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TOWN DIRECTORY.
' TOWN OFFICERS.
-Mayor— IT. Whaley.
Conneilmen—Dr. R. F. Lester, IS. A. Eler
bee, M. W. Surency, A. B. Purdorn,G. M. T.
Ware.
Clerk and Treasurer—G. M. T. YTare.
Marshal—Wm. M. Austin.
COUNTY OKFCBBS.
Ordinary—Richard B. Hopps.
•heriff—John N. Goodbread.
Clerk Superior Court—Benj. O. Middleton
f Tax Receiyer—J. C. Hitcher.
Tax Collector—W. R. Causey.
County Surveyor—Nosh Bennett.
County Treasurer—John Massey.
Coroner—D. McDitha.
Couiity Commissiorffe—T. F. King, G.
W. Haines, James Knox, J. G. Rich, Isham
Reddish. Regular meetings of the Board
*d Wednesday in January, April, July and
October. Jas. F. Ring, Chairman.
COURTS.
Huperioi Court, Wayne County—Juo. L.
Harris, Judge ; Simon W. Hitch, Solicitor-
General. Sessions held on second Monday
in March end September.
BMsbear, Pierce Unity Gtoriia
TOWN DIRECTORY.
TOWN OFFICERS.
Mayor—R. G. Riggins.
Counciimen—D. P. Patterson,J. M. Downs
J. M. Lee, B. D. Brantly.
Clerk of Council—.). M. Purdom.
Town Treasurer—B. 11. Brantly.
Marshal—E. Z. Byrd.
COUNTY OFFICERS.
Ordinary—A. J. Strickland.
Clerk Superior Court—Andrew M. Moore.
Sheriff—E. Z. Byrd.
County Treasurer—D. P. Palterson.
County Serveyor—J. M. Johnson.
Tax Receiver and Collector—J. M. Pur
dctn.
Chairman of Road Commissioners—llßl
District, G. M., Lewis C. Wylly; 12‘0 Dis
triot, G. M., George T. Moody ; 684 District,
O. M., Charles S. Youmanns; 690 District,
G. U., D. B. McKinnon.
Notary Publics and Justices of the Peace'
etc. —Blaokshear Precinct, 584 distriot.G.M.,
Notary Public, J. G. 8. Patterson; Jnstioe
of tho Peaoe, R. R. Janies; Ex-offioio Con
stable E. Z. Byrd.
Dickson?* Mill Precinct, 1360' Distriot, €1
M , Notary Public,Mathew Sweat; Justice of
the Peace, Geo. T. Moody; Constable, W.
T. Diokson.
Patterson Preeinot, 11S1 District, G. M.,
Notary Publio, Lewis C. Wylly; Justice of
ibo Peace, Lewis Thomas; Constables, H.
Prescott and A. L. Griner.
Schlatterville Precinct. 690 District, G. M
Notary Public, D. B. MoKiunon; Justice o
the Peaoe, E. T. James; Constable, John W
Booth.
Courts—Superior court, Pierce county
Jchn L. Harris, judge; Simon W. Hitoh
Solicitor General. Sessions held first Mon
dry In March and September.
Corporation oonrt, Blackshear, Ga., session
held seoond Saturday in each Month. Police
eenrt sessions every Monday Morning at 9
e’alesk.
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CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
Southern News.
An Alabama judge has decided that
any one who sets a spring gun does so at
his own peril, and is to be held reponsi
ble for any damage done, even to tres
passers.
The Poles, Germans, French, Bohe
mians, Scandinavians, Italians, Aus
trians, Hungarians, and Slavs of Chi
cago are perfecting an organization tor
the protection of their rights in their
adopted country.
A Sacramento woman accused her
husband of attempting to kill her, and
he was sent to prison for two years.
Then she begged to be sentenced for the
same term, because she could not bear
to be parted from him, and, the judge
refusing, she went away and tried to
hang herself.
“ Bob,” the veritable sorrel war-horse
which Stonewall Jackson was riding
when he received his fatal wound, is
still living, at the age of twenty-three,
and retaining much of his old-time vigor.
He is owned by a brother-in law of the
general, in Lincoln county, North Car
olina.
New Orleans Democrat: The New
Orleans custom-house is comparatively
the most expensively conducted large
custom-hoHse in the union. There are
on the coast of Maine, it is true, a num
ber of customs districts where the ex
penditures far exceed the collections,
but these and these alone are more ex
pensively conducted than the granite
building in this city. Our city is the
sixth port in the union in the amount of
collections. The following are the ex
penditures in the six leading ports of
this country for every doliar of revenue
collected : New York, 2.9 cents ; Bos
ton, 4.8 cents; San Francisco, 14.6 cents;
Philadelphia, 5 8 cents; Baltimore, 9.2
cents, and New' Orleans, 16.1 cents.
That is, the New Orleans custom-house
is five timesas expensively conducted as
ihe New York and three times as ex
pensively as the San Francisco and Bos
ton custom-house; and this wholly be
muse it is made “ a political asylum and
the headquarters of the radical party of
the state.” •
VOL. 11.
Mobile Register; Ail that is wanted
to complete the Grand Trunk to Union
town is one hundred and fifty thousand
dollars from the people of Mobile. This
money will be paid back in one year by
the handling of forty thousand bales of
cotton that will come from Marengo,
Clarke and Perry, and the forty thousand
bales of cotton will enable our merchants
to send hack to those counties over two
millions’ worth in return. But even if
this were not so, the history of Richmond
and other Atlantic cities teaches us the
enormous possibilities of Mobile as a coal
ing depot. We have now more water than
Richmond, and we can improve our hay
at les3 cost than the James can be deep
ened at. If Richmond sees over three
hundred vessels at tho Rocketts, within
three years after the railroad has tapped
the mineral regions, there is a certainty
that Mobile will see five hundred vessels
at her wharves so soon as the Grand
Trunk road reaches Birmingham.
Memphis Avalanche: The causes
which have made the colored people
think of removing from the cotton belt
to the grain region are worth finding
out. They have been induced to remove
from the uplands and the older southern
states te West Tennessee, to Missis
sippi bottoms and to river lands in
Arkansas, because there more cotton
could he raised and better wages se
cured. But now they seem to desire to
go farther west, and to go beyond the
cotton belt. Their emigration tenden
cies have not been very strong, but. re
cently they have been excited by the
Liberia movement, and they are in a
mood, as a race, to change in hopes of
bettering their condition. This is an
evidence of improvement in their mental
condition, and evinces a spirit of enter
prise. The Liberia movement will not
ho a success, but we are inclined to the
opinion that the movement to the states
west of the Mississippi river will be as
formidable as that of the whites which
sweeps annually across the Mississippi
river at Memphis.
All Sorts.
Lawyers have fleeced the Erie railway
out of $400,000.
Canada owes $160,000,000, or at the
rate of S4O a head other population.
Joaquin Miller, it is said, realizes
from his published works an income of
about $4,000 a year.
Tho Chinaman’s weak spot is white
sugar. lie’ll pass over jewelry to steal
cut-loaf.
A tooth the size of a small ham, and
similar in shape,weighing twelve pound
was extracted from the jaw of a white
elephant in Ceylon while the animal was
under the influence of chloroform.
In Hartford, Conn., women receive
twenty-five cents per dozen for making
corsets; and the cotton thread, which
must be bought of the corset manufac
turer, is deducted from this sum. There
arc thirteen stitches to the inch, and five
thousand stitches in one corset. An ex
perienced needle-woman can complete
half a dozen in a day, and thus earn
twelve and a half cents.
Foreign Intelligence.
The tsetse, known to entomologists as
glossina moreitans, is thus described by
Stanley: “Not much larger than a
common house fly, nearly of the same
brown color as the honey bee. After
pait of the body has yellow bars across it
It has a peculiar buzz, and its bite is
death to the horse, ox or dog. On man
the bite has no effect; neither has it on
wild animals.
The famine in China was the oppor
tunity of the English and American
missionaries. They devoted themselves
to relieving the dying people about them,
and helping the suffering as far as the
means at hand would allow. This
effected a change in the opinion of the
Chinese as to the religion of the mission
aries. They now concede that a religion
which sends its devotees on missions of
mercy is at least a good religion, if not a
better one than their own.
The assistant adjutant general, depart
ment of Texas, has received a dispatch
from Fort Brown,, which says: “Mr.
Eveesman, a large merchant in Mata
moraa, telis me that the authorities
have Sued foreign merchants about 880,-
000. His houee was to pay 822,000. He
and many other:* are preparing to leave
Mexico as soon as they can close their
business. Gen. Canales is opposed to the
fine, and a revolution is confidently ex
pected, with Garcia do Cardenas as the
head. He is governor of Zacatecas.
Brazil has made a liberal appropriation
for the introduction to the people of
Europe of sterva-mate, an article largely
cultivated in Parana and used in South
America to produce a popular beverage,
but as yet unknown abroad. Mr. O’Conor,
of the British legation, says it will be a
capital substitute for the far more expen
sive and too-often adulterated tea and
coffee, being more fortifying and alimen
tary and much more wholesome, and an
article that can he sold at a price so
moderate as to place it within the reach
of all classes.
..“That’s our family tree,” said an
Arkansas youth, as he pointed to a vig
orous hemlock-. “ A good many of our
folks have been hung on tnat tree for
borrowing horses after dark.”
JESUP, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10, 1878.
THE PILGRIM’S SONG.
Uow sweet, as we're floating on life's changing bil
low,
Like mariners voyaging over the foam,
lo think qf the dear ont-s in vender blest harbor,
And the oeautiful songs they are singing at home.
How sweet to he thinking of pearly gates open,
And angels in white robes so spotless and fair.
With golden harps ringing in mansions of glory,
And sweet songs of love floating soft on the air.
I How sweet to believe that our Savior is Jesus,
And trust in His strength as we re gliding along;
! His love ne’er fail us ; it guides us forever,
| And tills our glad hearts with a beautiful song.
How sweet to be singiDg, while o’er the waves glid
ing
Ani praising tho Lord with our heart and our
•ong.
' And working and praying that' others mav love
Him.
j And join in His praise as we’re floating along.
How sweet to be thinking of angels and loved ones,
And joys that await us in Heaven above!
Sweet strains will be floatiug, when Jesus our
Savior
Shall welcome us home to the mansions of love.
Dear Savior, we thank Thee, we love Thee, and
trust. 'lhee;
We’ll sing of Thy lovo as we journey along;
Aiut.ch, when we enter the harbor of Heaven,
We’ll praise Thee with a beautiful songl
J. Emerson Walker, m Chicago Standard.
THE DYING DOGMA.
Some Pointed Remarks on Everlasting Punish
went.
Asa bit of personal experience by a
lady of large brains and large heart, the
following extract from a letter to the
New York Tribune by Miss Catherine E.
Beechor deserves careful and thoughtful
reading:
In Baxter’s “ Saint’s Rest,” given to
me when I was vainly trying to love
God, it is written that the torments of
sinners will be universal. The liquid
fire will prey on every part—the eyes
will he tortured with sights of horror, the
ears with howls and curses ©f companions
in torment, their smell with fumes of
brimstone, and no drop of water shall
cool their tongue, no respite relieve
their agonies. President Edwards, in a
work given mo to lead me to love God,
says the saints in giory will see the
sufferings of the damned with no
grief, but rather with rejoicing. They
will not be sorry for them, but will be
excited by joyful praise. Dr. Emmons,
whose preaching I heard when sorrowing
for a friend supposed to have died unre
generate, taught the happiness of “ the
elect” in heaven will in part consist in
watching the torments of the damned
and among them will be their own chil
dren and dearest friends; and yet they
will sing hallelujah, praise the Lord.
My father’s friend, Dr. Gardiner Spring,
of New York, said that when an angry
God undertakes to punish, he will con
vince the universe that he does not gird
himself in vain. It will be glorious
when He who hung on Calvary shall
cast those who have trodden his blood
under their feet into a furnace of fire,
jvhere shall be w r eeping and wailing and
gnashing of teeth. My father’s friend,
Dr. Nehemiah Adams, of Boston, says it
is to be-feared that the forty-two chil
dren who mocked Elisha are now in
hell. President Edwards, iii his
sermon ‘‘Sinners in the hands of an
angry God,” says “you cannot stand
an instant before an infuriated tiger;
what then, will you do when God rushes
against you in all His wrath ?” (Spurgeon
of England says “at the day of judg
ment thou wilt have twin hells; thy
soul sweating drops of blood and thy
body suffused with agony.” Dr. Talmage
of Brooklyn, paints the miseries of hell
in a similar language. The Methodist
Ohristain Advocate represents that this
denomination, on yearly average, gives
only 34 cents for each person to save
700,000,000 brothers and sisters from
wading chin deep through the torments
of eternal death. The biographer of
president Edwards says that when
preaching on the dangers of hell, at
times, the whole congregation arose
smiting their breasts, weeping and groan
ing. My father rejected the idea of
literal fire and brimstone torments, hut
I once heard him in Cincinnati describe
the miseries of the wicked shut up
together with all their horiid passions,
and I should have been affected,
as were the hearers of president
Edwards, had I not escaped by leaving
the church, as did my sister, Mrs. Stowe.
For the benefit of those who claim
that the doctrine ef a materialistic hell
is no longer taught, we present the fol
lowing passages from a book written by
Bev. J. S. Furnis, and published in
England a few years ago by ecclesiastical
authority “for the instruction of the
young.”
We know how far it is to the middle
of the earth, it is just two thousand
miles; so if hell is in the middle of the
earth it is four thousand miles to the
horrible prison of hell. Down in this
place is a terrible noise. Listen to the
tremendous, the horrible uproar of
millions of tormented creatures, mad
with the fury of hell.' Oh ! the screams
of fear, the groans of horror, the
yells of rage, the cries of pain,
the shouts of agony, the shrieks of
despair, from millions on millions!
There you hear them roaring like
lions, hissing like serpents, howling like
dogs, and wailing like dragons. There
you hear the gnashing of teeth and the
fearful blasphemies of the devils. Above
all you hear the roar of the thunders of
God’s anger,which shakes hell to its foun
dations. But there s another sound.
There is in hell a sound like that of many
waters. It Is as if all the rivers and oceans
of the world wereuouringthemselves with
a great splash down on the floors of hell.
Is it then really the sound of waters'? It
is. Are the rivers and the oceans of the
earth pouring themselves into hell? No.
What is it, then ? It is the sound of
oceans of tears running down from mil
lions of eyes. They cry forever and ever.
They cry because the sulphur
ous smoke torments their eyes.
They cry because they are in darkness.
They cry because they have left the
beautiful heaven. They cry because the
sharp fire burns * * The roof is red hot;
the walls are red-hot; the floor is like a
thick sheet of red-hot iron. See, on the
middle of that red-hot floor stands a girl.
She looks about sixteen years of age. She
has neither shoes nor stockings on her
feet. The door of this room has never
been opened since she first set her foot
on this red-hot floor. Now she sees
tho door opening. She rushes forward.
She has gone down upon her knees
upon tiie red-hot floor. Listen, she
speaks! She says: “I have been
standing with my bare feet on
this red-hot flood for years. Day and
night my standing place has been thisred
hot floor. Sleep never came on me for a
moment that I might forget this horrible
burning floor. Look at my burnt and
bleeding feet. Let me go off this burning
floor for one moment--only for a short
moment. Oh! that in this endless eter
nity of years I might forget the pain
only for one single moment ” The devil
answers her question. “ Do you ask for a
moment—not for one single moment dur
ing.tlie never-ending etornity of years
shall you ever leave this ved-hot floor.”
Doing' Paris Cheaply.
One may, at ordinary' times, live in
Paris very comfortably oil eight or ten
dollars per week; and this will include
car-fares and admission to the theatres,
great and small. Possibly, during the
exposition, prices may rule a little
higher. In the Latin quarter an apart
ment need not cost more than a dollar
and a half or two dollars per week. Two
good small rooms there will rent at thirty
francs (about six dollars) per month.
Breakfast, coffee and all the bread you
can eat, four cents; lunch at noon, or the
real breakfast in Paris, one and two
thirds franc, or twenty-five cents —this
includes the lialf-bottle of Claret; thesnme
rate fordinner.atfiveorsixin the evening.
Fifty or sixty cents oar day w ill Iced
you well. If you chobsc to eat in your
room, you may, in buying cooked food
(and every variety of food is cooked and
held for sale by the cut jn Paris), live
for thirty cents per day on roast fowl,
various kinds of salad, fresh fish and
potatoes, baked apples and pears, potage
or bullion. 11 is not bad for a change,
and far better than any cheap food you
can get in New York. To familiarize
youriseif with French quickly, buy your
own groceries Prices of such
staples as flour, sugar, coffee,
etc., are more extensively marked
than with us, and every shop window
is a practical edition of Oilendorf, only
tiiere are no quarts, gallons, pints or
pounds, feet or yards. These are all
changed (o liters (a little over a quart),
meters (three inches over the English
yard and kilogrammes or “ kilos” (two
pounds three ounces avoirdupois). The
smallest French coin is the copper five
centimes, corresponding to our cent. The
smallest silver coin is the fifty centimes,
corresponding to the American dime.
The franc is twenty cents American. The
average seat in the uppermost gallery
of the French theatre is railed,
cushioned, and as comfortable as the
more expensive one below, and costs
but a shilling You will recollect that
the museum and galleries of the Ixiuvre
are always free; also the Jardin des
Plantes of zoological gardens ; also the
museum of the Luxembourg palace;
also the Hotel Oluny on certain days,
which is a palace showing the style of
household royal furniture common five
hundred years ago; also the palace at
Versailles. These alone will interest you
far more than the exposition, for they
contain the accumulation and historic
associations of centuries —[New York
Graphic.
Theology in the Hud.
Once on a time my cousin’s child, a
four-year old boy, had to “ try on” some
garments, His admiring mother, finding
she had made a bad muddle of the cut
ting, naturally vented her own irritation
on the restive little figure wriggling
under the infliction of “taking in here
and lettiDg out there.” it ended in her
giving the poor child a slight shaking.
At night, as his mother was preparing
him for bed, he said, I was so naughty
you had to shake me mamma, didn’t
you cause I wouldn’t stun’ still when,
was a-makin’ my new close, would I?’,
Then “ Say, mamma, tell me
what God has to do to the naughty little
boys up in heaven that won’t sf.an’ still
when he’s a-makin’ of’em [ Hawkeye
As year after year rolls into the
great sea of the past, and man drags
nearer the great port of death, he be-
I comes more and more sadly convinced
j that red flannel wrappers will shrink in
spite of the best efforts of the washer
woman. This is why it is -o hard to dis
tinguish a last year’s wrapper from a
coral necklace.
EDISON'S WONDERFUL IN
VENTION.
An Improvement on the Telephone Successful!)
Tested---The Ariphone or Speaking Fog
Horn and its Mission,
The prolific brain of Professor Edison
lias given to the world two new discover
ies One of these is an improvement on
the (arbon telephone. In the two pre
vious inventions the diaphragm was
suspended from the carbon desk by a
section of rubber tubing, lie has dis
covered that by bringing the diaphragm
into immediate contact with the disk, a
considerable increase in the force of
articulation is increased, and that the
thickness of the diaphragm could he
increased at least three timeß without
affecting it. By this method vibration
gives place to pressure. Experiments
were made with this improvement
between the offices of the Philadelphia
local telegraph and residence of Professor
Edison, at Menla Park, New Jersey, a
distance of sixty-five miles. The remarks
made through the instrument at this end
were even mere distinctly heard at the
other end. An experiment was made of
sending marks to Menlo, via New York,
a distance of one hundred and thirty
five miies, which was equally success
ful.
The second invention is the airophone.
It is an instrument into which words can
be articulated and they gather such force
as to he heard fora number of miles with
great distinctness. Indeed, it is in reality
a talking fog horn. By its aid captains at
vessels meeting at sea could converse
easily while three or four miles apart;
signal etation officers could warn vessels
coming on a dangerous coast to keep off,
and it is adapted to all uses to which
such instruments as fog horns, etc., are
now applied. This is a most remarkable
discovery. Mr. Adams, Edison’s agent,
will leave Now York on (Saturday next
for London. A Company of English
merchants have offered Mr. Edison
.660,000 if the invention can successfully
bo applied to the local telegraph wires
in London.—[N. Y. Times.
Sedentary Habits.
In “ Nutrition in Health and Disease”
Dr. Ben net Hays: These physiological
effects explain the prostration of an in
valid, or, indeed of any one unaccus
tomed to exercise, after a great muscular
effort. They feel languid flfid exhausted",
have pains in the muscles ami cannot
sleep. They have used up, wasted part
of their muscular structures, and there
is not sufficient organic activity in the
economy to rapidly renew the destroyed
fibre; so the feeling of fatigue and pros
tration lasts. This, however, is not a
reason for renouncing exercise as an im
possibility, as not agreeing with the con
stitution. A small amount only should
be taken regularly at first, persevered in
whether agreeable or not, and gradually
increased as the muscular power increa
ses. which it is sure to do, Active
people, even in doors, take a deal of ex
ercise. They are ever on the move, run
ning upstairs and down, fetching all they
want, and waiting botli on themselves
and others; and that oven when surroun
ded with domestics. Huch persons find
that they have walked several miles in
the course of the day, without even
leaving the house. This is the history of
female servants, who often never go
out of doors from week’s end to
week’s end, and yet usually retain good
health. Sedentary people, on the con
trary, persons of indolent habits, who
never move from the chair or sofa, if
they can help it, and who ring the lie) 1
for all they want, reach the end of the
day with scarce a mile of exercise. Not
only, therefore, do they eschew exercise
out of doors, hut they do not even take
it indoors, is it surprising that they
should be obese and unwieldly, and a
prey to the diseases of a torpid, sluggish
vitality?
The Outcome of It.
Hard time* always have a soft aide to
them. The fool of Kin;.' Charles cried
when he went down hill, but laughed
when he went up. Being asked why, he
said : “ If I am going up hill now I shall
be able to go down next, but if I am
going down now, I shall noon have to
climb.” The country has some things
to groan over; traffic is thoroughly at a
loss in its circulation ; manufactures are
bankrupt; and yet we never had a more
bouritilul harvest than in 1877. The land
teemed with every variety of pro
duct. There was enough and to spare
for every citizen of the union. The
difficulty evidently had risen from the
fact that too small a proportion of our
population has been in the direct line of
production. The plentiful or super
abundant provision of nature fell
lavishly into the hands of a smaller num
ber than it was intended; for. That we
have land enough to provide comfort
and competence for every one who will
work is self-evident. The iazy will be
badly off under all circumstances, and
neither nature nor neighbor can make
them permanently contented or happy.
I This the pressure of the times is at last
driving the people to recognize. Men
can live, and live well, on the land, if
they are willing to work and use econ
omy. The demand for farms, either to
buy or to rent, is vastly on the increase-
While rents drop continually in the
cities, and town lots are unsalable at any
price, farms do not anywhere beg for
occupants and workers. This is not
notably true in the east, where the ten
dency has been for years to press toward
the cities. Young men are less ambitious
of rapid wealth, simply because they have
become satisfied that the avenues are
closed. They must learn to be patient,
laborious and saving. It costs less not
only cashwise.fcbut demands less exhaus
tion of vital force to live in the country.
This ebbing of the human tide carries
back to the farm life, intelligence, and a
knowledge of the world accumulated in
the centers of trade and thought.—[St.
Louis Globe-Democrat.
Tlic Dentil of Nero.
Nero wandered out into the streets of
Rome, knocked at the doors of friends;
none would answer to let him in. He
came back to his bed room, called for
Spicillus, the gladiator, to kill him, but
Spicillus was gone. “ What! ” Haid he
to Epaplirodilus, his secretary, who had
now joined him, “ have I neither friend
nor foe ? ” and he rushed out again to
throw himself into the Tiber; but his
courage failing him, and the reason grow
ing clear once more in the face of appall
ing calamity, he wished for some quiet
place where he might consider his strange
and sudden positiou, and collect his
thoughts for death. With his head muf-
Bed up, and covering his face with a
handkerchief, dressed only in a tunic
with an old soiled cloak thrown over his
shoulder, he trudged along barefoot in
the gloom of the early twilight, accom
panied by Pliaon, Sporus, and Epaphro
ditus. As theso four slunk from the
Nomentane gate together like common
wayfaring men, they could hear the
soldiers in the Praetorian camp on
the right cursing Nero the beast,
and hailing Galba as father of his
country. “They are in pursuit of Nero,”
said a man as he passed them. “ Any
news in the city about Nero?” asked
another. There was no time to spare.
They found him a broken-down horse
which he mounted, and they hurried on.
At last they reached the village of
I’haon, parched with thirst; the Emperor
lapped u ' some water with his hands from
a running tank, with the bitter jeat,
“This is Nero’s distilled water.” lleeropt
quietly into the house on all-fours,
through a hole in the wall, and threw
himself on the first mattress, prostrate
with hunger, misery and fatigue. Then
he ordered a grave to be dug before his
eyes, for he re: used to fly. He bade
them pave the pit with marble, ami,
weeping theatrically, be prepared, sur
rounded by his only remaining friends
to play his last act. “ What an
artist is now about to perish !”
he exclaimed, but ere the words
left his lips a dispatch from Rome
arrived, which he snatched out of
Phaon’s hands, lie read it and shud
dered. He had been condemned by the
senate and beaten to death and dragged
by the heels and flung into the Tiber
Seizing two daggers, ho felt their points.
Greek verses occurred to him and lie
began to recite. He begged Hporus to
set up a wall for him—to kill him —to
kill himself first.
At this moment the tramping of
horses and clash of armed men were
heard below. He broke out in a verse
from the Iliad: “The noise of swift
heeled steeds assails my ear.” Jn
another moment he would be taken
alive. “Come then, courage man I”
he cried, and feebly pushed the point
of the dagger into his throat. But his
nerve was gone, and Epaphroditus
came to ids help and pressed it home.
The guards burst in and would have
seisrd him. “Is this your fidelity? ’he
murmured and expired, with staring
eyes, to the terror of all who beheld him.
It was his last pose, and, as the end of
such a life, it could not have l>een out
done. “Is this your fidelity?” “He
had never made a better comic hit,”
writes M. Kenan. “Nero uttering a j
melancholy plaint over the wickedness
of the age, and the disappearance of good
faith and virtue ! Let us applaud ! as
the drama is ended and the curtain falls.
Once in history, O Nature' with a
thousand masks, thou hast had the wit
to find an actor worthy of such a role ”
<i rand mother Miller, of Brooklyn,
one hundred and six years old, says:
'• Father j’ined the rebels, as they called
em then. I ’member when peace was
declared, though. I was about twelve
years old when mother took me over to
New York to see Cfen’l Washington and
his army come into the city. It was,
about November somewhere, in 1788.
The general and the army came down
from Harlem 1 remember he rode a
splendid horse 1 , and (ien’l Knox was with
him. I threw a bouquet in front of his
horse, and he bowed to me and smiled.
The troops were awful ragged, some of
’em, and my father was one of ’em.”
. In the species with which we are
best acquainted—namely our own—l am
far, says a writer, even as an observer of
human life, from thinking that youth is
the happiest season, much less the only
happy one.
WAIFS AND WHIMS.
The Cock rfncf the Sun.
A cock neea the sun aa he climbs up the east ;
“Goo<l morning, Sir Sun, it’s high time you ap
pear ;
I've been calling you up lor an hour at least;
I’m inhumed of your slowness at this time of
yearl”
The sun, as he quietly rose into view,
Loosed down on the cock with a show of line
scorn;
" You may not be aware, my young friend, but
it’s true,
That I rose once or twice before you, sir, were
born!”
. The pleasure of talking iH the inex
tinguishable passion of woman, coeval
with the act of breathing.— [Lesage.
. .0. Vanderbilt, jr., is as yet quite
uncertain which hurtH him most, his
father’s will or his brother’s won’t.
..It is said that the latest mania of
pottery decorators is to paste pictures on
bald heads and coat them with varnish.
..Canon Farrar says that “Hell is a
temper, not a place.” If he has that
kind of wife, why doesn’t he apply for a
divorce ?
.. A negro teamster in Nashville de
clares that he must either give up driving
mules or withdraw from the church, the
two positions being incompatible.
‘..“Do you see any grapes, Bob?”
“ Yes, but there is dogs.” “ Big dogs,
Bob Yes, very big.” “Then come
along®—these grapes are not oura, you
know.”
'. “ Well, 1 swau, Billy,” said an old
farmer to an undersized nephew who was
vi-itiDg him, “ when you take of! that
’ere plug hat and spit two or three times
there ain’t much left of you, is thar ?”
. .Haid him to she: “What is the dif
ference between a hill and a pill ?” Said
her to he: “One is hard to get tip, and
the other is hard to get down. It is old
but good.” Said him to she, “Do you
allude to the hill or the pill?”
NO. 32.
MIhTAKKN.
The yewng mm paced the pnrlorH,
While Bho was cleaning her teeth;
And lie thought ol the needed dollar*
Which the old man had to bequeath.
The old man aat on tho counter.
With hiR head between hi* bund.*,
And rejoiced that the girl trad a lover
Who would help him meet hi* doinnndtt.
.. Definition’s artful aid : “ What is
a junction, nurse?” asked a seven year
old fairy, the ether day, of an elderly
lady, who stood by her side on a railway
platform. “A junction, my dear,” an
swered the nurse, with the air of a very
superior person indeed, “ why, it’s a
place where two roads separates.”
. .“Why haven’t you got married be
fore this time of life?” querulously asked
an old man of his nephew. “Well,
uncle,” replied the nephew, “I’m sure
it is not my fault. 1 proposed to three
girls only last week, and, on comparing
notes, tho whole of ’em unanimously
rejected my offers.”
'Hie resident of Washington territory
having heard that another man had
settled in the western part of tho territory
immediately applied for admission into
the Union as a state, ami baspryflll*** to
elect the other man fe WsJ*glsl*tnre, if
the other man will pledge himself to vote
for him for United States senator.
THIC CHJLDBKN.
All! whnt would the woild tin to in
If tho children wore no more '
Wo Hboul.l dro it the doHori hohlnd ui
Worne than the dark before.
W Ini I tin leaves are to the foicst,
Willi llijht and air and fowl,
Mr,. th,lr mwooi nrnl tender Juio
finvo been hardened into wood
That, to the world, aro children ,
Throw/h them it feels the glow
Of a brighter and climate
Thyt reach, a the trunks below.
.. A Scotchman who had gone back to
his country alter a long absence, declared,
after going to the kirk, that tbe whole
kingdom was on the road to perdition.
“The people,” lie said, “used to be re
served and solemn on tbe Sabbath, but
now they look as happy on that day as
on any other.”
. .Jennie lias strict ideas about equity
in little things. When she first heard
the story of the Savior's miracle in feed
ing the multitude with a few loaves and
fishes obtained from tbe young lad’s
basket, she was awed into thoughtful
and solemn amazement. Home time
afterward, in the midst of a talk about
other matters, she suddenly paused and
asked with special concern, “Did they
give back the basket to that boy !
An Old lliillfigditer’N Struggle.
The London Times’ Madrid corre
spondent gives this incident, of the bull
fights which made a part of the festivities
following the marriage of the King of
ypain: Casas, aommonly called Bala
manchino, is a veteran matatlor, seventy
years of age, who, having figured in
tjucen Isabella’s marriage festivities,
wished, although he lad long retired
from the field, to appear in Friday’s and
Saturday’s bullfights He appeared
dressed in blue, embroidered with silver;
his gray hair was gathered into a knot
behind ; and over his pure white shirt
waved a long, red cravat. On the fourth
buli being let loose he advanced toward
the royal hex to request permission to
encounter it. AH the torrrros clustered
round him to protect him. The
bull is attracted toward Salamanchino,
who holds his scarlet mantle in one hand
and his sword in the other.
The struggle commence", but Casa* is
old, he is not firm r.n his legs, his mus
cle.s are not supple, his arm is not sure.
Twice the bull throws him down. He is
thought to be dead, but he is up again
and returns to the fight. There is a cry
of “ Fueral ” and pockethandkerchiefs arc
waved to stop him; but the obstinate
matador wishes to wiu a last laurel.
Fortune,however, isunpropitious; seven
times he attacks the bull, seven times he
misses it. According to custom, after
seven unsuccessful attacks, the bull’s life
is safe, and, shaking its streamers may
re enter the “ Tori!” amid the applause
of the spectators; while, on the other
hand its unfortunate combatant is hissed.