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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. THE HERALD. TEKMS. 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If subscribers order the discontinuance of their peridicals, 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 which they are directed, they are held responsible until they have settled their bills, and ordered them discon tinued. 4. If subscribers move to other places without informing the publishers, and the papers are sent to the former direc tion, they are held responsible. 5. The Courts have decided, that “refusing to take periodicals from the office, or removing and leaving them uncalled for, is prima fane evidence of inten tional fraud.” 0. Any person who receives a newspaper and makes use of it, whether lie lias ordered 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 not wish to continue taking it ; otherwise the-publisher is authorized to send it on, and the subscribers will be respon sible until an express notice, with pay ment of ail arrearages, is sent to the publisher. 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. 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It is therefore recommended for ÜBe in tbe Laundry, Kitchen and Bat it doom, and for general household purposes; also for Priuters, Painters, Engin eers, and machinists, as it will re-., move spets of Ink, Grease, Tar, Oil, Paint, etc., from tbe bands. " ?' !i, The Huntington Monitor of April sth, 1877. pronounces this Soap tbe best in tbe market, as follows: ‘■Reader, we don’t want you to suppose that this is an advertisement, and pass it. over unheeded. Read it. We want to di rect your attention to the advertisement of ‘‘Crampton’s Imperial Soap,’’ Having used it in our offioe for the past year, we can recommend it as ‘lie best quality of soap in use. It is a rare thing to get a Soap that will thoroughly cleanse printing ink from the hands, also from linen ; but Crampton’s laundry soap will do it, and we know whereof we speak. 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Return mail will bring the first nfimher. Tiany dollars value is often wasted Kre the best practice is discovered, and Remember the Sd/KNTmc Farjjkr saves and earns money to the careful reader. Address, SCIENTIFIC FARMER CO. . , Boston, Mass Eive copies 75 cents each. $ 1,000 CASH f TO BE INVESTED IN REAL ESTATE f I AND near either one of the following _j towns, preferred : Union Point. Greonestoro, Madison, Social Circle oi Covington. Apply to Herald Olltee.' 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 ferrp. Jno. Tliad. Johnson, A. W. Calhoun J. 11. Logan, J. ,T. Banks. Demonsiratoi of Anatomy—C. W. Nutting. Send for Announcement, giving full in formation. JNO. TIIAD- July 20, 1877—1 m Draft. NO. 35