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The Jesup Sentinel in the Jesup House, fronting on l*nerry street, two doors from Broad JSt. PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY, ...8Y... T. P. LITTLEFIELD. Subscription. Rates. (Postage Prepaid.) One year $2 00 ■Six mouths 1 00 Three mouths 50 Advertising Rates. Per square, first insertion $1 00 Per square, each subsequent iusertiou. 75 Xj&**Speeial rates to yearly and large ad vertisers. 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. 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 your baggage to and from the house. BOARD $2.00 per day. Single Meals, 50 cts 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 ?