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the tinges. D. 11. FREEMAN, Proprietor. CIRCULATES EXTENSIVELY IN Gordon nud Adjoining Counties. Office: Wall St., Southwest of Court House. RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION. One Year $2.00 Tix Months 1.00 Western & Atlantic Railroad AND ITS CONNECTIONS. ‘ • KEXXESAIV ROUTE.” The following takes effect may 23d, 1875 NORTHWARD. No. 1. L ive Atlanta 4.10 p.u A. rive Cartersville G. 14 •< Kingston 6.42 “ “ Dalton 8.24 “ “ Chattanooga 10.2 b “ No. 3 Leave Atlanta 7.00 a.M Arrive Cartersviile 0.22 ~ “ Kingston 9.56 “ “ Dalton 11.54 “ Chattanooga 1.56 r.si No. 11. Leave Atlanta 3,30 p.m Arrive Cartersville 7.10 “ “ Kingston 8.21 “ “ Dalton 11.18 “ SOUTHWARD. No. 2. '..cave Chattanooga 4.00 p.m Arrive Dalton 5.41 “ “ Kingston 7,28 “ “ Cartersville 8.12 “ “ Atlanta 10 15 “ No. 4. 1 o ve Chattanooga 5.00 a.m Ari ive Dalton 7.01 “ Kingston o.o' ‘ “ Cartersville 0.42 “ “ Atlanta 12 06 >.m No. 10. I >a'e Dalton 1.00a.m Ari e Kingston 4.19 *• -* Cartersville 5.18 “ “ Atlanta 9.20 “ ull nan Palace Gars run o i Nos. 1 and 2 oe ,eeu New Orleans and Baltimore. i oilman Palace Cars run <*n Nos. 1 and 4 et ecu Atlanta and Nashvilie. 1 .dim tn Palace Cars run on Nos. 2 and 3 1 1 veer Louisville and Atlanta, j No change of cars bet ween New Or lour , 5 dole, Montgomery, Atlanta and Hal more, and only one change to New Yor .. P sseng vs leaving Atlanta at 4 10 p. m.. art-i i! in New York the second afternoon tlier after fit 4.00. E’.eursu n tickets to the Virginia springs and various summer resoits will be on sab in N w Orleans, Mobile, Montgomery, Cos Lind as, M.iou\ Savannah, Augusta e.tl6 At taut,i, at gi cully reduced rates, first of A unr l‘a -ties desi’liig a vliolo car tlirough t< \ irgima Sovings or Baltimore, should o Mr fs the un lersigned. Pa ties confer-plating travel should send t' ,r a copy of the tlwinesaw Route Gazette v nta ning sche luh’s. etc. jyr, Ask for Ticket* va “ Kennesav ! mite ” r,. W. WP.KNN, G. V. & T. A., Atlanta, Ga. J 3>. TINLSEY, VYatcli-Makcr & Jeweler, CALHOUN. CA. All stylos of Clod:*. IVntchc*aiul Jewell? iiojitl*' ropaived aml warranted. Fisk’s Patent Metalie 11 :1 %. jr Jill l O.'lH-V'l til l .' Slock ot BoitZ l- Ilarntt, which v.ill constantly bo added t< ;i full rarnge c£ sizes cau always be found at the old stand of lleeves & Malone. declfi 6n. ~~ tmfW&n PATEKTS- T.s FULLY EXPLAINED IN A HANI g Pool; i.oned by Munn & Cos., Publisher) of the Scientific American, 37 Park Row New York. Send 10 cents for specimen of the best illustrated weekly papci publi lied. All patents solicited by Mum S- C'o. arc noticed in the Scion PA i L.il i American without charge Hand Look free. No charge for advice and opinion regarding the patentability of in volitions, Send sketches aug2’oin. SANDALWO.OD Possesses a much greater power in restoring to a healthy state. It nev r produces sick' mss, is cextain and speedy in its action.— If is fast superseding every other remedy. Sixty capsules cure in six or eight days.— No other medicine can do this. Owing to its great srcceso, many sitbsti tutes have been advertised, such as Pastes. Mixtures, Pills, Balsam, etc., all of which have been abandoned, Dundee, Dick ,j- Co.’s Soft Cr>sh* contain ing Oil-of Sandalwood, sold at all the Drug Siosf. Ask for Circular, or send to •>> \ > woo? ter Street. New York, for one. [jy‘2G 6m. idx7lis , ~ Lll'lßt & SAL!J STABLE. IcLA A32 Good Saddle fi and Bucpy Horse and New Vehicles. Horses and mules for sale. Stock fed and cared for. Charges will be reasonable Will p.,y the cash for corn in the ear and drier in the bundle. febo-tk AGENTS our lar >? e bfe-like Steel Un gravinfis of tlie Presidential Candidates sell tepidly.- make Send for circular. N. Y Engraving Cos., 3b Wall SL‘ $lB A DAY. Box 3236, N. Y. [sep‘J-8t t J. I. CASE & CO’S Apron Keparatom apron S.'piii'ators. with 20, ~® 30 Inch (Vliuileri). eitts * Woodbnry Powers, , H, 10 and 12 Horae, down and iaun(ed,anital>le to larjreoramaii fropa, level or hillj* eountrlea, Also, Mteam Separators A Portable *’ nK J. l 1 Liberal Term* to responsible parti**** Amenta wanted in every county, beim | for Pamphlet and mention this paper. i SZ.ViPLE, SiRCE A. Cos., #lO Waihlnston Ave., St. I*ouls, Mo. CALHOUN TIMES. Two Dollars a Year. VOL. VII. TIIE GEORGIA Daily Commonwealth, JS PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING, ( Sundays Excepted) By the Comuiouwealth Publishing Cos. ATLANTA, GEORGIA, Aul is edited by Coi.oxkl Carf.y W Stylus, late of the Albany “News,” with effeient assistants. The Commonwealth gives the currcnl news of the city, State and elsewhere, mar ket reports, and vigorous editorials on mu nicipal, political, ami general subjects. The coming canvass, State aud National will be closely watched and properly pre sented, while the meed anieal and ngricub tural interest of the State will not bo neg lected. It ha a large and rapidly increas ing circulation. TER ,S : One month, 75 cents. Two months. $1.25 Tour months, $2.00. One year, $6.00. Printing’, Binding: anil Killing o every kind, done in the best style and a lowest prices. Commonweahli Publishing (0.. Atlanta, Georgia. CHEAPEST AKB BEST HOWARD iraHLIC fflilT! MANUFACTURED NEAR KINGSTON, BARTOW COUNTY, GEORGIA. "’qual to .he best imported Portland Cement Si nd for Circular. Try this before buying elsewhere. • _* Refers by permission to Mr. A. J. West President of Cherokee Iron Company, Polk county, Georgia, v/bo has built a splendid iain across Cedar Creek, using this cement, tud pros (;■ icing it the Ina t lie ever used. Al o ren r to Me.- .srs. fcmitL , Son & Bro., .1. i. Veal, F. I. “tone. J. J. Cohen and Major torn Berry, Rome, Georgia, Major 11. Bry ii, of S.,v.:nuah. T. C. Douglas, Sunerin eudent of M; onry, Etist River Bridge, sew York, Gen. \Yn>. Mcßae, Supeiintepd nt YU &, A. Railroad, Capt. J. Fostell, C. E. Address G. H. V,TARING, Kingston, Ga octl3l v GSORerA AfjD ALABAMA STMSBBA T COMPANY. ZETotioo 2 VLL goods shipped to the care of J. M. ELLIOTT, Gon'l. Sup’f., Rome, Ga., lYom 'hiladelphia, New York aud Boston, via lmrleston or Vo. & Trnn Air-Lino, will be guaranteed to nil poinis on ihe Coo: a, Oos an: ula and Coosa ,votive river , at the fol ov.ing rates, to-wit: Glass Class Gh’ss Class Class Class 1 2 3 4 5 6 175 152 122 IGO 78 65 The steamers, “Magnolia and “Mary Carter” will run the following Schedule, earryiag the U. S- Hail: Steamer Magnolia, f eave Rome —Every Monday 1 p. m. Every Thursday 0 a. rn. eave Gadsden—Every Tuesday 8 a. m. Every Friday 8 a.m. .r /ve at’Kme- -Eve ry Wednesday at 6 p. m. E veiv aturd ay, 6 p. m. Steamer Mary Carter. Leave Rome Monday 8 a. m. Arrive at Lome Wednesday' 6 p. m. \rrive at Carter’s T.ietd; ys 12 m. Leave Carters Tice days 2 p. m. Passcng >r i c i Gocsa River. Rome to Cedar Blkff. $2 00 Ron.a to Center 250 Rome to Gadsden 4 00 Passerisror Rates on Ocstanaula tint! CoosawattGC Rivers. Rome to Reeves’ Station $1 00 Rome to Calhoun 1 50 Rome to Rcsaea Rome to Field’s Mill 3'oo Rome to Gaiter’s Landing 3 50 Rates to other points inquire at the ofr.ee ofCompany., foot of Broad Street Roms, Ga. ;iUxaai©3^£MGLt:js. For families intending to emigrate to I’cxas flic Georgia and Alabama Steamboat Company offers a very desirable route via New Oilcan?. Direct and dose connection is made from Meridian via Jack: on and New Orleans with Trains of the Texas line. Other inlorma Don can be obtained by addressing JAMLS M. ELLIOTT, Gen'l Supt. Gi:o. W. Bowen, John C. I'iuntup, Gon’l Freight Agt. Gen’l Pass. A, au ?26-tf. GEO EG lA,Gordon County . TO all whom it may concern. Jas. I. laghram and S. li Inghram having in proper from applied to mo for per-, manent letters of administration on the estate of A Inghram late ot said coun ty this is to cite all and singular the creditors and next of Kin ot A. In- 1 <>hram to be aud appear at mv office within the time al’owed and show' cause if any they can why permanent, admin istration should not be granted to Jas. I. Inghram &. S. B. Ingh-am on A. Ins ghram’s estate. Witness my hand anti official signa" tore this Ju!y 1, 1876. L. W. NEEL, Ordinary. CALHOUN, GA., SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 80, 1876. A MYSTERIOUS VISIT. BY MARK TWAIN. The firs- notice that was taken of me when I “settled down” recently was by a gentlemen who said he was an assessor and connected with the United State In teral Revenue Department. I said I had never heard of his branch of business before, but I was very glad to see him, all the same; would he sit down ? He sat down. I did not know anything particular to say, and yet I Kelt that people who have arrived at the dignity of keeping house must be easy and sociable in company. So, in de fault of anything else to say, I asked him if Le was opening his shop iu our neighborhood. He said he was. [I did r.ol wish to appear igrorant, but I had hoped he would mention what he had for sale] I ventured, however, to ask him “ how was trade and he said “So so.” I then said we would drop in and if we liked his house as well as anyother we would give bin; our custom. He said he thought we would like his establishment well enouan to confine ourselves to it—said he never saw any body who would go and hunt up anoth er man iD his lineafter trading with hint once. That sounded pretty complacent, but barring that natural exp essiou of vil lainy which we all have the man looked honest enough. I do not know how it came about ex actly, but gradually we appeared to melt down and run together, conver sauonally speaking, and then everything went along as comfo tably as clock work. We talked, and talked, and talked •>t least I did. And we laughed, and !au<ihed, and laughed —at least he did. B t al! the time i had my native shrewd ness turned on, “lull heap,” as the en gineers say. I was determined to find out all about bis business, in spite of his obscure answers —and L was deter mined 1 would have it out ot him with out his suspecting what I was at. 1 meant to trap him with a deep, deep ruse. I would icll him all about my own business, and he would naturally so warm to me duriug this seductive hurst of confidence that he w ould for get, himself and tell me all about bis affairs before he suspected what I was about. I thought to myself, my son, you little know what an old fox you are dealing with. I said : “Now, yon never would guess what I made lecturing, this winter and last fall.” “No — don’t believe I could to save me. Lem me see —lemme see. About twe thousand dollars maybe? But no —no sii, I know you couldn’t have made that much. Say seventeen h ndred may be?” “Ha-ha? I know you couldn't. My lecturing receipt for last srring and this winter were fourteen thousand, sev en hundred dollars. What do you thing of that ?” “Why, it is amazing—perfectly— perfectly amazing. 1 will make a note et’ it. And you *ay even this wasn’t all ?” “Ah ! Why, bless you, there was my income from the Buffula Express for four months —about —well what should you say to about eight thousand dullars for instance ?” “Say? Why, I should say I should like to see myself rolling in just such another ocean of affluence. Eiabt thou sand ! I’ll mak a note of it. Why,man ! —and on top of all this I’m to un* derstand that you had still mors income ?” “Ha ha ha! Why, you’re only in the suberbs of it so to speak. There’s my book, “The Innocents Abroad”— price, $3 50 to $5, according to the binding Listen to me. During the last four months anda half, saving noth ing of sales before that—but ju.-t simply during the four months and a half end ing March 15, 18T0, we’ve sold ninety five thourand copies of that book ! Ninety-five thousand! Think of it! Average four dollars a copy, say. It’s nearly four hundred thousand dollars, I get half ! “The suffering Moses ! Ull set that down. Fourteen seven fifty—eight— two nundred. Total say—well, ’pon tuy word, the grand total is about two hundred and —and—and thirteeen or fourteen thousand dollars. Is that possi ble?” “Possible ! If there thcre’s any mis take it’s the other way ! Two hundred and fourteen thonsar and, cash, is my income for this year if I know how to cipher.” Then the gentleman got up to go. It came over me most uncomfortably that maybe I had made bit revelations for nothing, besides being flattered into stretching them considerably by the stranger’s astonished exclamations. But no ; at the last moment tire man baud' td me a large envelope and said it con tained his advertisement, and that I would find out ail his business in it ; and that he would he happy to have.my custom —would in fact be proud to have the custom of a man of such prodicious income; and that ho used to think that there were several wealthy men in Buffalo but when they came Io trade with him he discovered that they barely had enough to Uve on ; and that in truth it had been such aweary, weaiy age since he had seen i rich man face to face and talked with him,and touching hint with his hands, that he he could hardly re frain from embracing me—in fact ; would Truth Conquers All Things.” esteem it a great favor if I would let him embrace me. This so pleased me that I did not try to resist, but allowed this simple heart ed stranger to throw his arms about me and weep a few' tranquiiizing tears down the back of my neck. Then he went his way. As soon as he was gone I opened his advertisement I studied it attentively for four minutes. I then called up the cook and said : “Hold me while I faint. Let Marie turn the cakes.” By-and-by, when I came to, I sent down to the rum mill on the corner and hired an artist by the week to sit up nights and curse that stranger, and give me a lift occasionally in the dav time when I came to a hard place. Ah, what a mbcreaat he was! IJis “advertisement” was nothing in the world but a wicked taX/return—a string of impertinent questions about my pii vate affairs, occupying die best part of four foolscap pages of fine print—ques tions, I may remark gotten up with such marvelous ingenuity that the oldest man in the wo - Id couldn’t understand what the most of them were driving at —ques- tions, too, that w'eie calculated to make a man report about four times his actu al income to keep from swearing to a lie I looked for a loop-hole, but there di not appear to be any. Inquiry No. 1 covered my case as generously and as ample as an umbrella could cover an ant-hill: “ W hat were your profits in 18G9 from any trade, business or vocation, wherever carried on ?” And that inquiry was backed up by thirteen others of an equally searching nature, the most modest of which re quired information as to whether I had committed imv burglary or highway robbery, or by any arson or other secret source of emolument had acquired prop erty which was not enumerated in mv statement of income as set opposite to inquiry No. i. It was plain that that stranger had enabled me to make an ass of myself It was very, very plain, and I went out and hired another artist. By working Oi< my vanity the stranger had seduced me into declaring an income of $215,000 By law SI,OOO of this was exempt from income tax —the only relief I could see, and it was only a drop in the ocean. At the legal five per cent. I must pay over to the government the appalling sum of ten thousand six hundred and fifty duilais income tax. [l may remark, in this place, that I diu not do it.l I aul acquainted with a very Ofulent uiaii w hose house is a palace,whose table is regal, v hose outlays are enormous, yet a man who has no income a3 I have of ten noticed by the revenue re° turns; and to him I went for advice in my distress. He took my dreadful ex hibit of receipts, he pat on his glasses, he took his pen, and presto ! I was a pauper ! It was the neatest thing that ever was. He did it simply by deftly manipulating the bill of “Deductions.” lie set down my state, nati nal ami municipal taxes” at so much; my “losses by shipwreck, fire, etc,” —at so much ; my “losses on sales of real estate—on “live stock sold”—on “rayments for rent of homestead”—on “repairs inter est”—on “previously taxed salary as an officer of the Un’ted States army, navy, revenue service.” and other things He got astonishing “deductions” out of each and every one of these matters —each and every one of them. And when he was done he handed me the paper, and I saw at a glance that during the year 1869 my income, in the way of profits, had been one thousand tioo hundred and fifty dollars and forty cents. “Now, the thousand dollars is exempt bylaw. W hat you want to do is to go and sw:ar this document in and pay tay ou the two huudred and fifty dol lars.” “Do you do always work up the “de" duetion’ a ! tcr this fashion in your ease. Birr “Well, I should say so ! If it was not for those eleven saving clauses un der the head of “Deductions” I shold be boggard to suppo t this hateful and wicked, this extortionate and tyrannical covern merit. This gentleman stand* away up among the very best of the solid men of Buffalo the men of moral'weight, ot commer cial integrity, of unimpeachable social srotlcssne-s —and so 1 bowed to his ex ample l went down to the revenue office, and under the accusing eyes o? my old visitor, I stood up and sw'ore to lie after lie, fraud after fraud, villainy alter villainy, till mv immortal soul was coated inches and inches thick with per jury, and my self-respect gone forever and ever. But what of it ? It is nothing more than thousand of the highest, and most respected, honored and courted men in America do every year. And so I don’t care. lam not ashamed. I shall simply, for the present, talk little and wear fireproof gloves lest I fall into cer tain habits irrevocably. pin the court room ; a lawyer to his client “I’m sorry, poor fellow, but not withstanding my eloquence you have been sentens to prison for three months.” “Oh, don’t let that worry v“u,” was the answer. I’m tot borhood where I live they will think i ve gone to the country, and that will give am social status. “Yes,” says the Detroit Free Press, “The soldiers should be concentrated in the South. If they fool around out West any longer the Indians might hurt some of them .Sere Black ou Hayes. Hon. Jere Black, in a recent letter addressed to Mr. Garfield, in reply to his speech in Congress in reply to Mr. Lamar, of Mississippi, shows what it takes to make a reformer, and demon strates very clct.rly that Governor Hayes is not the man, nor his party the sort of support a leformer should have. Mr. Black said : You would have us believe that Hayes if elected will reform abuses and give us a pure administration. Your state ment, and that of other gentlemen equally reliable, make it certain that Mr. Hayes bears an irreproachable character in all his private relation*.— I do not doubt his possession of that negative honesty which it is a disgrace to want I accord him those tame house hold virtues which entitle him to the respect of his neighbors and the confi dence of his family ; but be can no more stem the t rrent of Republ can corruption than he can swim against the rapids of Niagara. His whole his tory shows that he would not even make an effort to do so. He has been most pily called “ a man of tried subservien cy” A reformer in these times must be made of stern material. He must have no connection with, and be under no obligation to, the authors of the abuses which need reform. Above all things, he must not have consented expressly or impliedly to the commission of the public wron.-s which his duties as a re former wou’d require him to punish. When he comes to oppose wicked ness in high places the consciousness that he himself is in parti delicto wid make even a strong man as neverless as infancy To show how hard it would be for a man Mr Hayes to resist the worst or* der of his party, I must cite p erse directly in point, and certainly within your recollection as we!j mine In the case of Millegan, you made an eloquent and powerful speech before the Supreme Gourt for those fiee prin ciples which I at the same time,su r port ed in my weaker way. You showed the indestructible right oi every citixen to a legal 1 r al; you proved that Magna Charta di J not perish on the battle field ; you demonstated by irresista ble that the Constitution was as supreme after the wa- as it was before; you spurned with luftly contempt the brutal idea that- victory of the forces called out to defi nd it ; and you closed with that grand peroratiou on the Goddess of Liberty, which, if spoker at Athens in the best day of her “fierce Democratic” would have “shook the arsenal and*ful minated over Greece.” These were not the words of a paid advocate,for you had volunteered in the case; nor the sudden emotions of a neophyte, for you had read and pondered the subject well You spoke the deliberate conclusions of vour mind, and there is no doubt that in your hearts you believe them to be true to this day. Yet when the reconstruction law was proposed you suffered y urself to be whipped in, surrendered your con science to your party,and voted against your recorded conviction,for a measured that nullified every provision of the Constitution, whereby ten millions of people were deprived of rights which you knew to be sacred and inaliena ble. If this was the casewhat subserviency may not be expected from Mr Hayes, when the party lash comes to be laid on his back? Yo“ are his superior in every quality that holds a man true to public duty. You have been care fully sh cied in the morality of the new testament, you have lived in the full blaze of the gospel, you are gifted with a logical acumen which few can boast, and vith moral courage far above the average. If you fell down before the Moloch of Abolitionism and gave up all principle at once, what act ol worship will Hayes deny to that grim idol? O Tlse Railroad Guide. Yesterday forenoon a young Rian, whose business it was to sell railroad guides to any one who buy, found a Jef ferson avenue clothing dealer sitting in an armed chair in front of his door,and after a kindly salute the agent bonded out one of his guides and then said: “There is the handiest little book in the vvt r’.d. it contains name, table and route of every railroad iu this coun try.” “I never buy no sich kind ob books,” replied the dealer as he glanced through it. “But you want that pamphlet, my dear sir. You look like a man who trav„ eis around considerably and no traveler can get along without one of these guides. “1 d< i/t care to guide on railroads,” said tlv de lei, shaking his head and turning away. “Hold on, now just look through it once. Suppose, for instance, that you want to go to New Orleans.” “I goes.” “Well, suppose you want to goto Oma ha.” “Den I don’* goes.” “Suppose you had to go; wouldn’t yon have to look at a railroad time ta/ ble then. “No, sir. I should go down py der depot, £,et on the train, puy some ap pies of der poy, and I should step off in Chicago like some grease !” The agent had no further argument to advance. — Detroit Free Press. Russia is anxious for war. Iu Idvance. Mu ii ago mo nt of luoks. There are four kinds of domestic ducks that claim our attention, viz : Ayles bury, Boucn, Cayuga and Pekin ; each having its admirers. Ido not purpose to discuss their comparative merits here, •but will simply state that, for good reasons, I prefer them in the order nam ed. I have omitted Muscovys, because I have little to say of them. Their ugli ness is beyond endurance, and l advise all who are unacquainted with them never to seek an introduction. It is a mistaken idea that a pond or stream is absolutely necssary to success in raising ducks,Tor, although it is ben eficial, it is net a necessity. Those who have a fondness for ducks can succeed with them without i. bountiful supply of water, yet they will not thrive in confinement. If one has only a small yard he should not keep more than a pair or a trio, hut a dozen or more can be kept with profit if they have the range of pasture or meadow. Bucks are great foragers, and should have good range. It is not enough to give them a pen extending into a pond or stream. They should he free to roam over fields, where they may be seen at early dawn seeking worms and insects, their favorite diet. When this can be allowed them, they should never be fed in the morning. Peed only once a day, at night, then they will be sure to re turn for their evening meal, and may be penred up so as to secure their eggs which are deposited at about day break. The color of the egg varies considera bly. The first eggs of the season laid by Cayugas are generally almost black, and the color of the others is pale green, but they soon lose their shades and are a cream white in color; although 1 have known Rouens to lay greenish col ored eggs through the season. This di versity ot shade cannot he accounted for. The size of the egg is doub e that o‘‘ a hen’s egg, very sure to be fertile, and they bear transportation splendidly. I have frequently sent them a distance of five hundred to fifteen hundred miles, and from ninety to one hundred per cent, hatched j but only from two io four ducks are allowed with one drake. Prehaps that number may be increas. ed to six or eight, but I have never risked it. I have tried to hatch ducks’ eggs under ducks, but have always failed consequently I place them under hens and put several broods together. After they are hatched, ducklings should be kept in a dry yard containing a good shelter. Never allow them free use of streams or ponds till they are six weeks old. If it is nesessary to feed them never feed raw mush Ground worms are especially ben eficial to ducklings, and should be sup plied them every day if possib e ; if uot animal food should be given them in some shape. Beef livet or other cheap meat may be cooked and choped for them and feed stirred in the broth while it is boiling hut. Thus nothing is lost. Never feed whole or uncocked grain to ducklings till they are well fledged; then alternated with cracked corn whole corn or other grain, once a day, but continue the soft food- If whole grain is fed them when young, frothy substance appears in their eyes the beak becomes sore, and death soon follows. You can get along without a bountiful supply of water, but not without animal food aud soft food. —Poultry Bulletin. ► - Burlington Ilawkeye : A woman out in Ottumwa fell out of a second story window of a hotel, and lit on her head on the sidewalk below. They picked her up. and in due time she recovered her consciousness, “Oh my hat my hat ,” she sobbed, “ I can never get that feather to look like anything again. Oh, why didn’t I die ? Why didn't you let me die ?” And they all went out and left her to her anguish. The Freedman’s Saving Bank. Among the many injuries that have been inflicted by the Republican Admin istration upon the negroes the basest, meanest, the most cot temptible, is its management of the Freedmans. Saving Bank. Conceited an 1 carrieu into for* mation by those who were too good to be kept in the party, its whole design was to furnish means for saving from unscrupulous hands the moneys which might be received from the newly eman cipated. They were like children in our hands, unaccustomed to the free use even of their limbs,and of business meth od as utterly ignorant as the babe ia the ciadle They were emancipated, ar and money was their due, and then our Government came forward and consent ed to act as their trustees, and see that they should not be robbed. It was well done. But when Grant came into pow er all this was altered. The speulating hands of his followers could not be kept from this prolific field. The depositors were ignoiant and he’pless and cuaid be robbed with impunity. And they were robbed, ruthlessly, despicably rob bed, and now they asked not to relax their confidence in those who have plun dered- them. The of Daniel Webster, now ; eighty.five year old is s ill alive, and living with Mr. Robert Edgar,a relative iu the city of New York. - The first kiss of love, although it sets a man’s sou) riding bare buck through hi3 system, cannot be c mpared with the ccstaey which she feels when, for the first time she welts him over the manly brow with a crimping iron. Hates ot* Advertising. For each square of ten lines oriels for the first insertion, sl, and fjpr each ru sequent insertion, fifty centß. No.Sq’rs | 1 Mo. ] 3 Mos. j b Mof I 1 y eai Two $4.00 $7.00 I $12.00 | jlioTt > Four “ 6.00 10.00 | 18.00 j 35. m 1 column 9.00 15.00 25.00 [ 40-00 } “ 15.00 26.00 40.00 I 65.00 1 “ 25.00 40-00 65.00 | 115.00 Sheriff's Sales, each levy $4 o Application for Homestead 2 <" Notice to Debtors and Creditors 4 1 • Land Sales, one square 6‘ Each additional square <; NO.<> The First American Flu- At the last meeting of the Pennsylva nia Historical Society Mr Wm. J. (’ by read a paper on “The First Star Spangled Banner Made in America an i “Who Made it.” ” lie discover*! i ; fracing the history of this national em blem, that the first instances when th “Stars” aud “Stripes” were unfurled were at the siege of Fort Schuyl , August 17. 1777, and upon an ucca .-ion just about one year prior to th: time. The brig Nancy was charter by the Continental Congress to proc* e military stores in the West Indies dur ing the latter part of 1775 While at Porto llico, in Jul of the enstiri fir year, the information came that thee 1 onies had declared their independen; i and with this informa'ion came th description of the flag. that, had bme accepted as a natioual banner. A youu man, Captain Thomas Mandevilfe set t work to make one, and successfully ac c'omplished it. The flag was unfurled and saluted with thirteen guns When the brig Nancy was upon her return voyage she was hemmed in by Brito f vessels off Cape May. H r officer succeeded in removing all muniti to the store, and when the last boat p off, a young man in it, John Hancock jumped into the ocean, swam to th vessel, ran up the shrouds of the mast and securing the flag, brought to shore, through a fire from the British inen-oF war. The first American flag, however ae ' cording to the design anu approval of congress, was made by Mrs. EiizabeH Ross. Three of her daughters still la in our vicinity to confirm this fact founding their belief, not on what the saw, for it was many years before wer. born, but upon what, their mother had often told them. A niece of this F!v Mrs. Margaret Boggs, aged ninety five years, now lives in Germantown, and i conversant with the fact. The fact is ,not generally known that to PhiladeU phia nut only belongs the honor of fling ing the first star spangled banner to the breeze, but to a Philadelphia lady belongs the honor of having “made it.” The house in which it was made still stands —No 239, Arch street (the old number being 89), the lest of an old row. It is related that when congress had decided upon tha design, Colonel George Boss and Gen Washington vis ited Mrs. Ross and ask :d her to make it. She said : “I do not know whether I can but I’ll try ” And immediately suggested to the gentlemen that the was wrong, in that the sts r was six cornered, and not five-cornered as they should be. This was corrected ; she made the flag. Congress accepted it. and for half dozen years this lady fur mshed the governmant with all its no tional flags, having, of course, u large assistance. This lady was also the wife of Claypole, one of the lineal de scendants of Oliver Cromwell. No Lager in Town.—A laughable incident is told of a German and his wife who visited Ocean Grove the oth or day. Going into the ice cream gar den the man asked for beer for two, “Zwei glass peer.” ‘Eh r Zwei gksspeer,” (with more eirqiha sis.) “What is i\ you want ?” “Peer! peer! peer! Zwei g!ae ft c es. The clerk failed to comprehend, aril began to experiment by placing two plates of ice cream before the pair. Ugh ! Take away dat shtoof ! Wo vant peer— lager I” “Oh ! Lagerbeer, eh ?” “Taw—yaw! Dot is richt. Zwei gl ass.” . “We haven’t any —we don’t keep it.’ “You no keep him ? Yell 1 Veil ’ vere can ve findt soom—eh, —eh mine frent ?” ‘•Nowhe.e. You can’t get any in the place.” ‘•Can’t get any peer —do lager ? Mein Got in Himmel ! Dot vas awful places ! Yat dime leafs de ncxdt drain eh;?” If a man will always bo true himself, he never can be false to oil: - us. The Germans who are Democrats number 180.000. 20,000 in Indiana, 00,000 in Ohio, 50,000 is W isconsin and 60,000 Illinois. A Large Hearted Judge.—A justice of the peace out in lowa bat a good sized heart, judging from a recent decision promulgated in his court. Jr appear* that a stern parent attuip.o to invade the sacred precincts of his parlor at a time when his presence' could be dispensed with. An assiu.-t and battery su,t grew out of thj affair, and the follow,ug is the decision of the justice. It pears that this young fellow was courtin’ the plaintiff's g:d in if* parlor, and that plaintiff intruded and was put out by defendant. Court it.' ; a necessity, and must not be inf rfeivu with. Therefore, the laws of lowa v. i;i hold that a parent has no legal b. a room where courtin’ is afoot ; > t>, defendant is discharged, an ilb pi a j u tiff mu&t pay the costs.” Great suffering is being expoiieoceJ at Pureto Principe. — The Indi ns at Spotted Tail agency ha\e signed ihe treaty. . * Ji - * ■i< ■%-. i.- ; ,~ v .; V