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BY BRWBTER & CO; M *1 - DIRECTORY- STATE GOVERNMENT. James M. Smith, Governor. N. C. Barnet, Secretary of State. J. W. Goldsmith. Comptroller General. John Jones, Treasurer. Joel Branham, Librarian. John T. Brown, Principal Keeper of the Penitentiary. Gustavus J. Orr, State School Commis sioner, J. N. Janes, Commissioner of Agricul ture. Thomas D. Little, State Geologist. BLUB KinGK CIRCUIT. Noel B. Knight, Judge. C. D. Phillips, Solicitor General. Time of Holding Court. Ckbrokkb —Fourth Monday in Febru ary. ami first Monday in August. Cores—Second Monday in March and November. Dawson—Third Monday in April and second Monday in September. Fannin—Third Monday in May and Oc tober. Forsyth—First Monday in April and fourth Monday in August. Gilmer —Second Monday in May and October. Lumpkin—Second Monday in April and first Monday in September. Milton—Fourth Monday in March and third Monday in August. Pickens—Fourth Monday in April and September., Towns—Monday after fourth Monday in Mav and October. Union —Fourth Monday in Mav and Oc ieber. COUNTY OFFICERS. O. M. McClure, Ordinary. Regular court first Mondav in each month. J. W. Hudson, Ckrk Superior Court. M. P. Morris, Sheriff. K G. Gramling, Deputy Sheriff. John G. Evans, Treasurer. Wm. N. Wilson, Tax Receiver. Joseph G. Dupree, Tax Collector. WsmW. Hawkins, Surveyor. Wm. Rampley, Coroner. JUSTICE COURT—CANTON DIS. Joseph E. Hutson, J. P. 11. F. Daniel, N. P. H. G. Daniel, L. C TOWN GOVERNMENT. W. A. Tensly, Mayor. J. W. Hudson, Recorder. J. M. McAfee, J. B. Baton, James O. Dowds, N. J. Garrison, Jabez Galt, Alder men. COUNTY HOARD OF EDUCATION. James O. Dowda, President. James W. Hudson, County School Com missioner. Prof. James U. Vincent, Examiner. Joseph M. McAfivj', Allen Keith, Joseph J. Maudox, John R. Moore. Meetings quarterly, in the court-house. CHEROKEE TEACHERS’ ASSOCIA TION. James O. Dowda, President. M. B. Tuggle, V ice-President. C. M. McClure, Secretary. J. W. Attaway, Treasurer. John D AtHWay, Censor Morum. Prof, U. Yiqccnt, Association Cor respondent. Regular meetings every second Saturday la each month, al 10 a. m. RELIGIOVS. ) 'J Baptist Church, Canton Ga., time of •etvice fourth Sunday In each month. Rev. M. B. Tuggle, Pastor. M. E. Church, time of service, preachers h chance. Rev. R. R. Johnson, first Sunday. Rev. 11. E. Ledbetter. second. Rev. J. M. Hardin, third. MASONIC. Canton Lodgr, No. 77, meets first and third Monday nights in each month. Joseph M. McAfee, W. M. B. E. Ledbetter, Secretary. Sixes Lo doe, No. 283, meets first and s W W. Putman, Secretary. ——- GOOD TEMPLARS. Canton Loimjn, No. 119, meets every Saturday, 8 p in. < B llollAfi l, W. C. T. George I. Teasly, Secretary. w grange. Canton Grange No. 235, Canton Ga. Jabex Galt, Master. Joseph Me McAfee. Secretary. k'rTE^TIOJN 7 , Citiasn* and Friends of the M. 8t N. G- Railroad! JOSEPU ELSAS, At ths old Pinckney Yeung Corner, r. MARIETTA, GEORGIA, Has a large stock <>l- DRY GOODS. ** NOTIONS, HATS, CLOTHING, CROCKERY WARE. BOOTS ANO SHOES—the best custom made work, Whtab he offers cheap at Panic Prices. Can and see W ynureelf. No trouble to demiMwarate to youwbat is going on in sell ing goods bow, during paeic Urmr, when gends must be sold for cash. and cash only. „ Th an King all my friend* to. their liberal patronage, and asking a coirfnuanoe of the stifle, I am, vety respectfully, n JOSEPH ELSAS. —— ! ! @hc Ocwhee Q?cnnyini. ENTRANCE. At the world’s great castle gate A beggar cries. “To wealth and state we open wide, To the worldly wise, in purple pride,” A voice replied. “Alack 1” said she, “for the loving’ heart And naught beside.” Expectant at a mightier gate The worldly wise Stand waiting by Us golden bars. Till wonder-pearls and gleaming stars Swing open wide For her who brings the loving heart And naught beside. Children In the Clouds. One pleasant afternoon during the comet’s appearance, ten year’s ago, an aeronaut, after a prosjicrous voyage, descended upon a large farm in the neighborhood of a mar ket town, in some, of the Western States. He was soon surrounded by a curious group of the farmer’s family and laborers, asking eager questions about die voyage and die management of the balloon, that, secured by an anchor and a rope in the hands of the aeronaut, its car but a foot or two above the ground, was swaying lazily backwards and forward in the evening air. It was a good deal out of wind, and was a sleepy and innocent monster in the eyes of the farmer, who with the owner’s per mission led it up to his house, where, as he said, he could '‘hitch it” to the fence. But before he thus secured it, his three children, aged respectively ten, eight, and three, beg* ged him to lift them in that big basket, that they might sit on those pretty red cushions While the attention of the aeronaut was diverted by more curious questioners from a neighboring farm, this rash father lifted the darlings, one by one, into the car. Chubby little Johnny proved the ounce too much for the aerial camel, and brought him to the ground ; and then, unluckily, not the baby, but the eldest hope of the family, was lilted out. The relief was too great fur the monster. The volatile creature’s spirits rose at once; he jerked the halter out of the farmer’s hand, and with a bound, mounted into the air. Vain was the aeronaut’s an chor. It caught for a moment in the fence, but it tore away, and it was off, dangling uselessly after the runaway balloon, which so swiftly and steadily rose that in a few minutes those two little faces pet ring over the edge of the car grew indistinct, and those piteous cries of “Papa!” “Mamma!” grew fainter up in the air. When distance and twilight mists bad swallowed up voices and faces, and nothing could be seen but that dark, cruel shape, sailing triumphantly away with its precious laxity, like an aerial privateciyMhe poor father sank down helpless and speechless, but the mother, frantic with grief, still stretched her yearning anna toward the heavens, and called wildly up into the un answering void. The aeronaut strove Io console the wretch ed parent with assurances that the balloon would descend within thirty miles of the town, and all might be well with the chil dren, proflded it did not come down In deep water or in the woods. In the event of descending in a favorable spot, there was but one danger to be apprehended; he thought that the elder child might step out, leaving the younger in tl»c balloon. Then it might rise and continue its voyage. “Ah, no,” replied the mother; “Jennie would never stir from the car without John ny in her arms.” The Imlloon pasaeddin ctly over the mar ket town, and the children seeing many people in the streets stretched out their hands and called loudly for help; but the villagers, though they saw the bright little heads, beard no call. When the sunlight all went away, and the great comet came blazing out, and little Johnny was apprehensive that the comet might come Urn near the airy craft and set It on fire with a whisk of its dreadful tail. But when the sister assured him that the fiery dragon was so much as twenty miles away, and that God wouldn’t let it hurt them, be was tranqullized.but he soon after said, “I wish he would come a little Mtrer so I could warm myself—l am so cold.” Then Jennie took off her apron and wrap ped It about the child, saying tenderly t “This is all sister has to make you warm, darling, but she will bng you close In her arms, and we will say our prayers and you shall go to sleep.” “Why, how can I say my prayers before I have my supper ?” asked little Johnny. “Sister hasn’t any supper for you or her self, but we must pray all the harder,” sol emnly responded Jennie. So the two baby wanderers, alone in the wide heavens, unawed by darkness, im mensity and silence, by the presence of the great comet, and the millions of unpitying stars, lilted their little clasped hands and sobbed out their sorrowful “Our Father,” and then that quaint little supplementary prayer: “Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my sou! to keen; If I should die before I wake. I pray the Lord my soul to Cake.” “There ’ God heard that easy; for vre art* close to Hina up here,” said innocent Mule Johnny. Doubtless Divmc love stooped to the little CANTOX, CHEROKEE COUNTY, GA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1876. Virtue and Intelligence—The Safeguards of Liberty. ones, and found them in perfect peace, for soon the younger, sitting on the bottom car, with his head leaning against his sis ter’s knees, slept as sound as though he were lying in his little bed at home, while the elder watched quietly through the long, long hours, and they floated gently on the still night air, till it began to sway and rock on the fresh morning wind. At length a happy providence guided the little girl’s wandering hand to a cord con necting the valve ; something told her to pull it. At once the balloon began to sink slowly and gently, as though let down by gentle hands, or as though some celestial pilot guided it through the wiki currents of air, not letting it drop into lakes or rivers, leafy wood, or impenetrable swamp, where this strange, unchildlike experience might have been closed by a death of unspeakable horror; but causing it to descend as softly as a bird alights, on a spot where care and human pity awaited it. The sun had not yet risen, but the morn ing twilight had come, when the little girl looking over the edge of the car, saw the dear old earth coming nearer, “rising toward them” she said. But when the car stopped, to her great disappointment, it was not on the ground, but caught fast on the topmost branch bf a tree Yet she saw they were near a house, whence help might soon come, so she awakened her brother and told him the good news, and together they watched and waited for deliverance, hug ging each other for joy and warmth, for they were very cold. Farmer Buxton, who lived in a lonely house on the edge of his own private prai rie, was a famous sleeper in general, but on this particular morning he awoke before the dawn, and though he turned and turned again, he could sleep no more. So at last he awoke his wife and said: “It’s no use, I’ll just get up and dress, and have a good l<xik at the comet.” The next she heard was a frightened summons to the door. It seems that no sooner did he step from his house than his eyes fell on a strange shape hanging in a large pear tree about twenty yards distant. He could see in it no likeness to anything earthly, and behalf fancied it might be the comet, who having pul out its lights, had come down there to perch. In his fright and perplexity lie did what every wise man would do in like extremity. Reinforced by her, he drew near the tree, cautiously re connoitering. Surely never pear tree Ixire such fruit! Suddenly there descended from the thing a plaintive, trembling, little voice: “Please take us down, we are very cold.” Then a second little voice: “And hungry too; please take usdown.” “Who are you ? And where are you ?” The first little trembling voice said : “We are Mrs. Harwood’s little boy and girl, and we are lost in a balloon.” The second little trembling voice said : “It is u«, and we runned away in a bal loon. Please take us down.” Dimly comprehending the situation, the farmer, getting hold of a dangling rope, suc ceeded in pulling down the balloon. He first lifted out little Johnny, who ran rapid ly a few hundred yards towards the house, and then turned around and stood a few moments, curiously surveying the bal loon. The faithful little sister was so chilled and exhausted that she had to be carried into the house, where, trembling and sob bing, she told her wond irful story. Before sun rise a mounted messenger was dispatch ed to the Harwood home with the glad ti dings of great joy. He reached it in the afternoon, and a few hours later the children themselves ar rived in state, with Danners and conveyed in a covered hay wagon and four. Joy l>ells were rung in the neighboring town, and in the farmer’s brown house the happiest fam ily on the continent thanked God that night Rich without Money.—Many a man is rich without money. Thousands of men with nothing in their pockets, and thousands without even a pocket, are rich. A man with a good sound constitution, a good stomach, a go<xl heart, and good limbs, and a pretty good head-piece is rich. Good bones are better than gold ; tough muscles than silver ; and nerves that flash fire and carry energy to every function are better than houses and land. It is better than a landed estate to have the right kind of a father and mother. Good breeds and bad breeds exist among men as really as among herds and horses. Education may do much to check evil tendencies or to develop good one; but it is a great thing to inherit the right proportion of faculties to start with. The man is rich who has a good disposi tion—who is naturally kmd, patient, cheer fill, hopeful, and who has a flavor o! wit ;iad fun in his composition. “My onthankful bearers,” said a back woods preacher, “you are like unto hogs ealin’ acorns. They never lodk np to see where the acorns come from.” Wbtlb just government protects all in their rights, true religion affords the govern ment iu surest supjx>rt. Fish Ponds. It is computed by reliable authorities, that one acre of water, we believe, as a fish pond, will raise more meat (fish) than ten acres of land, at the same expense, taking the average quality in the Southern States, planting the land in corn to feed to hogs. Even if this should be only partially true, it is rather remarkable that there are only a few ponds in the South, when there could, and should be as many in nearly every neighborhood. Our streams abound in fish, yet fish are one of the greatest rarities on Southern tables. This is because they are hard to catch. If farmers who have good, pure streams of water which they could jbrow into ponds, that could be protected from overflows, by * system of ditching, would go to work, they could in three years, have plenty of fish at command. The best locations for {Kinds are in the branch chan nels just below active, never-ceasing ; springs, where the fall is sufficient by a slight digging out to afford water, afterrun ning a dam at the proper point, to within a few inches of the heighth of the bead stream, of a depth not less than five feet in the channel. The larger the area of water the better, but a pond twenty or thirty feet wide, by two hundred long, is quite a nice family pond. After this is all completed, filled with water, and ditched around, so as to seep out surplus water from the hard rains, you may go to seining, in April, for trout, perch and brim, to stock the pond, and they will commence replenishing Irom June on. Fish may be successfully trans ferred from their native streams to the ponds in large tin buckets, filled with creek water; but no time must be lost in the transfer, nor the flsh taken out of running water till time for starting—they may be kept in a tow sack in the water. Never pour cold water on them while en route, but water of same temperature may be used. The outlet from the pond is l«est to be cut around the dam if possible, otherwise a board trough, or race, must be so fitted m as to prevent water crevices in the dam.— [Cherokee Agriculturist. A Novel Race.—Plainsmen will be sur prised to learn that there is something in the world that can run faster than a jack rabbit. As a passenger train on the Union Pacific, heading east, was rattling along over the Laramie plains the other night, the engineer, looking from the cab down along the gleaming rails, espied a huge jack-rabbit bounding along over the ties, about thirty feet ahead of the cow-cateher The engineer put on more steam, and the ponderous locomotive shot ahead like an arrow, but the rabbit pricked up his ears, and struck out at the rate of twenty feet a jump. The pride of the engineer, John son, was touched. His locomotive is one of the biggest and swiftest on the line, and he was afraid if he let the jack-rabbit out run him, the boys would find it out and he would be forever disgraced. So he turned on more steam, and the engine made a lion nd under the cloud of smoke which belched from the smoke-stack, and the tele graph poles danced past wildly, but jack let out another section of his legs and kept right on down the level grade, just out of reach of the cow-catcher. For five miles and a quarter the locomotive and the rab bit kept up this speed, when the latter be gan to weaken. Johnson, reining in his iron horse, went out on the pilot, and, leaning forward, reached out and picked up the rabbit, as the engine jolted along slow ly.—[Denver (Col) Newa. A Rule Worth Remembering—Here is a rule which will hold g<xxl for all dates in the present century since 17-52, as well m for those in the present year. In order to find out the day of the week upon which any event fell one hundred years ago, count forward two days from the day of the week upon which the Centennial anniversary fall*. For instance, the Fourth of July, 1876, will fall on .Tuesday; the Fourth of July, 1776, was Thursday. The Centennial anniversary of the battle of Bunker Hill was celebrated Thursday, June 17, 1875; the battle was fought Saturday, June 17, 1775. This rule must not be used for dates in Ute eighteenth century earlier than 1752, because that was the year when the change from “old style” took effect in England and her colonies. Ark you making the best of yourself? Are yob using to the best advantage the natural powers of the body and mind given you by nature * Or are you droning through life on half efforts, and steadily drifting be hind men of less ability than your own— men who, with even fewer talents than you possess, are making the best of themselves ? Think of this, and put the question to your self as we put it to you, and do it honestly. Look the matter right in the face. Are you making the beat of yourself ? If not, begin a new life at once. Do your best in every thing—in your thinking and in your doing. Be a man in self compulsion. Rise out of indolence and self- indulgence, and not only will the world be better for you having liv ed in it, but you will be better for having lived in the work!. How to Avoid Taking Xold. A cold is simply a developer of a diseased condition, which may have been latent, or requiring only such favoring condition to burst out into the flame of disease. That this is usually the correct view of a cold as a disease-producing agent, uvder all ordina ry circumstances, may be made plain by re flection upon personal experience, even to the most ordinary understanding. When the human body is at its prime, with youth, vigor, purity, and a good constitution on its side—no degree of ordinary exposure to cold gives rise to any unpleasant effects. All the ordinary precautions against colds, coughs and rheumatic pains may be disre garded and no ill effects ensue; but let the blood become impure, let the body become deranged from any acquired disorder, or let the vigor begin to wane, and the infirm ities of age be felt by occasional derange ments in some vital part, from inherited or actual abuse, and the action of cold will excite more or less disorder of some kind, and the form of this disorder, or the disease that will ensue, will be determined by the kind of pre-existing blood impurity, or the pre-existing fault of these organic processes. It follows from these facts and considera tions that the secret of avoiding these un pleasant consequences thought to spring wholly from the action of cold upon the body has very little dependence upon ex posure, but a great deal upon the impure and weak condition of al! the vital proces ses. In other words, with an average or superior constitution and intelligent observ ance of all the laws of health, men and wo men could not take cold if they wanted to. They might be exposed to the actioq of the cold to a degree equal to the beast of the field, and with like impunity. But in case of persons with feeble constitutions, and who disregards, knowingly or otherwise, the conditions of healthy existence, no de gree of care will prevent the taking cold, as it is termed. They really live in. houses regulated with all the precision of a hot house. They may cover themselves with the most highly protective clothing the market provides, and yet will take cold. I don’t think the consumptive person lives, or ever will live, even if kept in temperature absolutely uniform and clothed ink wholly faultless manner, in whom the well known signs of one cold after another will not be apparent. But, on the other hand, there are those who, like Sir Henry Holland, of good constitutions and living in accordance with the laws of health, may travel, as he did, from the tropics to the Arctic, again and again, clad only in an ordinary dress coat, and yet scarcely know what it is to have a cold or sickness of any kind. The truth is, to avoid taking cold from ordinary, or even extraordinary exposure, the vital processes must lie made strong enough to rise above the untoward influence of exter nal conditions. —[Sanitarian. A Tin Bonanza—The Temeseal tin mine* are located twenty-four miles south east of Pomona, In San Bernardino county, California, and are among the richest tin mine* in the world. For the past ten years these mines have been claimed by various parties, and have been but little worked, because of the atoiost endless litigation arising from a disputed title to so valuable a property. A wealthy Amsterdam com pany, that has been and is now engaged in importing tin into the United States, to the extent of $14,000,000 worth per year, has recently bonded the Temeseal tin mince from the various claimants to the amount of SBO,OOO, and on the first day of May the money is to be paid and the various title* will be passed to and vested in the Amsler dam company. These are the only tin mine* yet discovered in the United Stales, and are very rich, assaying as high as eighteen per c*nL, while msuy mines in Europe are worked to profit that yield but tour per cent, of metal. Christian Gentleness -A heathen who stood in a crowd in Calcutta listening to a missionary disputing with a Brahmin, said he knew which one was right, though he did not understand the language—he knew he was in the wrong who lost his temper first. For the most part this is a very ac curate way of judging. Try to avoid de bating with people. Stale your opinion, and let them state theirs. If you see that a stick is crooked, and you want people to see bow crooked it is, lay a straight rod down beside it; that will be quite enough. Bal if you are drawn into controversy, use very bard arguments and very soft word*. Fre quently you cannot convince a man by tug ging at bis reason, but you can persuade him by winning his affections. “What are you doing here, hiding areund my house Y' savagely inquired a Chicago man the other day, as he espied a dnpi>er looking youth dodging behind a bay win dow. “Oh, sir, I’m not a thief f’ exclaimed the young man. “You’re not—what then ?” demanded the house owner. “You —you see, sir,” was the stammering reply, “it’s leap year, and I—l jes’ see my girl coming down the street!” Then the kind hearted man, taking in the situation, extended the right hand of fellowship to the youth and said: “Boy, you have my sympathies.” VOLUME I.—NUMBER 29. Omens as Bleep There is a good deal of valuable iafomW’ tion in the household department of a naw* paper. The last chunk of wisdom dug therefrom is to the effect that eating raw onions wfll produce sleep. Os the numbs* of people who are indisposed la sleep ft* this fast age is a Danbury man whose bad ness requires that his head should bo freel* and clear. Lately he has been much tram bled through the night, his sleep being Bk ful and unrefreshing. He saw the seelpn, was struck by its simpleness, and dt*f» mined to try it. He ate three cr sow small onions before retiring Friday nighh He dropped 1o sleep in less than fiftMts minutes. How long he slept ha does M* know, but hs was awakened by hinwtfc shaking him. “What on earth have yen been datafT* she demanded, when she got hie eyes opam “Have you been eating onions?” “Tea,” he drowsily replied, and ahaam immediately dropped off to sleep again- It might have been a half an hour or an later when he was again aroused by Ma wife. “You must turn over,” she gasped, *tf you don’t wasrt to smother me to death with that dreadful onion breath of youm“ He was just awake enough to realim that she might have possibly turned ovs* herself, and thus got out ot the way. Ha aroused himself to say so. “I’ve lain on my side until I ache, and f guess it won't hurt you any to turn oven" she retorted. He turned over. Possibly it was an hour later when ho became suddenly and painfully aware that something was scraping his shin like a dull knife. He awoke with a ay. His wife was caressing his leg with her toonalla, and appeared to be endeavoring to hi* spine. “I tell you I can’t stand that any Unger. 9 she passionately expostulated. “What on earth is the matter J* ha de manded. “Matter? matter enough I should say, when your breath b enough to give one ton lock-jaw!” she retorted. “How do you suppose I’m going to sleep with your nasty onion breath in my face. You must tom over and stay ever, or I’ll get out of thb» b» d. I ain’t going to be killed by onion* if I can help myself. If you had a spark of love for me you would not make a swill tub of yourself.” And then she burst Into tears. “Gosbdummit,” he cried, Jumping 00l of bed, “I wish there was another war.* And with this cruel expression, he sat down by the stove, and moodily welted fee daylight. A Religions View. “You see, when you done shuffle off dis mortuary coil, and de sperrlt present* iteelf at de golden gates,” argued a colored roes valist on the levee yesterday, “Gabriel gwtato to ax you what church you ’longed to In. de flesh.” “Y*Bs, I speck so,” said the lislener. “Es you ’longed to de Missumary Baptiel he gwine tole you walk right in an* set by de foot-stool. Es you *longcd to de Meto umdist church, he say stay on de outside whar your shoutin’ won’t ’slurb de angola. Es you’* ‘Piscnmpalion— “Hole on, Mr. Middleton. Dey ain’t an niggers ’Pisv.umpalion. Dem’s all white folks,” interrupted the listener. “Dat don’t make no difference* coatto ued the expounder of religion; “de princi ple’s de same, ain’t it ? Es you’re a ’Pto cumpalion, de angel say to you, Go aw dar, ’mong de white folk*. TU you’* Cleflh He, de angels pint you to de Virgin Masy, and tell you—" “Bui, look h*ah, Mr. Middleton, spoeiiri he didn’t ’long to no church in da flesh I* queried de listener. “Well, what he doin’ dar den?* aakeß the colored divine, acornfiilty. “Well,” replied the unconverted “I thought in dat case he could do’s ha dam please.”—[Vicksburg Herald. Ltkb flakes of snow, that fall uapareoie ed upon the earth, the seemingly unimpor tant event* of life succeed one another. A* the sdow gathers together, so are our hab its formed. No single flak* that Is added to the pile, produces a sensible change. No single action creates, however it may ea hibit, a man’s character; but as the tempest burls the svslsnchs down the mouatalß and overwhelms the inhabitant and Ms habitation, so passions, acting upon the ele ments of mischief, which pernicious habits have brought together by imperceptible ac cumulation, may overthrow the edifice of truth and virtue. When a woman gets to be thirty years of age, it become* a dangerou* business for her twin brother, who already show* sign* of baldness, to go around announcing to* particular* of his birth. Language is the amber in whicbalh<Mte sand precious thought* have been safely imbedded and preserved. Thf. man who keeps his word: The man wlio never speaks.