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5b km mm Office in the Jesup House, fronting on Cherry street, two doors from Broad s>t. PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY, ...8Y... T. P. LITTLEFIELD. . Subscription Rates. (Postage Prepaid,! One year , .-,..43 00 !> months , X 0(i ■‘Three months -,0 Advertising Rates. Per square, first insertion SI 00 Per square, each subsequent insertion. 75 J rates to yearly and large ad vertisers. town directory. TOWN OFFICERS. • ’Mayor—W. H. Whaler. Uounciimeu—T. P. Littlefield, H. W. -Vnaler. ( Bryant George, O. F. Littlefield, AuderSiin Williams, T Glerkaml Treasurer—O. F. Littlefield. Marshal—G. W. Williams. COUNTY OKFCF.RS. Ordinary—Ricvhard B. Hopps. V. Goodbrtad. <Terk Superior Court—Benj. O. Middleton Tax Receiver—J. C. Hatcher. Tax Collector —W, R. Causey. ' < 'ouiity *-v.’-veyn■ —Nmill Bemiei . County 'breastsrer—John Massey. Coroner—D. McDitha. County Commissioners—J. F. King, G. - Haines, James Knox, J. G. Rich, Isham Reddish. Regular meetings of the Board, 3d W ednesday in January, April, July and October. Jaa. F. Kin*, Chairman. COURTS, Superior Court, "Wayne County—Jno. L. Harris, Judge; Simon. \V . Ilitch, Solicitor- General. Sessions held on second Monday in March and September. IMsta, Pierce Cairaty iitonia. TOWN DIRECTORY. TOWS OFFICERS. Mayor—P,. G. Ri-gins. Counoilmen — T). P. Patterson,J. M. Downs, J. M. Lee, B. D. Brantlv. Clerk of Council—J. M. Purdom. 'Town Treasurer—B. D. Brantly. , Marshal—E. Z. Byrd. * COUNTY OFFICERS. Ordinary—A. ,T. Strickland. Clerk Superior Court—Andrew M. Moore. Sheriff—E. Z. Byrd. County Treasurer—D. P. Patterson. County Surveyor—J. M. Johnson. Tax Receiver ap'd* Collector—J. M. Pur dom. Chairman of Road Commissioners—llßl District, G. 11., Lewis C. Wyllv; 12=0 Dis ti'ict, G. M., George T. Moody; 584 District, G. M., Charles S. Yomuann's; 590 District, G. W„ D. B. McKinnon. Publics and Justices of the Peace, etc.—Blackshear Precinct,sß4 district,G.M., Notary Public, J, G. S. Patterson ; Justice of the Pence, ft. R. James; Ex-officio Con stable E. Z. Bj-rd. Dickson’s Mill Precinct, 1250 District, G M , Notary Public,Mathew Sweat; Justice of the Peace, Geo. T. Moody; Constable, W. r. Dickson. ’ Patterson Precinct, 1181 District, G. JL, Notary Public, Lewis C. Wylly; Justice of the Peace, Lewis Thomas; Constables, H. Prescott and A. L. Griner. Sohlatterville Precinct, 590 District, G. M Notary Public, 1). B. McKinnon; Justice o the Peace, R. TANARUS, James; Constable, John W sooth. Courts—Superior court, Pierce county John L. Harris, judge; Simen W. Hitch Solicitor General. Sessions held first Mon drv in March and September. Corporation court, BUokshear, Ga., session held second Saturday in each Month. Police convt sessions every Monday Morning at 9 o’cleek. ffIUP HOUSE, Oorner Broad and Cherry Streets, (Near the Depot,) T. P. LITTLEFIELD. Proprietor. Newly renovated and refurnished. Satis faction guaranteed. Polite waiters will take vonr baggage to and from the house. BOARD $2.00 per day. Single Meals, 50 cts CURRENT PARAGRAPHS. Non litem Hews. Memphis is rapidly funding her debt at sixty cents on the dollar. The Atlanta constitution says the yards are full of Kentucky mules. Cairo has a temperance reform dub numbering live hundred members who wear the red ribbon. Sixty five families from Pennsylvania and New Jersey have emigrated to Navarro county, Texas, and purchased 1,000 acres of land. Tite Methodist Episcopal Church, South, within the state of Mississippi, has about 50,000 communicants, more than 200 itinerant preachers, and about tlie same number of local. One of the newest, and a very profit- i able industry, that of putting up canned guavas, is in progress at Manatee, Fla. It is stated that they are far superior to the peach, and fully equal to the best p eeerved pineapple. General Ransom’s purpose to have in serted £15,000 in the deficiency bill to stock southern rivers with fidi is emi- i nently wise and proper. The small amount even will confer substantial benefits upon the southern people. The shooting tournament at Nashville closed last week. The most successful priz" winners during the week were Abe Kieioman and E. T. Martin, of Chicago; Merriman, of Memphis; and (Pritchett, ' of Nashville, who won the state cham pionship. Capt. Pratt, with a force of Indians, has been searching the Seminole mounds r.ear St. Augustine, and procured about two bushels of skulls and bones, together with some ten stone hatchets, sharpened and shaped : one flint arrow head, and a varied selection of pieces of pottery, some quite unique, were dug up. tUseellantnni. An engineer proposes to heat the town of Virginia, Nevada, by means of the heat generated in the mines ’underneath the place. He says there is enoug i heat to warm every house, and he projiose-s a system of pipes through which the warm air will be distributed. Thus he will Ventilate the mines also. 1 luring services at the church of the ascension, in Philadelphia, Alexander B. s vers walked up the aisle, drew a pistol and shot his wif>. E'izabeth, who occu pied a pew several feet in advance of where 'dyers had been sitting. The bullet enter' and her bath, and she cow lies at the hospital in a dying condition, flyers was promptly arrested. Both VOL. 11. parties were regular attendants at the church, but had been separated for two ; years. The husband had already served a term in prison for breaking her arm. The effort of Mrs. Le Bau and Cor nelious J. Vanderbilt to break up their father's will, by which he left $95,000.- 000 to William H. Vanderbilt, his other son, and $5,000,000 to charities and to the other children and their issue, brings some revolting testimony to light. We aie requested to believe that Vanderbilt the elder treated his first wife horribly, drove her to an insane asylum, and then took a concubine unto himself, and then another at the dictation of William, and finally married a second time; that William con spired to prejudice the old man against his other children in bis (William’s) in terest, and through a long period acted the part of a personal and ever-presant devil towards liia father. The testimony so far, if true, shows the old millionaire to be very bestial in his proclivities, and his son William to have been a very cool, heartless conspirator. Money is a very good thing to have, but the Vanderbilt family appear in a fair way to suffer in social standing, and to have several skel etons rattled about them through time, notwithstanding the possession of limit less ducats.— Courier-Journal. The palmetto has been considered one of the most worthless trees of Florida. A gentleman from Volusia now comes forward with a display of brushes, mat tings and ropes made from the inner bark, and contemplate the building of a manufactory at Volusia. The wild orange, also, lias always been regarded as a worthless lruit, and millions have rotted every year. An enterprising Yankee has engaged in manufacturing Irom them Jeasenees, sirups and marina ladel-. He has met with considerable success. ISelig’fotiN Mews. Seven years ago Methodism was first introduced into the dominions of Brigham Young. Now there are six Methodist churches and fifteen Sunday-Bchools in Utah. If the Northern and Southern Presby terian churches were united, the sum total of members would be 070,134. In 1861, when they parted, the total num ber of members in the united body was 300,814. Archbishop Purcell, of Cincinnati, says that the negro children in the south might, and should be, gathered into the Roman Catholic church. He recommends the establishment of Roman Catholic schools for them. The London branch of the Mormon church has 20 branches, with 134 elders, 44 priests, 20 teachers, 31 deacons, and 891 lay members. The reports from this country touching allairs in Utah have greatly retarded the movements of the Mormon missionaries in foreign lands. The general Assembly of the Presbyte rian church, South bar, squarely con demned all kinds of dancing. One of the resolutions says: “Some forms of this amusement are more mischievous than others, the round dance than the square, the public ball than the private party, but none of them are good, but are all evil and should be discountenanced, and we affectionately urge all our Christian parents not to send their children to dancing-schools, where they acquire a fondness and an aptitude for the danger ous amusement.” The latest religious wrinkle in To route is the holding of “ full-dress prayer meetings.” They take place twice a week at the houses of the wealthier mem bers of St. James’ church. The guests come in full evening costume. For about an hour the parlors are vocal with prayer and praise, after which cake and conversation are introduced. The meet ings are said to be exceedingly genteel. The Rev. Mr. Rainsford, who was last summer conspicuous at the Tyng gospel tent in this city, is credited with being the originator of this novel style oi religious service. From Wawtiin&tou. The treasury department has decided that wool imported irom the .Sandwich islands is to be charged with the same duty as other wools. A change is to ba made in the internal revenue collectorship for the third Au gusts district of Georgia. Col. E. A. Wade is to be appointed in place of the present collector, Tannin. A Washington special correspondent thinks that the Texas Pacific will bill not be brought in at the present session. It is complete, but its friends only say in regard to it, that its provisions are such as will excite the fewest possible antag onisms. The house committee on postofiiceshas agreed to recommend the passage of a bill j providing that all letter carriers in the ■ free delivery service shall be divided into j two classes, and that the first class shall j receive $950, and the second class SBOO j per annum, the distinction of classes to j be made by the postmasters and the ap- j pointments to first class to be made by promotion from the second class. The annual report of Gen. .Sherman shows (October 12th) the regular army v-a composed of general officers, 11 ; [ general staff ofßc re, 500 ; hospital stew- I ards, 186 ; engineer battalion, 101; ordi nance enlisted men, 846; enlisted men of staff corps, 651; 10 regiments of cavalry, officers 439, enlisted men 7911; cavalry, 850 ; 5 regiments of artillery, officers 284, enlisted men 2321 ; artillery, 2605; 25 j regiments of infantry, 9655. Besides i which they are repo ted as non-commis ; sioned, staff, unattached to regiments at i the military academy, recruits unas aigned. Indian scouts and guard, ameuat : ing in men to 1877; signal corps, 404 ; retired officers, 301. and captain in United Stats army by act of congress, • 1 ; aggregating in officers and men 24,501; of which the force available for war is i made up of cavalry, artillery and infantry i regiments, amounting to 20,601 officers and men, to which should be added the il general officers and officers of general staff serving with them, together with 570 Indian scouts. Foreign Intelligence The Russian government has ordered forty more iocomotives from Philadel phia. Mr. Gladstone, in emulation of Horace Greeley, has been photographed in bis shirt-sleeves, sitting among the chips of a fallen tree. JESUP, GEORGIA; WEDNESDAY. 5. 1877. The remains of the Emperor Louis of Bavaria have been discovered in the ex cavations now proceeding under the ex church of the convent of the Augustines at Munich. The emperor was buried after embalmment, and now turns up as a first-class mummy. The Hungarian minister of Worship has just announced his decision that henceforward the marriage, witli a Jew ess, of a Christian converted to the Jew ish persuasion will be held as null and voiil. This declaration has caused uni versal discontent in the Jewish commu nity. The city authorities of Leipsic, in Ger many,have imposed a fineof not less than five rior more than ten marks upon any woman who may wear trailing dresses In the streets. The police have orders to arrest them, and their names are to be published each week in the local papers. The New York World's special corres pondent in the city of Mexico, says the sentiment of the people is in favor of a war with the United States. The World concludes t hat Seuator Maxey was right in his inference that Secretary Evarts is desirous of negotiating anew treaty with Mexico, but thinks it impossible under existing circumstances. The beatification of Joan of Arc, which has been for some time applied for by Bishop Dupanloup of Orleans, has been refused at the Vatican. The committee on ritual could not discover in the merits or deeds of Joan sufficient motive for beatifying her, and, moreover, had no documentary proofs of her chastity. Strasbourg cathedral is now undergoing a complete reparation. A great deal more has been added than was knocked down in the Franco-Prussian war. The statues of the emperors are given prominent po sitions without much regard aa to the probabilty of their ever having stood be fore in the place now assigned them. A well-informed correspondent writes the London Times from Paris; “la my opinion, civil war is only a question of weeks-—perhaps days. President MacMa bon is entirely in the hands of the Bona partists and clericals, 'fhe.se know the marshal’s resignation would destroy their last hope of governing France. But for fear of Germany and Italy, the govern ment would long ago have resorted to force.” The Housekeepers’ union of Berlin, or ganized by Frau .Morganstern, now num bers four thousand members, who do all their buying on the co-operative plan. The clerks in the grocery are all gills and women, and the sales are made at cost. The union began with two hundred mem bers, who paid two dollars apiece as cap ital. The members pay besides one dollar a year dues, and for this have the privi lege of buying all their stores at cost. Tlie Wur ill I lie Eusl. The Russianshave lost, in killed, woun ded and missing, from the commencement to November 7th, 64,863 men. A dispatch dated Veran Kaieb,Sunday evening, says the fortress of Kars, with three hundred cannons, stores, ammuni tion and cash fell into the Russian hands. The Turks lost five thousand killed and wounded, ten thousand prisoners and manv flags. The Russian loss is about twenty-seven hundred. The Russian soldiers made but trifling booty, anil spare peaceful citizens, women and chil dren. General Melikoff directed tke battle during the day. Grand Duke Michiel was also present. A Russian agent is in Philadelphia to contract for a bridge across the Danube iu ltoumania. The requirements are such, however, that, the leading company in Philadelphia distrusts its ability to meet them, and has declined the contract. It is provided that the bridge shall be iron, and 2100 feet long, but without a supporting pier from shore to shore, the whole to be completed before the spring campaign. For such a bridge the Rus sian government is willing to pay $3,000,- 000. An order was received Friday from the same government for sixty locomo tives, but the terms offered were not sat isfactory, and a member of the Baldwin IX)comotive works company sailed atonce to negotiate further at Bt. Petersburg. Kars has been captured and occupied by the Russians, after a siege of nearly seven months. In 1828 Kars surrendered without defense. In the Crimean war it was starved out. .since then the fortifications have been placed entirely around the town and citadel, commanding the surrounding country. The Russians have had a hundred heavy siege guna operating againt these works, and have stuck to their task, with the exception of a few weeks in August, with great tenacity. The capture of Kars removes every ob struction in Armenia, except Erzeroum and Batoum. The former is not likely to hold out long, as the Russians can now rapidly re-enforce General Tergusa koff. ilatoum is strongly garrisoned by the Turks, and is backed by the Turkish fleet, which could make the place unten- i able even if the Russians took it. The* capture of Kars, however, goes a long way toward the subjection of all Turkish Armenia to Russian rule, and will be re garded at Constantinople as fatal to MukhtaPs security in Krzeroum.—Cou rier Journal. A correspondent at Constantinople tele graphs the following: “ A council, over ] which the sultan presided, was held yes- j torday. 1 am informed that a general j feeling was expressed, and by no one more [ strongly than the sultan, in favor of j making an effort to put an end to the ; war, in which enough had been done on j both sides for glory, and which, if con- j tinued, roust inflict lasting misery upon j the two empires. It was feit, however, j that at present sufficient reliance cannot j be placed upon the declarations of Russia, < and that even while speaking to obtain an honorable peace preparations for a : prolonged resistance must be vigorously 1 carried on. lam told that subject to this determination to prosecute the war if an honorable peace cannot be main tained, it was resolved that the time for endeavoring to put an end to the war had arrived. If my information is cor rect, the grand vizier will to-day inform the British ambassador of the decision of council, in the hope that England will aid in putting a stop to the war, whiet greatly damage l - her own trade and threatens to compromise her best inter est-. Special dispatches -ay that (fount Andrassy, the Austro-Hungarian i • - mier, has declared his belief that Herv.a will not break the peace.” NVUVI7AL OF THE FITTKHT. BY C. V. OKA.KOII. “ Nought but the fittest yjW*,’*’ I hear lUd* on the northfrn feetc ol thought; “ lo Nature’s heart thwroug are dear; he weak must paw anloved, unsought*” Ami yet, in umleratonea, a Voice la hoard that says: U child of earth, Your mind’** beat work, your heart 8 best choice, fchal! stand with God for what they’re worth.’' ’Tis not the strong alone survives: Truth, Beautv, Virtue, scatteiod wide Ist humble poil, bear noble Uvea Whose fruits forever must abide. Time’s buildings are not all of stone; With frailest fibres Nature spins Her living webs Irom aone to one And what is lost she daily wins. I fain would think, amid the strife Between realities and forms, Llight gifts may claim perennial life ’Mid slow decay ana snddcu storms. This tuft of silver hairs l loose From open windows fo the breeze, Some bird of spring nerehnney may us3 To build her nest In yondtr trees. Tli se pictuers painted with an ait Supassed by younger sight and skill Mav pass into some friendly heart, JSome room with N.iture’a sudds may till. These leaves of light and earnest rhyme Dropped on the windy world, though lout'. Neglected now, some future time May weave into its nest oi song. — AthniU . A Thanksgiving Story. It was the eveningbefore Thanksgiving. The sun bad gone down behind the hills of Greenville, leaving them cold and bare against the dull sky. The squirrels were safe and warm in their own little houses, cracking nuts for their thanksgiving dinner. The trees waved their tall, bare branches in the biting cold, but, they knew that their roots were sheltered by the kind earth. The cold wind shouted a merry “ good even ing” to everything, as he rushed over the frozen ground. He raced over the .bare hills; the squirrels drew closer together, and ex ulted over their crowded store-house; the trees bowed a stately good-night, as he whisked away ; but he calmed down as he met a little figure on the frozen road, and gave her time to draw her faded cloak tighter over her blue hand, before he rushed on again. A wagon was heard. “ Rattle, rattle! ’ Even the wagon is cold, the child thought, as she heard the loose spokes rattling in the wheels. She stepped aside for the wagon to pass; the dfiver, a pleasant-looking man, stop ped his horse, and asked whither she was going. “To the city I ” answered the child. “To the city 1” cried the man. “ Why you will never get there, unless jou are blown there, or 1 take you.” “ Will you take me?” she asked, not eagerly, but like one accustomed to re fusals. His answer was to reach down his hand to help her up. “Now,” said he, as he put her under the heavy ,buffalo-robe, “ what’s your name?” “ Mary—only Mary,”—she answered hastily. “Mary,” said the man softly, more to himself than the child, “I wish it hadn’t teen that.” “Why, there's lots of Marys, "said the child. “ Yes, 1 know it,” he said, “ I had a little Mary last Thanksgiving. I—l don’t like to see any one named Mary in trouble.” “ I ain’t crying,” said the child, smil ing, “ because I’m in trouble, but cause I’m so cold. I ought to have trouble, Granny says.” “Ought to have trouble, hey I” said the man, stopping his horse, and drawing from under the buffalo-robe a can of hot coffee. “ That hasn’t been off the stove more than five minutes,” he said, as he filled a little tin cup and handed it to her. “ Take that, and drink to your Granny.” “ It, is very nice,” she said, when she liad drank it all. Bbedid not say, I have tasted nothing before today. Why should she, when there had been so many days like this in her short life ? The man replaced the can, pulled the robe up even with her chin, and told the horse to “get up” and “gealong;” then he whistled awhile ; then he said, “It is mighty cold, I hope it will keep so 1” “O, don’t!” exclaimed the child; “ ’cos it makes turkeys cost so much, i poor folks can’t have any.” “ Don’t you care anything for me'?” cried the man, pathetically ; “ here’s my wagon full of turkeys.” “ I didn’t know you were a turkey man,” she said, geDtiy.” “ Yes, I am a ‘ turkey-maD,’ and I think even poor people can afford to buy a turkey once a year, if they are high. The turkey-men have been .’airing a year for this day.” There was a twinkle iri his eye she did not see; he looked down into the little pale face. “I am afraid you don’t care | for the turkey men!” he said, soberly. .She huDg down her head, started to say something, but stopped. “ Well, what is it?” he said, laughing. “ I do Ike you,” she answered, earn estly ; “but the floor people—l have kriowd them always.” They rode on for awhile in silence. Tne hot coffee had worked wonders ; the * blue iittle h..nd- had stopped shaking, and the child smiled as she saw the oity lights in the distance. “ Now, you are a little more oomfort i able,” said the turkey-man, “ let ns hear j where you are going, and what yourother 1 name is.” “ My name is only 1 Mary,’ and I am going to find my cousin.” “Nonsense!” he said, a little sharply. “ Of course you have got a uame.” “ They call me ‘ Mary Rent’, but I hate it, and I won’t have it!” she cried, pas sionately. I “ Why did they call you that ?” he asked, gently. “ ’Cause my father rau away, and left me in Granny Cole’s house, when 1 was ittle. He pinned a paper on my dress •V'li.i spid on it, “ Left to pay the rent. ’ The turkey-man whistled,and asked if Granny Cole was good to her. “ Pretty kind,” said the child, wearily. “Anyway, she didn’t ’spine me, like Sally did.” “ Who may Sally be. ?” asked the mr key-man. “ She’s Granny Cole’s daughter.” “ Did Granny Cole send you alone to the city ?” said he, watching her suspi ciously. “ She told me the other day,” said the child mournfully, “ if I ever came home and found her gone, to go to the city and find mv cousin. Yesterday she sent me off with Sally, and when I come back Sally ran away from me, an’ 1 couldn't find Granny.” “ Are you quite sure you can find your cousin ?” She looked up in his face, and laid her thin hand on his sleeve. “ I never saw my cousin,” she said, calmly. “ It Granny has run away from me I haven’t anybody I know.” “ Why, then, did you come to the city?” said the turkey-man, wondering where he could leave her. “ I know the city best V ” she said i“ (rrunny used to live there, till a week ago. It is bo dark in the country, when you have to stay alone 1 There are the market-men —nee how bright they are 1 ” It was the night before Thanksgiving, in the city as well aw in the country; the markets shone, as they always do the evening before the great least. Never were garlands more green, never apples more red, nor gobblers more plump. The turkey-man drove up and stopped. “ Here is as far as I go, little one,' 1 he aid, as he lifted her out and stood her safely in the bright light ol th' market. She was a pretty child, but pale now, with blue lips and shaking hands. “ Poor little thing,” ho muttered ; “ I wish they hadn’t named her Mary,” and he entered the market. The market-men beamed on everybody. They rubbed their hands as customer after customer vanished with tlie cold lorm of some kind of fowl neatly covered all hut its feet, in brown paper. It was growing late; the turkey-man had sold out; he waited only to get a hot supper before starting for home. He had been thinking entirely of dollars and cents ; hut as he walked out of the mar ket, lie thought of his home, his wife waiting alone for him in the great white house, and his little Mary safe in (iod’n home above —lie had forgotten the home less child left alone outside the market. A heavy hand was laid on his arm. “ Htand back a moment!” whispered a voice. He looked up and saw a large policeman watching a child at a barrel of red apples. It is his little fellow-traveler. “That’s a sharp youngster!” half laughed the policeman, under his breath. “This sort of thing is going on here all the time. Nothing is safe.” The little blue hand was already on an apple, ft faltered a little, then grasped it tightly, then dropped it. Hhe hid her face in her hands. The turkey-man stepi>ed up to her and touched her shoulder gently. fihe had not seen him; but without looking up the child knew who it was—it was the only friend she had. “I couldn’t do it! Oh, I couldn’t!” she sobbed. “Hut I am so hungry!” and she fell against the barrel. The stare were shining cold and clear The turkev-man’s wife was looking out and wishing the thermometer could go up without the price of turkeys going down. “ It’s so cold for .John riding from the city alone!” she said to herself. She opened the door, hoping to hear the wag on ; but the cold wind sent her hack to the blazing fire. She thought of a year ago, when she did not sit waiting alone. She imagined she heard the little voice, j though it had been bushed nearly a year—how plainly she saw the sweet face, though it had been covered so long! She wiped the tears from her eyes as she heard the rattling wheels; .John must not see her sad. She opened the door, holding toe lamp high above her head. The turkey-man came in, with some thing wrapped in the buffalo robe ; he laid it on the big dining-table. “ I>on’t say no he cried ; “ let us do something for Mary’s sake, this Thanksgiving!” “ Are you crazy?” she exclaimed, as he uncovered the [rale far*. •• Wait till T tell you all,” said the turkey-man. When iie had told bis story he said, I earnes’ly, “ How could I go to church I 10-rnorrow and thank Hod for his care of us, if I, with no little one to care for, had left this child alone in the great city ?” “ You did light, John,” said his wife; “ you always do.” With these words, the woman—good, practioal soul I—hastened to wash the child, while the kind turkey-man went to take care of his horse. “ I remember this house,” said the child, as she looked out ofa large blanket before the bright lire. “ I saw it one day with (Iranny Cole; 1 stopped and looked through the fence, and threw stones at the turkeys. I didn’t know he was a kind man then. Oranuy bates rich men —I wonder where Oranny is— I’m sorry I threw the stones—but they wasn’t so very big.” The litt’e head fell lower and lower ; the pale lids closed ; the little hand", grew quiet; but the little voice repeated in sleep, “ I didn’t know he was a kind man.”— Sargent Flint, in fit. Nicholas. _________ T ill: POWER OF Till: ( '/.Alt, A)p\Hudi'r H<T|>lhk llluinpK In the Eye* of Bit* Olllcprn. If I were to sum up the cardinal fault of the KuKsinn army in three words i should say it !h the total “ want of initia tive.” Something in the imperial sys tem seems to stifle and kill the power of individual attention. And yet in no army in the world are greater pains taken to recoguize and stimulate indi vidual enterprise. Crosses, decorations, swords and sashes of honor arc distributed with a lavish hand, and, better still, they are given on the s]X)t, and not as with us, when the recollection of the brilliant deed has nearly died away. The emperor himself is the great and sole fountain of military honor. He watches all personally. Tire theory is tiiat no act escapes his eve. Certainly to see liow his every word and gesture is followed by those around him lie would appear the earthly incarnation of su prom, power. And his iiersonal bearing enhance** the reward in every case. A generous word, a friendly look, the well chosen expression of praise to suit the individual, go home to tho heart of the recipient as much as the higher cherished reward itself. Two hundred officers of all ranks breakfast and dine daily at his table. From the youngest to tho oldest every eye ih fixed on him. llefore the meal, in the assembled circle, as the czar appears, it is seen one day that an aide-de-camp behind him uir ries a cushion with crosses on it, and |>er liaps, a halt dozen sword knots of lumor the riband of St. George, orange and black—to be worn attached to the sword hilt. Instantly exjiectation is at its height. The czar’s voice calls flic, chosen name ; all make room lor the chosen man to pass ; lie comes blushing and flushed, receives the prize, bends low to kiss the imperial hand, and retires Isiwirig at every step, a made man for life, the admired and courted of all beholders. Then he has to go through the usual embracing ami kissing on both cheeks from his friends. The effect of the system is magnetic; it is to concentrate all power and author ity absolutely in one center. The czar is the earthly providence of the soldier and officer, as well as the embodiment of the military ixiwvr and glory of his country. I have seen old officers so overcome with this mark of distinction that they went about for ten minutes after like chil dren, weeping with the prize decoration in their hands, showing it around, half dazed. No system can be imagined more calculated to stimulate individual efforts to the utmost. Yet with all this spurring there is something wanting, ft is the individuality and the habit of spontaneous action which only the edu cation and modes of thought of a free people can supply. Whether it be long standing taint of serfdom, whether it lie too much iinjierialiam, the initiative is wholly absent. Yet tell the Russian what to do, and he will spring to it like an obedient child. In a yea! it would never have occurred to him to do it him self,—Bv'hnretl (for. of the, fjondon Timm. The ICartli Cure. [/■Vi J'arsons, who has been a helpless | invalid for the past four or five years, his lower extremities from the small his hack being totally paralyzed, has for some time bad enough faith in the home ly but excellent Indian remedy of burial in the earth, to try it for his case. On Sunday last he whs taken to Boswell Hart’s farm, where there is a field of blue day, and a hole three feet deep dug, in which he was laid and covered nearly t) the armpits in the earth and allowed to remain about three hours, h rom ! j this one trial a very decided improve- I raent is perceptible. H s feet-and ankles I were covered with a thick incrustation of dead skin. This ha* peeled off, and leaves the feet loosing more li’e like. Blood in the veins appears thinner and flows much ijuicker, and he has turned himself alone on his couch twice since, j a thing he has not done since his confine ment. The result npjiears so beneficial I that he will follow it up.— Detroit /'ret | Pret*. A Nevada man’s Chinese laborer re* • centlv refused tar chop wood on .Sunday i morning and when the was asked I he an-wered: “ Heap no work .•funday ; Vi., -ame white man. Heap play poker.” 1 Our benighted Chinese. WAIFS AND WHIMS. Mother'll Rone:. BV IIAI ftIKTT M’EWEN KIMBAI.Lz brooklet runs over the rto-es— t’retty hUukw ! * he iTrt’ueH axe hung with ooror— fh'etty < odcn ! Th(- Urroklot nqiji but the larch is aiffhing: “0, h ,miner is iJM nnu autumn flying ! Urighol” And bn by can ring like the brook— Tretty brook ! As it leap* from lp huh**-1 ringed nook— Pretty nook! Ami baby’s singinn shall diown the crying Ol th* cross old world and tts endless elghuic: “ Hdgho!” Wid* Aft'tite. NO. U. A person of an inventive turnj of mind lias a very plausable plan for making olive oil much cheaper than it is. Most of the oil used in this country goes through three processes. Its first appear ance is in the form of cotton seed oil; the next process is shipment to Europe; the third transformation is its reappear ance in America as first-class olive oil. Like all great inventions the cheapening plan is very simple. It merely consists in shipping the cotton seed oil directly to the American wholesale dealers, and thus saving the expensive freight across the Atlantic. . 4 young married lady in this city recently named her canary after a friend whose first name was Charley. The other day her husband, who didn’t know of this, returned, and as he went up the stairs leading to her room he was horri fied to hear the wffo of his bosom using such expressions as, “ You're the dearest little fellow I ever knew, Charley; ” “You’re a nice old boy, ain’t you?” “ Kiss me, Charley,” and like endearing words. He grasped tho bannister for support, and with difficulty was able to roach the door and shout “ Madam.” His wife gave a scream, and he started for the vi Ilian, hut of course found him not. That canary goes by a different name now. — Torre Haute. Leader. . .Great excitement was occasioned at the Clifton (England) conference on con fession, a fortnight ago, by the auddeu and sensational act performed by Lord Radstock. He was sitting in a conspicu ous [losition on the platform, in full view of the assembly, when a trap door sud denly opened under his chair. There was u shriek; Lord Itadstock’s heels were seen where, a moment before, his head had been ; and then, with a great crash, his lordship and chair disappeared below and tho trap flew back. But in a few minutes the eclipse of so much right honorable dignity was explained ; a con juror had just vacated the rooms and had used this trap as a means of exit in one of the acts. (Ve certainly live in a wondorlul age. Melville Bell discovered a method of reproducing any and all sounds of the voice, which he called “ visible speech.” Prof. Graham Hell invented the tele phone, by which Bounds can be transmit ted to a distance. And uow comes Mr. Thomas A. Edison, with an invention of the most marvelous kind. It registers tho-Aones of tho voice, and ia capable of reproducing every sound and every word exactly. Mr. Edison’B invention is not yet perfected, but enough bus been ac complished to convince him that his scheme is feasible. All recent inventions sink info insignificance when compared with this. It appeals to the imagination as nothing else can do. By its aid one is able to hear the voice of his friend— absent or dead- -as though he. wo re in the room. The illustrious orators would be present whenever one of these instru ments was found, and we would have it in our power to crystallize down for fu ture UHC the tones of the great singers in the greatest operas. It is only the other day that Professor Huxley objected to any form of immortality, and here is Mr. Edison doing lor the voice, by means ol a mechanical contrivance, what Frederic Harrison asserted history and traditltion and hereditary did for the soul and mind. Hound has become immortal. Who knows if' other forms of feeling will not lie immortalized some day through other inventions ? A Great Charity. Thomas Belton bequethed to the ironmongers’company of England, over IN) years ago, his entire estate, with a provision that one-half of the proceed* should be applied to tho redemption of British slaves in Turkey and Algeria, and one-fourth toward the assistance of poor Church of England schools within London and its suburbs. Ing ago there ceased to be any English slave* to redeem from the Turks; the courts, therefore, permitted the slave money Mho to be used in the aid of schools. The magnitude of the sum accumulated during If/' years can liest lie appreciate.! by the statement that 1,200 schools are now aided from “ Betton s charity. Woman. The perception of a woman is as quick as lightning—almost instinct,. By a glance she will draw a deep and Justcon elusion. Ask her how she formed it and she cannot answer the question. A philosopher deduces inlerence, and his inferences shall be right; but he gets to the head of the staircase, if I may say so, by slow degrees, mounting step by step. She arrives at the head of the stairscase as well as he; but whether she flew t here is more than she knows herself. While she trusts her instinct she is . Idoui de ceived, and she is generally lost when she begins to reason. The late election in Virginia was a great triumph for the bar-room bcll i punch.” Not an anti-register man, as I far as heard from was anywhere elected to the legialatuie, and Hr. Moffett, the inventor of the ‘bell-punch, was returned almost unanimously from his district as an eviden * of the ponilar | approval of his invention. “Those of our compatriots whom one encounters ontside their own countiv are divider! into three classes: Commer cial drummer*, missionaries and convicts. Th frenchman travels only because ol trade, religion or fon-e,” —Pat es Paper.