The Mercury. (Sandersville, Ga.) 1880-1???, March 28, 1882, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Textthe mercury. Pilfered m second- class matter at the Banders* Eotereu yule ro gtoffioe, AprU 27, 1880. SandcrsvIUo, Washington County, Qt, mUSHXD n A. J. JERNIGAN, Paoranmm ahd Publishh. THE ME!RCIJR¥. A. J. JEBNIGAN, Pbopbihtob. DEVOTED TO LITERATURE, AGRICULTURE AND GENERAL INTELLIGENCE. #1.50 PER ANNUM. 8nbscr)pUo*>. .11.85 par Tsar. VOL. II. SANDERSVILLE, GA., MARCH 28, 1882. NO. 52'.'. V C. C. DROWN, Attorney at Law, SandorsvUle, Ga, Will preetico in tho State and United Stalos Marts. OOioo in Conrt-houso. hTn. H0LLIFIEL07 Pliysician and Surgeon, Sandorsvillc, Ga, Office next door to Mrs. Bayno’s mlllinory itoro on Harris Street. G. W. H. WHITAKER, DENTIST, BAKDER8VILLE, GA. Terms Cam. Offico at his Residence, on HarrU 3treet. April 8, 1830. b. d. Attorney at Law, SANDERSVILLE, GA April 3, 1830. THE MERCURY PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY. NOTICE. MTAll ooaamnniostlons intended for this |A- per mnst be accompanied with the foil name eg tho writer, not neeeeearily for pubUoatkm, but aa a guaranis* of good faith. Ws are in no way responsible for the vim of tndolona of correspondents, E. A. SULLIVAN, NOTARY PUBLIC, SANDERSVILLE, GA ’ Special attention given to tho ooUeotlon a cl liras. Offico In tho Court-houea Watches, Clocks AND JEWELRY KITAIRKD I1Y JERNIGAN BUY YOUR Spectacles, Spectacles FROM JERNIGAN. None gonulno without our Trade Mark. On hand and for sale, iaclcs, Nose Glasses, Etc Music! Music —GO TO— JERNIGAN -FOR- II, BOWS, STRINGS, UOSITV BOXES,&c Machine Needles Oil and Shuttles ton at,f, KINDS OF MACHINES, for salt i will alwi onler parts of Machines that got broken, for which new piocea aro wautod, A - -T. JERNIGAN 25 CENTS, POSTPAID. A TREATISE ON THE HORSE -AND- HIS DISEASES. ili« a 1 ^ 8111 . 116 ’ an ^dox of Disoaaos, which given nf rm • v , m Ploraa, Oauso. and the Beat Treatment I,,.? 0 , V Tftblo giving all the principal drugs ffr.At , r V 10 Horae, with tho ordinary doao, Bid, 8 ’ an . f J an tidoto when a poiaon. A Tablo ,li«“ “* Engraving of tho Horse's Tooth at ■A , ftgcs > w **h rules for telling the age. **tw!! i 8 , .nnHeetion of Reeoipte and muoh J^vablo information. - BOOK, sent postpaid to any 25 dents ^ n ** e< * StatOB or Canada, to) CLUB RATES. • COPIES $1 00 copies. ::::::::::::::::::::: 8 05 oL HUNDRED COPIES 10 00 Address'" 0 Thre *-C e n t Stamps reosired. New York Newspaper Union, Worth mu, fowTah. The. Ena, Whon another life ia addod To tho heaving, turbid mass; Whon another breath of boiug Falla upon creation’s glass; When the first cry, weak and pitoous, Iloralda long-enduring pain, And a aoul from non-existence Springs, that ne'er can dio again; W lien tho mother’s passionate welcome Sorrow-liko, bursts forth in tears, And a Eire’s aolf-gratulation Prophesies of future years, . It ia well wo cannot aoe What tho end will be. When tho boy upon the threshold Of hij all-comprising homo ruts aside tho arm maternal That unlocks him ore lie roam; When tho canvas of his vossol Flnttors to the lavoring gale, Years of solitary exile Hid behind tho sunny sail; When his pulses boat with ardor, And his sinews stretched for toil, And ahundrod bold cmprlsos Luro him to tliat eastern soil— It is well wo cannot seo What that oiul shall be. Fair Schemers. " Mistletoe!” cried Alma Field.” "Real, dark-green, glossy inistletoel Oli, Frances, where did you find it ?,’ The snow-mantled fields were all orimsoned with tho flush of sunset. Far n the distance old Monnt Washington lifted his whito peak against the steel- gray skyj in tho valley the frozen river seemod turned to a sheet of crys tal, while tho woods were full of this oraokling, magnetio sound whioh often thrills a leafless copse ut nightfall. And tho three girls standing at the stile had oheeks like roses in the keen winter air. " I found it just here on tho old broken branch which had fallen with tho weight of the snow," said Frances Purple, a tall, slight, solemn-eyed girl in a dress of shabby brown merino with dyed ribbons at her throat. "Give me some!" exclaimed Mary Wullace, " to hang over my pillow to night. Mistletoe means good lnck, you know, and to-night is St. Valen- tiuo'e eve.” “NonBcnsol" said Frances, a little curtly. Mary Wallaco shook back her yellow juris—bIio was one of those graceful, elf-liko creatures to whom such capri cious motions are infinitely becoming— and laughed. Alma Field shrugged her shoulders. "Frances will nover marry,” said ■the. "No," said Frances Purple, compos odly, "I don’t think I evor shall.” All this time Mr. Murray, standing leaning against the stile, had watched the three bright feces with a certain grave interest. " Why not ?" he asked, abruptly. " One reason is because I don’t want to,” Frances answered, with equal brusqueness- "Oh, Francos!” cried Almn. " How can you tell such shocking stories right here under the mistletoe?” " With Mary and Alma it is differ ent," said Frances, speaking more gent ly, as if she half repented her formor sliaTpnoss of tone. " The world is softer to them. I am a working bee. I lmvo my own living to earn, and I have no timo to spend in romance.” She took up tho dark green cluster of mistletoe as she spoke, and walked quickly on. "Poor Frances I"'said Mary, apolo getically. “ She is really getting to be quite a crabbed old maid.” " What docs sbo mean by being a working bee?” said Mr. Murray, as ho helped pretty Alma over the uneven stones of the stile. "Didn’t you know?" said Alma. "She has taken Miss Tait’s position in the telegraph office. Eight hours daily and two on Sundays and holidays. Isn’t it dreadful ?” "But why did she do that?” per sisted Murray, gathering up the scat tered sprigs of mistletoe for his com panions, " Poor, dear Frances always was pe culiar," said Mary. “And, of course, I wouldn’t say a word against her for tho world,” added Alma, artlessly; "but I think she’s a little inclined to be avaricious.” Rudolph Murray walked with Alma and Mary as far as the old red-brick bouse and there left them, with some merry allusion to St. Valentine’s morn. While the two girls, running into the house, flung their mistletoe on the hall table, and came into the groat, low- ceiled sitting-room, where a fire of pine logs blazed upon the stone hearth. Frances Purple was there quietly moving around intent on some house hold duty; for the three cousins lived with an old aunt whose means were limited, and there was no servant kept in tho establishment. “Oh, Frances,” cried Alma, angrily " why did yon tell Mr. Murray that yon were a working girl?” “Beoauso it was the truth,” said Frances. " But truth isn’t to be spoken on all occasions,” flashed out Mary. “What will he think 1” Frances bit her lip. " Why should I care what ho thinks? said she. "Isn’t it enough to do as yon Bavo dono without publishing it to the whole world ?” ’plained Mary. " Frances is such a strange, odd girl,” said Alma. " I believe she wants — ye s actually wants-to die an old maid I” " I should rather do that,” said Fran ces, "than to win a husband under false protenses.” "It's no such thing, if yoH mean me,” retorted Mary, stung into sndden ani mation. "Pana was a naval offioer— and how is an me to know that hB was cashiered befor ne died ?—and I should bo a great heiress if only my grfat-uncle had succeeded in establishing his claim on the flat-lands of Boston I” While Alma surveyed her dimpled face in the quaint oval mirror above the wooden mantel. " Now, girls, don’t go to getting ex cited,” said she, "or you’ll bo as wrinkled and old-looking as thewitohes in ‘Macbeth.’ If I win a husband it shall be through my own personal attractions. I'm not a genius like Frances there nor a schemer like Polly, but I’ll wager my moss-agate breastpin against anything yon please to mention that I’m married the first of tho three!” And she oomplaoently fastened a spray of the glossy black-green leaves into her bright-brown hair. " Now,” she said, with a smilo whioh revealed teeth like seed-pe&rls, " I wonder—I do wonder—who is going to be our Valentine?” " Is that tho roason," said Mary, sud denly, "that you havo changed your room to tho front of the honso? Alma! Alma! And you talk of n.y being a sohomet!” "All is fair in lovo and war,” said Alma, with a merry nod of the head ; "and I like a prospect of the road as well as any one.” Mary Wallace bit her lip, inwardly resolving not to bo oironmvented. Ten minntes afterward she went ont into the kitohen whoro Annt Phoebe was stirring up waffles for tea. "Is your cold bettor, auntie dear ?” she asked. " Well, its only so-so I" groaned the old lady, who was one of tho pessimists of the world. " And there’s a dreadfu stitch in my side whenever I'go to bend over.” "Poor anntyl" cooed Mary, "i’ll tell yon what yon must do—lie in bed comfortably to-morrow morning, and let mo get up and see to thingsi” Aunt Phcebo viewed her niece through her spectacle glasses with unfeigned surprise. What had como to Mary all of a sudden to mako her so affectionate and self-sacrifioiDg ? " Well," said she, " I don’t know but it would bo a sort of rest for me, jut for once in a way.” And Mary wont baok to the sitting- room, quietly determining to bo the very first one up in tho house tho next morning. "And if I should bo opening the window-shutters of the kitchen just at sunrise,” she thought, "and Mr. Mur ray should como dowu the road on that superb white horpo of his to get the early train, itwonld be so delightful to bo his Valentine, and Alma would bo to furious I" “ Girls," croaked Aunt Phoebe, put ting hergray-puffed head into the room,. "I forgot to tell you old Mifis Pepper corn’s folks have been here for watch ers, and I promised ’em that one of you should go there and set up to-night." "Good cracious mel I hope its noth ing catching!” said Alma, with a shiver. " I shan’t go I’ said Mary, petulantly. " People have no business to bo sick if they can’t afford to hire proper attend ance I" ‘ And it’s St. Valentine’s eve, too,' said Alma. "Besides, I never could sit up with sick people—it makes such dreadful bister-oolored ciroles around one’s eyes!" But I promised,” said AuntPhasbo. looking',helplessly from one to the other. "And Frances can’t go because of tho telegraph office, and— I’ll go, Aunt Phoebe," said Frances, quietly. “ Old Miss Peppercorn has no friends, and I may as well try to bo of some use in the world.” ; Frances thinks that she may be a desolate old maid herself some day,” said Alma, malioionsly. " I think it extremely probable," ad mitted Frances, good-humoredly; “and then, perhaps, I may need some one to- care for me.” " Well, it won’t be me,” said Mary. I do hate siokness -and sick people, especially if they aro old and ugly like Miss Peppercorn. And she gave her golden tresses a backward toss, as if she believed her self to be gifted with eternal youth. Just when Mary and Alma were nest ling down among their pillows with the sprigs of mistletoe hanging over their heads, to dream of lovo and lov ers in the frozen starlight of the winter night Frances Purple, wrapped in one of Aunt Phoebe’s gray linsey cloaks, was gliding across the snowy lanes to the little one-storied ^farmhouse where poor old Hepsebah Peppercorn lay breathing her life away. All night long she kept hor sad vigil; and when the poor old woman died it was Frances Purple’s gentle arm that supported hor head—Frances Purple’s sweet voice that whispered words of hope and sacred cheer into hor be numbed ear. And then she closed the glazing eyes with all a sister of mercy’s tenderness, and stood looking down upon the small, withered form an instant ero she called the attendants. "She is gone home I” she said to her self. "All her weary pilgrimage is ended I” And, for a moment only, Frances almost envied the dead woman. Going baok across the fields, with the red streak of snnshino beginning to lift the gray banners of tho eastern sky, there was a strango, sweet peace in her faoe. "I may lead a lonely life,” she told horself; "but it nood not neoessarily bo a useless one.” Just where they had gathered the mistletoo the night before she paused a moment to say a long farewell to all that life of hope and fear, scarcely acknowledged love and steadily re pressed aspiration; and as she stood thero with drooping head and veiled figure a shadow fell »cross the dazzling surface of the snow—the shadow, darkly outlined in the rosy snnrise, of Rudolph Murray. " Miss Purple I" " Oh, Mr. Murray!" she cxolaimcd, with’a start; " how oame you hero ?" " I thought I would cross the mead ows to my train this morning on foot, instead of taking the usnnl route by tho high-road,” he said. "BntI never expooted to see you here I" " I have been watching with a sick woman,” explained Francos, feeling herself blnsh a vivid scarlet. "lam going home. Good-morning, Mr. Mur ray I” But he stood dirootly across the nar row foot-path. " Francos," said he, " have you for gotten what good suin\ smiles through this red sunrise? Don't you know that yon aro my Valontine?” " I am not golden-haired Mary nor yot boautiful Alma,” said Francos, a ittle nervously. " No,” said Mr. Murray, taking hor hands; "bat yon aro Francos—tho sweetest of all created women in my eyes. Yon aro the girl I love—the precious treasure that Bt. Valentine has given into my keeping. Nay, dearest, do not avert yonr eyes so resolutely - look straight at mol You will love me a little in return? You will bo my wife?” " Why did yon not say this before?" sho hesitated. "Why did you avoid me so deter minedly? Why did you declare over and over again that you never meant to marry?" ho laughingly retorted. " Because—becauso I fancied that no ono cared for mo," said Frances, with downcast eyelids. “ And what is your opinion upon tho subjeot now?” Bhe hid her faco upon his shoulder, as ho tenderly drew her close to him. "Ob,” sho whispored, "what have I done to deservo a happiness so great as this ?” Long, long before tho pink glow brightened the snowy crests of the hills Alma Fields was peeping through the blinds, in her prettiest dicss, with the mistletoe braided into ber wonderfully tinted bronze hair. Earlier still the thrifty Mary had opened the lower part of the heuse and was sweeping off the stoop, with a pink silk handkerchief twisted jauntily around her golden curls. And, a-laok-day 1 the only masculine creatures whose appearance rewarded their vigils were Squire Hotchkiss’ donkey straying in an objectloss mannor down the high road and old Deacon Penfold driving to market with a load of russet apples. But when Frances Purple came in to the very indifferent breakfast whioh Mary Wallace had grudgingly prepared her face was brighter than tho snnrise itself. "Well,” said Annt Phcobe, lugubri ously, " so old Miss Peppercorn’s dead i It does appear to me that there is noth ing but trouble in this world.” " Oh, yes, Aunt Phoebe, there’s some thing elso I” pleaded Frances, brightly. " Because I met my Valentine this rominng as I was coming home through Poinsett woods." “WhatI” cried Alma and Mary in chorns. -"It was Mr. Murray,” confessed Frances, " and he asked me to marry him, and he said he had loved me for a long, long while; and so we are en gaged.” Alma and Mary looked at each other with the blank faoes of young women who see that they have been outgener aled. " Oh 1” said Mary. " I thought yon were going to be an old maid!” acidly remarked Alma. " I did think so,” said Frances, in a low voice; " but—I have changed my mind.” CIUTLVOS Ton THE CVKiOVS. According to Darwin there is a species of monkey whioh can sing a complete and eorreot octave of musical notes. The value of the waste paper eol looted from various offices in England and sold for the pnblio benefit averages #50,000 a year. There aro thirty Egyptian obelisks scattered ovor Europe. Romo has eleven, four of whioh aro higher than the one in Now York. In Siam there is a raoe of eats with tails only half the ordinary length and often contorted into a kind of knot which cannot be straightened. News of the result of a " Derby ” at Epsom, England, roachod New York lostJalyin exactly fivo seconds after the horses past the winning post. In Europe a copy of tho first edition of the Decameron lias* been sold for over #11,000, and ono of tho Guten berg Bibles on vellum for #17,000, The State of Missouri contains sev eral hundred springs whioh send forth a largo volume of water with suflloient energy to run large mills or factories. The railway systom of India inoludes 8,611 miles. The gauge is threo feet six inches. All linos are bnilt primarily for military and oommerolal purposes. According to Spanish historians eight centuries of warfaro elapsed, and 8,700 battles were fought before the Moorish kingdoms in t'pain submitted to Chris tian arms. The silver coins of the United States and of Franoe are mado of nine parts of silvor and ono part of copper. Less copper is nsed in making the silver of Great Britain. Thore was a question among tho early Christians as to the propriety of wear ing in military festivals laurel wreaths, beoanso lanrel was called after Daphne, the lover of Apollo, a heathen god. An English statistician calculates that evory man on an average speaks fifty- two volumes of 600 octavo pages per annum, and that every woman yearly brings ont 520 volumes of the same size in talk. A. Weill finds the decay of- teeth to be caused by tho development of a fungus. The acids of the mouth may promote deoay, but cannot give rise to it. He oonolndes further that diseases of various parts of the body may b» clearly traced to oxorotions from the mouth and teeth. The Hiliff and the Miller. Near Sans, Bouoi, tho favorito resi dence of Frederick the Great, thoro was a mill whioh much interfered with the view from tho palace. One day tho king sent to inquire what tho owner .would tako for tho mill; and tho unexpected answer came back that thomillor would not sell it for nny monoy. Tho king, much incensed, gave ordors that the mill should be pulled down. Tho mil ler mado no resistance, but foldiug ids arms, quietly romarkod: "The king may do this, but thero are law3 in Prussia.” And he took logal proceed ings, tho result cf which was the king hnd to rebuild tho mill and pay a good sum of money beside in compensation. Although his majesty was much cha grined at this end to tho matter he pat the best face ho could upon it, and turn ing to bis courtiers he remarked: "I am glad to sco that thero ore just laws and upright judges in my kingdom.” A sequel to this incident ooourrod about forty years ago. A descendant of the miller of whom we have just been speaking hud come into possession of tho mill. After having struggled for several years agoinst ever increasing pov erty, and being at length quite unable to keep on with his business, he wrote to tho king of Prussia, reminding him of the incident wo havo just related, and stating that, if his majesty felt so disposed, he should bo very thankful in his present difficulty to sell the mill. The king wrote the following reply with his own hand: "Mi beau NEianuon: — I cannot allow you to sell the mill. It must be always in your possession, as long us one of your family exists, for it belongs to the history of Prussia. I regret, however, to hear that you are in 6uch straitened circumstanoes, and there fore send you horewith six thousand dollars, in the hope that it may be of some service in restoring jour for tunes. Consider me your affectionate neighbor, Fbedebiok Willi am.” A Fragment of Life. When one breaks camp in the morn ing he tarns back again and again to see what he has left. Surely he feels that he has forgotten something. What is it ? It is only his own thoughts and musings he has left, the fragment of his life he has lived there. Where he hung his coat on a tree, where he slept in tho boughs, where he made his cof fee or broiled his trout over the coals, where he drank at the little brown pool in the spring ran, where he looked long and long into the whispering branohes overhead; he has left what he cannot bring away with him—the flame and the ashes of himself. The Method* of Itrigand*. It is a great mistake to think that brigands ill-trout their captives during negotiations; it is jast the reverse. All Bhare and share alike, the preference being always givon to the prisoner when it comes to the last loaf of bread or the lost glass of wine. At the same time it can. hardly bo called an en viable experience to pass night aftor night in fair weather and foul, with no bed Lnt the monntaiu side and no shel ter but the canopy '6f heaven. The roulino of ono day is so muoh like that of another dur ing tho wandering in the mountains that the description of ono twenty-four hours will, think, be suffloient. Soon after dark the whole party start, the prisoner having his arms tied loosely behind him by a single piece ot small rope, leaving the end trailing behind. This, I may here mention, is simply used as a sign of captivity, nnd not as n precaution against any attompt to cs cape, two of the band being sentry over the captive ut a time, tho remainder dispersing slightly, so as to have the notice of any danger that might bo oloso by. After travelling sev eral miles, through valleys and over mountains, a halt is made about sun rise in some well-wooded and scolnded spot; tho prisoner is then left in charge of three or four men, and the remain der, exoepting, of conrse, the chief, proceed with their,various duties, some lighting a fire, others preparing t' e morning moal, whioh generally con sists of broad, coffee, and perhaps a bit of lamb or goal, and another party go off to get their next day’s food from acoomplioes and spies who have been warned two or threo days previously where to bring the provisions. Bo suspicions are they of treachery that no member of tho band is allowed to eat ajiy food brought by a spy until the bearer bos tasted it to see if it contains poison. Tho way in whioh the fire is lighted is well worthy of notice. Hav ing collected some dry sticks, not largo in oiroumferenee, and about eighteen inchos in length, a square heap is built by laying thorn across each other at right angles, and at the sarao timo leav ing lots of air-sp.ioe in the oenter. The top stick is then lighted and tho fire burns downward; by this means a very hot but perfectly smokoless fire is obtained whioh of coureo prevents their locality being discovered from the/smoke. When all is prepared breakfast is heartily wclcomo after the night’s journoy, but uo one thinks of partaking of any food until a short prayer has been said by the chief and all have crossed thorn- selves three times. I havo omitted to mention that every band of brigands ban a tamo ram which is used to load any iheop they steal from out-of-the-way villages, thus saving ono man having the tronblo of doing duty as shepherd. During meals evory topic is discussed, no distinction being made betwoen cap- tor and captive, nor restriction placed on tho latter as long as ho does not broach tho all-important subject of his own relcaso. On that subject they uro perfectly reticent, and ono nover knows from the day of one's captivity till within a few hours of one’s release how negotiations aro proceeding, nor how one’s chances of life and death fluctuate according to the temper of the brigands and iho communioitions brought by the spies.— Cornhitl Magazine. A Mountain’« Fall, Buffalo mountain, running north and south, ends abruptly five miles south east of Johnson City, Washington conn- ty, Tenn. Immediately on the end of this mountain, several hundred feet above the surrounding eonntry, is a tremendous massive rock, known as " White Rook Summit,” It is noted for its lofty height and pioturesque grandeur. In years gone by tho Rev. Harry Anderson, oolorod, preached to the colored poople of tho neighborhood, who gathered there on the Sabbath day. But "WhiteRook’’ peak is no more. On a recent morning a powerful crash and fearful rumbling noise startled the inhabitants of tho entire vicinity around the terminns of the mountain, and many of thorn ran in wild excite ment, panic stricken, crying and pray ing as though they were in the midst of an earthquake. A glance toward where this lofty mountain of nature has stood unmoved and apparently immovable for centuiios past, proved it had sunk down into one huge mass of earth, logs, trees and rooks. The whole end of the mountain has melted or rather slid off, and the summit around which the clonds loved to gather of-their own ac cord no more holds aloft, toward the sky with its white-capped peak. The people who lived in the oountry around this fallen mountain were great ly excited. The Unlooked-for and strange occurrence is supposed to have been paused by the long and almost incessant rains that have descended on the oountry for several weeks. ii / Twenty years ago Virginia paid New England $3,000,000 for cotton cloth. Last year the factories in Petersburg alone made over #7,000,000 wortfc SCIENTIFIC SCBAPS. Thirty per cent-, of forest is consid ered the best proportion for the most beneficial effect on climate. Strychnia acts only on certain por tions of tho spinal 'marrow, and opmm on oertain parts of the cerebrum. Agassiz says: The pupil studies na ture in the Echool-room, and when he goes out of doors he cannot find her. Many butterflies take no food and have no digestive organs. The eating and storing of nutriment was performed in the carlior larva state. It is said that the Japanese have made practical tests of paper belts to the transmission of power, and that the re sults have been satisfactory. Experiments on tho effect of theelea- trio light on plant life tend to show that t contains rays detrimental to them. Plants constantly exposed to it become spotted and weakened. The increase in strength in iron bolts from working the metal eold, is esti mated at between fifty and a hundred per cent, and tho offoot in general is to givo the iron a good deal of the quali ties of hard steel. A "solar” locomotive has been placed on the Fronoh Northern railway. It is so called owing to an electrio light whioh is plaoed in tho front and fed by the engine itself, and intended to il luminate the way for a long distance ahead. New York In 1747, The trade of New York in 1747 was chiefly with England and the West In dia Islands. England supplied the oolonies with European and India goods and silk manufactures, receiving in return provisions, hides, snnff; Ire land sent over linens and canvas, and carried baok flax and staves; iho West Indies took ilonr and staves, for whioh they returned rum, sugar and molasses. And there was a brisk trade with Ma deira and tho Canary Islands in wines and grain, while an occasional venture to tho Afrioan coast brought in a cargo of negroes. These various branohes of oommerce employed in 1746 ninety- nino vessels of 4,518 tons, and were manned by 755 seamen. Tho popula tion at the same dato was 9,253, of which 2,401 wore negroes. It is pleasant to record that even at this early day New York displayed the targe and liberal spirit whioh has since distinguished her history. The Jews, maltreated in all parts of Europe, here enjoyed all tho privileges common to other inhabitants. In 1748 Kalm re ports tlifct they had "houses and great conntry-seatH of their own, and owned ships, in whioh they freighted and sent out their own goods.” And he adds tho more curions statement, that both tho men and women dressed after the Eng lish fashion. Tho bonnets and long fur-trimmed cloaks which may still bo seen on the streets of Frankfort and other German cities had given way to cooked hats, long waistooats and gar tered hose, and in ontward garb, at least, tho Jews were no longer a ‘pc- onliar people.” Many of them had been identified from an early period with the history of tho colony. Some had emigrated from Holland, others from the Mediterranean. The names of Beixas, Hendricks, Judah, Gomez— all honored than as now—are evidence of their varied origin. They seem to have been among the larger merchants of the day. Bat war, not commerce, was the busi ness of the last century, and it mnst be admittod that a declaration of hostili ties against Franco and Spain, and the royal command "to harass and annoy his majesty’s enemies,” were always wel come to New York ears. Then the coffee houses were bnsy places, and tile taverns on the docks did a thriving business. The adventurous merchants fitted out numbers of priva teers on these occasions. Betwoen 1743 and 1748 the names of no loss than thirty-one vessels, ranging from ten to twenty-four guns, appear in tho newspapers, whioh make record also of the numerous prizes bronght in-car goes of sugar from the Spanish islands, wines and brandies taken on the way from Bordeaux and Rochelle to the French oolozjjes. These vessels were commanded and manned by the bloods of the oity, who left off cook-fighting and horse-raoing for the new and ven turesome career.—Harpers Magazine. The. Origin of the Sioux. The Sioux, if Indian tradition is to be believed, are a new people. The tradition is that a party of wild young men of different tribes banded them selves together to make a new toril This was in the Blaskfeet eonntry, si the head of the South Saskatcha* river, away to the northwest of Benton. These Romans of the north marched on, conquering and absorbing tho tribes they snbdned, marrying rach wives as pleased them. Their ’course was to the south and east, and was not interrupted until the whites oame from the east. The New York circulating libraries lend 70 per cent, works of fiction, or two and one-third times as mooh as of all other classes of literature.

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The Mercury. (Sandersville, Ga.) 1880-1???, March 28, 1882, Image 1