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Ik Jesi Sentinel. Offlf-e in the Je*up House, fronting on Cnerry street. tw. doors from Broad St. published EVERY WEDNESDAY, ... by ... T P. LITTLEFIELD. Subscription Rates. (Postage Prepaid. One year $2 00 ‘fix months ,[ 100 Three months 50 Rates. Per square, first inser ( ; oa SI 0 0 Per y|iiat',‘, eaeh sul jSe< | Uen! insertion. 75 * 'Special rate j to year]'* and large ad vertisers. 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. SUP HOUSE, Gorne'r Broad and Cherry Streets, (Near the Depot,) T. P- LITTLEFIELD, Proprietor. Newly renovate;! and refurnished. Satis faction guaranteed. Polite waiters will take your baggage to and from the house. BOARD $2.00 per day. Single Meals, 50 ct ;. 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.