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TOWN DIRECTORY.
TOWN 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 OFFCERS.
Ordinary—Richard B. Hopps.
Sheriff—John N. Goodbread.
Clerk Superior Court—Benj.O. Middleton.
Tax Receiver—J. 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.
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
A New Orleans paper reports that
fifteen families are about to remove from
Cleveland to Caddo parish, La.
In the suit of Moulton against
Beecher, now discontinued, an extra
allowance of $250 was made to the de
fendant, besides the statutory cost.
A Liverpool banker has just left
$5,000,000 to his nephew, besides making
him residuary legatee of an estate valued
at over $12,000,000, This is the kind of
an uncle worth having.
A young man attempted to frighten
some of his lady friends in Homer, La.,
a few nights pince, by suddenly appear
ing in ghostly guise, but one of them
fired a pistol at him, and he made him
self knpwn with alacrity,
Texas farmers are beginning to be
lieve that the grasshoppers were a
deeply-disguised blessing. It is said
that the most pestilential weeds have
been eradicated root and branch by the
locusts.
The discovery at Cauquenes, Chili, of
the once-famous gold mine, “Los Chris,
tales,” once created somewhat of a sensa
tion. This mine, whose yield is sup
posed to have been almost fabulous in
the old colonial times, has been lost for
forty years. Having been abandoned at
the outbreak of the revolution, it filled
with water, and then a landslide re
moved all traces of it.
The very oldest F ree and Accepted
Mason in the United States is Col. Na
thaniel Huntoon, of Unity, N. H. He
is ninety-five years ot age, and was made
a Mason seventy-four years ago. He is
ot the democratic persuasion, and has
voted for Jefferson, Madison, Monroe,
Jackson, Van Buren, Polk, Pierce, Bucha.
nan, presidents, and for Gov. Tilden.
It is said that Mr. Motley never re
covered from the blow to his amour pro
pre inflicted by his removal from the
British mission, and it caused him to
avow more frankly and frequently than
his best friends could have wished his
decided preference for the English over
the American methods of administra
tion, and for English over American
society.
The czar and his eldest son, the heir
apparent, have no fixed allowance of
pay. They take what is necessary for
their expenses out of the rents of the
crown domains and out of the treasury,
the sums taken from the latter being
named “indemnities.” All the other
members of the imperial household have
their allowance regularly fixed, and are
not permitted to go beyond the limit.
Countess Marie von Bismarck,
daughter of the prince, it is said, is to be
married to Count Lehndorff, one of the
handsomest men in Berlin, and the
favorite aid-de-camp of the emperor, who
for several years has never gone any
where without him. The Countess
Marie is now nearly thirty nine years
old. Her former betrothed, Count
d’Eulenburg, died of typhoid fever in
1875.
A newly invented fire-escape consists
simply of a piece of gill twine, with two
India rubber pieces for grasping and
saving the hands when descending from
a window to the ground. It can be tied
to a bedstead in a moment, and its in
ventor says a life rope of seventy-thread
gill twine, more than a hundred feet in
length, will bear more than four hun
dred pounds, and not occupy so much
space as two pairs of stockings.
the Jceu|> Sentinel.
VOL. I.
KOW-WCHICII ?
BY K. S. MILLER.
A cabin's side,
At eventide:
The traveler seekiug shelter there
“Keep you all night?
Sartin, Jedge, ’light,
Soch as we hev we share.
“Jones are our name.”
“Squire Jones? ” “The same.
You ’quainted much this way?
Sal, fetch a chair;
You Bill out thar,
Give that yer boss some hay.”
Of rooms but two
Has Jones, and few
His household goods, and poor,—
Two chairs, one bed—
His guests instead
Have “shakedowns” on the floor.
Yet here, forsooth,
'1 his man uncouth
Has pictures twenty-three!
Cheap prints and small
Save one, are all —
A ehromo that, of Lee.
The traveler says,
With wondering gaze.
“You’re fond of liae arts, Squire ? ”
“Pictur’s? Oh, Sal,
My eldest gal,
Hez a hankerin’ for them thar.”
“That chromo’s fine;
If it were mine
I’d deem myself quite rich,
As doubtless you,
My friend, now do—”
“Begparding, Jedge, crow-which ? ”
“Chro-wo, that one—
The South’s true son;
Of course you hold that dear.”
“Crow-wio/” says he,
“That’s old Bob Lee,—
l fit under him four year ! ”
— il ßr ic-a-lirac; ’ ’ Scribner for Jttly.
WAR’S HORRORS.
An Episode in the Russo-Turkish Cam
paign of 1811.
In 1811 the opposing Russian and Turk
ish armies stood facing each other on op
posite banks of the Danube. During
the night between the Btli and 9th of
September the Turks succeeded, by
making a feint, and so attracting the
Russians to a spot some three miles be
low the real point of passage, in throwing
a force of two thousand men and four
guns across the river, a short distance
above Giurgevo. The first attempts of
the Russians to drive the small body
back into the river were successfully
withstood ; reinforcements were rapidly
brought over from the right to the left
bank, until, finally, thirty thousand
men and fifty guns were assembled on
the northern shore. Every effort to ad
vance further and drive back the Rus
sian army, which had fallen back into
an intrenched position, was, however, re
pulsed, tne Turks themselves, being
obliged, after a time, to construct in
trenchments to withstand the counter
attacks directed against them. Unable
to drive back the invading force, the
Russians desisted from any further
active measures against it, but bringing
a strong flotilla of gunboats up the
Danube to prevent supplies from being
carried across the river into the Turkish
camp on the left bank, they quietly
awaited events. The provisions of the
Turkish force, thus completely isolated,
unable to advance because of the Russian
force in front of it, unable to retreat be
cause of the flotilla which effectually
prevented any bridge being thrown
across the river, soon began to run short.
The weather became cold ; but there was
no fuel with which to kindle fires.
Under these circumstances the sufferings
of the men were very great. For some
time there was horse flesh, but it had to
be eaten raw, as even the tent poles had
been cut up and burned. Hundreds
died daily, and their comrades had not
strength to bury them. Disease was,
consequently, added to famine, so that,
when on the Bth of December, peace was
concluded, but four thousand men, who
are described as being but living skele
tons, with scarce sufficient strength to
stand upright, were left of the thirty
thousand who had, three months before,
crossed the river,
AN EXTRAORDINARY TRAGEDY.
Spalatzo, in the Austrian province of
Dalmatia, was, a few weeks ago, the
scene of a most extraordinary and ter
rible tragedy. Opposite the parish ehurch
lived a householder named Tomic, who,
becoming suddenly a prey to mad rage,
killed his wife and then his father, who
endeavored to restrain him. When the
police came they found that Tomic had
everywhere barred an entry and taken
up a commanding position with a musket
and plenty of ammunition. They were,
therefore, compelled to turn back, and
meanwhile Tomic put a bullet through a
yourg man who crossed the street, and
severely wounded a woman. The police
then drew a cordon around the house,
but Tomic’s musket commanded the
space between the house, the church, and
the top of the adjacent streets, and no
one dared to cross the street or approach
the body of the young man. At length
a clergyman who had great influence over
Tomic.lbravelv went forward and implored
him at least to give up to his care his
little child. The father’s answer to this
appeal was by throwing out her limbs
JESUP, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 11, 187 T.
one by one! Then he resumed his fu
silade. The authorities would not allow
the police to fire, inasmuch as they
deemed the man bereft of reason. So
the only course was to continue the
blockade. All sorts of devices were
suggested. Some were lor firing on
Tomic with stupefying cartridges, others
for concentrating the fire engine force on
the house, and all thi§ time the unhappy
sexton of the parish was sending up
from the bell tower a wail for food, he
having gone to ring the bell just before
the tragedy began, and his only mode of
egress being in front of the maniac’s
window. After the blockade had lasted
two days and Tomic showed no signs of
giving in, it was resolved to keep up a
perfect hail storm of stones at all the
windows of the house while the door was
forced. The madman fled to the gar
ret where it was uo easy matter to disarm
him without killing him. Altogether
he had killed four and wounded five.
TJIE VAEUE of knowing now TO
S it'lM.
Hanging in the shroud of a sinking
ship on a wild November afternoon, the
engine-room flooded from the leak, the
steam-pumps not able to work, my hack
tortured beyond endurance with hard
labor at the levers of the hand-pump,
the deck swept by the bursting seas, a
wild and angry sky above, the lee shore
perfectly horrible in the tempest of its
waves and the thunder of the surf that
went rolling and charging by squadrons
of billows over a half mile of low sandy
bottom, I asked myself whether, if the
ship broke up, I could manage the under
tow, —that merciless drag backward of
the sea, the topmost wave washing the
swimmer illusively toward the shore,
the undermost sucking him down and
out. I said to myself an emphatic
“Yes! ” But theexperiment was spared
me, and I got ashore the next morning
in a life boat. Ever since that awful
hour and night I have a sincere respect
for the science and art of swimming, in
which, next to God, then rested all my
hope and trust.
But before we talk about fighting an
under-tow in a wicked sea-way, let ui
discuss the principles and methods of
swimming. To drown in a river, with
the shore only a few yards away, when
any dog or donkey would reach the land,
must involve a feeling of personal humil
ition as well as despair. To be self
trustworthy is the first thing in mo
ments of danger; but the art of swim
ming has a high value in the saving of
other lives, and is, besides, a luxury and
accomp’ishment worth the having, for
the mere fun of the thing. In our civil
ization, swimming is an acquired accom
plishment. It is understood to be a nat
ural function with nearly all kinds of
animals, hogs and humanity being the
leading exceptions. the inability to
swim is in all cases a defect of education.
—Sanford B. Hunt, St. Nicholas for July.
SOME CURIOUS VANES OF SLEEP
WALKING.
A case is related of an English clergy
man who used to get up in the night,
light his candle, write sermons, correct
them with interlineations and retire to
bed again; being all the time asleep.
The archbishop of Bordeaux mentions a
similar case of a student who got up to
compose a sermon while asleep, wrote it
correctly, read it over from one end to
the other, or at least appeared to read it,
made corrections in it, scratched out
lines, and substituted others, put in its
place a word which had been omitted,
composed music, wrote it accurately
down, and performed other things equally
surprising. Dr. Gall notices a miller,
who was in the habit of getting up every
night, and attending to his avocations at
the mill, then returning to bed; on
awakening in the morning he recollected
nothing of what passed during the night.
Martinet speaks of a saddler who was
accustomed to rise in his sleep and work
at his trade; and Dr. Pricard of a farmer
who got out of bed, dressed himself, sad
dled his horge, and rode to the market,
being all the while asleep. Dr. Black
lock, on one occasion, rose from bed, to
which he had retired at an early hour,
came into the room where his family
were'assembled, conversed with them,
and afterwards entertained them with a
pleasant song without any of them sus
pecting he was asleep, and without his
retaining, after he awoke, the least recol
lection of what he had done. It is a
singular yet well authenticated fact, that
in the disastrous retreat of Sir John
Moore, many of the soldiers fell asleep,
yet continued to march along with their
comrades. — Western Exchange.
.. Why is a situation of ereat trust
like a back tooth ? Because it is hard to
fill.
THE DANUBE CROSSED.
A Graphic Description of the Key to the
Situation.
At last the' forward movement by the
Russians from Eoumania into Turkish
territory has commenced. The impatient
czar brooks no further delay, and at his
imperative order the Danube has been
crossed. The places selected or the first
movement are where the Turks have of
late least expected an advance, and the
the Russians, in consequence, met with
no opposition in crossing, and encoun
tered little resistance in taking up a
stroiig position on the heights threaten
ing the Turkish town of Mntschin. When
the Russian hosts first marched into
Roumania, the interest was confined to
the region in the neighborhood of the
locality where they have now crossed;
but as additional masses of men were
hurried to the front, the Russian lines
were extended far to the westward, and
advance movements were threatened
from points far distant from those where
the Russian army was first concentrated.
The Turks have warily watched the
Russian movements in the vicinity of
Giurgevo, but they have comparatively
neglected the more easterly line of their
defensive position on the Danube, and
the Russians have taken advantage
of this neglect or inability to cover all
points which afforded a possible crossing.
The Russians have studiously concealed
their intention of crossing at Galatz or
Ibrail, and events have shown that they
purposely allowed or sent reports abroad
which were misleading respecting their
real purpose.
The latest report placed the entire
Russian forces east of Ibrail, available
for operations, at 80,000 men, with a ro
ierve of 20,000 at Belgrade. From
Ibi'ail to near Giurgevo, it was reported
that there were no Russians, except, per
haps, a sufficient number to keep upcom
munications. The main body was said
to be near Giurgevo, with outlying
forces west.
The natural conclusion from the pre
vious movements of the Russians is that
the crossing at Galatz is more likely to
be intended to harrass the Turks, and to
comp r ’ .hem t- weaken their line further
west rather than as a preliminary to a
grand movement thence to Constantino
ple, although the plan of the
Russian campaign will probably be mod
ified to meet exigencies which may
arise. Certainly neither the force which
has already crossed, nor that which the
Russians have at present available to
cross at Galatz or Ibrail, is sufficiently
strong to make the march through the
unhealthy region of the Dobrudscha and
turn the strongly fortified places, which
must be passed or overcome before Con
stantinople is in serious danger, even if
the Turks detached no forces from other
points on their line to meet the Russians.
Asa harrassing force, the Russians
threatening Matpchin can do the Turks
considerable injury, and if they succeed
in making the Tuiks believe that they
are the advance of a formidable army of
invasion, and thereby cause a concentra
tion of the 'Turkish troops in the Dob
rudscha, they will probably feel that their
present mission is accomplished.
Galatz, where the crossing has b(en
made, is an important port on the Dan
ube, and contains a population of nearly
40,000. It is eighty miles from the
mouth of the Danube, and three miles
from the confluence of the Sereth with
the Danube. It has been the scene in
the past of several conflicts between the
Russians and the Turks. Ibrail is a few
miles south of Galatz and a little to the
west, the Danube taking a sudden turn
to the south at the latter place.
GEORGIA “ COLONELS."
The Atlanta, Georgia, Constitution
contains the following: “We want it
distinctly understood, before we proceed
any further, that we are a friend of the
colonel if he is not a military colonel.
A military colonel has no right to the
title. He may have earned it in the
war, right in front of the cannon’s mouth,
but more peaceful days have dawned
upon us and now we have the insurance
colonel, the sewing machine colonel, the
commission colonel, the newspaper colo
nel, and the lawyer colonel. You may
pick your colonel from any pile you
choose, and we’ll stand up promptly and
say ive admire him. There is honor in
the title, and we take pleasure in bestow,
ing it upon friend and foe alike. To be
a man and not to be a colonel (unless
indeed, you were promoted during the
war), is something preposterous. We
can conceive of no such misfortune as
that which prevents a man from tiecom
ing a colonel in his own rivht. There is
no law on the statute-book against it,
and if there were it would be a dead let
ter. Every county, every community,
and evory family would cry out against
the. injustice of an enactment depriving
them of their usual quota of colonels.
For our part we think there ought to be
a law passed conferring the title upon
every male child over twelve years of
age, without regard to previous condi
tions. In that caso all men would be
colonels and all women colonelesses
Here is the true line of progress. While
colonels are in fashion let us make the
most of them. Let us utilize them, as it
were, foi the purpose of advancing civil
ization. It is idle for men who have no
titles to sneer at those who have. What
would Georgia do without her hundred
thousand colonels? Without its colo
nels what a weak and vapid body its leg
islature would be. All, no! lot us cling
to our colonels. Instead of weeding
them out, let us endeavor to nurture
those we have and invite others through
the medium of immigration agents?
What Georgia needs is more colonels.”
o rjcazoAmen sika mboats.
It has come within the observation of
everyone for years that steamers char
tered for special excursions have been
often overloaded with passengers, and
that in this overloaded condition such
steamboats have made long trips upon
our sounds, rivers and out nt sea. Thus
far this perilous business has been carried
on without any serious loss of life. The
penalty for defying the laws of safety and
of nature in this manner, we have up to
this time escaped through sheer good
luck. But the public has had fair warn
ing that the time for some fearful acci
dent cannot be far distant, and may be
very near at hand wo may at any
moment be called upon to record the
destruction of hundreds of lives by the
explosion, burning, capsizing or sinking
of boats loaded beyond their capacily.
The government provisions for protection
against accidents in such cases are not
adequate to meet all emergencies. The
whole matter is practically left to the
discretion of steamboat inspectors. Much
officers may he negligent or incompetent.
ThcF are not always , 1 the reach of
pecuniary and social Blandishments.
They may ho directly or indirectly in
terested in the profits or proceeds of an
excursion party. Greater safeguards
must be thrown around traveling in
multitudes.
SAGACITY OE A HOUSE.
A horse was prancing over the fields
one day, when he fell into a ditch and
could not get out. He was in great
trouble, and his mates stood around in
a fright, for they could not help him
either. But old Whitey thought of a
plan that he knew would work. He
bounded off to tell his master, who was
a quarter of a mile away. He pulled
bis sleeve, and then walked away, but
the master did not follow, so he tried
again, making such an unusual sound
that the man knew at once he wished
him to go to the; pasture. Bo he started,
and soon found out the trouble. Old
Whitev got there before him, and kept
calling as loud as he could. Tf he had
known how to talk he would have en
couraged Brewnie by the news that his
“ master was coming.” When the poor
horse was helped out and stood on firm
ground again you should have seen how
Whitey rubbed his master’s arm, as if to
say, “ Thank you ! thank you ! ”
Home animals are unkind to each
other when in trouble, but it is only the
lower orders of them. The higher the
intelligence, the more sympathy and
kindness do they show when another suf
fers. It is the same with people. It
shows a coarse, low nature to make sport
of anything that gives pain to any one.
A refined, noble nature is quick to
sympathize with and prompt to help any
one in need of such comforting.— Child'*
World.
STORI EH OF RINGS.
In speaking of wedding-rings, we learn
that these important symbols have not
always been manufactured from the pre
cious metal, gold. We are told that in
lieu of a ring the church key has often
been used; and Walpole tells of an in
stance where a curtain-ring was employed.
The duke of Hamilton fell so violently
in love with the younger of the celebra
ted Misses Gunning, at a party in Lord
Chesterfield’s house, that two days after
he s i;t for a parson to perform tho
rn arri‘gc ceremony; but as the duke
had neither license nor ring, the clergy
man refused to act. Nothing daunted,
Hamilton declared he would send for the
archbishop. At last they were married
with the ring of the bed-curtain, at half
an hour past twelve at night.
WIT AND HUMOR.
The JEastern Question—Plain as A • H, C.
A was Andrausy wh penned a famed note ;
It a Bulgarian in fear for his throat ;
<”s Constantinople the Czar lain would reach,
l> is the Djehad the Sultan may preach.
JB stands for England, for India afraid ;
F is the fleet she dispatched to Port Said ;
M’s Mr. Gladstone, resolutions who moved;
II is the House which the same disapproved.
1 is for Ibrail, now surrounded by Tartars;
J is for Jassy, the Russian headquarters;
K is the knout with which laggards are hit,
Is s lash, that’s the English equivalent of it.
2H'B Grand Duke Michael, now inarching on Kars ;
X’s G'-and Duke Nicholas, brothers both of the
Caar’s;
O h for me operations about Oltenitza,
1* s for the Polo, Gen. NepokoytschiLski.
It’s the Eastern question—to be solved by whom?
H's for the Russians who rushed on Batoum :
N is the Swathes in which they were mowed down;
T stands for the Turks who defended the town.
U’s the Ukase in which war was proclaimed ;
V represents Varua, a fortress far-famed.
W iH VVidin, anot her not bad,
X is thee azv X-Sultan, Mourad.
Y stands for Young Turkey, trainedby Paris teach
ers,
But Z for the Zealots, the softas and preachers.
.. What lovers swear—To be true until
death. What husbands swear—Unfit
for publication.
.. “No pains will be spared, ” as the
quack said when he sawed off a patient’s
finger to cure a felon.
.. Why is coffee like an ax with a dull
edge ? Because it must he ground before
it can be used.
. .The chief affliction of George Fran
cis Train is too many ideas and too much
English language.
..Last words of Parson Brownlow,
“ If any lawyer comes fooling around my
will, shoot him and send him to me.”
.. A zealous brother prayed in meeting:
“ Lord, have mercy en us, for Thou
knowest we are the wickedest company
ever gathered together.”
..A Yankee editor wishes no bodily
harm to his subscribers, but he hopes
that some of them in arrears will lie
seized with a “remittant” fever.
NO. 45.
..“It is well to leave something for
those who come after us, ” as a man said
when he threw a barrel in the way of a
constable who was chastising him.
.. A checker player named Yates has
won the championship of the world. The
championship of the world in the game
of button is next in order. —Danbury
News.
.. A merchant in Eastbampton asked
his Sabbath-school class the other Sunday
“ What is solitude ?” and was answered
by a boy that reads the papers, “ The
store that don’t advertise.”— Ex,
“ Great uprising of the Poles,” was
the startling news sent from Ilnssia the
other day. A telegraph company had
been recently started and the poles for
the wires were just being erected —that
is all.
. .A dog with a tin pan attached to its
tail is rarely willing to depend on the
slow process of evolution for progress.
He will usually take the middle of the
ad and spread himself, no matter what
Happens to science or to the basin.
..A young gentleman who ventured
west in the prevailing fashion of neck
wear, was immediately utilized by the
thrifty grangers, who smeared his lofty
shirt collar with coal tar and set him up
as a grasshopper trap.
. .The Philadelphia Saturday Evening
Mirror has a “ variety critic;” and this
is his elevated and original style. “We
had rather be a button on Jennie Sat
terlee’s overskirt than dwell in the tents
of the wicked.” And this he attributes
to king David.
..A New Jersey paper suggests that
the shrinkage in the size of the bakers’
loaves will soon make, probably, a scene
like the following: Customer—“ Give
me a pound of those crackers, please.”
“Crackers, thunder! them’s loaves, ten
cents apiece.”
. . The metallurgist of an exchange says:
“American copper is entirely free from
iron and stronger.” We don’t object to
having our copper free from iron; but
when it comes to knocking out the
stronger wo weaken on American enter
prise.
..A fashion item says: “A bonnet
much worn consists of a brim and cape
of faconne straw, with a soft crown made
of coarse muslin.” And a hoy’s straw
hat “much worn ” consists of a ragged
crwn, half the brim gone, and no band
around it.
. A grumbling old bachelor, after lis
tening to the following : “ Bhe was her
muzzer’s own ’ittle darlin’ wopsy popsy
dearly ducksy, so she was, an’ she mus’
keep still,” asks, “Why don’t women
talk some decent kind of English to their
children ?”
..“Pa,” asked an up-town boy, the
other day, “ what is meant by paradise?”
“ Paradise, my son,” replied the father
gloomily, “ paradise is the latter part of
next summer, when your mother goes on
a visit to your grandmother. ”
. .“Can there be anything brought into
this house, ” asked a disgusted member
during the last session of the legislature,
“that will not be repealed sooner or
later?” One of the opposition suggested,
“a skinned orange. ”
..At 4 o’clock in the morning Mrs.
Fereuson, hearing a noise in the front
room, arose and made an investigation,
and was shocked to find her daughter
and a young man on one and the same
sofa. Mrs. Ferguson burst into tears,
but the daughter said soothingly, “Don’t
be alarmed, ma. It is merely a caucus.
We are about to start anew party.”
Then Mrs. Ferguson was intensely re
lieved, and went back to bed with he
face illuminated with smiles.