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TOWN DIRECTORY.
TOWN OFFICERS.
Mayor—W. H. Whaley.
Councilmen—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 8.. Hopps.
Sheriff—John N.-Goodbread.
Clerk 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. McDitba.
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.
Superior Court, Wayne County—Jno. L.
Harris, Judge ; Simon W. Hitch, Solicitor-
General. Sessions held on second Monday
in March and September.
Bttskear, Fierce Coiti Gtoriia.
TOWN DIRECTORY.
TOWN OFFICERS.
Mayor—R. G. Riggins.
Councilmen—D. P. Patterson,J. M. Downs,
J. M. Lee, B. D. Brantly.
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, ti. M., George T. Moody ; 584 District,
G. M., Cliarles S. Youmanns; 590 District,
G. M., D. B. McKinnon.
Notary Publics and Justices of the Peace,
etc. —Blackshea- Precinct. 584 district,G.M.,
Notary Public, J, G. S. Patterson; Justice
of the Peace, ft. R. James; Ex-officio Con
stable E. Z Byrd.
Dicksou?s NTi 11 Precinct, 1250 District, G
M , Notary Public,Mathew Sweat; Justice of
the Peace,'Geo. T. Moody; Constable, W.
F. Dickson.
Patterson Precinct, 11.81 District, G. M.,
Notary Public, Lewis C. Wylly; Justice of
the Peace, Lewis Thomas; Constables, H.
Prescott and A. L. Griner.
Schlatterville Precinct. 590 District, G. M
Notary Public, D. B. McKinnon ; Justice o
the Peace, R. T. James; Constable, John W
Booth.
Courts—Supeiior court, Pierce county
John L. Harris, judge; Simon W. Hitch
Solicitor General. Sessions held first Mon
dry in March and September.
Corporation court, Blackshear, Ga.,session
held second Saturday in each Month. Police
court sessions every Monday Morning at 9
o’clock.
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C URRENT PAPAGRAPHS.
Sontbern News.
Strawberries are blooming in Florida.
Ten inches of snow fell at Wythviile,
Va., Sunday.
Holliday, and not Halliday, is Vir
ginia’s new governor.
Members of the Mississippi legislature
receive SSOO per annum.
Gen. Longstreet has leased the Pied
mont house at Gainesville, Ga.
The Atlanta Constitution is alarmed
at the increase of morphine eating in
Georgia and Alabama.
Nashville American : Mrs. Hannah J
Davis, of Allegan Michigan, recently
willed to the Baptist institute, of Nash
ville, the sum of $5,000. The will has
just been admitted to probate.
Vicksburg Herald : We earnestly hope
that the legislature will pass a law making
it a misdemeanor, punishable by fine and
imprisonment, for any person to carry a
dirk, dirk-knife, sword, sword-cane, pistol,
or any other deadly weapon, not in neces
sary self-defense.
Austin (Tex.) Gazette: A piece of
hull neck beef and a cup of slosh made
from old wool hats, parched and ground,
together with a piece of alum toughened
bread, cost in Austin restaurants the
modest sum of thirty cents.
Count Daesi, president of the Italian
commission to the centennial, writes to
a hanker in Austin that he proposes to
divert the Italian immigration now going
to South America to Texas, and will
start a line of steamers between Genoa
and Gaiveston to bring over immigrants
and take back cotton.
The Knoxville (Tenn.) Chronicle gives
tbe particulars of the murder of Joseph
Martin, near Fullen’s depot, on the 28th
uit., while seated at his fireside between
his two daughters, by a negro named
Howell, who fired through the window
at his victim. Howell was arrested and
placed in the Greenville jail.
Nashville American: During the year
1877, within the city limits, 751 persons
died, of which 382 were white and 369
colored. In these limits the total pop
ulation is 27,085 ; white, 18,503; colored,
9.582. Hence the total death rate was
27.72 per • .000 per annum ; that of the
white people 21.82; that of the colored
people 38,50.
Mlttcellaneofitt.
They raise vegetable tallow in Aus
tralia.
Worth, lEe great Parisian milliner,
employs 1,200 assistants.
Two widowers in Perry county, Texas,
married each other’s daughters.
VOL. 11.
Mobile has three times the population
it had at the outbreak of the war.
A florist on Fifth avenue has a sacred
palm tree over five hundred years old.
Three thousand sharksliave been caught
for premiums at Melbourne.
An old bachelor in Boston wants to
adopt a girl baby eighten years old.
The production of tea in India has
reached thirty million pounds recently.
Reading car shops are overcrowded
with work, the men working twelve
hours a day.
There are said to be many impecunious
Americans stranded in Paris and Lon
don.
Lately 11,000 codfish were landed from
the dories of Nantucket, the largest
number ever landed in one day.
A man in Newburyport, Mass., is fat
tenning 500 frogs. He keeps them in a
barrel and feeds them upon Indian meal.
A Scotch minister recently told T. is
hearers, mostly farmers, that he saw no
harm in garnering the harvest on the
Sabbath rather than let it spoil. There
is a rodjnow in pickle for the rash man’s
shoulders.
An ignorant colored girl of Norwich,
Conn., was caught trying to cut oIF her
hand with a large knife last week, because
she had literally read the scripture: “If
thy hand or thy foot offend thee, cut it
off.”
Minister Oomlv writes from Honolulu,
that wood cost from sl9 to S2O a cord,
“ and you have to split it youreeif at
that”—which will be excellent but
unusual exercise for an ambassador
abroad.
The pope has accumulated a fund of
$6,000,000, which is held by Toctonia
and some French aud Brussels bankers,
for the pay of ex-pontificial soldiers and
and officials, and divers other purposes
incidental to the papal interests.
The amount of the fund for the relief
of the widows bereft by the Custer fight
has been rendered; it shows a total re
ceipt of $14,068, of which 7,477 was dis
tributed to the widows of officers, and
$5,778 to those of enlisted men.
Courbet, the French painter, who died
a day or two ago, was better known as
the demolisher of the Colonne Vendome
than as the high priest of the French
realistic school of painting. He was com
pelled to pay a large sum to restore the
damaged column.
For the accommodation and treatment
of its wounded soldiers the Russian gov
ernment has now to rely upon private
and charitable institutions, its own hos
pitals having been filled long ago. In
Moscow there are five large hospitals
founded and maintained by donations of
single individuals-,
When Miss Jennie Bly, a white girl of
Newport, Ky., was recently baptized in
a colored church of that town, the affair
excited some remark; but it is difficult
to classify the feeling aroused when, a
few days later, she married one of the
brethren, as black as the ace of spades.
There were eighty-nine failures report
ed in New York during the month of
December, together with eleven assign
ments, of which the assets and liabilities
could not he obtained. This is the larg
est number of failures that occurred in
any month of 1877, and the aggregate
liabilities, which are nearly eight million
dollars in round numbers, far exceed any
previous month.
That distinguished Boston clergyman,
Phillips Brooks, is a thoroughly natural
artless and sympathetic speaker. He
gives an impression of utter personal
unconsciousness. He reads rapidly and
rather weakly, as if short of breath and
impatient to be done, and puts himself
into quick rapport with his hearers by an
almost anxious fashion of looking over
and among them at every pause.
The World finds that the Fifth avenue
hotel sells its garbage for $1,200 a year,
that the St. Nicholas receives lor this
refuse SBOO a year, the New York hotel
S6OO a year, the Astor House SBOO a
year, and the smaller inns in proportion.
Yet the city authorities, wh@ receive
from the tax-payers S2OO a day for
removing garbage and cleaning streets,
are able to do neither.
Foreign.
Prince Bismarck’s special organ, Nor
deutche Allgemeine Zeitung, attacks the
national liberals violently for their rejec
tion of the prince’s terms. The national
liberals, on the other hand, declare that
they can afford to wait until the Prince
Bismarck’s necessities compel him to
comply with their demands.
It is announced from St. Petersburg
that the czar has called for anew levy of
480,000 men. One hundred and sixty
thousand of these are to form what will
be knotvn as the “ army of the Baltic.”
This is designed as an army of protection
for northern Russia against the possible
hostility of England. As the czar called
for 180,000 reinforcements in August,
this makes the draft for a single year of
660,000 men. Roumania and Set via
allied to Russia have at .’east 40,000 mer.
in the field. Therefore Russia, with
these new levies added, to her former
standing army, will have at least 1,000,-
OOOof soldiers in the field by June 1878.
She was never better prepared to make
an advance upon Constantinople., Her
clearest-headed statesmen perceive the
long-desired opportunity, and they now
believe that they can drive the Turks
out of Europe even though England
should add her military resources to those
of the Turkey.
A Vienna dispatch says that the Rus
sians have achieved a rare feat of perse
verance and endurance in crossing the
Etropal Balkans, and though the force 1
cannot be very numerous and the whole
movement seems to savor rather of a
hold, adventurous raid like General
Gourko’s over Hankei pass, than of letru- 1
lar military operations. It can not but
hasten the withdrawal of Turkish troops
from the Balkan line, at any rate from
the western portion. Suleiman Pasha
seems to have foreseen this when he took j
up his headquarters at Ichtiman. and to 1
have thought that a stand made at the
rallying )s7int formed by the junction of
the liho lopoe and the second Balkan
chain might effectually bar all advance
from the direction of Sofia. There is,
however, a succession of parallels formed
by Topolince, the Guipso and the Tur.dja,
which run to the north of Ichtiman, by
JESUP, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 23, 1878.
which the Russian columns descending
from the’Etropol Balkan.-, may pass east
ward and uniting with the forces tra
versing Schipka pass turn the position of
Ichtiman aud march down upon Adrian
uple. The only question, therefore, is
whether the Turks are strong enough to
bar the descent trom Schipka pass and
hold Ichtiman with the defiles of Topol
inca and the Guipso at the same time.
If not they must retreat still further
east.
Fanliion Notos
The fashionable fur for the neck this
winter is the fur stole boidered with
lace.
Embossed and Jacquard woven velvets
are destined to have only a temporary
reign.
Many ladies of fastidious taste reject
the variegated jet trimmings and em
broideries.
Mrs. Barney Williams and her daugh
ter Marie are passing the winter at Flor
ence.
The Gipsey ring, with the jewel em
bedded in gold, is the engagement ring
of the moment.
Outside facings appear on many of the
handsomest cloaks where a quiet effect is
aimed at.
Box plaited flounces of medium depth
appear on the front breadths of the latest
Paris dresses.
Deep collars of lace, with broad cuffs
to match, and intended to be worn out
side of the sleeve, are coming in vogue.
Fringes, gimps, passementeries and
other dress trimmings are gorgeous with
vanegated jet heads this season.
Prof. Tyndall's Alpine Tests ot
Spontaneous Generation.;
Ali* Lusgkn, September 18, 1877.
My Dear Huxley : Though the
question of “spontaneous generation”
is, I believe, practically set at rest for the
scientific world, you may possibly detm
the following facts of sufficient interest
to be communicated to the Royal society.
I brought with me this year to the Alps
sixty hermetically sealed flasks, contain
ing infusions of beef, mutton, turnip and
cucumber, which had been boiled for
five minutes and sealed during ebullition.
They were packed in sawdust, and when
opened here the drawn out and sealed
ends of six of them were filled with or
ganisms, the remaining ones were pellu
cid aud free from life. Two or three were
subsequently broken by accident, but for
six weeks fifty flasks remained perfectly
clear. At the end of this time I took
twenty-three of them into a shed con
taining some feed hay, and there snipped
off their sealed ends with a pair of pliers.
The air of the liay-loft entered to fill the
vacum produced by the boiling in Lon
don. Twenty-three other flasks were
taken immediately afterwards to the
edge of a declivity, which might also be
called a precipice, with a fall of about
one thousand feet. A gentle breeze was
blowing from the mountains, partly
snow-covered and partly hare rock, to
wards the precipice. Taking care to
cleanse iny pliers in the flame of a spirit
lamp, and to keep my body to leeward
of the flasks, I snipped off their sealed
ends. The two groups of flasks were
then placed in our own little kitchen,
where the temperature varied from about
65 degrees to 90 degrees Fahrenheit.
Result—twenty-one of the twenty-three
flasks opened at the hay-loft are filled
with organisms; two of them remained
clear. All of the flasks opened on the
edge of the precipice remain as clear as
distilled water. Not one of them has
given way. Ever, my dear Huxley, yours
faithiully, John Tyndall.
Are They Oysters?
If any one goes to dine at a London
hotel or club and asks for oyster sauce as
an accompaniment to his fish or beef
steak—as they say in caution to buyers
of patented articles, be sure that he gets
it. A notion is somehow gaining ground
among us that all that [tastes so is not
oyster, and mysterious hints are made as
to the recent introduction into this coun
try of the snail, so long a favorite delicacy
with the Parisians, and never more in
demand than [the present season. It is
said that 90,000 pounds of these “ del
icacies ” are daily sent to Paris from the
farms in Poitre, Burgundy, Champagne
and Provence, on which they are bred,
that a variety of flavors can he imparted
to them by changing their diet; and that
the French cooks find them an excellent
substitute lor oysters. The idea imme
diately strikes one that these 90,000
pounds may not be entirely for home
consumption, and that there is a possi
bility, not to Hay a probability, of their
being transferred to another market
across the channel. —London Cor. New
ark Advertiser.
The old gentleman went into the
parlor lately, at the witching hour of
11:45, aud found the room unlighted and
his daughter and a dear friend occupy
ing a tete-a-tete in a corner by a window.
“ Evangeline,” the old man said sternly,
“ this is scandalous.” “ Yes papa,” she
answered, sweetly, “it is candleless be
cause times are so hard and lights cost so
much that Ferdinand and 1 said we
should try and get along with the star
light.” And papa turned about in
speechless amazement, and tried to walk
out ot the room through a panel in the
wallpaper.
. A young man sent sixty cents to a
firm in Michigan who advertised a recipe
to prevent bail dreams. He received a
slip of paper on which was written:
“ Don’t go to sleep.”
RELIGIOUS REARING.
J
A
Jonhs of Hoftaletloiii
Hark! eastward and westward'll message is wing
tug.
Thu promised of nges, Messiah is born !
Oh • haste let us find him ! All B* weu is singing ;
The ehoiis angelic proclaiming-! i morn!
Alleluia 1 prolong
The wouderful ,>ng:
(Jlory to God in the highest!
Where sleeps He in purple, surrounded with splen
dor,
The King out of Heaveu forsaking His Throne 7
The Virgin, His mother, what mouarchs attend
hw,
To whom tbe Almighty such favor hath shown?
Alleluia! etc.
Can this be His dwelling? B* cradle, his man
ger ? • J
(Tan this be His mother, this -* j nso meek ?
Comes Ho to His own in this gulsb of a stranger
Unsheltered and fiiendless—this Prince whom we
seek ?
Alleluia! etc.
Behold whore he lieth, in Bethlcbffm hidden !
The t'onof the Highest, most lordly his birth I
And no cne to welcome or s rve Him is bidden
Who countethas dust all the pomp of the Earth!
Allelulia! etc.
Oh! vast oondesension ! Almightv Eternal,
He stoops to the lowest by seraphs adored ;
Ami, one with His Father in glory supernal,
Our ilesh He hath la ken ami hath not abhorred !
Allleuia! etc.
His name is called Jesus. Yes, Thou art our Jesus,
Sweet Babe, whose appearing the angels pro
claim !
From sin and from death Thou art come to release
us;
Thou beimst for us that Adorable Name!
Alleluia 1 prolong
l hv wouderful song:
(Lory to God in the Highest
Amen.
llairiet M. KimbaU, tn JV. Y. Independent.
How to DlNcoiiragu Your Minister.
1. Hear him “ now and then.” Drop
in a little late. Do not sing; do not find
the text in your Bibles. If you take a
little sleep during the sermon, so much
the better.
2. Notice carefully any slip he makes
while you are awake, point out the dull
portions to your children and friends;
quote what is in bad taste; mark all
neglects of your advice; find all the fault
you can ; it will come round to him.
3. Censure his efforts at usefulness;
deplore his want of good sense ; let him
know that you won’t help him because
A. and B. do, because you were not first
consulted, or because you aid not start
the plan yourself.
4. Let him know the folly and sins of
his hearers. Show him how much he
over-rates them, and tell him their ad
verse criticisms on himself.
5. Tell him when he calls what a
stranger he is; how his predecessors used
to drop in for an hour's chat, and how
much you liked them.
6. Never attend the prswerjiii'etiug;
frequent no special service. Why should
you be righteous overmuch?
7. Occasionally get up a little gayety
for the young folks. This will be very
effectual about the communion season.
“ There is a time to dance.”
8. Give him no intimation when you
are ill ; of course he should know ; and
your offended dignity, when he comes to
see you, will render his visit pleas
ant. On no account intimate your re
covery.
9. Require him to swell the pomp sf
every important occasion, unless, indeed,
there are prudential reasons for passing
him over.
10. If he is always in his pulpit,
clamor for strangers; if he has public
duties and sometimes goes abroad, com
plain that he is never at home.
11. Keep down his income. Easy
means are a sore temptation, and fullness
of bread is bad for every one—but the
laity.
12. Ashe will find it hard to be al
ways at home to receive callers, anil al
ways running among the people, and
always well prepared for pulpit and plat
form, you will be sure to have just cause
for complaint one way or the oilier. Tell
it to every one, and their lament that
there is no general dissatisfaction with
him.
Patient continuance in courses like
these, modified according to circum
stances, has been known not only to dis
courage, but to ruin the usefulness, and
break the spirit of miifisters; to send
them off to other charges, and some
times to their graves. Those who desire
to avoid such results should avoid the
practice of such things as are here re
ferred to. Let us “ help one another.”
— Advance.
. An Argument fr Inspiration.
We have repeatedly presented on this
page a brief argument in behalf of the
inspiration of tbe scriptures or in answer
to the objections of infidelity. We ven
ture now upon another. Hcepticism
constantly assails the miracles of the
BibL, declares them to be impossible,
and holds them up to derision. No
miracles are more wonderful than those
performed by our Lord Jesus Christ. He
healed the sick, opened the eyes of the
blind, fed thousands of hungry men and
women by increasing a few loaves and
fishes, cast out devils and raised the dead.
Is not the manner in which these mira
cles are recorded a proof of irresistible
power that they really occurred 1 Con
sider such a sentence as this: “They
brought to Him the lame, the halt, the
blind and those that were sick of divers i
diseases, and many that were possessed :
with devils, and He healed them all.” ;
Such an artless statement of such won- |
derfu! deeds is to be found, if we remem
ber correctly, more than twenty times in
the gospels. Is it possible to conceive of j
any impostor who would content himself
with such an announcement ? Tfa writer
was drawing upon his imagination, if
he was fabricating an account to in
creaie the fame of his Master, would he,
could he, stop with so simple, so gen
eral an account? Is there an instance
anywhere of falsifying in this fashion ?
Is it human to manufacture such a rec
ord ? AVould uot an impostor tell the
number, and magnify the number of the
cases'? Would he not describe the se
verity, the hopelessness of their sickness ?
Would he not draw a picture of the
suffering man, accompanied by his de
pendent family, brought by his anxious
and sorrowing, yet hopeful friends ?
Would lie not tell, what years of tortur
ing pain the invalid had endured ; how
vainly he had sought help from man;
what a sum he had spent in endeavoring
to obtain reliel ? Is it conceivable that,
to use plain words, a liar could have
contented himself with saying: “ They
brought the lame, the halt and the blind
and he healed them all ?” Is uot the
conclusion irresistible that these miracles
were actually wrought, that they were a
common occurrence? But is there not
also another conclusion just as irresisti
ble, namely, that the writers of such an
account were controlled by a super
human agency, were controlled by the
all wise God described in the scriptures?
If they were not how was it that they
wrote nothing more? How was it that,
being such men as we know they were,
they did not give a more particular,
detailed statement? Did ever such men
content themselves with so plain, so
unadorned a statement of such transac
tions ? The miracles were wrought. The
Evangelists wrote what they had seen.
Their pens were guided and controlled
by God. The books containing such
records are true, and are the inspired
World of God.— Christian Intelligencer,
A Miserly Molimnnicdtiii.
Riza Dasha, reported to be one of the
richest men in Turkey, who died at Kad
ikeui on the 23d of November, was in
some respects r. remarkable man. He
was originally an Arab slave boy. He
was brought to Constantinople at the
beginning of the present century, and
rose to some of the highest offices in the
state, having been six times minister of
war, thrice ministerof marine, and thrice
grand master of artillery. He held office
at various critical periods of Turkish his
tory, and was at the head of the war
office during the Crimean war, during
the Syrian massacres and European oc
cupation, and during the insurrection in
Crete. He was decorated with many
orders at various times, having received
the highest Turkish orders of the Os
manie and the Medjidie, the Persian
order of tbe Lion and the Sun, the orders
of the Bath, of the Legion of Honor, of
the Austrian St. Leopold, and of the
Iron Crown of Italy. Strange to say,
although he knew a little French, ho
never succeeded in mastering any Euro
pean language, hut spoke Turkish and
Arabic fluently. Notwithstanding his
wealth, he was not ostentaciouslv char
itable. His “gooddeeds,” if he performed
any, were done in secret. He was about
seventy years old at the t ime of his death.
The latter years of his life were quietly
spent in his house at Kadikeui, over
looking the Bosphorus and the sea of
Marmora. It was his daily custom, when
the weather permitted, to walk to the
sea-shore and smoke his tebibouque there.
His meditations latterly must have been
interesting, and, for a Turk of the “old
school,” not altogether pleasant.— Pall
Mall Gazette.
A Sermon To Mum nuts.
Declining ladies, especially married,
are more given, I think, than men, to
neglect their personal appearance, when
they are conscious that the bloom of
youth is gone.
1 do not speak of state occasions of set
dinner parties arid full dress balls, hut of
the daily meetings of domestic life.
Now, however, is the time above all
others when the wife must determine to
remain the pleasing wife, and remain her
John Anderson’s affection to the last, by
neatness, taste and appropriate variety of
dress.
That a lady Ims fast growing daugh
ters, strapping sons, arid a husband at his
office all day, is no reason why she should
ever enter the family circle with rumpled
hair, soiled cap, or unfastened gown.
The prettiest woman in the world
would be spoiled by such sins in her
toilette.
The morning duties, even in the store
room and kitchen, may be performed in
fitting, tidy costume, and then changed
for parlor habiliments equally tidy and
fitting.
The eye craves for variety as keenly as
the palate; and then, I honestly protest,
whatever her age, a naturally good-look
ing woman is always handsome, for,
happily, there exists more than one kind
of lreauty.
There is the beauty of infancy, the
beauty of youth, the beauty of maturity,
and, believe me, ladies and gentlemen,
the beauty of age, if you do not spoil it
by your own want of judgment.
..Young wife: “ Aly dear, don’t be
eternally finding fault with tbe fashion.
If you don’t like the style of my hair
don’t dress your’a in that way, that’s all.
If I were to follow your example I
should have to wear my hair bald-headed.
—P
Incidents off lic Siege of Plevna.
Skobeleff s wound waR not dangerous,
but would have been were it noton both
occasions when he was struck he was
wearing a thick double sheepskin coat,
which turned the rifle hall and prevented
tho fragment of shell doing more than
rip tho flesh. Skobeleff rode away to
visit the czar, and I, having breakfasted
with his staff, sallied out with ils chief,
Colonel lveroupat Kine, to view the po
sitions so gallantly taken and so obsti
nately defended on the night of the 9th
and morning of the 10th. Ah I scram
bled knee-deed in mud up the steep sides
of the “ Monte Vert,” 1 could not won
der to myself how under the pitiless fire
of tho Turkish regulars, the Russians had
succeeded at all in making good their
hold on the summit. Arriving on the
crest I had a glimpse at a corner ot the
Turkish position, hut as it was dangerous
work to lift even for n moment one’s
head above the cover of the pit, mo view
could be got worth describing. Still,
what 1 did witness and will endeavor to
tell you of, was one of those little episodes
of war which strike home ils terrors to
the heart more deeply than a day’s whole
sale slaughter. From the Turkish lines
stole out five men, crouching, creeping
and limning over the broken ground be
tween the lines toward a field of maize,
distant some eight hundred ynrds from
their starting point. Their rifles were
in their left hands, and every n*w and
then, thinking themselves safe from Rus
sion ken, they would stop as though to
see who of them should go on first, and
then went on again all of them together.
Their object evidently was to gain a corn
field about a hundred and fifty yards
from the spot whore Keroupat Kino and
I were lying, and gather the standiug
ears, then make back with them to
feast on with their comrades in their
trenches. But, alas for them, in this
very cornlield tho Russians had their
riflo-pits—it was all over in less time
than it takes to write! As the five on
hands and knees got amid the corn the
Russians leaped from the treuclus in
which they were hid, and, in a moment,
four Turks were quivering under their
bayonets. Tho fifth had presence of
mind enough to lling from him his rille,
ami such was his agony of fear and the
strength lent by it that the piece flew
some fifty yards. Ho was pushed down
with the butt end of a rifle and brought
in a prisoner. He told us that hunger
had compelled some fifty facing tis with
in the Turkish trenches to draw lots of
five as to who should go out anil gather
from the field in their front bags full ot
ears of Indian corn, and to these unlucky
five the chance had fallen.
In the earlier part of tho day whilst I
was breakfasting with the staff, as already
mentioned, a little detail of war occurred
which, though of no importance in itself,
serves to mark the character of war, and
brings out its sufferings and the callous
ness to the fate ol others which it must
of necessity engender even in the kindest
of dispositions.
A young, good looking sub lieutenant
of some twenty years or no presented
himself with a military salute before our
breakfast table, holding in his hand his
coat-tail riddled with bullet-holes, and
explained that as junior artillery officer
of iiis battery he had been ordered to
climb a tree to direct and mark the fire
on a newly-constructed redoubt thrown
up by the 'l urks and out of sight from
the ground level, that he hail been up
there two hours, the latter part of which
he had been the target of some four
Turkish sharpshooters, who were gradu
ally improving their practice, and lie
thought he had enough of it and begged
to be relieved. Everybody laughed as
the colonel chief ol the staff ordered him
hack again to his post, to remain until
he fell or was called down. And as I
laughed, too, in chorus, not quite under
standing for the moment what the matter
was— ■ f life anil death, lie gav :meas he
took himself ofl to ohsy, an “Et tu,
Brute,” look that 1 shall not forget. As
we rode back, a few drops of rain began
to fall, and a biting cold wind from the
east to make itself felt even through the
warm furs in which i was wrapped. An
hour lati r and the whole country had
changed so as to he no longer recogniza
ble, the few drops having increased to a
steady downpour of driving rain and
sleet, turning the hollows of the roads
into verv lakes, and the sides of the hills
into miry-sodden mud, in which the
lightest treading horse sank to the knees.
Cor. London Standard.
Turkish beggars, sufferers of the
present war in tbe east, have put in an
appearance. One of these medicants
presented himself at the door of an up
town residence lately, with his hat
extended iri a supplicatory manner, and
muttering, “ Allah liislimallah goloshes
rustachuk,” or something that way.
When a cross dog came up and seized a
mouthful of his brgvy breeches he
exclaimed: “Git out ’o that ye dirty
brute, or I’ll knockoff the head o’ ye.’
He knew the dog wouldn’t understand
the Turkish language. —Nonislovm Her
aid.
j . As was remarked by Mrs. l'ileher,
; when Mr. P. got into bed with l.is hat
Lind boots on, “it is not eorsidered a
proper thing in the ‘ best society.’ ”
WAIFS AND WHIMS.
.. “ Rapa,” said a bright Springfield
boy just home from a sleight-ofoband
entertainment, “I wish I was a conjurer.’
“ Why, my ton ?" “ I Would turn you
into a rat, call up the cat, and wouldn’t
I have fun ! ”
. A woman of Kalamazoo
Because she felt a kind of lugu-
BriouH, filled herself up
From a laudanum cup,
But they pumped her out dry ns a shoe !
— llaukejt.
. A New York court has decided that
a wife has a right to ask her husband for
a kiss, and if he refuses she can hit him
in the face, and he can’t have her fined
for the blow.
.. A Lancaster county man saved the
life of a mule that was dying from colic,
and the mule returned the compliment
by enabling the man’s wife to realize on
his insurance policy.
. .Country gentleman to foreign friend
—“Hi, there; fire, maul don’t you see
that hare back there?” Foreigner —
“ Vat! shoot ze poor ting down as it
retreat? No, no, my good saire, vait till
he turn about and face me, then I will—
zing!”—Judy.
. “Tf you would succeed in this life,
my son,” said Tom Corwin, “be solemn,
solemn as an ass. All the monuments
of this world are built to solemn asses.”
Artemus Ward’s fattier was more practi
cal. His creed was summed up in a few
words: “My son, go forth and ‘ hog ’
the public.”
. . The Lewiston Journal has some lines
about a man and a tramp :
*• Nw unto yondoi wood-pile go,
Where toll HU I return,
And foel how proud a thing It is
A livelihood to earn.”
A saddened look came o’er tho tramp;
He seeme i like one I'ereft;
He Htowed away the victuals cold ;
lie—law the wood and left f
“Heard about Brown’s will ?” yelled
a down town man to a deaf Main street
friend this morning. “ Brown swill ?
Brown swill? No, 1 hain’t heard any of
brown swill ; I’ve heaul of sour swill and
bran swill and”—awful pause. The
down-town man had vanished in a cloud
of profanity.— Bridgeport Standard.
. .The drunkard must, will and wants
to drink ; why ? Not because the liquor
is palatable ; at this stage it is not necess
sary that the drinker shall have choice,
“smooth” and old liquors. He would,
if the two kinds were put before him in
private, choose the older whisky ; but,
from the fact that it was smoother, he
would want an increased measure, to
make up for the absence of “burn.” the
warming of tho “inwards” as it went
down. This may seem strange, even to
habitual (but not depraved) drinkers;
hut it is a fact, that, the more fiery the
draft, the nearer it approaches their de
sires. In fact, the most desirable drink
that can be thought of lor the really
depraved drinker is a glass of raw spirits
end a liberal addition of Jamaica ginger,
or some preparation of capsicum. T°
this add enough ginger ale, as a vehicle,
to land it safe in the stomach without
strangulation. Once this dose com
fortably down, in sufficient quantity, the
drunkard is in elysium. —Hartford Times.
FAINTING AFTER THE SEN
TENCE.
A NlrliH|C<> Nmw in n Ilroolt ly (■ i oilrl
—Hr*. Hooper IKkieliii; (or Brroy.
Mrs. Mary I). Hooper, the beautiful
and fashionable-looking woman who whh
convicted of grand larceny in the Kimrs
county court of sessions for having stolen
the diamond jewelry of her friend, MrH.
William Delaney, of 212 High street,
Brooklyn, was arraigned yesterday for
sentence. She was dressed in a becoming
suit of black cashmere, and wore an
aureold black fiat, from which dropped
a thin veil that was drawn close around
her face. Her eyes were awollen with
weeping, and her pale face indicated that
she had passed a sleepless night. She
walked slowly to the clerk’s desk, nnd
trembled as the usual questions were put
to her. Bhesaid she was twenty-nine years
of ago, and that she had never been in
prison before. On being asked whether
she had anything to say why sentence
should not be pronounced on her, she
seemed to he thinking of a reply as Judge
Moore addressed her, saying: “It is the
uniform practice of this court, in cases
where persons are convicted of crime for
tho first time, and nothing is known
against their previous character, and the
crime is not one of particular atrocity
or enormity, to prescribe the lowest
sentence prescribed in the statute, and
the lowest sentence in a case like this is
one year. That is your sentence.”
Mrs. Hooper buried her face in her
hands, aud then, letting her hands fall,
she said, piteously : “Ob, mercy, judge,
have mercy ! Have pity on me! have
pity!” She tottered, and was about to
(all, as Officer Hamilton seized her about
the waist and supported her. She was
led out of the court room, and just as
she reached the door she fell, fainting.
The stalwart officers picked her up
bodily, and carried her into the sheriff’s
office, where she quickly recovered. >She
Heemed to be crushed by her sentence,
and said, over and over, “ Ob, my poor
father! It will kill him !” Officer Ham
ilton tried in vain to shield her from tbe
view of the gaping crowd that had hur
ried into the room. Her maid, Nellie
Hughes, who has been held as a witness,
was discharged, and the court ordered
that twenty-five dollars be paid to her,
as she was friendless and penniless in
the city- Much sympathy was felt for
Mrs. Hooper, who, in every stage of the
case since her arrest, has behaved like a
gentlewoman used to the kindest
treatment. A number of politicians of
this city were formerly her intimate
friends; but, although Mark Lanigan
and one or two others, offered to get bail
for her, none came forward to espouse
her cause, aud the witnesses subpheenaed
to prove her former reputation did not
1 respond.— N. Y. Sun.
NO. 21.