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I TOWN DIRECTORY.
W TOWN OFFICERS.
Mayor—W. H. Whaley.
Uouncilmen—T. P. Littlefield, H. W.
Whaley, Bryant George* (V Littlefield,
Anderson Williams,
Clerk and Treasure—O. F. Littlefield.
Marshal—G. W. Williams.
COUNTY OFFCKRS.
Ordinary—Richard B. Hofps.
Sheriff—Johu N. Goodbrtad.
Clerk Superior Court—Beuj.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.
Superioi Court, Wayne County—Juo. L.
Harris, Judge; Simon VV. Hitch, Solicitor-
General. Sessions held on second Monday
in March and September.
BMslear, Pierce County Georiia.
TOWN DIRECTORY.
TOWN OFFICERS.
Mayor—Andrew M. Moore.
Counoilmen—D. P. Patterson .I. M. Downs,
J. M. Lee, B. D. Brantly.
Clerk of Council—J. M. Purdom.
Town Treasurer—B. D. Brantiy.
Marshal—E. Z. Byrd.
COUNTY OFFICERS.
Ordinary—A. J. Strickland.
Clerk Superior Court —Andrew M. Moore.
Sheriff—E. Z. Byrd.
County Treasurer —D. P. Patterson.
County Serveyor—J. M Johnson.
Tax Receiver and Collector—J. M. Pur*
<dora.
Chairman of Road Commissioners—llßl
District, G. M., Lewis C. Wyllv; 12 0 Dis
triot, U. M., George T. Moody ; 584 District,
G. M., Charles S. Youmanns; 590 District,
G. M., D. B. McKinnon.
Notary Publics and Justices of the Peace,
vtc.—Blaokshear Precinct,sß4 district.G.M.,
Notary Public, J. G. S. Patterson ; Justice
•of the Peace, ft. R. Janies; Ex-officio Con
stable E. Z. Byrd.
Dickson’s Mill Precint, 1250 District, G.
M., Notary Public, Mathew Sweat; Justice
<of the Peace, Geo. T. Moody; Constable, W.
F. D('oksoi).
Patterson Precinct, 1181 District, G. M.,
Notaiy Public, Lewis C. Wylly; Justice ef
the Peace, Lewis Thomas; Constables, 11.
Prescott and A. L. Griner.
Sehlattervillc Precinct, SGO District, G. M.,
Notary Public, D. B. McKinnon; Justice of
the Peace, N. B. Ham; Constable, John W.
Booth.
Courts—Superior court, Pierce county.
John L. Harris, judge; Simon W. Hitch,
Solicitor General. Sessions held first Mon
dry in March and September.
Corporation court, Blackshenr, Ga., session
held second Saturday in each Month. Police
court session* every Monday Morning at 9
o’clock.
JESDP HOUSE,
Corner 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 Maals 50 cts.
HIGH TONED PERSONALS.
This is how the Courier-Journal man
notices the arrival of Louisville's promi
nent citizens on their return from the
springs, etc.:
The handsome and dashing young Col.
Soapfat has got home fr6m White Sul
phur. He is looking for a job.
The beautiful and accomplished Miss
Patsy Putonallshehad has returned from
Put-in-Bay. She is now in the poor
house.
Young Goeasy, the banker’s son, came
home from Crab Orchard, and the girls
say it ain’t his white handkerchief, he’s
been sitting down too much.
Miss Biddy Bedarn, who has been
spending all her mother's money and
three moF.ths’ time at Licks Killet spring,
arrived home last night. She walked.
Young Griffy Gourdhead, who was the
pet of all girls at ’Possum lake this sum
mer, is now tickling a street-car mule
with a long persuader, at $1 per day.
Miss Pauline Pindown, who was the
belle at Cape May and Camptown Falls
this summer, is now wrestling with dirty
clothes in a tub of soap-suis, at McGin
niss’ hash ranch in O’Neal’s alley.
Colonel Popdown has returned from |
Cape May. He is much improved in !
health, blit walks straighter than he did, ;
and leaus backward against a brick wall
when he stops and talks, and pins bis j
coat tails together wheD he walks.
When the dashing Mrs. Snubber and
her three darters came home from Rough
creek they missed the piano, and met
Snubber at the gate wheeling in coal.
The female part of the family will have
to do without music this winter.
Old Colonel Peter Fitzgillion, wife
and daughters, have come home from
White Sulphur. They will walk or take
the street-cars now. The sheriff took
their horses and carriage for a dry-goods
man and a grocery beeper to dispose ef
or him.
The widow Sbyball and her beautiful
daughters, Fidget and Fussy, opened up
the front part of their hou-e yesterday.
They couldn’t stay hid in the back
part of the house longer than six weeks.
They tell everybody “ it was delightful
at Saratoga.”
Young Billy Butterwick would have
guyed at Frankfort longer than he did,
but the governor thought four years was
long enough for any man to work who
borrowed another man’s horse and kept
it too long. The “tonev” young ladies,
were glad to see him—out.
VOL. 11.
“A HOUSE JfOT JI.4PE ITU HANDS '
When ft tilan dies the people ask: “What prop
erty has he left behind him?’’ But the angels as
they bend over his grave, inquire: “What good
leeds hast thou sent before thee? ” — Mohammed.
“Abijah Dunn! Abijan Dunn!
Where art thou this bright summer morn.?
Awake and greet the rising sun,
Whose rays both earth and sky adorn.”
Beneath his porch since toddling child,
I oft hft I lingered for a while,
Chinned by his glance, as woman’s mild,
And more than sweetest woman’s smile.
“Abijah Dunn ! Abijah Dunn I”
So shot a summons through the Rir
Long hours be fore my later one
To see the sun’s bright rising glare.
“Abijah Dunn This summoned him
To greater glory than the sun’s,
Spilled over the horison’s rim
As np the sky he glowing runs.
“Abijah Dunn !” The midnight bleak
Stood still a moment aB the Voice
Came down the hid liian’s soul to seek,
And hearth realms where all rejoice.
“Abijah Dunn !” The hovel dark
Brief moments surged with spirit light
And then, forever, cares that eark
Were drowned in blisses that requite.
“Abijah Dunn ! come higher up !
Thine earthly house meets not thy needs;
Dire want has filled thinr earthly cup,
But heaven oVrflows with souls of deeds
Thine earthly hut possessions built,
Of which, alas! but poor thypait;
Thy heavenly house, with gilt
Adorned, is built of what thou art.
“Abijah, Great Jehovah’s son!
For such thy name’s significance—
Thy Father, here, Aoijah Dunn,
Hath kept thee an inheritance,
And taken from thy life below
A thought or ad, as lovo did warm,
Its walls to deck ; as thou didst grow,
Itsshgpe enlarged to grander form.
“Abijah Dunn! Abijah Dunn!
That window towaid morn’s brightest skies
The glass like diamonds in the sun.
Caine whpn thou bid’st one hopeless rise,
And turn his gaze toward glory’s realm ;
And yon bright room so sweet within,
Grew like Aladdin’s when life’s helm
Thou seized, and steered from Bhoals of sin.
“Abijah Dunn! dost thou recall
A smile that dried a poor child’s tears ?
That, smile, a picture on the wall,
Wilt sing of sunshine through long years.
Remembrest thou a fallen one.
Long since returned to kindly dust,
With whom thou shared. Abijah Dunn,
When others sneered, thins only crust?
“From tears ot thankfulness she shed
Grew trees whose fruits like pearls catch light,
And o’er the walks that thou wilt tread
Dispel forever aught like night,
And throw their gleam to towers that grew
Whni aspiration with thee dwelt,
And windows catching heaven’s blue
When eyes looked whence the suppliant knelt.
“Abijah Dunn! thy home Is here.
•Not made with hands,’ but builded, lo !
Aliove earth’s labors, year by year,
As thou didst toward fulfillment grow.”
Ah ! blest at last, whose lives be true!
And sad those lost in earthly rust 1
Those “builded better than they knew, ’
And these find but decay and dust.
MAYS HOME.
May Linton! sweet May I,inton! ” he
murmured, as he went home from his
business.
Home! It was only a dingy boarding
house, ruled over by a dwarfed and
wizened landlady, in a purple worsted
shawl. But May dwelt there—sweet
May, with her girlish grace and ready
laugh, and her braids twisted round a
high comb on the top of her little head.
She met him in the hall.
“ I’m so glad to get heme!” he said.
Her face flushed a little, and her eyes
grew more full of light. It was so easy
to see why he was glad.
“I only came in myself a moment
since,” she returned, and stopped em
barrassed at having answered his mean
ing rather than his words.
But young men are less observing ot
these little inner shades than young girls,
for they are not required to guard the
expression of their feelings, and Harry
Bender was too happy to notice, or, if he
did, it sounded quite right.
They were drifting toward that hour
when some word or look would prove the
open sesame, to their nntried hearts,
and then there would be a silence full of
speech, into which a kiss would come
of its own accord, to be remembered
ever after as the awakening from a vague,
sweet dream, into the sweetest reality on
earth.
It all happened just so; and then there
were a few happy weeks of extra work,
and much planning of days in store.
One morning, with light hearts, and the
unspoken conviction that not even a
moral earthquake could unsettle their
well-secured happiness, Harry Bender
and sweet May Linton, accompanied by’
May’s Aunt Dodo, went to church, and
were married with the same ceremony
which the Btrange minister used for the
uniting of csuples whom God or Mam
mon had joined together.
There was precious little Mammon in
this case. Nobody took any bridal tour.
They never thought of the little expe
di nt practiced by the steady young
business man, who, seeing that his bride
had set her heart on conforming to the
custom, sent her off alone for two or
three days, while he worked in the office,
as usual.
The wizened landlady had hurt their
feelings by raising the rent of the room
prospectively.
“A family is a great disadvantage,”
she had said.
But Harry and May thought a family
was just the nicest thiDg in the world,
and after ttieir wrath had died down,
tried to pity the landlady for not seeing
the matter from their stand-point.
At last the lamilv was born. It was a
very small one, and Harry addressed it
<•< nlenr de rose.
Xhreeor four months later they moved,
for May declared she would not live
“ where darling baby is considered a
nuisance.”
Harry wrote to Aunt Dodo about this
time, and May put in a postscript.
THE LETTER.
“ Dear old angel,— Nothing par
ticular is happening except perfect hap
piness. We are living in a nasty little
piggy room, twelve by twelve, which
May keeps as nice, or nicer, than can be
expected; and we don’t often condescend
to pay attention to the outside bar
barians.
“May is the prettiest picture at this
moment. She has got Miss Bender in
the bath-tub, and baby is splatting the
water all over everything, while May has
gone off into a gale. I must go and keep
things from falling, for when May laughs
she gets so weak. Her laughing so
much, sensibly depreciates her market
value as a wife and mother, of course.
“My salary is riz twenty dollars a
month, and I am saving to buy—well,
never mind what; you shall come and
see us when it is bought.
“Your not infelicitious
“Harry Bender.
“May will add a F.8.”
may’s p.s.
I “Dearest Aunty,—lf you were only
JESUP. GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 2(1, 1877.
with us—though to be sure, 1 don’t
know where we could put you, unless
you could go to sleep under my painting
table, now .transformed into an ironing
table, or om up in the baby’s bath-tub.
“The idea of Hal’s pretending to keep
the great secret a mystery to you! That
was only his sweet way of leaving me the
plea-ure of telling it.
“You know, Perth, where the Woods
went that summer? Well, there is a
little house of four rooms not ten min
utes’ walk from the depot of the Long
Branch railroad, which goes near that
little old village. The little house in not
Very pretty potV, but it can be made so,
and, oh, joy! it is dirt cheap. (This is
Hal’s cultured remark, and of course
good enough for Hal’s wife!)
“Aunty, think of it! I am nearly
wild: a home, a little house to be the
mistress of, and for Hal to come to!
“Well, we have saved one hundred
and seventy dollars, and only need three
hundred and thirty more, which Mr.
Chace is going to advance to Hal.
“There is a brave old oak, and plenty
of greenery all around us, and the great
Wide bay in sight, where Hal says the
biggest ships that
‘ Sail the seas over ’
can come right in, and there are walks t®
lovely places. So you see we are going
to a healtliy neighborhood for my pre
cious lamb of love.
“I am so well, and life is so sweet! I
often have little weeps all to myself for
sheer happiness. Happiness is good lor
people, Aunt Dodo. Away with the false
theory of the uses of adversity! f am
not half so selfish and thoughtless as I
was. I may be a trifle vain, but Hal
keeps telling me that my temper is only
a little lower than the angels, "and that I
am hisitty bitty pa’idge. f Isn’t that too
frantically imbecile?) It is lucky that
baby cannot understand Hal’s nonsense.
Hal must learn to speak English in the
bosom of his family before Miss Bender’s
talking days come.
“You had better read my end of the
letter first, and call his the postscript.
I meant to tell you all about baby but I
have no time now. You are Coming t
see us aB soon as we get settled. Babs
sends a honev-kiss. Good-by.
“Your beatitudinous May Bender.”
Five years passed. May and Aunt
Dodo sat- together in the cottage which
would have been an earthly paradise.
Nothing had gone wrong that anybody
couid have helped, apparently,but some
how the giory had rubbed off. May sel
dom laughed till she was too weak to
hold the baby nowadays. Her arms were
oftener inclined to feel heavy from fa
tigue; but then this was the third baby,
and a much more exacting one than
“Miss Bender” had been.
It was delicious June. The white sails
wont up the bay, and took Venetian
colors from the sunset.
“You look tired, May ; give me the
baby.”
“ No, Aunt Dodo ; it would only save
a drop in the bucket of my tiredness.
Itisquße chronic,” said May, with a
la,, i which I am glad Harry did not
bear. Laughter without a heart in it
has a bad effect on a man in his own
home.
“Do you always have that pain in
your back? Doesn’t it ever stop?”
“Never,” answered May. “That is,
it never does when I am awake, and 1
often dream that, I am being sawed in
two at the spine, so it is to be supposed
it goes on when I am asleep.”
“1 wish you would see a doctor,” said
Aunt D-ido, peeling apples.
“ Harry thought as you do,” May re
marked, when she came back from put
ting the baby to sleep in its cradle in the
next room.
“Thought what?” asked the old lady,
wonderingly.
“Oh, nothing. About the doctor.”
“What was that? I forget. Oh yes,
about your pain.”
“I wish I could forget it one minute
in my life. One minute’s utter rest!”
said May. “ Harry did go to one,” she
continued, “ though I begged him not to
waste the money, for, as you know, we
shall lose the house if that mortgage is
foreclosed, and every dollar tells; but he
would. Poor Hal!” said the wife, wip
ing her eyes. “He said my temper
needed curing, if my back didn’t. Jt's
very hard on him, my being bo nervous.
What do you suppose tiie doctor told
him?”
“I’m sure I don’t know.”
May laughed again.
“He advised him to take me to j
Europe.”
“ Did you ever ?”
“ He told Hal that five women out of j
ten had more or less of the same thing,
and that rest was the only cure—rest of
body and mind.”
“ Did he know how’ you were situ- |
ated ?” asked Mrs. Pinkham.
“ I don’t imagine he could have taken j
Hal for a millionaire,” refilled May. “ I
rather think it was veiled satire on the
doctor’s part. There is a resort, I under- i
stand, where the most absolute repose
both of body and mind is enjoyed.”
“Where, my dear? If you could
only go!”
“ Yes, I think su sometimes,” said
May; but there is little hope for a long
time yet. We do a deal of bending before
we break, Aunt Dodo. Besides, there
are the children.” She looked up fierce
ly. Was this hollow, despairing face
that of “sweet May Linton?’ “The
life of mothers in povery is more cruel
than that which criminals lead as
punishment for their crimes,” she said,
with bitter conviction.
Aunt Dodo said nothing, but while
May took a heavy pot from the fire she
wiped her aged eyes with her sleeve,
still holding the apple knife.
“Why, aunty, said May. turning,
I “are you trying to scalp yourself ? ”
Aunt Dodo dropped her arm. and May
knelt at her Mde and put her arms about
her. A tall form stopped in the door
way but neither saw.
“ It is not quite what we expected of
life, is it, aunty.”’ said May. “But
God and heaven and hope and love re
main just the same, only the present is
hard, and hides the truth from us at
times. You must not believe,” she
went on, “ that Hal and I are les dear
j to each other than of old ; but when he
comes in, full of his politics, and angry
at this man, and eager a‘out that one,
and finds a cross, faded wife, who r ime
how srerns to blame him. I dare say,
though she never means it, and when
i the children trouble him with their
noise, and don’t look as neat as they ÜBed ;
and I feel all the time while I’m getting
the supper as it I could die of pain and
weariness worse than pain, or give one
dreadful shriek and go mad, and get rid
of it all; and I have to fight it down,
and go on seeing to fifty tilings at once,
don’t you see, dear, we cannot exactly he
as we were five years ago ? And yet it I
were to die, don’t vou suppose I know
how Hal would feel, not counting the
need ot me for the children or the work,
but just the loss of me and my love !
And if Hal should be brought home
from one of those political meetings to
speak no word of anger or hope about any
man, or any word to me ever again”—
May rose and clasped her hands —“ aunty,
it would be worse, a thousand .times
worse, than it wouldjiave been five years
ago, when I was his itty bitty pa’idge.”
And May sobbed wildly.
A deeper sob, like an echo, startled
tnem, and they saw Harry, who, with
his head an his arm, had sunk into a
chair by the door.
“ My May ! my poor little love !” he
cried, ’as he' took her in his arms and
looked into her eyes, “ I came home to
night a very angry and obnoxious fellow.
I have lost tiie electiou, and, what is
worse, Martin has gained it. But now
I am glad, and not sorry, for I am going
to spend my time and strength in serving
my May instead of my country.”
And Harry was as good as liis word.
Six-eights of the time he had given to
political excitement he restored to his
business, and the mortgage was cleared
from the homestead in a short time.
The horns at home were hours of mutual
help and harmony ; for a strong deter
mination will cairv all before it like the
turn of the tide.
Many a rest on the little lounge, while
the maid-of all-work was putting the
kitchen to rights after tea, did May en
joy.
Many an evening, when the children
were asleep, her husband sat, beside her,
her sensitive clinging spirit resting in
his loving presence, and her strained
nerves relaxing from their long fatigue.
“Harry,” said Aunt Dodo, during a
flying visit, “happiness is the best and
truest condition, of course, but 1 think
you will agree witli me that the happi
ness we have fairly won is worth the
most; and, May, we can not really de
serve it until we have learned the uses
of adversity.”— harper's Bazar.
Wild White Cattle.
In the north of England, Northum
berland county, the estate of the Earl of
Tankerville, there is an old park which
has enclosed a herd of wild white cattle
for the last six hundred years. These
animals, breeding in-and in, or in vs close
relationship as possible, for centuries,
yet maintaining'their primitive vigor,
have, by their example, done much to
develop the improved long-horns, short
horns, Devons, Herefords, and other
breeds on the British islands. If nature
preserves tiie health, and perpetuates
the existence of wild animals in forests
for long geological ages, by close breed
ing, why should the scientific farmer
ignore this pregnant fact, and follow a
tradition whose mother is ignorance?
The study of wild and domesticated
cattle throws light on the habits and in
dustrial practices of our ancestors in
Europe in prehistoric, times. Four hun
dred years before the birth of Christ,
Herodotus, the historian, tells us that
when the army of Xexes was passing
through a part of Peonia and /Estonica,
which lay between southern Thrace ami
Macedonia, tiie country abounded with
wild bulls, which must have been animals
of great power, for the same country was
infested by lions so ferocious that they
attacked at night the camels carrying
the provisions of tiie army. There is
reason to believe that these, bulls, strong
enough by massing in herds to defend
themselves against lions, were not bisons
but iiri the mammoth cattle described
by Julius Caesar in after years. The
following is Caisar’s description relating
to the wild beasts of the Hyscinian
Forest:
“The third kind of wild beast is the
one they call the uriis, of such great
size as to be little inferior to elephants
in general appearance, color and form;
they are bulls. Great is their strength
and great is their swiftness, and they
spare neither man nor wild beast that
comes within their view. The Germans
take and kill them in pittalls, made
with great care and trouble. Their
young men inure themselves to this
labor and exercise themselves in this
kind of hunting, and they who have
killed the most publicly produce the
horns in testimony of their exploits and
receive great praise. But it is impossible
to accustom uri to men and to tame
them, and to this even very young ones
are no exception. The great size, form
and beauty of their horns make them
differ much from the horns of our oxen.
These they collect with great care, and,
surrounding them with silver, use them
as cups at their largest banquets.”
It is interesting to learn how man, ,
with his stragetic brain and laborously ;
dug pitfalls, caught and subsisted on j
ferocious ruminants, which were more
than a match for lions. Man owes his j
remarkable conquests over much stron
ger animals than himself to the united j
labor of his hands and his intellect. To
these great primitive poweis he is now |
able to add the iorce of accumulated ,
wisdom and capital, the growth of many
generations. An interesting letter from j
Lord 'Jankerville relating to the wild j
white cattle in Chillingham park was
read before the British association, which
we intended t/> notice in this article but
defer to another.
He invited her to lunch, and she, be
ing a beautiful young lady, went. Bhe
read the bill of fare behind her sweet
little fan, and whispered in zephyr} ac
cents: ‘ Woodcock on toast.” At this
announcement it flashed upon hi* mind
that his assets were but seventy five
cents. Something must be done. “ Cor
nelia, do you know what a woodcock is?”
he asked. “No, Mr. Spinks,” she an
swered. “ Well, then, my dear,” said
he,“it is as big as a halibut.” “O, good
ness gracious ! ” exclaimed the charming
Cornelia, “ then bring me some pork arid
beans.” Spinks winked exultingly at
the waiter, and the waiter winked know
, ingly at him.
A JOKE ON A BRIDEGROOM.
Two Membfi'i of Oiiff* Famli.v Nol
l>r\v Paj from I'lifloNum.
Speaking of tho cl.; es, it is well to
say that our blessed paternal govern
ment does not encourage matrimony.
Au contraire, it does quietly impede and
discourage them ; for it is one of the
rules,and,as the constitution of the debat
ing society expresses it, the regulations,
that if a clerk of a department takes unto
himself a clerkess as wife one or the other
will be immediately removed, as two of
a family may not draw pay in an hurhble
capacity from our blessed government.
This rule gave rise to a rather unpleasant
and somewhat amusing incident not
long since. There was a clerk of a sus
ceptible heart hid away under a some
what Durly person—a clerk known to the
state of Ohio—who fell desperately in
love with a little cierkess, who not only
toiled in the same department with him
self, but messed and roomed in the same
boarding-house. The clerk —the able
bodied clerk—made known his passion to
the little blonde, and, to his delight,
found the tenderness reciprocated. They
were engaged, but alas! could not marry,
as that would cause the dismissal of one
or the other, and this the poor pen
driving doves could not afford. Now,
one cannot go on sparking forever, for, as
they sparked, their love grew more in
tense. At last it was determined by the
two that they would circumvent old
Undo Samuel—the mean, penurious,
unloving old scoundrel —by a secret mar
riage. To this end, amid the merly
hours of the Christmas and New Year’s
holiday, they stole away and weie secret
ly married in a neighboring city. They
returned the same day, and, naturally
enough, the young wife lingered unknown
to tire hoarding-house in the room of her
newly-made husband. Unfortunately the
other clerks of the mess were on a spree
that night, and as the lately-made hus
band had been on these occasions some
what of a leader and a very amusing
fellow, his absence was noted on. Well,
on to the small hours, when the liquor
told most, there Was a demand, a bois
terous demand, made for the absentee.
They wanted his famous recitations of
“Tho Menagerie,” “ You Shouldn’t Eat
Tripe on a Friday,” “The Gent Who
Saw Pleasure in his Own Room,” “ The
Salt Sea Crab,” and other punning songs
of a like sort. A delegation sought his
room, and returning said it was locked
on the inside, and no pounding produced
any result, save orders to go away and
lot tho incumbent sleep in peace. A
cunning gentleman said that lie could
not get into tiie rooms through a door
bolted and locked from the outside of the
room of tiie comic hut absent gentleman.
The entire crowd sought that door. It
was unbolted and unlocked—then thrust
open, upsetting, in so doing, a washstand.
it was arranged that after gaining access
tho gas should be lit, the lied pulled out
and a war dance execufed around the
poor helpless clerk. This was done—at
least it was in process of being done.
The gas was lit, tiie old couch pulled
| out, and the wild dance began amid the
indignant protest of the disturbed gentle
man, when one of the number discovered
the outline of another form in the bed,
and with intoxicating mischief pulled
down the clothes. This was followed
first by screams, any one of which would
have made —Oil! Oh ! Howard run ten
miles. After that came a general engage
ment, in which a bootjack was found to
be a most efficient and telling piece of
fixed ammunition in the hands of a stout
and angry clerk just married. Of course
there was nothing to do but. gather hi the
astonished and somewhat bloody-headed
clerks in the adjoining room and exhibit
(lie documentary proofs of matrimony.
Then the clerks, good fellows ail, after
bathing their broken heads and washing
their bloody noses, swore never to reveal,
by word, sign, or writing, what they had
witnessed or what they knew. And they
kept their word, f only was admitted
to the secret, and you see 1 reveal no
names, for I consider it good morality
and therefore one's duty to circumvent
Uncle Samuel in this way, arid in
smuggling whenever one gets a chance.
Dun Piatt’s Letter to the Cincinnati
L'ni/uirer,
Thiers ns a Rail Man.
What l)r. Karl Marx alludes to in
saying that the “ private, life of M. T fliers
is as infamous as his public life is odious”
is this: When M. Thiers was young he
fell (as fall a vast majority of Frenchmen)
in love with a married woman of the
name of Mine. Dosne, the wife of a stock
broker. 'The ladv had a daughter by ber
husband, and had, by and-by, one by M.
Thiers. The relation between the lovers
lasted as long as the lady lived, and so
far M. Thiers was, according to certain
notions of the French, a truthful man.
In countries where, as in France,
there is no divorce, mistakes which are
made by young people who marry and
see after a short time that they arc not
fit for one another, have no other escape
than that of a subsequent concubinage
with someone else. Had M. Thiers
merely elopid with the wife of the stock
broker no uric in France would probably
have had anything to say against M.
Thiers or Mtrie. Dosne; but what he is
accused of now is, first of all, that be
always remained in business transactions
with the husband of his mistress.
From the time that he came into
power with the accession of Louis I'bil
| iippe to the throne of France, he took
■ advantage of the political information he
! possessed, communicated it to the stock
j broker, and gave him thus the chance of
I speculating at the stock exchange with
| full security of success. Of course, the
j profits which the stockbroker realized
were shared by M. Thiers, and it is
chiefly in this way that tne fortune or
the Dosne family and of M. Thieis
himself has been made. Furthermore,
long before Mme. Dosne died. M.
Thiers, with a view to secure to his 1
illegiiimate daughter his name and his:
fortune, married his own child This j
scandalous fact is known in France by
any one who knows anything of Thiers,
in justification of whom, however, it
must be said that it was always believed,
even bv his enemies, that he never had
with his wife any ol the relations im
plied by marriage. It seemsto have been
a purely practical trick calculated to
secure the happiness of his illegitimate
offspring. The young Mme. Thiers
leit at lull liberty to live a- she liked
and love whom she liked, and the haml-
some woman is known to have taken
advantage of this privilege. It was in
allusiofl to this fact that M. Thiers, when
lie began to assume power over Frame
and speak of his patriotism, jocular peo
ple called him “the father ot France and
of his wife.”
As the details of the lives of men of
promineiice are often falsified, and ac
cordingly questioned by the public, at
large, this fact might also lie regarded as
an invention.
In the well-known residence ot M.
Thiers, in the Palace St. George, there
was n part of the house crammed with
all sorts of ttiost Valuable antiquities and
works of art, to which Mine. Thiers
never had access. People who enjoyed
the kitimaey of M. Thiers, knowing that
only himself'and Milo. Dosne had access
to that warehouse of treasures, used to
make endless comments as to whether
M. Thiers and Mile. Dosne were study
ing art. or studying love in that, retreat.
—A. Y. Herald.
ENGLAND
AlnrnieU al !>•"' Fnlltne r In her l v
port Trade—A I’afiifully Faml.lnr
Vnrl Udtldh by llic
The annul statement of the trade of the
United Kingdom with foreign count ries
and Britisli possessions lias just been is
sued for 1876. The Times remarks;
“The country is painfully familiar with
the tact that our export trade is falling
oft', and the abstract tables given in the
beginning of the volume enable us to
trace Where tills falling off is most pro
nounced. Thus we see that our exports to
Germany were last year nearly twelve
million five hundred, thousand pounds
sterling lower in value than in 1872;
that France is a very steady customer,
and also Italy. Trade lias a'so been
wonderfully kept up with Turkey as a
whole, though Turkey in Europe shows
a great falling off. Petty borrowing
states all show very badly as a rule, such
as Peru, the Argentine confederation,
Colombia, and such like, whose trade got
a few years, unhealthy stimulus from
ill-spent English gold. Asa whole,
however, tiie export table is not so dis
couraging as wo might have expected,
nearly every leading customer, except
the United States and Germany, show
ing, all things considered, a remarkable
steadiness in purchasing puwer. There
arc special hindrances, of course, to our
trade with the American union, lull,
these allowed for, it is a standing fact all
the same that our expo'ts thither have
fallen from about forty-six million pounds
sterling, including tiie Pacific trade, in
1872, lo a little mure than twenty mil
lion pounds sterling last year. The ex
port trade to our own foreign possessions
keeps fairly good, and though last year's
totals were below those of the three pre
vious years, they are still more than
lour million pounds sterling above 1872,
the Australian and Kuillh African trade
being the steadiest of all. Our exports
lo Canada, however, slow very severe
depressions last, year compared with
1877). As to particular articles, the ta
bles are equally valuable ami instruc
tive. The quantities tables particularly
tend, even on the export side of the ac
count, to lessen in some measure the
ahum with which wo are ready to view
the serious fall in values. They show us,
lor one tiling, that a little over-produc
tion has a disastrous influence on prices.
It is true that if we take such an
exceptional article as iron, the quantities
exported suggest no consolation, for the
falling off in demand baa been more than
one. million lons in 1870 compared with j
1872, taking iron and steel together. !
Eew other articles, however, give such a ;
had testimony, although prices are
nearly universally depres-ed. 'I lie < x i
port ol unwrought copper has, tor!
instance, increased steadily in quantity j
for tho last three years, and tlieexpoit,
of yellow metal was decidedly greater in |
187(1 than in 18720 r 1876, though smaller j
than in the intermediate years; yet prices
for these have gone down very severely.
A gain our exports of cotton piece-goods
have remained almost at a level for the
whole five years, and were last year at
their highest point. Wt these priees
have also given way, in part, no doubt,
through overstocked India and China
markets, or because of a competition in
prices with other sources of supply. Ihe
record of most kinds ol woollen goods is not
quite so satisfactory, although we should
not call the figures disheartening, judged
by quantities only.”
Moilels for the Lee Monument.
Yesterday a huge box was received at
the capitol and slored away. It con
tained a plaster model of an equestrian
statue of General Robeit E. Lee. Wins
it came horn and who sent it is unknown
to even the hoard which has to decide
upon the merits of the different works.
This is the second model which has been
received. It is stated that the fust came
from l lanada. Both are encased in strong
heavily-bound boards, which have no
mark upon them save the direction, “ To
the I/-e Monument Association, Rich
mond, Va ” The hoard has prescribed
that the names of the competing sculp
| tors s:hall Ist kept from them, as they
| propose to adopt the best work, and will
be unbiased in their choice. In accord
-1 anee with this require merit, no one knows
t he names of the sculptor* who are com
peting for the great work. Othi r sculp
j tors are known to be working on models
which will come in during the month ol
.September. The committee will prob-
ably decide the matter before the end ol
the month if all the models are in. The
competition for this great work will lie
very lively Sculptors in Europe and
America have signified their intention of
competing for it. Many will simply send
photographs of their models in order to
avoid the great expense and risk. The
models will be exhibited in the ballot
the house of delegates. The committee
which is to decide is composed of the
governor, treasurer and auditor.— Rv-h
--rn'ntd Whit).
In the state of Mississippi there are
ninety-two newspapers wnese combined
circulation ii about 00,000. In Arkansas
there are -eventy newspapers, whose
combined circulation is about 35,000.
Mississippi hasß2B,ooo people ; so that it
circulates one newspaper to every four
teen souls. Arkansas has 185,000 people,
which gives it, in proportion to its
population, about tbe same newspaper
circulation as Mississippi.
FACTS AND FANCIES.
•foil ii I'li Ino man** Conclusion.
*ah it Chinaman at his vrashtub stood,
And 'hcerfully rubbed and scoured;
T ip
Rutnevei hisiotl! was soared.
H i did not covet a mansion proud,
11 is ttstcH were simple ana few,
He washed a wav with a lightsome h eat*,
And sang as the soap-suds flew.
boon tho Melican man he came that way,
And it grieved him sore to see
A heathen with plenty of work to do,
Anl doing it merrily.
For the Melican man was on a strike,
And his non! was full of gall;
So he rallied some other Melican men
And Knve the heathen n cal).
They kicked John Chinaman into the street,
And round the premises tore,
Till his tubs and other utensils lay,
A wreck on the laundry floor.
Then the heathen he gathered hts savings scan
And he sailed for his own countree,
“No Melican man for me,” he sighed,
“lie velly muchee too free.** — N. Y. Hun.
NO. 4.
Till: great objection to codfish is its
foreign accent.
In England, during the lost twenty
years, Jews have been stvadily rising in
social estimation, and many now hold a
very high position in society.
Auntie and little King were gathering
wild flowers; auntie could not find many,
and wasgoingto return to thehouee,when
King cried out, gleefully : “O, auntie,
come over where I am; they’re awful
thick here ; just as thick as your head.”
She wem.
A fellow reuautly lie came enamored
of his laundresq a charming creature;
and in order that he might see her fre
quently he continued to have her call
evt ry day to take something to the wash.
After a while they were seperated tor a
time. When they met again she in
quired , "Have you been true to me all
this time?” “Hcc, ’ replied he, “I have
worn nothing bin paper collars since we
parted!”
A new locomotive, of peculiar style,
has been placed upon the Hudson River
railroad, for the exclusive use of the
superintendent. It is only about half
the size of the ordinary locomotive, and
oas tiie engine and tender built together,
on one frame. The new machine has a
cowcatcher on both ends, and draws no
cars; the cab, which covers tho entire
boiler, being divided into two compart
ments, one for the engineer and fireman,
and the ollipr (in front and directly over
tiie boiler), is fitted up with upholstered
scats for tiie u-e of the suiierintendent
and those who accompany him.
Wluit Mormon Inn Is.
The Mormon theology, as expounded
by Joseph Smith and perfected by Brig
ham Young, is a fantastic compound of
doctrines and practices liorrowed from
almost every form of religion the world
Ims known. Mr. J. 11. Beadle, long a
resident of Utah, in a book on the Mor
mons, published some years ago, Hays
“ They are Uliristians in their belief in
“ the New Testament and the mission of
“Christ; Jews in their temporal then
“ eraev tithing, and belief in prophecy ;
“Mohammedan in regard to the relation
“of the sexes, and Voudoos or Feticbistn
“ in their witchcraft, good and evil spirits.
“ faith doctoring and supeistition. From
“ the Buddhists they have stolen their
“ doctrines of apotheosis and devclop
“ me nt of 'gods; from the (ireek mythol
“ogy, their loves ef .the immortals and
“spirits. They have blended the ideas
“of many nations of polytheists, and
“ made, the whole consistent by outdoing
“ the materialists ” The active conflict
going on between the, various Christian
sects at the time of Joseph Smith pio
claimeda new revelation, seems to have
lod to his borrowing a variety of contro
verted doctrines from sources immediate
ly at hand. Thus the Mormon theology
takes from the Methodists their “witness
of the‘ spirit,” from the Disciples their
“first, pneeiples, from the Presbyterians
“their "universal suffrage,” from the
Second Adventists their belief in the
speedy coming of Christ’s kingdom, and
bom the Catholics their jloctrine of all
infallible head of the church. In their
faith that only a small portion of man
kind will fail of ultimate salvation the
Mormons are almost Universalists, and
in iheir idea of the, nature ol f lirist they
might be called Unitarians. Their no
lion that unseen powers produce physi
cal manifestations on earth brings them
in accord with modern spirltulists, and
I heir fa-lief ill evi I spirits allies them with
ibe ancient Manieliteaus. — A’. Y. Viibunr.
Sjmines’ Theory.
('apt A merieiis Hynitnes, the advocate
of 1,1 e theory tliala navigable cavi'y ex
tends through the earth from |oe to
pile, has eintribnted five hundred ih'l
lars towaril the llowgatc Aret e expedi
tion, Hyrnmes says that all the results
ol the previous expeditions justify his
belief, and ho is confident that Howgate
will he able to enter the cavity. In a
letter to the Louisville Courier Journal
he says: “Did not Cupt. Waddle go
upon a south exploring expedition a few
years ago, and lound an open Polar sea,
as in the north, and, when entering it
found his compass had reversed its posi
tion, and was (minting north when he
thought he was going southward,
and became alarmed and turned back,
when, if lie bad followed on as bis
com pass directed, lie would have come
out at the north [Mile, and would have
proved die theory true, no doubt, habita
ble within.
Moat tor Invalid*.
Ih<! following method of rendering
raw meat palatable to invalid* is given
in the Industrie Bhett*r: “To ten
ounee* law meat from the loin, add
eight-sevenths ounces shelled sweet
almonds, and two-sixths ounces white
mgar, these to lie heat together in a
marble mortar to a uniform pulp, and
the fibres separated by a strainer. The
pulp, which has a rosy hue and a very
agreeable taste, does not remind one at
afl of meat, and may be kept fresh lor a
considerable time, even in summer, in a
dry, cool place. Yolk of eggs may be
added to it. From this pulp, or directly
from the above -distances an emulsion
inay he prepared which will he rendered
still more nutritious by adding milk
Ijeiller prefers three-fifths ounces dried
raw meat, one fourth ounce sugar, one
seventh ounce wine, and one ounce of
tincture of cinnamon.”
Brigham Voting’s
The New York Herald, which has
marie a specialty of the Mormons, says
of Brigham's sons: “.Since their conse
cration as apostles, Joseph, the eldest,
has died a drunkard; Briyham, the sec
ond, has turned out to la 1 little better
than a nincompoop; but John, the desig
nated successor, is represented lo be a
man of gisid business talent and consid
erable f jrce of character. But it requires
a great deal more than fair capicity to
transact business to wield the despotic
authority of Brigham Young. This son
has none of the religious fervor, real or
simulated, which was the strongest hold
of ids father on community of fanatics.
His influence, if he should prove to hav
any, will be founded on respect for a son
of the deceased prophet, and on the large
estate he inherits.