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Attorneys at Law,
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eoneluded to devote his time (hereto
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next. (t“75.i
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vance. XK. 1-. 11. Harris.
December 17, 1874—-ts
(~ N EORGIA —Greene County—John A.
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mission and such Letters will be granted
on the first Monday in March 1875.
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tnre this December Bth 1*74
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Hail road Schedule.
Rf AL AND DEPARTURE OF TRAINS
Georgia Itailroatt.
Day Passenger Train.
Leave Augusta, 8.40, a. m.
Leave Atlanta, 6:30, a. m.
Arrive at Atlanta, 6:4n, p. ra.
Arrive at Augusta, 3:45, p. m.
Night Passenger Train.
Leave Augusta, 8:15, p. m.
Leave Atlanta, 8:00, p. nt
Arrive at Atlanta, 8:06, a. in.
Arrive at Augusta, 4:00, a. m.
ACCOMMODATION TRAIN.
Leaves Atlanta, 5:00 p. m.
Leaves Stone Mountain, 6:45 a. m-
Arrives Atlanta, 8:00 a. m.
Arrives Stone Mountain, 0:15 p. m.
S. K. JOHNSON, Sup’t.
Western «V Atlantic R It
Night passenger Train — Outward.
Leave Atlanta, 6:00 p. m.
Arrives Chuftnnooga, 1:30 a. m.
DAY PASSENGER TRAlN,—Outward.
Leave Atlanta, 8:30 a m.
Arrives Chattanooga. 4:28 p. m.
Night Passenger Train — lnward.
Leaves Chattanooga, 3:45 p. m.
Arrives Atlanta, 11:20 p m.
DA V PASSENGER TRAlN.—lnward.
Leaves Chattanooga, 5:45 a. m.
Arrives Atlanta, 1:20 p. m.
DALTON ACCOMMODATION
Lsaveg Atlanta, 4:35 p. m.
Arrives at Dalton, 12:20 a. m.
Leaves Dalton 2:00 a. m.
Arrives Atlanta, 9:50 a. m.
Jos. E. BROWN President.
HasonlcT
Smbi nitrino Lodge. \«> 31,
GREENESBORO-, C.t.
Regular Meetings—First Wednesday
night of each month.
M. MARKWALTER, Sec’y.
CpeeneNboro' It. A. C\, Xo. 2?
GREENESBORO’, C,A.
Regular meeting—Third Fiiday night, of
each month. C. C. NORTON, Sec’y.
8.40, a. m
6:30, a. m
! AIOX I*ol AT LOIMiE, A«.
*««. i<\ a. hi ~ Union Point, Ca.,
meets regularly tlie 2d and 4tii Thurs
day evenings in each month.
JAMES M. GRIFFIN, IV. M.
0. E. FLUKER, S. W.
JOHN T. COX, S. W.
Feb. 4,1875—ts
JEWELRY!
\\T SUING to devote myself entirely to
V T the legitimate business of Clock
and Watch Repairing, from this date, 1 of
fer my entire Stock of Watches anti Jewel
ry at cost, finding that it. interferes too
much with the business I prefer.
HI. HIAKKWiI.TKIt.
Greenesboro’, Ga., Sept. 24, 1874-ts
CENTRAL HOTEL,
BY
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AL)GLi ST A , Gu ■
Jnn. 21 lv.
dead m
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are determined to close our Books for 1874.
All persons failing to do so, will find
their Accounts in the bands of an Attorney
—no exceptions.
Nov. 19, 1874-If
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GREENESBORO', GA., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25, .1875.
POETS CORNER.
Mrs. Hamlet'S Mnliluipi.t.
To vote or not to vote, that’s the question ;
Whether it is nobler to forego the suffrage.
And bear the arrows of outrageous fortune.
Or take arms against our sex's I roubles.
And, by opposing, end them? To live—to
i wed,
1 No more ; nnd hy a marriage say we end
The heart ache, only to nurse the little ills
Women are heir to? 'Tis a consummation
Not for Joseph, if the court herself doth
know :
And that she doth is most indubitable.
To vote—to act —to act, perchance, a farce ;
aye,
There's the rub; for by this act what fights
may come
When we have shuffled off our crinoline?
This makes us pause ; this, too, is the re
spect
That makes calamity of woman suffrage;
Eor who would bear the kicks ami cuffs of
men.
The oppressor's fists, our lord’s contumely
Assault and battery, and the law’s delay,
The insolence of hummers and the spurns
That patient women from loafers take,
When to avoid it she oould stay at home
And use her bodkin? Who would muskets
bear,
Or groan or sweat under a mechanic’s life,
But for the pleasure of emancipation—
The rich Golconda from whose gaping jaws
The flesh-pots yawn in tantalizing plenty?
But there’s the atterclaps 1 This puzzles the
will
And makes us rather bear the ills we have
Than fly to the horrible inexpressibles.
Titus cowardice makes babies of us all ;
And thus our petted suffrage resolutions
Are sickiied o’er with the pale cast of fear,
And enterprises of glorious ballot stuffing
Must fade, alas! because our suffering sex
Dare not imbibe the soul inspiring rye
To give us vim and action.
MISCELLINEOIX.
Tlir ICiintD. pin* 4;iol»iilcis, or
Fever-Kesl roving Tree.
Kt»ri or Southern Cultivator :
Prof Bentley, the Professor of Botany,
King’s College, London, has kindly
forwatded me a lecture which he lately
delivered to the ” Fellows of the Royal
Botanical Society of London,’’ in re
gard to the properties of this tree. To
’his lecture, and to an article in
' Comjitea Itmulus,” hy Dr Gimbert,
narrating experiments in Algeria, in
improving the miasmatic climate, by
plantations of these trees, I am iu
deb ed f„r the so lowing notes:
This tree is known as the "Euca
lyptus Globulus ,” or the 11 Blue Gum
Tree.” It is a native of Tasmania
(Van Dieman’s Land). According to
Dr. Bentley, there are many species of
Eucalyptus, and all with a few excep
tions belong to Australia, and are gen
lerallykpowo thpre as Gum Trees,’’
from yielding gummy or resinous pro
ducts. All species have evergreen
leaves, which hang in an oblique or
even vertical direction from the
branches, and thus give a very peculiar
aspect to the forests of Australia. The
leaves are commonly studded with in
ternal glands or receptacles of volatile
oil. The flowers pinkish or white, are
frequently very beautiful, and these
together with the elegant appearance of
the species and the agreeable nature of
their odor*, render them fayorite ob
jects of culture.”
But the power which this tree pos
sesses of destroying malaria, renders it
an object of special interest to us of the
South.
It is stated by Prof. Bentley and
others to bear, unquestionable fact,
that extensive districts of country
previously unhealthy, have been ren
dered healthy by the introduction of
this Eucalyptus tree. At the Cape of
Good Hope, the Colony was subject tu
levers, and now the cultivation of the
Eucalyptus has in a few years changed
the climatic condition of the unhealthy
section
In Algeria, in a district noted for the
prevalence of fever, it has been tried
on a large scale, and now not a single
< ase of fever occurs, although the trees
are not more than nine feet high. In
another noted fever spot, where marsh
waier prevailed both winter and sum
mer. “the whole district was dried up
by 14.000 of these trees, and the in
habitants now enjoy excellent health.”
It is stated that in Cuba also, the
health of the marshy districts is being
greatiy improved where this tree has
been introduced. A special instance is
given of a station house on a railroad
that was so pestilential that offieiali
could not b* kept there, and now it is
rendered healthy in consequence of the
planting of a few Eucalyptus trees. In
stances are given of its beneficial effects
in improving the climate in portions ol
France, Spain, Daly and Germany
Lately ij has been planted by the Ro
man Railway Company along the line
from Rome to Naples.
The general testimony in favor of the
effects of this tree iu improving tho
climatic condition ol those countries
liab’e to malarious influences, may he
regarded as substantially correct.
It is stated that ouc ounce of the
seed contains over 10,000 separate
seeds, and from one pound of seed,
nearly 160,00 k) plants umy bo raised
Henee, it would not he difficult nor ex
pensive to try the experiment of the
introduction of this tree on a large
scale.
The tree is said to be of very rapid
growth, so rapid *• that any man in 20
years time, cou and find himself, if lie
chose, surrounded by a forest of his
own plantation.” In its native country
it grows to an immense size. With
the exception of the California Coni
serous tree, it is said to excel in ditneu
sions apy tree in the world. In some
cases iu Australia, this tree has been
known to attain tho dimensions of 35)
feet in height and 100 leet in circum
ference. “It rarely,” says Prof. Bent
ley, “ sends out a branch until its trunk
is 100 lout high. Its value as a timber
tree may in some degree he judged of
by the fact that in many cuses, plunks
of this wood, whioh is remarkable for
its hardness and durability, have been
cut 160 feet in length, 20 inches broad
and 6 inches in thickness.
According to Dr. Bentley, it is now
successfully cultivated iu various por
tions of Southern Europe, as France,
Spain, Portugal, Greece and Italy; and
in Cuba, Bt. Helena, Algeria, Ac., Ac.
It is stated that young trees are grow
ing in sheltered purth**** - f the
and West ol England, and that they
have survived two winters there, with
out protection.
This fact would excite the reasonable
hope that this valuable tree may be
come naturalized with us, especially in
the Southern portions of Georgia, and
in favorable localities of the other
Southern States —though when very
young it is extremely delicate, and at
that tender age is said not to be able to
resist a temperature lower than 27 de
grees F.
Dr. Bentley states, that the tree is
couimonly regarded as being serviceable
in two ways—both hy its far-spreading
roots acting like a sponge and thus
pumping up water and draining the
ground, and also hy “ emitting odor
ous antiseptic emanations from its
leaves.” The foliage us the groves
diffuses, it is said, an “ agreeable aro
matic, camphoraccoue, stimulating odour
iu the surrounding air,” and thus neu
tralizes miasma. Also by the great
absorbing power of the tree, the marshy
places arc quickly dried “ Where
thickly planted in marshy places, the
subsoil is drained in a little while as
though Ly extensive piping."
W. LeKot Broun.
University of Georgia, Dec. 15,1874.
A A'ovel Kailvvny Accident.
The accident on (he Southern
Railroad of Long Island is a novel
ty in railway disasters. .The road
had sunk so that the boiler es the
engine in passing over it came in
contact with the water with which
the track was covered. The sud
den contact between the cold water
and the heated surface of the boiler
cracked the latter, and an explosion
immediately followed. This is pro
bably the first accident of the kind
that ever occurred to a railway lo
comotive, and it is hoped that it will
teach railroad men that cold water
can not be safely brought in con
tact with hot iron. It is a common
practice on American railroads to
drench heated axles with water.—
Indeed, the usual method of deal
ing with a hot journal is to throw
water on it. That this is attended
with imminent risk of producing
fractures in the axle which will
render it liable to snap in two at
any moment is obvious, and there
is little doubt that many of the ac
cidents resulting from broken axles
could be traced back to this rack- 1
less use of water.—[Ex,
Mix lit He -msl or* I'Liying
■louse,
BY SUNT FANNY.
Oh, mamma,” cried Carrie, “may
we play house outside of tho door,
with the great arm-chair and the
Mexican blanket ?”
“Yes, dear,” answered mamma,
kindly.
Such a lot of little ones ns she
had ! There were Carrie, Fanny,
Maggie, Daisy and Dolly, who were
twins, and little Lulu half a doz
er. chatterboxes ns sweet as sweet
could he.
“Mamma says we may !” cried
Carrie, flying out of the door ; and
the first thing tho six little sisters
did was to jump up and down with
delight, all in a row.
Then Carrie and Fanny ran to
the garden, and coaxed Rob, the
old Scotch gardener, to give them
a great basketful of green vines
and flowers. They began to work
at their house at once; and rh,
how busy they were !
They borrowed a littlo picture
which Ellen, tho cook, kept on the
kitchen dresser, and it looked per
fectly lovely hung up with the
green vines all round it.
’Then Carrie and Fanny climbed
into the arm-chair, and ornament
ed an arch that was in front of the
house, while Maggie handed them
the vines as fast as her little fat
hands could take them out of the
basket Tho arch soon began to
look so charming, that a pair of
rebin red-breast made them a visit
and told them in sweet bird-talk
how j-irtltv it r-.v-.
“Hern we toinc!” said little twin
Daisy, “with such a big rosy-posy
bush.”
“And it ’s so jedful heavy !”
chimed in little twin Dolly ; while
Lulu, the smallest of all, brought
Ivor picture book, and entertained
the little sisters with how
‘A was an ape
Who stole some white tape,
And lied up his toes
In four beautiful hows.”
Just before sunset the arm-chair
and Mexican blanket were carried
away, and the delightful house
keeping came to an end.
Good night, little sisters.
[Scribner’s ‘St. Nicholas.’
Dotnevlic B.ilV*.
The bancs of domestic life are little
ness, falsity, vulgarity, harshness,
scolding, vociferation, an incessant is
suing of superfluous prohibition and
orders, which ure regarded as imperti
nent interferences with tho general
liberty and repose, and are provocative
of rankling or exploding resentments.
The blessed antidotes that sweeten and
enrich domestic life arc refinement
high aims, great interests, soft voices,
quiet and gentle manners, magnanimous
tempers, forbearance from all unneces
sary commands or dictation, and gen
eral allowance of mutual freedom. Love
makes obedience lighter than liberty
Man wears a noble allegiance, not as a
collar, but as a garland. The Graces
arc never so lovely as when seen wait
ing on the Virtues; and where they
thus dwell together they make a hcav
enly home.—[Alger’s *’ Friendship of
Women.”
A Siinguliii' It.Mix-ri.v.
Whenever Burke found himself in
disposed, he ordered a kettle of water
to be kept boiling, of which he drank
large quantities, sometimes so much ns
four or even five quarts in a morning,
without any mixture or infusion, and
as hot as he could bear. FI is manner
was to poor about a pint at a time into
a basin, and to drink it with a spoon as
if it had been soup. Warm water, he
said, would relax and nauseate, but hot
water was the finest stimulant and most
powerful restorative in the world. He
certainly thought it a sovereign cure
for every complaint, and not only took
it himself, but prescribed it, with the
confidence of a Sangrado, to every
patient that came in his way—[“Me
morable Odds and Ends,” in the Dublin
University Magazine
Where lo StiMly.
‘ Think and vvrito as much as you
like iu your library, hut when action is
neces-nry get into tho saddle,” wee
Palmerston's motto Ilia best speeches
were made on horseback; and often, on
the eve of great parly figlils, did the
wind blow hack to hia groom his urn.
tor’s high parliamentary tone in excited
rehears;.l. When the trot became n
canter, the groom supposed that th
cheers were last and frequent ; nnd
when the canter ended iit a gallop, he
knew that the groat minister was de
livering his peroration, and was howl
ing i ver his adversaries like ninepins
We may parallel this quotation from a
con temporary with tho following ox
tract front Lockhart’s ” Life of Scott
— ll Many of the more energetic de
scriptions, (in ‘ Mar i.ion,’) and purlieu
lurly that of the battle ol Fioddcn,
were struck out. while he was nt quar
ters with his cavalry, in the autumn of
1807. ‘ln the intervals of drilling,'
.-ays Mr. Skene, ‘Scott used to delight
in walking his powerful black steod up
and down hy himself upon the Polio
hello Sands, within the beating of the
surge; nnd noW and then you wotdd
soc him plunge in his spurs, and go off
as if at the charge, with the spray
dashing about him. As wo rode back,
lie often came nnd placed himself be
side mo to repeat the verses that he
had eon composing during these
pnusesof our exercises. ---[Public School
Chronicle.
3 'fOne of the latest theories re
specting comets derives it founda
tion from the well known statement
made by Sir John Ilerschel, that
tho most unsubstantial clouds,
which float in the highest regions
of our atmosphere and seem at sun
out to tr© slnx.xu.kur] in light 11“*^
glow throughout their whole depth
as if in actual ignition, with any
shadow or dark side, must be look
ed upon ns dense anti massive ho
llies, compared with the flimsy and
all hut spiritual texture of a comet.
Owing to this extreme tenuity of
matter, the rays of the sun’s light,
ns reflected by it, ara absolutely
invisible to the inhabitants of the
earth, but the other rays, penetra
ting into the centre of tho comet,
are refracted hy this powerful lens
of twenty millions of leagues diam
eter into tho focus which forms the
nucleus of the comet, where there
is perhaps a greater concentration
of rays of light than anywhere
else, not in the body of the sun ;
hence this large body of concentra
ted light, streaming in a narrow
path through the remaining half of
the comet, in a direction opposite
to tho stitt, is regarded as forming
that splendid appendage called the
tail.—[Ex.
The Washington Republican D al
ready apologizing for the Civil Rights
Rill. Says that paper : It is exceed
ingly strange that many well-in formed
people, including certain journalist
who should know bettor, speak of the
Civil Rights Bill as a law. It requires
the assent of the Senate and the ap
proval of the President before it be
comes operative, and there is a slight
probability that it will not receive
either, because it is understood to be
the policy of the Opposition in the
Senate to “ talk it to death,” although
it is certain to receive Executive ap
proval when presented to the president
for that purpose,
In a recent sermou Taluiadgc said :
“ A statistician has estimated that there
are in New York and Brooklyn 4,500
women who expend annually 82,000
each in dress. It is no rare thing when
the wedding inarch sounds to see drag
girig through the aisle a bridal dress
that has cost 81,000 or 81,500. Things
have come to such a pass when we cry
over sin we wipe the tears away with a
8150 pocket-handkerchief.
Revenue informers don’t get along
with their neighbors in North Georgia.
The Dahloaega Signal says that W in.
Hunter and Wm. Smith, of Rabun
county, who were accused of giving in
formation to the revenue officers con
cerning illicit distilleries, were taken
out a few uights aftorwards by persons
unknown, and shot to death,
NO. 8
FiCETIOiIV
—Whd is slosh '( It's sm>w matter
—The war of races races for
office.
—fharity stays at home iu cold
weather.
—Dentist ballad—“ O, who can tell*
t, ■ jaws w fool?”
—Read- tiot —The tn V mark letteiw
on a warm stove,
<' *•'c-ii« c-ided the Insurance
Companies’ Ormetorv.
—The hump of destructiveness— x
railway collision.
—The Beecher Tilton literature has
injured the sale of comic almanacs this
year.
—Brigham Young has sufficiently
recovered to sit up and get married oo
cnsinnally.
—Tt will not improve your under
standing to have your shoes fixed by a
sherry cobbler.
Now is the season when people
should economize by burning almanacs
instead of wood and coal.
—“ Another hole ir> them pants!”
said u fond mother to her young hope
ful. “ What a drefful onkneesy fellow
you are.”
—Mr. Spencer, of Moodus, Conn ,
oast a despairing look upon his twenty
first child the other day. No wonder
they call u repeating rifle a Spencer.
—One of the most interesting and
hotly contested law suits ever known
in Michigan arose from the fact that
two women claimed the same waterfall,
—A Nevada man who had seven
homely daughters, got a paper to hint
that ho had seven kegs filled with gold
in his cellar, and every girl was married
in five months.
Mrs. Using, an Omaha woman,
elided softly up behind King Kala
kaua and—stole a kiss ! But the joke
of the thing is that the Omaha wags
passed off a good looking negro for the
King.
—What will not a woman do, says
a Brooklyn paper, for the man she
loves 7
“ Her haml was tlic first to reach and drag
The bottle from the shelf—
' It is your curse, dear John,' she said,
And drank it up herself.”
—A clergyman in lowa stood in his
door and warned a donation party that
the first one who entered hisgate would
ho a dead man. lie said it was bad,
enough to take half his pay in beans,
without having his house destroyed.
l— •
A Poughkeepsie parent lately in
duced a crotipy youngster to make quite
a hrarty meal of buckwheat cakes and
” maple molasses,” hut the latter proved
to be nice syrup of squills. The boy
said ho thought something ailed the
molasses the very minute his lather
told him to eat nil he wanted.
—Only awo nan’s hair ! Who has
not, some time in his life, picked such
a golden thread from his best coat co!
lar, and felt his heart beat the quicker
for it ? Or gazed upon a tress laid
away in some nook, and not felt the in
fluence of tender memories ? Only a
woman’s hair ! and yet we don’t like it
in a biscuit.
—A gentleman who thinks it high
time that the little “Johnny” poetry
should give place to something neater
and more fully charged with sentiment,
sends Harper’s Monthly the following
as largely combining both :
Oh, bury Bartholomew out in the woods,
In a beautiful hole in the ground,
Where bumble-bees buzz and the wood
peckers sing
And the straddle-bugs tumble around ;
So that in winter, when the stiow and the
slush
Have covered his last little bed,
His brother Artemus can go out with Jane
And visit the plaoe with his sled.
A Plainvilie clergyman insiststhat
he saw a snake forty feet long and as
big round as a barrel of whisky. A
pretty good sized insect that. o
have no doubt that he saw ft, but ho
unquestionably saw the barrel of whisky
before he saw the snake. It *eeuj§
more reasonable, somehow.