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Newspaper Page Textwum Ml .M.lNTOSR A EVAS*. A Family and Political Journal Dkvotkd to the Interests op Southwest Georgia. a, Year. ALBANY, GA., SATJJHDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1880. Number 3. STATE NEWS Tho Collco county Oasttte is to be | enlarged. , Augusta "rat* are fond ot beer, j ami consequently get on a butn now | anil then. i tVo are hardly willing to bollcvo ! that “Vienne,” the young jutliorcss, | is only fifteen years of ago. Americas and HawkinsvUlo are of Al I each other because of tho ° t»mi advance of freights on cotton. ■ | The fox hunters of Athens, are Jp-sui™, over Twitty .V Cut- the most zealous in tho State. They fel>23 | have a pack oftwenly-onc hounds. D COLLECTION AGENCY. , »• !fc * wo >! lt j broken down in Georgia, Norwood C SHSmXLD I and Colquitt clubs arc forming all j over the State. — M “Citiren,” who made such a to* vere attack on Judge Hawkins, char acter ou bis appointment to the beneh, has published a card »f re traction. ‘ Dr. Westmoreland is a plucky old gent, and tlon’t mlntf paving five thousand dollars for the privilege FROM WASHINGTON. 11IK NATIONAL ELECTION BK- VIKWKD BY STATUS—THE RESULT IN 3IAINK- PLOHIDA AN IMPORT. ANT FACTOR AN THK It UK AT CONTEST. Au luterestlna Letter from an In telligent Souree. . ‘' * Wild Lands looked after and Col- tbe counties of Early, , CoIIkwu and Baker. fcb38-ly owbridco & Hoilinslicd DMATISIS. IAY cross - - - -E W. WALTERS. JONES & WALTERS, A ttorneys at Law, ALBANY, CA. vV. A. STROTHER,O. ALBANY. GEORGIA. ; 'Sc8 gybf Gilliert’s Mi Store Dr. £. W. ALFRIPa-D, , S13PBCTYULLT leaden hti services, la ‘is Ik. ,oM,Matoakk>nM«.UO r ti« -, \ kiijudamoliistentir. Of* ixwnli. «igaa«JI»*f'“” GEORGIA. meeting an opponent on tho field . v . , of honor! I pxtnrtFtl wiu*K»nl |xun. All WOTK I 4 .* ' T.m,, .„od.;r»te.__wni.go MT* 1 Say, the Buona Vista ,'Argus: { One of our planters has informed „ us that the boll worm and caterpil- A. CJiOA-K, I |ar combined have cat off his cotton ■ f T ■ A TXT crop at least, one-third. Ill BAY STREET, i Mr. J. W. Hanlon bqs sold out bis savannah, GA. [ interest in the Berrien county jYeie* I to Mr. W. H. Lastinger, and retired ajdusa j from the . editorial and business management of the same.. Brunswick is to be blessed with ATTORVFY YT LAW joint discussions* In that city on AU * the 13d iust, Col. Sam H. Jemison, ALBA AT, GA. ; of Macon, will speak for Norwood, win**-; and O. C.;llome, of Haw.kinsville, bucora. t - ol . Colquitt. The CartcrsviHe press Is mad be cause Hon. W. A. Wright lias no op ponent for Comptroller-general. The press wants to have a “rough- and-tumble” fight with somebody, in behalf of Wright. Uawkipsvllle merchants and cot ton buyers say they will not submit to tbe advance freight rates on cot- ‘ton, made by Rule No.lOyas long as there is' water in the Ocmulgcc and boats to transport tbe cotton to Sa vannah. Ike Wesley, colored, who was un der sentence of death for raping Mrs. Fox, a white lady, in Cobb county, has been granted a new tri al by the supreme conrt. Mrs. Fox is op north and if she fails to retnrn, Wesley will have a good chance of acquittal. Macon Herald: A new and inter esting feature will be introduced in the services at 8*. Paul’s Episcopal Church to-morrow, .That is, the singing by the Boy Choir—no fe male members whatever taking part. They are yonng men of fiue musical attainments, dud will give good singing. Brunswick Adeertiter : “In Gould’s creek there is a shoal of porpoises, who instantly ruth to tbe vicinity of fishermen, always keep ing to thC puiside.Jhc moment they perceive the fishermen casting their nets. The porpoises have long since learned that this castinir of nets frightens the fisb toward,the deeper .waters and they rush in to get their Barnesvilio Gazelle: Last Friday Mr. T. B. Sanders stimulated his cotton pickers to a task. They pick ed as follows: Janies E. Pound, 412 pounds; Berry Abbott,400 pounds; Ed. E. Sanders, 368, only twelve .years old; Tbos. V. Sanders. 833, fourteen years old; John Fcilil, 361. Mr. Sanders’, little daughter picked 218 pounds by 3 o’clock. This record 19 hard to beat. The Americus Republican men tions the fact that a gentleman of Sumter county, while drivingalong a road a few days ago, brought his buggy wheel into violent collision with tbe head of a drunken negro lying along tho road-side. His buggy wheel was badly damaged. The darkey turned over and would have finished his nap in perfect comfort had not his shins been somewhat skinned. THE JOHNSON HOUSE, SMITHVILLE, GA. is tbe place ta stop and get a GOOD SQUARE MEAL. MARKET square, lAYAMNAB, GA Rates tlffiO to $2.00 pejday aerenllng to location oi room.*. JOSEPH JERSCpACH, April 30, 1S80—ly. PROPRIETOR THE ALBANY HOUSE! Merrick Barnes,Proprietor Albany, Georgia. fplii* House is well tarnished and in mr- J_ ery way prepared for the accommo dation of tbe traveling public. Entire sat- infliction guaranteed. Tbe table is -np- plied with the hat tbe country affords, and tbe eenanteare unsurpassed ir. po- litti»M and attention to tbe wants of gnesta. Omnibnaes convey passengers to ind from tbe different railroads prompt ly. free of charge. Charges to soil the times. sep»tf 0. M. RjEMSHART, SasJesjis’BMs Braidings, Blind Hinges, STRICTLY PllKEWHITE LEAD,OILS,Eta 18* BAT STREET, Columbus Time* : Wc liave heard and read of ninny curiosities, and have seen a few of them, bnt as cu rious a thing as we have seen since the four-legged chicken retired from pubiic observation, was brought to our office yesterday by the Itev. J. JV. Howard, of upper Oglethorpe street. It was a kitten, given birth toby one of Mr. How ard’* cat’s with two distinct and per- SAVANNAH, GA, I feet I v formed faces. The heads ! were joined back of the ears, but in {front of that point were two faces completely finished, each wil.ti A L«i*sand Fretii two.*of ! pair of eyes, ears, nostrils, and _ A>D _ [ tie* of the sort living. We gate it to a scientific gentleman who will JAMES KNOX. GENERAL MERCHANDISE, Always an hand at batum ngmrm. Way cress and Lulaton, B. ft A.B.B. cSSSSVESZ**"** Wesleyan Female College, MACON, GA. I Aofeial Mil Health, cconomr, I ffidVAIlfH— ll l H •I m*4 er»ut nu- ilttlf CtTMUllM^ W.C. BAM. rreuMwot. •I uudi L I M K. slSuSsa&'S mt lot lb. nrj bass srilck, stOer Utmr or in . Ot4*n waUelte4 tor Um» Crmnit, Pla-ia Pflr* ;<h- preserve it in alcohol. Tbe McDuffie Journal report* another victim to kerosene. It says that Susie Marshall, colored, at tempted to kindle a fire on last Tuesday by tbe aid of that fluid, and while pouring it out of the can on tbe Are tbe can exploded anti set her clothing on Are. There wti no one In tbe house at the time but herself. The neighbors, hesrlngdjie explosion and her loud cries for help, ran to Iter assistance, but by tbe time they got to ber,her cfoth. ing bad burned off of her, banning her body nil over except tbe face. She died on Tuo«day night. Her attending physician states that she might have lived had she not swni- Wwcd the Altai e. - ( Washington, l>. C., Sept. 16, IS80. Editor* Hew* and Adeertiter :, V-. Whether the resolt of the elec tion in Maiue may bo considered a Democratic victory or not. no manipnlaitop of the ballots can make it otherwise than a Radical defeat. The Democrats hero were grcstly elated and tho Republicans correspondingly depressed by the first reports, but both parties are now quietly Awaiting the official announcement of.tho vole. • Further than a repulse of their foe at an outpost there seems to be but little reason for Democratic exultation over the Maino election. It may momentarily make some Impression.on the “floaters” in other plates, bnt will that effect Inst till the State elections in Ohio an In diana? Weaver declares that the Maine Grecnlrackers will not unite with the Democrats in tie Presi dential election, and that will give the Radicals an easy victory in that State. .The Republicans compare their defeat in fefainc 10 the first battle of Bull Run. They say it will servo to arousei their party lo the fiercest energy aiid a more vigorous campaign;'they will put ♦1,000,000 more into Indiana. Bob Ingcrsqll proposes to be one of a hou-aud to contribue $1,000 each the Republican campaign fund, and the capitalists of tiie party have declared that the supply of money shall be ample for every purpose, and litey are resolved t'o have Xew York and Indiana at auy. cost. It would ho such a triumph over Blaine for Conkliirg to carry his own State for his party now, Jus will hesitate at no' possible means of securing New York to the Re- pablicnns. lit New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Indiana and 1 may add California, where the Democratic prospect is as fair as in the others, the fight on the part of the Republicans will be of the fiercest' Character. Nothing that trickery, falsehood and an unscru pulous use of money elm effect will be left undone in their desperate efforts to secure these States, and the Democrat who sits .down and counts either of them as safe to his parly bnderrates the power of money in tiie hands of an unprinci pled party, and the force of a lie reiterated bv the press with subsidiz ed vehemence. However just and proper the tariff plank iuthe Demo cratic platform, it can be so constru ed by Radical demagogues, in man ufacturing -districts where the operatives march to the polls and vote as directed, as to make it a most effective weapon in political warfare. By a more strenuous effort in the last electiqh Oregon might have betjn carried by the Democrats, thus securing the fruits of their victory nd caving the country from tiie disgrace of the great steal of that blgiv office. That the Republicans now look hopefully to Florida where they havq organized a still hunt with-concealed weapons, there can be no doub*, and this* fact should put the entire South 011 the alert. Briefly scan the field with the 13§ southern votes, New York. 35, and Indiana 15, the Democrats would have tlirce votes more than are necessary to elqct their ticket hut lake away Florida’s foor votes and ihey lose the election by one. Should the Democrats carry only New York, Now Jersey 9, and Con nccticut 6, and lose Florida from the southern vote, tbe resalt would be the same. So it would should they carry but New York, Connec ticut and California 6 and the same wonjd be the case should they carry New York, Connecticut Cal- fornia and Oregon—a possible State. Thus you perceive what an important factor Florida may bo in the approaching election. In eiilier of four distinct possible is sues in tiie doubtful States her vote would determine tbe resuit of the National election, and its loss would lie ns fatal to the Democrats as was that of Oregon io 1876. These facts arc respectfully sug. nested for tho con-ideration.of any who arc inclined to devote their thoughts to State issues exclusive of National matters, and should have gone to Florida had I a correspon dent there. Under nny circumstan ces, whatever the result in the doubt- fnl States Florida must not late her southern line. J. S. K. Doable Harder With Kerosene. Ill Chicago, on last Saturday night, lltb unit., two workmen en gaged, {a unloading ore at Union unit Steel Foundry dock, became in volved in a quarrel. After a des perate clinch they became separated and. -each seized a kerosene lamp and* hurled It at the bead or the otbbL Both lamp* struck their mark aud two explosions followed. Id a moment both combatant* were wrapped io flames, mid before thbir comrades could extinguish them both men were unconscious am terribly burned. One of the men, Win. Doyle, dlod Monday, while tbe Other, Timothy Cdrnoll, is not expected to live. ALlI tNY BUSINESS MEN BEFoltB tii 1111AILUOAH coM.wiasioai. riie 11* A A. Kallroad Petition fora Hlulier Hate of Freight ou Cotton ">Ylie tin rut lou Ho viewed and the Petition Hcfiined. Allan If Const Itudoju. lVth.J . J vfcrji ’ V f3r Mr. C I,. Sehlattciygeneral mail- agee.nf the Brunswick aiid: Albany KiiliMnil. on tho 16th petitioned the Mtfjl of Ruilruiid Commissioners for an increase of rales over Ills road, lie was heard on the 17ih in advocacyqf his request. .A eonf- mitlco of citizens of Albany, con sisting of I.. I’. D. Warreir,’ D : H. Pope, D.'Glauber and I.. E. Welch, were also heard biwppOsKjonV The committee based their opposition ti> the increase of rales on tiie follow ing grounds: That the present rales on llio Breus wick ami Albany Rail road are agreed rates made by the hoards of trnno of Brunswick and Albany mill the principal shippers along tiie line of tiie road with tho officers of the road ; that those fates were perfectly satisfactory to all in terested; that these rates were pre- sented to tiie Itail.oiul Cothmission {11 May Inst j sanctioned by thepi mid put in' force; tlial The nierchtpits of Albrny and Brunswick and along tljo line of the road arranged to liaru-a line of steamers on between Savannah and. Brunswick, running twice a week; .that everything was working harmoniously, trade in creasing and the people satisfied un der exisllng rates. There is 110 cotton on the Bruns wick and Albany Railroad except tit Albany. For the last two season’s there has been u pool on cotton be tween the three railroads at Alba ny. Since the enforcement of Cit* cblnr 10 the Central and Savannah, Florida and Western ltuilwayshare increased j'hoir rates on cmtoii from Albany to Savannah to 60 fenls per 100'pounds; The Rruuswick Bn$ Albany Railroad will be shutoutof the pool unless it increases id) rates. ; : The committee insisted that the Brunswick aud Albany Railroad should haul cotton to Brunswick at the present rate, 36 cents per 100 pounds, 167 miles, as the rate from Macon to Savannah is 40 cents per 100 pounds. At the same rale per mile/rom Albany to Brunswick as fiom Macon to Savniinnh. the rale would >10 34 cents per 100 pounds, while the rate as before slated is 36 cents. Tbe committee claimed thul the people of Albany spent their money in constructing railroads for ihc purpose of receiving the bene fits of completion, and by increas ing the present rates on cotton they Would be-deprived of Ibis advan tage. They showed, including insurance and the boat rate from Brunswick to Savannah, tiie present rate via Brunswick to Savannah would lie 50 cents per 100 pounds. Besides tills there is some delay ns the steaineF only runs twice a week. The Centra! railroad has banking facilities at Albany,' and the Central and Savannah, Florida and Western railroads liave daily trains to Sa vannah without transfer, and have better facilities at Savannah for handling cotton. Witli nil these ad vantages, if rates are not greatly less by the Brunswick and Albany nu cotton will go that way, Thu committee insist that tbe Brunswick and Albany railroad should be op erated ns a railroad aud not simply as n partner in a pool in which they do not work. The present shipments of cotton frqjn Albany amount' to 30,000 bales. If tlic request to increase rates be grauled (he difference to Albany will be very great, and great injustice to the city of Albany, be cause it was a fixed understanding ill April that rates would not be chan ged uuleis it was found to work in- ustice to either of the parties. The committee showed that al most all the cotton now moving from Albauy goes over the Bruns wick and Albany railroad. A few years ago, the committee assert, the Brunswick and Albany railroad would have been glad to get cotton at $125 per bale, fur which now they get $1 70 pur bale and are asking an increase of rates. After a patient bearing the Com missioners decided that the present rates 011 the Brunswick aud Albany railroad are sufficient. If all the business men of Albany are as clear headed as the committee representing them we are not aston ished at the prosperity of that beau tiful city. They presented their views with clearness anil force. A. HtiAMTLKSS NWINDLK3C. The Elections In October. Maine having ended the Slate elections in September, tho contest* to be held in October become of in terest. They will be in number, as follows: Georgia will elect 011 Wednesday, October 6, State officers and a Leg islature, which will choose n United States .-cnator. It should be noted lint Georgia will not elect its rep resentatives in Congress at this Slate election, but. will choose them 011 Tuesday, November 2. Iudiaiiu will elect on Tucsdny, October 12, State officers, represen tatives ill Congress, and a Legisla ture, which will choose u United States Senator. Ohio will elect 011 Tuesday, Octo ber, minor State officer*, represen tatives in Congress, unit a legisla ture, which, in the ease of the elec tion ot Gen. Garfield as President, will.choose a United States Senator. West Virginia will elect on Tucs dny, October 12, State officers and a Legislature, which will choose a United States Senator. The people will also vole upon two proposed amendments 10 the constitution of tlicj-jtale— one relating to courts and the other to tho right ot trial In jury in certain cases. As in Geor gia, tho representatives in Congress in West Virginia will be elected on Tuesday, November 2. It may bo added that tiie town election in Connecticut will be held on Monday,'October 4. ami that n proposed ftaendnieiit to tho consti tution of,hc {Stato will be submit ted to thf vcito of tho people, the amendment providing that hnreaf- ter Judges of' tiie Supremo Court of ErrStw- and of the Supreme Court shaft, upon nomination of the Governor, bu unpointed by tho Le'g- Now Yoiji Snn.l IIon'ksdai.k, Pa., Sept. 12—The liiiiibcriiicn and bark pe-ldlors Vif the JnOeoiiu region, in tlio Northern purtof Monroe county, are 011 llic lookout for it sllm. dnrk-coniplex- ioned man, with a dark moustache, and wearing • stripped coat ami blue overall*. If lie is found thOy declare Unit he will be fortunate If he.liv^s.tu seb the inside of tlie fn-u- llcnliftry. - Barnett Woolbortis nil industri ous aged farmer, who lives with hi$ wife, who is also advanced in year*,; Mr Bce*ardsville. His daughter, Henrietta, works at Stauf fer’s Hotel, in Pocouo Township. A sou, George, has been working in tho wpods near Bear creek, near WhiteTInveu. A few days ago the person described above, nucj whose iiamy is unknown, appeared at StauffcrV Hotel, and inquired for Henrietta Woolbcrt. She answered liis Viill. •'“I-Ve.got news for yon.” lu said. ■‘YVilir brother George was killed yesterday. Ho was struck on-the bnckjof the head by a rock flying frontjabiast.” Tiie sister was alino9t crazed by his story. She begged him lo go at oneUaml inform tier parchts. He said lie had been sent down for that purpose, tun his money had given 011I. / Miss Woolbcrt gave him *01110 tnoury. llo exhibited to her the measurement for tiio young man’s grave, which had been taken, lie said, in order that everything might be got in readiness by the time the remains arrived home. The strang er U-ft the hotel, but stayed that night in the neighborhood. The next day'he went to old Mr. Wool- bert’s. Mr. Woolbcrt ivas absent in Rpssardsville. The stranger told Mrs. iVoolhert tiie same story lie bad told her daughter. Site bad been expecting the son home on 11 visit in a day or two. The new* overcame her, and she fainted.— When she came to the Stranger told her that lie had come on ahead of the remains in order that arrnngc- meiils might be made for the tuner- al. Wiiile he was talking Mr. Woolbcrt came home. His wife 0111st into tears, and falling into bis arms, gave him the terrible message site hud received, with the agoniz ing cry: “George is dead, father! George is dirndl* “Yes, tiie poor hoy’s dead,” said the strangci, and lie repented to the old farmer the story in detail, lie gave the old couple the measure ment for the grave, and told them that the remains ot their son would arrive at Forks Station, on thu Del aware and Lackawanna Railroad, ou the down train that day.- Hu said lie would engage a hearse to lie there to meet the train if they would direct him where to find one. Anthony Miller, a neighbor, was called, and lie went with the strang er to Tannei'Hville and arranged to Imve a hearse meet the train at Forks. The man obtained money from Miller, as well ns from the couple, having informed them that his valise with all his own money was at Pocome Switch. lie then offered to inform uny other rela tives of Mr. Woolbcrt ou Ids way to the Switch, if there were any. 'lie was asked to calli-at the house of another sister of George’*, and tell her. tie went away, saying that he would be at Forks when the re mains arrived, to render any aid he could. - He called at the other sister’s' house, where another sorrowful -ceue ivas enacted, and where he obtained more money by saying that there would bo a man with the re mains who had a watch belonging to George upon which somethin;; had to be paid to liave it delivered 10 the friends of the deceased man. He 'hen went ou to toward Pocouo Switch. Meanwhile, a number of neigh bora of the Woolberts took the measurement of tiie grave and h id one dug. A minister vvas engaged to prcucli the funeral scmoii. The hearse and some friends of the fami ly were at the depot when tiie train arri ved.* There was no corpse in it, and' none of (the train officer* knew of any that-was to be sent The sis ters of the dead young man had each gone to the homestead. The strafiger was not at the depot as ho had agreetl to be, and then for the first time some of the neigh bors began to entertain a suspicion. A telegram was sent to White Haven, asking for particulars of the death of George Woolbert. Word was received in reply that nobody could be found in (he vicinity of Bear creek who lmd beard of his death. Subsequently the news was sent that George Woolbert was alive and at work ns usual. When this was received at Forks Station a large number of friends and neigh bors of the Woolberts had gathered at the farm to,bc present during the tuneral. They know nothing ot what wns Iriinspiriiigat (lie Forks. When Anthony Miller drove up to the house with the nows that George wns not dead, the family were be sides then.selves with joy. The indignation against the nmn who had been guilty of perpetrating so ghastly a fraud to obtain a trifling amount of motley wns so intense that lie would have been hanged to Hie nearest tree if lie could have been found. Men started in search of him, but lie hud escaped. The Maine Election. * XVImt Blaine Iln« to Sax About It. Boston, Sept. 20.—Senator Blaine, who is io_thia city,'sent the following telegram to Hon..Marshall Jewell to- day: Boston, .Sept. 20.—I left Maine on Friday -last. Intelligence reaches me here to-ilay indicating that the tele graphic von * a* published by 4he asso ciated press were in some eases modi fied by tho clerks’ returns as they retched the office of Secretary of State, whore they are open to .tho inspect on of the public. These modifications are of auch character os to render the con test between Davis and Daisied,ex tremely close, possibly requiring offi cial returns to determine which is elect ud. Official returns cannot be counted or even opened until the meeting of the Legislature in-January. The cry of fraud in the count, as put forth by Mr. Chairman Barnum. is sufficiently an swered by the fact that both parties in Maino liaffe recourse to precisely the same authority for their figures—first, telegrams of the associated press, and, second, the clerks’ returns fr-nu the several towns. The agent of (he asso ciated press at Portland, Mr. Sttpheu Berry, is implicitly trusted by all par ties, and is incapable of wilful misstate ment or evasion. His experience in summarizing election returns is as long and ns varied as that of any man in the country. Up to this hour there is not a particle of dispute between tbe par ties in Maine touching tbe returns from a single town. Tbe imiy possible op portunity for frau-1 in the election re- turns-under our laws is in the French plantations of Aroostook, where the as sessors sign returns expressed in a lan guage with which they are entirely un acquainted. -The Democratic English- speaking agent who makes out returaa has abundant opportunity for misstat ing facts. I do not know it, but I do assert and I do know that frauds have been committed there in oast years by Democratic agents, and I repeat that nowhere elae in Maine is fraud procu rable. The fraud o' last year was not in tho returns at all, but consisted wholly in Gov. Garcelon and his coun cil requested returns that wute honestly and regularly made. Mr. Chairman Barnnm is also in pal pable error when he assumes that the election returns should be at Augusta the day after the election. He forgets that Maine is larger in territory than the other five New Englan 1 Slate* put together, and that the most extreme southwestern town in Maine is nearer to any point in the State of Delaware— nearer, indeed, to the city of Baltimore than it is lo the French plantations on the Upper St. Johns by sny practicable route. In this statement I speak of ac tual distance. In point of time the comparison would be still more striking and insignificant, for a man can go from Augusta to Chicsgo as quickly as he can go from Augusta to Fort Kent. The talk of Barnum about the Fu- sionists of Maine being counted out is mcro rant. There is not a Democrat or Greenbacker in Maine who has the slightest fear of such a result The late Gov. Clifford, of Massachusetts, used to boast that tbe Whir party was the- only one then in ^existence that would count itself out' if power, and surrender to his opponents on an ad verse majority of one vote, alluding to the case of Marcus Morton, as governor. The Republicans of Maine, when beat en in 1878, could have retained power on two or, three technical points in the count Those who planned the Garce lon count out a year later, expected the Republicans to do it and suggested a fear of it but there was not a single member of the party that ever harbored such a thought If Governor Plaister shall have a single vote more than Gov ernor Davis, tho executive chair of Maine for the next two years is as well aasu ed to him as though his majority were ten thousand. [Signed] J. [1. Blank. " SCIMSORISMS. Where.to go wueii short of mon- oy—-go to work. Vigorous efforts at tobacco culture arc being made in Italy.. 1. Cun k lm The most valuud heritage that can be bestowed upon or bequeathed to man is Ihat of experience—ihe knowledge thu* points to tb abort and true way to suc cess—that warns you of the subtle craft of. credit, before which, even in ihe plenli- tnde of power, have gone down rnuny ot tho foremost master minds of hiatoiy! Money is tho lever that will unearth lor you tliftt now hidden diamond, auccetso. It is the power that will place you Lead and shoulders above your compeers, and instead of lending you along the quag mire of low lands, will at once place you upon the shining heights -that command the plaudits of your family and friends— The AJmigl tv Dollar ! The many have too few, and the few too many. Big ‘rices will not doin these times when even he wealthy cannot afford to waste their money, and the poor require double duty of every dollar nnd every penny. As my prices may change with every “Clothe me in dreams,” says Miss -sde, it will be impossible to give price*. Fannie Dri*coll ill kHrecent poem. i'uUt will he my aim to name figures that The oyster crop of the Stale of Maryland aggregates more than her ivlieal crop. Some Republican visiting stairs- men are needed in Malno.r-Jobn Sherman, t ■ , > Tiie fund for tho new professor ships in Harvard’s divinity school reached $113,700. Queen Victoria is in excellent healih, and looks forward with great pleasure to Iter sojourn in the Highlands. * Look here, Fonsy, I ain’t having babies for thu sake of letting yon nanus ’em after your first wife.— Queen Christina. Mr. Moody is to have a boy’s school also at NurtlificM, Massa chusetts, a gentleman Laving start ed a subscription with $25,000. poem. Oh, now, see here dear—that’s too thin.—Elmira Free Fret*. BE WEATHERWISE. Gen. Butler said in s recent speech at Boston: “I marched to the guif with a New England division containing 6.000 tnen, ami there could not have been found 500 men in that division who had ever voted tbe Democratic ticket.” 'flint is shout tho proportion, and yet the Republicans tell us that the whole union ary was composed of “sound” and “loyal’’ Republicans, There aro in Germany twenty-one universities, with nearly two thousand professors. In each university there are classes in tbe five principal facul ties ofthoolozy, law, medicine, philoso phy and latter*. A writer on the sub ject notes that tho most popular facul ty is. philosophy, which inoltide* math- emetic*, save at Strasbourg, where it is a alffdiftat faulty. From on Exchange ] John H. Tice, the weather prophot of St. Louis, gives the following di ructions to those who aspire to be come wcathertvise. As everybody is interested in the weather, so encli one should qualify himself or herself to read the sky and interpret the meaning of the winds, sky and clouds. An intensely blue and serene sky indicates heavy rains and severe storms in from twelve to forty eight hours. A gray, liazv sky iiidi. cates continuous dry nnd general ly hot wcatiier. A southeast wind indicates the existence of a low barometer, if not it storm center, in the northwest.— The aspecis of the sky and cloud will tell whether it means mischief or not. An almost immediate cos salion of rain may be expected us soon as the northwest wind sets in It matters not what the aspect of the sky aro when the west wind sets in, fail* weather will ensue nfter it and continue from tlirce to four days. Thu passage of u storm cen ter from the gulf aud.soutlicastward of our locality is a partial exception only so far that it clears otf more tardily. There really aro but two primari ly kinds of clouds, namely, (1) those that float a great height above tiie earth’s surface, and (2) those that flout tow. Those that flout high, »a» from six to nine miles, are of fibrous and gauzy structure; they arc hence called cirrus, that is, bail or tuft clouds. Tho clouds that form in the lower strata of tbe at mospherc, say from 011c to three miles nbovo tho mirth, arc irregular in structure, anil of a more or less nodular form. They are called the cumulus, that is, the heap or pilo cloud. While the cirrus remains nebular in structure and indistinctly defined against the sky, no rain peed be ex nected. Under tins low barometer, iiowevor, they dovolop by accretion become smooth nnd compact in strt.ct.ure, and much enlarged in volume. They now sink lowornnd become sharply defined against the blue sky.- Ruin may now be expect ed espeolaliy if they unite with tho cumulus, forming tho 11 umbits or rain cloud. If toe cirus, Instead of forming tho minibus, ronsemids, it dissipate* mill no rain noed ho ex pected until iUowcrs again; which generally Ik in twhnty-ViAtr hour*, The Washoo jury, in the case of a man accused of stoutimr milk direct frpm the cow, brtnght in a verdict or “milking a cow in the first de gree.” “How shall we get the young men to go to church ?” is the; title of an article in a religious weekly.' «Get the girls to, sainted brother; gel the girls to. Little drops of water (in the milk) and little grains of sand (in the su gar) arc what make the big for tunes of the humble .-milkman and the obscure grocer. Our cattle trade with Europe amounts to nearly $35,000,000 a year, flow much would it be if England practiced her free trade doctrine, and removed restrictions from im portation of American cattle? A visitor,, visits a French news- taper office and is greeted politelv ty the. office boy—“If monsieur comes to fight a duel he will Rave to be kind enough to call again; aft our editors are engaged for to day.” It is now said that Gesler did Pot command William Tell to shoot an apple off his son’s head. First, be cause Gesler was a kind-hearted man, and second,because there were no apples in Switzerland at that time. A poet asks: When I am dead and' lowly laid, * * * * And clods fall from tbe spade, who’ll think of me?” Don’t worry. Tail ors and shoemakers have very re tentive memories aud vtrtrtl not be forgotten. A colored preacher of Baltimore says be has attended thirty-one cam|>-mcetings, and has this year arrived at the conclusion that all the grace which a convert can se< cure in a whole week will vanish in two hours after tho mosquitoes be gin to bite. A New York man was challeng ed to fight a duel the otherday,and being at liberty to choose liis’ own weapons proposed a trip to Boston on a steamer. The cha! longer back ed onL He said that the idea that death should attend a duel was a relic of tbe dark ages. If a man gets a cartarrhai affec tion in August, and he is rich enough to spend a few weeks in tiie White moutains, he calls it by the aristocratic name of “hay fever.” If be is too poor to leave home it is simply a plebian “code in tho head," —Norristown Herald. On tbo popular vote tho matler at present stands thus: DEMOCRATIC MAJORITIES. will compel youia self-defense to bay of me. I deal in good goods and not in trash, and believe tbe public will patron ize that bouse that sells tbe beet godds for tbe least money. Gold is a good thing—bnt give ns ge nic* and ambition, and then an energy that never tires, a mind that never zan ders, an eye that never sleeps, and a nerve that never quivers, and we will ride rough shod over a 1 tfie world. I wish to right :he wrong, and believe tbe God of bsltlas a ever with the right. Upon my counters will be thrown day after day new arrivals of goods at panic prices, and tbe house that wants tho trade of the people most go beyond this advance line—most beat my prices «r go down—for if there is honor in man, or virtnein good goods at low prices, f mean to be master of the situation. I shall offer snch unanswerable argu ments us no house can match, and special ties at prices that no other man can offer —sterad and stubborn facts that will level yonr head on the subject of genuine bar gains of Dry Goods, Clothing, Boots Shoes, Hats, Caps, Umbrellas, Trunks. Valises, Table Linens, Carpels, ltn is, ol all Sizes, Family Groceries, and in iaot a tall line of Plantation Supplies. I invite an early and repeated visit and inspection. My stock will be replenish ed every few days with articles too unmer- nns to mention. Thanking you kindly for past patronage, and hoping a contin uance ©I the same, I remain Yonr obedient servant. If ' Alabama «... Arkansas... M.W M M . M .«,ono Mains..... s.rrfvi Total.... ... 92,600 REPUBLICAN. Vermont , i,.,,.!,,.,,,,,.,.,,,... .25,000 M H EL FOR D ¥ S P E P SI A Pt M H HHP I#©.: AN ALTERATIVE HHP £W For sale by GILBERT & OO. FOR SALE Democratic excess-*-. 67,500 The tunnel under the mountain at West Point, New York, for the Hud- soil River West Shore railroad company is one-sixth done. It will be twenty-seven hundred feet long, nnd will pass directly pnder the military academy riding hall and drill plain. A hundred men are pushing forward the work, and the force is to be increased A Farmer’s Offset. A hired man who ha* been em ployed on a farm in this country for several months entered suit against his employer the other day for bal ance of wages, amounting as he claimed to $32. The suit was on trial before Justice Ally yesterday, and it looked at first as if tbe plain till had a clear case. He gave dates and figures in a straightforward way, and seemed a very honest young man. When tiie farmertook the stand he said : “I claim an offset for that $32. No man need sue me for what I honest ly owe.” " “What is your offset ?” asked the lawyer. “ilo is an unbeliever.” “In what ?” “Why, the Bible.” “What has thnt got to do with your owing him $32 ?” “It hits a heap to do- with it. I had six hands in my- employ, and we were rushing > £. gs when I hired this man. lie hadn’t been with us two days when they stopped the reaper iiTtn'e middlo of the forenoon to dispute about Daniel in the lion’s den, and in three days we had a regular knock down over the whale swallowing Jonah. Tho man who run tiie mower got tonrguingfibout Samson and drove ovor a stump and damaged tiie machine to the tune of $18. nnd lho very next day my boy broke Ids leg while climb ing a fcnco to hear aud see the row winch was starting over tho children of Israel going over tho Rod Sea. It wasn’t a week before my wife said she did not believe E-ljah was fed by tho raveva, and hang me if I didn’t find myself growing weak on Noah and his flood. That’s nay off set, sir ; and if he was worth 4 any thing I’d sue him for a thousand dollars besides.” Tho court rwctwd his decision for 24 henre. OR RENT! A LARGE TWO-ROOMED. STORE HOUSE -AT- Arlington, Georgia. •APPLY TO A. W. TURNER, LEAEY, GA. J. W, JOINER, WATCHMAKER andJEWELER T. IOCATED AT W. H. Gilbert, Ag’t, & Co. BROAD STREET, J AND JEWELRY! 4 STOCK COMFt-ETE! Repairing a Specialty ! AW