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~ ~ • - The Calhoun Times. V oluriie IT: thi: calhOun times. , j i;V; ' ■ Till i:>KT MuitnlNi«, BY /-IVA7.V & MA It SIT ALL. T i:i:m< or sueacr/ftjon. One Year ; : : : : $2.00 Mouths : : : • • l.w ~RATES or 1 1> i ERTISING. k , s'.,-As IM*• j 3 M'H. '<» Mo». I I >•«-. r. *r~r sTw" $7.00 $12.00 $20.00 fnmr “ 6.00 10.00 18.00 35.00 i column 9.00 1*5.00 80.00 40.00 * . 15.00 25.00 40.00 05.00 \ “ 25.00 40.00 05.00 115.00 All subscriptions are payable strictly in advance; ami at the expiration of the time for which payment is made, unless pre vinp slv renewed, the name of the subscriber '.iit iN stricken from oifr boohs. For each squar : of ten lines or less, for the first insertion, sl, ami for each subsequent insertion, fifty coifts. Ten lines of solid Brevier, or its equivalent in space, make a uarc. Terms cash, before or on demand after the first insertion. Advertisements under the head of “ Special NVices," twenty cents per lino for first in sertion, and ten centsbach sebsequent inser \ll communications on matters of public interest will meet with prompt attention, and ( . on cise letters on general subjects are re fully solicited from all parts of the Pconntry. It aTi Ati >vVI>N. URSTERN .]• ATLANTIC. NIOIIT PABSSXOKB TRIIX OUTWARD. I.eave Atlanta 10.3. re. m .Arrive at tolhmin A. M. u-rive at Cliatlanoo-'i '» l l ' a. m Dv V I'ASSKNGKR TRAIN -HtTWAID. fears Atlanta 8 15 A M \ Arrive at Calhoun 12.-19 r*. u. Arrive at Chattanooga 4.25 P. M. FAST I.IXB TO XBW YOI.K OCTWARD. ~eive Atlanta 2-4-j v. m. Arrive at C i>hou:i •** P. M. “ at l)ilton 7.5 J p. m XIGHT P .SSBNOKR TRAIX—IXVVAIED. leave CbaUanooga 5 20 P. M \i rive at Calhoun D (l 7r. M Vriiveat Atlanta 145A. M. DAY PISSBNUIiR TRAIN —INWARD. hewe Chattamo a 5.30 a. m. Arrive at 0 iltmu y a. m , Arrive at Atlanta 220 I*, u. | ACCOMODATION TRAIN IX W A RD. heave Pa'ton 225 i* vi Arrive at C.i'n am ~. ..3 2" P M Arrive at Atlanta It.lo a. m 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 Bov. jVC£*,x*ti:o , 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. ■ m ——«• ►— - —y 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.