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Volume XXXVII.
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ALBANY, GA- SATURDA V. JANUARY 20, 1SS3.
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Accocdisg to the Constitution, f Scf»M>rjna* and FMeillaga fr
there haTp been Lut twelve cases of’ Our Exchanges.
small-pox in Atlanta, so far, this win- —Central railroad stock soi.l
* er * . j Savannah Saturday for
The T.iomasrille Enterprise is —The Dooly Vindicator
right. A farmer who cannot succeed
in Georgia would fail anywhere else
in the world.
—The Dooly. Vindicator an
nounces ihe death of Mr. George
Wilkes at his home near Byronville
in that county*
—The Valdosta’Times says that
j Faith In Dlrine Rewards and Pun- 7 be Newspaper a Divinely Ordained
i ishment Essential to a Witnessfn j Channel ©rIntelligence.
Court. —-—
D». Talmage, hi F .irk Leslie’s Sun-
del phia, Saturday, Judge i dry Magazine, ?ays: “Editors make
led that atheist*? and-all wt-rs or-stop'toem. auv.ioce civil : >^-
I» Phil:
Briggs ruled
others who do not believe in a Divine
Being and Diviue rewards and pun
ishments are incompetent as witness
es. The matter was brought up on a
motion for a new trial in the suit of
Lucas against I*: per, the ground for
the motion being that Judge Briggs
Transient advertise treats mast be paid for in*
advance. >
AH advertlsemcnte must take the ran of the pa
per unless otherwise stipulated by contract, and
then cbe following additional charges will be re-
Inside, generally, 10 per eent
Inside, next to reading matter 25 ** •*
In Local reading colur. as : : 30 “ “
Editorial notice* other than calling attention
»o new advertisements and local dodgers, 29 cents
t «r line for first insertion and 12*4 for each sab
-equent.
Kills •''’'advertising aredue on the first appear*
anceof advertisement, or wheu presented, except
when otherwise contracted for.
h m. mcintosh a co.
Immediately after the inaugura
tion of Gov.!W. B. Baie, of Tennes- j a protracted meeting has been going i the motion being that Judge Briggs
aee,on Monday last, . lire eagle was j on in the Christian church .bis |
turned loose on Capital Hill bearirg a j week. lieved in the Creator of the universe
medal inscribed,“ForPresident,Clcve-| —Hiram Phinazee, an old and j *ntl In a Supreme Power which
land, of New Yort. For Yice-I'rcsi- well-known citizen of Foisylh, died ; “’I'uhl paiiu.h. Lim fere for falsi-
Tn---i'r-n.. oh,. j- I „ ., . ’ , , swearing, he did not believe in God
dent Bate, of Tennessee.’ The din- , at that [dace on Friday night last. co.innoLly understood by the pen-
patches do not sla.e whether this < He had eighty members of his family pie, nor in a personal God, nor God
piece of spreadeagleistu was a part of | living in Monroe county. as mi enlity. There was no other
Ihe inauguration ceremonies proper, or —Since the passage of the game ev “tence support of dm objection
Wls goben up by privaie enterprise. ■ ] an . for liowndes comity game has
\ NEW JEWELRY STORE.
In order to better supply our msny customers
of Southwest Georgia, we have just fitted up an
elegant establishment at
IDS Second Sireet, Mn, Be.,
ftVbere will he found the finest stock of
WITCHES, JEWELRY
SILVERWARE
Tn that city. Mr. J. H. WILLIAMS,
of Newton, Ga , in interested in tills establish*
ineut, and will re pleased to have his friends call
and examine our
ELEGANT STOCK
Which is offered at prices touch lower than has
orioerly prevailed.
J. P. Stevens & Co.
JEWELERS.
nl?3m
QUOTAIliNS AND REFERENCES
••Joint Gilpin was * citizen
Ol credit and renown”—
’Twas William Cow per wrote the verse
And did it up quite brown.
‘ Old Grimes is dead, that good old soul.
We ne’er shall see him more”—
Was written by one A. G. Greene,
as you have heard before.
“Mv heart leaps up when I behold
A* rainbow In the sky” -
I? you care to con the rest of thl-,
Kcad Words vorth on the sly.
“As with my butupou my bead
I walked upon the strand”—
1 met Sum Johnson, L. L. D.,
With this stanza in his hand.
u ’Twas off the Wash the sun went down,
The sea looked black and grim”—
Look in Tom Hood’s collected works
For the balance of this hymn.
4 ‘Tk»s ancient silver bowl of mine—
It tells of good old times”—
When Oliver Wendell Holmes began
To sing his mirthful rhymes.
“An hour passed on, the Turk awoke,
That bright dream was his last”—
So Uaileck sang ere Dana wroie
“Two Years Before ihe Mast.”
—American Queen.
I THE MODERN METHUSELAH.
How Lone Hide, the Oldest Man In
Ibe World, Burned Himaetr to
Death.
San Diego Sun.
“Auero Largo,” or “Long Hide, 1
according »o the English derivation
of the Spanish word, burned himself
to death at the Real del Castillo,
Lower California, on Thursday
night, December 14. For some time
the old Indian had beeu feeble and
unable to walk. During the recent
heavy rains that fell in that region
the old man sought refuge in a cabin
near by. Last week he crawled up
to the house of Senor Francisco
Parma and told him he was very
hungry. The latter gave him a good
dinner, besides furnishing provis
ions lor future emergencies and
then instructed the other Xudians at
the ranchcria to care for him. They
replied that they had always done
so, a3 they entertained unusual rev
erence for the old man on account of
his age. Thursday, the date in ques
tion, was a cold day in Lower Cali
fornia, and “Long Hide’’ was given
an extra blanket by his dusky
iriends. This he soon tore into
strips, put them on a tire and soon
his “teepe,'’ or brush house, was all
ablaze. When this had been accom
plished, despair tor the moment
eemiug to seize him, he plunged
headlong into the burning mass.
A stout young Indian near by
seized him amt tried to drag him out
of danger, but the old man grabbed
a slake in the ground, near i>y, held
himself in the fire, and before othe.r
help could come, was literally roast
ed alive, dying within a few hours
after th.e occurrence. “Long Hide”
was married and the father of sev-
era ! children, when the Missiou of
San Diego was built, one hundred
and twenty years ago, and from what
he told parties who visited him, he
must have oeen not less than thirty
years of age at the time. Three or
four years ago he lost a son who
could remember when the Missiou
was first built by the Franciscian
friars. This son must have been not
less than 120 years of age. “Long
Hide” told of the first settlement of
O.d Town years before the Missiou
was built, of the coming of ships for
water at Russian Springs, and
many things of great interest in ihe
past history of San Diego and vicin
ity- * .
Juan Meieudrez, who lives near
the Rea! del Ca>til!o, says lie knew
“Long Hide” fifty years ago and that
lie apperied nearly as old then as he
did the week before lie died. He
says that the old man frequently beat
the best horses owneu in the country
ou trips to San Diego, one hundred
rniies distant fcom the Real, and he
often chased deer uii il they
gave up with fatigue. He would
then capture them after they had
laid down for rest. Until a year ago
lie was able to walk about aud trav
el quite well. Since then he baa
beeu obliged to crawl about ou all
fours, like a cat or dog. He retain-
ed his sight perfectly and all the fac
ulties of miud up to the day he died
The Columbus Daily EnquiV*r-
Sun notes the death on Wednesday
last, in Orlando, Fla., of Chas. Cole
man, Esq. The deceased was a na
tive of Columbus, a son of Judge B.
F. Coleman, of that city, and was
foriy-one years of age. He was an
exemplary man of family, leaving a
widow and three children, and was
g*eatiy liked and esteemed about Co
lumbus. He is supposed to have died
of consumption.
If the price of cotton had not gone
down so low this winter very few of
the farmers of this section would be
coming to the factors and supply mer
chants this eailj’ in the new year to
“make arrangements.” Despite the
low price of cotton, the farmers are,
as a general thing, in much better
condition than they were at the be
ginning of last year; for most of them
have enough corn in their barns to
ran them through next summer.
. to the witness.
In his opinion
the Judge said?
“Alkxandeb II. Stephens writes
to a friend concerning his health,”
says the Xew York 3fail, “and says it
is sometimes better aud sometimes
worse, and it seems to me more often
worse than better. I long for the life
at Washingten, and to meet my old
friends at the National, where I have
spent so many pleasant hours. The
goloid dollar and the metric system of
coinage I hope will be accepted, and
that the bills to that effect will be
come laws.*
Another hotel fire is reported in
the dispatches of yesterday. The
Planters Hg£e), one of the largest in
St. Louis, took fire Monday morning,
about 5 o’clock, and burned so rapidly
Ibat four persons lost their lives. The
greatest confusion prevailed when
the alarm was given, and nearly all
the guests escaped in their night
clothes. The weather was intensely
cold, and the firemen were thereby
greatly hindered in their work. It is
thought that there were no more than
four victims. Three bodies have been
taken out.
' perceptibly increased. Opposition j “VVilh some doubt I admit the wit-
mannested against it at first seems ( ness.” Was this proper in the ligh
to have ilieti , ul— Valdosta - 1 » ? Something more is re-
i qimeu to render one competent as a
Tunes. witness than a belief in. a Supreme
—Mr. J. D. Harrell has been elect- ! P*»wer simply ns a power oTpi inci-
ed Major of Bsinbridgo, with ihe I*Ic wl.ich ni.y be the lestless, i.aloral
t , , ®’ TT . laws, as exhibited bv the motion and
following board of Aldermen. H. 0 »)ei a ti.iu of the elements, and to vio-
Xussbamn, M. O’Neal, H. C. Curry, • late which will surely bring puuisli-
W. W. Wright, M. N. Paulett and ment here lo ihe transgressor. The
W G Broom j belief required by our I .ws is a be
lief in the existence of ;wi omniscient
— Viddosla Times: Just before Sapreine Ui-in[.-, wliu will impose di
going to press yesterday we learned j vine punishment .‘or perjury either
of the death of Mr. Josiali Simians, I j n [hisworltl or in the next. If the
... ... . . , . . . belief be short of llus it falls under
of Homerv.llc, Clinch connly, which , „ ie ba „ of , a , condemnation,
sad event occurred at his residence * * * * * *
on Thursday last. He died of ery- I “While the witness Becker said lie
sipela? of the face and head. ■ believed in a Supreme Power that
. . : would puuisli him here fc^ false
—The ColumbUt Decay Enquirer- j bearing, ht; would not say tnat he
Sun records the death, on Friday j believed that power was divine, and
morning last in Girard, of Dr. J. C. be totally denied the personality of
Harris after a prot. acted illness, j God ami of God as generally under-
_ . 1 stood by people. Willi such a belief,
He was the seuior member o. J. C. j bow be bc sa j t j )c , bc j„ f eaP 0 f
Harris & Son, clothiers; and was a j divine punishment for testifying
stop —.
iibu? or leonst them. Whet for t je
less half ceoiit’-y was die influence of
a-rvoiberseven men in ibis conn- y
ompa ed wi.h that oi Movdecai Noah,
James Webb. -Tames Gordon
Benue. Ho at«Greeley,fleury J. Bay-
moai 1 , Eias.us Brooks and Tburlow
Weld’? Like it or dislike it ns you
aeiy, I simply slate the potential and
tre nenduous fact, '.’'be mightiest men
0-. aH departments have tnoguiked the
newspaper press as the most important
ageiey ior.iDfluenciugthe pnblic mind.
Andrew JacK:ou, who hail no li eraiy
iVciiD v, would lie on the lounge in the
White House and smoke, while Amos
Kendall, ihe cultured, would sit by his
side am' Wl i u t'tii.orb ’s for the Wash-
'iigton Glole. erpessivc of the Presi
dent’s senirtne i s, the edi’drialsprinted
or torn ppaeconhng as they p’eaced or
displeased the Chief iRf. : s..'..te.. lo
a) 1 great political, and social, a id litei^
ary. and moral ente prise,, if success
ful, have ’aid hold Uie wheel of the
priij jpg press. That qhecl is either
THE TAX COLLECTOR OF BER
RIES' COtSTT ROBBED.
A Tblet Take. $1,700, and Attempt,
to Bunt the Hone.
Semen County Nem.-
last Monday it was rumored that
the Tax Collector, J. L. Sutton, bad
been robbed of a considerable amount
of the county funds. The news
rapidly, and was soon the talk
town. Several gentlemen went to in
vestigate the matter, and found the re
port to be true. The particulars, as
nearly as we could get them, are
about as follows:
Mr. Sutton had collected a consid
erable amount of the tax money, and
PnlThli Into Tour Pipe.
An English working mau, just
past the middle age, found that his
pipe, which for many years had been
a great comfort to him, was begin
ning to seriously effect his nerves.
Before giving it up, however, he de
termined to tindsjut if there was no
way by which he might continue to
smoke without feeliug its effects to
an injurious extent. He accordinly
wrote to a medical journal, aud was
recommended to fill the bowl of the
pipe one third full of tible salt, and
press the tobacco bard down upon it
as in ordinary smoking. The result
was very satisfactory. Duriug the
process of smoking the salt solidified
while remaining porons, and when
the hardened lump is removed at
the end of the day’s smoking it is
found to have absorbed so much of
the oil of tobacco as to be deeply
colored. The salt should be remov
ed daily.
The Atlanta Evening Herald says:
“Within tho last few years the cotton
and whiskey manufacturers have been
making more of their goods than they
could possibly sell. The result is a
large surplus stock on hand and no
buyers at even reduced prices. The
coilonmen bare-quit manufacturing
as a cure for their troubles, while the
whisky .men go to Congress with pe
titions asking to be paid for the loss
caused by their lack of judgement.
There are various w.j's of killing a cat
The Hawkinsvillc Dispatch has
this lo say of its artesian well: “The
artesian well being bored here had
reached a depth of four hundred and
ten feet on Saturday, when water be'
gan boiling out at the top of the pipe
six leet above the earth’s surface. The
flow was about three quarts per min
ute. Many persons visited the well
to sco the wator flowing ont. The
drive pipe is still being driven, bnt the
process is very slow, about twety licks
being made to the inch. The quick
sand is still in the way.
Speak ino of Georgia, the Chicago
Tribtme offers some striking though
not convincing arguments in favor of
free trade when it says: “Cotton
manufacturing is no experiment in the
State, which has already some of the
most profitable mills in the country,
and begins to talk of itself as the New
England of the South. The industry
is one of those that flourish in spite of
the tariff. It receives no possible
benefit from it, as the South manu
factures so cheaply that some of its
mills are exporting their product to
Asia and South America in Success
ful competition with the English, and
its profits are serionslj- cut by the
taxes on machinery. The more such
mills the more anti-protectionists.’’
The Gentiles of Utah evidently want
Congress to let the -Mormons alone
unless it can adopt some less gentle
means of dealing with them than has
hitherto been tried. In a recent me
morial to Congress the Gentiles of
Utah say: “The Mormon people re
gard the past efforts of the National
Government as weak and futile, and as
indicating that the Government is not
in earnest in its avowed intention of
supressing polygamy and priestly domi
nation in civil affairs in Utah. The
laws already enacted-have served only
as a gentle irritant, have consolidated
the people, strengthened the control
of the Mormon priests over their fol
lowers, and failed to diminish the cele
bration of polygamous marriages, for
the reason that they regard the chnrch
as superior to the Government.”
conscientious, upright man, and
highly esteemed. He left a wife and
three sous.
—The following is the list of re
cently elected county officers for
Dooly count}. Clerk, Z. T. I’enny;
Sheriff, W. L. Graham; Treasurer,
S.F. Rogers: Tax Receiver, H. Kcl-
lam ; Tax Collector. J W. Bridges;
Corner, J. G. Gilbert; Surveyor, M.
C. Jordan ; County Commissioners,
J. L. Murray, F. K. Lewis and M.
McDonald.
—Last Thursday’s issue of the
Gainesville Eagle contains the vale
dictory of Mr. II. W. J. Ham, the
retiring editor, and the sointalory
of Mr. Milton A. Smith.- his succes
sor, who takes Mr. Hatn’s place as
editor and proprietor. The Eagle
has long ranked us one of the best
and most progrossivj of the weekly
papers of Georgia, and those who
arc acquainted with Mr. Smith feel
confident of It's ability to keep the
paper up to its higii standard.
—The Journal has this to say of
Dawson’s artesian well: “After Sev
ern! weeks suspension the work on
our artesian well has been resumed.
There are many who predict that the
well will never become a success,
but wc are not of lhat number. Mr.
Rogers has managed the affair from
the beginning with consummate skill.
That tlie machinery was rotten and
powerless was no fault of his, and,
under the circumstances, wc think
he has done well. At any rate the
well lias been paid for, and we say
let toe work go on if it takes alt the
summer lo reach water. The well
ip now some'liiiig over COO feet, and
witli the new force pump which has
recently- put in lire work will go
speedily on to completion
—The South Georgia Fruit and
Vegeiable Association will meet at
Quitman on tho 3d of February,
The President of the Association,
Mr. \V. R. Talley, of Dixie, in an
address to tte fruit and vegetable
growers, states that, from what he
can gather, he is satisfied at least
three times more melons will be
planted along the line of the S. F.,
& W. Ry. this year than was planted
last year. The object of the meet
ing at Quitman is to bring about co
operation and begin in time to se
cure transportation for the coming
crop of tneilons and other vegeta
bles. All who expect to have melons
or vegetables fori shipment next
spring and summer are i ini ted fo
attend this meeting.
The Savannah News rarely eTer
condescends to mention a Georgia
journal or a real five Georgia subject
in its editorial columns. And ts to al
luding to one of its “conntry cousins,’’
or taking up a subject or idea ad
vanced by one of them—well, that’s
something it never does. There is
a way-off-yonder, long-time-ago-ness
about its editorial page that is dry in
eonparison with the other leading
Georgia journals. This criticism may
appear harsh to oar respected Savan
nah contemporary, bat it is meant in
all kindness, and we invite the able
editors of that journal to retaliate in
kind. Unless this paragraph is copied
by the Nashville American, the New
York World, the Boston Herald, or
some other paper outside the State,'
however, we doubt if it ever fails be
neath the eagle eye of any of the edi
tors of the Savannah News.
Accidental marriages.
One of Lord Byron’s Letters.
A man should marry, by all means;
yet I am convinced the greater part
of marriages are unhappy, and this
is not an opinion I give as coming
frotp myself; it is that of a very ex
cellent, agreeable and sensible lady,
who married tlie man of her cheicc,
and has not encountered ostensibly
any extraordinary misfortune, as a
loss of health, riches, children, etc.
She told me this unreservedly, and
I never had any reason to doubt her
sincerity. For all this I am convinced
that a man cannot be truly happy
without a wife. It is a strange state
of things we live in. A tendency to
so natural as that of the union of the
sexes ought to lead only to the most
harmonious results, yet the reverse
is tlie fact. There is something rad i-
cally wrongjin the constitution of so
ciety; the limes are out of joint It
is strange, too, wbat little real lib
erty of choice is exercised by those
even who marry according to what
is thought their own inclinations.
The deceptions which the two sexes
play off upon each other bring as
many ill-sorted couples into the
bonds of hymen as ever could be
done by the arbitrary pairings of a
legal match-maker. Many a mar.
thinks he marries by choice who only
marriea by accident; in this respect
n<en have less the advantage of
woman than is generally supposed.
Illegal •Voting.
The Allanta correspondent of the
Augusta Evening News has this to
sar of the recent election in Fulton:
Atlanta, Ga., January 11.—In
comparing the tax books with the
voters in last elections it is found
that about a third of the votes cast
were illegal. About 5C0 of our most
respectable citizens and largest tax
payers are among the illegal voters,
for it is said that there "are more
white people than colored who voted
illegally. It is aln.osf universally
believed that the contest will not
change the result in either of the
contested cases, but if Judge Ham
mond carries out the recommenda
tion of the grand jury and prose
cutes all the illegal TOters in the last
election, the public will be greatly
surprised when the list of the de
fendant is called in the case of the
State vs. —the violaters of the
election laws, comes up.
j falsely? His belief being defective
| in this respect, it falls short of one
I of tlie legal rcqiftrcmunls which is
indispensable lo exist to entitle hint
! to be examined as a witness in llic
I courts of the Stale. It follows that
II erred in receiving his testimony,
and lhat a new trial should lie ui-
dered.”
Postal Savings Bank.
1 in: es-Democrat.
Wc publish, in another column, an
article on “A Postal Savings Ser
vice,by A. 11. Hurt, of Winona,
• Miss., giving a succinct account of
its operations in England, anl * lie
proposed !i\v in this country, which
has received the approval of thi
President and the PostmastcrGcn-
eral.
It cannot be denied that England
has led the world in postal reform
and progress. Nearly every inno
vation in the Post office Department
was inaugurated by it—postage
stamps, the money order system,
postal car, and finally the postal sav
ings bank.
In all these items, except the last,
this country has been imitator of
Great Britain, following on its foot
steps, but a long disianco behind.
The postal savings bank system was
adopted by England in 1861, 21
years ago, and has been followed by
every other civilized country except
this, by France, Italy, Belgium aud
even by Japan, the Cape of Good
Hope and New Zealand.
In Great Britain, it has been a
great success and is daily growing
more popular. There are now
2,184,972 depositors with $180,000,-
000 in deposits, which sum is in
creasing at the rate of $20,000,000 a
year. An inicreU of 2'£ per cent, is
paid on deposits, while in France
the interest is 3, and in oilier coun
tries as high as 7 per cent.
The proposed bill before Congress
is based on the English law. It
makes all the money order offices
postal savings banks. To the deposi
tors, tickets about Ihe size of a pos
tal card are given, upon which .card
llie deposit can be withdrawn, not
only from the original postal savings
bank iu which it was placed, but
from any other in the country. Thus
money placed on deposit here can be
withdrawn at Chicago or New York.
It is scarcely necessary to recapit
ulate the advantages of this system,
which necessarily suggest themselveS,
besides being well brought out by
the communication published else
where. These banks will be found
a great advantage by meeting thrift
on the part of the working classes;
wiil give banks to that portion of the
United Stales, the rural districts,
which are now wholly unsupplied
with them, and whose inhabitants
resort to the old system of hiding
away their money in corners and
stockings; will place in circulation,
through the government, the money
now tied up in those stockings, and
will protect the people against dan
gerous and shaky banks.
Such are a few of the arguments in
favor cf the postal savings banks,
arguments which Great Britain,
after twenty years’ practical expe
rience of this system, pronounces
good, and which has so won the
favor of the French Government that
it has just adopted the savings banks
system, so that the people of France
now enjoy the same advantages in
this respect as do those of Great
Britain. Will the United States fol
low the example of its neighbors?
rlie ii out wheel of the car of Prog*e:v-«> u t before any damage was
or the front wheel of an awful Jugge - Thinking his mother nad take:
oaut. A eomp.ito lively lew people
react boo!:Wi»y ? Bf ause the news
paper has for the g*eat masses taken
.lie place of the l»ook. Look over the
g reet cars aud the ferry boats and the
great railroad twins, and where you
find one m;>n with a book you will find
ihir ‘v wi»li a newspaper. Take one of
die great dailies, and during the year
ii; publishes medical information to
owe people than all the medical jour
nals of America: legal information to
n?o e people than nUilie legal journal#
ofibe land: religions information to
more peop’e than all j be tract societies
of the eoonl/y; agricultural informa
tion to more people »h.ui all the favm-
Ifig journals put together.* So far from
deploring ibis tact, it is a matter of
congratulation. The newspaper is the
divinely onlahied channel of intelli-
0 en- <f*4b,r tile ;>eople. Po ; table and
easily carried in band or pocket, it is
• ead ou i he way to business, or on the
way home.' This is about all the time
our business and working people have
for reading. A tier a man has been all
day bothered with dry goods, or slocks,
or hardware, o. bai-gun-making, you
might pile around b ; «n a barricade of
me-a physical realises by Sir William
Hamilton, and he would not read one
of i.bem. The newspaper has overcome
rhe book. Our business is to pray
God for fie elevation of Ihe important
agency I speak o«. and to employ it in
the distribotioo of he V ruth. The more
jood newspapers the less chance for
bail ones. Let us fight had pictures
wuh good picitc-e-. bad senrimeuts
with good teniimeaw, f»autt with
honesty, lies with the t ruth.
the trunk. On Saturday last Hr. S.
took the tram at noon for Brunswick:
and later In the evening his wife locked
the honse and went to a neighbor’s to
spend the night, intending to go from
thereto church the next day. Sun
day the weather was too bad jtor Mrs.
S. to go home, but her eldest son, Mr.
Albert Sntton, went and fonhd the
bouse open aud upon entering found
the L.unk open and several bundles of
rice straw on the bed winch had evi
dently been set on fire, hut had
taken the
money with her, and the thief being
disappointed fn his object, bad tried to
set the house on fire, he thought noth
ing more serious of it, until ms mother
relumed and found the money gone.
These facts were given us by a gen
tleman merely as be had heard them,
and we give them to our readers for
what they are worth.
Mr. Sutton lives in the country,
about six miles south of here; and ’
appears to us that it was a very un
safe place for that amount of public
funds, especially when there was no
one on the place. The thief was cer
tainly acquainted with matters, and
he manipulated things largely to his
own interest.
A Warnin'? co Questioner*.
Boston Globe.
John B. Gough delivered an address
at Chautauqua, recently, to mothers
and Sunday school teachers, upon vhe
value of salvation to children. In the
course of the address he said: :t Be
careful how you talk to children;
they'll be even with you. A superin
tendent told me that a certain Mr.
Jones always wanted to address his
Sunday school, and always made a
botch and failure. One Sunday he
came in unexpectedly and insisted on
five minutes of time. ‘Children, my
name is Jones,’ said he, ‘I came from
Baltimore and am going to Massachu
setts and I stopped here to try and
save you from going to hell. * Now
see if you Can fix that in our minds.
Where did I come ia*om?” Children—
‘Baltimore.’ ‘What is my name?
‘Jones.’ ‘Where am I going?’ *To
hell!* said fifty voices.”
Cold.
Farmer Hancock, iu Saturday’s
Semi- Weekly Eepubtican, makes the
following voluntary contribution to
scions:
“The mercury indicated two de-
i ;rces below freezing Friday moru-
ng. No objection is raised to these
occasional freezes, they, keep back
the flow of sap in the frnit trees,
and give promise of a good crop of
frnit. They destroy the cryptoga
mia in the swamps and issue promi-
sory obligations for good health next
summer. They pulverize the 6od
and open the pores of the earth to
receive the fecundating showers and
gasses in the interest and hopes of
agricultcre. Let them come until
M arch.”
She attended a ball—danced to a
late boor—became overheated—
went home thinly clad, in a cold,
damp night air and caught cold.
Next day—headache—loss of appe-
tite—slight fever—dry skin—pains
and aches—chilly sensations—indis
position to get up. Remedy o
bottle Dromgoolc’s English Fem.
Bitters
Tl>e Southern Need ol Good Cootu*
A correspondent of Ihe Nashville
American says: ‘ I have had occa
sion to travel considerably during
the past year, amt at half the houses
I stopped the biscuits were raw at
tlie bottom, and either as heavy as
lead or yellow as a pumpkin with
soda, tviiilc the meat was swimming
in grease. Why, it is enough to give
a razor-back hog, a sheep-killing dog
or a Bengal tiger dyspeuda. And'
then the coffee, how delectable?
What it is made of I have not the
slightest'idea; bnt, whatever it is, it
lias not the remotest kinship to
genuine Rio or-the deliciously fla
vored Java. Horace (, i ccicy visited
the Soil ill soon after- the- war, .atjd.
tlie only cirticism iris kind heart
made was ill these memorable
words: ‘Tlie South needs 20,000
cooks!’ It would not have been
piudcnt for Mr. Greeley to have
made a visit to the Sunlit before the
war, but if lie had, and been enter
tained by 20,000 far mere and plant
ers, lie would hare -aid: ‘The
South has 20,000 of the best cooks in
fhe world!’ Southerners always
educated their daughters, and when
ihese daughters married they made
their home attractive in various
ivays, and rsjiccially in the cooking
department. They educated the ne
gro women in the art of cooking,
and allowed them to douolliing else,
consequently tlie cooking was excel
lent. But the abolition of slavery
also abolished good cooking,-except
as to tlie negro women who were
educated by their mistresses in the
culinary art, and the mistresses them
selves. * I heard a gentleman make
a very sensible remark recently.
“Vanderbilt, Peabodv and' Slater
have given millions of dollars to the
cause of education in the South, and
I- honor them as great benefactors of
this section; but if I had several
millions to give away I would estab-
lishali over the Sonth schools in which
the art of cooking would be taught.
In doing this I would be subserving
the cause of morality and religion,
as well as of civilization and human
ity. Properly cooked food causes
health, and perfect health is condu
cive to good temper, cheerfulness,
kind feelings, efficient and capable
work, mental and physical, while
badly cooked food produces indiges
tion ; indigestion causes bad health
in every part of the human system,
trctfulness, hatefulness, discontent,
poor mental and physical labor, and
renders life a curse to himself and
all those around hint. A man can
not be a true Christain, in all that
means, if he is fed upon badly cook
ed food ail his days. The great
need of the country is good cooks
aud plenty of them. Yonng ladies
should be instructed in the art, both
at school and at home. It is time
the country was awakening to this
great need. A well-to-do parent
lo spends $500 to give his daughter a
musical education, and another $500
buy her a piano, and nine chances to
one she never plays on it a year after
her marriage. H the $1,000 were
spent in giving her a practical and
theoretical knowledge of cooking, it
would be far better for her and infin
itely better for her future husband
and children.” The man who made
these remarks is married and has
three beautiful daughters—“hence
these tears.”
of
The exact magnitude of our pen
sion list is very clearly Bhown by
comparison which the Bostt
Herald makes between it and the
Brili8h list Though Great Dritian
has not had a war daring the past
qoarler ofa ceninry that can com’
pare in magnitude with our war of
the Confederacy, it mnat be remem
bered that she hiu been engaged in
war all that time in some country or
another; that she has the retiring
pensions to meet for a considerable
siauding army and the strongest
navy in the world, and that she his
always been regarded as very lavish
in paymentjof her army and navy.
The total of British army pension
amount to $10316^85; of naval .
sions to $5,927,230; or a total of 111
244,305. After onr arrears
pensions have been folly adjust
ed, the burden upon the Jtax
payer will amount to about $64
000,000 per annam, and the propcsl
lions now pending, if adopted, would
add $30,000,000, more. For a conn-
try which boasts its immunity from
wars and the burdens of great stand
ing armies, this is most certainly -
very remarkable showing.
Imaginary sickness.
Among the papers left behind by a
German physician who died a few
weeks ago is one containing notes of
certain conclnsions he had arrived at
during a professional experience of
more than forty, years. In one of
Ihese notes he expresses an opinion
that at least a third of the illness of
the patients who sought his advice
wepe purely imaginary. He found it
not only against his own interest brtt
also against that of the self-alleged
sufierers, to destroy the illusion by
informing them lhat there was really
tin cause for anxiety. IU health
to them a matter of almost vital im
portance. To destroy the pleasing
belief that they possessed this bless
ing was an absolute cruelty. In the
few instances in which he broke to
them the terrible truth that they were
quite well, he fonnd that the result
was genuiene illness. For the pa
tients, all interest departed with
their favorite occupation of nursing
themselves, and their health became
seriously affected by nervous depres
siou. He also found that, as a rule,
weakly persons live longer than
strong ones. 'Without going so far
as to say that the best lives are those
rejected by the insurance offices, he
thought nevertheless that persons
with “a screw loose” more often at
tain longevity than those in whom
no trace of disease can be detected.
Bailey's Salixe Apebiext is now
recognized as the best and cheapest,
and most pleasant cathartic in use,
for the special cure of headache, con
stipation, heartburn, acid stomach,
dyspepsia, etc. It cools and quiets,
while as a sparkling summer bever
age, it is delightful.
INDSTINCT PRINT
The Italian JBalden.
A letter from Italy says: “The Ital
ian girl from the cradle is cultured
in expression, in word, in action and
by looks. Her entire features, ges
tures aud motions are highly ex
pressive of what language frequent
ly fails to convey. Her words are
soft and suggestive; her vivacious
lip service, her sweetness of intona
tion and her grace of pose never de
sert her. Perfectly unaffected, she
is not French, and completely grace
ful, she is not American. Hovering
between Juno and Venus, she is
proud, palpitating, passionate and
pretty. Next to Spain, this is the
country of emotional hands, shoul
ders and perhaps feet.
Necro Voles.
The objection of the Southern
whites to the negro as a voter is
that he is ignorant and unfitted to
vote—not that he is black/ If he
could be educated sufficiently to cn-
lim to vote intelligently, there
onld be no color line in poli-
Ten Bales on Twelve Acres—IVlds
Bows snd Shallow Cultivation
Hawk insTillo Dispatch.
Mr. John T. Arde, of this county,
made last year ten bales of cotton
averaging over five hundred pounds
on twelve acres. He broke his lend
deep, made the rows four feet apart
instead of three feet, and gave it
shallow cultivation. He used one
hundred pounds of gnano to the
acre. Until last year Mr. Arde laid
off his cotton rows only three feet
apart, end his beat yield was only a
bale to two acres. He thinks the
land should be thoroughly and
deeply broken before planting
and then follow the system of wide
rows and shallow cultivation. Mr,
Arde, like Guilford Gunter/of Dooly,
believes in patting geese in the cot
ton patch. He says he will hereafter
be sure to secure the assistance of
these Roman birds of honor. A
goose'saved Rome when imperiled
by an invading army, and a flock of
geese will save a cotton crop when
the farmer is pushed for hee hands.
All ihe goose needs is about a half
pint of corn a day to give it strength
to hont for grass, and each goose can
keep an acre clean.
W. G. RAOUL.
A Native of Louisiana and
Made Man.
Capt. W. G. Raoul, the new Pres
ident of the great Georgia Central
Railway system of more than 1,200
mites of track, is a native of Living-
ton parish, Louisiana, and a son of
the founder of the great car works at
Amite City, that State. He served
for a time as a member of the Wash
ington artillery, and then served in
the car building department until
the close of hostilities. After the
wo. he took charge of the car works
on the Jackson Railroad, established
by his father; bnt just a3 they were
beginning to be successful ' the
change in the location of the shops
oi the company proved disastrious
to the enterprise, and young Raoul,
perceiving a large field of enterprise
for his capacity and energy opened
to him in the great Slate of Georgia,
removed there, procured employ
ment in subordinate positions, and
gradually worked his way through
all the grades of railroad manage
ment until he reached the highest
position in that line of the Common
wealth, beating therefore a railroad
magnate, Gen-AIexander, who had
heretofore been regarded as invinci
ble.
Railroads' and the People.
Charlotte Observer.
There is necessarily no conflict be
tween the railroads and the people,
there need be none, and a railroad
commission, such as is proposed,
while at first glance it might seem in
spired by hostility to the roads, may
be of good service to both roads and
people, provided the selection be
made wisely, and the companies ac
cept the situation, and .co-opporate
with the commission in good faith.
gfeofcssioiial ©;mls.
O.-A- VASON. A. B. A).e.tJEXl»
PA,SON a: AEFRIUND
Attorneys at Law.
ALBANY, GA.
-AeUve and prompt attention £iven to col-
•ctiions and ail general business, Practice
pi all tbe courts.
Office ©Ter Sou the & Express office, oppo
site Court House. fau8-att
T. JOKES, JESSE W. "WALTERS.
JONES & WALTERS
attorneys at Law,
ALB ANT, GA.
Office orer Centra! Railroad Bank,
fanlff-ly
James Callaway,
Attorney at Law
CAMILLA, GA
Sheffield & Bell
Hare now on baud for the cozniog season, a complete stock of
WATT PLOWS,
One and Two-Horse,
With all the atttacbiuents. We are also agents for the
feb*2?
Trowbridge & Hollinhead
DENTISTS,
.VAYCROSS, - - - - GEORGIA
Teeth extracted without pain. All work
at muted. Terms moderate. Will go any-
kero on B. & A. and S. F. ft W. Railroads
apl8*13a
Z. iX. ODOM,
Attorney-at-Law,
(Office In the Coart Haase)
ALBANY, GA.
represent client* in the Albany cir-
CoUeetions a specialty.
dec&dltwly
THE ALBANY HOUSE I
Herrick Barnes,Proprietor
Albany, Georgia.
r s House is well furnished and in ev
ery way prepared for the accommo-
Jation of the traveling public. Entire sat
isfaction guaranteed. The table is sup
plied with the best the country affords,
rad the servants are tmsurpessed in po-
titenees and attention to the wants ol
; nests. Omnibuses convey passengers tc
rad from the different railroads prompt-
free of charge. Charges to suit the
es. sep29 ti
EAR -forthe MILLION
Foo Choo’s Salsam of Shark's Oil.
--A.2STID-
CELEBRATED BRANDS,
Rifle and Ducking Powder.
Breech and Muzzle
Positively Restores tbe
Only Absolute Core for
nad Is the
This Oil is abstracted from peculiar species of
small White Shark, caught in the yellow
Sea, known as Caxchaxodon Bondxlkth. Et-
erjr Chinese fisherman knows it. Its virtues as a
restontiv* of hearing were discovered by a Budd
hist Priest about the year 14C0. Its cares were so
numerous and many so seonlnslymlrae-
* ns, that the remedy was officially proclaimed
cr tte entire Empire. Its use became so uni
versal that for over 300 years no Deafness
has e vis tod among the Chinese people.
Sent, charges prepaid, to any address at $l per
Hear What the Deaf Say
It has performed a miracle In my ease.
A J 1 ® unearthly noises in my head and
greatly
i helped a great deal—think another
I have been
MrC
bottle will
“Its virtues are
Unquestionable
as the vriier ear.
L Its
>„—,— Tl —.i.... ........ Wiltsa^ 1 -
.tlock ft Jxxxxt, 7 Dcy Street, New York,
ring H-00, and yon will receive by return s
remedy that will enable yon to bear like —*"*“
else, and whose curative effects will be pei __
Ysowill nerer regret doing sor—Baarcf Mer-
9*To avoid loss in tbe
Oniv imported by Haylock & Jenney
(UlaBuuctiCa)
Sole Esenia for Emeries. 7 Dev St.. N.
manta Female Institute,
ATLANTA. GA.
3EACHTBEE Street, opposite Governor’s
XT Mansion. The exercises of this school
will be resumed on Wednesday. September 6,
SSf, with a corps of experienced teachers.
The object of this institution is to afford the
advantages of a thorough education ernbrac-
— Primary, Intermediate, Academic and
giate Departments. Special attention
given to the atudy of Music. Mode* a Lan
guages, Belles-Lettres and Art. Native
French and .German teachers are employed,
ansic department Is under the able man-
entof Piof. Alfredo Barili. Forcircu-
an apply to
HB3.J.W.BAI 4BD, Principal,
augl—dlt-Cmw.
BBT ont E7T6DIE IS
I sroorx/SutJ^IBM
EXPECTORANT
of Herbal M mm
ptmesls ths svbstacee ortho
-Bronchial Tubes, andfhnn* a
tfi which relieves fr-
that esuaee tbe cough. It cleanses
lsusws oT all Imparities,
mmSBSr
stee the eireulation of tbe blood, and brncesthe
{•System. Slight colds often" end In
imption. It is dangerous to neglect
i* "Apply the remedy promptly. A
test of twenty jean warrants the assertion that
nor*medy has ever been found that Is as
~ition,and it* use speedily cures the most
eough. . A plcosant cordial, chll-
craa.Uk* It readily. For Croup It *“
lnvmlmahle and should be in ererr family.
Ira 38c, and il Bottlee.. '
TUTT’S
PILLS
ACT OIRECTLYTl^t^VER?
- and Jlsvsr* Dyspepsia,
Stele Headache, Billons Colie,Constipa
tion, Khevmmtlsm, Piles, Palpitation of
the Heart, DlxslnesS. Torpid Liver, and
Female Irregmlaritles. If you do not “feel
very well,” a single pill stimulates tbe stomach,
itorea the appetite,impart* vigor tc tbe system.
A NOTED DIVINE SAYS;
Da.Torr:—Dear Sin tar tea years I have
been a martyr to Dyspepsia, Constipation and
Files. Last spring your pill* were recommended
tome; I used them (but vi;b little faith). Ism
now a well nan, hare good appetite, dig
perfect, tegnUr stools, piles g>
gamed forty pennds solid fleeb.
weight ia gold.
Biv. B.L. SIMPSON, Louisville, Kj.
gone, and 1 hare
They are worth
LOADING SHOT GUNS.
Brass and Paper Shells
Alvin in slock at Tovcst prices.
yf
SHEFFIELD & BELL,
-1 rsipril
BROAD STREET,, ALBANY, GA.
Js r F. TyFT
S.D. KV1N
TIFT & IRVIN,
ALBANY, - - - - GEORGIA,
' DEALERS IN- .
Sash, Cement, Laths,
Doors, Lime, Plaster
Blinds, Hair, Paris,
And Builder, s implies.
Western Paint and Roofing Co.’s Non*
Corosive Paint,
Hb WHICH WK SE1L CHUBB A STRICT GUEBAIt TEE
s
TRUNKS, UMBRELLAS, Etc.,
We tak.pleasure inaaaomKia* to the dtiaMof Altanjand , r U rro,,ndic : cauntr T ,. 1 hat v. hav.
AND BAT HOUSE J
ST06A BOOTS AND HEAVY BROGANS !
SINGLETON, HUNT & CO.
Albany, Ga. September 3th. 1832-dtf
FINE MEAL, GRITS AND CHOPS.
REPAIRING AND MACHINE WORK,
New and Second-Hand Engines.
fancock Inspirators, Steam Jet Pomps,
Piping, Pipe Connections,
Steam Gauges, Water Gauges,
Globe Valves, Check Valves,
Rubber Packing, Hemp Sacking.
Steam Whistles, Belting. s
ter LESS ASD PIMPS FOB TERPENTINE STILLS JTW
O. W. TIFT & oo.
S. W, GUNNISON,
Hoc
is now;opening the largest stock of
Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters gives steadi
ness to the nerres, induces a beaithy, nat-
ural flow or bile, prevents constipation
without unduly purging the bowels, gen
tly stimulates tbe circulation and by uro-
moting a vigorous condition of the nbv«-
ical system, promotes, also, that cheerful
ness which 1* Uie truest indication of a welJ-
bslancrd condition of all the animal powers
Fer dale by all Druggist* and Doolosa
generally.
Hardware, Crockery, Stove;
HOUSEFURNISHING GOODS, ETC.
He has aver bad daring bis long business career in Albany. Call and see tbe ham
signs in
CHINA, GLASSWARE, ETC.,
AGENT FOR TALBOTT A 80N’S STEAM ENCINES. BOY DIXIE
FLOW, MIAMI POWDER CO., AND JOHN VAN’S
WROUGHT IRON RANCE.
s. w. atnransJw.
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