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by and. b. freeman. I) 0 YO VRI BEST. Tb* heart and m od of man Must differ, it is true, And t* the deed our neighbor does l’ercbanct we ne'er could do, \nd thus, in elimbing ( fortune’s height To reach the fame in store, If people ouly do their best, 3 The world can ask no more. Doca then the little humming-bird Its tender s-ng forsake, Because the nightingale’s sweet voice May softer music make? Or does the tiuy, twinkling star, Which leads to earth its light, Repine bee* use some Loured orb May cha: ce to bum more bright ? And so thro’ life we find that some Are chid in praise and fame, While others meekly plod along, With naught to gild their name; But when life is reckoned up, Its doing couLted o’er, If we can say, “ I did my beet,’’ Our God wil’ ask no more. BASHFUL JOHN. * John Patterson w* driving his erable horse slowly homeward from tho little village of Brintoo. They wore passing the low lying farm of Nathan Wynn, aud John, not during for the life of him to turn his head, rolled his great black eyes toward the substantial stone farmhouse in the hopes of catching a gfimpse of Kitty, ‘.he farmer’s comely daughter. But though John kept his eyes turned in their sockets till his head ached fear - iully, he saw nothing of Kuly John was desperately in love with Kitty Wynn, and had been so for many a day, aud yet lie dare not tell her so. lie generally managed to bow to lie when lie met her, but even that brouj. lit a great lump into his th[oe.t and turned his lace the color fa peony. As John passed over a little lnoli and out of eight of the ltuu.-e, Wynn's great orchard —the trees ready to break down under the weight of ripe Jrui,— was before him. What a while that miller kept uie writing lor my grist. I'm as hungry at a hear, and must have a pocket luii of those beauties to eat on uiy way home. i\nd with this John rein, scaL cd tlie f'enci and struck out for his fa.- voti'e tree Ue kuew as well as Mr Wynn did where the best apples were to be found. Join filled his pockets and was about to rtttacc lis steps to the wagon, when he caugbt the flutter of u pink dress through a cluster of trees, and heard Kitty’s merry Voice in conver sation with rcau oce. Stealing a *sty glance through the j trees, Jr ho recognized Kitty’s compan ion to Ue her cousin Hetty Shaw, trom the iil;ige They were coming directly toward the ire e under which John was stand ing- W hat in the world was he to do ? lie did not fancy running away like a detected thief, and his trembling k- ctsand palpitating heart warded him that if he did not wish to die then and there, he must seek a place of con coalmeat. To add to Jihu’s embarrassment, he was conscious that he was u ,t “tidied up.” He was in every day garb. To make the matter worse, his clothes were cov* ered with flour, which had somehow got On him while waiting fur his grist at the mill. John glanced up into a tree, but the foliage was not thick and there wae lit tle chance foi a h'ding place there. Near the tree was an inverted bogs* head, which had been used for a stand to pick apples from the t^ee. There was no time to be lost. The hogshead offered the ouly retreat within the trembling young man’s roach, and he was uot long in squeez ing himself inside of it The girls came 00, and sat down on the grass right where John, stooping dowu and peeping through the circular hole, could watch them. Kitty, he thought, looked prettier and brighter than ever in her pink dress, and the sun, which was setting io the wrest, made her browu hair as golden as the apples that were in her lap. Kitty held up an apple by the stem, saying: “Name it, Hetty; but not Will Joice, nor Jerry Davis, nor—” Then stop ; the apple is named, said Hetty, merrily. Kitty pared and ate her apple, care fully saving all the seeds. When she had them all in her chub by hand, she then came for Hetty to M pell the name. Touching each seed with her finger, Hetty spelled : J*o-h and Pva-t-te-r..s-0-n. It spells exactly. Why, Kitty, what are you blushing so for ? One would think that fellow’s name was spel'ed out in Jour heart in indellible letters by the way you look. Kitty said nothing, tnougb she look ed uncommonly sober for her. John thought, and he wondered if the girls difln t hear his heart beat. lie thought, too, that Kf ty was an* gry that any one would suppose that *be ealred for him. • Hoar humble he felt; be could scarce -I,*hy j his cheeks burned with bounded pride. Kitty, said her cousin, a bantering laugh, if you do not ih£l!J ay4h * t forlorQ 100k > I *hall ** that you oare mor# than your pride will let you acknowledge for that great awkward booby, who hasn’t cour age, nor never will have, to ask you to' have him Hu*h, Hetty ! said Kitty, as she cose to her feet, and her cheeks had a flush of deepest crimson. You do not know John Patterson as we do. lie is not awkward at home with his mother. You ought to see how kiud and consid erate is to her. Father drops in there often, and he says there isn’t |a more noble-hearted man to be found Joho is industrious ; do \ou know what ho, does with Father says he is paying off the mortgage on his mother’s little farm, nndi when he bas a lew more pounds than is necessary for a payment he spends them for books.— Mark my wo-ds, Hetty, lohn Patter' son will yet be a man that you will be pruud to class among your friends ; he has intellect of no common order—it is only his great bashfulneas that keeps him back now. Now, Kitty, you are too absurd, and Hetty laughed as though she thought her companion in jest Well, it is leap year ; and you had better offer yourself to this paragon ; don’t be lLve he v> ill refuse. I kuow no one whom I would soon er marry—so there ! And Kitty’s face was scarlet with blushes as she made this' acknowledg ment to her cousin. But John was not looking her now. lie was crouched in the most remote part of tho hogshead, trying by differ ent gestures to drive a hqg3 mastiff away which threatened to mike his whereabouts known. The suu had gODe down, and John’s hungry horse had quietly walked home, and still the two girls_ chatted away. Well, Bruno, what have you there ? I am sure you have been whining and pawing there for half an hour at ieavt. And Jetty came forward and patted tho dog’s hairy back. Wh), Kitty, there’s so ne dreadful anim.il in here. What a pair of eyes it has ! Thank uiy nerves, if Uncle and Charlie are away I can fire a gun. I’ll soon show what that h .r id creature is. In my opinion here is where your geese have gone to. I will warrant the ground in there is strewed with bones. You ana Bruno keep watch, while I run to the house aud get the gun. Hetty rattled this-off in a,brenthless fashion, and before Kitty had time to look at the dreadful auiuial, her cousin was oo the way to the house. What was J ohn to do now ? Stay where he waa or crawl’ from his lair like a Hottentot'from his hut, aud right before Kitty’ eyes too? The faithful dog began to wag his tall, and whine with renewed anima-- tiou, a~d John thought the gun was really coming Life was sweeter to him now, since hearing what Kitty had said of himself, than ever be’ore, and creeping to the opening he began coming out. Kitty, who was peeping anxiously in, s*w that the creature was moving to" Ward her, and giving a spasmodic little scream, she sank helplessly to the ground, and covered her face with her apron. Kitty’s distress made John for the moment forgec that he was the most bashful of men alive, and surely the arms which Kitty felt encircling her waist were not those of a wild beast. Knowing this, it did not need a great amount of courage to enable her to uncover her face, and see that the great eyes that had so frightened her belonged to John Pattersou. It is strange that neither she nor John, during the half hour they tar* ie3 under the apple tree, thought of Hetty or the gun she had gone to bring. Perhaps neither would have remem bered Hetty’s boasted nerve in connec tion with that weapon again, had not the young lady herself, two years later, reminded a certain happy bridegroom and his equally happy bride of the m* cidefit, and informed them that she knew all the time that John was in the hogshead, as she saw him put himself there, and that her part of the conver* sation under the apple tree, was in* dulged in solely with a view to encour* ago the bashful lover to propose. Mrs. John Patterson scolded her cousin’s bridesmaid for the duplicity, but for all that it was plain to be seen that she was not angry, especially since Hetty had that day acknowledged that she was glad to class her cousin’s hand some husband among her friends. A paper out West bas the following notice : “All notices of marriage where no bride-cake is sent will be set up in small type, and poked into an outland* ish comer of the paper. Where a hand some piece of the cake is sent,the notice will be uonspiciously in large letters ; when gloves pr other bridal favors are added, a piece of illustrative poetry will be given in addition. When, however, the editor attends the ceremony in per son,kisses the bride, it will receive espec LI notice—very large type, and the most appropriate poetry that can be begged,borrowed or itoleu.” Of our gold aud four silver most of ns are careful, but of time, whiohponce iost,'ean never be recalled ' or regained, we lavish a Jir"e portion, eveo while we .are'attaring complaints of the quan tity allotted to us. CALHOUN, GA., SATURDAY, JANUARY 13. 1877. litre of Sheep. Those of our readers who are now i*v teresting themselves in sheep will find good reading in the followirfg hints sum med up from an essay on sheep manage ment by Mr. A, Kenney, the noted sheep raiser of Vermont. 1. Never sta r ve a sheep if you desire it to do well, especially in summer. 2. Do not feed much grain if you have good hay, but at all events, never let them grow poor. 3. many farmers lose by letting their sheep live as long in autumn without feeding as possible; consequently,if they are in very good condition in Octol er, and lose flesh and are made to gain again, there will be no doubt a tender place in the wool. 4 tHave your lambs come early iu the seasou 5. Shear'eafly. 6. Keep your sheep from all cold storms at ail times of the year, aid be as careful of them as of your horse.— Many .sheep e perish by showers after shearing, even in July’; so, I say, shear at a time of year when they can he hous ed for a week after and in storms in autumn ; if sheep are expos ed,it takes a long time to dry the wool, sheep are consequently uocom* for table for a long time, cold and con suuiptidn are the result. 7. liaise the staudard’of .'your flock; fleece at shearing; number the sheep, and note the weight of the fleece,jaud theu sell or kill your poorest sheep, as like produce. Your average will soon go from four to seven pounds. 8. Take good care of the lauibs, es pecially while young. In many cases they are not able to suck the ewe at the start, in all s-ch casesjrou must feed them Why She Didn’t Answer Him. v hen a young man came down stairs the other morning he remembered that his wife, who was preparing breakfast, had not spoken to him when she got up, and so he cheerfully said : “Good morning, little lady.” Not a word came in reply. “Good morning,” said he in a higher key, thinking thal she might not have heard him. “(Jui—'in—’ui,” was all that escaped from her sealed lips, as she kept on with the work. “Why under the sun don’t you an swer me?” exclaimed he in surprise; what’s the matter ? what have I done to offend you ? “Urn” ’m 'm, was the only sound elicited. Look here ! then exclaimed the hus band, is he jumped up and knock*! over a ci*p of coffee; I don’t swallow a mouihWl of breakfast uutii you tell*me what’s the matter. Wbat’s the matter? echoed she,sud denly turning upon him with 'flashing eyes And tiieu she continued : John Adell Sniiihson,_the'next time that I dream I see you kissing another wo* man, I—l—l w 11 leave this house I— boo ! boo !— Exchange. A Texan’s W omlerfulJTrnei'. A Texan, visiting this point, gathers ed around him Some of our citizens Monday, aud entertained them with some of his experences in the Lone Star State. Owe tncident told by him is as follows : “You’d hardly believe, now, what I am going to tell. Iti Texas we U 33, raw hide straps, or thongs, for traces, and in vet wea her they do stretch amaz ingly. Why, often iu damp weather at home I’ve hitched up two horses and drove down the hill from my house in to the button for a sled load of wood. I have loaded the wood and many times driven back home and unhitched the horses and the sled would not he iu sight. “How did you get the wood home then ?” asked aD inquisitive bystander. “Oh, i just tied the ends of the tra ces together and threw them over a post and went about my work and waited till the sun shone out. Sometimes it would be two hours before that sled load of wood would get home,but you and see her crawling up the hill at last, gradually approaching as the row-hide traces shrunk up into their proper lengths. Y’es, Texas is a great country, you bet.” He Desired a Situation. — “Couldn’t you give tne something to do?” asked a poor boy at a Michigan shingle factory, the other day. “No,” said the owner, “we are all full now.” The boy looked sad, and was about to go away, when a 1 right thought seized him, and, turning again to the owner he inquired : “Don’t you need a 4 boy to test shin, gles on ?” But even then the lad could get no position, for the man had a boy of his own. Another Rat Story. —The Mid dleton Press tells the following story : “A family iu this viliage had laid away a bag of dried corn for winter’s con sumption. The bag containing it was hung by a stout string from a nail driv en iu the beam of an outhouse, so ss to be out of the reach of rats. The sly residents,however managed to seeure it. The bag was drawn up by the string, and laid snugly away on the beam, and the very last grain of coan abstracted through a hole iu the bottom of the bag.” Roptry oHlteTltroUlc Valve* Not long ago an engineer brought hia train to a stand at a little Massachusetts village where the passengers have five minutes for lunch A lady came along and said]: “The conductor tells me the train in the junction in P. leaves fifteen minutes before our arrival. It is Sat urday night; that is the last train. I have a very sick child in the car, and no money tor a hotel, and none for a private conveyance a long, long ay in to the country. What shall Ido ?' the engineer, **l wish l could tell you.” “Would it oe possible for you to hur ry a little?” said the anxious, tearful mother. “No, nudam, I have the time table, and the rules say I must go by it.” She turned sorrowfully away, leaving the bronzed face of the engineer wet with tears. Presently she returned and said, “are you a Christian “I trust I am,” was the reply. “Will you pray with aie that the Lord may in some way delay the train at the juoctipn ?” “Why, yes, I will pray with you but I have not much faith ” Just then the conductor cried, “ All aboard.” The poor woman hurried back to the deformed aud sick child,and away went the train, climbing the grade. “Somehow,” said the engineer, “ev ery thing worked like a charm.” As I could not help letting my engine out just a little We hardly stopped at the first station people got off and on with wonder fat alacrity, the conductor’s lamp was in the arr in half a minute, and theu away again. over the summit it was dreadful easy to give her a little more, and then a little more as I prayed she seemed to shoot through the air like an arrow. — Somehow I couldn’t hold her kn wing I had the road.and so we dashed up the junction six minutes ahead of time. There stood the other train the con ductor with the lantern cn his arm.— “Well,” said he, ‘ will you tell me what lam waiting for. Someho v I felt I j must wait for your coming to*nihgt but ! I don’t know why.” “I guess,” said the J other conductor, “it is for this poor wo | man, and her sick and deformed child, dreadfully anxious to get home this Sat urday night.” But the man on the on’ gine and the "rateful mother think they can ttdl why the train waited. The Sort ot Lies a B.r Will Tell. A Pine street woman bought a pie at ; a baker’s stand last niirht to give her husbatid.au agreeable surprise. When j they caute to sit down at the evening tneaT the pie had disappeared. William, the beloved s n, was softly seated a ; his j father’s left hand and the bltLh on his youthful cheek pioved his guilt “Bill, wnere’s that pie ?” demanded the old man. “Pie ?” querried the boy. “l 7 es, pie.” •‘Was it kinder round and kinder flat?” “Yes, sir.” “Aird kinder brown r” “Yes, sir.” “ Well, now, if I don’t believe l lent it to Johnny Slade, to* use for a wheel for his ourt I thought it was kinder soft, but I don’t thing much ot Johnny and I wanted to see his cart break down and kill a man.” “Bill.you scoundrel, you are lying ?” exclaimed the old man. “Own up or I’ll flog you.” “Well—you see—well father if I ate j that pie it was because a fellow was up stairs here looking for you and saying ! that you were to have a SI,OOO office this year in this ward, and I was con fused to pieces ” This was another, and “father” has been waiting at home all day for the man to call again.— Elizabeth (N. J.) Herald. “Your visits remind me of the growth ; of a successful newspaper,” said Uncle Jabcz, leaning his chin on his cane and glancing at WilUam Henry, who was sweet on Angelica. “Why so ?” inquired William Hen ry. “Well, they commenced on a weekly, ) grew to a trFweekly, and have become ! daily, with a Sunday supplement.” “Yes,” said William Henry, bracing up “and after we are married vve issue an extra said Angelica,and then they went out for a stroll. “ Pappy, can’t]l go t.o the Zoological Gardens to see the camomile fight the rhinoscow ?” “Sartin my son ; but don’t get your trowsers torn. Strange, my dear, what a taste that boy has got for natural hi.:, tory,isn’t it?” No longer ago than yes terday he had eight pairs of tom-cats hanging by their tails front .he clothes lines.” “No ! Bless his little heart, come to his mother ?” William Cujlen Bryant savs that when he was a boy a little bundle o*’ birchen rods suspended on a nail in the kitchen was esteemed as much a part of the necessary luiinkure us tho shoveL or tongs. Whit this needs to have right off is a religion which will make a man feel that it is just as cold fer his wife to get up and make the fire xs it is for hltnself. . Horrible Fate. Brief details were brought in last evening on the Kansas Pacific of an accident which occurred ou the line of that road on Wednesday night. It ap pears that a trackman named John O’Neil got onlhc Eastern bound pas senger train at Cayenne Weils, a small watering station in the buffalo region. He desired to ride to ArrSpahoe St.i tion ."another oasis in the desert, and was left standing outbid of the smok ing car when he smoked bis pipe By some means unknown to those on the train the poor fellow fell down between the cars, and in his fall his right leg was caught in- the brake.gear, and there the poor, unfortuuate man dragged head downward bump, bump, bumping over the ties No one heard his cMI, if he ever uttered one, for his cry would have been drowned in the turmoil aud clatter of the car-wheels, He was f.-utid at Arrapahoe Station a very much mangled man. He was still hanging bv one leg His head was a mutilated ma.ssjof dust One arm had been turn off and lost, and the other arm and he shoulders wore badly smashed in the drag over the ties No blame is attached to any one No one knows bow he fell off the train He was forty-three or forty-four years of age and unmarried. —Kansas City Times. East India Funeral Rites.— When a 1 oda dies the body is gailv wrapped in new clothes, and exposed on a bier decorated with green boughs for sevens days. It is iheu, amid wailings, borne by the relatives to the funeral pile. One of the relatives then cu.s off a lock of the deceased’s hair, alter which the body, with, all its ornaments, is burned amid the wailings of his kinsfolk. After the e rpse is almost completely consumed the fire is quenched. The relatives theu search for bite of bone, which we carefully preserved After this rite the men shave their heads and the women shor ten their hair. After the body has be n burned various ceremonies are practiced, and animals are sacrificed to propitiate the deity and secure the well being of the departed soul in the next world. Sunday night he said to the partner of his joys and sorrows, '’Susie, to morrow is New Year's. Many and many u in the pist I have sworn off. have I not?” *• You’re talking,” she answered, with dreamily retrospect iv eves “ And many and many a tiuie i have hr ken my pledge,”_he contiti ued, softly. -‘You bet ” she whispered, with a sigh. “ But. Susie.” said the gieat, strong man, with his eyes filled with tears, “1 have solemnly resolved this time to take an oath that l will keep.” 0, Melvin,” answered th woman, “you are just chinning. ” “No.” he with a fervency that left no doubt of his earnestness, “l have sworn it, and l mean to stick, to it From this time forth so long as I live I will never swear oif again.” A carpenter who wfas always prog* nosycuting evil to himself* was one day' upon the roof of a five story building upon which the rain had fallen. The roof being slipper), he lost his footing, and as he was descending towards the eaves, he exclaimed : “Just as I told you.” Catching, however, on au iron spout he kicked off his shoes, and re gained a place of safety, whe he thus deliver and himself: “i kuow and it,there’s a pair of shoes gone." Two brothers by the name of Pigg have petitioned the St. Louis court for a change of their name to Peake. They find it impossible to get married, a.-> no lauy will consent to .’ecoiue a Pigg, and have all tue neighbors as,ki ig her, How is Mr. Pigg aud the little Piggs V’ And more thau t,Uis,tuey ate annoyed by bad boys singing under their window, “Big pig, little pig r>ut hog oj die." *4 Old bit Hood. —Deacon Brown lately took occasion to administer a re. piool to eld Joe for swcariug. Joe lis tened attentively to his works seemed to apprec aie the exbonatiou,and wneu he concluded replied as follows ; “The fiut is,deacon, that I may swear a great deal and you may pray a great deal; but neither of us mean anything by it.” Au editor in Sc diartu caused the fol lowing notice to be posted iu a promi nent position in hi i sanctum sanctorum : “Nothing is worse for those who have business than the visits of those who have none.” A post master thus expressed his opinion that his official returns were correct: “I hereby certity the four go ing A Couut is as near Kite as I know how to make it if there is eoy mistake it is not Dun a perpers.” To be able to bear provocation is a proof of great wisdom ; and to forgive it is a proof of great mind. S me one has said that modesty is a quality tha- highly adorns a woman,but ruins a man, “Was not her death quite s dden ?" said a condoling friend to a bereaved widower. “Well, ye*, rather, for her.” THE SUN. 1877. YEW YORK. 1877. The different editions of TiiKbUN during the next year will be the same as during the year that lias just passed. The daily edition will on week days be a sheet of four pager, and ou Buinlays a sheet of .eight pages, or 56 broad columns; while the weekly edition will be a sheet of eight pages of the same dimensions and charac ter that are already familiar to our friends. This Sun will continue to be the strenu ous advocate of reform and retrenchment, and of the substitution of statesmanship, wisdom, aud integrity for hollow pretence, imbecility, and fraud in the administration of public alfairs. It will contend for the government of the people by tle people and for the people, as opposed to government by fraud in the 1 allot-hox and in tbecounf iug of votes, enforced by military violence. It will endeavor to supply its readers—a body not far from a million of souls—with the most careful, complete, and trustworthy accounts of current events, and will employ for this purpise a numerous and carefully selected Mrff of reporters and correspond ents. hs reports from Washington, espe cially, will be full, accurate, and fearless; and it will doubtless continue to deserve and enjoy the hatred of those who thiive by plundering the Treasury or by usurping what the law does not give them, while it will endeavor to merit the confidence of the public by defending the rights of the peo ple against the encroachments of unjusti fied power. The price of the daily Sun will be 55 cents a mouth or SC,SO a year, post paid, or witl the Sunday edition, s7*7o a year. The Sunday edition alone, eight pages, $1.20 a year, post paid. The Weekly Sun, eigtit pages <>f 66 broad columns, will be furnished during 1877 at the rate of $1 a ye tr, post paid. The benefit of this large reduction from the previous rate for the Weekly can be enjoyed by individual subscribers without the necessity of making up clubs. At the same time, ii any of our friends choose to aid in extending our circulation, we shall be grateful to them, aud every such person who sends us ten or more subscribers from one place will be entitled to one copy of the paper for himself without charge. At one dollar a year, postage paid, the expenses of printing are barely repaid, and, consider ing the size of the sheet and the quality of its contents, we are confident the people will consider the Weekly Sun the cheapest newspaper published in the wo.ld, and we trust also one of tl: e very best. Address, THE SUN, New York City, N. Y. dec9-(k. Western & Atlantic Railroad. AND ITS CONNECTIONS. ‘ ‘ KJENNESA W ROUTE.” The following takes effect may 23d, 1875 NORTHWARD. No. 1. Leave Atlanta.,..: 4.10 r.M \rrive Cartersville G. 14 <4 Kingston 6.42 “ “ Da1t0n..... 8.24 “ “ Chattanooga 10.25 “ No. 3. Leave Atlanta 7.00 a.m Arrive Cartersviile 9.22 „ “ Kingston 9.50 “ Dalton 11-54 “ Chattanooga 1.56 r.M No. 11. Leave Atlanta *3>3o p.m Arrive Cartersville 7.19 44 “ Kingston 8.2i “ “ Dalton ..11.18 “ SOUTHWARD. No. 2. eavc Chattanooga 4.00 p.m \rrive Dalton... 5.41 “ “ Kingston 7,28 “ “ Cartersville 8.12 “ “ Atlanta 10.15 “ No. 4. 1 erve Chattanooga 5.00 a.m 4 n ive Dalton 7.01 “ “ Kingston 9.0", 4 “ Cartersville . 9.42 44 “ Atlanta 12 06 *.m No. 12. 1 Dalton. 1.00 a.m Ari e Kingston • •••• 4.19 *• 4 Cartersville * 5.18 44 * Atlanta 9.20 44 nil uan Palace Cars run o i Nos. I and 2 oe .oe New Orleans and Baltimore. . oilman Palace Cars run en Nos. 1 and 4 .ei een Atlanta and NashviUc. ] ullm in Palace Cars run on Nos. 2 and 3 it veer Louisville and Atlanta. No change of cars bet ween New Or lears, A >bile, Montgomery, Atlanta and Halt more, and only one change to New Yor v. P isseng *rs 1 eaving Atlanta at 4 10 r. M., arrive in New York the second afternoon flier afier at 4 O h E cursn n tickets to the Virginia springs and various summer rosoits will be on sale in N w Orleans, Mobile, Montgomery, Co lumbus, Macon, Savannah, Augusta and At lanta, at gieatly reduced rates, first of Juno Parties desiring a whole car through to he \ irginia Snrimjs or Baltimore, should address the un lersigned. IV ties contemplating travel should send for a copy of the Kennesaw Route Gazette, uonta ning sche lules, etc. gi3> . Ask for Tickets via 44 Kennesaw outc ” B. W. WRENN, G. P. & T. A., Atlanta, Ga. Rome Railroad — Schedule. ON AND AFTER MARCH Ist, the evening train (except Saturday evening), on this road will be discontinued. The trains will run as follows: MOUSING TfIAIN. Leaves Rome dailj at 7:00 a. in. Return to Rome at 12 m. SATCBDAY ACCOMMODATION. Leaves Rome (Saturday only) at 5:45 p. m. Return to Rome at 0:00 p. m. Tlie evening traiu at Rome will make close connection with S. R- & D. R. It. train North and South, and at Kingston with W. Sl A. R. R. train South and East.. 0. M. PENNINGTON, Oen’l Sup't. JNO. E. STILLWELL, Ticket Agent. Centennial Reduction in Advertising. Three thousand, two hundred and fifty dollars worth of newspaper adveitisiug, at publishers’ schedule rates, given for S7OO, and a three months’ note accepted in pay ment from advertisers of t esponsibility.— A printed list, giving Name, Character, Ac tual Daily and Weekly Circulation, and Schedule Rates of Advertising, sent fiee to any a idress. Apply to Geo. P. Rowell & Cos., Newspaper Advertising Agents, 4 Park Row, N Y, oc VOL. V11.~N0.19. ESTABLISHED 1860. GILMOHE A. CO., Attorneys at Law, { Successors to Chipmnn, Hosmer & Co s, 62'.**F. ST ,*WASHINGTON, D V. American and Foreign Patents. l’rten’s procured in all ooun'Hes. No fees in advance. No charrc unless ihe patent is granted. No fee# for making pre liminary examinations. No additional lees for obtaining and{ conducting a rehearing. Special attention given to Interf-reucg cases before the Patent Office, Extensions before Congress, Infringement suits in dif ferent States, and ail litigation appertain ing to inventions or patents. } Send stain v for'pnmphlet of sixty pages. United States Courts and Depart monts, Claims prosecuted in die Supreme ?ourt of the United States, Court of Claims, Court of Commission*.rß of Alabama Claims. Southern Claims Commission, and all class es of war claims before the Executive De partments. Arrears !pf Pay and Bounty.M Officers, soldiers, and sailors of the late war or their heirs, are in many cases en titled to money from the Government, of which they have no knowledge. Write fulj history of sorice, and state amount of pay and bounty received. Enclose stamp, and a full reply, after examination, will be given you fice. Pensions. All officers, soldiers, and sailors wound ed ruptured, or injured in the late war, however slightly, can obtain a pcasion, many now receiving pensions are entitled to an increase. S*nd stamp and informa tion will be furnished free.* United States General Land Office. Contested land cases, private land claims, mining pre-emption and homestead cates, prosecuted before the General Land Office and Department of the Interior. Warrants. The last report of the Commissioner" of the General Land Office shows 2,807,500 of Bounty Land Warrants outstanding.— These were issued under act of 1855 an 1 prior acts. We pay cash for them. Send by registered letter. Where assignments are imperfect we give instructions to per fect them. Each department of our business ia con ducted in a separate bureau, under the charge of experienced lawyers and clerks. By reason of error oi fraud many attor neys are suspended from practice before the Tension and'other offices each year.— Claimants whose attorneys have been thus suspended willj be gratuitously furnished with full information aud -ropei papers on application to us* As we charge uo fees unless successful, stomps for return postage should be sent us. Liberal arrangem3iits made with attor neys in all branches of business. Address GILMORE & CO., P. 0. Box 44, Washington, V. C. [Washington, D. C., November 24, 1876. 1 take pleasure in expressing my entire confidence in the responsibility and fidelity of the Law, Patent and Collection House of Gilmore & Go., of this city. GE 11GE H. B. WHITE, [Cashier of the Xuiioi.al Metropolitan Bank.) dec9-tf. GOOD FORTUNE Waits on all who purchase tickets in the Ghand Extra Drawing, Monday, December 4, 1876/ LOUISIANA STATE LOTTERY CO. Thi3 institution was regularly incorpora ted by the Legislature of the State for Ed ucational purposes in 1868, with a capital of $1,000,000, to which it has since added a reserve fund of $320,000. Its Grand Single Number Drawings will take place monthly. The season of 1876 closes with the following scheme: CAPITAL PRIZE, $50,000. Only 20,000 Tickets at S2O each. Fractions in proportion. LIST OF PRIZES. 1 Capital Prize $50,000 1 Capital Prize 20,1*00 1 Capital Prize 10,000 10 Prizes at 1,000 10,000 25 Prizes at 500 12,500 100 Pr’zcs at 300 30,000 200 Prizes at 100 40,000 500 Pr .zes at 100 60,000 2,000 Prizes at 20 40,000 APPROXIMATION PRIZES. 9 Approximation Prizes ofs3 -0, 2.709 9 Approximation Prizes of 200, 1,800 9 Approximation Prizes of 100, 900 2,865 Prizes amounting to $268,900 Write for circulars or send orders to li. FERNANDEZ, Savannah, Ga ; CHAS. T. HOiVARD, New Orl ans, la. The first regular quarterly dollar drawing will take place on January 2, 1877. Tickets $1 each. Capital Prize 15.000. ("nolS'lin. Hygienic Institute ! IF YOU would enjoy the fill IVn mo3t deli g }ltf ul luxury ; if llEl rl VII 0U w 01 ,14 be speedily,cheap- Ulliliin !ly, pleasantly and perma nently cured of all Inflam matory, Nervous, Cone ltu tional and Blood Disord rs if you have Rheumatism, Scrofula. Dyspepsia, Bron chitis, Catarrh, Diarrhoea, Dysentery, Piles, Neuralgia, Paralysis, Disease of the Kidneys, Genitals or Skin, Chill aid Fever, or other Malarial Affections ; if you (would be purified from all ! Poisons,whether from Drugs !or Disease; if you would I . i i have Beauty, Health and I ISA Long Life go to the Hygien- II i |ic Institute,and use Nature’s Great Remedies.the Turkish .Bath, the 44 Water-cure Pro cesses,” tle 44 Movement .cure,” Electricity and other Hygienic n gents. Success is wonderful—curing all cu rable cases. If not able to go and take board, send full account of your case, and get directions for treatment at home. Terms reasona ble. 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