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TOWN DIRECTORY.
TOWN OFFICERS.
Mayor-W. H. Whaley.
<’ouueilrueu—T. P. Littlefield, 11. W.
Whaley, Bryant George, O. F. Littlefield,
Anderson Williams,
Clerk and Treasurer —O. F. Littlefield.
Marshal—G. W. Williams.
COUNTY OFFCERS.
Ordinary—Richard B. Hopps.
JSherift—John N, Goodbrtad.
<’lerk Superior Court—Benj.O. Middleton
Tax Receiver—J. C. Hatcher.
Tax Collector—W. R. Causey.
County Surveyor—Noah Bennett.
County Treasurer—John Massey.
Coroner—D. McDitha.
County Commissioners—J. F. King, G.
W. Haines, James Knox, J. G. Rich, Ishara
Reddish. Regu’ar meetings of the Board,
3d Wednesday iu January, April, July and
October. Jas. F. King, Chairman.
COURTS.
Superioi Court, Wayne County—Jno. L.
Harris, Judge; Simon W. Hitch, Solicitor-
General. Sessions held on second Monday
in March and September.
BMslear. Pierce County Gtnrsia.
TOWN DIRECTORY.
TOWS OFFICERS.
Mayor—lt. G. Riggins.
I'ouncilmen—D. P. Patterson,J. M. Downs
J. M. Lee, B. D. Brautly.
Clerk of Council—J. M. Purdom.
Town 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.
Chairman of Boad Commissioners—l l SI
District, G. M., Lewis C. Wylly; 12 0 Dis
trict, U. M., George T. Moody; 584 District,
G. M., Charles S. Youmanns; 590 District,
G. M., D. B. McKinnon.
Notary Publics and Justices of the Peace,
etc.—Blackshear Precinct, 584 district.G.M.,
Notary Public, J. G. S. Patterson; Justice
of tlie Peace, 11. R. James ; Ex-officio Con
stable E. Z Byrd.
Dic.kson?s Mi 11 Precinct, 1250 District, G
M , Notary Public,Mathew Sweat; Justice of
the Peace, Geo. T. Moody; Constable, \V,
E. Dickson.
Patterson Precinct, 11S1 District, G. M.,
Nota>y Public, Lewis C. Wylly; Justice of
the Peace, Lewis Thomas; Constables, It.
Prescott and A. L. Griner.
Schlatterville Precinct, 590 District, G. M
Notary Public, D. B. McKinnon; Justice o
tlie Peace, R. T. James; 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.
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your baggage to and from the house.
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CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
.Southern New*.
The euculyptua tree flourishes at Wil
mington, N. C.
The resumption of the whipping post
regimen is talked of in North Carolina.
The Virginia deer hunting season ex
pired by law en the 15th inst.
Newbern, N. C., is named after Berne
in Switzerland, and is properly written
New Berne.
One and a half million oranges are ex
pected to be shipped trom Sumter county,
Fla., the present year.
Amos Rogers, of Mclntosh, is the only
colored representative in the next Geor
gia house of representatives.
Griffin (Ga.) News: General Long
street will himself run the Piedmont
hotel, at Qainsville, when it is given up
bv Colonel Trammell.
.HlMTllaneoiiN.
The total cost to the State of New York
of suppressing the railway riots was
$206,000.
Forty-two days per year are deducted
for good conduct from the terms of Vir
ginia convicts.
Scheol savings banks, first introduced
hy prof. Laurent, in 1866, have proved
very successful in France.
Eighteen hundred men are shortly to
begin work in Philadelphia on forty
locomotives for the Russian government.
Messrs. Flood & O’Brien, the great
mine owners of Nevada, propose to send
to the Paris exhibition one solid brick of
silver four feet square.
A cave has been discovered near Wy the
ville, Va , which is said to rival the
Mammoth cave of Kentucky in extent
and beauty.
Hawk shooting forms quite a business
in Custer county, Col. Sixty cents per
head is paid by tbe county treasurer.
One man brought in sixty a few days ago.
Lunch-boxes of solid silver, and of
size convenient for the carrying of sand
wiches, have been introduced in New
York for the use of wealthy school
children.
There 0 a crusade against dancing in
Baltimore social circles. Many young
ladies who are church members are drop
ping the amusement from their paryy
engagements.
Through the prosperity of its tobacco
industry Lynchcurg, Ya., dow boasts a
population of 17.000, a property valua
tion of 86,530,476. and many handsome
buildings in what used to be suburbs.
There is an iron safe in Cincinnati
fte ■§*§ SH’nfani
VOL. 11.
which lay lor six years on the bottom of
Lake Erie with 420,000 in it. It was
got by diving bell process, and now
serves its old purpose in an express office.
Thelargest number cf 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 Masou
county, and drops down to 20.
The Chinese ambassador to England
attributes the famine in India to so much
land being devoted to the cultivation oi
the poppy. It is estimated that 1,033,000
acres of the best land in India is devoted
to the growth of the poppy.
A young man at a rifle-match in Port
land, Oregon, when his turn came at the
target, shot a bystander through the
heart. The killing may have been acci
dental, but the two men were bitter ene
mies, and there is doufot on the subject.
The ex-Etnpress Eugenie thinks that
the chances ot re-establishing the empire
are now very slight, and blames De
Fourtou for his bad management. She
also complains bitterly of the extortion
practiced upon her in causing her to
spend heavy sums toward manipulating
the late elections.
In San Francisco the engineer of a
steamship from China took to a hotel,
with his family, a Chinese woman, and
insisted on her sitting at the dinner table
with the rest. The head waiter refused
to seat the party. Then the manager of
the house offered them seats, but the
waiter would not take their orders.
Col. Ingersoll’s recent lecture iu Al
bany lias aroused a protest from the
clergy of that city, which protest is
addressed to the president of the Young
Men’s Association, under whose auspices
the lecture was given. The association
has consequently passed a resolution
disclaiming its belief in Col. Ingersoll’s
views of religion.
Among those reported lost on the
Huron was master-at-arms John E, Hol
land, of Boston, who has. been in the
navy the greater part of his life. When
the news was communicated to his wife
that .Tack was among the lost, she said:
I don’t believe a word ot it. Were
any saved ? It two were saved, Jack was
one of them.” And so it proved. Later
reports placed Mr. Holland among the
survivors.
An iron mountain, 10,500 feet high,
and rivaling the iamous iron mountain
of Missouri, has been discovered in Col
fax county, New Mexico. The ore is al
most entirely pure iron, and in connec
tion with the immense quantities of coal
found in Colfax county this huge deposit
of iron ore must at no distant day be
come the source of industries which will
gather and support a large and thriving
population.
At the exposition in Paris next year a
special jury will be appointed to investi
gate the several recent electrical inven
tions which may be presented for com
petition. The most sanguine expectations
are entertained in France of the complete
victory of electric light over the old
fashioned gas illumination, which it is
predicted wit 1 soon be al together abolished
and superseded by the betterand cheaper
product of modern science.
Next to wine, Cider is the liquor most
consumed in France, hut, within the last
twenty years the consumption has fallen
from forty-two to thirty-five gallons per
head annually. Its use is now confined
to the northwestern departments. The
consumption of beer steadily increases,
but is almost entirely confiued to the
departments contiguous to Belgium.
Experience has demonstrated that white
wines are much more likely than red to
act on the nervous system.
The American fishermen on the De
troit river have been playing a trick
which their brethren on the Canadian
side despise, and which the Dominion
Government is taking measures to pre
vent in future. The Yankees have an
chored hundreds of small pieces of boards
below the surface of the water on the
Canadian side, and the current disturbing
them the fish are (tightened over to the
American shore. This has seriously
interfered with the season’s catch by the
Canadians.
Tbe English convey grain in open cars,
covering them with waterproof tarpau
lins. Ease of handling and facility for
transferring to elevators give that method
an advantage that will probably lead to
its adoption on some of our roads. As
an additional lacility for the handling
of cotton, the New Orleans Times advo
cates bringing all the cotton presses to
the river front, with which the railroads
should have direct connection. This
would cheapen the handling, and so tend
to draw shipment.
India is rapidly rivaling the United
States in the production of wheat, which
it sends to Europe by way of the Suez
canal. The business of growing wheat
for exportation is yet anew one in that
vast and fertile country, yet it has al
ready taken position as the third
producing country of the world. The
imports of Indian wheat lute Great Brit
ain increased from 291,200 bushels in
1872 to 6,136,160 bushels in 1876, and to
9,283,180 during the first nine months of
1877. There is matter here for American
reflection.
Fashion Nol*s.
Russian laces are coming in favor.
Circle cloaks are growing in favor.
Point lace mittens are worn by brides.
Knife-blade plaiting is as popular as
ever.
The dress all in one piece grows in pop
ularity.
Bonnets of kid and velvet are consid
ered the most stylish.
Undressed black Sweetish gloves are
--wy popular for demi-toilet.
Fur linings and fur borderings are
having a decided run at present.
The most fashionable fur stoles are of
black, white or silver fox furs.
The sale of decorated candies and
cards for Christmas presents is enormous.
The fashionable fur for the neck this
winter is the fur sto'e, bordered with
lace.
Embossed and Jacquard woven velvets
are destined to have only a temporary
reign.
Many ladies of fastidious tastes reject
the variegated jet trimmings and em
broideries.
The gipsy ring, with a jewel embedded
in gold, is the engagement ring of the
moment.
JESUP, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 9, 1878.
Outside facings appear on many of the
Handsomest cloaks where a quiet effect is
aimed at.
Box-pleated flounces,of medium depth,
appear on the front breadths of the latest
Paris dresses.
Bows of ribbons, with the ends finished
with tassels of Various kinds, are seen on
nearly all dressy costumes.
Fringes, gimps, passementeries and
other dress trimmings are gorgeous with
variegated jet beads this season.
Decorated candles cost from fifty cents
apiece up to thirty dollars a pair, accord
ing to length and decoration.
Deep collars of lace, with broad cuffs
to match, and intended to be worn out
side of the sleeve, are coming iu vogue,
Narrnv satin ribbon of various colors,
and shaded from dark to pale tints, are
used at moment for trimining longe
tie.
Gentlemen’s dresscoats, frockcoats,
waistcoats and overcoats are all worn
longer than they have been for several
years past.
Sleeves are no longer trimmed at the
wrist, broad cuffs of lace or linen, or
embroidered cambric having come into
such general use.
Lace-trimmeu lingerie, in the form of
fichus and chemisettes for very young
girls, isai’aris fashion destined to become
verv popular in New York.
The Lambelle redingote, a simple
polonaise, with a small double cape or
Garrick of the material of the garment,
is the popular novelty of the moment.
The newest thing in candle decorations
is to paint a candle entirely black, and
on this ground to throw dashes of gold in
broken longitudinal, horizontal or diago
nal lines.
Large buckles and slides of metal and
jet appear on fashionable costumes made
of heavy dress fabrics, such as bourettes,
Astracban, camels’ hair, and knotted
silk and wool goods.
Religions.
“ Vice versa ” is pronounced “ weeky
wairsa,” according ti, the rules adopted
at oht learned schools within the past
few years.
Anew sect ha3 been organized at
Allegheny, Pa., called the Body of Be
lievers. They believe not in the Trinity
but in Jesus, in whose name alone they
baptize. They believe that the soul
sleeps after death until Christ’s second
coining, when saintsshall be clothed with
immortallitv.
That distinguished Boston clergyman,
Philip Brooks, is a thoroughly natural,
artless, and sympathetic speaker. He
gives an impression of utter personal un
consciousness. He reads rapidly and
rather weakly, as if short of breath and
impatient to have done, and puts him
self into quick rapport with his hearers
by an almost anxious fashion of looking
over and among them at every pause.
During a discussion in tlie Pittsburg
Presbytery on danciug, receutly, 1 >r.
Jennings said lie had heard that in some
dances it was customary for a gentleman
to placb his arm around a lady’s waiHt.
He had never seen anything ot this kind
done, but if such was the practice lie was
clearly of the opinion it could result only
in evil. The venerable doctor’s lack of
knowledge on this point occasioned the
most uproarious laughter.
An AiitoniiitiC lior.So.
Mr. J. H. Nolan, whose ingenuity and
success as an inventor have already se
cured him a high standing in the me
chanical world, has just invented a novel
means of locomotion, which is in the
iorm of an automatic or self-propelling
horse, the locomotion being produced hy
the weight of a rider and the weight
which is carried. The “horse,” and its
appliances are models of mechanical sim
plicity, and auvamountof speed required
can be secured, in fact in can be made to
go a mile faster than the fastest trotting
horse of the day. A small “ horse ”
capahlc of carrying a man ten or twelve
miles per hour, can be built at from fif
teen to twenty dollars; smaller one,
which can be used by children for amuse
ment and recreation, can be built at
from three to five dollars. The “horse”
can carry considerable weight in addition
to the rider. The person sits in position
as he would upon the live animal, with
the feet in stirrups and reins in hands, in
which position he can govern the speed
and guide the “ horse ” at will. There
was an exhibition made with one of these
“horses” recently, in a ball in this city,
and, although the room was small and
unfavorable for either sjreed or ease of
locomotion, a boy weighing sixty pounds
propelled the “horse” at from six to
seven miles, an hour with the utmost
ease. The experiment thoroughly estab
lished the practical value of the inven
tion —Boston Traveller.
Caro of Stock.
Farmers who look after the comfort of
their cattle, rarely suffer pecuniary
lesi by disease or death. In the stable
cleanliness and ventilation are, with an
occasional curryiog, the important re
quirements that promote health. Ex
periments have proven that cows in milk
and old oxen retain their condition in
confined and warm quarters during
winter, while animals under three years
thrive better in a well-sheltered yard,
with shed attached, the floor of which
should be covered with dried leaves or
refuse straw, which would afford them a
resting place during the nights. Issaves
make an excellent winter-bedding and
every farmer should have a supply on
hand to renew the beds from time to time.
A shelter from the rain and snow and
northeasterly winds is the only protection
the younger animals require during the
inclement season, as theirtilood circulates
more freely than that of the older cattle
and possess greater powers of endurance.
—Germantown Telegraph,
THE CONDUCT OF LIFE.
Be it good that we do, let us do it,
Giving soul and our strength to the deed ;
lx’t its pierce the hard rock and pass through it,
And compass the thing that we need.
Does Kate, as a dark c’ouJ, haug over,
And cover our heads from the light '■
Does Hate mock the heait of the lovor ?
Must wrong be the vietor of right ?
Yet In Fate there is fr* edom for each oxo
To make or to mar, ns he will ;
Ami the holts of ill lot tune that roach one
May maim, bht they never shall kill.
Ever ouwnrd and upward pursuing
The aim that is thine for the day,
Aiding strength to thy strength hv thy doing
Thou shall gain it, nor faint by the way.
And though thou art busied--wftti small things,
though menial thy labor may be,
Do thy utmost iu thut and in all things,
i'Lou still shaJt be noble and free.
Dost thou love? let it be with full measure;
Nor mingle with coldness or hate
Of others the joy of thy pleasure
The passion that crowns thy estate.
Be to every man just; and to woman
Beg ntle, and tender, aud.Arue;
For tF.ine own do thy best; mit for no man
Do less than a brother should do.
So living thy days full to number,
In peace thou shalt pass to the grave;
Thou shall lie down and rest thee and sluiulier,
Beloved by the good andtho brave.
Tinsley's Magazine.
CONSTANTINOPLE.
Che Walls uf <?oiiNlaiilino|>le-I'iilhith
and Krlicsof IhrUrerk Einpire-
Tngnn Temples -ItcinnifiM el
ilie M.vllioloiiieal JPeriotl.
In view of the stirring events transpir
ing in the east, caused by the terrible
conilict now being waged between the
Moslem and the Muscovite, all informa
tion, historical, archaeological, descriptive
or otherwise, of the grand objective point
of the Russians, Constantinople, can not
but be interesting to the general reader.
Beginning at the walls of Constantinople,
we would remark that they are in a
fearful state of dilapidation, which, how
ever, adds to tlie historic interest with
which they inspire every visitor. At tlie
“Seven Towers” is the famous “Golden
Gate,” through which the emperors of
the lower Greek empire sallied forth to
make war upon their northern foes, and
into which they returned in triumph
after their victories.
Tlie next most interesting portion of
tlie walls is that near the “ Cannon” gate,
where the last emperor, Constantine
i’aleoiogus, fell when the capital became
the property of its conqueror, Moham
med 111, 1454, May J 9, just 38 years
before the discovery of America by
Columbus.
The vicinity of tins gate is a deep
ravine, and there the fatal attack was
made which resulted so disastrously to
the Greeks. The turret where the
emperor fell and was lost even to hiH
own people, stands prominently at the
base of the valley, overgrown with fig
trees and evergreen ivy, the solo monu
ments of so much devoted patriotism and
self-sacrifice.
At the northeast extremity of the
walls are still in excellent preservation
the palaces of the Greek emperors.
Beneath the ruined palacts is the prison
wherein so many princes of the great
Greek imperial family-suffered slow deaths
in darkness. Most of them had their
eyes put out by hot irons, and some even
were deprived of their tongues-the
policy of barbarous Christian times.
Beyond the extremity of the Golden
Horn there are two streams of fresh
water that flow into the Port, near the
mouths of which stood a Pagan temple.
Above and around the Port is the city of
.Scutari, formerly known as Ohrysopolis,
or the Golden City, and just below is
that of Cadi Kiery, oi Chalcedon, the
Hceoe of one of the most interesting of
the great ecumenical councils of Chris
tianity.
In the latter city the goddess Proser
pine and the God Apollo were worshiped,
each in their respective temples, on the
sit r, s of which are now the Christian
churches, Catholic and Greek, • both
erected to the mother of God. Not far
from these Jason rested his crew of the
Argo before pushing on to the shores ol
Colchis in search of the golden fleece.
Near by is an elevation where once stood
the temple dedicated to Apollo, in which
the wearied mariners from Greece offered
up prayers to this god,
Rowing up the Bosphorus, we pass the
hills of Buyukde.re, where Godfrey de
Boullion and his army of crusaders were
encamped. Beyond are the heights
where once stood a temple to Jupiter
Uranus, where the Argonauts stopped to
offer up their devotions to the great God
of visible nature. Hard by is the scene
of tbe conflict of Pollux with A.mycus
—“ the king of the country”—and in the
neighboring heights a giant’s grave is
shown, where the latter is supposed to be
buried. There grew the “ crazing laurel,”
which spread misfortune among the
crews of vessels in the remote times of
mythology. Beyond is the far-famed
Cyerian rocks, on which still stand the
remains of a Roman pagan altar, where
sacrifices were offered to the power or
Neptune in that portion of his aquatic
domain.
On the heights of Jtoumeli Hissar
stands the Robert college, which was
founded and endowed by an American,
Mr. C. R. Robert, a wealthy merchant of
New York, *be corner stone of the same
being laid on tbe 4th of July, 1869
Near its site was an altar erected to the
eod of Mercury, or Hermes, after whom
the promontory above was called Mount
Hermeon. On the summit of this and
the opposite hill, on the Asiatic shore,
stood two heathen tempies, the one
erected to Serapis and the other to
Jupiter Pluvius. Long alter the disap
pearance of these two monuments of the
heathen age, where the present antiqua
ted and useless Turkish castles of Europe
and Asia now stand, existed, in the year
1243, two others erected by the sover
eigns of the lower Greek empire for tiie
purpose of commanding tlie narrowest
portion of the Bosphorus, which is
not over 500 paces iu width. It was
here that the conqueror of Constantino
ple, Mohammed 11., passed over his
troops from tlie Asiatic side.
Reverting back to 547 years before the
Christian era, when a war of con
quest was being waged by Darius,
king of I’ersia, against the Thracians and
Scythians, a people occupying a country
which is now called Bulgaria, we find
that lie passed, at tlie above period, over
this narrow part of the “Thracian
Straits,” by bridges of boats, an army of
700,000 men. These associations bring
before us three distinct periods of tlie
world’s and man’s history—first, that of
the barbarous and idolatrous times of the
ancient Greeks, l’ereians and Scythians;
secondly, of the Christianity of the
Greeks of the lower Empire; and thirdly,
ot the reign of Islamism.
From the Hellespont to the Euxine,
any spot on which the eye dwells is rich
in classic lore. Along the ancient wall
of “ old Stamboul ” can be beheld the
fate of a lost and almost forgotton empire.
Seraglio Point and Chalcedon point the
thoughts far back to rich and powerful
Byzantium Where tho Christian onco
worshiped in his magnificent church ofSt.
Sophia tlie voice of the muezy.in now
calls the Moslem to prayer, and minarets
rise up tar beyond the loftiest domes of
tlie past Christian races.
In Stamboul is a spacious public
square called the hippodrome or horse
course, where during the Greek empire,
public races took place. It contains an
Eygptian obelisk, the Delphia Tripod,
and a column built up ol stones in the
second and third centuries of the Chris
tian era. The obelisk carries us back to
a more remote period of man’s history.
An inscription which still exists on it,
as fresh as when engraved on its granite
surface in hieroglyphics, states that it
was fashioned into its present shape
1,73(5 years before the Christian era and
457 years before tho entrance of Abraham
into Egypt, under the reign of Pbaroah
Moeris, during which the .lews emigrated
into Egypt.
The inscription is instructive in a re
ligious point of view, and is an invocation
to one of the Egyptian gods named
l’hta Hikaris. Jt is as follows: “<>,
thou r inrdian sun, just and vigilant sun,
continuator of life, give power and di
vine wisdom to the gentle king, guide
his mind so that he may Ire active ai"<
just in all things. .Sublime wisdo
aive to him the principle of thy osaenci,
give to him the principled light,so that
he may collect its fruits during his
earthly career. O, great and vigilant
sun of justice, vouchsafe to grunt his
request.”
There are many Saracenic relics pre
served at Constantinople. The old ({reek
church of St. Irene is now used as an
armory. It is one of the few Greek
churches that have not been coiner ted
into mosque. Mere are Saracenic armor,
composed of helmets, richly worked in
gold and carved with Arabic inscriptions,
mostly verses of the Koran, shirts of
mail, equally rich; vizors, battle-axes,
shields, lances, etc.
The old Seraglio buildings are of
Moorish or Saracenic architecture. In
one end of them is kept, sacred from tie
sight of all, even Mussulmans, the holy
standard of the prophet. In the ancient
treasury of the sultan are many objects
of Ottoman antiquity, such as an ancient
throne, used as late as the first years ol
the reign of Mohmoud IJ. It is a large
and massive dais, supported on four col
umns, each richly studded with jewels.
The room in which it stands is small and
dark. European embassadors were here
received in audience by the sultans, after
having, by their commands, been pre
viously washed fed and clothed, so as to
be rendered fit for such an honor.
At one time whole nation)) (eared the
dread command* which emanated from
thin same throne. What a change ha*
been*effected from the first reformatory
measure* of Mahmoud II down to the
present time, in Turkey ! The throne is
now deserted; the .Sultan* of this day
ue no throne at all; embasnador* are
ushered into the presence of the Sultan
in his modern palace* on the Bosporus,
without any ordeal other than that pre
scribed by the usages of their respective
courts.
Where heathen temples and (.reek
churches once stood, are now the mag
nificent royal structures of the present
age, defended by ironclad frigates and
monitors, bristling with the largest can
non of modern construction. With civ
ilization, the suitans have lost most of
their barbaric splendor and prestige.
The famous corps of the janizaries have
given place to the zouaves, the lancers,
the artillery and cavalry of the present
times, and the progressive spirit of the
age is slowly hut surely effecting such
changes ami ngst the Ottomans as will,
before the lapse of many decades, make
them assimilate, in every respect, the
most enlightened and highly civilized
.'•European people.
It may surprise some of our readers to
learn that there is a regular American
college at Constantinople endowed and
founded a few years since by Mr. C. It.
Roberts, a wealthy merchant of New
York. 11 is a very extensive and elegant
structure, occupying one of the most
commanding eminences on the European
side of the Bosporus. The sum given
by Mr. Roberts for its establishment was
ifloo,ooo. The students embrace alums'
every nationality, and there are classes
for French, English, Turkish, Armenian,
Greek, Bulgarian and Eatin. The scien
tific classes include geology, mineralogy,
chemistry, meutal and moral philosophy,
history of philosophy and philosophy of
history,'political economy, algebra, geem
etry and calculus. The curriculum of
degrees is similar to that in American
colleges.
Tlic Once Murderous Mortocs.
A gentleman just from the Quapaw
Indian agency, Indian Territory, reports
tnat the one) famous Modoc Indians,
siuce being placed on their reservation
by the government in November, 1873,
have advanced very rapidly in civiliza
tion. The Modocs own, in their own
right, four thousand acres of good,
tillable land, on which thev have seven
teen good log houses,built by themselves;
six double stables, eight corn-cribs, be
sides pens and houses for their stock,
chickens, etc. On this land they have
put, within tho last year, a good rail
fencearound 120 acres, which is all sown
in wheat, which at present gives promise
of an abundant harvest next year ; and
they hat e split altogether 25,000 rails,
and have over eight acres of cultivated
land for each man, woman and child in
the tribe. They have also 175 acres of corn,
which will average from 10 to 45 bushels
per acre. Fifty-nine of their children
attend school at the Ottawa, Peoria and
Wyandotte missions, and have made re
markable progress in all tho branches
taught in a common school.
Among the most prominent members
of the tribe are Bogus Charlie, Steamboat
Frank, Shack Nasty Jim, ScarfaccChar
lie and Bong Jim. Bogus Charlie is ap
parently about thirty-five years of age,
medium height, and very fair complexion
for a full-blooded Modoc. Me has (100
bushels of corn in ono crib, and his part
ner, Bhack Nasty Jim, has as much
more. Jim is a low, heavy-set man,with
the broad features and sleepy look so
peculiar to the Indians, and is in his
way a genius, and is at all times laughing
and making fun of those members of the
tribe who cannot speak plain.
Steamboat Frank is a tall, muscular
fellow, rather good looking, and is a hard
worker. Mis crib c. • 'ains about 1,300
i umbels of corn, and no has plenty c."
nogs, chickens, turkeys, ducks, etc.,
around him, and, liko every one of lire
tribe, seems to like his new way of liv
ing, as they all, without an exception,
say that here they at all times iiave
plenty to cat, and a good house to keep
them warm, whereas in Oregon it was a
feastor a famine with them at all times.
Long Jim has 1,600 bushels of corn,
and is also a good fanner, as in fact they
all are.
They own in common, 237 head of cat
tle, ot which eighty are cows, and the
farm is worked on the partnership plan,
two or three taking as much as they can
farm and sharing the crops, They have
also cut 140 tom of hay the past season,
and in fact have plenty to keep them,
and the agent says can, after this year,
do without any hired help to assist and
show them how to (arm, or any assistance
from the United Htates.
Bogus Charlie gave an account of the
lava bed massacre, and went through all
the motions of shooting, scalping, etc.
He says that when the signal was given
to fire, Hooker Jim first shot at Gen,
Canby, and that Captain Jack then killed
him with a bullet between the eyes.
Boston Charlie then shot Ur. Thomas
through the breast, when he
threw up his hands and tagged for mercy,
and together they tripped him up and
killed him with their knives. Hchonschin
then shot Meacham through the shoulder,
when he presented a pistol at Hchonschin,
but it did not go ofl, and that Shack Nasty
Jim then shot him as he was behind a
rock, to which he had ran backwards,
Hchonschin io the meantime firing at him
no less than five times. At this time
Hchonschin tried to scalp Meacham, hut
was prevented from doing so by a squaw,
who was married toa white man, although
he inflicted three severe wounds on his
head. After this the birdies were stripped,
and they retired to their stronghold in
the rocks.
Hooker Jim, one of the worst men in
the tribe, and who figured so conspic
uously in this massacre, apparently died
on the 16th of November, from a fever. ;
They purchased a coffin for him on the '■
17th, and while placing him in it he came I
to life, and on the 19th assisted in driving
a team while gathering corn, but, unfor
tunately lor Jim, his lamp was extin
guished for good on the night of the 19th,
and the spirit of one more Indian was
wafted to the happy bunting grounds.
While giving a description of the mas
sacre the contortions of Bogus Charlies’
body and his general appearance would
cause a thrill of horror to run throu.h
any man of ordinary courage. In fact,
he seemed to live over again the many
acts of murder which lie and his tribe
committed.— Dennison ( Texas) yews.
WAIFS AND WHIMS.
Tickle the public end iuakeitgiin ’
The more you tickle, Ibe more you'll win !
But teach tho pub ic—you’ll nevjr grow rich,
But live iike a beggar and die in a ujfch!
- JJefgravui
..“Sealskin sacks are worn longer.”
Same way with all the rest of our
clothes.
.. First irate female —“ I’d hate to be
in your shoes!” Second ditto—“ You
couldn’t get in them !”
. . If the short man ever feels overcome
with an intense desire to be tall it is
when ne finds himself on the outside cf a
crowd at a deg fight.
It has been remarked that every
European prime minister is a free-mason
except the Turkish grand vizier and the
pipe’s right haml adviser.
..Richelieu afliimed friendship to be
the medicine for nil misfortune. All
very nice, cardinal, but when trouble
comes the bottle is always found empty.
. Our modest young man will breathe
easier when some ingenious chap invents
a turkey-carving contrivance that works
witli a crank, liko an apple-parer.— Jf or*
Chester I‘rats.
NO. 10.
• .Nothing unnerves the average small
boy so much as to be obliged to steal
cookies out of a crock. To his strained
senses that jarring of the cover sounds
like the crack of doom.
.. “ Before I was married,” said young
Gripping “everybody told me it did not
cost as much to support two as it did
one, Out somehow or other it doesn’t pan
out that way with me.”
. .The experienced editor can always
tell at sight the man who comes in with
the first attempt at original poetry. He
walks on tiptoe, and looks as though be
bad just passed a counterfeit bill or
strangled a baby.
..One of the old blue laws of Con
necticut said : “No one shall run on
the Sabbath day, except reverently.”
Imagine a man just out of church pur
suing a flying hat reverently before a
high wind and in the presence of an in
terested congregation.
. .Miserly millionaire is asked to con*
tribute to a charitable fund, but declines
to do so, whereupon the lady patroness
upbraids him lor bis stinginess. “ All,
madam,” be says, sadly, “ if we rich peo
ple liked to be generous, we should be
too happy. We must deny ourselves
something.”
.. Why is a lamp-chimney like a Chi
cago savings bank ? No one seems able
to answer this. — Danbury News. That’s
a mere snare. It’s to 6 easy : I—Be
cause they’re sure to break. II —Be
cause a soot is apt to grow out ol them.
Ml—Because they burn your fingers.
IV—Because they can't stand a strong
draft. V—Because there is something
wick ed at th-i bottom of them. VI.-'
Because they’re hollow. Vll—Because
they’ve benzine to bust. VIII--But
there '. there ! we’re weary, we’re a weary,
we are sad and Hore perplexed ; let our
answer to your query be continued in
our next.— l’hil. Bulletin.
.. “ What’s your name, sir ?’’ asked the
judge of the prisoner before him. “ I
(hem), I am named (hem), judge (hem),
G. Wellington do Touville.” “Consid
erable of a name, that,” remarked the
judge, looking up surprised. “ Where
do you conic from?” “May I,judge
(hem), venture to remonstrate on thin
arrest (hem —” “ Where do you ron.e
from, sir?” thundered the judge. “ Ho
boken,” was the prompt reply." “ What
crime iiave you been guilty of, sir?”
“May (hem,) I— ’ “Mayhem, eli! ”
roared the magistrate. “On your own
confession, then, I give you sixty days in
the workhouse.- -A r . Y Commercial.
. . Why, let us ask, should any one
favor an unlimited issue of silver dollnrs?
Who wants to go around with his
trouser’s pockets jammed full of spicie,
and his vest pockets so full of dollars
that his toothpick is crowded out, and
his coat-tail pockets so heavy with coins
that the stitches in the skirl gap, and
hiH inside coat pocket crammed so full of
the stuff that le hasn’t room to carry a
—prayer book! Who wants to be
weighed down with such a load as tl.ii '
(Well, if the truth must be told, the
writer hereof wouldn’t object to being
freighted with just such a load at the
present moment, and if necessary, we
would get the tailor to put fourteen
extra pockets in our new pantaloons.)—
Norristown Jteruhl.
Howto Have a Loving’ Wife.
If you would have a loving wife, bs as
gentle in your words after as tafore mar
riage ; treat her quite as tenderly w lit i. a
matron as when a miss; don’t make her
the maid of all wi.rk, and a*k her why
she looks less tidy and neat than when
you first knew her; don't buy cheap,
U.ugh beef and scold because it dpes not
come on the table “porterhouse;” don’t
grumble about Mjualling babies il you
cannot afford to keep up a nursery, and
remember the baby may take alter Li*
papa in hi* disposition; don’t nn< k<-
and chew tobacco and thus shatter ytur
nerves, spoil your temper and make
your breath a nuisance, and complain
that your wife declines to kiss you; go
home joyous and cheerful to your supper,
and tell your tired wife the good news you
have heard, and not silently put on y. ur
hat and go out to the club or lodge, and
let her afterward learn that you
[spent the evening at the opeia or at a
fancy ball with Mrs. Hush. Love your
wife ; be patient; remember you are not
; perfect, but try to be ; let whisky, to
bacco and vulger company alone ; tpciul
your evenings with your wile ; live a
decent, Christian life,find your wife wi 1
be loving and true —if you did not marry
a heart less beauty, without sense or worth ;
if you did who is to blame if you suffer
the consequences ?