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4 - it. ESSg'Sft IT 3 UNIVERSITY Or GEORGIA LIBRARY ATHENS, GEORGIA, JUNE 4, 1878. no: 84 “T 5 R' ' -<k 4 *4 > «At «4*» W* *>V *>> V* *•* fN •** tfl/l St xlT' 1 ,f ' VOL. 62. OOmZSNTS. Fibst .Pvcus.—-Mia^aUaneou* Advartiscia enu Communication. Second Page.—Benjamin Franklin Butler. Miscellaneous Adverti«einents. Third Pgf„—Miscellaneous Advertisements. United States Cenatc. Fourth Page.—Editorial. Phi-Kappa Notes. Fifth Pag*.—Local Department. Sixth Page.—.! Story that reads like a Chapter from Les Mlserables. The Pirate Fisherman. Miscellaneous Advertisements. Seventh Page.—ricked np in Mid-Ocean. Miscellaneous Advertisements. Eighth Page.—Agricultural ^Department. Mis cellaneous Advertisements. t .aw XTOTXCES- LIVERY, FEED AND SALE STABLE, A*V\<»rtn f rSflf iTR*l IS x GANN & HEAVES, PROTKIETORS.' Will be found at their old stand, renr Frank lin House buildir.fr, Thomas stree t. Keep al ways on liaud good Turnouts and ca.-elnl dri vers. Stock well cared for when en’rusted to our care. Stock on hand for sale a* ill rimes. deel3tf. . HARRIS. Soot and SHoe-Lff alter, ATHENS, GEORGIA, (Otkb Jacobs & Michael’s Ftuf.3.) First class work turned out on short notice, at liberal prices. Give ion A call and getgoo J material and fine work. inurvhl3-tr | 8. DOBTCII, * ATTORNEY AT LAW, Camfcsville, Gn. aolS-1673-tf D E. TUBA8IIEIt, ATTORNEY AT LAW, AVutkinaville, Ga. Office in former Ordinary’s Office. janS5-1878-ly ©. JV. SISQSSS, Watchmaker and Jeweler, (Singer Machine Office, t'ollcge Avonue) ATBSWa, - OSORG3A. I have opened at the above place, where 1 will give strict uttcution to repairing <u>d cleaning of Watches, Clocks and Jewelry. All work done in first class style and at reasonable rates. Give me a call. " upril 2S-6m. G. THOMSON, attorney at law, Special attention paid to criminal practice. For reference apply to Ex-Gov. T. 11. tt alts »ud lion. David Clopteu, Montgomery, Ain. Office over Fo-t-tHRee Athens, Gn. febS-l*7.V:r lOIIN W. OWEN, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Tocoe City, Gn- Will practice in all the counties of the West ern Circuit, Hart and Madison of tlia Northern < lire nit. Will give special utteuiou to ull claims entrusted tq l»i» core. oct20-1875-ly. TOT* Baaiion'.' garrow Bros., Garden Seed! attorneys at law, . tlffiee over Talmadge, Hodgson & Co. jan4~ly Q D. lHXjL, ATfORNE'.' We have now the largest stock ot Seed in this part of the State, all' of which are Fresh, i ot a single package of old Seed in our stock. We have also a targe stock of STEEL HAIR BRUSHES, The fourth lot since October last. Our DRUGS, [ Written for the Southern Banner.] i To-Morrow. 3 * v A life of caielessncss in religious affairs was drawing to a close. I had been taught at tny mothers knee the great truths of the Christian’s faith. Line upon line and precept upon pre cept, they had been imprinted upon my heart during my youth and early mauhood, so that these truths were a part of my being and no doubt ever crossed my mind as to their reality, The beautiful, exemplary life and tri umphant death of my mother forced the conviction on me that this was no cunningly devised fable, but truth born of God himself. Often had my heart quivered with excitement the recitation of the story of the cross, and id maturer years iny heart had been gladdened when I saw those of the world forsaking sin and arraying themselves on the Lord’s side. But yet I had failed to openly accept Christ. My life wa» pure and the most exacting could find no fault in so spotless a character. Not only was l free from the crime of drunk enness, ami allowing my lips* by a Paints, at lav/, Athene, Gu. prompt attention given to all busines. and :be same respectfully solicited. jnnl 1-1 y Lamar Cobb. Howell Cobb. t m: COBB, i attorneys at law, \ '■ b!l Athens, Ga (Office in Deupree Building, 1878-1 Lead, Oils, Varnishes, Tur|>eiitine, We can offer at low prices. C. W. LONG & Co., flepll-ly Atlien*. Gu. febSS-1876-ly LAW. Al** S. Erwin. Ahdraw J. Crrb. PRWIN4COBB, " attorneys at Athena, Ga yjfice on Corner of Broad and Thomas street*, evar Child*, Nickerson & Co, ftb29-1078-ly ^StJBUBY. MoCDBBY, . Attoraay set Law, Hartwell, Gboroia, Will practice in the Superior Court* of North- east Gcoigia un-1 Supreme Court ut Atlnntu, £ug 8. 1876 tf - . James B. I.yle, Alex. S. fims, Wulki\j*viiw-. Atlien-. s VX.tt A BlfWl v, *• ATVOkliEYS AT LAW. tVlil practice in■pnnnersbip in the Superior ] I’dnvt of Oeoneo County, and attend promptly 40 ail business ialrnstc-1 to their care....^ ~ • junO-;Vn- J.VgTc?T-V t cT OMAri, ATTORNEYS at law, Atlieti*, G:». ■ Office South West Corner of College Avenue mi l Clayton Strvet, also at the Court House. All parties desiring Criminal V\ arrant*, can get them at any time by applying to the County Solicitor at this office. dev lb-Is <4-11 Meriwether <&7ew, - BLACKSMITH'S TWO SHOPS FOR 1877. One at the old stand in front ot Messrs. GANN & REAVES, The other on the road to the upper bridge and opjMwite Mr. JOHN Z, COOPER’S, Livery Stable. We hove first class worktueU HORSE SHOEISTG of every description. Plating and CoxcAY is Shoes Manufactured to order. WAGONS, BUGGIES, CAKB1AGES, nc- and In And all kinds of pleuienls rep. Mm id on si.or SIMMONS Liver Regulator. ^ M. eocim.vN, attorney at law, Gainesville, Ga. Ke-il Estate and General Land Agent fertile i purohusa mill ot Miitvr.il uu-.l rutui»Hjj , bands in Hall, ancl the other counties ot North- j ««*t Georgia. Mineral ores tested aud titles to property investigated. Special attention given j ! >t;io purchase uml sale ot cUy property. j may Y—flm J. N. DOE* MY. Attorney, j 3T7SXX7T£3S CA1VX5S. ' T t A. 4LKIG Watfc*itt»akt3r Ss \t Mionaei’store, next door to Heaves <fc Nieh- oi-ou’s, Broad street, Athens, Georgia, All Wtorit warranted 12 uiotdhs, aepUi-tf- I IVERY AND SALE STABLE. iJ-J C-Irrla^es* horses ■or hire'. Term* reasonable. E. Jl . WIHTIui I A !>, Washingtor, Wilkes e , Ga. . vk<- U7.vt? i Hepatiue Comp. Cathartic Pills. Tutts Pill, Poms Plasters. Worm Candy and Vermifuge, Sarsaparilla, Buchu. Tutts and Hamblcton’s Ilair Dye. Aniline prepared for use. Long's German Cologne. Long’s Cologne. ! Lead, Oil, Glass and Varnish, j Morphine, Opium, Chemicals. Hair Brushes and Combs. Perfumery, Toilet Soaps. And everything in the Drui Line, at lowest prices at C. W. LONG & Co.'s Drug Store, Athens, Ga. septll.ly. profane oath, to desecrate.! .»wivfe»l n»Y life -f** even to many professed Christians I had possessed all the virtues of fa ther, husband, friend and citizen. My children had received the most careful moral and religious training. My attention to religious duties had been most exemplary. Thus had 1 lived to middle life. The constant and urgent entreaties of %n earnestly pious wife were met by the expressed intention of at some future time openly accepting Christ as my Savior. Her earnest prayers, ceaselessly of fered to God in my behalf frequently impressed me with my duty. A sick child, just on the verge of eternity, wrung from me the promise that if God would spare its life I would be his. He heard my prayer, and the life came back to the child hour by hour, but ere the flush <?l health WU8 fully on Us fftfie* t failed to redeem tny pltmdse and postponed this all import nt step for some more con venient occasion. Then disease laid its hand on me. While suffering pain—my mind half distracted by I unadjusted worldly affairs, under the 'influence of medicine, my true wife j sought to direct my mind to the gi cat ' truths I had so long neglected. But j I could not grasp them. Day by | day her tearful eyes were turned to j Heaven for me. flic same indifter 5 cnee which characterized mein health j was with me on my bed ol death. As each hour passed over, her a |»- pea'.s for me became more urgent, and tlie anguish her face expressed moved my soul in agony. As the morning grew bright after the uu- i’s toils—and now went with me to ) very verge ot the dark river, through which I was passing. Then I heard cries of anguish as if yrung from souls, tom by some ^motion too powerful for control, x realized that while my body rested my couch, I paw no more with my natural eyes—for in the midst of her anguish my wife’s loving hands d closed them. I was above her, ious of her presence and strug- gflng to burst some terrible bands vliich seemed to keep me from her. bile I struggled I uttered a sound, it it was unheard by her. A sudden eat brightness illumined the room, 5nd an image with a gesture of warning and a look of solemn, yet sorrowful anger—turned from ine. Words it spoke to my loved ones. It told jat a “ Father’s love of doing jflll things well.” . Words of peace too •it whispered uot to her ears, bat •■her heart. Then u radiance shown about her face, and as that-streaming tears rolled duwUj and her trembling uttered “thy will not mine be alone.” All was brightness around her, but our unsurmountable barrier appeared between us. Around me was darkness, the very blackness of rkness. Gradually a force—wire- r within, or without, I could not Jroyemc from that dear presence iggledTigainst it, for all I loved was there. The only light I saw was where she was; all else was impenetra ble, hideous darkness. Back, back I was forced until beyond our home, our home so long the abode of all earthly happiness. While I searched for some mode of return, the house seemed radiant with light, and shin* ing ones ever and anon—flitted to the room where my loved one was beaming her messagesof love, r Thus for two days I continued a forced exile from iny own home. A procession with all the puraphanalia of a funeral oortego left the house with slow and solemn tread. I followed in wonder—for even then the bright ness was around my wife and little ones At the grave the dull heavy fall of the sods ou the cofliu lid wrung from my loved ones* heart a half suppressed cry of anguish, rushed to her, but that same irroslst* able power livid Ine back. And around her were “ministering an gels” who held hvk lovingly in their arms and whispered si oli words as tilled her heart with that “peace which passeth all understanding aijd she whispered in tones that reached me, while a halo of glory surrounded her face, “Abba Father, my Lord and my God.” To her uoW* desolate home her friends carried her and amid the brightness of herself and the angels who constantly hovered" if&ir her, a brightness that appeared far 6ff, yet near, unapproachable, yet drawing nearer to you- <i Amid the peace and resign men t on my wife’s face I could $50 SRewaxcl. ceasing watchfulness of the night—it looked like the luster of another j still see traces of that deep, unspeak* i world. With iny cold and clammy | able anguish : which oppressed ho,, j hand cl; sped in hers, the death ; while le aning over iny bed ot <.eath. damp <<:> my brow—the parched lips Again I attempted to be with het and tin - at relieved only for au instant j whom I had so long cherished. But t by li • cordial her loving haiidssupplid : one of the bright ones with a gesture I my e\ esglazing in death were fixed on i I could not resist, lovingly but (irmly ■ her lace, once to me the emblem oi ] bade me go. “Go ! ’ Ah, otieie. all earthly brightness and happiness j \\ hat was this life upon which I was ■ Now in an agony of soul which no 1 entering. Al! around was darkness; ! words could express—appealed to niv j not a sound was to be heard — noth- groan, so deep, so dreadful that my own soul was startled and shuddering crept back on itt“!f Then again a shining one Baid in language of sor row, “Poor lest soul; you can hold no communion with those within. They can only understand the loving words, born of Heaven, which come freighted with God’s love. Such yon know not.” A sigh, full of such touching sympathy as could only come from ;ui angel’s heart, followed the words. “Poor lost soul!’’ I re peated in wonder. Ain I lost? 1 looked again. All was darkness. The house, my home, seemed rece ding from me. In an agony I strug gled but farther, farther through the thick darkness, I fell slowly, slowly, alone, no one near. I seemed to hear a dreadful whisper—“cast into outer dai k.less.’’ None to hear my groans, now rising from iny soul. Alone! Was this hell? Blacker yet seemed the pall that surrounded me. Then I heard voices sweet beyond all earthly sounds, with hymns of praise to Gcd, and these wards, so often heard on earth, were burned into my very soul— “Ye», we will gather at the river, The beautiful? the beautiful river, Gather with the Mints at the river, That flow* by the throne of Go l - ” Then, in an instant, came a throng ot shining ones hearing iu their arms one of earth’s children, with face ra diant with unspeakable joy and look ing upward as they floated beyond me with the speed of liulit. All again was silence and darkness. But far, far beyond, a light seemed to gleam, and with son] oppressed by the silence and darkness I sought to approach. As I neared the spot ( strains of ravishing music burst upon my ear, as t hey celebrated the glory of the lamb —is this new one just passed—threw her crown of rejoicing at his feet and Bang with voice well attuned to the Heavenly harps, “not unto us, not unto iis, oh God, but un to thy name give glory.” The pearly gates were open—a struggle, a yearn ing brought me nearly there. One look was permitted me, and the wide, golden streets of the New Je rusalem were thronged with its myr. iads, and their £inc feet disdaine d to touch its surface, as they thronged the throne «f the Most High. My virion extended to those plains where the pure water of the River of Life flowed lii perpetual stream, and on either side grew the Tree of Life with 1*2 manners of fruit, a never ending supply tor Heaven’s blessed millions. I saw those who through trial and persecution had reacVd this heavenly laud, many like the warrior after tbo battle, sotna were bathing tlieii wearied limbs in thereinvigoratmg water of life arid resting after the well fought battle of life* beneath the shade of the Trees. Oh! how I longed to be there and rest my soul already wearied beyond endurance. But one stood of brightness far be yond the i Sun and said, lovingly, “Thou can’st not miter here—if thou liad’sti known in thy dnv—but now deep, dire, groans came from me. Ihe only language of a lost soul. Then I heard a voice sweet as the lute, but like the soutid of many waters, saying “because I have called and no man hath answered. I hav« stretched out iny arm and no man regarded it. I will laugh at your calamity and inock when your fear cometh.” Down, down, again in silence and darkness I flew with the speed of light, terror and anguish til ing my soul at the sound. Far, faraway I desired to be from that voice, and as iu terror, and with nameless fear, I looked back from the immensity of space, 1 saw an eye from whose unwinking gaze, 1 flew faster and faster, vet I felt that all my thoughts and deeds, the in most. recesses of my heart u ere open to i s ga/. . And as I saw it laid all these tuuigs o]*e;i to me, thoughts hidden from the eyes of those L loved best desires as I believed long since buried in oblivion, came before me in the darkness as if burned into iny soul, no lines of living light A cry of horror, anguish and re* peutanec burst froui iny wretched soul. But a voice like the knell of eternal death from the depths of hell itself, spoke “ton late, too late *' Solitude and darkness seemed more than my tortured soul could bcai, but no in my intense agony, even that would have been a blessing, if relieved from the All-seeing eye. So I fled from it to the utmost boundaries of God’s creation, and called on the rocks and hills to hide me from this all seeing eye. But as I fled the light which had been thrown into my soul added to my agony and I prayi d ior aritjiiilation to free me from my tortures. But the light ill my soul grew yet strong er, ami slowly came up front the dark depths of my polluter! soul, all nty opportunities and all my neglects, the prayers of a mother, long since in p ace and happiness came rolling back on me from the dej<ths of memory. I remembered as yester* day the touch of her gentle, loving hand as she prayed to God for :ne. [to be continued ] a novkiTfeature Presents itself to those v.!:o use Parker’3 Hair Balsam, in the discovery of its rare and remarkable merits. Many have written us expressing their delight in the fact that it works like a charm. Its disinfectant, projierties'in chemical combination rendering .it healthful, cleansing and healing are bearing fruit, and t! e beanlilnl fair it produce®, with the clean, healthy.seaVj-. entirely freed from Dandruff and fal ling l.air. are achievements lor which we have reason to feel .proud A patron assures us that he has used twelve different Hair Prepcrat'ams ami that Parker’s Hair Balsam ,®nrpa-?es them all. To hair -that has become gray or faded, it .restores that beauti ful natural color of youth, and prod in* ces a vigor and luxuriance that sur prises every one. Buy a bottle from your druggist, Dr II. T. Beui and test its merits Miry, YI7ILL BE PAID FOR THE APl'KEIIEN- j _ ,• . * * *, , t ...... 1 \\ *lt>n milt delivery <>T Lather Tiiouwa, col- j Gou tor ail immortal soul, which had lug was to be seen, i was alone c.v cept the loved ones in iny homo and G-reJ. Saul freednum i* about IS year* okl, live j * .1.1 *2... 1 tl *., feet, eifflit or ten incl vts high, weighs lt55 or I lK'gitclVtl him. AlollUu DJ W i-oimd*. is heavy eel, black, rather pleasant j Led Were in V other loved ones, but spGKMi, anil i rote?**** to to n preat wrestler. • * 1 1 i lio is |?mh\ ot a fcloi v and fl>?d to escape nr- j my soul went alone to her, who Jltid ^BjW 'YYiuterviUe^ugiethoij*; Co. j for so many years cheered m# amid Y s, we can change a fifty dollar hi.! if you want a bottle of Globe jF lower Cough Syrup, 'he go ate A these things are hidden from thee; ali i Gough and lung remedy in the world: this was offered to you, hut vm, re- <ir l i( >" ?}"* :Uu! <** iS ,, T1T , : , ’ ; . •., what the Hon. Alex H. btepea®, Ex- tlist'd. v u uh anguish ot soul I k*lt 1 q gv Smith. Ex Gov. Drown and 1 he power driving me backwards j Him- Robert Toombs of Georgia, says from tie Gates of Heaven. Tho*e j abnufit is tru**, you can get a Sample Grri'-s over open to receive joyously i Bottle for ten cent* at J>y t. . v j . j Long, & Co, Drug btore, Atliei^s Ga, that relieves an ordinary cold. The all who are washed in the atoning blood of the Lamb. Down, down Globe Flower Cough Syrup never again, into the- darkness I was driven, i had an equal for Coughs, Colds and Terror, dread and horr'w seized mvl Lung Affections. It positively , . , x . ^ . t n \ t cures Cousumpton when a 1 other their guardian angels. I slrug^lea ,oul, for now, first, I fully renlixd j hoag{ed Sample Bottles to infoiiii iny wife of iny presence, . that I had no claim to these Heaven- !e „ ceii t«. hut the only sound I uttered was a i iy joys. I begged for mercy, but only $1.00. Regular size, fifty dose*.