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THE GREENSBORO’ HERALD.
VOL. 11.
THE HERALD
PUBLISHED WEEKLY AT
GREENSBORO’ GA.,
BY
J T3L SPE3NTCB
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ofct26— ATLANTA GA.
GREENSBORO’ lIOTEI.
a fIHIE undersignad has re
JL opened the above nam
W s iiffiSt ec Hotel at tneold stand
Wm 1 <&i opposite the Court House
where he will at all times be pleased to set
bis friends and the public gen rally. Tht
house has been, renovated, and tbe table
will be literally eupp/ied.
Mr W. T Doster will be in readiness
with good horses and vehicles to convey
passengers to any desired point.
J. J. DOHEfITY
scpt2o—tf
Augusta Hotel.
Augusta, : ; ; = Georgia
S. M. JONES, Proprietor.
Leading, Fashionable Hotel, has
I been newly and elegantly furnished,
and if nowprepated to extend a '"Georgia
Welcome.”
t Col. GEO, H. JONES, Chief Clerk.,
InaylO—tf
HOTEL
Alabama Street
ATLANTA, GEOR3IA. j
WHITE & WHITLOCK, Proprietors.
Bryson and Wjley Clerks.
Baggage carried to and from Depot free of
charge,
PLANTERS HOTEL.
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA.
NEWLY furnished and refitted, unsurpassed
by any Hotel South, is now open to the
Public
T. S. NICKERSON Prop’r.
Late of Mills Houte. Charleston, and Proprietor
Os Nickerson’s Hotel, Columbia, S. C.
M. P. BTOVALL, D. E. BUTLER
Os Augusta Ga. Os Madison Morgan
STOVALL & BUTLER.
Cotton Warehouse
—AND GENERAL —
Commission Mercha tils
Augusta, Ga.
HAVE formed a Partnership for the pur
pose of conducting the above busi
ness, They will devoti their best en rgies
to advance the interests of their cudorn
ite ift the
Storage and Sale of Cotton and
other Produce.
* M. P. Stoall is well known as having j
Aeensuccessfully engaged for many years
rn thiß business.
D. E. Butleris also faorably kno i as
long connected with the Planting i: crest
and public enterprise of the Stale
Office and Sales Room conerr of J kson
and Reynold Streets, now occupied y M.
P. Stovall,
sept7—tf
Information.
Information guaranteed toj produce a luxuriant
growth of hair up <n a bald head or ard
lesß face, alto a recipe for the removal Pim
pies. Blotches, > ruptions, tct., of the sk*:; leav
ing the same soft, clear and bsantifrl, abe
obtained without charge by address ng
THOMAS F. CHAPMAN, Car. ist
ctO —ts 8? B;e*dway New York
IB r*BfcT «C 2 JC r JM7 jmM. C.B 1 ® * -£3±. JHB- * -AH.
0. M. HOLBROOK,
HATTER
Tfhitehll Street,
ATLANTA GEORGIA
Still on Hand wPh a go.d Seloclionnf
FALL A D WINTER HATS
Os the Verv Latest Styles which ne offers to
ibe Trade, at Whulosaleor Retail,
CHEAP FOR CASH!
Also a Fine Selection of
LADIES AND MISSES FURS
hW Sable. Sets Mink. Seto Fi ch
Seta S.iuirrels Seats Co'urcd Muskrat.
Set sFreneh Coney, Children s Set
Set e and blu« Sets, ranging n Price mos
$ OTO S2OO
Highest Cash Trice Faid for Furs of all Kinds,
Baver, Otter, Mink, Musk Rat Wild Cat r
House Cat- Coon, Fox Opossum, Rabbit, Deer
Hides, Bear bkics.
J. M. HOLLBROOK
oct26-lm Whitehall street, Atlanta, Ga,
fit. IIYAMS & CO.
Genial Commission Merchants
At Oortiek old Stand •
178 Broad si
AUGUSTA GA,
• And Dealers in
FI NE GROCERIES
WINES,
LIQUORS,*
SEGARS
SHOES and HATS
Lime Plaster and Cement always
ors hand and for sale. sep2B—6m
NEW GOODS
THE subscribers are constantlyreceiviug
fresh accessions to their present desira
ble stock of
GENERAL MERCHANDISE,
and the publij, as well as their friends, are
respcctiullv nvited to favor them with a
call.
Their assortment of
DRESS GOODS
Hats, Shoes, School Books, &c.,
are ample and are offered .at price#that
will not fail to give satisfaction.
may3-tf HOWELL A b.vRY,
R. M. ROSE, W. K. FOX, 0. > : OSE
R. M. HOSE & CO
WHOLESALE DEALERS IN
BRANDIES, WINES, WHISKIES, Ac
Broad Street
Granite Block ATLANTA, GEORGIA
ITTE particulaly Solicit ordeis from Mereh-
VV ants in neighboring efties and vill'iaer?
be" iving fiat wo c n suit them ns we't in
PRICES AN 0 QUA LITY, as Northern deal
ers .
3 GUARRAVTEF, SATISFACTION
IN EVERY INSTANCE- -,19 -3ws
• COTTON PLANTERS ATTEMTION.
WRIGHT’S IRON COTTON SCREW.
ON account of the great d-c’ine in Cottar
the price yl the above Screws is roduced t Q
SBSrM. W
delivered at
Atlanta or Augusta
on the cars A valuable improvement has re
cwn»ly been made in the \ ROII Send for circu
lar withs U awcnpHon of frams etc
Re’srs t Planters in Gronne enl Hancock
who jro using the or Por further information
app ’ 7 t 0 L*D. PALMER
G.nl, agt Augusta or Atlanta
’ octl9- 3u»
GREENSBORO’, GA., NOVEMBER 23, 1867.
POETRY.
The Reaper and the Flowers;
BY LONGFELLOW
There is a Reaper, whose name is Death,
And with his sickle keen,
He reaps the bearded grain at a breadth,
And the fioweis that grow between.
“Shall I have nought that is fair V’ saith he,
1 Have nought but the bearded grain 7
Though the breath of ihose flowers is sweet
to me
I will give them all back again,”
He guzed at the flowers with tearful eyes ;
He kissnd their drooping leaves ;
It was for the Lord of Paradise
He bound them in hi3 sheaves.
‘•My Lord has need of these flowerets gay,”
The Reaper said and smiled ;
“Dear tokens of the earth are they,
Where He was onoe a child’’
11 They shall all bloom in fields of light.
Transplanted by my care,
And ssiuls upon their garments white,
Th.se sacred blossoms wear’
And the mother gave in tears in and pain,
The flowers she most did love.
She knew she should find them all again
In the fields of light above
0. not in cruelty, not ii wrath,
The reaper came that day j
’Twas an angel visited the green earth
And took the flowers^away.
Betty Frazier.
Id early limes before the '’rst land Bales
of the beautiful White Water valley, where
Connersville, Liberty. Cambridge City,
Centerville and Richmond now stand, there
lived upou the east bank of White Water,
a mile above Connersville. a most remarka
ble woman by the name of Betty Frazier.
She wes a small, tough looking, rather
swarthy woman, her husband. George Fra
zier, was a poor cripple, and with their
children were entirely supported by Betty.
They bad settled upon a small fraction of
government land, intending to purchase at
the sales. The Land Office was at Cincin
nati. and General James Findlay was the
Receiver. The spring of the year, after a
severe Winter, had come; the sales were to
take place the next winter, and Betty had
the season before her to raise the money to
pay for her laud. She commenced with a
young stock of hogs, caring for them daily,
driving them to the best mast, and prepar
ing $ good patch of corn to finish the fats
toning proce s. She had only one horse to
attend her crop, and ultimately to ride to
Cincinnati when she drove her hogs down
to sell, and buy her land, About mid-sum
mer she saw a horseman ride up to her cab
in. She met him at tbe bar-: “Well, Gen
eral Hanna, how do you do?” “Very
well, Mrs. Frazier.” “What on earth has
brought you all the way from Brookville to
my poor cabin ?” "I am sorry to tell you
Mrs. Ffazi r that I am the Sheriff, and
have an execution against your property. ’»
‘‘Well, General I always-submit to tne
law; comj with me to the stable and « wilt
give yon my only horse as the best I can
dc.” There were no “exemption laws”
then. Betty and the General proceeded to -
the stable. It was a mg log building,
with a single door, and" no window, over
laid with a solid platform ui -u r >, and till
ed above with hay tor the horse. The door
fastened outside with a large wooden pin in
a log. “There, General, is the horse —take
him.” The General stepped in and com
menced untying the horse. Betty immedi
ately fastened the door ou'side, driving the
pin into the hole to its full length, and left
the feeneral to his reflections while .-he ats
tended to her household affairs Time
parsed away, night came on ? but no relief
to the captured General. Morning cam ;,
and with it came Betty. “Well, General,
how did you sleep last night?” “Not ve
ry well. I am ready to compromise this
matter; if you will let me out and show me
tbe ford over White Water, the river was
muddy and high, I will leave you and the
horse and retui n the execution 'no proper
ty found.’” “Upon honor 1” “Yes, upou
honor.” Betty opened the door, The Gen
eral mounted his horse and silently follow
ed Betty down to the river side. “There,
General, you will go in just above that big
sycamore, and come out at that haw bu-b
you see.” The General started; at t e
second step both horse and rider were uu
der water out of sight, and the hat of the
General was seen floating down the rfvtr.
Still he being one of the pioneers, and his
hors • a trained swimmer, gallantly stem
med the current, and exactly struck the
haw bush, bishor-e swimming to the very
shore, while Bettv stood on the bank
screaming—‘l guess the Brookville officers
will let me alone now till I have nld my
pigs and bought my. rid.” But the end
was not yet. Time rolled on; the pigs
grew to he well fitted hogs Betty Tuouut-
ed. her pony; the Util* boys started the
bogs for Cincinnati; they had ton days to
get there before the laud sales, the dis
tance was about seventy mites. Nothing
unusual occurred on the road until they ar
rived at New Tientou, at Squire Rocksfel
low's. The night was stormy; the snow
fell deep, and thp next morning found Bets
ij at the usual hour on' the pony, well
wrfiAped, with an infant & few hours old in
her bosom. \&he arrived with her hogs at
Cincinnati the day before the sale, sold
them for cash; an the late General Find
lay told me that she stood by his ride or
the box and bid off her land, with her in
fant in her'arms. Truly “truth is stranger
*han fiction.”
The Sour Lake in Texas.
About sixty milqs f-om Houston, in Tex
as, in a low, wet prairie country, but itself
on quite high ground and surrounded by a
fine little forest, is a small lake, whose di
ameter may be counted by rods, the waters
of which are so sour that it is almost im
possible to drink them. A number of wells
have been dug in the immediate vicinity,
aid the water of these contains iron, alum,
magnesia and sulphuric acid.
Notwithstanding the difficulty of reach
ing thd place and the poor accommodations,
large numbers of invalids ,go there from
Southern States to drink the water of the
wells and bathe in the lake; aid they ex
perience immediate and remarkable bene,
fit. The (fleet of the baths is sensilive
and persons who have not slept comforta.-
hie for weeks, after taking a bath injike
lake in the evening enjoy a refreshing
night’s rest.
The water becomes mo- e plea-cut to the
taste after a few glasses, and may be hot
tied- oi put in wooden casks without losing
Us Htreugth. The soil is to'strongly iun.
preguatod with the same qualities ns the
watv that if tbe mud be dissolved in pure
water, and a little soda or salaratus put
iuto it, it will,foam and effervecc, an l wil,
become ds sour as lemcuaue.
Before the war a number of gentlemen
were considering plane for building a large
hotel at the place; but since then the pio
jeet has been postponed. A number of gen
tlemen bought the propert. ot a man who
died about twenty-five years ago, but, ac
cording to the laws ot Texas a man cannot
sell bis homestead without the consent ol
'his wife, and a lady of Chicago, claiming
to be Hie former owner's wife, has brought
a suit to recover it under law. The matter
is still in litigation.
NOT LAWYER ENOUGH TO HURT.
—That moderate reputation at the bar is
not regarded in the West as an insurmount
able barrier to vital piety or membership
in the Church, has been definitely • settled
at F—, a city of Illinois, where an inter
esting revival of religion has been in pro
gress under the ministration of Presiding
Elder B—, an able minister, and souioitiiug
of a wit. That Church was a power in the
city and country around. A young law
yer, flirnrtl D—, had been a regular atten
dant at the meeting, had several times gone
forward to the anxious seat, y et seemed to
be in no huriy to unite with the Church.
The sickle nad been thrust in unsparingly
for several week.-, and now they were gath
ering the sheaves. Brother Hiram was call
ed to tell his • xp. :e. and tell the diffi
culties in the way ot his -.-coming ont.”—
He arose and said he felt the necessity of
being a Christian, but the fact was he was
just starting in the world, bad no way ot
making a living but to practice law, and
doubted whether a man could be a lawyer
and Christian too? At this point Eider B
cried out; “Come along, brother ll'u-am,
you are not lawyer enough to hurt.”
LOOK OUT FOR THE END OF THE
WORLD..—A writer in the North Biitish
Review, among others has lately mined the
ran e of anticipators of the end of the
world, and declares that some change i
soon to take place in tbe planets. He writes
in rather a frightened vein, and says;
“What this change is to be, we Idare nat
even conjecture: but v. in the heavens
themselves tome traces of destructive ele
ments, a..d some indications (ft their power.
Tbe fragments of broken planets, the de
scent of me/eoric stones upon our globe,
the wheeling comets welding their loose
materials in rfur owns atellite, Hi? appear
ance of new stars and the disappearance ol
[ others, are as the solar furnace, *th c volcan
ic eruptions, foreshadows of that impend
ing convnlston to which the system of th<-
world is doomed. Thus plac-d on a planet
which is be burned up, and under heavens
which ar- to pass away: thus treading, as
it weie, on the ceraeferiea, and dwelling
upon the mausoleums of former world , let
us learu the lesson of humility and wisdom,
if we have not already been taught in the
school ol revelation ”
A widow of the tender ag« of 102 wa«
recently married in Alleghany'connt j, Md.
She was indeed ripe Jor matrimony.
The mlllenium will not come till m< n can
marry early. Men canr. >t marry early, ns
a rule, till women are, to some extent, sclf
upportiug.
Chroiiology ol* Printing’.
Previous to the year 16<'0, print
ing from wooden blocks was said to
be kuown and practised in China
—but the most authentic informa- 1
tion as to the art of which we have
record, is given below, and may
be verified :
1400. Playing cards first print
ed from blocks, in Europe.
1440. John Genestei.sh, surna
med Guttemfcurg, first prints in an
alphabetical language, front wood
en blocks, which served only for
the work printed.
144 r *. John MeydenbHch joins
his wealth to tiieskill of Gutteui
burg and John Faust, who were
the first printers, ./Zbout this time,
Faust invents movable types of
metal, receiving assistance from
his son-in-law, Peter Schocfler,
who devised the puncheons, mat
rices and moulds foi casting them.
1462 Faust prints the Vulgate
Bible, in two volumes, which lie
sold at first as as five hundred
crowns per copy. Having reduc
ed the price to tinny crowns,. he
was seriously adjudged to.be in
league with the devil, and would
lmv( been sacrificed for witchcraft,
had he not explained his art.
1465. Faust prints Cicero dc
Offitiis, and soon after dies.
1473 Greek first printed.
1474. Eirst printing in En
gland.
1475. First JZlmanac printed.
1492. W ilkn de Wordo prints
the first book on paper manufactur
ed in England.
1899. First work of a geogra
phical nature printed in Spain.
1591. Inquisition at Venice to
check the.diffusion of knowledge
by the press.
1522. Hebrew printed in Ger
many.
1532. Gazetteers first publish
ed in Venice, and so called from a
coin for which they were sold,
Gazetta.
1537. The first book on longi
tude written by Nonius and print
ed in Portugal.
1554. I'he first alphabet for
the deaf and dumb, with instruc
tions, printed in !Bpain.
1571. Printers in Paris, as a
mark of respect, authorized to wear
swerds.
1576. Book of Diophautinc
Algebra first printed.
1588- "English Mercuria,” a
pamnhlet printed ; the st at ■
tempt at periodical literate.
1603. First Decimal Arithme
tic printed in Flanders.
1912- King James the present
version ol the Bible, which had
been seven years in the hands of
the translators, printed.
1615. Logarithms print
ed
1639. Printing at Cambridge,
Mass., being the first attempt wjth
in the present limits ol the Uhiited
States.
1649. The first code of Pension
Laws printed,
1661. “The Public IntelPgen?
cer, ‘ by Sir Robert L’Estrange.
the first newspaper published in
England, of which a icw numbers
are still extant.
1665. First Treatise on I nsurs
ance printed.
1709. The Boston News Letter,
the first paper w’tbin the limits of
the United 8 ics, printed by John
Campbell', u Scotchman?
1706. Dr Franklin, the Ameri
can printer, philospher and states
man, born in Boston.
1709. American Weekly Mercu
ry, the first paper in Philadelphia,
priuted.
1728. The New York Gazette,
the first paper ir. tin . s tate, print
ed and published i June.
1729. Mary! i Gazette printed.
1731. Prill.i g iouth Carolina.
1732. First printing on paper
nu de within the limits of the Unit
ed States.
1737. First printing in Georgia
1755. Johnson’s Dictionary
printed in England.
1771. Printing in Louisinana.
1776 Forty-six newspapers print
ed in the United States.
1797. First printing in Missis
sippi.
1799. Tfte Mississippi Gazette
printed in Natchez.
NO. 30.
1828. Nine hundred newspapers
printed in the United States.
1536. Thirteen hundred uewss
papers in t'to Hinted States and
Territories and District of Colum
bia. From that time to the pre
sent, the increase of newspapers
and books printed has scarcely -I
limit.
OLD MAIDS.—A sprightly writer ex
presses his (Jpinion of old .ruiffs in' the foi-'
lowing manner: “I am inclined to think
that many of the satirical a-pei -ions cast
upon old maids fall more to their credit
than is geneia'lly imagined, Is a woman
remarkably neat in her person? She will
certainly be an old maid. Is slie particu
larly reserved in her intereoursj with the
other sex? She has all the squeamishness of
an old tffaid. Is she frugal in her expenses
and exact in her domestic concerns? She is
cut out for ar, old maid. And if .-he is hu
mane to tiie animals about her, nothing can
save her from the appellation of an “old
maid," In short, I have always found that
neatness, modesty, economy, and humani
ty are the never-failing characteristics of
that terrible creature—“old maid.”
DIAMOND CUT DIAMOND.—A man
having lost a quarter of mutton by ala -
ver’s dog, repaired to the office of tiie law
yer and said; “1 have come to ask a piece
of advice. Suppose a dog carried off a
leg of mutton from me, where do I look
for pay—to tbe dog or his owner?” “Oh,”
said the man of the qaill, "to tiie owner
of the dog: he is responsible for any dam
age his dog does yon.” Said the man, you
owe mo seventy-five cents.” “Ah! ? said
the lawyer, “then mv dog did the mischief?
Well, here is the money.” The face of the
man expanded with a smile at his shrewd
ness in forestallnig the opinion of the law
yer, and he was making h'm exit from the
Office, when he wffs brought,to a halt by the
lawyer saying: “I have a small bill against
yoff my friend!” “Ah! for what?” said
the man. “For advice in the dog case
two dollars,” was the reply. This was a
poser. It being strictly legal, and the low
est fee in the calendar for advice, there
was no dodging, to the ;money was paid
over and he departed a wiser if not a bet
ter man.
*- •
PERSONS BORN AT TIIE WRONG
TIME.—Dow.. Jr., thus closes one <Jf his pa
tent sermons: “My inspected
are many among you, who, to be self satis
fled ought to be born a hundred years ago,
aid others a hundred years hence. They
appear to nave been cast upon the earth at
the wrong period, and in a wrong place,
like a duck’s egg dropped by the margin of
some muddy pool. They Cud no food suit
ed to their taste upon the sumptuous table
spread before them. They had rattier cith
er go back and pick the bones of the past,
or-stick their fingers in the unprepared
dishes of the future, than partake ot tho
rich bounty that the present provides.
Such folks are born before and after their
time, and have ne business here at this ex
act period. However, the fault is not
theirs; and it is not my province to cast
blame upon the parents. We should all my
friends, bestow tittle thought upon what
has been and what is to be, but make the
best of what is, and joy, peace and content
meat shall be ours in the end. So mote it
be!
FIRST STEF TO RUIN. —“My first step
to ruin,” exclaimed a wretched youth, as
he lay tossing from side to side on a straw
bed in one corner of his prison, “was leav
ing the Sunday school and going out in the
fields on Sunday, robbing birds’ ucsts. and
sometimes fishing. I knew U was wrong.
\ly mother and my teacher laufeht me bet
ter. My Bible taught me better I did not
beliave them; but I did not think it would
come to this.”
The Masons of Milledgevllle have deter
mined to establish a Masonic High School.
The plan proposed is to sell a cumber of
scholarships, not exceeding 500, at $25
each, redeemable within ten years. u
other words, a Mason or auy one else can
send their child to school for $25 a year.
It will be altogether for boys.
A QUERY.— If four cat3 with sixteen
legs can catch fourteen rats with forty-two
legs, while a woman with two tongues is
saying Jack Robinson, how many legs
must eight rats have to get away from the
same number ot cats in two minutes, due
allowances being made for tare and tret.
We sba’l expect an easwer soon.—l’rin*
ter’s Devil.
Precocious piFs that who look
as the theme ot her graduating es
say at a fashiohable seminary, ‘iho
EJucaticn of Quo Bovs.’
