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CALHOUN TIMES
I>. 3. FREEMAN, Proprietor v
CIRCULATES EXTENSIVELY IN
Gordon and Adjoining Counties.
Office: Wall St. r Southwest of Court HouSdv
h atms of srfkejMPTioN.
Ouc Year $2.00
Six Months 1.00
jjrtettylc.
W estern & Atlantic Railroad
AND ITS CONNECTIONS.
‘ * kexxesa w no tjte.”
The following takes effect may 23d, 1875
north ward. ‘ No. i.
Leave Atlanta 4.10 p.m
Arrive Cartersviile 0.14
Kingston 6.42 “
“ Da1t0n..,.. 8.24 “
“ Chattanooga 10.25 “
No. 3
Leave Atlanta..... 7.(K a.m
Arrive Cartersviile 9.22 „
“ Kingston. 0.5 t “
“ Da1t0n..... 11.54 “
Chattanooga 1.56 p.m
No. 11.
Leave Atlanta 3,30 p.m
Arrive Cartersviile 7.19 “
“ Kingston 8.21 “
“ Dalton 11.18 “
SOUTHWARD. No. 2.
eave Chattanooga 4.00 p.m
Arrive Dalton 5.41 *<
“ Kingston 7,28 “
“ Cartersviile 8.12 “
“ Atlanta 10.15 “
No. 4.
J e; ve Chattanooga 5.00 a.m
Ari ive Dalton 7.01 “
“ Kingston 9.07 “
“ Cartersviile . 9.42 “
“ Atlanta 12 06 p.m
No. 12.
T a\e Dalton 1.00 a.m
Ari e Kingston 4.19 *•
‘ Cartersviile..... 5.18 “
“ Atlanta 9.20 “
nil nan Palace Cars run on Nos. 1 and 2
be .eet New Orleans and Baltimore.
i oilman Palace Cars run on Nos. 1 and 4
bet een Atlanta and Nashville.
) dim tn Palace Cars run on Nos. 2 and 3
bit veer Louisville and Atlanta.
No change of cars between New Or
lear t, .N tbile, Montgomery, Atlanta and
Bal more, and only one change to New
Yor v.
P isseng ms leaving Atlanta at 4 10 p. m.,
arri.einNew York the second afternoon
ther after at 4.00.
K curstcn tickets to the Virginia springs
and various summer resorts will be on sale
in N w Orleans, Mobile, Montgomery, Co
lumbus, Mac an, Savannah, Augusta and At
lanta, at giWUly reduced rates, first of
Juno
I’a’ties desiring a whole car through to
he irginia Savings or Baltimore, should
a hlfv ss the un lersigned.
Pa ties contemplating travel should sen,! |
f >r a copy cf the Kennesaw Route Gazette, |
c )iita ning sche.lules, etc.
tlfl.) . Ask for Tickets v ; a “ Kenncsaw
j outi ”
B. W. WRENN,
G. P. & T. A., Atlanta, Ga.
Change of Schedule.
TiIE GEORGIA AND MACON AND
AUGUSi A RAILROAO3.
ON VND AFTER SUNDAY, JUNE 28rn,
I '7l, the Passenger Trains on the Gcorgi i
..nil Macon and Augusta Railroads will run
as foil V.'£ :
GEORGIA RAILROAD.
Day Paste ger Train Will
fj ave Augusta at 8:45 a m
L avo Atlanta at 7:00 a m
A rive in Augusta at 3:80 p m
A rive in Atlanta at 6:45 p m
Ntygt Vasscnycr Train.
T ea'c Augusta at 8:15 p m
I ea v c Atlanta at 10:80 p in
\n ve in Augusta at 8:15 a m
Anive in Atlant , at 6:22 a n>
■VI AC ON AND AUGUSTA RAILROAD.
Macon Passmoer Train.
T eave Augu?' at 0n...10:45 ani
1 eave CanmL at * 2:15 p ni
Arrive at Macon at 0:40 p m
Leave Macon at 6:30 a m
Arrive at Camak at 10:45 a ru
Arrive at Augusta at 2:00 p in
BERZEI L 4 PASSENGER TRAIN.
Leave Augusta at 4;15 p m
Leave BerzMia at 8:80 a in
Arrive >n 4ugusta at 9:55 a in
Arrive in Ilerzelia at 5:50 p m
Passengers from Athens, Washington, At
lanta, or my 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 sleepin
Cars on all Night Passenger Trains on
Georgi: Railroad.
S. K. JOHNSON', Superintendent.
Superintendent’s Office Georgia and Macon
and Augusta Railroads, Augusta, June
29, 1874,
JJ Jv. MAIN, M, 14.
PRACTICING PHYSICIAN,
Ha.ing permanently located in Calhoun,
offers his professional services to ihe pub
lic. >Vill attend all calls when not profes
sion lly engaged. Office at the Calhoun
Hot 1.
Special jSTotice.
MISS IIUDGINS can now befound at
MRS. MILLS’
URNISHING 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, cloaki. ..<•£§
and wraps in endless variety. Every l Inng
necessary kept for ladies’ outfit. [sep29-/ in.
ItllE undersigned have located themselves
at the >Mims Tan-yard, on the Love’s
Bridge ro id, 3| miles fr>m Oalhou , lor
the purpose of carrying on
THE TANNING BUSINESS.
They are prepared to receive hides to tan
on shares, or will exchange leather .or
hides. They bind thtmselv:s to prepare
leather in workmanlike style
WM. HUNT*.- & SON.
(September 14, 1875. ’2in.
CALHOUN TIMES.
Two Dollars a Year.
YOU. YI.
CHEAPEST AND JJEST!
HOWARD
111 lilt 111.11 (HIM!
MANUFACTURED NEAR KINGSTON,
BARTOW COUNTY, GEORGIA
Equal to Ore best imported Portland Cement.
Send for Circular. Try this before
buying elsewhere.
Refers by permission to Mr. A. J. West
President ot Cherokee Iron Company, Polk
county, Georgia, who has built a splendid
dam across Cedar Creek, using this cement,
and pronouncing it the best' he ever used.
Also refer to Messrs. Smitk , Son & Ilro., J.
H. Veal, F. I. Stone. J. J. Cohen and Major
Tom Berry, Rome, Georgia, Major H. Bry
an, ot Savannah, T. C. Douglas, Superin
tendent of Masonry, East River Bridge,
New \ork, Gen. Win. Mcßae, Superintend
ent W. & A. Railroad, Capt. J. Postell, C.
E. Address
G. 11. WARING, Kingston, Ga
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Brick-Layer & Contractor.
rpilE undersigned most respectfully begs
A leave to inform the citizens of Calhoun
and surrounding country that, having pro
cured the aid of Mr. Hilburn as a number
one bricklayer and Barrey O’Fallon as a
number one rock-mason, is prepared to do
all work in i 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 ine as above wil
receive prompt atten'ion. novlO-ly
T. M. ZEJXjtXaXO’
UViRV &SALI STABLE,
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
‘‘odder in the bundle. feb?-tU
field; QT;ritQ FJ owEH,
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rieties and of best quality, and mail price
list to any address on receipt ot stamp
S eds of all kinds by ucket, ounce. > urn *,
and quart, can be sent by mail to any post
office in the United States.
EDWARD J. EVANS & CO.,
Nurserymen and Seedsmen.
u 3 oi, Yokk, Pa.
CALHOUN, GA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15, 187 G.
TRUTH AND TRUST.
“Feme day,” we say, and turn our eyes
Toward the far hills of paradise.
Some day, some time, a‘sweet now rest
Shall blossom, flower-like, in each breast.
Some time, some shall see,
The face- kept
Some day their hea hands
Just over in the Morning Lands.
Some day our ears shall hear the song
Of triumph over sin and wrong.
Some day, some time, but oh! not yet,
But we will watt and not forget
That some day all these things shall be,
And rest be given to y ou and me.
So wait, my friend, though years move slow,
The happy time will come, we know.
Did He Propose? —lt was mid
night. The young man had farewelled
himself out, and Emiline had locked
the door and was u tying her shoes,
when her mother came down stairs with
with a bedquilt around her, and said :
‘‘Wanted to creep up stairs without
my hearing you, eh? Didu’t think I
knew it \ as an hour after midnight, did
you ?”
The girl had no reply, and the moth
er continued :
“ Did he propose this time ?”
“ Why —mother !” exclaimed the
daughter.
“You can ‘why, mother’ all you want
to, but don’t I know what he has been
coming here for the last year ? Don’t
I know that you’ve burned up at least
four tons of coal courting around
here ?”
The girl got her shoes off, and the
mother stood in the stair door and ask
ed :
“Emilire have you got any grit ?”
“I guess so.”
“1 gue<-s you hav’ent. I just wish
that a feller with false teeth and a mole
on iiis chin would come sparking me. —
Do you know what would happen Erne
line ?”
“ No.”
“ Well, I’ll tell you. He’d come to
time in sixty days or he’d get out of
this mansion like a goat jumping fur
sunflower seeds ”
Emetine went to bed to reflect over
it.
Johny Briim tells About his Sis
ters.
Sisters is good fur a feller to have.
They does a good ma~ y things which a
boy couldn’t do so well. They’re aliers
in the house, or they ought to be, and
if they don’t know what a feller wants,
wh ( duz? Now I’ve got three sisters ;
Kate is the oldest,an’she’s boss. Jennie
and May haven’t got much to say when
Kate’s around. Kate beats tlie socks
off’n anything in making doenuts. I
try to keep in with her. especially about
Christmas times. A red headed feller
comes t) see Kate. Site likes Irm, an’
he likes her Kate gives me sumthin’
always when that feller comes around,
that is.if L’m where she is, and I ailers
am there about that time, but I don’t
sta) long. Surnhow Kate do'-’t hanker
after me much then. Jennie plays the
praino. Jennie is the lady ol our
house. She’s got more fl ips and bugles,
and flutes and things than all the rest
of us. I was sick once. Sisters is
good when a feiler’s sick. Mary took
m ist care of me then. I tell you boys
is ruff. but I know sum fellers what’s
ruffer than me. Sisters ’ll do to go to
matinees with, hut they ain’t so good
around circusses. They don’t want to
go where the boys duz. They are too
nice, you know. That is all 1 kin tell
about sisters now.
Origin of the God Hymen.
Daochet, the French poet, tells us,
respecting the deification of Hymeu.that
he was a young man of Athens, ob
scurely born, but extremely handsome.
Falling in love with a young lady of
distinction, he disguised himself in a
female habit, in order to gel access to
her and enjoy the pleasure of her com
pany. As he happened to be o e day
in this disguise wi h his mistress and
her female companions, celebrating the
rites, of Ceres Elcusina, a gang of pi
rates came upon them by surpiise and
carried them ofl. Ihe pirates, having
conveyed them to a distant island, gut
drunk for joy, and fell asleep. Hymen
seized his opportunity, armed the vir
gins, and dispatched the pirates; after
which, leaving the ladies on the island,
he went 111 haste to Athens, where he
told his adventure to all the paients,aDd
demanted her he lovei in marriage as
her ransom. His request was granted,
and so fortunate was tne marriage, that
the name of Hymen was afterward in
voked in all future nuptia's, and in
progress of time the Greeks enrolled
him among their gods.
The following was a part of a young
altormey’s peroration on argument of a
demurrer in a court recently : ‘-May
it please your honor, this is a stupend
ous question. Its decision, by you this
day, will live in judicial history long
alter you and I shall have passed from
this scene of earthly glory aud subluna
ry vanity ; when the tower of Fisa
shall grow dim in the distant cycles
ot receding centuries ; when the name
of Eugene Marlborough and Napoleon
are no longer remembered ; when the
Pyramids of the Pharaohs shall have
crumbled dust ; when the hippo,
potamus shall cease to inhabit his native
Nile ; even then your ruling upon the
demurrer will survive in the volume of
legal lore, ns fresh, g-een and imperisha?
ble as an antique Kansas grasshopper er
a Colorado potato bug.”
Truth Conquers All Things,”
A Chinese Home.
One .\ew Years day I was invited to
spend the day with a .Chinese tea mer~
chant and his family ;and as I was anx
ious to learn exactly how they observed
the festal season, I begged them to make
no change either in their festivities or
the bill of fare, but to let me be treated
as one of then selves I had jenown
the old merchant and his sons for some
tirng, but. hud never met the ladies of
his household. There were three of
then*—/ o* tku old gentleman’s wife,
an unmarried daughter and the newly
weddedwife of the eldest sod. The
last, l had heard was beautiful, but I
was nut prepared for such a vision of
lovelinessas met my view, when the tL
njMboted, gentle-spoken twelve year'
old bride W'S introduced >y her mother
in-law. She was very fair, with eyes
as bright as diamunus, and her long,
jet'biuck hair, in one peavy braid, was
twined with a wreath of natural flow
eis about the beatiful fumed head, and
held in pla eby jeweled pins. She
wore earrings, of coarse, with necklaces,
chains, bracelets and rii gs enough to
have constituted quite a respectable for
tune in themselves. Her dress was of
pale blue silk, very richly embroidered
—all her own work, she told me. The
skirt hung in full plaits about uer slen
der figure, aud the tight fitting jacket
showed’ to perfection
rounded form, while the loose sleeve
displayed an arm that might have served
as a model for the sculptor. Put all
this loveliuess was only for female eyes,
for before entering the sitting loom
tvhera her husbaud father and brother
in law were assembled, she rut on the
long loose, outer garment that Chinese
ladies always wear when in “full dress.”
This came below the knee, its sleeves
reaching to the tips of her fingers,
whilst its loose, flowing style effectually
veiled the fairy form, hiding all its
symmetry. She had the tiny, pressed
ieet that the Chinese not only consider
beautiful, hut necessary to high breed,
ing, and they were encased in the dain
tiest sippers, embroidered in seed
pearls Put finery could not hide the
deformity produced by so unnatural a
process, nor the awkward limp of the
poor little lady as she leaned on the
shoulders of her maidens in hobbling
from room to room. I asked her if her
feet were still painful, and she replied
that for the last two or three years a
sort of numbness had succeeded the
pain, but that formerly, and from her
earliest recolection, her sufferings had
been so intense that she gladly would
have died ; and that she had often, in
frantic agony, torn off the bandages,
and when they were rep'aced, shrieked
and screamed till delirium, for a time
relieved her suffering. But after the
fifth year the pain became less intolera*
ble, she said, and now she did not
think much about it, except when the
bandages were changed. Then the re
turn of the blood to the fo >t was such
tortue as language could not de
scribe. Yet in reply to my question on
the subject, this gentle girl wife said it
would be cruel it. a parent not to press
the feet ot his daughter, as he thereby
shut her out from good society, aud
made a plebian of her for life.
The bandages are always applied in
early infancy, aud before putting them
on, all the toes except the first and sec.,
ond are doubled in beneath the soles of
the feet. The length of the foot, after
undergoing this painful operation, never
exceeds five .uches, aud ordinartly
scarcely four.
The young daughter of my host was
a petit maiden of ten, attired in dainty
robes of rose-colored satin, embroidered
in silver, and her glossy raven hair was
disposed in tv 0 massive braids, hanging
down almost to her feet, twinkling in
silver hued slippers Chinese maidens
wear their braids down, and ‘‘the crown
of wifehood" is symbolized by the cor"
onet of hair laid for the first time on
the top of the head on the marriage'
day. Oriental customs always have a
meaning.
At dinner we had all sorts of queer
dishes, many of them very palatable ;
but alas, for me ! there were only chop.,
sticks to cat villi ! And my predica
ment was very much that of the stork
when invited to dine with the fox. All
my essay?- were iu vain ; the dainty tit
bits I was longing to tas'e would not be
coaxed between the ends of my delicate
ly carved chopsticks, and my eating
was a very burlesqeu, which my gentle
manly host and his well-bred family
vainly tried not to notice. At length
he apologized by saying that he sup„
posed I would prefer, at a Chinese ta
ble, to use the
dered a knife, fork and spoon be brought
tor me. Tea was se:ved in tiny silver
tea-po‘s that held less than half a pint,
and each was placed on a silver waiter
with fine little porcelian cups, without
saucers 01 spoons, sugar or cream. This
is the way the Chinese always drink
tea, and one ot these unniature services
is placed before each guest, while a ser
vant stands by to pour the tea and re
plenish the tea-pot when needed.
Aft t dinner we had some music,
several games were played for my spec
ial entertainment and my host showed
me a rare collection of paintings by the
famous artist, Lang Qua. I was urged
to remain fur the night,but preferiug to
return, the sedan chubs were ordered to
the door, and attended by the son of my
h' st, I to k my departure, loaded with
gifts from my hospitable entertainers
A 8 the presents were all wrapped in
tissue paper, I did not examine them
1 till I reached my own home. Each con
tuined the card of the donor ; a pair of
vases from the bdy ot the house, a
wreath of wax flowers, only less lovely
than her own fair self, from the gentle
bride, and a pair of chop sticks, with
which, I have no doubt, the donor
thought I needed special practice,from
the waggish youugor son of mine host
How to Succeed.
Young men who are ambitious to suc
ceed in life, should understand very
early in their career, that no trade or
profession can be weil learned without
thorough application—sleepless indus-’
try and high resolve. Safe fortunes
are not amassed in a day,nor is profess.,
'onal excellency achiev.d in an hour.—
The lives of great or useful, or success
ful men, all teach that patient industry,
steadiness of purpose and sterling auis
bition, are the only keys with which to
unlock the heavy doors of fortune and
Lme. Young men should learn these
truths in the morning of life, and keep
them always in mind as they struggle
up the rugged way of human existence.
The .nan who labors for fortune, who
sweats that he may achieve, who denies
himself and toils on the load, is very
apt to hold fast to the goal when won.
The man who burns the midnight lamp,
that reads and thinks aud stores away
both in season aud out of season, that
climbs slowly and with pains those
grand heights where “fame proud tom
pie shines afar,” is more sure to make
good use of his achievements, and to
leave upon the shore of time, foot
prints that cannot be washed away.—
Jackson iSun.
A Leap Year Story,
There is a young gentleman in this
town who is looked upon as assort of
woman-hater, and who, it was believed
unfcil^recently,would not marry the hand
somest aud best woman ou earth if ev.
ery hair in her head was a Koh i-noor
diamond. On account of leap year
some young ladies concluded to put up
a job on t : is young man aud arranged
it for one of their number to propose
marriage to him, while the others watch
ed the tun through holes bored in a
partition.
Ihe gentleman was invited to call at
the house of a young lady who was to
do ihe proposing, and on the designated
evening he was there, seated °iu the
parlor, while the accessories to the plot
\\eie stut'oned at their eye-dioles Alter
some desultory conversation about the
.v eat her and the club the youug
.ady suddenly dropped on her knee's
belore the gentleman and
terms declared her passion: “Darling,”
she said, “ I iong have loved thee, but
the cruel conventionalities of society
have toreod me to conceal my passions
Leap year, which gives to oppressed
woman one blessed privilege, is now
here, and I take advantage of it to teii
thee I adore thee. Look not thus coldly
on me, dearest , spuru me not from
your presence. See me on my bended
knees implonng that you will not s y
me nay. Grant me but one kiss from
those ruby lips; fold me to thine arms
and say that *hou wilt be mine; mine,
only mine; forever and for aye."
Contrary to expectation, the gentle
man uisplayed not the least astonishment
during the foregoing recital, and when
it was concluded he went over to the
stove, and, folding his bauds uuder his
coat-tails, thus replied ;
“ 1 U 1 told your dad owns a hundred
shares of North Carson, and that you’ve
got two biindie bull dogs in y.>ur own
right and without incumbrance; like
wise I am informed that you are a good
hand making slapjacks and biscuit ;
that you don’t chaw gam, which, by
the way, is powerful expensive these
hard times. In view of these facts I
consent, and leave it to you to set the
day."
Horrified, the lady tried to explain
that it was all a joke, but the gentle
man would not accept any such exp a
n.otiou, and threatens a breach of prom
'.se suit uuless she fulfills her promise,
in which event he will summon the
peepeas as witnesses.— Austin, (Nev ')
Re Celtic. V J
Putlesofa Mother.—Sh ; should
be firm, gentle kind a;ways ready to
attend to her child. She should neve
laugh at him—at what he d>es that is
cunning—never allow hiui to think of
his looks, except to be neat and clean in
all his habits. She should teach him to
obey a look—to respect those older than
himself, 'he should never make a com
mand seeing that it is preformed in the
right manner. Never speak of the child
faults or foibies or repeat his remarks
before him. It is a true way to spoil
a child. Nev.r reprove a child when
you are excited, ner let you tone of
voice be raided when correcting. Strive
to inspire love, not dread—respect not
Par. Remember you are training and
cultivating and educating a soul for eter
nity. -Teach yonr children to wait up
on themselves to put away a thing when
with it. But do not forget that you
weie once a child.
Tiie o her day a Detroiter took home
a hook containing several anecdotes
showing toe power of the image nation
and after reading tnem to his wife he
tenderly said : ‘‘Now Angeline you
may sometimes imagine that you hear
me kissing the servaut girl in the other
room, and you see how base iuwould be
to accuse me of such a thing.” “John
Henry,” she replied, in a smooth voice.
• it I ever imagine such a thing, you’ll
need a doctor within fifteen minutes no
matter what the book savs.” —lhtrar
Texan Prairies.
Much has been sa : d and much writ
ten of the beauty of the Texan Druries
but no arrangement of words can pic
ture them with that truthfulness which
brings their riclcyet quiet charms home
to the mind. After crossing the Bra
zos, * but more particularly after the
traveler finds himself on the western
side of the Colorado, do these flower
gardens of nature spread themselves be
fore him, at every m'le of travel Im
agine a gently undulating prarie, stud/
ded here and there with cool groves, and
skirted by the green frings of timber
which border the innumerable water
courses of the country. At one time
the wayfarer comes upon a paterre of
gorgeous yellow flowers, of coloring so
rich that the eye was dazzled and made
weak by their splendor ; soon his way
leads through fields of buffalo clover,
with ts blossoms of modest blue relic v
ing the sight, and its fragrance loading
the air with perfumes. Then conies he
to some bed of variegated bowers, where
species innumerable are all struggling,
as it were, to rear their heads above
their fellows, and where the bending of
all forms a picture than which nothing
can be more beautiful. The gaudy yel
low blossoms is subdued by the modest
violet, the dazzling scarlet is relieved by
the quiet pink, the brighter purple is
softened by some azure neighbor, while
a chastening infl icnce is thrown around
by sone lily-like flower, whose ambitious
stem has shot its blossom high over all,
Nor can the most cunning disposal of
coloring by the painter give to canvas
this mellowed richness nor can the
most elaborate handicraft of the weaver
blend and harmonize aught to compare
with the caipeting which Nature’s hor
ticultur# has spread upon what Willis
would term prairiedom.
N'r is the richness and variety of
its covering alone that gives beauty to
the praries. Now the traveler sees a
knot of red deer quietly feeding on
some gentle slope ; anon the large rab
bit of this section jumps liurredly from
its forms and leaps with quickened pace
to seek some covert of rank grass or
weeds. At one time the entire face ol
the prarie is Jit up a universal sun
light; the next moment, as some cloud
crosses the face of the orb of and >y, huge
shadow's, assuming shapes the most
grotesque and fabulous, are seen cours
ing across the valleys and up the undu
lations, losing themselves as the cause
which produced them passes away.
Quails are fluttering off as the travel
er jogs upwards, rising from beneath his
horses feet so tame are they; the sneak
ing wolf sits watching him on yon knoll,
or else trots stealthily away, as he deems
his steps are leading him nearer than
his coward caution thinks prudent.—
Mayhaps a gang of wild mustangs are
circling with rapid strides in the dis
tance, their mines streaming in the
wind, their nostrils expanding, and
their heads tossing proudly, as if con
scious of their own power of flight;
and then, as the wayfarer nears the tim
ber of some water course, a flock of
wild turkeys, whose quick eyes have
discovered approaching dinger—are
seen scampering off to their shady
coverts. Such are the scenes, such
the beauties, which the traveler wit
nesses as lie journeys over the fertile
praries of Western Texas, nor is it in
the power of our poor pen to do any
thing like justice to the subject. Had
Claude Mellnott’s wanderings led him
to the romantic Guadaloupe, or the San
Antonia, in spring time, or when nature
is first donning her summer attire, he
never would have made the most remote
allusion to the Lake of Como, while
murmuring his love tales in the too
willing ear of Pauline.
Brains in Time of Peril—The
Grand Theatre at Vienna was crowded.
The Emperer Francis was in the impe
rial box The play, Scbillar’s “ Rob
beis,” had reached the third act. when
a cry arose that the stage was on fire.—
Emelino Devrient signalled at once to
the proprietor, who lowered the curtain
The actor stepping in front fo it ere it
wholly fell, in his clear, clarion, voice,
said : “The Emperor has been despoil
ed of an aigrette of diamonds. No hon
est person will object to beiug searched.
You will pass out one at each entrance,
and bo searched by the polieceat the se
veral doors Any manr attemting to go
out of ordee will he arrested.” The
crowd, deceived by the coolness and the
charge ( poured out. As each reached
the door he was simply told to hurry on
and just as the last rows of the upper
gallery were filing out thr flames hurst
through the curtain. But not a life
was lost, though in less than an hour
afterward the building was in ruins.—
Graphic.
A Co ßßespnDent who attended a Cen
tennial le; -ra.ty thus relates his expevi
euce : Next in order was tea. for I was
hungry. I han’t eaten anything in se
veial days, preparing for my money's
worth here. So I commenced by eating
oysters, chicken, bailed eggs and ich
cream aud drinking coffee and other
things “ too numerous to mention.”—
Said I to th * young lady at the table;
“£low much is (he bill ?” Her answer
wa plain and plump. “SI 05.” “WhatK-’
I says, “for one meal?” -‘0 yes said she,
“that is on the’ rope in (European) plan
and ; t gees for the Centennial.” I
didn’t wait to hear the rest, but paid
the bill and thought 1 hadn’t made
much.
The revival feeling ia spreading but
s has’nt yet got down deep euough to
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How to (Jet Kick.
’Tis the simpie&t thing iir the world
if any one has only a uuud to pay tkn
price ft dcuiuudcd lor it, as the loilowing
will prove to you :
\Y beu you purchase an article—do
matter what — hat or pair of shoes, a
oarrel of flour or a book, look with con
founded surprise at the seller—as much
us to say, "is it possible that you cau
pat on a face to ask as much '{" Thick
a moment, or appear to, aud offer IU or
14 per cent leas—remarking that you
cuu purchase the same, and know where,
tor the price you name. If you can
not get the rucal at your price, by
beating dowu aud lying halt an hour,
you cau at least gel oil a lew cents.-
do much will he gained.
If you wat to hire a horse to take
your mother or sweetheart for a ride,
oiler half it is worth, aud muke the
stable keeper take his pay out of your
shop, aud be sure and charge him fifty
per cert, higher tha*' you usually charge.
When you have returned, make your
mother or female friend pay half the
hoi so hire, and all the eatables to boot.
When you sell small articles, bite one
in two to make weight, so as to not give
the purchaser a fly s weight more than
fie paid for.
Befriend nobody. Never lend p four
pence, halfpenny, even to your sick
brother. Screw dowu everybody you
can to the lowest mill, wheu you make
purchases, never spend a dollar B that
will not yield four fold Keep at it—
work aud dig from daylight till dark.
Spend nothing for pleasure or atum*i
cueut, and you will gfovr rich. There
is no mist ike about it; grasping riches
and lurid gold, how consoling must be
the whisper in your ear—“ This night
thy soul is required of thee.” llow
true will be the language of the poet in
your case “ Starved in this world and
darn’d in that to come."
Truth Stronger tlutn Ficliod.
A remarkable occurrence, recalling
in some of its features the stories re
counted in the Arabian Nights, took
place last week on Wood street. A
bumble cottage on that street is tenant
ed by a young couple who last year made
their bridal tour to California, Oregon
aud washingtm Territory. While en
geguu m Bcilinoii uauiug uu uue ui iuo
rivers, the bride groom was so un*
fortunate as to drop into its current a
valuable diamond ring belonging to his
wife. The loss of the geui was, of
course, mourned, but after a while the
incideut was forgotten, nor was it re
called till last Thursday evening, when
the young husbaud, returning late at
night from taking stock, discovered that
his wife had prepared for supper a can
of salmon. Taking it up, he looked
cre'essly at the label, said : “Why,
Marion, this salmon was put up at the
very place where I lost your - ing last
summer. Wouldn’t it be odd if a sals
mon had swallowed it, and been caughfi
and canned at that very factory and put
into this very can, and we should find!
the ring in it?" His wife answered
him jestingly, but he said :
“I dou’t know how to account for it,
but I have a sort of presentiment that I
shall find that ring yet in some such
romantic manner." She had scarcely
said, “Don’t be a goose, Gus," wheu
her eye caught the glitter of something
metallic in the can, and she fairly
scrcampd, “ Gooduess, gracious me,
what’s that?" Her husband, who was
scarcely less excited than herself, re
moved the foreign substance with a>
fork, when, what was hie surprise to
discover that it was indeed a big
lump of solder which in soldering the
can had been permitted to fall into its
contents.
We wonder ifthe young men embarrk-*
ing on the sea of loafertsm ever stop to
couut the cost. Yet there is nothing so
expensive. It costs health time —whole
days, months, years of it It costs'
health in waste of miud and body. It
costs honor and self-respect and the
respect of your fellow men. It costs
happiness, iu the loss of virtue, morali
ty and indeper. deuce The man
who takes up loafing for his living is
the veriest slave alive. He must sub-'
mit to the kicks of fortune, because he
has not the moral stamina to tend them oil.
Go anywhere and see the well dre-sed
or ragged inanities that lounge around
bar-rooms, or stand on the street corners
with cigars stuck in their mouth, day
in and our, and you will have the class
who loaf for a living. Whatgood are they
but to cumber .God’s blessed earth, aud
to eat the food better men strive so
hard for ? Do something Sweep streets,
shovel coal, dig clams—anything hon
est —but don't loaf.
A colored gentleman in lowa, hav
ing been summoned to serve as a juror,
was asked by the court, “ Are you a
Voter ?” lie replied,;- “ l’se black
enulf, in a sa, but not ©Mj snuff, 4 ’ and he
was excused.
A scien me paper says: “Keep
your mirrors away from the s >n.” “And.
from the daughters also, if you eaa/'
adds a family paper.
“What do you feed to your pig?’’
asked a neighbor of a Manayunker,
who bough such an animal last Novem
ber. ‘Corn,” he said. Do you feed it
in the ear ?” “Do you think I am a food
said the Maoayuuker sarcastically*
Montgomery Alabama, don't want
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