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VOLUME VIII.
Church Directory.
METHODIST.—-Douglasville—First, thi rd
Mid fifth Sundays.
Salt Springs—Second Sunday, ard Saturday
before.
Midway—Fourth Sunday, and Satnrdav !»»-.
tore. W. R. FIOTE, Pastor
Baptist—Douglasville, first and fourth Bun
days. Bev. A. B. Vaughn, pastor.
Masonic,
Douglasville Lodge, No. 289, F. A. M., meet a
on Saturday night before the first and third
Sundays in each month. J. B. Carter, W. M. (
W. J. Camp, Secy.
County Directory,
Ordinary— H. T. Cooper.
Clerk—S. N. Dorsett.
Sheriff—Henry Ward,
Deputy Sheriff—G. M. Souter.
Tax Receiver—E. H. Camp.
Tax Collector—W. A. Sayer.
Treasurer—Samuel Shannon,
Surveyor—John M. Huey.
Coroner—F. M. Mitchell.
SUI'ERIOS COURT.
Meets on third Mondays in January and Ju!)
*nd holds two weeks.
Judge—Hon. Sainson W. Harris.
SoL Genl.—Hon. Harry M. Beid.
Clerk—S. N. Dorsett.
Sheriff—Henry Ward.
COUNTY COURT.
Meets in quarterly session on fourth Mon
days in February, May, August and November
and holds until all the cases on the docket are
called. In monthly session it meets on fourth
Mondays in each month,
Judge—Hon. B. A. Massev.
Sol. Genl.—Hon. W. T. Bobarta.
Bailiff—D. W. Johns.
ordinart’s court
Meets for ordinary purposes on first Monday,
and for county purposes on first Tuesday in
each month.
Judge—Hon. H. T. Cooper.
JUSTICES COURTS.
730th Diet. G. M. meets first Thursday in each
month. J. L Feely, J. P., W. H. Cash, N. P.,
D. W. Johns and W. K. Hunt, L. 0.
736th Dist. G. M., meets second Saturday,
A. Il Bomar, J. P., B. A. Arnold, N. P., 8. 0.
Yeager, L. C.
784th Diat. G. M. meets fourth Saturday.
Franklin Carver, J. P.. 0. B. Baggett, N. i.,
J. C. James and M. 8. Gore, L. Os.
1259th Diet. G. M. meets third Saturday. T.
M. Kami!ton; J.P., M. L. Yates, N. P., 8. W.
Biggers, L.C., S. J. Jourdan, L. C.
1260th Diet., G. M. meets third Saturday. N.
W. Camp, J. P., W. 8. Hudson, N. P./j. A.
HUI, L. C.
12715 t Diet. G. M. meets first Satnrdav. C.
0. Clinton, J. P. Aiberry Hembree, N. P.,
1272ud Diet. G. M. mee*s fourth Friday.
Geo. W, Smith, J. P., C. J. Robinson, N. P.,
* , T*. C. »
1273rd Diet. G. M. meets third Friday. Them.
White, J. P., A. J. Bowen, N. P., W. J. Harbin,
L.C.
Professional Cards.
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ROBERT A. MASSEY.
ATTORNEY AT LAW
DOUGLASVILLE, GA.
(Office in front room, Dorsett's Building./
Will practice anywhere except in the County
Court of Douglass county.
W. A. JAMES,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
Will practice in all the courts, State an
Federal. Office on Court House Square,
DOUGLASVILLE, GA.
WM. L ROBERTS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
DOUGLASVILLE. GA.
Will practice in all the Courts. All lega
tmsineM will receive prompt attention. Ofiicv
la Court House.
C. T>. CAMP.
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
DOUGLASVILLE, GA.
Will prAct’cc* in alt the courts. All bxuinesf
tntruakul tv him will receive prompt attention.
B. G. GRIGGS, ~~
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
DOU 31. AS VILLE, GA.
Will practice in all the courts, State and
Federal.
JOHN mTeDGE”
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
Douglasville, ga.
W ill practice in all the courts, and promptly
attend to ail business entrusted to his oare.
i. i ja»es.
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
DOUGLASVILLE, GA.
Wdl praeUie lu Ute courts of Douglass,
Campbell. Carrell, Paulding. Cobb, Fulton and
•djeuiins counties. Prwuiui attention given
to ail busineaa
J. H. McLarty,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
. DOVGLASVUXK, GA.
Will practice in all the owta, both Slate and
Fed« >•< t u.-n» « ty,
JOHN V. EDGL
attorney at law.
DOUGLASVILLE, GA.
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CITY PILOTS.
People Who Make a Business
of Showing People Around.
Willing to Exhibit the Elephant, but Not
to Lead a Spree,
In European cities guides, who make
a business of taking strangers about to
see and experience things, are almost as
plenty as flies around a sugar hogshead
in summer. They haunt steamer
wharves, lurk about depots, infest ho
tels, and obtrude themselves at every
turn when one goes unattended on a hunt
for new experiences. Not only are the
real guides very frequently great rascals,
but their occupation is often falsely as
sumed, as a means of beguiling confi
dence and betraying to financial damage
Uy the most thorough-paced scoundrels.
Hence, European guides are viewed with
no little suspicion, and experienced
travellers are shy of them. Here in New
York the guide has been but little
known as a professional. A sightseer
from the West, a sensation-seeking
Briton, or a clergyman on a Taimagian
hunt for iniquity, could always get a pri
vate detective to bear him company and
give a certain measure of protection, but
the service so rendered was looked upon
as outside the regular line of duty, and
was expensive. Rather more expensive,
perhaps, was the readily tendered guid
ance of the well dressed and very affable
men who could always be found lounging
around first-class barrooms and hotel
corridors, waiting to show strangers the
way to “a private club of gentlemen,” as
an appropriate finish to an evening of
seeing the sights, or in daytime, to show
where they had “just won a prize in a
lottery.”
But the time has come when a regular
business is made of furnishing guides.
An up-town detective agency has made
a special feature of this sort of business.
Speaking of the new departure, the su
perintendent said:
“We have often, as detectives, been
called upon to conduct about the city
str,angers who were desirous of seeing the
sights—points of interest in the town
you know —and the growing frequency
of such requirements has led us to make
a feature of it in our business. We have
at present, regularly employed, seven
persons -two of whom are ladies—ad
mirably qualified for this service, andean
call upon others equally capable, as oc
casion requires. It might be supposed
that we would be mostly in demand to
steer sightseers to and through vicious
and disreputable places. Such, however,
is not the fact. There is really very lit
tle of that. Strangers want to see the
navy yard, High Bridge, the greatest ele
vation of the elevated road, the Central
Park, Grant’s tomb, the aristocratic res
idences, the view from the top of Field’s
building, Castle Garden, and a thousand
other things that they have heard or
read of, and are interested in, but of
which New Yorkers generally know lit
tle and care less for as curiosities. Then,
if they arc women, the strangers want to
go shopping to our finest and most fa
mous stores. And they want to go to
places of amusement, with our guides to
tell them what is worth going to see, and
what is proper and what is not, and
where they can find what they are look
ing (or.
“Fellows who are more or less round
ers at home want to see the metropolitan
elephant, and we enable them to do so,
guarding them as far as possible against
imposition or personal damage. But we
will not take anybody to a gambling
house, nor will we undertake to steer
any one through the lurid sinuosities of
a howling toot, with the accompanying
fights and other appropriate bric-a-brac
of that nature. Our guides are not al
lowed to take commissions from store
keepers on sales of goods to persons they
arc taking about, and will do their duty
faithfully and thoroughly as a matter of
business, at office rates, without any per
sonal presents. The price we charge for
a guide, male or female, is 40 to 50 cents
an hour for day work, $1 an hour for
night work before 12 o’clock, and $1.30
an hour after 12 o’clock. AU expenses
for transportation, meals, theatre tickets,
’Ac., are, of course, borne by the person
engaging the services of the guide. Our
guides art' required to dress in good style,
anti among them they speak fluently
seven different languages. We expect to
do a great deal with foreigners just as
soon as our business becomes known, as
it will be among them."—FtM-i Saa.
The annual appropriation fbrthe Queen
of England is £385.000, or about sl,-
933.000 From this sum all the cost of
the royal household is paid, which in
clude* the expenses and salaries of near
ly 1,000 omeem and servants. The
amount set aside for Queen Victoria’s
personal use, or privy purse, us it is
called, is £BO.OOO. er $300,000.
OTO TO ALL.
DOUGLASVILLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY JUNE 15. 18S6-
Charged by a Bison.
In William T. Hornaday’s “Two Years
in the Jungle,” the following thrilling
account of being charged by a bison is
given. “After along chase,” he says,
“we came up writh the bison, and saw
him standing about eighty yards off. I i
was armed with a .500 express rifle, and ‘
instantly fired, but unfortunately only
■wounded the animal. He dashed away.
With a party of Irulars (natives), I fol
lowed, and came upon him a mile farther
on. The instant he caught sight of me, j
he turned to charge, when I fired agaim
and he galloped madly off into the forest.
We followed down the side of the hill,
and I was looking about, trying to make
out where lie could have gone, when I
caught sight of his nose not two feet
from me. He had backed himself into a
dense mass of creepers, and was lying in
■wait for me. “In half a second, with a
snort like a steam-engine, he sent me fly- !
ing through the air. I fell on my back, j
and was immediately struck a blow on
my ribs that made them spring inward, ;
as the top of a hencoop would with a
heavy man sitting on it. I felt that my
last hour had come. He struck me I
I
with his head again and again, some- ;
times on my breast, back and sides, j
sometimes on my thighs, while again he i
only struck the ground in his blind fury, i
I felt that nothing could save me. He i
tried to turn me over with his nose, that .
he might pierce me with his horns, and i
getting one horn under my belt, he actu- ■
ally lifted me up bodily. Luckily it was j
an old belt, and the buckle snapped. I
siezed his horn and held on to it with all
my strength. In trying to shake himself
free, he took the whole of the skin off •
the under side of my right arm with his
horn. The whole of this time, no less '
than six Irulars—natives—had been calm- |
ly looking on, and I heard one of them say: !
“‘Dear me! the bison is killing the
gentleman!’
“Another said, ‘send for the sJiikaret
to shoot it.’
“The shikaree was two miles away
with, my tiffin basket! One of the
Irulars now uttered a most diabolical yell.
The bison threw up his head, then turned
Lail and dashed down the hili' The
next day I was carried into Coimbatore,
where I was confined to my bed for a
fortnight, my whole body being black
and blue. Nevertheless, that bison’s
head now adorns my dining-room.”
Vandcrb it and His Pictures.
Reference to the Vanderbilt pictures
recalls a good story of the dead mil
lionaire, who was more famous for good I
nature than caustic wit. One day when ■
his gallery was open to visitors, along '
came a man with a glib tongue, lots of
enthusiasm, and dirty hands. He posed
critically before picture after picture, and j
his soiled hands again and again came in
contact with the rjch frames and even the <
canvases. Mr. Vanderbilt looked on
askance; he did not like to say anything
harsh, yet he feared for his pictures.
Finally the visitor turned to Mr. Vander
bilt, who near by was conversing with
personal friends while he furtively
watchel the spotted hands and draped
finger nails.
“You have a wonderful gallery,” the
man ejaculated, “a wonderful gallery,
Sir; why, when I stooel before that pict
ure—” he pointed to a sad-faced Madon
na—“when I stood before that picture,
Sir, I was so touched that the tears came
rushing into my eyes like a flood—like a
flood, Sir; I wept so freely”—he went on
—“I wept so freely that I could have
washed my hands in my tears, Sir:
wash—”
“Why didn’t you?” said the million
aire calmly.
The talkative man glanced at himsell
in spots, subsided, and fled— New Yerk
Times. ________
The Wrong Brother.
A millionaire railroad king has s
brother who is quit-’ hard of hearing,
while he himself is known as having a
very prominent nose. Once he went to
New York and dined at a friend's'house,
where he sat between two young ladies.
The ladies talked to him very loudly and
rather to his annoyance; but he said
nothing. Finally one of them yelled a
commonplace remark at him, and then
said in an oniinary tone to the other;
“Did yo i ever see such a nose in
your life?”
“Pardon me, ladies,” said our million
aire, “it is my brother who is deaf.”
Free and Independent.
Mrs. Hendricks (the landlady)—Bles?
me, Clara, look out of the window and
see who is ringing so violently at the
door.
Clara—Why. ma, it’s Mr. Dumley.
Mrs. Hendricks (with a sigh of relief—
Thank gotainess, he has brought the
money to pay his back board or he
would never dare ring like that.—JYev
ftrt&k.
OIL ON ANGRY SEAS.
Using Oil to Lessen the Dan
gers of Navigation.
Successful Battling With Threatening
Waves in Heavy Gales.
The use of oil to lessen the dangerous
effects of heavy seas has been approved
by a few seamen while the majority ridi
cule the theory, says the New York Jifatl
and Express. A reporter who called at
the Hydrographic office recently received
data that would set the matter at rest.
One of the officers in discussing the ques
tion said:
“The evidence of the value of oil in
appeasing an angry sea increases daily,
and justifies the Hydrographic office in
obtaining all the facts on the subject.
Mineral oil is not recommended, while the
importance of carrying a supply of ani
mal or vegetable oil, to be used in an
emergency, cannot be overrated. Here
are some cases that will be of interest to
the shipping community. Capt. Hill, of
■ the bark Neptune, en route from Cien
fuegos to Boston, experienced a heavy
gale. The seas were tumbling over the
ship, endangering the sailors’ lives as well
as the ship and cargo. To try what
I effect oil would have on the seas the cap
i tain caused two hempen burlap bags made
i three feet long and ten inches wide and
; roped with ratline stuff, to be filled half
. full of oakum, and pqured two quarts cf
: pine or wood oil in each one. The bags
were hung from the catheads low enough
to be just a-wash. The effect was simply
, marvellous. Scarcely a drop of water
I came on board after putting the bags out.
■ The reef was shaken out and the vessel
< made two hundred and eighty miles in
■ twenty-four hours. This was on Janua
| ry 29, 1886, in latitude 50 degrees north,
. longitude 74 west. The bags were put
i out at 8 a. m. and kept out for sixteen
hours, in that time using about six quarts
i of oil. During the same voyage, on Feb
ruary 4, 1886, while in latitude 41 north,
longitude 68.25 west, a terrible gale from
the nort hcast caused the waters to sweep
the deck fore and aft, and it was freezing
Ki a great rate. The drip was lying to
under lower maintopsail. In this in
stance four bags were used, two forward
at each cathead and two aft at each
bumbkin. It had precisely the same
’ effect as in the previous case, and in my
i opinion the bark and all on board were
saved from total destruction by the use
of oil.
“Capt. William Peake, master of the
schooner J. F. Krantz, was making a
passage from Port Spain, Trinidad, to
Boston. When fifteen miles east of Cape
Hatteras he experienced a terrible gale
from the north-northeast. The sails were
blown away, men were washed away
from the pumps, boats and othej utensils
on the deck were totally wrecked by the
heavy seas. The captain used two com
mon wooden kegs filled with eight gal
lons of linseed oil. A small hole for a
vent was bored in the bottom and top of
the kegs, so as to permit the oil to grad
ually ooze out. The kegs were lashed to
the quarters of the vessel. The oil vent
was just large enough to allow not much
more than a drop at a time to ooze out.
The effect was all that could be desired.
Scarcely a drop of water came on board,
the men succeeded in pumping cut the
vessel and clearing the decks of the de
bris. The oil was used for sixteen hours
from 2 a. m. to 6 p. m., and in that time
about eight gallons, all told, were ex
pended. The same captain also reports
that during another voyage he was caught
in a hurricane. He got a common can
vas bag, made a small hole in the bottom,
filled the bag with oakum, and then
poured in a quantity of <f«nmon deck
varnish. The bag was suspended from
the martingale and allowed to just clear
the water. He ordered the bag to be
kept in position for twenty-four hours,
and used in that time about four gallons
of the varnish. From the position of the
bag the varnish had but very little time
to act on the combers before the seas
reached the bows; still it had a marked
effect on them so much so that the vessel
was no longer boarded by the heavy seas,
although they were running just as high.
The crew were able to return to the
pumps and other work without risk to
life or limb. There are many other cases
where the use of oil is credited with hav
ing saved vessels, but what I have told
you ought to be sufficient to satisfy the
most incredulous of its efficacy. We are
endeavoring to impress upon all seamen
the importance of its use and before long
those who ridiculed the idea will be in
duced to believe in it.”
The famous cedars of Lebanon arc
taken cxre of by the authorities. There
are 397 of them— twenty-two more than
in 1810, and 373 more than in 1573,
when they were counted by the German
botanist, Ramvolff.
Married with Rifle in Hand*
A Columbia (Texas) letter describes a
dramatic incident as follows: An excit
ing and dramatic incident occurred here
last evening. Sunday morning two men
rode into town. Their remarkable ap
pearance at once attracted the attention
of every one. They were covered with
mud and carried a perfect arsenal of
rifles, pistols and knives with them. One
was a man over sixty, with long, gray
hair, and blood in his eye; the other was
a man of thirty years, built like a giant
and wearing a terrible scowl- on his face.
They were father and son, William. Wof
ford and Sam Wofford, from the back
woods of Matagorda County. The old
man said he was looking for his “darter
Kate,” who had “lit out” with her cous
in, Bill Wofford'. YYsterday the father
and son located the runaway couple, who
were occupying a small fisherman’s tent
half a mile outside the town. When old
Wofford found out the location of his
erring “darter,” a large crowd of curious
men and boys followed the terrible-look
ing pair to the vicinity of the tent, as the
old man kept constantly examining his
gun and saying: “Sam, I’m go’en to
kill him suah!” As they neared the tens
the crowd fell back, while the old man
and his giant son approached with rifles
in hand. Suddenly the flap of the ten
was violently thrown open from the is
side, and there stood Bill and Kate, each
holding a terrible Winchester rifle—one
covering the old man, the other the son.
Old gray head and Sam glared like two
wild beasts on the brave lovers, and Bill
called out: “Do you s’pose I’m go’n to
give her up arter wc done tramped it
together all the way from the Colorado
to the Brazos? Not much; she mine’s,
and you may stan’ there now and see us
married.” The old man and Sam, undei,
cover of the suggestive Winchesters,
slowly moved back, all the time facing
the boy Bill and his Kate, who had the
drop on them. Meantime a courier had
gone to town for a license and a preach
er, and after nearly two hours, during
which time Bill and Kate never took
their eyes off of the old man and Sam,
and threatened to kill either should he
raise a hand, the preacher and the license
wived. )
During the ceremony the bridegroom
kept his rifle at a half-cock pointing tow
ards his father-in-law. The preacher
was so afraid they would open hostilities
while he was there that he could scarcely
finish the ceremony. After the marriage
the old man delivered a terrible curse on
both, said he would spare their lives now,’
provided they never set foot in Matagorda
County. “If you do,” said he, as he
shook his long, dirty, yellow locks and
violently struck his rifle with one hand,
“if you do, you're both on you dead
soon as you cross the line, for when I’m
gone Sam he’s there. You’ve got the
whole world before you, ’cept Matagorda
County. Now go!” With this philippic
the old man and son departed forlorn,
while Bill pulled down the flap of the
tent.
An Athlete on Exercise.
I was talking with George Hanlon yes
terday morning about the exercise such
athletes as he recommend for the ordina :
ry man to pursue in order to keep the
muscles properly developed. He said:
“I am down on gymnasiums for ordinary
purposes. They overdo the thing. Too
often they are presided over by men who
only care for the members’ subscription
and take but little heed as to his course
of exercise. Heavy weight lifting I
won’t tolerate. It is most pernicious in
its effects on the body, and improves one
set of muscles at the expense of another.
What I recommend is the plain, old-Lish
ioned rubber bands or tubes. Fasten
them to the wall, about breast high, and
then begin. There is no particular for
mula to go through. Motions will sug
gest themselves. /Another set of rubber
can be fastened lower down and the legs
exercised by them. I have peculiar no
tions, too, about bathing. I don't be
lieve in plunge or shower baths. I strip
in a comfortable room. Wet a towel,
wring it out thoroughly, and wipe the
surface of the entire body. Wet it again
but leave a little more moisture in it and
rub the body again. Once more, with
still more water on the towel, and then
rub off dry. Our family has found that
by all odds the best method.”— Chicago
News.
He was Competent to Speak*
Bagley—My dear, I think I will take
to the lecture field. There is a heap el
money to be made in the business.
Mrs. B. (scornfully)—lndeed! What
line will you take?
“I haven't determined. Something
about animals would take—birds, for in
stance.”
“Birds, by all means, Mr. Bagley.
Nighthawks, for instance, or o *ls—any
thing, Mr. Bagley, that turns night into
day as you do.”— PhUadalphia CalL
NUMBER 19.
CLIPPINGS FOR THE CURIOUS. •
In Antwerp, on Holy Innocent’s
the children are allowed to dress Hl*
men and women and run the house. ►
Scorpions, spiders and various insects
have been observed to lie motionless if at.
person blows upon them, in a vertierf
direction.
The weight of a molecule of camp&or
sensible to the smell has been compu&Ml
by Bordernave to weigh 1-2,262,
000th of a grain. ' ' i
The Mdngoon Pagoda is pne of ttcr
most interesting sights in Burmah. anil
in its unfinished state is the largest
mass of brickwork in the world...
The largest barn in the world 51?
probably that of the Union Cattle
pany of Cheyenne, near Omaha. ®
covers five acres, cost $125,000 and a©
commodates 3750 head of cattfe
... >
- No spot in Mexico is sacred fn»
smokers; in churches, on the jrailwsj
cars, on the streets, in the theatre*—
everywhere are to be seen men anrik
women of the elite—smoking.
Chinese children turn their backs <*
the teacher when they recite. TTjcre *
no catechising of childrens in Hass
Chinese schools; they simply leara ar
thing by heart and go up and repeat
with their faces turned from the bl«d&»
board and the teacher.
The armorial device ®f the ritjr
of Berne, Switzerland, is » Sxsa
(the name itself signifying bear), anti tht
animal is a favorite effigy thxoughoat
the city. In addition many living beasr
arc still kept and supported at public ex
pense, At the time of the French revo
lution the bears of Berne were carried a*
prisoners to Paris. ‘
The population of London now
ceeds every other city, ancient or iiiod-.
ern, in the world. New York and al*
its adjacent cities arc wt.
equal to two-thirds of it.
Switzerland and the. Australian colouiab
each contain fewer souls, while
Servia, Greece amd Denmark hare
scarcely half tto-many; Yet at the be- •
gining of the present century the popu
lation of all London did not reach 1,000,-
000. ' .
Beef is never seen at a Chinese
oxen and cows capable of working the
plow being accounted too valuable lo>
the farmer to be consigned to thebutdter.’
Very severe penalties are attached to Hat
slaughter of these animals. The punish
ment for -the first offense is a
strokes with a bamboo, and then tw»
months in the wooden collar. Should
love of beef or desire of gainiuducesi
rejjetition of the crime, a second judicial
flogging is followdd by exile for life
from the province.
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The Inventor of the Circular Sair.
In a lonely, secluded spot in the north
west corner of the cemetery, near the
ever-beautiful little village of Richmond,
Kalamazoo County, Mich, the reader caa
find on a pure while marble slab n ariy
concealed from view by a large cluster <d
lilac bushes, engraved the simple inscrip
tion, “Benjamin Cummings, born 1772,
dead A. D. 1843.”-j And who was Benja
min Cummings? He was the inventor off
the circular saw now in use in this coun
try and in Europe. Nearly sixty yen*
ago, at Bartonville, New York and Aras
terdam, this man hammered out, at hwa.
own blacksmith’s anvil, the first circtdae*
saw known to mankind. Ife was a noted' ■
-pioneer in Rlchpiond; a first cousin ta»
one of the Presidents of the United Statos
a slave owner in Now York State; a lead
ing Mason in the days of Morgan, afc*
whose table the very elect of the gxrsd.
State of New York feasted and
freely of his choice liquors and wines; a
yessel owner on the North River t»efore
the days of steamboats; a captain, in th**
war of 1812, where, after haring
three horses shot under him, with,
one stroke of his sword ♦he
brought his superior officer to the
ground for insult, and because he
was a traitor and a coward; ami after
having been court-martialed, iiNteud of
being shot, he was ap]x>intcd Colonel *
his place. In this lonely grave are the
ashes of the man who nearly 70 years agat,
at Albany, N. Y., took up and moved
bodily large brick buildings, and, to th*
wonder and astonishment of the woridb
constructed a mile and a half of ths Eri*
Canal through a bed of rock, and, vrih*
also built, on contract, those first low.
bridges over the same. He ateo aided ur
the construction of the first ten miles cf
railroad built in the United
founded both the villages of Eaprreucr
and Bostonviile on the Schoharie, near ,
Amsterdam. The study and aim of thfe
man’s fife appeared to be to do
which none other could accomplish, aotl
when the object sought wm secured h*
passed it as quietly by as he would H*
pebbles of the seashore.—
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