The Mercury. (Sandersville, Ga.) 1880-1???, December 13, 1881, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Textthe mercury. gandersvlUe, Washington County, Ga. yOBUaxXD n THE MKIiriTBY. — ■ A. J. JERNICAN, . PaoramoB **n Puauana. A. J. JERNIGAN, Proprietor. DEVOTED TO LITERATURE, AGRICULTURE AND GENERAL INTELLIGENCE. $1.50 PER ANNUM. Babscrlptt*. $LM pwTar, VOL. II. SANDERSVILLE, GA., DECEMBER 13, 1881. NO. 37. Watches, Clocks AND JEWELRY 11KFAIBKD BT JERNIO AN BUY YOU® Spectacles, Spectacles FROM JERNICAN. None genuine without our Trailo Mark. On hand and for aalo, Spectacles,’Nose Crlasses, Eli; Music! Music -GO TO- JERNIGAN -FOll— BOWS, STRINGS, HOSI1X BOXES, &c Machine Needles Oil and 8hutties toil ALL KINDS OF MACHINES, for eali I will aluo order part* of Moehinoe that get broken, for which new piece* art wanted. A.. .T. JERN1GAN C. C. BROWN, Attorney at Sandorarille, do. Will practice In tho State and United State- courts. Ollicc in Oourt-houeo. H. N~ HOLLIFIELD, Physician and Surgeon, Sondenyille, Go. OfTit'o next door to Mrs. Bayne's milliner)' item on Harris Stroot. G. W. H. WHITAKER, DENTIST, SANDERSVILLE, GA. Tkrus Cash. OlTico at hie Residonoo, on HarrU Street April 8, 1880. B. D. EVANS, Attorney at Law, SANDERSVILLE, GA April 3, 1880, THE MERCURY. PUBLISHED EVERY TUESI NOTICE. jHTAU ooaomunioatlane Intended far thh | per muit be aooompanled with the ftill now the writer, not neoeeearily for publication, a* a guarantee of good faith. We are in no way responsible far the llm at indokone of oorreepondenta. E. A. SULLIVAN, NOTARY PUBLIC, SANDERSVILLE, GA. Special attention given to tho oolleotion oi flaima Onioo in tho Oourt-hoaea 25 CENTS, POSTPAID. A TREATISE ON THE! HORSE -AND- DISEASES. thn ul, ain,ni1 ! mi Index of Diseasos, which given OauHO, and tho Best Treatment , A lable giving all the principal drugs ifWt/ Ur \ ha I ? orao i with the ordinary dose, will) S „’ a "t! nnti doto when a poison. A Table rijrr J ''-ugraving of tho Horso’s Tooth at A vai* \ ?S es . with rules for telling the age. otliir, I , collection of iiecoipts and muoh U,< r valuable information. *Sdrt»s*i^'n. E J?9 OK * BGnt postpaid to any 25 Con to/ 10 ^ n * tcc * or Canada, for CLUB RATES. mS’cokes *1 00 TWv5, JPtE 3.. i 70 hundred copies!‘.!”!!!””!!io oo Address^ 0 ^ Three-Cont Stamps received. The olouds hung low tho livelong day, I could not eeo their silver lining, And out of some doep rankling pain My hoart was heavy with repining; The bird within its gtldod cage Brought (lrcamB of happy days departed, A prisoned ’plaint in every note Smoto momorv till tho tear drops started. My psalm of llfo was out of tuno, Its minor chords woro full of sadness, Nor oould T roach the upper height, Tho sunlit hills of joy and gladnoss; Tho splendor of long vanished days Mocked tho iload calm of things around me, Tho broken chains of faithless love Scemod stronger than tho tios that bound me. Oh bitter aBhos of Uoad faith, That sprinkle ovory after altar, And ochoes of a lost love's wraith That make its swoot ronewais falter, I know why all tho weary day My hoart could ntter no Thankagiving, And why tho anguish of lifo’s Had mado it soom not worth the living. And yet, dear hands that claBp my own, Fond oyos that toll mo tondor stories, I would forget lifo’s bittor draughts For what you give mo of its glories. Now in the twilight of tho day I hear a song of happy moasuros, And eo I kneel low in tho duBt And thank tho Giver for my treasures. —Mrs. ,V. M. Jordan. New York Newspaper Union, 148 * IN Wmfc Si., K.wY.rk. Helen’s Thanksgiving Dinner. It wns not to be expeoted that old Mr. Appleby, of the groat firm of Ap pleby & Forsyth, would consent to the marriage of bis daughter to his penniless olerk, though the young man was of excellent oharaoter. Will Thornby, himself, modestly admitted this. But neither he nor Helen looked for the objections to oome jast in tho way they did. "A young fellow who has his way to make in the world, as you have, sir,’ said the father, "needs a real helpmate and not a mere bit of ornamental fur niture. Helen is a good girl; but sho is not fit to be the wife of a poor man. Sho can no moro cook a broakfast than sail one of my ships. I have explained my views to her often,” he oontinned, glancing over his speotacles at her, as she toyed with a curtain tassel, in her embarrassment, " but sho probably thinks mo too old-fashioned; sho has nover put my advice into practice.” " Fathor," said Helen, reproachfully, "you know I havo made an elegant ooooanut cake for tea a number of times.” " A man cannot live on cocoannt cake, my child. Wholesome bread, a broiled steak and good coffee aro much better. There is no nse in arguing this point. But I like yon sir, and I’ll propose a compromise. If my daughter is will ing to go to work and qualify herself on this subject of house navigation, I will not object to you tnking her os commander-in-ohief of your craft. That’s my ultimatum, sir. It' Helen learns to cook a Thanksgiving dinner, from beginning to end, I will write out a certiilcato for her. She can turn it into a marriage certificate if she likes,’ and his gray eyes gave a slight twinkle. " Must she wait until Thanksgiving to serve up her dinner?" asked Will, rather anxiously. " If she has it ready to serve in a year from next Thanksgiving you’ll bo in luck," said the father, with an inoredu- lone smile. And with theso words he dismissed the lovers. "He wasn’t so formidable as I ex peoted,” said Will, drawing a long breath. " But you don’t realize," said Helen, ruefully, "what a task he has set me.” " What are the requirements of a Thanksgiving dinner, that is according to your father’s standard ?" “Just the things that his mother used to set out in his old New England home. His devotion to this festival is a relic of his early days. Our cook un derstands it all, for which I am thank ful; but how I am to set about learning is a puzzle. I believe the feast takes in a little of everything in tho range of cooking. If I can cook suoh a dinner to suit father's taste, I can do anything in the cooking line. But I’ll do it,” she added. " You brave girl," cried her lover. “It will be rather humiliating,” said ■lolen, after awhile, "to ask Rebeoca for information on every little thing. I ought to know something about flour and spices and such things to begin with. When I made my cake, Rebecca brought me all tho things.” The task assigned to Helen might look easy to those who had been famil iar all their lives with the details of housework. But it was a serious un dertaking for a lady of her wealth, with no mother to direct her, and only a stately housekeeper and a cook to con sult, either one of whom had little pa tience with this “ latest whim," as they called it, of Miss Helen. They would have much preferred her room to her company in the kitohen, and their only hope was that the "cooking fit” would uot last long. Helen kept her secret, of course. But Rebeoca began to guess that her father had "promised her something’ in oasoshe should qualify herself as a cook. "Maybe a trip to Europe, or perhaps a diamond neoklaoe.” Helen did not deny or affirm any of these sus picions, but plodded regularly on ber way. There was a touch of obstinacy in her composition that would not let her give up or take help after one, or even two, rather unsuccessful experi ments in bread-making. She went to work again after every failure, saying: "I’ll do it yet.” It was hard, meanwhile, for her to keep pace with all the social domands of the set in which she moved and adorned so. A provoking bum on her hand, or a cut on her fingers, cansed frequent comment. " You are the most unlucky gsrl I know of, lately," said Panline Bradley. " You ought to get insured in some sad acoident company.” But Will looked with great affection on these honorable scars, and made much of them. Another good lesson she learned inci dentally by her new business, and that Was that " the morning hour hod gold in its mouth.” If she wished uninter rupted time for work, she found she must rise early. This suited her father, who loved a cheerful, bright face oppo site him at his early breakfast; and that was what he had not often seon in the old days, before Helen took to learning cooking. " Poor father, how solitary it muBt have’ been," she thought, when she found how glad he was. Sho did her work well, too. She de veloped capabilities of which she had never suspected. Perhaps it was as Longfellow suggests: “ Ah, how skillful grows the hand That obeyoth Iovo’b command I It is tho heart and not tho brain That to the highost doth attain, And ho who followeth Iovo’b behest Far excocdoth all the rost 1” Certainly nothing else oo%ld have given Helen the interest in her new op erations which she felt every morning. No devotee in the art of decorating tiles and plates ever went about it with more enthusiasm; and it was very pleas ant to talk ovor the morning’s anooess when evening came and fortnne fav ored her with a quiet hour with her lover. But this was not often, how ever, for Mr. Appleby said,"not too much visiting, young man, till we see how all this turns out." Meantime the old gentleman approved of her coffee, approved of her breakfast cake, praised the rosy cheeks she was acquiring, and altogether took great comfort in the "improvement going on,” as ho said, "in his little girl.” Bo much encouragement stimulated, with out spoiling, Helen. She had quite a triumph one week in the early fall. Rebecca fell sick when the houskeeper was away on a visit. The upper ser vant and waiter were instructed not to say a word about "cook’s rheumatism;” and so Helen oamod on the house, and so efficiently that her father never missed Rebecca. "If Mr. Appleby doesn’t consider that equivalent to a Thanksgiving din ner," said Will, “he isn’t the reasonable man I take him to bo. Yon ought to let me speak to him, Helen,” he added "Be patient, Will," she replied. " 1 have ever so muoh to leam yet. These New England pumpkin pies come next. My father dotes on them.” That November tho country aunts and cousins oamo np in force to spend Thanksgiving in the city, according to invitation. The preceding day had been a trying one to Holen. How to calculate for twenty-five guests was the puzzle. But she wisely determined that too muoh was better than not enough. There were relays of every thing baked or conserved in the store room, whioh looked as if might provi sion an army. Helen had been in a little of “ a stew,” as Rebeooa termed it, over her baked meats. But they had come from the oven of the richest shade of brown; and Mr. Appleby’s enthusiasm roso with the occasion. Tho feast and the familiar faces made him a boy again, as if once more back on the old New England iarm. When the proud father revealed the fact that Helen was the arohiteot of that dinner, from the orisp pickles, the amber and ruby jelly, to the old tradi tional chicken-pie, how the praises came in on every side I Mothers nodded significantly to their daughters, as if to say, "I wonder when you can do as muoh.” Old Aunt Hepzibah said, “city life hasn’t spoiled Oousin Helen, that’s plain,” and old Hepzibah was a severe oritic. The bright evening was over and the house had regained its aocustomed quiet. Mr. Appleby was alone in his library, his memory busy, as it always is on these festival days, in calling up vanished faces which can never again appear at tho family gathering. He watched the glowing coals in the grate so absently that he did not at first notice that two forms had glided in and stood beside his fire, Will leaned his elbows on the marble of the mantel, and looked inquiringly into the face whioh had softer lines upon it than he had ever seen before. Business for tho time had faded out from the gray oyes and from the strongly marked features. There was jthe same questioning glance in Helen’s bine eyes, as she gased, half-tearfnlly, on her father's faoe. Mr. Appleby looked np with a start. Ho knew at onoe the purport of tho lovers’ errand, He was not a man glvento speeoh-making, bnt he had a heart; and Helen was his one ewe lamb. He rose, and joining the bands of the two young people, said, with a choking voice, " William, bo worthy of her; heaven bless you both, my ohildren.” Then he paused long enough for his daughter’s good-night kiss, and retired qniokly to his own apartment. In the swift, ohanging years that went and came, Helen was never sorry for that season’s lesson which her father had set her to learn. It enabled her to tide over oommeroial panics, to reef sails when the gales blew, and to ride out safely storms whioh wrecked many other ships that sailed the'samo seas. " Good management at home saved me,” Will often proudly stated. Nor had Helen lost a line of womanly grace or boanty by the praotioo of theso wo manly arts. Bather bad they deepened and widened her oharaoter, making her moro useful and sympathetic. She never ceased to say, "How glad I am papa made me cook that THANKnormo Dinner.” A Viliams in India. Outside the entrance of the single village street, on an exposed rise of ground, the hereditary potter aits by his wheel, molding the swift-revolving olay by the natural onrvos of bis hands. At the baok of the houses which form the low, irregular street there are two or three looms at work in blue and soarlet and gold, the frames hanging between the acacia treos, the yellow flowers of whioh drop fast on the webs as they are being woven. In tho street the brass and coppersmiths arc ham mering away at their pots and pans; and farther down, in the veranda of tnc rich man’s house, is a jeweler working rupees and gold mohrs into fair jewelry, gold and silver earrings, and round tires like the moon, bracelets and tab lets and noserings, and tinkling ornaments for the feet, taking his designs from the fruits and dowers aronnd him, or from the traditional forms represented in the paintings and carvings of the great temple, whioh rises over the grove of mangoes and palms at the end of the street, above the lotos-covered village tank. At 3:30 or 4 o’olook in tho after noon the whole street is lighted up bj the moving robes of the women going down to draw water from tho tank, eaoh with two or three wator jars on her head ; and so, whilo they aro going and Returning iu single file, tho sceno glows like Titian’s oanvas and moves like the stately prooession of the Panathoimie frieze. Later the men drivo in the mild, gray kine from the moaning plain, tho looms are folded np, the coppersmiths are silent, the elders gather in tho gate, the lights begin to glimmer in the fast-falling dark ness, the feasting and the music are heard on every side, and late into tho night the songs are Bung from the Ramayana or Mahabh&rata. The next morning, with sunrise, after the simple ablutions and adorations performed in the open air beforo tho houses, tho same day-begins again. This is the daily life going on all over western India in the village oommnnities of the Dakhan, among a people happy in their simple manners and frugal way of life, and in the culture derived from the grand epics of a religion in whioh they live and move and have their daily being, and in whioh the highest expres sion of their literature, art and civiliza tion has been stereotyped for 3,000 years. “ The Finn's Busted." A novel bankruptcy case is reported by the National Sunday-School Teacher. The junior partner of the firm, being more generous than jnst, went into a benevolent operation without asking the senior member. A little boy applied to General Clinton B. Fisk for capital to go into business. Amount wanted — Seventy-five oonts. Business — Boot-blacking. Station — Near Fulton ferry, New York, Profits to be divided at the end of six months. The arrangement was made, and the firm began business. On Monday morning, however, tho “ workin” part ner came into the general’s office wear ing a very lugubrious countenance. "What’s the matter?” asked the gen eral. "Oh,” said the boy, " its all np.” “All up 1” said the general, "what do you mean 1” "Oh,” replied theurohin, "the firm’s busted." " How is that ?” was the inquiry. "Well,” said the boy, “I had $4.92 on hand, bat yesterday a man came into our Sunday-school and said we must give all our money to the missionary so ciety, and I put it all in—couldn’t help it—an' it’s all up with us.” Wo have no doubt that the firm imme diately “resumed” business again—but it is the first partnership we have heard of that has been bnrsted in that way Henoe onr extreme sympathy. Clim.VOS FOR TUB CURIO VS MOMENTOUS MATTEBS. There are 700,000 Masons in the United States. "The length of the East river suspen sion bridge is 5,993 feet. The quantity of soda imported into the United States from England in 1847 was 8,000 tons. In an edition of Ptolemy’s geography, 1540, a double-tailed mermaid figures in one of the plates. There are seventy-two national ceme teries for the burial of the Union and Confederate dead. Among the natives of Indin white quartz, boiled inmilk, is used as a rem edy for sick ohildren. A wire 400 feet long onn be made from one grain of silver. Snob a wire is finer than human hair. Tho anoient Chinese used hydropathy as a onre for certain diseases, among others ohronio rheumatism. Steel noodles were invented by the Spanish Moors, before whioh thorns or fish bones, with a hole pierced for an eye, were nsed. The first needles made in London were made in tho reign of Henry VIII. by a Moor. The first book pnblished in tbe North Amcrioan colonies was, it is supposed, an"Almanao calculated for New Eng land, by Mr. William Pieroe,” whioh appeared in Cambridge in 1639. It was printed by Stephen Daye, bnt not a copy of it now exists. Tboso of ns who in winter complain that the snn has not power of warmth should boar in mind Professor Young's recent remark, that if wo could build up a solid oolurnn of ice from the earth to tho snn, two miles and a quarter in di ametcr, spanning the inconceivable abyss of 93,000,000 miles, and if then the snn should conoontrate its power npon it, it wonld dissolve and melt, not in an hour nor in a minute, bnt in a singlo second; one swing of tho pendu lum and it would be water, seven more and it wonld be dissipatod in vapor. A Marvelous Narcotic. Mr. Markham states that the coca leaf is to the Peruvian Indian what betel is to the Hindoo, kava to tho South Boa islander and tobacco to the rett of man kind. So much, perhaps, was already pretty generally known; but we imagine that—at least outside a very limited medioal service—it was not known that ” its use produces invigorating effects whioh are not possessed by the othor stimulants.” Whilo reading oarefally tho history of the marvelous virtues of this plant given by Mr. Markham, the present writer came accidentally acrosn a recent prescription in which a prepa ration of it was v en in minimum doses, the officaoy of ich was tested with goo l result on head ho caused by mental worry. On further inquiry we found its use was tho snbjeot of careful consideration and even administration amongst some of our ablest physioians. The Peruvians, says our author, look on it with feelings of superstitious venera tion, and the old Inoas sacrificed it to the sun. The plant can be cultivated from 5,000 to 6,000 feet above the level of the sea; but we have no space to fol low the interesting details of its culti vation; wo can only add Mr. Markham’s testimony to its medicinal nse. He says: "Applied externally cooa moder ates the rhenmatio pains caused by cold, and onres headache. When nsed to excess, it is, like everything else, pre judicial to health; yet, of all narcotics used by man, ooca is the least injurious, and the most soothing and invigora ting.” And he adds: "I ohew tobacco, not constantly, but very frequently, from tbe day of my departure from Sandia, and besides the agreeable, soothing feeling it produced, I found that I could endure long abstinence from food with less inconvenience than I should otherwise have felt, and it enabled me to asoendpreoipitous moun tain sides wiih a feeling of lightness and elasticity, and without losing breath.” The Carrying Trade of the World From a recent comparative statement it appears, omitting vessels of less than fifty tons measurement, Europe pos sesses forty-two tons to everyone thous and inhabitants, America forty, and Aus tralia seventy-nine, while Asia and Af rica havo only two tons per thousand Liverpool ranks as the most important port in the world,-with a tonnage of 2,647,373 ; this is succeeded by London, with 2,330,688, and Glasgow with 1,153,- G76 tons. The nine landing ports of Great Britain have a tonnage of 8,724,- 123, whilo the first four ports of tho United States have only 1,976,940. St. Johns, New Brunswick, is in this respect as important as Boston or Charleston and more so than Philadelphia. Great Britain and Ireland possess a gross ton nage of nearly twelve millions sailing vessel tons, and with the tonnage other colonies tho British flag covers fourteen millions tonnage out of the total world’s existing tonnage of twenty-seven mil lions. The United States, twenty years ago, carried sixty-six per cent, of their foreign trado in their own bottoms, whereas now they carry something less than eighteen per cent. The only plaoe where cremation seems to bo thoroughly cstiblished is Milan Italy, where abont 150 bodies Lave been burned sinoe the crematory was built— scarcely a year ago. Tha amount of cotton manufactured in Great Britain in 1880 was 1,405,- 000,000 pounds. The amount manufac tured in the United States was 980,- 000,000 pounds. Great Britain mann faotured only abont fifty per cent, more than the United States. The Indians, Lieutenant Brown of the United States army reports, have seen the results of the training reoeived by Indian ohildren at Hampton, Vu., and appreciate them. They aro now anxious to have their boys selected for the school, bnt they are not so mnch in fa vor of educating the girls. Their idea is that if the girls wore educated " they would get like the white women and not do any work at all.” A statistician has been flgnring npon the annual consumption by American manufacturers of the precious metals, whioh ho estimates as 813,000,000 gold and $3,000,000 silver. Two-thirds of the latter is used iu making plate. Of the gold, the greater part goes for rings and watch oases. It is estimated tlint there are about 250,000 wedding rings given in this country every year, aver aging $2 each in cost. There are 100,000 moro rings given as gages d'amour and a still larger number bostowed in holiday presents. The groat wheat exporters of Russia are becoming alarmed at the tremendous competition they have to encounter. Hungary and the Danubian principali ties were the first to appear in the Western markets, bnt tho construction of a railway to Odessa restored the equilibrium. Then the American com petition commenced, and lms ruined the inhabitants of the wheat-producing districts of the Mnsoovite empire. Wheat is abundant iu the interior- more se than for many years past—bnt there is soaroely any communication with the seaboard. The great military railways run right throngh the country, but thoro are few feeding lines. The roads and canals and the care of the wheat in transport are in ns primitive a state as when Russia had no competitor in tbo field. If a prompt movo is not made by the government—which is scarcely to be expected at present— Russian wheat will soon bo driven out of the Woatern markets by United States enterprise and tho new field opening np in India. * A Japanese Ragpicker. Among (he novel objects in tho won derful city of Tokio none are more in teresting to the foreigner than tho peo ple who earn their living on the streets Theso industrious creatures oomo and go at stated periods, have their regular haunts, attract attention by their pecu liar dress and strange ories, and play an important part in the oomedy of the citj life. At dawn, long before the shopkeepers have quitted their mats, the karni- kudzu-hiori (paper sorap colleotor) emerges from his squalid hut and com mences his rounds. He is usually an old, old man, olad in patches and shreds, and wears a very broad-brimmed reed hat, while, for sanitary or other reasons, his nose and month are covered with a ragged blue towel, people of his olass being no longer compelled thus to conceal their faces. Upon his left side he carries a hnge but light basket, and in his right hand two long bamboo rods, used like tongs. He seldom speaks to any one, goes about his work in a systematic manner, and is to Tokio what tho ragpioker is to New York, though, unlike his foreign brother, he generally confines himself to the col lection of waste paper, not a scrap of whioh esoapes his ferret-like eyes. Having formerly belonged to the de spised Eta olass he is very humble, and bows to all the well-dr. ssed persons he encounters. As he silently moves along the street he carefully turns over everv little pile of rubbish with his sticks, and, picking out the pieces of paper, jerks them into his capacious receptacle, [t is wonderful how dexterously he handles the instruments, one moment using them to tear a flutteringjragment of placard from a fence, and the next inserting them between the bars of a window and filching a book carelessly left in 6ight by its owner. He is a wary, thievish old rascal, and many a boy’s kite and servant-girl’s novel that have mysteriously disappeared from the house havo found their way into his basket. In addition to having a bad reputation for appropriating anything in tne shape of paper, he is said to be a dog-stealer. The ooming holidays will be more generally observed than any for many years, and wo wonld remind our readers that a bottle of Dr. Bull’s Cough Syrup will prove a most accept able holiday present . FABULOUS WEALTH. A Hnnkrn Shin with m«IW,SN In Me nml JrnrU on llourd—Elions in 11rOnvei lin' Tr.n.nre. The International Submarine Diring company, whose vessel, tbe Mary O. Leeoh, has been quietly engaged in searching for the location of her Britan- nio majesty’s brig De Brook, whioh foundered Jnne 10, 1798, off Lewes, Del., has been rewarded with nnmistak- able evidences of the lost vessel. Dar ing tbe past eighty-three years no effort, with the exception of that made by the British government in 1880, has been made to recover the fabulous treason whioh is known to have been annk. It has beon abandoned as being irrevocably t lost, because the depth of water is so great that all appliances hereto fore invented for raising heavy bodies were useless. The Inter national company, which was or ganized in Philadelphia for no other purpose than to raise the abandoned treasure, is fitted np with all that in genuity can devise. The most wonder ful piece of mechanism on board is an immense diving-bell, in whioh a diver might livo comfortably for a week. He has communication with the npper world by telephone wires. He is sup plied with the means of making his own air, and for light in his exploration he is provided with a powerfnl oectrio flame, whioh, when in operation, re veals to him every ontside object with vivid distinctness. At the side of the bell is a meohanioal.arm with maohinery so perfeot that in every movement it re sembles the aotion of the human arm, evon unto the pieking up of a pin. Aooording to papers in the possession of Samuel S. McCracken, a pilot, whose grandfather was the only survivor, and who was engaged in piloting the vessel into the harbor, abont $52,000,000 of speoie and jewels went down wjth her. — The money was taken by the De Brook from an intercepted Spanish fleet while on her way to Halifax, Eugland, from a snocessfnl cruise on the Spanish Main. With the specie wore taken two hun dred prisoners. When the vessel foun dered the prisoners wero in irons on tbe lower decks, and were all loat. Captain ’ James Drew, who commanded the vossol, and whose body was reoovered two days afterward, lies bnried in St. Peter’s obarohyard in Lewes. Tivo'years after the wreck the Briti.h uoverument sent two frigates toraite tho Do Brook, bnt without success. Forty years ago, while McCracken was on a cruise, circulars were posted around Sussex county offering $60,000 for in- or mat ion that wonld lead to the discov ery of tbe sunken vessel. It had beon supposed up to the present that the hull hod beeu swept away by the notion of tho tiiles. The International com- * pauy, to keep its real object from view, had beon since Boplembc . work ing at another sunken vessel, ’noas -• whole tho Da Brook was supposed to have foundered. McCracken, who to rooBivo a majority of what ever treasure is discovered, in au interview, snvs that the De Brook lies in fifteen fathoms of water. The divers, in going down, found a long, irregular ridge, about fifteen feet high, eighteen feet wide and sixty feet long. On eaoh side are piles of loose stone, supposed to be the ballast thrown from tbe frigate in the effort to raise the wreok in the year 1800. Bough water interfering with farther operations, the oompany was compelled to postpone further in-« vestigation, and the divera returned to Philadelphia. The work, however, will - be vigorously pushed forward as soon 1 as favorable weather sets in.—Reading (Pa.) Tims, The Fluff Mat. The IT'iUe' s’ Gazette says: An ex change paper says that the ping bat is virtually a sort of social guarantee for the preservation of peaoe and order. He who puts one on has given a hostage to the community for his good behavior. The wearer of a plug hat must move with a certain sedateDess and propriety. He cannot ran, or jnmp, or romp, or . get into a fight except at the peril of his headgear. AU the hidden in fluences of the beaver tend toward re spectability. He who wears one is obliged to keep the rest of his body in» decent trim, that there may be no in congruity between head and body. He is apt to become thoughtful through the necessity of watching the sky when ever he goes ont. The chances are that he will buy an umbrella, which ia another guarantee for good behavior, and the care of hat and umbrella—per petual and exacting as it must ever be —adds to the sweetness of his char acter. The man who wears a ping hat naturally takes tothesooiety of women, with all its elevated tendencies. He cannot go hnnting or fishing without abandoning hi3 beloved hat, but in the moderate enjoyment of croquet or lawn- tennis he may sport his beaver with impunity. In other words, the constant use of a ping hat makes a man com posed in manner, quiet and gentle manly in conduot and a companion of the ladies. The inevitable result ia prosperity, marriage and ohuroh mem bership.

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The Mercury. (Sandersville, Ga.) 1880-1???, December 13, 1881, Image 1