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jV’.jrjon aaU'fkhi Journal PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY. f it JUS— Strictly in Advance. Three months “* ™ oDth9 -100 Ono year iUvertisers .'—The money for Hd -7 Hiding cousidered due after first iuser ‘’TWenlseaents inserted at, intervals to be , " ~.,1 is now each iDSertion. n additional Charge ol 10 per cent will , r u |~ on advertisements ordered to be m- a particular page £' i L riisements under the bead of “Spe- Notices” will be inserted lor 16 cents ‘‘ , ine for the first mnertion, and 10 cents fri- line'for each subsequent insertion ''Advertisements in the “Local Column,’ ffi |lbo in-orted at‘>6 cents per line for the and aOoent* pet line for each subse nueiit insertion. . All communications or letters on business intended for this office should be addressed The Dawson Journal ” LEGAL advertising rates. Sfci rirt’sales, per levy ol 1 . quire %4 00 M’Veiw P er ! ey 800 r lew *OO C’fra'iins lo>' Letter* of Administration 4 00, notion for Letter* of guTdia fhip 6 00 >nolio.it.ion for Dismission from ’ ministration lOooj Application for Dismtsstom from (Joirduuship 6 00 Application for lenvdto s- II Land— )M ?q $5, each additional square 4 00 inplicition for Homestead S 00 Vi,(ice to debtors and ereuilcrs ... 500 f, ;in d sales, per square (inch) 400 s,| c of Perishable property, per pq 3 00 fptray Notices, sixty days 8 00 Hoiice to perfect, service 8 00 rjule Ni.-i, per square 4 00 .ulcs to establish lost papers, per sq 400 Rule? compelling titles, per square.. 400 ltiiles to perfect service in Divorce cases 10 00 The above are the minimum rates of legal advertising now charged by the Press of Georgia, and which we shall strict!'.' adhere to iu the future. We hereby give final no tice that no advertisement of ill is class wil he published in the Journal without the fee it paid in advance, only in cases where we have special arrangements to the contrary I’roffssiomrt J. IT. GTJEKUY, JAB, G. PARKS. GUERRY & PARKS, jititps and Ccli|i?eli'f at Lain, DAWSON, - GEORGIA. I>RACTICE in the State and Federa 1 J Court?. Collections made a specialty.— Promptness and dispatch guarantied end insured. Nov ltf R. F. SIMMONS, jiff at Lai# & ileal jlg’t, Dawson, Terrell County, Ga- PIPE lIAL a tention given to collections ipi'oriveyanciiig and investigating titles t< Real Estate. Oct. 18, tf T. I r. PIOKSTT, Alfv A Counselor at Law, j OPHPE with Ordinaty in Court Hou> All bushiest ent. usted to his care wil’ receive prompt and efficient attention. Jain J. J. BECK, Attorney at Law, ’hirsim, Cullioiui Coi’sily* <*;i. ’ll practice in the Atbay Circuit hd e!fe ' ere in the State, by Contract. Prompt mN t ‘ntion i f iven to all business entrusted to hi? cue. Collections a specialty. Will also in* Tcsti/ate titles and buv or sell real Estate in -alhaun, Baker a.ud 2?arly Counties, march 21-tf L.G CART LEDGE, * Attorney atLaw *IOSIG A- . (HEOICtiI \ \\ ILL give close attention to all bns>- ' n n 3s entrusted to his care in Aibativ '•ircui*. 4 .j v l. anoYL, Attorney at l.aw. Dawon, (ieorjiti. J ' I. JAKES. C. A. MCDONALD. Janes & McDonald, Attorneys at La\v, DAWSOY, - GEORGIA. onSw at the C urt House. Tat,.* ( ) t '*‘ CAT . i,o<;lfE fM- is?*. . . .’OptgfS, printed on tinted naper. p’ . Two Ele; tl il Colored' ha -'**nd illustrated with a g-eat nun . 0| giving prices, description (C eU l lv ‘ l,ion of plants, flower and TCgeta bulbs, trees, shrubs, etc, will be ,r/- or cents, which we will deduct “ 3 * or< ler. Mailed free to. our regular J, .omers. Dealers price list free. Address “ANZ & XSUXER, ouisvi le, Ivy. A t nervous, exhausting, and painful dis- C --Peed,l y yield to the curative influences g' r 1115I 115 Pulvermaeber’s Klectiie Belts ami aiii * e y aro sale, simple, and effective hi, r *' e e ‘ >s '*' r appltetl bv the pa’icni f'ep |l°olr, with lull particulars, mailed '■ Address Puivermaehcr Galvanic Cj., baicmnati, Ohio. \\ —To make a permanert leisure "‘’b * clergyman having Tr rpo ii’,? r a bibie Reader, to introduce in teßa Va U " l - T - ’ labrated N- Cen ? f the ~o|y ***••• For ‘•sue of m"’ no, ‘ C3 editorial in last week’s Ins paper; Address at onee Pabdsh. . „ p - r - BOTOX & CO.. ‘ rs & Bookbinder®, AO E Market 3t. • _ _ TrfiTMHwlfa Tnd 3800 Slid U&k J •<..!!**“ 1 SUj MJKO *SI J. iiwsay . 4il by j. I). IIOYL & CO. fin.i. Am*. WIJATHKTniNKs OF BIND -INO THE SHEAVES. An Independent Lick-How they got Hroppod-Gen. Black’s Advice—Stand iny; Forev er-Snakes’ Fyys, Written for The Constitution. Mu Edituh: The haivest is over, ft teat expectations have not been te alizcd. Farmin’ is a good deal like fishin.’ Every time you start out you can just seo yourself cateliin’ etu; A.ut after tiyin, every Liole in the creek you go homo sorrowfully, with a fisherman s luck. I3ut we are not j comp'uiuiii by no tnoti-a, for we’ve got wheat etiuf for biskit every day j and light-bread on Sunday, aud a tew bushels to spate for them angels that’s to cum along unawares stmt of these days. We finished cuttin’ the oat crop this mornin,’ and what with them and the c'over already housed, the cattle are safe for another year. 1 imagine they look sassy and thunk fug but as for tne, Mr. Elitur, I am a used up individual. Dunn’ harvest I have had to be a hinder, and if you di n’t know what that is,’ask Harris The ends of these fingers which are now inscribin’ this epistel are in a bad fix. Skarifile and stuck up with bull netttea and briars, they are as sore as a school-boys’s bile. There was sum variation to my busine-s* uch as catcnin’ young rabbits, and fiudiu’ partridge nests, and pickin’ dewberries; but the romance wo:e ff the first day, and by the end of the next my wife says I was as hum le n man as any woman could desite. Its a nr.fy purty thing to write about and snake.up ostds and pomes. The golden grain, the manly reapers, the struttiu’ sheaves, the song of tho har vesters, an i put ty Miss liatfi coquet tin’ around thp fields of old man Boaz, and “how jokin’ did they drive their team afield,” is all so sweet and nice to a ntan up a tree with an timbrel, but if them poets had to tie wheat half a day in a Jane sun, their sen timentality Would henceforth seek another subiek. 1 tried swingin’ the cradle awhile, but somehow or some how eise, I couldn't exactly g>t the lick. It wasent the kind ol a cradle I’ve been used to, and I’m too old a dog to learn new tricks now. The swing of tho reap-i’s cradle is a very peculiar motion- veiy rogulrt in its irregularity, and goes for the weeds and bushes and briars and the wheat —all the san e. Somehow or other it reminds me of an independent can didate aside wipin’ around to get offis in a twist’fi e way. We' 1 , I like in depeud nee, and that’s why I like farmin’—nobody to lock to for a liv in’ but Providence. I like to see a man independent in opinion ami ir. action, too, and if he suckseeds, it shows that there is gum in hun —but it won’t do to run t at skedu'.e too long or too lur, in polities or religion Bunapart and Beecher tiide it, and if they couldn’t keep it up, nobody can’t. Eveiybody has got to fail in to line some time For a while all sorts of people wid pat an independ ent on the ack ands y “go it my larkey; holly for you,” tut before long they’ll begin to think over whit ,a good, tat thing bo’s g it, and then human nature, which you know is as mean as the devil, will crop out, and the next time they 11 drop him so easy he won’t know it. On the whole, the aspiiin man had better go along smoothly with his party or hi® church or hie copartners, as the case may he. General Flack says ho to mo, says he, “Dill a* you are gain to farmin let me give you a piece o advice: Dou'f gn oil on new lines, hut watch your r. a hors and do pur*y much as they do.” Well, ho didn't mean that il the nabors went her footed ir. ihe summer time and slept in a shirt and washed their feet in a skiliet, and their darters worked in the field and dipped sni ff, we must do so loo by no means. But he oiant to say that the kind of farmin that ii -us mined by the majority of ia.mera was mi’y apt to be the best. Jesse with g- tiu ofFis— the best way is the o and way. It may he, however, that Providence does taise up a man as au inMiument to reform society, hut the insttumrrt i- vcy likely to think he is Join it all or his own hook, and belt l> ( ’ n ref<nn ' in •ill the tnilleuium if the pcopo "i.l let him. I think it would bo well enough for him to report sometime, and m..yb© tne g ’-d l.u . wculvl lathis eenraat tfrpar: in peace. jßu; you let a fe ler git a tasto of Washington and it does lookonpoesi ! hie to even get iiim away from there. I“/ trill stand for reeled ion.’’’ Of course Ihe will, but it dues st em to me that if I had hold a rotaten office right j straight along for forty years I would hunt the shade of Liberty Hall and , quit. Why, sur, there’s forty men in that district boon patiently win tin ! twenty years for his chance, and he’s i now proposin’to outlive ’em all and himself too. Spose he does want to die in harness, what’s that to Berry j Houck? There’s sum other geiitie | men worthy and well qualified who would take tho gear kindly, and i work in ’em, too. But if I had a i horse that wore out his br-'echin a Ii holdin’ back up hill, and hadent pull i and nary pound in ssveateen yers, he wouldent die in my harness, shore He mout hunt another wagm. I’ve , no idee of tadying a man who toadys everybody and everything I don’t like, from Gen Grant down to a pat- i ent medicine and there’s a henpoffoiks * my way of tkinkiu.’ Everytime I ! think about it I hear myself exeiaim- i d, “Time’s out—Next.” Yours, Bilt. Arp. P. S.—l want to know how to git shet ot moles. The castor been grows all around here and don’t seem to do any good. Cant you putsometbiu’ in your farmin’ column about it! B. A. N. B.—Ax Hatris whether snakes lays eggs orhastheiryoung’uns jesso. B. A. O! The Wretch. —Hanging is too good toi the execrable scamp who got up the following prescription for “Muk ng a Fashionable Woman.” The ladies should torture him with “swi'ches,” hair-pins, and cambric needles, and thpn turn heir armies of ‘ rat!-” and “m ce” upon him. Here is what he says." “Take ninety-nine pounds of flesh and bones—-but chit-fly b nes wash clean, bore holes in tho ears and cut (.ff the toes; bend the back to conform to tho ‘Grecian Bund,’ tho 'Boston Dip,’ the ‘Kangaroo Droop, tho ‘Sar atoga Slope,” or the‘Bullfrogßre ik,” as the taste inclines ; then add three yatds of rufflas and ssventy-fivoyards of edging, eighteen yaids of dimity > one pair of silk or cotton hose with patent hip attachments, one pair of false calve-, six yards of flann 1 em broidered, one pair bulmoral hoots with heels three inches high, four pounds whale hone in strips, seven teen hundred and sixty yards of steel wire, three-quarters of a mileof tape, ten pounds of raw cotton or two wire hemi-pberes, one wire ba-ket to hold a bushel, foui copies oi the New Yoik Herald (triple shee‘), one hundred and fifty yards of silk or odier d;ess goods, five hundred yards of point lace, fourteen hundred yards ftiugo and other trimming®, twe ve gloss button®, one box peafl powder, one saucer carmine and an old hare’s foot, one busee! of false hair fuzzed and fretted a one bundle Japanese switches, with rats, mice, and othor v irniinfs, one peck of hair pins, one lace handkerchief nine ir ches square, w ill patent holder. — Perfume with ottarof rose®,or sprink le with nine drops of the ‘Blessed Baby’ or ‘West End. Stuff the head with fashionable novels, hall tickets, play hills, an 1 wedding cards, some scandal, a great deal of lost time, a very little sag<; add half a grain of common sense, three scruples of relig ion, and a modicum of modesty.— .Season with vanity, offbeat ion and fol ly. Garnish with ear-rings, breast pins, chains, bracelets, farhers ami flowers to suit the taste Pearls a.d diamonds may be thrown in if you have them. If net, pas e and pinch beck from the dollar store will do. Whirl all around in a fashionable cir cle, and stew by gaslight for six hours. “Great care should be taken that the thing is not overdone. If it does not rise sufficiently, add more copies of tho Uet <ild “This dish is Irghly ornamental, and will do to put at the head of your table on grand' occasions, but it is not sui'a te for every-day use at home, being very expensive and indigestible. It s"metim 3S give men the heart-burn and causes them to break, and is certain death to children. “If you havonottho ingredients at hand, you can buy the articles ready made in any of our large cities—if you havo money eaough.” DAWSOX, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JUXETO, ISTS'. I Shot His Bride’s Foot Off. —The Sidney (Ohio) Journal’ says: “The trangust of strange accidents, and ’ one which might have led to graver results, happened at the residence of C- 11. Finn, near Houston last Friday night. Mr. and Mr*. Finn, who were j but lately married were awaken by a - noise which they thought came frt tn j under the bed. Supposing burglars to be the cause, Mr. Fiun burned iy jumped out of bed got a shot gun and remitted. Mrs. Finn, all excited wesju-t rising, and her right foot hung over tho bedside. Mr. Finn, j supposing the moving foot to he the head of the intruder, who was come n g from lus place of consoalment without any ado or hesi’ancy, fired.— The wife screamed and the husband flow about iu a delbiutn. A light was brought, and Mr. Finn discover ed that he had shot his wife instead of a butg'ar. Meanwhile tho bed clothing caught fire from the dischar ge of the g.n and was soon but was quickly extinguished. Mrs. Flinn had a Iwrge part of her foot torn away, and was bleeding profuse ly. I' was first thought that amputa tion oi tho whole foot would be nec essary, but it was afterwards found that three toes and a portion of the side of ti o foot would suffice. It was sascertained that no burglar was in tho house at all.” A Singi'lvk Poisoning Case —James Francis McLean, whose singular poi soning was yesterday refered to, was employed in th>e morrodbo facto iy of James S. Barclay, on Plane street Newark N. J. wheie imported skin s aio tanned. List Wednesday he was engaged in the handling ol tome Russian hides that were in the process of tanning. While his hands were still wet he rubbed a dimple on his chin. On Thursday night he was ta ken ill,and Friday morning he com plained ot ahids, and his tlnoat was slightly s'.’.eiling extending upwards to the forehead, and half way down his chest. The swelling effected his breathing and suffered intese pains.— A consultation of physicians was held and the conclusion was reecbed that the youcg man was afflicted with a malignant pustule. All efforts to save his life proved unevailittg, and on Sunday evenning he died, partly from strangulation and partly from nervous [rostation. These pustules arise generally from the infusion into tho h ood of virus from disease ani mals and the skins of animals who had died with disease ar said to have commun’cated the poison months after their slaughter. JSew York Times . 6</ Two brothers John arid Alexander Forester, one residing in Atlanta and the other in Emsburg, had a singular and cesperate fight a few nights since Tl ey were returning from A -and stopped to spend the night at their mothei’s farm. On retiring they were the best of friends, hut du_ ting the night one (Beamed that be was attacked by a burglar in un At. larita hotel, and the other dreamed that [whtla on his farm a robber had surprised and throttled him.— Tiiey each immediately pounced on the other, and n lively fight was the resub Tne noise of disturbance awoke the members of the house hold, who, entered with lights, found the combatants clinched. “When conciousness v.as restored,’’ says tho Albany News ‘they had to get up and ei j iy the laugh with then family and friends f r the balance of the night. Tn > great joke among their friends is that they seldom, if ever,' fight, hut when they do they are almost sure h> be asleep and one in Atlanta and the other on his farm iiea* Leesburg.” Sue. News. Tho Dalton Enterprise eti r oniclex the killing of Dr. R. Warren by Mr. Bar ney Bivings. on Monday a-t. Both of those gentlemen were public officers i of tli< cry and c untv, Dr. Warren \ being Coroner and Mi. B. City Tieae- j uret. Dr. Warrsn was a consistent Christian, gentlemanly in li s detri ment, had many friends, and Mr. j Bivings is a pr tiiisiiig young man with many good qualities, ihe paper: With the eirire community, we deeply deploretbeoc arrenc-, am!, as tlie matter will undergo judicial in vestigation, wo forbear comment.” A bottom tran in a fight near Birm ingham. Ala., bit off theother fellow’s nose, and was compelled to swallow it to escape choking. Ho ran off before they could put, fcrm under bonds to keep the piece.. Tho One Ewsentuil. Remarks by a eoloed brother in Georgia: “Breddien, tuy ’spetinco is ; >at it uin’t de perfession ot ’iigiun, | but de 'casioual practice of it dat { makes c man ’eeptible up yonder.— i W heu yet gits to do golden gate and Peter looks yer right in tin eye and yor ; shows him yer long creed an’ says, pom pous like dat yer ’longed to de big ’Piscopalian Church,do ’Postle’Hshake his head an’ say, “Dat ain’t null ter get yer through.” But if yer takes all yer bills under yer arm, yer grocer hills and yer rent bills, an’ ho looks cm over And finds ’em all receipted, he’ll say, “Yer titlo’s clear,” an' un lock de gate an' let yor pitch yer voice fer de angels’ song. But ’taint j no use ter trabbfo along dat nairer; path 'loss yer kerry, folded in yer kteed, a good recimeudatfon from yer creditors. Hob ben ain’t no place fur a mao who has to dodge loun’ a cor ner for learob meetin’ someone who’ll ask for dat little dat neither waj paid ” A miner in the ißaak 'Hills, writt ing to a friend, tells of a ho-ril.lo re minder of the fearful snow storms of last winter, and of the> perils of those who were caught out and lost their way on the plains, Go says th.it recently, while crossing the country, they came upon the skeleton of a horse within which was the ske eton of a mao, with the grinning skull looking out at them from between the ribs of tho animal, like a prisoner peering through the bars of his ceil. The two skeleto.is told the who'e story The Taan had killed his horse, cut him open and crawled inside of him, thinking to thus escape perishing of cold, but tho flesh of tho animal Doze solid, and the man was as mush a prisoner as if ha had been shut in by walls of iron. The wolves and car rion birds had stripped the greater part of the flesh from both skeletons. Tho miner concludes bis description by saying: “It was n sight I shall never forget. I can see it now when ever I eb.-se my eyes.” A'i Indiana boy of fifteen has just returned from a tw.i-yearx’ tramp.— Dime novels had tiicturd to him great happ ness in such a life, but ha met the reality immediately upon reaching New Orleans, in the shape of a fever. At Galv ston ho liad an aim broken ami at Houston two ribs damaged by being pushed from a Texas freight train. Tie was wounded by a pistol ball while driving a herd of eattlo across ♦'lre Indian Territory, and has been beacen until life was nearly ex tinct. In order to keep from starving he has sold papers, blacked boots, worked in a livery stable, theatre; and restaurah*, cut timber, and herded cattle. Tie neither driuks, chews, gnmbes, nor uses profane language He says he has had enough,; experi ence, and now wants to stay at home. muffins. —Strain into ft pan a pint of warm milk anti a quarter of a pint of yeast, add sufficient flour to make it. into a batter; cover it over, and let it stand in a warm place un til i! lias risen; add a quarter of a pint of warm milk and an ounce of butter rubbed in some flour quite fine; mix them well together, then add sufficient fl air to make it. into dough ; cover it over, and let it stand for half an hour; then work it u j( again, and break it into small pieces, roll them into a round form, and cov ihem for a quarter of .an horn-. Next begin baking; when laid on the iron, watch them carefully, and when one side changes color, turn the other. Be careful that the iron doe, not got too hot. Poison Oak. —The following is said to be a certain remedy for pois oning from poison oak: Stir one large teaspoonful of un slacked lime into a tumbler of water, and let it settle until clear. Put in a saucer two table-spoonfuls of sweet oil, and stir in very gradually small quantities of the lime water, until you have a mixture the consistency of and not unlike buttermilk. Hub this upon the poisoned places, in a gentle manner, six or eight times in the ' twenty-four hours, and see if you arc not as easily cured as poisoned. b hooting of a Briife.—VVh.lo a serenade was in progress to a newly Married couple named Somers at Ala nia, Fountain county, Indiana, on Thursday night, tho bride was shot an I instantly killed by a paper wad fired from a musket in the hands of . one of the serenaders. Several uf the u rtv bare been arrested. vor, l-i.-NO. 18. Gunning is u shot! lived kucc"rs j ° Obituary notices, in bo very fiuo, : should not bo too true. Faitii has won more victories than ambition ever has. There is fully as much pleasure in economy as these is prr fit. Young uian, you can go up hill as fast as you please, but go down hilt slow. The man who can say all ho lias got to say in a tew words is an ugly customer to handle. I! there is n man who thinks that it is an easy job to ho hones’, jus: let him try it onto. It don’t pay to prophesy; ii yon got it right nobody reincnihetg; it you get it wrong nobody forgots it. The cheapest and tougnest thing wear in this world is truth, and ye; men will pay twice as much for a lie. Thorn is nothing so weak ns the cunning in a man, utid yet ho is apt ' to bo more vain of it than ho is ui ! his judgemts t. The man whose solo ambition is to win tho applause of the world, is miiv to be disappointed, whether he w in. or looser. Truth need never lie in a htitry but a lie must hoop all tho time on a jump; a lazy lie soon tires itself out and ends in confusion. Children that are remaikalde foi what they-know at five years old, an* generally more remarkable for what they don't know at twenty five. It is hard to tell which will b-itig the most pleasant expression into n woman's face; 'o tell tier that her ba oy is heavy or her bread light. What's tho matter with tho times and the country is, wo have too many loafers about the towns and tuu feu laborers m the country. A Baiiy Iviu.;:d r.v its Bvr.v IJkotii i:u.~ Mrs. Bella Barry, of 3*2 1 East Twenty-forth streo - , awoke at 5 o’clock yesterday mortiitig, and she saw her two-year-old boy, Hubert, had bis chubby amis clasped about the neck of his chubby' brother Jarirs aged about f:*ur weeks. Both chi 1 - drea were on her light side in the bed, and they ssemeil to be asleep Mts Bany gently unclasped Huberts, aaus and dtew thorn away from the Labes neck. Robert was not waken ed. but turning slightly, slop on. — Then Mrs. Baity noticed that th baoe, was uuusally w! ito an I still Sh leaned over to catch its breathing but she couid trot detect any. She caught the babe tip m liar arms, and ran to the window. There she saw hat the babe was dead. Coroner Whitman hold an inquest, and tin verdict was that death resulted from strangulation —Neio York Sun G/h. In tho Japanese hell, the wicked ‘ !a|i into costs of burning scorpions where the? ore tantalized by glimpses Of their friends enjoying themselves in a lake of cool water, They are tied to rocks, and rod-hot lead pour ed down the r throats ; are chased hyenas thioUgh a fluid of upon knive and oihr ehnip instruments; are tortured by having their limbs sawn off and by being thrown into a revol ving wheel of fire. Bom<* are made to ting r d-hot stove-pipes, while Sa tan himself, with a smile, -is fanuing them. Others swim in seas of blood surrounded by laughing demons.— Others are s'ili seated in a chaldron of red-hot sulphur, havings tb.'ir tongues pulled out. Some carry heavy bunions of coal and throw it iuto tho fire to burn now victims.” A Wild Family of the Woods. .To-per (J- iicty Xewnhc>/: Tbt re is a family consisting and a man, his wife and several children, now living in the lower part of this county o: l’ex is who stay in the woods without any shelter other than tl.at (iff irded by the lores! trims, and subsist upon acorns, nuts, herbs-, rats, birds, tih, f rogs and such other food as they cm procure by fishing, foraging and trapping. These people it is said, came fiom Southern T xas, though their true origin is unknwn. Taey are of wild, uncivilized nature, stid when carried to rhe homes of flu people and treated kindly, wear an air of discontent, and alter eating in a most gluttonous maimer steal slow ly away to the woods. A young man with two heads on his siiuolders was to be seen the'other evenning in a parlor on Cuurelrt Street. The person who saw the show didn't think much it as n natural curiosity, and broke it up in loss than a minute and a hn'f. It was the young lady’s father. She ex plained to him afterwards that Augus tus thought he bad got u bug m his ear, acd sue was iistning if she coiiid bear it buzz. The old mm coiiidu’i see it hat way. Confession of Capt. i*< k Jo m son’s Old K< o iter. Clarksville Tcnu. Tabacro I.c: f. I I have belonged Captaih Polk John* I son for tho last live years e He always seemed to love me, beenus he said Iwas * was a good ch cken, and l am certain j I have always been faithful to him.—- I Inve never failed to crow at tho proper timo every morning, and ho 'always seemed to appreciate it. I al j ways knew when company wotild bd here, and I was faithful to warn his good wife hy going quietly up to tho backdoor and crowing. When ever I desireit to do a juo of scrateh | ing, 1 was considerate enough to leave home and do all my scratching in his neighbor’s garden. I never 61- lrv. e l u stray rooster to come on hi pM tnises, t hough I did sometimes ie- I coy his neighbor’s hens over to our hou<e and lend him the use of our nests. I always thought that this pleased him, as he t’.eVer objected to it. Th ee young turkeys s'rayed ever into our yard last week, and I prompt ly killed them all; and only the other day i killed two goslings, and would have killed otto more but for that old gander who ir tetfored with tho pro ceedings. I don’t think I shall ever tackle another gosling, that is, if the old gander should be there. When it conies to fighting, a gander won’t ‘ tote” fair. He wsnts ail underbold ami generally manages to get it. Ho don’t step ur.iund a-d do any big i .owing, but for nM that when yoit advance on him you'll find him there, flisheak is very deceiving. It isn’f .up bi t then it is mighty good on a gauge, and has a bios grip. No mat ter wharo it has to take hold, feathers and hide nave to *corye, I think I shall m-vor have another "ruirunder -landieg with a gander. Bofoie this iitfin I was considered the handsomest rooster to no futinri on (iroenweod av* err no. lam glad I left that gander when Idi !. 1 think bo was deter mimU to pick mealivo. lie got all of my tail leathers, half of my comb, and Mima good ea’.irg ofF my breast. I g..t enough of bin', and I hope he is satieliid with vvliat be got of me. I was ulore than glad to get l ack into tint poultry yard. The lieus would gather around mo with some degree oi curiosity. After all, I did not tell them much ot a story when I told them I hud hr* n out in a whirlwindi Yes 1 have been faithful to Mr. John son's imomst. I undewant all this for him, but l am v- ry sad to night.— I havohoMi tilting under ttiis honso for seven days 1 haven’t an d jto crow above a whisper. A lot of preachers have been here. I heard sonto fail: in the dining room after dinner. ‘‘Tile last hen is eat up.,”— I heard M'. Johnson remark, “where f* the old rooster . I intend to keep dark, and w hen these p:Hitchers art* gone, 1 will sneak out and run away. I don’t know where I shall go. I think I cau live any /.hero where tlr* re ate no preachers ltd no gan ders- Bo say tho least f it, I think Mr. Johns u has acted very ungrate fully. Natural Selectii-ftT!, Inves: gators of natural science have demonstrated beyond con trover* sy, that throughout tho aniu.:>.i king dom the ‘'s.'ivival of tho fi t--t” , , tho only Itnv that vouchsafes thiiit and [iHipetuity. Does not tho v>me prin ciple govern tha commeicisl prosperi ty of runn ! An inferior cuccct at; pars de a superior article Illustrative of this princ-pls nre the family ir,>- cines id If. V. Pierce, M. ])., ut i,..?, fair., N. Y. By reason of superior merit, they have outrivaled all other medicines. Their ealo in tho United Btetes alone exceeds one million dol lars per annul, while the amour.; ex ported loots up to several hundred thousand more. No business could, grow to such gigantic proportions and ■ ext upon any other basis than that ol merit, it is safe to say that no medicine or ci midnation ol medicines yt discovered * quals or Can compare w ith D . Pierce's Golden Medical L>is coveiy, for the cure of coughs, colds, and all \ uluvmary and blood affec tions. If tno bowels be Constipated and liver sluggish, his Pleasant Put gative Pellms will g ve prompt relief; wldle his Favo>ite Prescription will pos'tively, perfectly, and poi maDently, cure those weal: nesses and ‘‘dragging down” sensations peculiar to females. In the People’s Common liense Medi cal Adviser, an illustrated work of neaiiyono thousand pages, tho Doc tor has fudy discussed the principles that underlie health and richness. Price 51.50, post-paid. Adapted to old and young, single aid married. Address li. V. Pierce,M. D., World’s Dispeosaiy and Invalids' Hofei, Bulfa-" 10, N. Y. A negro rby was driving a uiulo (he other day, when the animal sud en y stopped and refused lo budge, — “Won’t go ec ?" said the boy. ‘Teel grand do you I sposa you furgit your dwddy was a j ickass,” A young lady walking with her lover was attacked by a dog, who seized her by the breast end torq r from her body. He fainted, but the lady went for the dog, saying; “That ere cost ad. liar, and worn't made for a dog to chaw up!” A btthi damsel being agravnted be j vend endurance by her big brother, ' foil dowii open her knees and cried : , “Oh, Lord '. bless my brother Tom. Ho lies, ne steals, he ew- ais. All bovs' do ;us girls don’t. Amen. A tec hey Wisconsin man has step ped bis subsciption to toe t-i Cal paper just because the editor eloped with his wde, Some men get mad so easy. lbo rn m who is always bragging ) that hi* wife i s worth her weignt in I gold, always lets her g t up in tha pnight fur medicine for tae children,-