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TOWN DIRECTORY.
TOWN OFFICERS.
Mayor—W. H. Whaley.
Councilmen—T. P. Littlefield, H. W.
Whaley, Bryant George, O. F. Littlefield,
Anderson Williams,
Clerk and Treasurer—O. F. Littlefield.
Marshal—G. W. Williams.
COUNTY OFFCERS.
Ordinary—Richard B. Hopps.
Sheriff—John N. Good bread.
Clerk Superior Court—Benj.O. Middleton
Tax Receiver —J. C. Hatcher.
Tax Collector—W. K. Causey.
County Purveyor—Noah Bennett.
County Treasurer—John Massey.
Coroner— D. McDitha.
CountyjChmmissioners—J. F. King, G.
W. James Knox,G. Rich, Isham
Tednish. Ttegulur meetings of the Board,
3;1 Wednesday in January, April, July and
October. Jus. F. Kiner, Chairman.
COURTS.
Superiot Court, Wayne County—Juo. L. j
Harris, Judge; Simon W. Hitch, Solicitor*
■General. Sessions held on second Monday
in March and September.
Blacbtar, Pierce Comity tap.
TOW!) DIRECTORY.
TOWN OFFICERS.
Mayor—R. G. Higgins.
Councilmen—D. P. Patfcerson.J. M. Downs,
J. M. Lee, tt. D. Brantly.
Clerk of Council—J. M. Purdom.
i own Treasurer— B. I). Brantlv.
Marshal—E. Z. Byrd.
COUNTY OFFICERS.
Ordinary—A. J. Strickland.
Clerk Superior Court—Audrew M. Moore.
Sheriff—E. Z. Byrd.
County Treasurer—D. P. Patterson.
County Serveyor—J. M. Johnson.
Tax Receiver and Collector—J. M. Pur
dom.
Chairman of Hoad Commissioners—llßl
District, G. M., Lewis C. Wvlly; 12 0 Dis
trict, U. M., George T. Moody; 584 District,
O. M., Charles S. Youinanns; 500 District,
■G. M., D. B. McKinnon.
Notary Publics and Justices of the Peace,
etc.—Blackshear Precinct. 584 district,G.M.,
Notary Public, J # G. S. Patterson; Justice
of the Pe-'ce. ft. R. James; Ex-ollicio Con
stable E. Z. Byrd.
I)ickson?s Mill Precinct, 1250 District, G;
M , Notary Public,Mathew Sweat; Justice bi
the Peace, Geo. T. Moody; Constable, W,
F. Dickson.
Patterson Precinct, 1181 District, G. M.,
Notary Public, Lewis C. Wylly; Justice of
the Peace, Lewis Thomas; Constables, H.
Prescott and A. L. Griner.
Schlatterville Precinct, 500 District, G. M
Notary Public, l). B. McKinnon ; Justice o
the Peace, R. T. James; Constable, John W
Booth.
Courts —Superior court, Pierce county
John L. Harris, judge; Si men W. Hitch
Solicitor General. Sessions held first Moil
dry in March and September.
Corporation court, Blackshear, Ga., session
held second Saturday in each Month. Police
court sessions every Monday Morning at 0
o’clock.
JESUP HOUSE,
Corner Broad and Cherrv Streets,
(Near the Depot,)
T. P- LITTLEFIELD, Proprietor.
Newly renovated and refurnished. Satis
faction guaranteed. Polite waiters will take
your baggage to and from the house.
BOARD $2.00 per day. Single Meals, 50 cts
CUR REN T PA RAG RAPHS.
K'uitliern Xcws.
Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia and
North Carolina have all cut and housed
fine tobacco crops.
Eight hundred bales of tobacco were
brought to Ivey West from Havana by
one steamer recently.
The State tax of Florida is to be re
duced this year two mills on the dollar,
an aggregate reduction of SBO,OOO.
A Nashville colored preacher is suing
a member of his church tor the payment
ot a subscription to the pastors salary.
N. I’. Overton (white) and Noah Tay
lor (colored) are to be hung at Washing
ton. N. C , November 2, lor the murder
of Grimes in 1874.
In the years 1876-’77, the State ol
North Carolina produced 125,000 bushels
of peanuts; Virginia, 180 bushels ; and
Tennessee, 500,000 bushels.
Petersburg, Va., has 180 Moffet reg
isters, which show that that city took
between September 27th and October
16th 85 354 alcoholic potations—tax,
$858,85; malt, 10,753—tax, $54 27.
All Sorts.
The Mecanitile library of New York
dow contains nearly 175,000 volumes.
The amount of tax paid on men
servants in England in 1876-7 shows
that their number has been reduced by
42,000—a proof of hard times.
The New York Herald has been mulct
in SIO,OOO for a libel contained as a
“ personal ” that charged blackmail on
Mrs. Phrebe llobertson, a boardinghouse
keeper. An appeal was taken.
A patent has been obtained for the
preparation of maize leaf, as a substitute
for tobacco. It is said to he of anti-ner
vous effect, and to be a very pleasant
tonic to the system. It is sweet and
pungent.
A refrigerator car, so arranged that
thirty carcasses can be hung up, as in
shambles, and kept at a few degrees
above freezing point, has been sent by
some Nevada cattle dealers to Chicago
as an experiment. If it is successful, the
dealers will ship meat further east, this
fall and winter.
The new archbishop of Baltimore,
James Gibbons, is but 43 years of age,
and the youngest archbishop in the Uni
ted States. Bishop Gibbons was trans
ferred from North Carolina, where he
was vicar apostolic, to succeed the late
Bishop McGill as the fourth bishop of
Richmond on the 20th of October, 1872.
He was then 38 years of age, and the
v.mnaett ecclesiwt iu the United 'talcs
wearing the mitre.
YOL. 11.
Kerosene, benzine, naphtha, etc., are
all products of distillation of petroleum.
When petroleum is heated in the retort,
the lighter oils, such as gasoline and
naphtha, distil over first, and are con
densed in pipes surrounded by cold
water. At a higher temperature oils of
greater specific gravity (heavier) such as
naphtha, benzine, etc., come over; as the
temperature increases, kerosene distils.
The residue in the retort contains tar,
paraffin, and lubricating oils.
The reason why Saxe-Holm disowns
herself has been discovered by the Spring
field Republican. She wrote in one of
her stories : “ Women have a perpetual
craving to be recognized to be admired ;
and a large part of their ceaseless chat
ter is no more or less than a surface de
vice to call your attention to them, as
little children continually pull their
gown to make you look at them.” The
author ot this statement may well seek
to preserve her incognito,
It has often been a cause of surprise
that so rnanv Jewish synagogues in New
York and other cities should be without
ministers. But an advertisement in an
exchange throws some light on this mat
ter. A congregation in Des Moines,
lowa, want “ a gentleman capable to
officiate in the capacities of lecturer,
chazan, teacher, schochet, and Mohel,
and to conduct services according to the
Minhig America.” And for this service,
of at least three men they offer the lib
cral salary of SSOO a year—less than $lO
a week.
Public opinion in London is strongly
in favor ot the Turks. At the music
hall and other places where war songs
form part of the nightly programme, the
Russian anthem is invariably hissed, and
the czar’s flag howled at, while the cres
cent and the star come in for an enor
mous amount of cheering, and the Turk
ish national hymn is applauded to the
echo. Most ot the music hall proprietors
have started subscription lists in aid of
the Turkish compassionate fund. Al
ready, although the lists have only been
put up n lew days, a consideraole sum of
money has been collected.
Rclgious.
Holy water from the fountain at Lour
des is advertised for sale in Berlin.
Amadeus, ex-king of Spain, has written
to the pope that he has resolved, in con
sequence of the death of his wife, a gentle
and lovely lady, whose loss he greatly
feels, to take holy orders and enter a
cloister.
The rapidity with which the Germans
adopt every improvement in means and
methods of warfare is shown by the fact
that all the guns carried hy the ships o!
the German navy, or mounted in the
fortifications on the shore? of Germany,
are breech-loading rifled ordinance.
Mr. Robert Cross, in a report to the
British government upon the India
rubber trees of South and Central
America, asserts that the most favorable
conditions exist for raising them in
various parts of southern India, and
especially in the low grouuds of the
region around Madras. India-rubber
trees thrive best in the hottest climates.
News from Japan announces the birth
of an imperial prince. The Mikado,
according to traditional law, has twelve
wives besides the legitimate empress.
To one of these “ subordinate mothers ”
the new prince belongs. The object of
this polygamic system is to provide for
the contingencies of non-succession.
Horn Pedro, emperor ofßrazil, is again
at home, after an absence of a year and a
half. He is the only potentate in the
world’s history who has absented himself
from his country for so long a period
purely for persona! relaxation and enjoy
ment. During his absence no political
troubles have occurred, and he resumes
the headship of his government with the
universal respect of his people.
Mr. W. T. Harris said in his address
at the Massachusetts state normal school:
“ It is in education as in other depart
ments of the business of civil society'. In
the long run, skill, preparation and brains
will tell. The professional teacher will,
after awhile, furnish the only standard,
and the make-shi ft teacher will be valued
and remunerated like the make-shift
shoemakeror mechanic,lawyer or doctor.”
Few persons know that there is such a
church as the Congregational Methodist
church in this country. There is such an
organization, however, and it is said to
have 10,000 members. A newspaper is
published in its interest at Cave Spring.
Ga. The doctrines and usages of this
church are Methodist; ifs polity is Con
gregational, under a general conference,
which prescribes uniform rules for the
whole body.
IntomlN.
The finest crop of raisins ever produced
in California is promised this fall.
Within ten years tobacco culture has
become a most important industry in
Pennsylvania.
There are over eight hundred Chinese
laundries in New York city, giving em
ployment to about 4,000 persons.
The total number of coal mines in
England and Wales is 2,088, with an
annual rental of £3,-398,690.
It is estimated that the wheat crop o
Ohio this season will be worth 8120,000,
000, and hay 120,000,000.
Over 1,000,000 gallons of petroleum oil
are daily exported from New York. The
agzregate exports this year are 121,000,-
000, against 84,000,000 gallons last year.
The world’s annual production of sugar
aggregates 2,150,000 tons of cane sugar.
1,320 000 tons of beet-root sugar, 150,000
tons of date sugar, 20,000 tons of maple
BUgar and 20,000 tons of sorghum sugar.
The cotton manufactures of the world
run a total of 65,000,000 cotton spindles,
and spin 2,676,000 pounds of cotton
annually. Of the spindles, 35,000,000,
or more than one-half, are operated in
England.
California’s w*ol growth is becoming
one of he* greatest industries, the ex
ports last year having been over 50.000,-
000 pounds, worth >'*.,000,000. There
are several wool growers who own from
30,000 to 40,000 sheep each.
During the year of 1876 the sugar ex
portation from this country amounted to
over 73,000,000 pounds, on which the
drawback under the law of 1875 was
J 2,609,876. The sugars thus sent abroad
were mostly of the higher grades.
JESUP, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER U. 1877.
It is estimated that 20.000 oil wells
have thus far been dug in Pennsylvania
and West Virginia, at an aggregate cost
of $192,000,060. They have yielded
about $8,000,000 barrels of oil, valued at
the wells at $300,000,000, or $400,000,-
000 at the seaboard.
■ In addition to the home production,
opium is imported into China to the
annual value ot over $40,000.000, priu
c.pally from British India. More than
$1,000,000 worth is annually imported
into California (or the use of the Chinese
in that state.
The bullion product cf the Pacific
coast mines for the past eijriit months,
according to the tally kept by the San
Francisco Bulletin, has been as follows :
.January, 15 mines 13,1011,000
February, 10 mines 2,035,500
March, 10 mines 3,688,000
April, 10 mines 3,000,000
May, 21 mines „ -1,105,000
June, 21 Mines.. 1,121,800
July, 21 mines I 5,054,900
August, 20 mines 4,377,100
Total $30,261,800
There are some seven hundred carpet
making establishments in the United
States which, in prosperous times, furnish
employment to between 150,000 and
200,000 operatives—men, women and
children. Thirteen million dollars is in
vested in the business, which includes
buildings and machinery, while $4,700,-
000 is expended yearly for wages. The
annual production is valued at between
$22,000,000 and $24,000,000. Philadel
phia represents three fourths of the busi
ness, and the other fourth is divided up
in different manufacturing cities of New
England, the two most prominently con
nected with carpet manufacturing being
Hartford, Connecticut, and Lowell,
Massachusetts.
FORTY-FIFTH CONGRESS.
THE SENATE.
In the senate, on the 23d, bills intro
duced and referred—To equalize the
bounties of soldiers who served in the
late war for the union. Amending the
revised statutes of the United -States in
regard to the militia. To provide a law
ful note and coin currency for the United
States. To authorize a long bond for
the investment of savings. To enable
the Indians to become citizens of the
United States. Adjourned till Thurs
day.
in the senate, c-n the 25th, Senator
Conkling presented a petition from the
citizens of New York against the repeal
of the bankrupt law, and praying that it
be amended. Refened. Senator Mitchell
submitted a resolution authorizing the
committee on privileges and elections
in the cases of Messrs. Kellogg and Spof
ford, claiming seats from Louisiana, to
send for persons and papers, and admin
ister oaths, that the committee may
decide upon the merits of the title of
each contestant. Senator Neman, by
request, introduced a bill re establishing
the court of commissioners on the Ala
bama claims, and for a re-distribution of
the unappropriated moneys. A number
of unimportant hills were introduced,
and the senate adjourned until Monday.
HOUSE OF KEPRESENTATIVES.
In the house, on the 24th, after read*
ing the journal, consideration of the
Colorado case was resumed, and Mr.
Harrison made an address advocating Mr.
Patterson’s right to the seat. Air. Gar
field supported Mr. Belford as having a
prima facie right, and after further dis
cussion, without action, adjourned.
In the house, on the 25th, Mr. Alillß,
of Texas, spoke on the Colorado case,
lie held that neither Belford nor Patter
son presented a prima facie case, and that
their seats should be declared vacant.
Life Among the Lowly.
The Selma Times gives the following
interesting information in regard to the
domestic economy of the negroes:
It has often been a matter of wonder
to many people how so many idle negroes
subsist about this city.
We have an old negro man who visits
our premises once a'week asid performs a
small job for which we pay a quarter.
We had the curiosty to interview him
the other day as to his finances and sub
sistence.
“How are you getting on, Unde
Aleck?” said we.
“ Ah, thank God, I make out to get
’nufr to eat,” said Aleck. “Sum days I
make a quarter, some days more or less
and some days miffin. But indurin’ the
week I gets 'nuff to buy ’visions fer me
und de ole ’omun.”
“Well, Uncle Aleck, how much pro
visions do you buy, tell me exactly. I
want to make calculation ?”
Aleck then gave the following items as
his weekly purchase lor himself and wife:
Centr.
One-half perk meal JO
One and one-half |*oundH meat ..15
One fint of molasses yiy.
One pound
One-half pourul butter 15
Coffee 16/^
Total
I asked him if he had plenty. “ O la,
yes, massa; my wife is a good cook. I
tell you, sah, she is a good cook. She
used to cook for ole miss in slavery time,
and we has a good table. I tell you, sah,
we lives as well as most colored people I
knows of; as good—well, as der hack
drivers. We have ‘ greens’ from our
garden, und sometimes I eats de gravy
and leaves all de meat for the ole ’email.’
And this is the way the darkies live—
by doing little jobs. A small amount of
cheap meat and bread will subsist them—
many times some of them have bread
alone. Alany idle men, who de little
jobs, or follow politics, are “upported
mainly by their wives at the wash-tub.
It would astonish anyone to count up
the money paid out every week for wash
ing. Washing, cooking, and nursing
babies support a large portion of the
1 negro population of .-'elma.
ISLKSSKI* ARK THEY THAT MOl T KX,
O, doom not they are blest alono
Whose lives a peaceful tenor ke*p ;
The Power who pities man has shown
A blessing for the eyes that weep.
The lifht of smiles shall till aain
The lids that overflow with tear? ;
Ami weary hours of woe and pain
Are promises of happier years.
There is a day of sunny res*
For every dark autl troubled night;
And grief mav bide an even guest,
lint Joy shall come with early light.
And thou, who. o'er thy friend’s low bier,
Bhoddest the bitter drops like rain,
Hope that a brigter, happier sphere
Willfcive him to thy arms again.
Nor let the good man’s trust depart,
t hough life its common gifts deny—
Though with a pierced and bleeding heart,
And spurned of men he goes to die.
For (iod hath marked each sorrowing day
And numbered every secret tear,
And heaven’s lona age of bliss shall pay
Ifor all bis child rati suiter here.
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.
SPECTRA OK THE NEBULA.—It is well
kuown that, before the announcement of
the discovery of bright lines in the spectra
of nebula?, it was generally, if not uni
versally, accepted ns a fact that nebula'
were merely stellar clusters, irresolvable
on account of their great distances.
According to Prof. Stone, one cf the
most eminent English astronomers, the
discovery in question instead of being in
consistent with the view formerly held
by astronomers, is rather confirmatory of
the correctness of that viow, on the fol
lowing grounds: The sun is known to be
surrounded by a gaseous envelop of very
considerable extent. Similar envelopes
must surround the stars generally. Con
ceive a close stella. - cluster. Each star,
if isolated, would be surrounded by Us
own gaseous envelope, and these gaseous
envelopes might, in the case of a cluster,
form over the whole, or a part of the
cluster, a continuous mass of gas. So
long, therefore, as such a cluster was
within a certain distance from us, the
light from the stellar masses would pre
dominate over that of the gaseous envel
opes; the spectrum would therefore be
an ordinary stellar spectrum. Supposing
such a cluster to be removed lartber autl
farther from us, the light from each star
would he diminished in the proportion
of the inverse square of the distance; but
such would not be the case with the light
from the enveloping surface formed by
the gaseous envelopes.
The light Irom this envelope, received
on a slit in the focus of an object glass,
would be sensibly constant, because the
contributing area would be increased in
the same proportion that the light re
ceived from each part is diminished ; the
result would be that, at some definite
distance, and all great distances, the pre
ponderating light received from such a
cluster woy.ld be derived from the gase
ous envelopes and not from the isolated
stellar masses. The spectrum of the
cluster would therefore become a linear
one, like that from the gaseous surround
ings of our own sum.
Improvements in aeronautics. —In
respect to the gas balloon, one of the
most important improvements is due to
the ingenuity of M. Jobert, his plan
being to construct one side of the gas
holder of white, and the other of black
stuff, since it is easy to turn the balloon
about its vertical axis by means of a
small propeller, so as to keep either the
black side or the white side always facing
the sun, and thus, by the iieating or
cooling, make the balloon either to ascend
or descend to an extent depending upon
the difference in the reflecting or absorb
ing power of the twosalvesof the balloon.
By this means, it is thought, the vertical
movements ot the balloon may be con
trolled to a sufficient extent to render its
applications in meteorology of much im
portance. Numerous prominent aero
nauts have warmly advocated, of late,
the use of the hot-air balloon.
The Chinamen who have for five years
been in the employ of Sampson, the
North Adams shoe manufacturer, are
now out of work through hLs suspension
of business. They are preparing to re
turn to China, although many of them
have become pretty thoroughly Ameri
canized, and have joined Christian
churches.
Mr. Robert Cross, in a report to the
British government upon the india-rub
ber trees of Mouth and Central America,
asserts that the most favorable conditions
exist for raising them in various parts of
Southern India, and especially in the
low grounds of the region around Madras.
India-rubber trees thrive best in the hot
test climates.
Russia’s Financial Condition.
AH recognize that for the moment
peace is impossible. Russia cannot re
tire from the contest until she has ac
complished something—until she has re
alized at least partof the progamm a with
which she began the struggle.
Meanwhile her difficulties are increas
ing. The balance sheet of the state bank
for .September 24th shows that the bank
!ia been again making advances to the
treasury. At that date the debt of the
treasury to the bank amount* and to 117,-
259,105 roubles. This seems t< show that
the money received from the second in
stallment of the eastern loan is already
spent. Whatever may be the cause, the
consequence is that the bank has been
compelled to issue more paper money,
and this step has naturally had an un
favorable influence on the foreign ex
change. It is interesting for the political
economist to observe how the issue of
paper money and the consequent fall in
the rate of exchange influence prices.
The influence became, of course, at first
apparent in foreign articles, such as
wines, silks and the like. As the im
porters had to pay their foreign creditors
and the customhouse dues in gold, they
had to raise the prices of articles im
ported. This did not immediately affect
articles of home production, but now the
influence is extending to them. The low
rate of exchange has raised the nomina’
price of grain, because exporters are paid
in gold, and the price of grain in Russia
is determined by the foreign markets.
As soon as grain, the first neceasary of
life, rises in price, everything else must
do so likewise. — London Times.
Autumnal Tints.
It is very curious to observe the reg
ularity with which wo are told in the
autumn flint ” the first frost will change
the color of the loaves,” whereas the frost
has nothing to do with the change. It
has, indeed, sometimes happened in New
England that the foliage has changed, as
if by magic, in a single night, so that,
upon looking out of the window in the
morning, the eye was surprised with
the spectacle of the world wellnigh on
fire ; and since this transformation loot
place in connection with the mercury at
a low point, the whole affair is referred
to tue agency of Jack Frost. But why
not refer to this prestidigitator the grow
ing tints of the apple, the rich crimson
of tho velvet peach, and the purple of
theplum? Many years ago this error was
pointed out by an eminent botanist, who
showed that the gorgerous color of the
autumn leaf came in tho regular process of
ripening; and, though botany is generally
studied in schools, the old notion comes
back with the beavers every year, allow-;
ing that error, in common with truth, j
especially when supported by the vox \
populi, will ‘‘rise again,” however do- i
servedly crushed to earth.
Leaves find their parallel in man, as
already observed, and, like the human
sjiecics, they may ripen suddenly. If,
however, any one chooses to make a
mystery ot the intensity of the autumnal j
colors, there should be no great difficulty '
in explaining the variety. Indeed, the
apparent superiority over the strength
of color in the foliage ori the continent
of Europe may be attributed chiefly to
this variety. In Great Britain the 1
climate is evidently unfavorable to the j
production of bright forest-tones, hut in |
parts of Germany the brilfancy of certain j
kinds of leaves is quite equal to that of
the corresponding varieties in North
America. At the same time the greens j
of Europe are quite different from those j
of our own land, where, beginning with j
aburntgreen in the south, we pass north- j
ward along the Atlantic seaboard, reach- |
ing the true green of lie greatest of the I
hay-producing states, the state of Maine, j
Every one has noticed the unparalleled !
green of (lie “ Emera’d Isle,” which he- I
comes a pale sea-green iri Scotland, a !
whitish green in the south of England j
and France—only to change to an ashen
green in Germany, and a sober olive in !
the Italian states.
But we were remarking upon the var- j
iety of the autumnal tints fn our own ■
country. This is explained by the fact |
that, while in Europe there are only i
forty trees that attain to a height of i
thirty feet, in north America there are i
ho less than one hundred and forty— j
hence our forests flash like the plane-tree
that “the Persian adorned witli his man- !
lies and jewels.”--- AppleUnW Journal.
A Highly Romantic Story from
.lemiic .June.
It is not often that fate blesses a man
with such entire completeness as hap
pened in the case of a New York jour
nalist a few months ago. He was a fine
looking fellow, handsome and distin
guished, with just that sou perm of Bo
hemianism in his appearance, that takes
with women. <>n a certain fortunate
morning he was sent to re port the open
ing or something or other of a railroad,
whose president was a man of very large
fortune, and whose wife, much younger
than himself and very beautiful, was
among the most conspicuous of the
guests Our journalist, not troubled
with bashfulness, was presented; nat
urally, as journalists always do, he made
himself agreeable. The lady was
pleased, the attraction, to a certain ex
tent, was mutual, and by a singular
stroke wfiich must have come from the
hand of destiny itsilf, the railroad mag
nate shortly after died, leaving bis
young and fair widow to mourn and lie
comforted. Our journalist though he
could do no lets under the circumstances
than write a letter of condolence,
which was answered by a little note in
timating that aft- r the lajise of a projicr
time the lady would Ire pleased to have
him call. He did call, more than once,
and, fifteen months after the. death of the
husband, proposed t/> the widow, was ac
cepted, and the two were married. What
is a little singular about the affair is, that
he never inquired the amount of the
lady's fortune, and was considerably as-
tonished on the day of the wedding to
lie presented with securities representing
$1,750,000 in value. This amount the
lady desired to endow him with and
make his own by right, but the gallant
young journalist absolutely refused to
accept it. He wouldn’t even go shares.
He instisted that the whole should be
settled upon herself, and would consent
only to be the disburser of the moneys
expended for their joint use and benefit.
The happy pair sailed for Europe, and a
letter received from him the other day
from Vevay, in Switzerland, contained
the declaration that lie was the “ hap
piest dog alive ;” that his wife was the
best and most charming woman in the
world, and Vevay the most enchanting
spat in the universe.
AN ANTEDILUVIAN JOHREK
WOCK.
Illscovcry <>l >• Monster Caulnloiiis
tlielteuiiilus ol a Unman lleini;.
Mr. Henry Woodard owns a stock
ranch in the Indian territory, in that
Peoria nation, on which is situated the
big sulphur spring. The spring is sur
rounded by a quagmire, which is very
deep and ‘‘slushy,” and so soft that it
will not bear any considerable weight,
Mr. W. lately undertook to curb up the
spring i u order to get water more easily,
and while working in the mire came up
on what appeared to be an enormous
bone. Ho at once began an examination,
which disclosed the Htarlling fact that it
was the head of some mammoth beast.
His curiosity was aroused, and, with the
assistance of three other men, he began
the work of excavation. For four days
they worked, but did not succeed in
bringing the monster to the surface.
They threw off the marl, but could not
lift tho head of this golitic giant. They
found the skeleton well preserved and the
immense teeth still in the jaws. 3he
jaws were both in place, and tho spinal
column attached to the cranium. The
earth was thrown ofl'from the body to the
length of twenty feet, but still the
gigantic skeleton remained beneath.
Three of the front ribs were forced out,
and proved by measurement to be each
eight feet in length. The dirt was re
moved from the inside of the osseous
structure, and there lay the skeleton of a
human being, with one hundred and two
flint arrow points and fifteen flint knives.
The cranium indicated thnt it was the
skeleton of an Indian. It would have
been impossible lor the man to hnvc been
inside the animal without having been
swallowed by him, and his theory is
substantiated by the fact that the bones
of his right side of- the skeleton were
broken and mashed apparently by force,
file monster, therefore, must have been
carnivorous, which is also proven by the
teeth, which exhibit the marked char
acteristics of a flesh-eating lieast. A
large molar and two incisors, taken from
the upper jaw, were exhibited to us at
our office yesterday, tho largest one
weighing eight pounds and measuring
eight by four inches in size. There are
two large molars and two blunt tusks on
each side of the jaw; the teeth between
the molars arid the tuslrs are incisors,
having from two to six jaunts and cor
responding prongs to each tooth. In
front of the tirnks the teeth are similar to
those of most carnivorous animals in
shape. All the bones indicate that they
have lain buried lor an incredibly long
period, as they crumble rapidly when
brought in contact with the atmosphere.
Every circumstance goes to show that
these are the 1 unrest animal remains ever
resurrected, and the teeth, tusks and
structure of the head and jaws prove un
mistakably that it was of the carnivorous
class. — darlhage. (A/e.) Patriot.
Avery pathetic description of the
perils of life in the Black hills is given
in the following extract from the letter
of a miner there to his brother living in
in Nevada: “ I’ve been spending
the last week in trying to think
of some plan which will enable me
to get home. If I only had SSO > 1 could
get to Cheyenne, and then it would he
easy sailing into civilization. ff you
send the money by express the Indians
are sure to get it, as they split open a
Wells-Fargo coach every few days. If
vou send it by mail I wouldn’t get it for
months, as the postmaster is off on a big
drunk most of the time, and can’t read,
anyhow. Don’t send a draft on the
hank, as it is liable to bust. If you have
some friend coming to the hills, don't
trust hirn with the cash, as he is sure to
gamble it all off at Cheyenne or get
robbed at Custer. If you can think of
some way of sending the money that it
will be sure to get here, ssrnl it right
away: but unless you are sure don’t risk
it. Perhaps you had better come your
self and bring it.” The brother wrote
in reply : “ Ju-t borrowed sl2 to settle
a hoard bill.”
Cannibalism in Persia.
The plain was t er-less and desolate in
the extreme. We saw several dry
skeletons of travelers who had died on
the roadside and been left to rot like
animals. We passed a small walled
village, where people had eaten all their
children in September, 1870. All the
men who had the means had left the
place, leaving only the women and
children, and the mothers stole and ate
one another’s babes to save themselves
from perishing.— Captain Martlo
GRAVE AND GAY.
.. New Orleans is built upon a forest of
cypress trees. For six hundred feet
down this is the foundation 1 Rows upon
rows of the stumps of the cypress are
found growing over each other, superim
posed, each of which layers it is calcu
lated has required a thousand years to
form.
. American humor keeps bubbling up
all over the country. It is not by any
means confined to the paragraphists. For
instance, at Auburn, Ind., the other day,
“as Mr. Ault and wife were walking on
the street, William Bquire was on the
opposite side carrying a shot gun, and
playfully pointed it at them, saying,
j ‘Your money or your life!’ The gun
went off. instantly killing Mrs. Ault, and
filling Mr. Ault's head full of buckshot,
the effects of which will also prove fatal.
Squire thought the gun was not loaded.”
Uncle Jessie Eyon married a second
wife the third day after the funeral of
the fiist, whereat the neitrhborH serenaded
him with tin-pans, horse-fiddles and yells,
to signify their indignation. Uncle
Jessie stood it as long as he could, and
then went forth and spoke thus: “ Boyp,
if you care nothing for the joys of a
bridegroom, 1 think you ought to resect
i the feelings of a widower, the late partner
of whose bosom is vet hardly cold in her
grave 1” The boys were stunned, and
silently departed.
. . This tremendous piece of informa
tion comes from the New York Home
Journal: “ There may he circumstances
when a gentleman' may lift his hat to a
passing lady, even though he can not
bow to her. (She may be offended with
him, and yet he may respect and feel
kindly to her. He may deserve her dis
regard, and it is permitted him to express
his continued reverence by uncovering
his head in her presence; but he has no
right to look at her as she passes him.
lie must drop his eyes.”
.. Prayer is too pure and holy an ordi
nance to lie made the tool of supernatur
; alists. It is the simplest and most nat
ural law within the grasp of weak
humanity, and the benefits it confers are
i inestimable ; but it never spreads a table.
: pays a debt, huildH a church, or sustains
an orphan asylum, it can nourish the,
spiritual system with its invisible food
until the recipient is enabled to make a
! long journey in the desert of life upon
the strength received therefrom, but it
will never make the sun less intense, nor
remove the burning sand. It is the only
way liv which the finite may approach
the infinite and commune with the un
seen, and it is nothing less than desecra
tion to endow it with the powers of mate
rial jugglery. Tho true and spiritually
minded Christian should leave the won
der stories and all accounts of miracu
lous interpositions to the sect that makes
spiritual transformations a specialty and
themselves the medium of its operation,
and should (eel Ihut it is a privilege to
commune with God in the simplest and
sweetest way that man will ever know—
All iamv.
NO. 11.
.. Mr. Tennyson is quoted ns writing,
a few years ago, to Mr. Benjamin Blood,
of Amsterdam, N. V., that ho has fre
quently had, from boyhood up, a kind of
“waking trance” when he has been
alone. “This,” he says, in the letter
printed in the Times, of Hartford, “has
often come upon me through repeating
my own name to myself silently, till all
at once, as it were, out of the intensity
of the consciousness of in iividuality, the
individuality itself seemed to dissolve
and fade away into boundless being ; and
this not n confused state, but the clear
est of the clearest, the surest of the
surest, utterly beyond words—whose
death was an almost laughable impossi
bility—the loss of personality (if it so
were) seeming no extinction, but only
true life. I am ashamed of my feeble
description. Have I not said the state is
beyond word? Butin a moment, when
I come hack into my normal condition of
sanity, I am ready to Fight for ‘ Meine
Eiebe loh,’ and hold that it will last for
irons of scons.”
Nkobelofr.
The Hkobeleffit lmve a singular origin.
In 1830 the Emperor Nicholas, while at
a review of his whole army, ordered a
(ien. HkobelefT to aelect tho finest men
in the army to lorm into a body of im
peria! guards. In the first regiment
examined, the general camc across a
stalwart young soldier, who far surpassed
his comrades in appearance. The soldier
said that his name was Koboleff, nnd
that he came from a village in the pro
vince of Novgorod. The general, upon
hearing this reply to an inquiry he had
made, reemed greatly interested, and Us
ing told that it was only the youth of
Kobeleffthat had hindered his advance
ment from the ranks, at once gave orderK
that he should be made a non commis
sioned officer. That evening Gen.
Skolieleff, at a dinner given to the officers
of the regiment to which Kobeleff be
longed, told an anecdote. He said that
many years before, when he was a
private soldier, he was on guard one day
at the winter palace. 'While keeping
guard the empress passed by, and, after
looking at him a few moments, asked
him bis name. He replied that it was
Kobeleff. “ Kobeleff,” said the empress;
“ I don’t like the Bound of that name;
for the future you are to be called Skobe
leff.” Erom that time the empress
took an interest in his welfare, and
i eventually, through her favor, he became
aide-de-camp to the czar. “ I have
only one remark to make,” said the gen
eral, “ and that is the young fellow
whom I raised to 1* an officer to-day is
the son of the brother I left at home to
look after our village homestead.” The
' nephew took his uncle’s name, and
subsequently himself became a general,
ft is bis son, “ Skobeleff the younger,”
who has just distinguished himself le
fore Plevna.