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A Lovm norm.
What, sweet mistress, should there be
•Twixt thy heart and mine tWs day?
There no barrier I see
Which Love may not Idas away—
Kiss away, and tenderly
Bear bis sweetest rose to thee.
If a rose should bar his path—
Thorny with a jealous frown.
Love such winning favor hath
He shall quickly ki» it down—
Kiss it down and beauteously
Bear it on bis breast to thee.
i Lore will come his own to Sreet
1 Though no light bto path adorns.
Through a world of roaes sweet!
Through a desert sharp^with thorna-
8ay that Love thine own shall be,
Love will win his way to thee!
—P. L. Slant od, la Atlanta Constitution.
BEARS GUARD THE GOES
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wtter trout to
inspeotthem. Later
«n m the afternoon I was fortunate in
making the Mqaamtance of a young
eaptain, fresh from theioe fi*M*
Among th® various experiences de
tailed by k ,n » a “ adTant “'® ^
plored Island of St. £"“SitSSi Matthew. 7 Z This
A?* mKT/EL to
•boat 140 miles distant from th
kan mainland, and is at least 100
S SjSsrfSSSI: min* tour'
ntes north, aud 170 degrees f nr
Ji}* now quite nnito*W four j»hi Vflnri. since since a a
whaling bark untiring around here in
"■f* whelms sighted the island
and sent several boats crews »«hore
for a supply of fr*» h
K*iul"uLiJ*ta‘o.;
oourse of the whalers homeward bound
from the Arotie, end hence a region
to be avoided. The hosts landed on a
part of the northern coast near the
eastern end of the iriand. Some of
the men began filling the water oaaks,
and othere wandered np a smell stream
fiowing down through e diminutive
canon to however, the ooaat. when They they had not
gone far, were
met by a large number ol polar bears, the
These eavage brutes, rssenting
intrusion of their domain, at once got
a “move” on the Jaek tars for quite a
SraU distance, when all hand, turned and
to hold th. monster, at
bey, Shot, were fired from revolvers
and large etoues hurled from rooky
peaks, but all in compelled vain. Eventually
the men were to take to
their boats and desert the water oaska.
In doe course the whaling berk in
question reached her destination- The
adventure wae related, and at the
e time several bite of stone,
brought from the iriand as souvenirs
of the northern seas, were produced,
Ihegsnttemaii iutowhose hands these
were plaoed for inspsetion who ohanoed to
be en experienced miner, immedi
et.ly pronounced them in gold. to be Soon pieoee the of
qnnrti very rich
story spread until it became generally
known among the members of tha
whaling fleet, when many a longing
WM east toward the rnssed .hip?
ontlinee of St. Matthew by the
returning home from their crakes
in the Arerie.
Thus matters went on till two years
*T»- A cutter m ad e some
soundings along the northern coast of
the treasure island, aad found a good
fathoms of water,
Bnt no attempt wi made to explore
tea interior, as tea rugged nature of
tha land and tea giest number of
polar bean that stalk the miniature
valley* made it an extremy guessed dangerous that
oi amt 140
square ariiea. Its length was believed
to be about thirty miles, with fre a
Width of net saw o.*» « six
•shore search to hautforbean, gold. bat in reality
to for A strong hut was
built on tee beach not far from tee
tea seeds of tire men for a
I several months. All being
on her cruise, leaving gold the
ire to search for to
lor an todeflatte time,
ally occurred during tee
after the vem
*
h A
quest, no trace of the miming
oould be found. At length the siok
man wae taken on board and the
sel passed on to her destination.
In the course of a few days the in¬
valid recovered somewhat and told hie
story. Soon after the departure of the
vessel which had brought.him and his
comrades to the.island the bears dis¬
covered their presence and swarmed
about the but in such numbers that
the lives of the inmates were -in con¬
stant peril. Now and again a fire waa
kept np, but the beast seemed to in¬
crease rather than diminish in number.
Excepting quick journeys to the water
course near by they were kept close
prisoners for seven or eight days. The
uncertainty and confinement at length
became unbearable. Fonr of the pros
pectora decided, come what might, to
start up the valleys, leaving one of
their numbers to guard the proviaions /
in the cabin. They set out at dawn one
morning and returned in the evening
with many quarts specimens incrnsted
w ;th visible gold. Elated with success,
they started out again the next day,
bat never came back. That was the
last ever seen or heard of them.
T >1 tw0 and a faalf months the soli
tr »y prospector was, in the main, im
prisoned in his hut by his four-footed
foes, and the terrible experience, to
g ettier with the mystery surrounding
the fate of his comrades, told on his
to such:an extent that when
found and rescued his reason had al
**ost deserted him. .
Bat there is still later intelligence themid
of another fatal trip. About
die of February this year a small
schooner failed from San Francisco,
c*”ying, besides her crew, a band of
ei 8 ht men - The J had with them the
“ * * 1 JJ JZSa
mma itio and M t needful para¬
f hernslia for ia bunting; and more,
be neo e^ry timber for the erection
of a itrong bnt> Thus equipped, they
looked forward with impatience until,
®t length, | one bright morning they
#i «“«*• hte th . WMid , * Q d later went
The ha * in * deposited
her living and other freignt, set sail
and departed, ^ the Captain promising
mI1 p0Q them OD b is return.
N ° time was lost. The men at once
went about their respective duties,
ftQ(1 be / ore , and own e strong osbin
ttooA tha ah elter of a massive,
rn »gr e< i rook. Casks were then filled
and a lft#ge fl r8 erected
the door of the hut. By
i Q readiness, and tha
hunters, sitting down to the evening
-a — ““*»*»'
® n ®~ y *
Thf7 greeted > , then .. they ,.
were sooner
anticipated. For very soon the hill
«i de aad tee lower elope appeared to
olive with numbers of strange,
ghostly things. At present the flame
o{ tee Are was holding them at bay;
bn* i* «m ,d DOt do ao lon K® r -
owing to the scaroity of fuel. , The
hunters, realising this unfortunate
circumstance, took np their rifles and
banged et every object in the shape of
a The potar fire bear. went Built «ot, and oo_uld the not lest,
enemy,
q«iok to note this fact, shuffled down
the hills.de aad forced the prospector,
to retreat to the shelter of the cabin,
Throughout the night the suspense
*o the inmate. was horrible. The
monitor, were sniffling and scratching
on * ldea of tee structure. At other
«mea a math on the roof, threatening
to atave it in, would tell them of the
arrival of additional foroea, and at
other period, the groaning of the weU.
suggested that with * little more rough
handling they would topple down.
Thiu, exeepUa broad f to daylight, sally out they and fir.
te°ts in the were
kept imprisoned for awoke five or rix days,
At length they one morning
to find the enemy gone. Leaving one
man '* tee hut to aot in the oapaoity
of eook, the whole band set oat np the
small valleys to explore. On rounding
* bend m the river’s ooorse, all intent
in were their suddenly queet of atUaked the ‘‘T^iow,” by a number they
of the ferocious bears. They seamed of
to spring up from the bowels < the
earth on all rides, and, before they
could be either killed or dispersed, the
bore two oi the prospector, to tnrf
in death.
Returning tooamp with their lifel
burdens, the hunters were further din¬
maved. The hook seat missing, and a
beer shuffled about the interior of the
hut It to needless to elate that they
filled his full of holes, A
march at onoe made, but with no
happy result. Nothing was ever
of their oomrade again.
ATm■ tew, as tee days roiled by in
peace, the gradually relaxed their
vigilanoe and eat about proepee ting in
a more businesslike way. One morn¬
ing they went out in two parties. Two
o! the band started in one direction
and the remaining three in another.
They hoped tens to economize time,
their object being to find some suita¬
ble spot where litter all might work
tnraafil IOnCIBcIi nw Vaip hope. Toward They were
to mete again.
down the larger oompany returned to
attain teed, but happy n to knowl¬
edge in having found an alluvial patch.
se the
of
, valleys ; might
as tee and still they
rtttSsfK
ML
Thus the gold fields of the Island
•re still m much • mystery as they
were years ago, and to all belief it is
still a barren spot, a speck upon the by
ocean,' and a place to be shunned
ships frequenting the Bering Sea.—
Boston Transcript.
A Piece of Prehistoric Fat. -
Dr. Dali, of the Smithsonian Insti¬
tution, daring his recent visit to
Alaska, secured a natural history spec¬
imen that was a prize indeed. It was
a bit of mammoth fat from the actual
adipose tisane of an animal that had
been dead for tens of thousands of
years I
Bodies of mammoths in a fresh state
have been dag np from time to time in
Arctic Siberia, preserved in natural
cold storage since a period probably
antedating the first appearance of man
on the earth. That is an old story, bat
this is the first known instance in
which the soft puts of a beast of this
speoies have been fonnd on the Amer¬
ican continent. It is esay to imagine
the soientifio interest attaohing to the
discovery. mammoth died under
Ages ago this its
such circumstances that corpse
was buried in mud. At abont that
time there was a great and permanent
sab-tropical; it suddenly became
frigid. The mammoths were literally
“frozen ont r ” the last of the species
perishing of cold. This particular had in¬
dividual, frozen in a bank of clay,
every prospect oi “keeping for an
indefinite period.
Hundreds of centuries later . stream
a
flowing through an Alaskan va J
tackled the clay bank referred to and
began to out it away. At length some
big bones stuck oat, and a native of
exceptional oonrage dug required out one or of
two of them. This more
that quality known in civilized oonn
triM as nerve than might J?"
ined, for strange monsters, howev«
Jong they may have been dead, we re
garded with superstitions awe by sav
®8“- finally
However, the natives the nm
moned courage enough to drag the clay re
mains of the mammoth out of
bank piecemeaL The body of the an
imal had been preserved so well that a
fairly perfect cast of it was found in
the matrix. A quantity oi fat, which
overlay the intestines, vh obtained
U86 d f °;
Dall seonreda , piece of it and fetohed
it back to Washington for an exhibit
—Washington Star.
An Alleged Belie ot Washington.
A valuable relic was sent by Mrs.
William George, of Monnt Vernon,
Ohio, to Miss Vine Ahern, of Chicago,
in the shape of an iron name-plate
bearing the historio name of Qeorge
Washington, and whioh onoe adorned
tho front door of the mansion ocon
pied by the first President of the
United 8tatee. The plate is of iron,
from whioh all but traces of the black
enamel with which it wae onee covered
have been removed, and measures 6}
inches in length by inches in
width.
It is about a sixteenth of an inoh
thick, but is bevelled ao that, on the
door, it would appear to be abont half
an inch thick. There are three screw
holes, one at each end, and one at the
bottom. The name ia in narrow,
white-china letters, five-eighths of an
inoh high, and, although worn and
battered, the characters are complete,
except that the letter I is missing
from Washington. The letters are re
oeesed in the plate, and are rar.ed al*
moat to the face.
The plate was found by Mrs. George
twenty-nine years ago in the mins of
a barn, whioh was burned on the
homestead of her nude, Elliott Vore,
South Gay street, this city. She kept
the plate as a ouriority, and bnt re
eently learned from old papers its his
torr. It was given to Elliot Vore,
now deceased, by his grandfather, who
wae a soldier of the War of 1812. He
got it from some one connected with
Washington’s estate soon after the
death of the great General. Miss
Ahern, to whom the relic was tent, is
tha granddaughter of Mr. Tore, and
for that reason is entitled to its poa
—Cleveland Leader.
Made x Big Mistake.
It ia a well-known fact that the late
Baron James Rothschild was on excel¬
lent terms with Bailee, who dedicated
to him several of his novels. One day
whan about to oroeaed to
and being, as was often tbeoeae, in
rather straightened circumstances, who,
applied to tee Baron,
with his habitual generosity, handed
him tee sum of ffiOfl, and at the te
time a letter of introduction, aidreeeed
to his nephew in Visnra. The latter
unsealed, as la usual in such
Balzac read it, thoaght its tone rather
cool, trivial and altogether inadequate
(he wae always puffed up with ooaeeit,
poor fallow). He scorned to delfmr
it, and returned to Paris with the an
tograpk in, his pocket On his arrival
he waited upon the great Win, banker.
"Well, said tea **hd you
nephew? r
• boldly
sorry tor your sake,” said tee
i hare you it by yenF* ii *n"
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“Do jo be-
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OOTTOlf FA 0T0RIES EMERGE FROM
THE GLOOM OF M’SUfLETISM,
Their Dividends the Largest for
Many Years—Low Tariff Bronght
Bigger Profits—High Tariff Advo¬
cates Snppreas the News.
The New York Tribune published
on -December 30 the annual statement
of dividends paid in 1895 by the cot¬
ton mills of Fall River, Mass., the
centre of the cotton industry in the
Eastern States. The report shows that
the average dividend paid by the vari¬
ous mills waa 8.09 per cent., a larger
amount than was paid for many years
past. In 1892, the year of whioh the
McKinleyites always boast as the most
prosperous period under high tariff,
the average was 7.36 per cent., but
this has been considerably , exceeded
in high 1895. In addition to thennnsnally
dividends paid large sums have
been put by as reserve or surplus cap¬
ital, so that in reality the record for
last year’s bnsiness is even greater
than the above figures would show.
Tha Bourne Mills, for instance, paid
to a stockholders’ dividend of thirteen
per cent., a total profit for the year of
twenty per cent Other mills were only
a degree less prosperous, a number of
them making extensive additions and
^ ^ oni q{ ]agt J earni £ g> af .
paying aboTe th 0 aTerage di dend
on their stock. It is further reported Reeled
^ four new mills will be
this year, whioh will give “ employment £.
to thoMand 0 erat i v
The Bepublioan reader s of the Tri¬
b haTe been accepting as
» / el ^ ^ statementa that
Q er (he w a tariff the oountry
was be i Dg ruined, industry going to
the dogs and business standing atill,
mnat haTe rabbad thejr eyM on read .
, tluB offloial reoord ot the moat 8U0 .
oeMfnl Jear iQ the history o£ the
American cotton industry. Had they
not Mea daily in editorials, and
oooked Qew , artic]e8( that the country
wu 8ti]1 in the , loagh of despondency
into which it had been plunged by
Jotir n of MeKinleyism? Was not
tbe Tribune insisting that Congress
ahonld ^ promptly £J restore the high
^ re ed ia 189 4 by the
Democrats, as the only means of start
j f ^ oa r closed mills and faotoriea?
D d ot that paper BO i emB ly «sert
that «, fre# trade” had brought low
prices, idleness and stagnation? How
then could it be possible that one of
©nr great industries should have been
*> prosperous, its dividends so large,
ite output so great, its employes’
wages ao high ?
The answer ia aituple. “The little
Roy lied. The organ of protected
trusts had deliberately suppressed the
news of busy mills, wage advances,
new factories started and general pros
perity, which had been recorded by
the Democratic and independent
papers during 1896. Not only that,
bat it had asserted the reverse of the
trnth, and by false representations
Lad led its readers to believe that the
condition of the country was worse
than when the McKinley law was in
force. Each busineae failure, no mat
ter what the cause, waa ascribed to
the Wilson tariff, and magnified far
beyond its importance. The smallest
«gn of calamity of depression was
eagerly ’'welcomed and commented on
in partisan editorials,
But when authoritative statementa
are issued from the centre of a great
industry, showing an unexampled
condition o! proeperity, the Tribune
merely record, the iacts. But that is
enough. With better bnsiness than
before no argument ia needed to
eon vinoe the Fall River manufacturers
«ad workers that they by have Wilson been
helped, not ruined, the
tsriit The mere statement of these
fwta condemns the calamity wailers,
»» d proves their blaster abont the
injary of lower taxes to be mere bun
come end falsehoods,
Barrows vs. the Constitution.
A good many of our modern states
men often betray a sad look of famili¬
arity with the Constitution of riie
United States, bat a more striking ex¬
hibition of ignoranoe has seldom been
manifested than that displayed by
Jalios Caesar Borrows on Friday last.
Th# Michigan Senator actually intro¬
duced a bill to restore to the dutiable
list the artides that were taxable un¬
der the MoKinley law, bat tariff were plaoed
on tee free list by the aot of
1894. This in face of the fact that the
Constitution expressly provides shall that
“all bills for raising revenue
originate in the Hons# ot Representa¬ remind
tives.” Mr. Sherman had to
Mr. Barrows of the foot, that the body
to which he,belongs has no right to
originate a bill imposing daties on im¬
ported goods, and that it is contrary
to the Constitution for the Senate to
attempt each legislation, except in
tee wav of an amendment to a Hoorn
bill. The orator who is wont to make
the eagle s loud defisnoe of
tha whole world was thus reduced to
a moat humiliating position.—Haw
York Evening Fes*.
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THROUGH GEORGIA.
bits of nkws gathered from
OVER THE STATE,
Being a Summary of Interesting Hap¬
penings From Day to Day
The real estate owners of Savannah
are to organize for mutual protection.
No more will they allow shrimp hullB
thrown in the kitchen sinks.
The faculty of the University of
Georgia is investigating the rocking ot
Professor Riley, which occurred a few
nights ago.
The merchants and bankers of Savan¬
nah are working hard to get a snb
treasury located there. Savannab
shows np as the third largest banking
city in the south.
The next session of the joint com¬
mittee on pardons will be heldj at
Rich wood, G a., on the 4th day of next
month. This committee is composed
of Senators Whitley and Bush and
Representatives Jenkins, Humphries
and Davidson.
' * *
The tobacco farms in Decatur and
surrounding counties are assuming
the proportions that made them fa¬
mous before the war. The Cuban
leaf tobacco is being successfully
raised, and some’ of the owners of
plantations in that section have re¬
fused offers as high as sixty thousand
dollars net for this year’s yield on a
single farm.
* * *
Mr. Henry Iseman, formerly of the
German army, has undertaken, in
connection with Colonel Henry M.
Stanley, to organize a branch of the
naval reserve for Savannah. It is be¬
lieved that a strong branch of this
force can be secured similar to that in
Brnnswiok, ‘and that ships oould be
secured to be permanently pushed ac¬
tively forward.
Last season’s melon bnsiness was so
disastrous to many farmers in South¬
west Georgia that the acreage will be
reduced this year. It is said that
Florida will make up for the decrease
in Georgia, however. Thousands of
acres will be planted there and it is
claimed that they can be gotten to
market two weeks earlier than those
raised in Georgia.
Magruder Get* a Life Sentence.
At Greenville the jury in the case
of William T. Magruder, who in a
jealous rage murdered his beautiful
youog wife by catting her throat and
stabbing her in the heart, brought
in a verdiot of guilty with,recommen¬
dation to mercy. Magruder was un¬ He
moved when the verdiot was read.
maintained the indifference that be
has shown throughout the trial. He
was sentenced to serve at hard labor in
the penitentiary for the full term of
his natural life. His attorneys imme
diately filed a motion for a new trial,
whioh will be heard in May. Magrn
der was taken back to jail. * .
Largest In Its History.
Postmaster Fox, of the Atlanta post
office, has completed his quarterly and
statement for October, November
Deoember, which shows that for those
months the federal government did the
largest business in stamps, postal cards,
money orders and registered letters in
the history of the service in Atlanta.
The total receipts were $84,204.33,
the largest revenue in the history of
the’ Atlanta poetoffioe for the same
length of time. The sale of stamps
alone for the quarter was $72,555.57,
which shows that Atlanta people write
more letters per oapita than any other
community in the south.
The mail which goes into the Equit¬
able alone is larger than the total mail
of Chattanooga, whioh shows that one
building in Atlanta transacts more
business than the entire lookout city.
New Officers Elected.
The new officers elected by President, the asso¬
ciation are as follows:
John D. Cunningham, of Marietta;
vice president, Lonis Rnmpb, of Mar
sballville; secretary), John A. Sibley,
of Tifton; treasurer, W. O. Tift, of
Tifton.
When the eleotion of directors was
reached, it was deoided to give each
different frnit section of Georgia rep¬
resentation. It waa found necessary
to carry oat this plan to increase the
directors from seven to nine. The
by-laws were consequently amended
and the following nine gentlemen were
selected as representatives of the dif¬
ferent vicinities abont their places of
residence: N. H. Albaugb, Fort Vat
ley; John D. Cunningham, Marietta;
J. F. Wilson, Tifton; J. M. Hughes,
Dublin; W. T. Cope, Tivola; 8. M.
Weyman, Griffin; B. P. Moore, Mar¬
shall ville; W. A. Brannon, Moreland;
Mr. Bawls, Cnthbert.
Hon. Allen Fort was selected as the
attorney of the eeociatioa to assist At¬
torney General Terrell in any
that may have to Railroad be brought before
the International Commission
in the interest ofAhe fruit growers.
A meeting will we held in May to ac¬
quaint the association with all the ar
rangements for handling this
year’s crop.
HIRAM LESTER DEAD
At the
Y<
At the *7
He Letter,
te old^et totes world,
wae
pampered child of fortune, and in his
latter days at least was a comparative
stranger to wealth. But despite his
poverty he waa a noted being—a hu¬
man curiosity. Not for a brilliant ca¬
reer spent in public service; not for
matchless evidence in legislative halls,
bat because by being regular and tem¬
perate in habit and by a simple ob¬ ■>
servance of nature’s laws he has suc¬
ceeded in prolonging his life beyond
the period of human expectancy.
Hiram Lester was born in North
Carolina in the early part of 1768.
His childhood days were spent in his
native state, and just as he was enter¬
ing a young and vigorous manhood he
came to cast his lot with Georgia.
Almost one hundred and twenty
nine years old ! How many national
and political changes his life has wit¬
nessed ! And what a different aspect
must the south present today to that
presented at the time pf his birth!
Since his heart first began to throb
six billions of people have come into
existence, and after a battle against
death, have passed into the unknown
beyond. When the famous first con¬
tinental congress convened in Phila¬
delphia, in 1774, he was seven years
old.
When England’s George IY ascended
the throne of our mother country the
snows of more than fifty winters had
fallen upon his head.
William E. Gladstone, the greatest
of English statesmen, would, on the
day Of his birth, have beheld in Un¬
cle Hiram an energetic and stalwart
man.
Seventy-five years of actual life had
furr >wed his brow when the first mes¬
sage was transmitted by telegraph.
The beginning of the civil war found
him a man of ninety-three years.
At the opening of the Cotton Sfatew
and International Exposition he was
more than 128; and death.clftrfned him
jnst before be would have passed the
129th milestone on life’s road.
And thus he has witnessed events in
the world’s history that marked the
beginning and ending of important
epochs. that his life active
It is said was an
and vigorous one. By energy and
perseverance he won for himself in his
earlier days a sufficiency of this world’s
goods on which to live in comfort.
But when he became too feeble to
work his accumulations disappeared
aDd he became an inmato of the Henry
county poorhouse, where be lived un¬
til the fall of 1891. At that time he
went to the Piedmont exposition with
some friends, where he formed the
great drawing card in an exhibit at
tho exposition grounds. During this
exposition was celebrated the greatest
event in the life ot Mr. Lester.
At the Edgewood Avenue theatre,
in Atlanta, on the night of November
11, 1891', he and Mrs. Mary Mozeley
were united in the holy bonds of wed¬
lock. The happy pair were perhaps
the oldest couple to contract the mar
riage vow, the bride being more than
seventy and the groom one hundred
and twenty-five years old.
This event attracted a great deal of
interest and was witnessed by hun¬
dreds of Atlanta’s citizens. Mr. and
Mrs. Lester lived happily together
until about two months ago, when
financial reverses drove Mr. Lester to
the poorhonso for the second time,
and his wife went to live with relatives.
For several weeks he [had failing grown
weaker, showing a gradual in
his vitality. Friday he passed
On morning away, old¬
being at the time of his death the
est man in the world.
He has a son, his youngest, in the
Henry county poorhouse, ninoty-two
years old. His only daughter lives in
Heard county and is ninety-five years
of age.
STUCK IN MUD.
The Steamer St. Paul Runs Ashore at
Sandy Hook.
The American liner 81 Paul from
Southampton for New York, struck the
outer bar, off Hotel Brighton, Long
Branoh, N. J., daring the dense fog,
between 1 and 2 o’clock Saturday morn¬
ing.
Her passenger list ia s large one.
She also has on board $1,300,000 in
specie, and 200 bags of mail.
The vessel struck head-on on a sand¬
bar, about a quarter of mile from the
Iron Pier. Her nose ran abont 100
feet in the sand before her engines
could be stopped.
She sailed from Southampton on
January 18 and was in oharge of Cap¬
tain Jamison.
At the time the St. Paul ran ashore
it is said that there was only fonr feet
of wster over the bar. Some of the
old seamen along the shore say that
the vessel may not be floated for sev¬
eral days. She is imbedded in abont
six feet of sand.
FITZGERALD’S NEW ROAD.
Manager of the Colony Bnfis the Ab¬
beville end Waycroee Line.
Mr, Fitzgercld, manager oil tee Fite
feral d oolony has closed a trade with
the Georgia aad Alabama railway, Way
transferring the Abbeville and
eroas railway to that company. Fonr
hundred men will complete the road to
Fitzgerald within test days. hiattae
Mr. Tift has a large foroe on
Tifton, and that road will
reach Fitxgerald within a few days.
This will give the new oolony two
railways. There are seven thousand
people there; seven hotels and a beak.
PRINCE HENR Y DIED.
He Was With tbs
that Prince Henry, of
toes, y*d Amd of