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THE EKLY IE W 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. - $3 a Year*. 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. ptr Wild Lands looked after and Col 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, aTTOHUET atX*fi.W 1X1 bay street, savannah, ga. Practices in all the State Courts. Refers to Hon. T. M. Norwood. apUlhn W. T. JONES, JESSE W. 'WALTERS. JONES ft WALTER8, Attorneys at' Law, ALBANY, GA. Office over Centra* Railroad Bank laolS-ly > W. A. STROTHER, M.& , ALBANY, GEORGIA. •‘iptaver Gilbert's Drnir Store AM orlrra left at the Drug Store will rrcelre rompt t:.»ntiop. Jan 7-ly /Dr. E. W. ALFRZEFD, . JfcNPECTFULLY tenders his services, in the It various branches ol his nrofossion, to the vilunjr audsurroundlngcountrjr. Of- 4opposite ’-Mrt House. on.Plnt*street. HOTELS. I’HE JOHNSON HOUSE, SMITHVILLE, OA„ Ih the place to stop and gota GOOD ■SQUARE MEAL. THE ALBANY HOUSE! Merrick Barnes,Proprietor Albany, Georgia. fpiiis House is well furnished and in ov- X cry way prepared fer the accommo dation of the traveling public. Entire sat- 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 times. • sep29 tf I. J. BRINSON) uontractor&Biller | ' AND DEALEU IN BUILDER’S SUPPLIES, ALBANY. GA. [.umber, Brick, Shingles lathes. Lime and Cement omtantly on hand, ami orders promptly filled. Estimates furnished for buildings and leenxracu taken at lowest living rates. I Alhanv ai’^iouthwest Georgia need anew- | terpriflcof tnSi k s nd. and I am determined to | ani>|dv the demand. [ Patronage solicited and satisfaction guar- i an teed ^OFFICE: At S. Sterne’s Store on Washington Street. Albany, GiL. Sept. tK 1880. fcf JPATTISOITS iron Works! (Established 1867.) T. PATTISOH founders & Machinists, ALBANY, GA. Iron and Brass Castings of nil De scriptions. Proprietors Ct.'OK’S IMPROVED 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. 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