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VOL. 111.
THE HERALD.
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lie
Office on Public Square
Sparta Ca
mar 19
1868 1868
AMERICAN nOTEL
Alabama Street
ATLANTA, GEORGIA
Nearest House to Passenger Depot
WHITE & WHITLOCK, Proprietors.
W. D. WILEY, Clerk
LLAVISG re-!easeil and renovated the
above Hotel, we are prepared to entertain
•meals in a most satisfactory maaner.-
Chargee fair aud ra o d< -‘ rate - Cur effurts
a-rried to and from 'he Depot
free of charge npril 23 68.
PLANTERS HOTEL.
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA
X t DWLY famished and refined, unsurpassed
lM by any Hutel South, is now open to the
Public
T. S. NICKERSON, Prop'r.
Late of Mills Home, Charleston, and Proprietor
of Nickerson’s Hotel, Columbia, b. C.
DR. JNO. R. GODKIN
Respectfully offers ii* Ferric©* to th©
citizens of Greensboro and vioinifcy in th©
practice of
Medicine, Surgery and Obstetrics
H© ma v be found when not professionally en*
at hi« office north of th© Gourt House
i-quare during the day, and at th« residence of
J W Gedkin north of R R Depot at night
norl6tde©3lpd
€ITY HOTEL.
Mrs. J. A. SNELLINGS, Proprietress,
GREENSBORO.' GA.
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THE GREENSBORO’ HERALD.
POETRY.
EARTH'S PLE4SIBFS IRE
FLKITING.
BY L .
The beauteous buds ot childhood’s years,
How soon they bloemed and fadrd;
Bedewed them with fond memory’s tears.
These early flowers departed.
Rut though their beauty ne’er .returns,
Their early fragrance lingers
When placed in Memory's crystal urn,
And touched by Fancy’s fingers.
The jeygus scenes of other days, -
The youthful hopes we cherished,
The castles that we built in air—
Alas / how soon they parished.
We thought the future’s page, unrolled,
Would yield us golden treasures ;
We deemed the future’s taie untold,
Made up et joy and pleasures.
But life is like a desert vast,
O’er which the weary wander ;
A sandy wuste around us here,
Smiles an oasis yonder.
Here blooms a rose, there swells a thorn,
A joy, and then a sorrow—
Along life’s path we journey on,
Still hoping for each morrow.
NIL DESPERANDUM
BY SYBIL.
“I shall never understand this. —
My mind is not deep enough to
fathom the subjeet. I am utterly
lost amid its intricacies and as
the fair, timid Elna raised her face
to mine a shade of hopeless expres
sion passed over it.
“-/^h! Elna, my dear young
friend, yours is not the first, nor
will it be the last, puzzle brain to
grow weary striving to grasp ab
struse ideas.
“llow many things in life are
real and substantial ? how many
false and shadowy ?—are pro!denis
. • v to*
have been vainly trying to sol’Vc ‘for
ages, and which will doubtless, to
many, still i*emain a hidden mystery
till time shall cease to be. Still, is
there any case so desperate as to be
altogether hopeless ?
“Centuries roll on, and each, as
it comes and goes, brings or takes
with it degrees of enlightenment
and refinement. Much is lost, but
much is also gained.
“Science, with rapid stride,
. moves forward, and as if with magic
spells, is constantly revealing some
thing new; yet the startling mys
terious wonders—Life, Death, Eter
nity—are still unfathomed.
How much of former research
lies hidden behind the Dark Ages,
we know not; how much of the
present will sink into oblivion we
cannot divine.
“Joys and sorrows, hopes and
fears, cravings and struggles, reali
zation and disappointment, are the
common lot. These and these only,
to outward mortal ken, make up
the sum of life, and it is mandkind’s
part in the great drama to count the
joys and cherish the hopes, to shun
the struggles and shrink from the
fears, to smile o’er .the realization
and fYown o’er the disappointments.
“The visionary shrines either his
faith or his love a Divinity, the
philosopher his reason, the pratieal
man his princples while the miser
makes Mammon his God. To all
these life is feverish, fitful dream.—
The true Christian is alone content
and calm amid the various fluctua
tions of the world.”
Here I found Elna’s blue eyes di
lating, and the grieved, hopeless ex
pression giving way to one of won
der and inquiry. She drew a long
breath of relief, as I ceased, and ex
claimed :
“Why, mercy on me, Sybil !
what are you talking ? You have
wandered off into one of your strains
that 1 no more comprehend than I
do this;” and she gently tapped the
book she held in her hand. I felt
myself blushing vividly.
“My ideas don’t seem clear to
you, Elna. Well never mind, this
morning shall I tell you a story ?”
“A story ? yes, do please; I
have such a passion for, stories. —
Indeed you know they are my grand
pasbion.” She laid aside, her book,
nestled down by my side, and laid
her head confidingly on my shoul
der.
“Well, once upon a time there
was a noble youth, who v. o6ed and
won a lovely maiden, had
given to both talent and ambition,
GREENSBORO’, GA., THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 1868.
afid also implanted in their hearts a
pure and earnest love for Himself
and for each other. They wero
thoroughly united in thought, feel
ing, and sentiment, and were very,
very happy. They were, indeed,
as the poet so beautifully expresses
it like
'‘Two rosea on one Blender spray,”
who,
“In sweet communion grew,
Together bailed the morning ray .
And drank the evening dew.”
And .
“While thus sweetly wreathed in mossy
green
There spraug a little bud between !”
“Yes, to the loving pair was given a
strong, though little tie to hind them
more closely to each other.
“Oh ! how they loved and cherish
ed this little bud of promise ! What
plans they laid for, and what pic-,
turcs they drew of their future,
which seemed all so bright! But,
alas! there came a fell stroke and
severed the larger stem, leaving the
weaker alone to shelter and nour
ish the little bud.
“How dark and hopeless, at first,
seemed the shadow o’er the young
widow’s life ! llow was now ever
to be realized any of the fond anti
cipations she had so cherished ?
What could life ever be again to her
now that death had laid him low !
“But through the mist glimmer
ed the light of faith, and it grew
brighter and brighter as days passed
on. He was not lost, only trans
planted to a fairer garden in a pur
er clime.
“And now she taught and cher
ished the child. She instilled holy
precepts into her heart, and imbued
her soul with elevating thoughts,
her mind with noble purposes. “I
will fulfil all his wishes for her,’ she
whispered to herself,
“But the iron hand of misfortune
had not yet finished its cruel crush-
X - 1 - -
bitter wind came sweeping along
and scattered the protecting leaves
of all her wordly wealth to the four
corners of the earth, leaving her
bare to brave the icy coldness of
poverty. And did she now despair ?
Ah ! no. She struggled on, toilieg
to educate the child, till soon afflic
tion fastened disease upon her vi
tals. Sorrow’s tempest beat very
pitilessly on her her head, yet she
did not give up until the child was
strong enough to take her place,
and be to her what she ha 1 been
to it.
‘'And when silver threads had'
east a thick grey veil over her once
raven locks, she laid her weary
head on the child’s bosom and
peacefully breathed her last, leav
ing the stricken one with confident
bolief that her bnd of promise would
yet be hers again in the garden of
immortality, where her pure spD
rit winged its flight to join the com
panion of her youth. ’
Elna was weeping on my shoi<l
dec and sobbed amid her tears :
“Aud the Child ?”
Is striving to keep the motto that
every act of her mother’s lifo im
pressed upon her soul—“nil desper
andum.”
[Banner of the South.]
Suspended Animation.
One of the most remarkable cases
that we have been called upon to
chronicle, Ims lately come under
our notice, and we propose to lay
the facts before the public exactly
as they are:
On Lorian street, above Jersey,
there resides with her stepfather, a
young lady, Miss Ellen K. White,
who is probably between 17 and 18
years of age, very prepossessing in
her manner and very finely educa
ted.
About six weeks ago she was tak
en dangerously ill with what the
family physician pronounced ty
phoid fever, and for some days she
was so low that all hopes of her re
covery were given up. She rallied,
however, and, under careful nursing
and skillful treatment, she was in a
fair way to recover ; when, about
two weeks ago, she had a relipse,
and sank rapidly, until the breath j
seemed to leave her body and she
was pronounced a corpse. Her
body was prepared for the grave,
and preparations were made by her
bereaved parents and friends for the
funeral, when bur mother, who
could not pc made to realize that
her only daughter was dead to her
foFcver, noticed that though the
“YINCIT AMOR FATRIAV’
liuibs of her daughter were rigid,
yet the body retaineddt» warmth.—
Physicians were calledlp at they de
cided that she was deadband every
attempt to l-esuscitate her failing, it
was determined last Sunday to con
sign her to the grave, an 1 a coffin
was procured.
On Saturday, while one of the
neighbors and the Oilier -were
standing by the side of (he suppos- j
ed corpse, tho door wind) had been j
left opened blew shut #lth a loud
noise, which had the effec t of so act
ing upuu the girl as • bring her
too, and set her life-blo* in motion.
She sprang up in bed, a 1 throwing
her arms around her m icr’s 'lock,
wopt tears of joy over ‘hr escape
from the horrid death of being bu
ried alive. - Who can > ctnro the
happiness of tli*t motlh i ? -who de
scribe the happiness th- came into
that for two wdeks’ descibito home ns
tho dead came to !if-: We will
not attempt it.
Our reporter yesftj lay visited
the house and was granted an inter
view with the young lr- ;ty, who we
found sitting np by th” window ap
parently as happy as Tie birds to
whose music she was listening as
we entered the room. •
THE YOUNG LADfVsTORY.
Miss White said th- when she
felt herself sinking sin had no fear
of death, but turned m : n her side,
and Rs she did so all p. ;di appear
ed, and she sank to sit > as peace
fully as a child. She la” bethinks,
unconscious for aiv h*” or more,
for when she came to h -self, though
she could not move or peak, she
found that she was laldontready for
burial. She could sec her mother
by her side, and all tii»-'i who Came
to see her; could hAHwhem talk
and understand ail they said. She
'■tried to speak to tV.a but her
I tongue refused to do A hoc ; ghe
I I rioa to, mote. but. Jf-A >• ?t -and
. Mut e aiIKJ it* V . JtovtoKsM
for her refusal to allow her to be bu
ried.
Upon two occasions, when her
mother was alone in tho room with
her, it seemed as though she left
the body, and, standing by tho side
of her body, could look flown upon
it a"s she could upon her mother.—
She said she was unable to describe
the feelings that she experienced
upon those occasions. When not
tortured with the fear of being bu
ried alive, she was perfectly at rest,
perfectly happy, and when the door
i slammed, which brought her to, it
seemed as though she was, to use
her own words, “compelled to com
mence a hard day’s work.”
Miss White is now in fair way to
recover; her strength is gaining
rapidly, and from every indication
we should judge she lias a long, and
w r e hope, a happy life before her.—
Cleveland Plaindealer.
Am Extraordinary Scene.
THOUSANDS OF HORSES AND CAR
RIAGES IN CONFUSION.
Tho London Newt gives the fol
lowing amusing description of the
return from the Derby races: ‘Th#
most extraordinary scene probably
ever witnessed on a Derby night
took place on that portion of the
road lying between Clapham Com
mon and the Elephant and Castle.
Owing to the extraordinarily large
number of vehicles of every de
scription that went down to Epsom
in the morning, it was anticipated
that considerable confusion would
occur after dusk in the evening on
that part of the road near to Lon
don ; and to provide for the contin
gency a strong body of police, both
on horses and foot, were placed
along the road between the above
named points. From seven to eight
o’clock a contiuous double line of
vehicles came steaming into town,
and were kept in tolerable good or
der by the police, moving on'slow
ly but steadily. About 8 o’clock,
however, when tho traffic began to
grow very thick, the leading horses
in a four-horse van, when near the
Horns at Kennington, fell down,
completely blocking up and stop
ping the traffic for ten min
utes before they could be got upon
their legs. This ten minutes did
all the mischief. The drivers of
some of the carriages behind, im
patient to get on, broke the line
which had been hitherto well kept.
Tho example was speedily followed
by others, and in a few minutes,
for at least two miles along the road,
all was confusion aud uproar.
In every direction might bo heard
the crushing iu of all boards and
panels, wheels got locked together
and for nearly an hour vans, omni
buses, baroliehes, broughams, cabs,
wagonettes, carts of all descrip
tions, costermongers’ donkey-har
rows, &c., were mixed up together,
in ona apparently inextricable
mass. Good humor,,however, gen
crally prevailed in all quarters.!—
Many of tho occupants of the ve
hicles, especially those outside the
vans and omnibuses, seemod to en
joy the scene, and beguiled the
time by singing soiuo of tho popu
lar, airs of the day, and unmerci
fully .chaffing thoso who showed any
disposition to grumble at the state
of affairs. To add to the excite -
ment and confusion of the scene,
the crowds of spectators assembled
along the road to witness the re
turn home, always very large, was
on this occasion, owing probably to
the fineness of tho evening, nearly
doubled the usual number, and it
was extraordinary that no serious
happened.
During the time the block took
place baqds of roughs aud idle hoys
amused themselves by pelting the
more respectable occupants of the
vehicles with small paper bags of
flour, evidently made up and sold
for the purpose. This gave rise to
several fights, during the continu
ance of which the. light-fingered
gentry were plying a good trade.—*
By flint ol gjseat exertion on the
part of the police, after nearly an
hour’s delay, they got tho vehicle
in motion, and they slowly pursued
their way.”
The Trne Woman.
Who shall line for the picture
■of a trinj good WWWU the prid
fwn<i rfi« pitnipin «f Ofr own i-ex.
jand the admiration of the other;
of the woman young, beautiful,
healthful—well-informed, but not
pedantic ; who can talk well, listen
well, sing well, play well, walk well,
and docs well; who knows neither
[tooyuuch nor too little ; whose lips
are innocent of slang, and whose
heart is pure from evil thought;
who is polished in manners, and af
fectionate indisposition: beloved of
tho old, the darling of the young;
shy, modest, retiring; and com
manding all tho world’s homage,
without demanding the homage of
anybody!
Tt must not he considered that
the youthfulness (ts such a woman
is absolutely necessary to her love
liness. Youth is a great Llossing
and a great charm; hut, age is also
a blessing—do we not wish to grow
old ? and a great adornment if it be
combined with goodness. The beau
ty of the mind grows with the re
volving years, and makes a woman
of seventy, with mind and manners
and innate gentleness, more beauti
ful than sweet seventeen can he, if
tho mind and the manners are want
ing, and the tenderness that should
be in every womanly heart is dis
placed by a masculine tone of tbo't,
behavior, or conversation.
Though all the women are not
such as every man at the poetical
period of life has pictured in his
imagination, there are thousands in
every country who resemble the
ideal, if not in accomplishments and
education.—for these are not with
in the reach of every one—yet by
outward grace of person, and in
ward purity of soul. All the flow
ery that bloom in (he fair garden of
humanity are not of equal delicacy
and brilliancy ; for Nature, that has
room for tho magnolia, and the lily,
has room also for tho violet, tho
blue-bell, and the daisy, and loves
her humblest children as well as her
proudest.
Nothing in the world—at least to
the male eye—equals in pleasant
ness the face and form of a bashful
and virtuous woman, looking up to
a man for support and guidance,
and giving him her true affection in
return. Nothing, on the other
hand, is more disagreeable than the
bold virago, womanly in form, but
not in spirit, who would storm the
citadel of your politeness to extort
your homage vi cl armis, and who,
by every movement of her features
and glance of her eyes, even if she
do not utter a syllable, betrays that
she is puffed up with conceit and
lelfishne;.-, and is too ignorant to
distinguish between a churl and a
gentle in an, or to accept the place
that properly belongs to her in the
social system.
Kiang-uaye of the Eye.
An eye -can threaten like the
loaded gun, or can insult like hiss
ing or kicking; or, in its altered
Wood, fly beams of dsindr.css can
make the heart dance with joy.—
The oye obeys exactly tho action of
the mind. When a thought strikes
up, the vision is fixed, and remains
looking at a distance; .in enumer
ating names, persons or countries,
as France, Spain, Britain, or Ger
many, the cyo winks at each new
name. There is an honesty in the
eye which the mouth does not par
ticipate in. “The Artist,” as Mi
chael Angelo said, “must have its
measure in his eye.” Eyes are bold
as lions—hold, running, leaping
They speak all language; they need
no encyclopedia to aid in the inter-
pretation of their language ; they
respect neither rank, nor fortune, |
virtue, nor sex, but they go through
and through you in a moment of ■
time. You can read in the eye of
your companion, while you talk
with him, whether your argument
hits, though his tongue will not
confers it. There i3 a Jook by
which a man tells you he is going
to say a good thing, and a look
which says when he has said it.—
Vain and forgotten are all the fine
offers of hospitality, if there is no
holiday in tho eye. How many in
clinations arc avowed by the eye,
though the lips dissemble! How
often does rime come from a compa
ny in which it may easily happen
that lie has said nothing ; that no
important remark has been address
ed to him, and yet in his smpathy
with the company he aeoms not to
have a sense of the fact for a Ay earn
"i‘ it/g*** iln*.» Jt / m
of him through his.eyes. As soon
as men are off their centres their
eyes show it.
There arc eyes, to be sure, that
give no more admission into tho man
than blue berries. There are liquid
and deep wells that a man might |
fall into ; there are asking eyes andi
asserting eyes, and prowling eyes, |
and eyes full of faith, and'some of
good, and some of sinister omen.
The power of eyes to charm down
insanity or beasts, is a power be
hind tho eyes, that must be a victo
ry achieved in the will before it can
be suggested to the organ ; but the
man at peace and unity with him
self would move through men and
nature, commanding all things bv
the* eye alone. The reason men
don’t obey us, is that they see the
mud at the bottom of our eyes.—
Whoever looked on the hero would
consent to his will being served ; he
would he obeyed.— E. W. Emer
son.
Socivl Kindness. —How sweet
is social affection ? Whdn the world
is dark without we have no light
within. When cares disturb the
breast—when sorrows brood around
the heart—when joy gathers in the
circle of love! Wc forget the
world, with all its animosities while
hie -ed with social kindness. That
min cannot be unhappy who has
heard that vibrate in sympathy
with his own—who is cheered by
the smiles of affection, and the
voice of tenderness. Let tho woidd
he dark and cold—let the hate and
animosity of bad men gather around
the place of business—but when he
enters the ark of love—his own
cherished circle—he forgets all
these—the cloud passes from his
brow, and the sorrow from his heart.
Tho warm sympathies of his wife
and children dispel every shadow,
and he feels a thrill of joy in his
bosom, that words are not adequate
to express. He who is a stranger
to tho joys of social kindness, has
not begun to live.
Bkownlow’s Epitaph. —The fol
lowing is Brownlow’s epitaph, giv
en at a dinner in Chattanooga :
‘Pause, gentle reader! lightly tread!
For God’s sake let him lie ;
We live in peace since he is dead,
But hell is in a fry.”
Prentice thinks that the best mai
den speech is “A'cs.”
-
Eight hundred thousand tons of
ice have been cut and stored for the
life of New York this summer.
IT. H. MORGAN, PriuUr.
NO. 10,
A Newly Married Wife
SUDDENLY DIVORCED HERSELF.
There happened hero recently,
between a newly married couple
frotn Kentucky, a rather startling
epismjc, told briefly as follows :
A young gentleman from the
county of Madison, Ky., wooed
and won the heart of a most esti
mable and handsome young lady
of Fayette county. After several
months’ courtship, the ceremony
was duly performed at the First
Presbyterian Church in Lexington,
and tho happy pair, with buoyant
hopes, took the afternoon train for
this city to spend the honeymoon.
Tlic hours on rosy wings flew swift
ly by. The bridegroom congratus
latod hinncll upon the piizo he had
won, and in blissful ignorance of
“breakers ahead,''arrived at the
Merchants Hotel, where a suite of
rooms had been engaged for tho
happy couple, and awaited their
reception. After their arrival in
the Queen Cityfarfd enjoying sup
per, the bride retired to her cham
ber, and tho grocun, a spirited
young fellow thought ho would
| have a run with the boys and see
j the elephant a little while before
retiring to the arms of Morpheus
and his fair bride. The result of
this little raid around town can
better be imagined than explained
and we aro turprised to say, in
stead of the groom who is a zeal
ous “Good Templar,’’ returning
1 right side uphe svaa, to use a
mild expression, “jolly tight,” and
hie-newly-made wifo refused to ad
mit him, and persistently avowed
that she would return homo ou the
morrow; and, ringing the bell,
alarmed the clork, who provided
aq extra biidal chamber for one,
and the groom was soon sleeping
profoundly.
On the morrow, after havjng
parsed tho night in profound slutp
-4 aU unconscious of baying ary
w’ifb, rrfigf u!94c»u /.•*/***<? £& I car a that
she had deserted him. But such
was the fact. She had returned to
her parents, in Fayette county,
where 4 she still remains, refusing
thus far, to become reconciled to
the man who could desert her on
their first night of wedded life for
the society of male friends, —
Cincinnati Commercial.
The Secret of I>anclng-.
An exchange cautions young men
who can’t dance tho fancy dances,
not to go to a ball with a young
lady who can, and adds the follow
ing : If we ever have any children
we shall teach them to dance fancy
dances, to the neglect of their cat u
cchism. Not that they will
the hopping around, first on one
foot, then on the other, then on
both; but they will have a good
chance to bug other folks’ wives
and sweethearts! This is the se
cret of dancing! No one would
object; but if a fellow wore to sit
by the side of his own wife even,
in a ball-room, and hug her half as
hard—well, wouldn’t there here
marks! Guess not. (He speak
ironically.) Talk about
sparking by moonlight, sitting on
the stoop Sunday evening, stealing
a kiss every time a star shoots,
(that’s the nicest game,) sleigh
riding by Lae side of a rosy-check
ed girl, or eating happiness with a
golden spoon—all these sink into
insignificance when fancy dancing
cornea on. But when a fellow
don't know how, and takes to a
party a girl that docs, another fel
low doing the sweet hugging of
that angelic creature, that he paid
for, it's too awful! Jus* to sit and
see another’s arm where yours
should be—and, well, don’t take a
girl to a fancy dancing party un
less you know the ropes.
Animated and Blnekittep.—
A clergyman had j*ist united in
marriage a couple whose Christian
names were, respectively, Benja
min and Ann. “How did they ap
pear during the ceremony ?” in
quired a friend. “They appealed
both animated and benefited,” was
the ready reply.'
“Do you ever have any ‘hops’ in
Maine ?” asked a Newport belle,
who was dressing for a ball, of a
country cousin from the Tine State.
“0, yes, lots ; pa has forty acres
of ’em in one field.
A glass of soda-water was offer
ed to a country lad, who rejected it
with the greatest indignaiion. “Do
' you think lam a salamander,”
said he, “drink water tiling hot?”