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TOWN DIRECTORY.
TOWN OFFICERS.
Mayor—W. H. Whaley.
Councilmen—T. P. Littlefield, H. W.
Whaley, Bryant George, O. F. Littlefield,
Anderson Williams,
Clerk and Treasurer —O. F. Littlefield.
Marshal—G. W. Williams.
COUNTY OFFCR .-h
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 PARA G-RA PHS.
The governor of Massachusetts has
seventy petitions from seventy different
men, all wanting to be corenor of Boston.
The petitions against the opening of
the museum and art-galleries in London
presented in the British parliament by
Col. Marcus Beresford, M. P., contained
nearly 50,000 signatures. One of them
was 1,506 feet in length, and alone had
34,000 signatures.
A queer case of action on contract has
been instituted at Cattaraugus, N. Y.
A young woman, the plaintiff, sets forth
that her father, the defendant, promised
her SSOO commission if she would pro
cure him a wife. She did it, and he
married the woman, but now refuses to
pay up, declaring indignantly that he
did his own courting.
An exchange says a young man in
Philadelphia lost his wife, who left him
a small child which he took in his arms
and walked with it all the way to his
father’s house, in New Hampshire, being
two weeks on the road. You may safely
swear that that young man lacks at least
a dollar and a half of being worth a con
tinental blank, or [he would have gone
by rail.
The New York correspondent of the
Boston Journal writes: “ Our district
telegraph system is revolutionizing our
business and domestic life. About 1,000
boys are employed and their pay is $3.50
a week. They work from 8 to 6:30.
They take their lunch to headquarters,
and dine when they can. They are used
for all sorts of purposes. Gentlemen
take them to their hotels for errand boys
and copyists. Travelers take them along
when on a journey, and often send them
to Albany, Washington, or Boston.”
Missouri has a mystery, the worst
feature whereof is the disappearance of
an insurance law passed by the legisla
ture at its recent session. The journals
of both houses show the passage of the
bill, but it is insisted that the chief clerk
of the house, whose duty it was to trans
mit the bill to the governor, never did
so. The Jclerk was sent for to explain,
but instead of explaining he fled, as is
supposed, to Canada. The theory of
those interested is that the clerk was
bribed ,by the insurance companies to
put the bill out of the way..
The weather prophet has begun al
ready to account for the rainy season of
1877, although it has hardly been deter
mined as yet that the season will be
rainy. This makes no difference to the
weather prophet, however, he is ready to
show that the cycle of the sun-spot has
come around, and that the season of
1866 is to be repeated. Meanwhile the
great republic will put its trust in young
“indications,” lineal descendant of “old
probs,” and let the sun-spots take care
of themselves.
Thomas F. Campbell, who was hung
at Wilkesbarre for the murder of
Michael McNulty at Carbondale, was a
Scotchman, and his victim was an Irish
man. Last fourth of July they spent
the day by getting drunk together and
were the best of friends. The quarrel
arose from a heated discussion about the
nativity of George Washington, Thomas
asserting that he was Scotch, while
Michael held that he was Irish. Camp
bell settled the question by shooting
McNulty dead.
An English paper says there is no
probabily of the upsetting of the English
habit of gentlemen sitting over their wine
after the ladies have left the table.
VOL. I.
THE OLD CLOCK,
Oh, the old, old clock, of the household stock,
Was the brightest thing and neatest;
Its hands, though old, had a touch of gold,
And its chains rang still the sweetest,
’Twas a monitor, too, though its words were few,
Yet they lived, though notions altered ;
And its voice, still strong, warned old and young,
When the voice of friendship faltered.
“Tick, tick/’ it said—“quick, quick to bed,
For ten I’ve given warning ;
Up, up, and go, or else, you know,
You’ll never rise soon in the morning.”
A friendly voice was that old: old clock,
As it stood in the corner smiliug,
And blessed the time with a merry chime,
The winter hours beguiling ;
But a cross old voice was that t iresome clock,
As it called at the daybreak boldly,
When the dawn looked gray on the misty way
And the early air blew coldly ;
“Tick, tick,” it said—“quick out of bed,
For five I've given warning;
You'll never have health, you’ll never get wealth,
Unless you’re up soon in the morning.”
Still hourly the sun goes round and round,
With a tone that ceases never ;
While tears are shed for bright days fled,
And the old friends lost forever;
Its heart beats on, though hearts are gone
That warmer beat and younger ;
Its hands still mbve, thoucrh hands we love
Are clasped on earth no longer!
“Tick, tick,” it said—“to the churchyard bed
The grave hath given warning ;
Up, up, and rise, and look to the skies,
And prepare for the heavenly morning.
THE FORTRESS OF ERZE
ROUM.
A I*l ace of Great Strategical Importance .
It ia quite true that Erzeroum is a
“wretched place;” its houses, for the
most part, are built of mud ; its streets
are narrow, muddy, unpaved, and in
fested with crowds of disgusting dogs;
while its general features represent rather
the appearance of an extensive and
dilapidated village than that of a wealthy
and important town ; but situated as it
is on the highest point of Anatolia, in the
midst of huge and fertile plains spreading
around it in every direction, and as far
as the eyes can reach, it occupies a strat
tegical position of such vital importance
at the head of both the eastern and
western Euphrates, that it is in fact the
last barrier against the Russian advance
into Anatolia. Too much stress car. not
be laid upon the danger of this conquest,
and public attention, without being
diverted to affairs on the Danube ought
to study events near the Euphrates with
that keen interest with which men
watch over what concerns themselves.
Russian ambition has long cast longing
eyes toward Erzeroum. When Erzeroum
is in the power of the czar, there will
not —with the . exception of Diarbekir,
scarcely meriting so respectable a name,
—be a single strong or even fortified
place between the Russian frontier and
Constantinople. And although it is
true that Turkish troops might defend
the mountain passes through which the
road leads to the capital, the Ottoman
commanders would in that case labor
under two terrible disadvantages—first,
in having no point d’appui to fall hack
upon, and secondly, in having to strug
gle against enemies always attacking
them from higher ground. Erzeroum.
although a “wretched place,” without a
theatre or even a hotel, is, nevertheless,
the key to the whole of Asia minor, and,
in the hands of the Russians, a bar to
free communication between Turkey and
Persia, as well as a menace to Constanti
nople itself.
When it becomes a Russian fortress,
the great road between Turkey and
Persia will he closed; for, except by
means of the long and tedious roule
through Bagdad, there will then remain
no other way from Constantinople to the
frontiers ’of the latter kingdom. It is
therefore evident that Persia will be
altogether isolated, and from the threat
ening position already taken up by Rus
sia round the eastern as well as the
southern piovinces of the shah, his
kingdom, the moment Armenia falls,
being almost entirely surrounded, its
conversion into a Russian province can
be predicted with the same certainty as
that with which the astronomer foretells
any other eclipse. Erzeroum is not oriJy
the key of Persia, but it is the pivot on
which the Russian advance toward
India can be most easily worked, because
its possession, enabling the Muscovites to
avoid the dreary deserts of Khiva, will
give a road stretching through fertile
provinces to Herat, that easy highway
which has invariably been followed by
every invader of India, whether in
ancient or modern times. The com
manding advantages of Erzeroum—situ
ated as it is in the centre of vast plains,
producing every requirement for a large
army, besides grain and cattle in gener
ous abundance—have long been coveted
by the Muscovites, who, although per-
i'ectly well aware that it is a “wretched
place,”are convinced that,in theirpower
ful grasp, it will become an impregnable
fortress, with Trebizond. Batoum, and
Kars, a notorious quadrilateral, as well
. as a base of operations threatening En
gland’s supremacy as an eastern power.
When once in possession of this
i “ wretched place,” it is idle to suppose
j that the Russians will ever give it up,
JESUP, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 18, 1877.
for they have long coveted it; first, on
account of its "grand strategical impor
tance, and secondly, because it is the
granary of Georgia. It can be very
easily argued that, Russia having taken
possession of Erzeroum in her previous
wars, and then retired from it, she will
display similiar moderation, either in
the course of the present year, or, per
haps, when those amiable Christians of
the neighborhood, whose grievances so
toucli the tender heart of tlie benefactor
of Poland, are granted immuni
ties. Nothing can be more mischievous
or more misleading than a line of argu
ment without patience enough to oh
serve the totally different circumstances
under which these several occupations
occurred.
In 1828 Pasklevitch abandoned Er
zeroum, not because he considered it a
“wretched place,” but for the excellent
reason that, as his base was threatened,
and his position made extremely dan
gerous by the enmity of the unsubdued,
powerful, and fierce tribes of Circassians
and Lesgi inhabiting the wild countries
through which his way back to Russia
lay, he was not strong enough to hold it.
Prudence and self-preservation obliged
the Russians at this time to detacli a
vast line of garrisons in order to guard
these delicate communications; but, as
the political state of Georgia was such
as to cause serious inquietude in the
minds of the Muscovites commanders,
lest its turbulent population should, by
turning against them, become a power
ful ally of the Turks, and suddenly
change a triumphial advance on Asia
Minor into a disgraceful, disastrous, and
humiliating retreat, they were compelled
to weaken the invading force by leaving
strong bodies’of troops, so as to be ready
against attacks threatened them from
this side also. The army, therefore,
which accompanied Pasklevitcli to Er
zeroum was altogether inefficient for
holding that “wretched place,” and at
the same time for overawing not only
the surrounding country, but also the
ill-compacted Russian province of the
Caucasus behind him. The impotence
of the Russian inva ing force, and the
extreme danger a ; 1 insecurity of their
position were fully shown by the mas
sacre of an entire division detached from
Erzeroum with a view to cut the com
munication of that town witli Trebizond
at Balboot. The Mussulman population,
inspired with patriotism, rose to a man
in defense of the country. But at the
present hour the infamy and corruption
of Turkish officials has apparently de
stroyed such noble sentiments, for the
Muscovites are assisted by Mohamme
dan subjects of the sultan, while, on the
other hand, they have nothing whatever
to fear from the hostility of either Lesyi
or Circassians, botli of whom have been
totally annihilated or mercilessly sup
pressed. Georgia, completely subdued
is a peaceful province of the Russian
empire, into which she lias been incor
porated ; and therefore a comparison be
tween the invasions of 1877 and 1828 is
foolish, because the czar, apprehending
no danger whatever on either his flank
or rear, can now push such an imposing
army into Asia Minor that Turkish op
position to his will can not be thought
of seriously. Supported by unscrupu
lous, patient, and paintaking officials,
the ezar, with far-seeming wisdom, has
long planned the annexation of Erzeroum
to holy Russia ; and although the oppor
tunity for this menacing extention of his
southwestern frontier has occurred a
little sooner than he expected, he shows
no symptoms of not doing his best to
prove himself quite equal to the occa
sion ; for, to use the words of a Russian
journal, “he will throttle Turkey under
the nose of England, and in spite of
her.”
The Crimean war gave a long respite
to Turkey, but it is of no use denying
that that respite has been employed by
the Turkish pashas, effendis, and cadis
in ruining the country, as well as in
alienating the affections of the people
Mussulman and Christian alike. The
truth of this assertion will be proved as
the Russians advance into Armenia,
where they can count with almost ab
solute certainty on assistance in pro
visions and transport from the peaceable
peasants; while the warlike Kurds and
Arabs, who hate the Turks'even more
than they do the Christians themselves,
will gladly take a more active part in
operations against the government of the
khalif. —European Crrr. N. Y. Timm.
..Scene at a seaside hotel: Lean,
lank stranger—“ Why, look here, you
charge me in my bill for a counterpane,
and why should I l>e charged with it?”
Hotel-keeper—“Of course you should.
If you had Ijeen nice and fat the mos
quitoes would have tackled you and let
my counterpane alone.”
quick trip around mi s non Lii.
The Omaha (Neb.) Republican prints
a letter from Dr. F. S. De Hass, Ameri
can consul at Jerusalem, in which he
gives an account of a tour he has lately
made around the world in sixty-eight
days ef actual traveling time. The let
ter is dated at Jerusalem, May 10, 1877.
The outline of the journey we quote,
greatly condensed, in the following:
“Having safely returned to my post,
I tike pleasure in furnishing your read
ers’ agreeably to promise, with a brief
notice of my quick and successful tour
around the world. Not counting tho
time I lay over at different points, as
these breaks in the journey could all
have Been avoided, I made the entire
circuit of the globe in sixty-eight days
and but for heavy weather on tho Pacific
would have made it in sixty-two days
The journey from Alexandria, Egypt,
via Brindisi and Paris to London, and
from thence to New York and San Fran
cisco, was accomplished in twenty days,
and were just the same number of days
going from San Francisco to Yokohama
Japan. Grossing over from here to
Canton, in China, took six davH. A
sail of ten days over the China sea and
through the Strait of Malacca, touching
at several points we have not time to
notice, brought us to Ceylon, off the
southern coast of Hindostan, and one of
the richest of the East India Islands.
Thence we sailed directly to Suez, ini
Egypt, which took twelve days, and from
thence, in a few hours, by rail to Alex
andria, our starting point, making the
entire distance of 25,000 miles—lo,ooo
by water and 9,000 on land—in sixty
eight days, without any accident or de
tention ot any kind.”
NAILS MADE OE RAIL 1 It*N.
An exchange says : A manufacturer
at Wheeling, West Va., is reported to be
making a good quality of nails from old
rails. Samples were some few days since
shown ax the office of the Wheeling In
telligencer, part of which wore inado out
of rails, pure and simple, and part out
of three parts rails and one part. muck.
They are pronounced good and are
smooth and tough and drive well. This
process of making nails, we learn, avoids
the boiling of iron. The rails aro cut
and piled for the heating furnaces like
so much muck ba,r, and by the use of a
flux in the beating process are welded
and made as malleable, ductile and close
tectured in the sheet rolls as so much
piled muck. Nail plate is thus made
$5.25 per ton cheaper than out of pig
iron which lias first been made into muck
tar. This saving, says tho Intelligencer,
is of a big profit, and will, if successful,
revolutionize the old method. No mill
can afford to puddle iron when by using
this flux old rails or pig iron can he con
verted directly into nail plates. The
same paper says, also: “We lately
mentioned that Col. Rowell is making
nailsat the Bellville mill out of old rails
and one-eighth muck iron, and that he
claims to have an advantage equal toslß
per ton for pig metal, If this turns out
to be the ease, the furnaces will not have
much to do for some time to come, inas
much as it is estimated that there are
enough old rails in the country to run
all the mills for several years.”
A DOG’S SUICIDE
A number of gentlemen who happened
about the Ohio and Mississippi railroad
office yesterday forenoon witnessed a very
singular event. Their attention was
attracted by the mournful yell of a dog,
coming from high up in the air. Glanc
ing in the direction of the sound, they
beheld a dog upon the verge of the
National Hotel roof, six stories above.
A moment later and the form of the
brute appeared in mid-air, it having
sprung from the roof. "The unfortunate
creature struck the earth with a sicken
ing thud, and was, of course, instantly
killed. How it happened on the roof is
a mystery.
The creature probably followed its
owner to the roof, and he, forgetting its
presence, left without it, closing the
trap-door behind him. Crazed with
hunger and desire to be with her pups,
the dog leaped from the roof, suiciding
as described. —LmtumUe Courier-Journal.
A HIDE L/9HT.
Never face the light when at work,
but contrive to have a side light, which
will not shine directly in the eyes. In
the schools in Germany tnis matter has
already been attended to, and the rule
adopted is to have all the seats and tables
so arranged that the pupil never faces
the windows, but only has the sid# lights
from the left; and, as a light simultane
ously thrown from two sides gives an
inference of shadows, it ha“ been strictly
forbidden to build school-rooms with
windows on both sides, such illumina
tion having also proved injurious to the
eyes of the pupils. We may add to this
advice not to place the lamp in front of
you when at work in the evening, but a
little on one side ; use a shade—a green
one is best, as it softens the light, which
illuminates only the work upon which it
falls.
LACING.
If all the women insane on this subject
were in the asylums, the accommodations
would have to be largely increased. The
habit is a general one, and very injuri
ous. A good authority says: “It has
been found that the liver, the lungs, ami
the powers of the stomach, have been
brought into a diseased stato by this
most pernicious habit. Loss of bloom,
redness of the nose, and eruptions on the
skin are among iiseffects. If prolonged,
there is no knowing to what malady tight
lacing may not lead. Its most apparent
effect is an injured digestion, and conse
quent loss of appetite. ()f this, however,
it is often difficult to convince the prac
ticed lacer, for vanity is generally obsti
nate. But, looking at tight lacing,
without consideration of its effect on
health, and merely at its tendency to
improve or to injure the appearance,
nothing can bo more absurd than to
believe it is advantageous to the figure.
A small waist is rather a deformity than
a beauty. To see the shoulders cramped
and squeezed together is anything hut
agreeable. Tho figure should be easy,
well developed, supple. If nature has
not made the waist small, compression
cannot mend her work.”
DYING OE HUNG ICH IN CHINA.
A very dark picture is drawn by a cor
respondent of the Paris Temps of the dis
tress which has been prevalent in China
for the last few months. He says that in
the Chihli and Shantung districts the
distress has teached such a height that a
part of the inhabitants of these large
provinces are llu-mlly dying of hunger.
Two Europeans who had the courage to
carry some provisions to a small village
in Shantung returned horror-tit ack with
what they had seen. The inhabitants
were putting an end to their sufferings
by suicide, and in one family the fattier
and mother, to avoid witnessing the
death agony of their children, had buried
them alive. The famine has been caused
by the failure of the harvest for two
years running in districts which are gen
erally very fertile. Neither grain nor
fruits are to be had at any price, and the
land seems to have been scorched by a
burning wind. The grass by the roadsido
has been devoured to its very roots by
the famishing people, who have stripped
all the trees of their hark and foliage.
As the winter has been exceptionally
severe, many of the sufferers have died
from cold as well as from hunger, and
the appearance of the survivors is most
ghastly.
EIGHT MORE THAN TWELVE.
A Dutchman let his lands to anj oil
company last spring, on condition of
receiving one eighth of the oil procured.
The well proved to be a pretty good one,
and the farmer began to think the oil
men would give him a better chance, and
ventured to tell them so. They asked
him what he wanted. He said tliey ought
to give him one-twelfth. The arrange
ment was finally made, with the under
standing that the Dutchman was not to
tell any one. All went smooth until
the next division day came, when our
friend was early at hand to see how much
better lie would be off under the new
bargain. Eleven barrels were rolled to
one side for the oil inon and one for him.
This did not suit him.
“ How’s dish?” said he; “ I think I
was to get more a* before. You have
made some mistake I ”
The matter was explained to him, that
he formerly got one barrel of every eight,
but it was his own proposition to take
one of every twelve. This revelation
took him back. He scratched his head,
looked cross, and relieved his swelling
breast of feelings of self-reproach by in
dignantly remarking,—
“ Well, dat ish de first time as ever I
know’d eight was more as dwelve, ”
The Egyptian ladies, as a rule, are not
as (rood looking as Gleopatra, but trav
elers and connoisseurs of taste, who were
on the Nile last winter, report that there
are many handsome ones among the
modern lot. The fairest of the fair, in
point ot beauty, if not of complexion, are
the Copts in Cairo. Their tint is the
darkest prevalent, but the best artists
proclaim them to be admirably put to
gether in form and features. The Egyp
tians arc not much blacker than the
Italians.
HO LID A YU*
BY HENRY W. LONGPBLLOW.
The holiest of all holidays
Are those kept by ourselves,
In Silenoe and apart—
The secret anniversaries of the heart.
When the full river of feeling overflows,
Those happy days unclouded to their close,
Those sudden joys that out of darkness start,
As flowers from ashes, swift desire to dart,
Like singing swallows, down each wind that blows,
White as the gleam of a receding sail,
White as a cloud that floats and flits In air,
White as the whitest lily on a stream,
These tender memories are
A fairy tale of some enchanted land,
We know not where, but beautiful
Asa dream within a dream.
JOTTINGS*
NO. 46.
Women vote for school officers in Min
nesota.
A German girl in Buffalo waltzed her
self blind.
At last the University of London will
confer medical degrees on women.
Hayes sayes he will not summer at
White Sulphur.
Senator Lamar has recovered his
health since returning to Mississippi.
Jenny Lind Hays that her husband is
her truest friend. Every woman’s ought
to be.
The Empress of Austria is said to be
the most beautiful royal lady in the
world.
It has been noticed that the man, who
is fnll of reminiscences of congress and
of anecdotes about big men, always
has to feel the longest for the price of a
cocktail.
The Philadelphia Ledger has a half
column article censuring the college
booby. It accuses him of imitating the
coarseness and brutality of the college
booby of England.
The Louisvills Chess club has beaten
the Chicago Chess association in a match
game by correspondence. The Louis
ville side was managed chiefly by Judge
Bland Ballard.
Delightful California ! The Han Fran
cisco Bulletin says: “ The recent heated
term lasted seven days. The highest
readings of the thermometer, we believe,
were 118 degrees at a few points in the
interior.”
Hotel business in town is very dull,
and several of the larger houses are well
nigh empty and running with reduced
help. The summer is destined to be a
very hard one for hotels, not only in this
but in all large cities throughout the
United States.
The banks of the Thames are lined
with mosquitoes, which have been
brought to London in cargoes of foreign
grain. One of the things upon London
ers have always prided themselves has
been that this annoying insect was not to
be found in their city.
A Boston merchant, on <■ recent trip,
was considerably impiessed by the
earnestness of a German passenger
“ America,” said the returning Teuton,
“is der bestcoundry in der vorld. I had
lived dere more as den years, and failed
vive dimes, and now I goes home to lif
mil a fortune and my family.”
The Greeks were disgusted when a
joke was explained, but the American
humorist has to explainer his point is
forever lost. For instance, the Greek
writer would have said: “Women talk
loss in February than in any other
month;” and everybody in Greece would
have enjoyed the squib. The American,
however, has to say; “Women talk less
in February than in any other month,
because it is the shortest month.”
A writer in the April Blackwood says
“The lonian Islands have a certain
strategic value as regards the Adriatic,
but would afford no protection against
the Russian descent from the Black Sea,
Crete, and Crete alone, combines every
strategical advantage we need, while its
possession by a possible enemy would be
fatal to all sense of scrutiny. England
is now said to Ire in treaty for the pur
chase of the island from Turkey.”
The surmise that many of the persons
run over by railroad trains have been
previously murdered is usually not sus
ceptible of proof. An engineer on the
Louisville and Chicago railroad, however,
applied the brake so promptly that the
trody he saw ahead on the track was not
struck. It was found that the man had
i>een robbed, almost killed, and then
placed where a train would be likely to
obliterate all evidence of the crime.
The blackberry industry in Georgia,
North Carolina and other Southern
states is about to open. The little town
of Salein, S. C., containing only about
| two thousand inhabitants, has shipped
j during three years over three million
i pounds of blackberries for which nearly
! half a million dollars was received. This
| was equal to over nine thousand hales of
| cotton at ten cents a pound, and is a re
source certainly not to lie despised.
THE WHEA T CHOI- or CALIFOHSIA
The Journal of Commerce gives some
data of the probable wheat product of
California and Oregon for the present
year, estimating the surplus for export
at 320,750 tons from California, and
150,000 tons from Oregon. The Bulle
tin, commenting editorially, considers
the estimate for California too large by
at least 50,000 tons. A number of ex
tensive operators vary considerably in
their views, but the weight ot opinion
j seems to place the surplus for the state
l between 2.50,000 and 300,000 tons.