia
the religion of Jesus Christ. In the last
war two hundred wounded soldiers came
to Philadelphia one night, and came un
heralded, and they had to extemporize a
hospital for them, and the Cliristian
women of my church and of other
churches went out that night to take care
of the poor wounded fellows. That
night I saw a Christian woman go
through the wards of the hospital, her
sleeves rolled up ready for hard work,
her hair disheveled in the excitement
of the hour, Her face was plain, very
plain; but after the wounds were
washed and the new bandages were
put round to splintered limbs, and
the exhausted hoy fell off into his first
pleasant sleep, she put her band on hia
brow, and he started to hia dream and
mid; 'Oh, I thought an angel touched
tne!" There may have been no classio
elegance in to features of Mrs, Harris,
who came into to hospital after to
Seven Days' awful fight, as she sat
down by a wounded drummer boy and
heard him soliloquize: “A ball through
my body, and my poor mother will never
again see her boy. What a pity it tal”
And she leaned over him and said:
“Shall I be your mother and comfort
you?” And he looked up and said:
“Yea, I’ll try to think she’s here; Please
to write a long letter to her and
tell her all about it, and send
ber a lock of my hair and comfort her.
But I would like to hare you tell her bow
much I suffered—yes, I would like you
to do that, for she would feel so for me.
Hold my hand while I die.” There may
have been no classic elegance in her
fee tores, but all to hospitals of Harri
son’s Landing and Fortress Monroe would
have agreed that she was beautiful; and
if aay rough man to all that ward had
insulted her, some wounded soldier
would have leaped from his couch on his
best foot and strusk him dead with a
crutch.
Again: I advise yen not to depend for
happiness upon to flatteries of men. It
is » poor compliment to your sex that ao
many men feel obliged to your presence
to offer unmeaning compfiments. Men
capable of elegant and elaborate canver-
eatian elsewhere, sometimes feel called
upon at to door of the drawing room to
drop their common sense,and to dole out
sickening flatteries. They $ay t 1 * 1 !!*
about your dress, and about your ap
pearance, that you know, and they know,
are false, ThSy pay Jw w* »,
You know you are not. Determined to
ten ths troth to office, and store and
shop, they consider it honorable to lie to
a woman. The same thing that they
told you oa this side of the drawing
room three minutes ago they said to acme
oneonths otter ride of the drawing
room. Oh, let no 00* trample on your
■m respect. The meanest thing an
which awonun can build ber happmem
la to flatteries of men.
bravery of their tinkling ornaments
about their feet, and their cauls, and
their round tires like the moon, the
chains, and the bracelets, and to
mufflers, the bonnets, and the head
bands, and to tablets, and to earrings,
tho rings, and the nose jewels, the
changeable suits of apparel, and
to mantles, and to wimples, and
the crisping pins, the glasses, and
the fine linen, and the hoods, and the
veils.” Only think of a woman having
all that on I I am glad that the world is
getting better, and that fashion, which
has dominated in the world so ruinously
in other days, has for a little time, for a
little degree at any rate, relaxed its en
ergies. AU the splendora and the ex
travaganza of this world dyed into your
robe and flung over your shoulder can
not wrap peace aronnd your heart for a
single moment. The gayest wardrobe
will utter no voice of condolence in
the day of trouble and darkness. Tliat
Woman is grandly dressed, and only
she, who is wrapped in the robe of
a Savior’s righteousness. The home may
be very humblo, the liat may be very
plain, the frock may he very coarse; but
the halo in heaven settles in the room
when she wears it, and tho faintest
touch of tho resurrection nngel will
oiittngo that garment into raiment ex
ceeding white, so as no fuller on earth
could whiten it. I come to you young
women, today, to say that this world
cannot make you happy. I know it is a
bright world with glorious sunshine, and
golden rivers, fireworked sunset, and bird
orchestra, and the darkest cave has its
crystals, and the wrathiest wave its foam
wreath, and tho coldest midnight its
flaming aurora; but God will put out all
these lights with the blast of his own
nostrils, and the glories of this world will
perish in the final conflagration. You
will never be happy until you get your
sins forgiven and allow Christ Jesus to
take full possession of your soul. He
will bo your friend in every perplexity.
He will bo your comfort in every trial.
He will bo your defender in every strait.
I do not ask you to bring, like Mary, tho
spices to tho sepulcher of a dead Christ,
but to bring your all to the feet of a Uving
Jesus. His word is peace. His look is
love. His hand is help. Hi9 touch is
life. Ilis smile is heaven. Oh, come,
then, in flocks and groups. Come, like
tlie south wind over banks of myrrh.
Come like tho morning light tripping
over the mountains. Wreathe all your
affections on Christ's brow, 6et all your
gems in Christ a coronet, pour all your
roices into Christ's song, and let this
Sabbath air rustle with tlie wings of re
joicing angels, and tho towers of God
ring out tojtcws of souls saved. T
This wor! jtik! fancied pearl may crave,
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Contrastf s id Builders.
But there’s a pearl ef price
Which never can ha bought with gold;
O, that’s the pearl for me.
Tlie 6now was very deep, and it was
still falling rapidly when, in to first
year of my Christian ministry, I hastened
to see n young woman die. It was a
very humble home. She was an orphan;
her father had been shipwrecked on the
banks of Newfoundland. She had earned
her own living. As I entered the room
I saw nothing attractive. No pictures.
No tapestry. Not even a cushioned
chair. The snow on the window case
ment was not whiter than the cheek of
that dying girl. It was a facp never
to be forgotten. Sweetness and
majesty of soul, and faith in God,
had giren her a matchless beauty,
and tho sculptor who could have caught
the outlines of those features, and frozen
them into stone, would have made him
self immortal. With her large, brown
eyes she looked calmly into the great
eternity. 1 sat down by her bedside and
said: “Now tell me all your troubles, and
sorrows, and struggles, and doubts."
She replied: “I have no doubts or
struggles. It is all plain to me. Jesus
has smoothed to way for my feet. I
wish when you go to your pulpit next
Sunday you would tell the young people
that religion will make them happy.
‘Oh. death, where is thy sting?' Mr.
Talmage, I wonder if this is nbt tlie bliss
of dying?” 1 said: “Yes, I think it must
be.” I lingered around the couch. The sun
was setting, and her sister lighted a
candle. Sho lighted the candle for me.
The dying girl, the dawn of heaven in
her face, needed no candle. I rose to
go, and she said: “I thank you for com
ing. Good night 1 When we meet again
it will bo in heaven—in heaven 1 Good
night! Good night!” For her it was
good night to poverty, good night to
death; but when the sun rose again it
was good morning. The light of another
day had burst in upon her soul. Good
morning! The angels were singing her
welcome home, and the hand of Christ
was putting upon her brow a garland.
Good morning! Her sun rising. Her
palm waving. Her spirit exulting be
fore the throne of God. Good morning!
Good morning! .The white lily of poor
Margaret’s cheek had blushed into the
rose of health immortal, and the snows
through which we carried her to tho
country graveyard were symbols of that
robe which sho wears, ao white tot no
fuller on earth could whiten it.
My sister, my daughter, may your last
end be like hers I
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Varnishes
foNGLES,WHITE LEAD,
!NTSt OILS
jlaster Paris, and Cement.
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^filled and estimates made. Office South street, near Jackson.
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LEMON ELIXIR
onderfnl Effects on the Liver .Stomach
Bowels, Kidneys and Blood.
A pleasant lemon drink, that posit
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Indigestion, Headache, Malaria, Kidney
Disease, Dizziness, Loss of Appetite,
Fevers, Chills, Ulotches, Pimples, Pain
in Chest or Back, Palpitation of the
Heart, and all other diseases cansed by a
disordered liver stomach and kidneys,
the first great cause of all fatal diseases.
50 cents St $1 per bottle. Sold by drug
gists generally. Prepared by H. Mozley,
M. D. Atlanta, Ga. - •
Lemon Bit Drops
Cares all Coughs, Colds, Hoarseness
Sore Throat, Bronchitis, Pneumonia, and
all Throat and Lung diseases. Price 25
cents. Sold by druggists, prepared by
Dr. U. Mosley, Atlanta, Ga.
President National Bank
McMimille, Tenn n writes: From experi
ence in my family your Lemon Elixir baa
few if any equals, and no superiors in
medicine for the regulation of the iiver,
stomach and bowels. Your Lemon Hot
Drops are superior to any remadies we
have ever been able to get for throat and
lung diseases.
W. H.MAGNESS,
To Dr. Mosley,(Atlanta,! ^
The M. & C. R. R.—The good people
of Oconee county are badly wrought up
in regard to which route the M. & C.
road will take in passing through that
county—whether High Shoals or Farm
ington will capture to prize. From to
best information that wa can obtain, the
Farmington route will be adopted, and
to road will enter Athena as has already
been surveyed, passing rear of Mr.
Gantt's farm and crossing at the head of
the water works pond. The High Shoals
route is out of the way and also a very
rough and expensive one. By early
naxt spring to lino of this road between
Madison and Athena will bo covered
with «qnttotan.
Athens, Georgia.
87 Clayton Street, Next Door to Post Office,
Mu tic Novelties at Lowcfit C«*h
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TAKE- NOTICE-H
We have on fi&nd andjkeep several brands of'first-class
GUANIO’S,
\s follows: Bradley’s Patent. Bradley’s Ammoniated Dissolved Bone,
Sea Fowl, Farmers Favorite, Eagle Ammoniated Bone, Palmetto, Acid
Phosphate. All in good Mechaniclc Condition which we^offer at Com
peting Prices. We also propose to
FURNISH PROVISIONS
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principle that our success depends on fair and liberal dealings. GIVE
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POPULAR FERTILIZERS.
‘DOBBS’ AMMOHIATED COTfON FERTILIZER.”
“DOBBS' CHEMICALS FOR COMPOSTING.”
Tbe abov will known fertililizers are now ready for the planters trade for
1888. The fertilizers are made under a written contract, aud
teed to come up to the following analyses.
DOBBS’ AMMONIATED COTTON ' FERTILIZER.
AMMONIA...
..AVAILABLE PHOSPHORIC ACID
jPOTASH
2.80 percent.
9.07 per cent.
1.71 percent.
For Prices ol the Guano's call on the undersigned, as he guarantees the price
aa low aa any other de ler in Clark county, on good atandaruGoodt.
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DOBBS.
A. R. ROBERTSON,
> . .(Manufacturer and Importer of
Marble and Granite Monuments.
. ■ A large stook of finished Gr mite and Marble Mounuments ready for lettering.
Latwe stock' of new lithographic designs to select Iront. Also agent for Iron-
Balling for Grave Lots. Call and get my prices.
rss* ‘ £ ROI
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