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the times. I>. 11 FRfefeMAN,l*ropHtloft CIRCULATES EXTENSIVELY IN Gordon and Adjoining Counties. Office: Wall St., Southwest of Court House. RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION. Oie Year $2.00 Tix Months 1.00 GEORGIA AND ALABAMA STEAMBOAT COMPANY. Notice 2 ALL goods shipped to the care of J. M. ELLIOTT, Gen’l. Sup’t., Rome, Ga., from Philadelphia, New York and Boston, via Charleston orVa. & Tenn. Air-Line, will be guaranteed to all points on the Coosa, Oos tanaula and Coosawattee rivers, at the fol lowing rates, to-wit: Class Class Class Class Class Class 1 2 3 4 5 t> 176 •1 62 122 ICO 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. Ever.y Thursday. 0 a. m. Gadsden —Every Tuesday 8 a. m. Every Friday 3 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. m. Arrive at Carter’s Tuesdays 12 m. Leave Carter’s Tuesdays 2 p. m. Passenger Rates on Coosa River, Rome to Cedar Bluff $2 00 Rome to Center j Rome to Gadsden 4 JO Passenger Rates on Oostanaula " and Coosawattee Rivers. Rome to Reeves’ Station $1 00 Rome to Calhoun 1 £9 Rome to ltesaca. Rome to Field’s Mill 3 9J Rome to Carter’s Landing 3 o() Rates to other points inquire at the office of Company., foot of Broad Street Rome, Ga Bmigi’ants. For families intending to emigrate to Texas the Georgia and Alabama Steamboat Company offers a very desirable route via New Orleans. Dir.-ct and close connection is ma le from Meridian via .lack: on and New Orleans with Trains of the Texas line. Other informa lion can be obtained by addressing JAMLS M. ELLIOTT, Gen’l Supt. Gko. W. Bowen, John C, Pbintup, Gen’l Freight Agt, Gen l l Pass. Agt. nu g26-tf. estern & t lantic Railroad AND ITS CONNECTIONS. ‘ • KJLSMJiSA TV RO VTJE.” The following takes effect may 23d, 1875 NORTHWARD. No. 1. Leavo Atlanta 4-10 v.m Arrive Cartersvillo 6.14 Kingston 6.42 “ “ Dalton 3.24 “ “ Chattanooga 10.20 “ No. 3 I.eave Atlanta * A-W ArrivcCartersviile ’ . o .i “ Kingston ; “ Dalton 41.54 “ Chattanooga 4..>6 r.M No. 11. Leave Atlanta 3,00 r.M Arrive Cartcrsville ‘ ‘4• ‘‘ “ Kingston 3.21 * “ Dalton “ SOUTHWARD. No. 2. Leave Chattanooga - 4.00 p.m Arrive Dalton 5.41 < “ Cartcrsville 3.12 “ “ Atlanta 10.15 No. 4. 1 erve Chattanooga 6.00 a.m An ive Dalton “ Kingston *’.o, 4 “ Cartcrsville 0.42 44 Atlanta 42 OG **.m No. 13. T a\c Dalton 10 ° A - >! Ari e Kingston 4.19 “ Cartersville 5.18 44 44 Atlanta 44 ullnan Palace Cars run o i Nos. 1 and 2 oet vecu New Orleans and Baltimore. I ullman Balace Cars run cn Nos. 1 and 4 .etween Atlanta and Nashville. 1 ullman Palace Cars run on Nos. 2 an l 3 itweet Louisville and Atlanta. No change of cars between New Or lcars, A >bile, Montgomery, Atlanta and Baltimore, and only ue change to New York. l’asseng 'rs leaving Atlanta at 4 10 r. m., anise in New York the second afternoon ther after at 4.00. Evoursicn tickets to the Virginia springs and various summer resoits will be on sale in New Orleans, Mobile, Montgomery, Co lumbus, Mae an, Savannah, Augusta and At ■ lanta, at gi eatly reduced rates, first of June. Parties desiring a whole car through to 'te \ irginia Sorings or Baltimore, should address the unlersigned. Pa’ tics contemplating travel should send for a copy of the Kennesaw Route Gazette, eonta ning schedules, etc. Ask for Ticket* via 44 Kennesaw 1 outc.” B. W. WRENN, G. P. & T. A., Atlanta, Ga. Home Hail road-'Schedule. ON AND AFTER MARCH Ist, the evening train (*xeept Saturday evening), on this road will be discontinued. The trains will run as follows: MORNING TRAIN. Leaves Rome daily at. a. m. Keturn to Rome at 4 2 m. SATURDAY ACCOMMODATION. Leaves Rome (Saturday only) at 5:45 p. m. Return to Rome at 9:00 p. m. The evening train at Rome 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, Oen’l Sup’t. JNO. E. STILLWELL, Ticket Agent.. CAMP, GLOYEIt & CO., Wliolcsalo And Retail Dealers in DRYGOODS, CLOTHING JODIS, Shoes, Hats, &c . J*est Stock and Bottom Prices. Mi 39 Broad St., Home, Ga. Are no.v receiving the largest and best stock they have ever opened. tn 23. CALHOUN TIMES. Two Dollars a Year. VOL. VII. The Cheapest in the World. PtflffiWS MAGAZINE. GREAT REDUCTIONS TO CLUBS. Postage Prepaid to Mail Subscribers. Peterrson’s Magazine has 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. Esciy family ought to take it. 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 Fashions, Mine Hundred Wood Cuts , Twenty-four Pages of Music. It will also give Five Origiral Copyright Novelettes , by Mrs. Ann S. Stephens, Frank Lee Benedict, Mrs. Frances Hodgson Bur net, Marietta Holley, and Lucy 11. Hooker. Also, nearly a hundred shorter stories, allt original, by the best authors of Americ i.— It: superb Mammoth Colored Fashion Plates are ahead of all others. These plates are engiaved on steel, twice the usual size. TERMS (always in advance) S2OO A YEAR. j With a copy of the 1 Copies.for $3 00 | premium picture (27 ( 20) “Cornwallis’s Sur -3 44 44 480 f render ’’alive dollar en- I graving, to the person J getting up the club, j With an extracopy of 4 Copies for S6BO | the magazine for 1877, j-as a premium, to the 5 44 44 $8 00 i person getting up the j club ) With both an extra 6 Copies for $9 60 | copy of the magazine | for 1877, and thepre -7 4 4 44 1100 b mium picture, a five | dollar engraving, to 9 44 “ 13 50 | tlie person getting up J the club. Address, post-paid, CHARLES J, PETERSON, 306 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, Pa. sent gratis, if written for. Cheapest and best HOWARD [iviittAUi.it! mm MANUFACTURED NEAR KINGSTON, BARTOW COUNTY, GEORGIA. Equal to the best imported Portland Cerfient. 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 he ever used. Also refer to Messrs. Smith, Son & Bro., J. E. Veal, F. I. Stone. J. J. Cohen and Major Tom Berry, Rome, Georgia, Major 11. Bry an, of Savannah, T. C. Douglas, Superin tendent of Masonry, East River Bridge, New York, Gen. Win. Mcßae, Superintend ent W. & A. Railroad, Capt. J. Postgll, C. E. Address G. 11. WARING, Kingston, Ga octl 31 y THE GREAT CAUSE L : l4] of Hiiuman misery. Just Published, in a Sealed Envelope. Price six cents. A Lecture on the Nature. Treat ment, and Radical cure of Seminal Weak ness, or Spermatorrhoea, induced by Self- Abuse, Involuntary Emissions, Impotency, Nervous Debility, end Impediments to Mar. riage, generally; Consumption, Epilepsy and Fits: Mental and Physic..l Incapacity, &c.- By ROBERT J CULVERWELL, M. D., author of the “Green Book,” <j - 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,rings or cordials : pointing out a mode of cure at once certain and effectual, by which every sufferer, no matter what his condition may be, may cure himself cheaply, privately and radically. gig£s“’ Th is Lecture will proven 80-, n to Thou 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. Add less THE CULVERWELL MEDCIALCO.> 41 Ann St. New Yoik- P. 0.4586. “how to get patents. TS FULLY EXPLAINED IN A HAND 1 Book issued by MlUlll & Cos., Publishers of the Sc ; entific American, 37 Park Row, New York. jggy** Send 10 cents for specimen of the best illustrated weekly paper publi-hed. All patents solicited by Munn PA rENTS A are noticed in the Scien- N ®'tific American without charge. Hand Book free. No charge for advice and opinion regarding the patentability of in ventions, Send sketches. aug2'6m. A (VENTS Gur large life-like Steel En gravinfis of the Presidential Candidates sell rapidly.-- make Send for circular. N. Y. Engraving Cos., 35 Wall St., $lB A DAY. | Box 8236, N. Y. [sep9-Bt. CALHOUN, GA., SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 25,1876. Been to the Races. Friday night about ha’f an hour be fore midnight, a very De troiter, living on Duffield street* was heard feeling all over the front door to find the knob. His wife suddenly pull ed the door open, confronted him and in a fife like voice inquired : ‘•lsn’t this an ee state of affairs— you not been home since this morn ing !” Softly, darling, softly,” he replied in a whisper, ‘ I’ve zhust got back from the races.” “What races r'uhe demanded. “H-o-r-s-e races,” he slowly replied. Had a big time and made five hun’red dollars. Goin’ to git you fourteen silk dresses.” Well,you should have sent me word,” she replied, as she hung up his hat. The promise of the dresses acted like magic on her imagination. “Y’es, but didn’t have time,” he re plied. “Feller come Tong in buggy,’noff I went. Ju ever see a horse race Ma>- ry ?” “ No I never did.” “ Well, she’s big thing, tell you.— Never seen such magniferous sight in my life. Now jus’r ’magine, am a h-o~r s-e, and you are the string.” “I won’t do it —l’m no string,” she exclaimed. “All right. S’posen both of us are horses, then.” “I wont do that either. I never saw you look and talk as you do to night. 1 belie-e you have been drinking.” “oah’s so,Mary drank sixty four glass es lemonade. Well, all the horses go away in fine style. Noble sight, I tell you. I bet five hundred ollars on the head horse.” “That was sharp in you,” she replied, mentally planning to have four blue, five brown,and five green silks. “Yon bet it was,” he went on. “Well the head horse kept ahead an’ I won five hundred dollars on that same head horse.” “Half of which my ducky,you intend to give to me.” “Noz hardly, my dear.” “Why ?” “\ou don’t understand cr rules of cr race course, my darling,” he replied “Er rule if you win five hundred dol lars on the first race, you lost * it all and two hundreds more on the next race.’ “And do you mean that you are two hundred out of p.cket?” she squeak ed. “Thai is what I mean my darl ing.” “Don’t darling me, you old drunk ard !” she howled and the policeman across the way says that the hat rack went over, the door kicked sfiut, and. amid the growls and howls, ho could hear a voice crying out: “Lez up on me, darling; lez my hair ! I gave the fe'r my note for the two hun’der’d dollars and he can’t get a cent!” & Withdrawing Leisurely. The Elko (Nev.) Independent tells the following: “While traveling '.hrough Arizona in 1849 with an exploring party, we made our camp one evening near a canyon, the bottom of which was covered with fine sand that had drifted from the neighboring plains. While employed in arranging our camp,the botanist of the expedition, Dr. 8., wandered some distance in pursuit of plants. He re turned shorily and reported that there were Indians near at hand. He was as cool as a cucumber, and didn’t show a sign of anxiety or alarm. In answer to our hasty inquiries, he replied that while he was engaged in examining a fossil specimen he heard a grunt behiud him, ard on looking around discovered an Indian who had siezed his gun, vhich had been placed against a rock. The Indian dre v a bead on him,and in retaliation lie drew his revolver and sighted the Indian, retreating at the same time towaid the canyon, which was close at hand. Neither fired. On reaching the canyon,he walked leis„ urely into the camp. A party imme diately set out to determine the possi bility of danger and discovered two Indians and a squaw. After capturing them they examined the vicinity ia which the doctor had met with this re markable adventure. They found his foot-prints which signified a cautious retreat to the canyon, But alas! for the frailty of human nature; his foot., prints in the canyon were eight feet apart by measurement, and not exactly indicative of the leisuiely manner in which he had approached the ca'"p. The doctor acknowledged the corn, and remarked that that was about as leis urely rs he ever wished to walk under similar circumstances. ’ The Memphis Appeal says : “G.W. App of this city has just finished a remarkable pair of shoes for a negro man who lives in Arkansas. The shoes were ordered by S. H. Cowan & Cos. of Marvel, Arkansas, and for size Lave no equal. The length of the shoe is sev enteen and three quarter inches across the sole. The negro’s foot according to measurement, is fourteen inches around the ball, while the instep is nineteen inches. The man is over seven feet in height, weighs four hundred pounds and is not morejtban twentysix years of age. He has not worn a pair of boots for years, and this pair is intended for Suuday, they, wit 1 * the last on which they were made, costing sl6. This big footed negro is a preacher.” •‘Truth Conquers All Things.” THEY MET AXD PARTED. A Correspondence Results in a Marriage License and a Disap pointment. During the past year a regular cor respondence bus been carried on between a gay youth of seventy'five summers,who lives in this city,and a fair maiden aged who has lived in a distant fitate. The subject of the said corres pondence—neither party having seen the other—was at fiist of a formal na ture, but soon the Lou# of eaefa pia|le changed 1 * so mutflt formality to friendship that betore"*They knew it each was pouring out to the other on paper the sweetest tidings of mutual love. Aoout three weeks ago the young gallant hied himself to the Probate Court, and did then and there procure a marriage license, for which he paid the requisite sum in cash. Thus armed with the stong power of the law, he indited a final epistle to his perhaps supposed , young maiden, who was to be “an old man’s pet,” insisting on her immediate appearance in this locality in order to end all trouble by getting “spliced ” She having from the tone of former missives arrived at the conclu sion that she was on the puint of catch ing a young and handsome protector, whom she colnd pat on the cheek and love as she would a baby,at once replied with the request to “come West,” and and within a few days she could have been seen about our streets inquiring for (he number of the house occupied by her supposed rich young lover. They met. The feelings experienced were perhaps mutual—to a certain extent She, after taking a long look at the pro* posed groom, santc helplessly against the back of the chair and murmured : “Is this the young man I was to meet ?” He rubbed his nose a moment and wanted to know if she was the young woman he had been making love to. After glaring at each other awhile she became indignant, and he consider ed himselt duped,but being in for it, he proposed that as matters had gone so far it would be better to go on with the business and get married. She, how. ever wouldn’t listen to bis love pleading and demanded from him enough money to pay her expenses back to her home, lie reluctantly complied, and handed over about thirty dollars, the amount necessary. Then, to reimburse him self as nearly as possible, he called on the Judge of the I’robate Court and tried to get the amount of his license fees refunded. This he failpd to ac complish. — Levvcnworth Times. How a Man Takes Care of a Baby. First, he must have one to take care of. It isn’t every man who is lucky enough to have one ; and when he does his wife is always wanting to run over to the neighbor’s “just five minutes,” aud he has to tend the baby. She hard • ly irets out of sight before that baby emits a yell which causes the cat to bounce out of the door as if something had stung it. You give the cherub a piece of sugar. He spits it out and tries to put his foot in his meuth. You give him a shake and he stops a sec ond. You try another, ad he sets up such a scream that the passers-by look up in astonishment, llis eyes roll in their sockets, and be stretches out as if a red hot poker was laid on his spine. The perspiration oozes out of every pore; your hair stands on end. and the thoaglil comes you, what if the baby should have a fit ? You walk the floor till your knees feel shaky, and try baby talk ; but “ itty bitty lamby ” don’t see the fun, and refuses to be consoled.— You fear he will burst a blood vessel, and frantically pull out your watch and thrust it into his hands, which are try ing to pull your hair out. lie stops crying to look at the watch, and you thankfully find an ensy chair, and pre pare to rest your aching limbs, when that demented laby drops that five hun dred dollar watch on the floor, and sets up a louder roar than ever, just as the happy woman known as your wife comes rushing in, and snatching the Eng-suf fering child from your arms, sits down and stills it as if by magic, while you mournfully gaze on the remains of your watch, and vow never to take care of a baby again—until the next time. Where He Came Fro.y.—As the train stopped for ten minutes, and that individual goes along tapping the wheels with his hammer was passing r apidlv by the smoking car,one of the windows was hoisted and a tmient of tobacco spit was ejected which completely deluged him. The maclianisc paused for a mo ment, aud, wiping some of the streams from his person, said to the offender : “Mister, what part of the country did you come from ?” “ Me !” said the spitter, puckering his lips for another expectorant,“l come from Kansas.” “ I thought so,” said the machinist, “ For ifyouhad lived in Massachusetts or Connecticut they would have had a water wheel in your mouth long ago.” Agriculture, said Socrates, is an em ployment the most worthy to the appli* cation of men; the most ancieut and the most suitable to his nature. It is the commou uurse of ail persons in every age and condition of life ; it is the source of health, strength, plenty.and richness and of a thousand sober delights ani honost pleasure.. It is the mistress and school of sobriety, temperance, justice, religion, and. in shoit. of all virtues, civil and military. A Great Pigeon Boost. - ■.. The Southland (Mo.) Rustic says : “Pigeons have come into this part of the country by millions. Of evenings the sky is daikened With them in the neighborhood of Dr. Dodson's on the Auglaize. They have made Dodson’s farm their headquarters, and at nights the trees and underbrush ate loaded down with multitudes. As this roost ; s but a short distance from our house, we have had ample opportunity to watch their manoeuvres and to hear.the inces sane rmkre they make. A little before sundown largo armies of pigeons are seen ooming from different points of the compass, but each army passes on ward as if they intended to change their roosting place. After awhile they return and settle on the trees around the roost, not many of them nearer than a mile of the place. They make sudden flights from these trees, and the sound or their wings is like that of a great storm. There is a constant roar ing in the air as myriads of the birds fly to aud fro. About dark they fly to° wards the roost and for a longtime they fly round and round, and have the ap pearance of bees swarming, i.lthough the vast number and the tornado-l'ke roaring they make surpasses anything in the power of man to describe. After awhile they alight on the trees and bushes, and the limbs are bent downi. ward, often are broken off. “ The pigeons keep uo a constant chattering, which cun be heard for miles away. They are never still du ring the night. So far as sleep is con cerned, snch a thing is out of the ques tion with a pigeon. They arc disturbed by themselves—such throngs assembling in a spot that none can be still for a moment and the incessant discharging of fire-arms among them causes them to change their location alnnst con*' stantly. This roost is visited every night by crowds of men, some with guns and others with poles, which they use in threshing down the p "eons that happen to be at the point struck. Hun deeds are killed every night ; but when light appears the vast armies again go forth with apparently as much vig r as ever. Imagine millions of these birds all on the wing at the same time, over a scope of country not more than two miles square, and a faint idea of the ncise may be obtained. But no one can ever fully imagine what a pigeon roost is, or how much noise they make, until one is seen and heard. “ Thtre is an abundance of mast here now, and we suppose the pigeons will remain here until it is all gone. — One curious circumstance is that in the neighborhood of this pigeon roost we never see a pigeon from the time they leave of mornings until they return of evenings. They are not eating the mast here at all, but somewhere they are all feasting luxuriously for they are all fat.” - The Roman Catholic Church in England and America —ln refer* imcc to the growth of the Roman Cath olic Church in America, it is slated that a hundred y ars ago there were not more than 25 priests iu the United States in 1800 there were supposed to be 40; in 1830 the number had risen to 232 and in 1848 to 900. In ten years,from 1802 to 1872, the number of priests had more than doubled, having grown from 2,317 to 4,809. In 1875,accord ing to the official statistics of the vari ous dioceses, there were 5,077 priests, 1,234 ecclesiastical students and G,518 churches or chapels of the Roman Catholic rite within the territory of the republic. There were also, in the same years, 34 theological semina ries, 57 colleges, 567 academies and select schools, 1645 parocchial schools, 214 asylums, and 100 hospitals un" der the authority and control of the Roman Catholic clergy of the United States. Suggestive as are these figures, the Church of.Rome can point to others almost equally suggestive in England contemporary history. Thus, iu sixteen years, the number of Catholic chaj els in Great Britain was more than doubled —there having been 570 in 1851, and 1,283 in 1867. —Fall Mall Gazette. Pretty Women. Of all the beauties of nature nothing is half so pretty as a face and human form. We often hear it said in speaking of a lady, that she is as beau tiful as a picture. In all the improve ments in the art uf painting, we have never yet been able to fi and one that possessed a small per. cent, of the at traction of a prettv wjman. The per fection of art, coupled with a faultless taste, never will be able to paint the blush of uuidesty or the eyes sparkling intelligence. No artist has yet been able to paint the soul that speaks in the pretty woman’s face or the impulse of the heaving bosom. Wben the soul is filled with holy emotion, and the whole department clothed with innate and spontaneous modesty, a beauty is felt far beyond the power of the easel, pa lette and brush. No power less than angel’s could approach such a picture. A true woman has a mind of beauty from which the sparkling diamonds of the soul, flash forth their beauty in eve ry feature. The true woman is only a little lower than the angels, for the reason that angels are not subject to f .de and die, and the true woman must pass away. There is a cross eyed type-setter in Buffalo who is the fastest “comp.” in the city. While he is picking up one type his blinuer is looking for anoth er. In Advance. Self-Reliance. Fight your own battles. Iloe your own row. Ask no favors of any one, and you will succeed tire thousand times better than one who is always beseech 1 ' in" some one’s patrjnagc. No one will ever help you as you help yourself, be cause no one will be so heartily interes ted in your affairs. The first stop will not be such a long one, perhaps; but. carving your own way up the mountain, you make each one lead to another, and stand film in that while you chop still another out. Men who have fortunes are not those who hflVe five thousand dollars given them to start with, but started fair with a welLearned dollar or two. Men who have by their own ex ertions acquired fame, have not been thrust into popularity by puffs begged or paid for, or given in fiiendly spirit They have toutstreched their hands and touched the public heait. Men who win love do their own wooing, and 1 never knew a man to fail so signally as one who hod induced his affectionate grandmamma to speak a word for him Whether you work for fame,for love, for money, or anything else,work with your hands, heart and brain. Say : T will !”. and some day you will conquer. Never let any man have it to say, ‘ I have drag ged you up.” Too many friends hurt a man more than none at all.— Guice Greenwood . Give Your Child a Paper. A child beginning to read is delight' ed with a newspaper, because he reads of names and things familiar, and he will progress accordingly. A newspa. per is in one year worth a quarter school ing to a child. Every father must con sider that information is connected with advancement. The mother of a family, being one of its heads and having a more immediate charge of children, should herself be instructed. A mind occupied becomes fortified the ills of life, and is braced for emergency. Children amused by reading or study, are, of course,more considerate and ea sily governed. How many thoughtless young men have spent their earnings in a tavern or grog_shop, who ought to have been at home reading ! How many parents who have not spent twonty dol lars for books or papers for their fami lies, would have given thousands to re claim a son or daughter who had igno rantly, thoughtlessly,fallen into tempta tion from want of wise council, or from lack of something to occupy the mind. E- Why 0 and Si wouldn’t subscribe to the church is told as follows by the Sunday Herald : They presented the church subscrip - > tion list to O'd Si yesterday. “Go on wid dat papah ; I’se sitied de las’ ob dem ’skription for do pre sint!” “Aint jou gwine ter help ’sport de church dis ’mount?” asked the col lector. “I’se got no rejections ter do church mine dat, but l’se got no munny fer dem ’vangiliers dat dey got ’round dar !’’ “ Why is dat '{” “ Kase I’se bin raised up in tie good ’pinion ob ’ligion an’ I rudder tinks dat I kno’s h t when I heah s hit!” “ Well, den ?” “ When dey gits d< r Dulled parson ’round dar dat ’.“pounds de gospil ob de Lawd an’ bounces out dem white ’van gullers dat teks dere taxes fum de ’pub likan nusepapahs an’ de imports of Kon gress on de kuklux, jes fetch roun’ de papah—fetch her roun’ an’ I’ll rite on her in big figgers, but nary time till den.” And be didn’t give a cent. Got Off at tiib Wrong Station —The death of one of the oldest citi" zens of Brookfield recalls an incident in her career which happened some fifteen years ago. She was going to Stamford to visit a daughter, and took her seat in the cars lor the first and only time in her life. During the ride an accident oc curred whereby the car in vvhicii she was seated was thrown down an embank ment and demolished. Crawling out from beneath the debris she spied a man who was held down in a sit ting posture by his legs being fasten ed. “Is this Stamford ?” she inquir ed. The man was from Boston, T ie was in considerable pain, buthedid not lose fight of the fact that he was from Bos ton ; so he said : “No, this is a catastrophe.” “Oh ! Then l hadn’t oughter got off here.” This was so evident as to make a re ply unnecessary. — Danbury News. An Old Fashioned Mother.—* Thank God some of us have old fash ioned mothers—not a woman of the period enameled and painted, with her great chignon, her curls bottines, whose whi\e jewelled hands have never felt the clasp of baby fingers, but a dear, old-fashioned, sweet voiced mother, with eyes in whose depth the love-light shone and brown hair, threaded with silver, lying smoothly upon her faded cheek Those dear hands worn with toil, which guided our tottering steps in childhood and smoothed our pillow in sickness.— Blessed is the memory of an old-fish ioned mother. It floats to us now like the beautiful perfume of woodland blossoms. The music of other voices may be'lojt, but the entrancing memory of hers will echo in our souk forever. Other faces will fade away aud be for gotten but hers will shine on until the liht from heaven’s portals shall glorify ureg own- a i:\ts. Advertisements will be charged at the rate of One Dollar per square for the first ins erticn, end fifty cents for each ful se quent insertion. Ten lines of this type make a square. Local notices,fiffeen cents per line for (lie first insc.tion, and ten cents for each sub sequent insertion. Special contracts will be mode with par ties lesiring to advertise lcgulnriy. Bills for advertising arc tine any timo after firsf insci tion, unless olhciwdso ar ranged by contract. NO. 14. The Hampton Family in South Carolina. The old General, grandfather f the present General Wade Hang ton a Gen eral in the Revolutionary war, as in the war of 1812—was one of the wealthi est planters in all the South, having sugar plantations in Louisiana and cut ton plantations in South Carolina Rut jo was also a man of str tig pas sions and intense prejudices. His oulv surviving son by a first marriage was Col. Wade Hampit n, who had mar ned a wealthy lady., ar*d was the father of a large family, of which the present Genera 1 Wade H • mpton was one. A disagreement occurred between o’d Gen. Hampton and his second wife the moth er of three children, and in his anger he left them homeless and unprovided for, and went to Louisiana. Col. Wade Hampton, not having the fear of his father’s wrath before him— as most sons might have had—at once resolved upon the course to which his instincts p tinted. He purchased for his yrep mother and half-sisters the fi nest dwelling in Columbia furnished tl c establishment with servants equipage and every luxury, and through twelve years maintained them in every con - tort to which they had beenaccustouier 3 . At the death of the old General it was discovered that he had devised lis whole estate amounting to more than $1,600,000 to his son alone, but, with the unbounded generosity of that son’s nature, he divided his inheritance share and share alike equally with his stej * mother aud sisters, and would consent to reserve for himself only such a pc * tion as the others received Nor was Mr?. Hampton undeserving or unminc'' ful of her step-sons devoted sacrifices.— On at. occasion in 1838, while Col. Hampton was absent in Louisiana, the notes of a friend for whom he was in dorser at the bank, were protested at $42,000. So as soon as word of this reached her she promptly sent a check to the bank for the full amount, accom panied by only the simple directions that Col. Hampton should be spared all knowledge of the annoying circumstan ces. — ‘L' in the New York Sun. Wool in New South Wales.— The following is from the Hay Stand ard : “ There will be shorn in New South Wales this year (1876' upwards of 25, 000,000 sheep yielding approximately above 125,000,000 pounds of wool, equal in value, at Is. per pound, to £9,- 250,000 sterling. £9,500,000 sterling every year is a good nest egg even for a wealthy dependency of Great Britiau. The cost of shearing this vast lot of sheep at 20s. per hundred (about the average price) would be £125,000 The cost of transmit! ing the wool to the seapjrt for exportation might le set down at about the same figure. With out going into any more miuute details if we estimate the value of the wool clip of New South Wales for 1860 at £7,250,000, and set down twenty-five per cent, of that as expense incurred by the wool grower from the time the sheep enters the wool shed to be shorn —this is the estimated cost in the work ing of a wool station—until the net pro ceeds arc in the wool grower’s bank, there will be disbursed £1.502,700. — This sum would go in shearing,carriage to port and to London, commission, brokerage, etc.” Valuabblf Receipts —To make a nice jam— lay your head under dc* cending pile driver. To see if a man is your friend—make love to hi- wife. To get frost out of your fingers— put them in boiling water. To keep yourself warm in bed—set your bed on fire. To be ahead of time—carry your watch behind you. To see how hard a man strikes tei hm ho lies. To keep your poor relatives from troubling you —commit suicide. To keep from being dry—stand out in the rain. To dj away with spectacles—put your eyes ou". To see if a girl loves you —ask her like a man. To tell you love a girl- have some tallow beaded chap to go and see her. > The Laud of the Hissing. In one of William Black’s novo’s ho makes one of his people vaguely do • scribes a land which lay across the sea, to which all baa fled who were num bered among the missing, wiio there lived untramuieled bv follies or misfor tunes of the past. But the land ot the missing does not always care for its children. Sad wrecks go down in the surging seas which surround it. Ouj case saddest of all in the compass of memory presents itself. A boy au on - ly child, the idol of wealthy and cul tured parents started r or school one morniDg with his mother’s goodbye ki>s warm up.n his lips,was only eight yiars old, was as handsome as a cherub, aud was known everywhere among his ac quaintances as a good bey. He was eff eminate in nature and never, ordinarily ventured upon boyish escapades. 110 was to have a rabbit for dinner, and heap of gravy. The dinner was prepar ed.bui he never came to eat it. There had been nothing to make him dissuth tied with his surroundings, and encour age the idea that hr,had run away. Six teen years later his father and iuiother met him on a Mississippi river steam boat a bloated,druuken,profane,gambler. Death would have hitu a beautiful anu lovable child; but the land of the missing sent hiu back a ruined soul.