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BE VO TED TO NEWS, PQMTWSt LZtBBATBXE, AQBWtt&TVME ABB GENEBAE PROGRESS**-INDEPENDENT IN Alh THINGS, VOL. XIV. THE mmm herald, Official Orp of Greene County, IS PUBLISHED EVERY WEEK (EXCEPT TWO), 23~5T COLUMBUS HEARD, Prop'f, J. H. LEWIS, li, T. LEWIS,! No Patent In or Outside ! -:oo: -sr 8 V B SCRIP TIOJY, Two.. Dollars TIIE BEST AND THE CHEAPEST ADVERTISING MEDIUM I3Nf Middle Georgia. 4Pk. BUSINESS MEN WILL FIND IT Greatly to their Interest TO ADVERTISE IN TIIE HERALD! Il visits nearly every State in the Union, and is increasing in circulation daily. For Advertisements by the Column, or by the year; there will be libaral discounts upon the regular rates. For further particulars address, “Herald Office,” GREENESBORO’, GEORGIA. ——=—:oo "*■ JOB WORK. Neatly executed and with dispatch at this office, not Atlanta nor Augusta. tlljc 2irr<iUY a 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. NO. 35