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Newspaper Page TextTHE mercury. HA Bocond- claes matter at the Sanders* rtllo Postoflloe, April 27, 1880. gandersviUe, Washington County, Ga. FCBU8HKS BT i A. J. JERNICAN, PRomnrro* us Punusn**. totaariptt 00 ** .ILM pit Tow. THE „» i A. J. JERNIGAN, Pbopribtob. DEVOTED TO LITERATURE, AGRICULTURE AND GENERAL INTELLIGENCE. *1.50 PER ANNUM. VOL. II. SANDERSVILLE, GA., MARCH 14, 1882. NO. 50. C. C. BROWN, .Attorney at Law, Samlorsville, Ga. Will pr/iotioo in tho Stato and United Statoa tonrta. Offloo in Court-honso. H. N. HOLLIFIELD, Physician and Surgeon, Bandoraville, Ga, * Office next door to Mrs. Dayno’a millinery jlnro (.nil arris 8troot. G. W. H. WHITAKER, dentist, bandebsville, gjl Thumb Oibti. Offico at liia Hoaideuoe, on Harris Street April 3,1380. B. D. EVANS, Attorney at Law, SANDEIISVILLE, GA April 3, 1880. E. A. SULLIVAN, notary public, HANDERSVILLE, GA, Special attention given to tho collection ol claims. Office in the Oourt-hooaa Watches, Clocks AND JEWELRY REPAIRED DT JERNIG- AN BUY YOUR Spectacles, Spectacles FROM JERNICAN. None genuine without our Trodo Mark. On hand and for sale, Spectacles, Nose Classes, Etc Musici Music -go TO- JERNIGAN —FOR— BOWS, STRINGS, ROSI1V BOXES, &e Machine Needles Oil and Shuttles «» Wjf KINDS OF MACHINES, for sail i will also order parts of Machines that . get broken, fur wliicli new piocos are wanted. v. J. JERN1GAN 25 CENTS, ^ or POSTPAID. A TREATISE G3V the house -AND- HIS DISEASES. the Svimvt ,11? an i na « °f Disoasoe, which given of eaoli i'lJ, 8 ’,9 au ? e j an<1 tho Ueat Treatment mi,,i a J-able giving all the principal drugs •ffeotB on.V 10 with the ordinary dose, *181 im v autR ! oto wllfl n a poison. A Table different r'“Braving of the Horso’s Tooth at A valu»i,v? CB ’„ W1 ,. ml08 for telling the age. ot W valuablTlnformation.'^ a0e * Pta “ d tddre?,'^9® HOOK, sent postpaid to any 3b Ceuta ^ ^ mted states or Canada, for CLUB RATES. Soopifa 8 oo tilras/"' 0 ^ Thr»*-Cent Stamps reoeived, York Newspaper Union, . THE MERCURY* PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY. NOTICE. jar All oommnnieationi intend wl for ttti !*• per mnat be aooompanied with the hill nawe o, the writer, not neoewarUy for publication, tat aa a guarantee oi good faith. We are in no my raepoMible te tto vtanti Lndaione of oorreepondenta. A Sterling Old l'oem. Who shall judge man for his manners! Who shall know him by his dross ? Paupers may bo fit for princes, Princes fit for something less. Crumpled shirt aDd dirty jaokot May boelotho the glorious oro Of tho doepost thoughts and footings— Satin vost can no more. There aro streams of crystal noctar Ever flowing out of stone; Thoro aro purple buds and golden, Hidden, crushod and overthrown. God, who counts by souls, not dresses, Loves and prospers you and ms, Wliilo Ho vhlucs thrones tho highest, But as pebbles in the sea. 1W * 150 Worth lit,, NnrYwfc, EI. HIR Man upraised above liis fellows, Oft forgets his fellows then; Masters—rulers—lords, romombor That your meanest hinds are men I Mon of labor, mon of feeling, Mon of thought and men of fameflp Olatmiug oqual rights to sunshino In a man’s onnobllng name, Thero are foam-embroidered ocoans; Thero aro little wood-clad rills; Thoro aro foeblo inoh-high saplings; Thoro aro oodars on the hills. • God, who oounts by souls, not stations, LoveB and prospers you and mo; For to Him all vain distinctions Aro sb pobblos in the son. Toiling handBaiono aro bulldors Of a nation’s wealth and fame, Titled laziness is pensioned, Fod and fattonod on tho samo; By tho sweat of others’ forohoads, Living only to rejoice, Whilo the poor man’s outraged fooling Vainly lifts its foobled voico. Truth and justice aro otom&I, Bom with'lovolinoss and light; Secret wrongs shall novor prospor Whilo thoro is a sunny right. God, whoso world-wide voico is singing Boundless love to you and me, Links oppresion with its tltlos But as pebbles in tho soa. THE STORY OF JIT DIAMONDS. On the 9th of May, 1876, I arrived in Austin, Texas, with thirteen diamonds in my possession, the aggregate valno of which was fully *100,000. They h ul been sent to a certain party in New York who had agreed to carry them to San Antonio, Texas, where the pur chaser, a wealthy merchant and tho ownorbf several ranohes, lived. They wore intended as a present to his only daughter on her birthday, tho 10th of May. Every probable provision had been made to get them to tho Lone Star Stato several duys in advance of tho “auspicious occasion," which was meant to bo snob a memornblo one in the life of tho dark eyel beauty of the romantic old town in which she was born and reared. Tho first hitch oc- onrred in Now York, immediately after the diamonds came into tho hands of Fred Barrett, tho cousin of Miss Bar rett, and who it was arranged was to deliver them in person to the fathor. On the very day Fred Barrett opened the wonderful gems to feast his eyes on their beauty he was taken violently ill. As ho was an athletic, vigorous man, with no bad habits, he and his friends supposed ho would bo himself in a brief while, but be showed no improve ment for several days and finally sent for me. “.The doctor says I have bogun to mend, but that it will be impossible for mo to leave my room under ten days. According to the original plan I would have had ample time to reach uncle’s be fore the 10th, but if those diamonds do not start to-morrow they will be too late for the interesting oeremony and uncle would rather lose a fortune than miss such a pleasure, on which nis heart is set.” “Why not send them by express? It is quite safe—that is, as safe os any thing can be in this world.” “I have thought of all that, but the imperative order from uncle was that under no oircumstances should the diamonds go by public conveyance. You know thero have been many train and stago robberies in .the West and Southwest lately, and these jewels would bo too tempting a morsel for some of those gentry. The long and short of it is, I want you to takooharge of and deliver them to uncle himself. You have boon over the route several times and know tho country more thoroughly than I do. To be brief, I accepted the proposal, and as I stated at the beginning I reached the capital of Texas on the afternoon of the 9th of May in the centennial year. I am naturally oool and free from nervousness, but there was excuse for considerable worriment on my part. Mr. Barrett had been notified by tele graph that a visitor would reach his house on the night of the 10th, which would bo in time for the party, but when the preceding evening found the messenger in Austin, that messenger felt it was cutting things altogether too ffiSTSTEsrsoiniott. it w arm miles from the Texan capital to San Antonio, and the stage which left the former city early in the morning re quired the entire day to make the jour ney. Tho line had been established many years, * and there were three oranges of teams on the route, four horses being always hitohed to the heavy but powerful coach, whiob very rarely indeed failed to rattle into San Antonio early in the evening. With the late completion of tho railroad tho btago company has found its occupation gone. It would have been more pleasant to me had another twenty-four hours been at my command, bn t it was not that which caused so mnoh uneasiness as the con viction that amounted to an absolute oertainty that two men were following mo. How in the namo of the seven wonders they learned or even snspeoted that I had such valuable property in my custody passes my comprehension. Tho utmost seoreoy was used in New York, and tho fiery carbon points were oarefnlly wrapped up in a pieoo of chamois skin, which was as securely fastened to a small belt passing around my waist, beneath my clothing, and which was not to be removed until the end of my journey was roaobod. A person in my situation is naturally sus picions, but I am snro I conducted my- solf like the majority of my fellow pas sengers who were not supposed to be in tho possession of us mnoh wealth as myself. I kept a close watch on thorn, but observed nothing to oauso alarm nntil after leaving St. Louis over the Iron Mountain road. I thon became so well satisfied that two sinister-look ing and woll-dressed men were shadow ing me that I declined to retire to my berth and sat up Bmoking most of the timo nnd wide-awake all tho way to Texarkana. At that dilapidated town I made the best effort I could originate to throw the hounds off my trail. I thought I had succeeded for a timo, but they turned up at Dallas, and when I registered at tho Oommoroial hotol their names appoarod under mine. Long before this I had fully concluded that they had fixed on the road between Austin and San Antonio as tbo ono where I should part company with my diamonds and most probably with my life. Tho chances were so favorable on that lonely route that they merely kept on my trail or rather in my company from St. Louis to tho capital. TLg sit uation thon was that I was dno at a certain point fifty miles away and with in twenty-fonr hours, and that two men were determined that my property should novor reach there. After strongly securing tho door of my room that night at tho hotel I sat down to decide what Bhould bo done, for thore could he no mistaking the faot that the crisis was at hand. In stead of being mentally tirod and worn ont from tho continual strain to which I had been subjected, I never was more prepared for intense thought in all my life. I tipped my chair against the door, sitting with my hand on my loaded rovolver, in which position I knew it wonld be impossible to sur prise me, and still thinking nnd turn ing over all sorts of plans, I finally dropped asleep and did not opon my eyes until daylight. However, when I roused up and looked around me I had fixed upon a lino of action. Whether it would take mo through or not ro- mnined to be seen, but I did not hesi- tato to follow out the liue I had laid out for mvself. The next morning whon tho stage with tho four vigorous horses halted in front of the hotel, the landlord went out and told tho driver that I who had engaged a seat on the outside was so ill I would not be able to go with them for several day s. I was stealthily watching proceedings from the upper window, and when tho heavy vehicle lamberod off it took with it tho two men who were following me for the purpose of robbery. My belief was that they would leave the stage at some point on the road and wait until it brought me along, when the robbery wonld take place. There were quite a number of passengers and I had med itated taking several of them into my confidence, but as they were strangers, perhaps it was well that I refrained. An hour later I sauntered down Aus tin avenue nnd came upon an open wagOD, in which a farmer was climbing, as if about to start homeward. As he gathered the linos in hand I asked him where he lived. "At New Braunfels—a long ways from here," he answerod in a decided German accent, while he politely paused to see whether I had any more ques tions to ask. New Braunfels is a German settle ment somewhat more than half the dis tance to San Antonio, and was general ly reaohed by the stage about the middle of tho afternoon. “ Are yon about to go home?” He replied that he was. “I’ll give you ten dollars to allow me to ride with you.” He sturdily refused to accept any thing, but- said I was welcome, though there would be little enjoyment in the trip, as his wagon was without springs and he expected to drive quite rapidly. This suited me, however, and I took my seat beside him. He had some more business after I had placed my valise inside, and we were some two hours behind the stage when we drove over the high bridge which sps>-as the Colorado ana struck off through the rich lauds of Southwestern Texas, I became convinced from the style of the team behind whioh I Was riding that we wonld pass tho stage boforo re<ulrng New Braunfels, and ns 1 was sure my Germiin friend was an honest fellow I made a confidant of him and told him of my dilemma. I had in my possession some very valuable jewelry, and there were two men in tho stage ahead who had planned to rob me. He naturally asked how that eonld be done, when thero were over a dozen passengers besides, who wero doubt less armed, while I was ablo to do something in my own defense. “I see,” he answerod; “they have an understanding with the James boys, who will stop the stage Bomewhere along the road.” “The diokens!” I exclaimed, “arethe James boys in Texas?” “I saw them ride through New Braunfels last week and we shall meet them somewhere along tho road.” This was rather disquieting informa tion, but I could only mako the best of it. I drew from my valise an old coat and damaged hat whioh I donned. In the hat was some r frowsy yellow hair whioh I " banged ” about my forehead and ears, so that my German friend broke out laughing at my changed ap pearance. “Now," said-1. "Let mo hold tho reins and yon ban keep the team going. If I am driving less attention.will be at tracted to mo.” The accommodating follow compliod at once, and striking the spirited horses a sharp blow wo rattled off over the country at a lively gait. I was con siderably disturbed, for I could feel no assurance that the not over brilliant stratagem of* mine had thrown my dreaded acquaintances off the soent. At the first stopping place, whore tho con veyance changed horses, we woro loss than an hour behind, so we expeoted to gain sight of it within a short timo. And sure enough we did. Only a fow milos away we saw the stage standing still on the top of a hill, as if tho driver was giving his horses a rest after the heavy pull. Tboro were eighteen pas sengers, as we learned, so that the four animals hod an unusually heavy load. So wo pushed steadily up tho long in cline until within a hundred feet of tho motionless stage, when my German friend exclaimed; "Groat thunder! That’s Jesse James I" There was one medium-sized man sit ting on a small Texan pony, with bis Winchester rifle cocked and pointed ioward tho stage. On the other side was another robber standing closo to tho vehicle with a cocked revolver in each baud, whilo a third was superin tending the spoliation of the passen gers, who wero passing over watches, purses and valuables with the alacrity always displayed on snob occasions. I was so startled by tho sight that I drew out ta blurry by when Jesse James culled to me with a frightful oath to stop where I was and wait till tho pic- uio was over. It is needless to say I compliod and was an absorbed spec tator of the robbery. The passengers joked and laughed and tried to hide their possessions i^ nil sorts of places. Tho James boys indulged in a fow coarse oaths, but offered no violence and wero not very exacting in their demands. They took tho gold watches diamond rings and such mouey as was passed ont to them, but m passenger was entirely “cleaned out.” When they wero through it was plain to me they wero disappointed, and they galloped away, firing their pistols over their heads, qnickly vanishing in the mozqnit bash. We passed the stage and arrived at New Braunfels an hour ahead. There I donned my usual clothing, compelled my German friend to accept a gratuity and waited for the stage. It was rare enjoyment to me wttenthe latter drove up and I entered to study tho expression of tho two mon who had shadowod mo all the way from St. Louis and had doubtless arranged the robbery for the purpose of making sure of tho diamonds I carried with me. They never heard, and unless they como across this sketch,-they will never know how it was that the man who car ried this concentrated wealth and whom they left ill in Austin on the tenth of May, 1876, stood on the porch of the hotel of New Braunfels, on the after noon of the same day, when the stage drove up and j ournoyed with them to San Antonio, where the property was safely placed in the hands of the owner and by him presented to his daughter that same evening, A Buffalo paper tells af a lover who began to propose to his girl just as his horses started to run with the sleigh. Being determined to have it over with he got the question out at the moment the sleigh struck a mile post. The girl was thrown high into the air, but as she came down she uttered a firm “Yes, Charlie,” and then fainted. Experiments are in progress in Eng land for testing the adaptability of that country for tho growth of American varieties of apples. MOMENTOUS MATTERS. The total amount of bituminous coal mined in the United States in 1880 was 42,420,580‘tons, of which 29,842,240 were mined in the Appalachian field, ’the anthracite product was 28,646,995 tons, nearly oil futnishod by tbe State of Pennsylvania, making the total coal product of tho country for tho oonsus year 71,067,576 tons. England pro duced 14G,818,122 tons in tho same year. Minnie Madden and Grace Orary, Il linois girls of eighteen and nineteen, are making a tour of tho West on bi cycles. They started early in Ihe fall, and when cold weather set in at the North they had reaohed Texas. They are not doing it for show purposes, but for health and diversion. A man ser vant attends thorn, and they carry a small quantity of baggugo, thoir trunks being sent ahead by express. They in tend to cross the country to Florida by spring, and thon move np along the eoast. Tho new eensns is bringing out many curious faots. In the whole country there is an excess of nearly a million malos, yot in almost all tho cities this proportion is roversed. Thore aro forty-five oities of moro than 40,000 inhabitants, and in all but nine tbe females outnumber the males. The chief causes of the discrepancy are to be sought in the larger employment of females than malos injioUBehold ser vice, and in the continually increasing engagement of fomales in manufactur ing pursuits. According to tho seorelary of the Manufacturing Chemists’ association of the United States tho capital invested in the ohcmic&l industry is *85,000,000; the annual production is worth *118,- 000,000; tho numbor of manufacturing establishments is 1,346, using 600,000 tons of coal and employing 30,000 working people, whose wages amount to *12,000,000 a year. Tho industry is not only groat in itsolf, but it nffords a side light of tlio magnitude of otbor manufactures which require chemicals for thoir production. Tho recent death, near Malvern Hiil, Va., of Nathan Enroughty is likely to rovivo ilio question, often discussed, but never satisfactorily answerod, why tho namo of a numerous family should have boon, for at least a century, uni versally spelled Enroughty and univer sally pronounced Darby. Tho mem bers of tho family thomsolvcs follow this strange perversion, always writing tho namo ono way and pronouncing it the other, but can give no explanation uf its origin. Nathan Eu'rougbty, who bos just died at n great age—froutine ly to a hundred years—was a soldier in the war of 1812 and a pensioner of the government. Ho was famous, beyond middle lifo, for his strength, activity and endnrauco, and it is said no pru dent man ever ventured to try conclu sions with him when nature’s weapons wero tho only ones to ,bo omployod. For eleven years, however, blindness kept him in hatefnl inactivity. An interesting calculation of tho gold and silver production for 1881 hue been made by Mr. Valentine, a statistician connected with Wells, Fargo & Go'. Ho puts tho figures at *73,500,000, or *3,- 000,000 more than for tho previous year, the gain being in bilver. Cali fr-rnia produced *19,000,000 of gold, or 52 per cent., a gain in five years of 15 per cent. Dakota produced *4,500,000, Colorado, Montana and Nevada being the other principal sonrees. Alaska is credited with *7,000 in gold. In silver Colorado stands at the head, with a production of *13,186,000, against *14,- 960.000 the previous year. Nevada pro duced *7,790,000, against *9,593,000, but these losses are more than made up by Arizona, which advanced from *1,- 760.000 to *6,800,000, and Utah, which increased from *4,172,000 to *5,020,000. The total production of the world is reckoned,at about *107,000,000 in gold and *83,000,000 in silver. According to this estimate the United States pro duces about 38.5 per cent, of tho world’s gold and silver. Ifotc One Man Prospered. Says tho Pilot Point (Texas) Post: J. F. Rogers, a farmer living near this city, engaged four years ago for a period of six weeks in the novel pursuit of hunting opossum and other small ver- mints, then plentiful in this vicinity. This pursuit was engaged in both as a measure of sport and profit, and, not withstanding he was continually laughed at by his friends, he boldly deolared his intention to make the proceeds of that six weeks’ opossum hunt net him *1,000 in less than ten years. Now for the result. The meat and pelts of that hunt were sold and aggregated *90. This amount was invested in twelve calves, which at the end of two years were sold and the amount invested in 100 calves, whioh now, at the end of four years from the first investment, are held at *40 each, making a net value oi *4,00Q. A Conductor's Confession. TJ'TT A Ohioago Tribune reporter net an old railroad oonduotor and was sur prised to hear that he had baou dis charged. 11 Yes,” he said, “ the old man side tracked me." " What for?” “ Woll, I suppose ho thought I had too much money." “ Yours or his ?*’ And he laughed. “You remember I began working for tho X. Q. road in 1865, at the close of the war. From *50 a month 1 was gradually raised to *100. The other day the 'old map’ (the superintendent) found out that 1 owned and was paying taxes on *12,000 or *15,000 worth of property. So he kicked. Ho offered to keep me if I would 'restitute,' but I said I guessed I had railroaded about long enough." “How did yon save all that money in fifteen years from a salary of *600 in creased gradually to *1,200 a year?” And ho laughed again. " As I’m out of the business now and kind o’ like railroad companies, I don’t mind explaining the conundrum. I’ll hold up my hand, though, and swear I always accounted for overy passenger I over carried. But I watered’m—water ed the company like its direotors water tho steok. And I did it in this way: You see, every year the president and general oflloers issue an unlimited number of annual passos. Some of these are in oxohange with other railroads, but most of them are to higb-oock-a- lornms, congressmen and members of tbe legislature, I always mado it my business when one of theso follows took my train to ' pipe him off ’—that is* got in conversation with him, find ont where he lived and what his busi ness was. You know passengers always like civil treatment from a conductor; it Heems odd liko. With this oequaint- anoo I used him,” •'Used him?” "Yes, used him. Knowing about how ofton his business required him to travel, I traveled lor him'. Do you catch on ? When he didn't travel I jnst deducted that mnoh from my cash receipts and credited the annual br tu rner with one trip. My division cash faro was a little less than *7, and it was a poor run for mo if I didn’t turn in two or three old duffers." “Ah, I see. Yon robbod Teter to pay Paul ?’’ " No, I robbed tbo annual passholdor to pay myself. But my best hold was in catching the pussholder who wanted to rob the company. There’s where I mado tho most of my money. You boo, tho average member of the legislature not only, thinks the company should carry him free, but all bis friends. Bo ho loans his pass to Tom, Dick and Harry, his neighbors. I made it my business to identify overy legislative pussholder. Every two or three weeks a man would get on my train and show np that pass. 1 would give him his check, go on through tho train, do my work, and thon como baok and sit down by bim. I would say, ' Let me look at your pass again?’ Ho would hand it out. I would then turn to my memorandum- book and read: ‘Archimedes Skruben- dike, tall, dark hair, thirty years old; annual, 0197.’ Then I would turn to tho rooster anil say: ‘Why, yuii’re net Archimedes Skrubendike; you’ve no rigbt to ride on this pass. Read the conditions on tho baok—Not transferable.” And then tho fellow would go all to pieces He would beg, and plead, and offer to pay faro, bnt I was too fly. When 1 had him bad enough scared, I would say: ‘ I’m sorry, and I hope this thing will never occur again. Now, I’ll tell you what I’ll - do, I’ll not take np this pass, as I am instructed to do, for Skrubendike is a good friend of the railroads, and I wouldn’t have him get into trouble for anything in the world. You give me *10 and I will let you keep the pass to give back to him, only you must promise never to tell him yon got caught.’ And the follow would snatch out *10 quicker in a wink. It’s an honest fact, in one year I worked old Skrubendike for more’n *300. A Curious Pact. The Oinoinnati board of health pro posed to remove from the western part of the city half a dozen establishments where cattle aud begs wero fattened on distillery mash or meal, because of the offensive odors arising there; but in vestigation has shown the surprising fact that the rate of mortality in that district has been decreased since the pens were built, and deaths are in fact fewer than in the cleaner portion of the oity.—Dr. Foote's Health Monthly. A prominent attorney of Montgom. ery, Ala., volunteers the statement that many contractors who hire convicts retain them in involuntary servitude in definitely after the terms for whioh they were sentenced have expired. As there is no provision of the law requiring any county officer to look after this matter, the question will be presented to the legislature next year to afford a remedy, CLIPPINGS POR THE CURIOUS. In Liverpool the only pnblio elevators aro those in the grain docks at Liver pool. The Laplanders use a stick for an al manac, upon which are marked the festivals of the year, Number of seals taken about New foundland during one season, from Maroh to May, was 455,113, Estimated value in European markets *1,250,000. A Saxon, under King Ethelbert,oould pull the noBe of an enemy if he had three shillings to spare, but if he made the nose bleed it cost him five shil lings. It is said that tho horn of a rhino ceros when ont through the middle ex hibits each side the rnde figure of a mao, the ontlines being marked by small white strokes. Tho name of the chameleon is derived from two Greek words signifying “ground lion,” a name singularly inap propriate. since it is one of those ordU tnres which is especially fitted to live on trees and is ill at ease on tho snrfaoo of the earth. The horse is capable of exerting a stress of only sixty-seven per cent, of his own weight in his dally work. Tho ox about seventy; the mule seventy- five ; the ass eighty; the goat oan draw moro than his own weight; the lion has been known to drag a slain ox a con siderable distance. A fox gallops away with the largest goose at a rapid paee. Monkeys are wonderfully strong for their size. A tnrtlo has been known to move with a man standing on his baok tlx times its weight. W-M Inherited Perils. Foremost among the perils of life, is all iti stages, but especially'in its early stages, are the inberited. We may safely ssy that no one is born free from taint of disease, and we may almost say with equal oertainty that thero is no definable disease that does not admit of being called hereditary, unless it bo accidentally produced. To what in known as specific disease, the disease of diseases ; to stroma, or scrofula, and its ally, it not the same, tubercular affections; to oanoer, to rheumatism and gout, and to aleoliolio degeneration, tho graud perils of life are mainly due. These are the bases of so many diseases whioh bear different names; theso so modify diseases whioh may in themselves bo distinot, that if they were removed tho dangers would bo rednoed to s min imum. Theso diseased conditions do not, however, exhaust tho list of fatal common inheritances. On many occa sions for several years past I have ob served and maintained tho observation, that some diseases, as coihmnnicable, infectious or contagious, are also classi fied under this head. I am satisfied that quinsy, diphtheria, icarlet fever, and ovon what is called brain fever, typhoid, are often of hereditary char acter. I have known a family in which four mombors bavo suffered from diph theria, a parent having had the same affeotion, and probably o grandparent. I bavo known a family in whioh five members Lave, at various peiiods. suf fered from typhoid, a parent and a grandparent having been subject to the samo disease. I have known a family in which quinsy has been the marked family characteristics for four genera tion. These persons have been the sufferers from tho diseases named with out any obvious contraction of the dis eases, and without having any. com panions in their sufferings. They i-. iv,.i wero in faot predisposed to produce the poisons oi tho disease iu their own bodies, as the cobra is to produee the poisonous secretion whioh in its oise is a part of tho natural organization— Dr. llichardson, in Fraser’s Magazine. A torner in Corncobs. “Thero is a oornor iu corncobs, somewhere," said a New York whole sale dealer in pipes, “ for the demands of manufacturers of cornoob pipes pan- not be met, even at advanced prices Thero has never been such a soaroity in the supply. The pipes, too, seem to be in greater demand than ever. - Many men won’t smoke any other kind. I know one rich society man who wonld be in disgrace if he was seen in pnblio with a cornoob pipe in his month, bnt who keeps his pipe in the bedroom and has a quiet smoke before he goes to bed. The man who invented the process of hardening a cornoob'has be come independently rich, Some cob pipes are costly because of the silver mountings, but the pipe that sells for five cents is tbe most popular. Smokers say that the corncob - pipe is sweeter than any other. Southern colored men who know wnat is good, from a hoecake to a ’possum, wouldn’t give a pob pipe for the finest meersohaum if they couldn’t get another.” • ‘ Without earnestness no man is ever great or doe3 really great things. He may be the cleverest of m6n; he may be brifliant, entertaining, popular; but ho will want weight. No soul-m ’ ; tnre was ever painted that it depth of shadow*Peter 4 loving] 4-v.

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The Mercury. (Sandersville, Ga.) 1880-1???, March 14, 1882, Image 1