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THE CARROLE COUNTY TIMES. VOL. I. Tlic Ca rroll County Times. PUBLISHED BY SHARPE & MEIGS, EVERY FRIDAY MORNING. TERMS: . VMir $2 00 Six mouth* 1 ** *ii uiTm<*nt* Invariably in Advance. ThVU.r'r will be *loppiMat the expiration of J. nini’ I' aid for, union* lubncriptlou is previously of th« subscriber is to be chang f in ,„ust have ibe oul address as well us the "I- **„'r to prevent mistake. lfwr l‘dt»T carrier ill town without extra charge. vT Attention oaid to anonymous couiniuuica . » a* we *re responsible for everything eu- eolumus. This rule is Imperative A l S after subsetiber# name, indicates that M.e time <*f subscription is out. ADVERTISING rates. *,mi invitation to Businessmen to make use m!u* columns to further their interests, the fol ‘‘winl literal schedule for advertising has been y , these terms will be adhered to in all con ld t! f.'.r advertising, or wliere advertisements "Ainudediu without instructions: oie inch or le.s, *1 for the first aud oO cents f n piiuli insertion, ]S. .'mT |*j »7 *8 1 iuencs i o ,j Vi 1« I abiclies 3 . J ‘ 23 I < lnc,l '‘ S - in J 17 25 Ii column <• }■> I 3 ('“lunin 10 15 * .jJ I V Column 15 20 30 oO 100 I njuniaVed advertisement* will be charged ac- I,iu tho space the-' occupy. I *ii adrcrtieetmiits shouln be marked fora speci | *; time, otherwise they will be continued, aud ■ h.reedfor fintil ordered out. . , I P Advertisements inserted at intervals to be for each new Insert.on. I AavertiKinents fbr a longer period than three La'iutlio. are due, and will be collected at the begin feiug ol each quarter. I Transient advertisements must be paid for in I Advertisement* discontinued before expiration | o ,‘thus specified, will be charged only lor time IN ut"! I'es of a peraonal or private character, iu Iriul'-d to promote any private enterprise or Knterest. will be charged as other advertisements. I AdvertiseiH are requested to liand iu their lavors L,',;trlv in the week as possible. I The above teiiua will be strictly adhered to. I- set assde a liberal per ccntuge for advertising |KrM) your.-eif um'easingly Before the public ; and ■ t milters not what business you are engaged in. lii.r, il nilt lligeutly and industriously pursued, a l oinis will l>c the result— hunt*' Mtrchuute' Jldt,- | ■•/uut 1 began to advertise my Iron ware free ■v, imsinesv increased with amazing lapidity. Tor _ T sura pist 1 have spenl £30,1)00 yearly to keep iv superior wttres before the public. Il.nl I baen imidin advertising, f m ver should have possess, j tnv lurtitue of X.i00.000,” —McLeod lPtiun Hit'. IlilUjtUll. Advertising like Midas' touch, turns everything I - ogold, bv it yoiii daring men draw millions to ilte.ri<>tlvr». '—Muort Hoy. ATiat audacity is to hive, and boldness to war, llk uLillful use of printer's ink, is to success in l)U»illSi , H ” — }lArc/f*r, ■ Without the uid of advertisements I should li.tvcI i.tvc done nothing in my speculations. I have he most complete faith in printer's ink.’’ Adver se is the “royal road to business.”— lianium. I'RWESiIOXAL & BUSINESS CARDS. I Card* tinder this head will be inserted at one li. nsi l.n It! e. Jift til.) l in. I No cards will be taken for this department, a ■lk shove rules, for s less period than one year. I GLO. IV. HARPER, Attorney at Law, Carrollton, Ga. G 1.0. IV. AC ST IN Attorney at Law, Carrollton, Georgia. j J. BLALOCK, Attorney at Law, Carrollton, Ga. Special attention paid to all Jaw matters. Bit. W. W. KITTS, Physician and Surgeon, Carrollton. Ga. B. 1). TUOM ASSON, Attorney at Law, Carrollton, Ga. T BARNKS, Gun Smith and Repairer, Carrollton, Ga. J. 0. MULLKNNIX. Boot and Shoe maker, Carrollton, Ga. V W. A G. W. MERRELL, Attorneys at Law, Carrollton, Ga. Sjieojal attention given to claims tor prop <r:‘J taken by the Federal Artny, Pensions, and '’dwGovernment claims, lloinsteails, Collec- Imt», & e , "i Id's. Ilia tidier, Joseph L. Cobb. UIIANDLER & COBB, Attorneys at Law, ... Carrollton, Ga. , | practice in the Su|>erior Courts of the ‘d!ii|MM)sa and Rome Circuits. Special at f jii.on given to all business connected with J lp of Estates, and the col eotion of claims. Cilice in the Court House R EESE’S SCHOOL, Carrollton, Ga., 1872, Motion for Forty Weeks, from sl4 to $42. ,( ' lro >a sl2 to sls j»er month. I J iei,s -d Monday in January next, forms one half in advance. A. C. REESE, A. M., Principal. IT* For Board apply to Hr. I.N. Cheney, ,n l H. Scogin, Esq. *’• A. ROBERSON, Carjienter and Joiner, Carrollton, Ga. k, ." <ls Carpenters work done at rt notice. Patronage solicited. V ’M. REYNOLDS’ HOTEL, Newnan, Georgia. Til: , Reynolds. Owner and Proprietor. Wit" 1 "’ 3 *'’ 8 sl ß , P^ e( l "’itli the best the mar adonis. Board as cheap as any wliera K ‘hrgia. Board Two Dollars per Day. -GjGo & MARTIN, U°ibe. S’gn Carriage And Ornamental Painters, Also i • Newnan, Ga. *ith ’ ainan( i decorative paper hanging done ’j, rn , ,l i t ' at aes3 and dispatch. All orders ' attended to. ■** Orders solicited from Carrollton. -Medical card. N Or. I. N. CHENEY, arj) j l l, |Gluiiy iitiouns tlie cili/ens of Ca, roll ] oc . ai '|acent counties, that he is permanently tj C j '' at ( arrollton, for the purpose of Prac to r.u ’ le dicine. He gives special attention 'turns ti ."i Uic '^ is . eases of Females. He re *nd h ' illn i to **' s e,, ds for past patronage, Vioii !Ps ’ • c * ose attention to the p rotes lon - to merit the same, Savannah, Griffin & N. Ala., Railroad leaves Griffin leaves Newnan ‘oive. «t Grtin,,' 2l » aQ ects at Griffin with .Macon aud Western It. Written for the Carroll Couaty Time*. To Delinquent Subscribers in the S. G. & N. A. R R Come up with the money, no longer delay, The rail-road is coining at no distant day; Pay up your subtcripiions ana shortly you’ll bear, The sound of the whistle, shrill, shrieking and clear Contractors are busy in grading the way, W. a spades, picks aud shovels, they’ra moving the clay; The trains will be rnnning. and speedily too, If you will pay up. as yon promised to do. Remember we’ve begged, be*ought an J implored, Aud luve called for your stock, all of which yon ignored, While others hare Wiped out and settled their score You put iu the jntifvi />lta of “too poor" Too poor indeed sir! are you able to work? If so draw yourcoat and “pitch iu like a Turk” Tour name’s on the book aud your stock can be paid By a vigiiaut use of the pick-axe and spade. Our clever old Captain has fully complied, filth‘all the conditions and terms *n his sido; The depot Is located, you said when ,twas done, You’ld pay up your stock, audyh-e the big gun. Now stick to your promise; be true to your word, Nor longer postpone it, for t hat is absurd; He’ll fully receipt yon, and thank you to boot; And if this fails to evit you, we'U give you a suit. Rail Itoau. Carrollton, January 27th 1872. A California Ghost Story. upon a time there stood near the villiage of Seaford, in one of the California mountain towns, a beautiful cottage embowered in vines and fruit trees. The propietors name was Wil liam Ashdale. He was a carpenter by trade. Having acquired a small fortune byjmining, and being a bachelor, he thought that by building a cottage lie would soon find a young lady who wVwld consent to be his wife, and share his home and fortune. Rut, alas, like many human hopes, he was doomed to disappointment. After finishing his building, and spending the rest of his little fortune in furnishing the ap pai tments, lie found himself without a dollar, and he was compelled to let his abode to a rich Colonel, who, to gether with his wife and daughter, was visiting at that time in the neigh borhood for the purpose of recruiting his health. We are obliged to give a short de scription of the house, because it is necessary to the sequel of this story. On entering the cottage, the visitor wa struek with the exquisite taste with which the carpenter had lifted up the interior. A passage ran the entire length of the dwelling, dividing it in two compartments, the whole passage panelled and painted in immitation of oak and lauiel. At the farthest end of the passage was an oval window of stained glass, about live feet from the floor. ■ The cottage contained a parlor and dining-room, besides two bed rooms, a pantry, a scullery. The only entrance was through the front door. The Colonel, together with his fam ily and servant girl, were the only oc cupants of the cottage, and nothing seemed to mar the quietness of the family. Regularly, night alter night, they went to bed about nine o’clock. They had occupied the dwelling about four weeks, when, at about 9 o'clock one uijdit, the Colonel thought he heard a low, creaking noise in the passage. Thinking it might be rob bers the Colonel soltly opened the door.—He was a fearless man, believ ing neither in ghosts nor hobgoblins, and for other enemies he had a revol ver in his hand. Peering iu the dark ness of the passage, he saw, by the window, a black shadow disappear through the wall. The next moiling the Colonel exam ined every nook and corner of the cot tage, but discovered no secret outlet. He looked at an tried all the fasten ings of the doors and windows, but all were as secure as bolts and bars could make them. The next night the inmates wer awakened by the screams of the ser vant girl. On entering the passage, the Colonel found her lying upon the floor in convulsions. When becom ing quiet, the girl stated that as soon as she had put tilings all right in the kitchen, she had sat down to read a newspaper. After reading awhile she felt very sleepy, so she lighted a can dle, extinguished the lamp, and closed the passage to her bedroom. She put her hand on the door handle, but the door was locked. Not wishing to disturb the family she was about turning back to the kitchen, when the light was blown out and the candle dashed from her hand. With a scream, she fell to the floor, and lost all consciousness. The Col onel found the key of her bedroom on the floor of the passage. Telling the girl not to say anything to her neigh bors about the affair, at least not un til the mystery was cleared up. On the following morning the Col onel went to the cabin of the carpen ter, and told him about the mysteri ous noise and the fright ot the servant gil l. The carpenter said that he had never slept in the cottage, aud there fore he did not know anything about it The Colonel returned home, and to quiet the fears of his family he told CARROLLTON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 2, 1872. them that he had found out the cause of the noise—it was rats. Several nights passed, and nothing was seen nor heard, but on the fifth night, near twelve o’clock, the same Qreakiug noibe was repeated. The Colonel took his revolver in his hand, and approached his bedroom door, against which he put his ear. He dis tinctly heard a low, shuffling sound.— He stepped back a tew paces, and lev eled his revolver at the door, ready to fire. He heard a key turned in the lock, and soon the door opened and on the threshold stood the figure of a man. 'Jdie Colonel took careful aim, and fired. With a groan the figure fell back on the floor of the passage. The screams of his wife and the girls were fearful, but the Colonel with a loud voice stopped their outcry. Procur ing a light, the Colonel went out into the passage, and, on removing a mask from the face of the prostrate man, he recognized, to his astonishment, the features of the carpenter. On examination, it was found that William was still alive. The bullet had penetrated the arm, and, as was afterwards ascertained, breaking onlv one of the smaller bones. As soon as William was able to speak, he confess ed to the Colonel how he had entered the house. lie said that the wash, stand in the kitchen hung on two con cealed hinges, aud as the back of the wash stand was part of the actual out side of the house, it took but a slight push, and it would move from its po sition leaving an aperture large enough for a man to crawl through into the kitchen. He had made the concealed door merely for the purpose of trying | to see if he could construct a secret ! means of egress from the house. As ; he knew that the Colonel had large | sums of money in his bedroom, he had j made up his mind to rob him. Twice he had entered the house, but each time he was frightened away, first by the Colonel, whom he saw as lie open ed the bedroom door, and the second time by the girl. And now, after his third attempt, he had received a just punishment, and he begged tor mercy. The Colonel told the carpenter that as he was already punished enough he would not prosecute him for burglary, I and the culprit, still upon his knees, ; thanked him tor his leniency, and promised that as long as he lived he would never make another attempt at burglary. The next day the Colonel and his family returned to -San Francisco. Money, Credit,Keeping Promises “ I don’t care how well a man is educated if he has no idea of the use of money, and credit, and good sense, lie is not worth much. If he contracts a debt, let him pay it. If he promises anything let him do it. If possible, let him give his excuse. If I had not stuck close to these rules, I would not have succeeded as I have in life. And yet so many of our boys place no value upon these things. If they get money, they can’t rest until it is all spent. It they can get things on a credit, they never think of paying for them. If they make a promise, they break it oftener than they keep it. They don’t seem to have any cor rect idea of the use of money, or cred it, or the wrong ot breaking promises. Boys with good education often make very worthless men for these reasons. No one will have any dealings with such boys or men, after they learn their true character. They stay poor and despised all their lives, while those who act differently soon work themselves into comfortable and prof itable places.” Boys, this is sensible talk. Read it and think seriously over it. BaT The boys don’t do things now like they did when Noah Webster was making spelling books. An old man near Pleasantville,the other day, found a rude boy posting Lyda Thompson leg bills all over his door-yard fence? and desired him to desist; but the young sauce-box told him plainly he would not, and slapped up another naughty picture. “ Won’t you,” said the old man, “ then I will fetch you down.” So he pulled out a horse pistol and shot several times at him, but this only made the youngster laugh, for the old man was cross-eyed and could not hit a barn door. “ Well, well,” said the old man, “if neither words nor horse-pistol will do, I must try what virtue there is in nitroghcer iue; ” so that old man pulled out a t wo quart can of torpedo mixture and ex ploded it under the chap, who coolly whistled “If Ever I cease to Love,” while the old man went roaring away into the sky like a kite.— 'Titusville Herald. To pardon those absurdities in our selves which we cannot suffer in others, is neither better nor worse than to be more williug to be fools ourselves than to have others so.— Tope. From th» San Francisco Chronicle. Telegraphic Tricks. THU DANGER OF OPERATING AT A HOTEL BREA KF AST-TABLE. Two young men, telegraph opera tors, who board at one of our leading third-class hotels, and being of some what hilarious disposition, find great amusement in carrying on conversa tion with each other at the table by ticking on their plates with a knife, fork or spoon. For the information of those not familiar with telegraphy it may be well to state that a combina tion of sounds or ticks constitutes the telegraphic alphabet, and persons fa miliar with these sounds can converse thereby as intelligibly as with spoken words. The young lightning strikers, as already stated, were in the habit of indulging in table-talk by this means whenever they desire to say anything private to each other. For instance, No. 1 would pick up the knife aud tick off some remark as this to No. 2: “ Why is this butter like the offense of Hamlet’s uncle?” No. 2—l give it up. No. I—Because it’s rank and smells to heaven.” Os course the joke is not appreciated by the landlord (who sits close by,) because he doesn’t understand tele graphic ticks, and probably lie would not appreciate it much if he did ; but the jokers enjoy it immensely, and laugh imoderately, while the other guests wonder what can be the occa sion for this merriment, and naturally conclude the operators must be idiots. A lew days ago, while the fun lov ing youths were seated at break fast a stout built young man entered the dining-room with a handsome girl on his arm, whose timid blushing countenance showed her to be a bride. The couple Had, in fact been married but a day or two previous, and had come to San Francisco from their home in Oakland or Mud Springs, or some other rural village, for the pur pose of spending the honeymoon.— The telegraphic tickers comenced as soon as the husband and wife had seated themselves. No. 1 opened the discourse as fol lows : “ What a lovely little pigeon tHis is along side of me—ain’t she ? ” No. 2—“ Perfectly charming ; looks as if butter would melt in her mouth. Just married, 1 guess. Don’t you think so ? ” No. I—“ Yes, I should judge she was. What luscious lips she’s got! If that country bumpkin beside her was out of the road, I’d give her a hug and a kiss just for luck.” No. 2 —“ Suppose you try it any how. Give her a little nudge under the table with your knee.” There is no telling to what extent the impudent rascals might have gone but for an amazing and entirely unfore seen event. The bridegroom’s face had flushed, and a dark scowl was on his brow during the progress of the tick ing conversation ; but the operators were too much occupied by each other to pay any attention to him. The reader may form some idea of the young men’s consternation when the partner of the lady picked up his knife and ticked oft’the following terse but vigorous message : “ This lady is my wife, aud as soon as she gets through with her break fast I propose to wring your necks— you insolent whelps.” The countenance fell very suddenly when this message commenced. By the time it ended they had lost all ap petite and appreciation of jokes, and slipped out of the dining room in a very rapid and unceremonious manner. The bridegroom, it seems, was a tele graph operator, and “knew' how it was himself.” Pointed —A correspondent very pertinently remarks that some say its no use for them to advertise, as they have been in one place of business all their lives, and every body knows them. Such people seem to forget to take in to consideration that our country is in creasing in population nearly forty per cent, every ten years; and no matter how old the place may be, there are constant changes taking place—some move to other parts, and straugeis take their places. In this age of the world, unless the name of a business firm is kept constantly be fore the public, some new firm may start up, and, by liberally advertising, in a very short time take the place of the older ones, and the latter rust out. as it were, and be forgotten No man ever lost money by judicious advertis ing. This is the opinion of a gentle man who speaks from an extensive aud successful experience. He that gives good advice; builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example builds with the other; but lie that gives good admoni tion and bad exam] >le, builds with one one hand and pulls down with the other.— Bacon. Lectures in a Workshop—No. 1- i There is no necessary connection between manual labor and degrada | don no essential disjunction of the work of the hands from that of the head ; neither any law of nature which should make impossible or eveu difficult, an alliance of good manners, high morals, and elegant accomplish ments, with the active duties of the mechanic. On the other hand, these things are of immense value to a work man. lie cannot bring superfluous talent to his work, however simple habit may make it appear ; lie cannot have too much of that patience and self-denial which are found most high ly cultivated in the most polished cir- ‘ cles. There is no one good quality of the gentleman which can sit ill on the mechanic however poor he may be Labor is neither a disgrace nor a curse. Some persons regard its muscular de mands as the result of sin and curse ; but in the Bible, which all can read for themselves, it is said of the first man, that his Maker placed him in the garden of Eden to dress it and keep it. It would therefore seem to have the sanction of Scripture, when it is asserted that labor is an ordinance of God tor our highest and best wel fare. The Creator of the universe hallows it in his superintendence of the most beautiful mechanism for the blessing of his creatures ; aud his me chanical skill may be recognized in every prairie flower and in every snow flake, and his exertions seen when the forces of nature are urged through the channels of vegetable life and the bare forests and brown grass shoot forth atresh their foliage aud don again their mantle of living hues; " hen the ice bound streams, impelled by some mysterious agency which we cull gravitation, burst their icy bar riers aud obeying a common tendency, flow into a common ocean. But per haps some will be ready to say that all do not labor ; and that while one man tugs at the printing press and an other spends his strength in strik ing the anvil or filiug at the vise, there are others who are exempt from toil and have little to do but to speak a tew words, or to draw up a legal document, or to prescribe a remedy tor disease. Now among working men, and especially with mechanic ap prentices, the impression too often prevails, that a professional man en joys an immunity from labor ; their ideas ot professional toil are all limit ed to the preparation fora diploma, or admission to the bar; and these once obtained, and the office taken and the sign hung out, they think there is lit- tie lor the physician and 1 lie lawyer to do but to sit still and allow the money of the laboring men to How into their pockets. Now what is it that consti tutes labor? All toil is not alike: there are some kinds of mechanical employment which demand less mus cular effort than others. The watch maker uses a much lighter hammer than the blacksmith, and the engraver works with a finer chisel than the stone mason ; and yet all these may . lay claim to be called mechanics, and to earn their bread by honest toil.— Where, then, shall the unity of labor be found? Certainly it is not in the amount of muscular demand. Shall it be defined as production ? Is it that mechanical or that agricultural skill which produces the comforts of life? The printer produces books and news papers, and the author produces the thoughts that make the printer’s work something more than lifeless paper and ink. The copyist, too, produces man uscript which may prevent fraud and injustice. The truth is, every man who is employed, whether with the head or the hand, is a laborer and pro ducer. All are laborers ; and if some wear working jackets while others don broadcloth, it is because it is fit ting that every man should array him self in the garments best adapted to his toil. Muscular exertion is not the only labor ; for there is many a studious man who would gladly ex change his aching head and excited nervous system, and sleepless nights, for the clear brain, and healthy tone, and sweet repose, that of themselves more than compensate for the severest muscular exertion. Indeed the bal ance of ease in many respect* is in favor ol the men who follow the plough, or push the plane, or carry the hod, from morning till night. Headwork knows no ten hour regulation it caunot be set aside when the sun goes down, or suspended on account of the weather; but its demands are ceaseless, and no compensation of wealth can restore the balance, and bring the head worker to an equality of ease with the manu al workman. A true man feels that life is something more than a scramble lor wealth, or an opportunity for vice, or a thing of sloth ; and whether his pulse throb beneath homespun or are covered with purple and fine linen, lie will be a worker. Toil, toil, either of the brain or the hand, —is the only true manhood, the only true nobility. —lndustrial Jlonthty. How to Cook a Husband As Mrs. Glass said of the hare, you , must catch him. Having done so, the mode of cooking him so as to make a good dish of him is as follows: Many good husbands are spoiled in the cooking; some women go about it as if their husbands were bladders, and blow-them up; some keep them con stantly in hot water, while others freeze them by conjugal coldness some smother them in hatred, conten tion, and variance; and somo keep them in pickle all their lives. These women always serve them up with tongue sauce. Now it cannot be sup|>osed that husbands will be teu dor and good if managed iu this way; but they are, on the contrary very delicious when managed as follows Get a large jar, called the jar of care fulness (which all good wives have ou hand), place him near the fire of con jugal love; let the fire be pretty he , especially let it be clear; above all, let the heat be constant; cover him over with affection, kindness, and subject ion; garnish with modest, becoming familiarity, and the spice of pleasantry; and if you add kisses and other con fectionaries, let them be accompanied with a sufficient portion of secrecy, mixed with prudence and moderation. We should advise all good wives to try this receipt, and realize how ad mirable a dish a husband is when properly cooked. Eccentricities About Coffins.— A man who can have his coffin made while alive must look at death philo sophically. We hear of a case in point in Person county. Mr. Richard Hargis who lives near Bradsher’s store, thirty odd years ago turned out a sas safras tree to grow for the purpose ot making himself a coffin, and about twelve months ago the old man had it cut down, and got some one in Rox borough to make his cofiin out of it. The old chap occasional gets in it and stretches himselt out, by way of show ing his neighbors “ a good fit.” He paid the maker of the coffin in wheat, so lie is one living man who will have no fuss over his grave about the coffin when dead. This reminds us of au old coon in Murfreesboro, N. C., who had a coffin cast of iron before the war. He had his grave dug also, and walled up with brick, with a magnifi cent tombstone, setting forth his name, date of birth, and fixing his death “somewhere about the year 1871.’’ But he was alive and kicking in 1863. The old chap kept his cast-iron coffin in his corn-crib, aud used to shell corn in it. The crib needed no lock at night, for you couldn’t, get a negro to go near it after dark. —Hillsboro Leade*. Thumbs in Pigs.— ln fall aud win ter the pigs in this country are very apt to be troubled with a cough. It only seems to attack the younger stock, and they wheeze and pant for weeks, and frequently die, and much loss is occasioned by this asthma among the swine; yet it is easily cured. If a post mortem examination be made of a pig dead from this disease, in the air tubes of the lungs will he found great numbers of worms, about an inch long, looking like bits ot white thread, except for a sluggish wriggling capa city, leaving no room for doubt as to the cause of death. For a remedy, flavor the feed with spirits of turpen tine ; this I believe to be an infallible cure. A choice Berkshire, which was so far gone that it could noteat before the nature of the trouble was discov ered, was saved by pouring a tea spoonful down his throat. This was upwards of a year ago, before that we lost nearly all our stock ; since then, none. The turpentine proves to be a specific.— Ezchangt. Newspaper Pluck —Buckingham, of the Concordia Empire, is not afraid lo speak out of meeting: Who pioneers, helps to build up towns and cities, and makes town proprietors rich ? The newspaper man of course. ho is always ready to aid some fool to office, and receive nothing therefore ? The newspaper man, to be sure. We have demonstrated to some ex tent, the fact that a newspaper man can take care ol himself. AVe believe the laborer is worthy of the hire. We publish a paper for pay, and care not who knows it, AY'e have often heard it said the newspaper man can “poke along” without pay—that he should expect to. That rule does not work in this office. AY e slash a “ dead beat from our book as readily as we would drive a skunk from our hen coop. AVhen the craft stands up for what is right and just, they will get what is due them, and not before. The same paper reports horses and mules cheaper than for years. Sense and Nonsense. | How old is a ship when she is at her anchorage? A pleasant mill privilege—kissing Ia factory girl. Applicable to an angel—What on earth are you doing? Christian graces like the stars, shine brightest in the darkest hours. ludoleuce—A lazy boy makes a la sy man, just as a crooked sapling makes crooked tree. Nearly all beginnings are difficult and poor. At the opening of the hunt the hound litups. A handsome woman pleases the eye; a good woman the heart. One is a jewel, the other a treasure. Sentiments of friendship w*hich flow from the heart, cannot be frozen iu adversity. Absence destroys small passions and increases great one*, as the wind ex tinguishes tapers aud kindles fires. Why is a drunkard like a bad ac count ? Because he generally over bal ances. Why is a grain of sand in the eye like a schoolmaster’s cane ? Because it hurts the pupil. Whenever von buy, or sell, let or hire, make a clear bargain and never trust to “ We shant disagree about it.’* General Grant has just touched tho highest point of all his greatness. A [taper collar has been named after him. “Charley.” said a fond mother to her son, “you are into that jam again,” “No,” replied the pet, “you are wrong ina; the jam is in me.” Clara Louisa Kellogg is said to have closed a contract to sing twenty nights in fc*an Francisco for SIO,OOO in gold. Leaves.—A traveller reports that he has seen plants in South America with leaves thirty-four feet long. That leaves all other foliage in the shade. Marriage enlarges the scene of Imp piness or misery; the marriage of love is pleasant, the marriage of interest, easy; and a marriage where both meet happy. Durr the Root ok Power.— The Bishop of Orleans, in his recent letter opposing gratuitous and compulsory education by the State, hit upon the element of German character which contributed more than anything else to their success in the recent war. lie said: “ There is, I know it, a reason that many worthy people give at once, and without having reflected on the question, to wit, that the Prussians— for we are much given, at this moment to the imitation of Prussia—that th« Prussians conquered u> because they know how to read better than w r e do. That the Prussians can read, I know well. But I also know—for I saw a good deal of them during the six months of a long and mournful memo ry—that if they beat us, it was not only because they knew' how to read, but because they know how to obey.” It would be well for America if the education of her youth had such a phase combined with it. «♦» *- An Old Ime*. Revived. —The old idea of gathering the scattered chil dren of Iseral back to the land of Pal istine, and re-establishing the Jewish nation, is on foot once more in Frank fort, Germany. A large number of printed circulars have been sent out urging the Jews to unite in the under taking. It is stated that many of the influential moneyed mea of the old imperial capital —the headquarters of the German Jews—have given their substantial support. Come Home, the Baby is Sick I A nice young man, w hose fine man ners and clothes had created a decided ly favorably impression on the marri ageble w omen of an lowa town, was shamefully neglected w hen it became known that he had received a dispatch to “come home immediately as the ba by was very sick.” ~— ■—** Childhood is like a mirror, catching and reflecting images all around it, Kemeinber that an impious or profane thought uttered by a parent s lips may operate on a young heart like a careless spray of water upon polished steel, staining it with rust which no after scouring can effaee —► »•» —■ .. The Hawkinsville Dispateh reporta that far mere have no difficulty in get ting a plenty of labor in that section, but that they are planting less than heretofore. The first qualities wanted in all who deal with the education of children— patience, self-control, and a youthful heart that remember its early days. He who thinks better of his neigh bore than they deserve, cannot be a bad man, for the standard by which his judgment is formed, is ibt good nee;? of hie own heart. NO. 5.