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BY D. B. FREEMAN.
TIIE EARLY BIRD CATCHES THE
WORM.
Poor foolish worm ! if he had lain
Snug in his earthly bed,
That early fowl had never made '<
A breakfast of bis head.
At noon, no doubt, the bird had sought
.Some distant forest bough ;
And if the worm had slept till then,
lie might have lived till now.
Take warning early risen*; all,
And heed the lesson taught ;
The worm that lies in bed is safe—
The e irly v> >rm is caught.
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Alligators in Florida.
The Jacksonville Fla.) Union of the
15th ult. say* : “Notwithstanding the
immense numbers of alligators which
have been killed during the past four or
fire years in this State, they do not
seem to decrease in number as one would
raturally s ’ppose. Captains of steam*
boats on the St. John’s say that they
are apparently as numerous as ever, al,
though very largo ones are seldom seen
now in this part ot the State, but in the
marshes and lakes of the Upper St.
John’s, and all over the more Southern
parts of the State, they are stil) found
in large numbers. No one seems to
two w the leugih of time required for an
alligator to come to years of discretion
an' 1 size, and if there are any marks by
which the age can be known, they are
kept secret, but it is certain that they
are prolific in their increase,a nest often
containing two hundred eggs, most of
which hatch, and, unless destroyed oy
violence,a large proportion ol the young
are raised A few years since,the skins
were in demand at from fifty cents to
one dollar each, and thousands were
slaughtered. In one instance, a single
individual killed within a space of five
months over one thousand to fill a con
tract, but as that species of leather soon
went ou£ of fashion the business declin
ed,but seems to be reviving aga.n some'
what. Another inducement to their cap*
lure is their teeth, which frequently
command high prices, and -re a stand
ard article of eouiu>eree in the Southern
markets,mostly for ornamental purposes
The largest Florida alligator of which
the writer has been able to abtuin an au
thentic account, measured eighteen feet
in length. The se exceeding fifteen feet
are very rarely seen in the Stale.”
Everlasting Harvest.
We last week witnessed the queer
spectacle of a strawberry-patch growing
in the open air a week before cbristuias
The garden is iocated about six miles
above the town of Sequel,and about the
same distance from Santa Oruz. A Mr.
Thompson is the owner of the ranche
and he informed us that at any day or
month in the year, he could go iuto the
patch and gather at least tweuty quarts
of the luscious berries in a short time
lie has now in cultivation 3,000 vines,
which occupy an acre of ground, and
from these he has gathered during the
past year G,OOO quarts of the large crim
eonc beauties. Half of this quantity he
sold in the local markets at an average
of twenty cents per quart,and the other
half he gave away to his neighbors, as
there was no demand for them from
buyers. Blossoms, green, and flaming
red, ripe berries smile and look sedate,
and blush side by side the wholj year
ou the same vine. This certainly is
equal if not superior to the ancient and
fabled land that flowed with milk and
honey. Now let us see if his crop pays
him. To start with they are not as
much trouble to cultivate as a patch of
string-beaus would be j then, at an ev
erage uf twenty cents per quart,the half
acre of ground would net him 8600 per
year. Not only strawberries, but this
gentleman has also a fine orchard of
peach and other fruit trees which are
very promising.— /Santa Cruz ( Cal .)
Courier.
A thieving postmaster was convicted
in Fredericksburg.Mo. The woman wbo
was matrimonially engaged to him went
to St. Louis, believing that she could
there do something to effect his libera,
tion, but her hope seemed to have no
sound foundation. She stayed at a ho.
tel till all her money was gone. Then
she pawned clothing until she had not
enough left to keep her warm. Still re
fusing to leave the city,and nearly crazed
by her failure to help her lover,she crept
into a lumber yard one culd Dight to
sleep. In the morning her feet were so
badly frozen that she could not walk,
and she remained in the yard two days
without food. A policeman found her
at last,but she will not probably recover.
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Influence of Society.—The high
ly cultured man thrives best in solitude.
Put him in a pretty little house on the
edge of a lonely valley, with half a doz
-en good books, he will be amiable, gen*
tie, kind to his neighbors on the other
side of the valley ; he will observe,with
an emotion he will not understand, the
smoke of distant houses, the declining
snow or budding flowers. Put him for
six weeks in a fashionable drawing room
he will become cynical, hard, haughty,
if he is the stronger—contemptible if
he is the weaker; he will think even to
the depths of his heart whatever it is
the fashion to think. It will require
ten years of solitude to restore to him
indepenpence of mind ; and that time
will hardly suffice.
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Mme Perron, who lately died in
Paris, has bequeathed the Bum of 85,-
000 francs to the municipality of Mar
seilles for founding an asylum for unfor
tunate dogs and horses.
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GOV. A. 11. COLQUITT.
t
llis Inaugural Address.
Gentlemen of the Senate and House of
Representatives:
In accordance with the Constitution
and laws of the State, I appear before
you to the oath of office as Gov
ernor of Georgia for the next four
years. No edict of an autocrat convenes
us in this hall to-day; no coercijn,
whether it comes from a master or the
exigencies of a faction, or the peril of
the State —has forced us to assemble
for this ceremony. But, self-marshalled,
we are here to witness the peaceful
change of pubbe administration ; the
dutiful ard dignified surrender of pow*
er by one public servant, and the as
sumption of official responsibility by
another.
The custom of predecessors, as well
as my deep sense of gratitude to the
people, demand from me a few words
expressive of that gratitude, and indi
cating, in general terms, the policy
which the times seem to deruaad.
The unprecedented majority which
called me here, overwhelms me with
thankfulness. Language fails me in
the attempt to give it adequate express
sion. It shall be my effort to prove
the depth of my gratitude by a oom<
plete devotion to the public interests
committed to me, and by an unremit
ting care that neither the honor nor
the welfare of this beloved Common
wealth shall suffer by the confidence
you have reposed in me as the servant
of the State. The Executive govern
ment of a free, great and prosperous
Commonwealth like Georgia, with its
million and a quarter of intelligent in
habitants, affords for the exercise of pa
triotic Statesmanship, a sphere of hon
orable public service as exalted and
comprehensive as the ambition of any
man could desire
Diffident of my ability, and distrust
ing my own capacity for this high and
holy service, whilst I solicit your coun
sels and cooperation, l shall reverently
invoke the aid of Divine Providence to
enable me to fulfill the solemn obliga
tions which I am now to assume.
The allusion to the large majority by
which I. was elected—the largest ever
before given in the State on a similar
occasion—has been made, not in any
vain spirit of personal t.iumph, but to
deduce from the magnitude of that ma
jority two important public lessons. It
exhibited the intense and universal in
terest felt by the masses of our people
in this State, in seeuriug at the ballot
box, the victory of those who are con
tending for the liberty and rights of the
citizen and the limitations of the Con
stitution. Never before in Georgia has
there beon a more profound conception
of the true principles of Constitutional
government, a more wide-spread sens’u
bility to the. dangers threatening our
free institutions, or a more ardent and
conscientious sympathy with ttie friends
of the Constitutional Union. This no
ble devotion o r our people to a true Re
public of liberty and law, has pervaded
all sections of the State and animated
all classes of our population. It has
given such an expression of :ineere
confidence iu the legitimate methods of
lawful election, as leaves no doubt of
our fidelity to our Constitutional convic
tions and the Constitutional inodes of
giving them utterance and effect.
In the grand popular majority of the
recent Gubernatorial election, is to bo
lead the overwhelming interest that
Georgians feel in the great issues now
convulsing the country,* and their de
termined purpose to keep in alignment
with the patriotic millions of our north
ern friends who are seeking, by the
peaceful instrumentality of lawful suf
frage, to re-establish good government
under the undisputed supremacy of the
Federal Constitution.
I but speak my own deep-felt senti
ment, and echo the public voice of
Georgia, when I say that in all the
complications of national politics, now
so replete with fevered interest, we
stand in immovable sympathy with the
elected exponent of Constitutional lib
erty, retrenchment and reform. We
will adhere to him and his co-laborers,
with the fidelity due to the champion
of a lighteous cause, in every patriotic
endeavor they may make to secure the
honest and unmistakable will of a large
majority of the American people, Con*
stitutionally expressed at the polls.
I refer with especial pleasure to the
second lesson of our gratifying and un
precedented majority in the Guberna
torial contest, repeated no less decisive
ly in the Presidential election in our
State.
As the benefits of local self.govern*
rneut have been experienced, and the
baleful influence of malicious interfer
ence has been withdrawn, the colored
people have recognized that our own
home folks are their true friends, a*d
hence they have fraternized and acted
with us politically. Large numbers
voted with us, and swelled the Guber
natorial and Presidential majorities be
yond all precedent. They have wit
nessed in all their material interests the
effects of a good borne government, ad*
ministered by people wedded with them
to the same soil, and whose interests
are all interwoven with their own. Of
no right has the humblest of them been
depiived. The advancement of the
race in knowledge and in civilization
has been, and shall continue to be, a
special trust and solemn duty. Hence,
cordial relations, so natural and so nec
essary both to them and to the whites,
are being rapidly and permanently es
tablished, and quiet and peace and
CALHOUN, GA., SATURDAY, JANUARY 20. 1877.
sympathy between the ra~es pervade the
entire State,
The padplfe ef this entire country
have but to look, and they cannot fail
to see how the more powerful race,
when left to its own sense of right and
policy, will treat the colored citizen ;
and how, when thus free to act, the
races feei-for each a mutual in*
terest, pursue a common course, and
enjoy a reciprocal prosperity. How
wise were the fibers when they rested
the Constitution upon the solid piUats
of local sell-government in the States !
Georgia, gentlemen, is the home of
all Georgians, of every race, color arid
condition ; her local government is the
government of us all; one future for
weal or woe awaits us and our families,
and the nobler feeling of our nature, as
well as the bard common sense of the
selfointerest of all, demand the united
political action of all.
But to pass to other matters cf do’
mestic policy wherein all Georgians
have a common and a vital interest.—
Not only were Constitucional and politi
cal liberty talismauic words of power
in the late great contest, but retrench
ment and reform shone conspicuously
on all the banners that heralded the
victory of the friends of Constitutional
liberty at the polls. The eyes of all
Americans look with confidence to the
great reformer just elected President,
to reform the national administra
tion.
Let us, gentlemen, look at home, and
whilst my own immediate predecessor
and your individual predecessors, have
not been unmindful of their duty, let
us remember that times have chaoged,
and values of all kinds have sunk and
are still sinking. We must further re
trench —we must reform yet more. Iu
is our imperative duty to lighten the
public burdens. Twenty years ago the
taxable property in Georgia was over
five hundied millions of dollars. To
day it is only two hundred and fifty
millions. Then the taxation was only
a half million—to-day it is a million
and a quarter. With less than half the
prorerty, we have nearly three times
the taxation. With property thus de
preciated, and continuing to depreciate
as it has done for the last two or three
years, it is clear that our revenues will
diminish in the same proportion, and
our income will not meet our obliga
tions. These obligations, gentlemen,
are sacred. The interest on our debt,
now about eleven millions, must and
will be made, and our eredit at any and
every sacrifice must be maintained.—
The current expenses of the State gov
ernment must be promptly met. Our
charitable institutions must be kept up
In this exigency we are driven to the
alternatives—retrenchment or increased
taxation. The latter must be avoided,
if possible. I invite your earnest at
tention to the former, and now engage
that in all methods which your experi
ence and wisdom may devise for saving
the people from increased burdens, I
will most cordially co-operate with you.
Let us not wait for grand occasions, or
for instances of prodigious waste, in
which to begin our reforming economy.
If wo cannot save large sums, let us see
to it that the smallest leaks, which are
wasting the public treasure, if there be
such, shall be stopped. In such an in
dustrial durth and financial pressure as
we are now experiencing, a system cm •
bracing small economics is not to be
despised or neglected. Rigidly honest
expenditure in the public administra
tion, State policy demands. But, be
sides this, a moral effect will be se
cured by it which will be of incalcula
ble benefit. While we give the whole
financial world the fullest guarantee of
our solvency by such a policy, we, at
the same time place before every house
hold in the State an example worthy of
all imitation. We rebuke, by this ex
ample, a wasteful and ostentatious ex
penditure among our people, whioh as
suiely wrecks the substance and pros.-
perity of tho home as it destroys the
more imposing structure called the pub
lic credit. The counties and munici
palities of the State will catch the in
spiration, and we will again see the day
when official probity will be the uni
versal rule, and taxation never draw
another dollar from the producers’
be wasted or misappropria"
ted.
Our work is before us, gentlemen,
and a grand achievement is within our
grasp. That work is the restoration of
a vast heritage, which a sad fortune
has solely wasted and damaged. It is
to evoke a thousand splendid resources,
now utilized. It is to maintain the
proudest and noblest traditions—an
honor unsullied—the status of as
worthy and respectable a constituency
as exists, and its position by the side
of the most advanced of Common
wealths. This labor, vast as it is, ex„
acts no impossible thing at our hands.
With the blessing of Heaven and the
agencies of clear heads and pure
hearts, it may be accomplished.
It Wasn't a Burglar/.
Mr. Cooley likes an early breakfast,
but he his had a great deal of difficul
ty to induce his hired girl to awake
soon enough in the morning to get it
for him. Ono day last winter he
bought an alarm clock, and when he
got home he set it for four o’clock, and
laid it down upon the shelf in the girl’s
bed room. But before he had a chance
to mention it even to Mrs. Cooley, a
boy came with a telegrachic message
demanding his presencein another city,
and he had to hurry off to catch the
train, lie was compelled to stay all
night, and Mrs. Cooley, the children
and the hired girl were the only peo
ple in the house.
About midnight Mrs. Cooley was
awakeued by piercing screams from
the girl's room. A msnute later she
heard Mary Jane, the girl, coming
down stairs four steps at a time, and
sereeching for Mrs. Cooley to let her
come into her apartment When she
was admitted Mrs. Cooley locked the
door quiexly, and Mary Jano i
her that there was in her
room m.ikirig the*mrAt avfful noise mie
had ever heard, and she was positively
certain it was either a tatrer from the
Zoological Garden, or a lunatic that had
escaped from the asvlum.
Mrs. Cooley went to the door and
listened, and she heard it distinctly.—
Then she was scared, and she put up
the window and sprang the rattle.—
That brought out Judge Brown with
his shot gun, and Peter Lamb with a
revolver. When the situation was ex.
plained to them they broke open a back
shutter and entered the house, the
Judge bringing his dog with hiuu
They sent the dog on ahead up stairs,
and the two men followed. Whoa they
got nearly to the room the Judge pro
posed that Peter should go the
light so that he could see where to
shoot but Peter said that it seemed to
him that it would be better for the
Judge to go in and stir the thing up in
the dark, and he would stand outside
with the light and shoot as the intruder
ran out and tried to escape. This view
didn’t strike the Judge, and whila they
were arguing about it, the dog ran in
unperceived by either of them. They
finally concluded that both of them had
better renrain where they were, and fire
three or four volleys into the room at
random. Just as they had resolved on
this policy, Peter caught a glimpse of
something moving about in the room,
and he tired two barrels of his revolver
at it.
This excited the Judge so much that
he emptied his gun wildly in the same
direction. They heard something moan
aud they knew then that they had
wounded the intruder any how, so they
pushei cautiously into the apartment,
where they saw the dog lying iu the
agonies of death, while the alarm clock
gave out a few final and scarcely audi
ble clicks.
Then the Judge became angry.
“You confouuded idiot! What did
you shoot at thy dog for T* he said.
“Who shot at your dog ?” demand*
cd Peter, with newly acquired cour'
age.
‘.‘You did/’ said the Judge.
“The mischief. I did ! Didn’t you
fire at him, too ?”
“But I thought you saw something
else, and l fired because you did,” said
the Judge.
“I believe you killed him and not
me,” said Peter.
“I know well enough,” remarked the
Judge sarcastically, “that you’d never
have hit him but by acoideDt. You
must have been aiming at something
else when you struck him. But you’ve
got to pay for him, anyhow !”
“If I do you may shoot me,” replied
Peter.
They were in the midst of the con
troversy when Mrs. Cooley came up with
the girl-and children
“What is it she demanded.
“Madam,” said the Judge, bringing
bis gun to a “parade rest.” “Madam.
I have no idea what it was that caused
ihat disturbance, but Ido know that
this lunatic has killed my dog.”
“Why there’s an alarm clock ! Cooley
must have put it there. Ido believe
that’s what scared Mary Jaue,” said
Mrs Cooley.
“Likely enough,” replied the Judge,
“and just on account of Mary Jane’s
infernal foolishness I’m dragged out of
my bed in the middle of the night, and
my dog ia assassinated.”
“I’m very sorry” said Mrs. Cooley.
“Very well,madam, I'm glad you are.
But I want you to understand that this
is the last time I turn ont with my
weapons, if burglars glut your h use
from cellar to garret, and butcher your
family in cold blood. I’ll move first ;
blame if I don’t.”
And the Judge shouldered arms,then
brought his gun to a “rightshoulderj
shift,” seized his dog by the near hind
leg, and marched down stairs, followed
by Mr. Lamb.
Cooley now wakes Mary Jane by call
ing her.— Max Adder.
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A young man read in a newspaper a
few days ago, that if you want to find
out if the woman you have selected for
your future spouse had a good temper,
you ought to take occasion to step on
her dress, or snap the s'icks of her fan,
or in some other wav annoy or discom
pose her. “If,” said the great author
ity who presides over the column of ad
vice, “If she betrays no si -ns of ill-tem
per, she will prove a model wife.” Ac
cordingly, the young mao seized an op
portunity when his sweatheart was rig
ged out in her most killing array to step
on her trail, and pulled out about three
yards of gathers,wilh a rip like the peal
of thunder, exposing about three-quar
ters of the frame work that makes her
dress stjqk out behind. But,instead of
meeting the accident -with perfect cqua
nimi'y, she turned arouud and jobbed
her parasol into bis eye, called him a
junk-beaded leper, and asked him why
he didn’t wear his feet sideways. Be
expressed himself as thankful that he
did nit marry the girl before fiuding
out what s.u t of a temper she had but,
the doctor dosn’t thiuk his eye will grow
out again.
Georgia Slate Agricultural S©>
cieiy.
Secretary’s Office.
Atlanta, Ga,, Hep. 2Qth, 1876,
To the. County Agricultural Societies
and Clubs : . ; 7
1. In consequence of the first Tues
day in February, a-’d probably the
greater portion of that month,
mg with, the session of the Legislature,
.and thp, second Tuesday with thejjpck ,
"holder’* and 1
P (siilf R. R., anaThc tblru and fourth
weeks in February with the session of
the Superior Court of Baldwin country,
ihas been deemed best to change the
meeting of the Agricultural Society to
a time which will be more convenient
for all parties interested. The Presi*
dent, therefore, by virtue of the author
ity given him in the Constitution, here*
by announces that the spring meeting
of 1877 of the State Agricultural Socie
ty will take place in M lledgeville on
the first Tuesday (6th day) of March
1877.
Z, We hope, through the liberality of
the railroads, to obtain transportation
for the tpemhr s free both ways. The
however, will positively not
pass but three delegates from a county.
U is useless to a.-k an extension of the
rule. Where, therefore, there are two
or more clubs in one county,each claim
ipg three delegates, this society can not
make application for transportation for
any of them, until the several societies
have arranged among themselves, and
agreed up.n the three delegates to rep
resent the county. We can not dis
criminate at this office. Delegates, by
agreements with the railroads, will be
inquired to go by the'most direct routes.
3. The county societies must forward
to ihis office,through the enclosed blank
form, by 15th of February, (or sooner
if possible,) their reports, showing the
number of members and number of
meetiugs actually held during the ptst
six months, according to requirement of
the Constitution, and also the names of
their delegates, certified to by the Pres
ident and Secretary of the club. Please
also fill out the blank of ‘ Express of
fice” of the olubs.
4. Life members wishing to nttend
the Convention should give notice to the
Secretary, at Atlauta, by or before the
15th February.
5. Taere will be a full and instructive
programme, the details of which will be
duly announced. Dr. Pendleton will
make his fourth and last annunal report
on this occasion. Among the subjects
will be“ Does Farthing in Georgia Pay ?”
“A Farmer—What should Hebe'/”
‘ Peas and Pea Hay,” (by Mr. Berck
mans,; -‘The value of Improved Agricul
tural implements on the Farm,”“Poultry
Raising for Market ;” “Hog and Chick
en Cholera—Remedies for ;” Periodi
cal Agricultural Literature—lts Neces
sity and Value to the Farmer,” “Win
ter Pastures,” etc.
A. 11. Colquitt, Prendent.
Malcolm Joiinston, Secretary.
Importance of Home Paper.
The importance of home paper to
the village or county where published
cannot be estimated. The home news
is something that people cannot dis
pense with and which they cannot buy
elsewhere. An exchange thus fairly
presents the question :
“For various reasons their cities can
send out their news at quite as low
prices. Families can be furnished witn
a knowledge of all the world for two
dollars a year and postage. But there
is something they cannot buy in New
York or Boston—local matter out of
which come interest, and enterprise
grows; it is the local newspaper which
gets at the knowledge of particular ne
cessities to the value of individual per
sona and means. All the improvements
begin in our small centres —become im
portant forces by personal application
and of public value by the t fostering
care and attention of the local press.
Then the local press is such an indi
vidual power as c.u.uot be easily swung
into line to the help of selfi-h outside
purpose. A town’s interests are all
closely interwoven with those of these
home organa of individual expression
and country enterprise. Persons that
neglect these for the large bids of city
dailies are like the housewife who nes
lects her own fireside for the c r:s of
other people.”
For tli© Buys,
“Sir,” said a boy, stopping befdre a
man on his cart, “do you want, a boy
to work, fur you.”
“No,” answered the man, “I have no
such want.” The boy looked disap
pointod'ul least the man thought so,
and he asked : ‘ Don't you succeed in
getting a ptoce ?”
“I have asked at a good many
places,” said the boy. “A woman told
me you had been after a ■ oy ; but it is
not so, I find ”
“Don’t be discouraged,” tsid the
man in a friendly tone.
“Oh, no sir” said the boy, cheerful
ly, because this is a very big world,
and I feel certain God has something
for me to do in it, I am only trying to
find it.”
so, just so,” said a gentleman
who overheard the talk. “Come with
me, my Voy, lam in want of some
body just like you.” It was the doc
tor, and the doctor thought any boy so
anxious to find work, would be licely
to do it faithfully when he found it.
If everybody had the spirit of this
lit tie ,lad there would be no idlers in the
world standing at the corners, sitting in
the shops, waiting for work to come to
them. YVojtk,nfoGoften come so.
Almost uv aing worth having, like
the c r mine, must be sought
*’ s Magazine.
THE SUN.
1877. NEW YORK. 1877.
The different ejjt(pus o( Xpn sun during
the next year will be the same as during
the year tliat has jnst passed. The daily
edition will on week days. be a sheet of four
pagec, and on Sundays a sheet of eight
pages, or 56 broad columns; while the
weekly edition will bo v sheet of eight
pages of the same dimensions and chavue
< ter that are already to rmrlrtomls.
The Sun wifi continue to be the strenu
ous advocate of reform hnd retrenchment,
and of the substitution of statesmanship,
wisdom, and integrity for hollow pretence,
imbecility, and fraud in the administration
of public affairs. It will contend for the
government of the people by the people and
for the people, as opposed to government
by fraud in the l allot-box and in the count
ing of votes, enforced by military violence.
It will endeavor to supply its readers —a
body not far from a million of souls—with
tl e most careful, complete, and trustworthy
accounts of current events, and will employ
for this ptirpise a numerous and carefully
selected strff of reporters and correspond
ents. Its reports from Washington, espe
cially, will be full, accurate, and fearless;
and it will doubtless continue to deserxe
and enjoy the hatred of those who thrive
by plundering the Treasury or by usurping
what the law docs 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 month or $6.50 a year, post paid,
or will the Sunday edition, $7.70 a year.
The Sunday edition aloue, eight pages,
$1.20 n year, post paid.
The Weekly Sun, eight pages of 56 broad
columns, will be furnished during 1877 at
the rate of $1 a ye r, post paid.
The benefit of this large reduction from
the previous rate for the Wkkkly can be
enjoyed by individual subscribers without
the necessity of making up clubs. At the
same time, il 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 world, and we
trust also one of tl e very best.
Address,
THE SUN, New York City, N. Y.
dec9-6t.
Western & Atlantic Railroad*
AND ITS CONNECTIONS.
* • KBNNESA W RO VTE.”
The following takes effect may 23d, 1875
NORTHWARD. No. 1.
Leave Atlanta 4.10 p.m
Arrive Cartersville 6.14
•* Kingston 0.42 “
“ Dalton 8.24 “
“ Chattanooga 10.25 “
No. 3.
Leave Atlanta 7.00 a.m
Arrive Cartersviile 0-22 ~
“ Kingston 9-56
“ Dalton 11.54 “
Chattanooga 1-56 p.m
No. 11.
Leave Atlanta 3,30 p.m
Arrive Cartersville ... 7.19 “
“ Kingston 8.21 “
“ Dalton 11.18 “
SOUTHWARD. No. 2.
heave Chattanooga 4.00 p.m
Arrive Dalton 5.41 “
“ Kingston 7,28 “
“ Cartersville 8.12 “
“ Atlanta 10.15 “
No. 4.
1 erve Chattanooga 5.00 a.m
Ari ive Dalton 7.01 "
“ Kingston..... 9.07 ‘
“ Cartersville 9.42 “
“ Atlanta 12 06 *.M
No. 17.
l eave Dalton 1.00 a.m
Ari e Kingston 4.19 ••
•* Cartersville 5.18 “
“ Atlanta 9.20 “
ull nan Palace Oars run o Nos. I and 2
oei veen New Orleans and Paltimore.
I oilman Palace Cars run on Nos. 1 and 4
.et eon Atlanta and Nashvihe.
1 ullm in Palace Cars run on Nos. 2 and 3
itwcer Louisville.and Atlanta.
No change of cars between New Or
lears, A >bilc, Montgomery, Atlanta and
Daltimore, and only one change to New
York.
Pisseng ws leaving Atlanta at 4.10 p. m.,
arrive in New York the second afternoon
ther after at 4.00.
Excursion tickets to the Virginia springs
and various summer resorts will be on sale
in N -w Orleans, Mobile, Montgomery, Co
lumbus, Macon, Savannah, Augusta arid At
lanta, at gieatly reduced rates, first of
June
Parties desiring a whole car through to
he A irginia Sorings or Baltimore, should
address the un lersigned.
Pa ties contemplating travel should send
for a copy of the Kennesaw Route Gazette,
conta ning schedules, etc.
Ask for Tickets via “Kennesaw
J outc.”
T>. W. WRENN,
G. P. & T. A., Atlanta, Ga.
Rome Railroad —Schcdn Je.
ON AND AFTER MARCH Ist, the evening
train (except Saturday evening), on this
road will be discontinued. The trains will
run as follows:
MOUSING TBAIN.
Leaves Rome daily at 7:00 a. m.
Return to Rome at 12 m.
SATUEDAY ACCOMMODATION.
Leaves Rome (Saturday only) at 5:45 p. m.
Return to Rome at 9:00 p. ni.
The evening train at Rome will make
close connection with S. R- & D. R. R. train
North and South, and at Kingston with W.
Sl A. R. R train South and East.
C. M. PENNINGTON, Cen’l Sup’t.
JNO. E. STILLWELL, Ticket Agent.
Centennial Reduction in
Advertising.
Three thousand, two hundred and fifty
dollars worth of newspaper adveiUsing, at
publishers’ schedule rates, given for S7OO,
and a three months' note accepted in pay
ment from advertisers of . 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. VII. —NO. ID.
ESTABLISHED 1865.
GILMORE & CO;,
Attorneys at Law,
Successors to Cbrpman, Hosmer & Cos. r
629; P. ST.,’WASH ING TON, D G.
American and Foreign Patents.
Prten's procured nr all coun'ries. No
kkks in advance. No charge unless the
patent is granted. No foes for making pre
liminary examinations. No additional fees
for obtaining nnd| conducting a rehearinc.
Special attention given to Interferoncg
cases before the Patent Office, I'x tensions
before Congress, Infringement suits ir. dif
ferent States, and all litigation appertain
ing to inventions or patents. | Send stamp
of sixty pages.
United States Courts and Depart
ments,
Claims prosecuted in the Supreme Court
of the United States, Court of Claims,
Court of Commissioners of Alabama Claims,
Southern Claims Commission, and all class
es of war claims before the Executive De
partments.
Arrears !of Pay and Bounty.'l
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 fuTj
history of serice, 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,
lioweve'r slightly, can obtain a pension,
many now receiving pensions are entitled
to an increase. St nil stamp and informa
tion will be furnished free.”
United States General Land Office.
Contested land cases, private land claims,
ining pre-emption and homestead cates,
prosecuted before the General Land Offico
and Department of the Interior.
iOldTßountyZLand Warrants.
The last report of the of
the General Land Office shows 2,807,500
of Bounty Land Warrants outstanding.—
These were issued under act of 1855 ani
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 is con
ducted in a separate bureau, under the
charge of experienced lawyers and clerks.
By reason of error oi fraud many attor
neys arc suspended from practice before
the Pension offices each year.—
Claimants whose attorneys have been thus
suspended willg be gratuitously furnished
with full information aud jropet papers on
application to us.
As we charge uo fees unless successful,
stamps for return postage should be scut
us.
Liberal arrangements made with attor
neys in all branches of business.
Address GILMORE & CO.,
P. O. Box 44, Washington, D. C.
j Washington, 1). C., November 24, 1876.
I take pleasure in expressing my entire
confidence in the responsibility and fidelity
of the Law, Patent and Collection House of
Gilmore & 00., of this city.
GEORGE H. B. WHITE,
(Cashier ofi the Natioi al Metropolitan Bank.)
dec9-tf.
Hygienic Institute !
IF YOU would enjoy the
fit) I \ l\ Uloßfc luxury ; if
Iflt /I \ll you would be speedily,cheap
lly, pleasantly and perma
nently cured of all Inflam
matory, Nervous, Constitu
tional and Blood Disorders
if you have Rheumatism,
Scrofula. Dyspepsia, Bron
chitis, Catarrh, Diarrhoea,
Dysentery, Piles, Neuralgia,
Paralysis, Disease of the
Kidneys, Genitals or Skin,
Chill aud Fever, or other
Malarial Affections; if you
would be purified from all
Poisons, whether from Drugs
or Disease; if you would
| . have Beauty, Health and
I 1811 Eong Life, go to the Hygien-
LU ic Institute,and use Nature’s
Great Remedies,the Turkish
Bath, the “ Water-cure Pro
cesses,” the “ Movement
cure,” EleclriePy and other
Hygienic agents. 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. Location, corner Loyd
and Wall streets, opposite
RATH I Q aßSenger De P ot Atlanta,
**l* IH • Jno. Stainback Wilson,
: n-in-Charga
MILL GEARING MADE I
PULLEYS AND HANGERS!
&HUNTn
NOTICE.
TOLLED before me on the 3d day of Jan
uary, 1877, as an es tray by John Jones,
of the 849th district, G. M., of said coun*
ty of Gordon, Georgia, one* cow four or ,
five years old, marked smootl crop offfleft
ear. swallow foik in the right ear, flesh
marks, white under tt e beliy, and a praised
to be worth $8 00 by N. B. Hudgms and J.
li. Land, freeholders, and that it is worth
twenty-five cents per <Uy for keeping said
cow. The owner is hereby notified to ap
pear before me, prove property, pay cost
and expenses and take said cow away, else
she will be sold on the premises of John
Jones, the taker-up of said cow, on Wednes
day, the 17th inst., in tirms of the law by
tl e Sheriff, in such cases made aud provi
ded. This January 6, 1877
D. W. NEEL, Ordinary.
Printer’s fee $3. It.
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