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’ DOES RELIGION PAH
DR. TALMAGE’S DISCOURSE FOR THE
NEW YEAR.
Bo Ho* a Word to “ to ' Vhc,hcr
Rlgbtcou.ur-.* Is Profitable — Oodltoe*.
1. Good for the Intellect—It Is Also
Healthy.
Brooklyn, Jan- ° ‘J' 0
ernucle today t!io Rev. T.
Tnlinage, D. D., leached a discourse
on the subject. "Does Religion lay?
The opening hymn was:
My ilays arc gliding swifl ly *>7.
And I, a pilgrim stranger.
Would nut detain tlieni tl ej fly,
•l uese hours .-f toil and Jaeger.
The text was, "Godliness is profita
ble unlo nil things, having promise of
the life that now is and of that winch
in to come.”—1 Timothy iv, 8. Dr.
Tulmage said: in.
•\ happy New Year to one and alll
There is a gloomy and passive way
of waiting for the events of the opeu-
iii'r vear to come upon us, and there
is a heroic way <>r going out to meet
them, strong in God and fearing noth
ing. When the body of Catiline was
found on the battle field it was found
far in advance of all his troops, and
among the enemy ; und the best way
is not for us to lie down and let the
events of life trample over us, but to
go forth in n Christian spirit deter
mine;! to conquer.
The papers were made out, and somo
of you have just entered into business
partnerships, and others of you take
higher positions in tiie commercial es
tablishment where you were engaged,
and others have entered upon new en
terprises. and there were last week in
these cities ten thousand business
changes. You are expecting* pros-
i ierity. and I am determined, so far as
have anything to do witli it. that
you shall not be disappointed, and
therefore 1 propose, ns God may help
me this morning, to project upon
your attention a new element of
success. Y’ou will have in the busi
ness firm, frugality, patience, indus
try, perseverance, economy—a very
strong business firm, but there needs
to lie one member added, mightier
than them all, and not a silent' part
ner either—the one introduced by my
text: “Godliness which is profitable
unto all things, having the promise of
the life that now is as well as of that
which is to come.”
TOO MUCH LEVITY IX LATTER DAY RE
LIGION.
1 1 suppose you are all willing to
admit that godliness is important in
its eternal relations; but perhaps some
of you say: “All 1 want is an oppor
tunity to sav a prayer before I die,
and all will be well.” There are a
great many |>coplo who suppose that
if they can finally get safely out of
this world into a better world, they
will have exhausted the entire advan
tage of our holy religion. They talk
as though religion were a mere noil of
recognition which we arc to give to
the Lord Jesus on our wav up to a
heavenly mansion; as though, it were
an admission ticket, of no use except to
give in at the door of heaven. And
there are thousands of people who
have great aihuirction for a religion of
the shroud, and a religion of the
coffin, and a religion of the hearse, und
a religion of the cemetery who have no
appreciation of a religion for the bank,
for the farm, for the factory, for tho
warehouse, for the jeweler's shop; for
the broker's oifice. Now. while I
would not throw any slur on a post
mortem religion, I want this morning,
and on the first Sabbath of tho new
year, to eulogize an ante-mortem relig
ion. A religion that is of no use to
you while you live, will be of no use
to you when you die. “Godliness is
profitable unto all things, having the
promise of the life that now is as well
ns of that which is to come." And I
have ulways noticed that when tho
grace is very low in a man's heart ho
talks a great deal in prayer meetings
about deaths, and about coflins, and
about graves, and i.bout churchyards.
] have noticed that the healthy Chris
tian, the man who is living near to
God, anil is on the straight road to
heaven, is full of julilantsatisfaction,
and talks about the duties of this life,
understanding well that if God helps
him to live right ho .vill help him to
die right.
Now, in tho first jlace, I remark
that godliness is gocil for a man’s
physical health. I do not mean to
say that it will restore: broken down
constitution, or drive rheumatism
from the limbs, or neuralgia from tho
temples, or pleurisy from die side; but
1 do mean to say that it gircs one such
habit-; and puts one in sucli condition
na is most favorable fot physical
health. That 1 believe, ead that I
avow. Everybody knows tint buoy-"
ancy of spirit i3 good physical ad
vantage. Gloom, unrest, dejection
are at war with every pulsation of the
heart, and with every rcspjtation of
too lungs. It lowers the vitality,
it slackens tho circulation, while
exhilaration of spirit pours tho
very balm ^ of heaven hroiudi
all the currents of life. Tie sense
of insecurity which sometimes hovers
overan uuregcnemto man, or {ounces
upon him with the blast ten
thousand trumpets of tom* is
most depleting und most exhau&n"
while the feeling that all thing, are
working together for my good now
and for my everlasting welfan ^
(conducive to physical health. *
You will observe that godlines-, in
duces industry, which is the foipdar
lion of good health. There is no i W
pf hygiene that will keep a lazy
well. Pleurisy will stab him. crysi e-
las will burp him jaundice will
polor him, gout will cripple him, aid
1-1*0 intelligent physician will
jiK^nbe antiseptic, or febrifug
pt anodyne, but saws and ham
piers and yardsticks oni} crowbars ami
pickaxes. There is no such thing a*
good physical condition without posi
tive work of some kind, although you
should sleep on down of swan; or ride
Hew styTe 6T medicine is ever and
cK. 0 wi£? d, r? ,s Uie sci, <£>i of
jurist, which declares that “Godli
ness is profitable unto all tilings h-iv-
3 of the life [’Sow s
Qo S' * al U ’ hk h is to come.’
world wii{ Stort 1 ou , t two men'in the
X.orld With equal physical health, and
then one of them shall getthc religion
and thi ort ’ °T S 1 V hl ‘ ist *“ 1,is *'«u-t,
dn! 1 ^ s,la!1 1,01 it, the one
w ho becomes a son of the lord Al
mighty will live tho longer. “With
ong hfe will I satisfy thee, and show
thee my salvation."
Again I remark that godliness is
good for the intellect I know some
have supposed that just as soon as a
man enters into the Christian life his
intellect goes into a bcdwarling pro
cess. bo far from that, religion will
give new brilliancy to the intellect,
new strength to the imagination, new
force to the will, and wider swing to
all the. intellectual faculties. Chris-
tianity is the great cential fire at
which philosophy has lighted its
brightest torch. The religion of the
Lord Jesus Christ is the fountain
out of which learning lias dipped
its clearest draught. The Helicon
paired forth no such inspir
ing waters as those which flow
from under the throne of God clear as
crystal. Religion has given new cn-
. - , (laming...
ley's hymns, und rushing-with urch-
amjclic splendor through Milton’s
‘‘Paradise Lost.” Tho religion of
Jesus Christ has hung in studio and
in gallery of art and in Vatican, the
best pictures—Titian’s “Assumption,”
Raphael's “Transfiguration,” Rubens’
“Descent from the Cross,” Claude’s
"Burning Bush,” and Angelo’s “Last
Judgment.” Religion has inado tho
best music of the world—Haydn’s
“Creation," Handel’s “Messiah, Mo
zart’s “Requiem.” Is it possible that
a religion which builds such indestruc
tible monuments, and which lifts its
ensign on the highest promonto
ries of worldly power, can have
any cll'cct upon a man’s intellect but
elevation and enlargement? Now, I
commend godliness as the best mental
discipline—better than belles-lettres
to purify the taste, better than mathe
matics to harness the mind to all in
tricacy and elaboration, better than
logic to marshal th<* intellectual forcos
for onset and victory. It will go with
Hugh Miller and show him the foot
prints of tho Creator in tho red sand
stone. It will go with the botanist
and show him celestial glories en
camped under the curtain of a water
lily. It wiil go with the astronomer
on the great heights where God shep
herds the great flock of worlds, that
wander on the hills of heaven answer
ing his voice as he calls them all by
their names.
UOW RELIGION PREVENTS DESPOND
ENCY AND GLOOMINESS.
Again I remark that godliness is
profitable for one’s disposition. Lord
Ashley, before he went into a great
battle, was heard to oiler Uiis prayer:
“O Lord, 1 shall be very busy today;
if I forget thee, forget me not.” With
such a Christian disposition ns that, n
man is independent of all circum
stances. Our piety- will have a tinge
of our natural temperament. If a man
be cross and sour and fretful natu
rally, after he becomes a Christian he
will always have to be armed against
the rebellion of thoseevil inclinations;
but religion has tamed the wildest na
ture; it has turned frotfuluess into
gratitude, despondency into good
cheer, - and those who were
hard and ungovernable and un
compromising have been made
pliable and conciliatory. Good reso
lution, reformatory ell'ort, will not
effect the change. It takes a mightier
arm and a mightier hand to bend evil
habits than the hand that bent the bow
of Ulysses, and it takes a stronger
lasso than ever held the buffalo on the
prairie. A man cannot go forth with
any human weapons and contend suc
cessfully against these Titans armed
with uptoru mountain. But you have
known men into whose spirit the in
fluence of the Gospel of Christ came,
until their disjiosilion was entirely
changed. So it was with two mer
chants in New York. They were very
antagonistic. They had done all they
could to injure each other. They were
in the same lino of business. One of
the merchants was converted to God.
Having been converted, he asked the
Lord to teach him how to bear himself
toward that business antagonist, and ho
was impressed with the Ijict that it was
his duty when a customer asked for
certain kinds of goods which he had
not, but which he knew his opponent
had, to recommend him to go to that
store. I suppose tliat is about the hard
est thing a man could do; but being
thoroughly converted to God, he re
solved to «o that very thing, and being
asked for a certain kind of goods which
he liad not he said: “You go to such
and such u store and you will get it.”
After a while merchant number two
found these customers coming so scut,
aud lie found also that merchant num
ber one had iieen brought to God, and
ho sought tho same religion. Now
they are good friends and good neigh-
hoi's, the grace of God entirely chang
ing tlicir disposition.
"Oh,” says somo one, “I havo a
rough, jagged, impetuous nature, and
religion can’t do anything for me.”
Do you know that Martin Luther and
Robert Newton and Richard Baxter
were impetuous, all consuming na
tures, yet tho grace of God turned
them into the mightiest usefulness?
A manufacturer cares but very little
for a stream tliat slowly runs through
tho meadow, but a stromr torrent that
f -saps Iron} rocu to jock. ana insnes
With mad energy through the valley
and out toward tho sea. Along that
river you will find fluttering shuttles
and grinding mill and Uaslnng water
wheel. And a nature, tho swiftest,
the mpst rugged and the most tre-
incndoua, lW js the paUjroQod turns
into greatest usefulness. Oh, how many
Who haye been pugnacious, and hard
time In Ills life; during those
six years he had more busi
ness - crowding him than at any
other time.” In other words, the
more worldly business a man has. the
more opportunity to serve God. Does
religion exhilarate or retard worldly
business? is the practical question for
you to discuss. Does it hang like a
mortgage over the farm? Is it a bad
debt on the ledger? Is it a lien against
tho estate? Does it crowd the door
through which customers come for
broadcloths and silks? Now, religion
will hinder your business if it boa baa
business, or if it be a good business
wrongly conducted. If you tell lies
behind the counter, if you use false
weights and measures, if you put sand
in sugar, and beet juice in vinegar,
and lard in butter, and sell for one**
thing that which is another thing,
then religion will interfere with that
business; but a lawful business law
fully conducted will find the religion
of the Lord Jesus Christ its mightiest
auxiliary.
Religion will give an equipoise of
spirit, it will keep you from ebullitions
of temper—and you know a great
many line businesses have been blown
to atoms by bad temper—it will keep
you from worrimeut about frequent
loss, it will keen you industrious and
prompt, it will keep you back from
squandering and from dissipation, it
will give you a kindness of spirit
which will easily be distinguished
from that mere store courtesy, which
shakes hands violently with you, ask
ing about tho health of your family
when there is no anxiety to know
whether your child is well or sick!
but tho anxiety is to know how many
dozen cambric pocket handkerchiefs
you will take and pay cash down. It
will prepare youfor the practical duties
of everyday life. I do not mean to
say that religion will make us finan
cially rich, but I do say that it will
givo us, it will assure us of a comfort
able susteuaucu at the start, a comfort
able subsistence all the way through,
and it will help us to direct tho bank,
to manage tho traffic, to conduct all
our business matters, and to make tho
most insignificant affair of our life a
matter of vast importance glorified by
Christian principles.
In New York city there was a mer
chant hard in his dealings with his
fellows, who had written over his
banking house, or his counting house
room: “Nocompromise.” Then when
somo merchant got in a crisis end
went down—no fault of his, but a con
junction of evil circumstances—and
all tho other merchants were willing
to compromise — they would take
seventy-fivo cents on tho dollar, or
fifty cents, or twenty cents—coming
to tl lis man last at all, he said: “No
compromise; I’ll take one hundred
cents on the dollar, and I can afford
to wait” Well, tho wheel turned, and
after a while that man was in a crisis of
business, and he sent out his agents to
compromise, and the agents said to tho
merchants: “Will you take fifty cents
on tho dollar?” “No.” "Will you
take anything?” “We’ll tako one
hundred cents on the dollar. No
compromise." And tho man who
wrote that inscription over his count
ing house door died of destitution.
Oh, we want more of the kindness of
the Gospel and tho spirit of love in
our business enterprises! IIow many
young men have found in the religion
of Jesus Christ a practical help? How
many there are in this houso today
who could testify out of tlicir own ex
perience that godliness is profitable
for tho life that "now is. Tnere were
times in their business career when
they went here for help, and there for
help, and yonder for help, and got no
help until they knelt before the Lord
crying for his deliverance, and tho
Lord rescued them."
In a bank not far from our great
metropolis—a village bank—an officer
could not balance h&*aecounts. He
had worked at them day after day,
night after night, and "lie was sick
nigh unto death os a result. He knew
he had not taken one farthing from
that bank, bat somehow, for some
reason inscrutable then, the accounts
wouldn’t balance. Tho time rolled on,
and the morning of the day when the
books should pass under the inspec
tion of the other officers arrived, and
ho felt himself in awful peril, con
scious of his own integrity nut unable
to prove that integrity. That morning
he went to the bank early, and he
knelt down before God ana told the
whole story of his mental anguish,
and lie said: “O Lord, I have done
right; I havo preserved my integrity,
but hero I am about to be overthrown
unless thou sbouhlstcometomy rescue.
Lord, deliver me.” And for one hour
ho continued the prayer before God,
and then he rose and went to an old
blotter that ho had forgotten all about.
He opened it, and there lay a sheet of
figures which he only needed to add
to another line of figures—somo line
of figures ho had forgotten, and knew
not where he had laid them—and the
accounts were balanced, and the ivord
delivered him. You ait) an infidel if
you do not believe it Tho Lord de-
Iiverc d him. God answered his prayer
as he will answer your prayer, U man
per.' is your firm strong enough to
beat your way through the Hoods? Can
you without being incased in the mail
of God's eternal help go forth amid the
assault of all hell’s sharpshooters?
Can you walk alone across these
crumbling graves and amid these gap-*
ing earthquakes? Can you, water
logged and mast shivered, outlive the
gale? Oh, how many there have been
who, postponing the religion of Jesus
‘“Christ, have plunged into mistakes
they never could correct although thpy
lived eighty years after, and tike scr-
r pents crushed under cart wheels, drag
ging their uiaulcd bodies under the
rocks to die; so these men have fallen
under the wheel of "awful calamity,
crushed here, destroyed forever, whiio
a vast multitude of others-havo taken
tho religion of Jesus Christ into every
day life, and first, in practical business
afiuirs, and secondly, on the throne of
heavenly triumph, have illustrated,
while angels looked on and a universe
approved, the - glorious truth that
“Godliness is profitable untoall things, i che w"
having tho promise of tho life which '
now is as wpll as of that which is to
come.”
WOMEN WHO EAT TEA.
THE GREAT ANNIVERSARY-
Ilow It \V:i* CdUiratnl in Athens Yes
terday.
Tuesday v a? the day sn apart by
the colored people of Athens to celebrate
the 25th. anniversary of the emancipa
tion proclamation.
Grand preparations had been made by
the committee in charge to make the
da}* memorable in the history of Athens.
A careful program had been prepared
which was published in this paper a few
days ago.
On account of the inclement weather
and bad condition of the streets the pa
rade was declared oil', though Davis’
cornet band marched arou:.d town, fol
lowed by a good crowd.
The speaking was postponed from
12 o’clock to2 o'clock, so as to let those
who lived some distance arrive in
time. The court house was soon
crowded with men, women and children,
and after an overture by the band,
speeches, eulogies, compositions etc.,
were read.
The meeting was in session several
hours.
SOCIAL EQUALITY-
A Ni-gro Bounced Out of tlic Ladles Car.
Tuesday morning a fancy dudo
negro from some where up north, got on
the outgoing Ni riheasU-rn train, and
took his seat in the ladies car. The con
ductor went to him and told him that
they had separate coaches lor the whites
and for the colored passengers, and that
the whites were not allowed to interfere
or stay in their coaeh. The r.egro said
that he had paid first class fare, and
would ride where he pleased. A young
man who was accompan}ing a lady,
made up his mind that the negro must
get out, and that it was no use expostu
lating about the matter. The young man
told him that if he didn’t go, they would
throw’ him out. I.’o saw the deter
mined look on the young man’s face,
and moved his seat in quick time.
BUCK FOR MARSHALL.
Atlanta, Ga., Jan. 1.—Tho latest
report in regard to Col. A. E. Buck, the
recognized leader ot the republican p:.rty
in Georgia, is that he does not wish a
place in the cabinet, but prefers to re
main at home and look after the moon
shine business as United States Mar
shal.
When the clerkship of the district
court was given to Col. Hamilton it cut
a three thousand dollar a year
slice out of Col. Buck’s salary, as he had
bee managing both places before this
having besides the iff),000 the sum of
$3,000 as clerk's hire,
The marshal’s officepajs $6,000 a year
and twenty-four hundred dollars cleik
lure.
Discovery of a New Vice Reported From
Boston.
Boston Despatch to Chicago Tribune.
Two servants Vlio were hauled up
before a po'ice justice here ihe other
day, charged with creating a rumpus, in
dignantly denied having been drunk.
1 hey said that they bad been somewhat
under tne influence of tea, which was
somewhat responsible for their eccentric
behavior.
“But, “remarked the judge, “never
knew that any one could become really
intoxicated from .drinking tea.”
No more they can, yer honor,” was tbe
reply. “Yve ate it.
It is becoming quite a popular vice in
Boston, and presumably elsewhere—this
lea eating. And curiously enough, its
victims are mostly found among the
help.’’who, having the householl tea-
caJdy always accessible, go: accustomed
to helping themselves from it, a pinch at
a time of the dry leaves. These they
thus extracting the alkaloid,
which is a toxic agent of a most power
ful description. Its first effi ct is an
agreeable exhilaralion. Ultimately,
it induces sleeplessness »and nn
abnormal condition of mini, with
strange wishes and delirium. It
is an amusing fact, by the way, that
when tea was first brought to England,
about the y*ar 1665. it was served ex
perimentally for eating in a bowl, like
spinach. For a long time after that it was
regarded as a deadly drug, and people
who sold it were considered disreputable.
Health is impossible when the blood
is impure, thick, and sluggish, or when
it is thin ard impoverished. Such con
ditions give rise to boils, pimples, head
aches, rheumatism, and other disorders.
Ayw’s Sarsaparilla purifies, invigorates,
and vitalizes the blood.
The Itichmund County l’et Stock and
Poultry Association has decided not to
arrange any show this spring, but to
prepare for a grand one in the fall.
Many of the members will exhibitat the
Charleston show.
REMARKABLE ENDURANCE.
The book-keeper of a large cotton firm
in the city, it is said, worked a solid
v eek during the fall without closing bis
e\e-5. This is reported authoritively
and is a remaiknble instance of close at
tention to business as well as of endur-
an:e.
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THE N. E. GA. FAIR.
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HI carriage of softest upholstery. or to please, find irascible, and more
have on your tabio all tbo luxuries bothered about the mote in tneir
that were poured from tbo wino vats neighbor’s eye than about the beam
of Ispahan and Shiraz. Our reli- liko ship timber in their own eye, who
gioa says: “Away to tlio bankl havo been entirely changed by the
.grace of God. atid have found -out that
*way to the field I away to “Godliness is profitable for the life
tho shop I away to the factory I do! Jiat now is as well as for tbe life
something that will enlist all thcencr-! *hich is to come;
pe? of /pur body, mind and soul."
Diligent in business, fervontin spirit,
serving the Lord;” while upon the
tore back of the idler and the drone
d ° w " lll ° slmro lash of the
WPtotte a* lie says- “if any man ■
Rot work, nctvw Vie tot”
"SiffiLP <“?>■•«*
'.ELIOION IS GOOD IN like’s PRACTICAL
things.
theq 'Again I remark, that religion is
•ood for a mau’s worldly business. 1
•ow the general theory is. the more
fcsincss the less religion, tbo more re-
ijHou the less business. Not so thought
doctor Huns In his “Biography of a _
«0 much is ubj'"about h '. Jmstian Merchant,” when he says: customer. You wanted
physiology and ye * t ? rda -* ** curb your **»"
of business, in overy crisis when you
come to him. Now, if this be so,
then I am pereuaded, as you are,
of the fact t’^it the vast majority of
Christians do not fully test the value
of their religion. They are liko a
farmer in California, with fifteen
thousand acres of good wheat land
and culturum* only a quarter of an
acre. Why do you not go forth and
make the religion of Jesus Christ a
E radical affair every day of your
usiness life and all this year, begin
ning now, and to-morrow morning
putting into practical effect this holy
religion and demonstrating in your
life that godliness is profitable here as
well as hereafter?
HOW AND WHY RELIGION IS INDESPENS-
ABLE.
How can you get along without this
religion? Is your physical health so
good you do not want this divine
tonie? Is your mind SQ cloar, so vast,
so comprehensive that you do not want
tlfis divine inspiration? Is your
worldly business so thoroughly estab
lished that you havo no use for that
religion which has been the help and
deliverance of tens of thousands of
men in crises of worldly trouble? And
if what I have said this morning is
true, then you see what u fatal blunder
it is when a man adjourns to life's ex
piration tlio uses of religion. A man
who postixmes religion to sixty years
of ago gets religion fifty years too
late. Ire may get into the kingdom
of God by final repentance, but
what can compensate him for a whole
lifetime unalleviated and uncomfortr
Tlic Gates to 1>« Opened About October lAtb.
At in informal meeting of a part T»f
the board of directors of tiie N. E. Ga.,
Fair Association Tuesday the holding
a fair this fall was discussed and it was
unanimously agreed by those present
that we should hold a fair in October
nex*.
This is a wise conclusion r.s tiie fair,
with ordinary weather and proper man
agement can be made a great factor in
Athens’ development, liad the weath
er been favorable last fall our fair would
have been a great success financially as
it was in other respects. Let ns al! de
termine to make the fair of ’86 the best |
ever held in Athens.
THREE BEAUTIES. **
The Constitution speaks thus com-,
plimentary of young ladies well known
in Athens.
“Miss Eula Ketner leaves for Athens
Wednesday, much to the regret of her
many friends. Bhe is one of the most
beautiful young ladies in the south, and
when she makes her debut, will be an
acknowledged belle.
Two of the most beautiful and attrac
tive young girls in the south will visit
Mrs. Henry Cobb, on Jackson street
early this month. They are Miss Nora
Palmer and Miss Mary Toi mbs Harde
man, of Washington, Georgia.
Miss Palmer is tall and statety. Her
waving hair is of that beautiful copper
color which Ainelie Hives gives to Bar
bara Pompbret. The eyes are large, far
apart, and dark, her complexion fault
less. She is the perfect picture of
Bryon’s llaidce.
Miss Hardeman has a dark rich beauty.
Her’s is a face of genius and fire, a face
once seen to liaunt the memory forever
with its charm of feature and expres
sion. These two joung girls are grand
nieces of General Robert Toombs, and
their attractions bids fair to make them
as notable in the social world as was
t.ieir kinsmtn in that of politics.”
>1 AYES'VILLE M ATYEBS.
Mayf.svh.lk, Ga., Dec. 31.—Dave
Muccle, col., in the employ of sec
tion boss Bryan, was killed near here a
few days ago, by being run over by the
push car.
J. M. Merritt returned from Cleveland
yesterday.
Mr. Emmett Speer, of Cartersviile, is
visiting his sister, Mrs. C. B. Erwin.
You will T-.avo SICK. HEADACHES, PATT.;
£X TIIE SIDE, DYSPEPSIA, POOR AI'PE
flTE.fccl Its! less ar.<l unable to getthrouci.
four (laity work or social eiyuymouts. Lift
■.till bo a burden io you.
A NEW INDUSTRY.
There is now a great demand in tho
North for mistletoe, and a large quantity
is being shipped there from Georgia. It
is said to be a paying industry. Why
don’t some enterprising Athenian enter
into the business and gather the large
quantity that can be obtained near
Athens.
WHISKY STAMP SALE.
Atlanta, Jan. 1.— Collector Crenshaw
has just finished balancing up his book
of sales for the whisky stamps, or tax,
for the year 1888. Thu sales amounted
to $55,038 60, an increase of $.15,000 over
the sales for last vear.
NEW YEARS IN JEFFERSON.
Jefekbson, Ga., January 1, 1889.
— Watch night services were held at
Methodist church last night and quite
a number attended. This ends Christ
mas with our people, and to-day we go
to work to build up the town, and the
school, and if the good Lord prospers us
with a good crop, Jackson will again
take her stand as the empire county of
the State.
Salt Rheum.
With its intense itching, dry, hot skin,
often broken into painful cracks, and the
little watery pimples, often causes in
describable suffering. Hood's Sarsapa
rilla has wonderful power over this dis
ease. It purifies the blood and expels
the humor, and the skin h-’als without a
scar. Send for b- ok containing many
statements of cures, to C. I. Hood it
Co., Apothecaries, Lowell, Mass.
TO MOVE TO ATHENS.
Real estate agent J.*T. Anderson, is
constantly receiving letters from parties
asking ab -at Athens property with a
—-—„ ... . , . , view of moving here. The last gentle-
ed? You want religion today in the j man heard froUI , is Mr. Stephens, of
training of that child.. You will want gpirt^ who is negotiating with Ander-
religion tomorrow in dealing^ with aon f or the purchase of some valuable
city lots. This is a good' evidence of
the prosperity of our city.
Mfiiims
Will euro you, drive tho POISON out
your system, nnd make you strong aud well.
They cost only 25 cents a box anil may save
your life. Can bo had at any Drug Store.
fi£-Bcwarc of Counterfeits inado in St. Louis.“S3
ivORYl>QUSH TEETH,
Perfumes the Breath. Ask for it.
Fleming bros„ - Pittsburgh, ftw
This is the Top of the Genuine
Pearl Top Lamp Chimney.
All others, similarare imitation.
.This exact Label
is on each Pearl
Top Chimney.
A dealer ms.ysay
and think he has
others as good,
BUT HE HAS NOT.
Inhist upon the Exact Label and Top.
For S«.e Everywhere. Mace only by
GEO. /. MACBETH A CO.. Pittsbcreh. h
IF YOU HAVE
McGinty & Hdnnicutt
Contractors and Builders.
HIM OR FILES,
8IUK HEADACHE, DUMB AGUE, COS
TIVE BOWELS, SOUR STOMACH and
BEECHING ; it yoar food does no* as
similate aud you have no appetite,
Tutfs Pills
will cure these troubles. Try them*
v„„ have nothing to lose, but wilt gain
a vigorous body. Price, 25c. per box.
* ^ Sold Everywhere.
-Dealers and Manufacturers of-
BRICK’LATHES,SHINGLES WHITE LEAD
MIXED PAINTS, OILS
Vanrishes, Builder’s Hardware, Lime, Plaster Paris, and Cement.
SCRROI.L WORK A SPECIALTY. ALSO SASII DOOR
AND BLINDS.
Proprietors Athens Steam Planing Mills at Northeast depot. All orders promptly
filled and estimates made. Office South street, near Jackson.
It Leads! Others Follow
THE LIGHT-RUNNING
“DOMKSTIC.”
/10PYING It In form and stvle as nearly as
Yj possible, hereby tacitly acknowledging it tl:e
standard of excellence in sewing machines. > o
mattervvhat dealers may say of their machines;
see the “DOMESTIC" nelore purchasing; ex
amine Its simple. yetsplemlid mechanism, ob
serve its wonderfully simple set of attachments
and notice tiie wide range of work, from the
simples; and most, practical kind executed, to
the finest embroidery, as no other machine can
do it.
Agents wanted in unoccupied.territory.
Address.
a.Tiisth I s 3wing Machine ’.Company,
RICHMOND, VA.
aug28-6in
The Largest Stock o! ClRRiiGES, SPRING SNR FIRM WAGONS in the South.
Slandai'd Wa^on Co.,
TI. L. ATWATER, Man aver, Atlanta, Georjria.
39,11 and 43 Decatur Street. 74 Peachtree Street and 57 Forsyth Street.
Goods to tbe Trade at Manufacturers’ Prices.
WEiTE FOB PBICES.
Manufacturers of Carriages, Buggies, Koad
Carts, Spring and Farm Wagons.
POST OFFICE BOX 351.
General Agents for Mil hum Wagon Company’s
Carriages, Buggies and Wagons.
COME AND SEE US.
Generat Agents for McLear & Kendall’s Fine
Landaus, Victorias, Kockaways, T, tarts, btc,
NO TROUBLE TO SHOW GOODS.
Harness-Every Style and Variety. Whip*
| and i ap ltobes.
1-28-W
ATHENS MUSIC HOUSE
HASELTON & DOZIER’S,
57 Clayton st., Next Door to Post-Office,
Athens, -
- Georgia,
A LWAYS on hand the verv best mtikes of Pianos, Organs, Violins, Guitars, Banjos and.
of Musical Instruments for sale at the very
Lowest Price For Cash
Or on th*e Installment Plan. , Also Sheet Music, and Musical InBtroments. Special^atte^^ Jn .
direct to our Picture and Picture Fra:nelu* Department. *raui2S wr sa e Jumpen, un-
short notice cheaper than evor before offered in .* theas. The l atest wag Chuiches wish
surpassed as a pleasing andnoaithful exercise tor the little one*, special _ I*u24wly
ng to purchase Organs. Purchase direct from us and sxve agents cominiss
THE MARK WALTER’S
STEAM
Marble and Granite "Works.
BROA.D STREET, Near Lower Market, AUGUSTA, GA.*
Marble Work. Domestic and Imported, at lew Prices
Georgia & South Carolina Granite Monument* made a Specialty.
A large selection of Maible and Granito Workalways on hand, ready Ior lorier.ng red deliver
Parlies Desiring Monuments or Work Apply to ANDREW
A? Athens Cbmetbry.
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