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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. O 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 IMm 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. o 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 ffitnm Hlrf LSTiMATES AND ORAV/INGS FURNISHEO POUMD CORNER '/I PR O’© Ft > uuuuuu 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.