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CALHOUN TIMES >. > . ' . / • ..• P. n. FREEMAN, Proprietor. f IN GordoiFatM Adjoining Counties. Office: Wall St., Southwest of Court riouse l RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION. One Year $2.00 Six Months 00 iX;utro;ul jjcftefluU. Western & Atlantic Railroad AND ITS CONNECTIONS. ‘ ‘ KE2TIFESA W RO VTE.” The following takes effect may 23d, 1875 NORTHWARD. No. 1. Leave Atlanta 4.10 p.m Arrive Cartersville. 6.14 •* Kingston 6.42 “ “ Dalton 8.24 “ “ Chattanooga 10.25 “ No. 3 Leave Atlanta 7.00 a.m Arrive (Jartersviile 9.22 “ Kingston • < “ Dalton .....11.54 “ Chattanooga ...c.. No.jLl. Leave Atlanta p.-jj ArriveCartcrstille 7.10..“ “ Kingston/.. 8/21 u “ Dalton 11.18 “ SOUTHWARD. No. 2. Leave Chattanooga 4.00 p.m Arrive Dalton 5.41 “ “ Kingston 7.28 “ “ Cartersville 8.12 “ “ Atlanta 10.15 “ No. 4. Leave Chattanooga 5.00 a.m Arrive Dalton 7.01 << “ Kingston 9,07 “ “ Cartersville 9.42 “ “ Atlanta 12 00p.m No. 12. Leave Dalton 1.00 a.m Arrive Kingston 4.19 *• “ Cartersville 5.18 “ “ Atlanta 9.20 “ Pullman Palace Oars run on Nos 1 and 2 between New Orleans and Baltimore. Cullman Palace Cars run on Nos. 1 and 4 between Atlanta and Nashville. Pullman Palace Cars run on Nos. 2 and 3 bit ween Louisville and Atlanta. No change of cars between New Or leans, Mobile, Montgomery, Atlanta and Baltimore, and only one change to Ncv. 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 resoits. 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 send fur a copy cf the Ivennesaw Route Gazette, containing schedules, etc. Ask Tor Tickets * ; a “Ivennesaw Route.” - B. W. WRENN. *- (VP. &T. A., Atlanta, Ga. T - *oii ■■ - ■ *f—/ Change cf Schedule. ON TIIEJgEORGTA AND MACON‘AND AWfrsTA railroads: ON AND AFT Eli NUN DAY, JUNE 28tii, 1871, th(? I’assenger 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 at 7:00 a m Arrive in Augusta at 3:30 p m Arrive in Atlanta at..., 5:45 p m Xiggt Passenger Tram. Leave Augusta at 8:15 p m Leave Atlanta at 10:80 p m Arrive in Augusta at 8:15 a m Arrive in Atlanta at 6:22 a m MACON AND AUGUSTA RAILROAD. Macon Passenger Train. Leave Augusta at 0n...10:45 a in Leave Camak at 2:15 p m Arrive at Macon at Cc4o p m Leave Macon at 6:30 a m Arrive at Camak at 10:45 a m Arrive at Mugusta at 2:00 p m BERZELIA PASSENGER TRAIN. Leave Augusta at 4;15 p m Leave Berzelia at 8:80 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 ..ny point on the Georgia Rail road and Branches, by taking the Day Pas senger Train, will make- lose connection at Camak with trains for .Macon and all points beyond. Pullman's (First-Class) Palace sleepin Cars on all Night Passenger Trains on h Georgia Railroad. S. K. JOHNSON, Superintendent , Superintendent's Office Georgia and Macon and Augusta Railroads, Augusta, June 29, 1874, grofessiiamU gusuK.cs (Tanb. J| K. MAIN, MU i>. PRACTICING PHYSICIAN. Having permanently located in Calhoun, offers his professional services to the pub lic. Will attend all calls when not profes sionally engaged. Otifce at the Calhoun Hotel. Special ISTotice. MISS HUDGINS can now befound 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 se<\ Mrs. Mills is receiving a full stock of millinery and fancy notions, latest styles felt, straw and velvet hats, cloaks -aeks and wraps in endless variety. Everything necessary kept for ladies’ outfit. [sep29-7m. Attention ! pIE lynlorsigntjd have themselves L at the Mims Tati-yard, up ,the Loft’s bridge ro(d, ryiles frpm C.alhoun, for the purpose of carrying on THE TANNINS BUSINESS. They are prepared to receive liidos "to tan °n shares, or will exchange leather .or Hi<les. They bind themselves to prepare leather in workmanlike style. WM. HUNTER & SON. September 14, 11?75.’2m. " Two Dollars a Year. YOU. YI. gpsrcUaaeous. CHEAPEST ASH BEST! I lOWARII IIIDIUI II (BBT! MANUFACTURED. NEAR KINGSTON, BARTOW COUNTY, GEORGIA. Equal to the best impOrted-Portland Cement. Send' for Circular. Try this before buying elsewhere. Refer by permission to Mr. A. J. West, President of Cherokee Iron Company, Polk county, Georgia, who lias built a splendid dam across Cedar Creek, using this cemcnl, and pronouncing it the besi he ever used. Also refer to Messrs. Smith, Son & Bro., J. E. Veal, F. I. Stone. J. J. Cohen and Major Tom Berry, Rome, Georgia,,Major H. Bry an, of Savannah, T. C. Douglas, Superin tendent of Masonry, East River Bridge, New York, Gen. Win. Mcßae, Superintend ent W. & A. Railroad, Capt, J. Postell, C. E. Address G, H. WARING, Kingston, Ga octl3l y. Hygienic Institute ! j" IF YOU would enjoy the ('ID 1 HID | ,nost delightful luxury ; if llel I Yla lyou would be speedily,cheap- Uiljilil!/ ly, 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 aid Fever, or other Malarial Affections ; if you would be purified from all Poisons,whether from Drugs or Disease; if you would (mini/. have Beauty, Health and § | I* 3 jj\ IS!; Long Life, go to the Dygien -1 Umi j c institute,and use Nature’s Great Remedies,the Turkish Bath, the “ Water-cure Pro cesses,” tic “ Movement jcure,” Electricity and other Hygienic agents, is wonderful—curing all cu rable cases. If not able to go and take board, send full account of yqur case, and get directions'for treatment at homo. Terms ■file. Location,corner Loyd t aiyl Wall opposite R 4 | Fawem/tf Depot, Atlanta' U N Ga. .A A-a 9 j j NC g-' A ixBACK Wilson, I Physician-in-Charge. Awarded the Highest Medal at Vienna. E. & 11. T ANTHONY & €O.. 591 Broadway, New York. (Opp. Metropolitan Betel.) Manufacturers, importers & Deal ers in CHRGMO3 AND FRAMES, Stereoscopes and Views, Albums, Graphoscopes an 1 suitable views, Photographic Materials, We are Headquarters for everything in the way of Stercoscopticons and Magic Lanterns. Being manufacturers of tlie Micro-Scientific Lantern, Stereo-Pi t noptico n, Lit ioersity-Stercoscopticon, Advcitiscr’s Stereoscojpticon , A r topi icon, School Lantern , Family Lantern , People s Lantern. Each.style being the best of its class in the market. Catalogues of Lanterns and Slides with directions for using sent on application. Any enterprising man can make money with a magic lantern. &?Jf“Cutout this advertisement for refer- sep29-0m Brick-Layer & Contractor. mi IE undersigned most respectfully begs j leave to inform the citizens of Calhoun and surrounding country that, having pro cured the aid of Mr. Hiiburn as a number one bricklayer and Barrey O'Fallou 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 pat ronage of the public generally solicited. HENRY M. BILLHIMER. Calhoun, Ga., November 9, 1875. All orders addressed to me as above will receive prompt attention. novlO-ly ‘TL M, EJXjXjXfiT UViiilV St SALE STABLE. &£ 532 Good Saddle and Buggy Horse? and New Vehicles. Horses and mules for sale. Stock fed and cared for. Charges will be reasonable, * Will p-y the cash for corn in :he?ear and °od<ier.fh the,-bundle. * febo-tE . ATTITAUAQ H for Boxrnakers: NgwsPM'** MlhshejpSid lea .Stores, will *#cdeplete simply. Our new and brflfiant specialties arlUnequalled. Our 9xll mounted Chvomos outsell any thing’uuthe market. Twelve samples lor d-1.00 ; one hundred for SO.OO. Illustrated Catalogue' free. J. Latham & Cos Wa.hing.onSt., liostou, M*m. 21u4. CALHOUN, GA., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 2G, 187 G. YES OR NO. Shull I answer him Yes or answer him No, Br’ght stars, when he comes to-night, With his pleading voice, and his eyes aglow With the fervor of love’s soft light ? Pale moon, with your slivery bow, Pray, listen, and guide me aright; Shall I answer him Yes or answer him No When Le pleads for my love to-night? . winds, with your musical song, 0, hark to my cry ere you go! He has loved me so truly and lowed me solong Shall I answer him Yes or No ? Sweet roses, with bosoms of snow, Unveiled to the soft moonlight, Shall I answer him Yes, or answer him No, When we pause by your side to-mght ? Shy heart, with your tremulous sigh, And seciet none other may know, Now tell me truly here under the sky, Shall I answer him Yes or No ? Ah! his step on the sea-washed shore Has set all my pulses aglow, And I think, shy heart, 1 can waver rto more, And will answer him Yes—not No. FAMILY vs. COMPANY. “It isYiTHy,' wife !” exclaimed Mr. Jotharn .Souies, a matter of fact, plain spoken sort of man, to his wife. “There you have got no less than four kinds of cake, three kinds of pies, two kinds of preserves, to say nothing of knick knacks an gim cracks.” The fact was that Mrs. Somes was having the minister and two grown up daughters to take tea with her. She had been engaged for three days in preparations, and such a display of nice things was calculated to astonish the minister and his family—to give them a two fold surprise, first at the variety and extent of her culinary resources, and secondly at her folly in attempting to make a display far beyond her means The Somes’ were in comfortable cir cumstances. Mr. Somes was a farmer, and probably his income might have amounted to four hundred dollars per annum. M s. Somes was a ppudent*, careful housewife, who wasted no more of her culinary skill upon her own family than was absolutely necessary. But slid des lighted in making a grand appearance when she had company. Mr. Somes and the bo\s were sometimes so ill na tured as to growl at her careful cater ing, when the house contained no com pany ; at;d it cut them to the Kone tpee such fxtraordiuary preparations for the .neighbors. It was “.Kiss the cook,” vfhen they were alone, hut the table fairly gfoarmd wifch plenty her were guests Mr.. Jotharn Somes had just come from the sitting room where the table with all its tempting array of viands was spread. He did not like it a bit, and F.fter passing the time of day with the parson and his family, he proceeded to the kitchen where his wife was just taking the biscuit out of the oven. “ What do you mean by folly, I should like to know 1” replied Mrs Jotharn Somes, somewhat tartly. She was a second wife, and having been redeemed from one of the? ad vanced states of maidenhood her tern* per had grown a little sour before she became a wife. '•The lolly of setting such a table as you have yours,” replied the husband. “I should think you were going to have the President and the royal family* to take tea with you.” ‘‘l am going to have the Rev. Mr. Meeklie and his family.” “I will take care of my business, if you will of yours,” returned the lady slamming the open door. “Perhaps this is not my business.” “No ! I’m sure it is not.” ‘<\V*ho pays for them gew-gaws aud gim-cracks V’ “You do of course ” “Rut it : s none of my business ?” “No ! I never thought before you were so confounded mean !” said the lady, her face reddening with anger. “ Mean ? I am not mean ! Rut when you get,victuals for your own family, you think almost anything is good enough for them. We never see any pies and cake and knick-knacks.” ‘ Do you think I’m going to make pies and cakes for the men folks to eat every day ?” retorted the indignant housekeep er. “Thea don’t do it for company. — What is good enough for me is as good as I can afford to give my visit ors.” “I really believe if you had your own way, you would have me as mean with company as the Smiths.” “The Smiths are as good folks and as liberal as any in town ; and I’ll waraant ; Parson Meeklie thinks a heap more of them than he does of you with all y>ur four kinds of cake.” “You are a fool, Mr. Somes !” “1 am fool enough to know that folks axe not judged by the quantity of sweet cake they put upon the table when they had company. I repent it ; there are no better folks in towu than the Smiths.” “I s’pose not; but they had nothing but cold biscuit and molasses ginger bread when we took tea there.” “ That’s as good as they can afford ; but it *is no better than tlyev have every day, aud 1 admire their dpflepen dence.” “They’re contemptible mean folks, there I” ’ ‘‘Why ? Because they do not attempt to make folks' believe they live better than they do ? For my part, 1 don’t think it is any better than hypocrisy to make such a parade of victuals as you do especially when it is hard work for me and the, boys to get a decent meal of victuals,” “Did anybody ever hear the like V Truth Conquers .All Xliuigs.'’ groaned the lady, who nad by this time arrived at that pitch of excitement, when tears are more, effective than words. . “Perhaps they never did ; but if I ever see anything of this sort again, they will be very likely to hear of it,” replied Mr, Somes, tjirqwin_' off his blue frock, aad commencing his prepa rations for taking tea with the miuister. The plate of hot buiscuit was plac ed in the midst of the profusion of fan cy eatables with which the fable was crowded. The minister and his family were duly seated, and the ceremony was proceeding deecently and in order. Mrs. Somes had not wholey recovered from the excitement of the interview in the kitchen, and her hand trembled slightly as she ? handed Mrs. Meeklie her tea. Mr. Somes had donned his best blue coat with brass buttons, which had done duty as Sun day garment for the past fifteen years. lie seemed to be somewhat uneasy, and though he and the minister had al ways been oti 4he best of terYp%his an swers were too short’and crusty Tor a courteous host-. “Won’t you pass' the biscuit to Mrs. Meeklie, husband ?” said Mrs. Souies with her. sweetest smile, albeit not very sweet at- that. Mr. Somes did pass the buiscuit to Mrs. Meeklie, and she took one; but when he passed them to Mr. Meek lie he smilingly declined. “No, I thank you, Mr Somes; I nev er eat hot bread. It does not agree with mo,” he said. Mrs. Somes passed the cold'bread, thinking all the time how very uncivil it was in the parson to refuse the hot buiscuit she had takeson much pains to prepare. But Mr. Meeklie was very respectful to his stomach ; for h 5 found .jvfien in sulted and imposed upon, that it 'was tyianiual and disagrß#bk J and he paid more deference, to digest iVQ organs than he did to the%elings of his vain* parishioners. ‘ 4 ' • “ iNIy biscuit are not very nice 4 )’ I did not have as good luek us I generally do,” suggested Mrs. gomes. “Mrs. Meeklie, take a second cake ?” “Better!” interposed Mr. Routes. The lady looked at him with very ev ident marks of displeasure. “Take a little of this quince preserve, Mris Meeklie. ‘I dare say it is not so nice as your mother makes ; but the truth is—” “’lt has stood too long,” interrupted Mr., Somes. “The jar has not been opened since you were here last fall.” Mrs. Somes looked daggers; hut the parson very considerately asked Mr. Souies whether he had done planting, just at tiiat moment, anu tier anger* evaporated without any unpleasant ef fects. “ husband, won’t you pass this cake to Mr. Meeklie ?” “Thank you Mrs. Somes, I never eat cake Your Dread is very good. I will thank you for some mare.” “ Really, Mr. Meeklie, you will take some of this cake ? It is not rich ; there is very little butter in it.” “Not any thank you; I never eat cake, unless it he something very sim ple, such as gingerbread, or molasses cake.” What a calamity! Four kinds of cake and the parson wouldn’t touch one of them. “But you will take some of these jumbles; I made them on purpose for you.” “ That’s a fact, Mr. Meeklie,” added Mr. B'ouies, maliciously. IJe wuuid further have added that his wife never made pies and cakes for her family, but he was afraid of fright ening the parson. “You must excuse me. I doubt not they are very nice, but I have to be very ©artful.” t , t Mrs'. Meeklie and hemtw.o.grown up daughters were more courteous, and each uibbled a small bit of the rich pound cake,; but they seemed to do it against their consciences and against their better judgment. The trutn was they felt embarrassed by the extraordinary display Mrs. Somes had made. They did nut feel at homel. The whole affair was too and artificia to be enjoyed, and at an early hour the whole party withdrew, mentally deter mined to make it a long time before they took tea with Mrs. Somes again. “ Wife, where is the piece of meat I sent home for dinner ?” asked Farmer Somes, as he aud the boys came in for their noonday meal, on the day follow ing the tea-party. The farmer glanced inquiringly at the tabic, which was spread before him. Involuntarily his nasal organ contract ed longitudinally!; it would not be po lite to say he “ turned up his nose,” though was the fact, buyoud the possibility of deuial. Farmer Safes was not in any sfense tTn epicure. He liked a plain* substantial diet, that which was good, and enough of it. as he foreiMy expressed his ideas of table economy. Lest the reader should suppose he was one of those gouty, ill-natured “ feeders,” who would grumble at the ambrosia and nectar of the gods we, deem it necessary to particularize the articles on the board of the lady, who placed four kinds of cuke before compa "J Ceitainly there was variety enoug 1 ' to satisfy the most fickle taste. On a broken plate—the best dishes were re* ligiously reserved for the use of compa ny —was the half of one sausage 'and two~thirds of another, making one sau sage and oue-sixth, all told. They were partially embedded in a petrified | sea of suspicious looking fat, and alto gether,, the aspect of the flish, was sin gularly foreboding.’ On a white plate with a long black tract ure extending quite across it, lay in an aggregated mass, three dozen bakeu beans, and infinitesimal fragments ol a pork rind. This n as an antiquity i armor Somes and the boys had a verv distinct rememberanco of having seen this dish every day dating- the fort uightt; proving that Mrs. not only one of* thb most economical, but one of thb most'obstinate dames in thcuworld. The farmer and the boys had virtually said they would not eat these same'beans; and Mrs. Somes virtually said they should. On ! a worn-out blue plate, superanna ted, and “nicked” in a thousand places were four pork bones, looking as though they had been preyed upon by that army of mice vhich Whit tington’s cat destroyed. These bones had- seen service during the past tw.efve days. The joint of which they were the disinterigated members, had graced the table just oue fortnight before. - • There 'ware sundry ether articles, an tique, old-fashioned “ tidbits,” which might have been set before Noah and lus friends in the ark. Six long red potatoes, unpeeled, even unsprouted, completed the array of edibles, orna mental and substantial. The farmer's nose contracted, as be fore related. “ Where is the meat I sent home ?” “ Hanging in the well.” “ Hadn’t we better eat it ?” “ I want it for company next Sun day.” “The—ahem ! Company again ?” “I expect|my brother will dine with us then, and I want something fit to set ~ before him.” •Mrs. Somes looked sulky. “And you mean to starve me and the *bys in the meantime ?” - “Jishouid like to kaiow if there is not 'onCugk four sbe uama point ing to the table. .Farmer Somes turned up his nose. “Did I ever refuse to buy victuals when yon wanted it ?” Laid he rather sternly. “Not that I know of; but I didn’t suppose you wanted to buy fresh meat every day,” returned the wife sourly.— “I am sure I try to be as economical as I can.” “Four kinds of cake, which nobody would touch I suppose is prudent, ain’t it?” “Ah, good morning, Mr. Somes, I am gkd to find you at home,” said Mr. Meeklie, walking into the room unan nounced. Good gr&cions! the minister, and with such a table as that spread before their family 1 What a commentary on four kinds of cake for company. Mrs. Somes was all confusion. — Though the parson intended to look at the farjjger, she could jee that more than once his eyes wandered over the table. “Glad to see you, parson ; sit down and take some dinner with us,” said Mr. Somes shaking the minister’s offers ed hand. “Thank you, I don’t care if I do,” re plied Mr. Meeklie. “I have a long walk to take before I return home.” Farmer Somes was pointing: him to a chair, when the lady interposed. “We have got a piqked-up dinner to day. Husband sent home a joint of veal, hut it didn’t get here until half after eleven so I had no time to cook it.” “Got here by eight o’clock,” said Farmer Somes ; no fibs to the parson.” “But if you will wa t a few moments — “Sit down parson ; it is every d-*y fare, but then what is good enough for me is good enough for my friends.” “flight, Mr. Somes,” replied the min ister, drawing up his chair. My busi ness rebates to the new bell for the meeting-house. I am carrying round a subscription paper.” “I am with you parson,” Farmer Somes wejs in a most malicious good-humor, and wi t.h a bruid laugh pu his honest phiz, he opened the paper the minister gave him. “Smith, twenty dollars.” ‘Twenty dollars 1” exclaimed Mrs Somes I should not think he could af-. ford it.’ “lie gives Ills friends nothing but gingerbread,” said the farmer. “Put me down for thirty • we have four kinds of cake.” The parson consumed one “ long red,” and of the vulgar fractions of a cold sausage. He preferred brown brc-ad or white, and would not touch any of the pie which the prudent house wife sat before him. T Mrs. Somes was awfully mortifiei. Her reputation was sacrificed,and Farm er Somes never again had occasion to i?nd fault with her for making a vai . ‘show of three kinds of pies, two kinds of p”elerves, and four kinds of cake. w if t J 0 ; , .*• The more quietly and peaceably we all get on the better —the bettcj for our neighbors and ourselves. In nine cases out often ‘he wisest policy is, if a man cheats you, quit dealing with hiua ; if ne is abusive, quit his company ; if he slanders you. take care to live if that no body will believe him. “If you marry,” said a Roman consul to his son, “ let it be a woman who has judgeMreht enough t© superintend the getting of a meal Af victuals, taste enough to'd hiss herself, pride enough to wash before brehkfast and sense to hold her tongue when she has noth ing to say.” The lilt lie People of the Sea. The latest investigations into deep sea life show that the va,<t area lying beneath the ocean is covered with a sim ple animal life, boundless in extent arid infinite in variety. Under conditions too rigid to permit the growth of the humblest seaweed, these creatures live, and multiply, and die. Far beyond the reach of light in a glacial temperature and under an enormous pressure, exists this wonderful pressure, exists this won derful fauna. As we strip the mystery of vitality, of garment after garment, as it conditions become fewer and ittf mode of existing less complex , the won der instead of becoming less contstantly grows upon the mind. The human ins tellect longs to find a commensurate physicl cause for the effect which we call life. When, as in the higher or ganic beings, the conditions are many and the processes are complicated, the phenomenon of viality does not seem so puzzling; antecedent seems to bear a sort of proportion to consequence. The mind really troubles itsMf to make nice distinctions between compliea ed ma chinery and motive-power. A liberal display;of wheel-work adequate to ac count for results without any reference' to initial force, lint as we contemplate the life of protozoa, which reign su preme in the ocean’s depths* wo see the awful and mysterious promblem present ed in its simplest terms ; forms of ex istence which are formless, organisms possessing no orgaus, life contradicting the very definitions of life and yet per forming all its essential functions. The conditions, complex atm uititudinous, under which we live, are acre reduced to two or three ; the elements, many and bewildering, which enter into the ordinary statements of the problem, and here eliminated,and yet we ure*ferced to recognize the very vital principal giv ing functional activity to a mass oi’ structureless jelly which animates the" highest organic beings. When we sec tbit, formless life <rov erned by laws, each in itself as inexor able as that which guides the rolling planets, and all thoif -various combina tions’as flexible as those which control our human existence, -we feel the sense of awe which a whisper from the un seen world might send thrilling through our nerves. We are standing face to face with life stripped of its familiar conditions. It looks us in the eyes as the disembodied ghosts of the dead to us.— Scribner , for November. Siive Bat S*ocj4Ct-isolk. A negro planter came up to Vicks burg, the other cfay, sojd his Cotton, put his money in his pocket book and started down the liver. Leaning too far over the guards as the boat backed out he fell overboard. His portemon naie, which was in his side rocket, float ed out and rode with hits hat on the surface of the water, while the cur rent carried the negrcr away. The yawi was lowered, assisted at’ once started to wards the drowning man, who perceived his treasure floating off, raised his voice and shouted : “Save dat pocketybook.” llis head went under and ho disap peared. As he rose up agon, he gasy ed : * “Bar’s sllß In dat pocket-book.” Scarcely *had he uttered the words before he sank a second time. The yawl came witiiin reach just in time to rescue the drowning African as he came to the surface for the last time. As soon as the water was wiped from his nose and mouth so that he could speak and see, he asked : “Did—did you save dat pocket - book r “No!” was the response. “Well, den,” said the negro, regret ful'y."“what de debbil was the use ob savin’ me^?’’ — Vicksburg Herald. M©m as Levers. In the first place it is. an imposition on any well girl to keep hes. up- later than, half ppst ten whefi you bave the opportunity of seeing her often. If you always leave her with the wish in her heart that you had staid longer, you ga n so much. Never run the risk of wearying her with your presence. Be just as earnest and straightforward as in your bouora h!e dealing with men. Impress your friends with the worthiness and serious ness of your love, so that the vulgar and senseless bantering will -appear to them as such. Love is religion—the supremc-t happiness ; wear it manfully ind proudly, but hulily. Woo a v.oiurn bravely. If there is anything humilia ting to a woman it is to have a lover whom she wishes to honor weak and vapid, even yielding, and half afraid of her. She Jongs to tell him to “ act like a man 1” The man who conceals or denies his love for fear of being laughed aI, is a coward. A love that has no element or divinity in-itMs not love, buu passion, which of itself, nothing ennobliug. That was a beautiful inscription on an engagement ring. “ Each for the other, and both for God.” Some one —we don,t know who— gives she following exco’leDt advice. It is worth following : “Maybe you are a bachelor, frosty and forty. Then, poor fellow ! Saturday night’s nothing to you, just as you are nothing to any body. Get a wife blue-eyed or black-eyed, but above ail true-eyed, Get a little home, n<> matter how little, and a sofa just to hold two or two and a half in it of a Saturday night, and then read this paragraph by the light of your wife’s eyes and thank God and take eourage. In Idyance. NO. 23. Kates of Advertising. fj'iy*’ For each square of ton lines or less for the first insertion, §l, and for each sub sequent insertion, fifty cents. Nndftq rs | 1 Mo. f 3 Alos. j b Meg I 1 year.* two si 2.b<7 i Four “ 6.00 10.00 18.00 35.00 ; J column 9. 16.00 26.00 40.00 I ’ “ 1 13-00 25.00 40.(X) 05.00 1 m f 25.1*0 40-00 65.00 115.00 Sheriff’s Sales, each levy $4 00 Application for Homestead 2 30 Notice to Debtors and Creditors 4 00 Land Sales, one square 4 OO Each additional square 3 00 Lekp-tear, or Bissextile. The Leap Year originated with the astronomers f-Julius Caesar, 45 B. 0.. They fixed the solar year at 305 days G days comprising as they thought, the period from one vernal equinox to an other ; the six hours were set' aside, and at the end of four years forming a day, the fourth year was made to*con-i sist of 366 days. The day thus' added Was called intercalary, end was added, to February. This almost perfect ar-, rangcuient was denominated the. Julian style, and prevailed th<? difistifln world till the time of Bopo Gregory NIIF, in 1582, when Site cal- , sndar wax altered to its present state. The difference between 365 days, 6. hours, and 365 days, 5 hours. 48 mixjs. utes, 51 seconds and 6 decimals, which last is the true length of the astronom ical year, in the course, years, caused 1700 and 1808 not to bo leap years, nor will 1900 be a but the year 2000 will be one. [Note!,. —There ii no time like the present.-r* 2000 minus 1876 equals 1124 years, and we wouldn’t advise any of our lady friends to let their chances slip by Airti 1 A. D, 2000 rolls around. Here is a sample of actual occurs rence in Washington Market, having, been overheard by a friend, whom it pleased so much he took it down at the time : •My colored friend, George-Edward Fitz-Augustus, walked up to the wagon of a fat countryman, and, after peering for some time at his stock, inquired : “Arft dose good talers ?” “les, sir,” responded the country man. ‘*A tater,” resumed George-Edward Fitz-Augustus, “is inevitably bad un* less it is inwaribly good. Dere is no medocracy in de combination ob a tater. may appear remarkably ex emplary aud beautesome, while de inte non is totally negative. But sir, if you wends de artical on your own ceroi* mendation, knowing you to be ? man ob •probability in your transactions, I, wid out any farder circumolotion, takes a bushel ob dat superior wegetable.” Effect of Liquor on the Brain. Long before the era of temperance ordinances and oiganizitions, Hyrti, by far the greatest anatomist of the ago, used to say that ho could distinguish, in the darkest room, by one stroke of the scalpe.J the brain of the inebriate from that of the man who lived soberly. Now and then he would congratulate his class upon the possession of a drunk ard’s brain, admirably fitted, from its hard if ess and more complete preserva tion, for the purpose of demonstration. When the anatomist wishes to preserve a human brain for any length of time, effects that object by keeping that or gan in a vessel of alcohol. From a soft, pulpy substance it then becomes com paratvely hard ; and so, too, before death, the use of alcohol causes the in undation of the delicate gossamcr-liko tissues.' In the most primitive day it was re cognized as a truth that in order to do business a merchant must be known.— fhe first effort consisted in selecting a store in a thoroughfare and putting up an attractive sign. These methods, were effective only in attracting the attention of passers by, with the-growth of journalism, a merchant was for the first time enabled to address an audience not only in his own vicinity, but at all points from which trade could be at tracted ; so that a card in a newspaper became the most effective salesman, who said precisely the right thing in the best manner, and whose activity could not be measured. A card in the news paper of to day is a missionary a year hence. VfiiAT I Like to See.—l like to see people know more about other peo ple’s business than others know them selves. Good citizens. I l ike to see people run their heads out of she window to gnpe at people passing by. Good breeding/ I like to see people peddling news about town instead of minding their own business. Easy times. I like to see persons filling up the 1 rath so that ladies have to walk round in the mud. Gallantry. And so on, ad infinitum. Have you ever watched an icicle as it is formed ? You notice how it froze one drop at a time, until it was a foot long or more. If the water was dean’ the icicle sparkled in the sun, but if the water was slightly muddy the ici cle looked foul, and its beauty spoiled. Just so our characters are forming.— One little thought or feeling at a time adds its influence. If every thought be pure and right, the soul will be lov■> ly, and sparkle with happiness ; but if impure and wrong, there is wretched ness. One hundred Georgia newspapers and seven Georgia grand juries want a shortening of criminal trials on the score of economy • good wagon roads; a dog law, as a protection of sheep ing; and consolidation of county offices, for the purpose of effecting economy in public expenditures. The latter propo sition is one seriously to be’ considered by statesmen, as is also an additional one to consolidate weak counties ly.— N. Y. Herald. — Leasx to say no pleasantly, but firmly.