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THE GREEKSBOIIO’ HERALD.
VOL. 11. .
THE HERALD,
PUBLISHED WEEKLY AX
GREENSBORO, GA.,
BY
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Schedule
FOR Ml CON AND AIGISTA RAILROAD.
Leave Milledgevllle ■> JO a m
Leave Carr’s cos ™
Leave Deavreaux ? *“ am
Leave Sparta a “
Leave G ulverton J 25 a ru
Leave Mayfield 7 60am
Leave Warronton B -6 a m
Arrive at Camak 8 55 a m
RETURN TRAIN
Leave Gamak 17 30 p m
Leave Warrenton 1 ““ P a
Leave May6eid ' j? R m
Leave Gnlverton * *“ P m
Leave Sparta f 40 p m
Leave Deavreaux jj 10 p m
Leave Garrs ? ?n P,m
Arrives at Milledgeville 4 10pm
Cliange oi* Schedule on
the Georgia Railroad
ONand after Thursday, Qctobor 10tb, 1867,
the Passenger Trains on the Georgia
Railroad will run as follows :
Day Passenger Train.
(Daily .Sunday Excepted,)
Loave Augusta at J 30 a m.
Leave Atlanta at V-m ™
Arrive at Augusta at pm
Arrive at Atlanta at ,jJ T :a
Night Passenger Train
Leave Augusta at 8-15 p m
Loave Atlanta at 5 45 p. m
Arrive at, Atlanta at 3.00 a m
Arrive at Augusta at 04 5 am
Passenger for ,Sparta, Washington and A'lieu
Ua, must take Day Passeaget Trutn fiat Au
gusto an Atlanta
Passengers for West Paint. Montf ornery
Selma, Mobile, and New Orleans, must leave
Auguta onNiglit Passenger Train at 7.15 p, m,
to moke close connections,
Passengers for Nashville, Grand
Juncf in Memphis, Louisville, and St. Louis,
con take either train and make close eonnec
Tickets and Baggage Checked
through to. he above places.
Pullman’s Pallace Sleeping Cars on all
Night Passenger Trains. U W COLE
octlS -ts General Superintendent
Atlanta A W. P. Rail
road
L. P. GRANT, Siiprrcmlcnt.
Leave Atlanta 7 00 a in
Arrive at West Point 12 ?„ “ m
Leave West Point 12 40 p m
Arrive at Atlanta 5 3u p m
GREENSBORO’ IIOTEI.
. rpilE undorsignad hasro-
i -1 JL opened the above nam
m , cc Hotel at toe old stand
opposite the Court House
where he will at all times be pleased to-sei
his friends and the public generally. Tin
house has been, renovated, and the table
will be ID erally supplied.
Mr W. T Doster will be in readiness
with good horses and vehicles to eonvey
passengers to any desired point.
'■ J. J. DOHEfiTY
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Aiignsla Hotel.
AUGUSTA, : : i : GEORGIA
S. M. JONES. Proprietor.
rnTIIS Leading. Fa°hionable Hotel, has
j| been newly and elegantly furnished, J
nnd is nowprepatod to extend a “Georgia
Welcome.” . . . •_ ,
Col. GEO. 11. JONES, Chief Clerk,
may 10—ts
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oct26— ATLANTA GA,
J. M. HOLBROOK,
HATTER
Whitehall Street,
ATLANTA GEORGIA
Still on Hand wi'h a good Selection of
FALL AND WINTER HATS
Os the Vary Latest Styles which he offers to
;f : „t Wholesale or Retail,
CHEAP FOR CASH!
Also a Fine Selection of
LADIES. AND MISSES FURS
hW Sable. Sets Mink, Set s Fi ch
Sets Squirrels, Sests Colored Muskrat.
sFreneh Coney. Children’s Set
e and Blue Sets,ranging in Price mos
$ QTO S2OO
Highest Cash Price Paid for Furs of all Kinds,
Barer. Otter. Mink, Musk Rat Wild Cat r
House Cat* Coon, Fox Opossum, Rabbit, Deer
Hides, Bear Skins.
’ J. M. HOLLBROOK
oct26-!m Whitehall street, Atlanta, Qa
M. HYAMS & CO.
Cenral Commission Merchants
At Dorties old Stand
i7Q Broad sf
AUGUSTA GA.
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FINEGROCERIES
WINES,
LIQUORS,
SEGARS
SHOES and HATS
Lime Plaster and Cement always
on hand and for sale. sep2B—6m
NEVv GOODS
THE subscribers are constantlyreceiving
fresh accessions to their present desira
ble stock of
GENERAL MERCHANDISE,
and the publii, as well as their friends, are
respectfully ’nvited to favor them with
call,
Their assortment of
DRESS GOODS
Hats, Shoes, School Books ; &c..
arcaraple and are off ■•'*3 at prices that
will not fnilto glvesatlstoction.
may3-tf HOWELL A HEART,
R. M. ROSE, W. K. FOX, 0. A. V. ROSE
R. M. ROSE & CO
WHOLESALE DEALERS IN
wu.w:s, wines, whiskies, If
[v'-S ■ . . * ' •
, B. and Street
’ ’ & 'inis Block ATLANTA, CFOR!Lt
» * rE p irtieulaly SoHolt orders from Merch
\\ unto in neighboring vines and villnge*
beleivirg hat we c«n suit them «« "N
I PUD’KS AND QUALITY, as Nortnarn de*>-
GREENSBORO’, GA., DECEMBER 7, 1867.
POETRY.
FALLING LEAVES.
They are falling, slowly falling,
Thick unon the forest side
Severed from the noble branches,
I Where they wuved in beauteous pride.
I They are falling in the valleys,
I Where the early violets spring.
And the b rds in early spring time
i First their dulcet music sing.
Tlnv are falling, sadly falling,
Close beside our cottage door ;
Pale and faded, like the loved ones,
They have gone forever more.
They are falling and the sunbeams
Shine iu beauty soft aruund ;
Yet the faded leaves are falling—
Falling on the messy ground.
They are falling on the streamlet,
/ Where the silvery waters flew,
And upon the placid bosom
Onward with the blue wators go.
Tney are falling in the churoh-yard,
Wber - our kindred sweetly sleep,
Wnere the idle winds of summer
Softly o’er the loved ones sweep.
They are falling, ever falling,
to hen the autumn broezes sigh—
When the stars in beauty glistru
Rright upon the midnight sky.
They are falling when the tempest
Moanr like ocean’s hollow roar,
When the tuneless winds and billows
Sadly sigh for evermore.
They are falling, they are falling,
While suddened thoughts still go
To the sunny days of childhood,
In the dreamy long ago
And their faded hues remind us
Os the blasted hopes and dreams,
Faded like the falling leaflets
Cast upon the ioy streams.
Spring at the foot of the Dill.
There’s a dear, sweet spot ’way down in the
rnat.
To which my heart ever turns with a sigh,
And my tears fab fast, as leaves ia the bla st,
When the winds of autumn are hurrying by.
'Tis the happy place where I drank my fill
And cooled my burning thirst with joy,
From the gn hing spring at tne foot of the hill,
v, he it 1 uranic when I w*g a boy.
—
In the old stone house standing high above,
With its honest front and open door,
Dwelt tne dearest frends of my boyhood's love
In the gay and happy times of yore.
On their love and friendship reusing still,
I dream with sweet but saddened joy.
Os the gushing spring at the foot of tue hill,
Whcro I drank when I wusa boy.
I look around me and the friends are gone,
I to ho played with me there in my boyhood’s
time,
And stii) through this world I am wandering
on—
Now dreaming a dream anl now muttering a
rhyme.
Bet on through the mist of memory still,
Like music heard from the land of joy.
Comes the gushing spring at the foot of the hill
W here I drank when I was a boy.
In the valley below where the maplo shade
Grows dark on the mound of her early grave ;
Lies sleeping forever a gentle mr.id,
Who was lovely as God to car.h e’er gave.
And the stream flows on in its music stvll
As it cornea with a hymn of joy,
From the gushing spring at the foot of the hill,
V\ here I drank when I was a boy.
A Mother and her Seven Sons.
A Jewish mother and her seven sons
were brought before Antiocus charged with
having refused to worship his idol.
The king addressed them separately, and
began with the eldest by commanding him
to worship the idol.
‘I cannot,’ said he: ‘for my God has com
manded me, saying. ‘I am the Lord thy
God, who brought thee out the land of
Egypt.”
This refusal enraged the King, and he
immediately ordered that the boy should be
killed on the spot.
The second boy was then Brought forth
‘Acknowledge my idol as one of tby
gods,’ said the king,
‘How can If’ replied the boy. ‘The l»w
vd'« me ‘thou shall-Irevc bo other geds be
fore me.’
The king, enftiged at his obstinacy, had
him executed *s the third son was led in.
Antiocus then lowered his d-emacids by
asking bim merely to bow down before the
idol- but the boy said;
•I dare uot. The word of God commands
me, Thou sbalt not bow down thyself be-
Orc them,' and he was executed.
The fourth son was theu ordered to ac
knowledge the idol merely as a divine powv
er who influenced the earth. No,’ said he:
‘/or it is saief how therefore this day and
consider in thing heart that the Lord lie is
God in the cn above and upon the
earth beneath: nnd there is noie else.’
Having thus teluscd to gotoply pifh the
king's wirt he to? was led for.L to 'death,
and theTiTlh Son btought in.
The king now a. ked still and only
and , boy to ~h >v •to*, (del some
saoriuces to any good save uu’o the Lord
only, Shall be utterly destroyed,”
The king, enraged at being Ihus repent
edly foiled, ordered him to be put to death
also.
The sixth son was called to the kings pre
sence and was askid not to embrace idola
try, but only to deny his faith.
No, said the lad, ‘for God hafl thus spok
en to Israel, saviug. ‘The Lord ha* anoint
ed thee thiS day to be his peouliar people.’
He too, was ordered to be put to death
At length the mother and her seventh
son, a mere cliMd, the only Burvivors of the
noble baud of martyrs, were led before An
tiocus. lie tried all his powerk of persua- j
feion to make the child do his bidding but
iu vain, liven his hard heart began to i
melt, and he woald gladly have saved tile ;
child, but he could not, for thousands were j
crowding around his throne, and all bis
royal dignity would have been lost if it up- I
peared that he was obliged lo yield.
On ouecondition,’said lie addressing the
child, ‘will I spare thy life. I -will drop
this signet ring of mine; pick it up and thou
shalt be saved.'
But the boy perceived the king’s device.
‘What!’ .(hid lie, ‘shall Ibo more mindful
of thine honor than of my God !’
And the brave boy’s Words sealed his
doom.
‘Let me kiss my boy before his death,’ (
asked the mother.
She kissed him and said, -When thou art
ia heaven and see Abraham, our ancestor,
tell him he Ims a rival, tor he erected an
altai for the sacrifice oi one son, butl have
seven a tars lor th_ sacrifice of seven sons.’
The heroic mother did not long survive
her noble eons.
A Horrible Occurrence.
Never in our experience as journalists,
says the Bawling Green (Ky.j Democrat,'
has it been our duty to chronicle an occur 7
rence more horrid in its details than the
one we are about to relate.
The sad '£<iir that left a widowed moth
gy cbilrP'/s. aid for the time being almost
berert of reason. tiSppinerl aflbmtV fße lWb
u It., in the adjoining county of Aliena
short distance from Warren county lihe,
and in the vicinity of Anthony's Mill. Tho
heart-rending details, as related to us by
persons of unquestionable veracity, are
about thesSome two month since, Mis. j
Blankenship, a lady of respectability, lost;
her husband by disease, nnd was left with i
three children, (wo interesting boys and a
little infant gir.l. just large enough to walk
alo c and beguile the lonely hour- of the
mother with its innocent prattle. On tbo
16th ult., the mother, Mrs. Blankenship,
for (he purpose of washing clethos, repair
ed to the spring branch near the house iu
the locality referred to, taking her three
children, with her, the bouse dog following
behind. She had been engaged in washing
but a short time when the dog was heard
harking incessantly on the bill near by.—
Thinking that the dog bad possibly treed a
raccoon orTud a rabbit at bay, the two lit
tle boys proposed going at once to secure
the game. With the mother’s consent the
little felloes started off in’hlgli glee. Alas!
better had they never been born. On
reaching the spot where the dog v as hark
ing, they saw'a short distance from the
dog a large object Coiled at the foot of a
vtnmp, in a hostile attitude. keCp’ng the
dog at bay. They looked but a moment.
Eager only to capture the supposed game
and not thinking of danger, nor knowing
the nature of the prey, they approached
the hideous monetcr that in fatality of at
tack “outvenoms all the worms of Nile.”
The oldest of the two boys approached
first: with bis little hands outstretched and
his lace aglow at the prospect of his prize,
he said, ‘l’ll get him, .brother.’ One
more and he rushed to a death more Icyr'i
bie and speedy thau were the torture* of
fabled Laocoou. With one dart of bis lorkt
ed tongue, with one death-rattle of his tail
the huge rattlesnake—for it was nothing
less—drew IN his scaly folds and with
one dart for.- ,1 planted his euvsnouaeJ
fangs ia the flesh of tho boy, and left the
d-adly poison coursing hot through his
yourg veins. Again and agaimvas the boy
bitten by the fatal reptile till he tell ex
hausted in the coils of the monster.
The oilier little fellow rushed forward to
the relief of his little brother, and he also
received the deadly fangs of the serpent in
«nve al places. The screams of the boys
alarmed the mother, who*wag still washing
nt the branch, and leaving her baby girl
■she ran frantically to the spot. Wbat a
sight there met her gaze ! Butrld with
poison, sv. often, black, and bitten in many
place.. one of her boys was already dead
and the other from eause.-
The snake had crawled away, and the liv
ing boj Jived just. Ion;' enough to Ifll the
circumstances of their death, (jverwhqlm
hed' v itfc an intensity of agony which 11,0 t-
her of h r little girl at (he branch and h ir
lied back.
On reaching the spot, horiibio as it may
seem, she found that the little girl had
walked to the wash-tub, Into which she had
Tallen head foremost and was di owned,
■ar.d it too was gong.’ The mother's cup
of misery was full; not another drop could
be added. Bereft of children, and almost
of reason, siio sank under the accumulated
horrors of the hour. Assistance was pro
cured the heart-crushed woman, and the re
mains ol her little nestlings were taken
charge of and cared for, A short time af
ter a large rattlesnake, with thirteen rat
tles, was killed near the spot where the
boys w* re bitten. •
Th- * created a profound se isation
in the c . nity, and has soarcely a par
allel cm i; : the exciting annals of our ear
ly and h .rdy pioneers.
A Cool Husband.
There is one sensible married man, says
an exchange, in this State. He is a soldier
and was ropoited to have been killed, but
; was only to prisoner. Hu returned home
I to find that his wife hKd turned anew leaf
jin the marriage service, and that another
| inan occupied his seat in the chimney cor
ner. Did he go to work slaughtering the
fa'se wife and new husband ? Nos much. —
He walked in and said:—
‘Well, old gal, how is things?”
‘Putty good. Bill,’said the dofible mar
ried woman, not taken aback greatly.
•Which do you prefer, the old or the new
love ?’
She hesitated for an instant, and then
said:
‘I don’t like to hurt your fe lings, but—.
but’—
‘Oh, spit right out. Don’t mind my feel
ings nor the other chap’s? I won’t be an
gry if you come down a little on ray vani
ty. Count on mo being amiable. I won’t
cut up rusty if you should go hack on me.’
‘l’m glad you're so thoughtful, Bill: and
T ackhowledge that. I do like my present
husband best, but if anything should hap
yfdff fi,‘7!Tui;-T‘KiffotJ'hobfcdy ‘ eTSS7 srmrtS sc
soon join fortunes with again as you.’
‘That a the way (o talk. I’ll now bid
you goodbyl', hoping that no accideDt will
happen to the other fellow, and that he will
live long to enjoy your delightful society-
Good day. ’
And tho careless husband traveled off,
with his knapsack on his back, whistling,
in cherry, clear tone. -The girl i RU be
hind me.’
Worth knowing.
It is stated that a hungry man who sits
down before a pound of bcufsteak. tender,
juicy and an inch thick, and eats it, will
find upon analysis, that sixty-five por cent,
of his steak was water; that eightean per
cent, will goto give him an aldermauic
flcshuess, and that fourteen per cent, is as
signed to warm him, and m .ke him feel
comfortable on a cold day. Os the flesh
forming ingredients, according to Dr.
Playfair, every one, on an average, re
quires ninety-two pounds annually to keep
up a proper bodily condition. li it Is uot
obtained from steaks, theu it must he sc*
cured from soinetluDg else. Cheese is a
flesh former, [3O percent.) abd takeu with
beer speedily conceals alt ti aces of unsight
ly bones '1 wo ounces of flesh-formers per
diem will keep a man alive if tie is pot
forced to labor, hut hard labor requires six
or the body will ruu short of starch and
sugar, and go behind in Isealth and sirens'll-
In 100 parts of wb at there are 10 pounds
of flesh, but there is nearly double (ft? a
mount iu the tame quantity of oatmeal
A Bfuiitiful Lfffttd.
! They tell a story that one day Rabbi Ju
dah and his brethren sat in the Church on a
; fa*’ and ■ disp-nting about rest. One said it
1 r . iflfieiont wealth, yet without
and sail it was lame and (praise
"it! third said It was posess
j r to rule the'Stale, 1 he fuurtb
1 - .nust b* only in the old age of one
’ who ib Hch. powerful, famous and sflrroun*
! .led by children and childrens children.—
j The flfihsaid it were all iu vain unless 8
j man kept all the ritual of Mosts. And
| Ua’obi Jud-tb. the vent ruble, the lalitotof
tbo bretbrau, said: “Yg have spoken wise
ly, but one thing more is necessary. .-He
only can find rest who to„all thingsaddeth.
LLbis —that he hath kept the traditions of the
i elders. ” There sat a fair-haired boy, plays
tug with lilieaju his lap, rud hoanug the
j talk, droppt <1 them in ustouUimieut from
- bis baud; and. looked up—that boy ol twelve
-I—arid—arid said* ‘Nay, father, be only oan find
reel who loves his brolMr as hita*efl, wftb
his yhole heart and soul. lie is ’gi.ater
’'.hah fame, wealth, aud power, byppiqr tby a
‘than a h*pphome without, ik tie tin* thaj
ISO. 32.
I gave her a rose and I gave
her a ring, and asked her to .Gar
ry me theu ; but she sent them all
back, insemsiblo thing, and said
she'd no notion of men. I told her
I'd oceans of money and goods, anti
tried to frighten her with a growl ;
-but she answered she wasn't
brought up in thb woods to bo
scared by the screech of an owl.—
I called her a beggar and every**
thing bad ; I slighted her features
and form . till at length 1 succeed
ed in getting her nmd, and then
she raged l.ke a ship in a storm.
And then in a moment I turned
and smiled, and called her my an
gel and all, and she fell iu my arms
like a wearisome child, and ex-,
claimed, ‘We will marry this fall/
Two of Them. —A young fellow
whose better half had just present
ed him with a pair ot bouncing
twins, attended ehuich on Sunday.
During the discourse the clergy
man lot ked right at our innocent
friend, au I, said in a tone of thrill
ing eloquence :• ‘Young man you
have an important responsibility
thrust upon you,’ Tho newly
pledged dad, supposing the prea -
cher alluded to his peculiar home
event, considerably startled the
audience by exclaiming : ‘Yes, I
have two ol them,’
Ji Believer. —Some time since a
gentleman died in the town of X,
wao during his life, refused to be-*
lieve in anotuer world. Two or
three weeks after his demise, his
wile received,‘through a medium,
a communication, which read as
follows : “Dear wife—l now
lieve. Please send me my tbitt
clothes.”
A dilapidated old darkey ia
whjlo \va.tc.dlig the
monkeys in a menagerie in that
city, on Friday, spake tbusly i
“Dem childen got too much sense
to come outeu dat cage ; white
folks cut dar tails off and • set
'em to votin' and makin Consci-*
tewtions.”
‘Dui ! D’ye See Da t ?’—The
radical negroes of Nashville are
disappointed in the new (radical)
‘fierlire.’ They arrest them just as
the old force did. An old darkey
was heard to j esent it thusly :
‘Dah f d’ye see dat ? Fore God,
dat's de sccon’ time I’se seed dat af
man cum ’long here to-day wid a
nigger. Thought dem folks not
gwiuC ttf ’rest us when doy got iu!’
Wear your learning, like your
watch, in a privato pocket, and
dorrt pull it out to show that you
have one ; but if you are asked
what o’clock it is, tell it.
Try this, some of you ; Fasten ti
nail or key to a string, and suspend
it to your thum and finger, and tho
nail will oscillate like a pendulum.
Let some oue place his open hand
under the tail, and it will change
to a circular motion. Then let a
third person place his hand upou
yorr shoulder, and the nail be
comes iu a Rioafent stationary.
m exchange says ; “If our wife
wanted to run away with another
man) we would wish her God speed
for we think too much of her to she
her want for anything.’
A gentleman called on a rich inisar, and
fouDd him at the tabic codcavoiing to catch
a fly. Presently he succeeded iu entrap
ping one, which he immediately put into
the sugar-bowl and shut down the cover, —
The gentleman asked for an explanation of
this sftgular sport. ‘‘l’ll tell you,” replied
the miser, a triumphant grin overspreading
his countenance as he spoke, “I want to as
certain if the servants steal the sugar.”
■ <» *. *
Now that ‘tilting hoops'are go
ing out of lashion, let ons thing be
e iid in their favor—the wearers of
them were never liable to arrest
| for no visible means of
{support.’ .
1 'A man in Algiers. so
1 much whiskey that the mosquitoes