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iTljc tSmncslioni’ rlcntUY DEVOTED TO NEWS, POL VOL. X. @l $ Jp* $ f lIS if 4 89 Ott a 1 ear in Advance. J. V. PA ltK, - - Proprietor. IV. M. WEAVISK. - - Editor. BUSINESS CARDS. M. W. LEWIS )• •{ H. G. LEWIS. M. W. Lewis & Son, Aittrneyg at haw, GREEKESICOHOICiII, - GA. april 8, 1875-ly Philip B. Robinson, Attorney at Law, GREENESBORO’. . . . GA. give prompt attention to business entrusted to his professional care. Feb. 20, 1873—finis' H. E. W. PALMER; Attorney at Law, GREE.\GiKOItO*, - - - GA. ALL business intrusted to him will re ceive personal attention. ggyOFFlCE—(With Judge Heard,) in the Court-House, where he can be found during business hours. 0ct,15,’74-tf Wm, H. Branch, A TTORNE Y AT LA W. GRLGNKNRORO’. CA. I CONTINUES to give his undivided alten i J tion to the practice of his Profession. Returning thanks to his clients for their encouragement in the past; lie hopes,by ilose application to business to merit a con tinuance of the same. over Drug Store of Messrs. B. Torbert & Cos. Greenesboro’ Jan 16th 1874—1 y. JAMES B. PARK, Z.T IH3 "31" AND— COUNSELOR KT UW, GREENESBORO', - - - GA. WILL give prompt attention to all bu siness intrusted to his professional care, in the Counties of Greene. Morgan, Putnam, Baldwin, Hancock and Taliaferro. CtyOaice—With Hon. Philip B. Rob inson. april 8, ISlS—6ms wT w. lijFp ki & ATTORNEY AT LAW, UNION POINT, - - Oh OFFERS his professional services to the people of Greene and adjoining coun ties, and hopes, by close attention to busi siness to merit and receive a liberal share of patronage. jan23 ’74—ly. Sir. Wm. Morgan, RESIDENT DENTIST GREENESBORO', GA. feb. 1, 1874. Medical Card. Dps. BODKIN & HOLT, H AVING associated themselves in the Practice of Medicine, respectfully tender their services to the citizens of Greenes boro’ and surrounding country. March 4, 1875—tf CENTRAL HOTEL. BY Mrs. W, M. THOMAS, ALG LaS TA, Gw Jan. 21—Ty. T. Markwaiter, Marble Works^ BROAD Street, AUGUSTA, Ga. MARBLE Monumen s, Tomb-stones> Marble Mantles, and Furniture Mar ble of all kinds, from the plainest to the most elaborate, designed and furnished to etrdeg at short notice. AJI work for the country carefully boxed. n0v2,1571 —tf JEWELRY! WISHING to devote myself entirely to the legitimate business of Clock and Watch Repairing, from this date. I of fer my entire Stock of Watches nod Jewel ry at cost, finding that it interferes too much with the business I prefer. M. fIAKKH AI.TEK, Greenesboro', Ga., Sept. 24, 1874-tf Samroß <r/erMoetfei£. PURE MS, AND Cliem iols, PATENT MEDICIES, FINE PERFUMERY, TOILET ARTICLES, WIl- DOW GLASS, all sizes, LAM’S and LANTERNS. K CIST'S GARRIA KEROSENE OIL, WHITE LEAD, Colors, Lli- SEED OIL, BRUSHES, fee., For sale by John A. (uriflii. KTThysicians’ areftqly dispensed, april 8, 18 5-ly ALFRED Shlw KEEPS constantly on hand in Q-eenes boro’ and Madison, a full asst-tment of ROSEWOOD and MAUOGANT and imitations of the same. Also, META laid CASKETS, of all grades. In beauty, durability and price, these Cases and Caskets will compare favorably with any tobe found elsewhere. C. C. NORTON Is our authorized Agent at Greenesboro’. NOTE.—AII persons indebted for past purebt ses, are requested to come forward and st tie their bills ALFRED SHAW. • i 18, 1875—3 ms THE ‘MATCHLESS’ BDRDETT ORGAN? ARE MADE AT JErie, Penn. IlgfSend to the Burdett Organ Company, Erie, PennsylvatA, for Circulars. “IS®. april 8, 1875 —6ms "©a m* : mr : COURT : :AVENUE SALOON!: (rear Hall & Co.’s.,) ;•••• : Greenesboro’, Cla., : I John P. Cartwright, Frop’r.: respectfully announce to friends and the public generally that I have just opened the finest Saloon in this city. My bar is supplied with the finest pure do mestic and imported Whiskies, ISrainlies, GINS, WINES AND LIQUORS OF EVERY VARIETY, AND CHOICE CIGARS. FRESII LAGER RECEIVED DAILY. ICE ALWAYS ON HAND. The patronageof the public is solicited, may 20th, 1875-yl J P Cartwright Soda-Water! SI WIN.; just received one of Join Matthews’latest improved Patent Lapland Soda-Water Apparatus, I am now prepar ed to furnish pure Ice-cold Soda-Water, with flue syrups of various flavors. HI cents—S. per dozen. •fofin A. <rif!in. May 20, 1875—tf Notice to Debtors and Creditors. ALL PERSONS INDEBTED TO THE estate of John Armstrong, deceased, are notified to make immediate payment and thoee having claims against said de ceased, will present them to me duly authenticated. JAMES R. SANDERS, Admin r. August 2d, 1875*5 IC S, LITERATURE, AGRICULTURE AND GENERAL PROGRESS -INDEPENDENT IN AIL THINGS. GREENESBORO’, GA., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1875. '% m 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. - We le*trn bv wh:it we ?uffci NO. 40