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A Family and Political Journal Devoted to the Interests ok Southwest Georgia.
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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.
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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.
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The Seven. Wonder* oribe World.
First, the pyramids of Egypt
Second, tbe Mausoleum, or tomb
for Mausolus, King of Caria in Asia
Minor, by his Queen Antamesia.
Third, Temple of Diana, at Ephe
sus, completed in the reign of Seve-
rns, sixth king of Rome. It was
four hundred and fifty feet long,
and two hundred broad, and sup
ported by one hundred and twenty-
six marble columns.
Fourth, the walls and hanging
gardens of the eity of Babylon,
bnilt in the reign of Nenbcbadnez-
r.
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-
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Seventh, the Pharos of Alexan
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