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TJie Jesnp Sentinel Office So th# J«*#up House, fronting on User tj ain*% two doors from Broad St PUBLISHED EVEBV WKPNLHDAY, ... BY,,. T, P LITTLEFIELD Subscription Kates. ( Postage Prepaid.) Ow year.......... S Six manth*,... ***»•»* ■ «*•*«»♦#•» .»**** *•****A*»*S i 1 Three liioatii#.,.-. ■: A dvertising Rates. Per square, first Insertion,,.....,........... 41 Wt Per >®#-8peeiai square, each subsequent yearly insertion. large 7fi rates to and ad vertiser*. TOWN DIRECTORY. tows omxmm &prrA£siJZ»^sg- il*t#r~W. TJ. Wh»t.y O. W. asstyresr'.......... cofSTr orritm OrdinifT—Iticiisrii B i Itmpr,. Blmriff—J D ifobisaon. rilerk Superfar Coart—Banj. O MiddietoB T«x K««eiv«y—J G i! ocher. Tux Collector—VV It Can-icy. CfflWtj Cenuty Stirrvy»r~W tf iteoit, Tr&asarw—Jfoha Massey. (Eraser—O Knight, Saparior Ja<dgv Court, Wsyne mranty— Mu tie ! Simon W Hitch. S»!ieH»r Genera). 8es»w«* kvid ou tmxili Mead*? in Match sail September. BA X LEY, GEO Hid 1A. AFPURU COCHTY OXViCBfiS. OrdtaarY —-Silm k. Crosby. , 8bend~l. lbC-uT Tr*war«r—Mv CtH»8*y Ci«f.k—W. W. Giftham, Weather ly, Tax K-ionvfr— J. J. D.iv i*. T»a {; s d! set o r—• B it* s Rob emit. €o<»t,y County Coroner—I,. CuHwtetoi.ef* Johnson. B. McEwdiin, Book, John O. fshare Hart, Carter. Wan U. Stewart, James War, County CommHs!on«t*-l«h»m ®t*h, (hC , ' ' , « :»f«r tt,e h »!.< ■ . *pm, July ftBd <t, i,.o M TKADKKS 1UU„ <re,V. ShsriS—-John Brook*. (..terk—J, W. Keaton, Cou rt Onlomlar. Kibds—Secorni Moaday* in March an i ptesiher. 8eptesv.!»«r. AppiiBg—TkirU Monday is March m4 way a*—fourth Monday in March aad tteji etuher. Pieree—First Monday in April and Oetobor, Ware—Second Monday ia April and Oc¬ tober. Apiil Clinch—Tweadiy wid October. after third Monday ia April Coffee—Tuesday and Cotoher, after fourth Monday in May Camden—Tciesday sad November. after second Monday fa Chariton—Third Monday in May and No Y i 0£tlEl©r> # Oiyun— Fourth Monday in May and No¬ vember. the JESUr HOUSE, Cerar Bros' aiil Cherry St*,, JESUP, GEORGIA. Junction AUxuUc and Gulf, and Macon and Brnav *it-k Kail feuds. The aitffljtioE of tbe trailing pnliUc is <SJ**e.te(fct tfse iada«,ffl t n<» c£ -red them *>r tint tbmm. The locate** of shl* is oa t^vatod around. *nd dlrootlj- Mnwft ih« Depot. It is w»U »ui plied w ■ -- *®ate.r and drasnagv, and I# feue-l its t --y k;,t to ii»e!U *ue»w etfery comfort o! a first tUea Hate.*. mm i.uttKti, uiscuiar to rriuuiA. rn« Jin * will I* a at Hh JMtt 1'lwist, »«<l tmtag ulster » ..I, of tea picpdetm, no fwia*iw i-tHta vij; J„ xi to m.ke n <qu»I to tli« !»■»<. »,„Ho » .iiei » will more tc arjJ from Hole! ami Deco'. t. p. uttleheio. rm What. Vanderbilt Might Do with fill Money. 8omo one has mad® a very enriou* calculation of what Mr. Vanderbilt could do with his money. William li. Van¬ derbilt's income from his investment® in $$1,000,000 4-per-eent. (tovenuneni bonds te repr««*nted at $5,000 daily, minute, which ia $2*18.25 5 per hour, second. $3,47 pi-r or over cents tier As¬ suming he that possibly ho is spend paid by the second, cannot his money, as he could not select ms purchase* and lay down the prices fast enough. He could not throw it- away; to pick up, cast, re¬ cover. him pick up and eaat again would take two seconds, and, if he worked Ml through the twauty-four hours without rest, he could not dispose of one-half Ins •nconic. By living he economically, saving up for four years, could, placing hie foewat pieces auto by side, make a nickel belt around the earth, or by ccmvcrting hi» «»visgB into 1-erast phx«* and mount¬ ing ilwau ta a pile, he would, in twenty years, erect- »toad to the moon and have $500 to invert when he got there. Should his amusement take a charitable twist, he could, out of a ytw’R veceinfo, donate to every man, woman and cliiM m the Crated State* 20 cents and have money left over. Other vast possibiH tec* occur to the glowing fauev of the ealflttlaior. Ia one d.reu,i«, day he could go to 8,000 different «t 10,000 pints lemonade, of peanuts, drink 5,000 glasses of a,nd have money left to get his boot* blacked. He cun afford U have 500,080 shirts washed ia one day, sad oa the day of his death hi* in com® will buy ten hrM-da** funera'is. —Ithium Journal, Free and Easy Manners. ■When girla assume a swaggering man ner upon the street, each use coarse expre® mens “hello!’’ and greet other with a rough ferenee they cannot expect much de from their male friend* »u.', manner slwavs controls that of a tren tie man; and if she does not respect hermit he will yBans am respect her When boro Le and girls, men and maidens d fowc-d to foil into the absurdities of low foolish mmmmslcm mtijfeteaiiy; talk ’thev U seems fo dwarf them caa fi«d nothing and therefore of interest make or importance to s,v<- fill up for sense by tog every sentence with needless exciama exaggerations, or misused adjeo tives. It requues much patient to lie compelled and hear to listen to half a dozen folks the strwige, inappropriate use SMtSi L»r Jwe^'fam 1* ®*V« to® P teacher rett 7» - , , ^ wbo J * wftu ""f *«*«> u heJh*i f ernSv-s » U ggpj* /mm si ; h ■V' ~::" Li £ ! xf ! ! isS jh s? 3.1 \\ A! VOL. V. heb Kjunr intni, ST liDT I.rK»5*Y. / Tu tat * Bn*. * hareMd wr*wh Y«i Awl lift!# N«s tb* worij* irn M7r hotl in* io r»pr'Mfh'ni IKian i “ Jf«i aacmtM 9n tt* ymtcniavt To-tooir#* foil*!] bo **}.’' Aj<% " voa’ll la #s<i " ts« want* *«v fc*, And yet ywi'fi ffm pores be m| *cml with pain: Ttiey Aye, *• *»a," »ha word* are tra*j b*un( To-amrrow mo with you propbeUe il b« •oti. struUi; 1 * W* qo*m>!«*5 ; tat for w jtai T » word, A *(i»*oh th»t j*ri»4 the ear. And t rim in M otivjHiiMW *t»r’d , Then cares tier ic;t*r " Dear, rny osar, To-momnr you*]] t>t- mt." 9*iw word*! bsif mirth, *n4 bstf Yin* 1»| e,. r hand sbnwa rrm wri >«■— Sa<! word* » teamed loaf sfn, and yet ||wh " wjift T> .a-.Tf now p*ta suin'!! tii Mi iSfel *!abt tw Iii tlie Palace of Trut^* Richard Turner, Esq.., a la wyer, let ua hop® sight of futnra fame, retarniag home found one in an naenviably bad humor, % eertain hi* dainty little note It awaiting jon’t him »a saaatiepsec®. haii slowly com®, ais landlady said, and tearing 4tw.il the envekn®, Dick read as follows’: Ht Its** Mr. Tctinea;......Msftj - thanlw for four tdadred. lovely flowers, which have l«*m greatly It was like year thoughtfain<w» to mmnUirm* blrt-h-ttay when I had almorf fore four rotten it my**! f. I *« so sorry to liar* missed call this afimrseoB SittesnsiT wore fuuunwi Eemfeb, A very gracious little note, but for wine reason it apjofeared to afford its reader t tws«'c but with *m:$l eisiluig vo o-uou.-.n. ho, thor In k read a n -- :ig it 'i.tv the M. l .}>■ To,- i:-> li; •: ciiioir. . stretched himself in an cosy obter and thoughtfully wreath-, that, observed began through deal; the smoke to around ins bead: “What » precious littj* liar she is! As if I didn’t see her ten minutes after siio was ‘not at home’ io m® this iik'rnoon. start out diriviug with Tom Baker i& that cosifotmdediy jerky dog mrt of lm. Shouldn’t wonder si he hod .erked her off before they got home; -n<J served her right too! ttliy, Snip, what is the ruattor with air? 1 ' 1 you Snip understaud wm the skye terrier, who, failing k> why he had teen slighted, was by sitting seeking Upright to secure his master's notice and waving bis froht paws to and fro iu a gentle and depre¬ cating fashion. “Did 1 hurt yotir feelings, poor little boy?” wouldn't, said Dick, tenderly. “Well, I I assure you, for a dozen little flirt* like Florence BedSfer, fait 1 do think. Snip, and I expect you to agree wit!i me, that we would all fa much fat¬ ter off if women and taeu, too, would say out instead truthfully of this eternal whut was in their minds bush. Why can’t people beating around little th* be a more <*ndid with their feilow-creaturea instead of tad fooling toughing them to the behind fop of their beat t he a their banks? Do you know,’Snip?" dog Snip didn’t- th* world know, to but confess he was his the last in ossaaiiug h;»k of wtodom ignor¬ ance, which so a Solaimiu might have envied, !>* gave * anything mysterious and little composed b«.rk that could mean himself fa itotea, “Just 8o'clock,"said Dick, eonsaliing his watch. “ In two hours I’ve got to dress and go to Mrs*. Grey’s ball, th* biggest doubt; fare of the season I haven’t a but there’s no escaping it Aren’t you bails gist!, f* Snip, you don't have to go to affirmative Stop barked again, this time in an manner He always- accom tnodfttod himself to his masters moods, and was well accustomed to being qu*a> tior.ed. Alert and vigilant, he watched the cigar dwindle down by flow degrees, while he waited in well-bred, silence fora renewal of the conversation But Dick was sig»r drowsy smoked and cross, and when the was out he teamed hi* head •side and fell fast asleep, while his little dog took curled contentedly around hi* feci-, mg np into his master's face with a world of patient love in his honest brown eves. Seven, eight, nine, tea! iiwlrtfoWn Was it posai hi* that he had slept md tho Hook w» really T^ striking teirt toilk amped 1*°^ np, 4 8l wth « stifled moan I s Lf, f> lolUtiuet himself into hia dress ban. on law was never « very rapid pro. • ceas with him, and by the tune he en¬ tered Mrs. Grey’s briib&niiy lit up house the great clock in the half was pointing to a quarter past 11, ’ Th® rooms were crowded and stifiiuglv hot The gS* v«y flowers appeared Lat lu todmp under the and thr .-xrem ir •om® deep red rose* which had been ranged ra.,ge<, inav*nt«pc® hi a sw iitei.ee over o^er the toe doorwar (to-rway, 1 and whose glowing heart® presented the moht rnmptuons and intense bn of color fas a even - 0 in »n that vniit manv-l.wsl many axt-o apanini.nt wirtmeut It wa« strangs but Ihek found himself mi* de to read that smttcnce, although compowd of only three abort words. The Uncuace XI i , OH, even the M fatter* were lutk unknown HBKS es& to him, and ZL&qp* for half a minute he stood cissKyAat. sit tss "j prettj little ^Ht woman, magnificentljr smifad'‘L^krtSdS’ womfagly afa^dy **“ ‘ *, t, ^*1 ® - ‘k* 1 *’ %r Tur y, f er 5 »> ,t»- "*’* T.L, y ° U ^ ,‘ “g t(i ' So I would hare been, lie explained, , . . . unfortunately, I fell asleep and y ’ 7 J ,7 t liat Y p “ the case, was it . ? w 8UC “ a lengthy nap ought to , b ?? llten k<e»utifnlly for the rest °t the I! ra tt P Sometimes, evening. you T 0 ^ ft rerathw stupid. -T® to if _ she meant “«r nee . lmt Pretty face gravely “** was raised to hfa '* You are flattering me,” I»® ««d shortly. T don t mean to, fc deed,” she an «**«**< c&rnestlj . “ But there j arc plenty of men who ars always stupid, ’ «tel« yon be ratlnsr entertaining caa bateh tf guests. “ Was I ever damned with such der praise if 1 before ?” thought b4f Dick. “T won am -at my to-night?” “ toinnte be Stead, taking a survey 01 tfa ® M * m * before him. The mnskaans JESUP, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1880. Audi wdj; among only strange them. which to s»y there piping was in a came wi tw its ahrill penfatent. little treble in a ti manner distracting He thought to of Dick Mozart's * oter-sensj. ve ear. saying that the only thing in the world worse S 2 . \S "S« “rlS choice in music. Nevertheless, ns long as he was there he might as well dance, and looking around ft»r familiar trees, his first glance fell upon a brown-eyed maiden whomheh*,! met at a party oulT the week before, and whom he had ad mired with the guarded and half-super ciiious adtairntiori of a rateran society man In another minute they were ou the Boor conterulmg with their fellow creatures for a little room to whirl around struggle, in, and until seemingly slight successful lurch sent in them their a £oo^ SnddenlT ****“* &DOtber palr ° “That wu» stupid, wasn’t it?” said TDick, as they stepped to take breath sfter the concussion. raising “Yes," replied she of his the brown “Vou eves. them frankly te face. are mther a poor dancer. Perhapa you of practice?” ‘ are out ’‘Indeed I ought not to be,” protested Dick, in unutterable indignation at the charge, “J never danced more in my ‘ life thirn 1 have tlus winter.” “Is teat «i? It must be awkwardness thpn, said hie eompaaion, gently. “Some people never ca» thoroughly learn, 1 think it is » natural gift.” Dick wandered if he could have heard aright piping or if Unit wretched little flute, still absolutely sway bewildered so complaftftntJy, him. If there had was on® than thing anotlier—pue he prided himself natural ou more wise, which he felt gift, or other¬ sure of possessing—it was hjs -dancing. "Was the brown-eyed damsel out of her mind or was she Biuiplv an ill-bred little tiling, who did not known good dancer from a had one? Wbich®Y«r was th« case lie lost no tirno in getting rid of her. and still mute with amazement and of disgust, took door refuge among a group men, at the “Yon here. Turner!” said one of them , ‘T hardly recognized you at first, you look so yellow and thin.” “Do I, Indeed?” said Dick, shortly, amt wondering what he was doomed to hear next, “I should rather think vou did," was the friendly answer. “I just said tft Smith, here, as- you skiti cam® Up, Jh»t, be¬ tween your ; sallow' mm that bald spot h< iool' oa your head, you were beginp.iag like au old man m-fore votn bias Why don’t you tsdu* to coiiqtry bM" life .and early “Why hours and freshen sp * a don’t you mind ydur own af¬ faire »&d kindly leave me “to attend to aroused, sjfane?” retorted Dick, now thoroughly ami without watting for another word he veered around and left the gmiii, who, one and all, scented pro ionadly astonished at las ill tempei By this'time he began to fool a little unccrtam wire appronch next Hav¬ ing been told already that ho was stupid, ugly and a bad daire >r. what was there left for him to hear, lie certainly had never wot so many disagret-atjie peojd® in hi* life and he had seu i »us thoughts of boating a perenftwfttit retreat, when he (•Might beneath sight-of the a blonde head half hidden azaleas fa the conservatory. It was Flarent® Kedifer, whom lie had never whom expected to meet to-night aud two hours ago he would have in¬ dignantly Ins avoided. But for wme mmoa contempt for her fiattery and false¬ ness had ! *■..!>> fttrangely modified short time and *n felt a positive v«.lin¬ ing; anil to to listen her again blue to her pretty uplifted uothing* me ore* with that tender glance of admiring trustful ness to hi* It must have (Mist her a great deal of time and patience to culti¬ vate tho glance up to it* present perfec¬ tion audit was unkind, after all, to muwr at the result of such honest and endear¬ ing toil. rafmite he was by her side, S^VwStehf J “S l T" 1 “s 1 8 to ^ : her , fa*,-., ion h “ on l t sn!!L, he : d ifaw wlnte silk gleaming uad«r th® colored lanq-s with a soft and Hliifting radiance that plowed Dick’s cultivated ere He was not one of those to whom a woman’s h wri a matter of faidifibrmico, “I came in here for a little air," she ***&; ‘‘the rexuns are so terribly htd^ and the whole affair is verv stupid. 1 Don't think * 3’<^ so “Itliasfaten worse than stupid for me *’ ^ answered. laughing. “I have t fagnUM wbrn-ver i wL^tenre^ went First M Gray tofomel L 1 v‘ » _aas otten v®*y »hipid; ^ then Misa Vmceat. x do you know J"’ g, - dancing now «i*b m ^ a '\ ^ q k m ^ ^ * “ CTet « ^ n hat did vi she 1 to ?’ sav you *g»d wm me me I i was W4» uwkwavA awkward and » , %“-™| - - " ,b *‘ umer t she saai, M your j ^r you that ” * T)ick »nd then recovered; he flattered Waa gating hardened now, “I always Bhe '«>k®d mysalf I did,” he said boldly at him iu some surprise. “Of course, I don't mean to say y *’ she ’ explained, Wltl “that one e&imot get aroasd : very ‘ Y graceful oxl at a l l . and but only sure-foited. that you are There not . art* —Mr. plenty Simpson, of men here who dance worse j for instance. “1 should hope so,” said Dick, ns j Simpson, a little weak-eyed-, man, who j held his fair partner as if he feared she was packed with dynamite and was in danger laboriously every minute of <to£ exploding “If moved past the that i* the beat ywi can say for me MBs Ilorence, I shall never have the audacitv to a»k you to dance again,” and with a he^y heart he fah th*ooaservatorv. now } fe-He toiA a glass of champagne in the 8H PF ,r * roo ®> wilers tt» quailfa was befaig ! j ****& discussed by the young men who n atemd reWds^o tW „, w . . . , P q5, .. h “ j parting lore”till ^H?’ 8 of ftencers were few, and »v l.ofjked horatl or discontented. saying who the last words te a party of guests M-ere about taking t.hcir deptuiare. “Such a pitv it should liaru been a failure, he heard ®S4 «f them whiiirxit la ft toM of amt pw r y And after all ,! “ «!'“• r»» S°™ te!” the fault of mi i 'diV inmkte rnv’^ort ” Grev S?S “for wL i eH 11 ^ 1 80 -.£*£ / * fJTQ ’ my qi‘ party d lt a J stupid cue her.Vnd^w , .. got tue grudge be owed oijid Rant gladly have declared h®r l*all both fcril and delightful, but the words ho wished to say stuck in his throat___he absolutely could not give them utterance, An awful impulse waa upon him, and to his own secret horror and dismay he S w^ tee g mS dtXlS ** h j 8 li fe ‘. Then * k bm . mr ^~ * v ^ ness he turned away, and Ins *?<'* feil W* th « onmson roses still freshly over the doorway 1 an °J* h * P 1 ^* 1 ^av* bcon! There T , m • plain , . Eughsh btters were the tlC !* e f 0, an ' J N J & ^* e °* flute^ed he triumph f" r 1 f y , " !1 '' - v tone an ^ that 'l' n 8 f° Dick , *, fairly • , 8 m its jumped, kicked and iu the violnnoe of his start the sleeping Stiip, who leaiied ».»«t of lm master’s way tnid gazed at him with reproachful, wonderful eyes, “Eleven o’clock, ms I am a living man!” gaid Dick, bail yawning, “Three hours asleep and no for me to-night. Snip, awaken yon little villain, why didn’t, you rue?" injustice Snip wa» of .this silent. remark, If® and fait bore th® it arrant with the equanimity of a stoic, Lit “Well," said Ids master, slowly, as h® las candle, “idnee you did not, and as T * , * mve o® , 1 - R " th® , diosipatton and all the * can-tor I need for ono night, I think, lit tm dog, that A ou \ will go peaceably aUi! gratefully to kid,” Who was Rluebeardi A gentleman who saw the gray, forbid¬ ding castle of Bluebeard rising above the sationof Champtoo®, France, tells who tiie frightful hero of the imrsery Soane reader may ask, “ Who was this real, historical Bluet**«r<l?” I answer that in Brittany he was tho Sieur Gilies de Retz, a great feudal lord, wIm) |x«sessed va«t estates and great power in this neighborhood in the latter part of the fourteenth and beginning of the fifteenth centuries, and was, besides, ft marshal of France. This castle was his stronghold, and he ruled it and the Loire country around with a hand of iron and a swcenl of fire. Gifted in youth with physical strength and ho impaired beauty, and both au enormous fortune, dulgences. by all sorts of in¬ Wien too late, with a defiled nnd bloated body, he found himself lashed by the scorpion whip that is always sure to follow sin. Instead of growing penitent, he only became more bloody and relentless. Seduced by a wicked and cunning alchemist to txdleve that by bathing fas human blood hefaoold olftim back his vanished health, beauty, and spirits, he entrapped both children ami young persouK of sexes, murdered them m the dun geoim of the castle with hi« own hand, and bathed in their warm blood. It was believed that more than a hun¬ dred were thus murdered. After years of impunity the matter be¬ came so notorious and spread so much fear through the country that the people rose in a mass against him, made him a prisoner, and carried lam to Nantes. There he was tried by his suzerain lord, the Duke of Brittany, and con¬ demned to be burnt alive at the stake, a judgment earned into execution in 1440 oil what is now the Chaussee de fa Alado foine, on the Gloriette Island, iu front of where the groat hospital now stands. Hot On Good Terms. “ Did you know that the Simpkinses and T weren’t on gix>d terms ?” said Col onel Solon, of as he dropped into the edi¬ torial chair the Oil City Herrick, like a bag of bran out of a wagon. ‘ ‘ No; what's the trouble ?” “ Dump if I know xactiy. Yer see the other night, mc'u my wife war invited out to a party at Deckin Todd’s an’ we nt. oaz knew that the ., Peckfa T , .. didnt ,,, .. «™?P on etttal ! les * hlt - had . do CMUar hen we got there f. J ”^.. the J house TO was ; nighty kind nigh bilcd, an every one was talking o’loose like, an’ aoos dmenting , . varf vono.is ways, everything Fvcrvthinc Ru( butter * along ns smoothly knife as a chunk of on a hot 'till, longarter sup per wife time, w Mr. Simpkin, ‘M,4 sex ho to i„,,rt my Afaf' * H)ut ** ni bl # ; «s Alls young ' ?vl>n as ’ yer yr w . did ton a ~ ® •Swa sLsys ^ snd bo I faXm out 4 Hi ¥« fafate but toa* mr *** S f 88 * VCT b ^ in a8 ' a *®te®»-year-old gal; when yer git . yer false teeth we 7™ ‘ kno w !ro “ J« <***?**■ ^n alive? I r that «railed . pleasantly like, but. sakes air room was just as atill as a hay-mow for alxmt two minutes, an’Mm Simpkin looked like she wanted to kick somebody, an'my wife, s- z ebe, ‘8olo mou. baby Solomon,’ jest-as if TM sot down on the or broke a lookin’-glass. The peojile time, didn't seem to breathe easy awiy, for a tong an' bum by we keia an’ »y wife sex she. ‘ Boiomon Solon, some men are made fools, an’ some men are l hat 8 *?’ b 7 l 1 do “ ot t k ” ow for ^ hf « ® - * ^ fooi & ° l t'V' iod ' i 9 , twas tha* ’ Thkbk has been lately turned out at Milan a now kind of broad made with Wood from raw flesh. It is said to be a preventive of scurvy, and to do away, among poasante, with all desire for alco holic drinks. The difficulty of blood co agulation wlU fatog overcome, the “blood br ' ?a * r ' lft8t for years. Twenty per ^ '* ,te ragrodient* consist in blood, SOUTHERN NEWS. Austin, Texas i» to have a capital, cost¬ ing 4 Moo,ooq. The German carp put in Georgia wa¬ ters are doing finely. Scarlet fever m making it red-hot for the people of Natchez. There arc five candidates for the po*t masterahip of Nashville tender Garfidd’s admi nlstration. Tii© sugar crop of Southern Texas has been damaged fully one-half by the re¬ cent storms. Intc cotton has lx>en damaged fearfully at. Cleburne, Longview, McKinney nnd other point* iu Texas. The Nashville American now figures up a Democratic majority of six on joint ballot in the Tennessee Legislature. It is said that seventy-eight, of the 100 members of Tennessee Legislature at#’in favor of paying tin? State debt. There is % movement mi foot by promi¬ nent members of the Tennessee Legisla¬ ture to cut down the number of elections. James Ghristophcr, of Forest City, Ark,, recently went to the Inure? of * colored woman, and, in attempting to force hi,* way in, was killed 'by her. She was discharged on the ground of self defense. There are deficits in the budgets of several departments of the City Hall of New Orleans. The appropriation for pay of the police is .$40,000 skirt, and the Improvements Department is short $82, 000. John tf. Hill, Little I lock printer, was re-married Wedneetlay last to the wife from whom he was divorced. After several months’ separation they began correnponding, which end# in sceoad Miss. tTider the new code of Mississippi, any citizen ban the right to arrest or carry before a Magistrate or *ny proper officer trump he : ■ , rot —: ■ his premises. It is made rise duty of Magistrates to commit ?urh tramps to jail, and froni the jail he i» to fa hired out as other convicts are. William Mattox, nu inoffensive old man, was brutally murdered at his house near Abto ville, 8. It, Thursday sight last. Two men asked for lodging, and being denied, entered the house and de¬ manded his money, killed him nnd took $709. No clue to the mnrder.era bus bees discovered up to this time The wife of the deceased was in an adjoining room. Nashville A nieriran . Five schfai! housf-s- iour in Wilson and one in Da¬ vidson county, sll near the Lebanon turnpike—werc* destroyed by fire, cm Wednesday night;last, by incendiaries. Under what Is known as the four mile law, saloons'or drin king-house* can not be run within an incorporated institution of learning, ami iu order to prevent t he sale of liquor in their tieighfairhoods, persons residing at different points along the turnpike secured chatters and built all the weboul-hQuaes destroyed lust Wrtlnewtoy night. A special from Harper's Ferry »ays « roumutic marriage has taken place on the railroad bridge there. A gentleman from Newmarket. Vi., whs taking his daughter westward to prevent her luar rfage with a young farmer. While the father was in depot writing to his wife, informing her of his safe journey to that j-ftHHt, the young lady’s lover, who had secured-a marriage license and s minis¬ ter. pnt in an npimarance, and the twain, hurrying over the bridge, past the State line, were married. They then returned to the station and informed her father, who left at o&ce for home, disgusted, the young couple following him the next day. Sunday evening, after bi«“ r sc.rvict.w in the Orange Hilt Free-will Baptist church, llidimond. Ya.. the pastor, Itev. K, l>. Ginn, came out with Ms wife. As they reached the str.-ci Marion Sutton, a young man standing ou the outside, be¬ gan te use abusive language to the preacher. Mr. Ginn asked him what he had done to him that he should abuse him in this- way. Sutton continued, however, and the preacher shook his fin¬ ger in a warning way in the young man's face, telling him to stop, whereupon Sut¬ ton knocked him.Mown.. The pro usher who is n smaller man, got. up and return¬ ed the blow. Sutton knocked him down again. The pr*?ae.her came * time again and put in another tick. At this point the ministers wife came te hi* res¬ cue, and, inking tip a brick, threw it at Sutton, he. alleges.* The parties were finally separated, and «.*xt‘morning were arrested on cross-warm hi* ls Paiis, children’s p\rti<*4 are preten tioes affairs. The dfarafttirata and tofioto ar® made a» prominent foatiwes »ml 6* elftlx.rste as among older »x;iety followers. At oue of the children’s balls was a child of eleven decked in thousands of dollars worth of diamonds, and a toilet of lac® wortli fau sii hundred dollars, with a gossa- \ uier ruomatod in turquoise and peftria. j Where in this all youthful should fa crowd, joy, life there and hght the j »am® rivalries, heart-boraiugs and are ent- j { vk«» feelings that embitter and spoil the j pleasure &i vhte bftftrt*. :.T , * NO. 15. Powerful Ocean Steatenhlpa. known Twenty years ago the largest steamen (in tliis, as iu ail such oomparisi >n», neglecting prodigy of the Great Eastern, which was rofuds a 350 feet ongiueering length, sidli) did not in 45 feet in breadth. 3,500 tons in tonnage, or 4,000 horse-jxiwer indicated. We have before as at this moment a list of 50 merchant steamers sailing, in the year ibfiO, from Sontliampton and other Southern ports, which thy largest vessels then frequented, and the list includes but 10 ships of more than 300 feet in length, none of which reached the limits of Size and power just given, and the whole of which belonged U> t\v.< companies, viz., the Royal Mu i ami the Peninsular and Orientid. At te® present moment w® hay® afloat and at work the White Star liners, some of teem of 445 feet in length. 45 feet in horse-power; breadth, and nearly 5,000 indicated th® Inman liners, compris¬ ing such ship as the City of Berlin, 488 feet by 44f feet broad, and of about the same fw't. by steam-power; the Orient, of 415 5,000 horse-power; 46^ feet, with engines developing tho Arizona, of alw/ut the same size, with still greater steam power ami speed; and many other splendid ^ vessels but little inferior to any of the foregoing. And these grand Z/zp, steamers—many of which reach the quavs suburbs frtun \ictona and Chiuing-crosa, ™„cS%T 1 i,rs;!tfdd q Si abominable sands that bar the Mersey— are tlie forerumiors of still larger and more powerful the vessels now taking shape upon banks of tho Clyde and else where. The Cnuard stoil ship, tho Servia, now building by Messrs. Thomp son, with of Glasgow, is 500 feet by 50 feet, and over 10,000 indicated home-power, will, therefore, doubtless possess a «pooil considerably in advaueo of tlist of th® very fastest ship at present afloat in tho mercantile marine. The Inman steamship *t Barrow, City of Rome, Imililing of iron .vill be still larger, having* length of 546 feet, a breadth of 52 feet, a gri*s registered tonnage of 8,000, and a steam power nearly equal to that of th® Bervia, Tho Guion line is to bo increased by ships of almost equal size and power, ami tho Allan line is building others equal tcMhe finest of tho White Star lioiite, Not withstanding tiu» uumlw-r and magnitude of the passenger steamers now running between America and this covmtry the traffic is so great that it has b^'a 6 *° 8ecure • eoomiM ? a - tem arran P»g _passage njany weeks, rWdtoW^^' „ , ; 18 m af \ Vi f lc *» while the ’ '^ . J/mtexl n that htah« ^ 'ff««-haug® and of Gai.nda of agncul- make tnral ] piodnmt vl and manufactured gooife toSSJ*’ nervaaag. iMn ” Ataericaa Tohaceo. While I was at Ferrteree, in Italy, heard a eoimcal story from the wife of an American gentleman who resides in the i!ciguborhtx:K.l. It seems tobacco is Govenunent monopoly; the raising of more than a down plants by anv “lie denor ponwn engaged is strictly by prohibited ‘ The my friend had rather a liking for the plant, and embellished id c4 hi® ornamental flower-beds with it. Bo one day tlui lady was waited her upon that, by tee Commissaire, who infomK-d as she had transgressed the rules respeeting the cultivation of ♦■>• baooo by nan-authorized individuals, ah® would have to pay a line of winio g.10. But, fortunately, the ltcpubliuau Dep uty from the district was on terms great offered intimacy his with the family, ffaemVmt and he servicea to get of the scrap®. II® went, therefore, to call on the lcK“al Magistrate, and represented to him that the offending plants were American origin, and, consequently, were of a kind that were totally valueless for any other purpose than that of oma mentation. The dignitary professed him self as being quite satisfied with the ox planafion, and. m view of the existence in oommproe of any such an got article off at Amerk'iui free ,—:Jjuay tobacco, Mwper. 'my friend scot The Quickest- Trains in tin* World, The pace of th® quickest trains iu En¬ gland, say* an English than paper, is greater quickest by ten Midoe an hour that of the trains of any other country. In, Greet Britain tho average velocity of tin? express is fifty miles an hour, 'in Sh! giunt fiottr it between never exceed* forty-one ’Pordcaux miles an ; Paris and it is thirty-nine Russia and and a half miles sm hour. In. in some parts of Switzc-riand the rati* i- twenty at veil uJ. an !u nr Per cowtru, in England railway travel¬ ing is attended with more risk’ than m. any other country in the world, l et. even thus the pen la of the steam loco¬ motive are much exaggerated, i-ir a French atatistician, after a very lahorf oils examhiation of the death* occurring from railway iMvidt-nte over thoaurfai;. of the whole earth, states the result of hia examiaution thus: “ If a person were to live contimiftliy iu a railway carriage, and spend all his’time, in railway travel¬ ing, ?!;.• chances in favor of his dying from railroad accident would not occur until he was 9i’0 mins old." A Female tTusec. if De Foe had only known of a female Grtteoe living <>o ocean island, ho might, perhaps, his Kohinson have wrought Craeoe. out a Alex¬ story ««i|x*rior ander Selkirk's to brief life JuftB F. on rntui dt.-z wa»s tnvud, either in th® bawl ships endured - r the difficulties conquered, compared with that of a native women on an island opposite Bouthcrn Pah fonu.-i. The Catholic Fathers at South Batfarn were tratmportitig tho aatives of tireJa i§ud Bt. Nicholas to th® mainland, Xtuong thorn was a mother wiu di^r-.sv ered that her bafa fowl been left behind. Sim begged that the. ship might fa She j.-tp back, hut the eaptein refused. leajitd into the sea to swim ashore, but as a storm provnited, they sii thought she was drowncul Eighteen years after a company landed on the island. They found tract's of life, ;u*d after long search discovered tho w<> tom, aud tern her with them. The poor mother never found her fab®, but had managed though to five lonely. in comparative After her comfort, long life rhmfiy very the <q/on air, ah® could in .... not beer ’the confinement of a howto, and gvon atekesed and died. •ass HLMOKOFS BJ&YITIES. A MAN who epees oysters Woes bing* by h&J vo'i, TtJKiufa lot* of cold comfort in a hau erod of it I Oo' fut.F 1 if the world doesn't know how the other half lies, A N :'••>■•:» 1 :m ?1 !*'J*ovt SftYB “Kanera X w»* fall of eclat-in foot, the eofatesfc u»ay present." “ You can't play that on me !*’ said th® P***k» t» the amateur who broke down on a difficult piod® of musio. “Osre touch of yon, raa, makes the whole world spin,” a* the boy said when hilt mother bu d h' era*, “Dabmnu husband," (die Raid, ■‘am l not your treasure r “Certainly,” he re¬ plied, “aud 1 should like to lay yon up Ui heaven. ' Th* editor of the Cincinnati Ommtr eiaf, who bits farming ideas, thought that to have buttermilk ho must buy a goat .—\>:w York Herald. Oxe of ii»e first mjnisitions received from a newly -appointed railway station agent oil for was; tlis danger “Bendme Janicrwa,’’ a gallon of red Wre* von -ste f?MwliBg and getting only ready joint to debate, tight, rem©inter that it w a mm tho liveliest dog will get away with the joint" “Do you get any holidays in your of. fine?” asked n returned divine of a chore ry -looking worker, in secular walks. • ‘Oh, y<w, we get a day to get buried on.” “ CirTnosiso;” School boy (kept in>— “ Let's see—.-oa® t’m’a ougM-'w ought. Twice ought's ought. Thine t’m'a ought —oh, must be something—stick it down one.” A Tons® lady at why an examination m grammar was asked "the man bach elor was singular ' Hho replied imme diately, don’t “Because it is very tdngnkr they get married," “ You wouldn’t take a man’* last cent for a cigar, would you?” “Ortain!v £ would,” remarked tiu- proprietor. “Well, cent’ here it is, then," pu*«ing over a “givo aw tho cigar. ” lti and („»■» is “b oiv ^ " A* J! Tni “ Iv , r)I . , . v 151 ’ r n t VT.* , v H ste .. <>f Z K " hg ' | f> rol-ably - not ’ lf } l we '" ««’•« that th era S-kk® . l>nhh ' ! mi,kl 8 ;' !" w<rald f' ho ,lr niore q ftt r ”* 1 th# - The Vermcfit housewife who read that ! Enghsli nobles have lots of bares in their i presorv®#, says sh« tried it to t he extant ! of putting a whole chignon into aom® j Uackbeny jam, and the jam didn’t seem j a l ' if fur it “ Hn»rm wo sell or abandon our girlsf' ; ediforiallv asks the odit-wof th® Hawk | tyc. Do neither. Give 'em away. When ! a th® girl is given away, if, ah® is not “sold,” | —Norrintown young man is-in a majority of cases. i Hera! !. j . Two ladies in tho hors® ear were talk ing about an actress whom they had just 1 seen. “She is too stout,” said oi», “Oh j ; no,” replied the other, who slightly tended towards em!>onpt/M. “She is i more than stoat; she's fat. ” J Tire truly affectionate and sensible | nignant wife approaches expression, her of husbaud with a be. gently laying her liand countenance, his and i)SWV “Charley, dear, upon picas® shoulder, don’t “ ”« «***, spend any I’ll more money for cardamom irv and stand it if you won'* kies me on the lips.” A 1 >”>■ -n-re*® •< a. CM.. nafi able Enquirer b**!’,. who « has ays; her “I know a fashion arms lathered awl shaved from end to end by a barber one® !i month. ” Alia! Tliis' explains why female arms become bald-headed at such an early. ag^^PhiyuMphia (fhrcmk'le - Herald. Sod Tloflses, On the prairies, far from the woods, where log cabins arc impracticable, th® KW 1 house is made as a .sulwtituto I'o build ■ me, a man g..a-s on to the prairie with his team and breaking plow, and turns .inches a Ntreight smooth «.«d aome tliree or four thick. This walls very tough, Wh«a sufficient has le-u turn l over*" th® awl is cut into squares nud 1*61 up in » Irsnit® as and though it w«.r > fiat stones. Door wiudow frames are set iu os the Wall rises. When the height of on® sb*ry is reached a small timber is set up them, and the soil » ri<hv?-|.Ki!c wall built {dantsl «p«»n up or into the gable. On this ridgetiuire rest smaller poles for rafters, the and mi overlapping these sod is each laid lu courses, courses ( 4h< : f Ufa- shingles so many inches to f!w woatlim ISut oHi'y money outlay is caused bv windows and door*. If well built, the bouse will stand few \ Years. Inside ou® may “swtvteu to taste Ia the ruder huts the walls are left uncov¬ ered, In, others some ara covered with cheap cloth, some with braiding paper and wail paper pasted over it, w hile some a re plastered and made as comfortable ft« any- room need to fa*. Otecu inside, you would not know but. you wore- in a stone or brick house. Then you will «nmo tituofl find elegant furniture, the remains of better days, sometime* a piano and indicate the skill io play it; choice faxrks, which mid literary hmtes; which the latest pa¬ pers uiagmafass, show that tho inmate* keep vtp with tho times. Indeed, it is sm-prisuig to know how many familic* of refinement and cultured taste, being unfortuaato. make a fresh start iu life ou the vast pratriea. A BfflUtDtt of Rears and Lions. John Bowie* leflhi* sheep ranch, near Keefer's Mill, for ft day's »jx »rt. He did not get very far falvs m discovered bear tracks, both large and small. This discovery was followed np by his coming upon a numbet the “vannintu” faking tilings easy under a spre-adiugmanvanifa ground manfully, tree. John st<»nj lus aud blazed away with his deadly Item ing ton, and two of tho full-grown faarx were killed outright. The third, although badly wounded, weut for hi» scalp, and John had to retreat to the crotch of % tree* close by With ».< luiruhlf forsight he frox® to his gun, and os soon u« the beast emne up to Ms roosting phn» he laid him out by a splendid shot through th® «yc. On coming down for hi« perch John {(‘listed hi« eyes with tire sight of his victims, and while Ottbs enjoying crying this for plciViurc ho heard some thrir mother. In looking around th® brush he found two tin® cubs, which ho secured and took hem®. While on his way back ho tell in with two California lions, which he fagged, thus making a perfect boutptaa of gam® for one day’s *j>on. Jdmmy and will, ft*ef» bigger now forget than <44 his Grant, not soon splendid liwsk.-— i’him ( C \d.) Ente rpHaa. farry Ta* blackberry,*, of New blueberry, Hampshire and other crop is esti¬ mated at near SlOO.OtW on the yearly average, and it is a very satisfactory Two thiug hnndmf to know that, it i» mainly th.-. clear gain. bought yenrs ago entire State could to* for less moony Don’t pick up ft <*iUl for a foot He (fanned will *ak you wwdoat some el question* Ufa werid to at tho eon* cannot ....: r.