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DEVOTED TO NEWS, POLITICS, LITERATURE, AGRICULTURE AND GENERAL PROGRESS-INDEPENDENT IN AIL THINGS. VOL. X. Whc 3X ***s£♦ sti <M» a leap hi idvancp. BUSINESS CARDS. Philip B. Robinson, Attorney at Law, Green i£sboro’. . . . ga ILL give prompt attention to business entrusted to his professional care. Feb. 20, 1873 —tints M. W. LEWIS & SO- Attorneys at Law, GREENESBORO’, GA TMIE Senior member of this firm having eoneluded to devote his time (hereto fore divided with his farm,) more exclusive ly to his profession, the undersigned, in re newing their partnership, hope to give such prompt and efficient attention to business as to merit the approval of their clients. M. W. LEWIS, j and, 1873-1 y E. L. LEWIS. Wm, H. Branch, A TTOIIIV E Y AT LA IV. <sitr.r.'\iiN «.«. I CONTINUES to rive his undivided atten \ J tion to the practice of his Profession. Returning thank' to his clients for their encouragement in the past, he hopes by ■jlese application to business to merit a con tinuance of the same. (tg?*Otfice over Drug Store of Messrs. B. Torbert b Cos. Oreenesboro’ .lan liith 1874—1 y. HUE. W. PALMER, Attorney at Law, * - - «a, ALL business intrusted to him will re ceive personal attention. (gs OFFICE- . •Vith Judge Heard,) in the Court-House, where he can be found during business hours. net 15,’74-tf W. W 7 LUMPIiiL ATTORNEY A T LA H’, UNIIOW POINT, - - 6a ("VFFEP.S his profess; --is! services to the f people of Greene and adjoining coun ties. and hopes, by close attention to busi siness to merit and receive a liber t’ share us patronage. jan23 '74—ly. Jsr. Wm. Morgan, SESmENT HESTIST GRUU.VUS/! 01! O', GA. fob. 1. 1874. T. M IRK \VALTER, Marble Work®, BROAD Street. AEGI STA, Ga. MARBLE Monumen s, Tomb-etones) Marble Mantles, ami Furniture Mar ble of all kinds, from the plainest to'tli most elaborate, designed and furnisbed to order at short notice. All work for the country carefully boxed. nov2,tS71 —ts Fiji *e Drugs, AND ¥/ (heiimais, Jtcdiciite* FINE PERFUMERY, TOILET ARTD’LFS. WINDOW GLAS-f,all sizes, LAMPS and LANTERNS, BUISTA (•iirdcu Scelris, KEROSENE OIL, WHITE LEAD, Colors, LINSEED OIL, BRUSHES, &c.. For sale by .1. A. GIiIFIT\, J^T"Physicians’ prescriptions carefully dispensed. marc]' 12. 1874 ly Teaching! L< tuning ! ! IT \ RRIS’ INDEPENDENT HIGH SCHOOL 1 SHALL commence Teaching agaia on the »<1 nOVDAY in JAXIAKY, next. (t“75.i mJ“TUITION the same as heretofore, $4 fX) per month—dials to be paid in ad vance. XK. 1-. 11. Harris. December 17, 1874—-ts (~ N EORGIA —Greene County—John A. JT Chnmpi . administrator of Seaborn L. Hutcheson, applies for i.etters of Dis mission and such Letters will be granted on the first Monday in March 1875. Given under my hand and official signa-. tnre this December Bth 1*74 JOEL F. THORNTON. Ord’y | Dec. 10 74 -dm 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 Hlrs. H. HI. TIIOTIAM, AL)GLi ST A , Gu ■ Jnn. 21 lv. dead m persons indebted to Hightowers & Cos., are herehy notified to come forward and settle their accounts immediately, ns we 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 J.MRPHY&CO. Wholesale and Retail Dealers in English White Granite and Common China Ware, —ALSO— Semi-China, French Chi na, Glassware, 4c. *#» HIC4»AI» STREET, jan 21—lm. AUGUSTA, Ga $5 *2O dress G. STINSON k Cos., Portland, Main*. Jan 21. 1875-1 r * 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.