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The Calhoun Times. Volume T. THE CALHOUN TIMES. BAU.BOAO »TRCKT. Terms of Subscription. _ v . r : : : $2.00 On* Tear • . . IQ r I,i Month* : : : • • 1 Rates of Advertising CThTmT 1 sdr I $9.00 si».bo $26.00 I"° r .. 8.00 ! 12.00 25.00 % 40.00 column | 10.00 18-00 35.00 45.00 l . 18.00 30.00 50.00 75.00 | •« j 50.00 50.00 75,00 140.00 are payable strictly in *<b»nce; and at the expiration of the time for which payment i* made, unless pre- Yioualy renewed, the name of the subscriber will be stricken from our books. For each square of ten lines ot less, for the | r ,t insertion. st, and for each subsequent insertion, fifty cents. Ten lines of solid bretier. or its equHalent in space, make a ’ Terms cash, before or on demand after the first insertion. Adfertisemeuts under the head of “ Special Notices,” twenty cents per line for first in icrtion, and ten cents each sebsequent inser tion. . All communications on matters of public interest will meet with prompt attention, an l eoricis* letters on general subjects are re »pectfully solicited from all parts of the «ountry. bailboaps. Wrstom & Atlantic. MIOHT PASSESOEII Tit AIN— OUTWA RD. L„r* Atlanta -«-4> p. m. ArriTft «t "Calhoun 11-21 a. m. *rri»* at Chattanooga “A* *• “• DAT FABSBXCER TKAIX —OUTWARD. I,e»r* Atlanta * ; 8 15 A M Arrirf at Calhoun 1J p - “• Arrive} at Chattanooga 0.30 P. u. accosod tiox train—outward. Atlanta 530 P. a. Arriv* *t Dalton 3 -S0 pm. JUCUT PaSSKNGKU train—inward. I,*»ve Chattanooga 7 oO r. M. Arriv* at Calhoun 6.21 •*- M Arrivaat Atlanta 4 00 a. m k DAT Jr ASSBNGKR TRAIN—IN WARD. Leiva ChaManoora 5.80 A. m. Arri»a at Calhoun.... 941 a. u Arriva at Atlanta 3.00 P. a. accomodation train-inward. Eetra Dalton 2<’ > P m Arriva at Atlanta 11.00 a. m. PROFESSIONAL CARDS. W. s/ JOHNSON, Atlornej* At I^mw, CA LllO UN , (I E 0 R GIA. p&r Office in Southeast corner of the Court Douse. Aug 11 1 If I c iaiN. JOS. M’CONNELL. fain and McConnell, Attorneys at Law, CA LllO UN, GEOR GIA. HrfT Office in the Court lloii3C. A u g 11 1 ff K. M. TARVER, Attorney at Law, CA LHO UN ; GE OR GJA. Office in the Court House. Aug 11 1 If w. j. cantrellT AUorn<\v At Lhav. CALHOUN, GiORGIA. WILL Practice in the Cherokee Circuit, in U. S. District Court, Northern Dis trict of Georgia, (at. Atlanta): and in the Su prame Court of the State of Georgia. E. j. KIKfeR, Attorney at Law, CA LUO VS, GEORGIA. [tj'tr* at the Old Stand of Cantrell .J - Kiker. J 117 ILL practice in all the Courts of the vT Cherokee Circuit: Supremo Court of Georgia, and the United States District Court •t Atlanta, Ga. augl9’7oly Bov- A. Martin, A TTORNEY AT LA W, DAIILONF.GA, - - - GEO. Nov 10 1870 ts RUFE WALDO THORNTON, DENTIST, Calhoun, - - - G, q igia. Thankful for 'ormer patronage, solicits a continuance J the same. Office at Residence. sepls DR. D G. HUSyf, Physician and Druggist, CALHOUN ; GA. ]%eAV i>lHiiciyeiut*ui. AALHOUpOTEL. E. R. SASSEEN, [Formerly of Atlanta, Ga .] I JESPKCTFIILfcy announces to the travel -11 ling puLiio, tffiat Ho baa refurnished and refitted the above hotel, and is now ready to fi-ccomtuodate all who may stop with him. hates moderate; and table furnished with bis best the market affords. Gtlhoon.’Ga.. August ]9tk, 1870—ts 07 TINSLEY. WATCH-MAKER - * —- JEWELER, CALJIOVX, : : : : GEORGIA. Ahb styles of Clocks, Watohes and Jewelry neatly repaired and warranted. _ n »gl9’7otf Calhoun T SALE AND LIVERY STABLE! R. lIOAZ, K F STOCK, and Vehicles to paredT aud is at all limc * Pre -1 e 1 t 0 Ornish any kind of AT S o3lVeyailoo v rates for cash. term, l)0n B ht ai ‘d sold on reasonable anl 1 .ts ROME ADVERTISEMENTS. “Home Again.” J. C. RAWLINS, Prop’r. CHOICE - HOTEL BROAD ST., ROME, GA. Pissengers taken to and from the Depot Free of Charge. octti 70tf TENNESSEE HOUSE, ROM. ', GEORGIA, J. A. STANSISUIIY, Proprietor. rIMI B above Hole is located within Twenty 1 Steps o' tha Railroad Platform Baggage handled free ot Charge. o tfi’7otf ALBERT G. PITIIER. HENRI H. SMITH. PITNER & SMITH, Wholesale and Retail Grocers & Commission Merchants AND DEALERS IN PURE KENTUCKY WHISKIES, &e. No. 25, Corner Broad A Howard sts., ROME, - - GEORGIA. octO,l 870-1 y colcloughU HARKINS &’ GLOVER, Romo, G-a., AI.L (lie attention of dealers to the fact \J that they have just received the largest stock of Dry Goods, Boots, Shoes, &c., ever offered in the Cherokee country, and can furnish them at exactly New York prices. Call and be convinced. sept22’7o-ly Bones, Brown & Cos., I J. &S. Bones & Co.j Augusta, Ga. ltomc. Ga. Established 1825. j Established 18G9. J. &S. BONES & CO. . ROME, GA. IMPORTERS AND Wholesale Dealers HARDWARE, CUTLERY, QUNS, &C. WILL offer for sale, tlie coming season : Tons Swedes Iron, 75 Tons “Jcnks” Plow Steel, A LARGE LOT OF Imported Cutlery and Files, Together with a full assortment of GEN ERAL HARDWARE. WE are Agents for R. IIOE & CO S. Pat ent Inserted Tooth Circular Saws; Machine Belting, Orange Rifle Powder, and Rome Iron Manufacturing Co's. Merchant Bar Iron and Nails. All of above to compete with any House South. novl7’7o-4m W. T. ARCHER, Wholesale and Retail Dealer in f WlllfHl % Mattresses, Looking-Glasses,&e. All of which I am offering at extremely low prices. 82 Whitehall st., : ATLANTA, GA. nov!7 70-3 m J. H. CAVAN, WHOLESALE AND BF.TAIL DEALER IN Fine Wines, Liquors & Cigars, So. 11 Granite Block, Broad Street, - ATLANTA, GA. AGENT FOR TIIF, SALE OF THE Celebrated Cincinnati LAGER BEER and ALE sept 29 For the State of Georgia. 8m G. 11. & A. W. FORCE, SIGN OF THE BIG IRON BOOT, Whitehall Street, : : : Atlanta. Ga. IS mid new Goods arriving daily! Gents’ Boo's and Shoes, of Ihe best makes. Indies’ Shoe? Os ail kinds. Bovs. Misses and Children's Shoes ot every gi-ade sud make. ItT We are prepared to offer inducements to Wholesale Trade. - aep»2 ,’7O-ly BETTKHTOX. FOK1) & ( o, WHOLESALE DEALER* IN BRANDIES, WHISKIES, IViues, Tobaccos, Cigars, &c., No. 209. MARKET ST., No, 209. Cll ATT A NOOG A, TK.W. 0ct18,1870-ly [ESTABLISHED IS 1855.) J.O.MATHEWSONj PRODUCE COMMISSION MERCHANT AUGUSTA, GEORGIA. eept 22 1870 ly in ISSO. T. R. RIPLEY, Removed to Peachtree Street, ATLANTA , GEORGIA. Wholesale Healer in CROCKERY & GLASSWARES, AI7ILL duplicate any Bills bought in any VV Market, to the amount of One Hun dred Dollars, and upwards, adding Freight. P. S. All Goods guaranteed as represented from this Houee. Aug 19 ly CALHOUN, GA., THURSDAY, JANUARY 26, 1871. MISCELLANY. Smith’s Good Luck. I was always a lucky fellow, and the most fortunate thing that ever happen ed me was being born a Smith. Listen : Three years ago I had just been jilt ed, and was out of money; that doesn’t sound lucky; but it was the prelude to the best of luck. I concluded to go into the country, down at Blymouth, to my uncle’s house—partly that the murmurs of the sea might soothe my inward per turbation, partly to save a month’s board. I stepped on board the early down train. It was mostly full of silly six o’clock passengers—mostly men. Tbe sun was shining on the water, but the fog was hugging the banks, and cling ing to the burnished surface of the tide. I suppose a poet could have made some thing pretty out of the sight, but I only wrapped myself closer in my overcoat and looked sulkily. After awhile I got to listening to two men who sat behind me. “A pretty girl with a fortune isn’t alw r ays to be had for the asking.” “ Oh, but the girl isn’t asked. It’s all arranged by her aunts. She’s shin ing pretty, but a mere child—not six teen, I believe. They had another fellow booked for her, but he died dowm in New Orleans, of yellow fever, last fall.” “And she’s never seen this Smith ?” “ No, nor they either. The aunt’s plotted with Mr. Dunbar, the guardian, and he picked Smith for them, opened a correspondence, and got Rose to write a letter or two. Smith professes to be in love with her letters and picture— but of course it’s the money—forty thousand if she marries before she’s seventeen. “ If the girl amounts to anything, it’s a deuced shame!” “ She does amount to something.— She has the making of a splendid w7o man in her; but nobody know T s it, or cares. They are bent only on saving the money for her. If she forfeits it, it goes to some pet charity of her crazy old grand-father’s. He was always an old tyrant, and as ere mtric as Satan. “ You know Smith ?” “ Only by sight, but I know a chum of his. Burton, and got the story, with a copy of the letter of the girl. I’ve seen her many a time, down on the shore, always with her dragon aunts.” “ Where’s the letter ?” “ I’vo got it here in my w’allet. Now 7 you know the right sort of a man won’t, have his girl’s letters haw r ked about among his associates. He let Burton take this copy, and Burton gave it to me. Let me see —this is it. Listen : “ Dear Mr. Smith. —My aunt’s wish me to reply to your kind letter. Ido not know what to say. I am not ac customed to writing to gentlemen; but must tell you that 1. was sorry to have Aunt Sophy send you that picture. I am not near so protty; it flatters me very much. You are so handsome that you will want a handsome wife; so I don’t think you ought to be deceived. I don’t want to be married; but my aunts say I must, on account of the money; and perhaps it may turn out right. I am very lonely here. I like to live in a large city, and Aunt Sophy says you would do everything to please me. “Have you any sisters? Will your mother like me? I always wanted sis ters, and a mother of my own. I don’t know what else to tell you, except that if you love me, I will do whatever you want me to. Very truly yours. Rose Rogers. There were comments upon and a laughing diseussion of the letter, which was certainly very unique. But, as w 7 e rattled along, there w*as a bump, a shock, the cars stood still, and everybody was in consternation. “ We arc off the track—be patient a very little while,” said the conductor, as he passed through the car. But, in consequence of this little ac cident, it was two o’clock before we got down in Plymouth. As we swarmed out upon the platform, I noticed a very pale young man, not unlike myself in looks, emerge from the foremost car — his coat sleeve torn out, and a purple Ml ~ ~ . 1 • D.T.I “ If that should be the lover Smith, now.” I said to myself, “what a plight he is in !” He seemed to be very much out of humor, and beckoned angrily to a hack man, jumping into a carriage, and de sired to be taken to the best hotel. Af ter that, Isaw 7 several other persons, more or less disordered or bruised by the accident. I was leaving the depot. w 7 hen a col ored coachman bowed before me. “ Beg pardon, sir—Mr. Smith V* “ Yes.” “ Carriage is waiting. Step this w r ay, sir, if you please.” I followed him, wondering if indeed my Uncle had sent up a carriage. It used to be my aunt’s pet hobby—a ba rouehe, with the English coat of arms, which had. indeed, belonged to us, but had been in disuse since the impover ishment of Raleigh Smiik, of England. I wasn’t quite sure what they were, but believed it was a sword and a helmet upon a piece of parchment; but it prov ed to be a pen and a sword against a palette, which was very appropriate, as there had been scholars, artists and military men among our ancestors. “ All well ?” I asked, good humored ly‘ “All well,” answered Sambo, with a grin, shutting the door. Then he look ed back to say, with another grin : Ladies very gay this morning.” If n>y stately aunt and cousins wore gay, it was certainly worth remarking; so I laughed a little, and Sambo chuck led again, and jumped upon his seat. We rattled through the streets, un der an arch, up an avenue. Things began to look strange. “ Where are we ?” I asked, as Sambo opened the carriage door. “Do they live here ?” “Yes. sir. Here’s Mr. Dunbar, sir.” At the same moment an elderly gen tleman rushed out on the terrace to meet me. “ Why. Smith, you are wonderfully late,” he exclaimed, shaking hands with me. “ The cars ran off tlio track.” answer ed J ; and before I could say anything else, he hustled *he house. “Everything ready- Hurry with your toilet and come down. Pity you trimmed your whiskers so close—it al ters your appearance very much. Rob ert, help Mr. Smith to dress. Come in here, Smith. Hurry, now, tlie ladies are waiting.” I found myself in a luxurious dress ing-room, and a mulatto was respect fully in attendance. I sat down and looked at him. “ What is your name ?” “Robert sir; will you be so kind as to hurry, sir? They are waiting on you.” I gave him the key to my portman teau, and resigned myself to my fate, whatsoever that might be. But things were very strange. “ Where is my uncle ?” asked I, as Robert dexterously arranged my garnet sleeve buttons. “Your uncle? Oh. yes, sir,” with a bad attempt at not smiling; “ he’s with the ladies, sir.” “ How long have they lived here ?” “ Don’t know, sir. I’ve only been here a day or two There, sir; do you want anything more ?” “ No.” I was arrayed in my best apparel, and looked well, though my whiskers, instead of being trimmed, were of early growth, and had never been of any length. I was met at the foot of the stairs by the irrepressible Mr. Dunbar. “ It’s all fixed,” said he; “•you’ll be married at once. I had different ar rangements made —was going to give you and Rose a chance to get a little acquainted; but. that railroad delay spoiled that. The Rev. Mr. Lawson is here. Come right along; a Miff upper lip now.” He led me into a long reception room. Some ladies shook hands with me. A tiny, golden-haired creature was put at my side. The clergyman married us. Then there was a chatter of congratula tions. One woman, with a horrible scarlet head-dress, put her hand on my arm and drew me aside. « Wh at arrangements have you made for the trip ?” said she. “None,” I answered truthfully. “ But you are going to New York for a week or two ?” I thought New York as good a place to go to as any, if I was expected to go somewhere, and answered, “Yes.” “Aunt Sophy,” said a trembling voice at our elbows, “ what must I do now ?” “ Run up stairs and put on your trav eling-dress, child. Your Aunt Marga ret will assist you.” It was my wife. She never looked at me, but ran away again. Refreshments were circulating. I tried hard not to go crazy. Dunbar came to me again. “All ready, Smith. Carriage is wait ing. You’ll catch the evening train with smart driving.” They hustled me out again, kissed Rose, and shook hands with rue. and we two alone were driving pell meil to the depot. I bought tickets for New Y ork, gave Sambo five dollars, and we were off. Well, we got into New York at mid night. I took a carriage to the St. Nicholas Hotel, took rooms, locked the door, and told my wife all about it. She looked at me a while with her great blue eyes, and then said, inno cently : “ Well, I don’t know as it makes any difference.” After all, what difference did it maker me at«nevetcri young mmi, with the bumped forehead, proved to be the expected Smith, but he didn’t arrive until half an hour after our de parture. Dunbar came after us, raving, hut there was nothing to be done. Rose was satisfied, the other wasn’t hut I imagine he* was a fellow of bad luck. A Boy’s Composition on the Goat. —A goat is stronger than a pig. and gives milk. He looks at you. So does the doctor, hut the gout has tour legs. My goat butted Deacon Tilling hast in a bad place, and a little calf would’nt do so. A boy without a father is an orphan; and if he haint got no mother he is two orphans. The goat d< n't give quite as much milk as a cow, but more than an ox. I saw an ox at a fair one day with a card tied to his left ear. and we went in on a family ticket. Mother picks geese in the summer, and the goat eats grass, and jumps on a box. Some folks don't like goats, but as for me give me a mule with a paint brush tail. The goat is a useful animal, but don’t smell as sweet as nice bear’s oil tor the hair. If I had too much hair I would wear a wig as Captain Peters does. I will sell my goat for three dollars, and go to a circus to see the elephant, which is bigger as five goats. Father is com ing home to-morrow, and the baby has got the croup. —Bad Under the Alps, The Mont Cm is Railroad Tunnel Com pleted — The Alps cut through for 8 Miles—History and Statistics of the Work—One of the Greatest Enter prises of Modern Times. Bordeaux, December 27—A des patch from Susa announces that the Alps were piereed through yesterday, and that the workmen from both ends of tlie Mont Oenis tunnel joined in con gratulations upon the completion of the great work. THE OLD MONT CENIS RAILROAD. By the completion of the above great work railroad communication is secured between France and Italy, through the rocky Mont Cenis, a distance of eight miles from the termini on either side of the mountain. The tunnel is situated about fifteen miles from the old Mont Cenis road, constructed by Nopoleon for the passage of his army, in 1805, at a cost of 7,000,000 francs. This road was thirty miles long and eighteen feet wide. It served for many years as the only highway between France and Italy; but within the last five years a railway has been built over the ridge, upon which a steam engine of peculiar construction slowly drags a single car. Twenty years ago the idea of piercing Mont Cenis with a tunnel was first broached. After a great deal of argu ment over the feasibility of the work, France and Italy finally contracted to take the work jointly. BEGINNING OF TIIE WORK. The work begun in 1857. After pa tient investigation and trials of differ ent plans, it wa« finally decided to bore through the side of the mountain from either end as the only method of pro ceeding. 'he point of departure on the French side of the Alps, was the town of Furneaux. near Modanc, in Sa voy ; and on the Italian side, the town of Bardenoche, in the valley of the Do raripevia. The central summit of the ridge, beneath which the tunnel was to be bored, is 11.000 feet above the sea level. At first the ordinary hand-drill was used to pierce the rook, and the solid masses were blasted out with pow der. This method of operation, which was kept up on the Italian side until 1801, and on the French side until 186”, would have required upward of fifty years for the completion of the work. Accordingly it behooved the projectors to bethink them of some more expeditious method of proceeding.— The use of steam was out of the ques tion, and the attention of the Italian engineers was therefore turned to a de vice for using compressed air as the mo tive power. THE MACHINERY USED. A machine was finally invented and put into operation which could stand out-side by one of the streams that came down from the mountains, and with its aid force the air through long tubes to the drilling apparatus. This latter is a machine which works in a gallery nine feet square and carries a large number of perforators, each of which bores a seperatc hole in the rock. By the com pressing machine the air is forced into a reservoir, and thence it passes through flexible pipes to the cylinders contain ing the drills of Rie perforating ma chines. By the opening of a valve each drill is forced against -the face of the rock with a force of 200 pounds, turned slightly and withdrawn. Two hundred of these blows are given every minute with each drill, and when holes of the required depth have been bored, the air is turned off, and the machine with drawn a short distance. The holes are bored in such a way as to converge slightly between each other so that every blast will bring down a large mass of rock. At first powder was used in the blasting, but there were many obvious objections to this. As soon as any con siderable progress had been made, and subsequently gun-cotton was tried.— This was afterwards displace by the use of nitro-glycerine. The rate of prog ress has varied, of course, with the hard ness of the rock, and has been from one and a half to three feet per day.— Among the incidental appliances em ployed by the workmen arc a gas-house, miniature water-works, and machinery fov cupplying tlicir nwn lungs with air as well as those of the perforating ma chinery. Thus the three essentials of comfortable life—light, air and water— are received from the outer world by machinery. SIZE OF THE BORE. The tunnel is in the form of a segment of a cylinder, the bottom being level for the road bed of the proposed railway. Tbe height of the arch is 25 feet 7 inches, the width of the tunnel at the base 25 feet 31 inches, and the width in the broadest part 26 feet 21 inches As fast as the rock is blastod out it is removed, and a party of masons follow close behind the machinery to complete the masonry. The work has gone on in this way day and night for more than a dozen years, and at last the two gangs of workmen have met—so we are told by the telegraph—far beneath the summit of the Grand Y allon. The progress has been a little more rapid on the French than on the Italian side, the average be ing metres on the former to 53.20 on the latter. The completion of the frmnel itself has been achieved three or four months soon er than was anticipated a year ago, April. 1871, being the earliest date as signed for that consummation. It will require about six months more to com plete the railroad which is to thread the tunnel, and make a journey from France to Italy as easy as that aeross the Ger man border. Marriage in Brittany. There are in country as in town, fwo marriage ceremonies, the civil and the religious. The peasantry attach little or no importance to the first. They go to the civil marriage in their everyday clothes, and do not invite their friends or have any festivities on the occasion of it. The ceremony is performed bv a notary in the presence of the parents, who look upon it as little more than a formal betrothal. The young couple do not regard theiHuelves a> married um'.l after the religious consecration of the bond. A fortnight, sometimes a month, intervenes between the two ceremonies. During the interval the couple return to their wonted occupations, as though they had not relinquished the duties or the position of single life, and mean while do not see or communicate with each other. Then comes the omp of the religious rite, alluring to the sight and imagination of the excitable peasan try, with its chants and joyous chimes, the mysterious veil, the benediction of rings, the sacrament of bread and wine. The night before this imposing feast, the bridegroom busies himself with pre parations, and sees to it that all is iu readiness. The musicians from the nearest town are provided with the best chamber in his father’s house. Early on tlie Wedding morning these artists begin to perform before the door, to re mind the folk of the approaching event, and to commence the day with the brisk harmonies proper to it. Everybody is dressed in his or her best, the women especially taking care that their toliets and drosses shall rival their neighbors.” The men mount their lusty horses, the women march on foot, and thus a pro cession is formed, which proceeds to the antique little village church. Bride and bride groom, godfather, godmother, priest, choir, and beadle, have already arrived. The audience assembled, the solemn ceremony goes on. Y T ou would at once be struck by the simple and blind devotion of the homely group, as they stand or kneel below the altar.— The benediction is pronounced, and there is a general movement towards the little sacristy; congratulations, hissings, and embracings on the way, the priest as merry and talkative as the rest.— Meats and wines, provided by the bridegroom are set out in the sacristy. It is a temporary refreshment before returning home. Here the hilarity of the festival begins to come out. not to cease for several days. The clergyman, with a pretty speech, offers the first glass of wine to the bride, who sips, as a signal for the rest to drink. The horses are next brought out before the church door. The bridegroom is the first to mount; several of tbe men lift the bride up behind him. where she sits sideways, smiling, blushing, and cling ing to her “ good man’s ” arm. The other men mount, their wives climbing up behind them, and so. laughing, jok ing, singing, screaming, they all jog off merrily home again. They stop at the largest open green which the village affords; and here the traditional wed ding dance begins. It is a well-known historical fact that, in classical time, the and mce was a solemn religious ceremony, performed on the occasion of sacred festivals; and especially was it one of the religious rites attendant upon a marriage. So the wedding dance, im mediately after the marriage, is in Brittany indispensable, and in some sort completes the rites of the day. A Tough Goose Story. There once lived in one of our North ern towns, not many miles from Conway, New Hampshire, an eccentric individual by the name of Fogg, whose name as a was known for miles around. Here is one: “ My house was situated in a glen, some six miles distant from the stage-road. Betw'fei Conway and where I lived was a pond six miles in circumference. It so happened one time early in the Spring that I had been out late, and coming home I discovered a flock of geese as they were just alighting in the pond. Rising early the next morn ing, I built my fire in the fire-place, and taking down the shooting iron, started for the pond to try my luck. Arriving on the shore I found to my sorrow that they were out of gunshot, and to fire at that distance would he sheer fully.— While I stood contemplating what to do, a fox came down to the water’s edge and stood snuffing the air. My first thought was to shoot him, but on re flection I concluded to see what he would do. he fox in the mean time entered the water and was swimming for the geese, which were huddled to gether about a half mile from the shore After swimming within a few yards of them, he suddenly disappeared, and in ! a few moments a goose was drawn under i the water, when Reynard returned on his homeward passage, and landed his burden on the shore; then returning again brought another, until finally he got the whole flock; and when he had brought the last one I shot him. When I come to pick up the geese, I found that I had fifty good nice ones, which I lugged home, together with the fox and my gun. The old woman had nut got breakfast quite ready then.” “But Mr. Fogg, the fox. to capture the geese, had to swim half a mile for j each goose ; consequently the f»x swain fifty miles and the geese averacred six ! pounds apiece, making the sum of three I hundred pounds, to say nothing of the ; fox and gun ; the thing was imp- -ssible.” j “Impossible or not. every word of it is truth,” exclaimed the old man. “and I can prove it by more than a dose* of my i neighbors, to each of whom I gold feath- ■ ers enough to fill a bed!” Weakness is a greater antogowist to j virtue than even viee itself. ]N umber *2^. Bfaf.eit of Lai r.iiTtß.*—Probably there is net the remotest corner of the blo« k! voxels oi the body that dx'M not feel some wavelet from that great eon* vulsiou. (hearty laughter) shaking the central man. ’I he blood moves more lively—probably its chemical, electric, or vital erudition is distinctly tm dified —it conveys a diftvfeat impremcE to all the organs of the body as it visits them on that particular mystic journey, when the man is laughing, from what it does at other times. And so, we doubt not, a good laugh may lengthen a man’s life, conveying a distinct stimulus to the vi tal forces. And the time may come when physicians,attending more closely than at present they are apt to do, to the innumerable subtle influences which the soul exerts upon its tenement of d«v, shall prescribe to a torpid patient, "»> many peals of laughter.” llow Congressmen Used to Trav el- —In the olden time, says a Wash ington correspondent, the wealthy Sena tors and Representatives used to jonrnev hither from their homes in their own carriages, which they thus had for their own use during the session in this citv of magnificent distances. Rufus King used to come with his four bays; the four iron grays which Jackson drove from the Hermitage when he was Sena tor. have never been surpassed; and Calhoun’s four-in-hand chestnuts, which brought him and his family from Fort Hill, were much adiniied. Henry Clay, when he was at first a member of the House, rode from Ashland here on a thoroughbred colt of his own raising, and it took him longer to get here than it now docs a California member of Congress to come by rail from tho Golden Gate. M e quote the following impor tant decision from the Montgomery Mail, of Sunday: ‘At a recent term of High Court for Kscambia county, at Pollard, an important question was deci ded. It appears that an old sow.eating corn on the railroad track, collided with a freight train, result, the train slightly damaged and the sow defunct. Tho owner of her porkship brought suit against the road for killing her. Tho case was argued long and well, many knotty points were decided pro and con. Finally, the sage justice said the whole question turned on whether the railroad train was traveling on the sow’s time, or the sow running on the railroad's time. Being as how* the sow was on the road’s time, the owner of her porcine majesty must pay damages to the road for tres pass. Court adjourned to the nearest grocery and “fired up” at the expense of counsel for the sow. How many take a wrong view of life, and waste their energies and destroy their nervous system in endeavoring to accumulate wealth, without thinking ( f the present happiness they are throwing away. It is not wealth or high station that makes a man happy. Many of the most wretched beings on earth are both ; but it is a radiant, sunny spirit, which knows how to bear little trials, and en joy little comforts, and thus extract happiness from every incident in life. The 'following coroner's verdict was returned last week in Calhoun County, Illinois : ‘ We, the jurys find the desees ed dead man kum to his dead in the hands of some unbeknown person, with an unlauful iron weeping—nnmid an jtx with a hickory handle; wich unlauful weeping was used with deadly intent to kill the aforesaid dead man. “P. S.—We the aforesaid und under cigned jurys hopefully believe that the Ded Man was Beheaded by the said Ax." % — A learned writer says of books : “They are masters who instruct us with out lods or ferules, without wood or an ger, without bread or money ; If you approach them they are not asleep ; if you seek them they do not hide; if you blunder they do not scold; if you are ignorant they do not laugh at you. A Broad Blessing. —A gentleman, whese custom it was to entertain very often a circle of friends observed that one of them was eating something before grace was asked, aud determined to cure him. Upon a repetition of the offense, he said : “For what we are about to re ceive. and for what James Taylor has already received, the Lord make us tru ly thankful." T Nice Point op Law.—Last summer a poor old clergyman and his housekeep er to whom he had bequeathed quite a large legacy, were murdered at Chelsea, near London. A -nice point” ha* arisen in administering his cstute. The que*- tion is, which was murdered first? In the ease of the servant dying before tbe testator, hdr legacy would have lapsed, while iif the other event it would fall tt> her legal representatives. A Mad Horse.—A ease of madness in a horse is reported from liuddcrfield. The animal was first noticed to be un well, and the follow ing morning was pro nounced to be rabid. The horse with his teeth tore oat the manger, and it as a d»*g would a rat. Upon the re commendation of a veterinary surgeon, the horse was shot. — Joy flutters past us like a gay and harmless butterfly, but, unfortunately, often iays eggs w hich engender devour ing caterpillars. Sorrows gather round great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain leneath them.