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Tlie Jesnp Sentinel. Office in the Jesnp rifcuse, fronting on Cherry street, two from Broad St. PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY, ... BY ... T. P. LITTLEFIELD. Subscription Rates. (Postage Prepaid,) One year $2 00 Six months 1 00 Three months 50 Advertising Rates. Per square, first insertion $1 00 Per square, each subsequent insertion. 75 ?t#~Speeial rates to yearlv and large ad vertisers. 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,” — -/