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in OftrttrivilleJßarto* 0 Ga.,Vtjr
Samuel 11. Smilli,
EDITOR and PROPRIETOR.
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R 0 F ESSTON A L_ C A R D S ,
To H N W. WjjJLFO RD ,
Attorney aT^Law,
CARTERSVTILf.E, GEOKffA.
OFFICE OVEIC CURRY’S STORE,
Oct. 17, 1868.
R. VV. MURPHEY,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
Carlersville. Ga.
WILL practice In the the Courts of Cherokee Cir
cuit. Particular attention given to the collection
• f claims. Oflic* With Col. Abda Johnson. Oct. 1
DR. M.IOHNSON,
Dentist,
V. gSPECTFULLY offers his Professional
It. services to the cltiiens of Carteraville
and vicinity. He is prepared to do work ‘<l} /T 1 ! r
ea tse latest and most improved style.
Treth extract** without psin, !by means of narcotic
•ray.] WArk all warranted. Ofiice over Stokeley's
state, CARTERSVILLE Ga. Feb. 20 18(5S.—w5m
JERE A. HOWARD,
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW,
CARTERSVILLE. GA.
JOHN J. JONES,
Attorney at Law,
CarlcrsvllSe, Ga.,
WlLLatteud promptly to all business en
trusted to his care. Will practice in the j
Clou ita of Law, and Equity in the Cherokee
Circuit. Special attention given to the collec
tion of claims. Jan. 1, 1366. lv j
JOHN J. JONES,
REAL ESTATE AGEXT,
CARTERSVILLE. GA.
I aw authorized to sell, and have on hand several
■ ease, and Lots, and also numerous building lots in the
tewa *f Cartersville. Alsoseverxl plantations of vari
•at alee* in Bartow county. Parties desiring to buy or
• ell will do well to g.ve tue a call. All communications
premi tly answered. July IT, 1866.
BLANCE & OODD,
ATTORNEYS AT LA W,
CK DARTOWN, POLK COUNTY, GA.
Will practice law in the several
Cos irt* comprising the Tallapoosa Circuit;
• l*o, Bartow and Floyd Counties. Partic
»!*,■ attention given to the collection ot
•laima. jan 12,Ly
n*. cox i, j. n. wixle.
Ct'xe a'c Wikle,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
AND
NOTARIES PUBLICs
Cartersvililc, Georgia.
JHO. < OX, COMMISSIONER OF DEEDS
FOR SOUTH CAROLINA.
••j t Sth 186$ lyr.
m, * W. R, 12«abYTCAf»TLE,
ff j we’!?r WialcSi ami
" Clock Repairer,
tU' F. nt of A. A. Skinner <fe Co’* store
Gsi •( die, Jan. 25
JAHSES MILNER,
Attorney at Law,
AND NOTARY PUBLIC.
CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA.
WILL practice in the Courts of the Cherokee end afl
jeinlug Circuits, also the Supreme and District
Coarts Prompt attention given to business entrusted
August 21 8816—wly
J. C. C. Blackburn,
ATTORNEY AT LAW
EUHAUEE, BARTOW COUNTY, GEORGIA.
R* e: ?n.ces: Industry, promptitude and at- j
tifi march 22. \vß
TW Miner, O H Milner.
MILNER & MILNER,
Attorneys at Law,
CARTERSVILLE GEORGIA.
Will attend promptly to business entrusted
te their cire. jan. 15. ly
S. H. PATILL O,
FASHIONABLE TAILOR,
YtFlll atter. I promptly to the Cutting. Repair-
Y> ing and Making Boys’ and Me t’s Clo hing.
Office on the Second Fb or of Stokely <fc Wil- 'J jJ l
Bams’ New Brick Building, rlntranee from H-
Cain Street in rear of the builuing. Ft.bl7.
WARREN AKIN,
Attorney at Law,
CARTERSVILLE. GEORGIA j
Will practice in all the Courts ot the State j
Commercial Hotel, Cartersville, Ga., 1
RTiNOVATSD AND
REARRANGED AND REMODDLED.
T. J. LYON Sc €O.
TWO-STOBY BRICK BUILr>TND, corner •' Depot
Square and Market Street. East Sids ts l.allroad.
Room# good and comfortable.
Furniture and Bedding new.
Good office and spacious Dining Room
Tables well supplied with the best that the market
ffords, and charges moderate.
The Proprietors hope, by good attention to business,
to receive a Mberal share of patronage. Oct. 1,1569.
JA M I 5 P. MASON,
Bookbi s er and Paper Ruler,
lAWSHE'S BUlLD ' G '^|^^j
Whitehall Street,
ATLANTA- GEORGIA.
May 1, 1869
S. O’SHIELDS,
Fashionable Tailor ,
GARTERS)III Ei BARTOW COUNTY, GEORGIA.
Having j st received Charts of the latest
styles of Gentlemens’ and Boys’ Clothing-,
European an I American, announces that hi
tiS prepared to execute all kinds
ofwoik in the Fashionable Tail
oring ine. with neatness and in - itX.
durable style. Over J. Elsas & Go’s store,
Gartersvillo mch-gg
aC. THOMPKINS, Favorably
known as a good Workman on
clocks and watches and
j«vrelry, has removed his place
lof Work to his Residence on the
Hill, East Sida of the Railroad, near Mr. A.
Williams. Y ork done oa short notice.—
Call and see.
VOL. 8.
lennesaw House.
(LDcaled at railroad depot.)
rp»E undersigned having bought the entire
1 interest of Dix Fletcher, Trustee for Lou
isa W. Fletcher, in the Kennewaw House,
nnd the business will be conducted, in the tu
ture. under the name anil firm of Augustine
A. Fletcher A Freyor. Thankful for past fa
vors and patronage,they will -hive to give the
utmost satisfaction t<> all patrons of the Kon
nesaw House. AUGUSTINE A. FLETCHER.
Jan. 12, ’69. L ' FnEYtR ‘
E. T. White, J. M. I.ykes.
Americjui Hotel,
ALABAMA FTTtr ET,
A TLANTA. GEORGIA.
W IIITE & L YKE S ,
Proprietors.
f>AGG\CE carried to and from Depot
> free of Charge. May U. iB6O
F, K. Sasseen, n, J. Wilson, J. L. Caldwell,
Ga. Fa. Ala.
THE OLD TENN. ANI) GEORGIA
ATLANTA, GEORGIA,
BASS ESN, WILSON & CALDWELL, Proprietors.
J. W. F. BRYSON, Clerk.
JOHN T. OWEN,
Walcii and CJocli Repairer,
and Jeweler,
CARTERSVILLE, GA.
tTTILL keep constant- /*r\ jp?ft
It ly on hand, for sale ft ,
a well selected stock of llfvk
WATCHES. CLOCKS.
Gold, Silver and Steel
SPECTACLES.
and c., &c. Ca:i furnish any kind of Silver
Plate, extra fine Gold Watches or Jewelry,
at short notice, as cheap as they can be
bought in any other market. Goods cheap.
Work warranted. Term3 cash,
aug 12, 1869.w1y
LIVERY STABLE.
Jgg|g
IR,_ AD. M O O IT .
CA R TERS TILL E, GA.,
IS prepared, at all hours, to furnish con
veyances into the country —saddle-horse,
buggy, hack, rockaway, or wagon. Also, to
board stock, &c. nov. 0.
ft, Vf.SATTERF IKLD, G. W. S ATTEf. P lEIE.
R. W SATTERFIELD & BRO.
AT
The New Brick Store
First Door East of Railroad.'
CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA-
Have just received and opened an
ENTIIta NSW STOCK
OF
STAPLE AND FANCY DRY GOODS,
NOTIONS, READY MADE CLOTH
ING, HATS, BOOTS, SHOES, CROCKERY
HARDWARE, AND CUTLERY, FAMI
LY GROCERIES, ETC., ETC., ETC.
To which they invite the attention of the
public generally, being satisfied that 'hey
can and will sell goods as cheap, if not a lit
tle Cheaper, thai any other house in town.
The attention of the ladies is especially
invited to our Stock of Summer Dress
ceil
Gentlemen can also be fitted up with
whatever they may Want.
Country produce taken in exchange for
goods, at the highest market price.
Having withdrawn from the late Firm of
J. H. Satterfield & Cos, I would respectfully
solicit the patronage of my old friends and
customers.
R. W. SATTERFIELD.
June 24th,—w ly.
R. F. IAAD JOX. J. L. WINTER.
E. F. HaMox & Go,
TOBACCO
COMMISSION MERCHANTS
AGENTS FOR THE SALE OF
Virginia and Ji'orth arolina
TOBACCO.
NO. IS, ALABAMA STREET, ATLAE T J
Consignments solicited. Will make liber
al advances when desiced. aug 1,’69
BASLEHY!
Restaurant!
CONFECTIONERY!
Fruit and Toy
H'O®!’©.
«e®g|XxxsXgi®Biß»
J. T. GUTHRIE,
Proprietor,
No. 10, Slocks Build’g,
Main Street,
CARTERSVILE, 6A.
&®pfc. is—
CARTERSYILLE, BARTOW COUNTY, GA., DECEMBER 2, 1869. NO. 23.
DR. JOHN BULL'S
Great Remedies
SMITH'S TONIC STROP!
FOR TIIE CURE OF
AGUE AND FEVER
Oil
CHILLS AND FEVER.
The proprietor of th's calehrst and medicine justly
claim# for it a superiority over all remedies ever offer
ed to the pu- lie lor the sate. certain speedy »..d per
manent cure of Ajru- and Fever .or Chilis and Fever
whether of short nr lone standing. He tele.# to the
eiuire Western and Southwestern cmi&tr.v to he ir him
testimony In ills truth of the assertion, that in no c»*e
Whatever will it fail to cure if the direction# are strict
ly followed and ca rie 1 out. In ft (treat m*nv cases a
sinede dope hits been sufficient for (. cure, and whole
families l are l cen cured by a single bottle, with a p-r
--sect restoration of the general health. It ;#, how-ver.
prudent, and in every '■•-t-e mot e ce tUn t.> cure, if its
use i* continued in smaller doses for a week or two af
ter the disease has been cheeked, more especially in
difficult and long standing cases. Usually, this medi
cine will not require any aid to kee () the bowels in
good order; should the patient, however, require a
cathartic medicine, after having t V-en three or four
doses Os the Tonic, a single dose of BULL’I VEGETA
BLE FA JULY Pit. L 8 will he sufficient.
DR, J083.Y IS I 7 !i IAS
Principal Office
Nio. -SO Flfili, Cross street,
Louisville, Ky,
Bull’s Worm Destroyer.
I o my United States and World-wide Read
ers:
| HAVE received many tcstimotials from preses-
Is on*l and medical men, as my almanacs and vari
ous public • lions have shown, all of which are genuine.
Lite loDowiug fr.,m a higt.w educated and popular
pltp iciati in Georgia, is certainty one of the most sen
sib.’e couiuttiriioati inf I have ever received. Dr. Cleut
ent knows exactly what he speaks of, and his testimo
ny dtserves to be written in Je tets of gold. Hear
what the Doctor says of Bull's Worm Det.tr, yer
Viiiauow, Walkerco., Ga. )
June 2Dtli, 1866 \
"DR. JOHN BULL—Dear Sir:—l have recently giv
en your “Worm Destroyer” several trials, and find it
wonderfully efficacious. !■ has not failed in a single
instance, to have the wished-for effect, lam doing a
pretty large country practice, and have daily use for
some article of the kind. I am fine to c* nfess that I
know of no remedy recommended by theftblest author#
that is so certain and speedy in its t tfects. On the con
trary they are uncertain in the extreme. My object
in writing you istnfindoot upon what terms I can
get the medicine directly from you. If I can get it
upon easy terms, i sha.il use a great deal of it, lan
aw are that the use of such articles is contrary to the
teachings and practice of a great majority of tire reg
ular 1 t;e of M. D.’s, but I see no just cause or good
sense in discarding a remedy which we know to be ef
ficient, simply because we may be ignorant of if# com
bination. For my part, I shall make it a rule to use ail
aud any tre -ns to alleviate suffering hum .rdty which
I may lie able to ■ ommand—not hesitating because
someone more ingenious t ban myself may have learn
d its effects first, end secured the sole right ic secure
hat knowledge. However. lamby no no ansi an ad
vocate or supporter of the thousands of worthies* nos
trums that flood the country, that purpart, to cute all
manner of disease to winch humtn flesh is heir.
Please reply soon, and inform me of your best terms
I am,sir, must respectfully,
JULIES P. CLKMENT, M. D.
Bull’s Sarsaparilla.
A GODD REASON F n R THE CAPTAIN'S FAITH,
HEAD THE CAPTAIN’S LETTEIt AND TIIE LET
TFR FROM IIIS MOTHER.
Benton Barracks, Mo., April 80. ISG6.
Dr. John Bull—Dear Sir: Knowing the efficiency
of your Sarsai ariila, ami the healing and beneficial
qualities it possesses. I send you the following state
ment of inv case:
I was wounded abcut, two years ago—was taken
prisoner ard Confined for sixteen months. Being
moved so often, my wounds have not healed yet. I
have not sat. up a moment since 1 was wounded. I
am shot through the hips. My general health is im
paired, slid I need something to assist nature. I
have more faith in vour Sarsaparilla than in any thing
else. I wish that, that is genuine. PJease express me
half a dosen bottles, and oblige
Capt. C. P. JOHNSON.
St. Louis, Mo.
IU S-—The following was written April 39, 1565, by-
Mrs. Jenpie Johnson, mother of Onpt Johnson.
DR. BULL—Dear Sir; My husband. Dr. C. S. Jnhn
son, wasa skillful surgeon and phtsician in Central
New York, where he died, leaving the above C. I’.
Johnson to my care. At thirteen yea,s of age he hail
a chronic diar'hnea and scrofula, for which I gave
him your SarsaparHia. IT CURED HIM. I have for j
ten years t ecommentled it to many in New York, Ohio, !
and lowa, for scrofula, fevers ares, and genertl debili
ty. Perfect success has attended ft. The cures effect
ed f»t some cases of scrofula and fever sores were
almost miracnlam I am very anxious for mv son to
again have tecourse to your Sarsaparilla. He is fear
ful of getting a spurious article, h*nee Ids writing to
you for it. His wounds were terrible, but I believe he
witi recover. Respectfully, JENNIE JOHNSON.
BULL’S CEBRON BITTERS.
authen ric documen rs.
ARKANSAS HEARD FROM,
Testimony of Medical Men
S’ony Point, -White Cos., Ark., May 23,’66.
DB. JOHN BULL—Dear Sir: Last February I««
in Louisville purchasing Drugs, and I got some of
vour Sat sapparilla and Oedron Bitters.
Mv son-in-law, who was with me in tho s,ore, has
been down with rheumatism for gome tune, commen
ced on the Bitters, ant’, scon found his general health
hM been j n bad health, tried them,
a< Dr^Coffee'who o has d ’been in bad health for several
yekri —stomach and liver affected-he improved very
mm-h bv the use of your Bitters. Indeed the Cedron
Bitters has given you great- Popularity m this settie
f think I could sell a great quantity of your
medicine* this fail —especially of your Cedron Bitters
and Sarsaparilla. Ship mo vta Memphis, care of
Kickett & Neely, He.pecUully, waLKER
All the above remedies for sale by
2a. H. BB.ABFEES'LB,
Druggist,
WAIT EH ALL STREET,
ATLANTA, GA
f«b 20,186fw1y
An ißfHcasaat situation.
John Smith—you’ve beard of him—
is very bashful; is too bashful in truth.
He was bom and raised in the coun
try. His father give him a good edu
cation, and allows him plenty of uon
oy. But John, with all other attain
ments, could not accustom himself to
female society, not because he did not
like the girls, hut because his nature
would not permit him to associate
with the fair sex.
It once happened, not very long ago
either, that John’s father had some
very important business to transact in
the city, he had also some very partic
ular business to attend to at home
which demanded his personal atten
tion, and not possessing the power of
übiquity, he delegated his sou to trails
act that iu the city.
John being thus com mis honed, im
mediately proceeded to the city, and
to the residence of his father’s old
friend, whom he found to be a very
nice old gentleman with a beautiful
daughter and gold spectacles.
John was ushered into the parlor,
(anew thing for him) and motioned
to a seat —no, a sofa (another new
tiling.)
But w r e must use his own language:
“I took my seat, and made observa
tions. Everything was tine! Fine
cargets, tine sofas, line tables, fine cur
tains, fine pianos, fine everything, and
especially a line young lady who dress
ed in fine silk, fine satin, and who had
fine curls, and a fine appearance gen
erally. After chatting with the old
gentleman a few minutes, he took
down his hat told me to make myself
at home for an hour or two, and left—
left me alone with his daughter, and a
young mischievous boy, the young la
dy’s brother. I didn’t relish the situ
ation at rdl. The idea of keeping a
city belie engaged in conversation for
two hours —perdition ! Silence reign
ed in the parlor for a short time you
bet. I amused myj elf as much as pos
sible with the boy—that is, I loaned
him my knife and watch key, and
watched him cut holes iu the carpet with
one, and spoil the other. I don’t know :
what I should have done had it not!
been for that boy—he was so good to ;
attract one’s attention, you know.
It is true he asked some startling
questions occasionally such as this:
“Are you going to court sister Emily V”
but such things are to be expected un
der such circumstances.
Miss Emily thinking no doubt, that
to be a gcod hostess she must keep
her guest engaged in conversation,
asked me how I liked country life, &c.
She said that it must be a beautiful
sight to see the laborers, male and fe- i
male, romping on the new mown hay |
on New Years day; that slie always l
did think that she would like to spend
a Christmas in the country a nut gath
ering with the village lads and lasses;
that it hael always been a mystery to
her how thev get eggs off the trees
without breaking them, Ac.
In return, I thought to keep up my
part of the conversation, it was neces
sary for me to quote poetry and the
hke which I did. Among other quo
tations, I unfortunately repeated the
well known lines of Shakspeare:
“There’s a divinity that, shapes our enda,
Rough hew them as wc will ”
At this juncture the boy who had
perched himself upon my knee, looked
very earnestly and s:tid:
‘.Divinity shaped the end of your
nose mighty curus.”
I am certain that I wished somebo
dy would spank the young rascal. —
We talked of bills, mountains, vales,
cataracts —I believe I said waterfalls,
when the boy spoke up aud said:
“Why sister’s got a trunk full of ’em
up stairs; pap says they are made out
of boss hair.”
This revelation struck terror into
me, and blushes into the cheeks of my
fair companion.
It began to be very apparent to me
that I must be very guarded in what I
said, lest said boy might slip in his re
marks at uncalled for places; in fact
I turned my attention to him. I told
him he ought to go home with me,
and see what nice chickens we had in
the country. Unlucklily I mentioned
a yoke of cales my brother owned.
'The word calves ruined all. The
little fellow looked up and said:
“Sister's got a dozen of them, but
she don’t wear ’em only when sl\e goes
up town on windy days.’
“Leave the room, unmannerly little
wretch!” exclaimed Emily, “leave im
mediately 1”
“I know what you want me to leave
the room for,” replied he, “you can’t
fool me—you want to set in that man’s
lap and kiss him like you did Bill Sim
mons the other day—you can’t fool me.
I’ll jes tell you. Gimme some candy
hke he did, and I’ll go. You think
because you’ve got the Grecian! Bend
that you are smart. Guess I know a
thing or two. lam mad at you, any
how, ’cause pap would a bought me a
top yesterday, if it hadn’t a been fer
you getting them curls, dog gone yer I
You needn’t turn red in the face,
’cause I can’t see the paint. There
ain’t no use in winking at me with
that glass eye of your’n ’cause I ain’t
going out’n here, now that’s what’s the
matter w r ith the purps. I don’t care if
you are twenty-eight years old you
ain’t no boss of mine you old fool.”
That is all the story that John re
lated. He says he don’t know how
I he got out of the scrape.
I Something Everybody Don’t Know.
It is said by those supposed to know
! that the name Jesus CLrist occurs on
! ly once in the Old Testament, and that
is in the second Book of Esdras in the
Apochraphv, where these words are
used: “For my son Jesus shall be re
vealed with those that be with him.—
After these vears shall mv son Christ
j die.”
A .Hosier's Love.
Happily, a mother’s love is some-
I thing upon which the great majority
jof mankind can lot k back reverent
;ly aud fondly look back—for an oL
, j active representation of its main ohar
j nctensiics. Oh, the unselfishness of it!
j How, months before it can be return
; cd by anything beyond a momentary
; dance of light iu her child’s ( ves, or a
| curvature of its toothless mouth into a
; smile, cr a crow, or a fling of the limbs,
| expressive of enjoyment, it pours it
self out in seemingly wasteful supera
bundance, intent on giving rather
er than receiving, rejocing to minister
rather than be ministered to, accept
ing without a murmur days of care,
someties decked with pain, and nights
of broken rest, and rendering without
stint unnumbered services which to
others would be self-denial, but the
irksomeness of which her ever-gushing
affections, without a moment’s pause I
of self-consciousness, cleanes away and J
renders invisible! And then the pa- j
tience and long suffering of it—the!
faults it will cover with its ever-ready
mantle, the negligences it will drop
tears over in secret, and openly forgive;
the affronts it will forgive, the disap
pointments it will endure and conceal,
the ingenuity it will display in devising
plausible excuses and even satisfying
reasons for manifest wrongs. There
is nothing like it in this world of ours
—nothing so morally beautiful; a self
fed, self-sustaining love, which can
traverse wide deserts, and, like the
camel, keep itself alive upon its little
hoards of remembered joys, when all
other love fails —the one human love
that spends itself wholly upon its ob
jects, and the roots of which even in
gratitude cannot entirely kill. Bnt
when returned, as in- some measure it
mostly will be, to what strength and
beauty of self-sacrifice will it now
grow! Y r et, under any circumstances,
chiefly a sorrow-bearing love, of which
the joys are cares, the duties of inflic
tions of pain upon itself, the pride is
nourished to be bestowed elsewhere,
and the fondest gain is the sorest loss.
About every true mother there is sanc
tity of martyrdom—sad when she is
no more in the body, her children see
her with a ring of light around her
head.
It is Dark. —Tho following beauti
ful sentiments are from Meisier Karle’s
sketch book, entitled the “Night of
Heaven.” It is full of touching ten-1
derness.
“It is dark when the honest and
honorable man sees the result of years
swept cruelly away by the heartless
adversary. It is dark when ho sees
the clouds of sorrow gather round,
and knows that the hopes and happi
ness of othei’s are fading with his own.
Bnt in that hour the memory of past
integrity will be a true consolation;
aud assure him even here on earth of
gleams of hope in Keaveu. It is dark j
when the dear voice of that sweet j
child, once fondly loved, is no more j
heard in murmurs. Dark when the j
pattering foot no more resounds with- ;
out the threshold, or ascends step by i
step up the stairs. Dark when some |
unknown air recalls the strains once j
oft attuned to a childish voice now
hushed in death ! Daikncss —but on
ly the gloom which now heralds the
day-spring of immortality and infinite
light of Heaven.
A man attempted to spell
crockery the other day, and proceeded
thus, ‘Kraughkearreighe,’ but expired !
in a spasm before he could make a y>
with which to the word.
IKiT'A young man sent some mon
ey to a New York firm to get some- !
thing good ‘for those contemplating
matrimony.’ He received several bot
tles of soothing syrup.
Coal. —The demand for coal has be
come so great in this city that the
State Road, with its present number of
cars, has not been able to supply it. —
The yards were empty yesterday, but
expect to be replenished to-morrow. — j
We understand that a large number of
additional cars are being constructed j
and will soon be upon the track. \\ e
may then hope for a steady supply. —
Atlanta New Era.
Josh Billings says: “When I am in a
crowded car, and a lady comes in, I!
think it is tho duty of some other man j
to get up and give her his seat. I look
around in the car to see if any man in
the crowd looks like making a move in
that direction, and when I see them all
keep tlieir seats, I hide my face behind
my newspaper and blush for my sex
A man named Gardner died at Am
lieist, Va., a few days since, of a well
developed case of glanders. It is sup
posed he contracted the disease from
some horse.
The accounts from the West are
gloomy, and telegrams from Chicago
to-day repoi't the price of wheat at 87
cents. This is the lowest point reach
ed on the present downward turn in
prices, and the proportion of this 87
cents which the farmer gets does not
; actually pay the cost of production.
! nja u Mcacou *ixe
A curious incident of S ibba h break
; ing occured in the parish of Hampton,
j Conn., in the good old time.
A certain jolly farmer, who lived sev
| oral miles from the meeting house, was
astonished to observe one Sunday mor
ning his near neighbor, a pious dea
con, hard at work in his hay-field, with
ins sons and his “hired man.”
But the truth was soon divined; the
deacon, who took no daily paper and
owned no almanac, —was, in short, not
a literary man—had mistaken the day ;
of the week, and his well-ordered fam-1
ily had adopted his error.
I am sorry to add that, being more i
of a wag than a saint, our farmer de
clined to enlighten the innocent Sab
bath-brer.ker, bnt drove on, chuckling,
toward the sanctuary.
The deacon looked after him, and,
pausing in the midst of the broad swath
he was cutting, exclaimed: “Es there
ain’t neighbor Doolittle aud all the
children, dressed up and goin’ visitin’
Saturda} mornin’ in the midst of hay
in’ time. That beats all.”
The next morning the deacon and
the deacon’s wife, his sons and daugh
ters, his hired man, the hired girl, and
the “bound boy,” all arrayed iu their
Sunday best, set out for meeting, in
good order—the eldest sou on horse- j
back, with the eldest daughter mount
ed behind on a pillion; the deacon,
with the rest of the family, in the big
farm wagon drawn by a pair of stout
roans, who jogged soberly along with
their meekest Sunday look on.
The family delusion extended even
to the yellow dog, who trotted in the
rear of the decorus turnout, without
secular frisk, or bark, or gambol.
On the way to the villago the deacon
was surprised and shocked to see sev
eral o| hi* fellow-townsmen at work in
their fields.
He invariably stopped to reprove
them, but the joke of his own Sunday
work had spread thorugh the neighbor
hood, and was so much relished that
no one eared to undeceive him. Each
farmer’s excuse for Ins impiety was the
necessity of getting in his hay bclore a
shower, which he predicted was immi
nent, though the sky was cloudless. —
Expostulations and replies were some
thing after this sort:
“Why, Uncle Zebulon! this here is a
fine day, with no appearance of rain.”
“Jes" so, De- con; but the wind’s lit
tle unstiddy, and I believe in takiu’
time by tue forelock.”
“But, Uncle, it is tho Lord’s time, ”
“Yes, Deacon; bnt 1 intend to send
a load oi this heva hay to Parson Mose
ly, and that will make it all square, I
guess.”
“Wka, neighbor Barlow, where un
der the canopy do you find signs of
rain to-day?”
“In the corns, Deacon. When they
begin to shoot I look out for a damp
spell; audit always comes, soon or
late.”
“Why, Ephraim l’etingill; I am beat!
You horse-shoeing on Sunday !”
“Why, you know Deacon, ‘a merci
ful man is merciful to his beast.’ ”
After each specious response the dea
con shook his head mournfully, and
drove on He reached the village, j
drove up to the meeting-house steps,
where he and his hired man handed
out the wcmen-folks and children, liis
sen and daughter had already dis
mounted at tho horse-block; and to
gether they marveled much at the
closed meeting-house doors and the
vacant wagon-shed. There they wait
ed, more and more amazed till several
loungers from the village store gather
ed around them, laughing and quizzing,
till a terrible small boy called out,
“What are you doin’ here Monday
mornin’? Did you sleep over Sunday,
or did you forget to put yo r beans in
to the oven Saturday night?”
Upon that hint they went riding and
driving homeward at quite a festive
rate oi speed, albeit iu a deeply morti
fied and penitential state of mind.
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“Devil Look for UJassa and
TaHe Poor Sara ”
A good story is told of an old gen
tleman in a Southern State, who being
very ill, and supposing that liis end
ivus approaching, gave direction that;
au old slave, who bad been very faith
ful to him, should be called into Lis
room. Sam made his appearance, and
with a joyful face drew near his mas
ter, expecting that he was about to an
nounce to him his purpose of leaviug
him free.
“You know,” said the master, “you
have been a faithful servant to me,
Sam.”
“Yes, massa,” he replied.
Poor Sam expected the next sen
tence to contain his freedom. But said j
the master kindly:
“You know, Sam, I always treated
you kindly.”
“Yes, massa, you did.”
Sam was now all anxiety to hear,
and looked gratefully into the face of
his dying master, and waited to hear
the charming “Freedom!” But what
was Sam’s disappointment when his
master said:
“In consideration of your long and
faithful service, I have directed in my
Will that when you die you shall be
buried by my side.”
After a long pause, Sam replied,
“Me no like it indeed, massa, for
some dark night Deb.d come, look for
massa, and take poor Sam.
‘Do you ever take anything ?’ asked
Sharp of S.ioozles. -Never, sir, except
I’m unwell, and then my weakness is
cognac. Just now I’m troubled with
hollowness, and I don’t care if I do.’
When may young ladies be said to
be economical? When they resort to
tight lacing to prevent waist ‘fulness.’
Brought to Terms. —A good story is
| told of ft couple of farmers who lived a
i few miles apart, one of tium having
J called upon the other jus- at dinner
time, one day, who, by tiro way, was
j rather a penurious old fellow, and who
; seemed to bo enjoying the frugal re
past very pleasantly. The visitor drew
! up to the stove, looking very wishfully
I towards the table, expecting the old
f ifmcr to invite him to dine, but he
kept on eating, when presently he
broke out with
“What’s the news up your way,
neighbor,” said the old fellow, still eat
j ing, “uo news, ch ?”
“No, I believe not,” replied the vis-
I itor; presently thinking of some news,
he replied, “Well, yes, friend, I did j
hear of an item of news that’s worth
mentioning.”
“Ha, what is Hint?”
“Neighbor John has a cow that has
Svc calves.,, j
“Is that so! Good gracious! What j
in thunder docs the fhth calf do when !
the others are sucking V” asked tie old I
farmer, not turning bis head from his
dinner.
“Why, he stands end leaks on just
as I do, like a dumb fool!’ said the
visitor.
‘.Mary, put on another plate /” ejacu
lated the farmer.
Justice in New York.— Judge Dow
ling, of New Yoik, loves a practical
joke. Tne other day a man was be
fore him charged with whipping his
wife.
How cams he to whip you? asked
Judge Dowling.
‘Underneath where we live, at No.
470, Grand street, there is a dance
house,’ explained the wife. ‘I was told
that my husband was there, and I took
a woman with me and went and look
ed in.’
‘Was your husband there ?’ pursued
the Judge.
‘l r es, sir.,
‘Dancing ?’
‘Yes, sir.’
‘Did you go inside ?’
‘No, sir; but my husband saw me,
and soon came up to my room, when
he beat me and mashed the furniture.’
‘lt was not a proper place for her to
go,’ spoke the husband.
‘lt was a proper place for yon, I sup
pose ?’
‘Any place is proper for men.’
‘Do you think so ?’
‘Yes, sir ’
‘Well, then, I’ll send you to the pen
itentiary for three months.’
The Dalton Citizen says the ques
tion as to whether wo will have a Fair:
at Dalton in the fall of 1870, is being '
fully discussed among some of tho!
leading farmers,* merchants and me
chanics of our growing city, and the
determination with which they take
hold of the subject, would seem to
leave no doubt but that we will have a
Fail - .
We understand that President White
is now making, or about to effect, ar
rangements by which the work on the
Dalton and Morganton Railroad will
commence at an early day, pirobably
by the first of January. Its comple
tion is now a fixed fact. No doubt
about it. —Dalton Citizen.
A Christian brother was lately re
viving in a religious meeting the expe
riences of himself and family, saying,
among oilier things, that his first wife
was a very good woman, but she sick
ened and died in a happy frame of
mind, and ho should rejoice if his pres
ent partner would go just the same
way.
A furrier wishing to inform his cus
tomers that he recut their old furs in
to fashionable styles, wound up his
advertisement as follhws:
*N. B.—Capes, victorines, etc., made
up for ladies in fashionable styles, out
of their own skins.’
Extreme Delicacy. —‘ls there any
thing the matter ?’
‘There is. sir.’ was the host’s savage
reply.
‘Have I given any offence ?’
‘You have, sir.’
‘Really, I am ignorant of it.’
‘Well, sir, let me tell you such lan
guage won’t suit here.’
‘My dear sir, what language? We j
were only talking of soup I’
‘Well, sir but you said ‘ox-tail.’
‘Well, suppose I did ?’
‘Why, sir, it’s that very word that j
sent all the ladies blushing out of the
room-it’s highly unbecoming language
—very improper indeed !’
‘But my dear sir, what would you
have me say? I called the soup by
the piroper name didn’t I?’
“No, sir, you did not; and whenever
you have occasion to speak of that
particular soup again, never say Ox
tail sovpl Say Fly disperser s oup ! that’s
the proper word,sir.”
‘My Dear, what shall we name Bub?’
‘Why husband, I have settled on the
name of Peter.’
‘Oh, don't he replied; ‘I never liked
Peter, because he denied his master.’
‘Well, then,’ replied the wife, ‘what
name do you like ?
‘Joseph.’
Oh, not that,’ replied she. ‘I can’t
bear Joseph, because ho denied his
mistress.’
China-Ware. —At Mcßrice & Co.’s,
Atlanta, can he found the handsomest
China sets in Christendom. Aud all
tastes can be suited in the styles.
A New Methowst Payer.— Wo see
from the Richmond Christian Advo
| cate, that Dr. T. E. Bond, Jr., and the
! Rev. It. A. Holland, will publish on the
j Ist January, 1870, a weekly religious
! newspaper of tho highest religious and
literary character, to be called the Bal
timore Christian Advocate, at V' 00 a
| year in advance.
KEWS.
Napoleon has lost his war-horso of
1830.
Sr. Louis has three negro basc-Lall
elaba.
The Spanish Bank, of Havana, is in
solvent.
Helper is said to waut helpers pecu
niarily.
“Man and Wife” is Wilkie Collins’
new novel.
Mmepliis is moving for a union rail
| road dc] ot.
Pig’s Kye is the name of a town in
| Minnesota. ,
A Bulfhlouie.n win. tv n patent /or a
musquito trap.
Boston has a ‘•Consumptive's and
Chi dren’s Homo.
Little Tournour, a girl gymnast, is
in New Orleans.
Dr. Russell will represent tho Lon
don Times at Suez.
Hair combs are manufactured of old
boots in Paris.
Nathan Rothschild recently lost 200,-
COO francs at Baden.
Ida Lewis is a member of the Order
of Good Templars.
The potato crop of Illinois is tho
best for sixteen years.
Gen. Hardee is President of the Al
abama University.
Thirty new houses are to be built at
Cumberland Gap.
Black walnut timber is shipped fiom
Illinois to Europe.
Tho Evanston, 111., “college” has a
female base-ball club.
Ihe public schools of Mobile aro at"
tended by 1,987 pupils.
Hildebran Ims named his youngest
son George Washington.
Seventeen men control eighty thous
and Pennsylvania miners.
Mrs. Edward A. Pollard is keeping
a hotel in Washington.
A one-armed child was born in Rich
mond, Ya., last week.
Kate Fisher was nc used of wearing
false calves iu Hartford.
Boston proposes turning the rest of
Massachusetts into a park.
—The Monumental City is to have
a monurneut to George Peabody.
What do vou always do before you
go to sleep ? Shut your eyes.
Mr. Johnson’s fellow citizens still ad
dress him as “Mr. President.”
A New Orleans swell kn:cked over
a danseuse with his tioral tribute.
Mobile is expecting a visit from Mr.
and Mrs. Commodore Vanderbilt.
The Duke of Saxony Ims ordered a
$4,000 carriage from a builder in New
York.
Blondln, popular as ever, is perform
ing on the bycicle on the tight rope, iu
Loudon.
In view of the host of Suez visitors,
beefsteak is now three dollars a pound
at Curio.
The London Times had over 12,000
advertisers represented in its columns
one day lately.
The new Paris executioner is making
a collection of the skulls of those he
has beheaded.
A Nevada editor says he can look
into a nest of rattlesnakes from his
bed-room window.
Game is abundant at St. Joseph,
Mo., the chief varieties being seven-up,
poker and faro.
Quilp intimates that he believes in
the woman’s movement—on washing
day.
A poor fellow who pawned his watch
said that he raised money with a lever
Why is your nose in the middle of
your face ? Because it is the sceuter.
Why is dancing like new milk ?
Because it strengthens the calves.
—When is a blow from a lady wel
come ? When she strikes you agreea
bly.
Why is a dog's tail a great novelty ?
Because no one ever saw' it before.
Why is a dog’s tail like the hollow
of a tree? Because it is farthest from
the bark.
An Englishman paying an Irish shoe
black with rudeness, the dirty urchin
said: “My honey all the polish you
have is upon your boots, and I gave
you that."
Tho public singer that ‘draws' best
is the musquito.
If you w ere an invalid, and you w'ent
by John Falstnff in the street, why
ought you be condoled with ? Because
you would not have passed a good
knight.
Why is a list of musical composers
like a saucepan ? Because it is incom
plete without a Handel.
Just the pudding for cricketers.—A
Batter.
They ought—Churchyards ought to
be more celebrated for ashen than yews!
‘Who took care of tho babies ?’ art
lessly inquired a little girl, on hearing
her mother say that all the people were
once children.
Not a miss—a rich handsome wid
ow.
—Economy—a first mortgage on
wealth.
Why is it easier to boa clergyman
than a physician ?—Because it is easier
to preach than to practice.
Why arc railroad trains in no dan
ger from lightning? Because every
train has a conductor.
An Irishman or board a vessel when
she was on the point of foundering be
ing desired to come on deck, as she
was going down, replied that he had
no wish to ‘see himself drowned’.
‘Come, Bill, it’s ten o’clock; T. think
we had better be going, for il’s time
honest folks were at home.' ‘Weil,
yes,’ was the reply; ‘I must be oil’, LuG
you ueedn’t go on that account’
‘Waiter,’ said a fastidious gcntlenv'.n,
exhibiting a singular-looking object on
the soup ladle ‘Waiter,’ do you know
what that is, sir?'’ ‘That, sir, look )
like a mouse, sir. Wo often find them
in soup, sir. No extra charge sir?
It, is said that the finest enter' -, i i
meut one can enjoy at a feast is to see
a bun dance (abundance) on the la-