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7 t l i. ('' n. J- ' frhf M i . TUh ooly Democratic NbWijuptr ia 'Greene County. TEHtti: One jear .2.t0 Six months I.Cil tuieo months 60 Ttoahovc raks will be ityUly ad hered to iovariaMj ia advance. W. 11. nrininetool, Editor anJ Proprietor. OUR FLORIDA LETTER. St. Andiews, Fla., Jane 25, 1877. Editor Union: 'Ob, magnet South! Oh, glis tening, perfumed 3outh! Again in Florida, I float on transparent lakes I cross the hammock lands, 'or through p.easant openings, or hrough dense f jre3ts. 1 836 the parrots In tho woxld -I see the pair-paw tree and the blooming tile," and this is all the woods of Florida. Some of uj, unfortu nate, see and feel things here that are not, perhaps, as attract ve as parrots and paw paw trees. It mast be wise to bo a poet, and soar so easily above the unpleas ant things of life. Reading this pi'tical rhapsody oa tho "per fumed South" brought to miua an encounter when I first came to this "magnet." Arriving In the Imorning at Fe isacola, I was ob liged to wait a conveyance to this place. A party of us strolled up to the hotel for dinner. On en tering tho reception room I no ticed that the only occupant Was an oil lady, of some two hundred pound avoirdupois, fantastically 'uressod. After a glance I became engaged in a lively chat with our party, aul thought no more of the itrangor until suddenly acooited vy her : . "Be you a going to settle in Florida ?" "If I liko it." 1 answered. "VMl, you wont like it. For 1 do say it's the meanest hole I ;ver got in to. Me and my old .ban come down here abotlt a year ago, and now we've maniged to est Hnnev cnouih to tret back Vith, and we're ijoing jils't as fast 1 m LrVf','o'tning but a shaider ' o watt I was when I come 'here. And I've scrati'he 1 every bit of! the original -hi le off niy Body. I; wasn't sure the Ihas would laave 'enough of ma to carry North. 'Me and my old mm want to die a natiul death; wo don't want to be at up' alive. AaJ such a lone some place a bjdy might just a well be buried alive. And then they tell ma so much about the timers hete; but they ain't of no account ; there ain't no mito of frugrancj in any of u'eni." Our party wa3 in an uproar. This w3 a damper, "sure and certain," and shows at Once the Jifferenco between a poetic and a toraaiin '.ensj view oi life; With 'the poet it was paW-paw with tha fantastic old lady it was scrateh-scratch. The old lady was in tha main correct, as my subse quent experience has proven. I have no doubt that she lost some solid substance during ber stay, though there was no particular evidence of her having becorao shadtwy. I have frequently thought of her since the advert of flea9Thi8 summer, and I am fcuro that though she m.iy bo hungry and suffering, she will havo tho consolation of dying a natural death. I would call the attention ofunole Sammy Snapp and other stout people to the fact that we gentlg but sorely evaporate in Florida. There is no doubt the fleas had something to do with the old lady's decline, but other causes are at work here far more power ful. A friend was accosted tho other day by another whom he had not met for a year, with "where is the rest of you V Tho 'rest" consisted of forty pounds, "gone like a bubble tbat bursts in Sun" iu ono short year. The emotional side of one's na ture pets finely developed in ilea time. I am not suro but this ia a wise provision of nature, to keep i nctivo in this climate. 1 stop ped for a w:ek, not long since, with some menus in a viguuui lng town, and to illustrate how nnn' mmnera i?tt polished. I www w - will relate or picture a scene that occurred during that time, im agine an evening party of finely dressed ncrtnern peopia m utui tod conversation. Suddenly ouo Of tho party vunuhed. No excuse, ho apology, no sailing gracefully ' Vt)L. Vlli. . GREENEV1LLE, TENNESSEE, TfttJftsb'AY JULY 26, 1877 ' ' NO. 43. - 1 - ' - - 1 - . i just a momentary commotion &iid the company becomes gainfully aware that it is ininua one. Airs and graces are omitted for a time, and existence becomes a naked fact- Just here I draw the cur tain as Bhe flees (fleas.) I have had but little experience in this lower connty. For all I know to the contrary, every man, woman and child in the Whole land may be dodging aronnd in pdrsuit of these litle pests. But as I have never seen a native dis play any activity in this way, I conclude there is something pecu liarly juicy and appetizing in us northerners, and that we are re ' ceiving an undue attention from these lively little fellows. I cannot as yet say much about the greater interests ot this com iho'nweallh; Education is yet in its infancy, while musio was still born in Florida. If the spirits of the departed ever hover over us, you may be sure no Beethoven, Handel or Moiart; if by chance they find themselves in hearing of Florida sounds, will ever remain long I wish I could describe to you the vocal gymnastics of this benighted people. Did you ever hear a backwoods or camp meet ing choir attempt the praise of Almighty God in such strains as torture tho ears of ordinary mor tals, and must be agonizing to a well regulated God ? Then it you hav 1 will give you a faint idea of church music here when I tell you is is heavenly melody com pared to the sounds produced by a Florida choir. (, My soul pants for one strain of real niubic. I think now I Would not be over fastidious; could be extent with less than Wagners or Thomas' 0Ttnicsvrai?-7-ir tu- vuim.j stanil 16 hear a hand organ, grind out that.mo3t absurd of all times, "Shoo Fly." You will conclude from ' this that service is not a $5,000 choir. . . Oh I the degeneracy of tho 19th century ! How sacred things are turned to carnal uses 1 Imagine tho "light fantastic toe'' at a pic nic here last wee", tipping about to Moody and Sankey's hymns, "Hoid the Fort' and "rull to the Shore" played in double qnick lime. Is it past belief, Mr. Edi tor, so rapid are tho advances of science that you and I will yet danco "Nearer, riiv (Jo J, to Thee." . "CAlamitv." SLA.NG IN THE DOMESTIC CIRCLE Say, pa,' Said in up town boy one day as be came home late from being kept in at school, threw down his book, pinched the cat till be made her howl and thetl sid ed into his seat at tho dinner-table 'wasn't Benedict Arnold ft reg'lar snipe?' A what my son?' said the pater nal relative laying dewn his . knife and fork with surprise. 'Why, a crooked hairpin, you know; a ghark, a sort of fraud generally!" He was a traitdr Id his country my son; but where" on earth did you learn such language as that?' .. 'Oh! pull down your vest now father and don't get on your ear about it. I'll tako'Bomo o' that roast beef, please.' Why, Willie,' interposed his mother, 'I am surprised at your ' flh: t'm oftlid. I am.' broke ,iiY the youngster. 'Nothing mean about mo. Fonv up tbat beef now nld man. or there'll be a tin roof or two around this house.' Tub following rules should be strictly observed bypersons having occassion to visit a printing omce: Entei1 Softly. Sit down quietly. Subscribe for the paper'. Fay for it in advance. Don't touch the type Keep six feet from tho devil, llafids off manuscript. Don't talk to the compositors -Don't carry off the exchanges. Never bez a paper. Geutlcm!n observing theso rules when entering a printing office will greatly oblige tho editor and need Ctrl!! . tint (towitt gitst xn& WANTED TO SELL A BALD-HEADED MAN A HAIR BRUSH. A long-waieted lady, having a eeduotive smile and winning ways, called unon a Detroit shoemaker yesterday b conVinoe him that he needed a metal hair brush a nov elty just odt and in the bands of canvassers. After bhe bad put on about five minutes' talk, be uncov ered his bald head and asked : 'Where is there anything to biush with it?' . Then your wife could Use it,' uhe said. My wife is dead, poor soul.' Then your daughters.' I have no daughters, and the only son I have went crazy from brushing his hair too much.' 'I believe this brush would help new growth of hair on your scalp she Bald, unwilling to let him off. 'Don't wank any hair there, he replied. 'I was never so happy as sinoe I became bald-headed.' 'Well, don't you ever brush your scalp?' . ; JNever. 1 nave u sanu-paper-ed four times per year, and the rest of the time it must get along the best it can.' I am in great need of money,' she remarked as she looked around the shop. 'So am 1,' ne replied, as he pegged away, 't havetl't Been but three dollars in the last two weeks.' 'It would almost be an act of charity to buy of me,' she plead ed. '1 never gave to charity, mad am. I have not given a shilling to any one or to any object for the last thirty years 'Yoar Becond wife might want tne orurfn. I shall never marry again. I hate all women.4 Then you don't think you could use it?' she asked, as sbo rdSe lip . 'Yee, I could take it and brush my dog's ears clean back to his tail, and brush his tail cleatl over his nose, b" I could make It over fnto a Bnow ehovel, or sell it to some saw-mill, or repair my ft heel barrow with it, lut I said 'no,' and 1 shall stick to it. I'm bald headed, ugly-tempered, einfu1, malicious and desperate, but I pride myself on keeping my wurd; and; madam, if metal hair birches and t aid-headed men and female ageUs were as thick as tha but tons On a girl's dress, my thun derous voice would still try : N o-u-g-h no Detroit Free Press. A BLUE-GLASS EXPERIMENT. , Mr. Blimiey read about blue glass until he became a convert to the doctrine. Having a .boy baby about three months old who has been somewhat puny and has giveh evidenco of weak lungs, he had an east window of his house paned with blue glass and exposed him. to the sun'fl rays for an hour or two for several days. Last Sunday being a sunny day, the baby was left under the blua win dow for three hours, at t'uo con clusion of which time he got up and went down Btairs, declaring that ho had bad enough of that ''doggoned foolishness.' Oh Mon day he was exposed for four hours. At li o'clock cn Monday night he threw his off-foot into Mr. Blimley's stomach, and knocked the lower portion of Mrs. Blim ley's chin off with his right fist. As Mr. Blimiey lay under tho washstand trying to decide wheth or he had been struck by light ning oi wa8 in on Ashtabula dis aster, young Blimiey Bet up such a yell that neighbor next door went down in his cellar and hid under an empty flour barrel, un der the impression that a general insurrection bad broken out. As soon as Mr. Blimiey recovered Hufiic.ienilv he procured a ham mer ami amdhked evrrv pane of UIV - . . -- - f - blue glass be could find. They now keep young Blimely gagged und chained to on anvil. . Do& Dom Pkdro has boon having a ' i ....... jr ticw in. Scotland;' . A v '. :.i 1 2 tf:: VI - . orrmosf.f - ( gu.at nnl rar not, "LOt 18 RICHER FAR GOLD." I BT LOCI6B . CBHAlt. I- : Id tit sort and crimson twilight, Ere the lamps of eve were lit, But maid, who watched the sparrow Out and In the trea tops flit; Watched tLem.ai they aild together Jltjidful only of "to-day;" Tillahe shyly, aoftly whispered, "I jCan triut as well as they; Li)ve is richer far than gold,.?. ' Hearts are never bought or soldi'' ' H. . . "I may never in a mansion With my liveried torrents dwell Never in resplendent jewels, ,. Srrive my fowttred pride to qoell But when sweet and tender twilight Floods the earth, tho air, tho sea, Love may bring my home such blfss- That iho world shall envy me; ioga : i Love is richer far than gold ; , yllcarts are never bough tor sold. "Life can bring to me no .burdens . Tlmt for lov I could not bear; And by me no wealth or station- . Would he prized love did not share Not tho riches of a kingdom D' I covet. Mine to own One true heart, whoss every impulso I for ine, and, me alone: i Love is riciitr far than gold; ' j Hearts are p.ever bought or sold. - 1 . iv. Out and in the sparrows flitted, - And tho mill Jen to her side, All' iincliiucd, came tho louver . Whohad won her for his bride, Lojre had lured (he heart of n.anhood Lve bad won the maiden lair; ,. And togethei,then,they whispered;. 2oy or care, hencefoith, we share; Lava is richer far than gbln; rjettrta are nevcrr bought or Mld!" mk. Parker tells a story. Jd; Parker sat in Mr. Johnson's plac Jast evening, a shade of melancholy upon on hi3 usually placid brow. At last he turned to his f 'iend on 1 said: "Johnson jou remember the race I had after the b'J-ljlfeJ .push, me oSLiha Bleecker street car?'' ."0 yes, I remember,' said Mr. Johnson. 'Speaking of boys,' resumed Mr. Parker, "did I ever tell you about the boy and the policeman? 'No.' "Sad, sad story, but if police man wil. let tin i. temper rise, and if boys will annoy them well, well, I suppose eucli are intended as a lesson,' said Mr. Parker with sigh. 'Do tell us the story,' urged Mr. Johnson. "I suppose 1 might as well,' said Mr; Parker. 'It was the 15 day of last June, at exactly 3.15 o'clock in the aftcrnbon. I know because I looked cy watch just before the the ,"'. Mr. Parker hesitated fcr a word a monent, and then said 'affair.' 'I wa3 going up Broadway, and had reach Broome street, when tbe first peculiar and Unwonted thing I observed was a 6mall-boy seated upon the steps of an omnibus, also going up town. Suddenly I saw an officer, who placed a whistle to his lips and blew a shrill blast; The sound of the whistle seemed to affect the small boy, for he raised hand gracefully to a level With his face placed his thumb upon tho tip of his exceed ingly pug dose, and moved hi.fl fingers in the air. . He accompani ed this salute with the remark, 'Blow 'away, ole Prussian blue.' Thia seemed to anger tho police man, who did oloW away at a tremendous rate. " -It's time tef 0 ter work; don't yer hear de brass foundry a whistlinT screamed the small-boy, derisively. "The officer mrde a dash after him; tbe email-boy clambered down and a chase ensued. ' The situa'ion of affairs at this point of my Btory can be more easily com prehended by a reference to this drawin; Hero Mr. Parker executed a few rapid strokes with a piece of chalk ri4;on a elate whereon he had been scoring points in a recent game. Here,' said he, 'is tho map:' MAP. n Figure A represents the police man. . , , (HISTOiauiL ' I m i Fipure B is a correct drawing of his club. " 'Figure 0 is a rough sketch of theimdllboy. 'Now,' continued Mr. '. Parker, 'keep your eye on the map and you will understand ; what I am about to Bay. A flourished B in bis right hand and, daahed off in pursuit of -C. C,fan aster than A, probably spurred to exertion by the fear, of B. A swore and C tore along a a great rate. All at once 0 slipped onX (an un known quantity perhaps a ba nana, perhaps an orange peel). - A gained, and B was raised .high in avif bver the devoted he.aa of 0, when 0 arose add Iran rapidly dowj a narrow street.' v Well?' said Mr. Johnson, ex citedly! Well what?' asked Mr. Park er. - 'Tell us the rest! did be kill the bov ? Finish the story.' That's all,-, said Mr. Parker, aolmnly. N. "If. World. IS 0 AT ONE FELL 8Wo8p. "I should like 'rt oyster," said William Driscoll, a rather well drecsed but intoxicated young man last Wednesday evening, as be staggered up to the counter of an oystcr-salocn in Seventh avenue. "Sew!" asked Henry Smith, who stood behind tbe counter ham mering the bivalve'. "I want mor'n two; you just split 'em open and I'll eat 'em."" Accordingly Henry split and William ate until, with tired arm and perspiring brow, the eplitter laid down his weapon -at ,. the lone hundred and fititth oysters "and remonstrated. . . You'll kill youreolfr, said !,: "Certainly take tho rcat; that's what I'll do; split away, young fel ler. , . , "But," said Henry, hesitating "suppose yoti pay me a dollar on account, you know?" William then became angry ; he threw oysteshells at Henry and kicked up a tremddous row,. A policeman was called arid the roystering oyster-destroyer was locked up in a cell. In an hour Henry was avenged William howled for a doctor; his supper did not agree with him. Yesterday morning he was ar ranged before His Honor Justice Duffy, in the Jefferson Market Police Court, and charged with having been .drunk aud disorderly and fined $10. A BOY'S COMPOSITION ON GIRLS Girls is a queer kind of varmint. Girls is tbe only thing that has their own way every time. Girls is several thousand kinds, and some times one girl can be like eeveral thousand other girls, if she wants you to do anything. ' Girls is all alike one way; they are all like cats. If you rub 'em the right way of the hair they'll purr and look sweet at you, but if you rub 'em the wrong way, or step on their tails, they'll claw yoti. S'long as you lot a girl have her own way sho's nice and sweet; but just cross her, and she'll spit flt you worse hot a cat. Girls is all like millcs; they're headstrong. If a girl dont want to believe anything, you can't make her. If ebfc kuows it so 8he won't say so. GirlS is like woolen, if they re good; and if they ain't good then nor when they get big, they're she -devils. That's what father said mamma was once, when she fixed a hot flat-iron in the chair eo he'd set down on it, cause she was mad at him. Brother Joe says he don't like big girls, but he does like little ones; and when I saw him kissing Jennie Jones last Sunday, and told him what he'd said, he eaid be Was bitlog ber 'cause he didn't like her. I think lie hurt her, for eho hollered and Nihj and there was a big red spot over both of her cheeks. This is all I know about girls, and father says the less I know about 'em the better off I am. Dkcokatios-day orators charge 75 in Ohio. It' AD YERTISIK 0 Ra TEB. -: Fin loch...., fig oo Eacn subsequent Inch ...... fl.oo To find the rate for snorter time first flndjherate for one year.theo 00 percent oOx will Jbe tbe rate for six month 0 per cent " thrte month 2 4 " " two month fO " - P one month H5 " two weeks , 19 " " -.t....- o"week ttctl advertisement Transient,-. -.. '' 1C cents peIin. THegular ' . 6 " per line. ! ANNOUNCEMENTS. For Congress and State offices 110.06 0.00 Legislature and County DO THAT DIDNT LIVE IN !, ... VAIN. A, 'ell kb.own . Memphis coaN dealer, not long since, had a tig dog of wonderful Bagacitr. H fjthe dog) stayed around , tfje coal yard, and whenever, a. 'coal ', caif Was hauled on .the icales; ,tbe' dog' alwiyi took a stand under tW. wagon like a eoieb-dog. He' Weighed nealy cne hundred pounda and was weighed as coal thousands' f times and every eoal ccniumer ra the city purchased that dog at lo much per barrel. , The practice went on fpr toonthB, Jnd was only discovered by a fun- By accident., A negro wanted a barrel of coal, and. wheeled a hand' cart with coal .on the weighing scales. The olerk in office worked at the Beales, and ballotd through the wlndowi ; ''Take out a lot of that coal." f The negro did io, and kept on' until all the coal was 'out of tha cart. , , r ..'.. . n The clerk took the scales again but the pea indicated too much. 'jTake put more coal," shouted: the clerk; d-n it, you have, a boat load of coal on that car tf! - .' ! "Look hyar boss." replyed the negro, "the coal is all out, and TIL have to take the wheels off the cart if yoq want to lighten it." ...Then the .negro looked, un&ft the cart, and seeing" the big fat dog at his post, exclaimed; , '.'Lord God, maesa, jou'se sel ling me that dog for coal!" The dog was. missed in a few das, anjl was found de'ad op the", scales, the animal having taken somo poison accidental! v. but ha f tame back to die at his Doat. It . Has , a fine example of "faithful 'mtoJdeath." OLIVER WENDELL H0LME3 AS A - - THEOLOGIAN. May 1, without committing any one but myself, enumerate a few1 of the etutnblingblooks which still : stand in the way of some.who nay many sympathies with what is cal-.' lod the liberal school of thinkres? The notion that man is responsii ble for the fact of suffering and death, whereas both existed long before his appearance en our planot. The notion of sltUe a transfer-. ablo object, As philanthropy has: riddled us of chattle slavery, so. philosophy must rid us of chattle -sin and its logical consequencecse. i The ;notion that what we all sin is anything else than inevitable . unless the Deity has seen fit to give ever human being a perfect nature anddeyelop it by a perfect education. r The oversight of the fact that all moral relations between man and his Maker are reciprocal, and, must meet the approval of man's, enlightened conscience before he can render true and heartfelt bom-, age to the power that called him into being. And is tot the great-, est obligation to all eternity on, the side of the greatest wisdom and the greatest power? r The notion that the Father of. mankind is subject to the absolute, control of a certain malignant en-', tity known under the false name'., of juritice, or subject to any law. such as would have made thefath-, er of the prodigal son meet him with aVaccount book, and pack, him off to jail instead of welcomS , ing him back and treating him to the fatted calf. , . The notion that useless suffering" is in any sense a satisfaction for; sin, and hot Bimply ab evil added to a previous one. F(jtL 'em back, girls, pull 'em back. Dress thin, go slow, look - , pretty and keep tool this hot" weather.. 1 wldhfed I was ii girl; I'd wear a pull-back, too, And while the weather's liof, I'd (buns like you girls do; I'd wear my dresses tiaht. .And make the fellows grin. As I would pass them1 by . And huar 'em miy, "Too thiol" .. , Courier-Journal. Tiief. have given a Pible name . Nicodemus to a Kao3as post office. r I Off as at another time Acero if) no tear ot tue Wii. i