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TOWN DIRECTORY.
TOWN OFFICERS.
Mayor—W. 11. Whaley.
Counciimen—T. P. Littlefield, H. W.
Whaley, Bryant George, O. F. Littlefield,
Andeison Williams,
Clerk ami Tieasurer—O. F. Littlefield.
Marshal—G. W. Williams.
COUNTY OFFCERS.
Ordinary—Richard B. Hopps.
Sheriff—John N. Goodbreaa.
Clerk Supeiior Comt—Beni. O. Mid
Tax Receiver—J. C. Hatcher. • <?,eton
Tax (’ollector—\V\ 11. C.iusey.
County Surveyor—Noah Bemr
Foamy Treasurer—John Ma ’
Coroner—D. McDitha.
County Commissioners— p t-- r
fameS K, ‘° X -•I G lUch. fsh^
cor .KTS.
Superiot Court, .*
Harris, Judge ; F ,' V Coimty-Jno L.
General. See.-' Hitch Solictor
in Much and held on second Monday
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B!ac v jtar, Pieree County Geoiiia.
TOWN DIRECTORY.
TOWN OFFICERS.
Mayor—Andrew M. Moore.
Counciimen—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 M. Moore.
Sherifi—E. 2. Byrd.
County Treasurer —D. P. Patterson.
County Serveyor—J. M. Johnson.
Tax Receiver and Collector—J. M. Par
'd om.
Chairman of Road Commissioners llBl
District, G. M. Ivewis C. Wyllv; 1250 Dis
trict, G. 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,
etc —lJlackshear Precinct,6B4 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 Precinct, 150 District, G.
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,
Sehlattervillc Precinct, 560 District, G. M.,
Notary Public, D. B. McKinnon; Justice of
the Peace, N, B. Ham ; Constable, John \V*
Booth.
Courts—Superior court, Pierce county,
John L. Harris, judge; Simon W. Hitch,
Solicitor General. Sessions held lirst Mon*
dry in March and September.
Corporation court, Blackshear,Ga., session
held second Saturday in each Month. Police
■court sessions every Monday Morning at 0
o’clock.
JESOP 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 Meals 50 eS'
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
Southern Items,
Savannah owes $4,000,000.
Diphtheria prevails in portion of
North Carolina.
Savannah negroes have caught the
Liberian exodus fever.
The Arkansas state fair will he held in
Little Rock, October 22 27.
A poultice of red onions is the Ala
bama remedy for snake bite.
Three rattlesnakes were sold at auction
at Charlotte. They retched $25.
Savannah has scent $8,500 in sewer
age since the fearful epidemic last year.
There are thirty-four fruit distilleries
in the sixth revenue division of Georgia.
The Texas School per capita this year
will be $4.50 for each pupil, against $2.82
last year.
The Dallas Commercial estimates the
wheat crop of Texas this year at 7,500,000
bushels.
Alexandria, Va., proposes to scale her
municipal debt one-half, and thinks she
can pay the other half.
Bill Langley, the celebrated Texas
murderer, has been found guilty and sen
tenced to be hanged.
Texas papers are urging the purchase
and preservation of the Almo property
at San Antonia, by the state.
Hezekiah Bowman, of Vicksburg, is
held without bail to answer for the mur
der of his brother, 29th ult.
This is the season for rival southern
cities to accuse one another of harboring
the horrible yellow jack.
Savannah and St. Mary’s, as well as
Jacksonville, Brunswick and Dariem,
have quarintiDed Fernandina.
Gov. Bubbard and Hon. John H Rea
gan are mentioned as probable candidates
for the next governor of Texas.
The yellow fever having appeared at
Fernandina. Fia., all vessels and trains
trom that city will be quarantined.
Ihe industrial convention of Alabama,
at Blount Springs, adjourned the 6th, af
ter a largely attended and very success
ful meeting.
Gen. Longstreet is now a resident of
Georgia, and an applicant lor the posi
tion of United Jtates marshal of that
state.
The Whig says there is not a dollar in
the state treasury of Virginia, and the
banks are not disposed to advance anv
funds.
VOL. 11.
A Tarboro, N, C., negro, under trial
for larceny, made the following argument
in his own defense: “Mister Jedge, I
clare fore God I never stole nothin’ in
mv life, ’cepten’ a pig-tail at hog-killin’
time trom my ole missus, when I was a
bey, and Mister Jedge, 1 shall qever for
get my punishment. She sowed that
pig-tail to my breeches behind, ’an when
company would come she would make
me come out and shake myself so dal
tail would switch, and Mister Jedge, I
felt so mean an’ got so tired of that pig
f">il dat I never stole nothin’ sense. Data
a fact.” Three years in state’s prison.
U. S. senator Spencer, of Alabama,
was privately married in New York
city, Wednesday, to Miss May Nunez,
the well-known actress. Spencer, not
being a Catholic, bad to get a special dis
pensation from the Vicar general lor the
ceremony. The marriage was secret, only
a very few of the friends of the parties
being present, Immediately after the
marriage they left ita a special car for
city, in the Black Hills,
spencer is a portly, ruddy-faced blonde,
and forty-two. The bride is a dashing
brunette, attd twenty-five. Her father
was a major in the confederate army,
and went into business in New York
after the war and failed, after which she
studied for the stage, making her debut
in 1875. Spencer is said to have been a
bar-tender in California, where his first
wife died. They will make Washington
city their home.
General Notes,
Ten thousand glass eyes are sold an
nually in the United States.
Potatoes are so plenty in Kansas as to
be hardly worth marketing.
There are 60,000 cigars per day manu
factured at Key West.
Professor Hall, the discoverer of the
two new satellites of Mars was once a
carpenter.
Rev. John T. Smith, convicted of
forgery in Boston, has been convicted
and sentenced to five years in the state
prison.
The Chinese have established a “joes
house” and “opitim smokery ” in India
napolis, and are getting ftn extensive cus
tom from the “M. lican man” for the
latter.
The great Corliss engine in machinery
hall, Philadelphia, has been taken down
and packed ready for removal to Provi
dence. R. 1. Seventy railroad cars will
be needed to carry it"
The Warm Springs and Apache Indians
have fled from the San Carlos agency,
where they Were recently taken by the
soldiers and agent Clem. Troops are in
pursuit. They have gone in the direction
of the old agency, in New Mexico.
The secretary of war has addressed a
letter to General Schofield, commanding
at West Point, heartily approving his
order, which provides summary and se
vere punishment for hazing cadets.
A machine has been invented in New
York, mounted on wagon wheels, which
is intended for use on farms in the west.
It deluges the ground behind it with
smoke from burning chips and brimstone,
and holds the smoke down long enough
to suffocate every potato bug, locust and
other insect that conies within its in
fluence,
Dr. Parsons, medical superintendent of
the New York lunatic asylum, says there
is a very marked increase of insanity
among the women. During the past ten
years the number of females committed
to his asylum has increased at an average
rate of more than ten per cent, per
annum. All the patients admitted to
the asylum last year (475 in number)
ware women, and of the whole number
under treatment on the Ist of January
only ten were males.
Gen. Crook, a veteran and successful
Indian fighter, says that the Indians are
now as well armed with breech-loaders
as the regular troops, and shoot better.
The terrible loss suffered by Gen. Gib
bon’s command in the Big Hole battle
proves that the Nez Perceshad excellent
weapons, and knew how to use them. It
is becoming painfully evident that Lo is
no Jonger the simple child of the forest
that he was in the days of Cooper. It is
a great pity he was ever initiated into
the mysteries of breech-loading rifles. It
will not be a great while before the noble
red man will he hankering after iron
clad and Krupp cannon.
A dispatch from Cleveland, Ohio, says:
A cattle plague, thought to be a species
of the Texas fever, has broken out among
the cattle in the surrounding country.
Texas cattle this year are covered with
ticks of two varieties, the bite of which
is poisonous to the blood. Many of the
cattle are dying daily. Several cases of
children having been poisoned by drink
ing the infected milk have already come
to the notice of the city physicians. The
beef is affected by the disease, but can
be easily detected by spots. The disease
is said to be very infectious. A veterin
ary surgeon who has treated about 40
cases says the symptoms with milch cows
are first a falling oft of about half the
yield of milk, then bloody passages of
urine, and in a few hours death. He rec
ommends as treatment, to wash the ani
mal in a lotion which acts as a disinfec
tant for the ticks and an antidote for the
poison.
The Scientific American, calling atten
tion to a dispatch received from our min
ister to Greece, in which it is asserted
that the United States can now and
henceforth will control to a large extent
the grain markets of Europe, reminds its
readers that, “ Russia has been our only
competitor in this trade, but under the
most favorable circumstances lor that
power the United States has had the
advantage of that great cereal-producing
country, as our machinery, railroad sys
tem, elevators, and simple customs regu
lations combined have enabled us to place
our grain on shipboard at about filteen
per cent, less cost than the Russian
shippers can handle theirs. The war in
which Russia is now engaged will cer
tainly not lessen these advantages, and
with such an outlook it does not seem
too much to assert that with reasonable
efforts we shall control the English an<l
some of the principal continental markets.
In anticipation of this British capitalists
are mw engaged in building six of the
largest sized iron vessels, designed ex
pressly fjr the conveyance of grain on
English account; and it is suggested that
we sould not only strain every nerve to
JESUP, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 1877.
meet the increased demand for our bread
Buffs, hut that we should supply the
ships also,”
Keliurions.
Bishop Rosecrans claims that the anti-
Catbolic movement in Ohio last year has
resulted in bringing many Americans into
the church,
The papal envoy who recently came to
Canada has given instruction that in fu
ture priests must not interfere With their
people in voting at elections.
The Pacific says that the sowing of
good seed by the Presbyterian mis ion to
the Chinese in San Francisco is “ already
bringing forth one-h indred fold.”
Illinois is the banner tdilte for Sabbath
schools. It. repot Is for 1877 6,281 schools,
he! ng an increase of 26'd over last year,
with 63,954 teache'rs and officers, 'and
464,631 scholars. An army of half a mil
lion Bible students 1
Dr. Guthri’o spoke of a shipbuilder who
paid him the greatest compliment by say
ing: “During the preaching of most
ministers, be they short or long, I gener
ally contrive in my own mind to lay the
keel and Luild the ship from stem to
stern, but during your sermon I canuot
lay a single plank.”
This is one of the questions asked by
the American missionaries of converts in
eastern Turkey: “Do you cheat your
customers by inserting pasteboard or
leather chips in the soles of the shoes you
make as you used to do ? ”
Georgia Baptists pay their pastors bet
ter salaries than any other state south ;
Kentucky ranks next, then Virginia;
South Carolina is fourth, Maryland fifth,
while North Carolina and Arkansas pay
the smallest.
Foreign Intelligence.
A farm hand for harvesting is paid in
central Italy seven cents a day, and
considers himself a lucky man to find
employment at that rate.
The condition of the Pope’s health is
not so good as it has been fob some time
past. His limbs are partially paralyzed,
But no immediate danger is apprehended.
A letter from Isaac Butt, home rule
member of parliament for Limerick, ridi
cules the idea that parliament will ever
grant home ruie in order to get rid of any
annoyance or inconvenience the Irish
members can cause.
There was no disturbance in Paris on
the occasion of the funeral of Ex-Presi
dent Thiers. There was an immense
procession, the streets were lined by
spectators, and many mourning mottoes
were displayed. Addresses were deliv
ered at the grave by M. Grevy, Jules
Simon and others, and were marked by
unexpected moderation.
Personal i I to*.
Miss Muhlback, anew leading actress
at Milwaukee, is a daughter of the Ger
man novelist.
There is a Welsh student in a Wiscon
sin College by the name of Evan Evan
Evans. 'Eavens. what a name !
When Hammond, the evangelist, was
holding a series of meetings in St. Louis,
application was made for the use of the
theatre managed by Ben De Bar. His
agent refused. On Ben De Bar’s return
lie heard of the incident, and, finding
Hammond’s agent, said to him : “ You
can have the theatre free of charge and
welcome to it. I am a religious man
myself and believe in Christianity.”
Bishop Haven thus describes a mala
rial fever he caught in Liberia : ‘‘ An
African forest was growing up within me,
the tops whereof were made visible.
When the scrapings from the roots of the
tongue were placed under a microscope,
their roots were in the spleen and liver.
Black specks, moving swiftly up and
down these ferns and gross trunks and
branches were probably monkeys leaping
from tree to tree of this inward African
forest.”
Death of a Noted “Medium.”
Mr. W. 11. H. Davenport, one of the
brothers whose performances as illusion
ists have created for thorn a world wide
reputation, died at the Oxford hotel,
King street, on Sunday morning, from
pulmonary consumption. The brothers
arrived at Sydney three weeks ago from
New Zealand, where they had been giv
ing a series of performances, hut while
there William Davenport broke a blood
vessel, and came to Sydney under the
advice of his medical attendants. He
seemed to be recovering his health after
his arrival here, and was in excellent
spirits, but broke a second blood-vessel
again last Thursday week, and another
one yesteiday morning. This last one
proved fatal. He v r as attended here by
Dr. Markey, who, however, with Dr.
Halkett, held out do hopes that he
would ever recover, the disease having
taken a firm hold upon his system. He
had been suffering from pnthisis for some
years. He leaves a young widow, having
been married five months ago. His fu
neral took place yesterday afternoon.
Deceased was a native of Buffalo, and
was well known here and throughout the
country as a “ Spiritual medium,” whose
business it was, with his brother, to give
what spiritualists term “ physical dem
onstrations.” —Sydney (Australia) Nevis.
. Vegetable ivory, the growth of the
palm tree, is indigenous to Central
America. A tew years since it was worth
but S2O per ton; now it brings readiiy
SBO at the ship’s side. It is the fruit of
a certain species of the palm, and is only
the hardened albumen of the seed. The
vegetable ivory palm has but a short,
stumpy stalk, and produces its flowers
aud nuts in a spathe or valvular envelope
quite near to the ground.
A witness on the stand, in reply to a
question as to what the character of Mr.
was for truth and veracity, said,
“Well, I should say that he handles ibe
truth very carelessly.”
A Star of Hope.
A star above the steeple-top,
In twilight but a feeble spark,'
Is hanging as the shadows drop,
Alld brighter burus as comes the dark.
liet not your courage from you go
When common troubles drag you down ;
Your face that now is white for woo,
With sunny joy may yet he brown.
Be pure in heart, in peace or pain ;
Obey the still small voice that calls;
The star above the steeple-vane
Shines stronger as the darkness tails.
Hope, like a diamond in the coal,
Shall shine, however black ihe night ;
Keep well your eyes unto the goal,
And do not tire, bat trust ami tight.
Because the path has led your feet
To places bleak and bare with blight,
Se >k not for safety in retreat;
Still forward go, and look for light.
And if in vain you seek ..ray
Ot sun to break tho chords of sorrow
Still fight it out—work well to-day.
And do not f< ar about to-morrow.
Tlie Terrors of Taxation.
Mr. Slingsby, our assessor and tax col
lector, holds on, too. He is another model
member of our civil force. The princi
ple characteristic of Mr. Slingsby is en
thusiasm. Pie has an idea now that
whenever a man gets anything new it
ought to be taxed, and he is always on
hand to perform the service. I had about
fifteen feet added to one of my chimneys
last spring, and when it was done
Slingsby called and assessed it under the
head of “ Improved Ileal Estate,” and
collected two per cent on it. A lew days
later, while T was standing by the fence
Slingsby came up and said :
“ Beautiful dog you have there.”
“ Yes, its a setter.”
“ Indeed 1 a setter ? The tax on setters
is two dollars. I’ll collect it now while
I have it on my mind.”
I settled the obligation, and the next
day Slingsby came around again, lie
opened the con vernation with the re
mark :
“ Billy Jones told me at the grocery
store that your terrier had pups.”
“ Yes.” ’
“ A large litter ?”
“ Four.”
“Indred! Less see; tax is $2 ; four
times two is eight—yes, $8 tax, please.
And hurry up, too, if you can, for they
have anew batch of kittens over at
Baldwin’s and 1 want to ketch old
Baldwin before he goes out. By the
way, when did you put that weather
cock on your new stable ‘'' ■
“ Yesterday.”
“ You don’t say ! Well, hold on, then.
Four times two is eight, and four—on
the weathercock—is twelve. Twelve
dollars is the amount.”
“ What do you mean by $4 on the
weathercock? I never heard of such a
thing.”
‘‘Didn’t hey? Why, she comes in
under the head of scientific apparatus.
She’s put up there to \ tell which way
the wind blows, ain’t she? Well, that is
scientific intelligence, and the apparatus
is liable to a tax.”
“ Mr. Slingshy, this is the most ab
sorb thing I ever heard of. You might
just as well talk of taxing Butterwick’s
twins.”
“ Butter . You don’t mean to say
that Butterwick has twins? Why, cer
tainly they are taxable. They come
under the head of poll tax.’ Three
dollars apiece. I’ll go right down there.
Glad you mentioned it.”
They paid him, and he left with But
terwick’s twins on his [old memorandum
book/
A day or two afterwards Klingsby
called to see me, and he said :
“ I’ve got a case that bothers me like
thunder. You know Hough, the tobac
conist? Well, he’s just bought a wooden
Indian to stand in front of his (tore.
Now, I have a strong feeling that I
ought to tax that fitrure, but I don’t
know where to place it. Could it come
in as ‘ statuary ?’ Somehow that don’t
seem exactly the thing. I was going to
assess it under the head of ‘ idols,’ but
the idiots who got up this law haven’t
got a word in reference to idols. Think
of that, will you? Why, we might have
paganism raging all over the country,
and we couid’t get a cent out of them.
I’d put up that Indian under ‘graven
images,’ only it ain’t mentioned either.
I supposed I could tax the bunrile of
wooden cigars in his hand as tobacco, but
that leaves out the rest of the figure;
and he’s not liable to poll tax, because
he can’t even vote. Now, how would
it strike if I levied on him as an ‘emi
grant ?’ He was made somewhere else
than here, and he came here from there;
consequently he’s an immigrant. That’s
my view. What do you think of it ?”
I advised him to try it upon that plan,
and the next morning Slingshy and Mr.
Hough had a fight on the pavement in
front of the Indian because Mr. Klingsby
tried to seize the immigrant for unpaid
taxes. Slingshy was taken home and
put to bed, and the business of collecting
was temporarily suspended. ButSlirigsby
will be around again soon with some new
and ingenious ideas that he has thought
of during his illness —Montreal Gazette.
The Whispering Canyon.
Words spoken on one side of Gold can
yon are heard with striking clearness
upon the other side. 'lhe sounds are
telephoned across the entervening space,
and may be as distinctly noted as if the
speaker were standing by the side of the
I listener. This, is of course, tide to the
! pecuhar formation of the country. Neigh
| bors who live on opposite sides of the
] canyon talk tdcelher quite readily, when
j they live as nu.cl. .. ... mile apart by the
1 way the road runs. It is not so far by the
air line, however. —Gold Ifill( Xev.) News.
Something; About Family Names.
There might be much aiuussment in
tracing the origin of family names.
Long ago—say about six or seven
hundred years since—there were no
family names at all. People had Chris
tian names and nothing more, and, of
course, there was qften considerable
difficulty in distinguishing individuals.
Such at present is the case in Turkey,
where the old eastern practice of using
but a single name continues to he
followed. Surnames were not. introduced
into England until after the conquest.
The fashion of using two names came to
us from France, but for a time was con
fined to families of distiction, and
extended slowly over the country. One
thing is said to have promoted its use.
Young ladies of aspiring tastes declined
to marry gentlemen who had only a
Christian name, such as John or Thomas,
for they would necessarily have still to
be called by their own name, Mary,
Elizabeth, or whatever it was. Spinsters
accordingly thought it to he a grand
thing to form an alliance with a person
possessing the distinction of a family
name, by which they should ever after
he called.
Curiously enough/so difficult is itto al
ter old usages, that until very lately sur
names were scarcely used among the
humbler classes of people in some parts
of Great Britain remote from centers of
civilization. In these places a creditor
would enter the name of his debtor in
his book as John the son of Thomas, just
as you see genealogies in tho Old Testa
ment. Only now, from improved
communication with the outer world,
have practices of this kind gone out of
use. We can easily understand how the
name ending in son, as Johnson, Thomp
son, Manson (abbreviation of Mng
nussen), originated; and it is equally
easy to conjecture how names from
professions such ns Smith, Miller, Cooper,
came into existence. It is equally obvi
ous that many family names are derived
from nature of tho compleetion of indi
viduals, as Black, Brown and White.
At. first sight there is a mystery as re
gards the different wavs in which certain
names are spelled. Smith is sometimes
written Smvth ; and in some instances
Brown has an cat the end of it. We seo
the name Reid Hpellcd as Read, Heed and
Rede. Wo seo Long, Lang and Laing,
an variations of one name. The same
tiling can be said of Strong, Strang and
Stange; of Little, Liddle; of Home and
Hume; of Chambers and Chalmers, and
soon with a host of surnames in daily
use. The mystery which hangH over
various spellings is cleared upon a con
sideration of the indifferent scholarship
whicli prevailed until even the middle
of the eighteenth century. Names in
old legal documents and in the inscrip
tions on the blank leaves of family
Bibles, are written in ail sorts of ways.
A man seldom writes his name twice in
succession the same way. Each member
of a family followed the spelling suggest
ed by his own fancy, and added to or
altered letters in his name with perfect
indifference. Eccentricities of this kind
are still far from uncommon in the signa
tures of imperfectly educated persons.
There is, in fact, a constant growth of
new names, springing from carelessness,
though also, in some cases, from a sense
of refinement.
Taking Care of tile 01*1 Folks.
One further possibility of domestic
evolution remains. The last component
to show itself among the leelings which
hold the family together, the care of
parents by offspring, is the one which has
most room for increase. Absent in
brutes, small among primitive men, con
siderable among the partially civilized,
and tolerably strong among the best of
those around us, filial affection is a feel
ing that admits of much further growth,
which ss needed to make the cycle of
domestic life complete At present, the
latter days of the old whose married
children live away from them are made
dreary by the lack of those remaining
pleasures to he derived from the constant
society of descendants; but the time will
come when this evil will be met by an
attachment of adults to parents which,
if not as strong as that of aged parents
to children, approaches it in strength.
Further development in this direction
will not, however, occur under social ar
rangements which partially absolve pa
rents from the care of offspring. A
stronger feeling to be display* and by child
for parent in later life must he estab
lished by a closer intimacy between pa
rent and child in early life. No such
higher stage is to be reached by walking
in the wav- followed by the Chinese !r
these two thousand years. We shall not
rise to it by imitating, even partially,
the sanguinary Mexicans, whose children,
at the age of four, or sometimes later,
were delivered .over to be educated by the
priests. We shall not improve family
feeling by approaching toward the ar
ran remerits of the Koossa f’affres, among
whom “ all children above ten or eleven
years old are ptfblicly instructed under
the inspection of the chief.” This latest
of the domestic affections will not be
fostered by retrograding toward customs
like those Of the Andamanese, and, as
early as possible, changing the child of
the family into the child of the Gibe.
Contrariwise, such a progress will be
achieved only in proportion ns both
moral and intellectual culture are car
ried on by parents to an extent now rarely
attempted. When the unfolding minds
of children are no longer thwarted, and
stunted, and deformed, by the mechani
cal lessons of stupid teachers—when in
struction, instead of giving mutual pain,
gives mutual pleasure by ministering in
proper order to fp.cußies which afo sever
ally eager to appropriate fit knowledge
presented in fit forms—wliefi, with a
wide diffusion of adult culture, joined
with rational ides of teaching, there goes
a spontaneous unfolding of the juvenile
mind such as is even now occasionally
indicated by exceptional facility of am
qitisition —when the earlier stages of ed
ucation passed through in the domestic
circle have become, as they will in ways
scarcely dreamed of at present, daily aids
to the strengthening of sympathy, intel
lectual and moral, leaving only Ihe more
special cultures to he carried on by
others ; then will the latter days of life
he smothered by a greater filial care, re
ciprocating the parental care bestowed in
earlier life. —Herbert fipencert.
A Few Moon-Queries.
The recent discovery that the planet
Mars is attended by two or three moons
D a very important one, as it has enabled
astronomers to ascertain the quantity of
matter contained ill tho planet, compared
with that of the sun. But, at the same
time, it presents a most perplexing ques
tion, which has not hitherto been raised,
except as it is involved in the discussion
about a supposed intra Mercurial planet.
One of these moons revolves about three
times while Mars rotates once on his axis,
and the period of the ono first discovered
iH only about one-third more than the
time of the planet’s rotation. A nec
essary consequence of Laplace theory of
evolution, as it is generally understood,
is, that the satellites, having been
thrown off'from the plane (ary mass, can
not move around him in less time than
he occupies in turning on his own axis;
which is directly disproved by the ascer
tained fact, as stated. It follows either
that tho Laplace theory is at fault, or
that the minuto bodies which now float
in space around Mars were not thrown
off from his surface, but have (seen cap
tured by Inin at some time in the past
when they came near enough to him to
be twisted outof their former orbits, hut
not near enough to he attracted to his
surface.
So far ns we are at present able to in
fer, the last named aupposition is
probably correct, and, if this bo accepted,
another very interesting question arises :
“Where did they come from?” It is
not impossible that these satellites were
formerly members of that vast host of
planetoidal bodies which course around
the sun between the orbits of Mars and
Jupiter. It is, however, at least equally
probably that they once traveled around
the sun in very prolonged elliptic orbits,
like those bodies that come near the
earth every now and then, and some ol
whicli fall to hoi surface, while others
pass through and beyond our atmosphere.
The meteor that passed over Missouri,
Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, and other states,
on the 21st of December last, could
scarcely have made such a grand display
unless its diameter were at least equal to
that of the smallest satellite of Mars,
which is estimated by Watson at two
and three-fourths miles. Under certain
conditions of direction and veloeiety
relative to the earth, that meteor might
have been captured by our planet, and
have now played the role of second moon
to us. Who will say that we shall not
yet put one or more of these fugitives
into the orbital harness, and beat Mars
in the race of moon-catching! Nay, it
is not impossible that our present moon
herself will assume the role of satellite
captor, and astonish us by that hitherto
unheard-of phenomenon —a moon, cir
cling around a moon larger than itself,
or rather a system of moons swinging
around each other, while both yield
equal obedienc* to the attractive power
of our earth.
The eyes f the world are only just be
ing opened to the possibilities of world
existence, and it will expect great (and
small) revelations to be made in the
future by the astronomers who are
impudently peering into every thiDg
celestial with their telescopes, and try
ing to anatomize that every thi.ig with
their telescopes, They have got to
make these, revealments in order to sus
tain their own reputation, and furnish a
raison (for them) d’etre. It is also their
bounden duty to leave no stone unturn
ed, and no inch of space unscanncd, in
the endeavor to sustain the reputation of
onr globe. She is able to capture and
take care of more than one attendant—
certainly as well able as Mars—and does
not the ability argue for the fact? Who
will discover another moon to our earth;
or, better still, the existence of a satel
lite to our already familiar moon ?
GRAVE AND GAY,
Church Rules for the Ladle*.
Dress hard all morning* such ia fate,
Then enter church forae minutes late.
All eyes will then be turned on you.
And will observe your bonnet near.
Let humble modesty wreath your face,
And take your feat with faultless grace.
Lot all your thoughts be fixed on high,
And rearrange yo-r cardinal tie.
Think how religion’s prone to bless,
And criticise yonr neighbor’s dress.
IM nil your heart bo filled with praise,
And notice Mis. Wiggle’s iace.
Put from your mind all thoughts of sin.
And readjust your diamond pfd.
Think of hotr gwod religion proves,
And then smooth (fti l 7our buttoned glove
Catch well the precepts sv they fall,
And smooth ihe wrinkles ltPjour shawl.
Think of the'sinner’s fearful fate,
And notice if your bonnet's straight.
Fray for the influenco divine—
That /arty’s barque, mark the design.
Lot tind**r pcflf possess yonr mlod.
And ciHici.te that hat behind.
ftefirCt on Christian graces deaf,
And 9# fctwwe curia beside yonr esr.
LH your heart fUarm with silent nrayer,
tn<l view that tiorrtVf <au silk theie.
Reflect up'ii the wicked’s ways;
r**® if your geM chain's out of place..
Think r t the pmeo the nood shall find.
And wonder r hot* sitting behind.
i hink of the 1 aiders Christians boar,
And no Jet* UiAftySt mue ladies there.
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The Inst words hear with eontrite heart.
And fix your pull-l ark when you start.
Ph Hadf lphin Press.
NO. 9.
The best summer resort for babies— *
Kockaway. The bent, for ba<l boys—
Ling Brancb
. .The difficulty of the street car com
panies in gettimr full returns from both
conductors and passengers is not confined
to this country, although it has probably
produced a greater variety of bell
punches, clock monitors and patent
deposit boxes here than abroad. The
London general omnibus company was
so much exercised upon the subject two
or three months ago as to offer a reward
of £I,OOO for an invention or scheme for
effectually checking passengers’ fares,and
it is not known yet that even such an
incentive has developed the requisite
ingenuity. Some of the devices used in
New York and I’hiladelphia have already
yielded considerable revenues to their
owners; for one of them a single car
company is said to Lay© paid $25,000.
A ATHAY SI.OWKR.
Sweet little runnway rover.
Width have you wandered to-day f
Hearoli in the wheat and the clover--
Lo'k In the billowy hay I
Left all alone Is your dolly ;
Playmates are shouting your name
Kitty h quite melancholy,
Towner is somewhat t he same f ♦
Hay, are you watching the c'lcket?
Watching flu* clamborlng hc?
Though In the morning you |*lc.k It
Never bud falter than she l
Ifavo you a nook nhennd runny,
|>eep In the grass and the bin 7
Telling n storv so funny,
None hut the. grasshoppers learn?
Ah I here’s the print of a slipper,
Leading down into the dell;
Know h as well as a skipper.
Homeward hound, hnrhor can tell !
Peep! there you are little gypsy,
Th< re in the hloom all alone !
Oh, the sweet kiss on your llpa—seef
Hee I how I’ll steal it, my own 1
A Pliilaiitlirople Movement.
Mr. George T. Angell, in a letter to
the Boston Advertiser, offers this sugges
tion in regard to colonizing the poor of
the large cities on western lands: Let
someone or more ol the churches start
the first colony by purchasing at smal
cost a township of western land, reserv
ing the quarter section and lots, giving to
each emigrant a conditional deed of his
land, buildings, etc., which on payment
of wiiat has been advanced, with interest,
shall vent, in him a good title, subject to
the regulat ions of the colony. These reg
ulations may • xelude! the sale of liquor,
the sale ol obscene literature, the sale ot
adulterated and poisonous articles ; pro
vide for the best sanitary renulations, no
cesspools or other sources of filth empty
ing into wells, no lead poison in drinking
water ; provide tor kindergarten schools,
for moral, humane and religious instruc
tion in all schools; prohibit the public
use of profane language; provide tlißt
every person convicted of crime or of vi
olating the rules of the colony shall leave
the colony on payment of a low valuation
for bis property. Several colonies have
been established in the west on plans
similar to this, and many have adopted
regulations as to the sale of liquor, etc.
Mormon lying.
Th death of Mormonism will not end
Utah’s troubles. Instead of 75,000 fa
natics, there will be 150,000 infidels—all
those of Mormon parentage, having no
philosophy to take the place of reli .ion
The debris of Mormonism will encumber
the land for a generation. The original
Mormon converts were from the met
hardy and virtuous peasantry of Enr.qs ;
they came over as a rule in middle life,
and Mormonism could not entirely spoil
them. Their children will suffer all the
evil results of polveamy and supersti
tious fully, with none of the .restraint
imposed k by a theocracy—all of the e\ il
and none of the good. There will lea
laxity ot conduct and a general flatibi
ness of the moral fiber, which will not !>*■
cured till they learn by dire experience
that tne way ot tne transgressor is fiarn.
The Mormon doctrine that “ it is right to
lie for the good of the church” has made
deceit an institution. It can scarcely be
said that any disgrace attaches to perjury.
Jews and Gentiles who live long among
this people too often become addicted to
the same practices; for, say they, “ if we
don't, they get the advantage.” There
is in Utah more downright lying to the
square mile than in any other region on
the continent; and the religious lying is
the worst of all. Thus stands the Utah
situation: The Jew lie for gaiD, the
; Gentiles from association, and the Mor
mons “ for Christ’s sake.”— Beadle's
; ‘ Western Wilds.”