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English Velvet Carpets, Floor Oil Cloths, English Brussels Carp's Table Oil Cloths, 3-Ply & Ingrain Carpets Stair Carpets & Rods Venetian Carpets, Mattings, Druggets, Cheap Carpets, And Door Mats, Curtain Department. Curtain Materials, I Window Shades, Comieesand Bands, | Hair Cloths, ]>aee Curtains, I Wall Papers £ B'dr’s Mmlm Curtains, j Beautiful Chromes. Grocery Department. Choice Fam’v Groceries Baskets of all kinds. Duffield Hams, Wood Ware, English Crackers, Brooms and Brushes Dyspeptics’ Food, Plantation Supplies. CARPETS, OIL CLOTHS and CUR TAINS made and laid at short notice. H!|£ (Ocj IctI) orp c (!:cl)o. CASPER HAUSER. Some Extraordinary Developments. The ravstery of that mysterious indi vidual, Casper Hauser, has puzzled the entire world. The fate of the unfortu nate youth at one time created more ex citement and eager curioaitv throughout Europe than any event of the present century. Although his true parentage and the names of those through whose instrumentality he was consigned to his bloody grave have been established al most beyond a doubt, a dread of the con sequences of displeasing so many illustri ous personages has hitherto prevented the affair being sifted with that regard for facts which alone could elicit the com plete truth. In a strange manner the mystery has been solved, and the Mercu ry is the first American paper to lay the solution before its readers. CASPER HAUSER. On the evening of the 26th of May, 1828, a casual passenger through the streets of Nuremberg met a youth about fifteen or sixteen years of age, whose sin gular appearance at once arrested his at tention. Although strongly built,he seem ed scarcely able to use his limbs, while his eyes were hardly strong enough to bear the dim twilight of the late summer eve. In his hand he held a letter ad dressed to a well-known citizen, which he presented to every passer-by with an unmeaning stare. When conducted to the house of the person to whom he appeared to be directed he was offered food, but refused with disgust all except plain bread and water, and, throwing niinself down on a heap of straw, went into a sound sleep. The person in whose charge he was left did not know what to make of him, for, on one hand he dis played the mingled curiosity and stupid insensibility of some being to whom all is new, but who has no perceptible appre ciative faculty, while he could repeat certain words with distinctness and in a distinct hand wrote down the name of Casper Hauser. As an idiot or a clever impostor, they finally determined to send him to prison, where a close examination showed him to be incapable of any at tempt at fraud, but on the contrary, to be the victim himself of crime. * The soles of his feet were perfectly soft and white, proving that he had never been permitted to take exercise. It was clear that he had never seen and never learned anything ; he was a complete stranger to the commonest ties and duties that bind mankind together, and utterly ig norant of the nature or even existence of society and morality ; in short, he had evidently vegitated in complete isolation,, and literally in obscurity, for he copld not bear the effect of light upon his eyes, and neither knew, at first, the difference between night and day, nor could he measure time. Professor Danmer charged himself with his education. By gentle degrees, armed with the utmost patience, he attempted to awaken the dormant faculties in this extraordinary being. He learned with rapidity, and vague, misty recollections of the long, dreary purgatory in which the years of his child hood had been spent rose before his mind. He would often talk about his jailor, for whom, however, he did not ap pear to entertain any feeling of ill-will, but rather wondered, in his simplicity, how he could have offended him. The professor, who had never entirely dis continued his researches as to the birth of his unfortunate pupil, encouraged him to track back the depths of his memory, and hoped eventually to collect the scat tered facts he from time to time obtained into some tangible shape. Thus three or four years rolled peaeeably along. The world, tired of its nine-days’ wonder, had forgotten all about Casper, and he might fondly hope that his enemies had done the same thing y but it was not so. They had not let any of his movements escape them, and probbably the profes sor’s hopes had been too loudly express ed, for an attempt was made to ASSASSINATE THE TOOK YOUTH, which failed, and resulted in obtaining for him a more powerful protection than that of the worthy scientist, that of the Earl of Stanhope, an English nobleman, who at that time was residing in Ger many. On the 14th of December, 1833, Hauser, who had been left alone, was enticed to a solitary grotto bv an unknown man,who plunged a dagger into his heart. Every effort was made by the authorities to dis cover the assassin, and Lord Stanhope offered a large sum for his arrest, but all was in vain. Among those well acquain ted with such particulars of the case as it was not practicable for the strong arm of despotism to suppress, but little doubt will be found to exist, that poor, friend less, murdered Casper Hauser was by birth A SOVEREGIN PRINCE, New developments prove beyond a doubt that Hauser was the son of the Grand Duke Charles of Baden and his wife Stephania, consequently the legiti mate heir of the throne. Charles, who had married Stephania, the niece of Na poleon the First, in 1806, was a man ef reckless character. Not long after wed ding he became enamored of the Baren ess Geyer von Geyersberg, whom he rais ed to the rank of a Countess von Hoeh berg. This women attempted to poison the Grand Duchess, and when the latter was delivered of an heir to the crown of Baden, she caused that child to be stolen. It was the un fortunate creature afterward known un der the name of Casper Hauser. The Grand Duchess was assured by the phy sicians, all of whom were in the pay of the Countess, that her child haa died. She believed it until her husband was dead, when she secretly caused the infant's coffin to be opened. It was empty. Some time after she gave birth to another son, but the mother seemed to believe that her child had been CRAWFORD, GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING, JUNE 18, 1875. taken from her, and another substituted. This was really the case, the substituted baby being an illegitimate son to whom the Countess Hochberg had given birth about the same time. The bastard was christened Leopold, and became heir apparent of Baden. The Grand Duchess never spoke to him, even after he had become Grand Duke. She lived in se clusion, and died a few years ago. Whether her husband Charles discover ed the fraud, certain it is that she finally poisoned him, whereupon her son Leo pold became Grand Duke of Baden He nad no right whatever to the position ; for the real heir, Casper Hauser, was then alive. When inquiries began to be made into Casper Hauser’s fate, the Countess Hochberg caused him to be murdered. The Grand Duke Leopold died in 1852, when his son Fredrick Lou is, the present Grand Duke, ascended the throne. He married, in 1857, Louisa, only daughter of the present Emperor of Germany, who has for a son-in-law, the grandson of a murderess, and the son of a bastard, who, in reality, has no right whatever to the crown of Baden. The Frankfort Gazette made public these facts, and was furnished with in formation by parties in possession of the secret history. To ascertain the names of the latter became the task of the Prus sian police, by order of the Emperor. Unable to seize the books of the Gazette on any direct charge, the police took ad vantage of the fact that the owner was also partner in a job printing establish ment. From this establishment had been issued a circular reflecting on cer tain bankers. The latter sued the job printing office, and the police, on that ground, seized all the books of the Ga zette, including the subscription list. Throughout Germany the disclosures of the Gazette and the oppressive meas ures of the exasperated Emperor have created profound sensation. The Empe ror, who is a stickler for legitimacy, is intensely mortified by the disclosures about his son-in-law. His daughter, the Grand Duchess of Baden, refuses to ap pear in public since the disclosures have been published. “ Like Our Jake’s Clock/' A genome specimen of the Yankee, fresh from the Green Mountains, took a trip for the first time on a steamboat. The strange sights and sounds complete ly turned his head, and he wandered about, drinking in all the wonders that met his vision. The engine attracted his particular at tention, and he pestered the engineer with so many questions that they were finally obliged to exclude him the lower deck. From this time he grew melan choly and morose, and his baffled curi osity affected him so that he looked the very image of despair. Thai night he went to his stateroom, but not to sleep, and his waking hours were filled with feverish visions of all sorts of infernal machines. At last he could stand the suspense no longer, so at the peep of day he sallied forth on auother march after informa tion. He made his way upon the hurri eane deck, a feat he had never before dared to perform! The first thing that met his eager gaze was the pilot-house, where stood the pilot working the wheel this way and that to keep the boat in the channel. Our Yankee’s eyes brightened—he had found the clue to the mystery I He went straightway to his stateroom, and there in bed slept soundly till the dinner bell rang. Then he appeared with a face literally wreathed in smiles. The company, who knew of his previous quandary and had taken a mischievous delight in it, stared in amazement, and the question ran around the table, what was the cause of the change. “ I’ll tell ye arter supper,” said Jona than. “I can’t stop now, for I ain’t en joyed a meal of vittles afore since I been on this boat.” After the cloth was removed, every one flocked around to hear him explain. ** Ye see,” said our hero, *l’m a real live Yankee, an’ no mistake. I can’t set still like all on ye here, and hear this boat splash,, splash and splash on at this rate, and not want to know what sends her ahead. No, sireey not I! I’ve got an inquiring mind, and I’ve inquired and inquired and inquired into this matter until I’ve discovered it all by mere acci dent I Gentlemen,” and here he drew his gaunt, awkward figure to its full height and assumed a patronizing air, “ gentlemen, this steam engine is no sich great shakes arter all. It’s made of iron, to be sure, and its a darned sight bigger, but it’s built on exactly the same princi ple of our Jake's wooden clocks, and if you’ll step p here on the roof with me, you’ll see the man in the belfry what keeps all the time winding it up as fast as it rwns down. You will, by gorry!” Ayr That Bury the Dead. —lt has been discovered that there are some ants whieh actually bnry their dead. Recently a lady had been'obliged to kill some ants, the bodies of which lay on the ground. Presently a single ant found its dead companions and examin ed them and the® went off. Directly it returned with a number of others and proceeded to btrry the dead bodies. Four ants went to each corpse, two lifting it and the other two following; the main body, some two handred in number, fol lowing behind. The four bearers took their office in tarns, one pair relieving the other when they were tired. They went straight to a sandy hillock, anti there the bearers pud down their bur dens, and the others immediately began to dig holes. A dead ant was then placed in each grave, and the soil filled in. The most carious pari; of the proceeding was that some six or seven ants refused to assist in digging ; upon whieh the rest of them killed them, dug one large hole, and tumbled them unceremoniously into it. DEVILTRIES. —How to take life easy—be careless with kerosene. —Man respires, perspires, aspires, conspires and exspires. —Be temperate in your diet. Our first Earents ate themselves out of house and ome. —Quiils are things that are sometimes taken from the pinions of one goose to spread the opinions of auother. —lt takes 283,648 grasshoppers to make a bushel, and each one of the num ber can eat the weight of the whole in a season. t —“ As soon as life was extinct I cut him down,” replied a Kansas woman to the coroner’s jury who sat on her dead husband. —The hipporhinophlegmatoblennoca- has broken out at Reno, Nev., which causes horse-owners “reno-vare dolorem.” —A fashionable lady went to a party not long since. She arrived their about the first of the evening, but the last of her dress did not arrive until after 12 o’clock. —The only thing that bothers a Wes tern grass-hopper is to swallow a four legged table. A well developed hopper can worry it down, but the legs tickle his throat. —When a conductor of a Boston car shouted, “ Ruggles street l” the other night, a fellow who had been dozing in the corner started up and said : “ Rug gles’ treat! Where’s Ruggles? Show me Ruggles.” —She was about twenty years of age, and a self-administered dose of lauda num set her free from existence. While dying she exclaimed in a wild and fran tic way, “ I have seen God, I have seen God, and he told me to go to hell.” —A pious minister in South Carolina, but a great believer in certain weather signs, was asked to petition the Throne of Grace for refreshing showers. He replied : “My friends, I will do so, but it is not going to rain till the moon changes I” —An old lady, hearing someone read ing about a Congressman at large, rush ed into the kitchen door shouting, “Sarah Jane! Sarah Jane! don’t you leaves the clothes out all night, mind I tell you, there’s a Congressman at large.” —The simple faith of a Virginia Chris tian is aided by his faith in man. He was asked if he thought Stonewall Jack son was in heaven. “ Wall,” said the old gentleman, “ I reckon he is if he started for that place. He always managed to get round in time.” —Parisian item from the Chicago Times. The scene is in a Parisian corset store. Young lady, examining goods, remarks that the fastenings of the arti cle would be hard to undo. “That,” says the shopkeeper, “is to allow the wearer time for reflection,” —** If Tilton is awarded and receives all the damages he claims,” asks an ex change, “ what will he do with the mon ey?” “We don’t know,” answers the Louisville Journal , f ‘ unless he should do with it as he did with his wife’s hon or, employ Moulton to help him squander —Vice-President Wilson failed to se cure the confidence of the darkies at Memphis, as is shown by the following conversation between two of the ebony hued race last week : ‘'Say, Bill,. what's de name ob dat fellah from Washin’ton ? Hab you seed him ?” “Yes, I seed him. He’s gwine to start a nudder Freedman’s Bank.” “De debbil he is! Well, dat’s enuff for me.” —Jones gave a lawj'er a bill to be collected to the amount of S3O. Calling for it, after awhile, he inquired if it had been collected. “ Oh,yes,” said the law yer, “ I have collected it all for yoth’ f “What do you charge for collecting?” “Oh,” said the lawyer, laughing, “ I’m not going to charge you —why I have known you ever since you were a baby, and your father before you ; S2O will be about right,” handing over $lO. “ Well,” said Jones, as he meditated upon the transaction, “ its darned lucky he didn’t know' my grandfather, or I shouldn’t have got anything!” —A coroner who hasn’t had a-job in a good while, and feels that he has been wronged, complains to Max Adeler; “Why, there’s Belcher come home from Peru with six mummies that he dug out of some sepulchre in that coantry. They look exactly like dried beef. Now, my view is that I ought to sit on them things. .They’re human beings; nobody ’round knows what they died of. The law r has a right to know. Belcher ain’t got no doctor’s certificate about ’em,, and I’m sworn to look after all dead i>eo ple that can’t account for bein’ dead, or that is suspicioned of dyin’ of fol play. I could have made fifty dollars oat of them dead Peruvians, and I ought to’ve done it.” —The practice of placing down boards in the mud is revived this spring. It is a good idea. The board always warps downward in the centre, leaving the ends sticking up about six inches above the walk. The hastening pedestrian comes along in the dark ana picks up end of the board on his instep and shoves it along some six feet, the other leg all the while- trying to get a foothold and con trol itself. Then the board swings off and c&tehes him on the shin of that leg, and after an almost herculean effort to recover himself he goes down with dread ful force, striking on his elboiv with one arm,, and shoving the other in the mud half way to his shoulder. If the owner of the premises should be killed by light ning in the first thunder-storm that man w'ould cheerfully lose a day’s work to attend the funeral. A Man who Catches Cannon Balk in his Hands. Avery singular exhibition was given yesterday at the Jardin Mabille, There has been performing here at the Folies Bergeres a man named Holtum, an American, who has a cannon fired at him and catches the ball in his hands. This prodigious feat was witnessed night ly, and, although the actors present avowed that there was no trick, Pierre Veron, of the Monde Illustre, would not believe it. He said that the canuon ball must be thrown to Holtom from the stage. The latter made a bet of 5,000 frauce that he would perform the feat under conditions which left no room to doubt, and, when the bet was taken, Ve ron designated Mabille as the place for the trial. All the journalists of Paris were invited, and they found Holtum there before his cannon. It was exam ined with minute care, and the heavy ball was placed from hand to hand. “ I am no longer in my own house,” says Holtum ; “ you are master here, and you must watch over all the arrangements.” Having carefully aimed and lashed his cannon, it was charged, and Holtum took his place against a plank tar get some ten yards away. This was to show that the ball was solid, and the force of the powder great enough to send it through the plank. Holtum got the aim of his gun, and then placed his head in a certain position against the plank, giving the command to fire. The ball just grazed the hair and broke the plank, rolling some twenty yards further on. The same ball was picked up by the journalists who again charged the can non and sent home the ball, and this time Holtum caught the ball in his hands neatly as he does nightly upon the stage. He won his bet, and no one seemed disposed to except his offer of 3,000 frances to any one who would per form the same astonishing feat. The physical force required must be enor mous, but Holtum showed his strength by tossing up cannon balls a's if they were so many oranges. The only pre cautions taken are very simple ;he wears very thick leather gloves, and covers his breast with many thieknesses of thin pa per to form a sort of cuirass. This looks to me like a veiy dangerous feat, and particularly the first part of it, where Holtum places his head against the tar get half an inch below where the ball will probably strike. If the powder should chance to be defective, some day there might be an accident. It is like the foolhardy trick of putting one’s head into a lion’s mouth. Oue day I fancy that ball will snap his head very nearly off. A Oircus of Pleas. The latest excitement in Berlin is the exhibited of drilled flees. The exhibi tion taken place on a large sheet of white paper, fastened upon an ordinary table, to which all the spectators approach in turns, so as to be able to witness in all details the extraordinary manceuvers of these little, but marvelously powerful and gifted rascals. Here you see one of tire muscular fleas rolling a small barrel along with its feet, as the men do in the circus } there you see a slim,, voluptuous ly built maiden of the species walking along m crinoline and carrying her para sol, with all the affectation of a city miss ; at another place a well trained fel low performs on the flying trapeze — without any danger to his neck, how ever, since the biggest fall would not break that - f while below the trapeze, on the paper, a host of little ones are turn ing somersaults at a fearful rate. The largest specimens of the collection have been trained to draw wagons, drays, car riages, etc. To fix the harness properly on them, the flea tamer places his pupils on a piece of paper covered with muci lage, where they have to stick. He then, by the aid of a watchmaker's loop, ar ranges a strong gold thread around their bodies, and attaches it to the wagon or carriage. The ladies of Berlin attend the exhibition in large numbers, and seem to take an extraordinary delight in the performance of the little creatures, who are fed regularly every morning from the arm of the flea tamer. A simi lar exhibition was given, we believe, in London a few years ago. A Curious Bird Trap. —Abraham Mayer, who resides in the old Bartholo mew place, east of the city, yesterday made a very singular discovery. Sup porting his porch area number of pillars, made of four boards nailed together, W hile sitting on the porch he heard a noise within one of these pillars, which prompted him to investigate the cause. The sound seemed to be made by birds, and he procured a saw and cut a hole at the base of the pillar. From this hole he drew out more than fowr hundred dead birds, one hundred or more of which his son brought down to- the city for inspection. They were in all stages of decomposition, from the bird just dead to the skeletons of those which had evi dently lain* for years. Two live birds, whose fluttering and noise had attracted his attention, made their escape as soon as the hole was opened. The larger number were blue-birds, but besides there were sparrows, woodpeckers, wrens —indeed,a miscellaneous collection of the smaller birds of this-latitude. To ascertain how they came there was the next ques tion, and a further search was made. This showed that near the top of the pil lar there was a small hole, just sufficient to allow the ingress of a bird, but so near the top that egress was impossible. The birds seeing this opening went in, but were unable to get out, and died of star vation. This seems Much like a ghost story, but the skeptical can, see a full peck of the carcasses of these birds at the Grand Central Dining Rooms, —Lafayette (Ind.) Courier. irnmm 9 Sftn marry in haste, and then sit down aud think it carefully over. VOL. I—NO. 37. Josh Billings on Marriage, History holds its tongue as to who the pair wuz who first put on the silken har ness, and promised to work kind to it, thru thick and thin, up hill and down, and on the level, rain or shine, survive or perish, sink or swim, down or flote. But wotever they wuz, they must have made a good thing of it, or so mauy of their posterity would not have harnessed up since and drove out. There is a great moral grip to marriage; it is the morter that holds them together. But there ain’t but darn few pholks who put their money in matrimony who could set down and give a good written opinyun whi on arth they comefcodtd it. This is a grate proof that it is one or them natral kind ov acksidents tbwt must happen, jist as birds fly out ov the nest, when they have feathers enuff, without being able to tell why. Sum marry for buty, and never dis kover their mistake ; this iz lucky. Sum marry for money, and don’t see it. Sum marry for pedigree, and feel big for six months, and then very sensibly cum tew the conclusion that pedigree ain’t no better than skim-milk. Sum marry bekawse they have been higsted sum where else ; this is a cross match, a bay and sorrel; pride may make it endurable. Slim marry far luv without a cent iff their pocket, nor a friend in the world nor a drop ov pedigree. This looks des perate, but it is the strength of the game. If marrying for love ain’t success then* matrimony is a dead beet- Sum marry because they think wimmea will be scarce next year, and live tew wonder how the crop holds out.. Sum marry to get rid ov themselves, and discover that the game was one that two could play at, and neither win. Sum marry the second time to get even,, and find it a gamblin game—the more they put down the less they take up. Sum marry to be happy, and not find ing it, wonder where all the happiness goes to when it dies. Sum marry they can’t tell why, and live they cant tell how. Almost everybody gets married, and it is a good joke. Sain think it over carefully fust and then set down and marry. Both ways are right if they hit the mark. Sum marry rakes to* convert them. This iz a MStle risky, and takes a smart inissieoary to do it. Sum marry conuetts. This is like buy ing a poor farm heavily mortgaged, and working the balance ov your days to clear off the mortgages.. Married life has its chances, and is just what gives it its flavor. Every body loves to phool with the chances, be kause everybodv expekts tew win. But I am authorized tew state that everybody don’t win. But, after all, married life iz full az certain az dry good bizness. No man can swear exactly where he will fetch up when hr tuches calico. Kno man kan tell jist what calico hax made up its mind tew do next. Calico don’t kno evert herself. Dry goods of all kinds is the child ov circumstamsis- Sum never marry, but this iz just az risky ; the disease iz the same, with an other name to it The mm who stands on the bank shiv ering, and dassent, iz more apt to ketch cold than him who pitches hiz head fust into the river. There iz but few who never marry be kause they wont —they all hanker, and most ov them starve with bread! before them (spread on both sides), jist for the lack of grit. Mary young! iz my motto. I have tried it, and I know what I ami talking about. If anybody asks you why you got mar ried (if it needs be), toil him your don’t recoMekt. Marriage is a safe way to gamble—if yu win, yu win a pile, and if yu loze, vu don’t loze anything, only the privilege of living dismally alone, and soaking your own feet. There is but one good excuse for & marriage late in life, and that iz— a sec ond, marriage. How a Dutchman Told his Son an Interesting Story.—' “ Shon, mine Shon,” said a German father to his heir of ten years, whom he had overheard! using profane language, “ Shoo, mine- Shon! come here, an’ I vill dell you von little stories. Now, mi nr Shon, shall it pea drue story, or a makes pelieve ?” “ Oh, a true story, of eoterse V* answer ed John. “Ferry veil, den-- Dere vas once a goot oldt shentlcman (shoost like me), and he had von dirty little poy (shoost like yo®). Andt von day he heard him shwearing like a young fillian, as he vos. So he vent to de winkle (corner) and dook out a cowhide (shoost as lam doing now), and he dook der dirty liddle plackguard by de collar (dis way, you see f) and voilepped him (shoost so f) And den, mine tear Shon-, he bull his ears dis way, and smack hi face dat way, an’ dell him to £0 mitonZ his supper, shoost ae* you vilt do- dir efening.” The Highest Mountain in thr World.—A genuine surprise awaited the best informed geographers —the discov ery of Mount Hercules*, in the Island of New Guinea, off the coast of Australia, where the Indian ©cea aavd Paeifie meet- The new discovered mowdoo* 3*2,786- feet high, over six nwfec. Mount Everest i the Himalayan* range, hereto fore credited with the sovereign altitude, is only 29',##2 feet high- Mount Her cules stands near the centre of the is land, and the discoverer, Captain J. A„ Lawson, gives a thrilling account of his ascent to the height of 26,314 feet till the blood flow ed from the nose and ears of himself and attendant, and gasping took the place of breathing.