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TOWN DIRECTORY.
.TOWN OFFIUfIRS.
Mayor—ll. Whaley.
Conncilmwi—Dr.’R. F. Lester, jS. A. Eler
bee, M. W. Snrenoy*. A. B. PurtlorD,G. M. T.
Ware.
Clerk and M. T. Ware.
Marshal—Wm..M. Austin.
COUNTY OFFGAS.
Ordinary—P c : !?vu B. Hotop .
Sheriff—John N. <3b3Wbr<&aiJ. . r
Clerk Superior Court—Bchj.t). Middleton
Tax Receiveiv—J. (VHMcher.
Tax Collector—W. R. Causey.
County £urv.evoi>*Noah' Bennett.
County Treasurer—John Massey.
Coroner— IX MoDithu. J* .
County Commissioners—J. F. King, G.
W. Haines, James J. G. Rich, Isham
Reddish Regular meetings of the Board
8 1 Wednesday i;i January, April, July and
October. .Iks. F. King, Chairman.
, tOUivEs. ' J
‘Superioi Coiul, W. vie County—Jno. L.‘ r
Harris, Judge ; Simon W. Hitch, Solicitor-
General. Sessions held on second. Monday
jn September. *
Blactatar, Pierce County Georsia
TOWN DIRECTORY.
. TOWN OFFICERS. *'
• ‘.Mayor—R. G. Tti;gins vt
Councilman:— D. P. Patterson J. M. Downs
J. M. Lee, B. D. Brantiy.
. Clerk of Council—J. M. Purdom.
Town Treasiu er—B.’ TANARUS). Brantiy.
. Marshal—E. Z. Byrd. ;
• COUNTY officers! .
Ordinary—A. .T. Strickland.
Clerk Superior Qou'rt—Andrew M. Moore.
Sherrfi—E, Z.\yrd.
. County Treasurer —D. P. Patterson.
County Serreyof—J. M. Johnson.
Tax Receiver and Collector—J. M. Pur
don].
• Chairman :of Road Commissioners—llßl
District, G. t M., Lewis C. Wyllv; 12 0 Dis
trict, U. M., George r P- Moody ; ' District,
G.*M., Charles S. Ymfmauns: 590 District,
C- M.. 1). B. McKinfeon.
Notary Publics and Justices of the Peace*
etc.—Blackshear Pi eeinct. 584 district,G.M.,
Notary Public, J. G. S. Patterson ; Justice
of the Peace, ft. R James: Ex-officio Con*
stable E. Z. Byrd.
Dipksoh?* Mill'Precinct 1250 District, O
M , Notary Public,Mathew Sweat; Justice of
the Peace, Geo. T\ Mdody; Constable, W.
F. Dickson. • •
Patternon Precinct, 1181 District, G. M.,
Notftjy Public, Lewis C. Wyllv; Justice of
the Peace, *Lewjs Thomas'; Constables, H.
Pfe.fckf and A. L.'Grineir.
Schlatterville Prec-inctvM*© District, G. M
Notary Public, D. B. McKinnon; Justice o
the Peace, R. T. Jame*; Constable, Jolin VV
Booth.
Courts—Superior court, Pierce county
John L. Harris, judge; Simon W. Hitch
Solioitor General. Sessions held first Mon
dry in March and September.
Corporation court, Biacßshear, Gn„, session
oo)d second Saturday in each Month. Police
cofirt sessions every Monday Morning at 9
o’etoek.
JESUP HOUSE,
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(Near the Depot,)
T.->P LITTLEFIELD. Proprietor. .
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CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
Southern New*.
A. Stephenson, the -old 'bear hunter,
has killed forty-nine bears in Orange
county, Texas, this season...
North Alabamian : A number of our
German citizens are preparing to plant
arge crops of Irish .potatoes this month,"
with a yiew of .shipping,their, -first' otop
to Chicago.
As the agent of the Texas Express
company at Paris, Texas, wag standing
on the platform yrafftifig.lor the train, he'
was knocked diawruby two' men and 'rot
bed ot SIO,OOO.
Preparations are being' made in. At
lanta among the Methodists for the gen
eral conference of the M. E. church
south, which meets in that cftv ofi the
first Wednesday in May.
Out of 1,904 children born, in Rich
mond, Va., last year, there we*e seven,
pairs of white and twelve pairs Of col-'
ored twins, thoueh the number of, white
births exceeded the colored by one hun
. 1 red and twenty-two. *■"*
The Nashville board of health, believ
ing that the city vault causes diphtheria
and other ills, unanimously reoomjneptjpd
its demolition, ami the board of alcfbrmen
with the same unanimity resolved upon
its destruction. „ •
Augusta (Ga.) Constitutionalist: The
old theory that hot weather produces
madness in dogs has been exploded.
During the past few months -more mad 1
dogs have beqh Killed ii this city and
vicinity than daring any equal period of j
hot weather.
Ijast Tuesday, ut a celebration of the
first anniver-ary of the inauguration of
the Murphy movement at Wheeling, W.
\a , a speaker said : Theie has not been 1
a man or woman of the Murphy band
who has yet been obliged to beg for
bread; there has. not been one of those
who signed the Murphy pledge seat to
prison ; there has not been one that isa?
lost the confidence or respect of his fel
low-men, and there is not one of the six
thousand who have signed the pledge in
this city that is not happy in the con
sciousness of a happy home.
A bill that has passed both houses of
the Louisiana legislature gives the ripa-
vol. .nSUI
rian proprietor the exclusive right of all
oysters within one hundred yards of the
Shore, and authorizes the fax Collector to
lease portions of the lakgs, bayous, etc.,
in the state at" an annual Tent of one
dollar per acre, not including any natn rsh
.oyster beds. The' lessee, *und§r its pro
visions, has the privilege to-renew the
lease 'fVaiq year to year, or'payment ot
rent in advance, and has the exclusive
right to plant and bed oysters in the
space leased, and to gather the same, but
in no wise.are beds effected by the act,
nor are oysters to W ..bedded iu the
months of'May-,’ June, JtAf ; of August.
From Washington.
The bill introduced by Mr. Robertson,
to improve navigation and to. afford pro
tection and security to the shipping
trade, commerce, and alluvial lands of
the Mississippi river, provides .for an .ap
propriation of f<>,500,000 for that purpose.
Foreign intelligence. ,
■ The ambassadors of the Catholic pow
ers have jointly intimated to the. camer
lengo that if some of the catcftaals known
for their uncompromising, spirit,- whom
they flamed, were likely to. Obtain the
suffrages of the conclave, the ambassa
dors would be compelled to oppose their
election. The camerlengo has found in
the Pope’s desk a sealed package, with
instructions tor delivering it into the
hands of his successor. He arlsb found
four hundred thousand scud.i, the des
tination of which is probably designated
in the papers of the testament. The
Pope’s wealth, altogether, is said to
amount to one hundred, and twenty
million lire, which is mostly in-the hands
ot the Rothschilds, at •Paris'/'
Miscellaneous.
The total assessment of Louisiana is
estimated at’$17(5,000,000; that of the
city of New. Orleans at $111,000,000,
thus making the real and personal as
sessments of the state outside of New
Orleans only $65,000,000.
Cuban News.
On the 18th i’nst. an engagement took
place at Ciego Montero, near Cienfugos,
Cuba, between the insurgents and Span
ish forces, in which the latter lost one
hundred and fifty men and a large num
ber of cavalry horses, rifles, ammuni
tion, etc. •
A newspaper, printed in the interior
of-the island, has published the following
official dispatch from headquarters, dated.
Zanzou, February 10, on the conditions,
’of peace.
Article 1. The island of Cuba , to re
ceive same political organization and
administrative concessions as are enjoyed
by Porto Rico. '<
2. Ample pardon for nil political
offenses committed since I'SflS, and
liberty tor persons under sentence,
and political prisoners, and a
general. pardon to deserters from
the Spanish lines. . ..
8. Liberty to bo given to slaves .and
Chinamen within the insurgent lines.
4 No person, recognizing by virtue of
this treaty the Spanish authority, can be
obliged to do war service unless peace be
re-established in the whole territory.
5. AH persons desiring to leave the
island, to be furnished the means la-do
so, without touching either-village or
city* if sQ.dejsjjqd... • .
t 6, '{'he capitulation of; e'ach force to
take place on uninhabited spots, where
arms will be deposited.
.The Spanish general-in-chief, f?ft the
purpose of facilitating .adhesion to the
other departments to these conditions, to
give free access to the roads by sea and
land.
8. The foregoing bases to be considered
general for all the departments of this
island acceptingdhese propositions.
’ The Hpanish droops recf-ived orders to
suspend operations, remaining on the
defensive, PrAcitea-i guides have been
.dispatched to mah§-.k nown these condi
tions to fill the'dhsui'gent bands. The
insurgent camara and government have
resSived itself into a central committee
-for peace. ...
The War in the East.
Net only is it unlikely tfiatjjerfnany
will; undertake*the pint of by
declaring against any fewer attempting
do interfere with Russia, but the indica-
tions are that Russia’s action is regarded
1 as at variance with the understood pro
gramme. namely, .the liberation “of it he"
r Christians and*nofhing more. " •
I The British fleet has been withdrawn
j to Mundania bay, forty miles south of
Constantinople. This movement is at
tributed to a desire.on the. part, of'Eng
land ■ to* facilitate negotiations. The
instructions to Namik Pasha have been
' revoked, and he h:s not gone to Adrian
ople.
Russia occupies Constantinople for
“ peaceful purposes,” and the Briti-h
fleet occupies a position near the city for
the same purpose Bismarck throws
i cold water on the proposed congress, and
seems to let the latent moves on the
chess-board work out their legitimate
results. The prospect, therefore, is that
either Russia or England will have to
back down, or they must clinch and
1 fight.
JESI P,. GEORGIA. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6, 1878.
ALL -Iff A LIFETIME
By K. C. STKDWAM.
Th.Au shall have sun Hint shawur'liuui
Thou slialt have flower and thorn from earth
• below.
Thine shsll t>o foa'to hate and friend to love,
n s that others gain, the ill they kuow—
And nIJ in a lifeline.
Hast tboa & gbftfen dtfty/a sarlit night, •
Mitth and music and love without alloy ?
Leave bo drop undrtinken of thy delight,
Sorrow and shadow.follow on thy joy.
’Tls all in a lifetime.
*“
What if the battle end and tljou has-lost ?
Others have lost battles thou hast won ;
Saßte thee, bind thy .wounds, nofcOunt the coat ;
Over the fields will rise to-morrbw.’s sun.
’Tis all in a lifetime.
LauaU at the braggart sneer, the open scoru—
’Ware of the secret stab, the slauaerous lie ;
For seventy years of turmoil thou wastborn,
Bitter and sweel are thine till those go by. .
. ’ Ub ail in a lifetime.
eeknn thy, well, aud spread the Bail-
Wind ar.d cairn and eurreht shall warp the way ;
Compass shall set thee false, amt chart shall tail;
Ever the waves Will use thee for their play.
’Tis all in a lifetime.
Thousands ot years agone were (fiiango and change,
Thousands of ages hence the same shall he ;
Naught of thy joy and g ief Is new or strange ;
Oather npaee t he good that faUs t* thee !
’ Tis all In a lUetime!
Jim Oaks.
HOW HE FOUNT) THE GOSPEL.
On Christmas eve a strange tragedy
was enacted iu the far northwest. Away
up in Montana a mining camp was
established in days when wonten were as
scarce in that country as they,were in
the early days of the settlement of Cali
fornia; there was, in fact, but one woman
in the camp. She was young, of fine
appearance, great physical strength and
endurance, and indomitable nerve. Two
years before she had left an unhappy
home ,in Wisconsin to become the wife
of a reckless dare-devil named .Tim Oaks,
with whom she shared, the vicissitudes
If.
o! a lopg, slow journey across the plains.
This man just missed being a rufiian
through his wife’s influence. She loved
him with a noble devotion, and,although
he was incapable of a like attachment,
he loved'her, too, after a fashion of his
own. She was made much of by the
camp; it would have been a sorry day
for the miner who should have showed
any disrespect to Minerva'Oaks.
The day before: Christmas dawned
lowering. Toward the middle of the
afternoon.huge, lumbering clouds began
to loom in the‘northwest. A. mournful
wind soughed through the gulches. The
miners, housing their .picks, shovels and
pans, t-'dotr their axes into the neighbor
ing bottoms and set at wfeod-cutting
wfth a Vengeaflce. All Sighs‘portended
one of those fierce cold storms that occa
sionally descend upon the border, arrest
ing torrents in chains of ice, ami freezing
even the shaggy-,coated buffaloes,
The wagons, heaped with freshly chop
ped sticks of. co,t top wood andtaepen, hhd
hardly distributed their loads at night
fall when the wind, changing to the
grew stronger' and brought
Snow. Higher and higher it rose as
darkness came on ; faster and faster-.feli
the snow. As- tire cold increased the
snow was condensed into fine particles
that bit like needles into the cheeks of
belated miners struggling toward-.Jhoir
c&bifbji swelling in volume the
roar of the tempest appeared to affect
the earth as well as the air; the plains
and distant mountains were shaken, and
the ground Under the camp, trembled
like the floors of a ‘dwelling in a city
.when a heavy trucks roll by along- the
•pavement; the heavens swirled gigan
tically overhead, and at length the tem
pest became a hurricane. The volumes
of pulverized snow in -the atmosphere”
were now so dense and piercing, and the
gusts were so violent that it was impos
sible to see even a‘ lighted window at a
few yards’ distance.
, It was considerably past Jim Oaks’
supper .time. But as.Oaks was the only
man in the camp who didn’t have to
cook his own mefils, he had lapsed into a
habit of coming in late to slipper,' for
which fault.his. w;ife, who was -not of a.
complaining or nagging disposition, never
reproached {rim..
Seven o’clock. Airs. Gaks/ed the fire
from the ample supply grf'rwood which
one of the wagons had dropped at her
door, then to' the pane-ef glass
which formed the only window in the
diggings,and et-ayed'to look out info t(ie
night. The gbrnwAs caked inside with
frost arid covered on the outside by a
snowdrift. Sighing, the yo&ng wife re
turned to her seat by the fire!) .She snuff
ed the candle with a pair of snuffers
which Jim Oaks had i nigen jpusly- carved
out of an antelope’s horn for her last
brJthday present, and then putting her
hand into the bosom of her dress she
drew out—what?
A well worn copy of the new testa
ment.
There was something covert in the
maniier in which she br’jugut this vol
ume into the light, and, thinking she
heard a noise at the door, she thrust it
back again. Jim Oaks had somehow
and somewhere acquired so rank a. de
testation of the holy scriptures that he
could not bear to bear them quoted from
or even mentioned, i'he sight of a bible
affected him exactly as :he devil was
de.-cribed by Pat O’Gradv’s grandfather
to have been affected by holy water.
Finding that the nois" was nothing
but the crunching of a setting drift she
opened the little book and began to
read:
For if ye forgive men their trespasses,
your Father will also forgive you.
But if ye forgive not men their tres
passes, neither will your Father forgive
your trespasses.
Come unto Me, all ye that labor and
are heavy ladeu. and I will give you
rest.
Then said Jesus unto His disciples, if
any man will come after Mo, let him
deny himself aud take up his cross and
follow Me. ,
I am the resurrection and the life ; he
that beiieveth in Me, though he were
dead, yet shall he live: ana whosoever
liveth and beiieveth i,n Me shall never
die.
These passages, on which Minerva
Oaks was accustomed to dwell, were all
marked in her new testament, and un
derscored with a pencil. High spirited’
and able to handle a rifle or a revolver
on occasion, she was a siueerc :Christian
iu most respects, and quite in her ways,
She sat, with the testament, spread
opeu on her lap and tlw Christmas’ eve
supper growing browner in front rtf the'
fire,'until nearly eight o'clock.''Tlum,.
as a mightythroe'of thestrtriu threatened
to wrench’ tfa’e cabin from its ioundationa,
she started up with a cry :
.‘ Jim! Why/ Jim' was to be off at
Wild Swan Gulch this afternoon. He
was going to get us some leathers lor
Christmas. Ah, God! l,t }s eight
o’clock. And.the storm! • -How >ever
can ho find his way home ? ”
Springing to the door, she lilted the
latch and deCWiit toward liter. The mass
of snow VThiCli bad been piled'against it
iell in arid streamed across the floor, and
the blast,, driving in more snow extin
guished the candle. .
“Hah!”
in a few nigMen’Js she had'miuiaged'to
sweep awiiy a part qf the drift and close
the floofj Then she relit the candle.
Next she threw off her dress and petti
coats. Going now to an old horse-hide
covered trunk in a corner, she pulled out
of it her husband’s spare siiit—the
clothes in which he won the' three.thou
sand at taro which Jet-lwm marry and
start with his bride across the Missis!
sippi. She dressed herself in them, and
put on the long leather hoots Jim wore
when lie worked in the sluices ; then hist
old cap, tied close to her head with a
comforter; then her own shawl and (nit
tens. 1 .'milting liar Is u torn and UiUiu,-
a shovel she opened the Boor ugaifi, and
attacked the drift until it yielded far
enough to let her latch the door behind
her.
The night was awful. She could se
nothing through theskurry. She hardly
dared turn her face to the yelling blast.
She thought of getting someone to ac
company her, but tire camp lay spine
distance nut of her line. Moreover, she
the country in every direction;
Stie could feel hej-’wav anywhere, if pec
ce-sary. Besides, she had, her lantern,;
that would enable her to distinguish ob
jects within a small circle. Turning
resolutely in the direction of Wild-Swan
Lfulch, she set out to find her lrusbahd
and guide him home. ..
As she emerged from the canyon and
gained the level of the surrpuffdlpg
broken plain, a strange pause came.- it
seemed 1 as thppgh the winds had Sud
denly forsaken the neighborhood and
gone reeling away into the mountains.
She took, advantage of this sinister calm
to hurry onward at a run. Outof breath
at last, she stumbled, and fell. • '.
The lantern ivent out.
Hhe had no matches.
Staggering,to her. feet-she heard fife"
moan of the returning storrrV. Hire'
shouted:
“Jim!”
Again, with ail the might of her voice’
she lilted the plainsman’s call: . >,
“ Yip, yip*, pip—ya-hoo, Jim ! ”
Noanswer.
Then the temptest rushed round -her
in a baffling, ferocious whirl ot.sound
and wind ana snow.
■ In the.meantime Jim Oaks had been
at one of his olddiversioue. Having re
turned from Wild Swan Gulch with a j
splendid trophy in the shape of a black
billed swan dnjke, he was lmih'ging tp
ward home when the storm came on ( and
stepped in at the last saloon as usual, to
get a drink. It was always warm a/id-j
cotfyfln that liquor mill, arm oh Christs- ,
mas Eve the piacowas peculiarily invits :
ing. The boys were assembling for a I
night at poker, and Jim. ssal’down and
•took a hand.
“ It’s kind o’ rough on Miner’v,” he
Ahodgb.tr dfice; about midnight, “leavin’
her alone up tbar such a night as this.
Never mind; she’!! worry it through, I
reckon.”
But,when the man entered his cabin
next morning and stared toward the bed
with a peace offering (bis winnings) ex
tended in his hand, he was completely
stunned by what he -aw. The un
touched bed, the fireiess hearth, the
cold, untasted supper, his wife's clothes
strewn on the floor the open trunk, the
absent cap and lantern —these flashed
the truth into his brain.
“She’s gone to hunt for me! hbe’s
been gone a hmg while. All night,
p’raps—in the storm. O, Minerv’l 1”
Out he sprang through the doorway.
The storm was over. The air war- clear,
still, and bitterly cold. The sun was
rising. He cast one strenuous look
around the narrow horizon, then plunged
through the drifts toward the camp.
“ MinervT!” he shouted. • “Have
any of.y.ou seen Minerv’l ?”
Immediately the Camp roused itself
from its aromatic slumbers. When it
was found that Mrs. Oaks was really
missing the miners volunteered as one
man to go to her rescue. A sled was
prepared-- some firewood, provisions,
blankets, aud akeg.ot whisky, were roped
fast to it, and, witli Jiui chafing by this
time, and far in front on the way toward
Wild Swan Gulch, the company started.
Parties were assigned to search-the whol
prairie, east, west and north ; the largest
group followed Oak’s trail. It was hard
work floundering, across the gullies and
washouts, which were packed to the
edge With snow. Often the men shud
dered to think what might be hidden
under these heavy, white :pHes.
The first, “sign” was discovered by
Jim Oak’s partner, one “Spick ’’Jones,
who kept to the left and signaled from, a
clump,iff' timber. ( The.bark was par
tially torn off about four feet from'the
ground, on.the side of the tree, not by
the teeth of a wild.beast, but, ns was
plainly to. lie seen, by the hands of a
human creature. Almost every miner
was familiar with the trick. Tt, was a
trick to keep from freezing, at the
.'Sacrifice of nails and fingertips. It was
a desperate method of exercise to arrest
lethargy. One veteran of the camp 10
nu mbered to have climbed up and down
a tree all night one winter when he was
overtaken without matches by-a,Monta
nu. lilfzzaiil.
Jim Oaks set bis teeth hard when he I
saw the frozen blood spots on the, tree, j
“ Stay with me; brty.Af’ he said hoarse
ly, “and help me find my wife.
The men struggled on.
Somo two hours later a figure on a dis
talit bluff was seen waving a hat. All
sought the place where the wind had
blown so fiercely during the proceeding
night that it had prevented the snow
from lodging on the windward ridges.
Mrs. Oaks lay on her hack t) ere, half
covered with snow, fro/pn to sleep. Her
left hand was-thrust inside the vest she
wore; her fight was extended above her
head and covered with blood Irnni her
poor torn fingers.' ,
Fveivbody made way for Jim.
lie came up ltnd knelt down rever
ently besideher, and kisssd her rigid lips.
1 “Minerv’l!’ he said gently lie
reached, trying to feel her heart.
. “ Minerv’i ”
* He-glanced.nroupd on the faces of his
fellow miners with such an expression on
Ivin drawn and haggard visage that they
turned away.
He touched the. cold hand to her
bosom. It covered something which she
bad clutched for when (he fell. Ha
drew it forth; it was her testament,
Opening it mechanically at the fly-leaf,
he saw the words, written, perhaps, loug
before.
“This book has been my comfort.
Read if, ,Tim.”_ '
And below--
1 am the resurrection and the iile,
anilh the Lord. He that "beiieveth in
Me, though tie were dead, yet shall he
live; and he that liveth and beiieveth in
Me, shall never ijie.”
- ‘“Boys,” said Jim, half rising to his
feet, and holding out the hook with both
•his •trembling, haiujs, “ she’s left me—a
Ohnstmas .present. ; •See!'”— ftf. Y
ITerald.] • ’
UiMifffj'rnmnl 'lVlfffiwj)!) Unes.
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< The Austrian Military Iteview gives j
soma particulars.as to the underground !
tyletfraph lines which are lieing laid from
Berlin to the most distant extremities of
Hie Germau empire. The first under
ground line completed was that between
Berlin and Halle, which is to be con
nected 5 with-three lines’ from Berlin to
('o)ogne, from Berlin to Frankfort-on- |
the-Main, and from-fieri hi to Btrasburg.
The iines ♦inn Berlin to Hamburg and
Kiel,- from Berlin to Breslau,,and from
Berlin to Konigslierg were there pro- i
needed with. The Berlin-Ham-burg line
is provided with two parallel cables, each
of seven wires ; and from Hamburg One
of these cables is continued to Kiel, and
the other to Wilbeirnshafen and Epnden,
where it is joined on to the .North sea
cable to England. The wort of laying
these cables is very difficult in mountain
ous district*, but along the high roads it
is simple enough, and of late the opera
Linn has been further simplified by the 1
use of a machine constructed for the j
purpose. This machine, attached .to a j
traction engine, excavates the earth along
the line of route, and, haying laid the
cable in the ground, throws it back
again, the only manual labor required
being that of the men who level the soil
afterward. This machine was tried in
the presence of Herr Stephan, the
director of the Prussian post office,
upon the underground line from Berlin
to Spandao, by way of Charlottenburg
and was found to worir very well.
Marshal von Moltke has dispatched a
detachment from one of the “railway
regiments'’ to Spandau to make an
underground passage for the cable under
neath the fortifications, and a commission,
composed of civil engineer -and telegiaph
employes, has'been appointed to arrange
for laving down, in the course of the
spring, the lines from Berlin to Cologne,
1 Frankfort and Strasburg.
| HANGED FOR DUEIXINO.
I
How Stop was Put to the Practice In the Stats
of Illinois.
I know but one instance of a man
having been hung for killing another in
a duel. In 1830, two young .fellows liv
ing in Belleville, St. Clair county,lll.,Uad
a ]>ersoual quarrel. It seemed to be im
possible to reconcile, them, and their
friends determined to get.up a sham duel
between them, hoping that the ridiculous
issue of the affair wpuld bring them to
their senses. One of them, Alphonso
Stewart, challenged the other, William
Bennett, to meot him with rifles. Bennett
accepted the challenge, and the parties
met near the villaire. It is said that
Stewart was in the seeret and that Ben-
nett was not, but believed it to be a real
ity. In any event, after the guns had
been handed to tlm principals and they
turned to take their positions, Bennett
who claimed that he. suspected some sort
of trickery, rolled a bullet into bis gun.
The seconds hardly able to keep their
faces straight, concluded the arrange
ments, and at last gave the word. The
rides exploded almost simultaneously,
Bonnet, of course, remaining untouched.
Stewart fell to the ground mortally
wounded, and expired shortly afterward
in great agony. Bennett was at. once
arrested, put upon trial, convicted of
murder in the first degree and sentenced
to be hanged. llis friends made the
most strenuous efforts to have him par
doned. Failing in this they tried to have
the sentence commuted. But the gov
ernor remained firm against all entreaty.
| On the day appointed for Ids execution,
Bennett was hanged in the presence of
an euornious crowd. This was the first
and last duel ever fought in the state of
Illinois. The banging of bonnet put a
stigma un the practice, and it has been
looked upon with abhorrence eVer since
| Philadelphia Times.
Tlic KiiSMiaiiH fu <'otiNfimliiiople.
After a thousand years of eflbrt Russia
has reached the goal of her ambition.
The double headed eagle of Byzantium,
which Sophia, the niece of the hist < 1 reek
emperor, Constantine VIII brought jn
dowry to her husband, Ivan 111 , of Jtqs-
I sia, alter four tnmdrTVl years of Cftoman
1 supremacy,'again floats on the defenses
lof Qouslantinople. Under the barbarian
i dynasty of the Romanoff dynasty, the
| possession of Constantinople has been
the constant object of Russian aspi
rations. At four different times during
the existence of the Kurie dynasty were
expeditions fitted out against Constanti
nople, In eight hundred rind sixty-five
a fleet of two thousand vessels traversed
the Black sea, descended the Bospho
rus, and forced their way into the
Golden Horn. When victory seeded
to be within reach a sudden tempest de
stroyed nearly all the ships and forced a
retreat. Cog, in nine hundred and
seven, was driven back by the Greek
i fire, after he had anchored before
the walls of the city. Igor, in
| 941, after desperate fighting, was defeated
; with great loss, and a like fate.happened
Ito Vladimir, prince of Novgorod, in
1041. These invasions from the north
struck such terror into the hearts of the
Greeks that they grimly believed the city
woiild some day fall into the hands' of
the "Russians. There was a superstition
| that an equestrian statue in the square
[of Taurus was secretly inscribed with a
j prophecy how the Russians in the last
j day should become master of Constanti
nople. An equally strong superstition
lof its conquest by the Russians Jins
itlwajs prevailed among the lurks,
Under the Romanoffs the first, hostilities
against the Turks began in 1678. They
have been continued at frequent inter
vais from that date to the present day.
The Muscovite encroachments on the
territory of the Ottoman empire have I
been going on for two* centuries, uptii ■
nearly one third of it Iras been absorbed. J
The conclusion of peace will virtually
dispuseesS the Turks o! their dominions
in Europe, of all Armenia, and of the
ancient citadels that guaided the Euro
pean and Asiatic frontiers.— | Philadel
phia Press.
Coloring Cheese.
Coloring cheese is often necessary to
insure a fair price, for, while the im
provement of the article is confined to
its color, the prejudice of the purchaser
Is thus conciliated. Pure annatto alone
should he use<i lor this ourpese, and a
good recipe for cutting it is the follow
ing : Take four pounds of best annatto,
two pounds concentrated potash, five
ounces saltpeter, pound and a half sal
soda, and five galls ns boiling water,
l’ut ingredients in a tub and pour on the
boiling water. Inclose annatto in a
cloth, arid as it dissolves rqueeze it into
the liquid. Two ounces of this liquid
to <un; hundred pounds of curds and pro
portionately, —f Moore’s Rural.
. Aru ld-fashioued minister was preach- 1
ing in a tight, unventilated church, in 1
which, by some means, a window was !
left partly open A sal deacon, during j
the sermon, closed it. The minister
stopped short, and turning to the deacon,
said in solemn toms, •’ It I was preaching
in a jug, I believe you would put the
I cork in.”
WAIFS AND WHIMS.
“ Nebber mind do right, or do Itf'—don’t wait—
Keep in de middle ob de road ;
Fix joar eye on de big white gate,
Keen lu the middle ob de road.
r>)s wo !d am full ob grief an' sin ;
Kf you’Jl kp gwine on you am bound Jo’ to
win,
When you git up dnr dey will pass you In
If you li keep in de middle ob do road.
" Den, bredron, ke<p in de middle ob de road.
Den, bredren, keep in (le middle ob de road:
Don’t look to de riiht— don’t lean tode lef\
nut keep in the middle ob do road.”
father—“ Why don’t you wiy ycr
gnico, Charley?” Charley--“ Why,
cos 1 don’t like the looks o’ them there
tatern.”
What’s the difference,” asked the
teacher in arithmetic, between one
yard and two yards?" “A fence,” said
lommy f.ealcs. Then Tommy sat down
on the ruler fourteen times.
Tt is said the age of superstition is
past, hut there yet survive many so-called
intelligent women who would not have
anew dress cut on Friday for the
world
NO. 27.
..A tl.rrie year old youngster saw a
drunken man “tacking" through the
streets. “ Mother," said he, “ did k God
make that man?” “Yes, nty child"
'file little boy reflected a moment, and
then exclaimed : “ I wouldn’t have
done it ”
Among the curiosities in the army
medical museum at Washington is the
withered and parched hand and arm of a
man who left it on the battle field at
Gettysburg. A cannon ball carried it to
the top of a high tree, where the wind
and sun shriveled it to its present well
tanned condition.
.. A lady who objects to profanity
because it is both wicked and vuglar,
writes to know what she ought to say
when a clothes line breaks and lets a
week’s wishing fall in the mud. She
ought to say : “Blessed are the meek
for they shall inherit the earth;’’ but
probably she will uot think of it.
.“Angelina, my daughter, how do
you manage that trail ? You certainly
don’t go to entertainments with that on TANARUS”
Angelina, with her “silvery laugh”—
“O, papa, it’s no trouble at all. My
puppy is only too delighted to hold it
forme. [Dear, dear Augustus! he doesn’t
know I call him my puppy, bless his
little helmet hat.” |
..Recently a minister received a
clergymen's hall-faro traveling card, as
they are called, and wrote to the super
intendent asking “If lie could not cm
brace his wile also.” The superintendent
replied that he thought likely he could,
hut did not want to say positive until le
Rad seen his wife, as ho was a little fas
tldions in his tas'es.
. lie was saying, “As the pearly
iqliunn ol smoke in a wintei’s atmosphere
rises unbroken heavenward, so my heart
rtsVs to thee. As the sunflower follows'
the emel sun which gives it life, so my
lieait follows thine. As the blue brook
runs its unhindered course to the sea, so
my's-iul, in slavery, goes to thee.” Haul
she, “ Henry, now that we’re engaged,
will your*nail-blade cut corns?”
The I’ope’n Letter to Iris Itrofliers.
i On the day of his election to occupy
tins chair of St. Peter, the late j>ope
wrote the following letter to his brothers
at Hinlgaglia :
“June 16, 1846,—-Most dearly beloved
brothers, Giuseppe and Oaetano: God,
the blessed One, who hurableth and
exaltefh, has been pleased to raise me,
who am so base, to the highest dignity
on earth. His most holy will evermore
be done, f know in some measure the
almost boundless weight of such a
charge, and know equally my poverty,
not to speak of the utter nothingness
of ony spirit. Cause prayer to be
offered tip, and pray for me yourselves.
The conclave has just lasted forty-eight
hours. If the city of Hinigaglia should
like to go to some expense in the way of
demonstration, endeavor, 1 expressly
desire it also, that the sum to he expended
he laid out in things useful for the city,
in the judgment of the mayor and coun
cil. Am to you, my dear brothers, I
embrace you both heartily in Jesus
Christ. Far from exulting, rather com
passionate your brother, who gives the
apostolical blessing to all. Purs lx.”
The JMnfn Truth.
II it were announced to-day that the
great silver mines of our country hail
suddenly hi come exhausted, and that the
lodes now being worked had unexpect
edly developed gold, arid gold in lyilirn
ited quantities, how soon would the tune
of these fellows Ire changed? If silver
should go up and gold go down, every
mother’s son of them would be a roaring
silverite before the sun could set. So
one can see that it is not the question of
n single monetary standard these men
are contending for. it is that they way
make the most out of their notes, bonds
and mortgages. Jt is that they may
squeeze the greatest amount of blood out
of those men who are so unfortunate as
to Is: their debtors. —[Peoria Transcript.
The old Colonial laws have never been
repealed, and the Attorney General
declares that they ar. still in force. One
of them turns out to be of very lively
importance to Bob Ingersoll. Tt says:
“ I! any person shall deny our Saviour
Jems Christ to be the Son of Goo, or
shall deny the Holy Trinity, the Father,
Son and Holy Ghost, or the Godhead of
the three Persons, *r the unity of the
Godhead, or shall utter ny pro r ar.e.
words concerning the Holy Trinity or
anvof the Persons thereof, and shall be
thereof convicted, he or she shall for the
first offense be bored through the tongue;
I for the second offense, shall be atigmatized
by burning the forehead with the letter
15, and for the third offense shall suffer
death.”