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BEVOTEB TO NEWS, POLITICS, LITERATURE, AGRICULTURE ANB GENERAL PROGRESS—INBEPENBENT IN ALE THINGS, YOL. X. @3 OO a Year in Advance. Arrival r Trains at recnes lioro’ l>e|M>t. DAY PASSENGER TRAIN. From Atlanta, . . H ; 2 A. M. From Augusta, . . 1:10 P. M. NIGHT PASSENGER TRAIN. From Atlanta • . . 3:33 A. M. From Augusta, . . . 1:14 A. M. May 29 “ 11. 11. KING, Agent. Railroad Schedule. Arrival and Departure of Trains. Georgia Railroad. Day Passenger Train. Leave Augusta, 8.45, a. m. Leave Atlanta, 7:00, a. m. Arrive at 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, 6:25, a, in. Arrive at Augusta, 8:15, a. m. 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. Western At Atlantic R R AND ITS CONNECTIONS. —“KENNESAW ROUTE.”— The following Schedule takes effect May 23d, 1875: NORTIIWART). No 1. No 3. Noll. Lv Atlanta, 4 20pm 7 OOara 330 pm Ar Cartersville, 6 14pm 9 ‘22am 7 19pm Ar Kingston, 0 42pm 9 GGain 8 21pm Ar Dalton, 8 24pm 11 54am 11 18pm Ar Chattanooga,lo 25pm 1 56pm SOUTHWARD. No 2. No 4. No 12. 1. Chattanooga, 4 00pm 5 00am Ar Dalton, 5 41pm 7 Olnm 1 00am Ar Kingston, 7 38pm 9 07am 4 19am Ar Cartersville, 8 12pm 9 42am 5 18am _Ar Atlanta, 10 15pm 12 00m 9 80am Pullman Palace Cars run on Nos. T and 2, between New Orleans and Baltimore. Pullman Palace Cars run on Nos. 1 and 8, bet ween Atlanta and Nashville. Pullman Palace Cars run on Nos. 3 and 2, between Louisville and Atlanta. ®sgfNo change of cars between New Orleans, Mobile, Montgomery, Atlanta and Baltimore, and only one change to New York. ■ Passengers leaving Atlanta at 4:10 pm, arrive in New York the second afternoon thereafter at 4:00 pm. Excursion Tickets to the Virginia Springs and various Summer Resorts will be on sale in New Orleans, Mobile, Montgomery, Co lumbus, Macon, Savannah, Augusta and Atlanta,at greatly reduced rates Ist. of June. Parties desiring a whole car through to the Virginia Springs or to Baltimore, should address the undersigned. Parties contemplating traveling should send for a copy of the Kennesaw Route Ga zette, containing schedules, etc. for Tickets via “ Kennesaw Route.” . B. W. WRENN, Gen'l Pass, and Ticket Agent, Atlanta, Ga MASONIC. San Nai-iiio Otilso. V> 8. GREENESBORO', GA. 'Regular Meetings—First Wednesday night of each month. M. MABKWALTER, Sec’y. Greeiirslioro' IE. 1. C'., \o. 3? GREENESBORO', GA. Regular meeting—Third Fiiday night of each month. C. C. NORTON, Sec’y. L'uioii Point liOtlgo, -Vo. 31MI. UNION rOINT, Ga., Meets regularly the 2d and 4th Thursday day evenings in each month. W. O. MITCHELL, Sec’y. Feb. 4, 1875—tf 4f~@~o & Greene Lodge, \o. 11, 1 O OF. GREENESBORO’, GA., Meets regularly every Monday night. J. 11. GODKIN, N. G. D. S. Holt, R S. $ ¥§ t Greeueiboroiigh Lodge, Vo. 320, Independent Order Good Templars, meets at Odd Fellow’s Hall, on 2d and 4th Friday night* in.oecli month. J. HENRY WOOD, W. C. G. VC. Mii.lek, Sec’y. dJOffc P er day at home, to Tcrmg f r ee. Ad dress G. STINSON & Cos . Portland. Maine Jan 21. 1875-ly - She zhmih BUSINESS CARDS, JAMES B. PARK, HTIE3 "5T AND— COUNSELOR AT LAV/, GREENE SB OR O', - - - GA. 'TTTILL give prompt, attention to all bti v V siness intrusted to his professional care, in the Counties of Greene, Morgan, Putnam, Baldwin, Hancock and Taliaferro. OS^Olflce— With Hon. Philip R. Rob inson. april 8,1875 —Oms M. W. LEWIS )■ ■{ H. G. LEWIS. Jff. W. Lewis & Son, Attorneys at Law f GREEXESBOItOIGn, - GA. april 8, 1875-ly Philip B. Robinson, Attorney at Law, GREENESBORO’. . . . GA. yy ILL givo prompt attention to business entrusted to his professional care. Feh. 20, 1873—6 ms Wm. H. Branch, A TTORNE Y AT LA IV. GUREAEiiinORO', GA. I CONTINUES to give his undivided atten ' J tion to the practice of his Profession. Returning thanks to his clients for their encouragement in the past, he hopes by Rose application to business to merit a con tinuance of the same. over Drug Store of Messrs. B. Torbert & Cos. Greenesboro’ Jan 10th 1874—1 y. hTe7 w. pal ml it Attorney at Law, GKEEAGSBORO', - - - GA. A LL business intrusted to him will rc- JA. ceivc personal attention. f.-r^OFFICK —(With Judge Heard,) in the Conn-House, where .;j3 win be fi/md daring-Business hours. ■ W. W. LUMPKIN. ATTORNEY AT LAW, I POINT, - - Ga OFFERS 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. jan23 74—ly. Medical Card. Drs. GOBKIN & HOLT, Having associated themselves in the Practice of Medicine, respectfully tender their services to the citizens of Gkeexes bouo’ and surrounding country. March 4, 1875—tf Hr. Win. ‘ Morgan, RESIDENT DENTIST GREENESBORO ’, GA. feb. U_^ 74 1_ T. MARK WALTER, Marble Works * BROAD Street, AUGUSTA, Ga. MARBLE Monumen s, Tomb-stonesi 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 country carefully boxed. n0v2,1871 —tf CENTRAL HOTEL. BY ttrs. W . M. THOMAS, AUGUSTA, Ga- Jan. 21 —Ty. .JEWELRY! Y VriSIHNG to devote myself entirely to t V the legitimate business of Clock and Watch Repairing, from this date, I of fer my entire Stock of Watches and Jewel ry at cost, finding that it interferes too much with the business I prefer. M. MAKHWALTER. Greenesboro’, Ga., Sept. 24, 1574-tf FOR Sale or llcut. .A. fine farm containing (80) eighty acres, (50 acres original forest), within two miles of Greenesboro. Apply to feblltf. W. M. WEAVER. FOR SALE. V Light two-horse CARRIAGE and Harness—nil new. T. V. POn.LAI V. Greenesboro .Gn June 18— 1874, tf GREENESBORO’, GA., THURSDAY, JUNE 24, 1875. POET’S CORNER. THE SOCK THAT BABY WORE. Read before the Mississippi Press Convention at Kosciusko , June 2 d, 1875, by Emmett L. Ross, Editor of the Canton Mall. Had I the gift that Homer had—could tune my harp at will, I’d bid my sluggish muse awake to charm you with its trill. Had I the power your speaker has, our loved state’s gifted son, I’d use them all in lavish store to tune a harp unstrung. Could I command the beauteous words your Welcome ha o employed, So kind, so fittingly expressed by lovely Anna Boyd, I’d bid my muse’s spirit write upon your memory’s scroll The gratitude that penetrates and stirs the printer's soul. But I have not such gifts as these; tho’ wishing all the while For Inspiration’s mystic aid, tlieso moments to beguile. So I shall be content in this, to sing in simple lines, And ask indulgence for my lack of num bers, figures, rhymes. Before a crackling fire’s blaze a matron drew her chair, And turned the kettle from the crane that sang its evening air, Responsive to the good dame’s will, who waited all alone The sound of distant rolling wheels that brought her husband home. A moment more, the great yard gate swung wide to John and team, And soon his face popped in the door, with happy smile agleam. He drew his old wife to his heart, his bride oi'long ago, And kissed her cheeks of cherry red, her brow si? f ; .ke the snow. Forgetting Time had left its trace and made its furrows there, Nor knew that raven locks and curls had turned to silver hair. To him it was enough to know her heart beat just as true As it had done back forty years when first they gan to woo. He led her to her low-backed chair, and drew his by her side, And told her all tho news in town —the latest death and bride. How ’Squire Dyke, from “rheumatiz,” had taken to his bed ; How Dolly Dill had caught a beau, and very soon would wed ; How Sary Smith and Polly Green, and lots of other ‘ wimin,” Wore flaming feathers in their hats and piled on ribbon “ trimmin.” In fact, how all the girls put on their hi-fa lu-tin ways, And wore their dresses all hitched up with patent straps and stnys. Aod how their precious little cheeks were smeared with paints and dyes, And how they wore their hair all crimped, or pulled down o’er their eyes. And how they sang their opera tunes, and banged piano keys As if they owed the thing a grudge, and wanted to appease Their wrath, by pulling off its hair or scratching out its eyes, Until the “critter” fairly groaned beneath a weight of signs. And how the boys put on the swell, and wore their nobby clothes, But where they get their money from, Old Harry only knows ; And how they stand upon the streets and twirl their little canes And twist the down upon their lips with most exquisite pains. And how they talk of blooded stock, horses and dogs in turn, And how they mix their talk with drinks, and all took sugar in their’n. How times were tight and money scarce, and growing worse each day ; How many merchants had “bust up” ’cause people would not pay. How meat had “riz” and cotton “fell,” how taxes had grown bigger ; How black the white folks all had got, liow white had grown the r.igger, And how the state was in a mess—its little credit gone, And how its bonds were scarcely worth the paper printed on. How Congressmen and Senators had all learned how to steal; How Grant had stocked the cards on us and claimed the right to deal To us such hands as he could beat, no matter how we played, Because he held for winning card a knave who “ tvs’ll' t afraid. In all this time the good old wife kept busy as a bco In getting for her dear old man his ikeal of toast and tea; And as he chatted, laughed and ate, she drew beside her chair A basket full of half-worn socks, and with the tenderest care Began the work of darning up each worn out toe and heel, Till John should finish out his ta A and eat his evening meal. This done, she set the things aright and gave the fire a poke, While he filled up his cornjeott pipe and fixed himself to smoke. Again she took the work in hand and searched the basket o’er, While he had fallen off to sleeu and now began to snore. • Among the pile of socks that lay about her here and there, She spied a tiny little one her *sby used to wear. Long years had passed since Ir.tft she saw this precious little thing ; It had not been on baby’s foot for thirty years last spring. But oh, the memories that it brought of sadness and of joy ; Oh, how it called up in her inirj her blue eyed baby boy— Tho toils, the pains, the anxious cares that she had ’round him thrown How watched him through bis boynood’s years until a man he’d grown— How her fond heart, his father’s, too, had centered all in him — llow kind, how gentle, in retina that boy to them had been. llow proud he looked that April morn in eighteen sixty-one ; They saw him with his gray suit on, with knapsack and with gun. They never saw him after that the day he went away. jr As long as country needs an avia, he said, I mean to stay. One day they got a letter from is Captain, and it said, Tn the fight before Atlanta ha was num bered with tho dead, s\.. \.— . i- - -ni j,;i)eiav*Ty(N; h”! laid his form away, With a score of other heroes from ranks of blue and gray. No useless coffin held liis form ; his blanket was his shroud ; The twinkling stars watched o’er his grave from skies without, a cloud, As if in joyous welcome to another spirit born Unto the glorious Prince of Peace from battle’s smoke and storm. And here the mother’s heart strings loosed in bursts of sobs nn l cries That drove the heavy slumbers from the old man's drowsy eyes. He crossed the room to where she sat and knelt beside her chair, Just as Iter boy had years ago to lisp his evening prayer. She told him of the little sock she'd found upon the floor, The many memories that it brought back from the days of yore. lie said to her, dear wife grieve not: Id yonder far-off skies There is a fountain at whose brink all pain and sorrow dies ; And high jipon a pearly throne Jehovah, King of Kings, Dispenses to the sons of men from out its crystal springs The healing drops in amplitude, while angel voices fill The gladsome air with songs of love: Peace, troubled soul, be still. He raised his face to gaze in hers. Her eyes could ope no more, While to her heart she pressed the sock, the sock that baby wore. Next day the friends and neighbors came and bore her form away, And laid it ’neath the churchyard mold— gave back the clay to clay. That night the old man had a dream: He thought the angels came And bore his old and shattered form up into God’s don.ain ; And as they passed the golden gates, there on the pearly floor, He saw the sock, tho little sock, the sock that baby wore. And just beyond, at Jesus’ feet, there stood bis wife and child, And joined their songs with seraph hosts, while God and angels smiled. Friends, thus it is that little things make up of life the sum, This little sock is but a type that into use has come ; Not that it is so much itself, but that it bears a part In this sad story I have told, this story of the heart. ’Tis so with types that printers set; —as single type they’re small, But once in lines and paragraphs, at In spiration's call, They move a heart to smile; or tear -, and point a moral where All moral seemed but sentiment as hollow as the air. Yet, like the socks, the types get worn, and like them thrown away ; But then the good that they have done should live with us alway. So may the types that write our lives be cherished all the more, That their impreM may reach our hearts like SOCK TTTAT BABY WOTlr, JjgCELLUNEOITS. [published bv request.] Eulogy on the Dettlli of’ Rob ert E. Martin, BY JUDGE LUMPKIN. Never, since attaining to man hood, do I recollect to have been so shocked by any death, as that of Dr ROBERT E. MARTIN. It was so sudden, so sad, without any figure of speech, I can truly say, that the mournful intelligence made me sick at heart. Life has seemed to me more cheerless ever since.— Fourteen years ago, wo met as of ficers of this Court, ho as Clerk, I as Judge. That relation continu ed until dissolved by death All the other members of the Court have changed, and I now alono re main to lament the loss we have all sustained. llow many hours we have spent together in talking over the trials and troubles of this tribunal. No similar institution in any other civ ilized country in the world has eti countered such unreasonable oppo sition, such unmerited buffettings But the time will come when the truth will triumph. Our people are not only just, but intelligent and generous. In due season they will, instead of seeking to destroy an establishment, which even with its defective organization, has done so much to elevate the Judiciary of the State abroad, and secure a just and faithful administration of the law at home, bend their best efforts to perfect the system. This is like the dictate of wisdom and enlight ened patriotism. But how great a loss shall we all suffer in the soul cheering companionship of the de ceased. Who shall relate for our amusement, the stories of the good old days of our fathers and moth ers ? What wo 3 there peculiar to that palmy period, that he did not reanimate in his life-like pictures? The old homestead, with its neat, but plain furniture, its clean scour ed pine tables and split-bottom chairs. The whitewashed walls with the little glass suspended, sur mounted and surrounded with Bachelors buttons, and the figured towel of domestic manufacture, hanging beneath the square bed steads with burned posts and home made cords, —the huge tan-trough for the manufacturing leather ot the hides of beeves killed for the family, and out of which were made the stitch-downs, welted or pegged shoes, with shoe-thread from flax spun upon the place, and the wax made from resin from the neigh boring pine. The dipped candles, the clay baked pipe. Topics like these were the never failing themes of the Doctor’s discourse. And there, amongst the few books upon the tiny shelf underneath the glass, in addition to the family Bible, Dilwortb’s Arithmetic and Web ster's spelling book, was that won derful novel, "Charlotte Temple,” the only work of fiction the Doctor ever read. What a feast of soul he always esteemed it What was Bolwer’s last novel compared with that? Who will forget the sensa tion created at "Walker’s Meeting House,” when the first placed stir rups and panel painted Gig was seen there ? llow one after anoth er would steal in and whisper the incredible news, until the congre gation could nc longer be kept to gether, and when it was finally de cided, after much debate, that the device in the panels of the Gig must have been “stomped,” they never could have been painted. Dr. Martin may die, but his boyish love for tho fair, fat widow at the Camp Meeting, and the dis cipline administered by his father for its cure, the mourning worn for his grandfather on the next Sunday after his death, with crape elaborately arranged on his straw hat, barefooted and in his shirt sleeves, thus manifesting such signs of sorrow as drew tears from the eyes of his aged grandmother. Ilis fete of gallantly at “Cross road Smith’s,” his toast at the din ner given in honor of one of South Carolina’s noblest sons, the houor able William C. Preston, and which he conned for a week before hand, expecting to elicit the most un bounded applause, on account of the novelty of the sentiment, “Principles not men.” His two first and only law cases, his inter view with General Jackson, at old man Allison’s, tho history of the surrender of the British Army at “Little York” by the redoubtable Eppy Robinson. These, and a thousand other side-splitting anec dotes will never be blotted from our memory. Farewell friend and comrade.— We shall never occupy this seat without feeling the absence of thy familiar free. All who sought thy place, bear testimony to thy worth. Thy vacancy few can hope fully to supply. Thou wert expecting long life. God has seen fit, in a mo ment to loose the silver cord. lie cannot err. Wo bow submissively to Ilis will. Wouldn't Harry a Mechanic. A young man commenced visiting a young woman, and appeared to be well pleased. One evening he called when it was quite late, whicli led the youDg lady to inquire where he had been. “ I bad to work to-night.” “ What, do you work for a living ?” she inquired in astonishment. “ Certainly,” replied the young man. “ I am a mechanic.” “ I dislike the name of a mechanic,” and she turned up tier pretty noso. This was the last time the young man visited the young lady. 110 is now a wealthy man, and has one of the best women in the country for a wife. The young lady who disliked the name of a mechanic is now the wife of a miserable fool—a regular vagrant about grog-shops—and the soft, ver dant, silly, miserable girl is obliged to take in washing, in order to support herself and children. You dislike the name of mechanic, eh? You whose brothers are but well dressed loafers. We pity any girl who is so verdaut, so soft, to think less of a young man for being a mechanic —ono of God’s noblemen —the most dignified and honorable personago of heaven’s creatures. Beware, young ladies, bow you treat young men who work for a living, for you may one of these days be menial to ono of them. Far better to discharge the well-fed pauper with all his rings, jewelry, brazenness aud pomposity, and to take to your affection the callous handed, industrious mechanic. Thousands have bitterly repented their folly who have turned their backs on honest industry. A few years have taught them a severe lesson. —Phenia Epps, of Hamil ton, Ohio, asked her mother to take a note for her to a friend of the family living in a near street. The note when opened was found to read : “ This is a little ruse of mine to get mother out of the house. Before she can get back I will be on the ears with dear Lorerizo, and before night will be married.” —A Texas steer, animated with Cin cinnati whbky, visited a rolling mill in that city a few days ago, and after nos ing around a bit, concluded that a gi gantic fly-wheel was the only thing about the place worthy of his attention. So he pranced into the fly-wheel, and his owner says that if he can recover a piece of one of his hornr. he will be satisfied HIT AND HUMOR. —Why is a mouse like a load of hay ? Because the cat’ll eat it. —MitchleSs misery—having a cigar and nothing (o light it with. —While witnessing a game of base ball out West a boy was struck on the back of his head, the bawl coming out of his mouth. —Why is a stationer a very wicked man ? Because he makes people steel pens and then says they do write?. —What did the spider do when TV came out of the ark ? Ho took a fly and went home. —“The Swset Summer Laud of the Soul,” is the title of a soog just pub lished. Wonder if there are any mo squito bars to the music. —A boy who will yell like a tartar if a drop of water gets on his shirt band when his neck is being washed, can crawl through a sewer after a ball, and thin k nothing of it. —A Green Bay couple walked fouj miles on snowshoes to get married, and it probably won’t be over a month be fore he will tell her to split her own wood if she wants any. * ■— —“ Idiot !” exclaimed a lady com ing out of the theatre recently as a gentleman accidentally stepped on her trailing skirt. “ Which one of us ? ” blandly responded (be g ’-'tlemaD. —A good rhinosceros costs 85,600, and unless there’s a great decline iu the market most ot us must be satis fied with a five dollar parlor mat having a colored tiger stamped on it. e -3>ii —A Boston antiquarian says his eighteen-year-old wife is very affection ate. hut in ptizzies him ■-*-lar.sfcand why she sTibuld insist daily on his get ting his life insured. —♦ Qw. —lt ccst Great Britain two thou sand dollars to make the Shah a Knight of the Garter, but forty cents worth of London gin made him so drunk that he couldn’t staDd. —A wealthy Philadelphian who died recently, stipulated in bis will that his nearest 1 relative should as sassins (o the obituary editor of the daily Ledger if he made any poetical remarks on the subject. llg O ggw *- —“ From what you know of him, would you believe him under oath V‘ “ That depends on circumstances. If he was so much intoxicated that he did not know what he was saying, I would; if noL I wouldn’t.” • —A Baltimore young woman fkated herself through the ice; but as the water wis only four leet deep, and she was live feet long, she stood up and in formed a yotfng man what had hap pened, and he' Courageously passed her a board. —The Columbia (Tenn.) Herald and Mail fells of a negro man at that placfc who weighs 22S pounds and wears a No. 17 brogan. If that negro should determine to make a tour of New Eng land, Rhode Island would 2nd her only safety in Crawling under a fifty gallon sugar kettle. i— ♦ —lt is now reported that Kingtown is to have a newspaper. To run a pa per profitably at that place, it wqjjld require a man who could eat dried ap ples for breakfast, drink warm water for dinner, and swell up for supper. No other sustenance would be afforded him. —[Shenandoah Herald. —“ May I leave a few tracts asked a medical missionary of a lady who re sponded to his knock. “Leave some tracts 1 Certainly you may,” said she, looking at him most benignly over her specks. “ Leave them with your heels towards the house, it you please. ’ vm • '€?' —A gentleman who had been in dulging the great North American privilege of getting drunk, says he wa3 holding to a lamp-post, and as soon as he let go the post fell down. That’s the last thing he remembers. The truth is, this man has been “ bowed under the penalties of genius.” —A Minnesota judge, in pronounc ing the death sentence, tenderly ob serves : “If guilty, you richly de serve the fate that awaits you; if inno cent, it will be a gratification for you te feel that you were hanged without such a crime on your conscience ; in either ease you will he delivered from a worh of care.” NO. 25