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Newspaper Page Text8ES: THE WEEKLY ;},»•! ALBANY NEWS,established IS45, ( %<W ALBANY ADVERTISER, established 1877, jConaolidatad Sept. 9,1880. A Family akd Political Journal Devoted to the Interests ok Southwest Georgia. — — . — • ■ ■ $3 a Year. Volume 2. ALBANY. GA., SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1881. Number 1. Igrofcssiomtl (gauds. William. E. Smith, Attorney at law, ALBANY, OA. / »FF1CE: In front of tho Coart Hook, op i V I italri, over Telegraph OffiCA J»hl-!y O J. WRIGHT. D.U. POPE WRIGHT & POPE, Attorneys at Law, ALBANY, OA. ■j\ KICE:—Over S. Mayer A Glaaber'a Store, cor ner Broad and Washington 8ts. ikc. 28, iBSO-dlwwly •V. T. JONES, JESSE W. WALTERS. JONES ft WALTERS, Attorneys at Law, ALBANY, OA. Othce over Centra* Railroad Bank. ifinl5-ly CUT OFF BY THE FLAMES. ! TALES OF JIOBBOB FROM MICHIGAN FARMS. The Fierce Fires sweep Everything Before Them—The People Burned, Blinded or Cresed—Beggary and xiarvatlon — Harrowing Scene.— Whole Town.hip Effected — Tho Lake shore Throng** With Fagl- tires. Detroit, Michigan, September 9.—Details continue to come in re lative to tbo destruction by the for est fires. Uurou and Sauilac coun ties have been the theatres of the greatest destruction and suffering. An eye-witness states that darkness and a copper colored sky preceded the approacii of the fire. Later the sky changed to a deep red, and on Monday altcrnoon it became so dark Modern ftelislou. Philadelphia Record. A sad view of the state of religion in the new Republic of Franco is given by the Rev. Dr. Otis, of this city, in a letter to the Sunday Press. Accoiding to his investigations tiic great majority of the French people j cightee are utter unbelievers, rejecting not i chief me wont .to tniiik. It is far wider in its influence andoperation than the Church, which is its citadel. The very hi -reals and schisms which have rent it- pi iciittre unity have been overruled In i Y-v?d—ioe to be Its missionaries. T ie- smrels nf*hr* lest crn'iirim iu-.r a* their •age the non >»f t'hiiv MABY1W MISEKV. LI. A. VASOV. A. H. ALFHIEND VASOlf di A.JLFRIEND Attorneys at Law, ALBANY, GA. Active and prompt attention given to col- vgcog* mil all general business, Practice ia all the courts. • »nice over boutlu? u Express office, omxi- «ttc Court House. Jau6-dtf James Callaway, A-ttornev at Law only' the Church, Protestant as j tisfiity mid its achievement- Ji ha we!l as Catholic, but Christianity iu J experienced in period, of m.liffer- anv form whatever, and subsIRot- j enceaml apparent decadence itLa, ing for the abandoned creeds of j that which the Rev. Dr. Oils now civilized mankind not even a font- | thinks he sees in Fracce.' Rut these i blance of any sort of natural relig- , are only the temporary reverses of ion. In this respect the inhabitants j a warfare whose final crown is vie of a conutry which in the Middle j lory. The Church mililai.i is to be Agos was one of the great bulwarks j the' Church triurapliant. The out-, of tiie faith of the Cross, and which j look is not discouraging. The an lias been regarded in modern times I gust dream of prophets and poet, as in the forefront of civilization.! and philosophers shall one day be , - „ , would seem- to be worso off than ; realized. AIrcndv the.earth U foil that lanterns were necessary for the J eve „ the primitive races—Celtic, j of the accent, of the Hole Ghost, no people to nnd their way. *hlgj»tt- | Roman and Germanic—from which] one of which, in the flue phrase of they are descended. If the stale- Emerson,‘The heedless world hath meets of Rev. Dr. Otis are to be nc- ! ever lost.” Tho words of Him who cepted as correct the French situ ,- j spake as never inuu spake are sure- tion is one of the most appalling ! ly though slowly leavening the character, and it portends no man ; thought and life of nil lands, an I the can tell how much of impending j steps of llio Man of Nazareth will a ■ d,Border and disaster. It is ditiou of aflairs continued until about 8 o’clock Wednesday morn ing, when tho wind shifted from West to North, cooling the air and | bringing a slight relief. In the ! woods wore many scorched and j charred bodies, which presented The Tatoolu" cu Hie Bud, Give Him Away. RtCHXKiKO, Ya., -September 7.~ Tlios. A. Marrin, the great marry ing man, who has married fifteen women, and the returns not all in yet, was to-day identified in a way which indicates that his criminal eareur is about to close. He „ha«, ever since be was brought here, de nied that he was Marvin or anybody but General Endlong A. Morton, to-day the Common wealth’s attor ney received information from the Superintendent of the Auburn, New York, Penitentiary to the effect th it Marvin might be T. A. Merritt, who Was confined there for three years for forgery commit eil on the’ Na tional Bank of Lockport, New York. The Superintendent said as a guide toward the identification of the great rn-calthut a description of Merritt had been taken while be was In the penitentiary. This de scription, a. found in the prison book., was that Merritt was five feet ton Inches in height, fair corn- revolting appearance, The high , |, ro bab!e that his impressious winds that prevailed cut on ucarlv ; , in rii*» ntim~ imnrl thn meviit more , at length lie heard echoing along piuxi m. bliieish-g ay eves, stoop in ; are, ' the shores of every sen. ' *h« shoulder*.; weighs about one Dronzbl and Price** on the other hand, the result of ob- sevatious mainly in Paris and other, , , , . 1 ! iirg ? cities of France, and that lie 'p| J( . severe drouth throughout the '•.i",#, m'ud < "lii < : has been misinformed as to the de- . i luliotied In country, which as yet is not of Rifat, | cadency of religion in thcagricullu- a char & t or as to cieate alarm ral districts of the country, where, | bee „ so peTsistcut that according to other testimony, Chris- ! has r it has be- ; CAMILLA, GA. !dU2:- found that liis wife had gone to n . neighbor’ 0 . He then took two nl ; his children, his eldest daughter tak ing three others. Before going rl'KNDRUM hi. professional serdcos In th- KO- j many rod* they foUnd ^'llSDlres J i*Jh of Bflrrtea and ad joining couutled, p*> r- ; cut On l»V the flames. Iheiarnior .1. uUriv aiouz the line of the B a * Railroad. t] K .„ turned in another direction ami oh band a full Una of Famllv and Patent ; , ... . HU '«l*dfeiu»**t. Physicians’ proscriptions promptly CSCtlpfiU Wlttl 'WO Clilitiroil. HIS juupi8-w]y daughter and the other three chi!- W. A. FORT, "RA^TICINB PHYSICIAN and ALAPAHA, OA., j winds that prevailed cut I every aveuuc of escape, and large j burning masses would bo lifted bodily and borne along for a groat distance. In many (instances these burning masses started fires in ' fresh places. The skill and courage of man seemed impotent to combat with such flames, and the flying rh „ .... . . . people were caught in fire-traps and j T h P e letter of this clergyman how-! "Tt \ I,’ 601 ' wh .° ‘‘T , “J* •O'lsieil ineI letter 01 inis cieigj mat , now . -uhjects, and wiio are largely in the . loasieu. ever, bnngs us tace to face with the ; mM i,n llr „„L atl ,„,' One farmer, who was plowing : - im niwtant iiraetSeal Question whath- p 1 J a J9 rl, y- uur -Cxcnange. g*v( with his oxen a few miles from a I important practiiMi question wiietn t elooinv accounts ol the oiniook tor w nil ms oxen a lew mues iromi er re ]igJ on or t | le belief in llio °u I t |ie future hut oeensionallv ihere is sand beach, iierceived llie approach-. npl . natlI _ a i i n sienrl nflwins sn il, tue luture, out occasionally ineie is u r .ha .1 ..1 kness and sinned for 1 1 61 n . atU , ’ ln ® ,eatt 01 belli, an ah i M „ oa91s t | le d esert ot slwri crops ; - n„ ot me nai ancss auu siarreo ioi BO ujt e Ru< | substantial verity, is on- i lik , . v bi P |, we nresenied In nn, I his house. On reaching home he u . „ Wildish delnsim, of m,tutored i ' , . . P T. 'l ' " • •” 11 - huiidrf'd a*int for;y->cven pounds, j find hn? j an In! |mr»ly«.U of tho low- * - On his r7j*h: forearm lndi.t ink, is an easrie; ••u Uio left fomirm »n American djiff,«t«c siafTbriiij* lipjti in ih»* beak , , I of the eiigie, mid the letters tianityhas vet a strong hold upon ; ^ wlo(l8 reflection in 2 people who heed such , b} a W hei. Hie Cm.i.io.i- j woitHirs Hltorney rVnd this dcscrip- iraportant - praetical question wheth- j ^ioo” ! nv' , s c comi'ts at'^he"oifiloi.k* l'<7r! he fi, ' ve “ l l< * ,lle J 4 ’ 1 ,nr er religioii or the bllief in the -u | fhr”t^e? but oc^ona“! There7s P “£Ter‘ X ,a .YV pel-natural, instead of being an ah- al j ,, H , nf r : •»' prisoner. Marvin, alias Die somte and substantial verity, is on- i |jke tIiat which we pr ,. s ,j,, i U ' ,,i ® Ij’ “ childish .delusion of untutored , issun of ^edm-sdav. w here a corn '*& " ‘•f". ho - was ' old - ‘ THE GALLOWS CHEATED.^ THU TRIAL OF JOHN IVJLLIAXS —HE IS FOBflD GUILTY IN THU FIRST BEGUKG AND UECOH91ENOKD TO THE MEKCY OF * COURT. Sentence Fined —more far Trial. Ben- & races, kept active and dominant as , of te|| tlTot.sai’tri sei-es in thee advance in ciyilizalion solely , on i ndUna , would vield hv the .-tress of ecclesiasticism ami j „j„ etv bushels to the acre, in some the appliances of priestcraft, and : |, arlP 0 f jjansas reports come in of waning in its power over the human 1 mind in proportion to the access of intellectual enlightenment. Is it, indeed, true that the belief in the divine and spiritual, which every- dreu were found the next day, all in w bere spontaneously appears a heap, charred beyond recogui- . liroon g the tribes of men, is nothing more than superstitutiou ; that the- Albany, . - - - Georgia ^ ^ rFioH-qYEii_PosY TON BTRLeTT. OFFICITVaSI 11 KG janiwlydl 'i’roivbridgo & Hollinslicd DENTISTS, VAYCROSS, - - - - GEORGIA. IVeth extracted without pain. All work ..srnrotert. Teroia nioilerato. Will po nny- d.urc on B. ft A. and 8. F. ft W. Railroad*. apl*-12m i tiou. J i Up to Wednesday night forty-five hodiys had been found within a mile in Paris township. Many of are missing, most of them roles. A whole settlement, buildings, fences, shops, etc., were swept cleat!. Ill Delaware township. All county. Ihere is hardly anything left, not otic house to the square mile. They were new settlers, nud- had small clearings, and the fire swept them like a’hurricanc. They lost all they had. Many o( them lied to the lake shore. The shore has been crowded isn. is but mythism, and that relig- ] ael . t . a{f0 t)l - planting, but if ; ,0 ;;- 1 ?.°“ , y “ nmgmflcent mistake? | drollL ° hl r0 n,i m ,es this will be pm- Ihat this question is one of a ; vented in a great measure, in the highly practical sort which is by no , ca , 0 o( wjmer wlieat ,,hinting par- means to be treated with mdifier- L Ic ularly. In the South, where ev.- • *f„ J,, 1 , 6 j ery indication was favorable for ah “ ' increased cotton the rnis-iori, lie manifested riot ous opposition, and spoke iu a brok hr voice of the idea of heaping mn-li an indignity upon him, an innocent i... .. • man. ns to make him slrip to the the argest crops o c o n ever .ais-; _ kj wbiw a of lllt , n ^ rV eve.l l o .S1", r:f h : ! his body. He insisted that he would 1 , ,’i .^ i i ' !** 1 not submit to such an iudiguitv. the ground is too hard to plow lor n, | H ii el - said - “Well General ‘l winter wheat. The high prices at , % ^/you v 0 nr choic er ’ winch wheal and other products ol; ,».i, IIt fo ji, the farm are selling vyould natural- } i-tieri" Iv induce farmers to inerease the the o ,>liere of curious speculation, is ev ident enough in the fact that relig ious clement in human thought has played a uiost significant nud con spicuous part in tho aflairs of men from the earliest times of which we have any authentic record. This has been almost wholly *77. . -sms* «■«*■«** ..ia I ter.. Eye .witnesses from Forest- vV, A. STROTHER, M.D. \ »>• ^ ,|ic confusion rprevails. Mam' could not see. One ALBANY, GEORGIA. j man. who lmd lost all, was both n blind and crnzv, and had to bed‘led Office over Gilbert s Drag Store toihc ,ake * iW, ‘ ofSan;,ac tho with human being**, cattle, ailcJ -j beneficial. The most obvious read- cvcry thing that could get to the wa- j n ^ 0 f bigtory tends to the conclu- ior» left at the Dmg store win rf-cetre 1 sweeping away almost everyth itontion. jan 7-iy j r j*iio people hero did not Know orders iir'uupf ur.H. W. ADFRIEiND. »EdPEOrFULLY tendero his serrlces, In Ihe * \ f*rioui brxachos ol hU profession, to the .:ux.mi vibuiy saitsarrounalngconntTy. Of- t* - «>pposlto rtinrt House. on.Fluestreet. HOTELS. TflE JOHNSON HOUSE, BMITHVIIXE, GA, almost everything anv fire was near them until it was on them and then hail to run for the lake, and, it being but a short dis tance away, all reached it safety. A largo party of men luivo gone to bury the the dead beasts. In For rester township many are so blind that they had to be led, and many are without food ties have already cion that ou the whole religion lias net been a drawback to human de velopment, individual or social, but an accompaniment if not a condi tion of the progress from lower to higher planes in both personal and . shipmellt „f , hese articles from the Out of it have come producing sections to such an extent crop, Ihe heat of the sun and tho absence of rain have caused the bolls to opeu pre maturely, and the crop is damaged to that extenL The hog crop has suffered severely in those sections where stock is kept on pasture dur ing the summer, and hogs and cat tle have been marketed in poor con- lion, because pasturage has failed to give the usual sustenance. Potatoes are poor in some sections, and the tobacco crop will be shorL Tho high prices prevailing for wheat, corn and oats have induced the collective life, the formulated principles of moral ity and tho maxims of obligation; for it is doubtful if more conscience, without any supporting belief in ihe divine and invisible, would hare been sufficient to work the salutary transformation from the i barbarous to the civilized state of i which we see so numerous and em phatic instances. Is it possible that A , . itiidi iv iiioiuiivvci ao is wvoeiiiio number of par- j ,|j| 8 g rea t historic force of religion, - j which has to all appearance done sc , clothing, shoes and medicines. More i the place to stop aiul get a (aOUD j ie jp come quick, much snf- i\f* I DP HIi 1 A I 1 ... 1 .... . t-’iUARE MEAL. i'HE ALBANY HOUSE! Merrick Barnes, Proprietor Albany, Georgia. rphis lions© is well fnrnished nud in cv- JL ery way prepared for the uccommo* j.il ion of the traveling public. Entire sat- »-faction unaranleed. The table is snn- piied with tho best tne conntry affords, and the servant* are unsurpassed in po ll ten ess and attention to the wants of guests. Omuibuses convey passengers to and from the different railroads prompt- iv. f*ee of charge. Charges to snit the lines. sep2l)tf SASH! DOORS! BLIRDSi Cement, Plaster, fenng will ensue. They have no flour or provisions. George Fergu son, of White Rick, who ha9 been on the ron 1 since Monday, reports that he lias seen 116 burned bodies. At one place ho saw four wagons bearing eight coffins, with one man walking behind ail alone. It was his family. Cincinnati, September 9.—The Chamber of Commerce lias ordered ihe appointment of a committee to solicit aid for the sufferers from the forest fires in Michigan. FOR SALE BY GEO. S. GREENWOOD. •cufpp KI DN EYr WORT THE 6REALCURE. roa RHEUMATISM As it ia tor all diaaasf of tbs KIDNEYS, LIVER AND BOWELS*_ _ Zt airmans the system of tho *=rid poison that causes the drssdfol suffering which THOUSANDS OF CASES oT tho wont ferms-of this terrible A hare been quickly relieved, in a sheet time PERFECTLY CORED. KI DNEY-WORT Mieia every pert of the Country. In hun dreds of oases it has cured where all else had snei- It is mild, but efficient, CERTAIN or m ACTION, bet harmless in ell ceeee. 3 tyl» eleeesf s. Strengthens ssl dvesNew netarel ection of the Kidneys i» restored. The liver is olscMed of eil dlsseee. end the Bowels move freely end heelthfhUy. In this may tho worst diseases are eradicated from the system. r As it has been proved by thoosends that KIDN EY-V/OP.T is the most —_ ^ system of sll morbid secretions. It should be used la every household as a SPRING MEDICINE, - TTTT.TOTTMTC EM, COKSTIPA- end an 1PAI» DU 1 sees. ^ faj-t^te^^t^rw-.inUno the coavenJsuce of those 1 tt. ItactMintkequals acf rroFTOca druggist. ,, °WELLS, RICH1BDS0X ft Ce., P3rop , >g_ cwnis KIDN EY-WORT TUe Arnjr of tho Cumberland. ™ There is to he a reunion of the Feileril soldiers composing the “Army of *ho Cumberland,” at Cliattanooga ou tho 21st inst. Many of the prominent officers in the United States Army will be iu i attendance as well as the principal j officers of the volunteer service. I They have been invited to bold their reunion in a Southern city, i doubtless with a motive. What is still more remarkable in this in stance they are to bo welcomed by an organization of Confederate sol diers, over which the gallant Joe Johnston is to preside. There is also to be quite a number of promi nent Confederate Generals, among whom are the names of GeueraN Gordon, Colquitt, Hampton.Butler, D. M. liill and Fitzliugh Lee, re ported to be present. It is eminently proper that Gen eral Johnston should lie placed in ihe lead, for with Lee and Jackson lie was held iu high e-teem ;by the Federal army as a soldier and a gen- tlcnian. There has never been half the antagonism among the soldiers who did the fighting in the differ ent armies as there has been among j the sharks and contractors who fat- I tenetl on the miseries of the war. | Polities is to be eliminated from ! the proceedings of this gathering, i WhUe reminiscences and deeds ot | valor arc to be recited and the mem ory of the bravo and fallen refer red to, it will be done without bit terness, and have no politicalsignifi- —entire whatever. While doubtless the majority of those coining from beyond the Ohio river will be Re publicans, yet there will be many of them Den. '-crats: but party affilia tion wiil have nothing to do with the object of the reunion. We are glad,.therefore, that the soldiers of both armies are to meet together, and that, too, on Southern soil. are glad that the Southern sol dier has it in his heart to welcome, no longer his enemy, but his fellow- countryman of the Northern army, to partake of the Southern hospital ity. The meeting wi.l have a bene ficial result upon both sections, and give force to the expression of that universal feeling of sympathy iuthe case of the wounded President. If wisdom and prudence prevail, “the boys in blue” and tho “boy s in gray” wilt blo*« tho day that brought them together in Chattanooga. ppearance done so much tor mankind iu this world, to say nothing of tho world that is to come, proceeds after all from an illusion? Can it be that the whole thing is but a vast un truth ? This is an ago in which "nothing can escape a challenge of its creden tials under cover ofit9 sanctity, or even upon the proven claims of its good works. If our ideals or hnllu dilations, no matter how dear they are to our hearts, wo should make haste to give them up. Just here, however, Hie question arises: What is the adcquaic criterion of truth? Is it the logical faculty, which wc nil know often leads us into the gravest errors? May it not be that our hearts teach us more wisely sometimes than our heads? Is net tho iutnition—or inner sense—a me dium of knowledge as to matters of which the five senses ol our bodies give us no reports? Is there no truth in the universe save that to which the eye, the ear and onr oth er organs of physical observa tion may conduct ns? Are these admittedly imperfect and limited means of perception such that God, if there be a GoJ, should have vouchsafed us for no other and supplementary source of revelation ? Is it absurd to suppose that over arching and permeating this sensi ble scheme of phenomena called na ture. which our best science cau but partially and doubtlngly interpret, there is an infinite supernatnre, in the presence of which tbo philoso pher is no wiser than the savage? Il istrueibat a great deal that was once thought to be supernatu ral has been showu to be merely natural, aud the advance of science is continually making inroads into the realms oi' the seemingly occult and miraculous. We have nowa days chemistry instead ot alchemy, and astronomy instead of astrology. But it is only a shallow mind that will jump to the conclusion that this process H to go ou until there are no j ^ral'cd'on the boot am mysteries left. The essential pro blems: remain. We have not yet gotto’the core of things, nor are we likely to. At all points we are still confronted by tho inscrutable. That there have been Inise relig ions may be granted; but it does not follow from tills admission that the religious sense from which they sprang is in itself false. The world is now living under the Christian dispensation. The Christ is the con summation of all creeds. The He brew, indeed, -looks forward to Him instead of backward, but the Christ is nevertheless the central point ot Judaism. The Christ, despite all tho wara of Cross and Crescent, is latent in Islamism. Mohammed accepted the Galilean as a sacred that we find the receiving points glutted. In Chicago there areS,- 1166,289 bushels of wheat stored, against 1,293.980 bushels a year ago; 5,731.049 bushels of corn, 3gaiust 3,540,976 bushels a year ago, and 1.211,467 bushels of oats against 103,962 bushels a year ago. This condition of things exists hero and iu all largo receiving centers. The result of this accumulation of grain will be to fully sustain pres ent prices, if not to further advance them, for the holding power Is thereby concentrated in a few hands and values ran be more read ilv arranged by cornering. It may lie possible that the shortesljofcrops have been fully discounted and that prices will net materially advance. And when it is remembered that, wheat sold a year ago at 45c., and that these articles now in this mar ket a re ?l 41 fo. the former and 67e. for the latter, it would seem that valiTbs had reached the maximum. Speculation has had much to do with tho greatly erhanced prices, and, although greatly to be deplor ed, the fact ro-r.ains and every arti cle that promises to be short Is seiz-. cd upon by speculators aud values attain an elevation that they would not if these self-constituted middle men did not interfere. Even two years ago, with a yield of 449,000,- 090 bushels of wheat, speculation forced the price of this article in this market from 93 cents at the begin ning of tho season up to $1 36 in December, 1879, hut in January the market broke and prices settled down, until jnst before new wheat camo in the maximum value was 93c. Drought, however, had noth ing to do with tho advance at that lime, but it was all due to specula tion. The favorable outlook for a large coming crop, however, caus ed the heavy decline. This can not he depended upon at this time to rednee prices, but, on the other hand, the dry weather is a help to speculators. It will be well, in view of all these circumstances, to face the fact that high prices of nearly all the neces saries of life will prevail until good crops in the future give relief. Al ready a coarse of economy is being pursued by our people, aud luxuries are, in a great measure, dispensed with, and even necessary articles aro being curtailed in their con sumption. This is clearly denton- andshi hoe trade Liberal orders that were given in July and August bavo been ’coun termanded or materially reduced.' It is to be hoped that this compulso ry economy will not be of Ion" du ration, for economy means dullness iu business, and if it is’ possible for speculation to overreach itself and bjr a (failure to correctly calculate t ie domand for the articles that are “cornered,” and thus c mses a scram ble on the part of the cliques to sell, business may again become active and this rigid economy may reja^. Cheaper Than Physicians* Bill*. A Thing of beautt is a jqy vpbev- er.”—What is it? Something prepared for woman only, aqd used by them ex clusively. It is adapted especially to character, and be figures in the Ho- ^ whera^e ^b is dUordcred Taebo fi.ifiiic aod will cure all Irregubinaus of the myth of Guatama in Restoring the disebaage. whether acute He is the one historic personalty >n STchro£lc,in evenThmcce. whom these three great religions | Bradfleld’s Female Regulator, “.Wo- havo the basis of their cveutful men's Best Friend, ,k is prepared by Dr. concord with Christianity. Chris- j j. Bradfield, Atlanta, Ga., U-M per tianity is much broader than we are 1 Bottle. ou your choice of two e then went out and re- with three six-foot negroes anil told tha celebrated polygnmis; that lie could either quietly take ofl' liis clothes or submit to being thrown down on the floor and tin dressed without ceremony by the three negroes. The athletic dar- Kio'S grinned a:qulcfceme to the proposed programme. When this alternative was presented to him •be old man submitted but at the »au>e time proceeded to denounce what he termed this great outrage to an American citizen. His shirts were then taken off, tho old fellow writhing and sputtering out bis iu dignation. The examination revealed all the marks described by the Auburn of ficials. The eagle on the right arm was somewhat blurred from an at tempt to obliterate it. This descrip tion of Merritt, the felon and forger, and.. Marvin, the polygamist, are Identical. The veteran, however, put a bold face upon the dilemma, and said there was no mark upon his body of which he was ashamed. The officials here have no doebts as to the identity of the prisoner. The Common wealth’s attorney still re ceives by every mail letters from all sections of tha country making iff quiries, others naming crimes in which he has figured; oilier writers offer assistance it any is needed, some going so far aB to offer to un loosen their purse-strings if money is needed to get tho witnesses to Virginia. The Generat’s corres pondence is very great and Is rap idly accumulating. It is safe to say no criminal living save Guiteatt re ceives such an avalanche of let ters. Marvin, however, indignantly de clines to take any letter addressed to T. A. Marvin, insisting that he ia not that individual, of whom ho speaks in terms of strong reproba tion. . Letters havo been received from sonta of Marvin’s victims, in which they express their readiness to come on at once when called upon. Mrs. Haney, the mother of Mrs. Nellie Debarr, the yonng widow married by Marvin in Lakewood, N. J., three or four days before he married Miss Turpin, of Richmond, has 'written, and says she is not willing to oome and testify against the base deceiver, but she thinks it a duty she owes to God, and many innocent vouug girls who might yet be duped by the bad old man if he is not stopped in his career. It is considered that there is sufficient evidence now to send him to the Penitentiary for the rest of his life, as under the State law he can be sent there for ten years each for bl'gamyfand grand larceny, the of fenses charged against him. The prisoner has spent much of his time in writing, hat the materials have been taken from him by order of the attorney. The case will be called to-morrow in the police court, but it is probable that it will bo coutiuued about ten days, as the Grand Jury will not meet nntil then, and it is not desired to subject witnesses to the expense of coming here twice. A DOOLY TBABBPT Did tie Sheriff Kill HI. wild Cue of the saddest death; from any cause that it has ever become our duty as journalist to record, is that on Mon day list, of Mrs. F. T. Rape, the wife of the present sheriff of Dooly county. The report reaches ns that Mr. Rape and his wife had some words; a domes tic trouble, daring which a scuffle ensu ed, when Mrs. Rape fell striking a chair or some other furniture, so injuring some vital part that death immediately followed. We know nothing of the facts except 83 they have come to us, ard that from parties who beard the statement of others, Mr. Rapo is impulsive but of gener ous nature, of kind heart, with many warm friends in his county, and we are sure' that none are more appalled, as none can be so heart-stricken, at the terribla result of a moment’3 indiscre tion. Our informant states that Mr. Rape ha3 not been arrested, and we can but hope that there are mollifying circum stances surrounding this deplorable event, that will relieve the previous good name of Mr. Rape from the dam nable taint of wife murder. Balnbrldg* Democrat, For the past week the trial uf John Williams, accomplice in the assassination of Mrs. Brocket!, has been the gcnctal topic of conversa tion nn the streets, in the salooii9 private offices and around the fami ly firesides cf I Ills county. The cir cumstances of tho bloody deed were recounted again aud again. One great tide ofhorror swept o'er tho hearts of the wholo people. And when the trial commenced-Monday tho 29th uit., the Coart House was crowded to its utmost rapacity. Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday was taken up iu the examination of witnesses. Durham was put upon the stand, and nnder oath told the story of the damnable guilt of him self aud the Williams brothers. For one hour and a-half he rnderwent the most searching cross examina tion, by the counsel for defense, and never once contradicted himself. Witness after witness was put upon the stand to give in their testimony, until John Williams was encircled in a powerful chain of evidence from which there was 110 possible arenno of escape. Thursday morning O. G. Gurley, Esq., in a forcible speech,seven hours l >ng, opened the case for tho defense, lie was followed by Hon. John E. Dnnaison and Col. D. McGil 1 In <ti use and telling arguments for the prosecution. Then came Hon. O. A. Russell, who, though sick at th» lime, made a gallant and able fight for the defense. Capt. B. B. Bower closed for the proseention in one of 1 he most powerful efforts of his life. It was generally couceded that he made one of the finest legal argu ments ever heard in our Court House. Gen. G. J. Wright closed tor the defense in a mod able and h-trned speech. The defense made their fight on the ground, that aside from Durham, the accomplice’s oon- fes-ion, the evidence was circum stantial and there was a possibility of the prisoner’s innocence and claimed for him the benefit of the doubt; while the counsel for the prosecution argued that Durham’s testimony bad been sufficiently cor roborated by other witnesses as to leave not a shadow of a doubt as to the guilt of the prisoner; and ap pealed to the jury to miintain the majesty of the law, though their hearts overflowed with the loirs of mercy. “Should this man be sen tenced to be hanged by the neck un til he is dead,” said the closing conn sel for the State, “no one will sym pathize more than I with those ho leaves behind; his widowed wife, orphan children, and that old moth er who loves her son as much now, though his hands bo dyed in the blood of assassination, as sbo did when he was a prattling boy, lisp ing his prayers at her feet. But, gentlemen, justice must be done— the majeatey of the law must be maintained.” The able counsel for defense made a brave fight for the life of their client. During the trial tho families of the accused were in regular attendance at court, and occupied seats Inside the bar with the prisoners; all maiu- taining the utmost indifferent ex terior. The prisoner himself sat as calm and stoical as a marble statue. Even when tears glistened in the eyes of the audience, the prisoners and their wives, displayed no agita tion whatever. Only once did the aged mother, John Williams’wife and sisters give way to any emo tion. Thnargnmentclosed Saturday af ternoon at six o’clock, and Judge Fleming proceeded to deliver his charge, which both connsel and au dience pronounced a most able and impartial paper. Ho charged the Jury well to bring in a verdict in accordance with the law and the evidence as they had heard it The jury then retired and after remain ing ont two hours returned with the verdict: “We, the jury find John Williams gnilty of murder in the first degree, hot recommend him to the mercy of tho coart.” Judge Fleming explained to them that the law did not allow a recommenda tion of mercy when the prisoner was found gnilty in the first degree, so he sent the lory baok to find a con sistent verdict, and when they ret turned the second time they brought verdict of “guilty of murder and recommended to the mercy of tho court.” Sunday morning at the Post Of fice, hotel and the streets wefe crowds collected, discussing the ver dict, and there was-one universal expression ofsurpriso at the jury’s recommendation of the prisoner to the mercy of the eourt. Everybody who had heard the evidence believ ed that Williams was guilty in the first degree and shonld hang. There was not one palliating circumstance brought forward entitling him to mercy. If guilty at all ho was gnil ty in the. first degree, and the Jury so found him; and if gnilty in the first degree, with no palliating cir cumstance in bis favor, the law al lowed no mercy. Everybody ex presses the greatest confidence in the honesty and sincerity of each and every member of the Jury, hut thinks that they yielded, in a certain extent, to a false sentiment of mer cy- As one of the counsel for the State said, we are not after this man’s blood, bnt we desire a strictcnforcs- ment of the law; we want society rotccted. And before this epi- emic of murder is checked, wo must have less mercy and more jus tice. The laws of God as well as of man demand a life for a life. The prisoner, after hearing the verdict Saturday, was remanded to jail. Monday morning he was car ried up the Oonrt House to receive his sentence, which was “the peni tentiary for life.” The defense will move for a pew trial, and will, we learn, baas their motion upon twen ty or thirty different points. U made from a simple Tropical Leaf of EtwVa ue, aad ii a Positive Remedy foe ah the dUeaeca that caoea pains tn the lower part of the body for Torpid Li. er-Headache*—Jaao- diee—Dtolnraj.Uraret, Maoris.end alldiffioul- tire of the Kidneys, Liver and Urinary Oigas*. For Kent ale DIecawes,. Monthly Menittua- t»ni, and diuinx Frcpnaacy, it has no equal, it wrtoree the means that mate the blood, and hence jt lithe beet liluod Partner. Itiatbeottly > Diabetes end Dealers at $1.25 market. Try H. n. WS Rif KB A CO, Rochester. If. JS. A ltniLLUXT MAX DEAD. Xlie Death or B. F. Jeffries, of'this City, Near Chattanooga Yester day. ___ Atlanta Constitution. We have had few sadder duties than that of chronicling {the death a New Richard S. Jeffries, a well known and distinguished lawyer of this city. Mr. Jeffries has been for Son.e months suffering with nervous dys pepsia and has.traveled considers;- hly in the hope of overcoming it. A few days ago he was thought to be better and went to the residence, of his brother, Mr. John Jeffries, near Chattanooga. On yesterday a dis patch was received in tho city stat ing that he had died at half-past four o’clock’ou Friday morning. Mr. Jeffries was one of the bright! est and most lovable men that ever made Atlanta his home. He was educated at the University of Vir ginia, whore he took distinguished honors, being remarkable as a fin ished and eloquent orator. After leaving college ho tanght school for a while and then took a law coarse. Heathen came to Atlanta and began the practice of law. His success was almost instantaneous, and he L F ° r ^ 1 N was soon recognized as one of the f* r00l “°- “**•“ Bo ““ best criminal lawyers that this bar had ever known. He was engaged by the defence in almost e very crim inal case of consequence in the past few years, was noted for devotion to his’ clients, a painstaking endeavor to do his fail duty and courtesy to ward to his fellow lawyers. Among the most noted cases in which he was engaged was the Sam Hill murder case, the Cox case and the Jake Stafford murder case, the Ju lia Johnson murder case, and the Defoor murder case. Mr. Jeffries was beloved by all who knew him, and we doubt if he bad an enemy in the city. He was -peculiarly affectionate, loyal and evoted, being as tender as a wo 1 man in his friendship. A tew years ago lie was married to Miss Gould, ot Augusta, a lovely and accom plished lady, who, with a bright boy survives him. Hi» mother, wL was a most estimable lady, died some years ago. His father is now living ’at Chariottevitle, Va. His brother, Mr. John \V. Jrffries, at whose house he died, is teaching school just acro-s the Alabama lilie, near Chattanooga. Mr. John W. Jeffries left Chattanooga last night with ihe remains and reached the city this morning at four o'clock. The remains were carried at ouce to the late residence of Mr. Jeffries on Peachtree street. The funeral wilt be preached by-Dr. Boggs at the Central Presbt terian church at four o’clock this afternoon. The remains will be interred in Oak land cemetery met will be followed tn their resting pi ice by hundred of people with hearts weighted beneath a great sorrow. A meeting of the Atlanta bar to take suitable action in relation to bis death, we are requested to an nounce, will be held at the city hall at nlno o’clock a. m. to-day. His friends are requested to atteud. Wesleyan Female College MACON, GEORGIA,' _ Wtn begin Forty-fonrth Annual Session Sspt. list. ATnUXacnltj’ of experienced teachers. Advanced course of study. The best *dvanta ges In Music, Art, Literature and Selene*. Careful attention to all the wants ot pupils. K£"i’r!cM moderate. Apply for Catalogue * , Eev- W. C. BASS, 6. L>„ President. Jnlyg?,wlm • ’• " Beading Too Much. Htcon Telegraph. One of the New York daily pa pers has this remarkable sentence: “Reading may lead to dissipation ss literally as rum drinking. The novel-soaked man or woman, though not as repalsive a being as thi drunkard, is frequently jnst a stupid.” Yet if wo investigate the facts, we will find that our Ameri can people do read too much in that direction. Tho cramming process so popular in this country is neither healthful or fruitful, bccatue it in duces c habit of observing, remem bering, thinking and feeling'too lit tle. This is chargeable in some de gree to the plethora of printed mat ter, bat in a larger degree to a viti ated taste. The dangers attending the excess of novel reading sraoni the young is generally understood It glows with their growth and de velops a distaste for all solid or profitable reading. They become besotted, and to engage them in in telligent conversation upon any oth er subject would be as difficult as to obtain an intelligent answer from a besotted drunkard. Blank and absent-minded, they are fit only for their own company. The thirst for this stylo of literature is as in satiable as the drunkard’s'thirst for whisky. Therefore, we are ready to ^acknowledge that this class of people do read too mneh. There is a vie w, however, of this question that reveals tho fact that American people do not read enough: Among educated men and women we hear hot (infrequently the lamentations that they have not time to devote to reading as they desire. Great histories and bio graphies as well as the works of leading thinkers and poets have but fow readers, comparatively, Sn this conntry; not more than one to every hundred thousand. The trnth is, therefore, that the people, instead of reading too mnch, thev do not read enough. The weaker intellects— alas! they are In the majority—con- snmo far more fiction than is good for them, bnt they will not read anything else. All people of coarse read tho newspaper as a matter of necessity, but this requires but little time comparatively. These convey much valuable iuformation, frag mentary as it Is, and if the standard ofjonrnalism could only be elevated to its proper place, it would prove what it was intended, the great educator of the times. There is one way to do this, if the public which knows the value of dignified jour nalism will withhold its support al together from newspapers which cater to depraved tastes and mckless of the truth, and bestow it upon thosa newspapers which can be safely taken into the family, and are not only decent hut Just, the fact, could bo accomplished in a remarkable short time. AHMSiSMlI LOUISIANA. A. bciltbftil, genislcllmtte; to exoaedtag!? prn- dactive soil, where, wltbcj otn?n »rrla*>fry sed prudence, a sore and certain competence eta Montlwesteniim ! pti[iiCo liable Information. In detet. of the Stmt- or Texu, arkanmi, or Western 1-mUie .e. We desire 19 comer with tho— vishto; to better thetr condi tion end ere medttaUnga eheuae to > nee conn- try. Address r - ,.r.-5^' - U T AL -5f Cret * rT - Atu,in - Tat “- J. N. VICTOR, Eastern Mina er, _ Ml Broad ear. We* Tort. Foreign Office:—Wu. W. La NO.- President - Laa'enhvl! Home. ■leidennall St. Ipa-toa. W o . England TUTTS PILLS INDORSED BY mSSgSllh! 1 THE GREATEST MEDICAL TRIUMPH OF THE AGE* SYMPTOMS OF A TORPID LIVER. leOBs of cppetltc.K'a-qsoa.bowflla costive. IF THESE V7AEJ!X!fGS A EE U1THE2DZD, SERIOUS DISEASES V,'LL SOON BE DEVELOPED- TBITS FILLS aro especially adapted to - sacli eases,one doso efl'ect* sueba change of feeling as to astonish the sufferer. JEaJZ x ^U ?r , en * e 1 te, and cioa# the Tatru on Ileal*, that the system is vt*h«t. 2M hr th -irTonle Actl.n on the JJlgwUy- Onrsne. netrular Ktoele are pro- dneea. Price Si cents, za Mgrrny at. sf.Y. TUTT’S HAIR DYE. gB*THua9fWjngca chr.Lgpu to s. 'achy a rfi»f?le cr-plicatlfMi of this Drr. li met nstsrsi color, aers InstantRceouslY. bYDrc7^ijta,orsaat by express on rtesiptor^j. Office, 35 Murray St., New York. # D^TEiPJ 3L15 Lit uf IafrnaaUna »s< % itWk! hffljti Trill b» autfl+4 EEEX on i^taDst./ RUHNEY, FASHIONABLE TAILOR, TASnnGTOV STREET. jrat RECErVED, A LARGE LOT OF SA3C- u PLES of tha Latest Styles! MI AiiO WiHTES SUITS! SHIRT CUTTING! SPECIALTY Z "Why is H. H. P. iiko Senator Joseph ■ Brown? Give it up. Becausa 1(3 chief aim is internal improvement Acocsta. Ga., Aug. 11, 1880. Mb. 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Georgia Historic Newspapers

The Weekly news and advertiser. (Albany, Ga.) 1880-1???, September 17, 1881, Image 1