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Tie Jesnp Sentinel Office in the Jesup House, fronting on Cherry street, two doors from Broad iSt. PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY, 8Y... T. P. LITTLEFIELD. Subscription Rates. (Postage Prepaid.) One year 00 Six months 1 00 Three months 50 Advertising Rates* Per square, first insertion $1 00 Per Bquar7*each subsequent insertion. 75 Joß~Special rates to yearly and large ad vertisers. 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. JESUP HOUSE, Corner Broad and Ckerrv Streets, (Near the Depot,) T. P- LITTLEFIELD, Proprietor. Newly renovated and refurnished. Satis faction guaranteed. Polite waiters will take your baggage to and from the house. BOARD $2.00 per day. Single Meals, 50 cts 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.