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Tie Jpj Sentinel Office Wthc fronting ou (’nerrv street, doors from Broad !St. PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY, ... BY ... *“ T. p. LITTLSFIELD. Subscription Irfates. (Postage Prepaid.’) One year $2 00 Sir months 1 00 Three months 50 Advertising Ratos. Per square, first insertion $1 00 Per square, each subsequent insertion. 75 rates to yearly and large ad vertisers. TOWN DIRECTORY. TOWN OFFICERS. Mayor—\V. IT. Whaley. Counoilmen—T. P. Littlefield, 11. Vf. Whaley, Bryant George* O. F. Littlefield, Anderson Williams, Clerk and Treasurer—O. F. Littlefield, Marshal—G. W. Williams. COUNTY OFFCERS. Ordinary—Richard B. Uopps. .Suerifi—John N. Goodbread. m , Jerk tinti\ >r Hmirt f. Middfelon 1 Tax Receiver—.l. O. Hatcher. Tax Collector—W. K. Causey. County Surveyor—Noah Bennett. County Treasurer—John Massey. Coroner—D. MoDitha. County Commissioners —J. F. King, G. \Y. Haines, James Knox, J. G. Rich, Isham Reddish. Regular meetings of the Board, 1. Wednesday in .January, April, July and October. Jas. F. King, Chairman. COURTS. Superiot Court, Wayne County—J no. L. j Harris, Judge; Simon W. Hitch, Solicitor- : General. Sessions held on second Monday in March and September. BMstear, Fiores Comity tenia. TOWS DIRECTORY. TOWN OFFICERS. Mayor—R. 0. Riggins. Oouncilinen—D. P. Patterson,,!. M. Down?, J. if. Lee, B. D. Hrantly. Clerk of Council—J. M. Pnrdom. Town Treasurer—B. I). BrantJy. Marshal —E.Byrd. COUNTY OFFICERS. Ordinary— A. J. Strickland. Clerk Superior Court—Andrew Ji. Moore. Sheri!!—E. /.. Byrd. County Treasurer—D. P. Patterson. County Serveyor—J. M. Johnson. Tar P.eceiver and Collector—J. M. Pur dora. Chairman of Road Commissioners—llßl District, O. M., Lewis C. Wylly; 12 = 0 Dis trist, G. M., George T. Moody; 584 District, O. M., Charles S. Youinanns; 590 District, G. M.. D. B. McKinnon. Notary Publics and Justices of the Peace, etc.—Blackshear Precinct. 584 district.G.M., Notary Public,.!, G. S. Patterson; Justice of the Peace, 11. P,. James; Ex-officio Con stable E. Z. Byrd. Dickson’s Mill Precinct, 1250 District, G M , Notary Public,Mathew Sweat; Justice of the Peace, Geb. 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. SehlaUerville Precinct, 590 District, G. M Notary Public, I). B. McKinnon; Justice o ,1.. TA' .uftjt, Const l • ifl, uo'.n \\ Booth. Courts—Superior court, Pierce county John L. Harris, judge; Simon W. Hitch Solicitor General. Sessions held first Mon dry in March and September. Corporation court, Blackshear, Ga., session held second Saturday in each Month. Police court sessions every Monday Morning at 9 o’clock. 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 liou.se. BOARD $2.00 per day. Single Meals, 50 cts €ULI I: EN T 1 * All AG LI Al IIS. Soiitlicrn Nows. The whole amount of stock, $150,000, has been subscribed for cotton mill in Augusta, Ga. A meteor so brilliant as to bo seen in broad daylight went streaming over North Carolina Tuesday. Sumpter county, Florida, will prob ably ship one and a half million oranges the present year. The people of North Louisiana got live days cotton-picking last week the best show they have had for a mouth. All horts. A Massachusetts woman has hoarded 800 silver half-dimes. 11 is not generally known that there is an extensive salt lake on the top of the Tehacher.i mountain in California, ahaut six miles southwest of the point where the southern Pacific railroad crosses the mountains. The lake is somewhat diffi cult of access, but salt is gathered from the bottom of the lake, where, it lies in layers from one to six inches thick, and shipped to San Francisco. During the year ending September 89th, 185 new granges have been or ganized and located in thirty-one states; as follows: Alabama, 3; Arkansas, 1; California, 10; Florida, 3; Georgia, 2; Illinois. 7: Indiana, 1; Kansas, 2; Louisi ana, 3; Maine, 7; Maryland. 3; Massa ehussetts, 1; Michigan, 5; Minnesota, 2; Mi.-souri. S; Nebraska, 2; New Hamp shire, and; New York, 7: North Carolina, 5; Ohio. 16; Oregon 1; Pennsylvania, 20; South Carolina, 2: Tennessee, 6; Texas, 11; Vermont, 5; Virginia, 15; West Vir ginia, 8; Idaho, 1; Arizona, 1. Foreign Intelligence. In Sweden primary education is com pulsory on all. Adelina Patti has received £2,000.000 for singing since her debut. A favorite mode of introduction in Brazil is said to be, “ This is my friend ; if he steals anything from you, I am re sponsible/’ Kaiser William celebrates his golden wedding at Berlin with great festivity next spring, and Queen Victoria, as well as many ether potentates, is expected to be present. The king of Burmah is erecting ma chinery at Rangoon to utilize the abun dant supply of mineral oil found in Burmah. if the works are successful, the wh eof India will he supplied with p -.ratine from this new source VOL. 11. A China paper states that during an outbreak of cholera on board the customs cruiser Fei Hoo. one of the crew was saved, while in a dying state, by the novel experiment of placing him between | the boiiers of that vessel. This extem ! porized Turkish bath completely cured i the patient. Sweden has consented to give up to France her only colony, the island of St. | Barthelemy, one ot the Antilles. The ; island has already belonged to France, ; and Sweden now finds it to her interest | to cede it at the price of 270,000 francs. The Westminster aquarium may be i said to possess the largest plate-glass tank in the world, one having been lately , erected one hundred and fifty feet, long, ' twenty' feet wide, and proportionately j high. It will permit the display of fish ! of the largest size procurable in the British waters. The French wheat crop of this year is below the average yield. Straw is plen tiful, ears are many, but the grain is small and scanty, especially in theplains, valleys, and rich soils. France will have to import breadstuff) largely this year, and its supplies from the Levant will be I greatly curtailed. The French chemist is said to have suc ee?ded in producing a paint with which to illuminate the numbers on street doors at night. Figures traced with it, are so lustrous as to be read even on a dark j night, and the preparation of the com pound is said to be simple, inexpensive, and not injurious. The Cossacks are remarkably fond of tea, and they carry it on the march made into bricks, or rather tiles, which, before hardening, are soaked in sheeps’ blood boiled in milk, to which flour, butter and salt have been added. A kind of soup is made out of the mixture. Tea is fre quently carried on the inarch in a copper can and drunk cold. The tea cauldron, suspended from a tripod, is the first thing set up during a halt. The khedive of Egypt has the first choice of all the slaves that still are sold freely in his dominions, and has no pre ference for any particular hue, from Cir cassian to Nubian. The war has ruined the slave trade this year, and eight hun dred Circassians were sold at two hun dred dollars, and pretty Somali girls at sixty dollars, at the great Tanta fair, their owners preferring to realize on them at any twice rather than hold them for future delivery at a possible advance. The United States’ minister at the Hague says there has not been a hank failure in Holland for the las, forty years, while there is no such thing on record as the failure of a fire insurance company. The railroads grant no free passes, and pilfering officials are scarcely even heard of. Dishonesty of any kind or failure in business means public dishonor. Four millions of people live within an area of £0,86!) equatemiits, a fact'unprecedented in any other country, and all appear to be. prosperous and happy. The Chinese ambassador in London, who has greatly interested himself in the suppression of the opium traffic between India and China, has said, in reply to an address made to him by the Friends; “The total import duties collected on op : um in China amount to but £1,000,- 000. The sum is not great,and its collection cannot have much effecton foreign trade. The Chinese government now contemplate taking measures to prohibit opiurn srnokiug in China, and thus it may he hoped that the use of the drug may gradually diminish.” This heathen am bassador thinks, also, that it the cultiva- tion of grain in India were substituted for the raising of the poppy, India would bo more likely to have au available sur plus of food in time of famine. The London correspondent of the Cin cinnati Enquirer makes the following statement: “ English capital and Eng lish people are going to Alabama, induced by the large English interests in the rail ways of that state. Avery comprehen sive programme looking to the transport of families hence to the railway lands of Alabama is being publicly presented here. Already many persons well to do in the world are leaving unprofitable ventures in England, where stagnation, strikes and prejudice are doing most dan gerous work, and are on their way to the rich lands, both mineral and agricultural, of Alabama. This is hut the initial step in a grand revived march of emigration to America which the coming year will witness. As of American manufacturers, so I say of American lands—let honesty prevail and profits will follow.” Music of the Oyster. Ail through the night I heard a short, snapping sound coming from the twigs of the busbe3, but in the darkness I was unable to ascertain the cause. It was not confined to any one bush, but ex tended along the whole distance. There was no regularity about it, but it fell upon the ear at intervals, like the patter ing of the first large rain drops fhat precede a heavy shower; but no rain drops ever made so loud a noise, even when falling upon the shingle roof of a country bam. 1 fell asleep trying to make out the cause, and was awakened by the continued snap, snap, which dis turbed my slumbers. I knew it could not.be the day breaking, because it was not near the morning hour. But when morning did come, and the sound had not ceased, I discovered that it arose from the oysters that were actually growing on the bushes, every twig of which held along its length a cluster of from ten to twenty oysters about two inches long by an inch and a half wide. I thought it was a strange country where the bushes bore such fruit as that. The branches or the bushes were submerged at high water, and the young oysters , grew upon them until their weight broke ■ off the branches and they fell into the solt, muddy bottom. It was the sudden closing of thin shells which produced the sound. Some naturalists have said the oyster can be educated ; but this was the fir-t timed was ever an auditor of an oyster concert. —Mexican I Alter. Gray hair? seem like the light of a soft morn, silvering over the evening of life. JESUP, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1877. UREAniSIti AT roi'RSI’OKK. She sits in the gathering twilight In her well-worn roc-king-chair, With the snow of life's lone winter Iu the meshes of her hair: She dream■* of the little children Who left her long ugo, And listens for their footsteps With the longing mother s know. She hears th (m coming, coming! And her htart is all elate At the patter of little footsteps, Down by the garden gate, The clatter of children’s voices Comes merrily to her ears. Ami she trie*, inli<rquivering treble, “ You arel*!e, my little dears!'* And then, are here beside her As the hadtthem long ago— busie. and l >*, and Mary, / lid br.t-. ifc, .;nd little Joo. A fid her l ■ rt 1 hrobs high with rapture / -v A* ~ jfe fcj. Vfl yv n, And th* sight is filled with music Sweet as her dreams of Hoaven. Such wonderful things they tell her ! A nest in the apple-tree ; And the robin gave them a scolding For climbing up to see! A wee white lamb in the pasture— A wild rose on the hill-- And such a great ripe strawberry As Sue found by the mill! She listens to all their prattle, Her heart abrim with r.'st. She’s queen in a little kingdom, Each child a royal guest. Queen? ’Tisan empty title! More than a queen is she : Mother of vqung immortals Who gather at her knee. She brings their welcome supper, And they sit down at her feet Tired, and hungry, and happy, And she laughs to see them eat. Then she smooths the yellow tangles With a mother's patient hand, While she tells some wonderful story Of the children's fairy-land. Then the little knotted shoe-strings Are patiently untied, Ami the children in tteii night-gowns Kneel at their mother’s side. Their voices are low and sleepy Ere their simple prayers are said, And the good-night kiss is given By each waiting little bed. Then a quiet comes about her, Solemn and still and deep, And she says in her dreamy fancies, '• The children are fast asleep;” Yes, last asleep, poor mother, In their beds so low and green, D dsies and clover blossom Each face and sky between, —JSben K. Hex ford , in Christian Union . The Burnt Letter. It was a gossiping neighbor who had been spending an hour with Airs. Webb, and just before she went she had let fly the arrow she had kept in her quivor. “ Your son Graritley goes over the hill to the Burdock’s pretty often, Mrs. Webb,” said she. “ I don’t know it if he does,” replied the old lady. “ Naturally he wouldn’t tell you until the last, after old Burdock’s quarrel with his dead father,” Haid the neighbor— " Dot ev'/y ' ,uy ciso knows. It’s said to lie a Mettled th>ng. Why, Keziah saw him kiss her at the gale one Sunday night, and even Ann Burdock would hardly go so far as that unless it was so, eh? Well, good-bye.” She hurried off, leaving her hostess dumb and motionless at the door. It was some moments before she even thought of going in and casting herself into her chair, but she did it at last, and fell to talking to herself in this wise: “ Oh, it’s worse than anything that ever happened to me. I’ve had trouble, heaven knows, but it was the kind I had to bear if God sent it, but this doesn’t seem right. My Grantley to marry Steven Burdock’s daughter, the child of the very worst enemy his father ever had, a girl brought up by a woman I despise ! Sarah Burdock never had the ways I liked, nor did the things I thought right for a woman to do. Everything is so different with the Burdocks, so strange. Like ought to marry like, or there’ll never Ire a happy home. But that’s the way with men! a pretty face strikes them and away they go, and Grantley is like the rest. Why should lie choose Sarah Burdock’s daughter?” She rocked to and fro as she spoke, letting her neglected knitting drop into her lap. “ There’s Fanny White,” she mur mered, “ a nice, thrifty girl ; and Minnie Holm. AVby, her mother is the best friend I have. There are plenty of girls 1 could have made up my mind to; though I don’t know why Grantley should marry any one yet. But Ann Burdock, with her showy ways, and her airs and graces, I never can welcome her, never, never. I must go away and live by myself if she comes here to lord it over the house; and her mother, no doubt, will come and sit and talk in her foolish, flighty way ; and the sisters will sit in the parlor windows, and take up the table. They’ll bs here half the time, and make nobody of me. I know them. Oh ! if my Grantley does marry Ann Burdock. But it can’t be ’ It can’t!” Just then a foot struck the floor of the porch, the window raised a little, and through the aperture came flying two letters. One a yellow, vulgar-looking missive, the other a little white envelope with a monogram ujwn it. The old lady looked up. The postman, who had thus easiiy de livered his letters, looked over his shoulder, and laughed and nodded at her as he hurried away with his leather bag upon his arm, and she put on her spectacles to read the superscriptions. The yellow envelope held only one of those circulars with which tradesmen of all sorts are in the habit of flooding the country. The white one was not ad dressed to her, but to her son. and the monogram was a very pretty silver and blue A. B. “ Ann Burdock,” said the old iady “ It’s a note from her. Now, 1 wondf r what she has written to my ix>y ? I'd like to know. It’s very cosy opening these envelopes. ’Tisn’t as if they were sealed ; and what harin ' would it bo for a mother to read a letter to her son? I’ve half a mind to doit. Only he’d be angry, maybe. Well, then, I’m angry too, and with more reason. Yes—l will.” A little old-fashioned copper kettle simmered and bubbled upon the stove. A little spirt of steam arose from its spout. The old lady looked at it. Then, rising, she crept across the floor in a guilty sort of fashion, and held the envelope with its flaps down ..ard, to the mouth of the spout. She held it for a few moments, and then softly touched it with her thumb and finger. It was quite damp, and one fold peeled away from the other very easily, and there lay the little note in her hand. She might have read it if she chose; if there were secrets in it, Miss Ann Burdock should have secured them better than she could with the little touch of mucilage the maker of those envelopes had bestowed on encli one. Mrs. Webb took off her glasses, wiped them from the steam that had gathered upon them, and, still standing, opened the sheet of paper adorned with a mono gram like that upon the envelope, and read as follows; “ Dear Grantley—You went away angry with me on Sunday evening, and said that if I would not take hack what I had said you would never come to see me again. And I was too proud and too angry to say a word to keep you. But, Grantley, dear, I’m sorry lor it now. You were in the right, mid 1 was to blame, and I take it all hack—every word. I never meant it. You are so downright you think one must mean all one says, but indeed I never meant it. And so forgive me and come again next Sunday light. 1 find that life would he a very sad thing for me if wc reallv quarrelled. Yours forever, Ann.” “So !” muttered Mrs. Webb, between her teeth. “It has gone so far, then and she has been showing her temper and angering Grantley. Well, if he has spirit enough to stay away one week, he’ll have spirit enough to stay away al together, perhaps.” Then she gave au angry stamp. “ Why do I comfort myself with that?” she said. “ I know this letter will call him back to her, and lie”! be more in love with her than ever. Oh, if she had not written ! I know my boy well enough to know that he would not go hack to her without that. Well, he hasn’t seen it yet; and if J choose he never need. It is for his good, 1 know. Arm Burdock is rot the girl for him. I’ll keep him from her.” She dropped Ann Burdock’s letter upon the fire. There it lay, a black and shrivelled fold of tinder, as her son’s step sounded in the hall, and she covered it from sight with the kettle. In come Grantley, his face bright with the outer cold. “Settingyourself on fire, mother ?” he asked. “I smell something scorching.” “It’s not my dress,” she answered, and busied herself with the teapot, and rang the hell for the tea things. In came the girl with the tray, and again Mrs. Webb had a little fright. “Any letter for me?” asked her son, with an eager look in his face. “No,” she answered faintly. “Did you expect one ?” “Not I,” said he, his brows contract ing. “But T met the postman on the hill, and he called out to me to hurry home and get my love-letter. 11 is joke, ] suppose.” “It was impudent of him,” said Mrs. Webb, not daring to meet her son’s eye. “That’s a love-letter, is it?” Blie tossed him the tradesman’s circu lar. He glanced at it and put it down. How sad he looked ! What gray tints there were about his eyes and temples! How much thinner he seemed than he did a week or so ago ! Was it all that quarrel with the Bur dock girl ? Would it have been lietter that he should have had that mono gram med note? The mother put the thought from her. She spread the little store of dainties Ire fore her son and tried to make him eat; and though she had been so frightened by his questions, she could not help ap proaching the dangerous subject herself. “Are you going out to-night!” she asked. “ No,” he answered ; “ I think not.” “The neigh I nrs were telling me you went over the hill to the Burdock’s rather often,” she went on. “ Well, if I have, mother,” he answer ed, “ that is no sign I shall go again ” “ Well, there are better places than the Burdock’s,” said Mrs. Webb, “arid I thought you’d never think of a girl whose father quarreled with yours, arid may have the evil temper of her mother. She’s a flirt, too, they say.” Then she bounced out of the room. When she came back Grantely had gone upstairs. She heard the boards of his bed-roem floor creek as he walked up and down for hours, but she did not see him again that night. “ Well, well,” she said to herself, “ he’ll get over it.” But. whatever the feeling was, love, anger, or grief, it did not agree with Grautley Webb. He took loss interest in that which went on around him. He avoided all the other young people of the place, and seemed to have neither youth nor spirit left. Could it be all about that girl Ann, old Mrs. Webb asked herself, trying to cheat herself into the idea that the boy was only ill. But in vain she made him warm pos sets and bowls of herb tea. Even if lie had drunk them, which he did not, for they all went to water the grass of the old orchard—even if he had drunk them, they would have done him no good. < >nlv one thing Could help him—the only thing that seemed to him impossible as he sat at his window, staring through the starlight midnight at the roof of the Burdock dwelling, never guessing that under its eaves Ann Burdock sat, atonce angry and sorry, thinking of him and none other. Ho had not answered her note ; he was unforgiving; hut she had vexed him. She was partly to blame. The old lady in ttie ruffled night-cap —who often started from her sleep in the big front bedroom of the Webb home with a dream of letters that curled up into tinder over the red coal—had more on her conscience than she knew. For though Ann grieved, she did not wear her heart upon her sleeve, but was outwardly gayer than ever, and flirted as she never had before, until at last the same neighbor who had brought tin* news of Grantley’s love affair to his mother, dropping into tea, gave Mrs. Webb and her son a bit of gossip as they sat at the table together. “ Ann Burdock is going to lie married at last. It’s that young man from Lon don, Mr. Millet. “ I believe weddings when I see them now,” said Mrs, Wohb. “ But Mrs. Burdock herself told me this,” said the guest. When she wan gone, Grantley', who sat before the tohle still, with his elbows on it, dropped his head upon his arms, and there was a sound of ouick breath ing- For a little while his mother watched him. Then she went close. “flranlley,” she said, in a trembling voice, “what is it? What ails you? Tell mol” “ It’s only that I’m a fool, mother,” he answered. “ But—Grantley, what about ?” He lifted up his young, worn face then, and answered : “ Mother, don’t you know ? It’s about Ann Burdock. It’s been very hard to hear, hut if she does marry any or e else —l—shall kill myself, 1 think. Life doesn’t seem worth having.” “Life doesn’t seem wortli having, if you can’t have Ann 1” the mother said, ina puzzled sort of way. “But why, what is there in her ?” “ What there never is in more than one woman to any man, mother,” said Grantley. Somehow, from the far-away years of youth, a memory came back to his mother that helped her to understand him. She felt that she had done very ill, and if confession could do any good, she would even confess. At,least, if she could not quite do that, she would let him know the truth about Ann. “ Grantley, dear,” she faltered, “ you —you had a quarrel ?” “ Yes,” he answered. “ But if she had written to lieg your pardon you’d have forgiven her?” She almost hoped that ho would say “ No”—that she need not go on. But he answered: “ Yes—hut she never wrote.” “ I think she did, Grantley,” said the mother. I—l know she did. I—l—an accident happened to the letter. It—it got burnt; but I’m sure it was an apology. Indeed, I saw a few words, but 1 didn't think you cared so. You see it—it fell into the fire.” “ Why did you not tell me before?” cried Grantley. “ Well, I somehow didn’t like,” was all the mother could say. “ Ami why don’t you go and ask her about it, and see what it was ?’’ Boor Mrs. Webb, when her son, after many questions, had taken her advice, cried bitterly. She might have felt even worse had she heard what Ann was saying. The story had been told, a reconcilia tion effected, a declaration made to the effect that Mr. Millet had never been oved. And then Ann Burdock said, with a laugh— “But, Grantley, your mother burnt that letter on purpose. Gnly a man could believe the story you’ve told me. Brie did not want me for a daughter-in law. I owe her no grudge—remember that, and don’t tell her what I say.” Grantley never did. And old Mrs. Webb has often been heard to say that Ann Burdock lias turned out better than could have been expected. .Look at that crowd,”said a gentle man to a clergyman be was showing through the state department the other day. “.1 ust look at that crowd going up in the elevator to Mr. Evarts’ room.” “Yes,” replied the divine, “ that’s the largest ‘ collection on foreign missions ' I’ve teeu taken up in many a day.” THE MOFFET REGISTER. An Abridgement of (lie I.ntv l’lisseil b.v me Virginia l.eglslntnre In Kofereneo Thereto, The law as enacted provides for the taking out of a wholesale license, a retail license and a bar-room liccnso, such ns may be desired by the applicant upon the conditions set forth in the act. A license to sell by wholesale fixes the min imum at five gallons wholesale and retail at one gallon. A retail license fixes the maximum at five gallons to be delivered in vessels. A bar room covers only what Arnold to be drunken the premises. The penalty for violation of any of the above regulations is a fine ot not less than twenty nor over five hundred dollars and imprisonment from ono month to twelve. To obtain a bar-room or retail license, application is to be made la the court of the county or corporation in which the applicant resides, and if the court iH satisfied from the testimony that he is a fit person and the locality suitable, upon filing a bond with security of not less than one hundred nor mere than one thousand dollars, conditioned to comply with the law, a license shall be granted. If for any cause a license is refused, an appeal may lie taken to the circuit court. The auditor of public accounts is to provide a bar-room register as hereafter sped fled, and furnish instructions for its use, the same to be placed in tbo hands of the revenue commissioners for distri bution. Separate registers are to be pro vided for malt liquors and alcoholic liquors. The commissioners place the registers and it is made their duty to ex amine them from time to time. Every register is to be locked after inspection, and the key retained by the commis sioners. It is made the duty of the re tail denier, upon the sulo of every half pint, fraction or multiple of spirits, wines or malt liquors, in the presence of the purchaser, to turn the crank of the priqier register until the bell lias struck once and the dial indicator has moved one point until the amount sold reaches ono gallon. In tho case of a bar-room keeper, upon l the side of each drink, in presence of the customer, he is to turn the crank until the bell strikes one and the indicator moves one point on the dial, or in other words, the half pint or fraction thereof is the unit of taxation on the retail dealer, and the drink for the bar-room dealer. The following is the table of rates for taxing dealers: —• ** •QUANTITY "i I.IQUOR. i- a rt 2 6® o o * - (I ct. I.ohh thnii half pint I 2'f ’ • !I..ir pint 1 ;.L, ' Moro than liti 1 r pint hikl Ichm tliiui I (it 2| I Onopiui. 2 ft l Mora than a pint amt h’HH Ilian i'>> pl> .*!( ?' Olio Mini a half pinth .T Wi Mnrothan I't mid lohh than 2 pint*... 41 10 | Two pi 11 1 h 4 10 I Hall OIIIIO n ; H 2 1 Oin> uallon pij in j There is also a specific tax, one-half to bo paid when license is granted and the other at the end of six months, the amount of which m regulated by the amount realized from the liquor register. It is fixed for the first year in towns of 2,000 and less, at fifty dollars and over at one hundred dollars; after that it will he determined by the register. It is made the duty of the revenue commis sioners to visit each establishment, monthly and examine the register and sec if same is in order, and also to make a record of the number of drinks of wine, alcoholic and malt liquors regis tered as sold during the month also the amount sold by retail dealers according to the manner specified, and certify the same to the auditor of accounts, and the treasurer of the county or corporation for the purpose of collecting the lax. Druggists are required to take out a re tail dealer’s license and subjected to all the duties and penalties of other retail dealers. The penalties affixed for ail violations of the act are very severe, extending in nearly all cases to imprisonment in addi tion to heavy fines. The Moffett register is the one adopted for use in Virginia and accomplishes the desired pursue. The law has proved very successful, yielding to the slate a heavy revenue, and keeps theentire business of distilling, manufacturing or selling any kind of liquors, under the control of the courts, in a systematic mariner. Keep Pegging Away. A farmer friend had occasion to write the local editor of this paper a note the Other day. In closing his note he asked, “ Urb, can you tell me the way out ol the present hard times?" Of course, we can. Keep pegging awa y—)ive within your income, and save a little for a ramy day—sell your surplus stock and grain—if you can’t get your price take what you can get; take the money and pay your honest debts; and if you owe no debts, put the money at interest and don’t go on credit any more; work steadily and I* economical —make no bad or fool trades, and the first thing you know you will be sitting up cross-legged, with peace and plenty. Xow, we’ve told you the way out, and if you don’t go, it is vour own fault. — lice" ion (On ) Journal. GRAVE AND GAY. . . Little minds rejoice over the errors of men of genius, as the owl rejoices at an eclipse. ..“ No, ma’am,” saida grocer to an applicant for credit, “ l wouldn’t even trust my own feelings.” . The only safety from apothecary poisoning lies in employing no doctor who writes Latin prescriptions. .. Fancy ruleß over two-thirds of the universe, the past and the future, while reality is confined in the present. . Some there are who gaze intently into the well of truth, but only in hope of seeing their own image reflected there. ..It has been remarked of a Cnicago j couple, “ Two souls with but a single thought—how to get rid of each other.” .. Some connoisseurs would give a hun dred pounds for the head of a beggar, in painting, who would threaten the living mendicant with the prison. ..According to Rev. Joseph Cook, j every man’s face is phosphorescent in its I glow in proportion as lie is good. But i there is a glow which comes not of good ' ness, and neither of phosphorous. .. Good sense is_lhe bod jof poetic ge- I uius; fancy, its drapery; motion, its life and magnetism, the soul that is every | where, forming all into one graceful and j intelligent whole. NO. 15. ..“Bay, missus, won’t you come and teach us? AVe’re going to bounce our teacher ; he’s too slow.” Thus did some Brooklyn Sunday-school scholars request a lady to take charge of them. .. English is the court language of Germany. It is a proud moment when a Briton or American, visiting the palace is saluted witli “ Got was a pooty schplentit morning, ain’t it?” .. Falstaff answered by the New York Commercial Advertiser. “What’s honor?” asks Falstaff. That’s easy. Any woman who sits behind another woman in church can tell whats on her in two minutes. .. Anew York jeweler has a splendid opal ring which has been sold nine times as an engagement ring, and as many times exchanged, on account of the general belief that the opal is unlucky. ..“Are these soaps all one scent?” inquired a lady of a juvenile salesman. “ No, ma’am, they are all ten cents,” replied the innocent youngster. .. An exchange wants to know how the Turks happened to learn to fight so well. Why man, most of the Turkish officers have over half a dozen wives. .. One of the Kentucky minstrels is Hitting for his care in character. Opera tor—“ Now, sir, look pleasant—smile a little.” Minstrel smiles. “O i that will never do. It’s too wide for the instru ment.” . The heart of a great man surrounded by pioverty and trammeled by depend ence, is like an egg in a nest built among briars. It must either curdle into bit terness, or il it take li e and mount struggle through thorns for the ascent. . It is far easier to feign respect when we do not feel it, than to express it when we actually do; for which reason frank, straightforward people appear hyoperiti cal to suspicious ones. The very fear of seeming deceitful makes us seem so. The Water We Drink. There is very little pure water used. That which comes from the clouds has the lieHt claim to lie so regarded, but that is contaminated by impurities in the air hh it descends. Clear water is not neces sarily pure water. All water from springs and wells contains minerals in solution ; the latter having but a meager supply and outgo is usually more strongly im pregnated than natural fountains with flowing inlets and outlets. The purest water is found where solid rock, as ol granite, forms the bed over which it runs. But waters of springs and transparent rivers, even when filtered, are never pure. Waters of average purity em ployed for domestic purposes are said, on anthority of Johnson, to hold in solution from twenty to thirty grains of solid matter. The water of the river Jordan contains seventy-three grains, ami that supplied by the various companies of the city of laindon low from nineteen and one-half to forty grains. The impurities that make water injurious to health are organic matters, such as are abundantly supplied by barnyards, drains and cemeteries, where the decay of animal and vegetable sub stances is going on. Some families who live on farms, and who fancy they are drinking the best of water, are, in fact, cons antly imbibing poison that will appear perhaps in the dreaded farm of diphtheria or typhoid fever. Toe char acter of the impurities is important. It is claimed that a certain degree of har ness of lime, improves the water for all domestic uses, except washing, and water from the chalk districts in Eure fie is preferred to softer water. It is also stated that conscripts for the French army who were reared in hard water districts wero taller and stronger in fame than those who were reared in places where there was no lime in the water. — Scientific. American. The Cornet Liver. Borne medical students in one of the colleges, dissecting a female subject a few days ago, found what is called in the doctors’ parlance a "corset liver.’’ When tight lacing has been practised through several years, a |>ermanei)t dent or hollow is produced in the liver, which may be seen very plainly after the woman is dead and her liver dissected sut. This kind of liver occurs so frequently in women that the physicians have given it the name of “corset liver.” In the subject mentioned the hollow in the liver was large enough lor the wrist of a grown man to be laid in it. Young ladies who don’t want their livers put into the newsj>aptrs and made an awlnl example of after they are dead, would better take waiuiDg, '