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Tiie Jesup Sentinel Office in the Jesun House, fronting on Cnerrv *ireet, two uoors from Broad iSt. PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY, ... BY ... T. P. LITTLEFIELD. Subscription Rates. (Postage Prepaid,) One year $2 00 Sii mouths 1 00 Three months 50 Advertising Rates. Per square, first insertion $1 00 Per square, each subsequent insertion. 75 rates to yearly and large ad vertisers. 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 . iaber* 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. -j- 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.”