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The Jessup Seniinel
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... BY
T F. LITTLEFIELD.
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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.
