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aije Hmtlii. DEVOTED TO NEWS , POLITICS , LITERATURE, AGRICULTURE AND GENERAL PROGRESS—INDEPENDENT IN ALL THINGS. VOL. X. Bfcc JlepiLfiU $2 OO a Year in Advance. MASONIC. San Xlurino Uoilge, Xo 31. GREENESBORO , GA. Regular Meelings—First Wednesday night of each nion h. M. MARKWALTER, Sec’y. Greenesboro’ It. A. C., Mo. B*. GREENESBORO’, GA. Regular meeting—Third Kiiday night of each month. C. 0. NORTON, Sec y. Union Point Lodge, Xo. 300. UNION POINT, Ga., Meets -egularly the 2d and 4tli Thursday day evenings in each month. W. 0 MITCHELL, Sec’y. Feb. 4, 1875—1f M S Greene Lodge, X'o. 41, 1 O OF. GREENESBORO’, GA., Meets regularly every Monday night. J. R. GODKIN, N. G. D. S. Holt, R S. tflTflr- G reenesborougli Lodge, X’o. 320. Independent Order Good Templars, meets at Odd Fellow’s Hall, on 2d and 4th Friday nights in each month. W. 11. BRANCH, XV. C. G. IV. Miller. See'y. BUSINESS CARDS. JAMES B. PARK, ANI) COUHSELOa AT LAW, GREENESBORO', ■ ■ ■ GA. WILL give prompt attention to all bu siness intrusted to his professional care, in the Counties of Greene. Morgan, Putnam. Baldwin. Hancock and Taliaferro K 7" Office-With Hon. Philip B. Rob inson. april 8/1875 —6ms M. W LEWIS H. G LEWIS. M. XV. Lewis Sl Son, Attorneys at Law, GItEEXESISOICAIGII, - GA. april 8, 1875-ly Pliil p B. Robinson, Attorney at Law, GRKENKSBORO’. • . . GA. give prompt attention to business entruste 1 to his professional care. Feb. ‘2O, 187ft—tims Wm. H. Branch, A TTORNE Y A T LA W. A. # t )N n.VUES to stive his undivided alten l J tion to the practice of his Profession. Returnin' thanks to his clients for their encouragement in the past, he hopes l>y ilose application to business to merit aeons tiaoance of the same. )-fice over Drug Store of Messrs. B. Torbert b Cos. Greenesboro’ -Tan 16th 1874—1 y. H. F. IV. IMI.tIKR Attorney at Law, GREENESBORO’, - - - El. ALL business intrusted to him will re ceive personal attention. i^rOFFlCE—(With Ju<lge Heard,) in the Court-House, where he can be found during business hours. oct 15, 74-tf W. w. LI N I*H I\. ATTORNEY AT LAW , POINT, • - Ga OFFBHB his professional services to the people of Greene and adjoining coun ties, and hopes, by close attention to busi siness to merit and receive a liberal share of patronage. jan 2ft 74 ly- Medical Card. Brs. GODSIN & HOLT, Having associated themselves in the Practice of Medicine, respectfully tender their services to the citizens of Grkt.nt-R --obo’ and surrounding country. March 4, 1875-t/ Hi'. XVm. Morgan, RESIDENT DEXTIST GREENESBORO’, GA. feb. 1, 1874._ TANARUS, MIRIiIVALTEIt, M%rl}lG WQ-'ks I3ROAD Street, AUGUSTA, Ga. i\ BABBLE Mouumett Sj Tqjnb-sfoneii j\ J Marble Mantles, and Furniture Mar ble of all kinds, from the plainest to the most elaborate, designed and furnished to order at short notice. All work for the ounlry carefully boxed. n0v?,1871 —df JEWELRY! ITT SUING to devote myself entirely t> YV the hgitimate business o' Clock id Watch Repaii ing, from this date. 1 <>t er my entire Stock of Watches and Jewe ry at cost, finding that it interferes toi much with the business 1 prefer. M. MAItKXVILTEK. GreenpsLoro’, Ga., Sept. 24, 1874-tf ( i:\TIML HOTEL. BY Mrs. XV. XI. THOMAS, AUGUSTA, Ga- Jan. 21—ly. wm MAIN STREET , G REEX ESISOIIOUGII, GA. J. T. CULVER, xA LWAYS keeps on hand the choices: - LIQUORS, CIGARS annd TOBACCO. .1 is BILLIARD TABL3S ' Is new and elegant. Call and see. Feb. 18, 1875—6 ms VARIETY STORE! FAMILY GROCERIES, BAR-BOOM AND BILLIARD SALOON, Corner Main and Broad Streets, GREENESBOUO*. - * GEORGIA. W. C. Cartwright, Always l<-eps on hand a full assortment of Family G-tocerie-, and the finest brands of imported and domestic LIQUORS AND SEGARS. Ilis Bar is always supplied with pure im ported London Porter, Bass' Ale, French Brandy. Holland Gin, Jamaica Hum, Wines and Champagne; and GENUINE CINCINNATI LAGER, always fresh, besides all qualities of do mestic Liquors. and purchase your 'iroceries. imbibe pure Liquors, smote tine Segars. play a game of Billiards, anil he happy. W. C. CARTWRIGHT. I Corner Broad and Main St’s. March 25, 187-5. Fits Cured Free! \ A NY person suffering from the above disease is requested to address L‘r. PRICE, and atrial bottle of medicine will be for warded by Express, ' FREE! ' The only cost being the Express charges which, owing to my large business, are small. Dr. Price has made the treatment of FITS OB EPILEPSY a study for years, and he will warrant a cure by the use of his remedy, Do not fail to ‘‘end to h ; m for a trial bot tie ; it costs nothing, and he WILL €( RE YOU, no matter of how long standing your case maybe, or how many other remedies may have failed. Circulars am! testimonials sent with Free Triti I lEotllr Be particular to give your Exptess, as weli ns your Post Office direction, and Address, nr ( IIAS. T. PRICE, 67 William Street, NEW YORK. Feb. 18. 1875—1 y Special Notice. T * BE Stockholders of the Greene County '-’sir Association are hereby personally no tified that unless they pay up their pr rata share of an excretion I hold a gains said Association, 1 will be forced to hav. executions issued against them severally for their proportional parts of said c aim Capt. W. M Weaver is authorized to re ceive and receipt for moneys so paid. fcblßtf TAS N. ARMOR GREENESBORO’, GA., THURSDAY, APRIL 22, 1875. Siiiilroud Schedule. Arrival and Departure pf'lpayis,. Georgia Kailroad. Dag Passenger Train. Leave August a, 8.45, a. m. L n ave Atlanta, 7:00, a. m. Arrive af Atlanta, 6:45, p. m. Arrive at Augusta, 3:30, p. m. Night Passenger Train. Leave Augusta, 8:15, p. m. Leave Atlanta, 10:30, p. m Arrive at Atlanta, 6:2), a. nt. Arrive at Augusta, 8:16, a.ran. ACCOMMODATION TRAIN Leaves Atlanta. 5:00 p. m. Leaves Stone Mountain, 6:45 a. nr Arrives Atlanta, 8:00 a. m. Arrives Stone Mountain, 6:15 p. m. S. K. JOHNSON, Sup’t. i'll At la ii lie R II Night passenger Train — Outward. Leave-Atlanta, 6:00 p. m. Arrives Ch ittanooga, I'3o a. m. DA Y 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. DAY PASSENGER TRAlN.—lnward. Leaves Chattanooga, 6:45 a. m. Arrives Atlanta, 1:20 p. m, D A ETON ACCOM MOD ATION Lsaveg Atlanta, 4:35 p. m. Arrives at Dalton, 12.-20 a. m.. Leaves Dalton 2:00 a. m. Arrives Atlanta, 0:50 a. m. Jos. E. BROWN President. PURE DREGS, AND Clifßi icals, PATENT MEDICINES, FINE PERFUMERY, TOILET ARTICLES, WIN DOW GLASS, all sizes, LAMPS arid LANTERNS. ISriST’N GAItDEX SI2KHS. KEROSENE OIL, WIIII’E LEAD, C-.lors, LIN SEED OIL, BRUSHES, Ac., For sale by .foilii A, CTF” J’liysieiatis’ prescriptions earefii[ly disjienseil, april S, 1875-ly ALFRED SIIAW I T EKl*B constantly on ban<l in flropnes l\ boro’ and Madison, a full assortment of ROSEWOOD and MAHOGANY j-Ofc v.r,' <tr V .‘‘'V- ;., ~W y '•fisßSHLV&lii - Vs-t T.. tart - c- ex, i , trt,- .- ' - ' WtW * IMJRIAL CASTS, and imitations of the saute. Also, XI ET A Elf CASKETS, of all grades. In beauty, durability and price, these Cases and Caskets will compare favorably with any to lie found elsew here. W. T. DQSTER and H. C.SITTON Are our authorized A gents at Greenesboro’. NOTE.—AII persons indebted fc- past purchases, are requested to come Inward and settle their bills AEEREH SHAW. March 18, 1875—3 ms rN EORCiiIA GiTCiif Futility— X William It. W ilson Administrator on the Estate of Henry li. Durham, deceased, applies for Letters of Dismission, and such Letters will be granted on the first Monday in May, 1875, unless valid objections there to are filed. Given under my hand anil official signa ture, this January 20th, 1875. 3m JOEL F. THORNTON, Ord’y. / f EOR(IA (,rmic Comity. V X Win. '. and John M. Uolclongh, Ad ministrators of John Cole ottgh. decease'', apply for Letters of Dismission, and such Letters will be granted on the first Monday in June, 1875, unless valid objections thereto are filed. Given tinder my hand and official signa ture. this Mar li Ist. 1875. JOEL F. THORNTON, Ordy. mar. 4.14175—Juts (N CORGI I—Greene Comity. X dWltereas James Smith, Executor of .lames Atkinson, deceased, applies for Let ters of Dismission, ami such Letters will he granted on the firt Monday in May 1876, unless valid objections thereto be filed. Given under nty hand and official signa (tire this February Ist, 1*75 JOEL F. THORNTON, Ord’y. Feb. 1, 1875—ftmr* Sale or Bent. fne farm containing (80j eighty acres. (60 acres original forest ), within two miles of Greenesboro. Apply to febUtf. W M WEAVER. JPOEILS EDIiNEIL “MY I.' IN LIKE A SI ’XI XII2It ItOSK.’’ My life is like a summer rose, That opens to the morning iky, But ere the shades of evening close, Is scattered on the ground to die. Yet on that rose’s humble bed, The sweetest dews of night are shed, As if she wept the waste to see ; But none shall weep a tear for me. The dews of night may fall from Heaven Upon the withered rose’s bed, And tears of fond regret he given; To mourn the virtues of the dead. Yet morning s sun the dew will dry, And tears will fade from sorrow s eye, Affection’s pangs be lulled to sleep, And even Kve forge: to weep. My life is like an autumn leaf, That trembles in the moon’s pale ray — Its hold is frail, its date is brief, Restless, and soon to pass away. Yet, ere that leaf shall fail and fade, The parent tree will mourn its shade, The winds bewail the leafless tree, But none shall breathe a sigh for me. The tree may mourn its fallen leaf, And autumn winds bewail its bloom, And friends may heave a sigh of grief O’er those who sleep within the tomb; Yet soon will spring teitew the flowers; And time will bring more smiling hours; In friendship’s heart all grief will die, And even love forget to sigh. My life is like the prints which feet Have left on Tampa’s desert strand. Soon as the rising tide shall neat, All trace shall vanish from the sand. Yet. as if grieving to eff ace All vestige of the human race On that lone shore loud mourns the sea; But none, alas! shall mourn for me. The sea may on the desert shore Lament each trace it bore away; The lonely heart its grief may pour O’er cherished Iriendshif V f:u y; Yet when all track is lost and gone. The waves dance bright and gaily on ; Thus soon affection’s bonds are torn, And even love forgets to mourn. HIM KLMNEOI .V. A;j Old Soldier of (In; Cross. Georgia is a great State Until the admission of Texas—Virginia, Michi gan, Missouri, and Georgia were the largest of onr States, each having about sixty thousand square utiles. Georgia has had a remarkable history From the days of Oglethorpe down, she has had a succession of great men. In civil life, her list of worthies is long and brilliant. In Iter rhurches, she has had many wonderful men now passed from earth. A long list of such men might easily he made. Some word Baptists, some Presbyterians, some Moravians, some Episcopalians, and some" Metho dists. The memories of these men are greatly cherished, especially hy the neighborhoods or ehomtn i nations to which they belonged. Some of them are historic characters. But my object at present is to speak of a living man, who has risen to great eminence in one of the churches. You can not be long in the State without hearing of him. You are soon asked if you know him, or have heard hiut preach. Some say they would rather hear him than any ether living man. I have heard him, and was not at all disappointed. I hope to hear him again. A friend who belong* to the same branch of the church with him self, saiil ; •• When I hear him lam satisfied that he is the best preacher 1 know, until I hear his son ; then I like the son best till I again hear the fathej.” This r.-markable ntan of God was born in Halifax county. North Caro lina, on the 24th. of March. 1785 While he was yet a boy, his family re moved to Barnwell district. South Car olina. In bis sixteenth year the Lord drew him with the cords of love and the hands of man, and lead him to be hold the Lamb of God. His exercises of mind was strongly marked His conversion wa* followed by an eariy profession of religion Not long after this his family removed to Washing ton, Georgia. In 1804, he was regularly authorized to preach. He dispensed God’s word with much zeal and acceptance in many parts of South Carolina and Georgia for eight yea s The old people on Lvnch’s (’reek, Gr'at Pedee, Oconee, and in other places, tell you of having heard him in childhood, or of hearing their parents titikuif him. The cities of Columbia, I -Milled eville and Augusta also have pleasing traditions of his early minis try. Pretty early in the war of 1812 he became a chaplain in the army. It is seldom that he now meets with any of the heroes of that day They have generally passed away. During the war he studied medicine, afrd after the war was over he attended medical lec ture!" rn Philadelphia, took his degree of Doc'or of Medicine, settled in Greeneshoro’, Georgia, and practiced the healing art for wix yen** Hut it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps. God had i ther and better work (or him to do He returned to the pul pit with new zeal, and a determination to spend and be spent in proclaiming salvation. 11 s labors have been chiefly in Georgia, though often rendering good service to the cause of God in other States, especially in South Caro iua FI is earlv education was very imper fect. He went to school not more than six months. But his mind was active, eager and inquiring. He cried alter knowledge, and lifted up his voice for understanding. He sought her as sil ver, and searched for her as for hid treasure. Of course he found th< knowledge of God. no has not slight ed philosophical studies. At times he has paid much attention to mental science. But his residing through life has been chiefly theoh gieal. The fountain of all-saving knowledge—the word of God —has claimed most atteu tion. In its constituent elements his mind seems to be a rare combination of the poetic and metaphysical. He has very unusual powers of attention For hours he can fix his thoughts on one subject. He is very happy in incur norating practical remarks wit h ? ah stract thoughts. He thus makes adn theme attractive to a promiscuous con gregatinn. His style, far removed from meretricious ornament, is yet al ways neat and quite ornate. But lie never so wreathes the sword in flowers as to hin er its cutting power For mere ornament, he seems t? care not at all. llis figures are part of his argu merit. They explain his meaning and deepen the impression he seems to make. He has had one of the finest voices. It is n>w a little broken. But still it is pleasant. It is commonly clear, full and sonorous For hours he speaks without weariness or cha noc. He al ways pives pleasure and not pain by his manner o( s| caking. Of course he is natural. At times he says very ter rific things in very solemn tones ; hut commonly his utterances are winning and tender. His early ministry was attended with wonderful effeets. At times he expresses concern that his ministry has not the ti'jnr folfotcinff that once ac companied it. In this he is not alone. Others are much of the same mind re specting their labors. This venerable man’s piety is the charm of his character. The Bible, the Church and the Saviour sire the themes of his thoughts. Outside of Christ’s kingdom he appears to have no business. From him current events vain hut a passing notice; but he will talk of the church, past, present and to come. His old age is serene and cheer ful. and the moll-wed light of his long doy promises a clear sunset, and a blessed, glorious eternity His history is blessed. Ilis person is blessed. His influence is blessed. Thousands cal him blessed. Jlet should he read this (but for dates) he would never suspect that it was of him self he was reading. His humility hides his excellencies from his own eyes. Perhaps I ought to say that I have been writing of Rev. Dr. Lovick Pierce, the father of Bishop George Foster Pierce, both of the Methodist Episcopal Church South. Dr. Pierce has been found an effective preacher for seventy years, and will in a few days he ninety years old Orace, mercy and peace be unto him always—[A Presbyterian in the New York Ob- 1 server. The debt statement of the Uni ted States shows a decrease during March of over 33.500.0(H). In treas try—coin 848,000,000, cur rency 85,000,000. Etymology. Johnson once made a bet with Boswell that ho could go jinto the market and put a Billingsgate wo man in a passion without saying word that site cor Id understand.— The doctor commenced by silently indicating with his nose, that her fish had passed the state in which a man’s olfactories could endure their flavor. The Billingsgate la dv made a verbal attack common in parlance. The doctor answer ed,— “You are an article, madam.” “No more an article than your self, you misbegotten villain ” “You ate a noun, woman ” “You—von,” starn-mered the woman, choking w ith rage at a list of titles she could not understand. “You are a pronoun.” The beldam shook her fist in speechless rage. “You are a verb, an adverb, an adjective, a conjunction, a preposi tion, an interjection!” suddenly continued the doctor, applying the harmless epithets at proper inter vals. The nine parts of speech com pletely conquered the old woman, and she flung herself down :n the mud, crying with rage at being thus “blackguarded’" in a set ot unknown terms, which, not under.' standing, she could not answer. mm* *■ The Fire that Old Xich Buili. We find in an exchange the fol lowing capital imitation of the style of the “house that Jack built, 'and wish it might become a household favorite: Intemperant©—This is the fire the old Nick built. Moderate drinking—This is the fuel that feeds the fire that old Nick built. Rum selling—This is the ax that cuts the wood that feeds the fire that old Nick built. Love of money—This is the stone that grinds the ax that cuts the wood that feeds the fire that old Nick built. Public opinion—This is the sledge with its face of steel that batters the stone that grinds the ax that cuts the wood 'hat feeds the fire that old Nick built. A temperance meeting—-This is one of the tdows that wo quietly deal to fashion the sledge with its edge of steel that patterns the stone that grinds the ax that cuts the wood that feeds the fire that old Nick built. Eternal Truth—This is the spir it so gentle and still that nerves the smith to work with a will to give the force to the blows that we quietly deal to fashion the sledge with its face af steel that batters the stone that grinds the ax that cuts the wood that feeds the fire that old Nick built. [Ex. — Novel Wedding Ceremony. “Fifty years ago, a very strange scene was enacted on the big hill at the rear of the University cam pus. Syracuse was tteri in its lar va state. The native forest trees studded the landscape. One bright Sunday morning a young woman and a young man wended their way to that hill before daybreak fer a very romantic purpose. They stood <acing the east, and then feli on their knees. When the sun was fully up they arose, saluted each other with a kiss, and clasping left hands, raised their right hands to heaven, and thus wed themselves: •In the presence of God and the light-giving sun, we pledge to each ! other our love, our lives, our stead fast fidelity, so long as we shall in habit the much nourishing earth. They saluted each other again with a kiss, and then returned to town and breakfasted at Cook s coffee house. After breakfast they took passage on the canal boat PeWitt Clinton, for the western part of the State, and wore never heard from thereafter. Tradition says t’HS : thv buried somewhere on this hill a hex containing their names, (why they preferrjd such a medic ’ of marrying and whither they intend 1 - ed goingi was not known.) This box was found twenty years after ward. but the writings were obliter ated beyond legibility.” F.WETIU~ —An Irish editor congratulate* himself th*t ‘‘half the lies told about him ain't true ” A little girl in Des Moines wants to know why (here are no he dolls. A victim of Dr. Greeley’s hand writing says: “If Horace had written that inscription ou the wall in Baby -lon, Belshazzar would have been a a good deal more scarred than he was." —A colored gentleman in lowa, having been summoned to serve as a juror, was asked by the court, “Are you' a "oter ?” He replied. “I’se black enuff, rnassa, but not old enuff,’’ and he was excused. —I pressed her gentle form to me, and whispered in her car, if, when I was far away, she'd drop for me a tear. I paused for cheering words, my throb-* ling heart to cool; and with her rosy lips she said, “ 0 Ike, you’re sueh a* fool !” A card was hung out of a little oyster shop in Sandusky City, Ohio, while the State Sabbath School Con vention was in session in that place, which read, “ Oisters in ever stile, coked to order. Freuds of the redem> erer will pines caul ” A doctor lately informed his friends, in a large company, that he had been eight days in the country “Yes," said one of ihe party, “it has been announced in the Times.” “Ah'" said the doctor, stretching his neck importantly; “pray, in what terms?” ‘■Well, as well as I can remember, in the following: ‘ There were last week seventy-seven deaths less than the week before!” mOB ♦ —Squabbles, an old bachelor shows his stockings which he had just darned, to a maiden lady, who con temptuously remarks, Pretty good for <a man darner” Whereupon Squab" bles rejoins, "Yes. good enough fur * woman, darn her." am ♦ - A letter-writer, describing a recent ball, says the feature which made the deepest impression on him was the ' -‘unusual number of very plump women 1 foaming over the tops of t heir dresses.” —“How does that look,eh. - '” said Mr. Cramp holding out his brawny hand. “’I hat,” sad Amos, “ locks as if you were out of soap.” —“Flees cum aruun an taik me two the spedn roach this evning,” was the highly perfumed epistle which a girl sent to her “feller ” —■mm ♦ —This is how Mary Kyle Dallas says it feels : “ Take a man and pin three or four large table-cloths about him. fastened back with elastic and looped up with ribbons; drag all his cwn hair to the middle of his head and tie it tight, and hairpin on about five pounds of other hair and a big bow of ribbon Keep the front locks on pins all night and let them tickle his eyes all day; pinch his waist into a corset, and give him gloves a size too small, auo shoes ditto, and a hat that will not stay on without ,a torturing elastie, and a frill to tickle his chin, and a little lace veil to blind his eyes whenever he goes out to walk, and he will know what woman’s dress is ! ’ My. —■ ■ - ■ When a girl deliberately selects the muddiest crossing, you may be sure 9he knows exactly the size of her foot. —— A Boston man has died and loft two hundred dollars to a L niver salist church. It would do an old fashioned Methodist preacher good to tell a revival congregation jo t what has become of this man. NO. 1G