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THE MACON WEEKLY TELEGRAPH; TUESDAY, JANUARY 2G, 1S8G.-TWELVE PAGES.
the story of steam,
AS TOLD BY ONE OF THE NATIONAL
MUSEUM COLLECTIONS.
a T»!k With (be Curator of the Section of
steam Transportation—Knrly Ilall-
roatl.anil Strain boat*— Growth
of Straw Transportation.
Washington SUr.
The "John Bull” engine, the locomotive
hroiHit to this country front England in
1831 "and remarkable from the fact that it
was in actual continuous service for over
ihirtv years, has been placed on exhibition
in the main bull of the national museum.
This venerable and curious-looking locomo
tive half a century ago pulled a train of two
or three cars or coaches, looking like old-
fashioned stage coaches mounted on car
wheels and was considered a wonder of mod
ern science and mechonioaUkill. The “John
Hull" is honoied because it was the original
stock from which the “Mogul" of the pres
ent day has been developed bv evolution.
It is intended to form a part of a collection
in the museum which will tell the story of
the development of steam as n motive power
in transportation. This department of the
museum ia in charge of J. Elfreth Watkins,
C E., of Camden, N. J. In accordance
with the general design of the museum, the
action of steam transportation will exhibit,
bv menus of models, drawings, or, M in the
case of the "John Bull” engine, originals,
a complete history of the growth of the rail
road and steau ship. Already much mnte-
ft l ims been collected, and the section,
llieu tnlly arranged, will be oue of the
aost interesting and instinctive in the
uuseura. A Star reporter found the curator,
Jr. Watkins, at the museum the other day,
nd induced him to reveal what it was pro-
losod to do.
WHAT MIL WATKINS SAID.
‘It is the design of the section of steam
lansporlation,” said Mr. Watkins, “to il-
ustrnte the birth and development of steam
ransportation, both on water and on land.
It is generally conceded, I think, that the
Irst commercially successful steamboat
annekedin America was Fulton's boat,
be Clermont The next was the Phcenix,
annehed about two weeks afterwards, by
John Stevens and bis son, Robert L. Ste
vens' floating battery. I proposo to show
engravings of the important steamboats
that have navigated our Americau waters.
[ will show the progress of the stationary
steam engine from the timo when it was
only used to pump water by the creation of
s vacuum by steam. The engines of Savory
and others show how the progress of
thought continued until men Were able to
connect steam with a piston. That was the
tint step. The next was to link the piston
to a lever: that lever drove a pump and the
pump was used to take water out of amino.
We went on step by step until Watt made
his stationary ateam engines, which were
used in all large manufactories, machine
shops, etc., in England, and imported to
this country. Fulton’s steamboat was
driven by one of Watt's engines. Stevens'
I’ho'uix was driven by an engine invented
by himself. The Phoenix was purely an
Americau boat, both in construction and In
motive power. Fulton, who had been
knew where to go to get a good
was the
successful.
t ,«er.
new where to
itationary engine,
reason why he
Drawings ol the engines of the Clermont
and of the Phreuix will be exhibited.
TBX OCKJAX TUP or. TUX PBtXMIX.
T will have an engraving of the Pho nix
she appeared the day she arrived in the
Delaware after the first ocean trip ever
made in the world by a steam vessel,” con
tinued Mr. Watkins. “The trip was made
From New York to Philadelphia in 1807.
The boat waa beached during the trip on
Bsrnegst beocb, on account of a defect in a
wheel- The wheel waa rebuilt then on the
beach. Meanwhile, it waa supposed the
•easel and its crew had been lost. Finally,
ipwever, the Phcenix arrived safely in
hilndelphio, under charge of Robert I,,
•tcvena, the inventor, who went aronnd
first railroad bnilt in America, for the rea
son that a great many experiment in this
connection were going on in different parts
of the country at the same time. But I am
pretty well satisfied that among the earliest
-—jud ruua was
built on strips of granite put on the ground
os yon build a curbstone, and upon these
grumte rails ran ears with flanges on the
wheels to carry the granite to the wharf
There was another road built very early
at Mauch Chunk, Pennsylvania. It
was laid with transverse cross-ties of
Jogs unhewn, hut notched to receive rough-
lv hewn longitudinal rails of wood. Upon
these rails were mn ears used to take coal
from the mine to a coal wharf ou the Le-
lii^h riier. Xho liultiniore und Ohio wuh a
very early railrond. Twelve miles of rail-
rood from,the city of Baltimore to ElliooU’s
Mills was perhaps the first piece of railroad
regw.rly operated in this country. It*
construction wag begun in 1828. It is
hoped we will be able to obtain Irotu this
company one ol their old grasshopper en-
glues which was shown at the Chicago rail
road exhibition. The first hundred mileB
of railrond built and operated in this coun
try was in South Carolina, nnd upon that
road the flrst.three American built locomo
tives were used: the brat about 18.10, An
engraving from the original drawings of
each of these locomotives will be exhibited
in my section,
THE JOHX BULL.
■ "The Camden und Amboy railroad.which
was destined to be the great highway of
travel between New York and Philadel
phia," Mr. Watkins went ou, “ordered the
engine 'John Bull,’ which is on exhibition
here now, tlirongli its president, Robert L.
Stevens, who was sont to Europe for the
purpose in the fall of 1830. The engine was
built by Stevenson & Son, Newcastle-on-
Tyne, was shipped in May and arrived at
Bordcntown, N. J.. the last week in Au-
n l832. It was put together and run
tie first time early in September, 1831.
It is a rather interesting fact to note that
the man who put it togother and first ran
it, Isaac Dripps, was the same who placed
the rudder after the propeller. This en
gine when it arrived in the country was
substantially as it now is -with inside cyl
inders, four driving wheels nnd tubular
boiler. The driving wheels originally
liad cast-iron hubs and loenst spokes
and felloes and a tire about
five inches wide and flanged, shrunk on
like the tire of an ordinary cart wheel
There was no bead light. Even to thi" day-
headlights are used on very few locomotives
abroad. There was no bell and no pilot
The steam pipes were inside the
boiler nnd the dome waa right over the fire
box. In the dome was a Becrct vnlve, which
the engineer could not reach. This valve
conld be arranged so that the engineer
conld not get steam np to high pressure.
There were no cabs, and there is no cab on
English locomotives to-day. No tender
come with the engine. To take its place
when the first experiments were made, a
tender was made of an ordinary whisky
barrel to hold tho water, which was fed to
the engine through hose made by a shoo-
maker out of leather, connected with the
tank by waxed thread,
That engine was the typo from which the
locomotives of tho present day have been
derived. Other engines, like the grass
hopper engines, were bnilt, but they hnro
disappeared. In the John Hull yon will
find tho horizontal cylinders, the tnbnlar
boiler, two engines, one on either side.
These forms h..ve stood the test of time and
lived. When the engine arrived in this
country it was tho most perfect looon'otive
in the world. It hod been bnilt by Steven
son A Son as an improvement on the Plan
et, which for a number of years afterwards
led the engines of the old world. Consid
ering the time and the requirements it was
a splendid engine. It waa used first to
demonstrate to the Legislature, of New
were the beginning of the iron splice plates
t attached to
of the present day. They were
the rails by rivets put on hot. Thus we see
that as early as 1831) there was in use on the
Camden nnd Amboy railroad tracks sub
stantially what is now the American rail
road aplice bar and railroad kpike. These
have keen improved in shape and made
stronger to meet the requirements of an in
creased amount of traffic, but the idea* ap
proved now, after a lapse of fifty-five
years, are substantially the same.
Tile wooden "ross-ties have taken
the place of the atone block, which, owing
to expense r.nd rigidity had to be abandoned
n few years after they were first laid. The
standards of tracks adopted by the first
successful railroads of tho country at dif
ferent times will be shown by models; cross
sections of different forms of rails will be
shown, togother with models of different
kinds of frogs, switchos, etc. It is the in
tention to bring these illustrations up to
the present time so that we will have s cor
rect history of the birth nnd development
of the American railway aystem daring the
first half century of its existence.
“I expect to sail for Europe on the ICth
Inst.,” said Mr. Watkins. "I will visit dif
ferent museums there, and will bring back
drawings or duplicates of whatever may be
in existence there in connection with my
section. If health and strength are spared
me, I hope to make tho collection in the
National mnsenm tho moat valuable of its
kind in the world."
WOMAN'S RIGHTS.
Necessity of a Care-Free Motlierlioixt-Mrs.
Starrett's Eloquent Plea*
Baltimore Sun.
Mrs. Helen E. Starred, makes thefollow-
iug eloquent plea of women's right to be
cared for, to be generously supported nnd
kindly protected when she becomes a wife
»nd mothnr: “The woman who, when cir
cumstances require, can take of herself is a
truly admirable and delightful person to
meet. She encourages our hearts to feel
that our daughters may be fitted by proper
education to meet the emergencies of life
cheerfully, bravely and successfully. But
it is probable that we all feel, when plan
ning for the future of our daughter!, that
if they are called upon to fulfill the whole
of woman's natural costiny, if they become
wives and mothers, their normal condition,
nnd that which would be the most favorable
to their own happiness aud comple and har
monious development, would be that of be
ing cured for. In this condition, as in all
right condition, they are entitled to all tho
rights and privileges, and have all the claims
upon the respect nnd kindness of men that
could possibly be claimed or awarded to tho
most enterprising and successful workers
among women in any department of the
worhfs work.
“Colonel Robert IngenoU says that wo- men -
men have all the rights men have nnd one
more, the right of being protected. In this
statement he shows discrimination and gen.
nine politeness, in that he did not uso the
common phraseology and say the right of
being supported. A man bos no more busi
ness to ssy he supports bis wife than he has
to say he supports his partner or his clerks.
All good wives tender a fnll quid pro quo in
the partnership of the home, even though
they do nothing but make it pleasant and
meet their husbands on their return from
business with a smile. A young woman
by virtue of a fine education ana natural
abilities is able as a teacher to earn $1,000
eyesr. A young fellow asks her to relin-
STOttY OF A l’OT OF MONEY.
STRANGE LETTER FOUND IN AN AL
BANY COUNTY WOODPILE.
One of the llelilcrhrrs* Covered with Peo
ple Searching for a Burglar's Body
uml a Hidden Treasure—A
Wilkie Collins Tale.
A KnowcrsviUe, N. Y., special to thoNew
York Sun says Peter Hart, ashoemaker of
Ouilderland, has put this whole country
side- in a commotion. Caves and buried
treasures, ropes and valises with false
bottoms, burglars, poisoning, murder,
and tho chopping np of the body of a man
—tli-se are the things that are in the
miuda of the people in half a dozen villages
and Peter llart is responsible for it all,
though no one can blame him. The youug
men linvu all fallen to dreaming of sudden
fortunes, and a great many of them have
token to hunting caves with the thermome
ter from ten to twenty degrees below zero.
As for the women, the slightest rattle of a
window sash c r the sudden burking of a
dog after dark will wake them np nnd dart
into their minds the terrible tale that Peter
Hart brought down from the mountains the
other day.
Thia is the region of tho Helderbergs,
those mountains that the traveler up (lie
Hudson sees lying low an t blue in the
west about twenty ntiles north of the Cats
kills inAlbany county. They are not so
big and high ns the Catskills, but they nre
as big ae the Berkshire hills and every whit
as pretty, though sadly needing a winding
river like the Hnnsatonic to show them and
it off. They are queer-shaped mounds of
rock, nil feathered ever with evergreens
and hnrily trees, but all around them
is a lovely agricultural region, whose
trim- fences, costly farm buiid-
r dwcllling
I P . tyof the peopl
It is no out-ol-tho-wsy, benighted region,
which h ’ *■.-•- *
turvy 1>:
woofipi
liolf a dozen cities resort to apem
summers,.and Indian Ladder, where tho
cobbler picked up bis sensation is a sort of
n lesser.-Karatoga, They Uuvo not got the
“Mikado” craze yet, but they have got as
far ts “It's English, yon know."
PetefUart was drawing wood on Indian
Ladder mountain, a high hill that ends as
abruptly as the luck of on elephant, and
that nos a waterfall leaping from its Burn
ings, good roads and cosey dwclllings speak
volumes for tho prosperity of the people.
It is no out-of-the-way, benighted region,
which has been completely turnod topsy
* by a sheet of paper picked up on a
lilo. To this region the people of
dozen cities resort to spend their
qnish this and join him in founding a home,
her part in it being, perhaps, mainly to stay
In the house and overlook the hoasekeop-
K -aelmd its era, had been.loat: Finallv, $ rtram'on
biladelphia, unde^a™ oM. 6 ,? t fee* rf'“thi
StevenT. S^h^nf I * al ^ »gW»turo granted to the
vena, who beard’tbo .lo^ofih^rijffrom ^ “““
hi* uncle as I have told it to you “ * m**e<i.
Both these boats I have bran talking Jyoi,
limit were sldewheel boats. The succeas-
:m nse of tho propeller wheel was the next
important step. There are numerous
claims of priority for this invention. From
• hut I have read I am led to believe that
“, f . propeller-wheel as wo knonritwasof
hineae origin. Flat-boats were driven in
limese Waters by propellers driven by
land driven at a very rapid spaed, perhaps
inndreds of veant ago. Whether the Eo-
, K"t Amir idea from the Chinese or not
, f 1 / know, but i am led to believo the
ne-t idea ot the propellcramongtho English
ame from the old-fashioned smoke-junks.
Inue *“iuke-jacks wero used in largo flre-
>tic« I«o that a current of wind would turn
he spit used in cooking meats.
TIIK rntXT 1-BOI‘KLLKB BOAT.
"lam very well satisfied that the first
Irauibout ever driven by a propeller was
lnven across the Hudson river from Ilobo-
York about 180L The engine
*«,built by tlie name man who built tho
ngme Of the 1'hienix, Col John Stevens.
original tubular Imiler then used and a
, °® uf the propeller-wheel is now in ox-
stenco at the Stevens Institute of Tech-
Wl'gy at Hobokeu. That boat was merely
*' *1" "mint. Tho claim that the t toveus
study make, und I think it very just, is that
«) were the first to link a propeller to a
sewn engine. Then we come to another
location. The propeller on these early ex-
i*nm. nbd boats was placed on the side,
tnctitues one being placed on each side ol
he boat, so as not to interfere with tho
£*!“* apparatus. This waa not a
E 0 ® face to put it, because
rooking of the boat the
opeiler was kept out of the water a por-
*™ of ‘he time. It was conceded to be
“jv*«ryin order to make a successful pro-
itl-i ‘hat the propeller should be
fed at the stern ol the boat. So a few
Ji!. “t* were ““ale in which the pro-
Placed after the rudder, which
<e the bout steer very badly. To Robert
h ,„i ven * ami Isaac Dripps, master me-
irTf * l . *“» shops, I think belongs the
faht of bmng the first in this conntry to
awfully pi*,* tll6 roJJer ft(ur the
:' * **• which made the boot steer easily.
. fay have been done previously abroad,
is interesting to note that thi* waa done
the fin,‘ time here on the iron steam-
Jersey, which was the first
steam veaael to cross the At-
Thibii .VTA 1KH - There wUl be
f “tM" ll i e museum one of the plates
aodr to*' •to* steamboat, and also a
hhneS*^ fro ? the original drawing of
PJptoptUer wheel showing tho manner in
This no®®® 0 ted with the engine,
f ma «lo under the direction
ri St *ho i* .till olive, and who
.rZ lybu H‘ U>0 wheel. Of course of-
ill ^e*P*nmcnU were numerous. We
all l of almost all the prin-
* the b “ U faring the curly years. It
* c,r,!rV t!n . m *** work we do not to
^ » jnrj to decide upon tho
»«torY inTenlow, bat to oat
Mw AT ? ni1 without any desire to
l*“ of any inventor.
™a ran sailsoad*.
BOW BALDW1M MADE A LOCOMOTIVE.
‘Afti-r this trial, mode on a short piece of
track then constructed, the engine was
stored in a shed to await tho completion of
the balance of the track. At that time a
man named Peale, who had a large museum
in Philadelphia, became unxions to have a
toy engine built to run on a circular track
in his museum. He arranged with Baldwin
a mathematical Instrument maker und i
man of ingenuity, who went to Bordcntown,
whore the engine was stored, anil, in con
nection with Isaac Dripps, mode an examin
ation of her. He then built a toy locomo
tive, which waa exhibited as a curiosity for
a number of months. The managers of the
Philadelphia, Germantown and Norristown
railroad saw this toy locomotive and onlered
a locomotive of regular size from Bald
win. It was bnilt In 1832 and called *01d
Ironsides.’ With its construction began
tbe history of the Baldwin locomotive and
iron works, which has built sa many and as
good engines os any establishment in tbe
country. A number of others went into tbe
business, bat the Camden and Amboy rail
road was for a number of yean looked upon
as being the pioneer in locomotive construc
tion in end about Philadelphia and New
York, although the Baltimore aud Ohio
company, in (he construction of the grast-
hopper, brought out a type which was com
mercially successful for the peculiar require
ments of the business which the road en
tered upon, and their invention should not
overlooked.
I will be able tn show • drawing of the
first locomotive that evor performed work
continuously in the world, said Mr. Wat
kins. “It was built by Trevithick, and was
run on the Myrthyr Tidvil railroad in
Walrass early as IWM, and waa used to
haul pig iron from a furnace to a wharf.
The reason Trevithick waa successful was
because be was familiar with the high
pressure engine. When he built tbe high
pressure engine he meant it for a itationary
engine. Then he Tint it on whrala nnd
made it run, just es Fulton put a low pres
sure engine on a boat
THE DEVELOPMENT OP TUB BAIL.
“When Robert L. Stevens was on the
ship on his way to Europe to order the
'John Bnll,' in 1830, he devoted a consid
erable amount of time to whittling out
croea-aections of what be thought would be
n good kind of iron rails to lay on tbs rail
road. At that time tbe best rail known
was tbe T rail without any base. This style
bid been adopted by all of the most impor
tant roads in F.urope. Owing to its pecn-
liar ohuie, it required u chain on every
cross-tie or stone-block, as the cose might
be. Stevens was the first man to deei|
tbe nil which he termed tiie ‘H’ rail—:
other words, a rail with a base which conld
be spiked with 'hooked-headed' epikra di
rectly to the bearing. Under the 'John
Bum engine are two of the original rails
from the first design of Robert C. Btevnra
in 1830. When the exhibit is complete the
rail* will rest on the original rtone bloclrn
made at Sing Sing. New York. tor this road,
and we will use a aptiw, similar to the
original “hooked-bead, to kin the nils to
the wooden pine in the hot* fa the atone
t.i~.w On those nil# now are wUtwero
ing. Sho may consent to do so, with most
happy results both to hcrscU and him; but
one essential element in her happiness
must be Hint by so doing she docs not
place herself in u position that shall creato
n painful sense of dependence. Tlicro is no
high-spirited woman who can endure with
out pain such an altitude, yet there ia no
rightly constituted woman who docs not,
under the right conditions, enjoy having
all her temporal wants supplied nnd being
cared for mid protected. ,... _ _ ,
“An earnest aud thoughtful writer upon f htt ‘ ’ l i ,on . 1 J
social questions of the deepest importance , 5° , r ° n ,
ssys what thia conntry moat needa is a lei-1 Jranslerred her „
surely, happy and cure-free method. The , L eonid not stand-
period when a mother haa her little ones •‘to*’ f° *?‘h * ,r ?? ,
aronnd her knees ought to bn tbe happiest n° < * e ®l? r ® That
of her life. Rut when maternal cane press f? 10 0 £}***!?• ® oon ““erward,
a stronger hand than hers should warS off ‘ h ° ,$• J°“8
all other cares and trials that would op-1 . e ® ,i0 from hl * father aud started
press her or interfere with her care of her I . W .V
children,
men'
cared
mit to the plain below, with a roadway al
most straight np in the air left by the In-
(jians, end a roadway not very mnch less
steep, the handiwork of conquering white
men. City folk and country folk chain the
hind wheels of their vehicles and get out
and walk when the Indian Ladd
road is to be descended with
team. At the head ot thia rood e
top of the mountain, Foter Hart was
hauling wood a fortnight ago, whonhe sud
denly came upon a sheet of foolscsp lying
on a log, with a bit of homtock bark on il
for a paper weight to hold it down. He nn
folded the paper, and it proved to be a white
sheet of foolscap written over on threo
pages and part of the fourth, Rolnondthe
eusenco of bark had (tamed it so that it
looked as if it might have suffered hard
usage end old age, but it was dated Septem
ber 7, 1885. The penmanship was scrawl
ing and irregnlar, and here and there words
were misspelled.
. "I write this to Inform whoever finds this
tost 1 have a secret to tell." Those wero
the first words after the date line, and they
were the first words Mr. Hart read. After
that it was no wonder he nod tho next “I
was born in England anil am now 35 years
of age,” the writing proceeded. “X ru
boro a gentleman. My father Is a rich man
and a large landowner. I am the eecond
•on, and I fell in love with a girl when
I wee 90 yearn of age aud thought
she loved me. She promised to
merry me.” Then follows a statement
that upon the arrival of the eldest
^^^^^^^■soene the young woman
transferred her uffections from the second
for Amer-
Thin was on September 19, 1875.
Iren. This is the period when wo-!>■”***• J." he remnrkH., '
's most sacred right is that of being r *“‘] 10 *l*. and then proceeds, as folh
.....d for aud protected. Aina! that to sol ?»? °J* r , b i C ^ i
many mothers the period of maternity is vr *‘u_ a noted thief and burglar,
one ol being overburdened physically and ? D ‘ l J 1 ® C°»*ed me to go with him to Call-
mentally and of unrest and sorrow of spirit “4 JJ*®” '"J®. Became acquainted
And this condition is one from which, in a *i t J , i7.°A. th » e !£??_ °£- b “!.
majority ot coses, sho cannot rtscnq herseli.
Sim may need recreation, change, help in
her labors nnd many other things in ord. r
to a healthful condition of m’rnd und body.
Bnt sho lacks tbe strength and energy to I „ ““'J “»® wnier came onto new
provide bcntclf with them. Here in the X l or \S n< * * fom *h*r» proceeded to Canada,
opportunity for the good husband. Here ‘ he " nttr **>,’'•, where they robbed several
is Lis chance to bindTiis wife to him with J*"" 01 *' ' ,n “ l tl *® country “became too hot
“hooks of steel;’" here is his timo to show ®^® 5“?**J®.
that he appreciates what is due to woman T^®Jtot fUratiie^ "topped at, ho
in the moat important relation of life. But J#
in order to do this he must render falsi K no »«wWl« jnrty tgtoi » nnmbw *
homage, not as one who gives to a depen- SZaraJ^to^aiV 1 wR
dent, but rather ts on* who brings glad r * m ?T ed . *° ‘ h « mountains Hslejr was
trinute to a aacred altar“ ^ 8 smolring lu, pipe i near the fadisn ladder
v **’t attempt to say what wee the originally tinned Iron tongura.' Thraa
one waa an Irishman named John Haloy,
at least that was tbe name ho went by,
and there we robbed a tank end stole $75,-
O0Q.
Ualey and the writer came on to New
A CLOTH1NO STORK DUMMY
I’lays a Conspleaaus Part In a Practical Joke
on Clay.
■or
atory, and then it was interesting to see
how, after that, confirmatory or at least
;Mrtis)ly corroborative, discoveries began
to be made. They came so thick and fast
that yeaterday, when a reporter reached
KnoworaviUe, a great many persons talked
to him as if everything except the mon
ey hod been found, aud even that was placed
and would be circulating in the Bowery by
this time but for the cold weather, For in
stance, the reporter wus solemnly assarad
by as consplcuouc a man ns there is in town
that the robberies the young man wrote of
actually did take place; that the hotel regis
ter showed the name of tho Ilnley wlio-wos
afterward murdered; that tho cave and tree
and rope had been found, anil that but for
the ice and huow in the crack in the rock
the cave would have been explored by thin
timo.
But to return to the spreading of the
news. It was followed by the formation ot
sonrclungpnrties, numbering nil tho way
from one to ten members, and hailing ftom
all around the neighborhood, and in at leant
oue instance from forty miles away. The
Utile mountain became a Mecca, and it it
said that the tracks in the first light snow
that fell were os close together all over the
top of tho mountain as ever they aie in a
schoolyard after recess. Nobody except
the shoemaker pretended to believe there
was anything in the yarn, yet apparently
very few cured to forego their chances of
getting rich for the afternoon's work. One
reason why this story has made auen an
impression is that Indian Ladder Mountain
is all covered with cracks nnd holes, and
has many known caves, besides being so
hollow that the very rocks resound when
they are walked on or hit.
The craze waa helped along by the recol
lection that just about when the robberies
told of in tho letter wero going on old John
Crary, a retired farmer in KnowcrsviUe, was
robbed of $36 by poisons who broke in bis
house, und at the same time several other
houses were robbed of trifles, while over in
Gidlapii'le $200 was takeu from one house,
and others were forced at night To odd to
tbe tide of tbe corroboration, John White,
farmer, of the town of Knox, reported tbut
ho had losta Ion, ,atout, new rope—perhaps
the very ono spoken of in tho letter—at juat
about that timo. As if to cap everything
else, tho news flew that Haleys name hod
been discovered on the register in Mr.
Weatherwu's hotel. It ts the unpleasant
duty of the reporter to destroy that bit of
evidence. Tho Hanley registered at Weath-
eiwai's is a circus hand belonging to F. A.
Robbins' circus, mnsenm and menagerie,
which showed in KnowcrsviUe on July ID.
There were forty-five in the troupe, and
they slept in pain for tlie soke of reduced
hotel rates, Haley having a man named
Milligan for a room mate.
Among the persons who have searched
for the cavo was young Crary, of Know-
oravUlc, who took hie mineral ball np
their with him. This is snid to be a hol
low ball, in which a little qniokaiiver is
poured. It U covered with buckskin .and
carried depending by a string from' the
searcher's finger. It was found that in a
certain placo in tho woods it invariably
swayed markedly. It will not sway for
anything exoept sUver nnd gold. A miner
al ball for greenback hunting bos not yot
been invented.
The other day one of tlie parties search-
ing on tbe mountain top embraced Mr. A.
A. Tygert, one of the principal merchants
of the neighborhood, and his friends, Eu
gene Sand, William Ogbury and John Sev
erson. They had their guns and pretended
not to be at all interested in the story of
" ‘ * tuned treasure, but, beiug right there.
. looked around very assiduously, and
actaaUy came upon a hemlock tree with a
rope hanging from its roots and with its
roots bridging a crack in the rocks.
“I ain't much afraid any one else will
find it,” said Mr. Tygert to-dsy, “for there
are several trees whoso roots cross cracks in
that same way, and now that I have token
the rope away no ono except ns four can
till one of these trees from tho other. We
hod to get down on our stomachs to see tho
rope under the roots. 1 was the one that
went down. It mado me feel s little queer.
I lowered myself in the crevice bv :
of the rope. Yon might get in tne
without the rope, by fallii
never wonld get out,"
When Mr. Tygert had descended about
nine or tin feet he reached s bottom of
•now and ice. It waa impoeaible to ssy how
dcop this deposit wot, or whether or not s
cave entrance is covered over by it. Tho
sides of the crevice were smooth and of
aheer rook, The rope was looped np on
the roots of the tree, bnt of the part that
hung lowest one end we* fast in the snow
and ice and had to be ohopped off. Mr.
Tygert brought tbe rope—s new, stoat one,
33 feet long -book to town, and yesterday
farmer John White come over and identi
fied it as having been stolen from him at
just sbont the time the letter says the
thieves were on tho mountain. This hss
redoubled interest in tbe romantic affair,
and many look upon the statements in the
letter as needing no farther confirmation.
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being enreful to pat tbe coffin in its proper
position in tbe store.
Mr. Olay was engaged with eome gentle
men across tbe street, when he waa ep-
proai-luil by a well-known citizen who in at
solemn manner told bim that ho wanted a
coffin. Mr. Clay excused himself from hie
party ami waa soon on hie way to tbe store,
asking questions on tbe way as to the size,
etc. The purebsser told him that he wanted
tbe longest coffin in the store, as the de
ceased was a very Urge man. The store
reached, Mr. CUy lit the gas and going to
tbe cose in which the eoOns were kept, took
roAii one day, and it slipped from his fin
gers and rolled into a crackjn the rocks.
Haley slid down into the creek about
twelve feet after it, and thus came
npon a cave into which
one can go sbont 2M) yAnlx. There wero
bones and on old ride barrel In there. Ha
ley and tho writer had been living In the
cave about two weeks when they quarreled.
This was on Jnlv 4. Haley called his com
panion a coward and a thief, and his com
panion instantly shot and killed him. He
writes that he cat the body ap and threw
the parts “fa a rock bole near the old lime
kiln and covered it with stones, where no
one can find it” After that the writer of
the letter had no peace of mind, and so de
termined on suicide. The letter concladed
as follows:
■T writs this to let my friends know whet
his become of me. Whoever finds this
letter and has it printed in the paper* and
crack ones again aa aeon aa the
! April’s inn looaana the grip of
he earth. Ilia three companions
Dr.
W. II. Parkvr, No. 4. Hulfinch atrsat, Rosto
who msy be consulted on all dlsrosee requiring
skill and apsitoMe. Chfooi - tad daliaii HI
eosee that have balVM akin ill’ll or all
otherphyid Un*a■)«•«laity. Such IllililJ treat,
ed sneer**billy viti. it an in* Til YQV1 le'
stance of failure. Mention this ill 101x1(1*
Commissioners’ Rule,
GEORGIA. JON 118 COUNTY,-By virtue of an
order granted to the andentlgned a* commissioner*
at the regular October term of Jones Superior
Court, 1KM, to eell certain lots or percel* of lend at
lisddock** Motion, la told scanty, and whereas, la
puniuance of sold order, raid load wo* duly adver
tised for sale on tho first Tuesday tn December,
law. When D. 1). Haxtu lor bid Off lot number It in
the plan of said Haddock Station property for tho
sum of three turns nd and twenty five dollar*; and
— —,—■ 1 nest, at the risk c_
the sold !). D. Bachelor, between the regular hours
of Bale, for cash.
JAMES M. MIDDLEBBOOK,
WILLIAM T. MORTON,
jan-lwtt JOHN T. 81‘KIGHTH
down the longest one and pUced it Aero. ttjnntcd faJM pajpqr* raid
the benches under the goa light Then «nda a copy to Engtind-Paik place, Lon
he looked over the store for the screw- < on ** ,oe,, * r K**“ titi letter tike it to tk<
driver, at the same time wishing to himself
that Dennis Keating, his right hand man,
was there to assist him. The acrejr-drivrr
wo* found and be proceeded to ahe the lid
off the cofiin. In the meantime Mayor
Price and others, seeing the store open,
happened in, wholly unconscious of any
ioke being ulaveh
A few turn* of the screwdriver bn
(Ait the serawe, and Mr. Olay pushed
the lid. A ghastly sight met Us gaze and
froze bis blood. Now it happened that tbe
body ot a man in a coffin had remained in
Iheatoreall loot Sunday awaiting burial,
and the thought that first flashed across
Mr. Clay’s mind waa that tho wrong coffin
hod beeu barfed. For full half a urinate
he was so awestricken that be wu speech
less, and stood then gazing upon
tbe rigid features of ths dummy
like one under a spell. Finally some one
fa the crowd who waa fa the joke, laughed,
and then Clay owned up that (or'the first
lima fa sight yean ha hod boon complete!,
sold. He will Deter forgive Dennis, whom
he thinks wus the instigator, but who will
first time i
learn of it (or the first
when ha nods
Journal fa Albany and hare it published.
Now I must till about the money we etole.
There are about $12,0UU fa bills and about
$300 fa gold. Tbe money is fa a leather
satchel, in the bottom. It has a false plate
on the bottom, pnt on with screws, and
there yon will find the money. Whoever
finds this, and has it printed, shall have the
money. I will and bequeath it to bim and
his heir* and aaanees forever. John Robert
Swift. ”
Accompanying this letter vraa a diagram,
nr rods map, showing the woodpile when
the letter was found, and a certain ham-
lock tree whose roots crass the opening
leading to the eave. It was said that a
raw would be found tied to the rock*, and
with this tbe finder waa to lower himself fa
tbe hole.
The shoemaker gave one person and an.
other a peep at this letter, never letting it
go outed his hands to this day, by the way,
and ao it got into the local new.papers,
in ■" " ‘ ‘ "
conntry arofs-roed stores, in the
^ and vow fa ths sir.
Than Dover wav such excitement about
anything in thia part of the world. Ths
first wow wo* taken up fa spraading lhe
that rock crack ones
warmth of
winter on the
will ha close by, but until then none will
breathe the whereabouts of the crock, except
that it is strangely near the point at which
young Cnry's mineral boll olwa
It is about tuo yards from the'woodpile,
instead of 300 yards, os the letter set forth.
This is the most ini jiortant find that the
searchers have mode. One other party
found the pelt and head of a sheep in a
crack fa the rocks, and halt s dozen
plaoss that were thought to be the right
ones, hut that were choked with snow and
lee, were located, and are to be kept in
mind until spring. But in the meantime
searchers go to the mountain daily, and no
one can till what a day may bring forth.
Pretty nearly the only persons who pooh-
pooh John Robert Swift * letter and speak
of it aa s hoax are the commercial travelers
and other outsiders who eome along from
day to day. They say that some summer
visitor wrote the letter, or that it ia the
work of some of the Union college boys,
who are forever tramping over the Helder
bergs for exercise and sport. B t in the
meantime the populous towns of Guilder-
land and Knox are torn by the question:
Who is to have the money when spring re
leases it from the grasp of winter? Mr.
Tygert thinks Le knows whose it will be if
he gets bold of it, bnt Ur. Hart, the shoe
maker, is understood to have formally pnt
in his claim for it, no matter who finds iL
The newest reasoning y<t held on the
subject ia that of a sort of a lawyer over in
Knox, who says that if it is found the
money must he tamed over lither to the
supervisors or serrogate. He is consider")
a foot Ths question will ha djammed all
winter.
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Wteker and Uiehael Ryan, Riley Evengton
and Joe Parson* an among the injured.
Theentira engine house woo tom down.
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NOTICE.
Bapdocv*b Brvnos, Joint* Oocyst:
All psrtlM ladrbtsd to tbs trials of MUbcvy J.
Haddock are hereby notified to coais forward sad
‘a at once. Also, parties having claim* *g»‘ *
trial* will present In proper form. * _
J. M. MlDDLEBROOXfl.
Jones County Sheriff Sale.
(IIOKIU, toaasOocwrt—Will baaoM oath*
flrtt Turoday In FoUnary naat, before tho court-
hooas door In said county, between the Ispl hour,
of ntit for cash, tho follooiox tn,|.rt>. lo-wtt:
OH gnat ailllnoarO. r.Iuoullc. la nid county,
raid property betas dUhcuH and expen.tr. to
transport, wUl bo sold wharo It la at present loew
lad. without smoovsI to tho court-home, sold
grtat mill lertad os a. tha property of ft a. (inrdou
and Zachariah Ootdoa to rattifya mortyags 0. fa.
bausd boa tha Sopertor Cook of said cocotyof
Zoom In fhrorof M. J. Hatcher * Co.... H A.
Gordon and /Acharlah Gordon. Paid property do-
•cribcd Hid pointed out In raid aofteuv 1. rt.
January *. Urn*. *. J.PUIUPH,
taalwlt Sh«rtg Jonra Oo., On
uKultolA, CHcwroan Coe,it—To »u whom II
may concern. I hat. la daa tana applied to Oao.
I- Sawyer, ordinary of raid coonty, tor lane, to
•ell thelanda lying tn Monroe county, lie, LeLieg-
tag to my » . i v . . Lock:- ..a
ttoa out bo heard Ly raid or.tin
Mislay In February Ml This I
ember. 1—
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