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Tie Jesu Sentinel. Office in the Je*ap House, fronting on Cherry •treat, two doors from Broad 8t. rvHU$m:o eves? Wednesday, BY T. P LITTLEFIELD. 8ubseription 'Rates. {Postage Prepaid.) One year....... -........12 sss Sir months.,,. Three months. Advertising i i atvs. Per square, first insertion............... It 06 Per square, each subsequent insertion. rSPeigmsi rate* to yearly and large sd vertisers. TOWN DIRECTORY, rows om<m's$ W. it. VV ha ! «y BiwatHaieh 0*rt Wikis Clary, Q. W «wa, W. **• K f. MlitUeusti I’■ 1 . Ctvrk and T nwmrrr-t rysfit 'isorge. Mar»ha!~ t, Trail. r.ocmtf nmoum. SbtxiS Ordinfity—FI D R..!u.ison. . h arc! B Hopes. —J Tax Clem he.?-iv«r— S-tpener -J Court—-Benj. Hacker 0 Middleton C Tux CoitecC.r—W B 0*«- ey Count* 8 irvevor—VV ti 8 t Comity Tr#**nrer—J oho M? iossey ( oror.e r-—G K n I if. lit y<er«l':-M, Superior Judge Court, Wauie ©oooty—Martin I j Sunon'W Hiieb ; -•••! <•;; c 8? oaa livid r>u tourih ifandav in JfA'-dh'.awd 8<uvirmbi r B A X LH V, < « EOHGIA Ai’fUM. Cia-xTv Obficbks Siieri*—b Ordinary--8il«s B. C«k A. Crosby. t '..uotv ckik —iv W. flruham. Tristurer—N. toes Hi eriy. Tax Receiver-—J. .1, Davie. Tax C IbiHor—8'.! s Roberson. County Coroner—!. JohiitoD. Couetr Cimimisi-ioiier.v — H, MoBeeWa, Joiut’O. Hart,, Wm. i) S;ev»r t, Janies War* nock, Lham Carter, fit .Cost *lf -t'G&tifafm-Qtt* 'rs -- lx ■ 80*5 W, B Mu ijX ■fTicA, t;:h8irui k'K U ptiw mH -’gol TAto B ar.f thi 4 WedstX'diiy in ag » vltlj ami iiu.c.iirr THADKKS H 11,1,, <7r.,Y rvw.s-rr tFKlGMS. Ordinary — R?,i er! HRteiier Sheriff—-John brooks, Clerk--J. to. Rea ion. Court Calendar. Erhob—Second-Mondays in March urn! Aiq.‘.iag—Third j.teiiC . r. Monday in March and Bepteeber, Wayne—Fourth Monday in March and tiep ember. Pierce—First Monday in April and October. W;ire~-Second Monday iu April and 0, U-’-er. C inch—Ttiert! ly alter third Afnmiav ia Aj'oi and Ootoben Ct fie e—Tceslay after fourth Monday ia April a ml Cctdfi<-r,. May Camtien—I'atosJfty slid after aecoud Monday ia Nov. ;? • er, Ghsil oa—Ttudt Mor<lii in May and No¬ vember, Glynn—Fourth Monday in M-,v and No¬ vember. Till JESUP HOUSE, "('A Bre m an 1 (r.iitry .fEsri*, < r lit >H< , IA JimclKiji AtJAstle and Half, *o& Am and Br«a» wick BaiJ Btsuds. fh* *twnUan «f s se tr»v4>lin« n«H 5 i« !i a <h!-FCte«R)l th- taducene »t» i ff re,» ih«m Ivy ih « M XmriK Tr.e locution »{ this House is on rlevarel irtairt. MU itlreeity «: i« ris. ft-pyt |Wt It is »eii »•„, I"? jJictJ win water sthI >.l» t.is-iuitMtotmi »‘«r*i Via«» •»* ttj ;Hi* it? gae>U tt. comiurt oi Hhuu. ii® |w*r Nriigly Hvill* fin i fill 1 *; **v Ike Mttttill run by Hi* TIBEH4E ftlMOIM TO r.UlltlE.V i he Tab. k tiM He a Ivst4ii;!i ft cm of ihe ,K £££ Krt5i.se, of sml .Yflmaj i I '}$ sute iiupervi Urn n* j«* M «*5580,1 -■ was? Ugg**# if tQuai ic u>e W-*t. %j<, ^ ^ * ■re v«t it and Horn H^tel ami v t P. UTTUfJ£t0. PfERryvfor Knowing How to Swim. Tlie recent'disasters on the water**, have conclusively proved the advautagea of the art of swimming. Those who wore conscious of their ability to swim were cool in more, than one sense of the w..rd; for they not onlv were not pauie-strickcn, hot they did not bore. Even those who can but float in the water fed that they haw resource* which others do not Blmre. Among tin* passengerv of the Seawai - haha was Mr. Samuel Barlow, of New York, life who having provided iiimself with, a preserver, gave it away to another passeogcr and dropped into tho water. He turned himsvlf upon ids back and floated, umnagiisg to keep his nose above water until he was rescued. Ail the pas sengers who could swim, or at least who did the shore in It would reinfiirc-o person* otlierwfe© iiable to b© fcar-stricken. with Msanraro©. cnabling them to take measures for sav- ! . ing themselves. If, for example, the water were, not an absolute tenor to one- : half or three-fourths «rf the passengers, when a collfeion occurs or a fir© breaks • <ryt. ...gjefuhiess they would, with Rime degree of : lowering and delife*ratiuu, act about , the boats. They could exercise : their reaaon aud take precautions, would i look to see if the plugs were all in. and would lower the boats, {M>rh«|>S', without > emptying boats evcryfexly out or S.arragahsett fUUug the i with water, <ht the ; one- ping of in the the lx.<at» was lowered while the j bottom, allowing the rain : wafer to-run aWay, was out, and the boat filled* The' patent ping, which, by pressing foroed bome, of the wafer ou the bottom, is boats; ought to be used in all but if fe not. and a little caution and preservation of the mental batata* on the part of the pass n r n wooldavoM these nnat.v * , r % daw rs is not merely, therefore tliat the art of swimming will save the lives of vov- ; agers, but the with the wafer ; and the consciousness that one can, i-vii when'hf 1 must take to the wafer, support himself in hfoi Uim, at least, and un W ful becomes would prevent the dread pmucstowhidi more 'ha.it. tin h Mter Shouldivvny itself, the great kw« of bfe is finer man, and every woman, and evsarv awdic chdd that's old enough to learn be that as anon as they touch ‘the wafer they could mrpjxirt themselves in happen# that quite as often tin* it is the W cannot swim who is drowns while in bathing The number of swimmers W.lt 7 Hesttjt Sentinel 4 VOL. V. AT THI, tUsqiil II UIK. ( by CAto&m v. i&urw. ia, w« win g<? to to* t*ii, Yea and I «ui the rest The winds sees k ijalet-tor ri. The heaven* »r« » at litelr test The Any baa tHWsn «*y with ruin, A»<1 thmliNng wtUi BAVs'ric* old, That always silo* conse with their jisia. When are so wnb w>d col i But, now that Ui« eloishe are fair, Wdt T!«s storm i* still in aiy fereaetj go wills tJfcy masker* r - ttiere. aad l and the ra»t Yr-!: neeil*-. ttimel f for s nsssk— No «.-»!!! guess it, dear So handsKiaifi a calm—T ’< .1 ask Autl stofy Iht to guess your lew. diner? is solemn and wi*o Bat A wtxulcrftd sight of tile role tiapj.iy for lihu, eve* Is making y,u,r own grow Ah ! rose* of ; - I! and V.im, There's love au-l inriivvnco, hxi he pale ones ! cle«:« to-night, And leave ah the red tor van. &’Angina I* waiting the white. I tUltik »‘t> «?-*: dresiKwl to go; . hw.wt .TtsMie and •lunie stui.'a Through «»*k* et cariiiSns a;i4 moir, Amt now the w ool:? are, stilt, A iu! the skies are at their test, We'U goto the datiee on the iiSi— You and I am) tbe rest. ir.Mtal for the -night, Wl.iri in confusion around : SttiiSog anil jectiag uut light Music and revelry 's sound. Kovar* anti gar.aisdwsf) s ■ trailer perfume a* they And vine jusd tm&x riC* ii Alike ii B tUt. glace c t the garL Mmvtn with their of c.&r**,. Sou!b with iih their burdenb of gjn, L- mi rfiww fair, Wait tot ior t titc u. MIC* to B t y heme AvA y.'.n-, with 5 ? our t’to-a rooI, And tho rcan’ft over yonr hearty Uiay out your pififuJ r» ve, And daijoft tiD tho sad note* part With eye* m nrrcne wnd cahu. You RUr.d when? ihe rod flowers glow* AvA l hmdih ■ ?...... nw cf b, c.u With pftte.ta of j>v rfum»‘d «n -\v. But a ru'.A. l>»-fm* »uy iwriflit, Auti I turn my f!- woV-wrcatltcd Uroui rin k I* l■ mem s wUltt A.j«! fl*sdd»g of r mm red. For ii? ktin-hvnLT hp» ififea* injdrr n«' .■ ri Vto'ir Heart in H» <terk ?k cAiyw Lie* and. r ill m emu -V.-e tl!« JiSIC V. V ii Tins' iis* tmm o'i'pr i Sei;iji«»ii3 a'><i )d wltlU? ■ lint! tj ,4 To the tetsrt* wa-ciiiilk?r.B Bu! Gilterl ? .-??- ’ ?;■,.?;■ -■ •lessk' stu‘i J'.u.le -a Il’Asglte The is read r.T'teo: H - ' ill, ’ iT t let Isa sii, -s ith t word. Titt tntoijui rarltor* atoto ttnxms>k AJ.C tin 4 With are of Urn i«rfun:cl (low Ah. Kte how fin- piss?-;, ;4‘ Theri-'a Sitrurl?. ail white and And M ire tvith 1 p MI And Vie f m They smlto v. to’, h a it , n?; a« To throw (town ii nw to -. ms♦jr rwi, "ttil tor ofl s ? of W'iifte I msx&XiW arc tieM, SUCH IN LIFE. picture Away back m memory’s Smlls hangs a yet undim med, though years have •'ome and gone since too days long ago when I first knew the reality. Au old brick school-house, formerly a church, with its _ bread dixws and great arched j windows, their buff curtains fluttering i luxily in tho summer breeze, forms tho princijKil has-y, feature. Mils, A back-ground of right purple-green and just to the a group of grand old walnuts, whore daily wc held our noon picnics, an d wove wonderful garlands to decorate the yellowed walls of tiw* old school room, ami in front the great gaping ditch, which in a m«rv.,-lotisly-short space of time would swallow up the whole school after the bell tapped for recess; but to me the dearest feature of all was. til® broad old Mississippi m the distance, its rolling along ia majestic gntnd <® sun’s r i i brightest sparkling wavelets catching the them hack beams, and throwing into the old school-house with, redoubled brilliancy. From mv »ewt amir the window l think I never »tod o. watching, its bright waves glim ®* 1 ifeauii Ilci> turoiigh the swaying green to’ct.-s, .gentle reader, it was ®‘ " “twknew Ethol^ Rayrmmd, a tiny, , "air-nairwl v girl of perhaps mv own a -ways mad the pnEc-waito dress age, m isame lta warvelotis number of tucks, and olue.si.K waist, with low neck and short xU'Cvea setting on her fair ©hildfeb beau ty, though aacby out of place in the dusty old Khool-room, m was the gen eEa * from the tunmd noses and suppressed titter of the i little calieo-c-fea damsels whose manners I were not nearly so respectable as their . somewhat-failed garments. How long ! ^ *-iii recess th .t firs? moriiing, j aB( l whim it cam© how we all bounded ’ off to “our grove,” a»_ we called the wal- j n with °^fi an *° air snrround of superitw Mat knowledge, Bronson, who, had i ; imormod us tliat tlie new-comers lived j “just down by hot houw.-,’ epnfceqoently was ‘ opposed l spccts.tliey to know must all be afemt^them, awful rich to ! dress m fine at school,” timidly sug greted little Kitty E*lwards, as soon aa we^ were sot tuvl. Iteb, mdeeti { i( sniffed Mat; “poor ** ‘ 4 ’; ss ‘^ ve ® !lu old_shanty 1°** down below our house; aui’t got ®®j4bmg iu hut two or three <*kl cliaini, a Move; awful stuck up, . ■? * n ] 14 weut °T er , fedier vA\ I* 18 *° s ? e w “®* k,n « , '* 1 P^P*« tn«y were, anti, my lurid : Mrs. Kav aon “ «ws so high mid mighty she liarel y her to sit down, tin© said un *** circumstances she couldn’t lie *«*> sm-mUc, which means she's too ain’t to send her sehool witii her present arrangements can b w bich means he ain’t g*.t any «*»« to wear, yoo toow. Pity he curt w . i ‘ (ir itw&s family white, with about half out; it wmilil be jmt , long enougb tor hun; with oh, know, ^ makes quite stylish Sunday you dress a ^trfl '»• 1 , m Mrt&onsoo, ut «n h stuff as that, interrupted “ ,, h f aed a * «» feu the truth, and tJus is a solemn cluues shey Yo got *** one of^ uU these thre sowing ^, ma- aud ’ « P m* &tZTrjssz&i£rGi thing; as there are only about forty iid, of 3^, of course ^ it will never get out,” P) na ? C1ijris a wicked toss, Mat JESUP, GEORGIA, WKDNESHAY, SEPTEMBER * 2 * 2 , 1880 . ever-thoogbtful kindness of our teacher, in his Who seemed never to weary effort* entertain and mbom her during j the long his dark races* boyish time. I ran contrasting »ee them yet, beaut* with hers so fair and childlike, Ernest Emerson, our teacher, had come to m from aueighboringaciulmy, anil, though scarcely both more than a boy, had pupils. won his wny among parents Md A model of perfection and beauty he seemed to us children. The jetty curls lymg in damp mgs about his white ’jvoWj the great lustrous black eyes and faintly-tinted cheeks made up for his onlj drawback, a lamenem, which #i~ ways made it necessary for him to walk with a cane ; but we soon grew to look »P°» ti!C little rosewood cane as a part of our teacher, and proliably would never have associated it with pain and suffer¬ ing had he not one day told ms of a boy whose reckless propensity for fun and during exploits of had made him a cripple at the age 14, and a disappointed man for life rills told in a sad, agitated tom- of voice convinced us.that the wild, reesirts hov was no other than our gentle only teacher. From that hour we were 8>uipatiictic not his friends, .admiring, but his warm, and when he took inUc lonely htad nn<h-r ins especial care we felt a silent rebuke from one w hose good opinion we tdJ coveted, and m the a little snort- time all hearts and when were the opened teacher to stranger, her in the seat beside m* w> grew tusiqwrable, and those long, bright sum mer days seldom found us apart. EthePa mother, a delicate, fragile lit tte woman, seldom went out. Muring Ethel from school sevend weeks after the commencement of the fall term, I begged permission to go aud see what w:us the matter. Tins I readily oh turned ; and, as it was the day before Tlnaiksgiving, little friend also to* iMOTiission spend to invite my the morrow uth nit The dead November grass may have writhed and crackled, under m,' flying feet, but aped you mav ’Ethel be assured none grew as I to How the though bright, eyes shone when I told her! tiiSEj: speedily intent followed she said by a shade of u as : Oil to. 1 if I only could, hot 1 can’t, Maniaa is sick and, any hot?, I haven’t anything to wear.” Oil, veil soon fix that. You know that red polka dot- of mine? I just hate it. because I can't breathe but whut a hook ib' ■ off, and I believe it. will just fit you, bc'tianse you ain't as fat tin I am, anti .! know mamma is tired of wing on hooks, imd will hi ever so j 'L for there.” me to give it away, so y u're ail ^ ight “ Oh, hui mamma, you know; she’s real sick! She just coughs all night, and is so hot. Sometimes I wake" up and hear her moan. Then I almost screa®, I'm so ’t'raid she’s going to die 1” and the great eyes dilated with horror. “Oh, Evcryfevdy Ethel; yori'always get scan-d so ciu-.y, gets sick sometimes, you know 1 . You come to-morrow, and when everybody's gone T‘H get my mamma to come over and see lier and bring her something know. nice—a Thanks giving lx* nice? dinner, yon Won’t that N->w nui and ask her ; 1 must go. Remember, the dress’ll come to uignt The next morning, among he first arrivals, was my little friend How proud and happy I felt when I saw how universally by tin her petted and admired she was ! guests 1 That was a bright dnv t* us, but wlii'ii mv mother re¬ turned, after accompanying Ethel hom<*, she threw a shadow into our hearts bv tlie sad information that Mrs. Raymond's the was probability a hopeless ease of that consumption, and' and woulii was Ethel her .brother be motherless before tiro “Poor, poor hers children,” she went on ; “■ that, Harry of is a. noble b«v; as kind ami gciitl i nurse? as a woman They oppressed are a very refined family, though so Raymond -iters by }x>verty. sad 1 v Mrs. ! is a story Siif told me to-night a gtwd deal of her past history. whim married, It, -cems she was husband' very youug as was her H had a nice little stun of 'money to put into busini ;-s, bat alt hiaImsiucss qnalifi cations at that t ime consisted of u ili Just phuna then from a leading business college he received what he cons id oml a very brilliant offer, in the shape of a partnership with an old, exporh-uoed busHtess man, wlso hail more business reputation than cither money or bom-sty. as it, afterward proved. To this arrangc meat an older brother of Mr, Ray mond, wbb was very wealthy, and their only posed living relative, was violently op ; did everything in his power to prevent what, ho insisted, must prove only without a disastrous ©xperimetit, but all avail; the offer seemed bo very fluttering, considering Mr. liaymoud’s limited practical expfwienev, that it was accepted without hesitation. So tho new tirtn started, and everything was suid highly plenty Hsitisfactory for « time. Ifeace smiled upon their home, and when little Harrr and Ethel came they thought their blfes complete. But the cloud burst nnexp'i’todiy. One mom ing they wakened to find the new firm bankrupt, having themseh*<*8 sailed for penniless, Europe the the partner night before, taking " with him all surplus funds. “ What to do the young husband and wife km w not. but, after numberless uiwucc-sful attempts to find emplov nn to tho nt, Mr. older ILmnoml brother, and decided received to appekl m re \ ply offered a f^w wonls, mrting only tli&t, as he lia»l advice before to la* rejected, he oertuinlv would not have the irn i ? 1- jdy rtiire-no. say, as toto he. had moo fumfehed , but the a onld capital sun . H he nd his p.rtm r tin -.pi i one, it wL to both, pumacaed he tiie result was satfefectorv to as could now boast of tire ex \ iovum‘' i u- re- , re,iLT . , arnlln t , ,. ; queue"cf ; ( u iIkm* kSw “a t)n4 ex, for , ore ^ ! LirtrWr ^ ac^UidSniVto a bw^fevs t j l( . yo u ,, K motlier with her t W- > little I her door tell, on account of failing | health, who was forced to seek change of | climate, but too late ; as the winter days j morning wore on she in the grew «ar!v worse, spring and there one bright flat . J \ tered breeze from the heavy the door black in the soft, balmy wliieli | fold the news’ that death crape, had sad entered j the little cottage and left Harry and : Ethel motherless, but. not without a ! friend; Rome one, whom we afterward j learned was no band other than Eugene kind, delt- Em croon, ever on with some cate attention for the invalid, had writ ten to the brother, and at tho funeral tlie little mourners were led bv a tall, st&Mvdooking gcniJemm who,* it was whispered, them was their rich undo, come to take awav, which proved truf j almost The next bursting morning, with our chiklt-.lt Ethel hearts saul good-bys grief, and I our oyer and over again ere the great lumbering old stage coach earned her away to be. the daughter of her rich uncle, who expressed his infcn. being tion of adopting both the children, a,. childless and eutirely eloue in t. h world. Years glided by and an oeeamonal let life, tor from speaking Ethel descriptive first, kindly, of and the new at the)* afTectionately, of the uncle, whom site soon learned to love and who, .-die a -nired «*. through unselfish kindness and ailee turn, was children endeavoring to make amends to the for neglect of the p.tr ents. Mince that bright spring din w hen I bade Ethel good-by lm*l rolled twelve veors, when one morning a letter from | Kthe.l was placed in m\ hand—still ! Ethel Raymond, but instead of the i lovely tifol and child of poverty a inSHiant, be,m ! and the accomplished woman, an heir j ess pel of society. Just having ; returned from r,uro)w>, she had written j to me to come to her.' It was. an nfl'e'c to.mite, merry letter, descriptive of the guyotw s society life, cnt.iinimr n full account of the bust conquest, etc., b„,i finally ma:ut ending up with an imperative <lo for my presence at her lmm© given Thanksgiving, her saying liberty her unde had full to invite what guests -die chose for that day, ‘’which will be te'u; ■if, unde, brother Harry and myself. You see I want only those whom I love tor my first Thanks giving —kind, at of home after so long un al mm And a diHireat,” family renn v ? iu know now, id added, null you wish to entail a E along misery up on your old friend vo - j-mtsf be sure to {‘owe. I handed the letter over t mamma with a smile, who, after n bug it dear, tiitongb, i think quietly remarked, ” “ Well’, mv you can go. “Ob mamma *** T oto! ivc’ar’ f I,? , I haven't a thing fit to For the aam© yeara that had brought wealth and luxury to Ethel lvapuiond had brought 1K wei'i “ MvE'l ’io think Jo, von si. k k r tl li r 1 intov V i;V? v 1 «°v to u -TTu !!* me tj wVieh mi *u-;h . * ,. ; 111 ! ./ ;a /* K eashm ft iin wr, tor street and church wear. I know, of e<nii'se TTi.it your wardrobe is not what a young ionable lady would wish on entering fash¬ have society, and, bttt, ray dear, it is fill you ; you know fadv will appear Go, child, a lady and under all oireumstai ** You enjoy a once" Toil remember Ethel spent a circumstances, Thanksgiving with you under similar thenand I only you were children presume she has not forgot t. , it, and , week . a « or two later tonnd , me domiciled with my fmnd. Oh. the hap py sacmipremuete days lived over again within the of otus oVu room! It m\s h.-re, the moming of that m* mor able Thanksgiving, that we had both Ruddenly of extended subsided into silence after one our conversations. Ethel, seated Upon a low ottoman, just opj «-?!■ my favorite porch on tha side of the bed, heavy was busiiy braids engaged <>f fur in undoing the long, hair, ul.idi. nhui loosened, fell in great golden waves about her shoulders. Suddenly turning, she merrily orbs of cried: “ Why those pfennig m«»ibl this midnight darkness fixed innocent countenance, as if t?. pierce the very dei.th of mv inmost soul '- 1 “ Don’t be tragio, dear, 1 was onlv oven pi.Hl with my own thoughts,” I niter rupted. ‘‘A penny for your thoughts, thou.” “Well, my dear, I was just wonder ing how soon that ardent admire, „f yours, Col. Blackwell, of the milium and mustache Z !!: is to !i claim ! “ th«t little V andhis tiine , o^c" wefrepiSeT” I lg ’ yon mean? That will never Vie. No, never! she. addwl, with a little shiver. 1 presumeyonhavedfecoveredtin-(!olom>Ts standing anxious with my uncle, who hauls* -on f.»r years for an alliance be tween the two families. The Blftek wells, you know, are a very aristocrat! \ and wealthy family. The Colonel is handsome, in fact that intelligent, good, everything iht* world would umouniousfr vote added,'with a good match; but. mv a’bitter dear she I foolish Rome tiling of smile, am so as to think that tic to is anotlmr world nsnallv requisite leaves to happiness which tht oat of consideration and that is love, and a* I posses# none of that (to mv happiue&s, n.wessarvi commix!itv my uncle’s ambition must besacrifiwd and “ mv exwet '‘ tto ' frfen fe dfearvteabNl” - Wffil Ethel t.rav UiA inform JA us what kind of a m ui in -1 B . elegant- Colonel’fail* aceomnlished 1 ami fasefemtine 8 ” ** W*»U I am sure I <Vm't knew T sometimes think that. necessmw litlle m gan eallcrl com,awitio“ the hour! v .s 7 ft < nre- v „c of mv ami ir- Li n v doubt a capability of uni am- rVi.e Us mi amount of aftivtion and, cto ! cuinstaneea, it wer.* lietfer for EtVt !-fo Raymond to tread life's ,!■ pathway Mono tm-. an lln t.~„ „ L.Lbtilhnlvmt'to , *. i husband ‘and elegant Jm tho contrar 1 o y n kn 1 i^ “ Ah. indeed !” I interrupted, with > augh all, a merry t1s “So, alt it t> not * K «‘ff«-cti..n that i- .so disastrous j “No, no; you are too fast. I was ! on Jv 8» JittI* j remember.* Well, i then I am to understand tin j t only serious affection effect then was to destroy any germ of which might spring I Micro you id things ways did down pomess fine the point,'' faculty of Whig to & ‘•Where is lie?” I unround. “Do von know anythin" of him*•>” " “I have heard nothing for a long time. He used to write to me. occasion ally iu my childhood days, and once when in the city had the audacity to call, as my uncle expressed jt. .Sometime of which fact 1 was not inform.,! for after. Then my uncle told me that, he thought >uM it best that our acqiuunbwieo s! it end, and, I presum gave him to understand the same, as have never received any letters since. He is now in editing a connby newspaper. RomoWre | ally the find West, articles I believe, from and his I occasion- in leading wientific journals, pen our 1 uncle is which even forced to admit are very fine, i : But come, my dear ; if we go to church j this morning'we must hasten oar pre pnrations." In a few moments I was ready wait ing for Ethel, who, in her navy blue silk, velvet cloak, ermines, and jaunty hat with its long, picture^to wuviug white plume 1 was indeed a fair look upon as she caught up the long train of her ( I elegant preparatory to starting Little we thought of the disaster tlmt j was to befall that same train ere our return, When service was over we started home in a great hnrry, as it was vm late. ! had jttst landed safely on the i other side of the crowded street when, j driver, k«*ring I n terrific whoa from the car turned just in time to s ce Ethel ««o«J‘t olic luul fryni iiumodly under crossed tho very tho horses’ track f,vt. just in front ol the cm when her ilress caught aud jcrkwl her back, and iu another moment rite wi.mld have been trampled under the horses had not a strong arm i«g caught her while the car passed on, tak almost the whole of the soft, shim Ethel roaring train released, with it, Ar.nl, as soon as her was and joyfully was surprised to turn extend both cuds to tho stranger w ho hud so gal I ant I v rescued her. 11‘tiiiiiing one of the hands, lie placed it. in his ,.nu, anil in it moment they wore besitlt to glance at her escort assured rue that he v.as no other than the subject of our morning discussion Ol course we took l** of our old friend, and, culling ft home, carriage, ft were soon indeed, safely depioath-d at v. toss, a happy little PHriy ttiat gathered ai-omul the dinner toW f ,bat da v ’ Even Ethel’s haughty - “ wa9 Vl> ry gracious and grateful, ’tod , gave our fnend a warm welcome. the 'lia^ry" and I--a« wc " :!t warm glow of the bright grate tln kfriug light we would not huighcd, tlifer dimmed cliattercd, by lighted gas; how we and finally drifted buck to (m* days of »«*. A regular ex pi'rienee ius meeting w& had, each relating or her own varied fortune. But another story I read in the eyes of out friend Lugeno as I slipped away, tmon l° ,,0 ' ve< l by Harry, who found his pres- 11 !. Thto i! S'oLtoteu-v, lie had which I afterward ann come from bis far West eru home to fell to the blue-eyed Ethel, whose image his heart had ever held: nrnl a few weeks later 1 stood beside my friend that smnv-elnd Ohristmaa moni ing with in the softlydigbted parlor, fragrant the breath of the love !v white blos sums nestled peeping out from every hofiy niche, and down among the and ever green, silent witnesses of that short, im preosive Ethel ceremony 'to which gave Eugene and hack each other after the many lost days when each had thought the other .—-Chicago Lexifier. A Possible Relic of tic Soto, , rn Hie ratlahassee (Ha.) f londtao . ... says: , Sow years ago. about two males cast ol ! ™ a ponderous spur. ,lf muouo and curious workmanship, the lik ", o{ whieh b « I! aeen ,n modern tunes, ihe burr was one and , a half inches m diameter and the bar pro pirtionately heavy. On either side of • the rowd dangled xrnall pendant bells, j that gave forth a tinkling sound in _ re toeaehstepoi the wearer --doubt- : less some steel-clad and lKtnueted warrior • O nielongago. Not many days since, ' !\ hi! */. M iU ' ti, T “ car the J ! mation, proved to be an iron stirrup of iic'eut ’ mttorn t ra * as heavv av ' and M as a ‘ massive “'T 1 '. : <"md 1,1 firady imbedded “ >;-• m S a P^ tiuek , U coating oi first, j foi CUV, di-Ki rn.Bt*. \S lu’U this was re : mtivetl ihe Mirrnp nw found to bo hx a I ivmaiiodi.y good state of " >:,, cn represent two I. inopian tig . ures standing upon the foot-rest, while leamug forward facing each other, they rq.port with outstretched arms what tonus , the top of the stirrup, or that part u uv'.i ixytmec vd «i.h the leather,• ™ ! «nhke are situ them- relics to anything : known to the generations of this day and ! toe ’ ftnd > both lanng unreasonable found so near the I T'lsoe , it w not to , a» : them te> the same era and indmd : i ' v ,robftbl '\ A* S * A Rt oue supptx^rtaon o{ il A kinghtlv at. all fob nn >w.esof D-? , hoto, , lured on through this ‘ unkuowu region and wilderness, wko that dauntless sou of Spam, by a i ^drst ior th«.? yellow lieaps of ■ ff'dd that loomed up ahead of them ni vain visious aud heated fancies, here fell a victim to the tomahBwk and scalping ; k.uie of the wronged amt revengeful red f ul m ’ J l T'b T,’ m A & tbB l -ol dnissce l ube of which : I ig*’r A >1 d T djremnUnt, -. iwa-sted. , m he displayed , , at his belt a I yet bloody w» 1 r that he hail “killed a ^i, , ,. i; -“d' £ wit' ‘whut' uTi 1 they oi can^w-rraTs e,’-h' v .ith a man iiv- and a half'feet hmi ‘ ® nt H® X mUes 111 tl * xm • bourn. NO. 4. SOUTHERN NEWS. Texas boa begun to export black walnut j umbei j lRXAa daily Uews ' ! ami 100 ’ wek “** j Tbs oflieial constia return* place tho I population of Charleston at 50.043. i ... 1 Shelby ,, <*>unty(Tennes«ee)Grango ,, . ., j WJ> _ »R "* lu * M exum&zw fair ilia* year. : ' j Kkhitkex postmasters in Mississippi i | draw salaries of |1,000 or more, each! ! ‘"hue 3*° > r , bathing , , m Whst irehciau* 7™ , T'-'T lorish, , j T’ a ; - j Petrkhbt'ro. Vs, , has six cotton factor i lies ’ giving * er lovmrnt to nearly 1 00!) . . i 0 E,, H,: I,kwn ( ° ,lilCl1 of f »>‘«n!tete«i, , <m., “*« , increased the retail liquor license ; i from #100 to $800. j Charmwtf ' -s the onlv h 1 town in ’ North > ,< . whore physic.mns have j '••anuiua to pay I f, w license to practice their profession, 1 In 1874 the entire orange crop of I Florida was represented bv 2.60B hid ! barrel cases, In 187!) it amounted ! . oootwinww, ! ( ' F : W * W men . FUmd ri , * dr,VP . . a lu, rn : rive .. business catching , rattlesnakes | 1 and I i dipping them North. Tho market i quoted, at $5 apiece for good-sized rat j tj,, rs Sevkuau newspapm’s of the Smith tell i <^eae«*"W poisoning from I'ating water ' melons and pumpkins which were raise* j in cotton patches where Pari* green had i been used to kill liull worm? | A utI , ciu Texas, on the Bw/,.s Liter, ,H ,,f > ' h, v ^ hv , th<> DW * L,,on "« , , Ul i P 0 * 8 ® 8 * curative powers. A s|>eculat<ir j has bought it with the intention of sell , ing the earth for medicine, j The .Episcopalians in Savannah have | five large and flourishing churches, with ! families, j 945 XU! Sunday-school pupils, 1,192 communicants. Last year the con ti’ibutiona for various church purpose * amounted to $28,611.67. The pouch orchard of John H. Pnrnell. in Troup County, (M.» is the larged in the world. It covers 250 acres of land, and will probably yield $70,000 this year. Its owner is a near relative of the celebrated Charles Stewart Parnell, M. P. T «« company that has been experi nmnting in Florida with palmetto for making f»i>er has mot with such gratify j„g aU0CttMI that they will erect about J we “g j™*"'* ,nilh j' 1 '" ri f ,w V f lhat stato » whero ixdwetto trees grow in almitdaiic© and where tho traus{>ortaUon facilities are good. Turn nworda «f the Charleston t 'Oitrt **how that the eeloml folks do not, as 11 general thing, get along well to gether in the married state, but what is singular is that tbo cases brought Jwfore the court-are almost invariably charges' °* ' ,bn * h «" d Jt is thc wlfe who makes most business f° r the Itecorder. Drjarnfttk. the young Virginia gen¬ tleman who murdered life -istcr, in order o> maintain the ., honor of , , Jus . family, , , has . published a letter, in which he confesses that his treatment of her was brutal and barbarous, but that his love for her was as strong as life cruelty was shocking. He savs that the conduct of his sister caused him such grief as to destroy his reason. and that tho report that the crime was committed for the sake of tho family honor is without foimdafion. Mks Nancy Who. ax died near Witt Springs, Ark. , at the age of ninety years, She was bora in North Carolina dnrin the (>crii«l of the Indian troubles, and learned to handle the rifle w ith great deii ferity. She clioppod down trees, cleared fields and made rails, plowed and dnl other O iit-door work. At the age of seventeen J “ A*'*" a Baptist preacher \ aud rc moved to lonnessoe. i m \ had tinr teen children. Mrs. Wright is saul to have been a very handsome woman in her Major Poous, while on a trip to New Y<*t, noticed at Port ltoyal, the taking on board I„,„ r 1 of „( thirteen thuteen half half-. casks* of ol white white cky. from th© Kaolm works m Mouth (’arolina, near Augusta, Georgia. He ] earneil that the clay wan 1 wing shipped Ma ju ar j the great French maiiuwciurer nifacturer of UI New Y rwn r ork Oitv uiv, where »u <« it is sweetened, colored and doctored, and shipped back as pure French candies which find ft ready sale, and are eagerly, devoaredby j the little ones. - Ta Uahaxsr t ^ l --- A Fftt lh) ^ People who have no regard , , tor tratn , are choice sometimes of lies to not very point; happy and iu then gain a after they have told the wrong one, it is gen orally too the late. old The story Kasnebeo of the boy Journal revives who brought selE the Uog-«ki» to the burner to ' “Mas he a fat dog? asked , the man of leather “» he Vafy fat? '«*• . , How fat wm he? • “ He was the fattest dog I ever see. | Ut* .“Well, hide my boy, worth if he was thing.” so very fat, is not any - n i,!k ’ w,th ludtwl tu - id,d * ^ tllia , ™i two or three times a <1 *'‘ 1U H ftfc < ? ne °I "hole as pro smibed they will be fat enough h or mar 1 ket. SCIENTIFIC ROTES. Tent growth of the coral reefs, accord¬ ing to a largo amount of observation*. ia about mix inches in a century. Thr experimental works for the tun¬ nel between Dover and Calais are still going on. A second; shaft is to be sunk, Oi vpowDEtt in oonUet with metals is found to undergo considerable decoin po sit ion in the course of y ears, by which change its power is very much dimin¬ ished. Carbonic acid in a liquid form has Ihhu) found in tin* jxwet* of the Uraliay ’ amethyst. The pressure which must i f hays acid is boon imated i x-Ttcd at to seventy-three liquifv the earbolia est atmos ! ph< res. Oaki.and, Francisco, Cal., the growing rival of Han has 35,WX! population, against 10,500 ten years ago, and the county the chief of Alameda, of which Oakland is 237 in place, lias 59,000, against 24,- 1870, j ' m . A a B( * nc!Cr whose bottom in wine iscovered and placed with i !l smab quantity of water, will not color ,fa< ; w **!’ r ,0 f ” 'F^der or half an hour, i unless the wine is adulterated, when it , will begin to color it at once, j The German African Society ban » 1 pre.-ent not less than six different expr j dittefts engaged in exploring Centra > tfriea. Add to this the w ork being fleldf per* j it well by others in the saoie and may seem that the ‘‘dark conti | nent ” most soon give up it* secrete. Two eggs of the extinct great ank were ; recently £100«uad sold by auction other in Edinburgh, ono at tho atJ02 g.iineae. The latter is probably the largest sum ; cepti.-n ewr p a jp of f or that a e j U gj^ tf «g with the ex of tho inoa, a single j -pecimen of which watt sold at the same place in 1W55 for £200. A mono the animals inhabiting the bot¬ tom of tho Gae| Sen are found several - prcit«a having well-developed organs of ‘ ight This is taken a* an indication that even at great depths light is not tins completely of animals abeos laid, m reduced in total dai'kueea eves are to a rudi meittitrv form. It h»s been estimated that a single pair oopio of Cyclop* qutuMcornit, a micro ernsta,•.•!«!, will produce a prog cdurao ,, uy numbering of six months 4,9O0,OOO,Gi'JO This in the but of the marvels is, wliioh however, the one many microscope world has shown in tho unseen around us. The Azti'o C.u.Bvnvn 8-rotot.—On© of the most remarkable of these antiquitioe is a j'uc nimble, of the stone re presenting the calendar of the Aztecs, It was dis covered in 1700 near the foundation of the Cathedral in the City of Mexico, It is description simply imp- of the ;iible to give an bite adequate in this numerous rare and wonderful collection. The mixture used by Mr. Hannav in the prodnetton of his first artificial dia : tnouds consisted of ninety per cent, . rectified bone oil, ten per cent of paraffin ; spirit, and f.-ur grams placed of lithium 1'hoM ; substances were in tube four with a inches in diameter, a bore of half an inch, and alter the open end had been securely welded up the tub© was expo* 1 to a red heat for fourteen hours. Er.j*Ki!i.Mi:NTshav« proved that wooden posts put in the ground in the same poai tion as that in which they grew, top up¬ wards, will become rotten several placed years sooner than they would if top downwards in the soil. The theory if that the capillary tabes in the tree are * adjusted ar to oppose the rising moistu? - when the wood is inverted. j Snt John Lubbock has just given to the Li unman riooicty another installment : of n -uUm of tho observations made on wdn. One question that he iiaa to determine Ui whether them ia* mimieiition. sect.- hay© a language A dead bluebottle or means of fly com* , was j , ant pinned with down, reference and the movements watched. of an t i, were At first, tho ant tried to remove the fly, but wur unable to do so. It then went home, and soon reappeared leading « seemed body of somewhat re-finfon-ements The latter while incredulous, and after a turned back The first ant, comrades however, again approached his doubting and succeeded fn persuading them to go and help him with the fir. The friends wv-re undoubtedly brought out have by been tig-first done ant, through and this could only *om© means of coin mumcation. I Several cvpcrimcnta wore made with different species of ants and under varied cimurmtancos The results indicate, in the opinion of the ob icrver, that ants posatres something a-p preaching summoning language, and have the power of theirfriends to Jiclp tliem. Bit* John further ex pcrimenf.Ml with the view of testing the. recognition of rela¬ tions among these insect Young ants, j Us t having reached maturity, were in trod ccd into the aost among old arils, ir latter had never beforts the f. h •r, y<:t i« every case they recog¬ nized thorn us belonging to the commu¬ nity. Trupidm; (riqihers. The Santa Ana (Oal.) Time* says that tho farmers of that valley tiro catching th© gophers in the following three manner ; “A trench ' : : dug about feet entire deep, by two and fee barrels, wide, across boxes, the premises, placed or cans are at convenient ilfetanm. wludl fir© sunk deep enough So that f)i(i Ul * with tJu! , K , ttom of tll!i tmlch< Now, in device a trench three foot and deep, the subterranean the gophers pas¬ sage® general ran of are cut off and left open in tho trench, and, 1 as tlio gopher does most of his LSlVSs^ , qi,,,, , n n, „m i, \\lu into the ditch’ >u there, life next move, naturally enough, whi fe ho to hunt contiano for another passage md reby tb J may ,V hia journev, he fob cons( , t ri( , , s ar „ that lows the ditch until lie comes to one of the boxes, barrels, or cans, which he tumbles into, when to, and behold, he is caught in ft manner from which there fe no escape. Very often tho farmer will make a haul of fifty or sixty of a morning, gophers either.” and not a good day for <4 Yok Iutv<». a grefit deal of tlnnt bere hi Sail Francisea*’ “Yu n-s.” drawled Ihe hot. 1 clerk; “1 niter from it mvsclf.” o Woak ,, v ^ r wqnued the stranger. “No. So.” “lour lungs affected, H.enr “Not m mb!" y awned the clerk. “In what way tlu-n do you suffer from th. dustv" asked tb. nomev Uat suvp.ruwd ■ | a,,..,-...,;, oii v t., Who .-bout sixty times an hour every fool comes in h .. lv . ;l c, “You hare a g--d deal of dud .................... cife- > A'.. fc.< Letter ...... ripened, tu-se and pods piaut.-d th, seeds saved from year after year, tor three years, and tin- fourth year had Seeds of cabbage, lettuce, tomato, en cumber, peas, com and many other* can be much improved by the same cere.