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Tiie Jen Sentinel. Office in the Jesiip House, fronting on Cherry street, two doors from Broad at. PUBLISHER EVERY WEDNESDAY, ... by ... T. ?. LITTLEFIELD. Subscription Rates. (Postage Prepaid,) One year $1 50 Six months 75 Three months 50 Advertising Rates. Per square, first insertion $1 00 Per square, each subsequent insertion. 75 _}ffirt"Bpecial rates to yearly and large ad vertisers. TOWN DIRECTORY. TOWN OFFICERS. Mayor—W. H. Whaler. Couneilmen—T. P. Littlefield, H. W. Whaley, Bryant George, O. F. Littlefield, Anderson Williams, Clerk anu Treasurer—O. F. Littlefield. Marshal—G. W. Williams. COUNTY OFFCERS. Ordinary—Richard B. Hopps. Sheriff—John N. Goodbread. Clerk Superior Court—Benj. 0. 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. E. King, G, W. Haines, James Knox, J. G. Rich, [sham 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 TAR AG RA PUS. One steamship recently took out irom New York lor Liverpool more than 10,000 packages of butter, the largest ever made from the United States. The Burlington glass works at Ham ilton, Can., have been closed on account of the competition from the United States, and there is now a free field for American glassware in Canada. The southern gold mines are rising again to prominence, the product of North Carolina for the fiscal year 1875-6 amounting to $10,335,000, that of [Geor gia to $7,379,000, and that of South Carolina to $1,381,000—a total of $19,- 096,000. The product for the year j ust closed is supposed to be much greater. Eleven stamp-mills are now running near Dahlonega, Ga. and Boston capital is the dominant interest. Labor is 75 cents a day, and wood $1 a cord. The enormous losses incident, on farmers and gardeners by the attacks of insects is every year becoming more serious, not only in this country, but in Europe. It is gratifying to learn that in England the scientific men, especially entomologists, are taking steps to obtain accurate records of the habits and con ditions most favorable to the develop ment and increase of certain well-known insects that devastate our crops, with a view to their extermination. The constructon of refrigerator cars is attracting considerable attention in railroad circles. It has been found by experience that chill-rooms far the pre servation of perishable articles have the standing objection that, at or near the temperature of freezing, meat and other like articles may be kept a long time without goiDg to decay, but when brought thence into a summer tempera ture they go almost immediately to destruction. Forty-five degrees, or there abouts, with moderate ventilation will, in a good measure, decrease the objection to the use of chill-rooms. The Journal Officiel records the fol lowing singular accident: M, Gastard, of Paris, had placed a number of cartridges on a table. Some solar rays having been concentrated by an “eye” in the glass of a window, a terrific explosion took place. Similar catastrophes are more common than is generally supposed in summer, the windows of railroad car riages igniting sometimes overdried plants, or even leaves fallen on railway embankments. It is known also that fires sometimes occur in Algerian forests through drops of water suspended to the leaves and forming lenses. Virginia aspires to see the James river become the clyde of the new world. The state has an abundance of coal and iron and is not entirely unfa miliar with the art of ship building, and some of her people see no reason why the ; James river should not be lined with i iron ship yards. Well, the time is com ing, and is near at hand, when there will be an imperative need for starting iron rhip yards on a large scale in this coun try, and it simply depends on foresight and energy, whether the yards are opened on the James, the Delaware or in New England. .. An old rail-splitter in Indiana put the quietus upon a young man who chafed him upon his bald head in these word* : . “ Young man, when my head gets as soft as yours I can raise hair to sell.'’ VOL. I. TURNING GRAY, Life’s sands are running fast away; The buoyant step of Youth has gone ! The failing hair is turning gray, And Time seems now to hurry on More fleetly than in days of yore— Before the heart bee?me its prey— Before ’twas saddened to the core— Before the hair was turning gray. Yes, turning gray ! Age comes like snow — As still—and carves each careworn line: Its wrinkles on the brow will grow ; The hair with silvery streaks will shine ; The eyes their brightness lose ; the hand Grow dry and tremulous and thin; — For life, alas ! is quickly spanned, And Death its gates soon closes in. Ah Ii timing gray ! we rain would hide The sign how long with Time we’ve beeu — These deepened wrinkles side by side, Cut bv the sorrows we have seen, For feeble beats the heart as years More thickly cluster on our head— As Autumn rain-drops hang, like tears, On some fair flower that’s nearly dead. Like perished petals from the flower, Our hopes and wildest joys are laid ; Born only for a day or hour, Sweet gambols by the fancy played. As age comes on, we long for rest, As saints near shrines will long to pray, But still we Jove that time the best Before the hair is turning gray. AMERICA AHEAD. The Cause of the Decline of Swiss Exports to this Country. A dispatch to the London Times from Paris says the commissioner-general of Switzerland, at the late centennial ex hibition at Philadelphia, in his report to the federal council, says the decline in Swiss exports to America is not due to the commercial crisis there, but to the development of native industry, and that Switzerland will never regain her old level. England, also, is competing more actively with Switzerland to com pensate for losses in other maikets. Cot ton fabrics are likely to cross the Atlan tic to Europe in increasing quantities: for water power is cheaper than coal. Short hours and high wages have disap peared, and Americans, it may be fore seen, will compete with Europe, even in China and Japan. Switzerland must also be prepared for a warmer rivalry in silk, watches, and machines, England being likely to try to make up on the continent for the decline in her machine exports to Ameriee. The commissioner attributes the crisis to excessive production caused by haste to be rich and by protectionist duties, the mere hope of a return to pro tection having stimulated production in certain countries. He deprecates legis lative regulations of hours of labor, stating that in America such enactments have become a dead letter, and advocates good materials and workmanship in order lo recover a reputation for quality. THIS AMERICAN WOMAN OF TO-DAT. American women take vastly better care of themselves than formerly. They have more acquaintance with hygienic laws, and hold them in far higher esteem. The days when they exposed th emselves to dampness and wintry cold in thin slippers and silk stockings; when they abstained from flannels next the skin; when they pinched their waists to semi suffocation ; when they sacrificed com fort and health to what they conceived to be appearances —those foolish and unhappy days have gone forever, and have barely been known to the rising generation. Our women now have few mawkish and morbid notions as to them selves ; they no longer think that to be unhealthy is to be attractive; that invalidism and interestingness are syn onymous ; that pale faces and compressed lungs are tokens of beauty. They dress seasonably; they wear thick boots and warm clothes in bad and cold weather ; they allow themselves to breathe freely, and they find their looks improved, not injured, by the wholesome change. There are exceptions, many of them doubtless, but the rule is as we have described, and the exceptions are constantly diminish ing. It may be safely said that all sen sible women are becoming, if they have not become, converts to nature, and they heed her behests, recognizing the great principles that what is not natural cannot be beautiful. A HAUNTED UO'lEh . The Suicides’ Hotel, in the Latin Quarter, Paris, has been torn down. Ten years ago a young student, despair ing and in love, blew out his brains in the room which he was occupying, and just one year afterward another student committed suicide in the same room, after losing his money in a gamb ling house. The proprietor of the hotel was alarmed at the fate of these unhappy students, and the room was transformed into a lumber-closet. A \ few months afterward, a waiter, who, had been accused of theft, crept into this lumber-room and hanged himself. The superstitious hotel-keeper was now in despair. He surrendered the lease and abandoned the chamber of death. The hotel was repeatedly sold, but its reputation was uncanny and nobody could thrive there. A strong-minded i druggist took possession of the premises JESUP, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 22, 1877. :ind carried ou his business there, but finding his wite had deceived him, retired to the fatal chamber and there poisoned himself with his own drugs. The whole quarter was up in arms and demanded that the room should be walled up, but the new owner laughed at the fears of his neighbors, and declared that he meant to occupy the chamber himself. At last notice was given that the place was about to be pulled down to make room for the Boulevard St. Ger main. An indemnity of $50,000 was demanded, but refused, and the jury having decided that $17,500 was ample compensation, the owner grew despond ent, and declared he was a ruined man. A month ago he asked permission to visit the old premises before they were pulled down. His request was granted, and nothing more was heard ot him until the workmen found him hanging by the neck in the fatal room. —Newark Adver tiser. A JOURNALISTIC OUTFIT. The special correspondent of the Paris Temps communicates to his paper the following list of articles with which war correspondents accompanying the Rus sian army in Asia must be supplied : 1. A passport from the general staff, with which, immediately upon his arrival, the correspondent has to present himself to the chief of the corps or detachment which he means to accompany. By means of it he is, for instance, to have each letter and telegram acknowledged by the general staff. 2. A number of photographs of himself for the chiefs of the different corps and detachments. One of them he is to keep, in doubtful cases of his identity, to compare with the rest. 3. An emblem in the form of a shield, in the centre of which the letter K is affixod to a black and yellow rib bon. This mark is worn in the button hole, to serve as a passport, that he may walk about without being molested. 4. A *' Padorojna,” or march route of the government, whereby the correspond ent may secure post horses at each relay, except in cases of vis major. 5. An “ Atkoiti List,” entitling him to an escort, he being obliged to with him a Cossack or Tshapar for safety’s sake, 6. A private servant, versed, if possible, in several languages. 7. A double barreled gun, for casual hunting, the right barrel for shot, while the left is rifled, adapted to the shooting of balls, also a revolver and a dirk-knife. 8. A European saddle for himself and ono for his servant, with bridle and bit. 9. A tent with a Persian carpet and hammock. 10. A “ Bourdonk,” with at least six “ tunks” of cachetic wine. “ Bourdonk” is a sort of canteen made out of the whole skin of a dog, or the hide of a ram or ox, retaining the shape of the animal. A “ tunk” holds five bottles. 11. A large pair of saddle-bags full of provisions, preserves, tea, sugar, cognac, etc , etc., tin plates, table-set and everything required to sustain life in a perfectly wild country; cigars, cigarettes and tobacco. 12. Quinine and extract of genti. 13. Avery handy portfolio, with writing material. 14. As little bageage for himself as possible ; a warm overcoat and blankets are indispensable in the mountains and at night. 15. A black suit of clothes, vest, pantaloons, white cravat, light-colored gloves, and a hat fsr wear and tear. 16. A number of articles impossible to be mentioned. 17. Money—Russian half imperials, Turkish medschidjes, which are twenty-franc pieces; the Russian paper money, if possible, must be of recent date, being better current. The Russian arm y passes but gold coin. The correspondent is also to be supplied with a goodly quan tity of Russian silver change. He is to find room for all of the articles men tioned in a telega, i. e. a vehicle used in that part of the world. The most essen tial is not to be forgotten, which, strange to say, is Persian insect powder.— Sl. Louis Globe-Democrat. JAPANESE FANS. l An almost fabulous number of fans are exported from Japan to all parts of the world. No fewer than 3,000,0f 0, valued at $90,000, were, according to Consul Annesley’s commercial report on Hiogo and Osaka, issued lately, shipped from these ports ii 1375. Osaka is the prin cipal city for the manufacture of the “ogi,” or folding fans, which are almost | exclusively those exported, all descrip i tions of the bamboo kind being made I there, the figures, writing, etc. being ex | ecuted in Kiyoto. The sale of fans in the olden time in Japan seldom exceeded 10,000 for the whole country. Times have changed, however, for the foreigner has set foot there, and the old days of se clusion and limited trade are over. The nnmber of fans entered for the Philadel ! phia exhibition alone amounted to over j 800,000, at a cost of about $50,000. — 1 Cassell; 8 Magazine. ONE OF TDK MOST ItESUKItA TIC CAK vin u operation:, of this day. One of the most desperate affrays which ever occurred in this country took place in the drug store of Sidney Broadus, at Stringtown, about five miles from this place, on Tuesday afternoon last. Billy Patterson and Joe Hill, the latter a son of Elba Hill, have been unfriendly for some time past, and a fight between the two has been anticipated several months. Both are desperate men, and knew them were satisfied t hat when they met in conflict there would be no child’s play. Both have boon engaged in a number of fights, and Patterson has been cut and shot several times, and so des perately on more than one occasion that his life has been despaired of; but by some miraculous chance it seems he has recovered. His dangerous wounding however, has not improved his course of life. Hill has also been regarded as a dangerous man, and one not afraid of fiend or devil. The two men met on Tuesday evening, both drinking. Per sons who saw them became satisfied at once that they infant mischief. It was but a few minutes after meeting when they engaged in a quarrel. Maddened with drink each drew his pocket-knife and went to work to carve up the other. One of the most desperate fights of mod ern times was the result. With true grit they hacked up each other in the most terrible manner. The fight lasted only a few minutes—bystanders having interfered—but their gashed bodies pre sented a most terrible and a most sicken ing sight. At the first onslaught both throats were cut from ear to ear. The windpipes were cut but the jugular was not severed, and they continued their work. Hill was badly cut across the nose, and then in the arm, the artery having been severed Patterson’s nose was almost separated from the face, the skin of the forehead just above the eyes was lifted from the scalp, and a danger ous wound received in the side, pene trating to the hollow. Yesterday at noon both men were still alive, but with no possible chance for the recovery of either. —Richmond Register. UKMARKA HLK CASKS OF ICZBTOREIi REASON. A confederate soldier from the valley of Virginia, in one of the late battles of the late civil war, was struck in the head by a Minnie ball. The ball passed through the skull, and the surgeons, afraid to probe the wound in search of it, left the man to die. In the course of time he re covered, but had lost his reason, and was sent to the insane asylum at Staunton, where he remained eleven years. At length Dr. Fauntlerey, an eminent phy sician of that city, obtained permission from the asylum authorities and friendg of the insane man to make a surgical ex amination of the head, with the hope of finding the ball. He was successful, and found the ball imbedded on the inside of the skull and pushing against the brain. Unable to extract it with any instru ment at hand, he took a chisel and mor tised it out. As soon as the ball was re moved, reason resumed its control, and the deranged one was in his right mind. He says that he is not conscious of any thing that occurred during the interval of eleven years—from the time he was struck on the battlefield to the moment the pressure was removed from the brain all was a blank to him. Another case in the same county of Augusta was that of a boy whose gun bursted while shooting, and drove the lock into the brain. The piece was taken out by a skillful surgeon without serious injury to the patient. But the most remarkable case that I hear of was in the same neighborhood. It was that of a woman subject to fits of mental derangement, and while in a s]>ell of lunacy drove an eighteen-penny nail into the top of her head, penetrating down into the brain—the nail having been driven up to its head. The nail I was drawn out, and the woman has been jin sound mental condition ever since.— Wheeling Register. HINTS FOR RRET HAHTE. Montana has been a territory only thir tenn years, but it had a historical society | for twelve of them, which has just issued ' its first volume. Its chief interest cen ters in mining adventures, especially of the remarkable character, James Stuart. [ His journal of the disastrous Yellow stone expedition of 1863, annotated by ■two of his surviving comrades, exceeds in pioneer romance anything like “ Poker Flat ” has produced. Stuart’s band was attacked at night by Indians, and several were killed outright. One man, who was fatally shot, blew out his brains, so as not to be a burden to his retreating comrades; and another, named Geery, who acciden tally shot himself, insisted on following his example. Putting the muzzle of his pistol to liis breast, he was about to fire the iatal Bhot, when Jim said : “For God’s sake, Geery, don’t; but, if you w'll do it, don’t shoot yourself there ; it will only prolong your agony. If you must do it, place the pistol to your temple. To which Geery replied: ' Thanks Jim, and may God bless you all and take you safe out of this.’ As ho placed the pistol to his temple, the men, with weeping eyes and full hearts, turned to walk away, as they could not bear to see him fire. He pressed the trigger, and the cap only exploded. I then appealed to him, saying: ‘Geery, for God’s sake, don’t; this is a warning.’ To which he paid no attention, nor made any reply, but rather seemed to be soliloquizing, and said ‘ I know not what to think of that; it never snapped before.’ Cocking his pistol again, he engaged a few seconds in mental prayer, and again pulled the trigger that launched him into eternity.” JEWS IN ENtiI,AND. Marriages at the bottom of a prodi gious agitation now going on among the Jews of this country on the question of admitting proselytes. The prohibition against receiving Chris tian converts to Judaism was passed in the ages of persecution, when such a convention was apt to be followed by atrocities such as it is now the fashion to call Turkish. Then as nov' the .lews had considerable amounts of cash, but it was easy to relieve them of it without marrying it—namely, in the Bashi-Bo zouk way. But that is illegal in Eng land and other parts of Europe, and it has become a serious problem how to get at such big fortunes as those of which the Rothschilds, Erlangers, and others are the best known examples. The prohibi tion against proselytes, originally passed for self-protection, lias long proved to be the means of keeping Jewisti fortunes among themselves, and the conservative party insists on upholding the religion, pointing to various cases where fortunes have been got by Christian proselytes uD’oroe have followed, and the wealth £ .ated. But the wiser and more ad- ?ed Jews perceive that the old hedge has become defective. The Catholic church maintains its anathema against marriage with Jews (except in Austria), but there are Protestants in these days. 4 distinguished Jew in Paris has just married a Catholic lady, and a similar event has occurred in Dunkerque: in both cases Rabbi and Archbishop both refused consent, but Protc-stanism tied the knot. In this country it is not only the wealth, but the exceptional beauty and culture of the Jewesses which have made some change necessary, and the ancient race have found that they must not stand so firmly on the old ways as did their lathers, who lost them the Disraeli family. So last week the Jewish World announced that it was "not the intention of the ecclesiastical board to offer any opposition toadrnitproselytes to our faith, provided the applicants are sin cere.” It is an important step. We shall soon have a society for the conver sion of Christians. But how about this “sincerity” clauso? Will each convert be sworn that ho or she is not using the synagogue as an appendage of the licens ing office? The Jewish World hears a new command coming from anew Sinai, ordaining Israel to be witnesses of the higher faith and monothemism of the times, to diffuse their light and become cosmopolitan, and raise up “a mighty spirit of peaceful enterprise by which Christians and all others shall be set free from the superstitions which now hold them in bondage, and shall walk hence forth in the green pastures Imside the still waters where the God of Israel shepherds his flock.”— M. I). Conway in the Cincinnati Commercial. They had quite an excitement at the Delaware Water Gap the other day. It seems that an artist who was out in the woods trarisferrring nature to canvass fell asleep, and a cow came along and licked up the scene as well as the paint on the palette. This so enraged the ar tist that he kicked the cow, and the cow returned the compliment. The artist is now traveling on crutches, and thirty seven babies are sick front drinking milk mixed with all sorts of paints. The Haratogian tells the following : “At the Delaware and Hudson depot yesterday a lady and gentleman climbed up on either side of the seven-foot picket fence that extends through the arcade, to kiss each other good-by. They had previously attempted to kiss between the pickets, but space forbade.” NO. 51. .. The pebbles in eur path weary us and make us footsore more than the rocks, which require only a bold effort to surmount. .. “ The man who is curious to see how the world can get along without him can find out by sticking a cambric needle into a mill-pond, and then withdrawing it and looking at the hole.” . A man went to a theater in Chicago the other night. Ho doesn’t remember what the name of the play was on the bills, but all that he could hear was, “Fans? ten cents; fans? ten cents.” .. The war correspondents are not allowed lo estimate the number of troops and guns, or to write news of the move ments of the troops. Furthermore, all lotters from the front are subject to erasures. This is why the astute correspondents remain in London to do their bloody work. .. A child charmed by a black snake in Jefferson county, Tenn., fed the snake daily for over a week. The lather dis covered the snake coiled up in the child’s lap and killed it, whereupon the little one went into spasm:: of grief and re fused to eat food of any kind. She cries almost continually, except when asleep, and physicians state that she will live but n short time. .. Casabianca, rather than disobey his father, heroically died upon the burning deck—but would he have clung to a milk pail when drowning 7 James Halpin, age eight, of Waterford, N. Y., did that, and also had sufficient presence of mind to wave his left hand. The hand was the only indication of young Halpin’s presence in the .anal, but a sharp-eyed laborer passing saw it, grnsped it, and hauled the boy and milk pail out of the water. ..A London correspondent with the Russian army was lately caught by the Turks and hauled before a pasha. On the way he secured au interpreter to ex plain that he was a neutral. The pasha, a stout, cheerful fellow in a fez, like any other Turk listened calmly a (ew mo ments to the laborious interpreter, and then observed, as he rolled a freHh cigar ette : “Ah, now! Hpake English. I was born in Cork, and haven’t fergot me native tongue.” A ROM ANTIC ROVE STOUT. A delicious love idyl comes from Wayne county, Ky. A stalwart young Kentuckian of knightly hearing, passing through a Monticello street ten years ago, was noticed by a young girl sitting at the window of the most aristocratic house of the town, and she fell in love with him at first sight. She had wealth, culture and beauty: he was poor, with only his splendid phynique and intrepid spirit, and was then on his way to seek fortune as a cattle herder in Texas. There be soon rose to be proprietor of a ranch, and took his money to California and hunted for gold. After many ups and downs, fortune favored him, and he found himself the owner of a silver mine at Silver City, New Mexico. The girl, meanwhile, had bloomed into a rarely beautiful woman, had developed unusual literary ability, and become a contribu tor the to Apostolic Times, the organ of the Iteformed Church, published at Islington. Ily some means the girl had learned who the unconscious object of her fancy was, and, though he had never seen her. the two corresponded through out the ten years. .She never wrote a word of her pergonal attractions nor family, nor did he speak of his good for tune ; he had a mind well stored with judicious reading, and their correspond ence was only that of book-loving friends. A few weeks ago, however, the love she had always bore him bore ita fruit. He wrote her, proposing marriage, and soon followed his letter to her Kentucky home, where he saw her for the first I time. Recently they were married, and Miss Annie Berry, that was, will be sur i prised to find on reaching Silver City, that her husband, R. B. Metcalf, is the greatest capitalist in New Mexico.— Cleveland Plaiwlealer. GRAVE AAD GAY. Vp in a Troe. BY CLARA C. DOLLIVKB. Little brow%lady, Up In a Tree, Kinoothing her leathers, looking at me; Up in the morning First peep o’ day, Getting her breakfast, Workine away; Htops by the window, Shaking her head, Calling me lazy, Lying in bed. Little brown husband, Up in a tree, Singing the sweetest, Ever could be; Sings of the morning, Sings of the air, Sings of the sunshine Everywhere; Very fine dandy, Geldeu red— Never get handsome Lying in bed. Four little children Up in a tree, Yelling and pining; Never did see Babies ho hungry, Hahieß bo bad, Mouths so wide open, All very sad ; Come, little mother, They must be fed, Scold mo no longer Lying In bed. Little brown lady, Would I were thee, Housework and household, ITp in a tree! Little brown husband, Would I were thee, Nevermore worried, Up in a tree I But, O, brown babies, You must be fed— Think I’d rather be Lying In bed ! H r 4da Atrakt.