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Tie Jesnj Sentinel
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street, two I'oors from Broa>l St.
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TOWN DIRECTORY.
TOWN OFFICERS.
Mayer—W. H. Whaley.
Counciimeo —T. P. Littlefield, H. \V.
Whaley, Bryant George, O. F. Littlefield,
Anderson Wiliams,
Clerk and Tbeasurer —O. F. Littlefield.
Marshal— G. W. Williams.
COUNTY OFFCEBS.
Ordinary—Biohard B. Hoops.
iherift—John X. (Oiodb tad.
Clerk feupeiiot Court -Benj.O. Middleton
Tax Receiver —J. <;. Hatcher.
Tax Collector- \V. t'. Causey.
County Surveyor—Noah Bennett.
County Treasure.. —John Massey.
Coroner—D. McDitba.
County Coimntsaiio^rs—f F. King, G.
Vv . "TfaYnesTdames Knox, X, G. Rich, Ishani
Reddish. Regular meetings of the Board
Sd Wednesday in January. April, July and
October. Jas. F. King, Chairman.
COURTS.
Superioi Court, Wayne County—Jno. L.
Harris, Judge; Simon W. Hitch, Solicitor-
General, Sessions held on second Monday
in Mi rch and September.
SlaiMear, Fierce Com!? Georgia
TOWN DIRECTORY.
TOWN OFFICERS.
Mayor—i! 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. ,T. 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., Lew 's C. Wvlly; 12 0 Dis
trict, G. M., George T. Moody ; 584 District,
G. M., Charles S. Youmanns; 590 District,
G. M„ D. B. McKinnon.
Notary Publics and Justices of the Peace'
etc.—Blaeltshear Precinct. 584 district,G.M.,
Notary Public, J, G. S. Patterson; Justice
of the Perce, R. It. James; Ex-officio Con
stable E. Z Byrd.
Dickson? Mill Precinct, 1250 District, G
M, Notary Public,Mathew Sweat ; Justice of
the Peace, Geo. T. Moody; Constable, W.
V. Dickson.
Patterson Precinct, 11 SI District, G. M.,
Nota y Public, L'ewis C. Wyllv; Justice of
the Peace, Lewis Thomas ; Constables, 11.
Prescott and A. L. Griner,
Schlatterville Precinct 590 District, G. M
Notary Public, P. B. McKinnon; Justice o
the Peace, 11. T. James; Constable, John W
Booth.
Courts —Superior court, Pierce county
John L. Harris, judge; Simon W. Hitch
Solicitor General. Sessions held first Mon
ui} 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.
JESBP HOUSE,
Comer Broad and Cherrv 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 ets
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
Southern News.
The Chattanooga Times says a beat
chased by dogs in the mountains near
that city would double up and roll over
the cliffs.
The birth rate in Georgia since 1863
among the whites has been a little more
than 30 per cent., and among the blacks
a little more than 50.
Twenty-two towns in Texas are or
ganizing companies and making prepar
ations to build the roads to connect
them with the trunk lines.
The Georgia Home Insurance com
pany, headquarters at Columbus, has
earned for its stockholders a dividend of
twelve and a half per cent, for the past
year.
A rencounter occurred at a marriage
in Clark county, Ala., last Saturday, in
which the groom was fatally wounded,
and Hunter Smith, of Mobile, killed
outright.
Among the shipments last year from
the port of Wilmington, N. G'., were 70,-
570 bushels of peanuts, 101,832 lbs. tur
pentine, 537,696 bbls. resin and 501 bags
asbestos.
Peter Cooper is negotiating for the pur
chase of Limestone Springs, near Spar
tanburg, S. C., where he will establish
an institution similar to Cooper institute
of New York.
It is thought that Lieutenant Flipper,
the only colored graduate of West
Point, will he appointed military instruc
tor of the colored branch of the Texas
A. and M. College.
The cause of education seems to be j
improving in Tennessee. Jn the State
University at Oxford there are now
neatly Tour hundred students against
less than two hundred last year.
The supreme court of South Carolina
has declared the election of six circuit
udges null and void, on account of the
election by the legislature being viva voce
instead of by ballot. The decision was
unexpected and startling.
Foreign Gossip.
The estimates for the expanses of the
Paris police for Is, 8 are $4,000,000.
The total Russian losses to January sth
were 80,435 men.
VOL. 11.
In Japan a law requires fish to be sold
alive. They are peddled in tanks.
The young king of Spain proposes to
guard himself against military uprisings
by being the commander of his own army.
American experts are engaged in exam
ining oil wells in the north of Formosa,
China, and extensive preparations are
making for their development.
Brazil is the only country in America
where slavery legally exists. Official
figures, published in 1874, place the
slave population at 1,016,262.
The new queen of Italy, Margarita, is
one of the most beautiful women of royal
blood in Europe. She is twenty-six, and
eight years the junior ot her husband,
who is her cousin.
The Dutch at the Paris exposition w ill
come out very strong in tulips. Forty
thousand bulbs are to be planted so as to
figure out the arms of Haarlem in a most
effective manner.
An enterprising German has cleared a
banana plantation on the Isthmus of
Panama, where the wet, rich, alluvial
soil is peculiarly adapted to the produc
tion of the banana. He employs more
than two hundred persons, and is rapidly
growing rich.
The incomes of the leading surgeons
in London aie enormous, Sir Henry
Thompson performs the operation of
lythotomy ninety times a year, on an
average. His fees range from 200 to 600
guineas, and amount to about $150,000
per annum.
Great excitement is said to have been
caused in San Domingo and Hayti by a
rumor that Spain will sign a treaty with
San Domingo at the end of this month,
assuming a protectorate over that ieland.
The rumor serves to further increase the
unpopularity oi President Diaz.
AdispatchHorn the United States vice
consul at Shanghai, asking for funds,
says an appalling famine is raging
throughout four provinces of north
China. Nine millions of people are re
ported destitute. Children are daily
sold in the markets for food.
From Washington.
The secretary of the treasury, in an-
BW’er to a resolution of the house, sent a
communication to that body showing
the amount of interest paid in coin and
currency to the national bauks from
bonds held by the treasury for the se
curity and redemption of the currency
issues o! said oanks, from 1803 to Janu
ary 17, 18/8. The recapitulation shows
coin interest paid, $244,278,271; currency
interest, $8,5f9,285; total, $262,837,650.
The house bill for paying the army
fixes the pay of the general of the army
at slo,ooo, that of the lieutenant generals
at SB,OOO, that of major generals at $6,
000, that of brigadier generals at $5,000,
colonels at SB,OOO, lieutenant-colonels at
, $2,500, majors at f 2,0C0, captain of eav
i airy at SI,BOO, captains of infantry at
$1,600, first lieutenants of cavalry at
$1,600, same of infantry at $1,400, second
lieutenants of cavalry at $1,200, same of
infantry at SI,OOO. Under the law all
the officers below the rank of colonel get
what is called the “fogy ration,” which
is ten per cent, on their pay for each five
year’s service. The bill also increases
the pay of sergeant major from $22 to
j $33. All first sergeants are increased
' from $22 to $32, all sergeants from sl7
to $22, all corpoials from sls to $lB.
The increase of pay to the non commis
sioned officers amounts to about $50,000
a year. The decrease of officers’ pay and
allowances amount to about $1,250,000.
The treasury department is embar
rassed as to the proper course to he
pursued iu relation to the coinage of
trade dollars. The demand for these
coins at San Francisco for export to
China is quite active. It is expected to
continue to the last of April. The law
requires this demand to be met without
limit at the present price of silver and
gold and of the value of the greenback
dollar. The trade dollars can be placed
in domestic circulation at a profit of
from 3 to 4 per cent, to the owners of
silver bullion. A portion of the San
Francisco mint coinage of trade dollars
is coming east, and bullion dealers in
New York and elsewhere in the east
demand that the Philadelphia mint shall
be opened for the same coinage. It is
probable that a decision will be reached
soon, and that it will he to allow de
posits of silver to he made at the Phila
delphia mint for returns in the trade
dolla?. If this is done, coinage will be
continued at Sin Francisco and Carson
City, aud all three mints will have work
sufficient to keep them fully employed
until congress acts definitely on the silver
question. The director of the mint con
-1 siders it important to retain the present
skillful force of workman at the mint, in
view of pending legislation in relation to
the silver question.
Tbe Fair Sex.
Basques and polonaises* are equally
fashionable.
Braided letters and fluted ruffles are
used on plainer sets.
Lace mitts are as fashionable this
winter as white kid gloves for evening
toilettes.
A felt bonnet with a coronet of shaded
gray feathers will complete tbe toilette.
Hark tinted smoked-pearl buttons are
JESUP, GEORGIA. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1878.
more used than any other kind for wool
dresses.
Get sheet muslin for petticoats, as it
retains starch better than that more
closely woven.
Brocaded silk is very stylish, and will
look well made up in conjunction with
plain black silk.
The law-brimmed toques that come
down on the forehead are worn by ladies
who have long faces. The trimming
may be fringe or lace, but if economy is
necessary, a simple piping is sufficient.
White or colored mitts are preferred to
black, though the latter arc much used
in very line qualities.
A band of galloon, a kni c pleating of
silk or else fringe will trim your green
cashmere overskirt nicely. Have a
walking-jacket of tbs same, warmly lined
with flannel and trimmed as simply as
the polonaise.
The brocaded camel’s-hair is very
handsome, especially that iu which
threads of gilt or silver are introduced
White matelassee silk is used for the
most elegant opera cloaks; but if you
cannot afford this, get white, cream
colored, or else pale blue camel’s-hair.
Miscellaneous.
Kansas farmers estimate corn at tilteen
cents a bushel, which is cheaper fuel than
coal or wood.
San Francisco is now said to have a
population of 330,000, including 40,000
Chinese.
The Central Pacific railroad company
have ordered 700,000 trees, to bo set out
along the line of their road the coming
season.
The people of California are to vote at
their next general election upon the
question of continuing or prohibiting
Chinese immigration.
New York is suffering a heavy loss of
revenues through the cigar-makers’ strike
and the action of the liquor dealers.
The deficiency will become serious if
continued for any considerable time.
In New York last year there were
one hundred and sixty-two suicides, ten
more than the preceding year. There
were forty-eight homicides, and not a
hanging against forty-nine murders and
one execution the previous year.
Satin is nw the rago. It went out of
fashion in England twenty-five years
ago, when Mrs. Manning, a cciebratod
murderess, at one time lady’s maid to
the late duchess of Sutherland, was hung
in a black satin dress.
Tbe Philadelphia Public Ledger ob
jects to the enactment of a law by con
gress imposing a tax on incomes, hi two
grounds : First, because it is necessarily
inquisitorial, and second, because
“straightforward, honorable people will
report the incomes honestly and pay the
taxes, while others, having less scruple,
or no scruple at all, escape either in
whole er in part.”
The recent suit of Ira Melendy, of
Bradford, Vt., in which ho received
$5,000 from the town for injuries suffered
in the highway, was a singular one in
some respects. He claimed that his ac
cident caused paralysis of his legs, so
that they were dead as lar as movement
and feeling were concerned. The defend
ant attempted to prove that he was
shamming. They called medical experts,
stuck pins into his legs, made cuts and
applied ammonia and ether to them
without making him wince or contract
his muscles. Some of the physicians
testified that such a paralysis was ari im
possibility, but the jury did not believe
that a man could have sufficient nerve to
stand such tests if there was any feeling
in the members experimented upon. He
will probably have to go through all this
again as the case has been appealed.
The San Francisco Bulletin, comment
ing, in its financial column, on a dis
patch received from Washington, that
over one million trade dollars have been
shipped east the present month for do
mestic circulation, and that the suspen
sion of the coinage of trade dollars at
the San Francisco mint is contemplated,
says that, though some shipments have
been made, the amount is considerably
over staled ; that the trade dollar has a
market for silver in oriental countries
which the fine silver cannot fill; that
during the current months 1,746,780
ounces of silver have been deposited in
the mint, and half a million of money
will be deposited before the dose of the
month. The reasons for these heavy
deposits arise from the apprehension on
the part of bankers and bullion producers
that the dollar of 4121 grains will be
remonetized, in which event the facilities
of the mint for stiver coinage will be
severely taxed, restricting the means for
the coinage of trades. Hence the dis-
position to lay in a good supply,
especially as this is the inactive
demand season. The amount of trades
shipped hence to China during 1877 was
$7,619,000. The article strongly flepre- '
cates the suspension of the coinage of
trades at the mint in that city.
. Love will find out a way. An Illi
nois couple moved to Kansas and entered
a nice homestead. Then they were
divorced, and the wife, taking half of the
children, entered, as the head of another
family, another nice homestead adjoining
it. Then they were remarried
IN THE OLD LIKENESS."
Douglas, mv Dou*la9, oit lu-ar how I cry to you,
Foe ng vo'ur laud o! u-e iupiae and palm I
Item- how I itv lo vou, longing lo tty to you.
From the cold heart, : this comfortless calm.
Call me, 1 pray, from the reeds whom the rohln,
Swinging and singing alone to his mate.
Stirs m >• slow pulse to a passionate sobbing
For the home-lilies that grow by the gate.
OKI at the gate of love;
Call, for 1 wait, love ;
Call, and 1 answer at breaking of day;
Swift to your bosotu,
O’er hill-side and blossom,
Rreeae-liko and bird-tike, awake imd away,
Douglas, my Douglas, oh hear how 1 erv to you I
Leave me no longtr so lorne and so lone;
Call me votir darling, and say I may fly lo you,
Never lo lenve you oh Douglas, mine own;
Oh ! if you heart! the winds catrv my Bobbing
Over the mountain and over the plain!
Oh ! it you heard mv heart heavily titrobbing
Under its burden of passion afid pln'.
Now, at 1 ho gate, lovo ;
Call, for-I wait. love :
Call, aud 1 answer at breaking of day ;
Swift to you: Ootom,
Oe’r ldll-eide and blossom.
Bretae-iike and bird-Hke, awake and away.
The Haunted Ship.
[ shipped in the Norway for the pas
sage from Cronstadt to Hull, and another
English gentleman, who went by the
name of Jack Hastings, joined her at the
same time. He and I lodged together
on the shore, and became somewhat
acquainted before we became shipmates.
Ho was a man of considerable informa
tion, and, from his talk, had seen his
share of the world, but was uot much of
a sailor, as 1 had already surmised from
the cut of his jib.
Wo found Capt, Phelps, of the Nor
way, a ’ tartar’ in the worst sense of the
word ; and the voyage was anything but
a pleasant one, especially to Hastings.
He had shipped for able seaman's wages,
aud his deficiencies wore soon apparent,
especially to a oaptain who had a hawk's
eye for the weak points iu a man, that
he might come down on him. As I had
a strong feeling of respect for the young
man,' I stood bis friend whenever 1
could, by trying to do more than my
own share ot duty, and covering up his
shortcomings; hut 1 couldn’t always be
at hand, of course.
One night when it was blowing quite
fresh, aud I was at the wheel, the cap
tain was up, and had all hands putting
reefs in the topsails. The men had lain
down on deck, and were manning the
halyards to hoist away, when poor Hus
tings, instead of the reef-tackle, let go
the weather foretopsail brace, and away
went the yard lore and aft. However,
by luffing up smartly, we managed to
get it checked in ;v-ain w.lf-out carrying
away anything. But Oapt. Phelps,
frothing at the mouth, vowed he would
tan (he clumsy lubber’s hide that did it,
and would “ ride him down like a iimin
stack.” He rushed at Hastings with a
piece of ratline stuff, arid brought it
down once with a terrific cut over his
neck and shoulders.
As he raised it again to repeat th
blow, while all hands stood looking on,
hushed in silence, a voice from aloit
reared out:
J “ Hold your hand!”
The sound, which was wonderfully
j loud and clear, seemed to come down out
!of the maintop. The captain fell back
alt, so as to look up, but could see noth
ing.
“ Aloft, there !" he yelled, in a rage.
I No answer.
“ Maintop, there 1”
“ Halloa!” was answered spitefully.
“ Come down on deck ' ”
“ Comq up here and see how you like
j it!”
The captain’s rage was now fearful to
| behold.
“ Who’s aloft there? Who is it, Mr.
| Raynor?” he demanded of the male.
“ Nobody that I know of, sir,” an
j swered the officer. “They’re all here
in sight.”
The men looked from one to another,
but the number was correct. The second
mate, without waiting for orders sprang
up aloft and looked over the top-rim,
then made a circuit of it, looking all
round the mast head, and reported him
self alone. The captain dropped his
rope’s end and went below, his mind in
a strange chaos of rage and fear, and
Hastings escaped further beating for
that night.
But a few dayH were sufficient for the
captain to forget his fears, and I myself
was the next victim of his wrath. He
had ordered me to make a lanyard-knot
in the end of an old fagged rope, to be
I used for a lashing somewhere. I did so,
and returned it to him, telling him I had
made the best job of it that I could.
Well, if that’s your best,” said he,
“you’re as much of a lubber as your
partner, Hastings. I’ll dock you both
to or’nary seaman’s pay.
• In vail. 1 remonstrated, saying that
the rope was too much worn and fagged
to make a neat piece of work.
" ‘ Fagged is it? Well, I’Jl finish it up
over your lubberly back.
“No you won’t!” sang out a voice
from behind the long boat.
He rushed round in tne direction of
the sound, hut there was not a soul
there.
“Who was that spoke?” he cried.
“ If I knew who he was I’d his heart
out.”
“Ha, ha 1 would ye?” was answered
derisively—from the maintop, now.
It was broad daylight, and all could
-ee that there was no one up there. I
wan quite as much startled and mystfied
as my tyrant could possibly he, hut the
diversion served as good a purpose as on
the previous occasion, for lie did not
attack me agaiu. Had he done so I
meant to resist, and grapple with him,
if it cost me my life.
That night the captain’s slumbers
were disturbed by a fierce cry, which
appeared to come in at the side-light in
his state room, left open for fresh air.
The cry had been heard by the mate, on
the quarter deck, and by Hastings, at
the wntcl, who "oould give no explana
tion of it, and seemed to aharo his aston
ishment and fear, when he rushed on
deck and looked vainly over the quarter
in search of the cause,
From that day he was harassed and
persecuted at every thru by an "invis
ible prrito nt# "wmch'gaVb him no peace
of his life. Whether on deck or below
lie found no escape from it, and espe
cially when he began to abuse or sw’ear
at any of the ship’s company the voico
of the hidden champion invariably took
their part, the insolent laugh rang in his
ear on every such occasion, seeming to
come from overhead.
But no such manifestations ever
troubled us in the forecastle, tuff did the
unearthly voice ever add re many one on
board except Captain Phelps. The more
superstitious part of the crew would
rather have borne his tyrannical treat
ment than have lived in a haunted ship,
while some of us welcomed alt icud in
this unaccountable spiritual presence,
or whatever it might be.’
The captain’s angry passions were to
some degree checked by it, though now
and then they broke forth so suddenly
that the object of bis fury received a
blow before it could interfere. We had
arrived within a few days’ sail of the
English coast when, becoming exas
perated by some blunder of Hastings, he
hurled a belaying pin at him, which
struck him on the head. The poor fel
low suddenly clapped both hands to the
spot and rushed into the forecastle. 1 lie
captain after throwing the missile, ap
peared, as 1 thought, surprised at not
hearing anything, anti I noticed him
glance nervously aloft. Hut still hear
ing nothing, lie recovered his courage
and ordered Mr. Raynor to “call that
man on deck again.”
The mate, getting no answer to his
call, went below and found Hastings de
lirious. He reported that be Relieved
the man to be in a critical condition,
and the captain directed him to tlo what
ever he thought best for his relief. I
think Captain I’helps, like some other
hard cases Unit I have sailed with, did
not dare venture into the forecastle hint
self for fear that In; might never get out
again alive.
That night it became necessary to call
all hands out to teef again,and while we
were on the yards a thrilling cry arose
from the bows, such as might well have
been raised by a maniac. A human
form was sect) by several of us erect on
the rail, near the fore-swifter, and then
a loud splash was heard in the water
under our bow.
Mr. Raynor and the captain, who were
oil deck, rushed to the side; a hat was
seen for a moment bobbing up on the
crest of the sea, and the same dreadful
yell of insanity was repeated, even more
olirilly than before. Captain Phelps
echoed the cry, but faintly, and fell in
sensible to the deck.
Mr, Raynor hailed us on the topsails
yard with a voice like a trumpet-blast-
Lay down from aloft! Clear away the
small boat! ”
We thought the mate wan i|iiite as
mad as the poor suicide ; and so lie was
for the moment. By the time they
reached the deck he was ready to coun
termand the order. Everything was
hidden in darkness, the wind and sea
fast increasing ■, and it was hardly pox
sitile, even then, for the clumsy little
boat to live. The captain, still uncon
scious, was carried below, with many a j
muttered wish that he might never come j
up again ; and hitter were the oaths of j
vengeance, mingled with kind words and ,
tears, for onr departed messmate, that i
went round among our little circle dim
ing that stormy, dismal night.
When the Hull pilot hoarded us, forty- j
eight hours afterward, ( apt. Phelps was
a i his post trying to look like himself,
but still pale and trembling. The mate
had told us that he should have him
arrested as soon as he arrived in port.
But 1 think he must have relented and
connived at his escape, for he was mis
sing before the ship was fairly secured
l don’t think he was ever brought to
justice, though L did not wa : t to see. 1
was glad enough to shake the dust ol
the Norway off nay feet, and to forget,
if possible, the history of the voyage
Hut I often found myself, while on
subsequent voyages, puzzling my brain
to account for the strange phenomena of
which I have spoken. Five years passed
away and I was none the wiser in that
respect, vzhen 1 found myself in Liver
pool, where 1 had arrived from a Houth
! American voyage and had been paid off
; with fifty pounds—a considerable sum
1 for me to have in my possession at one
time.
Strolling along the streets at early
I evening, ready for anything in the way
I of amusement that might turn up, my
j attention was'caught by a poster an
i nourieing the performance of “ Prof.
■ Holbrook, the unrivaled and world-re-
nowned ventriloquistl lmd never
seen a performance of that sort; but
after reading tin bill I resolved to go. 1
was just in time when I reach-id the hail
of exhibition, 'and taking a ticket 1
entered and took a seat. 1 thought the
professor’s entertainment the most won
dertul thing I had ever s£en or beard.
After a varioty ol sounds and voices had
been imitated with marvelous ski!!, he
informed us that be would hold a con
versation with an imaginary person up
the chimney. When tire responsive
“ Ha, ha t” nmn down was startled to
such a degree as to ns from my seat,
It was the same, voice, in .'precisely tv*
• name peculiar tones that IJb ad heard so
I many tithes from Norway's maintop.
A minute later, the professor, having
finished his part, came forward to tho
front, of tho stage ; and in spite of liis
flowing heard and other disguises, 1 re
cognized one whom I had supposed to
be dead five years.
Jack Hastings 1 ” said I, nloutl, for
getting, in my excitement, where I was
“ Sit down ! ” 11 Put him out! " cried
a dozen voices at once.
I subsided, of course, but not before I
had received a sign of recognition from
the ventriloquist. When the perform
ance was over he beckoned to me, and in ;
the privacy of his own room he grasped ■
my hand with a hearty pressure.
“Hastings,” 1 asked, “how in the |
name of miracles were you saved V”
“Saved! Where?”
“ When you jumped over board raving
mad.”
Ho laughed—liis own natural, hearty
laugh ; not the unearthly one which he
sent down from the chimneys and mast
heads.
“ I never jumped overboard, Ashton,”
said he; “and I never was any moro mad
than lam at this moment. It was only
n plan to frighten old Phelps, and I think
it succeeded hut top well, ff he' had
been tried lor liis life, and I thought
him in danger, 1 should have appeared
in court and frightened him again to
save his life. Hut he could not bo
found, and 1 have never heard of him
since. My madness was all a sham, and
the man overboard was only a bundle of
duds, surmounted hy my old hat. I
slipped down into the forepeak and Isy
concealed till the night alter the ship
arrived, when i stole out. and wont
ashore. Ol course you understand the
cries you beard ?”
“Certainly; and the other strange
sounds on board. Your vetrifoquism
explains tho w hole matter.”
“ I performed in most of the cities and
largo towns in England befoie 1 knew
you ; but 1 was then dissipated in my
habits, and squandered all that I made.
While on one of my sprees I shipped and
went to sen, and tlmt is how you found
me in < VoiiNlndt. Hut I was never stock
to make a sailor of. Since I have
returned 1 hnvo done well and saved
money, and you must allow that 1 acquit
myself better on this stage than 1 did on
board the Norway.”
And that’s the only haunted ship that
ever I was in. I’ve heard of others, but
probably thoso cases might all bo ex
plained in some similar way.
Itanium's I Vtci tied (Hunt a
fraud.
The New York Tribune publishes an
exposure of the Colorado stone man
which has been on exhibition in eastern
eilies as the petrified remains of a human
being of heroic size. Iho “man was
made in Elkland, a mountainous town
in northern Pennsylvania, by George
Hull the maker of the Cardiff (Haul.
The figure was composed of ground stone,
ground bones, clay, plaster, blood, eggs
anil other materials, which were molded
into proper shape and baked in a kiln.
ItisHftid Hull spent <HO,OOO or §20,000 in
this scheme. Then P. T. Rarnum, the
showman, became interested in the plot,
and the “ man ” was boxed and sent to
him at Bridgeport, Ct. It was marked
“fine machinery.” Barnum decided
; that the image should be taken to Colo-
rado to \v; “discovered,” and it was put in
charge of Hull, who occupied hix weeks,
in burying it. Tnrtles, fishes, and othi r
“small game” were molded out of the
same materials as the giant and buried
near him, so that the shock of his dis
covery might be softened, as it were.
One Conant, who was selected to lie the
discoverer, got a position as station agtnt
on the Hanta l'e Railroad, so as to seem
to have -some excuse for being in the
neighborhood. In August Barnum went
to Colorado, ostensibly to look after his
stock farm and lecture on temperance,
but really to be on hand when the grand
discovery should be made. This was
done according to the prearranged plan
and Barnum promptly offered 120,000
for the “ find.” When the incredulous
people liegan to laugh, Barnum offered
-10,000 to any one who could prove that
the giant was made by chisel. He had
them there. Then came the scientific
test. Prof. Taylor bored into the arm of
the giant, and Hull, having learned that
a certain kind of crystal should be found
there, by sleight of band changed one he
had obtained for the dust of the boring
implement, which was firct handed him
by the professor. Barnum had the stone
man brought east, and its subsequent
history is known. This is held to lie one
, of his most stupendous humbugs.
WAIFS ANI) WHIMS.
They i't Always at the G* l *-
Thor arc always at the gate,
A re the poor :
An.l at early morn and lat
Goiu j these belnga dosolate,
See king more.
Krei ly hbG vl cites to you
Give to the poor.
Tout fTim, for he shall restore
All you save to them, and more
Never close to them the door,
To the poor
A man never uses his thumb-nail for
a screw driver but once.
Nothing like bsing correct. Uhev
reau, in liis history of the world, say
that it was created on Friday, Sept. 6, a
little alter feur p. m.
By Josh Billings.-I sot me down
in thought profound—this maxim wise f
drew: “ It s easier fur you to luv a gal
than maik a gal luv you !”
. . An English clergyman says that the
chattering of the south African apes is
a language, and that, if he could live
long enough with them, lie could learn
to understand and speak it.
. . An old farmer in the east of England
having been asked how lie got married on
December 81, shrewdly answered, with a
smile : “It was to give the lie to an old
saving in our parts that no one was ever
married . 1,...,p vvmeniJna l"'—a
year was out.”
.. Man, as to liis understanding, may
rise almost to the light in which the
angels ol heaven arise; but if he does
not also rise as to the will, he is still an
old and not anew man. —[Swedenborg.
WAITIKU.
NO. 25.
When rose-lenvos in lobr Brasses fall
To hide their uhatUrcd head.
All ten Irrly thftKfftrSf'H tull
i’ow down to veil tho dead.
And there me hcnrtH content to wait,
Still ns tho Rrmsea Ho.
Till those they love, however late,
Turn thcro at latt to dlo.
Erratum.-- In the case of tho s’gmi
lure to the communication on Senator
(’onkling on our inside page to-day, “ A
Quiet Ass” read “ TEquietas.” Typo
graphical errors will occur in the most
carefully managed papers.—[Detroit
News.
In closing a sermon on flood Works
and < loud Words, Dean Stanley, of West•
minuter quoted the following lines, which
some suppose were written hy one of the
earliest deans of \\ estmmster
1 Huy w.-II is good, but do well la better ;
[>., well 111 cilia I lie spliit wiy well la tbo letter
Huy well la iodly, and helps 10 plena.,;
mil do well Ih uodly nml vivia the world tune,
Huy well to HilencH HoiuetlniCß i* bound,
Do well in free on every ground.
Sfiy well Libs friends- Mime hero, §om* there,
IM welt in welcome everywhere
Bv my well many to CM’ B wor<l < have ;
But lor lack to do w. II it < f?en leave.
If miiv well and do well were bound in one Irani*.
They all were done, all were won, and Rotten wont
Kain”
..An American officer riding by the
bronze statue of Henry Clay, in Canal
street, New Orleans, was asked by his
Irish orderly if the New Orleans “fellers
were so fond of niggers that they put n
statue of one in their “ faabiouablest”
street.. “ That’s not a nigger, Tom;
that’s the great Clay statue,” said the
j amused officer. Tom rode round the
i statue, dismounted, climbed upon the
i stal, examined the figure closely arid
j (.hen said : " Did they toll yez it was
! Olay ? It looks to me like iren 1”
An Ohio politician “ on the stump”
| slaved the torrent of his eloquence for a
moment, ami looking round with a sell- ,
satisfied air, put the question “Now,
gentlemen, what do you think i A
voice from the crowd replied: "Well,
Mr. Speaker, if you ask me, I think, sir’
[ do indeed, that if you and me were to
stump the state together, we could tell
more lies than any oilier two men in the
county, iir; and I’d not say a word, my
self, sir, all Hie time.” .
A curious experiment has been tried
with buttermilk by testing it against
i claret. One who is in the secret will het
with one who is not that the latteT,
if blindfolded, cannot distinguish claret
from buttermilk hy the taste. Several
glasses are filled with claret, and unequal
number with buttermilk, and they are
| handed alternately to the blindfolded
! person, who tastes them. For a few
; terms he will name the respective liquors
1 correctly ; but after awhile his sense of
I taste become confused, and he insists
! that buttermilk is claret, and vice versa.
W onders of the American Conti
nent.
The American Enquirer thus cata
logues a few of the wonders of the
American continent; The greatest eata
ract in the world is the Falls of Niagara,
where the water from the great upper
lakes forms a river of three-fourths of a
nple in width, and then being suddenly
contracted, plunges over the rocks in two
columns to the depth of 175 feet. The
greatest cavo in the world is the Mam
moth cave, of Kentucky, where auv
one can make a voyage on the waters ol
a. subterranean riv<-r, and catch fish with
out eyes. The greatest river in the
world is the Mississippi, 4,000 miles long.
The largest valley in the world is the
valley of the Mississippi. It contains
5,000 000 square miles, and is one of the
most fertile regions of the globe, ihe
greatest city park in the world is in Phil
adelphia. It contains over 2,700 acres.
The greatest grain port in the world is
Chicago- The largest lake in the world
;is Lake- up trior, which is truly an inland
sea, being 43 miles long and ME" feet
deep- The longest railroad at present is
the Pacific railroad, over 3,000 miles in
length. The greatest mass of solid iron
!in the world is the Pdot Knob of Mis
souri It is 350 feet high and two miles
in circuit. The best specimen of Ore-
Han architecture in the world is the
Girard college for orphans, Philadelphia.
Tha largest aqueduct in the world is the
Croton aqueduct, New York. Ilslengtb
is 401 miles and it cost §12,500,000. Tie
largest deposits of anthracite coal in the
world are in Penney vania, the mints.>!
which supply the market with millions
of tons annually, and appear to be iner
; haustible.