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THE LENRT (MM’Y WEEKLY.
VOL. XIV.
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This powder never varies. A marvel of
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economical than the ordinary kinds, and
cannot he sold in competition with the mul
titude of low test, short weight alum or
phosphate powders. Sold only in cans.
Koval Baking Powder Co., 106 Wall street,
New York. novl3-ly
PROFESSION A L CABDS.
TAB. «. r. CAMPBUJ.,
DENTI ST.
McDonough, Ga.
Any one desiring work done can he ac
commodated either by calling on me in per
son or addressing me through the mails.
lYnns cash, unless special arrangements
»re otherwise made.
Gf.o W. Betas j W. T. Dicker.
lIIIYAX A. F)l< kl \,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
McDonough, Ga.
Will practice in the. counties composing
he Flint Judicial Circuit, the Supreme Court
oi Georgia and the United States District
Court. apr27-ly
| AS. 11. TI RABB,
attorney at law,
McDonough, Ga.
Will practice in the counties composing
the Flint Circuit, the Supreme Court of
Georgia, and the United States District
Court. marl6-lv
p .1. ri;a«4X,
attorney at law.
McDonough, Ga.
W’ill practice in all the Courts of Georgia
Special attention given to commercial and
other collections. Will attend all the Courts
at Hampton regularly. Office upstairs over
The Weekly office.
J r. WALL,
attorney at law,
McDonough, Ga. •
Will practice in the counties composing! be
FLint Judicial Circuit, and the Supreme and
District Courts of Georgia. Prompt attention
given to collections. octs-’79
y. A. BROWN,
* ATTORNEY AT LAW,
McDonough, Ga.
Will practice in all the counties compos
in'' the Flint Circuit, the Supreme Court of
Georgia and the United States District
Court. janl-lv
j | A. PIIEPLI.S,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Hamuton, Ga,
Will practice in all the counties composing
the Flint Judicial Circuit, the Supreme Court
of Georgia and the District Court ot the
United States. Special and prompt atten
tion given to Collections, Oct 8, 1888
Jno. D. Stewart. | R.T. Daniel.
STI7WAKT & DANIIX,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Griffin, Ga.
j |R. It. .1. ARAOI.B.
Hampton. Ga,
I hereby tender my professional service to
the people of Hampton and surrounding
country. Will attend all calls night and
day.
LAW CARD.
1 have opened a law offiee in Atlanta, but
will continue my practice in Henry county,
attending all Courts regular'v, as heretofore.
Correspondence solicited, \\ ill he in Mc-
Donough on all public days.
Office —Room 26, Gate City Bank Build
ing, Alabama street, Atlanta. Ga.
JOHN L. TYE.
January Ist, I *65.
Tax Notice—Second Itmind,
Hampton, Monday Oct. 28
Sixth, Tuesday “ 2!)
Stockbridge. Wednesday “ 30
Shake Rag, Thursday “ 31
Brushy Knobb, Friday Nov. 1
Loves’. Saturday “ 2
Tussahaw, Monday “ 4
McDonough. Tuesday “ 5
McMulleu’s, Wednesday ‘ 6
Bersheba. Thursday “ 7
Sandy Ridge, Friday " 8
Locust Grove, Saturday “ !»
Lowes’, Monday “ 11
SOLOMON KING, T. C.
GRIFFIN FOUNDRY
AND
Machine Works.
life announce to the Puln'e that we are
* i prepared to p .• tnr. Engine Boil
ers ; w ill take orders tor all kinds of Boil
ers. We are prepar a to do aft kinds of
repairing on Engines, Boilers and Machin
ery, generally We keep in stock Brass
fittings sf ail kinds; also Inspirators, In
jectors, Safety Valves, Steam Guages,
Pipe and Pipe Fittings and Iron and Brass
Costings of every Description.
OXBOUN X WALCOTT,
THE BAGGING COMBINE.
IXI BREST IX TEE COMIXG
ST. JjOUIS COX TEXTIOX
IX('BE.ISIXit-
Interesting Inside In form itSion
I’nriiislied J»y (lie President
of the SSiii't lliigging Cu.
—A Vj :ii* of Eitermi.
nation.
Mr. N. G. Hurt, president of the
Hart Bagging Co., of Brooklyn, N. Y..
was iu the city yesterday. .Mr. Hart
is well known here, having resided in St.
Louis for 30 years, leaving about 9
years ago to establish his manufactur
ing interest east. He established the
Southern Mills Bagging Co., of this
city, aud was its president for a limn
ber of years. Mr. Hart was seen by
the Republic’s representative yester
day, and discussed the bagging .situs
tion, the jute bagging trust, the Far
mers’ Alliance revolt against the trust,
originated by the Republic's expose of
the formation of the American Manu
facturing Co, and kindred matters,
very fully. Ile said : “To begin with,
1 must state that your paper has done
my company' an injustice in its article
headed “One Big Company,” by in
eluding it among the companies form
ing the American Manufacturing Co.,
formerly known as the Jute Bagging
Combination. We do not belong to
the trust. It is tiue that the Hart
Bagging plant was leased by the trust
at the time of the latter’s formation,
but when that was dofie 1 was ignor
ant or the move that was being con
templated to secure control and inau
gura e a jute bagging squeeze, and
would not have leased my mill to them
bad 1 known how they proposed t"
run things. The mill returns to our
hands Jan. 1, 1890, and will then he
run outside the combination. It has a
single term capacity—that is, running
12 hours’ time—of 6,000,000 yards,
and a double t- rm capacity sufficient to
supply one fifth of the bagging used in
covering the crop.’”
“The article you refer te as appear
ing the Republic under the heading
‘One Big Company’is, however, cor
rect, is it not ?”
“Yes, so far as 1 observed. As to
the matter of the law involved in the
article I can say nothing. As to the
fact of the formation of the American
Manufacturing Co., 1 have heard it
rumored that such a company had been
formed, and this is official con
firmation of it I have seen. I know
nothing of it postively. At any rate
the Hart Bagging Co., has had nothing
to do with it.”
EFFECT OF THE COMBINE.
“In your judgement has the jute
bagging combine had the effect of ar
bitrarily raising prices above a legiti
mate point ?”
“Certainly it has. They certainly
have demanded unreasonable prices.”
Wh at is the prospect as to reason
able prices for jute bagging during the
coming year ?”
“1 think that in consequence of our
mill and others running outside the
combination the tendency will be to
lower prices to the normal condition of
supply and demand.”
“The capacity of these independent
mills is as follows: The Ludlow Co.,
Boston, 10,090,000 yards; the Has:
Co., Brooklyn, 6,000,000 yards; the
Galveston Co., 4,000,000 yards, and
St. Louis Bagging Co., 3,500,000, giv
ing a total of 23,500,0°0 yards, or
enough to cover one-half the cotton
crop. Ot the mills you mentioned as
being in the American Manufacturing
Co.. E. L. Stevens, of Quiunieburg,
Conn., is out of existence, but the trust
still controls machinery enough to sup
ply the demand for the whole crop
The jute supply for this season is in
the hands of the trust, so that this year
thev have control of the situation.”
“Prices for next season should be from
7 to 7 1-2 cents for 1 3-4 pound bagging
aud about 8 cents for 2 pound bagging.
lam willing to make contracts for
large deliveries for next June at those
figures. lam making many altera
tions and additions to my mills, and
will have a largely increased capacity'.
I desire to compliment the Republic on
its work in opposidg the .Jute Bagging
Trust. I have been shown copies of
the paper all over the country contain
ing its articles on bagging matters, and
have always found them thorough
authentic and reliable. As to the
Farmers’ Alliance convention to be
held in St. Louis December 7th to
formulate their opposition to the trust,
I heartily indorse it, and am in favor
of sucii a move. The planters have
been made to pay an unjust price lor
jute bagging and their opposition to
the tiu*t is only natural.”
MODE It ATE PROFITS.
‘ 1 do not believe, however, that the
squeeze or‘corner’run m 1888 will
ever be repeated by the trust. The
intention of its managers, I think, is to
conduct it on the same principal as
gains in the Standard Oil Co., which is
to secure thorough control of the jute
bagging supply each season, and with
full power to regulate the output of
the manufactured product, maintain
the monopoly on a plan of moderate
profits. It is the only safe principal,
no matter how powerful a combine
may he, for the mas .-s ill not submit
to a coutinua ce of ext rtion, and any
attempt a sue > would inevitably insult
in disa-ter to the projectors of the
scheme.”
“In mv opinion it will be impossible
for the trust to maintain a control of
the Calcutta jute supply. I was ap
proached thi spring by a leading St.
Louts mercha -t, a warm personal friend
of mine, who urged upon me the nec
essity o! going into the jute hanging
combine, stating that i could not hope
to fight it successfully, as it practically
McDOXOUG litf GA., FKlfflgrato VEM HER, 1,1880.
had control of the situation on both
sides, meaning that tie truss* could at
any time comer both the jute supply
and the bagging market. Thi - I deny,
and anticipate that the result of the
coming season will support my posi
tion. The Calcutta, jute output is
about 3,400,000 bales, of which about
1.400,000 bales are used in < 'alcana,
and about 20 per cent, of the entire
output is jute butts. To buy up the
output each season would compel the
trust to roll up a steadily increasing
stock of jute, that would require the
wealth of a Vanderdilt to carry in the
course of a few seasons. They can
not dream of pursuing such a policy
and there will always be enough id the
raw material to supply outside mills.”
AMERICAN MANUFACTURING COMPANY.
“The quest! nof the formation ot
the American Manufacturing Co. first
arose last spiing 1 was not approach
ed ns to my willingness to put the Hart
Bagging Co. into it, as my attitude on
the subject was well known. Conse
quent! v I have have Kad but scant in
formation regarding ttie progress of the
deal, and the article in The Republic
was the first intelligence 1 received as
to its completion, David Nevius cf the
bagging manufacturing firm of Nevius
& Co. of Boston, Mass., is president of
the company, Appleton Sturgis of the
Eagle Mills Co. of New York secreta
ry, and Anderson Gratz of the St. Lou
is firm of Warren, Jones & Gratz gen
eral manager. As to Gratz being thu
brains of the combine, 1 would say that
he is au able, shrewd and braiuly man,
who has devoted all his thought and en
ergy to ihe bagging trade for years,
and, it may be, lias led largely in de
veloping the trust, but there are sever
al other gentlemen associated with him
who have alsb considerable voice in its
management. It is a powerful com
pany, comprising almost unlimited abil
ity add capitol, but 1 do not believe it
will be able to maintain entirecontro)
of the jute bagging manufacture in this
country.
The Republic’s list of the mills
forming the American Manufacturing
Co. would be complete with the addi
tion of the Empire Bagging Co. of
Champaign, 111., owned by Messrs.
Gratz, Graham & Filley of St. Louis,
and of course with thu correction al
ready made regarding my in HI, which
is most emphatically not in the com
bine.
the opposition.
“I have talked with many promi
nent New York cotton men regarding
the Farmer’s Alliance opposition to the
Jute Bagging Trust, and among others
with Mr. R. II Rountree, senior mem
ber of the large cotton house of It. H.
Rountree A Co. lie was elected vice
president of the convention of Ameri
can cotton exchanges held in New Or
leans September 11, la.-t. to consider
the i quitable adjustment of tare on cot
ton. and is thoroughly familiar with
the whole subject. Mr. Rountree be
lieves that no practicable substitute for
jute bagging will be found, but recog
nizes the fact that the Southern plant
ers are determined to break up the jute
bagging trust, aud expresses the opinion
tin.t they are in the fight to stay, if it
costs them millions of dollars. It is
the most remarkable iustance of the
survival of a storm of public indigna
tion aroused by imposition on record in
this or any other country. The action
of the convention meeting in St. Louis
December 7, will be watched with in
tense and wide-spread interest. I hope
to so arrange my business as to lie here
at that time. As to the position of the
cotton exchanges and cotton receiving
firms of the country, it is but natural
to suppose that they are in sympathy
with the planter, and desirous of pro
tecting his interest. I believe the
Allen-West Commission Co. of Mem
phis and its Mobile and St.
Louis houses have so far been more
outspoken as to their position than any
other cotton firms, having put them
selves on record in their annual circu
lar of October Ist as being opposed to
the trust. The ftruegle now concen
trates upon the focal point of the St.
Louis convention of December 7th. I
Its action will sound the call for the
general engagement for next season,
and outline the future policy of opposi
tion to the trust.”
(furen Victoria's t rowa.
Queen Victoria’s crown, kept with
other royal regalia under strong guard
at the old Tower, and worn only on
state occasions, is one of the most cost
jlv insignias now in existence. To be
! gin with, there are twenty diamonds
around the circlet or head-band, each
wortli 87,500, or $150,000. for the set.
Besides these twenty there are two ex
tra large center diamonds, each valued
at SIO,OOO making 820,000 mote ; fif
ty-foui smaller diamonds, placed at the
angles of the others, each valued at
8500; four crosses, each worth $60,000
and composed of twenty-five diamonds
on top of crosses, each having a money
value of $5,000 ; twelves diamonds in
tho fleur-de-lis. $50,000; eighteen smal-1
ler diamonds contained in the same,
SIO,OOO ; pearh, diamonds and rubies
I upon arches and circlets, not mention
ed before, $50,000; also forty-one
: small diamonds, formed in roses and
| monograms, 825,000 ; twenty six dia
monds in upper cross $15,500; two
circles of pearls about the rin. < f the
j head piece, $15,000 each. The total
; in ney value of this relic in any jewei
i er’s market iu the world would be at
■ least $600,000, metal and all included.
The circulation of the blood—quick
| ened and enrichened —bears life and
energy to every portion of the bodv ;
I appetite returns ; the h air of rest
i brings with it sweet repo-e. This can
|be secured by' taking Dr. J. 11. Me
Lean’s Sarsaparilla.
Girr
if. s.i.!&9mu*. -p
jug!, - •
Yav are iiiora the old
•>' killing a
i: with butt also be
trills s;» -1 lii.it no died of
ill;!'-! in ri prollihitidßHE/l
1 was lying on a B<flp he other,day,
.. ip a
rniMi) • room of a 'iMKKiiril estalv
lis’iriti ut There Other* who
in re also rooling f'ff.jwßlp right here )
b. gin siate. lot- tVajJ ■£ *• niisundf'V
-landing about the that the
r. -on I n.i- there rid of ,u
e.iM that had just staTW>|gtn<i which,
it goner i !v taken in arrested
by moans el' a Turkish ItA I regret
to ray, however, that 1 risjjt'4) get there
in i me. One of the n#!£ ,fiad not
come in to get rid <# ; a cu'i Y' lie had
had no sleep for a CiTOphCj a t ,\f\ tie
s' it, and was feeling ruth- 1" r UK*
mailier. 1 believe -that 1 1 newhere
up-town there had lice a (yt ad night
poker game, with the uiinieiifs
of stim Tints, and this vlefc£n,of poker
had felt rather rocky, auaL-VpeiU to a
Turkish bath to sort of revive him.
“See here,” lie said tojh* itiendant.
■-! want you to send out aioC got me a
;ood u hiskey coekiail.” I ■■
The attendant looked tyjp4t.
“My dear sir,” he said# “tbit is not
allowed in this establish meJuS
“What is not allow the
man. •")£& ,
“Wo are not allowed tiff ...tie out for
any liquors.” jStir.
“Well.” said the cooler off. a tones
of deep disgust, “thi* >9 a.fitjp lathing
establishment.” Yflg;
“Yes, sir,” said the attetteanf, ‘‘it is
eonsidered the finest in I
“In town!” cried the rtthej “In
the villi.ige, you mean. WB, (it’s the
mill place in the United Stores l that a
man can’t send out and getAwliit he
wants, L tell you I’ve got Spivc a
whisky cocktail, and I am igoiilg :o
have it,”
•Oh. you can have it all an
swered the attendant.
“Very well, then, I wait it just
now.”
“You can have it all right! Imt not
till after you get out.”
“Now, see here," said the mail, in an
insinuating tone of voice, “[kerf is a
dollar in this thing for you. ’Veil send
out on quest and get me a whisky
cocktail. It will be all righip -nobody
will ever know anything aboijt it ”
"1 can’t do it,” said the atte fulant,
“It’t strictly against orders JMfcl, be
sides, the [iroprietor wouldn'tjjHow it.
it’s no use, you had Jf>
sleep.”
"Y\ L- rc is
“He’-in the next room. 11l call
liim.il you like.” ” •
“Vi ell, I wish you would do so. I
want to ree what the reason is for
such an idiotic arrangement as that.
This is the first Turkish bath place
that 1 was ever in that I couldn’t get
what I wanted.”
The proptietor came in and was vety
suave and soothing, hut he was per
fectly firm on the liquor question. No
whiskey cocktails could get into the
doors of that establishment, not while
he was proprietor.
The up-all-night ttan pleaded amt
begged and swore, and threatened
never to come there again, and tried
to appeal to the proprietor’s better na
ture, but it was no go. No whiskey
would he allowed in the cooling room.
The man thought deeply for a while
and finally again sent tor the proprie
tor.
“Say,” he asked, “have you a tele
phone here ?”
“Oh, yes,” answeri d the owner of
the place.
“Well, I wish you would do me the
kindness to ring up my friend, Jacob
Mrauss. Tell Jake, when you get him,
that I’m hete at your bathing establish,
meat anil 1 can’t get down for an hour,
dell him to postpone that appointment
for another hour at least.”
“All right. What did you say the
uatnu was ?”
“.Strauss—Jacob Strauss.”
“All right.”
The proprietor seemed all the more
anxious to please his guest as ho had
hail to reiuse him the necessities of life
a short time before. But after a while
he came into the cooling room and
said, as he held the telephone book in
his hand :
“I can’t find any Jacob Strauss
here.”
“Oh, he must have a telephone,”
said the bather.
“It isn’t in the book, Ten.”
“Well, thunder, how am I to get a
message to him ? I I ave an appoint
ment with him iu about ten minutes,
and 1 kail fotgotteu all about it. I can’t
go out of here till I am cool.”
“No, certainly not,” said the pro
prietor. “Well, the best thing you
can do is to call up a messenger boy
and send a note to your friend. Does
he live out of town ?”
“Ob, im, he only lives up Woodward
avenue.”
“Very well, then, I would call a
messenger boy, if I were you.”
“Well, just do so for me, will you,
please ?”
Wo heard the proprietor ring up the
telephone and call for No. 5 aud say :
“.*eud a messenger boy up to So
and-so's bath rooms right away.”
Iu a little while the ptoprietor came
iu and said the messtnger boy was
waiting outside.
“All right, send him in here. Say,
can you get mo a sheet of paper aud
an envelope ?”
“Ceraiuly.”
A sheet of paper and an envelope
were in ought, and the boy w die.
while lie scribbled a short note, thi n
on the outside of the envelope he wrote
“Jacob Strauss,” with a number on
Woodward tiveune.
“Now, my boy,".lie said in a whis
per, “are you a pretty sharp young j
fellow ?”
They boy grinned.
“Very well. You see 'his address
to Woodward avenue f Now, you are
not to go there. You just take this
uo'e to Charlie You know the place,
aud hero’s a dol’ar. Tell him to put
it iu an eight ounce bottle, and you put
it in your pocket and don’t show it to
.anyone till you get in here’again. Un
derstand ? You might just show that
address to the proprietor outside as you
go through, and ask him whether it's
|up or down Woodward avenue, you
know, to give a sort of semblance ot
probility to this thing, and if you keep
mum the change of that dollar is yours.
Mum'* the word, you know. Do you
j tumble ?”
L The boy tumbled all light en ough,
l and went urn ot» l*p errand. In fi
: short lute he returned fibd brnUght in
i a note to the bather, at the same time
! slipping gently a small bottle to the
| thirsty man.
As tvo went out together aud paid
our bills at the office, the man said to
the proprietor:
“1 like your establishment first rate,
but 1 think you are a litrio too strict in
your temperance rule.”
“My dear fellow,” said the proprie
tor, “we have to do that. We can’t
let any liquor get in here, you know.
Now, you must admit that you feel bet
ter yourself for not having if, and I
should advise you not to indulgo any
mare. You certainly look better than
if vou had had tho drink von want
ed’.”
“Well, perhaps you are right,” said
the man, as he buttoned up his over
coat and strolled away.
Hud u Total'll < 'aiitiimrr.
Ono of the most prosperous merchants
in New York hud his life chant ed by a
simple performance of duty. He was
clerk in a big Bust' u dry goods house
at a small salary, lie uhvavs tried to
effect a sale One day a customer ap
peared who was more than particular
about Ids purchase. In relating his ex
perience with this man the merchant
said to a reporter :
“I have a quick temper, and at times
during the transaction 1 felt that I
could strangle the customer; but 1
quickly Qutbed my temper and went at
him tooth and nail. 1 felt that try
reputation as u salesman was at slake,
and i: was a question of conquer or tic
j conquered. At. lu*t I made the sale,
and with it came a great satisfaction ;
but 1 was not done with the man yet
I I waMed to s f ‘B him more. He said
„oniPt:fing about sending fits' wife
around to look at some dress goods. I
promised to send samples or new pat
terns as they arrived. The customei
thanked me and said :
“It has taken you a long time to
seli me a few goods. Are all of your
customers as hard to please as I
“‘lt takes some customers but a
short time to make their selections,
while others wish to he slower ; we are
bound to please them all, I answered.
“‘Does it pay.your house to devote
so much time to so small a sale ?’ he in
quired again.
“ ‘Yes,’ I replied, ‘I have taken time
to give you what you Want. 1 know
you will find the goods as I say. You
will have confidence and come, again,
and the next time it will not take so
long.’
“After getting his package lie walk
ed out of the store. Jn three days days
I mailed samples of the new dress
goods to his wife, and the circumstance
pagsi d entirely out of my mind. I
was promoted in a few days, nnu h to
my astonishment.
“One morning I was informed that
Mr. B. wished to see me. I went to
the office with surprise anil some fear.
1 was more surprised when I saw sit
ting beside my employer my customer
of a few months hack. Ho proved to
be the moneyed partner of the concern,
whoso other business interests kept him
away from the dry goods store almost
entirely, aud he was known to but few
of his employes, although he knew
that 1 was a new man as soon us he
saw me and thought to see what mefal
1 wak made of. That he was satisfied
is proved by his making me a buyer of
tho several departments where I sold
goods. My prosperity began tho
tough customer, and now I thank good
ness that I got him and did not show
my disposition to strangle him.”
llfstiirj' of ftliortlmiul.
According to a paper read before the
recent meeting of the Library Associa
tion, shorthan I has flourished more or
less for 2,000 years. Cicero’s famous
writer, Trio, is known to have had ri
vals in his own time, and Ciesar’s b ats
in dictating several letters simultaneous
ly while traveling still remain unequal
ed. But shorthand, as now understood,
is the product of the present century.
It is computed that the literature relat
ing to the subject would fill no fewer
than 13,000 volumes, and England
alone has given birth to *O7 different
systems.
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NO PH ANTOM APPEARIIU.
I.n-t Ua|)l. liUlii'N AVmn u
Ipilct One Along:' the Jersey
fuavl,
'I he night of Friday, October 11,
was wluu ts familiarly known along the
New Jersey eoast as “Capt Kidd’s
Night," when, according to local song
and story, the victims and all the ac
cursed ermv of that bloodthirsty pirate
rise from their graves and along the
shore, re-enact scenes done while in the
body.
This is tradition, and to many seafar
ing Jersey roan truth. They believe
just a» much in well-regulated ghosts,
sp l *ters and such gruesome things as
they do in their own identity. Accord
ing to their gospel, the seashore Friday
night should have been thronged with
ill-conditioned ghosts, poorly-clad skel
etons aud a heterogeneous nre-re gion
otst peril aHi rat horrors, llul it wasn’t.
It was the sort, of night when any
I well meaning ghost would like to leave
the portals of the tomb and raiso high
jinks among the blackened riba of lost
ships on tho beach. '1 ho beach was
was deserted by all save tho life-savers,
who patrolled their usual beats hollow
with fear and trembling.
Merrily the inquiry for ghosts was
sent by telephone from life saving sta
tion to life-saving station, from Sandy
Hook to Cape May Saturday morning,
and as a result Supt. Havens assured
the anxious that the spook* and spec
ters had remaiued within the shadowy
precincts of the tomb, hi every place
along the coast where Capt. Kidd bur
ied his gold they say tliut not a single
avaricious phantom came to steal the
hidden treasure. These facts all go to
prove that there has been a general re
form of this particular brand of ghost,
for licre'oioro on the night of October
11, in every year, spooks were seen
digging up and drag ring off buried gold
all along tho coast, while in some plac
es doubloons covered with green mold
were found.
Around Barnega Friday night was
termed “Wreckers, Night,” and a dif
'crent variety of specters enjoyed the
evening air and haunted the lonely
shore. The ghosts thereabouts are
those of the victims of the old-time
marauding lerseymcn who by false bea
cons decoyed vessels to wreck and ruin
on the coast. The appearance of those
specters seems to bo better authentica
ted than those of Kidd’s kind, fur the
notorious “Wrecker* of Barnega” are
figures in local history and their de
scendants live in Ocean County at this
day with hereditary evil propensities,
kept in subjection by fear of th« law.
I’fie memory ot the “oldest inhabitant”
"is ’ttverlaiiTeofln vain for flea of
rapine and murder by night in the storm
on file shore.
Jonathan Spauldin, of Metcdeconk,
alleges that on the night of October 11,
away back somewhere in the last cen
tmy, his great grandfather. Cyicuius
Spauldin, and Job llulit saw a strange
sight, a sort of blue glare at sea, off
Manloloking. That the blue glare ex
tended and showed in the center of a
great circle of flame a great sliip-of-the
line. The vessel came cleso into
bore and the movements of those on
hoard were plainly seen by the wonder
ing fishermen. Then the blue glare
deepened into a great ghostly flame
and the Jersey men were horrified to
see a long procession of women anil
children made to “walk the plank” in
to watery graves. The lift, infernal as
it seemed, was so intense that every
line of the ship and every movement of
her crew were plainly visible. Not a
sound was heard by the awed and hor
rified Jerseyman, who, perfectly petri
fied with terror, made not outcry, but
silently watched the minutest details of
the tragedy.
This scene was enacted, so the Spaul
din story goes, in a silence like tliut of
the grave. The last in tho line of vic
tims were two girls with lovely faces,
who clung to each other in terror, hut
were shoved down the plank and into
the water. Everything was motionless
for an instant afterward. The silence
was broken by the ship’s bell tolling
solemnly three times, a thunderous re
port sounded over sea and shore, the
bright glare faded away into the black
vault of the skies and then the ship
sank. This tale was told all thiough
Metedeconk and will he told there un
til Jersey men are no more.
A ’Shi-i* in t; IndUNtry.
Farmois living in the vicinity of a
corncob pipe factory are exceptionally
fortunate. Although many million of
cobs are burned or allowed to rot ev-
ery year, the price for pipemaking pur
poses keeps up. A farmer living near
Washington, Mo., recently soid 100
bushels of corn for S3O and got $27
for tlie cobs. This is at the rate of fif
t. -seven cents a bushel, and if only suf
fieiijtit Missuri meerschaums were smo
ked to make the demand larger farm
er, would soon be rich. Corncob
pipes are manufactured bv a very sim
ple process, and are in fair demand all
over the c.nmtiy Some were recent
ly shipped to Europe, and more were
ordered soon after their arrival.
Gus. A. Dubois, a well known resi
dent of St. Louis, says : I haved
used several bottles of Prickly Ash
Bitters for billiousness and malarial
troubles, so prevalent in this climate,
heartily recommend it to all afflicted in
a like mariner. It is the best remedy
I ever used.
Many young chrildren become pos
tively repulsive with sore eyes, sore
tars, and scald head. Such afflict ions
may be speedily removed by the use of
Ayer’s Sarsaparilla Young and old
alike experience the wonderful benefits
of this medicine.
OCE4IV CAIII,i;S.
H'hal 1 1 Co*ln to I'iiwl n llrrak
nud Hcpalr It.
The Gould or Western Union ca
bles extending from Ireland to Nova
Scotia are both brokeu. They have
parted somewhere in the depths of
midocean, and some time next month
what is known as a cable steamer will
steam out to the location on the sur
face of the mighty deep, somewhere
beneath w hich the rupture has occured,
will haul up the broken ends, splice
the four ends into two cables once
more and the electrical communication
between the two countries over these
lines will be restored. Then the ca
ble steamer will leave the spot unmark
ed in all that vast area of water save
by refinance to the stars above
and to the sun, and will sail
back to the port where rl:e
belongs. Those two Gould cables, it
may be explained, aro two of the sev
en cables comprising what is known as
the cubic pool. O: remaining five,*
four are owned by tnr Anglo- Amerifift
company, whose headquarters and iW
flees ate in England, and the fifth ca
ble is tho direct cable, also owned by
Englishmen. These seven cables, tho
property of three companies, pool their
earnings under a contract which lias
been in existence for several years,
and divide them according to curtain
percentages which were axed at the
time of tho contract. When one or
even two of the cables break, as is the
case at present, the other cables in the
pool do the extra work thus entailed
on them, and tho gross earnings are di
vided up just the same as though noth
ing had happened. As five cables are
quite enough to do all tho business
done st present, the cable moss ages
suffer no delay, and the only thing the
company has to do whose cable or ca-,
hies are broken is to make the repairs
within a year, because if they are de
layed beyond that time the existing
contract would be abrogated.
The location of the cable break is
very accurately determined by a pio
cess known to electricians, and by an
instrumeht which discloses how far an
electi ical current started on a given
line of wire travels befoie it meets with
an interruption. Tho calculation of
the distance to the break made on this
side of the Atlantic can be checked and
confirmed by a similar calculation
made on tho other side, though such a
confirmation is scatcely necessary. Af
ter having found out how far from
land the break is the only other thing
the captain or navigator of the cable
steamer wants to know is in what di
rection that distance is to be traveled,
and as tho course of the cable is per
fectly well known, from tho fact that
when the cable was laid accurate ob
servations were taken by the cable
layers and records made, tho cable
steamer starting out to do the work
can steam directly over tho spot where
the break is located.
Of course many times it is not possi
ble to determine exactly what the
cause of a cable break has been, but
usually the trouble is that the cable
has been laid too taut and it has broken
or been damaged in a serious way by
reason of tho immense strain resulting
on this excessive tautness. The couso
quence is that whenever a repair is
made in mid ocean the repairs cut away
all the twisted and strained cable in the
immediate neighborhood of the break
and do away with all possibility of
tautness by putting in twenty-five to
fifty miles of new cable. T his may
meander down the side of a submerged
Mount Washington or may curl quiet
ly up in the basin of a Mohawk valley,
hut. whatever it does there is no chance
of the cable breaking in that particu
lar spot again from being drawn too
tight.
■’nlnf’iil Boll*.
About three years ago I was troubled
with poison in my blood, very irrita
ting and painful boils breaking out all
over my body. For two years I suf
fered with them, trying all sortfl of
remedies, and doctor’s prescriptions
without avail. Becoming disgusted
with doctors, and medicines I had used
up to this time, I concluded to try S.
S. S. and the result was far beyond
my expectations. A few bottles left
uie in better health than I had been
s ; nce childhood. I consider 8. 8. S.
the only medicine that will thoroughly
purify poisoned blood.
T. K. MAYFIELD, Horse Cive, Ky.
a valuable tonic
I have used Swift’s Specific (S. S.
8.) with good results. As a tonic, it is
valuable ;as a blood purifer, it is relia
ble. Hov. J. H. Jefferson,
Winston, N. C.
KEEP IT AS A FAMILY MEDICINE.
Mr. J. J. Bradley, writes from Har
rison, Ga., under date of September 22,
1889. Swift’s Specific (S. 8. S.) has
been freely used by my family with
tho best and happiest results. A half
dozen bottles entirely relieved my sis
ter of a severe case of scrofula. My
wife has frequently found her blood
purified and her health improved by
S. S. S. I also had a scrolulous affec
tion that has been entirely cured by
taking a few bottles of Swift’s Specific
(S S. 8.)
Treatise on Blood and Skin Diseases
mailed free.
SWIFT SPECIFIC CO.. Atlanta,
Ga. •
We have sold S. S. 8. since the first
day we commenced the dru* business,
and have heard some wonderful reports
of its effects. Many use it with best
results to cleanse malaria from the sys
tem, and for blood poison, scrofula and
such diseases it is without a rival.
Colderwood & Co., Monroe, Loui-i
--ana.
NO. 27.