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Tie Jesnj Sentinel Office in the Jesin House, fronting ou C herry street, two I'oors from Broa>l St. fTBLISHLP LVITUY WEDNESDAY, ... CY .. T. P. LITTLEFIELD. Subscription Rates. (Postage Prepaid.) One year $2 00 Six moyihs 1 00 Three months 50 Advertising Rates. Per square, first insertion $1 00 Per square, each subsequent insertion. 75 rates to yen Jv and large ad vertisers. 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.