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the times. p. B FREEMAN, Proprietor. CIRCULATES EXTENSIVELY IN Gordon and Adjoining Counties. Office: V/all St., Southwest of Court House, RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION. . . Year •••-• $2.00 T ix Months 1.00 GEORGIA AND ALABAMA ~ TBAMBOAT COMPACT. Notice l ALT, goods shipped to the car** of J. M. ELLIOTT, Gen’l. Sup’t., Rome, Ga M from rbiladelphia, New York and Boston, via Charleston or Va. & 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 Glees Class Class Class 1 2 34/ 5 6 ns' 152 122 ICO 78 Go The steamers, “Magnolia and “Mary Carter” will run the following Schedule, carrying the U. S. Mail: Steamer Mnguolin, leave Rome—Every Monday 1 p. m. Every Thursday 9 a. m. L ,ve Gadsden—Every Tuesday 8 a. m. Every Friday. .Ba.m. Arrive at Rome—Evcry Wednesday at G p. m. Eveiy Saturday, G p. m. Steamer Mary Carter. Leave Rome Monday 8 a. m. Arrive at Rome Wednesday 6 p. m. Arrive at Carter’s Tuesdt ye 12 m. Leave Carter’s Tuesdays 2 p. m. passenger Rates on Coosa River. Home to Cedar Bluff. $2 00 Rome to Center 2 50 Rome to Gadsden 4 00 Passenger Rates on Oostanaula arct Coosawattee Rivers. IT,me to Reeves’ Station $1 00 Rome to Calhoun 1 50 Rome to llesaca 1 75 R, ur to Field’s Mill 3 00 Rome to Garter’s Landing 3 50 Kilt;-.- to other points inquire at the office of (A,:;, iiiiir foot of Broad Street Rome, Ga I’or families intending to emigrate to •I, x -s the Georgia and Manama Steamboat ('mupatty offers a very desirable route via New Oilcan''. Dir-ct and close connection is ma le from Meridian via Jack, on and New Orleans with Trains t-f the Texas line. Other in forma t mi can be obtained by addressing JAMES M, ELLIOTT, Gen’l Supt. Ci o. W. Bowkn, John C, PniNTur, (lend Freight Agt. Gen’l Pass. Agt. nu j2G-f f. W estern & Atlantic Railroad and its connections. “ KEXSLSA IV TiOTJTI The following takes effect may 23d, 1875 NiiRTHWARD. No. I. V ’„ . 4.10 i-.m ’ 0.14 “ -t <*n 0.4.1 Gabon f-~j “ 'i;aitin ooga No. 3 I. ive Atlanta T.OCa.m . . (i oo Ai t ive ( ” Kingston •• Dalton Cliattam oga No. 11. I, vo Atlanta W m Arrive CnrtersvilU • Kingston 8.21 ** Dalton 11.18 “ SOUTHWARD. No. 2. cave Chattanooga LfiO p.m \ 1 rive Dalton <• Kingston 7.28 Cartcrsville 8.12 “ “ Atlanta 10 15 “ No. 4. Ie ve Glmttanooga 5.00 A.M r; ive Dalton 7.01 '< •* Kingston ‘ “ Cartcrsville 9.4 x, “ * Atlanta 12 06 No. l ->. 1 rac Dalton ]-JJ A ; M ‘ Cartersville '*■ (' Atlanta ,2 ® “ nil nan Palace Oars-run a 1 Nos. 1 and - ,eea New Orleans and P i.timoro. , oilman Palace Cars run -n Nos. 1 and 4 et een Atlanta ar.d Nashvilie. 1 .dim in Palace Cars run on Nos. 2 and <> it veer Louisville and Atlanta. No change of cars between New ( r -1 11 s A >bile, Montgomery. Atlanta and Ral more, and only one change to New P isscri'* >rs leaving Atlanta at 4 10 r. M., arri.e in New York the second afternoon thor after at 4.00. . E eursK n tickets to the \ irginia springs ml various summer resoits will be on sa c in N w Orleans, Mobile, Montgomery. (0- 1 mill .is, Mac >n, Savannah, Augusta and At lanta, at gieatly reduced rates, first ot Pa ties desi ing a whole car through to he A irginia Sorings or Baltimore, should y.ldriss the un lorsigned. . Pa ties contemplating travel should sene fa- ,1 copy of the Kenncsaw Route Gazette, finta ning schedules, etc. Bsr , Ask for Tickets Ha “Kenncsaw i oute ” B. W. WRENN, G. P. & T. A., Atlanta, Ga. Home Ha t trod <1- Sch erf ale. AN and AFTER MARCH Ist, the evening U train (except Saturday evening), on this mail will be discontinued. The trains will inn as follows : MORNING TRAIN- Le,r,\.. Pome dailj at 7:00 a. m. Return to Rome at 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. It. R- train North and South, and at Kingston with W. & It. R train South and East. C. M. PENNINGTON, C-en’l Sup’t. TNO. E. STILLWELL, Ticket Agent. ( AMP, GLOVEIt & CO., Wliolesale And Retail Dealers in SSI LOGOS, CLOTHING,BOOTS, Slides, Hats, &e t ‘a;st !Stock and Bottom Prices *3) St. Rome, (Ll. are nowreeiving the largestand best stock mt) hy Vt . ever opened. CALHOUN TIMES. Two Dollars a Year. VOL. VII. The Cheapest in the World. PETERSON’S MAGAZINE. GREAT REDUCTIONS TO CLUBS. Postage Prepaid to Mail Subscribers. Pktemison’s Magazine has the best Orig inal Stories of any of the lady’s books, the best colored fashion plates, the best receipts, the hest steel engravings, &c., &c. Eveiy fanr.ly ought to take it. It gives more for tho money than any in the world. It will contain next year, in its twelve numbers— One Thousand Pages , Fourteen Splendid Plates , Ticelve Colored Berlin Patterns. 7 icelve Mammoth Colored Fashions , Nine Hundred Wood Cuts , Twenty'■four Pages of Music It will also give Five Origii al Copyright Novelettes , by Airs. Ann S. Stephens, Frank- Lee Bei edict, Mrs. Frances Hodgson Bur net, Marietta Holley, and Lucy 11. Hooper Also, nearly a hundred shorter stories, allt original, by the best authors of Americ .. — 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) $2 00 A YEAR, ) With a copy of th- T Copies for $3 60 | premium picture (27 f 20) ’‘Cornwallis’s Sum 3 “ 4< 480 r render ”a five dollar en- I graving, to the person J getting up the club. | With an extra copy of 4 Copies for SOSO j the magazine for 1877, [as a premium, to the 5 “ “ $8 00 | person getting up the j club 'I With both an extra 6 Co-pies for SO 60 I copy of the magazine I for 1877, and the pre -7 “ “ 1100 [ miura picture, a five | dollar engraving, o 9 “ “ 13 50 | the person getting up j the club Address, post-paid, CHARLES J, PETERSON, ' (Mi ( hestuut St., Philadelphia, Pa. ft r , Specimens sent gratis, if written P V. JOB PRINTING ! r E are costantly adding new material OUR JOB DEPARTMENT and increasing our facilities for th execu tion of dob Printing of all kinds. We ai? now prepared to print, in neat style on sltov notice, CARDS, LEGAL BLAN.XS, CHUT LARS, BLANK NOTES BILLHEADS, BLANK RECEIPTS. LETTER HEADS, ENVELOPES, TICKETS, LABELS, POSTERS. PAMPHLET &c., iic. We guarantee satisfaction. Don't sen-* your orders away to have them filled, whet you have an establishment at home that w i" execute work neatly, and at AT EXCEEDINGLY LOW PRICES goodfortune Waits on all who purchase tickets in the Grand Extra Drawing, Monday, December 4, 1876, LOUISIANA STATE LOTTERY CO. This institution was regularly incorpora ted by the Legislature of the Mate for Ed ucational purposes in 1868, with a capital of §l,ooo,oo‘*, to which it has since added a reserve fund of $620,000. Its Grand Single Number Drawings will take place monthly. The season of 18<b closes with the following scheme : CAPITA!- PRIZE, 830.000. Only 20,000 Tickets at S2O each. Fractions in proportion. LIST OF PRIZES. 1 Capital Prize s'>o,ooo 1 Capital Prize 20,000 1 Capital Prize. 10,000 10 Prizes at 1.000 10,000 25 Prizes at 500 12,500 100 IVzes at 600 60,000 200 Prizes at 100 40,000 500 Pv zes at 100 00.000 2,000 Prizes at 20 40,000 APPKOXIMaTION PRIZES. 9 Approximation Prizes of S6OO, 2 709 9 Approximation Prizes f 200, 1,800 9 Approximation Prizes of 100, 900 2,865 Prizes amounting to $268,900 Write for circulars or send orders to B. FERNANDEZ, Savannah, Ga ; CM VS. T. 110tVARD, New Oil ans, la. The first regular quarterly dollar drawing will take place on January 2, 1877. Tickets $1 each. Capital Pi ize $15,000. [nolS’lm. W. R. Rankin. J- A. Cray TANARUS) AN K N A GRAY, ATTORNEY AT LAW. Calhoun, Ga IfeiF" Prompt dttetittoil paid to collections. Office up stairs in the Young Building. sepl6-6ui A (VF NTT3 Cur I‘O'ge life-like Steel * gravinfis of the Presidential Candidates sell lapidly.-- make • Send for circular. N. 1. Engraving Cos., 65 Wall S<., $lB A DAY. | Box 6266, N. V. [sopO-81. CALHOUN, GA., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 9.1876. Mr. Smith’s Boy . A family named Smith has recently moved to Germantown, and Mr. Brown’s boy, on Saturday, Laned over the fence and gave to our reporter his impressions of Mr. Smith’s boy, a lad about nine years old : “Yts, me and him are right well acquainted-now j he knows more’n I do, and he’s had more experience. Bill says his father used to be a robber (Smith, by the way, is a deacon in the Presbyterian church, n nd a very excel, lent lawyer,) and that he has $10,000,- 000 in gold buried in his cellar along with a whole lot of human bones, peo ple he’s k lied. And he says his father is a conjurer, andgtbat he makes all the earthquakes that happen anywhere in the world. The old man come home at night, after there’s been an earthquake, all covered with sweat, and so tired he kin hardly stand ; Bill says it’s such hard work. “ And Bill told me that onco when a man came around there trying to se‘l lightning rods his father got mad and et hiui,et him right up, and h takes os bites out everybody he comes acrost “ That’s what Bill tells me. That’s all I know about it. And he tole me that once he used to have a dog, one of these little kind of dogs, and he was flying his kite, and just for fun he tied the kite string onto the dog’s tail And then the wind struck her and his dog went a boomin’ down the street, with his hind legs in the air for about u mile, wnen the kite all of a sudden begun to go up, and in about a minute the dog was fifteen miles high, and com* manding a view of Ca.ifornia and Egypt, and Oshkosh, I think Bill said. He came down anyhow, I know in Brazil, and Bill said he swum home ail the way in the Atlantic ocean, and when he landed his legs was all nibbled off by sharks. I wish f <ther and buy me a dog, so’s 1 could send bin. up that way. But 1 never have no luck. Bill said that where they used to live he went out on the roof one day to fly his kite, and he sat on the top of the chimbly to give her plenty of room, and while he was sitting there thinking about nothing the old man put a kag of powder down be low in the fire*place to clean the soot out of the chimbly. And when lie touched her off Bill was b’owid over agin the Baptist church steeple, and he landed on the weatrer cock, with his pants torn, and they couldn’t git him down fir three days, so he hung there, going round and ruuitd with the wind, aui he lived by eating the crows that earne and sat on him, because they thought he was made of sheet iron and put up there-on purpose. “ lie’s had more fun than enough. — He was telling me the other day about a sausage stutter his brother invented. It was a kinder machine that wo.ked with a treadle, and Bill said the way they did in the fall was to fix it on the h.g’s back and connect the treadle with a string, and the liog’d work the treadle and keep on running it up and down until the machine cut the hog up flue and shoved th<* meat into the skins.— Bill said his brother called it “Every Hog His Own Stufler,” and it worked splenuid But I do’ know ’Pears to me’s if there couldn’t be no machine like that. But, anyway, Bill said so. “ And he told me about an uncle ol’ his in Australia who was et by a big oyster once, and when he got inside he staid there until he’d et the oyster. — Then he split the shells open and took half a one for a boat, and he sailed along till lie met a sea serpent, anu he killed it and drawed off its skin, and when he got home he sold it to an en. gine company fir a hose for $40,000 to put out fires with. Bill said that was actii..lly so, because lie could show me a man who used to belong to the engine company. I wish father’d let me go >,ut to find a sea serpent like that; but he don’t let uic have no chance to distin guish myself. “ Bill was saying only yesterday that the Indians caught him once and drove eleven railroad spikes through his stom ach, and cut oft his scalp, and it never hurt him a bit. He said he got away by the daughter of a chief sneaking him out of the wigwam and lending him a horse. Bill says s'ue was in love with him, and when 1 asked him t let me see the holes where they drove in them spikes, he said he darsen’t take ofl his clothes or he’d ble' and to death. He said his own father didn’t know it because Bill was afraid it would worry the old man. “And Bill told re they wasn’t going to get him to go to Sunday school— lie says his faner has a brass idol that he keeps in the garret, an i Bill says he’s made up his uii* and to be a pagan, and begin to go naked, and carry a tom ahawk and a biff and arrow. And to prove it to me he says his father hi s this town al* underlaid with nitro glycerine, and as soon as he gets leady lie’s g'-ing to blow the old thing out, and bust her up let her rip and demol ish her H said so down at the dam and told me not to tell anybody, but I thought they’d be no harm in mention ing it to you. “ And now I believe 1 must be going. I hear Bill a whistling. Y'aybe lie’s i*ot something else to tell uie The Smith boy, we think, will he profitable to tlu community. Ad ele. It might be supposed that lager was getting scarce in New York, when the project is broached of tapping Lake Ona tario, and building an acqueduct from the lake to the city, in order to secure a rood supply of water. Truth Conquers All Things.” The Orator aud the Writer. Mr. Sumner once del vered a speech at the Cooper Institute, which the nu.. dience had in their hands. And Mr. Emersoo, always charry of his manu script, when he expressed reluctance to it a rep irter look over his lecture to make an abstract/vas amazed when told it would be a most attractive advertise, uieot. If oratory were only the com uiunication of information or the state ment of an arguments he representation of facts or the recapitulation of statis tics, the newspapers would soon dispose of the orator. But al! this is but au el enient, a material, of oratory Nor is it ou!v a rhetorical,Mr pass ouate or picturesque appeal. But it is all these penetrated aud glowing with the power of living speech. It is what is called magnetism,fascination,nameles- delight. Nothing Is harder to convey in des cription or in the very words thun elo quence, which is *be name for the deep est charm in speech Where it lies is no 4 - to be said. It is the most elusive of secrets It is the spell of the magi cian, but is not in the wand nor in the words. It is not the voice,the mien, the movement the tone, although it may seem to bo iu all it is tne song of the cuckoo— That cry, Which made me look a thousand ways, Iu bush, anu tree, aLd sky.” Jefferson s-id he listened enchanted Patrick Henry but lie could not remeui ber what he said. lie might as well have tried to reproduce the music ol the wind harp It was Charles Fox. if we remember correctly, who said to •he young man who told him that be heard a most eloquent speech from Burke, and could repeat every word of it.“li was n t very < loqueut if vou could remember the words.” ELquen eis the toue ot the picture, rhythm of the uiusic. A shrewd observer said that he always remarked a peculiar cadence in speech ; and is it non unusual foi elu queuce to leave the hearer spiritualy ele vatid in a manner for which the words do not acc uiit Until men become in sensible to this power,the newspaper wiii not supercede the orator, nor the " cum paign document” the stump speaker— Editor's East/ Chair, in Papers Muga* zine for December. The Pursuit of Happiness In- TEKEEhKED With.— Burnev O’To >le and Patrick Moran stood before the bar of the Fifty-seventh street police court Barney had a black eye and a damaged nose. B rney delivered a plain, unvu: uislied tale : Yer Honor, J was all on account ov theeliction Fat he said that Hayes wuz elected,and I said Tilden wuz dieted “Tuin sez Pat, aggravatin’ iuike : “Hooray for Hayes !” “Hooray fer Tilden,” sez I. “ A er uiistakiu’ iniirely,’ sez Pat. “ *Yer one yerself,’ sex i. “Whoop ! sez I > at “Hooray !’ sez 1. “And thereupon we agreed to settle it loike gintlcuian an’ decide the elec tion at wunst. i had g>t one in oo Pat’s nose,and Pat had landed firnenst my eye. and everything wuz illigiut, and J’i 1 den's prospects wor nivver brighter, v hiu a polaceman came interferein loike. an’ now there’s no telhn’ who would liev bin elected at all.” and Barney and Pat rick stepped down,, murmuring against armed interference of the law 7 . — N. Y. World. What are They '. Life —A gleam of light extinguished by the grave. Fame—A meteor dazzling with its distant glare Wealth —A source of trouble and consuming care. Pleasure —A gleam of sunshine soon passing away. Love —A morning beam whose mem ory gilds tlie day. Faith —An anchor dropped beyoud the v&le of death. Charity —A stream meandering from the fount of love. Bible —A guide to realms of endless joys above. Religion—A key which onens wide the gates of Heaven. Death—A knife by which the ties of earth are river. Earth —A desert through which the pilgrims wend their wav. Grave A home of re t ‘vhore ends life’s weary way. Resurrection A sudden waking from a quiet dr am Heaven—A land of jov, of light and love supi erne. How to get Along. Don’t stop to teil stories in •business hours. If you have a place of bu-incss, he found there when wanted. No man can get lieh setting around stores and saloons. Never “ fool iu busines: mattes. Have order, system, regularity, and also promptness. Do not meddle with business you know nothing of. Do not kick every person that is in your path. More miles can he made in a day by gnintr steadily along than by stopping. Pav as you go. A man of honor respects his word as he does his bond. Help others when you can. but never give what you cmnot afford to, simply because it is fashionable. L; am to say no. N necessity of snapping it out dog-fashion, hut say it firmly and respectively. U-e your brains, r**/ er than those of others. Learn to thirrk and act for yourself. Keep ahead rather than behind the tim s The Troops. The people of the U ited States have become fearfully familiar with troops sent about the country to overawe and supervise and back up villi- ns and vil lainies in the Southern States. It was the appeaiance of these troops insubju gated States that inspired ihe crnce with which the North beheld the usurpation of the power to send them t ere. The gross character of the usurpa tion has been aggravated by recent meas ure of the administration; but, still.the outrage has been confined to the South. So still we ha-e the events of the South discussed wit-i reference to the questions of fraud and of fact, irrespec" live of the presence of troops overlook ing the civil proceedings in the “ poor South. ” In the opinions and accord ing to the principles of the fathers of 1776 the very presence of troi ps was sufficient to vitiate civil proceedings— proceedings supervised by those troops No returns of votes for President-cast in the presence of tnv ps, or counted under military supervisions, would have been received by the Congress in joint session before the war. The election for Con gress,held under military c ntrol.or un der the overaweiog influence of military power would have been considered in* valid. A Virginia Governor at any time before the war would have declar ed an election in which the military so interfered void. War and peace cannot exist together 8o will this country learn.we fear—sad ly learn—far too soon.— Richmond Dis< (pitch. Golfieii Saudis. No liberal man can impute a charge of unsteadiness to another lor changing his opinion— Cicero. Philosophy abounds more than phi losophers, and learning more than learn ed men—l 4. B C/ulow. We are so desirous of vengeance that people often offend us by not giving of lenses. — Madame Deluzg. We must always think our opinions are right, but not think our opinions are right always Whatcley. Poetry is most just to its divine ori ginuhen it administers the comforts and breaths the thoughts of religion. — Wordsicorth A drainless renown of light is poesy ; it L the supreme of power ; the night half sluuibering on its owu right arm. — Keats. We have uore power than will; and it is i fien by way of excuse to ourselves that we fancy things are imposib'e.— Rechefoucauld. Power is s> characteristically calm that calmness in itself has the aspect of power, and f’ roeirance implies strength. -—Bulicer Lj/tion. Tlie greater part of men have an opinion of their own, well reflected and founded upon reason.— Seume. Not to be abfi to Dear poverty is a shameful thing, but not to know how to chase it away by work is a more shame ful tiling— Pericles. Boggs and the Hornets. Old man Boggs Wished to make some slight reprirs on ifie tp of his residence near v ineinuati, aud for this purpose had occasion to rear up a few shingles. In doing so in a quiet and inoffensive manner.he was astonished to find be had disturbed a hornets’ nest. The hornets swarmed out upon Mr Boggs. They mode it hot for him at the very firot out set He rushed to the gadder, attack ed from behind,when, horror of horrois a neighbor had borrowed his ladder ! Mr. Boggs cavorted, he rol'ed, from one end to the other, se earning as he went, *• ladder, ladder ? The hornets eontiu u ill increased ; they flew at h's nose, his ea s, his checks ! he danced on his forehead ; they crawled down his back; they flew up his breeches leg; they met hull wy and fought each other; they stung hero and there and >vciywhere. B"ggs’ wild gesticulations and terrific shouts attracted the attenliun of the whole neighborhood. His friends mis touk the shouts of “Ladder ! "Home's !” lor“Tiid n and Hendiieks/'and thought lie was ratifying, but so much serious ness was deuictnd on his f ice that a lad dei WoS fiiiaily procured arid a rescue effected. Mr. Boggs is laid up for re pairs now, aud Ins face looks like the newspaper pictures of a defeated prize fighter. San Francisco Call. Slow Sure. —The danger of early et jiuenee baa been extended by some, even to the gifts ol nature ; and an opinion lies b’“en 'ong ceuceived that quickness of invention, accuracy of judguie.it or extent of knowledge, ap pearing before the usual time presages a short life. Even those who are less inclined to form instances which by their own nature must be rare, have yet been inclined t> prognosticate no suita* able progress from the bust sallies ot rapid wits ; but h ;Ve observed, that af ter a short effort they either loiter or faint, and suffer themselves t., be sur prised by the eveu and regular per suverance of slower ur.de;standings. The evening of every man’s life will aoou be spent. The suu, though it may . e up in uiidsheaveo, will pass swiftly down the western sky and disappear. — What shall ligh up inan'ff path when the sun of life has gone down? He must tr vel on to the next world; but what will illumine his footsteps alter the nightfall of death amid the dirk tress of his journey. In Advance. JeMh Billinas tinide to ftleallti. Nover run in det, not if you cm find ennything else to run into. Be honest if yu kan ; if yu kan’t be honest, pray for help. Be kind to your mother-in-law, aid if necessarry pay her board at some good hotel. Bath tboroly wunce a week in soft water and kasteel soap and avoid tUe bools Exercise in the open air, but don’t saw wood until you are obliged to. Laff every time yu feel tickled, and laff once in a while anyhow. Eat hash wash in days and be thank ful. ev< n if you have to shut your eyes to do it. Hold the baby haff the time, and al ways start the fire in the morning and put on the tea kettle. Dor’t jaw back—it only proves that yu are as big a phool as the other phel 10. Never borrow thatyu are able to buy. and always have sum things yu won’t lend. Never git in a hurry ; yu can walk a good deal further in a day than vu kan run. Don't swear, it may convince you. but it is sure not to convince others. It yu have daughters, let your w ife bring them up; it she has got common sense she can beat all your theoiy. Duu’t drink too much nu cider and however mean you may be don’t abuse a cow. Luv and respect your wife ennyhosv ; it is a good deal cheaper than to be all the time wishing she was some how dif ferent. Don’t phool with spiritualism ; it is like being a moderate drinker, sure to beat yu at last. Don't have enny rules for long life thatyu wo *’t break ; be prepared to day t die to..morrow r , is the best kneed for long life that I kno ov. Keep your bed cowl and your feet dri, and brathe through yo ir uoze us often as y u kan. A Boy’s Opinion oi Parents. Parents were born to be a great troub le to their offspring. When I wes ever so little 1 remember l tried to hang up the kitten by my whip !ash, and mother took the kitten away, boxed my ears, and went next day. So she had all the fun herself. And father's worse than mother, tie told me to take care of the pennies and the dollars would take care of themselves,so I and Ben Smith farm ed an anti swearing club. We had a rule that forever, profane word we used we would pay a cent into the treasury. We had 75 cents in the first day, but when we divided and I fttched oTicts. home, father was a bad business, whipped me, and broke the club up. — How is a fellow to know when he is do ing right ? If I had no parents to hou~d me around I’d beat George Washington all holler, for I’d cut down every cherry tree in the garden, and own it, too, If I was an orphan l kn 'W what I’d do. Ben Smith and me would go to a des olate South Sea Island and stir up the and the monkeys r.nd things, fry toad stools,eat orangis a spell,then we’ll make a ship and sail around the world. W hat's the use of drying up in one place. I told mother one day, when she would not give me ten cents, that I meant to go whaling and I hoped a whale would swallow me as one did Jonah, and then she wou'dn’t never see me again for I couldn’t swim. She said 1 wouldn’t be likely to make such a visit,"for I would turn the whale’s sto each mighty quick after 1 got there Wasn’t she bully? If I were a r arent I know what I’d do l’d keep still and mind my own bus iness,and iet my children have some fun There's Torn Getts who lives with his aunt and has a bully time. He goes wood chucking on Sundays, has no best clothes, cfawls under the canvass of every circus lent, earns mon ey at every theatre, sleeps in the stable when he likes, and always has I is pres ets full of peanut*. He says he would not be, bothered wih parents if he coulu have ’em for nothing, and he thinks*if l hadn’t any it would be money in my pocket. Them’s my sentiments. Fro mining People. Promising people are those who prom ise ami never perform—who promise to do something for you the next day, but the next day they are as tar from yo x as they were un the one previous. They get in the b .bit of promising, ami promise to do things they never have any idea rf fulfilling. You sell Mr. C your best horse and are . ot paid for it, but get the promise of him tu pay you in a lew days; and so on from one day to anuther you are kept waiting while he is taking things as cool as a eucum fer,and maybe never intends to pay you otby in promises. We think if every one were pad in accordance to assurances they reeeivu from prominent people.they would be paid ten times over. iSome ol your friends tell you to Buy at home on such a time for they are corn iug to \ isi you ; you stay i hat day and a dt.xen oth ers but your visitor nev r eouies. \Ye think if every one would . fulfill their prorni cs, they would be respected ahd tru-ted. Per aps some will sty it is Dot iu their power to luifiil all their prorni. se, but w wonder why the” promise anything they can never perform. Does not every oue know some such ptople ? Do you put any trust in them '(. Can you alter being promised and disappoint ed so many times : We answer as we know you wo-uld- No. NoW is the winter of our disconteut. ADVERTISEMKXTS. dvertiserni'iilH will be cl; i ged at rate of One per fur flit first insertion, and fifty cents for chcli subse quent insertion. Ten lines of this type make a square. Local notices, fifteen cents per lino for the first inseition, and ten cents for each sub sequent iflssrtion. Special codtritct? will be made wi.h j.u lies lesiring to advertise legulariy. Bills for advertising are due any tiu.o after first insertion, unless dtfiefwise nr ged by coat ract. NO. 16. A Foolhardy Bau Cock to Sleep with a Boa-Constrictor, Sam Johnson of this city, formerly Deputy Constable, came very near losing hi life, and if he had there would have been a general expression of opinion that he tempted Ins fate by an exhi bition of of singular fool ha diness and a strange contempt of the most oiditm ry prudence. For some tim Johnson lad Ihe care of an immense snake of the boa. const! ictor species r J his sweet boon was left in Johnson’s charge by the proprietor of one of ihc side-shows that was with Howe’s circus on its last visit to this place. The snake had bin n sick, and feating that it v ou!d die if it was carried about from place to place, its owner made an arrangement with Johnson to take care of it until such time as it should be scut for again appear in the exhibition. Ram has paid all uceded attention to his snakosliip, and the hnge boa lias quite recovered trom h s illnesi under Ois consiuci 'to and careful attention. Johnson hat tried to establish friendly relations with the snake, and fluttered himself th i he had succeeded very well. Two ov ihro • nights ago, when the weather turned o suddenly and sevoiely cold, Jo] ih'u found that the boa was benumbed vdii cold and apparently half’dead. With a strange disregard of consequences, ' took thujhaif froi*u snake trom its box and placed it in his own warm find.from which he had risen. He then returned to bed, intending when the suako should revive from its chilled and benumed' condition to replace it in its box. In lortunaUly Johnson fell into a doze, and then in.o a deep sleep From his sound slumber he awakened by a horri ble sense of suffocation about his chest. He awoke to fiud himself in the terru ble coils of the boa constrictor, who had been warmed to life and fury in John son s bed. The unfortunate man coor prehended in an instant his fearful dan ger. Great drops of sweat starred to his brew as in an agony of horror he realized the nature of his peri'. With ihe energy of despair he grasped the snake with both hands, and, with almost superhuman strength, and in a manner he can scarcely recall, succeeded atlas f in uncoiling it- hateful folds from his body, dragged the struggling baa to its box, and safely secured it in its olu quarters. A severe nervous attack suc ceed the fright fad horror the strange combats had occasioned,and not another wink did he sleep that night. IJe can congratulate himself that he escaped so easily, and that senseless temerity did not receive the fatal punishment it :n vited —Kansas City Mail. Ogresaud Fiends In China. Missionaries have not evidently triven exaggerated accounts of the credulity of the degrhdation of the Chi nese character. Soochow and other communties are now para lyzed with ter ror over cats rats, paper figures and ogres of all kinds, and the Chinaman is a haunted being. Even in Shanghai superstition is widespread. About the middle of September a respectable na tive was aroused by a great outcry in s, house only two doors Irani his own, in side the north gate of the city. Fou young men were sleeping in one room, and about two or three o’clock the door suddenly opened, and in glided a gigar tic figure, in human form, with a small head and enormous hands. It advanced with swift and stealthy, steps to the bed of one of the yo ng men and assaulted him most brutally, clawing his body with its great paws until the flesh was reduced to a jelly. His comrad-s s’art* ed up simultaneously to p.otect their companion, but the mysterious figun stalked out of the door as silently as it had entered, leaving the victim helpless and bleeding. The worthy comprad uc. who was summoned to the house, found the wounded man in a precarious condi tion. There was not the slightest doubt about the aggravated nature of hi wounds, although there was ample ground fbr skepticism core ruing their 1 supernatural origin. Incidents like tE*s have caused intense excitement among ihe lower classes.- London Erx. Tobacco Smoking.—The effects of t >bacco smoking, as described by tbr Scientific Auierin are, discoloring of the teeth by carbon, excitement of ti e saliva p y glur.Js uy the auiaicnia, head ache and lassitude from the cub-onie ac id, diseases of the heart from the car bonic oxide, nausea from the bitter ex tract, and a tainting of tho breath bv the voluble cmpyreuma'ic substance.— She system may become used to these things, yet it is made liable to con sumption, nervous exhaustion, paralysis and aitmenfs. “Effects on individuals likewise affect communities, these iu turn inflceuce tlie nati n. No person that smokes can be in perfect health, and an imperfect organism cannot re - produce a perfect one. Theiefbre it > logical to conclude that, were smoking the practice of every individual of * nation, then that people would degene rate into a physically inferior race." There is a story of an English tonri * who entered a restauruut, and by t few scraps of French was able to order dinner. He wished some mushroom- - very delicious and large Not knowing the nome he demanded a sheet of paper and pencil to sketch one. The waiter understood him in a a second, disap* pcared fur ten minutes, and retuened with i* splendid—uub rella ! An Indiana girl raised 930 pud . is of tobaccu on a. quarter of an aero.