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POET'S CORNER.
A LITER AR V riRIOSITI.
("The following is one of tbe most re
markable compositions we have met with.
It evinces an ingenuity of arrangement pe
culiarly it own. Explanation : The inir’al
capitals spell ‘-My Boast is in tbe Glorious
Cross of Christ.” The words in italics,
when read from top to bottom and bottom
to top. form the Lord’s Trayer complete:]
Make known the Gospel truths, our Father
king.
Yield up thy grace, dear Father, from j
above.
Bless us with hearts which feelingly can
sintr,
‘ ; Our life tlion art for -rver on<] of T.ove?
AsaanTe our grief in love for Christ we pray.
Since the bright prince of Heaven and
glory died,
Took all our sins and hallowed the display.
Infant Ar-ing, first a man, and then was
crucified.
Stupendous Ood ! thy pence and power make
known;
In Tesus' name let all 'he world re’oice.
Now labor in 'hti heavenly kingdom own
Thnt blessed kingdom for thy saints the
choice.
llow vile *o eome to thee nr all our cry,
Enemies of Mt/-self and all that’s thine.
Graceless our will we livc/nr vanity.
Loathing thy Ac-ing, evil in design.
On God, thy will be done, from earth to
heaven :
Reclining on the Gospel let us live,
In earth from sin deliver-e d and forgiven.
Oh ! as thyself but teach us to forgive,
Unless it’s power temptation doth destroy,
Sore is our fall into the depths of woe,
Carnal in mind, we’ve not a glimpse of iov
Raised against hearen ; in us hope we can
flow.
0 give, us grace and lead us in thy ways ;
Shine on us with thy love and give us
peace,
Self and this sin that rise against us slay.
Oh grant each day our trcspass-es may
cease,
Forgive our evil deeds that oft we do,
Convim ' u. daily of them to our shame,
Help us with heavenly bread, forgive us too,
Recurrent lusts, and ire’ll adore thy
name,
In thy /oryice-ness we as saints can die,
Since for us and our trespasses so high,
Thy Son our Saviour, bled on Calvary.
MISTEM, IMEOr.V
\s <u: rs::i iuk cukaj*.
Quaint Questions Quit Agita
ted Various Dainty
Customers.
[From the Detroit Free Tress.]
He slipped into an ice cream saloon
yen’ softly, and when the girl asked
him what lie wanted, he replied:
“ Horn beef, fried potatoes, and
mince pies.”
“ This is not a re tanrant ; this is an
ice cream parlor,” sh.e said.
“ Then why did you ask me what T
wanted for? Whv didn't you bring
on your ice cream ?”
She went alter it. and as she re
turned he continued :
‘•You see, my dear girl, you must
infer—you must reason. It isn’t likely
that I would come into an icc cream
parlor to buy a grin J stone, is it ? You
didn't think I came in here to ask if
von bad any baled hay. did you ?"
iSircnrsboro’ HcraliT
She looked at hi|n great surprise,
and he went on :
“ If I owned a rdware store and
'I you came in, I wnf inl'er that y<<
came for snoiethii in my line. I
wouldn’t step out a ask yon if yon
wanted to buy a tnq would I?”
She went awaypghly indignant
An old lady was deuring a dish ot
cream at the next tile. and the stran
ger, after watching V for a inouietr,
called nut:
“ My dear womarfiave you found
any hairs or buttons t your dish ?”
“Mercy! no!” * exclaimed, as
-•he wheeled around id dropped her
spoon.
“ Well, I am gladof it,” he con
tinued. “If you fimany, just let me
k now.”
She looked at himor half a minute
picked up the spoon, .id it down again
and then rose up an left the room.
She must have said miething to the
proprietor, for he cam runuing in and
exclaimed :
“ Did you (ell thatrwnan that there
were hairs and batons in uiy ice
cream ?”
“ No, sir.”
“ You didu't ?”
“ No. sir. I did nit; I merely re
quested her, in casi she found any
such ingredients, to ivl'orni me.”
“ Well. sir. that wis a mean trick.”
“ My dear sir ” said the stranger,
smiling softly, “ did yoh expect me to
ask the woman if she had found a cmw
bfl* or a sledge hammer in her cream?
It is impossible, sir, for such article*
to be hidden away in such small
dishes.”
The proprietor went away, growling
and as the stranger quietly supped
away at his cream, two young ladies
cauie in, sat down near him, and or
der and cream end cakes. He waited
until they had eaten a little, and then
be remarked:
•* r i•• ■ * - j
serve anything peculiar in the taste of
this cream ?”
They tasted, smacked their lips, and
were uot certain.
“ Does it taste to you n3 if a plug ot
tobacco had fallen into the freezer? ’ lie
.-sked.
1; Ah ! kah !” they c. claimed, drop
ping their spoons and trying to spit out
what they had eaten, Both rushed
out, and it wasn’t long before the pro
prietor rushed in.
‘•See here, what in blazes are you
talking about ?” he demanded, “ What
do you mean by plug tobacco in the
freezer ?”
*• My kind friend. I asked the ladies
if this cream tasted of plug tobacco. I
don’t taste any such taste, and i don t
believe you used a bit of tobacco in i !
’■ Well, you don’t want to talk that
way around here!” continued t he pro
prietor, ‘My icecream is pure, and
the man who says it isn't tells a bold
lie !”
He went away again, and a woman
with a long neck and sad face sat down
and said to the giil that she would
take a small dish of lemon ice.
It was brought, and she had taken
ab >ut two mouthfuls when the stranger
inquired :
‘‘Excuse me, madam, but do you
know how this cream was made? Have
you tin idea that they grated turnip and
chalk with the cream ?”
She didn’t reply She slowly rose
up, wheeled around, and made t r the
door. The stranger followel after,
and by great good luek his coat tails
cleared the dour an instant too soon to
he struck by a five-pound box of figs,
hurled with great force by the indig
nant proprietor. As he reached the
curbstone he halted, looked at the door
of the parlor, aud soliloquized :
“ There are times when peoji’e
should infer, and there are times when
they shouldn’t. I suppose if I had
asked that woman if she thought that
they hashed up a sawmill in the cream
she’d have felt a circular saw going
down her throat.”
If those dresses were twice as
tight they would wear them. If
it were the fashion to carry a bar
rel of flour on the hack of the neck
they would do it, or die trying —.
You couldn’t devise a fashion the
women wouldn’t meekly follow,
from no clothes in winter, to bear
skin overcoats in summer.
GREENESBORO\ GA., THURSDAY, JULY 29, 1875.
An liifUmous Hager.
One of the most revolting scenes
recorded in the annals of modern
executions took place on the 15th
of May in the Russian City of Mo
ll ileff.
Six months before, an altercation
had occurred at the dinner table of
The Hotel de l’Europe, in the same
place, between two officers of the
second regiment of the Imperial
Foot Guards—Col. Rampos Soji
nok and Lieut. Ibalos Prizzik.—
The latter, it appears, was engaged
to be married to the daughter of
the landlord of the above-mention
ed hotel. Anna Mirasky. lie was
fondly attached to the handsome
girl, and looked upon all attempts
on the part of his comrades to flirt
with her with umPsguised jealousy.
On the 3d of December, 1874,
Colonel Sojinok had drank consid
erably before going to dinner. At
the table he offered loudly to bet
that for the sum of SI0,0(10, Anna
Mirasky would sell her virtue to
him. Lieut. Prizzik, her affianced
lover, was not present, but a note
which the girl immediately addres
sed to him, brought him in a few
minutes to the spot. No sooner
had he heard what the Colonel had
said about Anna than he seized a
ca. e and administered a terrible
castigation to the foul-mouthed
scoundrel. The Colonel tried to
parry the blows, but the Lieuten
ant did not cease belaboring him
until his face presented a sickening
appearance. It was one mass of
bruises. The nose of the Colonel
was broken, and his front teeth
were knoeked out. The cries ol
, j - vmiiVi tri • , n v
police to the spot.
Prizzik was arrested and taken
to the military prison. Next day
he was court-martialed by n milita
ry commission, consisting exclu
sively of friends of Col. Sojinok.—
The trial lasted two hours, at the
end of which the President of the
Court said to Prizzik : “This Court
unanimously finds you guilty. It
sentences you to be ignominiously
expelled from the army, and then
suffer death by powder and lead.”
From this sentence the doomed
mnn appealed to the Czar. Anna
Mirasky, his fiance, went herself
to St, Petersburg, and threw her
self on her knees before the Einpc
riw Alexander 11. The latter was
deeply mved by the tearful appeals
of tke unfortunate girl, and he
promised to take the case into care
ful consideration.
Over five wearv months passed,
during which time Prizzik, loaded
with chains, languished in jail. On
the 14th of May, at length, the
Military Governor of Mohileff re
ceived orders to have Prizzik exe
cuted. At daybreak on the follow
ing morning the doomed lover was
led out. Two bnrlv Corporals im
mediately fell upon him and tore
his uniform from his back. Then
they repeatedly struck 'him and
spit in his face. Staggering un
der the blows, he was tied to the
stake, and the death-warrant was
i read to him. lie cursed the Czar
loudly for his injustice, but the
roll of drums drowned his voice,—
Six soldiers were drawn up in line
before him. They fired three vol
lies at him, but not a bullet hit
him. Such an ordeal was ton
much for the nerves of the poor
voung fellow, He begged piteous
ly that an end might be put to his
anguish. The fourth anti fifth vol
leys resulted in his receiving seven
wounds. lie was still conscious,
and writhing in indescribable ago
ny. Then a Corporal ran up to
him, and. putting his musket
against his temple, blew out his
brains. It was loudly asserted in
Mohileff that the first two volleys
were fired with blank cartridges in
order to prolong the prisoner’s ag
onv.
Mother S!iijtou' Prophecy.
[Springfield (Mass.) Republican.]
Every now and then, for these
!4'>o years and more, someone has
brought, to light the prophecy and
memory of Mother Phipton As
even' follows event in mechanical
(progress, her doggerel verses fall
in so pat that they must needs lie
quoted One of rite predictions
thereof—“ Fire and water shall
j wonders do”— has come to pass
'time and again, and the latest ful
fillment is in he Keely motor
This Mother Phipton was one that
would have taken high rank as a
medium in our day : in her's, the
fifteenth century, she was said to
have been begotten, like the wizard
Merlin, of the phantasm of Apollo,
or some aerial demon under tha'
guise, and a heautPnl orphan
Yorkshire girl, named Agatha.—
She had the weird, b-nely girlhood
that the rhild of shame is apt to
have, avoided or persecuted bv
those who should have been her
mates. She was christened Ursu
la by the Abb© - of Beverlv. and
| grew up so eccentric* and unnafnr
, all” shrewd that bv and bv this
i tradition, in tho°o superstition
.days, grew about her birth. She
! prophesied as she grew older, and
(even “pertons of quality” consult
ed her. She told the great Wol
sev that he should never come t<>
York, and, indeed, when within
eight miles of it. he was arrested
by Northumberland at King Hen
ry's order, ami brorght to Leices
ter, where he died. Also, she is
| said to have foretold the great fire
; of London, the execution nF OhurW
T-i a o<l many 1 1
sides, of tlie Reformation and the
tetgns of Elizabeth and James. At
the age of seventy-three, she fore
told her own death, and at the hour
predicted she died. Her name is a
popular traditi n in Yorkshire even
to-day. and the tradition is found
ed in part upon fact Her famous
prophecy was said to have been
published in her life time, and
again 20!) years ago, it was cer
tainly published forty years ago,
for we have seen it in a hook of
that time, where it was said to he
copied from an older hook. Tho’
most of the items are vague enough
some show a marked coincidence
with remarkable events, such as
the invention of steam, railway lo
comotives and tunnels, the tele
graph, lron-clads, and the admis-.
sion of Jews’ into Parliament (in
t- Vi
1858.) Without further preface,.
these are the elegant lines ;
Catriages without horses shall go,
And accidents fill the world with woe;
Around the world thoughts shall fly
In the twinkling of an eve.
Water shall vet more wonders do
Now strange, but yet. they shall he true f
Ti e world upside down shall he.
And gold be found at the root, of a tree ;
Through hills man shall ride.
And horse nor ass be at his side;
Under water men shall walk,
Shall ride, -hall steep, shall talk ;
In the air shall men he seen
In white, in Ida-h. in green ;
Iron in the water shall float
As easy as a wooden boat.
Gntd shall he found and shown
In land that’s not now known :
Fire and water shall wonders do ;
England slial a' last ahr it a Jew ;
The world to an end shall come
In eighteen hundred eighty-one
Writers of One Hymn.
The fame of writers rest on a sin
gle production. Defoe was a vol
uminous author, hut “Robinson
Crusoe” is all that has come down
to us. “The Burial of Fir John
Moore” has embalmed the memorv
of the Rev. Charles Wolf no les
than that of the military hero.
It is so in sacred poetry. Take
most favorite hymns, and you will
fi and their authors composed noth
ing else so popular. Their genius
seems to have been exhausted by a
single happy effort. Let us look
at a few illustrations :
"Come thou fount of every bless-
ing,” was the earliest perf nuance
of Rob;rt Robertson, awakened un
cb*r the preaching of Whitefield.—
He was unstable, becoming Meth
odist. Independent, Baptist, and
finally dying an avowed Socinian,
in 1700.
“Rock of ages” is a glorious
Christian lyric, and Toplady has
left nothing half so precious. He
began his ministry among the hills
of Devon, in 1773. Topladv was
bitter enough in dispute but his
spirit lost all its harshness when
he tuned the in*trument of sacred
song.
Few hymns have been more fre
quently sung at times of especial
religious feeling than “Come ve
sinners poor and needy.” Its au
thor was Joseph Hart, horn in
London, in IGI2. He began life
as a teacher.
The Rev. Edward Perronet gave
to the Church that grand march of
the saints, “All hail the power of
Jesus’ name.” Ilis father was a
clergyman of the English Estab
lishment, but he himself labored
under the patronage of lady Hunt
ington, who died in 1792.
“Nearer, my God, to Thee,” lias
probably tou lied more hearts than
any other modern hymn. Sarah
Fuller Flower, its author, was the
younger of the two daughters of
Benjamin Flower. In 1845 she
was married to Adams, a civil en
gineer, and died in 1549, at the
age of forty four, she was buried
near Barlow, Essex.
llow many weary pilgrims have
iieen cheered in passing through
the dark valley jby the consolation
of “Ju;.t as 1 am, without one
invalid from early years, and died
in 1871. She was the third daugh
ter of Charles Elliott, of Clapham,
England.
Timothy Dwight, elected Presi
dent of Yale College in 1793, pre
pared four ponderous volumes of
theology, which few clergymen
take from the shelf. llis classic 1
version of the 137th Psalm. “I
love Thy Kingdom, Lord/’ will
perpetuate his memory.
A few years ago, in New York,
Phcsbe Carey died of consumption,
at the age of forty-six. She and
her sister Alice were both grace
ful poets, “One sweetly solemn
thought,” written bv Phoebe, in its
pensive sadness touches the heart
like a dirge.
Protection troni l-itrlif ning.
Due? protection protect ? is often
asked by the mail with the lightn ng
rod on his house as well as by the stu
dent, of political philosophy. The
country roads an drying, and the liiht
niog rod man will soon he along. We
may as well prepare ourselves for the
discussion of his questions.
That the electee fluid " can be car
ried along a wire even a child in these
Jays knows but however much mo p
there mav ho in electric science little
has f ntn 1 its way to the lightning-rnd
nian Whether the rod attracts be
yond ten or twenty feet is still a ques
tion, and what the rod is to do with it
after it gets it is open to some doubt.
The writer of this had a rod put up
on a dwelling many years ago, and with
full I nit la in the protection, during a
storm had his floor ripped up and him
self and friends—ladies and gentlemen
—tossed about in the most inconsider :
ate manner by the elctric visitor. Tt
came down the rod to about six feet
from the ground, when it concluded to
leave the rod, bore a hole through a
twenty inch stone wall, and pay its nn
welcome respects to the party outside.
The rod was not put up by a botch; the
employer and the pmnloyed understood
the business. Still we were told the
defect m tst he in the rod or in the man
ner of its construction This is acorn
mnn way of accounting for things.
Some ye .rs ago there was a disotlssion
going on in the papers in which one
side assorted that no member of a csr
tain religious denomination had ever
been convicted of erium. Alas !' in
the height of the controversy one coni'
mitted murder. But the side did not
lose heart, but contended that tbe per
son had ceased to be a member of that
body from the moment he had thoughts
of committing the crime. And it is
just in this way the lightning rod men
defeat us. VYe must get reasoning of
our own.
One fact is, wo think, undoubted
that as many buildings are injured by
lightuiug that have rods as have not.
Ctrtainly we have known barns with
their valuable contents to be destroyed
that were well protected by conductors.
We are asked in these eases. “ Did the
conductors terminate in a well or wet
soil ?” it, is hard to find any conductor
in a " wet soil ” in the dry summer
time, and it is only then when lightning
strikes; and as for wells, there is no.
one buildiDg in a thousand that has one
convenient to run a lightning rod into.
If the lightning-rod is to be a success
it must furnish us with some more
available conditions than these.
We are inclined to think that the
• est protection to buildings are seine
tall growing trees —mil too close—at
least twenty or thirty Ret away
Kreiy leaf and the poiut of every twig
is a conductor, and these hundreds of
little “platinum” points, conducting
each its little quantity to the main
stem, make a total power equal to the
rifting of a trunk of a hundred years.
There is no well of water under a
tree’s roots; indeed,thoearth under a
l uge tree is extremely dry. Still the
fluid fiasses from the trunk away in safe
ty. Immediately unde: a tree charged
with a “lightning stroke” is one of tin
most dangerous places, but we doubt
whether over twenty feet away from a
trunk ary'onc was ever injured. The
writer was once within twenty-svc f ••< t
of the trunk of a spruce struck by
lightning wit'iout experie*'e'ng the
si igh t£st_s hoe k^—i 1-pil sd. and Pro ss.
..Tngmg Tor tlie v3.TT.
A good -torv is told of a verdant
one who was passenger in u rail
road express train and became thirs
“Where’s that ’ere boy with the
water can ?” he queried of his next
neighbor.
“lie has gone forward to the
baggage car, I suppose,” was the
repl v.
“Well, and ye s’pose I kin get him
back here again ?”
“Certainly,” said the other,
“you have only to ring for him;”
and he nodded toward the bell-line
that wn9 above their heads.
No sooner said than done. Be
fore any one could prevent it, Rus
tic had seized the line and gave it a
tremendous tug. The consequen
ces were at once obvious ; throe
shrill whistles were heard, half a
dozen brokemen ran to their posts,
and the train came to a stand still
with a suddenness that startled half
the passengers with astonishment,
and caused every man near a win
dow to hoist it and lookout to see
what was the matter.
In a few minutes the conductor,
red and excited, came foaming in
to the car to know who pulled that
bell-rope.
“ILre, mister, this way; I’m
the man,” shouted the offender,
drawing all eyes upon him.
“You!” said the conductor.—
“What did you do it for ?”
“Cos I wanted some water.”
“Wanted some water ?”
“Sartin ; I wanted the water
boy, and my pardner here in this
seat said I’d better ring for him, as
we do at the hotel, an’ so I yank
ed the rope. Will he be along
soon ? An’, by the by, what in
thunder be you stoppin’ for ?”
The shout of laughter that greet
ed this honest confession wag too
much for the conductor, and ho had
to wait until he got his train under
way before he explrined the mys
teries of the bell rope to his ver- j
dant customer.—[Boston Commer
cial Bulletin.
“Do you like codfish balls, Mr Wig
gins ?” Mr. Wiggins, hesitatingly—“l
really doa't ko'iv; T recollect at
tending one
Trees anil Rain.
The influence of trees upon rain and
the general moisture of the atmos
phere, which lias been discussed of
late, receives a strong illustration from
the island of Santa Cruz West Indies.
A person a year or two since, who spent
the months of February, March and
April upon the island, says that when
he was there twenty years ago the island
was a garden of freshness, beauty and
fertil.ty; woods covered the hills, trees
were everywhere abundant, and rains
were profuse and frequent. The mem
ory of its loveliness called him back at
the beginning of the year, when to his
astonishment, about orie-third of the
island, which is about twenty five miles
long, on utter desert The forest and
trees generally bad been cutaway, rain
falls had ceased, and'a process of desic
cation, beginning at one end of the land,
had advanced gradually and irresistibly
upon the island, until for seven miles
it is dried and desolate as the seashore.
Houses and beautiful plantations have
been abandoned, and the people watch
the advance of desolation, unable to ar
rest it. and knowing to a certainty that
the time when their own habitations,
their gardens and fresh fields will be
come a part of the waste, is fast ap
proaehing. The whole island is
doomed to become a desert. The in
habitants believe, and the opinion
seems to be confirmed, that this sad re
sult is owing to the destruction of the
trees upon the island.
HIT AND HUMOR,
3 *==-■■ ■ —"
A stump speaker exclaimed : “ I
know no North, no South, no East, no
West, fellow-citizens i”
“Then,” exclaimed an old farmer in
the crowd, “ It’s time you went to
school and larnt jography.”
*t . -..1,,v hi* -rift*
aa "- ' ’’ going, as she
observed him putting on his rcoat
“ I am going to sally forth,” he im
plied.
And she warmly rejoined “ Let me
catch you going with any Sally Forth.”
A countryman tell off a ferry
boat at Vicksburg, and his wile, wait
ing coolly until his head showed above
the water, shouted :
“ There, durn yer. f know’d you’d
do it! Bet yer never get out, either!”
——
—Dr. Johnson once dined with a
Scottish lady who had hotch-potch for
dinner. After the doctor had tasted
it she asked him if it was good.
“It is good for hogs, ma’am,” said
the doctor.
“ 'I hen pray,” said the lady, “ let me
help you to some more.”
—Copy was out. The devil picked
up a paper and said, “ Here’s some
thiug ‘About a woman’—must I cut it
out ?”
“No!” thundered the editor; “ the
first disturbance ever created in the
world was occasioned by the devil fool*
ing about a woman.”
—A Octri.it mother sent her boy to'
the store the other day to get her :>
linen dress, and he returned with four
teen yards of black cambric.
“ I told you to get linen !” she ex
claimed, standing aghast.
“ I know it, but this io cheaper, and
the clerk said that if any of us should
happen to die you’d have a mourning
dress in the house 1” was the cool
reply.
-
—A bashful and not over-educated
fellow went to see his girl fiio other
night, and as he started away he put
his arm around her and whispered in
her ear, “ dearest, I love and she re
sponded sweetly, 11 ditto,” meaning, of
course, a reciprocation of his tender
passion. The young man could not
find “ditto” in his vocabulary, and
asked his father the next day as they
were hoeing cabbage, what it meant.
The old gent rested a moment on his
boo. and poiuted to the cabbage in front
of him with the remark :
“ You see that cabbage ?”
“ Yes,” responded the youth.
“ And you see the next one there ?”
“ Yes.”
Well that is called ‘ditto,’’’
*• Damn her!” exclaimed the impctu
ous youth 14 she celled me a cabbage
'vmH”
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