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Tin Jesnp Sentinel. ’Offlee 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 $2 00 ?ix months 1 00 Three months 50 Advertising Rates. Per square, first insertion $1 00 Per square, each subsequent insertion. 75 rates to vearlv and large ad vertisers. TOWN DIRECTORY. TOWN OFFICERS. Mayor—W. H. Whaley. Counoilmen—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. Goodbrtao. Clerk Superior Court—Benj.O. Middleton Tax Receiver —J. C. Hatcher. Tax Collector —W. R. Causey. County Surveyor—Noali Bennett. County Treasurer —John Massey. Coroner—D. McDitha. County Commissioners—J. F. King, G- W. Haines, James Knox, J. G. Rich, Isham Reddish. COURTS. Superioi Court, Wayne County—Jno. L. Harris, Judge ; Simou W. Hitch, Solicitor- General. Sessions held on second Monday in March and September. Blacbtar, Fierce Comity Georiia. TOWN DIRECTORY. TOWN OFFICERS. Mayor—Andrew M. Moore. Councilmen —D. P. Patterson,J. M. Downs, J. M. Lee, B. D. Brantly. Clerk of Council —J. M. Purdom. Town Treasurer —B. D. Brantly. Marshal—E. Z. Byrd. COUNTY OFFICERS. Ordinary—A. J. Strickland. Clerk Superior Court—Andrew 11. Moore. Sheriff—E. Z. Byrd. County Treasurer—D. P. Patterson. County Serveyor—J. M. Johnson: Tax Reoeiver and Collector—J. M. Pur dom. Chairman of Road Commissioners—llßl District, G. M., Lewis C. TVylly; 1250 Dis triot, U. 11., George T. Moody ; 584 District, G. M., Charles S. Youmanns; 590 District, G. M., D. B. McKinnon. Notary Publics and Justices of the Peace, etc.—Blaekshear Precinct, 684 district,G.M., Notary Public, J. G. S. Patterson ; Justice of the Peace, R. R. James; Ex-officio Con stable E. Z. Byrd. Dickson’s Mill M., Notary Public, Mathew Sweat; Justice of the Peace, Geo. T. Moody; Constable, W. F. Dickson. Patterson Precinct, 1181 District, G. M., Notary Public, Lewis C. Wylly; Justice of the Peace, Lewis Thomas; Constables, H. Prescott and A. L. Griner. Schlattervillc Precinct, 560 District, G. M., Notary Public, B. B. McKinnon; Justice of the Peace, N. B. Ham ; Constable, John W. Booth. Courts—Superior court, Pieroe county, John L. Harris, judge; Simen W. Hitch, Solicitor General. Sessions held first Mon dry in March and September. Corporation court, 81-ckshear.Ga., session held second Saturday in each Month. Police court sessions evary Monday Morning at 9 o’clock. JESUP HOUSE, Comer Broad and Cherry Streets, (Near the Depot,) T. P- LITTLEFIELD, Proprietor. Newly renovated and refurnished. Satis faction guaranteed. Polite waiters will take your baggage to and from the house. BOARD $2.00 per day. Single Mauls 50 cts. THE CHINESE COMPLAINT, The Chinese merchants of California, in their remonstrance which they have placed in the liandsof Senator Morton, to be pre sented to congress, claim to represent one hundred and twenty thousand laborers in that state and the whole Chinese em pire of four hundred million souls. They profess to desire that Chinese immigra tion be stopped, and ask protection for their countrymen now here. One-third of all the Chinamen in this country, they say, would gladly return to China if free passage could be had. Meanwhile a great portion of the white population of California is making strenuous efforts to drive Chinese workmen from all em ployments. Every family and every factory is requested to discharge them, and the factories have agreed to their dismissal. Poor John is subjected to the greatest injustice on all.handspn account of his multiplicity and cheapness, and it may be that congress can do him no bet ter service than to send him back to his own uncompromising country.— Courier- Journal. ..One of the Pennsylvania strikers wrote to Dio Lewis, asking him how a man with a wife and five children could live on 17 cents a day, after paying for clothes and house rent. The exasperated doctor replied that he was not skilled in epicu rean arts, and wanted to know if there was any law in Pennsylvania compelling a man to spend his entire income in glut tony. — Worruter Pram. .. With many persons the early age of life is passed in sowing in their minds the vices that are most euitable to their inclinations; the middle ages goes ou nourishing and maturing these vices and the last age concludes in gathering in pain and anguish, the bitter fruits of teh most accursed seeds. It has been inferred that Dryden opposed to a sherry cobbler, from h* once m., !* - Mrsws may iL- :-“r>nr.*st of happine** VOL. 11. CURRENT PARAGRAPHS. Southern Items. Under the new constitution no man can vote in Georgia who has not paid his taxes. Georgia will vote on the adoption of the new constitution the first Monday in December. Twenty-five prisoners escaped from the La Grange (Tex.) jail. One was recap tured and one was killed. More than a thousand dogs have been killed in Galveston during the recent dg-destroying campaign. Shreveport during the year just ended received 101,993 bales of cotton, against 104,0495 the year previous. The Calvert Tey- Amts the 3,000 convicts in the Texas penitentiary or ganized into a military corps. Eighteen mules and lour horses per ished in a fire at McPherson barracks, near Atlanta, Ga., on the 2d. Fernandina (Fla.) Express: “A number of our citizens, panic-stricken by the false report that there was yellow fever in our midst,, fled the city on Thurday by the train. ” Selma (Ala.) Times: AVe hear reports of the cotton worms, but its to late for them to do any material damage. Cot ton is reported to be opening more rapid ly than ever before known. The Shreveport Times says that in Fayette county, Texas, the farmers who used poison will make good crops, but where it was not applied the worms have played havoc with the cottc^i. A committee appointed by a general meeting of the miners near Knoxville waited on the fifty guards of the convicts at woik in one of the mines and advised them to quit and go home. The advice was not acted on. The Texas International railroad leases land in bodies of twenty-five sec tions or over for one and a half cents per acre each year, aud gives a term of ten years. Large tracts are being taken in this way for grazing purposes. It is estimated that there are 35,000- Bohemians in Texas. These people are mostly settled in Fayette, Colorado, Le vacca, Austin, AVasLington, Burleson, Bastrop and Brazos counties. They make excellent and thrifty citizens. The health officer at Savannah, Geor gia, received a dispatch from the health officer at Fernandina, Florida, announc ing the existence of yellow fever in the latter city, and that all vessels and rail way trains leaving there are quarantined. The Livingston, La., court-house elec tion resulted in favor of the centre of the parish as the proper location for the parish seat. There were three candidates, Port Vincet, Springfield and the centre, There seems to be considerable ill-feeling in the matter. Buck Gibson and Richard Burchett were suffocated in a well near Sneedville, Tennessee, Monday. Two young men who brought the bodies out were so af fected by the foul air that they are not expected to live, as is also Mrs. Burchett, who leaned over the well. Controller Goldsmith publishes in the Atlanta (Ga.) Constitution a long list of wild lands in various counties that have not been given in for taxes for the years 1875 and 1873. He gives notice that these lands will be advertised for sale by the sheriffs of the counties in which they are located, and sold, unless the owners previously pay the taxes. Galveston Citizen: The annual re port of the Texas Pacific railway shows that foui hundred and eighty miles of track have been completed—one hundred and ten during the past year. Receipts were $2,381,976, and profits $318,974. The passenger revenue increased 25.8 per cent. One hundred thousand more tons of freight were hauled than during the previous year. Foreign Intelligence. One thousand Spanish troops arrived at Havana on the 4th. Ten thousand cotton operatives com menced a strike at Bolton, Eng., on the 31st ult. Gen. Grant was presented with the freedom of the city of Edinburgh on the 31st ult. by the Lord Provost. Lyaz, a deputy mayor in Paris during the commune, has been sentenced to death for incendiarism and ordering ille gal arrests. The Paris Journal des Alpes has been summoned before the correctional tribu nal for publishing an insulting remark relative to ex-President Grant. The London Times editorially says of the war that its cost in men and money far outweighs its possibilities for good, and that the present moment is propi tious our intervention. M. Gambetta’s trial was commenced at Paris on the 31st nit. The judge retd passages f.om his Lille speech which he said constituted an offense against Presi dent MacMahon and an insult to the ministers. Gambetta replied that ho accepted the full responsibility of the publication of his speech, but strongly protested that he desired to slander or insult no one. The death of M. Thiers produced the most profound grief and consternation in {France. Throughout the country it is regarded as a national calamity. The ex penses of the funeral will be borne by the state. Clerical and Bonapartist papers insist that the republican party can no longer be held together. By Thiers’ death the leadership of the republicans falls to Gambetta. Personalities. Brigham Young was the largest de positor but two in the Bank of England. Charles Reade is digging his grave with his teeth 1 He has a pas-ion for hot cake —hot cake for breakfast, for dinner and for tea, and very sweet cake at that 1 Alvin Adams, who died at Boston last Saturday, had a vision of the immense proportions which the package-carrying business might be maoe to assume, and he started it for that express purpose. Mrs. E. L. Davenport, who is in her fifty-seventh year, again became a mother a few days before the death of her hus band, but the infant did not live. In tances of maternity at such an advanced are rare. 8. 8. Burdett, formerly United -States JESUP, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1877. commissioner to the general laud office, and who mysteriously disappeared some sixteen months ago, now turns up in Sedalia, Mo. His mind is clouded, and he can give no account of himself. Irene A. Y. House, who murdered her husband, has been released from the New Jersey state lunatic asylum, completely restored. It is a remarkable fact in pa thology that murderers are cured of in sanity quicker than any other class. Lord Palmerston once said, in speaking of the Turks: “ AVhat energy can be ex acted of a people who have no heels to their shoes?” AVell, it doesnjt make so much difference, since they seem toauffer no inconvenience, and do not manifest any inclination to show their heels! Brigham Young’s death was induced by an imprudent meal one he*. Jay, and might, perhaps, have been avoided if hi hadn’t practised the doctrine he preached of the uselessness of physicians and the efficacy of the laying on of hands, till the Gentile doctors who were called found him to be past all help. The death is announced of Mr. Thiers, first president of the French republic. For half a century he has been famous as a statesman, historian, orator and journalist. In personal appearance he was small, stout, and with a face slightly resembling that of a parrot, and wore unusually large spectacles. He was the leading republican of France. The Cincinnati Enquirer thus gives Minister Comly its parting benediction : .“General Comly is off at last to the Cannibal Isles. AVaft him gently, sweet south wind, to the mellifluously named lionolula, lovely metropolis on the mid- Pacific. Deal gently with him, waves of ocean; smile gayly on him, stars of night; speed him kindly, favoring gales, to his haven in the west. Then, ho! Seneschal, fetch a royal breech-clout, for the new minister when he shall arrive there 1” Political. Thuri.ow Tweed has written a letter to the New York Tribune advocating the remonetization of silver. The Anti-Hayes executive committe of Ohio have just issued an address to the republican party of that state. At a meeting of the democracy at Col umbus, Ohio, August 23, Gen. Thomas Ewing and Hon. George H. Pendleton make speeches. State 'conventions of the repuplican party in New York and New Jersey have been called—the former at Rochester, September 26, and the latter at Trenton, September 25. The workingmen of Pennsl vania will put a state ticket in the field, a cenvention for that purpose having been determined upon. It will be held at Philadelphia or Harrisburg Sept. 10. The Pennsylvania Republican associ ation at Washington has been dissolved, owing to the president’s recent order pro hibiting persons holding federal offices from participating in political meetings or contests. The fact that A. B. Cornell, naval officer presided at the meeting of the republican state central committee in New York, |of which he is rpesident, is considered as an open to presi • dent Hayes. This course is understood to be taken at the instance of Senator Conkling. A San Francisco associated press dis patch-writer announced that “ the latest election returns indicate that the demo crats have elected ten senators and fifty seven assemblymen. The republicans elect ten senators and twenty-three as semblymen. Including the senators holding over, the democrats will have thirty-eight majority on joint ballot.” General Notes. The Illinois corn crop will be more than a three-fourths average. So says the reports to the department of agricul ture at Washington. Brigham Young’s will has been opened, and is found to leave his prop erty, which amounts to $2,000,000, mostly in real estate, as nearly as possi ble to his large family in even shares. The funeral of Brigham Young took place at Salt Lake City on Sunday, the 2&inst., and was conducted with great pomp. The government of the church is left in the hands of the Twelve Apostles, and it is announced that the question of the succession will not be decided for some time. It is predicted that within fifty years a district of 100 miles square, including the counties of Athens, Perry and Hock ing, in Ohio, will equal in productive ness any coal region in the world. This section has twenty-two fcet of solid coal in five seams, the greatsst vein being in some places twelve feet thick, and no where less than six. Mingled among the coal beds are inexhaustible ones of iron. Mars is now one of the most beautiful and interesting objects in the heavens. When viewed through the telescope a firey ball of glowing red seems suddenly to spring into existence as the planet en ters the field of vision—so bright as at first to dazzel the eye. What seems at first but a brilliant flame-colored disk, its circumference aglow with prismatic hues, gradually reveals the ice-bound circles, the southern polar cap being a great deal larger than the northern, since it is summer in the latter and un der the sun’s heat the ice has partially disappeared. A longer observation dis closes dusky spots on the radiant surface. These are supposed to be land, of a red dish hue whec the atmosphere is clear, the contour of the Eeas being marked by a greenish tinge. The opportunity for seeing these phenomena so distinctly will not be presented again till 1892. The extraordinary ] intelligence has been received in England of the disap pearance of two islands—the Barker Islands —and their inhabitants. Capt Fisher, a Tasmanian capitalist, pur chased from the West Australian gov ernment the right to remove guano from two islands on the coast, described on the chart and known as the Barker Islands, and situated in lat. 14 deg. S., lon. 125 deg. E. Capt. Fisherdispatciied three vessels in April with laborers and appliances for shipping the guano, but when the vessels arrived at the place where the islands were Li own to be, there was nothing to be seen but water. The islands had disappeared entirely, how and when is at present a mystery. It was generally supposed that Australia lay out of the line of active volcanic agency, so that the phenomenon is all the more remarkable. Scientific ami Industry. Twelve hundred manufacturers in Connecticut are not paying expenses. Among the patents recently issued are several to Mr. Holly, of waterwork fame, for his system for warming a city by steam, supplied as gas and water aro now, through a series of mains. A beautiful marble has been found in California on the line of the newly built Southern Pacific railroad. It is of snowy color, and exquisitely threaded with amber-colored veins. Italian experts have pronounced it equal to the finest known , ... ■ A recent discovery of mica has been made, but from its location it is doubt ful if the bed will ever be success fully worked, although the district abounds in every facility for mining, manufacture and transportation. The vein was found by workmen digging a sewer seventeen feet under Catey street, Baltimore. The mineral is said to be rich, pure and transparent. Besides being valuable asan instrument of warfare, the torpedo promises to be of great service in clearing away sunken obstacles in frequented channels. A sunken steamer, which has seriously im peded navigation of the river Humber, in England, for twelve months past, has recently been most effectually removed by sinking and exploding a torpedo amidst the wreck. A bail Francisco photographer has taken a photograph of the celebrated horse, Occident, when he was trotting at a sped of tliirty-six feet per second, or a mile in two minutes and twenty-seven seconds. The image of the horse was impressed upon the paper in less time than the one thousandth part of a second. The spokes of the sulky attached to Oc cident were taken separately, so that they can be counted. This is certainly a wonderful triumph in photographing. A mineral has been found in Kern county, Cal, which is puzzling the geolo gists, no one knowing what to call it. It is opaque ; iu color, tin white ; lustre, metalh; laminated; soft; yields to the finger nail; leaves a streak the color of amalgam on the back of looking glasses ; it is unchanged by a heat which reduces a Hungarian crucible ; is perfectly insol luble in nitric or muriatic acids or any of their combinations, and has a specific gravity about equal to that of mispickel. The latest statistics of the wages of tho European laborer are as follows for all sorts of factory operatives: Antwerp (men) $l2B a year; Prussia (generally women and men), from $1.12 to $3.75 per week for overseers; Austiia, bast hands $6 per week, ordinary $8.75 ; Ber lin, from $1.87 to $3 per week; France, spinners 39 cents and weavers 73 cents a day. Wages in Great Britain are somewhat higher. In all countries the condition of mechanics is little or no bet ter than that of operatives in factories, while that of tho farm laborer is most de plorable and hopeless. ReliKlous. Fisk university, at Nashville, Tenn., has projected a training school for Afri can missionaries. Bishop O’Connell, of California, has announced to his diocese that, according to instructions received from Rome, no Catholic can participate in “ round dances” under pain of mortal sin. Samuel Moody was a New England revivalist over a hundred years ago. He wrote a book called “ The Doleful State of Damned, especially such as to go to Hell from under the Gospel, aggravated by their apprehensions of the Saints’ Haypiness in Heaven.” A bronze statue of Robert Raikes, the founder of Sunday-schools, will soon be placed in his native town in England— Gloucester. The money has been raised by a general subscription under the auspices of the English Sunday school union. One of Bishop Coxe’s “ monitions,” in his excellent thoughts on the service, is this: “Prepare for divine service jn your closet, not at your toilet.” “It is a sign of ill-breeding, as well as offrivolty, to dress elaborately for church.” A sim ple, unnoticeable costume is what a Christian taste demands for wearing to church. The Rev. Dr. De Haas, who has been U. S. consul at Jerusalem for seven or eight years, says that the Roman Catho lics propose to make Jerusalem the seat of the papacy, and that it is from that quarter that the settlement of Palestine is to be looked for. Commissioners have been appointed to negotiate for the territory ; engineers have surveyed a railroad from Jesusalem to Jaffa; money is being col lected for the erection of a magnificent palace for his holiness on Mount Zion, to which the wealth of the Vatican is to be transferred. There the successor of Pious IX. is to 1* installed, and the “City of the Great King” is to be the future head of the Pontifical See. This is interesting, whether true or not. The Rev. George R. Kramer was a Methodist and had charge of the Asbury church in Wilmington, Del. He is now preaching in a tent, and has organized a new church which he calls “ The Church of the Believers.” His new notions are to the efftet “ that the soul is only the breath of the body, and at death returns to God who gave it, loses its personalitity, and becomes absorbed in the divinity. At the resurrection of the lx>dy God will breath into it anew soul, Christ will reign on earth with his saints, and the resurrected wicked wi ! be cast into hell, not to suffer forever, but to be destroyed as quickly as possible, or, in other words, to be annihilated.” The “ Church of the Believers” is not attracting many. “ Doctor, ray daughter seems to be going blind, and she’s just getting ready for her wedding, too. O, dear me, what is to be done ? ” ‘ Let her go right on with the wedding, madame, by all means. If anything can open her eves, marriage will.” The Evening- Time. Together we walked in the evening time, Above us the sky spread golden and clear, And he bent his head and looked in my eyes, As if he held me of all most dear. OI it was sweet in the evening time I, And our pathway went through fields ol wheat, Narrow that path and rough ihe way, But he was here, and the birds sang true. Aud the stars came out in the twilight gray. 01 it was sweet in the evening time 1 Softly he s]>oke of the days long past, Softly of blessed days to be ; Clese to his arm aud closer I preat— The corn-field path was Eden to me. 01 It was sweet in the evening time! Grayer the light grew and grayer still, The rooks flitted home through the purple shade. The nightingales aaug where tne thorns stood high, As I walked with him in the woodland glade. O 1 it was sweet in tbeevouing time 1 And the latest gleams of daylight died; My hand in his enfolded lay ; We swept the dew from the wheat as we passed, He .ooked in the depth of my even and said, “Sorrow and gladness will come for us, sweet; But together we’ll walk through the fields of life, Close as we walked through the fleldsof wheat.” ROMANTIC, Hut Very. Very Natl—A Beautiful Girl Ihargnl with Adultery by Her Father llles Under the Operation Whirls Proves Her lunorence. The death of Miss Ida V. Branch, aged twenty-three, which followed a surgical operation at the Maryland university hospital yesterday, lias brought to light a singular romance in real life. She was the daughter of James Branch, residing near Smith field, Isle of AVight county, Virginia, and possessed extraordinary beauty, and was besides a young lady of culture and refinement. She was the belle of the village, and had many ad mirers. Among others who sought her hand was a Mr. Ferguson, the son of a neighboring farmer, to whom with the consent of her father Ida became be trothed. In January last certain indi cations in the appearance of Miss Branch aroused a suspicion on the part of her father that the intimacy between them had been of an improper character, and Mr. Branch communicated his suspicions to his daughter. The latter earnestly denied the imputation, and solemnly pro tested that her intimacy had not ex ceeded that of the strictest propriety, His suspicions were allayed, but subse quently they were again aroused, and Miss Branch was sent to her sister, Mrs. Ferguson, at Charlottesville. To this lady Ida made an equally positive denial, but her physical condition was such that her father deemed a medical examination necessary. He visited Charlottesville,and the physician, after an examination, con firmed his suspicions. Notwithstanding this she again protested her innocence, and a second examination by another physician revealed the presence of an ovarian tumor. Dr. Randolph, who made this discovery, recommended her removal to Baltimore for medical treat ment. She arrived here on the fifteenth ult. and was placed under the care of Professor Johnson and other eminent physicians comprising tho faculty of the Maryland university. The tumor grew so rapidly that an operation was found necessary. She was assured that the tumor would result in death in a few days, while the operation might possibly save her life. She readily assented, re questing that if she died a post mortem might be made in order to establish her purity and innocence. The operation was performed on Friday, and the tumor, when removed, was found to be of the extraordinary weight of forty-four pounds. She rallied slightly, but subse quently sank, and death ensued on Satur day afternoon. It was discovered that decomposition had begun before the tumor was removed, and that she could not in any case have lived more than a day or two. Her remains were taken to Virginia for burial. —Baltimore NpecAalto the New York Herald. Politeness a Patli to Wealth. Men are not as they seem; still, as a rule we are judged by our looks and ways. If these are prepossessing we start off with our new-formed acquaintance at an advantage. Should after information confirm first impressions, we have won the man and made a customer. Home one has written: “Htudy to be polite.” Why should not all men arid women feel kindly and act kindly ? If thev fall in with strangers, what is to prevent a frank, hearty, and open communication of ideas, and a courteous way of express ing them ? In their intercourse with neighbors, why should the pleasant in fluences of mutual respect ’and mutual sympathy be wanting? And in their own families, why should all regard to feeling be laid aside, and each one seem to act upon the selfish principle. It is a want of the true politeness that introduces discord and confusion which toe often make our homes unhappy. A little consideration for the feelings of those whom we are bound to love and cherish, and a little sacrifice of our own wills, would, in multitudes of instances, make all the difference between aliena tion and growing affection. Whata large amount of actual discomfort in domestic life would be prevented, if all children were trained both by precept and ex ample, to the practice of common polite ness 1 If courtesy of demeanor toward all whom they meet in field or highway were instilled, how much more pleasant would our town travels and our rustic rambles ! Every parent has a personal interest iu this matter; and'if every parent would but make the needful effort, a great degree of gross incivility and consequent annoyance would soon be swept away from our hearths and homes.” Confidence is the heart and back-bone of business; and this can only be in spired by a frank, courteous and honest intercourse. This politeness] and Chris tian civility should be cultivated and practiced from the cradle to the grave. It will open doors to wealth and honor, that wealth and honor can net open- Politeness is a key that will open hearts, safes and homes. It secures a welcome and plenty in all lands. It is like the charm of love ; it draws and we wish to It touches a tender place in our nature ana we immediately reajWo. Politeness irons wrinkles out of our faces, and gives a peculiar charm to the possessor of this grace. Politenosscoupled with a little wit lias often proved more than a fortune to a boy, and it never comes amiss in a man, or woman of mature age. The late Hon, Geo. Mac Duffie, of >Soutli Carolina, when a very little boy, was one evening holding a calf by the ears, while his mother milked the cow. A gentle man passing by said : “ Good evening my little son.” George returned, “ Good eveniig sir,” with such a polite bow as to attract the gentleman’s attention, who said : “ AVliy did you not pull oft' your hat, my little friend ? “So I will, sir, if you will get down and hold the calf for me.” His politeness and shrewd remark were the making of him, for the gentle man, who was rich, said to his mother, “ A’our son iH a bright boy, and will, one day, if lie is properly trained, make a great man. If you will allow me, I will educate him and give him a Htart in the world.” George’s mother was only too glad to thank the gentleman for his kind offer, and to let him take charge of her son, who became a distinguished man ; serv ing hi country at different times as a senator in congress and as governor of his native state. Had George been ashamed of his lowly work his embarrassment would have overwhelmed him, and ho would have had neither good manners nor wit; but he wnH a kind-hearted and self-possessed bov, and hence Mr. Duffie’s good works were not wasted on him. Goodness of heart is tho fountain whence the best manners flow, fie kind, not “seem to be.” I.et no one outdo you in good be havior. Net in crying sycophancy, ut true, manly, Christian deportment. Hliow thyself a man- not a boor. Helf respect will enable ns to respect others, and tho intercourse will be free, kind, cheferful and refining. Petroleum for Haiti Heads. The British consul at NicolalofT, Rus sia, is said to have discovered that petro leum is the greatest of all hair invigora tors. in a report to his government he says that a servant formerly in his em ploy was prematurely bald. The ser vant was engaged to trim the lamps, and had a habit of wiping his petroleum be smeared hands in'.hisscanty locks. Three mouths of this lamp trimming and dirty habit procured for him a much finer head of black, glossy hair than he possessed before his baldness. The consul tried the remedy on two Spaniards who had become suddenly bald, and met with the same wonderful success. He then sug gested his petrolenrn cure to the owners of some black cattle which had become bald, and to the possessors of horses which had lost their manes and tails. The remedy not only prevented the spread of the disease from which the ani mals suffered, but also effected a quick and radical cure. The petroleum, he says, should be of the most refined Ameri can quality. It is to be rubbed in vig orously and quickly with the palm of the hand, and applied at intervals of three days, six or seven times in all, ex cept in the case of horses that have tails and manes, when more applications may be requisite. The experiment will not foe wholly anew one in this country. It was remarked, however, that a majority of the people who went into the oil re gions when petroleum speculations were at the highest, came out bald headed and with a tired appearance. On the other hand, a well known and popular unguent for the hair is asserted to be one of the new petroleum products. Castles in Literature. “Hay, mister,” said a small boy to one of the assistants at the public library, “ I can't find the books I want to git into these here catalogs. I wish you’d find ’im for me.” “ What work do you wish to draw ? ” patiently inquired the official. “Well, hev yer got‘Mulligan, the Masher;’ or the‘Gory Galoot of the Galtees?” The man shook his head. “ Well, I’d like ‘ Red-Handed Ralph,the Ranger of the Roaring Rialto.’” “ We don’t keep any of that kind of trash, my boy.” “ Wot sort of a library is this, any way ? ” retorted the gamin, “ Why, its just like everything ele in this country—run for the rich, an’ the I pier workingman gets no show at all !” I Bouton Traveller. GRAVE AND GAY “Down the Road.” A lusty tramp, one aummer’o day— _ T *J e B ® n glaring fiercely down— Trudged on along the dusty way That led toward the nearest town. No friendly tree Its welcome shade Athwart his weary pathway test; No babbling brooklet leaped and played Along the roadside as be passed. ”I there no shady spot,” he cried, ✓ band?” to one who by him strode. 7, I yes, the other one replied— “A little further down the road.” Ah well! we all are trampa at best: We stagger with life’s daily load, Yet on we plod and hope for rest— “A little farther down the road.” —Baldwin's Monthly. ■ A teacher after reading to her schol ars a Btory of a generous child, asked them what generosity was. One little boy raised his hand and said, “I knew; it’s giving to others what you don’t want yourself.” .. He that never changed any of his opinions, never corrected any of his mis takes ; and he who was never wise enough to find out any mistakes in himself, will not be charitable enough to excuse what he reckons mistakes in others. .. Freddy Longshanks (who is really very proud of his lofty stature): “ I as sure you, my dear fellow, t find my height an awful nuisance. I’d give any thing to bq no bigger than you effidrt: 'Aneb why tiie Dicrffes do you - wear such enormou^heels? ’’—Puneh. .. It is noted as a curious fact by Sir Samuel Baker that a negro has never been known to tame an elephant or any wild animal. The elephants employed by tho ancient Carthaginians and Ro mans were trained by Arabs or Cartha ginians, never by negroes. A person might travel all over Africa, and never see a wild animal trained and petted. It had often struck Sir Samuel Baker as very distressing that the little children never had a pet animal; and, though he had often offered rewards for young ele phants, he had never succeeded in getting one alive. NO. 3. .. .Some people have a peculliarly happy faculty of looking on the bright side ef things. Tt is a comfort to themselves and those about them, and so desirable. But it is a facultyjmost difficult to ac quire, and few there be who possess it. One of Danbury’s sons favored _in this resjiect recently borrowed an ax ef a neighbor. AVhile using it in the repair of bis well-curb it slipped from his hands and went straight to the bottom cf a very deop well. In explaining the lorh to the owner he cheerfully observed : “It is bad, of course, but it can’t be helped, and we must make the best of it. It don’t pay to worry over what can’t be helped. AVe must look on the bright side of everything. Besides, it wasn’t much of an ax, anyway.— Danbury Neun. .. A few weeks ago a boy in Lancaster, l’a., felljbetwcen the bumpers of a mov ing train, but his pantaloons catching on some portion of the car he waH held sus pended over the rail without injury until the train stopped,'when he ,'was released. Had the cloth in his trousers been poor stuff the lad would have been killed. This incident allows the advantage of wearing Htrong clothing. In Lancaster county a lew days ago, a man who wa* driving a threshing machine had one of the legs of his pantaloons caught in the couplings and torn completely off. Had the cloth been of sterner stuff the maa probably would have been killed. The moral of this incident is—well, it is so plainly and diametrically opposed to the first that’it is hardly worth while indi eating. —Norrintown Herald. A Kenmrkable Petrifaction. The Portland Oregonian contains this unbelievable story; “Judge E. C. Bro naugh has attached to his watch chain a little amulet or charm, which, aside from its peculiar history, is very pretty itself. It is nothing more or less than a petrified rosebud. Doing the rebellion, a nephew of Judge Bronaugb, while in one of the southern states, wrote home to bis mother and inclosed in the letter a rosebud The letter arrived safely at its destina. tion, and, having been perused, was laid aside with the rosebud in a drawer, where it remained eight or nine months When the drawer was again overhauled and the letter again brought to light, the rosebud it contained was discovered to be petrified. The judge’s aunt re cently sent the gtone to him at this place, and he placed it in the hands of a jeweler for the purpose of having it fitted to car ry on his watch chain. The.petrification is so very hard that while trying to drill a hole in it too or three tools were broken before the object was accomplished. It is a perfect rosebud, and so well pre served that the finest fibres are too be seen. What peculiarities of air, earth or water could have changed the tender rosebud into a hard, almost diamond-like substance in the short space of nine months is to us a mystery. ” PEAKS FOR THE HAYDEN SURVEY PARTY. Fears are entertained fer the safety of a division of the Hayden survey, under the charge of Mr. Bechtel. This party was designated to survey an area embracing the north fork of Snake river as far as Henry lake, and also Tigie pass, near Henry lake. This is the im' mediate route over which Chief Joseph ii bound to pass in order to reach the Yel lowstone national park. It was in lh< same region that excursion parties wen mentioned in Gen. Sherman’s dispatcltei of yesterday. The. bodies of these mui dered people were seen by an officer froe Fort Ellis, who was sent out on a scout No word has been received from Mi Bechtel since he left for Fort Hall, ii Idaho, on his way to the survey of thi river. Efforts are being made to obtai some information as to the safety of thi lrty.— I VnthingUm cor. Courier Jouma