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TOWN DIRECTORY.
TOWN OFFICERS.
Mayor—W. H. Whaley.
Councilmen-T. P. Littlefield, H. W.
" haley, Bryant George, O. F. Littlefield,
Anderson Williams,
Clerk ud Treasurer—O. F. Littlefield.
Marshal— G. W. Williams.
COUNTY OKFCERS.
Ordinary—Richard B. Hopps.
SherifiWohß N. Go*, JcwctT
Ole* Superior Court—Ben j. O. Middleton
Tax Receiver—J. C. Hatcher.
Tax Collector—W. R. Causey.
County Surveyor—Noah Bennett.
County Treasurer—John Massey.
Coroner—l>. McDitha.
County Commissioners—J. F. King, G.
W. Haines, James Knox, J. G. Rich, Isham
Reddish. Regular meetings of the Board,
31 Wednesday in January, April, July and
'October. Jus. F. King, Chairman.
COURTS.
Superior Court, Wayne County—Juo. L.
■Harris, Judge; Simon W. Hitch, Solicitor
'Geßcral, Sessions held on second Monday
'ia March and September.
BMstar, Pierce County Georiia.
TOWN DIRECTORY.
TOWN OFFICERS.
Mayor—R. G. 11 i.;gi us.
Couneilmen—D. P. Patterson,J. M. Downs,
J. M. Lee, B. D. Brantly.
Clerk of Council—J. M. Purdom.
Tows Treasurer—B. D. Brantly.
Marshal—E. Z. Byrd.
COUNTY OFFICERS.
•Ordinary—A. J. Strickland.
•Clerk Superior Court—Andrew M. Moore.
Sheriff—E. Z. Byrd.
County Treasurer—D. P. Patterson.
County Serveyor—J. M. Johnson.
Tax Receiver and Collector—J. M. Pur
dom.
Cnairmnn of Road Commissioners—llßl
District, G. M., Lewis C. Wylly; 12‘0 Dis
trict, G. M., George T. Moody; 584 District,
G. 11., Charles S. Youmanns; 590 District,
G. M., 1). 11. McKinnon.
Notary Publics and Justices of the Peace,
etc.—Blackshear Precinct. 584 district.G.M.,
Notary Public, J. G. S. Patterson; Justice
of the Peace, It. R. James; Ex-officio Con
stable E. Z. Byrd.
Di ckson’s Mill Precinct, 1250 District, Ci
M , Notary Public,Mathew Sweat; Justice of
♦he Peace, Geo. T. Moody; Constable, W.
F. Dickson.
Patterson Precinct, 1181 District, G. M.,
Notary Public, Lewis C. Wylly; Justice of
the Peace, Lewis Thomas; Constables, H.
Prescott and A. L. Grider.
Schlatterville Precinct, 590 District, G. M
Notary Public, D. B. McKinnon ; Justice o
the Peace, R. T. James; Constable, John \V
Booth,
Courts—Superior court, Pierce county
John L. Ilarris, judge; Simon W. Hitch
Solicitor General. Sessions held lirst Mon
dry in March and September.
Corpon ..on court, Blackshear, Ga., session
held second Saturday in each Month. Police
court sessions every Monday Morning at 9
o’clock.
JESUP HOUSE,
Corner Broad and Cherrv Streets,
(Near the Depot,)
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 cts
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
All Nona.
Leprosy prevails and is on the in
crease among the Chinese in San Fran
cisco.
George L. Norton has been c@nfirmed
as supervising inspector of steam-vessels
at New Orleans.
The hard times are doing far more to
shut up the liquor saloons than the law
and order league. Two thousand are
said to have been closed during the past
eighteen months.
In a lead coffin lately found between
Bethany and the mount of Olives was a
silver ring bearing the names of Sam9on
and Manoah. They’ll be finding Adam’s
grave next.
According to one of the consuls
reports Sheffield, England, is at last
convinced it will require all her energy
to keep pace with America in the hard
ware line.
The Charlottesville and Rapidan rail
road company, which intends connecting
Piedmont with the Midland Virginia
railroad at Charlottesville, has been
organized.
A Missouri judge recently refused a
divorce in a case in which the parties had
lived together forty-nine years, on the
ground that it was not right to spoil a
golden wedding.
In Holland an apothecary is not per
mitted to put up an old powerful pre
scription. What might have suited a
roan six months ago may not be good for
him now.
A Madrid paper states that a titled
lady of that city is collecting photographs
of the prettiest women she can find, to
be sent to the Paris exhibition of 1878
as specimens of Spanish beanty.
The following silver pieces were coined
at the mint during November: Trade
dollars, 400,000; half dollars, 837,000;
quarter dollars, 722,400; dimes, 140,000;
total number of pieces, 2,096,400; value’
$1,011,600. No gold metal was coined.
A Daniel must come to judgment.
The Lynchburgh News calls tor the in
terpretation of writing in the sky: On
last Wednesday, about sundown, a ball
of tire, apparently about the size of a
child’s head, was seen sweeping through
the sky in a southeasterly direction,
leaving behind it a train of fire and
smoke. In addition to the train of fire
and smoke, we saw two letters formed in
the circling, eddying smoko, the mystic
letters “M. L” Who can interpret?
Who read the portent ?
VOL. 11.
A writer in the New Orleans Democrat
has examined the tax-rate in various
states, and finds that Louisiana stands at
the head of the list. The state tax there
is 141 mills. The other states come in
the following order : South Carolina, 10
mills; Arkansas, 10 mills (it is proposed
jto reduce it to 5 mills); Tennessee, 10
mills; Alabama, 71 mills; California,
7 3-20 mills ; Florida, 7 mills ; Kansas,
5b mills; Texas, Oregon and Georgia, 5
mills; Maine, mills; Ohio, 3 l-f> mills;
New Jersey, 3 mills; Illinois, 2 4 s mills;
New York, 2J mills; Michigan, 21 mills;
New Hampshire, 2 mills; Maryland, 1
7-10 mills; Connecticut, 11 mills;
Massachusetts, 1 mill. There is no state
tax at all in Pennsylvania.
A circular from the office of the super
vising inspector-general, at Washington,
informs supervising and local inspectors
of steam vessels that the office has be
come aware that some manufacturers of
boiler iron are stamping iron of their
manufacture at much higher tensile
st rain than such iron will bear when
tested by the triple testing machine a
provided in rule lour of the revised rules
and regulations of 1877. Inconsequence
of this practice injury has resulted to
boiler manufacturers who innocently
purchased such iron, and failed to apply
the test until after the completion of
the boilers, as recently occurred in the
cases in the local districts of New York
and Philadelphia. To prevent a prac
tice so unjust and manifestly dangerous,
inspectors are directed to obtain samples
from plates of all boilers about to be
constructed in their districts, and subject
the same to an actual test before the
boilers are begun.
Captain J. Julius Guthrie, of the
United States’ life-saving service, who
was lost with bis men in the surf at
Kitty Hawk, while going to the rescue
of the Huron, was born in Washington,
North Carolina, and was a son of Dr. J.
W. Guthrie. He entered the United
States’ navy as midshipman in 1832. He
served all through the Mexican war.
He was promoted twice for gallantry ; in
1853 commanded the naval forces that
attacked the barrier forts on Canton
river, in China, which he captured.
Later he commanded the United States’
coast survey steamer Walker, lost off the
coast of New Jersey in the fall of 1859,
and in 1860 was attached to the African
squadron, whe e he captured the slaver
Nightingale, which was safely brought
to New York harbor. The following
year, when his native state seceded, he
resigned his commission and entered the
confederate service, remaining in it to
the end ef the war, commanding the
battery New Orleans and the steamer
Chattahoochie. After the war he lived
in retirement at Portsmouth, Virginia,
but his disabilities having been removed
by congress, he was appointed by General
Grant to his late position. He was a
popular officer, a line scholar, jxdished
gentleman, and consistent Christian.
The Chinese six companies have ad
dreased a communication to Secretary
Evarts in reply to Mr. Sargent’s letter.
They call attention to the fact that since
the adoption of the treaty the United
States has received from China nearly
SBOO,OOO indemnity for outrages on
American citizens and property in China.
That for years the Chinese have been
robbed and murdered in California, and
not in one case in fifty were the perpe
trators brougat to justice. That the
punishment of the Chico murderers is
attributable to the influence and money
of the good citizens of San Francisco, the
result being the exception to the
the rule. They recall the recent anti-
Chinese raid in Placer county, and the
July riots in this city to disprove that
the county officials have sought to pun
ish the offenders and succeeded. They
admit that the courts are honest, but
that the officers surrounding the judici
ary arc pledged to persecute them before
they can get office in the state. That in
twenty-five years immigration has not
exceeded emigration by 4000 annually.
They reiterate their desire expressed to
Senator Morton, that the immigration of
Chinese should be restricted within cer
tain limits.
Personalities.
George Bancroft is working in Wash
ington on his history of the United
States.
Longfellow’s daughter, Edith, is to be
married soon to R. H. Dana, son of the
poet. The young lady is exceedingly
pretty, “fair and golden-haired, like the
morning.’’
Mr. Ruskin is not invariably good-na
tured. In a recent article he speaks of
an opponent as the “ cockney, curly
tailed puppy who yaps and snaps in the
nineteeth century.”
The following is related by a Nevada
newspaper to show Senator Jones’ influ
ence in that state: A boy in Sunday-school,
after hearing the superintendent talk
about providence, asked another boy,
“Do you believe all that ?” “ Yes.”
“ What! that God made all these moun
tainsand all this town “ Yes.” “ And
all them down at the Gold Hill?” “ Yea.”
“ Well, I guess John P. Jones had some
thing to say about that!”
■ iKliixtrlnl .Voles.
The carpenter trade is reported dull
in Charleston and New Orleans : moder
ate in Philadelphia and Brooklyn. The
New York piano factories, furniture fac
tories and wood-working establishments
are employing a limited number of hands.
Business is improving with the Boston
piano factories.
The great cigarmakers’ strike in New
York continues. Over 10,000 men,
wamen and children connected with the
trade are still struggling against starva
tion wages. Tne relief store continues
to supply the strikers with food, but
some who live in tenements are being ex
pelled therefrom for non-payment of
rent.
At Lynn. Mass., over 800 shoemakers
are reported to be out of work. At Al
bany trade is fair and improving, and a
new shoe factory is to be built, which
will employ ltO hands. At Cambridge.
Mass., tanners are paid $8 per week,
beam hands $9, curriers $lO, splitters and
engineers sl4, shavers sl3. and finishers
$lO.
A letter from .San Francisco says:
“ Trade here has not been good in a long
time. At present there are at least ten
pier cent, ot the plumbers, tinsmiths and
sheet iron-workers unemployed, and the
, prospect, though not utterly discourag-
JESUP, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1877.
ing, is not good. The prospect is that a
moderate trade will be done throughout
the winter, but there will not he work
for all hands.”
Forciicii lufcllixcncr.
The British and German governments
are making the telephone a part of their
telegraph system.
The details of the losses in the fighting
at Milchka, November 26th, show that
Russians collected twenty-five hundred
Turkish dead.
A Rome correspondent says ; “It is
doubted at the Vatican whether the pope
will ever again move from his bed. He
looks well when recumbent, but when an
attempt made to dress him, it was
discovered that he could not sit upright.”
A special reports that the pope is dying.
A Terrible better.
A great deal of discussion has arisen
since Mrs. Stuart committed suicide as to
the nature of four letters left by her and
written just before she took poison. The
most strenuous etforts have been made
by the friends of the deceased to suppress
these epistles, and Coroner Woltman lias
refused to make them public. It has
been learned, however, that three of these
letters were to relatives, and merely
stated that she had determined to live
no longer, bade them farewell, and asked
their pardon for her determination. The
fourth letter was addressed to jier hus
band. It was couched in mild and affec
tionate language, but was absolutely
terrible in its contents. It called the
attention of Mr. Stuart to their wedding
six months ago. It referred to the homes
they had left to go through the world to
gether. 11 reminded him of theblessings,
happiness, and prosi>ects they had started
out with, and recalled the good reasons
the bride had to look forward tothefuture
with the most sanguine expectations. It
spoke of their vows—hers to love, honor
and obey him, and his—to love, cherish
and support her. It said that if ever a
woman went honestly and lovingly to a
husband, she went so to him, and if ever
a woman had been a true and affectionate
wife, she had been one. It then, in pain
ful language, showed how the change
had come over her dream, and how she
had seen the rich web of her iancy grad
ually drop from her full and glowing
ideal until it left the mere skeleton of her
hopes, an unbearable, ghastly reminder
of what they had been and to what they
werereduced. Itpicturedinthelanguage
of youthful despair the gradual sinking
of her husband into the power of the
vice of drink, until he became absolutely
lost lo himself and to her, and became
cold, selfish, rcpellant, cruel, and finally
intolerable. Ar.d then it saiil ail this
lining so, absolutely so, unchangeably so,
she had no wish to live any longer—her
every hope was gone, ami she would fol
low them. She said she could not help
it—she asked his pardon for her deter
mination —told him that she still loved
him—bade him farewell, and then took
her life.- -N. Y. Times.
A “Mum” Sociable.
It was announced that a “mum”
sociable would be held last evening in
the lecture room of the Park avenue
Methodist church, and a Times reporter
was sent to see what in the dickens it
was, a strong suspicion being entertained
that it might be a sort of Mumm’s cabi
net meeting, and that, paradoxically as
it sounds, there might be a moistening of
palates with “extra dry.” These sus
picions were wholly incorrect. There was
nothing to drink. Champagne Charlie
and the Widow Clicquot were absent.
The peals of laughter that greeted the
reporter as soon as he got within a block
or two of the church assured him that a
“mum” sociable was one at which no
body made a noise. The sociable was
conducted until 9 o’clock on the ordinary
plan. There was conversation unre
strained, laughter ad lihilum, and some
good music. At 9 o’clock “it ” was
“ cheesed,” and nobody was allowed to
speak, under penalty of paying a fine,
which fine went into the treasury of the
ladies of the church. There was some
very lively pantomime, some intelligible
and some bewildering. Persons who
were familiar with the deaf-mute alpha
bet were the envy of the others. .Some
of the girls, who practice sign language
daily at school, chatted away on their
fingers with much eloquence and ele
gance. A court was provided f the
trial of offenders. The judge and the
lawyers and witnesses were allowed to
talk, and a great deal of merriment was
caused by the travesty on judical pro
ceedings, which was well carried out.
The court was organized to convict, and
to all appearances the “mum” sociable
proved a good financial measure. At
9 :30 o’clock the ban was removed from
conversation, and after some more soci
able of the ordinary variety, Dr.McChev
nev dismissed his parishioners, who went
home feeling that they never had so
much fun in their lives as they did at
the “mum” sociable. —Chicago Time*.
. Every young man who is so fat he
can’t tie his own necktie and whose face
is as round and about as large as a dinner
plate, wears a helmet hat, and the bur
lesque sets on the top of his head like a
grape on a orange. The spectacle of a
fat man in a helmet hat is what makes
men murderers. —Eurlinglon Havokeye.
THE CJITEHT.
From out the great world's rush and din,
There caiue a guest;
The inner court he entered iu,
And sat at rest.
Slow on the wild tide otV a hair 3
The nates were closed ;
Afar the hungry host of cares
At iast reposed.
Then through the diui doors of tho past,
Ail pure of blame,
Came boyish memories floating fast—
His mother's name.
“Ab! all this loud world calls the best,
I’d give,” he said,
“ To feel her hand, on her dear breast
To lean my head.
“ I cry within the crowned day,
That would be joy,
Could she but bear me far away,
Once more her boy.”
Mau’s strength is weakness, after all—
He stood confessed ;
None quite can still the heart’s wild call,
Non* quite nre blessed.
Across the face that knows no fear
As shade swept fast.
Ab if a following angel near
That moment passed.
The sacred silence of the room
Hid softly stir;
A splendor grew within the gloom
Of her, of her!
Out to the great world’s rush and din
Has gone my guest;
The battle blame, the praise men win
Are his—not rest.
Far out amid the earth’s turmoils
A strong man Rtands,
Upheld in triumph and in toils
By unseen hands.
Hut who may lift with subtle wand
Tho masks we wear ?
I only know his mother’s hand
Is on his hair.
I onlvknow through all life’s harms,
Through sine alloy,
Somwiow, sonmwheie that mother’s arms
Will reach her boy.
— Mari / Clem me r Ames.
THE DOOMED RACE.
More Melancholy I'lniircN Ki lullnu lo
the Deeline of Ihe Negro Race
in Ihe South—What the Next
t’eiisiiH Will Niton,
H. V. ltedfield writes from Chatta
nooga to the Cincinnati Commercial;
Mr. Beadle, of the Gazette, writing
from Memphis, makes the discovery that
the blacks in that city are dying from
two to three times faster than the
whites. This is a matter I have given
much attention to for the past five years
and the state of things in this regard Mr.
Beadle finds in Memphis applies to every
city in the south. At different times I
have collected statistics in Memphis,
Nashville, Charleston, Columbia, Rich
mond, Chattanooga, Vicksburg, Atlanta,
and Washington, and always with the
same result. The average of black deaths
to white, taking all thesifeities together,
and one year with another, with relative
population of course as a basis—is more
than two to one, that is the black race in
the southern cities is dying off more than
twice as fast as the white. Washington,
under the very nose of the government,
and where there is a philanthropic effort
to teach the blacks how to live, the
black death-rate keeps up with that in
Richmond and other southern cities
where the efforts to elevate the negro are
not conspicuous. Ido not refer here to
the elevation which comes merely from
common school education—for nearly all
southern cities have made and are making
praiseworthy efforts in this direction—
but to the elevation and benefit which
come from learning them how to care for
their bodily health.
The average negro lias little more idea
of sanitary rules and the laws of health
than a horse. And they are almost as
hard to learn as so many horses. Per
haps this is a broad statement, but the
failures I have met in trying to teach
those of the race who happened to be in
my employ so simple a thing as to keep
out ol a cold draught when heated, is my
excuse for an observation that may seem
extreme. I had almostas soon undertake
to persuade a negro to vote the democratic
ticket as to keep him out of draughts
when heated or from sitting around half
a day with wet feet. I have often seen
negroes at work upon the river loading
a boat, and when through and covered
with perspiration, lie down where the
wind would strike them freshest. An
attempt to gently remind them of the
danger of this is almost always met with
“ Oh, I’m hot, and want to cool off.” And
cool off they do, and the grave yard
gathers them in rapidly.
In the cities the mass of them live in
hovels and in dirt and filth, with no more
sanitary knowledge or care lor it than ho
many animals of a lower order. Cholera,
smail-pxix, typhoid fever, galloping con
sumption, and every disease that thrives
from filth, bad air, and bad food, stalk
among them and destroy them like frost
cutting green leaves in autumn. In the
country there isMessof this, less filth, bad
air, dampness and insufficient food, and
the problem as to the future of the race
simply is, whether the natural increase in
the country will make up for the averages
of death in the cities. I think it will for
a time, and the race may hold its own as
to numbers for a generation or two, but
that death will ultimately get the best
of it, and kill more than are born. I also
believe it is a doomed race in America,
but the doom is a long way off. Of one
thing you may be sure, the increase under
the slave system, amounting to about
twenty-five pier cent, every ten years,
will never be seen again.
The censusof 1880 will teach usanum
ber of things as to this problem, the
main one, in my judgment, being that
the race is not increasing. It will likely
hold its own, as comp,ared with the last
census, but the increase will l>e very
1 small, if any. We have a striking evi
i dence of what to exject even in the cen
sus of 1870, embracing some four years of
slavery and six of freedom. From 1850
to 1800 the increase among tho blacks was
twenty-five per cent. From 1860 to 1870
it was only ten per cent., leas than one
half! The next census will set out the
matter so that there can be no doubt
whether the race is to ineret.se, decrease,
or barely hold its own.
In slavery the master and the white
population generally had a direct pecu
niary interest in the physical welfare of
the negro. He represented so much cash.
It was the master’s interest to protect
tin health of his slave, and he had the
authority to order as was host for that
interest. The result was that the blacks
of the south were actually healthier and
longer lived than the whites, and in
creased more rapidly. This last is abun
dantly shown in the census reports. The
diet of the blacks was simple but nutri
tious. The vices of fast living and
intemperance were not theirs. Now
they are a prey to all vices, without the
restraining influence of knowledge.
Whatever the crimes of slavery, it is
clear that the race does not thrive in
freedom. If the welfare of a race is
marked by its increase, as some contend,
the believers in African slavery as a good
thing for the African have an argument
here. 1 have heard the question put in
this shape: Is it better for the negroes
that tlieyincrea.se and flourish in America
as slaves, or that they die out as free
men ? Is there more happiness in exist
ence as a slave, or in not existing at all 7
Nobody advocates slavery these days.
The sentiment against it is deep and
strong, even where tho institution a few
years ago had flourishing existence. It
is now almost universally conceded to
have been an evil to the whites, but, in
the light of the negroes’ condition since
freedom, 1 occasionally hear a man say
that, while he doesn’t want tho institu
tion, he believes it was a good thing for
the blacks.
The next census will give us a basis of
calculation, and we shall then know, or
at least be able to draw an intelligent
deduction as to the future of the race in
America. That they will not increase in
freedom as rapidly as in slavery we
already know. That is assured. The
figures of the last census are fairly start
ling in this particular, showing as they
do so a marked decrease in the rati * of
increase as compared with the decade
from 1850 to 1360.
In the south, the predominating opin
ion among tlie whites is that ihe race iH
doomed, that decrease will lie rapid
henceforth, and that several generations
hence negroeswill beas scarce as Indians.
This opinion is more prevalent in city
than in country, because tlie evidences of
the decline arc so marked iu every
crowded centre.
tlolmny on Snakes.
Snakes is mosely pisen, hut some don’t.
My father saysthey used to walk on their
tails, the same as us, but now they has to
walk ou their belly for foolin’ Eave; hut
they seem to like it that way best.
Snakes is said to be the same as serpence,
hut I Rlways thought a serpenny was the
biggest. The rattlesnake’s skin is too
short for him, and don’t cover all his
banes, and when he wriggles they makes
a nois. My sister’s young man he says
its the folt of the rattlesnake.’s tailor in a
measure.
Their is one with is got stripes and is
called gartemnake, but it ain’t got no
buckle, and ain’t much worn. It might
he fastened with a ’asp, like a trunk, but
not the elephance. The eel would he a
snake if it wasn’t so good to eat, which
makes’em fish. If you put a eel in your
brother’s bed it will be a snake when he
gets in, and be will holer wild.
There iB a kind of snake which takes its
tale in its mouth and roles. Once a little
boy seen one of ’em rolen, and thot it was
some boy’s hoop got awaw, and he run j
after it with a stick, to role it home for !
hisself; but as soon as he hit it, it lot go I
its tale and bit him good on the nose. |
Bome folks tel fibs, but I seen this myself.
That boy is now a old man and my
father, and I hope it will be a warnin’ to
him.
Snakes eat frogs, like French, and them
in the menagerie has a rabbit. One day
a big ’un in the menagerie swolered his
blanket, and the keeper beleeved some
boy had stole it, so he give him a other,
and he swolered that’un too. When the
keeper he come round agin ana didn’t see
no blankit he begun to think things, but
the snake lookt up at him so innocent lie
was ashamed, and went and got him a
other, but he watcht. When he seen the
snake a swolerin’ that ’un too, he went
and fetcht a piller and threw it to him,
and said now if your agoin’ to make up
your bed incide like that, you better take
this piller, and wen youf turned in Fie
pas you down a bottle of hot water for
your feet, and make you comfortable.
Waht time would you like to be woke in
the mornin’?
There is snakes as long as treas, which
eats gotes alive. Wehn the goteH is down
they can’t breathe, but the snakes can’t
neather, and then it is which can hold
out the longest.
Naivete of a little miss of S : “ Ma
ma, come and make Eugene stop, He
isn’t kissing me.”
A Retreat lor Inebriates.
Rev. Edward Everett Hale made an
interesting contribution to the temper
ance discussion before the state Total
Abstinence society at Boston, in a plan
which he says has been more or less on
his mind for thirty years, for the coloniza
tion of poor men who wish to break from
the liquor habit, but have not made
themselves liable to confinement in the
reformatory schools. Men oi means
sometimes move for a time to tern;*■ ranee
towns and remain there till the moral
strength is restored, and Mr. Hale’s plan
is to secure this retreat 'ftr jfoor irten by a
system of laLior contracts for two or three
years, similar to the enlistment in the
army or navy. Some island, like Peni
kese or Outtyhuhk, in Buzzard’s bay,
could he secured and cheap dwellings
built, with small allotments of land to
each, and with large faruiH, shoe shops,
or other industries. Tho class of mentor
whom it is intended, Mr. Hale thinks,
would jump at the offer to be hired with
their families for two years oi three. It
is just what they and their wives pray
for, and with comfortable houses and
gardens, food without rum and society
without temptation, the men would, bc
ore their contracts expired, be new men
<n body and ambition, and perhaps he
able to buy their little homes and remain
in them.
A Few More Left to Make
Trouble.
Speaking of the Nez l’erces who es
caped at the time of the capture of
Joseph’s band, the Idaho Statesman
says :
“ This will leave Chief White Bird,
whose home was on the Salmon river,
where the outbreak began, and thirty
warriors, if they can elude pursuit and
keep out of harm’s way to prepare for a
return to their haunts next season, and
try their hand at revenging their defeat.
It will bo remembered that in tho first
battle between the troops under Colonel
Perry and the Indians in tlie White Bird
canon, the highest estimates did not give
the liostiles more than 100 warriers, and
that from this small beginning they in
creased, notwithstanding their losses to
several hundred before they took the
Lolo Ford trail for Montana. This little
hand of warriors, headed by White
Bird, would form quite a sufficient nu
cleus lor the gathering of the many dis
affected Indians who are known to be
among tlie various tribes and hands in
northern Idaho and eastern Washington.
Anything like apathy on the part of the
government or citizens would leave the
country exposed to a repetition of the
scenes of the summer. Fort Lapwell
should he ke|rt strongly garrisoned, and a
sufficient outpost maintained on Camas
prairie.”
Three Southern Senators.
Conspicuous among the gentlemen
from the south is John B. Gordon,
of Atlanta. He was wounded eight
times in confederate battles, and
bears the mark of a scar upon his cheek,
lie i tall, of commanding presence, witli
straight black hair, blue eyes, and a not
wholly partrician nose. His colleague,
“ Ben.” Hill, looks less like a soldier and
more like a scholar. He is tall and bent
in the shoulders, and wanders about with
his hands behind him in a dreamy, ab
stracted way. His hair is slightly tinged
with gray, his eyes are blue, and he is
much given to meditation at dinner and
at other inoppertune times. His
speeches are good, his eyes clear in their
outlook, and the prevailing expression of
the man, both in person and countenance,
is one of sadness. Lamar, of Mississippi,
is a wrinkled, pallid-looking man, witli
long, smooth, thin, black locks, and a
worried expression of countenance. Me
is remarkable for several things. First
for being a prince of rebels, and after
wards one of the most marked of recon
struct ion ists. Me carried a message from
Jeff. Davis to the czar of Russia, in 1861,
that amounted to nothing whatever, ami
he pronounced a eulogy upon Charles
Sumner at the time of his death, which
was among the most memorable and
eloquent tributes ever paid by a man
of the south to the antagonistic qualities
of a northern stateman.
A Series of Ca(r)tustroplieH.
First she plants herself firmly on the
wrong corner, waves wildly to a conduc
tor in the dim distance and looks deeply j
insulted when he passes out of sight, 1
after briefly informing her that she must
change her position. This being effected, j
she is just about crossing, in order to ;
reach the next car, when, of course, “a .
horrid wagon” happens to be coming
along (about half a block away). She
waits patiently till the obstacle is re
moved, meanwhile serenely surveying an
inquiring crowd ot small boys anxious to
see the fun. But just as the conductors
furious at the delay, is about to pull
the strap, she scrambles onto the plat
form, grabbing the wrong railing in mor-
tal terror, and as the car gives the
inevitable jolt in starting loses her
balance and flings her arms convulsively
around the conductor's neck, who, in a
spasm of horrow, shoves her inside of the
j car, in blushing confusion. If all the
neats happen to Is: filled, she looks
around wit such a significantly tragic
glare that some weak-minded individual
hastens to give her his seat. She plumps
down contentedly, and immediately
stares stonily into space, blissfully un
conscious that nineteen painfully obvi
ous hair-pins are giving her the apqiear
snee of an enraged porcupine, and her
i spit-curl is no more.
WAIFS AND WHIMS.
W'lint The Winds Bring.
“ Which is th** wind that brings the < old ?’ 7
The noith wind Freddy ; i.mlall the snow ;
And the Bheep will scamper into the fold
When the north begins to blow,
“ Which is the wind that brings the heat?”
'i he south wind, K tty ; and corn will grow,
And peachesa redden for you to eat,
When the south begins to blow.
“ Which is the wind that brings the rain
The east wind, Arty ; and farmers know
That cows come shivering up the lane
When the east begins to blow.
41 Whis is the wind that brings the flowers V*
The west wind, Bessie; and soft and low
The birdies sing in the Rummer hours,
When the wc-st begins to blow.
—E. .C tHe'hnan.
. Why is a bald head like heaven ?
Because there is no parting there, and no
more, dyeing.
.. Men get fond o! the very defects of
a woman they love—as they do of choco
late and tobacco, though horribly unpal
atable at first.
. “ My lord,” said the foreman of a
Welsh jury, when giving in the verdict;
“ we find tiie man who stole the mare not
guilty.”
. When four women are walking
abreast on the pavement they will break
ranks for nothing except a man with a
paint pot.
. Why do the newspapers speak of
“ bouncing babies ? ” We’ve seen a good
many babies fall and not one of them
bounced much to speak of—they’re too
soft.
. .It is said that Mary E.Tillotson,the
dress-reformer, has written a poem enti
tled : “ Shorten iny skirts, Mother;
Shorten Your Own.” Shorten to talk so
to her mother. — Graphic.
..The fox-chase on Long Island is
thrilling sport. It is rumored that the
other day the fox ran into a farm-house
and took a nap on the hearth while wait
ing for the hunters to catch up with him.
.. He gave hera hearty smack. “Don’t
kiss like that,” she said. “I want a
sweetftender pressure when I’m kissed.
I don’t want any fire-works.” He left
out the explosion in the next act.—
Danbury Dews.
NO. Hi.
.. Young men, steel your hearts against
the insidious young woman who will
soon make her appearance at the church
fair and smile on you and try to induce
you to pay two dollars lor a teu-ceni
penwiper.
“ DIK WKLT IST SO BCIION. UNI) PKK IJIMMKL HO
BLAU."
The world in so fair, mid tlio nkv w> Ijliip,
Ami the breeziiH no sol/, ami so nuliny, lon,
And the meadow Ilowera are so Bright, of hue,
And they sparkle and gleam in the morning dew,
And all men are merry and glad to view,
Yet fain would I lie in the churehva and bed,
Ami ueatle so elo>e by my love that's dead.
.. The heart ol a great man surrounded
by poverty and trammeled by depend
ence, is like an egg in a nest built among
briars. It must either curdle into bit
terness, or if it take lile and mount
struggle through thorns for the ascent.
.. Mistress (on coining home from the
seaside) —“ Why, Jane, what’s become ol
the bullfinch ?” Janc--“ Well, you see
M’m, it didn’t sing much and looked
■hoopin’ like, so cook put it out of its
misery, an’ I 'ad it stuffed for my ’at!’
— Puneh .
. . He wouldn’t swear to it. —A'witness
on entering the hex, had a testament- pre
sented to him, but lie declined to he
sworn. Being asked his reasons for re
fusing, he naively replied: “ I’ll tell a
lie wi’ony moil i’ England, but I’ll not
swear to it.”
~ Cause and effect: A sixteen-year
old girl out on Columbus street lish a
button string four yards long, containing
1,973 buttons. And that girl’s father
fastens his suspenders on his trousers
with a shawl-pin, a piece of twine and a
sharp stick. — Ifdwkeye.
.. A Fall river factory girl dreamed
that she would be stricken dumb at a
certain hour, and Hinco that time she has
not spoken—is unable to utter a syllable,
as she says in writing. Doubtless she is
a monomaniac, hut in every other respect
she is physically and mentally healthy,
HOC MIU'KRKW K.
A luckloHß wight, from dungeon giate
I Vend forth. Hl* glance nil hone had fled.
Ufi sighed nod curand hi* wretched fate.
Maid he, 44 1 stole a loaf of bread.”
A wealthy man went riding by,
With coachman, footman and postillion
A merry twinkle in hla eye.
“ Aha,” quoth he, ” I stole a million ”
“ Look at that crowd,” said a gentle
man to a clergyman he was showing
throuch the state department the other
day. “ Just 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 seen taken up in many a day.”
A singular case of petrifaction is told
by an engineer on the Inion Pacific.
The principal cross ties, which have lieeii
laid for several years, are nearly all pet
rified, the number of miles being esti
mated at one hundred. So solid are the
cross tics that it is impossible to draw
the spikes from them.
..Half an hour’s practice on a piano
every day, will bring on fatal attacks
of paralysis in eight months. (This iH a
lie, but if the press will kindly assist in
giving it the widest circulation, a grate
ful people will neither misinterpret not
fail to reward the generous and humane
motive which prompts the item.—
Jhwlceye.
..“Who’s your pastor, my dear.”’
asked a good lady from the country, ad-
dressing her daughter, who has been liv
ing in the city for half a year or so.
j “ Really, mother, I hardly know,
j He was away on vacation last auni
j iner, and now he has started on
j his lecturing tour for the winter. I may
| get acquainted with him next spring,
j Chicago Evening Journal.
At a school examination a clergyman
made a brief address to the pupils on tin
necessity of obeying their teacher and
growing up useful and loyal citizens. To
emphasize his remark, he pointed to the
: national flag spread ofl' one side of the
j room, and inquired: “Boys, what i
that flag for?” A little urchin, who
understood the condition of the house
better than the speaker, very promptly
* answered, “ To hide the diibsir,”
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