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TOWN DIRECTORY.
TOWN OFFICERS.
Mayor—W. IT. Whaley.
Couueilmen—T. P. Littlefield, 11. \Y\
Whaley, IJryant George, O. F. Littlefield,
Anderson Williams,
Clerk ami Treasurer—O. F. Littlelield.
Marshal—G. W. Williams.
COUNTY OFFCKRB.
Ordinary—Richard B. Hopps.
.'Sluyrifl—John N. Good breach
Clerk Superior (>urt—Bt*uj. O* Middleton
Tax Receiver —J. Of jln teller.
Tax Corrector—W, R. Causey.
County Surveyor—Noah Bennett.
County Treasurer—John Massey.
Coroner—D. McDitha.
County Commissioners—J. F. King, G.
W. Haines, dames Knox, J. G. Rich, Isliara
Reddish. Regular meetings of the Tord,
3 1 Wtdaesdav in Jauir.iry, April, July and
October. Jas. F. King, Chairman.
COURTS.
Superior Court, Wayne County—Jno. L.
Harris, Judge; Simon W. Hitch, Solicitor-
General. Sessions held on second Monday
in March ami September.
BMstear, Pierce (My Georgia.
TOWN DIRECTORY.
TOWN OFFICERS.
Mayor—lt. G. Riggins.
Councilmen—D. P. Patterson,J. M. Downs,
J. M. Lee, 13. I). Brandy.
Clerk of Counoil—J. M. Purdoui.
Town Treasurer—B. D. Brantly.
Marshal—E. Z. Byrd.
COUNTY OFFICERS.
Ordinary—A. J. Strickland.
Clerk Superior Court—Andrew M. Moore.
Sherifl—E, Z. Byrd.
County Treasurer—D. P. Patterson.
County Serveyor—J. M. Johnson.
Tax Receiver and Collector—J. M. Pur
don).
Chairman of Road Commissioners—llßl
District, G. M., Lewis C. Wylly; 12 0 Dis
triel, U. M., George T. Moody ; 581 District,
G. M., Charles 8. Yomnanns; 590 District,
G. M., D. B. McKinnon.
Notary Publics and Justices of the Peace,
etc.—Blackshear Precinct, 684 district,G.M.,
Notary Public, J. G. S. Patterson ; Justice
of the Peace, ft. it. James; Ex-officio Con
stable K. Z Byrd.
Dickson?s Mill Precinjt, 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.,
Notay Public, Lewis C. Wylly; Justice of
the Peace, Lewis Thomas; Constables, 11.
Prescott and A. L. Griucr.
Schlatterville Precinct, 500 District, G. M,
Notary Public, D. B. McKinnon; Justice of
the Peace, 1L T. Jame ; Constable, John W.
Booth,
Courts—Superior court, Pierce county
John L. Harris, judge; Simon W. Hitch
Solicitor General. Sessions held first Mon
dry in March and September.
Corporation court, Blackshear, Ga., session
held second Saturday in each Month. Police
court sessions every Monday Morning at i)
o’clock.
JESUP HOUSE,
Corner Broad and Cherry Streets,
(Near the Depot,)
T. T. LITTLEFIELD, Proprietor.
Newly renovated ami refurnished. Satis
faction guaranteed. Polite waiters will take
your baggage to and from (he house.
BOARD $2.00 per day. Single Meals, 50 cti
CURRENT PAR.VfjiRAIMIS.
Kimlhrrn >'rn.
The Georgetown (S. C.) Times says of
the rice crop: “In the beginning of the
harvest sanguine hopes were entertained
of an abundance in gathering into empty
barns and pockets, but the sunshine
lasted only two working days—Friday
and Saturday—barely giving an oppor
tunity of rescuing the rice already cut
down from the ravages of the high tides.
The results of recent pounding at the
mills show the immense shrinkage of the
crop. Where thirty and thirty-five bush
els to the acre were expected, the mills
pan out only twelve, fourteen and six
teen bushels, and that, too, of an inferior
article. The birds have been unusually
disastrous this year.”
The cotton report of the statistician of
the department of agriculture for Octo
ber makes the average condition nearly
as high as 1876; it is 81.1 against 82,7
last year and 88 the year before. The
decline in the condition during Septem
ber is less this year than last. Georgia
and Tennessee make the same averages
in September, North Carolina higherand
all other stales lower, though Arkansas
declines but 1 per cent. The state per
centages arc as follow?: North Carolina,
85; South Carolina, 79; Georgia, 77;
Florida, 88; Alabama, 88; Mississippi,
80 ; Louisiana, 77; Texas, 64 ; Arkansas.
98 ; Tennessee, 100.
Charleston Journal of Commerce : Dr.
Manning 7imnns, who responded to (lie
appeal lor medical aid, or rather volun
teered his services to the afflicted town
of Port Royal, returned Saturday from
the scenes of his labor of charity. He
states that the fever epidemic has not
only decreased, but is almost over, there
being twenty-one sick and convalescing
and one doubtful cast. The officers and
crew of the United States war steamer
New Hampshire, with a philanthropy
which does them honor, contributed one
hundred and twenty-five dollars to the
relief of the sufferers, and the surgeons
of the vessel, Drs. Clark and Brattle,
signified their willingness and desire to
render medical aid, but were prevented
by the stringent regulations of the ser
vice from attending on any patient other
than those immediately under their
charge.
Frincafional t‘inl K< litrioim.
Three win: men—graduate* of Yale;
Williams'. Obcrlin and lieloit—are soon
to sail, w*U* their wives* to tie missions
of the American board in Turkey, China
and Japan.
The laboratories for women which were
established six months ago at the Masss-
VOL. 11.
clnisetts institute of technology api>ear
to be successful. * Some of the pupils are
fitting themselves tor' teach r two have
made special study of some subject for the
purpose of assisting their liushar.ds in
business; others take the course as a part
of their education, without definite plans
for applying their knowledge, and others
still take some subject that will enable
them to understand and to make collec
tions at home, and to give their children
an intelligent interest in some form of
interest.
The following shows the amount of the
Peabody education fund distributed
among the states enumerated for the past
ten years: *
Virginia $201,250
North Carolina 81,(100
South Carolina. 27,650
-Georgia....! - •••■— 71.002
Florida 48,450
Alabama 55,450
Mississippi 68,675
Louisiana 65,578
Texas 18,600
Arkansas 6-1,000
Tennessee 19,650
West Virginia 107,710
Facts anti Figures.
Tbs Isthmus of Panama is 70 miles
wide and 350 long.
New York City paid $1,748,450 in
damages for the draft riots of 1803.
About thirty-three million of frac
tioual silver lias gone into circulation.
Australia has been shipping to Eng
land smoked and dried legs ol mutton.
A Guilotine that has cut off 22,000
French heads, is on exhibition in Lon
don.
The census returns of Japan, just
footed up, show a population of 83,625,-
678.
The United States annually ships over
100,000 boxes of clothes-pins to Eng
land.
Since the first of January 110,357
pounds of opium have been received at
New York, valued at $557,199.
The Lackawanna region has shipped
2,985,195 tons of coal thus far this year;
an increase of 787,476 tons over last
year.
From West Griqualand there was sent
by mail during 1875 seven hundred
pounds weight (avoirdupois) diamonds,
valued at $7,000,000. The total yield
of the province is estimated at $12,500,*
000.
General.
California’s wool growth is becoming
one of her greatest industries, the export
last year having been over fifty millions
of pounds, worth $8,000,000. There are
several wool growers who own from
thirty to forty thousand sheep each.
The report of the Harvard committee
on examinations seems to indicate that
the ladies who stood the test have ac
quitted themselves honorably. The
board of examiners failed to see any
defective trainii g, or anything that
would indicate woman’s inferiority; to
mau in the results of the late examina
tion. „ ,
The October circular of Dun, Birlow
& Cos. shows the total number of failures
in the United States during the past
three months to have been 1816, with
aggregate liabiitics of $12,346,085. Ihe
number of failures is 64 less than duriug
the previous quarter, and 604 less than
during the corresponding quarter of 1876,
while the liabilities are $2,722,012 less
than those of the preceding quarter’s
failures, and $5,511,286 less than the cor
responding quarter of last year. ihe
figures for the nine months past give a
total of 0,585 failures, with liabilities
aggregating $141,952,2 ; >6, 7,050
lailures and $156,272,800 liabilities in
the same nine months ot 1876. “lor
the first time in many months,” says the
circular, “do the figures in relation to
failures afford any encouragement; and
token in connection with the improved
business in merchandise which the au
tumn months have thus far witnesied,
and the certainty that a great crop of
produce is now being marketed at good
prices, the hope may he entertained that
the worst effects of the depression have
been seen.”
Tho following is the text of the bill
introduced by Senator Ingalls authoriz
ing the coining of the silver dollar and
restoring its legal-tender and character:
Be it enacted, etc., That there shall he
from time to time coined at the mints ot
the United States silver dollars of the
weight of 412 J grains standard silver to
the dollar, as provided for in the act of
January 18, 1837, and that said dollar
shall be a legal-tender for all debts, public
and private, except where payment of
gold coin is required by law.
Personal! lies.
Cardinal Manning is ons of the, most
acc@mplished literary men of the day.
He writes and speafcs eight languages,
ami has had a voice in nearly every
question which affects the Roman catho
lic church, or which relates to matters
of public and social interest.
Miss Una Hawthorne’s dvalh is an
nounced in somewhat pathetic fashion
by one of the English journals, thus:
“She was affianced to Mr. Albert Web
ster, since whose death she had slowly
lost strength, and gradually faded out of
life without any specific disease. Had
Mr. Webster lived, she was to have beeu
married to him about this time.”
M. Thiers’ only child, a daughter, died
many years ago, and the children of his
wife's ’nephew, Gen. Charlemange, will
inherit his large fortune. Mine. Thiers
brought her husband a handsome dower ;
but he had already become rich by his
literary work aDd newspaper ventures
before he married, and for the last forty
years of his life he kept house in great
style.
Foreign Items
A Russian journal reports fifty nine
thousand four hundred and thirty-four
Russian troops killed and wounded to
October 11th.
The czar, in addressing the general staff
Wedneeuay, declared that lie and all the
members of the imperal family w#sld
remain with the army to Jiare in the
labors and fortunes of war and witne-s
he deeds ©i the soldiers. lie concluded
ss follow*: “ I myself wiil care lor the
wants of the army, and if neoc-*ar/all
Russia will, as cace before, take up runs.
JESUP, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER I. 1577.
FORTY-FIFTH CONGRESS.
THE SENATE.
In the senate, on the 18th, considera
tion was resumed of Mr. Thurman’s
resolution to have the oath administered
to Mr. Spoftbrd, of Louisiana. Pending
the question, being a substitute referring
the credentials to a committee, after a
debate, by a vote of 30 to 35, the substi
tute was agreed to, and the credentials
of Spoflord were referred to the committee
on privileges and elections. Whyte sub
mitted the following as an amendment
to the resolution referring credentials,
ete.: “and that said committee report
thereon on or before the Ist of November,
1877.” The motion of Mr. Whyte to
instruct the committee was rejected;
yeas, 31, nays, .15. After some discussion,
during which Mr. Clonkling said lie
modified his amendment so as to read,
“and the same committee shall also con
sider and report npon the credentials of
William Pitt Kellogg.” The amendment
waa agreed to, and the resolution passed
as amended. Mr. Thurman then moved
that J. P. Fastis be sworn in as senator
from Louisiana, for the term commencing
March 4, 1873. The motion of Mr.
Thurman to have Mr. Fastis sworn in
having been decided out of order, lie then
moved that the committee on privileges
and elections he discharged from further
consideration of the credentials of Mr
Fastis. Objection was made by Dir.
Edmunds, and under the rules the motion
was laid over until the 19th. Adjourned.
In the senate, on the 19th, Senator
Morrill submitted a resolution instruct
ing the committee on pensions to inquire
and report, by bill or otherwise, reducing
and properly adjusting the salaries and
fees of tiio pension agents. An amend
ment by senator Ingalls, directing the
committee to inquire into the expedi
ency of abolishing all pension agencies,
and to have pensions paid from Wash
ington, was agreed to, and the resolution
passed. The following bills were intro
duced and referred : To alter tlie times
for holding elections for electors for
president and vice-president, and casting
the vote in the electoral college; to re
peal section 4761 of the revised statutes
so as to restore to the pension rolls tire
names of all those stricken therefrom on
account of disloyalty. Adjourned.
In the Senate on the 22d, hills w ere in
troduced and referred :
To repeal section 3of the act to pro
vide for the resumption of specie pay
ment, approved July 14, 1875.
To repeal the act to provide lor the
resumption of specie payments.
To authorize the coinage of a dollar
of forty-two-and a-half grains of stan
dard silver, and for other purposes.
To establish a pension agency at To
peka, Kansas. Also, to reimburse the
state of Kansas for expenses incurred by
the the state for the United States in re :
pelling invasions and suppressing Indian
hostilities. Also, a hill granting pensions
to certain soldiers and sailors of the war
with Mexico, and widows of deceased
soldiers and sailors.
Authorizing the adjudication and pay
ment of certain claims upon the fund
created by section 15 of chapter 459 of
the laws ol the forty-third congress in re
gard to the distribution of the balance of
the Geneva award.
To divide the state ot Nevada into two
judicial districts.
Amending the revised statutes relating
to the transportation of animals. Ad
journed.
In the House on the 22d, the regular
order ol business, proceeded to the con
sideration of the Colorado case. After
numerous debates the matter went over
without action.
Mr. Cox presented a petition for in
creased compensation to letter-carriers.
Adjourned.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
In the housp, on the 17 th, after the
reading of the journal, the disputed elec
tion case from the fourth district of
Louisiana was taken up.
Mr. Gibson offered a substitute pro
viding for the immediate swearing in of
J. 11. Elam. After soma debate the sub
stitute was adopted—yeas, 144; nays,
119. Mr. Elam took the modified oath.
Mr. Frye effered a resolution reciting
that Oh as. E. Nash had presented a cer
tificate of i lection, signed by Governor
Kellogg, then duly recognized and acting
as governor of Louisiana, but that the
clerk of the house declined to place Mr.
Nash’s name on the roll, but had substi
tuted the name of E. W. Itobertson, on
the authority of a paper signed by Gov
ernor Nicholls, and direct that the name
of Mr. Robertson be struck off the roll,
and that Mr. Nash be sworn in. After
some debate, tho substitute offered by
Mr. Ellis, that Mr. Robertson be sworn
in, was agreed to, and the modified oath
of office was administered to Mr. Robert
son.
The case of Mr. Pacheco, of California,
was then taken up, when Mr. Garfield
move-! that the oath of office bo admin
istered to him. Agreed to after some
discussion, and Mr. Pacheco took his
scat.
The Colorado case next came up, and
after a short debate, it went over.
Adjourned till Saturday, with the
understanding that no business is done
on that day.
In the senate, on the 17th, Senator
Heck introduced a bill authorizing the
payment of fifty per centum of customs
duties iu legal tender notes. Referred.
Senator Edmunds submitted the fol
lowing, which was laid over until to
morrow, at the request ef Senator bay
ard :
Resolved, That a committee of seven
senators be appointed, whose duty it
shall be to take into consideration the
state of the laws respecting the ascer
taining and declaration of the result of
the election of president and vice pre-i
dent of the United States, and that said
committee have power to report by bill
or otherwise.
On motion, Senator Morrill’ resolu
tion, filling vacancies on committee.-, a*
follows, was agreed to: Senator Mat
thew*, of Ohio, and U'aiiace, of Penn-yl
vanta. on foreign relations: < Janu-ron, of
Pennsylvania, on military affairs and
public buildings and grounds; Arm
strong, of Missouri, or railroads; Grover,
of Oregon, on private laud claims ; Arm
strong, <>t Missouri, on enrolled bills.
Terry, of Michigan,-was made chairman
of committee on pon'.-ofk .<■; and post
reads, in place of Hamlin, v.lo retain*a
place on that committee as a membvr
ana Hamits was made coaurman f com-
mittec on foreiga relations, in place of
Morton, who retains his old place as
chairman of the committee on pri\ ileges
and elections. Morrill stated that if was
the wish of the senator from Indiana
(Morton) that this latter change- be
made.
A large number of petitions were pre
sented and referred, among them one
Irom citizens of lowa, asking the passage
of a law making silver a legal tender for
all sums. Another from the legislature
of Michigan, asking congressional aid for
the construction of a tunnel under
Detroit river, at or near Detroit. The
citizens of Mattoon, New York, peti
tioned fir the remonetization of tho old
silver dollar.
Hills were introduced, and referred,
authorizing the citizens of Colorado,
Nevada, and the territories, to fell unit
remove the timber on the public domain,
for farming and domestic purposes; to
prevent abuses of the silo of postage
stamps and stamped envelopes; by Sena
tor Plumb: To donate a portion of the
military reservation of Fort Darker to
Kansas for the establishment of an educa
tional or charitable institution, and to
open the remainder to settlement.
Senator M Oreery introduced a bill to
repeal the bankrupt law and all acts
amendatory thereof. It was ordered
that tho bill lie on the table to be taken
up hereafter. The senate then went into
executive session.
The doors were reopened ami the senate
adjourned.
Ulack, but Comely.
The Nubians are the finest race in
Egypt, and ate in every respect a pecu
liar people. They are black, but it is a
lustrous sable not unpleasant to the eye.
They have handsome, expressive counte
nances, bright eyes, well-shaped heads
and high foreheads. The hair naturally
curls in ringlets. They are the best look
ing specimens of the negro hratich of the
human family I have ever met. They
are naturally intelligent., are good-hu
mored and very agreeable in their man
ners. They have the appearance of a people
relapse 1 from a state of eivilizition to
their present semi-barbarous condition.
Their favorite dress is nudity ; in the
female sex a string of bead-embroidered
clotii about the loins. They live n or
near the banks of the Nile, and from its
waters they draw their chief subsistance.
Th y swim—men, women and children—
like ducks; have no fear of crocodiles,
and often seek a fight with them, being
very dexterous in the use of the knife,
and rarely fail to plunge it into tjve threat
of the monster. In this part of the
Nile the crocodile yet abounds. Steam
boats and the rude treatment they have
received from the bauds of strangers
have driven them from below the first
cataract into the loss frequented waters
of Nubia. The Nubians have and in
genious way of catching U crocodile on
laud. It is t c custom of no animal to
crawl out of the water cn to the sand
banks in the middle of the river, there
with their family to take their siesta.
The Nubians in these places digs a pit,
covers it with bushes and a sprinkling ol
sand, as if the wind had drifted it there.
The crocodiles arc no sooner gathered
on this fragile covering than it gives way
and they fall into the pit beneath. As
they cannot extricate themselves they
are easily killed. Their skin is used for
shields, and sometimes are stuffed in
order to be sold to travelers. The Nu
bian's favorite arms are a javelin and a
shield of hippopotamus or crocodile hide.
Further south, in Kordofan, fSsnaar
and Darfour, appears the full-blooded
African, with his coal-black skin, woolly
hair, thick lips and gross features. He
has hut little taste for civilization. He
is naturally a barbarian with savage in
stincts, with few wants to supply, and
living off of whatever nature places
within his reach. His gods arc the works
of his own hands, rude idols of wood and
stone, to whom he offers in sacrifice the
captives ho has taken in battle. He is
perpetually in war, for he loves the smell
of blood, and ho has little sense of hu
manity. He haunts his fellow black men
in their jungles, or he overpowers them
in their stockaded, mud-built villages at
night, links them together in droves, and
sells them to the slave traders. Col. Ra
ker, whom the khedivc has appointed
governor of Soudan, has full jiower to
break up the cruel traffic. Not long
since he wrote, to him to use all the
means at his disposal, in any way he
chore, to put an end to it. This will be
difficult to do; for beyond the confines
of Darfour are the g.eat slave hunting
fields, where internicine war eternally
reigns, and where,notwithstanding wars,
massacres, and disease, the human raw
seems to multiply, as it were, from the
fertilization of the earth with its own
blood.
Unhealthy as the cliinats is in the
dens-r parts of Africa, where land and
water contend for the mastery, where the
people live an amphibious existence
among the morasses or in the forest wilds,
it is strange thatepidemic* are rare. The
contagious maladies that sweep off whole
populations elsewhere are comparatively
unknown where it might be reasonably
supposed they would most prevail.
Egypt may now be considered to ext< nd
to the equator. The whole country has
not been explored or op-ned to inter
course to that point but it acknowledges
the supremacy of the khc-dive, arrl in
course of time we shall be mad.- ac
quainted with all of its productions.
Darfour, which is said to have a popu
lation of .0,00,000, has been in a state of
insurrection. Colonel Gordon, by ike
adoption of politic measure*, put down
the movement, and peace now reigns.—
Philadelphia Prett.
RELIGIOUS.
JLckil Is Not Inlo Temptation
Savior, Than to pray dul’st loach us,
Hoar while we Thy wor.h irpiat;
Safe deliver us f cm evil,
From temptation guide our leet.
From the paths of sin au<l folly,
Paths of death and sin’s deceit,
Lo<d ws ly Thy arm most holy,
Fiom teuiptatiou guide our feet,
When, by earth’s false flatteries blinded,
Worldly i ride end pmisenio sweet,
Thiteh us t> l*o lowly-minded.
From temptation guide our feet.
When in darkness, lost, forsaken
Satan’s victory seems complete;
Doubts diap"l, new courage wnden,
From temptation guide our feet.
BUw*cd Savior, Thou wast tempted, ;
UfttllPs butT-dings dld’st meet
By Thy grace upheld we Conquer,
Safely Thou wilt gutde our font.
—Maryirct .1 in S V. Observer .
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A Torn t'louk.
The. papers of this city publish the fact
that I). D. Spencer (they also call fttlen
lion to the fact that this man has the
“ D. D.” at the wrong end of his name—
tliis, however, is of small account) was
at the time he absconded, leaving the
slate savings institution, of which he had
the charge, a wreck and a ruin, nil asio
ciate member of the Young Men’s Chris
tian association, of Chicago. No one, of
course, will think of holding the associa
lion responsible for wbat Mr. Spencer,
while enrolled upon its list of members
should please to do. The fact, however
is provocative of commentary, all the
same.
Perhaps the first thought suggested is,
that the cloak a man wears can never,
with any fairness, he made responsible
for whatever things he may choose to
hide under it. It may suit him to rclcct
for his purpose the very best cloak lie can
find, or at. least can command. So far as
ho has reason to suppose that people will
judge him by this outer garment, he will,
of course, aim to have in it the very best
testimony possible to his gentility and his
title to respect, it is, to be sure, no
groat sign of sagacity, to judge u man by
his cloak, yet that is what very many
people in this world do. When they get
taken in, they should remember that it
is not tho cloak that chooses the man,
hut the man who chooses the cloak, and
that he, not it, is responsible for the sort
of man it is made to cover.
ft seems very like a truism to remark,
for another thing, that a man’s cloak is
not the man. At tho same time, it is
exactly one of the things which, agreed
to by everybody, are practically believed
iiy very few. There is many a n.'u
flourishing his way through the world
with nothing under the sun to recom
mend him hut his tine cloak. And even
the worldly-wise arc otten sadly taken in.
There was a poet, once, who wrote, “ The
man’ll the man.” This same poet going
up from Iris farm to Edinburgh, was
fascinated by the fine cloaks he saw the
rich, the noble and the fashionable wear
ing; sacrificed his rustic independence,
which became him so well, at the altar
of the gay world, and became from that
day a discontented, a dissipated and a
ruined man. Religion is not a fine cloak,
but it is an eminently respectable one.
Simply as morn, however, it never com
municates respectability. Jesus saw
around Him a most pretentious array of
these habiliments. A touch of His fin
ger tore them into shreds, and Scribes
and Pharisees crept from His presence
with the vileness they had so diligently
cloaked and displayed in all its offend ve
ness. A man does not become religious
by pretending tobe so. Alas, that such
thousands and thousands sh-uld keep on
deceiving themselves with the hope that
in some way the cloak, alter all, may
answer for the man.
Then, how cor tain it must be that
sooner or later, the cloak, which is a j
cloak merely, will be torn. Jt is riot in j
the nature of things that mere preten-j
sions should, in the end, or for any long |
period, be found to avail. There is not
an error, not a falsehood, not a shallow
pretension, not any face or form of hy
pocrisy but must someone day be ex
posed as just what it is. Events of this
present life even, demonstrate and fore
shadow the certainty of this truth. If
one were to write down iri a list the
names of those men, in official or busi
nosi lile, Who, in the last two year's
have had their cloaks of pretensions not
only torn, but utterly stripped away, and
then been made to stand naked and
ashamed under the eye of a scornful
world, he would be astonished to see how
the catalogue would grow under his 1
hand. What a long array of names, be
smirched beyond all hope of cleansing!
And the disclosures time about in an
operation of laws ai inexorable as late
Concealment, feven in this World, is, after
all impos-dble. Very few pretender* fail
to be, sooner or later, found out. Are
not the awful revelations of the last day
herein anticipated and foreshadowed ?
What million* on million* of torn cloaks
must hang in the wardrobe of eternity
A true man’s cloak may aometirni-< la
torn. He wears it, not for coneeaui >nt
but because it is the garment \jJkura!
and becoming to him. It may be, torn.
Good men s-iff-r r-euth treatment -some
times. Happy they who have no
anxiety on this point. The outer gar-
meat may suffer from the brambles that
[line their way through life. Hostile
bauds may seize them, and even rend
away the cloak. Temptation may pluck
at them, and they may flee away with
the garment left behind them. Slander
may rob them of both the cloak and the
coat also. No matter. That.which does
not court concealment ueetjjiever fear
disclosure. The true man any j true
Christian has wherewith to enwrap him
self though all else bo rent away. To
him it is granted to he “ arrayed in line
linen, clean and white ; for thelrnc linen
is tho righteousnoss oi mints. hufa
Standard.
■Ridiculous, Hut True.
During the autumn of JBl2, I was in
Algiers, and, one pleasant day, I joined
a party of French officers in a jaunt into
the back country. The distance from
tho coast—or from tho city of Algiers—
to tho northernmost sweep of the Atlas
mountains, is not quite twenty miles,
and thitherward we took our way to see
the sights. My particular object was to
see the district whence came tho chief
supply of gum Arabic. On flic first night
out, we found quarters with a Peola
peasant, whose household was far from
repulsive or unpleasant.
On tho following morning, we found
our host preparing to go to the forest.
Ho said ho was going to examine his
monkey traps. Three of us went with
him ; and the first trap we visited held a
monkey, whose facial contortions and
sharp chattering and screaming, as we
approached, were frightful. And what
do you suppose that trap was ? How
was the monkey caught ? I will tell you.
Attached to a limb of an acacia tree
by a strong cord was a gourd, the shell
of which was tough, strong and intact,
saving a small round hole on one side.
Within this gourd the peasant had placed
a small quantity of lints, of which the
monkey is very Jond. Well, tho monkey
discovers the gourd in a strange position,
and he investigates. Very soon, ho de
termines that some of his favorite nuts
are within. Aha! hero is a treat. Tho
hole is just largo enough to admit his
hand ; he feels the nuts, and in his eager
ness to make a good thing of it, lie
gathers up all ho can grasp. Itut when
lie tries to withdraw his halid, it does
not come forth. Closed, with a gill of
nuts in itHgrasp,the hole is not halt largo
enough to let it out. Poor avaricious
wretch! he can not surrender his prize
or, at all events, so eager to secure it is
lie that the idea of letting go never
enters his head. And there he remains,
snapping and growling, vainly trying t.o
get his hand free with the prize in pos
session. And so it is until lSwfiiing
until the mail who expos'd the hail
comes and lakes both gourd and monkey.
He is very angry, and anon locks very
crest-fallen and loolish; hut there is no
help for it.
I saw four monkeys captured in that
same way while tarrying in the shadows
of the Atlas mountains.— N. Y. I.chjir.
JMoimil ISuiMors’ Relics.
One of the. most important discoveries
of mound builders’ relic) that lias ever
been made in this state was made yester
daymorning by some workmen who were
digging a cellar on Koulli hill, near
Boundary s'reet. After the workmen
were confident they had unearthed some
Indian antiquities, several members of
the Buiiington archaeological society
were notified and tho search was contin
ues] under scientific auspices. They
first unearthed a stone axe, rudely fash
ioned, but unmistakably a stone axe,
which was greeted with dicers and excite
mint. Then they turned up a flat stone
and fund in a little recess a copper knife,
a broken earthen jar and a stone mortar,
which were brought out into the light, of
day from the solemn mystery and dark
ness where they had lain for ages, and
the secretary of the dub immediately
sent off a despatch to the president and
to the Kmilhsonian institution. Then
they found a stone pipe, and the archie i
logical socictv sing a hymn and fell on
each other’s necks and wept, and de
spatches were sent to Dubuque and
Davenport. Then they rolled away a
great hou'def that appeared to cover the
entrance to a kind of crypt, and ttiey
found a nickel, a street car check and a
copy of the Hawkcye of day before yes
terday. And then, somehow, the inter
est in the exploration kind of <li> and out
like, no more dispatches were sent and
the society adjourned without a benedic
tion.— Burlington ITa n b ye.
Oul.y Toy True.
While a collection was being takm up i
at a colored meeting in Detroit the other
day. Brother iGardner said to the con
gregation : “ (’lease remember, biedrerj,
dat none©l u* kin lake our riche* beyond
do grave.” Just then the hat came back
empty, and Brother Gardner continued ;
“ But it ’pears to me dat din crowd is
gwine to try mighty hard to do it. ’
That is the way witli too many congrega
tions in tliis world. They know very
well that they can take nothing with
them beyond the grave, but they feel at
. .he same timo that th*v wouldn’t be
©-.tisfied after doath without the con
sciousness of having tried. —Cbr> •
Journw..
From Behind the Bars.
TO MHS. S. A R.
A'v a ftotti il prisoner in the Tennessee State Peni
tenliary,
A of in sroy, in our iom-lf coll
Wo wait thv coining on tho S ihn.ith day;
, fcnow >'> kln-inevi, in thy Christian way,
hmi ii in ike our spirits feel more bright and free
Will give us hope of belter th ngs to be,
And tell us why we suffer, how we fell.
’ ria such relief to think of brighter things,
Aim turn our memoriei to the good and true;
I ike new-blown rosei bathed in morning dew,
( hir souls seem lifted ton higher life,
roigotUng for the while despair and itnfe,
.on 1 phantomsgriiu which retrospection brings.
If all would choose the right and shun the wrong,
An i deal In kindness towards their feliow-men,
t ' ii * >o, ter would the world he then,
And how much mnrenf good would sweetly shine,
And follow in the wake of dee Is like thine,
And how much grander would the world move on.
Welcome fir Christian, f ill not then to come,
i trough crime seems lurking on the prison wall;
‘•"member God “e'en notes the sparrow's fslli”
It may hj thine to lend a helping hand,
And lead souls upward to a life more grand,
r. cn tw the portals of the heavenly nonie.
-- Jack I Vrenn.
GRAVE ANI> GAY.
.. Mock-turtle—Kissing before com
pauy ami quarreling afterward.
. In Denmark a barber is required to
know the rudiments of surgery, and pass
an examination thereon.
. .A farmhand for harvesting is paid in
central Ttaly seven cents a day, and con
siders himself a fortunate man to find
employment at that rate.
NO. 10.
. “ Oh, (leorge, I’m ashamed of you—
rubbing your lips like that, after that
dear little French girl has given you a
kiss!” “ I’m not rubbing it out, mammy
—l’m rubbing it in I”— Punch.
. Nature doesn't know much. If she
had made a mail’s head out of cork, see
how nicely lie could have floated about
in water and kept himself from drowning
in case of shipwreck.
.. A resolution has been adopted by the
Flat River ltaptist association, of Nortli
Carolina, requesting tho churches to re
port the number of moderate drinkers
among church members, and the amount
of liquor distilled by church members
. An exchange tells how the joke was
on him. “ A bright little girl of our ac
quaintance asked us the following conun
drum: ‘ How many letters aro there in
a iKistman’s bag?’ We gave it up, and
she said there were three—b-a g.”
. .“What’s the use of all this sacrifice of
human life, this bloody butchery of
Turks and Russians ?” said a Philadel
phia Quaker to a Cincinnati hog mer
chant. “ I don’t know,” replied the lat
ter mournfully ; “ pork isn't riz any that
I can see.”
..Gambelta is stout, and has a power
ful icck. His hair is somewhat gray, he
is blind in one eye, his walking iii a roll
ing gait, and ho wears a rusty hut. Hi)
voice is like tho roll of thunder, and
when lie becomes vehement he is a great
orator.
. A Mr. Brown ofTonnwanda, is build
ing iNraft of pine logs, at Niagara, with
a house at olio end lor the accommoda
tion of eats and dogs, which are to make
a compulsory voyage Jover the falls. I
the raft goes over smoothly and tho cats
and dogs are not hurt, a man named
White will attempt the same perilous
voyage on a similar craft.
. .“One extreme leads to another.”
That is the reason a young man who be
gins by treading on a lady's foot olten
ends by kissing her lips. And, we may
add, the same rule applies on the other
side, when a girl who has wasted hours
of time and skeins of chenille embroid
ering on a pair of slippers for Henry’s
exquisite feel, soon begins to claw the
capillary vegetation out of tho top of his
head for coming home at 2 a. rn. and try
ing to go to sleep in the coal-scuttle.—
Uawkeyc.
Virginia papers are telling of a ser
geaiit who was wounded in the arm at
Malvern Hill, in the groin at Chancel
lorsvillc, hail three ribs broken at the
Crater, and was shot through the neck
at Hateher’s Run. In eighteen months
eight pieces of hone “from the spinal
column,” they assert, worked out
through his mouth, and a few weeks
since, more than twelve years after the
wound, the leaden bullet (which proved
to he a percussion bullet from a Belgian
rifle) came out into his mouth,
, .The mother of a young miss on
Federal street was recently explaining to
her daughter the indescribable grandeur
of heaven, and drew a picture of para
dise that would infuse new life into many
a weary pilgrim. The fond parent said
that the Htreets vero pave I with glitter
ing gold, and out inUi the evergreen
groves, where the angels dwell in eternal
joy, flowers spring up under tho gentle
pressure ol their airy feet, heating among
their beautiful petals brilliant gems and
precious stones. The girl’s eyes bright
cried, ami slieseenicd ahsoihed in the con
temptation of the portrayal, hut at its
close she ejaculated, “Golly, I’d steal
some!” —Tiny Thrum.
. .There’s no showman bn the road who
would think of letting a lady be first to
pass through the door* when opening
them for a performance. There’* a sort
of feeling that it brings ill-luck. Then
there are cross-eyed people, f many a vete
ran ticket-seller loses all heart when one
presents himself at the ticket-window.
A cross-eyed patron and a had house gen
erally go together. A cross eyed per
former would be a regular Jonah. With
circuses there is a superstition that a man
with a yellow clarionet bring! bad luck.
And then there are su[>erstitious notion:
about giing on the stage from the wrong
side and b'ginning study or rehearsal on
Friday and ft dozen other things.— Tow/
I Pn itnr.
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