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The ALBANY NEWS, established ISM. iContolldated Sept. *, 1880, by »
Tbe ALBANY AUVEETISEK, catabli.bed 1ST?, } MclXTOSB A Ertas. |
A Family and Political Journal Devoted to the Interests of Southw
est Georgia.
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Volume 1.
ALBANY, GA., SATURDAY, JANUARY 8, /s8|l >
Number 18.
gKofcssional Cards.
James Callaway,
Attorney at Law
CAMILLA, GA.
fel>2i-
Jas. H. Spence,
Attorney at Law,
CAMILLA, GA.
Will practice in all the counties of Al
bany Circuit, and in the U. S. Circuit and
District Courts for the Southern District
of Ga.
^-Office Up-stairs, over Twitty & Cul
pepper's. feb23
LAND AND COLLECTION AGENCY.
S. C. SHEFFIELD.
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
ARLINGTON, GA.
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lections made in the counties of Early,
Miller, Calhoun and Baker. feb2S-ly
Trowbridge & Hollinshed
DENTISTS,
WAYCROSS, .... GEORGIA.
Teeth extracted without pain. All work
warranted. Tonus moderate. Will go any
where on B. A A. and S. F. A W. Railroads.
apl8-12m
JOSEPH A. CRONK,
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1X1 bay street,
savannah, ga.
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Attorneys at' Law,
ALBANY, GA.
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, ALBANY, GEORGIA.
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rompt t:.»ntiop. Jan 7-ly
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. JfcNPECTFULLY tenders his services, in the
It various branches ol his nrofossion, to the
vilunjr audsurroundlngcountrjr. Of-
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Albany, Georgia.
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istaction guaranteed. The table is Min-
plied with tbe beet the country affords,
ami the servants are unsurpassed in po-
liteuess and attention to tbe wants of
guests. Omnibuses convey passengers to
iud from the different railroads prompt
ly, free of charge. Chargee to suit the
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[.umber, Brick, Shingles
lathes. Lime and
Cement
omtantly on hand, ami orders promptly
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On
PEACE
Earth, Good Will Toward
Men.
Plow and Planter.
jaal-6mw
The Memorable Manger of the
'•Tillage of Bethlehem.
What Wu Bora There Eighteen Hun
dred Tears Ago.
KINDNESS, SYSPATHY, HELP.
FCLNBSS, LOVE, CHKIS-
TIlEimr, SALVATION.
Sermon Preacted In Brooklyn
Tabernacle on Sunday, Decern*
ber 261b, br Rev. T. De-
Wilt Talmaxe.
Brooklyn, December 26.—The
church Was decorated with flowers.
Mrs. Florence Rice Knox sang “Tho
Nativities.” A boy choir of seven
ty-lire voices cheated. George W.
Morgan, organi-t, aud Professor
All, cornetist, rendered music from
Beethoven, Uaudcl and Haydn.
Over five thousand people were
present in the Tabernacle.
Subject of the Sermons “ rhe Man-
B*r.”
Text—Luke il, 12-13: “Ye shall
find the babe wrapped in swad
dling-cloths, lying in a manger.
And suddenly t'lere was with the
angels a multitude of the heavenly
host.”
At midnight ftotn one of the gal
leries of tne sty a chant broke.
There seemed te the ordinary ob
server no reason for such ceieslin!
demonstration. A poor man ami
wife, travelers, Joseph and Mary
by name, had lodged in an outhouse
of an uniniporant village. The
supreme hour of solemnity and
anguish had passed, and upon the
pallid forehead aud cheek of Mary
God had set the dignity, the grand
eur, the tenderm the everlasting
and divine siguilicaiicc of niolbrr-
liond. But the v,'Ol id a thousand
times before had witnessed such n
scene, yet never before had star
been unfixed or had baton of light
marshnled over the hills’ winged
ochcstrn. Had there been such a
brilliant and mighty recognition at
an advent in the home of Ca-sars
or tho house of the Pharoafts or the
house of the Stewarts or the of
Ilapsburg wc would not so have
wondered. But a barn seems too
poor a center for such angelic and
arcli-nngelic circumference, stage
too small for such a great act, and
music too grand for so unapprecia
tive auditors, the windows of the
stable too rough to lie -ereuaded ln-
othur worlds. No, sir I N6,inndamc!
It is tuy business this morning to
tell you what was horn that night
in that villagc.hnrn.
First, that night was born en
couragement for nil tlio poorly-
started. Only two friends, ami
those his own parents. No satin-
lined crndlo and no delicate nttcii-
lions, hut the straw aud tno cat'.lo
and tho coarse joke and banter of
cutnel drivers. Well might the ohl
meduevnl pictures represent the oxen
as kneeling in his presence, for no
others were there to worship. Born
away down in the depths of pover
ty, hut climbing t<> the world’s ad
miration aud to the throne of
heavenly dominion! What name
most potent in alt Christendom to
day?. Jesus. Who has the most
friends? Jesus. Before whom do
the most thousands kneel in clmpcl
or log-cabin or church or cathedral
worship? Jesus. For whom could
an army of a hundred million he
gathered ready to tight or die?
Jesus. Well, what an encourage
ment to all the pool l\ started. You
cannot be born poorer or more dis
advantageous!}- than was Christ.
But with this example of Him above
you, and all time and eternity be
fore you, take jubilant courage.
The most of the world’s deliverers
have started in harn-like birth
places. Luther, the emancipator
of religion, born among the mines.
Sliakspcare, tho emancipator of
literature, born in an humble room
at Stratford-on-Avon. Christopher
Columbus, the discoverer ofaconti-
uent, born in poverty at Genoa.
Hogarth, the discoverer of how to
make art tiic patron ol virtue, horn
in obscurity at Westmoreland.
Kitto and Pridcaux, whose keys
unlocked apartments of the Holy
Scriptures hitherto unentered, born
in want. Nine out of ten of tho
mesgiahs of science, the messiahs of
law, the messiahs of medicine, the
messiahs of poetry, the messiahs of
history, the messiahs of benevolence
born in n barn. When William
Ilerschel, the astronomer who
discovered so many worlds, was
born in a poor musician’s home, 1
suppose not only one star, but all
the smrs, pointed to his manger.
When Hayden, the groat composer,
was horn in an humble wheel
wright's home, I suppose all the an
gels of music chanted above the
manger. Oh, ye who are born low
down nspire to climb high up, and
depend upon it, though all others
try to keep you back, and all tnen
in your occupation and outside of it
may oppose your ascent, on your
side is the sympathetic heart and
the omnipotent arm of Him who,
one Christmas night, about eighteen
hundred and eighty years ago, was
wrapped in swaddling-clothes and
laid in the manger. Again, born
that night in tho caravansary was
good-will to matt, whether voii call
ft kindness, or 'sympathy, or help
fulness, or love. It was no sport
for high Heaven to send its favorite
to such a humiliation. It was su
pernal sacrifice for a rebellious
world. After the calamity in Par
adise not only did the ox begin to
gore, and the adder to sting and
the elephant to strike with his tusks
and the lion to put to bad use topth
and paw, but under the very trssa
fi ont which the forbidden fruit viJT
plucked were hatched out war aud
revenge aud hate and envv ami
jealousy and malice, a great brood
of cockatrices. Against all that I
set the Beth diem manger, which
says better to bless than to curse;
better to suffer than to a-sault; and
that Christmas night pronounces its
benediction on all nations. It says
to the world: Sheathe your sworii.
Dismonnt your guns. Dismantle
your batteries. Turn the war-ship
Constellation that carried shot and
shell into a grain ship to take fond
to Ireland. Rook your cavalry
horses to the piow. Use your dead
orer our sorrows comforted, and
our sins forgiven, mnd onr battles
triumphant I am going in and I
am going la take all my family
ly gunpowder for blasting rocks \ with me, and all my church, and all
aim patriotic celebration. Stop law- my friends, and all my neighbors.
I have faith
suits. Wri*e no more anonymous
’e.ters. Extract the sting from your
sarcasm. Let wit corrusente, hot
never burn. Drop harsh words out
ofyo.i- tocabolary. Good-will to
man. O, my Lord Jesus, drop that
spirit in all our hearts this Christ
mas hour. I tell yon what the
world wauls: more helping hands;
more sympathetic tears; more kind
words, that never die; more dispo
sition to give other people a ride,
and to carry the heavy end of the
log and let thorn have the light, and
ascribe good motives rather than
bad, ana find our happiness in mak
ing others happy. Out of the Beth
lehem manger let bear and lion eat
straw like an ox. Good-will to
man! That principle will yet settle
a 1 ! controversies, and society will
continue to improve, until the last
two antagonists in all the world
will, seated sido by side, start in the
same jubilant sleigh-ride, holiness
on the bells of the horses.
Again, born that night in Bethle
hem was union with other worlds.
The only skepticism I ever had
about Christianity was an astro
nomical skepticism, which said:
“Is il possible that among ' tbe
mighty Satunis and Jnpiters of the
heavens, God would have chosen
for Ills Son’s achievement such a
little bit of a world as this is com
pared with the worlds on vast
scale.” But my skepticism is gone
as that night I visit the baru and its
surroundings. I find now that all
worlds aro sisters, and when one
weeps they all weep, and when one
sings they'all sing. From the su
pernatural groupiug among the
cloud-banks that night, and the es
pecial express-trains that ran down
the sky, I know that our world is
gloriously ami magnificently sur
rounded.' The meteors are with ns,
for otic ran to point out the birth
place. Tne heavens are with us, for
at cur dclivorence they roll their
hosannas ont of the midnight sky.
Oh, yes; I think our poor world
may bo better far titan we have
sometimes Imagined, and that
whenever n child is horn angels
fetch it, and when it dies angels take
it, and when an old man reels under
the weight of years angels uphold
him, and when tho heart breaks an
gels soothe it. Angels in the hospi
tal. Angels watching in the
cemetery. Angels above the world.
Angels beneath it. Angels all
around it. Hub vour eyes of the dust
of human infirmity and look into the
heavens and sec angels of mercy,
ncgols of pardon, angels of pity, an
gels crowned, angels charioted.
Tho earth girdled by angels and de
fended by angels, cohorts of angels,
elouds of angels. But the mightiest
of them stood not that night among
tho clouds, hut lay among tho cnttlu
—thu angel of the New Covenant.
As the clean, white linen sent in by
snmo mothurly villager was wrap
ped around the liltlo form of that
child Imperial, there' was not n
cherub or n seraph or nil angel or a
potentate or a world but thrilled nr
wept or shouted. Oh, ves; all the
world- arc hound together, our
earth hut the silver rung on the lad
der, at tho top of which is the Fa
ther's house. No more stellar soli
tariness for onr world. Not a
friendless plant spun out into space
to frccr-c, but a world in the bosom
of divine maternity, a star harness
ed to a manger. Again, that night
was horn in the manger the offend
er’s hope. Some might have
thought I ought to have put this
idea at the beginning of my dis
course, No; I wanted you to riso
up to it; I wanted you to examine
nil the cornelians and the emeralds
and jaspers and the chrysolites be
fore I showed you the Koh-i-noor,
the great crown jewel of the ages.
It itad a very poor setting. Cub o:
hear has advent among the grand
old forest pillars; whelp of lion
takes its first step from jungle of
luxuriant leaf and wild flower; kid
of goat is born in cavern, chande-
Iicred with stalactite and pillared
with stalagmite. But Christ was
born in a bare barn; yet his nativitr
is the offenders hope. Over the
door of Heaven is written in capitals
of consuming glory: “Only the
sinless may cuter here.” “Horror,”
yon say; “that shuts us all out.’’
No; Christ came in one door of this
world and went out the other —
came in the door of the manger and
and went out the door of the sepul
cher—and His one business was so
to wash away our sin that when we
aro dead wc will have no more sin
about us than the infinite God. All
erased, all washed away, all sconred
out, all gone, that ovcr-arching and
under-ruiing and irradiating and
iuiparadising possibility for you
and me and all generations was
born that Christmas night. Do you
wonder that wc bring flowers, and
take organ and concert, and voice of
queenly soloist to celebrate it ? Do
vou wonder that Rhaphae! and Ru
bens, nnd Gloto mid Titian, ami
Glriandjo, and Paul Veronese and
the great Italian mid German paint
ers gave tho mightiest stroke of
their pencil to the sketching of the
Madonna, Mary and her boy?
Why, now I begin to understand the
manger. Not so high was the gild
ed, jeweled, embroidered cradle of
the Heart's of England, or the Louis
of France or ihc Fredicks of Frus-
sia. Not so much did the oxen
cat out of that Bethlehem crib as
did the white horses of apolyaptic
vision. Those stvaddling-clo lis of
inv text enlarge into the imperial
robes of universal concord. The
star of the manger turns out to be
the diamonded sandal of Him who
hath tho moon under His feet. The
music heard that night was not a
completed song, bat the stringing
of instruments for tbe chorus of
enough in the manger
and Christ to make me sure about
it. I am going to coax yon in,
rush you iu by holy etrategem, to
surprise you in. I will seize hold
of yon with all the energy of my
physical, mental, spiritual and im
mortal natnre ana -compel yon to
go in.
I like you so well I mean to spend
eternity with you. Yon have chil
dren there, some of yon. One of
them I buried day before yester
day. Though people passing along
may have seen white crape on the
door, aud said “It is only a child,”
the broken-hearted father said:
“I want you to come .and comfort
us, for though she was only fifteen
months o'a, wc loved her very
much.” What a Christmas morning
when you get among all those who
with yon used to keep the holidays.
Yonr old silver-haired father, your
aged mother with her aches and
pains aud decrepitudes gone
forever, and the brothers and sis
ters and the little one.- How glad
they will be to sec yon! They have
been waiting for you so long! The
last they saw of your face it was
covered with tears and distress and
pallor irom long watching. Some
how those Christmas angels over
Bethlehem forgot to shnt the door
as they went back. Aftd the secret
is out No more use in trying to
hide front us the glory to come. Too
late to shut the door now, for il is
blocked np, with bosanuahs march
ing this way and ballelnjabs march
ing that way. In the splendor of
the anticipation I feel as if I were
dying, not physically, for I never
felt more well, bat in tbe transports
of this Christinas transfiguration.
And what overwhelms me more
than anything else is that this re
demption is for sinners such as yon
and 1 have been. If it had been for
those whose thoughts and actions
always were just right, it would
have'hcen no use for us. Y'otft'Jnd
I would hnvo stuck to the raft on
which we were floating, mid
sea nor hailed the ship • which
was carrying its perfect pas
sengers from a perfect life on
earth to a perfect life in heaven. But
1 hear the Captain of that ship is the
great-hearted, sympathetic one who
commanded the tempests that rock
ed the boat on Galilee, and I find
that tlio passengers on board are all
sinners saved by grace, and wc hail
Ihc ship and up the sides we clam
ber, ami I ask the commander two
questions: “Who art thou and
whence art thou?” Ami he answers:
“I am captain of Salvation, and I
nm from the mnugcr in Bcthclcm.’’
Oh, Christinas morning of my soul!
Chime all the bells! Wreathe all
the garlands! Raise all the songs!
Shake hands in nil tlie congrega
tions! Merry Christinas! Merry
with the thought of sins forgiven!
Merry with (he thought of troubles
comforted! Merry with the rap
tures to come! “And they began to
be merry.” Lift Him out of tbe
manger Intel lay Him down in our
hearts. Wc may not he able to bring
to liis manger as rich and worldly
offerings as did the Magi, but to
Him wc bring the frankness of our
joy, the pcnrls of our tears, the kiss
of our love, the prostration of
our worship. Down at liis feet all
churches, nil kingdoms, all ages, all
catlli, all heaven. Down the four
ami twenty elders! Down the one
hundred and forty anil four thou—
and! Down the great multitude
that no man can number! Down
archangels! Down! And so let all
the worlds worshid Him!
DEAD AND BURIED
THE OLDEST HAN LIVING.
H««r Ninel Soils Attained tbe Rise
Ace or One Hundred mnd KJ-htr.
At a recent meeting of physicians
in Bogota, Dr. Luiz Hernandez read
a paper of unusual interest. It eat
an account of a visit he paid in one
Miguel Solis, a half-breed farmer
living at the foot hills of the Sierra
Mesilla. The remarkable thing
about Mignel is that lie gives him
self out as one hundred and eighty
vears old, “more or less,” and Ids
neighbors believe it is a good deal
more rather than less. Gray-head-
ed men told the doctor that they
remember Miguel as a reputed cen
tenarian when they were boys: also
the name of Miguel Solis, 'colored
farmer, appears in a list, stiU pre
served, of tho contributors to the
building fund of a Franciscan Mon
astery near San Sebastian, which
was founded in 1812, and that the
present abbot is positive it is the
same man. The doctor fonnd the
old fellow at work in his orchard—
parchment skinned, robust, active,
his snow white hair twisted tnrban
fashion around his head, and his
eyes so bright that the doctor felt
uncomfortable when they were
turned upon him. Questioned as
to his habits, Miguel told the doctor
that the secret of living a century
or two was very simple—merely
never getting drank and never
over-feeding.
“I cat only once a day a big,
hearty meal, [which it often takes
me half att honr to get through
with; but you sec it is not possible
in half an hour to eat more than
you can digest in tbe next twenty-
four.”
He went on to say that he hadn’t
made up liis mind about meat, bat
did not cat much of it; he tasted on
the first and middle days of each
month, eating nothing, bat drink
mg all the water he could swallow-
lie always let cooked foeid cool be
fore eating it, that was why his
teeth were as sound as 180 years
ago. It was hardly necessary to
add that all the Indians in tbe
neighborhood firmly believe that
old Mignel has sold himsef to the
two words; the bass to be carried
by earthly nations saved, and the McClcbe, of the Philadelphia
soprano by kingdoms of glory won. TYmes, urges the Northern cotton
Oh, wc shall see each other when manufacturers to go South. He
our last imperfection is gone. I - says that the struggling manufae-
iook right through the mist of turers of Pennsylvania conld make
years, and through tho fog tin’ from ten to thirty per cent if thev
rises from the cold Jordan,' and
through the wide-open doors of sol
id pearl into that reunion. I expert
to meet you there as much as Lmeet
in to-day. What a time we shall
ft
m in high converse in talking fhcre as it will nowhere else.
would establish themselves on the
hanks of the Savannah or the Ala
bama. Col. McClure is right. The
South is the natural home of cotton
manufacturing, and it will flourish
IN TpBTONB OP
Bill Arp Dlscants en
and and C«
Conclusion That Poop
tend to Tbclr Own
NCvcr Par r
The old year is dead. He
wrapped himself in a winding sheet
of snow and departed this life in
testate. He was a good old year,
for he brought ns health and pros-
S erityand a bountiful supply of
lesstngs. It will be a right good
wish to wish you all a new year as
happy and peaceful as the one that
has passed. Bnt anno domini will
tell. The rolling year keeps its own
secrets. We live in a perpetual
fight—a fight with old Father Time.
He is a hard old customer, and al
ways whips us io the long run. He
has a whole pastel of adjutants and
lieutenants, such as famine and pes
tilence and all sorts of diseases and
bad passions and whisky and hip-
pockets, and ever and anon he lets
slip the don of war, and if a man
dodges all these he is lucky; bnt
neverthcles -, the wrinkles will come
and the eyes grow dim, and we can’t
dodge old age nor decay nor death.
May we ail dodge the devil is my
New Year’s prayer.
The winter is hard and all sorts
of ruffocss has advanced in price,
but onr farmers are hopeful of
another good crop year. They
grumble and growl less than I ever
kucw them, and tbe coal famine is
no famine to them. I wish you poor
people were within reach of our
timber. There is no independence
like living in the country sneh
weather as this. A man who has a
good little farm well stocked has
the best security against the illsand
accidents of life. He is safer with
out a dollar ot surplus than a mer
chant or banker in a large city with
a'million to back him. Saftrin the
long run—safer when trouble or
pestilence or financial revolution
comes. And it will come sooner or
later. Grady savs its coming this
year, for Jay Gould is setting his
traps. Well, these panics are mighty
had on some iolks, bnt they don’t
seem to ruin the solid, industrious
people who go slow and careful.
They don’t ruin the farmers who
dig their living out of the ground.
The men who launch oat beyond
their capital and the speculators
who arc in a hurry to get rich are
the ones who sufler. If a boat keeps
near the shore it’s safe, but when a
ship sails out into the deep sea it
must expect a storm. Thcaoctois
say that a boil is a sign of good
health—a safety valve that lets out
the iuternal fires, and just so a panic
must conic along once in a while to
stop the wild rush after money and
bring back a healthy circulation.
Wlicn folks cat nnd drink too much
they get gouty and puffed up and
break out in sores, and then they
have lo hold up all of a sudden and
diet themselves; hut if a man
hascu’t got anything but plain vit-
tcls and lives temperate and careful,
he will he all right panic or no
panic.
But I don’t believe in prophets—
especially these Wall street prophets
of evil. I don’t believe there will
lie a general upheaving this year.
If wc have a bad crop it will tight
en np things, but speculation hasen’t
got the credit il had in 1873. Wheu
business is done on a cash basis
there can’t be a panic to hart—com
merce ami trade isen’t bloated
enough yet to cause a collapse.—
i There is'nothing inflated, cotton is
| reasonable, bread stuffs are low and
labor Iras only a fair living. Cash
j is pretty much the basis of all in-
i dustries, and I don’t see what Jay
1 Gould can do except to burst op a
feu- speculators like himself. A few
rears ago our people owed lor their
farms and they stocked them on a
credit and got advances of provis
ions to make their crops. Iron men
built furnaces and bought moles
and wagons and spread ont exten
sively while iron was fifty dollars a
ton—railroad men issued bonds and
built their roads on a credit—mer
chants bought largely on time at
high prices and sold them the same
way and shore enongh the panic
came. But its not so now. 1 was
iu the little thriving city of Barnes-
villc the other day and saw many
signs of substantial prosperity.
There were two firms making wag
ons and baggies, four to five hun
dred each in a year, and they sold
them for cash and there was a large
furniture factory, and the farmers’
wagons were there hauling off bu
reaus and bedsteads and tables and
chairs and they all had the money.
Mr. Stafford told me their firm sold
about $130,000 worth in a year, and
it was all cash or a safe equiv
alent, and what* they had sold
on time to the farmers was prompt
ly paid ont of their cottton crop.
He is a splended gentleman of
the olden times, bnt basen’tany age
to speak ot considering that he is a
widower and well preserved. He
is a native, of North Carolina, and
was raised principally on pitch, tar
and turpentine. He says he used to
deal largely in fruit and lnmbor,
which, in the old North State, means
dried pnnkins aud hoop-poles. He
said that a No. 1 hoop-pole gitter
got two dollars a day ana was
always cross-eyed—got so from
habit, for while he had his right eye
on the pole he was cutting, die left
was picking out another, so aa to
lose no time rfilh tbe axe. The
Gordon institute at Baracsville is a
splendid success. It’s everybody’s
pet and pride and boasts of over 200
pupils. Competition, is- a good
thing generally, but that school
don’t need any to stimulate its
teachers, and itVa good thing for
everybody to be united on a school
for their children. It’s a good
thing for a town to have bqt one
hotel and one newspaper, if they are
well conducted; then the public are
not to be bothered about which to
patronize and there’s no hurting of
feelings.
Our Christinas is over, and we
had a jolly good time. We;
home some of the stray laml
they bad hardly set down to the
waiting dinner before they 1
to jabber at ns all in French,
off to school a little while, a
body wonld have thought they
been to Paris.
“Passv mar ler bnrr,” said
“Pass yonr ma tbe butter,” aa
“Donnay mar ler coflay a raker,'
said another. “Does the calf rack
his mother?” said I. I got along
with this pretty well for a while—
about as well as Carl did when his
mother asked him last Sunday what
were the names of Noah’s three
sons, and he said “Bethlebam and
; Jacok.”[ My suspicion about all this
j sudden French lingo [is connected
I with a remark I madeftbat anybody
t was a fool to give five dollars to
I bear Sara Heartburn if they didn’t
' understand what she laid. Yours,
_ Bill Asp.
in of Oar
Chicago Journal of 1
Col. E. W. Durant, of Stillwater,
Minnesota, estimates the lumber
product of the Upper Mississippi
and its tributaries for the present
season at from 1,300,000,000 feet, in
cluding logs and sawed stuff In
detail, he estimates as follows:
230,000,000
350,000,000
223,000,000
60,000,000
226,000,000
m win uc cxnausicu in less
twenty years, after which the
ilation of the Mississippi Valley
have to look elsewhere for
St. Croix river
Chippewa river...
Black river
Wisconsin river...
Upper Mississippi.
Total 1,210,000,000
At this rate of production, Col.
Dnrant thinks the pineries of that
region will be exhausted in li
than twenf
population
will have
their supply of pine lumber. He
adds that he has been familiar with
the lumber.business of the Upper
Mississippi for nearly thitty years;
that, in his time, almost as much
timber has been destroyed by fire
and wasted as has been made into
lumber; that millions upon mil
lions of pine logs have been allow
ed to rot; that now, however, the
product is becoming so valuable
that more care is bring taken to
prevent waste; that men are now
taking measures to get at pineries
which conld not be worked at a
profit five yean ago; that new
sources of supply are reached by
damming small lakes and streams;
and that this may serve to explain
tbe interest takau by promient
lumbermen in llie improvement of
Mississippi river navigation by the
the construction of reservoirs in the
headwaters of that stream, because
if government can be induced to
assume the expense of this work,
the lumbermen will be so much in
pocket.
Tho Colonel is of tho opinion that
the days of cheap lumber from tho
northwest piners are over; that the
timber lands are jiassing under the
control of powerful syndicates with
enormous capital, who will govern
the market and control prices. He
mentions ono instance where great
pineriuc had been bought on the St.
Louis River by Hon. Alexander
Mitchell, Hon. S. S. Merrill, and
others. These gentlemen are erect
ing a mill with a capacity oi 20,000,-
000 foot of lumber annually.
If this is the case, as respects tlio
pineries, it is evident thoy aro ap
proaching such a condition of cx-
austlon that iu a few years tho for
tunate owners of those that remain
will reap a rich harvest from their
investment. Some heavy capitalists
in this city have within a fow years
made large entries of pine lands,
which, in tne neat future, will con
stitute them millionaires, lords of
soils greatly exceeding in extent
those of the most extensive land
owners in Ireland and Great
Britian.
Even the great Saginaw Valley is
being rapidly stripped of Rapine
forests. Its mills have tho enor
mous 600,000,000 feet of lumber per
year, and mill owners are obliged
to bring logs from other rivers,
often as far as a hundred and fifty
miles distant, to supplement tbe
stock of the Saginaw. No new mills
are built, and when an old mill
wears out it is not replaced.
On the Muskegon river the quan
tity of logs rafted this year is 400,-
000,000 feet. At the present rate of
catting, the Alpena district will be
laid waste in fifteen years. In Min
nesota the forests are mneh smaller
in extent, and will probably not
survive the others.
The question is, “How is this de
struction to be stopped?” There is
probably no other way than by the
government, through the right of
eminent domain. Dr. F. B. Hougl
in his report upon fostery, prepare
in 1877, argued that under this
right, a qualified power was vested
in the government for restraining
from the use of private properly
where it may affect tbe rights of
others. This seems the only means
of solving the question, and it is
hardly practicable. Bnt if land
owners cannot be prevailed upon to
stop the waste of timber, there is
certainly, says Dr. Hough, sufficient
reason for the government io inter-,
fere.
But there is another and most se
rious phase of this question. The
effect of clearing the land of its
timber, according to the opinion of
many meteorologists, engineers,
and other scientific students of the
subject, it is |to diminish the aver
age rainfall of the country thus
cleared, to lesson the outflow of the
rivers, and also to cause such con
centration of the amount of rain
and snow within short periods as to
increase the danger or floods to a
marked extent.
It is evident that this is a subject
of vilal importance to the country
—one that deserves the attention of
tbe legislator, the political econo
mist, and the first statesman in the
land. Such denudation as is at
present taking place can only end
in future and disastrous injury to
the country.
A couple arrived at San Francis
co on their bridal toor, and took a
room at a hotel. The bridegroom
then informed the brida that he was
ont of money and did not know
how to get any. He raid that the
beat thing for them to do was to
commit suicide: She agreed, and
suggested the use of Iandannm, of
which she had a bottle. They di-
ided the drag into two equal parts
IL Tho man died,
insufficient to
she hasrecov-
UEOUGIA’S BOGUS BONDS,
"'hat Amount Judge' Advocate
“Before the war,” said Judge
Lochrane, “there was so great a de
mand for a railroad from Bruns
wick to tho middle part of the State.
Tbe press and people urged that it
be bnilt, and finally a company -of
Northern capitalists took hold of it.
They bnilt sixty-five miles of it, and
bad 1,400 tons of iron on tho wharf
at Brunswick when the ordinance
of secession was passed. In the se
cession convention, Mr. Nisbett of
fered a resolution which was pi
ed. guaranteeing protection fr
the State to all public works iwithin
the borders of the State. During
the war, however, the owners of tbe
Brunswick road and the iron trere
dec’ared alien enemies, and their
property seized. Part of the iron
was used on the Live Oak Road
i pi
State Road. tho close of the
war the original owners fonnd their
property destroyed. In a few years
they made a claim upon the State
and a compromise was effocted.”
“What was the compromise J”
“It was that the State should give
State aid to the amount of $15,000 a
mile to the company in lien of all
damages, and that the company
should then bniid the Road. This
was accepted aud the work begun,
Now it was not a negro Legislature
that passed this bill. The negroes
had been turned out. It was not a
Radical Legislature—for it bad
thirty-eight Democratic majority.
It was not the Radicals that passed
it—for Governor Conley, then Pres
ident of the Senate, and eighteen
other Republicans opposed it bitter
ly, and when it was passed made a
written protest It was passed by a
white Democratic Legislature mnd
by native Democratic votes. It
even underwent judicial investiga
tion before 1t became a law. Gen.
Toombs and Col. H. IL Jackson, as
attorneys, asked for an injunction
restraining the Treasurer from sign
ing the bonds. Senator Stephens
and Mr. Wm. Dougherty represent
ed the other side and injunction
was refused. Tbe case was carried
to the Supreme Coart and the court
below was sustained. The validity
and regularity of the bonds being
thns established, the parties went
to work and 100 miles were built,
as provided, and $1,500,000 of the
bonds issued. These bonds do not
bear Bullock’s name but were Bign
cd by Angicr. The law was then
changed and the Governor required
to sign the bonds. Abont 90 more
miles were built nnd tbe $15,000 a
mile issued on this length. Then
there was issued bonds for
abont 60 miles more that was never
finished. These last bonds, I say
frankly, Bhould not he paid. But
the bonds' issued on the 160 miles,
which were completed according to
law, tho State could not repudiate
jnstly, and I defy any living man to
give to-day a just reason for this re
pudiation.”
•fa Han on a Cold Ntaht.
dc Rothschild,
>orted to have
collection one
expensive
tbe world. It
ilNDSTINCT PRINT
These nights, last night especially,
was a trying one, not only for ole
and decrepit! bachelors, but will pat
to the test the patience of married
people, particularly that of of the
good wife who likes to be comfort
able and quieL Bnt in going to bed
tbe man has the advantage. He can
undress in a cold room and have
bis bed warm before a woman has
got her hair pins out and he sobea
untied. That is the general way it
is done, but last night it was thns:
“I am going to bed, my dear, it’s
half past ten-” No answer. “Now,
John, yon know you’re always late
in the morning. Do get to bed I”
“Yes, in a minute,” he replies, as be
tarns the paper wrong side out a
begins a lengthy article headed, “Is
Joe Brown a Radical?” Fifteen
minutes later tbe calls from the bed
room : “John, come to bed, and do
not keep the gas horning all night,”
and murmuring something about
“tbe bills being big enough now,”
she creeps between the cold sheets,
while John reads placidly on, his
feet across the piano (tool aud a
cigar in bis mouth. By and by he
rises, yawns, stretches himself,
hrows the newspaper on the floor,
and seizing the poker, proceeds to
that vigorous exercise of shaking
and poking at the fire. Jnst at this
station a not altogether pleasant
voice inquires: “For pity’s sake I
ain’t you ready for bed yet ?” “Yes,
yes, I am coming. Why don’t you
go to sleep and let a fellow alone ?”
Then he discoveres that there’s
coal need. AVhe.i that is supplied
and rattled from tbe scuttle into the
S -ate, he sits down to warm his feeL
ext he begins slowly to undret.»,
and as he stands absently gazing at
the last garment dangling over the
back of a chair, he remembers that
tile clock is not wound yet. When
that is attended to he wants a dtink
ot water, and away be promenades
to the hallway. Of coarse, when
he returns, his skin resembles that
of a pickled chicken, and once more
he seats himself before the fire for
a final “warming-np.” As the
clock strikes twelve he turns out the
gas, and with a flop of tbe bed
clothes and a few spasmodic shive.t
he rabsides—no, not yet; he forgot
to see it the front door was locked,
and another flop of the bed clothes
brings forth the remark: “Good
gracious! if that ain’t enongh to try
tbe patience of Job.” Setting her
teeth hard, aho waits the Anal flop
with the accompanying blast of
cold - air, and then quietly inquires
“if he is setttied lor the night,” to
which he replies by mattering: “If
yon ain’t tie provokeneat wo
man I”
i AND-o
A Dublin t /atch to tbe Ttaras
represents the condition of sflairs In
Ireland as very gloomy. Tho peo
ple are depr d, trade paralyzed,
and capital pat to flight, while the
deadly influence of tbe agitation is
still extending, and the sufferers
look on its progress iu helpless dis-
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