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VOL. XIII.
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H. 11. LEWIS.
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
SPARTA, HANCOCK CO., GA.,
"IXTILL give faithful and prompt attention
v* to allbusiness intrusted to his care.
Jan. 24, 1878—4 ms
McWhorter Broi.,
Attorneys & Counselors at Law,
GREENESBORO’, - - GA.
of Claims a Specialty.
(John A. McWhorter. )
| Hamilton McWhorter, j
Sept. 27, 1877.—tf
Philip B. Robinson
Attorney at Law,
GREENESBORO’. . . . GA.
WILL give prompt attention to business
entrusted to his professional care.
Feb. 20, 1873—6 ms
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Attorney at Law,
GREENESBORO ’, - - - GA.
PROMPT personal attention given to all
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March, 21, 1878—ly.
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attorney at law ,
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people of Greene and adjoining coun
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GREENESBORO’, GA., THURSDAY, AUGUST 8, 1878.
THE CITY
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PURE DRUGS,
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sition, containing no opium or other injuri
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some ease.”
TRIAL BOTTLE 50cts.
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March 10, 1876—tf
A RICH LHewrr*
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collect bis fame, if not the man. lie died
a long time ago, but be left a rich legacy
to his people, in the form of his celebrated
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jgijy*Dr. William >l. Durham, Maxey’s
Oglethorpe county, Ga., treats with great
success all chronic diseases, In connection
with the regular practice he combines that
of the late distinguished Hr. L. Durham
deceased of Clarke Cos., Ga. Dr. L. Dur
hams’s practice is not confined to liis
neighborhood but patients come to him
from all parts of this and adjoining States.
Dr. Durham does not profess to cure every
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<ooil WiKCStitm.
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reverent and human, The human
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of life’s comforts; or, disordered and
diseased, they tingle misery along every
nerve and through every artery the
man or woman with good digestion see
beauty as they walk, and overcome
obstacles they meet in the routine of
life, where the dyspeptic sees only
gloom and stumbles and growls at even
imaginary objects. The world still
needs two or three new kinds of medi
cine before death can be perfectly abol
ished; but that many lives have been
prolonged, and many sufferers from
Liver disease, Dyspepsia and Headache
have been cured by Mekrebi/s llepa
tine, is no longer a doubt. It cures
Headache in twenty minutes, and there
is no question but what it is the most
wonderful discovery yet made in medi
cal science. Those afflicted with Bil
liousness and Liver Complaint should
use Merrell’s llepatine.
It can be had at Dr. John A Griffin,
Greenesboro Ga.
—4# • am
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Patents, Washington, D, C,. who furnish
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large experience, having been established
since 1800.
I AM MKAHV.
I’m weary of straying, O fain would I rest
In that far distant land of the pure and
the blest,
Where sin can no longer her blandishments
spread,
And tears and temptations forever are fled.
X '
I'm weary of hoping—where hope is un
true,
As fair, but as fleeting, as morning’s bright
dew.
I long for tljat land whose bless’ii promise
bloijc
Is changeless and sure as eternity's throne.
I’m weary of sighing o’er sorrows of earth,
O’er joy’s glowing visions that face at their
birth—
O’er the pangs of the loved, which we can
not assuage—
O’er the blightings of youth, and the weak
ness of age.
I'm weary of loving what passes away—
The sweetest, (lie dearest, alas! may not
stay :
I long for that land where those partings
are o’er,
And death and the tomb can divide hearts
no more.
1 am weary, my Saviour, of grieving thy
love:
O when shall I rest in thy presence above?
I’m weary—but, O ! never let me repine:
Thy word, and thy love, and thy promise
are mine.
Tlio Great Wall of 'iiina„
The great wall of China wns meas
ured in many places by Mr. Ucthank,
an American engineer, lately engaged
in a survey for a Chinese railway. Ilia
measurements give the height of eigh
teen feet aud a width ou the top at fif
teen feet. Every few hundred yards
there is a tower tweuty-four feet square
and from twenty to twenty-five feet
high. The foundation of the wall is
of solid granite. Mr. Untback brought
with him a brick from the wall, which
is supposed to have bee -
■ -.'—-year* before.!he tf! * tzne fence
to keep out the Tartar*; the builders,
never altempted to avoid mountains or
chasms to save expense For thirteen
hundred miles the wall goes over plain
and mountain, and every loot of the
foundation ,i.s in solid granite, and the
rest of the structure solid masonry. In
Boavc places the wall is built up sni oth
against the bank, or canons, or preci
pices, where there is a sheer descent of
a thousand feet. Small streams are
arched over, but on tho larger streams
the wall runs to the water's eddge, and
a tower is built oc each side. On the
top of the wall there are breastworks,
or defences facing in and out, so the
defending forces can pass from one
tower to another without being exposed
to an enemy from either side. To cal->
culate the time of building or cost of
this wall is beyond human skill. So
far as the magnitude of the work is
concerned, it surpassea everything in
ancient or modern times of which there
is any trace. The pyramids of Egypt
are nothing compared to it. —London
Times.
Senator (Sutler'* Address.
{Extract from an address of Senator
Butler of South Carolina, delivered at
an Edgefield picnic, July 171 b, 1878.]
[News & Courier ]
THE ISSUES OF THE ijoUR.
Let me tell you, my what
has not passed away. The [cry satnc
issues that confronted them arc now
confronting us, and the qiistion for
the future is, will wo be withy eons
of such worthy sires and matitain the
Constitution of this country pure and
civil? That is the questionian 1 that
the issue of to day. It is a fery con*
venient, and I regret to say ii is a too
common place remark in thisjeountry,
that the only issue now before (is is one
of honesty and one of race agaust race.
That is not true. It is belil ling the
question to say that it is onll one of
race against race. The is.se s is just
as great now as seventy-five ; ears ago
between constitutional liberty and re
publican institutions on the or i h and,
and centralized despotism on t e other.
It makes but little difference w|io votes
at primaries or who have rcjresenta
tion. The great issue is above and su
perior to all that; it is one af tls rights
of the States, and through thi States
of the people—of coustitutiooa liberty
as opposed to a centralized depotism.
There are two great forces t work
in the country to-day, and tey are
moving on parallel lines. 'I hi one is
represented by Radicalism, audjs tuov
ing, as surely as the needle turns to
the pole, towards the establishment of
a centralized despotism. The party
which is committed to this work is the
same that has been successively known
as the Federal, Freesoil, Abolition,
Know-Nothing ami Republican parties,
and is now known as the Radical party.
Confronting it, on the other line, is the
old Democratic party, which, seventy
five years ago, had the same fight to
mafce which we are making to-day.
I know how common it is for people
to say there is very little difference be*-
tween the Radical and Democratic par
ties. But I tell you that, if I have
learned anything during my stay as a
Senator in Washington, it is that there
is the greatest difference, and that the
Radical factions have administered this
Government with about as much regard
!o the rights, feelings and interests of
the people of America as for the peo
ple ot the Sandwich Islands. They
have not eared or thought about Un
people. The whole Government has
been conducted by them in the in
terests of rings and monopolies, and
I could prove it if I had the time
What is the result ? What is the re
sult? W hat do we catch upon every
breeze that now comes from the North?
Rumors of communism, riots, crimes,
forgeries, destruction of property. Why
is it so? It is because the Radical fae
tions have been keeping this element
i|iiiet by holding us by the throat and
making the condition of the South the
pretext for their actions and continu
ance in power, and when that deadly
grasp was torn loose from our throat
and the common people discovered at
last that the government had been con
ducted in the interest of rings only,
and without regard to the people, the
organization ol these various unions all
OVijr tl|A nmii.t-ru ,r i— >/’
ol intelligence ami ot comparative re
speutability saying in tho words of the
writers, “Wo will have broad or blood.”
But when they clamored for bread they
gave them lead, and when they asked
for labor they gave them the bayonet.
This “God and morality” party that
had such a profound affection for the
colored people these men shot down
their own people because they
were simply asserting their mauhood
and their right® as American citizens
Their blood curdled when they heard
of a riot in the South, hut when they
shot down their own people for de
manding their rights not one word is
heard of commiseration for them !
That is of a piece with the entire con
duct of this Radical regime. God
knows we have seen and felt it. What
did they care for the poor colored man,
or the poor white man, so long as the
government made their favorites rich:
and that is the issue we have got to
meet to-day. There is no use attempt
ing to disguse it.
And we in South Carolina are not
out of danger yet. It is a great mis
take to suppose that this colossal mons
ter is dead: he is only biding his time,
and in order to overcome him what
have we to do? In the first place we.
must assert our manhood under tho
platform of 1873, aod we most move
forward upon that platform without
trampling on the rights or the man
hood of any one else. It has got to be
the fashion for some politicians to turn
pale in the face ami go on and hide
their heads if you but use the worl
“white” in any connection, and espe
cially if you say this is a white man s'
Government. Well, theoretically, it
is not a white man’s government. This
is a country where men may come from
all climates aud quarters, and have the
protection of the law. But practically
as a matter of fact, it is a white man’s
government. That assertion does not
involve the idea that I mean to oppress
anyb"dy else. Who else has any voice
io this Government? Go to the North
and do you find anybody there in con
trol but white people—any representa
tives but white men ? Not one !
When l charged a Radical representa
tive with this fact on a recent occasion,
he acknowledged it and said, “Oh . but
the colored people are in the majority
in the South !” I answered that it
was very much less tolerable for him to
exclude the negro from representation
because at the North hfc is more intel
ligent, and being in the minority could
not do the harm his ignorant fellows
could do and have done here. Ihe |
fact of his exclusion front representa
tion there shows conclusively how hoi
low and contemptible is all their twad
dle about him.
Let us look at the matter in a prac
tieal light. Did not these people try
to govern this country for ten years ?
Where did they rur. it to and to what
a condition did they reduce it? To
absolute disgraco, humiliation and con
tempt. Now that we have got control
of the government, it is no longer a
question of honesty, because the ad
ministration is honest. It is no longer
a (juestion of race, because all races are
represented and protected alike. I
would tel! these people to-day, “You
have tried to govern this country for
ten years and have proved your utter
incapacity for doing so, now stand aside
and let us try it for teu years, we can
do it better thau you and if we fail to
do so, then turn us out.”
Ido not intend to say a good
many things I would like to say,
but there is one thing I do
want to say before I leavo you
It has been reported, with how
much truth I do not know, that a
proposition has been made to run
“mixed tickets” in some of the
Counties of this Stato. I desire
to enter my solemn protest against
such a proposition. I think the
Democratic party is able to govern
this country without tho interjec
tion of Radical help. The very
suggestion is a confession that tho
Democratic party can not govern
the country successfully. It has
also been said that we gave gut as
sent to this doctrine in 1870, but
that is not true. We wero then
on tho outside and trying to ini j
prove the government by introduc-i
government has passed into com
petent and honorable hands, and
shall wo bo expected to deteriorate
it by admitting the very same cor
rupt element we fought then, and,
morever, how were we met then
when we advanced this same pro
position ? The Republican party
turned tho backs of its hands to us
and now that we are in power I
propose to turn the backs of our
hands to them ! That is the whole
issue. Rut it is said that we ought
to be magnanimous and generous.
These are noble traits of character
in sny man or party, and I trust I
may never be heard raising my
voice against their proper exercise;
but let us be careful that we don’t
mistake tngananimity and generos
ity for a silly and pernicious sen
timentalism. They are different
things. One does for the domain
of poesy, but in the practical af
fairs of the Jaw and in anything so
intensely practical as politics it will
not do. Do not let us degenerate
these high and noble qualities into
a puling sentimentalism.
It has been said that the politi
cal millennium is not far off, that
the Republican party is not going
to run an opposition ticket to the
State ticket. I hope that the State
ticket will not suffer itself to be
misled into a position of false secu
rity by any such siren illusions,
promises or songs. They may in
deed paralyze the strength of the
ticket by promising to run nothing
against it, but while the ticket is
in a state of supposed security this
cunning mouster will run in can
didates enough to get control of
our Legislature, and wc cannot af
ford to lose sight of this danger.
I have learned since 1 came here
that there are great apprehension
that we will have serious divisions
among ourselves on account of the
number of candidates who have
come forward, but the practical
good sense of the people of Edgo
field will net permit such a result.
As to the number of candidates be
ing a proof of devision, I hail it
rather as a sign of returning inter
ests in public affairs. AH who
have been nominated up to this j
time aro honorable men, and I
know they will abide the voice of
the people ; and woe to the man
who does rnt ! I say to you let
such an one be ostracised and
thenceforth consigned to political
oblivion, and lot him he flayed
alive by tho voice of public opinion 1
[Cheers ]
#
Mirons* I liarneln .
Strength of character consists of
two things-—power of will and
power of self-restraint. It re
quires two things, therefore, to its
existence—strong feelings fincl
strong command over them. Now,
it is here we make a great mistake;
we mistake strong feelings for
strong character. A man who
bears all before him, before whose
frown domestics tremble, and whose
bursts of fury make the children
o* the household quake because
he has Lis will obeyed, and his
own way in all things —we call
him a strong man. The truth k,
tout is the weak man ; it is his
passions that are strong ; he, mas
tered by them, i.s weak. You
must measure the strength of a
man by the power of the feelings
he subdues, not by the power of
those which subdue him.
And hence composure is very
often the highest result of strength.
Did we uevor see a man receive a fla
grant insult and only grow a little
pulo and quietly reply ? That is
a man spiritually strong. Or, did
we ever sre a man in anguish stand
as if carved out of solid rock mas-*
taring himself? Or one bearin'* and
hopeless daily trial remain silent,
and never, tel l..J,h.e„,world
passion, remains chaste; he who,
keenly sensitive, with manly pow
ers of indignation io him, can be
provoked and yet restrain© him
self, and forgive—these aie strong
men, the spiritual heroes.— Pm
byterian Journal ,
-
Groniii;' Oltl.
It is the solemn thought connected
with middle life that life's last busi*.
ness is begun in earnest; and it is
then, midway betweeu the cradle and
the grave, that a man begins to marvel
(hat he let the days of youih go by so
half enjoyed. It is the peosive autumn
feeling ; it is the sensation of half sad
ness that we experience when the long
est day of the year is past, and every
day "that follows is shorter, and the
light fainter, aud the fee ler shadows
tell that Nature is hastening with gi
gantic footsteps to her winter grave.—
So does man look upon his youth
When the first gray hairs become visi
ble, when the unwelcome truth fastens
itself upon the mind that a man is no
longer going up hill, but down, and
that the sun is always westering, he
looks back ou things behind. When
we were children, we thought as chil
dren. But now there lies before us
manhood, with its earnest work, and
then old ago, and then the grave, aud
then home There is a second youth
for man, hotter and holier than his first,
if he will look ou, and not look back. —
F. W. Robertson.
■lev. Ih*. •lottopli Key,
Pastor St Paul Church, Columbus,
Ga , writes: "We gave Dr. Moffetts
TektillNA ( Teethitnj \ Powders,} to our
little grandchild with the happiest re
suits. The effeets were almost magical,
and certainly more satisfactory than
from anything over used.” Jnn. A.
Griffin and all Druggists keep Tecthis
na.
—
WrslFvan Female
w
CO x..,XjUGe.
MACON, Ga.
The Forty-first Annual Session begins Sep
tember 18, 1878.
UNSURPASSED advantages in Litem
tine. Science, Ancient and Modern
Languages, Music and Painting. A liber
al post-graduate course lias been provided
It includes lectures by eminent scholars
and scientists, beginning with an extensive
course of lectures during the Fall term, by
Dr Lipscomb, of Vanderbilt University. _
Address, Rev. W. C. BASS. D.D.,
July 25, 1878-*2ms President.
~Qi kky : "Why will men smoke
common tobacco, when they can buy
Marburu Bros. 'Seal at Sarth ( arc
///o{. ’ at the satire price ?”
jnn. 31, 1878—ly.
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