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TOWN DIRECTORY.
TOWN OFFICERS.
Mayor—W. H. Whalev.
Councilmen—T, P. Littlefield, H. \V.
Whaley, Bryant George, O. F. Littlefield,
Anderson Williams,
Clerk ami Treasurer—O. F. Littlefield.
Marshal—ti. W. Williams.
COUNTY OFFCfiRS.
Ordinary—Richard B, Hopps.
Sheriff—John N, Goodbread.
Clerk Superior Court—Benj. O. Middleton
Tax Receiver—J. C. Hatcher.
'fax Collector —W. R, Causey.
Comity Surveyor—Noah Beimet.fi ~
County Treasurer—John Masse'*, I
Coroner—D. McDitba,
County Commissioners—J. F. King, G.
W. Haines, Janies Knox, J. G. Rich, Isham
Reddish. Regular meetings of the Board
3d Wednesday in January, April, July and
October. Jas. F. King, Chairman.
COURTS.
Snperiot Courl, Wayne .County—Juo. L.
Harris, Judge ; Simon W. Hitch," Solicitor-
General. Sessions held on second Monday
in March and September.
Blaciskar, Fierce Cnimty Gtoriia.
TOWN DIRECTORY.
TOWN OFFICERS.
Mayor—R. G. Riggins.
Councilmen—D. P. Patterson,.). M. Downs,
J. M. Lee, B. D. Brantly.
Clerk of Council—J. M. Purdom.
Toirn 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—.). M. Pur
'flom.
Chairman of Road Commissioners—llßl
District, Cr. M., Lewis C. Wyllv; 12 0 Bis
tried, U. M., George T. Moody ; 5.H4 District,
G. M., Charles S. Yomuanns; 590 Districts
G. M.. D. B. McKinnon.
Notary Publics and Justices of the Peace J
etc. —Blackshear Precinct. 584 district,G.M.,
Notary Public, J. G. S. Patterson ; Justice
of the Peace, R. R. Janies; Ex-officio Con
stable E. 7. Byrd.
DicksonVs Mill Precinct, 1250 District, G
M , Notary Public,Mathew Sweat; Justice of
Peace, Geo. T. Moody; Constable, W.
F. Dickson.
Patterson Precinct, 1181 District, G. M.,
Notary Public, Lewis C. Wylly; Justice of
the Peace, Lewis Thomas; Constables, 11.
Prescott and A. L. Griuer.
Sehlatterville Precinct. 590 District, G. M
Notary Public, D. B. McKinnon; Justice o
the Peace, R, T. James; Constable, .lohn W
Booth.
Courts—Superior court, Pierce county
John L. Harris, judge; Simon \V. 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.
JESDP HOUSE.
Corner Broad and Cherry Streets,
(Near the Depot,)
T. r. 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. SiDgle Meals, 50 cts
CURUENT PARAGRAPHS.
Popular Science.
Entomological specimens may be
instantly and easily killed by dropping a
bit of chloroform in the insect’s head.
No fluttering nor relaxation of the
muscles is perceptible.
Drawings made on the assumption that
the light tails from the left hand ton
corner appear solid ; but if the light is
made to fall from the right-hand lower
corner, the objects will appear hollow.
Two hundred and twenty street lamps
a!,•Providence, It 1., which extend over a
distance of nine mile*, are now lighted
and extinguished hv electricity, in less
than fifteen seconds, by one man.
The souring of milk during thunder
storms is very rapidly produced.
Malvern W. Ties considers this to be due
to the conversion of the oxygen into
ozone ; the ozone then forms acetic acid,
and the acetic acid causes the precipita
tion of casein.
The Japanese make a bird-lime, which
not only snares birds, but which catches
and holds animals as large as monkeys.
Hats are easily caught by placing a hoard
spread with this lime near toeir holes.
The same substance is used for medical
purposes, as a cure for wounds.
The freezing point of ether lies below
any degree of cold yet attainable, though
floculent masses have been obtained in
impure elher by applying a temperature
of thirty-one degrees centrigrade, or
about one hundred and two degrees
below the freezing point of Fahrenheit’s
scale.
For the destruction of hugs on fruit
trees, this simply and readily adminis
tered remedy is recommended : Select a
quiet morning, when the leaves are laden
with dew, to throw up among tl?e
branches fine, dry coal ashes. By this
means both sides of the leaves become
coated with ashes, and the slugs are killed
or driven off.
Industrial.
It requires from 8,000 to 10.000 artificial
eyes to supply the annual demand in
New York. Glass eyes for horses are also
in great request.
Thi beet-sugar works at Isleton, Cal.,
are said to be working night and day,
and using about seventy tens of beets in
twenty-f mr hours.
The American public use in paper
oellars eight tons of paper daily, and
over eight million five hundred thousand
yards of muslin.
Foreign. Note*.
All queen Victoria’s married children
have issue except the Marchioness of
borne.
VOL. 11.
Queen Victoria, during her recent
visit to Disraeli, planted a tree at Hugh
enden Manor to com cemorate her visit,
j At Leipzig a “ General Anti-Adultera
tion society ” has been formed, and
brarches will be established in some 60
town*.
American rifles are now in the hands
of half the armies in the world. The
only great powers not directly employing
i American arms are France, Germany
( and England.
An exhibition of skins at the recent
I exposition of Morelia, Mexico, has led
to the establishment of a factory in
Mexico for the manufacture of gloves
from moleskins.
The Clocks in the Basque provinces of
France are made to strike twice, first to
give warning and then to denote the
hour. Few of the people can read the
time, and frequently no minute hand is
used.
Breach of trust is not viewed leniently
iu France, where people aie very careful
of their money. M. Gui'hot, a very
noted notary at Angouleme, has been
found a defaulter to the tune of $240,000,
and consequently goes to jail for ten
years.
On the 2J Chachapoyas, the capital of
Amazon, was visited by an earthquake
which demolished several houses and
damaged many more. Fortunately there
was no loss of life. The walls swinging
to and fro, the groaning roofs, the noise
of falling tiles, the weds cracking and
throwing out clouds of dust, combined
with the sluieks and groans of the agon
ized inhabitants, made a frightful scene.
Callas also experienced a severe shock ol
the earthquake, but no damage was done.
The Prince of Wales can hang 6-Ut
his shingle as an attorney, should Tlny
thiug happen. He was called to the bar
a few years ago, at his own desire and
with the usual formalities, and took the
oath prescribed on admission. He was
at ihe came time made a master ot the
bench, the benchers being the governing
body of the society of the middle temple.
His portrait has recently been painted,
in the bencher’s silken rohe, and is to he
placed in the hall of the middle temple,
London. Whether he knows anything
about law is another question.
3li<4cellnm‘onH.
There were only murder
ers hanged last year among a population
of 50,000,000.
In New England they pour water over
a tree in a skating-rink, and form a very
pretty iceberg which is exhibited at
night with an electric light.
Lynn is said to be losing its trade in
boots and shoes, whioh used to he almost
a monopoly. Western manufacturers are
getting a large share of the business.
The Methodist ministers of Boston
“ believe that all attempts to reform the
theatre are uptopian and vain, and that
they can hold no relation toward this
school of vice hut that of stern, unrelent
ing. Christian hostility.
The republic of Honduras is about to
introduce the American free fchooi sys
tem. In its capital, Camayagua, a
national college is to he established, and
a commissioner has been sent to this
country to obtain books and teachers.
Judge Guigon suspended the licenses
of six Richmond barkeepers whose
registers lor the month of October did
not show enough sales to pay tax and
license, but suspended sentence until the
supreme court could settle the matter.
For December these same barkeepers
report six times the business of October.
Standing Rock agency, on the J-yiper
Missouri, takes its name form a bottle
bowlder alxiut two feet high and about
eighteen inches through at its base, on
the prarie two miles north of this point. :
Every day it is visited by members of
the tribe, who paint it green, red or
yellow, as fancy dictates. In summer
wreathes of flowers are thrown over the j
rock and in winter the upper portion is j
wrapped in flannel.
The .Montreal street-car conductors |
laugh at the shaking ol a bell-punch, and
so the directors compel them to advertise j
their dishonesty by carrying cash-boxes
slung around their necks. The passt-nger i
places the money on the lid of the box, :
the conductor presses a spring, and it falls i
in. <lf the conductor touches the money j
with his hand he is discharged.
There are twenty-five packing houses j
in Baltimore, employing each from 50 j
to 450 hands, and handling 3,000,000 of |
raw and 15,000,000 of canned oysters
each season. Besides there are 50 steam- j
ing houses, where 25,000,000 cans are J
Bred each season by 7,000 men. j
y 2,000 men are engaged in making |
cans. Oyster shuekers make on an aver- j
erage $1.25 a day, but some experts j
make as much as $5. A bushel of oys
ters iu the shell will make ten cans, and j
one firm have shucked and canned as i
many as 7,500 bushels in a day
Wanted a’Lffttle Excitement.
A man with more ears than brains i
heard his neighbors in Atlanta, Ga., de
scribe an infernal machine, and forth
with took ihe hint and constructed one.
Ons night last week he carried his toy
to the front steps ol a merchant’s resi
dence, and after setting it down, rang the
bell. When the portly form of the mer
chant appeared in the doorway the vis
itor pointed to the box and told him that
a plot had been formed to blow up his
house. The cigai box was dropped into
a pail of water and then opened. It had
a lining of white pine, and was divided
into three compartments, each of which
was packed with gunpowder and shot;
and in the central one was three matches,
placed so as to come in contact with sand
paper when the lid was raised. The
merchant suspected at once tfiat the in
ventor of the machine stood before him,
although his visitor pretended to have
overheard in an aii :y the details of the
plot. The police arrested the half-witted
fellow, and forced him to admit that he
had made the box. Times were rather
dull, he said, and he had thought that a
little excitement might help business.
. Amer.ca makes the best brushes i .
the world, but has to go to Germany
and Russia for the bristles.
JESUP, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY <*>, 1878.
“ SEVER,SAY FAIL.*
Tlitre is very good advice— within limits—given
by Mrs. Winton in the following verses:
Keep pushing; ’tis wiser
Thau sitting aside,
And di earning, and sighlug,
And waiting the tide.
In life’s sorest battlb
They only prevail
Who daily ’march onward
An iicvt r say fail!
With an eye ever open,
A tongue that’s not dumb,’
And a heart that will never, \
That will never succumb—
You’ll battle and conquer—
Though thonsand6 a-sfiil;
flow strong and how mighty *
Who never Bay 'ail I
The spirit of angels
Is rctivc, I know,
As higher and higher
In glory they go.
Rethinks on bright pinions
From heaven they sal!,
To cheer and enco rrnge
Who never say fain
In lile’s rosy morning,
In manhood’s firm pride,
i,et this be the motto
You, footsteps to guide ;
In storn and in sunshine,
Whatever assail.
We’ll onward and conquer,
And never say fail!
Her Heart’s Secret.
“If you refuse Duncan Halcroft you
are a complete idiot, Georgina Gilroy,
and I wash my hands of your affairs
altogether.”
Mrs. Cassowin sails majestically from
the rcom where Georgina, her niece,
remains nervously clasping and unclasp
ing her slender White fingers, and wonder
ing why matrimony should he a positive
duty iu the code by which ske had been
educated. She is only twenty two,
slender, fair, and looking about sixteen,
with her waving golden hair and soft,
brown eyes.
She has two hundred pounds a year,
all her own, and why can’t she l>e
allowed to live a quiet life unmolested.
Since her own parents died, about three
years ago, she had been dragged from the
country parsonage, in which her father
lived and died, saviug the little fortune
for Georgina, by close economv, to her
aunt’s fashionable home, such as her
mother pined lor throughout all Georg
gina’s childhood.
“ When you marry, I hope you will
return to your proper sphere,” MrH.
Gilroy would say, whenever she spoke of
Georgina’s future ; but she never heeded
much in those days.
Sitting in Mrs Cassowin’s grand draw
ing-room, waiting for Duncan Holcroft
to come and propose to her, as her aunt
informed her he had requested permis
sion to do, Georgina, timid and gentle,
felt her whole being rise in revolt.
Was life to be to herwhatit was to her
aunt, a round of calling, shopping, party
going, party-giving, interviews with
dressmakers and milliners? Could she
riot escape to some locality where there
were nobler aims and desires?
Where ?
Mrs. Cassowin had expostulated in
vain. Hitherto, Georgina had been
gently firm.
But on this day even her courage
failed before her aunt’s wrath at the
proposal to dismiss Duncan Holcroft.
He came across the wide drawing-room
as she sat thinking, his footfall unheard
upon the soft carpet.
He was tall, erect, handsome, past fifty,
yet not old ; his eyes clear as a
his iron-gray liair curly and Fv'lthdant,
his gray moustache giving a military air
to his well-cut features.
Faultless in attire, courteous in man
ner,* he also possessed half a million
attractions in solid investments.
But all else seemed to him worthless
comi ared to the possession of that slen
der, pale child, who, half buried in a
deep arm chair, realized as yet nothing
of the yearnings of love in the large,
da-X eyes fixed upon her.
It was scarcely to he supposed that
Duncan Holcroft, bachelor as he was
had traveled over fifty years of life with
untouched heait, hut he had lived over
all other love till this one came and con
quered him.
It stirred his heart with a sick pain,
when Georgina, looking up, paled to her
lips, while her eyes were full of fear and
trouble, seeing him.
She had always given him a frank,
cordial greeting,* and he had hoped to
win sweeter tokens still from her soft
eyes and sweet lips, and instead he had
lost what was already given.
“Did you not expect me?” he said,
gently ; “ you looked startled.”
“ 1 did not know yon were here, and
it did startle me to see you so close be
side me?” Georgina said, a flaming color
shooting now over cheek and brow, as
she wished herself a thousand miles away.
He spoke to her gravely then, and
very, very gently, wooing her most
tenderly, considerate of her youth, her
timidity; and heartly ashamed, she
coaid only sob and shiver.
“Child,” he said at last, “do I distress
you ? Am Iso hateful to you—that—
But she interrupted him quickly:
“ You are not hateful to me,” she said,
impulsively. “I line you ever—ever so
much, only, why do you want to marry
me?”
He could not keep back a smile, though
his heart throbbed heavily with pain.
“ I love you, dear,” he said; “ I love
you far too well to wish to grieve you.
Shall we he friends still ?”
“ Oh, if you will,” she said, eagerly,
ignorant o f the stab in every word, “ let
us forget to-day.”
As if he could.
But lie was a true gentleman, a sincere,
unselfish lover, aud he led her on to talk
of other matters till the ashy palor left
her cheeks and lips, and she was her
sweet shy self again.
Then he left her.
Left her to meet such wrath from Mrs
Cassowin that she rose against her bitter
speeches.
“ I will go to Grandfather Gilroy
since you are so tired of me,” Georgina
said.
“ I would ! Ga bury yourself in that
wretched little farmhouse of Fry Corn
ers) you, who might the fashion
here, Duucan Holcroft’s wife 1”
But. even Fry Corners free preferable
to Georgina, to the prospect of leading
the fashion.
She shivered at the thought, shy little
country flower, 'and accepted her aunt’s
ungracious dismissal.
It even seemed as if she threw off a
burden when she stepped from her luxu
rious carriage at the station.
Mrs. Cassowin, slightly remorseful,
was at the last moment willing to revoke
her decree of banishment, but Georgina
Would not see tha flag of truce, only half
unfolded, and went to Fry Corners.
It was not a fascinating abode, a small
farm, managed by a miserly old man
and one maid servant of seventy or
thereabouts, whose life was a burden be
cause old Mr. Gilroy had failed to make I
her his wife, after accepting her atten- j
tions for a matter of thirty or forty
years.
Georgina had the free, open country,
perfect liberty to go as she pleased, and J
the command of her own income.
But she was not happy.
“ I do believe I am naturally of a dis
contented disposition,” she thought, as
she wandered up a shady lane. “I’ve got
all I want, a country home, old woman
to help, and children to be kind to. I
can play Lady Bountiful to half Fry
Corners on a small scale. I have miles
of good, useful sewing, plenty of books,
my own piano, nobody to scold me, no
fiiierv to worry over, and yet—l—l won
der if Duncan Holcroft cares because I
have gone ?”
What made that question leap to her
mind a hundred times a day ?
She had refused him, put Him out of
her life,nd yet she thought ol hiscourtly
manner, his grave, gentle kindness, his
real conversation, so different from the
society small talk that wearied and puz
zled her.
Did he miss her ?
She feltJierself such an atom in his
circle of friends, so lowly and little, com
pared to belles fluttering ever in view,
so ignorant ana insignificant, that she
could only wonder when she remembered
the honor he had paid her.
Spring flowers faded, summer blooms
died, autumn fruits were gathered in,
winter snows melted.
Ii was May again, and Georgina had
been one year at Fry Corners.
The old farmer had failed in that year,
and very tenderly and pitifully his
grandchild nursed him.
And, wearying for an interest in life,
Georgina gave time, strength, and an
unfailing patience to the querulous in
valid, never faltering in her seif-imposed
duties.
He died in May, blessing her with his
last breath, and after the funeral, Janet,
the old servant, produced a will giving
her the farm and the savings of years of
grinding economy.
Georgina had known of this, and had
remonstrated when Mr. Gilroy would
have made another will.
“ I have more than I spend,” she
said; “and Janet has served you faith
fully.”
But once more homeless, she joined a
party of Mrs. Cassowin’s friends and went
abroad.
Here was surely interest, variety, but
never ease for the old heart-hunger.
What would fill her life, round it to its
full perfection ?
Dive was offered more than once, hut
met no return, aud she sighed heavily
over her own hard heart.
In Rome, where the party lingered
many weeks, Georgina lived anew life
of delight in seeing what she had imag
ined in hours of reading, what her father
had often described to her, having visited
the Eternal City as a tutor in his young
days.
But in Rome, one of the party, loung
ing in lazily to the general sitting-room
of the wide house where they all lodged,
said, half yawning :
“ Holcroft is here, down with the ma
laria!”
“Where?” someone asked indiffer
ently.
“At the hotel where we stopped the
first week we were here. He’s going to
die they say.”
“ Die ? Duncan Holcroft ?”
Georgina groped her way dizzily un
perceived to the balcony.
Couhi the wide world hold so much
misery as pressed her down.
Light a lightning flash she read the
cause of all her restless ciaving since she
1 had leit London.
She loved Duncan Ho’croft, king
amongst men. Sue had walked away
from her own paradise, closing the door
and Duncan Holcroft would die, and
never knew she had loved him.
I
At the hotel where they had stopped !
Why it was close beside them.
She could be there in ten minutes.
She never (mused to think of propriety.
Wrapping her head and shoulders in a
fleecy white shawl, she sped along the
street, thankful for the gathering twi
light.
The waiters paused, but led her to the
room. At the doar she paused.
She could see a sister of charity kneel
ing beside a high tied, could hear a sweet
voice say:
“ She is here, in Rome. When 1 am
1 dead, carry her my message. Tell her I
loved her to the last, You will find her
at the address l gave .you, Georgina
Gilroy 1 You will not forget the namef’
Trembling and white, Georgina crept
iu, softly laying her band u(>on the sis
ter’s shoulder.
“I atn Goorgina Gilroy,” she whis
pered, very low.
But low as it was, the whisper reached
Duncan Holcroft’s ears, and a smile
lighted his white, wasted face.
“ Little Geergie,” he said faintly,
“Darling, have you come to say fare
well ? ’
“ No,” she answered, strangling the
sob in her throat. “ I have come to (tray
you to live—for me!”
A great joy lighted his languid eyes.
“For you I Georgie, do you love me at
list?”
“ I think I have always loved you.”
she sobbed, “only I know it at last”
“ 1 cannot die now,” he said.
And he did not.
Clasping Georgiana’s slender hand fast,
he found the life-giving Hleep all nnrcrtt
ics had failed to give him, waking after
many hours to pee loving eyes weanedly
watching him.
They were married when the priest
came in a few hours later, the good
sister still remaining to share the nurs
ing-
But the life-giving joy was Georgina’s
love, and all the restless discontent left
her happy life forever, when once she
knew the Hecret of her own heart.
Mrs. Cassowin says she can’t under
stand why Georgina had followed Dun
can Holcroft to Rome, when she might as
well have had a proper wedding and re
ception at home; and Georgina has
never explained.
Fry Corners sees her no more, nor will
her husband make her a slave to fashion
or society, hut hand in hand, thoroughly
one in heart and mind, they find useful
work and tender charity to fill all the
leisure hours when friendships calls arc
answered.
An Anecdote of I lie War.
I have heard an old war story, aud, by
the way, it is one of the best of them. I
had it from u former officer under Btone
wall Jackson: “On one of our marches
in the early spring, when a chilling rain
had hp,cn falling for (lavs and (lie slush
was almost waist deep, our command,
utterly wretched and broken down, was
struggling along as best it could under
such circumstance* Worn out myself,
I crept into a fence-corner to reslawhile.
Presently 1 saw a solitary atruggler com
ing alowly up the road. Me seemed
almost exhausted —his shoes were gone
and his feet cut and bleeding. I was
struck with his appearance, for through
all its wretchedness shone the indomitable
spirit of the southern soldier—the man
who would be found at his post or else
dead in the attempt to roach it. f
watched him closely, and as hi’ dragged
himself slowly past, I heard him mutter
to himself:” ’Bless me if I ever love
another country.’ ” — Cor. of Ihe Richmond
DixpaMh.
Salt.
Salt is the medium for solution and
absorption. Experiments of French cci
entists showed that flssli deprived of
salt, by being washed witli water, lost
its nutritive power, and that animals
who fed on it soon died of starvation.
Animals shorn of salt, in addition to that
supplied by their food, become dull and
heavy in temperament, with rough,
staring coats and dead eyes; while salt
consuming animals soon present a skin
as smooth as velvet, showing a greater
relish for food, and giving a rapid increase
of weight consequent upon the larger
consumption of food induced.
A physician of Rochester says that
the girls of that town are very pretty,
and they grow in grace and loveliness
until they are about eighteen or twenty,
when they get pale, sickly-looking ami
faded, “going all to pieces” at twenty
six. Among the causes of (heir deteri
oration he enumerates the lack of exer
cise in the open air, the wearing of veils
that interfere with breathing, tight lac
ing, round dances and too much study.
This condemnation of the waltz corks
from an un jpected <juarter, as that
dame has hitherto been denounc'd by
people who were anxious about tee fouls
rather than the bodies of the waitzers.
Dog seller—" That ’ere hanimai’s
the real stock, rrum, and dog-cheap at
$80.” Young widow—lt’s a sweet, pretty
darling, black and white; but, in my
present state of bereavement, you must
procure me one entirely black. This will
do very well in about si* months for
■ half-acouruiug.
THE HARRIET I,AM].
A Vrmrl Willi mi lutci-osling: History.
There is now tied up at the wharf, a
little above Jackson htreet, a three mas
ted ship, which attracts by the beauty
and symmetry of its appearance. She
looks like a vessel which is able to cut
her way through the water with excep
tional Bpeed and grnce, and the facts do
not contradict the eeemingness. She is
sharp and lengthened in build, and sug
gests the idea of about sixteen c.r seven
teen knots an hour in a favorable wind.
This vessel is now called the Ritchie, and
Captain T. W. Hutchinson, an able and
experienced officer, is at present,-'Said lias
been for yews, her com mender. She
will probably leave by the end of next
week,.
The vessel has got a history which is
entwined with that of the late struggle
between the north and south. She was
built in 1858, and was launched in 1859,
and the name Harriet Lane was con
ferred upon her. This name was con
ferred in honor of the niece of President
Buchanan. She was then a revenue cut
ter, sido wheel steamer, and performed j
many offices of honor, among which
may be mentioned the reception of
the Prince of Wales. In 1862
she was captured at Galveston i
in an extraordinary way. Approaching !
the city, protected by seven guns, alio
was attacked by two small vessels, the
Bayou City and Neptune. Neither craft
had a heavy gun on bomd, but had bar- I
ricadee ot cotton piled high, whence they
sent the deadly rifle-ball to the doomed
crew of the Harriet Lane. She responded
with her heavy broadsides, and succeeded
in sinking the Neptune (the wreck of
which is yet before Galveston), hut she
was finally captured, all hands being
hilled hut three, who were badly
wounded. At Galveston, at the lime,
under the orders of General Magrudcr,
was a Colonel Lee. lie was a confede
rate, hut had reason to know that his
son was one of the crew of the hapless
federal cutter. Obtaining permission to
visit the ship, he found that his son was
among the ill fated three. The only
consolation, however, lie had was to ser
ins son a few hours alterwards die in his
arms. Homo time afterward, when Cap
tain Hutchinson had assumed command
of the vessel, Colonel Lee visited it and
cried like a child because of the memories
it awakened. Alter ihft capture of the
Harriet Lane the confederates used her
as biockadc-runner between Galveston
and Havana. In 1865, when she was in
Havana, the federal government claimed
her from the Spanish, and after consider
able red-tapeism she war given up.
Afterward she was sold and recon
structed, her boiler being taken out and
the wheels removed. She was then
made a sailing vessel of, and lias since i
been plying in the merchant service, |
the old hull and much of the furniture
of the Harriet Lane still being preserved.
New Orlean* Ptcauune.
'lTic Denudation of (lie Sierras.
It will be but a very short time before
we shall be able to observe the effect that
stripping the pine forests from the sides
and summit of the Sierras will have on
the climate of this state and California.
In a few years every accessible tree, even
to such as are only of value as firewood,
will ha swept from the mountains. Even
now this has been done in some places.
It is to he Imped that anew growth of
pines or timber trees of some kind may !
spring upon the ground that has been
cleared; hut we do not hear that any
such growth has yet started.
Already one great change has occurred
that is evident to the most ordinary ob- j
server, which is the speedy melting j
away of the snow on the mountains It
now goes off at ones—in a flood—with t
the first warm weather of spring, whereas
formerly, being shaded and protected
by the pines and other evergreen frees,
it melted slowly, and all summer sent
down to valleys, on both the eastern and
western slopes of the Sierras, constant
and copious streams of water. Instead
of a good stage of water in our streams
throughout summer, as in former times,
there is a flood in the spring, aid when
this is passed by our rivers s|ieedily run
down, and being no longer fed from the
mountains, evaporation leaves their beds
almost dry when the hot weather of sum-
mer comes on.
The mountains being stripped of their
trees there will ho nothing to shade the
rocks and eaith, and both wili tbsorba
sufficient amount of heat from the says
of the sun during the fall, and even till
far into the winter, ’a meet any light fall
of snow that may occur. The result
will he that our autumn weather will
reach further and further into winter
until at last we shall have no winter
worthy of the name
On the California side of the moun
tains the effect will 1-e much the same.
The hot weather of the valleys will ex
tend over the foothills, and gradually
reach up into the mountains.— Virginia
(Nf-r.) Jfnlerj/rite.
“ He took two drops of thought, and
beat them into a bushel of bubbles,” was
the description given of a speaker whose
rhetoric ran ahead of hi* logic. Rowland
Hill said of some me In his day, “ they
had a river of words, with only a spoon-
I ful of thought.”
WAIFS ANI> WHIMS.
The Gir(. Wjk
‘Ovtr the mountain and ever the moor, V
Hungry and barefoot I wundei;forlorn--
My father Is dead, and my mother is poor,
a nd atif! weppi for the days that will never return*-
Pitv kind Kemle folks, frit ixlsof
Keen blown the winds, and ihe nigfot's eoraln#
on
G.vp me food for my mother- for char JtJT —
(rive raesoine food, and then l-wih begoa*.
* fit'
Call ne not hizv-baek, idle, armtbd enougfc,
Fain won’d f Nvni both to kffttfltfld to _
The two little brothers at home, when
enough,
They shall woik hard for the giffs yon beetovr.
Think, while you revel at home at four leli&re.
8 cure from tilt* wind, and well clothed and fid
If fortune should fail, how har.Ht would bo
To beg at the door for a nittsel of bn nd. 1 ’
*■ •*#:. -
Jones finds drinking like a; fish-make*
his head swim.
Oil has been “ struck *' near Head
wood, in the Black Hills region.
. You can detect a counterfeit coin by
putting it in water. It it swims it’s bad.
. Age makes us tolerant f I never see
a fault which I did not commit.
In lowa a good dancer is said to
“ throw a hefty sock.” W*,:.
■ How’s your husband this evening,
Mrs. Quages?” “No improvement one
way or the other.”
. A little boy inquired concerning the
stars: “Pa, what n:e those things up
f there—are they little dropv'of sun?”
Wife,—The experi
ence of many a life, “ What a fool I have
been!” The experience of many a wife,
“ What a fool I’ve got!”
NO. 23.
.. Tt is almost impossible to wash ink
j stains out of clothing, hut if you use the
Hame ink to mark a name on a boiled
shirt it will disappear in two weeks.
. . Cooking parties are all the rage in
Paris. The guests pair, of male and fe
male after their kind, and each pair must
prepare a dish for the common supper.
. ."See, mamma!'' exclaimed a littie
one, as puss with arching spine and ele
vated rudder, strutted around the table
“see, Kitty’s eat so much she can’t shut
her tail down.”
..The life insurance agent and lighl
ning-rod man have struck hands in a
partnership, and are now'going about the
country inveigling the fsrmers into hav
ing their cows insured against lightning.
~ An improved implement has been
invented for spreading butter on bread,
and now a machine which will carve a
hoarding-hov.se chicken on the principle
of an apple parer would not he n had
idea.
..Much has been written against the
accordeon, hut the first evening after a
young man who practiced on one moved
into the second floor of a house on Union
street a smile lit up the face of the aged
citizen who lay in sickness on the floor
above. He said that he was now recon
ciled to death.
There iH lame and fame. A gentleman
has just died on the northwestern fron
; tier whose claim to a niche iu history’s
gallery is based on the fact that he once
1 ate the liver of an Indian. lie was a
skillful scout and Sturgis’ best guide in
; the pursuitof Joseph, hut he appears to
he host known, and likely to lie longest
remembered, on account of his eccentri
| feat of gastronomy.— St. Paul Pi. Fr,
. It is wonderful what a halo truo love
will throw around a dear one’s form.
i Here a girl will go and come and sit with
] a great lubber of a lubber every evening
! in a year—while he flounders around on
| her train, steps on her toes, knocks over
) tables and commits scores of other depre
dations with his No. II hoots—and yet,
c.mie Christmas, she will sweetly make
him a present of a No. 5 pair of slippers,
i with a pink rosebud worked on top.
France Armed for the Fray.
An exhaustive compilation of statistics
relating to the “Armed Ktrength of
France,” has recently emanated from
the intelligence branch of the quarter
master general’s department at the horse
guards, and it is impossible to scan the
results of Maj. Fast’s laborious investiga
tions on the subject without being struck
at the prodigious strides made by the
French military authorities in the work
of reorganization since the passage of the
new law, “sur le recrutement,” by the
National assembly five years ago. Never
Isince the disastrous campaign of the
First Napoleon, which dosed at Water
oo, has the normal rate of expenditure
upon the army of France approached the
amount it has now reached. The num
erical strength of the troops at present
established on a |>eaep footing exceeds by
311,000 men what was deemed sufficient
on the same basts immediately before
the outbreak of the wsr with
Germany. The French war office
has spared no pains to become
acquainted with the working of
every military system in Europe. Ill*
a portentous tact that, according to the
estimate of Maj. Fast, notwithstanding
her immense loss of territory, money
and population, France at this moment
possesses a total available land forcr.
c insisting exclusively of trained men, <.
2,473,766. This vast aggregate includes
the “active” and “territorial” armier
with the reserves belonging to them re
spectively.
Consequently a mighty force, drawn
from this armed host, under the new
regime, could be put in the field in a
comparatively short space of time. Of
course, it is only the modified plan ol
recruiting introduced subsequent to the
Franco Uerman war that could render
possible the mobilization of a force n>
enormous. By the act pa.-eed in 1572,
every Frenchman between twenty and
forty became liable to jtersoual military
service, without the chance of receiving
any kind of bounty by way of compen
nation for enlistment. So stringent.y
are the regulations en’orced in respect to
this matter that no substitution is si
lowed, and even dispensations from sei
vice obtainable under certain condition-,
do not necessarily secure exemption.