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DEVOTED TO NEWS , 'OLITICS, LITERATURE, AGRICULTURE AND GENERAL PROGRESS—INDEPENDENT IN AIL, THINGS. VOL. X. @'he M. 11. PARK, - - ■ Proprietor tr.fl. WEAVER. - - Editor. THURSDAY JULY 29. 1876. Lutvs Rrhitiiu; to Aionspiiiicr Subscriptions nu<l Ar rearagcg. 1. Subscribers wfito' .lo not give express notice to the contrary, are considered wishing to continue their subscription. 2. If sui. ; u-ibers order the discontinuance ot their periodica!'-, the publishers may Cos n iune n .-end them until all arrear ages are paid 3. If ui -rribers neglect or refuse to take their pe< .odi -als from the office to which they are directed, they are held respon sible until they have settled their bills and ordered them discontinued. 4. If subscribers move to other places without notifying publishers, and the papers aVe sent to former direction, they are held responsible. 5. The Courts have decided that “r fusing to take periodicals from the office, or removing and leaving them uncalled for, is prima facie evidence of inten tional fraud.” 6. Anv person who receives a newspaper and makes use of it,whether tie lias or dered it or not, is held in law to be a subscriber. 7. If subscribers pay in advance, tliev are bound to give no*ice to the publisher, at the end of their time, if ’bey do noj wish to continue taki >2 it: other wise *be publisher is authorized to send it on, and tbe subscriber will he respon sih'e until 'n exo-ess notice, w ith pay ment of all arrearages, is sent to the publisher. 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” NO. 30