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VOL. XVII-
Georgia Railroad Cw,
Office General Manager, Augusta, Ga., JUtY lsi, 1 882.
Comm vinei a g bund ay JULY 2d, 1881, Passenger Trains will run as follows:
IVo. I, West- l>a ij.
Leave Augusta 10:90 a. m.
Leave Macon 7.10 a. m.
Leave Milledgeville 0:05 a. m.
Leave (,‘amak 12:26 a m.
Leave Wasliingten 11:20 a. m.
Leave Athens 9:45 a. ni.
Arrive ai Greenesboro’ 2;!6 p. m.
Arrive at Atlanta 6:45 p. m
Xo. S, Hcsl-Diiij-
Leave Augusta 8:50 p m
Arrive Greenesboro’ 1 41 am
Leave Macon, 7:10 p ni
Leave Milledgeville 915 p m
Lave Athens 0:00 p m
Arrive Atlanta 0:40 a ni
Ei®*Buperb Sleepers to Augusta and Atlanta.
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J ALWAYS keep a Large ami variedassortinent of
Clieiniealy Pure DltfJtfiS and
new goods m | Medicines.
Arriving every week. / - \
Full Stock of
PAINTS, OILS, VARNISHES,
COLORS, BRUSHES, etc.
All Sizes WINHOT GUSS.
LAMP GOOD'. Cli l\l NEYS. etc
Buist’s Garden Seeds.,
ONION SETS, POTATOES, etc..
Crop of 1579, warranted fresh and Genuine. lO ctMlh pnper9 sold at . CIIIS
strietlv, The best Seed for this climate.
Fine Cigars & Fhewsiss; Tobnceo
Jt Toilet Snaps, Perfumery, Pomades, Tooth-brushes, and Druggist’s sundries.
* J®" Physicians’ prescriptions careful compounded and dispensed.
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IVo. 2, Mast-EJuiv.
; Leave Atlanta 8:20 a. ni
; Leave Greenesboro’ 12;03 p m
Arrive Athens 8:45 p in
Arrive Washington 2:55 p in
Arrive Camak 1:57 p in
Arrive MiTtedgcvtlle 4:49 p m
Arrive Macon 6:45 p m
Arrive Augusta 3.65 p m
X’<>. 4, ICnst-Dr.iy.
Leave Atlanta 8:45 p m
Leave Greenoshoio’ 1;47 a m
,4rrive Milledgeville 4:27 a m
Arrive Macon 6:40 a m
Airive at Athens, 8:30 a. ni
Arrive Augusta 6:30 a ni
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GREENESBORO’, GA., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 23, IXB2.
AS ADTOBKGRAPEI
Selected.
To-morrow I am going to be aiar
riod. 1 who have been set and >wti an old
maid for an indefinite number of years.
This expected event, creates quite a
commotion io our hitherto quiet house
hold. My un tlier says; ‘AVhat can I
do without you 7” And my dear father,
whose dark hair begins to be spritskled
with silver, says mournfully, "I can
not spare ouy Caroline,” though I think
he is secretly pleased that his pet
‘Caro' is to have such a noble husband
after all. My rougish brother Tout
goes about the house singiug;
There is no goose so gray, but soon or late,
SheTltfind some honest gander for a mate.
Aud I—all this seems strange to me.
I cannot realize it that the bridal dress
of snowy satin, with the gossamer veil
and wreath of orange blossoms, can be
for plain Caroline Hudson. But the
strangest of all is, that I am to marry
John Grunt —J hn Grant, whom 1
learned to love years ago, but all
thoughts of whom I strove to put far
from me.
It is six years now since that morn
ing in early summer, when we walked
together through the green wood, the
leaves stirred by a gentle wind, and
birds singing their moroing songs.—
We were a little apart from the rest of
our party, and when we had gathered
our hands full of wild flowers that were
scattered in profusion at our feet, we.
sat down upon a felled oak to wait for
them. I was happy on that June
morning, as I sat on that old tree by
the side of John Grant, while he
wreathed the buds and blossoms and
the green leaves of the trailing con
volvulus in the ’braids of my brown
hair.
We did not talk much that morning,
and we had sat in silence several mo
ments, when John said :
“Caroline I want to tell you some-
thing.”
It was not the words that made my
heart beat so and the hot blood to rush
to my cheeks and forehead, for we had
known each other a long time and he
bad often made a confidante of me
but it was the low tone full of new
and strange tenderness that thrilled
my whole being. Ido not know, but
perhaps my voice trembled a little, as 1
said :
“Well, what is it. John 7”
“Carrie dear,” but the sentence was
not finished —just then the rest of the
party made their appearance, and
effectually put an end to all confiden
tial conversation.
The next day John Grant left Tun
bridge on business, which required his
presence for several weeks. I did not
see him for some time after his return
and when he called at last, there was
a something uudufinable in his manner,
but yet a change, a restraint, which
told me that those words once on the
lips would not be spoken.
Months came and went, and again
he left h me ostensibly for business,
but it was rumored that a beautiful
young girl at Ferny Coombes, whise
acquaintance he had made, was the
real cause of bis frequent visits to
Devonshire.
In it little while it was said, and
upon good authority, that John Grant
was engaged to be married to Mary
Keating; and it was also said that she
was very young and beautilul. Never
till then, was the secret of my own
heart revealed to me; but then I knew
how I had loved him—how all hope,
all joy, all earthly happiness was cen
tered in him —even now I shudder
when I think of that time, when life
seemed such a heavy burden, and I
longed for a time to lay it down in the
grave, but I could not; a thorny path
opened before me, and I was to walk
into it.
* * * * *
John Grant returned to Tunbridge
soon after bis engagement, and in a
few weeks Mary Keating came to Elm
wood, on a visit to his sister. Soon
alter her arrival I was invited to a
party to be given during her stay. I
dreaded to go, and yet I oould not stay
away; how plain I looked as i
stood before my dr sing glass that
night, in a plain silk with a few scar
let verbenas in my hair 1 Did I wear
them beeause he had said ouee they
contrasted well with my dark hair 7 1
was early, and of all the girls in the
room Mary Keating was the most love
ly. Ido not wonder he loved you,
Maty; you were beautiful, as you
came floating into the room, in a dress
of light uiuslin, your golden curls fil
ing ov.r your sweet childish face, and
your blue eyes running over with hap
piness, and he—but 1 dared not look
at him long, for I was not very 6lrong,
In the course of tit# evening I was
introduced to her; and strange as it
was, from that moment she seemed to
cling to tne. She was a child in art
lessness, and soon began talking of
•John,” asking it 1 knew him, etc.
“How strange ho never mentioned
you —he toid me of so many of his
friends. “J,hn —John,” she called,us
he passed us, ‘ why didn't you tell me
about Miss Hudson 7—you spoke of so
many others.”
Our eyes met for an instant, and
then 1 said, pitying his embarrassment:
“He has so many friends it isn’t at
all singular that he should have for
gotten one.”
But I knew then, as I do now, that
he had not forgotten tne.
Just then, looking up, I saw in a
mirror opposite the reflection oT our
little group and —John Grant ’. When
I saw illo contrast between Mary
Keating and myseif. I forgave him, if
I did not before. Not that I was so
very plain ldo not think I was—but
the was so beautiful, so confiding and
loving, no one could help being charm
ed with her; aud l could not blauie
him, for he bad always been a great
admirer of the beautiful.
Mary Keating came to so r v me" fre
quently while she stayed a* f.liter’s,
sometimes, not often, accompanied by
John. It was an autumn afternoon,
lull of clouds and sunshine, when she
came to make her farewell call. He
was with her, watching, her every
movement with loving pride, nod vet
it seemed to me that he regarded her
somewhat as a beautiful plaything
winding her yellow cutis around his
fingers aud calling her pet names. We
went out into the garden to gather
some flowers, and as she ran about
laughing, talking and picking flowers
ami wreathing them in her hair she
seemed a lovely and bewitching child
John had gradually lost his constrained
and embarrassed manner when with
me, and excepting that wo never ap
proaeiied personalities in our conver
sation, oqr intercourse was getting to
be something as it once was.
' Our tastes in many things were sim
ilar. We bad read and admired the
same authors and upon most of the
important subjects couuected with hu
man life, our thoughts were alike. We
were speak ing of some work wc had
lately read, aud were quite interested
in discussing its merits, when Mary
suddenly checked her happy play, and
with a grave face walked silently to
John’s side. At last she said:
“You never talk that way to me,
John, but it’s because I don’t know
enough.”
15
‘ You know enough for me, dear,”
he answered; but she wont on:
I shall be but a ‘child wife.’ Caro
line would suit you much better."
‘•Allowing you to be judge.’’ I said,
laughingly, for I saw John could nut
answer readily. We said no more on
the subject,, but I think John asked
himself more than once that day :
“Is Mary right 7”
When Mary bade me good-bye, that
afternoon, she wound bar white arms
around my neck and kissed me, saying,
in her gentle voice : “Write to me
olten, Caroline, and teach tne to be
worthy of him.” And she went out
the gate, through the hop garden lean
ing or. his arm, the warm sunlight fall
ing on her golden hair, making her
look very beautiful.
Soon after this John Grant left Elm
wood, and took a farm on Ins own ac
count in the west of Englaud, adjoin
ing that of old Mr Keating. I seldom
heard and never mentioned his name.
Mary wrote*!requcntly to me during
the winter; her letters were like her
self, graceful and charmiug, full of love
and confidence She spoke much ol
John—how proud she was of him,
what letters he wrote, so much better
than hers, and wasn't it strange that
he should love such a child as she was!
She went on writing in this way lor
several mouths; but at length there
was a change in her manner of spenk
ing of John; it seemed as though she
were not quite as happy as she had
been; she said she began to be ditt
eiurageil about ever knowing any
more, and liiuteJ that John was getting
dissatisfied with her—generally ending
her letters with some anecdote about
her favorite eat or canary. It was not
long after this, when she began to
speak of her cousin “Harry Smith,”
who was so agreeable, and yet he didn’t
know a hit more than she did. A
month or two after this, I wus not
much surprised alien she wrote that
her engagement with John Grant was
broken by mutual conaeut—“They
were not at all suited to each other and
no doubt would both he happier,” she
said, “for he knew so much aud she so
little.”
Sho concluded with a long account
of her new black kitten Topsy, which
seemed then to be the cue object
which engrossed all her attention.
Two years passed, and 1 seldom
heard John Grant’s name mentioned,
and if I thought of him at all, I be
lieved I had conquered uiy old attach
ment—my life flowed on quietly and
serenely. 1 tried to be useful to others
and in regular employment und recre
ation lw is content. Was there a ca
pacity for higher happiness unemploy
ed 7—a craving in my woman’s nature
unsupplied 7
One year ago how well I re
member the day !—I was silting
quietly reading in the fading light
of an October sky, when, hearing
a rustle among the,)eve that lay
thick upon the gravel walk, I look
ed up an ! saw John Grant ap
proaching the house.
When he was last there, she was
with him, but he was alone now,
and my heart’s quick throbbing
told me of his errand.
Was I weak and wantii g iri self
respect, when after he had told tne
Ml—told me that although he was
fascinated wilh a beautiful and lov
ing child, deep down in his heart
had always laid a love for tne;
though in the firet glow of his pas
sion for Mary he was hardly con
scious of it. i/ow he had thought
from the calm indifference of my
manner, that 1 had never cored for
him; how since he had beet: again
free, lie had been afraid to make
known his love, feeling that he h and
acted dishonorably in the past.
Was I weak minded and lacking
in womanly pride, when after he
told mo this, and asked in trembling
tones: “Could I forget the past,
and be his own Caroline?”—all rriy
old love came back to tne, and with
more confidence than I had felt
for years before, I Uul my hand*
in his and said: “John Grant, I
will be vours?”
And so, as I have said before,
to-morrew ts fixed for my wedding
day. We do not give each other
the wild, unthinking passion of
early youth, but a deep and strong
affection, purified and tnado strong
by the experience of years —a love
that we can ask the blessing of
Heaven upon; and when my lips
at th? altar utter the solemn words,
“I, Caroline Hudson, [take thee,
John Grant, to love, cherish and
obey,” in eiy inmogt soul they will
be joyfully repeated—“to love,
cherish and to obey.”
John has sold his farm at Ferny
Coombes, and our new home is near
Ashford— the old house of Elmwood
was taken down to make roesn, frr
the railway. We neither of us ex
pect to pass over our path of life
without meeting with occasional
storms; but we place our trust in
One who is both willing ard able
to assist those who put their hand
cheerfully to the work, and with as
it will be both a work of trust and
love.
-©•
—New Saddle-, flamers and Bridles
just received by C. A Davis <s• Cos.
BAu-man** ForiinH:i,
Editors Chren. & Const.;
I write to thank yon tor the
handsome manner in which you
have seer* fit to refer to mysell in
your editorial beaded “the Fur
man farm und theory. ’ From the
conclusion arrived at therein, and
reiterated in a subsequent ar'.jfile
entitled “Furman's Formula, ’ that
mv system in the bands of otl.ets
would be likely te prove a failure.
I must beg to differ and under the
circuussiaDces feel that perhaps it
is tlue the public that 1 should as
sort that difference, and give the
reasons upon which it is based.
It is an oil saying end one in
which there is much philosophy
and more truth that “there is more
in the man than there is in the
land,” aid this saw would seem to
boar]you out io your conclusion.
Take two men with equal advan
tages of soil, capital, an>4 educa'
tion andstait them to farming,and
the one will grow rich and pros,
p r wht’e the other is sold ut by
the sheriff and starves. This i9
true of men in every calling in life,
and yet that it is so should be no
disparagement upon any system c
method, that piopsrly pursued ajf and
Carried out is a certain road to suc
cess, as when trod with caution
and intelligence.
Even with a system) the inevita
ble result of which is perfect sue
cess if perfectly applied, fee arrive
at that perfection; hut. ’leyeftbe,?
less, every attempt ;to re-ch per
fection brings about growth and
development, and ns a certain re
sultant, an amount either greater
or less of improvement in methods
aud results.
It may be that not runny of the
farmers who read Mr. David Dick
son’s book and adopted his system
referred to by you, were as success
ful as Mr Dickson; but the fact is
uncontroverted that tbe system of
cultivation advocated and intro
ducedjbv Mr. Dickson has been
generally adopted by intelligent
farmers throughout the South, and
has constituted an important factor
in what lit le development we have
bad in our agricultural interests.
The system which I havo adopted
and advocate (for with roe it is no
longer a theory) is cue which 1 am
satisfied will at no distant day
prove tLe salvation of the agricul
turists of.this country. Without
old slipshod method, and unsatis
factory results, farming has fallen
into disrepute, yin impression pre
vails, and justly too, that with the
prevailing system thoro is no mo
ney to be mads in this country at
farming, and we h ive had no ex
ample as yet with us of a second
Cincinnati!#, so that no induce
ment is held out to the brains of
tbe country to draw them toward
me soil as a probable source from
whence wealth or honor are to hi
derived.
With my system properly ap
plied, returns and remunerative
one3 are assured, and surely the
fact that all who follow in my foot
steps may not equal my results,
should be no ground for discour
agement and the prediction that
tny system in the hands of others
will prove a failure.
Once let that system be under
stool (and simplicity itself, for
all that it does is to fellow nature,)
and its application will, I predict,
he general, and generally success
ful. In proof of this assertion, I
will sav that my negro tenants are
adopting it wi'h marked success,
end are now- as much interested ij.
compost and chemicals as 1 am
myself. Three years ago I could
not keep thorn from selling their]
cotton seed. To-day nt> induce-'
raent would make theta part with
(H. T. LE-Wl*/
( EDITOR.
'“' . T f
t sin. 1 find them quick to catch
<ny ideas and eager lo apply them
pra'cticall v.
When our yonng e.cn of talent
turn their attention, as they sob
will do, to the true source of
wal;h_snd happiness, vvhieh they
havo so lons spurned under their
feet, a few decades will *p6 the
GtO’gia of til® future what her cli
mate and soil combined in ike ficiV
the garden spit of the world.
1 herewith give you my rerrtftntf
for compost correctly;
Cost.
| 3O bushels stable manure
or well rotted'vegetable
matter .S 00
2—200 lbs. acid phosphate' 2 20
2 100 lbs. kainic * 5
3 —SO bush's cotton seed S 75
4 2OO lbs. acid phosphate 2 2 3
4 11)0 lbs. kainit 73
— ■—
2,400 lbs S9 73
Far isii C Furman.
\
Alive in Her Shroiul,
On Tuesdiy afternom ’ad, Mrs. W.
L I’cttit, wife of (Its Tc'ler of the
First National Dank of Fort Wayne,
Indiana, died, to all appearances, and
the undertaker took charge ol the body.
Arrangements were making for. the
funeral and watchers were silting with
tliu supposed corpse. At ten o’clock
at night a faint sigh was beard oomiug
from the body. '#he. watchers started
to their feet with alarm, stepped to her
side, found her eyes were wide open,
while iu a Voice Out was searoejy an
and*try wih>'®r she . xorogniged tln iH
and diked for her (: u-sbuft.l. For a uic®
uient the attendants were speechless
with wonder at this resurrection of
the dead; then, with the revulsion of
feeling, they almuat scretiun'd with-ex
citement The hushund Came iu haste,
and with joy unspeakable clasped again
his living wife in liis arms. The doctor
was sent for and lie was as much as
tonished as the rest of the household
at beholding living what in his exact
medical science he had declared dead,
lie administered the proper resfofnfivea,
and the lady rapidly recovered and war
declared to be in a more hopeful condii
tiou than ever.—[E*.
A railroad conductor was recently chos
en deaconed'a chimdi. When it bocame
his duly to take up a collection, lie surpris
ed the congregation by starting out with
the characteristic ejaculation: ‘ • ’l" ic:ki (s
gentlemen! ’ The Contribution that (!*y
was large.
A young couple wore baptized together
at Trimida’e, Tennessee and immediately
af,ernard .vere married in their dripping
garments by ihe same clergyman.
ISi'o. & Cos.,
Are now receiving general
I>KV GOODS,
BAGQI N,
TIMS,
GROCIIRIi’S. etc.
All for sale al lowest market prices.
Highest market price paid for Cotton,
Where parties desire to ship to other mar
kels, they will haul cotton to Itailaoal
free. sept. If. *BS
Powdered Sugar; Granulated
Sugars; all grades of family Su
gars.— C. A. Davis ft Cos.
sjtF* a week in your own town
Outfit free. No risk. Ilea-
if you want a business at
which persons of either sex can make great
pay all the time they work. Write for par
ticulars to 11. ilAl.LKrr & Cos.. Portland,
Maine. juiy f6,1 880-ly
I X A( T.
Notice is hereby given that an Act enti
tled ‘An Act, to appropriate the proceeds < t
the hire of convicts from the county of
flreene, to the payment of insolvent costs
iloe the different otlieors of sail county
will be applied for at the meeting of the
next General Assembly of the State ef
Georgia.
Oct. 19, 1882—It.
Jtfjjy isew Pistols, Guns Cartridges.—C
A. Dav ,j- Cos.
mrn • a—
Lula Bourne is selling quanti
ties of new Millinery Goods at C. A. Davis
& Co’s. Have you scon those wide brim
'fats in in department ? They are very
fashionable this season.
Cgj?*PtiH another supply of popular
suits for children, boys and young men
arriving this week at C. A- Davis &
Go’s.
NO. 4(5