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DEVOTED TQ NEWS* PQMTWS, LITERATURE,, AGRICULTURE AND GENERAL PRQGREEN-’-*I.NDEPENDENT IN ALL TMINGN VOL. X. fftttilroari Schedule. Arrival aud Departure of Trains. Arrival o! Trains at 4*i*eenos* bora’ 3>ej>ot. DAY PASSENGER TRAIN. From Atlanta, . . 11:12 A. M. From Augusta, . . 11:58 A. M. NIGHT PASSENGER TRAIN. From Atlanta • . . B:i>3 A. M. From Augusta, . . . 1:14 A. M. May 29 n. 11. KING, Agent. Oeorgia HEailroat!. Day Passenger Train. Leave Augusta, 8.45, a. m. Leave Atlanta, 7:00, a. m. Arrive at Atlanta, .6:46, p. m. Arrive at Augusta, % 8:80, p. m. Night Passenger Train. Leave Augusta, 8:15, p. m. Leave Atlanta, 10:80, p. m Arrive at Atlanta, 6:25, a. m. Arrive at Augusta, 8.T5, a. m. ACCOMMODATION TRAIN. Leaves Atlanta, 5:00 p. m. Leaves Stone Mountain, . 6:45 a. i- Arrives Atlanta, 8:00 a m. Arrives Stone Mountain, 6:16 p. m. S. K. JOHNSON, Sup’t, Western & Atlantic U I? AND ITS CONNECTIONS. —“K ENNE SA W ROUT E.”— The following Schedule takes effect May 23d, 1875: NORTHWARD. No 1. No 3. No 11. Lv Atlanta, 4 20pm 7 00am 380 pm Ar Cartersville, 6 14pm 9 22am 7 19pm Ar Kingston, 6 42pm 9 56am 8 21pm Ar Dalton, 8 24pm 11 54am 11 18pm Ar Chattanooga,lo 25pm 1,66 pm SO UTHWARD. No 2. No 4. No 12. Lv Chattanooga, 4 00pm 5 00am Ar Dalton, 6 41pm 7 01am 1 00am Ar Kingston. 7 38pm 9 07am 4 19am Ar Cartersville, 8 12pm 9 42am 5 18aro Ar Atlanta, 10 15pm 12 06m 9 30am Pullman Palace Cars run on Nos. 1 and 2, between New Orleans and Baltimore. Pullman Palace Cars run on Nos. 1 and 8, between Atlanta and Nashville. Pullman Palace Cars run on Nos. 3 and 2, between Louisville and Atlanta. JggTNo 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 at4:oopm. Excursion Tickets to the Virginia Springs ant! 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 xette, containing schedules, etc. for Tioket3 via “ Kennesaw Route.” B. W. WRKNN, Scn’l Pass, and Ticket Agent, Atlanta. Ga MASONIC. Hun Hitrimo I.oiSge. No, SI, GREENESBORO', GA. (Regular Meetings—First* . Wednesday night of each month. M. MAR KAV ALTER, Sec’y. <wreenesloro’ It, A, C„ IVo, SST GREENESBORO’, GA. Regular meeting —Third Friday night of each month. 0. C. NORTON, See y. Union Lodge, \o. 2WB, UNION POINT, Ga., Meets regularly the 2d and 4th Thursday day evenings in each month. W. 0. MITCHELL, Sec’y Feb. 4, 1875—tf M (!) 0 Jf. V 55 *#s ■ \3,t Cretiie Lmlgt‘, \ti. IS, I OOF. GREENESBORO', GA., : Meets regularly every Monday niglit Wm. t. doster, n. g. D. S. Holt, R S. I’Si Lreenesborough Lodge, Ao. .120, Independent Order Good Templars, meets at Odd Fellow’s Hall, on 2d and 4th Friday nights in each month. J. HENRY WOOD, W. C. G. W. Jlillek, Sec’y. Special Notice. TIIE Stockholders of the Greene County Fair Association are hereby personally no tified that unless they pay up their pro rata share of an execution I hold against said Association, I will be forced to havo executions issued against them severally, for their proportional parts of said claim. Capt. W M Weaver is authorized to re ceive and recoil”, for moneys so paid, febietf JAS N ARMOR HO n Tear in iTuiiK'f. J. Si. I*AHI4. - - Prwprieior. n. .Tl. WKAVKK, - - lfclifOf. Laws Bclntiill 4o Xeusimpcr and Ar* rinra^cs. 1. Subscribers who do, not give express notice to the contrary,'are' considered wishing to continue theirtsubscription. 2. If subscribers order tiie 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 from the office to winch they are directed, thfey 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 are sent to former direction, they are held responsible. 5. The Courts have decided that “refusing to take periodicals from the office, or removing aud leaving them uncalled for, is prima facie evidence of inten tional fraud." 6. Any person who receives a newspaper and makes use of it,whether he has or dered it or not, is held in law to be a subscriber. 7. If subscribers pay in advance, they are' bound to give notice to the publisher, at the end of their time, if they do no} wish to continue taking it; other wise the publisher is authorized to send it on, and the subscriber will bn respon sible until an express notice, with pay ment of all arrearages, is sent to the publisher. CORNER. THIS BKOKGK ItOLL. Blue eyes, with their long, dark lashes Half veiled in a tearful mist, And 0, such a pitiful quiver On the sweet little mouth I kissed ; ’Twas only a childish sorrow, And yet how keen was the smart, Ag she held up her precious dqjly.. Broken—the'pride of her heart; In my arms I folded her closely As I whispered in confident smile, “.Don’t-owy, Uoar. Tißr.tti hftvi it mendem" But her tears fell faster the while, And she sobbed, 01, thank you, dear auntie, But that won’t do, for, you see, If you mended it ever so nicely It. would always be patched up to me J" She had spoken, that sorrowful baby, And deeper truth than she knew, And I thought, (with my head on her Shoulder,) Of its meanings as sad as true ; I thought of the shattered treasures We prize in matuver years, Of the hopes, the loves, and the friendships We mourn with such bitter tears. I thought how w.e gathered the fragments With labor as fond as ’twas vain, Just to find that the marks of the mending Could change all our pleasures to pain ; Just to learn that the patched up treasure Could never be precious again , And I sighed as I thought of the heart aches Our broken dolls left in their train Ah me ! what a dismal story Our lives would tell at the best, If, content with our fair, frail playthings, We made them our stay or our rest ; If we looked not above for our treasures, Unshadowed by tune or decay ; And this is the lesson our Father Is teaching us day by day! Two Hensons. “Here's a boy down hero that wants to lick me!” exclaimed a boot black as he approached a policeman on Griswold street yesterday. “He does, eb? What for?” “Says I called him names, but I didn’t.” “Are you afraid of him?” “No, not exactly; but I don't want to fight. One reason is I promised my dying mother I would n’t and the other reason is cause he’s bigger’n I am. —A student while undergoing his examination was asked what was the action of disinfectants, and replied: “ They smell so badly that the people open tho windows, and fresh air gets in.” —An old lady recently directed the attention of her husband to a pair of twins, remarking, as she did so, “ How much these two children do look aiike, especially the one this way!” —The following legend is inscribed on the front of a butcher’s shop in Pennsylvania : Kasli padc for littol halves not mourn (wo iln-e p.ln ” GREENESBORO’, GA., THURSDAY, AUGUST 26, 1875. oMamT' [for the herald.] IVIIKEItN I Wf UI II AXD lit-.•*ixtsni\( BY RET. J. 4V. TALLEY. Walker's church, or meeting house, once stood about two miles south of Greenosboro’. The first of the year 1806, a commodious frame building having superceded the original struc ture, the old house was converted into a country school-house. At that time it was in what was known as Apalachee Circuit of the South'Carolina Confer ence, and Revs. Joseph Tarpley and Lovick Pierce were the preachers in charge. When Walker’s church was organized, I have no means of knowing, but, the fallowing cironmstances lead me to believe, that it must have been between the years 1790 and 1800, I was born on the 6th day of December, 1800, about oue mi!o south of Greenes boro’. My parents were members of Walker’s church. My father died in 1803, and,in 1805, my mother married Mr. John Walker, son of (Japt. Wil liam Walker, who was the leading spirit in the church and from whom it took its name. Sbon after my mother’s marriage to John AValker, they moved to a farm about a half mile from the church, and I was sent to school in the old log building' which had formerly been used as the church. This was in 1800. Capt. Wm. Walker, I bolievo, was the ilrst class leader at Walker’s church. As ho was a man of consid erable prominence, it may not be amiss to give some incidents connected with his eventful life. At the opening of the Revolutionary War, in 1776, he was living in Lincoln Cos., Georgia, near Little River, hut for prudential reasons moved his iauniy to the Cal houn neighborhood in South Carolina that Irish community, of which they wer. ti .e extracts —cud after arrang ing for their comfort, joiued the Whig arm;- :--:id ;.-m- ,n what was known as the Northern i>. Hon. Ou one occa sion,while on a -eouqhis little baud was overpowered by the British and Indi ans —not, however, until more than double their number of assailants, had been made to bite the dust , and their last rounds of ammunition were in their faithful rifles, did they capitulate to the British, thus saving their scalps from the ruthless ludiau tomahawk. The prisoners, after their surrender, woro given to the luuians as slaves. Capt. Walker was carried near the Northern Lakes, and given to a woman to supply the place of a lost son. There he lived for eighteen months, making himself useful and gradually gaining the confi dence of all the Indians with whom he had intercourse. After waiting long and anxiously, an opportunity for cape presented itself, aud after travel ing under the guidance of a native for weary days through a trackless forest, subsisting on roots and berries, he reached the American camp. For his bravery and fidelity,he was promoted to a captaincy, and, as such, remained in Washington’s army,suffering privations and enduring hardships, until the mother country acknowledged that tho thirteen colonies were sovereign and independent. After the struggle for independence was over, he and his war scarred comrades sought their homes. Soon after his return to the bosom of his family, he moved back to his former home in Lincoln county, Ga-, and,not a great while thereafter .settled ia Greene and located about one mile northeast of the site where Walker’s church was afterwards erected. I have detailed these events in his life, as they were fixed in my memory, while in youth, with breathless attention, I listened to the rehearsal of his toils and clangers —his hairbreadth escapes and his victories. Youthful memory may have been to some extent unfuithiul to the trust reposed, but when my mind wanders away back through the mist of years, the scenes and recollections of those youthful days rise up now with all the vividness of yesterday From the circumstances related, I conclude that Walker's church was or ganized not long after the adoption of \ the Federal Constitution. Among its early ministers (itinerant I and local) the following are most prom- j inent in my memory: Hope Hull ! Josiah Rand! Beniamin Blanton. I Nalley, Kcdwifio, Isaac Smith, Thos. fiimford,James Rufeaell, John Howard, Joseph Tarpley and Lovio Pierce. AH faithful.aud zealous workers in the vineyard of the Lord. 01 its early membership, I remem ber old Robert Martin and his wife, bis son Robert and wife (father and son both preachers or exhorters). Col. Geo. AY. Foster, wife and daughter Nancy; Thom ns Callier ahd family, Robert McKeen’s family, Mrs. Brown, the Leonards, Williamsons,. Boydkins, Wards, Jolinsobs and-WkgflelA. The church was large and the congregation numerous, but various causes—as the organization of other churches, the tide of emigration and death —conspired in the ruu of years to reduce the member ship, as well as the congregation. The church being inconveniently located for those of its members who remained, it became necessary to remove it to a more eligible locality; and accordingly it was, torn down and rebuilt, at its present site, about five miles south of where it originally stood. An event which transpired in one of the older and most influential families connected with AValker’s church, re sulted greatly in advancing the inter ests of Methodism in Georgia. I refer to the marriage of Rev. Lovio Pierce, (an itinerant Methodist preacher.) to the accomplished and lovely Miss Naney Foster, only daughter of Col. Geo. W. Foster. Dr. Pierce’s marriage alliance with this old and honorable family brought him in contact with many individuals who stood aloof from the church, and stiffened their necks and hardened their hearts against the truths of religion. Improving the op portunity thus presented, he, by bis piety and the clearness and orcc of his preaching, won many of them to the church and secured to biuret f the title of the -Patriarch of Me' odism in Georgia. From "tbit dace, Georgia be came the home of Rev. Lovio Pierce (who by birth is a Carolinian). To the Methodist church and the interests of his adopted State he has devoted a life of more abundant labors as a minister of the Lord Jesus, than any man in the Church cr State. He still lives to see many of his early hopes realized, in the elevation of the standard of female education and collegiate education sanc tified to the cause of Christ. After Walker’s church was moved to its present site Ho which wa have al ready alluded), which was about 182 Uor ’2l, it entered,as it were.upon anew lease of life—its membership again multiplied, and, within a year or two, over a hundred names appeared on' the church book. Again similar causes , as before, produced a diminution in its membership, and for several years it was without a regular pastor, but of hie years it lias prospered wonderfully. A few years ago the old building, full of precious memories, was stripped to its frame and remodeled and finished off in a neat and comfortable style. Tt now has a large membership and a flourishing Sabbath School. After many years of wanderings, I revisited the sacred spot —the church of niy sainted mother and sister and the grave of my eldest brother, Rev. Wm, Talley—with crowding recollec tions of “auld lafrg syne,” on the fourth Sunday in July, and preached to many of the grand and great-grand-children of its sainted dead ; but, alas ! few of my old friends remain—they have gone to join the Church of the first born in Heaven An Unfailing Sign, The editor of the Gallatin (Tenn.) Examiner coatribututes the following to the large stock of weather signs: “For more than tweuty-five years we bave known Ja sign by which to deter mine the probability of rain for that day, which we have not seen fail in a single instance, and we publish it that others may verify its certainty, if they choose. Go out early in the morning, in the spring, summer and fall, and if the earth and field spiders have, over-night, woven their fresh webs over the grass, and about tho bushes and fences, set it down for a fair day, even ’fit looks like the rain will pour down in five minutes. The instinct of the spiders never fools them. They are wiser and surer than General Myers ami all of his calculations of probabilities. A knowledge cf this fact may be a sure guide to the farmer as to his day’s work.” MISCELLANEOUS. Xolcst oYt rii .n in Virginia. We turned aside from our path for a space, to visit an object of some curiosity;, which is one of tire “lions” of “tho Eastern Shore’”—• This is an ancient vault, belonging to a member of the.“Custis” family, a branch of tho same stock with which Washington intermarried. It lies upon a fine old farmstead, looking out upon “the Bay,” and occupies the centre of'a large field, the only prominent object, shelter ed by some old tress. This vault’ is of white marble, elaborately carv ed in London, in a state of partial dilapidation. The curious feature about it consists in its inscription, which runs thus A -$| f ♦ //#* 1 * 11* H. ■ ■ 4 “Under tins npyblf .tomb lies the bodv of the llon. JOHN CUSTIS, E^q,, , , of the'City of Wiuiamsourg, and Parish 'bf'Burthh; formerly of Hungar'fe PaVih,”bn fhb’ Eastern Shore 4f Virgirfta, 1 And County 'of Northampton; aged?! years’, and xjel lived but seven which pas the space of time he kept a Bache lor’s HoMfc at Arlington, on the Eastern S%oro-of Virginia.’* This inscription, we are told by another, on the opposite side, was put on the tomb by bis own posi tive orders. The gist of it, as our lady readers writ be pleased to per ceive, consists in the lines we have italicised; the force of which will be better felt and understood from the additional fact, which doe3 not ap pear, that this bachelor, who lived only in his bachelor condition, was o.r.iualhj marrred three times. His experience, if we are to believe his epitaph, was greatly adverse to the idea of any happiness in the mar- riage state; yet how strange that ho should have 'ventured thrice upon it! Tho natural conclusion is, that Hon. John Custis'was a singularly just and conscientious man, who, unwilling to do the sex any wrong by a premature judgment, gave them a full and fair trial', at the ex pense of his own happiness, and pronounced judgment only after his repeated experiments. Tradition has preserved some anecdotes of the sort of experience which he enjoyed in.the marriage state, "ohc of which I will relate. It appears that he was driving out in his aT.cient coach with one of his wives—and to do bim justice we must assuro the reader that ho had but one at a time—and iu the neighborhood of tho very spot to which wc Ourselves are tending—Cape Charles. A matrimonial discussion ensued be- tivoon the pair, which warmed as they proceeded; Thb lord grew angry, the lady vociferous.' “It was the diamond,” said one —and “I insist,” quoth tho other “that it was tho club.” “You * ill’drive mo mad!” ciiel John Custis. “I should call that admirable driving 1 ” retorted the wife, “By !” he cxciairhed, “if you say another word, I will drive down into 'the sea!” They were evea then upon tho beach. “Another word!” screamed the lady. “Drivo where you please!” she added. “Into tho sea—l can go as deep a3 you dare go, any day!” He became furious,* took her at her word, and drove tho horses and chariot into the ocelin. They be gan to swim: Ho held in, looked into her face, and she laughed in his. “Why do you stop?” she de manded, excitingly, not a whit alarmed. “You are ti devil'” he exclaimed, flinging the hor3e3 about, and mak ing for the shore with a’! expedi tion. “Fooh' pOoh!” laughed his tor mentor, “Learn from this fact! that there is no place where vou* dare to go, whore I dare not. ao company you.” q. ■ . ; ‘■Even to !” “The only exception,” she an swered, with a chuckle; “there; my dear,l leave you,” She had conquered. He never dr-ovo in at Cape Charles again, but groaned with the recollection of the seven years’ bachelor life at Arlington.—[Old Paper. fifi’Oiui aitii Statesmanlike. Senator Booth,’’ of California, made his opening speech in’ the campaign in that State, a fqw even ings since, in San Francisco, be fore an immense audience. After ,0 a long discussion of local issues, be clos.ed with this eloquent allusion to National questions; “The wound heals slowly that is often chafed. THat would he a dUice itiuqn4 iu>atir, history wlieir would strike dowir tAeVy party tie and party name which perpetuates a,war memory, and bring the peo ple together, who are 'willing., to forget, in a solid and' impenetrable phalapx. “The American . people j was the real hero.of the war,” and I must also bo the apostle of peace and reunion. Why should they not coino together? Summer would remove the names of battles from i flags because they wero remem brances of civil war — why can Wei not take the names from ourpoEtk: cal banners, which aro also remind ers? There comes a time when, the instinct of sentiments is a true) : guide than cold philosophy or caku-j lating prudence. But they tell us | that a great many rebel generals have been elected to the next Con gress. Why should they not be 7 When tho Government amnestied them did it mean to say, “We ro store your rights, but you shall never enjoy them?” When they take their seai3 id Congress it will be with an oath to support the Con stitution of tho United States. I do not believo that the men who aro willing to dio for their convic tions will be tho most readv to per- 1 jure themselves for placo. Parties aro but necessary evils. There aro, great moments in a nation’s life when the times should rise above them. Why may not tho true spirit! q£ the people have way? This is tho centennial year. Let it be a “year of jubilee.” Before us is a grand outlook of history. Who shall estimate the power and popu lation of this country at tho close nf the century now dawning, if wo, the people, are equal to the divine opportunity? IVho knows what trials may await us, what terapta tions may beset? Let us challenge destiny as one. people. Let us have the only union which can be permanent—a union of hearts.— Let the true feeling of the hour find genuine expression unrestrain el, and reconstruction will coma— not by legal enactment, not by force bills or writa of law, but in the hearts of the people, like the dawning of day, like the breath of the morning, like the Spirit of the Lord.” Jlnrmois Worship. A letter from a visitor to Salt Lake to the Troy Times gives a brief sketch of ..the Mormon style of worship. The writer says: “The principal object to see here is the turbernacle, or house of worship. This is an oblong building, which seats 13,000 people. It - has a wide gallery, extendingtiround the en- tire structure, except at one end where the organ stands. This organ is of the same size as the great organ in Boston, and was built by tba Mormons upon tho very spot where it stands. It is thirty-two feet in height, and larger than many of the houses in the city It is richly ornamented with carvings in some dark wood. Tt requires four men to blow the bellows. There are twenty entrances i ‘his tabernacle We attended service there shis atiortiyon at two o'clock. There wqro about five thousand people present. . Th_e service lasted two hours,aikl a quarter.. The choir is composed of one hundred men and women. The men s,it up m one-side of the tabernacle, the women -upon, the other. ' The "Sacrament of tfys. Lord’s Supper is celebrated every Sunday; it consists of bread and water; all partake of it who have been baptized; it. is serv ed by ten men during the preaching of the sermon. They have but cue service vwcek iu the tabernacle, and that is on Sunday at'two o'clock p.pa. The Sun. ifey’sdhoofa arm other church ■. service - five held To ward churches—-twenty one in all. The sermon .this, was given by Elder Taylor, one of the twelve" Apostles of the Church. It lasted one hour and twenty minutes, tuid yet [ did nodding head ij* the audience. The service is similar tu : rturs, or about the same. It, is opened oy a hymn, than a prayer is made by ■ one of the Eldjtfs, *-iiymn, then The sermon - T’haserm'dn is eVtem ‘porized lecture; notext is taken, al though the Bible (a largo copy) fs-,t upon the desk; the Book of Mormon is also upon the desk. The minister neither reads from the Bible* nor the Book of Mormon. During the ser men, or at the commencement of the seipmn, eight deaeons prepare the bread —that is, break it and put it into the silver baskets; when it is ready the min- ister pauses a moment, and one of the aiders descends from bis seat and I blesses it, After the bread, has been taken around, which requires oomo : time, then the Deacons pour the water ! fro pi the silver pitchers into 'largo sil -1 ver cups. When that is ready there is another pause in the sermon, another | Elder comes down and blesses tho wa iter, and that is served. The ceremony ooionpies nearly all of the tlmc-tb sor> men is going on. There are two barrels of water, from which the Deacons re plenish their pitchers from time, to time. The cornmuuicnnts seem to-take a good drink cf water, instead of a sip only; indeed, I saw no one, tako, lefts than several swallows. That accounts for the nee ssity of two barrels- . Oh, but such a congregation of hard coun tenances! They are a hard-work look ing people, browned by, exposure to. the air, and dressed in clothes anu bon-; nets that they brought with them when they came out as pioneers,” ... HIT 4ND HUMOR. —An Irishman says that tho only way to stop suicide is to make it'a cap ital offence, punishable with’ death. —An auctioneer once advertised a lot‘of chairs which, ite said, -tjiad beer, used by children without backs.” A wag lent a clergyman a horse that ran away and threw him, and then claimed credit for spreading the gospel. - “ What & I hi/Ausc'of that bell’ * a ■;/** 1 ringing?” inquired Henry. “I think,” sdid John, “somebody has pulled the rope” —Josh Billings says : “ There ain’t enny thing’ that'will completely kure '' lazyness, though a second wife has Lecu known to hurry it some.” No man can do anything-against his will,” said a metaphysician “ “ Faith,’; said I’at, “ 1 had a brother who weut to prison against.bis will faith he did.” —A physician writes, asking the re newing of a note, and says : “We arc !h a horrible crisis, thcro is not a sick man in tho district.” - —“ Wliafc do you think is tho best size for a man ?” drawled a lazy fop who was talking to his physician “ Hxcrcise," sternly replied the doctor -rA musical author, being asked if he had composed anything lately, re plied : “My last work was a compos' tion. with my creditors.” —The excuse of a young lady'to her minister, who caught her napping, was : “ Don’t you think that ladies had better he fast asleep than fas? awake ?” —Nothing will sooner tempt a bach elor to abandon his rcs'dut.'on to marry than to sleep in an adjoining room to a .no. m