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Professional cards
W. S. MOHNSON,
iltorney Law,
(JA Lit 01 \V, GEO It GIA.
B INC 'Cl'"' in Southeast corner of the
■. n Vt PVtuso.
:I 1 *
\ , !N .los. M COX NELL.
tain and McConnell,
V.tlorni‘3 r s at Law,
CM LIIOEN\ GEORGIA.
' Office in the Court House.
Vug ll 1 1C
IV. .1. CANTRELL,
\ii orm'y A t I atnv.
OaDHUUN, <1 KotHilA.
;VMDD Praetie.' in the Cherokee Circuit. I
A in U. S. District Couvt, Northern Dis
’ • oft’,' _■>. fat Atlanta); an lin the Su- j
pr mu a Court otthe State of Georgia. *
13. .3. K 11% 131?
attorney £\t
CALHOUN, GEORGIA.
' at the Old Stand of CanfrU <1 A Acer. J j
I LI, praetiee in all the Courts of the I
r\ (PiMTikee Circuit; Supreme Court o 1 I
< ■ u'giu, and tit « United States Histtict Court j
at Atlanta, Gi. nugl9 701 y
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ATTORNEY A T LA IF,
DA II LON KG A, - - - GEO.
Nov 10 1870 ts
0 v S . Vv K . T.uit :t-8. W. R Taakktv,
M '.i ttv v; l > . Ga [
PHILLIPS & H AN KIN,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW ,
—AND—
< olloct ill £>- (A 11 1 S 9
Calhoun. (In.
\V — :os
M ILL practice in the Courts ol the
lierokee Circuit.
1 • ’ Office North side Public Square.
DR. W. .1. REEVES,
0 Surgeon N Physician,
CALHOUN, - - - GEORGIA,
MAY found at his office, in the Brick
Store of Barrett cV Cos., day
ni'night—when not professionally engaged.
jan2G’7ltf
RUFE WALDO THORNTON.
nijJXTIST,
Calhoun, Gi >.igia.
1 THANKFUL for 'ormcr patronage solicits
■ !l continuance A the same.
t)flicc at Residence. sepls
8. T. PARKER,
' iSIfIOXA RLE TAILOR.
(over author's store.)
’ VLIIOUN, - - Georgia.
I articular pains taken with cutting gar
mints for ladies to make.
J. F.“TINSLEY.
watch-maker
—AXI> %
* and KW HI Held.
ALIIQUIX, : ; : ; GEORGIA
i ?, yles of Clocks, Watches arid Jewelry
neatly repaired and warranted.
au g 970tf
B - I-\MiFOUI>, Wholesale and
, • Retail dealer in Stoves, Hollow-ware.
' cutlery, &0., Atlanta, Georgia.
n QL A NITTY of “Fine Virginia Leaf
inulactured Tobaccos at
DkJOURNETT & SON’S,
r °ad & Bridge sts., Rome,
Dtt. J. RRADFIELD S
Female Regulator.
IS one of the great
‘ W est ' J^BS ‘ n fis tnat ha<«
ev ;r Been given to wo*
_ ? •I't * man. It will relieve
IjE'Suppression, Monthly
, k I’ains, Rheumatism,
'' \''R ’} Neuralgia, and a cer
tain cure for the Whites
yA •- Vftn and Prolapsus Uteri.
V ' / / For full particulars,
~ v >.3Vv history of diseases and
certificates of its wonderful cures, the reader
is referred to-the Wrapper around the bottle.
For sale by all Druggists. Ib-ice, $1,60
per bottle.
DR. PROPHITX*S
Celebrated Liter .Medicine,
ON K of the Crcatt*Bt Reined ip* of the age, fin
all diseases of tbe Direr, Jaundice, Bowel Corm
[ila.nt, Colic, Cliills and Fever and IJiilious Fe
ver. In fact, all diseases aiismg from a deranged
Diver
ANT I- BILIO l/S PILL S.
These Pills have been used for ti e Inst, fifteen
rears, and for Headache, l)e r anged Diver, &c.,
are without an equal.
DR. Plt OP lIITTS AG UE PILLS.
A sure CURE for.CHH.DK and FEVER.
DR. PR opj/rrf’ s
1 dysentery C'oi-dial.
Cures all derangements of the UOW^DS.
Dr. Prophitt’s Pain Kill It.
This celebrated Medicine should be in every
household. It is a certain cure for all Pains, arid
antidote to Bites of Poisonous insects, Snakes.
Ac. A superior remedy for Rheumatism and
Neura'gia. TRY IT.
All the above articles for sale by Dr I). G.
Hunt.’ Druggist, I onn, Ga. Casepttm
LT p stairs, over 46 and 48, between \V. B.
J Lowe & Cos. and Lawshe and Haynes.
Whitehall St., - Atlanta, Ga.
hope my old friends and custos.iom
will give me a trial.
Terms—Transient boarders, per day, $2
single meal or lodging, 50c.
E. It. SASSEEK,
may2s-tf. Ag’t, Proprietor.
TENNESSEE HOUSE
ROME, GEORGIA,
J. A. Prop’r.
TJIHE above Hotel is located within Twenty
I Steps of the Railroad Platform. Baggage
handled free of Charge* octG'7otf
aosSiT
(Central Position of the City.)
Nos. 95 and 97 Broad Street, Rome. Ga.
FIRST CLASS FARE
OPEff AT ALL HOUKS!
B^^"Free Omnibus to Si from the depot.
Fine Bar and Billiard Saloon attached.
Give me a call. J. 11. Coleman, Prop’r.
april 0-1 y
“Homo
J. C. RAWLINS, Prop’r.
£hoice~hot kl
BROAD ST., ROME, GA.
Passengers taken to and from )lie Depot F>re
of Cli urge (veM)’7'.'tf
A. W. BALLEW7
DEALER IN
DRY-GOODS,
NOTIONS,
Boots, Shoes, Hats, Groceries*
Hardware, Queensware, &c.,
. IT SICAL INSTRUMENTS,
FAC ORY YARNS, SHIRTINGS,
AND
READY-MADE CLOTHING,
FAMILY GROCERIES,
XbIQUOUS, d?c,
Railroad Street, - - CALHOUN, GA.
Has just received and constantly receiv
ing, a fresh supply of
BACON, LARD, FLOUR, MEAL,
SUGAR, COFFEE, RICE,"
CIGARS. TOBACCO,
CONFECTIONERIES,
Cautied Fruits, Nuts, Oysters,
SARDINES, CIIEESE, Ac
And. in fact, a full 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. febltj’TlGm
CHEROKEE
MIACTIMG HI..
DALTON , GA.
Manufactures till Kinds of
Os the best material tPi« country affords,
and very superior in sky ie and workmanship,
\Vhieh they offer to the public and the gen
eral ti*ade, 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 pi Furniture
on hand. J. W. \\ ADD DTI, Sup't.
L. D. Palmer. Secretary. aug2ti'7o-ly
0. 11. & A. W. FORCE, J
SIGN OF TIIE
BIG IRON BOOT,
Whitehall Street, : : : Atlanta, Ga.
I")OOTS, Shoes and Trunks, a complete Stock
) and new Goods arriving daily! Gents’
Boots "and Shoes, of the best makes. Lad ies
Shoes oft 1! kinds. Boys, Misses and Children’s
Shoes of every grade and make.
IW We are prepared to offer inducements to
Wholesale Trade. sept2*,’7o-ly
GA,* THURSDAY, AUGPST 17, I*B7l.
ALHP.BT O. I’ITNER. irfexEY 11.-SMITH.
PITNER & SMITH,
Wholesale and Retail
Grocers & Commission Merchants
Xv > PRALEItS IN **
PURE KENTUCKY WHISKIES.&c.
No. 25, Corner Br< ad i Howard B*s„
ROME, : - GEORGIA.
octo,l 870-1 y
BETTERTON, FORD*& Cos.
w null's ATE DEALEKS IX
BRIDIES, WHISKIES,
Wines, Tobaccos. Cigars. Ac.,
No. 209. MARKET ST., No. 209.
CHATTANOOGA. TENS.
oct 13,1870 ly
Established in 1850.
T. R. RIPLEY,
Removed to Peachtree Street,
ATLANTA, GEORGIA.
Wholesale Dealer in
CROCKERY & GLASSWARES,
WILL duplicate any Bills bor.gUt in any
v V Market, to the amount of One Hun
dred Dollars, and upwards, adding .Freight,
P. S. All Goods guaranteed as represented
from this House. Aug 19 ly
¥1 'sfflK
DFALEH IX
DHYGOODS
Hardware, Boots, Shoes, Hats, Glassware,
Queensvvare, Crockery, &c.
{NEXT door to FOSTER cj* HARLAN'S)
cAll/ovA, ga.
H. B. HACKNEY,
PEaleß t r !
GROCERIES AND LIQUORS,
(At the Old Stand of M. H. Jackson,)
CO f 'R T HO USE ST., C'ALHO UN, G\ 1.
umr2B-ly
J. H. ARTHUR,
DEALER IN
STAPLE AND FANCY DRV GOODS,
Cutlery, Notions
Also keeps constantly on hand a cheicg
stock of
FAMILY GROCERIES,
I« all of which are offered iu
ddcetilents.to buy.
Auglll Gin
DR. D. C.HUMr,
Physician and Druggist,
GALIIO UN, GAT ' i
[ESTABLIWt-r* IN 1855.)
J.O.MATHEWSON,
phodHck
( 03DI1SSION MERCHANT
AUGWr*. GEORGIA.
1«70
.IAS. K 7 \VV I.li ;.
WHOLESALE GROCER,
—ANT)—
Cos mmiss lo n 3le rc han f,
recclit St. - - Atlanta,Geo.
ISISSOIJ Til)\ XOTii'D
rjIHE copartncrslnp heretofore existing un
-1 der the firm name of Ballew & Marshall,
is this day dissolved by mutual consent—,J.
'V. 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
J. Vi. Marshall.
Read Farther!
1 propose to continue the business at tlio
old stand, and am determined at all times to
keep a full and first-class stock.
lob 10,1 in A. W. DALLEW.
Portaloio l
('lO to Calhoun and buy a farm right to
J that inimitable, economical, movable
fence—the
STOKER PATENT.
The most practical farmers of the county
have examined it, ami declared it
the best Portable Fence
they have ever seen.
(oinertable to Any Use !
The most desirable of am/, in point
'Of BGOXOMY OF TIMBER A XI)
LABOR in building.
Confer \v ih either of the undersigned :
J. W. MARSHALL/)
THUS. G. JONES. [■
V. W. BOISCLAIII. )
Steam Brewery,
Southern
ALE, PORTER & BEER.
C. A. GOODYEAR,
Dec23lv Proprietor.
Eire Kiirdler !”
Greatest JTovelty of the Age !
No more expense for pine, <fr trouble of
preparing, kindling for fires or jstovTs. Get
one of HARRIS * BOISCLAIR’S Latent Fire
Kindlers, and you save money an l trouble,
j at a vgjry small expense. For sale at all the
[ stores, and at Clerk’s office* *
junc£9-3m.d H arris & BOISOLAIR
f Bread upon the Waters.
‘•Please sir. wiil you give uqp a penny,
only a penny ?” * *
“ No—go along with you; 1 never
give money to street beggars.” **
And Airs. Parker sat a trifle mote
erect, if it were possible, in her buffalo
cushioned wagon seat, and grasped the
blue cotton umbrella tighter.
Rut her husband, Paul Parker, on
whose kindly face the* boy turned hP
gaze, said:
‘•See here, boy. I’ve ouly got a fifty
cent piece, and it’s more money than *1
ought to giveaway. I shall be here at
three o’clock this day week, opposite this
very tavern ; will you be here to pay it
back to me? Mind, I only lend it to
you ; and maybe I’ll be able to find some
work for you by that time.”
‘•Yes, sir,” said the boy gleefully, as
he scrambled up the wheel, •• 1 will be
here, sure.”
‘•Paul Parker, you’re a fool!” said
the woman angrily. ‘ You scatter your
money about as though there was no end
to it. l)o yotl suppose you'll ever see
your fifty cents again ?”
‘T hope so, wife, said the old man,
touching his placid horse gently with the
reins, and urging him into a sleepy jog
trot. “ I should be sorry to think there
was no truth in that bright eyed little
fellow. Give the world a fair chance,
that’s all I’ve got to fay.”
The blistering August sunshine was
pouring into a little, garret room in one
of the most squalid and neglected pur
lieus of the town, where a brutal look
ing man sat gmokirig a khort,black pipe,
and two or three boys lounged around,
half asleep.
A hand organ stood against the wall,
and a monkey dressed in Soiled red rags,
chattering in the window. Nino’s ac
cordeon and thumped tamborine lay near
by, and Nino himself, with tear stained
cheeks, and heavy eyelids, was crouched
in the corner, wistfully watching-the
door, as if resolved to avail himself of
the first chance that offered itself to es
cape
There was a wild beauty about the
boy in spite of his swarthy checks and
forlorn uniform of rags and attractive
ness that was difficult to understand.—
His brow, overshadowed by thick black
locks, was frank and open - r his eyes were
soft and liquid, and there were both
spirit and gentleness in the outlined
mouth. Had Nino Bavlani been the off
springofau aristocratic lineage, he would
have been called handsome ; but rags
and poverty and blows are anything but
beautifying, and Nino had known but lit
tle else in his brief and sunless existence.
Presently the man knocked the ashes
troll) iiis pipe and lad if down V.illi a
vicious side-long glance at the boy.
“So you’d got fifty cents hid away
you was going to gammon me out of,
eh ?” he demanded. •’You young vaga
bond. I’d like to know what you mean
by it ?”
“ It was mine,” sobbed the boy ; “ T
earned it singin’ under the great folks’
winders, after work in’ hours was over.
I gave you all I earned in the day time,
I did ” *
“ Yours 1” growled the man savagely,
“and all you earn is mine, and if 1 ever
catch you at any such a trick again, I’ll
split your head open for you. Where
are you going now ? Pit down again ”
Only as far out aS West Landiiiil tav-,
ern,” said Nino, entreatingly, as his eyes
marked the slowly creeping tide of sun
shine along the floor that formed his
only substitute for a clock.
“ Well ye won't do no such thing,”
said the man, evidently in a most con
trary and quarrelsome mood. “Go back
to your bench again, do you hear ? You
are not going to stir out es this house
before night, and not then unless you
behave yourself.”
“I’ll be back in ten minutes sir; in
deed I will.”
“ Hold your noise 1” brutally ejacu-j
luted his keeper. 4 * ‘1 tell you you shan’t
stir another peg; there, now !” “Dave,”
to one of the other hoys, “give us a light
here for this pipe ”
Nino, watching his opportunity as a
wild beakt might watch for an escape |
from the cage, gave a forward dart just !
as the man stooped over to rub his match
against the sole of his boot. But he
Was no*l quite quick enough ; his tyrant
seized him rudely by the arm and slung
him across the floor as if he had been a
toy. lie fell, his head striking against
the leg of a bedstead in the corner, and
lay there quite insensible.
“Blest if I dont think he bed ne for.
dad,” said one of the hitherto impassive i
spectators of the scene, a boy of thirteen,
who was generally dressed as a ‘Wander
ing Bavarian.’ with tambourine and
bells.
“Let him alone, 1 say snarled the
father, “I’ll teach him a lesson.” *
Jtist then the bell in the old square
tower struck three. .*
“I told you he wouldn't be here. Paul.”
exultingly bxc-laimcd Mrs. Parker, pro
jecting he§ Leon;grey eyes into every
nook and corner around the dull streets
in front of the “ West Landhili .House
of entertainment, for man or beast.” “I
knew it 1 Now what do you think of
your fine honest hoy
V Ida sorry for it r wife —sorry from
the bottom of my heart. I somehow
thought he was different from the com
mon lot of ’eu|. but I suppose I hadn’t
ought to expect adad brought
up,in the streets. Well, let’s clrucon.”
********
The swift rolling years have sprinkled
their blossoms more plentifully on degn
cr lines in his wife’s fafe. little
girl at the fireside ha« grown Lp» > IS tall
handsome woman. Once more we enter
. the sanctuary of their lives,
f ’T 1 father’s step n, other,” said Lu
cy Parker. jumping to open the door.
‘ Wad en«.ugh. # chi!d,” said old Paul,
meekly shaking the powdery fr'ngc of
| snow from his overcoat. “Milton’s
v. ite s poorly and Bruce has had a stroke
so he can't work no more.”
“And they didn’t pay you the money ?
Paul, you were a fool for ever lending
it, shrieked his wile shrilly, “and what
are we to do. with lawyer Martin write’”
and writen’ for the money we owe him v
“W e can do nothing, wife.”
“W eshall be sold out at auction.and
die in a poor house, yet. Oh, Paul,why
didn t you pay more heed to what I’ve
always been tellin’yoU ,
•'Not so bad as that, I hope,” said the
old man cheerfully, though the muscles
ol his lip and brow quivered.
“Father, is it Ft. John Martin, the
Leeds Lawyer, to whom you owe
this money ?”
•Acs; what do you know about him ?”
“Not much • but I met his son at sev
eral parties last fall, and I—l thick, if
you were to go there and tell him exact
ly how it is, or write, even—”
“No use, croaked Mrs. Parker, de
spairingly, other folks ain’t so ready to
let go ol their moricy as your father.
Lucy.”
“ Maybe it’s worth trying,” said old
Paul, hopefully, “we ll write this night, I
and next week we !1 go up to Boston and
see what answer he makes us.
And then Lucy, blushing like a sweet
pea. ran to get the pen and paper, tiin- j
iuly trusting in the efficiency of her j
plan.
‘•For liis father cayjt.be sq very hard
hearted,” she thought, and they are so
very nth that surely they will be wil
ling to wait for tiffs five hundred dollars
until we can pay it.”
The elegantly furnished little office
on Leeds street did not often have such
outre equipages drawn up before it as
Faul Parker’s mud-be-splashed box-wag
on and shaggy pony, and the elegantly
attired young lawyer, who sat* at the
desk examining some papers, glanced up
in surprise the blooming girl and bent
old man, who entered together like May
and December.
‘‘Lucy !”
“Ninian! I thought your father—l
did not know that—”
“My father is detained at his country
scat, and I am acting member of the
firm, Lucy, lie took me into partner
ship last week, and that is—”
lie turned inquiringly' and Somewhat
with a’start, to tiro brown faced old man
who stood in tin; background. Lucy
introduced her father, and stated their
business with a profusion of very be
coming blushes. She indeed had not
expected to find her g dlant young cava
lier for the past fall in the office of St.
John Martin.
“We are in very straightened circum
stances, Mr. Martin,” concluded Lucy,
“and my father cannot at present hope to
discharge this debt, but I am soon to
have a very good situation in Madame
famine's school as music teacher, and
we can get along and pay a part at a
time, if your father would be so kind as
to wait a little—”
Juicy stopped short. Tier voice was
getting unsteady, and she was far too
proud to yield to the fast coming tears,
in Ni uian Martin’s presence.
The.young man had listened in si
lence, hut now he took a tin box from
its shelf in the safe, and unlocking it.
disclosed sundry packages of labeled
notes, receipts, Ac g
"Let me see,” besa 5 d running bis eye
over them, “it was a note for §500.”
“Is this your note ?”
“ Yes sir.’
Niuian Martin tore it in two, and laid
the fragments in the fire. Paul Parker
and Lucy gazed in astonishment-as the
young lawyer lifted his eyes calmly to
wards them.
“Mr. Parker, you will please consider
that you have received payment for a
very old debt. Wo have balanced ac
counts.”
“Sir, I don't understand you." said
the bewilde ed tld man, “1 don’t re T
member —”
“Hut I do. It is rather more than
ten years, Mr. Parker, since you put
that money at interest.'’
“Si*?”
“I will be more plain with you,” said
the young man smiling. “Perhaps M iss
Pa~ker is not aware that I am only the
adopted son of mv more than father.—
My real name is Nino Harlani. I am
an Italian by birth. Just ton years ago
I was begging in the streets of Hand
bill, starved ami penniless. A kind hand
—you Mr. Parker—extend
ed itself to me in the hour of heed.”
The old mans face lighted up.
“I do remember now. It was a fifty
cent piece, and I told you to come back
just a week from the time, .and-r-jj
“I did not come. No, but I trriu my
very best to come*but was prevented by
the brutality of the man whose slave
and drudge f v T as. Well, I begged my
way to Bqgton, having run away from
my tyrant. St. John Martin foflflcT the
one night in the streets, perishing from
eoid„and starvation. lie -had just lost
his only child, a boy of about my oyp
age, and hot unlike me in personal ap
pearance, and swim how I seemed to take
the sore, vacant place ?h Ms hear*. I
resolved that if it ever lay in mfpovrer
I would return theagift a thousand (told.
But I never dreamed that Lucy's father
wasjny benefactor.”
He fumed to ber with a bright con-*
gratulatory smile, while the brown face
of old Paul Parker worked with emo
tiups he eouid not conceal.* * *
“I thought you wouldn’t ha’ cheated
pie.boy.pl t height your face was a
good and true one! But I have u .right
to your generosity. Your father—” 1
“My father and T are one, sir. in deed,
thought and wish.”
“I don’* know how to thank you, youn<>
man.” e
“Then do not attempt it. Perhaps
one of these days I fyay ask you for vet
more favors.”
Old Parker went home to Lis v,ife Se
dately triumphant. 4g|
“Wile. You've said I told you so’ all
your life t ’one, and now itbs my turn.”
“What on airth do yett mean ?” grum
bled his ascetic helpmate. “I do beliovo
you’re getting in your dotage.”
t “Maybe l am—-though in that case, I
wish I’d got it Tong ago.”
And he toll his gdventure, while T.u
oy sat by, smiling like a morning in May.
“Didn’t I invest that fifty to a good
advantage?” he asked.
“Well, I never !” was her ultimatum.
“He Wants .new favors some day from
me. \\ hat do you say. mother '? Oau
we spare our little girl, here ?”
“Don’t father!” eped Lucy, hiding
her face ; but she didn’t look very am rv
aftei* all. . * ' *
A Great Canoe*- f«tre.
Condurango does not seem tiUhave
proven itself to be a humbug in the
case ol Mrs. Mathews, the mother of
Vice President Colfax, who has been
suffering from cancer for some time—
no matter what it may have done in other
eases. To a friend of his in Baltimore
Mr. Colfax writes r,s follows:
I am glad to be able to tel! you that
mother is on the high road, apparently,
to a perfect cure, although she has oni\
taken quarter doses of coiidoranfu in
cofiseqiience of its scarcity. When we
left Washington in April, her case w?s j
absolutely hopeless, the cancer growing
fearfully and angrily. Now the tumor
is three fourths gone and apparently di
minishing. The pain is almost gone,
and every symptom is favorable. Fincc
the first fortnight she has hail only quar
ter doses, and now has none. She is
more like herself than she has been for
years. llow it cures, or affects career,
I cannot imagine. 1 know how incred
ulous many doctors are about it, and 1
would be, too, if I had not seen its re
sults. It seems to iloburate from the
blood whatever it is that causes the can
cer, and I don’t know what that is any
more than I know v.hy Peruvian bark
cures ague. You can tell your friend"*,
however, when they obtain it they will
notice on the fourth and ay -improvement,
and the ninth day will see themselves
that the cancer is going away ; that is.
if it acts with them as with the cases I
have seen. I’m longitlg for its arrival,
and glad that Dr. Bliss so promptly sent
his partner to that distant region for it.
I have most piteous appeals for it from
friends offering hundreds for it if it will
only stop the growth of this terrible dis
ease, but I have not an iota, and I guess
all in the United States is now used up.
This Condurango, about which so much
is being said, and which was for awhile
the hope of so many of the victims of
cancer, is a drug said to lie derived from
a plant which grows on the highest peaks
of the Andes in one of the districts of
Ecuador. It is very difficult to obtain,
owing to its scarcity and partly to the
unfriendly character of the Indians in
habiting the district, and the dangers
attending the ascent and descent of the
mountains. A Washington physician
has gone there to obtain a supply of the
drug, but he reports that of the many
orders recently received for it from the
United States and from Europe noue
have yet been filled.— Courier-Journal.
I)ca<l Heads.
An exchange says : “Itis an extra
ordinary fact in this world that every
man or Woman that wants something
done for nothing goes straightway to the
publisher of a newspaper. He is the
free bridge over which merit and de
merit proposes to pass over the stream
of trouble. lie is the free horse that
every man proposes to ride into the
green pastures of prosperity and case.”
Exactly the case. An editor is ex
pected to please everybody and accept
the suggestions of nil, however contra
dictory they may be. “Do you see that
mud hole?” says one. “ Well, why
don't you pitch into the authorities ab< ut
it ?” Why. my dear sir,” we answer.
•• we don’t care to bother about such
matters ; but if you will write an article
on the subject, and sign your name to
it, we’ll i oldish it with pleasure.”—
‘•Ah! but then lam not an editor,”
answers our good friend. And so it is
with many. Others shake their sage
heads and say, “O, if I was only the
; editor of a newspaper. I would wake up
things.” No doubt of that—no doubt
of that in the world; but perhaps, gen.-
tle sirs, the-awakening would not be So
pleasant, either to you or the proprie
tors of the journal. *• Discretion is the
better part of valor.” remember, both
iin war and editing a newspaper. An
editor is the vehicle of popular, hut pot
the exponent of each individual sentl
' mc-nt.
A prominet citizen of llichinond. Va..
makes a pitectii fr mplaiut unto the Coin
moil Council of that city on the nuisance
of baby carriages. He mildly asks if
pedestrians have any fights which baby
carriages are b »und to respect . / Ihe
spiritless council laid tfife communication
on the table.
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Every person insensibly fixes upou
some degree of refinement, in his dis
course, s me measure of thought that he
thinks4V'*lh exhibiting. It is wise to
fix this pretty high, although it occa
sions us to talk the kss.
Number 3.
Voices c; the night -Babies r.u *
mosquitoes.
It takes 247 curls for the head of a
city belle.
Ihe New \ orx belles wear striiicd
stocking*. 1
The more tender and delicate the
Blossoms of joy, the purer must be the
hand that will f U H thtpp ~ .> . *
V lien can a uxhn boust that lie b »
f n( l\ l rcfl der ? When he has
lead icu thousand a year.
A lady in this city has rejected a
smtor because he is too pror to pay his
addresses promptly. *
Some people say that dark*haired wo
men marry soonest. We differ, it is
the light headed ones
fob *otoe unexplained reason a Cairo
(111.) paper advises young ladies not to
climb trees in the day time.
VV°, U "? * n Missouri, who is
atraid or ghosts, advertise* for a hus
band who will stay at home of nights.
An Englishman says that ih oHcr to
convert an artless maiden into a heart
less one, there is only wanting a *• he.”
Vby was Louis Napoleon's arim
;Lke his moflstache? Because it wnV
waited at both ends.”
V. bat’s the difference between a honey
comb and a honey moon? One coii
slf'.,s ~fa iHimbm- of small cells; the
other of one great sell.
A crusty old bachelor says that “ love
is a wretched business, eo»isisMng of r
little sighing, a little crying, n little ‘dy
ing,’ end a deal of lying.”'
A colored constable in Savannah
wants to know what good the Wnd
rnent is going to do if a nigger can’t
steal his rations and marry seven wives
A young iady who Was perfectly ihun
derstruek at hearing of her friend s en,
gagoment, has since been provided with
a lightning rod.
L your brother-in law really such <t
lazy man “ Lazy,” was ihe reply :
why he is so lazy that he has an artisf
employed by the month to draw bin
breath by a crayon.
‘4 \ ill you duke sumding,” said a Ger
man teetotaler to a friend* while stand
ing near a tavern. “ I don’t care if f
do ” was the reply. “ Veil, den, let us
dake a v.llk .
A good book and a good woman are
excellent things for those who know
b” w J ust, y to appreciate their value.
I here arc men, however, who judge of
botli by their outside covering.
A little girl jojfully assured ,her
mother that she had found out where
they made horses. “ She had seen a
man, in a shop, just finishing one of
them ; for he was nailing on his last foot.
Mrs Partington says the only way to
prevent steamboat explosions, is to make
the engineers “ bile their water” ashore;
Tn her opinion, all the bustin is caused
by “cooking the steam.” on board.
A peddler, speaking of the villanoui*
whisky they have out in Colorado, sati
that after taking two drinks of it he?
stole his own goods and hid them in the*
woods, and for his life can’t remember
where he put them.
“ I meant to have told you of that
note,” said a gentleman to his friend
who was walking with him in his gar
den, and stumbled into a pit full of wa
ter. “No matter,” said the friend,
blowing the mud and water out of his
mouth, “ I’ve found it.”
Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs
to bite ’em,
A ltd )ittle fleas and lesser fl-a-.amJ co on
ad infinifem : , .
And the great fleas them selves in turn ba*e
greater fleas to go on.
While these again have greater still, and
greater still, and so on.” *
It is related that when Beecher w’ai
in the country last summer, he lust his
hat. and’fotind it in about a week, in
the barn where he had left it. but with
Cur eggs in it. This is as it should be.
Beeches had just written a eulogy oq
the hen ; why sliotilcfn’t the Hen-rc
ward Beecher?
Slightly sarcastic was the Yankee
clergyman who paused, and addressed a
man coining into the church after the
sermon had began, with the remark;?)
“Glad to see you, sir. Always glad to
see these lieVe late that can’t come early.”
But decidedly self possessed was the
man thus addressed in the presence of
the astonished congregation, aajic faj
sponded : “Thank you. Woutf jfofi
favor me with the text?”
A clergyman whoowned a farm, found
his plowman sitting on his plow resting
his horse. Quoth the clergyman, “ John,,
wouldn t it be a good plan for you to
have a goed stub scythe here, asi -lie.
cutting a few bushes along the fenec
while the Dorses. i arq, resting a «;hort
time?” Would* tit be well. «nr,” said
John, “Tor you to have a tub of pota
toes in the pulpit, and, when they arc
singing, peel ’em awhile to be ready fir
( the pot ?”
A wag ft r “ baked potatoes
with monograms on them.” 1 ‘ Yonug,
man from the country ”sa nut'red in an<f
took a scat at tfie breakfast tably. He
sat fifteen minutes without speaking—»
the waiter standing deferentially beaa Vo
yim. “ When is the table to be set?”
he Isked. u Whac will you have V
said the waiter, handing him a bill of
fare. „•• Take that paper away —I want
something to eat —I did if t come her<;
to read,” exclaimed the indignant coun
tryman.