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DEVOTED TO NEWS\ POLITICS, LITEBATI)RE t AGRICULTURE AND GENERAL IN ALL THINGS, VOL. XII. j|e. lections. For the Herald. Greenesboro’, Ga., %J}t' l ,r> > I®"'* Editor Herald,— lnclosed please find a communication from the pen of a eit izen of our county and taken from the columns of the Christum Index ft* arguments are so Scriptural and’so very conclusive on the subject of Divorces. et3„ that I must be? that you will give it to the readers of the Herald. In these degenerate days of marital infe •licity, I think its publication will do good, therefore must be? its publican tion. Respectfully, Subscriber. Divorces “A Vinculo Matrimo nii,” Eds. Index.—Seeing that the Con stitutional Convention pr.opoges to en graft into the forthcoming Constitution a provision thft Di.vor.ces shall be ?W --ted only upon tb,e gfounds of adultery. I beg to write firefly of Divorces, gfld separations between husbands and wives. Having been informed that eight or ten petitions for divorces are on file in our clerk's office, and hoping that the reflections I jjiay submit will tend to diminish applications, I ask that you will publish them in the ,columns of your largely .circula ted and deservedly popular paper. This provision touching Divorces is eminently wise. Among the more prom inent of the reasons tffere is this, that God's law from which our State laws are taken, does not very clearly author ize divorces on any grounds whatever ; certainly not upon any other ground save adultery. For proof. I quote,.that Christ in answer -to the question of the Pharisees “Is it lawful for p man to put away his wife for every cause, re pliedas follows- “4,nd be answered and said unto them, -hare ve not read that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female ; for this cause shall a man leave father and mother jtnd shall cleave to his wife, and they twain shall be one flesh. hat, therefore God hath 'lined together let no uipn put asunder ” “Why did Mo ses -then command to give them a wri ting of divorcement and to put her awgy ?” “M jscs, because of the hard ,pess of your hearts, suffered you to put wway your wives. by.t from t,he begin riing it was not so. And I say ujjt you whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be fy,r ,{o.rnicatioo and shall marry another, couimitteth adultery and whosqever marrjeth her which is put away, couimitteth adultery.” Read from 2d to 10th v,qrses of the 19th chapter of Matthew, As Christ is truth, the foregoing quoted Scripture is true, hence another Scriptural argu jpent would be superfluous. But as an .argument non Scri.Rtp.ral, I recite what, yvas published of Adelina Pat ,ti’s application fpr separation of body and goods, diyqrcqs,being unrecognized in the Courts of France. The madarne. your readers will Remember, is the j*reat singer: “Paris, Adg- L —Adoling jPptti’s case has been decided. Both the lady and husband had filed an application fora judicial separation. The mad ame’s applicatiiii was refused, her hus band’s was granted The sentence states that Madame Patti does not bring forward proof of the facts she alleges ; on the other hand, the documents plac ed before the court, particularly the correspondence addressed to her by a third party, shoyv ,t,hat ,her conduct did: the gravest injury,tO;bqr husband. The court therefore pronqpnces against the petition for a separation of (even) body and goods, and condemns,her to pay the costs.” Thus it seems apparent.thpt the learn ed legal minds ol France bold that di yorces, even lor adultery, gre not au thorized by the Bible. Are nqt our dawmakers in the United States as wise as in Frqnce ? Is not the religion ot our eminent and learned divines and that of our people and lawmakers as pure and undefiled ? If so, why not erase the law authorizing divorces, even for the foul crime of adultery from our statutes ? In conclusion, I speak of the separa tion of husbands and wives, and the penalty for advising them. These are usually preceded by isolation and es trangement of love, and succeeded by applications “a vinculo matrimonii.’’ — In some cases the divorce is granted .What’s the cause of these separations 1 •Did they never love, but made vojvs be (iore.the Almighty Jehovah that they ,lljpft broken, for the reason of the np ®bc f&tUMgbota’ HcraliY proaeh of poverty and the dread of the cook-pot and the wash tub ? If so, they never truly loved. How true the old saying, “marry for lqve apd jyork for riches!'’ This done and marriages will never be broken, Gat) it be that the kindred and friends cause these separations ? Wljo could be so cruel and wicked a> to ip.vade, “as a thief in the night” the sacred, peaceful, happy family circle, whilst the dear little off spring “sweetly lie dreaming” nf papa and mama, and poison the cup of bliss hitherto daily sipped in the family now doomed, it mav be, by the separation, to woe in this life and the life that is fn come! Would loving parents advise such separations? Nay parental love forbids, save for the crime of adijltery; brothers and sisters possessing true af fection would revolt at and their hearts sicken at the thought of advising such a separation- These with true friends, would dissuade rather than persuade to a course so suicidal to parents and chil dren. Gould the attorney at law, or any of the aforementioned persons, en courage, for the sake of filthy lucre, personal hate or o:her inducement, such separations ? The array of kinspeople and the breaking of the peace of the communi ty, are the results of such a wicked act, destroying Christian fellowship in the Church, perhaps making outlaws as a consequence . perhaps expulsions from the Church is a further result, a,nd henceforth fho excluded member nr members foyevjr live out of a discharge of their Christian duty, and, it may be are finally lost ! Beware what advice y 0 gi,ye as to the marital relation, it is sacred, “What therefore .Q-od hath joined together let not man put asun der.” is a Scripture injunqtioj). and it must, be obeyed. It can neither be digsu vyd pur bro ken without the paying of the penalty “The retribution is sure.” it may be swift. The broken heart < f the mother the dissipation and death of the father, the rags of the children, together with their cries for bread, may be charged to your account in eternity. The Lord has said “Vengeance is mine and I yviil repay,” W- A. B. Greene county, Ga.. Aug. 27, '77. A DOCTOR'S STORY. lam a doctor I live in London and i,n one of the most crowded (lo calities. I had been i.n my .present p-bode two years, and had never had a pa tient from the more aristocratic circles, when one night, about hailf past eleven, I was startled by a violent ringing at my bell, and hav ing just got to bed after a hard (Jay’s work, I can’t say the sum mons was very agreeable. However, I ran to ray window at once, and thrusting nay head out into the rain, cried, ‘Who is there?’ A voice answered, ‘Only I, Doc tor. It’s an urgent case. Please come down to the door.’ I hurried on some clothes, and sped down .stairs and opened the door- There stppd in fyll light of the hall Ja.cpp, an elderly lady dressed in mourning. She put out the smallest of bands in a fine black k,id glove and said piteously, ‘Ai;e you the doctor?’ ‘Yes,’ ,1 .said. ‘Then come with me,’ said she. ‘Don’t delay. It's life or death Come !’ I hurried on my overcoat, ca.ygh.t up my umbrella and, offering my arm to the old lady, walked dow.n the street with her. ‘You must be my guide, mad am,’ 1 said. ‘I do not know where you live.’ She instantly gave me a street and number that surprised me still more. It was a tolerably aristo cratic quarter of the (pwn. ‘ Who is ill, madam■?’ I inquired, ‘a grown person or a child ?’ ‘A young lady—my daughter,’ she said. ‘Suddenly ?’ ‘Yes, suddenly,’ ajie answered, ‘Do you keep a brougham ? We would have been able to go much faster.’ ‘I keep no conveyance,’ I said. GREENESBORO’, GA., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1877. ‘Perhaps you are poor?’ she I said eagerly.j ‘Certainly not rich,’ I said. ‘Cure her and I’ll make you rich,’ she said, in a sort of sup pressed shriek. Cure her, and J’U give you any thing jqu ask. I don’t care for money. I’m rolling in gold. Cure her, and I’ll shower it on you.’ ‘You are excited, madam,’ I said. ‘Pray be calm.'’ ‘Calm!’ she said —‘calm! but you don’t (tnoyr a mother’s heart !’ We had reached the street she had indicated, and were at the door of ope of its houses. The old la dy ascended the steps, and opened the door with a latchkey. A light burned in the hall ; another one in one of the parlers, the furniture of whjcb was draped and shrouded in white linen. ‘Wait here, sir, 'if you please,’ she said, as she led ipe into one of thes/e. I waited what I thought a most unreasonable time in that gloomy parlor. I began to grow a little nervous, when a stout, short, red faccd woman bustled into the room. ‘I beg your pardon, sir,” she said in a singular tone, such as one who had committed a speech to memory might use; ‘but my mis sus— the lady who brought you here—is very nervous, and need lessly alarmed. She begs your ac ceptance of the customary fee, and there is no ne,sd of y,o,ur s.ervice.’ Thus speaking, she handed me a guinea, eourtesied, and opened the door for me. I bowed, express ed my pleasure that the patient was better, grid departed. It was a queer sort of ad -nture, hut rather amusing than oti ;rwise, besides I had a good fee 1 arose early next morning, and paid a couple of visits before break fast. Returning, to my astonish ment, I found sitting in tny con suiting room the lady of the night before. She rose as 1 entered. ■What tyu&t you think of roe,?’ she said. ,‘lJut no matter. My daughter is very dear to me, and I have heard p,f ypur skill. She is worse again. Can you call some time to-day, as early as possible, at my house V ‘I will be there in an hour,’ I said. I ■ • The lady took out her purse. ‘I am an olff-fashioned woman,’ she said. ‘I retain old-fashioned hub,its. In ray days the doctor re ceived Jus fee on the spot. It was in ordinary cases a guinea. Will you receive it now ?’ I did not know what to say. but she laid the money on the tyble and departed, I ate my breakfast, ynd flaying dressed myself carefully, made my 1 way ty the old lady’s house. I | kn,yoked. The door was opened by .the stout female who had dismissed me the night before ‘The doctor,’ I said by way yf explanation. ‘Ah !’ said she. ‘Has missus: called yp ypu again ?’ ‘Yes,’ I answered. ‘There is no need. I assure you, sir,’ she said. ‘I can’t really ask you in There’s no one ill here. Its a wh,im of missus’. I am a better judge of illoess than she. No need of a dqctor.’ I left the house, of course, part ly in dudgeon, partly in amaze ment. Three weeks passed by, when, ilo ! the old lady came again. She walked into my cpnsulting room, dressed as before, as greatly agitated, as carefully polite, ‘Sir,’ she said, ‘again I trouble you. Mv poor daughter! Come at once.’ ‘Madam,’ l answered, ‘it is a doctor’s duty, as it should be his pleasure, to obey such calls ; but you are aware that I have been sent from your door twice without see- ing the patient. Allow me to ask you a question—are you the mis tress of the hoqse V" ‘lleav.en knows I am,’ said the old lady. ‘I have lived there for forty years. I own it. lam the only person under that roof who has a right to give an order.’ ‘And the person who sent me away V ‘My old servant Margaret.’ ‘Did she do it at yor order V ‘No, sir; it was a piece of pre sumption. But Margaret means well : she loves us.’ ‘Then, madam, if I accompany you I shall see the ‘Assuredly, sir.’ I put on my hat again, and we went out of the house together.— We exchanged very few yvprqls as we walked the streets. At the door of the house the old lady paused. ‘Don’t mind Margaret,’ pbe whis pered. ‘She means well.’ Then she ascended the steps. At the last one the (J° or was opened to us by the vyQrpan f tad seen twice before. ‘The doctor must see my child, Margaret,’ said the ojd lady- Margaret stepped back. ‘Walk in, sir,’ was all she said. The old lady beckoned me to fol low her. I did so. She went up stairs and opened the first door we came to. It was an empty bed room. She closed it with a sigh. The next room into which she led me was also empty. S,o ,v.re all the others. In effect, we visited six apartments, only one of w hich seemed to be regularly ocp- * as* a peeping chamber ; and at last H'e old lady turned to me with a oirange glitter in her eyes. ■ ‘Stolen,’ she said, ‘stolen, some body has stolen my gi,rj. Sir, do von know, I think it must be Sa tan !’ Then a steady step crossed the sill. Margaret came in, and the old lady, bursting into tears, suf fered her to lead her away. As I made my way down stairs, Margaret rejoined me. ‘You understand it now,’she re plied. ‘I do, indeed,’ I said. ‘She had a daughter price,’ said Margaret, ‘and the girl—a pretty creature of sixteen—ran away with a bad man. She came back home one day and begged forgiveness.— Her mother turned her from the house in a fury. It whs night; the rain and hail beat aowu upon the poor thing and the wind buffeted her. There is no knowing what happen ed to her that night; but next morning, she lay dead in the po lice station. Her mother’s ad dress was pinned to her baby’s clothing, and they brought her home. From that day, s.ir, my mistress—who, in her remorse and delirium, called in twenty doctors to bring her dead to life —has always been doing what she hys done tp you. I try to keep the secret generally, but some find it out and others think odd things of us. I thought I yvou’d let you .know the truth. If she contrives to call again to veu, you can al ways,promise to call, and so be rid of her. Pqor soul! she has nobo dy in the world but me npw. She’s pypished for her hardness, at any rate, and you’ll excuse her con duct.’ I bowed. I could say nothing Margaret opened the doer for me and I walked out into (he fresh air. A I looked baok upon the house with all .its elegance, it seemed to have a haunted air, as though the ghost of the poor girl still hovered about. ‘God only knows how many fearful secrets sqcji handsome houses may at times shut in,’ I said to myself, as I turned my back up on it gladly. I have never seen the poor old lady since that hour. Probably Margaret kept too close a watch upon her. Kniissis Rill on Riiuril. The Chicago Times, in an account of the strike, says : When one of the handsome privates of the first regiment was ordered to keep the crowd off the platform of one of the depots the other day, he doubtless thought it was about as easy and peaceful a duty as a soldier could be called upon to perform, Keep ing the crowd off the plat form ! Pshaw, what was easier? And the proud war rior pranced proudly to the place as signed him, and grasping his gun firm ly, to call general attention to the dan gerous weapon, said: “Now, stand back, gentlemen.” A crowd, no matter how peaceably inclined its component members may be, is a rude, impolite, unfeeling thing Friction produces irritation. The most j amiable man in the world is generally a selfish brute in a crowd. This was as obnoxious as any crowd ever is. It failed in the inosjt exasper ating manner to appreciate the dignity of the young soldier’s position. It ab solutely s?cmod to lose sight of the fact that he was there at all. It punched his elbows info It is ribs. It trod on hi toes. It got him somehow inextricably paired up with his gun and cross-belt and cartridge box. lie couldn’t tell exactly which was which. A- long as he couldn’t keep off thq crowd he wish ed from the deepest depths of his heart that the crowd would keep off him.— Once in awhile a piping voice could be heard coming somewhere from the struggling mass of heads, elbows and shoulders saying : “Now, gentlemen, you must stand back. I’ve got orders to keep you back.” jf lie .train of which were the regulars, whom the crowd was waiting to see, ar rived jus(. as the big bunion of the sol dier’s left * foot had exploded under a crushing pressure, and just as he was contemplating the expediency of trying, the effect of a shot into the crowd. The hardy, sun-br .nzed veterans fil ed off t,he .train and foil into line with military dispatch and precision. “The men there don’t seem to mind your guard much,” said the captain to one of the officers of the road. “No,’’ the latter responded reluctantly, “Send Kansas Bill here,” said the captain of the regulars to an orderly. “Kansas Bill,” a big mountain-hard ened Indian fighter, with tawny, strag gling beard and long yellow locks, ala poets of the Sierras, came forward a; moment afterward and touched his cap. “Bill.” “Yaas, sir,” with another touch of his cap, “Bill, go up there and keep .the crowd off the platform. “Yaas, sij.” Kansas Bill hitched up his breeches, whipped out a bayonet from Us sheath and fastened it on his gun with more racket than a company of militia could make. Kansas Bill had been used to rough ways. He had .fought Indians out West so long that he had forgotten all the soft ways he ever knew, if, indeed, he e,ver knew any. He didn’t say. •‘■Now, gentlemen, move off.” Oh, no. Fie said, in a coarse, uncultured voice, “Get out o’ here, get out o’ here, get out o’ here’or I’ll grease my sticker with ye. Do ye hear, now? Take that, take that,” and during these ejac ulations began swinging .that boyonet around in such a wild and utterly reek less manner that the mob rapidly made way for him. Then he turned around and gave several departing loafers a savage prod. Then he grabbed his gun by the stock, brought it to a right shoulder shift, and when he had finish ed this performance, he shifted his quid to the other side of his month, ex pectorated gleefully, and had the entire platform to himself. The A ill* list a Hotel, ritllE undersigned having leased the I. above well known Hotel properly 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, 1870-lj THE HERALD. TERMS. SUESCRirrrON $?.00 a year; for six months, and 1!i cents for three months, in advance. A DVERTISEMEA TS inserted at SI.OO an inc. for the first insertion, and 50 cents cacli subsequent insertion. Adver tising bills are due after first inser tion ; transient advertising payable in advance. OBITUARY NOTICES restricted to Ten lines, all in excess of that amount will be charged at regular advertising rates. NOTICE?! in Local Column inserted at Tei) cents per line for every insertion. PERSONAE MATTER, 50 cents per line, each insertion. ANNOUNCEMENT of Candidates $5.00 —invariably in advance. LIBERAL T.RRMS made with those ad vertising by the year. Xewspper The following is the Law, ns it stands, in reference to newspapers and subscribers : 1. Subscribers who do not give express no tice to the contrary, arc considered wishing to continue their subscription. 2. If subscribers order the discontinuance of their peridicals, the publishers may continue to send them until all arrear ages are paid. 8. If subscribers neglect or refuse to take their periodicals from Uie office to which they are directed, they are held responsible until they have settled their hills, and ordered them discon tinued. 4. If subscribers movo to other places without informing the publishers, and the papers are sent to the former direc tion, they arc held responsible. 5. The Courts have decided, that “refusing to take periodicals from the office, or removing and leaving them uncalled for, is prima faeie evidence of inten tional fraud.” Pi. Any person who receives a newspaper and makes use of it, whether he has ordered it or not, is held in law to be a subscriber 7. If subscribers pay in advance, tliey are bound to give notice to the publisher, at the end of their lime, 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 all arrearages, is sent to the pnblislier. City and County Directory. rOIJXTI OFFICERS. JOEL F. THORNTON, Ordinary. J. HENRY ENGLISH, Sheriff. ISAAC R. HALL, Clerk Superior Court ■T. H. WYNN, Treasurer. MILES G. COPELAN, Tax Collector. JUDGE IIILSMAN, Tax Receiver. J. F. WRIGHT, County Surveyor- ROSWELL HURLBURT, Coroner. PHILIP B. ROBINSON, Judge of the County Court. CJTI (OlVdlv, ,Wm. M. WEAVFR, Mayor. Aldermen —Wm. 11. Branch, John A. Griffin, John A. Barnhart, M. Mark waller. John W. Stone, Marshal. A- Griffin, Clerk and Treasurer. Liintciiix BAPTIST— Services Ist, 2d and 4th Sab baths. Rev. C. 11. Strickland, Pastor. Sabbath School every Sunday at !l o’clock a. am.—W. 11. Branch, Superintendent. Prayer meeting every Wednesday even ing, 7 p. m. 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. tn. —J. H. Wood, Superintendent. Prayer meeting every Tuesday evening, 7 p. m. EPISCOPAL —Services Ist, 2d and 3d Sabbaths. Rev. Joshua Knowles, Rector. MAHOXII. San Marino Lodge meets 4 lst Friday night in each month. Royal Arch Chapter meets 3rd Friday night in each month. Ai OOi> TIBI FI. V us. Greenssboro’ Lodge, No. 320, Indepen dent Order Good Templars, meets at Odd Fellow’s Hall every Friday night. ol Trains! ill loro’ DAY PASSENGER TRAIN. From Augusta, . . • 12:36 P M I'iom Atlanta, . . . 1:15 PM. NIGHT PASSENGER TRAIN. From Atlanta • . . 3:21 A. M. From Augusta, . . . 1:06 A. M. Dec. 16 11. IT. KING, Agent. I BUSINESS CARDS. Wm. H. Branch, ATTORNEY AT LAW. CONTINUES to give his undivided niton > 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 con', tinuance of the same. flCjy*Office over Drug Store of Messrs. 11. Torbert & Cos. Greenesbnro’ Jan 1, 187(1—1v. M. W. LEWIS } H. G. LEWIS. HI. 11. Lewis & s<siis, Attorneys at Law, GKKE\EIU4>I(OI T n, - G.t, april 8,1875—1 y Philip 13. Robinson, Attorney at Law, GREEpSBORQ’. . . . GA. W LL give prompt attention to business entrusted to his professional care. Feb. 20, 1873—Urns \\. U. LHIPKIN. ATTORNEY AT LAW , I!.\IOA POINT, - - 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'.' jnn23 ’74 —ly. Etr, Win. Morgan, RESIDENT DENTIST GREENE SB OR O’, GA. feb. 1, 1874. JAMES B. PARK, XTB3"2T AND— COUNSELOR AT L4W, GREENESBORO', - - - GA. WUAi give prompt attention to all bu siness intrusted to bis professional care, in the Counties of Greene, Morgan, Putnam, Baldwin, Hancock and Taliaferro. OT’Ofllce—With Hon. Philip B. Hob inson. april 8,1875 —6ms The National Bank of Augusta. riHIIS BANK is prepnred to lease small SAFES inside its Finn proof vault, at moderate rates, for the reception of Bonds, Securities, Deeds, Legal Docu*. ments, Plate, Coin, Jewelry, and valuables of every description. G. M. TIf,EW, Feb. 17, 1876—tf Cashier. CYIII S MOORE, AND HAIR SHU NS S R. removed his Shop to the front room ever Storey & Bros., where he will pleased to serve the public. May 1!, 1376—tf a. jTMSSeST Attorney and Counselor at Law U ItIIEMISBOKA’, GA„ I)ROMPT attention given to all intrusted to his professional care. September 8, 1876—tf f THE CITY Drug Storl PURE DRUGS, iff Chemicals, Meat Medicines NEW STYLES LAMP GOODS. WINDOW GLASS ALL SIZES. WHITE LEAD, OIL. COLORS, AND GARNISHES. FANCY SOAPS AND PER FUMERY. FULL LINE FLAVORING EXTRACTS. For sale by John A. Griffin. OSTTliysicians’ prescriptions careful $ dispensed. april 13, 18"6-ly Central Hotel, BY Mi t. W. JI. THOJIAB, AbGLS r*l f G\t ' Jan. 21—ly. NO. 37