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TOWN DIRECTORY.
TOWN OFFICERS,
Mayor—W. H. Whaler.
Councilnien—T. P. Lktlefield, H. W.
Whaley, Bryant George, O. F. Littlefield,
Anderson Williams,
Clerk and Treasurer—O. F. Littlefield.
Marshal— G. W. Williams.
COBMTY OFFCEBS.
Ordinary—Richard R. ITopps.
Sheriff—John N. Goodbread.
Clerk Superior Court—Benj. O. Middleton
Tax Receiver—.l. C. Hatcher.
Tax Collector—W. R. Causey.
County Surveyor—Noah Bennett,
County Treasurer—John Massev.
Coroner—D. McDitha.
County Commissioners—J. F. King, G
W. Haines, James Knox, J. G. Rich, Ishara
Reddish.
COURTS.
Superior Court, Wayne County—Juo. L.
Harris, Judge ; Simon W. flitch, Solicitor*
General. Sessions held on second Monday
in March and September.
Blattar, Pierce County Gap..
TOWN DIRECTORY.
TOWN OFFICERS.
Mayor—Andrew M. Moore.
Councilnien—D. P. Patterson,J. M. Downs 1
J.'M. Lee, E. P. Brantly. i
Clerk of Council—J. M. Purdom.
Town Treasurer—B. I). Brantly.
Marshal—E. Z. Byrd.
COUNTY OFFICERS.
Ordinary—A. J. Strickland.
Clerk Superior Court—Andrew M. Moore.
Sheriil—E. Z. Byrd.
County Treasurer—D. P. Patterson.
County Serveyor—J. M. Johnson.
Tax Receiver and Collector—.l. M. Pur*
dom.
Chairman of Road Commissioners--H,si
District, G. M., Lewis C. Wylly; 12;.o Dis
trict, U. M., George T. Moody ; 58-1 District,
G. M., Charles S. Youmanns; 59Q District!
G. M., D. B. McKinnon.
Notary Publics and Justices 0 f the Peace,
etc.—Blacbsh'*ar Precinct . 584 district,G.M '
Notary Public, J, G. S. Patterson ; Justice
of the Peace, R.. R, James; Ex-otlicio Con
stable L. Z. Byrd.
Mill Precinct 1250 District, G.
M, Bo'rfiry Public,Mathew Sweat; Justice of
the /pace, Geo* T. Moody; Constable, W.
F. r/ickson*
, Patterson Precinct, 1181 District, G. M.,
Jot&'y Public, Lewis C. Wylly; Justice of
the Peace, Lewis Thomas; Constables, H.
Prescott and A. L. Griner,
Schlattervillc Precinct, 560 District, G. M.,
Notary Public, D. B. McKinnon; .Justice of
the Peace, X. P>. Mam ; Constable, John W.
Bcoth,
Courts—Superior court, Pierce couuty.
T ohn L. Harris, judge; Simon W. Hitch,
* -dicitor General. Sessions held first Mon
dry in March and September.
Corporation court, Blaclfshear, Ga., session
held second Saturday in each Month. Police
court sessions every Monday Morning at 0
o’clock.
JBSDF HOUSE,
Corner Broad and Cherry Streets,
(Near the Depot,)
T. P- LITTLEFIELD, Proprietor.
.Vewly renovated and refurnished. Satis
faction guaranteed. Polite waiters will take
four baggage to and from the house.
BOARD $2.00 per day. Single Meals 50 c 5
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
Southern Itemit,
Many families are said to be leaving
Chicago daily for Texas and Florida.
Probate .fudge Morrow, of Jefferson
county, Ala., has been impeached for
drunkenness.
Hot Springs doctors board the trains
before they arrive at the springs, and
drum for customers. Every person who
goes there is expected to be sick.
Gov. Colquitt, in a recent speech at
Columbus, deeply deplored the loss of
independence and thrift by the farmers
since the war.
A red Irish setter dog, that cost two
hundred pounds in Ireland, has just been
received by the Nashville kennel club,
to he prepared for the November field
trial.
Natchez Democrat : "On an acre of pine
land at Alabama Furnace, Mr. Joseph
Fmith raised 100 bushels of Irish pota
toes. Before the potatoes were dug he
planted corn between the rows, and the
corn gives promise of at least fifty bush
els. The potatoes brought $1 per bushel.
The corn, at fifty cents a bushel, will
bring $25; the crop from the acre realiz
ing $125. This is equal to about three
bales of cotton.”
WEST.
The election of J. C. Murphy, Demo
cratic state -enatr.r from the north dis
trict in ftan Francisco, is to be contested
bv his Republican opponent, W. W. Mor
row.
The women voters of Cheyenne, Wy
oming, hate given up trying to “purify
the polls.” The rush and jam of men
around the boxes have prevented many
from voting, and now they have the
exclusive use of the hotel reading room
for that purpose. Two female judges of
election are appointed to superintend the
tyrxes.
' Two alleged counterfeiters, W. W.
Hutchison, of Baltimore, and W. P.
Funk, of AI US'/,, a, have been arrested at
Tyrone. Hutchison was shot dead while
endeavoring to escape.
It is announced from San Francisco
that the United States grand jury has
found four indictments asainst Geo. M.
Pinney and Rufus C. Spalding, late pay
inspector, on charges o! conspiracy and
fraud in issuing forged certificates for
money against the government.
It is telegraphed from Hazleton (Pa.)
ile graijj Scnfind.
VOL. 11.
that 'he demand of the miner* who struck
lor the restoration "t the wages paid last
Msv and a percentage on any advance of
( o 1 above $3.25 at side, has been al
lowed. The strike is ended.
The Warm Spring Indians reported off
their reservation and massacreing the
whites, afe not the noted scouts who
have served the government so long, and
who figured in the Modoc war. The
former are New Mexico and Arizona
Indians, while the latter have a reserva
tion,in Oregon.
Special dispatches from Tucson, Ari
zen la, to the San Diego, Cal., Union, re*
port that the Warm Spring Indians, who
recently left San Carlo3, have killed at
least fourteen men and wounded eight.
Three detachments ot Arizona- troops,
and all those available in New Mexico
are after the Indians. Major Tupper
and command struck the Indians at
Knight’s ranche anil killed forty. Stur
gis, assisted by Howard’s cavalry uuuer
Samord, had a fight in Canon Creek on
the morning of the 14th. A number o!
Indians were killed and many horses
taken. The Crows got away with all the
Nez Perees’ pack animals. ' They report
that the River Crows from Muscle Shel 1
have headed off the Nez Perees, and arc
driving them toward Gen. Sturgis. In
two fights the Crows and soldiers have
captured nearly 1,000 horses.
ForeKgti Intelligence.
It is probable that Osman Pash will
be made minister of war.
It is said that Suleiman Pasha’s force
ten days ago was 42,000 men, with ample
field artillery and mountain guns.
It is announced from Havana that
abiaut three thousand troops have arrived
from Spain during the last ten days,
landing at different points.
A dispatch from St. Petersburg says
that the Russian police have discovered
a Nichibst conspiracy to assassinate the
Czar on the battlefield'
A report says that the Czarowitch’s
forces have been so weakened to re-inforce
the Plevna army that they are no match
for Mehemet Ali.
The Russians are still in posse e sion of
Grivica redoubt, which was under a con
tinual heavy fire from the Turks. Til's
redoubt was visited by Colonel Wellesly,
who says it is heaped full of dead Rus
sians and Roumanians.
A native Hindoo, describing, in a let
ter to the Times of India, some of the
suffering incident to the terrible famine
now prevalent there, tells of people eat
ing the seeds of the bamboo and tamarind
and the leaves of various forest trees,
baited with a little salt and eaten with a
coarse bread, three parts of which are
dust arid chaff. “In some of the towns,”
says the correspondent, “ the poor people
lipk patfansbes. the leaves from which
others have tftten their food, devour
mango-peels and the rotten fruits cast
into the gutter, and dispute the garbage
of the city with its dogs.”
<iieieral Note*.
The Catholics have a misssionary force
of 1,7000 in Hindeostan.
Three counties of California have wo
men school superintendents.
The Baptists have tv/enty organized
churches among the Creek Indians, most
of which have Indian pastors.
Ihirty Chinese merchants in San
Francisco have united in an appeal to the
board of education to have public schools
opened for the instruction of Chinese
youth.
The clerk of the house of representa
tives states that the democratic majori
ty, according to the certificates now in,
will be eleven.
Gen. Gibbon telegraphs that Major
Walsh was at Fort Benton a few days
ago, and reported Sitting Bull was still
north of the line, in British Columbia.
Four convergent expeditions are now
in the field against chief Joseph, and it
is believed that the wily chieftain is
being so hemmed in that escape will be
impossible.
According to the year book of the
Trinity church of New York, the total
amount of property held by the corpora
tion is $7,000,000 ; the annual revenue is
$500,000.
A self-opening envelope, with a thread
in the edge of the upper flap, by pulling
which the envelope is quickly and neatly
opened, is the newest invention in sta
tionary.
Cattle in the vicinity of Leavenworth,
Kansas, have become infected with the
Texas fever and are dying br dozens.
The herd of Indian cattle by which the
disease was propagated were shipped to
St. Louis.
Secretary Sherman received from New
York, from an unknown person, $7,551 for
an error in the income returns in 1865
and 1866 and omission in 1870, and
placed the money to the credit of the
conscience fund.
Charges of converting United States
moneys to his own use have been prefer
red against U. S. Surveyor-Gen. Rollins
by Senator Booth of California. The
amount of his defalcation is said to be
$3,000.
The community of Adventists at Dan
vers, Mass., convinced that Saturday is
the proper day to observed as the Sab
bath, have given notice that hereafter
they will do no work on that day.
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 Perces had excellent
weapons, and knew how to use them. It
is becoming painfully evident that Lo is
no longer 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 be hankering after iron
clad and Krupp cannon.
In the late rifle-shooting at Oreedrnoor
the Englishmen did far better than they
ever did before, but that was not good
enough to beat the Americans. The
Englishmen scored 3 242 out fa possible
total ot 3.6M0 points, while theAmermans
scored 3,334, winning by f*2 points. The
correspondent of the Toronto Globe in
New York, in explanation of the Briti-h
defeat, says:
Sturgis writes under date of Muscle-
•TESUP. GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 10, 1877.
shell, 16th, that in a fight on the 13th
and the pursuits of the 14 and 15th,
twenty dead warriors were foued, and he
believes more were killed. He estimates
their loss in wounded at sixty. Hiaown
loss were French, Nicholson and Gresham
wounded slightly, four soldiers killed and
twelve wounded, several scouts killed and
wounded, nine hundred horses dropped
by the hostilea up to the 16th ami had
dropped many of his horses. The com
uiand had been living four days on mule’s
meat.
To prevent fires in the snow-sheds on
the Central Pacific railroad, the magnates
have devised a complete fire telegraph
system with an alarm box every mile.
Track-walkers patrol the road day and
night. A lofty tower has also been
erected on a mountain 10,000 feet high,
commanding with telescopes a view of
the line from Blue Canon to the summit,
and from this observers will certainly
watch the road, having telegraphic com
munication with the fire train at Cisco,
which is always ready to' set out for a
conflagration.
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.
Sflciiw and liiduHtry.
The brandy production of North
Carolina is immense. Over three hun
distillers are registered in the internal
revenue division about Statesville.
The cotton-seed oil trade has increased
greatly of late years. The article is
largely shipped to F.urope, whence it is
reshipped to this country in tbe guise of
“ pure olive oil.”
It has been proved in Nevada and
other silver-producing states of the west
that capital devoted to agriculture pays
better and more regularly than if put
into gsld and silver mines.
The lead interests of Galena, 111.,
have been seriously injured by the su
perabundance of lead produced in the
reduction of Nevada and Colorado silver
ores.
The building has been completed and
the machinery placed for anew cotton
mill at Savannah, Georgia. It will have
7,300 spindles, and 123 looms, and will
be exempt from taxation.
Some Massachusetts capitalists are
about to establish a manufactory of cot
ton hosiery at Paducah, Kentucky. It
is stated that this will be the only estab
lishment of the kind south of Philadel
phia.
The emigration of carpenters from this
country to England is managed under
the auspices of an employers’ union at
Manchester, who are endeavoring to
break down a strike carried on by the
English carpenters, and the demand for
workmen from this country is therefore
not a natural one.
The poorer the quality of illuminating
gas, the greater the velocity with which
it rushes through the registering 'meter,
so that the consumer pays a higher price
in proportion to the deterioration of the
article supplied to him. Nothing ad
mits of greater fraud than gas manufac
turing, and in nothing else is thejpublic
so grossly humbugged.
Quite a large business is done |in the
exportation of white birch wood from
New Hampshire forests to be made into
thread spools. The firm of Coats & Cos.,
in England, uses very large quantities of
this wood for their spools, and they find
it superior to any wood they can procure
in their own country. It is estimated
that over a million leet were exported for
this purpose last year, and the demand is
increasing.
ReliiCiotiM.
A book with the curious title of “Jesus
of Nazareth neither Baptized not Slain
by Jews or Gentile,” by the Rev. George
Bartle, I). I). D. C. L , has just been
published at Liverpool.
There are forty-three Protestant
churches in San Francisco, and of the
American population of 100,000 only
about 15,000 attend church. The Cen
tral Presbyterian church has been dis
banded for want of sup/port.
The beautiful Methodist church in
Saratoga, N. Y., which cost over SI,OOO
- is almost held in the grasp of the
sheriff for a debt of $50,000, and will be
actually in his grip ere long unless this
sum or part of it is paid.
The Jewish Messenger contains a lead
ing article headed “Our Anomalous
Condition.” The Jews, at present, it
says, are without rule or order; their
congregations legislate for their own
small communities, while the collective
body is permitted to run wild.
Mr.jMoodyJhas decided to devote him
self next winter of the salvation of New
England. He says: “It has been laid
on my heart that in this district was the
place for labor the coming winter, but
not until within a day ,or two. after
praver, have I felt that I could decide
upon this field.
The Churchman formulates an opinion
an church union as follows: “.Sects
that approximate in everything but
name, Bnd keep up distinction merely
for the sake of being distinct, are nui
sances. But when a distinction repre
sents a principal, we say, stick to it till
the principle is shown to be false.”
The Church Union prophesies after
this fashion : The church of the future
will not be sectarian or denominational
—it will be one body in Christ, and all
its members will lie Christians. They
will not call themselves by the names of
men, or of ordinances; but all will be
satisfied with that good old-fashioned
name, Christian.
The Pastor’s Reverie.
The pastor sits in his eiay-chaii,
With the Bible upon his kuee,
From gold to purple the clouds in the west
Aro changing momently;
The shadows lie in the valh y balow,
And hide in tne curtain’s told ;
And the page grows dim whereon he reads,
“ I remember the days of old.”
“Not clear nor dark,” as the Scripture saith,
The pastor’s memories sre;
No day that is gone was shadowlea#,
No night was without its stnr;
But mingled bitter and sweet hath been
“The hand that in love hath am tten,” he saithi
“In love hath lound us up.”
• Fleet flies his thought over many a field
uf stubble and snow aha bloom,
Ami now it trips through a festival,
And now it halts in a tomb ;
Young|aces smile in his revert*
Of those that are young no more,
And voices are heard that only come
vVith the winds from n far-off shore.
He thinks of the (lay when first, with feki
And falter! rig lips, he stood.
To speak in the sacred place the Word
To the waiting multitude;
He walks again to the house of God,
With the voice of joy and praise
With many whose feet long time have pressed
Heaven’s safe and blessed ways.
He enters again the hotqee of toil,
And joiiia in the homely chat;
He stands in the shop of the artisan;
He sits where tlie Master ant,
At the pooriuan’s flieand the rich man’s feast.
But who to-day are the poor?
And who are the rich ? Ask Him who keeps
The treasures that ever endme.
Once more tbegreen and the grove resound
With the merry children’s din ;
He hears their shout at the Christmas tide,
When Santa Claus stalks in.
Once more he lists while the camp-fire roars
On the distant mountain-side,
Or, proving apostleship, piles the brook
Where the fierce young troutliugs hide.
And now lie beholds the wedding train
Ti the altar slowly move,
And tli© solemn words are said that seal
Flie sacrament of love
Anon at the font he meets once more
The tremulous youthf il pair,
With a white-robed cherub crowing response
To the consecrating prayer.
By the couch of pain he kneels again ; 1
Again, the thin hand lies
Cold in his palm, while the last fax look
steals iato the steadfast eyes ;
And now the burden of hearts that break
Dies heavy upon his own—
The widow's woe and the orphan's cry
And the desolate mother's moan.
So blight and glad, so heavy and sad,
Are the days that are no more.
So mournfully sweet are the sounds that float
With tli© winds from a lar-off shore.
For the pastor has learned what menneth the word
That is given him to keep—
“ Rejoice with them that do rejoice.
And weep with them that weep.”
It is not in vain that lie has trod
"I his lonely and toilsome way
It. is not in vain that ho has wrought
In the vineyard ell the day ;
For the soul that gives is the soul that lives,
And bearing another's load
Doth lighten your own, and shorten the way,
And brighten the homeward road.
Rev, Washington Qlttddsn.
Arrival of Stanley, (In- Great Ex
plorer, on tlie West Coast .
> —
After months of anxious suspense,(lur
ing which the gravest fears were enter
tained lor the safety of the gallant ex
plorer, the welcome news haH come that
Henry M. Stanley, the special commis
sioner of the New York Herald ?ud the
London Daily Telegjraph, Lufarr..ed on
the west coast in Afiicn, after
A TERRIBLE JOURNEY ACROSS THE CON
TINENT,
Along the line of the Lualaba and the
Congo rivers. Stanley’s letters are dated
from Emb na, Congo river, west coast of
Africa, August 10, and informs us that
he arrived at that point on August 8,
from Zanzibar, with only one hundred
and fifteen souls, and in an awful condi
tion from the long and terrible journey
through the heart of the African conti
nent. After completing the exploration
of lake Tanganida, and settling definitely
by actual survey the question of the out
flow of the lake by what was believed to
lie the river Lakuga, but which he has
proved to be only a creek draining into
the lake, except where the waters of the
great inland sea attain an extraordinary
lead. Stanley and his followers pushed
across the county to Nyangwe, on the
Lualaba. This was the most northerly
point reached by Cameron when he at
tempted to solve the mystery of the
Congo, and its identity with the main
drainage line of the Lualaba basin.
Stanley left Nyrangwe on the 15th of
November, 1876, and traveled overland
through Uregga with his party. The
task of
PENETRATING THE UNEXPLORED WILDS
that stretched before him to the west
ward was calculated to impress him with
a sense of danger that nothing but the
stern call of duty and the promptings of
ambitious resolution could overcome.
He was about to plunge into a region
where he would be as compeletly cut
off from hope of succor, if fortune did
not favor him in his journey, as if he
was wandering on the surface of another
planet. Alter an arduous march of
many days, through a country filled
with difficulties, and being compelled to
transport on the shoulders of his men
every pound of provisions and other
stores necessary for the transcontinental
journey, and beside carrying in a similar
manner the sections of the Lady Alii*
exploring boat, and the arms and ammu
nition of the party. Stanley found him
self
BROUGHT TO A STAND
by immense tracts of dense forests,
through which all attempts at progress
were futile. Finding that he could not
advance along the lines he had first
intended to follow, Stanley crossed the
Lualaba and continued his journey along
the left bank ol the river, passing through
the district known as northeast Ukusa.
On this route be endeavored to find an
outlet westward, but the jungle was so
I dense and the fatigue of the march -o
I harrassing that it seemed impossible for
; him to succeed in passing the trernen
! dous barrier of the forest, 'lo add to trie
horrors of his position in these central
African wilds, Stanley found himsell
opposed at every step by the hostile
cannibal natives, who would not be paci
fied, but whom he, after terrible struggles,
finally repulsed He and his party took
to canoes, and pushed down the river,
replying with rifles to showers of arrows.
In the midst of these successive struggles
Stanley’s journey on the river was inter
rnpted by
A SERIES OF GREAT CATARACTS,
not far apart from each other, and just
north and south of the equator. To pass
these obstacles lie had to cut his way
through over thirteen miles of dense
forest, and drag his eighteen canoes nd
the exploring boat, Lady Alice, over
land. This alarming labor entailed the
most exhausting efforts, and they had
frequently to abandon the ax and drag
ropes for their rifles, to defend themselves
against the continued assaults of the lies
tile natives. After passing the cataracts,
Stanley and his party had a long breath
ing pause from the toil •! dragging their
boats through the forest. They were
also comparatively secure from attack
and took measures to recruit their ex
hausted strength, before encountering
the. dangers of the journey westward.
Although
FIGHTING HIS WAV CONTINUOUSLY,
.Stanley did not neglect the object of his
journey, and found opportunity to note
all the interesting changes and physical
characteristics of the route. At two de
grees north latitude he found that the
course of the Great Lualaba sweived
from its almost northerly direction to the
northwestward, to the westward, and
then to the south westward, developing
into a broad stream, varying in width
from two to ten miles, and choked with
islands. In order to avoid the struggles
with the tribes of desperate cannibals
that inhabited the mainland oy each side
of the river, Stanley’s canoe fleet, led by
the Lady Alice, paddled along between
islands, taking advantage of the cover
they afforded uh a protection from attack.
In this way many miles down the stream
were made by the party unmolested by
the natives. Hut this safety from attack
was purchased by much suffering. Cut
off from supplies in the middle of the
great river, starvation threatened to de
stroy the expedition.
•THE MOST EXTREME HUNGER
Was endured by the party, which passed
three entire days' absolutely without any
food. This terrible state o<‘ thingH could
not be any longer endured, so Stanley
resolved to meet his fate on llm mainland
rather than by hunger on the river. He
therefore turned his course to the lull
bank of the Lualaba, and with the singu
lar good fortune that has generally
attended him, reached a village of a tribe
acquainted with trade. These people
had four muskets, which they obtained
from the west coast. They represent in
a degree the
ADVANCE GllAltll OF CIVILIZATION
toward the interior of the continent.
They call the great river, Skuta Ya Con
go. With these friendly natives Stanley
and his party made" blood brotherhood,’’
and purchased from them an abundance
of provisions, which were sorely ne.edc and
by the famished exploring party. After
a brief rest Stanley endeavored to con
tinue his course along the left hank of the
river, but three days after his departure
from the village of the friendly natives
he came to the 'country of a powerful
tribe whose warriors were
ARMED WITH MUSKETS.
Here lor the first time wince leaving
Nyangwe, Stanley had to contend with
an enemy on an almost equal footing as
to arms. He therefore prepared his
party for the struggle, the is tie of which
was decidedly doubtful. No Booner did
these natives discover the approach of
Stanley’s expedition than they manned
fifty fourlargecarmoesandputoff'lrom the
river bank to attack it. It was not until
alter three of their men were killed that
.Stanley desisted in his efforts to make
the natives understand that he and his
party were friends. He cried out to
them to that affect; he offered them
clothes and peace gifts, hut
THE HAVA OKS KKKUHED TO HE CONUII,-
IA I ED,
And the fight proceeded with unbated
fury. For twelve miles down the strug
gle went on, and it proved to lie the
greatest and most desperate fight on this
terrible river. It was maintained by
Stanley's followers with great courage
and was the last save one of thirty-two
battles fought since the expedition had
left Nyangwe, The f.ualaba, which
river changes its name scores of times,
now hat it approached the Atlantic
ocean became known as the Quango and
the Sou re. As the river runs through
the great basin which lies between
twenty-six degrees, and seventeen degrees
east longitude, it hag an uninterrupted
course of over seven hundred miles, with
magnificent affluents, especially on the
southern side. Thence, clearing the
broad belt of mountains between the
great ba-in of tho Atlantic ocean the
river descends by about thirty falls and
furious rapids to the ereat river between
tiie falls of /A-Ila and the Atlantic.
Stanley's; losses
During the long and terrible journey
across the continent from Nyangwe h-.ve
been very severe. The continuous fight
ing in the forests and on the river re
duced the expedition daily, until it le-
came a question whether any of its mem
bers would ever reach the coast. Stanley
states iu his dispatch : “My grief is still
new over the loss of my last white
assistant, the brave and pious young
fenglisliman, Francis Poeock, who was
swept over the falls of Massasa on the 8 i
of last June.” He adds “My faithful
companion, Kalulnlu, is also among the
lost.
Stanley's narrow KM’APna
On the Hame day that Pocoek was lost,
Stanley, with seven men, was almost
drawn into the whirlpools of tho Moa
falls, and, six weeks later, himself, with
the entire crew,of the Lady Alicq, were
sWept over the falls of Mbclo, whence
only by a miracle they escaped. The
explorer writes: “I make the expedi
tion from Borna by steamer to Oalinda,
and proceed thence to St. Paul de Lando.
Mr. Price, of the firm of Ffation & Cook
son, of Liverpool, takes my letter to you
via Angola. Henry M. Stanley.”
THE WAIt IN IH'LGAKIA.
ICiiNMlaiin not mw ltmlly lloitton, nf'tor
all -B*r*|nrlin for Winter
Qiiarf^rM.
There is a eomi>arative lull in the oper
ations at tlic seat of war. The bombard
mentof Plevna is reported to hare ceased,
though the Turks are yet firing occasion
ally at the redoubt of Gravitza, which is
still in possession of the enemy. In cast
ing up the recent series of struggles in
that vicinity, the English papers are in
clined to admit that their first estimates
of the result were incorrect, or over-esti
mated somewhat. It in singular that the
Daily News, the recognized organ of pro-
Russian feeling, the paper that most
loudly proclaimed that the battle ended
in a Russian defeat, was led into the error
by its own corres]>ondent, who left the
field at the moment when the Russian
prospects seemed most desperate. Hub
sequent reviews of the engagement show
that the Russian forces were not so un
successful as supposed and suffered far
fewer losses in men and guns than the
Turku. On the whole, it in now consid
cred hero that the content in still unde
cided, and the heaviest and most decisive
fighting is still to come.
It is likely that the next battle of im
portance will he fought near Biela.
While the attack on Plevna has been
turned into a regular siege, Mehemet Ali,
with 125 battalions, 5) squadrons and i!H
batteries, is closely approaching the |i
sition which the czarowitch has prepared
on the hunk of the Jantra. The force of
the Ottoman General in this direction is
more than 100,000, while three corps of
his adversary cannot muster more than
66,00 c; but the czarowitch has the ad
vantage of occupying earthworks and
acting on the defensive, besides, he is in
a position to readily receive reinforce
ments. Mehemet Ali will meet a strong
resistance if he attempts the offensive.
The situation is lull of terrible interest.
The Russians, contrary to the general
expectation in England that the war
would close by a single campaign, aie
making ready to go into winter quarters.
Supplies of warnfelotliing arc being lap-
Idly forwarded from Bt. I’cicrsbu rg. To
guard the passages across the Danube,
strong bridge-heads arc being constructed
at Matchin, Nikopolis, llirsova and >Si,-,-
tova. The Russians will have an im
mense advantage, occupying the interior
|iosition between the divided forces of the
opponents. The Times has pointed out
that except as yet no Von Moltke had
appeared, the Russian armies in Rulga
tia are in much the same position as
were those of (fermany in France when
the Havanans were beaten and Aurelisde
f'aladine was believer] to lie advancing to
raise the investment of I’aris, when
Prince Frederick Charles hurried bis
battalions from Met/ and threw them
between the French columns on the
I/lire and the circle of troops which the
crown prince held tight around the capi
tal, relieving the army, driving hack the
French, and Paris fell. Hut is there a
crown prince or a Prince Frederick
Charles in (lie armies of the czar? —
Cincinnati Cnmmen ia. 1.
A Story of Thud Stevens,
Pierce M. B. Young, a recent repre
sentative in congress from Georgia, was
a con ederte general and a graduate at
West Point. He came to Washington
soon after the war, seeking to have bis
disabilities removed. He is a fine, man- .
ly fellow, and seems to have accepted '
the results of the war in good faith, lie 1
went to Tliad Stephens, and Thad began
to play with him, as he sometimes did
with those he intended to make his vic
tims. He said: “ You are a graduate of ;
West Point, I believe?” “ Yes. sir.”
“ Educated at the expense of the United
States, I believe, which you swore faith
fully to forever defend.” ‘ Yes, sir.’
You went into the service of the infer- j
nal rebellion?” ‘‘Yes, sir.” You were
a brigade commander in the raid into 1
Pennsylvania which destroyed the prop
erty of so many of my constituents?
“ Yes, sir.” “ft was a squad of men
under your direct charge and under your
personal command that burned my roll
ing null?” ‘ Yes, sir.” Young thought
he was gone, but seeing that the old vet
eran had come into the possession of the
last fact, which Young did not dream he
knew it was impossbleto deny the truth
of his question. Thad roared out:
“ Well, l like your and and impudence.
I v II see that your disibililies are re
moved. (rood morning.” And the
next day the bill passed the house.
GKAVE AND GAY.
Ffinny 'ft Mud Fleur.
Under the apple tree, spreading? and thick,
Happy with only a pin and a stick,
Qu the soft grasa in the Bbadow that lies,
Otir little Fanny is raakina mud pies.
On her brown Upron and brightdroopiug head
Hhowerso/ pink and white blossoms are hhed :
Tied to a branch that seems just meant for that,
Djnces and flutters her little straw hat.
Gravely she stirs with a seriouJ look,
Making believe she’s n true pastry cook ;
Sundry brown splashes on forehead inid eyes
Wbow tnnt our Fanny is making mud p^s.
Hut all the soil of he: innocent play
Glean soap and water will soon wash away ;
Many a piea-ure in daintier gaise
Leaves dnrfcei traces than Fanuy’s mud pies.
Dash, full of joy in the frnsjht summer dav.
Jealously ch son the robins aw ay,
Rarks at the squirrels, or snaps at the flies',
All the whi'e Fanny is making n.ud pies.
Dollies and playthings are all laid aw 7,
Not to co.no out till tho next rainy day :
Under the blue of those sweet summer skies
Nothin-.' so pleasant as making rnud pies
HliatMh SHU.
. Master .lackey (inquiringly)— “Why
don’t baby eat buns, aunty?” Aunt
Singleton—“ Because she has no teeth,
dear.” Master .lackey (audibly
"Then why can't you lend her yours
NO. 6.
aunty ? You ain’t always using ’em.
. . President Clark, of the Massachu
setts state agricultural college, who
recently returned from Japan, sayji:
'‘The Japanese are a people able and
witling'to do Tight.. 1 never saw a qnar
rel in Japan, and never saw or heard of
a Japanese student in America or Japan
accused of immorality.”
..Sir Edmund Cox, the nmrteenth
baionet, died last week in Quebec, at the
age of eighty. He served many years
ago in the eighty-seventh royal Irish fu
siliers. A story is told of his vain at
tempt to give the command for a fen tu
joie to a equal of Canadian militia on
tile queen's birthday—this was before the
present militia system had been adopted
lie stammered and got irremediably
stuck ou “ Eire !” and after crying “F
--f-f-f-f-f f—l” till he was red in the face,
nobly surmounted thedifliculty by shout
ing, “ Shoot, you foois—you know
what I mean !”
An Oakland huckster bought a fine
mule at auction on California street last
week. Ho paid $l4O for it, and chris
tened it Martin Luther. After trying
for three days to put its harness on from
a second-story window, the owner resold
it yesterday forsl4, on long time, under
the style and title ’of “Bara. ” It was
purchased by the city government, and
will henceforth lie used to suppress riots.
It is calculated that when backed gently
but firmly into a mob the business-end oi
this faithful animal will be equal to four
Gatling guns and a howitzer.— torn Fran
euro Paper.
, There was an immense crowd at, the
institute, in Paris, the other day to hear
Alexander Dumas deliver his discourse
before the academy on the Monthyon
prizes this year, that of S4OO, was taken
bv an old maid named Leocadie Lavarde,
i who, obliged to earn every sou that she
expends try the labor of her hands, has
passed long years in rescuing, supporting
and establishing descried and starving
I children. She has carried on this charit
able work for over twenty-one years, at
first single-handed, hut latterly tho pub
lic has taken au interest in her work and
has come to her aid.
A well-dressed negro applied to the
lidgoof probate of Mobile for a tnarringe
license. He "as asked how old his in
tended was, and answered with great ani-
■nation, “.lust Pi, judge—sweet Pi, and
the handsomest girl in town." The
judge said he could not do it, as the law
forbade him to issue license to any one
under 18. “Well, hold on, judge,” ex
claimed the man. ” I know dat dem girls
am deceitful and lie about deir age. Hhe
is I!) if a day.” “ Will you swear to it?”
asked the judge. “ Yes, sah,” lie replied,
and did. .“ And how old are you ?” said
the judge. The chap looked suspicious,
and replied, cautiously : “ Thirty-five,”
and added: “If dat won’t do, judge,
I’ve got more hick.”
. “ Heaven iies about us iri our in
fancy.”— Wonhvmth. And,on the other
hand, the world lies about us when we
grow older. Did our readers ever think
how willing people are to speak just as
bad as they can ol others, though when
they themselves get into some little
trouble, they are astonished i others
speak of them, just as they have df ne of
others all their lives. “ Olrcumstances
alter cases,” and people seldo.ri think or
other’s feelings, but are ready at all times
to put the worst possible meaning to
; everything in speaking of the unfortu
nate. While heaven may lie about us
I in our infancy, everyone knows that
almost everyone else is ready to lie about
us as we grow older. Such is human
nature, and such has it always been.
What a world this would be would
everyone mind his own business.” What
a world would this lie would each have
more charily, put themselves in their
neighbor’s place, arid, when speaking of
j others, tell the truth, neither adding to
or taking from what they know is tmili.
A Sunken Sepulchre.
United States, District Attorney
George M. Duskin, of the southern Dis
trict of Alabama, is in Washington for
the purpose of attempting to prevent a
further destruction of the monitor Tc
cumseh, sunk in Mobile hmbirin !
when Farragut captured the foris. it
is understood that a wrecking company
purchased the monitor some months aeo
from Secetary Richardson, and, not
withstanding the fact that 200 men
areentombed therein, were preparing to
blow her up for the purpose of securing
the old iron belonging to the vessel.
The facts in this case are that attorney
Duskin, after the sale of the Tecumeeh,
filed a hill in the circuit court of the
United States to prevent the bell-boat
wrecking company from blowing up the
aunken vessel, and the court decided in
favor of the hill filed. It is understood
that the company have appealed to the
supreme court of the United State®, end
the district attorney will endea.or
defeat their lurther action in the case,