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London’s Docks.
Engineering lias never been brought to a
greater perfection as a science than in the
building of these world-renowned basins for
the reception of the almost incalculable
commerce of this great city. For centuries
she has maintained the supremacy as the
greatest seaport in the world. The millions
of tons of merchandise which annually come
from every known quarter of the globe surpass
almost the limit of figures to express their
value. In former days, and before man’s
mind could grasp such an idea as the one
which led to the building of these stupendous
works, vessels of large tonnage were com
pelled to anchor at Gravesend, and then
discharge their cargoes by means of barges
and other light crafts. This was not only ex
pensive, but the time lost by each vessel was
a matter of serious consideration. At last the
plan was adopted, and the fiat, mud borders
of old Father Thames were made to assume
an entirely different appearance. Myriads
of men were set to work excavating, dredging,
and cleaning away for the great stone walls
which wore to form these great docks.
Obstacles innumerable had to be overcome ;
quick-sand and quagmires, then came the
ebb and How of the tide twice a day. ’This,
at London bridge, represents a rise and fall
of thirteen feet. At last the great work was
finished.
The following are the names and water
area, with the cost, of each one of the
clocks: .
Commercial docks, 75 acres, capable of
accommodating two hundred vessels; its cost
was $4,050,000.
London docks, forty acres water area ; ac
commodates 320 vessels; cost, $4,500,000.
West India docks, ninety acres; accom
modates 1,104 vessels; cost, $8,000,000.
East India docks, eighteen acres; accom
modates 112 vessels ; cost, $4,900,000.
St. Catharine’s docks, the smallest, but
nearest the city, has an area of only fifteen
acres, and cost $12,260,000. It accommo
dates only 160 vessels.
The Victoria docks, with a frontage on the
river of a half mile, has water area of ninety
acre 9, and will accommodate four hundred
vessels. This was built at a cost of about
$5,500,000.
Besides these, arc the Surrey and Brent
ford dodks, with accommodations for six
hundred vessels, costing over $11,000,000.
These are each connected with the river
by enormous locks, the gates of which are
made of massive iron plates, opened and
closed by powerful hydraulic machines. The
depth of water in eaeh basin is sufficient to
float the largest size merchant vessel or
steamer.
In the Commercial docks, vessels coming
loaded with oil, corn, timber and tobacco,
usually go. Some years as much as five
hundred thousand tons of shipping go into
this one dock. Wines, brandies, tobacco
and riee go to the London dooks. The rest
of the merchandise brought to London is
divided out among the other docks above
described.
The masonry with which the docks are built
•of, or lined, is superb, consisting of huge
blocks of granite, making a wall from five to
ix feet thick. Surrounding the ba3in are
immense warehouses, belonging to the dock
companies, affording ample and excellent
storage for all goods deposited there. The
tobacco warehouse alone covers five acres of
ground, and wiil store 24,000 hogsheads.
These docks are all owned by private com
panies, which derive han Isome returns upon
the large investments necessary to build
them.
Under the London docks are a series of
cellars, or vaults, covering some eleven acres
of ground. Here are stored millions of dollars
worth of wines and brandies, to say nothing of
other produce. The building of these subter
ranean store-houses was a great undertaking.
The roof is vaulted, and the whole interior re
presents a mass of columns, which support it.
Of course, absolute darkness reigns here, and,
in consequence, gas has been introduced in
profusion. Here the eye meets with range
after range of casks filled with every kind of
wine, from the commonest Claret to Madeira
and Port worth its weight in gold.
To visit these docks, a permit has to be
procured ; but, once inside, by tipping the
man who will guide you through the vaults,
any cask, vintage, or character of wine or
brandy will be furnished. Around all of the
docks is a massive stone wall, over thirty feet
high; so thieves have but little chance for
plying their avocation there.
To give an idea of the great advantage to
trade these docks have been ; in old times,
when a heavy Kast Indiaraan would arrive
in port, to unload and load her would re
quire at least a month ; at present the same
can be done in three or four days. Not less
than thirty thousand men find regular daily
occupation in these many docks, making from
fifty cents to a dollar and a half. The opera
tion of docking, or undocking, a vessel is the
affair of but a few minutes. Once ready to
go in or out, a hawser attached to the ship at
one end is passed over a capstan at the other,
which is propelled by the same power that
opens and shuts the lock-gates.
At someone of these docks, one or more
vessels are leaving every day, for any part
af the world a wanderer might desire to go.
It is estimated that some years no less than
fifty thousand vessels enter and leave the,
Thames, not counting in that number the
small craft and home coasters, of which there
are thousands. Much of the merchandise
which goes into the docks is examined there
by the Custom-house officials, thus facilitating
trade very much. Lu the vaults above referred
to the bulk of their contents is held in bond,
only paving suty as they are withdrawn.—
II; in the Dixie Fanner.
Nashville, January 3, 18S0.
A Whale Captured in Charleston Harbor.
The News and Courier contains the follow
ing account of a whale captured in Charles
ton harbor on Wednesday afternoon, and
which was towed over to the city from Sul
livan’s Island on Thursday, and hauled out
yn t! ic ways at Pregnall’s shipyard :
“ Probably three thousand people were
present, including a large number of ladies,
and the crowd constituted itself a general
Coroner’s inquest f<r the examination of the
remains and the taking of much and greatly
varied testimony as to the manner of the
death of the deceased. Probably five liun
dred colored boys and men. who had climbed
over the fences, swarmed about the animal
so that people who had paid to see it got no
satisfactory view, the two policemen present
being apparently powerless. Better arrange
ments, however, will be ma le to-day for the
enforcement of order. The whale is a female
apparently between two and three years old,
and measures forty one feet six inches from
nose to tail, thirteen feet across the fins and
nine feet through the body, the tail being
eleven feet in width. The Enterprise Road
will run special cars to the shipyard during
to-day, leaving each terminus once every
hour.
•‘The curator of the College Museum is
anxious to obtain the carcass of the whale
with the plates of baleen or whalebone that
are attached to the upper jaw, after the blub
ber shall have been removed, in order to pre
serve the skeleton. It is to be hoped that
its owners will permit that portion of the an
imal of which they can make no use to pass
into his hands for the above purpose.”
Explicit Enough.
The following “ rules” are posted up in a
store in town, and are certainly explicit
enough for all practical purposes :
The proprietor is not in ; don’t know when
he will be.
We have no money to lend, but borrow
all we can.
The person who repeats anything from
“Pinafore” will be bounced.
Don’t want any suspenders ; got a loft full
up stairs.
Don't want any lead pencils ; buy them
by the ton.
]S'o shoe blacking required ; wo wear pa
tent leathers.
Collins provided for hook agents and can
vassers.
Bull-dog’s in the cellar; feed them on
drum mers.
Office hours for tramps from 11 p. m. to
5 a. in.
All beggars are bounced.
Bouncers goes by steam.
A Good Eye Cure.
“Can von cure my eyes?” said a man to
Dr. Brown.
'* the doctor, “ if you will follow
my prescription.”
“Oh, certainly, doctor,” said the patient;
*' I will do anything to have my eyes cured.
What is your reined}', doctor?”
“ You must steal a horse,” said the doctor,
very soberly.
“ Steal a horse, doctor!” said the patient,
in amazement. “How will that cure my
eyes?”
“ You will be sent to State Prison for five
years, where you could not get whiskey, and
during your incarceration your eyes would
get well,” said the doctor.
The patient looked somewhat incredulous,
but lie did not adopt the doctor’s reined}’.
Three fou Twenty-Five.— After a Gris
world street barber had finished shaving a
stranger yesterday, the man asked what °the
charge was, and when told that it was ten
cents, he asked :
“ Don’t you have any wholesale rates?
Would’t you give me three shaves for twenty
five cents?”
“Yes, I reckon I could do dat.”
“Then go ahead and shave me twice more !”
said the stranger, as he climbed back into the
chair.
The barber lathered, shaved, re-combed
his hair and cried, “brush !” and the man re
seated himself and took a third shave with
out a word. llis face had a lobster color
when he got through, but he handed out a
quarter and said :
“I don’t know but it would have been bet
ter to take seven shaves for half a dollar, but
this will do just now.”
A gentleman connected with the United
States lake survey, in Palmyra, Wis., was
engaged one day on the skirt of a wood in
Indiana. Near him, sleeping lazily in the
sun, lay his faithful dog, Tiger. Thinking
to have some fun with the dog, lie gave "a
shout and a jump into the thicket, as if all
the game ever protected by game laws from
marauding hunters, was dashing through the
bushes. As he expected, Tiger came bound
ing to the fray, and soon detected the trick
that was played upon him, sneaked back to
his lair and lay down again. The surveyor
resumed his duties, and was hard at work
for two or three hours, when all at once the
dog rose from his sleep, set his ears and
eyes in the direction of the wood, gave a
bark and made a rush for the forest depths.
The surveyor followed the noble brute to a
tree, up which he was sending canine con
gratulations to the ptey ; but when the sur
veyor came and began anxiously to scan the
boughs for the hiding game. 'Tiger gave a
satisfied “Ah wooh !"’ bestowed a glance of
contempt at the surveyor, and stalked back
to his couch, with the appearance of a dog
that had squared up all accounts with the
lake survey, and had left nothing due on ei
ther side.
The beautiful extract below is from the
pen of Hon. George S. Hilliard :—“I confess
that increasing years bring with them an in
| creasing respect for men who do not succeed
in life, as these words are commonly used.
Heaven is said to be a place for those who
have not succeeded upon earth ; and it is
surely true celestial graces do not best thrive
and bloom in the hot blaze of worldly pros
perity. 11l success sometimes arise from a
superabundance of qualities in themselves
good—from a conscience too sensitive, a
taste too fastidious, a self forgetfulness too
romantic, a modesty too retiring. I will not
go so far as to say, with a living poet, that
the world knows nothing of its greatest men,
but there arc forms of greatness, or at least
excellence, which die and make no sign ;
’there are martyrs that miss the palm but not
the stake ; heroes without the laurel, and
conquerors without the triumph.
Notice to Debtors imd Creditors.
VTO 1 ICE is hereby given to all persons having
Ui demands against the estate of Bailey Chan
dler, dec’d, to present them to us. properly made j
out, as the law directs. All indebted to said es- !
tate are requested to make immediate payment to 1
s. J. W. 11. HAMILTON,
T. K. SMITH,
Ja i. sth, 1880, Administrators.
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* Attorney at Law,
Harmony Grove, Jackson Cos., Ga.
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July 10th, 1875.
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TNIo-tioe to
DEBTORS $ CREDITOR
ALL persons indebted to the estate of J
Hunter, late of Jackson county,
are hereby required to come forward
immediate payment, and those hav> n r
; against said estate are requested to pi c6e 1
to the undersigned in terms of the la"'- rcn y
JAMES L.
MARTHA A. lIPNTEy . j, ;
Ex*r and Ex’x of the will of J, 8. Hunte •
January 2d. ISSO.
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