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TOWN DIRECTORY.
TOWN OFFICERS.
Mayor—W. H. AVhaley.
Councilmen—T. P. Littlefield, H. W.
Whaley, Bryant George, O. F. Littlefield,
, .Anderson Williams. ,
iiud Treasurer—O. F. Littlefield.
Marshal—G. W. Williams.
COUNTY OFFCERS.
Ordinary—Richard B. Hopps.
Sheriff— John N. Good bread.
Clerk Superior Court—Benj. O. Middleton
Tax Receiver—J. G. Hatcher.
Tax Collector—W. R. Causey.
County Surveyor—Noah Bennett.
County Treasurer—John Massey.
Coroner—P. McDitha.
County Commissioners—J. F. King, G.
W. Haines, James Knox, J. G. Rich, Isham
Reddish. Regular meetings of the Board
3d Wednesday in January, April, July and
October. Jas. F. King, Chairman.
COURTS.
Superio* Courl, Wavne County—Jno. L.
Harris, Judge ; Simon W. Hitch, Solicitor-
General. Sessions held on second Monday
in March and September.
Blaetster, Fierce Comity Georjia.
TOWN DIRECTORY.
TOWN OFFICERS.
Mayor—R. G. Riggins.
Councilmen—l). P. Patterson J. M. Downs,
J. M. Lee, B. D. Rrantiy.
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 Road Commissioners—llßl
District, G. M., Lewis C. Wylly; 12 0 Dis
trict, U. if., George T. Moody ; 531 District,
G. M., Charles S. Youmanns; 590 District,
G. M.. D. B. McKinnon.
Notary Publics and Justices of the Peace,
etc.—Blaokshear Precinct, 584 district,G.M.,
Notary Public,.). G. S. Patterson; Justice
of the Peace, It. R. James; Ex-ottieio Con
stable E. Z. Byrd.
Diekson?s Mill Precinct, 1250 District, G
M , Notary Public,Mathew Sweat; Justice of
the Peace, Geo. T. Moody; Constable, W.
F. Dickson.
Patterson Precinct, 1181 District, G. M.,
Nota'-y Public, Lewis C. Wylfy; Justice of
the Peace, Lewis Thomas; Constables, IT.
Prescott and A. L. Griner.
Schlatterville Precinct, 590 District, G. M
Notary Public, F>. B. McKinnon; Justice o
the 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 Cherry Streets,
(Near the Depot,)
T. P- LITTLEFIELD, Proprietor.
Newly renovate,! 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 News.
The New Orleans grand jury recom
mend a Sunday liquor law for that mu
nicipality.
The incoming South Carolina legisla
ture will likely call a convention to draft
anew constitution of that state.
Ralph Bingham, the seven-year-old
Richmond, Va., oratorical prodigy, is
dubbed the “ Boy Orator of Bethel.”
Walter Malone, of Waldron, Scott
county, Ark,, recently shot his father-in
law dead when the latter interfered to
prevent the former from beating his wife.
B. E. Robinson, of Petersburg, Va.,
was dangerously wounded in the side on
the 24th ult. by the accidental discharge
of a pistol, which he was showing to his
wife.
The Mobile Register thinks the revolt
of the western coffee dealers against the
Baltimore and New Yoak merchants and
of the railroad lines running eastward has
called attention once more to the advan
tages of Mobile as an entrepot for coffee.
Aiken (S. C.) Journal: Dr. J. L.
Smith, of Silverton township, while open
ing up anew turpentine farm, noticed
somethirg fall to the ground and crawl
toward the tent where he was sitting.
On examing the object he found it to be
an alligator. In the course of a lew mo
ments a second one made its appearance.
The doctor found six others within a
space of two hundred yards. The ani
mals were all quite lively and about
twelve inches in length. The place
whereon they fell is situated on high
sandy ground, about six miles north of
the Savannah river. The animals are
supposed to have been taken up in a
water-sprout, at some distant locality,
and dropped in the region where they
were found.
itiscellaneons
It is reported that petroleum of a good
quality has been discovered about one
hundred miles south of Deaawood, in the
Black Hills.
The Railroad Gazette thinks the year
ending July last was, the centennial "not
withstanding, the worst lor railroad
interests since the war.
Switzerland has passed a law prohibit
ing children under the age of fourteen
from being employed in manufactories
after the first ot next May.
On Saturday the Illinois supreme
court decided a case in which the hus
band of the appellee was run over and
killed by the cars while drunk. The
appellee brought an action against the
saloon-keeper who sold to him the liquor
and against the appellant who is the
owner of the building in which the saloon
VOL. 11.
was situated, and she secured the judg
ment for $2,500. An appeal was taken
and the appelate court affirmed that of
the court below and sustained the con
stitutionally of the law. This is the first
time that a case of this kind, brought
under the provisions of the Illinois liquor
law, has been sustained in the high
courts.
lieutenant Walter Walton, assistant
inspector of life-saving service on the
North Carolina coast,'makes his repe-t
in relation to the loss of the Huron,
showing that one Evan O’Neill, a fisher
man at Nag’s Head, discovered the
Huron coming on shore at half-past one
o’clock on the morning of the disaster.
She drifted and pounded along the out
ter edge of the oar, and finally struck
broadside on. He heard shouts and
screams go up from the stranded vessel,
and saw rockets go up, followed by burn
ing signals from end to end. So that
even light rigging and men could be
plainly seen. A boat on the starboard
side, full of men, disappeared when the
foremast fell. The shouting and scream
ing continued,and in about an hour and a
quarter after he first discovered the ship
the signaling ceased,|and all was darkness
O’Neill went home, ate his breakfast,
and did not return to the wreck until
after sunrise. He knew where the keeper
of the life-saving station lived, only two
and one half miles distant; had a good
boat, a free wind to go and return inside
of Roanok island, and yet he remained
silent and indifferent lor three hours.
Ther eport concludes: “It is shocking
to report that out of ninety-one bodies
found, about twelve of whom were
officers, not a single trinket, such as
would be deemed a relic by the relatives
of the dead, was found on the bodies.
Watches and chains, money, and even
finger-rings, had been stripped off by
those who first found the bodies as they
washed up. Good evidence is found in
the case of Lieutenant Simons, whose
third and fourth fingers of the left hand
had been scratched and gouged by the
body-robbsrß in their haste to secure their
ill-gotten booty.”
RiilKloua.
The death of Bishop Marvin, of the
Methodist church, south, will necessi
tate the election of three bishops by
the general conference, which meets in
Atlanta.
A Methodist minister in Georgia
walks thirty miles iu each week in order
to fulfill one of his appointments, and
works two days out of each week iu a
brick-yard ior corn to feed his family.
Bishop Miles, of the Colored Metho
dist. Episcopal church, is about to start
out on a lecturing tour to raise funds to
establish and endow denominational
colleges at Louisville, Xy., and Sardis,
Miss.
Itev. Dr. Harris, bishop-elect of the
new diocese of Quincy, declines the
episcopate, compelled to the conclusion
by considerations relating to the work
of the church in his present field of
labor.
The Reformed Episcopal church is
slowly developing its diocean or synodi
cal organization. Two synods have been
organized—that of Chicago and recently
that of New York. No bishop has yet
been appointed for the latter.
A theological seminary is to be opened
at Tokio, Japan, in connection with the
recent union of the three Protestant
missions, the American Presbyterian, the
Dutch Reformed and the United or
Scotch Presbyterian. The college
will have a permanent staff of three pro
fessors, one nominated by each of the
missions.
The Houston Southern Methodist
conference will send a petition to the
southern general conference next May
to change the name of the Methodist
Episcopal church to “ Episcopal Meth
odist church.” This name was once
adopted by the general conference, but
waH not ratified by the annual confer
ences.
The work among the Chinese on the
Pacific coast, by the Congregationalists,
has been carried on in schools with
seventeen teachers and over a thousand
pupils A Christian association and home
has been kept up by the Chinese converts.
A school building has been erected, and
despite occasional “hoodlum” outbreaks,
the work progresses.”
About the Fair Sex.
Madame Janauschek cleared $3,200 in
Philadelphia last week.
Frau Von Ingersleben is said to be the
rising novelist of Germany.
Neuralgia is more fashionable this
season than ever before among fashionable
ladies, because the fashionable hat leaves
the tops of their heads bare.
They had a dance out in “ Hackberry
Precinct,” Nebraska, and the mothers of
families piled their babies, sixteen in
number, upon one bed while they danced.
A wo'man in the St. Louis Republican
has hit upon a remedy for the hard
times. “ Turn the keys of banks and
treasuries over to women, and the money
will soon be in complete circulation.”
No doubt of it.
A'ter the failure of the late insurrec
tion in Japan, a richly attired Japanese
young lady was found lying dead in a
castle moat, with her father’s head in
her right hand and a bloody knife in her
left. This devoted heathen heroine had
cut off her father’s head, at bis command,
and then killed herself, that the two
might not be taken prisoners.
Pale blue is bridal color in Russia.
Divorces are unlawful there, but a mar
riage may be annulled by the priests for
informality. A curious custom prevails
in some parts of Russia with respect to
this “ informality” business. At the
marriage ceremony it is the custom for
the nearest relative of the bride to give
her a slap in the face as she is being led
forward to the priest. The slap is given
tor nothing less than to convey to spec
tators the impres-ion that the bride is
compelled to this marriage, and there
fore is unlawfully wedded, and can break
the matrimonial chains if she wants to.
The slap is given with a wise view to
.uture incompatibilities between the
wedded pair.
.Even the boot which lifts a sewing
machine agent off the front step? may
contain a stocking which on Christmas
morning will overflow with blessings from
loving friends.”
JESUP, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 16, 1878.
IlttfV TO RANAtiE HIM.
“ How shall I manage my husband.** .
1 will tell you mv dear, if I can;
He is really a wonderful creature,
That troublesome auimal. Man-
Yea ! really a wonderful creature —
So strange, inconsistent and queer ;
But you’ll soon know the secret by learniug
The modus operandi, my dearl
If he stays out too late io the evening,
Pat taking of supper and wise,
Don’t prove him a false fabricator,
When he comet home by asking the time ;
JFor he surely will tell you the town clock
But the moment before rang out one—
When it 6truek he bad counted it over
Just three times before it had done!
Ard then, if hißbat, in the morning,
Is smaller by far than his head,
Don’t hint by the merest allusion
That his lordship went typsjr to bed ;
llut rather regaid the occurrence
A phenomenon- puzzling and queer—
With a strange look of mystification
Iu your eyes, if lie's watching, my dear!
And don’t fail to sew on his buttons,
And likewise bis clothes mend with care;
Don’t tease him for money fsr shopping;
Dou’t frown when he acts like a bear;
Don’t tell him too often, my deary.
That your poor head is aching with pain,
Lest be whisper, way down in his bosom :
“O! I wish I were single again !’’
Don’t teli him that Mary, the housemaid,
And Ann, the obstreperous cook,
Refuse to receive your suggestions
With even so much as a look,
Don't tell him how very annoying
Yon often have found it to be
To bo tola to “ Get out of the kitchen,
And don’t come a-botliering me I”
Rut always seem cheerful and happy,
And always look pleasant and gay ;
Thau a frown t’> ere is nothing more potent
In driving one’s husband away,
And thHs you must ever keep striving—
You’ll find it an excellent piau ;
Rut whatever you do, dear, remember
J hat your husband is ouiy a man.
THE ADIRONDACKS VERIFIED.
i
HOW I KILLED A BEAR.
So many conflicting accounts have up
peared about my casual encounter with
an Adirondack bear, last summer, that
in justice to the public, to myself, and to
the bear it is necessary to make a plain
statement of the facts. Besides, it is so
seldom I have occassion to kill a bear that
the celebration of the exploit may be ex
cused.
The encounter was unpremeditated on
both sides. I was not hunting for a bear,
and I have no reason to suppose that a
bear was looking for me. The fact is
that we were both out blackberrying, and
met by chance, the usual way. There
is among the Adirondack visitors always
a great deal of conversation about bears,
a general expression of the wish to see
one in the woods, and much speculation
as to how a person would act if he or
she chanced to meet one. But bears are
scarce and timid, and appear only to a
favored few.
It was a warm day in August, jus the
sort of day when an adventure of any
kind seemed impossible. But it occurred
to the housekeepers of our cottage—
there were four of them- to send me to
the clearing on the mountain back of the
house to pick blackberries. It was rath
er a series of small clearings, running up
into the forest, much overgrown with
hushes and briars, and not unromantic.
Cows pastured there, penetrating through
the leafy passages from one opening to
another, and browsing among the bushes.
J was kindly furnished with a six-quart
pail, and told not to be gone long.
Not from any predatory instinct, but
to save appearances, I took a gun. It
adds to the manly aspect el a person
with a tin pail if he also carries a gun.
It was possible I might start up a par
tridge; though how I was to hit him if
he started up instead of standing still
puzzled me. Many people used a shot
gun for partridges. I prefer the rifle; it
makes a clean job of death, and does not
prematurely stuff the bird with globule?
of lead. The rifle was] a Sharp’s, carry
ing a ball cartridge, ten to a pound ; an
excellent weapon, belonging to a friend
of mine who had intended lor a good
many years back to kill a deer with it.
He could hit a tree with it, if the wind
did not blow and the atmosphere was
just right and the tree was not to far
off, nearly every time; of course the tree
must have some size. Needless to say
that I was at that time no sportsman.
Years ago I killed a robin under the most
humiliating circumstancecs. The bird
was in a low cherry-tree; I loaded a big
shotgun pretty full, crept up under the
tree, rested the gun on the fence, with
the muzzle more than ten feet from the
bird, shut both eves, and pulled the trig
ger. When I got up to see what had
happened, the robin was scattered about
under the tree in more than a thousand
pieces, no one of which was big enough
to enable a naturalist to decide from it
to what species it belonged. This dis
gusted me with the life of a sportsman.
I mention the incident to show that,
although I went blackberrying armed,
there was not much inequality between
me and the bear.
In this blackberry patch bears had
been seen. The summer before, our col
ored cook, accompanied by a little girl
of the vicinage, was picking berries there
one day, when a bear came out of the
worlds and walked towards them. The
girl ‘.o jk to her heels and escaped. Aunt
Chloe was paralyzed with terror. In
stead of attempting to run, she sat down
on the ground where she wa? standing
and began to weep and scream, giving
herself up for lost. The bear was bewil
dered by this conduct. He Approached
and looked at her; he walked around and
surveyed her. Probably he had never
seen a colored person before, and did not
know whether she would agree with him.
At any rate, after watching her a few
moments he turned about and went into
the forest. This is an authentic instance
of the delicate consideration of a bear,
aud is much more remarkable than the
forbearance towards the African slave of
the well-known lion, because the bear
had no thorn in his foot.
When I had climbed the hill, I set up
my rifle agb>st ft frp began pick
ing berries, lured on from bush to bush
by the black gleam of fruit that always
promises more in the distance than it
realises when you reach it; penetrating
farther and farther, through leaf shaded
cow-paths flecked with sunlight, into
clearing after clearing. I could hear on
all sides the tinkle of bells, the cracking
of sticks, and the stamping of cattle that
were taking refuge in the thicket from
the flies. Oecassionally, as I broke
through a covert, 1 encountered a meek
cow, who stared at me stupidly for a
second and then shambled oil 1 into the
brush; I became accustomed to this dumb
society, and picked on iu silence, attrib
uting all the wood-noises to the cattle,
thinking nothing of any real bear. In
point of fact, however, I was thinking
all the time of a nice romantic bear, and,
as 1 picked, was composing a story alwut
a generous she bear who had lost hei cub,
and who seized a small girl in this very
wood, carried her tenderly off to her cave,
and brought her upon bear’s milk and
honey. When the girl got big enough
to run away, moved by her inherited in
stincts, she escaped and came into the
valley to her father’s house (this part
of the story was to he worked out, so
that the child would know her father by
some family resemblance, and have some
language in which to address him), and
told him where the bear lived. The
father took his gun, and, guided by the
Unfeeling daughter, went into the woods
and shot the bear, who never made any
resistance, and only, when dying, turned
reproachful eyes upon her murderer.
The moral of the tale was to bo kindness
to animals.
I was in the midst of this tale, when
I happened to look some rods away to
the other edge of the clearing, and tlioie
was a bearl He was standing on his
hind legs and doing just what 1 was do
ing,—picking blackberries. With one
paw he bent down the bush, while with
the oilier he clawed the berries into his
mouth, green ones and all. To say that
I was astonished is inside the mark. I
suddenly discovered that 1 didn’t want
to see a bear, after all. At about the
s:me moment the bear saw me, stopped
eal.-ig berries, and regarded me with a
glad surprise. It is all very well to im
agine what you would do under such cir
cumstances. I’robably you wouldn’t do
it; I didn’t. The bear dropped down
oa his lore feet, and came slowly towards
me. Climbing a tree was of no use with
so good a climber in the rear; if I start
ed to run, I had no doubt the bear would
give chase, and although a bear cannot
run downhill as fast aB he can run up
hill, yet 1 felt that he could get over
this rough, brush-tangled ground faster
than I oould.
The bear was approaching. It sud
denly occurred to me how 1 could divert
his mind until I could fall back upon my
military base. My pail was nearly full
of excellent berries,—much better than
the bear could pick himself. 1 put the
pail on the ground and slowly backed
away from it, keeping my eye, as beast
tamers do, on the bear. The ruse suc
ceeded.
The bear came up to the berries and
stopped; not accustomed to eat out of a
pail, he tipped it over and nosed about
in the fruit, “gorming” (if there is such
a word) it down, mixed with leaves and
dirt, like a pig. Whenever he disturbs
a maple-sugar camp in the spring, he
always upsets the buckets of syrup and
tramples round in the sticky sweets,
wasting more than he eats. The bear’s
manners are thoroughly disagreeable.
As soon as my enemy’s head wan j
down, I started and ran. Somewhat out i
of breath and shaky, I reached my faith- i
fu! rifle. 11 was not a moment too soqn. j
I heard the bear crashing through the [
brush after me. Enraged at my duplic
ity, he was now coming on with blood in
his eye. I felt that the time ef one of
us was probably short. Ihe rapidity of
thought at such moments of peril is well
known. I thought an octavo volume, ;
bad it illustrate! and published, sold
filty thousand coppies, and went to Eu
rope on the proceeds, while that bear
was loping across the clearing. As 1
was cocking the gun, 1 made a hasty
and unsatisfactory review of my whole
life. I noted that even in such a com
pulsory review it is almost impossible to
think of any good thing you have done.
The sins come out uncommonly str ,ng
I recollected a newspaper subscription 1
had delayed paying, years and years ago,
until both editor and newspaper were
dead ; and which now Lever could be
paid to all eternity.
The bear was coming on.
I tried to remember what 1 had read
about encounters with hears I couldn’t
i recall an instance in which a man had
i run away from a bear in the woods and
! escaped, although I recalled plenty
| where the bear had run from the man
and got off. I tried to think what is
the best way to kill a bear with a gun,
when you are not near enough to club
him with the stock. My first thought
was to fire at his head, to plant the hall
between his eyes; but this is a danger
ous experiment. The beai’sbrain is very
small, and unless you hit that, the bear
does not mind a bullet in his head, —that
is, not at the time. I remember that
the instant death of the l(ear would fol
low a bullet planted just b# of his fate
leg and sent into his heart. This spot is
also difficult to reach unless the beai
stands off towards you, like a target. 1
finally determined to fire at him gener
ally.
The bear was coming on.
The contest seemed to me very differ
ent from anything at Creedinoor. I had
carefully read the reports of the shoot
ing there, but it was not easy to apply
the experience 1 had thus acquired. I
hesitated whether I had better fire lying
on my stomach, or lying on my back aud
resting the gun on my toes. But in
neither position, 1 reflected, could I see
the bear until he was upon me. The
range was too short, and the bear
wouldn’t wait for me to examine the
thermometer and note the direction ol
the wind. Trial of the Creodmoo
method, therefore, had to he abandoned;
and I bitterly regretted that I had not
read more accounts of off-hand shooting.
For the bear was coining on.
I tiied to fix my last thoughts upon
my family. As my family is small, this
was not difficult. Dread of displeasing
my wife or hurting her feelings was up
permost in my mind. What would be
her anxiety as hour after hour passed on
and I did not return I What would the
rest of theshousehold think as the after
noon passed and no blackberries came 1
What would bo her mortification when
the news was brought tnat her husband
had been eaten up by a bear? 1 cannot
imagine anything more ignominious than
to have a husband eaten by a bear ! And
this was not my only anxiety. The
mind at such times is not under control.
With the gravest fears the most whim
sical ideas will occur. I looked beyond
the mourning friends and thought what
kind of ah epitaph they would be com
pelled to put upon the stone. Something
like this!—
HERE LIE THE REMAINS
OF
EATEN BY A BEAR
August 20, 1877.
it is a very unheroic and even dis
agreeable eo.tapli. That “eaten by a
Dear” is intolerable. It is grotesque.
And then I thought what an inadequate
language the English is for compact ex
pression. it would not answer to put
upon the stone simply “eaten,” for that
is indefinite and requires explanation ; it
might mean eaten by a cannibal. This
dilliculty could not occur in the German,
where essen signifies the act of feeding
by a man and fressen by a beast. Jlow
simple the thing would he in German:
illKtt I.IKGT
lIOCIIWOH I.UEIIOHHN
ItlillK ,
(lEFRKHSUN
August 20, 1077.
That explains itself. The well-born
one was eaten by a beast, and presuma
bly by a bear, which animal has a bad
reputation since the days of Elisha.
The bear was coming on. lie had in
fact come on. 1 judged that he could
see the whites of my eyes. All my sub
sequent reflections were confused. 1
raised the gun, covered the bear’s breast
with the sight, anil let drive. Then, I
turned and ran like a deer. I did not
hear the. bear pursuing. 1 looked back.
The bear had stopped. lie was lying
down. I then remembered that the best
thing to de after having fired your gun
is to reload it. I slipped in a charge,
keeping my eyes on the bear. He never
stirred. I walked back suspiciously.
There was a quiver in the hind legs, but
no other motion. Still, he might be
shamming. Hears often sham. To make
sure, I approached and put a ball into
his head. He didn’t mind it now; he
minded nothing. Heath had come to
him with a merciful suddenness. He
was calm in death. In ord r that he
might remain so, I blew his brains out,
and then started for home. I had killed
a bear!
.Notwithstanding my excitement, I
managed to saunter into the house with
an unconcerned air. T here was a cho
rus of voices:—
“ Where are are your blackberries?”
“ Why were you gone so long?”
“ Where’s your pail ?’’
“ I left the pail.”
“ Left the pail! What for ?”
“ A bear wanted it.”
“ Ob, nonsense
“ Well, the last I saw of it, a bear bad
it.”
“Oh, come! You didn’t really see a
bear?”
“ Yes, but f did really see a real bear.”
“ Hid lie run ?”
“Yes; he ran aft*r me.”
“ J don’t believe a word of it. What
diil you do?”
“Oh, nothin; [articular, except kill
the bear.”
Crieiof “Gammon,” “Hon’t believe
it,” “ Where’s the bear?”
“ If you want to see the bear, you
must go up into the woods. I couldn’t
bring him down aUne.”
Having satisfied the household that
somethiug extraordinary had occured.
and excited the posthumous iear of some
of them for my own safety, 1 went down
into the valley to get help. The great
bear hunter, who keeps one of the sum
mer boarding-houses, received my story
with a smile of incredulity,* and the in
credulity spread to the other inhabitants
and to the bttSfdois s<\on as >,he sU>ij
was known. However, ns T insisted in
all soberness, and otfereJ to lead them to
the bear, a party of forty or fifty people
at last started off with me to bring the
bear in. Nobody believed there was any
bear in the case, but everybody who
could get a gun carried one, and we
wont into the woods armed with guns,
pistols, pitchforks, and sticks, against all
contingencies or surprise,—a crowd
made up mostly of scoffers and jeerers.
But when 1 led the way to the fatal
spot, and pointed out the bear, lying
psacefully wrapped in his own skin,
something like terror seized the boarders,
and genuine excitement the natives. It
was ano mistake bear, by George; and
the hero of the fight—well, I will not in
sist upon that. But what a procession
that was, carrying the bear home, and
what a congregation was speedily gath
ered in the valley to see the bear 1 Our
best preacher up there never drew any
thing like it on Sunday.
Ami I must say that my particular
friends, who are sportsmen, behaved
very well, on the whole. They didn’t
deny that it was a bear, although they
said it was small lor a bear. Mr. Deane,
who is equally good with a rifle and a
rod, admitted that it was a very fair
shot. He is probably the boHt salmon
fisher in the United Htales, and lie is an
equally good hunter. 1 suppose there
is no person in America who is more de
sirous to kill a moose than ho. But lie
needlessly remarked, after lie had ex
amined tho wound in the hear, that he 1
had seen that kind of a shot made by a
cow’s horn. This sort of talk affected
me not. When I went to sleep that
night my last delicious thought was,
" I've killed a bear.” —Charltn Duddley
Warner.
THU I'AItUOK KIFLE.
ilurloiiN mill InM-ri-i, 11 n|; Tesla liy Hr.
W. tt, l iirver.
The extraordinary challenge issued by
that crack shot, l)r. W. F. Carver, in the
“ Bod and Gun ” column of last (Sunday’s
Chronicle, has produced so much interest
pi sporting ciicles here, that it was
thought worthy to make a report of the j
practice which the doctor is now making
daily in order to prepare himself for the ;
matches lie sees in perspective. D-. Car- j
ver, in his contests last year with Bogar- I
dus, showed an excellent form in all the j
fine points at pigeon shooting and glass- j
bull breaking, hut the most remarkable j
part of his challenge was the oiler to
shoot with any one in the world for $260
or SSOO ; 250 glass balls, his adversary to
use a shot-gun at thirty yards’ rise, while
the doctor was to shoot with a rifle, the
ball being thrown in the air for him.
This parlor rifle ih a Hallard of mine nine
pounds weight, of 22 diameter, and Wed
nesday be gave a telling exhibit of its
powers by first picking oil a ground
squirrel that was peeping from its hole at
some eighty paces distant. In practicing
at glass balls the thrower is placed at
some eight paces distance, and he priqiels
tlio ball perpendicularly sumo eighteen
feet high, and then, as the ball recedes
from its highest point, nine times out of
ten the shooter scatters the remnants to
the air. The performance is certainly a
most remarkable one ; ol course, there is
a knack in it, as there is in all kinds of
flying shots, but the accuracy of aim
appears to be altogether unprecedented.
Thus in twelve bails the doctor missed
but one, and that was thrown almost
directly over him. Hut after that the
practice was not so good, as the gun re
quires cleaning at the expiration ol about
ten shots, lie then took an ordinary
Springfield rill.) and broke seventeen out
of twenty halls, and, alter this, with the
same weapon, hitthirty-four'Jarge stones,
thrown in the same manner, out of forty.
After exhibiting some fancy shots that
were quite interesting, he shot with the
parlor rifle three times at a half-dollar
spun in the air, and hit it fairly twice
and once so squarely that the bullet
remained in part imbedded in the coin,
and they were both picked up at some
eighty paces distant. It is certainly a
curious exhibition, anil it Dr. Carver can
exhibit tne same skill arid dexterity with
pigeons it thirty yards’ rise he may well
be considered the champion rifle shot ol
the world. The practice took place at
-hell Mound Park, with dull, cloudy
weather, that enhanced the difliculties
of the tests.—San Francitoo Chronicle.
There are, it is said, no old maids in
Russia except the nuns. The public
sentiment is so decidedly against female
celibacy that when a woman readies the
age of twenty-five, and still pines in sin
gle S!e*e Iness, she finds it best to go ofl
on a journey in search of a husband, and
usually returns, after some length of time,
and aunounces that she is a widow.
Russian etiquette, which positively for
bids any allusion to the husband in the
presence of his widow, is very convenient
for the purposes of those ladies.
WAIFS AND WHIMS.
The Mistletoe.
In ancunt times the Druid priests,
With many a solemn row,
Gathered thy branches, altered plant.
To crown the priestess’ brow ;
And cl anting grave, mysterious hymns,
with measured steps and slow,
Tbev marched beneath tho old oak-troea,
Betaring tho mistletoe.
How nt uiy a legend strange and old,
Around tny branches clings,
Of sup 1 raiitions tierce and dread,
Of wild, barbaric tilings!
Whatcurious rites on fcaulsbury plain,
What grand and pompous show
Of Celts and North tin n, hast thou seen,
M vsterloua mistlt t >e !
Thosa cruel, supersti-ioua years
Ixmg since have passed away ;
A fairer priestess th m of oid
Blesc.QM thy leaves to-day.
Trooping atioss the snowy fields
The laughiDg maidens go,
To gaiher for their festival
T by Christmas mistletoe.
The hall is bright with Christmas cheer,
And youths and maidens fair,
With innocent ami happy hearts,
Havo met together there.
With purer, deeper reverence
Than L)ruH priest could know,
T he lover kisses blushing cheeks
Under the mistletoe.
NO. 20.
..Mrs. Partington remarks that few
persons nowadays suffer from suggestions
of tie brain. ‘ ' *
. Sometime ago the newspaper cor
respondents left the seaside, since then
the sea-si rpent has not shown his head.
. A poor man remarks that the only
advantage he gets from capitalists is to
“live within his income,’ - whereas the
difficulty he experiences Is to live without
an income.
..It has been discovered that lager
beer is a certain remedy for corns. We
believe the usual method of applying the
remedy is let it soak into the corn from
the inside of the foot.
..A Spanish illustrated newspaper is
threatened with prosecution for publish
ing a portrait of the Princess Mercedes,
tho destined bride of King Alphonso, the
1 portrait being by no means flattering.
. A schoolmaster cannot commit sui
■ clde without stating the proposition. A
I fortnight ago a pedagogue in Ban Juan,
[ Cal., shot himself alter school hours,
but not until he had chalked on the
I blackboard the words, “ May this solve
the problem.”
..All, love!” she murmured, as they
wandered through tho moonlight, “ all,
dearest, why do the summer roses fade?”
| He happened to be a young chemist of a
j practical turn of mind, and lie replied
j that it was owing to the insufficiency
i of oxygen in the air.
..A Philadelphia paper is moved to
J inquire why, if druggists by mistake
j poisons to persons, causing death, are
prosecuted, those who sell explosive
burning fluids, and cause the death of
people almost daily, should be allowed
to go scot tree.
.She used to keep bits of broken china
and crockery piled up in a convenient
corner of the cloaet, and when asked her
reason for preserving such ilouiestic lum
bar, she would shunt a lucid glance at
| her husband, and merely remark, “ He
! knows what them’s for."
.. If a calico dress is washed carelessly,
starched still - , sunned a day or two, aud
half ironed, i t is not a very comely sight.
But if quickly dried in tho shade, very
thinly and evenly starched, and ironed
on the wrong side so that it will not
! shine, it will look like anew dress for a
| long time. Many pretty blue prints and
| cambrics fade when washed in the usual
: way. If they are washed the first time
in Htrong salt and water, or water to
which a little beef’s gall is added, the
colors will be sot so that they will be as
handsome as at first, and can be washed
ver alter like other goods.
Another Route to the North
Hole.
A dispatch from London to the New
York Herald says: “Captain Wiggins,
an Englishman just returned from the
jennessi and 11hi rivers, in Siberia, re
ports that route practicable to the north
pole, with an open sea ail the way. He
also reports that there is an immense
commerce with Hiberia from China.
Captain Wiggins, with his schooner o
orty tons burden, Bailed from the capital
of Hiberia to St. Petersburg, and
anchored before the winter palace,
where his vessel was visited by the
imperial family and by great crowds of
people. Steps aro to be taken to organ
ize a line of trailing steamers, and thus
open to the world the marvelous timber,
grain and mineral resources of Hiberia.
Seven tons of gold were taken from one
mine this year. Wheat, equal to that
of California, told at sls a ton. lieef is
one cent a pound. 'I here are telegraphs
everywhere, and the large cities and fine
people exhibit the great spirit of enter
prise that Russia lias carried into the
country, in England, people will not
credit the existence of the open sea, as
reported, nor the possibility of such a
ommerce. It is only fourteen days’
travel from the Jennessi river to Lon
don,
Klimt but True.
There is said to be a young man in the
Missouri penitentiary whose parents at
their death, left him a fortune 0f550,000
There is where his parents made a fatal
mistake. If they hail taken the precau
tion to invest that sum in a small dog.
and shot him, and then had simply left
the young man a jack plane or a wood
aw, with printed instructions how to use
it, the chances are that, instead of beiDg
in the penitentiary, he would to-day have
been gradually hut surely working his
way up to a handsome competency and
an honorable old age. But ever s>nce the
days of Adam and Eve, parent* have
made it a point to toil and struggle ail
their lives t) realize a sufficient ‘.sum of
money to purchase, when they are dead
and goce, their sons each a first cla s
through ticket to the devil, and it is not
much to l>e wondered at tnat go many of
their sons, reared in vice and idleness, as
too many o! them often are, have no
higher ambition than to invest ttieir in
heritance in just that sort of transports
-1 tion.