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VOL. V-NO. 17.
NEWS GLEANINGS.
Chattanooga, Tenn., pays her Mayor
but SSOO per year.
A bill introduced in the Georgia Leg
islature makes betting On elections a
misdemeanor.
The Alabajna penitentiary contains
522 convicts. Os these sixty-seven are
white*, and 455 colored.
A total of $3,372 40 has been collect
ed toward erecting a monument to Sen
ator Ben Hill, of Georgia.
The Little Rock Gazette says the
acreage of wheat sown in Arkansas this
fall is larger than ever before.
Alabama has over 3,000,000 acres of
Government land subject to entry un
derhomestead and pre-emption laws.
Richmond, Va., has fifty factories,
representing a capital of $4,000,000-
Their sales for 1881 aggregated $11,250,"
000.
The debt of Memphis is four and a
half millions, and the Avalanche says it
i« increasing at the rate of $270,000 per
year.
A Southern paper estimates that at
least ICO cotton gins have burned this
season. Many of the fires were incen
diary.
The general local option petition
which is to be presented to the Georgia
Legislature in a few days is 300 feet in
length.
A bill has been introduced in the
Georgia Legislature to require all the
qualified voters in the State to register
before voting
A bill introduced in the Alabama
Legislature provides that the study of
the laws of health be introduced into
the public schools,
The North Carolina peanut crop will
this year reach 140,000 bushels. The
nuts are of better quality than any
grown during the past five years.
Fifty-one women from N ortheast
Georgia left Atlanta a day or two ago
for homes and husbau ds in Utah, hav
faftb^ 11 conver^<d to the Mormon
The dam across the Chattahoochee
river, at Columbus, Ga , is nearly com
pleted. It i 8 the largest in the South,
and contains about 200,000 feet of solid
masonry,
Georgia has more illiterates than an
other State in the Union. North Caro
hna is second on the list, Alabama third,
irginia fourth, Tennessee fifth and
Mississippi sixth.
Virginia will soon have the largest
iron furnace in the United States. The
Victoria furnace, in Rockbridge coun
ty, now nearly ready to put in blast,
will daily produce 200 tons of iron.
Geological examination reveals in the
delta of the Mississippi, along a space
of 300 miles, ten distinct forests of bu
iie trees. Bald cypresses with a diam-
f * r nd Os twent y-fi™ feet have been
g , w Te *‘ W ‘ Raker and wife have
Markh w Husf ’ P ro P rietor of the
dam a™, H ° U ! e ’ Atlanta > f °r SIO,OOO
a ges for injuries sustained by Mrs.
* ker by being bitten by rats while a
g 8t of the hotel last summer.
in ° f tbe g ‘ rls era ploy ed
lishm aBhTlUe manufacturing estab -
.Ofkln ° hAbit * QBU lting
dark * g " ' lhelr way home atter
and w i pr ? bablht y that the Cotton
tnrance f’ Cn MUtUal Man usurers’ In
tron will °“ pan J’ a Northern institu
take ltS borde - a <> a « to
■tills. utlp in cotton and woolen
ble qnarte^sVhe 111411 = m ° Bt
season are? Cr ° Pß ° f Texas so r this
of cotton at 1 - 400 >000 bales
corn. Texas Wo °’ floo bushels of
li «tofSouthern°stat tandß 6rßt ° n the
*>»”«'“ lhc r r
•"d'w.ke'"’' 1 '"”* Ml,t ’ Franklin
’holesale killb" 1 ? u N ‘ Over tbe
formers. p hp * of ho K® blonging to the
have been nni a e^e that the hogs
ln the interest* ,>V tram P peddlers
B carcel v twentv TT™ P° rk P ackers ’
t’o counties ’ " e h ° gs are left in the
'“Muroijg, of <«mp«rance are
* h 'Ore»‘. fI", de " »' Um. of
l-de„ f X Wl ' i,tej
P " >h *>« altogether,
ffiljc Pulton Bratts.
while others ask that the license be fix
ed at $5,000, SIO,OOO, and even $20,-
000 per year.
Atlanta has a candidate for Mayor
who proposes, if elected, to gradually
reduce taxation until, at the end of fif
teen years, the city government can be
run without one cent of cost to her cit
izens. The scheme proposed by the can
didate is pronounced feasible by many
prominent citizens of that place.
John Milton and another colored man
named Long entered a Vicksburg (Miss)
saloon, and a wager being agreed upon
between them as to thei r relative capac
ity far storing away whiskey, a drink
ing tournament was begun, the bill to
be settled by the one who drank the
least. Milion succeeded in drinking
five pints. His funeral occured the
next evening.
The Hern Industry.
Ifom< of our bumble friends with
four feet could give expression to their
thoughts, they would perha s accuse
nmu of bcin<* a terribly rapacious ani
mal. Not on.y, they might say, does ho
ea. our I'esh, but he even utilr.es our
skin in various ways, and the very
horns of our heads are cut and shaped
and polished and pieced together, until
they assume a hundred shapes which
native never intended the. should take.
V. hat a shockingly selfish ad grasping
creature this man, as he calls himself,
must be! It may be urged that if our
four-footed brethern could speak, they
night not have these or any o. her
thoughts to communicate. This, how
ever, is a frivolous and superficial ob
jection, for does not the power of
speech necessarily involve the ability
to th nk? But even if this is not so—
and in our present mood we are not
concerned to dispute the point—it is at
least certain that if animals could think
and speak, the reflections we have put
into rheir mouths would be very natural
and appropriate and from their point
of Few, even reasonable.
l ime was when, from this point of
observat'on, we were much greater sin
ners than we are now. In former days,
and not so long since, either, the horn
industry was of considerable importance
in this country. There are, indeed,
plenty of people who are by no means
willing to con ess themselves old, who
remember when this material was used
for a multitude of purposes for which
g ass and various metals are now em
ployed. We ate apt to think with pity
o. our forefathers, who used it for their
lamps, and lanterns, and windows; but I
it is as well to remember, on the o'her
hand, that it possessed several recom
mendations, by no means to be despised.
Ti ne, it was not so transparent as could
have been wished, nor in those earlier
days was it turned out of hand so artis
tically as it has been by the skill of
m< re iecent times. But then it required
a good deal of breaking, and so cur an
cestors were spared some of the irrita
tions which we unfortunate mortals
ha ve to endure. In other directions the
substitution of glass for horn has more
to he said in its favor. The modern
tumbler, for example, is a dstinet im
provement upon the drinking-horn
wh ch it has supplanted.
At the present time —to come to sober
facts—horn is used lor the most part in
the mann a' ture of combs, knife-han
dle', and mouth-pieces of pipes, al
though it is employed also, to a limited
extent, for fancy articles. It is still
utilized, too, for the hunting horn, but
the orchestial instruments denominated
“horns, ’ are now made of brass.
Strange to say, one of the be-t kinds of
horn or artistic purposes is tint for
which we are indebted to th l ' come y
and graceful rhinoceros, and it is so be
cause it is solid in-tea 1 of being hollow,
as met other horns a e. >t is worth
not ng, too. that although the breeder
has done much to im; rove the ‘ esh of
domesticated an inals, it does not ap
pear that any improvement has been
s perin bleed either in the size or tex
ture of the horns. It is suggested, in
deed, that th 3 horns of wild rnimals
are more permanent than those of the
domestca'ed races.
Locked His Pocket-Book Out Doors.
There is a man in this city who is
considerably given to speculation: goes
out into the country and I uvs a few
car-loads of potatoes or anything else
that he thinks he can turn to advantage
The othe • day he gathered tog ther
every cash dollar he had, and i on owed
all the spare cash that a merchant friend
o! his had. the whole aggregating quite
a large sum of money, with a view to a
speculative trip with plenty. That
night he was verv careful to -ee that
all the doorsand windows in the house
were secuiely fastened. When he arose
in the morning he threw un the window
to see if the milk-man had got around,
when, much to his h >rror, his eye lit
upon his pocket-book in the grass near
the garden walk. The first idea was
that it had been stolen, rifted and
thrown there, He rushed down stairs,
and much to his joy found the pocket-
I ook all safe, with contents intact. It
seems that he had stepped into th gar
den the previous evening to get a plant,
and in stooping the wallet slinpt d from
his pocket.— Portland (If ’.) /'/•< > .
—Several Chattanooga (Tenn.) youths
filled a large can with water, sealed it
up tightly, and then, after placing it
over a hot fire, stood by to see it burst.
Willie Dugger was so badly scalded
when the explosion occurred that he
would lose his eyesight and probably his
life.
DALTON, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1882.
TOPICS OF THE DAT.
It is gently whispered that Mrs.
Langtry drinks beer regularly.
Six thousand petitions, bearing 679,000
signatures, in favor of a Sunday closing
bill for England, have already been
presented to Parliament.
A San Francisco club has been or
ganized which has as its aim the nomi
nation of Robert T. Lincoln for the
Presidency of the United States in 1884.
During the past twelve months Amer
ican newspapers have been received by
mail in England at the rate of more
than 28,000 a day, or 10,000,000 a year.
The death is announced from the
western coast of Africa of King Omora.
He leaves 700 widows. Os his ninety
five children seventy-seven are still alive.
His oldest son has 400 wives.
During the Egyptian war a column of
leaded telegraphic messages cost the
London newspapers from SI,OOO to
$1,250, Seven shillings and two pence
(about $1.80) per word was the r*'
charged.
Emile Zola wrote to the Connecticut
parents who had named their boy after
him, advising that he be made a man of
science, rather than trained for “the
career of literature, where there is noth
ing to reap but bitterness and disap
pointment.”
It is thought at Washington that the
Mississippi River Committee will report
favorably upon the jetty system, and in
substantial opposition to the experimen
tal system of improvements now being
conducted at such vast eost between
Cairo and New Orleans.
According to Supervising Inspector
Dumont’s report, in the year 1851 there
were 39,000,000 passengers carried in
steamboats with a loss of 700 lives—an'av
erage of one life lost for every 55,700 per
sons carried. In the last fiscal year
there were 354,000,000 persons car
ried and 205 lives lost—an average of
only one to every 1,727,000.
A letter from St. Petersburg of re
cent date states that Russia is unable to
compete in the European markets with
wheat grown in the United States. It
costs much more to grow wheat in Rus
sia than in this country, and the average
product per acre is only one-third in the
former of what it is in the latter. Lead
ing merchants consider America lue
granary of the world.
Senator David Davis lives in a verit
able palace, in the center of a hand
some aud spacious park, just outside the
city limits of Bloomington, Illinois.
From the lofty turret that surmounts his
mansion he can view fertile fields that
are all his own, extending almost to the
horizon, to the north and east. It is
reported his contemplated wedding has
been postponed until next spring, at the
request of his affianced.
Harriet Beecher Stowe is very
proud of her achievements as an orange
grower at her charming winter home of
Mandarin, in Florida, about twenty miles
south of Jacksonville. Her grove, which
was set out when she established herself
there not long after the war, numbers
something over one hundred trees, and
from seventy-five of them she now reaps
an income of $1,500 a year.
Thurlow Weed's autobiography,
though left incomplete by him, will be
published. The Albany Argus reports
his grandson, Thurlow Weed Barnes,
as saying: “The editorship of the work
will probably devolve upon me. The
manuscript of the first volume is com
plete, but the rest is fragmentary. My
grandfather seemed to think he had
plenty of time, and though we urged
him to finish the work, he did not has
ten it.”
Canada has adopted the system of
competitive examinations of candidates
for admission into the civil service. It
is now charged that *he protectionist
Ministry has hit upon an ingenius
method of ascertaining the political
views of candidates for government po
sitions and rejecting or admitting appli
cants accordingly. In some recent ex
amination papers the apparently harm
less question was asked: “Who was
Richard Cobden?” If the candidate in
reply shows any enthusiasm for Cobden
as a free trader he doesn’t get an ap
pointment.
Mme. Nmsaojr-RouiBATO received a
few days ago, in Baltimore, a large en
velope bearing the Paris postmark of
November 6, and the address, “Madame
Christine Nilsson, New York,” to which
some post-office employe added, “North
America.” Without postage or further
directions it had come from Fans to
New York, to Boston, and finally to
Baltimore. It was found to contain an
invitation to the wedding, in Paris,
October 20, of the Marquis Ferdinand
Guell de Bourbon, Secretarv to the
Spanish Embassador In Eans, to Senorita
Maria Josefa Alfonso y Guell.
The matrimonial insurance swindlers
will find it difficult to continue their op
erations through the mails hereafter.
Registered letters or money orders will
not be forwarded by the Post-office De
partment to these concerns, a list of
them having been prepared bv inspect
ors detailed for the purpose. The great
est number are located in Tennessee
and Mississippi, where it is said they
continue to operate in spite of the expo
sures which have already been made
concerning their fraudulent character.
Under the watchful supervision of the
postal authorities, however, their days
will soon be numbered,
A method of preventing pitting in
smallpox is given in the Gazette des
Hopitaux. A mask is made of very plia
ble linen cloth, leaving apertures for the
eves, nose and mouth, and the inside of
this is smeared with a liniment prepared
in either of the three following ways :
One of these contists of carbolic acid,
rour to ten parts, forty parts olive oil and
sixty parts prepared chalk; another,
five parts carbolic acid, and forty parts
each of olive oil and pure starch ; and a
third, two parts thymol, forty of linseed
oil and sixty of chalk in powder. The
mask should be renewed every twelve
hours, and compresses impregnated with
one of these mixtures may also be placed
on the hands, and on any parts of the
face which the mask does not directly
touch.
Salmi Morse is actively engaged in
the preparation and rehearsal of the
Passion Play at New York City, which
he proposes to put upon the boards
within the next sixty days. Whether or
not this second attempt to introduce this
performance to the public will be suc
cessful, is a question concerning which
varied opinions are expressed. Mr.
Morse seems to be backed by ample
capital. He recently purchased a build
ing in New York, and is expending sev
eral thousand dollars in remodeling and
furnishing it in a manner appropriate
to the solemnity of the play. His
purpose, as expressed in an interview a
few days ago, is not to make money, but
to present in a striking and affecting
manner the suffering and crucifixion of
Christ. He claims that the play will be
the direct means of familiarizing the
masses with religion and the teachings
of the Savior who would otherwise re
main in total ignorance. The estimated
cost of the production is $1,500 per
. night. The number of performers will
exceed three hundred, all amateurs. No
professional actors will be allowed to
take part in the play.
Mr. Travers and Two Confidence den.
Mr. William R. Travers tells the fol
lowing story on himself, and vouches for
its being a new and true one: As he was
leaving his office on Thursday last a
well-dressed man approached him and,
greeting him very cordially, said:
“How do you do, sir? lam very glad
to see you. When did you arrive in the
city?”
“E—er—e—ex—c-c-c-cuse me—me,
sir,” said Mr. Travers. “You—you have
evidently mis—mis—mistaken me for
s-s-s-s-somebody else.”
“ Are you not Mr. Andrews, of Pough
keepsie?” queried the man.
“ N-n-no, sir: my name is Tr-Tr-Trav
ers,” he replied, whereupon the man.
with many apologies, made off.
Mr. Travers quietly walked up Broad
way, looking in the shop windows, as is
his habit, when he was suddenly stopped
by a man, who, rushing up to him, of
fered his iiand and said: “How do you
do, Mr. Travers? 1 am so glad to see
you! I heard you were in town and
have been looking out for you every
where.”
“■ Pa-pa-par-nardon me, sir,” said Mr.
Travers, blandly. “My name is not
Ter-Ter Travers; I I-I am Mr. An-An-
An- Andrews, from Pok-Pok-Poughkeep
sie. ’ '—N. World.
—The art of shorthand is, it appears,
to be superseded by one of the queerest
inventions on record. The revolution
is to be effected bj r means of a machine
called a “glossograph,” consisting of
six levers, forming a sort of cage, each
communicating with a tracing pencil.
The use to be made of the “glosso
graph” is rather curious. While the
orator or lecturer is holding forth, the
reporter is to repeat the words of the
speaker with his tongue in the cage.
Thus the quickest conversation, some
Ixnidon journals tell us, may be taken
down with ease. The ludicrous aspect
which this new invention assumes may
be an obstacle to its adoption.— N. Y.
Sun.
—“ No one shall kiss his or her chil
dren on the Sabbath or fasting days,”
was an old Connecticut blue law. Here
in we see the origin of going Sunday
night to kiss the grown up children of
other neople. H ••‘ton (110/'e.
—There is a law among the Omaha
' Indians rc'ating to widows that is more
; tmrible than the inquisition of ancient
| tines, with all its diaoolieal tortmos
Among the < mmh.t.s. wi lows must wad (
i (our years before remarrying.
Did the Comet Give the Suu a Black
Eye ?
Happening to look at the sun one day
last week through a pair of those very
dark spectacles which are used in the
manipulation of the electric light, the
reporter saw a distinct black speck on
its disk.
“ That must be a very large sun spot,”
he thought, and immediately betook
himself to the observatory of his friend
the astronomer.
‘■ Yes,” said the astronomer, “that’s
a truly remarkable spot. It’s the black
eve that the great comet gave the ruler
of the solar system! At least there is a
theory which says so, and, as the sun
has shown black eyes before after
great comets have been engaged with
him at close quarters, perhaps the the
ory is not so very far out of the way.”
“Do you mean that the comet hit the
sun?”
“No, not exactly that, for if it had it
would have been the end vs comet.
But it undoubtedly passed through the
atmosphere of the sun, and if it had
gone much closer would have touched
what appears to us as the sun’s actual
surface. You know that one of the dis
coveries of recent years is that meteors
follow in the tracks of comets. The
tremendous spot that adorned the sun’s
face after the perihelion of the comet of
1843 has been ascribed to the fall into
the sun of a huge meteor following the
comet, and the present sect, or rather
spots -for there at e several which made
their appearance about the time of the
perihelion of our great comet—may
nave had a s mil ar origin. There is
ano!her view that can be taken of it.
It has been shown that a comet going
very close to the sun is liable to be torn
to pieces by the divellent for es oper
ating on it. The present <oniet. you
know, has a divided nucleus; in fact, it
has probably thrown off several
cometary masses of considerable
magnitude, and the work of dis
integration appears to be still
going on. Now, it may have parted
with a portion of its mass when it was
nearest the sun, and the fall of this may
have produced the spots. There is yet
another way of looking at it which does
not involve the fall of anything upon
the sun, and that is this; the exceeding
ly close approach of the comet may by
itself have caused tlie spots. It is true
no comet has ever shown that it pos
sessed mass enough to effect by its at
traction the motion of any planet near
which it passed, but the gaseous surface
of the sun is in a condition far different
from that of the solid globes which
revolve around it. At any rate, the
greater spot which you now see on the
face of the sun, and some of the smaller
ones too, undoubtedly made their ap
pearance when the comet was at its
perihelion; and moreover, they ap
peared on that sde of the sun which
was then turned toward the comet.
“So you see there is really some
reason for saying that the comet gave
the sun a black eye. In return for this
pugilistic salute, however, if all the ob
servations are to be trusted, the King of
Day reduced the comet’s head to frag
ments.”— N. Y.
How a Troubadour was Tricked.
Some <>f the most celebrated singers
in Arabia sing only for ladies, and will
notperform unless they are aware that
their efforts are not being merely thrown
away on mankind. Os course, Moslem
women can never be present, but they
can and do throng adjacent terraces,
courts and windows. An amusing trick
was oacc played on one of these artists
who was never known to exeit himself
for males only. Whenever he was in
vited oat all the neighboring posts of
vantage were quickly occupied, and if
he perceived that there were ladies
among his outside hearers he always
surpassed himself. On the day in
question, however, it was raining, and
every one was obliged to stay indoors
instead of spreading the guest carpets
in the court. The tenor was obstinately
silent, and evidently very sulky. At
length one of his friends, who knew his
idiosynscrasy, went out of the room,
and, enveloping a broom handle with a
white veil and iz.ar, placed it in a neigh
boring window. Returningto the sing
er s side he jogged his elbow, and point
ed out to him that a beautiful woman
was watching him and waiting to hear
his voice. He brightened up at once
and sang for hours, with many a side
glance at the mysterious lady. When
the party broke up the inventor of the
trick brought in nis dummy and pre
sented it to the singer, saying, “Behold,
my uncle, the maiden to whom you
have been singing.” It may be im
agined that his mortification was for
long kept alive by the unmerciful mock
ery when the story got abroad.
Good Taste.
Good taste is sometimes as useful as
money ; indeed it has a pecuniary value
of its own. How often do we see a
cheap but tastefully planned and ar
ranged cottage exceeding in attractive
ness the spacious and costly but ill-con
trived dwellings 1 The difference be
two 'll taste and the want of it is strik
ingly manifested in the laying out of
groimds and the planting of trees and
shrubs. And it is also manifest in other
ways. One person always appears well
dn ssed ; another never. Yet the one who
is ill-dressed may pay his tailor twice as
much in the year as the other.
Ann praise wrongly directed, or sug
gested by selfish motives, is an injun
silly minds with ‘- V w Xst features of /
pecudly does thia.
TERMS; SI.OOA YEAR
WIT AYD JHBDOM.
—When you fret nJ fame at the pet
ty ills of life remembar that the wheels
which go round witlmut creaking last
longest.—jV. Y. Here.id.
—One of the best inles in conversa
tion is, never to say a thing which any
of the company can reasonably wish
had been left unsaid. --Swift.
—A cow at Pittston. N. Y., ate up a
section of a spring be 1 before her own
er noticed that she had a wiry appear
ance. Some men are so absent-minded,
you know. — Detroit Free Press.
—The verdict of ths Coroner’s jury at
Tunbridge Wells, o.i the death of a
child, was: •• The child was suffocated,
but there is no evidence to show that
the suffocation was before or after
death. ’’---MedicaZ and Surgical Reporter.
—A Mew York paper says: “Last
night Gustavus SehvVackheimer. a Ger
man, attempted to commit suicide.” etc.
The explanation that Gustavus is “a
German” was necessary. Readers
would have supposed that he was an
Irishman from Tipperary.— Norristown
Herald.
—We are told by a recipe book that
“eggs may be kept in good order for
six month;! by dipping them into warm
tallow, and after they are cool packing
them in saw dust; cover with sawdust
and make as nearly air-tight as possi
ble, and put away in a dry, cool place ”
This costs but little more than twice as
much as it would to throw away the
eggs you have and buy fresh ones when
you want ’em.— N. Y. Post.
—Nothing is ever lost by being pleas
ant and agreeable. You ask for two
pounds of steak—no more, no less. One
butcher growls that he can’t cut off just
two pounds, and you leave him, thor
oughly vexed. At the next stall, the
man of meat hears your request with
unruffled visage, cuts off a pound and a
half, slaps it into the scale and out
aga ; n in double-quick time, rolls it np
neatly, and says, with a sweet smile:
“Just two pounds, ma’am.” He is the
man who succeeds, Chicago Tribune.
“What is your business?” inquired
a city merchant of acountry youth with
whom he was playing an innocent game
of euchre. “Oh, I'm one of nature’s
humorists,” replied the verdant lad.
“I fail to catch on.” said the merchant,
unconsciously dropping into slang;
“what are you giving me?” “Just
what I said, boss,” responded the boy.
“Well, what do you mean by nature's
humorist?” “Why, I tickle the ground
with a hoe,” explained the young
granger, “and the earth smiles with
plenty.” The merchant passed, and the
youth made it spades.
Tiie Dead Horse I estival.
This amusing ceremony often taken
/dace on board of English ships sailing
to Australia. Ou jo ning a ship tho
sailors are a Ivanced a month’s wages,
w.th which they are supposed to have
bought a horse, which dies at the end
of four weeks.* A dummy steed is pre
pared in the forecastle, the body being
an old four barrel, the neck and head
of canvas, stuffed with straw and
painted. In place of a saddle, a hole is
nut through the body, large enough to
i.dmit the legs of the rider.
About half-past seven in the evening
a small pro.'ession, headed by a man
who carries a bato i, furnished with a
rude imitation of a human face, issues
from the forecastle. Following him is
h. sailor with long white whiskers, who
holds a can for penny contributions. He
is protected by a number of policemen,
armed with canvas clubs like those used
in pantomimes, with which they b»y
about them us freely as a New York
policeman, but with no other
than,eliciting shouts of laughter. The f
procession is closed by a number of ®
jailors who sing jolly sea songs during
the march. After the collection has
been taken up, the party returns to the
forecastle.
Shortly afterward a larger pro
cession issues from the forecastle,
with a number of comic characters
in addition to those just men
t.cned, among them the auctioneer, in
fr<. k coat and tall hat, with a roll of
pajers in his hands, and attended by a
clerk. Immediately after the auction
eer comes the horse, ridden, or rather
carried, by a sailor dressed as a jockey,
and led by a groom. The procession
parades about the deck, the rider mak
ing tbe horse prance in the most lively
and amusing manner.
The auctioneer then mounts a barrel
<n the quarter deck, and after a long
s,nd laughable harangue on the merits
of the horse, puts up the animal for sale.
Previous to all this the hat ha* b ,k eu
passed round among the passengers and
officers, and ten to fifteen pounds have
been collected for the benefit of the
sailors. The bidd ng is spirited and
amusing, and cease i when it roaches
the amount collected, which is then
handed to the sailors by one of the lady
‘ After^the auction, the leading charac
ters move off to the lee side, near the
mainsail, and a solemn dirge is chanted
about the poor animal dying suddenly,
each verse ending with “1 oor old
Horse!” The horse and rider are then
hoisted to the end of the mainyard over
the ship’s side, blue-lights are let off.
giving a ghastly aspect to the scene,
and at a given signal the rope is cut.
and the horse f
the rider suspended in the air, a
floats astern in the darkness. Ihe pr<>
X on S forms and marches »r«>und
the decT the sailors smgm? •
Britannia. _
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/ PtrrrrcK A Sim vfferff(l for
< r»ry niK-tionet'i*. { hiin ou two
of a auuuner house.