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”™FESsiONAI7 CARDS”
W. S. JOHNSON,
At lonicy xVX Law*
CM LUO UN , GEORGIA.
p»-JT* Office in Southeast corner of the
r murt House.
Aug 11 | * tf_
, . vain Jiw. K'oeXMEUi.
FAIN AND McCONNEIiL,
A.ttorne.ys at Law,
CALGOLW, GEORGIA.
( Office in the Court House.
Aug 11 1 ts
W. J. CANTIvELL,
\A I <?rn(‘,y At Law.
Oaliioun, Georgia.
''TILL Practice in the Cherokee Circuit,
I® in U. 8. District Court, Northern Dis
= riot of Ocrrg'a, (at Atlanta); and in the Su-
I'reine Court of the State of Georgia.
Wu Piim.irß, W, H. Rankin,
Marietta, Ga. Calhoun, Ga
PHILLIPS & RANKIN,
A TTORXEYS AT LA IF,
COUECTJNQ zItJENTS
Calhoun, Ga.
\\r
M ILL practice in the Courts of the
I'herokee Circuit.
»9" Otfice North side Public Square.
I L J. KIKEB,
A-ttorncyiat Law,
C. 1 LIIOI r X, aEG R Gl. l.
l 'it the Old Stand of Cantrell £ hiker.]
\\/ r G.L practice in all the Courts of the
m Cherokee Circuit; Supreme Court of
Oeorgia, and the United States District Court
to Atlanta, (la. auglO'TOly
Bov. Martin,
ATTORNET AT LA IP,
LAIILONF.ua, - GEO.
Nov 10 1870 ts
M. W. J. REEVES,
Surgeon A JPhgsieian,
CALIIOUN, - - - GEORGIA,
A! \A he found at liis office, in tHe Crick
JL Store of 15oaz, Barrett A Cos., day
or night—when not professionally engaged.
iau2o’7ltf
RUFE WALDO THORNTON,
DENTIST,
Calhoun, - - -9, soia.
IiIIANKFULI iIIANKFUL for former patronage, solicits
. a continuance of the same.
Office at Residence. sepls
dr. d.c.huinit,
Physician and Druggist,
CALHOUN\ GA.
J. D. TINSLEY.
watch-maker
AND-
, J ewelee,
(A LUO UN, ; ; ; ; ; GEORGIA.
i styles of Clocks, Watches and Jewelry
A' * neatly repaired and warranted.
{ESTABLISHED IX 1855.)
J.O.MATHEWSON,
PRODUCE
COMMISSION MERCHANT
Aror.S'J'J. GEORGIA.
Hei,t 1870 ly
TI N-W ARE
Cooking Stoves!
W.T.HALL&BRO,
WOULD inform the public that they are
prepared to fill all orders in the
Tin-Ware Line,
At as LOW PRICES as any similar estab
lishment in Cherokee Gi -^gia.
Our work is put up by experienced work
men, and will compare favorably with any
in the country.
— —r>~ ——
Tn these days of Freedom, every good
husband should sec that the “goot wife”
is supplied with a good'
Coolting St'ovo,
And we are prepared to furnish any size
or style desired at the Lowest Possible
Prices.
Give us a call. aull,tf
A- W. BALLEW,
DEALER IN
D R Y-G 0 0 D S,
NOTIONS,
Boots, Shoes, Hats, Groceries,
Hardware, Queensware, &c,,
A USICAL INSTRUMENTS,
FAC ORY YARNS, SHIRTINGS,
And
READY-MADE CLOTHING,
FAMILY GROCERIES,
LIQUORS, e*3o.
Rmlrcad Street, - - CALIIOUN, GA.
Has just received and constantly receiv
ing, a fresh supply of
BACON, LARD, FLOUR, MEAL,
SUGAR, COFFEE, RICE,
CIGARS, TOBACCO,
CONFECTIONERIES,
Canned Fruits, Nuts, Oysters,
SARDINES, CHEESE, Ac
II > I ■ rn» n -nrnrrm Minr —i \mtmr* i
And, m tact, a lull and complete assortment
of Staple and Fancy Groceries.
He also keeps one of the best Stocks of
WINES & LIQUORS,
in this part of the country.
if you want good, fresh Groceries, or Fine
Old Whiskies, Brandies, or Wines, give me
a call. febl(i’7lGm
J. H. ARTHUR,
DEALER IN
STAPLE AXI) FAXCY DRY GOODS,
Cutlery, Notions &c.
Also keeps constantly on hand a choice
stock of
FAMILY GROCERIES,
In all of which purchasers are offered in
dncements.to buy.
Auglll Cm
J. N. B. COBB. tfNO. \r. WALKER.
COBB a WALKER,
AGENTS FOR
GROVER & BAKER’S
CELEBRATED
SEWINCt
MACHINE.
Every Machine Warranted to
keep in good running order.
ALSO AGENTS FOR GEN. LEE
MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION.
G. M. HUNT, Calhoun, Georgia, is author
ized to transact all our business during our
absence. marl 6-6 m
CHEROKEE
MANUFACTURING C 0„
DALTON, i GA.
Manufactures all Kinds of
HP *£J 3rL 3XT X *3? TX HFL 3D,
Os the best material this country affords,
and very superior in style and workmanship,
which they offer to the public and the gen
eral trade, as low as can be afforded.
Chairs & Bedsteads a Speciality.
Blinds, Doors, Sash and Job Work, to or
der, on short notice.
Dr. D. G. Hunt is our Agent at Calhoun,
Ga., and keeps a good supply of Furniture
on hand. J. W. WALKER, Sup't.
L. D. Palmer, Secretary. aug*26’7o-ly
IIISSttLITKIX Mill
THE copartnership heretofore existing un
der the firm name of Ballew & Marshall,
is this day dissolved by mutual consent—J.
W. Marshall retiring. The books of the
firm are in the hands of A. W.’Ballew, who
will close up all the business of the late firm.
A. W. Ballew
L W. Marshall.
Head Further!
I propose to continuer the business at the
old stand, and am determined at all times to
keep a full and first-class stock.
fob 10,1 m A. W. BALLEW.
G. H. & A. W. FORCE,
SIGN OF TIIE
BIG IRON BOOT,
Whitehall Street, : : ; Atlanta, Ga.
1300 TS, Shoes and Trunks, a complete Stock
J and new Goods arriving daily ? Gents’
Hoots and Shoes, of the best makes. Ladies’
Shoes of all kinds. Boys, Misses and Children’s
Shoes of every grade and make.
Z-&T We are prepared to offer inducements to
Wholesale Trade. sept2a,’7o-lv
T 13. LANGFORD, Wholesale and
IJ, Retail dealer in Stoves, Hollow-wave.
Tinware, cutlery, &c., Atlanta, Georgia.
ANY QUANTITY of “Fine Virginia Leaf
and Manufactured Tobaccos at
DeJOU 1! N BTT & S< *N'S,
G>i Broad «& Bridge sts.. Rome,
in - *
JIALHOUN, GA., THURSDAY, JULY 13, 1871.
POETRY.
,Tlie Hope of the Heart.
BY LORD BYRON.
Though the day of my destiny’s over,
And the star of my fate hath declined,
Thy soft heart refused to discover
The faults which so many could find ;
Though thy soul with my grief was ac
quainted,
It shrunk not to share it with me,
And the love which my spirit hath painted,
It never had found but in thee.
Then, when Nature around me is smiling,
The last smile which answers to mine,
Ido not believe it beguiling
Because it reminds me of thifie ;
And when winds are at war with the ocean,
As the breasts I believed in with me,
If the billors excite an emotion,
It is that they bear me from thee.
Though the rock of my last hope is shiv
ered
And its fragments are sunk in the wave,
Though I feel that my soul is delitered
To pain—it shall not be a slave;
There is many a pang to pursue me;
They may crush, but they shall not
condemn—
They may torture but shall not subdue me—
’Tis of thee that I think, not of them.
Though human, thou didst hot deceive
me,
Though woman, thou didst not forsake,
Though loved, thou forebodcst to grieve
me,
Though slandered, thou never Couldst
shake,
Though trusted, thou didst not disclaim
me;
Thou parted, it was not to fly,
Though watchful, ’twas not to defame me,
Nor mute that the world might belie.
Yet I blame not the world nor despise-it,
Nor the war of the many with one—
If my soul was not fitted to prize it,
’Twasfolly not sooner to shun;
And if dearly that error hath cost me,
And mere thali I once could foresee,
I have found that whatever it cost me,
It could not deprive me of thee.
Erom the wreck of the past which hath
perished,
Thus much I at least may recall,
It has taught me that which I most cher
ished,
Deserved to be dearest of all;
In the desert a fountain is springing;
In the wide waste there still is a tree,
And a bird in the solitude singing,
Which speaks to my spirit of thee
MISCEIiLANY.
Steam on Its Last Legs.
Three great inventions or discoveries
now threaten the security of the reign
of King Steam, crowned years ago by
Watts, emperor of Europe, and by Ful
ton, supreme master of American wilds.
The monarch was worthy of magnificent
realms that he enriched, populated and
aggrandized, lie built cities and pal
aces, and made men move and think as
never before ; but his dominion it threat
ened with violent overthrow. There
are three aspirants for the crown, and
each asserts his royal blood; and if
might—“power”—give right, the claims
of each are surely unquestionable.—
Steel constitutes the marrow and sinews
of Iron, and Mr. Cayce, of Tenncs
see, now exhibits a ear propelled by a
series of steel springs, whose force is so
applied that it is made constantly cu
mulative. Ilis friends say that carriages
on street and other railways and on com
mon roads, and steamships, will be as
successfully propelled by steel springs
as the little model street car that so ex
cites the multitude at Nashville. A
New York inventor drives heavy ma
chinery by electrical forces. The ma
chine used is beneath a glass case, which
the visitor looks upon, but is not suffered
to touch or comprehend. In this in
stance there may be delusions practiced,
but no one questions the capacity of
lightning to achieve any task. We see
its vivid flash in the heavens, and at the
same instant behold the terrific work its
shafts have done at our very feet. It
is of the essence of force, of velocity,
and of resistless, God given power. —
The ancients thought it of the essence
of Omnipotence. It conveys messages
through space almost infinite, and may
as well convey men as merchandise or
munitions of war. In New Orleans an
other motive power, as applied upon
street railways, excites the wonder and
delight of newspapers. Ammonia is
substituted for steam, and street cars
with the rudest mechanical appliances
are propelled along Canal street with’
any required speed. It is in fact a great
pity to die just now. The world pro
gresses so rapidly, such wonderful
changes arc wrought, so rapid is the pro
gress of invention, art and scientific dis
covery, so progressive the development
of the country’s wealth and greatness,
so wonderful the changes an hour bring
forth, that not only those who anticipate
annihilation as the consequences of death,
but those who would dwell in elysian
fields of preternatural bliss, may well
have a “ hankering ” for the glories of
Time, even wooed by the splendors of
Eternity. —Memph is Appeal.
The Famine in Persia.— The sto
ries of the Persian famine, resulting
from long drouth and crop failure last
year, are tenible. The people are liter
ally dying of hunger in the Streets of
Teheran. In Ivhorassan, parents are
selling their children as slaves to the
Turcomans in order to keep them alive,
and in Ispahan, as is said, men have been
seized in the -act of digging up corpses
to serve as food for their starving fami
lies. In Shiraz-Kennan and Yezd the
wretched families endeavor to Support
life on the grass and roots which they
may find in the neighborhood, and, as
might be expected, pestilence follows
liard on the footsteps of famine; be
tween them, the half of the kingdom of
Persia is being rapidly depopulated.
HON. KEVEKDY JOHNSON.
Address to Lawyers.
At the commencement exercises #'
the Law Department of the University
of Maryland in Baltimore, on the. 3d
iust., the degree of Doctor of Laws was
conferred upon lion. Reverdy Johnson.
Mr. Johnson at the conclusion of the
exercises delivered the following address
to the Faculty and members of the grad
uating class :
Mr. Provost and Gentlemen of the
University of Maryland: During my
long professional career, of neatly fifty
six years, it has been my constant hope
and aim to stand well in the eontftenceof
my professional brethren, a< have
believed for years that l had jrerdmed
that hope; but if I had ofror enter
tained any doubt of it, the proceedings
of to-day- would have assured me of its
fulfillment. None of the honors which
I have received from my*State or the
general government have been more
highly appreciated than tlie one 1 re
ceived to-day at your hands. F have
seen for years that I had a place not
only in the confidence, but in the affec
tions of my brethren of the bar, and
their gentle and Kind attentions have
gone far towards relieving the weight
of the affliction under which I labor.
Turning to the gentlemen of the grad
uating class, Mr. Johnson said : Since
I received an invitation to address you
my professional engagements have been
so constant and engrossing that I have
not been able to do more than think
generally upon the topics which I con
sider appropriate to refer to on this oc
casion. Law, in its general and com
prehensive sense, fills the universe.
The Great Architect has impressed
upon his works certain laws, without
which all would be chaos; but, although
lie has bound nature fast, he has
thought fit to leave the human mind free,
and it is because of that freedom of will
that we are bound to enact such laws as
will create individual happiness. The
law, in its comparatively contracted
sense, that to which you are now
devoted, from the necessity for
the government and protection of soci
ety. Our fathers founded our Govern
ment for free institutions, which would
remain free under a proper administra
tion of the laws passed in obedience to
the Constitution of our country, but
fail under an improper administration,
because its object would be thereby de
feated. ’You should acquaint your
selves with the Constitution of your
State, and of the United States; read
and reflect upon the history of the rev
olution, and trace the history of the
Constitution from the day of its organi
zation to the day of its adoption. You
should read Story’s commentaries upon
the Constitution of the United
States, and the first volume of
Kent’s commentaries, but above all,
read the debates in the Convention
which adopted the Constitution. Espe
cially, read the decisions of the Su
preme Court of the United States, as
announced by Chief Justice Marshall;
consult, too, the decisions of his suc
cessors, and especially those of that
great, jurist, whose name can never be
mentioned in Maryland among those who
knew what exalted virtues he united
to his transcendant abilities without ap
aprproval of his decisions —Roger R.
Taney. [Applause.] After you' have
read these great luminaries of the law
you are to make yourselves lawyers in a
municipal sense before you can attain
success. I am glad to know from the
reports of your professors that you give
promise of success. Y r our labors are,
however, only begun, and you are but
at the threshold of the temple of the
law. You must leave no time unem
ployed but wliat is absolutely required
for recreation. First make yourselves
masters of all legal definitions, consult
the pages of Rlackston and keep by
you Jacob’s Law Dietioenary, and neve
pass a word which you do not under
stand. You are to do more ; that will
carry you only a part of the way. The
law of real estate is a science of itself,
and in England it is much more intri
cate and voluminous than in this coun
try. Read Bruce’s Digest, Cruise’s Di
i gest and Sugden’s Law of V endor and
Purchase In order to knot? the law of
your own State, read the statutes at
large of Maryland, and ascertain what
laws of a general character are passed
at each session of the Legislature. —
'That is not all, for when you go into a
court room you will .find there a war,
carried on in ?’ friendly manner, but yet
a War in its intellectual gladiatorship.
You must then read works on evidence.
Read Starkey and Phillips, and what is
better Greenleaf on evidence. There is
no branch of the law in which there are
co many seeming contradictions, and not
until you have made yourselves masters
of the law* of the evidence, can you ap
proach the argument of a case with con
fidence. Rules of pleading must also
receive your attention. No branch
of the law is better calculated to
strengthen and sharpen the mind. I
advire you to read a book which was
much used when I was a student, but is
little used now. I refer to Bacon’s
; abridgement. You should not only
make a constant examination of Bacon’s
j work, but also tbfit of a great lawyer of
your own State, \\ illiam Pinkney. Af
ter you have made yourselves lawyers
as far as knowledge of the law is con
| eerned, you will find yourselves at great
disadvantage unless you keep your tem
pers. A lawyer who loses his self-pos
! session is at once under a great disad
vantage. It is due to the character of
the profession that you should be at all
times gentlemen, and preserve your
ouvtcous bearing toward the (’mirt ami
towards each other. While maintain
ing our individual rights never at any
time forget what you owe to others “
Be at all times men of honor and faith
ful to all your professional obligations.
Honor vnd virtue in the lawyer are as
absolutely necessary to success as are
bravery and skill to a general. A law
yer may make money without them, but
his success will never be permanent,
and the lawyer who, for the purpose of
obtaining money, assists in the perpe
tration of a fraud, is equally guilty with
the principal. There is a peace above
all other consolations —the peace of a
quiet conscience, and that success which
is attained by improper means is sure to
fail the man who seeks it, while those
who wait and are content to pursue with
steadfast hope the way of integrity and
truth, die honored and happy.
My. Johnson concluded by giving an
account of tlie lilns of the Court of
London, warning the graduates against
the too frequent use of using, inappro
priately, metaphors and pathos on sub
jects which did not admit of it, and in
Lia ctubing iemarke, p*.v 1 high tribute
to the bar of Maryland.
From the Ronic Courier
Tlie Population of Georgia.
The following is an official abstract
of the population of the State, giving
that of each county. We regret that
we are not able to give the proportions
of white and black :
Counties. 1870.
Appling 0,080
Bakes 0,843
Baldwin 10,618
Ranks 4,973
Bartow 10,560
Berrieri • 4,518
Bibbs 21,205
Brooks 8,342
Bryan 5,252
Bullock ’ - 5,010
Burke 17,303
Butts 0,941
Calhoun 5,403
Camden 4,615
Campbell 9,170
Carroll 11,782
Catoosa 4,409
Charlton 1,897 *
Chatham 41,279
Chattahoochee 0,059
Chattooga 0,902
Cherokee 10,339
Clarke . 12,941
Clay 5,493
Clayton 5,297
Clinch 3,945
Cobb ' 13 814
Coffee 3,192
Columbia 13,529 *
Colquitt 1,054
Coweta 15,875
Crawford 7,557
Dado 3,033
Dawson 4,309
Decatur 15,183
DeKalb 10,014
Dooley 9,790
Dougherty 11.517
Early 0,998
Echols 1,978
Effingham 4,215
Elbert 9,249
Emanuel 0,134
Fannin 5,429
Fayette 8,221
Floyd 17,230
Forsyth 7,983
Franklin * 7,883
Fulton 33,440
Giimer 0,543
Glasscock 2,730
Glynn 5,376
Jordon 9,268
Grccnc 12,454
Gwinnett 12,431
Habersham 0,322
Hall 9,007
Hancock 11,317
Haralson 4,004
Harris 13.284
Hart 0,783
Heard 7,800
Henry 10,102 i
Houston 20,400
Irwin 1,837
Jackson 11,181
Jasper 10,439
Jefferson 12.190
Johnson 2.964
Jones 9,430
Laurens 7,834
Lee 9,507
Liberty 18,917
Lincoln 5,453
Lowndes 3,321
Lumpkin 5,161
Macon 11,458
Madison 5,227
Marion 8,000
Mclntosh 4,491
Merriwether 13,756
Miller 3,091
Milton 4,280
Mitchell 6,633
Monroe 17,213
Montgomery 3,586
Morgan 10.696 *
Murray 6,500
Muscogee 16,033
Newton 14,615
Oglethorpe 11,782
Paulding 7,693
Pickens 5,317
Pierce 2,778
Pike 10.905
Polk 7,822 -
Pulaski 11,940
Putnam 10,4Q1
Quitman ±,150
Rabun 3,256
Randolph Ift,s6l
Richmond 23.724
Schley 3,129
Screven 9,175
Spaulding 10,205
Stewart 14,203
Sumter 10,509
Talbot 11,913
Talliaferro _ 4,090
Tatnall 4.809
Taylor 7,143
Telfair R ->4 j,
j Terrell 9,i>53
Thomas 14.523
Towns 2,780
Troup 17.032
; Twiggs 8,545
1 Union 3,269
Upson 9,430
Walker 9.995
Walton 11.038
Ware 2,2.30
Warren ! 0,5 15
Washington 15,542
Wayne 2,177
Webster 4.77
White 4,606 ■
Whitfield 10,177
Wilcox 1,439
Wilkes •* i 1,796
Wilkinson 9.388
Worth 3,778
f _____
Total 1,195,077
Taken in by Swindlers —A young j
j ■nioL. -dirt. *•««;<!, v <s i n ('hester county, a
few miles from Pottstown— uo v.-di o a ll
| him M~. A ery Green, although that was
fiot exactly his name —came near being
victimized by the New York “sharps”
1 a few days since. He received notice
that a box containing watches and
other sundries ” to consider; ble value,
(we had not beard the. exact amount),
bad been shipped to him, and that he
could obtain these goods by calling at
the express office, at Pottstown, and pay
ing, $63 “ collect on delivery.” • Mr.
Very Green raised tlie funds, Dame b.no
and paid over the money, and obtained
bis treasure box. As he was about
leaving lie was advised by the Express
Agent, who having seen such boxes be
fore “ suspected something” in this case,
to open his box and examine the goods
before leaving the office. At first he
demurred a little, “believed not,” Ac.,
but finally concluded that perhaps it
would be best to do so. The box was
opened and Mr. Green was astonished
(though the express people were not),
to find that it contained nothing but
some small blocks of wood, saw dust Ac.
The chap looked blank enough, said
that he “ would be darned if be was not
fooled that time,” and made sundry other
ejaculations that we will not repeat. He
was directed to go and make an affida
vit to the contents of the box, that they
were not such as he had expected to re
ceive, Ac , and in due course of time
by order of the express company,
his money was returned to him. And
so the New York swindlers did not make
much out of our friend A ery Green,
though it was no fault of his that it
was so, for lie bit at their bait like a
young “gudgeon.” Os course he don’t
read the newspapers or he would not
have been caught so easily. —PotU town
Ledger.
Kiss Me.
Avery funny incident occurred *not
a thousand miles from this city, a few
days since, and one which is too good to
be lost. One of our celebrated compo
sers has written a very pretty song enti
tled “ Kiss Me.” Avery pretty blush
ing maid having heard of the song, and
thinking she would get it with some
others, stepped into a music store to
make a purchase. One of the clerks,
a modest young man stepped up to wait
upon her. The young lady threw *hor
veil back, saying:
“ I want ‘Rock Me to Sleep.’ ”
The clerk got the song and put it be
fore her.
“ Now,” said the young lady, “ I want
the ‘ Wandering Refugee.’ ”
“ Yes ma’am,” su'd the clerk, bowing,
and in a few minutes he produced the
“ Refugee.”
“ Now’ ‘ Kiss Me,’” said the- young
lady, of course meaning the-song above
mentioned.
The poor Slerk’s eyes popped fire al
most, as he looked at the young lady in
utter astonishment, for he was not aware
of the fact that a song of that flame
had been written.
“ Why—wliat did you say, Miss ?”
“ Kiss Me /” said she.
“ I can’t do it; I never kissed a young
lady in my life,” said the clerk.
And about that time a veil dropped,
a young lady left in a hurry, clerk felt
sick, and dealer lost the sale of some
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music. I
An Ohio editor who objects ,to re
signing his“ pants to strutting old lien’s,
assigns this practical reason :
“We are not, however, in favor of fe- j
male suffrage, for many reasons. And
as to woman’s rights, ovfr experience is, |
if she had any more than she now ex
ercises, we fur one, would not Have a 1
single hair in our head ! We would be :
compelled to don any old petticoat she j
might in her condescension bestow upon !
us. while she would cut ./i/n-nastics in 1
our breeches. (Jh, lord preserve us. j
never!
‘•Tlie woman of the coming time !
Shall man to vote appoint her ?
Well, yes or no, your bottom dime
He’ll do as she’s a tnin’fe".
We know she will or else she won't,
’Twill be the same as now ;
And if she does, or if she don’t
God bless her, ajivirow 1”
The Boston Traveller says that a !
lady, while walking out during a thun
. der storm the latter part of the last ,
week, felt a shock of electricity which '
momentarily numbed her, but recover
ing almost instantly, she continued her
walk home. On arriving there, she
found that the lightning had actually
struck a fold of her black alpaca dress,
near the ground, w here it was wet by
the show er, and had 'scorched the edge j
of the told and then leaped ofl to the
wet ground
K umber 48.
VAIUOIS iTKMS.
i The board of trade—the counter.
A settled tiling—A cup of good cof
f fee.
! There is an editor in Wisconsin,
whose name is Wufadanv but his paper
| ain’t.
A widower was recently rejected by
! a damsel who didn’t want-affections that
j had been “ warmed over.”
Iwcause a man who attends a flock of
, shccj) is a shepherd, makes it no reason
| that a man who keeps cows should be a
cow-ard.
1 nisi ness before pleasure—kissing
yemr going out to spend tlm
evening wit IT a female friepd.
A Mr. Kettle. a marriotl man, lately
piaid court to a Miss 1-ish, and now lie’s
got a pretty Kettle of Fish on hand.
A Missouri miss advertises for a hus
bamL saying she’s so lonely since her
fat lief dido and she s “alrade of
goasts.”
Because a Fort V, uync woman kept
I her h*xl b«- poison oil the same shelf
v itli her preserves, she don’t have to
mend ltcr Johny’s trowsers any mote
B hat is the difference between a eat
and a speech ? One has claws at the
end oi'Jiis paws, and the other has pauses
at the end of his clauses.
There is a young lady in Camden stud
ying' Latiti. She has a beau. tie.
asked her what s/e limisit gloria tumuli
meant. She‘translated it, “ Come and
soe me on Monday.”
The door-keeper of a show which
lately exhibited at Lancaster, Pa., was
struck dumb by having a fine tooth
comb “presented to him” in mistake
for a ticket of admission.
A reporter for an evening paper says :
Ladies have adopted the new fashion
of dispensing with the button and fas
tening the chemise with a blue ribbon.”
Wonder how lit ? nows.
During an examination a medical stu
dent being asked the question, “ When
; does mortification set in?” replied,
“ When you pop the question and are
! answered ‘ No.’ ”
Doesticks thinks it Cotitlasifo evi
dence of drunkenness when he secs a
man ■■sticking a postage stamp behind
bis ear and attempting to get into a let
ter box to go by the mail train.”
" Look here, boy ” said a nervous old
gentleman to an urchin, who was munch
ing sugar-candy at a lecture; “you
are annoyipg me very much.” “ No, I
ain’t; I’m a-gnawin this sugar-candy,”
replied the urchin.
lhis is the way a Chicago paper an
nounces a Fourth of-J uly oration : “E. 1L
SKerman will take the uucircutucised ea
gle by the tail, at Kowauuo, on the
Fourth, and smite him thus.”
Josli Billings says flics have a big up
petight for getting into things y they
are the fust at the dinner table, and al
wuz take soup, and don’t leave until the
cloth is removed.
“ Bill,” said Bob, “why is that tree
called the weeping willow ?" “ Clause one
of the sneaking, plaguey things grow
near the school-house, and supplied the
master with switches.”
A young lady, while walking with a
gentleman, stumbled, and when her com
panion, to prevent her sassing, grasped
her hand somewhat tightly, she sim
pered, “ Oh, sir,,if it eoifies to that, you
must ask my pal ’
A Jefferson county, New York, far
mer laughed when his prudent wife ad
vised him not to smoke on a load of
hay. His widow has about one bun
dle land fifty pounds of scrap ifon for
Sale.
A man in Jersey City, who had forced
a kiss from a school girl, was fined by
the inogistrate, horse-whipped by the
big brother, and snatched bald headed
by his own wife. And it was not much
of a kiss after all.
An old colored washerwoman, who
used t-o groan over Ifof tubs, found con
solation in the hope that she “ would be
soon where robes won’t need washing,
and a poor creature can upset her tub
and dance in the bottom of it, singing
glory, hullabaloo, forever and forever.”
When a girl thinks a good “ deal ”
of a “ spruce ” young man, and “ pines”
for his company, isn’t she in the lumber
business pretty heavy ? Certainly, if
she “ boards ” in the same family, and
“shingles” her hair and is able to
“ flank ” down a few, thousands ofbank
stock and docs not disturb the “ sleep
ers” by keeping late hours.
An old bachelor editor, thus, in his
■ *pitc, Comiqefits on u recent moonlight
night: We left our sanctum at mid
night last uiglit, and on our way home
??e saw a young lady and geutkrmai’
holding a gate on its hinges. They
were evidently indignant at being kept
out so late, as we saw them bite each
other several times.”
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An incident is said to have occurred
in Chatham street, New York, where a
countryman was clamorously besoiged
by a shopkeeper.
“ Have you any fi*?e shirts ?” said the
countryman.
“ A splendid assortment, sir. Step
in,‘sir. Every price, and every style.
** Arc they clean ?**
“To be sure I Step in sir.”
“ Then,” said the countryman, with
great gravity, “you had better put one
ort, for you need it”