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|p;r .■ mf i■< t!' > t nomice* he will tfl because of ilr health. Mr. Gladstone declares that he is un able to interfere with operations of the Mormons in England. A fourteen year old boy in N ew Hamp shire killed himself because his mother reproved him. An order has been issued assigning to the Division of the Pacific from the 15th of October. An aged German lady committed suicide in Cincinnati last week by hanging herself to the bed post, Governor Colquittii,\- appointed J. A. Ansky, of Aindlieusto sn*-<ned Judge C. F. Crisp who has resigned, to make the race for Cong]x*ss. f § Diseases of tlie eye arc said to be in creasing in the Southern States says the New York Herald. This is a mod est reference to the prevalent sore eyes in the South. The cranky cadet Whitaker who mu tilatcd his own ears and created a sen sation is now traveling in the state lec turing, when he tells about the wrongs perpetrated on him. r J be Republicans field with a view to nomina gHHI to do an,ything ex£) t endorse t lie ■tPpendent. The aggregate damage to the country by the recent Septemljir gale is recor ded by rnilUgßs. The York Her ald gives account of iArava- in that section of the eountr^ Phil Thompson the Seer Ary of the Democratic Congressionar committee speaks very hopefully about the Demo crats carrying the HodSfiy-He says the committee arc about certain the Democrats will have a good work | iog majority in the next house. * .--Hon Thomas Hardeman eloquently said in his (Savannah speech a few r days since that Denioeracy.-means the will of the majority; it meahs free education! and low taxation. Jt means the right of sell'government aiW home rule. It is the party that has given peace and prosperity to our state and the coun try. The independent movement in Geor gia is nothing more than Repubttmi ism in disguise. The its head in the national administration and the independents in the state are dictated to from Washington city. M oney is sent to Gergia by t he national Republicancommittee. to Mahoneize Georgia. Grover Cleveland was last week by the New York Democrats in convention for Governor. The Re publicans nominated Secretary Folger for Governor and thus tne contestants stand. It is asserted that important changes will soon take place ti e cabinet on account of Folgers nomina. lion to the Governorship. It is stated that Jay Gould has with drawn from Wall Street speculations and will give the balance of bis life to teaching his son to understand the great system of railroads that he will inherit at the old man’s death. Tho son will become heir to something over one hun dred million dollars. to. Stephen J. Field again looms up through a reporter of the Xew York Herald as good timber for a {Democrat ic presidential candidate in 1884. He is put out as the representative of the business interests and the capitalists of the United States. It is claimed that there was a want of confidence in Gen. Hancock and hence his defeat. lion. X. J. Hammond has an oppo nent for Congress in a well-to-do farm er in Fayette county. He has made a thorough canvass of his county by speaking at the several district court Bis and will now have time to he justice courts in some of the counties. He is not certain how hat he will weaken Mr, Ham mond. The nomination of Cleveland for Governor by the Xew York Democrats ln#s brightened democratic prospects in Ohio. It is now thought that Oh will certainly elect seven, and possibly ten congressmen. So hopeful is the outlook that already there is specula tion as to who will be made .speaker, eric xl l is.-ja.mt-ic-r; m. To look on the other side of the pict ure, the officers of the Republican Con gressional Committee laugh at the idea of the Democrats seeming the next* House of Representatives. They are willing to concede a slight loss in' Ohio but feel confident they will more than overbalance it by expected gains in the South. Jay Gould's Absorptions. The Xew York Herald suggests the propriety of the Government assuming control of the telegraphs of the country and managing them as it has the post offices. Mothers! Mother* ! : Mothers I! i Are you disturbed at nlglit and broken ot your rest by a sick child suffeilng and crying with the excruciating p ot cutting teeth? It so, go at once and get w bottle ot MRS. VY UfSLOYVS soothing It Will relieve the poor (little sufferer in mediately—depend upon It there is no mi.- ake about- it. There is not mother on earth ho has ever used it, who wli not tell you ator that it will regulate the bow bis. and glvera; to the mother, and relief and health to the, olid, operating like magic. 1 1 is perfectly sate to use in all cases, and pleasant to the taste, and Is the prescription of one of the oldest and best female physicians and nurses in the United States. Seda everywhere. W cents a bottle A beautiful line ©f wood and marble top center tables just received at the Bartlesville Furniture Store. We have just received a large and beautiful stock of Dress Goods, Hosie ry, Hamburg©. Laces and Ladies neck wear, at Stafford, Blalock A Cos. LOOK! LOOKI Go and look at the pretty suits at T. B. Lyons. They will fit anybody. \ TO THU FARMERS. K I have bought an interest in the lease hot the Redding where you ■kill find me season. Han't forget me. §^et. . W)! ■An has *iil j<--. # ’' Tveiled on 1 >v jK/F* temperance kg the Democratic Leg- HHVfb pass a local option law. In effort was renewed on a Repub wi’an legislature with Foster as Gov | emor, but the resolution as a consti ! tutiona! amendment failed to get a i three-fifths vote. It provided for the j amendment of the constitution 30 that the Legislature would have the power , to pass laws either to regulate, prohibit license or delegate the function of local 'Option to the respective townships and ■muiicipal corporations of the state. At Qhc Republican State Convention in 18- 81, a specific plank was put on the plat-! form for such au amendment of the I constitution and the republicans went into tnefigh’l arried the state ticket by and elected a Legislature which was republican two to one in both branches. The Legislature last winter however, instead of adopting a resolu tion for a constitutional amendn entto be submitted to the people, proceeded to try to regulate the traffic in liquors under the constitution without amend ment and passed what is known as the Rand law, taxing each saloon in cities of tne first class 3300, second class 3250 and so on to 3150. The constitution of the State prohibits theliAsing of the traihe, and fhe Supreme Court decided thai this law, implying licence, was tliererofe uneoustitutmiia, 1 .. The. law, . therefore, became null and VSd soon. after the adjournment of the Leg! si a-’ ; tare, Tills made, the temperance agi tato)®|iiore furious than ever, ;<A forc cd {llepublicans openly to avow the cause of liquor taxation in jio compro mising manner. The legislature last wintei passed another law that loons in the state should beclosed m>m Saturday night till Monday* morning , and while this was held to. be unconstitutional it is violated with 1 impunity, especially in Cincinnati and other large cities, and is •virtually as deifc a letter as the Rand law, because the local authorities of the citjjpx-fuse to enforce it. Hundreds of the saloon men in the State aramow having their cases heard before uie grand juries and will be indicted prior to the election. At their State Convention last June the republicans resolved to use all efforts to bring about the taxation of theliquo traffic and amend tlie constitution if necessaiw to do so, and at the same time see to ittohat the Sunday Observance law is strictly enforced. Arhen they went into the campaign raising the cry of “No Sunday and free whiskey” on the noci#gL The demerits however ignored temperance question entirely as an is sue, and held that the was simply a familtuitarrel among th® : republicans and they should be k-t alowe to fight it out. For weeks tlieTepisibW-ans temper ance warJPe and tli6democrß> con tin. vied to ignore it and agitate other issues. The brewers Associations and liquor dealers, with the 40,000 Ger m ans in the Sate, most of whom were formerly republics, joined hands with the democrats furnished them a, campaign fund of 335,000 and they de-* tnanded that the democrats should quit ignoring this question and take direct issue with or they would not throw all their influence and money with them. In consequence of this the past two weeks have brought about a great temperance campaign Some of tlie democrats, calling them selves membflfcj of the “law and order” element, h3®r jspousedthe cause of the republicans, and nearly all the prohibi tionists have over to them. As things are going now and likely to con-, tinue of the campaign iM w ill fight on this line. TneDemoerats count on gaining enough to carry the state by 15,000. In th* congressional contest the issue of temperance is not made. The tyio delegation in Congress, stands 15 Republicans and s,Democrats> The census of 1880 gives the state one extra congressman. It is difficult yet result of this RHA A JVC) RES TS S. article *on “The Plot el ion American Reviewrmay be regarded as a summary of the conclusions drawn from his work at the head of the forestry div ision of the tenth census. As such it is oneßf the important contributions of the literature of our American forests and affords the most comprehensive sla vey of the situation yet made. Prof. Sargent dispel^iiectually some fallacies regarding tiioHjgsi* notably the belief that they effect on the rainfall, and he urges th<Bepeal of tha timber cnl t-ure act, a step which the Herald has earnestly advised, since h™ failed en tirely in accomplished its purpose, and has already cost the government several millions of acres of land, without any re turn whatever. “Apart from its worth lessnesses a means of securing the growth of forests, this law is deceptive and therefore dangerot*. It encour ages the planting of trees where trees cannot grow unless artificially irrigated, and thus entails losses upon honest set tlers, deceived in the belief that the gov eminent would not encourage impractic able apd useless planting.” As ■four timber resources, we are told tliK the sorests of the country are still capable of yielning annually a large amount of material, and of doing so for many years. The effect of local exhaus tion. however, is already felt in many parts, and the steadily inc Asingjdisance between the forest and thereat centres of distribution is ait T ancinhe price of all lumber. But tiff days or areal tim ber famine are not very near, Snd “we can still boast, although in somewhat less exalted terms of the forest covering spread o® * JF —XotwithstandSHhe care manifest by Stephen Girard that college bearing his name should be free from the teach ings of Christianity, it is now essential ly a Cbristain institution. After the late President Allen's decease, neither his pastor nor any other Christian minis ter could go within the college walls to take part in the funeral services. But the exclusion of ministers seems not to have accomplish what Girard intended. The SuudHscholl Times says: “Presi dent Allen had himself done the work of a clergyman in that college while liv ing. and at his Mineral Christian services were there led by Christian laymen. Af ter this remains were taken into a neighboring church, where Christain lib erality gave freer air, and there a score or more of prminent Christain clergy men united with a large assembly in pay ing another trsbure of respect to the 1 life and work of this distinguished Chris tain layman.” The Girard heirs and trustees of the fund are said to be a unit as to the propiety of teaching Christiani ty iu the college, while technically obey ing the will by excluding clergymen. —Ex-President Hays, following what seems to be ibe popular current just now, has bought a great farm in Dakota, which is said to contain some of the fin est land in the Territory, and eligibly lo oaled on theXorthern Paeifie Railroad s i li le isinaick. This year he yielding a large SEli-WJK “homesick XESS. 1 ' Lukexv.. 18: “I will arise Hsgo to my father.” W hen a man is thoroughly hungry his enwgy is all gone. He, can toil neither with brain nor hand. Many au army has been defeated, not through lack of ammunition, but for lack of bread. It was this that tamed the high spirit of the young man mentioned in my text. He could have got along with a rough blanket for a covering, the night-sky for a roof, and might have dropped his thirst in a public well. But he must have something to eat. Storm and ex posure in length of time will weat oufe a man's life, but hunger work. This young man must have something to eat within a few hours or die. The travelerin Asia Minor to-day will tell you thanAhere are trees that bear long beans, or “carobs,” as they are sometimes called, or bushes as they are sometimes translated. These long beans are often eaten by the poorer pop ulation, hut more often' thev are t hrown to the swine that crunch ' them with great avidity. The young man in the text wants some of these beans or car obs, but he can not get them without stealing them. Seated amid the swine troughs, perfectly wretched, an idea flashes across him: “I will go home. These are no clothes for a rich man’s sou to wear. What business is this for a Jew—feeding swine? I can uo longer. I will arise and go to father.” Not waiting to patch up his poor clothes, or improve his personal appearance, away he liies. Homesick ness gives him a fleet foot. See him, tlie young man who bad been off a good while, now is oj Ills homeward tramp. Are we, my friends, ready to follow him? Novelists nave thrown around sin ro mance and fascination, but my text tears off the disguise. Notwithstand ing Lord Byron and George said, sin is a low, mean, con temptible business, and filling the troughs for t! herd of iniquities that root and v V->w in the soul to no occu pation for men and women A tended to uesoi. .md daughters of tire Lord A). • Oh, the wiset thing that that BBSo man did was to resolve to go baca. i™ circumstances wouki never get anv better theSd. He could not sew up the rags. He could not appease the hunger. iiis business would never become aiw more respectable than it was. GohomA you poor boy. lam glad tu| see you up such a good resolutren, and the only safe step for us to take is in the same direction. .Satan has a great many herds of iniquity, and lie says he will give us large wages if we will only ■ watch them. Liar! Down with thee fin to the pit. “The wages of sin is death!” Satan covers his employes with rags; he pinches them with eternal hunger, and, when they are weary of tlie business and try to get awitf, he chases them withjtll the bloodhounds of perdition. it not a sensible thing for this yowtig man, when he found himself in the Atitution and suffering of that wildernlss, to say, “1 will arise anu goto my father!” In tlie time of Mary the Queen, amid the great persecutions, a persecutor came 10 the iiousejaigniu old Christian rwoman and demsaped what he called a heretic that was hidden in the iiouse. The old Christian woman said: “Open that trunk and you will find him.” The persecutor opened and on the top of some looking-glass, and the persecutor loolred in it and “Where is the heretic I am looking for?” and the old Christian woman said: “Don’t you see him in the glass?” As to-day we take up the glass of God’s word I wobld that instead of seeing the ► prodigal, we might see our lost I condition by reason of our sin be •so impressed with it that we shoulcMV out mightily to the Lord for His uffll cy- to I have, iu the first place, to remark that this resolution of the prodigal was made in a disgust at liisjfresent condi .ubn. If his employer-jAuI set him to tending flowers, or to training vines over the arbor,, or to keeping an account of the pork market, or to overseeing the other young man would have never gone home Aou.se. If lie had had rdothe himself even u.mu had had salary enough to ritv, he would have said along without these s 1 just as a er young men have had had money in his ’ would have started home. have said: “What do I wanAHWpy father with fifty, a hundred, thousand dollars iu my pocket? I want 10 go Lome for? 1 will to the old man. Beside third of the property any! how. Besides, if I went know father would put me He \vould*not allow such the v)ld plhce as I like to *C'ome, fill high, and IffYLdJbk again ■pare good time .Alii it tvas his utter destitution and .ff®.ftper ism; it was the fact that they-begrudged bim even the beans and carobs. It was because he had come dowE"Hl destitu tion beneath which there was 110 lower depth th!He resolved to go to his fath er. Let lire here say that no man ever starts for fclod until lie of his famine-struck condition. say to ministers: “Why and talk about tiie lost For the reason that unless Aaded of it they don't want it ! come into your house well, and 1 talk about cines and physicians, is nothing I have AhHHH neuralgia. talk to .me about come into your house and you are desperately sick, and uHnßffi get help very soon you as I begin to tMk about nied doctor, you say: “Bring me ly or I shall die.” Now,.# vince ycUPthat in your you are lost; that you%e sick JW dis eased by reason of sin from of your head to tUpiles of yoiT feet, then you are ready To hear me A®iile I speak ef Jesus Christ, the Great Physi cian, and of the balm that will heal' all our wounds. And you say: “How are you going to prove it?” Well, I could prove it by the assertion of men, or I could prove it by giving you God’s state ment. Which shall it be? God’s state ment, eAtony man says. You shall have it. Jeremiah says: “The heart is de ceitful above all things and desperately wicked.' 1 Job: “Who is man that he should be clean and he wmeffis born of a woman thctAfc should he nghteous?” —Job xv., “How much more 1 _ .1 eui • _ 1 • 1 abominate and filthy is roan which drmketbfciiquity like water® Go fur ther arnnad: “fliere is fftme that doeth gooa; no, not one.” “As by one man sirn entered into the world and death bfcsin, so death hath passed upon all men, Tor that all have sinned. By every possible Bible sets forth the truth that we are guilty, and that there is no help for us so far as human medicament is concerned.' Sin is a red hot plowshare that turned up Eden, and it has prostrated the whole earth with the exhaustion of death, and unless a man quits his sin and comes to God for can not be saved. Prove it. I will it: “Except a man be born again he can not see the fingdom of God.” “There is but one name given among men whereby we can be saved, and that is the name of Jfsus.” Do not some of you begin to feel like that young man of the text, weary of your| sins? Do you not feel like, coming to the wardrobe of God’s in eras and asking for a garment of Would you not like to sit great banqueting table of Are there not some here like to be Christians? You cannot be where you are down in your sin. Go home! go home! Make some stout resolution like the young man of my text. A mere whim, a mere indefinite longing, will not amount to anything. The voting man of my text did not say: “I will wait until the caravan comes tdoug and get a ride. Xo!” with an emplia- Bs that sounded through all the ages* ime said: “I will arise end go to my '{father!” I remark furtllbr, that the resolution of the text was formed in sorrow at his behavior; it was not a mere physical plight fit was sorrow at the thought that he had so badly treated his father. Oh, it is a sad thing that a having been watched over bfaHitker and educated and cared for, shoßu go away and break that father’s Heart! “How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child. ” That is Shakspere. “lx foolish son is the heav iness of his mother: ” ble. Oh, have we not er badly? And such a that you hail apparel suited to the cli mate and changes of the seasons! Who fed you this morning when you arose? Who has sheltered your household? Who has given you the love of your children? In whose keeping are the departed loved ones of your heart? Who pours golden sunlight by day, and by night lights up the street-lamps of llleaven? On whose earth do you walk? At whose fountains do you drink? Whose ey’ hath pitied you? Whose hand hath helped you? Whose heart had com passion on you ? Whose voice hath called you? Our Farther, so lenient so loving, so generous hath he been Ob’ A\ e have all l>een cruel prodigals. We have chosen the wilderness to the lov ing arms of our Father. Have you no confessions to make? Have vou no sorrow to express? Have you no par don to ask for ? Hax r e vou no resolu tion to make? Oh! if it had been a stranger f | would nothave been so won derful that we turned awavfrom Him If He had maltreated us,'if He had ffagoMated us unmercifully, if He had turned us out of doors, if He had starv ed us, it Avould not have been strange if we turned our backs on such a Fath er. But no He has loved us, He has fondled us carressed us all our life long Are you sorry that you offended? Is there iu tliis audience one-man frank enough to say: “Father, I have sinned’ If you do wrong to a friend you are willing to apologize. You say 4 ‘Tam sorry 1 .said that or did that.” Have you ever apologized to God ? Can it be that ten thousand times ten thous and transgressions of ytur life are all uncancelletl? If it be so, mav God have mercy upon your soul. I remark again that this resolution *d the text was formed in a feeling of Homesickness. 1 do not knoAv how long the yoifig man nod'been gone^ uoav mauAweeks, how many vears from his father’s house, but Tam very certain front the reading of the passage that he was homesick- it is a very dfs agi enable feeling. Youkuoiv what it is. You have been away off, and al though you may have had plenty oi friends around ytu. and all the circum stances Avere cheerful, you said within your soul: “I Avouldgive the world if i could be home.” Well, this young man otJm> text was homesick, lie wantepco Avalk old place *gauM. lib Avantod to#e if the house-, looked just as if Used to look.- Abo’# all, he wanted to see his father' clasp him by the hand again. I thru" perhaps the thought may have flashed through his mind, “Perhaps father’s dead,! ’ You know that many a prodi gal has come home after a long absence and has knocked at the door, and a stranger lias come, and father is gone, andJriother is June, and brothers and 9irs are- gone. The into some other pi'session, with all that anxie ty that man of the t<rfffsavs: "1 to my father, 'to find Are there not ho would like to go back to God ? WAild you not like to nave Christ put hMscarred hand upon you and press you tMhis heart and ut ter these melting avls: “I have lov ed you Avitli an everfcting love.’’ Oh, f'e theranot those hße who are home ck for%rod, for heaven? heard of a Avho came to see nis parents, and a few days, and his him not to go night before h<4 went praying the him to One clambered up the rat on perilous du ty. in tiling bis o i < 1 iat darkness w ar dice, JUKI off the Pp-ling; but through lus soul '—the very'fra yer he heard Ins mother utter in the next room. And there aijpd the ships shrouds, he cried: “God be merciful to me, a sinner! Oh, if there be mercy for such a wretch as I am, help me! Lord, help me!” And I have thought Avhile standing here that per haps some prodigal in this audience flight nave coming into his soul the of BBknory prayer or mother’s Wngago that might press so migWiA on your that-■you -would this moment sur- yourself to the Lord w|o bought^ j*T remark again this*rlscSution text was inmiediately put into Execution. The text says he arose#nd came to his father. The trouble is that nine hundred and ninety-nine out of the thousand of our resolutions never Kount to any thing. We do not car- U|em out. lloav many of us have Pes of times, resolved upon a Chris -11 life ? And yet have not entered it. Here is a man avlio, tAventy-yeurs ago, in the time of typhokl fever, said: “O,“Lord,Jet me gßHver this sickness and 1 will serve all the rest of my life.” The he is weli, in the house of God to-day, and yet h 6 has never espoused the cause of Jesus. Here is a man who said; If I can only live to see 1882, by that time I will get over ths rush of my business and I will give my time to the Lord, and all the rest of. my days shall be spent in His service;*’ and here we are, Li 1882 and that man hits not kept his vow. A resoluthm a Christian week, or ki)g to o'clock The J-.'? r' r- !.ft) i Ig Hhusks. El- ’ 1 A E\ ||fl u on Here 1 to |||Hji it Hy n onßFitiiow ? You feel that need a title to heaven. Why not get it now ? How many have put it off? and there are some who say: I must get my life changed first, and I must get better first, and then I will come.” Ah, my brother, you and worse until you Xo man yet ever made himself better. “Not the righteous; SlnnersJlesus came to call. “But.’ says one ‘put it off a little lon ger and I will come.” Ah! that is what one of olden time said: “Go thy way for this time. I will attend to it after awhile. Did he?X*, he went away and perished. To be almost a Chris tian is to be no Christian at all. At Ana gansette, Long Island, a vessel came ashore'and dashed itself to pieces in the breakers, and the men on the beach threw ropes and shot rockets, and the crew of the wrecked vessel got in a small boat and pulled toward the beach and they came alnUfet to the shore, but the rope snapped a'nd they were swamp ed. Their“corpses tab next day were toss ed upon the beach. They come within a stone’s throw of rescue"and yet they perished. Oh, how many men there are who come almost to the beach of heav en, w ithin arm’s reach of pardon peace and salvation, yet righto there they are stvamped forever. Do., you know, my brother, that eternity is' at stake in this matter? You would not risk SIOO on as poor security as you have foi 1 your immortal soul, If you lend & man SIOO you take a note for it. If you take a deed for tt. If you build a house on it. If you buyproperty you take a deed for it. If you buiißa house you get insurance in it. wnd yet for your everlasting inheritance you have no title, no promise, no hope. Why will you starve in the desert w r hen you might feast in you Father’s house? God w-ants you to come back;the angels itant you to come back; the Church of Hrist w-ants you to come back. God, infinitely lovely and patient One, leans from his throne to-day and stoops ov er with every possible entreaty and says: “Come now, and let us reason to get her. Though your sins be as scar let, they shall be as snow;though they be red like crimson, they shall be as w-001. And then God lifts his right hand and takts an affidavit, saying: “As 1 live, saMi the Lord God, I have no pleasure iiprne death of Him that dieth. Turn turn ye; why will ye die?” 1 want to tell you of the prodigals— the one came back to his father's house and the other that did not. In Rich mond, Ya., there was a young ftnan who had every advantage in his fathers house of a Christian education, and he wandered away. He forgot his father,s counsel and his mother's love—further and further lie wandered, nntil he was a prodigal. One night in one of the fin est homes in Virginia, w-hile the famu ly were sound asleep, at midnight them was a loud ranaing at the door and tne prying of child® outside. The you^gy, the householßHß^i^^oWii .-x• .'J'j Hits broth. at mime word of ffte wife that offended him he said; “Out of this house! A way with the children! I will dash their brains out! And they fled through the darkness to their grand-father's house. The next morning the young man went out to see the prodigal who had driven his own family away. He found him pacing up and down in front of his house, and he said to him; ‘What is the matter with you?” and the prodi gal turned upon him and said; “What do you think of me?” “Why’l think you are my brother.” “No.” said he, •‘I am a brute.” And then he said: “O, brother, brother, do you think there is any cure for me? Do you think I will ever getjover these wanderings ? Do you uiiiK. a will ever stop tins lire of dissi pation? I think there is only one thing John, that will do it.” “What is that*? said the brother. “oh.’\said the prodi gal, ■‘there is only just one thing that will do it.,’ drawing his finger across his throat. “I will. 1 will, before night conies. I can’t bear it longer. Oh, my brain!” He was the prodigal that returned from evil ways. I wii tell you of another. Two young men in England were down i* to the sea-shore, expecting to embark Iney could not bear tlie restraints of a kind father’s house. The father wrote down to Mr. Griffin, of Portsmouth, sav ing: “My two sons are down in your city- I wish you would persuade them to come back-” He found the two boys, and persuaded one to go home, fne other said: "I won’t go home.” “Then,” said Mr. Griffin, “I will get you a good place on a very respectable ship.,’ Hesaid: “I won’t take it. I want to be a common >ailor, and that will do me most good.” Some years pas sed along, and one day Mr. Griffin was seated in his study, when word came: ••Tbere-ts a man on ship-tßard in irons, awaiting execution, wants to see you.” Mr. Griffin did not recognize ” him. “Don’t you remember me ? 1 was the young man you tried to persuade mot to go to sea.” “Oh, yes,” said Mr. Grif fin, “1 remember you.” “Well,” said ae, “I committed the crime of murder, i am goin to die, and I thought I would ask you to||pray for me before I died.” Mr. Griffin, thinking of the dear old udks at home, and of tile father, whose neart had long ago broken over that wayward son, said: ‘Twill try to get you a pardon.” He rushed about by nay and by night, from city to city, to the proper authorities, and ‘ sure 'enough lie got the pardon. He moved the heart of the Judge by the terrible story of parental suffering,and he came in hot haste with the pardon, and as he was coming on the snip he met the father who had come down from the country. He had found out that his boy was in trouble under a dis guised name, and there Mr. Griffin with the pardon met the father on dock, i’hey went on board, and the very mo ment that Mr. Griffin handed the par don to that wayward son, at the same moment the father thrAv his arms around the wayward boy’s neck ami the son confessed his crime and his “Father, forgive me if I have broken your heart.” And the father said “I forgive you.” The chains were knocked off and tks boy went home free. To-day 1 comHto you with a pardon—glorious the Gospel. 1 put it in your right hand, while at the same moment the Lord God Almighty, your Father breaks An upon fcfiie darkness of your soul antim brows the arms of His compassion arouqffi your neck and says: “1 forgive you for all your wanderings,” and there is joy on earth and joy m heaven. Who will accept the Father’s embrace? The Utility of Drunkenness. A writer in tlie Gentlemen’s Maga zine, reasoning premises of Malthus and Darwin ,gravely argues that drunkenness is performing a ben elicient work among the human race by weeding out those who are least fit to survive. muscular, rav ing, yelling. Sprang human animal that formerly led the war dance, the hunt and the battle, is no longer the lit-* test for survival, but is, on the contrary daily becoming more and more out of place.” Law and public sentiment for uid that he shall be killed by the means employed upon oler obnoxious brutes; therefore it is desirable that he be sup plied with facilities for self-immolation and these, the author says, are exactly ■supplied by the alcoholic drinks present day when used foetpurpflffisof intoxication. “We knots,” continues the moralizer, “that such indulgence away the.red Indian savage from the America* continent and pre pared it for a higher civilization, * * * and agent, if allow ed to do its natural work, will similar imremove the savage elements that stfll remain as impediments to the on ward progress of the more crowded communities of the Old World.” The authors general conclusion is that all human beings who are tit to survive will naturally avoid mtemperance ex- cept when it is occasionally forced up on them by the artificial pressure of tab surd drinking customs; the remainder “will be gradually sifted out by natu ral alcoholic selection,” unless the law interferes with their inclinations. For originality and practicability this theory certainly is unequalled, and that it is bound to prove its accuracy by its works cannot be doubted by any moralist who studies the classes that habitually drink heavily. The only trouble with the plan seems to be that like breeds like, and the heavy drunk ard, when he dies, generally leaves be hind him one or more of his own kind to be permanent sources of torment to and of profit to the dis tilleries. An Atlanta correspondent of the Au gusta Chronicle and Constitutionalist says. I hate to complain so much about our postal force, but if no complaint is made there is no hope of a remedy. Com plaints come from every quarter, and a gentlemen here after reading my corres pondence about it this evening-, said, “You are right, but you didn’t hit them half hard enough; they are more than negligent, and I for one, want to see them attended to.” In giving a reason for this delay and irregularity of the mails, I attribute it to inefficiency of a number of negro em ployes. I have information that there is at present, running on the night ex press of the Georgia Railroad a negro postal clerk who can scarcely read. I learn further that when he strikes a name he can’t read, he just throws the letter or package in a pile and carries it to Augusta. From there, of course, it is sent back up the road the next day, and so it sometimes reaches its destination two or three days late, or a week, or per haps not at all. These are all facts and you can most any time hear a complaint from somebody. A radical reform is needed in our post office. The Enquirer-Sun sums up its infor mation with reference to the damage to crops by the equinoctial storm: “Re ports from every direction go to show that the crops have been badly damag ed, and it is feared that they have been cut off 33% per cent. A farmer from Harris county reports that the com was blown and twisted in every direc tion and the cotton beat out wherever ft was open. In some places the bolls ware whipped off against the ground. Like reports come from Chattahoochee county, and it is probably equally as bad in aiU of the adjacent counties.” Atlanta Pqst-Appeal: Yesterday Gen eral Toombs %as unfortunate enough to lose a roll of bSls containing about 8500, which was up by one of Barlow, Wilson & Co’s who immed iately restored proper owner. Then it was spirit of Toombs to stangers for the the lucky fin der, Mr. Bob. with a hand some gold headed<caiie 4 “Honesty is the best policy. ” 5 b Some of the warmest friends say that he has not forgotten the manner in which Sherman him and the charges which Shettemn preferred against him w hen Shernitm was Secretary of the Treasury and hm was collector of the port of Is T ew YorEfc, and that he proposes to have his re venge. It is alleged that he regards the late investigation of Sherman’s ad ministration of the Treasury as a farce and a fraud* and proposes to institute an investigation that will put Sher- of tgfe Treasury be country in its true light. Here is the receipt for getting rich bv farming in the vou^ produce to sell felKf" jUHI \vhaj The reason many parts of the South are said to be unfavorable to the gl ow th of tame grasses is simply because the experiment of growing them has never been fairly made. Wherever wheat will mature well, timothy, herd grass orchard grass, red top, etc., as well as the clovers; will mature admiisblv. Blue flourishes on “limestone land,” * wher ever it has been properlv sown and pro tected in early growth. Climate and soils, in all the Southern States are fa vorable to the agriculture of the day, but some agency more enlightened than -negro labor” and more efficient than wooden plows is requisite to the proof. Before work commenced on the Brook lyn bridge, the estimated cost of con struction was §7,000,000. It is now es timated by the trustees that 622,000,000 will be required to complete the bridge. The, Xew Tork World points to this remarkable state of things and wants to know about it; but the trus tees are dumb as oysters. Of course a grave suspicion rests upon them. It looks like a gigantic job. Evening News: A wicked man in Augusta, being recently taken ill, and believing that he .vas about to die, told a neighbor that he felt in need of pre paration for the next world, and would like to see some proper person in re gard to it. Immediately the friend sent for George Symms. The fire insur rance agent. A convict working at the Graysville lime works, in Catoosa Couuty, was shot and killed by one of the guards. He had become unruly, and the guard threat enedfco whip him, whereupon he became furious and made for the guard with a hammer-aad-was shot and killed al most instantly. The citizens of Madison, Greene. Oeo nee, Clarke and Walton counties held a meeting in Athens on the 19tli, looking to the building of a railroad from Ath ens to Madison. • A lady at Brick Church, FT. .T., has a fullblood Jersey cow, “a very fine milk er,” which has not been dry in fifty-six months. “But she can only be kept un der full control bv the help'of a kicking strap. Anew kind of cotton, called the spi der-web is being experimented with in Louisiana. The telephone is going under the sea, apparatus that will send the voice over a thousand miles of wire having been invented. A Cough, Cold or Sore Throa should be stopped. Neglect frequently results In an Incurable hung Disease or Consump tion. BKOWN’S BRONCHIAL. TROCH ES are certain to give relief In Asthma, Bron chitis, Coughs, Catarrh, Consumptive and Throat Diseases. For thirty years the Troches have been recommended by physicians, and al ways give perfect satisfaction. They are not new or untried, hut having been tested by wtde and constant use for nearly an entire generation, they have attained well merited rank among the few staple remedies of the age. Public speak ers and Singers use tham to clear and streng then the Voice. Sold at twenty-five cents a box veryvvhere. eca-ly Money is a good rifcjtor new married people co have. See advancement of the Men and Wo. Relfi Fund Association in another column. ■ auglQ- The celebrated Millville fruit jars for sale by T. lA Lyon. Jars, quarts and hal galons, atf T. B. Lyon. T. B. LjTtn wants Eggs, Chickens and Butter. Carry all you have to sell to T. B- Lyon and get the cash or Dry Goods at New York cost. Mess Pork, at f T. B. LYON’S. Goto T. B. Lyon’s to get a good ci gar. %000 good cigars just received at T B, Lyon’s. * J&STREC&IVED. I have just received a large sorted lot of Ready Made Clothing wmcli I will sell cheap. T. B. Lyon. § To the Ladies: I have just jpieived a remnant Jot of assorted Laces at 10 cents a package. I have also just received my new lot of notions and Dress Goods. Giveflle a call Will take pleasure in showing you. $ T^B.Lyon. McBEIDE & 00. Atlantai&a., manufacturers show ca ses and%puthern agents for Seth Thom as clocks, and Lambeth’s fly fans, and own Ae celebrated Gate city stone wa ter fixer, and Cherry’s steam fruit and vegetable dryer for the world. Prices forwarded on application. T Our Friends and C u i We will move September Ist to the D. J. Evans building now occupied by the Furniture Store next door to S. F. Mann’s where we will open a full and complete line o4Dry Goods <md Groce ries. Thanking you for past iavors we rolieit a continuance of the same. Very Respectfully, * aug 12tf M. F. COCHRAN & lON^ Young gentlemen and ladies who desire to marry and start In the world with some read clias should join fthe Men and Women’s Kelley undAssociation. See?, adv. 0 I- ■> nri ii l> ll MW—I— C£NTMI A SO|TUWm£MR. 1 Savannah, Ga., .Tan. 8,1881. ON and after Sunday, Jan. 9, i#i, passenger trains on the Central and Southwestern Railroads and branches will run as follows: TRAIN NO. I—GOING NORTH AND WEST. Leaves Savannah 9:20 a m Leaves Augusta 9;30 a m Arrives at Augusta 4:45 p m Arrives at Macon 6:45 pm Leaves Macon for Atlanta B:lspm Arrive Barnesville 11.25 p m Arrives at Atlanta 3:4C a m Leaves Macon tor Columbus and Mont gomery, dally 7:20 p m Arrives at Columbus dally 2:25 a m Arrives at Montgomery daily 9:40 a m Making close connection at Atlanta with West ern & Atlantic and Atlanta Charlotte Air-Line for all points West and North. COSMKG SOUTH AND BAST. ..eaves Atlanta® ?2:20 a m Arrive Barnesville 4:01 a m Arrives at Macon 6:30 a m Leaves Montgomery for Macon dally 5:16 p m Leaves Columbus dally 12:16 a m Arrive at Macon dally 6:55 a m Leaves Macon ; 7:00 a m Arrives at Milledgeville.-. 9:44 a m Arrives at Eatonton 11:30 a m Arrives at Augusta 4:45 p m Arrives at Savannah 3:45 pm Leaves Augusta. 8:30 a m Making connection at Savannah with the Sa vannah. F. & W. Bailroad for all points In Flori- TKAIN NO. ■-GOING NORTH AND EAST. Leaves SavannalT 7:30 p m Arrives at Augusta 5:40 a m Leaves Augusta 8:30 p m Arrives at Mllledgeville 9:44 a m Arrives at Eatonton 11:30 a m Arrives at Macon ~ 7:20 a m Leaves Macon for Atlanta 8:00 a m Arrive Barnesville .10:04 a m Arrives at Atlanta 12:50 p m Leaves Macon for Albany and Eufaula.. 8:45 a m Arrives at Eufaula 1 4:15 p m Arrives at Albany 3:53 p m Leaves Macon for Columbus 8:15 a m Arrives at Columbus 1 :40 p m Trains on this schedule for Macon, Atlanta, Co lumbus, Eufaula, Albany, and Augusta dally, making close connection at Atlanta with Western and Atlantic, and Atlanta and Charlotte Air Line. At Eufaula with Montgomery and Eufaula Eall way; at Columbus with Western Railroad; at Augusta with the Charlotte, Colnmbla and Augusta Railroad and South Carolina Railroad for all points North and East, Eufaula train connects at Fort Valley for Per ry, dally except Sunday, and at Cuthbert for Fort Gaines daily except Sunday. Trains on Blakely Extentlon leave Albany dally. COMING SOUTH AND BAST. m Leaves Atlanta... 2-15 pm Arrive Barnesville 4:49 p in Arrives at Macon from Atlanta 6:15 p m Leaves Albany 12:02 p m Leaves Eufaula ; • 12:00 m Arrives at Macoiyrom Eufaula and Al bany 6;35pm Leaves An Ives at M jHm Columbus 5:10 pm Leaves Arrives at Augußta 5:40 a m Leaves Augusta*-. .'. ; S:3O p m Arrives at Savannah ~*,S 7:15a m Passengers for Mllledgeville and Eatonton will take train No. 2 from Savannah, and train No. 1 from Macon, which trains connect dally except Sunday, for these points. UPSON COUNTY BRANCH. Leaves Thomaston . 8:30 am Arrives at The Rock 9:1 0 a m Arrives at BamesvUle 9:50 a m Leaves Barnesville 5:00 p m Arrives at The Rock 5-40 p m Arrives at Thomaston 6:30 pm Pullman Palace Sleeping Cars between Savan nah and Cincinnati via Macon, Atlanta and Cin cinnati Southern Railway, from Savannah. Pullman Palace Sleeping Cars to Washington via Augusta, Charlotte and Richmond, on 9:20 a. m.train from Savannah. LOhal Sleeping Carson all night trains between SavaiSiah and Augusta, Augusta and Macon, and ’ Savannah and Atlanta. Passenj®fe-dm Southwest Georgia caD take either traft£Btan Macon or Augusta, and make connecyjjLSXwtb Pullman Sleeper from Augusta to Wasra%ton~without change. Berths In Sleeping Cars can be secured at Tick et Office on Mulbdrry street. GBO. A. WMlteheAd, WILLIAM ROGERB, Gen,Pa®. Agt. Gen. Supt. C. B. R., Savannah. ’ W. F. BHELLMAN, e. m ram MANUFACTUEERS ATLANTA, - - - GA ATLANTA, GA..ISSI. Saw Gin and Self Feede-*, Exhibited by E. Van WINKLE * CO., awarded for Best Sample, Best General Results In Gin ning, and Best constructed Machine, tlie First Prize, SIOO or Gold Medal. (B. S. RP’KS. Miss. Judges: aT. w. SMEDES, Miss, (W. E. BARROWS, Conn. H. I. KIMBALL. Director-General. A1 o. First Premium at the South Carolina State Fairs and Georgia Fairs. w 81 1 fH!! $ 1 * ippßfßflP^fesl Said to >e the best Power Press in the world Suitable for Horse, steam or Water. Simple and strong. 1 This Press packs in two irHbtes. Suitable for large public Glnners. Send for prices. E. Van Winkle Cos., mayff (Box 83) ATLANTA, Gy. Hendrix,, Rockhill g* Willingham, p IN CONNECTION WITH THE DIXIE WORKS, HAVE OPENED A GENERAL BUILDERS’ SUPPLY STORE, At No. 40 Cotton Avenue, Opposite Dixie Works, Where they will keep a full stock of all kinds of Building Material, such as Sash, Doorg, Blinds, Shingles, Lathes, Lime, Hair, Cement, Plaster, Weights, Cords, Hinges, Lioclts, GlaSs, Nails, Paints, Oils, I*xitty, and BUILDERS 6 HrEE _A_ HR RE . on all kinds of Building Material promptly furnished. mar23-6m /^BORGIA— Pike County— Application will be Y* made to the court of Ordinary Pike County Georgia on the first Monday in October next thirty days after sale of this notice for leave to sell all the lands belonging to the estate of Hen ry Jones of said county deceased, consisting of the power of the late M. E. Jones Deceased con sisting of 360 Acres more less In First District of said County for the benefit of heirs and Creditors of said Deceased. August 29th 1882. JOHN M. PHILIPS, Admr, nenry Jones. GEORGIA— Pike County— J. F. Cauthen and Mrs J F Bush having applied to me for perma nent letters of Administration on the estate of Thomas J Bush, late of said county deceased. This Is to cite all and singular the creditors and next of bln of T J Bush to be and appear at my office onthe first MoDday In October next, and .show cause if any they can, why permanent ad ■mlnlstration shall not be granted to J F Cauthen and Mrs J F Bush. Witness my hand and official signature August 30th, ISB2. HARRY WELLS, Ordinary. Universityof Georgia F. H. MELL, D.D., LL.D., Chancellor. THE 82nd session of the departments at Ath ens Ga., viz: Frankiin College, Slate College of Agriculture and Meehan ic Aits and Law school will open -Wednesday, 4th October next. Full courses of instruction in Literature, Science, Engineering, Agriculture and Law. TUITION FREE m Franklin and State Colleges. For cat alogues and Information,address the Chancellor. L. L. CHARBONNIER, Secretary, aug3-lm Atlanta. Ga. GEORGIA. — PIKE County— September sth, 1.882 Thosevndebted to the estate ol Mrs. u, E. smith, l aAe of Pike county, deceased, will make immediare payment, and those having claims against the same will present them in terms of the law. R.J. POWELL, sepfitf Administrator. TO LET. On Saturday the seventh day of October next, before the court House door in the town of Zebu lon, Pike county, the contract to build a jail house for Said county will be given to the lowest bidder. Said jail house Is to he built of wood tim bers 12 inches square; to be forty two feet by twenty feet the walls to be twentv teet high making a two story building. The timbers are to be sawed logi#l2 inches square and the walls are to be weatherboarded. At the same time and place a contract will be given by the county Commissioners to the lowest bidder for building cells for Sara jail and doing all the iron work thereon. The two contracts will be separate, but the same par ty may be awarded one or both. The building win be required to have an 8 foot hall running through it For plans and speeifl i cations apply at county Commissioners office in Zebulon. contracts will he let on Saturday October the 7th next. EORGIA—Fixe County—Notice is hereby VJF given that unless objections be lUed in the office by the first Tuesday in October next an order will be past making public a road leading from near W, M. Hartleys passing Bluff spngs camp ground intersecting the Zebulon and Bar nesvllle road near the residence of J. F. Cauthen A Iso.a road leading from near ;the residence o' and passing through lands Ml Mrs- thn.'n^a^ A w rut k t ■■llgllill A T zebuH Prompt aueißJ courts. crln^Hj J AT TO R M BARNM Respectfully tend* nsuring prompt anal business intrusted tol ai Courts. JC“Colleql dairies. jj T. A. A A T TO R NM GREH All ;busluessS prompt utter.UH a yJMJjI \\ ill %'*’ ci' %. Cult illllHLjA B .ijM ' 1 >l*. PH 1 >/C7J On u s at Gem I>uilHHH| I >I<OI H When riot at my ollice^BSHH resideiieo mi Kullroad s(■■■■■ HT Will use Magneto sm when desired. OPERATIVE AND (Office Barnesville, - JOIIII Moytlp HAVING returned to MBsl found up Etalrs, neurA^H warranted. Perfect me. f. # BARJ3KkW| Robert f. miller amiHg having consolidated iheVH| the convenience of wish to announce to the publMjj ter prepared than ever to art. Every thing will be l no pains will be spared toflHH| 1 ize them. jMilu^E Wesleyan Female^ STAUNTON, VII(^K Opens September 20tli, Schools |k Young States. Surroundings beautiM surpassed. Pupils from TERMS AMONG THE BEST ■ Board, Washing, English course! German, Instrumental Miisic, AI year, from Sept, to June, $238. J write to m Rev. WM. A. HA RKIS, D. D.J Va. V Hit 'il rflHE undersigned has located in’ X wltli£ view to conducting a j Merchant Tailoring J Is prepared tho demand® English and French cl Broadcloth, Doeskj andj such goods. Old clothing repal and J MADE ?l§ In short everything In the taUo^Bg Promptly A TEST oflH SKILL AND WOn Is respectfully askedl^Ej Satisfaction Guai® Call at the room opposite rick building, Respectfully, jans-lv c. HAMILTON FL MAI,®l Well selected course of study. SpecitJßS rnent for ail the ornamental branches. large, able and experienced. Lx for recreation. Excellent buildings, let® t four stories, containing 125 apartment®* modious chapel, Nice Recitation, On,*® Play and Bath rooms. Wanned by ste;lH lighted with gas. Only two young ladles dH a room, Charges lower than any school ofh<3 equal advantages in the United States. begins Sept., 11, 1882. For terms, cataio.fi and further particulars address J TANARUS, PAT, 3 SON. President, Lexington Ky. mm Fariii Li FO ©-ALE.* By virtue of an order from the court ry for Upson county will be sold before tifH house door in the tov.-n of county on the first Tuesday in Pciobei-Hl the real estate belonging to the estate®* T. Rose late of said county deceased, tuwl ■ said county consisting or lots of laud nujß 67, 68, 69 and 70 and half of lot numbrn the tenth district of said county of lot number 101 ai.d 177 ~. acres of W, 102 iu the same district the whole ■ 1431 acres more or 1 -ss Jji said district® one of the most valuable and deirab9H| land in middle Georgia It Is line of the Upson county Rallioad s flWl Barnesvlhe ands miles from ThomaJß®- l.s on the place one eight room fni*Ep good gin house, barn, stabies and ■■■lflf out houses in good repair, also a run by water power, and unite a imUv tenant houses. There is also on ti. c Wgffe er settlement consisting or a six dwelling spb-ndid new burn <g,, t other necessary our buildings in g a splendid oichard or select fruit. The lauds will be sold in parcels tJK; . chasers. TL. termo of sale w ill bejflfcir and one hair due la 12 months seeurtHP I'ae laud. Parties desiring to nnr.i,Jßg municaie with me at The Rock, t; a MH parties can also make terms as tflH meat. All of said laratsWbfesaki of the heirs and ..•reditqr&-rtPaßßrt#^B|% August 15 ih, EORGIA-PlffS Application nary of Pike cum® | term aft ei expire*;, j** '■ hy.-A,;