Columbia advertiser. (Harlem, Ga.) 1880-18??, March 07, 1882, Image 1
J. W. W*3B»NKK. KMltarM P.hlKker. .
♦* BMI* fcSXS, rrwnrtelwr.
VOLUME 11.
NEfrS GLEANiHGS.
Been *eU to South Florida for *J a
•warm- ,
Puluty Taan., haa contracted to have
it, .tree* lighted with gai.
MtaiMtgb' will epend *50,000 for the
encobragMoent of immigration.
Florida’s cotton crop of I*Bl wan nine
ty per cent, of the crop of 1880.
The demand for Florida Orange* thia
rear ha* exceeded any previous year.
The Alice iron furnace at Birming
ham, Ala., cleared *12,0(0 in January.
New Orleana pgys *1 25 a pound for
a certain brand of Massachusetts butter.
The ’ value of railroad property in
Georgia increased during 1881, *2,250,-
000.
Large numbers of deer and other ru
minant wild animals have been drowned
in the overflow of stream? in Mississippi
county. Ark.
A Green county (Oa.) fanner put a
flock ot nineteen gee»e in hie nine acre
cotton field, and they kept it clean of
worjns without injuring the cotton.
After three attempts Mechanicsville
has voted to be annexed to Knoxville,
which.will swell that city’s population
3,000 and give it 12,940 inhabitants.
Sometime since the Chattanooga City
Council passed an ordinance appointing
two men in each ward to kill out the
English sparrows. It has developed
that the law is unconstitutional..
The Galveston News thinks the een
rum Reports overestimate she acreac of
rarrchanAbhe pine timber in the South
at least Shiyty'dive per cent , 3ot suffi
cient allowance is made in the reports
for swamp, river, barren and denuded
seres, or for the hammock and other
lands covered with a different growth
Wl H. Durham died iiv-Snrns coun
ty. Georgia, last week of a yround re
reived at the little of Chancetjiyvyllle,
eighteessiyaaro a*w *ie was torei in the
kip, the bullet, if was thought lodging
in a bone. A post-mortem examination
wxk made and the ball was found in the
small of the back, lodged against the
backbone.
Atlanta Constitution : There could be
no greater success in any venture than
our Exposition. It was gotten up in a
year, challenged the admiration of the
world by its completeness and magni
tude, and upon its heels wifT follow a
cotton factory stocked at *400,000,
which spin and weave cotton of the
next crop. ■
Prof. N. T. Lupton, of Vanderbuilt
University, is now engagvd, at the sug
gestion of Oommissioner Hawkins in
■taking an analysis of soils from differ
ent sections of Tennessee, taking the
virgin soil and specimen soils from ex
biosted fields. This analysis is being
ssade in order to discover what elements
hare been lost in exhausted ground,'.
New Virginia Industries: A chair
factory has been started in Culpeper, a
•oolen mill at Gordonsville, a cotton
factory at Danville, a new cotton sac
fcry al Norfolk, a paper-bag factory, An
Lyachburg, a straw hat factory'sin
Richmond, a sassafras oil distillery at
Charlottesville and an extensive wheat
fan factory ja to be started in Staunton
Some months ago a party near Green
ville, Miss., sued out an injunction
•<*i»st his neighbor, reetraininc him
from sowing Johnson grass seed, the pe
titioner alleging the grass would spread
♦ver the adjacent country and destroy
fbelsnd fog cultivation. The Chsn
°ary Court granted the injunction. The
'** was then carried up to the Supreme
Court of the State and the injunction
•»♦ disaolvad.
Two clergyman of Fauquier, Virginia
•'■i ihto court with their dis ute as to
ike ownership of a*3 calf. Each own
•daoow, which he claimed, was the
*»lher of the calf. The Justice went
with the jury and litigants to a pasture,
•here the two nows were let loose for
y° n npter to choose between, and
u ' question was so quickly and unmis
**k*bly settled by the brutes that the
lacy gave a verdict without further he«-
nation
At Centerville, Ark., where there is
*o Bergh society, a wager was made
*h> the endurance of a certnn tough
The trial drew a crowd, and the
Atting was heavy. The tread-mill of a
machine was used, the mule
'’"'T fastened in it and compelled to
Without rest. Wbe neve be was
i io stop be was goaded to keep
*** moving. He was not allowed food
•••ter. For over three days the beast
Columbia
walked, and when he finally fell down
it wa» to die.
Frank Mills, colored, lost his life un
der peculiar circumstances at
Ga , while sacking bran. The bran was
banked many thousand of pounds on
the upper floor, ami passed to the work
ers on the lower floor ihroug : a passage
or pipe, which cr.ated a funnel shaped
depression in the great batik above A
sack dropped into the depression, and
the negro, in trying to get it out, was
drawn into the whirlpool of bran.
When discovered only hUjband could
I* seen. Four men failed to pull him
out, and when the bran was removed he
was dead from suffocation.
The Law as Lost Property.
What ought the finder of a lost article
to do? Moat people will give a readv
answer. Ho should do his beat to dis
cover tho owner ami restore the lost
property to him. But this atandard of
moral duty being imperfectly rsooguited
by the law, it will be interesting to
review the decision* on thia subject.
1. Tho finder need not take charge of
the lost property. There is no legal
duty on him to do it but if he does
take it into hui possession, he then be
comes a depository, and is bound to keep
it for tho owner and restore it to him
when known. How long he must keep
it, or what efforts he should make to find
’he owner, have not l>een laid down.
2. If the finder doos not restore tho
property upon discovering the owner,
does he commit theft ? This depends ou
whether ho knew, or bad reasonable
means of knowing, who the owner was
the time of finding. It has been held
tL.ii .je tin 1. iot - ~ ok, having
the r .rut l a nani legibly written or it,
is ;i thief if ho conceals and appropriate i
the mouev; but if there is nothing to
indicate tho owner, he does not bec-mie
a lliief in law by so doing.
3. The owner may at any time reclaim
his property, and if the finder refuses to
give it up, can recover it or the value of
it from him. But as against any one but
the owner the tinder’s title is g>ssl.
4. When is a thing to be considered
as lost ? It has been said in several cases
that money ot other property laid down
and forgotten is not lost in the legal sense
of the word. The proprietor . f the shop
■vr bank, t > plsc» -rtawre rt iiwtrft tw-th"-
proper person to take charge of it, and
those who pick up tho property have no
right to keep it On the other hand, it
has been held that where a conductor
found money in a railway car, whose
owne * could not be ascertained, he had
a good title to the money.
5. Is the tindei entitled to be paid for
lus trouble and exfienso? He need not
take charge of it, and.it seems that if ho
dives so be must look only to the grat
itude and good feeling of the owner for
reward.
6. What if a reward lie offered ? There
is no doubt that any one who, sex ing the
offer, seta to work to find the property,
will, if he succeed, be entitled to the
reward, and may even retain tho prop
erty till it lie paid. But it he already
has the missing article in his possession
when tho reward is offered, or lias with
held the property in tho expectation
that a reward would be offereel, the rule
is the opposite.
A oentleman contributes to Nature
the following account of his experience
in India liearing upon the question
whether ants produce sounds or not:
“ Whilst lying awake early one morning
before the servants were stirring, when
camped in the Deccan,, at the present
small station of Chota or Chick Soogo r,
ontheG. I. P. Railway, during the win
ter 1868-69, I heard a sound reflated at
intervals of about a second. It sounded
as though the wall of the tent was being
struck bv a light fringe along one side;
but noticing that the air was perfectly
still, I listened for some minutes wonder
ing what it was and trying hi fix tho lo
•ahty. I got out of tad cautiously and
looked out; the whole of one side of ttie
tent, for a heightof two feet, wiwcovered
with’ white ants so thickly. that at the first
glance I thought the wall was covered
with a gray reddish mud io this height.
The noise ceased suddenly as soon as the
ants M-emed to ta-como aware of the
writer's presence, and in a few minutes
they had all disappeared. The impres
sion produced was that they had all lieen
striking the lent wall at the same time
with their heads.
Sumner’s Practice.
Near the close of Sumner s career
•• Apphia Howard’’ said to him to hui
How ta. .*_>
you
••when a train of care is standing ins
station, aman go around staking each
w he.d and every part of the nxmcbni* V
that has been under any *trai“? H “
testing it I an* doing . 110
turn. J, "with mysperthes. I am K<>
lu g over them sentence by anti uoe,
U-ting each, to see if then, b oue
that gives an uncertain «oun I
"f Herla-rt Bf»n«r.
. 1 ttle boy smd " M lt, _ fo ‘.?l
crows’ •’ The pbiloM»b< r correebd
the youth bv saying: I h»»« • “
bttl- msati r. thatljh.ro u
ormciidre bad met hn match. Ibe ixrv
cfv „ •- bound so« tbs twy.
Devoted the Interests of Columbia Couity and the State of Georgia.
HARLEM. GEORGIA. TUESDAY. MARCH 7. 18S2.
TOPICS OP TBE DAT.
Ous is lagirlaluig against bucket
shops.
IxoiAXs has a Grwauback Stale ticket
w the field.
The Gold Water Party has been having
the bulge on thia country.
»
Das ths from soarUt fever m New Turk
City average about 100 a week.
Sxabcm for the Jeannette's msesmg
third boat has actively begun.
Tira preaenl prowpecta of the peaoh
rop in Southern Indiana are excellent.
Tn high waters earned off alxvnt
115,000 wertli of distillery oatQe at
Louisvilla.
CoxuREasMXN ere required to wnto
and not " stamp” their franks ou free
mail matter.
In umi <.J the weather and water,
- New Orleana, as usual, made Mardi-
Gras a sueerea.
About the only hope now ia, that the
heat of tho coming summer will not be
oppressive. loe will be a luxury.
Tn Directors of the New York, New
Haven and Harford Railroad refuse to
I allow religioua services on their road.
By a new fast mail services all pointe
• in Florida will be reached twenty-four to
thirty-six hours sooner than heretofore.
On February 17 the visible supply of
cotton in tho United States was 1,442,123
balee, against 1,156,000 bales same time
I last year.
Tint Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific
Bailroad Company has taken a moral fit
and now discharge all employes who are
Known to gamble.
IlLicKrxFr and other Indiana in
j Nortlisv.-st.-rn Territory are at it again,
I •'killing whiakv tradera and other
' Americans'* and committing other
depredations.
It is ,-stimated that the high waters
in tho Miasiasippi Valley has deprived
from 50,000 to 75,000 men of tho means
iof subsistence. Thia means destitution
to 200,000 souls.
Or EtuHTY-rotiß bills passed by tin,
Kentucky House, seventy-five of them
' have been to incorporate turnpike com
| paniea. Kentucky is determined to have
i rosfiectable highways.
Dr. Buss' bill for services rendered
l during the illness of Garfield has been
I cut down to one-fifth the amount he
i asked, which was $50,000. Il ho gets
a pretty good round sum.
-
Hcbbebt Spencer, the London Tile
(/raph says, is coming to America during
the present year, but he will refuse all
pro|aiaals to lecture. The object of his
visit is to see tho country and people.
Tnr.Mexican National Bank has opened
for Business, and already has largo sums
of money on depxit. The Mexican
Government has made a deposit toward
paying installments on the American
debt
The prospect for farming in the Mis
sissippi Valley the present season is very
sickly indeed. It is conjectured that
the wateis will not have receded suffi
cient for practical purjwees before the
middle of April
The editor of the Cincinnati A's'/wirer
created a sensation a few days ago by
coutnbu'iig 825<) in htrd cash tilths
Harnson revival meetings. The con
gregation thereupon united in prayer
for the salvation of that editor's soul
1 he death ot Soteldo. the Washington
ournalist, who was shot in the Republt
l an office, is add tional evidence that
I when an editor does try to be honest,
i tomebody com«e along and kills him.
I Editors Is-tter keep in the old rut and
i avoid trouble.
PREsmEVT Arm th has rented a cot
tage on Cedar avenue, Long Branch,
where he goes the coming summer. This
it announced long in advance so tliat
young ladies who are well matured will
know in time where they *<e goug to
.pend the hot months.
Theme seems to be no question now
as U dretitntten among the people of
hAstem Arkansas and Northern Lout*
L*na. although thmr poverty was dented
a abort Um* ago. Tbs appeal to Ckxi
tut atd » tuß- ieni guarantee that
they are m prouy bad shape
The Chtesgo Board eff Trade, after
•tU mauMS of the New Tort Proftaro
Bxahaage ia making war oa the bucket
shops. Ths Board of Trade quotations
are the basis ujxtn which the bucket
shops do business, and without them
their occupation will be gone.
Tn srohiteeture ot Oscar Wilde's
oalvro are said to be abeolntely monoto
nous and not a bit soulful in their ex
presmon Oecar oughtn't to button his
breert— so tight around the knee
Thatfe just about what it u that makes
hie lower extremetiee wear such a bonv
leak.
It is plain that Bradlaugh cannot ee
cure hu seat in the Britiah House ot
Commons He refused to swear when
bo would, and now that he wants to take
the oath, he can't, and the mem tiers of
that body have bounced him by an over
whelming vote. It seems thst nine
times it w " too late to mend." ,
To Now York Herald makes the
etatement that Mme. Nilaaou has cried
much over the insanity of her has
band that her eight has become greatly
impaired, and she is nowobliged to wear
glasses. Tliat the unfortunate man is
now dead, it u to be hoped that Christine
will look at the matter from a philosoph
ical standpoint.
♦
It seems that so far as Prof. Jackson
is himself concerned, the question Is not
yet settled as to what caused tho explo
sion in his laboratory at Cheater, Pa,,
by which seventeen persons were blown
to stoma. Ths business was that of
manufacturing sky rockets and such
tilings. It is rather strange what it was
that could have exploded.
A queer suit has just been decided in
New York. A boy of twelve picked up t»
revolver from an open drawer, and play
fully pointed it at a tutor, who gave him
lessons at his home. The pistol went
off, the tutor was not dangerously hurt,
but confined to his lied for a month.
The court held his father guilty of
negligence in leaving tho pistol around
louse, and a jury gave the plaintiff SSOO.
<!». Brady's paper, the Washington
Oiric, continues to defend the Star
Bcuti) Hing, in face of the indictments
found against the members of that
clique. It says ; ** The manipulators of
this wholesale blackmailing scheme
stand out in their true colors as liars,
slanderers, and blood-suckers; to be
known henceforth by the whole world as
such, tliat they may be shunned and
avoided by honest men." Just so.
A man calling himself the second
Christ, at Fort Smith, Arkansas, an
nounced tliat he would walk across the
Arkansas River at a certain hour. When
the hour arnved an immense assemblage
ha.l collected to witness tho perform
ance, but the second Chriat came not,
and there was great disappointment
among tho people—not that they ex
pected to see a miracle performed, but
they were allfired mad at being beaten
out of seeing a crank drowned.
That popular humorist, Mr. W. J.
Lamptou, whoso witticism* gave the
Hti-ulieuville Herald a national reputa
tion, has lieen called to the position ol
city editor of tho Louisville Courier-
Journal. Although the Courier-Journal
is widely knowu among those who write
their editorials with a pipr of sciaeora,
the addition of Mr. Ixunpton to the
holm will help the old ship out wonder
fully and she will come in with a liettor
cargo than ever. Boys, get your scissors
ready!
Great Ikslios move slowly, and that is
why the New York Board of Aldermen
only last week adopted resolutions tend
ering tho thanks of the city to Mr. Wil
ham H Vanderbilt for lus munificence
in defraying the entin' eoat of removing
the Alexandrian obelisk from Egypt to
its site in Central Park, a year or so ago.
The fact of the matter ia, the Board of
Aldermen wanted to see how they would
enjoy having such a thing around tiefore
they were willing to bubble over with
tSanks They hadn't forgotten it, of
course not
There u a theory that the destruction
of forests lessens the rainfall ami haa ■
tendency to prixinoe drouth. Tliat
theory haa stood without contradiction
since the beginning of tho drouth of
18H1 up until the present time. What
the Oiiv.rfwtes of that theory have to say
DOW haa not yet been announced. Per
haps the absence of forests also is pro
ductive of grant rainfalls . at all events,
the cutting away of forests helps to M
ceUraks the ruahrng of waters to their
terrainaa and that means inundation io
all eertiomi bordering their oooroe
Is rws Bntteh House of (locnau the
cAhet day Chaplin staled that all thsevi
<iaooe btfore the Royal <<<mnMsa*<«.
: tended to allow that lbs United States
had reached the acres of agnewllursj
pruspentv, and the worst, thervfers, had
I bees seen of fatrega are petition WsU.
that’s all Ohaplm known alrett it The
United States hasn’t fairly got started in
the agricultural business yet Twenty
five years from now wo will begin to
show England what we oan do in the
way of “hogs and homiuy” and as for
flour, we expect to be the world's
market
Tu Pans correspondent of the Now
Orleans JNeuyune tells the story of the
French financial panic in tho following
<-oncise words: “While the following
figures are deceptive, for the securities
will nee again and the mnjunty of the
shareholders are not speculators, and
have not sold, still these figure* servo to
show the enormous depreciation of faior-
Ito shares of speculation, and the con
sequent leases of speculator*. The
share* of th* Union General*! are worth
160,000,000 loss ill an they were ou the
10th of January; those of tho Hues
Canal *110,000,000 less than thoy were
worth on the 3d of January ; tho Tim
bale, *24,000,000; tho Public Funds,
*60,000,000. The total depreciation of
aecnrities of all aorta ou the Bourse since
the 3*l of Jahnary ia set down at *1,000,-
000,000 ; in other word*/ is equal to the
war indemnity paid Germany in 1871.”
Choosing a Profession.
A question which bacotnM more im
portant every year is that which concerns
the education of young men for the pro
fensiona. When it is finally solved, and
sot at rest, a great gtxxl will have l>ean
done to the public, aud many youths
will lie kept from feeling in their man
hood the heartburnings aud the sense of
failure in their lives from which so many
are now suffering. It is useless to dis
guise the fact that the dignity of manual
labor, guide*! by the intelligence of
special learning, is not generally be
lieved in. An excuse for this lock of
faith is drawn from the argument that
is mechanical trades arc so subdivided
now that a young man nfter learning one
branch rarely Is given the opportunity
to learn another, aud that, having but
little need to use hi* brain in hi* Work,
he usually liecomes a sort of animated
machine. But ia there a controlling
reason why a mechanic should thus lose
lib* power—asumuiiug, of courae, that he
lias started with a fair supply of intelli
gence and energy ? That there is not is
shown by th* tact that aome men with
no other opportunities than their fellows,
by using their eyes and wits, learn every
branch of their trades, and thereby pro
cure commanding positions. For in
stance in the pressroom of a uowapajwr
of tliis city there ia one man who not
only caul mansgu a complicated press,
bnt can take it apart and put it together,
and repair it if it gets out of order. Y’ut
he lias had no special advantages over
the men whom he directs as a foreman.
He has looked and learned, and ho is
now highly paid for tho trouble he took
to inform Inmm'lf, It seems wrong,
then, te> assert that an energetic, intelli
gent boy will have no chance to rise in a
trade The tiling to ascertain in the be
ginning is the trails for which he is nat
urally fitted. This is hard to ascertain,
and moat parents do nM make the at
tempt. They pnt their Ixjya into any
clerical position that is ojien to them, or
they decide long in advance that the
youths shall be clergymen, physicians, or
lawyers. In this way many men have
la-en put into profession* tor which they
have no aptitude, and so struggle ou and
fall. The que»tion which arises is :
Gould not this evil la* overcome by mak
ing it lea* easy to lieeome a professional
man * Would not many fathers and
mothers in moderate circumstances
jiaus*' and reflect if they know it would
cost much time and money to make doc
tors, or lawyers, or clergymen of their
sons ? Bnt, leaving this question one
side, is it right that any ordinary man
may obtain permission to practice uj»on
the public, health or the public rights
after nominally studying tuodicme or
law for two years? As a matter of fact
rtndenta tio not attend the medical or
law schools for half that period. Earn
est physicians and lawyers who love their
profeaiionK think profoundly upon thia
question, and are of tho opinion that not
only should the periods of study be
longer, but that no man should be ad
mitted to study unless he has hail a col
legiate education, or, lacking that, ia
able to jmss an examination ao as to
show that he has a good femulation for
special learning. Ignoramus** would
not then be ao common in the profes
sion* If only fit persona are given the
right of wav into the profession* the un
fit will find place* Ruited to them, for
food and poor jxrent* will l>e forced to
study the characteristics of their chil
dren before marking out careers for
them —A’. K Timet.
Osr Arasv from 1789 to 1861.
The following exhiliita the strength of
the regular army of tho United Htates
from 1789 to I*B6l. •* Axed by acta of
(*mgres*. The figure* are fixed for tire
aggregate of officers and men:
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NUMBER 11.
. ... e* .'.aa
HI MORN OF TUB DAT.
Sntoa the dear littlA gas meter: “ Meu
may come and men may go, but I go on
forever." .
If the good die yonng, how do you
account for the bsdil-beaded alitor*.—
Modem Aryo. ’ '
M*«r great singer* are accuaed of tak*
mg aomo slight stimulant, but few know,
how mnch it takes to prime a donuk.
M*«r bakaUula “lam”
Aud b4d II ud John** Mr. e
Brea um *h« heard him call th* ** maid,"
'Mungal other thiuga. " My daar”
CituRCH choirs seldom harmonise al tie
gethcr, and their debati-s often baritone
of contention which ia de-baas-sing.
Oh, it ia t reble I
We are told that the ancient Egrpt
ian» honored a cat when dead. Th*
ancient Egvptians knew when a cat was
most to be honored.
“There ia uo accounting for tastes."
Nonsense 1 What is the work ot a book
keeper in on eating how*' but account-,
ing for tastes?— Jloeton TraMcript.
•’rirßAcraE lias a female architect’’
Norristown hflsu't a female architect,
bnt she has more than one designing
woman.— Norritlown Herald.
A (Tiicaoo girl has* sued a man lot
*IO,OOO for hngging her twice. The
mau who wonld hug a girl only twice de
serves to l>c mulcted '■* heavy damages.
Norrietown Herald.
There are three proufinciu vhsare of a
young woman's life, all visibly con
nected . As a baby, »ho ia lugged ; As a
young woman, sh<i is hugged ; as a wife,
she is humbugged.
“Have yon over been whipped by
vour teacher before?" h” was asked by
his ]>a. Aud then the go*sl little Imy who
never told a lie said : “No sir," and as
ho went out ho finished tho sentence by
remarking "But I’vo been whipped be
hind.”
F.vnt.icT from a yonng lady’s letter :
"And, do you know, Maud aud I are
quite sure Captain Popple had taken too
much champagne at tho ball, for he took
out hi* watch and looked hard at tho
back of it and then muttered : ’ Blash
my shoul! I hadn't any idea it Was that
time o’ night.'"
“Your arguments are sound, my sou,
and delivered with force," said the
clergyman to hi* boy, who had been
banging at away at his drum for an hour
or more; “but we have heard quite
enough on that heed." The l»oy stop
ped at once, with the aid of hl* mother
and hired girl.
•'When I grow up I’ll be a man, won't
1?" askctl n little Austin boy ot his
mother. “ Ye*, my son, but if you want
to lie a man you must bo industrious at
school, aud learn how to behave your
self.” “ Why, mamma, do tho laxy boy*
tum out to be women when they grow
up?"
A Detroit girl ha* sued a man for
SI,OOO damage* for hugging her twice.
That ia too confounded high But we
sup)K>*<> while ho was about it he could
have huggi <1 her ten thousand time* and
it wouldn't bavo erst any more. Michi
gan mon always let up to quick.~ / J ecA'B
Sun.
A little rascal: A boy who hail
watching through the keyhole the srttid*
of n couple of lovers, ran down lato th*
kitchen to auuotinoe his discovery to his
mother. “Oh, it's such fun I" ho ex
claimed. “ What's snob fun?" gravely
asked tho obi laity. “ Why, to »**■ stater
Mollie and Mr. Fipp* play lunatic
asylum."— Brooklyn Mgle,
Natural history for little ones: Thia
ta a mule. Ho may look amiable, but
ho isn't. He differ" from th* condor of
the Andr*. The condor soars; the mul«
sour*. That sjieck on tho »ky vonder ta
tho man who attempted to climb the
mule's lotek by catching hold of hi* tail.
When h<> come* down he will tall you
that the l>est way to mount » mule is to
drop on him from the bmb of a tree.
Chieaao Tribune.
A Letter in Blood.
A bank-note I "-an ng a message writ
ten with blood wan |Mld into a tner
chaut’a office at Liverpisil, England,
oomeynra ago. The cashier,while hold
it upto tlic light to test its g*»ntrinene*s,
noticed aomo taint mark* uixm it, which
proved to bo word* acrawled in bkxsl
Is-tween the pnnUd line* aud upon the
blank margin of tho note. Extraordin
ary |nuii* were taken to decipher thrwe
alinoot obliterated characters, and the
following sentence was made out: “If
this note should fall into the han<ta of
John Dean, ot Long Hill, near Carlisle,
ho will learn hereby hi* brother ta lan
guishing a prisoner in Algiers.” Mr.
I)e*n was promptly communicated with,
anil he applied to the British Govern
ment for assistance to obtain hia brother’*
retaaM< from captivity. The prisoner,
who had traced Um* starve sentence upon
the note with a splinter of wood dipped
in hi* own bl And, hail lieen a slave to
tho Dey or Mohamtneiiau rulerof Algiers
for el- veil yearn, when hi* strange mis
sive first attracted attention in a Liver
rtool counting-boose. Hi* family azwl
fnetxta liaei long ta'lieved him deco. He
as* r> leased and Irrought hotnc to En
gland, where, however, he did not long
survive, hi* c'-ustltutiou having been ir
nqsMwidy injured by exposure, priva
rl.sw*, and forced labor in Uie De? •gal
ley*.
A Ten ii ***** man had a do* that b*
would gladly bav* sold tor fiftee-i cento.
And yet be paid *lO fin* tor walloping
* Under who licked th* dog, and aworw
if it wa* to hapfwn over baa do it again
Eaqctnn : " How can you feel sure
that when you eomu to d.<■. that yoM*tl
go to ta*aven"»" B* a taurtarw. They
] *ll seem to |«*se**thst leaking when tbay
1 earn* to b* bang.