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CALHOUN WEEKLY TIMES. by and. b. freeman. C ALHOUN TIMES Office: Wall St., Southwest of Court House. Rates of Subscription. Oie Year _52.00 >ix Months _I.OO Ten copies one ye.ar 15 00 Rates of Advertising. geaF* For e&cti square of ten lines or less for the first insertion. sl, and for eacb sub sequent insertion, fifty cent*. NcJakfre j 1 Mo. J * Mu*, j 0 Mo? 1 1 year. TVo $4.00 | $7.00 < $12.00 | fcgatX* Four “ 6.00 j 10.00 j 18.00 65.00 $ column 9.00 15.00 25.00 40.00 t ** i 15.00 25.00 40.00 05.00 1 “ j 25.00 40-0© 65.00 115.00 giffif* 1 Ten lines of solid brevier, or its equivalent in space, make a square. Rates of Legal Advertising. Sheriff s Sales, each levy s>4 00 Citation for letters of Administration and Guardianship 4 00 Application for dismission from Admin istration, Guardianship and Exec* utorship .. 5 00 Application for leave to sell land, one square 4 ©0 Each additional square 2 00 Land Sales, one square 4 00 Each additional square 3 C>o Application for Homestead 2 00 Notice to Debtors and Creditors 4 00 Y J. KIKER & SON, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Will practice in all the Courts of the Cher okee Circuit; Supreme Court ol Georgia, and the United States District Court at Atlanta, Ga. Office : Sutheast corner of the Court House, Calhoun. Ga. j,Y\l\ & MI LNEII, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, CALHOUN, GA. Will practice in all the Superior Courts of of Cherokee Georgia, the Supreme Court of the State and the United States District and Circuit .curls, at Atlanta. J I). TINSLEY,” Watch-Maker & Jeweler, CALHOUN, GA. All styles of Clocks, Watches and Jewelry really repaired and warranted. lIUFE WALDO IHORXTON, V D. D. S. DENTIST. Office over Geo. W. Wells & Co.'s Agricul tural Warehouse. j H. ARTHUR, DEALER IN GEXERA.L MERCHANDISE, RAILROAD STREET, Calhoun , Ga. IL MAIN, M, I>. PRACTICING PHYSICIAN, Having permanently located in Calhoun, offers his professional services to the pub lic. Will attend all calls when not profes sionally encaged. Office at the Calhoun Hotel. *27. mTeIiIjIS’ IIIERV & SILC STABLE. Good Saddle and Buggy Horses and New Vehicles. Horses and mules for sale. Stock fed and cared for. Charges will be reasonable. Will p;y the cash for corn in the ear and fodder in the bundle. febS-tf. -Ajfctention ! TtHE undersigned have located themselves I at the Mims Tan-yard, on the Love's Bridge road, 8} miles from Galh uun, for the purpose of carrying on THE TANNING BUSINESS. They are prepared to receive hides to tan on shares, or will exchange leather .or hides. They bind themselves to prepare leather in workmanlike stvle. WI. HUNTER A SON. September 14, 2875.’2m. I3oaz & Barrett Are Agents for FISK’S PATENT METALIC BURIAL CASES. Also WOODEN CASES with R sewood f tisk, Will keep on hand a full range of sizes. Executor's Sale . BY virtue of an order from the Court of Ordinary of Gordon county, will be sold on ti e first Tuesday in l>ecember next, at Court Houre door in said county, be tween the ltg-al hours of sale, the tract or pi*reel of lands in said county, which said Thomas B Scott owned at the time of h s jeath, \ix; east half of lot number 57. in the 6th district and 3d section, containing tighty acres, more or less; said land sold as the property of Thomas D. Scott, for the benefit of his heirs and creditors. Terms, one fourth cash, one fourth twelve months after date, one fourth two years after date, and the other fourth three years after date, w ioh interest from date if not punctually paid, with good security, and the adminis trator will give bond for title until the pur chase monev is paid. B. F. MOSTELLER, Execute r of T I) Scott. nov3 30d—print er's fees 7 da J at home, h .tuples vl toX/ worth $1 free. Stinson & ’ J ** Forland, Maine. Railroad >rhrdutr. Western & Atlantic Railroad AND ITS CONNECTIONS. ‘ ‘ KEXXESA If ROUTE ” The following takes effect mav 1875 northward. * jo.i. Leave Atlanta 4.10 v.h Arrive Cartersville 6.14 *• Kingston 6.42 “ “ Dalton 5.24 “ “ Chattanooga 10.25 ** No. 3 Leave Atlanta 7.(* A . M Arrive Carte; sviile 9.22 ~ “ Kingston 9.5 t; -< “ Dalton 11.54 ** Chattanooga 1.56 p.m No. 11. Leave Atlanta 8.80 p.m Arrive Cartersville 7.19 “ “ Kingston 41 44 Dalton _ll.]S 44 SOUTHWARD. No. 2. Leave Chattanooga 4.00 p m Arrive Dalton 5.41 “ Kingston 72s 44 44 Cartersville gjo 44 44 Atlanta 10.15 44 No. 4. Leave Chattanooga sxlo a.m Arrive Dalton 7,01 .< 44 Kingston 9,07 44 44 Cartersville 9,42 “ Atlanta 12 06 p.ra No. 12. Leave Dalton 1.00 A.* Arrive Kingston 4.19 4 - 44 Cartersville 5.18 44 44 Atlanta 9.20 44 Pullman Palace Gars 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 bttweer Louisville and Atlanta. No change of cars between New Or leans, Mobile, Montgomery, Atlanta and Baltimore, and only one change to New York. Passengers leaving Atlanta at 4 10 p. m., arrive in New Y ork 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. Egg*. Ask for Tickets via 44 Kennesaw Route.' 7 B. W. WRENN, G. P. k T. A., Atlanta, Ga, Change of Schedule. ON THE GEORGIA AND MA IN AND AUGUSTA RAILROADCi. ON AND AFTER SUNDAY, JUNE 28th, 1874. the Pasenger Trains on the Georgia and Maeon and Augusta Railroads will run as follows: GEORGIA RAILROAD. Day Passenger Train Will Leave Augusta at 8:45 a m Leave Atlanta at 7:00 a m Arrive in Augusta at, 8:80 p in Arrive in Atlanta at....*. 5:45 p m Ntggl 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 Ailanta at 6:22 a ni MACON AND AUGUSTA RAILROAD. Mason Passenger Train. Leave Augusta at 0n...10:45 a 1# Leave Camak at 2:35 p m Arrive at Macon at 6:40 p in Leave Macon at _6:3G a m Arrive at Camak at 10:45 a m Arrive at Augusta at 2:00 p in BERZELI.4 PASSENGER TRAIN. Leave Augusta at 4:15 p m Leave Berzelia at 8:30 a m Arrive n Augusta at, s. 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 trams for Macon and all points beyond. * Pullman s (First-Class) Palace sleepin Cars on all Night Passenger Trains on L Geotgia Railroad. *B. K. JOHNSON. Superintendent . superintendent's Office Georgia and Macon and Augusta Railroads, Augusta. Jure 29, 1874, Awarded the Highest Medal at Vienna. E. k H. T ANTHONY & CO., 591 Broadway. Now York. (Opp. Metropolitan Hotel.) Manufacturers. Importers A Deal ers in CHROMOS AND FRAMES. Stereoscopes and Views, Albums, Graphoscopes an 1 suitable views. Photographic Materials, We are Headquarters fo r everything in the way of Stereoscopticons and Magic Lanterns, Being manufacturers of the Mirro-Scientific Lantern , Stereo-Panopticon , University - Stereoscopt icon. Advertiser s Stereoscoplicon , A rt opt Icon , School 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. All3' enterprising man can make money with a magic lantern. JfcsTf'ut out this advertisement for refer ence sep-29-9 m Special IS otice. MISS HUDGINS can now befound at MBS. MILLS' FURNISHING ESTABLISHMENT, 51 Broad Street, Borne, 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 necessary kept for ladies’ outfit. [sep29-7m. CALHOUN. GA., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1875* THE WORTH OF WOMAN. Honored be woman 1 she beams on the sight. Graceful and lair, like a being of light ; F -alters arouno her. wherever -he 5.. vs. Roses of bliss o er our thorn-covered wavs; Roses of Paradise, sent lrcm above, To be gathered and twined in a garden of love. Man of passion, stormy ocean. * Tossed by su.ges mountain high. Count the hurricane’s commotion. Springs at reason’s feeole cry. Lou * the temj-est roars around him, Louder still it roars witnin, Flashing lights of hope confound him. Stuns him lift’s incessant din. Woman invites him, w : th bliss in her smile, To eea se from his toil and be happy awhile; W hispering wooingly— comet© my bower. Go not in search of the phantom of powtr; Honor and wealth arg illusory —cornel Happiness dwells in the temples of Home. Man, with fury stern and savage, Persecutes his brother man, Reckless it he bless or ravage. Action—ac.ion—still his plan. Now creating, now destroying, Ceaseless wishes tear lus breast; Ever seeking, ne’er enjoying Still to be—but never blest. Woman con ten din silent repose Enjoys :n its beauty life's flower as it blows. And w..ters and lends it with innocent heart, Fai richer than man with his treasures of art. And wiser by far in the circle confined Than he with his science, and fiignts of the mind. Coldly to himself sufficing, Ma_ disdains the gentler arts, Knoweth not the bliss arising, From the inP rvhange of hearts. Slowly through this bosom stealing. Flows the genial '■•urrent on Till by age's frost congealing L is hardened into stone. She, like the harp that instinctively rings, As the night breath tog zephv-i soft sighs on the strings. Responds on each impulse with ready reply, B hether sorrow or plea, ure her sympathy + ry ; And tear drops and smiles on her counte nance play Like sunshine and showers of a morning in May. Through the range of man's dominion. Terror is the ruing word. And the standard of opinion. As the temper of the sword Strife exults, and pity, blushing, From the scene despairing files, Where to battle, madly rushing. Brother upon brother dies. Woman commands with a milder control She rules by enchan'ment the realm of the soul; As she glances around in the light of he” smile. The war of the pa sions is hashed for & while, And discord content from his fuiy 10 cease, Reposes entranced on the pillcw of peuc . *• Sara h Outside papers must quit publishing ficticious items about Dtroit or s me one wtii get hurt. \ ester day sifter no n a woman With a black belt and a pair of spectacles on entered tbe editorial rooms of this paper, b and iing a Chicago da ly in her hand, and she waited up to a stoop'shouldered c msumptive toiler who bad dropped in to see a New York exchange, and grimly asked : “ Who’s Sarah ?” He replied he had never heard of her. wheD she unfolded the paper and point ed to tbe following : “ There is an old woman in Detroit named Sarah who has worn one pair of stockings right straight along fur six teen weeks ” “ It’s a lie,” said the old lady, 44 and you’ve <r t to take it back, or —or —or —ni—:” She finished by sliding her hand along bis shoulder until the got hold of bis necktie. “ I havn’t nothing to do with th t,” he gurgled, as he tried to pail away, “ that's a Chicago paper.” “ I know it, but it's a lie, and I can prove it.” “ I know you can, madam, if it was reant for you l I don't beleive you'd go eight weeks without changing stockings ” “ Nor even six l” she exclaimed.press ing against Lis Adam's apple with her thumb. “ tad I can prove that I change as often as any one else.” “ I don't think it means you,” he said getting his left eye on the itom. “ Yes it does,” she foamed. “ Aia’ f my name Sarah, and ain't I oidish.tud ain’t Ia woman ? Oh l such lies make my bio >d bile 3” “ Well, you v ant to go for someone in Chicago It has nothing to do with this paper.” “ Haim, eh ? I know better 3 You are ail linked in together, and I presume you read that yesterday and lafed, snd lafed. and lafed, and thought Sarah was an old fool 3” “ I never saw it before.” “ But Sarah is no fool,’ she resumed, towering above him. “ You just mark this, you long eared grave stone you : If thars another article in the papers about Sarah you’ll never know waat broke your neck 3” And she iaid her fist down cn tbe ta ble, flourished under his nose,and went out saying : “ S xteen weeks 3 Think of the baseness of it ” —Detroit Free Press. One Winston was (and probably is now) a negro preacher in Virginia, and bis idea;- of theology and human nature were often very original as the foil ,-w.ug anecdote may prove. A gentleman thus accosted tbe old gentleman one Sunday : “ Wiston, I understand you believe every woman has sevea devils. How can you prove it ?” u Wei , sar, did you never read in de Bible bow seven debbles were cast out’n Mary Magdalen ?” Oh yes 3 I’ve read that.” “ Did you ebber hear of ’em bmn cast out of and odder woman, sar ? ’ “No, I never did.” “W ell, deD, all de odder trot ’em yet," Guodj Men. Good people are bores rot truly I good, such, for instance, as wear out their lives in newspaper offices that oth people m-jy be edified j but your nambly pambly long-faced good people, who, from some unaccountable dispensation ot Providence, never fail to have a pro nounced stoop in their sh- ulders and a shambling gait. Have you observed tb:A when the faces af an assemblage is wreathed in smiles at some little harm less bit of pleasantry, there is alwavs one face which bears no smile, but ratt er that fearful horror of expression which must have glowed in the coucte nrnces of tbe eariv martyrs when the kindling wood beg-an to ignite. S leh people are bore*, and now it shall not be sail that Round About has attacked goodness iu any w r ord or line. Such is not the fact. T~ue goodness, like true inwardness, which is much tbe same thing, is always sure of recognition in this world, and nowhere more readily than iu these columns. It is not nee essary to define a good man. Every person whose business or pleasure has ever carried them into the sacred pre cincts cf an editorial room knows what a man of that nature is. Let him tel! his wife and thus g-ve the informal on that genera] impetus which will lead to its early and widespread dissemination But tbe goody man is another man. He looks good, but he must be taken a= re gards looks, with due grains of allow ance. True enough, he swings the scalping knife of morality, or the tom ahawk of orthodoxy with a sublimity of unci( n which often deceives the care less observer, but watch him when th contribution plate comes around : ‘•what the goody man gives is nothing to no nobody.” That's bis stumbling bbek ; the meek face the rapid rolling tear, the general air of solemnity are things very easily Effected, but it re quire genius to be able to so dispose the crimps and folds of a twenty-five cent piece of fractional currency as to make it so closely resemble a five dollai note as to blind the eyes of the bad boys who remember “ the goodv's’ fearful groans when a gaase of base ball was proposed on the village greeD. Yet he does this and even more.he goes through life under a mask, leaves be hind him the n> Arils of the ma-ses— who seldom thiuk—an apparent odor of sancity ; has an elegant funeral ovation, goes out t. the cemetery at the he-d of a grand train of carriages, having nude hrs way through the w?rld on a pious face and a few judici usly applied gr its. As to what becomes f him then Round About is rot pre-nared to say , as his jurisdict ion is only so exten sive with the boundaries of the w<-rld. Asa piece of partiotr advice: girls,don’t marry a go >dv man ; he is the most un- j comfort able piece of furniture to have \ ab. at the house.— Courier-Journal. The First Priafed Bools. It Is a remarkable and most interest ing fact that the very first use to which the discover, of printing was applied was the pn daeti >n of the Bible. This wa accomplished at Men* z between the years 1440 and 1445. Gu ten burg was the invent r of the art, and Faust, a goldsmith furnished tbe necessary funds. Hal it been a single page, or au entire sheet, which was then produced, there night have been less occasion to have noticed it ; but there was s teething in the whole character of the affair which, ir not unprecedented, rendered it singu lar in the usual current of human events. The Bible was in two volumes, which have been justly praised f r tbe strength an and beauty of the paper, the exactness of the register, and the lustre of the ink. Ti e wnk cotained twelve hun dred and eighty—two pagas, and being the first ever printed,of* course involved, a long period of time, snd an immense amount ol mental and mechanical labor; an and yet for a long time after it had been finished and off tied for sale n t a being, save the arthts themselves, knew how it was accomplßhed. Of the first print ed Bible eighteen copies are known to be in existence, f-ur of which are print ed on vellum. Two of these are in E g .and, one being iu the Grenville c llec ti: n, one in the Royal Library of Ber bin, and one iu the Royal Librarv of Paris. Of the f urte.n ren ainiog c pi s ten are in England—there Ling a copy in the libraries l Oxford, Edinburg and London, and several in tbe collections of different n blemen. The Tehutu copy Las been sold as high as £1.300. Brealiiag Down. Men often have their bands full; are overcrowded with business and drive hurriedly al>ng at it, they are not over worked. W e cannot alwavs tell when a man is over-worked. A man dots not always know it himself, no more than he knows the strain on the main spring of h.swatch that will brtak it But tber comes a time wh&n it will break —a click, a snap and the watch stops. Men break down in this way They go on, day after day, the pressure bearing harder each successive day. until the vi tal f>jrce gives out, and the machine stops. It is a great pity that the indi cations of this state of things cannot be sccd beforehand, and if seen regarded. It is one cf the lost things men will ad mit to themselves, much less to others They flatter themselves that it is ouly a little weariness of the wbieh will pass off with a few hours rest, when, in fact, every nerve and p wer are exhaust ed and the system is driven to work bv mere force oi the will. When the oil on the shaft, or in the oil box is exhaust ed, every revolution of the wheel wears the revolving part, and will soon ruin it. The same is true of the human body. For when it is overtaxed, every effort wears to destroy it 1 uriou* Calculation. Tbe simple interest of one cent, at six per cent, per annum, from the com mencement of the Christian era to the c-i se of the present year. 1865, would be but the trifling sum cf eleven dollars, seventeer 1 cents and eight mills ; but if the same principal, at the same rate and time,had been allowed to accumulate at compound interest, it woold require tbe enormous sum of 84,840,000,000,- 000 of globes of solid gold, each equal to the earth in magnitude, to pay the interest ; and if the sum were equally divided among the inhabitants of the earth, now estimated to be one thousand millions, every man, woman and child would receive 84.340 golden worlds for an inheritance. Were all these globes placed side by side in a direct line it would take lightning itself, that can girdle the earth in the wink of an eye. 73,003 years to travel from end to end. Ard if a Parrott gun were discharged at one extremity while a man was stationed at the other—light traveling i92,000 miles in a second; the initial velocity of a cannon ball being about 1.500 per second, and in this case sup p se to continue at the saaie rate ; and fund moving through the atmosphere 1,120 feet ia a second—he would see the flash alter wa>ting 110,0 )0 years the ball would reach him in 74,000,000,- D'OO of years ; but he would not hear the report till the end of a 1.000 000,- 000 of centmieN. Again, if all these masses of gold were fusel into one prodigious ball having the sun for its center, it would reach cut into space, in all directions, one thousand seven hundred and thirty millions of miles, almost reaching the orbit of Hersehel and L ran us ; and, if tbe interest were century, it would entirely fill up tbe solar system, and even encroach five hundred million of miles of the domain of the void beyond tbe planet Neptune, whose orbit.at the distance of two thou sand eight hundred and fifty millions of miles from the sun, encircles out whole system of worlds. A Dreaiu That Parted }laa and WiTe. Bundy has been married two weeks aDd has ief* his wife. Bundy is a little man, and his wife weighs two hundred and id ty pounds, and was tne reiict ot the iate Peter Potts. About ten days ait r marriage Bundy was sur prised on awaking in the morning, to find his better half sitting up iu bed crying as if her heart would breas. Astonished, he asked the cause of her sorrow, but receiving nc reply he began to surmise that there must be some secret on her mind that she with held from him, that was the cause oi her anguish, he remuiked to M rs. Bundy that as they were married she should tell him the cause of her giief. so, if passible, he could avert it, and aittT considerable coaxing, be elicited the io lowing from her : “Last night I dreamed I was single, and as I walked through a well lighted street 1 came to a store where a sign in front advertised husbands for sale. Thinking it curious, I entered, and ranging along the wall on e ther side where men with prices affixed to them. Buch beautiful men ; some for sl.- Übs, some f" r v 509, and so on to $l5O. And as I bad not that amount 1 could not purchase.” Thinking to console her, B placed his arm lovingly around her and asked : “And did you see any man there like me?” “ Oh, yes, ' she replied, drawing away from him,* 4 lots of them; they were tied up iu bunches, like asparagus, and sold at ten cents per bunch.” Bundy got up and went to see his lawyer if he had sufficient ground for a divorce. Newspaper Advertising;. Newspaper advertising is now recog r ized, by business men having faith in their own wares, as the most effect! e means of securing for their goods a wide recognition of heir merits. Newsp :per advertising compels inqui ry, and when the srticie offered is of p ■ and quality, and at a fair price, the natural result is increased sales. Newspaper adverting is a permanent addition to the reputation of the goods advertised, because it is always at vtork in their iaterest Newspaper advertising is the most en ergetic and vigiiaut salesmen ; address ins thousands each day. always in the advertiser’? interest, and ceaselessly at work seeking customers from ail classes Newspaper advertising promotes tr.’de. for even in the dullest times advertisers secure y far the largest share of what is being and >ne While the advertiser eats and sleeps, printers, steam engines and printing presses are at work far him. trains bear ing his words to 'housaodsof towns.and hundreds of thousands of readers, all glancing with more or less interest at the message prepared for the”i in the solitude of bis office. No preacher ev er sp ke to so large an audience, or with so little effort or so eloquently, as you may lo with the newspaper man’s assist ance. — Savannah Xetct. ■ ♦ A Mutual Misunderstanding.— Two colored citizens, Saturday, bad a little trouble on the post office corner : *• Sir, I stigmatize you as a fabeboed fieri” exclaimed the first. “ And you, sir. is a canterin' hipel crite f’ replied tht second. ** Ah 1 talk away !” growled the first. ** but my character is above disproach.” ** And your influence don’t detach from my reputation ODe lowa 1” growled tbe other. And thus they psrtcd. From the Southern R atehman. One cf the causes of the lack of pros perity. said a gentleman at Jackson Court, is the fact that so many persons are dodgiDg honest labor. They will became book agents, map agents, insur ance agents, lightning-rod peddlers— anything and everything to dodge hon est work. The result is, every man ( who is engaged in honest labor finds he is taxed to support nine or ten idlers 3 The couotry can never prosper while this is the case. Our friend was right If we would see prosperity return we must induce everybody to go to work. There are thousands of white people as well as De grees. who are idle, or as well be so as pretending to make a precarious living by dodging labor. We have too much and too many of everybody’ else and not enough farmers. In this country, farming is the true source of prosperity —it is not only the most prosperous, but the most useful, and, therefore, tbe most honorable calling. Why stout, healthy, able-bodied young men should seek other avocations, or remain in su pine idleness, while there is such a sure road open to wealth.prosperity and com parative happiness as the cultivation of the soil offers, we cannot imagine, unless they have been taught to believe that labor is not only a curse, but a degrada tion—neither of which propositions are true —us Adam was pat to work in the garden of Eden before he fell from hi first estate, and our blessed Savior, while on earth. “ wrought at his Fathers call ing.” Man was a laborer in the nor - mal state, and agriculture and horticul ture was the occupation of the father of mankind. Circumstances Alter Cfi-es. The other day, while a *\ icksburger was riding toward Jackson in his bug gy, he saw a l.tng-haired young man eit ting on a roadside fence! 1 here was such an air of utter desolation about tbe countryman that the Yicksburger drew rein and inquired : “For God's sake 3 what ails you. young man ?” *• Nothing, for God’s sake 3’’ was the meek reply. “ But is any one dead ?’* “Hai.’t heard of anybody hut old Matthews, and he went off two months ago.” “ Are you sick ?” “ I feel kinder Lad.” “ Well, you look bad. In fact, you are the worst looking man I’ve seen since the close of the war.” “I was all right till a month ago,” said the young man looking still more solemn. 44 What happened then ?” 44 Woman went back on me!” 44 L>id, eh ? were you engaged ?” 44 I'd hung around there for a year or so, and we’d hugged and loved and hooked fingers. If that isn't being en gaged, then I don’t know.” 44 And she backed out?” Yes ” 44 Well, I’ve been through the mill myself I hud a woman go back on me in that way three months ago, aod didn’t lose a bit of sleep over it.” 44 You didn't ?” “ No, sir.” 44 But then,” sighed tbe young man, as he hitched along on the rail, 44 the woman you loved didn’t own sixteen mules, and have a clean hundred bales of cotton to sell 3” —Vicksburg Herald. I iio 11 and Strength. A good story is told of Mrs. M., a witty and welßknown lady of Philadel phia. When the late war first brake out her sympathies, althcugh undoubtedly infavor of the union, were Dot man ifested with quite as much show as a great many of her neighbors, and for a time she was spoken of as disloyal. Id those days a person's loyalty was often measured by the noise and show made, and those who believed more in deeds tr.an in words were often unpop*ular. One morning Mrs. M. went to the market to leave her order, and while there bad ample opportunity to see that display went a good ways on the road of loyalty. Everything was received with fi :g*. and re-chrfitened, “Union” this and “ Uniou ” that The butter dealer with whom she traded, was loud in his protestations of loyalty, and had a small flag wherever one eou’d be displayed—a dozen or more to each tub of butter. 44 Ah 3 good morning Mrs. M., glad to see you. I have s .me excellent but te? ; let me sell you some.” 14 The real union, eh?” she asked smiling. “ Yes, the very best of anion butter.” 44 Well, in that ease i guess I won’t have any ” 44 What 3 why not pray ?” asked the man in astonishment. “ Well. I will tell you why ; in union you say, there is strength ; that is your loudest boast, I believe. I don’t wish any strong butter,” and, turning, she left the chopfallen dealer to converse with himself awhile. A Good story is told of a country merchant whe agreed to take a farmer’s oats at forty cents a bushel if the latter would let him tramp the measure The farmer agreed to it. The buyer paid for sixty pushels, and the Dext day he went after them. The farmer filled the half bushel, and then the merchant got in tramped them down—whereupon the farmer poured the compressed oats ioto the bag. Tbe merchant protested, and demanned that the measure should be filled up after tranq ing. The farmer informed him that there was no agree* ment of that sort, but that he might tramp down the oats to his heart s con tent after they were measured. VOL. VI.—NO. 17. A ( AP*Slip]iiug Hatch. A tar-heel convent ionist k nows a thing: or two besides making const i tut ions. He can beat ail creation shelliog corn. The other evening a si rolling peddler had a I newly-paten ted com-shelier hawking it about llaleigh, and was showing a crowd l on street how fast it could shell, when an old member from t ie tnountai stepped up. dressed i'd blue jean*, and ! a c °b P‘P e bis mouth, aud said to the 1 peddler : I can heat that thing corn 1 myself” “ Well, sir, said the peddler, u I’ll I g’*? you a machine for nothing if jou'il do it.” “ Good as wheat,” said conventboist, and he marched over the pie for a red' | ®ob, made a boy take it to the fire and burn it a little, and then squaring him seKon the sidewalk, he seized the red cob with the regular o and plantation grip in one hand while be he’d the ear of corn between both ,egs wi-h the other, ard waited for the word “Go” from a little man in tkg crowd, who held a watch to time them. “Go cried the fellow, and they went. ’ But the little peddler was so excited in the start that his shellor got choked, and while he was scuffling to uneboke it, the old member coolly got up, and pitching his half-shelled ear into the pile, said to the peddler: ” lain t got time to shell against that th'ng, mister it would make me slow motioned for life, and be stepped away lively, the crowd shouting and the ped dier mad Raleigh Correspondence of I kl'sburg He raid. Ihvspcpsia. The most universal cause of dyspepsia 5? eating too often too fast and too much. The general rules ehoul j be : l Eat thrice a day. - Not an atom between meals. 3 Nothing after two o’clxk but a a piece of cold butter and one cup of hot drii*k. 4 Spend half an hour at least in ing each meal. 5 Out up all meats and hard food in pea-sized pieces. 6 Never eat enn-ug' to cause the slightest uncomfortable sensation after wards. 7 Never work or study hard with in half an hour of eating. 1 he most universal and infallible in dication that a person is becoming dys peptic is some uncomfortable sensation coming on uniformly after each meal, whether it be in the stomach, throat or anywhere else. The furmation of wind in the stomach indicated by eructation, belching or otherwise, demonstrates that dyspepsia is fixing itself in the system. I hen there is only one course to pursue, and that is infallible: eat less and less at each meal until no wind is generated and do other uncomfortable sensation is experienced in any part of the body. No medicine ever cured confirmed dys pepsia ; eating plain food regularly and living out of doors industriously, will cure most cases.— Dr. Halls Journal. Wanted to be Eaten Ur.—Two peasants, husband and wife, named Ilet ty, live at Plesissur-Marne, near Paris! They have a little boy, aged six years, to whom they are uniformly brutal The other day the child became weary of life from being beaten so often, and, descending into the court-yard, where there was a ferocious bull dog chained,he approached the animal resolutely, and said : “ Tom, do you want to eat me up ?” The dog looked up and growled, but did not move towa-d him. * Tom. said the little one, {; yon must eat me because papa beats me too much ; and then I promise you I am good to eat and he threw a pebble at the dog, who, springing fiercely at the poor little boy, threw him down and fastened his sharp teeth iu his shonlder. At this instant a neighbor jumped through the window, and, driving the ball dog away, saved tbe child. The Fit. —The fly is an innocent looking bug as he squats on the sleeping baby’s face, spits on bis hands, and their wipes them on his wings, preparatory to taking a walk around on said face, till the paby whoop? like a muledriver, and the mother walks after that fly with a rag ; then be goes and sits down on the picture of Martha Washington an<l shakes hands with a few dozen friends, and Martha assumes the appearance of a freckle school girl. The fly likes to promenade on a man’s nose, and he walks around into the nostrils with as much assurance as an old tourist will penetrate the Cave of the Winds, at Niagara ; but his greatest recreation is to buckle on his skates and slide back and foith over the skat'iDg rink of a baH-beaded man. The Otiier Sjpe —The other <W an engineer on the Central Branch road had to stop his train near the junction and pall a drunk man from the track.tbe fellow having laid down and fallen asleep. “ You fool, you r* shouted the en gineer, - c upp> se you had been run over by the train !” fool, you!” stammered tne inebriate,” s’posiu’ I’d (hie) run over yonr blamed old (hie) cars I” A poultry raiser says : I have tried several remedies for gapes, but have found none so effectual as asafeetida. lut a few grains into the watering trough and let the chickens have no' other water, and they will mn be trou bled with gapes. I have found it to be a eveutive as well as a cur.