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SUMMER DRY GOODS
AT
LOW PRICES!
S. C. DOBBS,
New Planter’s Store,
BROAD STREET, - - ATHENS, GA.,
Have now in store one of the best selected
stocks of Spring and Summer
Dry Goods, of all kinds,
GROCERIES, PROVISION. Etc.,
ever brought to Athens, which he will sell as
LOW FOR THE CASH as can be bought
elsewhere in the city. I ask that the citizens
of Oglethorpe give me a trial when they visit
Athens, and I will convince them that they
can purchase of me as low as goods can be
sold. I have every article needed by farmers
or their families. apr2-tf
ATHENS
Foilry and Machine
WORKS,
ATHENS, GEORGIA.
General founders and machin
ists. Pattern Word, Smithing and Re
pairing. Having an extensive collection of
Patterns, manufacture
Iron and Brass Castings,
MILL AND GIN GEARING,
MIIiNG AND MILL MACHINERY,
Steam Engines,
SAW MILLS, SHAFTING, PULLEYS,
MILL SPINDLES, HORSE-POWERS,
THRESHERS, FAN MILLS,
SUGAR MILLS,
BARK MILLS, Etc., Etc.
Manufacture, and are agents for the
most approved Turbine Water Wheels,
Brooks’ Patent Portable Revolving and Colt’s
celebrated Cotton Presses, Iron Fencing,
Grave Enclosures, Balconies, etc., etc.
Address R. NICKERSON,
apr3o Agent and Sup’t.
L. Schevenell & Cos.
ATHENS, GEORGIA,
DEALERS IN
Watches, Jewelry,
Silver & Plated Ware, Fancy Articles, Etc,
Having BEST workmen, are prepared to
REPAIR in superior style.
We make a specialty of SILVER and
GOLD PLATING watches," forks, spoons, etc,
€l|jc ®oteti)®rfK €d|®,
THE SUFFERERS
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Report or Relief Committee.
Maxey’s, Jane 28, 1875.
We, the undersigned, committee for
the tornado sufferers, beg leave to sub
mit the following report of receipts and
distributions to date :
RECEIVED IN MONEY FROM
George Sibley, Augusta $406 72
R A Alston, Atlanta 5 00
T Calloway, Bairdstown i 50
Wm King, Athens q 50
Cherokee Corner Church 21 lo
Cherokee Corner Grange 33 90
Cloud’s Creek Church 22 85
V R Tommey, Decatur 5 00
Decatur Baptist Church 22 25
Penfield Committee 16 00
Howell Cobb, Athens 5 00
T Fleming, Maxey’s 20 00
O P Findley, Maxey’s 5 00
W C Birchmore, Maxey’s 5 00
Mrs Mcßce, Stephens 1 00
Two bu. meal, sold to save spoiling... 200
Total cash receipts $577 92
RECEIVED IN GOODS FROM
McCall, Cope I .an & Cos., Greensboro—l doz
spiders, 2 kegs nails.
Clerks McC, C & Cos., Greensboro—so lbs.
bacon, 4 bu meal.
J M Story, Greensboro—loo lbs flour.
Greensboro Committee—74 yds checks, 78
yds shirting, 413 lbs bacon, 600 lbs flour.
Charokee Corner Grange— 225 lbs flour.
Cherokee Corner Church—2 bu corn.
Bairdstown Committee —l sk corn, 32 yds
sbirtmg, I comfort, 4 bdls clothing.
H Lewis & Go., Atlanta—2oo lbs flour, 1
box crackers.
W T Witcher, Lexington, 125 lbs flour.
DISTRIBUTED TO
B A Maxey—6o lbs bacon, 20 vds shir
ting, cash $ 10 00
J T Arthur—6o lbs bacon, 20 yds shir
ting, 50 lbs flour, cash 10 00
Thomas Epps—4o lbs bacon, 1 spider, 500
Felix McWhorter (col), 10 lbs bacon,
10 yds checks, cash 1 40
Marshall Epps—so lbs nails, 1 box
crackers, cash 10 00
Peter Brown (col), cash 4 00
George Giles, cash 4 50
Crecie Williams (col) —25 lbs f10ur...,. 400
W A Moore—7s lbs flour.
Wm and A H Bryant, 81 lbs bacon.
Dick Smith (col), 225 lbs flour, 1 spi’r.
John R Porter—so lbs. flour, 10 yds
checks, cash 5 00
Frank Moore—22s lbs flour.
Z Freeman—22s lbs flour.
Wm Fambrough—loo lbs flour, 50 lbs
bacon.
Adam Smith (col) —1 spider, 25 lbs
flour, cash 2 50
Sam Givens (eol)—50 lbs flour, £bu
meal, 1 spider, 30 lbs bacon, cash... 225
Reuben Pope (col) —200 lbs flour, 50
lbs bacon.
Clayton Pugh—so lbs flour, 30 lbs ba
con, 10 yds shirting.
Frank Aycock—l lot clothing, cash... 10 00
Wm Jewell 15 00
Misses Moore 15 00
Mrs SE Ray 10 00
A H Bell 15 00
Wm Jackson 10 00
Charles Briant 10 00
W A Wilson * 5 00
H T Boushell—4s lbs nails, cash 11 40
R T Asbury—2 bu corn, 32 yds shirt
ing, 1 comfort, cash 35 00
A T Brightwell 15 00
A T Brightwell—Cash paid him to de
fray expenses for 2 coffins, and for
nails and provisions furnished to <
laborers 60 0©
Sterling Poullain (col), cash 7 00
Prophett Campbell (col), cash 5 00
Henry Smith (col), cash 10 00
Walter Eberhart (col) —1 spider, 4bu *
meal, 74 lbs meat, cash 5 00
meal, 74 lbs cash 5 00
Hixon Moore (col);'Ash 5 00
Arthur Fambrough (col), cash 25 00
Booker Bugg (col), cash 10 00
Sandy Moody (col), cash 10 00
Barton Barnett (col), cash 10 00
Georgia Smith (col), cash 10 00
Henry Christopher (col), cash 5 00
A Shaw, sr—lo yds shirting, oash 10 00
A Shaw, jr—10 yds shirting, cash 5 00
Samuel Shaw—l sk corn, cash 500
W A Pugh—lo yds shirting, 1 spider,
30 lbs nails, cash 15 00
W A Partee, cash 5 00
Jeremiah Maxey—3s yds checks, cash 500
James Butler’s (col) family, cash 10 00
Mrs Smith, cash 4 00
Peter Watson’s (col) family, cash 5 00
Handy Poullain (col) —23 lbs bacon, 1
bu meal, cash 10 00
Mrs E Moody, cash 10 00
Misses Harris, cash 10 00
Peter Thornton (col), cash... 5 00
Bob Maxey (col), cash 10 00
Louis Early (col), cash 5 00
Mrs Geo W Maxey, cash 10 00
Joe Butler (col), cash 10 00
Cash paid T Fleming it Cos for nails
furnished 23 60
Cash paid freight 4 15
Elbert Oliver (col), cash.. 5 00
Cash on hand to balance 39 22
Amount of cash cm hand and dis’d..ss77 92
Amount nails on hand, 75 lbs.
Amount of checks on hand, 19 yds.
W. B. Brightwell, "J
J. D. Colclough, ©
Samuel Bailey,
B. P. Taylor, 2.
Geo. P. Brightwell, §f
W. M. Durham, P
—Three young Bostonian blue-stock
ing belles. the other day, tried to get
their horse's head down so that it could
drink by unbuckling the crupper,
CRAWFORD, GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 9, 1875.
Written for the Echo.]
KATIE HAT.
BY FRANK.
Little, merry, beauteous maiden, darling Katie
May,
Sheding o’er thy pleasant home affection’s
purest ray ;
With eyes like dewy violets—with hair so
soft and glossy,
And cunning, little, rose-bud mouth, so sweet
and yet so saucy.
Roguish little fairy, with cheeks and lips
aglow,
I fear that Katie Mary has stolen Cupid’s
bow.
Then of thy darts be careful, my little maiden
fair,
Nor prove a cruel archer, although thy pow
ers be rare.
Oh ! bonny little beauty, in hearts with im
pulse kind,
I’m sure that one so willing a place will ever
find.
For who that loves a flower, or bird-note soft
and clear,
Can deem thee ought but charming, my win
some Katie dear ?
If loving hearts can bless thee, and drive away
all care,
Thy bright eyes, bonnie Mary, will never
weep a tear ;
For well thy steps are guarded by those who
highly prize
Dear little Katie Mary, with laughing azure
eyes.
To father’s heart and mother’s of all beneath
the dome
Of heaven, thou art the dearest, “ the shining
light of home.”
I too, fair little creature, this prayer will up
ward send,
That God may help and guard thee, my pre
cious little friend.
July 3d, 1875.
TWO PICTURES.
BEFORE MARRIAGE.
My Maggie, my beautiful darling,
Come into my arms, my sweet,
Let meffold you again to my bosom’
So close that I can hear your heart beat.
V hat! these little fingers been sewing ?
One’s been pricked by the needle, I see;
These hands shall be kept free from labor
When once they are given to me.
All mine, little pet,*l will shield you
From trouble, and labor, and care,
I will robe you like some fairy princess,
And jewels shall gleam in your hair ;
Those slippers you gave me are perfect,
That dressing-gown fits to a T.
My darling, I wonder that heaven
Should give such a treasure to me.
Eight—nine—ten—eleven! mv precious,
Time flies so when I am with you,
It seems but a moment I’ve been here,
And now, must I say it?—Adieu !
AFTER MARRIAGE.
Oh, Meg, you are heavy—l’m tired ;
Go sit in the rocker, I pray ;
Your weight seems a hundred and ninety
When you plump down in that sort of way.
You had better be mending my
I’ve spoken about it before—
And I want to finish this novel
And look over those bills from the store.
This dressing-gown acts like the d—l;
These slippers run down in the heel;
Strange, nothing can ever look decent;
I wish you could know how they feel.
What’s tnis bill from Morgan’s ? Why, surely,
It’s not for another new dress ?
Look here ! I’ll be bankrupt ere New Year,
Or your store bills will have to grow less.
Eight o’clock ! Meg, sew on this button
As soon as you finish that sleeve,
Heigh ho! I’m so deucedly sleepy ;
I’ll pile off to bed, I believe.
Buying a Husband.
A Dresden correspondent of the Chi
cago Times relates a terrible yarn about
a Cincinnati girl. She fell in love with
a Polish Count, and her father being
rich, the Count expressed himself as
willing to marry her if her father paid a
certain annual income. The father, who
wasn’t a fool, refused the terms with some
asperity, and the easy-minded nobleman
ceased his visits to his daughter. But
she was determined to have a husband
with a corner, or perhaps she was in love
with the man. Be that as it may, she
gave the father no peace till he reopen
ed negotiations with the thrifty lover.
She corresponded with him constantly,
and as her life began to decline, and her
physieian declared it to be the result
of mental trouble, the old gentleman
was compelled to buy his son-in-law
at the family valuation—-SIOO,OOO
down in gold and a yearful annuity
of $5,000 in gold. In return the lovelorn
young woman received the title of one
of noble houses in the kingdom of Po
land and the elegant person of the Count.
The marriage, for this sort of an affair,
was not unhappy until the panic came,
destroying the father’s entire fortune al
most in a day. The Count and Countess
were in Paris when the news came. The
Count merely shrugged his shoulders,
bade the mother of his children the po
litest of adieus, and that evening was
seen in the opera in the most magnificent
style. The contract being broken and
the $5,000 annuity impossible, he held
the marriage at an end.
Emancipation.— This nation of white
men has paid a fearful price per capita
for the freedom of the slaves. It has
paid for 1,000,000 slaves, the sum in
money of $2,600,000,0C0, or about $650
per head, in debt alone, bearing interest
—the same the dusky race would have
cost bought up by the nation, without
losing a life.
—A Connecticut dentist has patented
an. instrument for holding a woman’s
tongue. There’s millions in it.
DEVILTRIES.
Sheet music—-children crying in bed.
The fat man of the Bible—Paunchi
us Pilate.
—A pretty girl, like a hard sum, is
something to sigh for (cipher.)
—lf there is anything on earth that
beats four aces it is a kind and amiable
wife.
—Grass widow means “ grace widow,”
one who becomes a widow by grace or
favor, and not by death.
—The report that the princess of
Wales was “ losing her hearing” was only
a cockney preversion. She lost an ear
ring-
—A Certain young lady is so modest
that she will not permit the Christian
to remain in her room over
night.
—An Illinois woman, who had walked
ten miles to see her husband hung, ap
peared to be much affected by the spec
tacle.
—A Schenectady girl at a spelling
school sat down on “ pantaloons.” That
happens here often, and yet it never gets
into the papers.
—“ One thing,” says an old toper,
“ was never seen coming through the
rye, and that’s the kind of whisky one
gets nowadays.”
—A lively urchin accosted a drug-store
man the other day: “Mister, please
gim me a stick of liquorice, your clerk
goes with my sister.”
—lt has been settled by a court out
west that it is not legal for a man to
hitch his wife up with a mule, no matter
how anxious he is to plow.
—“ Mr. W— , if you’ll get my coat
done Saturday, I shall be forever indebt
ed to you.” “If that’s your game it
won’t be done,” said the tailor.
—An exchange says : “ Matrimony
makes a man see double.” Old Blough
er says whiskey will do the same thing,
and besides, it is much cheaper.
—The compositor who substituted an
“m” for a“ w” in speaking of a lady
troubled with u swelling of the feet,” ac
complished the worse typographical feat
on record.
—Said one man to another: “If it
was not Sunday, how much-would you
take for that lumber?” “If it wasn’t
Sunday, I’d tell you,” was the very
proper reply.
—Somebody says that “ large cars de
note broad, comprehensive views and
modes of thought. What magnificent
ideas (thinks the Boston JoumeU) a jack
ass must hav** ,
—Eve must have been a very unhappy
woman. There was no other woman to
pass her on the street that she. might
look around and see how that dress fitted
in the back. Poor Eve !
—When they build a railroad, the
first thing they do is to break ground.
This is often done with great ceremony.
Then they break the stockholders. This
is done without ceremony.
—The son of a clergyman was deliver
ing a college valedictory, when in pull
ing out his handkerchief out came a
pack of cards. “ Hulloa !” he exclaimed,
“ I’ve got on my father’s coat ?”
—An lowa paper tells how a man at a
match spelled the word “ Fraud” all
right, and yet went down. In pronoun
cing it he looked hard at his mother-in
law. She sat near the dictionary.
—“There is nothing on earth,” says a
philosopher, “ that beats an amiable
wife.” There’s a chap in the Franklin
jail, however, who has been beating an
amiable wife for the last ten years.
—There is a truly model husband in
Glasgow, Ky. He never allows his wife
to do more than half the work. She puts
up all the canned fruit in the summer
and he puts it all down in the winter.
—Josh Billings defines a “ thurrer
bred bizziness men” as “ won that knows
enuff about stealin so that there kant
ennybody steal from him, and enuff
about law so that he can do his stealin’
legally.”
—Charles B. said: “Now you must
kiss wherever your hook catches the next
fish.” She said “ All right.” Very
soon a fish was hanging in mid air, and
Enick, taking it off her hook remarked,
“Charley, it was not caught in the
mouth.”
—The Nevada ninnyhammer who
has just buried his wife in. a silver coffin
has done a good deal of harm. Other
women will now feel that nobody cares
a farthing for them if they are not laid
away in tne same style, and they won’t
put up with any of your German-silver
coffins, either.
—“ Who made the world in seven
days ?” said a teacher in a grim and sol
emn mood to a little girl in cne of the
institutions. The poor child commenced
crying as if she had committed some
great offence, and blurted out: “ I did
sir; but I’ll never do it again.”
—lt is feared that Olive Logan’s head
is turned. She begins her latest attack
on the press with the observation : “ I
have before me several newspapers.”
Think again, Olive. Are you real sure
that they are before you ? Now mind, we
don’t wish that any “ bustle ” should be
raised out of the affair.
—A man in Omaha accidentally light
ed a lamp not long since with a $5,000
bond. We used to be frequently the vic
tim of such accidents ourself; but the
thing didn’t occur more than thirty or
forty times before we discovered that if
we wanted tb he flush of funds in the af
ternoon of life we should have to be more
careful.
LITTLE BREECHES OUTDONE.
How a Port Jervis Youngster Strayed Off,
Starved for Three Days and Was Soooped
in from a Rattlesnake’s Den.
In Blooming Grove, Pike county, lives
the family of a man named Chas. Dun
ning, consisting of himself, his wife and
three children, aged six, four and two
and a half years. On Monday of last
week the children went out to play in the
fields. After being absent some time the
two oldest returned weeping to the house
and said they had lost their little brother
in the woods. Mrs. Dunning, thinking
she could find the child without difficulty,
went out in the woods and looked for
some distance around, calling him by
name. Being unable to discover any
trace of him she became alarmed and
hastened back to the village and spread
the news of the child’s loss. Blooming
Grove is composed mainly of the dwell
ings of the employes of Jacob Klienhan’s
tannery, and when the news of the little
boy’s loss became general the greatest
excitement prevailed. Business was
stopped at the tannery, and forty men
started to scour the woods in search of
the child. All the rest of the day they
tramped through the woods without find
ing any trace of the missing little one,and
all night pine torches flashed through
the forest aisles, frightning from their
perches myriads of night birds, which
answered with their shrill cries the shouts
of the men calling to the child. During
the night a catamount was shot, but
morning dawned upon an unsuccessful
party of sad-hearted villagers. After a
short rest the hunt was again com
menced and all day Tuesday and
Tuesday night was prosecuted dili
gently, but with no better result. The
opinion now was general that the child
had beea killed and eaten by wild beasts,
which still haunt the Pike county wil
derness.
The search was continued, however, at
the urgent appeal of the mother of the
boy. Toward noon on Wednesday one
of the party started away in a direction
which had not been investigated as yet.
Passing about a hundred yards through a
laurel swamp, two miles from the village,
he came out in an open space about thirty
feet square. The opening was walled in
on every side by a thick growth of laurel,
and was well filled with large rocks,
marked with crevices and large seams,
resembling an abandoned quarry. The
instant the man stepped into the place,
he was startled by the sound of a rattle
snake, giving him warning to pause.
Looking down, he saw the snake coiled
up, about four feet away in readiness to
spring at the first provocation. The
backwoodsman had seen such things be
fore, aud picking up a club, dispatched
the snake at one blow. He was not pre
pared for kbe.developements that follow
ed, however. Glancing about him, he
made the unpleasant discovery that he
had intruded in a place pre-occupied by a
colony of rattlesnakes ; in short, he was
in a den of deadly reptiles. From crevi
ces and creases on the rocks and on the
ground he saw' numbers of them lying
in various positions, bathing their slim
proportions in the sunshine. The man
made up his mind that the place had no
particular charm for him, and was about
to beat a hasty retreat, when his eyes fell
on a scene that transfixed him with hor
ror.
On a low, flat rock, not more than six
feet from where the man stood, lay the
apparently lifeless form of the little boy
they had been looking for so long.
Stretched by his side, not more than three
inches away from him, was a huge rattle
snake, while near his feet two more lay
coiled up, all evidently undisturbed by
the presence of the child. While the
man did not suppose for an instant the
boy was alive, he determined to rescue
the body from so horrible a supulchre,
and with well directed blows from his
club killed the three snakes that held
possession of the child. Every blow was
responded to by the blood-curdling din
of rattles from the snakes that lay near
the rock. While he was examining the
ground between him and the child to see
if any of the reptiles lay on that side, he
was startled to see the supposed dead
infant rise with an effort to a sitting pos
ture, stare wildly about with a crazed,
haggard look, and then sink back upon
the rock. The next instant the stout
hearted woodsman had sprung upon the
rock, and seizing the child bore him
away quickly from the loathsome den,
and in a few minutes placed him in the
arms of his distracted mother, amid the
general rejoicing of the whole village.
The child was unconscious, and is yet
lying in a critical condition, being de
lirious with fever, brought on by the un
paralled hardship and privation he suf
fered in his three days waudering alone
in the forest, before which the stout-hear
ted hunter would have quailed.
There are strong indications that our
earth is undergoing one of the great
changes which geology proves have peri
odically occurred since creation. Siberia
was once a tropical county, as is proven
by the remains of tropical vegetation,
and bones of animals only adapted to
warm countries. One hundred years
ago spring came a month earlier in New
England than now, as is shown by early
histories which speak of peach trees be
ing in bloom in the middle of April.
Continued and heavy rains were never
known in California until in the last ten
years. There is no doubt but that the
climate is affected by the agency of rain,
by reason of improvements which change
the general character of the country,
clearing away immense forests, and
draining produces by perceptible climatic
changes. Our knowledge of how atmos
pheric conditions may affect the highest
forms of organic life is very limited.
One thing, however, is certain, if the
average temperature of a country be
changed, the people of that county will
not escape some modifications in their
human characteristics. -X. 0. Times.
VOL. 1-NO. 40.
ADVENTURES OP A DIVES.
A correspondent who has interviewed
Captain Borton sends a report of the
Captain’s statements to the Gentleman's
Magazine: “ Soon afterwards I worked
down into the Gulf of Mexico. The
first coral I raised was at Catoche. Knock
ing round about there, I heard the loss
of the scooner Foam. The fiist mate
and three men got saved, but the captain,
his daughter, and three men got lost. I
slung round to see if she could be raised.
After we’d spent best part of a week wo
sailed over her and dropped anchor. It
was a lovely Sunday morning when we
struck her. She lay in sixty feet of wa
ter off a bottom as white as the moon.
Looking down I could see her leaning
over on one side upon the coral reef.
When I got down to her I saw she’d torn
a great gap in the reef when she ran
against it. The mainmast was gone and
hung by the fore. I clambered up ; I
saw whole shoals of fish playing in and
out of the hatches. First I went to look
for the bodies, for I never like to work
while there’s any of them about. Find
ing the fo’castle empty, I went to the
two little state cabins. It was rather
dark, and I had to feel in the lower bunks.
There was nothing in the first, and in the
other, the door was locked. I prized it
open and shot back the lock with my
adze. It flew open, and out something
fell right against me. I felt at once it
was the woman’s body. I was not exact
ly frightened, but it shook me rather. I
slung it from me, and went out into the
light a bit until I got hold of myself.
Then I turned back and brought her out
—poor thing! She’d been very pretty,
and as I carried her in my arms, with
her white faee nestling against my shoul
der, she seemed as if she was only sleep
ing. I made her fast to the line, as care
fully as I could, to send her up, and the
fish played about her as if they were sor
ry she was going. At last I gave the sig
nal, and she went slow'ly up, her hair
floating around her head like a pillow of
golden sea-weed. That was the only
ody I found there,and I managed after to
raise pretty considerable of the cargo.
One of my expeditions was among the
silver banks of the Antilles—the loveli
est place I ever say, where the white cor
al grows into curius tree-like shapes. As
I stepped along the bottom it seemed as
if I was in a frosted forest. Here and
there trailed long fronds of green and
crimson sea-w’eeu. Silver-bellied fish
flashed about among the deep-brown and
purple sea ferns, which rose high as my
head. Far as I could see all round iu
the transparent water were different col
ored leaves, and on the floor piles of
shells so bright in color that it seemed
as if I had stumbled on a place where
they kept a stock of broken rainbows. I
could not work for a bit, and had a quar
ter determination to sit down a while
and wait fora mermaid. I guess if those
sea-girls hive anywhere, they select this
spot. After walking the inside out of a
half an hour, I thought I had better get
to work and blast for treasure. A little
bit on from where I sat were the remains
of a treasure ship. It was a Britisher, 1
think, and corals had formed all about
her, the coral on the bottom and round
her showed black spots. That meant a
deposit of either iron or silver. I made
fairly good hauls every time I went down,
and sold one piece I found to Barnum of
New York. After I left there I had a
curius adventure with a shark. I was
down on a nasty rock bottom. A man
never feels comfortable on them; he can’t
tell w hat big creature may be hiding un
der the huge quarter-deck sea-leaves
which grow there. The first part of the
time I was visited by a porcupine fish,
which kept sticking his quills up and
bobbing in front of my helmet. Soon
after I saw a big shadow fall across me,
and looking up there was an infernal
shark playing about ray tubing. It makes
you feel chilly in the back when they’re
about. He came dow r n slick as I looked
up. I made at him and he sheered off.
For near an hour he worked at it, till I
could stand it no longer. If you can
keep your head level it’s all right, and
you’re pretty safe if they’re are not on
you sharp.
This ugly brute was twenty feet long
I should think, for when I lay down all
my length on the bottom he stretched a
considerable way ahead of me, and I
could see him beyond my feet. Then I
waited. They must turn over to bite, and
my lying down bothered him. He swam
over three or four times and then skulk
ed off to a big thicket of sea-weed to con
sider. I knew he’d come back when
he’d settled his mind. It seemed a long
time for him. At last he came vicious
ly over me, but, like the time before,
too far from my arms. The next time I
had my chance, and ripped him with my
knife as neatly as I could. A shark al
ways remembers he’s got business some
where else when he’s cut, so off this fellow
goes. It is a curious thing, too, that all
the sharks about will follow in the blood
trail he leaves. I got on my hands and
knees, and as he swam off I noticed four
dark shadows slip after him. I saw no
more that time. They did not like my
company.” After a short period of ex
{>erience in pearl-diving, the next the
oss of nearly everything that he pos
sessed, including his diving apparatps,
in a great conflagration, Captain Boyton,
in a sort of desperation, took service in
the Mexican war, and led an exciting
life till, growing tired of the semi-bar
barian mode of warfare, he deserted,
crossing from Metamoras at midnight in
an old tub of a boat, in which he ex
pected every minute to go to the bottom.
Arriving at Brownsville, he “fixed him
self into hard work” at a dry-goods store.
Then he wrote home, and, hearing that
his father was dead, grew restless again,
and “ waded away north,” through Vic
toria, Ban Antonio, Indianola, snd by a
j schooner from Galveston, whence he
i proceeded through New Orleans, Savan
| nah, Charleston and Wilmington to New
I York.