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VOL. XIV.
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Official Orp of Greene County,
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GREENESBORO’, GA., THURDSAY, AUGUST 28. 1879.
umznmss CARDS,
M. W. LEWIS. )■ <( 11. T. tH, O. LEWIS
LEWIS & SONS,
at Jjpmf,
GREENESBORO’, GA.
WILL practice in all the Courts — j
State and Federal. n0v.29,’77
R. H. LEWIS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
SPARTA, HANCOCK CO., GA.,
T9UILL jive faithful and prompt attention
to allbwsiness iutmsted tp hi 0&r.
Im. 24, 1878—4 ms
McWhorter Broi.,
Attorneys & Counselors at Law,
GREENESBORO\ - - GA.
Office at Lexington, Qa.-fMI
IJohn A. MtWhorlcr. T
1 Hamilton McWhorter. X
Sept. 27, 1877.-if
Philip B. Robinson,
AttQiitEy at* X*d-w f
GREENESBORO’. . . . GA.
\X7ILL give prompt attention to business
' ’ entrusted to his professional oare.
Feb. 20, 1873—Oms
H.WLUMPKIN,
attorney at law,
UNION POINT, • - Ga
OFFERS his professional services to the
people of Greene and adjoining coun
ties, and hopes, by olobc attention to busi
siness to merit and receive aliheral share of
patronage. jan23 ’74 ly.
Frederick 11. Weary,
Attorney at Law,
SPARTA, GA.
WILL give prompt personal attentltli
to all business connected with his profes
siou, ih the Northern and Ocmulgee Cir
euit*.
KjT'Special attention given to the eoe
lion of claims. jan.17,187
Dr. Wm. Morgan,
RESIDENT
sssoo DENTIST
GREENESBORO ’, GA
feb. 1, 1874.
T. Markwalter,
H 4 is KLi; Works,
Nosr Lower Market, Broad Street.
Amgmtai, - • • - G&
A LARGE SELECTION always on hand
ready for lettering and shipping.
Augusta, GsL, Sept. 6. 1877—8 ms
J, F. & J. O.HART,
Retd Estate
AGENTS,
UNION POINiT, GA„
A RE Correspondents of Real Estate
x\_ Agents, North and South, for this
section. Business solicited. oct27
Duff Green House,
DALTON, GEORGIA .
The best and Cheapest Hotel on the
Kennesaw Route.
Brenktast Hiid Mtjpper House
For I'nssengm,
Bpeeial attention given to the Comfort and
eenvenienoe of lady passengers and guests.
Reading and sample rooms for commercial
travelers
Board per day $2 00
Single meals 60et
Ratldroaders, county and stock men, half
fare. april 1, 1879—tf
DR. 11. L. BI TIIFA
OfFERS his professional services to the
people of Greenetboro’and vicinity. Office
over B. Johnson’s store room in the Heard
(icissler building 0ct.‘24,’78
Piles Dim* Fistulas CuretJ !
Dr. Bcazley, Crawfordville. Ga., makes
a speoialty of all diseases of the rectum
Will guarantee a cure in every cate of PiU
without the use of the knife and with very
little pain. Will point to cases cured or
give the best of reference if desired.
[T7”Another shipment Of Flour from New
wheat, just received by
C. A. DAVIS & SON.
For the Herald.
VOICES FKOft OVER! TIDE
HIVE it.
B r <‘y ICTOR BELLUNO.”
They have paised over the river,
With Its turbid restless tidu;
And are standing with the ransomed,
Over an ftp'other side.
And o’er Its dAbk. myfiteHuUs waters,
HeArd above its ceaseless roar,
Conies the sound Of angel voices,
Faintly from the other short.
Voices Cf mtr sainted loved onvs,
Who to the spirit-land have gone;
Whose glad songs how eoho, and
Reverberate ArdUnd the Throne.
Yes, we hear them over the river,
’Mid the din of worldly strifo;
As its surging waters roll
Onward to eternal liff.
They aro watching for otir coming,
Waiting to receive us there,
When we've crossed the mystic liver.
And are free from toil au'4 care.
There will be no throbbing hearts,
No more Weeping for the dead,
For no parting there is known,
And “no fafewell tear is shed.”
We shall jojn them there triumphant,
On the everlasting shore,
Ih the bright, eternal City,
Where the ourse is known no more.
Greshamvilte, Ga., Aug., 1879,
I Wish he bad Lived.
The other day when a burly big dri
ver of a coal cart, backed bis vehicle
up to the alley gale of an old house in
Detroit to dfimpout half a ton of coal,
some children Came out of the side door,
and the driver beckoned then! near and
said :
‘Last tldic I waa here, on r of the
wheels crushed a bit of dog. belonging,
to oDe of you. I heard a great crying
out, but I can’t bestopping to look out
for dogs on the street/
The children mad.e no reply, but as
they watched him unload the cart they
wondered if he had little children ot
his own, and if be ever spoke kindly
to them. He may have felt the bur
deD of their thoughts, for suddenly ho
looked up and said :
‘Well, I own I’m a bit sorry, and be
ing as I knew as I was coming up, I
brought along an orange to give to the
child who owned the dog, Which of
you is it V
‘The dog belonged fo little lapte Bil
ly in that house there,’ answered a
giri. ‘lt was all the dog he ever had,
and when you killed it he cried himself
almost to death. He didn’t never have
any plaything but the little dog/
‘And will you take him this orange?'
‘I can’t, sir, 'cos he’s dead, and they
are coming to take him to the giave
yard pretty sood-’
The driver looked up and ddwn,
seemed to ponder the matter, and then
he fcrossed to the other house. The Ti
tle coffin and its burden was in the
front room, apd two or three old wo
men were wiping sway their tears and
talking it} Idw tones; Tliej driver put
his hand oU the closed coffin and said:
‘I diln’t khOtv it was his dog—l did
not kndw he sas lame and sick- God
forgive ffifi if t made soriovV for him !’
The vehicle sehl to edtivey the body
to the cemetery, drove up at that mo
ment, and then the big man continued:
‘lf he was idivo I'd buy him any
thing he could ask. I carl do nothing
now but carry him softly out.'
lie gently took up the coffin in his
stout arms and carried it out, bis eyes
moist and his lips quivering,, and when
he had placed it in the vehicle he look
ed up at the driver in a beseeching way
and whispered—
‘Drive slow; drive slow ! He was a
poor Hme boy !’
The driver wondered, but he moved
awajr siowly, and the coal cartman
stood in the center of the street, anx
iously watching till it was oil the cob
blestoaea. Then as he tilrtjed to his
own .vehicle he said:
‘I didn’t mean to, but l *ish he hda
lived to forgive me!’—[Detroit Free
Press.
There are about 406 stock fire instlradce
companies in the United Stales, represen
ting about $100,000,000 in capital, about
$176,000,000 in assets, and having 760,-
000,000 at risk. There are abant 600 mu
tual fire insurance companies, whose assets
and amount at risk are not definitely known;
but prebably they do not exceed $30,000,-
060 nominal assets nor $75,000,000 at rislf?
Sii|M‘rt ition About Storms.
Caverns were Supposed by the Ro
mans to be secure places of refuge dur
ing thunder-storms, and they believed
that lightning never penetrated mofc
than tfto yards into the earth. Acting
on this superstitjon, the Emperor Au
gustus used to withdraw into some deep
vault of the palace whenever a tempest
was feared, and it is recorded by Sue
tonious that he always worn a skirt of
seal as a precaution against lightning.
That both precautions word equally un
availing needs scarcely to be mention
ed. Lightning has been known to
slirke ton feet into the earth; but not
even the marvelous accuracy oi modern
science can determine at what distance
from the surface a safe retreat may be
found froiU the descending fluid ; and,
even were this ascertained, the dangers
from ascending electric currents re
main the same. With regard to seal
skins, we find that the Romans at
tached so much faith to them as non
conductors that tents were made of
them, beneath which the timid used to
take refuge. It is a somewhat curious
fact that in the neighborhood of Mount
Cevennes, in the Languedoc, where
aacieDtly some Roman colonies were
known to have existed, the shepherds
cherish a similar superstition respecting
the skins of’serpents. These they care
fully collect, and, having covered their
hats Withal, believe themselves secure
against the dangers of the storm. M.
Labossiere is disposed to seo a link of
interesting analogy between the legend
yet lingering in the mind of the peas
ant of Oevennes and the more costly
superstition held by his Latin ances
tors. The Emperors of Jagan retire
into a deep gt-otto during the tempests
which rage with such soverity ih their
latitude; but, not satisfied with the
profundity of the excavation. or the
strength of the stones ot which it is
built, they complete their precautions
by having a reservoir of water sunk in
their retreat. Tho water ia inteuded
to extinguish the lightning —a measure
equally futile, since many instances
have been preserved in which the fluid
has fallen apou the water with the same
destructive effect as upon land.
Titd Arkansas Traveler
Of all who have ever hoard of
the “Arkansas Traveler,” wo think
there are few that have heard the
story itself, Tho following is given
as a correct version :
The scene is Is id in Arkansas,
away out in tho wildorriess, forty
years ago, when settlers in that re
gion were few and far between.
The header must imagine a cabin
in tho wilderness ; in the door way
sits the wife smoking her pipe, sur
rounded by children of various
sizes; a little to tho left, a boy wa
seen perched upon art ash-hopper,
while the squatter sits upon a bar
rel, fiddle in hand, playing the
“tune,” half of which he never
heanl. As the traveler approach
es. ho pauses not in his fiddling, ex
cept to answer tho questions pro
pounded. betwoeu each of which he
resumed his music.
Traveler—Hello, stranger.
Squatter—Hello, yourself.
T—Can T get to stay all night'
with you ?
S—No, sir ; you can git to—
T Have you any spirits here ?
S—Lots of ’em ; Sal saw one
last night, by that are ole hollow
gum, and it n.early geared her to
death.
T You mistake my moaning ;
have you any liquor ?
S—Had EOtne yesterday, hut
Ole Boss ho got in an lapped it all
outen tho pot.
T—You don't understand. I
don’t mean pot liquor. I am wet
and cold, and want some whisky
Have you got any ?
S— Oh, yes. I drank tho last
this mornin'.
T— I'm hungry, ha ven’t bad any
thing since morning. Can't you
give me something to eat?
S—Hain’ta durned thing in the
house. Not a mouthful of meat
uor a dust of meal here.
T—Wall, can't you give mv
horse something
S—Got nothing to feed him on,
T—llow far is it to tho next
house ?
S—Stranger, I don’t know , I
have never been thar.
T—Well, do you know who lives
there ?
• S—l do.
T—As I qm so bold, then, what
might vOiSr name be ?
S—lt mightbo Dick and it might
be Sain, but it lacks right smart of
it.
T—Sir, will you tell mo where
this road goos to ?
S—lt’s never bin anywhar since
I’ve lived here; it’s always thar
when I get up in the mornin’,
T—Well, bow far to where it
forks ?
S—lt don't fork at all, but splits
up like the d— 1.
T—As I’m not likely to get to
any other house to-night, can’t you
let me slocp in yourn. And I'll
tie my horso to a tree and do with
out anything to oat or drink,
S—My house leaks ; thar's on
ly one dry spot in it, and me and
Sal sleep 9 ° n ! and that thar tree is
the old woman's persimmon. You
can’t tie to it, ’case bho don't want
’em shuck oil. sho loves to make
beer outen ’em.
T —Why don’t you finish cover
lng your house and stop tho leaks ?
S— -It's been rainin’ all day.
T—Well, why don’t you do it in
tlry weather?
S---It don’t leak then.
T---As there seems to bo noth-,
ing alive aboilt your place but chil
dren, how do you do anyhow?
8-'-.Putty well, T thank yoiL
How do you do, yourself \
T—l mean, what do you do for
a living hero ?
S—Koep tavern and sell whisky.
T. Well, I told you I wanted
some whisky.
S. Stranger, I bought a barrel
mor’n a week ago. You ace, me
and Sal went shares. After we got
it here, we only had a bit between
us, and Sal she didn’t want to use
hern first, nor mo mine. You see,
I had a spiggen in one end and she
in t’other. So sho takes a drink
on my end and pays mo the bit for
it; then I’d take one outen hern and
give hor the bit. Well, we's git
tin along first-rate till Dick, durn
skulking skunk, he bored a hole in
the bottom to suck at and the next
time I went to buy a drink, there
wurn't ndno thar.
T. I'm sorry your whisky’s out
but, my friond, why don’tyou play
tho balanco of that tiihe ?
S It's not no balance to it.
T. I mean you don't play the
wholo of it.
S Stranger, kin you play tho
fiddle ?
T Yes, a little, sometimes.
S You don’t look like a fiddler,
but ef you think you can play any
more on that thar tune, you can
just git down and try.
(Tho traveler gets down and plays
tho whole of it.)
S. Stranger, take a half dozen
cheers and sot down. Sal, stir
yourself round like a six-horse
team in a tnud hole. Go round in
the hollar whar I killed that buck
this mornin’, cut off some of the
best pieces, and fotch ’em in and
cook it for me and this gentleman,
directly. Raise up the board fiorn
under the head of the bed, and git
the old black jug I bid from Dick,
and give us sonio whisky ; I kno?.
thar’s somo left yet. Till, drive
ole Boss outen the bread-tray, then
climb up in the loft and get the rag
that’s got the sugar tied in it.
Dick carry his iiorse tb the shed,
and give hiin’somc fodder Mid corn,
much as he kin eat.
Till. Dad there ain't enough
knives to sot the table
S. Whar's big butch, little
bfitcli, ole case, cob handle, gran
ny’s knife and the one l handled
yesterday ? That's enough to sot -
any gentleman’s meal. Stranger,
you kin stay as long as you please,
and I’ll give you plenty to eat anti
drink. Will yon have coffee for
supper ?
T. Yes, sir.
S. I'll he hanged if you do
though. We don’t have nothin’
that way hero, but Grub Hyson,
ard I reckon it's mighty good with
sweetninh Play away stranger.
Y r ou kin sleep on the dry spot to
night. ,
T (after two hour's fiddling.)
My friend, can’t yc#i tell about the
road I nm to travel to-morrow ?
S —To-morrow ! Stranger, you
won’t git outen theso diggin’s for
six weeks, but when it gets so you
kin start, you see that big sloo thar ?
Well, you have to git crest that,
then you take the road up the bank,
and in about a mile you'll come to
a two'-aere-and-a- half corn patch
The corn’s mighty in the weeds,
hut you needn’t mind that, jist ride
on. About a mile and a half or two
miles ftom thar. you'll corn* to the
d—dost swamp you ever struck in
all your travels ; it's boggy enough
to miro a saddle-blanket. Thar’s a
future ro. and about six feet under
thar.
T—How am 1 to get at it ?
S—You can't git at it nary tirno
till the weather stiffens down some.
Well, about a mile beyant, you
cum to a place whar thar s two
roads. You kin take the right
band ef you want to but you'll find
it’s run out; you’ll then have tb
| oomo back and try the left, and
i when-you git two miles oh that road
f vou ri’.av know yw wrnna for
j thar ain’t any road thar. You’ll
j then think you’re mighty lucky cf
| voii find thtTWny back to my house,
whar you kin cum and play on that
tune as long as you please.
From (he earliest times to the commence
itjpnt of the Christian era Hie amount of
jnescious metals obtained from the surface
a nd mines of the earth is estimated to ho
s4,ooo,(loo, itch-; from the latter epoch to
the discovery of America another sum of
$ 1‘000,000,000 was obtained; from tire date
of the lattr event to that of 1852 nu addi
tion of $9,000,000, 000 was made; the ex
tensive working of Russian gold mines ef
184!!, added to the close of 1842 $1,000,-
000,000 more. California and Australian
gold mines in 1848 and 1857 added, to the
close of 1877, $5,000,000,000, making |
total of $23,000,000,000. The average
loss by the abrasion of coins is estimated
to be 1-10 of 1 p,er cent, per annum, and
the average loss by consumption in (lie aits
and' destruction by f.re and shipwreck at
from $2,000,000 to $tt(C00,000 per annum.
The amount of precious metals nmv in
existence is estimated to i e f 11,000.000,-
000, of which gold furnished $7,000,000,-
000, and silver .the remainder. Of the
n.nount now in existence, $8.000,000,000 is
said to be in coin and bullion, $3,000,000,-
000 in watches, and the remainder in plate,
jewelry, and ornaments. Of Hie amount
now in existence, S7,(HHMKM.t,OOO is estima
ted to have beeti obtained from America,
$3,000,000,000 from Asia (including Aus
tralia), $2,000,000,000 from Europe, anl
the remainder from Africa.
The young woman who desires to have
herself published in the newspapers as
“fascinating, beautiful and accomplished”
will please pack up tier clothes in a dirty
towel, crawl out of the back upstairs win
dow, some dark, rainy night, and elope
with the man who curries and feeds her
dad’s horses. It's a big price to pay for
compliments, but it will bring them just as
certain as a di.rty.yaia v\ utcjJjarrel will be
get mosquitos' in July.
— -
The young man with the first symptoms
of a blooming moustache need* all the fre h
air lie can get.
An ambitious young writer having
asked, “What magantyp wjdl give, me the
highest position quickest?” was told —“A
powder magazine, if you contribute a tiei
article ’’
Short Presses ate now all the rage in
' Paris. This i? giottous news to the Atnet-
I ican women who have grown left-handed
in the back from 3tonping to pick up their
trails.
There is a very slrcng public opinion
against preaching by women, hid. almost
every husband knows that women as lectu
rers are an entire sueeess.
A pen may be driven, but tite pencil
does best when it is lead.
What State of the. American t'nion is
high in the middle am’ round .1 both end*
O-hi-P.
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