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’ College has over one hon-
Ired and fifty students.
The Thotnasville Pair commence*
on Tuesday, Nov. 9th.
The net earnings of the North
eastern Railroad for the past twelve
months were 119,982^.1.
Leap year is a reality. Hon. A.
H. Stephens, according to the Clip
per, recently had thirteen proposals
in Warrenton, and the belle of the
village pinned him down with a
button holeboqnct.
Notice it given in the Quitman
free Preu that a bill to place the
license tax on Uqoor in Brooks
county at five thou.and dollars, will
be presented for enactment at the
next session of the General Assem
bly.
Gainesville Southron : “Mr. D. A.
Henderson, who lives about three
miles from this city, and is well
knownb.v everybody in the coinmun-
Immigrants.
of immigrants
_ the year ended June
30 was 457,257, as follows: At New
York, 263,726; Port Huron, 84,375;
Boston, 34,062; Philadelphia, 21,-
727; Baltimore, 17,494; San Fran
cisco, 7,153; all other ports, 18,820.
There arrived from Europe 347,-
747; Asia, 5,839; AtVicn, 21; Ameri
can continent, 101,681; Pacific
islands, 951; all other 1,015. A
considerable portion of the immi
grants from the British (North
American continent provinces pro
bably consisted of immigrants from
the countries of Europe, who first
immigrated to the Dominion of
Canada and subsequently decided
to seek homes in the United Sta'cs.
The immigration from Asia was as
follows: China. 5.S.I2; India, 21;
all the other eonnlrios ot A-ia. 16.
Of this number, 5,<*8l arrived at
San Francisco ami 6:9 nt Astoria,
i Oregon.
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Sir Moilier’a Hlbl*.
The following beaut.lot and ten- j
Uy, wasotitheYury la«tTuesday,and '‘* er extract is from Bishop E. O
atarted on hi* mule for home short- Haven's tribute to his mother’s:
ly alter dark. He had been drink- Bible. No true man or woman
•>» • «*
son's reaidence his mule threw him I Burner of n Christian mother can
and went home. Shortly afterward* j read it without a thrill that will i
Mr. Henderson was met by Rev. .1
W. Hargrove corning toward town. I
Since then nothing has been heard |
of him, although a most careful ;
search has been made for him. Foul
play in inspected.
Quitman free Press: Mr. Jacob
Baum, Treasurer of the Royal Ar
canum Lodge, Quitman, has receiv
ed a check for $3,000, payable to
lira. McMillan, widow of Juo. A.
McMillan, lately deceased. Mr.
McMillan waa a member of the
above named Lodge at the time'of
his deatb and the three thousand
dollar* ia the amount due his wife
from the insurance fund of the
order. The Lodge here has only
been ia existence a few months and
Vr. McMillan joined a abort time
before hi* death.
Warrenton claims a fidd ®U
rears old.
Borne has received 20,5*47 bales of
ootioa this season.
Mr. Johnson Turner, of Henry
County, it the ta.lest man in tbe
State—measuring six feet and
eleven inches.
There U but six dollars indebted
ness made by Snmter county since
April, 1879. There is a balance of
•954 in cash on band.
The Floyd county Grand Jury
examined and tested the scales of the
busiueis men and merchaus of Rome
and found them correct.
A strike among the draymen of
Savacnah resulted in the discharge
of fifty-three ont of sixty drivers.
Other drivers were employed with
out difficulty.
Says
readi and soften (lie heart.
Rev. 1)>\ Harm:
"On one ofihc shelves In my libr
ary. surrounded by vuluii.es of all j
kinds, on variou- subjects and in I
various languages, stands mi old
book, iu its plain covering from jrn-
per, unprepossessing to the eye, and
apparently out of piare among the
more preteiilioua volumes tlinl
stand by its side. To the eye of a
stranger it certainly base neither
beauty nor comeliness. Us cover*
are worn; its leaves marred by
long use; its pages, once white,
have become yellow with ago; ye*,
odd and worn’as it is, to me *i is the
next beautiful and most valuable
book on my sb-'-vt. Nc other
awaseus such associations, or so ap
peals to all that is best anil noblest
within me. It is, or rather it was,
“My Mother’s Bible”—companion
of her best and holiest hours, source
of her unspeakable jov ami contola-
tion. From it she derived the prin
ciples of a'truly Christian life anil
character. It was the light to her
feet and the lump to her path. It
was constantly by her side; and, ss
her steps tottered in the advancing
pilgrimago of life, and her eyes
grew dim with age, more and mon-
precious to her became the well-
worn pages * • • There is no
need to lake down the volume from
the shelf, or open it. A glance of
the eye is sufficient. Yet ihere arc
occasions when it is otherwise;
hours in life when some deep grief
lias troubled the heart, some darker,
heavier cloud is over the spirit and
over the dwelling, and when it is
a comfort to take down the old
Bible and search its pages. Then,
for a time, the latest editions, the
original languages, the notes and
commentaries, and all the critical
apparatus which the scholar gathers
around him for the study of the
T» \r C.—H ?_ w.h-a. : Scriptures, are laid aside and the
, k ®. tj ’ plain old English Bible that was
• j ’ my mother's is taken from the
I Mean I3ii«inew» !
I HAVE OXK OF THE BUST ASSOIMKH AXI> MOST I’OMI’I.KTK K KICK S OF
Family Groceries
IntheU’ty conalsttnir of everything nwdftil for !I»*1*8KKKRI*RRS, anl mn now eircriiig .*p**clAl tn-
duertu * fte to the Trade In H>»t itmiidsof P . I’ll. Ik'« linuiil* ofKl'tJAlt, Heat llruiul* of II . M.?,
Bret Ari’LtS, ONIONS,and a I liuUband oilier Articles ton n t nitrous to mention. Just call and ace
iuj Stock, or aacd your orders.
A DRY .GOOD STOCK
In connection, full ami complete.
BAR -A.3STX) H;ESTAXJI6Al<rT
In the Roar, where 1 keep everythin}: to cat an<I think.
f«i m
Albany, tia .Sup'. iS, l»S» -Itli** 1
Welch’s Corner
raised and picked this season
L3000 pounds of seed cotton from
one acre, and expects to raise 1,000
pound* more tbis war.
The animal meeting of the stock
holders of the Northeastern Rail
road was held in Athens Wednes
day, at which the following officers
were elected: President—John W.
Nicholson. Directors—A. K. Childs,
C. G. Talmadge, John White, G. H.
Yancey, Jonathan Hampton, J. A.
Honnieut, George E. Dead wyler,
R. Nickerson, W. B. J. Hardman,
C. W. Hood, R. K. Reaves, H. A.
Lowrance, Howell Cobb. U. Bvu.se,
R. L. Bloomfield, IV
shelf.”
A Woman’s Five-nitrate Call.
Out of aflw-minutecall a woman
will gather inspiration for a good
hour’s speech “when she gets home.
She will tell her husband—who is
so interested you know—that Mrs.
Sturkup has -‘new furniture tbe
second time within three years, if
I'm not mistaken, and lace curtains
with lambrequins, and her black
silk dress made over, and her hair
done up in a new way, higher than
she used to wear it, not becoming a
bit, and her little girl’s got ler hair
hanged and all dressed it. white
and is going to Mrs. Giddigurl’s
school in the fall, and her cook’s
B. Thomas. ; gone oft' mad and she says she's al-
Julius Cohen. The president re- m®' 1 «ired to deatli and is going to
i bwafnpftCoM next week ant! Mi*-
commended the immediate exlen- nlrt V£ llw to htvc yonngSpood-
•lon of the road to Clarksville. . lington after all and Miss Smith'-
Bartlesville has a new paper. It *° i\ ye hcr 0 P“ ir "f bo< > uet
i* called The Pike County -Vein, and
ia edited by J. D. Alexander. It is
a sprightly and newsy sheet and
from all appearances is worthy of
tbe support of its county people.
Monroe Advertiser: Mr. P. J.
OUR STOCK OF
Dljrugs and Druggist’s
STTHSTIDIR/IIES
m now jvarge 'ak» caatFiaatfE
BOTH FOB JOBBING AND RETAIL.
j^-Call or send for Prices before sending off orders or buying elsewhere.
We guarantee satisfection in goods and prices.
M* & H. I* Wnuv,
Wholesale & Retail Druggists,
ALBANY, CA.
they’re good
enough for her she got them cheap
up to Bagshop’s ami Miss Fergu-
gon’s got a boy lots of hair oil its
head and looks three months old
everybody says and Steve Beaker’s
awful di-’sipaied they say and that
Lovcwell girl’s father ordered him
E. L. WIGHT .<$• CO„
Insurance Agents,
ALBANY, GA.
JLt/ ihetJUte. I
(Kith City anil Country Propiriy.
GIN HOUSE INSURANCE A SPECIALTY !
L* LOSSLS ADJUSTED AND PAID PROMPTLY.
Welch & Mitchell
-Offer At Theiii Popular-
Howard has sold his farm near out of the house and she's been
Bollingbroke, stock, farm impie- j taking on awful and declares she
meats and the balance of his grow- will have him and the Stignessc*
ing crop to Co!. W. M. Wadley. I have moved ont of town and the j
President of the Central Rail. jad. Brown's have lo-t everything and S
Col. Wadley already owned large | Miss Smith's bought a whole piece
tracts of laud about Bolingbrokc, ! of cotton cloth and—By this time j
and this new addition of thirteen I the husband is asleep or has fled. A i
hundred acres will make him one man eonld never make as much out i
of the largest land owners in the of a week's visit. All he would re
county. Mr. Howard’s farm is a member would be that Brown's got
splendid one, being considered » mighty pretty wife, or keeps
about the best in the county. The ! good ciga , or some other equally
snug sum of 119,500 changed hands j incousequen:' ! matter,
on this trade. —— -
A Fantiuic Lunatic.
There was years ago in the Block-
lev almshouse a man named Thomas
Wiggins, who persisted in declar
ing that lie was Jesus Christ, and
started out to imitate the Savior by
fasting forty days and nights. Ho
ALBANY BOOK AND JEWELRY STORE
THE LARGEST, CHEAPEST A HI) REST
Selected Stock of Miscellaneous Books
SCHOOL BOOKS,
The readers of the News akd Ar>-
vebtmzb have already had an ac
count of the attempted suicide ol a
young woman in Savannah, last
week, and the sad history of her
case. The Quitman Free Press '• succeeded in doing without food
haildla. the young man who had de- ' for tWrly-five days when his rea-
-. , . . , , , ... | son gave out, and the process of re
ceived and abandoned her, with , storation was begun; but nature \
glove, off, in the following, taken : had been over-taxed, and he lived j
from it* issue of Saturday: Our but forty-eight hours. The first !
reader* and citizens, one and all, “«ve« days of his fast he existed on j
- .. a a. v fa * ' » -TH *11 bottle Of pOi’fCI*, With H fCW :
re lember well the J. I*. A. Dupont „ waNow „ w , te ' r . The porter he :
scandal and our exposure of his vil- | finally gave up,taking only water, i
lainoua conduct here some ten > When he died he was very much 1
month* (ince. After tiis exposure • emaciated. A post-mortem exami-
• _ ^boweri that all hin vital or- !
here, fearing the law, he married wer(; very milcll c ,„ llra(;1( . ( |_ |
the girl, who was a Miss Lela Hall, I hi, heart weighed six ounces, his :
and wboye mother and grandfather ' -tornach was oue-lliird the normal j
at that time lived in Valdosta. The j and bloodless; in the right
grand jury of thi. eonnty, however, 1 ll *”ff.«here was a tuberculous cavity
.u- r.r r, I . considerably larger than a goose
epft;; there were bIho tiifiereie^scat- !
Fine Gold Jewelry: Watches, Clocks,
at the next term of court found a
tree bill against Dupont lor false
.wearing. Still there was a dispo
sition on the part of our people, in
asmuch as they supposed he had
made what reparation in hb power
lay, by marriage, to deal lightly
Wish him, and even the press of this
•ection dropped the matter entirely.
• • * • Mr*. Dupont is hut a
mere child in age and appearance,
and tkare are not word* in the
English language sufficient to ex
press our contempt of the misera
ble scoundrel who would thus i
throw her upon the woihl unpro
tected and uucared for. The Sa
vannah Neves, through a mistaken
Ides of kindue.* to the wretched
girl, suppresses tbe man', name.—
Wo rite it to the world—St i. J. I*.
A. Dupont, a so-called lawyer and
editor of the Dupont Okefenokeun.
He ia a libel upon manhood, a dia-
grace to humanity, a huge moral
deformity which should bear the
mark of villainy upon bit forehead
until death *hsll relieve the world
of ratb a muBslfcf in bunas itopk."
tered through the left lung. From
the start lie began losing flesh, and,
despite the exertions of the atten
dants, declined to partake of food,
saying he wan Christ. Wiggins was
a native of Boone county, Ky., and,
a.ide from his peculiar hallucina
tion, was intelligent and rational,
and was a general favorite with the
attendants.
! Musical Instruments, Cutlery and Fine Fancy Goods,
EVER BROUGHT TO THIS MARKET!
We have in stock an elegant lino of zr
NEW CHROMOS! ?> V" ' V
Goods sold at a small marg'>11 of
Profit !
Our large and increasing sales enable us to
buy and sell in such quantities .....
* J l»
AS TO DEFY COMPETITION IN PRICES t :
Call and examine our prices before pur-
chasing elsewhere. No trouble to show
*. All orders promptly tilled. tiaSivJvfi
goods. g$f~ All orders promptly mien. y, ya
WELCH & MITCHELL,
BookHollcrs and Jewelers,
April 2fl, 1880- ALBANY, GA.
Wh*tr« men-f«ilk* irase from snoring ?
If such User*- !*»*,
Pr»y I*!f m s It no*
And to that f.lnet:
I'll quItWjr wr.
I'll tmrt my ironic
Tnls *«*i ’ ’
11. ERASER GRANT. E. E. CIIEATIIAM
To Merchants and Farmers!
in
s*ry f-lght;
li bo aJot.sf,
Tills ttrrr night.
II crawl clear ih«r«
Upon .H our*,
Befjf<? I'll marry
• A mars who finorta.
All that we do depends upon
what »<i arc; he then who has
left to the world the record of a
noble life no outward memorial,
ha* left an enduring sou ice of iu-
wnrd, and though inward, tft rttt-
wxrd grtfatnets.
If you want a good price and prompt returns for your COTTON and RICK
SIIIl* IT TO
H. Fraser Grant & Co.,
GENERAL COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
No. 72 Bay Street, Savtyinah, Ga.
Who will give PROMPT, PERSONAL ATTENTION, autl make liberal cash
adyanwi* on aH courignmeats. OT MAGGING anti TIES furnished at bottom
prltAa. [wpVi-lut
GIANT DEVIL FISH.
JAPANESE TROUPE.
Chnmpion £e«]>intj
never bcVore .«n in"The" earth’. »ove^ 1 «Sd A ^f». ONS
Instl hxhibitiuiii. The I.arjtc«t and Dent .Show ever In tlio Sooth! *
No llotnhaiit! No Kxtrava^nnt Promises! But * •tnirfatfor-
wnrd, btuineM-Uke declaration of what te liire ml
$100,000 STUD OF BRONCHO HORSES!
A grand Kxeiu|j|ific*tion <»t Brute Intelligence and Training.
. The New York
With t. Myriad. ..f ocHANrc WONDEfts, for the *m thne with a Tented
FMHYMM'S New Pony Circus,
A ItcvcLVon in UieTyglnrr’* art. The nio$t ASTOrNDtNG TBICK8 an performe I bv
thewquailrvneiUin Miniature. penormei ny
JAPANESE CIRCUS,
Mikado',v a vorite Artists, and ONLY TROUI**! of J:i|ouwse p* itormoi* nver ntlowed to
Melville’s Australian Cirous,
A Company of Super-Eminent Merit, that CBAIXEGES ADMIRATION’ from all tiehotdcm.
COLVIN’S
TP Mi
A Superb, Costly Collection of repreae^tatlve types of tbe animal world.
JAPANESE ART GALLERY,
A rar:ly accumulated and valuable eerie, of Art Picture*, representing the Meet Renowned
Places in Japan.
WOOD’S MUSEUM FROM NEW YORK CITY,
Contains more then 1,000 Specimens of the Animate and Inanimate World, and la alone
worth the price of admission.
Stone’s Great Indian Show.
A Tribi or Eleven Genuine Sons and Daughters of tbe Far West. Their
the meet interesting character.
The $10*000 \
Troupe of Educated DOCS*
Tnc *nly l>ogs in the World who form themselves into a Doc Court and Jury, that Trv Con
vict, then Hang, a Dog for Stealing and after the hanging; ’ *
form in procession and bury the thief,
The Giant Devil Fish!
n»e most Perfect Specimen of the Monster Squid ever captured, being 39# feet long with its
tentacles spread.
A $30,000 Electric Illuminator,
JUST ADDED, A
Pair o River Horses
Or Hippopotami, from tbe River Nile. Huge Mountains of Blood-Sweating, Quiver
ing Flesh ! ! ■
Miraculous Marine Event,
•Birth of a Baby Sea Lion,
nly instance of the kind on record. Aquatic history bib to *hronicla a similar cir
cumstance with the father and mother in a captive state. This tiny, win
some POLAR PET, tlut captures the children, charms the
ladies, and captivates the men, is the source of
unfoiling wonder to scientists,
trast Free Novelty Parade!
lEltV MORNING at 10 o'clock, he wlded by the Mightiest Pageant earth has ever
seen, giving overshadowing evidence of the vast tesonress
of this Tented Giant. . ,
CSTPrices of Admission as Usual.^s
GREAT PO^Y CIRCUS’
Will also exhibit at Arlington Nov. 10th; Thomafiville’
v IWvfemDfer 12th.