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DEVOTED TO NEWS, POLITICS, LITERATURE, AGRICULTURE AND GENERAL PROGRESS—INDEPENDENT IN ALE THINGS, VOL. X. ght smll_ J. It. PARK, - - - Proprietor IT. JI. IVEIVUIt, - - Editor. THURSDAY, JULY 22. 1875. Laws l&i'iatin- to Newspaper .Subscriptions auJ Ar rearages. 1. Subscribers who do riot give express notice to the contfiirt, are considered wishing to continue their subscription. 2. If subscribers order the discontinuance of their periodicals, the publishers may continue to send them until all arrear ages are paid. 3. If subscribers neglect or refuse to take their periodicals fropiflje ofijee to which they are directed, they are held respon sibly until they have settled their bills and ordered thcjjt djsctnitinned. 4. If subscribers move to other places without notifying pnblisliers. and the papers are sent to former direction, they are held Responsible. 5. The Courts have decided that “refusing to take periodicals from the office, or removing and leaving them uncalled for, is prini't, fucie evidence of inten tional fraud.” 6. Any person who receives a newspaper anti makes use of it,whether lie lias or dered it or not, is held in law to be a subscriber, 7. If subscribers pay in advance, they ttre bound to give notice to the publisher, at the end of their time, if they do rin; wish to continue taking it, - other wise the publisher is authorized to seed it on. and the subscriber will be respon sible until n express notice, with pay ment of all arrearages, is sent to the publisher. PRETV CORNER. LITTLE SLEEPERS. BY F.MMETT L. BOSB. Little feet no longer patter, Little lips no longer chatter, Patter, chatter as of yore; What’s tlie matter? Why the clatfer Silent on the outage floor? Little hearts no longer singing, Little bands no longer bringing Why no singing ? Why no bringing ? Songs and flowers at the door ? In yon grove vf S?gklag willows Little heads have made their pillows, Pillows where sweet daisies grow, Daisies growing All unknowing To the sleeping ones below. On some brighter morn hereafter Yet break the merry laughter, Merry langb/ey as of yore. And the sleeping And the weeping Sleeping, weeping, will be o'er. Sublimity of Uncling. One of the roost beautiful exam ples of high.-mindedness in dueling was that ot the Ettrl of Dale arras, in his duel jvtih Benedict Arnold, the traitor. It wjjj be recollected that part of the reward of that wretched man’s treachery was the rank of general in the British ar my; yet few, if any, of the officers would associate with him. On,e day King George Ilf., with Arnold beside biro, addressed Lord Balcar ras. and asked him if he was not acquainted with Gen. Arnold. “What, Arnold, the traitor?” replied the high-spirited Tory “No, may it please your Majes ty ; nor have I any desire to know him.” So crushing sin affront could not be passed by in those days. Ar nold sent Balcarras a challenge, and, as he held a commission in the army, the nobleman felt that he could not refuse to meet him.— They met, and, when the word was given, Arnold fired, hut the Earl stood motionless, looking contempt uously at his opponent, whose ball had grazed his cheek. “My lord,” cried Arnold, at length, “are you not going to fire?’ Balcarras elevated his pistol, discharged it in the air, hurled it toward his adversary, with the mem.oyaWe reply, “No, sir; I leave traitors to the public execu tioner ” As his lordship had re ceived Arnold’s fire without re turning it, no further satisfaction could be demanded, according to the rules of dueling which then ex isted £I)C (Srcmrsboro* Heralii. MISCELLANEOUS.- BURIED ALIVE. Strange Authentic Stoyfes of Persons Buried While Living. We select the following as cases well authenticated : THE CASE OF VICTORINE LAFOUR CAPE. Victorine Lafourpade, young, beau tiful, and accomplished, hid a great number of admirers. Among them was a journalist named James Bos souet, whose chances of becoming the successful suitor seemed to be the best, when suddetdy. Victorine, contrary to all expectation, accepted the hand of a rich banker named llenello. Bossouet was inconsolable, and his ho.npst hpart ached all the more wheu he learned that the marriage of . hi? lady-love was unhappy. RertpHp neglected his wife ip every possible way, and finally be„ gen to pialireat her. This state of things lasted two years, when Victorine least so it was thought She was entombed in a vault of the cemetery of her native tu.wn. Jules Bossouet assisted the ceremony. Stjll true to his love, and well-nmli beside himself with grief, he cmice.ved the romantic idea of break ing open the vault and securing a lock ul the deceased’s hair. That night, the ref'ore, when all was still, he sealed the walj of the cemetery, and. by a cir cuitous route, approached the vault. When he had broken open the door and entered the vault he lighted a cau dle and pp.‘'ended to OF3N COFFIN. At the moment when he bent over the supposed corpse, scissors in ha'nd. Victorine opened her eyes apd stared him full is the face. He uttered a cry and sprang back ; and immediately -verier h* iv~ turned to the coffin, covered its oet-u pant’s lips with kisses, and soon ha I the satisfaction of seeing her in full possesion all her faculties. ♦When Victorine was sufficiently recovered, they left the churchyard and went to Bossouet’s residence, where a physi cian administered such remedies as were necessary to effect the complete recovery of the unfortunate woman. This proof of Bossouet’s love naturally made a deep impression on Victorine. She repented her past fickleness, and resolved to fjy with the romantic Jules to America. There they lived happily together, without, however, being able to fully overcome their longing to re turn to their native land. Finally the desire become so strong to revisit the ' scenes of their youth that they decided Jo b ave the danger attendant on a re turn and embarked at New Y< rk for Havre, where they arrived in July. )839. Victorine, in the interim, had naturally changed very greatly, and Jules felt confident that her former husband would not recognise her. In this hone be was disappointed, ilenelle had the keen eye of a financier, and recognized Victorine at the first glance This strange drama ended with a suit brought by the banker for the recovery of his wife, .which was decided against him on the ground that his claim was outlawed. The scene of the following two cases, with which we shall end our re-, view, is in England: One Edward Stapleton died—as was supposed—of typhus fever. The disease had been attended by such strange phenomena -throughout that the physicians were desirous to make a post mortem exami nation of the case. The relatives however, positively refused their con sent. The physicians consequently de- to steal the body—not an unus ual thing in England—in order to satisfy their curiosity. They communi cated with a band of rascals who at that time made a business of stealing bodies, and three days after the funeral i had the body of Stapleton brought to the dissecting-room of a neighboring clinic. When they made the first in cision, which was across the abdomen, they were struck with the fresh ap pearance of the flesh, and the clearness and limpidity of the blood. One of the physicians proposed that they should subject the body to the action of a gal vanic battery. This they did, and ob tained abnormal results; the move ments and contractions of the muscles were more powerful than are usually GREENESBORO’, GA., THURSDAY, JULY 22, 1875. observed. Towards evening a young student suggested that they should make an incision in the pectoral mus cles. od introduce the pel s of the battery into the wound. This was done, when, to their amazement [he body rolled from the table, remained a seccnd or two on its feet, stammered out two or three unintelligible words and then fell heavily to the floor. For a moment the learned doctors were confounded, but soon regaining their presence of mind, they saw that Staple ton was a ill alive although he had again fallen into his former lethargy. They now applied themselves to resus eitating him, in which they were suc cessful. He afterwards said that dur ing the whole time he was fully consci ous of his eon Jition, and of what was passing around him. The words he attempted to utter were : “ I AM ALIVE ! ” A somewhat similar that of an English artillery officer who, in a from his horse, had fractur®! his skull, and was trepanned. He was jn a fair way to recover, when one day he fell into a lethargy so profound that he was thought to be dead, and, in due time, was buried. The following day, beside the grave in which he had behu interred, another citizen of London was buried,*hnd at last, or.e bT the assistants t-fianced to stand on it. Suddenly the man cried out that he felt the ground move under his feet as though the oc cupaut of the grave would find bis way to the surface. At first the man was thought to be the "ictim of an halluci nation, but the earnestness with which he persisted attracted the attention of a constable, wh? caused the grave to be opened. They fuuncj that the officer had forced the coffin lid, and had made a p rtially successful effort to raise himself up. He was entirely unconsi ous when they got him out but it was evident that the effort to extricate hitn- L-M,-., but a Vnbrt time before. He was carried to a hospital near by, where the physicians, after a time, SUCCEEDED IN RESUSCITATING HIM. He stated that, for an hour before h : s last swoon, he was fully conscious of the awful situation he was in. The grave had fortunately been very hasti ly and lightly filled with clay, and here and there the continuity of the mass had been broken by large stones, which allowed the air to penetrate as far down ns the coffin, ije had tried in vain to make his cries heard, and finally, partly in consequence of having an insufficient supply of air, and partly in conse quence of the mental agony he suf fered, he had fallen into the unconsci ous state in which he was found. Another Englishman describes what he experienced, while lying in a coffin in a peifectly conscious state, in the following words: “It would be im possible to find words that would ex press the agony and despair that I suf fered, Every blow of the hammer with which they nailed down the euflin lid went through my brain like the echo of a death knell. I would never have believed that the human heart could endure such terrible agony and out burst into pieces. When they let me slowly down into ground, I dis tinctly heard the noise the coffin made every time it rubbed against the sides of the grave.” This man also awoke under the knife of a doctor. He, like Stapleton, had been stolen, and carried o the dissecting room of a medical school. At the moment the professor made a slight incision down the abdo men the spell was broken, and he spjgng to his feet. She tried to sit down in the street car, but was pinned hack so tight she couldn’t. [Old lady peep, ed over her specs and asked her, “How long have you been afflicted that way ?” The young lady blushed and made a “break,” sit ting down sideways and holding her knee3 together so tight that she looked as if she had on a one legged pair of breeches. Old lady Doticed her sitting in this sidewise, crumped position and whispored, “Bile, I ’spose; I’ve bad ’em thar myself.”—[Ex. i| “ I wonder what makes my eyes so weak?” said a fop to a gentleman. “ They ape in a weak place,” responded the latter. Mr, Cooley’* Third. My neighbor Uavv marripd liis third wife a short t,q. * ago, and the day afeer lie cß>e -nine his eldest boy, the son of his fir. * wife, came into the room where she a.s sitting alone sewing. Placing his t ‘how on the table he began to be sociubl . The following conversation ensued;- Boy—“ How long Jo you expect you’ll last ?” -4 Mrs. C.—“ What t-i earth do you mean ?” Boy— “ Why, tnr held on for 10 years, and Emma, n;|s second wife, stood it for three ars. I reckon you’re good for ar -gtuch as her. I hope so, anyhow; l "ft tired of funer als. They made ar- fuss when they stowed ma av ■( , ard a bigger howl when they planed Emma, So I’d jest as lieve y<, ; -d keep around awhile. But pa has ’ms doubts about it.” f Mrs. C—“ Doubts if Tell me what ysou mean, this insta, ” Boy—“ Oh, nothii>T The day Em ma got away pa cane home from the Mineral, and when Leineped ihe crape off his hat he chucke Tt into the bu reau drawer, and sai jjt* Lay there till I want you again ;’ t I suppose the old man must be expecting you to step off sometime or other In fact I seen him conversing wit'" 4he undertaker yesterday; making kind of a permanent contract w b him I reckon. The old man is ulwa - jewin’ peo; le down.” Mrs. 0--“ You on*- to be ashamed to talk about your fai' r in that man ner, boy !” • Boy— ‘ Oh, he dr-mind it. I of ten hear ?he fellers jokin’ about his wives. He likes a good-na tured man. Anybod can g-t along with him if thev uad- Stand h : m. All " * i you’ve got to do l, j HvWtCi on nun -• ' k Emma sjie used to get mad and heave a plate, a coal shuttle, or anything at him. And ma she'd blow him up twenty thousand million times a day; both of them would bang me till I got disgusted. And pa didn’t like it. Treat me well, give me plenty of candy and money, and you’ve got pa. Mire. Emma used to smack me, and when he said he was opposed to it, she’d go at him with au umbrella or anything she could find, and maul him. I guess you and me’ll jog airing all right to gether and by the time pa gets another wife I'll be big enough not to care how many airs she puts on. What I want is time. You stick for three or four years, and then the old man can con golidate as much as he’s a mind to, and I won’t pare a cent. It’s only the fair thing anyway. Enough of this family's money has been wasted on coffins and tombstones, and ve ought to knock off for a while.” Mrs. Cooley didn’t enjoy her honey moon as much as she bad expected [Max Adder. A Lore Affair of Joint Wesley. A. fj. Guernsey, jj/ijhe May Galaxy, writes as follows: Sophia IJokey, a niece of the princi pal magistrate (in Georgia, 173fi) was young, pretty, and intelligent. Wesley was pleased with her and she with him. She dressed in white because he liked it, and regulated her habits by his advice; he fell sick, and she nursed him. He made up his mind to marry her. Ddamotte opposed the idea of a marriage ; Wesley submitted the ques tion to the Moravian elders, who ad vised him to proceed no further in the matter. “The Lord’s (till be done,” replied Wesley; but he was io a sore strait. Sophia was naturally piqued and hastily engaged herself to one William Williamson, and the matriage took place March 12, in four days, Wesley i,n th.e meantime having vainly urged her to break the engagement and marry him. Wesley made this curious entry in his journal: “ Feb. 5 —One of the most remark able dispensations of Providence toward me began to show itself this day. For many days after I could not at all judge which way the scale would turn; nor was it fully determined till March 4, on which day God commanded me to pull out my right eye ; and by his grace I determined to do so; but be ing slack in the execution, on Monday, March 12, God being very merciful to me, my Iriend performed what I could not.” And again : “March B.—Miss Sophy engaged herself to Mr Williamson, a person not remarkable for handsomeness, neither for greatness, neither for wit,or knowl edge, or sQuse, and least of all religion ; and op Saturday, March 12, they were married, this being the day which completed the year from my first speak ing Jo her. What thou dost, O God,l know not now, but I shall know hero after.” About this time, and doubtless in reference to this transaction, Wesley wrote the well-known hymn begin ning : “ Is there a thing beneath the sun That strives with Thee my heart to share; Oh, tear it thence and reign along, The Lord of every motion there.” Forty-nine years later, Wesley, then more than four-score, and having gone through another similar experience, wrote: “ I remember when I read these words in the church of Savannah, ‘ Son of man, I take from thee the desire of thine eyes with a stroke,’ I was pierced through as with a sw-ird, and could not utter a word more.” Williamson grew jealous of Wesley, and forbade his wife to speak to him or attend his services ; she absented her self from the church for a time, and Wesley refused to admit her to the sacrament, when upon her husband brought an action against him, laying his damages at £I,OOO. The general conduct of Wesley was brought before the grand jury, who found a bill of in dictment coi.taining ten specifications. Nine of these related to purely ecelesi astieal matters; but the tenth charged Wesley with misconduct which occa sioned “ much uneasiness between Sophia Williamson and her husband” JjjP/ftt.used to plead to any except this I specification, and upon which lie de manded an immediate trial This was put off for more than three months,and Wesley announced his determination at once to return to England lie was summoned to give bail to answer to the suit of Williamson ; this he refused, and the sentinels were ordered to pre Vent him from leaving Savannah. One December evening, after public prayers Wesley slipped away in a boat rowed by lour fellows whom he had hired to assist him, and were anxious to get away from their creditors. Then they took to the swamp, where they came near perishing of hunger and cold ; hut after ten days, succeeded in reaching Charleston, whence Wesley set sail for England. firs. Brigham Young X. 17. The Prophet Charged with Perjury. Mrs. Ann Eliza Young, 'the seven teenth wife of the Mormon prophet, is about to attempt securing his indict ment for perjury. To this end she has made an affidavit against him at Boston of a peculiarly outspoken character.— Briefly to recite its contents, she de clares that she was brought up exclu sively in the Mormon faith ; that po lygamy was a cardinal doctrine of the Church, and she was taught from her childhood to believe in it with an im plicit faith, and that unless she con sented to and contracted a polygamous marriagj, she could not be assured oi'\ her salvation or happiuess in the life hereafter. The Prophet hag, she says, by his euoruious wealth, his canning and address, and his unscrupulous char acter, to exercise an almost boundless influence in Utah. She was taught to accept him as God’s vicege rent on earth, entitled to her reverence and obedience, and him invariably pro claim, as a divine revelation, the truth of polygamy. She was further iniuc ed to believe thgt iparriage outside the Mormon Church was unlawful and adulterous, and that to become the wife of the Prophet \yas a sure means of at taining a most exalted position in the wor’J to come She thoroughly b - lieved Mr. Young to be the vicegerent of God, posessing great and miracul us powers and knowledge, so much so that he was able to read the thoughts in the minds of every person ; a perfect aod pure man, incapable of any wrong in dee] or word. So great vras the rever ence in which she held him that when he proposed marriage the very thought of such an act was revolting to her mind. To influence her he held out as a truth revealed from God that those women who become his wives have been promised a peculiarly high and honor able position, so much so that they would be acknowledged as princesses in heaven, and that their families would be the recipients of very high honors in heaven. Notwithstanding this teach ing the affiant refused to become his wife, and only consented to espouse him after he had exerted his influence on her parents and threatened to ruin financially her brother and to cut him and all the other members of her fami ly off from the privileges of the Church here and the enjoyment cf heaven hereafter. la conclusion. she declares that ouly through her ignorance and fears she was induced to marry the Prophet, and that he practiced on her and the members of her family thro’ his position, wlikh he knew at the time to be a false one. A IHAiLTItEE. Horrible Australian Plant .that Bats human iscings—• A Frightful Spence. If you can imagine, says fjj# South Australian Register, a prne apple, eight feet high am] thick in proportion, resting up.on its base, and denuded of leaves you will have a good idea of the trunk of the tree which, however, was not the color ot an anana, but was a dark, dingy brown, and apparently as hard as iron. From tin apex of this fusti cated cone, (at least two feet in di- j ameter,) eight huge leaves sheeri to the ground, like doors swinging 1 back on their hinges. These leaves, j which are joined at the top of the tree at regular intervals, were about eleven or twelve feet long. and shaped very much like the leaves of an American agave or century plant. They are two feet through in their thickest part and three feet wide, tapering to a sharp point that looked much like a cow’s horn, very eoijvex on the outer (hut not under) surface, and on the under (not upper) surface slightly concave. This concave surface j was thickly set with stpo' g horny | books like those upon the head of at teazle. These leaves, hanging thus limp and lifeless, dead green in color, had in appearance the massive strength cf oak fiber. The apex of the cone was a round con cave figure like a smaller plate set within a larger one. This was not a flower, but a receptacle, and there exudes into it, a clear, treac ly liquid honey, sweet arid possess ed of violent intoxicating soporific properties. From underneath the rim (so to speak) of the undermost plate, a series of long, hairy, green tendrils stretched out in every di rection toward the horizon. These were seven or eight feet long, and tapered from four inches to half an inch in diameter, yet they stretch ed out stiffly as iron rods. Above these (from betweep the upper and under cups) six white almost trans parent pappi reared themselves to ward the sky, twirling and twist ing with marvelous incessant mo tion, yet constantly reaching up ward. Thin as reeds arid frail as cjuills, apparently, they were yet five or six feet tall, and were so constantly and vigorously in mo tion, with such a subtle, sinuous, silent throbbing against the air, with their suggestions of serpents flayed, yet dancing on their tails. My observation on this occasion were suddenly interrupted by the natives who had been shrieking around the tree with their shrill voices, and chanting what Hendrick told me were propitiatory hymns to the great tree devil. With still wilder shrieks and chants they now surrounded one of the women, and urged her with the points of their javelins, until slowly, and with de spairing face, she climbed up the stalk of the tree, and stood on the summit of the cone, the palpi twirling nil about her. “Tsik! Tsik !” (Drink f drink !) cried the men. Stooping, she drank of the viscid fluid in the cup, rising instantly again with wild frenzy in her face, and convulsive cordß in her limbs. But she did not jump down as she seemed to intend to'. Oh, no ! The atrocious cannibal tree, that had been so inert and Mead, came to sudden savage life'. The delicate palpi, with the fury of starved serpents, quivered a mo'- ment over head, then as if instinct with demoniac intelligence, fasten ed upon her in sudden 1 coils round and round her neck and arms, and while her awful screams, and yet more awful laughter, rose wildly be instantly strangled down again into a gurgling moan, the tendrils one after another, like great green serpents, with brutal energy and infernal rapidity, rose, protracted themselves, and wrapped her abou’s in lold after fold, ever tightening with cruel swiftness and savage te nacity of anacondas fastening upon their prey. It was the barbarity of the Lao-' coon without its beauty—this strange, horrible murder. And no- the great leaves rose slowly a* u stiyffl, like the arms of a der ri k, erected themselves in the aisy approached one another, and closed about the dead and hampered vic tim with the silent force of a hy draulic press and the ruthless pur posi of a thumb screw. A moment more, and while I could see the basis of these great levers pressing more tightly toward each other from their interstices, there tries kled down the stalk of the tree frrent s*re-.iW" of viscid ke Said, mingled horribly with the blood and oozing viscera of the vic tim, At sight of this the hoarders around me, yelling madly, bounded forward, crowded to the tree, clasp it, and with cops, leaves, hands and tongues, each one obtained enough of the liquid to send him mad and fraijtiC' HIT AND HUMOR. —Abraham was the first sick man. He hud Ilagar iu the wilderness. m —The way fbr a desolate old bache lor to secure better quarters is to take a “ better-half.” —“ Are there any fools in thiscity?” aski and a stranger of a newsboy. “No j do you feel lonesome ?” was the reply. —An eccentric old fellow, who lives *■£* , alongs de of a graveyard, was asked it it was not an unpleasant location. “No,” said he, “1 never jined places in Oy life with a set of neighbors that minded their own business so stiddy as they do.” —“ No, gentlemen of the jury." thundered an eloquegt advocate thfe‘ other day in a Denver Court, “ this matter is for his honor to decide, who Sits there sleeping so beautifu ly.” His honor opened both his eyes and his mouth, and said : “All owing to your narcotic spe< ch, sir ” —An old lady, on hearing that s young friend had lost his place on ac count of misdemeanor, exclaimed: “ Miss Demeanor ? Lost his place on account of Mis Demeanor? Well, well! I'm afeared it’s too true that there’s alius a woman at the bottom of a man’s difficulties !” —A Virginia paper announces ths marriage of Miss Jane Lemon to Mr. Ebenezer Sweet j whereupon somebody perpetrates the following: “How happy the extremes do meet In Jane and Ebenezer; She’s no longer sour but Sweet, And he’s a Lemon squeezer.” ——t— 1,1 1 —Very stem parent indeed—“ Come here, sir ! What is this complaint the schoolmaster has made against you?” Much injured youth—“lt’s just noth ing at all. You see, Jemmy Hughes bent a pin, and I only just left it on the teacher’s chair for him to look at, and he cauie in without his specs and sat right down on the pin, and now he wants to blame me for it.” NO. 29