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Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, 1873-05-08
Struck by q Whale.

When the New York apprentice ship
was in the Gulf Stream on its way
home from voyage, singular circum-
stance occurred to the vessel. The
position of the ship at the time was
latitude Sc degrees 10 minutes north,
longitude "a degrees II minutes west,
heading north, with fresh breeze from
the east northeast. About 10a o'clock
A. N several large whales, of the species
known rs fnbacks, were observed pass
ing toward the southwest, appearing
above the water to blow at regular
intervals. A few minutes later, while
several persons, including the captain,
were on the poop observing them, a
severe shock was felt, as though the
ship had struck bottom, and Immediate
ly an enormous whale passed the
port-auarter, the water about him being
red with his blood, and showing by his
furious movements that he had been
injured. The shock was felt by all on
board, and so distinctly that the ship
was hove to to ascertain if any injury
had been done. 1t was then discovered
that our cut-water had struck the whale,
carrying away the false stem from the
water line to the depth of about twelve
feet, and stripping the copper from
each side for some distance. The cop
per bolts, abont al inch in diameter,
which secured the false stem to the ves-
sci were bent double, and showed plain
ly how violent must have been the con-
tact. Whales are in general very shy,
and the circumstance can only be ac-
counted for on the supposition that the
animal was moving but slowly, and that
the ripples and constant agitation of
the water usual on the Gulf Stream
prevented it hearing our approach. The
animal that caused this damage was at
least fifty feet in length, with a proper
tionate girth, and when he threw up
his fukes as he sunk below they appear
to measure at least twenty-five or thirty
feet across. To Judge from the writhing
of the animal, he must have been
severely injured, but if the force with
which the ship struck him can be
Judged from the damage she sustained,
he must have subsequently died. The
ship was going at the rate of nine knots
an hour, and the force with which she
struck the monster must have been
fatal to him.
Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, 1873-05-08
Incidents Of the Atlantic.

During the voyage Of the Atlantic
there had been but twelve OF us at the
Captains table. The Captain sat at the
head Of the table, and the purser at
the foot. The twelve were Miss
Scrymser, Miss Barker, Miss Brodie,
Mr.. Sumner, Mr.. Kruger, Mr.. Merritt,
Mrs. Merritt, Mr.. Price, Mr.. Camacho,
and myself. Miss Merritt had been
sick during the voyage, and had remain
ed in her stateroom. On Monday she
was better, and had came out to dine
with us, making thirteen in all. Mr..
Price said, in half -iocular, half-serious
way, "I won't sit at this table there
is thirteen at it," A lady replied, smll-
ing, "We don't want you here" MIR.
Price moved to another table. OF the
thirteen at the Captains table, Capt.
Williams, Mr.. Brandt, and Mr.. Camacho
survive, and thirteen is the number OF
saloon passengers saved. :,
The most interesting couple in the cab
in were Mr.. and Mrs. Sheat, OF Nevade.
They wore jewelry to the value OF about
$50, 900. Mr.. Sheat talked OF nothing
less than millions, and poor, lamented
Kruger Of Exchange place, New York,
used to joke with Mr.. Sheat by talking
millions back. Mr.. and Mrs. Sheat and
their $4,000 worth of diamonds are
floating around in the cabin yet. Miss
Davidson, whose mother, oppressed by
some strange foreboding, had sewed IN
her daughters dress directions what tc
do in case OF her own death, was hap
py schoolgirl, who said she loved the
ocean, and seemed to consider the
boundless waste OF sea relief from the
pent-up boundaries Of ladies' board
ing-house. She said she was going tc
California, after stopping few daysIn
New York. On Sunday, her body lay
beside that of her mother on the rocks
at Meagher's Island.
Capt. Williams calmly told a reporter
that he felt he was ruined for life, ano
he expected that his certificate would
be revoked, but before God and in hit
own conscience he felt that he had done
nothing unworthy Of seaman. "Bu
I will not blame,them," he added, II
they take away my license. The loss
of life has been 80 terrible that IN ex
ample must be made. People seem K
think that I had gone to bed. I hac
lain down in the wheel-house, where
could touch the man at the wheel, ant
was within hailing Of the man at tn,
bridge. I had given orders to be aroused
at three, but was not aroused until th'
vessel struck on the rocks. 1t seems Z
me like terrible nightmare" he added
"from which I would fain awake"
The first 164 steerage passengers die
not average more than SIS to each, whel
rescued from the plunderers and search
ed under the eye of the magistrate, ant
from the 81 steerage passengers fishe'
up by the divers on Sunday, more thai
the whole amount taken from the l6
was obtained. This makes it eviden
the bodies washed ashore and picke'
up the day after the wreck must hav
been most ruthlessly plundered. Th
fishermen are not alone to blame. Ras
Gals belonging to the crew OF the Allan
tic helped. It was bad crew, ga
good" said Capt. Williams, "as crew
are nowadays"
Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, 1873-05-08

A Posr AND RAIL FENcE.-Set row
of posts about foot nearer together
than the length of your rails; then
spike on rail to the post, nsar the
ground, with forty-penny spikes, then
drive a stake outside the rail and bind
it to the post with No. 9 wire near
the top; then lay in your rails between
post and stake, end over end. The
height of rail from the ground will de-
pend on the kind of stock kept therein.
Five rails to the panel make a good
fence for so small amount of material
Posts may be sharpened and driven
down with heavy maui, in the spring
when the ground is soft.
Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, 1873-05-08
A Bosros GIRLS DEVOTION. - T.

A BosToN GIRLS DEVOTION. - The
following passage occurred in Mr..
Bartols Fast Day sermon at Boston :
"'I shall die of consumption said Q
beautiful daughter, in two years If
STAY in this climate. Does your father
know it? L would not have him
know it for the world, for it is for his
sake I do it, as he needs me in his old
age That was fast from life itseli
worthy of the name-the self-denial
and ioyful sacrifice that God loves. The
daughter died as she said. She once
sat in yonder seat. The old man out
lived her score of years, and has al
last Just gone, scattering charities be-
hind, showing that the unpretendine
James Savage was good man."
Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, 1873-05-08

suspicion that fell upon me and en-
bittered many years of my existence /;
but I shall never outlive my love for
Grace Hunter, or my remorse for that
nights woefulw work. I shall never out
live the knowledge that in the madness
caused by wine and an evil woman's en-
chantment, was the cause of my dar.
linp's death.
Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, 1873-05-08

In 1869 Great Britain possessed 26,-
367 mercantile vessels Italy, 1882
France, 1878; Germany, 5,7l0; Nor.
way, 6,833; Holland, 1885; Austro-
Hungary, 8, ia; Sweden, 1857; Greece,
5,512; Spain, 1,14 Russia, 2,64S
Denmark, 2,S53 and Turkey, 1900.
Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, 1873-05-08
VOL. III. NO. 81.
Together.

Within a garden shade,
A garden sweet and dim,
Two happy children played
Together; he was made
For God, and she for him.
Beyond the gardens shade,
In deserts drear and dim,
Two outcast children strayed
Together, he betrayed
By her, and she by him.
Together, girl and boy,
They wandered, ne'er apart;
Each wrought to each annoy,
Yet each knew never Joy
Save in the others heart.
By her so oft deceived,
Dy him so sore oppressed,
They each the other grieved;
Yet each Of each was best
Beloved, and still caressed.
And she was in his sight
Found fairest, sill his prize,
His constant chief delight;
She raised to him her eyes
That led her not Alright.
And ever by his side
A patient huntrer,s ran
Through forests dark and wide,
And still tho woman's pride
And glors was the Man.
Whan hor he would despise,
She kept him captive bound;
Forbidding her to rise,
BY many cords and ties,
She held him to the ground.
At length, in stature grown,
He stands erect and free;
Yet stands he not alone,
For his beloved would be
Like him she loveth wise, like him sh
loveth free.
So wins she her desire,
Yet stand they net apart;
For as she dot'n aspire
He grows, nor stands she higher
Than Ter Beloved's heart.
Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, 1873-05-08

The trial of Mrs. Anna Adair, for the
alleged poisoning of her husband, in
Lorraine, Ill.,, last January, resulted in
her acquittal, it being clearly proven
that Mr.. Adair committed suicide.
Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, 1873-05-08

The Bidwells and Macdonnel, now
under arrest in New York city, are now
positively declared to be theperpetrators
of the Bank of England forgeries.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1873-06-10

The Minneapolis Tribune thinks the
only objection to Nebraska is that there
are fully six weeks in midsummer wher
the sleighing is poor.
A young man who was caught strain
ing his sweetheart to his bosom the
other night, justifes himself in that be
has a right to strain his own honey.
A man who had his new hat exchan.
ged for an old one in barbar's shop
advertised that unless it was returned
he would forward to the wife of the
person who took it the letter found con.
cealed in the lining of the old one. The
hat was returned. [.e
Chicago has gone back to inquisition
days, and tortures her jurors into agree.
ment. At least, sheriff of that city
placed hand-organist at the door OF
the jury room, recently, with instruc.
tons to play on indefinitely No tongue
can tell what those jurors suffered, but
they didn't agree
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A Practical Test.

| A Danbury man named Reubens re
Gently saw statement that counting
one hundred when tempted to speak ar
angry word would savea man great
deal of trouble. This. statement SCUM.
ded little singular at first, but the
more he read it over the more favora
bly, he became impressed with it, and
finally concluded to adopt it. Next
door to Reubens lives a man who has
made five distinct attempts in the past
fortnight to secure dinner of green
peas by the lst of July, and every time
has been retarded by Reubens' hens -
The next morning after Reubens made
his resolution this man found his fifth
attempt to have miscarried Then he
called on Reubens. He said:
"What in thunder do YOU mean by
letting your hens tear up my gsrden p
Reubens was prompted to call him a
mudsnoot, new name just coming into
general use, but he remembered his res
olation, put down his rage, and meekly
observed: ,.-...-..-.-
''One, two, three, four, Ave six, seven,
| eight
Then the mad neighbor who had baen
eyeing this answer with great deal of
suspicion, broke in again:
"Why don't you answer my question,
you rascal ?"
But still Reubens maintained his
eduanimiity, and went on with the test.
mine, ten, eleven, twelve; thirteen,
fourteen, fifteen, sixteen"
The mad neighbor stared harder than
ever
Seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, tsen-
ty, twenty-one-'
'You are q mean skunk" said the
mad neighbor, backing toward the
fence.
Reubens' face flushed at this charge,
but he only said:
T"enty,two. twenty-three, twenty
four. twenty-five, twenty six"
At this figure the neighbor got np en
the fence in some haste, but suddenly
thinking of his peas, he opened his
mouth:
"You mean, low.ived rascal, for two
cents l could hn0ck your cracked head
over barn, and / would"
Twenty seven, twenty eight" inter
rupted Reubens, @twentv nine, thirty,
thirty one, thirty two, thirty three
Here tile neighhor broke for the
house,and entering it violently slammed
the door behind him; but Reubens did
not dare let up on the enumeration, and
so he stood out there alone in his own
yard, and kept on counting, while his
burning checks and flashing eyes eio
quently affirmed his judgement. When
he got up into the eighties his wife came
to the door in some alarm.
"Why, Reubens, man, what is the
matter with you?' she said. ado come
into the house"
But he didn't let up She came out
to him, and clung trembling to him, but
he only looked into her. eyes, and said
"Ninty three, ninety fur, ninety-fye,
ninety.seven, ninety-eight,
ninety-nine, one hundred-go into the
house, old woman, or I'll bust Sc"
And she vert Danbury Nears.
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drinking the syrup FIVE hours afterward.
It's perfectly clean and pure"
How is the white, transparent syrup

It's perfectly clean and pure"
/ How is the white, transparent syrup
made into sugar9
! This is simply done by taking the wa
! Ter out Of it. This is accomplished by
boiling it in an open vacuum. 1t would
boil like water in the open air and vola-
Utilize at 212o Fahrenheit. but remove
| the air pressure and it will boil at $50 Q
degrees Fahrenheit; $50 degrees never
burns it, and the sugar is white After
boiling the syrup down to a thick paste,
it is drawn off in pots shaped like the
old-fashioned sugar-loaf. These pots
hold five gallons and are open at the
large end. The small end has hole in
| it through which the water runs out ,leav-
ing the sugar to crystalize In q hard,
white ca such as used 10 be sold ID the
market. But now-a-davs the pure white
sugar loaves are sawed up into regular
shaped cubic pieces of sugar. The soil
ed sugar loaves, or those with yellow
streaks in them, are crushed into Jumps.
and the sawdust and leavings are made
into granulated and puIverized sugar
| Where does the yellow sugar come
fromp
The syrup which runs out when the
white sugar is crystalizing-the residue
is treated in the same manner as the
original Cuban sugar, when an inferior
sugar and an inferior syrup result. The
syrup grows more impure each time un-
til finally it cannot be crystalized. 1t is
sour and salty. The impure or brown
sugar is shoveled into centrifugal or re
volving machine, which revolves 1000
times per minute. This throws out the
water through 0trainer, leaving the su-
gar quite light and mealy.
Which is the cheapest to use-brown
sugar or white7 p / asked Of the chem.
ist,
"Why, white, sir. Brown sugar is sim.
ply pure sugar with dirt and water in it
The cheapest sugar to buy is white gran.
ulated sugar. 1t is simply 99t per cent
pure sugar, while brown sugar is only
about 10 per cent sugar, 20 per cent wa
ter,and 10 per cent dirt and salts. White
refined soft sugar is SO per cent sugar
/ know some old women brought up on
brown sugar still stick to brown sugar,
and call it sweeter than white sugar, but
they simply dupe themselves. If you
want brown sugar you can take pound
Of white sugar, pour in some water, a
handful of sewer dirt, lime or salt, and
you'll have two pounds of it."
How many kinds of crude sugar are
there?
Three-cane sugar, milk sugar and
fruit sugar. Cane sugar is found in su-
gar cane, Indian corn stalks, sorghum,
beets, melons, sweet potatoes,cocoanuts,
chestnuts, palm trees, birch trees and su-
gar maple. Cane sugar is three times as
sweet as milk or fruit sugar. Syrup con-
tains good deal of fruit sugar, genera
ted by fermentation, etc. Therefore,
syrup is not so sweet as pure sugar dis.
solved in water. Beet sugar smells bad.
ly, and sorghum has too much acidity.
They both contain salt,to remove which
is very expensive. They are things of
the past when sugar-cane can be had
reasonable and in sufficient quantities
In Europe brown sugar is not used;
white is considered cheaper and better.
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NUMBER Is
sew Eseinpiions.
fAthans Msssengat.l

,r, e ~. -
inS, 1enoency, on tue part OF the law.
makers IL steadily toward mitigation OF
the poorer classes. The time Is within
the recoliection OF many readerss when
lmpris9ngent Tor debt was ugidly en-
.oloeu iii~ousof ana '"hea TINS was ab0t-
lsllea grea. step was taken 10 the di-
rec'loh oi numanity soon aiter: ~
pursuance oI Inc same policy the Leg
ara ', h. .on.;. Uog"n - ie,less % .ae Leeuy ueM'
erty - sftar an np.,ass s f. so0 s.I,o'e ~ psop-
onion Rv ON 90. nassad @ az All u',s' is ,o1o 90
tho list i attn fnrtbor [ arIssaad I, .,,y ~
addition ~ nronartn a. s,. ~ suS
who has a family. sand eyery WIDOW widow
which Is exempt, as foIlows:
3 Aii wearing appASsI Iseeeauasy.
beds and bedding stoves and pipe nep-
essary for cooking and warming to-
geIher with fuel fors60 days
2: One COW, or, household furniture.
to the value OF $50 two swine or pork
thereof, or furniture and cloth there.
ltom, or lutnlture 70 value OF 6lo, with
'oOo TOT ahimais TOT oo days.
. Bibles, hymn books, school.books,
aha iamlly pictures ss'.1A
ts1s'slons ,s 70 amount OF SoU. ana
no1sssao no ns sso anu A''Onen furniture TO val
.. one sewing macnine one Knitting
machine toois ana implements necessa-
~ 70 cary w on tle debtors trade, not to
eAceeo oioo Ia value.
g. Personal earnings or the debtor
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Sense and Nurse,1ss;

/ ncn hoy can carry everything at
one load he will not 60 twice after IT.
This was the case with boy who was
working his way through Elm street,
the other day, with, twenty bean poles
on his shoulder. Now one bean pole Is
about all an ordinary mortal can safely
carry. and nobody but a hoy would un.
dertake to carry twenty OF them. He
had tied them together at the middle,
leaving the ends loose, and had thought
on starting, without doubt, that he was
boy of remarkable promise. Bean
poles are naturally uneasy. When they
can't move one way they will another;
but they will move and in spite OF all
precautions, These did BE had them
on bis shoulder at first, but some OF
them got to dropping down behind5 and
striking egainst people, and Others fell
down In front, and stuck into the side.
walk and made him stumble, Then
again some of them,lay horizontally.
Not but that they preferred to drop as
the others did. but laying horizontally
willie the others were il opposite posi-.
tioEs, gave pleasing variety to thp
performance. When the boy stoppeG
as he was frequently obliged totdo, some
one in the rear would step on the p9lts
or in among them, and swear at him
Finally he turned around to see whab
the matter was, and knocked out The
face Of q clock a man was carrying in
his arms This so excited him that he
dropped the poles entirely 5. The ownes
of the clock cuffed him over the head;
and then took down his fathers name,
and swore he would have damages =.
The unfortunate youth next took tie
awful things up in his arms, but they
wouldn't lay sill. They kept together
at the middle, but were demoralixed at
the ends, and whirled about SO rapidly
as to scare him Hsalooked like wind
mill, and presented such an awful spccs
tacie that people precipitately took to
the street, and several, horses attempted
to climb up into their wagons. He had
to drop the load again or be shot down
in his tracks by. the infuriated drivers.
Finally he made two bundles OF item,
and took one nnder each arm. Some
OF the ends commenced to tangle with
the opposites, and get in front of bis
eyes, and shut out his vision. Others
dropped down in front and behind, and
one of those which went down ia front
caught so firmly in the walk as 10 CON-
pletelv upset the unhappy youth, aud be
c1me down on bis back-having turned
a complete somersault.+ with poles IN.
der hum, and over him. and on all sides
OF him, while just back Of where be vent
down, ood a woman picking the
wrecks of bonnet out OF her hair, and;
looking in the pilo for the largest pole,
was midde-aged man with cut. nose
and a rnptured shirt front The boy
Iamped up and fed = DaAbdry Ne,es.
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TERMS OF ADVERTISING:

1fwelve liAes, or less, will be charged as
enc square. g Z tS 4
GAll legal advertisements will be charged
BY the line, and must be paid in advance Of
publication.
O. Notices of the appointments Of Ad-. q
- ministrator's and Executors; also .EA
81 Attachment Notices aud Road nett =
~ oes, two dollars and fifty cents, in -
~ advance. 81,
~ Advertising done at published rates
and payment required in advance, in all
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1873-06-10

There is something the matter With
the boy who has not handful Of iliied
fish worms in his pocket
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Thrice unhappy he who, born to see
things as they might be, is schooled by
circumstances to see them as people say
they are-to read God in a prose trans
lation. -Lo,ceH
God is glorifed, not by. our groans.
but by our thanksgiving; and all coed
thohght and good action claim nata-
raj alliance with gecd cEeer AFkippls.
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The following lines are copied from !
sign affixed .tc post at the corner OF
two miserable muddy roads in High.
land county:
This road is not passabls,
Not sven Jackass-able;
When this way you do travel,
Pray bring your own gravel.
Colored serenaders down IN Georgis
waib,e this:
De last time dat saw my love. ~
She was standing in de door,
With her shoes and stockings in her hand,
And her feet all over de floor. ,.,,f st
A newly developed industry ID, The
manufacture of nose pinchers, made af,
ter the pattern of patent clothes. pins,
but very highly fiuished They are de.
signed for young people who are keep.
ing COMPANY with each other, aud viii
probably have quite run through tie
young onion season
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10000 GIFTS, $5Oo,e 0o.

On TUESDAY, JULY sth, 1879 the 1hav
Grand Gift Concert, under tho nanases
of Ex-Governor Thos f. Bramlette, and -
thorized by special act of the Legislasess,
for the benefit of the Public Library Of ksa-
lucky, positively and unequivocally cs.s
off in Public Library Hall, at Louisville, N.Y.
when 10000 Gifts, all cash, amountins =
$500, 900, will be distributed by lot anoes
the ticket-holders. The money to pay ah
these gifts in full is already in hank and -
aside for that purpose, as the following Ger
tificate shows: g. q IS
OFFICE OF FARMERS AND DRoyERs' BAsk,
Louisville. KY, April J, laa
This is to certify. that there il in the lsxs
ers and Drovers' Bank, to the credit Q!
Third Grand Gift Concert for the benent g !.
the Public Library of Ky., Ese Assssl ~
Thousand Dollars, which has been set ~
by the Managers to pay the gifts IN full,
will be held by the bank and paid ous e
this purpose, and this purpose only.
(Slgned( r. S. vEECH, CashE. 9
Only q few tickets remain unsold, and MI
will be furnished to the first applicant :,
the following prices: " hole tickets, Wv
halves. IS; quarters, &c so; II whs1ss f0a
500; Sc for $500; ll3 for $1,000, and SIS 70
$4,000. For tickets and full information, p
ply to THOS. Z. BRAMLETTE, &.
mlo-lm Louisville,. ~.
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WAR BUDGET.

The st. Martin war is over. The
rebels disbanded, their leaders have
been arrested and will be tried before
u. s. Commissioner Shannon for their
misconduct, the State troops have re-
turned to New Orleans, and "all is
quiet ON the Potomac"
A detachment Of Metropolitan cav
airy stopped at Thibodaux, on their
way from st. Martin to New Orleans,
to install the parish officers holding
commissions from Gov. Kellogg. The
result of their visit has not yet reached
us.
Now where is the next trouble to
BET Hurry up, Messrs. Fusionists,
and kick up your little wars right
away if you intend to do SO at oil, for
we are anxious to see this weak rebel
lion squashed as soon as possible in
order that the State Government may
set about accomplishing reforms which
will tend to revive the old-time pros
perity Of unfortunate Louisiana.