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file-Jens Sentinel Oiilce in the Je* up House, fronting on Cherry street, two lioors from Broa<l !Bt. PFBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY, • ... BY ... T. p. LITTLBPIELD. Subscription Rates. (Postage Prepaid.) One year $2 00 Six months 1 00 Three months 50 Advertising Rates. Per square, first insertion $1 00 Per square, each subsequent insertion. 75 rates to yearly an.l large ad vertisers. 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 Oorner Broad and Cherry Streets, (Near the Depot,) T. P. LITTLEFIELD, Proprietor. Newly renovated and refurnished. Satis faction guaranteed. Polite waiters will take your baggage to and from (be house. BOARD $2.00 per day. Single Meals. f>o ots 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-