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Newspaper Page Text*r the mercury. PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY NOTICE. 1^X11 oommunloatlon* intended for this p»per in net be acoompsuied with the full n »m«of the writer, not necessarily for publl. M Uon, but m a guarantee of good faith. W» are In no way leeponelble for the Tlewi or opinion* of correspondents. THE MERCURY. THE MERCURY. entered aa eeoond-elaee Better at the I Renville PaetofBoe, April B, MU BaidersviUe, Washington ComtTe A. J. JEltMUAN, Proprietor. DEVOTED TO LITERATURE, AGRICULTURE AND GENERAL INTELLIGENCE. $1.50 per Annum A.. J. JERNIGAN, Paomaron abb Pjbi.i—bb. VOLUME IV SANDERSVILLE, GA„ TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1884. NUMBER 43. Subscription..... ..I1.N per Year RICHARD I. HARRIS, Attorney at Law, SANDEBRVLLE, GA. Will praitlce in nil the court" of the middle circuit, and in the counties nut- rounding Washington Special atten tion given to commercial law. £■ S. LANGMAOE, Attorney at Law, SANDERSVILLE, G4. MAYOR. O. H. ROGERS. * '.‘LJFfiJT <0 2'JiEASUIiEft. D. E. B, WELLS. MA ft SB ALL. J. Ei WEDDON. AL&EJtMEJY, VV. H, LAWSON, Wm. RAWLINGS, S. G. LANG, A. M. MAYO, M. II. BOYER. 2own o/ 2cnnille. Mayor—John C. Hannan, Aldermen - W. P. Davi«, J. W. Smith, F. J. Pipkin, T. J. Beck. Clerk— S. II. B Massoy. Marshall—J. C. Hamilton. B i). EVAtfB, ATTORNEY AT LAW. Bnnderavtlla, Ua. Arms, mo. MUSIC, MUSIC JERNIGAN Bows, Strings, Rosin Boxes, Etc. a o. BROWN, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Bandenrrllle, da, » Will practice In the State and United Court*. Offloe In Oonrt-houae. Watches, Clocks And JEWELRY KKPA1KKD BT JERNIGATT. Dr. H. B. Holtifield, psTsitiii m suibboi Having recently graduated at the Univer sity ol Mmyliuid and returned home, now oner, hie professional services to the oltlien* el Ksudersville and vlolnliy. Office with Hr. II. n Holllfleld, next door toiUrs. Buy ne’e millinery store. H. N. HOLLIFIELD, Physician and Surgeon, BanderevlUa, da Offloe next door to Km Bayne", millinery •tor* on Harrla street 13UY YOU it- SPECTACLES, SPECTACLES, FROM JERNIGAM, Son* genuine without our Trade Mark. On hand and for eale. SPECTACLES, NOSE GLASSES. ETC. Machine Needles, Oil and Shuttles, FOB all KINDS OF MACHINES, foreale. 1 will also order parta of Mnonluee that get broken, for whloh new pleoes are wanted. A. J. jehnigan *■ Hiaaa. EDITORIAL NOTES. Tin? Whi to House conservatory is one of the finest in the world. It contains 8,000 plants In the conservatory proper, and 12,000 in tho hot houses. Tho white houBo is docornted every day with about 800 plants, flowering, tropical and foli age. Tho building and content* are rained at $50,000, and eleven men, be sides tho head gardener, are kept busy all the time taking care of tho plants, etc. Tho annual expense of keeping up tho conservatory iH $5,500. HINES & ROGERS, Attorneys at Law, A bkai’oiieu for truth writes from Portland, Oregon, that tho groat north west is not the place for men withont mouoy. Ho adds that if men who are down at tho heol and aro played out ovorywhoro else continue to push for ward into Oregon the great state will bo a fool’s paradise by another year, with moro tramps than there worn in Now England just after tho collapse in 1873. Clerks and merchants may ns well Btny where they i re, nud, indeed, tho fanner who lias from $300 to $600 will do bettor to stay at home than to spend it all in traveling to an unexplored oountry. 258, females 89. As to condition 111 were bachelors, 40 were maidens, 121 were husbands, 22 were widowers, 4S were wives, 6 were w dows and 2 were divorced women. The ages ranged from 13 to 91, but the proportion of middle- aged and e derly people was largely in excess of the young. As regards nation ality, 128 were Americans, 114 were Ger. mans, 27 were English, only 12 were Irish, and the ot''er* were of various na tionalities. Poison was the favorite mode of destruction, but one victim re sorted to dynamite, and another impaled himself on his own wooden leg. The suicides were of all occupations, but farmers were the most numerous. The causes for these rash acts wore, insanity, 109; sickness, 89 ; husinoss trouble, 46; family trouble, 64; love troublo, 26; dissipation, 24; destitution, 24; grief, 8. 1 be Southern States had somewhat less than their proportion. In a letter to Edwaid J. Randall, president of tho Keoly Motor company, ihe inventor announces that the me chanical portion of his invention is com plete. After the first of next month “nothing will be left,” lie says, “but set ting up tho transmitter, when all labors will terminate preparatory to opening and showing tho specific quoli ies of the perfect vibratory engine.” Mr. Koolyasks that a 8u table placo fora publio exhibi tion, capable of accommodating several hundred persons, bo secured for an early day. Mr. Randall ha? sent out a circu lar to all tho stockholders announcing these facts, and inforontially asking them to hold themselves in readiness for tho greatest exhibition tho wor d has ever seen. Tho “greatest exliibitiou” will tako placo in Philadelpuia, A nttmbeh of New York capitalists Have recently organized a stock com pany for tho purpose of advancing tho cause of cremation in New York city and its vicinity. It is proposod to con struct a crematory in Riverside avenue, north of One Hundred and Fourteenth street. The plan of the furnace will dif fer materially from that of Le Moyne’s orematory at Washington, Pa. The movement ho* its origin in a belief that the desire to be cremated is more pop ulir than is usually supposed, and steadily growing, and furthermore, that ultimately cremation will become a sani tary necessity in Now York and all largo cities. It is asserted that by the meth od of cremation the ashes of an ordinary human body cau be reduced by compres sion to tho size cf a small apple or turnip. a H. ROOBBB Mr. A, M. G. Seiiillot proposes to construct a steamer which wi 1 make tho trip betwoeu Now York and Europe four days. Tho vossol will have virtu ally two hulls, a lowor and upper, tho lower in tho center to be deep, loug, narrow, and at the bows very sharp, re ducing the angle forward by tho liuo of the bows where they cut the water with the line of tho vessel’s motion from one of fifteen dogro s, as now, to oven tlirco degrees. When tho vessel is deeply laden it will barely rest upon the water. The calculations show that a steamer so constructed could obtain a speed of pop- sib y thirty-five knots an hour, and at that rate four days would be sufficient for passage in calm water from New York to Europe in four days. If Mr. Sobillot makes a success, it is probable that passenger steamers will be built after tho new fashion, while tho old style steamers will be devoted to the freight traffic. 8ANDERSVILLE, GA., ,n t! *» oountlee at Washington, enrt( 1 ^ 0 . l b Johnson, Emanuel and Wllklnaon, tilot nr « he u - 8 - Court* for the Bouthern Dla wn, f Georgia. rant!!! as apenia In buying, sailing or ori * Real Batata. Pot j\ c ^ on ^W««t elds of Fublis Igwra Boats and vessels run some queer risks The common swordfish has been known to plunge its sword through the copper sheathing, a three Inch plank of hard wood, a piece of white oak twelve inches thick, a two and a half inch oak ceiling, and finally into the head of a barrel of oil. When it is recollected that a sword fish strikes with the accumulated force of fifteen double hammers its ve'ooity being equal to that of a swivel, it will be seen that this is a terrible monster to cope with Whales also arc terrible things to on counter. It is a common thing for n large wha o to stave in a vessel and sink her in a few minutes, In southern wa ters mariners stand in great dread of a beautiful bubble with tentacles some times 1 0 feet long, armed with darts of -, poisonous nature. Cuttlefish some times attack vessels, and are regardod as quite daugorous. Rut those are only a few of the perils of the great deep. It would require a volume to enumerate them all. The statistics of suicide in the United States during tlie three autumn months of 1883 arc remarkable. During that time 347 persons committed self-murder Of this number 133 killed themselves in September, 121 in October, and 93 in November. The number of males was Tennessee has four Iron belt*—tho eastorn, dyestone, Cumberland and west ern. Tho eastern extends through the state. The dyestono belt skirt* the southern base of the Cumberland table land from Virginia to Georgia. Iteprea !| Into thoEist Ti nnoa«eo valley a (listanoo of from ton to twenty milos. The Cum berland belt extends into Kentucky and Alabama. The western bolt lios west of tho central basin and is for the most part oast of the Tennessee river. Iron is found in forty-four counties in the stato, and tho supply is practically inex haustible. Heretofore the lnck of trans portation anilities has greatly retarded the development of those ore beds, but tho advantages held out in tho shape of cheap manufael - in will ore long bring Tennesseo into the 1,out rank o indus trial states. The second volume of the census on manufactures is full of interesting fig ure . It shows among other thing- that the steam power of the country far out runs its water power. Out of 3,410,837 liurge power in all employed in manu factures, only one-third Consist* of water power. These figures would be still moro one-sided if the power of grist and saw mills was excluded. These kind of mills are chiefly driven by water power, and they Are not considered as strict y manufacturing establishments. In manu. factures proper steam power is probably used fottr to ohe. Wherever coal can be laid down at three dollars a ton, wator power is no longer considered preferable, no matter wliat tho fall or quantity of it may be. Steam is a better servant at all times than water, and it is rapidly supplanting it where the fuel supply is not prohibitory. In the grist and saw mills of Georgia there are 36.656 horse power, but all tho oowor does not add to tho wealth of the tnte as much aa does the horse power us d in our manufactures proper. Wo u'o in this way 15,395 horse power. L’hoso are not immonse figures when compared with those of the great manu facturing states of tho northeast; but they show that Georgia loads in manu lectures all the other cotton states. Ton- no soe uses 14,879 horse power, Virginia 13,275, North Caroli- a 7,962, South Carolina 6,900, Alabama 4,680, Missis sippi 2,613, and Florida 801. Pennsylvania is the great manufactur ing state of the union, using 854,774 horse power; New York commences noxt, using 280,099 ; Massachusetts with 279,114, follow closely after; Ohio has 142,853 horse power, and little Con- nrcticut shows up with 104 662. Con necticut is a marvel of manufacturing industry. There are only 600,000 peo ple in Die little state, but she uses more horse power than all the south, excud- ing Missouri, West Virginia, Maryland and Delaware. The south ha* no reason, however, to be discouraged, for she has only just entered upon an indnstria career, and a few years will be apt to change the relative figures very mate rially. At present the three states, Pennsylvania, Now Yo k and Massa chusetts, use more horsepower in manu factures than all the other states and the territories combined. - —Atlanta Constitu lion. Montoomhpy, Alabama, is getting excited over tho gambling question again She seema determined to root it out Nearly all Florid* hotel* get their meat and poultry from New York. Canned vegetable** re almost UXoltuivoly used. The Frigate Colorado, which has coat $1,410,603, has been oondomned at the Brooklyn navy yard, and she will be eold at auction. Mississippi loses- by death leai than thirteen persons to the thousand annu ally, and this inoludes the dea h rate among the aegvoce. There are now more than five hun dred strangers prospecting for homes and arranging for the purchase of prop erty in North Carolina. TnE winter thus far ia not considered unfavorable to the wheat crop. Through much of the wintor wheat belt there have been liberal falls of snow, general y the harbinger of good crops of all kinds The best macaroni consumed in this country is, according to the Philadelphia Press, made of California wheat. New York, Philadelphia and San Francisco make moro maccaroni than ia imported. Sixteen years ago a law wa* passed providing for the uradual manumission of slaves In Cuba, of whom there wore at the time about 385,856. So well bos this law been administered, the planters in many cases showing a willingness to aot even in anticipation of its provis ions, that 286,000 slaves have already been set free. PoBtMABTER General GRbsUAM says if the bill providing for a postoffice building in every town having 2,600 in habitants is amended so as to limit the cost of the building in eaoh case to 116.- 0(0 and pro ride that they shall be ereo- ted undor tho 8U|>orvigion of the post master general he will aoorove it Hitt tho author of the bill, say* it will be so amonded and passed. One pound of rioe gives 88 per cent of nutriment, and one pound of beef 26 per cent And y.t, says the Journal of Health, countless numbers of the poor strain at a point daily to purchase beef at 15 cents per pound when they could get a pound of rioe at one-third of that amount, tho rice, too, having three timos as much nutrimont aa the beef and three times easier of digestion. Saturday Was a field day at tho Sa vannah (Ga.) custom-house in foreign clearances, the total value of exports footing np $688,767,45. The cargoes cleared consisted of 11,796 boles of up land cotton, and 148 balos Sea Island, 866 sacks of cotton seed, 6,708 barrels of rosin and 1,600 barrels spirits turpentine. On that day there were seventy-one ves sels in port at Savannah, consisting of steamships, 3 ships, 84 barks, 4 brigs and 26 schooners. This shows a rapidly Increasing export trade for Savannah, and would do credit to a city of larger pretensions. TnB region around Charleston West Virginia, is now being thoroughly tested for oil. In boiing salt wells in the saline belt crude petroleum has interfered with operations to such an extent that in many instances the wells had to be aban doned. It ia the opinion of experienced geologists that the richest oil belt in the country is in the neighborhood of tho head-waters of the little Kanawha. A Pennsylvania syndicate has secured 800,- 000 acres of IhihI in this section and in the spring operations will begin on an extensive Bcule. It is believed that the successful issue of this experiment will build up an oil corporation that will in a short time eclipse the Standard oil com pany. GENERAL NEWS. In the penitentiary of North Caroline there are 118 whites and 894 blacks. At Pratt mines, Ala., there are 600 convicts, including state and county How He Worked It A French lemon tree at Daytona, Volusia county, Fla., has 1,900 lemons or. it The sum of $10,866,000 is invested in manufacturing in the four principal cit ies of LousiaDa. North Carolinians are reckoning upon a great development of the oyster trade on the coast. During the recent, cold snap, Charles ton, South Carolina, has the coldes weather in 180 years. The largest vessels over built in Bith and other ship-building towns in Maine were bnilt of Georgia pine. , TENNYSON'S NEW POEM. Once more the Heavenly Power Hakes all thing* now, And domes tho rcd-plow’d Lilli With loving btu0| The blackbirds have their will* the throstles too. Open a door In heaven) From skies of glase A Jeoob’s ladder fells On greening grass, And o’er the mountain walls Young angels psss. Before them fleets the shower, And burst tho buds, And shine tho level lends, And flesh tho floo<ls| The stars ere from their bends Flung thro’ the woods; Tho woods by living sirs How froshly fanned, Light airs from where the deep All down tin Band, Is breathing in his sleep, Heard by the land 1 Ob, follow, leaping blood, Tho season lnro I Oh, heart, look down and up, Serene, sooure, Warm as the oroens-enp, Like the show-drops, pure. Past, future, glimpse and fads Thro’ some slight spoil Borne gleam from youuer vale Borne far blur fell, And syti.patnlos, how frail, fb sound and smell. Pill at thy ohuckled note, Thou twinkling bird, Tho fairy fancies range, And, lightly atlrr’d, Bing little bolls of change From word to word. For now tho Heavenly Power Makes all things new, And thaws tho oold and All* The flowor with deWj Tho blackbirds have their wills, Tho p-jots, too. — Youth'i Companion. MARY’S LOVE ROMANCE. A drummer on bis first trip was seated in the same car with an old experienced knight of the road, and their conversa tion turned on their relative daily ex penses. “I always manage to include in my expenses," said tho elder, “hats, boots, overcoats, oto., and every drummer who has any respeot for his noble calling ought to do the same. Moke the firm stnnd ’em.’’ The younger man thought that a very good idea, and on his return from his trip ho iuoluded among other items of expense .one pair of boots, $12. His employers expressed themselves as well pleased with his success as a salesman, but objected to pay for the boots. On his next trip he was fortunate enough to meet his former acquaintance. “How is it?” he asked, “that yonr firm will stand overcoats as legitimate expense when mine kicked on a pair of boots ?” “You didn’t put boots down in your expense account, did you ?” “Certainly,” said the young man. “Well, you are a chump. You should have dovetailed the price of boots into the postage stamps and sundries.” When the young man again submitted bis account his firm remarked : “We don’t see any memorandum for ‘boots,’ or anything of that nature, Mr, So-and so.” “No,” Mr. So-and-so said softly, to himself. “You don’t see it, but there is a forty dollar overcoat there just the same.”—Philadelphia Evening Call. Thbv say you can see the new comet now with the aid of a good glass. “Be careful,"’ adds the Boston Globe, “take a glass of the right kind; otherwise you may see two comets. In tho drawing-room at Heathcot, in tho gray Hoptcmlier twilight, Mary Meredith and Felix TralTord sat en gaged in earnest conversation. “I really Cannot see any cause for your despair, dear Felix. Have I not told you how deuily I love you? No power on earth shall ever foroe me to break my plighted troth to you. Have you no oonfldenoo in me?" “All confidence, Mary; I know yon will be true to me.” Then what is it you fear ?’’ Everything. You are young and beautiful, tho rich Mr. Meredith's only child, while I am a poor clerk iu the house of Mereditli Brothers, with noth ing but an unsullied reputation, some brains and a good right baud to help me through the world.” “So muoh the bettor, then, that t am the danghtor of tho rich Mr, Meredith. Dear Felix, papa esteems you, and has implicit oonfidenoe in your honor. He invites you here, and allows our ac quaintance. Why do you annoy your self about imaginary troubles?” “Your father trusts mo and I must be tree to him, yon and mysullf. I will go to him and frankly confess our attach ment, I should feel miserable other wise.” “Go now; he is in his study," Felix caught the girl in his arms and kissed hor rosy lips. Your confidence inspires me with hope," he said, and went away on his mission. Tapping at Mr. Meredith’s study door, and receiving permission to enter, Felix approached the old gentle man, who gave him his hand, saying: "Why, boy, you aro an unexpected visitor. No bad news I hope ?" ‘No, sir; but I want to ask of yon a gift so preoious that I have very little b/-pe of obtaining it." “Well, well, name it. I am always glad to favor you if I can. ” Felix was greatly agitated, but sum moned np all his courage and said : ‘Mr. Meredith, I love your daughter. £ do not, however, ask you to give her to mo now. Only let me hope that when I prove to you ” Mr. Meredith leaned back in his chair amazed. It bad never occurred to him that this young clerk would dare to lift bis eyes to bis daughter. ‘Yon are an ungrateful, treacherous scoundrel !’’ he cried. “Out of com passion for your friendlessness I ad mitted you to my houso and my daugh ter’s society, and you, villain that you are, have taken the opportunity to steal into her confidence and win her inex perienced heart. Begone, sir, and never let me see yonr face again I” ‘Listen to me one moment, Mr. Mere dith.” ‘Not one second I” cried the old man, he violently brought down his clenched fist upon tho table. “Leave the house instantly or the servants shall thrust you out.” And as if to put his threat into execution he fiercely rang the bell. As Felix staggered along the passage, his heart so oppressed with contending emotions that he was scarcely conscious of anything, he met Mary, who, alarmed at the violent ringing of the bell, was rushing to her father’s study. Felix wildly threw his arms about her, kissing her again and again. Then he tore him self away and rushed from the house. Mary never knew what occurred at that terrible interview. Mr. Meredith was deaf to all her entreaties and the lover had disappeared. Tho poor girl was stricken with brain fever, and j£r weeks her lifo hnng in the balance. Bo- pontcuoe came too late to the unhappy father, for although sought for far and near Felix could not be found. At length youth and a good constitution brought back health to the heart-broken girl, But alas I the blooming young Hebe of seventeen summers was no moro. In her place a tall, pale girl ap peared, but with a beauty that even the most fastidious admired. The golden brown ourls that clustered around hor temples lay in rippling waves upon a brow as pure as snow, ana the sott, lus trous hasol eyes wore an expression of sailU' ss that told of tho heart grief that would bo hers forever. Mr. Meredith traveled with his daugh ter through all tho most attractive parta of Europo for a year. Then, at hor re quest, ho took her homo. Mary had be- oome a woman, a bright, intelligent, glorious womau, and crowds of admirers worshiped at her feet; but tho image of Felix was still as freBh as evor in her heart, and the vows she had exohonged with him were novor for a moment for gotten. Therefore, all offers of marriage were at onoe declined. Time rolled on. Mary had now roaohed her twenty-eighth year, and still re mained a maiden beneath the paternal roof. One oold winter evening Mary sat by the glowing fire in her father’s drawing room. Her small white hands wore clasped upon her bosom, and her eyes were oast downward until the long lashes lay like golden penciling upon her oheek. Near her, in his great-arm choir, sat Mr. Meredith, with the snows of many win ters on bis head and his face deeply furrowed by the hand of time. There was an expression of oareupon his coun tenance. He looked troubled and un happy. “Mary,” said he, oontlunlng a conver sation that had been going on between them, “all my life I have made your happiness my constant study and have given you a luxurious home. Now you are advancing in years and I' shall ere long be separated from you by dentil. How can I leave yon alone in this oold world? A home is now open to you and you must accept it. It is not because I owe this man a very large sum that I in sist upon this marriage, although if you refuse him we will be suuk into the most abjeot poverty, fori would rather endure all the misery of the situation than risk your well-being; but I know you will be happy with Mr. Ambroso for a husband. He is good and kind as well os very rich.” “Rich in what, father?” The old man started at thoso words but at length answered: "In honor and manhood," Mary said no more. “The crisis is now upon mo,” oontinued Mr. Meredith. “In a few short days I shall be overwhelmed with misery if you do not rescue me. Mr. Ambrose lias asked me for your hand. He has seen you many times and loves you.” “And Mr. Ambrose makes my hand tho price of your Hafoty ?" “No, ho has not said so; but ho is aware of my situation, nud, knowing it, asks the liana of my child. It seems to me ns if God had kept you free to save your old father from ruin. What an swer nm I to return to Mr.'Ambroso ?" “My heart was broken long ago,” Mary answered, looking into hor father’s face. “I will marry this man for your sake, bfit he must not expect affection, for I have none to give. Tell him this that ho may not bo deceived.” “I will bring him hero to morrow evening, for ho is nuxious that the inter view shad bo over.” Mr. Meredith was relieved, the tear oi disgrace was removed from him, and he rejoioed iu the prospeot of a prosperous marriage for his dnughter. On the following evening Mary again sat by tho drawing-room fire. She was alone now and calm, but her face was as pale as Parinn marble. The outer door opened, and she heard the sound of heavy footsteps in the hall. Once moro the image of Felix arose before her ; a oold shiver passed over hor and unbid den tears trembled in her eyes, but by a great effort she subdued her agitation before her father, and tho man about to buy her with his gold entered the draw ing-room. Mary aroso and extended her hand ; it was as cold as ice, but did not tromblo. She glanced at Mr. Ambrose and saw a man of medium height with brilliant dark eyes; a neatly-trimmed beard concealed the lower part of his visage. He greeted her politely, and took a seat. A short time was spent in oonverservation, but gradually a silence tell upon them whicli was becoming oppressive, when the visitor broke the spell. “Miss Meredith,” ho said, in a soft, low tone, “yon are of coarse awaro of the object of my visit here? Pardon me if I speak plainly. ” Mary looked np but made no reply. Mr. Ambrose’s voice was so kind and gentle that she thought he deserved a wife who could love him. “Your father has told me you have no love to give me but that yon will marry me. I, too, once thought I should never love again, but the sight of yon has dispelled the illusion. Let me tell you my story. Long years ago I loved a beautiful young girl and she returned my affection. I was then young and did not dream that Fate would orush out my soul’s dearest hope. That fair girl G. W H. WHITAKER, DEN T I ST, BandersvUle, da mm cash. Offloe at his Residence, on Kerris street. Bril M. 1M0. was my all, my very life, and I had not a thought of the future separated from her. Hor father was a wealthy mer- ohant and I his poor oleTk. When I told him I loved his daughter he spurned me from his door and ordered me never to enter it again. Oh. who beside myself can’ever know the ntter midnight of my blasted hopes I Crashed and broken I fled in my despair. In the whirl and excitement of business I strove to forgot my sorrows. Fortune singled me out as hor espeoinl favorite. My wildest speculations were successful and money accumulated aa if by magic. Thus eleven years passed. I returned to the soene of my unhappiness and saw yon. Need I say that all the old love anrgod np iu my heart again? Onoe more I naked the old morohant for his daughter—” the speaker’s lips trembled; he extended his arms as he oontinued— “and he oonaents at last. Oh, Mary I will you now bo mine ?” Mary coat herself into her anltor’s out stretched arms. After all those years of misery Felix was restored to her I “Felix Trafford I” gasped tho old man as ho started to hiH foot. "Felix Traf ford, my old clerk 1” “Yes, sir; the somo. Do you retract your promiso?" "No, Felix, no. Toko my Mary and forgive her father.” The happy suitor led Mary away to a seat and snt bosido her with his arm still encircling hor, os if he feared ho might lose her again. “Let us,” he said, “forgot all the past but its joys nud look to tho future foi what true love onn givo ns. I am now oontent, and yon, my Mary, aro yot happy in tho restoration of your lovor ?’ “Ah!” hIio rrpM«d In n vo 1 •»» full ol (loop emotion, "iiuppiuehs is t> ooori word to express my great jov I”—- ing Call. Lieutenant Ray’s Views. Lieutenant P. H. Ray, who had oharge of tho Point Borrow (Alaska) signal station for two yours, stated to the Board, organized to tnko steps for the relief of Groely, tho result of his obser vations, so far ns it had a bearing upon the subject in hand. Ho thought but ono oourso was praotioable. He would send n strong ship to get to tho ioo bar rier at the earliest possible date and make her way north ns she could. If by the last of August or oarly in September Mr. Greely had not boon reached a party with house aDd supplies should be landed for the winter, when tho vessel should oome south. The winter party should send expeditions north to find Greoly and relievo him. He shonld be brought south in the spring to some point to be agreed upon before the ship left. Lientonnnt Ray desoribod the methods of the sledge travel, in which ho has hod muoh experience, and de scribed tho whaling vessels and their equipments, of tho Northern Pacific. After describing his method of life at Point Barrow he said that in his party of nine men during the first year and eloven during the second there hod not been a moment's sickness from begin ning to end. The mean annual tempera ture was 7, the mean winter tempera ture nbout 20. The lowest extreme was 68. Tho men wore required, in addition to thoir regular duties, to spend one hour out of twenty-four in the open air. There were seventy-two days with out sunlight. In his travels Lieutenant Ray never used a tent, but constructed igloos. Lieutenant Ray recommended the employment of some of the voyageurs from the Red River of the North, as being expert* with dogs and otherwise qualified for the work of the relief expedi tion. A Coal Miner’s Story. The following may show that gratitude to a Higher Power is oftener felt than expressed to the outer world. “On one occasion,” said my informant, “three of ns were orouohed down in a tub. The pony was going at a walk up a slight rise. I can’t tell you how it happened, but I must have raised my head uncon sciously above tho level of the tub. I felt my forehead touch a crossbeam in the roof, and before I had time to reflect I knew I was in fatal, peril. The for ward movement of the tub'jammed my head between the beam and the edge of the tub. I gave myself a wrench trying to get free; but I couldn’t. All this, of course, passed in a fraction of a second, and I gave myself up a* dead. Now comes the most wonderful part. At the very time my head touohed the roof, in the very crisis of my agony of mind, when the whole situation flashed on me, the pony stopped. No one had touched H or spoken to it. I bad uttered no cry. The pony stopped. I drew down my head and oonched almost fainting in the tub. My lifo was saved. I never told my companions until we oame out, when they remarked how pale I looked. For weeks, whenever I went down the C it, I was almost unnerved by this torti le recollection. And I tell yon, sir, I have read of drowning people seeing at a glance all the post scenes and doings of their lives—I never thought much of It—but I tell you every scene and deed of my life seemed to oome before me in a flash of light. I saw everything. I have never forgotten, and shall never forget, the feeling of that day. How it was that pony stopped and my life was saved, I can’t say; but if it wasn’t Provi dence, I don’t know what else it could have been.”—Chamber$'s Journal.

Georgia Historic Newspapers

The Mercury. (Sandersville, Ga.) 1880-1???, February 12, 1884, Image 1