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DRUG STORE.
J. W. BRINSON & CO.,
DRU6GISTS,
Wrightsville, Georgia.
Have on hBnd a complete stock of Drags
and all other articles usually kept in a
First- Class .
Drug Store,
Which they are selling at prices to suit the
times, and are prepared to fill all orders and
prescriptions on the shortest possible notice.
Dr. J. W. BRINSON continues to prac¬
tice bis profession in its various brances.
Office at the Drug Store.
W. B. MELL & CO.,
Wholesale and retail dealers in
SADDLES, BRIDLES, HARNESS,
Rubber and .Leather
BELTING AND PACKING,
French and American Calf Skins, Sole, Har¬
ness, Bridle and Patent Leather,
WHrPS and SADDLERY WARE,
TRUNKS, VALISES,
Market Square, Savannah, Ga.
Orders by mail promptly attended to.
A. M. MATHIS,
'I F.NNILLE, GA.,
Horsj-Shoeing a Specialty,
All work intrusted to my care will receive
prompt attention. Charges reasonable and
* satisfaction gnaunteed in every instance.
SMITH’S HOTEL,
W. J. M. SMITH, Agent.
Wrightsville, Georgia.
Having lately undergone thorough repairs,
this Hotel is pr» pared to accommodate the
public with the finest the market affords. The
highest market prices paid for country produce.
Miss Anna R, McWhorter,
Wrightsville, Ga.,
Keeps on hand a nice selection of
Millinery aid Fancy Goods
SUCH AS
LADIE3' HATS, RIBBONS,
FLOWERS and TRIMMINGS,
In endless variety; also a nice assortment of
latest patlerns, ete., all for sale as cheap as
the cheapest. I am also prepared to cut, fit
and make dresses at short notice. Call on me
before purchasing elsewhere.
Z. SMITH,
Six miles from Tennille, on Wrightsville Road,
Is now prepared to make and repair
Wagons, Carts, Plows, Etc.
I keep constantly on hand a large stook of
IJows reasonable and Chairs, which 1 am selling at
rates.
J. T. & B. J. DENT,
Eight miles west of Wiightsviile, Ga.
Keep constantly on hand a fine assortment
of Pure
L'quors, Brandies, Wines, Ales, Lager,
Etc., etc.; also Tobacco, Cigars, Candies,
Pickles, Oysters, Sardines, and a
full line of family
GROCERIES!
All ol which we will sell at inside figures.
Give us a tiial. Respectfully,
J. T. & B. J. DENT.
A. J. BRADDY & SON,
Wrightsville, Ga
BLACKSMITH SHOP.
A specialty ol Plantation Work. Wagons
Buggies, etc., made and repaired.
Plows and Plow-Stocks of all kinds, and
every kind of Wood and Iron Work done by
A. J. BRADDY & SON,
Wrightsville,. Ga.
John A. Shivers & Son,
Tennille, Ga.,
Are now prepared to build, repair and
overhaul
Carriages, Buggies,Wagons, &c.
We also make a specialty ot One*
Horse Wagons.
WRIGHTSVILLE, GA., SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER ‘25, 1880.
Work and Wait.
A husbandman who many years
Had plowed his fields and sown in tears,
Grew weary with his doubts and fears.
“ 1 tail in vain ! These rocks and sands
Will yield no harvest to my hands;
The best seeds rot in barren lands.
My drooping vine is withering;
Ho promised grapes its blossoms bring;
No birds among its branches sing.
My flock is dying on the plain;
The heavens are brass—they yield no rain;
The earth is iron—I toil in vain !”
While yet he spake a breath had stirred
His drooping vine, like wing ol bird,
And from its leaves a voice he heard:
“ The germs and fruit of life must be
Forever hid in mystery,
Yet none can toil in vain lor Me.
A mightier hand, more skilled than thine,
Must hang the cluster on the vine,
And make the fields with harvest shine.
Man can but work; God can create;
But they who work, and watch, and wait,
Have their reward, though it come late.
Look np to heaven ! behold and hear
The clonds and thunderings in thine ear—
An answer to thy doubts and fear."
Ho looked, and lo ! a cloud-draped car,
With trailing smoke and flames alar,
Was lushing to a distant star.
And every thirsty flock and plain
Was risiBg up to meet the rain
That came to clothe the fields with grain.
And on the clouds he saw again
The covenant ol God with men,
Rewritten with His rainbow pen:
“ Seed-time and harvest shall not fail,
And through the gates of hell assail,
My truth and promise shall prevail."
THE HEIRESS.
Madge Lambert gavo a vexed little
toss of her head—a gesture intended to
be awfully annihilating to Mr. Rupert
of Chessington, piazza standing on the lower step
the at the Sea Spray house.
“ Very wcli! Go, of course, Mr. Ches¬
sington. if you prefer; but really I think
it is too bad of you!”
“ Of course it is,” added pretty little
Miss baby-blue Balleray, with the gfftden locks
and eyes, that were considered
irresistible by the generality of the stern¬
er sex. “ Of course it is too bad, when
you know that to a dozen ladies stop¬
ping at the Sea Spray there are only such
a very few gentlemen. I know what the
trouble is, though, don’t I, Mr. Ches
singtonP You’re tired of all of us—the
same ones over and over —and you are
reserving your forces until the much
talked-of and beauty and anxiously-expected ” heir¬
ess arrives
Chessington turned lazily around and
laughed I afraid I shall have incur
“ am to an
awful risk in contradicting a lady,” he
said, good-naturedly."
half Haughty indignant, Madge half Lambert [flashed him
a her black sarcastic glance
from eyes.
“ And then, when she has arrived, I
dare say, Mr. Chessington will suddenly
lose all his wonderful interest in his
solitary sions, while boat rides and fishing excur¬
we forlorn maidens get
through the day Mr. as well Chessington, as we can, for
lonesomeness. you’re
selfish!”
“Well, yes—rather, if always want
ing the best of everything concerned is
what you call selfish,” he said, pleas¬
antly. “ But I’ll redeem my character,
by proving to you that which will
doubtless Bet your heart at rest. I don’t
believe in your wonderful coming beauty
and second heiress, place to ’’—and begin then with. his And, in the
handsome
blue eyes flashed a second—“1 would
commit hari-kari before I’d marry an
heiress. There! am I vindicated?”
He bowe<i and walked off, just a little
to the discomfiture of the fair belles on
the piazza—went off toward the beach,
where his boat and fishing tackie
awsflted him, with more of a disgusted,
impatient look on his face than was at
all customary with him.
“ What a lot of idiots a fellow comes
across in the course of hi3 life! Because
a lot of pretty, chattering girls loose
their heads when a wealthy beau comes
along, they argue, with a woman’s
senseless persistency, and money-seeking that the men are
as mercenary Mary Not as if
themselves. an heiress!
she were beautiful as Venus, and every
word Kohinoor!” she dropped was transmitted into
a
And then Mr. Chessington pushed ofi
in his surf boat, dashing like ana sailor-fisher plunging
through the breakers a
born and bred.
To row a mile or so out, straight couple to
another fishing boat, containing a and
of barefooted little boys of seven
ten, with tremendously wide-iimmed
hats, and bright, sunburnt faces and big
brown eyes.
And a tall, gawky la anxious-looking, l of sixteen or
seventeen, worried and
who was evidently not a little dismay swell ed of
at the momentarily-increasing and the freshening wind.
the sea south
And a young girl, with wonderful,
bright lovely gray and eyes—grave, flashing, thoughtful, she looked yet at
as
Chessington while he rowed nearer and
nearer, m response to a hallo from one of
the youngsters. decidedly nice-looking girl; hardly
A and
what one would call pretty, yet the
pure, fair complexion, mouth ever so slightly tightly
suntanned, the scarlet so
closed, braided the waving, in thick, deep gold-colored magnificent
hair, a
braid, and hanging down made to her waist, whole
and the glorious Chessington gray eyes, quite a thor¬
that Rupert admired he pulled alongside.
oughly ‘■[You be as in little difficulty,”
seem to a
he said, as he laid down his oar, and
touched his hat courteously.
She bowed.
“Joe seems to be somewhat demoral¬
ized, I think. There is no danger, is
there?”
face, Chessington and glanced antics at “ Joe’s” scared
the restless of the boys
in the little boat.
“If you had a man in charge who un¬
derstood his business, there would be
no shadow of danger. As it is, this
young fellow has no excuse for ventur¬
ing so far out.”
“We were fishing,” she said, in a
pleasant, think Joe apologetic little way. “ I
had Weil,” hardly realized how far we
gone. with a swift, troubled
little look that was more anxiety than
fear, “ we will do the best we can. Per¬
haps you would tell Joe what to do
with the boat.”
glance. Chessington took in the situation at a
“Joe” was too thoroughly
scared to be capable of any orders, and,
left to the mercy of the freshening
wind, the plunging waves, the little
boat might or might not reach shore
safely.
“If you will allow me to exchange
places with your pilot, I will row you
ashore. I am Rupert Chessington, of
Chessington Wall A Van Lawn, brokers,
Sea Spray street, house. at present stopping at the
He touched his hat again, and bowed
slightly, smile, that and smiled—a frank, pleasant
was received just as frankly
and pleasantly.
“ You are very kind, Mr. Chessington,
and I will thankfully accept your offer.
My name is Jessie Lane.”
She laughed, as if the oddness of the
mutual introduction amused her, and
Mr. Rupert Chessington made up his
mind, then and there, that she was the
very nicest girl he had met in many a
day. “Well,
then, Joe, you spring in here
and row yourself to shore. You won’t
have any trouble to take yourself only,
will The you?” alacrity
with which the over¬
grown lad changed from the Nellie to
the Clytie was sufficient answer, and
neither Chessington nor Mis3 Lane
could avoid a smile at his expense, as,
Chessington seated in the Nellie, Joe
rowed off for dear life in the other
boat.
“I dare say he thought it was ail
right,” Jessie said, apologetically.
“He had no business to think so,
though. Miss Lane, Shall I take you straight back,
or would you rather fish
awhile If longerP” please, I will
“ you go back. Aunt
Mattie will be worried about me, and if
I should keep dinner waiting—”
She leaned contentedly her against the the
side of the boat, trailing hand in
dashing water, while the two children
sat quiet aschurchmice, watching Ches¬
sington, with awe and admiration, as he
pulled them spinning long, steady along; strokes, while that sent
Cheosing
ton—
“ She is the most sensible girl I ever
came across. Pretty, modest, dignified,
pleasant, with no sham reserve about
her any more than too much freedom.
And what a thorough lady she is! I know
it as well as if I had met her a thousand
times.”
And him, Jessie, her sitting so contentedly op¬
posite shining gray thought—if eyes drooped to
the waves, ever
there was and a true gentleman, in manner,
speech actions, who it was rowing this her hand¬
shore. some stranger was to
“If you will tell me.opposite which
hotel I am to row you,” he said, as,
after a most delightful hour’s conver¬
sation, he rested on his oars, and awaited
her command.
She Oh, laughed. hotel. I
“ not at any am stopping
at one of the| fishermen’s cottages, about
three miles further down.”
Secretly, [Chessington was delighted
at the prospect of continuing in her
society.
“Yes; I know where you mean, I
think. The place we call Glen Inlet?”
“Yes. And you can’t imagine how
crowded lovely it is there—old-fashioned, rather
quarters, to be sure, but with
not the faintest vestige of anything like
style “And or amusement.” actually boarding
you are
there, Miss Lane? Why didn’t you
come to one of the hotels? The Sea
Spray, for instance, is a good house,
and Jessie a pleasant laughed. company is tnere.”
“ Not I! I came to the seashore to en¬
joy and myself, and such get away tilings.” from fashion
dress, and
“ And you succeeded in enjoying your¬
self P”
You “ Admirably—since the first devotee five of weeks the world ago.
are
that I have seen since I came to Glen
Inlet.”
Her gray eyes sparkled mischievously.
“Isthat really so?” he asked, look¬
ing at her. “I yourself hope, though, you will
not condemn to such isolation
any join longer—at solitary least from me. May Miss I
not your amusement,
Lane ? I promise to be your most obedi¬
ent.”
A delicious, faint flush crept softly
over I her rare, pale face, Ted as and she Rick laughed.
“ am not sure will
allow And it. she They looked are my the inseparables.” little bare
at two
foots.
ful Chessington of pennies, gravely which he produced a hand¬
gave them.
“ Now, and Miss young gentlemen, may I escort
you Lane on a charming ex¬
cursion I know of to-morrow P”
“ I must make it conditional then,”
Jessie said, gaily. “ Please promise me
you won’t tell any one there is anybody
down at the Inlet, will you? Occasion¬
ally fishing parties come to arrange with
Uncle Ben—Icallttie Betlzss Uncle Ben
and Aunt always Mattie—horrible, isn’t itP—
but I contrive that no one sees
me, for I am determined not to be
drawn into fashionable society this sum¬
mer, if I cau possibly help it. I don’t
want to see company.” don’t regard
t i“ But you me as com¬
pany?” He looked with admiring,
straight in her and respectful
eyes own, that ex¬
quisite little flush warmed her face
again. “No, I don’t regard company!”
you as
After that it was all up with Rupert
Chessington, Sea Spray, and he went back to the
in love last, acknowledging that he was
at and with an unknown
obscure girl, who, doubtless for other
reasons than her dislike for society,
doubtless for pecuniary reasons, was
summering He liked at Glen Inlet.
her all the better for it, too.
He honored her for her sensibleness, and
he was over head and ears in love with
the dainty, gray-eyed, golden-haired
girl. The
next three weeks were the most
blessed ones he ever had spent in his
life. He appalled the souls of Miss Bal¬
leray persistent and Madge Lambert daily, by his
dozen friends. neglect of them and their dear
He continued his solitary excursions
where —solitary till he came to Glen Inlet,
Jessie was always ready to ac¬
company witch him, him, until or entertain him, and be¬
loved her dearly, one dearly, day and he told her he
that it was
the one wish of his life to have her for
his wife.
And Jessie, with her lovely gray eyes,
shadowed with the tenderness of love
and trust unspeakable, looked in his
handsome, eager face, and told him she
had loved him from the moment he had
rowed up beside her that summer day.
And as he took her in his arms, and
imprinted a lover’s ardent kiss on her
warm, scarlet mouth, and wrapped his
arm about her supple waist, his heart
gave great throbs of blissful thanksgiv¬
ing for this blessing on him.
The rude piazza of the Sea Spray
house with the was a bewildering, gayly-dressed bright scene,
half-dozen or so
chattering girls standing like in magpies, earnest conversation, Mr. Ches¬
as
sington Madge came leisurely to the house.
Lambert tossed her pretty dark
head, saucily.
“There! Didn’t I say Mr. Chessing¬
ton would not fail to be on hand to greet
the heiress P You men can’t withstand
such a golden temptation. Mr. Ches¬
sington, she has arrived.”
“She! Who?”
Madge There laughed, isn’t the sarcastically. least
“ use ol your pre¬
tending you don’t know who I mean.
Your indifference is charming, but not
the genuine article. You know I mean
the heiress we’ve been expecting so
long.” smiled—a of pity
coming Chessington him he remembered sort how
over as
much happier he was than the man who
should be fortunate with this wonderful
new-comer.
“ Yes, I really had forgotten. Arrived,
has she?”
Miss Balleray went up to him, in her
gushing I way.
“ prophesy you will be the very first
to go wild over her. She is just what I
imagine you will like. Great, big gray
eyes, and the wonder goldenest hair. And so
romantic. I you never came
across her in your solitary rambles. She
actually old has Bettz, been the staving fisherman’s all summer
down at cot¬
tage. But then Jessie Lane always had
her own curious tastes and ideas. At
all events, she is here now, and I am
just dying to introduce you to her Mr.
Chessington.” He confounded for minute,
stood a
while lie tried to realize it.
he Jessie, had declared, his darling, the heiress them all, whom he
before
would sooner commit suicide than
marry! Jessie, his gray-eyed, thought¬
ful little girl, in her cheap blue flannel
suits, with no gloves or veil on her
hands or face, she the great heiress,
whose comings and goings, whose
doing3 and sayirg3, were chronicled in
the daily papers—whose dresses were
copied by leas favored mortals, whose
presence was as welcome as the sun¬
shine!
“ And she is pretty, too,” Madge Lam¬
bert said, a little venomously, as if it
were quite a shame. “ I saw her as she
went to her room.”
Chessington of looked faces, self-possessedly
up at the array
“ I am glad you think Jessie is pretty.
I think she is the loveliest girl living.
So you did not know I was engaged to
her?”
And then followed a sudden lull in the
merry pressed chatter, dumfounded that eloquently astonishment ex¬
?he
Chessington’s So Cupid had announcement made. the
his own way at sea¬
side, just as surely as though there had
been no such thing as fate to overcome.
Trades unions (the Celestial Empire
says) appear now to to have taken root
in Japan. It is reported that owing to
the recent rise in the price of rice all the
laborers in Gifu, Mino province, made
an arrangement among themselves and
forced the employers to raise the
wages.___
William Rodifer, the Indianapolis
burglar shot through the coolness of
Mrs. Dr. Walker one recent night, once
escaped from prison and rid himself of
his ball and chain by lying down by
the railroad and letting the wheels of
a brance. passing train clip off his incum¬
___
It is not generally known that if a
one-dollar greenback i3 neatly cut in
two, each of the halves is good for fifty
cents at the Federal treasury. The same
process can be carried on till the bill is
divided into tenths, without injuring
the aliquot value of its parts.
A gang of counterfeiters is thought to
be doing a thriving business in manu¬
facturing intrinsic value genuine five-cent pieces. The
of the coin, which con¬
tains seventy-five per cent, of copper and
twenty-five per cent, of nickel, is but a
emt and a quarter.
An old salt, when asked how far north
he had ever been, replied that he had
be.e'i so far north that “ the cows, when
mLaed beside a red-hot stove, gave ice
cream.”
Such is the strength of brigandage in
Italy that 8,000 rural policemen are
cipal kept on duty safe in order traffic. to make the prin¬
routes for
FOR THE FAIR SEX.
A Professional Beauty’s Children,
Apropos of the gayeties at Southsea,
in England, there is an amusing story
told of Mrs. Cornwallis West, the pro¬
fessional beauty. She and her husband
have taken a house belonging to a gen¬
tleman who dislikes children, and one
of the conditions of the lease was that
no children were to reside in the house.
Mr. and Mrs. West are, however, blest
with four olive branches, whom they
brought with them. The owner of the
house, hearing this, wrote a furious
letter to Mr. West, who calmly and replied
that he had taken the house he
should submit to no dictation as to how
he was to occupy it. Upon this the
owner posted off to Southsea and sought
a personal interview. He was met by
Mrs. West, who received him with her
sweetest smiles and listened patiently Presently, to
his angry expostulations, she the bell and the
during a appeared. pause, rang “Tell to bring
servant nurse
down all the children,” she said, quietly,
and then turning to her angry visitor
with her most fascinating lovely, manner, Mr.-, re¬
marked, “ They are so
that I am sure you won’t them.” object It to them need
when you have seen
hardly be added that the owner left the
house completely vanquished.
A Costly Necklace.
diamonds, New York and is it becoming is claimed a market, the prices for
charged there are less than those at
London, Paris or Amsterdam. An
English earl, on the recommendation of
Mrs. Mackey in Paris, recently gave dia¬ a
New York house the order for a
mond necklace which was to be an ex¬
act fac simile of one worn by the em¬
press of Russia at the time of her
daughter’s marriage to the Duke of Ed¬
inburg. This last cost $820,000; but the
New York firm agreed to duplicate it
for $125,000, and has done so. The
necklace consists of fifteen magnificent
brilliants, graduated from about the
size of a filbert to the central stone of
nearly three times that size. The
total weight of the fifteen stones
is 640 carats. They are linked
together by a nearly invisible set
ting, so that as they lie on their bed
of black velvet in the case, there is
nothing to detract from the matchless
brilliancy of the diamonds themselves.
Besides tha necklace are earrings and a
brooch. The earrings are solitaires,
weighing twenty-six carats each, in
exact harmony, as to color and shape,
with the great stones of the necklace.
The brooch is made to imitate one ol
the heraldic emblems of the earl’s coat
of arms. It contains seven large smaller slones,
weighing 144 carats, and sixteen
diamonds weighing sixty carats. The
cost of the earrings and brooch is $35,
000. The whole set, valued at $ 160,000,
will be taken to England, and the name
of the purchaser will then be made
known.
Fasltlon Notes.
Frog green is a new fall color.
Brocaded plush is used for trim¬
ming.
Red sashes are worn with blue flannel
suits.
Handkerchief dresses are shown for
little girls.
Jet and colored beads still retain their
popularity.
Plaid dresses have Byron collars and
cuffs of velvet.
Capucine brown is the new color for
woolen costumes.
Young girls will wear English walk¬
ing jackets again this season.
Shirring is the fashionable trimming
for silk and satin mantles.
Many imported bonnets are trimmed
with cheniile passementerie.
Brazilian bugs and beetles are used
in profusion upon some of the Paris
bonnets.
Gold and silver mulle muslins have
superseded the gold and silver net of last
year.
Jersey webbing resembling yard stocking curiasse
net is now sold by the for
basques.
A grotesque ornament for a bonnet is
the foot of a bear’s cub in natural fur
with claws of French steel.
Winter corsages, coats material and from jackets the
will be of a different
skirts worn with them.
The newest round waists have the
fronts shirred at the shoulders, and belt,
and the back cut perfectly plain.
Spanish lace in black and white,
wrought with gold, will be used for or •
namenting dresses, hats and bonnets.
Sailor collars made of two silk hand¬
kerchiefs with a jaunty knot in front
are largely patronized by young ladies.
1 “ Satin merveillieuse, with sprinklings feature
of gold, silver and jet beads, is a
among the new millinery material.
No dinner dress is now complete with¬
out a chemisette made of Handsome
lace, spangled tulle or silk gauze em¬
broidered with beads.
Silver jewelry is more fashionable
than gold in England just at present, it wili
and 'the indications are that
before long become so here.
The majority of dressy kilts for boys
have caps to correspond.
Black evening toilets embroidered
with gold are all the rage in Paris.
Sash effects are a conspicuous feature
of recently-imported costumes.
Richly-colored mummy clothes of fine
wool are offered for winter wear.
Red is more fashionable than white
for trimming children’s sailor suits.
French gray and ecru felt Derby hats
are now worn with light-colored wraps.
Small bustles are worn with street
toilets* cost,nmes and larger on63 with evening
NO.
Mrs, Judson’s Ghost.
Dr. W ay land, In his “ Life of J udson,”
has but feebly portrayed the scene of
Mrs. Judson’s funeral. Our decks were
crowded with sailors of all nations, and
every long line flag of was boats at took half-mast, in awhile a
ours tow, and
on arrival at the wharf the clergy of
every denomination formed the head of
the procession, which moved through
the main street, while all the shops
were closed.
the My recollections of Dr. Judson are of
most agreeable kind. Deeply afflict¬
ed as he was by his loss, he still main¬
tained a cheerful demeanor, impressing
all of us with love and veneration for
his character. His life Vas a constant
sermon.
But scenes like that of the death and
funeral they had lately witnessed pre¬
pared of the minds of the crew for the
access ing St. Helena superstition. the Soon after leav¬
second mate called
me fellow’s suddenly in the .night. The poor
tone evinced that he was as
much frightened as were the sailors,
who, he said, had seen a ghost.
“A ghost, Mr. Bronson?” I asked.
“ What kind of a ghost?”
“ Mrs. Judson’s, sir; we can all see it
in the foretop.”
“ Pshaw!”
“Captain, do come on deck, do, and
you will see it for yourself,” replied Mr.
Bronson.
W ell, as I had never seen a ghost, I
complied with his request, and walking
into the waist, where the watch were
gathered pointed their in stupefied amazement, they
foretop, whispering, trembling in fingers to the
hushed voices:
“ There she is, sir—look at her.”
Yes, there she was—a perfect figure of
a woman in a white dress, with out¬
stretched arms and a ghastly face. I
will confess that no little astonishment
was combined with my incredulity. I
had been awakened from a sound sleep
to behold this visitation with half
opened eyes. the But singular in a moment I saw
the cause of deception.
“ Boys,” the I said, “ who will go with
me There into foretop and speak to her?”
were brave men among the
crew who would have gone aloft on my
order to send down a royal yard, even
if they side, thought but the mast might go over
the now none of them would
stir. At last I said: “ Do you think it
is my place to go up and stow the top¬
gallant studding-sail?”
Then they unders ood the meaning of
the apparition. This sail, which when
not in use, was lashed against the fore¬
topmast spreading rigging, itself had got adrift, and
across to the foremast
head, had assumed the wierd and
unearthly puzzle appearance of a ghost. So
this for metaphysicians was
solved.
Had I sent the men below and gone
up and stowed the sail myself, as I was
tempted to do, no argument would have
convince 1 them that they had not seen
the ghost of Mr3. Judson.— Capfoin John
Codman, in Harpers Bazar.
Chicago Grain Ilevatois.
Their aggregate capacity is 16,840,000
bushels; individual capacity from 90,
000 to 2,000,000 bushels. They are in
different parts of the city, but those at
the and disposal Quincy of [railroad the Chicago, Burlington
third the whole give neatly one
of capacity. One of the
newest of them, Armour Dole & Co.’s
elevator “ D,” may be taken as what it
is the fashion to call a “ representative ”
el6vator. It certain !y is a very fine one,
and should be seen by all inquiring
visitors. It was begun in 1875, is 386
feet long, 100 feet wide, and 145 feet
high, required its five million and feet of lum¬
ber in construction, cost $35,000.
One can easily obtain permission to in¬
spect it, and ignorance, the superintendent will en¬
lighten qualify his his knowledge, or the increase and
as case may
be. He is conducted to a little “ eleva¬
tor” (here is this confusion of names
again; it is what our English friends
call a “ lift ”), and hoisted to the top
floor. At one end he sees, swiftly pass¬
ing over a shaft, the largest belt in the
United States, 280 feet in length, and
eighty inches in width. Below him are
great scales, and bins sixty feet deep.
A fine and suggestive dust gradually
cjvers his clothes, as he listens to
the him polite that cicerone, there who is tell¬ six
ing standard Fairb are scales twenty in the
inns
b tilding, and that they weigh so accu¬
rately that in an aggregate of six car
loads there was only a shortage of thirty
p unds between “St. Joe” and Chicago.
But “look out for the engine when in below the
full bell rings.” in A train bulk. has Into come
of grain a car goes a
great shute, or nozzle; somebody lias pulls
a lever, and, presto 1 away gone that
grain up into a weighing bin, then down
into another receptacle of profundity and
security. It dawns on the observer’s
mind that one man’s property is man’s. by no
means kept separate from another
This grain is all graded by a State in¬
spector ; it is “weighed needful in” and “weighed that the
out,” and all that is should is be homo¬
c intents of each bin
geneous. But here comes another train
—empty cars to be filled for the East.
Men wanted, with shovels, to labori¬ all.
ously handle the grain? again, Not boards at
Down comes that shute
are put across the doorways of the car3,
and In one of them after another the
grain runs up foot by foot. In less time
than any one would think car—the possible—a train is
few minutes to each
entirely loaded, its doors are closed, and
the engine is drawing it out again, to be
delivered to one of the Eastern trunk
ines.— Harper's Magazine.
At certain places in Virginia, there along
the Pamunky river, where are
great numbers of fresh-water mussels,
it is impossible to raise ducks, because
at low water the ducklings are caught
by the mussels, and held until drowned
by the rising tide.
A Monnt Pulaski (Iowa) yard man in the set out
a willow twig’in his year
1846, and to-day it measures live feet
through the body, and o'vsts a shade
seventy-two feet across at noon.