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CALHOUN TIMES
I>. B I’BKEMABf, 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
Railroad JtfturtuU,
Western & Atlantic Railroad
AND ITS CONNECTIONS.
11 KENNESA TV UO VTE”
The following takes effect may 23d, 1875
NORTHWARD. No. 1.
Leave Atlanta 4.10 p.m
Arrive Cartersville 6.14 ‘‘
Kingston 6.42 “
“ Dalton 8.24 “
“ Chattanooga 10,25 “
No. 3.
Leave Atlanta 7,00 a.m
Arrive Cartersviile 0.22 ~
“ Kingston 9.56 •*
" Dalton 11.54 “
Chattiuiooga 1.56 p.m
No. 11.
Leave Atlnnta 3,30 p.m
Arrive Cartersville 7.19 “
“ Kingston 8.21 “
“ Dalton 11.18 “
SOUTHWARD. No. 2.
T.cavc Chattanooga 4.00 p.m'
Arrive Dalton 5.41 “
•' Kingston * 7,28 “
“ Cartersville 8.12 “
“ Atlanta 10.15 “
No. 4.
I cr.vn Chattanooga 6.00 a.m
n ivc Dalton 7.01 “
“ Kingston 9.07 “
“ Cartersville 9.42 “
Atlanta 12 06 i\m
No. 12.
I .<a\c Dalton 1.(10 a.m
Ari e Kingston 4.19
Cartersville 5.18 “
*• Atlanta 9.20 “
ullnan Palace Cars run on Nos. 1 and 2
lio ! •veen New Orleans and Baltimore.
1 ulltnan Palace Cars run on Nos. 1 and 4
Let .een Atlanta and Nashville.
1 oilman Palace Cars run on Nos. 2 and 3
itwccr Louisville and Atlanta.
Biciju No change of cars between New Or
leans, M >bile, Montgomery, Atlanta and
Baltimore, and only one change to New
Y or <.
P tsseng ;rs leaving Atlanta at 4.10 p. m.,
arriro in New York the second afternoon
(her after at 4.00.
B\cursion tickets to the Virginia springs
and various summer resorts will be oil sale
in N w Orleans, Mobile, Montgomery, Co
lumbus, Macon, Savannah, Augusta and At
lanta, at gi catly reduced rates, first of
Juuc
Parties desiring a whole car through to
he \ irginia Springs or Baltimore, should
address the unlersigned.
IV ties contemplating travel should send
fur a copy of the Kennesaw Route Gazette,
o*n!n ning schedules, etc.
BP*). Ask for Ticket- Pa “Kennesaw
1 onto ”
B. W. WRENN,
G/P. & T. A., Atlanta, Ga.
Change of Schedule.
TilE GEORGIA AND MACON AND
AUGUSTA RAILROADS.
ON VXD AFT Eli SUNDAY, JUNE 28tii,
/5 74, the Passenger Trains on the Georgia
-ml Macon and Augusta Railroads will run
as foil, ws :
GEORGIA RAILROAD!
Day Paxxeagcr Train Will
I.- ave Augusta at 8:45 a m
Leave Atlanta at 7:00 a m
A i rive in Augusta at 3:30 p m
A rive in Atlanta at 5:45 p m
Xiggt Passenger Train.
I eave Augusta at 8:1 n p m
1 cave Atlauta at 10:30 p in
Ari.ve in Augusta at 8:15 a m
Ariive in Atlant * at 6:22 a m
MACON AND AUGUSTA RAILK AD.
Macon Passenger Train.
T eave August;! at on. .10:45 m
1 cave Canmk at -: 15 p
Arrive at Macon at 6:40 p
Leave Macon at 6:30 a m
Arrive at Camak ~..10:45 a m
Arrive at Augusta at 2:00 p m
BERZEI L 4 PASSENGER TRAIN.
Leave Augusta at 4;15 p m
Leave Berzelia at 8:30 a m
Arrive in .lugusta at ~...9;55 a in
Arrive in Berzelia at 5:50 p m
Passengers from Athens, Washington, At
lanta, or any point on tiie Georgia Rail
road aid Branches, by taking the Day Pas
senger Train, will make close connection
at Camak with trams for Macon and all
points beyond.
Pullman’s (First-Class) Palace sleepiu
Cars on all Night Passenger Trains on
Georgia Railroad.
S. K JOHNSON, Superintendent,
Fuperi ntendent’s Office Georgia and Macon
and Augusta Railroads, Augusta, June
29, 1874,
BARBER SII OP.
HAIR-CUTTING,
SHAVING,
SHAMPOOING,
Jlair-dycing, and al 1 work in my line done
in a manner sure to give satisfaction at my
shop in rear of 11. M. Jackson’s store.
MACK LAW.
Manhood: How Lost How Restored.
mfmfm Just published, anew edition
of Dr. t’ulvcnvells Celebra
.. ■Ri-W.-.’Jr ted Essay on the radical cure
(without medicine) of Spermatobuhcea or
Seminal Weakness, Involuntary Nominal
Losses, Impotency, Mental and Physical In
capacity, impediments to marriage, etc.,
also, CoNfvsirTiox, Epilepsy and Ins, in
duced by self-indulgance orsesual extrava
gance, &c.
gfegpTrice, in a scaled envelope, only six
cents.
The celebrated author, in this admirable
essay, clearly demonstrated, from a thirty
years’ successful practice, that the alarming
dangerous use of internal medicine or the
application of the knife ; pointing out a
inode of cure at once simple, certain and
effectual, by means of which every sufferer,
no matter what his condition may be, may
cure himcelf cheaply, privately, and radi
ablly.
lecture should be in the hands of
every youth and erey man in the land.
Sent under seal, in a plain envelope, to
any address, ] ost-paid, on receipt of six cents
or two postage stamps.
Addicss the publishers,
F. BRUGMAN & SON,
41 Ann St., N;w York; Pest Office Box,
4585. maro lv.
Two Dollars a Year.
VOL. VI.
CHEAPEST AM) BEST!
HOWARD
HYDRAULIC MEM!
MANUFACTURED NEAR KINGSTON,
BAIITOW COUNTY, GEORGIA.
Equal to ihc best imported Portland Cement.
Send for Circular. Try this he fore
buying 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 11. Bry
an, of Savannah, T. C. Douglas, Superin
tendent of Masonry, East River Bridge,
New York, Gen. Win. Mcßae, Superintend
ent W. & A. Railroad, Capt. J. Postell, C.
E. Aillress
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octl3l y.
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Dil *• ** * Jno. Stainrack Wilson,
Pliysician-in-Char£e.
Awarded the Highest Medal at Vienna.
E. & H. T ANTHONY & CO.,
501 Broadway, New York.
(Opp. Metropolitan Hotel.)
Manufacturers, Importers & Deal
ers in
CHROMOS AND FRAMES,
Stereoscopes and Views,
Albums, Graphoscopes an 1 suitable views,
Photographic Materials,
We are Headquarters for everything in the
way of
Stereoscopticons and Magic
Lanterns.
Being manufacturers of the
Micro- Scientific Lon tern ,
Stereo-Panopticon,
i it iversify - Stereoscopticon,
Adveitisers Stereoscopticon,
Artopticon,
School Lantern , Family Lantern,
People's Lantern.
Each style being the best of its class.in the
market.
Catalogues of Lanterns and Slides with
directions for using sent on application.
Any enterprising man can make money
with a magic lantern.
fi&rCutout this advertisement for refer
ence. 0 sep29-9m
Brick-Layer & Contractor.
IYIIE undersigned most respectfully begs
leave to inform the citizens of Calhoun
and surrounding country that, having pro
cured tlie 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 t is line in the most satisfactory
manner and on moderate terms. The pat
ronage of the public generally solicited.
IIENRY M. BILLHIMEIt.
Calhoun, Ga., November 9, 1875.
All orders addressed to me as above wil
receive prompt attention. novlO-ly
T. M. ELLIS^
LIVERY 4, MLB STABLE.
Good Saddle and IMiggy Horse?
and New Vehicles.
Horses and mules for sale.
Stock fed and cared for.
Charges will be reasonable.
Will pay the cash for corn in Ihe ear and
fodder in the bundle. feb3-tf.
J I>. TINSLEY,
Watch-Maker & Jeweler,
CALHOUN, GA.
All stylos of Clocks, Watches a id Jewelry
neatly repaired and warranted.
CALHOUN, GA., WEDNESDAY, MAY 10,1876.
COUNTRY GIRLS.
Up early in the morning,
Just at the weep of day,
Straining the milk in the dahy,
Turning the cows away—
Sweeping the floor in the kitcher,
the beds up stairs,
Washing the bieakfast dishes,
Dusting the j arlor chairs.
Brushing the crumbs from tlie pantry
Hunting for eggs in the barn,
Cleaning the turnips for dinner,
Spinning the stlicking yarn—
Spreading thc whitening linen,
Down on tho bushes below,
Ransacking every meadow,
Whereat he rod strawberries grow.
Starching the “fixings” for Sunday,
Churning the snowy cream,
Rinsing the pails and strainer
Down in the running stream—
Feeding the geese and turkeys,
J/aking the pumpkin pies,
Jogging the little one’s cradle,
Driving away tie dies.
Grace in every motion,
Music in every tone.
Beauty in form and feature,
Thousands might covet to own—
Cheeks that rival Spiing l oses,
Teetli tlie whitest of pearls;
One of thesi country m .ids is worth
A score of your city girls,
A TRUE STORY.
One cold day in winter, a kd stood
at the outer door of a cottage in Scot
land. The snow had been falling very
fast, and the poor boy looked very cold
and hungry.
“ May’nt I stay ma’am ?” he said to
the woman who had opened the door.—
“ I’ll work, cut wood, go for water, and
do all your errands.”
“ You may come in at any rate, un<
til my husband comes home,” the wo.
man said. ‘'There, sit down by the fire ;
you look perishing with the cold;” aud
she drew a chair up to the warmest cor
ner ; then, suspiciously glancing at the
boy from the coiners of her eyes, she
continued setting the table for supper.
Presently came the trump of heavy
boots, and the door was swung open
with a quickjerk, and the husband en-.
tered, wearied with his day’s work.
A look of intelligence passed between
his wife ai>d himself. He had looked
at the boy, but did not seem very well
pleaded; he nevertheless made him came
to the table, and was glad to see how
heartily he ate his supper.
Day after day passed and yet the boy
begged to be kept “ until to. morrow
so the good couple, after due considera
tion, concluded that, as lung as he was
such a good boy, and worked so willing
ly, they would keep him.
One day in the middle of winter, a
peddler who otten traded at the cottage,
called, and, after disposing of some of
his goods, was preparing to go, when he
said to the woman :
“ You have a boy out there splitting
wood, I see,” pointing to the yard as he
spoke.
“Yes; do you know him?”
“ i have seen him,” replied the ped
dler.
“Where? Who is he ? What is
he ?”
“A jail bird.” and then the peddler
swung his pack over his shoulder. “That
bov, young as he looks, I saw in court
myself, and heard him sentenced 1 ten
months.’ You’d do well to look careful*
ly after him.”
On ! there was something so dreadful
in the word “jail.” The poor woman
trembled as she kid away the things
she had bought of the peddler; nor
could she be easy till she knew that
dark part of his history.
Ashamed and distressed, thc boy
bung down his head. llis cheeks
seemed bursting with the hot blood, and
his lips quivered.
“Well,” he muttered, his frame sha
king, “there 8 no use in my trying to
do better ; everybody hates and de
spises me ; nobody cares for me.”
“ Tell me,” said the woman, “how
come you to go, so young, to thatd*ead
ful place? Where is your mother?”
“Oh 1” exclaimed the boy with a
burst of grief that was terrible to be
hold—“oh ! I hadn’t no mother ever
since I was a baby ! If I only had a
mother,” he continued, while tears
gushed from his eyes, “I wouldn’r have
been bound out, and kicked aud cuffed
and horse-whipped. I wouldn’t have
been saucy and got knocked own and
run away, and then stole because I was
hungry. Oh ! if I’d only had a mothe
er ?”
The strength was all gone from the
poor boy, aud he sank on his knees,
sobbing great choking sobs, and rub
bing the hot tears away with the sleeve
of his jacket.
The woman was a mother, and, though
all her children slept under the cold sod
in the churehsyard, she was a mother
stili. She put her baud kindly on the
head of the boy, and told him to look
up, and said from that time ho should
find iu her a mother. Yes, even put
her arms around the neck of that for
saken, deserted chidl. She poured
from her mother’s heart sweet, kind
words—words of counsel and of ten
derness. Oh ! how sweet was her sleep
that night —how soft her pillow ! She
had plucked some thorns from the path
of a little sinning but striving mortal.
That poor boy is now a promising
man. llis foster-father is dead. 11 is
foster-mother is aged and sickly, but
she knows no want. The “poor out
cast ” is her support. NobW does he
repay the trust reposed in him.
“ When my father an 1 mother for
sake me, the Lord will take uie up.” —
I The Standard’'Bearer.
•‘Truth Conquers AH Things/’
A Glittering Mystery.
“ W hat hecomes of the prec ous met
als ?” asks an Eastern journal and
then proceeds,to consider the question
and succeeds in throwing much doubt
upon it, or rather leaving it in just as
much doubt upon it, or rather leaving
it in just us much doubt as before. The
question, “What becomes of all the
pins ?” has been often asked, perhaps,
and answered with about the same illu
mination. Ford. Ewer, many years
ago, in this city, was hugely amused at
a question in the Sacramento Union,
namely, “Where does all the water go ?”
To which interrogation the questioner
proceeded, with the philosophical so*
briety of an owl, to reply through a long
column article, when it might have
been answered in two words—the ocean.
But it is not so easy to answer satisfac
torily the question as to what becomes
of the precious metals. That a vast
amount has been ex'racted from the
earth, according to an English writer
who of course, must depend ufon guess
work, not less than $,009,090,000, since
the days of Noah, in gold and silver,
there can be no doubt. Of this amount
he thinks that $3,200,000,000 has been
produced since the discovery of Ameri
ca. The Christian world is credited
vith having had $2,000,000,000, most
which has been disposed of by ship
wrecks, gilding, fire and various other
ways, all effectual, we might suggest, as
many of our citizens have disposed of
theirs investing in stocks. lie
thinks this loss proceeds at the rate of
$16,000,000 annually, while the pro
duction he puts at $40,000/100, which
is undoubtedly too low. One.ffialf o:
the balance, $350,000,000, he thinks is
held iu the form of plate and orna
ments. Of the the balance in the anti-
Christian world, waste and losses omit
ted, he thinks over a thousand billions
have been hidden in Asiastic lands in
different ages of the world, and he con
tinues that is well knewn that a thou
sand millions were thus hidden in Chi
na in the six years succeeding 1851 ;
that is, during the lime when wholesale
murder and slaughter and wholesale
robbery and despoJitimi were the busi
ness of the natives and their enemies.
One would think that China must be
carpeted with gold leaf, paved with sik
ver dollars, glittering with the precious
metals, did he think only of he vast
sums sent there for hundreds of years
past, little or none ever comes back.—
But iomehow those metals have a late
there, as they have elsewhere—they
disappear. Like many other commodi
ties, they serve their purpose and dis
appear. What became of all the gold
with which Solomon coverel his grand
temple? What became of all the Span
ish spoils iu South America and in
Mexico ? One might ask such ques*
tions forever and be no wiser thereof. —
Gold and silver serve their purposo and
disappear, as do the human race and old
boots and all other material things, and
tncre is none so wise as can tell us ac
curately what has become of them.—
When the fawcet is turned, where has
f he gaslight goue ? one might ask, and
questions would be as reasonable and
perhaps as difficult to answer. We
Know pretty well where our little por
tion of gold and silver has gone, but
that knowledge does not give us any
particular gratification.— Alta Cal if or*
nia.
Eighteen Hit mired Years after
Death.
A correspondent Jour
nal, writing of excavations at Pompeii,
says :
“ Among the most interesting of the
objects found recently- are two skeletons,
one of a somewhat elderly man, the
other of a woman. They were found
in the A ia Stabia among the ashes of
the last eruption, evidently overtaken
in their flight and buried in the cinders.
According to thc usual method employ
ed tq preserve the external appearance
of objects, liquid plaster was poured
into the cavity, which serving as a
mould, a fan-simile of the forms was
obtained; and thus perfect preserved,
the statue like bodies were placed in
glass cases in the Pompeii muse "in. —
While appreciating all the horror of
such a death and the suffering endured,
as shown by the position, I cannot but
imagine what would have been thc aso
tonishmsnt of that man or woman had
sum: prophet informed them that eigh
teen huudred years after their death
their forms, and even as much of their
garments as were not consumed in the
eruption, would be placed in a museum
for inpsectkn by a multitude of sight
seers, some from lands, the existence of
which they had never dreamed of.
“ The poor woman is lying on her
face, and even the form of her hair,
put up behind, is seen. One arm
shields her forehead, and she is sup<
ported by the other. Her limbs
are well formed, and traces of a gar
ment arc seen passing in folds around
her. The man, although placed on his
his back in the exhibition, when found
was turned on his side.. One arm re ts
on his hip ; the ot \er is uplifted. The
face is somewhat distorted, but massive
uod smoothly shaved. Even the form
of the fastenings of the sandals arouud
the ankle, and of the long button high
er up ou thc leg to hold them, is clear
ly seen. The limbs are partly drawn
up. 'I he skeleton of a tolerably large
dog, also leeently found, is in the Mu
seum of Pompeii, his whole form pre
served in plaster, in the same manner as
those ju-t mentioned. lie is !)ing on
l.is back writhing in suffering, bi’ing
his hind leg. The rings aud collar are
j laiuly seen.”
Oa Founding a Home.
Fiist’secure a home, which is, a house
to live in, and the proper people in it to
compose the foundation of home life.—
Directions as to house decoration or
skillful cookery, or the control of cook
or chambermaid, are of very littlo aei
count, if the people who sit down in
their pretty rooms day by day find
their hearts torn by jealousy, or their
brains rasped by nervous irritation. Let
Tom and Amelia turn from the altar,
resolving' to start fair and give them
selves the largest chance of a clear un
derstanding of each other, and, in con.-
sequence, of future happiness. Let
them turn their backs on boarding
houses, shut their eyes to all considera
tions of style, be deaf to all hints of
Mrs. Grundy’s expectations, and buy or
rent a house within their means. If
they are too poor for a house, then a
flat; if not a iiat a room ; or if the
worst comes to the worst,let then.,like our
friends at Rudder Grange, hire a canal
boat; only let them go to housekeep
ing, and (jo it alone. Comfortable quar
ters, perhaps, are offered Rhem in the
house of one of their parents, who very
naturally try to keep the young birds
just mated a littlo longer in the old
nest, especially if they are well to-do°
people, to whom the addition to the fam
ily will be only a pleasure, and not a
burden. Amelia’s husband not being
able to support her in the style to which
she is accustomed, what can bo more
proper than they should occupy part of
her father’s mansion, and reap the ben
efit of well-trained servants carriages
and sumptuous fare? Or some other
motive of economy or affection dictates
their plans. Amelia’s mamma being a
widow, and devoted to her child, why
shoull she live alone in her house, peo
pled for her, perhaps, by ghosts of the
beloved dead ? Why not take the spare
room in the young people’s house and
make a part of their new life ? Or it
may be Tom’s unmarried rister or bach
elor uncle who comes in to make a third
in the partnership just begun. Now
this new comer may be the most clever,
amiable, dearest soul in the world, and
the arrangement one dictated by pru
dential motives and affection ; but ninety
nine times in a hundred it is destructive
of the fine tone and temper of the new
ly formed household. The first of
married life ie a passage, at the best,
over dangerous quicksands ; no matter
how intimate their knowledge of each
other was before marriage, husband and
wife have now to find each other out in
a thousand new and unexpected phases;
and to adjust themselves each to the
other in the habits, tastes,even language
of every day. It will require all the
tact and the patience which love gives
to enable them to do this, and the inter
ference, even the presence, of this third
party, is always a disturbing element.
The more near and dear the relation of
this third party the more apt to come be
tween the wife and husband. Unfortu
nately,too, the whole tone of married life
usually receives its key-note from this
first year; and so invariably damaging is
the influence of outsiders upon it,that the
best receipt, probably, to insure a hap
py marriage, would bo to make a holo
caust of all kinfolk on the wedding
day. As that is not practicable, let
Amelia and Ton live as much apart as
possible lor at least twelve months, sel
fish as such reserve may appear io their
families.
After they have become in a measure
o .o, and the uncertainty and disquiet
tude of the storms and sunshine of ear
ly marriage have given place to a set-'
tied home atmosphere, the occasional
presence of strangers has usually a
wholesome influence. With the com
panionship of a guest now and then,
Tom and Amelia are less likely to fiud
their thought* and opinions grow stale
and tedious. Charity, too, assumes, no
more beautiful form than iu a gracious
hospitality, especially to those who ?re
needy in body and mind. Wo know
certain households where there is al
ways to be found an orphan girl going
to school with the other children, or a
helpless old black “ Aunty ’’ in her
chair by the kitchen fire, or some oth
er waif warmed and sheltered from the
cold without. We remember a certain
youug girl who, like most Virginia wo
men, was skilled in housewifery, who
took into her father’s, one after anoth
er, girls of fourteen from an adjoining
mill, and trained them herself as seam
stresses and cooks, teaching them to
read and write at the same Time. Be
fore and after her marriage she fitted
and placed eight women in useful, hon
oiable careers of life. The home, when
founded, should always be large enough
to give some creatures needing help, or
it may be too small for any blessing to
rest upon, which fails like dew from
above.— Rural Xcic Yorlces .
Privileges of Leap Year.—
“ Young ladies have the privilege of
saying anything they please during leap
year," she said eyeing bin) out of the
corner of her eyes with a sweet look.
llis heart gave a great bound, and
while he wondered if she was going to
ask the question which he had so long
desired and feared to do, he answered
“ Yes.”
“ And the young men must not re
fuse,’’ said she
‘•No, no I. How can they ?’’ sighed
he.
“Well, then,” said she, will you ”
lie fell on his knees and said : “Any
thing, anything you ask, darling.”
Wait til! I get through. Will you
take a walk, and nut hang around our
house so much ?”
Aud ho walked. — Oil City Derrick.
In Advance.
Why Married Persons Five Iho
Longest.
Dr.. ll a 11 1 in one of his “ Health
tracts,” gives a few reasons why mar
riage is favorable to health : They fell
unsettled. If indoors after supper,
there is a sense of solitariness, inducing
a sadness, if not settled melancholy
with all its depressing influences. And
many, many hours in the course of tin;
year are spent in gloomily activity,
which is adverse to a good digestion and
to a vigorous and healthy circulation.
llis own chamber or bouse being so Un
inviting, the bachelor is so inclined to
seek diversion outside—in suppers with
friends, in clubs which are iotrodueto
ties to intemperance anti licentiousness,
or to these more unblushing associatians,
which, under the cover uf darkness, lead
to speedy ruin of health and morals;
and when these are gone, the way down
ward to an untimely grave is rapid and
certain. On tho other hand, marriage
lengthens a man’s life bv its making
home inviting—by the softening influ
ences which it has upon the character
and the affections—by the cultivation
of all the bettor feelings of our nature,
and in that proportion saving from vice
and crime. There can be no healthful
development of the physical functions
of our na‘ure without marriage. It is
necessary to the perfect man —for Di
vinity has announced that it was “ not
good fora man to be alone.” Marriage
gives a lauiiib!e and happy object in life
—the provision for wife aud children,
their present comfort and their future
welfare, the enjoyment in witnessing
their happiness, and the daily and hour
ly participation in affectionate inter
change of th mglit and sentiment and
sympathy. These are the considerations
which antagonize and lighten the bur
dens of life—thus strewing flowers aud
castiug sunshine all along its pathway
Voltaire said : “The more married men
you have, the fewer crimes there will
be.” Marriage renders a man more
viituous and more wise An unmarri
ed man is but half a human being, and
it requires the other half to make
things right. And it cannot bo expect
ed that in this imperfect state he can
keep the straight path of reetitudo, any
more than a boat with one oar can
keep a straight course. In nine cases
out of ten, where married men become
drunkards, or where they commit crimes
against the peace of the community,
ihe foundatian of these ac s was laid
while in a single state, or where the
wife is, as is sometimes tho case, an
suitable match. Marriage changes the
current of a man’s feelings, and gives
him a centre for his thoughts, his affec
tions, ana his acts. Here is a home for
the entire man. The counsel, the af
fection. the example, and the interest of
his “better half,” keep him from errat
ic courses, aud from falling into a thou
sand temptations to which lie would
otherwise be exposed. Therefore the
friend of marriage is the friend to soci
ety and his country.
Regulating tine Family.
She was a lady named Magruder, and
strict in reference to family morals. In
deed, while Mr. Magruder was a good
man, and endeavored to dischargo his
duties as a parent with piopriety, yet
his views as to wh-t really was proper
often ran counter to the views entertain
ed on the same subject by lis
wife, andsl'e had spunk. These differ
ences on a certain occasion are thus de*-
scribed by a common frierd :
“I called on Magruder’s the other
morning on my way down town, and as
I knew them well, I entered the side
door without knocking. I was shocked
to find Mr. Magruder prostrate on the
floor, while Mrs. Magruder sat on his
chest, and rumpled among his hair as
she bumped his head on the boards and
scolded him vigorously. They rose
when I came in, and Magruder, as he
wiped the blood from his nore, tried to
pretend it was only a joke. But Mrs.
Magrundc rinterrupted him:
“ Joke ! joke ! I should not, I was
giving him a dressing down. He want
ed to have prayers before breakfast, and
I was determined to have them after
ward ; and as l.e threw the Bible at me,
and hit Mary Jane with the hymn b 'ok,
I soused down on him. If I can’t rule
this house I’ll know why. Pick up
them Scriptures, and have prayers !
You hear me, Magruder ? It’s more
trouble regulatin’ the piety of (his fam
fly than runniu’ a saw mill. Mary
June give your pa that hymn book.”
“ I left before the exercises began.”
Truth —-How beautiful is truth !
Ir. this world, where there is so much
falsehood and deceit, whereby hearts
arc estranged, recriminations, assaults
and crimes engendered—how beautiful
the true thonglit, word and deed. Like
the sun smiling out amid the angry
storm —like the bight stars shinning
through the heavy night cloud —like
friend clasping the hmd of friend—
like rebutting wrong —like the lan>*c of
virtue ringing on the shield of vice—
like heaven upon earth, and God in
man is Truth ! Precious and Price
less. Dearer than smile of friend, love
of parent, or pomp or fame. Tiuth is
all. By this we know tho nature and
value of things—XYsehood is a cravan
a dastard. Truth is bold, noble and
God-given, beyond every other attribute
of the soul. — Hall.
Nothing was so much dreaded in
our school boy days, says a distinguish
ed writer, as tu bo punished by sitting
between two girls. Ah, tho force of
education ! In after years we learn to
submit to sucli things without shedding
u tear.
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NO. 87-
A Sample CasOi
Chapter I.—lt was New Year’s mot’fi
ing. He had been thi* king deeply for
a day or two, aud there w=>s a Spartan
look on his face as he sat down fo break
fast. He was unusually quiet, though*
lie said he* never felt better in hislif-.
Chapter ll.—Rising from the table
he drew forth his tubueco-bux, anil said
to his wife :
“Hannah I’m going to quit tho
weed.”
“No!”
‘‘Yes I am. I’ve been a slave to tlfe
disgusting habit for fottv years; but
now I’m dote with it! Come here Han
nah.”
Hannah followed him to (he door and
he flung the box far out into tho back
yard.
Chapter lll.—Four days had pass -
ed- I)r:cd pumpkin, cloves, spices, gum,
and dried beef had been chewed in place
of the accustomed quid. The family
cat had been kicked out of doors, the
dog had fled ; the hired girl’s nose was
up ; every peddler in town came to tho
door.
“But you will stick to your resolu
tion won’t you ?” asked the wife.
“I will or die !”
Chapter IV.—Twas dark. Man
sneaked around the house—on his knees
Oi\ tho grass —pawed around—fingers
an object—lid flew open—moved his
right hand to his mouth—“ Yum ! yum !
But what a fool l w is !”
Moral.—Don’t chew.— Boston Rost.
A .Permanent' Home.
To have a home which a man has
himself reared or purchased—a home
which he has inproved or beautified—:>
home imdoed, which w th honest pride
and natur-d love, ho calls his own —is
an additional security for auy man’s vir
tue. Such a home he leaves with re
gret; to it ho gladly returns. Therer
he finds innocent and satisfying pleas
ures. There his wife and littlo ones aoo
happy and safe ; and there all the best
affections take root and grow. To such
a hair as time advances, the ab do of
their early and middle life whence they
have all departed, becomes constantly
more dear ; for it is now a secub of
precious memories—the undisturbed
declining years ! And say —what lapse
of time, what varied experiecue of proso
peril/, or sorrow, can over efface the
good impression made by such a home
on the tender heart of childhood ! To
the tempted youth to the wanderer from
virtue to the sad victim of misfortune,
such remembrance has often proved a
strengthening monitor, or healing balm.
Nor can this kindly influence wholly
fail so long as the dear object of that
iamiliar scene retain a place in rneomry
connected as they inseparable are with
teoughts of a farther’s counsels, mother’s
tenderness, an sister’s purity and a broth
er’s live.
Good Advice for tue Young*.—>
Avoid all boastings and exaggeration*,
backbiting, abuse, and civil speaking;
slang phrases and oaths in conversation
depreciate no man’s qualities, and ac*
cept hospitalities of the humblest kind
in a hearty and appreciative manner;
avoid giving offence, and if you do of
fend, have the manliness to apologizo;
infuse as much elegance as possible into
your thoughts as .<ell as your actions ;
and, as you avoid vulgarities you will in*
crease the enjoyment of life, and grow
in the respect of others.— Blunders in
Behavior Corrected.
Dr. Durbin, the gr /at Methodist ora
tor, once attempted to preaeh a sermon
from the text “Remember Lot’s wife',"'
and made a failure. After remarking
to Dr. Bond that he did not know
the reason of his failure, the venerable
Doctor replie that he “had better
herespKer let other people’s wives alone.
—
“Tommy, my son fetch in a stick of
wood” “Ah ! uiy dear mamma," res
ponded the youth, “the grammatical
portion to your education has been sad
ly neglected You should have said :
“Thomas my son transport from that
recumbent collection of combustible ma
terial upon the threshold c f this ed
ifice one of the curtailed excresencea
of a defunct.
A Sydney editor ha? the fo lowing
placard posted outside his office :
“ ‘Time is money " The editor is not to
be seen ; if you do insist, the first mins
utes a sovereign a quarter of an hour
four sovereigns, half an hour fiftecu
pounds, after which every one will bo
ejected by the window."
Wn Y is a baby like a sheaf of wheat ?
Because it is first cradled and then
thrashed, and finally becomes the flower
of the family.
Y e should practice temperance, if it
were for nothing else but the very pleas
ure of it; it is the glory of a mau that
hath abundance, to live as reason cut as
appetite directs.
At a wedding reecu’fy, when the
clergyman asked tlve lady, “Wilt thou
have this man to be thy wedded
husband V’ she with a modesty which
lent her beauty an additional grace, re*
plied, “If you please.”
Josh Billings says :■ ‘There is one
thing about u hen that lock"; like wis'*
tlom they don’t kacklo much till they
have laid their eggs. Sum fnks air al*
wus a bragging and kaekliug what they
air goin tew do belhui baud."