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TOWN DIRECTORY.
TOWN OFFICERS.
Mayor—W. H. Whaley.
CouncLlmen—T. P. Littlefield, If. W.
Whaley, .Bryant George, O. F. Littlefield,
Anderson Williams,
Clerk and Treasurer —O. F. Littlefield.
Marshal—G. W. Williams.
COUNTY OFFCERS.
Ordinary—Richard B. Ht>pps.
Sheriff—John N. Goodbread.
Clerk Superior Court —Benj.O. Middleton
Tax Receiver—J. C. Hatcher.
Tax Collector—W. R. Causey.
County Surveyor—Noah Bennett.
County Treasurer—John Massey.
Coroner —D. McDitha.
County Commissioners—J. F. King, G
W. Haines, James Knox, J. G. Rich, Isham
Reddish.
COURTS.
Superioi Court, Wayne County—.Tuo. L.
Harris, Judge ; Simon W. Hitch, Solicitor-
General. Sessions held on second Monday
in March and September.
BMsliear, Pierce Comity G-eonia.
TOWN DIRECTORY.
TOWN OFFICERS.
Mayor—R. G. Riggins.
Counoilmen—D. P. Patterson.J. M. Downs,
J. M. Lee, B. D. Brantly.
Clerk of Council—J. M. Purdom.
Town Treasurer—B. D. Brant'y.
Marshal—E. Z. Byrd.
COUNTY OFFICERS.
Ordinary— A. J. Strickland.
Clerk Superior Court—Andrew M. Moore.
Sherifl—E. Z. Byrd.
County Treasurer—D. P. Patter.on.
County Servevor—J. M. Johnson.
Tax Receiver and Collector—J. M. Pnr
dom.
Chairman of Road Commissioners—llßl
District, G. M., Lewis C. Wylly; 12 : 0 Dis
triet, G. M., George T. Moody ; 684 District,
G. M., Charles 8. Youmanns; 590 District,
G. M., D. B. McKinnon.
Notary Pnblios and Justices of the Peace,
etc —Blaekshear Precinct, 684 district,G.M.,
Notary Public, J. G. S. Patterson ; Justice
of the Peace, A. R, James; Ex-officio Con
stable E. Z. Byrd.
Dicksonfs Mill Precinct 1250 District, G.
M , Notary Public,Mathew Sweat ; Justice of
the Peace, Geo. T. Moody; Constable, W.
F. Dickson.
Patterson Precinct, 1181 District, G. M.,
Notary Public, Lewis C. Wylly; Justice f
the Peaoe, Lewis Thomas; Constables, 11.
Prescott and A. L. Griner.
Schlatterville Precinct, 590 District, G. M.,
Notary Public, P. B. McKinnon; Justice of
the Peace, R. T. James; Constable, John W.
B< oth.
Courts—Superior court, srce couuty,
John L. Harris, judge; Simon W. Hitch,
Solicitor General. Sessions held first Mon
dry in March and September
Corporation court, B - “ , Ga., session
held second Saturday i Month. Police
court sessions every Mo., y Morning at 9
o’olock.
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CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
Southern News.
At Shreveport 40 negroes have signed
to go to Liberia.
Apples are selling in Danbury, N. C.,
at two cent* per bushel.
Three judges of the superior court have
died in Georgia this year—Clark, Pee
ples and Hill.
Pet rattlesnakes in Jacksonville have
been known to appear in as many as
three new suits with'u the same year.
Red river land that has been in culti
vation one hundred years, produces ears of
corn eight inches long and ten in circum
ference.
A circular addressed to the negroes
of De Soto parish, La., closes thus:
As the Egyptians took their journey
from Egypt to the land of Canaan, so we
will takeonr journey from America to
the land of Liberia.
While Louisiana and southern Missis
sippi have lost from ten to fourteen days
in cotton picking from heavy rains, cen
tral Texas has been suffering for the want
of rain and had a continuous cotton
picking season.
The disease at Port Royal has devel
oped into genuine yellow fever, and Sa
vannah has been called on for physicians,
nurses and such other aid as she can con
veniently furnish. Augusta has estab
lished a rigid quarantine.
Joel Collins, the leader of the band of
highwaymen that robbed the Union Pa
cific train, and whe was killed near Buf
falo station, Kansas, is the son of Albert
G. Collins, one of the oldest and most
respectable farmers of Dallas county,
Texas.
Savannah News: Chinquepins are
now opening their bris’lesand chestnuts
are getting ripe in North Georgia,and it is
a fact that some of the counties in tha
northeast portion of the state make
almost as much by the latter natural
crop as they do by agriculture.
The venerable Judge Barnard Hiil
died on the bench at Knoxville, Georgia,
the 27tb, of apoplexy. The Macon
Telegraph says of him: His death is a
great loss tc the city, the county, the
circuit and the state, and will be mourn
ed far and near as a public sore v. He
was a man who had won. by a 1- ng life
ot arduous labor, one of the high -si posi
tions in the judiciary of the state. Asa
lawyer he stood very eminent.
A UTi ;.e boy on his way to mill,
near McMinnville, Tenn , went under a
VOL. 11.
tree to pick up some apples, and found
several pieces of silver. These he carried
home, when a further search was made,
and over six hundred pieces of silver,
buried thirty-five years ago by an old
mise,r, were unearthed.
Five sugar houses were burned on the
Teche, Louisiana, on Friday last, and
property to the value of $150,000 de
stroyed. The fires are attributed -to
negro incendiaries, and it is believed that
it was but a part of a general and diabol
ical plan of arson. The fires all occurred
n the same neighborhood and at the
ame ho ur.
v
Chattanooga Times: We learned last
night from a friend, whose business re
quires him to be frequently among the
farming communities, that there is an
unusual breadtfi of land sown in wheat
so far this fall, and that a good deal of
the early sown is now up and looking
finely.
Nashville American: While excava
ting a cellar at Hart & Hensley’s pork
packing establishment the workmen came
across a densely crowded Indian grave
yard, where whole skeletons were found,
the heads lying toward the east. With
them were found the usual earthen pot
tery. The workmen saved the skulls,
and at last accounts were peddling them
out for a nickel apiece. Alas, poor
Yorick 1
General.
The number of those who, like Mrs.
Gen. Gilflory, go abroad, is yearly in
creasing. This season, from New York
alone, eighty-one thousand passengeis
have sailed for Europe. Over one-fourth
of this number landed in England.
Pigeon races are in vogue in York
state. At a recent contest in which the
birds flew from Homer, New York, to
Scranton, Pennsylvania, they averaged
a mile a minute, which is considered fast
flying. Sixty-eight miles an hour was
made some years ago, and this is said to
be the fastest flight on record.
Ye who wish to view Mars’ moons,
prepare to see them now. Not ten tele
scopes in the world can show them, and
by the end of October they will disappear
from the range'of the Washington refrac
tor, the largest telescope of the kind yet
mounted, They will be again visible,
for a few weeks, in the autumn of 1879,
and next time in 1892.
Frugal as badgers, industrous as
bees, they undersell every labor market
they enter, and outdo every civilized
artisan at his own trade. Any one who
sees a Japanese carpenter at work, with
his toes for a vice and his thighs and
stomach for a bench, has seen tools well
used and goods equal to European turned
out. They will, in fact, become formid
able rivals of all kinds of western
manufactures. —Birmingham Post.
New York is proud in the possession
of its new time hall, which is at last in
operation. The ball Is made of gilded
wire, weighing about thirty-five pounds,
three feet and six inches in diameter and
falls about, twenty-five feet. The time
of the falling is recorded by electricity
in the main operator’s room by the most
accurate of instruments. The object of
this is to give the public at large, and
particularly the seamen in port, an oppor
tunity to get the correct standard of
time.
The Chinese government is making
strenuous efforts to put down the ever
increasing vice of opium smoking in the
Flowery Kingdom. An imperial edict
has been issued partially prohibiting the
use of the narcotic. The evil is to be
gradually weeded out. At present all
shops are shut up excepting those on the
main thoroughfares, and these have
their privileges greatly restricted. After
three years the complete prohibition will
take place. Fears of an uprising prevent
the attempt to shut up the shops at
once.
At the close of the present congress,
in 1879, twenty-four senators will go out,
®f whom eighteen are republicans and
six democrats. They are as follows, in
eluding the late Senator Bogy, whosb
place will be filled by a democrat:
Spencer (rep.), Alabama; Dorsey (rep.),
Arkansas; Sargent (rep.), California;
Chaffee (rep.), Colorado; Barnum
(dem.), Conneticut; Conover (rep),
Floriaa; Gordon (dem.), Georgia;
Oglesby (rep.), Illinois; Morton (rep.),
Indiana; Allison (rep.), Iowa; Ingalls
(rep.), Kansas; M’Creery (dem.), Ken
tucky ; Dennis (dem.), Maryland; Bogy
(dem ), Missouri; Jones (rep,), Nevada;
Wadleigh (rep.), New Hampshire;
Conkling (rep.), New York; Merrimon
(dem.), North Carolina; Mathews (rep.),
Ohio; Mitchell (rep.), Oregon; Came
ron (rep.), Pennsylvania; Patterson
(rep.), South Carolina; Morrell (rep.).
Vermont; Howe (rep.), Wisconsin.
Rclitfion*.
The Presbyteriana announce that there
were fifty conversions at their camp
meetings in Texas.
The American Baptist Home Mission
society announces its intention to open a
new school at Natchez, Miss., for the
education of colored preachers and
teachers.
There are 37.3 churches in Rome, of
which 365 are Catholic; fourteen Protes
tant, and four Jewish. There is one
Protestant church to every 20,000 of the
population.
There are in the United States and
Canada, 800 Young Men’s Christian as
sociations, with a membership of 100,000
and owning property to the extent of
$25,000,000.
The belief that babtism ought to be
administered by immersion, with the face
downward, has spread among the south
ern negroes, and in Raleigh, recently,
fifty-one negroes chose that mode.
In no part of the country has the
Protestant Episcopal church advanced
more radidly than in New York state.
In 1875 there were but five clergymen in
this State ; now there are 718 in the five
dioceses, with 78,644 communicants.
Two Seventh-Day Babtists were re
cently fined five dollars each in a town
in central Pennsylvania for working on
Sunday. They refused to pay, and were
sent to jail for four days. They claim
that the state law of 1794 is unconstitu
tional, and that it is opposed to any .-Sab
bath at all, since it abolishes the Sabbath
of Scripture and ordains anew one,
wlych is really no Sabbath.
JESUP, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1877.
Personal
The young Napoleon styles himself
Napoleon IV.
Alexander H. Stephens kicks the beam
at mnetv-eight pounds.
The salary ot Marshal MacMahou is
SIBO,OOO as president of the French Re
public.
.T. Q. Smith, late commisioner of in
ternal affairs, has been appointed consul
general to Canada.
Oliver Dalrymple, the “ wheat king
of Minnesota,” has four thousand acres
of wheat this year.
The widow of the confederate cavalry
leader, general J. E. B. Stuart, is a
teacher in the Staunton Seminary for
girls.
Rev. I)r. Taylor says the-unlicensed
grogshops of New York, il placed in u
row, would fill one side of a street twenty
miles long.
Governor Wade Hampton has a rosy
and genial face, pleasent blue eyes, iron
gray whiskers, a portly figure and a full
and agreeable voice.
Professor Schneider, the leader of the
marine band of Washington, will resign
and go to London. The band will be
dissolved because of the order reducing
it from fifty-two to thirty men, and cut
ting down the pay.
Near Avon, Mo., is a Miss Evans, who
is a curiosity. She is only ten years old,
but is, probably, the largest girl of her
age in the world. Her height is about
five feet, and she weighs one hundied and
forty eight pounds. Her features are
even and pretty, and her manner is lively.
One would take her to be about eighteen.
She can do more work, notwithstanding
her superabundance of flesh, than most
girls at twice her age.
A son of the late John Y. Mason of
Virginia, is serving as a captain in the
French army, in which he gained dis
tinction during the Franco-Prussian
war, receiving from Louis Napoleon the
decoration of the Legion of Honor.
Mrs. Custer has written a very hand
some letter to Hood’s Texas brigade,
acknowledging their resolutions honoring
her husband’s memory. She says: “It
seems to prove the higher and better
nature of men when soldiers can admire
the gallantry and heroism of each other,
even when differing ill sentiment and
belief.”
Professor Swing commends the south
ern Methodist Conference, which has
had the courage to suggest that pulpit
orators should avoid “a frequeut drink
ing of water during sermons,” and should
“not finger the leaves of the Bible, nor
pound the desk while preaching,” and
that the congregation should “wear coats
to church and walk in softly—not like
mules on a bridge.”
Foreign 1 1 rnw,
An English scientific paper tells us
that torpedoes are beginning to lose their
prestige, and already it is said that a
mechanic employed in the Chatham
dockyard has invented a screen or shield
for protecting the whole bottom of a
ship. The shieldisofsufficientsubstance
to resist any torpedo, can be raised or
lowered in five m-nutes, ami stowH away
snugly on the teq sides of an ironclad.
The latest reports about the potato
crop in England are the worst of all. Ac
cording to the London Garden the result
is *‘ total destruction.” For twenty
years there has been no attack of disease
“so swift, so general, and so complete.
Large plots of potatoes, sound and
healthy to-day, are converted into masses
of rotten stems and putrid tubers to
morrow. ” The crops looked very flour
ishing five weeks ago ; but the almost
incessant rains have been destructive.
Nothing but a severe drought can save
potatoes enough for seed. The prospect
is gloomy in the extreme.
Industry and Stupidity of the
Bulgarian*.
Headquarters life, dreary as it is here,
is likely to become drearier when we
move nearer Plevna. The villages in
this immediate vicinity may be described
briefly as rich and dirty. The farmers
have hundreds of stacks of grain in their
yardsand scarcely any article of furniture
in their houses. The Bulgarians strike
me as a people who sit down hut little.
Such a piece of furniture as a chair is
almost unknown among them. The beds
in some of the cottages are made of baked
earth, arranged in the form of a shelf
near a huge window, through which cool
breezes blow; but in winter there is
nothing to do hut to retreat to a kind of
cellar. It is to he hoped that one result
of the advance of the Russians will be to
farther the civilization of the people in
this section. They have many virtues
but no graces. The women are indus
trious beyond praise. If they walk from
one village to another they twirl their
distaffs all the way, and when their
household duties are over and they are
talking by the fountains or in the little
groves they are busily knitting. They
are avaricious here, and that which
seems most to annoy them is that they
should be asked to yield up some part of
their store,although, let it be understood,
they are always well paid for everything
that is taken. Some of them do not
comprehend the value of money, and
lookstupidlyatitwhen it isputinto their
handß. They have never made any effort
to assemble stores for the Russians or to
aid them in any way other than hv show
ing the roads and warning them of the
approach of the enemy. Sometimes, in
despair, one feels like comparing them to
the water buffaloes. Those noble animals
appear to resent any attempt to maxe
| them decent or lively a:s an insult to their
j moral character. —Edward Kinrj i letter
| BotUm Journal
An old hat, so banged and rusted as
j to have entirely lost its individuality,
was found near a stream in New Hamp
; shire, and led to the story that secretary
i Evarte had been foully made away with.
Patient.
I was not patient in that olden time,
When my uuchasteued heart liegan to long
For bliss that lay i eyoud its roach ; my primo
Was wild, impulsive, passionate and strong.
I could not wait for happiness and love,
Heaveu-seut, to come and nestle in my breast;
I could not Tv alizo how time might prove
That patient waitiug would avail me best.
“Let me be happy now," ray heart cried out,
' la mine own way.aud with iny chosen lot;
The future is too dark, and full of doubt,
For me to tarry, and I trust It not.
'Fake all my blessings, all 1 am ami have,
But give that glimpse of heaven before the grave!"
Ah me! God heard my way ward, coltish cry,
And taking pity ou my blindod heart,
Ho bade the angel of streug grief draw nigh,
Who pierced my bosom to its tenderest part.
I drank wrath’s wine-cup to the bitter lees.
With strong amazement and a broken will;
Then, humbled,straightway fell upon my kuees,
And God doth know my heart is kneeling st 11.
I have grown seeking ic: '0 chose
Mineown blind lot, buttake that God shall send
In which, if what 1 long for I should lose,
I know the loss will work some blessed end,
Some better fate for mine and me than 1
Could ever compass undornentb the sky.
—All the Year Round,
ONE NIGHT.
BY MISS GOAN.
It was a night in 1856, hut v.hoof
that company of hoys and girls will ever
forget it ?
We had come on foot, from our homes
on the seashore, six miles distant, to
watch the most magnificent fire that ever
burned. It burst out suddenly, in the
dead of night, from a mountain fourteen
thousand feet high and thirty miles away
—so suddenly that the glare woke us iu
stantly. From our windows wc watched
the great torrent of lava creep down the
side of the mountain like a fiery snake.
At the base of the mountain it plunged
into a tropical jungle, at which it knawed
for thirteen months. Had it eaten its
way through this belt of timber it would
have flowed to the sea and destroyed
Hilo, the largest and most beautiful vil
lage on the island of Hawaii.
Maune Loa, or Long mountain, is in
the Hawaiian islands, and about once in
every eight years it treats the inhabi
tants to a grand eruption.
Now, there’s a great deal of fun to be
gotten out of a volcano that is kind
enough to come within reach and allow
itself to be played with. If the lava
spouts from a crater you can’t i>oke it
with long sticks, and the heat makes you
stand at a very respectful distance; but
if it flows on to a plain and spreads itßelf
out, then there’s fun for you ; at least
so we children thought in 1800.
The night of which I write was a
beautiful one. Millions of stars were
shining over our heads, and as many
millions, it seemed to us, on the earth
beneath. At our feet, and stretching
away for miles and miles, was the vast,
black lava flow, dotted all over witli
light that had not yet gone out.
The stream where lie found it in the
woods, was about a mile wide ; in some
places it was miles wide. Lava, on a
plain, moves very slowly and peculiarly
—not at all as a great mass of molasses
would, for instance—it cools too quickly
for that. And so there was no danger in
going directly up to the flow and camp
ing in its path.
We camped, that is we got out our
supply of iron spoons, copper and silver
coins, cut long poles from the forest trees,
tied pocket handkerchiefs with eye-holes
in them over our faces, and sat down
close to the great black stream that
looked so dead. It had piled itself up,
all along the line of advance, making a
sort of wall from one to several feet high.
By-and-by, a spot on this cooled surface
began to move and throb and lilt itself
as though there was a living thing under
neath, struggling to get out. -Suddenly
a crack opened and a gallon or more of
red-hot lava gushed out, turning red
a'most instantly, it cooled so quick. The
moment the crack opened we plunged in
our sticks and spoons and dipped the
lava out. It cooled so rapidly that we
had hardly time to mold our “ speci
mens.'’ We rolled the lava on the ends
of our burning sticks, over and over on
the rocks, forming it into cylinders. The
spoonfuls we let cool in the spoons to
show that it was dipped up while liquid.
We jammed coins into red hot lumps
of lava, where they became firmly im
bedded.
Sometimes we all poked awsy at one
opening in the flow, and then, of course,
the hoys got the best of it; and some
times we were lucky enough to have an
opening apiece, where we could work
without interference. We ran our sticks
full length into these cracks and drew
them out flaming from end to end, show
ing that beneath the surface the stream
of lava was molten, it was only a thin
crust that covered the fire, as ice covers
deep water, and though this bore our
weights it was too hot to walk upon; it
scorched our shoes.
One of the boys took a running step
or two on the red hot lava, and even that
was thick enough to bear him up.
A little lava only flowed from a crack
and cooled; this, in its turn, burst open
and sent out a little more, and in this
slow way the stream pushed itself along.
Sometimes it would not advance half a
mile in weeks.
Once, while we were watching its
curious behavior at some distance, it
crept quietly around the rick on which
we stood, and almost made tie prisoners.
A few nimble steps, for it was hot, and
we were safe on the rocks beyond.
By-and-by the cry was raised that the
lava bad gotten into the bed of a river
near by, and was flowing along in a solid
mass like thick molasses; that it would
soon reach a precipice about thirty feet
higli and pour over it into a deep basin
of water. Off we ran, dropping every
hing, to the spot.
[jure enough ! soon, on the top of the
precipice, a great muss of fiery-red lava
lifted itself, hung a minute and then
plunged over into the water. There was
a great cloud of steam and a roar and
hiss as though wild animals were attack
ing each other. Thq water fought
bravely, but it was of no Hse —it could
not put the fire out. The lava poured
into it until not a drop was left and the
basin was filled with solid rock.
The night air was filled with the sound
of falling trees. The lava surrounded
them, cut them off like an axe, and they
went crashing down. Sometimes they
lay unsinged upon the cooled lava;
sometimes they were burned as they fell,
and sometimes they went down on fire
from top to bottom.
We walked four or five miles on the
flow, picking our way between the dan
gerous hot places. It was the most
difficult kind of walking. Cooled lava is
not smooth like ice, hut is piled up in
all sorts of ways. You go up hill and
down hill, around fissures that you can
not jump, and over those that you can.
Down many of these we saw molten
lava, and out of many that look cooled
we draw our nlpen-stooks ablaze. AVhen
breakfast-time came we hunted up a
good, hot crack and cooked our breakfast
in it. We boiled eggs and made tea and
coffee over volcanic fires. The natives,
when they are near the volcano, always
roast their meats in steam cracks.
We trudged back to Hilo, laden with
specimens, and well satisfied with our
night’s work.
The great How. moved on slowly for
about a week longer. It tumbled over
one more precipice, filled up the basin at
its foot, and then stopped for ever—stop
ped within six miles of our beautifu
homes, and just as we were making up
our minds that it would destroy Hilo,
and that we must fly.
Oil, those sleepless nights, when the
light was so bright that it seemed as
though everything was on fire ; and days
of anxiety as word came of the lava’s
steady advance!
But it stopped, and this flow now
forms a protection to Hilo, for another
stream ol lava could not go over it, hut
would bo turned aside by it. —Christian
Wee Mg.
Georgia Antiquities.
Near the close of a spring day in
1776 Mr. William Bertram, who, at
the request ot Dr. Fothergill, ol Lon
don, had been for some time studying
the flora of Carolina, Georgia and Flor
ida, forded the Broad river, just above its
confluence with the Savannah, and be
came the guest of the commanding of
ficer at Fort James. Bertram made
an excursion up the Savannah river
‘‘to inspect some remarkable Indian
monuments” four or five miles above
the fort. Of them he writes as fol
lows: ‘‘These wonderful labors of the
ancients stand in a level plain very
near the bank of the river, now twen
ty or thirty yards from it. They con
sist of conical mounds of earth and
four square terraces, etc. The great
mound is in the form of a cone, alsmt
forty or fifty feet high, and the cir
cumference of its base two or throe
hundred yards, entirely composed of
the loamy, rich earth of the low
grounds; the top or apex is flat; a
spiral path or track leading from the
ground up to the top is still visible,
where now grows a large, beaulifu
spreading red cedar (Juneripus Amer
icana); there appear four niches ex
cavated out of the sides of the hill, at
different heights from the base, fronting
the four cardinal points; these niches or
sentry boxes are entered into from the
winding path, and seem to have been
meant for resting placesorlookouts. The
circumjacent grounds are cleared and
planted with Indian corn at present, and
1 think the proprietor of these lands
who accompanied us to this place, said
that the mound itself yielded above
one hundred bushels in one season. The
land hereabouts is indeed exceeding fertile
and productive.
Ancient burial places, the sites if old
villages, traces of open-air workshops
for the manufacture of implements of
jasper, quartz, chert and green and
soap stone, refuse piles and abandoned
fishing resorts are by no means infrequent
along both hanks of the Savannah river
for many miles. Upon the advent of
the European the circumjacent valley
was found cleared and in cultivation by
the red men, who here had fixed abodes
and were associated in considerable
numbers. The southern tribes in the
-ixteenth century subsisted largely upon
maize, beans, pumpkins and melons.
These they planted, tended and harvested
regularly. Of their agricultural labors
at the dawn of the historic period we
have lull accounts
So august are the proportions of this
largest mound that we are persuaded it
rise* beyond the dignity of an artificial
place of retreat, elevation for chieftain
lodge or mouud of observation. It ap
pears entirely probable that it was a
temple mound, built for sun worship,
and that it forms one of a well ascer
tained seiies of similar structures still
extant within the limits of the southern
states. — Au/jutta ( G 0..) Chamicle.
A Picture of Russia. ±
A few words on the condition of Rus
sian peasantry, who constitute three
fourths of the whole population, may not
be uninteresting. A traveler cannot
traverse the country without having
forced upon him ttic conviction that the
condition of tho peasantry is most deplor
able. In all of the rural districts, and
some of the places called towns, the
homes of the people are low, miserable
looking wood shanties, surrounded by
the evidence* ot only a semi-civilization.
The war enabled us to to see the (feasants
in large numbers, as ’squads were at
uearly every station, awaiting transpoi
tation to some military base, where they
are uniformed and sent to the front.
Almost every man was dressed in a rough,
gray material resembling the poorest
blankets, and this, together with the
dirt, his uncut, cmrse hair and l>eard,
and physiognomy without a gleam of in
telligence, completes the picture of a
people whose condition is apparently the
lowest in Europe. These are the mil
lions formerly known ns serfs, and though
they have been emancipated, their free
dom is 8h yet only nominal. The execu
tion of the emancipation act entailed
such a heavy financial burden on the
government through compensating land
owners, that the serfs are required to
repay the enormous sum before they can
leave their respective communes. Un
der the plan now being pursued, the al
ready impoverished serfs can scarcely
liquidate the debt in less than fifty years.
In addition to this burden they have an
other equally onerous one on their slender
incomes, and that is the church. A
monk or nun is stationed at every shrine
to solicit contribution* or money for can
dles, and every sanctuary is loaded with
gold, silver, jewels and art decorations.
The supremacy of the church over its
devotees is most absolute, and some of
the forms of worship are not only nearly
allied to idolatry, but many simply dis
gusting. 1 refer in the first case to the
full-robed waxen images of canonized
personages, and, in the second, the habit
ofkissiug the dried hand, skull, or some
other relic of the person of departed pa
triarchs. These relics are arranged in
their appropriate plaees in either caskets,
together with gorgeous vestments placed
as if ou a corpse. 'The h|K)lh kissed so
much by unwashed people are, of course,
much soiled, so that it is revolting to see
one after another press forward to touch
the lipa. These and similar forms are
practiced by the church, whose head is
the enlightened and progressive Emperor
Alexander 11. Philadeljihla Bulletin
Is, tier.
A Remedy l-'or Divorces.
Marry in your own religion.
Never both bo angry at once.
Never taunt with a past mistake.
Let a kiss bo the prelude of a rebuke.
Never allow a request to be repeated.
Get self-abnegation be the habit of
both.
A good wife is the greatest earthly
blessing.
“ I Forgot,” is never an acceptable
excuse.
Tf you must criticise, let It he done
lovingly.
Make a marriage a matter of moral
judgment.
Marry into a family which you have
long known.
Never make a remark at the expense
of the other
Never talk atone another, either alone
or in company.
Give your warmest sympathies for
each other’s trials.
If one is angry, let the other part the
lips only for a kiss.
Neglect the whole world beside, rather
than one another.
Never speak loud to one another un
less the house is on fire.
I.et each strive to yieldof'tenest to the
wishes ef the other.
Always leave home with loving words,
for they may he the last.
Marry into different blood and temper
ament from your own.
Never deceive, for the heart, once
misled, can never trust wholly again.
It is the mother who moulds the
character and fixes the destiny of the
child.
Never find fault unless if is perfectly
certain a fault has been committed.
Do not herald the sacrifices you make
to each other’s tastes, habits or pre
ferences.
Let ali your mutual accommodations
l>e spontaneous, whole-souled and free as
air.
The very felicity is in the mutual
cultivation of usefulness.
(tonsillt one another in all that comes
within the experience, observation or
sphere of the oilier.
A hesitating or gram yielding to the
wishes of the other always grates upon a
loving heart.
Never reflect on a past action which
was done with a goo! motive, and with
the t-st judgment at the time.
Russian to Turk, who receives a
bavonet-thrust—“ But, my poor Turk,
you don’t appear to object!” Turk—
‘‘lt is the first time in eight days that
anything has gone into my stomach.”
GRAVE AND GAY.
To Holt All Tastes.
A Minnesota poet tunes his sounding lyre to bar
vest notes, and sings :
There’s music In tho sough of the winds;
Thore’s grace In the waving grain;
Broad acres atint with the bay God’s gold *
In their ripening oriflamuie.
Now, why couldn’t he go right on, without rack
log his brain fur new rhymes, and Hing ;
Itcady the reaper stands; lie lists
To the thresher's clattering hunt:
And lie waves alolt in hts brawny fists
The harvest of oriliiun.
Here and tit-re in the reckless world
Stocks go up and stocks go down,
But care from his happy heart is hurld
By the sight of the oiitloun.
Anil when at eve, at the ret of sun,
Swiftly ho hastes to bis home;
His day is spent, Ids wore is done.
Ami ho has no use for an oritlome.
. If you do not want to be robbed of
your good name, do not have it painted
on yotir umbrella.
.. It is the admirer of himself and not
tho admirer of virtue who thinks himself
superior of others.
..“White lies,” says the New York
Herald, “ roll themselves into cocoons,
and next year they come out handsome,
full-fledged, wing.y old whoppers.”
.. la>t a grown person cry with half the
strength, volume and frequency of a babe
and he would kill "himself in 24 hours
Who can explain this appalling mysteryt
T ‘ Thank heaven,” sobbed Ann Eliza
as she perused the most reliable intelli
gence concerning the prophet’s last will
anti testament. “ Thank heaven, he has
left me something; he has left me out.”
Dandks, to make a great show,
\Vear coats stuck out with pads and puffing;
Add this is surely apropos,
For what’s a goose without the stuffing ?
What better reason can you guess
Why alien are poor, anti ladles thinner;
But thousands now for dinner dress
’1 ill naught is left to dress for dinner.
..A Philadelphia dancing master is
said to be about introducing anew dance
expressly for fat people. All the per
formers have to do is to sit and kick.
NO. 8.
(Joseph - may hie trlbo docreaae—
A woke ohh nißht from a dream of peace,
Ami naw Get). Howard ninety mileH wont.
An-! Hit id, 14 Poor man, let's give him rent.’
Graphic.,
. .Meanness and conceit are frequently
combined in the same character ; for he
who, to obtain transit applause, can be
indifferent to truth, and bis own dignity,
will be as little scrupulous about them
if, subserviency, he can improve li’s con
dition in the world.
. .A man recently wrote to the officials
of the Boston, Oouoortl and Montreal
railroad “ for a chance to run on the
road.” He was told ho could “ run on
the road” as much as he liked if ho
would only keep out of the way of the
trains.
Knowledge of the world mu“t be
combined with study, for this, to well as
better reasons ; tho possession of learning
is always invidious, and it. requires con
siderable tael to inform without aVlFplav
of superiority, and to ensure esteem,
well as call forth admiration.
.The failure ot the mind in old ago
often less the result of natural decay
of disease. Ambition lias ceased to
operate: contentment brings indolence;
indolence decay of mental power, ennui,
and sometimes death. Men have been
known to die, literally speaking, of di -
ease induced by intellectual vacancy.—
Sir Beniamin Brodie.
. There was a silence in the school. The
teacher hud struck the bill calling nttten
tion, el every eye was bent on her.
This was a favorable opportunity for the
spread of information, and one of the lit
tle hoys perceiving it, raised his hand.
“What is it, Johnny?” asked the
eacher. “ Tommy Migg’s father’s cow
lias got a calf,” shouted the excited
youngster, his face aglow with the intelli
gence. The teacher wilted. —Danbury
News.
.. For two years Miss Minnie Walters
of Harrisburg, had scarcely left her bed,
owing to a diseased spine, an eminent
surgeons applied heated irons, and told
her that nothing more could he done.
Hhe became resigned and bore her suffer
ings with Ghristian fortitude. One day
she prayed that the Lord would raise
her up and heal her. Suddenly she felt
herself growing stronger, and almost in
stantly she was restored to health and
enabled to attend a prayer-meeting.
She related the miraculous cure to ft
Methodist congregation in Columbia*
Pa., on a recent Sunday. N. Y. Tribune.
A Lion-Tanior’s Feat.
Kan Francisco Post: Perhaps the
moHt magnificent act of heroism ever
performed in this vicinity was witness:d
during the performance of a circus at
Reno on Saturday last. The lion-tamer
was giving an exhibition of liin control
over the ferocious brutes under his
charge, when suddenly he was observed
|to turn pale and tremble. The largest
lion of the six in the cage bad displayed
I unusual sullenness and anger, and now
refused to obey his master. With glar
ing eyes it crouched in the corner, and
evidently meditated a spring. The
trainer recovered his self-possession in a
moment, and, keeping his eye firmly
fixed upon that of the huge beast, dealt
it a terrific blow with his rawhide over
the face. With a fierce snarl the in
furiated lion bounded forward. Catch
ing one ef his open jaws in either hand,
the powerful man held the brute off for
a desperate moment by main strength.
An electric thrill of horror ran through
the crowd which surrounded the cage in
an instant. The beasts in the other dens
shrieked and roared in chorus, ft is in
a moment like this that the real heroic
element, asserts itself. Without turning
his head in the I ast, the brave man
firmly whispered, ' pass me a small boy.
One was instantly secured and crowded
Lb rough the bars. With one super
human effort the trainer thrust the boy
into the hot, closing jaws, and then
bounded lightly aside. A snarl, a lew
savage crunches, and the beast turned
again to his prey. But the hero was
gone. The door snapped behind him,
and gasping “ saved !” he fainted in the
I arms of the cheering concourse.