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3 PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
BEV. A. MARTIN,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
novlO 70-ft Dahlonega, Georgia.
J, C. TAIN. JOS. M »;oN.\Ki,L.
fain & McConnell,
A TTO It A l: rs ATL A W,
CALHOUN , GA.
gep. Office in the Court House.
Aug 11 1 ts
W. J. CANTRELL,
Attorney eit Xjȣt^w
Cai.uoun, Georgia.
1 >LI. Practice in the Cherokee Circuit.
IT in U. S. District Court, Northern Dis-
Irivi of (:CCTg,':i, (at Atlanta); and in the Su
preme Court of the State of Georgia,
E. J. KIKER,
All o rney at aw,
CA I. HO UN, G EOR G[A.
[ojrr South-Kant Corner of Court House.]
WILL practice in all the Courts of the
»T Cherokee Circuit; Supreme Court of
Georgia, and the United States District Court
Lt Atlanta, Ga. auglU’TOly
To.n. Wm. I’hili.i.ips Marietta, Ga.
TV R. Rankin, Cullioun, Ga.
PHILLIPS & RANKIN,
Attorneys at Jauc and
REAL ESTATE AGENTS,
Calhoun, Georgia.
Will practice in the courts of the Cherokee
ft Circuit. Office North side Public
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J~D. TINSLEY,
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VOL. 11.
Gen. R. E. Lee.
BY 11KI EX d'f.STE.
[The following lines were written on the
death of General Robert E. Lee:]
A withering blight has fallen
O’er all the sunny Southern land,
A grief is clutching at her heart
Wi'ii a cold relentless hand ;
Her sky is covered with a cloud,
Her heart enveloped in a shroud,
Her leader is no more.
The marble king has set his seal
On the brow of her noblest brave ;
With frosty breath lie's stilled the heart
And the How of its crimson waves ;
A dirge come* wailing from all parts,
Death bells are ringing in our hearts,
Our Lee is no more.
The weary hands are folded now
Over the sad and patient breast;
The steadfast soul has taken its flight
To the home of eternal rest,
No grief will overreach him more,
His boat has touched the other shore—
Lee is on the golden sands.
To save his country and her fame
He dared the sword and bullets’ smart ;
’Twas her defeat and not his own
That broke his true and noble heart.
His banners trailing in the dust,
But his freed spirit o’er her must,
Will resurrect her yet.
Hold him in thine arms, 0, Father!
Let our loved and honored Lee
’Twixtour country and thy Kingdom
A carrier of blessings be.
With bitter tears wo wash his grave.
But God has taken what he gave,
And yet will live again.
'The Housekeeper’s Daughter.
“I never did see such a sight in all
my life,” quoth Mrs Narley, elevating
her two rheumatism tAvistcd old hands
in the air. “ Dust on them beautiful
velvet carpets ; glass in the conservatory
windows all broken ; chickens scratching
up all the geraniums on the front lawn,
and the lazy servants dawdling away
their precious time, while poor, dear
Mr. Avenel and Harry don’t know any
more what’s going on than if they were
hoarders. Says I, ‘ Dear heart alive,
Mr. Avenel, this is enough to make
your poor wife turn in her grave.’ Says
he—you know his pleasant way—‘Well,
l know it isnit just right, Mrs. Narley.
but what can I do ?’ And I answers,
says I, ‘ Get a housekeeper.’ Says lie,
‘Where?’ Says I, ‘AdvertisA’ Says
he. ‘Mrs. Narley, you've hit the nail on
the head. I’ll advertise to-morrow.’—
And that’s how that paragraph happen
ed to be in the papers.”
II ere, M rs. Narley stopped to catch
breath, and nodded emphatically at her
auditor, a pale woman dressed in deep
mo’.irningv’Avith *he unbecoming frame
work of a widow’s cap around her
face.
“ And do you think I should suit the
gentleman ?” the latter asked timidly.
“ You can but try,” was Mrs. Narley’s
encouraging response. “ Mrs. Avenel’s
as easy as a lauib, and not one o’ them
as is everlastingly checking off bills and
counting nickel pennies, and Harry’s
dreadful pleasant tempered. Any way.
if I was you, Mrs. Hawkhurst, I’d go
and see.”
And Mrs. Hawkhurst, bolding ber
pretty little daughter by the hand, went
up accordingly to the handsome stone
house on the hill.
There she found Mr. Avenel in a
state of temporary siege, for others be
sides herself had seen the tempting ad
vertisement and made haste to answer
it. There were fat women and lean, tall
women and short, Scotch women and
Germans, smiling, slovenly women and
trim, sharp-visaged women ; women who
had seen better days, and women who
evidently hadn’t.
Mrs. Ilawkhurst looked around some
what discouraged by the formidable ar
ray of rivals.
“There’s no hope for me,” she
thought, despairingly, and was just
about to turn away with timid Juliet
clinging to her hand, when ITarry Av
enel advanced.
“ Did you wish to see my uncle,
ma’am ?” he asked, courteously.
“ I—l called about the housekeeper’s
situation,” meekly murmured the wid
ow.
And Harry showed her in at once.
The fat and the tall, the German and
the Scotch, the sour and the sweet,
went. Mr. Avenel decided to engage
Mrs. Hawkhurst as his housekeeper,
with permission to keep Juliet with
her.
“ She is all I have, sir,” said the
housekeeper, apologetically, “and she
will try to be useful about the house.” ■
“How old is she?” asked Mr. Av
enel.
“ Fifteen, sir.”
“ Well, let .her stay,” said the widow
er. good humoredly. “ She’ll eat no
more than a ckicken, and I dare say she
can do a great many things about the
house.”
Mrs. Hawkhurst proved herself an
executive officeress of the greatest abil
ity. Gradually the “chaos and old
night ” of Avenel place was reduced to
system and order. The wheels of house
keeping revolved so softly that no one
knew they moved, yet these were the
results. You scarce ever saw the house
keeper gliding about the halls, yet the
servants declared she was omnipresent.
Mr. Avenel found himself* actually the
inhabitant of a home once more, as the
years slowly passed away.
He was sitting on the piazza one day,
smoking his cigar, and watching the
graceful movements of Juliet Hawk
hurst, as she was planting trailing vines
in a marble vase that occupied the cen
ter of the lawu, when Mrs Narlcy came
out.
“A nice evening, sir,” said Mrs. Nar
ley, “Oh, there she is!”
CALHOUN, GA., THURSDAY", JULY" 25, 1872.
“Who?” Mr. Avenel asked.
“ Why, that foolish child, Juliet,”
answered the old lady sharply. “ I have
no patience with her.”
“ What has she been doing now?”
asked the widower, with an amused
face.
“ Why, refused Ben Nichols, as likely
and forehanded a young fellow as there
is in the country.”
Mr. Avenel started.
“ Ben Nichols! Why, Mrs. Narley,
she is only a child.” .
“ She’s seventeen next week,” said
Mrs. Narley, “and high time she thought
o’ settling.”
Mr. Avenel looked across to where
Juliet stood, in her pink gingham dress,
the soft summer winds stirring her curls,
and her cheeks as softly tinted as the
standard moss rose on the lawn. Sev
enteen ! Was it possible that little Juliet
Hawkhur t had grown to be seventeen
years old ? Oh, relentless time that
would not stand still! Oh, cruel years
that went by and stole the fair bright
ness of childhood away ! So Ben Nich
ols had actually asked Juliet Ilawkhurst
to be his wife !
“ I wish you and Harry would talk
serious to her about it,” went on Mrs.
Narley. “ ’Tain t likely she’ll liev many
■more such chances as that.”
“ No, to be sure not,” said Mr. Av
enol, abstractedly.
“ And of course, slic’d oughter think
it over well.” added Mrs. Narley.
“ 0, certainly—to be sure !”
When Harry Avenel came home from
the city that evening, he found his uncle
in a brown study.
“ Harry,” quoth the widower.
“ Yes, uncle.”
“ I’ve been thinkimr.”
“ So T should conclude, sir. from the
H-slmpcd wrinkle between your brows,”
laughed the young merchant. “ Well,
and what has been the topic of your
meditations, Uncle Joe ?”
Why, I was thinking what would
become of us if Mrs Ilawkhurst were
to take it into her head to leave us.”
Harry opened wide his merry hazel
eyes at the idea.
“ What made you think of such a
thing, sir ?”
“ Oh, I don't know. She has a good
place liCiC, but one couldn’t expect her
to be contented with a housekeeper’s
situation always, Harry.”
“ .No. to be sure me .
“ She has been very essential to our
domestic happiness, Harry*,” went on
Mr. Avenel. a
“ Yes ; I grant you that, Uncle Joe.”
“ And I really don't know how we
could manage to exist without her.”
“ liaise her salary, uncle,” suggested
Ilarry.
“No, I hardiy think that would an
swer my purpose; but, Harry ”
“ Well, uncle ?”
Mr. Avenel looked slightly sheepish.
“ Can’t you tmagine any other way of
keeping her here V’ he asked.
Harry stared at his uncle.
Mr. Avenel felt disposed to give him
a hearty shake fur his stupidity.
“Oh 1” cried the young man, with
a sudden dawning of lucidity over the
darkness of his brain. “You don’t
mean matrimony, uncle ?”
“Yes, I do/’ quoth Mr. Avenel,
stoutly. “ Would you object, Harry ?”
“I, uncle ?”
“Because you are the only person in
terested besides myself—and her.”
“My greatest interest, uncle, is to see
you happy,” the young man answered,
wringing the elder’s hand. “And—if
I, too, should conclude to marry at no
very distant day ”
“Why, then,” cried Mr. Avenel gaily,
“we can all live together just as we do
now, and be the happiest family in the
world.”
And he went into the house,whistling
“John Anderson, My Joe John” as
blithely as a boy of sixteen.
Juliet Hawkhurst was standing by
the little side garden gate that evening,
thoughtfully watching, over her right
shoulder, of course, the slender silver
crescent of the new moon. Juliet had
certainly blossomed into a perfect little
rose of a maiden, during the years she
had been an inmate of Avenel place. —
She w r as fair-haired and rosy, with long
eyelashes, deep blue eyes, full of shad
owed purple gleams, and a complexion
like rosc-colored satin; and, moreover,
there was in her every movement, a
self-possessed grace and dignity of
mien that was inexpressibly charming.
Juliet Hawkhurst had been born for a
lady, but untoward fate had made a
housekeepers daughter of her.
As she stood there, leaning over the
iron rail of the gate —a footsteep sound
ed behind her :
“Juliet ?”
She turned with a little rose blush
and a smile she fain would have con
cealed. and Harry Avenel came up and
stood close beside her.
“Little elf, you thought you had hid
den away from me, but you see 1 have
contrived to find you out even here.—
What makes you blush and get so con
fused ?”
“Doi ?” And Juliet fixed her gaze
very steadfastly ou the green turf at
her feet, where a single yellow dandeli
on was elosing its eye of downy gold
for the night.
“Listen,” cried Harry, triumphantly.
“I’ve got a piece of uews for you.”
“What * it?”
“ What should you think of a step
father, eh, little one ? ’
Juliet looked up, this time, in real
and genuine astonishment.
“A stepfather, Harry ?”
“ My uncle has confided to me this
evening that he thinks of marrying,
Juliet, and from all I can gather, the
bride is none other than your mother.
So, when we are married, there will be
a nice little family circle of us, eh ?”
And the audacious y.'ung man bolted
her slender waist with his arm, and ven
tured to draw her a little closer to him.
“But Harry, you are all wrong,” said
Juliet, crimsoning and smiling like a
June flower. “I meant to tell you of it,
but somehow the words would not come
to my lips. Y"our uncle told me also
that he had concluded to marry again,
and he asked me to be his wife.”
“The mischief he did !” cried Harry,
starting back as if someone had struck
him a biow. “You ! Why, Juliet, you
are young enough to be lifs daughter.”
“Perhaps I am,” said Juliet meekly.
“ And wluit did you tell him ? Y T ou
accepted him, of course? He is rich
and I am poor, and all the girls like
gold.”
“Harry.”
“Tell me quickly, Juliet,” he cried,
almost passionately. “ Don’t keep me
longer in suspense.”
“I told him that I had already prom
ised to marry you.”
“My little dove!” and Harry Avenel’s
dark face brightened into suushiuc once
again. “And you were right, for May
and November never yet were happily
mated. My uncle is an old fool ; and yet
1 can’t blame him, Juliet, when I look
at your sweet face.”
- The countenance of Mr. Avenel was
slightly confused when he met his neph
ew at the breakfast table the next morn
ing, but fur,!ier than that there were
no signs of the discomGture he liad un
dergone. He gave Juliet an exquisite
set of wedding pearls when she was
married, and congratulated Harry after
a very cordial fashion. But he never
proposed to Mrs. Ilawkhurst, and as she
never expected anything of the sort, no
harm was done.
Ami everything goes on at Avenel
place precisely as it ought to do. Mr.
Avenel keeps his housekeeper, and Hnr
ry has gamed a wife.
4
URIAH'S FIRST CASH,
t’R
The Red Hot Reconstruction of a
Returned Rebel.
Immediately after the late lamented
surrender I returned to # Kim bosom of
my family, bearing up m my body the
marks of honorable and legitimate
vnurlWrjz If 1 h;,s an rifjkt in (ho
bosom of his own family, pray, whose
bosom has he a right in ? But I didn’t
go right in. Not by any means My
badge of chivalry just at that time,
was not of a character to commend me,
at once, to the arms and affections of
my too scrupulously neat and tidy wife.
.1 was ordered into quarantine. I was
put upon docks for repairs. In ether
words, 1 had the itch. Cal
iforuia itch, it was pronounced by
competent judges; hut why so de
nominated I am at a loss to determine,
unless because it was a healthy, robust,
salubrious case. This was the true state
of the case—-and it was the first,
case I had ever had, although I
had been a lawyer for some time, by
profession, barring the practice—for it
is always well to bar at jhe
I reached home that night, in May,
’65, after a hard day’s walk through a
gentle rain, and took my seat by a cheer
ful spring fire. Somehow I had consci
entious scruples against letting the itch
part of my military glory leak out until
next morning But it was all in vain.
In vain I strove to let concealment, like a
worm, feed on my damask, etc. My
grimaces, my bodily gyrations, soon be
gan to point a moral and tell a tale.—
Uriah, said the old lady slowly and
gloomily, you’ve got the itch ! And 1
wouldn’t have it to break out in the bo
som of my family for anything on earth.
It would be a shame and a scandal to
the neighborhood. I had to own up. —
I put on a ghastly grin and tried to
make her believe the itch, after all, was
nothing but a patriotic luxury, a good
thing to have in a family. She couldn’t
see it. She refused positively to come
in six feet of me, while the children
stood aloof and stared at me as if I was
a wild beast. I tried to be familiar—
but it was no go. I had been absent
many weary months, and was full of
love and poetry.
“ Come rest in this bosom, my own stricken
dear,”
didn’t seem to strike any one in partic
ular. The question was. was T stored
away that night in a room to myself, to
muse on the pomp and pride and cir
cumstance of glorious war—especially
the circumstance. My wife ivas inex
orable. I suppose you know what that*
means—in a woman ? If you don’t,
come down aud stay a week with me.
and take occasion to bring a quantity of
mud in your boots, and it won’t take
you long to find out. She don’t put her
foot down often, but when she does she
puts it down a little of the firmest. I
know very well I would have to get rid
of that case completely before 1 could
ever know my rights a* and knowing dare
maintain them. It was the worst case I
had ever heard of. Scratch. I reckon
if all the scratching I did in any one
day had been spread it would have cov
ered a surface equal to twenty-five acres
—good measure. And what was get
ting to be still more serious, my nails
were fast wealing down into the quick,
and corns were growing on the balls of
my fingers. So early the next morning,
after my arrival home, I burred over
to consult an old steam doctor who had
long been the oracle of the neighbor
hsod, and laying aJ my troubles squarely
before him, begged for a short, sharp
and decisive remedy.
He asked me if I was equal to the
emergency. I gladly answered in the
affirmative. I was equal to anything
that would speedily restore my wife's
lost love. 1 felt like one who trode
alone; and there was nothing in this
world that was half so sweet as love’s
old dream. He said he thought he
could sweeten mo.
I took the bottle of turpentine accord
ing to the directions, went home and
locked up in my room with all but me
departed, T began to strip for the contest.
I was all over as spotted as a leopard,
and as raw as a piece of new beef. I
poured the saving fluid into a saucer,
caught up about a gill into the hollow
of each hand, and rubbed it on with
tho energy that springs from despair.—
I used up half the bottle before I stop
ped to think. Then 1 didn’t stop long.
I made a start as I thought for the
door, and found half way up
the chimney. I rolled over, and scream
ed like a wild Indian. Talk about yel
low 7 jacket plasters and hornets ne ts
and honey bees and abominable bumble
bees, and hot ashes, and hell fire ! If
I hadn’t been dumped heels overhead
into the furnace of the Tcnnesse
Iron Works, I would freeze to death in
live minutes. I was on the bed, under
the bed, walking first upon my heels
and then upon my toes and champing
the bit, and chawin one leg of my pants,
till it looked like a dilapidated dish-rag.
I had enough rebellion in me to have
started three small republics. My wife
and children were pounding and scream
ing at the door, but 1 couldn’t find
the door, for •the room was flying
round like a spinny jenny. I was foam
ing at the mouth like a fifteen cases of
hydrophobia, and calling alternately for
water and fire.
The next morning there was one case
less of itch in the so-called, anyhow. 1
pealed oft'like an onion. I shed enough
scales that night to have set up a New
England fishery.
My hide drew up till it was with the
greatest difficulty 1 could get my feet to
the floor for more than a week. In
deed, all my friends say that my skin
has been shoit. ever since.
In less than twenty-four hours after I
was able to get about one steam doctor
had timely notice, signed, sealed and
delivered by order of the chief of the
Kuklux Klan to emigrate. He is now
a martyr in some county in Ohio on ac
count of his “ political opinion,” and has
oi.co represented hip district in Con
gress.
Georgia and Her Resources.
[From the New York South.
We are no statistician, nor have we
ever made statistics a study. We doubf
net their value, but they arc more a mat
ter of reference than of memory. We
have no tables to refer to in writing this
article, and, therefore, do not propose
perfect accuracy in our statements. We
merely approximate. This is sufficient
for our purpose.
According to White (p 3G), the
State is 372 miles in length and 256
miles in breadth. This gives an area
of 63.3972 square miles and 40,574,400
acres. In extent, here is an empire,
occupied by only 1,000,000 of inhabi
tants, or nearly 1G persons to the square
mile, or for every 640 acres, or 40 acres
to every inhabitant without regard to
age, sex or color. At 50 to the square
mile, the State can support a popula
tion of over 3,000,000. This is a mod
erate estimate of its capacity. They
are not all to be tillers of the soil or to
derive all their living from the soil of
Georgia. Goods, wares and merchan
dise will be manufactured and sent to
the markets of the world. Commerce
will give employment to thousands, and
a system of trade adopted by which
many thousands will earn a living with
out recourse to the soil of Georgia for
the of life.
If all these acres were improved and
made to produce to their utmost capac
ity, our resources would be limitless—
almost incalculable. An acre to each
inhabitant would sustain a population,
after deducting one half for waste or
irreclaimable lands, 20 000,000 in round
numbers. This it can be made to do.
It will take time, experience, labor and
capital to accomplish it. These facts
show that, there in no 'cause fur appre
hension on account of an excess of pop
u’ation. What is true of Georgia is
true of the other States in North and
South America. This population will
distribute itself over both countries ac
cording to its necessities and cannot
be in excess anywhere for a long period
—perhaps for a thousand to come.
Georgia has some fifty odd rivers
within her borlers, in whole or in part,
according to the same authority. Many
of them afford numerous water powers.
Take the Chattahoochee near Columbus,
the Savannah near Augusta and the
Oconee near Athens as specimens of
some of them. It would be fair to con
clude that the water power alone of the
State would, if properly improved, give
profitable employment for manufacturing
purposes, with full supplies of raw ma
terial at hand, to more laborers than the
entire population of the State at this
time.
And there are her mines of*gold, of
iron; her railroads ; her marble, gran
ite and slate ; her forests of most valu
able timber and many other resources
too tedious to mention. The develop
ment of all these will give employment
to many millions of people of every
class—the learned and unlearned, rich
and poor, male and female, old and
young, of every trade or occupation, of
every science and every art. And these
will work in perfect harmony — a union
of all for the good of each one, regulated
by the laws whiclf govern all trades as
to supplyany demand. The true policy
of Georgia, therefore, is to encourage
and stimulate the industry and enter
prise of the people,and after this to im
port from abroad the additional labor
necessary to the accomplishment of the
grand work of improvement and devel
opment.
We must do it for ourselves. It is
the business of our people, of our States,
to look at our own interests, and not the
business of Congress or the nation.—
Our own Legislature as at present con
stituted, was loath to. pass the present
bill, encouraging immigration. With
such changes as will be probably made
in the next, under the late decision of
the Supreme Court, we can scarcely per
mit ourselves to expect anything favor
able, at this time from the next Legis
lature. Time will demonstrate the fact,
that with such a government over us as
we somewhat expect hereafter, all our
efforts to regain our prosperity and to
recover our happiness and former posi
tion, will be nearly in vain. And } 7 ct,
we must .not ingloriously abandon the
struggle. Forewarned of difficulties,
we must prepare beforehand, to meet
them. The old maxim, “ fortune favors
the brave,” is as applicable to us this
day as it was to the Homans, with whom,
we believe, it originated. If left to
ourselves, the intelligence and patriotism
of the country will certainly rule in the
end. It cannot be that we are to be
robbed of everything that we have and
of every happiness. If so, then wel
come, thrice welcome the fate that awaits
us, whatever it may be, but more wel
come still, that flight of the ‘ destroying
angel ” over this land which shall give
to the remnant the rights’ which are
theirs alone. The country is ours—we
must hold it, govern it, improve it, de
velop it in all its interests. We must
do these things, if we would prosper or
our children after us. —By the Into. B.
T. Harris , of Hancock County.
The Pole Cat.
My friend, did you ever examine the
fragrant pole cat clussly ?
1 guess not. They arc a krittcr that
won’t bear examining with a micro
skope.
They are beautiful beings, but oh !
how deceptive.
Thare habits phew, but unique.
They bild their houses out of earth,
and the houses have but one door tew
them, and that is a front door.
When they enter their houses they
&liut tlio aft or ilk out.
1 ha air kailed pole kats because it iz
not konvenient tu kil them with a klub,
but with a pole, and the longer the
mower konvenient.
Writers cu natral hislry disagree
about the right length of the pole to be
used, but i wood suggest that it be
about 3G5 feet, espisliully if the wii.d
iz in favor ov the pole kat.
I hav kawt skunks in a trap. They
are easier tew git into a trap than tew
git out ov it.
In taking them out ova trap grate
judgment must be had not tew shake
them up; the more you shake them up
the more ambrosial they am.
One pole kat in a township is enuff,
espeshully if the wind changes once in
awhile.
A pole kat’s skin iz wuth 2 dollars in
market, after it iz skinned, but it iz
wuth 3 dollars and fifty cents to skin
him.
This is one way to make 12 shillings
on a wet day. —Josh Billing*.
• a-
“ Did you not tell me, sir, you could
hold the plow V* said the master.—
“ Arrah !be aisy, now," said Pat; “ how
the deuce can 1 hold it, and two horses
drawing it away from me t Hut give
it to me in the barn, and bejabers I’ll
hold it with any boy of years."
A CRAZY man having got into the
gallery of the U. S Senate, during a
rambling debate, was taken out, the
sergeant at-arms telling him that he was
out of place in that gallery. “ r j hat’s
so," said the lunatic, “ I ought to be
on the floor with the Senators."
A queer looking customer inserted
his head into an auction store, and look
ing gravely at the knight of the ham
mer, inquired, “Can I bid, sir?" “Cer
tainly," replied the auctioneer. '•‘Well,
then," said the wag, walking off; “I
bid you good night.”
A little girl being sent to the store
to purchase some dye stuff, and forget
ting the name of the article said to the
clerk : “John, what do folks die with ?”
“Die with ? Why, cholera, sometimes,"
replied John. “Well, I believe that’s
the name; I want three cents’ worth."
An Irishman, when asked by a lady
whether he would take n glass of sher
ry or a glass of whiskey punch, an
swered “ t&qt he would take the sherry
while her ’ladyship was mixing the
punch."
A lazy fellow, lying down on the
grass, said : “Oh ! how I wish this was
called work, and well paid."
“The palpitating, respiratory hump
er" is the latest novelty in women’s
things.
A desirable second-hand article—
A young, rich and amiable widow.
The reason they beat the drum is be
cause it called the harp a lyre.
Who lives for himself alone, lives a
meau fellow.
A good question for debate—How
many are five? And why ?
A 1 ,L good men vote for Greeley
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NO. 50.
EDUCATIONAL.
ADAIRSVILLE
HIGH SCHOOL.
rpiIESBOOXDSESSION OF TtIISBCHOO
A will open
Monday, July the 29th, 1872.
TUITION :
(PER MONTH OF FOUR WEEKB.)
Ist Class «j 25
3d “ 8 00
!»h “ 3 50
sth “ 4 00
Music (extra) 4 QO
From the success attending the first ses
sion, we feel confident that our school will
prove a success iu the future. Our house is
large, comfortable and neat; our situation
is beautiful, and our society excellent. The
method of teaching has been very success
ful. The classes learned rapidly. Our course
of studies is thorough, up with the times.and
such as will, if thoroughly studied, prepare
young ladies and gentlemen for business,
usefulness and happiness.
It is folly to talk about succeeding in life
without an education. Forty or filly years
ago, when our lands were fresh and very
productive, and when wc cultivated them
simply with the plough and hoe, and then
hauled our produce to market on wagons, a
very limited education was thought to be
sufficient ; but now, in the days of improved
machinery and farming implements, rail
road, &c., a good education is absolutely
necessary. Young men, if you want to make
money, if you want to make a competency
for all the practical purposes qualify your
selves in early life, go to school, train your
minds, and store them with useful knowl
edge. Wc do not say that our school is tho
best, but we think it is ns good ns any in its
section, and that it meets the demand of the
age. Ask those who have attended our
school. Give us a trial, save money by cheap
boarding, only $lO to sl2 per month. Our
school is no humbug. It does not run by
gas-works, but by common sense, and relies
upon its merits to sustain it.
ts. J. L. MI LB URN, Principal.
CALHOUN ACADEMY.
The exercises of this School, under tke
supervision and management of Prof. D. S.
HAYNES, will be resumed on
Monday, the Ist Day of July.
KATES OF TUITION PER MONTH :
1 st Class—Orthography, Reading, writ
ing and Primary Arithmetic „$1.60
2J Class English Grammar, Geog
raphy and Arithmetic $2.00
3d ( lass—Higliei English branches and
El era entnry A lgcbra $2.60
4tli Class—Ancient and Modern Lan
guages and Higher Arithmetic $3.60
Incidental expenses per session of five
months .. $0.50
Students will be charged from date of en
trance to close of term, except in cases of
protracted illness.
TUITION REQUIRED MONTHLY.
Good board can be procured at from $8
to $lO pe: month.
The success that has attended this insti
tution in the past augurs its continued pros
perity and success in the future. Located
in the midst of one of the most, healthy and
fertile sections of country to be found in
Georgia, presided over by a corps of com
petent teacUers—remote from the allure
ments and temptations to vice and idleness
—the future growth, good management and
success of the school is foreshadowed. Send
your sons and daughters here. The acqui
sition of a practical or polished education
is guaranteed.
T. A. FOSTER, Chairman,
J. D. TINSLEY, Secretary,
Board of Trustees.
Calhoun, Ga., June 27, 1872 —ts.
AMERICAN UNIVERSITY
of Philadelphia .
Medical Department !
fPHIS College holds three sessions each
i. year. The first session commences October
3d, and continues until the end of December;
the second session commences January 2d,
1872. and continues until the end of March ,
the third session commences .dpril Ist, and
continues until the end of June.
It has an able corpse of twelve Professors,
and every Department of Medicine and Sur
gery is thoroughly taught.
Every facility iu the way of illustrations,
morbid specimens, herbarium, chemical and
philosophical apparatus, microacopes.instru
raents of the latest invention for physical
examination and diagnosis will be provi'* *.
Splendid Hospital and Clinical InstnicUv.*
are afforded ; free tickets to all our city hos
pitals are provided , dissecting material
abundant at a nominal cos^
Perpetual aold for SOO,
which pays for all the Professors' Tickets
until graduation. Matriculation Fee $5 ;
Demonstrator’s Ticket. $5 ; Diploma Fee,
S3O. For oircuiar and additional particulars,
address
Prof. JOHN BUCHANAN, M. D. Dean,
514 Pine Street, Philadelphia, Pa.
augl7’7l-ly.
BRICK! BRICK!! BRICK'!!
THE undersigned has on hand 50,000 good
brick—best quality—now ready, and will
keep constantly supplied, which he offers at
$7 per thousand, at the kiln, or at $8 per
thousand, loaded on the cars at Resaca.—
If you want the BEST brick, send me your
orders or come and buy of me.
jul4-6m B. F. SMITH, Resaca, Ga.
FOI? SAIVR.--I am now offering for
sale all my real estate in the town of
Calhoun, Ga., consisting of two dwelling,
and three business houses, known as the
Gordon Block. Tl.e property will be sold
separately, or all together. For particulars,
prico. &e., address Dr. Wm. C. Humphreys,
Stone Mountain, DeKalb county, Ga.
jun27-3m. NATH. NICHOLSON.
Georgia —Gordon county.—e. j.
Kiker, as guardian of Carrie L. Walk
er, has applied to me for exemption of per
sonalty and setting apart and valuation of
homestead for said minor, and l will pass
upon the same at my office in Calhoun, Ga.,
on the 27tliinst., at 10 o'clock a. x, This
July 17, 1872.
julylS p. W, N££E, Ordinary.