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The Jesnp Sentinel Office in the Jesup House, fronting on Cherry street, two doors from Broad St. PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY, ... BY ... T. P. LITTLEFIELD. Subscription Rates. (Postage Prepaid,) One year $1 .50 .Six months 75 Phree months 50 Advertising Rates. Per square, first insertion SI 03 Per square, each subsequent insertion. 75 rates to yearly and large ad vertisers. TOWN DIRECTORY. TOWK OFFICERS. Mayor—W. H. Whaley. Couneilmen—T. P. Littlefield, H. W. Whaley, Bryant George, O. F. Littlefield, Anderson Williams, Clerk and Treasurer —O. F. Littlefield. Marshal—G. W. Williams. COUNTY OKFCF.KS. Ordinary—Richard B. Hopps. Sheriff —John N. Goodbread. Clerk Superior Court—Benj.O.Middleton. Tax Receiver —.1. C. Hatcher. Tax Collector—W. R. Causey. County Surveyor—Noah Bennett. County Treasurer —John Massey. Coroner —D. McDitha. County Commissioners —J. F. King, G. W. Haines, James Knox, J. G. Rich, Isham Reddish. COURTS. Superior Court, Wayne County—Jno. L. Harris, Judge ; Simon W. Hitch, Solicitor- General. Sessions held on second Monday in March and September. CUR RE JUT PARAGRAPHS. Tiie peach crop in Delaware will be enormous this year, and the shippers are puzzled how to get it all to market. The remains of Mrs. Madison, a sister of Patrick Ilenry, lie in an almost un marked grave at Bowling Green, Ky. Many farms in Maine, it is said, can be bought for less than the cost of the buildings and fences upon them. Whatever else may be said against the Chinese, no one can truthfully say that he ever saw one who parted his hair in the middle. A party of twenty-eight Chinese naval cidets are now on their way to Paris and London, where they will pass a course of j instruction in the naval academies. In Germany there are fewer railway ! accidents than in any other country which possesses a considerable railway system. Professor M. W. Harrington, of j Michigan university, who is now in Europe, has been offered by the Chinese ! government college, at Pekin, tb' • of astronomy in that institution, aa . salary of $4,000 a year, with perquisites amounting to SI,OOO more. In the annual report of the Michigan state board of heath Dr. Scott describes a disease that he thinks is a result of using tobacco. The patient feels a violent pain in the left side, and balieves that his heart is affected. The trouble is a rheu matic condition of the wall of the chest. Abstinence from tobacco cures it, Kentucky has 4,000 square miles more coal measures than all of Great Britain ; superior iron-ore and more of it; good grazing and cattle ; fine wheat and corn fields ; large water communications; an excellent climate. Limonite ores, fluxes, hearth-stones, fire-clay, and coal and lead are tound contiguous in five j counties, and the tensile strength of her j pig-iron smelted with a local flux is said ti exceed any other. New Jersey awoke yesterday morn ing with a startling din in its ears and found itself invaded by millions of seven teen year locusts, whose busy hum filled the groves. It is the genuine red-eyed locusts, and the creature no sooner emerges from the ground than he climbs the nearest tree, sticks his claw into the bark, bursts the back of his jacket, awk wardly gets out of his old clothes and appears with a set of brand newwiDgs and a head a little uglier than hisoriginal one. How much harm these invaders do remains to be seen. For the present they seem to be mainly musical.— N. Y. Herald, 2 '. An extraordinary discovery of ancient coins has just been made on the Montrane estate, a few miles from Cupare Fife, in Scotland, the property of Mr. Allan Gil- more. In draining a portion of land the laborers struck on what appeared to be a bowlder, but subsequently was discovered to be a pot. A stone was firmly wedged into its mouth, and on being removed it was found that the vessel was filled with coins, the total number of pieces being 9,000. Most of them have the ap pearance of a well-worn six-pence, a few are of the size of a florin, though not quite so thick, and a small number are aoout the size of a shilling. They are all silver, and, so far as has been ascertained, of the twelfth, thirteenth ond fourteenth centuries. It is supposed they were used ia the reigns of Bobert If., Robert 111., and David IL, and have lain in the earth more than three hundred years. Cj )c Jcssuji VOL. I. GRASS. The rose is praised for its beaming face, The lily for saintlv whiteness ; We love this bloom for its languid grace, And that for its airy lightness. We say of the oak : “How erand of girth I” < f the will >w we say : “ How slender!” And vet to the soft grass, clothing earth, How slight is the praise we render! But the grass knows well, in her secret heart, How we love her cool green raiment; So she plays in silence her lovely part, And cares not at all for payment. Each year her buttercups ned and drowse, With sun and dew brimming over; Each year she pleases the greedy cows With oceans of honeyed clover! Each year on the earth’s wide breast she waves, From spring until bleak November; And then—she remembers so many graves That no one else will remember! And while she serves us, with goodness mute, In return for such sweet dealings, We tread her carelesslv underfoot— Yet we never wound her feelings! Here’s a lesson that he who runs may read : Though I fear but fow have won it-- The best reward of a kindly deed Is the knowledge of having done it! —Edgar Faurctt , in St. Nicholas . II UMAX BA TTEIHES. Experiments that Give Remarkable Re sults. it has been known for some time that the human body becomes much charged with electricity in the altitudes and ex ceedingly dry atmosphere of the high plateau between the Sierra Nevada and Rocky mountains, but it has heretofore been unknown that such accumulated electricity is a cause of great danger to persons handling exploders. Two very< serious and sad accidents have hap pened within a few months at the mouth of the Sutro tunnel, both through the sudden and apparently unaccountable discharge of a number of exploders in the exploder house. In the first case, Ilenry L. Foreman, formerly connected with the signal service bureau at Washington, a gentleman of scholarly attainments, a good mathematician and astronomer, was engaged in examining some of these exploders when two liun liundred went off, completely destroying his eyesight and otherwise seriously in juring him. These exploders ars large copper gun-caps, an inch and a sixteenth in length and three-sixteenths of an inch in diameter, and most kinds are charged with fulminate of mercury. Two insulated gutta-percha wires con ect with eaG cap, through which the electric spark is sent (after they are placed in cartridges of the different com binations of nitro glycerine) which sets off the cap, and the concussion caused thereby explodes the powder. The sec ond accident referred to happened but a few weeks ago in the same place and probably in the same manner, by which Thomas Coombs lost his left hand and part of his arm. He was engaged in forming ten exploders into a coil around his hand, when suddenly they went off, shattering that member in so fear ful a manner that it had to be amputated. These sad occurrences led Mr. Sutro to at once institute some careful ex periments, for he was strongly im pressed with the belief that it was body electricity, and not concussion, which had caused these explosions. Elec tric exploders made by different parties were taken, one after the other, and placed in a strong wooden box in Mr. Sutro’s parlor. This room is covered with a heavy Brussels carpet, walking over which causes the human body to be speedily charged with electricity. Mr. Hancock, the chief blaster, assisted in the experiments, and held the wires while Mr. Sutro walked round the room two or three times with slippers, sliding his leet gently over the carpet. After doing this he approached the end of one of the wires with his forefinger, and in stantaneously a loud report was heard, the exploder having been discharged. This first experiment was with one of the San Francisco giant powder exploders. Now one of the Electrica- Construetion company’s was tried, with out effecting its discharge. Next one of I George M. Mowbray’s, of North Adams, Mass.; which did not go eff on the first I trial, but it did on the second with a very loud report. After this another of the giant exploders was tried, which went off by the time Mr. Sutro’s forefin-j ger had reached within two or three inches from the end of the wire. These experiments have ciearlv estab lished the fact that exploders may be set off by electricity accumulated in the hu man body, and the men about the tunnel were at once informed of the fact. In structions were also issued for handling them hereafter, and a sheet-iron plate in the floor o‘ the exploder-house, to which ia connected a wire reaching into the water flowing from the tunnel. The men in handling exploders now stand on this iron plate, and have in structions to wet their boots before enter ing, and to put on India-rubber gloves JESUP, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20 1877. before touching the exploders. If these precautions are properly carried out there will be no danger of explosions hereafter. Any electricity accumulated in the hu man body will at once be carried off through the iron plate, while the rubber gloves, being non-conductors, form an additional protection. No accidents from the explosions have occurred inside th3 tunnel, for, since the place is very wet, no electricity can be retained in the body. But little doubt exists that both Mr. Foreman and Mr. Coombs have met with their misfortunes in the manner indicated. —Autro ( Arc.) Independent. THE AWFUL 1 ORNADO. Utnc It Approached the Doomed Toirn of Mt. Carmel, -*ll. The natural phenomena that presaged the fearful storm were as grand and awe-inspiring as was the demonstration of its awful power. Duo west of the little city, at a distance of several miles, is a forest which skirts the prairie that stretches thence to the town. Nestled amid the undulations of the ridges, the inhabitants of the doomed town watched the gathering of the tornado with no fear at first. In the west a bank of clouds began to form, first on the edge of the horizon, and then grew with magical swiftness, creeping up against the sky, which it presently totally covered with its terrible frown. Blacker and blacker it grew, and onward it rushed with frightful velocity, the face of the cloud dark and the edge fringed with fantastic wreaths of vapor, whirled into a thousand varying forms as the awful and death dealing tempest swept over the face of the smiling country, Although it was daylight, a dusk almost like that of twilight fell upon the little city and the smiling fields and blooming plains that girded its nourishing borders. Then fear fell upon the inhabitants, who began to think where safety might be found. The school building, which was thronged with children, was in the path of the tempest, and the little ones, frightened by the appalling spectacle of the galloping storm, begged leave to fly to their homes. They were all huddled on the ground floor, except a few who could not be restrained, where a special Providence appeared [to work out their safety. With the lightning speed of a race horse the tempest came onward and leaping over the wood that skirted the praire, rushed upon the ground and swept toward the city with the un earthly shriek of a fiend. The residence of Dr. Harvey, midway between the forest and the city, sitting fair upon the level plain, fell shattered before tho fearful blast, which a moment later fell upon the doomed city and its in habitants. With an awful crash the tornado swept through the streets with a con tinuous noise like the explosion of bomb shells. So frightful was its velocity and so vast and irresistible its force that the buildings of the town shivered before it like sand, and fell as if crushed by the weight of an omnipotent hand. Enor mous substances weighing hundreds {of pounds were lifted upon the wings of the wild wind and borne forward like dead leaves upon an autumn gust. Walls crumbled like sand and went prone upon the earth, and massive buildings erected to stand the test of years, sank under its I force and left scarce a trace of their pres j ence upon the devastated earth. This lasted but a moment, an awful moment, pregnant with the fell harvest of death and destruction, and the fright ened and awe-inspired people, who had heared the crash of their homes and looked upon the relentless tempest which, like an infuriate monster, seized upon the fair village and tore its beauty from the face of the earth, could scarcely realize the truth that their senses bore tes timony to. This horrified amazement and stupor lasted but for a moment. Fol ! lowing in the wake of the tornado came ! a torrent of rain—tears which Heaven | seemed to shed over the desolation it | had wrought, and with which the pitiless j flames that began to leap from the ruins ! was partly quenched. Then thunder ! crashed and lightning flashed from the sombre sky and fed upon the homes the wind had spared. —Evansville Journal. The Authoress of “ Daniel De konda. ” —George Eliot, at the opening of the Groevenor gallery, is described by a writer in Truth as “quiet and gentle, dressed in black, with a white cashmere shawl thrown square over her shoulders. The face is powerful. Wordsworth re sembled a horse, the noblest of beasts, land George Eliot has similar character istics. Beside her stood her husband, G. H Lewes, who wears the worst of soft hats on the cleverest of heads. His con versation is simply delightful. ’’ THE VENUS OX MILO. The report that one of the missing arms of this famous statue had been dis covered is followed by the assurance of Gen. Meredith Jiead, the American charge d’ affairs at Athens, that both arms have been found on the island of Milo within a distance of less than thirty feet from where the statue itself was taken in 1820. For the benefit of those who will be ready to greet this announce ment with head shakings, and even deris ion and cries of fraud, Gen. Read says: The arms are exquisitely modeled. One holds a kind of disc or shield. The work manship and the locality compel even the skeptical to acknowledge the authen ticity of these wonderful relics. The test of the matter will b 6 to forward the arms to the Louvre in Paris, where the multilatcd statue has been standing since 1834, waiting for the rest of her, and for the solution of the mystery that hangs over her lively head ever since she came to the light of the modern world. Those lost arms have been the theme of more wild speculation among artists and connoisseurs than the lost tribe of Israel has been to theologians. Eacli has had his notion about the peculiar posi tion in which the body of the statue re quired them to be placed. There will be great curiosity to see who, or whether anybody, lias hit right. The arms were also needed to clear up the meaning and even the name of the statue, for while the general supposition has been that it was a Venus, and by Praxiteles, or least a copy of that master’s work, others have denied that it was a Venus at all. Our countryman, W. J. Stillman, an artist and a very competent judge of art, trained by long experience on classic ground, has given his opinion that the work is really a statue of Minerva, and lie presents some very plausible reasons in support of that conclusion. It is barely possible that, in tlieso days of more ingenuity than genius, when Raphaels are manufactured so as to deceive the very elect in art, and ancient manuscripts of any required stage of decay can Htf produced to order, these long lost arms of the Venus of Milo, when brought to their appropriate place, maybe found to be humbugs; but let us hope not. When image breakers of all kinds are abroad, let us trust that at least one single instance of “ reconstruc tion” will cheer the hearts of artists and connoisseurs. In France the discovery of the lost arms was regarded as an event of so much importance that the secretary of the fine arts issued an official bulletin. —Bouton Joumul. WIIAT IV El Ell COOVER KNOWS A ROUT ETNANUES. I’eter Cooper, a candidate for president of the United Statesat the last election,has just addressed a long open letter to Pres ident Hayes, criticising the past financial policy of the sovereign government, and also marking out the proper course in his opinion to he pursued in the future. Mr. Cooper begins his letter with these words: “Allow me to offer you my heartfelt thanks for the wise and inde pendent course you have adopted in the discharge of the responsible and difficult duties you have been called upon to per form.” Mr. Cooper argues that our national currency must be made re ceivable for all purposes throughout the country, and interconvertible with three per cent, bonds. Such acurrency would have been worth more to the American people than all the gold mines that have ever been discovered on the continent of America. He advises that silver be withdrawn from circulation and used in the purchase of foreign bonds, the frac tional and other currency to be revived. nnouTii of mm Ay ci viliza tiok. Mr. William H. Lyon, one of the board of Indian commissioners, furnishes from the last report of the board, which is not yet printed, the following statis tics showing the present condition of the 266,000 Indians in the United States, compared with their condition eight years ago: thee. is7fi. Hon occupied Indian* 7.47*i 4,717 School*on Indian reservations... ill 344 T**hn 134 437 S' holar* 4,74* J2.32* Church building* .. 177 Church member* 27.215 I , dUn* wnarinff citizen’* dru, 1(4,‘<18 A erm of land cultivated 54,207 318.194 Wheat raided (buibel*) 126,117 468.0 M i orn raised (buabelai 487,353 2.229,163 Oat* and barley (buah‘ 1*) 43,978 134.7*0 II and mu lea owned 43,9*0 :a.|,003 < attle owned 42.>71 Hl.rih* Hhaep owned 2,6*3 417,295 fitribe owned 29,990 214,076 Professor A. Jaeger, professor of Hebrew in the southern Baptist theo logical semimry at Greenville, South Carolina, has resigned his position and connected himself with the Episcopal church. Mr. Jaeger was formerly an Is raelite. EXC'ITJNO ADVENTURE WITH VOLAR BEARS. Three of the crew of the steamship Intrepid, Captain Sou tar, had a very ex citing adventure at the Greenland seal fishery this season. During the time that their vessel was fast beset among the ice, three of the crew—Thomas Royal, Wolverhampton ; James Winter, Peterhead; and William Mulligan, Dundee—set out one day to pay a visit to the ship Perseverance, of Peterhead, which lay apparently about four miles distant. After walking about a couple of miles it was seen that the distance be tween the two ships had been misjudged, and that in reality they were six miles apart, and the dangerous nature of the journey began to dawn upon the seamen when they realized how far they were from any vessel, and that their sealing clubs were the only weapons with which they were armed. When they came to realize the real distance they begun to deliberate whether it would not bo the best course to return to their ship. One of the trio insisted on making the jour ney, while the others were of the opinion that they should give up 'the attempt. In the midst of the debate an unwelcome visitor came upon the scene, in the shape of a she bear, with one of her cubs, and as sho was fast coming up between the men and their ship, the only chance of escape was to run on in the hope of reach ing the Perseverance, a distance of about four miles. When the men took to their heels tho bear quickened her pace, and in a short time was close upon the sail ors. To attempt to face the animal with their clubs was useless, and accordingly one by one the men look off portions of their clothing and threw them down on the ice. it this way the progress of the hear was retarded, as Bruin stopped to sniff and tear at each of the articles as she came up to them. By this means the men were enabled to keep a little ahead for about a couple of miles, by which time, however, they had parted with most of their clothing, one of them having nothing but his pants, a cravat and a woollen shirt upon him. He had retained possession of his club, and, fastening his cravat to the end of the weapon, he waved it as a nignal of dis tress, and fortunately the attention of the Perseverance was attracted to the perilous position of the three seamen. Several of the crew of the Perseverance immediately set out, armed with guns, and, after running about a mile, they came up to the three men just in time to save them, as they had almost no clothing left, and were quite exhausted with the chase. The bear and her cub were so close behind that the rescuers had no difficulty in despatching them with several bullets. The following morning the three sailors returned to the Intrepid. They were escorted part of the way by a numbarof the crew of the Perseverance, and the male bear having been seen in the vicinity, apparently on the loek-out for the she bear and cub, he was likewise killed. The most of the men’s clothes and their sea boots, were picked up, all more or less torn. The three men had been kindly treated on board the Perseverance and supplied with clothing, so that they suffered no bad effects from their exposure and ex citing adventure. Dannhc (Scotland) Advertiser. nOF’T KILL KHOREN - LEGGED MORSES A N V MOKE.', It is now argued that it is unnecessary to kill broken-legged horses, and a point in case is stated: Twelve weeks ago, the right hind leg was broken of Mr. William’s valuable and favorite mare, in Utica, by a kick from another horse. The fracture was half way between the fetlock and the gambrel joints, and was complete. A veterinary surgeon under took to set the leg. A canvas sling was arranged, and the mare suspended in it in such a way that she could occasionally rest upon her uninjured limbs. The fractured leg was then set, bound with hickory and leather splints, with a heavy leather boot outside of all. The mare did well, and never missed a meal. After three weeks a plaster of Paris bandage was substituted, and in seven weeks Collie’' was walking around the stable. There was no sign of the fracture, and it is thought that she will keep her 2:40 gait.—A. Y. Tribune. Two carrier-pijeons were liberated one day last week at Magnolia, on the Phila delphia, Wilmington and Baltimore rail road, and flew to Philadelphia,one in two hours, arid the other in one hour and fifty-five minutes. A strong north-west wind was blowing against them. The distance is seventy-nine miles. NO. 42. . Comparisons are odious. The major, rocking Nelly on his knee for aunt Mary’s sake—“l suppose that is what you like?” Nelly—“ Yes, it’s very nice. But I rode on a real donkey yesterday—l mean one with four legs, you know.” .I tell you, sir,” said Dr. one morning, to the village apothecary, “ I tell you, sir, the vox poputi should not, must not, be disregarded.” “What, Doctor! ” exclaimed the apothecary, rubbing his hands; “ you don’t say that’s broken out in town, too, has it? Lord help us! what unhealthy times these are ! ” . .The other day a simple child of na ture was walking along the banks of a river. Suddenly she said to her com panion, “ Tel! me, where does this water go?” “ Into the sea.” “ But, then, why doesn’t the sea overflow? Ah, I know why it is. Bocause in the sea there arc so many sponges they suck it all up.” .. “ What lino of business do you think I had best adopt ? ” asked a young as pirant for the stage of the “ leading man.” “ Well,” said the old stager, gazing critically at the youth’s elegant costume, “ I should say the clothes line would suit you best.”— Bouton Commercial Bulle.in. .. “A lover ” writes us: “Suppose I see a young lady home from church, and the night is dark and rainy, and upon arriving at her house she darts through the door without Haying as much as ‘good-night,’ leaving me standing out side—what would you advise me to do in such a case ? ” You had better start for homo immediately, if you have an um brella. Under no circumstance should you stand on the steps of the young lady’s house all night. It would be preferable to crawl into the nearest friendly store box, and await for day-light to appear or the rain to disappear.— Norriitenm Herald. MKIUCATKD ICK. Dr. J. V. Mott has published a paper in which he shows the beneficial results of medicated ice where the patient has a difficulty in swallowing either on account of re vous irritability orol inflammation of the larynx. He has found that the solution can bo frozen without either separating the ingredients or affecting their tonic or astringent properties, while the ice itself is almost tasteless. The ice is prepared in this way : The solution of the desired strength is placed in a thin glass tube, the bottom of which is smaller than the top. The air is excluded by a tightly fitting rubber cork reaching the surface of the liquid. The tub" is then placed in a vessel containing a mixture of chopped ice and salt, and revolved there for twenty minutes, when the medicated solution will be turned into a solid mass, which can be easily removed from the glass tube by the application of a warm cloth to the out side of the glass. Ice thus made has been found of great value by Dr. Mott in cases of diptheria, quinsly, laringitis, and croup. HOW mA MONOS ARK MIKED. The diamond fields are in the Orangs free states, about seven hundred miles north of Cape Town, and were first dis covered by a Dutch schoolmaster, who saw his children playing at jack stones with brilliant pebbles, and, thinking they might be valuable, sent some of them to Cape Town. It is needless to state that he boob discovered their value. When first discovered they could be found on the surface, and some of the best dia monds found were picked up on the sur face. They are now mined in this manner : Imagine, if you please, a large hole cov ering an area of twenty or thirty square acres, two hundred feetdeep, from which every particle of the dirt taken out has been sifted and the diamonds taken out. At a depth of one hundred feet there was struck a vein of hard clay soil, which i estimated to be five hundred feet thick. The soil is lifted out in baskets by means of pulleyi and ropes and soaked in water until soft, when it is worked to the consistency of cream, and then strained through fine seives, thus separating the diamonds from the “ mash.” Last year * scientific gentleman dis ; covered that the clay thus sifted made excellent brick when pressed and burned, and a stock company was organ zed work it. I have a specimen brick in my jsisseseion, and it is studded in several places with minute diamonds that passed through the seive. GRATE AHD GAT. Motherhood. All about the dreamy house Fllta a Hunbeara, softly bright. Goldloeka with tressee light. Dancing, tossing up and down ; O, sweet heavens! for such a crown! In and out where all is still, Sound eay tones in shout and noun; Dimpled cheeks, laughs loud and long From pure merrimeut within ; Fun and she are near of kin.; Up and down the quiet room, In the garden, on the stair, Knby-Hps is everywhere; Chattering as childhood will, Only when in mischief, still. “Mamma” this, and “Mamma” that,s “Tant I?” “Tan I?” all the hours, Eves Uko stars and breath like flowers, Busy little hands and feet; God makes motherhood so sweet. iALcrece in The, Golden Rule.