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    CALHOUN TIMES
I>. B. FREEMAN, Proprietor.
CALHOUN TIMES
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
i’.ailvoart ArlmhtU.
Western & Atlantic Railroad
AND ITS CONNECTIONS.
1 * KENNESA W RO VTE”
The following takes effect may 23d, 1875
NORTHWARD. No. 1.
Leave Atlanta 4.10 i\m
Arrive Cartersviile 6.14 ‘‘
•* Kingston 6.42 “
“ Dalton 8.24 “
“ Chattanooga 10.26 “
No. 3
Leave Atlanta 7.00 a.m
Arrive Cartersviile 9.22 „
“ Kingston 9.56
“ Dalton 11.54 “
Chattanooga 1.66 p.m
No. 11.
Leave Atlanta 6,30 p.m
Arrive Cartersviile 7.19 “
“ Kingston 8.21 “
“ Dalton 11.18 “
SOUTHWARD. No. 2.
",<eave Chattanooga 4.00 p.m
Arrive Dalton 6.41 “
“ Kingston 7,28 “
“ Cartersviile 8.12 “
“ Atlanta 10.15 “
No. 4.
1 or ve Chattanooga 5.t)0 a.m
A n ive Dalton 7.01 "
“ Kingston 9.0", ‘
“ Cartersviile .. 9.42 “
“ Atlanta 12 06 -.m
No. 19.
T 'av c Dalton 1.00 a.m
A t*i e Kingston 4.19 *•
‘ Cartersviile 5.18 “
•* Atlanta 9.20 “
oil nan Palace Gars run o i Nos. 1 and 2
be vee i New Orleans and Paltimore.
1 oilman Palace Cars run "ii Nos. 1 and 4
hot een Atlanta and Naslivihe.
1 ullm m Palace Cars run on Nos. 2 and 3
it veer Louisville and Atlanta.
No change of cars between New Or
lcars, A. )bile, Montgomery, Atlanta and
Bal: more, and only one change to New
York.
Pisseng *rs leaving Atlanta at 4 10 p. m.,
arrive in New York the second afternoon
ther after at 4.00.
E eursic n tickets to the Virginia springs
and various summer resorts will be on sale
in N w Orleans, Mobile, Montgomery, Co
lumbus, Mac Savannah, Augusta and At
lanta, at gieatly reduced rates, first of
June
Pal’tics desiring a whole car through to
\ irgima Sovings or Baltimore, should
aldrtss the tin lersigned.
Pa ties contemplating travel should send
it'ir a copy of the Kcnnesaw Route Gazette,
n mta uing scliclules, etc.
. Ask for Tickets ( : a “ Kennesaw
l oute ”
B. W. WIIENN,
G. P. & T. A., Atlanta, Ga.
Change of Schedule.
I.IE GEORGIA AND MACON AND
ALUUS’i A RAILROADS.
ON \ND AFTER SUNDAY, JUNE 28th,
D7l, the Passenger Trains on the Georgia
.ml Macon and Augusta Railroads will run
as foil, ws:
GEORGIA RAILROAD.
Day Passenger Train II ill
1. nvo Augusta at 8:4 > a m
Leave Atlanta at 7:90 a in
A rive in Augusta at 3:30 p in
A rive in Atlanta at 5:15 p rn
Niggt Vassenger Train.
T ea\e Augusta at p m
1 cave Atlanta at 10:50 p m
An .ve in Augusta at .....8:15 a in
An ive in Atlant t, at 6:22 an
MACON AND AUGUSTA lIAILR AD.
Macon Passenger Train.
leave August.-, at 0n...10:1n m
1 eave Carnal, at 2:l-> p
Arrive* at Macon at 0:10 p
.Leave Macon at C>:3o a m
.Arrive at Camalc at 10:45 a m
Arrive at Augusta at 2:00 p m
BERZF.I LI PASSENGER TRAIN.
Leave Augusta at 4;15 pm
Leave Berzelia at a m
Arrive in lugusta at... 9:55 am
Arrive in Berzelia at 5:50 p ni
Passengers from Athens, Washington, At
lanta, or my point on the Georgia Rail
road a id Branches, by taking the Day Pas
senger Train, will make close connection
at Camnh with trains for Macon and all
points beyond.
Pullman’s (First-Class) Palace slcepiu
.Cars on all Night Passenger Trains on
‘George Railroad.
S. K JOHNSON, Superintendent ,
Saperi ntendent’s Office Georgia and Macon
and Augusta Railroads, Augusta, Juno
29, 1874,
i’vofc&suvnal & CCavdi
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barber shop.
kaircutting,
SHAVING,
SHAMPOOING,
Hair-dyeing, and al 1 work in my line clone
* n a manner sure to give satisfaction at my
sl >op in rear of 11. M. Jackson’s store.
MACK LAW.
Manhood: How Lost How Restored.
Just published, anew edition
!or^H’ of Dr. Cnlverwell’s Cclebra
' dLJV a/ f(.(] Essay on the radical cure
(without medicine) of Spehmatobbikea or
yetninal Weakness, Involuntary Aeminal
Loss es, Impotexcy, Mental and Physical In
capacity, impediments to marriage, etc.,
a . 8 °> Consumption, Epilepsy and F ns, in
-1 UC( J by self-imlulgance or scjual extrava
gance, & c .
SrifPricc, in a sealed envelope, only six
cents.
I he celebrated author, in this admirable
>!l y. clearly demonstrated, from a thirty
years’ successful practice, that the alarming
onerous use of internal medicine or the
application of the knife ; pointing out a
| |"* e of cure at once simple, certain and
l '°hial, by means of which every sufferer,
I’ 11 matter what his condition may be, may
him:.elf cheaply, privately, and radi-
I his lecture should be in the hands of
'cry youth and evey man in the land.
' en * under seal, in a plain envelope, to
" ' a( ldress, j out-paid, on receipt of six cents
1 '"'a postage stamps.
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VOL. VI.
CHEAPEST AND BEST!
HOWARD
IIIIIKAIHI HIT!
MANUFACTURED NEAR KINGSTON,
BARTOW COUNTY, GEORGIA.
Equal to the best imported Portland Cement.
Send for Circular. Try this before
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
Torn Berry, Rome, Georgia, Major 11. Bry
an, of Savannah, T. C. Douglas, Superin
tendent of Masonry, East River Bridge,
New York, Gen. Wm. Mcßae, Superintend
ent W. & A. Railroad, Capt. J. Postell, C.
E. Address
G. 11. WARING, Kingston, Ga
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go and take board,-send full
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get directions for treatment
at home. Terms reasona
hie. Location, corner Loyd
and Wall streets, opposite
Passenger Depot, Atlanta.
* Jxo. Staixback Wii.sox,
i’hysician-in-Charge.
Awarded the Highest Medal at Vicuna
E. & 11. T ANTHONY & C 0„
591 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 fo-* everything in the
way of
Stercoscopticons and Magic
Lanterns.
Being manufacturers of the
Micro-Scientific Lantern ,
Stereo-Pa nopticon ,
University - Stereoscopticon,
Adveitisers Stereoscopticon ,
A rtopticon ,
Schojl Lantern , Family Lantern ,
Peoples Lantern.
Uacli 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.
fifesT-Cut out this advertisement for refer
ence.' D ©a sep29-9m
Brick-Layer & Contractor.
TIIE undersigned most respectfully bogs
leave to inform the citizens of Calhoun
a,id surrounding country that, having pro
cured the aid of Mr. liilburn as a number
one bricklayer and Barney O’Fallon as a
number one rock-mason, Is prepared to do
all work in l is line in the most satisfactory
manner and on ru'derate terms. lpe P av
ronage of the public generally solicited.
b henry M. BILLHIMER.
Calhoun, Ca., November 9, 1875.
All orders addressed to me as above wil
receive prompt attention. novlO-ly
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LIVERY & SALK STABLE.
Good Saddle and Buggy Horse?
and New Vehicles.
Horses and mules for pale.
Stock fed and cared for.
Charges will be reasonable.
Will pay the cash for corn in the car and
°odder in the bundle. febo-t..
ADVERTISING
in RELIGIOUS ANI> AGRICUL
TURAL WEEKLIES, HALF
PRICE. Send for Catalogue on the List
Ti an. For information, address
CJ FO. lb ROWELL &
CALHOUN, GA., WEDNESDAY, MAY 17, 1876.
WHEN I MEAN TO MARRY.
BY JOHN G. RAXE.
When I mean to marry ? -Well,
’Tis idle to dispute with fate ;
But if you choose to hear me tell,
Pray listen while 1 fix the date.
When daughters haste w ; th eager feet,
A mother’s toil to share ;
Can make the pudding which they eat,
And mend the stockings which Vitey wear,
When maidens look upoD a man
As in 1 imsslf what they would marry,
And not as army soldiers scan
A sutler or a commissary.
When pentle ladies who have got
The offer of a lover’s hand,
Consent to share his “earthly lot,”
And do not mean his lot of land,
Wh enyoung mechanics are allowed
To find and wed the farmer’s girls,
Who do not expect to be endowed
With rubies, diamonds and pearls.
When wives, in short, shall freely give
Their hearts and hands to aid their
spouses,
And live as they were wont to live.
Within their sire.’ one-story houses.
Then, madam—n i m not too old—
Rejoiced to quit this lonely life,
I’ll brush my beaver, cease to scold,
And look about me for a wife.
A GENERAL CENTENNIAL,
Resolution of Congress.
A few weeks ago Gov. Smith received
a copy of a resolution passed by both
branches of Congress, looking to a gen
eral and enthusiastic centennial of our
national existence, and one also, which
will be made greatly useful to the whole
country. The following is a copy of
the resloution :
Joint resolution on the celebration of
the centennial in the several counties
or towns.
Be it resolved by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the United
States of America in Congress assem
bled, That it be and is hereby recom>
mended by the Senate and House of
Representatives to the people of the
several States that they assemble in
their several counths or towns on the
approaching centennial anniversary of
national independence, and that they
cause to be delivered on such day an
historical sketch of said county or town
from its formation, and that a copy rf
said sketch may be filed, in print or
manuscript, in the clerk's office of said
coun'y, and an additional copy, in print,
be filed in the office of the Librarian of
Congress, to the intent that a complete
record may thus le obtained of the pro
gress of our institutions during the first
centennial of their existence.
Approved March 13, 187 G.
The resolution commends itself as ex
pedient and wise. It can be very easi
ly accomplished if the people manifest
any interest in it. The history of every
town and county will thus be obtained.
At a later day much information now
at hand will be impossible of access,
and hence the importance of the execu
tion of the work in this centennial
year.
The future historians of the country
./ould find great assistance in such vol
umes as the resolution contemplates
Indeed, without some such auxiliaries a
perfect record of national events
would in a few years become an imros o
sibility Those who are not able to be
at the national jubilee can celebrate at
home a day we should al. love, aud by
celebrating it in a proper manner may
preserve much information which a
century would make almost invalua
ble.
Morbid Impulse.
But one of the most singular in
stances in connection with material
things, exists in the case of a young
man who not long ago visited a large
iron manufactory. He stood opposite
a huge hammer, and watched with great
interest its perfectly regular strokes.
At first, it was beating great lumps of
crimson metal into thin, black sheets;
but the supply becoming exhausted, at
last it only descended on the polished
anvil. Still, the young man gazed in
tentlyon its motion; then he followed
its strokes with a corresponding motion
of his head; then his left arm moved to
the same tune ; and finally he deliber
ately placed his fist upon the anvil, and
in a second it was smitten to a jelly.
The only explanation he conld afford
was, that he felt an impulse to do it,
and that be knew he should be disa
bled ; that he saw all the consequences
in a misty kind of manner; but that
he felt a power within above sense and
reason —a morbid impulse, in fact, to
which he succumbed, aud by which be
lost a good right, hand. This in ident
suggest many things, besides proving
the peculiar nature and powei of mor
bid impulses; such things,for instance,
as a law of sympathy on a scale hither
to uudreampt of, as well as a musical
tune pervadii g all things. — Chambers'
Journal.
Two Reasons. —‘ Here’s a boy down
here that wants to lick me !” exclaim*-
ed a boot black as he approached a
policeman on Griswold street yester
day.
“He docs, eli ? What for ?”
“Says L called him names, but I
didn’t.”
“And are you afraid of him?”
“No, not exactly ; but I didn’t want
to fight. One reason is I promised my
dying mother I wouldn't, and the other
•‘Truth Conquers All Things.”
A Flea in Bed.
There are some folks fleas won’t bite,
but Alonzo Fleet, a marrried citizen of
Danville, A'a., has spent the greater
part of his life after sundown looking
for fleas
It is exceeding annoying to Mrs.
Fleet.
Just as she gets the baby asleep,
and has folded her hands in blissful
slumber, Fleet slips out of bed feet
foremost, and bump he hits the floor
with the half whispered remark on his
lips :
‘* The durned fleas !”
“ You have awakened me again, Mr.
Fleet; I believe you are trying to wear
me out. Here I have got to sleep, and
am now so nervous that I shan’t sleep
any more this night. What in the world
are you after ?”
“ Mary, there's a flea on me some
where; you know I can’t sleep when
there are flersin the bed.” Aud Fleet
struck a match.
“I don’t believe there’s any fleas here
at all; its a notion of your own ; you
can’t sleep yourself and you won’t let
anybody else.”
“’Pm my word, Mary, (Fleet ap
proached with candle) ha ! there be
goes now ! Oh, the little rascal! Now
I’ve got him !” And Fleet grabbed the
tail of his shirt, setting the candle by
the bed, while he wet the place so as to
see the flea, and theu he stuck a needle
through it, and showing it to his wife,
said in triumnh : “you call that a no
tion, my dear? I call it a flea.”
“ Mr. Fleet, take that candle away
from the baby’s eyes,” she cried, just as
the baby waked up aud the music com
menced.
“ I’ll rock her,[Mary,” murmured
Fleet.
“You rock her! No sir, never!
I’ll rock her myself; it’s just what I’m
for. I, Mary Thompson, married Alon
zo Fleet to suffer for him, to drudge
for him by day, and loose my sleep for
him by icght. My life’s no more than
a flea to him. What cares he it I die ?
Hooty, tooty, isn’t Mr. Fleet young and
strong, .<nd handsome, couldn’t he soon
get another wife?” And Mrs. Fleet
lifted up her voice and wept like hard
rain.
Fleet put on his breeches and took a
chew of tobacco, and as he walked to
the[window to “spit out,” he said seri
ously, he wished every flea on earth
was at old nick ; that he wasn’t long lor
this world, if Ma>-y lived, and the fleas
continued to bop around at night.
Mrs. Fleet told a friend next day
that Mr. Fleet had provoked her so
much hunting fleas at night that she
believed chat he was after agravating
her to Flee as a bird to Mount Zion.”
They laughed and told her eke was al
ways saying something funny.
The Lost Garden of Eden
Take the garden of Aden for instance.
If Adam had been left alone ten to one
he’d have stopped there now.
All he had to do was to walk up and
down the flowery paths of Eden, smoke
his mild cheroot, and count the ani
mals.
Happy man.
Bltssed existence.
And what happened ?
Why Eve happened —and that ended
it I often think of the jolly times the
old folks might have, if they had been
contented.
No work.
Everything handy.
Private menagerie in the back yard.
All the fruits iu their season.
No clothes.
No hills.
No tailors.
No patent bustles.
No servants.
No crowded cars.
No high hats before them at the ope*
ra.
No Trade Union —but, hold on, I
guess there was a Trade U nion for Cain
and Abel were on a stick at a very early
period.
Come to think of it, however, there
was no Cain and t’.ere was no Abel till
after the fall.
Lovers’ Wooiags,
“Probably there is no two in
stances in which any two lovers have
made love exactly in the same wav as
any two other lovers, since the world be
gan. — Sir Arthur Helps.
Barks insinuated.
Yivieu charmed Merlin.
Alexander made a borlire for Thais.
Paolo read naughty stories to Fran*
eesca.
Ilildegarda took the bull by the
horns.
David played it rather low down on
Uriah.
The Merchant of Venice soft-soldered
Portia with a lead casket.
The garrulous female in the Arabian
Nights told her husbaud stories.
Milanion had a close race for At.
lanta, but he played the apple game on
her.*
Queen Victoia sent for Prinoo Albert
and told him she wanted him. She was
victo*ious.
In the Polynesian Islands they win
their heart by beating th< ir head with a
ehillalah.
Aarry the Eight and Bluebeard were
off with the head of the old love before
the were on with new.
Johnson poked the tobacco in his pipe
down with liis sweetheart’s finger—a
warm token af affection.
Tristram did it mostly with a harp
and was 1 j
Bothwell was inclined to Maria aud
locked her up in his castle. It worked as
well as Peter’s pumpkin shell.
Cobbett’s wife caught with him the
grace with which she used her wash tub.
She was never known to use it after the
wedding.
Sam Romilv the famous lawyer killed
himself because his wife died. Many
others kill themselves because rhey won’t
die.
Chatlemagne’s secretary was caught
by a snow sparking the Emperor’s
daughter at midnight, and she carried
him home on her back, so that his foot®
steps shouldn’t be traced. The Empor
or heard of it and saddled him on her
for the rest of her life.
llow he Got Fooled.
He walked into a Vicksburg barroom
about 2 o’clock in the morning and sly
ly edged his way up to the counter. —
llis clothes were tattered and torn, and
his head was shaven and shorn, and he
looked fur all the world like a planta
tion field hand. His face was as black
night, and his general appearance couu
tryfied and green. The barkeeper, a
dissipated looking fellow, with a bloat
ed face and a long nose, resolved to play
a joke on the “green un,” to pass time;
so he offered to bet the innocent look
ing darkey the drinks that he couldn't
pick up a pin from the floor without
bending his knees. The nigger vowed
that he was not given to betting, but he
would try the trick to oblige tbe com
pany. The pU was stuck in the floor,
the negro bent to the task, and the bar
keeper got alongside of him with a
twenty-four inch board to see that he
didn’t cheat. The negro stooped until
it resembled Hogarth’s line of beauty ;
his pants became tighter and tighter,
and his breath shorter and shorten The
barkeerer, with a cunning leer and a
significant smile, slowly lifted the board
in the air with both hands, and whirl
ed and whirled it around to give great
er force to the blow. The negro stoop
ed lower and lower, his pan*s grew
tighter and tighter, and the board flew
faster and fas'er. At last, when every
thing was ready tor the grand coup,
the barkeeper took deadly aim, the
board came down with a whir, and
ike negro jumped nimbly aside, and
the cunning barkeeper fell flat on bis
nose.
They picked him up and carried him
home, applied oysters and raw meat,
and when they told him that the green
horn was a retired roustabout and had
fired the Lee in the gieat race, he smil
ed a sickly smile and admitted that he
ought to have known better.
~e >—
Give Your Gi lsan Allowance
—Where it is necessary to study econ
omy in everyway, and fathers complain
of the frequent demand upon their pur
ses by their daughters it is best for both
parties that an allowance should be
agreed on, and regularly paid every
quarter. A girl is thus taught the val
ue of money,and she learns to be careful
how to spend it; she is led to exercise
her judgment and taste, and to restrict
herself in one respect in order to indulge
herself in another. Without an allow
ance, young persons cannot know the
pleasures of denying themselves what
might seem very reasonable and proper
for the sake of bestowing the sum thus
saved in charity. There is no gener
osity in making presents to our friends,
no benevolence in giving to the peer, if
we are merely the distributors of anoth
ers parson's bounty, and not one gratifi
cation the less ourselves. A feeling
of responsibility grows out of the dis
bursement of a certain sum which
we regard as our own.— llousekecp --
er.
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Grate Vine Picture Frame— Take
four pieces of grape vine, of length that
will pass around an oval dish of suba
ble size, and coil them in a boiler of hot
water, boiling or soaking them until pli
able, when remove and fasten around
dish, securing the ends by tying and
twining wire around the different sti ips
in three or four places, to hold in prop/
er situation. Cut a number of vine
eaves from leather useing the cutters
r moulds, sold for wax flowers. Make
rapes by tying small marble in chamois
skin, or old kid glove, fastening a pi* cc
of leather colored vino in each oue.—
Paint these, the leaves and Lame of
light brown. Place a large full cluster
at the top,and make a vine to twine iu
and out, among the bars of the founda
tion, arranging the leaves and fruit
in tasteful groups. When done, var
nish with Copal. —Household Elcrjan .
cies.
A Boy’s Experie ce at Cat Ta
m.—A respectable working woman
was returning homo one afternoon, says
a French Journal, when a very little
child apparently a prey to the wildest
terror, clu ched her gown crying, “Take
me away, take me away !” Looking at
the little fellow more closely, she per
ceived that he was covered with deep
scratches. “From the cats !” he exclaim
ed; “the four cats!” It then appeared
that the child was being trained to act
the part of a dwarf in a miniature circus
in wbich he was to imitate Bidel the lion
tamer,on a very small scale by exercising
his sway over a number of cats, stained
to resemble tigers. To this end the un
happy little fellow was daily set into a
cage supplied by the locksmith to his
cruel guardian, with four cats, whom
he was directed to w hip into submission,
In Advance.
Rules for Table Etiquette.
Pure politeness has its origin in
Christian charity end kindness, and all
standard rules of etiquette were found-*
ed for the greater convenience and hap
piness to society.
Although the reason may nrt be ob
vious at fiist sight, they exist; aud will
be apparent on careful consideration :
1. Do not keep others waiting for
you either at the beginning or close of
the meal.
2 Do not Sip soup from the tip, but
from the side of the spo< n.
3. Be careful not to spill or drop any
thing on the table cloth.
4. When passing your pi te, to be
helped, retain your knife and fork
5. When asked for your plate, do not
shove, but hand it.
6. Keep your Hate neat; do not
heap all sorts t f food upon it at once
7. When drinking do not look
around.
8. Use your knife for cutting food or
spreading butter, do not put it in your
mouth, or to your lips
9. Break your bread into small pieces,
and rest them on your plate while
spreading.
10. If you find anything unpleasant
in your food put it aside a;- quietly as
possible, without drawing the attention
of others to it.
11. Do not open the lips or make
unnecessary noise in chewing.
12. Do not touch the head.
13. Do not rest the elbows on the ta
ble.
14. Do not speak with the mouth
full.
15. Brush the table neatly before
bringing on the dessert.
16. Be thoughtful and attentive to
the wants of those around you.
17. Converse on pleasant subjects
with those near you.
18. Do not say anything not intended
for all to hear.
19. Never leave the table before oth
ers without asking the lady or gentle
man who presides to excuse you. —Bos
ton Cultivator.
Furnishing a House.
A newly married young couple, just
about taking and furnishing a house,
arrrtcpatrtr great deahof pleasure in the
choice and selection of their furniture,
carpets, raper-hangings, etc. Both be
ing persons of good taste, they uever
for one moment imagine that anything
but the most complete success will crown
their choice ; but it very often happens
that the carpet which looked very hand
some in the shop is of much too large
a patern for a small room, lighted from
the top of the paper-hanger’s store, has
a dark, not to say dingy appearance
when placed upon the wails. So with
the furn ture coverings; so with almost
every artielo of furniture. It requires a
person with a very experienced eye to
imagine the difference between the
looks of things in a shop and their
appearance when they are put in a
house.
It has become the fashion lately to
adupt uncovered oak floors, and they
are very nice in sitting rooms if they
are kept thoroughly polished ; and if
there are. several handsome mats and
rugs about, there need be no regular
carpet put down in summer. A carpet
in winter is warmer and more snug, but
a margin might be left all around the
edges of the room of'polished oak.
A dining room is very handsome
papered witn a dark crimson or green
flock, with red curtains to match, the
latter to have a Grecian border in red
or green and gold silk. Turkey carpets
are the* nic st, but any carpet of rich,
dark hues and a quiet patern is suita
ble. The prettiest wall papers for a
drawing room are those with a pale
gray or buff grounds, with elegant trails
or sprays of riowers aud groups of many
colored birds all over them. Curtains
of cretonne to match look best,
tho ’gh some prefer a contrast. Car
pets for bed rooms should always be of
a small pattern, and there should never
be a lack of comfortable easy chairs and
sofas —Manufacturer and Builder.
“ Agin Redemption.” —Apropos of
t’ e present financial svrangle, a letter to
the Cincinnati Commercial revives the
following story :
I was reminded of a story which
Robert Tooms, of Georgia, tells It has
been related once in the Commercial,
but will bear repeating. During the fi
uaucial crisis of 1857 a countryman
came to Toorn s with a tale of distress
We must have more monej,” he said,
or we are ruined.”
“Ilow in the devil are you going to
get more money asked the profane
Toombs.
‘•Let the State Bank print it,” re
plied the countryman.
“ Well, when that’s gone what will
you do ?” asked Toombs.
Let the Back priut it,” replied the
countryman, who had ideas of his ovrn
on finance.
•‘But how is all this money to be re*
deemed ?” asked Toombs, thinking he
had his rural friend cornered at last.
‘•That’s the point,” answered the
countryman; “yousee I'm agin redemp
tion.”
taitii in our own utility is half of
every lat tie
How near are two hearts when there
is no deceit between them !
Kates of Advertising.
jpisgf 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. | X Mos. j t> Mo? II year.
Two SY.UO s7.tH> $12.00 I $20.00
Four 44 0.00 10.00 18.00 5)5.00
1 column . 15.00 25.00 40.00
| “ 15.00 25.00 40(H) G 5.00
1 44 25.00 40 00 05.00 1 ifi.OO
Sheriff's Sales, each levy S>4 00
Application for Homestead 2 00
Notice to Debtors and Creditors 4 00
Land Sales, one square 4 (>
Each additional square 5100
NO. 37.
The History of Postage Stamps.
The introduction of the postal sys
tem, as it at present exists in all coun
tries on the globe, has been crcJitid to
England, when, in 1840, ' overs and en
velopes were devised to entry letters all
over the kingdom at ore penny the sin*
g'e rate. This plan rus adopted through
the exert ons of Sir Rowland t ill, who
has been aptly termed the “father of
postage-etampslt now aj pears, how
ever, that there is another uspiirant for
the introduction of the stamp system.
Iu Italy, as far back as 1818, letter
sheets were prepared, duly stamped in
the left lower corner; while letters
were delivered by specially appointed
aarriers, on the payment of the money
which the stamp represented f Jho
early struip represented a courier on
horseback and was of three values. It
was discontinued in 1837. Whether
Italy or Great Britain first introduced
postage stamps, other countries after
ward began to avail themselves of this
method for the prepayment of letters,
although they did not move *ery promp
ly in the matter.
Great Britain enjoyed the monopoly
of stamps for three years, and, though
the first stamps were issued in 1840,
she has made fewer changes in her
stamps than any other country nnd has
suffered no change at all in the main
design—the port’ait of Queen Victoria.
In other countries, notably in our own,
the Sandwich Islands, and the Argen
tine Republic, the honor of portraiture
on the stamps is usually distributed
among various high public officers; but
in Great Britain the Queen always fig
ures on her stamps and nut even the
changes that thirty-five years has made
in her face are shown on the national
and colonial postage stamps.
The next country to follow the exam
ple of England was Brazil. In 1842 a
series of three stamps was issued, con
sisting simply of large numerals deno
ting the value, and all printed in black.
Then came tho cantons in Switzerland,
and Finland with envelopes which are
very rare, and soon after them, Bavaria,
Belgium, Franco. Hanover New South
Wales, Tuscany, Austria. British Guia
na, Prussia, Saxony Schleswig-Hol*
stein, Spain, Denmark, Italy, Olden .
burg, Trinidad, Wirtemburg and the
United States. Other countries follow
ed in the train until at the present day,
there ; s scarcely any portion of the
globe, inhabited by civilized people,
which has not postage stamps. — St.
Nicholas.
The Bridal Chamber. —lie was
tall and awkward, and she was Bhort
and bashful, but both wore a nervous
aspect of exceeding great joy. They
entered a hotel in Chicago, and alter hu
he had registered his uamo “and lady,”
he said to the clerk :
“ See here, mister, me and my wife
have just been sjliced, and I am gting
to show Amanda Chicago, if it takes a
mule a day. Now give us one of them
rooms like the Temple of Solomon, you
know.”
The clerk called a bell boy, and
said:
“ Show this gentleman tr the bridal
chamber.”
At this direction the tall rustic be
came instantly excited.
“ Not by a durned sight! Ye shin - ,*
haired, biled-shirted dollar-breast-pin*
ned, grinning monkey ye can’t play that
on me ! If lam from the country, ye
don’t catch me and my wife sleeping in
your old harness room.
And he left the hotel.— Ex.
Happy Hours.
The happiest hours of our lives are,
perhaps, spent at table. The humblest
fare with the society of a few friends
we esteem, or have not seen for yearn
becomes tho nucleus of a world ot en..
joy merit —even the very badness of the
food is sometimes, on such an occasion,,
the source of contended mirth and
drollery ; but bad manners can never
please. The heart dislikes them more
than the palate dislikes sour bread or
stale meat. Good manners will freshen
the meat and sweaten the bread. Moro*
over, good manners are of far more im
portance at home than they are abro-d
It is usual for people to put on their
best manner to strangers. This is vepy
wrong. Our best manners should be
worn every day at our own firesides.—
Let strangers hi jon'ented with some
thing less lefined What is it that alien- '
i'tes wife from husband, husband from
wife, parent from child, child from pa
rent, and makes brother and sister quar
rel, and ultimately disliked, then hated
—and hated the more, because, in at
tempting to correct it, it is the more per
sisted iu. Wherever there is a waut of
will to plcise, and in lifferencc to tin
feelings of our co mates, ar.d satisfac
tion in doing that which we bavq found
to annoy them, there i3 the beginniug
of the domestic strife; brother parts
with brother and finds another compact
ion, sister becomes alien from sister,
wife sets up interest of her own, and !
plots against her husband, aud reunion
becomes impossible by the oF of
fenses which' follow in
Church Uuiaii.
Nimrod was a great hunter, but ho
never saw aunt elope
Next to being a great poet is tho
power to understand one.