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Newspaper Page TextOALHOUN TIMES D. B. FREEMAN, Proprietor. CIRCULATES EXTENSIVELY IN Gordon and Adjoining Counties. Office: Wall St., Southwest of Court House. RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION. One Year $2:00 Six Months 1.00 gaUroafl Western & Atlantic Railroad AND ITS CONNECTIONS. ‘ • KEXXESA W no UTIL 9 ’ The following takes effect may 23d, 1875 NORTHWARD. No. 1. Leave Atlanta 4.10 p.m Arrive Cartersville 0.14 l( Kingston 6.42 “ “ Dalton 8.24 “ “ Chattanooga 10.25 “ No. 3. Leave Atlanta 7.00 a.m Arrive Cartersviile 9.22 ~ “ Kingston 9.50 •* “ Dalton 11.54 “ Chattanooga 1.56 p.m No. 11. Leave Atlanta 3,30 p.m Arrive Cartersville 7.19 “ “ Kingston 8.21 “ “ Dalton 11.18 “ SOUTHWARD. No. 2. T.eave Chat tanooga 4.00 p.m Arrive Dalton 5.41 “ “ Kingston 7,28 “ “ Cartersville 8.12 “ “ Atlanta 10.15 “ No. 4. 1 erve Chattanooga 5.00 a.m Ariive Dalton 7.01 '* “ Kingston 9.0 r w ‘ “ Cartersville 9.42 “ “ Atlanta 12 06 *>.u No. 19. I >a\c Dalton 1.00 a.m Ari e Kingston 4.19 “ •* Cartersville 5.18 “ Atlanta 9.20 “ ‘ull min Palace Oars run a i Nos. I and 2 bei vee’i New Orleans and Baltimore. l ull man Palace Cars run mi Nos. 1 and 4 bet ween Atlanta and Naslivihe. J ullmm Palace Cars run on Nos. 2 and 3 itweer Louisville and Atlanta. change of cars between New Or leans, A >bile, Montgomery, Atlanta and Baltimore, and only one change to New York. pisscng.irs leaving .Atlanta at 4 10 r. m., nrri\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 tn 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 Y irginia Springs or Baltimore, should address the, undersigned. Ja ties contemplating travel should send fur a copy of the Kenncsaw Route Gazette, uonta ning schedules, etc. pea Ask for Tickets Ca “ Kenncsaw .1 oute.” B. W. WREN^N, G. P. & T. A., Atlanta, Ga. J. H. McCBEARYj JACKSONVILLE, ILL., Breeder and shipper of the celebrated POLAND CHINA HOGS. OF THE BEST QUALITY. Send for price list and circular, cbl 6 6m. Fisk’s Patent Metalic BURIAL CASES. llitvig purchased nthe stock of Boaz & Barott, which will constantly be added to ix lull ras’ige of sizes can always be found at the old stand of Reeves & Malone. ,de ;IC6m. To tlie Pubic. HAVING purchased the establishment pre viously owned and conducted by I). T. Espy, 1 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. Repairing also done Villi neatness and dispatch. 1 respectfully solicit the patronage of my friends and the public generally. Terms invariably cash Respectfully, W. C. DUFFEY. Sucsor to D. T. Epy JOB PRINTING ! 'YyE are constantly adding new materia ODR JOB DEPARTMENT <in< l increasing our facilities for tl*e cxccu *ion of .lob Printing of all kinds. Me art now prepared to print, in neat style on shot t notice, cards, legal blanks, CIRCULARS, BLANK NOTES JdLL HEADS, BLANK RECEIPTS setter heads, envelopes, RCKETS, labels, ROSTERS, PAMPHLET &c., So. A'e guarantee satisfaction. Don’t send y°ur orders away to have them tilled, when you have un establishment at home that will Cx ocute work neatly, and at A T EXCEEDINGLY LOW RATES ( ~ lVe your patronage tc tlie Times Job of lc ‘- Specimens can he seen at our cilice. “PSYCHOMANCY, OK SOUL CHARM. 1 ING.” How either sex may fascinate U "1 gain the love and affections of any per insUn.ly. This art all can possess, U u’ b Y mail, Cor 25 cents : together with ■* larriugj Guide, Egyptian Oracle, Dream, llnta <o Ladies, etc. 1,000,000 sold. A r e t er I'ook. Address T. WILi lAM & CO., Philadelphia. CALHOUN TIMES. Two Dollars a Year. VOL. VI. CHEAPEST AND BEST! HOWARD HYDRAULIC KT! 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 lie ever used. Also refer to Messrs. Smith , Son & Bro., J. E. Veal, F. I. Stone. J. 2. Cohen and Major Tom Berry, Rome, Georgia, Major 11. Bry an, of Savannah, T. C. Douglas, Sunerirf -1 undent of Masonry, East River Bridge, New York, Gen. Wm. Mcßae, Superintend ent V. & A. Railroad, Capt. J. Postell, C. E. Address G. 11. WARING, Kingston, Ga octlßl y. Hygienic Institute i IF YOU would enjoy the IjlTri most delightful luxury; if Illi Via yoU WOuld be speedily,chcap unilllli !ly, pleasantly and perma nently cured of all Inflam jmatory, Nervous, Conetitu itional and Blood Disorders iif you have Rheumatism, IScrofula, Dyspepsia, Bron foliitis, Catarrli, Diarrhoea, |Dysentery, Piles, Neuralgia, I Paralysis, Disease of the Kidneys, Genital:? 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 m|TpS7. . jhave Beauty, Health and I ' i lISfl Long Life, go to the Hygien -1 t 111 lic Institute,and use Nature’s Great Remedies,the Turkish Bath, the “ Water-cure Pro cesses,” the “ Movement cure,” Electricity and other Hygienic agents. Success is wonderful—curing all cu rable cases. If not able to Igo and take board, send full account of your case, and get. direftiions for treatment iat home. Terms reasona ble. Location, corner Loyd (and Wall streets, opposite j Passenger Depot, Atlanta, * i Jxo. St.yinback Wilso?, I Physician-in-Chav.ee. Awarded the Highest Medal at Vienna. E. & 11. T ANTHONY & CO., 591 Broadway, New York. (Opp. Metropolitan Hotel.) ftianufactuiii-era, importers & Deal ers in CHROMOS AND FRAMES, Stereoscopes and Views, Albums, Graphoscopes an l suitable views, Photographic Materials, We are Headquarters for everything in the way of Stereoscopticons end Magic Lanterns . Being manufacturers of the Micro-Scientific Lantern , Stereo-Panopticon, University ■ Stereoscopticon, Adveitisers Stereo scop i Artopticon , Scho )l Lantern, Family Lantern , People's Lantern. Each style being the best of its claj>s in the market. Catalogues of Lanterns and Slices wiUi directions for using sent on .application. > Anv enterprising man can make mono}’ with a magic lantern. r? £s jrCut out, this advertisement for refer ence. sep29-Dm^ i”. m. 33x2i.3;^f ,r LIVERY i SIR STfiift * Good ;al<l!e aud IJUKSJ* llorscs anti New Vemclcs.’ Horses and mules for rale. . V Stock fed and cared for. Charges will be reasonable. Will pay the cash for corn in the ear and fodder in the bundle. feb3-tf. Summer Refreshments, ICE CREAM, SODA WATER, LEMONADE, And other Delicacies. Tiißycr ? © ©euloons- Two doors east of B. M. & C. C. Harlan. Watches, Clocks aud Jewelry t’Ci paired and warranted. __ y i>, tinlskv, M Watcli-Maker & Jeweler, CALHOUN , aA. All styles of Clocks, Watches and Jewelry naetD' repaired and warranted. 'h w *PER WEEK GUARANTEED to SC / / agents, male and female, in their Wp f own locality. Terms and outfit free. Addles I*. 0- Vickery & Cos, Angus . tu, Maine. CALHOUN, GA., WEDNESDA Y", JULY 20, 1870. THE CENTENNIAL. The Government Building—Army and Marine Monstrosities—ln dian Relics—lUcn Ores —Won- derful Machinery Workings of the Post Office Department. [From our Regular Correspondent.! Philadelphia, July 14, 1876. I did think, at first, that I would go systematically through the different buildings of the Exhibition, finishing ot e up before I began with another ; but it is dreadfully tiresome work to con* tinue writing on one subject, uo matter how absorbing the interest; so, for the future, I have concluded to move wher ever my inclination leads, —perhaps one or two days in the Government building and several visits to Machinery Hall. I will not forget the Ladies Department, nor the many isolated points of interest that go to make up this wonderful Ex hibition. My advice to a visitor to the Centen nial is—don’t forget to examine the Government buildings. Here are models of ships, elegant and clean cut, fore and aft, that look as though they would cleave the water like an arrow ; pigmy monitr r, defying shot and shell ; villainous looking torpedoes, whose mission is to send whole ship loads of poor devils to Davy Jones lock er ; rifled cannon, whose chief delight is to knock spots out of the enemy nine or ten miles away ; and shot and shell of* indescribable power and destnictibili ty, the very contemplation of which is filled with visions of mangled legs and arms, and all the horrors that surround the dreadful panoply of war. One thing made me mad. Here was the great American nation coming up to a world’s Exhibition,and yet in its representations of the plastic art I doubt if such libel ous abominations were ever conceived before in the heavens above or the earth beneath, or the waters hat are under the earth. Such soldiers, sailors and marines were never seen since the world began. One representative of the Ma rino Corps.stands at the south-east door; he looks as though he had been fed for ten years on sour milk and cabbage. lie has a frightened look, as though he had first received the shock from a giant tor pedo in the rear, and was about* to re treat in double-quick time. Another brave soldier looks as though he was slowly recovering from an attack of acute colic, and was anxiou ly watching the approach of returning symptoms; and still another gallant,tar looks as though he had been knocked on both his beam ends, and was emphatically going off on his ear. Disgusted at the vile libels on our sol diers and sailors, 1 wandered down to the Indian collection till I came to a case containing some murderous looking war clubs; they were all knotty and gnarled, and looked as if they would crush a man’s skull like an egg-shell. I am not naturally sanguinary, but my fingers itched to get hold of one of those clubs. Then I should want somebody to catch for me the Secretary of the Na' vy, the jolly Robeson, and the lato Sec retary of War, Mr. Belknap, and, un mindful of their eminent services, I should take exquisite delight in braini ing them with one of those war clubs Shades of Decatur,Perry,and Lawrence! if permitted to look down from above, irhat must be your righteous indignation a9 you contemplate these murderous ef figies of the noble American sailors? Ghost of brave old Farragut, haunt this lubberly Sec-ctary till these libels on omH'Kmest tars are removed ; and you, brave men, who went down with the q|uißfcerland, rattle your white hones aTOnd his couch at night as a punish ment for the disgrace which thpse vile effigies inflict on our soldiers and sailors. Stir him up with pith*forks and all sorts of uncomfortable things till they are hidden from sight, and the Government building is relieved from the infamy of their presence. There are some exceed ingly ingenious and marvellous machines that seem to be almost gifted with hu> man intelligence ; but it is more than this, for human intelligence is subject to mistake; but these machines never err. Look at the envelope machine which stands near the Post Office; it is indeed a marvel of marvels. A dainty litttle lady sits beside it in -an easy chair; she looks the picture of serene comfort, aod well she may,for she has nothing to do but enjoy herself at the government expense. Occasionally, for amusement, •he may take out a loose bundle of en vclopes to fan herself with, but the ma chine docs all the work. Describe it, I can’t. All I can say is. that you put iu a bundle of paper and it comes out first-class envelopes. Right across the hall is the most splendid collection of American woods ever congregated in one exhibition, oak, maple, cherry pine, spruce, cedar, and, iu fact, a 1 woods known to the American Continent. Still farthei on we have the display of the Patent Office Department, stored with its wonderiul revelations of genius. All sorts of in comprehensible machines crowd these cases,— machines, the story of whose conception and completion woulu be the saddest of all sad histories, lot mog and weary lives were worn out in tiieii in** veotion,and the inventors perished, hke the prophet of old, in sight of the prom ised land. _ To its consideration I would direct the attention of all who visit the Cen tennial it is not merely the collection of arms anil dresses, but the complete his toric links, which carry you back ages before the white man ever set foot on * 4 Truth Conquers All Things.” the American Continent. Giant carv ing are there representing the most hid ecus of all heathen deities, —monstrous conceptions monstrously worked out, —- and yet, in general classification, belong ing to the same family of Titanic gods that guard the mouldering palaces of Nineveh and Thebes. Not the least in teresting portion of the exhibition is the grand collection of negatives from which were taken from Prof. Ha\den’s View of the Yellowstone. Indian life in ev ery phase is here, and views of those wonderful ruins, the discovery of which has awakened such interest among our archaeologists. The collection of ores is one of especial merit, —California, Ne vada, Oregon, Colorado, and Utah being represented. These cises contain wealth untold, and we might think that gold and silver were the kings of the earth if it were not that,? lose beside the gold and silver exhibit, we find ourselves in the presence of K ing Iron. Talk of your kings and emperors ! No majesty so po tent as iron. Go through the halls of this great Exhibition, and, turn where yA>u will iron iron — iron— confronts you everywhere. You look at some wondrous pxod net of the loom ; you ad mire the splendor of its figures and the beauty of its colors ; you go back to the loom where it was created, an i you find it all of iron. Directly or indirectly, it enter’ into the composition or produc tion of everything you see or use ; and I said to myself, “It is neither gold nor silver nor cotton, —but iron is king.” In another part of the build-- ing is a great collection of fishes, many of them admitably prepared. In fact I almost wishes that the same individu al who staffed the fishes had been en" gaged to stuffed the sailors and marines. I commend this matter to the respect ful attention of tiie Secretary of the American Navy. The machines used in the production of cannon, rifles guns, pistols, etc., are also w 7 ell represented. There is also a machine for the prepar ation of cartridges. This is one of the self-feeding machines, w here the happy guardian of it has nothing to do but pick his teeth and fan himself and he looks all the time as if he was ttying to invent some machine to absolve him from these onerous duties. Looking on our guns, our defences, and our ships, the average American comes to the comfortable conclusion that the country is entirely safe ; and if they can only reproduce in sufficient numbers such soldiers, and / marinCs as they have here iu effigy, no foreign foe would dare mo lest us, for they would frighten the devil himself. The -weahtcr has been simply f ightful the thermometer ranging as high as 103° in the shade. While I write, miniature bridal veils are coursing down my back, anti young Niagaras are surging from my brow. The Peace Congress has been in session for the last three days, and yesterday a resolu tion was introduced that war is played out lam really glad of it, fur I could not fight now worth a cent: a two year old-boy-baby could lick me and not half try. The pretty cadets have all gone back to West point, and our Chestnut Street belles are in despair. We look anxiously for a falling barometer, with commensurate returns at the turnstiles : and, ireaming of future beatitude with skates, mow balls, and sleigh-bells, I am, Yours truly, Broadbrim’ Useful. No housekeeper should be without a bottle or spirits of ammonia ; for besides its medical p/ opertities, it is invaluable for household purposes.— It is nearly as useful as soap,and its cheapness brings it within the reach of all. Put a teaspoonful of ammonia in a quart of warm soapsuds, dip a cloth iti it and go over your soiled paint and see how rapidly the dirt will de-appear ; no scrubbing will be necessary. It will clean and brighten wonderfully To a pint of hot suds, add a tcaspoonful of the sp'rits, dip in your forks and spoons, rub with a soft brush, and finish with a chamois skin. For washing windows and mirrors, it has no equal. It wiU remove grease spots from every fabric without injuring the garment. Put on the ammonia nearly clear; lay paper over, and set a hot iron on it for a moment? Also a few drops in water will cleanse and whiten laces and mus - lins beautifully. Afew drops iu a bowl of water, if the skin is oily, will remove all greasiness aud disagreable odors.— Added to foot bath, it entirely absords all noxious smells, and noth'ug is bet ter to remtvc dandruff from the hair.— For cleaning hair and nail brushes it is equally good. For heartburn and dys pepsia, the aromatic spirits of ammonia is especially prepared; ten drops of which taken in a wine glass of water will give relief. For house plants five or six drops to every pint of wr.ter once a week will make them flour-’ ish. It is also good to cleanse plant jais. Gain in Cattle. —It takes weltve pounds of milk to add one pound of live weight to a calf; and an ox that.weighs one thousand three hundred pounds of hay in twent.y°four hours to keep from losing weight. If he is to fatten he must have twice the amount, when be will gain two pounds a day. This Is one pound of live weight to twelve pouiiUj ut good hav, *lo obtain fiity cents a hundred for Lis hay, a farmer must ad! fat steers at live dollars and CeULs pel huudied pounds. The Modern Journalist. If we might take exception to the single faculty of expressiig his ideas in eloquent language, before a public meet ing, the modern journalist is beyond doubt the nearest approach we have had to that ideal which Cicero had in view when describing the “ perfect orator." Had it been possible for the world in that age to have witnessed a realization of his ideal, it is questionable whether he would have wielded a fractional part of the influence enjoyed by the journal ist of the nineteenth century. And yet, multifarious as are his duties, with all its accompanying labor, brain work, wear and tear upon the system, both mental and physical, not one person in a hundred is disposed to admit the worth and accord to joui nalists that distinction which he deserves. Let him fail in grinding out daily his allotted measure of literary food; jet him neglect, though through sheer mental exhaustion it may bo, in bringing up his work to a .certain recognized standard of excellence, and a true asi n wisdom, regard it as an in perative duty to arraign the hapless cul prit and volunteer the information that his intellectual powers are becoming im paired. To meet the requirements of the age, the journalist must be, not only a writer in the restricted meaning of the word, but also lawyer, legislator, farmer, reporter, and theologian—in fact lie must be a walking encyclopedia of learning—an animated volume of refer ence—a species ot an “ Admirable Crichton." Curtis Guild, a veteran of this class, with a rare appreciation and a keen wit, has thus epigramized the modern jour nalist : ‘•A brain, a,3 flexible and clastic ns ar*eel, A memory as tenacious as iron, A temper as even as a saint, A digestion ss even as that of an ostrich, And ;he endurance of “.clamant. And, indeed, when wo consider tin? nature of the demands daily made upon the resources of the journalist, the above summary does not in the least degree seem exaggerated. A captious, though id may be a reading community —prone to fault finding, ever ready to question any statement which may con - flict wi b their settled convictions —rare- ly. if ever, reflect upon the enormous amount of labor, care, and study be stowed upon the very p-oductions which they superficially glance over, without taking the trouble to bring up their plans of thought on a level with that of the latter. Now and then, of course, there are exceptions to the rule, and a word of cheer—of good, honest appli cation, on the part of such readers, does more to relieve the profession of its ar* id bareness than the united plaudits of a thousand readers, who lustily cheer at anything that gratify their prejudices, without taxing their understanding.— Not only has he to bring all the powers of his mind upon the productions of his pen, but is compelled, from his relation to the public, to exercise the strictest supervision over all matter admitted to the journal over which he presides There certainly can be nothing more trying to the mind and temper th&D the necessity of couning over, patching up into a representable shape the rapid frothing of would-be writers; destitute alike of good sense, good grammar, and perhaps, worst of all, good penmanship ! To spend two or three hours in strug gling through manuscript, in vaiQ env deavors to decipher characters resent bling what Webster termed “Antidelu* vian bird tracks” more than anything else ; to return again repeatedly to the beginning in futile efforts to grasp the writer’s train of thought—if thought there must be—is it a wonder that oc casionally some disgusted journalist blows his brains out, or gets shut up in a lunatic asplum ? If he rejects an article, he gets a long letter calling his attention to its non-ap pearance. If he gives it a place in his columns of his paper the.public wonders if he has no iespect for their taste than to attempt to entertain them with such trash. If he sustains the views of one class of thinkers, he is called a fool and an innovator by the other. If he vacates this position and advocates the doctrine of the opposing ;.ect, those woo first pat ted him on the back in token of their sympathy, now call him “renegade! turn- coat! thief and liar !” If he takes up independent positions and brings for ward views of his own, all then unite in stigmatizing him as an idiot or a mad man. If be remains neutral, then again he is railed on all hands as a coward, time-server and trimmer, besides incur< ring the suspicion or distrust of even his Liends. In addition toliis multifarious duties, of late years, there has been added fune. tions which would seem to have more properly belonged to a lower tpye of be ing, or rather of education. Yet be yond a doubt, the journalist has contrib uted more than any other class of indi viduals towards unearthing and bring ing to - the light the corruptions which seem to be honeycombing both society and the body politic through and through. Despite his numerous duties the results accompanying his efforts in this direction alone, would have excited the wonder and admiration of the most enthusiastic lynx-eyed veteran of “Scot land Yard." Stanley in the wiles of Alrica; the “Special Correspondent" who Jules Yeru has pictured as taking notes of a rebel who was aiming at him with his ride ; these ail but convey a faint idea of what line his life has fallen into. Could old Gutteuburg, when he struck the first proof from the rude press he had invented, have had the faintest comprehension of the addition al study,with its peculiar liue of thought, In Advance. together with its broad scope and adver sity of form,which modern improvement ol his invention has entailed, we fancy that he would have, in his admiring wonder, ventured upon the Virginia darkey’s unvarying expression of delight viz: “ihe Double Shuffille.” However that may be, there is food for reflection in the thought. The modern journalist is to a great extent the outgrowth of the modern press. The line of demark ation betweon the course of thought pur sued by the intellects of the nineteenth century, and that followed in Gutten* burg’s day is, perhaps, as strongly mnrk ed as that between his primitive press and one of “Hoe’s latest Improved.” Whether the new impulse which learn ing received at that time, required a corresponding degree of improvement in ihe means of diffusing it; or wheth er this new mechanical device, given to the world at a time when the human mind had begun to shake ofl' the hthar gy of the iMiddlc Ages, and gecting a glimpse, as it were of the possibilities of the future, forced the intellect, by the in he rent law of progress, tc expand in to Firms as diversified as instructive, while it filled the humbler office of f re. serving them, will ever remain a mooted question. ihe typical journalist has been rep resented generally as a man whose ab sorption in his duties, and his peculiar methods of life, set him apart from the rest of mankind. In some cases he is represented as a morose, surely misan thropical creature, m whose breast the milk of human kindness had soured.— In others again he is represented a ‘•Hail fellow', well met;” addicted to champage,good cigars, and poker ; al ways in debt and ever eager to borrow as long as he can get any one to lend. Never understood however, by the ma jority of mankind, yet this anomaly, the modern journalist, is strange to say, as much part of the great social body as its most important member, and not withstanding his seeming isolation is bound to it by the same old tics which have existed since the formation of the first social compact. Ani they, who carp, cavil and criticise, acknowledging their inability to perform the least por* tion of that which he accomplishes, while they deny his orthodoxy, or attri bute to him thoughts and desire which he never drcampt.|much less advocated will be surprised to learn that on that great day when all men are judged ac cording to their works, perhaps his will nor be the least place there among told millions. A little three year-old, in Boston, a few mornings since,stood by his moth er’s knee looking at his baby brother.— At length he added: “Mother did God make my little bro ther ?” “Yes, dear.” “Bid God make his little ears ?” he continued. “Yes.” “And his little nose ?” “Certainly, my son God esn do any thing,” said the mother. Waiting a moment, as though in a brown study, or pondering some very weighty and profound problem, he again broke forth : “I tell you one thing God can’t do mother.” “ What is that my son ?’’ “He can’t make my little brother’s mouth any bigger without setting his ears back.” Winter Oats. —Reports from all parts of the State show that the best time for sowing cats, is in the full fall. The Commission of Agriculture in his aggregation of these reports says, if not in words, in substance, that he knows of no failure in file oat crop when sown in the fall, but when sown in the spring of the year, liability of failure is over fifty per ceDt. When it is remem bered that oats are better lor horses than corn, and that it does not cost so much to make them, it is a mailer of surprise that farmers do not sow largely of this g ain. Let cvejy farmer in the county sow at least a part of his oat crop in September, and we are satisfied the re3uls*will be entirely satisfactory. Winter oa\s can now be had itt the mar ket at a very low figure ; they will cost more, as sowing time approach es. Tende . Courtship. —ln an account of the marriage ceremony of the Esqui maux given by Dr. H ayes, he says : ‘‘The match is made by the parents of the couple. The bridegroom must go out to capture a polar bear, as au evi dence of manly courage and strength. Then he is told he can marry, if so in clined. lie sneaks behind the door of his inamorata, and when she comes out he pounces upon her, and undertakes to bear her away to his dog sled. She screatr s, bites, kicks and breaks away from him, He chases her, and the old women of the settlement come out with frozen strips of sealskin and give her a thwack. After running the gauntlet of these old women,she falls down exhaust ed, and surrenders. The bridegroom then lashes her to his sledge, and whip ping up his dogs, they fly avray over the frozen snow, and the weddiDg is consummated. A Now England village clergyman wishing to impress upon his congrega tion the great imnortance of the soul’s salvation, said : “You may lose horses and lands, and they can be regained ; you may lose your wife, you can get an other ; may you lose youi child, you can get another; but if you lose your soul, goud bye John Kates of Advcritsing. fff’S?*' For each square of ten lines or less for the first insertion, sl, and for each sub sequent insertion, fifty cents. 1 IMO. 1 3 Mos. ftf MoV | TyeaY. Two $4700 st7bo 1 4f 12.00 1 $20.00 Four “ 0.00 10.00 [ 18.00 35.00 | column . 15.00 1 25.00 40.CL h “ I 15.00 25.00 40.00 05.00 I “ I 26.00 40-00 I 66.00 115.00 Sheriff’s Sales, each levy $4 (XI Application for Homestead 2 OO Notice to Debtors and Creditors 4 00 Land Sales, one square 4 00 Each additional square 3 00 NO. 47. What Ailed a Pillow. While Annie was saying her prayers, Nell trifled with the picture on the wall. Not satisfied with playing alone she would talk to Annie she would sing to Annie, that mite of a figure in golden curls and snowy gown, by the bedside*. “Now. Annie, watch ! Just see ! Oil, Annie, do look !” she said over aadtver again. Annie, who was not to be persuaded, fiuished ber prayer, and crept iuto bed, withher her thoughtless sister followed, as the lights must be out in about ten minutes. Presently Nell took to floun dering, punching,and oh dearing. Then she lay quiet awhile,only to begin again with renewed energy. “What’s the matter ?” asked Annie. “My pillow !” testing and thumping. “It’s as flat as a board and as hard as a stone. I can’t think what ails it.” “I know,” answered Annie, in her swqet wav-- “Whnt ?” “There’s no prayer in it.” For a second or two Ne’l was still as a mouse, then she scrambled out cn the floor, with a shiver, ’tis true, but she was determined never afterwards to try to sleep on a prayerlcss pillow. “That must have been what ailed it,” she whispered after getting into bed again. “It’s all right now.” I think that is what ails a great many pillows on which restless heads toss nightly, there are no prayers in them. Nell’s remedy was the best, the only one. Prayer made the pillow soft, and he sank to rest under a sheltering wing. A Female Husband. —Extract of a letter from a gentleman in Scotland to liis friend in Virginia : —I will now tell you about two young women who had beet. disappointed in marriage, and be ing intimate they revealed their minds to each other and resolved to livo as man and wife in some place where they were not known. They drew lots to see who should beman. The one on whom it fell assumed the name of James Han. They had a servant, but each perform ed the duties belonging to his or her station. They traded honestly, gained a good deal of money, were well respect ed and lived together for 31 years until at last the wife died, when the discovery was made. Jan es Han served in all the offices of the place except constable; and had been often foreman of juries and was to have been church warden if the discovery of her sex had not been made. You are well off when you are in a healthy neighborhood, with enough to • at and drink, a comfortable, well/vena tinted apartment to sleep in, and you are paying all expenses and laying up something—even slowly—for a rainy day, and iu addition co all this, acquir ing knowledge and strengthening your character. Young men whose situation combine all the preceding advantages should be very careful about exchang ing such a certainty unless it be for another certainty. —. Two girls, near Adams, Jefferson county, says an exchange, determined last week to go in swimming aa the boys do. They had a splendid bath in a secluded plaee, but a strolling cow took up a position near their clothes, and they sat on the opposite side of the creek all the afternoon and called the cow hard names. They were relieved when a farmer’s boy came after the cow at milkingtime. A country clergyman, just recover ing from the effects of a severe boil on the nose, stopped an unhin near Fort Green, recently and asked the way to the corner of Clinton and Fulton streets. The lad glanced at him suspiciously a moment, and said : “Well, yer needn’t go there, mister; there ain’t no gin mill 0:1 that earner.” Hekze’n Whayler,Wheeze’n Hayler, Whayes’n Heclet, Ileel’n Whayzer, Whayle’n Heezer. Now, you can’t do that with those eminently respectable and conservative names, Tilden and Hendricks, you may get drunker’a a biied owl and then can’t do it.—Nash ville American. - ► It is difficult to conceive anything more beautiful than the reply given by one in affliction when he was asked how he bore it so well ? “It lightens the stroke,” he said, “to draw nearer to Him who handles the rod.” A Western town has a lady teach® er who kisses the first boy who gets to school in the morning, and the small boys are crowded out of school by chiL dren of larger growth, who roost on the fences all night so as to be up early. “What proof can we give that the Bible was written by good men V r A little girl four years old replied. “Bad men would not write so much against themselves," Nothing conduces so much to the health of cattle than good clear Wa ter. A Cincinnati friend advertises for men with fever and ague to shake car pets. f lhe f.iAorite flower for wcddiug boim nets —Marry-gold. 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