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She tewtslaMr’ letail, C. HEARD,) PROPRIETOR. j VOL. XIX. DHSUELLiNEOUS. LOCATION OF FARAD-SE. i An Argument to Prove That the Garden ot Edon was at the North Pole. A discussion took place, the other day, before'the Boston Evangelical Alliance upon the location of the garden of Eden. The Ilcv. I)r. W. F, Warren, president of the Boston University, read an elaborate paper in support of the theory that Adam’s abode was at the north pole. Ihe speaker said that he had first begun to study the subject because he had found that all religious writers were completely in the dark in regard to it. Three years ago he published “The True Key to Ancient Cosmog ony,” in which the earth was suppos ed to be a sphere with an exactly perpendicular axis. The northern or celestial pole was then deemed the abode of the gods, the southern was that of the demons or evil spirits, while the intervening lands were the habitations of shades. The paper was divided into five general lines of investigation as fol lows: First, the results of explorers; second, the hypothesis that the gar den was on a prehistoric earth, whose condititions of temperature and cos mogony were different from the pres ent; third, the hypothesis tested un der the light of modern science, in cluding history, botanic, zoological and typographical, and paleontolo gy; fourth, the coincidence between the hypothesis, the ethnic tradition, such its the old Hindoo, Aryan, and Semetic class; fifth, the hypothesis as agreeing with details of historic fact not included in the other divis ions, such as the Scriptural account of the paradise, the cosmetic tree, the four-branched river, etc. At the north pole less than one fifth of the time is spent in darkness, and more than four-fifths in light. Hence it is easy to believe this re gion to be the one referred to as the land of light and beauty. Such a land, before the deluge, might well have been the abode of men of extra ordinary strength and stature, and longevity. The popular impression that the far north has ever been the region of unendurable cold has been generally accepted. Science, howev er, has shown that the earth is a gradual cooling body, and it was conceivable, on scientific reasons, that the regions which first reached the temperature to sustain organic life were at the pole, and, consequent ly, the life of the the race might nat urally have been there. Astronomy shows that this region is more favor ed as regards light than any other. No more than two separate fortnights arc passed in darkness, and these are relieved by the stars and the aurora borealis. The exact length of the polar day is an unknown quantity, and can be determined only by observations on the spot. Whoever seeks a location for the terrestrial paradise with re spect to light and darkness and ce lestial scenery, must seek it at the Artie pole. Proofs were indicated to verify the existence of a great conti nent around the north pole before the deluge, with a flora and fauna consistent with its being the cradle of the human race.—Ex. JEFFERSON DAVIS. Complete Text of his Speech Before the Legislature of Missisrippi. The Jackson (Miss.) Clarion gives the following complete report of the speech of Jefferson Davis at the ova tion extended to him by the Legisla ture of that State, on the 10th inst:. “Friends and Brethren of hfimsip pi: In briefest terms, but with deep est feeling, permit me to return my thanks for the unexpected honor you have conferred on me. Away from the political sea, I have in my seclud ed home observed with intense inter est or honor of Mississippi, and have rejoiced to see in the diversification of labor, the development of new sources of prosperity, and the increas ed facilities of public education, rea son to hope for a future to our State more prosperous than any preceding era. The safety and honor of a i-e --public must rest upon the morality, intelligence and patriotism of the community. “We are now in a transition state, which is always a bad one, both in society and nature. What is to be the result of the changes which may be anticipated it is not possible to forecast; but, our people have shown such fortitude and have risen so grand ly from the deep depression inflicted upon them that it is fair to entertain bright hopes for the future. Sec tional hate, concentrating itself upon my devoted head, deprives me of the privilege accorded to others in the sweeping expression of ‘without dis tinction of race, color or previous condition,’ but it cannot deprive me of that which is nearest and dearest to mv heart, the right to boa Missis sinpian, and it i with great gratifiea- tion that I receive this emphatic re cognition of that right by the repre sentatives of the people. Reared on the soil of Mississippi, the ambition of my boyhood was to do something which would redound to the honor i and welfare of the state. The weight j of many years admonishes me that my day for actual service has passed, yet the desire remains undiminished to see the people of Mississippi pros perous and happy, and her fame not unlike the past, but gradually grow ing wider and brighter as the years roll away. “It has been said that I should ap ply to the United States for a pardon, but repentance must precede the right of pardon, and I have not re pented. Remembering, as I must, all which has been suffered, all which has been lost, disappointed hopes and crushed aspirations, vet I deliberate ly say, if it were to do over again, 1 would again do just as I did in 1801. No one is the arbiter ofhis own fate. The people of the Confederate States did more in proportion to their num bers and means than was ever achiev ed by any in the world’s history. Fate decreed that they should be un successful in the effort to maintain their claim to resume the grants made to the Federal government. Our people have accepted the decree; it therefore behooves them, as they may, to promote the general welfare of the Union, to show to the world that hereafter, as heretofore, the pa triotism of our people is not measured by linos of latitude and. longitude, but is broad as the obligations they have assumed, and embraces the whole of our ocean-bound domain. Let them leave to their children and children’s children the grand exam ple of never swerving from the path of duty, and preferring to return good for evil rather than to cherish the unmanly feeling of revenge. But never question or teach your children to desecrate the memory of the dead, by admitting that their brothers were wrong in the effort to maintain the sovereignty, freedom and independence which was their inalienable birthright. Remember ing that the coming generation are the children of the historic mothers whose devotion to our cause in its darkest hour sustained the strong and strengthened the weak, I cannot believe that the cause for which our sacrifices were made can ever he lost; hut, rather hope that those who now deny the justice of our asserted claims will learn from experience that the fathers budded wisely, and the con stitution should be construed accord ing to the commentaries of the men who made it. It having been pre viously understood that I would not attempt to do more than return thanks, which are far deeper than it would be possible for me to express, I will now, Senators and Representatives, and to you, ladies and gentleman, who hove honored me by your atten dance, hid you an affectionate, and, it may be, a last farewell.” OLC-FASHIONEB MOTHERS. Thank God, some of us have had old-fashioned mothers. Not a wo man of the period, enameled and painted, with her great chignon, her curls and bustles, whose white, jewel ed hands never felt the clasp of baby fingers; but, a dear old-fashioned, sweet-voiced mother, with eyes in whose clear depths the love-light shone, and brown hair just threaded with silver, lying smooth upon her faded cheek. Those dear hands, worn with toil, gently guided our tottering steps in childhood, and smoothed our pillow in sickness, or reached out to us in yearning tenderness. Blessed is the memory of an old-fashioned mother. It floats to us now, like the beautiful perfume from some wooded blossoms. The music of other voices may be lost, but the entrancing mem ory of her’s will echo in our souls for ever. Other faces may fade away and be forgotten, but her’s will shine on. When in the fitful pauses of bu siness life our feet wander back to the old homestead, and, crossing the well worn threshold, stand once more in the room so hallowed by her presence, how the feeling of childhood, inno cence and dependence comes over us, and we kneel down in the molten sunshine streaming in the open window —just where long years ago we knell by our mother’s knee, lisping, “Our Father.” How many times, when the tempter lured us on, has the memory of those sacred hours, that mother’s words, her faith and pray ers, saved us from plunging into the deep abyss of sin. Years have filled great drifts between her and us, but they have not hidden from our sight the'glory of her pure [unselfish love. —Ex. A. A JERNIGAN. W. E. ADAMS Drs. Jernigan & Adams, :0: Physicians and Surgeons jgss“Offer their professional service* t all who may need them. Greene County, Ga., March, 2,’82.~ Devoted to the Cause of Truth and Justice, and Ihe Interests of the People. GREENESBORO’, GA., FRIDAY, MARCH 28, 1884 WHITEWASHING TREES. [The Illustrated Family Herald .] Do not he afraid to whitewash fruit trees of all kinds. It looks neat, fresh and nice ; and it not only destroys insects and their eggs, hut the white coat on the body of the tree reflects the heat and keeps the inner hark and sap vessels from being scalded and blighted by the rays of the sun. Every fruit grower knows by experi ence how injurious the blaze of the sun is to the limbs and trunk of a tree. A thick coat of whitewash will he much better protection than straw, hoards, or other materials, under which mice, and bugs, and worms can harbor. These destructive pests can ho completely kept away bv using sulphur in the whitewash, 'flic, way to use it is to take for each peek of l ime four pounds of flour of sulphur. Mix the lime and, sulphur together in a barrel and pour in a bucketful of hot water. Cover the top of the barrel while the lime is slacking, so as to retain all the fumes of the sul phur. When slacked, add sufficient water to make a thin whitewash. — Put this wash on the trees with a broom or brush, taking care to keep the sulphur well stirred up, as it will he found to tloat like scum of oil on the surface of the water. This lime and sulphur wash is good for grapevines, and posts, and stakes in the vineyard. When properly made and put on, a strong smell of sulphur will be detected several feet! from the trees and vines during the! whole summer. These fumes are caused by slow combustion, or oxida tion of the sulphur when sulphurous acid gas is formed, which is certain death to all the low order of animal and vegetable life. This oxidizing action of sulphur is the reason why it is used to dust grape berries and leaves to check the spread of oklimn, mildew, grape rot and other fungoid diseases; because as the other sulphu rous oxide gas is formed and pervades the surrounding atnfosphere, all these fungus growths are instantly killed. 80, too, would he all insect life, and on a large scale, so, too, would he all animal life. The use of sulphur as herein re commended, in combination with lime in a whitewash, has been found efficient and valuable by several who have tried it; it is hoped it will he more generally adopted- by orchard ists and grape growers. WINDS AND WHIRLWINDS. [Harlem Sentinel .] Let all who are interested in winds and whirlwinds read and think : “And the Lord shall be seen oyer them, and his arrow shall go forth as lightning: and the Lord God shall go with whirlwinds of the south.” — Zcchariah. “Out of the south cometh the whirlwind. And it is turned round about by his counsels; that they may do whatsoever he commandeth them upon the face of the world in the earth. The Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind. He causeth it to come, whether for correction, or for his land, or for mercy.”—Job. “Behold they shall come with speed swiftly; and their wheels like a whirl wind. God shall rebuke them and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind. Yea, they shall not be planted ; yea, they shall not be sown ; yea, their stock shall not take root in the earth, and he shall also blow upon them, and they .hall wither, and the whirlwind shall take them away as stubbie. — Thou shalt fan them and the wind shall carry them away, and the whirl wind shall scatter them.” —Isaiah. “Behold, a whirlwind of the Lord is gone forth in fury, even a grievous whirlwind; it shall fall grievously upon the head of the wicked A great whirlwind shall be raised up from the coasts of the earth. Behold, the whirlwind of the Lord goeth forth with fury, a continuing whirlwind ; it shall remain with pain upon the head of the wicked.” —Jeremiah. “For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind.” —Hosea. “The Lord hath his way in the whirlwind and in the storm.”—Na hum. “Thou didst strike through with his staves the head of his villages, they came out :is a whirlwind to scat ter them. And they came to him, and awoke him, saying, Master, mas ter, we perish. Then he arose and rebuked the wind and the raging of the water ; and they ceased and there was a calm.” —Luke. “And every one thathearetli these savings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man which built his house upon the sand; And the rain descended and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house ; and it fell : and great was the fall of it.” —Matthew. His Experience With Pools. [ Wall Street Macs.] “Some folks is jist too kniurt to live” said the old man, as Re puffed hard at his clay pipe and wiped a tear from the end ofhis noje. “Anybody been trying to swindle | you ?” “Wall, it looked that way. Aj New Yorker came down and bought a faim nextto me, and he hadn’t be 11 there a week before lie proposed a pool.” , “On what?” “On milk and butter. 11 > propos ed to put in fifteen head of cattle agin fifteen of mine, hire the milking done, and bivide even on tin* sales of butter.” “That looks fair.” “So it does, and I was reajy to go into if, when my old womus hinted that I’d better go over anil see his stock. I went.” ‘ , “Well?” “Wall, there was fifteen head jist ar; lie said, hut, bless my stars, if he hadn’t counted in a hull, two old j stags and a steer to offset four of my cows, which average fourteen quarts of milk apiece a day! I’ve read-a heap about pools, but this is the nighest 1 ever come to having .one bite me.” What Chinamen Have Do ; e. China is nearly as large as Europe, and contains a much large -popula tion, every third man in the world being, it is calculated, a Chinaman. Their progress in the past has been most marked; thus the Chinese ap pear te have been among the earliest, if not the very earliest, of the human race to emerge from barbarism. They have a literature older than the days of Moses, and astronomical observa tions that go back at least fo thfjdays of Abraham. Comparing their early progress with that of European na tions, they were clothed in silk robes when our savage ancestors still paint ed their naked bodies. Titov invent ed printing, and had printed books about the middle of the enth cen tury, five hundred years before the time of Caxton. and the mariners compass were Chineses inventions long before they were known to Europeans. Lint, 11. N. Shore pointed out, in a recent paper read before the Society of Arts, that in the matter of canals, the utilization of carrier pigeons, the artificial cul ture of oysters, fish and poultry, and in the satisfactory solution of the great towage question, the Chinese have been before us in time, and in some of these at least, are still ahead of us in results. —Ex. 1884 1884 HARPER’S Young People. An Illustrated Ileckiy— 1G Pages. Suited to Boys and Girls of from Six to Sixteen years of aye. Volume V. Commences November (J, 1883 Harper’s Young People ij tl.o best week ly for children in America.— [Southwest ern Christian Advocate. .11l that the arist’s skill can accomplish in the way of illustration has been done, and the best talent of the country has con tributed to its text—(New England Jour nal of Education, Boston. In its special field there is nothing that can be compared with it.—[Hartford Eve ning Post. THIS*!*. Harper's Young People, Year, post age prepaid, SI 50. 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I MARRIAGEZgfP [know, Cloth and uUt bindingso ct~<,paper 25c,Mar -riage Guide. 144 p 15c,sent sealed, money or stps.byC iOR. WHITTIER 2 c^fef7, R o i: hThe Treat specialist. Nervonoi)ebili y, impediments fto Marriage, Consultation end Pamphlet free, ! JONN C. FERRIS. CIIAS. 11. FERRIS. FERRIS & SON, Merchant Tailors*, S2O Broad Street, October 2(>, 18JS3— _ Gen. IS. Kiltlev. Asiniry Hull, I* II Tallin GEO. R. SIBLEY & CO., Cotton Factors, 847 and Sf/O Reynolds Street, AUGUSTA. GEORGIA. JSS?*T.ibeml Oisn advances on Consignments. Personal attention given to Weights and Sales. sept 38, ’S3 PLOWS. CUTLERY, LOCKS. HINGES, BELTING, SCALES, And Agricultural Implements OF 12 V JURY INSCRIPTION. AT LOWEST PRICES ! ! SIEXKV V. NOOK!?, September 28, 18b3— . ALGLSTA , Ga. R. P. SIBLEY. Wm. J CRANSTON. R. F. SIBLEY, Cotton Factor, Guano llcaler Commission Merchant, 734 and 730 Reynolds Street, L T ®- R jKtejT H'V' e> ®aa Ym . JOSSf-Libeia) advances made on Consignments. Bagging and Ties furnished a lowest rates. Strict personal attention given to weighing and sampling Cotton. VOu signmenls of Grain solicited. 0( T ■>. 83 Assignee’s Sale l TIIE ENTIRE STOCK OF CARRIAGES, REGGIES, WAG ONS SADDLES. HARNESS, LEATHER, <?le . AT TIKE OLD STAND OF R. H. MAT Bl Go., WILL BE OFFERED FOR THE NEXT THIRTY DAYS AT Greatly Reduced Prices ! ! %/ THE above Goods arc nil clean, fresli slock. made by* he Beet Manufacturers in the Uuiteil States, and comprise tbe wetl known makes of SUidehaker, Wilburn and Stan dard Plantation Wagons, nil sizes. Best quality of Open find Top Buggies, Phictons, Victorias and Extension Top Cnhriolettes, made in ttie Northern and Eastern flutes; also seventy-five Open Top and Top Buggies of Cincinnati Work, Spring Wagons and lload Carts, _A_ Large Stock Of Single and Double Harness, Singe Harness, Plow Gear, flames, Traces, Col lars, Bits, Buckles, Plow Bridles, Umbrellas, Whips, House Blankets, i.ap Holies, etc..'etc. heather end Rubber Bolting, all sizes. calf Skins, Sole Leather, Shoe Eindiu's, Hemp, Jute, Heap Slone and Gum Backing, etc , etc. These Goods MUST BE SOLD ! AND LARGE INDUCEMENTS will be offered to CASH Buyers. Call early and examine the Goods and secure the Bargains now offered. N. IL—Every Vehicle sold subject to the regular twelve months guarantee. John S. Davidson, Assignee, 701 Broad Street, AUGUSTA, Ga, Of 808 T 11. MAT A Cos. September 28, 1883— f \ ICOESGS l-G reene County. \ T Elijah >l. Philips. Administrator of the Estate of Ma.y A. 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Charges reason able /• y"Shop at. .dr. S. A. Torbcrt's Store, opposite Court - House. Grecncsboro’, Ua., Feb. i, 1884— fi.-g”’A!l kinds of Grass anti Held Seed; Red Top and Timothy Gtass lted Clover; Rape Seed; Lucerne ami Mit'o Maize.—Copelan, Seals & Ar mor. D'AOur Spring Goods are beginning to arrive. We have, this week, re ceived several cases of handsome Spring Prints, white Counterpanes* Corsets and Bonnets; summer Casst nieres;. Gents Clothing; Hats ai Shoes; Toadies new style Opera and Handle Slippers, etc. These are but the first droppings of the shower. In a few days they will begin to pour in in torrents, nor cease until every de partment is Hooded with everything the people need.—Copelan, Seals A Armor. • ■ ■■ BftjyT'astorn Early Rose Potatoes 56 75 per barrel, -1 2*5 per bushel.—Cope* latt, Seals <fc Armor. NO 13