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The Jesup Sentinel Office in the Jesup House, fronting on Cherry street, two doors from Broad !St. FI'BLISHEB EVERY WEDNESDAY, ... IIY ... 1 ' T. P, LITTLEFIELD. Subscription Rates. (Postage Prepaid.) One year $2 00 Six months 1 00 Three months 50 Advertising Rates. Per square, first insertion ..$1 00 Per square, each subsequent insertion. 75 rates to yearly and large ad vertisers. TOWN DIRECTORY. TOWN OFFICERS. Mayor—W. 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.