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VOL. X.
IWISCEEMNEMTX
ItOM AT THE TOP.
To the voting men •innnally mak
ing their entrance upon active life,
with great ambitions, conscious ca
pacities, and high hopes, the pros
pect is, ninety--nine cases in a hun
dred, most perplexing. Thev see
every avenue to prosperity throng
ed with their superiors in experi-
ence, in social advantages, ind in
possession of all the elements and
conditions of success. Every post
is occupied, every office filled, eve
ry path crowded. Where shall
they find room ? It is related of
Mr. Webster, that wnen a young
lawyer suggested to him that the
profession to which he had devoted
himself was over-crowded, the great
man replied; ‘Young man. there
is always room enough at the top "
Never was a wiser or more sug
gestive word said. There undoubt
edly is always room enough where
excellence lives. Mr. Webster was
not not troubled for lack of room.
Mr. Clay and Mr. Calhoun were
never crowded. Mr Evans, Mr.
Cushing, and .Mr. O'Conor have
plenty of space around them. Mr.
Beecher. Or. Srorrs. l)r. Ilall. Mr
Phillips Brooks, would never know,
in their personal experience, that
it was hard to obtain a desirable
ministerial charge. The profession
is not crowded where they tire.—
Dr. Brown Sequard, Dr. Willard
Parker, and Dr. Hammond are not
troubled for space at their elbows
When Nel ton died in Paris, he
died like Moses, on a mountain.—
When Von Grnefe died in Beilin,
he had no neighbor at his altitude.
It is well, first, that all young
men remember that rotliing will do
them so much injury as quick and
easy success, and that nothing will
do them so much good as a struggle
which teaches them exactly what is
in them, educates them gradually to
its use, instructs them in personal
economy, drills them into a pa tent
anil persistent habit of work, and
keeps them at tho foot of the lad
der until they become sttnng
enough to hold every step they
arc enahled to gain. The first
vears of every man’s business or
*
professional life are years of educa
tion. They are intended to be, in
the order of nature and Providence.
Doors do not open to a man until
he is prepared to enter them. The
man without a wedding garment
may get in surreptitiously, but he
immediately goes out with a flea in
his ear We think it is the expe
rience of most successful men who
have watched the course of their
lives in retrospect, that whenever
they have arrived at a point where
they were thoroughly prepared to
go up higher, th 3 door to the high
er place has swung back of itself,
and they have heard the call to en
ter. The old die, or voluntarily’ re
tire to rest. TUo
stand ready to take their places, 1
will succed to their position and its
honors and emoluments.
The grand mistake'that, young
men make during the first ten
years of their business or profes
sional life, is in idly waiting for
their chance. They BJem to for
get. or they do not know, that du
ring those ten years they enjoy the
only' leisure they will ever have.
After ten years, in the natural
course of things they will he ab
sorbingly busy. There will then
be tio time for reading, culture or
study. If 'hey do not become
thoroughly grounded in the princi
ples and practical details of their
profession during those years—if
they do not store their minds with
useful knowledge—if they *0 not
pursue habits of reading and ob
servation, and social intercourse,
which result in culture, the ques
tion whether they will ever rise to
uTljc i&tmitgboto* Hera (it.
occupy a place where there is room
for them will he decided in the neg
ative. The young physicians and
young lawyers who sit idly in their
offices, and smoke, and lounge
away the time, ‘waiting for some
thing to turn np,’ are by that course
fastening themselves for life to the
lower stratum, where struggle for
a bare livelihood is to be perpetual
The first ten years are golden years
that should be filled with systema
tic reading and observation. Ev
erything that tends to professional
and personal* excellence, should be
an object of daily pursuit. To
such men the doors of success open
themselves at last Work seek
the best hands, as naturally as wa
ter runs down hill ; and it never
seeks the hands of the trifler, or of
one whose only recommendation for
work is that he needs it. Young
men do not know very much, anv
way, ami the time always comes to
those who become worthy, when
they look back with wonder upon
their early good opinion of their ac
quirements and themselves.-[Scrib
ner’s Magazine.
Don't Advertise.
Don’t do it. Don’t advertise your
bit-inis.-; it’s paying out money to an
commodate other people; if they woit
to buy your goods, let them hunt you
up.
Don’t advertise, for it gets your
name abroad, and you are apt to be
flooded with circulars from business
houses, and to be bored with “drum
mers” from the wholesale establish
ments, all of which also results in so
I citing your order for new goods, and
unoiey Cii pay for them, which is very
annoying to one r.f - -*J"t"'
perament.
Don’t advertise, for it brings people
in from the country, (country folks.,
you kuow, aye of an enquiring turn of
mind ) and they will ask you many
astonishing questions about prices;
try your temper with showing them
goods, and even vex you with the re
quest to tie them up. which puts you
to an additional trouble of buying more.
Dm’t adv- rtise; it-gives people
abroad a knowledge of your town, and
they come and settle in it ; it will grow
and other business will be induced to
come in and thus increase your compe
tition.
In short, if you would have a quiet
town not too large; if you would no>
he harassed by multitudinous cares and
perplexities of business; if you would!
avoid being bothered with paying <y \
and losing time to read a great cum/' •
some newspaper, just remain at 1 ’
don’t let the people know five/ 1 '* 3 "
away where you are, nor what f l aie
d' ing, and you will "be et
alone to enjoy the bliss of unA
repose.[ —Gazette, lied Bal
Anecdotes of ICiiiif * hostte.
Rufus Choate and Chief-Justice
Shaw of Massachusetr, often indulged
in wordy combats, aid "'it was ,u 1
ally freely expend'd by both sides
Choate was once arguing a case before
the Chief Justice (who was one of the
homeliest men ever elevated to tin
nencli) anu to express
for the conceded ability of the Judge,
said, in yielding to an adverse deci
sion :
-In coming into the presence of
your honor, I experience the same feel
ings the Hindoo does when lie bows
before hi- idol- l know that you are
uglv, but I feel that you arc great!”
It is said that Choate had a com-
mand of language, and his brain teemed
with a wealth of diction truly rnavel
nus. When Judge Shaw first heard
that there was a fresh edition of Wor
cester’s Dietionary out, containing
2.500 new words, he exclaimed :
“For Heaven’s sake don t let Cnoate
net hold of it.”
Choate, in an important assault and
battery case at sea, had Dick Barton,
chief mate of the clipper ship, “Chal
lenge,” on the stand, and badgered him
so for about an hour that Dick got his
sal* water up, and hauled by tho wind
to bring the keen Boston lawyer under
his batteries.
At the beginning of his testimony,
I Dick said that the night wans as “ dark
GREENESBORO’, GA„ THURSDAY, MAY 13, i 875
|as the devil, and "raining like seven
bells.”
Suddenly, Mr. Choate asked him :
“Was there a moon that night?”
“Yes, sir.”
“Ah, yes ! a moon—”
“Yes, a lull moon.”
“Did you see it ?”
“ Vot a mite.”
“Then, how do you know there was
a moon?”
“The Nautical Almanac said so, and
I’ll believe that sooner than any lawyer
in (his world.”
“What was the principal luminary
that night, sir ?”
“Binnacle lamp aboard the ‘ Chal
lenge.’ ”
“Ah, you are growing sharp, Mr.
Barton.”
“What in blazes have ycu been
grinding me this hour for—to make me
dull ?”
“Be civil, sir. And now tell me
what latitude and longitude you crossed
the equator in ?
‘ Sho’—you’re joking.”
“No. sir, I aui in earnest, and I de
sire you to answer me.”
“I sha’n’t.”
“Ah : you refuse, do you ?”
“Yes—l ean’t.”
“Indeel, you are the chief mate of
a clipper ship, and are unable to an
swer’sp simple a question ?”
“Yes, ’tis the simplest one I ever
had asked me. Why, I thought every
too, of a lawyer knew that there ain’t
no latitude at the equator.’’
That shot floored Rufus. ■*
Floating Metals.
♦
Miners in Nevada tel! us that the
divisibility of quicksilver is so
great that particles of it float down
the clearest streams invisible.l t
eye, and vet large enough to
ver. or of both. The pF' °°V
the floating metals is sly*
posjts made on copper/ n a f evv
in the streams, wh^,. irß worth
months, hundreds / I]ecteil In
of quicksilver / si]vcr an d gold
photograph gaiy r u3eJ for wash
float offin the./ aro gathere ,l by
ing
provident / king 0 f pictures -
" Sed "7 ra nll as tbs particles of
Il,fi '!'%ietals are that float in
Plater, invisible to the eve.
t ve in the aggregate great
,h Sfercial value, and are. to some
% t tvpical of invisible parti-
' / 3 of one’s income that are care
ljf ss | v allowed to float awav on the
streams of waste, when, with a lit
tle care, thev might he made into
of an aggregate value
that would surprise even a statis
tician.”
-Josh Billings says that “Marriage
is a fair transaction on the face ov it ,
butthare iz quite too often put-up jobs
in it. Whoever it wuz that first put
on the silken harne-s must have made
a good thing ov it, or so menny ov
1 heir posterity would not hev har
nessed up since and drove out. 1 hare
iz a .rratc moral crip to marriage ; it is
1 he mortar that holds the soshui backs
together. Bat thare am’t bit fe
pholks who put th dr money m main
„,ony who could set down and give a
- r :"-'-y 00 earth
they cum to do it. Sum mairy !“■
tn .ney and don’t see it. Sum marry
because they think wimmen will be
scarce next year, and live to wonder
It,. w the crop holds out. Sum many
fur love without a cent in their poekit.
nor a friend in the worlJ, nor a drop ov
pedigree. This looks desperate, but it
iz the strength ov the game.”
The roof of Westminster Abbey
in London, long supposed to be of
oak, when examined last year, was
found to be of chestnut. It was
sound and perfect, although it had
stood for eight centuries already,
which would go to show that chest
nut timber is pretty good for build-
ing purposes.
\ m an in Monroe county, Pa-,
roused to frenzy by the news from Con
cord and Lexington, has just declared
his independence by flooring his
mother-in-law with a hot griddie. The
neighbors, however, regard the affair
simply as a family broil.
FMIETKUJS
—He now calls tbe “ccrebji spinal
meningitis,” the “serious old lial come
and get us.”
—lt is true that one swal iw does
not make a summer, but it coY s sum
mers near it.
—How can you shoot. “-*■
and twenty hares at a shot? Uqre at a
wig.
Why is a dog biting his tahlike a
good manager? Because be makes
both ends meet
—Why was Paul like an <jl white
horse ? Because he loved Tif /hy
—> —i,
—A bustle is described ash fiction
founded on fact.
—lt was so cold in Montanjecent
ly that whisky was sold by thilug.
—A Dubuque printer rece and the
following note Irom his gi, |: M
; 'J I
get yanked out of bed at m : dn|every
Dite by a cuss like
an’ carried up a million pars ‘'Hares,
if ever I sese to love you Jim.’.
—-The hair of a youig lad; Ver
mont turned white in a siugljight.
She fell into a flour linjrel.
—Lucy Stone says : “The cite is a
woman’s ballot-box.” Thele’ve
known some
two ballots were depend at aji, e .
When his i J t 0
“ take a walk ,, inan en 'piy stanch ”
Sydney gu-' ‘Lpon !lose j>
_ w -7 Socrates w„s ask *~ .
/ friends.” * 11
I tla-K winch it is said are
; et, but this~is don's ties'- owing rtU "
being so high.
—
“TIPs is capita I ale,” said an on!
toper; “sec how long it keeps its
head 1”
“Aye,” said a bystander, “but con
sider how soon it takes away yours.
A veteran was relating his ex
ploits to a crowd of boys, and ui"o
tinned having been in live engage
ments.
“That’s nothing.” broke in a little
fellow, “my sisters been engaged
eleven times.”
\ Sunday school teacher asked a
little hoy if he knew what the expres-
sion “sowing tares ’ meant.
“Courth I due*,” Slid be > P ullin b r
the seat of his little breeches arouua in
front. There’s a tear my uia sewed. I
teared it sliding down hill.”
\ farmer wrote as follows to a
distinguished scientific agriculturist, to
whom he felt under obligations for in
troducing a variety of swine:
“ Respected sir, I went yesterday to
the cattle show. I fouud several pigs
of your species. There was a great
variety of hogs, and I was astonished
at not seeing you there.
\ reverend gentleman; during aj
sojourn among the hills of New Hamp
shire, stopping at a cottage, inquired
of the occupant if there was any Ep.*
eopalians in the neighborhood. “I
don’t exactly know,” replied the dame,
•‘but I believe John shot one in the
garden last wees,but he thought it was
a chipmunk.”
_>o gracious, no!” exclaiiled Mrs.
Marrowfat to Mrs. Quoggs, raising he
hands and speaking i.i a very excited
tone. “ She was so ill when her new
bonnet came home that she couldn’t
get up; but, dear sakes ! Jae, that
didn’t matter nothing, for she just put
her hat on,aud lay with her head out
of the window the whole afternoon.”
—Yesterday as an old citizen was
nailing a “ To Rent ” card on a vacant
house, a pedestrian halted and re
marked that “howze” was not the right
way to spell “house.”
“How long have you lived in De
troit?” asked the old citizen, icowling
savagely.
“Fifteen years.” was the reply.
“Well, I’ve lived, here'for tjiirtv,”
continued the old man, “ and I guess I
know how to spell as well as you do.
[Detroit Free Press.
83 °° a lenriu Advance.
MASONIC.
* ,,n - f \ ap i"o Lodge. Xt. :{*.
GREENESBORO', GA.
Regular Meetings—First Wednesday
night of each mon h.
M. MARKWALTER, S tc ’y.
Greoneshoi-o* IS. a. €., \o. 27
GREENESBORO’, GA.
eac l lT lar l meeting - ThiH F Hday night of
each C. 0. NORTON, Sec’y.
I ion I’oiiit Lnil'm, Vo, SOO.
UNION POINT, Ga.,
Feb. 4, !,,TC,,EI - 1 " S "'F.
# 0) (!) #
Teen 0 0
GREENESBORO’, O
Meets regularly every Monday night.
a- R. GODKIN, N. G.
D. S. Holt, R S.
si (o in r.
XJ S3 a-ire G 5 *
GrccEicHborougli Foilge. \o.
320 Independent, Order Good Temniars
meets at o, ; d Fellow’s Hal ßo,,^
Friday nights in each month.
V. H. BRANCH, w. C.
G. W. Mn.t.EU. Sec’y.
9BS&XRVV aAMT)s
*“
_ and—
COUNSELOR AT LAW,
GREENESBORO \ - - - GA.
■VVni.iL give prompt attention to all bn-
W si ness intrusted to lus professional
care, in the Counties of Oreeme. Morgan,
Putnam. Baldwin. Hancock ami Taliaferro.
'V'T'OITiee —With Hon. Philip B. Boh
anvil 8,187-s—6ms
M. \V. LEWIS } { 11 • G LEWIS.
JS. W. Lewis & Son,
Attorneys at Law,
GBEE\ESIM>ROI'GHt '
april 8,1875—1 y
Philip B. Robinson,
Attorney at Law t
GREENESBORO’. . . . GA.
WILL give prompt attention to business
entrusted to his professional care.
Feb. 20, 1873—Oms
Wm. H. Branch,
ATTO RN EY AT LA W.
< CONTINUES to give his undivided atten- !
I J tion to the practice of his Profession. ]
Returning thanks to his clients for their
encouragement in the past, he hopes by
close application to business to merit a con
tinuance of the same.
over Drug Store of Messrs. B.
Torbcrt ft Cos.
Greenesboro’ Jan 10th 18,4 ly.
31. K. W. IMI HKK
Attorney at Law „
teEKXBIIOB% - - ‘
A LL business intrusted to him will re
f\ ceive personal attention.
rrti-OFFICE—('Vith Judge Heard.) in
Tiviuf"
during business hours. oct *'■' *
w. W. LLMIMiIX.
attorney at law,
UNION POINT,
/•VKFE'tS his professional services to the
( I people of Greene and adjoining coun
ties and hones, hy close attention to busi
sineqs to merit and receive a liberal share of
patronage. j an23 74 ~ 1 y ‘ _
Medical Card.
Dps. BODO & HOLT,
Td WING associated themselyes in the
police of Medicine, rcspe -tfndv tender
their services to the citizens of Gheeneb-
Bono" and surrounding country,
March 4, 1875—tf
Win. Morgan,
RESIDENT
DIJVTIST
ORE EXE SB OR O’, GA.
■ fob. 1, 1874.
;?• ifWtKWviTdi,
Marble Wor'cs
[BROAD Street, AUGUSTA, Ga
\ 1 Monnmen s. Tomb-stones.
hi! 1 f Mantles, and Furniture Mai
ble of all kinds, from the plainest to tbe
designed and furnished to
mdei at short notice. All work for the
•ountry carefully boxed. „ov2 1871-tf
JEWELRY!
\V S .{ US , G - t0 myself entirely to
niil legitimate business of Clock
<"d watch Repairing, from this date, I of.
. - r my entu-e Stock of Watches and Jewel
,y ros ■ finding that it interferes too
nmeh with the business J prefer.
■, MABKHALTEn.
Oreenesboroh Ga., Sept. 2-1, 1874-tf
ceaitral iioriiL.
i BY
Wr. W. M. THOMAS,
AUGUSTA, Get-
Jan. 21—Ty.
IU
~ -• • JHATJf NEA’ ujr,
GKEILVESIIOROFGII, GA.
J. T. (T'I.YKR. I
A™ keeps on hand the choices t
TAItL.Fi
Is new and elegant. Call and see.
Feb. 18, 1876 —bms
VARIETY STORE!
FAMILY GROCERIES,
BAR-ROOM AND BILLIARD SALOON,
Corner Main and Broad Streets,
GREENESBORO’. - - GEORGIA.
W.C. Cartwright,
Always keeps on band a full assortment of
Family Gioceries
and the finest brands of imported and
domestic
LIQUORS AND SEGALS.
His Bar is always supplied with pure im
ported London Porter, Bass Ale, French
Brandy. Holland Gin. Jamaica Rum,
Wines and Champagne; and
GENUINE CINCINNATI LAGER,
I always fresh, besides all qualities of do-
""rS^'AH 1 and purchase your htwrics,
imbibe pure Liquors, smoke fine be^ars.
1 Corner Rroad and Main St s.
! March 25, 187A.
Fits Cured Free!
ANY person suffering from the above
disease is requested to address Dr. 1 1
and a trial bottle of medicine will be 101 '
warded by Express,
FREE !
The onlv cost being the Express charges
which, owing to uiy large business, are
small. A . .• *
Dr. Price has made the treatment ot
FITS OR EPILEPS'
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 hot
tie; it costs nothing, and he
XVIFI, EI RE YOI ,
no matter of how long standing your case
may he. or how many other remedies may
have failed. Circulars and testimonials
sent with Free Trial ISollle-
Be particular to give your Express, as
weli as your Post Office direction, and
Address,
|r C HAS. T. PRICE.
fi7 William Street, NEW YORK.
Feb. 18, 1875—1 y
Special Notice.
TITF, Stockholders of the Greene County
Fair Association are hereby personally no
tified that unless they pay up 'hew
rata share of an execution I hold against
said Association, 1 will be forced to have,
executions issued against them
for their proportional parts of said .
f apt. W. M Weaver is authorized to re
ceive and receipt for moneys i° paid
flM?tf .TAS: ?L ARMOR.
II ailroad Schedule.
Arrival and Departure of Train*.
Georg-ia Kail road.
Day Passenger Train.
Leave Augusta, 8.45, a. m
Leave Atlanta, 7 .on .
Arrive at Atlanta, tM, p *■
Arrive at Augusta, 8:30, n. m!
"Nighr Passenger Train.
Leave Augusta 0.1 * „ _
Leave Atlanta, 10 '. 80 ’ P '
Arrive at Atlanta, S'l' *■
.arrive at Augusta, fcUy a! m’.-
accommodation train:
Leaves Atlanta, r. M „ _
Leaves Stone Mountain-, 6-45 a"
Arrives Atlanta, oio,, *’ *
Arrives Stone Mountain, 6:15 J' „
S. K. JOHNSON, Sup’t.
*n.
Atlantic R. Jfi.
■yjfffil passenger Train—Outward.
Leave Atlanta, tl'OO and m
Arrives Chattanooga, a m"
day PASSENGER TRAIN,-Outward.
Leave Atlanta, SBO a. m.
Arrives Chattanooga, 4:28 p a •
Night Passenger Train— Inward.
Leaves Chattanooga. 3.4 c _ _
Arrives Atlanta, f
A!\ r r^ mGER T Tt AIN-Inward,
Leaves Chattanooga, 5:45 a m
Arrives Atlanta, 1-20 n ra'
I> A F/rON ACCOM MODATION
Lsaveg Atlanta, 4.3 c D
Arrives at Dalton, 12-20 a m'
Leaves Dalton * oinn !'
Arrives Atlanta, S6O a.' m
■Jos. E. BROWN President.
PURE DREGS,
AND
Client icdls,
wmm. ..
WniTE LEAD, Colors, I.IN
SEED OIL, BRUSHES, Ac.,
' For sale by
John A. Griffin.
(TF-Physiclans’ proscriptions carefully
dispensed, april 8, 1875-ly
ALFRED SHAW
KEEPS constantly on hand in Gres#*.-
boro’ and Madison, a full assortmeal
of .
ROSEWOOD and MAHOGANY
hi'UIAL CASI&f
and imitations of the same. Also,
METALIC CASKETS,
of all grades.
In beauty, durability and price, the..
Cases and Caskets will compare favorably
witli any to be found elsewhere.
W. T. DOSTER and H. C. SITTOS
\re our authorized Agents at Greenesbor.’.
NOTE. All persons indebted for past
purchases, are requested to come forward
and settle their bills , .
IEFREII SHAW.
Mftrch 18, ___
n ERGIA- G County—
-1 T William It. Wilson Administrator on
t lie Estate of Henry H. Durham, deceased;
applies for Letters of Dismission, and such
Letters will be granted on the fifst Monday
in May, 1875, unless valid objections there
to nve tiled. • . . ■,
Oiveti under my band and official Bigna*
ture, this January 20th, 187n.
3m JOEL F. THORNTON, Ord y.
riEORGIA-fiiref"? ,
1 T Wm s. and John M. Ctilclough, Ad
ministrators of .John Colc'bngh. **“*|j
apply for Letters of Dismission and sucb
Letters will he granted on the first Monday
in Jams 1875, unless valid objection.
•"j-OELrTndftstos, orfy.
mar. 4.1875 —-inis .
Tnrorri 4— iSpceiie CouutjA
G Whereas James Smith, r o/
James Atkinson, deceased. apf> J**
te r- „f Dismission, and such Letters will M
granted on tie- first Monday in May 18.6.
unless valid objections thereto be filed.
Given under my hand and official sign*
tnre this February Ist, 1875
ture ' QBL p' thohNTON, Ord’y.
Feb. 1, 1875—3ms*
FOR-
Sale or ltent.
A fine farm containing (80) eighty
acres, (50 acres original forest), within tw
miles’of Greenesboro. '''
feblltf. W. M. WEA> r.fv,
NO. 19