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FRIDAY, JULY 2,18S0. .
Mackerel ry tiie Million.—Tlio
seines and nets at' Prospect'were struck
and filled on the night of the 12th by a
very large school of mackerel. Expe
rienced fishers say they never'knew, so
many. come in at once. Some of the
seines were carried away by sheer weight
ot fish. The American schooner Orient,
of Gloucester, which arrived yesterday,
stopped 100 barrels of mackerel with a
parse seine on Saturday off this harbor.
—Senator Blaine, in response to a com
plimentary serenade from citizens, irre
spective of party, in Staunton, Virginia,
Saturday evening, expressed his surprise
and pleasure, alluding to the fact that he
differed in politics from the large majority
of his audience. lie spoke of his pleas
ure in visiting Virginia, and mentioned
that he had that morning made a visit to
Monticcllo, the home and burial-place ol
Thomas Jefferson.
—Dr. Sclileimann is building the finest
private residence in Athens, and intends
to havo it finished in the fall. The floors
throughout are of stone mosaic, and the
walls are elaborately, decorated in Pom
peian style. In one room are wall-paint
ings of the excavations at Troy, and in
another of those at Mycenaj. In the
mosaic floor, painted on the wall, and in
cast-iron fences and grates is the curious
symbol which the doctor found so abun
dant both at Troy and Mycente, and he
seems to have adopted himself as a sort of
coat-of-arms. It occurs very often on an
cient vases, disks, and the like, and is, he
thinks, the symbol of the holy fire.
—A movement, originated by Sir An
drew Galt and a few enthusiasts, is on
foot for a British emigration scheme on a
gigantic scale. The idea is a combination
of the leading classes to help out with aid
from the State emigration to British colo
nies, for it is noted with alarm that those
now seeking elbow room outside the
strained and crowded limits of England
go to swell the growth and greatness of
the United States, instead of aiding to
build up the colonics. In fifteen years,
out of two millions of people who left
the United Kingdom for lands beyond the
sea, only a quarter of a million went to
Canada, seven out of every eight (1,750,-
030) going to the United States.
—According to Dr. Abercrombie, a gen
tleman who had been a soldier dreamed
he heard a signal-gun, saw the proceed
ings for displaying the signals, heard the
bustle of the streets, the assembling of
troops, Ac. Just then he was roused by
his wife, who had dreamed precisely the
same dream with this addition, that she
saw the enemy and a friend of her hus
band’s killed, and she awoke in a fright.
This occurred at Edinburgh at the time
when a French invasion wns feared, and
it had been decided to fire a signal-gun at
the first approach of the foe. The dream
was caused, it appears, by the fall of a
pair of tongs in the room above, and the
excited state Qf the public mind was quite
sufficient to account for both dreams tinn
ing on the same subject.
—The railway up the sides of Mount
Vesuvius, just completed, runs along a
road steep as a ladder or a fire escape and
SCO metres in length; but as regards dan
ger, it is reduced to a minimum. It is not
a train in which the passenger travels,
but a single carriage, carrying ten persons
only, and as the ascending carriage starts,
another, counterbalancing it, comes down
from the summit, the weight of each be
ing five tons. The carriages arc so con
structed that, rising or descending, the
passenger sits on a level plane and wliat-
ever emotion or hesitation may be felt on
starting changes before one has risen
twenty metres, iuto a feeling of perfect
security. Dismounting at a little station
at the summit, you can scarcely be said to
clamber to the edge of the crater, for the
company have cut a convenient winding
path, up which all except the aged, heavy,
or feeble can walk wiih ease.”
What Mbs. Dorsey Believed and
What Mb. Davis Said.- The state
ment extensively published that Mr. Jef
ferson Davis, In his testimony in tiie Dor
sey will case, in New Orleans, last Thurs
day, declared that Mrs. ‘Dorsey “believed
that the Confederacy still existed,” needs
correction. According to the New Or
leans Times, which contains a lengthy re
port of the testimony, Mr. Davis said:
“Mrs. Dorsey did not believe that the Con-
fedefacy was still in existence, but that its
truths were eternal and would prevail.”
Mr. Davis is represented by the Time**
report as adding, in a vehement tone, “I
believed so too; if tliat’s insanity both of
us were crazy. I think Mrs. Dorsey was
up to the highest standard of enthusiasm
on that subject.” The testimony of Mr.
Davis was strong to the effect that he
bad never tried to alienate Mrs. Dorsey’s
affections from her relations.
—Mr. Berjamin Fisli, says the World,
died suddenly on Tuesday at Trenton—
near to his birthplace—in his ninety-
seventh year, and while he was writing in
his office. He had never ceased attend
ing to business and had never even used
a cane. His principal, business had been
that of a common carrier of passengers
and freight, at first with coaches and
horses, then with sailing vessels, next
with steamboats and last with railways-
He was one of the projectors of the first
railroad in his State—the Camden and
Amboy—and of the Delaware and Rari
tan Canal Company. He was connected
with many corporations as a director and
trustee, and was once a member of the
New Jersey Legislature. He was one of
the best known and most popular citizens
of Trenton, who familiarly called him
“Benny” and agreed in commending his
genial nature, kind heart, simplo manners
and stainless career.
—A family living in Nashville has a
parrot noted for its wonderful powers of-
imitating the human voice. The family
also has a daughter whose especial duty
is the care of the parrot. The young
lady has a young man, a recent addition
to Nashville society. The young man
called at the house of his lady love one
evening and pulled the door-bell. The
parrot, sitting in an up-stairs window,
heard the jingle r of the bell and called
out, “Go to the window!” The young man
was startled. He looked at all the win
dows below and fonnd them closed. He
pulled the bell-knob again. “Next dooi!”
shouted the parrot in a voice not unlike
the young lady’s. The young man looked
up and down the street in a puzzled sort
ot way as if it had suddenly dawned up
on his mind that he had made a mistake
in the house. Concluding that he had not,
he again rang the bell. “Go to the
house!” cried Poll from his perch in the
upper window. “What house?” exclaimed
tho young man, angrily. “The work-
house!” shrieked the parrot. The young
man left in rapid transit time.
XAS0SIC ADDRESS
Gen. Hancock a Safe Man.
When Gen. Hancock, pursvfant to or
ders from the war department, assumed
command of the military department of
Louisiana and-Texas, in November, .1867,
he isueff; the celebrated order, No. ca}led mcctil , s c f this lodge, hcW this da J%
40, of which the following is th\. second following resolutions were unaiii-
to every unprejudiced heart, and appeals
strongly to the sympathy and affection of
_ 'I the masses, as an institutioh-wortbytf all
Delivered by N. E. Harris, Esq., Before encouragement,
the Kulghta Templar aud Macon | ^ jf other auth ° rity M , 0 the antiq-
Lodge.
Macoh Lodge No. 5J F. Asp. A. M.
Brolher Nathaniel E. Harris: At 4
clause:
“In war it is indispensable to repel
force by force, and overthrow and destroy
opposition to lawful authority; but when
insurrectionary force has been overthrown
and peace established, and the civil
authorities are ready and willing to per
form their duties, the military power
should cease to lead, and the civil admin
istration resume Us natural and rightful
dominion.” Solemnly impressed with
these views, the general announces that
the great principles 'of American liberty
are still the lawful inheritance of this peo
ple, and ever should be. The right of
trial by jury, the habeas corpus, the liber
ty of the press, the freedom of speech, the
natural rights of persons, and the rights of
property must be preserved.
The just course of Gen. Hancock in the
South offended the carpet-baggers and
their Radical friends in Congress, who
endeavored, by hostile legislation directed
against him, either to have him retired
from the military service or to make his
position, as commander of the fifth mili
tary district, irksome and embarrassing.
Finally the issue of obeying a wrong or
resigning his governorship was presented
to him. He chose the riatter course, and
in a letter to a friend, in which he spoke
of his difficulties, he said:
“Nothing 1 enn Intimidate me from
doing: what I believe to be honest and
right.”
He made application to be relieved from
his command on February 27,1SC8, a vic
tim of Radical partisanship.
This is the man whom “nothing can in
timidate from doing what be believes to be
honest and right”—who is now before the
American people for their endorsement
aud approval. He is the man for the
times, because the times and their politics
are out of joint. The man who, as mili
tary commandant, resigned his office
rather than strike down the liberties of
the people of Louisiana and Texas, is the
man now to restore free suffrage—to ar
rest official domination at the polls—to
curb official insolence everywhere, and to
give us a government responsive to law
and public opinion.
Confidence Restored.
The nomination of Hancock and the
consequent restoration of harmony have
inspired the universal Democracy with
great confidence of success next November.
Everybody feels that the ticket will win,
and from the outset of the campaign the
Republicans will be obliged to wage a de
fensive warfare. An active and energetic
campaign on the part of the Democrats
will relieve New York of that fatiguing
position of a “pivotal State.” The Pennsyl
vanians think they can pivot a while, and
they will do it if her Democratic forces
come up to the work with courage and
energy. The Democrats expect to add to
the number of pivots. With the odor of
defeat dinging to tlieir skirts, the so-called
mously adopted:
Besotted, That a committee of three
be appointed, whose duty it shall be to
convey to our chosen orator of the day,
Brother. Nathaniel E. Harris, the assur
ance of our high appreciation of the beau
tiful and masterly exposition of the prin
ciples of our ancient order, as -presented
in the eloquent address this day delivered
at Central City Park.
Besolted, That a cdpy of the address
be requested for publication.
T. L. Holt,
W. P. Baldwin,
W R. Rogers,
Committee.
T. L. Massenrubg, Secretary.
Messrs. T. L. Holt, IF. P. Baldwin,
and W. B. Rogers, Committee, Gentle
men: I thank you, and, through you, tho
Lodge most sincerely for the kind manner
in which the address of yesterday i3 men
tioned. In the earnest hope that its pub
lication may da some good to the cause,
I put a copy at your disposal.
Fraternally yours, * N. E. Harris.
June 25, 1880.
ST. JOHN’S DAY—JUNE 24, 1880.
The day we celebrate shall be the intro
duction to the words I speak on this occa
sion.
Whatever of force or earnestness I
might employ, it is certain that these
scenes, these faces, these banners and
marchings, and the preparations in yonder
hall, are far more eloquent of the objects
and purposes that have brought us together
than anything I could possibly suggest.
I am not here to make converts to our
order. In fact, I see that the ladies con
stitute by far the largest part of the unin
itiated, and I am too gallant to seek to
encourage hopes that could never be_ real
ized, even in this day of woman’s rights.
But I am by no means insensible to the
good opinion of those outside the order,
and I hope, when I close this address, I
shall have succeeded in making a better
impression on those present than did a
certain learned judge, recently, on a jury
that he had just charged.
A plain case had been on trial before
him, and at its close, be bad delivered one
of those strong, clear charges to the jury
for whieh he was celebrated, putting the
law before them so plainly that no one
ought to have mistaken it. The jury re
tired for consultation. Hour after hour
passed and no verdict was returned. The
time for dinner came, and the judge was
hungry. Upon inquiry, he learned that
one obstinate juryman was holding out
against eleven. This he -could not stand,
and he ordered the twelve men brought
before him.
He told them that in his charge he so
plainly stated the case and the law that
the verdict ought to be unanimous, and
the man who permitted his individual
opinion to weigh against the judgment of
eleven men of wisdom was unlit and dis
qualified ever again to act in the capacity
ofjuryman.
At the end of tliis excited harangue a
little squeaky voice came from one of the
jurymen, who said: “Judge, will your
honor allow me to say a word ?” Per
mission being given, he added: “May it
please your honor, judge, I am the only
man on your side.”
I must make one apology to the unini
tiated. If you are here expecting me, in
anything I shall say, to divulge any of
the secrets of Masonry, or to even give
you the faintest conception of what goes
Republicans can be induced to retire to
private life with a considerable degree of on in our lodge room, you will be disap-
unanimity. If the Democrats manage the
campaign as it ought to be done, they
will win a considerable number of the
Northern States, and in that the “solid
South” will become less prominent aud
offensive, and finally the whole outrage
and bloody shirt fabric disappear. “I
thought,” says old Ike, “that no man by
tiie name of Garfield, or Garlic, or Garfish,
or Garbage, could be President. It don’t
sound nateral and becoming.”
History of fhe.Campaign of Gen. T. J.
(Stonewall) Jackson in the Shenandoah
Valley, of Virginia: By William Al
len, formerly -Lieutenant-Colonel, and
Chief of Ordnance, Second Corps A.N.
Va., with full Maps of the Region, and
of the Battle Fields. Philadelphia: By
J. B. Lippincott & Co.
We have received a copy of a volume
bearing the above title. It is gotten up in
Lippincott’s best style, both as to paper
and typography. The mind never wearies
in reading of the exploits of Stonewall
Jackson and his invincible brigade. The
author, in his preface, well says “The
story of this campaign will always be in
teresting to the actors on both sides; and
not merely to them, but to the student
of military art it affords an admirable ex
ample of an aggressive-defensive cam
paign, and one of the best instances in
modern times, of the degree to wliicli
skill and daring may neutralize superiori
ty of numbers and resources.” Let every
body get- a copy. For sale by J. W.
Burke & Co. Price $2.50.
Fast Mails.—A special to the New
Orleans Picayune, from Washington, con
veys the welcome intelligence that the
post-office department contemplates an
increase of speed in the mail between
New York and New Orleans, so that the
Northern mails will arrive at New Or
leans at 7:30 in the morning, instead of
9:40 at night. Railroad managers met at
Washington to consider the proposition of
the post-office department, which it is ex
pected will be accepted. This informa
tion will be hailed with delight all along
the line. It will give Macon the New
York mail several hours in advance, and
facilitate all commercial transactions.
A good many harsh criticisms have
been uttered against Gen. Gordon for re
signing his position as United States Sen
ator. Many speak of it as an unheard of
transaction. In 1842 Hon. Mark A. Coop
er, who now lives in Bartow county, and
who had served several terms in Congress
prior to that time, resigned his seat just as
Gen. Gordon did, with a full term before
him. A man may be honest, and yet re
sign.
Hancock and the Herald.—The
nerald of the the 23d (writing, of course,
on the 22d), closes a long article specula
ting about the situation at Cincinnati, in
a convention divided among twenty-five
candidates, with the following:
“Perhaps the most hopeful sign of Dem
ocratic sense yet vouchsafed at Cincinnati
!s seen in the evident vigor of the Han
cock movement. The nomination of this
gallant soldier would at once end all the
mouse-trap policy of Mr. Tilden and give
augury of Democratic success.”
The Herald was ready to concede
^Democratic sense” when General Han
cock was nominated next day.
Georgia Olive Oil.—The Tallahas
see Floridian mentions the receipt at a
store in that city of a lot of olive qil, man
ufactured at Dungenness, on Cumberland
Island, fiomfruit grown in the olive grove
of General W. G. M. Davis, which was
pure, sweet and rich, and far excelled in
flavor the “Imported” oil, which is manu
factured from cotton seed in this country,
shipped to Europe, and comes back to
American markets as “pure olive oil.”
pointed.
I assure you I shall take good care to avoid
ail such,references. But if I should fish
around among the secrets, and give you a
little insight into them, it would contrib
ute much to the interest of the occasion—
at least so far as the brethren here present
are concerned.
Possibly you will think me, in this par
ticular, something like the man on the
river shore, who lost his mother-ih-law.
Going lip to one of the wharf hands he
said: “I do hate to give any one trouble,
but have you got a long pole or stick ?”
“No, I told you I hadn’t an hour ago.”
“Yes, you did, but I guess now I’ve done
my duty, don't you?” “Why?” “You
see my mother-in-law dived off down
there at the deep end about half an hour
ago, and as she hasn’t come up yet I
thought I’d like to tell ray wife that I
sorter jobbed round ou the bottom a lit
tle for her, but if I can't—I can’t—that’s
all.”
We are here to celebrate the anniver
sary of St. John the Baptist. Masonic
tradition informs us that he occupied the
distinguished position of Grand Master of
our order. Aye celebrate his natal day,
not because lie has gone into history as the
great forerunner of Christianity, but be
cause he was a Mason, a ruler aud guide
in that great transition time when, cliris-
tianity was just springing out of the side
of Judaism, to take its place as the lead
ing religion of mankind.
There are but two festivals kept by
Masons in the United States, that of St.
John the Baptist on the 24th of June, and
of St. John the Evangelist, on the 27tli of
December.
In England, and all other countries
wherever the traditions of the craft are
kept, whilst these identical days may .not
be observed, yet there are, within all its
organizations, some certain times ap
pointed, when called from labor to re
freshment, tiie members seek in the free
dom of social relaxation, a. renewal of
of those strong ties of friendship and affec
tion, so characteristic of this ancient
order.
There are many reasons, to-day, why
as Masons, may well congratulate
ourselves ou our membership in this great
institution. The time has been when
persecutions and oppressions _ were
the rule and order of its existence;
when the name of Masonry was cast out
with odium, and its followers hid them
selves from the gaze of their fellows, in
secret conventicles, with lookouts posted
to warn of approarlmig danger, or took
refuge in caves of the earth, with nature’s
fastnesses to shield them from their fellow-
men. No institution ever established
that had any good in it has escaped a sim
ilar fate. Yet how little they know the
spirit of men who resort to such means to
stay the progress of truth; for the truth,
my friends, has never lacked martyrs
since Socrates died, o? John Huss defied
tiie flames. Ideas, principles, hopes, in
this world, vegetate from blood!
It is not so now. In this free country,
under these sp leading trees, in the open
daylight we may gather together with our
solemn symbols and distinctive dress, with
the agencies of mirth or incentives to se
riousness among us, and may go _ through
with our ceremonies, and there is no one
that can say us nay. Masonry has
come to be honored and respected among
men as an agent of civilization, as the
friend of social order and-harmony, and
the promoter of peace and good govern
ment on earth.
The antiquity of Masonry has been es
tablished by the most incontestable evi
dence. Every true Mason, learned in the
esoteric work of the order, will need
no argument to persuade him that the
foundations of the institution were laid
far back in the earlier ages of the world.
The internal evidence of this fact is abun
dant, and that, after all, is the surest de
pendence for human belief. Tiiat the
structure, in all its minutest parts, ac
cords witli the claim of long life, is no
mean evidence of the truth of such
claim.
Reasoning somewhat a priori, the same
conclusion is reached in another way.
Everything has been provided in the
structure of the order to secure its perpe
tuity. All institutions intended to live,
regardless of time and change, must have
in them two controlling principles, the co
hesive and the aggressive. They must
have something in them to hold the indi
vidual members together, and something
to make appeals to the sympathy of the
world.
The former power Masonry preserves
in its social tendencies, for in its greatest
purity it becomes to its membership the
very cement of souls. On the other hand,
',| by its charity to all men, its philanthropic
teachings and practices, it endears itself
| escaped the ravages of the devouring fire,
. and the not less destructive hand of the
' Assyrian and Ohaldaic soldier, was sjfely
hidden away in the archives 'of tho or
der. - — s.—
uitjr of the order be desired, it can be
found
readily in the. writings of. the histo
rian, and the researches of the archioolo-
gist of alTtimes. '
One great writer gravely argues that
Masonry existed before the world begau—
that it was diffused in space—floating
about, we suppose, as a sort of ethereal
essence—undefined and indescribable, in
which condition it was foimd by our first
parents.
Dr. Preston, on the other hand, lays its
origin in the Garden of Eden, and would
baveusbelive that its sublime beauties
and ineffable harmonies began when
the morning stars sang together and all
the sons of God shouted for joy.”
Others again, and the tradition has'
gone into form in one of the degrees of
the Scottish rite, find the parent of the or
der in Enoch, and boldly proclaim that
this highly favored descendant of our great
first parent, directed therein by supernat
ural agencies, used the implements and
taught the sublime principles of the Ma
sonic work. Otheis again, find in the hi
erophants of Egypt, in the mystic ordeis
hidden in the night life of the children of
the Nile, the originals of our fraternity.
The institution known as the Dionysian
Architects, dating its origin about a thou
sand years before the Christian era, and
which spread over India, Persia, Syria,
and all the countries of tlio East, employ
ing the same or similarsignsand symbols,
has also been confidently claimed as the
true original of the grand order that lias
followed the track of at least thirty cen
turies, unchanged, down to the present
time.
It is worthy of remark that the profane
historian locates the establishment of the
Dionysian mysteries at about the time of
the building of King Solomon’s temple,
and Masonic writers have felt that it is
not claiming too inueli to suppose that, in
asmuch as these mysteries were practiced
and taught in Tyre, when King Hiram sent
the widow’s son to aid King Solomon in
the building of the temple that they
were carried to Jerusalem, where
the wisest Prince on earth remedied and
improved them upon events and circum
stances that transpired during tiie building
of his own most illustrious fane. This
tradition, among the learned, has received
the most credit, and is no doubt the true
theory in regard to the foundation of the
institution. The building of that great
temple—so important, so fraught with in
fluence on the destinies of mankind—was
fitly signalized by the institution and per
fection of an order based upon the doc
trines of true monotheism, to whose
keeping, under the ward and lock of the
most impenetrable secrecy, might be in
trusted, in tho face of a pagan world, the
true law and rule of life.
From this it may be seen with what
propriety Masonry has been denominated
“the blossoming of a universal religion.”
The universality of Masonry is ail argu
ment also in favor of its antiquity. It is
well known that even the wandering
Ishmaelite, amid the hot stretches of tiie
desert, has received from his fathers,
transmitted for unkuoivn centuries with
out change; the same lore that forms the
staple of the Masonic traditions in our
lodges to-day.
Signs and symbols that have stood the
wear of3,000 years, amid the nomads of
the desert, are themselves objects of no
mean curiosity to tiie seekers after truth.
But I said the discoveries of the achaj-
ologist distinctly prove beyond a shadow
of a doubt the extreme antiquity of our or
der.
In tho mummy caverns of Egypt when
the modem explorers went down into the
gloomy chambers that held the embalmed
dead of that country, they found often
upon the walls, near the mummy, the
working tools of tiie craft chiseled plainly
in the rock, and sometimes it is said that
even the figures of men were found clothed
with the Mason’s garments, and in the
very act of giving many of the signs of
the craft! All these too, covered with the
mould of twenty centuries 1
I cannot even stop here to notice the
excavations made in recent years at the
base of Mount Moriah, in Jerusalem,
where many of the symbols and signs of
the craft are claimed to have been discov
ered and defined.
Suffer me to say here that modern re
searches prove that in ancient times the
truth always hid itself away in
mysteries and symbolic references.
Only one nation on earth practiced and
taught it openly—the Jews. In ancient
Greece it was buried in the locked cham
bers "of the Eleusinian mysteries, in
Pythagorean rites and ceremonies.
In ' Egypt they shrouded it in
the colleges of the initiated, in the
crypts beneath the pyramids, in tiie
fanes of the Necropolis, in the night—life
of the people. So with other nations all
over the East. The rabble could not bear
the wonders of monotheism—doctrines
learned by Moses in the solitudes of Horeb,
taught in the spectacle of the burning
bush, and enforced in the wonders that
attended tiie deliverance of an enslaved
people from the task masters that had so
long lorded over them.
Bnt, to come back, there are recent dis
coveries, made by our own countrymen,
which prove beyond cavil that the order
reaches back of 2,000 yeais. I refer to
the figures and symbols found by Lieu
tenant Commander Gorringe in January
last during the removal of the obelisk of
Alexandria. Nineteen hundred and threq
years ago the great Julius Cibsar
ordered to the city of Alex
andria the famous obelisk known
as Cleopatra’s needle, and had his 'archi
tects set it up ou its present pedestal of
mortar and stone. This obelisk the Khe
dive recently presented to the American
people, and an expedition tinder com
mand of Lieutenant Gorringe, of the Uni
ted States navy, was fitted out to remove
it.
[Here was read an extract from the'
Masonic Review, of March 18S0, contain
ing the dispatch from Lt. Gorringe, setting
forth the discovery at the base of the Obe
lisk of a Mason’s square, an apron, a per
fect ashlar, a rougli ashlar, all cut or
carved out of granite; also a Mason’s
me'al trowel ot ordinary size—in all five
emblems, each in its proper position.
They rested on a foundation of yellowish
drab limestone, and surrounding the
foundation were three stone steps, corres
ponding in every respect to the three first
degrees of Masonry. There were other
well defined emblems also discovered and
described in said dispatch aud accompa
nying papers.] . a
These discoveries certainly show that the
order existed at the time of Julius Csiesar,
and completely set at rest the anti-Mason-
ic theory, that it began in modem times.
The reason why so much controversy
has arisen over the antiquity of Masonry,
is doubtless found in the fact that it is
not more than 200 or 300 years since
Masonry lost its operative character, and
become entirely what is known as specula
tive or symbolic Masonry. Sir Chrstoplier
Wren, it is said, was tho last operative
Grand Master. On this event turns the
whole controversy. The change was
brought about doubtless in the . ordinary
progress of civilization, and was only a
necessary effort to conform to the de
mands of a more enlightened age. Ma
sonry gained no new character by the
change. It only dropped one feature that
bad heretofore distinguished it. All tlio
old landmarks remaiued; the signs
and symbols continued, and all the eso
teric work was unaltered. Masonry is
still the same nucleus for thought and
study—has the same grand traditions, the
same high purpQses as of old, and its
membership must still be composed of
freeborn citizens actuated by a common
desire to aid, improve and bless man
kind.
An institution which has lasted so long
among men, must have given many evi
dences of substantial benefit to the world,
or it could not have so well defied the at
tacks of time. ItU true—tho achieve
ments of Masonry ha7e been of no small
moment in the history of the race. Of
that which has become known I need
scarcely refer to the oft repeated tradition
that after the destruction of that beautiful
temple, over whose building it had pre
sided for seven years, and the long night
of the Babylonish captivity that succeeded,
when the true faith waxed faint, and Isra
el’s harp hung trembling and silent upon
the willows of Babylon, that during all
this time, the only copy of the law that
npa
half so much for Jthfl world when they
crowned the battle-scarred heights of Mo
riah with the" splendid walls of the
second temple', as did the - members of
this ancient order, when from the dusty
vaults of their workshop they brought the
long lost law of the Jews. For whait
were the temple or the priest or tiie sacri
fice without the law of Jehovah that ap
proved and the promises of heaven that
sanctioned and blessed the work ?
Masonry is essentially a secret society.
The record of its deeds, therefore, is never
kept. Its practice of charity is secret. It
seeks to do men good, without disclosing
the facts to those who enjoy its benefits.
Secret charity is the summit of all benev
olence. The human soul reaches no
higher growth than this. To do an un
selfish deed, to do good for the sake of the
deed alone, this is to climb the heights
and sit down close to where God himself
begins to live. It is to get inside the cir
cle of Divine influence, to uncover the
soul In the presence of the sublimities of
an eternal realm, where ill is perfection
and life is praise. Doth not God work in
secret ? To whom hath he come in the
daylight and told of the blessings He gives,
of the favors He bestows? Does He not
rather hide Himself in the secret taberna
cles of eternity and use the agencies
around us, least expected, least under
stood, to accomplish His kindly purposes
to His children ?
My brethren, God is in secret, doing
good. Freemasonry seeks humbly, in its
high ideals of human benevolence, to imi
tate the secret doings of God J Him
self. Silently its spirit moves
among men. It seeks no blazonry
of the open daylight to authenticate its
work, or give credit to its deeds.
Do you know them? Or you—Or you,
my brother? And yet, like Providence,,
its charity is universal. Silence hangs
upon the footsteps of its ministers, yet,
wherever there is suffering, wherever
there is sorrow, wherever there is .hunger,
wherever there is desolation, lo 1 its spirit
is there.
Shall I be specific? Do you remember
tiie plagnc-stricsen cities of the West?
Nay, go to your own hospitals, to your
churches; go to the houses of mourning;
to the sick and imprisoned, to the suffer
ing and dying; who is it in the shadowy
night, bending over the bed of tho sufferer
to help, to cheer, aud to save ? Wh6re is
the record of these things kept? Doth
your left hand know what your right baud
deeth?
Gentlemen, around you—in your midst
—these things are being done, and the
spirit of Freemasonry moves to tiie acts,
aad God’s angels are gathering a golden
harvest of good deeds from the seeds sown
in this secret work of our noble order!
“As life’s unending column pours
Two marshalled host3 are seen,
Two armies on the trampled shores
That Death flows black between.
“One marches to the drum-beat's roll,
The wide-mouthed clarion’s bray,
And bears upon a crimson-scroll,
‘Our glory is to slay.’
“One moves in silence by the stream,
With sad yet watchful eye,
Calm as the patient planet’s beam
That walks the cloudless sky.
“Along its front no sabres shine,
No blood-red pennons wave,
Its banner bears a single line,
‘Our duly is to save.’ ”
In the political history of nations the
order of Freemasonry has been a silent, but
sometimes decided actor. It is not a po
litical society, and only the extremity cf a
uuiverrsally conceded danger to liberty
and life can justify its intervention in
such matters. The record of its work
here will never be written. The
memorials have perished forever, but
the blessings it hath begotten shall
lighten the burdens and gladden the hearts
f untold millions for ages to come.
The fact is well authenticated that the
Protectorate of Cromwell was overthrown
and Charles II restored to the throne of
his fatheis mainly through the influence
and management of the Freemasons of
England who had espoused his cause on
his becoming a member of that body-
Front this fact some historians state that
it received the name of the Royal Art.
But 1 cannot dwell here. In
our own country there is a more interest
ing fact than even this. Shortly after the
war closed, while the country was ingreat
turmoil and the destiny of the South was
the problem that vexed the Northern
mind; while Puritanism and ultraism de
manded victims, and the second, sober
thought had not yet been heard, there was
one man found in the North bold enough
to stem the tumult and proclaim amnesty
to the erring and pardon to the repent
ant. It was a bold act, for the than had
been elected to the second place in the
government by the war party of the North.
It was a bold act, for tho man -was born
and raised among us, and he knew that
his conduct would bring upon himself
the charge of “traitor and rebel”—fell
names that, in those dreary times, meant
persecution, infamy and disgrace with his
party.
Therefore, speaking for myself, I
honor Andrew Johnson for the courage
that faced the danger, and the heart that
braved the peril in behalf of our peo
ple- ', , . ]
When his opponents in Congress had
impeached hijn, and a partisan Senate
seemingly, organized to convict, with the
necessary majority to do it, sat in solemn
judgment upon his cause, men all over
the land—good and true men of both po
litical parties—held their breath, lest in
the conviction and degradation of the
chief magistrate of the nation,, the enter
ing wedge should be driven home that
would split the government in sunder,
and leave us to struggle forever, like Mexi-
ico, amid a hopeless night of anarchy, tur
bulence and war.
If tho unwritten archives of our order
were searched, possibly the reason might
be found therein that led the Senator
Theodore Freelinghuysen to change his
seutiments on the night before the final
ordeal came, and to the astonishment of
his associates and his party, cast the vote
that saved his country and his friend!
Andrew Johnson wa3 Grand Master of
our order.
The silent work of Freemasonry daily
glres birth to countless acts of a different
character, which deserve the highest com
mendation. Scarcely an occurrence of
any note happens that is not in some way
connected with it$ influence, either advi
sory or conciliatory. Silent, unobtrusive,
and unpretending, it yet exercises a wider
influence among men than any other or
ganization, tiie church excepted, on
earth. Ask of your own experience, and
you could multiply instances by the hour
where Freemasonry has done some heart
good, or cast some light into some dark
ened places.
Now a hammer, it strikes—now an a-vil,
it bears. It carries the secrets of millions
of hearts—it hides the faults and praises
the virtues of a million more. We may
forget its teachings in the active business
of life, but there are others with whom we
mingle that will not. We cannot escape
its hold when we have once crossed its
doorway, for its ties, like the heart-ties of
woman, may break indeed, but the life
that has fed them will be quenched in the
pallor of death.
Its peculiarity as an institution—the
mother of all secret societies—seeking
practically to place all men on a level,
abolishing all distinctions and castes, and
appealing only to that which is good and
true in its followers, renders it an object
of interest to every thinking man. That
on the floor of one building, in the halls of
one house, peasant aud prince, preacher
and hearer, rich and poor, learned and
unlearned, should meet as brethren, strike
hands as equals and pledge the marks of
Masonic friendship, is something so little
in keeping with our common experience
that we are utterly unable to locate or
characterize the institution that secures
such results. Masonry makes its appeal
to mankind upon the basis of a universal
brotherhood. Man is man, humanity is
humanity—whether it is hung round with
titles and propped with wealth and glory,
or whether it .be but the workman of the
slashes, with poverty as the guest of his
bed-chamber and hunger tbe spectre that
presides*1 hi* dining board. There is a
chain that binds ■ all men together, and
Majority, seizing .hold of it, has ixdished
the mated links and riveted them deep iuto
her owu heart.
Masons have been called the sons of
light. Only one brought from darkness
can estimate tho propriety of such a desig
nation. Light is the first of God’s crea
tion. Out of the irresistible fiat, spoken
over the formless ruins of night’s wide
realm, it sprang into existence, when Je
hovah was seeking where to lay the
foundations of his intended creation.
Called from the interstices of nihilism, it
has ever since been associated with the
idea of revelation. Its creation, at tiie be
ginning, was a revelation of the purposes
of Divinity. Once in every twenty-four
hours, since the fourth , day of the earth’s
existence, this miracle of creation has
been renewed to the children of men.
Have you ever; on one of our clear sum
mer mornings, witnessed tiie coming on of
dawn? As the morning draws on apace
its heralds first mount the sky. Starbeams
are glimmering in the darkling vault, like
lover’s eyes at twilight. Soft clouds, like
fleeces of the thistle down, float smoothly
across the surface of the starry sea. Anon,
a faint redness fringes the eastern hori
zon’s lowest line, and the star eyes twin
kle and grow dimmer, as if the tears of
parting had begun already to cloud and
darken their wavy lustre. And then,
faint as the flush ou rosy cheeks, a long,
gray line of light shoots out across the
heavens—and another follows, and anoth
er still, till like the spangles of a star the
vapory stems of sunlight swing, and mount
and sweep, far up the paling sky dome.
Pulsing wavelets, with “shimmering
sheen” begin to dance and sparkle on
the misty background of the heavens,
and showers of amber-colored rain
drops seem to fall along the pavement of
the sky, and in the shining faces of the
stars their eyelids droop, their cheeks
grow pale and hazy, while the rosy dawn,
just like a timid maiden struggling with
a new-pluckeil wreath of dcw-moisteneil
flowers, comes tip-toeing toward the earth.
Now corruscations of living flame leap
forth from fleecy cloud to fleecy cloud.
The sky from amber changes into gold; a sil
very sheen is on the hill-tops; and the Light
—the glorious gladsome new-born Light—
comes down to crown the mountain’s
heads with gorgeous coronals of g old and
diamonds and precious stones, and send
a thousand shining shuttles through the
warp of Darkness, to weave the robe of
Day. And now, too, the valleys smile
like rosebuds iu a lock of golden hair;
and lo! the trees bend down and whisper,
tb awake the violets at their feet; the
brooklets laugh with mellow cadence, like
the cooing doves of spring; the flowers
renew their morning courtship, aud the
dewdrops, sparkling on the roses’ lips,
gather up the silvery rays and send them
in bundles of refracted light, to brighten
on the meadow’s lap. .Then the heralds
dance, with twinkling feet, harmonious
strains along the sky, and the rising ban
ners of the daylight g'.ance and wave, till
wide the eastern portals sweep, and
into view the full orbed Sun, red mon
arch of the newly risen . day,
all crowned with radiant sapphires,
flashing from his royal forehead, stalks
with matchless grandeur up the sky!
Such i3 the birth of light. Light like
this, is it not? from brake and vale, that
falls upon the gaze of the startled
neophyte, when first he looks upon the
wonders of our hidden temple! Well are
ye named children of the light 1
But again, my brethren, this pageant
is not an empty show to us. These dark
robes, these mystic emblems—the world
may not read their meaning, but to ns
thev have a deep siguificance. In them
is a voice thak speaks to every true
Mason’s heart of the grand purposes of
our order. The voice of the lodge room
is in them—nay coiled there, my brethren,
are our obligations, our duties to each oth
er, our promises for higher and holier lives,
our pledges of friendship, our purposes for
good, our duty to God. The voice of the
ages is in them—the voice of the dead is
there—they open the crypts, they tear ofi'
the veils, they scatter the shadows, they
build the temple, they lift the comer
stone to its place, til), like a creation of
God, the structure stands before you, its
base planted on the solid granite of earth
and its towers lost in the glory of heaven.
I would I had more time, my breth
ren, to-day, to discuss more in detail the
great features ol the order. To do so
would require hours, for Masonry, in its
sublime beauties and teachings, has gath
ered up and woven iuto a system almost
everything necessary to secure the happi
ness of man. Its protection to woman
alone would entitle it to the love and
gratitude, of the true and* good every
where. Around her it lias thrown a net
work of safety strongerthan plated mail
or corselets of polished brass. Wherever
she goes it watches her footsteps, to pro
tect her from insults, to save her from
want. Only a member of the order can
ever know its far-reaching, never slum
bering care in this regard.
A short resume of the operations of the
order and I close. In 1873 there were
ten thousand Matonic lodges in the world
in active operation. The "membership
was counted by millions—it is more now.
Wealth, influence, character and position
have all alike been cast into the scale in
its favor. More than four thousand
books have been written to esplain
its history, rituals and belle-lettres.
In England, Masonry has been identi
fied with English royalty lor over 400
years. Henry VI was .a Mason,
Henry VU was a Grand Master,
George IV was Its patron, William IV
was its Grand Master—succeeded by the
Duke of Sussex, his brother, and when
Victoria gave a son to heir the crown of
England, at his majority he was elected
Grand Master. And to-day his two broth
ers are his Grand Senior and Grand
Junior Wardens. Only a few days ago
the rrince of Wales, in laying the corner
stone of the Cathedral of Truro, as the
Grand Master of English Masons, - used
the gavel presented by Sir Christopher
Wren to St. Paul’s Lodge in London;
the same gavel with which Charles II
laid the foundation of the great Cathedral
of St. Paul.
Wellington in war, Percival in state
craft, Bums, in poetry. Coke in law,
Locke in philosophy, these and a thou
sand other illustrious names brighten the
pages of English Masonry.
In France the order has flourished for
many years, notwithstanding some inter
nal troubles, under the most flattering
auspices. Nobles and princes have been
its patrons. During the time of the Em
pire, Joseph Bonaparte, brother of the 1
great Emperor, was its Grand Master,
with marshals and noblemen to assist.
liim.in tiie work. Since then the names
of Princes Lucien Murat and Jerome Na
poleon have figured as its illustrious.hesds.
And I will not pass over another
name—last but not least—a name
dear to American hearts—Lafayette,
the champion of popular liberty. • the
friend of Washington delighted to call
himself a Mason. In 1825 when he visi
ted this country,.the Grand Lodges of the
various Stat03 gladly assembled them
selves together to pay the highest honors
known to Masons, to their patriotic and
illustrious brother.
In Prussia Freemasonry was introduced
by Frederick tin: Great in 1740, who was
made Grand Master, and with his own
hand he wielded the gavel and set the
craft to work. Since then it has followed
the fortunes of Prussia, and the Emperor,
with bis great Chancellor, and other mem
bers of the royal family, besides thousands
ef nobles and distinguished savaus, are
bright exemplars of the order to-day.
Georgia disputes with Massacbusct3 the
honor of having introduced Masonry
into America. Solomon’s Lodge at' Sa
vannah is said to bo the first Lodge
ever opened on the continent. Shortly
before or thereafter, to-wit \ in 1733,
St. John's Grand Lodge in Massachusetts
was regularly organized, and Masonry
soon entered upon the most brilliant
round of triumphs that ever attended, its
history. It spread rapidly over Northand
South America, gathering into its halls
the most learned and distinguished men
of all ranks and classes.' In Brazil' the
Emperor, Don Pedro I, was elected its
Grand Master, and the order has since
become in that Empire tiie bulwark of
all civilization anil enlightenment. In
the United States four Presidents have
worn its regalia, besides innumerable
statesmen, philosophers aud poets, whose
names I have not time even to mention.
In Georgia, the order is closely identified
with the civil and political history of the
State. The names ofLawrence, the histo
rian of the craft, Rockwell and Smith,
its expounders, readily occur to your
memory. From your own city, too, How
ell Cobb, a 33nl, went out to illustrate its
tenets in the council and the field.
But time fails me, and you are wearied
Suffice it to say, there is no civilized na
tion on earth to-day where a Masonic
Lodge is not found. It has gone over the
world. Traveling with the sunbeams, it
has routed the agents of darkness and op-
pressjon,—everywhere, the apostle of civ
ilization, the friend of humanity, the ally
of religion, the prop of government, the
hope of the oppressed. It seeks to make
men better, and conform them to the
higher standard of human excellence.
Its language is universal. Men may know-
each other as Masons when no other com
munication can pass between them—in
the dark as well as the light. It is adapt
ed to the necessities of every situation.
Catholic in its principles, it knows no.
difference of station or life. It has found
friends for the friendless, rescued from
ruin the perishing, opened the door of the
risbner, saved the condemned from
eath. It has fed the starving, sheltered
the homeless, educated the ignorant, pro
vided for the suffering, given sympathy to
the distressed, dried the tears of orphanage,
and filled the widow’s worn heart with
joy. While it has done this, it has beau
tified the world—built temples and col
leges, halls of state and houses of worship,
reared chiseled columns from marble
blocks, decorated with cornices and pilas
ters palaces and domes of matchless
beauty; it has laid in cement and stone
the materials of the grandest edifices on
earth, snatched an architecture from the
failing grasp of a decay ingcivilization, and
made it the wonder of the world. Pile on
pile —Pelion on Ossa—from ocean to ocean,
from mountain to seashore, its sculptured
monuments arise, till on tlieir frosted
summits the light of day never declines,
and at their bases the ages come to cast
their burdens down, in fruitless despair
over their efforts to destroy. It has met
and resisted every kind of enemy; it
has survived every kind of attack—as
well tho treachery of friends as the malice
of foes. Crowned monarchs have hurled
at its ranks the mailed minions of
Hate and Revenge; political parti
sans have proclaimed its antagonism
to law and order; theologians have de
nounced it as a union with deism and in
fidelity; even the church has visited upon
its votaries the thunders of her priestly
maledictions, but in the face of it all, our
glorious fraternity instinct with the ele
ments ef immortality breathed into it by
its wise founder, has passed unscathed
through the ordeal, only lifting forever its
hands to tiie heavens in token of its inno
cence, aud bathing its forehead in the
sunshine of God Almighty’s Eternal
Truth! Prophecies of its downfall have
attended its pathway through the ages
with ceaseless motonony—but it has lived
to consecrate the corner stone over the
tomb of its enemies, and in the spirit of
its universal charity, to plant the sprig of
acacia even over the grave of the prophets
of evil. Like the stream in the moun
tains, it may lose itself for a tune in the
face ol some granite ledge or rock-ribbed
mountain barrier, but by tho force of its
own impulse, percolating through the hid
den and silent caverns underneath, it will
reappear in the plain beyond,only the pur
er by reason of the barrier, and only tbe
better fitted to glass in its surface the im
age of God’s heavens above it.
Such is Freemasonry to-day. Truly,
may we not congratulate ourselves on our
membership in such an order? With
earth’s mightiest names on its “bead-roll”
its place in history is assured, and its
countless deeds of charity and love shall
forever wed it to the faith and the hopes
of humanity as tho chartered minister on
earth, of good will to men.
I cannot better conclude this address
than by quoting the words of one who
wa3 “first in war, first in peace and first in
tiie hearts of his countrymen.” A Mason
himself, he spake as one having author
ity, a man of truth his words should com
mend themselves to the belief of every
honest heart. In' 1792, when George
Washington was presiding over tiie des
tinies of the republic that his valor had
founded, the Grand Lodge of Massachu
setts addressed him a Tetter of congratula
tion on the fortunate termination of the
war, and especially the position which he
occupied in the hearts of his people. In
reply, after thanking his brethren for their
kindly interest, he uses these words—and
I commend them earnestly fo you all as
worthy your consideration on this joyous
day. Said he: “To enlarge the sphere
of social happiness is worthy tiie benevo
lent design' of a Masonic institution. And
it is most fervently to be wished that the
conduct of every member of the fraternity,
as well as those publications that describe
the principles tfratactuate them, may tend
,to convince mankind.that -the grand ob
ject of Masonry H'to'pfdihote the happi
ness of the human race. • • • I sin
cerely hope that the Great Architect of
tiie universe may bless you here and re
ceive you hereafter iuto His immortal
temple. George Washington.”
Crop Estimates Compared "with Last
Year.
Editors Telegraph and Messenger:—
The impression prevails now, from a com-*
bination Of circumstances that there will be
from present prospects an immense crop
of cotton. While it may be, and every
report indicates it, I beg to call your at
tention to a few facts and ask that you
comment upon them and ask tbe press of
the South to do so, as these large crop es
timates may do a very serious injustice to
the planters of the South without a real
basis.
The fact that there is a large increase
of fertilizers sold is true, but, while in the
past nearly all fertilizers were used under
cotton alone, now there is a great deal
used under corn and grain. 1 think it
would be safe to say in our section of tbe
State there is ten times as much fertili
zers used under grain and com as was
last year, and about forty times as much
a3 was .used under com a few years ago.
1 think it would be safe to say that
about one-third the fertilizers sold in our
section of the State are- lower grades of
fertilizers, being “acid phosphates” or
“dissolved bones.” No practical planter
expects that, a ton of-acid phosphate will
produce as much cotton as a ton of manu
factured fertilizer. It may when com
posted. Then we cannot expect the com
parative increase in bales of cotton com
pared with a few years ago to increase in
the same proportion as the tons sol.l in
creased, on account of the lower grades
of “fertilizer” sold and tiie quantity used
under corn j aud graiu. I think I would
be very safe m saying that there were ten
times as many tons of—acid phospliata
used in our section as last year, and forty
times as many tons as were used three
years ago. So it will be seen that while
the sales are much larger, tbe lower grades
are very greatly increased.
There is no question but that the crop
the first of June was more flattering than
last yeir, as last May was very propitious
for tbe growth of cotton, and May of last
year very uqpropiiioRs. But last June
was as favorable as' we could desire, and
the crop did as well as we could desire it.
It limbed close to the ground—which is a
very important feature in making a large
yield—and the showers and sunshine were
just exactly as we desired them. So we
-had a good send off. Then we had a
combination of seasons, the most favorable
I have ever known for securing a latge
crop. In fact, the history of cotton.plant
ing does not furnish a single record of
seasons for making a bottom, middle and
top crops as favorable as last year. And
then a very late fall for it to all open,
even in the northern belt, and then a pleas
ant, mild, dty winter and healthy one for
gathering it. Everything was propitious.
If we had never had such a season in
the past, is it not unreasonable to expect
two in succession.
Mr. Editor, we would be compelled to
have everything just as last year to make
the present estimates of the crop, and then
there is not labor enough to gather it, as
it was all—men, women and children—
utilized last season.
Now, tbe prospects to-day, compared
with last .year, are, iu my opinion, no more
favorable, if tin much so. The corn is at
least 33 per cent, under last year’s pros
pects. The cotton, this year, has a very
long shank, and is limbing long ways from
large crop, iu my opinion, and being
grassy in May and 1st June, tlio stands
are injured in cleaning it. We have now
a drought combined with eight days of
cold east winds, whicli is not favorable to
.cotton.
There are some sections of our county
that have not had a good season in four
or five weeks. Those crops are small and
backward now, where they have been dry
three weeks. The cotton has grown but
little for the last ten days, and it looks
hard and is firing. Where last year at
this time during June we had propitious
seasons and a booming crop, now we have
harsh, dry weather, and a withering crop.
If we were to have rain to-day, ana there
is no prospect now, it would take cotton
several days to start to growing, and I
think I would be safe in saying that the
first of July this year will find the crops
far less flattering than last year.
-I think, Mr. Editor, if you would com
ment upon the above facts, and call the
attention of the press of the State and
South to them, and especially the atten
tion of the reporters to the different cotton
exchanges to these facts, you may produce
a revolution in the minds of these report
ers that will be of untold benefit to the
planters of the South, and save them
thousands of dollars, and millions per
haps, in the price of the incoming crop.
. These are practical,, business questions
that are in the interest of the masses, and.
will be appreciated by them more than the
present political discussions that are grow
ing excessive and nauseating.
SotJTnwEsr Georgia.
Extract from a letter by B. E. Brode,
Esq-, Tamaqua, Pa.: “I received the
Tutt’s Pills you sent me a week ago and
Lave made good use of them. Already I
feel that I would not be without them on
any account. Please send another supply,
alLmy neighbors want them. I can sell
any quantity of them as they are the best
pill ever made.”
Straighten your old boots and shoes
with Lyon’s Patent Heel Stiffeners, and
wear them again. jl-lm
The lonely vigils of the night are terri
ble, especially by the bedside of the sick,
and it is just the thing to have a bottle of
Cousseus’ Honey of Tar to euro their
coughs, colds, croup, etc. Price 50 cents.
For sale by Hunt, Rankin & Lamar.
myl4-Sml
Hnunte«l Me.
A workingman says: “Debt, poverty
and suffering haunted me for years, caused
by a sick family and large bills for doctor
ing which did no good. I was completely
discouraged, until one year ago, by the
advice of my pastor, I procured Hop Bit
ters and commenced their use, and in one
month we were all well, and none of us
have been sick a day since; and I want to
say to all poor men, you can keep yonr
families well a year with Hop Bitters for
less than one doctor’s visit will coat.”—
Christian Advocate. junl5-2w
Tor may not believe it, but try it and
yon will be convinced that Portaline, or
Tabler’s Vegetable Liver Powder is the
best medicine in the world to regulate the
stomach and liver. Price 50c.
For sale by Hunt, Rankin & Lamar,
my 14-3 ml
Notice.
Congress Water. None genuine sold
on draught. Its superiority as a cathar
tic and alterative consists in its entire
freedom from everything bitter, acid or
crude that produces headache, internal
soreness and tends to destroy the mucous
membrane. All mineral waters that are
dangerous irritants may bo known by an.
acid after-taste. apr I 2m pd
E’en though the face be not so fair,
And beauty may be all but flown, .
Dear ladies, you need not despair,
If SOZODONT you make your own;
And brush your teeth and mouth with
skill,
You’ll fascinate and conquer still, lw
Money Spent in Printer’s Ink.
The Union, Upper Sandusky, O., tells
its readers: “While on the subject of
large payments, we hero add that H. H.
Warner & Co., of Rochester, N. Y., have
appropriated for expenditure for tbe pres
ent year, $500,000 in advertising their
Warner’s Safe Kidney and Liver Cure,
and other of Warner’s safe remedies.”
, jI5-2w
Distress after eating, one of the most
unpleasant results of indigestion, will no
longer be experienced if a table-spoonfull
of Simmons’ Liver Regulator is taken
after each meal. This will prevent the
distress referred to; and by persevering in
the use of this remedy for a few weeks a
permanent cure will be effected, and pain
will no longer be the penalty of eating.
jun22-lw
When you visit or leave New York
city, stop at the Grand Union Hotel, op
posite the Grand Central Depot. Euro
pean plan. Rooms reduced to $1.00 and
upwards. Restaurant unsurpassed at
moderate prices. Street cars, stages and
elevated railroad to all parts of the city
May ll.-e.o.d., 1 yr. ,,
Crescent Spring; Water.
For several years had been affected
with gravel of the kidneys. My urine
was carefully analyzed and found to con
tain nearly half an ounce of uric acid.
I had not taken the water three days until
the quantity wa3 reduced fifty per cent.,
and three weeks after, a last analysis
showed the urine free from gravel.
Solomon Stein,
Of S. Stein & Co., 446 and 448 Broadway,
New York.
September 8th, 1879.
For information apply at Hall’s Drug
Store.
Macon, Ga., March 20th, 1880.
Messrs. Lamar, Rankin & Lamar:
Gentlemen:—I had frequent hemorrhages
before using your Consumptive Cure, and
had been treated by Dr. Crowell Johnson
and other skilled physicians without being
relieved, and after using three bottles of
yonr medicine the hemorrhage was
stopped, and I have never had one since.
I am now in better health than ever be
fore, and leel it my duty to state to the
public the effects of your wonderful Con
sumptive cure on me. Yours truly,
Mrs. E. G. Avant.
Wilber’s ComnouDd or fare Cod Uver
Oil and IAme
The advantage ot this' compound over |
the plain oil is, that the nauseating taste
of the oil is entirely removed, and the
whole rendered entirely palatable. Tho
offensive taste of the oil has long acted as
an objection to its use; but in this form
the trouble is entirely obviated. A host
of certificates might be given here to testi
fy to the excellence and success of “IPii-
bor’s Cod-Liver Oil and Limebut the
fact that, is prescribed by the medical fac
ulty is sufleient. For sale by A. B. Wil-
bor, chemist, Boston, and by all drug
gists. !
Mrs. Wusl-ws satuibixK »»rop.
Bev. 8r'vtcn< Oobb than writes in the Bca-
bo OhnstUn F.eeuim: We wend by do
means recommend any kind cf medicine ,
•h'ch we did not kior'to te good—pirtion* j
lari; for infants. Bat of Mrs. Wmslow's j
Soothing Pyrnp wa eui spetk from 1 nowledge;
is oar own f .mil; it baa proved a bleating
indeed, by giving an infant troubled «itb
coke pirns, quint sleep and its parents un
broken rust al night. Most parents can ap- ■
preoiate ibeei hissings. Here is an article!
nhch works to pet ft c< i n, and wbieb is i
barmlttrs, f.irlbeeletp which it tff rrd* tfce !
Ufaut is peifsJily natural, and the little ohe> j
ubawa.es as ‘ bright as a button.” and j
caring the proceis of teething, its valns is j
ino.lcabie We have f;tq leniU beard moth
ers eay they wound not be witnont it from tbe I
birth of tbe chili till it had fioiahed with tbe j
teething siege, on any couaderstiou what- j
aver, bold i y oh druggists. 2S oents a bo-
t!e. dec23 lw
-For the Arctic steamship Gulnaie
there has been constructed a curious son
of watch box, called the “crow’s nest”—a
wooden tank coopered with iron hoop
and about the height of a man—to
drawn up to the masthead by a riggic
for the purpose and fastened there, in
which a watchman is to bo hoisted from
the deck and kept on guard there day and
night as a lookout. They are to*enter up
into the “crow’s nest”through strap door|
and a seat is constructed inside wher
they can sit, enveloped in furs, and scan
the polar horizon.
