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MERCURY.
A. J. JERMflAN, 1'l'Oprlctor.
DEVOTED TO LITERATURE, AGRICULTURE AND GENERAL INTELLIGENCE.
RICHARD I. HARRIS,
Attorney at Law,
SANDERSVLLE, GA.
Will prsitiro in nil the courls of the
middle circuit, and in tho counties Bur-
rounding W Bhington Special atten
tion given to commercial law.
£• S. LANGMADE,
Attorney at Law,
SANDERSVILLE, GA.
MAYOR.
0. H. ROGERS.
LF$K <(! SftFASUHEJt,
D. E. R, WELLS.
MAH,SHALL.
J. E. WEDDON.
ALT) ETtMEJv.
W. H, LAWSON,
Wm. RAWLINGS,
S. G. LANG,
A. M. MAYO,
M. II. ROYER.
2own of Lcnnitte.
Mayor—John C. Harman.
Aldermen— W. P. D.ivi*, ,T. W.
Smith, I’. J. I’ipkin, T. J. Reck.
Clerk—S. II. R Massey.
Marshall—J. (J. Hamilton. wn
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ol Bamlersvlllo and vlolnlty. Oftlce with
Dr. II N Holllflcl'i, next door to|Urs. Bayno's
millinery store.
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Physician and Surgeon,
BandenrvUle, Qa.
oaice next door to Mr*. Bayne 1 * Millinery
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VOLUME IV
SANDERSVILLE, GA., TUESDAY, JANUARY 15, 1884.
$1. 50 per Annum
NUMBER 39.
EDITORIAL NOTES,
Two plans are proposed to relieve tlio
over-supply of cotton spinuers aud wea
vers In tho Massachusetts milLs--^oither
to colonizo tho surplus laborers on south
ern lauds of to diroct thorn to cotton
mills springing up in the south, where
thoy may liml employment at their life
long avocations. While tho first effort
is perhaps tho best, tbe latter is more
immediately practicable. It is almost
impossible to induce mill hands to take
up ami operate the cheap lauds of the
west aud south.
The c vil ist includes an army of men
over 83,000 strong. Excepting the post
masters and ra lway mail employes, thi,
army is classed by states as follows;
District of OoImobiA.13.543
Itatlwnjr mail service. 4,QU
AlshstnA 7ft
Alnskit t
Arkansas.....
UaJifutni* ...... ......
Colorado
Uonneoticui .
Dakota.......
I Maw are
K orula
(JeorglA
Idthq
Illinois
Indiana
jntitan Territory
Kansan !!!!!!!’
Kentucky
liouisiami
Maine
MaHsacimnetts
Maitland
Diplomatic and non*
snlar in tureiKn
countries , NV
Post masters 48,UU0
Michigan „»..mmu
Minnesota .emrnt..
Miseisainpi
Missouri V.U....
Mont
Nebraska..... ..w m.
Nevada
Hi Jew ifanipshire.
“ New Jersey
New Meiioo
New York
North (Jaroli*A...
Ohio
Oregon
insylvania
„ .W
\U A, *81
Hh-.de Island
•w- South Carolina
173 Tnnness'-e «...
12H Tetaa
ftW Utah
fcw Vounont..............
JWI Virginia
l,3nl> Wnthington Torrit^irir
u68 West Virginia.........
Wisconsin,.,
^| Wyoming Territory...
Grand total....-.,.5
a
If wo add to this number the army
and navy, wo havo a force in the employ
of the government over 100,003 strong.
Tiie. following table will show the
number ot emigrants who have arrived
In New York during the present year
from foreign lands;
168,319 I'lnl/SnT.,..~~ mo
Knulwn.f RV.oiiS L„.«ll w «. Jrf
t,kij 11,,, a 7
Widw
Austiia...
“
--.’oden
No.way. ...........
IVl.itnark
NetheHsnda
Beifimn ......
Nwitxftrlaud.
Kranoo. *.
Italy
U^utnauia
Malta
Oiftece
raiun
I*»rtiifcal ..........,
Russia.,
Bohemia
... 8,880 China ..WWW,,nm,
'• (4® KMt'in'di*::
■ » lKitvl Algeria
,. 11,366 Africa t
• 7.866 Canada
.. a,7*« N«,via Scotia
>. 1,476 Cuba
.. 8,mi West India*
.. 8,643 Mexico
.. tH,666 (Jon ral AmnricA
::
.. r>8 Sandwich Glands....
NftwEeaTand...
B,7H7 Icclnnd
4,444 Bermudas
Of this immigr tion Now York state
has receive 1 the largest number, as has
been the case for many years past. A1
together 146,637 alien < have settled in
the State, less than 40,000 of whom re
mained fn New York City. More than
16,000 of the latter figures were German,
Irish and English serving girls, who
came here with the intention ot finding
such employment and woro furnished
situations by tho labor bureau. The
avowed destinations of all immigrants
arriving during the p st year can be
een by the following table:
Arir.nna
Alabama
>',rkansAR.
Brit sh Columbia
7,056
Connecticut
Colorado ViL'l
California *•”?'
Mamuln 5* 17®
Oannd
Delaware
(>i triot Columbia*",',
Dak-.ia
Florida
Os'»rtiA m
Indiana 3 h2&
Illinois 20,6.16
' 1U.443
a, 2
2, liifj
Manitoba.
New Hampshire
north Carolina
Nebraska
Nevada
Now Jersey
No.v York..uvnn
Ohle.ut,
Gfttgon.
PonnnylvaiiiA
lihodu Isl ind
Houth Carolina
Tonnossou
1’.
.146,6.17
. 16,1U6
Idaho
Kentucky....
fuiii**
UmisiRna....
Mamu
Maryland ...,
MiehiKan ...
Missouri
Minnesota..
Mississippi.,
Montana
no
■ 1.4H7
18,018
5,G-y
. 18,687
Utah
Varmont
Virginia
West Virginia
Wisconsin
Wash.ngton Tor
Wyoming
West Indies
Now Mexico
Indian Territory
. s coti,
Mo
Massachusoetts lU,6tf{
New KeaUrnl
Cuba
Vancouver’s island!.
A good jiulgo of tho article will find,
nine times out of ten, when he orders a
bottle of French w’.no in New York that
tho vintage is either Ohio wine or very
poor California wine. Very little of tho
wine sold in this country ever saw a
French vineyard, although it may have
been doctored aud fortified iu a French
laboratory. In this, however, tho fancy
labels on the bottles deceive thousands.
When American wine is sold without
vivacious adulteration it i« thinned by
adding about one-third water,
Elokk Terry presented the pnblio
hor full mental statute when she wrote
in rosponso to a request for her auto
graph. “Thoso who lovo mo call me
Nollio.” It is that “io” business which
makes the modern girl appear Buch a
weakling. Ellon is a good name, aud so
is Mary, Katharine, Nancy or Elizabeth ;
but Mamie, Katie, Nannie and Bessie
uro what Professor Pygmalion Whilllos
(“Piggy,” for short) would call “good
chowing gum names." In our horror of
being considered strong minded, let us
not indellibly stamp ourselves weak-
minded.
Tree culture is now attracting much
attention in some sections of the coun
try. Tho land where quick growing
trees are planted must be in first-class
condition, deeply plowed;' and as well
proparod ns if the cultivator intendo 1 to
raise a crop of corn. The hard w ods
are slower of growth, but are more profl
table. The walnut, sovou years after
planting the seed, bears fruit, and all
the lumber producing trees pay at loast
per cent, upon the cost of laud, plant-
and oultnro. Close planting pays, as
trees cau afterwards be thinned out
and the best allowed to remain. As our
great forests are about exhausted, it is
time to provide for a future supply, by
plauting trees on a largo scale.
iprrc. T>iiiindfilnliia Itecord having ex-
15
ing
the
fcminoA tbe figures given by provlsioh
doalors in that city finds that fully three-
fourths of tho butter sold by thorn is
counterfeit. Bosidos the local supply,
betwoon four and five thousand tubs of
butter are brought to the city doily.
Since tho oleomargarine aud butteriue
were so easily detected, all article ha*
been introduced which Is rtUtibfaetUred
tinder tho name of Bttene and tastes like
tho real production of Jersey cream. It
is mode of pure leaf lard, thoroughly dC-
odoiizod, and fresh Creamy butter and is
sold fet thirty-eight cents a pound.
Chicago and Detroit are tho principal
manufacturing plaoes. tho former city
making 80,000 pound* of *ueae sock
d»jk
SavXfTs ail oVot thti U’rttLl Are tryilig
to accoUnt fob the recent brilliant, sun-
seta. All sorts of thoorios hav e beoh ad
vanced, but just at preAottt lilo lhosl
popular is that tUo earth is passing
through a zono of meteoric dust, and
that to the presence of this dust in our
onvelope are due to tho strange efforts
alluded to. Tho late snow storms have
materially aided scientiBU th testing tliil
theory, Thu BnoiV, Upon examination,
has been found to contain tticteorfo par
ticles in groat (ptautilieft. travelers in
tho Arctic regions liavo noticed on Spitz-
burgon, whore no dust could prevail,
groat patches of yellow and black, pre
sumably of ruoteoric origin. Peculia
storms of blood*rod and black dust, BnoU
and rain havo occurred from tho oariiefit
history of tho world. No satisfactory
local cause has over bkton assigned to
these *ue.nirestations, and in the abfiono
of anything bettor thoeoBmio dust thcob
will probably hold its own.
An oxperioucod cultivator of Gorman
carp says tnat this now maustry fully
warrants tho construction of ponds fo4
the purpoBo. Stock ponds, howovet,
inay be oasily coUvertod late catp ixjndi
at little codt. tl Ik iklvisahie to con-
stmet ponds in such a manner as to per
mit the wuter to be di'awn off. The fish
then can bo captured aud assorted,
Thoso intended for brooding purposes
can bo returned to the poud While the
remainder cilh bU placed in tanks or
boxes here they can bo cOnVeuiontly
handled for marketing. Drow off the
water enables tile fish cultivator to gUt
rid of branch minnows, frogs, turtles,
etc. Warm water, of course, is best for
growth, aud evory pond should contain
a place about throe foot deep for tho fish
to winter. Carp is really a VQgotariun,
all hough he will oat anything. Ho will
also do os well without foedlhg aS
chickens. A toh ot Carp can be raised
off a ono acre pond, and even at ten
cents a pound this would amottn to $209.
—
A correspondent of the Chicago
News writes of a visit to Molokai, the
placo which the Sandwich Islanders
havo rosorvod for tho victims of leprosy.
This mysterious blight, which prevuils
so extensively on tho beautiful islands,
is not simply a skin disease, ns most
pooplo think, but a painful decoying of
every portion of tho body. Nine years
is tho longest period n leper has been
known to livo, soven years being the
usual limit of tho disease. Old women
livo longer and Stifle 1- moro than any
other victims Families often hide their
afllictod relatives iu tho mountains, but
tho polieo officers bring more than a
hundred lepers every two months to tho
hospital at Honolulu, where tho doctors
oxnmine them nnd consign them to ban
ishment to tho leper settlement, from
which death is tho only escape. Many
touching stories are told of tho devotion
tiro gentle islanders show to tho ; r loved
ones who endure this horrible death in
life. Ono young physician, finding a
leprous spot on his hand, gave himself
at onco to the authorities nnd wont out
to Molokai to study tho terrible malady
for the benefit of medical science.
GENERAL NEWS.
Baltimore owes $38,500,000.
Florida farmers are importing Ger
man labor.
A LARGE hotel is to bo built at Plant
City, Florida.
The southern lumber trade continues
to g ow In Importance.
The growing of the camphor tree in
Florida is proving to be a success.
Sorghum is attracting the attention
of North Car lina farmers as a paying
crop.
Louisville, Kentucky, has lost by
lire during the past twelve months $85,-
484 G3.
In four years Arkansas, Florida, Lou
isiana and Texas have doubled their
railroad mileage.
The Birmingham, Ala, iron furnaces
are all in blast, nnd making pig iron at a
cost or $0 per ton.
Texas marriage notice : “No cards,
no cake, no flowers, no thanks, no ic-
grels, nobody’s business.”
During tho year 1883 the value of
imporlati ms passing through the Louis-
vi le custom house was $242,261.
The postmaster general is preparing
a bill to have introduced in Congress to
exclude newspapers publishing lottery
advertisements from the pound rate.
Tira decrease of the pnblio debt for
December was nearly twelve millions;
while the total decrease sirce tho thir
teenth of June was over flfty-thrCO
millions, — ^
Tiife Ateitcah £overhthent lias declar
ed forfeited the conceasiou made to Gen
eral Grant fot a sUbmAtine caiile coti-
heeling jlekioo and llie tfnited Statei
and Central America, no work having
been done within tho prescribe 1 time.
Under the provision of the last post-
office appropriation bill that when the
compensation of tiny postmaster ol tiM
fourth class reaches $230 lot - , Mr ctJU-
Bebutlve qUartety exclusive of tne lioffi-
ihisMoHS Oh the ihoney order business,
he shall be assigned to the presidential
grade, the following nrtnied foUrtH clas*
offices llave Ueon placed ujldn the list <)f
presidential offices with the salaries ol
t e postmasters as stated; Yorkville,
South Carolina, $1,000; Morristown,
Tennessee, $1,200 ; Jonesboro, Tennes
see, $1,0001 HockbiU' South CarollnA)
ll.iOt); Attuns, Tennessee) $lji6d j
Quitman, Ga, $1;1()0
Thte business failures ol tbe United
State* dlirihg l8&j, ni rejiohbd bj tk Gi
Dun & Co., number 0,189 against 6,738
in 1882, nn increase of 2,446. The lia
bilities for 1883 nro $-172,000,000, against
$101,000,000 for 1883. Tho failures ol
last year are greater than those ol ally
jjrear sideb 1878, wiled tlleV rbncMod
10,438, *Ith liabilities ol $234,Obo,OO0.
A close analysis of tho tnbleB prosen tod
In tho oiroular shows that nut of every
nlnoty-roUr persons engaged in business
in 1883 one failed, while in 1878 one per
son failed out of every sixty-four traders.
In Canada -the proportion of failures
during the year was one failure to every
forty-eight trttdeti
f he Railway Age publishes a sum
mary ot the railway building in ^he
United States ior the past twolvS
months. It shows 6,600 miles of main
track laid, at an* approximate cost of
$10\flo0,000, making the total mile* of
railway In the c untry to date about
120,000; The cons ruction during 1885!
was the largest in the history ol tiie
coUntry—11,600 miles, and the year
beforb 9;800. Tho States and Terri to-
ries which lead in the construction th in
year are is follows:
Montana 413
Dakota 409
Michigan ‘ 400
New York.. 87fl
Pennsylvania .339
OllW ...1...KKK..KK.I..IK.KKU 925
Mississippi.. I;..;; 9ol
New Hampshire, libode Island, Con
necticut, Delaware, Nevada and Wy
oming are the only States and Teriitories
in which do new roads Were built.
Alaska is the native place of the
seals whose fur is si highly valued, nnd
about one hundred thousand are annu
ally slain on the islands in Bohrlng Sea.
The Alaska Company pays to our gov
ernment a yearly rent of $55,009, be
sides $2 on each skin taken. The you g
male seals all nd the best fur and it is
fin st when about three year* old. The
hunters go to tho islands in June and
surrounding the herds of young seals at
night, drive them into inclosures where
they are knocked on the he rd, stabbed
t the heart and quickly skinned The
skins are salted aud shipped dire t to
London where they are prepared for use.
The seals wore discovered near y one
hundred years ago by a fur trader whe
was lost in a fog, and drifted among the
islands. A warm current from the gull
of Mexico makes a delightful summer
resort for the seals in the frozen zono
Society of Engineers.
D. J. Whittemore, chief engineer ol
the Chioago, Milwaukee nnd St. Paul
Railway, has been nominated for the
Presidency of the American Society of
Civil Engineers. The position, a purely
honorary one, is considered a worthy
object of.ambition among the most emi
nent members of tho profession of engi
neering. The society’s membership list
contains over V00 names, including the
foremost engineers in every portion of
the American continent. The election
will take place at the annual meeting of
tho society in New York city on the
third Wednesday in January. Mr. Whit
temore is a native ef Chittenden county,
Vt., and passed his early years in that
State, where also he received his educa
tion. He began engineering in 1847 on
the Vermont Central aud Vermont and
Canada Railroad, serving until it
was completed, and then going upon the
Great Western Railroad of Canada,
where ho had charge of a portion of the
construction. He was next occupied on
the Central Ohio Railroad from Wheel
ing to Columbus. He went to Milwau
kee in 1853. His present position has
been held by him since 1866.
AHEAD OF THE WINTER.
“What has becomo of Miss Blank
who was always such a favorite in your
set?” “Her father failed some weeks
ago, and all thoy had was sold by the
sheriff.” “Poor thing!” “And now
they have to live in a little rented house
downtown." “What a change ! How
she must grieve 1” "Yes. She is so
much changed' that even her best friends
would not recognize her. I met her on
the street to-day and did not know her
at all, poor thing 1”
North Carolinia will levy no State tax
next year. Tho Western North Caro
lina Railroad Company will pay into
Treasury $600,000, which sum 47111 oarry
the State government,
MORE TllAMPR THAN IIHUAI. IN TUB
ANNUAL HUSH TO THE UITY.
Berne* In the Ntntlnn—A movement Townrd
|,nt-ltln*.U|i the Uhrnnlc Tn*rnnt*—Three
HuMiH-kli ftVhi Id if till.
[From tho Now York 8nn.]
J’be trrtm[is Hate come tb town. Six
weeks ago luey liGglill Id ToftjhK'M' In
tho parks, the empty wagons, tne sta
tion lionso lodging room, the so-called
distilleries, and on tho sunny sides of
the streets. The country had at that
time begun to lose its attractions for
Ssr
hard, and tile bams let in the cold. Bo
the disjlpirttcn arm.t fabed tbwnrd the
city nnd came td It In oTety l*dtd*eitiible
way, and by every road aud railroad.
The majority wnlkod, some Btolo riles
on top of freight oars, and undor other
cats; Ho file todb In fttrtb Wagons, and
some in cannl boats, scliooncfs fil’d
stcamboals. Now nearly all have ar
rived, nnd havo begun tho winter rou
tine of tagging, washing hnrrooms,
lounging about and sleeping in the po
lice stations. When the still shines the
pnrhfl ate full of them. When it rains
no one knows wliefe tltej Spend the
time.
Sergeant Orcoden was behind the
desk In the Eldridge street station
(Oapt. Allaire) when the tramps began
to file in at half-post 5 o’oloGl* sms even
ing to get their lodgings for the night.
Moro tram|ie go to that station than to
any other, for some reason. There is
very little formality abont the securing
or the giving of a night's lodging, The
Sctttbitut presides ta)untl the Jug denk,
the doorman stahds idljr by. The trainp
comes in, shuffles up to the desk, nnd
stops before the iron rail waiting for the
Setgbfifft to ecase writing and look up.
The Bergonut sees lum. rbcogtiHbS hi to
or reooguizes his quality, and says: “All
right: go to bed.” Then tho doorman
Htirs himself, the tramp shuffles across
the room, a door bangs, a lock rattles,
and the tramp lies down ou a slanting
platform of boards with, bis coat undor
bis arm, perhaps, and either talk* to the
others lying thero with him, or else
goes to sleep. The lodging room is to
most, stations a big square apartment,
with an aisle ttp ilio diddle and a slant
ing platform on oitbor side, tbe slnnit lit
the platforms being from the wnll down
to tho pnssngo wav, with a fall of six
iuchcs iu six feet. In the room for
women there may bo a bit of looking-
glojjs on the wall over the iron wash
The lodgers file in oho at d tide, nil
ooming along within an lionr on either
side of 6 o’clock. Here is how thoy
look! Here is a man in a tattered me
rino offioe ooat with (1 c£ne, on whioh he
loans when he walks. Ho is fotigh
bearded and blear eyed. He wears one
boot and ono shoe. The next man Is
stout and brood shouldered, not more
tban 80 years old. His skin is snn
branded), and he has a bushy growth of
black hltit riltoost all qtef Ills fade. Ho
wears a straw hat He ha* 4 moat curi
ous slouch in his gait. His knees
spring, his shoulders roll, and his back
bends in and out. In spito of his heavy
frame aiia outward signs of strength, a
racking cough is torturing him. Next a
pert little old woman trips in. Every
thing nbout her is fadod. Hor hair has
the dead tono of draw, hor eyes are
weak and bleached looking, her skin is
colorless. Her onco rod shawl and
originally gay calico skirt have lost tho
life that once was in tlieir colors. Hei
bonnet is of faded straw with faded
flowers tibon It. She curtsies nnd trips
out of sight, ffoxt, a well-built yoitlig
man steps in with a lioaVy footfall, anti,
pausing, holds thodoornjnr until a broad
faced, smiling, stout little woman comes
softly along, carrying something in hor
arms. She lifts it up toward oneslioulder,
lets it settle back in her arms in a now
position, swings it aud herself and het
skirts nil together from one side to
another with a semi-circular movement,
and says, “Bh-h-h-h.” The thing in her
arms is a baby, done tip in an old shawl.
The Sergeant has been saving that
something ought to be dono tb discour
age tbe chrome idleness aud vagabond
age of tho tramps. He thinks they
should be made to work for tho State.
Without having heard Oapt. Allaire talk
upon the subject he expresses tho sr,mo
sentiments os the Cnptuin, that is to sav
' hat if the tramps had to work for their
lodgings, or if, when thoy were punished
for disorderliness, they were obliged tc
serve oat their terms at Btreet cleaning
or road repairing, or whatever the State
selects for them to do, there would soon
bo an end to tramps in New York.
That is what ho is saying when the
young-man, woman and baby come in.
Ho bows to them pleasantly and moves
his head in the direction of the lodging
room and they disappear.
"Now, that’s a curious case,” he says.
“That young man is a German. It is
astonishing how many German tramps
have come hero lately. Nearly one-half
the trumps that come here are Gormans.
That’s something I never noticed until
this year. That man is a German. His
wife is a young Scotch woman. They
seem to bo trying to do something, and
we have taken an interest in them. We
let him do a little work around here,
washing tho floor, bringing up coal and
one thing or another. They stick to
one another persistently day after day.
They probably were mar/ ied when ho
had employment, but her has since fallen
into hard luck. About two years ago
we had to send her to tho hospital,
where her baby was born. It is not
moro than ten days old. I think he’ll
get something to do very soon. A Vo
helped a young man along once before.
He got into bad luck, and used to come
here, and we got interested in him. He
There is a silent war waging npon tho
tramps in Eldridge street, New York.
Captain Allaire is having them locked
up. Ho has had 300 dealt with thus far
this season. Only those are arrested
who come night after night, and who
Bhow iu many ways that they are not
merely unfortunate, but are determined
not to help themselves. Others, who
are believed to be searching for employ
ment, are not disturbed. The various
Police Justices deal differently with
thoso tho Captain sends before them.
JusttoH Gardner is strict. He sends
them to the Island lor six months. Jus
tice Smith usually imposes three months'
sentences upon them. Justice Unify »
very mild. Fivo days or ten days are
the terms ho seems to regard n* just.
At the station house it is said thnt the
tramp evil is growing fnpidly. Stout
young men are now frequently found in
Um tanks, rind one boy of 14 came to the
station the otlict tlriy. Tramp women
aro few, as compared With the male
tramps. Saturday night’s blotter shows
that of tWefcly ihdgets sixteen wero men
aud four wore womoll. Twenty is n
small number, bowover. On Friday
night forty-nine slumberod on tbo soft
sides of the plank tails. The women do
hot seem to quit the city nnd roam along
tiiti ttctnhtfy roads in tho summer time
as the nidll tf*». Thoy lend the same life
the year around.
In Captain Allaire’s precinct many of
tiie wotiidl g*( BUongh money for rum,
which is tho only llifng they appear to
want in the world, by worklhg for the
orthodox Jews. On Friday evenings
and flt'tardajrs these old-style Jews will
not do any w6fh; They will not oven
ride on n horse-oar, sd filflct do they
observe their Sabbath. On those days
they employ these " omen to do what
ever household work lias to be performed.
Tho Women thus get the moans for
fecejbtaghalf tipsy the other live days of
tho Wctill, if a tramp can show a cent,
and thus provd that ho Is able to pur
chase a roll for his next meal, be fa not
a vagraut nnder tho law. Consequently
tiife tramps thnt are now being looked up
In snob groat numbers are accused of
disorderly condnct and of bnving no
visible menus of gaining their livelihood.
The Washington Monument,
Tiie mnnntoerit lms now reached a
height of 410 feet. With all Ot its enor
mous weight it is but tho ono-sixty-
(mirth ot nn inoli—tho thickness ot a
iheot of fttotlt writing-paper—out of
plumb. Our party welit Up in eight
minutes from tiie base to tho top in nn
Otis elevator, taking up two ot Hugh
Sisson’s marble blocks for tho lost course
of stone laid this season. It was a tremu
lous ascent Up tho dark marble alley
with tuosfe heavy stones, tho elevator
quivering as it went along, nnd as it
reached sunlight at tho ton, attdihle
breathing indicated that relief from tta
sttopense was a boon to most of the
party. Tiife accent could have boon
tnnde by stairs which are constructed
along tho inner walls to the top.
Around the monument at the present
height ore swung exoellently oontriv* d
hempen hammocks from all four sides,
so to caao of a fall no danger would ensue
to the Wotkmen, Theso tumbles aro not
dreaded, and are said to be frequent. A
week since a Baltimore beauty so dazed
a workmen that in lifting his cap and
stepping back to let hor pass he fell
over, Olid ln the hammock, 400 feet
above the terra firMtt; continued his ml-
miring gaze with his cap still In hand.
The superin ./indent Bays that In five
years the most Berions accident has not
been more than a mashed finger among
hfa masolis and laborers. Tho height
no# io gD Is 145 feet. The base of the
upper platform Will Commence when 500
feet is reached. This will ttfl dfl limb ns
the visitor can go. Tiie iuterior of the
monument is twenty-ftvo foot square,
which continues to a height of 150 feet.
Its dimensions ore then increased to 31
5-12 foot by tho width of the Walls being
reduced; from thnt point to the top the
inner walls nro perpendicular. Tho outer
face of tiie walls hns a batter or slope ol
one-fourth inch to tho foot until they
will reach 600 foot.
As before said, the ascent is mado by
an elevator, ono of the Oils patent, It
lias a carrying strength of seventy-five
tons, and tho wiro cables would break
only at a tost of 150 tohs. Even with n
break the safeguards are such ns Would
prevent a fall of over ten inches. Yet
tho superintendent says lie has frequent
ly bad to stop, return and put men off,
whoso fears wero such as to compel re
lief. He added ho never Knew a lady tc
be unnerved to that direction.
Sport for Kentucky Boys.
Tliursdny night CharleR Italic, a
drummer traveling for a wholesale jew
elry establishment in Philadelphia, ar
rived in Harrodslmrg, Ky., and wns
recognized by his appearance before lie
registered at the hotel. Ho was decoyed
by a personal advertisement, purporting
to be from a Harrodsburg lady, printed
in a Cincinnati paper. Tbo correspon
dence bnd been kept up for a long time,
and a placa for meetim? bad been ap
pointed. Dressed in elaborate style, lie
set out from bis hotel for the place of
meeting, recognizing tho spot by a dia
gram lio bad received in tbo course of
his correspondence, but, instead of meet
ing the young lady, he fell into tiie
hands of a dozen boys, who took him to
a pond on tbo United StateB Govern
ment Asylum grounds. Tlio day had
been rallier pleasant, but tlio night was
raw slid chilly. }In begged, but the
boys lind no conqxission. They divided
into squads, nnd each squad took its
turn at ducking tlio drummer in tiie
pond. At midnight lie crept into the
hotel dripping wot. Tiie next morning
he purchased new clothing, and quit tiie
town, begging thnt the story should not
bo made public. Charles Ttaiie is said
to bo the husband of one wife and the
father of two children.
Mrs. Ponbonuv db Tomkyns (pointing
to her books): “They are not many,
Lord Adolphus, but they are all friends
—dear old friends.” Noble Poet (taking
down a volume of his own poems and
'inding tbo leaves uncut): “Ah! hum !
Urn glad to find that you don’t out all
your old friends, Mrs. do Tomkyns I’’
(Mrs. P. de T. is at a loss fox onoe.I
“What dp you do here to keop
this town up?” asked a railroad pas
senger of a resident of Yuma, In Ari
zona, while the train was stopping for
supper. “Do?” wns the reply, “let’s
geo—we had a fort here once—that gave
our town a start; now we have the Ter-
ritorial Penitentiary here, and that in
creases our population amazingly, such
as it ia.”
THE MERCURY.'
CnUrad aa aMond-alaaa matter *4 ths I
daisvUla FoatoOoa, April 0,1M
SaadersTlUo, Woiklagtoa Coaatft
A. J. JERNIGAN*
Faoraiaroa in Pcauaaaa.
Subscription...
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a W H. WHITAKER.
DENTIST,
■aadmvllla, Qa
TERMS CARA
Office at hla Residence, on Bant* rim*.
April M. 1*«0.
TIIE J0KEIFS BUDGET.
WHAT WE FIND IN TH* HUMOROUS
PAPKKS TO N.nilJi OVER.
sTATTussar row rat.
Why did tho ponhnlder so tight,
\And let tho paper cutter «p?
When Taps Tctry kn6w ’tVHttit right
To have ft rlilor for a hcAu.
Why did tlio inkstand idly by,
And noto thnt tilings woron’tstraight?
It should liftvo tried to rubber dry,
And mako tho paper weight.
-nMercl^ant Traveler.
FOUND OUT. '
"What hns taoome of >B4wery Mike,'
who kept a saloon whioh ,wya a popular
resort for notorious char ao tors some Team
ago ?”
“He fa in the Legislatm*/*
“And his partner, where fa he?”
“He got found out and is jn the Pent*
tentiary.”
pntoas in iraw roRx.
“So yon wish to marry lriy daughter.
Well, I rather like yon pemonally, but
the question ja, can you.support her?”
“I have an inoomo Of $8,000 from an
uncle’s estate.’'-' • • '
“Good; that will pay tbe rent of a
house.” ,
“I get $7,000 mor6 from bonds which
I own." s v 0
“Good Again ; that will pay the aer-
van to’ wages'.*' , . , ,
“I have $5,000 d Year froto a business
firm of which I am a Client partner.”
“Yes, that will teed you. What else?”
“Thnt is nil, ei».”’
"All I Aud do you .expect my
daughter to go without •Icthes? Do
you tbiuk we aro HottentotA? Sheoan
never be the wife of a poor mnu. Good
day, air.”—Philadelphia Gall.
—— ~ \
. _ AN AWFUL rota.
. Ethel—"I hear that, a-Awonty-foor*
tfalnek time dial is proposed.”
Edith—"Yes; isn’t it awful? Oh, II
I only had the inventor of that thing
hero, wouldn’t I pull hit hair!”
Etlicl—“But pa says it ‘will greatly
simplify matters.” ,
Edith—“Simplify them, indeed I It
will drive ns all ernzy.”
Ethel—"In what way, dear?”
Edith—“Why, pn and ma nr" 1- '” fake
the root off now when dear Augu -iun
Btoys until after 12. Jnst imagine I ''■>
fearful time I would have with them ’
the new dial wero ndopted and he shotii i
stay somo night until half past 24
o’clock I”—Philadelphia Call.
HOW SHE KNEW.
Ha—"Beforo yon givo ray old overooat
to that taggnr, my dear, had you not
better look through the pockets ?”
Siik—“When did you wear it Inst?”
“The latter part of lost March, I
think.”
gna— 1 “TJien I know there’s nothing in
the pockets,”
• He—“How so?”
She—“Because that waa before you
stopped drinking. ”
“an hain’t eaoer fob the contest.”
"Mr, Smith, do you know tho charac
ter of Sir. Jones ?”
“Wall, I rather guese I do, Jedge,”
“Well, what doyoH say about it?”
“Wall, he ain’t so bad it man after all.”
"Well, Mr. Smith what we want to
know is: Is Mr. Jones of a quarrelsome
and dnngcrous disposition ?"
“Wail, Jedge, I Bhould say that Tom
Jones is very vivid in verba) exercise,
but when it comes to personal adjust
ment, he hain’t eager for the contest.”
HE’D WAIT AND SEE.
During the war n couple of New York
ers went down into Pennsylvania to
prospect for oil, anil, having discovered
a "stratum,” they undertook to purchnae
five acres of land of an old German. He
was up to snuff, if not to oil, and refused
to sell at any reasonable figure. One of
the would-bo purchasers finally said to
him :
“See here, Mr. Klopp, we propose to
bny this land and turn it over to the
government. ’’
“Vhas for?”
“To liftlp put down the rebellion. The
time has come when every man must
show his colors. Are you for the
Union ?”
“Vhell—vliell ”
“Are von a patriot, or not ?"
“Vliell, I tell yon how it vhas. If dere
vlins oil in my land, I hold it for ons
touBnnd dollars an aore nnd vhas a
rebel. If dere vhas no oil, I sell it to
you for two hoonered dollars an acre und
vhas a good patriot”
A Greeley Story.
Horace Greeley, although he "took
tl/e papers,” waa once sought to be vic
timized at the well-known “dropped
pocketbook” game;- The man who
picked up the book, plethorio with
bogus money, right at Mr. Greeley’s
feet, was compelled to go oat of town
immediately to his siok wife, and tagged
the loan of $50 in advance of the award
which would sorely be offered if Mr.
Greeley would keep the book. Mr.
Greeley consented, aud only saved him
self by taking the $50 out of the book.
The man remonstrated. “It will not do
to touch that money,” ho said; “you
had better give me $50 out of your own
pocket.” “BlesB my bouI, my friend,”
exclaimed the innocent Horace, “I never
carried as muck money as that with me
in my life!” The man impatiently
snatched the book out of Mr. Greeley’s
hands and hurriedly left to visit his siok
wife.
Safety. — In rebuilding Rochester,
Minn., they are mindful of the tornado
that recently devastated the town. They
aro making strong stone vaults in the
cellars large enough to contain a family
and strong enough to withstand any
tornado,