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The Jesup Sentinel Office in 'Mie Jtswpflowe, fronliueon C uerry street, two doors from Broad St. PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY, ... BY ... T. P. LITTLEFIELD. Subscription Ratos. (Postage Prepaid.)' One year $2 00 '‘mi months ' fcC rno Three months..., 50 Ratos. Per square, first insertion $1 00 Per.£<|U4re,,eaeh subsequent insertion. ,75. iSS-Speeial ratea to yearly and large ad vertisers. 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 . InleiTiatioiiiil Niliiilay-Hflnud l<eiißi)iia. Oo.t. 28- I'm til bote re tho Council ...Aits g.~: I - 1 1 V'\ i Paul bemro Felix fcctaJM: 10-21 Niv.tl- Paul Indore Agrippa A* tx V K.'\ IS Abu *st Persuaded A, t„ 2f> !\-J' Nov. r > I’;inl iit the Storm Acta 27:H-G Pro. 1 -The |)e|jv<mui Act* “. '• H a—Paul in Melita Arlx'Jv I-l" Dec. In Paul at Korn- Ada -’vt l ; 31 I lor. ?'* T’uul'm t.ust Words.. ’’'l Tim t - 1 Dec. r.ti Keviuw.or Icksoii sole-ted l>y tuo school 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. The long-expected paragraph English Bible, prepared by < anon Girdleston, is passing through the press of the British and Foreign Bible society. The prose portions arc paragraphed according to the st-n.se. The poetic parts are arranged ,-. manner : * modern poetry. Thr Vsahc are divided into strophes as md where t! ey are acrostic or alphabetical the fact i° indicated by the Hebrew initials.