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| BAILBQAPB.
Woten .v Atlantic,
meiiT rASssNOBR tbaix—outward.
Lesv* Atlanta p> “*
Arrive at Oalhoun H-21 a. m.
Irriva at Chattanooga a. u.
DAT PABHB.NGEU TKAIN —OUTWARD.
I,ear* Atlanta -8 15 A M
Arriva at Calhoun l-J p » “•
Arrive! at Chattanooga 5.50 P. m.
ACCOMOD TION TRAIN —OUTWARD.
Leav# Atlanta 530 P. n.
Arrive at Dalton ; 3.30 p. m.
NIGHT PABSKNUKR TRAIN—INWARD.
],„»?• Chattanooga 7.50 P. M.
Arrive at Calhoun 11.21 p - “•
Arrive at Atlanta 4 00 a. it.
[PAS.SRNGBR TRAIN—INWARD.
Leave Chattanooea 5.30 A. m.
Arrive at Calhoun 044 a. m
Arrive at Atlanta 3.00 p. m.
ACCOMODATION TRAIN INWARD.
l.eave Dalton 200 p M
Arrive at Atlanta 11 tX) a. m.
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
W. 8. JOHNSON,
Attorney At Law,
a A LIIO UN, (IE OR Gl A.
Hy- Office in Southeast corner of the
Ceurt House.
Aug 11 1 If
C. TAIN. JOS. m’CONNKLL.
# fain and McConnell,
Attorneys at Law,
aal no un, ; geor gia.
pf Office in the Court House.
Aug 11 1 ts
R. M. TAUVEIC
Attornoyat Law,
CALHOUN , GEORGIA.
jHojp Office in the Court House.
Aug 11 1 ts
w. jTlJantrell,
Attorney At Law.
Oalhoun, Georgia.
WILL l’ractico in tho Cherokee Circuit,
in U. S. District Court, Northern Di.s
triet of Georgia, (at Atlanta): and in the Su
preme Court of the State of Georgia.
E. .1. KIKER,
Attorney at I*aw y
CALHOUN, GEORGIA.
(Rtf '* at the Old Stand of Cantrell Kiker. J
117 ILL practice in all the Courts of the
M Cherokee Circuit; Supreme Court of
Georgia, anil the United States! District Court
*t \tlanta, Ga. augl9’7oly
Bov. A. Martin,
ATTORNEY AT LA W,
PA II LON EG A, ... GEO.
Lot 10 1870 ts
drTw. j. reevesT
Sun/eon ct* Physician,
CALHOUN, ... GEORGIA,
A! AY be found at his office, in the Brick
J 1 Store of Boaz, Barrett & Cos., day
or night—when not professionally engaged.
jnn26’7ltf
RUFE WALDO THORNTON.
DEVTIST,
PI.IIOUN, Gj O.IGIA.
THANKFUL for patronage, solicits
1 a coutinuance of the same.
Office at Residence. sepls
DR. D.C.HUNT,
I’liysician and Druggist,
CALHOUN, GA.
Management!
calhodnlotel.
E. R. SASSEEN,
[Formerly of Atlanta, Ga.~\
m FULLY announces to the travel
-1 iftg public, that lie has refurnished"and
, tei ‘ l ‘ lc above hotel, aud is now ready to
_ !l ‘iuodatc all who may stop with him.
.l tes mot^erate 5 and table furnished with
iest the market affords,
t alhoun, Ga., August 19th, 1870—ts
Hr TINSLEY.
• watch-maker
AND
JEWELER,
ILHOIN, ; ■ : : GEORGIA.
A “J riocks, Watches end Jewelry
a«g?9-0 r tf epaired aud granted,
pay o/; UNl '’ T & Son, Home, Ga., will always
try highest market price for Conn-
ROME ADVERTISEMENTS.
“Homo Again.”
J. C. RAWLJNS, Prop’r.
CHOICE - HOTEL
BROAD ST., ROME, GA.
Passengers tuken to and from the Dep<U Free
of Charge. oct6’7otf
TE N N ESS EE HOU SE,
ROME, GEORGIA,
J. A. STANSBURY, Proprietor.
fpHE above llote is located wiibin Twenty
I Steps of the Railroad Piatlorm Baggage
handled free of Charge. o t 8 70tf
AI.IIERT G. T’ITnKR. HENRY H. SMITH.
PITNER & SMITH,
Wholesale and Retail
Grocers & Commission Merchants
AS'l> DEALERS IN
PURE KENTUCKY WHISKIES, &c.
No 25, Corner Broad & Howard sts.,
ROME, - - GEORGIA.
0ct0,1870-ly
COLCLOUGH.
’ HARKINS 6
GLOVER,
Home, G-n.,
\LL the attention of dealers to the fact
yj that they have just received the largest
stoek 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 & Cos.,
Augusta, Ga. ltoine, Ga.
Established 1825. j Established 1869.
J. &S. BONES & CO.
HOME,:GA.
IMPORTERS
AND
Wholesale Dealers
IN
HARDWARE,
CUTLEftY, QUMS, &C.
WILL offer for sale, the coiningjseason :
3ao Tons Swedes Iron, , .
77> 'Tons “Jenlcs” Plow Steel,
A LARGE LOT OF
Imported Cutlery and Files,
Together with a full assortment of GEN
ERAL HARDWARE.
WB are Agents for It. HOE & 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. nov!7’7o-4m
W. T. ARCHER,
Wholesale and Retail Dealer in
lllllflll |
Mattresses, Looking-Glasses,&c.
All of which lam offering at extremely low
p'ices.
82 Whitehall st„ : ATLANTA, GA.
novl7’7o-3m
j. H. CAVAN,
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALER IN
Fine Wines, Liquors & Cigars,
No. 11 Granite Block,
Broad Street, - ATLANTA, GA.
AGENT FOR THE SALE OF TIIE
Celebrated Cincinnati LAGER BEER and ALE
sept 29 For the State of Georgia. 3m
G. TT. & A. W. FORCE,
SIGN OF TIIE
BIG IRON BOOT,
YV HITE HALL STREET, : ; : ATLANTA, Ga.
1)00TS, Shoes and Trunks, a complete Stock
J and new Goods arriving daily! Gents’
Boots and Shoes, of the best makes. Ladies’
Shoes of ail kinds. Bovs, Misses and Children’s
Shoes of every grade and make.
YVe nr.- prepared to offer inducements to
Wholesale Trade. Bept2-,70-ly
BETTERTON, FORD & Cos.,
WHOLESALE DEALERS IN
BRIDIES, WHISKIES,
Wines, Tobaccos, Cigars, &c.,
No. 209 . MARKET ST., No. 209.
CHATTANOOGA, TENN.
oct 13,1870-1 y
(ESTABLISHED IN 1855.)
J.O.MATHEWSON,
PRODUCE
COMMISSION MERCHANT
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA.
sept 22 1870 ly
Established in 1850.
T. R. RIPLEY,
Removed to Peachtree Street,
ATLANTA , GEOBGIA.
Wholesale Dealer in
CROCKERY & GLASSWARES,
WILL duplicate any Bills bought in any
Market, to the amount of One Hun-*
dred Dollars, and upwards, adding Freight.
P. S. All Goods guaranteed as represented
from ttii* Heu«*. Aug 10 ly
CALHOUN, GA., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1871.
MISCELLANY.
The Express Messenger’s
Story.
A NARRATIVE OF RAILROAD LIFE.
When my mate asked of me last
Christmas Eve permission to remain
with his family at the eastern end of our
route, and not to make the tedious forty
hours journey towards the Blue waters
of the Pacific, on which I was about to
start, I had too much heart to refuse
him. lie—Joe Neil was his name —
had a young bride and a younger babe,
and it was hard to separate them.—
True, our orders from the company were
that both of us should always jointly
make, the trip, fur we we*e carrying
large quantities of greenbacks and na
tional notes for the payment of the Pa
cific Railroad contractors ; and 6f course
there was no lack of robbers who were
waiting every chance to clean out our
trunks, and perhaps clean we poor mes
sengers out of existence.
Shortly before an express car had
been entered on our line, and Bill.
Hughes, the messenger, beaten almost
to death, and his valuable charge taken j
and it was to guard against such future
surprises that a mate had been given
me ; but Joe pleaded so hard to stay at
home, and explained to me so clearly a
little plan of his own, whereby I could
make the trip in safety alone, that I gave
in to his request, and hastened with him
to set our little plan in motion.
Joe’s brother, Ned, the engineer, was
to run his engine for the first one hun
dred miles of my journey, and he was
to help in the plan. l"ou see Ned was
courting a younger sister of Joe’s wife,
and so it all being almost in the family,
he was willing to do a good deal to give
Joe his Christinas at home. First we
went to the Railroad Superintendent,
and got his permission to take my thro’
express car out of the train and substi
tute therefor a grain car. My car was
one of those kind with a passage outside,
and and >ors in each end besides those at
the sides.
This made it easier of attack, should
robbers get on the train, as the multi
tude of doors required a stricter guard
against surprise,with an increase of dan
ger.
The grain car had only two side doors,
which lucked from without, but had two
litte grated windows for ventilators, one
at each end, with wooden shutters on
tl(jp inside to close them up tightly.—
Ned was to lock me in, and to hand the
key to tho. next engineer that caniQ on,
with some private instructions.
Well, at 7 o’clock on Chtistmas Eve
the train was ready to start. Our ex
press superintendent was down to see
us oft’, and noticed the changed car, but
supposing the other to be out of repair
said nothing. He watched me place
the valuable packages I had received in
my safe and iron chest, and then spring
ing into the car warned both Joe and
myself to be very careful as he had news
that mischief was intended before long.
Joe was helping me in the ca”, so as to
appear before the Superintendent to be
going with me. Ned came and locked
us in, Jeo first kissing his wife, who
was on the platform, goodbye, and pre
tending—lucky fellow —that he was so
sorry he was going away at Christmas.
As soon as the door was shut and lock
ed, Joe went through that on the other
side, first, thanking me again for be
friending him, and then 1 heard him
lock the other door with the Ned
had sent to him by his fireman. We
were off in a few moments, and I had
time to look around and arrange my
traps to make the trip as comfortable as
possible. There was no receiving or
handing out of packages to be done till
the next morning, when the new engin
eer would open my door. Ned would
leave us about midnight, and till then
when he would look in upon me. I might
make myself as happy or as miserable as
I chose.
In less than an hour after leaving I
had slung a hammock I carried with me,
and had turned in. The shutter over
the forward ventilator—my car was next
to the engine—l had closed down and
fastened with a wedge, to keep the wind
from blowing it open. The rear ventil
ator I left open, the little six by six hole
guarded by three iron bars, giving me
ventilation. Near this I had slung my
hammock, and then with my revolver in
a box near my hand, and with the bell
rope running just over my head, I sure
ly was in safety and so I dropped to
sleep.
How long I slept I could not tell be
fore I awakened with a start as some
thing passed over my mouth. It seem
ed like a mouse or rat, but it left an
overwhelming smell, a close suffocating
feeling, and before I could open my eyes
to see clearly, or could come to my sens
es, I was again asleep. Again I awoke,
this time completely, but with a fearful
weight of oppression over my eyes.—
My head ached, and I strove to place
my hand upon it. My hand would not
obey my wish ; I must be paralyzed ; it
seems as if I was yet dreaming •, I had
no power over head or limb. Another
effort I would make to shake off this
deadly feeling, but as I strove to turn
in my hammock, or to lift myself, some
thing cold touched my forehead with a
refreshing coolness, and a gruff voice
bids me lie quiet. I trace his arm
down towards my head, and see that it
is a revolver, which is touching my
forehead. In a half asleep, half foolish
manner, I glance at the deadly instru
ment, and wonder what it cost, and
whether it will shoot straight aud into
my brain should it be fired. The effects
some drug are still working upon me,
and as I come more to life, as it were, I
recognized the fumes of chloroform-
Two other black-visaged men are bus
ily sorting out my valuables, and are
throwing all dangerous bonds and papers
into the corner of the car, while they
are placing in bags the currency and
notes. The man watching me speaks
and says: “No. 1, he is come too." No.
1 comes close and looks at me.
he also is black visaged, made
so, I now see, by a crape veil or mask.
Without speaking, he returns to his
work of sorting the money. Having
nothing else to do, I look more closely
at myself. Small, thin cords, which
cut deeply into my flesh, are tied around
my wrists aud ankles while others tie me
tightly to the hammock. I must, in
deed have been far gone in sleep, and
deeply drugged, to have allowed this. —
The robber evidently mearime no harm,
but how can I face the company after
this robbery ? How account for the ab
scenceofJoe, without bringing about
his immediate dismissal ? As for my
self, it will be the old story. The pa
pers will say I was a willing confeder
ate, and submitted to being tied and
robbed. I shall be imprisoned, perhaps
for life. My poor wife and children
will be worse than fatherless.
No, 1, who is hard at work yet with
his companion, opening the bundles and
sorting out their contents, here for the
first time speaks. “We’re nearing the
hog tunnel. No. 2," he says, in a light
lisping voice. Even in my half stupor
I know that voice. If it is whom I think
it is, his left arm is slightly crooked,
the palm of the hand turning nearly
outwards. As he moves into the light
of the solitary lamp to glance at some
bonds, I plainly see the turned hand.
“Bill Lane," I call, “won’t you free my
hands ? this cord hurts me." With a
horrible oath he springs forward :
“You’ve sealed your doom." he says :
“you must die now," I plead for life,
for he has cast aside the crape and I see
the devil in his eye. Bill used to be on
our run as messenger, but a robbery oc
curred of which he was suspected of as
sisting in, or at least of allowing himself
to be robbed, and was discharged.
But I plead in vain. The conspira
tors confer among themselves for a few
moments, and then my hammock is un
hooked and thrown upon the floor and I
am rolled up in it, and into an incridiblj
small space. The bundle is then tied up
tightly, and one of the robbers tries its
weight. lam slight of form, and he
can easily lift the living bundle up, and
throw it oil his shoulder. How can they
get me from the car ? How they got in
is yet a mystery to me. The doors are
locked ou the outside, and could not be
broken open from the outside with the
train at full speed. As I lie upon the
the floor, nearly suffocated and in fear
ful pain from my cramped position and
the tightness of the ropes, Bill hisses in
my ear, “We are going to throw you over
the Rocky Run."
Even death in the form of being cast
a living bundle from tho cars into the
the waters of the Run,which we cross in
a short time at an immense height, is
preferable to the agony I am enduring.
I think I prayed with all my soul then,
i have prayed before going into battle,
when expecting to bo wrecked at sea,
and at other times when my life was in
danger, but I never prayed before I
think, with all my soul Then, there
was a chance of escape, now r , there was
none. My senses quickened with the
agony of the moments, and w’ere won
derfully acute, or else I was already in
delirium. I thought I heard voices at
the forward ventilator. I thought I
heard him say, “Watch close and shoot
if there is danger." Os course it was
fancy, for the train was going at full
speed and Ned must be at his post on
the engine.
Next I heard cautious footsteps on
the roof of my car, probably, if anybody,
it was a brakesman going over the car to
the engine for his lunch can, which was
there keeping hot. I lay still, praying
a few moments longer, then more foot
steps are plainly heaad on the roof.—
This time I w T as sure there was tw T o or
three persons. All of a sudden the
bell rope rattled as if energetically pull
ed ; the engine whsstled brakes, brakes,
and I felt every brake on the train was
being put down to a purpose.
The robbers consulted for a moment
and then one raid, “Its nothing; they
are stopping for a hot journal perhaps.”
Bill sprung to me and pressing his re
volver hard against my body hissed.—
“If they call for you say all right." Be
fore I could reply, a rasping noise was
heard, followed by the report of a pistol,
and the fall of some heavy body across
my already overtaxed frame. I fainted.
When I came too Ned was chalking
my hands, and half a dozen men were
rubbing my swolen and chafed limbs,
while brandy was being placed on my
lips. Ned was almost histerieal when I
came too, but the crasiest of all was lit
tle Jaek' the wood-passer of the engine,
who kept shouting, “I shot him, I shot
him,” till someone knocked him down
to make him quiet.
Then it all came out. The robbers
had been concealed on the rear of my
car, and had watched me through the
grating. On my going to sleep, a slen
der stick, with a sponge soaked in chlo-
I ro form at one end. had been placed un
der my nose, rousing me for a moment
but to send me into a deeper sleep.—
Then with a fine saw a portion of the
end of the car had been removed through
which they crept, and then closed it be
hind them. Ned after awhile thought
he would have a look at me, so crawling
over hi§ engine he essayed to open the
ventilatcM shutter and peep through.—
Finding it fast, he looked through the
bell-rope hole, which happened to be a
large one. and taking in matters at a
glance, he had called little Jack to him,
and handing bis revolver had given the
command I heard. Then crossing the
ear he had obtained the services of the
conductor, brakesmen and some williug
passengers, and having surrounded as
far as they could a fast-moving ear, he
had pulled the bell and so signalled the
fireman to stop. When Jack saw Bill
point his revolver at me he thought he
was going to shOot me, so forcing the
ventilating shutter open he brought him
down with a well.aimed bullet, killing
him instantly. We took the other two
to a town on our route where justice
was done them. They got thirty years
free board.
As for Joe the axpress folks were vex
ed at first, but as I had suffered so much
and pleaded so hard for both him aud
myself, we kept our old places and still
do. Christmas day I spent in bed and
also a few days afterwards getting well,
but they brought my wife and children
to me and we didn’t fare so badly after
all.
Lafayette’s Remarkable Fac
ulty of Remembrance.
It was often remarked of General La
fayette when he was on his tour through
the United States, in 1824. that he pos
sessed, in a very extraordinary degree,
the faculty of recognizing his old com
panions in arms, whom he had not seen
for more than fifty years. He could
call by name as well the private in the
ranks as the highest officers in the line.
The following incident is related by a
correspondent of the Richmond Whig,
to whom it was told in the year 1832,
by the late Judge Brooks, of the court
of appeals of Virginia, who had been a
captain in the war of the revolution :
While Lafayette was in Richmond, a
guest of Virginia, an obscure individual
living in Person county, North Carolina,
who was known in the revolution army
as Sergeant Hood, who belonged to the
company commanded by Captain Brooks,
and who, on account of his singular dar
ing and uniform good conduct, was a
pet of his officers, visited the capital for
the purpose of greeting his old com
manding general
Judge Brooks said that on walking
across the capital square one morning,
he met an old man who inquired of him
if he could direct him to the quarters of
Lafayette, adding that he had fought
under him when he was a youth, and
had come one hundred and fifty miles to
see him. Before the judge had time to
respond, the stranger said to him, “Is
not this Captain Brooks to whom I aui
talking ?” On receiving an affirmative
answer, he said, “You do not appear to
recoo-Bize me. T am Se:g erru c Hood,
who belonged to your company during
the revolutionary war." The judge told
me that he was immediately filled with
the most pleasant recollections of the
sergeant’s many deeds of valor per
formed under his own inspection, that
he gave him a cordial grasp, aad went
with him to Lafayette’s room.
On entering, and before a word was
spoken by any one class, the marquis;
who was in a remote part of the room,
eagerly approached the strange old man,
and exclaiming “Sergeant Hood," fell
on his neck and wept tears of joy. He
recognized this humble private in an in
stant, and recounted some of his deeds of
daring to the astonished company. That
he should have recognized any of his
brother officers after a separation of
more than half a century, during which
time they must have undergone the
usual change wrought in one’s appear
ance by old age, while his own eyes
must have grown dim, was a matter < f
no little surprise, but that he should
have hailed an humble private in the
ranks by name, excited the astonishment
of all who were present. The jude re
marked that it was one of the most agree
able and joyful reunions in which he
ever participated.
A few days since an aged woman,
who lives in the vicinity of Fifth and
Diamond streets, in hunting over a box
of nick-nacks, which accumulate in ev
ery household, chanced to find an old
and dirt-begrimed breastpin, which al
most a score of years ago, her father
had given to her. It had some stones
in it, which she thought of no particu
lar value. She carried it to a jeweler
for repairs. After scrutinizing it, he
asked her if she knew its value. “Well."
she replied, “there may be about £5
worth of gold in itwhereupon he off
ered her £BOO cash down for it. This
staggered her. She then learned that
the stones, of which there was ten, were
each two-carrot diamonds of the finest
description ; five of them having a pe
culiar bluish tint that gives them a great
value. Upon taking the pin into a large
Chestnut street establishment, she was
offered 52.000 cash for it, and another
offer was 8350 for each of the tinted
stones. Words cannot describe the joy
of this aged lady, whose circumstances
were far from comfortable, when she
discovered the worth of this ornament,
which! for years had beed shuffled about
in a box of rubbish.
[ Cincinnati Gazette.
Little Walter Draper is a very good
boy, according to all the rules laid down
for good little boys. Last Sunday he
asked permission of his mother to go to
the pond on the common which his
mother refused, on the ground of its be
ing the sabbath. Good little boys some
times cry a little, and Walter began
blubbering. “Why, Walter." cried his
mother, “I am astonished ! The idea of
you wishing to go to the pond on the
Lord’s holy Sabbath to go skating with
a lot of bad little boys!"
“800 hoo!" blubbers Walter, "I did
not want to go skating with ’em Ma. I
only wanted to go and see the bad little
boys get drowned for going a skating on
a Sunday —boo hoo 1”
After Cats. —The Adventures
of Mr. Oliver in Pursuit
of Vengeance.
The fact that Mr. Oliver lived in a
uniform row of houses in the fourteenth
ward, was the reason why he was so un
fortunate. One moonlight night last
week, the noise made by tho cats on the
roof was simply awful. Mr. Oliver lay
in bed trjing in vain to get to sleep,
grinding his teeth with rage, until, at
last, the uproar overhead became unen
durable. Mr. Oliver crept out of bed
softly, so that his wife would not be
awakened. He put on his slippers,
seized a boot with each hand, and, clad
in the snowy robes of night, he opened
the trap door and emerged upon the roof.
Thero were thirty or forty eats ont there,
holding a kind of a general synod in the
cool of the evening, enjoying the bra
cing air and singing glees. As Mr. Ol
iver approached, the cats moved over to
the next roof. Mr. Oliver advanced
and flung a boot at them. They then
adjourned suddenly to the next resi
dence. Mr. Oliver projected another
boot, and went over after the first one.
In this manner the synod retreated and
Mr. Oliver advanced until the last row
of twenty houses was reached, when the
eats arranged themselves in a line along
the parapet, ruffled up their fur, curved
their spines and spat furiously at Oliver.
That bold warrior gathered up his boots
and determined to retreat. He walked
over a dozen houses and descended
through a trap-disor. He went down
stairs to his bed room, and opened the
door. There was a man in the room in
the act <sf walking up aud down with a
baby. Before Oliver had recovered from
his amazement, the man flung the baby
on the bed, and seizing a revolver began
firing rapidly at Mr, Oliver. It then
dawned upon Oliver that he had come
down the wrong trap door. He proceed
ed up stairs again suddenly, the man
with the revolver practicing at him in
a painful manner. "When Oliver reached
the door he shut the trap quickly and
stood upon it. The man fired through
the boards twice, autf then hooked the
door upon the inside. A moment after,
Oliver heard him springing a watch
man's rattle from the front window. As
soon as the neighbors knew that there
was a man on the roof, they all flew up
the stairs and fastened their trap doors,
and 31 rs. Oliver fastened hers, with the
firm conviction that some predatory vil
lian had entered while she slept and
stole her Oliver. When lie tried the
doof it was fust, and 31rs. Oliver was
screaming so fiercely that he could not
maUe himself «U. time th-;
street was filled with policemen, all of
whom were blazing away at Oliver with
their revolvers, while the young men in
the houses across the street kept up a
steady fire with their pistols, shot-guns
and miscellaneous missiles. Oliver, with
every advantage of forming an opinion,
said that Gettysburg was a mere skirm
ish to it. He hid behind the chimney
and lay up against the bricks to keep
himself warm, while the policemen sta
tioned themselves all around the square'
to capture him when he would slide
down one of the water spouts. . But Ol
iver did not slide. He sat out on the
roof all night, with the bitter air circu
lating through his too trifling garments,
listening to the yowling cats and the oc
casional shouts from the picket line be
low, and thinking of the old Jews who
used to pray I'rom their housetops, and
wondering if 3lusselmen were ever shot
at or bothered with cats aud policemen
when they practiced their evening de
votions on their roofs. And then he
wandered how it would do to take off
his night-shirt and wave it over the edge
as a flag of truce ! He concluded not
to, because of the danger of a bullet
from some misguided policemen not
familiar with tire rules of war. When
daylight came, the neighbors rallied iu
a crowd, armed with all kinds of weap
ons from howitzers down, aud mounted
to the roof. Oliver was taken down
and put to bed, and lie now has more
influenza for a man of his size than any
other man of the Fourteenth Ward. —
He says he is going to move as soon as
he gets well—he is going to move iu a
house that is next door to nobody, a
house that stands in the middle of a
prairie of some kiud, and he intends to
stencil his name in white on the trap
door. — Rhiladr/j.h ifi Dispatch.
Neglect of God’s oraele3.
Dr. Deems says it is a sin to neglect
any part of God s oracles. If the Bible
be the word of God, if it contains the
••mind of the spirit,” then to neglect any
portion manifests a disrespect for the
authority of God, which must seriously
weaken any mans moral constitution.
In the instructions which a subject
receives from a king the royal authority
is as much in every part as it is iu any
part. To select portions for study aud
obedience is to be disobedient, ardt is
the settingup of cur individual or pri
vate judgement against the wisdom and
the will of the infiuite Heavenly Father.
It furthermore argues a want of love
for truth. This love for truth it is iu
dispensible to cultivate. It is really
more important than a nervous careful
ness to be exact in all our statements
and accurate in the use of words.
Firmness. —“ Bub, is your sht rat
home V’
“Yes, but she won’t see you to nUht."
“Why?"
“Cause she said she was going to have
one good mess of oniomi, if she never
got another beau.”
Memory is the only paradise we are
sure of always preserving. Even our
first parents could net be driven cut of
Nnmlier 25.
A Romance of the East*
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line a Beautiful White Girl Ucame
the Slave of i ico Blnelc H (anen , anti
the Wife of Count Bcnaletti.
Muhlbach, in her letters from
Kgypt, tells a very romantic story about
the wife of Count Benedatti, the French*
Minister of Plenipotentiary at the Prus
sian court before the outbreak of tho
present war.
Avery rich Greek merchant, resident
in Alexandria, bad two black wives,
whom ho loved dearly, and for whoso
service he provided a* large retinue of
beautiful girls. One of his wives, ono
day. chanced to see a charming white
girl, and was so pleased with her that
she coaxed berhusband into buying her.
Ihe beautiful slave became a confi
dential servant and companion to her~
negro mistresses, add conducted herself
toward them in such a sagacious manner
that she became indispensable to them.
She sang to them, and gossiped and
frolicked so gracefully, that
banished completely, woo their af
fection, and through them also, the af
fection of her master, the venerable
Greek merchant.
Put, unfortunately, the black wives
suddenly fell sick one day, and before
nightfall they were dead. Their dis
ease w’ks known to nobody, and they
were hastily buried. The beautiful
young slave, who had not left their side
tor a moment during the short, hours of
their illness, seemed inconsolable. She
did her best, however, to assuage the
grief of the ancient merchant, and in
this w ay so endeared herself to hint that
he adopted her as his child and heir,
since he was just a little too old to marry
her. In course of time, the venerable
sage rejoined his swarthy wives in the
other world, and the fortunate nymph
came into possession of his millions.—
At this stage of her existence*Count
Benedctti, was then only a penniless
attache to the French consulate in Al
exandria, offered her his hand and heart,
and having married her, with the aid
of her wealth cut for himself a road to
fame. In this way, she who was once a
slave to slaves, became a star in the cir
cles of’ the French world of fashion.
The Protestant Cow.
Paddy Murphy and his wife Bridget,
after many years of hard labor in ditch
ing and washing, had accumulated a
sufficiency to purchase a cow, (of course
they had pigs.) which they did at the
first opportunity. As it was bought of
a Protestant neHib< r, Pat stepped on
War nay name at me nouse of the priest,
to procure a bottle of holy water with
which to exercise the false faith out of
her.
“Isn’t she a foine creature?’ asked
Pat of the admiring Bridget. “Just
hold her till I fix the shed.”
To save the precious fluid from harm,
he took it into the house and set it up
in a cupboard until he had “fixed”
things. Then lie returned and brought
the bottle back, and while Bridget was
holding the rope, proceeded to pour it
upon her back.
But poor Pat had made a slight mis
take. Standing within the same closet
was a bottle of aquafortist, that had
been procured for a far different purpose,
and, as it dropped upon the back of the
poor cow, and the hair began to smoke
and the flesh to burn, she exhibited a
decided appearance of restlessness.
“Pour on more Paddy,” shouted
Bridget, as she tugged stoutly at the
rope “I’ll give her enough now,”
quoth Pat, and lie emptied the bottle.
Up went the heels of the cow', down
went her head, over went Bridget and
half a dozen of the “childers,” and away
dashed the infuriated bovine down the
street, to the terror of all mothers, and
the delight of the dogs.
Poor Pat stood for a moment breath
less with astonishment, and then, clap
ping his hands upon his hips, looked
sorrowfully after the retreating cow, and
exclaimed:
“Be jabbers, Bridget, but isn’t the
Protestant sthroug in her—the baste?”
Talleyrand’s Death Bed.
For nearly half a century, this veter
an diplomat acted a prominent part in
the affairs of Europe. As the prime
minister or embassador of the directory,
the consulate, the empire, and the mon
archy of Louis Phillippie, he negotiated
the important treaties which determined
the boundaries of empires and the fate
of kingdoms, aod formed plans which
made Napoleon an Emperor, and the
Emperor of an exile. Such a man’s
views of an eventful life of fourscore
years, furnishes instructive lessons to
men who are wasting the energies of be
ing on political ambition or worldly ag
grandizement. Just before his death a
paper was found on his table, on which
he had w ritten by the light of a lamp,
such lines as these:
-Behold eighty-tliree years passed
away. What cares! What agitation!
What anxieties ! What ill-will! What
sad complications ! And all without re
sults. except great fatigue of mind and
body, and a profound sentiment of dis
couragement with regard to the future,
and disgust with regard to the past!"
Contrast with this the exclamation of
-Paul the Aged," as he was about clos
ing his earthly career:
‘*l have fought a good fight; I have
kept the faith ; and henceforth there is
laid up for me a crown of righteousness,
which the lord the righteous Judge shall
give me at that day.”
A death bed is the triumph chariot
of the useful Christian, however hum
ble ; it is the executioner’s cart of the
worldly unbeliever, however exalted.
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