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BY D. B. FREEMAN. CALHOUN TIMES Office: Wall St., Southwest of Court House. Rates of Subscription. i’ear 82.00 is Months 1.00 fen copies one year 16 00 Rates of Advertising. For each square of ten lines or less for the rirst insertion, sl, ami for each sub sequent insertion, fifty cents. No.SqTs | 1 Mo. | 3 Mos. | o Mgs I 1 year, fivo $4.00 $7.00 I $12.00 $20.00 Four “ 6.00 10.00 | 18.00 35.00 J column 0.00 15.00 25.00 40.00 t 2 “ 15.00 25.00 40.00 65.00 1 “ 25.00 40-00 65.00 115.00 SfeY” Ten lines of solid brevier, or its equivalent in spaee, make a square. Rates of Legal Advertising. Sheriff's Sales, each levy $4 00 Citation for letters of Administration and Guardianship 4 00 Application for dismission from Adrnin istratim, Guardianship and Exec utorship 5 00 Application for leave to sell land, one square 4 00 Each additional square 2 00 Land Sales, one square 4 00 Each additional square 3 00 Application for Homestead 2 00 Notice to Debtors and Creditors 4 00 gfofwiottat & J. KIKEIt Al SON, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Will practice in all the Courts of the Cher okee Circuit,; Supreme Court oi Georgia, and the United States District Court at Atlanta, Ga. Office: Sutheast corner of the Court House, Calhoun, Ga. jpAIN & MILNER, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, CALHOUN, GA. Will practice in all the Superior Courts of of Cho’-okee Georgia, the Supreme Court of the Stale anti the United States District and Circuit ourts, at Atlanta. J L). TINSLEY, ~ Watch-Maker & Jeweler, CALIIOUN , GA. All styles of Clocks, Watches and Jewelry neatly repaired and warranted. RUFE WALDO IHORNTON, D. D. S. DENTIST. Office Geo. W. W r ells & Co.’s Agricul tural Warehouse. | H. ARTHUR, DEALER IN GENERAL MERCHANDISE, RAILROAD STREET, Calhoun, Ga. j J Iv. MAIN, M. I>. PRACTICING PHYSICIAN, Having permanently located in Calhoun, offer' his professional services to the pub lic. Will attend all calls when not profes sionally engaged. Office at the Calhoun Hotel. J. W. MARSHALL' RAILROAD ST., OLD STAND OF ! A. W BhLLEW. e -m constantly on hand a superior stock of family & Fancy Groceries, Visa a fine assortment of Saddles, Bridles, ■apie Hardware, He. to which especial at aiion is tailed Everything in my line •Id it prices that absolutely defy competi ion. *l ? m M- EJIjIjIS’ 111 nil ft SALK STABLE. Good Saddle and Buggy Horse? and New Vehicles. Horses and mules for sale. Stock fed and cared for. Charges will be reasonable. Wil’ p y the cash for corn in he ear and °odder in the bundle. feb3-tf. MGENTS WANTED for the CENTENNIAL GAZETTEER UNITED STATES. A book for every American. Sells every where at sight. Farmers, Teachers, Stu lenls, Lawyers, Merchants. School Direc ors, Manufacturers, Mechanics, Shippers, Sale men, men of learning, and men who can onl / read, old and young, all want it for everyday reference and-use. Shows the grand result of the FIRST 100 YEARS,*'REPUBLIC Everybody buys it, and Agents make from SIOO to S2OO a month Send for circular Address J. 0. McCUEDY & CO., Publish es, Philadelphia, Pa.; Cincinnati, Ohio; Chicago, 111.; or St. Louis, Mo. apr27-20t. Martin menko. Joseph menko W. w. Blasingame, 'VITH M. Menko & Bro., Wholesale and Retail Dealers in CLOTHING, DRY GOODS. AND Furnishing Goods, No. 25 Whitehall Street, Two Doors from Alabama, ATLANTA, GA. Liberal inducements offered merclianis 6ep29-lm. ob Printing neatly and cheaply ex ited at office. Railroad Western & Atlantic Railroad AMD ITS CONNECTIONS. "KENNESAW ROUTE.” The following takes effect may 23d, 1875 NORTHWARD. No. 1. ! Leave Atlanta 4.10 p.m Arrive Cartersville 6.14 *< Kingston 6.42 “ “ Dalton 8.24 “ “ Chattanooga 10.25 “ No. 3 1 Leave Atlanta 7.0 C a.m Arrive “ Kingston 9.50 •< “ Dalton 11.54 “ Chattanooga 1.56 p.m No. 11. Leave Atlanta 3 30 p.m Arrive Cartersville 7.19 “ “ Kingston 8.21 “ “ Dalton 11.18 “ SOUTHWARD. No. 2. Leave Chattanooga 4.00 p.m Arrive Dalton 5.41 “ “ Kingston 728 “ “ Cartersville 8.12 “ “ Atlanta 10.15 “ No. 4. Leave Chattanooga 5.00 a.m Arrive Dalton 7.01 “ “ Kingston 9.07 “ “ Cartersville 9.42 “ “ Atlanta 12 06 p.m No. 12. Leave Da1t0n...... 1.00 a.m Arrive Kingston 4.19 • “ Cartersville 5.18 “ “ Atlanta 9.20 “ Pullman Palace Cars run on Nos. 1 and 2 between New Orleans and Baltimore. Pullman Palace Cars run on Nos. 1 and 4 between Atlanta and Nashville. Pullman Palace Cars run on Nos. 2 and 3 bitween Louisville and Atlanta. No change of cars bet ween New Or leans, Mobile, Montgomery, Atlanta and Baltimore, and only one change to New York. Passengers leaving Atlanta at 4 10 r. m., arrive in New York the second afternoon thereafter at 4.00. Excursion tickets to the Virginia springs and various summer resorts will be on sale in New Orleans, Mobile, Montgomery, Co lumbus, Macon, Savannah, Augusta and At lanta, at greatly reduced rates, first of June. Parties desiring a whole car through to the Virginia Springs or Baltimore, should address the undersigned. Parties contemplating travel should send for a copy of the Kennesaw Route Gazette, containing schedules, etc. Ask for Tickets via “ Kennesaw Route.” B. W. WRENN, G. P. & T. A., Atlanta, Ga. Change of Schedule. ON THE GEORGIA AND MACON AND AUGUSTA RAILROADS. ON AND AFTER SUNDAY, JUNE 28tii, 1874, tlie Passenger Trains on the Georgia and Macon and Augusta Railroads will run as follows: GEORGIA RAILROAD. Hag Passenger Train Will Leave Augusta at 8:45 a m Leave Atlanta at 7:00 a m Arrive in Augusta at 3:30 p m Arrive in Atlanta at 5:45 p m Niggt Passenger Train. Leave Augusta at 8:15 p m Leave Atlanta at 10:30 p m Arrive in Augusta at 8:15 a m Arrive in Atlanta at 6:22 a m MACON AND AUGUSTA RAILROAD. Macon Passenger Train. Leave Augusta at 0n...10:45 a m Leave Camak at 2:15 p m Arrive at Macon at 6:40 p m Leave Macon at 6:30 a m Arrive at Camak at 10.-45 a m Arrive at Augusta at 2:00 p m BEKZELI.4 PASSENGER TRAIN. Leave Augusta at 4;15 p m Leave Berzelia at 8:30 a m Arrive n Augusta at 9:55 a m Arrive in Berzelia at 5:50 p m Passengers from Athens, Washington, At lanta, or any point on the Georgia Rail road and Branches, by taking the Day Pas senger Train, will make close connection at Camak with trains for Macon and all points beyond. Pullman's (First-Class) Palace sleepin Cars on all Night Passenger Trains on h Georgia Railroad. S. K. JOHNSON, Superintendent. (Superintendent's Office Georgia and Macon and Augusta Railroads, Augusta, June 29, 1874, Awarded tbe Highest Medal at Vienna. E. & H. T ANTHONY & CO., 591 ISroadway, New York. (Opp. Metropolitan Htuel.) Manufacturers, Importers & Deal- CHROMOS AND FRAMES, Stereoscopes and Views, Albums, Graphoscopes an I suitable views, Photographic Materials, We are Headquarters fo” everything in the way of Stercoscopt icons and Magic Lanterns. Being manufacturers of the Micro-Scientific Lantern , Stereo-Panopticon, University Stereoscopticon, Adveitiser’s Stereoscopticon , 4 rtopticon , Scho)l Lantern, Family Lantern, People s Lantern. Each style being the best of its class in the market. Catalogues of Lanterns and Slides with directions for using sent on application. Any enterprising man can make money with a magic lantern. flsir Gut out this advertisement for refer ence sep29-9m Special Notice. MISS HUDGINS can now befound at MRS. MILLS’ FURNISHING ESTABLISHMENT, 51 Broad Street, Rome, Ga., where she is prepared to do Mantua making and Cutting in all its branches. Call and see. Mrs. Mills is receiving a full stock of millinery and fancy notions, latest styles felt, straw and velvet hats, cloaks ?acks and wraps in endless variety. Everything neeeseary kept for ladies’ outfit. £sep29-7in. CALHOUN, GA., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1875. EVENING. One by one he roses falling, Strew with leaves the withered way ; One by one the gleams of sunlight Fade from out the autumn day. Hour by hour the sun declineth, Day by day the sunlight dies— Feeble grows the weary footsteps, Dim with tears the fading eyes. But, still upward, upward climbing From the valley’s smooth expanse ; Upward o’er the barren mountain— Steady keep the upward glance. All the blossoms left behind thee— Naught be\ond thee but the snow'— Falter not, still messing onward, Cast no lingering look below ! In the valley lie the shadow’s, But the peaks are bathed in light— In the splendor of the sunset, Blessed harbinger of night! Rest thee, rest thee, weary pilgrim, Fiom the dangers of the way, Far beyond the night is coming, And beyond the night the day. llorrible Phenomena. Tt is generally known, says an old paper, that in Barbadoes there is a mysterious vault, in which no one dares to deposit the dead. It is in a church yard near the seaside. In 1807, the first coffin that was deposited in it was that of a Goddard; in 1808, a Miss A. M. Chase was placed in it; in 1812, Miss D. Chase. In the end of 1812, the vault was opened for the body of the Hon. T. Chase; but the three first coffins were found in a confused state, having been apparently tossed from their places. Again was the vault open ed to receive the body of an infant, and the four coffins, all of lead, and very heavy, were found much disturbed. In 1816, a Mr. Brewster’s body was placed in the vault, and again great disorder was apparent among the coffins. In 1819, a Mr. Clark was placed in the vault, and, as before, the coffins were in cc nfusion. Each lime that the vault was opene the coffins were placed in their prope r situations—that is,three on the ground’ side by side, and the others laid on them. The vault was regularly closed; the door, (a massive stone, which re quired six or seven men to move), was cemented by masons, and though the floor was of sand there was no marks of footsteps or water. Again the vault was opened in 1819. Lord Com bermere was then present, and the cof fins were thrown confusedly about the vault—some with their heads down,and others up. “ What could have occasion ed this phenomena ? In no otuer vault in the island has this ever occurred. Was it an earthquake which occasioned it, or was it the effects of an inuudation in the vault?” These were the ques tions asked by a Barbadoes journal at that time ; and no one could afford a solution. The matter gradually died away, un til the present year, when, on the 16th of February, the vault was again opened, all the coffins were again thrown about as confusedly as before. A strict inves tigation was made, but no cause was discovered. Was it, after all, that the sudden bursting of noxious gas from one of the coffins could have produced this phenomena? If so, it is against all former experience. The vault has been hermetically sealed again, when to be reopened, we cannot tell. In England there was a parallel oc'. currence to this, some years ago, at Hauton, in Suffolk. It is stated that on opening a vault several leaden c< ffius, with wooden cases, which had been fixed on biers, weie found dis placed, to the great consternation of the villagers. The coffins were again placed as before, and the vault was properly closed when again, another of the fami ly dying, they were again found dis placed ; and two years after, they were not only found all off their biers, but one coffin, so heavy as to require eight men to raise it, was found on the step which led down the vault; and it seemed perfectly certain that no human baud had done ibis. No Time for Anything. *“ The great, difficulty in this country is, that we have no time for anything. The very walk of an American shows that he is in a hurry. An Englishman buttons his coat and gloves, and goes to business as deliberately as he goes to church. An American business man flies after the car, struggling with his coat-sleeves as he runs, plunges in head foremost, and plunges out at the end without regard to his neck. Chief amongst our accidents stand those which occur because people jump upon flying trains, or departing boats. To wait ten minutes is something not to be thought of. Dinner is not eaten, it is swallowed whole ; aud when one comes to the des sert he finds that the fruit was picked before t was ripe. “ Everything is hurried through, from the building of a house to the cur ing of a ham. The women who work on sewing machines stop before they come to the end of a seam. The dress maker sends home your drsss with bast ing-threads in it and no loops to hang it up by. “ There is none of the slow,sure,com pleteness of the old world about any thing, and even fortunes are made in a hurry, and lost in the same way It any man we know, is getting rich by the slow and patient process of saviug, be sure that he was not born upon this continent. l T et people live as long here as as they do anywhere else, and the days are tbe same length. Why is it that we have no time for anything?” Mary Kyle Dallas. Would thatwe could avoid extremes, and then the people of the old world, as well as the new would be better off. A Short Sketch of an Editor. Once upon a time an editor, after re volving in his weary mind a few of the wearing problems which are the myste ries of his singular profession, left the seclusion of his office and sallied forth into the busy world to do among men as he was done by. He had long years be fore been disabused of any impression which might have haunted his mind that he kn?W anvthing about editing a paper, for every man who came into his office knew more about the business than the unfortunate editor did, and never seru* led to tell him so. But the poor man thought it would be a very agreeable and pleasant thing to do as others did, and it was for the purpose of following general custom that he went out on this beautiful day so long ago- The sun was shining brighly,the dull, distant hum of insect lile in the adjoin ing country came to his ears; birds were singing, and so serene and peace ful was Ute aspect of nature that it seemed impossible, iu such a bright and beautiful world, there could be so much misery, wretchedness, wickedness and total depravity. But there was all the same, for there was the editor to prove it. He went into the office of a lawyer, with whom he was slightly acquainted, and, seating himself in a chair, put his feet on the desk and began to whistle “ Silver Threads Among the Gold ” in a loud tone of whistle. The attorney looked astonished, and asked what his visitor wanted. He said nothing, but took a bundle of papers from the pigeon bole, and began to look them over and read out aloud. When he get through the indignant lawyer took his visitor by the neck and gently but firmly kicked him down stairs. “ And yet,” mused the unhappy man as he brushed off his clothes and went limping on his way, “ that man was in my office only day-before-yesterday and read thi-ee of my articles before they w ere published. It is strange how dif ferent it is when I read his.” He went into a dry goods store and just had time to get behind the counter when a lady came in and asked for some brown satin. “ Yesam,” he said. After creating an earthquake in that part of the store, he followed her direc tion and got what she wanted. “ How much do you want ?” he ask ed, “ about half a column ?” She stared. ‘‘ Thirty or forty lines be enough ?” he enquired. She said she wanted half a yard. “Ah!” he said ; “ about eighteen squares —yes, yes.” “ And cut out on the bias,” she con tinued. “Certainly, buy as much as you ) please.” And he began to tear the goods in various shapes, when the mer chant collared him aud put him out. “ And yet,” the poor man mused as he went on, “ that very man wrote two ar ticles for the paper the o her day, de claring that they were better than any thing I had written in six months, and although seventy subscribers had stop ped their paper —when they were pub lished, he never sent anything around to pay for it.” He turned sadly into a drug store, took a prescription from a poor man standing there, looked it wisely over, took a little quinine, arsenic, morphine and strichnine, put them in powders, and told the man to give his wife one every two hours until s e didn’t com ply in any more about her head As he went out of the door one of the powders spilled cn a dog’s back, and the animal died in three seconds. The editor was arrested, and only released on giving a solemn pr< mise to support the sheriff for a re election “ How is it.” he wondered, “ that all classes of me n , of all occupations, have found time not only to perfect them selves in their own business and profes sions, but to master mine more thor oughly than I have been able to do by giving my whole time and strength to it ?” He sighed as he walked into a bank- He put his head into the paying teller’s window and shouted “ Hellow !” as loud as he could roar. Then he drummed on tbe glass with bis fingers, and was forcibly ejected by the porter. “ I give it up.” he said, “I am the most worthless of mankind. I don’t know how to attend to anybody's busi ness but my own ; ” and so he walked drearily back to his dismal sanctum, where he found seven men,four of them perfect strangers to him, occupying the chairs, poring over the exchanges, reading the proofs and commenting thereon, and making fun of his pet ar ticles. He sat down on a wood box and tried to think u r a leader for tbe next day’s paper, and dropped a tear as he recalled his boyhood’s happy days, and the time that would elapse before pirate, sitting in hl3 own particular arm chair, would get through cutting the best things out of the latest papers and put ting them in his hat. But he look ed out the window and saw an expati ated local trying to write up his notes against the side of a brick house on the other side of the street, and he felt some gleam of comfort from this com pany in his misery and took courage. Moral—There was a moral to this story when we commenced, but we have got so far fqpm the commencement that we have forgotten what it was. Never mind ; readers always skip the moral anyhow. —— Advertisement from a Washing ton paper: “ Wanted, a well rested youth in my office. Preference given to one who has not forgotten more than his employer knows. Addresses,” &o. Tlie Crime of “ Burlciug.” On the 19th of November, 1827. an old man named Donald died in West Port, one oi’ the purlieus of Edinburgh. He lodged with a man named William Hare, and died owing him four pounds. His creditor saw but one way of reim bursing himself, aud that was to dispose of the old man’s body to the doctors. Hare found a ready accomplice in Wil liam Burke, another man. aud also oue of his lodgers. The body was removed from the coffin, and a bag of tanner’s bark substituted for it. The lid was screwed down and the little funeral passed off as usual. The same evening. Hare and Burke stealthily repaired to the university, and, meeting a student in the yard, asked for the rooms of Dr. Monroe, the Professor of Anatomy. The student happened to be a pupil of Knox’s, and upon discovering their er rand advised them to try Knox’s place in Surgeons’ Square. There they sold the body for £7 10s., a large sum for them, and very easily obtained. They had not courage to go regular into the business of body stealing, and so Ilaie, the vilest of the tvo, suggested a fresh stroke of business, which was to inveigle the old and infirm to his quarters and “ do for them.” Hare started in search of a victim; and prowling through the slums,met an old woman, half drunk, and asked her to his house. He gave her whisky un til she became comatose, and then with Burke’s assistance strangled her. The body brought £lO. The appetites of the vampires were now sharply whetted, and they entered systematically upon the work of murder. Vagrants, street walkers and imbeciles, were allured ou various pretexts to the house of Hare, made drunk, and suffo cated. Emboldened by their success, they began to pursue their thuggish practices even in daylight. A woman named Docherty was stifled and left half exposed under some straw, was seen by two lodgers, who notified the police. Thirteen victims had been se cured in eleven months, and all taken to the same place and sold. The prison ers were tried December 24, 1828,when Hare, the blackest of the villains, was let off by turning “ State’s evidence,” and Burke was convicted, hanged and dissected. The effect produced upon the public by this horrible disclosure is indescrib able. Anew unheard of crime, that of “ Burking,” was added to the list of at rocities of which human fiends are ca pable Astonishment and terror spread through the community. Households gathered their members within doors before dusk ; workmen walked home from their day’s toil in groups, as if in fear of being waylaid. The facts were appalling enough, but a thousand exag - gerations and inventions filled the air, and intensified the universal excitement. —Popular Science Monthly. ■ A l!a<i Man. He slid into a butcher store on Cen tral avenue the other evening, and took a seat on the far end of the counter. — He was a tall, placid man with an old gingham un brella under his arm, and when the butcher asked him what lie wanted, he said : “ Nothin’ particular. Jest dropped in to see how you was gettin’ on.” The butcher looked at him, wonder ing what business it was of his, any how ; but he was too busy with custom ers to pay much attention to a man who had only dropped in to see how he was getting on. Finally the man broke the silence again : “ Snug little place you’ve got here.” “Snug enough,” said the man of meat. “ Y x es,” continued the tall man, “ a man must crawl before lie can walk. — Ever read the lives of distinguished men ?” The butcher said he hadn’t; didn’t have time. “ Ah, si*’,” said the tall man, “If vou had you would know bow great for tunes are made from small beginnings. A. T. Stewart started around with a pack on his back. President Grant used tp ride a mule in a tanbark ring, at fifty cents a day, and look at him now —in every ‘ring’ in the country that has got any money in it.” “ All true, sir,” said the butcher, who intends to vote for old Bill Allen. “ Look at Boss Tweed,he used to drive a dray .and now he is worth over a million dollars and is in jail.” “Can that be so ?” said the butcher meditatively. “ Of course it’s so,” said the tall man ; “and there are thousands of others whom I could mention who began busi ness without a cent, and are rich men to day. I tell you, my friend, a man to be successful nowadays must make all he can and keep all be can lay his hands on.” Here the stranger remarked that he must be going and took his departure ; and when.a neighbor dropped in shortly after and wanted a five dollar bill changed, the butcher couldn’t change it-. The reader can imagine where the butcher’s money went. The Memory op a Mother. — When temptations appear, and we are almost persuaded to do wrong, how of ten a mother’s word of warning will cal' to mind the vows which are rarely broken. Yes the memory of a mother has saved many a poor wretch from go ing estray. Tall grass may be growing over the hallowed spot, where all her earthly remains repose; the dying leaves of autumn may be whirled over it, or the white mantle of winter may cover it from sight; yet the spirit of her, when he walks in the right path, appears, and mournfully calls to, when wandering off into the ways of error. Neighborly Courtesies. Jaky Watts and Benny Richards.two Washington boys, were sitting in the dark in Watts’ kitchen cracking hicko ry nuts, and telling one a : other how how good their respective fathers were. Jaky heard his father’s step up stairs and suddenly became silent. 31 r. Watts had thrown out a hint at the dinner table that he would tend to Jaky when he came home for tying his little sister lupin a bag. When Jaky heard the old ! man's step approachiug the kitchen stairs, he said : “ Benny, something makes me feel as if I had left the back gate ( pen. I’ll be back in a minute,” and hurried out the door. Mr. Watts came down into the kitch en, shaking with suppressed rage, and seeing a long figure sitting in the dim light of the fire he grabbed it by the car and raised it from the chair. Ben ny set up a terrible howling. Mr Watts waltzed him around the room, jerking out such remarks as : “ I’ll teach you to perpetrate such things in my house; you thought you’d maltreat your little sister, did you ? I suppose you'll want to put me in a bag next ?” The Richards boy put up a prolonged howl, interrupted occasionally by a “ Ouch !” and a vigorous effort to cover some tender spot with his hands. Mr. Watts gave him a final wrench and slung him against the table, with the observation that lie guessed be wouldn’t forget this right av/ay, Benny rushed out of the house snuf fing and snorting and uttering all sorts of threats against Watts. Jaky stopped him in the yard, and, with an expres sion of open-mouthed wonder, he ex claimed : “ Why, Benny, what in the world is the matter ? Do you feel sick ?” Benny did not stop to explain, but sneaked over the fence and home, drop ping a bad word oi a sob at every step of the way. Jaky looked very meek as he came into the houre, rubbing his legs and showing a disposition to run at eveiv motion his father made, and looked ex actly as if he had been whipped. Mrs. Richards called next day in a high state of indignation. She took up her quarters in the basement hall with her Benny under her arm, and told the Watts folks just what she thought of them. She became highly inflamed and choked with passion,and reminded them that they could not ride over her, if Mr. Watts did hold a government office, not if she knew herself. She’d like to see herself associating with people that would set upon and maliciously mal treat a tender infant. Then she danced away with the assurance that they had not heard the last of it. Mr. Watts investigated the matter a tittle, and he and Jakv held a business meeting in the woodshed, much to Jaky’s disgust. The matter was thor oughly explained,and Mrs. Watts sent a bowl of currant-jelly around to Mr. Richards. Mrs. Richards says she never really knew what a dear good lady Mrs. Watts was before ; but Benny says that all the currant-jelly in the district cannot efface the memory of one night, and he longs to be a man, so that he caa re venge himself upon Mr. Wafts. Waiting for a Cave. Three or four days ago, within two or three miles of this city, a Washington street merchant, who had business in the city, came to a small creek,beside which a native was washing his shirt. The man was sousing the garment up and down and around, and as he soused he whistled a merry tune. “ Do you have to wash your own shirt sir ?” inquired the merchant, as he halted. “ Not alius, but old Bet has got one o’ her fits on jest now,” was the ready reply. “ Then you don’t agree very well ?” “ Purtv well on the general thing. Bet s kind o’ mulish, and I’m kind o’ mulish, and when we get our backs up we crawl off to see who will cave first.” “ I should think you would want some sopp ?” “ l do” “ Why don’t you get it then ?” “ That would be caving to Bet, stranger. She’s squatted on the only bit of bar soap ’tween here and Vicks burg, and she’s jest aching for me to slide up and ask bfer for it.” “ And you won’t ?” “ Stranger,” said the native, as he straightened up, “ don’t I look like a feller that would wear a shirt three months afore I’d cave in and holler for soap ?” The merchant sided with him, and as he drove on the man soused the shirt up aud down and whistled : I’m gwine up the river— Hear me holler. Vicksburg Herald. —— Influence of F- od. —An excellent hint is given in the following item : Dr Hall relates the case of a man who was cured of his biliousness by go ing without his supper and drinking lemonade. The next morning his pa tient rose with a wonderful sense of rest and refreshment, feelirg as though the blood had been literally washed,cleansed and cooled by the lemonade and fast. His theory is that food can be used as p remedy for many diseases successfully. As an example, he cures spitting blood by the use of salt; epilepsy, by water rnelots; kidney affections, by celerv ; poison, by olive or sweet oil; erysipelas, by pounded cranbeiries applied to the part affected ; hydrophobia, by onions, etc. So the way to keep iu good health is really to know what to eat and to kuow what medicines to take. VOL. VI.—NO. 13. Baltic of foni^dprateMoucj - . Ex Attorney General Akerman has recently given an account of’ his experi ence in Confederate money. lie says ho was a member ol Governor Brown’s Georgia militia, and was ordered, late in the spring of 18G5 to report for duty. , Having a case to attend in court and knowing that matters were m such a . desperate condition that the Confedera cy must soon go to pieces, he did not start at once, and in a few days the headquarters were transferred to \u gusta and he was ordered to report there. On his arrival he iound that the general on whose staff ho held a position had been captured at Macon. He.bow ever. reported to the officer next in com* niand, and was by him given a furlough. This business occupied a part of one day only, and, as be arrived in Augusta in the evening he was able to leave for home on the second morning, remainin'’ l at the hotel two niyhts and one day; On calling for his hill it was made out at the rate of 8100 per day. Before leaving home his wife had re quested him, il possible, to get a card ot hooks and eyes and send it to her. During the afternoon which he had spent in Augusta he went in search of it. Many of the stores were closed,but he finally fuund one open and succeed ed in purchasing an ordinary card of hooks and eyes for 810. On his way back to the hotel he saw in a store win dow some very inferior greenish glass tumblers. Glassware was very difficult to obtain in the Confederacy duiing the war, and Mr. Akerman, who had ju t married the year before, had not been able to get any. The price of the tum blers was 81GO a dozen. fie bought three of them for which lie paid Bdo. On his way to the railroad station ho saw some shoe blacking for 820 a box, and purchased one box. This was the last occasion on which he had to uso Confederate money, except to pay for a railroad ticket home. ♦ —. Cheating an Innocent Old Man. One day last month, when trade was dull,a Vicksburg grocery clerk procured a piece of sole leather from a shoemaker, painted it black, and laid it aside for further use. Within a few days an ol i ’ hap from back in the country in quired for a plug of chewing tobacco. The piece of sole leather was tied up, paid for, and the purchaser startl'd home At the end of the sixth day lie returned, looking downcast and deject ed, and walking into the store he in quired of the clerk : “ Member that terbacker I got here the other day ?” “ Yes." “ Well, was that a new* brand V* “ No—same old brand.” “ Regular plug terbacker, was it V * “ Yes.” “ Well, then, its right here in my jaws, sadly replied the old man. “ I knowed 1 was gittin purty old, but I was alius handy on bitin plug. I nev, er seed a plug afore this one that I couldn t tear to pieces at one chaw. I got my teeth on to this one,and bit and pulled and twisted like a dog at a root, and Ive kept bitin and pulling for six da3’s, and tbar she am now. the same as when you sold her to me !” “ Seems to be a good plug,” remark ed the clerk as he smelled of the coun terfeit. “She’s all right; pg me <h a t’ s fail, ing !” exclaimed the old man. “ Pass me out some fine cut, and I’ll go home and deed the farm to the bov, and git ready for (he grave !” Vickslura Her ald. J Max Adler tells anew story, the gist of which is as follows : Bill Slocum was nominated for Mayor of Pencader, and one day, in a street conversation, ho remarked, “ J’ve got to win.” He pronounced it, l’ve’ got t’winand old Mrs. Martin, overhearing it imper fectly, went around and reported that Mrs. Slocum had got twins. The boys at once decided to serenade Bill, and that night they marched out to his bouse, with a band playing “Hail to the Chief,” several ward clubs, some fire companies, a group of white-dressed girls in a wapon, a lot of banners, and plenty of enthusiasm. Bill made a speech about the canvas-, and then there were shouts of “ Where’s the twins'.” “Hold ’em up to the window !” and the like. Bill said ..here was a mistake, but the band sarcastically played “ Listen to the Mocking bird,” and the boys shout ed louder for the twins. When the truth prevailed the assembly dispersed in disgust, and Bill was overwhelmingly defeated at the polls g ■ A Word About Marriage -a phy. sicianw rites thefullowing sensible advice: “ profession has thrown me among women of u! 1 masses, and my experience teaches me that Cod never gave man a greater proof of his love than to place woman here with him. My advice is : Go—propose to the most sensible girl you know. If she says yes. tell her how much your income is —from what source derived—and tell her you will divide the last shilling with iier and love her with all your heart m the bargain. And then* keep your promise. My word for it, she will live within your income,and to your last hour you will regret that you did not marry sooner, Gentlemen, don’t worry about feminine extravagance and feminine untruth. Just you be true to her, love her sincerely, and tell her of it frequently, and a more fond, faithful, foolish slave you will never meet any where. You won’t deserve her, I know but. she would never see it. Now throw aside pride and selfishness, and see what will become of it.