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THE GREENSBORO’ HERALD. VOL. 11. THE HERALD PUBLISHED WEEKLY AT GREENSBORO’ GA., BY J T3L SPE3NTCB Terms. One copy per annum, - * - - - $2 50 The Atlanta Intelligencer lARED IRWIN WHITAKER Proprietor. | Subscription and Advertising Rates TEK.iiS OF SUBSCRIPTION, Daily, per month $ 1 00 Daily, lid months 10 00 Weekly, 6 months 2 oO Weekly, 1 year 3 00 Single oopies at the counter 105 Single copies to JNews Boys and Agents RATES OF ADVERTISING For each square of 10 lines or less, for the firit insertion 31, and each subsequent insertion 50 cents 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.’