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G. W. H. WHITAKER.
dentist,
sandersville, oa.
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Aprjl,8,1880. -
B. D. EVANS,
Attorney at Law,
SANDERSVILLE, 6a.
April 8,1880.
dr. WM. RAWLINGS,
Physician & Surgeon,
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April 10, 1880.
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Never a word is nakl
Rut it trembles in the air
And tlio truant voice has spoil
To vibrato overywhovo;
And perhaps far off In otornal years
The echo may ring upon our cam.
Nover are kind acts dono
To wipo the weeping eyes,
But like flashes of tho sun
They signal to the sltieB;
And up above tho angels read
How wo llftVo helped tho sorer need,
Never a day is given,
But it tonos tho after years,
And it carries up to heaven
Its sunshine or itstcart;
While tho to-morrows stand and wait
Tho silent mutes by tho outer gate.
There is no end to tho sky
And tho stars aro everywhere
And timo is eternity,
And the hero is over thoroj
I 1 or tho common doeds of the common day
Aro ringing hells in tho fur-av ay.
—Henry Jlfirton, in Olirittian at li’orA-.
Tho jury wore doubtless much in-1 Indy, thinking doubtless that slio had ( that the color seemod to dio out of his \ clover trick, and askod tho disohargo of 1
fluenced in their verdict from the testi- j said too much or that it might bo wrong-, face. his client.
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All Metdon was aroused.
Leslie Thomson, tho wealthiest man
in tho village, had been found dead
under bis flouring mill, near tho big
wator-whccl.
Now it did not take long for Merdon
to become aroused. It was a quiet,
sleepy inland village of perhaps 500
souls, two miles distant from tho near-
- 1 ost railway, and twelve from “tbo city”
—Boxboro, from which a largo portion
of tho necessaries and nearly all tho
luxuries indulged in by the rural Mor-
! donites were obtained.
It was on tho morning of November
0, 1872, that Mr. Thomson was found
dend, and the event created greater
excitement than the ontire political
campaigu just closed.
This state of affairs can easily bo
accounted for as Merdon was pro
vincialism in its purity. Everybody
knew everybody else. The secrots,
aspirations, hopes and fears of overy
man and woman of accountable age
were regularly canvassed in back par
lors, and from behind grocery stoves,
and social status regulated by a code
as inflexible as that of Lycurgus.
Known then, as tho recently deceased
had been known, from a score of after
noon and evening converzioue on bis
merits, sliort-comings and possessions,
it was not surprising that tbo shock of
tho news of his death to tho easy-going
burghers of tho staid old town was one
which couhl not be easily forgotten,
and before which the nepenthe-giving
qualities of Young Hyson, and tho
grocer’s best Solace was long powerless.
But tho most coiTcct mental inventory
of Leslie Thomson, given by tho sagest
inhabitant of “the corners,” fell fur
short of accuracy; a roqnisito, however,
that too seldom deters an opinion when
another’s character is under discussion.
Mr. Thomson, although having min
gled with tho villagers, and remem
bered with gratitude for many acts of
courtesy and substantial aid, was far
from being ono of them.
For four years previous to his death
ho had passed his summers, or parts of
them, at least, on ono of his farms on
tho outskirts of the village in a pleasant
old-fashioned house, which he had fitted
up to please his luxurious bacholor
tastes, while his winters wore passed
in Boxboro and other cities.
Tho afternoon of the day before bis
death he was heard to say: “ To-morrow
I shall leave Merdon for the season.”
Alas! “to-morrow” to him unfolded
sicians making tho post-mortem.
But who was tho guilty party ? No
body belived the deceased had an enemy
in Merdon. It certainly was not for
, gain, as a gold watch and about $200 in
cosh wore found on the body. What,
thou, was it for ? Was it for bate ? was
it for jealousy? was it forlovo ? aye, for
love, tho strongest of all earthly pas
sions 1
It at once became apparent to tho de
tective that the conviction of tho alleged
murderer, should he bo arrested, was at
best problematical, as nearly all the tes
timony would, from the outlook, depend
on circumstantial evidence. Nothing
daunted, however, William Hawkins Bet
about his task, strong in tho faith that
“ murder will out,” and that sooner or
later tho guilty party would bo brought
to justice.
It was supposed that Mr. Thomson
had entered the mill to have a business
talk with his miller previous to his de
parture and been overpowered by some
one in tho^inill, or perhaps the miller
himself. But tho miller proved by sev
eral witnesses that at tho timo of tbo
murder, between 9 and 10 o’clock in
tho morning, ho was absent at a black
smith’s shop assisting in making some
necessary ropairs on tho machinery.
On his return he at once noticed tho
open trap-door, and continuing his ob
servations discovered tho body of his
employer.
The detective certainly had very little
ground to work on. Ho hod one clow,
in foot two, which ho carefully guarded,
and devoted nil his energies to unravel
ing them.
Tho night before the murder, for such
it was believed to bo, tho ground froze
considerably and before morning n
slight snow-storm raged, which barely
hid the brown earth from view where
the wind had allowed it to remain un
disturbed. Ono such place was found
back of tho mill, protected by a bigli
board fence, and hero tho detective
found several tracks, evidently made by
a man in a liurry who bad left the mill
by a rear window. Tho peculiarity of
tho tracks consisted in the decided man
ner in which they “ toed out," as well
as in tho nail-marks on tho outer edge
of tho right boot-heel, four round-head
ed nails having been driven thero by the
cobbler as a preventive to tho owner’s
excessive wear at that point. Tho tracks
were accurately measured and drawings
of tho same preserved
Just a week lmd passed without
bringing any new developments, anil
Hawkins was becoming somowliat mo
rose if not dispirited, when a uewsconl
was given him by tbo receipt of a lettei
bearing} tho Merdon postmark and in
closing a $50 bill. Tho letter was very
briof and written in a feminine hand. It
was as follows:
Novejtbeb 13, 1872.
Mr. IIawkiss:
Dear Hir:—Loavo no stono unturned until tlic
luuriloror of Leslie Thomson is discovered.
M-
As Mr. Thomson’s estate was ampli
to compensate any or all efforts nmd<
to discover his murderer, tho receipt ol
$50 from an unknown woman left the
detective in a quandary of doubt spiced
with romance.
Tho eighth day was passing rapidly
away and nothing new had been devel
oped, when, as the detective was taking
a short walk amid tho falling snow, his
eyes bent on the ground in an abstract
cd manner, those very footprints be
bad been looking for appeared before
him. They were fresh and led across
hastened to supplement her admission
with “ not that thero was any lasting
hatred between my son and Mr. Thom-
far from it. They always passed
the time of day with each other, bnt
that was all.” The detective also learn
ed from Aunt Jo’s prattle that it was cur
rently believed that the wife of Marvin
Wilcox, living out at tho Oak Openings,
had at ono time been engaged to Thom
son, but that tlio match bad fallen
through from some unknown causo, and
that the floral wreath that ornamented
tho casket containing the body when it
lay in stato in the late owner's home,
before removal to Boxboro for inter
ment, was contributed by her.
Hawkins concluded at once on leav
ing ihe house that his next acquaintance
should be Jonas McIntyre, to bo fol
lowed by a call at the residence of tlio
lady living at the Oaks.
Tho next day a call was mado upon
Jonas, who lived alone with his mother
in a little one-story red house, whoso
interior always bore a sort of a flrst-
night-after-a-movo appearance.
Although it was about 10 o'clock
m. ho found tho red-headed heir of
the house of McIntyre in bed, dividing
his timo botweon a euu of weak coffoo
and “Every Man His Own Lawyer."
Jonas was far from being in a com
municative mood, and informed tlio do-
ectivo by looks, at least, that his pres
ence was not agreeable, and, by words,
that he could be of no servico in aiding
to ferret out tlio assailant of Mr. Thorn-
His knowledge of tbo gentleman
“ The murder is'already confessed, in
looks, at least,” continued Hawkins,
Tho justice, however, thought he had
. . - in i • n i better be held, and ho was held and ro-i
“and if the court please I will briefly; , , , ....
.... , , . rnandod to tho county jail,
stato the cause and oirenmstanoe of the *
killing.
"On tho morning of tho sixth of
November Jonos McIntyre was return
ing homo on foot from the early train.
By leaving the main road at the forks,
which led to the mill, ho could reach
home sooner by orossing the creek be
low the dam and entering his home
from tho rear. His own real ostate
coming down to the creek, opposite tho
mill, he had long desired the mill prop
erty, and had twice spoken to the owner
regarding it, but each time met with
no encouragement, On tho morning in
question, in passing tho mill door he
saw the owner inside, and thinking it a
good opportunity to press his suit,
knowing that Mr. Thomson would leavo
the villago soon for the winter, he en
tered. Ho was, as before, refused. One
word led to another, until a lady’s
name which shall ho nameless at Ibis
time, was mentioned, coupled with an
insinuation which aroused Thomson, and
he ordered the prisonor from the prom
ises. Mclntyro at this time seized Thom
son by tho throat and strangled him.
Then, to hido his guilt, he lifted tho
trap-door, throw his victim upon tho
cruol rocks beneath aud fled through a
rear window.
About a month after Molntyre’s in
carceration he was found one morning
dead, hung to his coil-door by his bus-
ponders. Ho left a well-written defense,
which was publisliod in full in the Box
boro dailies, in which ho acknowledged
tho choking of Leslie Thomson, but tho
thought of murder was not in his heart,
and remorse had driven him to self-
destruction. Ho also said the conversa
tion reportod by Hawkins bofore tho
justice, between himself and Thomson,
was untrue (and, in fact, it was in_a
great measure, as Hawkins imaginod it).
AH tho talk botweon the two was re
garding tho salo of tho property, McIn
tyre losing control of his feelings and
falling upon Thomson in his anger at
tho owner’s portinacity.
But little moro remains to be said.
Tho old mill still stands, weather-beat
on, moss-covered and unused, with tho
shadow of death clinging to it. Tho
creek in the roar murmurs morrily over
tho shallows, through tho rained dam,
but tho old mill is not roused from its
rovorie. Bummer sunshine and winter
storm fall alike upon its irregular out
lines, while within nil in dark and
dismal. Oountless webs have been wo
ven across its window pnnes, a'nd dopend
According to tbo report of the secre
tary of tho American Iron and Steel as
sociation, tho American iron trade for
the year 1880 wqb quite active and sat
isfactory. Tho United States made in
tlio past year 3,300,000 gross tons of pig
iron, ns against 2,741,852 tons*in 1879.
These figures indicate a consumption of
about 4,000,000 tons in 18801 The pro
duction of railsduring 1880 is estimated
at 1,200,000 gross tons, as against 998,
909 tons in 1879. Of the total for the
past year 775,000 tons were steel rails,
and 425,000 iron. The consumption for
1880 was, approximately, 1,475,000 tons.
Tho past year witnessed a revival in the
extension of our railway system; the
amount of new track laid being esti
mated at abont 0,500 miles, as against
4,725 miles in 1879. Tho figures of
1880 are, with one single exception, (lit
largest in tlio history of railways in this
country.
“There, in that cavernous sepulcher, it« benms and angles, while tho
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Du hand mid for sale,
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vastatod tho fair tenement, and wbt.ro
but yesterday reason sat enthroned, and
! hope and joy were happy guests, “ to-
' morrow ” found unconscious dust.
; As has been said, tbo body bad been
! found under the mill near tbo old-
| fashioned overshot water-wheel. When
; tho mill was in operation quite a quan-
' tity of water ran underneath it, but
| when the power was shut oil’, a few pools
I remained. The body was found on the
I rocks outside the pools, and, as a conse-
' quence, was somewhat bruised.
I Tho first theory of tho cause of death
j was that it was accidental. That, visiting
' the mill, in the absenco of the miller,
they were on the edge of tho left heel
now, and tlio feet making the tracks had
“ toed in” after the manner of tho most
untutored savage.
Following up the footprints, Hawkins
boldly knocked at the door thoy led to
and asked if a gentleman had entered
there recently; he was answered in the
negative, and to provo her assertion tho
lady of tho house, Mrs. Bertman, in
vited the detective in, knowing who he
was, and, as she afterward said, to show
the gentleman she was telling tho
truth. No man appealed in sight, the
company present consisting of “Aunt
Jo,” known by every man, woman and
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BOXES,&c
the deceased had lifted a trap-door in ; c bild in Merdon as the most penurious
the floor of tho mill, descended the steps j an( i shiftless housekeeper in the village,
which led to the bearings of the wheel, and who, by tbo way, was the aunt of
and in examining tbo same, which had Mrs. Bertman, who had received many
recently been repaired, lost his balance j similar calls from the female in question
Machine Needles
Oil and Shuttles
F0 'i KINDS OF MACHINES, for sale,
also ordm' parts of Machines that
k'ct broken, for which new
pieces aro wanted.
and fell from tho slightly-protected
| landing to tho rocks beneath, receiving
I injuries sufficient to produce death.
^ i" On the afternoon of the death of Mr.
Thomson, a middle-aged, quiet-appear
ing mau mado his appearance in the
village, at once visited the mill, from
which the body had not yet been re
moved, and made a careful survey of
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The next morning it was whispored
about that the stranger was a detective,
and later in tl.e day Merdon society re
ceived its second installment of food fo
gossip from the finding of the coroners
was that Mi*
had been strangled to death by some
person or persons unknown, his body
thrown under the mill, and the trap door
left open to avoid suspicion.
during disagreeable weather, when a
stay at home would necessitate an extra
stick of wood in the tumble-down ele
vated oven stove.
Hawkins remained a short time and
departed more at sea than ever, although
he did not consider his visit lost by any
means. Aunt Jo, who was an endless
gossip and did not allow her click
ing knitting-needles to outstrip the
rapidity of her tongue at least, began a
conversation regarding the murder al
most as soon as the visitor was seated.
From her conversation the detective
learned that her son, Jonas McIntyre,
had known Leslie Thomson while in
the Boxboro university, that they had
had a quarrel while there, and that tho
friendship existing between the two had
not been of the pleasantest. The old
was vory limited, and while ho should
rejoice in company with evory other
good citizen to learn that the guilty
man was brought to justice, personally
ho would be unable to do anything to
ward accomplishing that result.
Just as the detective was about to
leave Aunt Jo entered, redolent of tho
stable, where she had been attending
her cow and poultry, which in summer
found their own living by foraging on
her neighbors, and in winter played Dr.
Tannor with themselves in tho moot ap
proved manner. She was dressed in
tier son’s clothing, lint, coat and boots,
and nil approach to femininity visiblo
was a small bunch of untidily-dressed
hair above tho coat-collar and n dirty
dress below the skirts of tbo coat. It
was no uncommon thing for Aunt Jo-
linnna to appear in her soil’s apparel,
and her appenrnneo in it had ceased to
excite comment.
She took a seat opposite tho de
tect ivo and commenced at once to un
limber her word battery. Slio had
hardly fired the first round when tho
practiced eye of Hawkins thought lie
discovered a resemblance between the
soles of tho boots she wore and the
tracks he was so much interested in,
but ho gave no sign, not even when the
old Indy crossed her feet and exposed
tour nails on the heel of the right boot.
Ho chatted a few momonts with her, and
then casually telling her that lio should
leavo the village soon, as lie had about
given up all hope of detecting tbo guilty
parly, withdrew, after bidding the
amiable young man a pleasant “good-
morning.”
The detective at once took himself to
his office for reflection, and it was not
until evening at timo to “light up"
that be aroused himself and going to
his trunk brought forth a small bottle
containing diluted alcohol in which
floated what* appeared to bo human
cuticle, and putting the same under a
microscopo looked at it under tho light
cf his study-lamp long and carefully.
Hawkins was not Been for the three
succeeding days, but on tho fourth Met- j
don was again shocked, this time beyond
seeming recovery, by tho arrest on sus
picion of Jonas Mclntyro for the murder
of Leslie Thomson.
Tho preliminary examination took
placo before Squire Tobade, and tbo
small court-room over tho red store was
packed to suffocation. Hawkins appeared
for tho people, and before commencing
the case placed in sight of all on tbo
justice’s table a largo and heavy pack
age inclosed in wrapping paper and a
microscope.
Jonas, on his examination, told
several conflicting stories ns to his where
abouts from 9 to 10 o’clock on the morn
ing of the alleged murder, and appeared
flushed and troubled. And yet the
sympathy of tho audience was with the
prisoner. No ono had known aught
against him. Ho was shiftless, it was
true, and appeared to take little interest
in anything outside of books, yet
bis laziness was overlooked in the
thought that, peihaps, he had inherited
it, and being an only child he had been
potted and spoiled by his old mother,
who certainly had property enough to
have lived in much better style, and who
would leave enough to allow Jonas a
loaf coequal with the allotted age of
man.
When Hawkins produced the boots in
court, with the peculiar heel-marks, the
prisoner was visibly affected, but it was
Hot until Hawkins told him that he
could procure a witness who would
swear to the conversation that took place
in the mill between him and the
deceased regarding the sale of property
the very stones trickling tears of sor
row, and tho great wheel, typical of that
on which the proudest shall yet bo
broken, in darkness and nlono, far away
from tbo glad sunlight and tlio kind
ministration of friends, which might,
even then, have perhaps saved him from
death had ho boon discovered ; as for a
brief moment reason tottered on its
throne, and tho spark of life flickered
before becoming extinguished inter
nal night, suffering untold ugony, re
alizing that ho must die. Loulio Thom
son endeavored to louve a sign that
would plead “ trumpjt tongucd against
the deep damnation of his taking oil’,"
and ono that would haunt his murderer
until life should become unbearable,
and with his steel key cheek irregularly
scratched on the wall of tlio mill tho
first two letters of his murderer’s name.
, “ And tlioro tlioy are,” pointing at tho
same time to tho stone, which the heavy
noiseless bat holds high carnival in tho
silences unbroken save by tho hoarso
croal ings in tho pools below.
Aunt Jo died a broken-hearted old
woman. Her wealth to her was as dross
when “ tho light of her life went out,”
and slio spent the few years she lived
aftor her sou’s death iu deeds of mercy,
leaving her largo fortune to tho found
ing of an orphan nsylum.
Tlio letter in which was incloBod the
$50, came, as has doubtless beon sus
pected, from the lady of tho Oaks, and
thvoo years aftor tlio occurrences nar
rated, being a widow, slio bestowed her
hand and her world ly goods (not her
heart for that was buried long bofore)
on Hawkins the detective; and ho,
understanding womankind better than
tho majority of mon, made her a happy
home.
Leslie Thomson peacefully sleeps in
Mount Hope, his grave marked by
package proved to be from whoso face | golitl Hnbf)t antial granite block, without;
Inn tmrtnv wm At.nrmnd. inn Hnnalrnr 1 ^ „ . , , ..
ornamentation, typical of lnm whom it
“Ono quart of whisky or its equiva
lent I find a lew average for the daily
consumption of the inebriate,” writer
Dr. Lewis D. Mason, physician to the
Inebriates’ Home, at Fort Hamilton,
Long Island, in a recent statistical re
port of 252 cases of habitual drunken
ness studied by him. This is a Start
ling example of the truth of the old
aiinge that the appetite grows on what
it feeds upon. Funcy a normal, healthy
man drinking a quart of whisky a day I
And yet that is what Dr. Mason says ia
a low average of habitual drunkards—
not the maximum, bnt a low average,
and that it is low is made apparent in an
accompanying table, wherein he states
that of 138 habitual whisky-drinkers,
only 13 contented themselves with a
pint a day, while 37 needed a quart, 76
needed two quarts, 11 needed three
qunrts, and one went to tho extreme
limit of consuming four quarts or a gal
lon a day. No man, however, content-
od himself with less than a quart a
day, tho 10 who were satisfied with a
pint being all women. Ontf of the 252
| eases, it was found that 98 had inebriate
; fathers, 6 inckrinto mothers, and 7, ino-
| briuto grandparents. It is also note-
i worthy that 55, or nearly one-fourth of
; the cases studied, had received aliberal
; education, 1 in 14 having gone through
college.
the paper was stripped, ns the spoakor
paused for a moment to give his words
greater effect.
Sure enough, on the face of tho sec
tion of stono taken from the mill, ap
peared the dim characters in a tremu
lous linnd:
Jo.
Tlioefi’oct was electrical, tho audience
giving expression to their feelings by
linnd-clapping and stamping of feot.
Older was quickly secured by the
justice’s gravel, aud Hawkins continued:
“ As strong as the silent testimony of
llio boot-marks and the stono are, I have
something here (drawing a smull bottle
of diluted alcohol from his pocket and
placing a small piece of human curtiele
taken from it on tho object glass of the
microscope) that should proved beyond
poradvonture tbo correctness of my
theory that Jonas Mclntyro was tlie
rnurdor of Leslie Thomson.
“ 1 have noticed," continued Hawkins,
“ that since my acquaintance with McIn
tyre, ho has invariably worn a standing
shirt collar. I have also learned that
before the murder he invariably woro a
turnover collar, it being much moro
comfortablo and becoming to a person
possessed of such a Baslien-like nock.
If tlio court please, will ho order tho
prisoner to remove his collar.”
Tho counsel for McIntyre demurred
against any sueli childish procedure, hut
Hawkins insisted, and tho justice de
cided the collar should be removed. On
it,s removal three long scratches were
plainly observable on the left side of
the prisoner’s neck,
Tho interest in the court- room was at
this juncture intenso.
“Iam ready to show,” begun Haw
kins, “ that, tlio pieces of cuticle be
neath that object glass, and taken by
me on tlio morning of the murder from
underneath tlio finger nails of Leslie
Thomson, came from tlie neck of Jonas
Mclntyro. That its texture is the same;
that a part of a freckle, the same as on
the prisoner s neck, and a part of a
hair, cut off with the finger nail, of the
samo color as tho short red hairs seen
on the neck of McIntyre. All this and
moro will bo explained and verified at
tlio proper time, and I ask, in the name
of justice, in tho name of that which
protects the innocent from the guilty
and fastens the crime on the perpetrator
of foul doeds, that Jonas McIntyre be
held to await the action of tho next
grand jury." c
Tho crowd, which was at a fever heat
of exoitement, cheered lustily as Haw
kins resumed his seat, and was not
brought to order until the aged justice
had nearly exhausted himself and gavel.
If McIntyre was pale before, he was
Jivid now.
His counsel endeavored to show that
nothing had been proved; that anybody
could make marks on a rook and bring
it into court; that the boot-heel business
was a farce, and ihe miorosoope dodge a
commomoratos, with tho simple super
scription in the languago of Jamos
Bhirloy more than two hundred years
ago, but nono tho less trao to-day,
Only tlio actions of tlio just
Hindi sweet anil blossom in tlio dust.”
—John M. Ives, in Niagara Democrat.
Wasted Efforts to be Funny.
Take, as a very simplo illustration,
tlio case of the young man who had been
offered a saucer of delicatoly salted ice
cream by two young ladies, who waited
in convulsive glee for tho first grimace
and its attendant remarks. Not a ges
ture or word betrayed ho had noticed
it at all. Still talking lightly of last
night’s Gorman and to-monow’s tennis,
lie finished the entire sancorful, then,
bowing slightly, left the room. Was
over “fun” moro delicately spoiled?
Take again tho case of a certain college
professor, who hod almost abolished
practical joking on tho faculty, not by
punishing, but by fooling tlio intended
fuu of tlio students. Informed one j argument
night that the students woro painting
tho walls of the chapel, “Very well,”
ho said, quietly, “ let them paint; but
tell me when they are through.” Dress
ing hastily, he went about tho town,
rousing overy painter in tho place,and as
tho last student went out of the chapel
a dozen urtisans went in. Next morning,
when there was an unusually large
attendance at prayers, behold the calci-
mined wulls as fair as ever 1 Tho dig
nity of tho college had not been allowed
to bo insulted, yet never a student was
ever questioned, blamed, marked or ex
pelled. In tho samo manner, when tho
tongue of tho bell had been removed
over night, another was in its place
before dawn, and’ the astonished stu
dents were summoned to their devotions
at tho usual hour. Again, when the
wheel of the organ disappeared and the
organist had been secretly informed
that his services would not bo required
tbo next day, ono of the very delin
quents was called upon to take bis
place, finding, to liis chagrin, that tho
keys responded dutifully to his touch.
If it is the “ silent organ” that “loudest
chants the master’s requiem,” in this
case it was certainly the organ’s music
that chanted loudest the -humiliation of
tho guilty. No wonder that the stu
dents at that institution have about
doeided that what may be called hazing
the professors does not pay. Said the
boys at Rugby; “There’s no fun in tell
ing Arnold a lie, for lie always believes
us!”
rich in precious metal. We find pro
ductive districts- in Arizona, Colorado
and old Mexico, south, west and north
)f us, with geological formations here
identically the same, and as the pros
pector lias come to stay with us he will
make the best possible use of his time
and develop the country. Neither hos
tile Indians, land grants nor wild animals
will intimidate the prospector or. capi
talist from taking the gold ont of these
mountains. First comes the era 6f pros
pecting, which is already for advanced;
and next tho era of production, which
we liavo fairly entered upon, and to ho
developed for all its worth. Then, too,
we have coal in abundance, bituminous
and anthracite. Next may be mentioned
the article of gypsum, which is so com
mon as to be hardly a merchantable
commodity. In one part of the Territory
there is a continuous marsh of gypsum
some thirty miles long and six wide.
The experiment of irrigating land
near Paris with the water from the sew
ers has proved successful. Sterile
tracts have been converted into fertile
plains and no increase in sickness
among the inhabitants has followed, as
was fearedi
How to Prevent Lamp Chimneys from Break
ing.
A Leipsio journal, which makes a
specialty of r atters relating to glass,
gives a method which, it asserts, wall
prevent lamp chimneys from cracking.
The treatment will not only render lamp
chimneys, tumblers and like articles
more durable, but may bo applied with
advantage to crockery, stoneware, por
celain, etc. The chimneys, tumblers,
etc., ore put into a pot filled with cold
water, in which some common table salt
has been added. The water is well
boiled over a fire, and then, allowed to
cool slowly. When the articles are
taken ont and washed they will be found
to resist afterward any sudden changes
of temperature. The process is simply
one of annealing, and the slower the
cooling part of it is conducted the more
§ tive will be the workt
Governor Low Wallace, who is abou
to exchongo his homo in New Mexico for
one in Paraguay, has [given to a news
paper correspondent a flattering de
scription of the Territory in which ho
has lived for several years past. In
speaking of the mineral resources of
New Mexico tho governor said: I may
repeat that the opinion that this Terri
tory will equal, if not surpass, her neigh
bors in her yield of various precious
metals wlthin’hev mountains and ranges.
Tho work of prospecting and mining
has already fairly set in, and soon wo B
may look for results. Heretofore var
iety of causes [have contributed to pre
vent thorough .work in this direction.
As can be roadly understood, the native
Indians and Mexicans have no interest
iu the mining work. The Indians mako
it a capital offense for one of their num
ber to aid a prospector in the discovery
of a mine, while tho native Mexican
could not bo induced for any money to
join a white man in tlio work. It is
nonsense for any one to attempt tho
tliat this Territory is not
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