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TEE CHEROKEE ADVANCE.
VOLUME V.
“EXAMINE HOW YOUR HUMOR l» lKOI.INED, ASH WHICH Jlllt.RUl.lNQ PASSION OF YOUR MIND,'
('ANTON, GEORGIA. THURSDAY MORNING. APRIL3,». 1884.
NUMBER u.
Tii£ CHE.RQKEE ADVANCE.
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY
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Cards.
W. A & G. I. TtsSLtif,
Attoi’iiuysi m I uiw,
CANTON; GEORGIA.
M ill give pivifnp! n tc i)i<>ii to all .busi
ness intrusto'lto them. Will practice in
all the c-viits oh tae ciAMity mid is the
Superior CoulSlj of the Pine Ridge cir
cuit. " sA ' janlS-ly
C. D. MADDOX,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
CANTON, GEORGIA
Refers by ponnisnoii to John Si Ivey its
Co., Thos M. Clarke & Co., Jantei R.
Wylie and Gramliug, Spalding & Co., all
of Atlanta, Ga. jaul-’83-ly
GEO. R. BROW .,
ATTRONEY AT LAW,
Will practice in the Buporior Courts
of Cobb, Mil on, Forsyth, Pickens and
Dawson counties, and iu the Superior
and Justice courts of Cherokee.
OUice over Jos. M. McAfee’s store
Special attention given to the collec
tion of claims.
Business respectfully solicited.
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H. W. SKWMAN.
JNO. D. ATTAWAY.
“THINGS THAT ARE NOT.”
I d res moil a dream of LoVe,
That she was holy, pure, and true,
A friend to give delight on earth,
A video to bid man look above,
ili, ei,n oancy her only worth,
Ala*! like this ahe ooiuos to very few.
I heft'd In l aaeri d name
On li| ‘ of many, young and old,
f loi k. I ilu it idol in the face,
A gUidy. ptoaaura s tcklng dame,
Whose vniii|y i< In i' diNgiace,
\Yb. fiiimn i frieiidahip fades befor,
lb, e ld.
is I ne then bill i ilioam,
The kwcv lest Inncy limn enn know?
Or l uh she broken earthly burs
And lied, will, tier ectestiftl gl, am.
To shine aloff itniong the sti.is
And loot, wi ll scorn upon the oloudi
below V
When Faith and Hope are dead,
When life has for its only aim
1 o seek tlie passing moment's bliss,
To find sntllclency of bread,
Man soon liis highest joys will miss,
And seeking Love will find her but ■
name.
THE LOVERS’ QUARREL.
‘‘Never, while I live,” said Miss Rush-
leigh, “uevor whilo I live, will I see your
face ngaiu 1”
She meant It when she B&id it; and ns
she spoke, she threw her betrothal ring
towmd her lover, who had offended her.
It unused him and rolled down upon
the floor and over the sill of an opeu
china closet—ono of those old-fashioned
closets that used to stand on either aide
of the mantel-piece.
She did not notice where it rolled; he
did though; and nfter she had loft the
room, he turned to piek it up. The ring
she had worn would nlwayH be precious
to him.
Miss Rashleigh went straight to her
own room, as miserable a girl as ever
lived, and a moment later Grandmother
Unsliluigh buatlod iuto thedrawing-r v>m.
pushed the open closet <1»’ >r to, picked ,
up the fallen magazine, sot the annuals | grandma
Only there's other foll;B is likely to be
old maids as me, and I fancy it's Mrs.
Spear's affair now if anything haa hap
pened to her boy I”
Away flonnoed Miss Pratt.
"You’ve put Piety iuto a rage, Cor
nelia,” said Mrs. Rashleigh, "That's n
pity; she has a long tongue,”
But Cornelia was crying.
"Oh, mother, dear,'’ she sobbed, "it
isn’t true, is it? Orville did feel dread
fully. Wou’t you see. mother ?”
But at this moment Sally, the little
servant girl from Uradma Rashleigh’.
came flying into the room, without any
more warning thau if she had been shot
from a gun.
"Tho old missus says you are to como
over at once, both you ladies I” she cried,
standing before Mrs. Raidileigli, and re
peating her lesson like a parrot. "There’s
something of importance, and you’re
needed nt woust.”
"Get your bonnet, Cornelia,” said her
mother. "I’ll just put on this Bun-hut.
What is it, Bally; do you ki ow ?’’
"1 know it’s somothiiij, di vulful. Mis
sus is almost wild, and there’s lota of
folks there. Something about Mr.
Spear."
Tho two ladies aoid no more. They
hurried away together, and onteriug
grandma’s parlor, found there assembled
more of the members of thb Spear family
anil a fricud or two besides.
Orville had indeed disappeared. He
had never been homo aiuce his visit to
Cornelia, and now tho alarmed relatives
were uuxlous to get all the information
they could regarding the interview be
tween Orville and Cornelia.
"I had reason to he angry, Mrs
Spear,” said Cornelia, proudly; "good
reason, and I took oil uiy.ring and gavo
it bock and went out of the room. I
don’t know when ho went or where. I
—I thought ho wouldn’t mind so muoh.
I believed ho hod stopped oaring about
me.”
“He 0'tglil r,u,v, -st aU «»• ntjy” -nij
"More fool I! Some one bunged the
door >. I shouted and howled and
kiokp. ‘ and no one heard mo.”
"On, oh, oh, oh I” shrieked Cornelia.
"I believe you hid there to kill mo, for
no other purpose than out of Yevenge.”
"Yoa banged the door on me," said
Mr. Spear. "A jealous woman would
do any thing ”
“I hanged the door, Crvillel” said
old Airs. Rashleigh. "II You’d loft' which culminates in what we shonid call
The French Private Soldier.
Iu war as well ns in peace tho insub
ordination of tho French privato is a
i.i till r of history ; the lad who lenrns at
school that In France all men are equal
finds it difficult, on joining the service,
to give that implied obedience to his
superior which military discipline de
mands, tho superior oft-times fails to
demand it, and so laxity springs lip
everything flying. I just pushed it as I
passed and yon onght to bleas your
Htars t tat you are alive, for people don’t
go into tho drawing-room, sometimes for
n fortnight iu this small family. We
use the parlor muoh more, and I am
deaf, nd so is old Hcpsiba, and yon
might have died there. Yes, and you’d
have killed him, Cornelia,” added the
old lady, "throwing his pretty diamond
ring on the floor I"
"Oh I” moaned Cornelia. “Oh I"
"It wasn’t her fault. I was a con
founded fool all through t” oried Orville.
"I khew that closet had a spring-look.
No; qou’t blame Cornelia.’’
"I shall always blame myself I”
sigheil Cornelia. "Oh, how pale you
are I”
“And how pale yoa are, Cornelia I'
sighthl Orville. “Did you really care
when yon thought I was dead ?’’
“I ndies,” snid Grandma Rnahleigh,
"not? that Orvillo is getting on, lot us
go n *o tlio other room and leave these
two vtmng folks to talk things over to-
gotlur."
•Hkc led the way ; the others followed.
When the toa-boll rang soon after,
Orvillo and Cornelia came out of the
dnr. ing-room arm-in-arm, and tho wed-
dim -Jay was flzod.
NEWMAN & ATTAWAY,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
CANTON, - - - GEORGIA.
Will practice in the Superior Courts
wf Cherokee and adjoining countie-t.
Prompt attention given to all busmens
placed in their hands. Olficc iu the
Court House. [jan3-’83-ly ]
P. P. DuPREE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW
CANTON, GEORGIA.
Will practice in th • Blue Ridge eir
cult and in Cherokee county. Olli
the Court House with tin- Orliuaiy
Administrations on esta es.
flfeyv’o lections n specialty. "Wl
BEN- F. I cJHHY,
AGliNT —
FIRE AND LIFE INSURANCE CO.
Oilice with Cheiiokkk Advanck
U. NEWMAN,
HOUSE & CARRIAGE FAIRTER.
Paper Hanging and Ualiiiniiiing,
Graining and Glazing.
A Cl. WUllK 1 • UAitANTKEU
Cun be found a Warlick’s Shop.
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and books of poetry straight on the
table, pulled down the shades, arranged
the chairs mathematically against tho
wall, and hustled out again.
"I’ve had these thingslifty years," she
said to herself, “and there’s Cornelia and
her beau with no more respect for them
than if they were bo much lumber.”
Then she olosed the door behind her.
and went away to her own room up
stairs, where a flue silk patchwork quilt
was in the frame, a surprise for said
Cornelia.
Grandmother Rashleigh gave every
young jiersou of the family something of
her own manufacture on liis or her wed
ding day.
“Now," the old lady had said a dozen
times to Tripheny King, who was heljt-
ing her; "I rather think Cornelia will
have the best thing I’ve done; and
tl) ore’s a bit in it of every handsome
silk there’s ever'been in the family, and
of her father’s and grandfather’s wed
ding vests.”
“Yes’m, it’s a real memorial quilt,”
said Tripbeny. “It takes you, mum, to
plan Buch things.”
The quilt was finished and bound that
afternoon, and Tripheny’a job of quilt
ing being over she wont homo. Bnt she
carried about tho village the nows that
she “was sure all was over between Miss
Rashleigh and Mr. Spear. She’d heard
Cornelia sayiug something to her
grandma, and the old lady was furious.”
“He would never have done that if he
,had cared for me, you know, grandma,”
'Cornelia was saying at that moment.
“Stuff and nonesense 1 Ho loves the
ground you walk on 1” said the old lady.
“You’ll never get such another, Cor
nelia I
“I shall never marry at all; I hate
men I” Cornelia nuHWi red.
And then her grandmother made tho
house too hot to hold her, and she went
over to her mother’s, her usual course
when she fell out with graifdma.
Three days passed. At the end or the
third Piety Pratt stepped in at Mrs.
Rashleigh’s—young Mrs. ltashh-igh, us
J. M. HARDIN.
House, Sign, Carriage
—AND—
ORNAMENTAL PAINTER,
FRESCO AID SCENIC ARTIST ALSO.
(iriental and Grecian painting. Ylez r
Tin in-, Carbo-Timing, painting in Se-
j»ei and India Ink.
Twenty-five per cent saved by apply-
‘ng to me before contracting with others.
M -.terial furnished at bottom prices.
Satisfaction given or no charge* made.
Se t or address, J. M. HAIiDIN,
piii8-’83-ly] Canton, Georgia.
“My hoy is dead, I’m sure. I shall
have tho poud dragged 1” said Mrs.
Spear, amidst her tears. “He left all
his money at home. Ho wouldu’t have
gone traveling without a change o
clothos. Oli, you wicked girl ?”
“I hope," cried tho eldest Miss Spear,
"that he’ll haunt vou 1”
“I could kill you, you hateful thing I”
cried the youngest Miss Spear.
Cornelia had kept up bravely until
now; but when her two friends tamed
upon her thus, she gave a little scream,
and fell over ou tho sofa. She was in a
dead swoon, and the water they sprin
kled in her face did not bring her to.
Grandma grew frightened.
“I hope it isn’t an attack of heart dis-
t -ise,” she said. ‘ Poor child I she looks
as if she were dead. ”
"Oh, don’t suy that I” oried th
mother.
They gathered around Cornelia ne
did all they could for her, and soon si
recovered anil sat up, but all her prid
was gone.
“Oh, dear ! oh, dear!” she sobbed,
“I wish I had died ! I wish I had never
rome to 1 Oh, Orville ! Orvillo 1 what
has become of you ?’’
“Oh I oh 1” moaned the mother.
“Oh I oh 1” moaned tho sisters.
And Cornelia’s head fell back again.
“Emma, get the lavender out of the
china-closet,” said grandma to her
daughter. “Quick! It’s on tho corner
shelf I”
Mrs. Rashleigh rushed to the closet.
"It won’t open,” she. cried, wildly.
"It’s a patent lock,” said grandma;
"locks as it bliuts. Here’s tho key.”
And Mrs. Rashleigh flew back to tho
door, opened it and uttered a shriek.
There on the floor, huddled up under
the shelf lay poor Orville Spear.
He was white and limp.
Cornelia sat and stored at him in the
most awful way. She thought him
dead, but tho more experienced matron
saw that he was yet living.
Sally was sent post-haste for the doc
tor; and there, iu Mrs. Rashleigh’s
they called her, though she was nearly ' drawing-room, he found Cornelia and Or-
fitly, for grandma was old Mrs. Pi h
leigh.
“I expect you’ll feel upset when I in
you the news, Cni iielu,” she said. "Yo
have been too cruel this time—he, he,
he ! Orville Spear Im’n’t been heard of
ville lying quite unconscious, liko
Romeo and Juliet in the scone at tho
tomb, and the rest of the party in a
state of bewilderment and terror past
description.
At last, however, both wore conscious
since he was at your house. His mother H1 ‘^ seated in arm-chairs, regarded each
says he went over to explain and moke
up, and ho never came back—he,, he I
She thought maybe he’d stepped over to
his brother’s, but he hadn’t—he, he I I
reckon he’s drowned himself 1”
"I don’t know why the whole town
shonid talk over my affairs and every
meddling old maid giggle about them 1”
cried Cornelia.
Piety jumped to her feet, seized her
parasol and turned toward the door.
"Good afternoon, Miss Cornelia and
Mrs. Rashleigh,” she said, with a con
temptuous courtesy. "I'll remember
my manners, if other folks forget theirs.
other, while tho observers kept silence,
and Mr. Orville Spear uttered the first
words.
"Of all confounded fools ”
"Who, dear?” asked his mother.
"Me,” said Orville, regardless of
grammar. “Who shut me in?”
“What were you in the closet for?”
asked grandma, with a gnilty con
science.
“To pick something up that rolled
there,” paid Orville.
“The ring?” asked Cornelia, fran
tically.
"Yes, the neg," said Mr. Spear.
Smashing ’em All Up.
Ii- 1861 when General McClellan unulo
his -.UoionstraMon on Winchester in order
to ’>Jnm his rent design of u^»v r “w.A»«>*o
TlKLlJ Imoud hy tho Peninsula route,
ho mnrohed ns far as Berry ville, West
Virgiuia, nnd a little beyond there re-
tra.,1 his steps nnd with haste pro
ceeded to embark his troops on hoard of
transports to bo ourrio.d to Fortress
Mor-roo.
Ou the advance toward Winchester,
when the head of the column had
reached Charlestown, greater caution
was observed on the march, as it was
expected that tho enemy would be en
countered at Berry ville. A Western brig
adier was sent forward with his brigade
to (f>«l tho enemy. Now this officer had
seen service iu Mexico and was ac
counted a brave and experienced officer.
As he passed at the head of his troops
by tho regiment of Col. Owen, of Phila
delphia, he stopped, and pulling his
moustache as was his habit, said: “Look
out now, Colonel, you’ll bear musiosoon,
sir. I’ll knock ’em all to thunder if I
meet ’em. Make no mistake, sir,”
Then he rodo on and sure enough,
about the time he ahonld have arrived
at Berryville, the boom of cannon was
heard and the troops hurried to the
front. Wo went up at the double-quick
and when near Berryville met tho brig
adier coming back radiant with joy.
Pulling his mouBtaoho again he cried out:
"What did did I tell yon? I made ’em
bounce. They brought out a battery
iuto the open ground, just beyond town,
but it never fired a shot, sir. I knocked
it all to flinders before it could uu-
limb^r.” Troops hurried ou and os we
eame* to the spot indicated we found a
tbreshlDg machine utterly wrecked and
a dead hone in the harness, still
hitched to it. In a house near by were
some farmers frightened half to death.
They had been going out to thresh some
grain when the rampart brigadier saw
them and opened his batteries on them.
When the brigadier heard ho bad de
stroyed a threshing machine only hiH jaw
fell and it was rnauy a day before he
heard the last of liis ludicrous advon
tore.
An Experiment.
An experimental work has boon going
ou for a short timo along tho Milwaukee
and Bt. Paul Railroud branch and the
Brandon branch, about thirty miles in
length, the object being to determine
whether or not tho barbed wire of the
fence on either side of tBte road can be
utilized for telegraphic purposes. The
fence wire was placed in proper condi
tion for a sufficient distance to make a
satisfactory test, the wire being run
under the surface at road crossings.
Superintendent of Telegraph Simpson
decides that the plan is not practicable.
Telegraph work can bo done over the
fence wire in summer, he says, but dur
ing the winter mouths, when huge snow
banks completely cover the fence, the
line would bo inado useless. There are
thousands of miles of wiro fenoe along
the Western lines, and it has been con-
| tended that they Uiould be utilized for
! this puipose,
Mutiny. Soldiers appear in garrison
towns slovenly dressed, they even reel
about tho streets drunk, and officers pass
by unheeding. No wonder then, tluit
ever and again tho world i» horrified by
n soldier lining sentenced to death for
insubordination. Tho fault rosta not so
much witli tho men ns with the system,
and it is no now thing. During the
Austrian campaign of 1806, some French
officers were wounded hy privates of
their own regiments in endeavoring to
restrain them from plundering ; in tho
campaign of 1806, when Ney was advanc
ing agiuust Magdeburg, one of his aides-
de-camp and Ocu. Jomini had to defend
themsolvcs with their a words against
soldiers of Ney’s oorps whom they dis-
covered marauding; later on in the same
campaign, prior to tho hattlo of ?reus-
sisch Eylnu, similar scenes occurred,
and it ia Raid ou authority that no fewer
than 10,COO men were thon known to bo
mnrauditig iu the neighborhood of tho
army. We havo abundant evidenoe from
French sources of a similar state of
things iu 1870; nffioers have openly
stated that they havo been compelled to
shoot men down rodhanded in order eveu
temporarily to restoro obodionce, and
these summary executions were wane
tioned by a Government decree. That
tho insubordination is not a thing of the
post is evident from the fact that this
year at least two French soldiers have
been sentenced to death for disobodienco
accompanied by insubordination, and
the many articles on the snhjeot which
have appeared In service papers show
that tho Frenoh officer is alive to the
danger. If reports as to tho condition
of tho French army aro true, it would
seem to tie generally acknowledged that
iiibubordination is on the increase, and
that Ibis in urease is largely dae to the
foot that Corporals of eight mouths'
BumMe possess tho same powers of
pnniHliment as were hostoyod on non
commissioned officers of that grado in
the days of long service, when a man
rarely got his stripes under ton years,
The judicious use of power by sternly
a id respected nou-ctmimissiouod officers
is the making, jiiHl as its abuse by young
and inexperienced men is tho ruin, of
iui array. At the present moment all
things seem to work together to prevent
the establishment of discipline iu the
French army, A military code unsnited
to tho times ; superior officers uncertain
of tlio tenure of their appointments, with
zeal deadened within them ; r.on-oom-
missioned officers drawn from tho lowest
ranks and imlmed with tho pride of
power ; and private soldiers recognizing
1 l.o superiority ol no man. Discipline
under such circumstances is impossible.
The, Nineteenth Century.
Daniel Boone’s Whisky.
TIIE HUMUROUS PAPERS.
WHAT WK FINI) IN Til KM TO NMII.R
OVIK.
uurioal oountbbfeit ditiotu
“Ono of these dollars is A counterfeit,
ma'am.”
“How can you tell ?”
“Simply by sound. Just tap it, au
hear how clear the genuine sound*.
That’s tenor. Notice when I tap the
other one. That’s bane.”—Austin Sift-
ingt,
A BO? WITH AN 1TB TO BDB1NBBB.
"Please, ma’am, I’ll olean your aide-
walk for a quarter."
"But it is oloaned. I just paid a boy
thirty centa to shovel off the snow, and
yet yon are the eixth hoy who wanted to
clean it over. I presume there'll be
twenty more.”
"Then, ma’am, gimme flfteon centa
and I'll sit on the door-etepe and tell 'em
thov’re left I”
MRritariiT willing.
As the President sat down Elder Pou-
stock r >se up. There was a yearning,
anxious expression mi his faoe, and,
after clearing his throat of tacks and
splinters and scrap iron, he said:
‘Mlssur President, in case—dat ta
in case you donn’ want——
"Bit down 1" "Fire him out I" "Snatch
him bald-headed t” came from all parte
of ttie hall, accompanied by a groat clat
ter of feet, and tho Elder woe forced to
hide hta heed.
A BIRD IN THN BAND.
‘‘My darling, yon do not bestow upon
me ho much affection as you did liofore
it o were married, ” romarkod a pouting
bride of fonr years to her husband.
“Don’t I ?” ho roplind.
"No, Charles, yon do not; you pay
very littlo attention to me,” said hie
wife. .
"Well, my .tear,” observed tnevrUf^l.
husband, "did you ever see a man run
after a horse-oar after he hod caught it ?”
OLUAR WABTB.
"You don’t call on Miss Q, now?”
"No, we’ve quit.”
"Quit? What’s the diffionlty?”
"Oh, her father’s too iiennrions.”
"Too penurious? Why, he haa the
reputation of being particularly liberal. ’’
"Perhaps ho 1ms, hut he told me the
other evoning I’d bettor leave, as he
oouldu't afford to waste shoe leather on
me. It’s mi privato opinion that that
man would skin a flea for its hide end
tallow."—Oil City Jilietard.
During a conversation with au old
g< nth-man the other day, and whilo re-
hiling accounts of old times, ho told an
incident in tho life of Daniel Boone, the
famous explorer of Kentucky, which
piobably has heretofore been unpub
lished. fie said that when Daniel
R mno and his parly were surveying the
"diirk and bloody ground " they heard
tie; Indians, and as they were on tho
.i-.piith, they begun to devise moans to
escape death. They had marie two
el ops on a tree for a lino. Daniel htul
a quart of whisky and he said: "We
in i t do something with the whisky, or
the Lidiuns may catch us and get drunk
in 1 kill us all.” The last tree that wus
chopped hud a hollow near a fork, and
Dmiel Boone put the quart of whisky
in tho hollow. Forty years had passed,
ai d tho question cam up about.tlmt
Kp U, and Daniel told them they could
to 1 ! by the quart of whisky in the tree.
The hne was found, but had grown
largo and the hollow had grown up, but
old man Boone said, " cut it down and
tlio quart of whisky could be found, and
the question would bo settled whether
th it was the spot in dispute.” Tho
tr. o was felled and split open and the
bottle was found, but the whisky was
gone—had evaporated in the forty years
time, it is supposed.
UoiNO,— A lawyer of Hallcwel, Me.,
nos invented an ingenious scheme to make
a fortune. He has sued the treasurers
of nearly every corporation in the State
for the recovery in each case of $600 for
feiture for failure to publish statistics of
their condition of business, as requited
by law. He will make, if he recovers
lietwoen $4,000 and $6,000 in Lewis town
olona.
WHY riK WASN'T THUMB NOW.
Kosciusko Murphy, who is a book
keeper iu n grocery house, met a friend
who clerks in a cigar store on Austin
avenue, and asked him for a cigar.
"Ain’t got suy," said his friend.
"Ain’t got any ?” said Kosciusko.
"Why, when I used to work in a cigar
store, I always had my pockets stuffed
with oigars.”
"Yes; probably that’s the reason you
ain’t in a cigar store now,” was the
crushing reply. -Texan Slftinon.
WHY RH COULDN’T FIOHT.
Two Brooklyn boys found a New
Year’s card case. It was not a valuable
card case, but the boys at onoe quarreled
for its possession. The smaller of the
two, a slim little fellow, with red hair
nnd a turned-up nose, displayed snoh a
phenomenal ability in the matter of
blood-curdling threats and general brag
gadocio that the other boy, who had •
head liko a cannon-hall and a fist like
the knotty end ef a club, felt compelled
to give np the quarrel in disgrace. A
gentleman who was passing asked the
larger boy why ho did not take forcible
possession of the card cose, if be felt it
was his by right of discovery.
"Kin I lick ’iin!”said the boy; “in
coarse 1 kin lick ’im. I kin tenr him ap
into bits an’ chew an' swallow ’im."
“Then why do you stand here?”
“Yon don’t know that boy, Mtater.
Why, he kin talk biggern a preacher,
and nobody but a deaf boy up on Henry
Btreet dost tackle him. I’ve tried ’im
uiore’n once, but he scares me off every
time. Why, he’d scare the wits outen
Sullivan. Lick ’im I Jest tie hta month
•in an’ I’ll show yon how I kin lick 'im I”
“Tbbbb webb 650,000,000 menhaden
token in the waters about New York end
in Long Island Sound lest season,’’ said
a dealer in oils to e reporter, “bnt they
were so poor that the oil scoured from
them was only 1,800,000 gallons, against
nearly $2,050,000 gallons from 850,-
000,000 fish taken in 1882. The fer
tilizer made, however, in 1888 wes
a third more than that made in the
previous year—about 40,000 tons against
80,000, in favor of lust season. The
market is fall of tho fertilizer, and it
is being held tor bettor prioes.