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GREENESBORO’, GA., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1875.
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POET’S CORNER.
UI SII !
BY ADELAIDE ANN PROCTOR.
“loan scarcely hear,” she murmured
“But my heart beats Ipud and fast,
But surely, in the far, far distance,
I can hear a sound at last.”
“It is only the reapers singing,
As they carry home their sheaves.
And the evening breeze lias risen,
And rustles the dying leaves.”
%
“Listen ! there are voices talking.”
Calmly still she strove to speak,
Yet her voice grew 7 faint and trembling,
And the red flushed in her cheek.
“IL is only the children playing
• Beiow 7 , now their work is done,
And (lipy laugh that their eyes are daz
zled
By the rays of the setting sun.”
Fainter grew her voice, and weaker,
And with anxious eyes she cried,
“Down the avenue of chestnuts,
I can hear a horseman ride.”
“It is only the deer that were feeding
In a herd on the clover glass !
They were startled, and fled to the
thicket,
As they saw the reapers pass.” ■
Now the night crose in silence,
Birds lay in their leafy nest,
And tfle deer crouched in the forest,
And the children were at rest;
There was only a sound of weeping
From watchers arouud abed ;
Putffist to the weary spirit,
I’eace to thj quiet dead !
MISCELLANEOUS.
A Touching Stony.
A drunkard, who had run through
his property, returned one night to his
unfinished home. He entered his emp
ty hall. Anguish was gnawing at his
heartstrings, and language was inade
quate to express his agopy as he enter
ed his wife’s apartm ori t, W
uu .i .-...inis nr his appetite, a lov
ing wife and a darling child. , Morose
and sullen, ho seated himself without a
word ; he could not speak—ho could
not look at them. The mother said to
the little girl by her side :
“Come my dear, it is time to go to
bed;” and that little baby, as usual,
kuelt by her lap,‘and gazing wistfully
into the face of her suffering parent
like a piece of chiseled statuary, slowly
repeated her knightly orison.
When she had finished, the child,
but four years old, said to her mother :
“Dear mother, may I offer one more
OM
prayer:
“Yes, my sweet pet. pray.”
And she lifted up her tiny hands,
closed her eyes and prayed :
“Oh, God, spare; oh spare, my dear
papa l”
That prayer was lifted with electric
rapidity to the throne of God. It was
heard on high; it was heard on earth.
The response, “Amen !” burst from
the father’s lips and his heart of stone
became a heat of flesh. Wife and child
were both clasped to his bosom, and in
penitence be said :
“My child, you have saved your fa
ther from a drunkard’s grave ; I’ll sign
the pledge.”
Horrible jTOieiioniciia,
It is generally known, says an old
paper, that in Barbadoes there is a mys
terious vault, in which no one now
dares to deposit the dead. It is in a
Churchyard nepr the seaside. In 1807,
the first coffin that was deposited in it
was that of a Mr. Goddard; in 1808, a
Miss A. M. Chase placed in it; and in
18J2, Miss D. Chase. In the end of
1812, the vault was opened for the bo
dy of the Hon. T. ,Chpse; but the
three first coffins were found in a con
fused state, having been apparently
tossed from their places. Again was
the vault opened to receive the body of
an infant, and the four ca£§ns, all of
lead, and very heavy, were found much
disturbed. In 1810, a Mr. Brewster’s
body was placed in the vault, and
again great disorder was apparent
among the coffins. In 1819, a Mr.
Clarke was placed in the vault, and, as
before, the coffins were in confusion.
Each time that the vault was open
ed, the coffins were replaced in their
proper situations —that is, three on the
ground, side by side, and the others
laid on them. The vault was regular
ly closed ; the door (a massive stone,
which required six or seven men to
move,) was cemented by njasons. and
though the flour was of sand, there was
no marks ol footsteps or water. Again
the vault was opened in 1819. Lord
Comberuiere was theq present, and the
coffins were found thrown confusedly
about the vault—some with their heads
down; and others up. “What could
have occasioned this phenomena? In
no other vault in the island had this
ever occurred. Was it an earthquake
which occasioned it, or the effects of an
inundation in the yaq|t?” These were
the questions asked ‘by a Barbadoe
journal at thgt time; and no ono could
afford a solution.
The matter gradually died away, un
til the present year, when, on the 10th
of February, the vault was again open
ed, all the coffins were again thrown
about as confusedly as before. A strict
investigation took place, and no cause
could be discovered. )Yas R> after all,
that the sudden bursting of noxious ga
from one of the coffins could have pro
duced this phenomena? If so, it is
against all former experience. The
vault has been hermetically sealed
again when to be re-opened, we cannot
tell.
In England there was a parallel oc
currence to this, some years ago. at
Hauton, in Suffolk. It is stated that
on opening a vault there, several lead
en coffins, with wooden cases, which
had been fixed on biers, were found
displaced, to the great consternation of
the villagers. The coffins were again
placed as be r ore, and the vault was
properly closed when again, another
of the family dying, they were again
found displaced; and two years after
that, they were not only found all off
their biers, but one coffin, (so heavy a
to require eight men to raise it,) was
found on the step which led down the
vault; and it seemed perfectly certain
that no human had hand done this.
A Pull-Back Incident,
The Norristown (Pa) Herald, has
this: A subscriber in the country
sends ps a graphic account of a thrill
ing and ludicrous incidentthat happen
ed in his neighborhood last week. A
fashionable city girl came out to visit
his sisters. She wore a jaunty hat, a
roquettish spit curl, and the pull-back-
sort of a pull back 4.i'cs§. On
Thursday his two sisiers and the city
girl tn andered out the shady lane to
drink the beauties of the scenery, and
talk about the beaux. Presently a
loud fyellowiug was heard, and a piad
bull was seen pawing the dirt at the
other end of the lane, and coming (to
ward the ladies. The country girls,
admonishing their friend to ‘run
quick,” went over a four-rail fence in
to an adjoining field with the agility, if
not the grace, of a circus actor. The
city damsel attempted to “run quick,”
but it was a mournful failure. She
was only five yards from the fence, hut
the longest step she could achieve was
not over six inches, and her frantic ef
forts to escape the impending danger
were painful to witness. The bull was
coming nearer and nearer, with mis
chief in his eye. and his tail switching
ominously. For a minute or two the
situation was such as would have filled
the soul of a newspaper reporter with
joy. But the fashionably dressed
young lady proved equal to the emer
gency. She just laid down and rolled
to the fence, and by an overwhelming
effort, “busted” the “piu-bnek arrange
ment, and went over the fence regard
less of etiquette, or anything else, apd
the bull passed on with a sample of her
dress on his horns, muttering all the
while’about the rainy spell, or some
thing that way. That city girl says the
next time she visits the country she
will wear skirts expansive enough to
permit her to step over a hay wagon,
should uecessity or a cross bull require
it.
Tlic Koran..
We are told by all Arabs that the
Koran is the most perfect poetry in the
Arabic language, and yet, when we
come to read it as translated into En
glish, we find it dull and tedious. It
is a difficult thing for a European to
.read through the whole Koran in a
translation. He soon realizes it to be
different from what he imagined it.—
Very pos-ibly he dreamed of finding
therein long and luscious descriptions
of the so-called “Mohammedan para
dise;” that he should read about houris
-jnd the tree oflife, the beast Al-Borak,
rivers of wine, and all those visions of
the different heavens usually attributed
to the Prophet.
He finds not a won! of all this. Tn
stead, there is boundless devotional en
thusiasm, all the vocabulary of praise
to Gnd, long moral lectures, Old Testa
ment stories in a different form, a
familiar reference to all the Jewish pa
triarchs. prophets anu kings; an equal
ly constant reference to the facts of the
Gospels, but in a son;;what different
dress; and, finally, fierce denunciations,
in a strain of the most awful solemnity
of the infidels who will not believe in
the truths of God. Of doctrine he
finds no subtlety. Mohammed prq
claims but one fact, and reiterates it for
all time. As the Koran opeqs with
ALFotihat, “The Preface.” so it natu
rally closes with the simple and sublime
“Declaration,” a chapter of itself. The
words of those chanters are texts for all
the rest of the book. It enlarges, di
lates, amplifies, illustrates, reiterates
he one grand declaration, a L'i lllahn
il Allah" —“No God but God.”
All the rest is written only to give
that weight- The fact that Mohammed
is the prophet of God is a mere inci
dent, like the “Thus saith the Lard” of
the Hebrew prophets. It is to show
whence came the message. That mas
sage is the one thing of importance t 1
man, and it is of the simplest: “N 1
God but God.” When that message is
believed the morality of the K>nn
Pillows with equal simplicity. Prayer
and charity are tlie whole duty of man
Not prayer as an importunate begging
for favors, hut prayer which is oulv
praise and anxiety, to ho kept in the
faith of God: not ostentatious alms giv
ing, mis called charity, hut a charity a*
complete and genuine as that described
in the Corinthians; Such as we find
A! Fotihat we find the whole book
Galaxy.
Ilcautifiil InsHees.
A pupil of Abbe Sicord gave the fol
lowing extranr Unary answers:
What is gratitude?
Gratitude is the memory of the heart.
What is hope?
Hope is the blossom of happine-s.
What is the difference between hope
and desire?
Desire is a tree in leaf, hops is a tree
in bloom, and enjoyment is a tree in
fruit.
What is eternity?
A day without yesterday or to-mor
row; a line that has no end.
What is time?
A line that has two ends, a path that
begins iu the cradle and ends in the
tomb.
What is God?
The necessary being, the sum ol
eternity, the merchant of nature, the
eye of the soul of the world.
Does God reason?
Man reasons, because he doubts ; he
deliberates, he decides. God is omni
scenee. He never doubts; He therefore
never reasons.
CimlereffH.
The followin'; is said to be the origin
of the story of Cinderella: About the
year 1780, a French actor named The
nevard observed upon a cobbler’s stall,
in the streets of Paris, a female shoe,
whioh struck himasbeiag remarkably
small. After admiring for some time
its diminutiveaess and the eloganee of
its form, he returned to his home; but
the fairy little shoo haunted his slum
bers, and in tke morning he re appear
ed at the stall, and asked the cobbler
wlft was its owner. The man could
give no further clue than that the shoe
had been left at his sta'l to be repaired.
Thcnevard was obliged to be satisfied
with this vague response for the time
being; but day after day he repaired to
the stall to make inquiries whether the
owner of the shoe had called for it.—
Still no owner canto; and Thcnevard
allowed his strange fancy to get the
better of his reason, and became dt^ll
and low spirited, and even begau to
get unwell in consequence of this
strange Ireik of admiration. Fie still,
however, crawled daily to the stall, and
at length his patience and perseverance
were rewarded by the appearance of a
beautiful little peasant girl, who had
left the shoe to bo repaired on a former
visit to the capital. The girl was about
Blleen or sixteen years of age, and be
longing to the poorer class of society;
but she was modest in manner, heauti
fill in lace, and as grace '(1 in for n ti
the little shoe itself. The actor was
rich, and past sixty years of age
Nevertheless he disclose 1 Ills ideal at
tachinent to the beauteous maiden, and.
despite his age, wu accepted. Tit
pa ents of the girl consented to th
match. If it wore out a libel on the
character of the fair sex we might add.
perhaps the wealth and the valuable
presents made by her antiqqate I suitor
made some impression on the fair maid
en herself. Certain it is, as the story
books say, they became man and wife
lived happily together; and when the
old husband died, he loft his young and
pretty wife a large fortune This is the
true and faithful history of Cinderella
and the glass slipper, a tale which ha
enclianted many thousands of little
hoys and girls, and probably will en
chant many more for many long years
to come.
|Siii*.vii;.g Alive.
Great efforts have been mndo by
scientific men to discover some rule by
which death maybe infallibly indicat
ed. For years the French Govern
ment has held out a .standing reward of
a large amount of money to any one
who would discover and communicate a
satisfactory test, other than that of ae- 7
tual decomposition, indicated by the
skin turning to be black and blue and
green, which is conclusive on the suh
ject; bnt in cold weather this may not
tike place in many weeks, and to “keep
the body” so long would he inconveii
ient and objectionable on several ae
counts. A method has recently been
3
given to the French Government which
will probably take the prize. Hold a
lighted candle to any portion of a body.
U blister will soon rise; if on punctu-e
it gives out a fluid substance. d~“ *tl) b 13
not taken place; if it emits air only, i:
is perfectly certain that life lias In
eoine emi-rely es-incr. for whish we of
for but one reason among others: In
case of actual death the blind is con
gealed—in a sense, there is n 1 tn us
lure, simply a li tie air; this, being rub
ified under aflttne, raises up tb • skin;
if there is life, the fl uue ei is \s an in
fl iinm ttion, and nature, in her alarm,
sends increased material there for te
pairs, a kind of glairy fluid, and this,
being soot there in excess, causes tin*
skin to rise. Inability 11 fe 1 the puls •
or heart beajt, cold skin, or dew oil a
bit ol glass—none of these are conclu
sive, as there has been life when none
of these were observed. Hall’s Journal
of Health.
l's<‘o as Clocks.
In China the inhabitants of the provinces
turn their cats to a most useful purpose, il
we may believe the following story, which
is related by M. Hue, in bis Travels in
China:
“ One day, when we went to pav a v'sit
to some fam lies of Chinese Chi is ia 1 pea
sants, we met, near a farm, a young I id,
who was taking a buffalo to graze along our
path. We asked him, eardessly, as we
passed, whether jt was yet 110011. The
child raised his head to look at the sun
but it was hidden behind thick clouds, and
he could read no answer there, ‘ The skv
is so cloudy,’ said he, 4 but wait a moment;’
aml with these wo.(ls he ray towards tlie
farm, at.d came back a few minutes after
wards with a eat in his arm?. ‘ Look here.’
said he, ‘it is not noon vet’ and he showed
ns the oat’s eyes, hy pushing up the lids
with his hands. We looked at the child
with surprise, hut he was evidently in earn
est; and the eat, though astonished, ad
not much pleased at the experiment made
on her eyes, behaved with most exemplary
complaisance. ‘Very well,’ said we.
‘thank you;’ and he then let gc the cat.
who made her escape pretty quickly, and
we continued our route. To sav the truth,
we had not at all understood the proceed
ings ; hut we did not wisli to question the
little pagan, lest he should find out that
we were Europeans by birth.
“As soon as .ever we reached the farm,
however, we made haste to ask our Chris
tians whether they could ! e'l the clock f v
looking into a cat’s eves. They seemed
snrpriseed at the question; but as tlier •
was no danger in confusing to them our
ignorance of the properties of the cit’s
eyes, we related what had just taken place.
That was all that was necessary ; our com
plaisant neophytes immediately gave chase
to all the cats in the neighborhood. They
brought ns three or four, and expl lined in
what manner they might be made use of
for watches. They pointed out that tin
pupil of their eyes went on constantly
growing narrower until twelve o’clock
when they became like a fine line, as thi
as a'liair, drawn perpendicularly across th
eve, and that after twelve the dila’io ■ re
commenced. When we had attentive!
examined the eyes of all the cats at our
disposal, we concluded that it was past ,
i<>nii, as all tire eyes perfectly agreed upon
'lie point Y\ e have I#ul some hesitation
Hi speaking of this Cliinese discovery, a* it
may, doubtless, tend to injure the interests
of the clock making trade, and interfere
with ti.esale of watches; but all consider
ttions must give way to the spirit of pro
tress. All important discoveries tend it}
t.he first instance to injure private interests}
aid we hope, nevertheless, that watches
wi'l continue to lie made, because, among
the number of persons who may wish lo
know the hour, there will, most likely, ho
s line wliu will not stive themselves the
(rouble to run after :li ■ cat, or who may
fearsome danger to their own eyes irotn
too close examination of hers.”
J:sli Kiihnxs on rotyrriage.
History holds its tongue, as to who
the pair wus who first put on the silken
harness and promised to work kind to
if, through thick and thin, up hill an 4
down, and on the level, rain or shine,
survive or perish, sink or swim, djowq
nr Ante.
But whoever they wuts; they must
have made a good thing of it, or so ma
ny nl their posterity would hot haft}
harnessed up since and drove out.
There is a great moral grip to maiy
riage; it is the moyter that holds then}
together.
But thepe ain't but few pholks who
put their money in matrimony who
could set down and give a good written
opynun vvhi on arth they come to d|4
it.
This is a grate proof that it is one oj
tlipm oat rah kind ov accidents that
must happen, jest as bir is fly out oy
the pest when they have leathers
enough, without being able to tell why,
Sum may marry fur b ‘ty, and nerey
,| skuver their mistake ; this is lijcky.
Sum uiarry for money, and don’t ge)9
it.
Sum marry be|tf)SQ they have been
! (listed sum where else , ih sis a cros|
[match, a bay and sorrel; pride o}*y
make it endurable.
Sum marry for luv without a cei)s
in their pocket, nor a friend in tl}e
world, nor a jlpop of pedigree. Tfyif
looks desperate, but it is tbe strength
of the game.
[/ m irrying fir luv ain’t a si}oC9S3|
then matrimony is a dead heet.
Sum marry because they think wim
men w II he scarce next year, and live
to wonder h >w the crop holds nyf,.
Sum marry to et rid ov
and diskover that the game wus one
that two could play at, and neither
win.
Sum tparry the second time to get
even, and find it a gambling game—the
more they put down the less they take
up.
Sum junrry. they can’t tel} why, apd
live they can’t tell how.
Almost everybody gets married, toif
it is a good joke.
j Sun marry coqnetts. This is like
buying a poor fnrm heavily mortgaged,
and working the balance ov your
to clear off the mortjra es.
Marri and life has its dinners, and thif
is ju-t what gives it its flavor. Every*
j b"dy loves t > phool with the chances,
bekan j e everybody exnexts to win,—r
Tint T am authorized tew state that ey
ervb dv don’t wip.
t But, after all, married life iz full 9$
certain pz dry goods bizness.
No man can swear exactly inhere he
will fetch up when be touches calico.
f[no uipn kan tell jist what calicp
haz made up its mind tew (Jo next.
Calicv don’t kno cen herself.
Pry goods of all kinds is the child oy
circumstances.
Sum never marry but this iy just a*
risky ; the disease iz the saute, with an*
oilier name fo it.
The man who stands on the banjp
-hivering, and and assent. iz more apt to
ketch cold than him who pitches hi*
head lust into the river.
There j? but few ,who never marry
belt a use they wont—they a'l hanker,
and mo t ov them starve with breas
h-fore them (spread on bo’h sides,)
fir the lack of <: rit.
| Marry young !iz my pmtto.
I have tried it, and I kno\P yvhat f.
am talking nbon/.
Marriage is a safe way tognmble
if yu win, yu win a pile, and if yoyt
'oze. yu don’t loze anything only the
orivilege of living and smally alone, tuxj
soaking your own feet.
There is hut one excuse for a mpr
i ige late in life, and that iz—a see
arriage.
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