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The Greenville times., 1877-07-21

In Warrington Circuit Court, 20
October Torn, 1877.
TIL. Latham
Nos. 1880, 8l6i. W. Fl. Fa.
N. u. johnson d 20.
Mem fhis Wo9d Work
Nos. 1926. S1S8. " Fl. Fa.
N. B. johnson 4 Co.
Byvirtno OF tho above executions
10 me directed, | shall expose 70
Public Sale, at' tho door oil
the Court House In GreonvIllo.
within the hours prescribed BY law,
10 the highest bidder for cash, on
the second day, II being
The First Monday Of July next,
Ill the right, title and interest oi
tho defendants N. D. johnson \
Co. IN and to the following dcscri'
bed property, 10 Wit:
Lots Il md II, and oil lot Is OK.
.cept Two feet fronting on walnut
etroot from south part aud includ'
Cd IN Percy street, aud oil oflot II
except twenty-five ieot from north
portion, sold 10 Prescllla Morgan
cf block 10 Huutington 4 Lovaley
addition to town Of Greenyllle, a.
80 the improvements, Planning
Mill ON said LOT with mqchinery
aNd nxturo, and oppu1! !enonce!
~,,teh Aho linn 1xnr nnmf n mo6 In Nh
The Greenville times., 1877-07-21

We call attention to tie advcr-
tlsement Of Franklin Female Col
legs. At Holly 6prings Itis - II
stit1tion Of established character,
worthy Of tho beautiful city and
its refined and intelligent people.
The Greenville times., 1877-07-21

Greenville Miss. July 10th. 1877.
Meeting was called 70 order by
-. g. Yeryer Esq, chairman Of
the Democratic Conservative Ex-
ecusive Committee Of Washington
County, = The Court house, who
explained to the meeting the qucs-
lion ot tooue.
2 o. nnotaom tho. meatinr want Il.
. ele6(Ion i6t permanant chair
nan Of the convention By ballot.
which resulted IN tho election Of
If1I14 I Valiant Esq. Theodore
n0h Wos elected permaneht Sec
rolary Of the mestang.
MI. French Bsq. was upon his
request enrolled I member Of tho
Democratic Conservative party.
Motion 10 select . dolegatm to rep
resent this district 1t tho general
convention to meet ON Monday
I lkllo iustf BY tollot which Wa
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1877-08-25
ARTIFICIAL

Champagne drinkers will read with
much interest, not wholly unmixed with
misgiving, the detailsOf an ingenious and
profitable industry, which owes its origin
to the scientific enterprise of a Belgian
chemist expert" We refer to the
"@fabrication of artificial champagne,
without using wine," a process which re-
suits in a compound sold at the wholesale
price of from 5 to 6 cents per bottle, and
retailed, to quote the words of the cir.
cular before us, at "a great many estab-
lishments in Paris, such as coffee-houses,
concerts, balls, eating houses, ETC., at the
priceof 5 to 6 shillings per bottle" 1t
is described by its inventor as whole
some and racy production, owing to the
analysis Of the sparkling wines of Eper-
nay, Ay, and Saumur," a cause which,
at first sight, seems but remotely con-
nected with the effect. The meaning of
the writer, however, is probably that the
chemical constituents of these wines, as
obtained by analysis, enter in the same
proportion into the fabricated bev-
erage. 1t is obtained, we are told, by
infusion, is clear, very sparkling, and i'm
proves with age, and has all the proper
ties of champagne but not, of course,
all its possessions" as the grape, we have
been already informed, is omitted.
Purchasers of the liquid will be further
gratiied by learning that neither
" b~icarbonate of soda nor tartaric acid"
will be required to make it efervesce.
1t is, in fact, the exact opposite of the
famous export port, the properties" Of
which were summed up in the phrase,
that sit was black and it didn't fzz."
The champagne here described is white
Cor we presume SOY, and it does fig and
what more can be wanted :? Its euphenius
name is the "Sicera Rosa" champagne,
and its fabrication is Every easy and re-
quires no other implements than three
common tubs" Anybody, therefore,
who is about to give a ball and who has
three tubs in his house, can apply for
and obtain "'clear and explicit instruc-
tions" for the manufacture of Siccra Rosa
from the inventor, and will be able to
his guests with this wholesome
andagacy production at a prime cost to
of FIVE pence or six pence a bottle.
1t only needs to become generally popu-
lar among US to add a new charm to the
entertainments of the London season.
New York World.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1877-08-25
SURGEHK.

A correspondent in the Turkish camp
at Shumla writes: 81 was present to day
in the doctors private tent while he saw
his mornings patients, and a curious ex-
perience it was. Two non commissioned
officers stood at the entrance by the SEN
tries and ushered in mar after man for
about two hours. The doctor, seated on
a medicine chest just inside, felt pulses
and prescribed with the regularity of a
clock ticking. Two native doctors
assistants, WHO squatted behind, handed
a pill or gave a draught as directed. Now
and then, when an unmistakable clse of
fever was discovered, the mar was told
to 90 into hospital, but the majority
were dosed there and then. One man
came up with toothache. At d signal
given, up Jumped one Of the Turkish
doctors, seized a pair of blacksmith's
pincers, and, going behind the fellow,
threw his left arm round his neck as if
he were about to strangle him. In an
instant a capital double tooth, as sound
as a young elephants sucking tlsk, was
lying or the earth on the other side of
she tent. The patient, who had never
winked, mildly suggested that the wrong
one might have been drawn, as he felt
the offender at work still. 'Haide,
haide!' BE off, be off, said the oper-
ator, pushing him out of the tent with
lis 9incers. Then, calmly resuuing his
seat on The floor, he lit up fresh ciga-
rette and politely handed the live char
coal in the tongs to me,H
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1877-08-25

was to light a kitchen fire and take a
balloon ascension out Of the same can,
They had no United States signal service,
and never had forty-fve rainy days in a
month, with a torpedo every wash day.
Their wants We're few and simple. They
didn't need a great deal of weather. and
what they had was regulated by the
ground hog, and that reliable weather
bureau never made a mistake.
These men have passed away. In their
simple habits, their sterling honesty, their
grand patriotism, their unselfsh devotion
to principle, they passed from life into
eternal fame. Tie men of '76 are gone,
I do not know where, but they have gone
somewhere I do not see any of them
here. If there are any present, they will
please rise, for I am willing to be cor
rected when I am wrong.
The fourth of July was invented bXa,
man whose name is dear to all Amea1san
hearts-George w. Washington. By an
ingenious arrangement, the fourth of
July was so contrived by the inventor that
it would always fall on a rainy day. 1t
has missed it only once in the past
twelve hundred years, and on that once it
hailed all day. The fourth of July was
not the only invention of this great and
good man. He invented a mann that
will fit two-thirds of the boys of every
generation in America. A grateful peo-
pie never forgot the fact, and Washing
ton, when atThe zenith of his power, was
nominated by reclamation for the capital
of the United States. Washington was
once discovered praying at Valley Forge,
and from the great stress laid upon the
incident by all historians, it is judged
that it was the only time anybody ever
caught him praying. He was a brave,
good man, but he dressed too much like a
member of a baseball club to be elected
president in thesedays.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1877-08-25
COZ. ING ERSOLL ON Chip WHIP
PING.

The children of poverty! My heart
bleeds when ] thiRk of them; the chill
dren simply covered by a rag; the children
of famine and starvation the childrenof
drunkenness, and the children of crime,
fotsam and ietsam upon the wild, rude
sea of life the children in the alleys; the
children that couch in corners when they
hear the unsteady step of drunken brute
of father; the children, little babies
with drinking mothers; the children, too,
of the rich, that have no liberty-these
little children that are frightened. l
pity them all from the bottom of py
heart. What right have you to tyranIze
over a child I have very little respect
for a man that cannot govern a child
without brute force. Think of whipping
childrenl Why, they say that children
tell lies. Yes, cowardice is the mother
of lies. Tyranny is the father of lies.
Suppose a man who is much larger than
you as you are larger than a five year
old child, should come at you with a pole
in his hand: "Whe broke that plate 2"
You would tremble, your knees would
knock together, and you would swear you
eve saw the plate, or that it was cracked
when you got it.
Think of member of the board Of ex-
change whipping one of his children for
preyaricating. Think ola lawyer beating
his own flesh and blood because he evaded
the truth. Think of a dealer in stocks
Furnishing his child for setting a1oat false
reports. What an inconsistency Think
of it! If you should hereafter whip your
child, wish you could have a photograph
taken when doing so, with broWs CORFU
gated with anger, your cheeks red with
wrath, and the little child shrinking,
trembling, crouchingand beggingl II this
child should happen to die, wouldn't it
be sweet in the autumn, when thu maple
leaves are turning to gold, and Whensthe
scarlet vines run like a sad regret out of
the earth-Wouldn't it be delightful to
go and sit on the mound that covered the
flesh you had beaten, and look at the
photograph of yourselfin the act of whip
ping that child?
Now, think of it; think of it; and if
all I say tonight will save one blow from
the tender flesh of infancy, I am more
than paid.
/ have known men to drive their own
children from their doors, and then get
down On their knees and ask God to
watch yer them. I viii never ask God
to do a favor for q child of mine while
can dc it. Never. Another thing
There is nothing in this world like being
honest with these children. Do not
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1877-08-25
BR1Er RrsroET OF MExI0o.

The Galveston News gives the follow
ing summary of the revolutions, etc., in
Mexico since 1921:
1921. The independece of Mexico is
declared.
1925. First congress assembled.
1929. Guerrero being president, Bust
amente, commanding the army, induces
bis soldiers to declare him president, and
compels Guerrero to abdicate. Santa Anna
plays the same game on Bustamente, and
is himsel declared president blythe army
Three presidents govern with little fight
ing, Until
1886. State governments were abolish
ed by revolution, and Santa Anna made
president. Same year Bustamente was
recalled, Santa Annals defeat at San
Jacinto having deprived him of power.
1888. Mexico reyolutionized had an
unpleasantness with the French, who
blockaded Vera Cruz; Santa Anna drives
off the French.
1910. Federalists, led by Urea, revo-
luton.
1871. Revolution ofSanta Anna. who
is made dictator and banishes Bustamente.
1912. Junta of Mobiles revolution
against Santa Anna and form the repub-
lie.
1843. New constitution adopted.
Catholic religion and apostoric creed to
exclusion of all other religion.
1914. Revolution by Peredes. Santa
Anna deposed, and Herrera made presi-
dent by congress.
1845. Santa Anna banished and Her
rera elected president. Same year Pere-
DIES ~revolts, and, ordering al election, is
elected president.
1916. Santa Anna is recalled. Perdes
deposed and Salos elected president.
Salos sells out, and Santa Anna is made
provisional president. War with United
States is in progress.
1847. Americans victorious; Santa
Anna flies, and Penas is made president
pro tenn.
1848. Peace made with the United
States.
1851. Arista elected president. {
1872. General revolution.
1853. Arista resigns, and Santa Anna
made dictator.
1854. Revolution led by Alvarez ;
Santa Anna abdicates.
1866. Correra made president, resigns,
and Alvarez is made dictator.
1856. Comonfort heads a movement
against the church, is elected president,
and sequesters property of the clergy.
1857. Comonfort is deposed.
1858. ZuIoaga is made president, but
is obliged to abdicate.
1859. Miramon makes himself presi-
dent, but is speedily deposed.
1860. Zuloaga again made president.
1860. Revolution headed by Miramon,
1861. Juarez elected president and
declares himself dictator. The French
invasion and Juarez, Lerado, and Diaz
haze kept things lively since 1861.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1877-08-25
SILVER TIT READS.
BY MAX O'RILEY.

III "A
She sang a sad, sweet song tonight
Twas "Silver threads and gold"
And from the mingled skein | caught
Darling, l am growing old"
Whose darling wore the silver tresses?
Whose crown lost the golden hue
Was it man., or was it woman?
Was it wife or sweetheart true?
Had their young hearts early welded;
Had there been a broken VOW
Did misfortune bring TIE silver?
Were they happier once Than now
God of earth and upper heaven,
Guard and bless this singers soul
MAY misfortune never mingle
Silver threads among her gold.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1877-08-25
PET.

This Is the room where she slept,
Only a year ago.
Quiet and carefully swept,
Blinds end c~urtaiGs like snow.
There, by the bed in the dusky gloom,
She would kneei with her tiny clasped
hands and pray!
Here Is the little white rose OF a room,
With the fragrance fed away!
Nelly, grandfather's pet,
With her wise little face
] saen to see her yet
Singing about the place;
But the crowds roll on and the streets
are dTear,
And the world seems hard with a bitter
doom,
And Nelly is singing elsewhere-and mere
is the little white rose OF a room.
Why, If she stood Just there,
AS she used to do,
With her long, light yellow hair,
And her eyes of blue
If Fhe stool, / say, at the edge OF the bed
And ran to my side with a living
touch,
Though IkneyShe is quiet, and buried,
Should not wonder much;
For she was so young, you know
Only seven years old
And she loved me, loved me so,
Though ! was gay and old;
And her face was so wise and so sweet
to see,
And it still looked living when she
was dead,
And she used to plead FOR mother and me
By the side OF that very bed!
! wonder, now, ii she
Knows l am star. ding here,
Feeling, wherever she be,
We hold the place so dear?
1t ctnnot he that she sleeps too sound,
Still in tItr little nightgown drest,
Not to hear my footsteps sound
In the room where she used to rest.
] have felt hard fortunes stiDgs,
And battled in doubt and strife,
And never thought much of things
Beyond this human life;
But | cannot think my darling died
Like great, strong men, with their
prayers untrue
Nay rather she sits at Gods own side,
And sings as she used to do
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1877-08-25
A physician was called to visit a lady

"A physician was called to visit a lady
in Chelsea, Mass. After continuing his
calls for some weeks, she expressed her
fears that it would be inconvenient for
him to come SO far on her account. 20,
madam replied the doctor, i%nnocently,
" I have another patient in the neighbor-
hood, and thus / can kill two birds with
one stone!E"
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1877-08-25
A TIDY LITTLE IsCoMEFOR HARD
TIMES.

The heaviest amount in the way of
interest and dividends upon stock and
bond securities paid to any one man in
this city, and probably in the United
States, if not in the world, ID paid to
William TT. Vanderbilt. The total ises-
timated at over 81, 5000, 900 per quarter.
Or between 100000 and 81, 600. 600
per annum, Of which some $4,000, 900 is
received from the bonds and stock Of the
New York Central railroad. So vast, :
fetal income is believed to be by those
who have good means for knowing with
out a parallel, except in the case of Mr..
Vanderbilt's father, the Commodore.
who at times realized even a larger in
come than 81, Oe0. 900. AS was the case
with the Commodore, these
dividends and interest in the same secur
tiles, or those equally good, avoiding real
estate and other sources of revenue, no
matter how tempting for the moment
they may seem.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1877-08-25

pretend you are perfection; you are NOT
and ifone of them happens to tell q story,
do not let on as if the whole world was
going to burst. Tell them honestly you
have told thousands of them.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1877-08-25

Always take a rope into your room
at the hotel. It may enable Jon to slide
out even if there is no fire. 4 big board
bill is just about a. bad is q c~onfagra-
ton.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1877-08-25
IN AUSTRALIAN GRACE DARLING.

The Inquirer and Commercial, pub
lished in Western Australia, says that
one day last January the steamer
Georgette ran on shore near Perth,
Western Australia. The boat was got
off and rowed toward the beach, but SO
heavy was the surf running that she was
capsized, and her crew was an hour
rightiug her and returning to the ship.
They took a hawser from the vessel, and,
putting some women and children in the
boat, they paid out the line SO as to get
near the shore. But the boat was
1swamped by the surf; the poor creatures
were all struggling in the water, and in
imminent peril of their lives, when on
the top of a steep cliff appeared the form
of a young lady on horseback.
To the spectators it seemed utterly
impossible that a horse, with its rider,
should be able to descend that rugged
p~recipice; still, down the declivity did
the young lady, whose namei it afterwards
transpired was Grave Vernon Russell,
ride at speed. Reaching the shore she
urged the horse into the boiling surf,
and RODE out beyond the second line Of
: ring breakers until she reached the
boaU p4U1rOne affrighted women and
children were elinging. Miss Bdssen )
horse stumbled over the rope, and she
was nearly lost, but she managed to get
alongside the swamped raft and to bring
off the women and children. After land
ing them there was still a man left on the
boat. Thus another journey on horse
back into the breakers had to be under
taken, and the man was brought safe to
shore. So fierce was the surf that four
hours were occupied in landing fifty
persons, and every boat engaged was
capsized. Meanwhile the heroic Grace
Veron Russell, drenched with the sea
foam and half fainting with fatigue gal
lopedea dozen miles home to tell her
story and have relief sent to the half
drowned, half.naked folks whom she had
left on the sea beach. The heroine's
sister, Mrs. Brochman, took a horse, gal
loped that samee night through the
woods to the shore, taking a provision of
tea, milk, sugar and flour for the desti-
tute people; and the next day the
rescued were brought to Mrs. Brochman's
house at Bussellton, Perth, and cared
for until they were sufficiently recovered
to depart on their solitary ways. It is
melancholy to have to record the anxiety
and excitement consequent ON her
exertions proved fatal to Mrs. Brooch
man, who took a severe cold and died
eventually of brain fever. Her sister,
the heroic Grace Vernon Russell, how
ever yet lives, and if ever a courageous
girl deserved to be likened to
Grace Darling, the Northumbrian light
house keepers daughter, and to receive
the Royal Humane society's brightest
medal for exertions in saving life. such a
is, we apprehend, Miss Russell,
Of Perth, Western Australia.
, 1877-07-22

the High~Pricst Art, and not Fashion, All
newspaper readers and correspondents know OF
the Winans plarc 1T Castle Hill. It's one of the
famed places OF Newport, and have once o.
Turing fascnat1ous which haze helped to make
this fame. One especially chronicled,- that of
the accommodating dining table, the inside
circle Of which swings at the guests TOUGH
like roulette table," Don Carlos explains
a piece Of accommodation that dispctscs i'd
mirably With a peeptng and pryins Biady or
Michacl to serve enc. I think. also, l have
betnre made 1EcEtion Of the organ bulls
within four-wallcd domicil OF its own,
aud overlooking the ocean. But I had only
with widc-awakc New Englandcr, / was sud-
denly set down at the castle gates Of this
noted place aud invited to tshcar the organ''
stro!llns over the beantifuliy-trimmed grass,
came 1T last to the organ's doucil on the brow
OF tue hill. Going into the first room.-a little
room with one WinuoW,-I found it was the
ante, room to the organs soul. And there at
the Keyboard sat young man who for the
moment was the magician who unlocked the
mystery o1 sound. l suppose to any music
LEARNED person the picture that presented it.
self to me is easily conceivable. The ante-room
containing the face aud keyboard OF the
instrument, with the glimpse here and there ol
the nerves and arteries Of comInuuicat on
drew forth from the room beyond, where s'tier,
over tier the great pines loo1ned,' the soul OF
Sound.
When this sound began, thouc!, tue magician
was only au amateur, l for the first time got
such impression Of IN organs power and cotn-
pass as had never before received. AS the
pipes gave forth their voice stood OIL the
threshold of the inner room, and
SEEMED TO STAND IN THE VERY HEART OF TIE
ORGAN.
and throb by throl, I secmrd to feel as well as
to hear its voices rolling about me. For mo-
mcnt thought Of Lowcl's lines in the Legend
Of Brittany
Then swclled the organ
w through choir and nave;
The music Numbered
With An inward thrill
or bliss at lis own grandeur; wave on wave
It's flood OF mellow thunder rose,
Until the hus!1cd mir
Shirered with the thr0b it gave.
And the next moment that something that
sometimes oycrpoWcr5 lis proved TOO much Tor
mic; and was fain TO fly from this inner room,
and that rush of sound which seemed to
and to suggest Rchter's outbarst, Away, away;
thou suggestest to nlc what is not and tau
never bein this world Of pait1.'' But, though l
thus flew from the heart OF the organ, hare
had 4 sensation ever siuce Of Thanksgiving TINT
l have had the experience. And it was pleasant
to hear that the owner Of all this makes vel
come anr travelling pilgrim to this musical
shrine. And Il is pleasant too to louk about
and see that there Is no vulgar display any
where. the castle on this hill is the simplest
OF castles, where comfort and not fashion rules.
And-but space forbids further admiration, yet
lone word 1noTe' to hold the moral Of all anu
that Is, if you would come to New York either
with full or slender purse, follow the High
Priest Art and not Fashion, and you shall be Of
those who shall possess rour souls in peace and
freedom, undemoralizcd By Mrs. Dives
splendors. Mp.
, 1877-07-22
BLACKBERRtES.

There are daisies in the meadewa,
Tossing gaily discs Of gold;
There is clover in the ehadow
OF the farmhouse low and old
Sweet white clover mixed with red bloom,
That the sunlight loves 10 kiss,
And the honey bee. With loud boom.
On his journey will not miss.
But 'mong all the trees or posies,
Famed to breathe perfumcd rest
Nhitest lllies, re0desl ro*rst
Cannot please me rs the best.
Towards the woods fain would wander
When the evening sun was low,
And these sweet still moment6 sQuAnder,
As once did, long ago
Climbing oser fences fa5red,
With Their thoruy, cling!ng grasp,
Wave the berry bushes: jagged
Stones they closely, firmly clasp.
Black and red In clusters drooplnS'
Sweet and sour alike The fruit;
Ono can reach it without Htooplng,
Pluck from places ripe to suit
In the distance there are wheat fields,
Golden tassels, tall and slight;
And the reaper qnick his acythe w1elds
Througi, the long rows, brown and bright
Holding fast my luscious beauties,
would linger in tho sun,
Free from lrksome c1.es and duties,
Till the Summer day is DONE
But. with Memory stealing Ger me
Ere pnuse 10 turn away,
While the bushes inst before INC
In the cool breeze gently swaJ,
There are kaddenfug thoughts to borrow
From Past which Memory weares,
And plying tcafs for old 1imc sorro"
Drop upon the rongh. green learcs.
Chicago, July. 1877. DA,sr " H1EE@