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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. , ■■■■:■=■ 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. ■ 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. —■ 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. ■ -! ■ 7Z ~ 3 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. - ♦ . 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 ! 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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. TH2S PAPER IS ON FILE WITH I Yliert) Advertising Contracts can be ma, - r -rT ■ - - M| ,