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TOW N DIRECTORY.
TOWN OFFICERS.
or- W. H. Whaley.
; 'Ganuilruen —T. 1\ Littlefield, H. \V.
' Gialey, Brvaut George, O F. Littlefield,
1 *l*\ lersou Williams,
•Clerk and Treasurer—O. F. Littlefield.
.Marshal—CL W. Williams.
COUNTY OFFCERS.
Ordinary—Richard B. Hoppa.
Sheriff—Jobu N*. Good bread.
< jerk Superior Court —Beni. O. Middleton
Tax Receiver—J. C. Hitcher.
JGx Collector—W, R. Causey.
< C' >v *: _ vc-r—Noah RLmrett.'
County Treasurer—John Massey,
Coroner—D. McDitha.
County Commissioners—J, F. King, G
W. H lines, James Knox. J. G. Rich, Tsham
Reddish.
COURTS.
Superioi Court, Wayne County—Juo. L.
Harris, Judge; Simon W. Hitch, Solicitor-
Gencral. Sessions held on second Monday
ia March and September.
IMster, Pieroß Comity Genriia.
TOWN DIRECTORY.
TOWN OFFICERS.
Mayor—Andrew M. Moore.
Councilmen—D. P. Patterson,,}. M, Downs,
J. M. Lee, L. D. Brantly.
Clerk of Council—J. M. Purdora.
I own Treasurer—B. D. Brantly.
Marshal—E. 7. Byrd.
COUNTY OFFICERS.
Ordinary—-A. J. Strickland.
Clerk Superior Court—Andrew M, Moove.
Sheriff —E. Z. Byrd.
“ •iViuty Treasurer—D. P. Patterson.
‘County Serveyor—J. M. Johnson.
r fax Receiver and Collector—J, M. Pur
? lom.
Chairman of Road Commissioners—llßl
District, G. M., Lewis C. Wylly; 12’0 Dis
triefc, U. M., George T. Moody ; 584 District,
O. M., Charles S. Youmanns; 590 District,
G. M., D. B. McKinnon.
Notary Publics and Justices of the Peace,
etc.—Blackshear Precinct. 584 district,(LM.,
Notary Public, J. G. S. Patterson ; Justice
of the Peace, Ft. R. Janies; Ex-officio Con
stebfc E. Z Byrd.
Dickson?.-* Mill Precinct, 1250 District, G.
M , Notary Public,Mathew Sweat; Justice of
Hie Peace, Geo. T. Moody; Constable, W,
F. J>'ckson.
Patterson Precinct, 1181 District, G. M.,
Notary Public, Lewis C. Wylly ; Justice of
Or-, Peace. Lewis Thomas; Constables, 11.
JPveScott and A. L. Griner.
Schlattervillc Precinct, 560 District, G. M.,
Notary Public, D. 8. McKinnon: Justice of
rhe Peace, N, R. Ham; Constable, Jobu W.
Booth,
‘OdtJtts—Superior court, Pierce county,
Joh>' L. Harris, judge; Simon W. Hitch,
■ Solicitor General. Sessions held first Mon
• !ry in March and September.
Corporation court, Blackshear,Ga., session
held second Saturday in each Month. Police
< ourt sessions every Monday Morning at 9
o’clock.
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cut?itENT PARA6RAIMIS.
Soiitliorn IlfiiiN,
Religious revivals are in progress all
■over North Carolina.
Eighty thousand cattle are to be ship
ped in one lot from Taylor, Texas.
The Galveston jail contains nine men
charged with murder.
The farmers of Georgia will realize
nearly two millions of dollars from their
t'each crop this year, sold in a dried state.
Savaqnah has contributed in two days
over $1,200 in cash to fever-stricken Fer
nandina.
The complete tax returns show an in
crease in the valuation of property in
Georgia of $121,151.
Dallas, Texas, now'has in operation a
huge steam sausage manufactory. That’s
the best dog-law yet.
Andrew Nickels dropped a pistol on the
railroad track at Abingdon, Va., and was
“hot through the heart.
The New Orleans Picayune says the
storm .Sunday lasted thirty-six hours in
Point Coupee parish, and destroyed one
half or two-thirds of the cotton.
A Florida correspondent of the Savan
nah News says of the Seminole Indians.
A square drink of fire-water is the indis
pensable preliminary of every barter.
Smoked deerskins constitute the principal
articles orought into the settlements.
They sell these one at a time, never
deviating from this practice by dis
posing of them by the dozen or bundle.
The warriors use hunting-shirts, and are
sometimes arrayed in fringed leggias. A
gaudy shawl, of glaring colors, is wrap
ped, turban-like, around their heads.
They use small ponies, and when accom
panied by their squaws the women are
always pedestrians. Breech-loaders are
as yet unknown and the old-fashioned,
long-stocked rifles constitute their
weapons.
The Atlanta, Ga., Constitution prints
an interesting interview with a member
of the Swiss colony which settled in
t umberland Mountain, Tenn., in 1873.
This colony, which consists of one hun
dred and fifteen families, making a com
pany of about seven hundred persons,
purchased 10,000 acres of mountain land
at one dollar (>er acre, and now. although
only few years have elapsed, each head of
a familv owns a comfortable home, sur
rounded by an orchard, garden, and dec
orated with a profusion of mountain
• nvrer* ■ there i- a large -tore that is
,callage,.f for lie- <- lony, itteinWr of
Bbo §tes#g J§otliwl
VOL. 11.
which get goods from it at wholesale
cost, the colony has its own school,
church, doctors, etc., and the members
their own candidates to govern the dis
tricts in which they live. The colonists
already have dairies and cheese factories
in successful operation, and all their pro
ducts find ready sale aud command fancy
prices. They have splendid herds of
cattle, and their barns are built carefully
as their houses. There is a colony of
Swiss near Greenville, S. C., about as
large as the Tennessee colony, and it is
prospering finely.
usnenil srtt'.
Le Verrier, the astronomer, who died
iu Paris yesterday, was the original dis
coverer of the planet Neptune. ~
The successor to Pius TV is likely to
be Cardinal BaneHahcoand not Cardinal
T’Scci. as has been popularly supposed.
1 W'uliam B. Asio, has just launened a
new yacht, the “ Ambassadress/’ said to
be the largest and the finest in the world.
Elihu E. Washburn, ex minister to
France, says he will retire from public
life and resume the practice of law' in
Chicago.
William Cullen Bryant once practiced
law, but was so disgusted by his deteat
through a technicality in Words that he
abandoned the profession.
Suleiman Pasha, Who has been pound
ing away at Schipka Pass with such per
tinacity, is said to be a most unostenta-;
tious man, quick of perception and eti'r
getic in action. He b'vouaCs with the
soldiers, and is potrc! on all the tricks of
mountain warfare.
Naturalists about the British museum
are making money by selling Colorado
beetles at five shillings apeice. The bugs
are thrust through with a. pin aiid
fastened in a pill-box. A bushel at five
shillings apeice would be more profitable
than potatoes.
One result of the interest taken in
rifle matches iu the last few years is that
the principal ocean steamers have estate
lished rifle ranges on their decks, and
instead of playing sbuffleboard and pitch,
passengers now amuse themselves by
firing at targets.
A French paper speaking of the differ
ence between the French and the Span
iards, says that in France ninety-five out
of every hundred murders have money
for their object, while in Spain love is
the cause of ninety-eight out of every
hundred crimes.
Tr.c Central Pacific railroad proposes
building a Power on Red mountain, on
which with a telescope, a man can see
all around the snow sheds from Blue
Canyon to Cisco. Wit h the assistance of
the telegraph, a fire can be announced
without loss of time.
An Austrian clerk has been convicted
of defrauding the batik of Paris of slll,*
800. The fraud, as in too many other
cases, was only discovered when he went
off for his holidays. 1/ondon banks now
often insist on clerks takiug holidays,
even when they do not care about doing
so.
The last photograph of Thiers was taken
by an enterprising artist who ambus
caded him as he was enjoying his morn
ing walk. With great good nature the
old statesman stood still, and gave the
artist a chance to take him as he stood
leaning against a railing with a stout
cane iu his hand and wearing his tradi
tional black coat buttoned to the throat,
and a straw hat.
Dr. W. R. Bartlett, of New Haven,
treats in the September number of the
Sanitarian of the causes of diseases in
country homes. The causes are bad air,
impure water, improper food and cloth
ing, unsuitable dwellings, and exhaustive
occupations. More attention is now
given, Dr. Bartlett says, to healthful
conditions of life in the city than in the
country, although the country is more
favorable to health if right conditions
are observed.
At a recent session of the North Caro
lina presbytery at Milton, when the
report for that town was read, Moderator
Doll sternly asked: “Do any of your
members dance ? ” Brother Darnell low
ered his head and meekly answered,
“ Yes.” Then the report for Moderator
Doll’s own church was read, and the
presbytery informed that the members
devoted their evenings to buggy riding.
Brother Darnell pricked up his ears, and
the Milton girls nodded tbeir heads arid
whispered, “ Thats worse;than dancing.”
A report of the expulsion of Chinamen
from Roseville, Cal., says: “ The Celes
tials were, to the number of twenty or
twenty-five, traveling along the railroad
track about half a mile from town, fol
lowed closely by the citizens, who, when
ever one lagged behind, urged him on
with the toe of a boot or the tap of a
stick. Some of the Chinamen were mov
ing along at a trot, while others moved
sullenly and slowly. These Chinamen
were mainly men who had been working
for the railroad company ; nearly all the
otter Chinaman left the town some weeks
ago, having been ‘frozen out’ by the
citizens, who would neither buy of, sell
to, nor have any dealings with them.”
Ki'lpih’** and Indnulry.
It is claimed that Corpus Christi
handled 6,000,000 pounds of wool the
past season.
Mr. Bradley, of Lampasas county,
Texas, raised this season fourteen wagon
loads of onions, estimated to be over 20,-
000 pounds on one acre of land. They
will net him four cents a pound, or eight
hundred dollars.
A class of twenty-three Boston women
have successfully prosecuted diamond
cutting, which has heretofore been car
ried on almost exclusively by the Jews
of Amsterdam. The girls cut and polish
the diamonds in an excellent manner.
Irish moss is gathered in the bay near
Scituate, Mass. The v ater is clear, and
the “ mossere ” in their boats can easily
see to gather with l°ng rakes bunches
clinging to the rocks below. The prep
aration of the moss for market consists
simply of washing and packing. Brew
ers use it largely instead of higher priced
isinglass.
If the Northern and Southern Presby
terian churches were united the sum
total of members would be 670,! 24. In
1861, when they parted, the total num
ber of member- in the united nodv ws ;
non 314.
JESUP, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER IT. 1877.
ITdtVer* That Never Wither.
There are flowers that never wither,
f Mere are skies that never fade,
There are trees that cast forever
Cooling I rowers of leafy shade.
There are silver wavelets flowing
With a lulliug sound of real.
Where tho west wind, softly blowing,
Fans the far lauds *?f the blest.
1 hitherward our steps are tending,
Oft through dim, oppressing fears ;
More of grief thnn pleasure blending
In the darkness wpof of
Often would Cut ioolsteps wertry,
Sink upon thb winding way, '
Vut, that, when all looks most dreary'
O’er us beams a cheering rny.
Thus the Father, who hath made us
Tenants of this world of care,
Knoweth how to kindly aid u i
VI Ith the burdens we must bear
Knoweth how to cause the spirit
Hopefully to raise its eyes
Toward the home it doth Inherit,
Far beyond the azure skits.
1 here is a voUe that whispers lowly,
T ‘ wn within this heart of mine.
Wh U il.v 'uiv.T'o'lJvGy
Ever ruHke their sacred shrine;
And it tells a thrilling story
Of the great Redeemers love,
And the all-bewildering glory
Of the bet Ur land above.
6, this life, with all its sorrows,
Hastcth onward to a close!
In a few ihoro brief 10-morrow’s
, Will haVeended all our woes.
Then o’er death the part Immortal
* Shul! sublimely rise and soar,
O'er the star-resplendent portal
There to dwell forevermore.
SOME KAMBIJNO NOTES OF
an Idee excursion.
HY MARK TWAIN.
All the journeyings 1 had ever done
had been purely in the Way of business.
The pleasant May weather suggested a
novelty, namely, a trip for pure recrea
tion, the bread-and-butter element left
oitt. The Reverend said lie would go,
too; a good man, one of the best of men,
although a clergyman. By eleven at
night we were in New Haven and ou
board the New York boat. We bought
our tickets, and then went wandering
around, here and there, in the solid com
fort of beiog free and idle, and of put
ting distance between ourselves and the
mails and telegraphs.
After a while I went to my state-room
and undressed, but the night was too
enticing for bed. We were moving
down the bay now, and it was pleasant
to stand at the window and take the
cool night-breeze and watch the gliding
lights on shore. Presently, two elderly
men sat down under that window and
began a conversation. Their talk was
properly no business of mine, yet I was
feeling friendly toward the world and
willing to be entertained. I soon gath
ered that they were brothers, that they
were from a small Connecticut village,
and that the matter iu hand concerned
the cemetery. Said one, —
“ Now, John, we talked it all over
amongst ourselves, and this is what we’ve
done. You see, everybody wasa-movin’
from the old buryin’ ground and our
folks was most about left to theirselves,
as you may say. they was crowded,
too, as you know ; lot wa’n’t big enough
in the first place; and last, year, when
Seth’s wife died, we couldn’t hardly
tuck her in. She sort o’ overlaid Dea
con Shore’s lot, and he soured on her, so
to speak, and on the rest of us, too. So
we talked it over, and I was for a lay-out
in the newsimitery on the hill. They
wa’n’t unwilling, if it was cheap. Well,
the two best and biggest plots was No. 8
and No. 9,—both of a size; nice com
fortable room for twenty-six—twenty-six
full-growns, that is ; but you ’reckon in
children and other shorts, and strike an
average, and I should say you might lay
in thirty, or may be thirty-two or three,
pretty genteel,—no crowdin’ to signify.’
“That’s a plenty, William. Which
one did you buy ?”
“ Well, Pin a-copiing to that, John
You see, No. 8 was tnirteen dollars, No
9 fourteen ”
“ I see. So’s’s you took N. 8.”
“You wait. I took [No. 9. And I’ I,
tell you for why. In the first place.
Deacon Bhorb wanted it. Well, after
the way he’d gone on about Neth’s wife
overlappin’ his prem’ses, I’d ’a’ beat him
out of that No. 9 if I’d ’a’ had to stand
two dollais extra, let alone one. That's
the way I felt about it. Says 1, what’s
a dollar, anyway? Life’s on’y a pil
grimage, says I; we ain’t here for good,
and we can’t take it with us, says I. So
1 just dumped it [down, knowin’ the
Lord don’t suffer a good deed to go for
nothin’ and cal’latin’ to take it out o’
somebody in the course o’ trade. Then
there was another reason, John. No. 9 s
a long way the handiest lot in the simi.
tery, and the likeliest for situation. It
lays right on top of a knoll in [the dead
centre of the buryin’ground; and you
can see Millport from there, and Tracy’s,
and Hopper Mount, and a raft o’ farms,
and so on. There ain’t, no better outlook
from a buryin’ plot in the state, hi
Higgins says so, and I reckon he ought
to know. Well, and that ain t all.
Course Shorb had to trke No. 8; wa’n’t
no help for’t. Now, No. 8 jiues on to
No. 9, but it’s on the slope of the hill,
and every time ; t rains it’ll soak right
down on to the Shorbs. H Higgins says
!’t when the deacon’s time comes, he better
take out fire and marine insurance both
on his remains.”
Here there was the sound of a low,
placid, duplicate chuckle of appreciation
and satisfaction.
“ Now, John, 'here’s a little rough
draft of the ground, that I’ve made on
a piece of paper. T’p here in the left
hand corner wve bunched the departed
stowed them one long side o’ t’other, on
u first come-first-served plan, no partiali
ties, with gran’ther Jones for a starter,
on’y because it happened so, and windin’
up> indiscriminate with fcsfth’s twins. A
little crowded towards the end of the lay
out, may be, but we reckoned ’twa’n’t
best to scatter the twteg. Well, next
comes the liviu . Here, where it’s
marked A, we’re goin’ to put Mariar and
her family, when they’re called; B, that’s
for brother it tinea and liis’u; C, Oalviu
aud tribe. What’s left is these two lots
here, —just the gem [of the whole patch
for general stylo and outlook ; they’re for
me and puy folks, and you and yourn.
Which of them would you ruther be
buried in?” •
" L/s-itlyr.'/Ti . •'M’eivhitir-'rejbty tu> ;
expected, William 1 It sort af started
the shivers. Fact is, I was thinkin’ so
busy about leakin' things comfortable for
the others, I hadn’t thought about being
buried myself.”
“ Life’s on’y a fleetin’ show, John, as
the sayiu’ is. We’ve all|got[to go sooner
or later. To go with a clean record’s the
main thing. Fact is, it’s the on’y thing
worth strivin’ for, John.”
“ Yes, that’s so, William, that’s so;
there ain’t no getting around it. Which
of these lots would you recommend ?”
“ Well, it depends, John. Aro you
particular about outlook ?”
I don’t say 1 am, William; I don’t
say 1 ain’t. Reely, I don’t know. Ihit
mainly, I reckon, I’d set store by a south
exposure.”
“ That’s easy fixed, John, They’re
both soilth exposure. They take the
sun and the Shorbs get the shade?”
“ How about sile, William ?”
“ D’s a sandy sile, E’s mostly loom.”
“ You may gimme E, then, William;
a sandy sile caves in, more or less, and
costs for repairs.”
“ Ail right; Het your name down here,
John, under E. Now, if you don’t
mind payin’ me your share of the fourteen
dollars, John, while we’re on the business,
everything’s fixed.”
After some higgling jmd sharp liar
gaining the money was paid, and John
bade his brother good-night and took his
leave. There was silence for some
moments ; then a soft Chuckle welled up
from jthe lonely William, and he mut
tered: “ I declare for ’t, if I haven’t
made a mistake ! It’s l)’s that’s mostly
loom, not E. And John’s booked for a
sandy sile after nil.”
There wan another -soft chuckle, and
William departed to his rest, also.
The next day, in New York, was a hot
one. Btill we managed to get more or
less entertainment out of it. Toward the
middle of the afternoon we arrived on
board the staunch steamship Bermuda,
with hag and baggage, and hunted for a
shady place. It was blazing summer
weather, until we were half down the
harbor. Then I buttoned my coat
closely; half an hour later 1 put on a
spring overcoat and buttoned that. As
we passed the light-ship I added an ulster
and tied a handkerchief [around the col
lar toehold it snug to my neck. No
rapidly had the summer gone and winter
come again!
By nightfall we were far out at sea,
with no land in sight. No telegrams
could come here, no letters, no news.
This was an uplifting thought. If was
still more uplifting to reflect that the
millions of harassed people on shore be
hind us were suffering just as usual. The
next day brought as into the midst of
the Atlantic solitudes, —out of smoke
colored soundings into fathomless deep
blue; no ships visible anywhere over the
wide ocean; no company hut Mother
Cary’s chickens wheeling, darting, skim
ming the waves in the sun. There were
some sea-faring men among the pansen
gers, and conversation drifted into mat
ters concerning ships and sailors. One
said that “ true as the needle to the pole”
was a bad figure, since the needle seldom
pointed to the pole. He said a ship’s
compass was not faithful to any par
ticular point, but was the most
fickle and treacherous of the servants of
man. It was forever changing. It
changed every day in the year; conse
quently the amount of the daily varia
tion had to Ist cipheredoutandallowance
made for it, else the mariner would go
utterly astray. Another said there was
a vast fortune waiting for the genius who
should invent a compass that would not
be affected by the local influences of an
iron ship. He said there was only one
creature more fickle than a wooden ship’s
compass, and that was the compass of an
iron ship. Then came references to the
well known fact that an experienced
mariner can look at the compass of anew
iron vessel, thousands ol miles from her
birthplace, and tell which way her head
was pointing when she v es in process of
building.
Now an ancient whale-ship master foil
to talking about the sort of crews they
used to have in his early days. Said he :
“ Sometimes we’d have a lot of college
students, fffieer lot. Ignorant? Why
they didn’t know the cat-heads from the
main brace. But if you tok them for
fools you'd get bit, sure. They’d learn
more in a month than another man would
in a vear. We had one once, in the
Mary Ann, that came aboard with gold
spectacles on. And besides, he was rigged
out from main truek to kee!on in the
I clothe- t mt e . >-r -aw a fo casth-
He had a chest full, too: cloaks, and
broadcloth coats, and velvet tests i every
thing swell, you know ; and didn’t the
salt water fix them out for him? I guess
not! Well, going to sea, tho mate told
him to go aloft air’ li'lp shake out the
fore-to’gallants’l. Up he shins to the
foretop, with his spectacles on, and in a
minute down he comes again, looking In
sulted. Says the mate, ‘ What did you
come down for ? ’ Says the chap, ‘ P’raps
you did n't notic<s~that there ain’t any
ladders above there. ’ You see we hadn't
any shrouds above the fo.etop. The
men bursted out in a laugh such as J
guess you never heard the like of. Next
night, which.was’dark aud rainy, the
mate ordered this chap to go aloft about
rod I Jammed it hc didn't
start up with an umbrella and a lantern!
But no matter; he made a mighty good
sailor before tho voyage was done, and
wed to hunt Up something else to
laugh at. Years afterwards, when I had
forgot all about him, I comes into Bos
ton mate of a ship, and loafing around
town with the second mate, and it so
happened that westepped into tho Revere
house, thinking may be we would chance
the salt-horse in that big dining-room
for a flyer, as the boys say. Home fel
lows were talking just at our elbow, and
one says, ‘ Yonder ’h tho new governor of
Massachusetts, —at that table over there,
with the ladies.’ We took a good look,
my mate and I, lor we had n’teither of us
ever seen a govenor before. I looked
and looked at that (ace, and then all Of
a sudden it popped on tne! But I didn’t
give any sign. Hays I, ’Mate, I've a
notion to go over and shake hands with
him.’ Says he, I think i see you doing
it, Tom.’ Says 1, ‘Mate, I'm a going to
doit.’ Says lie, ‘Oh, yes, I guess so!
May be you don’t want to bet you will,
Tom?’ Says I, ‘1 don’t mind goinga Von
it,mate.’ Says he, ‘ Put it up.’ ‘UpHhe
goes, ’ says 1, planking the cash. This
surprised him. Rut lie covered it, and
says, pretty sarcastic, ‘ Hadn’t you better
tak your grub with the govenor and
the ladies, Tom ? ’ Says I, ‘Upon second
thoughts, I will.’ Says he, ‘Well, Tom,
you area dutn fool.’ Says I, ‘ May be
I am, may he 1 ain't; hut the main
question is, I to you want to risk two and
a half that I won’t do it? ’ ‘ Make it a
V, ’ says he. ‘ Done, ’ says I. I started,
him a-giggling and slapping his hand on
his thigh, lie felt so good. I went over
and leaned my knuckles on the table a
minute and looked the govenor in the
face, and says I,‘Mister Gardner, don’t
you know me?’ lie stared, and I stared,
and hestared. Then all of a sudden lie
sings out,‘Tom Rowling, by the holy
poker! Undies, it’s old Tom Bowling,
that you’ve heard me talk about, —ship-
mate of mine in the Mary Ann.’ He
rose up and shook hands with me ever
so hearty —I sort of glanced around and
took a realizing sense ol tny mate’s saucer
eyes—and then says the governor, ‘Plant
yourßelf, Tom, plant yourself; you can’t
cat your anchor again till you’ve had a
feed with me and the ladies ! ’ I planted
myself alongside the governor, anil canted
my eye around toward my mate. Weil,
’sir, his dead-lights were hugged out like
tompions; and Ins mouth stood that
wide ojien that you could have laid a ham
in it without him noticing it.”
There was a great. pau:-e at the conclu
sion of the old captain’s story; then,
after a moment’s silence, a grave, pale
young man said:
“ Had you ever met the governor
before \ ”
Thc old captain looked steadily at this
inquirer a while, and then got up and
walked aft without making any reply.
One passenger after another stole a fur
tive glance at the inquirer, but failed to
make him out, and so gave him up. It
took some little work to get the talk-ma
chinery to running smoothly again after
this derangement; but at length a con
versation sprang up about that important
and jealously guarded instrument, a
ship’s time-keeper, its exceedingly deli
gate accuracy, and the wreck and de
struction that have sometimes resulted
from its varyinga few seemingly trifling
moments from the true time ; then, in
due time, my comrade, the Reverend,
got off on a yarn, with a fair wind and
everything drawing. Itwasn truestory,
too —about Captain Aounceville’s ship
wreck-true in every detail, ft was to
this effect:
Captain Kounceville’s vessel was lost
in mid Atlantic, and likewise his wife
and his two little children. Captain
Rounceville and seven seamen escaped
with life, but with little ehe. A small,
rudely constructed raft was to be their
home for eight days. They had neither
provisions nor water. They had scarcely
any clothing ; no one ha-1 a coat but the
captain. This coat was changing hands
all the time, for the weather was very
cold. Whenever a man became ex
hausted with the cold, they put the coat
on him and laid him down between two
shipmates until the garment and their
bodies had warmed lite into him again.
Among th sailors was a Portugese who
knew no English- He seemed to have
no thought of his own calamity, but was
concerned only aliout the captain's bit
ter loss of wife and children. By day he
wonbl look his dumb compassion in the
captain’s far-e: and by night, in the
-darkness and the driving jptay arid rain
he would seek out iuc cptain and try to
comfort him with caressing pats ren the
shoulder. One day, when hunger and
thirst were) making their sure inroads
upon the men’s strength and spirits, a
floating barrel was seen at a distance. It.
seemed a great find, for doubtless it con
tained food of some sort. A bravo fellow
swam lo it, and after long and exhaust
ing efforts; got it to the raft. It was
a barrel of magnesia! Pn the filth day
an onion was spied. A sailof oft
and got it. Although perishing dT'-b'
hunger, he brought it in its integrity amp
put it into the captain's hand. The his
tory of the Beauteaches that among starv
ing, shipwrecked men, selfishneit is rate)
aud a wom.erecompelling magnanimity
the rule. The onion was equally divided
iiito’ pfgmf pT; iis and eaten 'With deep*
thanksgivings. On the eight day ri dis
tant ship was sighted. Attempts were
roade to hoist an oar with Captain
Roundeville’s coat on it for a signal.
There were many failures, f.if the men
were hut skeletons now, and strengthless.
At last success was achieved, hut the
signal brought no help. The ship faded
out of sight and left despair behind
her. Ry und by another ship appeared,
and passed so near that the castaways,
every eye eloquent with gratitude,
made ready to welcome the boat that
would be sent, to save them. But this
ship also drove on, and left these poor
men staring their unutterable surprise
and dismay into each other’s ashen
faces. Late in the day, still another
ship came up out of the distance, hut
the men noted with a pang that her
course was out which would not bring
her nearer. Their remnant of life was
nearly spent; their lips and tongues were
swollen, parched, cracked with eight
davs’ thirst; their bodies starved; and
here was their last chance gliding re
lentlessly from them; they would not be
alive when tho next sun rose. For a
clay or two past the men had lost llieir
voices, hut now Captain Rouncevillo
whispered, “let us pray.” The Por
tuguese patted him on the shoulder iu
sign of deep approval. All knelt at the
base of the oar that was waving the sig
nal coat aloft, aud bowed their heads.
Tho son was tossing; the sun rested, a
red, rayless disk, on the sea-line in the
west. When tho men presently raised
their heads they would have roared a
hallelujah if they had had a voice; the
ship’s sails lay wrinkled and flapping
against her masts, she was going about!
Here was rescue at last, and in the very
last instant of time that was left for it.
No, not rescue yet,—only the imminent
prospect of it The red disk - ink under
tiie sea and darkness blotted out the ship.
Ry and bv came a pleasant sound, —oars
moving in a boat's rowlocks. Nearer it
came, and nearer,—within thirty steps,
hut nothing visible. Then a deep voice;
“Hol-lol” The castaways could not
answer; their swollen tongues refused
voice. The boat skirted round and
round the raft, started away- the agony
of it I—-returned, rested the oars, e!ns’ at |
hand, li-teriing, no doubt. The deep j
voice again: Hollo! Where are ye, j
shipmates ? ” (tiptain Kouneeville whie
pered to his men, saying: “Whisper
your h<'Ht, fiiys! now —.ill at once!”
So they sent out an eightfold whisper in
hoarse concert: “Here!” I here was
lit,, in it, it it succeeded , rlcnfh il it
failed. After that supreme moment
Captain Kouneeville was conscious ol
nothing until he came to himself on
board the saving ship. Said the Rever
end, concluding:
“ There was one little moment of time
in which that raft could be visible from
that ship, and only one. If that one
little fleeting moment had passed unfruit
ful, those men’s doom was sealed. As
close as that does God shave events
foreordained from the beginning of the
world. When the sun reached the wa
ter’s edge that day, the captain ot that
ship was sitting on deck reeding Id"
prayer-book. The book fell ; h-steep' and
to pick it up, and happened to glance at
the sun. In that instant that fer-i-fl' r.dt
appeared for a second against, the red
disk, its need jn-like oar and diminutive
signal cm -harp and black a -ain -f the
bright Hints'---, and in the next install!
was thru -6 a way info the dusk again.
Hut that ship, that captain, and that
pregnant ii -t lit liad had their work
appointed tor them in the dawn of time
arid cell Id not fail of the performance.
The chronometer of God never i ri- ’
There was rliep, thoughtful silence
for sent** moment-. J hen the grave,
pale v' N't-/ mao said
“Wh't i" the chronometer of G el .'”
Atlanir Monthly.
Cheaper Tortbe Husband.
Mr. Labouchere tells us that Brigham
Young’s death was being discussed at a
London dinner party, when a young lady
started the rather hold contention that
fir the future the principles of Morinon
ism should be reversed. "Times,” she
said, “are so bad, anil fashions so expen
sive, it is absurd for one man to have
fouror five wives, whereas, if each woman
had four or five husbands, and”—the
point which seemed most to commend
itwlf to her —“ how much lietter wives
could dress.” But what is t > lieeome ot
adie" without husbands *
GRAVE AND GAY-
A Negro ong.
Ntfw de rain am come at last,
An' de long drouf time in
An’ do grass urn cornin' fast.
In dr sbftwur;
An’ de inornin'-gJoty hifer,
An’ de paMey’s gropin’ higher
Kb'ry hoJe.
Choriiv-Oh. darkle*, mfn-d din warn!nr
You won’t hinre long to.u i e .
Fordem glories in de morula
Tilings trowbles all dajr.
Oh, de cabbnge laugh to-day.
An’ de nquaftbes aing and play*
An’ deni grow away—
OutderoM'r
But de cuekleburs atu *prtglrU
An’ do debil'ii need am bfiogin*
W<>r* and
Kew, darkies, shore's rou honr
• ,Massa Reuben's early Wwa
Will call you in Uat corn
Win tie plow ;
For the am a-ioo in
Ad’ deni M.iy pop* uib a-Uooiatm*
A ell you t.ovr t
* Oh, de rain-crow call de rain.
For Jo white folk* gooi and ga’o,
I'nt dedai kies work in pnie,
7 - M' nd mo';
v fVi dr coflVe hid MtnlWn’
% Alt’ and ■* mi ton*fb M am apilln*
v $ w F / tie >hk*.
’. n Tf nkdeLortl.il* k owb de ht-at*
Fordo pfyebiti’crop am bleat.
,• " An' detmrklcs ball
111 de fdiowor ;
jS But dat mt> , oin’-glory brier.
fSf An' dat pulley's grow in’ higher
t Kb’ry hour!
Qrntrnl Gronria
' ■—
. One of the greatest wonders of this
world is what liec/uues n< f.ll she smnrl
-children
Planted no byHxoriipot! ft woman .* ihuv.
Not Rogers’ razor**, thbugh the Tory best
i>o ulrnve a chin that never is at rent.
NO. 7.
. Who wch tlu* first auctioneer ? Why
Abraham ; when he put up Isaac, and f
the Lord’s bid let him g; at a. awerifter.
— y. Y. Republic.
An Irish iT.'itn, <>n seeing a vessel Tery
heavily laden, and scarcely above ti
water’s edge, exclaimed . “ Upon my
Howl, if the river was a little higher, the
ship would go to the bottom.”
. A corner grocery was burned in In
dependence, Mo., the other day, and the
local paper states that the “ fire fiend
shrieked in tho lurid gale and tossed ila
livid hair to meet the inky pall of tho
bending heavens.”
Since the Introduction of “female
postmasters" a girl goes up to the win
dow and says: “Is there a letter for
Miss Margaret Robinson?” “ Yes,’ says
the “ female postmaster,” “ here is one
from John McJones.”
.. flow many me rubers of the A merienn
Scientific Society can tell how many
spokes there are in a buggy wheel, or the
best time to clean cellars, or can plug a
leaking water pipe, or fix a smoking
chimney —New York Graphic.
. f ‘l want five cents’ worth of starch,”
said a little girl to a grocer’s cleik. '1 he
clerk, wishing to tense the child, asked,
“ What do you want, five cent"’ worth of
starch for?” “Why, for live cents, of
course,” ahe answered, and flic clerk
concluded to attend to his own business.
~A man in Nottingham, England,
carrleson a trade in worms, He lias sev
eral persons in his employ who collect
them in the meadows and pasture lands
In the neighborhood. They are sold by
the thousand or quart for bait to fisher
men. A fresh caught worm is very deli
cate and tender, and easily breaks when
put en a hook, hut when a worm is prop
erly educated lie is as tough as a bit of
Indie rubber, and behaves it" lie ougli
when pui on a hook.
Funny scene in the Virginia Con
vention.—A very funny passage occurred
during the morning. Mr. Hinton allud
ed to a man in front of him asa •‘mi-ei
al,!e dog.” The gentleman indicated
nr use and wanted to know why heslmuld
be called a dug? Mr Hinton—You
railed me a liar, sir. The gentleman—
I beg your pardon, sir; indeed 1 did not.
Mr. Hinton I was within the sound of
your voice. Tm 1 gentleman—You are
mistaken. I said the 20!Ii of July.
To is was the. key of the difficulty. Mr.
Hinton tl ereupon made a grarc'ul and
ample apology.
.If Barnum could only make his
living wild beasts look as ferocious as
they do in the pictures no building in
the United States could hold the money
ho would take in. If he could make the
elephant raise its tail and start, for the
enraged lion as it does on the bills; il be
could make the leopard spring at Urn
flying zebra, and the panic stricken
giraffe, as in the big illustration; or if be
could even stir up the behemoth and
make it show its snag teeth to the audi
ence, his success as a showman would is,
complete. Ihe elephant that eats cake
; „ut of the hand of the small boy, the
| tiger that does not bite off the bead of
its k-epo.r, and the behemoth that im
parts no life to the scene, are not by any
means the sort of beasts for the people s
money. —Courier Journal.
The \> itsliington Fire.
']' j j,, commissioner ol patents makes the
following official announcement reganl
inn; the late tire : ’* Apart Irom the dam
age, to the building the pecuniary loss
occasioned by ti e lire in not very great
files of pending application!*, or of pa
tent*. or of rejected applies!• >ns fre lost
or damaged, anil no original drawing’
exept in a very few can* s, went Jen re;. c -
Those drawings destroyed were only of
one issue, September I, 1877, and ol those
photolithograph cjpies has been made, so
that no inconvenience will srisefromtheir
de-trnction. A considerable quantity oi
phot (lithograph copies were burned, but
of these in no case were all burned of one
patent, a part erf the copies having been
preserved by storage in another room of
the building, which wra uninjured-
There will tie no interruption of the hu-i
ness of the office. Examination of appii
cations will go on as usual, and patents
will lie issued without deiav.”
The production of coal oil has been in
creased from 500 000 bbls. in 18<t0, to
: .Vo° 906 bbls. iu 1876.