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Tie Jesup Sentinel Office in the Je*u i fronting on Cherry street, two Joors f.om BroaJ St. PUBLISHED Kv::nv WEDNESDAY, ... BY ... TANARUS, P. LTTTLEFIELD. Subscription. Rates. (Postage p . ija and.) O.ie ve.': f>2 00 '<>•.•> 1 00 Iw.e -Tio' s 50 Ac > e.-llsing Rates. Per square, first Ciceitinn $1 00 Per square evr •s. asequent insertion. 75 JEiT'Speclal n. w* to yearly and large ad vertisers. TOWN DIRECTORY. TOWN OFFICERS. Mayor—W. If. Whaley. Counc—r. P. Littlefield, If. W. Wha ey, B wni George, O. E. Littlefield, Aiuie.ti.u / 1 am*. esurer—O. F. Littlefield. Maioha.—C. W. Williams. COUNTY OFFCERS. Ordinary—R ' ,: t? <1 R. Hopps. Sheriff’—John N. (ioodbrean. (Jerk Sape.io; (Vv\—Benj.O. Middleton Tax Receive.*— I. C. Hatcher. Tax ColJeCvOr—W. It. Causey. County Surveyor—Noah Bennett. County Treasure*-—John Massey. Coroner—D. McJDitha. County Commissioners—J. F. King. G. W. Haines, James Kik x, J. G. Rich, Isham Reddish Regular meeting® of the Board. 31 Wednesday in January, April, July and October. Jas. F. King, Chairman. COURTS. Ruperiot Court, Wayne County—Jno. L. Harris, Judge ; R'mon W. Hitch, Solicitor- General. deld on second Mondy ia March ana September. Blactstar, Pieros County Geoi'nia. TOWNIiiRECTORY. TOWN OFFICERS. Mayor—R. G. Il’pgiut. Counci'mpn—D. P. I\itterson ( .T. M. Downs, J. M. Lee, B. D. ihantlv. Clerk of Council—J. M. Pitrdom. 't own Treasurer—B. D. Brantly. Marshal—E. Z. Byrd. COUNTY OFFICERB. Ordinary—A. J. Strickland. Clerk Suoev’lor Con i—Andrew M. Moore. Sheriff—E. Z. Byrd. County T *ea% t V —D. P. Pa Person. County Serveyor—J. M. Johnson. lax Receiver end Collector—J. M. Pur dooi. Chairman of Road Commissioners —llßl District,G. M., Lew : s O, Wyllv; 12 0 Dis tr et, G. M., Geo-ge T. Moo< J v ; 581 District, G. M., Charles S. You.nanns; 590 District, G. M., D. B. McK nnon. Notary Publics and Justices of the Peace, etc.—Black-shea* Pec ; nc 584 and sfr ci.G.M., Notary Public, J. G. S. P.vluv soo; Justice of the Pe'co ft. R. James; Con stable E. Z Byrd. Dickson?! Mill Precinct 1250 District, G M , Notary Public,M.<t“ew Sweat; Justice *f the Peaoe, Geo. T. Moody; Constable, W. F. Dickson. Tatterson Precinct, 1181 District, G. M., Not* y Public, Lewis C. Wylly; Justice of the Peace, Lewis Thomas ; Constables, 11. Prescott anu A. L. Griuer. S.hUtterville Precinct. 590 District, G. M Notary Public, D. B. McKinnon: Justice o the Peace, R. T. James; Constable, John W Booth, Courts—Superior court, Pierce county John L. Harris, judge; Simon W. Hitch Solicitor General. Sessions held first Mon ti ry in March and September. Corporation court, Blackshea*-, Ga., session held second Saturday in f-acn Month. Police court sessions everv Monday Morning at 9 •’•leak. JESUP HOUSE, Oornerßroad and Cheirv Streets, (Near the Depot,) T. T. 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 eta CURRENT PARAGRAPHS. Nonth, On last Thursday Savannah received 6,071 bales of cotton. The Virginia State fa received and expended about $15,000. There were shipped from Tampa the last week in October 13,000 oranges. The Liberian movement is creating great excitment among the negroes about Shreveport. Texas now has over a thousand con victs, and the fall courts are trying to double the noble band. A strong movement has been inaugu- j rated in North and South Carolina in favor of the whipping post. An admission fee of twenty-five cents to see the Lee monument models is swell ing the funds of the society. A fire broke out Friday at the Texas ' cotton press, in Galveston, where there were stored 4,000 bales of cotton. About 600 hales were more or less injured ; loss $20,000. The legislature of Tennessee passed a bill relieving butchers and huxters from the payment of licenses, but the supreme court at Knoxville has declared the act unconstitutional. A sixteen-year-old girl shot and killed Samuel G. Henry in Columbia, S. C., for attempting to violate her person. Henry was twenty-five old years and married. The girl was held in SI,OOO to answer. Religious. Pennsylvania has the largest number of Sunday schools among the states— -7,660. The Church of Scotland has received $*.715 toward its proposed mission in China. Nine thousand pupils demand admis sion to the public schools of Kansas City. The last semi annual school-fund ap portionment in Minnesota amounted to $146,509 44. Trie Free-will Baptists have in this country 165 quarterly meetings, 1,343 churches, 1,13S ordained ministers, and over 75 000 communicants, together with a number of colleges, seminaries, and newspapers. The Church Extension and Freedmen Aid societies of the Methodist Episcopal church have expended, chiefly for the colored people, $2,101,757. “We have to aiiow for this,' 1 ear* the Christian Ad vocate, “in the south thirteen institutions for higher education, with twenty-six professor s , 1,700 pupbs, and property VOL. 11. valued at $250,000. Sixty thousand colored children are annually taught by the teachers sent out from our schools and colleges.” Providence is a good place in which to raise money. When the Baptists met there in May they undertook to raise $17,000 aud ended’with taking in s3fi,- 000; and when the American board .net there last week with a debt of SII,OOO, the meeting paid it all off in less than an hour —“ SI,OOO a minute,” as our corre spondent well puts it—and the enthusi asm got so high that they went on rasing money the next day after the debt was all paid. In a sermon at New York, Bishop Lay, of the eastern diocese of Maryland, told an interesting story of General Lee, who wrote to him immediately after the war earnestly urging him to oppose all at tempts at maintaining a separation be tween the northern . nurt southern churches, and insisting ltpon the ditty of all Christian men to cooperate actively in restoring unity, peace, and concord throughout the whole country. George William Curtis for the past i two years has conducted services in the I church of the Redeemer, at New Brigh- 1 tan, Staten Island, N. Y. He reads each Sunday a selected sermon from the pro duction of famous theologians. The church Unitarian. Mr. Curtis receives n..thing for his services, though the church formerly employed a pastor at a salary of $3,000 per annum. The religious press having taken Dr. McCosh to task lor his remarks on Amer ican preaehers and preaching before the Edinburg, council, he replies in thiir latest issue that what they commented upon was but a caricature of what he said, and that he means to abide by what he did say ; and whether the press ap proves or disapproves he will advocate bibical exposition rather than national exhortations in the pulpit. God’s thought, not man’s, is what the world wants. Science anil Industry. Nearly every lumber-mill on the Sag inaw river is also a salt-mill, the brine being boiled by the exhausted or waste steam from the saw-mill. They have been successful in complet ing a paper chimney fifty feet high in Breslau. A chemical solution prevents any chance of fire. Rancid butter is liked iu Iceland, and a commission of Icelanders are in this country to establish an agency for for warding the article in largo quantities. The novel Bilierica and Bedford rail road, in Massachusetts, whose gauge is but twenty-four inches, and the rolling stock, almost like toy-cars, has been opened for public travel. Vermont has lately sent the first powder-mill machinery ever exported from this country to Russia. It is to be erected near the city of hit. Betersburg. Russia has long been a good customer for our locomotives. A wash composed of lime, salt and fine ■ sand or wood-ashes, put on in the ordi nary way of whitewash, renders a single j roof much safer against fire from sparks and falling cinder- 1 , in case of fire in the I vicinity. A French chemist is said to have sue- 1 ceeded in producing a paint with which to illuminate the numbers on street doors at nigh'-. Figures traced with it are so lustrous as to be read even on a dark night, and the preparation of the compound is said to be simple, in ex pensive, and not injurious. It has often been attempted to measure the speed of the electric current. The return of the current, in an experiment, to the very place whence it started, having been to Persia and back, a dis tance of 7,400 miles, was instantaneous. Electricians have endeavored to give a measure to the speed of the electric cur- j rent, and the best thing that they have been able to do is to say that, at least, it j travels at the rate of 200,000 miles a; second. Anew invention—a torpedo balloon— - is being experimented w ith in Bridge- j port, Conn. It is designed to convey j torpedoes by means of a balloon above a j hostile army or city, when, by an auto-1 matic arrangement, they are detached, and exploded by gauge fuse. It has ; attracted much attention, and an agent | of the Russian government is observing i the experiments. Washington. The annual report of the superinten- j dent oi special agents show that during! the past year five hundred and forty-1 three persons were arrested for offenses I against the po3ta! laws, one hundred and j four in excess of the preceeding year. The finance bill introduced by Senator Matthews provides that when United States, legal tender notes are returned to | the treasury or shall have been redeemed :in coin under the specie resumption act i of 1875, they may be reissued from time I to time, as exigences of public service may require, or otherwise, provided the ; amount at any timeoutstanding shall not j exceed $350,000,000 and the secretary of ! the treasury shall not make any reduc tion of the authorized currency by retir ing United States, notes below that sum. The bill also requires the secretary, for the purpose of redeeming the legal tender notes as prescribed by law, to acquire and maintain a reserve fund in coin of not less than $100,000,000, to be provided by the use of the surplus revenues and by sales of bonds. Jf the coin reserve be reduced to $50,000,000, the redemption of legal tender notes shall be suspended until the reserve fund is restored to SIOO,- 000,000, hut, in that event, holders of legal tenders may exchange them for Unind fctstes, fctir {cr cent. Icr-ds sums of not less than SSO. Notes thus tedeemed shall not be reissued or replaced ; by others until the reserve fund is re j stored to $100,000,000. The bill also authorizes the secretary of the treasury to receive, in payment of any bonds j which he may sell under the refunding : actor 1870, the legal tender notes in lieu j of coin, but at not less than the par value j of said bonds in coin, less an allowance I not exceeding one-half of one per cent, of said bonds tor expenses; and he is re quired to use the legal tender notes so ; received, or such other notes as may be issued in lieu thereof, in the purchase ot any outstanding 5 20 bonds at a price not exceeding their par value in c'dn, or in purcLia-imr coin for the redemption or such bonds. JESUP, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28. 1577. THE BEST uirr. I BY KATK UILLAKD. I j Around the cradle that thy childhood bare ! Came Ood’B own angels with their pitying eyes, j And gared upon thee in a still surprise i To see iieyond heaven’s portal aught so fair, j They brought thee precious gifts. One gave to thee I he gift of beauty lor thy body’s grace, Deep-smiling eyes to light a dreamy face.. And perfect limbs as young Apollo’s be. One set the crown of genius on thy head. Acd one bestowed a heart like woman’s own, •Strong as the sea, and trembling at a i. List, a veiled figure bent above the bed, And said, “ I give thee everything in one. In heaven I ani named Love; men call me Death, n. S shalt thou never tread the weary ways I hat iea l men up the dusty slope of life. Nor teel the fiereene-s of the noonday strife, Knowing alone the morning of the days. For thee the dew shall linger on the flower ; The light that never was on lund or sea Shall have no momentary gleam fo. thee, Rut brighten into love’s immortal hour. Thy beauty’s grace shall never know decay, Nor borrow lay her hand upon thy heart; i Nei.her shall chill mistrust thy spirit slay, i Bu? liken star thr life sh.iil pc.a aw at, fts light still shining, though itself depart, Until all stars nreloct in one eternal day.” lfnrjier's Magazine, -J'i-’L JLI .. -Lill-Lil Uncle Remus as a Rebel. THE STORY AS TOLD BY HIMSELF. For several months old Uncle Remus has been in the country raising, as he modestly expresses it a “han’ful o’ con’n an’ a piller case full o’ cotton.” He was in town yesterday with some chickens to sell, and after disposing of his poultry called around to see us. “ Howdy, Uncle Remus.” “ Po’ly, boss, po’ly. Dese here sudden coolnesses in de weddor makes de ele nig. ger feel like dere’s sump’n outer gear in bis bones. Hit sorter wakens up de roomatiz.”. “ How are crops, Uncle Remus?” “ Oh, craps is middiin. Ole Master ’membered de ole niggar \Wen he wuz ’stributin’de wedder. I ain’t complain in’, boss. But I’m done wid farmin arter dis, I is fer a fac’. De niggers don’t gimme no peace. I can’t res’ fer urn. Dey steal my shotes, an’ dey steal my chickens. No longerin las’ week I wuz bleedzd to fling a hau’full uv squill shot inter a nigger what wuz runnin’ off wid fo’ pullets an’ a rooster. I’m a gwine ter drap farmin’ sho. I’m gwine down inter ole Putmon county an’ live alonger Mars. Jeeuis.” “ Somebody was telling me the other day, Uncle Remus, that you saved your young master’s life during the war. How was that ? ” “ Well, I dunno, boss, with a grin that showed that lie was both pleased and embarrassed, “ 1 dunno boas. Mrs. Jeems an’ Miss Emily, dey say I did.” “ Tell me about it.” “ You ain’t got no time fer to set dar an’ hear de ole nigger run on wid ’is mouf, is you?” “ Oh, plenty of time. ” Boss, is you ever bin down fo Putmon county ?” “ Often. ” “ Den you know whar de Brad Slaugh ter place is?” “ Perfectly well. ” “ An’ Harmony ?” “ Yes. ” “Well, hit wuz right ’long in dere whar Mars. Jeems lived. W’en de war came ’long, lie wuz livin’ dere wid ole Miss and Mias Sally. Ole Miss was his ma, an’ Miss Sally wuz his sister. Mars Jeems wasjust eatchin’ fer ter go off an’ fight, but ole Miss and Miss Sally, dey took on so dat he couldn’t get off de fus year. Bimeby times ’gun to git putty hot, an’ Mars Jeems begot up an’ sed ho jes bad to go, an’ go he did. He got a overseer to look arter de place, an’ he went an’ jined de ahmy. An’ he wuz a fighter, too. Mars JeemH wuz one er de wuz kine. Ole Miss useter call be to and big house on Sundays, and read what th papers say ’bout Mars Jeems. ” “ Remus,’ sez she, ‘here’s w’at de pa pers say'bout my baby,’ an’ den she’d go on an' read ontwell she couldn’t read i for cryin ’. “ Hit went on dis way year in an’ year out, an, dey wuz mighty lonesome times, boss, sho’s you bo’n. De conscription man come ’long one day, an’ he ever lastin’lv scooped up dat overseer, an’ den ole miss, she sont arter me an’ she say: ' Remus, I aint not nobody fer ter look arter de place but you :’ an’ I say Mistis, I you kin jes ’pen’ ondeole nigger,—(I wus j ole den, boss, let alone what I is now)— | an’ you better believe I bossed dem I han’s. I had dem niggers up ’fo’ dav, i an’ de way dey did wuk wuz a caution, ! Dey had plenty bread and meal, an’ good | cloze ter w’ar, an’ dey was de fattes’ nig | gers in de whole settlement. “ Bimeby, one day ole Mbs she call me j up an’ tole me dat de yankees done gone j and took Atlanty, and den present’y I bear dat dey wuz marchin’ down to’rds Putmon, an’ de fus’ thing I knows, Mars Jeems he rid up one day wid a whole ■ company uv men. He jes’ stop longer nuff ter change bosses an’ snatch up a moufull uv sump'n t’cat. Ole MBs tole ’im dat I wuz kinder bossin’ roun’, an’ he call me up an’ say : “‘Daddy’—all ole Miss’s chillun call me daddy— ‘ Daddy,’ he say, ‘ ’pears like i dere'a goin’ ter be mighty rough times | roun’ here. De yankees is done down j ter Madigon, an’ ’twont be many days befo’ dey’ll be all thu here. Hit ain’t likely dat dev’!! bodder mother er sis; but, daddy, e"de wus comes ter de wus, I spec’ you to takekeer un ’em.’ “ Dn, 1 say, 1 You bin knowin’ me a long time, ain’t you, Mars Jeems V “ ‘ Sence I wuz a baby, daddy,’ sez he. “ * Well, den, Mars. Jeems,’ sez I, ‘you know’d ’twaut no use fer ter ax me ler look arter ole Miss and Mies Sally.’ “ Den de tears came in Mara Jecms’s eyes an’ he squeeze my han’ an’ jump on de filly I bin savin’ fer ’im an’ gallop off 1 know’d by de way he talk an’ de way he look dat dere wuz gwineter be sho’ miff trouble’ an’ so I begun fer ter put de house in order, as de scripter sez. I got all de cattle an’ de bosses togedder an’ 1 diiv’em over to de fo’ mile place. I made a pen in de swamp an’ dar I put de hogs, an’ I haul nine waggtn loads uv oo’n an’ w’eat an’ fodder to de crib on de fo’ mile place, an’ den I groun’ my ax. “ Bimeby, one day here come de yan kees. Dey jes’ swarmed all over Lera tion. De woods wuz full un urn an’ de road wuz full un um, an’ de yard wuz full un urn. L done heerd dey wuz cornin’ ’fore dey got in sight, an’ i went to de well an’ washed my face an’ bans, an’ den I went an’ put en my Sunday cloze, an’ by de time de yankees hed arrove, 1 wuz settin’ in ole Miss’s room wid my ax ’tween my knees. “ Dem yankees, dey jes’ ransacked de whole place, but they didn’t come in de house, an’ ole Miss, she sed she hoped dey wouldn’t, w’en jes’ den we hear steps on de po’ch’ an’ hear come two young fellers wid strops on dere shoulders nn s’ords draggin’ on de Ho’ an’ dere spurs rattlin’. I won’t say I was skeered, boss, ‘cause I wnzent but I had a mighty funny feelin’ in de naberhood uv de gizzard.” “ Hello, ole man ! ” sez one. ‘ W’at you doin’ in here?’ Ole miss didn’t turn her head, an’ Miss Hally look straight at the fier. Well, boss,” sez I, ‘ I bin cultin’ some wood for ole miss, an’ I jes stop fer ter worn my han’s a little.’ “ Hit is cole, dat’s a fac,’ sez he. Den I got up and went and stood belline ole Miss and Miss Hally, a loanin’ on my ax. De udder feller he wuz standin’ over by the side-bode lookin’ at de dishes an’ de silver mugs au’ pitchers. De man w’at wuz talkin’ ter me, he went up ter de fier, au’ lean over an’ worn his ban's. Eus’ thing you know he raise up sudden like an’ say : “ ‘ W’at dat on yo’ ax ? ’ “ ‘Dat’s defier shinin’ on it,’ sez L. “ ‘ I thought it wuz blood, sez he, an’ den he laft. “ But boss, dat young feller wouldn’t a laft dat day, ef tie’ll a knowd hu .-r nigh unto eternity he wuz. Ef he’d jes laid deweight uv his ban’ on old Miss or Miss Sally in dar dat day, boss, he’d never iuiowd w’at hit ’mer whar he was hit at, an’ my onliest grief would a bin de needeessily of spilin ole Miss’s kyarpit. But dey didn’t bodder nobody ner mi thin, and dey bowed derself out like dey had real good breedin’—dey did dat. “ Well, de yankees dey kep’ pas-tin’ all de inornin’ an’ it’peered to me dat dere wuz a string uv ’em ten miles long. Den dey commence gitting thinner and thin ner—scacer an’ scacer, an’ bimeby I hear skirmishin’ goin’ on, an’ ole miss she say iiow it wuz Wheeler’s colerlry a followin’ uv ’em up. I knowd dat ef Wheeler’s boys wuz dat close I wnzent doin’ no good settin’ roun’ de house, so I jes took Mars Jeem’s rifle and started out to look arter my stock. Hit was a mighty raw day, dat day wuz, and de leaves on de groun’ wuz wet so (ley didn’t make no us-, an’ w’enever 1 heerd a yankee ridin’ by I jes stop in my tracks and let ’im pass. I wuz a stannin’ dat way in de nidge uv de woods, w’en all of a sudden I see a little ring uv blue smoke bust outen de top uv a pine tree ’bout half a mile off, an’ den mos, ’fo’ I could gedder up my idees, here come de noise—bang! 1 >at pine, boss, wuz de biggest and de highest on de plantash’n, and dere wasn’t a lim' on it fer mighty nigh a hundred feel up, an’ den dey all branched out an’ made de top look sorter like a umberill. “Hez 1 to myself, ‘ honey, you er right on my route, an’ I’ll sec what kinder bird is a roostin’ in you 1’ W’ile I wuz a takin’, de smoke bus’ out agin, and (ten bang! I jes drap back inter de woods an’ skearted roun’ so’sto fetch (le pine ’tween me and de road. I slid up putty close ter de tree, an’ boss, wat you reckon I see?” “I have no idea, Uncle Itemus. ” “ Well, jes sho ez your settin’ dar lissenin to de ole nigger, dere was a live yankee way up dar in dat pine, an’ he had a spy-glass, an’ he wuz a loadin’ an’ a shootin at de boys jes as cool tz a cow . cumber, an’ he had his hoss lied out in de bushes, ’caze I heerd de creeter trompin’ rouo’. While I wuz a watchin un ’im, I see ’im raise dat spy glass, look fru ’em ; a minnit, and den put ’em down sudden an’ fix hissef fer to shoot. I sorter shifted reun’ so I could see de road, an’ I had putty good eyes in dem days, too. 1 waited a minnit, an’ den who should I see cornin’ down de road but Mars Jeems ! I didn’t see his face, but, boss, I knowd de fillv dat I hail raised fer ’im, an’ she was a prancin’ an’ dancin’ like a school gal. I knowd dat man in de tree wuz gwineter shoot Mars Jeems, ef he could, an’ dat I couldn't stan’. I had nussed dat boy in my arms many an’ many a day, an’ I hed toted ’im on my back, an’ I larnt ’im how ter ride an’ how ter swim, an’ how ter rastle, an’ I couldn’t b’ardeidee ov stan nin’ dere an’ see dat man shoot ’im. I knowd dat de yaukees wus gwine ter free de niggers, caze ole miss done tole me so an’ I didn’t want ter hurt dis man in de tree. But, boss, w’en 1 see him lay dat gun ’cross a lim’ au' settle hisse’f hack, an’ Mars. Jeems goin’ home ter ole Miss an’ Miss Hally, I disvemembered all ’bout freedom, an’ I jes raise up wid de rifle I had, an’ let de man have all she had. liis gun drapptd down an’ come mighty nigh shootin’ deole nigger w’en hit struck de ground. Mars Jeems, he hee’ed de racket, an’ rid over, an’ w’en 1 tell ’un ’bout it, you never seed a man take on so. Ho come mighty nigh cryin’ over de ole nigger, 1 declar’ ter grashes ef he didn’t. An’ ole Miss—w’y ole miss f arly hugged me, an’ w’en I see how glad dev wuz my conshuns bin restin’ easy ever sence.” “ How about the soldier you killed ?” “ We had ter cut down do tree fer ter bury ’im.” “ How did he get up there ?” “ W’y, boss, he had on a pa’r ov dese telegraf spurs—de kino w’at de fellers clime poles wid.” “ Your Mars Jeems must be very grateful?” “ Lor,’ chile, dey ain’t nothin Mars Jeems is gat. data too good fer me. Dat’s w’at make me say w’at 1 do. I ain’t gwine ter be working/roun’ here ’mong dese chain-gang niggers w’en 1 got a good home down yonder in Putmon. Boss, can’t cive de ole nigger a thrip fer to git ’im some soda water wid ?” And the faithful old darkey went his way. J. C. 11. IMtESIDENTIAL POISONING. The Terrible TrnKed.v ol lliietiannii'n I limit; it ml ion llmj -Tlurt.v or More Bend Vlcllmi of Poison. Among the most prominent of the National’s late arrivals are Henafor Ben Hill and wife, of Georgia. They occupy the suite of rooms known as the Presi dential parlors. If the walls had tongues they might discourse of people promi nent in the past, and, perchance, tell tales of private life never suspicioned. But the tall mantel looks blank under its modern ornaments, the brass mount ings of the fender reflect new faces, the heavy curtains shut in the secrets never voiced, and in the room sits a little, dark-eyed, prim woman and a bine-eyed man, “ fro u away down south in Geor gia”—a man mild as May, velvety, broad-faced, and unassuming as a field dandelion. These rooms where Henator Hill now lives, on that fatal fourth of March whicli witnessed Buchanan’s in auguration, were occupied by the new president. Twelve hundred guests were crowded in the house. In the evening ricaily ail were seized by similar symp toms of poisoning, and thirty or more died. The dead bodies lay in rows in the parlors, the sick and dying were moan ing in the balls ; a gloom hung over the city, and extended to distant homes, from whence had come guests to witness the inauguration. The house had just previous to thin been entirely refurnished, it was the grand hotel of the capital, and built in a style of magnificence rare in those times. The National hotel poisoning is remembered witli horror by eld people, but many of the younger ones have never heard of it. The aflairs was investigated and the house examined. No jmsitive clue has ever been found. Home said defective drainage, some |>oisoned rats in the well, some that the sugar was poisoned to ruin the business of the hotel. It is generally, I think, believed now that the poison was mineral poison, and was in the sugar—for the reason that persons not stopping at the house, who took fancy drinks at the bar, were also seized by cramps. Doubtless the new president’s death was meditated, hut Mr. Buchanan never touched sugar, nor ate it in any thing, so that he almost alone escaped the peril. Home of those beside his ex cellency, who escaped, have been inter rogated, and all those whose address could be found after the lapse of years, replied that they did not partake of sugar, even in coflee. The house was closed, the splendid furniture was sold at auction. For years the hotel was uninhabited. I’eople leaked at the barred windows something as visitors now pause Is-tore | Ford's theater, where President Lincoln was assasinated. .Strangers stood in front of it and related to each other sad inci- | dents of the inexplicable death which had j overtaken thirty persons in a night, i Twenty years ago a gentleman from New Hampshire, visiting in Washington, asked to go through the house. People had been afraid to enter the walls after the ! panic. The gentleman, upon examina tion, immediately leased the building thre'v open the windows, had the bouse cleansed, one hundred and fifty loads of dirt taken from the cellar, put one hun dred thousand dollars’ worth of funiture in the hotel, and was called crazy by his friends. In December every corner was filled by guests, and the quiant, low rooms, where bad danced the belles of a quarter of a century before, were azain filled with life and beauty.— Washington Cor. Chicago 7 ititci. Times of general calamity and con fusion have ever been productive of great minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, aud the hrighest thunderboldt is elicited from the darkest orm The Man-Hater's Meal. Prof. It. C. Tapp, the celebrated Amer ican horse-tamer, commenced, a week ago, to tame the Petaluma Man-eater, as de scribed in lsst Sunday’s Chtonicle, and has, every day since, given public exhibi tions of his process and progress in a tem porary amphitheater iu the rear of the Record stables, on Market street, opposite Seventh. Yesterday, however, the Man eater changed the programme, and at tempted to tame Tapp in so effective a way that Tapp emerged sorely wounded, and only by a miracle with his life. The Man-eater, whose other name is Cogniac, is a dark dapple gray Norman stallion, seven years old, weighing in fighting ■ J'.L’KLpomvK foe.Vsd In yi/fm.sc'j," France; imported two years ago to Illinois, and subsequently Iwuglit by Joseph Wooden, the Norman horse breeder of Petaluma, and brought, to this state, and declared by horsemen to be the finest horse of the breed ever brought to America. Until brought to Illinois he had been an exceptionally gentle animal, but, having indiscreetly, and probably playfully, bitten out a couple of pounds of an Illinois groom, he was so injudi ciously and BRUTALLY BEATEN that, as Deacon Duncan would say, he experienced a change of heart, all his atent deviltry was developed, and he lias ever since been the terror of all whom necessity has thrown into his company. With exception of occasionally eating a hostler lie is an invaluable brute, and Mr. Wooden consigns him to Mr. Tapp to have him cured of this solo little foli ble. Yesterday at 2 o’clock the exhibi tion commenced in the presence of about two hundred spectators, and progressed till half-past 3, during which time the horse had been handled by the professor, and even driven to a buggy, and appeared perfectly tractable and to have kind of lost his appetite for stablemen. After being unhitched he was cross hobbled by making a stout rope fast from the fetlock of his uigli foreleg to that of his off hind leg, an arrangement which permitted him to trot, but prevented his galloping as also his kneeling down, and which is why Tapp still lives to again try conclu- j sions with him. The horse stood near the center of the inclosed circle, and the professor alsmt midway between liim and the inclosed high barricade, the borne -perfectly subdued under the eye of the commander. Home person on a seat in the rear of Tapp asked him a question, and for on# instant Tapp removed his eye and half turned his head to answer. In that instant the craft bruto HI’BANO UPON IIIM LIKE A TIOER. There was a yell of horror from the spec tators, as the horse caught the man up by the clothes at the small of his hack, shook him as a terrier dog does a rat , and flung him through the air against the inclosing planking. Before Tapp could regain his feet, the ferocious monster was again upon him, seizing him with his teeth by the left shoulder and endeavor ing to kneel down upon him, which is his last and most approved way ot K 11,1.1 NO MIS KEEPERS. This the cross hobble prevented him from doing, and tiie cool professor, with his shoulder still in the cruel grip of the monster’s jaws, struggling to his feet, and with his right hand so held the hit as to prevent, as far as jmssiblo, the suc cessful working of the horse’s jaws. The crowd was intensely excited. Mr. Wooden seized a long pole, and poked it between the halter and the horse’s lower jaw, and still further retarded the biting. The friends of 'lapp called for a gun, but there was no gun, and what is remarkable in a collection of two hun dred Californians, no one had a revolver, or the murderous brute would have been shot dead instantly. The horse and Tapp continued fighting half way around the ring, Wooden, on the seats out side, still hampering the for mer’s efforts with the pole. The spec tators on the front seats also did all they could to detract the man eater’s atten tion, one lady seizing the crutch of a man sitting next to her, and beating the horse over the head with it By the aid of these distractions, Tapp was enabled by degrees, to draw bis arm through the horse’s jaws, the horse f'UEWINU 11 IMI'ABTIAI.LY as it slipped away from him, until finally it was entirely withdrawn. The crowd shouted to Tapp to jump for his life, but the plucky trainer called for his whip, and with his mangled left arm dangling by his side, so tickled the fetlocks of Cogniac that that enterprising animal was again in what Tapp fondly calls sub jection. Last evening tin trainer wasin the stable office with a friend pouring an odorous liniment over his bandaged arm, | and the man-eater, with all bis evil pas j sions inflamed with the taste of blood, t W as romping around his prison and eagerly reaching up for a mouthful of any timid s(>ectator that ventured near i enough to look down at him. The peo ple will continue to look forward with interest to the solution of the problem whether Tapp will tame the man-eater or the man-eater tame Tapp. —San Fran ri'o Chronicle. .Neve* irefcn on me bunions of a man who lias a boil on bis neck, ft is un Christian, careless and dangerous. WAIFS AND WHIMS. APPEAL TO THE AWF.RT SIKOEK OF MICHIGAN ; IM WHICH THE NOISE Op TH * HA PIPS 18 IMITATJHL Hwppt Mmrer of the rapids I hat tunihirth on the Grand .' 7hr harp hath touched a nation, Thy notes hath swept the land. O Michigan! * We wih again To hear thy nightingale; Tor rns i, ler risb, Ke whash, ke whisb, Ker roar omore owale ! Thou pootkerof the widows Hrighnm’R blighted home ! O Hf-nd iiH fiotn fJrand Rapid* .List one more sighsonie pome. Tor riiKh, ter Hsh. Ke whash, ke whhh, Ker roar omo'e owßlel () Michigau! WewWi again To hear thy nightingaio. - Cm trier-JourvnJ. lhiflw.nd id pronounced Mih\an t not Mihh igan. . .Hixty persons die every minute. *■* * a j/rr people live longer than short ones. Married men are longer lived thau the single. The reputation of a man is like hi* shadow—gigantic when it preceeds him, and pigmy in its proportions when it follows hint. NO. 13. ..The total number of human beings on the earth is computed at 3,000,000,- 000, and speak three thousand and sixty three known tong uo.s i .. The faults of,Christiana are watched with mere rigid scrutiny than their vir tues; hence the importance of sustain ing an unblemished character. . The English Nautical Magazine ad vocates the utilization of rats as lood, and declares, from actual experiment, that they are exceedingly palatable. ..A little boy iu Hpringfteld, Mass., after his customary evening prayer a night or two ago continued, “ and bless mamma and Jenny and uncle Benny," adding, after a moment’s pause, the ex planatory remark, “ his name is Hop kins.” ..Laugh about Turkish and Russian names, if you will ; hut remembor the United Htales have Orodelfan, Ni Wot, East I’aw Paw, Teutopolis, Wild Cat, Verdigris Valley, .Slaughter, Wagon Wheel Gap, and similar specimens of purely American. .. Lucy Stone has returned from Colo rado, where she found a grievance of her sex in the fact that, while intelligent women could not vote, the Mexican men living there had the right of franchise. These voters, she says, live like hogs iu mud huts, can not read or write, and arc iii every way brutish. . The following bon mot is credited to Henry W. Paine, of Boston : Recently, in the supremo court, he was interrupted from the bench with the somewhat abrupt comment: “Mr. I’aine, that isn’t the law.” Mr. Paine instantly re plied: “I think, your honor, it was the law until this moment.” Avery tall, thin Highlander said that he “ had a cold in his head, origina ting in wet feet.” Hhe looked at him slowly from head to foot and back again, as if measuring the distance the cold had to travel, and then ejaculated : "Gra cious mol you must have got your feet wet some time last year.” , Why farming does not pay in New Hampshire, says a Nashuan who is fond of wandering about the back districts with his fish-rod, is evident from this specimen conversation with a granger: “ I said to him, ‘ That spotted hog is just like one 1 saw in the same pen when 1 was this way seven years ago,' and he answered, ‘Of course. It’s the snme animal.’ I asked him why he had not killed and raised other hogs, and lie answered, ‘ Why, bless ye, man, that hog ats all the swill we make, and conse quently there ain’t no sense in killin’ him an’ buying another.” ,11 takes a medical student fo prove that black is white. In Shoreditch, England, a gentleman recently drove up to a public house and left liis [winy, which was a milk-white steed, in charge of a hoy while lie went indoors for five min utes. When he reappeared the hoy was there and tho buggy was there, but in place of the milk while steed was a pony as black as a beetle. The boy insisted that it was the same pony, and fcould give no explanation of the change of complexion, save that a young medical gentleman had examined the animal during the owner's absence. The truth was,that the mischievous medical student had daubed the pony from head to tail with a coat of lampblack. The English man’s astonishment was only equaled by the dismay of an American in a cemetery near Buffalo. Alter leaving bis horse at a hitching ;>ost (or half an hour, he had resumed his seat arid attempted to make a start, when lo! the post appeared plump under the tail, between breeching and hind-quarters. “ Bless me ! ” exclaimed the dazed gentleman, “did I hitch the i orse at the wrong end ? ” \ TanintiilH’M Nest. The nest of a tarantus (spider) has been found in California of the most singular construction. It is about three inches in length by two in diameter, built in adobes, the wall being nearly half an inch thick. Inside of this is a projection, which nearly devides it into two apartments, al>out an inch in diame j ter. The inside is lined with a white 1 downy substance, not unlike velvet, and I presents one of the cleanest and most | tidy little households imaginable. But I the most curious part of it is a door, which fits into an aperture, and closes it hermetically. The door is secured by a hinge, formed of a like fiberous substance as the lining of the house, and upon which it swings with freedom. The nest is occupied by a dozen little tarantulas, which seem to subsist on a yellow secre ted substance, that appears upon the walls of the front apartment. The ar rangement of the floor tor the protection of th' little inmates indicates great in stinctive architectural knowledge.