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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. FIXED FOR ALBAP FEATURES TO BE SEEN No Other Sh 1111$ WAY FOR 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.