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[From the Chicago Ledger.
Will We Know Our Own in Heaven ?
AN ill wv knoA our own in heaven,
AN hen We cross that unseen shore ;
AN hell our trials all are over.
And we sorrow never more?
AN ho will he the first to greet us
When we reach the other side?
AA'ill it he our own dear loved ones
AY ho have crosx|d the rolling tide?
Oil, what comfort does it give us,
As we muse upon it here !
For it must he they will meet us—
Those who arc to us so dear;
And the dread of death’s dark shadow
Greatly lessened to us seems,
And we do not fear ; die changing
To us seemeth as a dream.
May we each one trust in Jesus,
AATiile we falter here below,
Placing all our sins before Him,
Ever ready then to go
To our loved ones over there ;
For to them we trust arc given
Crowns immortal, harps of golden,
And a resting place in heaven.
Adair, lowa. M. J.
Little Fanny Smith’s lYliie.
How a Dying Child's Gift has Built a
Church in Philadelphia for “ Poor
People Like Us."
About nine years ago a little girl came with
her mother asking to be received as a member
of the Cohocsink church, Philadelphia. She
was but 7 j"cars old, and the Session was not
disposed to receive her on account of her age,
though she had answered the questions asked
better than many adults. They asked:
” Don’t you think you had better wait a
while?” But she said, “ You said last Sab
bath the Lord’s Supper was for those who
love and obey Him, and I am sure I love
Him, and lam trying to obey.” The pastor
asked if she had been coming to church, to
which she replied : “ Mamma and I come at
night. We are poor, and our clothes are not
good enough to come in the day time.” The
pastor then said: “ Brethren, if you feel
that you cannot receive this child, I think I
will have to take her on my own respon
sibility.” She was accordingly received.
She was a frail child, and not often afterward
able to be at church ; and during the follow
ing summer her father and mother took her to
Vermont to see if the change and mountain
air would improve her health. On the first
Sabbath in September of that year the pastor
was sent for to be with her in her dying hour,
lie talked and prayed with her as almost an
heir of heaven, and when he came to part with
her she told her mother to get her money, all
that she had received in her life, consisting
•of a one dollar bill and three and five cent
pieces amounting to $4.21. This she placed
with her own feeble hands in the box in which
was the last powder of her medicine saying
as she put in the money: “ I shall not want
any more medicine and then turning to her
pastor with an inexpressible look of loving
■confidence, thinking, in her childish simplicity,
that this money was enough, and taking his
hand, said : “ I want you to take this money
and build with it a church for poor people
like us. Now,” said she, *• promise me, so I
shall know when I am in heaven, that it is
done.” She died that evening.
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The pastor who thus received her mite was
the Rev. Dr.* Samuel A. Mutchmore. He
accepted the trust, and soon began sending
out a circular, under the title of “A Child’s
Legacy,” asking for additions to the fund.
The result has at length been the building of
a sixty thousand dollar church to the memory
of the little girl. The property at Montgomery
avenue and Bouvicr street, Philadelphia, was
Grst purchased and mortgaged for $7,000, the
instrument being held by the late Alexander
Stuart, of New York, and his brother Robert
Stuart, who agreed to cancel the mortgage,
provided the church should be finished by Jan.
1,1882. Alexander Stuart died, but his broth
er Robert signed an agreement to carry out
the terms of the original contract. Having
the ground pastor Mutchmore cast around to
get a congregation and place of worship. The
-church must necessarily be built by private
and voluntary subscriptions. On the night
■of May 26, 1876, the congregation was
organized in a little frame shanty, and num
bered 42 persons, and Sabbath school was
founded ; both have been growing ever since.
The church was built over and around the
old shanty, which was taken out after the
first floor of the new edifice was ready to be
laid. The new building is to be literally a
church for poor people, being free in all its
privileges. It has now a membership of 384
persons, and an average attendance of 600.
Its Sunday schools comprise 45 teachers and
355 scholars in the main classes, and 5 teach
ers 284 scholars in the infant class, and it is
situated in one of the most rapidly developing
sections of Philadelphia.
The two ingredients of a seidlitz powder
produce a tremendous effervescence, but it
soon cools down, and nothing is left but nau
seous insipidity. Some people’s religion is
of the same sort.
Self-interest, appetite and folly have put
forth many falsehoods about the uses and
virtues of strong drink, which should be pub
licly refuted and exposed to show up its de
ceitfulness to the unwary.
No man is defeated without some resent
ment, which will be continued with obstinacy
while he believes himself in the right, and
asserted with bitterness even to his consci
ence if he is detected in the wrong.
As long as the waters of persecution are
upon the earth, so long we dwell in the ark;
but where the land is dry the dove itself will
be tempted to a wandering course of life, and
WVNVtf.'COI AS NVX.
[From the Athens Chronicle.
Does It Pay to Raise Cotton?
Editor Athens Cjiroicle—Permit me to
submit through 3-our columns a few facts
which may prove of interest to our agricultu
ral friends. In looking over the “Cotton
Facts,” published by Robertson, Taylor &
Cos., Cotton Factors of Charleston, S. C., for
last year, (1880) I find a tabulated statement
of the cost of production and price obtained
fur the cotton crop of 187 G and 1877. The
estimate is made by the United States Agri
cultural Bureau from the reports of its cor
respondents. The prices quoted are those
obtained at the nearest home markets, (not
the ports.) grade not stated, but probably
average strict good ordinary.
The estimate is as follows:
Cost of pro- Prices obtain-
Statcs. Auction per lb- edperlb.
North Carolina !) 3-10 cents.; 0 B*lo cents.
South Carolina 9 4-10 44 ; 9 7-10 44
Georgia 9 3-10 44 i 9 8-10 “
Florida ; S 7-10 44 ; 9 2-10 “
Alabama j 9 S-10 :1 0 1-10 “
Mississippi ; 9 8-10 “ ilO 2-10 “
Louisiana ! 9 7-10 “ 10 2-10 “
Texas i 8 j 9 1-10 “
Arkansas 9 44 i 9 8-10 “
Tennessee i 9 44 j 9 8-10 “
The Agricultural Bureau has no later esti
mates than the above, which may be said to
he a fair estimate for the last year’s crop, as
the cost of production certain!}' could not
have been less, if not more, while the price
obtained was about oil an average with the
prices of 187 G and 1877. It will be seen
from the above estimate, which is as near ac
curate as such estimates can be made, that
the cotton crop in Georgia brought .( cent per
pound more than it cost to raise it. Now, let
j us put the average bale of cotton at 500 lbs.,
Sand the} 7 will probably not exceed 400 lbs.
; per bale, and the cotton raiser realizes $2.50
per bale on his cotton. Again, let us esti
mate the average crop per farmer at ten bales,
and it will hardly exceed this average, and
j we have a net profit to each cotton raiser of
s $25.00 upon his entire cotton crop. Just to
think that our Georgia farmers, after all their
labor, toil, expense, perplexity and pains
taking, only realize from $2.00 to $2.50 per
hale on his cotton, or on an average crop
from $20.00 to $25.00 ! Is not this fact, to
jgetherwith the additional fact that about
; 1,719,325 acres of land in Georgia are annu-
I ally planted in cotton, with an annually in
j creasing yield, enough to give the true and
unquestionable source from whence comes
such hard times, such financial embarrass
ment among the people of Georgia ? To such
| extravagant, ruinous and unprofitable cotton
culture in our State may we not reasonably
ascribe the daily increasing disposition on
the part of our Georgia farmers to seek, as
they suppose, more inviting and profitable
homes in the AA'est ? Is this not the reason
why wc see so many young men leaving the
farms and seeking employment in the towns
and cities ? Are not such facts and such re
sults enough to bring about the much needed
reform in our system of agriculture ?
The Cotton Crop of the South.
The New York Ileruld, reproducing some
; remarkable figures from the census reports,
| is inclined to agree with the Constitution that
, the increase of the cotton crop, due to better
; methods of agriculture and natural additions
j to the acreage devoted to the staple, is not
: likely to have any serious effect upon the
! price, for the reason that increased produc
tion is merely keeping up with increased con
sumption. The Herald also goes so far as to
broadly intimate that the all-cotton policy
which the majority of the newspaper farmers
of the South have been condemning, is based
upon reason and common sense. Our con
temporary suggests that cotton raising is fol
lowed in this section instead of agriculture
because it is more profitable, and, for our
part, we are glad that a reason at once so
simple and conclusive has been discovered.
It would probably have been discovered by
someone in this section but for the curious
attitude of the cotton planters themselves,
who have somehow managed to leave the im
pression upon those who know them best, that
cotton is cultivated at a loss and that they are
perpetually upon the eve of bankruptcy.
There is the same cry every year—too much
cotton and not enough corn ; bad weather ;
short crops; unremunerative prices; and
various other gloomy contingencies that we
hardly dare refer to. Our farmers are always
going to ruin, and yet they never quite go;
they cultivate cotton at a loss, and yet they
continue to cultivate, nay, they plant more
and more every year; and they were never
further from raising their own supplies than
they are at this moment when some of the
wisest men in the State can sec a season of
suffering ahead. The Constitution endeavor
ed long ago to reconcile these conflicting con
ditions, opinions and statements, but the task
was given up in despair. The Herald sug
gests that provisions and plantation supplies
can be bought more cheaply with the profits
of a cotton crop than they can be raised in
the South. This is not improbable—at any
rate it is not improbable that the Southern
farmers think so, for they have been pursuing
that plan ever since the war, and they are
still pursuing it. llow successful they will
be this year, when every indication points to
short crops in the west and the northwest,
with a steady rise in the price of provisions
remains to be seen.
We desire to predict, however, that what
ever the result, the farmers will continue to
plant cotton and depend upon the west for
their supplies. This programme seems to be
one of the necessities of cotton-planting. It
has deepened and widened into a custom, and
it will finally come to be accounted one of the
ity. Much is expected from
vcloping in the South since the war, but it is
in order to say that no farm is small enough
to exclude cotton raising for the purpose of
buying provisions. The Herald says that in
1890, a crop of ten million bales will bo mar
keted, worth about five hundred million dol
lars raw, and a thousand million dollars man
ufactured. We should be glad to see the day
hastened, for surely ten milli'Mi bales will be
sufficient to pay for the provisions which our
farmers buy in the west. —Atlanta Constitu
tion.
NY Ym\N\cYv\w s,.
A Louisville mother advertises in a news
paper for prayers for the recovery of her sick
child.
California is the favorite State of Italian
immigrants, being a wine country with a mild
climate recalling that of Italy.
The official language in the Transvaal is to
be Dutch, and no other will be allowed in the
law courts. This will, of course, place the
British residents and natives at a disad
vantage.
Acting on a theory that human beings were
made to stand upright, and therefore ought,
never to lie down, a Californian sleeps in an
apparatus which sustains him comfortably in
a perpendicular position. A Nebraska
physician is equally certain that the vital
organs are injuriously affected by being jolted
downward in walking, and to counteract this
lie gravely stands on his head five minutes
every day.
On the Czar's recent railway journey to
Moscow the line was guarded throughout its
length by soldiery. At every hundred paces
bayonets glistened, and at intervals tents
shone white and camp fires gleamed. The
Emperor was anxious that the Empress should
remain behind with the imperial children as
Peterhoff, but she insisted on accompanying
her husband to share his fortunes whatever
they might he.
In the district of Saratow, in Russia, anew
religious sect, called “The Underground
Sect,” is said to be gaining followers. The
peculiar name is derived from the habit,
practised by the followers of this eccentric
form of belief, of seeking out caves and other
subterranean places of refuge as habitations.
They live an ascetic life, taking only bread
and water for food and drink, and tolerating
no union of the sexes. Their dead are buried
under cover of night, from which the notion
has gained currency among the peasantry
that they throw the bodies into the Volga.
An extensive immigration of Germans is
| reported to be taking place in Southeastern
| Missouri. A whole colony from Saxony has
just settled in Perry county, where it has
purchased a large tract of land. Among the
possessions of this colony is a steam mill,
brought along to saw wood ft r building pur
poses. A second colony is expected soon to
follow this one from the fatherland.
AA estern farmers find barbed wire a very
convenient fencing material, but are irate at
the charges of the manufacturers owning the
patents. The Farmer’s Protective Associa
tion of lowa is contesting the validity of the
patents, and is rejoicing over a discovery
which they think will makegood their position.
A home made barbed wire fence has been
found on the farm of Samuel Freeman, put
up six years before the invention for which
the patents were obtained, and section of this
fence are to be produced in court.
Greasy Creek, in Arkansas, is one of the
latest natural wonders which this country
can boast of. We have already, in response
to those lands which raise bread fruit and
manna, produced a spring whose waters are
said to taste like turtle soup; but now the
Rev. John R. Yeatts, a Baptist divine, is
quoted as authority for a spring near Greasy
Creek, flowing forty gallons a minute, colored
like apple cider, and tasting like applejack.
He saw hundreds “ lying” around the spring,
in a state of blissful intoxication, laughing
and trying to slap their hands. The name
given to these springs is the Millennium
Springs; doubtless as signifying that they
bring back the golden age. Some persons
may refuse to believe in their existence ; yet
no one can deny that the Rev. John R. Yeatts
is a possible and plausible name.
The plan of charging a regular admission
fee has not proved altogether successful at a
negro camp meeting near Marion, Ohio.
Brother Hart had just made a fervent prayer,
and was laboring zealously among the mourn
ers, when the six members of the Finance
Committee reminded him that he had climbed
over the fence instead of entering by the gate.
The}' demanded ten cents for himself and ten
more for his wife, but he refused to pay, and
they dragged him off the grounds. But he
did not long stay expelled. lie and his wife
armed themselves with clubs, knocked the
ticket taker away from the gate, scattered the
opposing committee of six financiers, thrashed
the presiding minister himself, and resumed
their work among the penitents.
A Bavarian driver named Xavier Sem
melmann, now living in the town of Irlbacli,
dear Straubing, is one of the strongest men
in the world. Among the latest recorded
achievements of this athlete, who claims to be
the champion weight lifter of Germany, the
following deserve especial mention : A few
days ago, at Hogeldorf, a suburb of Rotten
burg, Sctnraelmann raised a blacksmith’s
anvil, weighing 488 pounds, twelve inches
from the ground, with one finger, and subse
quently lifted a load of bricks, 540 pounds in
weight, to the height of his shoulder. Last
year, Scmmelmann commenced a starring
tour in Bavaria. During his first perform
ance at Ingolstadt some dexterous thieves
succeeded in robbing him of all his personal
property, and this untoward mishap so dis
gusted him with travelling that he resolved
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The Scinilislx ol* io-tlsiy agree
that most diseases arc caused by disordered Kid
neys or Liver. If, therefore, the Kidneys and
Liver arc kept in perfect order, perfect health will
be the result. 1 his truth has only been known
a short time and for years people suffered great
agony without being able to find relief. The dis
covery of Warner's Safe Kidney and Liver Cure
marks anew era in the treatment of these trou
bles. Made from a simple tropical leaf of rare
value, it contaips just the elements necessary to
nourish and invigorate both of these great organs,
and safely restore and keep them in order. It is
a JPOSS'R’JY 11 SSeimdr for all the diseases
that cause pains in the lower part of the body—
for Torpid Liver—Headaches—-Jaundice—Dizzi
ness—(travel—Fever. Ague—Malarial Lever, ar.d
all dilliculties of the Kidneys, Liver and Urinary
Organs.
It is an excellent and safe remedy for females
during Pregnancy It will control Menstruation
and is invaluable for Loucorrhoea or Falling of the
Womb.
Asa JJlood Purifier it is unequaled, for it cures
the organs that make the blood.
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This Kcmcdy, which has done such wonders, is
put up in the LARGEST SIZED DOTTLE of
any medicine upon the market, and is sold by
Druggists and all dealers at per bottle.
For Diabetes, enquire for WARNER'S SAFE
DIABETES CURE, it is a POSITIVE Remedy.
H. H. WARNER & CO., Rochester, N. Y.
BUTLER'S
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LSTiMATES AND ORAV/INGS FURNISHEO
POUMD CORNER '/I
PR O’© Ft >
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EXT” RA ! ’SECUHE
Lq'CKSU
GENERAL agent for
DIE BOLD SAFEfLOCK CO.
Starvation Prices!
- —♦ • <s>- • ♦
WE ARE WELL STOCKED WITH
Provisions 2
to feed the hungry multitudes, and will sell our
goods for cash prices so close to the first cost that
) r ou cannot tell the difference. We have added a
full line of
Hoots and Slides
to our stock. We bought them for the CASH,
and will sell them at
SHOUT PROFIT,
in order to build up our trade in this particular
line. Call and price.
Don’t Buy Unless You (let a Bargain!
ASK TO SEE OUII
IPlcyw IS2dlO®s*2
The very thing for the farmer.
Tiie Prettiest Laities Slioe Ever Soil! in Jefferson!
Come and look. Xo trouble to show goods.
A. H. BROCK & €O.
Jefferson, Ga., Aug. 19, ISSI.
FLORESTON Fragrant,
COLOGNE. Refreshing.
A sew, Delightful and Fashionable Ferfnme.
Sold by druggists ud fanov goods dealers. None genuine
without signature of HISCOX A CO., Chemists, N. Y.
PARKER'S GtNGER TONIC
, Ginger, Buchn, Mandrake, Stillingia and
•many of the best medicines known are combined'
an Parker’s Ginger Tonic, into a medicine of!
,such varied and effective powers, as to make it'
•the greatest Blood Purifier and the |
Best Health <fc Strength Restorer prer nsed.'
, .It cures Dyspepsia, Rheumatism, Neural
gia, Sleeplessness, and all diseases of the]
Stomach, Bowels, Lungs, Liver, Urinary
[Organs, and all Female Complaints.
. If you are wasting away with Consumption or]
•any disease, use the Tonic to-day. No matter,
[what your symptoms are, it will surely help you.'
, Remember! This Tonic never intoxicates,'
cures drunkenness, is the Best Family Med-!
[icine ever made, and entirely different from'
.Bitters, Ginger Preparations, and other Tonics.'
• Buy a 50c. bottle of your druggist. None gen-!
■uine without our signature on outside wrapper.-
! Hiscox & Cos., Chemists, N. Y. '
. PARKER’S HAIR BALSAM2&?ffiES
""iGD Yourselves by making money
/pp when a golden chance is offer
ed, thereby always keeping poverty from your
door. Those who always take advantage of the
good chances for making money that are offered,
generally become wealthy, while those who do
not improve such,chances remain in poverty. We
want many men, women, boys and girls to work
for us right in their own localities. The business
will pay more than ten times ordinary wages.
We furnish an expensive outfit and all that you
need, free. No one who engages fails to make
money very rapidly. You can devote your whole
time to the work, or only your spare moments.
Full information and all that is needed sent free.
.fc Go. i’"t:.,.!. Maine.
PARKER k CAMP BROS.
>Vc have within the last few Meeks
opened up a first-class stock of
FANCY and FAMILY GROCERIES,
CIGARS AND TOBACCO,
STAPLE DRY GOODS. HATS AM) SHOES,
All of which we are offering at
3FLooXsl Bottom
Our Roods Arc nought From Manufacturers For Cash
And We Will Sell As Cheap As The Cheapest.
OIVE XXS CALL,
Awt\ \V CoVvwvwteA AYvavV AY e Wcuw YYVuvX. YY e
Respectfully,
PARKER & CAMP BROS.,
rob. 25 No. 12 Broad Street, Athens, Ga.
THE IRES PEL Tit,ITT
■
COTTON CmsT I
THE BEST IN THE WORLD!
RECEIVED PREMIUMS AT ALL THE STATE FAIRS IN THE
COTTON GROWING STATES!
PRICE 83.50 PER SAW, DELIVERED. EVERY GTX, FEEDER, and CONDENSER
GUARANTEED TO GIVE
3? E IR, E E O T S -A. T I S E J\. C T I O 3ST .
This Gin CLEANS THE SEED and makes a better SAMPLE than any Gin on the market.
T. FLEMING & SONS, Agents,.
June 24 Hardware Merchants, Athens, Ca.
HENRY HUMAN’S
iF-ORESL JSSTOiFUE;.
fjMIERE is no use going to Atlanta, Athens, Gainesville. Jefferson, or any other largo city or
L town, to get what you want on your farm or in your house, as I keep a full line of DRY
GOODS, CLOTHING, HOOTS AND SHOES, YANKEE NOTIONS, CROCKERY, GLASS
AND WOODEN WARE,
GROCERIES OF ALL KINDS,
SUGAR, COFFEE, TEAS, RICE, PEPPER, and all kinds ofSpiccs. A full stock of
Bacon, Flour, Meal, Syrup and Molasses.
Also, all kinds of FARM TOOLS, PLOWS, HOES, RAKES, FORKS, Etc.
A.ll of These G-oods
Will be sold cheap for cash, or on time to prompt paying customers, and none others. I shall, in
addition to the above, keep a full line of
h'a'Wwv'. \yavuw wv> mwc'iTO,
the REST OF CORN WHISKY and other spirits for medicinal purposes. Come and examine my
goods and prices before making your purchases. The highest market price always paid for COT
TON and other FARM PRODUCTS.
HENRY HUMAN,
apl 15 Pond Fork, Jackson county, Georgia.
BALDWIN & BURNETT,
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS IN
BOOTS -A-3NT33 SHOES,
No. 3 Broad Street, Athens, Georgia.
WE HAVE just received the largest and most complete stock of Hoots and Shoes ever brought
to Athens. The quality of our goods is of the highest order, and our prices within the reach
of all. We deal
ic x o i_.tx£sx ve h, y
in this line, and promise the most courteous treatment and perfect satisfaction to all who
may call.
TO MERCHANTS:
Our WHOLESALE DEPARTMENT is complete, and we guarantee prices as low as
any house in the South, and will save 3'ou freight.
GIVE US AN CALL.
BALD WIN y B URN JETT.
Athens, Ga., October Ist, 1880.
C. 3D- M’KIE,
ATHENS, --------- GEORGIA.
-A-O-IEIsrT FOE. T. T. HAFDOOK’S
Cincinnati Buggies and Carriages,
'v'W. VoYwwWvvs Co' s Vvwt Awgg’ves avw\ C.vv’uvt*cs,
THE CELEBRATED IIII.BURN ONE AM) TWO-HOItSE FARM WAGON.
good assortment of Harness. Also Manufacturers’ Agents for the W INSIIIP-COTT ON
GIN, Cotton Press, Condenser and Feeder, the best gin outfit on the market. Steam Engines,
Saw Mills and Agricultural Implements. Prompt attention paid to orders. Terms liberal. Ol
lice and Ware-Rooms, corner Clayton and Thomas Streets, Athens, Ga.
July 22 * JOHN WINN, Salesman.