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TOWN DIRECTORY.
TOWN OFFICERS.
Mayor—lT. Whaley.
Couneiliuen—Dr. R. F. Lester, rJ. A. Eler
bee, M. W. Sarency, A. B. Purdorn,G, M. T.
Ware.
Clerk anti Treasurer —G. M. T. Ware.
Marshal—Wm. M. Austin.
COUNTY OFFCEBS.
Ordinary—Richard C. ffopps.
Sheriff— John X, Goqdbrtiid.
('lerk SupCiior Court-Benj. O. Middleton
Tax Receiver—C. Hatcher.
Tax Collector—W. R. Causey.
County Surveyor—Noah Bennett.
County Treasurer—John Massey.
Coroner—P. MeDithu.
County Commissioners—J. F. King, G.
W. Il.iines, Janies Knox, J. G. Rich, Isham
Reddish. Regu ar meetings of the Board
3 1 Wednesday in January, April, July and
October. Jas. F. Kiasr, Chairman.
COURTS.
Superiot Court, Wayne County—Juo. L.
Harris, Judge ; Simon W. Hitch, Solicitor-
General. Sessions held on second Monday
in Mt.rch and September.
BMfer, Plercs Coanty Gtop
TOWN DIRECTORY.
TOWN OFFICERS.
Mayor—R G. Pti^gins.
Counoilm< n —P. P. Patterson.J. M. Downs
J. M. Lee, B. D. Brantly.
Clerk of Council—J. M*. Purdom.
Town Treasurer—B. D. Brantly.
Marshal—E. V. Byrd.
COUNTY OFFICERS.
Ordinary—A. J. Strickland.
Clerk Superior Court —Andrew M. Moore.
Sheriff—E. Z. Byrd.
Comity Treasurer—D. P. Patterson.
County Servevor—J. NT. Johnson.
Tax Receiver and Collector—J. M. Ptir
dom.
Chairman of Road Commissioners-—llßl
District, G. M., Lewis C. Wy-lly; 12 0 Dis
trict, U. M., George T. Moody; 581 District,
G. M., Charles S. Youmanns: 590 District,
G. M.. D. B. McKinnon.
Notary Publics and Justices of the Peace*
etc.—Black shear Precinct. 584 district,G.M.,
Notary Public, J. G. S. Patterson; Justice
of the Peace, Xt. R. James; Ex-officio Con
stable E. Z Byrd.
Dickson?* Mill Precinct 1250 District, G
M , Notary Public,Matliew Sweat; Justice <-f
the Peace, Geo. T. Moody; Constable, W.
F. Dickson.
Patterson Precinct, 1181 District, G. M.,
Nota y Public, Lewis C. Wylly; Justice "f
the Peace, Lewis Thomas ; Constables, H.
Prescott and A. L. Grincr.
Schlutterville IVccinct 590 District, G. M
Notary Public, D. B. McKinnon; .Justice o
the Peace, R. T. James; Constable, John W
Booth,
Courts—Superior court, Pierce county
John L. Harris, judge; Simon \V. Hitch
Solicitor General. Sessions held first Mon*
ctiy in March and September.
Corporation court, Blaekshear, Ga., session
held second Saturday in each Month. Police
court sessions every Monday Morning at 9
o'clock.
liopHliT
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CC RKI3NT PAI SA.GRAPHS.
Southern News.
Memphis Appeal: The active working
granges in Tennessee now nnmber 566,
with a membership ranging between
twelve and fifteen thousand. Pour years
ago the granges numbered 1,107,- with a
membership of about thirty thousand.
Of the entire number of granges organ
ized, one hundred never held a second
meeting. Prominent grangers say that
the order is now in much better working
order than heretofore, with the prospect
of more effectively carrying out its orig
inal object, the cultivation of social in
tercourse and the education of the farm
ing class. •
The Atlanta Constitution says of the
yellow fever convention recently held in
Jacksonville, Florida. This convention
was held none too soon. The proximity
of our south Atlantic coast to Havana
renders precautionary measures ex
tremely important. There is no doubt
of the fact that all the epidemics which
have prevailed south of Norfolk since
the war can be traced direct to Havana.
The germ of disease in each instance
came from that city, and the. want of
proper sanitary precautions did the rest.
The action of the Jacksonville convention
should arouse the authorities of every
town on the coast.below Norfolk to a full
appreciation of the situation.
The Mississippi legislature has enact
ed a law regulating cotton shipments on
railroads. The following is the section
specifying the rates to be charged: That
any railroad company, or assignee, pur- ;
chasers or managers thereof, doing busi-!
nes3 in this state, or which may hereafter j
do business in this state, shall not be au
thorized to receive m are than one dollar
per bale for each bale of cotton trans- .
ported one hundred miles, or less; one
dollar and fifty cents for each bale of
cotton transported one hundred and fifty
miles or less; two dollars for each bale
of cotton transported more than ODe
hundred and fifty and less than two hun
dred mi'e.3; two dollars and fifty cents
for each bale of cotton transported more
than two hundred and less than two hun
dred and fi tv miles; three dollars for
each hale of cotton transported more than
VOL. 11.
I two hundred and filty and less than three
hundred miles; three dollars and fifty
cents for each bale of cotton transported
more than three hundred and less that-,
three hundred and fifty miles ; provided,
that this applies to cotton shipped from
any point within this state, the distance
herein contemplated being the distance
trom the point of shipment to the desti
nation as expressed and required by the
shipper. Such companies may charge
less prices than prescribed in this section
at competing points of other railroads
and navigable rivers.
The Atlanta Constitution says of the
pine forests of Georgia: In the first
place, the pine forests of Georgia must
be relied on to produce the bulk of the
turpentine cr.p for the next twenty
years. Before 1840, the most of the tur
pentine in use was produced from the
south of France, and from some of the
northern states. The supply having fallen
short of the demand, the forests of North
and South Carolina were then drawn on,
and are notv about exhausted. The atten
tion of turpentine men has, therefore,
been turned toward the va3t forests of
southwest Georgia as the point from
which to draw the supply of the future.
The production of turpentine from that
section has, we learn, doubled several
times in the past few years, and is getting
to be a very important industry. Good ]
turpentine lands are befiig sold there at !
fifty cents toTvyo dollars an acre, or rented j
at five dollars per thousand trees. At
these rates it is hard to find a more lucra- j
five business. Tire consequence is that :
the turpentine business is rapidly becorn- j
ing enormous, and is destined to grow tc i
still greater proportions. Many Carolina i
turpentine men are deserting their old [
boxes and coming to Georgia, where they ;
can get plenty of unboxed trees at a mere ‘
nominal cost . The quality of the rosin j
they get from the new trees is much bet
ter than that which comes from the old,
and the Georgia trees yield a much larger
quantity. j
Mechanical and Scientific.
“ Distilled sea-water” is the latest in
vention from France offered to the
public to cure or prevent all kinds of
diseases.
A valuable discovery has been,made at
Wurtemberg in regard to frost-bitten
grapes. It is said that if they are kept
in a dry place for a short time the had
effect of the frost will entirely -disap
pear.
Iceland is again threatened with vol
canic eruptious. Recently, in the
vicinity of Eskiljodur, an ur ocedented
heat was experienced by the inhabitants,
such ns proceeds from a vast conflagra
tion. Subterranean rumblings were
heard, accompanied by alternate gusts
of rain and showers of volcanic ashes.
The administration of the Eastern
railway of France has intimated to the
Geographical society ol Paris that or
ders will be given for inscribing on the
wall of each station the altitude above
the sea, the distance from Paris, the
name of the chief town of the district,
the name of the department, etc. Thus
railway travelers will 'learn the [jgeo
graphy of France nolens volens.
James Houston, a cloth-worker, living
near Glasgow, Scotland, had a malignant
tumor in the larynx. Dr. Foulis re
moved the larynx and substituted an
artificial one, with remarkable success.
The health of the patient has been
greatly restored, and he is able to speak
and read distinctly. The first instance
of an operation of this kind was
performed by Billroth, of Vienna,
in 1873, and this is the first case of taking
out a diseased and providing an artificial j
lar.ivx recorded in Great Britain.
February 6th, the rings of Saturn en
tirely disappeared. Their northern side
has been visible since August 12, 1872,
hut during the present month the dark
side of the rings will alone be traced by
the strongest telescopes. On March Ist,
the earth will pass by the southern, or
illuminated, side of the rings, and they
will again become visible for a period of
fourteen years. In 186162 there were
successively a disappearance, an appear
ance, another disappearance and a reap
pearance within nine months, the posi
tion of the earth in its orbit assisting in
the repetition of the phenomenon.
Prof. Barrett, of London, in a recent
lecture on the telephone, gave a recipe
for making a cheap one. Take a wooden
tooth-powder box and make a hole about
the size of a half-crown in the lid and the
bottom. Take a disc of tinned iron, such
as can be had from a preserved-meat tin,
and place it on the outside of the bottom
of the box and fix the cover on the othc-r
side of it. Then take a small bar mag
net, place on one end a small cotton or
silk reel, round the reel wind some iron
wire, leaving the ends loose. Fix one
end of the magnet near, as near as possi
ble without touching the disc, and then
one part of the telephone is complete.
1 A similar arrangement is needed for the
i other end. The two are connected by
the wire, and with this Prof. Barrett says
he has been able to converse at a distance
ol 100 yards.
Foreign Intelligence.
It is rumored in Japan that a notifica
tion will shortly be issued ordering the
JESUP, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20, 1878.
adoption ol the foreign style of clothing
by a 1 ! officials of Imperial or Govern
ment appointment in daijo kyan and
department of the imperial household.
It is likely that this order will also be
extended to all government depart
ments.
Much alarm has been created at Mos
cow by the appearance of the Siberian
plague.* One day a laundress at the
university, who was suspected of having
died from it, was subjected to a post
mortem examination, with the result
that the suspicions of the authorities
were confirmed. Since then several
other persons have succumbed to the
same malady, which is more disastrous
than either small-pox or cholera, and the
police are now taking energetic meas
ures to prevent the disease from spread
ing. It is believed that the seeds of the
plague were brought from Tiflis either
by Turkish prisoners or Russian in
valids.
It. is stated on authority which cannot
be questioned that 70,000,000 fiumni
beings are now [starving in the famine
stricken provinces of north China. Imag
ination fails to cope with so gigantic a
calamity. The Loudon Times says we
[ cannot, doubt that if tho Chinese have
found their way to America from the
comparatively prosperous eastern pro
vinces by thousand, they will pour forth
in myriads irom the famine stricken die
i tricts of the nrth as soon as a way is
: opened to them. The Chinese difficulty
may speedily become a greater menace to
tho future of the United States than the
negro difficulty was at its worst. Negro
immigration was never voluntary, and
ceased with the abolition of the slave
trade, while if the Chinese tide begins to
flow in force, it is difficult to seo where
and when it will stop.
Facts and Figures.
Mexico has 3,000 miles of sea and gulf
coast.
The agricultural population of Georgia
is 900,000 souls, and the number of acres
in cultivation is a triiie over 000,000.
The Liberian exodus association of
South Carolina reports that one hundred
thousand colored persons have signified
a desire to emigrate to Liberia.
A nice point has to bo settled by the
Canadian customs officers, whether ice
from the United States is to be admitted
free as water, or.to pay 17J per cent,
duty.
Inside of twenty-two years all of the
five million acres of the free land in
lowa, with the exception of two million
acres, have been taken up and converted
into farms and villages
The negroes of Georgia, according to
official statistics, poll 84,104 votes. They
own 407,635 acres of land and $1,199,725
worth of city property. Altogether
their wealth amounts to $5,389,270,
During tiie past two years there have
been over 44,000 emigrants from Canada
to the United States. This includes all
classes of laboring men and their families.
Of these, in one year, there wore over
9,000 skilled mechanics, or about 18,000
in the two years.
The War in the Hast.
Russia announces that she would im
mediately occupy Belgrade in the event
of hostilities with Austria.
A Vienna dispatch states that negotia
tions are proceeding between Russia and
Servia, the object of which is to allow
Russia to occupy Belgrade if a conflict
with Austria should become inevitable.
Latest telegraphic advices from Vi
enna say that the Russians are still bent
on occupying Constantinople, with or
without the Porte’s consent, and that the
chances of Austria’s going to war are
smaller than over.
The Silver Bill.
The silver bill has been passed over
the president’s veto by a vote in the
senate of 46 to 19, and iri the house by a
vote of 196 to 73. This settles the
question of a bi-metallic currency, and
emphasizes a great popular victory. It
remains now for congress to proceed to
such supplementary legislation as will
perpetuate the fruitage of this victory.
The wrong which was pepetrated by the
stealthy demonetization of silver has been
righted, and the legal tender character
of the old silver dollar has been restored
but the bill, as amended by the
senate, leaves silver a subsidiary coin,
and future legislation should be directed
to placing it on an exact equality with
gold, where it stood previous to the act
of demonetization. The relation of silver
to gold can be fixed by law bo that the
owners of silver bullion can receive coin
certificates for all they deposit with the
government, receivable for customs,taxes
and public dues. The silver dollar of
4121 grains may, by full coinage and free
circulation, through proper ancillary
legislation return to the value it bore at
the time of demonetizition— 100.46
cents in gold.—[Courier-Journal.
. .It was a rich manufacturer of New
Jersey who said to his guests: “Ladies
and gentlemen, after the grapes ye shall
have beefsteak and mu-h.srijons.and then
venison, straight from Venice.”
SYMPATHY.
1 here's & language that's uiute, thoro’a a silencecan
pjKak,
There's a pomething that can not I>© Uold ;
There are orris that can only he read on tho check,
And thoughts hut theeyocau unfold.
There’s a look so cxi retudve. so timid, so kind,
J*© conecions, so quick to impart;
Though numb, in an instant it speaks out the mind,
And strikes in an instant the heart.
h is eloquent silence, this converse of soul,
lu vain we attempt to suppress *
ore prompt it appears from the wish to control.
More apt ihe four truth ttvfcxpress*
The XjOttery of Life.
The Ernie dee Dev.r Monde* contains
several “ Incidents in the war of Mexican
independence,’’ from which we select the
following thrilling scene. A captain in
the insurgent army ia giving an account
of a meditated night attack upon a
hacienda, situated in the Cordillera, and
occupied by a large force of Spanish sol
diers. After a variety of details, he con
tinues :
Having arrived at the haciendajunper
ceived, thanks to the obscurity of a
moonless night, we came to a halt under
some large trees at some distance irom
tire building, and I rode forward (rom
my troop in order to reconnoitre the
place. The hacienda, so far as 1 could
see in gliding across the trees, formed a
huge, massive parallelogram, strength
ened by enormous buttresses of hewn
stone. Along this chasm the walls of
the hacienda almost formed the contin
uation of another perpendicular one,
chiseled by nature lierielf in the rocks,
to the bottom ol which '.be eye could not
penetrate,for the mists vhich incessantly
boil up from below did not allow it to
measure their awful dejths. This place
was known in the country by the name
of “ the Voladero.”
I had explored all sires of the build
ing except this, when 1 know not what
scruple of military honor incited mo to
continue my ride along the ravine which
protected the rear of tht hacienda. Be
tween the walls and tlnj precipice there
was a narrow pathway, about six feet
wide; by day the presage would not
have been dangerous, Hit by night it was
a perilous enterprise. Tho walls of the
farm took an extensive sweep, the pat ii
crept around their entire basement, and
to follow it to the end iq 'ho darkness,
only two pnees from the edge of a per
pendicular chasm, was no iery easy task,
oven for as practiced a hoseman as my
self. Nevertheless, I did hot hesitate,
but.boldly urged my hors. between the
walls of the farmhouse andfthe abyss of
the Voladero. 1 had got iver half the
distance without accident, when all of a
sudden my horse neighed aloud. This
neigh made me shudder, I had reached
a pass where the ground was but just
wide enougii for the four legs of a horse,
and it was impossible to ret face my steps
“ Halloo ! ” IJexclaimed at the risk of
betraying myself—which was even less
dangerous than encountering a horseman
in front of me on such a road. “ There
is a Christian passing along the ravine!
Keep back.”
It was too late. At that moment a
man on horseback passed round one of
the buttresses, which here and there ob
structed this accursed pathway. He
advanced towards me. I trembled in
my saddle; my forehead was bathed in a
cold sweat.
“ For the love of God 1 can you not
return?” I exclaimed, terrified at the
fearful situation in which wo bth were
placed.
“ Impossible !” replied the horseman,
in A hollow voice.
I commended my soul to God. To
turn our horses round for want of room,
to buck them along the path which we
had traversed, or to dismount from them
—these were three impossibilities which
placed us both in the presence of a fearful
doom. Between two horsemen so placed
both upon this fearful path, had they
been father and son, one of them must
inevitably have become the prey of the
abyss. But a few seconds liad passed,
and we were already face to face —the
unknown and myself. Our horses were
head to head, and their nostrils dilated
with terror, miijgled together with their
fiery breathing. Both of us halted in a
dead silence. Above was the smooth
and lofty wall of the hacienda; on the
other side, but three feet distant from
the wall,opened the horrioie gulf. Was
it an enemy 1 had before my eyes? The
love of my country, which boiled at that
period in my young bosom, led me to
hope it was.
“ Are you for Mexico and the insur
gents?” I exclaimed, in a moment of
excitement, ready to spring upon the
unknown horseman if he answered in the
negative.
“ Mexico e m&udrgente !—that is my pass
word,” replied the cavalier “f am the
Colonel Garduno.”
“Andi am the Captain Gaetanos 1 ”
< >ur acquaintance wasol long standing,
and, but lor our mutual agitation, we
should have no need to exchange our
names.
“ Well, colonel,” I exclaimed, “ I am
sorry you are not a .Spaniard—for you
perceive that one of us ma t yield the
pathway to the other.”
Our horses had ihe bridles on their
necks, and I put my hand in the holsters
of .ny saddle to draw out my pistols.
“ I see it so plainly,” replied the col
onel, with alar ming coolness, “ that I
should already have blown out the lrraius
of your horse but for the fea least mine,
iit a moment of terror, should precipitate
me with yourself to the bottom of tire
abyss.”
I remarked, in fact, that tho colonel
already held his pistols in his hands.
We both maintained the most profound
silence. Our horses felt the danger like
ourselves, and remained as immovable as
it' their teet were nailed to the ground.
My excitement had, entirely subsided.
“ What are we goittg to ao: ’ 1 de
manded of the colonel.
“ Draw lots which of, the two shall
leap into the ravine.”
It was in truth the sole means of solv
ing the difficulty. “ There are never
theless some precautions to take,” said
the colonel. “He who shall be con
demned by lot shall retire backwards.
It will be but a feeble chance of escape
for him, I admit; but, in short, it. is a
chance, and especially one in favor of the
winner.
11 You cling not to life, then,” [ cried
out, terrified at the samjjrrnd with which
this proposition was put to me.
“I cling to lifo more than yourself,”
sharply replied the eoloned, for 1 have a
mortal outrage to avenge. But the
time is slipping away. Are you ready
to proceed to draw" the last lottery at
which one of us will ever assist ? ”
llow wore we to proceed to this draw
ing by lots ? By means of tho wet finger,
1 ike infants, or by head and tail, like tho
school-boys ? Both ways were ims
practicable. <)nr hands imprudently
stretched out over the heads of our
frightened horses might cause them to
give a fatal start. Should we toss up a
piece of coin, tho night was too dark to
enable us to distinguish which side fell
upwards. The colonel bethought him of
an expedient, of which 1 never should
have dreamed.
“ Listen to me, captain,” said the col
onol, to whom 1 had communicated my
perplexities.* “ 1 have another 'way.
Tho terror which our horses feel makes
them draw every moment a burning
breath. The first of us two (those horse
shall neigh—”
“Wins!” 1 hast I y exclaimed.
“ Not so--shall he the loser. I know
that you are a countryman, and such as
you can do whatever you please with
yoiirhorse. As to myself, who but last
year wore tho gown of a theological stu
dent, I fear your equesfcrain prowess.
You may bo able to make your horse
neigh—to hinder him from doing so is a
very different matter.”
We waited in deep and anxious silence j
until the voice of one of our horses should
break forth. This silence lasted for a
minute—for an age! It was my horse
who neighed the first. The colonel gave
no external manifestation of his joy, but
no doubt be thanked God to the v. ry
bottom of lis soul.
“ you will allow me a minute to make
my peace wiih heaven?” I said to the
colonel, with tattering voice.
“ Will five minutes be sufficient 'l' 1
“It will,” 1 replied. The colonel drew
out his watch. 1 addressed towards tho
heavens, brilliant with stars, which I
thought I was looking up to for the last
time, an intense and a burning prayer.
“ Ii is time,” said the colonel.
I answered nothing, and with infirm
hand gathered up the bridle of my horse
and drew it within my lingers, which
were agitated by a nervous tremor.
“ Yet one moment more,* I said to
the colonel, “for I have need of all my
coolness to carry into execution the fear
ful manoeuvre which 1 am about to com
mence.”
“Granted,” replied Gardurm.
My education, as I have told you, had
been in the country. My childhood and
part of my earliest youth had almost been
passed on horseback. J may say, with
out flattering myself, that if there was
any one in the world capable of exe
cuting this equestrianfeat, it was myself.
I rallied myself with an almost super
natural effort and succeeded in recover
ing my entire self-possession in the very
face of death. Take it at tho worst, J
had already braved it too often to be
any longer alarmed at it. From that
instant f dated to hope afresh.
As soon as my horse felt, for the first
time since my rencontre with the colonel,
the bit compressing his mouth, 1 per
ceived that he trembled beneath me. I
strengthened rnyseif firmly on my stir
rups, to make the terrified animal under
stand that bis master no longer trembled.
I held him up with the bridle and the
ha ms, as every good horseman does in a
dangerous passage, and, with the bridle,
the body and the spur together, succeeded
iri backing him a few paces. His head
was already at a greater distance from
that of the horse of the colonel, who
encouraged me all he could with his
voice. This done, I let the poor tremb
ling brute, who obeyed me iri spite cf his
| terror, repose himself fora few moments
i —and then recommenced • the same
• manoeuvre. All on a sudden 1 felt ids
hind legs give way under me. A hor
rible shudder ran through my whole
franfe. I closed my eyas as it about to
roll to tle bottom of the abyss, and I
gave to my b idy a violent impulse on
the side next the hacienda, the surface
of which offered not a single projection,
' not a single tuft of weeds to check my
descent. This sudden movement, joined
to the desperate struggles of my horse,
was the salvation ol my life. He had
sprung up again on his legs, whiclt
seemed ready to fall from under him, so
desperately did I feel them tremble.
1 had succeeded in reaching between
the brink of the precipice and the wall
of the building, a spot some few inches
broader. A few more would have
enabled mo to turn him round, but to
attempt here Would have been fatal, and
I dared not venture. T sought to resume
my backward progress, steps by step.
Twice tho horse threw himsolf on his
hind legs and foil down upon the same
spot, it was in vain to urge him anew,
either with voice, bridle or spur ; tho
animal obstinately refused to take a
single stop in the rear. Nevertheless I
did not feel my courage yet exhausted,
for I had no desire to die. One last and
solitary- chance of safety suddenly ap
peared to me like a flash of light, and f
resolved to employ it. Through the
fastening of my boot, and in reach of my
hand, was passed a sharp and keen knife,
which 1 drew from its sheath. With
my left hand 1 began caressing the mane
of my horse, all tho while letting him
hear my voice. The poor animal re- ,
plied to my caresses by a plaintive neigh
ing ; then, not to alarm him [abruptly,
my hand followed by little and little the
curve of his nervous neck, and finally j
rested upon the spot where the last of
the vertebra) unites itselt with tlie. erani- i
urn, The horse trembled, but I calmed j
him with my voice. When 1 felt his
very life, so to speak, palpitate in his i
brain beneath ray fingers, I loaned over
towards the wall, my feet gently slid
from the stirrups, and with one vigorous
blow I buried the pointed blade of my
knife in the seat of tho vital principle.
Tho animal fell, as if thunderstruck,
without a single motion ; and for myself,
with my knees almost as high as my
chin, 1 found myself on horseback across
a corpse. J was saved! 1 uttered a
triumphant cry, which was responded to
by the colonel, and which the abyss re
echoed with a hollow sound, as if it felt
that its prey had escaped from it. I
quitted the saddle, sat myself down be
tween ihe wall A i the body ot iuy
horse, and vigorously pushed with my
feet again-t the carcass of the w'etched
animal, which rolled down into the
abyss. 1 then arose, and charred at a
few bounds tho distance which separated
the place where I was from the plain; j
arid under the irresistible reaction of the j
terror which 1 had so long repressed, i j
sank in a swoon upon tho ground. When j
I r. open and my eyes the colonel was by |
my sirm.
Til 10 MOW POPE'S POLICY.
What tho President of tho Italian Centennial
Commission Thinks ol Loo XIII.
Count D’Assi, president of the Italian
centennial commission, who is still re
siding in this city, studying the institu
tions t f the country and the manners
and customs of the people, being per
sonally acquainted with the successor ol
I’iu IX ~iiud belonging to vvliat is known
as the liberal school of Italian fKilitios,
bis opinions concerning the election of
Cardinal Feed to the papacy ought to
lie of some interest to the public at this
time. Eneli opinions be gave yesterday,
just after leaving the cathedral, where
ho had been attending the services
held in commemoration of the death of
PiUH IX.
The count is enthusiastic in expressions
of admiration for the learning, tact and
dignity, combined with the amiability
and sterling piety of Leo XIII. In bis
opinion it would have been impossible
(or the conclave to have made a bettor
choice, and it is probable that it could
not have made any other so good. “The
welfare of the Italian people,” says
the ceunt, “demands now, more than
ever, that the occupant of the papal
throne be a man of peace, and
such a man is Leo XflL As |
someone has said of him, ‘be is a happy j
medium between tlltramontanism and
Liberalism.’ I regard his election as a j
most auspicious event for the church and
for Italy. W.liile a blessing to bis flock
of over two hundred millions, the choice, ;
1 am sure, is highly satisfactory to the
government ol King Humbert, between l
whom and the new pontiff 1 predict
there will be no threatening Hash of di
plomacy. His policy has ever been one
of sincerity and love, and by it he has
conquered potentates who would never
have granted the least concession to dic
tatorial movements or uee unpromising
opposition. By such a jiolicy all who
know him believe that he will he guided
as pope, and will Vs; enabled to carry out
all his ecclesiastical measures without
sacrificing right or justice in the slight
est degree. His eminent fitness for the
position was the subject of comment in
Haly years ago, while the extreme 111
tramontane m and uncompromising spirit
of (Lrdi ial Pans bianco caused his best
friends oi church and state to hope that
under such circumstances as those at
present existing in Italy, his aspirations
to the chair of fit. Peter would and in
disappointment. Times have changed,
and Leo XIII. is not only up with the
times, but possessed of extraordinary
diplomatic powers, which, as be has given
! u every r uson to hope, h ■ will exercise
j f, r the best interests of f* th church and
state ”—i Philadelphia Times.
WAIFSfcAND jjWHIMS.
• The Tramp’* Hint,
* Tie shufftad in and took a choir.
Then fixed oh Ue-ahtony ute re—
, i We wrote away, unheeding,
Wlmf. tho clock struck twelve and then
We asked him, a we dropped our pea,
Weil, b r, what ato you needing?
•‘Oh, nothing reuch—T thoacht I’d call—
I ace you kindly mention ail
Tho folks your x Istfc;
Anri 1 thought’t would help fill up If you
Should vivo me just, a line ot two—
’Taiu’t too much tiouble. ia It?
• Just say wo’ro u ratified to state
That cur old friend and college mate,
1, Eberu * >r Skinner,
(’ailed at our office t’other day,
Conversed awhile, and. by the way,
Went home wit.i ns to dinner 1”
--f Franklin (Ky.) Patriot-
If night sir is unwholesome, how
about the longevity owls ?
.. “ Will the coming woman leoturo V
asks a contemporary. If she marries she
will.
Every angry man thinks he Ls right,
and nine out of ten can see that they
were wrong when anger cools. The tenth
man is a fool.
..Mr. Emerson will please inform us
if in saying “the hand that rounded
Peter’s do ne,” he meant to insinuate
! that somebody put a head on Peter
- [Oil City Derrick.
. The Countess Joannes Moore, tho
-went singer of Michigan, hastily flung
off the following the other day : “If you
feel a little pale, think of Joner and
the whale and the frightened phace of
Joner when he thought himself a goner.”
NO. 29.
• TDK SHOOK.
Thou little brook ho silvery clear.
Then run neat on frem year to venr.
I stand ami guxe in I bought profound :
W hence cement thou? and whither bound’
I come fioni rocky basics deep ;
'Mid flowers and mom my course f keep ;
Upon miy surface gently lies
Tho image of tlieaxuro skies*
Therefore have 1 a childlike mind ;
Where'er il lends lio I’m resigned.
Me who hftn brought me from I he atone,
M y Guide, I think, conducth me on!
-—| From Goethe.
.The superiority of woman over man
is never more apparent than on the ap
proach of a railroad train to a station.
Every man who is going to leave tho car
gets out of his seat the moment the
brakes are applied. But every woman
sits as imperturbable as Niobc till the
car. stop <.
.The Akhoond of Swat !--wlutt a
host of plea-ting recollections are called
up by the mere mention of that name!
And many a heart will be shrouded in
gloom by the intelligence from—well, wo
don’t know exactly where the intelli
gence is from, but it is from somewhere—
that the Akhoond of Swat is dead. Ho
is gone. He is passed away from earth.
Peace toll's ashes—or, if he has got no
ashes, then peace to whatever he has got.
We do not weep—tears, idle tears, wo
know not what they mean—but if those
newspaper paragraphists who tell us with
i such lunert-al brevity that “ the Akhoond
|of Swat is dead” will be kind enough
; to give us a sufficient teuch of his biogra
phy to enlighten us as to (who, which,
when and where the Akhoond of Swat
was, we may shed a tear or two per
chance, aria c'vi ri weep copiously if
necessary. -[Courier-Journal.
Woman’s Need of Mental Hxorciso
We have heard a great deal of late ef
the danger to women’s health of over
mental strain or intellectual labor. 1
don’t say there is nevor danger in this
direction, that girls never study too
much or too early, or that the
the daughters of women'who have never
used their brains may not have inherited
rather Hilt and tender organs of cogita
tion to start with. lam to enthusiastic
for excessive book learning for either
women or men, though in books read and
books written I have fottnd some of the
chief pleasures of a happy life. Per
haps it it were my duty to supervise tho
education of girls I should lie rather in
clined to say, like the hero “ Locksley
Hall”— ;
They shiill rhl<- anil they hliiill run.
• v v i.pitn the fitlnbowH of the Ixrook*.
Not with h lmini pyertKht |>oring over uiiwrnl.U*
book*.
But of one thing I am sure, and that
| is, that for one woman whoso health is
injured by excessive study (that is, by
! study itself, not tlio baneful anxiety of
(examinations suj>e,radded to study),
■ there are hundreds whose health are
deteriorated by went of wholesome
mental exercise. Sometimes the vacuity
| in the brains of girls simply leaves them
| dull and spiritless. More often into
j those swept and empty chambersof their
skulls enter many small imps of evil
! omen. " The exercise of the intellectual
powers,” says an able lady M.D, “is
the best means of preventing and coun
teracting an undue development of the
emotional nature. The extravagances ol
imagination and feeling engendered in an
idle brain have mu -h to do with the
ill health of girls.” Another observer,
un eminent teacher, says, “lam per
suaded, and my experience has been
confirmed by experienced physicians,
that the want of wholesome oc-
cupation lies at the root of the
languid debility, of which we hear so
much, after girls have left school.” And
another, the principal of one of the lar
gest colleges for women in England, adds :
“ There is no doubt whatever that sound
study isati eminent advantage to young
women’s health; provided, of course,
that the general laws of health be attend
ed to at the same time.”
Let women have iaiger interests and
nobler pursuits, and their affections will
become, not less stromrand deep, bnt lees
hicklv, lesscraviDg for demonstrative ten
derness in return, less variable in their
manifestations. Let women have sound
er mental culture, and their emotions—so
long exclusively fostered—will return to
the calmness of health, and we shall hear
no more of the intermittent feverish
spirits, the causeless depressions, and all
the ioug train of symptoms which ’
to Protean formed hysteria and open the
way to madness on one side and -‘hi eB
| the other.—[Frances Power Mbbc-