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About The Jesup sentinel. (Jesup, Ga.) 1876-19?? | View Entire Issue (Jan. 2, 1878)
The Jessup Seniinel Office ia tiie .Jesup House, fronting on C’nerry street, two doors from Broad M. PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY, ... BY T F. LITTLEFIELD. Subscription Rates. (Postage Prepaid.) ♦One yea i $2 00 Six months I 00 Three mouths 50 Advertising Rates. Per square, first insertion $1 00 Per square, each subsequent insertion. 75 rates to yearly and large ad vertisers. TOWN DIRECTORY. TOWN OFFICERS. Mayor—W. 11. Wlialev. Councilmen—T. P, Littlefield, H. W. Whaley. Bryant Gfcorge, O. F. Littlefield, Anderson Williams, Clerk mi<\ Treasurer—O. F. Littlefield. Marshal—G. W. Williams. COUNTY OFFCERS. Ordinary—Richard B. Hopps. Sheriff—John N. Goodbrt>ad. A lcrkrkr MMdUtou Tax Receiver—J. C. Hatcher. Tax Collector—W. K. Causey. County Surveyor—Noah Bennett. County Treasurer—John Massey. Coroner —P. McDitha. County Commissioners—J. F. King, G. W. Haines, James Knox, .1. CL Rich, Isham Reddish. Regular meetings of the Board, 3d Wednesday in January, April, July and October, .fas* F. King, Chairman. COURTS. Superior Court, Wayne County— Jno. L. Harris, J udge ; Simon W. Hitch, Solicitor- General. Sessions held on second Monday in March and September. Mfcar, Pierce Craitj Gtoriia. TOWN DIRECTORY. TOWN OFFICERS. Mayor -R. G. Riggins. Councilmen—l). P. Patterson J. M. Downs, J. M. Lee, B. D. Brantly. Clerk of Council—J. M. Purdom. Town Treasurer—B. D. Brantly. MarduL-K. Z. Byrd. COUNTY OFFICERS. Ordinary—A. J. Strickland. Clerk Superior Court—Andrew M. Moore. Sheriff—E, Z. Byrd. CountyjFreunirer—D. P. Patterson. County Serveyor—J. M. Johnson. Tax Receiver ond Collector—J. M. Pur* dmn. Chairman of Road Commissioners—llßl District, G. M., Lewis C. Wyllv; 12 0 Dis triet, G. M., George T. Moody ; 584 District, G. M., Charles S. Youmanns; 590 District, G. M . I). B. 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, R. R. James; Ex-officio Con* stable E. Z. Byrd. Dickson?* Mill Precinct, 1250 District, G >1 , Notary Public,Mathew Sweat; Justice of the 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. Griner. Sohlatterville Precinct, 590 District,(- M Notary Public, D. B. McKinnon : Justice o the Peace, R, T. J&me*; Constable, John W 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 JESUP HOUSE, Corner Broad and Cherrv Streets, (Near the Depot,) T. P LITTLEFIELD. Proprietor. Newly renovated and refurnished. Satis faction guaranteed Polite waiters will take vour baggage to and from the house. BOARD $2.00 per day. Single Meals, 50 cts CURRENT PARAGRAPHS. Southern Sen*. Charles Morgan owns five-eighths of the Texas Central railroad. The daughters of Jefferson Davis are at school in Germany. Fine oranges grown in trie vicinity of Tallahassee are selling on the streets of that city at $1 50 per hundred. In Jacksonville, Florida, the ice last week <• .red to the thickness, in many places, .>! a quarter of an inch. The ice-houses at Jordan’s Springs, and many of those at Christiansburg, Vireinia, were fil ed during the late cold spell. Pecans bring two dollars per busbel at Gonzales, Texas. Austin, Texas, people buy venison bams for seven cents a pound. The Lenoir (North Carolina) Topic says the ice is six inches thick on the mill ponds in Watauga county, and the boys are Paving rare spot. The Grand Lodge of colored Masons of North Carolina recently met in Tarboro. it comprises some thirty lodges in its j urisdiction. Colonel C. C. Jones, jr., of Augusta, Georgia, is engaged in writing a history of the “ Peadlowns of Georgia,” to tie published in hook form. There is a table in Austin made of every kind of wood grown iji Texas, hav ing over sixty varieties. It is to be raffled off at two dollars and fifty cents a chance. Over fifteen thousand boxes of oranges 'nave been shipped this season from Sum tor county, Florida. The dealers are kept busy "day and night preparing them 1 or market. In West Baton Koguo, Louisiana, parish, so says the Sugar Planter, the average yield of sugar is from two to two and a half hogsheads to the acre. Some planters are making three hogsheads from f n acre of cane. A portion of the colored people of Corsicana, Texas, want to emigrate, but not out of the state. They propose to settle a colony in the public domain, so as to have their own society, churches and courts. The lease of theThibodaux, Louisiana, bridge for one year, beginning January, 1,1875, was sold at public auction on las’ Monday to Mr. Treigie for the sum of ♦5,225, being an increase over that ol the last sale of $425. Brookhaven (Miss.) Ledger: Our next legislature will be probably the most uuanimous legislative body, so far as politics is concerned, that ever met in the United States. The senate, thirty seven members, is solidly democrati VOL. 11. with two exceptions. Of the one hut) deed and twenty members in the house! one hundred and nine are democrats seven independents and four republicans The independents are so called 1 recause elected in opposition to the regular dent ctetic nominees, but they are also demo crats, so that of the one hundred and litty-seven members of the Mississippi legislature, one hundred and fifty-one are democrats. Norfolk (Va.) Landmark : The oyster trade is rapidly developing into a remu nerative and enormous business, so that this year we shall send to the market of this country not less than7oo,ooo gallons of oysters, duly packed, to say notbiugof those sent coastwise in the shell and to Europe. Then the cotton trade has fpr;:r, tv! fwi oh healthy vigor that makes this port one of the wonders of the day. inn-much as it went up from sero to the second rank in the receipts among the ports of fhe country, with an increase of export values counted by millions in place of hundreds previ ously accounted for. Tipton (Term.) Record We have an English farmer living a few miles from town. ITe has pursued the same plan of farming here as in the “ old country.” This season he has gathered sixty bushels ol corn per acre from an old field that four years ago would hardly sprout peas. He saves all the manure, placing it in pits dug for the purpose , never burns a cottop or corn-stalk ; never Rolls a bushel of cotton seed ; spends the wet days haul ing the rich earth from the fence-corners and spreading it over the poor spots. He says lie can pay two dollars for a two horse load of stable-manure and double his money’. This is the kind of farming we need in this country. Science amt Industry. There are 79 glass-furnaces in Pitts burg and its vicinity, 60 of which are now in operation. Henderson, Ky., has 17 tobacco stem meries that shipped last year, mostly to Liverpool, 7,322 hogsheads. It is estimated that the population of Texas was increased three hundred thou sand by immigration last year. Tobacco leaves are fatal to cows, as a Kentucky’ fanner learned a few days ago, by losing three valuable animals which ate some of the weed with their hay. The colored baby show at New York is to be an exhibition ot 2,000 negro babies, and is expected to surpass the recent show of white trash. The pineapple flavor furnished to ico creams and candies is reported as pro duced from butyric ether for acetate of butyle, both produced from coal tar. A Stockbridge, Wis., Indian farmer planted eight quarts of old dent corn last spring, and harvested a crop of 300 bushels of sound corn from the same. Kangaroo hides are an important article of export from Australia. They make the most pliable leather that is known, admirably fitted for bsot-legs, gloves and riding-whips. The largest number of bushels averaged per acre in corn in any county in Illinois is given to Schuyler, which is 62, while the smallest number is given to Mason county, and drops down to 20. The English manufacturers serin to have given up all hope of ever again beiug able tosupply the American market with their goods, and have become thor oughly indifferent about our require ments. A seed-man of Wan Francisco, who has just returned from Oregon and Washing ton territories, foils ot anew kind of wheat there which has threeor four heads on a single stalk, and which, they assert, yields as high as one hundred bushels to the acre. Pemmican, the favorite food in the coldest parts of British America, is made of btiflalo meat and fat. The meat is thoroughly dried in thin slices, and then pounded almost to powder with clubs or stones, it is next put into bags of buffalo hide, and mixed with its own weight of boiling fat. This compound is wonder fully compact, and a very small quantity is enough lor a meal. At the exposition in Paris next year a special jury will be appointed to investi gate the several recent electrical inven tion! which may be presented lor com petition. The most sanguine expectations are entertained in Franceof the complete victory of electric light over the old fashioned gas illumination, which it is predicted will soon be altogether abolished and superseded by the betterand cheaper product of modern science. According to the New York Tribune Wenor Mendonca, who lias just arrived from South America, brings the news that a subsidy for an American line of mail steamers between the United States and Brazil has just been voted by the Brazilian cabinet. The new line is to be established by Mr. John Roach, the Chester, Pa., shipbuilder, and the sub sidy of SIOO,OOO a year is to he paid to it for a period of ten years. The effect ol the establishment of a line of steamers between this country and Brazil will be to accelerate the dispatch of the mails, which now are carried by way of Lon don, and also to aid in the, development of trade between American and Brazil ian business houses. Oyster dealers' report a curious and somewhat startling fact about oysters th is season, which makes them very careful in buying lest they find themselves with a load on hand which is afterward found to be worthless. A great many of the oysters that reach the Light street wharf when opened, look as if they had been engaged in a heated family quarrel, re sulting in blows, but of which they had come out second best. Their appearance is decidedly unfavorable, presenting as they do, a reddish and altogether unin viting aspect. When cut behind the heart or la-tween the gills with a knife, blood spurts forth freely, covering the hand ot the person holding them as if it had been cut instead of the oyster. The blood thus produced greatly resembles that of a human being in color and sub stance. Oysters sometimes have this peculiarity when spawning, but for them to have it at this time of the year is un usual and hardly accountable. —Baltimore American. PfruouuL Whittier will be 70 next month. Miss Alary Anderson is going to France next year, there to study art. JESUP, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 2, 1878. Kate Field has been giving her lec ture ou Charles Dickens in London with success. The Harpers paid Longfellow #3,000 for “ Keramos,” which is about $lO a line. Mrs. Elizabeth F. Ellett was not a genius, but the made SIOO,OOO through her writings. Home head lines from a paper published for boys ; “ Tree and Easy Ned 11 Tip ton Blue, or the Jockey’s Mission;” “ Corkey, or the Tricks and Travels of a !supc;’"'Bob Short, or One of Our Bovs;” ‘‘Detective Dan, or the Irish Ferret ;” “That Boy of Ours, or Tom on His Mus cle “ The Chemist’s Murderer“ The Suspicious Wife;” “A Terrible Secret.” If the American boy is not gradually drilling into bopeieas idiocy, it is fiem. no lack of enterpise ou the part of pub lishers. fashion Notes. Light cashmeres in evening colors are combined with gros-grain silks of the same shades for evening dresses. Coronet bonnets are again in favor; the coronet is very high in the middle and very plain and close at the sides. Six and seven inch fringe are selected in preference to deeper kinds, and ball and drop fringes are considered the extreme of elegance lor outdoor gar ments. Vests are having a most successful season. They are introduced into almost all styles of garments, and are madcof all materials from pique to velvet. The most fashionable way of arrange m. the hair is a braid fastened low in the neck, running up on the head, the fasten ing on the crown hidden by two or three puffs or a comb. Mrs. Morton’s friends fear that she will not long survive her husband ; she is so prostrated by her long vigils during his illness. For eighty nights she had no sound, continuous sleep. Bridal helmets are now substituted for bridal wreaths. They consists of tiers of orange blossoms and buds, with two very long but narrow streamers composed of the same flower with its buds. Quilted satin petticoats will be very much worn, as the present style of dress is particularly adapted to their use. They impart to the close-fitting drapery a soft, graceful outline, which nothing else can give. CnrioiiM Fhcln. They eat monkey cutlets in Brazil. At Loganport, Ind., the gas meters register the consumption in dollars and cents. In California, trees occasionally make 13,000 feet of lumber, and no great “shakes” either. A Jersey City man still insists that he has got the principle of a successful Hying macnine. Among the Cheviot hills of Scotland they boast of sheep whose wool will measure eleven and a one-half inches long. It is said that a quart of excellent oil for burning purposes can be obtained from a four-quart measure of pumpkin seeds. One of the severest punishments in flicted upon criminals in Holland, up to a few years ago, was to deprive them of salt. The 14th of January has been found, on striking an average for several years, to he the coldest day in twelve months of the year. It is said that fully one-half the pop ulation of the whole earth are drinkers ol tea, the cup which cheers but not inebriates. In the town of Bergen, in l’russia, is a large fine church, capable of holding 1,000 persons, constructed entirely of paper mache. It a-1 talons. Religious exercises have been pro hibited in the New Haven public schools. There are upwards of 70,000 Sunday schools in the United States, with about 6,000,000 scholars. The Chinese students in our eastern colleges wear petticoats, which are strik ingly feminine in appearance. The Seventh-Day Baptists are prosecu ting missions in Europe with considerable success. The have lately organized a church of fifteen members in Haarlem, Holland, and have other ccngregations in France, Italy, Switzerland, Rrussia, Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Great Britain. The Episcopal prayer-book has been translated into the Sioux language. An edition has been printed interleaved with the English. The Sioux language is mellifluous, and well suited to purposes oi devotion. The responsive service of the Episcopal church is well received by those of the Sioux who gather for worship, although the men do not very heartily unite in the responses. The squaws make good the lack of service of the male In dians, and are heard very distinctly. Foreign ■ ntdllgvoce. The Panama Star Herald reports the revolution in Equador collapsed after eight hours hard lighting, during which four hun dred persons were killed. Jules Ferry, the French Republican leader, is said to be threatened with in sanity Rom the excessive use of hair dye. A confidential clerk of the Rothschilds, in Paris, has absconded, after robbing his employers of over $360,000. The money bad been nearly all lost in stock specula tions. Russian hospitality is dazzling. The entertainments which are given by the richest nobles in St. Petersburg excel anything that can be seen elsewhere, because nowhere else can people a fiord to spend so much u|<on show. The rich elsewhere haveclaimsupon their fortunes, and spend a good deal in improving their estates; but a Russian draws all he can from his land, and gives hack little or nothing. He disburses prodigally lor wines, music, diamonds, and rich diesses for his wife; he keeps an immense retinue of servants; gambles largely ; whatever may be his age or profession ; and the surplus of his income goes to defiay : journeys to Paris, Nice, and the German watering-places, where he seems to set ; i his ambition on enriching hotel keepers. ] .Vtvr.% t'LAVM IN TROUBLE BY HARY WILKY. How very tnm‘9 I've wondered, Ami o’er the proNefli pondered, While busy with my toys;— If I should once 41 ow sit k <>i nuiuh. What ever could or would become Ot ail the girls and boys! Without a Ch istuias they can’t live, So Santa Claus must work and give, Hut oh, my labor’s ponderous! My wares, to gratffv mid please, To give youth i >y\ and parents ease, Must be both el and wondrous, littthfng flood and wildcat panic, Which huntie hanker and mechanic, Dare never make me niai); tot not girl nor any boy a Gould hold esteem f r Santa Claus, If once his iuudt hcukl fail. Hut lam growing old, wv dears. And careß iucioasiut with theyenia That multiply go list, U hen 1 was young qtook my ease, ThephiU* - few *'> *\hard please, liow different roe past i I’m l usy now both <!y and night, l plan and work with all uiy might From one year to another; I've journeymen ami ’prentuo, too, A helpful an i induati ioua < rew, Who work like heed to.,eth< r. I’ve many shops in ey ry land, Where busy head and busy band Fashion toys and fabrics rare, I’ve ships in sail on every sea, Th. t briug thopreciq" goods to me. through all weat'o , Paul and fair. On Christmas Eve l i ne’er get through, But lor the help of H i extra crew, Who work with hi Bit and hand; Some on teams with < oal and with wool, Oiheiaou fool with baskets of food, Hurry along ov r the land. They hunt up the needy ami starving poor, \v horn I, in haste from door to door, By chance may overlook; Making no noise for lire world to hear, They throw in a smile and a word of cheer, With here a toy and there a book. And of such help 1 weed much more, a fact I’ve hinted oft before, In sermon prayer and book ; * here announce n y need again. • , with worried thought a tut pain, survey the grim outlook. Of thousauds with no iaid-up stores, O cruel fate! ns near their d< ore The wolf of hunger draws. 1 hen help me, ail ye wjac and good. And endless, bonudlensgratitude Is yours from tfantn Claus. Out Upon the Prairie. A CHRISTMAS RTOItY. “ For my part,” said Clara Day to some ol the young people gathered at the church’sociable, “ 1 am so brim-full of be nevolence since the thanksgiving dinner that I do not know what I Hhall do about it, but it will be something, and that be fore long.” “ Fortunately for you, Christmas is just at hand,” said Charlie Darling, sug gestively. “Oh, all my Christmas presents were finished long ago, and. here is not much novelty about that* Father always wears out his dressing gown about that time, and the hoys’ slip} era grow shabby. Besides, that is no outlet for bevovo lemie, for you give, not only expecting to receive’again, but knowing that you will.” “ J have been thinking,” said Dora Darling, and Dora’s thoughts were sure to bring forth fruit, “ that it would lie nice to send some presents away off to some persons who never have a Merry Christmas, and give them one, for once.” “To some poar minister,” slyly sai l Fred .Sharpe. “No to some poor children,” said Dora. “ To the whole family, lather, mother and all,” added Clara. “ Let’s do it! We’ll send a box, a Christinas box I” “To somebody away out west,” said Fred. “And there shall not he one useful thing in it.,” continued Clara. “ I wouldn’t give much lor your box then,” said Hattie Smith. “ A box of cigars,” suggested Charlie Darling: “ A barrel of powder crackers,” said Fred. “ I mean such tilings as they would need to have anyway, Christmas or no Christmas,” said Clara. “ There are plenty of things that are pretty and useful,” said Dora. “Clara doesn’t mean those. Now il half a dozen of us join irr it, we can make a splendid box for somebody. How I should like it! ” “ We are going to do it, of course,” said Josie .Sharpe, “ but f want to know first to whom it is going, and how large the children are, and ail about it.” “ That is just-what I want to know,” replied Dora. “ft certainly would not do to select people at random.” “There must he six children,” said Clara, decidedly. “ You can’t fill up any kittd of a box for less than six.” “And it must be a minister’s family, said Hattie. “ Perhaps .Mr. Trunran will know of someone,” said Charlie. Mr. Truman being accordingly called in to the consultation, said that he knew a family to whom such a present would be most acceptable, arid might lie the means of doing more good than : any one could foresee. “ The minister’s name is Grey,” said j Mr. Truman, “and he was a classmate ! of mine in the seminary and had then ! a small family. He received an appoint- 1 rnent as home missionary, away off on the prairies of lowa, and f have known little about him since, until I lately learned that the Home Mission society had decided to abandon the field ; hut he felt that he could not leave it, and would remain as long as it was possible in any way to support his family. He is a thoroughly good man, and his wife is a help-meet for him.” “ Just the ones for us, i should say,” remarked Fred. “ How many children has he ?” asked Charlie, “ I do not know,” answered Mr. Tru- man. “His oldest son must be twelve years old now, and the little gill about nine.” “ Perhaps you would be so kind as to write and find out about them, or would it he too much trouble, or wouldn’t, there be time?" said Clara. " l think 1 can obtain the inhumation you desire,” said Mr. Truman. And to it came to pass that Mr. Grey, in his distant home, received a letter from his old friend, expressing so much sympathy and showing so much interest in him and his family, that, he immediately replied toil, and most uncon ciously furnished all the information toat the’' younr people -'))d n’-ssibly v. .pi Soon many lingers were busy enough, and the tongues were uot far behind, for all the preparations must be made in one short week. Clara had said, “If the rest of you girls will do the sewing 1 will do the bagging, only someone must go with mo for company. The “ someone” proved to bo Dora’s younger sister, Nellie, and together they soon mado kuowu their plans to half the people in the village. They paid an early visit to the shoo stores, and actually succeeded in obtaining two pairs of shoes at each place. “They will he sure not to fit,” said Nellie. “Oh, never fear,” said Clara, confident ly ; “if they do not fit one, they will an other ; ” and they packed them Hiiugly and triumphantly into a white box, and tied it with a ribbon, as if it had been confectionery. Into the grocery stores they next looked, and talked the matter over. “ You will not have space for a bar rel ot flour, I suppose,” said one gentle man. “No,” said Glara; “ hut pounds ol tea and coffee will do hh well, thank you ; and spice boxes would till up the space beautifully, and perhaps we could crowd in a can of corn or tomatoes.” They dropped in at the hook store, where Charlie Darling happened to be on duty, and he and Clara quickly ar ranged the matter ot stationery and picture hooks. Mr. Truman wished to send a certain number ol books to Mr. Grey himself. “We must certainly call on Mrs. El liott,” said Nellie. “Oh, I dread it,” answered Clara, “ami 1 do-not know why, for she will bo pleasant enough." Mrs. Elliott, listened very courteously and kindly to tlicirgtory, smiled at their earnestnesq and thought how beautiful it was to be young and enthusiastic, and wdiat a pity they must soon outgrow it, and said : “Probably the Home Mission society knows best the condition of the field, and I consider it doubtful if it is the man’s duty to stay and let his family sutler. But it is evident, yon will not let them suffer this year, at least,” noticing the look of disappointment on their faces, “ and the Bible says, “ It is more blessed to give than receive." I don’t know Unit I have anything to give, unless this ebromo would be worth sending. It come to mo with a magazine.” It was really a very pretty picture, neatly framed, and the eiils accepted it with many thanks and went away. “ I suppose we young fellows will have to make up a purse,” said Fred Sharpe; “ so stupid ! but I do not know what else we can do.” “ I assure you it will not be 1 stupid,’ at all to the one who receives it,” said Mr. Truman. Hwiltly now comes on the Christmas times, and merrily ring sweet Christmas bells. There are lew homos too lolly to ad mit the genial influence of the time, and few toohumble to feel its good cheer. For the children everywhere it is made the one gala time of the year, perhaps in re membrance ol the dear Christ-child who once lived on the earth, and whose coming should bring joy t r every heart. Almost sadly it Came to Mr. Grey’s loe cabin home. He sat wearily in his iirm-chair by the fire while bis wife was near him bushing her baby to sleep. As be glance and at the row ot stockings bang ing against tiie wall, he said : “ Perhaps it is riot right to the children to remain and struggle rm as we are doing. 1 never intended to let their Christinas pass by unremembered, hut J have not had a dollar to expend this time,”' “ Never mind,” said Mrs. Grey, cheer ily. “ The children will bavesome little things which I have made for ,them, and i have baked some of the most wonderful gingerbread men, and wdtli some rosy apples and po[>-corn balls they will do very nicely. Horace is advancing faster with your teaching than Ire would do at the best school in the land and Jeannie is learning to be a famous little house wife, while the others have this pure air to breathe and are growing hearty and strong. We will not give, up just yet.” “ 1 have really no thought of leaving j the |s>st where I believe the Lord has j placed me, dear wife. The harvest is j sure to follow the seed '■own in tears and i self-denials, and sometimes I think I see j signs of its coming. That young farmer whose only child we buried last week seems to me not fat from the Kingdom. The lutnre does not look dark to me, but ! how we are to live in the present is the I question just now.” “ You forget, our big turkey which is to give us such a gram! dinner to-mor row,” replied his wife, determined not to yield to any gloomy view of their pros pects, “and if we can’t have a plum pudding, so imtch the better lor irossible dyspepsia, t have no fear that the barrel ol meal will lail us, although it does got almost empty sometimes.” There was chattering enough among the children in the upper room. “ Are you afra’d that Ban Ia Claus will forget us this eme, Jeannie?” asked little Helen. “No, why sin uld he?” answered Jeannie. Oh. bc * mows so fast sud he hss so tar to coir.o.” *“ Well, Santa '!ua is just papa and mamms, and they never forget ns,” said practical Jeannie. “ What makes you tell her that?” called Horace from his corner. “Do let her enjoy Santa Claus a lew years longer.” But Helen’s faith was not shaken— papa and mamma coming down the chimney! that wan a likely story—of course it was old Santa Claus himself. “Is to morrow really Jesus Christ’s birthday ?” asked thoughtful Frankie. “ A great many people believe Unit it in,” answered Horace. “I suppose no one really knows, blit no oilier day has ever been kept as this one i.” “ I think He ought to have a present, then, if it is His birthday, instead ol every one else having them,” said Frankie, to whom presents and birthdays were inseparable. “ We can’t give Him anything, you know, everything is His already,” said Horace, but even as lie spoke this verse Hashed into his mind : “My sou, give Me thine heart,” and it followed him after the other children were sleeping soundly—“ Thy heart”—“give Me”— “My son.” Mow kind and affectionate the address—“ my son,” and here was something that not only could ho given to Jesus, hut that He desired to have, and asked lor it. “ Thy heart,” the love of the heart, the hope and trust, the hom age of the heart, and the next day would surely he a suitable time to oiler the gift —but lew ? and he had not time to think about it, and it all became rather contused, and he too was sleeping with the Olliers when the mother came to see that they weiQ properly tucked in lor the night. On tfaristmas morning silence reigned over all the broad prairie; so spotlessly white with the new-fallen snow. There was anything lipt silence in Mr. drey’s house, as the patter of little feet was heard at daybreak and the shouts of “Merry Christmas!” The stockings were pulled down and very soon emptied of their contents, the apples rolled out upon the floor, the popcorn scattered about, the ginger bread men set up in a soldier like row, ami as much contusion as lour eager children could possibly make in live minutes. 1 dttle Helen was quite happy with a new rug doll feud Frankie with anew pair of mittens, and il Jeannie and Horace (elt any disappointment they said noth ing, liul, Jeannie sat, down to hold the baby and Horace went out to shovel some paths. Beginning at the hack door, he soon had a path around the house, when, here was a discovery ! Behold, a big box on the front doorstep! When he reached it and brushed the snow from the top, there was his father’s name in large letters. Bursting into the house, he cried, “Hurrah, father, there’s a big box out here (or you ! ” Mr. Grey could scarcely believe him, but, coming, out, found it true, and, to gether, they brought it into the house. When it was opened, and on a card, appeared “Merry Christmas!” and various packages were seen, marked, “ For Mrs. Grey,” “ For the Baby,” efc., then it dawned upon them. “ A Christ mas box ! '’.exclaimed Mr. Grey? “ I s’laise Santa Claus couldn't get it down the chimney,” remarked Helen; but no one beard her and now the won dcrfnl unpacking and the rejoicings began. Was there ever such a box he fore, or so maiyr separate bundles of delight crowded into so small a space ? The neat packages at tiie top were found to contain dresses a soft, dark merino for .Mrs. Grey, gay plaids for the littlei girls, bright flannel for the baby- velvet 'enough for a bonnet, and three 'Hoods of different si//s, and* two warm cloth enough fur an entire suit for Mr. Grey, besides a dressing-gown, of course, and material for the boys’, suits. Underneath these parcels seemed to lie a medley ; scarfs and -kali s, dolls and rattle-boxes, work-boxes and portfolios, balls and tops, and candy and toys without < ml. The grocery sup plies did uofc Interest the children, hut Mrs. Gey looked on with increasing wonder, apd .tbe discovery of the shoe box drg.wt.out fresh’exclamations, which reached their height at the appearance of a pair of bronze slippers for the baby. The picture, too, looked very hand some against the rough wall. At the last came the best of the feast—books, Wilts for all, story-books, and school ! books, and religious books—a complete set*of c*-Prescott’ Histories,” marked for ; Horace, which made him feel suddenly I as if he were the richest man in lowa, while Jeannie was equally wealthy with her set ol “ Little Pritdy ” books. Then there were magazines for each, from the Quarterly down to the Nursery and Our Little Ones and a copy of the Standard with the “yellow label” marked a year in advance. Alter the very last thing, a bundle of sermon paper, had been taxen out, Mr. (Irey sat down to take breath. Then he said, “ This is Fir nest Tru man’s work 1” - But he afterward found a note./rom Mr. Truman, disclaiming all credit in tiie mutter, and saying it was a happy thought of one ol the young ladies of life church. Accompanying this was a gen erous roll of bills; and now, having reached the end, they began to live it all over again. . Horace had hie own thoughts through the day. The morn they- were loaded down with presents, the more it seemed to him that he could not refuse the one gift the Savior aßked, and he said to bis father that night: " Father, l am trying to give my heart to Jesui, for His Christmas gift.” “ My son, this makes me happier than anything that has occurred to-day.” And what of Dora, whose thought had been so beautifully wrought out? Ah she had that morning read the words JT> % n **_. - .-ZY .4m*, - a wealth ..f gitt. upon those whom you have never seen. Will you grant me the one Christmas gift for w hich 1 long yourself? Ernest Truman. And she did not know which was more blessed, to give or to receive. —Chicago Sljintlnrd. NO. 18. Southern Pacific Railroad. The bill introduced into the house by Mr. Money recites that in conse quence of the provisions of the act of March if, IX7I, and the act of March 2, 1872, relating to the construction of a railroad between a point in northeastern Texas and the Bay of Ban Diego, Cali fornia, not having been compiled with by the construction of the road within the time and manner specified, and therefore the contingency has arisen when congress lias the reserved right to adopt such measures as it may bo deemed necessary and proper to secure its speedy completion, and that the Bouthern Pacific railroad company which was authorized by the same act to construct a line between San Francisco and Foil Yuma, having complied with the law by constructing its railroad to Yuma, Arizona, and now proposes to extend it further eastward until it meet Hand eon nccts witli the Texas and Pacific, or other railroads in Texas at the Rio Grande, at or near HI Paso, it provides that the lands heretofore granted to the Texas Pacific between the Colorado and Rio Grande rivers, shall, for the purpose of tiie act, be granted to the. Bouthern Pacific company upon so much oi the line as it may construct. It requires IDO miles to lie constructed within two yea u, after the passage of tiie act, and the whole road to HI Paso within si\ years. 11, when the Bouthern Pacific is cou stiucted to the Rio Grande, neither the Texas Pacific, nor tbo other roads from eastern Texas are there to connect with it, but may with the consent of that state continue eastward until the junc tion is formed, and in like manner, if the, Texas roads first roach HI Paso, either ol them may proceed w. sfwardly to the junction with the Bouthern Pacific, and provision is made for the interchange of traffic facilities and equality of rate* witfi the connecting roads; and for the accept ance of the act, within six months after its passage, no bonds or guarantee of in. terest are asked for ill the bill, and no lands, except the transfer of lands already granted over the same route to the company, which shall build the road contiguous to them, as the railroad mover substantially the route sh the Texas Pacific, but contemplates building it by two com pan its working from opposite ends towards a meeting point. A summer sunset: The red sun had nearly reached the horizon, when asmall black thuudsr cloud settled across its face. The cloud at once became (ringed with gold. Bbarp points of light shot out from the edge in all directions,while a bright halo expanded far beyond and finally blended with the blue sky. Grad ually the jet black of the, cloud changed to a purple line, then suddenly a dazzling Hood of light burst, through the centre, and in a few moments the sun sank out of sight in a sea of molten gold. Miss Vanderhuilt’s trouseau is men tioned in Paris as exceeding even the usual extravagance of American women who are noted there for the costliness of their dress. The young lady's bridal dress of brocaded satin was woven at Hvous from tie: dressmaker’s own design. The bridal bonnet, made entirely of iace in which fine pearls were wrought and trimmed simply with a single marabout feather, cost fib. ’The six bridesmaids’ dresses of thin guaze are each embroid ered with flowers. One of the Norwich steamers had struck, and while the passengers were hurriedly making preparations for their sili'ty, ft fat old Dutchman seized a life preserver and trviDg it on, began to till it, blowing until he was red in the lace with his efforts. “ Hallo.” said a by stander, “you can’t fill that thing; there’s a big hole in it.” A blank look came I over the Dutchman’s (ace. “ Mein Golt | is dat so? Den I lietter Veeps my wind j in me.” Bill Shuie was a member ot th Twenty-sixth. While the boys crowded around the old flag at the recent reunion Bill, with an irrepressible humor, calif I out; “ Boys, lam uo speaker, but there s Ia hi am ad sight more of you here than ever I saw in a fight." This brought down the house.
