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Railroad Schedule.
Western & Atlantic Railroad
AND ITS CONNECTIONS.
‘ • KLKXESA W ROVTJE”
The following takes offer*,t may 23d, 1875
NORTHWARD. No. I.
Leave Atlanta 4.10 p.m
Arrive Cartcrsville 0.14
Kingston 0.42 “
•' Dalton 8.24 “
“ Chattanooga 10.25 “
No. 3
Leave Atlanta 7.00 a.m
Arrive Cartersviile 0.22 ~
\* Kingston 9.50 •
“ Dalton. 11.54 “
Chattanooga 1.5 G p.m
No. 11.
Leave Atlanta 3,30 p.m
Arrive Cartersviile 7.19 “
“ Kingston 8.21 “
“ Dalton 11.18 “
SOUTHWARD. No. 2.
7,cave Chattanooga 4.00 p.m
Arrive Dalton 6.41 “
“ Kingston 7,28 “
“ Cartersviile 8.12 u
“ Atlanta 10.15 “
No. 4.
\ orVe Chattanooga 5.00 a.m
/t i ive Dalton. 7.01 "
“ Kingston 9.0* ‘
“ Cartersviile .... 9.42 “
“ Atlanta 12 06 \m
No. IX
1 *aic Dalton 1.00 a.m
A ri e Kingston 4.19 *•
Cartersviile 5.18 “
•* Atlanta 9.20 “
nil nan Palace Oars run o i Nos. I and 2
be: veen New Orleans and Baltimore.
I villman Palace Cars run en Nos. 1 and 4
bet . een Atlanta and Nashvilic.
1 ullm in Palace Cars run on Nos. 2 and 3
it'.veer Louisville and Atlanta.
No change of cars between New Or
leans, N ibilc, Montgomery, Atlanta and
Oaf more, and only one change to New
York.
Pissong *rs leaving Atlanta at 4 10 r. m.,
nrcD e in New York the second afternoon
ther after at 4.00.
Excursion tickets to the Virginia springs
and various summer resorts will be on sale
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lumbus, Mac >n, Savannah, Augusta and At
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J une
Parties desiring a whole car through to
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Change of Schedule.
T.!E GEORGIA AND MACON AND
AUGUST A RAI LROADS.
ON \ND AFTER SUNDAY, JUNE 28th,
('74. the Passenger Trains on the Georgia
.rd Macon and Augusta Railroads will run
as foil- ws :
GEORGIA RAILROAD.
Day Pa sue iger Train Will
L avo Augusta at 8:15 a m
L'-avi* Atlanta at 7:00 a rri
\ rive in Augusta at 0:80 p rn
A rive in Atlanta at 5:15 p in
Nigijt Vans eager Train.
[ oavc Augusta at 8:15 p in
I case Atlanta at 10:30 p m
\ri ve in Augusta at 8:15 a m
Aviive in At la Tit i at 0:22 a m
MACON AND AUGUSTA RAILR AD.
Macon Passenger Train.
leave Augusta at 0n...10:45 ni
I cave Camak at 2:15 p
Arrive at Macon at 0:40 p
Leave Macon at 0:30 a m
Arrive at Camak at 10.-15 a m
Arrive at A u gust a at 2:00 p m
BERZEI LI PASSENGER TRAIN.
Leave Augusta ai 4;ln p m
Leave Berzclia at 8:30 a m
Arrive in Augusta at 0:o5 a in
Arrive in Berzelia at 5:50 p m
Passengers froi.i Athens, Washington, At
lanta, or any point on the Georgia Rail
road aid Branches, by taking the Day Pas
senger Train, will make close connection
sit Camak with trams for Macon and all
points beyond.
Pullman’s (First-Class) Palace sleepin
Cars on all Night Passenger Trains on
G corgi Railroad.
S. K JOHNSON , Superintendent .
/Superintendent’s Office Georgia and Macon
and Augusta Railroads, Augusta, June
29, 1874,
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the touch of the unseen.
As feel the flowers the sun in heaven,
But sky and sunlight never see ;
So feel r Thee, 0 God, my God,
Thy dateless noontide hid from me.
As tocuh the buds the blessed rain,
But rain and rainbow never see ;
So touch I God in lliss or pa*n,
His far, vast rainbow hid from ine.
Orion moon and sun and bow
Amaze a Sky unseen by me :
God’s wheeling heavens is there I know,
Although its arch I cannot see.
In low estate, I, as the flower,
Have nerve i to feel, not eyes to see;
The sublets in the censcience is
Thyself and that which touchetli Thee.
Forever it may be that I
More yet shall feci but shall not see ;
Above my soul, Thy wholeness roll,
Not visibly, but Tangibly.
But flaming heart to rain and ray,
Turn I in meekest loyalty ;
I breathe, and move, and live : n Thee
And drink tin ray I cannot see.
Being Cheerful at Home.
William Crownsheet while eating his
lunch dnring Saturday noon hours at
the Valley shops, unfolded a temptii g
piece of cheese and saw the following
lines, which attracted his attention, on
the Lewspapcr wrapper:
‘‘Every man wh wishes to cherish
the loving hearts of his household will
lay off the cares of business with his
working clothes, and carry cheerful
ness and smiles into his bom.’'
“Now that’s a right sensible piece,”
observed William, critically. “ I’m
blamed if I don’t try that thing and see
if it won’t stop the woman’s jaw and
the young one’s howl”
As ho came near home in the even.,
ing he put on a smile that made his
smutty face look like a potato the wheel
barrow had run over, and going into the
house he slapped down his blieky, jerk
ed off his dickey, and danced a. small
hornpipe on the kitchen floor, all the
time grinning like a man having a tooth
pull led, and ending by throwing his
wife, as she prodded half a shad in the
frying pan, as he shouted :
“ Come give us a buss ole ’ooman,
For I’m jpst as liappy as a stump-tailed dog,
That’s found a bone in tlie garden.”
But he never got any further. Mrs.
Crownsheet rose u anu glared at him
like a lioness at hay.
“William Crownsheet! and has it
come to this ! Have I made your fires,
and cooked your meals and washed your
shirts for fifteen years to have you come
home drunk before supper.”
“Why, Mollio, heaven bless you, I’m
not drunk ; I’m only cheerful.”
Cheerful, yes, a cheerful looking ob
ject you are to oome home to a houses
iul of innoc nt children Just look
at that poor little dear Robert 11. Say
er Crownsheet, sitting there staring his
eyes out of his head at his idiotic old
old father. Oh ! I’m ashamed of you !”
“You’re all wrong, Mollie; I’m only
takin’ off my cures along with my work
ing clothes, and bringing cheerfulness
home to the loving hearts of my house
hold.”
“Why bless my heart, if I don’t be a
iieve the man is has gone clear crazy.
Here, Matilda, run out and
ask one of the neighbor men to come
in here. Tell ’em your father has got
something horrible the matter with
him,” and she shoved the girl out at the
back door, and grabaing the baby by
one arm she fled up stairs.
The neighbors cane in and looked
suspiciously at William as he washed
his face in the backyard ; then they
went into the house, and h3 herrd them
coinfortir g his wife, mho was crying by
the apronful They guessed he would
bo all right directly—he had only taken
a little too much cn an empty stom
ach .
William says, this morning, that he
never saw a newspaper receipt in bis
life that was worth a cuss.
►
How They Fix it in Canada.
An amusing story is told of a young
American, who while journeying in
Paris, invited two demoiselis to accom
pany him to ihe theatre. He secured
three seats, and drove to the house of
his fair iriends, half hoping that one
was iti'Etposed, so that his fecility might
be unbounded. The two were waiting
him, and their mother as well, who
kindly invited herself to chaperon the
party, and intimated that her daugh
ters could no circumstances go without
her. There was no help for it The
four crowded into the carriage. No
fourth seat could be obtained adjacent
to the three already secured, or even on
same tifer, and during three long acts
the ladies sat in a box, while our young
American gazed at theui With feeliugs
unutterable from his seat in the par
quet. The drama over, only cabs witii
room for two could be obtained to con
vey 7 the party home. Here was a dile
ilia —which young lady would he se*
lect for his cab companion? They were
both charming, and the matter was
hard to decide. The old lady settled
it, however, to her satistabtion, it to
the annoyance ot the now miserable
American. “Hortense and Sophia, you
go in this cab. Monsieur and I will
follow you in the next. jhe young
gentleman now thinks that rrench so
cial customs are barbarous.
. -
A YOUNG man in Western VV iscon
sin who was about to be marrried, sud
denly remembered that he liadn t led
his horse, and tac ceremony had to
wa't until that horse had been c-red fr.
Lie explained that a good horse couldn’t
be found every day, while thii teen di!-
icFcnt girls wanted to marry him.
*‘Trnth Conquers All Tilings.”
Girls at Sixteen, Boys at Tweu
iy-Oiic.
In telling us that Mis3 Chaworth
looked upon Byron as a mere school
boy, Moore observes, by the way, that
a. seniority of two years gives to the
girl, “on the eve of womanhood,” an
advance into life with which the boy
keeps no proportionate j:ace. Leigh
Hunt describes his vexation, early in
his teens, at being kept at a distance
by that laughing lass, Fanny Dayrell,
who would call him “ petit garcon ” on
the strength of her seniort.y of two
years. According to Kingsley, “spirit
ually and socially the girl develops ton
years earlier than the boy.” Frederick
Perthes was sorely tried with his
“youthful twenty-year face,” when his
former playfellow, Frederika, came to
Leipzig, “a very handsome girl of six
teen,” and was straightway surrounded
by mature admires and “ highly educa-.
ted men ” without number, against
whom the “shy and anxious apprentice
of nineteen ” seemed to have no chance
at all. The hero of ‘ Great expecta
tions” tells of his early acquaintance
Estella, that although she called him
“boy” so often, and with a carelessness
that was far from complimentary, she
was about his ow 7 n age, or very little
older, adding, however,, that “she seem
ed much older than I, of course, being
a girl, and beautiful, and self-posesssed ;
and she was as scornful ot me as if she
had been one -and twenty and a queen.”
Beatrice in Miss Bailie’s tragedy of
“ Romierro,” taking upon her to chide
her old paly mate, Maurice,as a “thought
less boy,” is answered :
“Cliide me, indeed, who am two years thy
elder,
And two good months to boot I—such higt
pretensions!
Have sixteen summers and a woman’s robe,
Made thee so very wise and consequential ?”
It was in early times, or teens, with
David Copperfleld, when he wrote of
Em’ly that, “wild and lull of childish
whims as she was, she was more of a
little woman than he had supposed.—
She seemed to have gut a great distance
a./ay from me, in a little more than a
year. With what a demure assumption
of being immensely older and wFer
than I the fair little woman said I was
a ‘sillA boy;’ and then laughed ctia.m
ingly that I forgot the pain of being
called by that disparaging name in the
pleasure of looking at her.” After ra
ting Coquette soundly for being like
her set, in ketpiug back things, and
making mysteries, and not telling all
the truth at once, the Whaup, as Tom
Cassiliis is called in U A Daughter of
Doth,” is fair, to excuse her on the
ground that she can’t deny it, she is on
ly a woman. “And you are only a boy,”
she replies, looking at the tall, handsome
lad beside her ; “very kind, and very
generous, and very stupid.” “I am
older than you, at least,” says the
Whaup, who does net like to be called
a boy. George Sand remarks that even
very young women usually esteem men
of their own age as children, apropos
of Consuelo’B relations with Haydn,who,
however, was at the time so small and
meagre that he seemed hardly fifteen.—
Mr Disraeli’s Lucretia, though really
older than Couingsby, felt that a woman
of eighteen is, in all worldly considera
tions, ten years older than a youth of
the same age. — Belgravia.
Bull Great Men.
Descartes, the famous mathematician
and philosoher, La Fontaine, celebrated
for his witty fables, and Buff on the nat
uralist, were all singularly deficient in
the powers of conversation. Mormon
tel, the novelist, was so dull in society
that his friend said of him, after the
interview, I must, go and read his tales,
in recomrencc to inyseif for the weari
ness of hearing him. As to Corneille,
the greatest dramatist of France, he
was completely lost in society —so ah •
sent and embarrassed that he wrote of
himself a witty couplet, importing that
he w s never intelligible but through
the mouth of another. Wit on paper
seems to be something widely different
from that play of words in conversation
which, while it sparkles dies : for
Charles IF, the wittiest of uionarchs,
was so charmed with the humor of
“ Fjudibras ” that he caused himse’f to
be introduced in the character of a
private gentleman to BuJer, its author.
The witty King found the author a
very dull companion, and was of opin*
ion, with many others, that so stupid a
fellow could never have wiitten so clev
er a look. Addison, whose classic ele
gance has long s'Dce been considrcd the
model of style, was shy and absent in
society, preserving even’ before a single
stranger formal and dignified silence.—
In conversation Dante was taciture and
satirical. Rosseau was remarkably tame
in conversation, without a word of fan
cy or eloquence in his speech. Milton
was unsocial and sarcastic whea much
pressed by strangers.
——> —
Tiie other day a Detroiter who has a
good record of army services took
clown his revolver fo shoot a cat which
had been hanging around the house.
After looking at him while he fired six
shots, the cot walked away. While he
was loading up for more destruction,
the shooter’s snr-ll boy inquired, “Fath
er, did you ever kill any one while you
were in the army?” “I suppose so, my
sen.” After a long pause the boy con
tinued, “Then you in use have got cFse
enough to hit ’em with an axe, didn’t
you?” It was then discovered to be
about school time.
Never do anything to-day that can
be put off till to-morrow, for the mor.
row may never comc,aud chen vou won’t
have to do it at all.
The Origin of “ Home, Sweet
Home.”
The following is the history of
“ Home, Sweet Home,” as Mr. Reed
says the author related to him, in Tunis.
Mr. Payne had written sevetal pieces
for the stage that had met with consid
erable favor, and hap been sent for to
go to Paris to look after the introduc
tion of one of them in one of the thea
tres of that city. It was the afternoon
before Christmas, and, although in win>
ter, the day was bright and pleasant.—
After strolling about for a time, he
seated himself in the Garden of the
Tuiileris. and became a quiet observer
of the life and gaiety of that brilliant
psomenade. While sitting there he
thoug \t of the pleasures his acquain*
tances had told him they expected to
have the next day, and reflected that,
although in the midst of all this gav
th'ong, he was without a home and
friends, and was really the most lonely
person in the wotld. All through the
day he had been humming to himself
an air, which pleased him very much,
that he had heard in the theatre the
previous evening, when he had listened
to an opera by Donizjtti, called “Anne
Boleyn,” in which the air of “ Home,
Sweet Home ” occurs. After a little
he began to arrange these reflections in
to verse, adapting it to this air, and,
before leaving his seat, a song that has
since touched the tenderest chords of
millions of hearts, had its origin. He
then went to his room and wrote out
the song, an 1 showing it some of his
acquaintances, they advised him to have
it published. He did so, and the next
time he went to London it was sung
for the first time in public at Covent
Garden Theatre, and immediately be
came-very popular. — Independent.
The Mauufacturc cf Solder,
The alloys of metals are frequently
more useful than either of the sub
stances used in the combination’ and of
ten exceed them in respect to some qual
ity which is of great importance. Brass
i3 much more used than zinc, and the
alloys of lead are fully as valuable r.s
the metal uncombined. The union of
lead with tin is of immense value in the
arts. It enables rough surfaces to be
joined in a way that could not other
wise be done, except at immense ex*
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ease.
The most common compound of these
metals is seventy parts of tin to one
hundred and thirty parts of lead, and is
generally known as No. 1 or hard sold*
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and even copper. This is done for the
formula, and less than either of tho
metals when treated separately. It unites
readily with a clean surface of cither
lead or zinc, and remains for a short
time in a semi fluid state, enabling the
manipulator, by the aid of a cloth hold
er or pad, to mold it in uny desired
shape. Wh°n use by plumbers to join
the apitioons of lead pip?, this is com
monlo termed a wipe joint. These two
metals are not alone in making a fusL
hie compound. There is one alloy
known to the art from which tea-poons
can he made, bearing much the resenn
blance of silver when rew, but so easi
ly acted upon that the stirring of the
fluid will cause the bowl an 1 handle to
melt and fall to the bottom of the cup.
—Ex.
A Cat Story.
Previous to tho big fire which occur
red in this city on the 26th October,
when half the city was laid in ashes there
was a cat in the family of Judge Rising
that attached itself to one of his little
girls. The cat followed the child erery
whereand never failed to be on hand when
the family were earing, when it always
took its place on the child’s lap. After
the fire when the residence of the
Judge anil all the buildings in that part
of the town were destroyed, the Judge
sent his family to California, where they
remained all winter. About a week ago
the famity returned and took a house on
the same street where they formerly re
sided when much to the surprise of all
as they were collected for their first
meal, the cat, which they had last seen
some months oefore, at the time of the
big fire, came into the house and jump
ed into the lap of (he little girl that
had been its friend, the same as though
there had been two. All seemed to be
well undersood between the child and
the cat. But the Judge says the little
scene caused the hair to stand erect
on his head. — Virginia (Nev.) Enter’
prise.
A Beautiful Incident. —a naval
officer being at sea in a dreadful storm
his wife sitting in the cabiu near him
filled with alarm for the safety of the
vessel, was so surprised at his serenity
and composure that she cried out:
“My dear are you not afraid ? How is
it'oossible you can be so calm in such a
preadful storm ?”
He rose from his chair, dashed it
to the deck drew his sword, and point
ing it at the breast of his wife exclaim'
ed :
“Are you not afraid?”
She answered, “No,”
“Why, said the officer.
“ Because ?” replied the wife, “I
know that sword is in the hand- 1 of my
husband and he loves me too well to hurt
me.
“Then,” said he, “I know in whom
I believe, and that He who holds
he wind in His hand is my Father.”
In 4(lYance.
l ady Byron on her Husband's
W riling*.
Lady Byron, who was a highly es_
teemed friend of mine, spoke to me on
the subject of anew and cheap edition
of her husband’s works about to be pub
lished, and likely to be widely dissemi
nated among the young clerk and shop-,
keeping class of readers, for whom she
depreciated extremely the rernicicus in
fluenee it was calcul.ted to produce.
She consulted me on the expediency cf
appending to it some notice of Lord
Byron written by herself, which she
thought might modify or lessen the ins
jurious effect of his poetry upon v o ung
minds. “Nobody,” she said, “ kuew
him as I did” (this certaiuly was not
the general impression upon the subject)
“nobody knew as well as I the causes
that made him what he was ; nobody, I
think, is so capable of doing justice to
him, and therefore of counteracting the
injustice to himself and the injury he
might do to others in some of his writ*
ings.” I was strongly impressed by the
earnestness of her expression, which
seemed to me one of affecticnate com
passion for Byron, and profound solicit
tude, lest even in his grave he should
incur the responsibility of yet further
influence, especially on the minds
of the young. I could not help wonder
ing also whether she did not shrink
from being again, to anew generation
and a wider class of readers, held up to
cruel ridicule and condemnation as tho
cold hearted, hard, pedantic prude,
without sympathy for suffering or re*
lenting toward repentance. I had al
ways admired the reticent dignity of
her silence with reference to her short
and disastrous union with Lord Byron,
and I felt sorry, therefore, that she con
templated departing from the course she
had thus far steadfastly pursued, though
I appreciated the motive by whica she
was actuated.— May Atlantic.
How they Hang a Man In China.
I observe one mope of Chinese capi
tal punishment known as the “cage.”
The “cage” used was between three and
four feet square, and over six feet high.
Near the bottom was a clo-e floor p’ank.
The four sides were open work of plank
palings. The plants composing the
cover were made to fit around a man’s
neck close enough to strangle him. The
c mdemned man was put in this cage,
his head projecting above, the cover fit
ting around his neck, and under his
feet a number of brick, one above the
other, just etiongh to enable him to
stand on tiptoe. When this position,
from weariness, became unendurable,
his only relief was to hang by the neck.
The design is to make a man suffer as
much as possible, but not to kill bin
too quickly. Usually after a criminal
has been standing thus for a dav or so,
one of the bricks are removed, and then
another, until be hangs by his neck al
together. It is said that a strong man
ordinarily will endure the torture sever
al days heefore life becomes extinct.
On toe present occasion death was
hastened more quickly. The man was
put iuto the cage Sunday afternoon, I
bel’eve about one o’clock. I heard of
it on Monday morning and went over to
Amoy about two o’clock in the afternoon
to see him. He had then been dead
some time. The guard said that he
died just before daylight; that he was
conscious of having committed great
crimes, aud had hastened his death by
kicking the bricks from under hi 3 feet.
But the people said (privately) that the
guard wished to get rid of their charge
that th iv might prepare to keep New
Year’s day (the Chinese New Year was
near at hand), and therefore had taken
the bricks from under his feet during
the night. This probably was the fact.
Christian at Work.
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Tlie Oldest of Hi© I'iiurcli Edi
fices.
Christ church, in this city, is one of
the oldest in the country, having been
built in 2700 and something, of brick
brought from England. The grounds
are surrounded by a brick wall four feet
high, on the top of which is a picket
fence, aid the gates are barred and
locked with great iron padlocks. It
has an old style gallery, in imitation
white oak, on three sides. No two of
the cushions are of the same color or
material. Tho Washington pew—the
only double one—is on the left hand
aisle, about the middle of the church ;
a-'d General Lee’s is in the body of the
church, about half way up. On the left
of the chancel is a white marble tablet
with a cross and crown, and underneath,
“In Memory of George Washington
and on the right of the chancel a simi
lar tablet with a cross and crown, and
inscription, “In Memory of Robert Ed
ward Lee ” Washington was elevated
to a vestryman in 1763. He served till
his death. Gen. Lee was also a member
and constant attendant till he died.—
Alexandria (Fa ) Letter to the New
York Express
Pretty Custom of tiie Polish
Girls. —At Warsaw, the annual fete
of “floating crowns” was recently cele
brated, and it attracted, as usual, a large
crowd of spectators of all classes. It
consists in the young girls carry
ing wienhs of roses, decked with rib/
bons, to the Vistula, casting them into
the river and watching them as they are
carried away by the current. The man
ner in which they are borne along by
the water is supposed to predict the fu*
tut e destiny of those to whom they be*
long, and accordingly the girls make
demonstrations of joy or sorrow. A
somewhat similar practice is prevalent
Liaong the y.ung girls of India.
llates of Adveritsing.
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Sasacily of Halit-
Incredible as the story maj appear
of their removing hens’ eggs by <>tie
fellow lying op his back and grasping
tightly his ovoid burden with his fore
paws, while his comrades drag hint
away by the tail, we have no reason to
disbelieve, knowing as we do, that they
will carry eggs from tho bottom to the
top of the house, lifting them from staTr
to stair, the first pushing them up from
behind, and the second lifting them
with its fore legs. They will extract
the cotton from a flask of Florence oil,
dipping in their long tails,and repeating
the manoeuvre until they have consumed
every drop. We havo found lumps of,
sugar in deep drawers a distance of
thirty feet from the place where the
petty larceny was committed; and a
rat mount a *able where a drum of figs
was placed and straightway tip it over,
scattering its contents on the floor be
neath, where a .score of expectant hveth
rbn sat watching for the windfall.—'
Quarterly Review.
Blessed are they that are blind, for
they shall see no ghosts.
Blessed are they that are tfeiif, for
they never lend money and never hear
tedious stories.
Blessed are they that are afiaid of
thunder, for they shall hesitate about
getting married, and keep away
political meetings.
Blessed are they that are lean, for
there is a chance to grow fat.
Blessed are they that are ignorant, for
they are happy iu thinking they know
everything.
Blessed is he that is uglv in form and
features, for tho gals will not molest
him.
Blessed is she who would gefc
married and for the consolations
the gospel are hers.
Blessed are the orphan children
for they have no mothers to
em\
Blessed are they that expect nothing
for they shall not be disappointed
Blessed are they that do not adver-'
tise for they shall not be troubled with a'
customer.
-*-*>
A Long Eel. —When Mathew*, the
elder, was a boy and lived with his fath
er, a bookseller in the Strand a shortf,’
muscular fellow daily cried “eels” with a
guttural voice—“three pence a pound
elongating the word
from Craven street to Ilungerford street,
till the people used to say, “What a long
eel !” Mathews, having imitated him
to tho great satisfaction of many audit,
ors, one day looked out for the original,
and- saluted him with the imitation ; but
he had no taste for such ingenuity, and
placing his eel basket deliberately on
toe grouud, he hunted the boy into his
father’s shop, and felled li n with a?
blow. “Next time,” said tho eel.vend*
or, “you twist your little wry mouth
about cut your mugs at a respecta*
tradesman, I’ll skin you like an e*e —”
and snatching up his basket, finished
the manosyllahle about nine or ten doors
off.
Habit. — “I trust everything under
God,” said Lord Brougham, u to habit,
upon which in all ages, the lawgiver, as
Well as the school master, has mainly
placed his reliance ; habit which make?
everthing easy, and casts all difficulties
upon the deviation from a wonted course.
Make sobriety a habit, and intemper•
ance will bo hateful; make prudence a
habit and reckless pronigacy will be as
contrary to the nature of the child,
grown or adult, as the most atroc'iouj
crimes are to any of your lordships.
Give a child the habit of sacredly re
garding the truth ; of carefully respect
ing the property of others; of screpu
lously abstaining from all acts of iirc.
providence which can involve him in
distress, and he will just as likely think
of rushing into an element in which he
cannot breathe, as of lying, cheating or
swearing.”
Solemn Responsibilities of Pa
rents. —It cannot be too strongly mO
- upon public consideration, that by a?
careful study of laws ordained by God,
we arrive at the inevitable conclusion
that under-'a practical obedience to
these laws, everyone born with a sound
structural formation might pass through
infacy, youth and manhood, in the con
stant enjoyment of health, both of mind'
and body ; and if wo believe the script'
ural text informing us that a Well-trin
ed child will not in after life depart
from the right way, we must believo
that every or.me committed in the world
is owing to evil training during child*
hood. How solemn, then, is the trust
reposed all who have the management
of children ! how sacred the duty en
joined upon every mother among man
kind. — Hopley's Introductory Lecture
upon Education.
M> dam’s Feet. —Madame Y. ha?
charming arms, charming hands—but
monstrous feet. Just recovered from a
long illiness, she said recently to one of
her friends, “I am st 11 very feeble but I
begin to be able to put one foot before
the other.” “And that is not saying a
little,” murmured the excellent friend.
He was reading to his wife about aw
accident, and casually remarked, “ I
dare say there was a woman at the bot
tom of it,” when something trans
pired that made hint grasp his
! head in both hands and rub it <Jelir intis
| iy, as if there had been a woman a. wo
man at the top of it.