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BY D. B. FREEMAN.
A Battle with a Bat.
Doc ” Porcus, of Thirty-first afreet
thi* city, is a geod-hearted fellow and
a || that sort of thing, but he will “ tip
the rosy."
Not as a steady thing, you know, but
aemi'occasionally, wheu he gets out
with the boys.
It may perhaps be necessary lo state
that Mr. Porcus possesses a constitution
unusually susceptible to the influence of
th ordinary New York beverages, and
after spending a social evening with a
fow friends he is apt to have bad
dreams.
Sometimes ho is standing on the edge
of 8n awful precipice, and he clutches
desperately at the bed clothes to savo
himself from falling into the yawniog
abyss be'ow his feet.
A.gain he is in the Russian army
fighting the Bashi-Bazoul.s, and tie gels
up and pranoes around the room and
bombaids the foe with an old pair pf
boots, and finally * becomes demoralized
sod retreats under the bed.
At other times he imagines he is
out on a two-hundred acre farm en
gaged in breaking a yoke of steers, and
he arises and grabs the off ox by the
horn, hits him a thump over the back
with an imagina r y club, yells : ,: Wboa !
back! geel come mound here!" and
puts those unruly cattle through a course
of sprouts for an boar or so to the iu
tense delight of the people in the house
who may want to sleep.
A few nights since Mr. Porcus came
in along toward the “witching hou",” os
usual, hastily threw off his clothes and
retired.
He was pretty tired with bis even
ing’s work, and soon he was asleep and
moving like a steam saw milt in fYiH
blast. Presently a bat darted in through
.he open window and began flying in
eccentric curves about the apa-tment.
Suddenly it made a downward swoop,
whizzed past the ear of the sleeper and
stmt leu him from his slumbers. He
sat up in bed and listened. Again it
whizzed by his heau.
He only balf awake, but be had
his wits about him sufficiently to decide
from tbe peculiar soiled o" hs wings
thr.t his visitor was a bat. But he was
quite sure it was not an ordinary oae.
He had read somewhere of enormous
sized bois tbat do notbesiute to a.Dck
a man.
This was undoubtedly one of tbat
so - 1.
Mr. Porcus at once prepared to act
on the defensive. He de>.ei T’ued ‘.o
sell his life cs dearlv as possible, anu, i *
necessary, die in tbe last ditch.
lie got out of bed, seized a chair
and backed up in li-e coi ne'-, and when
ever be beard the hat coming oward
him he Struck out at it with an energy
boin of desperation.
The room was dark as ihe rer’ms o*
Pluto, but the cornered wa nor cfdn’t
mind mat any. Ho was batVng for
existence, and eve 'dbing that got in
the way had to suffer ,he consequence.
The first blow Fom tbe cuair mssed
the bat as clean as a tin wuis ‘e and
knocked the pitcher off the wash-sUnd,
bteaking it iu two hundred and for,
seven pieces by actual count.
The nest shivered the irk’or and
carried away the l ining of tbe comb
case which hung under it.
The ibid blow totally destroyed Mr.
P.’s meerschaum pipe which lav on i’je
mantle-piece, and knocked a .in box o r
smoking tobacco and a bovDo of Qur-k’s
Irish tea iuio chaos.
And still thrt instrument of des.’uc
tion swung on in its erratic course car'
rying death and dismay to everyb : og
befor* it—except the bat.
Tbat was geuing around as lively as
ever.
Finally tbe i Tightened creature, in
trying to escape, flew against tue closed
portion of the window and fell .0 toe
floor stunned.
Ml. Porcui heard tbe bat drop, and
he hastily piled a trunk, wasb-sund,
bureau and a couple of chairs on it be
fore it had a chance to recover.
Then he lit the gas, called up every
body in the house and told them he had
killed a vampire r.s big as a Thanksgiv
ing turkey and with wings six fejt
loD g-
His fiiends came with him and care*
fully lifted up ihe fu uuure, disclosing
a dead bat about the size ot a young
mouse.
A look of disappointment stolo over
th countenance of M r. P.
‘•There must have been two of 'em,”
he explained. “Why, this thing is on
ly a flea alongside of the O'it tor I was
fighting ! Tbe big one probably folded
up its wings and slid out of the win
dow while I was lighting the gas.”
Thi* was a reasonable explanation,
but somehow it didn’t appear to satisly
the people who had been called up in
the middle of the night fo see a vam
pire; and they reti*ed lo their respect
ive couches with the sad suspicion lin*
gering in their minds that Mr. Porcu9
had been engaged in a Graeco-Roman
wrestling match with a half b: other of
Prof. James-Jams.
When a small boy with a prejudice
against yellow dogs observes an old
oyster can in a condition of inactivity
he at once begins debating the question
whether it was created to point a mor*.
al or adorn a tail. The dog gets the
first news of the decision.
,— — >
We suppose that when the entire
Russian army went marching over tho
pontoon bridges it didn’t mako one
half the clattering that a (eo-ye-i-old
boy does when he walks down one flight
of stairs.
CoII)own ©tines.
The Danube.
No language can possibly descD.be
the superb scenery of to-day’s jou ney.
It far transcends anything I ever saw
or conceived of woculaud or of ’ iver
scenery.. It is the pa.t of the Danube
whe e the wateis beak from the great
basin of Hungnrv through the mount
ains. When we first left 0 sova, the
hills were one green wilderness of maso
sive and unbroken foliage, and the views
up the vrlley were vevv sweet indeed.
But soon huge and shjdowv cliffs be
g. n to show themselves among the
woods, and once or twice the Danube
pjesaed i.s waters through awful walls
of sheer precipice. At fi. st I thought
it like the Rhine, only much, very
muen superior, because of the woods,
instead of miserable, tame, formal vine
yards ; but presently the magnificence
and almost fearful grandeur of tbe
scenery drovo the Rhine utterly out of
my thoughts. The woods were princi
pally dociduous t: ees with an immense
profusion of wa’nufc. and the 7 all were
malted (ogeilier with wild vines, cle
matis. and very large white convolvulus,
wuTe between its banks the r' jer wv’th
cd and boiicd ove • bars of locks, effec
tually foi'bidd’ng all naviga ion. But
now the cliffs :seeded, and there c.nne
some miles of incessant wood, with
beautiful vallevs, th ougb whose woody
we ob ained exquisite glimpses up
the moumainous g'eos. Oie in pa tic
ulpr T remember, of consummate love
liness. It was on the Seivi.a shore;
and far inland there ;oxe a huge mourn*
tain, ia shape like a crouching lion and
tho vallev broadened out, and left the
mountain s unding alone against the
sky. Then came a large scalike bay,
with a Servian vi’lage and church on a
tongue of fields. The broad r*v
er went by gent'v. wheeling sclemoly
iu glossy eddies. jt was a scene of
pei ect loveliness. Not a feat u’e coaid
be heightened or improved. Then came
the cliffs again, no loti o er white pod
hoa v, but a deep mottled red. For
the next hour I was well n'gb beside
mvself; had it been the time of many
colored autumn, instead of bvown-leav*.
ed Ju le, with ; 's heavy rrceo, I should
have lost my senses. lied cliffs, mask
ed in infinitely vr.rious degrees bv foli
age. or s an! : lg abrupt like wa*s, ov
sToc o U r> into spies rad pinnacles
like c .vies, here receding fcm the
view, . !ir e lit owing themselves lb"-
wa. and rnd si <■ *!rig the waie-'S up in ! o a
it' ■'W t•• ; -u' r ‘ 1 pid ; hce were the
for ures oi* the-cenerv. ho describe
hem is quite i .possible. At last we
turned from tbe cliffs a.od saw the deep
wooded bps above Drenkova backed
by the deep dull c : msoni 0" a sto: my
sunset, and wo an'veu absolute 1 ? wea
ried vri. the s'-an-th of .he imo
ions made mn us bv one ecenerv.—
Such a g’niious n iu divine nr eg’ing of
grp. ide 'r auu loveliness of up j e’s
suites red frowns, ,-s decks the or 1
Danube r’l h's and y’s jou' aev, I never
saw in mv do: and 1 br .evc I shall
never fo get the -bleat astonishment in
which J i ?veled .‘or many bou's. I
almost chivied ihe os who we 0 free
to and op anvwheie *0 tne lea y wdde~
ness, or on ho .oevy ledges, or to sus
pend diemselvcs ia ..'c air over ihe
middle of te Danube. — \ O.nlL ]j \ o
a.id J '.‘si v,' F. ei c. c i vn Fa
be.-. D. D.
Wiry Dpu t You Cicl K*eli.
Ahe.n ! Well, yes, a high 0 der of
ta'ent, accompanied with honesfy, in
dustry and a lucrative profession, it
does seem ought to accumulate wealth,
but some how or other I never could.
I work like “blazes,” deal honestly and
try to save, but Die money a'l goes,
the fatn ly will eat a few oi,her things
besides corn b eud and bacon—and
there are several oi them you kuow —and
those things oall for money eve y datf;
and then the law requires -hern to be
cloihed. or else be committed for pub
lic indecency. Clothes will wc .r out
and must bo replaced, and to buy food
and clothing there is a smart profit 10
be pa’d to dealers for handling; then
the po*-WP.re, crockery ware, tub-ware,
stoves, firewood, the washing, doc-Oi s
bills, minis er’s bills, church bills, poor
b : Dls, society bills, lecture bills theatre
bills, city, couDty, and Stu e!.i bills,
besides tFe tobacco, and wh’sky
bills, all to come in for a shire of my
talent and, indust) f.
Now, r.s I cannot cheat, steal or lie
for filthv lucre, I .cannot see how I am
ever to lise above the bu; den of ii’ese
bills to the respec*able position of one
who baa made a fortune. It is a fear
ful thing to be rich, in the light of the
gospek but it is still more fe..r f jl to
have made that fortune. Scarcely can
wea’th be acquired without wrong to
otheis. and all a?e the children of an
avenging God.
There is prcbrbty more genius devel
oned in newspaper offices than anywhere
e’so cn earth. A San Frr acisco eduor
has recently invented a process bv wopch
a fac simile of a whole newspaper page
can be telegraphed at once. But this
is noiiiic a compare.’ w.th ihe fe.it of
the ed.tor of tho Dallas (fexas) Her
ald, who has invented a “bullphone,”
for scaring cattle from the la.lroad
l:ack. The wentv yea s of constant
thought necessary to complete this won
derful irventlou has of course left ihe
editor bald-headed, but he has his re
wa and. The “bullphone” would scare
the very dickens to death cud back
again, as for tae poor bull, Ist him
but hear it once, and he is a v. v ng
in u" 0 for R’O • c’ft r* 0 l’ ? 1
CALHOUN, GA., SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8.1877.
The North Pole.
The Dutch, having taken Holland,
are now preparing to capture the North
Pole. An expeduion has been fiued
out, in the most complete manner (the
cargo comprises a large stock of Hol
lands) under the command of an expe
rienced nuviga ov, who has already
made sevei al voyages to the land of
ioe.
G pt ain Howgate will also strain ev
e:j ne v ve this Bummer, and will go as
Rr noivh as he possibly can. The bet
ting at present is two to nothing on
Howgate, with plenty of .akers. He
can ies a spare eDsign, which he intends
to hoist on the Pole, if she should have
tho good luck to reach it, before his
supply of lime-juice anrt other kinds of
juice is exhausted. When the star
spangled banner once waves o’er the
land of the free Esquimaux, end the
home of the b. ave polar bear, any man
who hauls it down should be frozen on
the spot. To prevent any such trou
ble fom the repeaters who visit tbe
Pole so ofteu. Congress would probably
lew a noll-ux, and appropnaie money
(0 pay someone for siuing up all night
and watching the flag.
Some practical aid unseal imen-al
people fail to see the advantages that
would acc- ue fiom the discovery of the
North Pole. They feel certain, that it
wouldn’Fbe in the possession of Cap
tain Howgate or any one else more than
a week be Vvi Eav oum would have it in
the cent r e of his ci cus teat, or some
en erp-ising bather would s ripe it red
and white, and use it to d.aw custom
to his establishment in hot weather.
They dou’t consider that it might ea
sily be floated to New York, cut up
into small chunks, and sold to ice con
sumers at ex vemelv low figures.
Tbe ice companies a e awie of this,
and in consequence have always been
par.ieulaGy cool towa and A:c ic ezplo -
e:
Thev fear the establishment ot a
G e?t Ame.tcait Consolidated Nor.h
Pole Ice Company. uuHmked, and h.<ve
already opened negotiations wl h Pro*
fesior Tice, with a v ; ew of having
the weather manipulated for their ben
efit.
Jt F J o be hoped hat Cap in How.,
grue will be success ul. and : 1 vth.h
the Pole in tow, notallow any Hol
lander, Bedvndev, or other fo eiguer fo
get ahead oi him. Nrves
wouM have cut it dowa with b’s 1‘ :;e
br.chet, and en it to Eoglsnd if 1 e
had been p>opitious, and he h ‘u
onW 'one a few bund ed miles i ''her.
He says in hts repo t fo the Adm. .1. 7
tbat lack of juice was the main difficul
ty. Perhaps Cap-in Howgate will
nvove to be mo.o juic?. —1 ’U.■< and
X-w York-..
He w;.s f.om conn y Derry. T eland,
aud thought it was Die fourth of July
we wete celebraDag. He was “ nil up,”
and seeing s o ui uy flags flutlei.ng aud
baune’s waving it maue him “sea sick.’’
His bat was wo. a l!*e tne young ladies
wear theirs—unoa the side of the nose
—and he waved a little g’eeu flag w ; th
a harp on it, tied to a brick. His fis-s
we.e about the size and weight of a
lo: ued beer hog, and, walking up in 0
u o.owu in f.ont of a Leev saloon, and
waving bis flag over his shouted :
“floor*.’-r-roo. Me laddv bucks !
Ould Washing on was a fine geutle
inon, rn’ dhe Ame. iaan aigle is a p-oud
bur-reu. an’ the fourth av July is hell
wain it’s let out bat sthand hack an’
gev S’int Pathaok a chacce. Coom au
an’ hav’ yer licker, b’yes, or be the
powers o’ Poll Kelly, there’ll be a ie
billion right here, ?.a’ I’ll bo in the
midst of it. Hoo-roo 1 b’yes !” And
ho went into the beer saloon, sing
ing :
Ooh, me name it is O’Grady,
Aa’ wiu beer I soak me skin ;
Me wife she was a lady
Be the name ov Biddy Flynn.
Fa th, I’m a ?ov!o’ ’addle,
I'm a healthy b’ye an’s oat,
An’ I’m a folgh<ia’ Paudy,
Wnen ou'u Biddy ain’t about.
Then, hoodoo, b’yes, call for dbrioksi
Never moinae f’wat people tbincs,
Sraff yer skins wid fo 'y w : nke,
An’ le ’s be iVee aed ai—sy.
A Curiosity of Numbers.
The muliipkicatioTi of 937,fi54.32l
bv 45 44.444 414,445. R,evevsing the
order of the dlgi;s and multiplying
123,456,789 by 45 we get the result
equally curious. 5,555,555,505. If wo
take 123,456,739 as the multiplicand,
and interchanging the figures 0” 45,
take 51 as the mu! 'pile'’, wo obtain an
other rema kable product, 6,666,666,/
606. Returning to the multiplicand
fi st used, 987,354,321, and taking 54
as ihe multiplier again, we get 53,333,-
333,834 —all threes except the fi, st
and last figures, which tead (ogether
54 the multiplier. Taking the same
roub ipßcand and using 27, the half of
54, as the mu'tiplier, we get a product,
of 26 666,666,667 —all sixes except,
the Inst and last figures, whicn read to
ge’her 27, the multiplier. Next inter
changing the figures ia the number 37,
and using 72 aa the multiplier with
937,654,321 as the muhlolicand. we
ob ain a product of 711,111,111,112 —
all ones except the first and last figures,
which read rogether give 72. the mul
tiplier.
Equally curious results may bo ob
tained by multiplying these digits, writ"
.en either w.ty, by 9 or by the figures
cou'pOHing tne mu’tlples of nine vari
ously imeobangcd.
Die*iiug*uisliel Drunkards.
The Ha lford Times publishes a sug
gestive letter headed, ‘-Distingu'shed
Drunkavds,” f’ooi its Washington cor
respondent ‘‘Mac,” who obtained the
matfc'-ial for it during a ramble through
the Washington poorhouso. One of the
first mea he met the.e had been at one
1 me Attorney General of Virgin's.—
In IDs office a number of now distin
guished lawyers were students and owe
much to his advice. His father had
been Attorney General of the United
States and left his son wealth—but he
diank, and sacrificed distinction, fora
tune, and eve v ything to his love for
drink. Another distinguished pauper
was an ex-Judge of the Supreme Court
of Calilornia, and had been esteemed
one of the most eloquent men of his
time. “He came lo Washington ex
pecting to get an office, was disappoints
ed, toot to drink, and drank himself
out of pocket mind, and friends, and
into the poorbouse. In his company
the correspondent found a once wealthy
newspaper editor and proprietor of New
Yo k, a man of great ab liry and po
lit cal Influence. Tins man also sunk
all he possessed in whisk v, aud has been
for tliroe yea-sin the almsh mse. bome
tlmea his f tends * ike him out, but,
says tbe co;
much that he l'es about the streets and
is remmed by the police.” A fomth
pruner had been onlv a lew years ago a
political power, special agent of the
post office dep. rtment, and owner of
much pioperiy in Washington and Ar
kmsas. At one time he was a United
S.ules de.ecDve, but while drunk he
“gave away” ihe details of a case that
would have tesul ed in the capture of
iwu or three hundred thousand dollars
iu counterfeit money, p-eases, plates,
efe. For this he was retired. When
sober he was capable of doing remark
able work. Ju fact, fu tune and fame
we.o nis if bo had not allowed the
(as e for liquor to grow on him. In
another biauch of the ins ituiion the
coi espondeut found an ex-Attorney
Geu u .al of NorDi Carolina. He made
inji'v ) iends, dt.-iok much whisky, ne"-
lec eu If is business and <vei y thing else,
aid fi eo’ io tiie too. aou.se. Says
:.lie correspon eiii ; “j he p’ incipal
i e.isou to. it: being put woe re lie now
’s, is \ ai, ho sole a f. eou s vest and
sold it io w.) sky.’’ To sucu depths of
d-gg - : <i iou will whisky L:i' g ihe
Si i'ii' es£ and noble o' us. A mau
w .0 xvas btep.iea - .ugh.ss’ iniimate
f lend, and who .• > .-ne. k from the
o. me pin o. m !.n n:.n, is also a Wash
iugi.ou pauper. When foiiune smiled
00 him he used liquors : s a iel : sh, aod
when her smiles w aeu to jrowns, be
took it as an an do„e for sorrow. It
brought h m lempo.a. v relief and per
manent run Coming in tne almshouse
in 1 tie ' Black Ma.la,” as tbe correspon
dent le.k it, was an old, white haired
man. “who was at one lime one of the
leading men *it Die Michigan bar. He
is the man who backed Zach Chandler
and made him, politically speaking,
wart he is .outlay.” And this man of
g:e.'t legal abili y, poli iCal influence
sjffic.eat to make and unmake men,
aad much wealth, is now a pauper. —
Why? Because he allowed whisky to
ob.uin ihe mastery over him, as did all
(be o he.s herein refie.red to.
Sliootiu" for Cats.
Mrs. Flipper bought her boy John a
second hand double-barreled shol-gun
from a sick nigger. It was loaded when
she bought it,but that boy didn’t know
it, so he bought a cupful of powder and
a pocket-full of bird-shot aud loaded it
again. John put two fresh caps on it,
and waited for night to come to try it.
About midnight he planted himself at
a baok window up stairs and took a
view of the situation out back. There
were four or five cats and catesses hold
ing a campmeeting upon the roof of
the coal-shed. John pulled buck the
triggers of both barrels, took dead aim
at the crowd on the shed, shut both
eyes, and “flip ! bang !” she went. An
earthquake was the result. Old Mrs.
Flip., like the ghost of Hamlet, rush- and
in (Flip, was at the masquerade at
Woodland Garden that night) and found
her boy John sticking half way through
the ceiling, with the gun-stock between
his legs and the barrels gone. Every
windowpane in the back part of the
house was broken out, and the sash,
glass, shutters, and upper part of tbe
frame of the window where John was
sitting a moment before were gone al.
together. The roof where the camp--
meeting was being held wasn’t scratch'
ed. There’s no knowing ia what dircco
tion the loads in that old persuader
went, for they have never found the
barrels of it yet. Mrs Flipper pulled
John down with a wheel-barrow load
of plastering and laths, bathed his head
aud bound his wounds, and he is will
ing to swear, at a minute’s notice, that
he saw 4,000 cats in the air at once,
and is satisfied that some of them ain’t
come down yet, when the fact is he
didn’t even kill a cat. Fur twenty min
utes after the report of tri<it gun was
hoard the campm iug cn the coal sited
bad increased in -i.re, and Flipper had
come home from Voodlaud Garden as
a drunken Indian, was knocked down
in the hall by Mrs. Flipper and put to
bed. Next morning she had him out
to show him what the lightning had
done the night before. The boy will
be well iu three months if he lives.
►
Job Work neatly and cheaply execu
ed at this office.
GRAHAM & BARNETT.
STEAM SAW MILL
Three Miles from Calhoun on the
Sugar Valley Road.
Lumber.
A good supply of Lumber ou hand, and
any bill cut to order on short notice.
Shingles.
Wc are prepared to fill all orders for
Shingles, and guarantee satisfaction to
purchasers.
Lathes.
LathQs supplied in any quantity on short
notice.
Our prices are in accordance with the
hard times. Ve solicit the patronage oi
those wishing anything in our line. Our
facilit : es for supplying the public are not
excelled by any similar enterprise in this
section.
WHITE OAK LOGS WANTED.
We want good White Oak Logs, and will
pay the cash for them.
GItAHAM & BARNETT.
jun 2 3m.
Interesting to Farmers
mcarthur a smith.
mow * wood
do work cheaper than it can be done any
where else in Calhoun fc ca sh or pro luce.
You will do Well to call and get their prices
and ic.-t tut* quality oftheir work. You will
got satisfaction.
Mr. Smith is an excellent workman, a
polished steel smith.
All work done at prices conforming with
the present scarcity of money and toe pres
sure of hard times. Call and have your
L *rse shod, and see how reasonable will be
me bill. Also bring in your wagons and
buggies for repair mar3l-9mr
LOGS WANTED 1
We will pay CASH for Logs,
Good POPLAR, 12, 13 and 14 feet
long.
WHITE-OAK, 14 and 16 feet long
A few 12 feet long.
PINE, 16, 20, 22, 24 and up. A
few 12 feet long.
WALNUT, of good quality.
A good snppiy of
LUMIBBR.
constantly on hand. Also Lathes and Shin
gles, which the cash can get cheap.
L. HILLS & CO.
Resaca, Ga m Mabch 28, 1877. 6m.
-X". M. BXjIjIS 7
LIVERY it MLB STABLE.
lbs
Good Saddle and Rnggy Horses
and New Vehicles.
Horses and mules for saie.
Stock fed and cared for.
Charges will be reasonable.
Will pay the cash for corn in the ear and
odder in the bundle. feb3-tf.
Fisk’s Patent Metalic
BURIAL CASES
We have purchased from Boaz & Barret
their stock of Burial Cases, and wi llkee
a good stock and a full range of size s tth
old stand of Reeves 4 Malone
FOSTER & HARLAN
H. A. HORSEY’S SALOON,
Railroad Street Always on hand choice
ISKIl ' S
Liquors, etc., and the wants qf customers
willl at all times be attended to with prompt
ness and politenesss. 1 3-lyebf
J 11. ARTHUR, *
Dealer in General Merchandise
CALIIOUN, GA.
Always endeavors to give satisfaction to
customers.
JJANKIN & GRAY,
Attorney at Law
Calhoun, Ga.
Special attention paid to collections. Of
ficeu p-svairs in the Young building.
PRICE-LIST
OF
Sasli, Doors and Blinds,
SASH.
Check Rail, or Lip Sash 8 light Windows,
Wide Bar, Glazed
Size of Window. Per Window.
Sixe of Glass. Thickness, ft. In. ft. in. Weight, l'rioe.
12x14 If in., 25fx 5 2 24$ $1 75
12x16 “ 261 x 510 261 200
12x18 “ 251 x 6 6 29 225
12x20 “ 251 x 7 2 82 2 *lO
Plain Rail 12-light Windows, Glazed.
Bxlo 1 3-16 in , 24x 391 15J 75
10x12 “ 210 x 4 6 24 120
10x14 “ 210 x 5 2 26$ 136
10x16 “ 2 10x610 2< 1 1 60
10x18 “ 210 x 6 6 291 200
Check Rail, or Lip Sash, 12-liglit Windows,
Glazed.
10x14 1 3-8 in., 2 10$x 5 2 28 155
10x16 “ 2 UHx 610 31A 190
10x18 “ 2 101 x 6 6 34 220
10x20 “ 2 10$x 7 2 371 270
Plain Rail, 15-light Windows, Glazed.
Bxlo 1 3-16 in., 2 4x 4 8 22 100
10x12 “ 2 10x 5 6 27 160
Plain Ra 1, 18-light Windows, Glazed.
Bxlol 3-16 in., 2 4x 5 7 26 135
10x12 2lO x 6 6 30 190
BLINDS.
Outside B*'ads, Rolling Slats, Wide Bar,
8-light Windows.
Ptr Pair.
Weight. Price.
12x14 1 3-16 inch. 20 1 40
12x16 22 1 GO
12x18 “ 24 1 70
12x20 “ 26 i 90
Outside Blinds, Rolling Slats, 12-light
Windows.
Bxlol 3-16 inch. 15 1 00
10x12 “ 20 1 25
10x14 “ 22} 1 40
10x16 “ 24 150
10x28 “ 261 1 70
10x20 “ 29 190
Outside Blinds, Rolling SI its, 15-light Win
dows.
Bxlo 1 3-16 inch, 15 125
10x12 “ 22 160
BOOBS.
"O. G. Four Panel doors, Raised Panels,
both sides.
2 6x5 6 1 3-16 inches 29 1 30
2Bx 6 8 33 1 40
2 10x610 “ 35 1 55
3 x 7 “ 37 175
2Bx 6 8 13 8 inches 39 1 60
2 6x6 6 “ 35 1 40
2 10x6 10 “ . 40 1 60
3 x 7 “" 43 180
3 x 7 6 “ rais’d md g 1-side 47 3 35
3 x 7 6 “ “ 2-side 50 3 50
2 x 6 4 1 inch - 20 100
2 4x6 6 “ 21 120
Prices for all other sizes Tarnished
promptly. Above are Dric *- .* •e on boa'd
Cars. M. A. GIE & CO.,
Opposite A. & C. R. R. Depot, Chatta
ooga, Tennessee. - junel6-9m
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VOL. VIII.—NO 4
ESTABLISHED 1868.
GILMORE Sc OOi,
Attorneys at Law,
Successors to Chipman,. Hosmer & Cos.,
629 F. ST., WASHINGTON, .U.
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Address GILMORE & CO.,
P. 0. Box 44, Washington, D. (X
Washington, D. C., November 24, IB7tk
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GEORGE 11. B. WHITE,
[Cashier of the Natioral Metropolitan Bank )
dec9-tf.
A GREENHOUSE AT
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For SI.OO we will send free by mall,
8 distinct varieties Monthly Roses, Winter
flowering.’
“ Chin. Chrysanthemums, “
8 “ Begonias, *
8 “ Carnation Pinks, **
8 “ Zonal Geraniums, '•
8 “ Double “ *•
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8 *• Heliotropes, *
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6 “ Bouvardias *
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8 “ Fuchsias, *
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2 “ Poinsetta,scarlet&white •
4 “ Plumbago, **
“ Ferns, for Wardian Cases*
4 " Palms, “
9 “ Mosses, •*
6 ' Marantas **
8 “ Hyacinth bulbs *•
40 assorted lulips Bulbs,
20 assorted Crocus, Bulbs
2 asso ted Jacobean Lily, Bulbs.
12 assorted Oxalis,
4 Lily of the Valley.
8 New Pearl Tuberose,
OR BY EXPRESS:
3 of any of the above $1 collections for $2.
5 “ < g
l " “ *•
9 “ " 6.
12 •* •* r.
14 •• , 7.
Or the whole collection of 338 Bulbs
and Plants sent by Express oi receipt of
$15.00, to which either of our books, “Gar
dening for Profit, Practical Floricultuie, or
“Gardening for Pleasure” (value $1.60
each), will be added. Descriptive Catalogue "
free.
PETER HENDERBON & CO..
Seedsmen and Florist 8-,
35 Cortlandt St., New York.
junl3-ly.
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