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Newspaper Page Textthe mercury. DlMl M NHM-UB "Jil iirirlU. f«Hio», April 9, IM gMierarUK WMktaftM Gouty, Hr. A .J. JBRNIGAN, Piorauroa An rnum Bnb*«rlptum. IprTw B* D. SYAWS, ATTORNEY AT LAW. (Htanlitakiii April A UA a a biowh, attorney at law. . r Watches, Clocks And JEWELRY urnin n JBR1TICAXT. Dr. H. B. Hollifield, FiTSICIAI ill miioi, Having ncDtlv p*duM e* th. Untvar. •Itv of Maryland and Mtnrn«d bom*, now ofltr* lit* prolMilonal aarvloaa to th. elilaan, of Handeravllls and vielnlty. Ofloa with Dr. H. N HolliflaU, nut door tepln. Bapno'i miUln.rjr.toro. H. N HOLLinXLD, Physician and Surgeon, Ofle. noit door to 1 itor. on Harrta i ‘ MUSIC, MUSIC ao TO— JERNIGAN 18, Bows. 1 Strings, Rosin Boxes, Etc. BUY YOUB spfiCTiCLEs, minis, FROM JERNIQAN, Ron. genulna without oar Trsdo Mark. On hand and for sal* SPECTACLES NOSE GLASSES, ETC. Machine Needles, Oil and Shuttles, FOB ALL KINDS OF MACHINES, ter sale. I will also ordar parts or Maoblnas that gat brokan, ter whleh naw pleoM ara wanted. A. J. JERNIGAN. /■ K. Hinas. a H. lion. HINES & ROGERS, Attorneys at Law, SANDERSVILLE, 0A, Will praotlea In tba oonntteo of Waahlagton, Jaffenon, Johnson, Km an sal and Wilkinson, fad In tho U. 8. Co arte ter tho Sob thorn Dio- trlotof Osorgls. Will set so agsnto In baying, tiling or ^o w. H. WHITAKER, DENTI ST, SandsroTlUo, Oa Tjirms cash. aoriTid. ltso' 1 a * Muna *> on B * rrU atNot Looks Just Like It* A lawyer of Cohoes, being before a Jourt in Kingston, N. Y.. tho other day, was privately asked whal kind of a place Cohoes was, when he returned the fol lowing answer: “I will explain it by Haling you a little story. One time a Cohoes woman was in Kingston, and she went to an exhibition which was a pan orama show. One of the pictures shown ''jss intended to represent chaos, and Uie word ‘chaos’ was written below the picture. The Cohoes woman was a little hear-s\ghted, and seeing the word chaos, ■°ok a look at the picture, and then re marked to her companion, ‘Why, it’s bokoes, and looks just iiko it, too.’ ” ,■ Harper's Weekly relates the story that when, la8t spring, Bishop Williams i Connecticut) and his clergy desired j l ™ or ^ 10 anniversary of the meeting clergy which disputehed Seabury to U • . quest of episcopal orders, '2 W1R le< * to meet informally in the v ® room °* °l<i house at Wood- rpi,/’ 1 1 \°' v occupied by an ancient dame. ,°*y la<] y. when asked if the clergy B l h ‘ ,lav ® the use of the room for n re- li„ enpper, replied, after some Ration: “Well,’ I dunno. I'm op- they won’t dam*,';* They 0401 <5 ° me “ MERCURY. A. J. JERNIGAN, Proprietor. DEVOTED TO LITERATURE, AGRICULTURE AND GENERAL INTELLIGENCE. $1. 50 per Annum. VOLUME IY SANDERS VILLE, GA., TUESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1883. NUMBER 34. THE MERCURY. PUBLISHED EVERY TUE8DAY »«T NOTICE. jVAll flommnnleatlofas Intended ter toll paper most bo Mmapaated Wtto tot toll name of too writer, not necessarily tor puWl* ration, bat m n guarantee of good fbllfc. We are In no way responsible ter too view* or opinions of correspondents. i mu i — general news. Pu.m, PI*, k to boro , ,200,000 note]. Nobth Cabo lima hag sixty-four cotton Isctories. Tbkhb is a Mormon church at Aber deen, Ala. Thk salted mul ct trade of Florida is incressing. In East Mississippi Devon cattle are wry popular. Peawot growing in Florida is being warmly advocated. Thb ruling prioe of oranges in Tampa, is $10 per thousand. Thb Assessed valuation of property in Texas is $520,000,000. Thbbb are nine negroes in the new legislature of Virginia. Thb domestication of buffalo calves is to be attempted in Arkansas. It is asserted that no other stato can make snoh a show in coal as Alabama Thbbb are over 60,000 miles of un broken pine forest in Southeast Georgia. Thkrb an only forty-seven counties in Georgia in which it is lawful to sell liquor. Tbxas is said to produce about one- half the cotton raised in the United States. A Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals has been organised in Chat tanooga. A cotton compress, gat works and a street railway are being constructed at Pensacola. A land syndicate has bonght 60,000 sens of land in Clay county, Mississippi, for $75,000. Tfmn cotton mills in Alabama are paying an average of fifteen per cent per annum in dividends. Thb St. James Hotel at Tallahassee is exchanging its entire oorps of black seiwanta for white ones. Cookeville, Toon., bida fair to be come an oil region. Three wells sunk then recently have struok oil. Tan Unitod States Court in Savannah is advertising for "good, honest and re sponsible men" to set aa jurors. A glass faotory will be established in Little Rook- The building will cost $10,000, exclusive of the real estate. Thb plana for the Exposition building at Birmingham have been approved by the Board of Arrangements and bida ad vertised for. Upon the recent visit of the agent of the American Bible Society to Weakley county, Tenn., 750 families were found withont Bibles, Thb Rome(Ga.) cotton faotory, whioh has been in operation eighteen months, has doubled its machinery, and now runs night and day. It is now claimed that tho south is getting to be tho beet market in the world for machinery and meohanioal ap pliances of all kinds. Fbom an orange tree owned by Captain Dukea, of Lake City, Florida, he sold $67 worth of fruit last season. He will do better this season. Two HUNDBBD thousand dollars' worth of gold dust has been shipped to the Philadelphia mint from the Coco Creek gold mines in Tennessee. A company of Indiana capitalists are contemplating the erection of a jute fac tory at Memphis. The building and ma chinery will cost $150,000. Thb State Controller of Florida has decided that merchants selling brandied peaches, cherries, e-o., must pay the re tail liquor dealers’ license. . The ore from the Magruder silver mine in Washington county, Go., assays about $48 to tho ton. A smelter is tube ptu up at the mine very soon. Tbxas fanners sold last year $59,000,- 000 worth of cotton, $63,000 worth of cattle, $7,000,000 worth of wool and mut ton, and $1,000,000 worth of horses and hides. Thb electric light company of Savan nah has resolved to rebuild their towers and continue business. $25,000 in bonds will be placed on the market to secure funds for that purpose. The L.ttle Rock University, now ap proaching completion, will be the finest brick building in the State of Arkansas, and one of the largest and most con venient in the Southwest. An appropriation of $150,000 was voted for the new extension to the Uni versity of Alabama. This extension will accommodate over 300 students and will add greatly to the usefulness of the Uni versity. Mr W. M. Dubes, of Lake City, Fla., has an orange tree on bis place thal measures five feet and three inches in circumference three feet above the ground, and the oranges gathered thif been nearly all reclaimed from the desert. Thb apple crop of Virginia is so large this season that purchasers are unable to find barrels, and the fruit is being loaded in bulk on the cars. One gentleman from Baltimore test week bought 20,000 year from it sold for $67. Samuel Mackey, of New South Wales, sheared 1,500,000 sheep last year, and this year he expects to have 2,500,000. His land# run 700 miles in one direction, m4 comprise $,000,000 acres, and fcave barrels in Augusta county at prices rang- ing from $1.60 to $2 per barrel. On account of the drouth, whioh seems to be prevalent all over the country, the orange crop of Florida is maturing slowly, and the fruit is somewhat smaller than usual, but the prospect fer a good crop is considered excellent. The yield is ex pected to bo much larger than Inst year’s. CnATTANOooA Times: At Dayton the Coal and Iron Company have atruck it rich by discovering six new veins of coal. Each of t ese veins leads into the center of tho mountain, where it ia almost a solid mass of flno coal. About 200,000 bushels per day will be taken out of hose veins. New Orlbans claims to be the best port in the United States, and the papers of that city do not hesitate to mention that fact occasionally. Tho jettieb are Supposed to be in successful operation j at any rate they have p"ovidod a channe] through which the steam hip Silverton passe 1 the other day, drawing twenty- five feet of water. The Silverton car ried out a cargo equal in bulk to 18,780 bales. The Silverton, by tho way, has been engaged to lay the new cable for James Gordon Bennett and J. W. Mackay. EDITORIAL NOTES. The waters around Florida, tho Med iterranean and tho Bahamas supply most of the sponges. The Florida p nge is coarse and cheap. 1 hat from tho Med iterranean is used in surgery, but the finest and costliest sponge is from the Bahnmna. The harvest of sponges lasts about eight nionths in the veor, and dur ing that timcskillful divers make as much as ♦ 10 a day each gathering them. It requires from twelvo to fourteen months for a sponge to get its growth. According to General I adean, out minister to Cuba, tho trade relations be tween the little island and the United States could not be in a worse condition. Owing to our nearness to Cuba, Amer ican merchants should have almost n monopoly of trade, but tho existing turifl rates prnctienlly shut them out, while Great Britain and Germany get every thing. As an instance of the effect ol the unjust laws against American goods, ho states that flour from this country ii first shipped to Spain, thence to Cuba, and sold for considerable less than thal which is scut direct to tho island. The first ground was.broken in Pul ■ man, 111, tbreo years age, and now it ha. 6,000 inhabitants. It has a lesson foi Atlanta in its waterworks and its sewer age. '1 ho system of sewerage is admir able. 1 he refuse of the town flows to an immense cistern under the water tower. Tho steam power is used to pump the sowerage to the town farm of 15,000 acres which is thus irrigated and en riched. Tho profiton tho farm under thii system of culture when it had only sixtj acres was $8,500. This land was consid ered exhausted and worthless. 'J he suc cess of this experiment suggests a new use and value for city sewerage. Adulteration of food is a growing disgrace in the United States where th< people eat more impuro and unwhole some matter than anywhere else in tin world. As long as the black art was confined to tho luxuries it made little difference, but the necessaries of life are now tampered by some of its most cun- ning tricks. The many adulterations oi flour and sugar represent a vast amount of vicious enterprise. Startling analyses and repeated exposures of these frauds seem only to increase the daring energy of their perpetrations The baby born in a poor American family to-day starts life with the prospect of eating far more than tho proverbial peck of di.t said to bo destined for every human stomach. The Chinese Minister at Washington says ho has received many tenders of ser vice from ex-officers of the union and confederate armies, but he has told them all that their acceptance or rejection rests with the home viceroys. He does nol think the trouble with France admits ol mediation, which would naturally result in a compromise. China, he says, can not accept a compromise in a case that in volves the integrity of her territory and the control or her own subjects. His country, he adds, does not dread a war with France. Her army is weh officered by European soldiers of experience and capaci y, and its equipment is up to modern standards. J he reported medi ation of the United States is, therefore, believed to be without foundation. China is probably ready to fight, and shecounts, no doubt, on a long war and the creation of expenses that the French people will not be apt to stand np to. Whii-B cotton and grain are moving across the water as rapidly as at some other periods, the exports of provision* are unprecedented, and there are no in dications of a decreased movement. The exports of fresh beef are more than doubled, while there has been a hand- Borne increase in the amount of bacon and hams exported. Lard and pork also sfoow increased figures, ?he totals for October are wonderful. Freeh beef, which in the same month last year, amounted to 8,000,000 pounds, runs up to nearly 18,000,000 pounds. Bacon allows an increase for the month 22,000,- 000 pounds, or a total oI 27,000,000 pounds, while the export of haaa is three times greater than that of last year, or over 8,000,000 pounds. The ex port of pork in October wae 8,000,000 pounds, as compared with 8,000,000 pounds in 1882. Tallow shares in the general increase. Daring the month of October there were 6,000,000 pounds ex ported, an improvement of 4,000,000 pounds over the corresponding period of last year, and for the twelve months there were 62,000,000 pounds exported, an increase of 11,000,000 pounds over that of 1882. The total value of pro visions and tallow for the twelve months ending October 81 was nearly $90,000,- 000, while for 1882 it ia $86,000,000. It is cold comfort to talk of money, but this country has so many rich men that they constitute one of the staple themee of gossip. Everybody knows about the Vanderbilts, the Aston and Jay Gould. In the class of stna let for tunes are some names worth mention ing The wealthiest men in Philadel phia are said to be Frank Drexcl, I, V. Williamson and William Weightman, the quinine monopo ist. W. W. Corcoran, of Washington, is known everywhere for his charities. Giving with a lavish hand has not left his fortune lew than $4,000,- 000. Joetp t Willard ranks next in the District of Columbia, and scrupulously conceals the amount of his lucre. Fred. Ames, of Boston, is credited with $20,- 000,000, and John M. Forbes, of the same city, scuffles along on $15,000,000. (. leveland has her John D. Rockefeller, with $15,000,000. Cyrus McCormick, of t hicago rates along near those fig ures, and J. H. Wade, of Chicago, has about half aa much. Some people aay Phil Armour is the richest man in Chicago, but he gambles heavily and hia figure ia unoertain Alexander Mit chell, of Milwaukee, flies among the king bees with $40,000,000. Henry Shaw leads the St. Louis list with $8,000,000, and ia a bachelor. David Swinton, of Cincinnati, has as many millions aa he has fingers on hia right hand. John Hill, of St Paul, oounta to nearly $10; 000,000. The south fanuabee very few millionaires. The richest of these is A. S. Abell, of tho Baltimore Sun, who must have nearly $20,000,000. Rosa Winona has hardly less. The richest man in Richmond ia James B. Pace with $15,- 000,000. W. B. Smith, of Charleston, haa over a million Joseph E. Brown, of Atlanta, ia pnt down st all figures from $1,000,000 to $5,000,000. Ed. Richard son, of Mississippi, ia the largest cotton planter in the worid, and haa $6,009,000. GETTING OUT OF THE ARMY. Texas Fever. The Destruction of Jerusalem. Every once and awhile wa road in tho papers that tho Israelites all over the world are going to knock off work, sell out their effects, borrow what they can from their Gentile neighbors, as they did when they were in Egypt, and start for the Promised Land. The man who believes that the Jews are such a pack of dumbed fools as to seri ously entertain any such plan, should be shut up in an asylum for the feeble minded. We should be sorry to have so little common sense as to l>elieve any such stuff. We would be afraid that we might wake up some fino day and find that we had been elected to the Texas Senate. The real sentiment of the Israelites in regard to Jerusalem and the Holy Land was admirably illustrated by a conversation we overheard on Austin avenue only a few days ago. Mose Schaumburg met Sylvain Levy, and the former said: “Levy, don’t forget dot next Chews- day ve Chews must put on sackcloth mit ashes, and veep like der teyfel. ” “Vy should ve Chews weep next Chewsday more den on any udder day?" asked Levy. “Pecause next Chewsday vas dat day on which Jerusalem vash destroyed py de Romans.” “Ish dot so?” “Itisli chust so.” “But I don’t see vy we should veep on dot Chewsday ven Jerusalem vash destroyed any more den on any udder day. Ve don’t own any houses in dot town.” “Dot’s vot I say,” was the philosophio response.—Texas Siftings. Allerton, the Chicago cattle dealer, denies that there is pleuro-pneumonia among cattle in the United States. He says: “They have been locking np cattle in native yards or fields formerly occu pied by tick-covered Texas steers. When the texas cattle are shipped to tho East many of them are covered with little nests of ‘ticks,’ or bugs, and these in sects fall off to tho ground and crawl over the grass. It the herds are changed, as they usually are, it often happens that the native cattle get into the Texas pastures. The native oattle eat the grass covered with these poisonous green ticks, and in a short time get sick and show symptoms of what is termed pleuro-pneumonia. But it is not pleuro-pneumonia It is easily oured. Give a steer a lot of green oorn, and see how quickly this dreadful thing thev talk about will disappear.’’ Deference often shrinks and withers as much upon the approach of intimacy as the sensitive plant does upon the touch of one’s finger, Why Ihi| Mm Kallit. and Why They Wish to Bo Free Again. [Washington Latter in Philadelphia Record.] Mothers and fathers are constantly applying to the Secretary of War for the discharge of their eons from the army. As a result he hse to talk to a doyen or two agonised parents every day. As a rule they represent that their eons were under lawful age when thev enlisted. If they can prove this iir sons are discharged. When they can’t they complain that it is unjust to hold a young man to a contract which ho concluded impulsively in a moment of desperation. Sometimes it was tho result of money troubles, sometimes of love troubles, end sometimes of family troubles. You would imagine, if you heard all these tales, that this was the popular method of committing suicide. Most of our young soldiers appear to have taken np arms because of a sea of troubles. In almost every case the young man is just about to desert. He sees nothing before him in the army bnt the slavish monotonous life of a soldier withont a cent and without a future. He sees about him, if he is in the Wost, as he usually is, splendid possibilities for a young mau. They want to get ont of the army. They want to get at the possi bilities. Bo they write to their people in the East that they will desert un less they are honorably discharged from the army by a certain day. Thereupon the half-frantic mothers and fathers and uncles and annta flock to the War Department. Tho War Department holds on like grim death to the few sol diers it has. The army grows smaller day bv day. A year’s desertions deci mate it as a battle would. There are only 20,000 men in all. They are drop ping out bv twos, threes, dozens every day. The faseinating recruiting agents do not charm enough reoruits to make up for the losses. So the War Depart ment flghta for its soldiers aa its sol diers ought to fight (or it. When thev desert they are ehased, if enough sol diers remain in the garrison. If the deserters are eanght they are tried by court-martial and sentenced to two years’ imprisonment at hard labor in the military prison at Fort Leaven worth, Kan. At the expiration of hia term of imprisonment he is dishonora bly discharged from the aervioe of the United States. I would advise young men to keep ont of the army, until at least the army grows better. Perhape it will never grow better unless thoy grow better, and unless more of them ao into it. THE JOKER’S BUDGET. WHAT IVK KIND IN THK HtTMOIIOUN 1’AI’EIIM TO MillII.It OVKK. Bacteria. Bacteria have their name from their rod-like shape. They are vegetation so minute as to be visible only by the aid of powerful microscopes. They multi ply by division; each rod separating in to two parts. Then each part speedily becomes a complete whole, bnt soon divides into two parts. It will be seen what countless num bers must result. The view has been extensively adopted that these micro scopic vegetations are the actual poison that produces most infectious diseases. Prof. Lionel Beale, F. R. 8., knighted for his attainments in microscopy and medicine, is not prepared to accept this. We present s condensed statement oi his views. The tongue is constantly covered by whole forests of bacteria. Millions pass into the stomach whenever we swallow. It is the same with all ani mals. Every vegetable and fruit and leaf also contains countless numbers. So docs the air we breathe and the water we drink. All disintegration and decay facilitates the growth of this mi nute vegetation. It is certain now, that bacteria in largs quantities are constantly passing into the alimentary canal of men and ani mals without doing harm. There, is probably not a part of the body of any one of us, one-quarter of an inch in diameter, where their germs arc not present. So small are they that they pass freely into the substance of every organ. They exist within us, even in the blood, without disturbing us in any wav. In disease their numbers are vastly increased. “I have seen every part of the stomach, tbe small and large intes tines, filled with curdled milk whioh, ♦hen placed under the microscope, seemed to be almost composed of bao- teria. Bnt this probably did not origin ate the disorder, but resulted from the f rior diseased state of the secretions, t is still an open question whether in fectious diseases originate from some special kind of death-carrying bacteria; or from practices wholly independent of all such organisms. Though some evidence has been adduced in favor of the first hypothesis, many new facte must be discovered before the problem is solved. ” Government Wit. The following is the formal report of a young pension examiner, presented in all seriousness, on a pension claim. It need not be stated that the letter critic of the division returned it with instruc tions to the writer: Bib: In the claim for invalid pension, Na 889,9)18, of Jaoob Fresh, 3d independent Ohio cavalry volunteers, the claimant alleges that he was engaged in a hand-to-hand fight with his saber for a distance of fivo miles, near Huttonville, Ya., July 2,1868, and that, while In said fight, he was out in the right arm and shot In the left arm and leg. The claim Is Inadmissible without further and more defi nite information. The claimant Is therefore required, with tho return of this letter, to state, under oath, what caused him to get into a fight with his saber; what kind of a saber was It be got into a fight with; how he happened to have a hand-to-hand fight with it; whether he had hands; whether there were any witnesses present during the fight; how ne managed to get shot while fighting with his saber; whether it was a shooting saber; whether he believes the saber shot him; whether it shot anybody else; whether he shot it; how many shots were fired; who fired the first shot; whether the soldier was in the habitof fighting his saber; how long a time he fought it, and whether he had ever fought any other saber. It should be shown by competent testimony whether the soldier shot the saber or the saber shot the soldier. It should also be shown whether they fought for a distance of five miles apart or the saber was fivehniles tyng. Very respectfully, —«■—, WANTED A WHirriNO. Thnow a pair of boys beside whom even Helen's D ibit s must have dwindled •nd grown tame. Naughty, wilful, nris- ohievone, loving little scamps. They were at times as soundly thrashed ns a ratlu-r soft-hearted father would permit, For a time they would mind; bnt thoy “wonldn’t stay minded.” to me a child ish expression. Nothing seemed so foroible a method of punishment as tak ing away their spending-money—n few pennies each day. For some particularly grievous offense this was resorted to two or three days before tho Fourth of July, and great was their grief and indignation. Very early the next morning the father, who had visited this upon them, was a wakened by hearing them at the chamber door crying. “Boys?’’ “jOh, papa I" “Boys—go back to your room 1” “Oh, papa—doar papa—won’t you S lease give us our peuuioa and go back >tho whippings?” PLANTATION rHILOSOMIY. Dnr is a hundred seekers artor money whar dnr is one seeker arter happiness. We ain’t got no respeck fur de stingy man, nor fur de feller what flings his money away. A man's awkward shape ain’t no argu ment agin his 'prcoiation ob de finer pints ob life, A ole black liear nin't putty, but lie's powerful fon’ ob honey. Do ’possom was neber thought ter hah muoh sense, but he’s mighty smart Ho has fooled many a mau in pretendin’ like ho was dead, while the coAn, what all ob de animals call jedge, r’urs arouu’ an' neber fails ter git hurt. I has often heerd dat do bos' is de elieapea’. Dis doan* hole good in nil oases, fur I’ll bo dinged of de chenprs' way ter lib is do lies’. A man mout toll me dat brand an’ ingous is better dun bread, meat, 'talers an’ ingous, but 1 wouldn’t belelie him. It’s mighty strange, but do biggest sinners in do worl’ believes in do chor ion tin' fire ob de debil. I has knowed manv a good man what didn't believe dat <)e debil was half sieh a powerful feller ns de preachers said, an’ I has knowed mnuy a thief dat believed eheryebing ho was told about do olo limn. I ain't got much confidence in dut'liglon what is based on fonr. A convict mnj work mighty hard 'caso do olu-rscer is lookin’, but de work is neber done as well as if be wan’t fo'ced tor do it.— Arkansaw Traveler. FRATERNAL TIES. In the Lime Kiln Club Judge Oliewso arose to ask for information. wanted to know how strong the fraternal ties of such a club should lie considered. How fnr was he obligated? “Brother Ohewso,” replied the presi dent, “I will road <ie fullerin' fur your benefit: “1. All meet henh on terms of equal ity, bnt de member who blacks stoves an’ bswb wood am not 'speoted to bo so familiar as to ask de barber airuiu' $17 per week to lend him his toof-pick. “2. If you find a brudder in distress, aid him. Dar am no pcrtickler objeok- shun to takin’ a mortgage on his stove, in case he wants to berry fo’ dollars in cash, bnt give him a little show befo' fo’closin’ “3. Excuse a brudder’s faults as fur as you kin, but artor ho has spit on your butes about three times you kin con clude dat he aches to lie licked. “4 Speak well of each odder; avoid wrangles an’ slander; be ready to give f ood advice; encourage sobriety an’ in ustry, but doan' let a man kick ye; dog simply bekase he sits on do stool nex’ you in Paradise nail."—Detroit Free Press. USING A FIRE ESCAPE. The other day a prominent citizen of Detroit, says tho Free Press, who has been greatiy interested in tho subject of fire-escapes, was inspecting a building on East Woodbridgo street which hail a been equipped with balconies and ers, and be summed up his opinion with: “Well, sir, there’s no need of an aooi- dent hero in case of fire. All any em ployee has to do is to coolly step from a window to one of tho balconies and de scend in perfect safety.” At one o’clock Saturday afternoon, this same citizen was in the same build ing when some rags took fire on the fourth floor, a smudge arose, and an alarm was sounded for the steamers. “Fire ! fire I” was echoed thrtmgh the bnilding, and the employees rnshed for the stairs like frightened sheep.' The eminent citizen lost his legs as soon as he heard the ory—ran twice around the room withont seeing the open door, and finnlly brought up at a win dow. The sash was hung on weights, and yet he pushed, pulled and tugged in vain, and finally lowered the top sash and olimlied over. As he descended to the second balcony he left one coat-tail on a nail, broke his watch chain, and took a tumble which landed him on his book, and he was there yelling “fire!” when the engines came up. He had to be helped through a window and down stain, and when a heartless wretch in the crowd asked him how long he had practiced the “escaping” business, he replied: “None o’ yonr business, sir I Driver, take me home.” A TRAP FOlt-SEYiaC A WESTERN DESCRIPTION OF AN. IN CIDENT IN REAL I.IFB DDT THERE. Haw Severn Well AnaeU Me* Were CBenaeA Ont by Twa—The Palatal Silence Which BnaaeU. Catch a rat in a trap and he will fight. Trap a man and—well, yon can’t rely or him. It’s according to the trap. In the heavy Btage-ooaoh aa we; roll out of Leadville are seven men. One is an army oflloer who has half a dozen scars to prove his bravely. Cut off from his command on the plains last summer by a score of Indians he entrenched himsoU^and fought the band off until help arrived. Two of the others are desperadoes who have killed their men. Throe ofthe ot hers are stalwart miners, each armed with two revolvers, and they look as if they would prove Ugly custom ers in a row. •.* Tho seventh men might do some shooting on a pinch, but he hopes there will bo no pinoh. In tho crowd arp ten revolvers, two derringers, three repeat ing rifles and fonr or five brfwie-kBives; and there te perfect good feeling tf the stage rolls along. It is taoitly under stood that the army oflloer is to assume command in case the ooaoh is attacked, and that all are to keep oool and firo to kill. It is ten o’olook in the morning. The windows are down and the passengers are smoking and talking and seeking for comfortable positions. The ooaah haa just reached the top of a hill, when ev ery hone is suddenly pulled up. “If it’s a b’ar we’ll have some fun,” .growled one of the miners, as he Put his head out of the window. “If it’s a robber, gimme the fust pop at him*,” whispered one of thp despera does. i No one eould say what the trouble was when a wiry little chap, about five feet six inches tall, with black eyes and hair, dean face and thin lips, appeared at the left-hand door with a cooked re volver in either hand and said: “Gents, I am sorry to disturb yon, but I’ve got to make a raise this morn ing. Please leave yonr shooters and olimb down hen, one at a time.” It was sudden. It was so sudd it took ten seconds to undent drift of his nmarks. Then ev turned to the right-hand door, j two revolvers held by a second robber won seen at the open window! It was a trap. The rata were caught, did would they fight? “Gents, I’m growing a leetle impa tient,” continued the first robber, “and I want to see the procession begin to move." Let’s see. The captain was to lead ns, and we wen to be oool and fire to kill. But the captain was growing white around the .mouth, and nobody had a weapon in hand.. The rats were not go ing to fight. One of the miners opened the door and descended, and the other six humbly followed. The seven were drawn up in line across the road, and while one robber held hia shooter on the line he ooolly observed to his pariner: “Now, William, remove the weapons from the coach and then search these gentlemen." As William obeyed, every victim was ordered to hold his hands above his head, and whatever plunder wae taken from their pockets was dropped into William’s hat. Four gold watches, two diamond pins, a telescope, a diamond ring, a gold badge and $1,200 in oosh changed hands in ten Urinates. Not a man had a word to say. The driver of the ooaoh did not leave his Beat and was not interfered! with. When the last man had been plundered, tbe genteel Dick Turpin ob served kindly: “You are the most deoent set of men I ever robbed, and if times weren’t so darned lmrd I’d make eaoh of you a present of $10. Now, then, olimb back to your plnoes, and the ooaoh will go on.” The crowd got injand the vehicle re sumed its journey. Not a Weapon, a timepiece or a dollar had been saved. Seven well armed men had been cleaned out by two, and not a shot fired nor a wound given. Mile after mile was passed in silence, and finally the seventh man, the one who might tight on a pinch but think apropos to the oooasion?” No one could, and the silence was re sumed,—Seattle Post-Intelligencer. «. NEAT RETORT. Mr. Falls, a well-known Irish sports man, happened one day to ride down a hound. The irascible but witty master attacked him in no very measured lan guage. “Sir,” was the reply, “I’d have you reoolleot that I am Mr. Falls, of Dun gannon. ” The answer was ready: “I don’t care if you are Mr. Falls, of Niagara, you iha’n’t ride over my hoUnds.” The New Orleans Picayune say* that “genius does not require clean linen.” Perhaps not, bnt we always feel more comfortable in it,—Buffalo Courier. A Lesson La Boxing. “Pa told my chum and me that it was no harm to learn to box, cause we could defend oursolves, and he said he used to bo a holy terror with the Isoxing gloves when he was a boy, and he has been giving us lessons. Well, ho is no slouch now I tell you, and handles himself pretty well for a church member. I read in tho paper how Zacli Chandler played it on Colliding by getting Jem Mace, the prize, fighter, to knock him silly, and I asked pa if he wouldn’t let me bring a poor boy, who had no father to teach him boxing, to our house to learn to box, and pa said' certainly, fetch him along. He said he would be glad to do anything for a poor orphan. So I went down in the Third ward and got an Irish boy by the name of Duffy, who can knock thq socks off of any boy in the ward. He fit a prize fight once. It would have made you laugh to see E a tell him how to hold his hands and ow to guard his face. He told Duffy not to be afraid, but to strike out ana hit for keeps. Duffy said he was afraid pa would get mad if lie hit him, and pa said, ‘ Nonsense, boy, knock me down if you can, and I will laugh ha 1 ha!’ Well, Duffy he hauled back and gave pa one in the nose and another in both eyes, and cuffed him bn the ear and punched him in the stomach, and lammed him in the mouth and made his teeth bleed, and then he gave him a side-winder in both eyes, and pa pulled off the boxing gloves and grabbed a chair, and we ad journed and went down stairs as though there was a panic. I haven’t seen pa since. Was Iris eye' very black ?” “Black? I should sa^ so,” said the grocery man. ‘‘And liis nose seemed to be trying to look in his left car. He was at the market buying beefsteak tq put on it, "—Peck’s Sun,

Georgia Historic Newspapers

The Mercury. (Sandersville, Ga.) 1880-1???, December 04, 1883, Image 1