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DEVOTED TO NEWS, POLITICS, LITERATURE, AGRICULTURE AND GENERAL PRarnrev rv*Z ’ 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. 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