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CALHOUN TIMES
P. B. FREEMAN, Proprietor.
CIRCULATES EXTENSIVELY IN
(Jordon and Adjoining Counties.
Office: Wall St., Southwest of Court House,
RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION.
’One Year $2.00
Six Months 1.00
Railroad fcfttduU.
Western & Atlantic Railroad
AND ITS CONNECTIONS.
* ‘ KENXESATV ROUTE.”
The following takes effect may 23d, 1875
NORTHWARD. No. 1.
Leave Atlanta 4.10 p.m
Arrive Cartcrsville 6.14 *
•* Kingston 6.42 “
Dalton 8.24 “
“ Chattanooga 10.25 “
No. 3.
Leave Atlanta 7.00 a.m
Arrive Cartersviile 9.22 ~
“ Kingston 9.56 •*
“ Dalton 11.54 “
Chattanooga 1.56 p.m
No. 11.
Leave Atlanta 3,30 p.m
Arrive Cartersviile 7.19 “
“ Kingston 8.21 “
“ Dalton 11.18 “
SOUTHWARD. No. 2.
T.eave Chattanooga 4.00 p.m
Arrive Dalton 5.41 “
“ Kingston 7,28 “
** Cartersviile 8.12 “
** Atlanta 10.15 “
No. 4.
I cr.ve Chattanooga 5.00 a.m
Anive Dalton 7.01 "
“ Kingston 9.0 4 ‘
“ Cartersviile 9.42 “
“ Atlanta 12 06 \m
No. 19.
I *n*e Dalton 1.00 a.m
Ari e Kingston 4.19 *•
•* Cartersviile 5.18 “
“ Atlanta 9.20 “
"nil nan Palace Cars run o i Nos. I and 2
be* veeu New Orleans and Baltimore.
1 oilman Palace Cars run on Nos. 1 and 4
between Atlanta and Nashvilie.
1 ullmm Palace Cars run on Nos. 2 and 3
itweer Louisville and Atlanta.
No change of cars between New Or
leans, X >bile, Montgomery, Atlanta and
Baliimoro, and only one change to New
York.
Pisscng ;rs leaving .Atlanta at 4 10 r. m.,
arri\einNew York the second afternoon
tlier after at 4.00.
E'-cursicn tickets to the Virginia springs
and various summer resorts will be on sale
in N w Orleans, Mobile, Montgomery, Co
lumbus, Macon, Savannah, Augusta and At
lanta, at gieatly reduced rates, first of
June
Parties desiring a whole car through to
he A irginia Springs or Baltimore, should
address the unlersigned.
Pa - ties contemplating travel should send
f.ir a copy of the Kennesaw Route Gazette,
conta ning schedules, etc.
Ask for Tickets via “Kennesaw
1 outc.”
B. W. WRENN,
G. ,P. & T. A., Atlanta, Ga.
J I>. TINLTEY,
Watch-Maker & Jeweler,
CALHOUN , GA.
All styles of Clocks, Watches and Jewelry
ncatlr repaired and warranted.
jj K. MAIN
PRACTICING PHYSICIAN,
Having permanently located in Calhoun
offers his professional services to the pub
lic. Will attend calls when not profession
ally engaged. Office over B. M. * C. C.
Harlan’s. apr7
BARBER SI IOP.
HAIR CUTTING,
SHAVING,
SHAMPOOING,
Hair-dyeing, and all work in my line done
in a manner sure to give satisfaction at my
shop in rear of H. M. Jackson’s store.
MACK LAW.
J. s. McCREARY,
JACKSONVILLE, ILL.,
Breeder and shipper of the celebrated
POLAND CHINA HOGS.
OF THE BEST QUALITY.
Send for price list and circular.
fcbl6 6m.
To tlie IPiobic.
HAVING purchased the establishment pre
viously owned and conducted by D. T.
I am prepared so do all kinds of work
In the
BOOT AND SHOE LINE
in the best style and at. prices astonishingly
low, on short notice. Renairing also done
with neatness and dispatch. I respectfully
solicit the patronage of my friends and the
public generally. Terms invariably cash.
Respectfully. W. C. DUFFEY.
mayl7-tf. Successor to D. T. Espy.
Fisk’s Patent Metalic
BURIAL CASES.
•
Having purchased the stock of Boaz &
Barrett, which will constantly be added to
a full range of sizes can always be found at.
he old stand of Reeves & Malone.
decls-Cm. T. A. FOSTER#
Brick-Layer & Contractor.
THE undersigned most respectfully begs
leave to inform the citizens of Calhoun
and surrounding country that, having pro
cured the aid of Mr. Hilburn as a number
one bricklayer and Barney O Fallon as a
number one rock-mason, is prepared to do
* all work in lis line in the most satisfactory
manner and on moderate terms. The pat
ronage of the public generally solicited.
HENRY M. BILLHIMER.
Calhoun, Ga., November 9, 1K75.
All orders addressed to me as above wil
receive prompt attention. povlO-ly
CALHOUN TIMES.
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VOL. VI.
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CALHOUN, GA., WEDNESDAY, MAY 81, 1876.
THE TWO WORKERS.
Two workers in one field
Toiled on from day to day:
Both had the same hard labor,
Both had the same small pay.
With the same blue sky above,
The same green earth below,
One soul was full of love,
The other full ot woe.
One leaped up with the light,
With the soaring of the lark;
One felt it ever night,
For his soul was ever lark.
One heart was hard as stone,
One heart was ever gay,
One worked with many a groan,
One whistled all the day.
One had a flower-clad cot
Beside a merry mill,
Wffe and children near .hr spot
Made it sweeter, fairer still:
One a wretched hovel had,
Full of di cord, dirt and din, —
No v onder he was mad, —
Wife and children starved within.
Still they worked in the same field,
Toiling on from day to day ;
Both had the same hard labor,
Both ha >. the same small pay ;
But they worked not with one will,
The reason let me tell, —
Lo ! the one drank at the still,
And the other at the w 11.
Street Etiquette.
The etiquette of the streets, says
Harper’s Bazar, may be disposed of in
a few words. The privilege of recog*
nition is generally conceded to the lady,
and when she has made her salutation,
the gentleman responds by lifting nis
hat, and not merely touching the rim
of it, unless he desires to be a flunky.
If only one of two gentlemen in com.
pany be known and saluted by a lady,
both should bow. The converse of this,
however, is Dot obligatory. Two ladies
in company are not both called upon to
bow to a gentleman who is known only
to one.
A lady should rarely stop for, or be
stopped in the street by a gentleman.
The gentleman desirous of accosting a
lady he may meet should turn and join
her in walking ; and the lady on tho
other hand, if the wish for the inter
view originates with her, should coutent
herself with its expresnon by a ges
ture, without a full stop in the thronged
street.
A gentleman walking with a young
lady, unLss she is related to him closely
now and prospectively, does not offer his
arm unless some sudden emergency may
arise which would seem to indicate that
its support or protection is required.—
The leit arm is ordinarily given with
the obvious reason that the gentleman’s
right may be free for the defence he
proffers. The sandwiching of a gentle
man between two ladies has always an
awkward look, and seems to be opposed
to all fitness of things, by placing the
man in his snug position apparently
under the care of his femalo compan
ions.
A gentleman always leave another
gentleman with whom ho may be Id
company to join a lady, and the act
justifies itsalf; but he ought not to quit
his male companion for another of his
own sex without giving at the mo
ment, or soon after, a plausible excuse
for ir.
Although, every gentleman should
avoid offioiousness of service to strange
ladies —for example, handing them into
a carriage, or offering thon the side of
the walk to which they are not entitled
—he should be ready to give them a
helping hand in the case of an emer
gency, to pick up whatever they mav
let fall, whether a pocket-handkerchief
era toddling child, and finish the ser
vice with a polite bow.
llow Slic manages it.
“Is my hat dono?” inquired a cold
looking lady at a Chicago milliner es"
tablislnnent one pleasant day last week.
“ Yes, ma’am,” politely responded
the shop'woman, “ it will be done in a
moment.”
An assistant soon brought up the
bonnet, and while the customer was
duly inspecting it, the store proprietress
ventured to inquire:
“How do you like it, ma’am ?”
“ It’s simply horrid !” was the re
ply.
“But it is j use a3 you ordered it,”
pleaded the maker of headware.
“ Yes something as I ordered,” was
the short and sneering answer.
“I’m real sorry, but—
“ Well, never mind,” broke in the
buyer with set lips ; “ what is the ex
pense ?”
“About seven dollars I guess,” said
the shopwoman, timidly.
The money was paid over, and the
bonnet ordered up to the house, when
the purchaser prarced out upon the
streets and immediately exclaimed to an
accompanying la ,J y friend :
“Isn’t it perfectly lovely ?”
“ Fes,” replied the friend ; “it’s rav
ishing, but how could you talk so to that
woman ?”
“Talk so!” exclaimed she of the new
bounet; ‘‘ why if 1 had let her know
how much I liked the hnt, that woman
would certainly have charged me §ls,
but now, you see, I’ve got it for §7 !”
The other woman said she had never
thought of that, but would profit by
her friend’s ripe experience, and never
like an article again until after she had
bought it.
“Mus’ brace up,” said Sozzle, as he
stood on tho doorstep at 1 p. m.j “’ill
never do let oP lady 'spect anythin’
and, as Mrs S descended the stairs,
clad in her robe de nuit, Sozzle braced
up, knocking the ashes off his cigar,
and, as tho door opened, said cheerily,
“Hullo, M’ria (hie) up yet ? Got a
match iu yer pocket ?” Of course, she
id not suspect anything.
•‘Truth Conquers All Things.”
Gems of Thought.
Man born of woman is of few days
and full of trouble. Ho comcth forth
as a flower and is cut down. Ho fleeth
as a shadow and continueth not. Man
to man is so unjust, no mao knows what
man to trust. Man’s inhumanity to
man makes countless millions moarn.
Know thyself j preiume not God to
scan, the proper study of mankind is
man. And what is man ? A man is
an animal that wears pants ; a woman
is an animal that cea?es to sit on a man’s
lap at twelve and begins again at six*
teen. Can such things be and overcome
us like a summer cloud without our
special wonder? But let no guilty man
escape. Time and tide waits for no
man. Let us then be up and doing
with a heart for any fate. Lives of
great med all remind us that wo can
make our lives sublime, and departing,
leave behind us footprints on the sands
of time. But let each candidate for fame
rely upon this wholesome rule; your
course is bad if wise met. blame but
worse if lauded by a fool. But yester
day and the word of Ctcsar might have
stood against the world ; now lies he
there and none so poor to do him rover
ance. What's in a name ? that whh-h
wo call a rose by any other name would
Bindl as sweet. Romeo, doff thy name
and for thv name which is no part of
thee, take all myself. Romeo, (3 ! that
I were a glove upon that hand, that I
might touch that cheek. The sweetest
pleasure of life is love. There is noth
ing in life half so sweet as love’s
young dream. Love is never lost, if
not reciprocated, it will flow back and
soften and purify the heart. ’Tis better
to h ve loved and lost than never to
have loved at all. Love is of man’s
life a part, ’tis woman’s whole existence.
0 ! Inconstancy thy name is woman.—
I thank theo, Jew, for teaching me that
word. Yet, when my love swears she
is made of truth I do believo, theugh
I know she lies. Contact with a high
minded woman is good for the life of
any man ; yet were kisses all the joys
in bed, one woman would another wed
Of all blessings, ladies are the soothing
est. A woman's heart, like tho moon,
is always changing, but there is alwajs
a man in it. Have you not heard it
full oft, a woman’s nay aoth stand for
naught. We love women a little for
what ve know of them and a great deal
more for what we do not. The love
which arises suddenly is tho most dif
fleult to cure. I am not one of those
who do not believe in love at first
sight, but I believe in taking a second
look. I cannot lose a world for thee,
but would not looso thee for the world.
I am dying, Egypt, dying, only here I
importune death awhile, until of the
many thousand kisses, the poor last I
lay upon t.hy lips. Live can hope
where reason would despair. The
worst thing an old man can be is a lover.
Shake not thy gory locks nt mo, thou
oanst not say I did ic. The taste for*
ever refines in of woman. —
Woman is God’s best gL to man. As
into the bow the string is, so unto man
is woman. Though she bend him she
obeys him ; though she leads him, yet
she follows, useless one without the
other. Beauty unadorned is most adorn
ed. ’Tis seldom the case that beautiful
persons are otherwise of great virtue.
Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good,
a shining gloss that fadeth suddenly; a
flower that dies when firat it begins to
bud ; a brittle glass that’s broken pres
ently; a doubtful good, a gloss, a glass,
a flower, lost, faded, broken, dead with
in an hour. The year has gone, and
with it, many a glorious throng of hap
py dreams. The day is past and gone;
the shades of night appear. Twilight
has dropped the curtain and pinned it
with a star. ’Tis midnight’s holy hour,
and silence now is brooding like a gen*
tie spirit, o’er the still and pulseless
world. Only this and nothing more.—
Deep into the darkness peering, long I
stood there, wondering, fearing, doubt
ing, dreamiDg dreams no mortal ever
dared to dream before. Eagerly I wish
ed the morrow, vainly I tried to borrow
from my books surcease of sorrow, sor
row for the lost Lenore, for tho rare and
radiant maiden, whom the angels name
Lenore But ’twas ever thus from
childhood’s hour, I’ve seen my fondest
hopes decay ; I never loved a tree or
flower, but ’twas the first to fade away
and die. Full many a gem of purest
ray serene, tnc dark, unfathomed caves
of ocean bqar. Full many a flower is
born to blush unseen, and waste its
sweetness on the desort air.
Leaf by leaf the roses fall. Drop by
drop the springs run dry. O, opportu
nity ! thy guilt is great. Who Bteals
my purse steals trash ; but he who filches
from me my good name, robs me of that
which does uot enrich him, and makes
me poor indeed. Man’s life from the
cradle to the grave is a talo which is
soon told and soon forgotten. A single
grateful thought toward heaven is the
most perfect prayer.
So live that when thy summons
coup's to join the innumerable caravan,
that moves to that mysterious realm,
where each shall take his chamber in the
ilent hall* of death, thou go not like
the quarry slave at night scourged to
his dungeon, but sustained and soothod
by an unfaltering trust, approach the
grave, like ono who'wrapsthe drapery of
his couch about him, and lies down to
pleasant dreams. Fare thee w<dl; and
if forever, still forever, fare tbee well.
Farewell ; a word that hath been and
mus‘. bo—a sound which makes us liu’*
ger, yet fare*ell.
A BAB of soap weighing 1,200 has
been uiade in Philadelphia for the Oen
e nuiul.
Got it at Lost.
For many days says tho Charlottes
ville (Va’ 1 Jeffersonion, we havo noticed
an old negro woman plodding her way
to the post office, never missing a day,
and invariable returning as she came
without any mail. She had imbibed
the idea prevalent among these people
that the pose is a government institution
and she had a right to exercise her new
privilege of ‘quirin’ dar fur a letter,’
even though she expected nothing, and
with a persistence that was commenda
die, her faco appeared at the general I
delivery as regularly as the mail was
opened. Some person getting tired of
seeing her fruitless attempt to aeecnr.s
plish her desires, fixed a letter in hier*
oglyphics signed it Jeemes Higgins,
stamped it and left it to await her
coming. Sho was there on time. When
the clerk handed out the missive, she
had no idea it was intended for her and
looked all around the crowd, who are
usually at the windows expected some
of them to take it; but when tho clerk
insisted that it was for il Polly Brown,”
it was a study for a physiognomist to
see the variety of expressions that her
countenance underwent. She took hold
of the precious thing and exclaimed, j
“Bress da Laud,” and as sho backed
out of the crowd with the letter high
above her head, her c\ unteuance open
from ear to ear, sho ejaculated, “Ise I
got it ! Bress de Laud ! I knowed de
guvvermint was gwine to gimme a let
ter’fore long. I seed dut letter last
night on de candle—dat I did,” and
she waddled off down the street hunt
ing for someone to read it for her.—
She finally got a gentleman to open it,
but as the writing was entirely unintel
ligible, ho could o nothing but tell the
writer’s name. She pondered a long
time over the name, to remember who j
“Jeemes Iliggiu, ” was, and where she
had known him She tried several
other gentlemen, hut all failed to deci
pher the hyeroglyphics. At last she
said : “ Well, dat Jeemes Higgins must
I >o a mighty smart young culled pusson
to write a letter what dese white gem
mans can’t read, ’opee he’s some o’ I
dim ginruls in de army, who knowed
me when I was a gal. An’ he ’membus
door old Polly yit,’ and she assumed
such an air of dignity as to make it ex- j
cruciating to look at her. Sho took
her letter and went homo. She comes j
to the office do more now.
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A Ck’tacl Fcshlesa.
There is no lady deserving of the
name who could witness without a feeb
ing of horror the process of preparing
for use the feathered beauties which
form such conspicuous ornaments in
tho present stylo oi woman’s hats. If
those who wear such ornaments knew
the tortues to which these helpless lit
tle creaufures are subjected, and the
heartless cruelty with which the busi*
ness is carried on, they would shrink
from even indirect complicity in it.—
Of course tho impression prevails that
all birds used lor porsonal decoration
are killed immediately when caught
and prepared in tho ordinary way by
taxidermist; but here is just where the
mistake is made. The birds aro taken
alive, and while living the skin is skill
fully stripped from their quivering,
ghastly bodies. By this process it is
claimed the feathers retain a firmer hold
upon the skin. Such is the method by
which all birds used in the dscoration
of ladies’ hats are prepared. Think of j
the exquisite humming bird, the blue
bird, the cardinal bird, the oriole, the {
numberless others of beautiful plumage,
struggling beneath the knife of the
heartless operator; think of this, ten
der hearted ladies, as your admiring
gaze rests on the latest-novelties in faeh.
ion by which our city belles are crown
ed. Hundreds and thousands of birds
of the brightest plumage are literally
flayed alive every year, and so long as
our ladies will consent to wear such or
naments, just so long will this cruel bus
iness continue. The Baroness Burdett
Coults has placed herself at the head
of a movement in England designed to
put an end to tho brutal business, and
it is hoped that she will meet with cor
dial encouragement and co-operation on
this side of the Atlantic.
Matrimonial Troubles.
A couple in Kingston, who undertook
to get married some time since, went,
accompanied by the bridesmaid and
groomsman, to a church, and were
ushered into the sacred edilice and es
corted to the altar by the sexton, who,
however, got the parties rather mixed
up, stationing the bridesmaid next to
the bridegroom, and the bride and
groomsman in corresponding wrong
places. The clergyman, not noticing
the mistake, went on with the ceremony,
and began marrying the bridesmaid to
the bridegroom, when the bride served
an injunction on him by cxciaimiug that
she was the marrying party.
The mistake being remedied, the
clergyman made another attempt, and
the performrnce went smoothly along
until it came time for the bridegroom
to produce the ring which was essential
to the completion of the ceremony.—•
But when that gentleman felt iu his
vest pocket it wasn’t there ; ia the oth
er, not there ; in the tro-vsers pocket,
net there, and then he felt to the hot*
tom of the remaining pocket, and fia
ually exclaimed; “Well, there’s a hole
in my pocket and the ring slipped down
into my boot.”
And the only way to finish the cere
mony was lor the bridegroom to ait
down, pull off his boot, take out the
I ring, pull on his boot, and put the ring
where it ought to have gone, and walk,
out with his bride, a;i of which he did
SiaHuin in s’jirvo.
Kindnciw gives birth to kindness.—
Sophocles.
Wise judges are we of each other.—
Richelieu.
heaven in sunshine will requite the
kind.— Byron.
Royalty consists not in rain pomp,
but in great virtues.— Ageailana.
Kind hearts are more than coronets,
and simple faith than Norman blood.—
Tennyson.
You may ride us with one soft kiss
a thousand (urlonhs, ere with spur we
heat an acre — Shcrketpcarc.
The essence of knowledge is, having
it, to apply it; not havinging, it, to con
fess your ignorance.— Confucius.
Knowledge is not a shop for profit or
sale, but a rich storehouse for the glory
of the Creator, and the relief of men’s
estates.— Bacon.
Man often acquires jdst so much
knowledge as to discover his ignorance,
and attains so much experience as to
regret his follies, an 1 then dies.— \V. B.
Cluloio.
The dangers of knoweldge are not to
5e compared with the dangers of igno
ranee. Man is moro likely to miss his
way in darkness than in twilight; in
twilight than in full sun.— What ley.
If we consider the frequent relief we
receive from laughter, and how often it
bieaks the gloom which is apt to do
dress the mind, one would taka care not
to grow too wise for so great a pleasure
of life.— Addison.
Asa iooking-glass, if it is a true,
one faithfully represents the face of him
that looks in it, so a wife ought to fash*
ion herself to the affection of her hus
band ; not to be cheerful when he is sad,
nor sad when ho is cheerful.—Eras
msu
Anger and thirst for revenge are a
and of fever ; fighting and lawsuits,
deeding—at least an evacuation. The
utter occasions a dissipation of money ;
tbo former, of those fiery spirits which
cause a preternatural fermentation
Sdenstone.
Every man stamps his value on him.,
self. The price wo challenge for our
seUes is given us. There does not live
on earth the man, bo his station what it
may, that ] despise myself compared
with.him. Man is made g:eat or little
by his own will.— Schiller.
Architecture exhibits Che great.,
est extent of the difference
i’rom nature which may exist in
works of art. it in so Ives all tbo power
of design, and its sculpture and paint
ing exclusively. It shows the greatness
ot man, and should at the same time
teach him humility.— Coleridc/c.
No man receives the true culture of
a man in whom the sensibility to tho
beautiful is not cherished; and I know
of no condition in life from which it
should be excluded. Of all our luxu
ries this is the cheapest and the most at
hand; and it seems to mo to be the
most important to those condition where
coarse labor tends to give a grossness to
the mind.— Channing.
In all human gifts and passions though
they advance nrture yet they are sub
ject to excess; but charity alone admits
no excess. For so we see by aspiring
to be like God in power the angels
transgressed and fell; but by aspiring
to be like God in goodness or love neith
er man nor angol ever did or shall
transgress. For unto that imitation wo
aro called.— Bacon.
The Old Ditdaratiou.
The patriotism of the average Amer
ican was forcibly attested last Wednes
day by tho-continual rush to view the
“ only and original ” Declaration of In
dependence. During the day not less
than 8,000 people scrutinized the mus
ty piece of jarchment that created such
a stir in the world one hundred years
ago. Ordinarily, tho daily attendance
does not exceed 1.000. The text of
the document is bb clear and distinct as
when Johu Hancock and his com
patriots, regardless of tho threats of
King George and his minions, put their
fists to tho same. Bui; the vaudals, in
search of facsimiles, have been so
friendly as old Father Time. In taking
a proof the signatures were moistened,
and, in consequence, many of them have
faded into empty space. John Han
cock's name is dim but distinct, but the
signatures of Tnomas Jefferson, Benja
min Franklin, Robert Morris and oih -
ers of equal fame have disappeared.—
Tho best preserved signatures are those
of Roger Sherman, Robert Treat Paine
and Stephen Hopkins The names of
John Adams, Joeiah Bastlett, William
Whimplo, Samuel Huntington aud
several others aro also very eieur. Sev
eral experts closely examined the docu
ment and expressed the opinion that the
lost signatures could be restored by
chemical agencies.
A Sensible Mother. —A dwelling
house on Clifford street took fire iu uae
of the chambers the other night irom
:m exploding keroseue Lmp. The Carnes
were extinguished after u s rarp strug
gle by the woman of the house, who
had her ban Is pretty badly burned, —
She was relating her adventure to a
neighbor next morning, and she ask
ed :
“ Why didn’t you raise an alarm—
where was Beanie V*
“Bessie and her beau were eouiting
in the parlor,” was the calm reple.
“ And you never called to them V*
“ Not a word. I have known of cases
where a sudden alarm has uj set a young
man just as be was about to propose and
changed the whole future of two lives.”
' — Bel/oV Free Brets.
In id ranee.
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Signs in the Sky that Good Times
arc Coming,
One of the leading Western jounals
which is not usually sanguine in its
horoscope of the business future has
these encouraging remarks in its last
weekly commercial review :
There is a cheerfulness in the general
outlook for future which sustains the
commercial spirit of the land, arising
from the mificert condition and pros
pects for the coming crops which have
gone through the past mid winter with
comparatively slight injury; and under
equally beneficent influences they have
attained unusual forwardness., giving
promise of early aud magnificent liar*
vests if nothing unlocked for intervenes
between this aud the maturing of the
grain to destroy the hopes of the entire
country*
Corn is rapidly bei*g planted and in
increased acrege as are all the seasona
ale cerer Is and vegetables which go to
constitute the aggregate of the farmer’s
wealth ; the fruit*, also, which not long
since were supposed to be nearly all
ruiued have upon more regent examina -
tion proven to be loss seriously dama
ged than tbo hasty glance S2em to iudi
cato.
Another encouraging feature looking
to an improved condition of business
and finances is the notable change in
the status of foreign exports and imports
tho latter of which have been so long in
excess of the former, while now ttie sit
uation is being steadily reversed, and
the evports are showing a graduul in
crease over the imports to the gratifica
tion of course of all who have hereto
fore witnessed with although tho lar
gest produoers in the world wo have
received, comparatively tho least bene
fit.
This depicting system seems about at
an end for the present and hope forever
aud it looks as though the batance of
trade would s)ou set as strongly toward
our shores as it has previously made
agaiust us. All these evidences of tho
inherent strength of the nation and the
further supports which oae likely to bo
derived from these economic sources,
imbue every iine of trade with confi
dence which is shared alike by the in
terior dealer who is nearest of
all to producer, and knowing his noeds
aud ultimate capability to pay for their
gratification, is not slow to afford him
every facility tor contributing to his en
joyment and comfort, even though par
tial credits must enter into the trans
action.
tiaw lie was Sworn,
The witness had served in one of tho
Indiana aegiments and had cone home
from the wars with both arms shot off.
Ho lost one arm at Fort Donalson
and tho other at Look-out Mountain.
When he came fojward to testify
the clerk commanded to administer tho
oath.
“You solemnly—”
“Stop! stop! interrupted tho
judge (now installed) with overpower
ing dignity. “The witness will hold up
his right hand when he is swore F
“ Your honor,” replied tho clerk,
“tho man has no right hand.”
“Well then let him hold np his left
hand-” r
“If your Honor will remember tho
witnecs has no left hand either. Ho had
the misfortune to lase then both in bat
tle”
Perhaps the clerk thought by this
last bit of information to bring tho
judge down from his height of dis
pleasure : but he reckoned without bis
host.
“Then tell him to hold up his right
leg. A witness cannot bo sworn a
this court without holding up som -
thing !—Silence ! all of you ! T 1 is
court knows the law and will mainta n
it.”
The witnes was sworn on his right
leg.
Language of Fingcr-RJingg.
In caso of a gcntlemau wishing to
Marry — literally in the market with his
heart —he wears a plain or ehasod gold
ring upon the first finger of the left or
heart hand.
When success attends his su-t and he*
is actually engaged, the ring pa.-ses to
the second finger. After marriage, it
passes to the third finger.
If, however, the gent desires to tell
the fair ones that he not only is not “iu
market, ’ but he does not design to
marry at a 1, he wears the signet upon
his little finger, aud all the ladies
may u-doistand that he is out ot their
reach.
With the fair sex, tho “laws of the
ring” are :
A plain or chased gold ring on tho
little finger of tho right baud implies
“ ougaged,” or, in plainer words,
‘ ready for proposals, sealed or other"
wise.”
When engaged, the ring passes to
first finger ol the left hand.
VV hen married,the third finger receives
it.
ii Lao fair one proposes to defy all
siege to her heart, she places the
on her first and fourth fingers—one ou’
each, like two charms to keep away tho
tempter. It is somewhat singular that
this disposition is rare.
A meeting sermon being preached
in a country church, ail wept except
one man who being asked why he didn’s
w :ep with the rest, said, “Oh ! I belong
another church.”
—i
Tame is a flour oa a dead mans
heart.