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CALHOUN TIMES j), B. FREEMAN, Proprietor. CIRCULATES EXTENSIVELY IN Gordon and Adjoining Counties. Office: Wall St., Southwest of Court'House. rates of subscription. One Year $2.00 Six Months 1.00 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 fir i copy :f the Kennesaw Route Gazette, 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. j J lv. MAIN, >l, I>. PR/CTICING PHYSICIAN, Ha ing permanently located in Calhoun, offer.- his professional services to the pub lic. Will attend all calls when not profes sion lly engaged. Office at the Calhoun Hot 1. J L>. TINSLEY, Watch-Maker & Jeweler, CALHOUN , GA. All styles of Clocks, Watches and Jewelry neatly repaired and warranted. "IMie Great CARROLLTON DEBATE, BY Drs. Graves and Ditzler. THIS is the ablest, grandest and most I learned discussion of the age. Both -ides of the great denominational issues be > ween the Methodists and Baptists have been thoroughly and well presented by these great masters No such valuable book on these subjects has ever been presented to ’he American people. It is a large octavo volume, printed on fine paper, about 900 pages. Bound in cloth $3 50 Bound in sheep 4 00 Subscriptions Solicited. W. C. LUTHER, J. H. TATUM, Agents for Bartow and Gordon counties. K. S. TATUM, Assistant. mar22-4t CALHOUN TIMES. Two Dollars a Year. VOX,. VI. CHEAPEST AND REST! HOWARD HI 111! 11 111 OMIT! MANUFACTURED NEAR KINGSTON, BARTOW COUNTY, GEORGIA. Equal to the best imported Portland Cement. Send for Circular. Try this before buy iny elsewhere. Refers by permission to Mr. A. J. West President of 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. 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 ot Masonry, East River Bridge, New \ork, Gen. Wm. Mcßae, Superintend ent W. & A. Railroad, Capt, J. ]V tell, C. E. Address G. H. WARING, Kingston, Ga octl3l y. Hygienic Institute I IF YOU would enjoy the HD \ \ l\ most delightful luxury; if lIH /■ \lf 0U he speedily,clieap- Ullllill/ 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 and Fever, or otiier Malarial Affections ; if you would be purified from all Poisons,whether from Drugs or Disease; if you would I *’ ave Beauty, Health and Si ll Long Life go to the Dygien -1 l lUi ic Institute,and use Nature’s Great Remedies.the Turkish Bath, the “ Water-cure Pro cesses,” tle “ Movement cure,” Electricity and other Hygienic agei ts. Success is wonderful—curing aH cu rable cases. If not able to go and take board, send full account of your case, and get directions for treatment at home. Terms reason,a ble. Location, corner Loyd and Wall streets, opposite | Passenger Depot, Atlanta, * Jno. Stainback Wilson - , Pliysician-in-Charge. Awarded the Highest Medal at Vienna. E. & 11. T ANTHONY & CO., 591 ISroudway, \ew York. (Opp. M etropolitan Hotel.) Manufacturers. Importers & Deal ers in CHROMOS AND FRAMES, Stereoscopes and Views, Albums, Graphoscopes an 1 suitable views, Photographic Materials, We are Headquarters fo" everything in the way of Sfcreoscopt icons and Magic Lanterns. Being manufacturers of the Micro- Scirvtific L<intern , Stereo-1 *a n o pti.con, ('n tree* ity Stereoscopt icon , Adveitisers S'ereoscopticon , 4 r top tie on, Sehojl Lantern , Family Lantern , People's Ijantern. 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 witli a magic lantern. Cut out this advertisement for refer cnce sep29-9m Brick-Layer & Contractor. IMIE undersigned most respectfully begs leave to inform the citizens <>f 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 oue i ock-n>aso~>, 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. BILLIIIMER. Calhoun, Ga., November 9, 1875. All orders addressed to me as above wil receive prompt at ten! ion. novlO-ly ~ T. M. KI J r ? IS r MHIOM IE 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. Jeb"*. C. FIELD, QrrTAQFLOWER. GARDENS DIjUOTREE,HEDGE, &c We olier our usual large and complete as sortment, embracing the most desirable va rieties and of best quality, and mail price list to any address on receipt of stamp Seeds of all kinds by jacket, ounce, ’nun , and quart, can be sent by mail to any post office in the United States. EDWARD J. EVANS & CO., Nurserymen and Seedsmen. jan!9-3m, Yobk, Pa. 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. NO. 31. Rates of Advertising. ttsS* For each square of ten lines or less for the first insertion, sl, and for each sub sequent insertion, fifty cents. No.Sq’rs | 1 Mo. | Mos. | o Mor I 1 year. Two I v 4.00 I $7.00 ~j "$12.00 | $20.00 Four “ j 6.00 j 10.00 j 18.00 86.00 [column \ . 1 16.00 25.00 40.00 I “ I 15.00 25.00 40.00 65.00 1 “ j 25.00 | 4000 65.00 1 |5.U* Sheriff's Sales, each levy $4 00 Application for Homestead 2 OO Notice to Debtors and Creditors... 4 00 Land Sales, one square 4 00 Each additional square 3 00 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.