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II 1 lid TIMES. , IS j'KEEMM,Proprietor. CIRCULATES extensively in I lir( !(iii initl Adjoining Counties. I ce . Wall St., Southwest of Court House. KATES OF SUBSCRIPTION. I Voiiv $2.00 | bs 1.00 (jEORB!A AND ALABAMA JjiiMiiOAT COMPANV. 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. VOL. VII. The Cheapest in the World. PRIM’S MAGAZINE GREAT REDUCTIONS TO CLUBS. Postage prepaid to Mail Subscribers. Pktehrson’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. E\eiy 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— (-no Thousand Pages, Fourteen Splendid Plates , Twelve Colored Berlin Patterns , Twelve Mammoth Coloiml Fashions , Nine Hundred Wood Cuts, Twenty^four Pages of Music. It will also give v tve Original 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 Arncric i.— It: superb Mammoth Colored Fashion Plates are ahead of all others. These plates arc eugtaved on steel, twice the usual size. TERMS (always in advance) $2 00 A YEAR. "| With a copy of t,h e T Copies for $3 (JO I premium picture (27 ( 20) “Cornwallis’s Sur -3 £ * £< 4SO \ render ”a five dollar en | graving, to the person J getting up the club. | With an extracopy of 4 Copies for 8 080 j the magazine for 1877, as a premium, to the 5 “ “ I*B 00 | persuu getting up the J club AVith both an extra 0 Copies for 80 00 | copy of the magazine I for 1877, and the pre> 7 ~ “ “ TlOO i- m ipi picture, a five • * ent*ravi-ngr, ' o 0 “ “ 1350 | the person getting up ] the club Address, post-paid, CHARLES J, PETERSON, 306 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, Pa. Specimens sent gratis, if written ‘‘or. CHEAPEST AND BEST! HOWARD iiioiutur (IliT! MANUFACTURED NEAR KINGSTON, BARTOW COUNTY, GEORGIA. Equal to the best imported Portland Cement Sand for Circular Try tins lJ< i c buying elsewhere. Refers by permission to Mr. A. J. West President of Cherokee Iren Company, Polk county, Georgia, who has built a splendid dam across Cedar Creek, using this cement, ind 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 liiver Bridge, New York, G n. Win. Mcßae, Superintend ent W. x A. Railroad, Capt. J. Postell, C. E. Address G. li. WARING, Kingston, Ga o 2? i 81 y U()pl> FORTUNE Waits on all who purchase tickets in the Grand Extra Drawing, Monday, December 4, 1870, LOUISIANA STATE LOTTERY CO. Tiiis institution was regularly incorpora ted by the Legislature of the Mate for Ed ucational purposes in 1868, with a capital of SI,COO,OOP, to which it has since added a reserve fund of £“'>2o,ooo. Ds Grand Single Number Drawings will take place monthly. The season of 1876 closes with the following scheme : CAPITAL. PRIZE, $50,000. Only 20,000 Tickets at S2O each. Fractions in proportion. LIST OF FHIIZES. 1 Copied Prize suo,ooo 1 Capital Prize 20,000 1 Capital Prize It l ,ooo 10 Prizes at 1,000 10,000 25 Prizes at 500 12,500 100 Pr’zes at 300 80,000 200 Prizes at 100 40,000 600 Pr zes at 100 50,000 2,000 Prizes at 20 40,000 APPROX IM a T ION r RIZ ES. 0 Approximation Prizes ofssoo, 2 709 9 Approximation Prizes <>f 200, 1,800 9 approximation Prizes ol' ICO, 900 2.865 Prizes amounting to $268,900 Write foi circulars or send orders to B. FERNANDEZ Savannah, Ga ; CM VS. T. HO VARI), New Orl ans, la. The first regular quarterly dollar drawi: g will take filace on January 2, 1817. Tickets $1 each. Capital ID ize $15,000. [nolß’lm. W. R. Rankin. J- A. Gray TJANKIN & GRAY, EY'AT LAW, CAi.liol'N. S’< A p -jf*- attention ’?■■■ to >f e^tons. Off o up stairs in the v 1 ud.ling. sepl6-6m . .' . . _..... - 1 “ j graviiiiisot uic Presidential J Candidates sell lapliJly.— makb ! Sen 1 for circular. N. Y. j Engraving Cos., 3’) Wall S l ., $lB A DAY. | Box 8230, N, Y. [sep9-Bt. 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. In Advance. NO. 15. AU\E MMIINENTS. ' dvert moments will be cl urged at .be raje of One Dollar per square for the first insertion, and fifty cents for each subse quent insertion. Ten lines of this typo n.use a square. Local notices,fifteen cents per line for tho fii-jt inset tion, nod ten cents for each eub sequetu insertion. Special contracts will be me.de with par ties lesiring to advertise legulariy. Bills for advertising are duo any tmte alter first insertion, unices othe wise nr* god by contr t. -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