Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-10-11

a school of mackerel as we'll as menhaden.
When one is sighted, the listlessness Of the
crew gives away to animation. The pur-
seine, coiled On the after hatch, is hastily
thrown into the seine-boat, which has been
towing astern since the vessel left port.
Two dOries are let down, and in company
with the seine-boat, row out toward the
school, At the proper time the seine-boss
gives the word, the two dories take each
end of the seine, some two hundred and
fifty fathoms in length, and in three-minutes
enclose the school. Then the seine is "pass-
ed" and the schooner is signalled to come
alongside There are five hundred barrels
of large, fat mackerel in the "purse." The
method of transferring them to the vessel
is much like that practiced by the men
haden steamers. A large dip net, with long
handle, worked by tackling, is let down in
to the struggling mass and throws them on
the vessels deck, by the half-barrel. This
done, the operation of "dressing down"
begins by throwing the catch into square
trough twelve men of crew of fourteen
attack them with knives, deXterously open
them by a slit down the back, and clean
them at a stroke; they are then washed,
assorted into various grades according to
the size and fairness, and packed in barrels,
one barrel of Liverpool salt being required
work that forty-seven barrels have been
cleaned and packed in two hours and half.
Mean time two men have been overhauling
the seine, repairing it where q shark or
blue-fsh has made a rent and the men are
ready for another haul-perhaps to work
for hours without securing barrel.
MARGARET GAUNT's SECREr.-AbOut
six weeks ago Margaret Gaunt, an aged
recuse, about whose life a mystery was
said to hang, died in a small hut near Erie,
Pa, where she had lived for twenty years,
during which no man, woman or child ever
succeeded in learning who she was or where
she came from. A few hours before she
died she confded packet of papers to a
neighbor with instructions to give them to
+. c. Gaunt, who would come from England
for them in obedience to commands mailed
to him. Mr.. Gaunt arrived Friday, 18th
ultimo, and to his great surprise, found the
packet to contain documents that have
been wanting in his family for over a hun
dred and fifty years to prove certain claims
against the British crown. a note inform
ed him that his relative, the deceased, who
disappeared from England forty years ago,
and had long been considered dead, had
discovered the papers in an ancient piece OF
family furniture where they had been bur
lGu by the ueDrlS Ol cellCufy, anu Il!aI
to spite certain members of the family she
had concealed her great discovery. The Wo0-
man was the great-great-great-great grand
daughter of Mrs. Elizabeth Gaunt, burned
at the stake by sentence of Jetfries, the
English Judge, in the time of James ii.
Her offense was sheltering James Burton,
Il Rye House plot conspirator, and not with
standing that she fed and nursed a SICK tral-
tor in ignorance, King James resisted all
applications to save her from the flames, and
she was burned to death at Tyburn. She
was the last woman executed in England
for political offenses Her death was so in
famous that Macauley makes special men.
ton of it. William Penn, the founder OF
Pennsylvania, was present at her burning.
William III promised to recompense the
family for the judicial murder, but died
without doing so. The claim was revived
during the reign of Annie and George |,
but the absence of letters written by James,
Jeffries, William and others was fatal.
These letters are the identical ones dis
covered, and Gaunt believes he can recover
two million dollars from the crown. Inde-
pent of their litigant value the papers will
be priced by :rrclfroiugists. He left next
day for Europe.