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ATTORNEI AT LAW,
SPARTA. HANCOCK CO., GA„
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Attorneys & Counselors at Law,
GREENESBORO’, - - GA.
of Claims a Specialty.
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GREENESBORO'. . . . GA
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GREENESBORO', GA.
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Counties of Greene, Morgan, Hancock,
Oglethorpe,Clark, McDuffie and Richmond.
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March, 21, 1878—ly.
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UNION POINT, - - Ga
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people of Greene and adjoining coun
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SPARTA, GA.
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Augusta i . - * - Qa,
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CHURCHES.
BAPTlST— Services Ist, 2d and 4th Sab
baths. Rev. 11. D. D. Straton, Pastor.
Sabbath School every Sunday at 9 o’clock
a. am.—W, H. Branch, Superintendent.
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MASONIC.
San Marino Lodge jpeets {lst Friday
night in each month.
Royal Arch Chapter meets 3rd Eriday
night in each month.
coon run FLAKS.
Greencsboro’ Lodge, No. 320, Indepen
dent Order Good Templars, meets at Odd
Fellow’s Hall every Friday night.
best pickling vinegar
at' " B. W. Allen’s
Schcfiics IndepeiMlentN.
Wc have already alluded to a matter
which we notice is attracting some at
tention in other quarters. This is that
a certain individqal in roorgia has
written a letter to Postmaster General
Key, stating that ho i- desirous of
starting an or_,au in the capital city of
the State, which shall have,for its ob
ject the doing battle with tlic “Bour
bon Democracy,” and establishing a
new “Independent Domo ratio” party
in opposition to the Old Guard, and he
naively asks how much t'yoncy the ad
ministration will give tc- aid him in
his undertaking.
We do not for an instant imagine
that the people of can be so
blind as not ft) see at once through such
a flimsy effort, as this would prove to
be, to revive Radicalism in our midst.
What does this seeker affrr help, aid
and assistance from the administration
mean by the “Bourbon Democracy ?”
He alludes to the Democratic party
which, in the halls of Congress, or. the
stump, through the press, and on every
opportunity, has assailed Radicalism,its
rings, its tyranny, its general infamy
and corruption —which lias fought
the battles of the South when Radical
ism would have held our section either
pinned down upon the points of bayo
nets, or firmly bourn] itj the chains
fastened upon us by force bills and
military power. Which not only re
deemed the State from an army of
Radical carpet-baggers hut thieves,and
which has given to the South to-day
freedom and home rule. This is the
“Bourbon Democracy” which this pa
triotic Georgian desires to crush, and
supplant with anew party, whi;;!} tye
is pleased to style Dem;-.ratio.
Upon whom would such a party, if
established, have to rely for strength ?
First upon the Radicals, siuion pure,
who, despairing of eve;* -,v in throw
ing off the load of infamy which hangs
upon the very name of “Radical,”
would, one and all, ,to its stand
ard, and, like a drowning caan clutch
ing at a straw, grasp it in the foud
hope that, by some moans or other
they might, through its alluring itle
of Independent Democracy, once more
get a hold upon the treasury. Then
as reinforcements to these would be
added the disappointed and disaffected,
who, foiled in their dreams of ambi
tion, would.be willing to sacrifice every
feeling of patriotism or public welfare
to personal aggrandizement and ad
vantage. These two sets would form
the rank and file of the proposed new
Democracy.
It is very clear, then .that all this
ambitious organizer and advocate of a
new Democratic party, so called, would
accomplish would be to really revive,
under a very gauzy disguise, the old
hated organization which was a curse
to Georgia, to the South, and to the
whole country. It would simply bean
old ctemy in anew form Democracy
in narnp, but Radical in character. It
would, in short, be the party to which
your model Independent would always
belong, and its existence would be hail
ed with .rapturous pleasure by the
malignants and haters uf opr £tate and
section throughout the Union.
It speaks well for the patriotism of
the people of Georgia that the propos-t
ed founder of this new organization felt
his cause so weak tfiat he could not
expect it to be supported in our State,
and was driven to seek help from a
Republican administiation. With true
Radical instinct, his first idea was a
government subsidy for his enterprise.
But he is right on this point. The
Radicals, no longer having the keys of
the Treasury, State or Federal, at
their disposal, would not be able to
help him to any great extent, while
few individuals would bo willing to
risk their means in any such precarious
venture - We arc not on such very
frieudly terms with the administration,
as generally speaking, to volunteer it
our advice, but on this occasion we feel
like warning jt to be very wary about
advancing the coveted greenbacks.—
If not, the chances arc that it will, *in
a short time, find its third party a fail
ure, its organ a bankrupt, and its loan
“one forever “where the woodbine
twineth.” —Savannah News.
——-■■■ •
Who hath woe —who hath sorrow ?
Well, that Nevada mau who traded a
|
mule for a wife feels about as red
aroutijl the eyes as any of ’em
About s>iii|tr<>L:v
A reporter of the Evening Post
interviewed the health officers of
New York the other day in regard
to sunstrokes, etc., with the fol
lowing result :
“What’s the first sensation, doc
tor. ol incipient sunstrokes ?”
“Headache or dizziness, or a
feeling used up or readiness to
drop. Some persons pimply feel
very hot.”
“In such cases what is to be
done ?”
“Stop work, go into a cool place
lie down or sit down, until yon
feel bettor.”
“What next ?’?
“Put cool ploths on your head,
and drink cool drinks —cool water,
for example or cool tea.”
“Eat anything ?”
“Prqbabiy won’t want it—if ex
hausted tako a stimulant,”
“Is one always warned before a
sunstroke ?”
“Usually one js ; But I remem
ber one map,” said Dr. Janeway.
“who told uiq afterwards that he
felt as if he had been struck a blow
oa the back of the neck. Some-
times a person feels exhausted for
two or three days before an attack,
lie has lost sleep, perhaps, and is
working hard in the sun. All of
a sudden he falls over and becomes
unconscious.”
“When is supstrokc most likely
to occur ?”
“When the system is debilitated,
the heat intense ard the atmosphere
muggy. In a mVogy atmosphere
the evaporation of the perspirati on
is diminished and without evapora
tion you don’t get the cooling ef
fect of the perspiration KJciokio
are more frequent also pn the se
cond or third day pf a heated term.’
“Wba-t are the symptoms ?”
“Increased heat of the body, and
perhaps unconsciousness, convul
sions or delirium. A post mortem
examination wouid show great con
gestion of the brain and lungs,”
said Dr. Janeway, “gorged with
blood.”
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Twisleil
An lowa editor thus acknowledges a
present of grapes : “We have received
a basket of grapes from our friend W.,
for which he will accept our compli
ments, some of which arc nearly two
inches in diameter.”
A widow in the west, intending to
succeed her husband in the manage
ment of a hotel, advertised that “the
hotel will be hept by the widow of the
former landlord, Mr. Brown, who died
last summer on anew and improved
plan*
One of Sir Boyle Roche’s invitations
to an Irish nobleman was rather equivn.
cal. lie writes : I]“hope, my lord, if
you ever come within a mile of my
house, you will stay,there all night.’’
A coroner’s verdict reads .thus : The
deceased came to his death by exces
sive drinking, producing appoplexy in
the minds o/ihe jury.”
A clergyman says; A youDg wo
man died in my noighbothood, yester
day, while I was preaching in a beastly
state of intoxication
A correspopdent, in writing of a res
cent celebration in the city of Cleve
land, says : “The procession was very
fine, and nearly two miles long, as was
also the report of Dr. Perry, the chap
lain.”
A western paper says: “A child
was run -over by a wagon three years
old, and cross-eyep, with pantleis on,
whjch never spoke afterwards.
Nick of liis Usiriraiu.
Tn the old slaveholding day, Mr.
Legare, of South Carolina (formerly
Secretary of the United .States Treasu
ry) owned a lively negro named Scipio.
Scipio had heard about freedom, and
thmitrht ho should like it, and he de
termine! to “buy himself.” With
some difficulty, he prevailed on his
master to name a price,—one thousand
dollars, —and having(ponsiderable mon
ey already saved up, the soon managed
by the help of his friepds to raise
the whole sum.
Due uiorpiug he c.aipe c.apcriug into
Mr. L’s study with cash in hand,!
claiming his promise.
“Better stay where you are, Scip,
and let mo take care of this money for
you,” said Mr. L. But his advice was
not heeded and he roluqtautly took the
money, and gave Mr. Scipio Africaners
a bill of sale of himself. As it was,
Scip left with a tear in his eye, al
though there was a broad grin on liis
face.
It was not ling before he found em
ployment on a railroad. Tilings went
pretty well with liiiq for a time, until
one day there was a collision between
an express train i>mj the train of gravel
cars. Wagons, engines, white foiks
and darkies, were'tossed into (lie air
generally, and some twenty of the lat
ter were killed, while many more vyere
maimed for life.
Scip, however, was high an 1 dry on
a sand-bank, and free from injury.—
But his nerves had received a terrible
shock, and he was so mortally afraid of
another similar accident ihfft be left
liis employment and obtained a situa
tion Qfi a river steamboat.
But here, again, his luck was n it of
long duratiop. -t as the boat was
leaving tlie \yl> ar h an explosi hi took
place which sent forty or fifty colored
ladies and gentlemen to the places
where the good or bid darkies go.—
But our friend Scip merely wcp part
ly over the river and dropped into the
stream in company with the smoke
stack. He paddled hitpself a-h ire,and
without waiting to change hi- clothes,
traveled, with wings lent him by fear,
direct to the home of his old hi i ter.
“Look a-heali, Massa Legare,” he
exclaimed, as so mas he could catch
liis breath; “jus’ you gi,b uie dot mon
ey back, and take tne. Dis yeah nig
ger property ’s well’nough for rich men
like you, hut dreffle poor ’vestmep'
fur dis chile. ’Taint safe ; dursn’t risk
'em no longer.’’
Rc'sTT
Many a woman who cannot afford
plenty of help wears herself out, when
she need not do so, by adding unneces
sary work. T like pretty things ;
tucks, ruffles and embroidery are great
additions to garments, and so are pies,
puddings and preserves to the table ;
but if the day is fully occupied in
making plain garments and preparing
plain meals, the hours that are n eded
for rest should not be encroached upon
by the useless trirarpi' of the dre-s,
and often unwholesome extras of the re
past. Work is good for every heplthy
person, but rest is good also; and we
have minds as well as bodies. We nny
make slaves of ourselves, and that is
no more right than to make slaves of
others. To bo clean and whole is a
duty ; to be wholesomely fed is also a
duty; hut I should like to preach to
some women I have kooivn until they
really felt that the body is more than
raiment; that to keep strong eyes and
a straight back, and a sweet temper is
better for one who is a mother than to
havener children plad i,u elaborate;
garments which ,U Jakes hours to iron
arid flute, Good m ater i a !! perfect
cleanlinesn, and plain hems, oy straight,
flat trimming of some kind will mike
any child look well dressed; in’
their season a dessert of fruit tastes
better and does more good than all the
pies aud puddings that you can tnauu
facture. Make your work as easy as
is oonsistantjwith utter cleanliness and
tidiness, and save some hours for walk
ing with your children, for reading,for
talking witli your husband, and even
for sitting utterly idle in the twilight
of a summer’s day or before the lire ot
a winter’s evening.—Mrs. Siddon.
Tun'* Itu,
It surprised the shiners and news
hoys around the post office the other
day to see ‘Limpy Tim’ come among
them in a quiet way, and to hear him
say :
“Boys, I want to sell my kit.—
Here’s two brushes, a hull box pf
blacking, a good stout box. and the
outfit goes fqr.two shillings ”’
“Goin’ J'im ?’ queried one.
“Not ’zactly boys, but I want a
quarter the ,awfullest kind, just now.’
“Gain’op'scursion ?" asked apoth -
er.
‘Not to-day, hut I must have a
quarter,’ he answered.
One of the lads passed over the
change and took the kit, aud Tim walk
ed straight to tlio counting room of a
daily paper, put down his mopoy and
said :
‘I gue-s T kin write it if you’ll give
me a penoil.”
With si ow-moving flowers he wrote
a death notice. It went into the paper
almost as ho wrote it, but you might
not have seon it- lie wrote :
Died—l/ilul Ted—of scarlet fever ; aiged
three years. Funeral to-morrer ; gon up
fo Flevin : left won brullier
“Was it your brother ?■’ asked the
cashier.
Tim tried to braee up, but fye could
n't. The big tears came up, bis chin
t|uivered, and |ie pointed to ifie notice
on the Gountor and gasped : “I—l
bad to sell my kit to do it. b—but ho
had his arms aroun’ my neck when ho
and —died !' ’
He hurried away home, but the
nevs went to the boys, and they gath
ered in a group and talked. Tim had
not been home an hour before a bare
footed boy left t'ne kit on the doorstep,
and in the box was a b-ujnet of flowers,
which had been purchased in the mar
ket by pennies contributed by the
crowd of ragged but bighearte 1 u
chins. Did Q>d qv-r make a heart
which would not respond if the right
chord was touched?—Detroit Free
Dress.
iloim-iimite Itain.
The present dry spell reminds
us of anecdote we heard of an ok}
gentleman by the name of Hardee,
while we were in Florida a few
years ago. He was a very suc
cessful farmer, haa a fine orange
grove, and is one of the most ec*.
centiic men wo ever saw. On one
occasion a long drouth afllicted the
country, and Hardee, Raving ye ad
in some book that the ennontesion
of cannons during a battle always
produced rain, concluded he would
gOl Up a taiu of hIS OW'D. A 3 JjQ
had no cannon, begot a largo au
ger and bored boles in several trees,
and he and the nejro loaded the
holes with ppwder, “Now,” he
remarked to the negro, “touch
that biggest tree off, Bob, and I’ll
be damned if we don't have rain in
ten minutes.” Bob touched her
off, the tree bursted with a terrific
noise, killing Bob and knocking
Ilardee senseless. Sines which
time he has gone by the name of
“Concussion Ilardee.' 1 Our far
mers need rain very badly, but a
would’t advise them to try tho
above very original plan, although
it is said that it rained soon after
the explosion. Hartwell Sun.
—
4 I’rttriintl Joke.
A Practical Joker, a prudent
man withal, has gone to a cafe and
orderered a three-masted schooner
of beer, when a friend appears at
the door and beckons te hitp to go
out for a minute. The in.t£D<l> r -
‘ipßf
drinker is afraid thstrinVis
sence someone may get a a? willl
the liquid, when a
strikes ,bim, and ho vrrapj round
the handle of the mug i a scrap of
paper inscribed :
“I have spit i/i this !”
With a light heart to
the door, comin.unicates with his
friend, ami returns to find written
in another hand beneath his Warn
>ng : ' ' ,
“So have I !”
mm ♦ Wm
\ i In- nisertible
The best recipe we know, ifvou wan'i
to be miserable, is to think afiout your
self, how tpueh you have lost, hoy
much yop have pot made, and the poor
prospect for the fptgre- A brave uiap
with a soul ip him gets opt of such
pitiful ruts apd lapghs at discourager
pients, rolls up his sleqves,
apf! jppgs, ar.d makes the best of life
Xhis etytb was never iutended lor ?
paradise, and p man who rises above
his discouragements and keeps his oiau
hood will oply.bp thestropger aud bet
ter ftp- -his adversjties. .yany a
ship lias beep saved by throwing over
board jts uiosi.valunble cargo, and man;
a man is better apd more humane
he lias lost his gold.
J®*Uead the new advert issuietj
from Messrs. C A Da,vis & Son jus
out in th,is issue.
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