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Newspaper Page TextVolume 1. ALBANY, GA., SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 183f Number 23. r i | I ft I I I geofcsstonaX Cards. James Callaway, Attorney at Law CAMILLA, GA. fob*-- Jas. H. 8pence, Attorney at Law, CAMILLA, GA. Will pmctlos in all tbs counties of Al- bu; Circuit, and in tbo C. 8. Circuit sml Uistsiot Oosrte for th* Boo them District •I Go. /WOflUs Cp^Un, orsr Twilty A Cal- p-fpsTl. OUU DR. TALMAGE. “The Spectacular.’ KXPUUAGATED OBAMAS TO BE MiACER OS THE W.ATFOBM , BY THE TUUS- 'lEES. LAND AID COLLECTION AGENCY. H. 0. BESJFESLD, TTORNEY AT LAW, ABUKGTOK, GA W Wild Ltadt looked after and Col- ittoa* nod* la th* eoaaUea ol Early, illar, OaUxwn aad Bate. <ab38-ly Trowbridge & llolllnshcd DENTISTS, WATCBOSS, .... GEORGIA Teeth extracted wltheet pale, w—reeled. Tense Mederete. wi where ra B. £ A. aad & P. ft W, All work ill go any- Heilroeila JOSEPH: A. CBONK, ATTOMTSTatLAW 111 BAT STREET, SAVANNAII, OA. the Stele Court*. te lies. T. JC. IVenreod. epMlXm , T. JO VBA, J0NE8 JESSE W. WALTERS. & WALTERS, Attorneys tt Law, AtUXT, OA. OSes ever Cratin' leWieed Week. EelWf Deloss & Osborn, 0MXTI8TS, Albany, - • • - Georgia. O rnct-om purr office, washing TO* SntKKT. j.ttelydl O.J.WMOST. AH. POPE WRIGHT & POPE, Attorneys at Law, ALBANY, OA. OCTCTi Otar*. Mmyar A (Hasher's flora, w a*r In* ul WuhtnfUn Mi. Dm, M, 1WS-*IwwIj JFJf. E. SMITH, Attorney at Law, ALBANY, GA. f NOlUtUVIOATIOIVS ea biMlone directed lo V_/ we et Weaklagtoa CiUr. daring the next «lx- ty day* will nodri proapt attention. 4m-1,1»1« •• D. A. YAflOR. A. B. ALKUIEND VASON Jt AJLFRIRND Attorneys at Law, ALBANY, GA. Astir* aad treat* alteatlon (l,en to col- ImUoo. Old all (oooral ba.lacss, Practleo Ja oil tbo aonrlo. aidso mr toalba ■ Sr,r**« once, oupo- •IWCaort Bctw. JacS-dtf W. A. STROTHER, M.D. ALBANY, GEORGIA. OfeemrGiMiDref Store let! at the Dreg Store will receive Ura.Jra7-ly SHiKESl’ElREAX NASI NESS BETTEi: TIIAX CORHRE- TIAH NASTINESS. NO WHAT ULIUOK TUOIGUT OF aim soar. Bhooki.vv, X. Y., Jan. 30.—In llic Tabernacle this morning, alter the opening hymn, Cilery to God high. Let uca Dr. E. W. ALFRIEND. ayttsmerrOLLY toaAora hla aorrleea la Iba 1% werteee brseehee et hta erefoeeioD, to the leHegi ■ ■ itttmra t tlbmy eed surrounding country, See eypidte fenrt Houm. •u;Pln**tc*«t. <M- HOTELS. TEE JOHNSON HOUSE, UftTHTIULK, GA, Jv o place to (top amt get a GOOD ft- ARB MEAL. * 1 ALBANY HOUSE I rick Barnes,Proprietor Albany, Georgia. fjlhto Boost fc wall fnrniahad and in «v- JL «ry way praparad for tho aceomnio- dation of th* tsavtUng pnblio. Entire «at- Isfiotion naiantaad. The table litnp- pliad with the best the country affords, aad the aerrantaare aniorpsasedinpo- I itaaaaa and attantlon lo the eranta ol ,111* Omnibuses oon.ey pi—ga, to aad from the difforont railroads prompt, ly, fate of charge. Charges to anit t!ia tines. sepSOtf I. J. BRINSON, CootracM Builder AMD DliLH I* i IE BUILDER’S SUPPLIES, ALBANY. GA. JLnmb«r, Brick, Shingles Lathes, Hire and Cement CoalUatly sa hand, aad orders promptly MB Iillaul.l faro ljhal lor build la*. »nd aaaWaota takre at lean* IWIaf rates. Albany ood mats wont Uoorcio need an ea sed lam At S. t Street. Albany. U*^daa<. a, UM. Sterna’s Stan annually by onr people for Bade North, they are adver tised as taring adapted to Southern com plaiat*. bet H. H. P. its medicine that has done more good than any of I as it is especially adapted In "eiar (Augusta, Gs-j. ■avon and ttarlh rej»lr, the Rcv.T. DcWitt Tannage, D. IX, expounded llic Revcnlccnlli chapter of the lirst book of Samuel, contain ing the story of the giant ami the stripling. Tho subject of the ser mon wits THK DltAMATIC KI.KMr.XT in onr nature. The following is the full text of llic discourse. ’fKxr—l Corinthians, vii., 31 ''They t/mt me I hi* trorlil a* not nbuiing if.’’ That Coil has implanted a dra ■untie c.cmcnt in iti»*l of our na lures and recognised anil riilturcd it in the Scripture-, itml that this element may In: employed in pus! live religion's work, 1 proved Iasi ciihhath, lo llic satisfaction, I hope, of all who heard or rend me. This morning I want lo show jnu tlmt the dramatic clemcii! may lawfully be token hito onr recreations- The old light between the rliurch and the nintler still goes on. The 'gun- of neither fort have vet been spiked, nor have ciihcr of the flags Struck. The ministers on the one side and the piny actors on the other seem all unhurt. Neither has gained the complete victory over the other. Yet according to what 1 rend in nil llio religions newspapers of the daj about the falling-oil'of (lie church and what l read in the secular newspapers of the large nllendance and linancial receipts’of llic lli.-a ters, Ihu laller seem -o far to have lost no ground. Into Hint contest of countries I do not enter to-day, because I have something belter to lo and belter lo ofl'er. 1 have A PLAN OP MV CWX TO PIIKsKNT, which, L In lieve, will commend i: seif to all the good mid respectable, ft fa not a compromise, hut n most radical proposlton. All the men ol church and theater agree that the amusements of this country need reformation; Dial if you lake all llic places of oiilertninnieui of whatev er unture In any city nod place (hem side by side, you would liud that tho majority of Ilium are depraving; that through tho gates of many ol those places a multitude pf young men go out lo mske desperate and Haul plunges Into dissoluteness. All thinking people, Christian mid un christian, ndmil this. i could give you the imuies ol ulifny dramatist*, who, on the belief Ilia', thcdramatic entertainments of (lie day are not what they ought lo he, are toiling for the elevation of tho thealur. Ucv. I)r. Bellows, of New York, many ye irs ago, in a very hrillinnl hut iniich-eriliciscd sermon, took the position that tho thealur might be renovated and made auxiliary to the Church. Many Christian peo ple are of the same opinion. . I do not agree with him. 1 have no idea that success is in that direction. Wlmt I have said heretofore on Ibis subject,as tor as I remember, is inr sentiment now. Hut lo-day I take a slop in advance of my fnriucrthc' ory. Christianity is going to take full possession of Ibis world and control ils maxims, its laws, its lit erature, its science and ils amuse ments. Shut out from the realm ol Christianity anything and you give it up to sin ami death, if Christi anity is mighty enough to manage anything but llicnmuscmcuts of (lie- world. then it is a very defective Christianity. It is capnblc ol keep ing account of llic tears of the world aud.rompcleut to make record of its shines, ll is good lo follow the fu neral.' hut dumb at the worlds play! Cali it control all the oilier elements of our nature but the dramatic ele ment? My idea of Christianity is that H can anil will compter every thing. In the "ood time coming, which the world ru'ls the golde.i ago and the poet the clysian ago anil the {.’hristian the tuiilciittiumi we have positive announcement that tho amusements of the world arc to l>c under Christian sway. “Holiness shall lie upon the hells of the horses,” says one prophet. So, you see, it will control even llic sleigh- rides. “The i-ilv shall he full ol hoys anil girls playing in the streets thereof,’’ says another prophet. So, yon see, it is ttf control the li.iop- rolliug and (lie kite-flying and the hall-playing. Now, what we want is to ha’slen that time.. How will it he done? llv the Church going over lo the theater? It will not go. lly the theater coming lo tho Church'? It will not come. What we want it a RKVOttM AM17SK.VKXTASSOCIATION in every city and town of the Cull ed Slates. Otf « announced aud ex plained and illustrated, the Chris tian and philanthropic capitalist will come forward lo establish it. and, as last, week one of our citizens gave Rj0,u00 to the Historical Li brary of our city, there will be pub lic spirited men everywhere who will do this work for the dramatic element of our natures. We need a new institution to meet aud recog nize ami develop anil defend the dramatic element of our nature. It intelligei made op of the most intelligent and most unimpeachable men and wo men of each community. One-half of them I would have professed aud moat pronounced Christians con nected with the churches. I would between lisve tills Reformed Amusement Association having in charge -this new inslitntica, “The Spectacular,’" take possession of some academy. It might take a a and good morals, j watch Does the plan of such an institution j whim seem cherical ? I reply only one j white man of large means, somewhere be- ! «, w |. tween here and San Francisco, or ‘ 'eft to Bangor anil Galveston, j yf->! n ig you. J).» you -oppose that your . tnot'ier ’ with her or dyitig lips kissed you ye ami went !.p to Ood, she iml atl in terest m her boy. . II d.» lint Iielicve that voo needs to see it, appreciates it, and oiht-eil a praver since then but she with fifty ora hundred thousand j hovered Bumfwlicre umr yon and dollars, be esn do more good than said that ii right; or have gone info hall or the Lenoxes, the Lawrences ami the a place wflere you ought not to go smaller I Peabody have accomplished. He j but she whispered: “Do uot boildiog at the start, but It would I will settle fpr all nations the qncs j there,•my i»sr hoy. tluU is wrong.' soon need the largest hail, and even tion of amusements, which, after Yon thought it was the whistling of that would not hold the people, for ! centuries of anger a:m vituperative the wind or the slamming of a door. he who opens before the dramatic I discussion, is element in human nature an oppor- when it first Utility for gratifltation without qnirtng danger does the mightiest thing of this century, and the tides of such an institution would rise aslito At lantic rise at Liverpool docks. The tens of thousaud of Christian homes in lids country, where parents are holding their sous aud daughter* back from tlic dramatic entertain ments oft be day. for reasons that some of you would pronounce good reasons and others weak reasons, but nevertheless holding them hack, would see in the establishment of this now institution an arrest of all their anxieties, and they would cry out on Uie opening of “The Specta cular.” “Thank God, that is what wc all waul.” In full faith that I have suggested this morning an in stitution which wiser men will develop, I go on to stole its many characteristics of what nits “spiarrAi iri.An” must' bk iu order to make it a grand moral ami social success. Its entertain ments ought not to last inure than one hour aud three-quarters. What kilis sermons, prayers, lectures, cti- Icrtoinuictits, is tlioir prolixity. At a quarter to 10 o’clock at night every church service, end, every orchesl re n list ring their instruments. What is more than that counts to evil. There are 10,000 people sound asleep - in Greenwood because they would not go to sleep at 10 o’clock at night. The reason there are drinking bars connected with so many places of amusement, under neath or next door, is because peo ple are exhausted with the i-innsc- nient, and they go and .-timnlnte iu order to stand'it. How are wc goingthc next day to.seli goods and huiid otu* tvs’ati l • :vi.-. our sick ami .... . . - .. ipi • if tiid night bel; - »■ ..- -.t.ol ot:r' plac. s _• j : i.nic Il ls! : .- T ll' -nb .i» til in tile . ... tut! “L’iu. ...... \ir • lint I ticvi, atilt-: by their prolixity, every ten people it. come a satiety. The unsettled nowa= began. At first re- capital donated, after one year the idea, would ’take care of itself; and the reform amusement company would find that it paid well, not only in morals and in so cial elevation, but paid well in an nual dividends and bard cash. To such au institution I would go once a week the rest gf my life and take my family with me, and nine ontof ton of the families of Christendom would patronizo it when they had atf opportunity. I expect to sec the day when," without bringing upon myself the charge of inconsistency as a Christian, I, a minister ot the gospel of the good old Presbyterian church, can go and see a new insti tution called the “Spectacular,” or br some better name, Hamlet and King Lear, and the Mereh-int of Venice, and the Hunchback and Joshua Whitcomb. As it is, the dramatic element in avast multi tude of us goes uncultivated and un regaled. For my love of pictures I may go the art gallery. For un love of music I may go to llic con cert. Fee my love of lilcralnre 1 may go to the lyceuni lectiiie. But for my love of the dramatic, just as strong as the other passions of the soul there Js nothing but in junction anil prohibition. , Unless yon establish this new institution which 1 suggest, or something equally pare and good and enter taining, voa may 'thunder away against evil amusements until the last moment of the.last hour of the Inst day of the world’s existence,, ami ait wilhoutavaiL This dra matic tdenie it which God implant ed in ninety-nine out of a hundred u», will drag on! and climb over il trample underfoot all effort at pins-ssion. J[f.voa cannot guide directions. It will ivrtnSg- directions. It -i .-.-RF.riGE SATYK. . t til's"element of onr , ii -.: ie , in- ilution' indepenedenf n, .o'vmirr i afid independent of tliea- ... The church tries to cam- . i.-e the matter' by giving cn- :. inii.--r.ts of various sorts sojne; are enchanted. The next lmif iio-.ii-1 iturns called charades of magic lan t dll! first weliko it pretty well. Whit re mains of it is spout iu looking at our wnleh and yawning, and wish ing that wo were’ at home. An hour .and Ihrce-qimrtcrs exhausts tho capacity of attention in all save here and thoto one, ami you hnvc no right to annoy anil worry a thousand people in ordnr to please two of three. At a quarter to 10 o’clock iu our .“Spectacular” the audicnco will lie dismissed, and so avoid otto stylo of dissipation: ON Tllg CLATFOItM of this new institution, the “Spec ular,” shall be |daccil a drama which has before the occasion of its ren dering iicott read, expurgated, ab breviated anil uiinniuloiisly sanc tioned by tho Board of Trustees of the Reform Amusement Associa tion. If there be in a Shakespeare >lay a phrase of evil suggestion, Itey willstrikq it out. If lbore be in it a word of two meanings— the one good, the oilier bad—-some other word will be substituted an honest word which looks only one way. Cite:a to tho public taste need to learn that a Shakespearean nastiness is no better than Congrev- ian nastiness. You gay, “who dare toko the responsibility of changing by abbreviation or expurgation one- of Shakespeare's plays?" I dare. The trustees of the “S|iectaeular" will dare. I do not want it all at one timo without abbreviation. I like very much to hear tliirty lagcs of “Milton's Paradise Lost," iut I should be sorry to Itavc to hear the wliolo book at one silting. In our new institution nothing will be considered as fit for the platform tliat;would be unfit for the parlor. Any attitude^ any word, any look that would be au offeusc to you seated witli your wife and your daughters by your own liro- sido will be prohibited from this now institution. By no law of common sense or of morality can tliat which is unfit for tho people to hear and see become fit for 1,500 people to hear and sec. All the scenes shall lie as chaste as well as lecture ofKdward Kvorelt-ora sermon by \V. F. Itobcrston. On the platform of the spectacular gltall be admitted only such meu and woman as wunld be welcome to our homes. Wc shall not make a requisition that they lie professors of reiligion. There aro professors of religion that I would not want either in my parlor or in my kitch en or coal cellar. Wo judge or ;«■<£- pie. nei by what they profess lo l»c, but but what they n.-c. But those who'eomc on the platform ofyonr pcetacular must lie ladies and gen tlemen with all that' tliesa terms inply, such uersons as wc would like to have at our table and intro duce to our children and with whom we should not be coinprom- ised if found walking with them ] town Broadway. < noon mv.x aV» gooh vrostex- i iu tlic ordinary see; : -- .... fx'-V:-' u<ws- Get si:r . -. ; : •. .: ntlii i and firmiv •: tern exhibihilions, or something which for fifty edits you can go in and see, the proceeds to be devoted to some charitable object. So on an extemporized stage in tlic church or Jecture-room you have the op portunity of 'seeing "“David' and Gdllah,” or “Josoph sold into Egypt,” or “Little Samuel Woke." The chief uiilereitce between such exhibitions and the theatre is that they are not so skillful. In the church your participants are ama teurs, while in the theatre there arc men and woman who arc giving their whole lives to the stndy of their particular parts. Because the lifly-ccnt exhibition-in the rliurch is not so well done as the exhibition in the theatre yoirlhink it is nearer tolieing pions*. Tbe old elders do not object to the performance, be cause they do not want to make trouble in church, and the minister atones npxt Sabbath for tha • dra matic exhibition in church by ana thematizing in manner alitte more vitriolic and brimstony ibe play house. And so all are 'cheated, ex cept God. Sow let us have an in stitution which, witliontany sophis try or self-deception, we can patron ize aud support, an institution so uncompromisingly good that wc can attend it without any shock to our religious sensibilities, thongh the day before we 'bat at the holy sacrament. It wit! not he a dull en tertainment because it is good. There is more fun in virtue than in siu. The only way to scatter dark ness is by dear light, and to wash out jilth is by clean water, and to drown discord is by (be drum beat and flute warble and trumpet blast of grand harmonics. And the way to overcome the depraving and be setting and SOBL-DE3TEOTTXG ENTF.CTAIXUE.Vri of our great cities is by. the estab lishment of a model spectacular un der the control of a Reform Amuse ment Association composed of the purest and best tnen and women of the world and church. The philan thropist who his the money and the brain aud tho heart to mangurate this movement will be the man of the Xincteeth century, the church ofGodandthe whole hetman race bis everlasting auditors. But until this new institution shall be built anil opeaod I counsel yon to beware of allowing the dramatic element in your nature lo lead you into i-midemiiHtion. For the gratifica tion of lhai one taste do not sacri fice your purity, your usefulness, your influence, your soul, as ten thousand have. Remember that the recreations of life are only for the imerestises, the parentheses, the in- Jerregnunts of hard work, and to rest us from other hard work. He who docs nothing bat hunt for amusement, however pure the atnu-eiiient, is'iike a man who loses a - iliauuind among the rocks and looks for it reganiless of the pre cipice near byj ti!i, in joy of finding it. »c tumbles backward five hnn- •V : -c-: ilT. the comorasts aufi the No, it was your mother.' But manv of you havo parents living and they are thinking of you, plauiug for you, wailing to bear from you, expect ing gr. at things of you. They do not say mueh ahum ii. but all the good or had that they hear of you thrills them from tho while hair on the wrinkled brow to the foot that is almost through with Ihe journey. As no one else may tell you how much your Christian parents think of you, I will tel! you. They have wrapped their hearts alLabout you. No need of g dng way back lo find how David loved Absalom, or Ilan- uali worked for Samuel, or Itizpab watched by night on the rock the dead hudies-of her children. I am talking of - YOTU PAKEXTS’ LOVE FOB TOO. Oh, do not disappoint their ex- pcctalions! Do not forget their ad vice that last morning! Go to no place that would displease them Ami, if they are real good, do yon not think you hail better try their religion? They would rather hear that you are a Christian than any other good news about you. How your parents feel about von I know ■Irout experience. I bad a boy whom I had set my expectations. He had just started life. I thought nothing ya* imposiblo for him. Tnc word {opened before him as I never saw it open before any one not yet twenty-one years of age. But I always told him: “DeWitt, 1 want yon to be as great as a lawyer, bot, above all I want you to bo Christain.” Aud he promised me liu would be, and I think be was, and the last time he was at the tea- tahle with us among all the young people, with an earnestness none of us will ever forget, lie declared he would start out a new in tha Chris tian life. Without a moment of warning lie speed away from With both arms around him I tried to hold him back, but I could noL I went down end broke np the office aud took ihe contents home, and we put out of our sight many things belonging to him. Bat bis bright face and his cherry laugh and nis precious memory we will never pat away from us. O, young men I want to tcll'yon that our consolation in regard to that is not Ids wonder ful world prospects, but the hope lie lives in a better place—a hope encouraged from many sources, but by uoiio more than litis little slip of which I found among some of his ’private memorandums: words evi dently composed on a sabbath uioi-ning, and which he had no idea would ever he seen j>y natural eye: J<»H Hits day we (ether In Thy holy plaeeofprmyer, licit* »a euh lo know The# bettor And lo treat Thy watchful care. Thou, we know all kind mad (eotle, K»er ainuuthlng tlb’a rough way. Bowed the cruea lo aare Ttyr children, And didst die onr dels# lo pay. For raA^abhalh may it Sod ns Tho Family Dll! at clan. M'XVSOIZIMSN. Harper*#. I _ If any where there were lo be A no,orious eavesdropper—Rain, found fcmongr men a parallel to the! How can a prim»n6r be seasick l*ood Shepherd, how inaliucUvehr I when he i* secured? to°p n i v.W.n’’ ,Ur " r ° r “ 40 ° Ur T ' m{ - *• well enough, but if Who i, there that, like him, seems ^ *° » fi ’ re * flT0 " ,,,n * an<1 thous At Thy holy OmLatool bent, Dll on earth oar days as* intakes Aud to us Thy call Is eost. A Skipper. “Tastes good, doesn’t it?” asked the drug clerk, as Ihe customer drank the soda water flavored with pineapple syrup. “Yes, very good.” ' The drug clerk toughed sardoni cally, aud said: “Of course, bnt then you don’t know what it is made of.* 1 “What do you mean!” “The old man’s out,” ho said, look ing cautiously around the store, “aud I’ll let you into some of the secrets of the business if yon won’t give me away. The old man madcthal pineapple syrup out of old cheese that you cou!d smell threugh a fire^ proof-afc. Full of skippers, too! I’ll tell about that cheese: The old nun cut offa slice and brought it up stairs here with him one night, He laid it on the counter. Next morning it was gone. Come to look, the little animals in it had shoved it on the -floor, wriggeled it down the stairs and pnt back exactly' iu its old place in the cheese. The old man said that was an extraordinary il lustration of the strength ot the home instinct of the brute creation. . 1 think I’ll be a skipper myself* said the customer with a white face iCs be skipped out of the store to t he nearest bar-room. . s V- ItO - jmer.t > cause ii: needs to be distinct from every tiling that is or has been. In an age which has piojected a telephone-and-an electric pen and the bicycle and tLc telegraph, surely we are m>' afraid of a new institution. I; would be derided at the atari, as all great movements sro derided at the star, but it would revolutionise society for good. Wiser men than we are would baptise it witbaname s«ep "one o : : the worlS . . . Yea, inerear-: :.iaii'.-- fame in theiirr.matic their lives have been .oiling f. elevation of the. drama win stop right over upon this new a. #* nn m sia.m t aw- .4 s ea Hah ii : o..iv- knowing where he - I - ".L A .i .i-c iceat fe a vatu.- i - -i i.ig tohj-rt, toy look out that : -c:: at the cost of your .1. . ■* >. coaid not tell jonr v’-..- -or ;> :-ar prospect for this v.i-r’-I or next by the particular notice, and all fmafness done and eiiuren that you aUend.-butl can revenues accrninr- "in oy'your style of recreation, win i i:.-' where you spent last night and plat- *lt.c uight before, and all the nights form of our new institution. 5m.b . of the last month, and I think I can a platform with s snch men aiijt wo-1 tell yon men on it and snch an expurgated j wukhe too will spend eteexitt. drama would draw to it millions of As I look into the eyes of . these ' go only once or twice | thousands of young men I can nof o a dramaor help.bnt think wbat immense par- ils spectacular ental-anxieties hover over them. „st music, the Did you say, my father and mother best genius six I are dead ? That is no reason why oil the side of * yon should think they are no't I Telegraph Broiler. New Yolk, February 3.—The fol lowing announcement has just been issued: Office of the Water* Union Tele. grnjth Company, Feb. 3, 1881.—The Western Telegraph - Co in pan v, having this day completed tbo pur chase and token possession of the lines, properties, rights, etc, of the American Union Telegraph Com pany and of the Atlantic and Pa cific Telegraph Company, David H. Bates has been duly appointed agent of this company and general manager of the lines, offices and op-’ orations of the propoties and rights turned over by the American Union Telegraph Company, and Albert B. Chandler has been dnly appoint ed agent of this Company and gen eral manager of the properties and rights turned overby tho Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph Company, until further notice of a concentra tion ofthe management.’All officers •ndcmployes of cither of said com panies will be retained in the ser vice of the company until further can revenues accruing ;iu the operation Tell of said lines will be reported and turned over to this company. [Signed] Noe .vt x-G r f. e k, President. It is stated on the streets that Co lonel Marcellas Thorton is an appli cant for the position now held by Colonel Andrew Clark .injthe reve nue service. Colonel Thornton, it is said, will not urge his claims un til General Garfield goes into offloe. to stand hetwren ns. and tho outer darkness? Who is there tbst, like him, knows our fsme and the dust of which wc are’nude? Who there to whom, as to hint, we con fess our defects, and with whom We make capital out of our weakness? He is to us the visible representa tive ofthe dispenser of life and death; wc hang opou bis word for sentence or reprieve; when in at the door wo feel as :h he bronght safety in with when he goes by the window e send our blessing after him. lie to but a matt; be pursue. . founded on shifting sands his work is largely experimental, and in many rlaces he gropes in more than twilight gloom. But to our ignorant helplessness his limit ed knowledge seems to be the clear sight of a god, bis slightest avert- raent a thing treasure up and con sider carefully for its store of truth, his decision on affair as immutable as the laws of the universe. If we die, we cliog to bis band as we step into the dark river, while be is like the comforting rod. and staff of Scripture; if we live, we feel as though it were ihroogh his deter mination and because ot hie ef fort. Not that we ignore, by any means, the great and merciful Power be hind him; but we recognise him as the agent of that Power, who put into his hands, as it were, the issues of birth and tho grave. Tbo doctor, indeed, seems to unlike all other men. He is im personal as a spirit We send for bint in onr trouoles; we go to him with our grievances; wo confess to him ailments we would bide from all the world; we no more try to “put the best foot forward” with him than fre would if be were omniscient, for we are aware that unless he secs us as we are he afford us no aid. He, indeed, and uo other, is the “Tomb of Secrets.” He is acquainted with tho inner re cesses of households, with tbo his tories of tortured lives: he knows over wbat borne peace broods; he knows where neglect and conten tion and abuse work havoc, and where tho dark strains run in the blood from generation, to reveal themselves some day in foul iungns or distraught brain. To all he brings a consolation of bis own, a delicate sympathy, a promise ofthe whole that he has, au assurance of best effort, a sense tbst ovory, thing vvhiih skill and scionce can do to being done, and that the rest is only in tho bands of God. ' And when wo are in the dreadful presence of some sickness whoso, unknown issues touch npon tlic awful mysteries of death, who there that comes into tho room so liko tho command of tho forces of light.scattering thoto of darkness as tho family physician? Who seems, liko him, to be the actual vicegerent of tho great spirit of ood fighting tho Inroads of evil ? low lie labors, how indefatigable he is, how lie suffers with us, and wrestles witli fate for us! He rises in the dead ol night, perhaps to walk through fariona storm, per haps to skate over froxon rivers, perhaps to drivo miles in biting wintry winds. Light comes in with him then out of the 'hick darkness. In the morning he brings in the outside, vigor of the healthy world, ne is sure to come and givo us re assurance just when the sun to de parting and taking alt our little cheer with him as the dreadful eight sets in again. And when the balance hangs so that a hair’s eight may incliue it either way, up into the happy light or down into tha dark region - whore all abandon hope, then he spends sleep less nights beside us, discards less serious matters, is away only on flying visits, makosonr woes his own, and manifests on his errand of mercy Ml the devotion of love. And what motives are they that urge him to this snblima unselfish ness, this'work and suffering? Not monoy, or tho love of it; for he to paid at best but a pittance, and seldom collects the half of his dues. Not fame; for when his day to done and he lies down tor his long and well-earned rest, hb name soon fol lows him, or lives only in the grate- fol recollection of tho generation he lias served ahd saved. In almost any other path in life he con'd ac quire far more of either of these mrtohable things with iLfinitelr cost to himself. It can/lhcn, be only the love of science and tho love of his fellow-men that spur him to this heroic duty, to this unfailing self-sacrifice; and, beyond his suc cess from day to day, the chief re ward he has is that his very work at once refines and enlarges itis nature and nobler existence. Never, then, can we pay or at tempt to pay to our family physi cian the obligation of gratitude that wc owo him. His steady labor, bis enthusiastic research, bis utter self- forgetfulness, bis spontaneous sympathy, bis unfailing tenderness —neither gold -nor gifts, noithcr words nor acts, can ever muke tho account even with him for the ab negation and surrender such things imply; and all that wc can do is with our whole hearts to acknowl edge the debt. A Mathematical Yeah.—This year 18S1 will bo a mathematical curiosity.. From right to left and left to right it reads the same. Eighteen divided by two gives 9 as a quotient; 81 divided by 9 gives 9; if divided by 9 the quotient con tains a 9; if multiplied by 9 the product cotains two nines ;1 and 8 aro 9; 8 and 1 are 9. If the 18 be placed under the 81 and added the sum is 99. If the figures be added bus; 1,8,8,1; it will give 13.— Reading from left to right it is 18 i- two ninths of (1. By adding n:id multiplying 19 nines produeei^ be ing one 9 for each year rcitiircd to Complete the century. dollar boy. give education to a five dollar yw hero • voo] tout's vise AiUteOffh thruiih print It ran: Ural rat yonr aUH in a lotlory prU®, Kortbo n*nal« vfogtui. _ I’m very fund of iittie boys” said,. as she tripped ' on a sti stretched across the pavement, feel as ifleonld eat t couple them this minute, now.” Tho sting of a bee is only onc- fourthinch long, but if yon make lhatstalcment to a mauwho has just enoountorsd one, boll ted vou that you lie liko a book agent. - * .Sarah Jan* must have been scant ily dressed when she waited for her lover and sang: H**n ssi t*-<il*W, tha alad-S tt iwt. Us stats is fall asd fair: ra mar Ih- draae that pleeaU hlai beat, A rlfchss la wjhatr. 1 ^ - The way ministers are bein^ found guilty or kissing other wo men than their wires, proves that yon may roll a man under the wheels of theology for years,'but you eanuot squeeze til the human nature out of his heart. A minister meeting a boy asked him wbst o’clock it was. “About twelve sir,” was the reply. “Well,’ remarked the minister, I thought it was more.” “It’s never any more here, sir,” said the boy; “it just be gins at one again.” After spending three mortal hours in getting to windward and crawling carefully towards two supposed big buffaloes, a Western hunter fonna hto supposed gsme to- be a SL Louis girl taking a walk on the prairie with her ear-muffs on She met him at the door and ush ered-him in; then she said, “The weather has changed rather sud denly.” ‘Yes, got damp quick,” he replied, and to this day he cannot account for her leaving tho room so unceremoniously, and the “old i” appearing and conducting him out. When a woman has ’worked for two hours to sweep a room, ;aml then, having collected the dirt and lint and little scraps of paper into the dust pan, goes to ihe window, opens it and throws the dirt from the pan just as a lively little gnst of wind comes along and sends it hack all over the room again, docs she get mad? Gallery Glances. Washington Letter Philadelphia llecnrd. Blount, of Georgia, is a truly loy al Southerner. Ho is clean shaven, faultless in his dress, and wears a suit of gray, indicative of his strong sectionalism. The minute ho opens his mouth any “vet.” who over faced a rebel battery would shut Itis oyes and sing out, “That fellow’s Johnny.” Alexander Stonhcns has been dead from his.walst down for some Umc. His head is clear aud brain active. He to trundled into tho house iu a rolling chair wheneYcr lie to well enough. It to ono of tho mys teries of nature how ho bangs on to life. Ihe bonso to always disposed to accord him extra privileges, and Mr. Stephens, with that high sense ot honor which characterizes a Southern gentleman, never abuses them. Tbo beaux of the house Ben Lo Ferre, of Ohio, a tall, fiuo-lookiDg man,' with dark eyes aud a sprinkle of gray in his hair; J. C. S. Black burn, ot Kentucky, who cultivates a mustache a la militaire, one of that sort which gire* a fellow a cavalier appearance; General Floyd King or Louisiana, quite an aristocratic yonng Southerner; J. H. Acklen,of tho same State, whose lace is adorn ed with a pair of Dundreary side whiskers, and whose black curly locks are always well combed. Tbc Republican side is wonderfully lax in the beau question; consequently the fairest maidens are to be fonn.d in the Democratic gallery. s0m ?acR” JEWE L E R & Objai-lluna. They were trying an assault and battery case in Detroit, when the defendant objected to tho jury which tho constable bad gathered together. Beginning at number one, the court asked: “State yonr objection to tho jury J.P.SIBK&C0. Wholesaled Retail Jewelers A2H> Watch Manufacturers, DEALEBStN -FINE- DIAMONDS, Fine Jewelry, Solid Silver, Silver Plated Ware, Bridal Pi-esents, Clocks, Bronzes, Etc., Etc. CAN SAV* PURCHASERS 20 PBft Send for our Price* before baying el*ovrbor#«- FACTORY art SALESROOM, 34 Whitehall St., ATLANTA, GA. 1 for Catalogue hu>1 Vrlcvu. aotl tkn Nev AHrertiseimt. ban recolTCd another, lot of those . Tern Red Rust-Proof Oats. CiUttrlr for tlwr will all b« ►*J«i l*efor th* demand u uppliatl. > I con mAkclnsiti*' prico* CORK, HAT, WHEAT BRAN, FEED « ETC., ETC- to portico who vini to buy lor trail .n acceptance and no other way. Meav tloaot toad order* unle»a r© iu>fdaw ,t0 *** yrttt **° n of ra. •win Ja JL l*OKKEST>.h Universal Favori 5e, CIGA te a BAXEBY AtfD'CONrECTIONBEI Y.swm Smithshrotot rmllaof Ml. tram. ORANGES & LEMONS APPLES, BANAN.V A** COCOA NUTS AND drieii pxinul. potatoes, onionil C*AISBAlaES. CR A N RK!£KI KS, VIR GINIA PEA N UT8.PE - ZIL ASD ICNtsV.l, NUTS, ALMOND ▲a a Foil Lin* of 'ANCY GROCERIES, ryjiirenl Wlu* and Li<iarrs of all <u**nptiop*. At Low Price* tho l«**t Choc** and Baper, Dried Itocf, Haititnorw "an-ar.\ Vicnri* tiUM- ■Ito, Keo and Patent Flour, Kt«\» Satisfaction jrnanuitoed. Win nui»i<ly the • of each and err ’*• E. CHINE. Sept, lo, l^jQ-Cwd Cotton wool wet with sweet oil and laudanam relieves the ear-ache very soon “I-beat him ont of |50 on a horse trade, and I knowhow he fteto,was tlic reply. “And this one?” “Ho and I couldn’t agree on a game of cards one day, about two weeks ago, and I punched his aged head. JIo hasn't forgotten it, you “Well, here's the third man.” “He has a grudge ngaiust tne for licking his brother-inlaw. “And the fourth?” “Wc havo never been good friends since I shot six of his hen?.” And the fifth?" . ‘I know him or old! He says I stole his shot-gnu.” “And do you object to the sixth and last?” “I decidedly do. It' isn’t four days since I got ready tolhrow him r sl wood dock.” “Wouldn’t it be safe tor you to accuse with a jury and let the court try the case?” suggested his Honor. “No, sir!” was the decided reply. “I don’t say that I’ve got anvtbing in particular against this court, but this court may have formed au opin ion that I ant tbo titan who bagged his tweuU'~six game fowls ono ; Otr— ™ winter suits! cure six jurymen from out of the city. 0 “ RUMNEY, FASHIONABLE TAILOR, ViHUtlOS 8TUMT. ,TtST RECEIVED, A LABQS LOT OF SAM- u FLBS of th. Latest Styles! Ho.v, A. H.Stephenm’ library con tains between two and three thous and volumes which cost about 4-0.- 000. To take iron plains out of marble. An equal quantity of fresh ‘q»iritof vitro! ami lemon juice being mixed iu a bottle, nbfike well, wet the spot and in a few minutes rub with soft linen fill they disappear. SHIRT CTJTTIHG SPJECIALTY Good Work ! Perfect Fit and Reasonable Prices Guaranteed! aufM-ly

Georgia Historic Newspapers

The Weekly news and advertiser. (Albany, Ga.) 1880-1???, February 12, 1881, Image 1