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VOL. XVII.
REFLE<TTIO\!§
rrON RECEIVING A COPY OF MY FIRST TOSM
PUBLISHED IN TUB VILLAGE NEWSPAPER.
Allhere it is ! I'm famous now
An author nnd a poet !
It really is in print! Ye gods !
How proud I’ll be to show it !
And gentle Anna ! What a thrill
Will animate her breast,
To read these ardent lines and know
To whom they are addressed.
Why, bless my soul—here’s something
strange;
What can the paper mean,
By talking of the ‘"graceful books
That gander o’er the green?”
And here’s a “t” instead of *‘r,”
Which makes it “tippling rill;”
“We’ll see the shad,” instead of “shade,”
And “hell” instead of “hill.”
“They look so ’ —what? I recollect,
’Twas “sweet” and then ’twas “kind,”
And now to think, the stupid fool
For “bland” has printed “blind.”
Was ever such provoking work—
’Tis curious by the by,
How any thing is tendered blind
By giving it an 1 -i.”
“Hast thou no tears,” the t’s left out,
“Hast thou no ears,” instead;
“I hope that thou art dear,” is put
“I hope that thou art dead.”
Who ever saw id such a space
So many blunders crammed !
“Those gentle eyes bedimmed,” is spelt
“Those gentle eyes bedamned.”
“The color of the rose,” is “nose,”
“Affection" is “affliction;’’
I wonder if the likeness holds
In fact as well as diction.
“Thou art a friend,” the “r" is gone—
Who ever would have deemed
That such a trifling thing could change
A “friend” into a “fiend. ’
“Thou art the same,” is rendered “lame,”
It really is too bad,
And here, because an “i” is out,
My “lovely maid” is “mal,”
They drove her blind by poking Jin
An “i”—a process new;
And now they’ve gouged it out again.
And made her crazy, too.
“Where are the muses fled, that thou
Should’st live so long unsung!”
Thus reads my version—here it is—
“Should’st live so long unhung!’’
The fate of woman’s love is thine,”
An “h” commences “fate,”
How small a circumstance will turn
A woman’s love to hate!
I’ll read no more! What shall I do?
I’ll never dare to send it;
The paper’s scattered far and vide,
’Tis now too late to mend it.
Oh Fame! thou cheat of human bliss!
Why dil I ever write?
I wish my poem had been burnt
Before it ever saw light.
Let’s stop and recapitulate
I’ve damned her eyes, that's plain—
I’ve told her she’s a lunatic,
And blind, and deaf and lame.
Was ever such horrid hash
In poetry or prose?
I’ve said she was a fiend, and praised
The color of her nose.
I wish I had that editor
About a half a minute,
I’d bang him to his heart's content,
And with an “li” begin it.
I’d “jam” his body, eyes and bones,
And spell it with a “and,”
And send him to that “hill” of his
He loves to spell with “e.’’ —[Ev.
Pencilings and Scissorings
BY ONE OF ’EM.
A dreary place would be this earth
Were there no little people in it:
The gong life would lose its mirth.
Were there no children to begin it.
No little forms, like buds to grow,
And make the loving heart surrender;
No little hands, on breast and brew,
To keep the thrilling love chords tender.
Life's song indeed would lose its charm,
Were there no babies to begin it;
A doleful place this world would be,
Were there no little people in it.
—To sleep well, get into the bed
of happiness, cover op with the
comfort of love and sympathy, and
float away to—to—we don’t care
where.
“Fellow trabblers,” said a negro
preacher not long since, “ef 1 had
been Batin’ dried apples for a week,
an’ den took to drinkia’ for amonf,
I ceuld’t feel more swelled up dan
I am dis rainit wid pride and wani
tp at seein’ such full ’tendance
here di* obenin’.”
A yanke* editor has recently got
up a remedy for hard times. It
consists of ten hours labor, well
worked in.
Love is a sentiment so delicate
that a lover should never know he
is loved but by divining it.
Virtue has many preachers but
few martyrs.
A lady says that it takes many
men a whele life time to learo to
carry a $lO bill home without
breaking it.
Tho slightest sorrow for sin is
sufficient if it produce amendment;
tho greatest is insufficient if it does
not.
•‘lt isn’t loud prayin’ that counts
so much with the Lord as it is giv
ing four full quarts to the gallon,”
says an Arkansas circuit rider.
Georgia’s loss in slaves alone
was 8272,015,490, or thirty-four
millions more than her present
wealth.
The difference between a person
in his first childhood and his sec
oud childhood is this; In his first
childhood he cuts his teeth; in his
second childhood the teeth cut him.
Monkeys die of consumption.—
Tho worst of it is they do not know
enough to hasten their deaths by
taking a hundred different k inds ©f
patent medicines warranted to cure
any disease and kill any patient.
When a man brags that he can
tell a person’s character by the
color of his hair, it is deuced rough
to swindle him by steering him up
against a man who wears a wig.
A boy who will listen indiffer
ently to tho sublimest truths of
theology, will be aroused to the
acuteßt interest by the progress of
a caterpillar over the cellar of a
bald headed man in the pew in
front of him.
A clergyman was addressing a
teacher’s meeting the other day,
and oaid that, owing to the defeo
tive maner of selecting school
teachers, some of them were “no
more able to develop the human
mind than a Modoc to draw a pic**
ture of the Heavenly Jerusalem in
charcoal.”
When a girl crops her front hair
and pulls it down over her forehead
like a Mexican Mustang, and then
ties a piece of red velvet round her
neck, who can wonder at the num
her of pale-faced young men that
throw away their ambition and
pass sleepless nights in trying to
raise down on their lips ?
We Ice saw a youDg man gazing
at the *ry heavens, with at > n 1
53* and a of pistols in the
other. We Ndeavored 2 attract
his atlOtion by .ting 2 paper we
held in our 53*. relating 2 a young
man in that § of the country who
had left home in a stß of derange
ment. He dropped the t and pis
tols from his 53*=CC with the !
“Il is lof whom U read. I left
home be4 my friends knew my
Dsign. I sO tho 53* of a girl
who refused to listen to me. I
ed from the house, uttered a
wild ! 2 the god of love, and with
out replying to the ? ? af my
friends came here with this t and
of pistols, to put a . to my
XislOce. My case has do I! in
this §.” This is a printer’s story.
m* ■
About Girls.
When girls midway in their teens
throw off their natural girlish habits
and attire, don leug shirts, shoot up
their hair, and affect the airs and dress
of young women, they would often be
surprised to know what their elders
really think of the improvements. One
such young miss went to the depot re
cently to meet an aged friend of the
Devoted to the Cause of Truth and Justice, and llie Interests of the People.
GREENESBORO’, GA., THURSDAY, JUNE 15, 1882.
family, and was surprised to find her'
self not recognized upon greeting the
visitor as she stepped from the car.
“Don't you know me, auntie?”
“Why, this isn’t Maria, is it?”
“Certainly! Don’t you think I look
belter than I did last summer ?”
“No,” replied the honest soul, look
ing at the girl ; “to tell the truth, I
don’t! Go home anklet down your
hair, and be young while you can, for
it will not be many years before you
will be glad to have p&tple take you
for a girl.”—[Ex.
Letter from North Carolina.
Facts in ltclntion to Western
North Carolina nml jottings
by tlie Way.
BY AN EYE WITNESS.
We left Union Point, Ga., on the 24Ui
of April for a sojourn for a while in this
field. We spent from Monday 24th to
Wednesday 26th with relatives at Antioch,
Oglethorpe county, Ga., of course pleasant
ly. Leaving Antioch on 26th we boaided
tho cars for Athens, Ga., arrived there in
due time, but ala* ! here the connection
was such with the North Eastern Railroad J
that we were compelled to lay over until
4 o’clock, p. m., when wc left for Harmony
Grove, Jackson county, Ga., where we
spent the night with our Nephew, 1,. M.
Landrum, the principal of a very fine
school at this place, about 70 pupils. Here
we bad been only a short while before we
received a note from our genial and good
friend, bro. Robert Cheney, asking us to
preach in the Baptist Church, but being so
"very unwell wo had to decline—indeed
here we had to call into requisition our
brother Chip I)r. Hardman, to our relief;
hut as it happened a better, and a greater
than we preached, in the person of Rev. J
G. Gibson, of Crawford, he having been
called on to meet other brethren here in
the interest of the cause of Christ in some
way.
Sick and much wearied we left nartnony
Grove, on Thursday morning 27th, (after
being posted to our advantage, ns Jto our
travel, by our good bro. Cheney, the Depot
Agent, whom we will not soon forget for
kindness shown us) for Lula, arriving for
breakfast. Here in a short time, we board
ed the Air-Line train for Spartanburg, S.
C. Lula is certainly one of the prettiest
points for a large town or city we ever saw,
but to our surprise it has grown but little
since wc were there several years ago. We
asked the Hotel proprietor the cause. He
said a very wealthy individual had years
ago purchased all tlie land* around there,
some thousands of acres, at about an aver
age of one dollar per acre, and that now
no one could get him even to price it,
much less sell it ; and that numbers had
tried to purchase and settle there, but
could not for this reason, and that there
was no chance for growth, until the lands
changed hands in some way.
We past quite a number of nice places on
the line of travel, on the Air-Line in Ga;
some of which we will mention. Tocoa
City, the junction of the Elberton narrow
gauge Railroad, is apparently a thriving
and tasty little town. Mount Airy, is
also one of the most picturesque little
villages on the whole line, the scenery
being perfectly lovely. There are others,
the names of which we have forgotten,
that we would like to mention. On the
line of Railroad through Georgia the view
is perfectly grand, the mountains and the
valleys; first on a lofty cliff, and then down
in the valley, atid the Railroad to be called
an Air-Line, is certainly the crookedest
Air-Line we have ever seen, but it is worth
any ones money to travel on this road just
for the view.
So soon as you strike -South Carolina,
there are some changes—fie freights and
passenger charges by at least
one eeut. Ido not understand why this
is. I asked, but was not able to get a satis
factory answer. It is perhaps because
there is no Railroad Commission in Caro
lina. Here too you must ride with the
colored people, all together injthe same car,
should they pay for first class tickets.—
On our trip quite a number came
in, and took seats near us. We
appealed to the Captain. He said he did
not like it, but he was powerless—they had
first class tickets, and demanded it, and
he had no power to prevent it, but I assure
you this did not make me relish the odor
abit the less.
It is a very fine farming country in
Carolina on the line of this Road, especial
ly, in the low lands, and on the rivers, and
almost every farm shows indications of
prosperity, though it appeared very strange
to me, to see no fences on farms.
We arrived at Spartanburg about 3
o'clock on the evening of Thursday tho
27th, and stopped at the TTinson llouee,
and who should I find in charge of this
House but Hewitt, formerly of the Globe
at Augusta, whom I presume you know.—
He keeps a most excellent table, has just
opened here, everything olean aud nioe.
Spartanburg is quite a pretty city, of about
5,000 inhabitant; at the last census, but
(ESTABLISHED 7.V THE YEAR lfti-t)
there are doubtless more now, as a great
deal of business is done here, and is the
center of trade for miles around.
We left this place on Friday p m., the
28th for the neighborhood of the Mount
Zion Baptist Church, in order to be at the
Memorial service of my late kinsman in
the flesh; Rev. JohnG. Landrum who
died in January last —spent the time very
pleasantly on Friday night with a bro.
Turner, on Saturday mid Sunday night
29th and 30th with a bro. Martin, a rela
tive of our Tom Martin, formerly of Pen
field, I met quite a number of the ministry
of nearly every order at the service on
Sabbath the 30th of April, among tho num
ber a bro. Earle, who said he knew you
(the Union Point Local of the Herald,)
formed your acquaintance while at Pen
field years gone by, said he was called
Judge there by all who were intimate with
him, asked me to extend y Editor his
kind regards. He is quite a man out here,
is serving three Churches, and conducts
quite a large farm, and has considerable
means, and is universally beloved I think
by all. The memorial service was quite
largely attended, estimated from 2,500 to
4,000 persons, I think about two regiments.
7'he service was very impressive conducted
by Dr Furman of Greenville; Dr, White
field of Spartanburg; Rev. Ezell of tho
county, aud your writer.
We left for our present location on Mon
day Ist day of May, left Spartanburg that
p. m., 4 o’clock, on the Spartanburg and
Ashville Railroad, and arrived at Tryon
City at six o’clock; was met by friends all
the way, (and certainly here,) with out
stretched arms, and open hearts and
houses—never have had our lots cast where
we were better treated, or were better
pleased so far—found work plenty to do at
once, and right at it wc went, have just as
muoh as .vo are able to do. The people are
plain and live at home, hardly a place, but
what is self sustaining and nearly all the
people have money'. You will often meet
one that you would not think from dress
and general make up was worth anything,
when ou inquiry yoq will he utterly sur
prised to know that he is perfectly inde
pendent, money at interest, or in hank,and
owns a good home, stuck in some cave, or
on the side of the mouutain not to be seen
until you get right to it, when you find
everything in perfect elegance, plenty ot
every thing for botli man and beast raised
at home.
My opinion is from the slart made that
most of my Church membership
intend supporting me as they go,
adopting the scriptural plan of benevolence,
to “lay by on the first of the week as the
Lord has prospered them.” This is the
plan already inaugurated for the support
of the Gospel. Asa matter of course, I like
it, for I think it tho plan—the members
feel better, and I am certain the minister
feels better, and at the end of the year the
salary is paid, and in the way it was done,
they hardly know how they did it.
As to the country, climate and scenery
it is perfectly delightful ; one can not de
scribe it so as to enable another not hav
ing seen it to form any just and correct
opinion. To be admired and loved, re
quires only to be seen, by all who have any
admiration for the grand and the sublime.
Just imagine from where I now sit and
pen you these lines, by just raising the
head and casting tho eye around, you see
in the river bottoms, and valleys between
the mountains, wheat, oats, rye, clover,
grass, corn, and every other spontaneous
growth, in pirfeet luxuriance. As I am
within a few hundred steps of the North
Packolet River, can step out at almost any
time and catch a mess of fish, aud then to
let the eye rise, you take in, within a mil*
or two, White Oak, Tryon, Warior, Hock
ey-Spur, Little Mountain, Round Moun
tain, Buck Mountain, Melt Roso, Hog Hack,
(just like the back of the hog) and Sugar
Loaf, all of which is perfectly grand, and
the whole sides and top, where not culti
vated, are literally covered with every
imaginable growth of wild flowers.
The lands are rich, and very productive,
if you can find soil to cover the grain; and
with slight cultivation you need net fear
but that you will be remuuerated for your
labor, —aud it is ccrtatuly the best adapted
climate and soil for fruit that is known. —
Just to think that nature lias so arranged
a Thermal Belt, around the mountains just
here, in which frost is a stranger. Settlers
hsre for the past 40 to 5u years, in this
belt, have not in this time known a single
year when fruit was a failure. We have
the Hales Early Peaches now ripe. I ate
some the 28th of May. This is certainly
remarkable. All fruits grow here, and you
can raise any vegetable boat that oau be
raised farther South. Sinoe the Railroad
has been constructed through here it has
opened up for all purposes, both for pleas
ure, health, profit or rusticating, the grand
est country and climate known, at least to
the writer, and I am glad to know that 1
atn not alone in this conclusion. It is my
honest opinion that even these mountain
si Jes that can now be purchased at from
four to ten dollars an aro, will in a few
years demand fifty, and oan’t be had at
that.
Here at Tryon CHy Slalion, is now just
completed a fine Hotel, built by John
Garrison and T. T. Ballinger, in or on one
most commanding hills in all western N'
C. It oan’t be excelled in any Jway, and
boarders are now coming in. The house
will be opened by a Mr. Simmons in a few
days, and I would certainly recommend
persons in pursuit of health or pleasure to
come to this place. There are others here
who take boarders. Dr. McAbney, in one
mile of the Depot has a very large Hotel,
a;d has been accommodating persons both
summer and winter for years. No doubt
he has done as much or more to bring the
place into notice than any other ono man.
Dr. Curton, near also, I think takes boarii
ors, so does Mr. John Garrison, with whom
you.- writer is stopping, Ilian whom no
more whoUsouled clever man ever lived.
Then as to the water, there is no necessi
ty for me to speak, for it is just as pure
as can be found; and in places so cold that
your teeth will ache while drinking it. It
is true, you find in some loca’ities the
water impregnated with different kinds of
minerals, and possesses great curative and
medicinal properties.
Chills and fever are not known here,
that is, with the native inhabitants. Per
sons coming in from other points with the
miasmatic poison in tho syt:m may have
some after arriving: but they have never
been known to last them long in this cli
mate. And sit ange to say, Consumptives
find much greater relief here than on the
coast of Georgia aud Florida, and this is in
accordance with a long entertained opin
ion of your writer, i. e., that one with pul
monary trouble certainly needed the pur
est air that could be obtained; and he nev
er did think that the ponds and lakes of
Florida was the place to find it. Thqlalter
view has bern fully' tested here, for parlies
from the North have tried Florida for coil
sumption and failed lobe benefited. They
came immediately to this Thermal belt and
improved beyond their most sanguine ex
pectations. The parties can be found,
should this be doubted, au 1 I would not
i say so much on this point if it was not for
the hope of benefiting some poor despond
ing, depressed and hopeless consumptive
that may see this.
I must close, by saying that lam very
pleasantly situated, just as nice and com
fortaole as any one could wish; and while
I was very sick for a few weeks, I am now
now much improved, feeling better than
usual for me. All my surroundings as
pleasant as can be—much pleased with the
people, climate, country, and with my
work so far, though they will run me into
medicine once in .a while—cases present
themselves that one can not well resist.—
With this exception all is as nice as can be
be. My wife, too, is as well pleased as
myself, and her health is about as good as
when in Georgia,
I would here state, that I have not said'
anything about the price of board fou the
reason, tliet I do not know what the terms
will be, as the hotel is not yt open, and
as a matter of course this will govern it.
Wishing all my old friends in Georgia
health, peace, plenty, aud long life in the
service of the Saviour, I am theirs frater
nally, M. M. LANDRUM.
Tryon City, N. C., June Ist, 1882.
Setting; Mown on Profanity.
The Memphis Scimetar is respon
sible for the following :
One of our neighboring towns has
enjoyed a considerable reputation for
profanity, and the mayor has started a
reform boom. All persons using cuss
words are arrested and brought before
him, and he fines them one dollar a
cuss. Lately a circuit-rider filled an
appointment in the village, and in the
course of bis sermon seiiously referred
to the probability of the sinners in that
neighborhood being damned. The
mayor had him pulled instantly, and
fined him a dollar, remarking at the
time that he intended to stop the use
of profanity or shuffle off this mortal
ooil in the attempt, and he could not
consistently make any distinction be'
tweeo preachers and other people. The
preacher paid his dollar and departed
in peace.
*1 • >■
I>o Von Know t
That a little water in butler will
preveut it from burning when used for
frying ?
That a little saltpeter worked into
butter that has bocome sour or rancid
will render it sweet and palatable ?
That pennyroyal distributed in places
frequented by roaches will drive them
away ?
That wild mint will keep rats and
mioe out of your house ?
That limo, sprinkled in fireplaces
during summer months, is healthful ?
That leaves of parsley, eaten with a
little vinegar, will prevent the dis
agrooablo consequences of tainted
breath by onions ?
That flowers and shrubs should be
excluded from a bed chamber '
Gup Railroad Cnpf,
Office General Manager, Augusta, Ga., JI’NF. 3id, 1882.
Commencing Sunday' JUNE 4th, 1881, Passenger Trains will run ss ftifewsi
No. I, West- Daily.
Leave Augusta 10;3t l a. tn.
Leave Macon 7.10 a. ih.
Leavo Milledgeville 9-".oi a. in.
Leave C'nrnak 12:25 a m.
Leave Washington 11:20 a. in.
Leave Athens 9:3© a. m.
Arrive at Gieenesboro’ 2:01 p. m.
Arrive nt Atlanta 5:45 p. ni.
No. West - Wally-
Leave Augusta 8."50 p m
Arrive Grecncsboro’ 1"4 4 am
Leave Macon, i:10 p m
Leave Milledgeville 9-15 p m
Ltave Athens 7:00 p m
Arrive Atlanta 6;loam
Close connection to and from Washington on Sundays
ry*Fuperb Sleepers to Augusta and Atlanta.
ES. R. J3ORSE3Y,
General Passenger Agrnt.
J. W. Grkkne, General Manager.
CITY DRU 6 STORE. :
oo
J" ALWAYS keep a Large and raided assortment of
Chemically Pure 'WpA DRUtSS and
**• aonm 17 Medicines.
Arriving every week.
Full alock of
PAINTS, OILS, VARNISHES,
COLORS, BRUSHES, etc.
All Sizes WINDOW GLASS.
LAMP GOODS, CHIMNEYS, etc.
Buist’s Garden Seeds.
ONION SETS, POTATOES, etc.,
Crop of 1870, warranted fresh find Genuine. lO cents papers gold at 6 cent*
strictly. Th# best Seed for this climate.
Fine Cigars & Chewing Tobacco
Toilet Snnps, Perfumery, Pomades, Toolh-bruslies, and Druggist's sundrlef.
JBfcY-Physicians’ prescriptions careful compounded and dispensed.
John A® Griffin.
Greenesboro’, Oa., January 20,1880. ___
j. L. BOWLES & CO.,
Wholesale and Retail ‘ t
i WniHl I
No. 717 Broad Stieet,
Augusta, - - - GA.
/~v XT I! Stock is complete in every particular. Chamber Set* from SSOO down to $24
U Parlor Sets from S4O up to S2do. Come ami set- us, or write for priest. W*
have all the Latest IStyles and Novelties in our line. We are Agents for the Wevan
Wire Mattress Company, and the National Wire Improved. The best two springs in tk.
market We have a full lino of cheap Spring and Mattresses; also fine Feathers-
J. L. BOWLES & CO.
Jan. 20, 1881— No. 717 Drond Street, Augusta, &
10111, CAMPBELL m
DEALERS IN
Paper, Paper Boxes, Books
And Stationery,
Oflico and Salesroom No. 29, Whitehall Street,
ATLANTA, - - - 4.
PLAIN WRITING PAPER, |jWRAPPING PAPER.
FANCY do do PAPER BAGS of all sizes and
BLANK BOOKS. > -weight st
mucilage jj BottomJUfureß
of ever; dejection. | Ul UUi U OUliUllM.
October 14, 1880—
Central Hotel.
Mrs W M THOMAS,
PROPRIETRBSS-
Centrally located near Confederate Monument,
Ui-otul Street, AUGUSTA, f.'a.
Com tort able Rooms, excellent Fare. Courteous Clerks and attentive Servant*.
Sept. 30, 1880—
(H. T. LEWIS,
( EDITOR.
No 2, Host - Daily,
Leave Atlanta 8:80 a. m.
Leave Orecnwboro’ 12; 18 pm
Arrive Athens 3:45 p m
Arrive Washington 2:56 p
Arrive L’Amak 1:57 pm
Arrive Milledgeville 4:49 p m
Arrive Macon 6:46 p iw
Arrive Augusta 3.00 p in
No. I, Hunt—Daily.
Leave Atlanta 8:46 p,m
Leave Greenesboro’ 1:47 am
Arrive Milledgeville 4:27 a m
Arrive Micon 6:40 a m
Atnve at Athens, JB:00 a. in
Arrive Augusta 0:80 a m
NO. 24.