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the times. I>, B FREtMAN, Proprietor. CIRCULATES EXTENSIVELY IN Gortfon and Adjoining Counties. Office: Wall St., Southwest of Court House. RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION. One Year $2.00 Tix Months 1.00 GEORGIA AND ALABAMA STEAMBOAT COMPANY. Notice 2 ALL goods shipped to the car** of J. M. ELLIOTT, Gen’l. Sup’t., Rome, Ga., from Philadelphia, New York and Boston, via Charleston or Ya. & Tenn. Air-Line, will he guaranteed to all points on the Coosa, Oos armula and Coosawattee rivers, at the fol lowing rates,- to-wit: Glass Class Glass Class Class Class 1 2 3 4 5 6 1 75 1 52 1 22 1 CO 78 65 The steamers, “ Magnolia and “ Mary Carter” will run the following Schedule, carrying the U. S- Mail: Steamer Magnolia. I eavc Rome—Every Monday 1 p. m. Every Thursday.. 9 a. m. Leave Gadsden—Every Tuesday 8 a. m. Every Friday 8 a. m. Arrive at Rome--Every Wednesday at 6 p. m Eveiy Saturday, 6 p. m. Steamer Mary Carter. Leave Rome Monday 8 a. m. Arrive at Rome Wednesday 6 p. in. vrrive at Carter’s Tuesth ys 12 m. Leave Carter’s Tuesdays...... 2 p. m. Passenger Rates on Coosa River, Rome to Cedar L1..t1. $2 00 Rome to Center 2 50 Home to Gadsden 4 (X) Passenger Rates on Oostanaula and Coosawattee Rivers. Rome to Reeve*’ Station $1 00 Rome to Calhoun 1 50 Rome to Resaca 1 75 Home to Field’s Mill 3^oo Home to Carter’s Landing 3 50 Hates to other points inquire at the office ofCompanT. foot of Broad Street Rome, Ga jBJ txa igi’ants. For families intending to emigrate to Texas the Georgia and Alabama Steamboat Company offers a very desirable route via New Orleans. Direct and close connection is made from Meridian via Jack, on and New Orleans with 'Em ins of the Texas line. Other informa •"ion can be obtained by addressing JAMES M. ELLIOTT, Gen’l Supt. Geo. W. Bowen, John C. Pbintup, Gen’l Freight Agt. Gen’l Pass. Agt. an ?26-tf. estern&t lantic Railroad AND ITS CONNECTIONS. 1 • REUSES A W RO VTE.” The following takes effect may 23d, 1875 NORTHWARD. No. 1. Leaf ft Atlanta 4.10 i>.m Arrive CatTersville 6.14 Kingston...- ti. 42 “ “ Dalton 9-24 “ rl Chattanooga 10.25 “ No. 3 Leave AtTrfnta 7.0 t a.si Arrive Oaftcrsvfrte 9.22 ~ Kingston..:. 9.->U •* “ Dalton 41.• *4 “ Chattanooga 1.56 r.si No. 11. Leave Atlanta r,si Arrive Cartevsville <•!•’ “ Kingston °-2J •• Dalton 11-18 “ SOUTHWARD. No. 2. Leave Chattanooga 4.00 l'.s* Arrive Dalton “ Kingston 7.28 “ “ Cavtersville 8.12 “ Atlanta 10.15 “ No. 4. I e; vt* Chattanooga 5.00 a.si Ariive Dalton 7.01 “ Kingston *LO. ‘ “ Cavtersville 9.42 “ “ Atlanta 12 06 -.M No. 19. 1 >a\e Dalton 1.00 a.si Ari e Kingston 4.19 *• Cavtersville 5.1S “ Atlanta...... 9.20 “ ullaan Palace Gars run o i Nos. 1 and 2 oe vf6* New Orleans and Baltimore. i Allman Palace Cars run mi Nos. 1 a*J 4 et ecn Atlanta and Nashvilie. ) ullm in Palace Cars run on Nos. 2 and ?. it'\ cer Louisville and Atlanta. No change of cars between New Or lears, A ibile, Montgomery, Atlanta and RaF more, and only one change to New Y'or v. P sseng ‘vs leaving Atlanta at 4 10 r. si., arri e in New York the second afternoon 'her after at 4.0(1. ’v cursK n tickets to the Virginia springs and arious summer resoits will be on s-iiC in N w Ricans, Mobile, Montgomery, Co lumbus, !\*> c )rii Savannah, Augusta and At lanta, at gmatly reduced rates, first of June Parties desiring a whole car through to he A irginia Soring* 0 r Baltimore, should address the un lersigrud. Pa ties contemplating travel should send for a copy cf the Kennesavv Route Gazette, conta ning sclie lules, etc. Ask for Tickets va “ Kennesaw J oute.” R. W. WRENN, G. P. & T. A., Atlanta, Ga, Home Ha ilroad - - Schedule. ON AND AFTER MARCH Ist, the evening train (except Saturday evening), on this road will be discontinued. The trains will fun as follows: MORNING TRAIN. Leaves Rome daily at 7:00 a. m. lteturn to Rome at 12 in. SATURDAY ACCOMMODATION. Leaves Rome (Saturday only) at 5:45 p. m Return to Rome at 9:00 p. m. The evening train at Romo will make close connection with S. R- & D. R. R- train North and South, and at Kingston with W. & A. R. R. train South and East. C. M. PENNINGTON, Gen’l Sup’t. JNO. E. STILLWELL, Ticket Agent. campTglover & CO., Wholesale And Retail Dealers in drygoods, clothing,boots, Shoes , Hats, &c, Stock and Bottom Prices. 39 Broad St., Koine, Ga. Are now receiving the largest and best stock S thehave ever opened. tn 23. CALHOUN TIMES. Two Dollars a Year. VOL. VII. The Cheapest in the World. PETERSON’S MAGAZINE. GREAT REDUCTIONS TO CLUBS. Postage Prepaid to Mail Subscribers. Peterrson’s Magazine lias the best Orig inal Stories of any of the lady’s books, the best colored fashion plates, the best receipts, the best steel engravings, &c., &c. Eteiy family ought to take iW It gives more for the money than any in the world. It will contain next year, in its twelve numbers — One Thousand Pages, Fourteen Splendid Plates , Twelve Colored Berlin Patterns , Twelve Mammoth Colored Pavilions, Nine Hundred 1 Vaod Cuts , Twenty Jour Pages oj Music It will also give Five Oriyh at Copyright Novelettes, by Mrs. Ann S. Stephens, Frank Lee Benedict, Mrs. Frances Hodgson Bur net, Marietta Holley, and Lucy 11. Hooker. Uso, nearly a hundred shorter stories, allt original, by the best authors of Americ u It. superb Mammoth Colored Fashion Plates are ahead of all others. These plates are engi aved on steel, twice the usual size. 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West President of Cherokee Iron Company, Polk county Georgia, who Las built a splendid dam across Cedar Creek, using this cement, and pronouncing it the best he ever used. Also refer to Messrs/Smitt, Son & Bro., J. E. Veal, F. I. Stone. J. J. Cohen and Major Torn 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. H. WARING, Kingston, Ga octl 31 y JTN THE great cause OF misery. Just Published, in a Scaled Envelope. Price six cents. A Lecture on tlie Nature, Treat ment, ami Radical cure of Seminal Weak* ness, or Speii-ntorrlioea, indue and by Self- Abuse, Involuntary linpotency, Nervous Debility, rnO tme- tinients to Mar riage, generally; Consumption, Epilepsy nTH ] pit* : Mental and Physical Incap. &c.— By ROBERT J CUL\ LItY LLL, M. D., author of the “Green Book,” cj~c. The world-renowned author, in this ad mirable lecture, clearly proves from his own experience that the awful consequences of Self-Abuse may be effectually removed with out medicines, and without dangerous sur gical operations, bougies, instruments,nogs or cordials : pointing out a mode of cure at once certain and effectual, by which eveiy sufferer, no matter what his condition may be, may cure himself cheaply, privately and radically. jflwgp- This Lecture will proven Bonn to lhou sands and Thousands. Sent under seal, in a plain envelope, to any address, j ost-paid, on receipt of six cents or two postage stamps. Addiess THE CULVERWELL MEDCIAL CO.. 41 Ann St. New Yotk- P. 0.4586. ¥oW TO GET PATENTS. TS FULLY EXPLAINED IN A HAND 1 Book issued by Munn & Cos., Publishers of the Scientific American, 37 Park Row, New Y T ork. . Send 10 cents for specimen of the best illustrated weekly paper published. All patents solicited by Alunn $ Cos. are noticed in the Scien- PATENTS. American without charge Hand Book free. No charge for advice and opinion regarding the patentability of in ventions, Send sketches. aug- 6m. Ar- TWTSI Our large life-like Steel En* AvjihlM AO gravinfis of th Presidential Candidates sell ispidly.--- make Send for circular. N. Y. Engraving Cos., 85 Wall St., $lB A DAT. Box 3286, N. [wj>9-Bt. CALHOUN, GA., SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18,1876. Robbie's Reward. “ Pins and pocket combs ! Pins and pocket combs!” Robbie’s voi<ie tfas very low ; for be was tired, and almost faint for want of food. The crowd in the waiting-room was indifferent, and seemed to have lit tle need of such wares as his ; so bis sales were very small. “ Acre, little boy,” said a vcice be hind him ; “ you have just what I want. This ugly rent must be pinned up till I can get home. I’ll take this paper. — Harvey, will you pay this little fellow for a prper of pins '{” The beautiful woman turned to the tall young man beside her ; and be looked as though it would be a pleasure to do anything for her. He was just counting a handful if change which he had taken from his pocket, when he was interrupt3d. “ No, no, ma’am !” said liobbie, ea gerly. “ Don’t take that paper ; it isn’t a wtiole one. I cut off a row of rins from it this morning for poor little Hannah to dress her doll with.” “Never mind, little man, said the y iuntr lady, gayly. “ A tenth part of these 1 have will be more than I want; so 1 shall (>nly have the less to throw away when I’m done with them ” “ Then don’t pay so much, ’ persisted Robbie ; and he handed back two cent# to the gentleman, who had given him ten. “ Well, little man,” said Harvey, “ are not your ideas of morals most too big for such a little head as yours ? How do you ever expect to get a living if vou don’t cheat a little now and then ?” Robbie’s brown eyes were open \ory wide when he heard the que ry* “But I’d rather not live at all than to live dishonestly.” “Who taught you all these thiiitrs about right and wrong ?”the gentleman asked. “My mother, and I think sne would rather l would die, and come to her in heaven an honest boy, than to live ever so well on fctol n money.” “Yes, yes!” sad Harvey, “I dare say you are right; and you are a noble boy to remember such a mother ■ teach ing” Little Robbie went wearily on wi:h his work, -arrying, nevertheless.a qureJ conscience with him, for all he was so tired, he had overcome one little temp tation. The lady and gentleman stepped on the' train, and were gone. liuvey was very thoughtful; and his gay compnuion had to ieprove him fur his silence. “You’ve been gazing at the trestle* work of Hanpden bridge ever since we came in sight. One would think you were planning to build a bridge of your own ; by the way you study that.” “So l am Bel'e,” he replied, “ lath er, I’ve built it, and crossed it already, and find myself on Lhe safe side of a great chasm of temptation; for set here! you don’t know how strongly I’ve been ‘erupted, lately, to withhold those bonds that I know, in honor, ought to go to redeem my fathers pledge. They would help me so much by increasing my cap ital just now as I am starting into bus., iness. But that ltttle pin-pedler, back there has taught me a lesson. I believe, like him 1,11 starve on honesty rather than fatten on theft. Rut a few weeks 'afer, after Harvey Holeman’s business was well established the station agenteat Beacon City jeciev ed a letter inquiring after the little ped dler of pins and pocket-combs and re lating bis act of honesty. Later^still. honest Robbie was reciev ed into Mr. Holeman’s home and busi* ness interest, to serve, first as an er~ rand-Doy, and then as clerk. Which was the better reward for Robbie—the fine position which his honesty had gained for him or lie con scientiousness of having influenced lor good a ftdlowman ‘l lie thought he lat - ter. — 11 eIP Spring. The Beauties Of Alaska. Perhaps alaska is the most worthless patch of creation that was ever pur.- chased and passed out of one possession into another. It does not seem to have anv materials cr capacities for develop" meut. It was a Russian poor-house,and lv “ss,a sold the expensive charge. All the Ru^i ans were able to got away; th se vho wei 4 too poor to go stayed. All the paupers retained of course. Among these were the half-breeds— Russia’s crooked families. Non and then a melancholy letter comes from some stranded correspondent in Alaska, and the aame gets in the papers Oth erwise it is as dumb as a petrifeation and Larren of news as the moon. A letter came lately, Sitka is still sitting in a quiet corner of the ocean, behind numerous islands which break the waves until the waters arrund a e as calm and passionless as those of a mill-dam Even the sea about the city refuses to s‘ir The-e are no streets because none are wanted. There are a few alleys—nar row ways which lead to destruction— abundant prostitution being a Rsusian heritage. And then the universal smell offish. The clouds come up from the Pacific and pour floods of water upon Sitka for weeks and months with out cessation, and the water runs off in to the sea again, but it cannot wash away the smell of fish. And Sitka is all there is of Alaska worth speakiug of at all. And nobody ever stayed there yet to whom it was possible away. So the ietters from Alaska al ways treat that miserable patch of cre ation which has ever been a source of poverty to its owneis. ‘‘ Truth Conquers All Things.” Roman slagificence. If anything is v anted to give us an idea of Rom&n magnificence, we must turn our eyes upon public monuments, demoralized ganies and grand process ions, we would forget the statues in brass and marble which outnumbered the living inhabitants,so numerous that one hundred thousand have been recovered and still embelli>h Italy ; and would descend into the lower sphere of mate rial life —those things which attest lux ury and taste—to ornaments, dresses, sumptuous living.and rich furniture The art of using metals and cutting precious s'ones surpassed anything known at the present day. In the decoration of houses, in social entertainments, in cookery,"the Romans were remarkable. The mosaic, signet rings, cameos, bracelets, bronzes, vases, couches, banqueting tables, lamps.char iots, colored glass, gilding, mirrors,mat tresses, perfumes, hair dyes, ’silk libbons, potteries, all attest great elegance and beau y. The tables of thugo root and Delian bronze were as ex pensive as the sideboards of Spanish wa'nut, so much admired at the Great Exhibition at Loudon. \Y iod arid ivory were carved as ex_ quisitly as in Japan or China. Mirrors were made of polished silver. Glass cutters could imitate the colors of precious stones so well that the Port" land vase, taken from the tomb of AD exande:* Severus, was long considered as a genuine sardonyx; brass could be hardened so as to cut stone. The palace of Nero glittered with gold and jewels Perfumes and flow ers were showered from ivory ceilings The halls of were hung with cloth an i gold, enriched with jewels. His beds were silver, and his tables of goM. Tiberius gave a million of sesterces for a picture of his bed rooui. A banquet dish of Daesidus weighed five, hunch- and pounds of silver. The cups of Dru-es were of gold. Tunics were embroidered with figures of various animals Sanda s were gar nished with precioiia stones. Blinking cups were engraved with scenes from poets. Libraries were adorned with busts and with tortoise shell, and cov eted with gorgeous purple. The Roman grandees rude in gilded chariots, bathed in marble baths, dined on golden plates, drank from crystal cups, slept on beds of down, reclined on luxurious couches,wore embroide.ed robes, and were adorned with precious stones. They ransacked the eaftff and the seas for rare dishes for their banquets, and ornac ewted their houses with car pets from Babylon, onyx cups from By thinia, marbles from Numid’a,, bronzes from Co'inth, statutes from Athens— whatever, in short, was precious or cu rious in the most distant countries. The luxuries of the bath almost ex - ceed belie 4 *, and on the walls were mag nificent frescoes and paintings, exhibi ting an ineshaustive productiveness in landscape and mythological scenes. Grape Gathering Turfeey. Correspondents at the seat of hostili ties in Servia and Turkey relieve their war pictures with the brighter side of life m the disturbed districts. lhe men have all gone to the wars, and the worn n are at home carrying on their domestic affairs, apparently in the oest possible spirits There are r-o men t be seen, either old or young, in the re gions round about the battle fields. They are all eng; ged actively in the work of war This is especially in Tur key, which does not look as if Turkey would be symbolized with a sick man Turkey appears to be in the best ol health, and it is evident that all the male strength of the country will be expended in the struggle, if such a draft is necessary to carry through 'I ur key’t> cause in Europe. The Turk s evidently not going to be driven out without a sufficient Cause of armies to dislodge him. After witnessing carnage and devas tation.a London corresoondent makes a brilliant picture of the female home g ard in Turkey. It was in the midst of the grape haivest. The Turkish women had already harvested the wheat and bar'ey and were gathering the grapes. The country was full of pretty damsels grape-gathering. Except that no men were to b ' seen, there were no evidences of the carnage hovering near and the devastation almost within sight. The Turkish damsel dons her attire, plaits her hrir with gau y ribbons, fas tens 1 1 her head dress pieces of gold if she be rich, or copper if poor, and “oes forth to the grape-gathe r iog. Every now and then they break forth into snatches of song, then peals of laughter follow,and all seem careless of the fate of their lathers, and husbands, and brothers, and lovers.in the deadly strife They are gathering grapes for a fest val of victory or a funeral —St Louis AV* publican. “ AIIOO !ow ! yah ! ahoo ! git out ! o-o-h ! my !” weie the frightful sounds which awoke the occupants of a sleep ing-coach on the Union Pacific railroad the other night. There was considera ble agitation among the passengers, uo til the porter came along and explained that it was only a gen.leman wh.o had had a niglDmare in one of the uppei berths. The gentleman proved to be Dio Lewis, who had been eaii g escal lopped oysters, doughnuts. lobster-salad and Bostou ducks for supper, and who dreamed that he had received a nomiua tion for Congress in Massachusetts. THE NAPOLEON OF POLI TICS. Gov.Tilden’s Plan on Conducting a Canvas**. Two vears ago, two days before elec tion Mr Tilden was asked by a New Y T ork editor what the election probabil ities were. The candidate for Governor pul his hand to the side of his mouth, and confi ently answered in a half whisper : “l shall be elected by be tween fifty.one and fifty-three thousand majority.” He then opened his safe .ioor, and taking a book show and the editor lour columns of names that had been written on its pages : At the t p of the page was the name of the couuty town and election district in which the men whose names were there lived.— The first column cunsi-ted of* men who would vote the Democratic ticket through thick and thin ; the second of doubtful Democrats ; the third of un questionable Republicans, and of the feurth doubiful Republicans. “I’ve the name of every voter in the State out side of New York and Brooklyn,” Mr. Tilden added,"and I know how ninety nine rat of ohe hondved of them will v. te ” Two davs afterwards when they did vote, Mr. Tilden was elected Gov ernor by a majority within 70U of the number ho had predicted. As soon as he was nominated last June Mr. Tilden was sent directly to trusted agents in every election distr’ffs m the State, and in lb tee weeks they had returned him a simi’ar list containing the names of every voter and their proba ble cnoioe as between Tilden and Hayes. Every voter hid been sounded pen sonallv, and the oanvass showed a ma jority in Ti'den’s favor without the vote of New Y T ork city. The real work was then instantly begun. Every doubtful voter was flooded with came raign documents and Demrcra'ic nevvse papers A fist of doubt!ul voters was placed in the hands of every rusted Democrat in the District, and he was requested to work with the voter. This was one branch of the canvass work performed during the summer in the Empire State, iti Masachusetts Connect Ohio, Indiana and in part of other States. Mr. Tilden’s personal supervision was given to the canvass in New York State that he might note effects of what had been do ,e. The result Mr. Tilden’s friends partially announced by saying that they should carry the State by 75,000 tna° jority. It is certain that they were overjoyed by the returns, and have been in the liveliest possible condition of mind ever since. This canvass transferred many hitherto douDtful voters soliily to the Democrats and puts many hitherto strunch Republi an on the doubtful list. Anew class of voters was therefore dic’iostd to be worked with, and it is with these and those who remained doubtful that M*\Tildeu. agents are now wot king. A large num ber of good talkers has beeu sent out from the principal cities to personally button hole the doubtful cnes. In an other week a third canvass is to be made to be used in the final struggle in the week prior to election. Every Democratic Club has a list of the doubtful voters in its district. The entire plan may be comprehended in the two words person al work.”— Phi/aed'phia Times , —► The Jtlcdk'l Man. The model man never disturbs a hen wen she iz setting; never speaks cross tew a lost dorg ; alwuz puts a five-cent shinpla ter in hiz vest pocket late Sat* urday night tew hev it ready Sundry morning f r the church platter; rizes whenever a lady entirs the street kars ; remembers your unkle plainly, and asks after awl the fami’y. If he steps on a kat’s tail iz sure to do it light, and iniz mediately asks her pardon; hooks up hiz wife's dress and plays hoss with the children. Ne ,r er meddles with the cream in the milk pans; goes eazily ov errands, and cuuis back in seazons; at tends everybody’s phuneral; kan alwuz tell when the moon changes; thinks just az you do, or the other way, if yu want him tew ; fullers everybody’s ad vice but hiz owne : practices most ov the virtews without knowing it; leads the life ova shorn lamb ; gits sick af> ter awhile, and dies az soon az he can, to save enny further trouble. The mud u i man's vices are not feared, nor hiz virtews respected. He lives in the uiemorv ov the world just aZ long az a pleasant day duz He may be caJed a “ clever fellow ” and that is only a libel ; but he will git hiz reward hereafter —when the birds git theirs. —Josh Billings. “ Got’em.”- The proprietor of a Front street saloon had a live turtle, which he was going to make soup for his guests. It was under the box. waiting for hia time to come. On \Yed nesday night Mr. TurtU meandered out into the bar-room, ad waddled along up to where two soakers were sit ling by a table taking in sustenance of a liquid nature. The t urtleuioved quiet ly under tie table and found an obstruc tion in the shape of a schooner, made of leather with a man’s foot in the “bold ” The turtle hadn’t time to go arouud the foot so he s.aried to climb over it. The man who owned the foot felt something and looked down. The man turned pale and said : “ Boys take me home and tend for a doctor. I’ve gi t ’em.” —La Crosse Sun. Savannah physicians are accusing each other of unwise treatment of pa tients during the ytlSuw fever epidem ic. In \dvance. VSo ill! e lA'flcr Fe* nft 3 The correspondent of the London Telegraph, in his account of the great battle of the Morava, gives the follow „ ing touching incident: Next morning I rode over the battle-* field, o- rather over the greater part of it. lam afraid to say bow many dead lay there; they covered the gr-und, that is all I can say But amongst these mangled men gone to their last account were seventy tour Russian of ficers, and, as is usual, the papers w hich were in their pockets were taken from them pri- rto their burial. 1 changed to look at the heap thus collected.— There was a Russian passport on one, auother had carried with him * diary, which told all his doings for the past three weeks; another, less discreet even, had noted ail his expeuses in a little notebook, and I am sorry to say that some of his money had been badly spent. But there were two pieces of paper, the memory of which will long remain with me. At first sight they were only let. ters from home to the dead man on the Servian field; but as I turned them over a chill ran through uiy blood, and my heart stood still. between WidYfy ruled pencil lines on the last pages of each note were a d"zen sentences writ ten in such laige letters that my atten tion was immediately fixed upon them. It was not that the Russian hieroglyph ics were prettily made, on the contrary the little hand which had traced them had been tediously guided as it raised along the paper. Nor was it that these huge characters contained startling in* formation ol Moscow intrigue or Servi an conspiracy. The great tremulously traced words were only the heart breathed words of a child—of a very little boy : “Loved pipa,” began each message, “when will v ou come home again, my own dear papa?” And the little writer went on to tell of how home was dull and the days long, and how the sun would not shine again upou his life till the pa pa who was absent had come home again. As 110 ked at the great letters they seemed to run into one.— l thought of the little boy and the af> fectionate wife who had penned those lovirg f ages, and then of the father who lay face downwards on Servian ground. What mattered it that a coronet and the letters “K. C.,” in a monogram, headed that tender message. That home at Dyvna or Dovna- I could not quite tell the name of the place—will be dark for many a day, for the sunshine of that little boy’s life is removed, and the own er of the coronet is no more. He had come to fight for the Servian cause, and it had bee.i his sad lot to die in its defence. A Kwfry’s Peril. These persons who desire to make Mrs. Walsingham look gloomy, says Max Adder, do so by referring to the fact that her husband is an ingenious man. Walsingham it appears, thought it would be nice to aave his baby’s car riage prop .lied by s >me other power tha*> a nui>e girl. So he bought a Newfoundland dog fitted a harness to him. and t alned the animal to draw the coach, which it aid very nicely.— Ono afternoon, while Mr-’. Walsingham was out with the dog and the baby, the dog saw another dog in which he was interested, and he immediately dashed over to the stranger wagging his tail in the most familiar man- 1 ner. The exact point upon which the two differed will probably never be revealed —but before Mrs. Walsihgham co#ls get across the street the dogs were en gaged in a combat of the most frightful character Mrs Waking ha ofß baby, it is supposed,had no especial yearnings to participate in the conflict, and yet there that unfortunate infant was mixed up with the dogs and apparently regarded by them as entitled to in equal share of the bites which were being handed round. Whenever one of the dogs hap 1 pened to get himself into such a posi tion that the other dog could not ob* tain a comfortable place for his teeth, both and 'gs wouH knock off for a mo ment and join each other in taking a few promiscuous nips out of Mrs. Wal singham s baby. The more Mrs. Wal singham screamed and poxed into the fight wither parasol, the more the dogs triod to swallow each others legs, and the more they tangled their teeth with the baby. And at last, when the' Walsingham dog retreated, and attempt ed to jump through the fence, in which lie was caught bv the coach and firr. jy held. Mrs. Walsineham picked up that i bleeding and mutilted child of her hopes ! and went home, for the purposs of ask ing Walsingham i" he though his con duct in engaging that dog was the cor, root thing for a man and a father. Catching Hawks. —As the season is approaching when hawks are most de. | structive to young poultry,a method of catching and ki ling these marauders will be in order. It is a well-known fact that a hawk will always light on some suspicious place close to the poul- j try yard, from which to swoop down on his victims. Taking advantage of this, erect a poie with a flat surface at the top just large enough to hold a strong steel trap. Fasten this trap by a stable chain to a staple io the pole, and await j results. No bait will be needed,for the 1 hawk will be quite certain to light on the trap, and be caught. A gentleman who has tried this method has succeed ed in killing all the hawks in his neigh borhood, and can raise poultry without loss except by aeoideut.— California Horticulturist. A !)VEBTISr>JIEXTS. ' dvertisements will be cli .rged at the rate of Oue Dollar per square for the first insertion, and fifty cents for each subse quent insertion. Ten lines of this typo make a square. Local notices,fifteen cents per line for the firit insettion. and ton cents for each sub sequent insertion. Special contracts will be m>\de with par ties tesiring to advertise icgulariy. Hills lor advertising are due any time after first insertion, unless otherwise a. ranged by contract. no. id. PROPORTION OF THE SEXES. A Very Mnthemalieal Proposition. A correspondent writes to us thus : A recent number of scientific journals, speaking of the relative p opinion of the sexes in the human race and el tha, for ooe hundred and fif'y tun that come into the word one- Lt ndredths (100 72-100 wot? en are born. Ido not dispute these pignres. I only aske for light. It it appears according to this that there are some women who are only seventy-one hundredths of a woman What the remaining twenty eight hundredths are I ean not imag ine. Now,what I want to know is this. If a woman of this kind marries a one one hundredth man and has a daughter will the haughter be an eighty four ono hundredths woman, or a ninety-six one hundredths woman ? And what will bo the exact relationship, be tween such a daughter arid a seventy six one-hundredths and her aunt and a seventy-seven one-hundredths daugh ters, especially if the eighty-seven oi#* hundredths girls marry the brothers of* the ninety-six one-hundredths girl, and so become nnt only her ninety-eight onr-hundredths and' Sweuty-second cou sins but her ninety-five ore-Jiuodredths sister-in-law the aforesaid senventy-six one-hundredths aunt becoming also the eighty-nine-one* hundredth moth er-in-law of her eighty one hun dredths nephews, Will the — the—the—. Let me see; where am I ? It is an aw ful subject to tack'e. Oh Yes! I say if the seventy-six one-hundredth aunt —but no. The question can’t be solv., ed in any such way as this. I give it up. The only way to get at i$ will be to do the sum in algebra some how, making the daughter x the aunty the first coosin , and the mother-in-law h. Then it seems to me, if you multi ply the aunt by the daughter and divide the first cousin by the mother-in-law in some way or other, or extract the square root ousins and subtract the result from the aunt, keeping the daughter as a com non denominator and at the same time making a decimal fraction of the mother-in-law, perhaps the result might be satisfactory.- But lam not certain. I aui poor ar mathe matics. I wish the lightning calculator would get at this, or that Prof. Tyndall 1 would subject it to a chemical analysis-. France Preparing for War. France, the destruction of whose im perial army was hailed as the promise of disarmment, is now organizing an army by the the side of which Napo leon’s flimsy battalions were a mere train band. Every Frenchman who is not positively cripple or invalided now belongs so the active army for fiveyesrw between the ages of twenty and twenty nine; not all serve this length of time, a certain proportion who are drawn by lot being furloughed after six month’s service; another class in pursuit of a l.beral education get off by voluDteerin-g for one year, passing an examin.tioo in their studies and paying a commutation money of three hundred dollars. Then there are the “reservists,” so-called, the older mew, who are supposed to have graduated from \he active army. Once in two years the reservists meet and drill for a fortnight. They have just been under drill, the men being called out in the same order as if the present organi zation had been in force for some years, Nine corps of 20,000 men eaeh have thus been under d-ill, many of them veterans of the last war, but strangers to the new arm (the fusiljras') which has been adopted since they were in the field. A third grand division is “the territorial army,” or men from thirty four to forty years of age, who are only to oe called out in defence of the dis trict in which they are enrolled. The whole male population are given a legal status as belligerents, in order to pro* tect them from aoy of these scruples which led the Germans, it is faid, to shoot citizens in defense of their homes because they were irregulars. But practically, every man from twenty to forty years of age ts a part oi the ar my. The Pool of Silonm as it \ow Ap pears. Charles Dudley Warner, in a recsnfc article to the Atlantic, says : On our way to the pool of Siloam we passed the village of Siloam, which is inhabited by about a thousand Moslems —a nest ol stone huts acd caves cling.-' ing to the sideHiill, and exactly the gray color of its stones. The occupa ; tion of the inhabitants appears to be begging and hunting for old copper coins, mites, and other pieces of Jew ish money. These relies they presed upon us with the utmost urgency. It was ea* sier to satisfy the beggars than the tra ders, who sailed out upon us like bun* gry wolves from their caves. Theie is a great choice of disagreeable places in the East, bat I cannot now think of any that 1 should not prefer as a resi* dence to Siloam. The Pool of Siloam, magnified in my infant mind as ‘ l Siloam’s shady ril!,” is an unattractive sink-hole of dirty water, surrounded by modem masonry. The valley here is very stony. Just below we come to Solomon’s Garden, an arid spot, with patches of stone walls, strug gling to be a vegetable gaiden, and somewhat green with lettuee aud Jeru salem artichokes. 1 have no doubt it was quite another thing when Solomon aud some of his wives used to walk here in the cool of tte day. and eveu when Shallum, the sou of Col-hozeh set up “ the wall of the Pool of Siloam by the king's garden.”