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The Jesup Sentinel Office in the Jesun ITctiseff routing on Cherry street, tw< Joors from Broad ,£Bl. . PUHCISHEtf EVERY WEDNESDAY, * ‘ ...‘BY ... TANARUS, P. LITTLEFIELD. Subscription Rates. repaid.) One y6ar..iT.. Af $2 00 srx months 1 00 Three montlts..... 50 Advertising Rates. PerSiiua.e, firvtjnte.i'on,, PO Per sqnsrt?, eaea subsequent inse.tion. 7B r 2a&*Bpect?l rale to yearly and large ad vertisers. 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, Corner Broad and Cherrv Streets, (Near the Depot,) T.->P LITTLEFIELD. Proprietor. . ~ t * Newly renovated and refurnished. Satis faction guarantee,!.., Pajite waiters will take your baggage to and from the house. BOARD $2.00 per day. Single Meals, 50 ets 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. . ...■■• - —••* *; . .| < 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.”