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Tie 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 Three Advertising Rates. Per square, first insertion $1 00 Per subsequent insertion. 75 Js@~Special rates to yearly and large ad vertisers. 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.