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The Calhoun Ti me s. Volume I. TIIK CALHOUN TIMES. OFFICE OVER J. H. ARTHUR S, RAILROAD STREET. Terms of Subscription. One Year : : : : : Six Months : : : : : Kates of Advertising. No. SqYs rMo. I 3 "Mos! *5 Mos. 1 yea-. !R7m s'j.iid 8i5.00 ‘ $2.5/io Four “ B.OU 12.00 25.00 40»0 i column 10.00 18.00 35.00 45J0 1 “ lb.oo 30.00 50.00 76iH) 1 “• 30.00 50.00 75.00 1-10/X) All subscriptions are payable strictly iu advance; and at the expiration of the |mc for which payment is made, unless >re viously renewed, the name of the subserber will be stricken from our books. For each square of ten lines or less, fojthe first insertion, sl, and for each subserpent insertion, fifty cents. Ten lines of blid brevier, or its equivalent in space, male a square. Terms cash, before or on demand tfter the first insertion. Advertisements under the head of “ Sp-cial Notices,” twenty cents per line for firsiln nertion, and ten cents each sebsequent inser tion. All communications on matters of puMic interest will meet with prompt attention, trul concise letters on general subjects are re spectfully solicited from all parts of the country. kailroahs. Western A Atlantic, NIOHT PASSENGER TRAIN —OUTWARD. I.save Atlanta 7.00 p. m. Arrive at Calhoun 12.15 a. m. Arrive at Chattanooga 3 30 a. m. DAT PASSENGER TRAIN—OUTWARD. Leave Atlanta 8.15 A. m Arrive at Calhoun 12.51 p m. Arrive at Chattanooga 4-20 p. m. ACCOMOD TION TRAIN—OUTWARD. Leave Atlanta 530 p. m. Arrive at Dalton 3.30 p. m. NIGHT PASSENGER TRAIN —INWARD. Leave Chattanooga 7.50 p. m. Arrive at Calhoun 11.44 p. m. Arrive at Atlanta 4.14 a. m. DAT PASSENGER TRAIN —INWARD. Leave Chattanooga 7 00 a. m. Arrive at Calhoun 10 2!) a. m. Arrive at Atlanta 3.27 p. m. ACCOMODATION TRAIN —INWARD. Leave Dalton 200 p m Arrive at Atlanta 9.00 a. m. Georgia Railroad. DAT PASSENGER TRAIN. Leave Augusta. 7,15 a. m. Leave Atlanta. 7 00 a. m. Anive at Augusta. 5.45 p. m. Arrive at Atlanta. 7 10 P. m. NIGHT PASSENGER AMD MAIL TRAIN. Leave Augusta. 9.50 p. m. Leave Atlanta 5 45 p. M. Arrive at Augusta. 4.00 a. m. Arrive at At unfa. 8.00 a. m. 31aeon & Western, DAY PASSENGER TRAIN. Leave Atlanta. 4p 7.55 a. m Arrive at Mucm. 1.4 c p. m Leave Macon. 7.55 a. m Arrive at Atlanta. 2.20 p. M NIGHT EXPRESS PASSENGER TR\IN. Leave Atlanta 7.18 p. m. Arrive at Macon 3 23 a m Leave Macon 8.50 P. m. Arrive at Atlanta 4.46 a m. Rome Railroad. DAT TRAIN. Leaveßome 10 00 a m. Arrive at Kingston 11.30 a. m Leave Kingston 1.00 p. m Arrive at Rome ago p m. Connecting at Rome with accomoda ion trains on Selma, Rome and Dalton Rsiili oad, and at Kingst'ii with up arid down traius Western as and Atlantic Railroad. NIGOI TRAIN. Leave Rome 9. g0 p M Arrive at Kiut sloe l' '45 p m Leave Kingston li.iop m. Arrive at Rome 12*2 p u Connecting at It n e ittin., igh . igh r 'rams on Selma, Rome and D-d tor R •. «J Kingston wrh mgot tonus r, W s'e.n an Atlantic Railroad o 'hat a-0.,g ; , ... .j 0 „',.q to A'lauta, Selma, Rome & Dalton. PASSENGER TRAIN. Leave Selma 9.30 A . M . Arrive at Rome 8 55 p m Arrive at Dalton 11.50 p m ACCOMMODATION TRAIN. Leave Rome 4.45 p. m. Arrive at li me 12.80 p.m. Leave Dalton 10. uO a! m. The accommodation train runs from Rome to Jaeksnnv ile riai'v, Sundays excepted. The through passenger train only will be run on Sunday. CARDS. W. s. JOHNSON, = 4 ttorney VI Law, CALIIOUX, GEORGIA. Office in Southeast corner of the bmrt House. Aug 11 1 ts /. C. FAIN. JOS. M’CONNELL. fain and McConnell, Attorneys at Law, CALHOVaV, GEORGIA. Office in the Court House. Aug 11 1 ts R. M. TARVER, Attorney i\t Law, CALHOUN . GEORGIA. ffc'-if*' Office in the Court House. Au g n ! ts wTjT CANTRELL, Attorney Law. Calhoun, Georgia. W [LL t T P, ; actice iu tLe Cherokee Circuit. ,!• t V’ Court, Northern Dis trict of Georgia, fat Atlanta); and in the Su preme of the State of Georgia. E - - T - KIKER^ - Attorney at Law, CALHOUN. GEORGIA. [ Office at the Old Stand of Cantrell Kiker.\ \Vfn L P ,ac,ioc in R« the Courts of the Geo,; rok « e Circuit; Supreme Court of at 4tla»,r o ?' '* S ' a ' e ’ U,, ', ric ' Co “ rt ’ augt9 701 y WALDO THORNTON, DENTIST, Calhoun, . G . ,o,a. T'™ L f,,r '’ r, “ er Peonage solicit* A continuance / the same JJgce over Buaz. Hakhktt &Cos s. sep] f JferJob Printing neatly executed here! POETRY. SUPPOSE! BY PIIGEBE CAIIY. Suppose, iny little lady, Your doll should break her head, Could you make it. whole by crying Till your eyes and nose are red ? And wouldn’t it be pleasanter To treat it as a joke, And say you’re glad ’twas Dolly’s, And not your bead that broke? Suppose you’re dressed for walking, And the rain comes pouring down, Will it clear off any sooner, Because you scold and frown? And wouldn’t it be nicer For you to smile than pout, And so make sunshine in the house, When there is none witLowt? Suppose your task, my little man, Is very hard to get, Will it make ij any easier For you to sit and fret? And wouldn’t it be wiser, Than waiting like a dunce, To go to work in earnest And learn the thing at once? Suppose that some boys have a torse, And some a coach and pair, Will it tire you less while walking To say, “It isn’t fair?” And wouldn’t it be nobler To keep your temper sweet, And in your heart be thankful You can walk upon your feet ? And suppose the world don’t please jou Nor the way some people do, Do you think the whole creation Will be altered just for you? And isn’t it, my boy or girl, The wisest, bravest plan, Whatever comes or doesn't come, To do the best you can. Running a Newspaper. There is more truth than poetry in the following paragraph, which comes from a Memphis exchange. It may be suggestive to some of our readers; it is terribly suggestive to many newspaper publishers. The Avalanche says : By some unaccountable misapprehen sion of facts, there is a large class of people in the word who think that it costs little or nothing to run a news paper, and that if they buy a copy from a newsboy, when too far from the office to come and beg one, they are regular patrons and entitled to unlimited favors. Men call every day at newspaper offices to get a copy of the daily paper, just from press, for nothing, who would nev er dream of begging a pocket handker chief from a dry goods store, an apple from a fruit stand, or piece of candy from a confectioner, even upon the plea of old acquaintance, having bought something once before. One paper is not much, but a hundred a day amounts to something in the course of time.— Ifut this is a small drain compared with the free advertising a newspaper is ex pected to do. Some men who have paid two dollars at an early period of life for an advertisement worth four or five, appear to think they are stockhol ders in the establishment for eternity, i r ! hey demand the publication of all mar- ! riagp and funeral notices, obituaries and j family episodes for the next forty years i gratis. Speak of pay and they grow 1 indignant. “ Don’t I patronize your ! paper?” ‘-Yes; but you received they worth of y »ur money fVr what you paid/’ “ But,” says the patron. “ it will not cost you anything to put this in,” which is just as ridiculous as to ask a man to grind your axe on his grind-stone, and graciously tell him that it won’t cost him a cent. It takes money to run a a newspaper as well as any other busi ness. and no paper will succeed finan cially that carries a dead head system. Any mention of the people’s affairs that they are anxious to see in print is worth paying for, and when printed is gene rally as any other investment of the i same amount. 1 he newspaper business is very exact ing on all connected with it, and the pay is comparatively small; the pro prietors risk more money for smaller profits, and the editors and reporters and printers work harder and cheaper than the same number of men in any other profession requiring the given amount of intelligence and training and drud gery. The life lias its charms and its pleasant associations, scarcely known by the outside world; but it has its earnest work and anxieties and hours of exhaus tion, which, likewise, are not known to those who think the business fun. The 1 idea that newspaperdom is a charmed circle where the favored members live a life of ease and free from care, and go to the circus at night on a free ticket and to the springs on a free pass in the summer, is an idea which we desire to explode practically and theoretically. Business is business, and the journal that succeeds is the one that is run on a square business footing, the same as banking or building bridges, keeping a hotel or running a livery stable. - San Antonio, Texas is furious be cause the census man has put it down at only twelve thousand. The largest farm in England con- ! sists of three thausand acres. The live stock on this farm is valued at 5G4.000. In consequence of the injury done in vegetation by the drought, the Virginia Horticultural Society will hold no exhi bition this fall. The “Benevolent Association of the Sons of Louisiana” propose building a magnificent tomb for the sepulchre of its departed members. CALHOTO, GtTA., THUESDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1870. miscellany. Bradley s Fight A Tale of the Prairie. BY LIEUT. HARDINGE. I could not help noticing the long, red scar, which, stretching from the temple to the chin, disfigured the face of my new friend, Bradley. When looking at his profile from the left side you would instinctively set him down as a brigand who would have no ! more hesitation about cutting your I throat, and then relieving your pockets of its loose cash, than he would of ‘pick ing his teeth with a bowie knife/ as the Western saying Is; but, transfer your person to his right side, where no cut- Wars, and wliaro t.lio sijijnt was unin.j>t»ir ed, and you at once felt yourself in very pleasant society, bating a certain stern ness of the countenance that perhaps was not altogether pleasant to one who did not know him. I had come sud denly upon this man in a lonely part of the road between Georgetown and Coloma, where the hills were steep and ugly and where the body of a man or a mule could be thrown aside and never afterward found—and my first glance at him was taken from his left side: I had about ten thousand dollars, in gold dust, on my person and in the sad dle bags that hung before me on my mule, and I instinctively placed myself in a position for defence, should an ag gressive movement be made. The man laughed, and then uncon sciously turning his right side toward me, asked me if I were afraid of strang ers ? My apprehensions of assault left me, and I answered that I was now not afraid; although but a moment ago I must confess I was. “ Ha! ha:” laughed this traveller, yhom I soon knew by the name of Bradley. “It is funny ; but about half tli people I meet take me for a high way man as you did just now. And I suppose, if 1 didn’t keep a civil tongue in iny head. I would have it filled with lead before I knew it.” ‘AYe are sometimes apt to mistake the intentions of those whom we cau tiously meet, particularly in a place like this, j«here chasms are to be found hundreds of feet in depth, I responded. I have a large amount of gold about me, and it is very natural that I should be ready to defend it.” “Are Au not afraid to say so much to me, a stranger ?” he asked. “Not tuW. When I first saw you I was,” I frankly answered. “That is singular,” he replied. — « Well, since you are so candid, I have no hesitation in telling you that I am, like yourself, laden with gold. It is the property of friends, entrusted to me to he deposited in their names in Sacra mento.” “ Shall we got into Coloma before it is quite dark ?” I asked again, slightly uncertain of my customer. “ I know the road thoroughly,” he answered. “It Wants an hour to sun set; and now if you will follow me, I’ll guarantee our being on the other side of the Middle Fork before the sun dis appears. For my part, I’d like to push on to the Blue Tent and stop there for the night, and so be ready for an early start. What say you?” “No, I’ll put up at Coloma, and I’d advise you to do the same We shall be safer at the American Ho if sc to-night than sleeping out in the valley; beside, we can get to Sacramento by three o’clock to-morrow.” “Well, let us stop at Coloma.” This was said in a hearty tone of voice, and still I somehow had a fear that all was not quite right with this roadside acquaintance. I took his ad vice, however, and followed him, my hand ready at the slightest movement on his part towards beligerency to draw my pistol and shoot him in his tracks. There had been several daring robberies on this road of late, and I did not care to be a victim. However, we arrived safely at Colo ma, and put up at the house agreed upon. While at supper, I had plenty of leis ure to examine the man’s countenance, and the more I gazed upon it the more consciously I felt that I had seen him before. The gash in the left side had so altered the entire expression of the face, that while I pondered I still felt dubious of him. “All 1" suddenly exclaimed my fellow traveller, looking directly at me, “ I know you 1 Why, sir, I’ve been bother ing my brains for the last half hour.to make you out, and it’s just popped into my head who you are. Lieutenant Har dinge, how do you do ? You remember me ? I was with you when we had that little scrape with the Crow Indians on the Yellow Stone, just where Big Horn empties its waters.’ “Ah, yes,” I cried, rising and taking the mans hand in mine. “I, too. have been laboring to recall your face.— When you told me what your name was on the road. I though t’t I’d seen you somewhere. Yes, yes, the Bradley who slew Big Thief of the Crows. That sear on your face. Bradley—pardon my impertinence, but where did you get it ? When I last saw you —it was on the Wind River—you did not have it. “ That' 's so, lieutenant, he answered.” “ The fact is I had to take that or lose my life on the little Missouri river, while on my way to Fort Mandon. You see, lieutenant, after I left you I had business with the Assinobofns at Fort Union, near the junction of the Yellow St ne with the Missouri, far the company at St. Louis, touching some peltry about which there was a misunderstanding, raised by Jacques De Bois, a surly French Canadian who had been placed by General Clark in command of the trading post.” “ I had full authority from the Gen eral to settle all questions in dispute and satisfy the Indians. A dav or two after my arrival at the fort, on inquiring, I became convinced that the Indians were right, and that Du Bois was the real culprit. I told him so. and when he found he could neither wheedle nor frighten me into his views, he intimated I should never float down the Missouri or cross the Turtle Hills on my way to Mandon. “ That was sufficient, and so I told him that whatever happened to me he could no longer command the post. I thereupon called the people in the ser vioo of tho oompnny tnpcPthpr and ox hibiting my credentials to them, formally deposed Du Bois, and nominated a man named Woodstock to his place. Du Bois, did not dispute my authority; but while I was speaking I saw a terrible cloud—a cloud that I felt was surcharg ed with lightning, gather upon his face. “ The Canadian commenced making preparations for immediate departure, and on the second day from his deposi tion, left the Yellow Stone, without say ing good-by to his old acquaintances at the post, and struck into the great trail that led directly to Fort Mandon. “It was my intension to have gone down the Missouri in the company’s boat; but an accident happening to it, I changed my mind, and six days sub sequently to the departure of Du Bois, took his course, hoping to arrive at Mandon in season for the boat which I had been told was discharging winter supplies there, and trading with furs and buffalo skins for him down trips. Between Yellow Stone and Mandon, the Black Hill Jack, and a large valley run ning north and south, bounded on the east by the Turtle Hills—a valley that is well watered by the Little Missouri— have to be crossed. In this valley, at a camping ground on the banks of the river, I found Du Bois. He was alone, and ugly enough, I can tell you. I spoke pleasantly to him, but without stopping to keep him company I at once crossed the stream and encamped on its easterly side. “ While crossing I heard the report of a rifle, and simultaneously a ball whis tled past me, within a few inches of my body. “ You mean murder, Du Bois,” I said to myself. “ I turned my head, and found the fellow had his riflfc still in his hands but pointed in an opposite direction. “The Canadian fool!” I muttered. “ He imagined I shot so I did not hear the bullet sing. Well, I don’t think he’ll trouble me further to-night.” “ Dismissing the man from my mind, I, on landing, staked my animals where they could get a mouthful of good grass, and then prepared my own supper; I ate heartily. This concluded, I indulg ed in a pipe of tobacco, and afterwards rolling myself in my blanket fell into a profound slumber. “ I sleep heavily, lieutenant,” con tinued Bradley, but am easily aroused. About two or three o’clock in the morn ing I was suddenly awakened. I look ed up and saw that it was yet very dark. There was no moon, and only here and there in the far expanding heavens twinkled, but with diminished bright ness, the stars that are so familiar to the eyes of those who make the ever spreading prairie their home. I lay perfectly still, and soon nry acute ears caught the sound of a footfall—not that of a horse or mule, but of a liumau be ing. “ Who can this be ?” ran through my mind. “No Indian would be so clumsy. What if it is Du Bois ? He is bold enough to assassinate me, but I’m afraid not sufficiently brave to meet me in open warfare.” “ While thus I communed with my self, I felt rather than heard the step approach me. My knife was in my hand, and my revolver in my belt. I was prepared for him, I thought. “ Cautiously, slowly Du Bois stole towards me; but, in the darkness, I could not distinguish in which direc tion ; therein I made my serious mis take. While looking for him iu one direction he sneaked upon me from another; and I had just time to see his bowie-knife glisten in the air, before it struck me as you see. “ The next moment I was on my feet, one hand pressed tightly round the wretch’s throat, and then, with my dis engaged one, I buried deep in his heart the blade of my knife. “ The contest between us could not have lasted ten seconds. It was all but momentary. I fell with the corpse of Du Bois to the ground. I had fainted from loss of blood, I suppose. “Two days afterwards I awoke iu the hospital tent of a company of United States troops. It seems I was found lying on the body of my enemy ( the handle of the knife still clutched in my hand) short ly after wards, by two soldiers who had strayed up the river during the night. But for this timely discovery. I should in all probability have perished. “A few days nursing brought me around again, and a* the troops were going the same way I accompanied them to Fort Mandon. “Du Bois was buried where he met his death. On his person were found papers that proved him to be a defaulter to his employers to a considerable amouut.” When Bradley had concluded his story we retired for the night. The next morning we travelled together to Sacramento City. There we parted. and since that day I have not seen him. He is, in all probability, roving over the plains he loves so well. The Akerman Bill Postponing an Election to December. A bill to be entitled an Act to provide for an Election, and to alter and amend the laws in relation to the holding of elections. Section. 1. The General Assembly of Georgia hereby enacts, That an elec tion shall be held, beginuingon the 20th day of December, 1870, and ending on the 22d of December, 1870, for mem bers of Congress to serve during the un expired term of the 41st Congress of the United States ; for Senators in the Sen ate for each district numbered in the constitution with an odd number; for membora of tlio Houso of Roprosenta tives of the General Assembly; for Sher iff, Clerks of the Superior Court. Tax Collectors, Tax Beceivers, County Treas urers, County Surveyors, of the several counties of this State. Sec. 2. That the said election shall commence on the 20th day of Decem ber, and continue between the hours now fixed by law for three separate days. Sec. 3. That said election shall be managed and superintended at the Court Houses at the county seat, and at any election precinct that may exist or be established in any incorporate and organ ized town or city by managers chosen as follows: Sec. 4. It shall be, the duty of the Governor of the State, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, as soon after the passage of this act as possible, to appoint five tit and proper persons of intelligence and moral worth for each election precinct established at the Court House, or in any city or incorporate town in this State; and said five persons, or three or more of them, may and shall hold the election at said city or town. Sec. 5. It shall be the duty of the Govervor to cause the said appointees to be duly notified of their several appoint ments as aforesaid; and it shall be the duty of stid appointees to appear at the said Court House and at said precints in said city or town on the day fixed by this act fir the said election, within the hours prescribed by law, and hold elec tion. Sec. G. It shall be the duty of the Governor to furnish each of the Judges of the Superior Court with a list of said appointees in the several counties of their respective circuits, and at the next term of said court in each county, after the said election, it shall be the duty of the Judge to inform himself if said ap pointees have appeared as required by this act and held the same election, and if any such appointees have failed to ap pear, and the absence of his signature to the returns required by law to be made to the Clerk of said Court, shall be prima facie evidence of such failure, it shall be the duty of the said Judge forth with to find such appointees one hun dred dollars; provided that said fine may be remitted on said appointees satisfying said Judge that his failure to attend was caused by severe sickness or other una voidable causes, or that he was legally qualified from serving. And provided further, That said ap pointees shall each of them be citizens of the county for which they are ap pointed and voters of the same. Sec. 7. In addition to the duties now prescribed by law for the managers of elections, it shall be the duty of said managers to preserve order at and near the polls, but they shall have no power to refuse ballots of any male persons of apparent full age, a resident of the coun ty, who has not previously voted at the said election. Sec. 8. They shall not permit any person to challenge any vote, or hinder, or delay, or interfere with any other per son in the free and speedy casting of his ballot. Sec. 9. It shall be the duty of said managers to prevent rioting at or near the polls, and to secure the end it shall be their duty to prevent more than one person and he only while voting, ap proaching or remaining within fifteen feet of the place of receiving ballots, and said managers may, if they see fit. re quire the persons desiring to vote to form themselves into a line, and when a line is thus formed, said managers shall pre vent any person not in the line from ap proaching the polling place nearer than fifty feet, but in no case shall more than one voter at a time approach the polls nearer than fifteen feet. Sec. 10. It shall be the duty of the Sheriff, Deputy Sheriff. Town Marshal, Bailiffs and Police officers, the whole to be under the orders of the Sheriff or his deputy to attend at one or other of said places of voting during the election, and obey all lawful orders of said managers, or either of them, and to act as conser vators of the peace, and for the protec tion of the voters against violence, in timidation and unlawful attempts to in fluence voters or to interfere with the perfect freedom of each voter to cast his ballot according to his own wishes. Sec. 11. The said managers, or any two of them, shall have power, by patrol, to order the arrest and confinement dur ing the day of any person at or near the polls, or disobeying any reasonable order for the enforcement of the.-e provisions for the preservation o.f order and the protection of voters; and the Sheriff and his deputy shall also have power, with out warrant, to arrest, or order the ar rest of any person for the causes afore said. Sec. 12. It shall be the duty of said managers to receive each ballot and de posit the same in a ballot-box, and it shall not be lawful for either of them, or for any clerk to oj»eu any closed ballot until the polls are closed and tho count ing ot the votes is commenced. Sec. 13. It shall be the dutv of said managers to prevent any person, except themselves and the three clerks, by them to be appointed and sworn, to remain in the room when the ballots are received, so near the ballot-box or polling*plaeeas to examine tlie tickets, or to handle any ticket, and they shall have the power to enforce this as other duties herein cast upon them. See. 14. The said managers may se lect three competent persons t art :•.* clerk in keeping the list of voters and tally sheets, hut said clerks shall not be permitted to handle any ballot or exam ine the same. See. 15. One of said managers shall receive the ballot from the voters, and hand them to a second, who shall deposit the same in a box, and at no time shall any vote be received unless there be at least three of said managers present. Sec. IG. Said managers, clerks and officers, except police officers actually on duty, shall receive from the County Treasurer three dollars for each day’s duty at said election. Sec. 17. It shall be in the power of said managers, or any three of them, to fine any Sheriff, Deputy Sheriff, Marshal or police officers, not more than one hun dred dollars, as for contempt, if he fails to obey any lawful order of said mana gers, or either of them, for the enforce ment of the laws, for keeping the peace, or preserving order, and for the protec tion of the freedom of election on the day of election. Sec. 18. Said managers shall each if them take the following oath : I do swear that 1 will faithfully, fully and impartially hold the present elec tion; 1 will prevent no person from vo ting who is of apparent age, a resident of the county, and who has not previous ly voted at this election ; I will not open any closed ticket until the polls have been closed, nor will I divulge for whom any person has voted, unless called upon to do so by some legal tribunal. I will in good faith, to the best of my ability, endeavor to carry into effect the provisions of this act, and the other laws for holding elections. I will make a fair, correct, honest and impartial return of the result of the elec tion. So help me God. (Any manager may administer this oath to the others.) See. 19. Nothing in this act prohibi ting challenges at the polls shall be con strued to authorize any one to vote who is not, by the constitution, a qualified voter in the county of the election; but all persons not. duly qualified to vop, are, and shall continue to be, subject to all the pains and penalties fixed by law in case they vote illegally. Sec. 20. Each of the said clerks shall be sworn, fairly, impartially, and truth fully, to keep the list of voters, and fair ly and honestly to keep the tally-sheets at said election. Sec. 21. It shall be the duty of the ordinaries of the several counties of this State to furnish stationery for the pur poses of said election; also, to have ready, and furnish for each of the sets of managers provided for by this act, a ballot-box sufficiently large to hold the ballots likely to he cast at said polling place—said ballot box to be made so that it cannot be opened without serious damage to the box. on all sides except one, and on that side to have a move able lid,with an openingtherc sufficient ly large to admit the pushing in of the ballots one by one—said lid to be so con structed as that it may slide into grooves in the box, and have a lock thereon; and it shall be the duty of the managers to open and examine said box at the opening of said polls, and then to lock the same, and at the close of the polls 011 each day it shall be the duty of each manager to put upon said lid a strip of paper with his name thereon, and affix the same by adhesion to the box. so that the box cannot be opened without the rupture of said paper, and this being done, the box shall for the night be en- i trusted to the keeping of one of the managers, and another of the managers shall take the key; and it shall be the J duty of any such managers entrusted with said box or key to permit no one to ; tamper in any way with the same, and if such tampering be done, the managers i entrusted with the same shall be prima facie guilty of having done the same, and on conviction, shall be punished as pro vided in 4GOB section of the Revised Code for the punishment of misdemean ors. Sec. 22. An election manager or clerk or any other officers on duty in the hold ing of any election, who shall be guilty of any fraudulent practice in changing any ballot, or in using any trick or device by which any false return is made, or any ballot-box tampered with, or who shall, in any way, he guilty of any false or fraudulent practice or act by which any vote actually cast is not fairly counted and returned, shall be guilty of a misde meanor. and on conviction shall be pun ished as provided in section iGOB of the Revised (’ode. Sec. 23. Repeals conflicting laws. Bryant offered an amendment that the Ordinary appoint two and the Gov ernor three managers —adopted. The bill then passed—yeas 01, nays 57. “0 Kiss me and go!’' said the maid of my heairt. and proffered her lips as j iny pay to depart; “the morn is ap- j preaching, my mother will know, mv kindest and dearest. O kiss me and go!” j She gave me the blessing in such a sweet way that the thrill of its pleasure enticed me to stay. So we kissed till the morning came in with its glow, for she said every moment, “ O kiss me and go!” Number 9. VARIETY. Why N an infant like a diamond ? Because it is a “dear little thing." St. Louis arrests its gamblers for va grancy uud fines them SjQO eagh. “I HAVE not loved lightly." said a man who married a three hundred pound woman. ‘‘No noose i* good news.” and the observation has been made, before now, by several reprieved criminals. Why may we consider the soldiers to be the authors of works of beaut v ? Because they so often right about face. Mils. Partixuton says, that since the invention of the needle-gun. there Is no reason why women shouldn’t fight as well as men. Jeffersonville, Kentucky, claims to be building the largest Western Riv et- steamboat, its length is 330 feet. At a recent examination in Amherst college, eight of the Freshman class could not pass an examination in spell ing- Someone has made the estimate that there are twelve deaths from coal oil ex plosion each day in the United States. For the oiie hundredth time the in telligence from Mexico informs us that the Mexican treasury is bankrupt. One of our Northern exchanges says : “An old lady in Tennessee, hearing of the European war, is burying her valu ables. She fears another visit from the Yanks.” On Long Island, the other day. a wag threw a handful of shot into a friend.s face just as another man fired a gun. The struck man fell insensible and near ly died from fright. Cary Monroe, cousin of the living skeleton lately deceased, is eight years old and weighs three hundred pounds. She only weighed four pounds at her birth. “Setting a man trap” is the title given to a picture of a pretty young la dy arranging her curls at a mirror. Speaking of last words, that was a j strikingly appropriate remark of a Cali fornia stage driver, who on his death ! bed was visited by a brother “whip.” i Said he,‘“Bil', I’ m on the down grade, and can’t reach the brake.” A virtuous Scotch gentleman, nam j ed .McCall, has run away from Salt Lake of his sister insisting on marrying him. M <.«Max has thisadvautrg?over tvjyj? that his will has no operation till h#fl dead, hers generally takes effect in her lifetime. - . A COUNTRY girl, speaking of a dance she had attended, said : “The dancing wasn’t nothin’, but the huggin’ was heavenly.” A MARRIED lady being asked to waltz gave the following and appropriate an swer : “No, thank you, sir; I have hug ging enough at home. Tom Tinker says: “If I wuz a red headed fell and wuz guine to ce a gal and she wuz tu tell me not tu git too klose tu hur fur sere she wud ketch on fisc, I wud tell hur not tube skeered, fur she wuz too green tu burn. 0 A dying Irishman was asked by his confessor if he was ready to renounce the devil and all of his works. “Oh, your honor,” said Fat, “don’t ask me that; I am going to a strange country, and I don’t intend to make myself ene mies.” A Syracuse man lied when he said that he could eat fifty lemons. He tried to prove it and shared the fate of Anan ias and his unveracious wife. An injured husband compromised with a wicked minister in Ohio for S4OOO. He took ofl' five per ceut, be cause he was a clergyman. A Virginia farmer says that he had rather have a keg of shingle nails than all the scenery on the banks of the Po tomac. Poetry was left out of his soul. An Indianian was tied up and severe ly whipped by his wife and daughter, for coming home slightly elevated the other night. Gen. Forrest used to say when in formed that the enemy was on his flank —“Well what of it ? I reckon I’m on his flank too I” An engineer at Toledo, recently ran over a man, and. like Rachel of old, re fused to be comforted. He exclaimed, with melting pathos : “That’s the eighth man I’ve killed, hut this is the worst case of all. He was a big fat man. and He mussed my engine, up to'. “Are you connected with a paper here V’ asked a countryman of an inmate of an Indiana insane asylum : “0h.n0,” was the reply; “I have been to the in sane asylum and am cured; a man nev er runs a new-paper after he is cured.” A MAN iu lowa has been arrested for obtaining poods under false pretenses. He got a girl to marry him on the pre tence that he was wealthy. The "goods” don’t like that way of doing. Columbus has a sensation in the way of a gigantic wild hog. ten to twelve feet long, who roams the streets at night—is said to have had sixty to eighty balls fired into hi.- huge carcass without effect. When a Chicago woman wants to get a man on a breach of promise came, she makes a bet of a kiss with him. aud loses. She pays him the kiss in the presence of a witness, and sues him for a breach of promise and trifling with her affections. This is naturally called courting iu Chicago. .