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DEV&TEB TQ NEWS, POLITICS, LITERATI)RE, AGRICULTURE AND GENERAL PROGRESS—INDEPENDENT IN Alh THINGS •
VOL. XII.
j| elections ♦
The Truthful Pilot.
[Vicksburg Herald.]
The passenger, who was going down
the big river for the first time in his
life, secured permission to climb up be
side the pilot, a grim old grayback who
never told a lie in his life.
‘•Many alligators in this river?” in
quired the stranger, after a look around
‘ Not so many now, s'nce they got to
shootin’ ’em for their hide and taller,
was the reply.
“Used to be lots, eh ?”
“I don’t want to tell you about ’em,
stranger,” replied the pilot, sighing
heavily.
“Why ?”
“’Cause you’d think I was a lytn to
you, and that’s sumthin t never do. 1
kin cheat at keerds, drink whisky or
ehaw poor terbacker, but I can t lie.
“Then there used to be tots of ’em?”
inquired the passenger
“I’m most afraid to tell you, mister,
but I’ve counted ’leven hundred alyga
ters to the mile from Vieusburg cl or
to New Orleans ! That was years ago.
afore a shot was ever tired at 'em."
“Well, I don't doubt i:,” replied tie
stranger.
“And I’ve counted 3.459 ol ’em on
one sandbar,” continued the p lot, “it
looks big to tell, but a government sur
veyor was aboard, and he checked cm
off as l called out.”
“I haven’t the least doubt ■ fit said
the passenger, as he heaved a sigh.
“I’m glad o’ that stranger. Some
fellers would think I was a liar, when
I’m telling the solemn truth. This
used to be a paradise for alligators and
they were so thick that the wheel ■ t
the boat killed an average of f.r.y ..in
to the mile.’’
j “Is that so ?”
“True as gospel, mister; I used to
almost feci sorry for the cussed brutes,
’cause they’d cry out e’enamost like a
human being. \N e killed lots of cm.
as I said, and we hurt a pile more I
sailed with one captain who alius car
ried a thousand bottles of liniment to
throw over to the wounded ones.
“He did ?”
4 True as you live, he did. I don t
’spect I’ll ever see another such a kind
Christian man And the aliygateo gnt
to know the Nancy Jane, and to ko w
Captain Tom, and they’d swim out and
rub their tails agin the boat an purr
like cats an’ look up and try to
smile!”
‘They would?’
•Solemn truth, stranger. And on--e
when we grounded on a bar, with an
opposition boat right behind, the oily
gaters gathered around got under her
stern, and humped her clean over the
bar by a grand push ! It looks like a
big story, but I never told a lie yet
and I never shall. I wouldn’t lie for
all the money you could put aboard this
boat.'
There was a painful pause, and after
a while the pilot continued :
‘Our injines gin out once, and n
crowd of allygalers took a tow line and
hauled us forty-five miles up stream t
Vicksburg!’
‘They did V
‘And when the news got along the
river that Captain Tom was dead every
allygater in the river daubed his lelt
ear with black mud as a badgi of
mournin’, and lots of ’em pined away
and died !’
The passenger left the pilot house
with the remark that he didn’t doubt
the statement, but the old man gave the
wheel a turn and replied :
‘ 'Thar’s one thing I won’t do for
love oar money, and that’s make a liar
of myself. 1 was brung up by a good
mother, and I’m going to stick to the
truth if this boat doesn't make a cent.’
All Men Despise a Craven.
It is not surprising that the South
are outraged and disgusted by the per
formances of the supple Key daring
the New England trip of the Fraudu
lent President. We assure them that
the feeling of the North is not different.
This wretched craven is playing the
jtart of a whipped spaniel, as if he lik
id the business. Ho takes the patron
iziog of Hayes with canine humility ;
just as ho greedily devoured the tidbit,
in the way of lucrative office, thrown
(firccncsbotci’ Hrraii
him by the same man. whose light to
his office he had denounced.
The bitterest wars waged are civil
wars, but they have this advantage
over those fought between foreign peo
pies: When they are over, and the
breach is healed—as it must eventually
be healed—both parties to the contest
enjoy as a common heritage the valor
displayed by each in the regretted strife,
The victor always despises craven sub
mission in the vanquished ; and the
conquered accepts the terms of the suc
cessful party without humiliation. He
has tried, and he has failed.
In the case of this cra n eD Key. there
is no need—except the need of bread
and butter—for his lying down in the
dust to be spit upon, since he h s all
the rights and privileges of any other
American citizen. No Northern man
asks him to put on sackcloth and ashes;
for unless he was a hypocrite, he fought
in the war only for what he thought
was just and right ; and ho has do oc
casion to be ashamed of having done
what he did. wrong, unrepublioan, un
wise, and unpatriotic though we think
it.
We should have a poor opinion of
the South if we thought this bread and
hutter Key represented them. But we
know differently, and that like all hon
est citizens, no l blinded by partisanship,
they hate fraud and believe that the
President elected by the people, and
no other man, should be the President
of the people —[New York Sun.
-• i‘
C'lieap Uirls.
A girl who makes herselt too cheap
is to be avoided. Young men care not
to have anything to do with a cheap
girl only for amusement, and never for
i wife. Cheap girls are nothing bit l
the refuse, and ih** young men know it,
and they will look in every other di
rection for a life long friend and com
paDion before they will give a glance at
the pinchback stuff that tinkles at eve
ry turn for fascinating the eye of any
that will look. You thiuk it quite th->
“correct thing” to talk loudly and
coarsely, be boisterous and h lydenish
iri all public places, to make \ oirsell so
bold and foiward and commonplace, sv
erywhere, that people wonder if you
ever had a home or mother, or any
thing to do. So be it. You will pro
bohly he taken f‘*r what you arc worth,
and one of these years, if you don’t
uiak’- worse than a shipwreck of your
self you wi i begin to wonder where the
charms are that once you thought
yourself possessed of, what evil spirit
could have so befooled you Go on,
but remember, cheap girls attract uo
budy but simpletons.—[Ex.
Iler Papa’s Grave.
[Fulton (111 ) Times ]
A little girl, with tangleJ locks
peeping from under a calico hood,
clad in a dress of chintz hat hung
all awry, loitered behind as the
great, dusty crowd moved out of the
gates of Mt. Adna the other day.
after they had scattered their flow
ers and done honor to the dead.—
Dreamily she gazed after them,her
eyes filled with a far-away look of
tenderness, until the last one had
disappeared and the rattle of drums
had died away. Then sho turned
atid vaguely scanned the mounds
that rose about her, clutching still
tighter the last adiug hunch of
dandelions and grave-g r ass that her
chubby hand held.
An old man passed by and gent
lv patted her curly head, as he
spoke her name,but she only shrank
back still further, and when he told
a passing stranger that the little
one’s father was one who went on a
battle field and never came hack,
there was only a iear-drop in the
child's eye to tell that she heard
or knew the story.
When they were gone she mov
ed on further to a neglected,empty
lot, and, kneeling down, she pack
ed up a mound of earth, whisper
ing as she patted it down and
smoothed it with her chubby hand :
“This won’t be so awfully big ns
the others, I guess, but mayle it’ll
bo big enough se that God will see
it. and think that papa is buried
here.”
GREENESBORO’, GA., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1877.
Carefully she trimmed the sides
with the stray grasses she plucked,
murmuring on :
“And maybe it will!grow so that
it will be liko the rest in two or
three yoars ; and then maybe papa
will some time comeback and ’’
But she paused as though it sud
denly dawned upon her young
mind that he rested where the
Southern breezes whisper “un
known,” and the tear-drop 9 that
sprang to her eyes moistened the
little bunch of dandelions that she
planted among the grasses on the
mound she had reared.
When the sexton passed that way
at night as he wont to close the
gates, he found the little one fast
asleep, witn her head pillowed on
the mound, and when he roused
her she started up and looking
dreamily around her for a moment,
and then smilingly faltered :
“Yes, I’ll go home now, for God
says He will watch papa’s grave.”
When to Make Pork.
[National Live Stock Journal ]
Don’t forgot that warm weather
is the time to make pork. There
is but little profit in feeding hogs,
so far as pork making is concerned,
when the thermometer is down to
zero. Remember this fact and
commence feeding early. Ilogs
that are to bo marketed this year,
ought now to be in fair condition,
and should be fed unsparingly from
this on until they are ready for
the market. The great mass of
Western farmers rely entirely upon
our great staple—corn—for a fat
tening food ; and certainly there is
nothing that equals it for this pur
pose With a large majority of
feeders, and the growing crop is
depended upon to fit the hogs now
on hand for the market; and, when
this is the case, they should com
mence just as soon as the corn is
hard enough to be of service. But
when there is a sufficient quantity
of old corn on hand, it will be
found more profitable to continue
its use until the new crop is thor
oughly ripened. If the hogs tire
of it in its hard, dry form, it will
be found profitable to shell it from
tbe cob, and then soak it—say
about t y elve hours—before feeding,
for a few days, and then return to
the dry corn. The great secret of
successful pork making lies in keep
ing the appetite of the heg in good
condition, then supplying it plen
tifully with corn, and making your
pork be ore the advent of cold
weather
Jiiilgc Pitman's Lamb.
[Philadelphia Bulletin ]
A short time ago, Judge Pitman
'bought a pet lamb for his little
.children tolplay with. It was a
pretty good-sized lamb, and strong
| and vigorous, but the Judge said
he preferred that kind, because the
: children would be less likely to hurt
it. On the day that it came home
they turned it out into the front
vard, where i: strayed about nib
bling the grass, while the Judge
tied up his geraniums. Mrs. Pit-
man had the children in the house,
and she was reading to them from
a book a description of the "char
acteristics of lambs. The account
said that : “The lamb is one of the
most playful and innocent of ani
mals. So kind and meek is it that
its name has for centuries been the
synonym of gentleness and sweet
ness of disposition. It never in
jures anyone, and when it is at
tacked it always suffers humbly
and in silence. There is something
so beautiful about the gentle little
animal, that ”
Just at this point Mrs. Pitman
was interrupted by the voice of the
Judge coming from the front yard
It sounded as if he were in distress
of some kind The whole family
flew out npon the porch and there
they saw that pet lamb, whose name
was the synonym of gentleness, en
gaged in butting the Judge. It
would butt him in the rear and
knock him over, and then it would
butt him on the logs and batter
him on the ribs, and plunge its
head into his stomach, and jam its
skull against his chest. When he
rose it butted his shins, and when he
stooped over to rub them it butted
his head. Then it butted him gen
erally whenever a chance present
ed itself; and when it had doubled
the Judge all up under the Norway
maple, it butted down three rose
bushes, butted a plaster garden
vase to fragments, butted two pa
lings off the fence and danced off
down the street butting at the tree
boxes, the hitching.posts and the
northwest wind.
Mr. Potter finally knocked it on
the head with a club, and brought
it home to the Judge, and subse
quently, when they had the hind
leg for dinner, the Judge observed
to Mrs. Pitman that from the man
ner in which that lamb cut, he
should believe that it was born dur
ing the war of 1812, and that it
was, in fact a terrific old ram.—
Then he said he should go down
and see the man who sold it to him
far a lamb and bang him with a
club. The Pitman children stick
to kittens as regular pets.
A Brave Little Hiss.
Rosie Cotterman, aged ten, a
little German girl of Bloomington,
Illinois, bravely stood in the way
of an infuriated cow till she had put
four or five smaller children over a
fence. Her clothing was almost
ripped from her and she was badly
bruised, but the Mayor and police
force, as they descended from the
lamp posts and telegraph poles,
were loud in praise of her courage
A waiter advertising tor a situa
tion says he can “fold napkins in
three hundred different ways,” but
what the boarding community
wants most jest now is a waiter
who c an carry a dish of soup without
soaking the first joint of his thumb
in it.
Years ago, when a painter want
ed to depict wholesale anguish he
went for inspiration to the place
where criminals were tortured to
death ; but now he finds a better
and more convenient subject in the
young man in the front seat at the
theater whose tall collar has be
come unbuttoned bohind.- -St. Louis
Republican.
He had a very promising boil be
tween the shoulder blades, and his
wife, who was young and beautiful,
and could play on the harp, but
hadn’t nursed u uch in the hospit
als, put a mustard plaster on it.—
A lawyer subsequently explained
to him that didn’t grant di
vorces for such causes in this state.
Brooklyn Argus.
—————— ' 'a
John A. McWhorter,
Attorney at La w
GREENESBORO’, - - GA.
,ff@~Collection of Claims a Specialty.
January 11, 1877.
The Augusta Hotel.
fPIIE undersigned having leased the
I_ above well known Hotel property on
Broad Street, AUGUSTA, Ga., has thor
oughly refitted, refurnished, and enlarged
the building and opened it for the recep
tion of guests.
Long experience and ample facilities
warrant him in guaranteeing satisfaction
to all who favor the house with their pa
tronage.
Give the old Augnsta Hotel a trial.
C. R. WHEELOCK, Proprietor.
December 15, 1876-ly
Central Hotel,
BY
Mrs. W. M. THOMAS,
AUGUSTA, Ga-
Jan. ‘Jl—Ty.
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City and County Directory.
COUNTY OFFICEItS.
JOEL F. THORNTON, Ordinary.
J. HENRY ENGLISH, Sheriff.
ISAAC R. IIALL, Clerk Superior Court
J. 11. WYNN, Treasurer.
MILES G. COPELAN, Tax Colleotor.
JUDGE HILSMAN, Tax Receiver.
J. F. WIIIGHT, County Surveyor-
ROSWELL HURLBURT, Coroner.
PHILIP B. ROBINSON, Judge of the
County Court.
CITY COUNCIL.
\Vm. M. WEAVER, Mayor.
Aldermen —Wm. H. Brauch,
John A. Griffin,
John A. Barnhart,
M. Markwalter.
John W. Stone, Marshal.
J. A. Griffin, Clerk and Treasurer.
CHURCHES.
BAPTIST —Services Ist, 2d and 4th Sab
baths. Rev. C. IT. Strickland, Pastor.
Sabbath School every Sunday at 9 o’clock
a. am.—W. H. Branch, Superintendent.
Prayer meeting every Wednesday even
ing, 7 p. ra.
PRESBYTERIAN— Services every 3rd
Sabbath. Rev. J. N. Bradshaw, Pastor.
METHODIST —Services every 4th Sab
bath. Rev. W T. Hamilton, Pastor.
Sabbath School 21 o'clock, p. in.—J. 11.
Wood, Superintendent. Prayer meeting
every Tuesday evening, 7 p. no.
EPISCOPAL —Services Ist, 2d ami 3d
Sabbaths. Rev. Joshua Knowles, Rector.
MASONIC.
San Marino Lodge meets ’lst Friday
night in each month.
Royal Arch Chapter meets 3rd Friday
night in each month.
COOH TenPLIICS.
Greeujsboro’ Lodge, No. 320, Indepen
dent Order Good Templars, meets at Odd
Fellow’s Hall every Friday night.
Arrival ol Train* at it*cn<‘*t
boro* Depot.
DAY PASSENGER TRAIN.
From Augusta, . . . 12:36 P M
Kiom Atlanta, . . . 1:15 PM.
NIGHT PASSENGER TRAIN.
From Atlanta • . . 3:2 1 A- M.
From Augusta, . . . 1:06 A. M.
Dee. 16 H. 11. KING, Agent.
business; cards.
Wm. H. Branch,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
GA.
CONTINUES to give his undivided altcn
tion to the practice of his Profession.
Returning thanks to his clients for their
encouragement in the past, he hopes by
■dose application to business to merit a con
tinuance of the same.
Office over Drug Store of Messrs. D.
Torbert & Cos.
Greencsboro’ Jan 1,1876 —1 v.
M, \V. LEWIS ) H. G. LEWIS.
Jl. \\. Lewis & Sons,
AtHimys at Law,
GREFA’EiUOROCCin, - GA.
april 8, 1875—1 y
Philip B. Robinson,
Attorney at Law,
GREENESBORO’. . . . GA
VV ILL give prompt attention to business
entrusted to his professional care.
Feb. 20, 1873—6 ms
W. f. LUMPKIN.
A TTORNEY A T LA IF,
UNION POINT, • - Ga
OFFERS his professional services to the
people of Greene and adjoining coun
ties. aud hopes, by close attention to busi
siness to merit and receive a libera) share of
patronage. jan23 ’74— ly.
Or. Him. Morgan,
RESIDENT
GREENE SB OR O', GA.
feb. 1, 1874.
J AMES B. PARK,
ZL7" IS3 "27
AND—
COUNSELORAT LAW,
GREENESBORO', - - - GA.
WILL give prompt attention to all bu
siness intrusted to his professional
care, in tlie Counties of Greene, Morgan,
Putnam, Baldwin, Hancock and Taliaferro.
Office—With lion. Philip B. Rob
inson. april 8,1875 —6ms
The National Bank of Augusta.
s.ifje isoyi:*.
rpHIS BANK is prepared to lease small
I. SAFES inside its fire proof vault,
at, moderate rates, for the reception of
Bonds, Securities, Deeds, Legal Docu
ments, Plate, Coin, Jewelry, aud valuables
of every description. G. M. THEW,
Feb. 17, 1876—tf Cashier.
CYRUS MOORE,
BARBER
IIAIR DRESSER.
HAS removed his Shop to the front room
ever Storey & Bros., where he will he
pleased to serve the public.
May 1!, 1370—tf
A. J. SIIAVYOV,
Attorney and Counselor at Law
CKEEYESItOKO’, <iA„
PROMPT attention given to all business
intrusted to hi professional care.
September 8, 1876—1 ff
THE (TTY
Drub XtorE
PURE DRUGS,
(iMllliculs.
Patent Medicines,
NEW STYLES LAMP GOODS.
WINDOW GLASS ALL SIZES.
WHITE LEAD, OIL. COLORS,
AND VARNISHES.
FANCY SOAPS AND PER
FUMERY.
FULL LINE FLAVORING
EXTRACTS.
Kor sale by
John A. Griffin.
KT-Physicians' prescriptions carefully
dispensed. april 13, 1876-ly
Stolen.
I7MIOM my premises on Wednesday night
a black mare mule with a mouse col
ored nose, a white spot on her back, and
t\ie letter “M” branded on her left shoulder.
Any information in regard to her where
abouts will be thankfully received.
JAMES CHANNEL.
March 30th, T877-H'.
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Aug. 13, 1877—1 y Portland, J/aine. ,
Scientific Farmer.
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Greenesboro’, Ga„ June 8, 1877—tf.
Atlanta Medical College.
ATLANTA, GA.
The Twentieth Annual Course of Lec
tures will commence October 15th, IB7i
and close March Ist. 1878.
Faculty —J. G,. Westmoreland, W. F
Westmoreland, W. A. Love, V. H. Ta 11a
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J. 11. Logan, J. ,T. Banks. Demonsiratoi
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July 20, 1877—1 m Draft.
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