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'CtakSap** 5 ** 00 ”* • l — 20l *» <>* mi ?** NEWS AND ADVERTISER. The ALBANY NEWS.wUblUhtd 1ML IConwlidated Sept.*, 1S80, brl The ALBANY ADVERTISER,nUblUbcdUTT, | McIxtosh £ Evam. | ' J 4b A Family and Political Journal Devoted to tue Interests of Southwest Georgia. S2 a Year. Volume 1. ALBANY. GA.. SATURDAY, MAY 28, 1881. Number 38. j^rotcsstottaX Cards. TO FBINT OR NOT TO PRINT. Our Nation’s Future. William E. Smith, Attorney at Law, * ALBANY. CA. O mcs: la front of la. Court Howe, op .tain, oror Teloproph OtBco. Johl-ly U. J. WRIGHT. D.H. POPE WRIGHT POPE, Attorneys at Law, ALBANY. OA. OFFICE:—Or«r 8. Mayer A Glauber** Store, cor ner Brood and Washington Sts. l*ec. It, im-dlwwly W. T. JONES, J0NE8 JESSE W. WALTERS. WALTERS, Attorneys at Law, ALBANY. OA. CAco oror Crate*. 1 BoUrood Bonk. >*0lW7 D . A. VASrtti. A. H. ALFB1KND FA soy ft ALFRIEED Law, Attorneys at ALBANY, OA. ■ AcUto end prompt attention (loan to col : factions and all general business, Practice in all the courts. _ offleo over Sou the *n Express office, oppo site Court House. JSBd-dtf James Callaway, Attorney at Law CAMILLA, OA. fel>2S- JOSEPH A. CRONK, ATTOEUTE7 &tLAW 111 BAT STREET, SAVANNAH, GA. EXV. RICH AID JAOO. • - * ! Moxoimr, nihiusmaku ixpi- The quirks and crotchets of outrageous . HELIXV ARRAIURED* fancy. Or send a well wrote copy to the press j — An“, bjr^dlsclosing,end them? fopfln., no j , uu TIIHY RI LE AND RUN , No more; and by one art to say we end The headache, and a thousand natural shocks Of scribbling frenzy—*tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish’d. To pyint—to beam From the same shelf with Pope, in calf bound; To sleep, perchance, with quasi as—Ay, there’s the rub— For to what class a writer may be doom’d. When he bath shuffled off some paltry staff. Must give us paate—There's the respect that makes Tho* unwilling poet keep his piece nine For who'would bear the impatient thirst of The pride of eonsciooa merit, aad ’hove all, I he tedious importunity of.friends, When he himself might his quietus make Wish a bare inkborn! Who would fardels bear? To groan and sweat under a l«ad of wit? But that the tread of steep Panrassi.s* hlL, That undiscovered country, with whose bays Few t ravelers return, puzzles the will. And makes as rather bear to live unknown Thau run the hazard to be known and damn’d. Thus Critics do make oowanls of us all. And thus the healthful face • f many a poem Is sickllfd o’er with a pale manuscript: And enterprises of great fires and spirit. With this regard from > *oilsley turn away. And lose the name of authors. Practices in all the State Courts. Refers to Hon. T. M. Norwood. apSIlkm Moss & Ostan, Bextists, Albany, - - - • Georgia. i \FFICE—OVER POST OFFICE. WASHING U TON STREET. jsnSwlydl Trowbridge & Hollinshed DENTISTS, WAYCR08S, - GEORGIA. Teeth extracted without pain. All work warranted. Terms moderate. Will go any where on B. A A. and S. F. A W. Railroads apl8-12m \ V. A. STROTHER, M.D. ALBANY, GEORGIA. Office over Ms Mi Store \ll orders left at the Drug Store will receive prompt itenUon. Jsn 7-iy Dr. E. W. ALFRIEUD, ftjESPECrFULLY tenders bis services, la the It various branches ol bis profession, to the eltUens - \ I bzny end surrounding country. Of- Roe opposite Josrt House. ou.Ploestrset. HOTELS. THE JOHNSON HOUSE, SMITHVILLK. OA. Is the place to stop ami get a GOOD SQUARE MEAL. THE ALBANY HOUSE 1 Merrick Barnes, Proprietor Albany, Georgia. mill Home in well famished and in cv- , 1_ arr way prepared for tha accommo dation of the traveling public. Entire sat* i. faction snaranteed. Tha Ublo is sun- I.lied with the boat the couhtry affords, aud the servants are unsurpassed in po liteness and attention to the wants of L nests. Omuibuscs convey passengers to j. nd from the different railroads prompt. 1 y, free of charge. Charges to unit tlie limes. sop29 tf sis#! DOORS! BUNDS! FOR SALE BY GEO. S. GREENWOOD. sStfep - KIDNEY-WORT DOES fONDERFUL CURES! • It ante uu tha LITER, BOWELS K»SETS at tha uum titan. KfDNEY-WORT CURES I KIDNEY DISEASES, I LIVER COMPLAINTS, I Constipation and Piles. Ltrli l« r« vp la Brr Trart.il.; A Comparison. Camilla, Ga. May 20,1881. Editort Jfcwt and Advert iter: I have been reading In my leisure hours Geilccl’s life of Christ. The book is deeply interesting, giving the social, religious and practical history of Palestine before and daring the time of Christ. One pas sage in the book reminds one strongly of our feeling towards the carpet-baggers and scalawags after |he iaio war. All Palestine was un der the control of Rome—its several provinces governed by Roman pro curators. The Roman system of taxation was put into practice, which was especially hateful to the Jews as opposing their religious customs. These tax offices were let out at Rome, inncli after ll.c fashion of the mail routes in the United States. A contract was taken for a province and sublet to district! and so on. The collectors wore called Publicans. Now for the quota tion : “The hatred and contempt for tlioso of their own countrymen who, under such cireunistnnces, took service under the associations ol Publicans, forming the odious taxes a c collectors, may he imagined. The hitter relentless contempt and loath ing towards them knew no bounds. As the Greeks spake of “tax gather ers nml fycophnnts,” the Jews lind always ready a similarly odious as sociation of teinisj such as “tux gatherers and sinners, tax gnlherers and heathen, lax gnlherers and prostitutes, tax gatherers, murder ers and highway robbers,’ - iu speak ing of them. Driven from society, Lite local Publicans became more and more the Pariahs ol the Jewish world. The Pharisee stepped aside with pious horror, lo avoid breath ing the air poisoned with the breath of the lost sou of the house of Israel, who lmd sold hitnsolf Ion calling so infamous. The testimony of a Publi can was not taken in a Jewish court. It was forbidden to sit at table with him, or to cat his bread. Tiic gains of the class were the ideal of un- clcaniiess, aud were especially shun ned. every piece of their money serving to make a religious offence. To change coin for them, or to ac cept aims front them, defiled a whole household and demanded special purification. Only the dregs of the people would connect them selves with a calling so hatted. Cast out by the community, they too often justified tlie bad repute of their order, ami lived in reckless dissipation and profligacy. To re venge themselves for the list red .shown them, their only thought was to make as much ns they could from their office. The most shame less imposition at the 'receipts of custom,’ and the most hardened rccklesaness in the collection of excessive or fraudulent charges, be came a daily occurrence. They repaid the war against them selves by a war against the comunl- ty.” Let ns listen a moment to Lamar: “Iu the direful days of re construction, when every Stato in the Soutit was a perfect pande monium, I heard a brilliant man from.the North and another from the South, stauding by bis side, ap pealing to the young men of ambi tion and of high and noble aspira tions, to join their party for the rea son tnat it furnished the onty avenue to honorable distinction, riches and fame. A few were enticed by the g littering allurement, and arc to ny bitterly lamenting Iboir delu sion, bu*. the great body of the voung men of the South, the pro fessional men, I be lawyers, the doc tors, the young planters and farm er-, all hurled contempt upon the miserable alternative. They prefer red lo live in a life of obscurity and poverty and to earn their bread in the sweat of their brows rather than rise while virtue, honor, intellect and country were sinkiug.’’ C. History for It that Amrrlra \ Intended for Christianity. nihilism. ; Tsiees,“to Infidelity Another suitor claiming the hand not be married.” of this Republic in nihilism. It kxormous iXMI owns nothing but aknifefornniver- sal cutthoratery aud a nitro-gly- reritie bomb for universal explosion. It believes in no God, no govern ment, no heaven and no hell except what it can make on earth! It slew l lie Oar of Russia, keeps the Em peror William of Germany prac- I tit-ally imprisoned, killed Abraham _ Alter the coiigicgatiou in the I Lincoln, would pat to death every Brooklyn Tabernacle, yesterday king and President on earth, and if morning, had sung “My Country, it hail the power, would climb up ’ti* of Thee,” l>r. Taltiugc stitiotinc- until it could drive the God of cd his text from Isaiuli Ixii., II— Heaven from His throne and make ■’Tlty land shall be married.’’ He ! itself the universal batcher. In “i® : i France it is called communism; in At the close of a week when the World has been full of the sound of wedding bells, tho heir of the Aus trian Empire taking htfmc his bride amid the congratulations of many nations—God pros|ter Ru dolph and Stephanie!—it may not he inapt to anticipate the time when the Prince of Peace and . the Heir of Universal Dominion shall lake possession of ibis nation, and “thy land shall be married.” In discussing the final destiny of this nation it makes all the difference in tho world whether we are on the way lo a funeral or u wedding. The Bible leaves no doubt on this subject. Iu pulpits and on plat forms and in place* of public coii- u >urse I bear so many of the muffled drums of evil prophecy sounded, as though we were on the way to na tional interment, and beside There* and Babylon and Tyre in the ceme tery of dead nations our Republic was to be entombed; that I wish ion to understand ihnt it is not to be obsequies, but nuptials; not mausoleum, but alter; not cypress, but orange blossoms; not requiem, bat wedding march; for “thy land shall be married.” I propose to name some of the suitors who aro claiming the hand <if this Republic. In the first place thero is a greedy, all-grasping mon ster who comes in as a suitor seek ing the hand of this Republic, and tint monster it monopoly. His sceptre is made out of the iron of the rail track and tho iron of teleg raphy. He does everything for lus own advantage and tor the robbery of the people. Things have gone »n from bad to worse, until in the three Legislatnrcs of Now York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania for the most part monopoly decides everything. If monopoly favors a law it is passed: if monopoly op poses a law it is rejected. Monop oly stands in the railroad depot putting in his pockets in one year ♦200,000,000 in excess of all reason able charges for service. Monopo ly holds in his one hand the steam power of locomotion, ami in the other the electricity of swift com munication. Monopoly has the re publican party in ono pocket and the democratic party iii tho other pocket. Monopoly decides nomina tions and elections—clly elections, S'atc elections, national elections. With bribes he takes tho vote of legislators, giving them free passes, giving appointments lo needy rela tives to lucrative positions, employ ing them as attorneys if they arc lawyers, carrying their goods fifteen per cent. less if they arc mcrchnnis, aud if he finds a case very stubborn ns well as very important, puls down before him the hard cash of bribery. A LKGISLATUUK IIOUGIIT OUTBIOIIT. But monopoly is not so easily- caught now ami captured and ar rested as when, during the term of Mr. Buchanan, the Legislative Com mittee in one of ouY States explored aud exposed the manner in whicli a certain railway couipauy had ob tained a donation of public land. It was found out that thirteen of ihe Senators of that State received 1175,000 among them, sixty mem bers of the legislature of that State received between 85,000 and $10,- 000 each, the Governor of that Stato received $50,000, his clerk received $5,000, the Lieutenant Governor re ceived $10,000, ail the clerks of Hie Legislature received $5,000 cuco, while $50,000 were divided among the lobby agents. That thing on a larger or smaller scale is all tho time going on in some of the States of the Uuion, but it is not so blunder ing cs it used to be, snd therefore not so easily detected or arrested. I tell you that tho overshadowing corse of the United 8tatcs * to-day is monopoly. He puts his hand on every bushel of wheat, upon every sack of salt, upon every ton of coal, and every tnmn, woman and child in the United States feels the touch of that moneyed despotism. I rejoice thatln twenty-four States ol the Union already anti - monopoly- leagues have been established! I at this question might bo the the United.States it, is called social ism; in Bassia it is called nihilism, but that last is the most graphic and descriptive tonn. It means com plete and eternal smash up. It would make the holding of proper ty a crime, and it would drive a dagger through your heart and put a torch to your dwelling and turn the whole land into the possession of theft and lust and rapine and murder. Where does this monster live? In Brooklyn, in New York and in all the villages and cities of this land. It offers its hand to thi- fair Republic. It proposes to tear to pieces the ballot box, the legisla tive hall, the Congressional assem bly. It would take this land and divide it up, or rather divide it down. It would give as much to the idler as to the worker, to the bad as to the good-Nihilism, the panther, liaving-prowlcd across other lands, has set ils paw on our soil, and it is only waiting for the time in which to spring upon its prey. It was nihilism that burned the rail road property at Pittsburg; it was nihilsm that slew black people in our Northern cities during the war; it was nihilism that last week iu New York mauled to death a China man ; it was nihilism that looks out of the windows of the druukeries upon sober people as they go by. Ah! its power has never yet been tested. I pray God its power may never be fully tested. It would if it bad the power leave every church chapel, cathedral, schoolh use and college in ashes. labor’s wobst enemy. Let me say it is the worst enemy of the laboring classes in any coun try. The honest cry for reform lifted by oppressed laboring men is drowned out by the vociferation for anarchy. The criminals and the vagabonds that range throngh onr cities talking about their rights, when their first right is the peniten tiary —if they could be hushed np and the down trodden laboring men of this country could be heard, there would be more bread for hungry children. Iu this land riot aud bloodshed never gained any wages for the people or gnthered'up any prosperity. In this laud the best weapon is not the club, not the shillelnh, not firearms, but the bnliot. Let not onr oppressed laboring men be beguiled to coming under the bloody banner of nihilism. It will make your taxes heavier, your wagc9 smaller, your table scantier, your children hungrier, your suf fering grenter. Yet tills nihilism, with feet red with slaughter, comes forth and offers its hand to this Re public! .Shall the banns be pro claimed ? No! It is not to nihil ism—the sanguinary monster—that tills land is to be married. A young German was once . ing his suit, and in the midst of hit ardor questioned the object oQbto choice as to her possible financial future. "I have heard,” be said, “that your good fcthcr owns two large estates in Silesia.” “Yes,” * “*nd he owns “ The as though then falling the young face, cried darling, such dr- » il QKoaa ...... question oft the next Presidential election, for between this and that time we can compel the political parties to recognise it in their plat forms. I have nothing to say against capitalist. A nun hat a right to make all the money he can make honestly. I have nothing to say- against corporations as sneh. Without them no great enterprise would be possible; but what I do say is that the same - principle* are to be applied to capitalists and cor porations that are applied to the poorest man and the plainest labor er. What is wrong for me It wrong for the Vanderbilts and the Goulds and the elevated railway companies of New York and Brooklyn. Mo nopoly in Englaud has ground hun dreds of thousands of her host peo ple into starvation, and in Ire land has driven multitudinous tenants almost to madness, and in tha United States pro poses lo take the wealth of fifty or sixty million people and pot it in a few silken wallets. Monopoly, brazen faced, iron fingered, vulture hearted monopoly, pr band, offers hit hand to lie. Let tho millions of the South, East and West- banns or the marriage, at the ballot-box, for bid them on the platform, them by great organizations, them by the overwhelming sent! ment of an outraged nation, them by the protest of thr of God, forbid them by high heaven, that “ ’ have this Abigail THE MONSTEIl OF MONSTERS. Another suitor for the hand of this nation is infidelity. AYIieu the midnight ruffians despoiled the grave of A. T. Stewart in St. Mark's churchyard everybody was shocked; but infidelity proposes something worse than that—the robbing of all the graves of Chris tendom of the hope of a resurrec tion. It proposes to chisel oat from the tombstones of yoar Christian dead the words “Obliteration—An nihilation.'’ Infidelity proposes to swear in the President of the United States, and the Supreme Court, and the government of States, and the witnesses in the court room with their right hand on Paine’s “Age of Reason” or Vol tairc’s “Philosophy of History.” It proposes to take away from this country the book that makes the difference between the United States and the Kingdom of Dahomey, be tween American civilization and Boruesian cannibalism. If infideli- tv could destroy the Scriptures, it would, in 200 years, tarn the civil' ized nations back to semi-barbarism and then from semi-barbarism into midnight savagery, until the mor als of a menagerie of tigers, rattle snakes and chimpanzees would be better morals than the morals of the shipwrecked human race. The only impulse in the right direction that this world has ever had has come from the Bible. It was the mother of Roman law and of healthful jurisprudence. The book has been the mother of all reforms and charities—mother of English Magna Charta and American Dec laration of Independence. Benja min Franklin, holding that holy book in his hand, stood before an infidel club at, Paris and read to them out of the prophecies of Ba- bakkuk, and the infidels, not know ing what book it was, declared it was the best poetry they had ever heard. That book brought George Washington down on his kneosin tho Snow at Valiev Forge, and led the dying Prince “of Wales to ask some one to sing “Bosk of Ages.” I tetl yon that the worst attempted crime of this century is; the attempt to destroy this book, yet infidelity, loathsome, stenchfnl, leprous, pest iferous, rotten monster, stretches out its hand, ichorous with the sec ond death, to take the hand of this Republic. And this snitor presses his case appallingly. Shall the banns of thst marriage be proclaim* ‘ “No, r ' ENORMOUS IMMIGRATION. In closing, Dr. Taliuage said that before Coiambus and his 120 men embarked for their wonderful voy age their last act was to sit down and take the holy sacrament of the Lord Jesus Christ; that after the first gun announced the discovery of the continent that song that wcut np from the three decks was “Glo ria in Exoelcia,” and that on landing Columbus and his men knelt and coasecrate.t the New World to God. The Huguenots, the Holland refu gees ana the Pilgrim Fathers took possession of this country for God and to the Prince of Peace shall this land b? married. Over live hun dred at the gales yeas, aud the promise this year is of more thm six hundred thousand— not the paupers of Europe, but families witli an average of $800 a head in their possession. I was told last week by the Commission of Immigration Hint 20.000 families that recently arrived at Castle Garden brought $85,000 with them. Mark you, families, nul tumps, additions to the national wealth. The tears rolled down my rliceks when I saw some of them reading their iiihlcs and their hymn hooks, thanking God for nis kindness in helping ■hem across the sea. Are you afraid Ibis continent is going to be over crowded with this population ? Ah that shows yon have not been to California; 'that shows that you hare not been to Texas. A fishing snuck to-day on Lake Ontario might as well lie afraid of being crowded by other shipping before night as for any of the next ten generations of Americans to be afraid of being overcrowded by foreign population in tills country. Tho one State of Texas is tar larger than nil France, and France sup ports 36,003,000. The one State of Texas is larger than all the Austrian Empire; yet Ihe Austrian Empire supports 35,000,000 people. The one State of Texas far surpasses in size the Germanic Empire; yet the Germanic Empire supports 41,000,- 000 people. Then welcome the im migrants with all Cbristiau hospi talities. They will add their indus try and hard earned wages to this country, and then we will dedicate all to Christ, “and thy land shall bo married.” But where shall the marriage altar be? Let it be tho Rocky Mountains, when, through artificial and mighty irrigation, all their tops shall be covered, as they will be, with vineyaids and or chards and grain fields. ; bigger than Gorham and | \i am gittin’ an office ? Is it ». i land shall will asp ox education. V * Is there any politics going on— anything except spoil? Is there any mumeutus issue before the I || J Jjc ♦ nta mns 4 fal-D oUa* —anythin. Spizeriuktnm gittin CII a sign of brilliant statesmanship lor j one party to outset another party, I \; cv and was that why (English purlin- I ment was once called the rump par- lament because it set a long time, and done nothing? is onr party committed to cducalingtlie negro, or nru we just diggiug into the rads because they promised so much and done so little? I just want to be id to Use ‘oinpany at twenty-five cents |aji«v. Well, you tee that young n..»ti h; i'i a little too much education. That's what's the matter. The like- lit- t i ouug darkey I had got a lit- tic Che ap education after the sur-1 fori 1 AS- __ posted. I’m afraid my own cduea thousand immigrants arrired : •i‘ ,H is a little defective on this point ! gates of this continent last * reckon I’m one of the twigs that was bent and the tree is now inclin ed fvom a proper perpendicular up on the subject of education. Mr. Pope said it little learning is a dan gerous thing. I don’t know so well about that but I am very certain that a good deal of it is no advan- sago to the majority of people. It spoilt too many hewers of wood and drawers of water, and don’t make any thing else.of’em. If everybody was rich, and coolu live like a gen tleman a power of learning would be a good thing, but most people have to work for a living, and a little to just as good as a good deal to them. If a chap has an uncommon quan tity of brains in his noggin, and wants more learnin’, be will be apt to get it some way. If hs has just a common supply, all ho needs is a common education, and if he haint got hardly any, then there’* no use in straining his gun. The coun try needs laborers; the farms need ’em, and so does the shop; hot the tarm nor the shop won’t get ’em from the colleges. About one out of ten who graduates, becomes orament to tho taw or the gospel, or some profession, and the other nine expect some profession to or nament them. When a young has studied logic and rhetoric and syllogisms and other conundrums, be thinks it would be a waste of sweetness for him to work—work with his bands, his pretty white hands. He jnst couldn’t think ot such a thing; the very idea is pre posterous. He must do brain work, and so he finds his way into some lawyer’s office or doctor’s shop, or tum3 country editor and goes to abusing somebody, or runs for little country office, or loafs around town and gits a living—nobody knows how; and his last hope is to invigglc some soft-hearted girl who has great expectations, and then live off the old man’s money. Ev erybody’s children ought to be taught to rend aud to figger a little; and I’m willing to be taxed for that, but if they get any more let’em get it out of somebodys rise’s pocket than mine. 1 am opposed to spoiling so many good subjects for the plow and l he plane and the anvil. Elihu Bnr- ritt was a great astronomer and he was a blacksmith and studied at the iorge, and it may be that if he had gone to college he wouldn’t have been any accounL There’s more in the boy than there is in the- college. In these days of cheap books an boy or girl can get an education i they want it, but my observation is that not more tban.one in ten want an unusual quantity. If the family takes a good newspaper and has a Bible and a few story books in the house and the children do an honest day’s work they’ll get along about as well as the college boys in the long run and do as mnch good in the world. It’s bad enough to be spoiling so^many white boys, but when you talk about negroes it’s still worse. My opinion is that their natural condition and inclination is work—labor—sweat—elbow grease, and they are never so happy and contented as when they are at it, every time yon educate one yon spoil him; you make a fool of him, and I’ve no sympathy with that hobby that some of our states- men are riding—the education of the negro; and if that is to be a plank in onr platform I won’t stand on it in my present frame of mind. I don’t oppose any man giving his children just as much learning as he can afford, and I’ll do the same thing by mine, but maybe both of will be disappointed in onr ex pectations and both will spoil some goon mechanics, but I’m opposed to a general system of the masses at public exrense, except so far as the simple rudiments are concerned. Lay the foundation and stop. I tell you this rising gen- erationjarc powerful shifty. They invent more ways to dodge work than any of thelrjprcdecessors. A nice looking man came to see me the other day while I was way down in the field planting water melons and he was riding •> splen did horse andjhad abook fail of ele gant flowers s.nd roses and poses and gcrangers, and I told him no, I dident want any, and he kept on showing his pictures and expatiatin’ till I got tired and told him several times I dident want any, and he ly showed me a picture of a new lily they had imported from the Island of Madagaskor, and yon conld smell it forty yards off hand and said they really onghtont to sell any of ’em this year for fear of diminishing thair limited stock, but as It was me he would let me have half a dozen at a dollar a bulb. Bnt I told him I sympathized with his company and thought it wonld be PRKSBYTBB1AM GENERAL SEJ1BLY la Session at Msaatsa, Virginia— The Stales II Embraces. Special to Eoquirer«San. Staunton, Va„ May 10.—Tho general assembly of what is popu larly known as tTie Southern Pros liyterian church mot here to day. It will continue iu session len or more days. The opening sermon to-day was preached bv Rev. T. A, Hoyt, of Nashville. This gentle man was at one time president of tho gold board in New York city and presided there on the famous Bl ick Friday. The Southern Prep brterian church embraces the States of Maryland, Virginia, West Vir ginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Mis souri, Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Geor gia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Indian'Territory, West of Ar kansas, aud has chu relies in the Dis trict of Columbia, the State of Ohio aud possibly elsewhere. It hat 19 Synods and 67 Presbyteries, includ ing the Presbytery of San Paulo in Brazil, South America. The amount of moneys contribut ed during the year ending April 1, 1880. by its 1,928 churches was $1,- 062.33S. The church is conducting missionary work in China, Greece, Italy, Mexico, Brazil, and in Indian Territory. It has two theological seminaries—one in Prince Edward county, Virginia, and the other at Columbia, South Carolina. It Is also sustaining the institution for the education of young colored men at Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Probably two or three principal topics that will come np for disenssion at this meeting will be those embraced un der the title of retrenchment and re form, and the “revised directory of clyireh worship.” Under the former head are com prehended the management of churches, benevolent schemes and the distribution of funds connected with these schemes. At a previous assembly, a committee was appoint- ed to consider a revised directory of church worship. The committee will report to the present assembly aid recommend at eminently proper that ehn rch service* shonld embrace a recitation of the Lord’s prayer anil creed and the reading of the decalo gue. A form of bnrial, and baptismal service will also snbmitted. Should the report be adopted its adoption does not carry with it absolute obligation to use the forms; ministers may nse them or not at their discretion. After a brief address of welcome by Rev. W. E. Baker, pastor of the church at Staunton, prayer by Dr. Pryor, of Virginia, and an able sermon by the retiring moderator, Dr. T. A. Hoyt, of Nashville, the general assembly was called to order at 12:30 o’clock. Rev. Dr. R. P. Farris, of Mieouri, was elected moderator by acriama- r , „ tion. The various executive com-/imprudent for him to disposeofany mittecs made their reports. The foreign mission reported an cx- lon report pemtitnre of $59,215. Ninety-three peatons, all told, are engaged in missionary work. Africa is recom mended as the next field of adven ture. The report on education showed that eighty students were receiving instructions for the rain- isterjr. During the year there were thirty-eight ordinations and nine teen deaths. The total amoont of expenditures were $10,300. The seminary for colored students at Tuscaloosa reported a roll of twen ty-six and most encouraging oat- this year and advised him to wait. When he got ready to depart he asked me if I had any objections to bis calling on Mrs, Arp and getting an order from her if he could. “Non% whatever,” said I as he start ed off, quite jubilant and hilarious. “Maybe she will take a few of those Madagasker lilies if you are certain your company could spare them.” Mrs. Arp don’t play second fiddle to me about such feminine things as fiowers, but I know that she knew the state of the exchecker, and was a considerate woman, and I watched the door to see huw long she enter- any place, I reckon, but hunting for honest first use be made of I an order on liis | 1 jump into the chain- the pcoplo of TU-*lrave got more u anybody but they Ij-TtcT-tiiat one can perceive ml all the isms came from up there and I never Ihiuk of’em bat what I remember what Hr. Pope said about Lord Bacon, “the wisest, brightest, meanest of mankind.” Congress has more smart men than If I was I would cruise around outside for awhile before I went in, and if 1 was huut- ing patriots who thought it was sweet to die for their countrv, I woutdu t go iu at alt. The beet 'e 1 know of and the most re in time of trouble are living an hnmble life and making no noise in the world and they are uot sur feited with education either. Mav- be I’ve not got enough lo under stand the question or hare got too mnch for my capacity, but some how or other I think people are get ting a little too smart, and I reckon we had better not encourage too mnch book larnin,’ for Soloman says that “mnch study is wearisome to the flesh.’’ Yours, Bill Aar. HUMOROUS WRITING. Almost cvenr one privately In dulges in the idea that he conld be come a celebrated humorist writer if he were only to try. He takes up a magazine or news paper and reads a humorous article, and says to himself; “If I only had time, I could do vastly better than that.” Nov, 'riend, suppose you take the time and try I If yon can produce a first-class humorous sketch, your fortune to You nood hot plod on in coon - 1ng-houses or vegetate behind the counters of dry goods stores sell ing calico at a profit of two cents on a yard. Yon can jnst go on with your first-class humor, and fix yonr own valuation nponit, never fearing but it will be paid. But the fact of it is, you are a lit tle mistaken. This humorist busi ness is mucii easior in theory than iu practice. Anybody can criticise and find fault with onr tunny writers, bat the question is, can that same "anybody” do any better ? If •o. let him do it. You think it a very easy and sim ple thing to sit down with a pen in your fingers, and a sheet of paper before yon, and indite thoughts which shall convnlse tho world with laughter, and sayings which shall bo repeated for scoros of years to come? Well, we are willing you should try, and when yon achieve success, we will laugh at your witty things, and sun ourselves in tho flash of yonr diamonds, and not feel any envy. * • * We are apt to look upon humorous writing as a pas time, as requiring less thought and intellectual power than the heavier ivs which crowd onr reviews; but in this wc aro mistaken* Your true humorist must have wonderful imagination, observation, a keen sense of the ridiculous, a thorough understanding of men, a generous -~wer of language, delicacy, sens!- lily, tender ness and a strong lore of humankind. Wholesales Retail Jewelers -t-AND Watch Manufacturers, DEALERS IN -FIN Origin of tlie Word "Dnn.” KiaYarkHtnU. This word "don" to not entirely nfamiliarto the ordinary North American ear. It to not a word of sweet sound or delightful associa tions. It generally means that a is undone. The coarse and persistent demand for filthy lucre at a time when wc have hunted through every pocket we possess in the vain hope of finding evon the smallest coin that was ever deposit ed in a contribution box to not ex actly like a refrain of mnsic. It may, however, be sadly interesting to know the origin of the word. There to a momentary glow of satis faction in the sight of the maker’s name on tho saw witli which the surgeon amputates yonr leg. We do not argue that it is a satisfaction that lists very long, or that it is very profound in it* character, but till there is the merest shadow or interest not to pnt the matter iu an exaggerated way, in the knowledge that the aforementioned saw to of ood Sheffield make, and not one of teso cheap instruments in which High civilization sometime# deals. In the reipn of nenry VII. a fa- us bailiff, named Joe Dan, lived in the town of Lincoln. He was extremely dextrous in extorting money from unwilling pockets. When he was invited 'to call again’ he always accepted the rhecrful in- vitatlon. Indeed, his habits were profligate and he vas so careless ot lie courtesies of life that he wasj ,at to call even when no genial in vitation had been extended. He | was never much farther away than a creditor’s shadow. AVhen a man refused to pay a bill, therefore, some one was sure to ask: “Why don't you Dun him?” Hence the awful word which has followed the impecunious even unto this day, and tho associations of which not even the lapse of time can mellow. Fine Jewelry 3 Solid Silver, Silver Plated Ware, Bridal Presents, Clocks, ronzes, Etc., Etc. WE CAM SAVE PURCHASERS JO PER CUT. Senator onr Prices bsfora baying tlsewhir#. FACTORY ail SALESROOM, 34 Whitehall St., ATLANTA, GA. 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Dr. Pryor, delegate from this tained that fellow, and it didn't take nbly to the general synod of reformed dm rch in America, which met in Brooklyn last ‘June, gave a happy accourft of his visit and the fraternal manner in which he had been entertained. Publica- of several minor committees mad. . . her half so long as it did me to con vince him she wasn’t running on blossoms at this time. She tola him that those same Madagaskar lilies were growing wild down in onr swamp, and she was glad she had found the true name for them, and she would like to engage 500 bulbs Ha was about four years old, but he was a hopeful youth. He said: “Papa, have you done anything poor down town to-day that you think 1 p en d ought to whip you for if I were as big as you are Tr ,'tlothera! Nfoilaers!! If others !!! Are you disturbed at night and i broken of your rest by a sick child suf fering and crying with the excruciating ; pain of cutting teeth? 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