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rrliE TIMES. I), il FREEMAN, Proprietor. CIRCULATES EXTENSIVELY IN ({onion and Adjoining Counties. yf-„e: Wall St., Southwest of Court House. RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION. rf>e Year $2.00 fix Months 1.00 Astern & Atlantic Railroad and its connections. .. KENXESA W KOVTE.” The following takes effect may 28d, 1875 NORTHWARD. No. 1. Leave Atlanta 4.10 p m \rrive Cartersville 6.14 ‘ .< Kingston 6.42 “ Dalton £.24 “ i Chattanooga 10.25 “ No. 3 Leave Atlanta 7.00 a.m (rrive Cartersviile 9.22 ~ • • Kingston •••• 9.50 • <i Dalton 11-54 “ Chattanooga 1.50 p.m No. 11. Leave Atlanta 6,30 p.m ArrWc Cartersville 7.19 •• . .< Kingston , Dalton tt H.lB “ SOUTHWARD. No. 2. pnvo Chattanooga 4.00 p.m Drive Dalton.; 5.41 u Kingston Cartersville 8.12 “ Atlanta iO.To “ No. 4. I, .-vc Chattanooga 5.00 a.m ; ive Dalton <.Ol '* a Kingston 9.0', ‘ “ Cartersville 9.42 “ Atlanta 12 06 •’.u No. 19. , e Dalton 1.00 a.m 1 Kingston 4.19 *• irtersviUe 6.18 “ Atlanta 9.20 “ - t an Da lace Cars run o Nos. 1 and 2 , . , Kew Orleans and D Vtimore. ; I:man Palace Cars run Nos. 1 and 4 et eon Atlanta and NasliviUe. j ,11m m Palace Cars run on Nos. 2 arid 3 jtwcet Louisville and Atlanta. No change of cars between New Or jears, A >bile, Montgomery, Atlanta and Hal more, and only one change to New Yord. l’i -mg >rs leaving .Atlanta at 4 10 p. m., : rrisc in New York the second afternoon t'acr after at 4.00. ;; ursun tickets to the Virginia springs and various summer resorts will be on sale in N w Orleans, Mobile, Montgomery, Co hunhis, Mac an, Savannah, Augusta and At lanta. at gieatly reduced rates, first of June e Parties desiring a whole car through to 'c A irgima Snrin<rs or Baltimore, should address the un Icrsigncd. p ;! ties contemplating travel should send fir a copy of the Kennesaw Route Gazette, eanta ning schedules, etc. j. and , Ask for Tickets va “ Kennesaw B. W. WRENN, o. p. & T. A., Atlanta, Ga. /,v> )t > 1 Jta ilroad--SchciJ tile. AN \M vFTER M VRCtI Ist. the evening \ J >•; ac *>t Saturday evening), on t!#* v -.d c. il b.* discontinue'l. The trains will run as follows : MORNING -TvAIN TANARUS, ‘s Rome duilj at 7:00 a. m. U tun to Rome at 12 in. SATORPAY ACCOMMODATION. Leaves Home (Saturday only) at 5:4-> p. m lh'turu to Romeat 9:00 p. in. The evening train at Romo, will make ch.-c connection with 8. R- & D. L. K. train North and Mmth. and at Kingston with W. N A. l> R train South and East. C. M. PENNINGTON, Cen’l Sup’t, JNO. E. STILLWELL, Tic Let Agent. ( AMI 7 DLOYEIt & CO., ■Wlioleeale And Retail Dealers in DDY GOODS, CLOT^G,BOOTS, Shoes , Hats, &c % Best Stock and Bottom Prices 15* >ll v.., il ) u), (in. are nowreeiving the largcstanl best stock ay 1 ave ever opened. THE SUN. " 1877. MEW YORK. 1877. The different editions of The Sun during the next year will be the same us during the year that has just passed. The daily edition will on week days be a sheet off. ur page. . and on Sundays a sheet ot eight papor 50 broad columns; while the • eekly edition will be a sheet of eight 1 of the same dimensions and charac ter that are already familiar to our friends. ..e Si n will continue to be the strenu ous advocate of reform and retrenchment, .id of the substitution of statesmanship, ' h n>, and integrity for hollow pretence. ■H-cility, and fraud in the administration : {uYiio affairs. I: Will contend for the govrininent of the people by the people and for the people, as opposed to government by fraud in the l allot-box and in the couni iug of votes, enforced by military violence, j It will endeavor to supply its readers—a j body not far from a million of souls —w th i the most careful, complete, and trustv. mtliy j account l of current events, and will employ j for this purpose a numerous and car< ally j fleeted strff of reporters and correspond- ! ents f‘s reports 1 >ia Washington, espe- | dally, will be full, accurate, and fearless; j and it will doubtless continue to deser\e : and enjoy the hatred of those who thrive j hy plundering the Treasury or by usurping j what the law does not give them, v hile it : will endeavor to merit the confidence of the j public by defending the rights of the peo- I pie against the encroachments of unjusti fied power. The price of the daily Sun will be 65 cents a month or §0,50 a year, post paid, if witl the Sunday edition, §7,70 a year. The Sunday edition alouc, eight pages, $1.20 a year, post paid. The Weekly Sun, eight pages of 56 broad • columns, will be furnish.d during 1877 at j the rate of $1 ye .r, post paid. The bench: < t this large reduction from ’ a previous rue for the Weekly can be j enjoyed by • lividual subscribers without j the neces.-by of making up clubs. At the same time, it any of our friends choose to j aid in extending our circulation, we shall he grateful to them, aiul every such person who sends us ten or move subscribers from one place will be entitled to one copy of the paper tor himself without charge. A’ one dollar a year, postage paid, the expenses ot printing are barely repaid , and, consider ing the size Of the s_eet and the quality of its contents, we are confident the people will consldcthe Weekly Kun the cheapest newspaper published in the ‘world, and we trust also one of tL e very best. Address, THE SUN, New York City, N Y. dee9-ot. CALHOUN TIMES. Two Dollars a Year. VOL. VII. JOB PIMNTINC l l W E „ are costantly adding new material OUR JOB DEPARTMENT <tml increasing our facilities for th cxocu tion of Job Printing of all kinds. We art now prepared to print, in neat style on sh or notice, CARDS, LEGAL BLANKS, CIRCULARS, BLANK NOTES BILLHEADS, BLANK RECEIPTS, LETTER HEADS, ENVELOPES, TICKETS, LABELS, POSTERS, PAMPHLET &c., &c. We guarantee satisfaction. Don’t sem* your orders away to have them filled, when you have an establishment at home that wiF execute work neatly, and at AT EXCEEDINGLY LOW PRICES GOOD FORTUNE Waits on all who purchase tickets in the Grand Extra Drawing, Monday, December 4. 1876. LOUISIANA STATE LOTTERY CO. 'l ids institution was regularly incorpora ted by the Legislature of the State for Ed ucational purposes in 1868, with a capital of §l,ooo,oo*', to which it has since added a reserve fund of $320,000. Its 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 PRIZES. 1 Capital Prize $50,000 1 Capital Prize 20,('00 1 Capital Prize 1(1,000 10 Prizes at 1,000 10,000 25 Prizes at 500 12,500 100 Prizes at 300 30,000 200 Prizes at 100 40,000 500 Pr.zes at 100 50,000 2,000 Prizes at 20 40,000 APPROXIMATION PRIZES. . 9 Approximation Prizes ofs3oo, 2 709 9 Approximation Prizes of 20"", 1,800 9 Approximation Prizes of 100, 900 | 2,865 Prizes amounting to §268,900 Write for circulars or send orders to B. I FERNANDEZ Savannah, Ga ; CM VS. T. j IIO.VARD, New Orl ans, la. The first r<. gular quarterly dollar drawing ! will take place on January 2, 1877. Tickets I§l each. Capital Prize $15,000. [nolS'lm. ESTABLISHED IBSS. | GILMI >II E < ” O . „ Attorneys at Law, Successors to Chipman, Hosmer & Cos., 629 F. ST., WASHINGTON, D G. American ami Foreign Patents. Pr ten's procured in all cound ies. No ; FKKti in advance. No charge unless the ! patent is granted. No fee for making pre j liminarj examinations. No additional fees ; for obtaining and conducting a reliearine. Special attention given to lilt evferencg J cases before the PnOgpt Office, Extensions j before Congress, Ind suits in dif | ferent States, and all litigation appertnin ; ing to inventions or patents. Send stamp j for pamphlet of sixty pages. United State - ! Courts and Depart ments, Claims prosecuted in the Supreme dourt iof the United States, Court of Claims, j Court of Commissioners of Alabama Claims. ; Southern Claims Commission, and allclass j es of war claims before the Executive De ; partments. Arrears of Hay and Bounty. Officers, soldiers, and sailors of the late war or their heirs, are in many cases en i titled to money from the Government, of i which they have no knowledge. Write fulj | history of serice, and state amount of pay and bounty received. Enclose stamp, and a full reply, after examination, will be given you Lee. Pensions. | Ail officers, soldiers, and sailors wound ; ed ruptured, or injured in the late war, | however slightly, can obtain a pension, ' many now receiving pensions are entitled to an increase. St ml stamp and informa- I tion will be furnished free. United States General Land OfGce. Contested land cases, privat land claims, ining pre-emption and homestead ea.es, i. s. <*uied b 'fore the General Land Office d’ • j>,: :11 nt of the Interior. Old Bounty Land Warrants. The last report of the Commissioner of the General Land Office shows 2,807,500 of Bounty Land Warrants outstanding.— These were issued under act of 1855 an l prior acts. We pay cash for them. Send by registered letter. Where assignments are imperfect we give instructions to f r fect them. Each department of our business iu con ducted in a Beparate'bureau, under the charge of experienced lawyers and clerks. By reason of error oi fraud many attor neys are suspended from practice before the Pension and other offices each year.— Claimants whose attorneys 1 ' been thus suspended will be gratuitously furnished with full information anduropei papers on application to us. As we charge uo fees unless successful, stamps for return postage thould be sent us. Liberal arrangements made with attor neys in all branches of business Address GILMORE & CO., P 0. Box 44, Washington, 1). C. D ASBIXGTON, D. C., I take pleasure in expressing my entire confidence in the rcsf"isibili,y and juletity j of the Law, Pat , nt and Collection House of j Gilmore & Go., of this city. GEORGE IL B. WHITE, [Cashier of the Natioi c.l Metropolitan Bank.) l?re'-tf. _ __ j The Like was Never Ksown Before.-wg send the Cincinnati Weekly Star, a fine eight cage, forty-eight colnmn paper, independent in poli tic*, and brim full of good reading matter, for 00 ner year. It is the largest paper in the United States/or the money- Each subscriber will receive a copy of the beautiful engraving— “ TSIE POOR, THE POOH MAM’S FBIBND." Size, 24x31 inches : a picture that would grace any drawing room in the land. We also send to each subscriber a copy of the Star Illustrated Almanac., 25 Cts. extra must be sent for packing and mailing premiums. Jiaprfpecial inducements to agents. To any person desiring to get up aclub, we will send a sample copy of the picture and a canvassers outfit, on receipt or 25 cts. Specimen copy of the paper free. Sena for one before subscribing for any other. THE STAR, 230 Walnut St., Cincinnati, O. CALHOUN, GA., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 16.1876. WEIGHED IN THE BALANCE. BY ROANOKE. Lindley academy was in a blaze of excitement. Dr. Lind ey, the princi pal, had offered a prize to the pupil who at the end of the term should stand at the head of his elass, the award to be determined by a public competitive ex amination. The term had just com menced that morning, and when in “a neat little speech" the doctor had an nounced his intention of presenting a handsome gold watch to the “best boy,” every pupil in the room inwardly con eluded that he was to be the fortunate possessor,and fingers involuntarily found their way to watch fobs. Grouped beneath the spreading branches of a huge elm that towe’ed in one corner of the plav ground attached to the academy, ttood a knot of four youths who were eagerly discussing the doctor’s announcement of the morning. They were Albio Welles,Harold Fletch er, Will .Montgomery and Ned Ailes boys apparently sixteen or seventeen years of age, nice*looking, healthy and intelligent. The first three named were talking very earnestly, while Ailes, who stood apart from his companions, was carelessly switching his legs with a wil low wand, while he lazily watched the doctor s pet dog Fido chasing a butter fly over the grounds. “Well, Al,” exclaimed Ilal Fletcher, a tall, dark-eyed fellow, with black curly hair that rippled carelessly back from a broad, forehead; “I suppose you have made up your mind to wear the watch, haven't you ?” “Oh, indeed,” responded the other.— 'T haven’t given the subject a great deal of attention. I should’t have any objection to sporting it though I must say.” “Now there’s Ailet.he looks as if he mount business.” broke in Will Mont gomery. “Look at him, will you ? The trio turned to look at Ned, who had wandered off ad zeti yards to the assistance of Fido in capturing the but terfly. Montgomery’s remark recalled him, however. “How’s that Will?” he said ; “who’s business ?” “Will was saying,” answered Albin Welles, “That you looked as if you meant business, and intended to carry off the watch the doctar offered this morning.’, “0,” rejoined Ned, laughing, “W’ell I don’t know but I might enter the list ard contend with you for the possession of it, A l , though it would be a novelty, wouldn't it fellows ?” Everybody laughed ; for Ned, though naturally bright, had a decided aversion to books and had won the title of “Careless Ned,” from his disposition to dispense with study as an unnecessary requirement of the instition; though on, more occasions than one he had been called on to demonstrate some knotty geometrical theorem, or construe a dll - ficult line of the /EneH or Auabasis, which his uio'e studiuus classmates found inipossible to master. He made the remark jestingly and laughed hear tily at the idea of his contesting with Aibin Welles, who was the doctor’s special pride, beciuso of his studious habits and was verv generally regarded as the “head buy” of the school, Ned Ailes did not occupy a very high niche in the worthy doctor’s esteem, and of ten he had been sharply scolded for his careless end indo'ent propensities, but aparantly without effect. But now as the dayes wore on it be came evident that Ned had indee ' en tered the list for the possession of the duct als prize. While he yet c ung to his base ball and gymnastics, he em pjnyed many a spare hour in solid study, ami before many weeks had clasped } i'-o.n the day when the doctor bad ; made tr.e great annoucemcnt, it became apparent that Albin Welles was to have a strong competitor in the race. *'■ * * * * To morrow is exhioition day at the Lindley academy, and to-morrow will be known the issue of the heated con test for the gold watch. The struggle has been s: arp and earnest but it has also been thoroughly good natured.— At first the leaders in the race had hi u Albin Welles, Francis Blair, Eu gene Grayson, Harold Fletcher, Edgar Ailes. but as the weeks wore on Blair and Grayson fell behind, and it was ap> parent that Fletcher, too, was “out of the fight,” though he still held on pluckily. And now, on the “the day before,” it was admitted that the great contest would lie between Al Welles and Ned Ailes. Dr Lindley was in ec stacies over the great improvement that had been wrought in Ailes and he watched the sharp though friendly ri valry between him and \V dies with the most-pleasurable emotions. The doct; r, though he always exerted a sharp disci pline over the boys under his charge was fair and impart al and possessed a vein of dry humor which at times would set them in a roar. He conduct ed ti e religious services of the school and every .Sunday morning preached in the little chapel attached to the acide uay. On the day before the examination was to take place Ailes aou U elles stood on the pi zi talking oi the struggle to (v>uiO off on the niorrot/, and giving ex pression to their mutual hopes and tea!s. While they were thus engage the ctor npnroacktd, and after greeting the schoolmates, said, “Edgar, will you please run up into my study and get u.e my tp .'Clacks. I ldt them lying on my desk.” • Ned >parng to obey the reques* while •‘Truth Conquers All Things/’ Albin strolled off to join Will Mont gomery and liar dd Fletcher,*who came along arm in arm As Ned entered the study his eyes fell upon the doctor’s spectacles which lay upon the uesk, which lay upon the d“sk, but his glance took in something else. It is was a document neatly fold ed, and endorses o itside as the list of questions to be asked at to morrows ex animation, and as Ned reached for the spectacles he was agitated by a vi olent inward struggle. ,e had set his heart on achieving a victory over his ri val, and here now was the glorious op portunity ! But his generous uature revolted at the idea of taking an advantage in such a cowardly mantis’*, and as he averted his heai his eye fell upon another tftan uscript which the doctor had* likevnse * left exposed upon his desk. It was the ser on for next Sunday, and the first words Ned’s eyes encountered was the text wlish was written in astrong, bold hand at t le top of the paper, and which read as follows : “ Thou art weighed in the balance and found wauling.” In that' brief instant Ned’s battle with himself was decided In that moment he had been weighed in the balance and not found wanting. For he reso lutely turned on his heel and left the j study. Aud when he handed the doc tor bis spectacles his face fore no trace of the great struggle he had in the lit" tie room up-stairs, and from which lie had came out victorious. * * * * * sfs * What a jolly crowd of school boys it was marched into the big study-hall next mor< ing ! And whai, a very large crowd there was, too, to witness the examination ex ercises ! And what a very hot fire of questions the examiner poured into the company of boys, and how very soon the ranks began so grow beautifully less till at last the two rivals. Nod Ailes and Al Welles, were left standing alone, and tile struggle went on. Finally the examination was concluded, and af cr a great comparison of papers and great fluttering, the doctor from his little platform told the result of the fat tie And whe > he anuo inced that to Edgar Ailes the first prize- a gold watch had been awarded, what a tremendous cheer went up 1 And 'lie second—a silver watch —to Albin Welles, hew they all cheered again! And*ihe third prize—a gold pen and holder—to Harold Fletch er, another cheet ! And to Will Mont gomery and Frank Blair and Eugene Grayson —“ honorable mention ” —more cheers again ! And that evening when the little quartett again stood grouped beneath'he oid elm, and Ned and Al and Will and Hal shook hands all around how happy and thankful Ned Ailes felt that, he had been “ weighed in the balance,” and not found wanting, and had won the battle fairly and hon estly ! ——. —- Preparing Fowls tor Wintering, An article iu the Rural New Yorker, on the subject of preparing the poultry house for winter, contains the following suggestions : Examine the interior of the houses and see that they a*-e tight. If you expect a goodly stock of eggs from your fowls, you must keep there is no better wijy of doing this than by lining the house with strong paper. It is the cheapest lining, and if saturated’with a moderately strong solution of carbolic acid, will keep vermin at bay. Don’t say thet this is ‘ too much troable.”— So it is a trouble to bed the cattle and feed the stock, but you mus expect to take some trouble if you demand a pro* fit for them. Don’t begrudge trouble in the fowl house result will be - in the filling of the egg besket, and there is no portion of the farm that will pay a higher percentage of profit on the outlay of labor than the hen yards. If you have an old wiodowsash about the place, for which you have no special use, put an extra light in the southern or eastern end of the fowl house. It will be grateful to the fowls in winter, on coli da\s, when they will huddle together in the house to escape the biting winds. The sash will enable them to bask in the sunlight without going out of the bouse, and increas ed good health of the chictens will re pay your troub'e. Those who intend to house birds for the winter should let them run as much as possible now, while the grass i green. Don’t shut them up until the last mo.- merit, and they will so much the better bear the winter’s confinement. Lay in a st ck of dry dust from the road. Collect it with a road scraper and store it away in one corner of the barn, where it will remain dry, for win ter use. It will he invaluable for the fowls to dust in while the ground is fro zen, and will tend to keen them free from vermin. See that the few’s have, before dusk, a few landfills of while corn and a com Triable roost. Ifky ur fowls are to be kept iu health, they mu.-: not bo left all night with empty crop*, nor allowed to roust io exposed places. The plan of allowin 'a fowl-tho exqui-dcp priv- | iiege ( f ro 'Sting on a "rickety beam and j an empty crop” is anything but eco nomical. D > t have the roasts one ; above the other, or the birds v.ill be continually fighting for the high -st pl'ces Feed yonr fowls liberally, and they 1 vriil return it to you with inter --t Keep them cleanly arid disease wilt be j a rarity. House them comfortably and they will lay regularly. “ Regular | meals ” is the secret of the successful fancier. Mr. Warner Tries It. Mr. Warner, a respectable and law abiding citizen.of Baker street, rode home m an express wagon the other dav heaving a hand fire extinguisher and the driver for company. “ What’s that thing ? ' asked his wife in contemptuous tones as she opened the hall door “ What's that? Why that’s a fire extinguisher—best tiling you ever saw —meant to got one a year ago. ” “Jacob, you are always making a fool of yourself,” she continued as she shut the door “ Every patent right man gets around you as u cat lays for a mouse.” “Dv)es,eh ? If you know anything at all you’d know that eveiy store aud office ?n Detroit, has one o’ these. They’ve saved loti?of buildings, and may save ours.” “You throw it at the fire,don’t you?” she asked in sarcastic tones. Ho carried it up stairs into the clos et without replying, and she followed on and asked : “ Don’t it shoot a fire out ?” “If you don’t know any thing, I’ll learn you something. It is full of chem icals; you strike on this knob on top. and she’s all ready to open this faucet and play on the fire.” She grinned as she walked around it, aud finally asked : “Do you g:t a horse to draw it around ? •‘No I don’t get a horse to draw it around. You see those straps ? Well, I back up, put my arms through them, and here it is on my back ” “ I see it is,” she sneered. And can t L run co any part of the house wi*h it ?” he demanded. iSee see >?” And he cantered along the hall, into the bediooms and out, and was turning the head of the stairs, when his foot c.ught in the carpet. ilc threw up his arms and she grabbed at him, and both rolled down stiirs. Me yelled and she yelled. Sometimes he was ahead, and then she took the lead, and neither of them had passed under the “ string,” when the extinguishei, bumping aud j miming, began to shoot off its charge of chemicals. “You old !” she started to sa* T ANARUS, when a stream from the nose struck her between the eyes, and she didn't finish. •• W hat in otu.c-h ! ’ roared Mr. Y\ arner, as he got a dose in the ear i hey brought up in a heap at the bottom of the stairs, the stream playing into the parlor, against the hall door, and up stairs by turns, and she gasped : “ I'll have you sent r a fool asylum.” “ M hu’s a fool ?’ he roared, dancing around, with his eyes full of chemicals. “I’m fainting,” she squeaked. • “And I’ve broke my back,“he shout ed. It was a sad house when those two highly respectable oid people got so that they could use th ir eyes and discuss matters calmly. And she doubled up her fist, and hoarsely said : “ Take that investigator, or distin gu.sher, ot whatever you call it, back down town, and tell everybody that you are a lunatic.” And he said ; “ Dummit,! know more than all your family put together.” The Man Who Wovsift Read. “The man who doesn’t read is always pratling about how things used to be. He is a knowing fellow,lull of worn out truisms. He is a rich aud inexhausta ble mine for every sharper that travels on his wits, sel'ing poor clothes at high prices, or au expired patent right. The man who doesn’t read has a very large for “i vz fangled ways,”oud be„ iieves m Iks euildren getting along as he did, and boasts that he never went to school Dut two quarters. We like this sort of men, there ought to be one iu every community, just for the bene fit they ate as an example for parents who do believe they owe something to their families themselves, than to be i more brutal machines. The man? who : doesVt read usually has a mission—it ; is to grow c >rn and pork, and pay taxes ; or work through the week at his forge. His home is a place to eat and sleep,his life a round of drudgery, a struggle .or br ad and butter.” “ The man who doe? not read falls behind the age iu which he lives; drops into the narrow groove of his f ersoua observation,and he declares the progress around him to be departures from the virtues and goodness of by gone times. ! Every day has a superstitious sign,every I change of the moon, every sudden vuri ! ation in the weather, fids Luo with piophesy which bodes ever} body ill luck The man who does not read misjudges the common natural laws of matter, the easily explaiaed changes of vegetaoie and auimai life are subjects for super stitious dread and trouble. The grea progress ot the world in literature, sci ence and ar , the news of the day at home and abroad, arc blanks to the man who does not read.” Irate subscriber (excited and point ing to an objectable article.) —“ What does that mean ? Every statement is false. Editor ( azing reflectively at the avricle in question) —“ I shouldn’t wonder if the whole article was a typo graphical error.” Asa stern-wheel steamboat was pass ing up the Onio River the other day a little girl who was standing on the ho, tel stoop ran into the house to her mother, calling out : “ Mother, moth er, come aud see this steamboat—its gut a bustle on.” j In Idvnnre. The First Dollar. Many years ago a gentleman from the town of Mothune, Mas?., while on a visit to a prominent merchant in Boston was asked by the merchant if he knew a hoy in Methane that he could recommend to work in his store At first the gentleman eou’d think of no one. for he knew none but a faithful, honest boy would suit the thrifty mer chant At length, however he called to mind a boy of excellent character in his neighborhood, but feared he would hardly and ■>, as his parents were very poor, and he had no education rr other advantage to fit him lor such a p si* tion. But the description of the boy’> habits pleased the merchant so much that he handed the gentleman a dollar with which to pay the hoy’s fire to Boston by stage, and requested him t ) send the lad to the city, and if on a personal interview all should not nr. ve satisfactory he would pay his fare b ck home again. Tie gentleman, ns re quested. visited ‘lie boy’s parents, and. stating the merchant’s proposal advised them to send the Dov for trial. II > then gave him the dollar which was sent to pay his fare to Boston, and de parted Under similar circumstances ninety** nine out of every hundred boys would have said, “Now for a good time. 1 never saw a city and never rode in the stage. Oh, there will be so much to see, and it will be such a long ride, and here is money sent to p,.y my fare.” Not so with this boy. Putting the money carefully in his pocket he said to him self, “This is the first dollar I ever had. how I wish f could save it. It is only twenty-five miles to Boston. I can walk there in ad iv. I’ll doit and save my dollar. 11 is mother patched up his c'othes as well as she could, and catly next morn ing the little fellow parted with his pa rents at the door of iheir humble homo, and set out on h s long tramp to the great city, which ho reached, tired and dusty, a litt’e before sunset. He soon found the merchant, who sternly asked “ Where have you been all day ? The stage came in hours ago ” The boy thought he had displeased the merchant at the outset, and with downcast he‘d, and tremulous voice he answered, “l did not come on the stage, sir.” “Did not come on the stage ! What do you mean? Didn’t I send money to pay your fare? The bey thought it was all up with him sure, and amid gathering tears he managed to reply. “I am very sorry, sir—l did not mean to offend you I thought I would walk and save the dol lar. I never have had one before.” Placing his hand upon the boy's head the merchant replied, *' My little min you did exactly right. Come home with me and get some supper.” Then turn, ing to a bystanders he remarked, “ T wouldn t take a thousand dollar- for the boy to day.” The boy has grown to manhood and has since become widely known in bus iness circles He is now owner of the extensive mills at Methucm, the Pem berton mills at Lawrence, a batiKing house in B -ton, and one of the finest farms in Massachusetts. Siuli-Bozitig. ‘‘My son,my son,’’mildly exclaimed a reproving West Hill mother, yesterday morning, untie that cat from the gate latch, take that rope you’ve stretched across the side walk, let vour little sister out of the woodshed unfasten the cellar door and let the hired girl come up and get to her work, take that sign f “ boarders wanted” off of Mr. Poson by s iiont door.let 31 r. Jasper's dog out ot that barrel, throw that paper ofgun< powder in your p.cket out into the street, and then come here and tell me where you were Friday and Saturday, that you wern't at school.” The boy said '.e wasn’t prepared to answer them just then, but he would insist on throw ing out ‘he report of the school-teacher on the ground that he (the hoy) had been unduly intimidated from attending school by the terror of long, hard les sons, and iurther by the practice of buil-d "zing in the parish, as he could establish by reliable witnesses. PeniL ing the decision of the Board le filed a number of protests, but his mother pronounced his attitude ’•evolutionary, and sent to his father’s office for troops, which arrived about tea-time, and the local government was at once supported and order enforced, and, as the boy went up to bed without his supper, and in custody of the troops, the throes of a fee people, struggling in the iron grasp of a domestic despotism, could be heaid away down on the next street,where the j other bo jo were lifting gates off their I binges and carrying them down to the I creek.— -Burlington Ilaicki/r. A Beautiful Idea —Away among the Alleghanies there is a spring, so small that a singieox in a summer’s day could drain it dry. Its'eals i's unob trusive way among the hills till it spread out in the beautiful Ohio. Thence it streatches away a thousand miles.leaving on its banks more than a hundred vil. lage3 and cities, and many a cultivated firm, and bearing on its over a hall a thousand steamboats. Then joins ing the Mississippi, it streatches away and aw iy twelve bundled miles more, isii it goes into a great emblem of eter nity. It is one of the great tributaries of the ocean, which, obedient only to God, shall roll and roar, till the angel witn one foot on the sea and the other the land, shall lift up h.s hand to heav ea that time shall be no longer. r with moral influence; it is a rill—-aa ulet—a river—an ocean, buundle atboru’ess as eternity. A i>% SUM I.3:A’TS. ’ drtpgiseßieuJs will he charged at*];? rat ■ of- One ]J liar per tqr.fcr* for Jb* fir* ‘Ji-erfb a, : i:d fifty for n.rh f ., ~• fjiarit n c: fun. Ten lines <f this ftj •• make a square. Local notice*,fifteen < nts pr him %v S* first in*eiti n aad ct rent* fi-i # a :h -..b --soqm n! ins *rtier. Nr , .nl ef>i:li • -*s will fie B.iv- wi'i. * r.iii - tu.* fit tar fivU ui-stt* tsoi)+ i-uj u kite v. iiv nr by c*mU XG. 17. IVidnwri, u inter kr| r apples, sea-n ne * \r.; • • \ 1 clvudtd meerschaum, a va-o uimhiml, : which ttic scent oi the roses stall ionics. 11 these have a rare, ripe, evanescent. : flavor that sugge.-ts, bur eantmt ox’-ie-s i the charm o{ tin* widow. A young wai- O'V is. per hap-*-, the most interest jug ,and . j> ft iii nature —or in an. Bite l’ n sent- its experience without its vt * ink U - or its gray hairs. She it is m tirimo.v . beauty and maidenly freed <ui co.nbrn ed. She i- grief with a h.ughiii.- eye <orroA ta a In use of festival —a ti nr moon in a sable clou-1. She i : ( v)swet.. for anything! Juke all g.-, and tliim.' siie can only be created at a great i rifieo. Mr-. Browning s a\s .-hit a man mu,,tbe pretry fh. roughly spoiled be lore be can leave a widuvv. This bhel. swan—th. 9 mournful Phoenix r s-s eiey out ef the funeral urn that hold the ashes ol the husband ; herrt. Pei u " ipo a•* try the briny tear and ptocaed 1 (i'dite ./*<<.. /, Poets, siai* - men heroes, and philosophers h v • each felt the indefinable influence of wid nvr bond. Its quality is not sustained. It falls alike upon the just and the ut j ,st i'ldward Piadiagen t married the widow I'di/abcth Dray; though 1.0 knew sl e brought civil war for her dowry N-d v\ aiker, Joe Addison, Sam Johnson, George Washington, Napoleon Bon;/ parte, John Wesley, j ony Weller IT a DistaeJi, and all the other boys man el Widows Henry V ill was ’so font 1 , i-f them that lie took two, and King David was so pleased with Abigil, the widow of Nabai, whom he took to wife,that he turned Bathsehba into a wid >w on pu t p 'Sc to marry i *,r. When Judith ceas ed cogitations over the virtues of the late lamented dauissasoi Bethulia,puts * off her mourning and adorns herself in brave attire to set out for the camp of flolofernes, we feel instinctively that she wiii come back with his heart.his crown or head, which she goes for. When tin old widow Nmaoi c >unscls the young widow Kutii how to lay her snares in the harvest fields of her kinsman, and spring her net on the thr sliii.g Hour,we know at once that the wealthy Bachelor Bop.z might as well order the w. dding garments. Allan Balhsjy write a smig telling how to woo a widow. He might as well left directions hmv to get s’; with lightning. Advice fo €lvls. An exchange says : Why will gii l iun away to get married? Wo give it, up,answers the Louisville Courier Join nal. But we know a let hero that would bo glad enough to stay at home or jump at the chance to walk off arid get iniiv ried. The boys ain’t around asking them like they did—takes more mom y to run them now-a-days than it dx9 t■> run a steamboat. Alt ! girls, it’s your own fault. Swap your silks and satin for lawns and calicoes; shut up the pi ano and dive into the wash tub; throw away your fancy needle work and tackle a red hot stove in the kitchen. Instead of receiving Browne, the baker’s son,in the parlor, keep your eye skinned for Bill Burns, the blacksmith’s son. as he goes home from work, kiss his dirty face through a brok n pane of g!as in the kitchen window, and after a while when ho learns his trade, and you know your business, get married, go to housekeep ing by yourselves, help eaeh other, livo happily, to raise a family that will be an honor to your names and credit to them selves, die happy,and the angels will not turn their backs on you up there. Drunkenness' — l have heard th * wail of children for bread,and have seen the babe pulling at breasts as dry as if the starved mother wos deed. I have known a father to turn a step d.iuehi,< into the street at night, bidding thes b bing girl, who bloomed into womanhood, to earn her bread there as others v re doing. I have bent over the foul p diet of a dying lad to hear him whisper that his father and mother, who were sitting half drunk by the fireside, had pulled the blankets tfi bis body to sell for ID quor. I l ave seen the children blanch ed like plants growing in a cellar—f' r weeks they never breath a meuthful of fresh air—lor the want of rags to cover their nakedness, and they lived in con houal terror of a drunken father or mother coming to beat them. Ido not recollect ever seeing a mother in these wretched dwellings handling her infant or hearing the little creature erow or laugh. These are some of drink's do ing-q hut nobody can know the misery I suiiercd amid these ?;enos of wrctced ness, woe. want and sin. — Dr. Guthrie. Sincerity is the most compendious wisdom, and an excellene instrument of the speedy dispatch of busin ss, i; cre ates confidence in those we have to deal wi*h saves the lab r of many inquiries and brings them to an issue in a few words. It is like travelling on a plain beaten road, which commonly brings a man sooner to his journey's end th,* by-ways, in which men lose themselyeV. In a word whatsoever convenience mav be thought to be in falseh >od and dis simulation, it is soon over ; bu, the in convenience of it is perpetual because it brings a man under an everlasting j ea |, oasy and susp eion, so that h is not be lieved when he speaks the truth, , ior trusted perhaps,when he means h >ue>'v W hen a man once forfeits the reputv non of his integrity he is set f a . t and nothing will then serve his turn neither truth nor.falsehood. due ed.t<>r who was old that his ar c.e was e’er as mud, pr mptiy replied: oil, that covers the gr und any now.” “ J