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Newspaper Page TextV) V/ THE WEEKLY •> -- r SC Tho ALBANY NEWS, established IMS, tConselldated Sept. 9,1100, by » The ALBAN V ADVERTISER, established 1877, | MclSToSH A Etim. { A Family and Political Journal Devoted to the Interests ok Southwest Georgia. •If® a. "i < Volume 1. ALBANY, GA., SATURDAY, APRIL 9, 1881. grofcssiouitl (Cards. James Callaway. Attorney at Law CAMILLA, GA. febif- Trowbridge & Hollinshed DENTISTS, WAYCROSS. .... GEORGIA. Tooth extracted without pain. All work warranted. Terms moderate. Will so anr- whorc on It. A A. and s. F. & W. Railroads. apl8-17m Pcor. Vexnob predicts s sickly sea- on. Sprague trill have to go over to Washington with his shot-gun before Roscoe Conkling can bo made to keep quiet over Mr. Garfield’s New York appointments. Captain- W. W. Carnes has beon elected Manager of the Macon Tele graph and Messenger, vice. Mr. Henry Davis, who resigned on account of ill health. Cold Weather. Manus,Jftr»SEk President Garticld Has fully decid- j ed to recall General Long-street from I Turkey and make him Marshal of ATTOmTEnTattuAW j Georgia. There is no doubt ho will 111 BAY STREET, i be confirmed by tho Senate. JOSEPH A. CRONK, SAVANNAH, GA. Practices In all the State CourU. Refers to lieu. T. M. Norwood. npSUiin \\\ T. JOSF.3, JESSE XT. WALTERS. JONES & WALTERS, Attorneys at Law, ALBANY, OA. OAcc orrr Centra’ Railroad Bank. •nnlA-ly The Darien Gazelle calls the atten tion of there tv Postmaster General to (he fact that the mail service in South east Georgia is badly in need of atten tion from tbo Department at Washing ton. Q J. WRIGHT. Even the New York Times is dis gusted with the recent bargaining be tween tbo administration, the Republi can Senators and Mahone, and de nounces the alliance as a “league with repudiation.” Secretary Wisdom, it is stated, will j visit New York to advise with Lankers and other-; relative to the best course : to be pursued in reference to maturing government bends, and upon financial j matters generally. In answer to a delegation of colored If. a HP > Republicans, who presented an address * to him, the President urged upon them ALBANY, ; the importance o;’ education and the aii.r 8. Mayer* number’, store, co> j ownership of tho land whereon they i dwelt ami toiled. Albany, - - - - Georgia. O FFICH—OYCTl VuSC TUN brilLcT. OFFICE, WASHING Jao r wlyJl WRIGHT J; POPE, Attorneys at Literary WWd, A potter near his modest cot Wmk shaping nura aa urn and pot; He took the Clay for the earthen things From beggar*’ feet and beads of King*. Know ye why the cypress treo as freedom's tree Is known! Know ye why the lily fair as^freedom’s flower Is shown? Hundred arms the cypress has, yet nerrr plunder seeks; With ten well-developed tongues, the lily never speaks! With mine own heart 1 am in constant strife; What shall Ido? Remembrance of past errors blight my life; What shall I (fo? Though kindly Thou, O Lord my sins for gives t. Their memory still within my heart is rife; What shall I do? Not oft near home does genlns brightly shine, N« more than previous stones while in the mine. Ltko wind file* time ’tween birth and death; Therefore, as long as thou hast bn-rtc, Of care for two days bold thee free; The day that was and is to be. No fear have 1 of life nor death— The dreaded flight of soul and breath; Cut not t • do niv dut u* here and die shall be my conaont f ?ar. Attempt nol to fathom the secret* of Heaven, Hut gmt. fully use wh.it to thee is here given: For noun have returned from that realm of bliss, To tell how those have fared who have pray* od much in tklJ. I doubt whether those who t‘trough every clime llavo wnndorcd and sought, in pcaco and in strife, For gold sod for treasure* have ever found timo To study the genuine value of life. Many of our leading men are rotten oores in glittering shells; Wealth, position, mav be theirs, bnt In their heart no comfort dwells; ^operverted are they oft that only those they ran respect Who, file them, for sordid caused all the nobler aims neglect. I balls, for they friz ez fast cz they “There’s quite a little snap In the ! fell- They piled op at his feet; an’ atmosphere, but when I cal! to j the painter kep* a’creepin up. Sod- mind it piece of treather we h*d in /Jn,lU ' •" uu v “*‘— lHoD this seems like a good day for OFFICE: u.'r Ilriud and Wadjlngljri 81*. Dec. J-*, IH10 dlurwijr L>. A. VAbON. Tsi-morrow'a fate, though thou be wUe, Thmt canst not tell nor vet surmlso; Pa**, therefore, not to-day in vain, »or it will never come again A. II. ALFUIENP < A telegbam from the Bev. A. G. Haywood to the Telegraph and Mes- Th«* Prophet’s followers reek Kaba’a shrine; Ucits call the Christian host* in prayer to Join— VASOX & ALFRIEXD LaW, Se " yer "" lt Mr ‘ ° eCrE< ' J ‘ Sen "- V - ' mb4Tul;™.?« P flJ^iii.^”Tm.h Divine. * of Setv York. Iibk given $5o,000 to | Attorneys at ALBANY, OA. Aollw and prompt attention given t<> col lections tudr.ll general lunhict*, Practice in all the court *. Olllco ov«*r Soothe u Express otlice, nnjio- JanC-ulf Pile Court lioU.i.v vV.A. STROTHER, M.D. ALBANY. GEORGIA. Officf? over Gilbert’s Mi Store order* li ft :»t Dio. Drug Store will receive prompt uontlon. Jnn 7-1 y ^ Dr. R W. ALFRIEJMD, ■ kliSi’ECl’FUijLY tenders his sendees, in the IV mrlytin branches o! bis profession, to the lUi cUl/-ut » Ailniiy sudsurrounuingcountry. lice op]K>si'.o ,'onrt House. ou.l’lnu street. or- H9TELS. THE JOHNSON HOUSE, 8MITUV1LLK, OA.. is tho place to stop anti geta GOOD SQUARE MEAL. Wesleyan Female College, anti raised ! hi. Rtutiry College gift to $50,(HX). Maiione’s movements aro generally - accented hy the Republicans as a sign of a hrake-iip of the Democratic party, when really the Virginia Senator has cemented tho jointR more strongly than ever. Just watch thu current as it passes along. Jkue Haralson, an Alabama colored ox-Congressman, wants tho Ilaytion Mission. lie is reported as thinking that colored men make a mistake in basing their claims to recognition on thoir color, and thinks that Gen. Gar field, with whom lie served in Congress, will not be influenced by such sonti- mental ideas. Alev rick Barnes,Proprietor T Albany, Georgia. dliis llonsi* is well famished and in cv- A Singular case was before a Missis- I Mppi court a few days nj*o. A planter THE ALBANY HOUSE!! decided to plant his lands in grass seed ; and raise stock instead of cotton, llis ! neighbors, who all stick to cotton, ap plied to the court for an injunction to ! restrain the planter from sowing grass seed, on the ground that grass will not _ ory way prepared for the nceommo- itsclf “> llind of tbo P Ian ‘ tfr dntion o; the traveling public. Entire sat- j of it, but spreads oversurrounding plan i rtinction gn.ir.mie«*d. The table i*^u»- tatiouK and unfits the ground for cotton, piled with the best the country affords, • ... . , nnd tho servants are unsurpassed in po- j i he injunction was granted. li tones* and attention to the wants of guests. Omnibuses convey passengers to j S.\s r sancisco ts a queer place and and from tho different railroads prompt- j boasts of a queer religion. When Kal- ° r Ch “ r,?i - Ch!irKeS «p2oif! loch was acquitted, the other dsy, for the murder of Do Young, lie was not : only triumphantly dragged in his car- ! riage through the city, but thanksgiving ! services wero held in his father's church, tho Metropolitan Temple, in | honor of the event. Tho Russian So cialists might steal an idea here and hold religious thanksgiving services over the assassination of the Czar. !. J. BRINSON, Contractor yniltler and dealer in BUILDER’S SUPPLIES. ALBANY. OA. Lumbar, Brick, Shingles Lathes, Lime and Cement L'onHaatly ou haml, and order* promptly Ullol Estimates fnru!*hc<l f^rbus ^inj* and contracts takMi at lowest living rat-.- - Alt •any and gouthwest ticnncui uc.M nnen- tcr.triio of tin* k'ad, aa-i 1 a:n determined to tiic demand. ratron;t£fl aolicltod and satisfaction guar anteed yyOFFICE: At S. Stcruc’s .Store on Washington Street. Alinnv. Un..Sn|tt,*.lWn. * tf I THE ONLY MEDICINE IN LITRES LIQUID OR DUT FORK That Act* at tho Sant Tima on } The Liver, The Bowels, Tue New York Express, when con sidering the Mahoncd condition of the United States Senate, remark,: “Had the Democrats expelled Kellogg, who occupies a scat that doesn't belong to him; who owe; his alleged election to a bogus Legislature which even the Iraudutcut Hayca wouldu't recognize, and to bribery even in that; whose presence in the Senate is an iosnlt to every honestly elected Senator and to tho Statu of Louisiana. Bat they didn’t." and the Kidneys. Tk«M|rre*t orn&s *reth*catanJ cknen of the sy-wm. It tLcy vrork wcIL Iwalth will ho ;cr:cvt. if tW bocomo daeved dz**dfal u-= | c*ac»*r*rur«tofoUow«ith TERRIBLE SUFFERING. | Bdlounus. llfiuiache, DdTpepem, Jaundiu, Constipation, rUxt. Kidney ComplcinU, j Gravei, Dialxttt. KUumatic rains or Ache* I aredTclopcdbfc*o»eUs»Wood UoahonetlwiUi I UMhasaor*that*booMtieexpciMsaxoralty. KIDNEY-WORT HU. BESTDRE I thf heaKbf metiom tad all ttw d^atroytac wdi B Urewito l S^r ed< *** Mwu*ds bare bees cored. Trv it aad yoo Add ore more to the number. 7*k® U and I h—Hb wilt ooco —ore fteddeoyoor heart. | Wkj ubrtai|rr Utm Oi lerwal sfu mUbc Wk » K»!«*T-Wo«t will core too. Try itaiooceand bcaaiLOod. Yottrdress&tba»lu frtc-ai.0#. grill* pot op te Pry Tegictabtc F*m. In I ZJTUn cans ooo package of which make* at* [ :irq«arta of madirtaa. "llrAlre hlkdlFd | LSTtcr the pownliDc* of tbo— who cannot j ; yrrswllljr preparo^tt. 7f acts seitk [ iare~*eisnc!i_ in rtlSrr form. -WELLS, RICnAUDSON A CO.. Frep**. (Wtu tend tha dry poaPfaliL) aVELWC'sDX, vt. Tttc youngest man in the Senate is neat little Mr. Gorman, of Maryland. He was a page in that body years ago and since the war distinguished himself in Washington as a base ball player. Twelve years ago ho went seri msly to work and achieved a swift success. | They say he is a clear headed business ■nan—nothing whatever of tho orator or scholar ahout him. liis colleague, : Mr. Groome, is the next youngest man in the Senate, and their names come together on the roll. Secretary Blaine said to a llart- | ford gentleman: “When I first 1 vegan j my political career in Maine I was a ; candidate for the Legislature. It was | in the Maine law time, when excite- ! m ant on the temperance question was : running high. I had two papers and ; was editing one. In thu heat of the ctnvass a liquor advertisement was handed into tho business office and ap peared in the paper. Of course I knew nothing of it. But the next day that advertisement, was placarded all over the' city of Augusta in large type, and over it in big letters was the heading ‘Jim Blaine’s views on temperance.’ I concluded that if I whs going into poli tics I could not be a success and still bo an editor, and my first step was to sell out the newspapers and be inde pendent of them.’’ The heart that has on power oreelt-tleDial Severe!? -uffers, suffer, man? a trial; The uiiMtfUh b-art feels bliss without alloy In causing others happiness anti Joy. The world will turn when we nrc earth A* though we bad not come or gone; There wa. no lacs tiofore our birth. When we are gone there will be none. Friend. Itellcve of dogmas only such aa lift the soul to (*od! If thr neighbor should be needy, go. alUvato bis lot; ilma deceit, bo Just aud kind, end cause ns telluw-bolng pain. Then wilt lihou contentment here, hereafter life eternal gain, A UAin-BESTOBEB. __ Wliat Happened the Bald-Headed Man What Tried It. Syracuse Sunday Times. It was one of the by-laws of Heartache’s Heavenly Hair-Rai-ier, that it bo used liberally before re tiring, rubbing it well into the scalp. Just before bo went to bed that night the man bolted tho back door, put tbc cat in the wood-shed, came in whistling the “Fatinitza” waltz, danced up to the clock-shelf, and pouring out what he supposed to be his hair-fcrtilizcr, he mopped it well round the roots of the little hedge of hair at the back of his neck. The glue bottle, by an nnearthly coincidence, was nearly the same shape and sizo as the hair-sap hot lie. lie went to bed. “George,” said his wife, turning her face to the wall, “that staff you are putting on your head smells like a pan of soap-grease.” “l’crh.tps I had better go np stairs and sleep,” snarled George. “You’re mighty sensitive? Y’on wouldn’t expect that a man can put stutr on his bead that will make his hsir grow and have it smell liko es sence of wintor-greeu, wonld yon ?” Thay went to sleep mad as Turks. This particular bald-headed man, liko a good many other bald-bead- tnen, had to get np and build fires. Whan ho arose next morning tho sun peeped in at the window and saw the pillow cling to the back of his head like a great white chignon. At first he did net realize-his condi tion; lie thought it must have caught on a pin or shirt button. It lookod ridiculous, and he would throw it back on the bed before his wife saw it, so ho caught it quickly by one end and “yanked.” “Oh! oh! Darnation to fish hooks what been going on here? Thunder and lightning!” and he began to claw at his scalp liko a lu natic. Ills wife sprang up from her couch aud began to sob hysterical ly. “Oh, don’t, Georgo. What is it. What’s the matter?’' George whs dancing abont the room, the pillow now dangling bv a few hairs, his scalp covered with something that looked liko sheet- copper, while the air was redolent of war-like explosives, as if a dic tionary had exploded. With' a woman’s instinct the poor wife took in the situation at a giancc, and ex claimed: ‘•It’s theglnel” The bald-headed man eat down in a chair and looked at her a moment in contemptnons silence, and then ottered the one expressivo word “Glue!” Now began a scries of processes aud experiments unheard of in the annals of chemistry. “Jane, you must soak it off with warm wator. I’ve got to go to Utica to-day.” • “I can’t George,”she replied, iu a guilty tone, “it’s water-proof.” “Yos, I might havo known it; and it’s fire-proof, I suppose, loo, ain’t it?” lie scratched over the smooth plating with hit finger nails. “It’s hard as iron/’ he said. “Yes, it was good glue” repeated she. innocently. “Don’t be a 'bigger fool than yon are, Jane. Get the coarse file in the wood-shed.” It mar be imagined what follow ed. And now, as the bald-headed man sita in bia office, be never re moves his hat, for his entire skull is a howling waste of blistered desert, relieved here and there by cases of black conrt-plaster. Women’s heads are like safes— you can’t tell how much they havo In them by the number of locks they havo on them. a pic-nic,’' said Sheriff Warren Kidgwny, coming into the Crissman house liar-room where a number of tho boys were gathered around the stovo’ discussing the weather. : ter ’fore they mi It was o.ne of the recent cold days, >clf, “mtbbo t r aud the thermometer on the front porch registered 20 below. “I never knew uutil the next spring how low the merenry did got that year,” continued tho sher iff. H> had a thermometer big enough to keep an account of the weal tier for tho whole Stato. It was three feet long, and had a bnlb at the bottom as big as a turnip. Wo didn't bother with degrees on that thermometer. Wealwayssaid it was so many inches above or below zero. The thermometer hung on an apple tree in the garden at our place on the Lackawack. In the spring of 1859 I was spading up the garden. Under this apple tree I struck a vain of quicksilver. I thought I’d uncovered a mine of the stuff, nnd says to myself, “This ends thu lumber business,” I calls the old geutloman out and told bim I’d struck a quicksilver mine, and that when the company was form ed to work it, I wonld take nothing ’css than treasure of it. He didn’t say anything, but he looked at the quicksilver 1 had in my hand, then at me, and then at tho thermometer tha'huugon the tree. I looked at I list. too. The bnlb was bnrsted. Thun I understood tho sitnaticn. The mercury had settled a foot and a half below zero on the thermome ter. That wasn’t as low as the dciilv an idee bit my gran'faiber plumb in ttiG top knot. He grab bed tip a han'ful o’ the sweat as were friz in balls an’ poured ’em in hfsmtiskit. “If I can git these in to that pain- "t,” he thinks to his- _ 'll scttlo his hash.” “Arter cramniin the sweat o’ his brow m tho musklt my gran’father blazed nway. But the heat o’ the gun barrel melted tho ice balls, an’ they weut emt’n the ’gun like a stream o’ water nnt’n a hose. But tho ec£I wratlier wasn't fool in round tnerc for nothin’, and ’fore the stream o’ water had gone tlnec foot it was friz iutcra solid chunk, and went kcrplinkttr into the pain ter’s skull. But my gran’father said he owed his life to nature after all, fur the charge o’ ice never would make tlic painter give up the ghost, an’ it never wonld havo had no ef fect on him at all only there wasn’t force enough to drive it clean through his head. That saved my gran’father from a chawin’. The chunk o’ ice stopped in tho skull. The animal heat melted it, an’ ’fore the painter conld reco-operate and git Ids work iu on the old man be died o’ water on the brain. I was alius sorry my gran’father didn’t have that painter stuffed an’ handed it down in the family,” couclnded the old settler, and lie adjourned with the boys for. refreshments. By Be*. ZakH K Bffvarix O. a Mr*. M , a lady of more than ordinary intelligence, lived many weather called for, to it pushed the bottom out of the bulb went down three feet to the ground, and drop ped six inches under the surface be fore it reached the level of the tem perature. Don’t go up along the Lackawack and talk about the thermometer being20 degrees be low xcro, for there are people up there yet who remember our big thermometer nnd tho winter-the mercury went five feet below zero, and they’ll laugh at yon.” ‘Tv» always said these little ther mometers we have now-a-days ain’t no account,’’ said Billy Watson. “Whut chance lias wcatfcer got on a thermometer six or eight inches mug, auyhow?" “It don’t havo no chance at all,” said Peacock Brink. “Oown’t my houso, where there ain’t no ther mometer, 111 bet it’s 15 degrees cold- er’n ’tis up liorc.’’ “Do you reraombor tho winter that Red Drake was chased by a doer hi the Valley Woods, and had a narrow cscapo from death, all owing to the cold weather?” asked Pcto Quick. “Cold as It was, Red was bunting’- He had shot a big deer, and the deer got tuud and took after him. Rea dropped his gun and made for a tree. It was so cold that the breath from tho deer’s uostrils froze as it shot out in streams of fog, and before the deer reached Red two pieces ot ice, fif teen inches long and two and a-half inches thick, stuck from the animal’s snout like tho tine of a pitchfork. Just as Red reached tho foot of the tree the deer caught him. One of tho pieces of ice went on one side of Drake and one on the other. The tree was just large enough to fit in between the en Is of the two prongs of ico and hold the deer fast. There they were, Red couldn’t move nor (he deer couldn’t move. The deor’s brenth kept on freezing, and Red looked back over his shoulder and saw ico forming all around him. He expected to be frozen to death. By and by, when the circle of ice had frozen so tight around him that it was hard for him to breathe, ho saw that tho deer's nose was rapidly being closed in by the for ming of ice. Here was his only hope. If he could hold out until tho breathing of tho deer was shut off he might escape, for then the deer wonld die, and in falling break the Icy bond. When the ice had closed around Rod so tight that he could only get a breath about a six teenth of an inch in length, ker plunk dropped the deer to the ground, doad fr„m suffocation and Red was free. On any other day the wonnd that Red gave the deer would have killed it at once. Tbe ball went clean through the animal, but tho holes froze up instantly on each side, and the deer was as sound as ever.” “I guess none o’ yon fellows ever heard o’ the winter o’1776, or you’d keep a little mnm ou tbe cold weather question,” said Old Settler, who had come down from Wayne county for a little visit, “i’ve knowed some snortin' old winters In my time, bnt my gran’father’s experience in the winter of *76 rnth- er beats anything o’ mine.” “My gran’father were a great hun ter an’Injun killer. He fit in the rcrvlulion, all ’long the -Dcl’war valley. The winter o’76 was tcr’ble cold. Everything in these' parts was friz np lighter’n a snare dram. One o’ the coldest days my gran’- fatber struck the track o’ some In in ns on the bills jest above here. He follcred ’em, ana killed a couple on ’em, and then started back over the ridge for his cabin. My gran’fath er lived to bo 100 vers old, aud to his dyin’ day he stuck to it what I’m goin’ to tell you were ez true cz prqpchin’, an’ I blierc it. He bad started back for his cabin over the ridge. He hadn’t gone fur when he shot a wolf. He hadn’t mnch icoro’n fired his old flint lock when he heard a yell offto the left, an’ lookin’ that way see a big painter cornin’ tor him. Painters was a pic-nic for the old man and he rammed down a big charge o’ powder an’ reached for his ballet pooch, when to, an’ be hold ye! it were gone. He’d lost it somowhar’ in the woods. Flghtin’ painters without bullets wasn’t so mnchofapic-nle. Besides the old man had got cold while standin’ thar, an’ he didn't care to tackle an able-bodied painter while his hands all stiff. Tho painter come a’creeping np with his fangs a’show- in’ an’ his jaws redder’n a round o* beef an’ his tail a’s witching like a cow’s in fly-time. Cold ez It were my gran’father said the sweat start ed out on his forrld an 1 rolled down his cheeks, bigger’n hoss chos’nut?. They dropped on the ground in big Th* Skeptical Shoemaker. “I nave read,” said tho sboemaker, “a good deal about the heathen gods, and I believe the account of Christ is taken from some of the heathen writings.” “Will you abide by your own de cision on two questions (that I will pnt to you ?” said the Bible-reader. “If so, I will freely do tbe same. I will abide by vonr own answers £by doing so we shall have mnch time, and arrive more quickly at the truth.” “Well,” said he, “out with it, and let ns see if I can answer; there are few things but that I can say some thing about.” “Weil, my friend,” replied the reader, “my first question is, sup pose all men were Christians, ac cording to tbe account given to us in the Gospel concerning Christ, what would bo the state of socie ty?” He remained silont for some time in deep thought, and thon was constrained to say; “Well, if all men jvorc really Christians in practice as well as in theory, of course wo should he a happy brotherhood, indeed.” “I promised you,”said tho leader, “that I would abide by your own answer ; and will you do the same ?” “Oh, yes,” he readily replied; “no man can deny the goodness of the system in practice, bnt now for tbe otner question; perhaps I shall get on betier with that. Y’on have a chalk this time against me.” “Well, my next-question is this: Suppose all uten were infidels what then would be the state of London and of tho world?” He seemed still more perplexed, and remained a long time silent, the reader doing the same. At length he said: “Yon have certainly beaten me, for I never before *atv tlie two ef fects upon society. I now see that where the Christian buils np, the infidel is pulling tlowu. I thank you ; I shall think of what has pass ed this afternoon.” The sequel was that he was fully persuaded in his own mind to give up all his infidel companions and foliow the Lord Jesus Christ. Bnt the change did not stop here. When fiist the reader called, he had to sit on an old dirty chair, with a num ber of half-starved children sitting in their ranges on the floor aronnu him, neglected and uncared for^now they havo removed to a belter home in a cleaner street. Within, all is cheerful and happy. The father, no longer faithless, delights in the company of his wife and children, ell of whom arc neatly dressed; and bis chief happiness is to read and epeak to them of the things which belong to tbeir everlasting peace. A Lector* on Astronomy. At a school near London, the learned master was - lately giving a lecture on astronomy, anti after al luding to the rcpresentition of the world on the shoulders of Atlas, he asked the class generally on what Atlas stood? One replied, as the world was mado ont of chaos, he most stand on chaos; another con jectured, on a rock; when a lad from Cardriffi at the bottom of the class, exclaimed— “I know, sir.” “Indeed!” replied the Doctor; “pray tell ns on what yon think ho stood?” “I know„’ answered the boy,“bnt it is not my turn yet.” When the question passed to him, the whole class was on tiptoe to hear the young Welshman’s idea; when, with an air of the greatest conse quence lie exclaimed— “Why, jlr, on his legs, to be sure! On what else conld he stand ?” ■In. rrccSplIkin’s Cold. A very fashionable Galveston lady, Mrs. McSpilkins, is afflicted with partial deafness, and also with' 1 a very bad cold, which, by the way, is very fashionable just now. In this connection it may be said she has an infant about six months old Thera was quite a little social gath ering at tbe house of the lady a few nights ago, and Colonel Smith one of tbe company, asked how the ba by was coming on. The partiallv deaf lady mast have had the cola running in her head instead of the baby, for she replied: “It’s the worst one I’ve had this winter. It worries me nearly to death. I have done everything I conld to get rid of it, bnt it’s no use. I can tell by yonr looks, Colonel Smith, thst yon are going to have one, too, just liko it, pretty soon.’’ Colonel Smith don't visit the family any more. Virginia. d the _ time of tlie incident relate. The writer received the story from her own lips before she called away from earth. She died at an advanced age, having adorned her Christian profession by a.life'of exemplary piety. Martha, her eldest child, being a beautiful girl at tho time referred to,, being about fourteen years of age. She wifr her mothers idol, though her mother was unconscious of the fact. Handsome in person, sweet in disposition, gentle m her manners, and withal devotedly at tached to her mother, she occupied a supreme place in her affections. Jnsl as she was verging on woman hood she was taken ill, and grad ually grew from bad to worse. The most assidnons care in the way of nursing and the most constant at tention of the skillful physicians failed to arrest tho disease. The mother .was frantic in her grief as it became apparent that Martha must die. Amid all, the sweet girl was calm, patient and resigned. At last tho death angel came and re leased the wan [and wasted sufferer from the grasp of disease. The mother was positively incon solable. Nothing conld allay the bitter angniah of her broken heart She lost her appetite, refuted to take her food, sleep deserted her pillow, and gradually sho wasted away almost to a skeleton. She wept until she had no more tears to weep, ner friends exhausted every device to divert her mind from the painful subject Her pastor prayed, counseled and admonished fn vain. It seemed sho must waste away and die.. In this state of mind, late one night, she fell asleep, with a few stray teardrops on her shriveled cheek. Her sleep was fitful for awhile, and then she fell into a pro found slumber, and sleeping she dreamed. Suddenly, as she related the vision to me, a bright and bean- tifbl angel, clothed in the habill- ments of light, appeared to her, and, In a sweet and winning voice ten derly asked: “Wonld you see Martha?” Instantly she responded: “Yes; above all things in the uni verse I would sec her.” “Then follow me,” said the heav enly visitant. She arose and followed her guide without a word of further inquiry. Presently a stately and magnificent edifice greetod her wondering and half-bewildered gaze. Tho door of the entrance was open. She ascend ed tho steps and entered the re sounding hall, followed closely be hind the angel, not knowing whither he would lead her. Without even casting a glance behind, or saying a word, suddenly tbe angel paused and with his ethereal finger touched a secret spring. Noiselessly a door swung wide open and revealed the Inmates to her astonished gaze. There was a throng of excited rev ellers in the midst of bacchanalian excesses, flushed with wine, and presenting a revolting scene of de bauchery and worldly dissipation. The angel pointed his white index finger at the most conspicuous fig ure in the group, tbe one who led the dance and was most boisterous in the mirth and festive glee, and then turning his eye on the mother said: “There is Martha, behold her.’ The mother passionately exclaim ed, “No, no! that is not Martha. I was raising her for God, and for his chnreb, and for Heaven. That is not Martha.” “So yon thonght,” responded the angel in tenderest accents; “bnt she was yonr idol. You conld deny her nothing. That is what she wonld have been.” The door closed. “Follow me,” said the angel. She followed with a palpitating heart. Her mind was filled with anxious and painful thought. The angel paused again, touched a se cret spring,anil the door flew open as if on golden hinges. Before her en raptured eyes there was displayed a vast multitude of the most resplen dent forms she hal ever conceived of in human mould. Brows of lus trous beauty, faces radiant with su pernal light, voices sweetly modu lated, and all enrobed In spotless white. Not a trace oi sorrow was on any face. It was Heaven, and tbe angel pointing to the brightest and most beautiful of the joyonsand happy throng, said, turning his glad eye on the mother, “There is Martha, as she is.”- The dreamer awoke, but awoke from that dream in unutterable ec stasy—she awoke praising God. And in relating this dream she said to tbe writer, “Dream though it was, to mo it was an apocalypse. I brushed away my tears. My heart was relieved of iu sorrow, and I now believe, and I have long be lieved, that Martha’s death was best for her and best for her mother.” After Seventeen Years. The nawkinsrilie Dispatch has the following: At the battle of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, in July, 1863, Mr. Marion Anderson, now living in Telfair county, was wound ed in the shoulder with a large minnie ball, which was never ex tracted. Mr. Anderson lost the use of his arm and has suffered many long years. The wonnd never heal ed up, bnt has continued to dis charge matter for seventeen years. A few mornings ago the ball was fonnd on the bed in which Mr. (An derson was sleeping. The leaden missile of death had worked itseli ont, and two pieces of the clothing which had been carried ;into the wonnd by the ball were taken out the next morning. The wound : now healing, and it is hoped it may finally cure. Mr. Anderson is an industrious and good citizen, and with the osc of ono hand and the assistance of his little bo v, has an honest and comfortable living. Thebe left Ireland last year, 96,357 emigrants to other lands. KKGKO CAMP AT FORT What a Colored Dlvtn* Think* ot Bob lncereoll A protracted darkey revival has just finished at Port Jervis. The meetings, which were well attend ed by the “poo’ white trash,” were principally under tho charge of Elder John Grocn of Middletown, N. Y., and George W. Higgins of Port Jervis. Tho latter dirine re cently gave a discourse on the sub ject of “Hell,” and made the follow ing reference to Col. Ingertoli: “My dcah hearers, dar am many inflidders who am a preachin’ gin de Lord Almighty, an’ 'mong dc res’ is Beb Ing’soil. • [Re pronounc ed the name with indescrible scorn.] Now my dcah breddern, when Bob’s wife cornea for to die an’ when ho stan’s a weepin’ over her coffin—ah; an’ is a sheddin’ briny tears on dc coffin-lid—ah; yea, on de coffin-lid—ah; den, breddern, den tie snflhlgin’ sun will look to him liko of if ’twas made of sac’- cioth—ah, an’ he will blieve dat de snn am darkened—ah, an’dat de stars am shot from dcre sockets—ah; an’ dat de Lord which lays de fork in’ lightnin’s an’ makes de thunder roll In its concave—ah, am sot his face agin him, an’ den he will be lieve dat dar am a place of ’tarnal punishment, sich ez we read of way back into the Prophets—ah.” Of course the hat was passed fre quently, and upon one occasion, when he thought the contributions were not ;as large as they should have been, he sprang to his feet and exclaimed: “I wish to 'dress dis dy in’ congregation what’s a settle' here hero’ me, an’ to say to de gem- men what’s a passin’ de plate for to wait some time at each person, as it sometimes takes thegemmen a good while to git down inter deir pock ets an’ it sometimes takes the ladies a good while too, for they most all of ’em wears deir pockets under deir overskirts, which am de lib- bery of de deboil, an’ it sometimes takes ’em a good while for to get inter deir pockets, and os I said to the onset breddern, be liberal, ye who’d be horned again in de sonny realms of dliverance on dc banks of Pother side of Jordan.” In speaking of tho' “backsliders” in the church. Mr. Higgins made a very sage remark. He mid: “I tells yon, breddern andsistern, dat dem as b’lieves oucest in de Calvary Christ at wore on His head de golding crown wid sepen ty-two thorns in It an’ was smoted in de side wid a spear, and was crcctod on de cross of hemlock, an who busted de cords of de sepnlker will not backslide; and I have but one mo’ word to say to dis dyin’ congregation what’s a settin’ hero befo’ me, and dat is dat deni as backslides has never fo’ slid.” A CORNER IN WOMEN. Prospective Rise In Quotations for Old and Yoaoz Maids. New Tork Herald. Contrary to expectation and pre cedent the new census shows that in this country the ruder sex out numbers the gentler to tbe extent of nearly a million. It is to be sin cerely hoped that nobody will say, “What are yon going to do about it?” for this is manifestly one of the cases in which there is really noth ing that can be done, except to feel uncomfortable, for the condition is not merely accidental and tempor ary ; it promises to be permanent, for tbe discouraging misproportion it not simply between adnlts of the two sexes, but includes the entire population all the way from ex treme age down to the cradle, and this in spite of all that Mormons and and other agencies tor the importa tion of domestic servants have done to make the balance even. It, therefore, stand to reason that not only is the genas old maid doomed to speedy extinction, bnt also that nearly a million of the young men of America will have to go wifeless unless each can raise tbe price of a ticket to Europe and two tickets back. It is also becomes qnite evi dent that the local valuation of women will increase; any market in which nearly a million competi tors are rare to “get left” |in the straggle for something not only de sirable bnt absolutely necessary, is threatened with a “corner” that mnst be simply gigantic in its pro portions. The ladles are to be con gratulated on the prospect; they al ways wen worth more than they brought. Even in the days when they outnumbered men it was agreed that it was Impossible to have too mnch of a good thing; now, how ever, they can exact their own terms. Instead of meekly submit ting to all sorts of inconvenience ana privation for the sake of being married and baring a home, they now can name their own terms; they need not even endnre hus bands that drink, smoke or spend several evenings a week at .the lodge, for rather than go wifeless the tyrant roan will abate his pre tensions and women will become autocrat. Place aux dames. Wtiolesalefi Retail Jewelers . 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Fifth, the great brazen image ded icated to tbe ran at the Isle of Rhodes fn the Mediterranean, and’ called tlie Colomui of Rhode. It . is bnilt B. C. 288, took twenty years iu tbe building and towered 124 feet across the harbor of Rhodes for sixty-years. A stood on one of its uplifted hands. Sixth, the exquisite statue of Ju piter Olympus, carved ont of ivory and adorned with an armor of gold by the sculptor Phidias, for thejtow- er of Olympus, in Ellis. Seventh, the Pharos of Alexan dria, atower and light-house, built by tho order of Ptolemy Philadel- phns, King of Egypt, B. ('. 282. J. B. R. Red Bananas, Red Bananas, Cocoanuts, Cocoanuts, Lemons, Lemons* HEADQUARTER8, “THE ITALIAN FLAB” Brand of Virginia Hand picked Peanuts, THE BEST, and can only be had at HEADQUARTERS! Tennessee Peanuts, North Carolina Peanuts, Va. Straight Peanut*. Cabbages, Onions, Apples, Potatoes, Fancy Groceries. DE VEXAGE CHAMPAGNE. FABBPB BRANDY AND CLARETM. 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Georgia Historic Newspapers

The Weekly news and advertiser. (Albany, Ga.) 1880-1???, April 09, 1881, Image 1