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CIRCULATES extensively in
I lir( !(iii initl Adjoining Counties.
I ce . Wall St., Southwest of Court House.
KATES OF SUBSCRIPTION.
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| bs 1.00
(jEORB!A AND ALABAMA
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Notice l
I H goods shipped to the care of J. M.
I 1 ELLIOTT, Gen’l. Sup’t., Rome, Ga., from
I r a lelpliia. New York and Boston, via
I , ’,1,-ton or Ya. & Tenn. Air-Line, will be
~.,u t eed to all points on the Coosa, Oos
.da and Coosawattee rivers, at the fol-
I lowing rates, to-wit:
I class oirss Class Class Class
Tj_ _a_ 1_ i_ !_
IfU 152 122 ICO 78 65
■ T l, e steamers, “ Magnolia and “ Mary
I , r ter” will run the following Schedule,
I currying the U. S. Mail:
Steamer Magnolia,
I jjjye-Rome— Every Monday 1 p. m.
Every Thursday... 9 a. m.
I , ave Gadsden —Every Tuesday Ba. m.
Every Friday 8 a.m.
I in iveat Rome—Every'Wednesday at 6 p. m.
Eveiy Saturday, 6 p. m.
Steamer Mary Carter.
I p aT e Rome Monday Ba. m.
I A rr ive at Rome Wednesday 6p. m.
-rive at Carter’s Tuesdrys 3 2 m.
I i'‘ a ve Carter’s Tuesdays 2p. m.
I passenger Rates on Coosa River.
I Home to Cedar Bluff $2 00
I Some to Center 2 50
I K um - to Gadsden 400
1 Passenger Rates on Oostanaula
I and Coosawattee Rivers.
I Homo to Reeves’ Station $1 00
:o Calhoun 1 50
I j; ,I'ie to llesaca 1 i 0
I Rime to Field’s Mill 3 00
I Rome to Carter’s Landing 3 50
Ratos to other points inquire at the office
I iVompani foot of- Broad Street Rome, Ga
33:m±g;3*£t23L t js .
{’or families intending to emigrate to
I l.'x.-i' the Georgia and Alabama .Steamboat
I ('..jiipuiy offers a very desirable route via
I yew Oilcans.
Plpcl and close connection is made from
I Meridian via Jack: on and New Orleans with
I Trains of the Texas line. Other informa
I un can be obtained by addressing
JAMfS M. ELLIOTT, Gen’l Supt.
I O:o. W. Rown.s', John C, Pbintup,
G-n'l Freight Agt. Gvn’l Pass. Agt.
„u ? 2G-!f.
stern & Atlantic Railroad
AND ITS CONNECTIONS.
I kexsjssa w no item
The following 1 ;tkcs effect mny 23d, 187 T
NORTHWARD. No. 1.
■ I.; ve Atlanta 4.10 r.M
I ; ve Tark-rsville G. 14 1 ‘
King- ion 6.42
1 Dalton 6.24 “
Chattanooga 16.25
No. 3
. , \f-ntu, 7.(K' a.;
I q °2
atfunooga i*.
No. 11.
>. Atlanta 3,30 r.>
Arrive Cartersville 7.10 “
“ Kingston 3.21 “
“ Dalton 11.18
SOUTH WARD. No. 2.
l ive Chattanooga I*6o t l -* 1
Drive Dalton - 5.41
*■ Kingston 7,28 “
“ Cavtersville 3.12 “
“ Atlanta 1015 “
No. 4.
ve Chattanooga 6.00 a.m
r: ive Dalton... 7.01
** Kingston 6.0 ‘
“ Cartersville 9.4.* “
Atlanta OG n.?.i
No. 13.
I a\e Dalton I -60 a.m
Ari t* Kingston 4.19
1 Cartersville 518 “
• Atlanta 9.20 “
ull nan Palace Gars run ~ i Nos. 1 and 2
Piv ,oe i New Orleans and P iJinioro.
l oilman Palace Cars run n Nos. 1 and 4
et , een Atlanta and Nashviue.
1 ullmm Palace Cars run on Nos. 2 and 3
ltweer Louisville and Atlanta.
B-*L, No change of cars between New Or
pi s, A >bile, Montgomery. Atlanta and
ihil' more, and only one change to Non
Vor'c.
Pisseng 'rs leaving Atlanta at 4 10 p. m.,
•rvi,e in New York the second afternoon
'her after at 4.00.
E etirsu n tickets to the Virginia springs
til various summer resoits will be on sale
n N w Orleans, Mobile, Montgomery, 4o
’a .1 is, Mac an, Savannah, Augusta and At
t tn, at gj catly reduced rates, first of
June
I'a’’tics desiring a whole car through to
a 1 \ irgima S ; ?rings or Baltimore, should
1 h\ ss the un Designed.
Pa ties contemplating travel should send
hr a copy of the Kennesaw Route Gazette,
ning sche lules, etc.
. Ask for Ticket* via “ Kennesaw
' cute ”
4 B. W. WRESN,
G. P. & T. A., Atlanta, Ga.
Horne Railroad — Scheflule•
A> AND AFTER MARCH Ist, the evening
v train (except Saturday evening), on this
fad "ill be discontinued. Tue trains will
A a as follows:
MORNING TRAlN
•''aves Rome daily at 7:00 a. in.
hctu n to Rome at 12 m.
S \TUBDAY ACCOMMODATION.
Rome (Saturday only) at 5:45 p. m
he: m to Rome at 9:00 p. m.
h evening train at Romo will make
l °- , e onnection with S. R- & D. R. R- train
h "lit ami South, and at Kingston with R.
v '• R. K train South and East. #
C. M. PENNINGTON, Oen’l Sup’t.
UNO. E. STILLWELL, Ticl et Agent.
<A A! I*, GLOVER & COT,
liolcpa 7. o
And Retail Dealers ip
A; OSUS, GLOTH3:4S,S33TS,
Shoes % J Letts 9 Nc,
T Stock and Bottom Prices.
39 Hroitd St., JiOdie, Ga.
1 b n ' ,w rece.ving the largest and best stock
have cveropcnei
Two Dollars a Year.
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CALHOUN, GA., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 2.187 G.
The Inauguration.
Much of the speaking and writing
about the possible result of an uujust
and illegal return made by th JNew
Orleans board appears to proceed on the
idea that what we are in the habit of
calling “the inauguration of the Presi
dent" will necessarily be a turning point
in the legal relations of the situation.—
On that theoiy, it luay beau army is to
be concentrated iu and about \\ ashin/-
ton —a movement which is well enough
and proper euough, peihaps, if the au
thority have good reason to thinn vio*
lence is meditated by the Radicals, or
any one else, liut of wLat legal
nuence are the pomp and ceremony ol
what we call “inauguration day V* 11
a candidate is lawluliv declared to be
elected, all that is needed to make him
President's that he take tue oath ol
a
office prescribed in the Constitution,and
that oath can be taken before any mag
istrate competent under Federal law to
administer oaths. If we mistake not,
the oath of Vice President King was
administered to him in Cuba. The
oath has heretofore been taken by the
President betore the Chief Justice, but
there is no efficacy in him in such mat*
tors, above any other Federal magis
trate, nor is special virtue iu
the cupitol as the place. It is not nec
essary that either i ilden or Hayes be in
Washington when the competent au"
fhority declares either of them duly
el&ted to be President, and, according
to the legal ideas of the present admin
istration, it is not required that eithei
be in Washington to execu'e the office
of President. President Grant issued
his importaut orders of the iOth instant
to the army from Philadelphia. Occu
pation of theS White llou-e is. on those
ideas, not vital to valid acts by the
President. The result of a loot race for
the edifice can therefore be thrown
out of the calculation.
Nov do we beiieve there is to be a
unseemly row between the House and
Senate, if it shail be found that the two
bodies disagree (and we do not think
they will disagtee when all the facts
arc assembled) over the right of the
votes of any State to be counted. If,
when they meet to examine the voteb
a member of either body objects to
counting any State, we assume that the
Senate will with dignity retire, if the
hall of the House be the place of meet
ing, and enable the House to deliberate
thereon, with propriety and deco'/mn.—
Lf, on reassembling, both bouses agree
to reject the State, does any one sup
pose that the Piesident ot the Senate
will persist in counting it ? If the
two houses disagree, will the President
of one body beany the’more disposed to
count it : 1 But if the House decides to
exclude, and the Senate to include, the
contested States; it’ the Presidcn* of
the Senate nevertheless counts it and
declares Governor Hayes to be Presi
dent.; and if the House, ou the other
hand, decides that no candidate had a
majority ol' all the electors‘‘appointed,”
and then elects Governor Tiiden to b
President, and so informs him ? Then
we have the spectacle of two Pres*
ideuts, both claiming to be legally elect
ed, both taking the oata of office be
fore a competent magistrate, and the
House upholding Tiiden and the Sen
ate recognizing only Hayes. On either
theory can Grant be in office alter the
4th of March to c mmand the army or
anything else ? He can possibly.before
his term expires,convene the next Con
gress to meet on the sth of March,lß77
but the two houses of that 0 ingress
would probably differ just as the
two houses of the ; reseat Congress dif
fcr.
Now there is not necessarily any riot
or tumult ot revolution iu Washington
over this condition of two lhesideut.—
All executive officers, including army
and navy officers, wou'd, to be sure,
need to decide, eaih for himself, which
ol’ the two he would bey. The Senate
and House of course, would not agree
about legislation. Neither President
would venture to take or order to be ta
ken anj money out of the Treasury
without a ; appropriation therefore by
Congress. Ihe existing annual appro
priations would endure till the Ist of
next July, and then neither President
would have public funds to pay any
official, or military
I he people of the United Statesoughl
to be able, and are able to look all these
contingencies calmly in the lace because
they ought to be, and arc, capable of
*e//government. They ore not children
or hysterical prisons, from whom a
statement of possible peril is to be
withheld. On the contrary, is is for
the public good that while the general
temper is so amiable and healthful, the
people of the United S ates get a clear
and comprehensive view of what may
happen if the President of the Senate
persists in counting a State which at
least one House of Congress, and which
a sreat majority of candid persons may
think it is wrong, illegal and fraudulent
to count. The collecting of such
troops iu Washington, or the rumor of
such collecting, compels the country to
put on its “thinking "cap.” —New Yoi Jc
'World.
“ S.uppose 1 should work myself up t >
the interrogate point X said a beau to
Ills sweetheart. “1 would respond with
an exclamation,” was the prompt reply.
A shrewd old Yankee said iie didn't,
believe thuie was . iy and .weright cure
for laziness in a man. “Jluf. he added
“ I’ve known a second v*iie to but ty
booie ”
Truth Conquers All Things.”
Cultivate Family Feeliug.
A great many families miss half of
their rightful enjoyment at horns from
a want which they do nut iully under
stand, nor adequately appreciate. They
know, by cont„et with some more fa
vored family circles, that something is
lacking iu their own : but too ufteu
they accept the situation with a sigh of
regret, and without any effort to" find
out The tioubie and remedy it. A close
studeut of home life will, not fail to
discover that the essential element ot
home happiness is thorough confidence
and harmony among its inmates. No
cust.y furnishing, uo tustelul decora
tiers —nothing mat wealth nor genius
can supply cau make a happy
home when mutual love and
trust are lacking. The uoor man m
his daily struggle with hardship and
privation, having a home “ win:re iovo
is," may smile ut trials and keep his
luith strong to the end.
In commenting upon the lack ol - this
home spun, we do not can to impy
that a majority of the homes in uut
country am in constant cunlliet ufi t up
roar Lorn the disagreement of iumatos,
We are not writing just for the espe
eiai benefit of quarrelsome people.—
There are multitudes of perfectly peace
ful anu quiet families, who live under
the same roof from day to day year after
year, knowing as little of the real life
and t v >ought of their homes as if each
member of their,circle occupied a sep
arate dwelling. In ail especial points
of mutual file there is no contact, uo
communion. These people sit at the
same table three times daily possibly
they bow at the same altar, but they
know nothing of each other’s hearts.
This unfortunate state of affairs
comes about more in quetitly thau oth
erwise as a result of parental neglect.—
it is too often thought enough that,
children are kept clean and healthy, fed
and clothed, and uut allowed to quarrel
with each other. A few more pains,
taking parents make an effort to pre
vent the larger ands ronger ehiidnrn
from imposing on the lesser ones, but
very lew h ive any idea of cultivating
friendship among choir I’ttle ones. So
it often haj pens tha; children tied
favorite playmates ou‘side of home, and
iu time, their best friends and strongest
attachments are foreign to the home ar
eircie. Children so trained, or so iefV
without traiuiug, are not ready, in uri
turer years, the duties ui home and
society, and many hard lessons are
needed \o teach what should have been
learned insensible at the fireside in the
early years of life
To accustom your children to observe
perfect courtesy towards each other,and
to plant among them the germs of "bar
emony and love that shall bind them to
gthev'so strongly thut distance and lapse
ofyears can never separate their hearts,in
to fit them for life more perfectly than
any course of training will do, aud is
will be worth all the time and patience
it costs.
Useful Suggestions,
Always give the soil the first meal.—
If this is well fed with manure it will
feed all else; plants, animals and man.
If you wish to give an energetic
movement to all your farm machinery,
and keep its wheels in rotation, be sure
not to be without a good rotution of
crops.
lf you allow your rniuials to shiver,
your fortune will be shivered in conse
quence; tha* is, the farmer who leaves
his cattle to the winds, will find his prof'
its also given to the winds.
Scraping and washing the trunks and
larger limbs of fruit trees will destroy
the eggs of injurious insects. For a
waslf use common soft soap,or one pound
of soda in a gallon of water ; whale oil
soap is still better. Severe scraping is
not advisable, as nature, doubtless gave
the rough bark the better to stand the
vicissitudes of climate.
Chicken cholera yields readily to the
following treatment : Remove the dis
eased fowls to apartments by themselves.
Then chop up some comm >u garden rue,
mixed in oat meal gruel; or cooked
corn meal will answer. Put a drop or
two of carbolic acid in a quart of water,
and let them have no other drink. —
Place the sick fowls on clean, dry straw,
and keep them in confinement until re
stored to health.
To make coldslaw*cut up the cabbage
very fine with a sharp knife, and sprin
kle over it a tablespoonful of salt. For
a large dish, say a quart of cut cabbage,
use two eggs, a piece of butter the size
of an egg, half a teacup of good vine
gar. Beat the eggs, whites and yolks
together, very light ; add the water,
vinegar and butter, ar,d put all in a tin
on the fire, stirring all the time until it
is of a creamy thickness. Pour it hot
over the cabbage, stir up well with a
fork, and leave to cool.
The opening of the ship canal to con- j
ncct Amsterdam directly with the North j
Sea is an event of great importance in :
engineering and its success presages
the changes that are possible in Hop
land by and by. The scheme for dyk
ing in and then pumping out Zuyt’er
Zee is progressing, and it seems itally
possible that eventually the sea may bo
driven back where it belonged six hun -
dred years ago. Fishermen would suf
fer at first, but they e.m'd turn farmers,
and an acre o soil will yield more than
an acre of water. \\ bile for Amesterdaui,
vhieh grows up by the Zuyder Zee and
has since grown away fn tu that body,
and lies now grown over o the direct
,-eu, the stoiy is as strange as that of
t he growth o any city. Born almost
, f an aecide .t and saved by art, it has
ttle nature . r out it.
Saved From an Alligator.
Heading of fearful incidents iike that
f peril ou Southern streams, we can
perhaps fancy the thoughts which must
• ave passed through the girlish Miri
am’s mind while she watched her infant
si.-ter among the crocodile haunted
Nile.
Last Saturday about sundown says
the Hand.-boro (Mi?s.) Democrat four
miles east of this place, on Biloxie Bay
oerurred a terrible scene. Two little
girls, daughters of Elam 11. Blackwell,
living on the Back Bay of Biloxie,while
bathing in the bay immediately in front
of his dwelling were attacked by an
enormous alligator.
The eldest, a girl of about seven years
was holding the youngest, un infant of
two years, in her hands quietly enjoy
ing her bath, when suddenly her little
sister was snatched from her a: and borne
swiftly from the shore.
Terrified beyond measure, and una
bP to r uder any assistance to her uu
fortunate sister, tae elder girl uttered
a scream which was quickly heard by
her father, who happened to be passing
within thirty or forty yards ol the
office.
He. lizeing instantly from the tone ol
the voice,that, his childre 1 were in some
peri l . Mr. Blackwell rushed rapidly to
their assistance, and arrived at the spot
just in time to see his little daughter
borne out into the bay by au alligator.
He leaped at once into the water in
pursuit of tiie reptile, which was then
- me twenty fi e ar thirty yards Iroui
the shore The water, for u distance of
f;rty or fifty yards from tho point where
thd children were bathing, ranges in
depth from one and a halt to two feet
and then suddenly attains a depth ol
forty or fifty feet.
Both the alligator (which by this
lime had discovered the pursuit) and
the father s-. emed to realize that, il the
deep water immediately in front ol them
was leached.pursuit and recovery would
be alike impossible. Both, therefore,
redoubled their efforts, the one to reach
the p nut the fiber to prevent it.
In this struggle, although sinking in
the soft mud at each bound, the fat hr
was success r ul. lie succeeded in grasp
ing his child by the ; m when but ten
feet from the deep w- ter. The alliga
tor which all the time held the child's
foot in its mouth, perc ivig itself over
taken, and alarmed ani confused at the
bnldqpss of the assault, released its hold
anu made its way rapidly into deep wa?
ter
The father, completely exhausted
rnis'-d his child’s head above the water,
and perceiving that it still lived, by
desperate effmts succeeded in regainia,.
the shore, and depositing it safely in
the arms of its mother
The iitfle girl is unhurt with the ex
ception of wounds in its foot made by
the teeth of the monster.
A Dnnduni Farm.
*
Often and often while riding through
the country, hav we passed farms
whose history we could read at a glance.
The door yard fence had disappeared
—burnt up in the shiftlessness born of
drink. The house was unpainted and
battered; broken panes of glass weie
stopped with rags or old hats ; the chim
ney stood in a tottering attitude, the
doors swung in a creaking fashion ou
one hinge; the steps were unsteady,
like its owner ; everything was dilapi
dated, decaying, untidy, cheerless. A
single look showed that its owner tra
d- dat one shop—the rum shop The
spirit of thrift had been killed by the
spirit of the still. Fresh paint, repairs
improvements, good cheer and beauty
fu" Lite home—all had gone down the
farmer’s throat. Outside, matters were
the same. The barn yards were wretch
ed styles : the doors were off, the roofs
leaky, the gates down, the carts crazy,
the tools broken the fodder tcarce, and
the stock poor and wretched. Neg
lect, cruelty, wastefulness, ruin—ail
had come from drink. The farm show
ed the trail of some serpent. The stag
gering and tumbled stone walis, the
rickety fences, the weed-grown fields,
the sparse and half headed crops, the
dying rchard, all said to the passer, by,
“ Whisky did it,” Drink had given
the plaster of a mortgage instead ot a
carting of fertilizers; sloth, instead of
labor ; unthril’t in the place of care and
demoralization in lieu of system. The
farm was drink blighted, and advertised
its Ci edition as plain as i*s owner did
wheu he came reeling home from the
town One of the most impressive
temperance lectures, for young farmers
especially, is a g >od look at a drunken
farm. — Golden Rule,
There is s i id to be a paper church
actually existing neir Berlin, which cun
contain nearly one thousand persons. —
It is circular within, octagonal without.
The reliefs outside and statues within,
thu roof, ceiling, the (J rinthian capitals
are ail papier macue, rendered water
proof by saturating in vitriol, hoie wa
ter, whey aud white of eggs-
Age jtl jai m on board a steamboa
with his family, was asked by his chil
dren “ what made the boat god 5 when
gave them a minute description oi
the machinery and its ’principle in the
following words: You see. my dears,
I this thiogum ob here goes down through
} that hole and fastens the jiguiuro. and
! hat, connects with the crinkum-crank
um ; and then that man—he’s the eu-
I gioeer, you know —stirs up the what*
j do-you-eali it with a long poker, and
j they all shove along and the boat goes'
* heal’'
JLocalPride iu Georgia.
The notable difference between the
negroes in Middle Georgia and those on
the sea board —a difference that extends
to habits as well as dialect—had given
rise to certain ineradicable prejudices.
| These were forcibly, as well as iuui.,
crously, illustrated in the passenger de
p,t yesterday. The Air-Lioe tram
brought in a gentleman from Savannah
who, accompanied by his body servant,
hid been spending the summer in Hab
ersham county. The body servant allu
ded to was an average coast darkey,sleek
well conditioned and consequential, and
seemed disposed to look with contempt
upon everything and everybody not in
digenous to the rice-growing region
Espying old Uncle Remus, who was lan
guidly sunning himself against the iron
railing, the Savannah darkey approach*
and .
“ Mornin’ snh.”
“ I’m sorter up an’about,” lespouded
Uncle Roums. “ How is you standin’
.t
“My holt gocvd, I tank you. I enty
fer see no rice birds in dig country,”
continued the strange darkey. j3ey
plenty in Sowonny:”
“Plenty whar ?” inquired Ilnele Re
mus, rolling his quid and taking an im
ventory of hib new acquaintance.
“In Sowonny. I euty fer see no crab
an’ no o'sters.”
“ Well, dey’se roun heah. But uis
ain’t no climate whar de rice birds liies
inter yore pockets an’ gits de money out
an’ makes de change derse’f an’ de is.
ters don’t shuck off der shells an’ run
over you in de streets an’ ax your foot
to eat ’em. Dey’re heab, do. No
scads’ll fetch ’em.”
“ Him do’ country for true —no like
Sowonny. Down da we eaty de bird an’
de crab 1 an’ de o’ster tree time de day,
an’ de buckra men drink de wine an’
smokey him segar all troo de night.—
plenty fer eat.au’ not much fer wuk.”
“ Hits mighty nice, 1 reckon,” said
old Remus. “ High feedin’ he’psa nig
ger out monst’ousiy. Up heah, dougli
de whittles dat is 'cumulated widout any
sweatin' mos’ always gener’lly ’olons ter
some oder man. A hoecake an’a rash
er av middlin’ meat las’ me fum Sun*
day to Sunday, an’ I’m in mighty big
luck when I gits dat.”
The Savannah darkey here gave a
loud, contemptuous laugh, and began to
fumble somewhat ostentatiously at a
huge brass watch fob.
“But I struck up with a good job las’
Chuesday,” chimed Unc'e Remus in a
more hopeful tone, “ an’ now I spec I’m
all a settin’.”
“ Wha’ you gwan do?”
“I’m a waiten on a cullud gentleman
fum Savannah —one uv do high livers
what your bin taikiu bout.”
“ Hows dat V
“ I leant him two dollars, an’ I’m a
waiten on him fer de munny, an’ hit's a
job what'll last a long time I’m afeard.’
The Savannah darkey saw the point
and went off after his rice birds, while
Uncle Remus nearly choked himself
with a series of chuckles. —Atlanta
Constitution
Vulgar Words.
xY distinguished author says : “ I re
solved, when I was a child, never to use
a woid which I could not pronounce be
fore my mother withnut offending her."
lie kept his resolution, and became a
pure, mined, noble, honored gentleman
His rule and example are worthy of im
itation.
Buys readily learn a class
gar words and expressions which are
never heard in respectable circles. The
utmost care on the part of oarents will
scarce!) prevent it. Of course, we can
not think of girls as beiug so much ex
posed tottiis peril. We cannot imagine
a decent girl using words she would not
give utterance to before her father or
mother.
Such vulgarity is thought by some
boys to be “ smart,’’ the “next thing to
swearing/’ :nd yet “ not so wicked." —
But it is a habit which leads to profani
ty, and fii s the mind with thoughts
Lt prepares the wav for the gross and
tVarful sins which now corrupt socie
ty.
Marbles.
Almost all the * marbles’’ With which
boys everywhere.amuse themselves, ; u
seasuu and out oi season, on sidewalks 1
and sandy spots, are made atOberstein, 1
Germany. There are large agate quar 1
ries anu mills in that neighborhood, and
the refuse is turned to a good account
in providing the small stune balls lor
experts for the “ kauckle with. Ibe j
stone is broken in small cubes by blows
from a light hummer. These small
blocks of stone are thrown by the shov
elful into the hopper of a small mill,
formed of a bedstone, having its surface
grooved with concentric furrows. Above
this is the “runner,” which is of some
hard wood, having a level lace on its
lower surface. The upper block is made
to revolve rapidly, water being deliver
ed upon the grooves of the bedstone,
where the marbles are being rouuded.
It take- about fifteen minutes to fiuish
haif a bushel of good marbles all ready
for the boys’ knuckles. One mill will
rnrn 100,000 marbles per week. The
hardest “crackers,” as the boys call
them, are made by a slower process,
somewhat aualagu to the other.
Jt is estimated that there are now in
operation iu the United Status no less
than &G 0 paper mills, w.-'ch ate valued
at §40,000,000 of capital invested, with
a total production of §70,000,000
These mill* give employment nominal
lv to 20,000 jeople, whose earnings are
touted up at $10,000,000, annually.
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-V Brave bailor Boy.
! One day a great ship out from Now
I York was overtaken by u terrible storm,
which lasted nearly a week.
I Hue night, at the height of the tern -
1 the rigging at the at in mast head
J not taughd. and someone had to go up
! aud straighten it. Tile mate called a
bov belonging to ;h j ship aud ordered
him aloft.
The lad touched his cap, but hesita_
ted a moment, cast one frightful glance
up and down at the swaying mast and
furious sea. aud then rushed a.r ss the
deck and down iot-o the forecastle. In
about two minutes be appeared, and
seized the ratlins- the rope ladders of
the vessel—and flow up the rigging like
a squirrel. V\ ifch dizzy eyes the weaths
er.beaten crew watched fhu poor boy at
his fearful height.
“He will never come down alive,”
they said one ta another.
But ;n twenty minutes the perilous
job was done, and the boy descended,
straightening himsdf up, with a
sui.ilo on his face, walked to the stern of
the ship.
“ \\ hat did you go below when or
dere-l above for ?” asked a passenger ot
tlre brave boy.
” I went —to pray,” replied the bov,
with blush and a quiver of the lip.
The t.’osl oft Contests.
'ihe New r York Ileruld estimates the
direct cost <f the recent campaign in
Indiaoa at $5,000,001). The indirect
cost in the way of loss to business in
consequence to the universal absorbitioiv
ol the population in politics is estima
ted at. $15,000,000. The latter esti
mate is probably without other basis
than the fancy of the writer. Of course,
it all the time spent iu atten ling public
meetings, hanging about political head--,
quarters, and marching iu processions
were computed at ten dolalars per day,
the loss to business would be incalcula
ble. But in many cases the fa mers
really lost nothing ; by a day or two from
his place of business he may have suff
ered no loss thereby. Many of the pa
trio's who were iu constant attendance
at political head-quarters would have
been ia constant attendance on some
bar room or billiard soloon, if there had
been no polit'es requiring his at entiou.
The farmer or industrious mechanic rs
none the poorer for a few days relaxa
tion, vhile the class that never performs
any useful work c*oes not greatly injure
itself politically by atten iog political
meetings. Still, the idea is pretty gen
erally entertained that we have too many
elections for the public good.
Some <ime ago a young man living
in Baris swallowed a folk. It was rath
et a difficult article to digest, and the
patient was gradually wasting in the
effort to get rid of it. But recently an
operation was performed iu one of tho
hospitals for extracting the fork from
the stomach, which, wonderful to relate
proved entirely successful. Barca Lar
rey, and Drs. Table, and Lepere, and
Professor Gosselin undertook the deli
cate task of cutting an opening and in
troducing an instrument to grasp tho
fork. The operation was a long
and laborious one, arising from heuior.-
rhage,but after two hours was safely ac
complished, and tne young man is re
ported to have completely recovered.
Where is this thing going to end ? x\
few days ago we wers congratulating
South Carolina upon having this advan
tage over Louisiana, that she was bless
ed wi.h an honest Supreme Court, and
in poiut of point we were right.
But who can be right against Grant ?
What is a Supreme Court when C e
Grart Swashbuckler has spoken ? What
is the strength of law when opposing
bayonets war against it t The Centen
nial year has already seen the honor and
diguity of the country buri and. Now
let us prepare our darkest sables, for its
liberties are expiring crushed beueath
the armed heel of military despotism-—-
New Orleans Times.
■ - .
A lady wearing a wadi-bowl hat, a
patent spring tilter and striped stock
ings, while visiting relatives in the coun
try, took a walk one morning. Two
youthful rustics, who were playing in a
Sold, saw her as she passed, and after
staring in astonishment a moment, one
of them exclaimed : “ Si<y Bill, sneak
home and git your shotgun,that thing's
’scaped from a circus !”
A Buy Monstei?. — Lately a lad
abour. twelve yeais of age. tiam and Fran
cis Van Burrigar, whose parents 1 ve
iu Windsor, N. Y , lured two little bo, r
into a bum and said he was going to
kill them, lie srrinped the clothes fiout
the youngest child and beat the little
fellow with a heavy strap and buckle
until he fainted from the loss of biood,
which streamed Iron his head, shoul
ders, back and legs. But this was not
enough, and while his victim was still
unconsciouo, he attached the strap to his
neck in true hangman style, and pro
ceeded to hang him to a ladder. He
placed the strap over one of the rounds
j of the ladder, and just as he was in the
act o 1 suspending his victim in
the air, Mr. McCreary s son who had
made his escape, came upon the scene
with several other boys and seizing the
young Nero dragged bin to Justice de
Buis office, from whence he wjs smit to
jail. lie shot a baby in Cauipvill-'. but
a few weeks since,and the C> muer’s iu
ry pronounced it “accidental ”
The new servant gi r p on t f ie g r-t
morning alter her air val. ir.g nuously
asks, “and does g rls that ; ive out have
1 to make their own bids, mum V