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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. Two Dollars a Year. VOL. VI. CHEAPEST AND BEST! HOWARD HYDRAULIC MIT! MANUFACTURED NEAR KINGSTON, BARTOW COUNTY, GEORGIA. Equal to the best imported Portland Cement. Send for Circular. Try this before huying 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 Ci'eek, using this cement, and pronouncing it the best he ever used. Also refer to Messrs. Smith, Son & Bro., J. E. Veal, F. I. Stone. J. J. Cohen and Major Tom Berry, Rome, Georgia, Major H. Bry an, of Savannah, T. C. Douglas, Superin tendent 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 octl3l y. Hygienic Institute i f IF YOU would enjoy the fill 1 Tim I looß *' delightful luxury ; if ■ 111 r\ ill |y° u would be speedily, cheap- Ulliiilir jly, pleasantly and perma nently cured of all Inflam matory, Nervous, Constitu tional and Blood Disorders if you have Rheumatism, Scrofula, Dyspepsia, Bron chitis, Catarrh, Diarrhoea, Dysentery, Piles, Neuralgia, Paralysis, Disease of the Kidneys, Genitals or Skin, Chill and Fever, or other Malarial Affections ; if you would be purified from all Poisons, whether from Drugs or Disease; if you would mimi/. , have Beauty, Health and I I 11 KISII Long Life, go t o the ITygien- I l illl j c Institute,and use Nature’s Great Remedies,the Turkish Bath, the “ Water-cure Pro cesses,” tie “ Movement cure,” Electricity and other Hygienic agents. Success is wonderful —curing all cu rable cases. If not able to go and take board, send full account of your case, and get directions for treatment at home. Terms rcasona hie. Location, corner Loyd and Wall streets, opposite II I[T|Jl | Passenger Depot, Atlanta, llillll e Jno.StainbackWii.sox, Physician-in-Charge. Awarded the Highest Medal at Vienna. E. & H. T ANTHONY & CO., 591 Broadway, New York. (Opp. Metropolitan Hotel.) Manufacturers, Importers & Deal ers in CHROMOS AND FRAMES, Stereoscopes and Views, Albums, Graplioscopes an l suitable views, Photographic Materials, We are Headquarters for everything in the way of Stereoscopticons and Magic Lanterns . Being manufacturers of the Micro- Scientific Lantern , Stereo-Panopticon, University-Stereosropticon , Advcitiscr’s Stereoscopticon , A rt opt icon, Scho)l 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. fifeaT’Cutout this advertisement for refer- sep29'9m -A - . M. BIiLIS’ LIVERY & SALE STABLE. Good Saddle and Buggy Horses and New Vehicles. Horses and mules for sale. Stock fed and cared for. Charges will be reasonable. Will p iy thp cash for corn in the ear and fodder in the bundle. febo-tf. Man hood: How Lost How Restored. MglWtm J nsl published, anew edition iJfflr of Dr. Culvcrwell s Celebra- Qffuß'aF ted Essay on the radical cure (without medicine) of Spermatorrhoea or Seminal Weakness, Involuntary Losses, Impotency, Mental and Physical In capacity, impediments to marriage, etc., also, Consumption, Epilepsy and Ins, in cluceol by self-indulgauce or sesual extrava gance, &c. pgy-Price. in a scaled envelope, only six cents. . The celebrated author, in this admirable essay, clearly demonstrated, from a thii t\ years’ successful practice, that the alarming dangerous use of internal medicine or the application of the knife ; pointing out a mode of cure at ouce simple, certain and effectual, by means of which every sufferer, no matter what his condition may be, may cure himcclf cheaply, privately, and radi ablly. if lecture should be in the hands ot every youth and cvey man in the land. Sent under seal, in a plain envelope, to any address, j ost-paid, on receipt of six cents or two postage stamps. Addiess the publishers, F, BRUGMAN & SON, St., jw York ; Post Office mare ly- 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. - —— —— 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. NO. 89, Kates of Advertising. .©sV* For each squire of ten line* or less for the first insertion, sl, and for each sub sequent insertion, fifty cents. NoOSq'j-fi j 1 Mo. j 8 Mos. | 0 M(i ! 1 year. T wo jU.OO WOO j sl2'(iFTs2oX'<* Four “ 0.00 10 00 j 18.00 j 80X0 i column . 15.00 I 25.00 j -Jo rq j “ 15.00 25.00 40.00 [, (55.00 1 ‘‘ 25.00 40-00 | 05.00 jIiA.OO Sheriffs Sales, each levy £4 00 Application for Homestead 2 QO Notice to Debtors and Creditors., 4 eo Laud Sales, one square 4 Ou Each additional square 3 OO 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.