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Tie Jesnp Sentinel Office in the Jesuj> House, fronting ou Cherry /street, two doors from Broad rSt. PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY, ... BY ... T. P. LITTLEFIELD. Subscription Rates. (Postage Prepaid,) One year $2 00 'fix months 1 00 Three months 50 Advertising Rates. Ter square, first insertion $1 00 Per square, each subsequent insertion. 75 ffi9~Special rates to yearly and large ad vertiaers. 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.