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CALHOUN TIMES
I>. D. FREEMAN, Proprietor.
CIRCULATES EXTENSIVELY IN
Gordon and Adjoining Counties.
Office: Wall St., Southwest of Court House-
RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION.
oue Year
Six Months j qq
Railroitrt Schedule.
Western & Atlantic Railroad
AND ITS CONNECTIONS.
‘* kl nates a w HO ZJTE
The following takes effect may 23d 1875
NORTHWARD. No. 1.
Leave Atlanta 4.10 r.M
Arrive Cartersville 6.14 ,l
•* Kingston 6.42 “
“ Dalton g/24 “
“ Chattanooga 10.25 “
No. 3.
Leave Atlanta 7.00 a.m
Arrive Cartersviile 9.22 ~
“ 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.
Leave Chattanooga 4.00 p.m
Arrive Dalton 5.41 “
“ Kingston 728 “
“ Cartersville B*l2 “
“ Atlanta 10.15 “
No. 4.
Leave Cliattanooga 5.00 a.m
Arrive Dalton 7.01 “
“ Kingston 9.07 “
“ Cartersville 9.42 “
“ Atlanta 12 06 p.m
No. 12.’
Leave Dalton 1.00 a.m
Arrive Kingston 4.19 .
“ Cartersville 5.18 “
“ Atlanta 9.20 “
Pullman Palace Cars run on Nos. 1 and 2
between New' Orleans and Baltimore.
Pullman Palace Cars run on Nos. 1 and 4
between Atlanta and Nashville.
Pullman Palace Cars run on Nos. 2 and 3
bitween Louisville and Atlanta.
No change of cars between New Or
leans, Mobile, Montgomery, Atlanta and
Baltimore, and only one change to New
York.
Passengers leaving Atlanta at 4 10 p. m.,
arrive in New York the second afternoon
thereafter at 4.00.
Excursion tickets to the Virginia springs
and various summer resorts will be on sale
in New Orleans, Mobile, Montgomery, Co
lumbus, Macon, Savannah, Augusta and At
lanta, at greatly reduced rates, first of
June.
Parties desiring a whole car through to
the Virginia Springs or Baltimore, should
address the undersigned.
Parties contemplating travel should semi
for a copy of the Kennesaw Route Gazette,
containing schedules, etc.
HGJu. Ask for Ticket* va “ Kennesaw
Route.’’
B. W. WRENN.
G. P. & T. A., Atlanta, Ga.
Change of Schedule.
ON TIIE GEORGIA AND MACON AND
AUG USTA 11AIL ROADS.
%
ONAND'AFTER SUNDAY, JUNE 28tii,
1874, the Passenger Trains on the Georgia
and Macon and Augusta Railroads will run
as follows :
GEORGIA RAILROAD.
Day Passenger Train Will
Leave Augusta at 8:45 a m
Leave Atlanta a* 7:00 a m
Arrive in Augusta at 3:30 p in
Arrive in Atlanta at 5:45 p m
Niggt Passenger Train.
Leave Augusta at 8:15 p m
Leave Atlanta at 10:30 p m
Arrive in Augusta at 8:15 a rn
Arrive in Atlanta at 6:22 a m
MACON AND AUGUSTA RAILROAD.
Macon Passenger Train.
Leave Augusta at 0n...10:45 a m
Leave Camak at 2:15 p m
Arrive at. Macon at 6:40 p m
Leave Macon at 6:30 a m
Arrive at Camak at 10:45 a m
Arrive at Augusta at 2:00 p m
BERZELL4 PASSENGER TRAIN.
Leave Augusta at 4; 15 p m
Leave llerzelia at 8:30 a m
Arrive >n Augusta at 9:55 a m
Arrive in Berzelia at 5:50 p m
Passengers from Athens, Washington, At
lanta, or any point on the Georgia Rail
road and Branches, by taking the Day Pas
senger Train, will make close connection
at Camak with trains for Macon and all
points beyond. .
Pullman's (First-Class) Palace sleepiu
Cars on all Night Passenger Trains on li
Georgia Ra.lroad.
S. K. JOHNSON , Superintendent .
Superintendent’s Office Georgia and Macon
and Augusta Railroads, Augusta, June
29, 1874,
groffjsstautl & gusinw (Eavtte.
K. MAIN, M, O.
PR ACTICING PH YSICIA N,
Having permanently located in Calhoun,
offers his professional services to the pub
lic. Will attend all calls when not. profes
sionally engaged. Office at the Calhoun
Hotel.
Special ISTotice.
MISS HUDGINS can now bcfound at.
MRS. MILLS’
FURNISHING ESTABLISHMENT,
51 Broad Street, Rome, Ga., where she is
prepared to do Mantua making and Cutting
in all its branches. Call and see.
Mrs. Mills is receiving a full stock of
millinery and fancy notions, latest styles
felt, straw' and velvet hats, cloaks sacks
and wraps in endless variety. Everything
necessary kept for ladies’ outfit. [sep29-7m.
attention !
T'HE undersigned have located themselves
at. the Mims Tan-yard, on the Love’s
Bridge road, 3£ miles from Calhoun, for
the purpose of carrying on
THE TANNING BUSINESS.
I’ney are prepared to receive hides to tan
on shares, or will exchange leather ,or
, les. They bind themselves to prepare
ieather in workmanlike style.
WM. HUNTER & SON.
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Brick-Layer & Contractor.
THE undersigned most respectfully begs
leave to inform the citizens of Calhoun
and surrounding country that, having pro
cured the aid of Mr. Ililburn as a number
one bricklayer and Barrey O’Fallon as a
number one rock-mason, is prepared to do.
all work in t is line in the most satisfactory
manner and on moderate terms. The F a *
ronage of the public generally solicited-
HENRY M. BILLHIMER.
Calhoun, Ga., November 9, 1875.
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CALHOUN, GA., "WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 19, 1876.
“ L UL U'S COMPLAINT .”
I’se a poor ittie sorrowful baby,
For B’dget is ’way down staiis ;
My titten has statched my finder,
And dolly won’t say her p’ayers.
I haint seen my bootiful mamma
Since ever so lon’ ado ;
An’ I ain’t her funniest baby
No loader, for B’idget said so.
My ma’s dot anoder new baby ;
Dod dived it—He did yesterday.
An’ it kies, it kies oh so defful!
I wis’ he w r ould take it. away.
I don’t want no “ sw r eet little sister !”
I want my good mamma; I do;
I want her to tiss me, an’ tiss me,
And tall me her p’gcious Lulu!
I dess my bid papa will b’in me
A little dood titten some day—
Here’s nurse with my mamma’s new baby ;
1 wis’ s’e would tate it away.
Oh, oh, w'hat tunnin’ yed finders!
It sees me yite out o’ its eyes !
I dess he will teep it, an’ dive it
Some tanny whenever it kies.
I dess I will dive it my dolly,
To play wid mos’ every day ;
An’ I dess—-1 dess—say, B’dget,
As’ Dod not to take it away.
THE BEGGAR GIRL OF PARIS.
During the “ Reign of Terror ” in
France, there were many deeds of dar
ing performed, even by women. The
very streets in Paris were deluged with
blood. Rut near the guilotine it ran in
rushing torrents. One dark morning
an unsual number of the aristocrats had
been marched forth • countless heads
rolled from the block. A gaping multi
tude stood by, and with shouts rent the
air as the aristocracy were butchered.
Among’ the assembled multitude that
dreary morning were two females. One
of them was plainly clad, while a cloak
was thrown around her with which she
kept her features nearly concealed. But
a close observation would betray the
fact that she had been weeping. Her
eyes were flamed and red, and she
gazed eagerly upon the plantform, while
a shock of the glittering knife, severed
the head from someone who had be n
uufortunate enough to fall under the
ban of two leaders. The face of the
woman was very beautiful and she was
young —certainly not more than sixteen
or eighteen years of ago.
The oilier female was quite different
in character. Her face was fair, but
there was a brazen expression about it.
She v as clad in rags, and as each head
fell she would dance and in various
ways express her delight, and then ex
claim :
“There goes another aristocrat, who j
refused me charity when I humbly sued I
him.”
Each expression of this kind would
create a laugh from those who heard her,
though any thoughtful person, must
wonder how one so young could have
been so depraved.
The first female watched this poor
creature a few minutes, and then passed
one hand to her sid j, she laid the other
upon the shoulder of the wretch, and
whispered :
“ Would you like to become rich at
once ?”
The female turned about with a look
of surprise, burst into a loud laugh, and
then replied :
“ Of course, I would.”
“Follow me and you shall be.”
“Enough. Lead on.”
It was with considerrble
that the ladies extracted tbemselvW
the crowd ; but they did so at
and then the first female aske*’
other :
“What shall I call you ?”
“Oh, lam called the P£g ar Girl,
Maria.”
“ You live by begginr • ’
“Yes; but what’s/our uame r and
what do you want ?”
“My name is ar i a 5 the same as
yours.” .
“ Are you ar aristocrat.
“It does rJt matter. If you know
wheie we c*o find a room, lead me to it
and you shßl have gold.
The proper led the .vay into a narrow
filthy street and then down into a dark
filthy room.
The Other female could not but feel a
sickening sensation creep over her,
pat she recovered herself. After cou
templating for a time the apartment and
its contents, she asked :
“Are you well known in Paris
“ Yes ; everybody knows Maria, the
Beggar Girl.”
“Are you known to Robespierre ? II
so, 1 want to make a bargain with you.”
“I am. What do you wish ?”
“ You see that my clothes are better
than your own, and I want to exchange
with you. I want you to not show
yourself at all for a short time, or
until I come to you again. As
a recompcnce for aiding me I
will give you a thousand francs, and
when I come I will give you a thousand
more. As security for my return take
this ring.”
The lady drew a diamond ring from
b?.r finger, and gave it to the beggar
girl; then handed her a purse contain
ing gold. The girl appeared a little
puzzeled, and asked :
“ Well, what are you going to do
with my dress?”
“ J want to put it on and go to where
I first met you.”
“ Oh, I understand now. You want
to see the chopping going on, and you
are afraid you will be taken for an aris
tocrat it you wear that dress ; you want
to represent me.”
“ Tea, I want to look like you as near
as possible.”
“Well, that won’t be difficult. Your
•‘Truth Conquers All Things.”
hair and eyes, and even your mouth are
like mine. Your face is too white,
though. But you can alter that with a
little dirt.”
They exchanged diesses, and soon the
young, rich and noble Maria de Nantes
was clothed in the rags of Maria, the
Beggar Girl of Paris.
'J he history of Maria de Nantes was
a painful one. Her father and two
brothers had fallen victims of the re
morseless fiend of the Revolution, and
a third and last brother had been saved,
but of his fate she was ignorant, al
though she expected that it would be
similar to that of her other relatives.—
He had been torn from her but a few
hours before. After the exchanges
the pauper, looking on the stoekingless
and shoeless little feet and ankles of th
lady said .
“ That will never do. Your feet are
too little and delicate. Let me arrange
matters.”
In a few minutes Maria was prepared,
and in filth and rags she emerged into
the street. She now took her course
back towards the guillotine, and at
length reached the square where the
bloody work was going on. Gradually
she forced her way through the crowd,
and nearer aud nearer she came to the
scaffold. She even forced a laugh at
several remarks she heard around her,
but those laughs sounded strangely.—
She now stood within the platform,
swept it with her eyes, but her brother
was not there. The cry was raised, ‘‘the
aristocrats are coming !”
Her heart fluttered viulently, and Hie
felt a faintness come over her as she
heard the tramp of the doomed men
approaching. Her brother walked
proudly and fearlessly forward and as
scended the steps that led to the block.
Up to this moment the strength of poor
Maria had failed her, and she was una
ble to put her plan into execut on
Butfnow a sister’s love sprang up in her
hea: t, and she recovered her strength.
She sprang forward, bursting through
the line of guards, and ran up the steps,
and grasping her brother by the hand,
she cried :
“ What does this mean ? It is only
aristocrats who arc to die.”
“Away woman !” cried one of the ex
ecutioners.
“No; I will not go till you tell me
why my brother is thus bound.”
“Your brother!” was the ocho. “Well,
who are you ?”
“I am Maria; don’t you know me ?”
“The beggar girl ?”
“Aye.”
“But this is not your brother.”
“It is. Ask him—ask him.”
Young Antonia de Nantes has turn
ed a scornful glance upon the maiden,
but a light crossed his face, and he mu’-
muered, “ Oh my sister !”
“Is this your brother ?” aske/ ii,ubs
espiere of the supposed begg r /<<ivanc ‘
ing near her.
“It is.” tf
“Does Maria speak th asked
Robespierre.
“ She does,” w r the brother 8 re “
ply.
“And you a- not de Nante9 -
“I tell you" am ber brother.”
“Why d* y° u bell us this be_
fore?”
t £ af empted to speak, but was si
lence^
£>ut you might have declared your
/’>
s ,i.
“You would not have believed me.’
“But your dress ?”
“It belongs to an aristocrat—perhaps
him for whum I was taken ”
Robespierre advanced close to young
Nantes, and gazed earnestly in bis face ;
then he approached Maria and looked
steadily into her eyes for a short time.
It was a mom nt of trial for the poor
girl She trembled in spite of all her
efforts to be ' aim. She almost felt that
she was lost, when the human fiena,
whose, word was law, turned and said :
“ Release the man.”
The chains were instantly removed,
and Antonia de Nantes walked down
from the scaffoli, followed by his sister,
while shouts rent the air, for they sup
posed he was a commoner who had thus
been saved.
The young man worked his way
through the crowd as rapidly as possi
ble, leading Maria. They scarcely es
caped it before the poor girl fainted
from the intensity of Per feelings. The
brother scarcely knew what to do, but
a hand was laid on his arm, and a voice
said :
“ Bring her to my room again; she
will be safe there.”
The brother conveyed her to the
apartment of the pauper, and asked of
her :
“ Have you seen this female be
fore ?”
“ Yes, I know all about her.” return
ed the pauper. “ She has done it, and I
glad.”
Before the noble Indy had returned
to consciousness the brother had learn
ed all. When she did so, they both
sought more secure quarters, after re
warding the beggar girl as promised.
“Bo you really think that Robespier
re was really deceived ?” asked Maria
de Nates.
“ I think not,” returned the broth
er.
“ Then why did he order your re
lease ?”
“ He saw your plan—admired your
courage. Could a fiend have done less ?”
“ Perhars it was the case ; but if so,
it was a deed of mercy, and the only
one that man ever did.”
“ You are right.”
Antonia de Nantes was not again ar
rested, and lived happily, with that sis-
ter who had so nobly perriled her own
life to. save him, by personating the
Beggar Girl of Paris.
An Horn* at th© Central Station
Court.
“Bub, what’s the matter ?” asked the
court.
“I fit J-Jirn,” sobbed the boy.
“When ?”
“Last n-i-te.”
“And where’s Jim ?”
“He got away.”
“And why didn’t you get away?”
“H-had a sore h-heel.”
“Was it much of a fight ?”
“\ r -yes, sir—l licked him.”
“What caused the fight ?”
/lie kicked my little b-brother.”
“My son —”
“Please your Honor I am not your
son.”
“There was onee a boy. He was a
good boy. He didn’t hook apples or puj
pins under anybody. His face was al
ways clean, his hair was slick! Ah he
was a jewel of a boy. He wouldn’t
cheat, lie, swear or fight. He went to
bed early, got up early, minded his
mother, and what do you think became
of him ?”
“Got run over by a buss,” sobbed
the boy.
“No, my son ; he got to be Governor
of Michigan. Will you promise to try
and be a governor ?”
“Yes,”
I • “And next time you’ll run rather
than fight ?”
“Y-yes, sir, if t l‘can,tget hold of a
club.
“He was told to go.
“Who‘s this ?“ asked the court, a* a
man of forty stood before the bar—
ty ragged, and outlandish in look and
dress., > - -
“Martin Henry Jackson,” was the
answer.
“Well, you are tbe meanest looking
oM vagrant I ever saw. You look as
if you. had slept with the hogs.”
“How can I help it ?” asked the fel
low. <■
“Hang it man, if I had but one fin
ger and one toe left I’d put in a better
appearance than you do or blow my head
eff.”
“1 hain’t any work and no m n
gy 5 f
“There you are, fat and •> 38
tbe head cook on a stea- '° d \ an
you loaf avound th- , ’
cores, sleep in sE , an , P ut U P. r
anything rat]/ 1 tban do a sf ° ° r °
work IwU could send U u U P * or
a tbonso J J ears -”
,^ v -at have I done?” ashed the old
vaf-‘nt
“ Nothing, nothing at all. That’s
what ails you. If you get in the "way
of a Bogardus kicker you’d be too lazy
to move. Oh !it makes me mad to see
anybody moping around like a sore
heeled dog when he might be some
body. I’ll chalk you for six months,
and if you don’t leave Detroit as soon
as your time is out I’ll buy a mule and
turn him loose on you.”
Bijah announced that the moment
had arrived for a painful separation un
til another morning,and the boys waited
for Martin and sang :
“ He’s rag-i and tags and fags,
He’s dirt from chin to lieel;
And if he had jumped off the dock
How happy we should feel.”
As Si was coming up town from th
Richmond Air-line Depot yesterday he
indulged in a little song all to himsele
Two other negroes passed by, aud one
of them shouted back :
“Fin up yeroder-lip old man, an stop
dat racket!”
“Who yer talkin ter ?” said Si,
stopping short and turning around.
“Talkin to you ; who yer tink I’m
talkin to, you old Guinea rooster
you ?”
“Yer don’t know me do yer?” said
Si.
“I don’t keer who you is;yun ain’t
no grand army ob de public no how 1”
‘ Look hyar I’m de mos discouregeous
nigger in dis Allanty city,‘an’ an’ I’ll
jis take dis hyar head an’ butt yer inter
de forepart ob Christmas week I will
“Youse a < 4 a—”
Just then Si took a run with head
bent down, and two seconds after there
was a sick nigger in the mud, wanting
nothing under heaven bnt a doctor.
And as Si went on, he remaaked over
his shoulder :
“I’m a bad nigger : alias wus ; wus
Dad fore do war bad all in de war bad
arter de war, I’m de loudes’ buttin nig
ger you read ’bout in books wid de leabs
all out and de kiver lost.
Tradition of the Deaths of the
Apostles. —Matthew is supposed to
have suffered martyrdom, or was slain
with the sword in a city of Ethiopia.
Mark was dragged through the streets
of Alexandria in Egypt, till he expired.
Luke was hanged on an olive tree in
Greece. John was puc into a cauldron
of burning oil at Rome and escaped
de*th. He afterwards died a
natural death at Ephesus in Asia
James the Great was beheaded in Je--
rusalem. James the Less was thrown
from a pinnacle or wing of a temple,and
then beaten to death with a fuller,s club
Philip was hanged up against a pillar,at
Hierapolis seity of Phrygia. Bartholo"
mew was flayed alive by the command
of a barbarous King. Andrew was
bound to a cross whence he preached to
the people till he expired Thomas was
run through the body with a lance at
Coromandel, in the East Indies. Jude
was shot to death with arrows. Simon
Zeloteswas crucified in Persia Mathias
was first stoned and then beheaded.
. “ THE NEW BOY.”
Graphic Pen Picture—M. Quad
in the Detroit Free Press.
He made his appearance at one of
the Union schools the other morning,
and, ariving ahead of time, he prevent
ed any scene of loneliness from siezing
him by licking three boys and riding
the gate off its hings. He went in with
the crowd when the bell rang, and find
ing no empty seat, he perched himself
on the wood box. When the children
repeated the “ Lord’s Prayer ” in con
. cert, tiia new -boy kept time with his
heel, and when they came to sing he ar
gued that Variety was the spice of song,
and attempted to sing one of his own—
one about a gentleman named Daneil
Tucker, who dreamed he was dead, and
so forth. Tho teacher warned him to
keep still, and he replied that he would
not come to that school if his musical
qualifications were to be overlooked. —
When school finally opened the teacher
secured his name and began asking him
questions in-order to find out how he
should be graded.
“Can you spell ?” she asked.
What kinl of spelling?” ho cau
tiously replied.
Spell * house/ if you please.”
“ Frame or brick house?” he asked.
“ Any kind of bouse.”
“With a mortgage on it.”
“You may spell ‘man’ if you will,”
she said giving him a severe look.
“Man ?”
“Yes.” >•
“I don’t care much about spelling
man this morning, but I will this after
noon. I’ve spelt it with my eyes shut ”
“Do you know your alphabet ?” she
asked, changing the subject.
“Never had any,” was the prorrpt re
p ] y-
“Do you know anything about read-
ing?”
“I read like lightning !” he an®
ed. . said :
She handed him a reader
“Let me hear you read ’
“Right out loud ?”
“Yes.” a disturb the cliil
“l’m a fra 5 / 1
Jren /o on ?,>' me hear you read.”
jq 0 i oo ied carefully at the page,
scowl’d ‘lis brow and read :
nf I was a lame boy and didn’t get
any peanuts in my stockins Christmas,
dam my eyes ! but I’d make things
jump around that house next morn-
ing !”
lie handed the book back and the
teacher asked :
“ Richard, how many are three and
three ?”
“Three and three what?” he inquir
ed.
“Anything.”
“It’s is a good deal according to what
it is,” he replied as he settled back.—
“I know that three and three cats don’t
make a dog !”
“Did you ever study geography, Rich
ard ?”
“Yes, m*m ”
“What is geography ?”
“It’s a book.”
“ Is this world round or flat?”
“Hills and hollows !” he replied.
“Richard can you wr : to !”
“Wr>te what ?”
“Can you write your name ?”
“Yes, I could, but I’ve got my name
'vithout vriting it.”
“Can you write a letter ?”
“Who to?”
“To any one.”
“Yes, I could, if I had the money to
pay the postage.”
“Well Richard,” she said, in despair,
“you’ll have to go into the lower room
if you want to come to school here.”
“I’ll bet you this knife again ten
cents I can.”
She took him by the arm to remove
him, but he laid bis hand on her shoul
der and said in a warning voice :
“Don’t get me mad. now. or I’ll let
myself loose. .
She called the principal down, and
as he approached the boy, he command
ed :
‘ ‘ Roy, what are you doing here ?
“ Gitting edienshun, replied Richard
“l 7 ou go right down stairs now ! con
tinued the principal.
“Well, don’t sass me for I never
was here before! replied Richard slow
ly moving his legs as he meant to get
down.
The principal took him by the collar
and jerked him around, got bitten on
the wrist, and finally landed the young
student on the walk.
“Now go home ! he shouted as he
tried to recover his breath.
“Am I educated ? inquired Richard
“You seem to be.
“Gimme a diploma then.
“You clear out or* I’ll have you arr
rested.
“Hain’t Ia scholar in this school no
loner ?
“No sir.
“Who owns this school-house? de
manded the boy.
“No matter; you clear out.
“Will you com 3 cut in the yard here
where you can not hang to anything?
asked the boy
“ Begone, I say.
“ D > not draw any darringer on me
warned the boy, as he backed off; “nor
do not think yoi can can scare me with
any of your bowie knives.
The principal walked in and shut the
door, and after the new boy had stood
there long enough to show that he was
not afraid, he turned and walked afl
growling to himself:
“I will git the foreman of No 6 to
pound that feller afore ho ts a week ol
der.
In Advance.
NO. 22.
‘ileve themselves from all temptation to
i dulge in it. It is a low, fiivo ous,
and too often a dirty business. lncre
are country neighborhoods in which it.
rages like a pest. ( hurches are sp it
in pieces by it. Neighbors are ma e
enemies by it. It degenerates into a
chronic disease which is practically in
curable. Let the young cure it wlulo
they may.
Women are at a discount where there
is no civilization. Thus it is a
ous fact that among the natives of A
rica the fair sex is more honored in tho
respect which is sherwn to the cow than
in that which the heaven-sent compan
ion of man elicits there. Women have
nothing to complain of in tins on the
score of sex, but may fairly insist that
the particular members of the r sex
chosen for special honor should be of
their own species. The superior respect
accorded to cows too is entirely at vari
ance with the spirit of modern intelli
gence ; and until the mon of Africa re
verses the present distinction agains •
the wives of their bosoms, in favor of
those who hold a less intimate relation
with them there can be no favorable re
sult of missionary enterprise. Ihe dif
ference is merely a zoological one tho
difference between a cow and a horse.
It is exceedingly difficult for the mis
sionary to persuade a true disciple of
Mohammed that he should degrade his
horse in a position in his family inferi
or to that of a wife ; far more difficult,
in fact, than to convince a native Afri
can that he has transposed the proper
relative position of the mother of his
children and her too successful rival,
the mother of his calves. In changing -
his field of effort, indeed, from the sav
ge stupidity of the negro raco to tho
keen intelligence of the Arabic race,
the missionary finds himself further
from, rather than nearer to, the high
est civillization
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A Cure lor Gossip.
The following from tin Hartford
Evening Post we commend to all.—
Gossip is one of the greatest social
evils and ought to bo corrected to the
greatest possible degree :
What is the cure for gossip ? Sim
ply culture. There is a great deal of
gossip that has no malignity in it.—-
Good natured people talk about their
neighbors because they have nothing
else to talk about. As we write there
comes to U 9 a picturj .of a family of
ladies. We have Seen t hem at
home ; we have seen them in the gal
leries of art; we have caught glimpses*
of them going from bookstore or library,,
with a fresh volumo in their hands
When w r e meet them they are full of
what they have seen and read. 1 hey
are brimming with questions. One
topic of conversation is dropped only
to give place to another iu which they
are interested. We havo left them,'
after a delightful hour, stimulated and
refreshed, and during the whole hour
not a neighbor’s garment was soiled by
so much as a touch. They knew some
thing, and wanted to know more.
They could listen as well as they could
talk. To speak freely of a neighbor s
doings and belongings would haver
seemed an impertinence to them, and
of course, an impropriety. They had
no temptation to gossip, because *
doings of their neighbors formed aa *
ject very much less interest*
those which grow out of A 1 118 c .
edge and their culture ‘ S OBB, P.
the whole story. T ,ous or ignoran .
is always either iee '- 3 a c ange o
The one vainer a change of- pas
heart, andt> always a personal con
lure. filer of malice or imbecility,
fessie young should not only 9hur it,
arby the most thorough culture re-
Bespect for Women.
It is not prosperity so much as ad
versity, not wealth so much as poverty,
that stimulates the perseverance of
strong an t healthy natures, rouses tlrcir
energy and develops their character.
Burke said of himself: ‘ I was not
rocked and swaddled and dandled into
a legislator. Nitor ih adversum is the
Motto of a man like you. Some men
only require a great difficulty set in
their way to exhibit the force of theii
character and genius ; and hat difficulty,
once conquered, becomes one of the
greatest incentives to their farther pro*
gress. It is a mistake to suppose dhat'
men succeed through success; they
much oftener succeed through failure.
By far the best- experience of men .is,
made up of their remembered failure
in dealing with others in the affairs ot
life. Such failures, in sensible men,
incite to better self management, and
greater tact and self control, as a menus
of avoiding them in the future. Ask
the diplomatist, and he will tellyouXhai
he has learned his art through being
baffled, defeated, thwarted, and circum
vented, far more than from having
succeeded, l'recept, study, advice, and
example could never have taught them
so well as failure lws done. It has
disciplined them experimentally, and
taught them what to do as well as what
)iot to and is olteu still mors
important in diplomacy.
A jailor in a W estem State had -
received strict order not to keep his
prisnoners in solitary confinement. —
Once when he had two in charge one
escaped, and he was obliged to kick the
other out of the door to comply with the
regulations.
| With men the heart is k r josFi hy orr
words ; but with God oiifv
weighed by our hearts >