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gailroad jMtertuU.
Western & Atlantic Railroad
AND ITS CONNECTIONS.
‘ ‘ KENJESA W 110 VTE”
The following takes effect may 23d, 1875
NORTHWARD. No. 1.
Leave Atlanta 4.10 p.m
Arrive Cartersville G. 14
Kingston 6.42 “
< Dalton 8.24 “
Chattanooga 10.25 “
No. 8
Leave Atlanta 7.o(*a.m
Arrive Cartersviile 9.22 ~
“ Kingston 9.50
“ 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.
,eavc Chattanoogu 4.00 p.m
Arrive Dalton 5.41 “
“ Kingston 7,28 “
“ Cartersville 8.12 “
“ Atlanta 10.15 “
No. 4.
) e ve Chattanooga 5.00 a.m
Dalton 7.01 “
“ Kingston 9.07 “
“ Cartersville 9.42 “
“ Atlanta 12 06 p.m
No. 12.
I ave Dalton 1.00 a.m
Ari e Kingston 4.19 •
1 Cartersville 5.18 “
Atlanta 9.20 “
nil nan Palace Oars run on Nos. 1 and 2
be .ee i New Orleans and Baltimore.
i oilman Palace Cars run on Nos. 1 and 4
be! een Atlanta and Nashville.
) .dim m Palace Cars run on Nos. 2 and 3
hit veer Louisville and Atlanta.
No change of cars between New Or
lears, ,\ >bile, Montgomery. Atlanta and
llul more, and only one change to New
Yor..
P,sseng rs leaving Atlanta at 4 10 p. m.,
nrri e in New York the second afternoon
ther after at 4.00.
E cursirn tickets to the Virginia springs
and various summer resorts will be on sale
in N w Orleans, Mobile, Montgomery, Co
lutnkis, Mac >n, Savannah, Augusta and At
lanta, at gi eatly reduced rates, first of
June
Pa'dies desiring a whole car through to
he \ irgirua Sorings or Baltimore, should
a lilrv ss the tin lersigned.
I’a ties contemplating travel should send
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u.Hita ning sche lules, etc.
tr-O . Ask for Tickets * ; a “ Kennesaw
onto ”
B. W. WRENN,
G. P. & T. A., Atlanta, Ga.
Change of Schedule.
T IE GEORGIA AND MACON AND
AUG USi A RAILROADS.
ON AND AFT Eli .SUNDAY, JUNE 2 m,
1'74, the Passenger Trains on the Georgia
..I’d Aiacon and Augusta Railroads will run
as foil, ws:
GEORGIA RAILROAD.
Day Paste ger Train Will
f. ave Augusta at 8:45 a m
I. uve Atlanta at 7:00 a m
A riv ■ in Augusta at 3:30 p m
A rive in Atlanti\ at 5:45 p m
Niggt Vassenger Train.
■ eau* Augusta at 8:15 p m
l i en xe Atlanta at 10:30 p m
rive in Angus aat 8:15 a m
ArOve in Atlant i at 6:22 a in
UACON AND AUGUSTA RAILROAD.
Macon Passenger Train.
leave Align.*' at 0n...10:45 a m
1 cave Carnal, at 2:15 p m
Arrive at Macon at 6:40 p in
Leave Macon at 6:30 a m
Arrive at Catnak at 10.'45 a in
Arrive at Augusta at 2:00 p m
BERZF.I LI PASSENGER TRAIN.
Leave Augusta at. 4;16 p m
Leave Berzclia at 8:30 a m
Arrive n lugustn at 0:55 a in
Arrive in Berzelia at 5:50 p in
Passengers from Athens, Washington, At
lanta. or iny point on the Georgia Rail
road and Branches, by taking the Day Pas
senger Train, will make close connection
at Caniak with tratns for Macon and all
points beyond.
Pullman's (First-Class) Palace sleepiu
Cars on all Night Passenger Trains on
Oeorgi Railroad.
S. K. JOHNSON, Superintendent.
Superintendent’s Office Georgia and Macon
and Augusta Railroads, Augusta, Jure
\ 29, 1874,
thofessiorntf & gnsines!si artfs.
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CALHOUN, GA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29, 1870.
LIVE FOR SOMETHING
Live for something, be not idle—
Look about thee for employ:
Sit. not down to useless dreaming—
Labor is the sweetest joy.
Folded hands re ever weary,
Selfish hearts are never gay,
Life for thee hath many dutie
Active be, then, while you may.
Scatter blessings in thy pathway!
Gentle words and cheering smiles
Better are than gold and silver,
With their grief-dispeUing wiles.
As the pleasan sunshine falleth,
Ever on the grateful earth,
So let sympathy and kindness
Gladden well the darkened earth.
Hearts there are oppressed and weary ;
Diop the tear of sympathy.
Whisper words of hope and comfort,
Give, and thy reward shall be
Joy unlo thy soul returning
From this perfect fountain head.
Freely as thou freely givest,
Shall the grateful light be shed.
TO A YOUNG IIOUSEKEPER.
Advice from a Grandmother-
How to Keep the Men,
After marriage go to housekeeping.
Do not allow any one to persuade you to
board. If your means will not permit
of renting and furnishing a whole house,
get two o** three looms; there can be a
world of happiness inside two compart
ments, and as it is your great wLh to
be happy and contented, begin with a
good, solid foundation. Vow you will
live within your means, and keep the
vow religiously. Do not be troubled if
your friends Annie and Nellie are u a
k ng a greater show with an equal in
come. You will get up after a while
when perhaps they will have to take
rooms and reduce their expenses.
We take it for granted your husband
is engaged in some occupation ; now as
he goes daily to his buisness you go to
yours, determined to be a “ help meet,”
and not simply a “ help eat”
Dress neatly, have you" calico wrap-,
pers made lor work, not with long trails
suitable only for hue ladies who cun af
ford Bridgets; wear a plain linen col
lar, or il you prefer, one of calico made
on the drees. Be well supplied with
kitchen aprons and one of some coarse
material for scrubbing washing, etc ,
and do not be ashamed to be seen work
ing Your husband has to work for
your bread and butter ; is that a dis
grace You answer not ; then ’tig
none for you to aid him. Don’t begin
to apologize if a friei and drops in and finds
you at the wash tub—you can be and
arc as much of a lady in the kitchen as
in the parlor.
Arrange your work systematically
By so doing you ill accomplish more
—have time for visiting, receiving vis
tors, etc. Of two women whom we
know of equal mean'* and time, one ac
cotnplishes one-third more than the
other —never seems in a huiry, her
house is neat as a pin, herself likewise,
while the other —how shall we describe
her home? go with me; every chair
ful!—" Oh my ! excuse the looks of the
house, I, am washing, baking, and try
ing to get some cleaning done, and had
no tiuie to make the bed and rid up.”
No system there you mentally exclaim.
’Xis better to take Monday, if possible,
for your washing; you are less liable to
be interrupted. Tuesday ironing;
Wednesday, sweeping cleaning up, etc. ;
Thursday, sewing; Friday, same;
Saturday, baking cleaning, etc ; Sun
day, rest; do riot spend it in cooking
ali the time, visiting, or receiving vism
tors.
As we urged you to be neat in your
dross and house, be particu.arly so in
arranging your table ; it is not necessa
ry to have the finest linen, china or sil
ver ; of course, they are something to
be desired, a:_d we do nol undervalue
either their beauty or their worth, but
with a table covered With a fiue white
cl th, of course, neat stone-ware (white
and perfectly plain) good and wholesome
victuals well cooked, you cun raise your
self greatly in the esteem of a hungry
man, no matter if you are not as hand
some as you would like, you will get
bet.or looking in his eyes every day. —
Be cheerful, welcome your husband with
not only a neat house and person, but a
smile, lie may have had many annoy
Jhces through the day, try and drive
the thoughts of them away, and if it is
tea, have an easy chair and the
per or favorite book where it will/ cutieh
his eye on rising from theiat le./'J/eiin’t
him to spend the long au/umu iujd Wji;-
ter evenings at home with youf imfio
ving youiselves with useful reading,
music, if you have the talent, etc. Get
him a pair of slippers, and make him a
d.essing gown. These will cost money
and labor, but they will pay. Put the
gown on the chair, slippers near by, and
if he puts on, picks up his paper
or book, you will have your husbaud
safe lor the evening. He will feel so
thoroughly comfortable that it would
take a good deal to get him out; and
i‘ busiucs compels him to go, be as
sured he will soon return; and it be.
hooves every goou woman to do all she
cau to make her home attractive. The
saloon keepers understand this pow
er of attraction perfectly, and they are
always ready to win your husband tway
fom his home. They car not for the
ljuely suffering wife and children.
A Young ludy dressed in much false
hair was warbling at the piano, and
when her mother summoned her to as
sist in some household duties her rosy
lips opened poutingly, and she snapped
out, “Oh, do it yourself!” And then she
went on singing “Kind words can Tiever
1 die.” —Norristown Herald.
•‘Truth Conquers AH Things,”
XI r, Shott's Railroad Trip.
Mr. Shott hadn’t been out of Detroit
in seven years, when the other day bus
iness called him to Chicago. Mrs.
Shott wanted to go along, but he said
that times were too hard, he didu’t want
to have the bother of taking care of her,
and she was couirelled to remain at
home He reached home in the even
ing after an absence of two days, aud as
he sat eating tus supper he observed :
“ I tell you it was a lonesome ride,
and I’m glad you didn’t go.” .
“ Lonesome was it ?” she asked.
“It would have been fearful if I
hadn't had a young lady in the atewt with
tne,” he replied.
“ What ! a young lady in the seat
with you ?”
“That is—that is—you know the car
was crowded,” he said.
“ Aud you offered her half of your
seat.
“ I- that is, she sat down there,” he
j stammered
Mrs. Shott’s ears grew red and her
eyes snapped.
“ And so it was lonesome, was it ?
You didn’t speak to bet, l suppose?”
inquired the wife.
“ Why, I—l spoke to her once or
t of course.”
“ Nice young lady. I suppose ?”
“ Well, no, I can t say she was.”
“ And there you sat and looked your
sweetest, and I’ll bet you passed your.,
self off as a single man.”
“ I don’t know as I did,” he redied
as he drank his tea.
“ Did you inform her that you were
married and had three children ?” she
demanded.
“ I don’t remember, though I pre.
sumo I did.”
‘‘You presume you did ! Well, I
presume you didn’t. I know just how
you sat up there and pretended to be a
rich widower, and took care of her
satchels, and bought pop corn and illus
trated papers for her !”
Mr Shott inquired if there was auy
more biscuit.
“ It’s a nice op ration your coming
home and expecting to find hot biscuit
for you!” she weut on. “ Why didn’t
you ask if that young lady could make
biscuit? Why didu’t she come home
to tea with you ?”
“Naucy, don’t be- foolish,” he obi
served.
“ Don’t be foolish ! Who is foolish ?
Here I was scrubbing around and patch
ing, and breaking my back, and you
were braced up in a seat beside a young
lady, stroking those yellow whiskers and
talk ing about your bonds and mortgages
and your lonely widowed lite.”
“ I wasn’t,” he briefly observed.
“ Dauiel, did that girl tide all the
way from Chicago with you ?” asked
Mrs Shott, as she toyed with the hand
le of the milk jug.
■Did she? Lemme see?” He
mused, as he helped himself to the
butter.
“ You know she did !” shouted Mrs.
Shott.
“If she got off at any of tlie stations
I didn’t see her,” he admitted.
“And there you satand sat,and rode
and rode, aud you paid out the money
we need so much in the house for pea
nuts, and pop corn, and juba j ate, and
picture papers ! Daniel, let me see your
wallet!”
“My wallet?”
“ Yes. sir, your wallet!”
“ What for, Nancy ?”
“ I want to 3ee your wallet!”
“ It’s the same one I always had.”
“You left home with twentv-six dol
lars, and I know exactly what the trip
cost. Fare to Chicago and back, sev
enteen dollars. Hotel bill, two dollars.
I’ll allow one dollar more fur incident
als, and notv where’s that six doilarb ?”
“ I—l !” he stammered.
You what?”
“I met Green down by the depot and
lent him four dollars.”
“ Daniel Shott, who is Green, and
where does he live ?”
Daniel didn’t reply.
“ Daniel ohott, you’ve lied to me !”
she exclaimed “ You didn’t want to
take me along owing to the haru times
You said I’d bother you. If I’d been
along you’d have growled four times a ;
mile about the bother and expense, and 1
there you - went and squandered four
dollars on her, and here I’ve worn those
old shoes seven months to save ex pens
ses !’’
7 I get you anew pair pretty soon,”
he/replied.
/“ You Will, eh ? \Yken T\
Fourth of Jjfcly,-anyhow.”
“ You <fa\ squander i/ur
an unknown Airl and make nfc
months for sliT.es, cm you ?”
“ What unknown girl V*
r “ Daniel Tjfhott !”
N And thykniilk pitcher came dnvn -im
she caught him by fne neck
tie, and the eldest boy ran out doors at>d
relied “ Fire !” Several neighbors ,/in
over, but Mrs Shod met jJuuttjw the
door and said it was onl)^M*^ourn :
chimney. Whan they asked
Shott she remarked : I
"Mr. Shott doesn't feel a bit well and
is covered up on the lounge!”
Blessed is the man who knows
enough to keep his mouth shut. Some
people live sixty years without learning
the art. Indeed, the older they grow,
the wider their mouths open. A man
or woman who is a gabbler at forty-five
is a dreadful affliction to a house, or a
community. There are two things thin
age needs to learn when to say noth
ing, and when it says anything to say
it well. “If any man among you seem
to be leligious, and br id let h not his
tongue, this man’s religion is vain.”
The Travels oi* Plants.
Alexander brought rice from Persia
to the Mediterranean, the Arabs car.,
ried it to Egypt, the Moors to Spain,
the Spaniards to America. Luoullus
brought the cherry-tree (which takes
its name from Cerasus, the city of Pon*
tus, where he fouud it,) Rome as a
tropi y of his Mithridatic campaign ;
aud 120 years later, or iu A. D. 46, as
Pliny tells us. it was carried to Eng
land. Caesar is said to have given bar
ley to both Germany and Britain. Aea
cording to Strabo, wheat came origi
nally from the banks of the ludus, but
it had reached the Mediterianeau be
fore the dawn of authentic history.—
Both barley and wheat cauie to the new
world with its conquerors and colonists,
and the maize which they found here
soon went to Europe in exchange. It
was known in England in less than fifty
years after the discovery of America;
it was introduced into the Mediterra"
Dean countries, by way of Spain, at the
end of the 16th century, and the Ve
netians soon carried it to the Levaut
Later it traveled up the Danuhe to Hun
gary, and gradually spread eastwaid to
China. Where it was thus invading
the regions formerly devoted to vice,
the latter, as we have said, was estab
lishing itselt in this country.
The sugar-cane, which, with its sweet
product, was known to the Greeks and
Romans only as a curiosity, seems to
have been cultivated in India and China
from the earliest times. Its introduce
tion into Europe was one of the results
of the Crusades, and thence it was
transplanted to Madeira, and early in
the 16th century from the West Indies.
The original home of “ King Cottou ”
was probably in Persia or India, though
it is also mentioned A the early annals
of Egppt, and had spread throughout
Africa iu very ancient times.
The potato was found in Peru and
Chili by the first explorers of th se
countries, who soou carried it to Spatu.
It is said to have reached Burgundy in
1560. and Italy about the same time.—
It appears to have been brought from
Virginia to Ireland by Hawkins, a slave
trader, in 1565 ; and to England in
1586 by Drake, who presented sirnj
tubers to Gerard, who planted them in
his garden in London and described
the plant in his Herb all ; and it was
also introduced by Raleigh at about the
same date. But it was slow to attract
attention, and it w; S not till nearly a
century later that, it began to be much
cultivated. In 1563 the Royal Soiiety
published rules for its culture, and from
that time it rapidly gained favor. The
Dutch carried it to the Cape of Good
lope in 1300. and thence it made its
way to India —Journal of Chemistry.
A Thrifty Old Lady,
It frequently happens lhat persons
dying have no near relative to wl o n
they desire to leave their worldly goods,
and look around them to determine up
on whom to settle t .eir b qt ts. -
1 hese legacies are nearly always devoted
to charitable objects or to religious or
scientific institutions. It was only a
few numbs ago that a Scotchman died
and bequeathed his little all to the . ro
testant orphan asylum, being influenced
by the simple fact that he himself load
been an orphan. It was only a few
hundreds, yet it lifted the debt from
the institution and was of great benefit,
Several days ago an aged woman named
Elizabeth Butler, in this city, passed to
her long home, lhe hands of kind
friends smoothed the dying pillow of
her whom they deemed a pauper. She j
had been known for years in Nashville,
and supported herself by the fashion
i g of little articles that found a ready
sale, and which every one was glad to
buy, not only for their own genuine
value, but also because of the person
offering them for saie She went along
in an unostentatious way, and, never
speaking of her worldly affairs, was
deemed by most people **n object of
charity Judge of the surprise thep
created when at her demise it w s dis
covered that she had by will disposed of
a snug little sum, the savings of many
years. Living alone as she did and
seeming to possess no near relation, her
will was somewhat eccentric. Her lar
gestjjbequests were divided equally be
tv eon the First Presbyterian arm the
Cumberland Presbyterian churches,
amounting to about 81.500 each. To
a favorite niece s'e gave SOOO Living
near her was a little girl wno nine years
ago commenced to carry her her Sun
day dinner, and continued to do so up
to the old lady’s death. To this young
girl she gave a bond of S2OO. To au
other who ILtd ulso been kind to her
she left another bond of equal value
The household effects, furniture, &c.,
to the Protestant orphans. At
firstrk’s seemed an insignificant gift,
but examination into the various arti°
cles of lffnisebold furniture revealed
igany valuably There were number
less paste tymrd boxes, amounting to
rmarbpiCEythat held all kinds of woist
-1 ttl" , which, in ii uni re is of
little paclLiges, were found as many
pieces of ntictional euirency. These
little wads omMekles, dimes, and quar
ters were fouml in every nook and cor
ner and cranny, even in places un
der the ed_es ->f carpet, all neatly
wrapped in paper. \he whole amount
thus discovered was between $250 and
S3OO ; the largest hill thus four.d was a
two-dollar bill. She had thus saved in
small parcels the money that she made
by the saje of her wares and that her
friends had given her, spending little,
buying no superfluities, but laying it
all by to will away toothers. —Nashville
A merican.
Frogs In Dismal Swamp.
Alexander Hunter, in the course of
an interesting letter to Forest and
Stream, descriptive of the great Dismal
Swamp: I"rugs (“ blood-hounds ’as
the boys call them.) lead a happy life
hero, and die of old age mi the swamp.
They are a jovial set, ereu if they have
discordant voices; they keep late hours,
and all night they talk, halloo, gossip!
whoop, make stump speeches, and sing
hymns to their own great satisfaction,
at least, until the “sum' hours ayant the j
twal. ' It some wicked i'airy in the j
swamp, or smi s witching Circe, who
was sent to transform men into strange
shapes, like that fascinating and ancient
coquette did Ulysses Argonauta, were
to suddenly appear to me, and waving
her magic wand ar und my head, ask
me out of pure politeness what animal
or shape I would be metamorphosed into,
I would unhesitatingly ask her ladyship
to turn nn into a frog, which being done,
I would have a courtship and an opera
p very night on my own account —two
things in this world which I most <le.
light in. “Oh those fiogs! Would
that I could understand their language.
They evidently don’t like to Oe intru
ded upon. Many a time, when there
was nearly a silence in the swamp, and
when sentimental frogs were gazing at
the moon, silent in their reverie, I have
blundered upon their privacy, and such
£ treme- dous uproar would be invoked
as would make me shake in my boots—
tiny voices would squiek—vixenish
voices—shrill voices of waspish wives
—the hoai.se, expostulatory’tones of the
old patriarch who resented the intru
sion—fierce, abrupt cries of the town’s
guardian, who lika our own city police
were mad as hornets at being awakened
from their sleep by untoward commo.
t on, and the quavering voices of wan
dering lovers, who had evidently been
sitting up long after the good frog had
retired to rest, and who, no doubt were
afraid that all this u moil would awake
the old folks and bring the house over
their ears. Such glorious fellows—ful
ly twelve inches long—that could he
knocked in the head in eve"y branch.
I skinned a pair of—(I —I beg pardon.
Well, dash it all !) of legs, and trying
them found them daintier than spring
chickens.
A Delight fil Lcgent.
There is a beaut f il legei and connected
with the site on which the Temple of
Solomon was erected. It is to have
been occupied in common by two broth
ers, one of whom hud a family, but the
o'her hand none. On the
spot was a field of wheat. On the
evening succeeding the harvest, the
wheat having been gathered in shocks
she elder brother said to his wife
‘‘My younger brother is unable to
bear the burden of the day. I will
arise take of my shocks and plact; with
his without his knowledge.”
The younger brother being aeiuited
by the some benevolent motive, said
within himself.
u My el ler brother has a family and I
have none. I will contribute to their
supports. I will ari e ke of my sh ;ck
and place them With his without his
knowledge.
Judge of their astonishment when on
the foilwing morning , they found their
respective shocks were undiminished
This course of events transpired for se
veral nights, when each resolved in his
own mind to stand guard, and, if possi
ble solve the mystery. They did so,*
when on the following night, they met
each other halfway bteween their re
spective shocks with their arms full.
Up >u grounds hallowed by such asso
ciations as this was the Temple of King
Salomon ejected—so spacious, so mag
nificent, the wonder aud admiration of
the whole world.
Alas in these days, how many would
soner steal their brother’s whole shock
than add to it a single sheaf.
Making it a Safe Investment.
—A colored man of Detroit, who oc
casionally lends a few dollar- on good
security, was the oiher day invited to
lend a neighbor ng cobbl- r S3O on a
note of hand running 30 days.
Supoose dat note comes due and you
havn’t do cash V' inquired the capita
list .
“ But I will have."
“ Bat spose you haven’t V*
The cobbler couldn't got over that
and he was looking very serious, when
the capital! t t ot a brigh, idea, and
said :
••\Ve kin fix dit. You make de note
you see.
You may bo good or you may not be.
I’m good, and we bof knows it, cause
here’s de cash right here. You make
de note and I backs it. i knows myself
you see and de capitalits who won’t lend
money on his own and irseuieut haiu’t no
business head on him !’’
And they fixed it that way.
ONEafte.no n in a ‘‘Down East”
erucety store, an old man came jo for a
dr’nk t f cider. The grocer had some
which, having been frozen and thawed
several times, was about as poor a drink
as could be found between here and the
Black Hills. A glass being poured out
for him, be drank it with the remark
that it was cussed poor cider.”
•• Don’t you know,” said a veteran
loafer, ‘ the way they make that cider ?
They just set up a cask of water and
throw rotten apples at it.”
“ Well,” said the man, as he slowly
extracted three coppers from his wallet
and paid for his drink, ‘\liey didu’t hit
it more’n once.”
#5
In Vdvance.
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Errors iu Printing.
The London Times says probably one
of the worst businesses under the sun
is that of a printer. His every deed
seeks the light of day. Those of th
lawyer lie in dark boxes and between
musty shelves; the doctor places his in
different handiwork in the grave ; the
tradesman has but his customer to
please and satisfy when his work is
ended ; but the printer, every ignora.
mus gspells over the work of the prin
ter.
Fellows who
to put twenty letters together grammat
ically will point out with glee a fault in
his work—indeed it is usually this tk>
of individuals who make it a point of
finding* out every little discrepancy
Did the public know the tho ..ands of
different characters, different letters and
atoms comprised in a priuters’ every
day life—did they but know the varie
ty of altogether foreign subjects he has
to set up, read, correct and revise day
alter day—they would wonder how lie
kept oat of the lunatic ;s dum. But
practice make® perfect and constant
friction has rubbed off aJU the roudh
edges from the character of the U)a/:p>f
letters—nothing takes effect upon him
—he eau vjew errors of the-most frig Ki
t dfisirfiptioh with calnincs*. Afar
all, whiil is an error, grammatical or
otherwise? S.mply so many atoms out of
place, that’s all, and quite enough—but
not enough to upset the equanimity of
the printer.
In some of these marriages in high
life the bride insists on a conveyance
before the knot is tied, of a palatial
mansion and the means of keeping up
an establishment. Such was the case
wien August Belmont induced the
charming Miss Perry to become his
bride. He was a repulsive old rake.—
The matrimonial pill was gilded with a
deed of a filth Avenue mansion, and as
“ hand money,” SIOO,OOO in first class
stocks. The transaction in all such
cases has the nature of a life insurance
benefit. If the incumbrance be re
moved, then there is a lovely young
widow with a fortune, who can please
herself. Fernando Wood, in his second
marriage carried off a bright young
girl, who also obtained an ante-nuptial
deed of a Fifth Avenue house worth
SIOO,OOO, but, unfortunately, she had
no idea of the tricky nature of her fu
ture spouse. Report that ju t be
foie sinning the deed to her he execu
a moitgage on the pioperty for $95,000,
which was just like him.
—-
How They Fixed It. — a New
Yorker, while journeying the other
day, was recognized by another citizeu
doing business near the Bowery, he be
ing also away from home on business,
and after a little preliminary conversa
tion the first remarked :
“ Well, I hear had to make
an assignment.”
“ Yes dat is so,” replied the oth
er.
“ And your brother over on Chat-*
ham street; he assigned, too didn’t
he ?”
“ You zee it was just like dis,” said
the Bowery; man, “1 was owing a goofc
deal lor kes over my stock to
and Jacob makes over his stock to me
and I do his peesness and he does
peesness and deui fellers vhat was
after money doan get some.
Piied Grant was on a train between
Omaha and Chicago. So was a Chica„
go drummer for a wholesale whisky
house. The drummer drew out his lit
tle flash, took shy view, swallowed some
thing then passed the flask to a
friend nearby. Freddie got a scent of
the fruit, and s;nt a card to the drum
mer with a request to pass the bottle.
The drummer sent back word that he
was very particular as to what mouth
•rubbled that bottle, and flatly refused
the request of the son of the Great
Ulysses, It is thought that the Gov*
ernment will suppress the Chicago
firm.
The merchants of Montreal are none
of your churls, but know when they
have received a fivor and appreciate it.
The Montreal Witness tells of a wor
thy leather merchant in that tewn who
Lst a check for $729 28, payable to
bearer The check was found by a poor
working man, who returned it at once
to the merchant, whereupon the lat
ter. without a moment’s hesitation
told the working-man he was “ much
obliged.”
The planters about Vicksburg have
gnt hold of a shrewd idea. They table
of' investing heir money in cotton and
holding it over Tor high prices in the .
summer. They say they can buy it
cheaper now than they can poss ibly
raise it. arid there D no use of being
bothered in raising a crop, A diversi
fied farming should engage their atten
tion.
John Osborn recently bought a fine
blooded ox, of which he was very proud.
He went into the stall the other morn !
slapped nim lamiliary on the back and
told him to waltz over,” and the fit!r
blooled ox waltzed John Osborn over
j the side of the stall, and then escorted
; h’w out of the barn and walked him .
across the barnyard and helped him .
over the fence, and then serenaded
| until noou trying to coax .him back.—
i But he would not be coaxed.