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AFTER PIRATE GOLD.
Expedition in Search Of Treasure Buried
Along the Spanish Main.
from ne Key West Equator.

IRON ne Key West Equator.1
The schooner-yacht Maria, which came into port
last week from Old Providence, left Friday for the
same place and Jamaica. MIR. Peter I. knight
and Capt. John Roberts, Of this city, left in her.
1t is reported that the party In charge Of the yacht
10 in search Of treasure trove, said to be buried
somewhere In Spanish Honduras. The vessel Is
fitted with implements for digging, blasting, &c. +,
and a thorough search win be made. Rumor also
says that q small steamer has left New York with
another party who are in the same chase.
A noted character, well NOW In the Bahamas
and in this place also, who is a on
money digging, came here In the Maria, and no
doubt was in her at Old Providence. II the reports
and these parties have gone In search of 1t from
that mans statements, then IL IS indeed O " wild
goose chase " Of the most gigantic kind.
About four years ago this man was in Kingston,
Jamaica, told a tale SIMILAR to the above, and got
the merchants and other men worked up to a high
pitch OF e~xcitemeut-so much so thatthey fitted out
an expedition and went in search OF the treasure.
He stated he was afraid that while he was at work
getting the treasure-which he described as being
immense lots Of gold coin, gold candles',oks.
churches from time to time, and q large lot OF dia-
mouds, jewelry, &C. the Spaniards would attack
him and his party and the expedition would fail.
30 great was the excitement that an appeal was
ordered q gunboat to accompany the expedition.
They proceeded to the point named, and instead Of
finding prodigious caves, &C., as reported, they
found nothing but q low swamp. Reports further
angry that the lying informer was compelled to
jump overheard. The disappointed expedition re-
turned to jamaica, aud the language used towards
him was anything but complimentary.
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[From the Chicago Rsrdid.l

tFrom the Chicago Rerdfd.l
1t sometimes pays to be generous There are
plenty OF men who don't know this, but It is a fact.
Some time ago q Mr.. Perkins, who travels for Keith
Brothers, was out In Cheyenne on one of his trade
conquering tours. While there no was approached
by a man whom Perkins knew to have been at one
time o customer of the Keiths. "I'm on a big
drunk, " said the man, - and l wish you would loan
me 81 or s.. I'm only half full to-day and ] think
81 or S. would complete my happiness" Ordinarily
the astute travelling man would have told such an
applicant 10 go to grass, but on this occasion some-
thing moved Perkins to give tho man the money he
asked for. He did 80. and heard nothing Of the
bibuious tradesman for some months. The So he
had long ago charged up to pront and loss, when
one day q man walked into Keith Brothers. store.
He wanted to see Perkins. Nobody but Perkins
would do hin. 1t was the man from Cheyenne,
and he bought q bill OF goods running way up
towards IS, 900, a nice feather in Perkins, cap
Mr.. Keith was afraid Of the man, not knowing
much about Ais credit, but before he left the man
from Cheyenne pulled ont a certined check and
planked down me whole amount of his bill in good
cash. Then ne took Perkins out and bought him q
good dinner ant q diamond pin. and gave him So
10 boot. There is no very good moral in this story,
but there is not a little human nature.
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Seventy Years nm Editor.


Twas recently in the quaint old city OF Salem and,
desiring o little printing done, visited the once of
the Salem Gazette. On concluding my errand Fore
man Newhall politely asked me II l would step into
the editorial rooms and meet the a. Junior editor. "
/ declined, but could not refrain from surprisedly
inquiring:
"If that is your Junior editor how old might
your senior editor be ~
"oh, our Junior editor is quite young In the
newspaper business compared with our senior
editor, Mr.. CALEB Foote, " replied the foreman COM
placently. "Our Junior editor, Nathaniel A. Hor-
ton, came into the once only forty-two years ago.
Mr.. Foote began work as an apprentice on the
Gazette in 1871, AMI our Mr.. Thomas Cushing was
his Employer"
This lar exceeds the record OF Thurlow Weed,
who gained the soubriquet of "Nestor OF the
American Press" Nearly every journal in the
half II century," Yet his active editorial life only
covered the years between 1881, in Albany, and
1868, in New York, wnen he permanently withdrew
from editorial work. But Caleb Foote, who will
be eighty-nve years of age next February and who
Is as lively on mis- lie rs as q lad of twenty, has been
constantly in service upon this one paper since
1Sl7-upward OF seventy years-and an actual pro-
prietor and every-day-sure-enough editor since
1895, comprising sixty-three years Of continuous
editorial duty. Any man VINO can live through
that amount Of headaching, back-breaking grind Is
q hero, and there should be a bronze hust OF him
on every editorial desk throughout the land.
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BY THE BYE"
Ihom LiG.l

LFron Lis.l
"spark" Of genius-The ~courtship OF Shakes
peare.
1t takes a great deal Of pluck to get tho feathers
on O live goose.
Gen. Sheridan's friends want to run him for the
Presidency. A brave general never runs.
or Amhersts ninety-three Freshmen but seven
teen smoke tobacco. The rest smoke cigarettes.
Mr.. Lowell thinks the grassnoppahs next yeah
mar outnumbah the cattahpillahs BY q lahgah ma
jority than evan befoah.
Notwithstanding that the Post-Onice publishes
Ito - gross postal receipts, I" Anthony Comstock has
not yet IN to arrest II.
els your father q man OF sedentary habit p,
"Sedentsry? Well, / rather guess he Ii. He
sits on me every time he sees me I"
No, Henry, when ladies appear in demi-toilet It
does not mean that they are only half dressed. II
means that they have more clothes on than when
they are In full dress.
.'If should die, John, dear, ~ said o very sick
wife. " would you marry AGAIN."
:" Not muchl" he replied, with such pointed en-
phasis that the lady got well.
We do not credit the rumor that Anthony Com
stock Is about TO publish an expurgated edition of
Webster from which such sinful words az
''naked" and ''bare " shall be omitted.
citizen crushing in)-Here, / have a telegram for
Newark wish you'd rush 1t right through.
Operator-Well, II you're in a great hurry, I
guess you had better send 1t by mail We close In
citizen takes 1T to Newark in his poke.
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servance of certain rules of life and speech.
And it seems he had tried to make Lottie as
precise and particular as he was himself. but
II could not be done. She WAS too light
hearted, too gay and frolicksome, too prone
TO snap a chord from the first string that
came to her hand. And yet she was full Of
as woman can be.
Some time after, at q supper party at Park
er's, l met Spooling and his wife, the happi-
est and the gayest Of the happy ones.
n lady who sat at my side, began 70 tell the
story of how she had been thrown from her
carriage on one of the mountains In 6witzer-
land and she must have persisted but for the
accidental arrival OF ANOTHER party.
at the little mountain inn and we were q party
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stop, sir We are in company. Don't
tempt me further here; warn YOU"
accepted the warning.
After the supper was over u few of us were
standing in one of the deep ay-windows
when George Spooling joined us.
as sorrowful and oily as could be com
manded, " that m wife SO exposed herself
this evening. beg YOU will believe that she
possesses grand qualities, Notwithstanding
her unfortunate weakness"
Col. Lynde was of our numbers gray
haired veteran of a hundred pitched battles
on the contested held-a man standing six
feet in his stockings and built like q Her
cules-a man ordinarily as mild and gentle as
q child, but towering in his bursts Of right
eous indignation.
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CAUGHT In FULTON MARKET.
SKETCHES OF TWO OF NEW YOREs BEST
KNOWN FISH DEALERS.

Eugene O.. Biactford Starts in Life as a
ship Brokers' Clerk, but In limo BE-
comes n Fish Commissioner aud an Au-
thority on Pisciculturc-How DR." Pat
rick Murphy Got Ills Title.
Eugene G.. Blackboard, whose name is known
on two continents in connection with every
thing pertaining to the fishing industry, ia a
well-preserved man about fifty years of age,
andaman whom the world evidently hos treated
kindly. In the retail fish department of Full
ton Market he may be found almost any day
at about noon in the cosy Office in the centre
of his many stands, for he is one of the larg-
est fish dealers doing business there.
For almost fifteen years his name has been
conspicuous on the many showcases, mirrors
and stands which form the Blackford fish
colony, although for many years before he
served an apprenticeship with Middleton,
Carman Il Co., whose stalls adjoin his to-day.
When but fourteen years old Mr.. Blackford
was started in the ip-broking business in
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IRON The Kansas CITY Star.1
''Do ! believe In faith cure ~ meditated a physi-
clan last night, after being asked that question by
q reporter. Gwen, l don't know but that / do In
some degree. ] believe in thorough faith or even
superstition curing diseases. AS an example prov
ing that absolute faith sometimes does effect mar
vellous cure, l will tell you OF an intelligent lady in
New York City who cured q goitre In u most mar
vellOus manner. She once told me previous TO the
cure that she had heard and really believed that II
she could rub the hand OF q corpse across her
throat three times 1t would relieve her OF her DIS
said It was necessary TO perform the terrible ex-
pertinent without the knowledge OF q single human
beng. She afterwards told me that she had sue
ceeded In stepping into q room where a corpse was
lying, aud had actually been brave enough to rub
Its cold hand three times across her neck. She
said she had perfect faith In the efficacy OF the
treatment, and In two weeks thereafter the goitre
had entirely disappeared.
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Mr.. Spooling," said the Colonel, with o
marked well the whole course Of your pas
sage with your wife at the supper table, and
were / that wife's brother l should be
strongly tempted 10 horse whip you if you
did not make her the most complete and
the exact measurement of q certain Swiss
rock was twenty inches or twenty miles ?
The lady simply in the freedom and fitness
of her heart gave us her impressions IN the
occasion. The only salient fact in the whole
snapped her up with a needless and idiotic
correction, and then crushed her by giving
her the lie. She told you the truth, sir you
acted the brute outright tonight, and I fear
not to wager E1O0. 10 be given tothe poor Of
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E. ana nnally received n
bookkeeper's position with Middleton, Car
man q Co. 1t was partly through the efforts
of Mr.. Blackboard that an appropriation of
nearly 5000, 900 was obtained to rebuild the
Fulton Market, at that time in a state Of de-
In May, 1870, Mr.. Blackford was appointed
O member of the Fish Commission for the
State of New York, and of that body he is
still a member. He is President of the Bed
ford National Bank, OF Brooklyn. He is a
K short time ago q delegation from WASH
ington called on him for permission to sug-
gest his name for the United States Fisheries
Commission, but owing TO his many duties
At present he is identifying himself with
the oyster fisheries. As long as memory can
recall, refuse matter of all kinds has been
dumped into the oyster bays, Indifferent to
the plant and the consequences. OF late
years, it is said, scows and barges. instead of
following the laws regulating the dumping
of mud and garbage, have started from their
docks at or about shutdown, and when dark
ness enveloped them sufficiently to prevent
identity their loads were dropped, without
regard to location. II ID claimed that in
many instances the oyster beds were affected
thereby.
In regard to the frst-named matter, Mr..
Blackford has Joined with Oyster Protector
the Objectionable oil and gas companies with
such success that indictments for polluting
the waters of the bay have been foun In two
cases, of which detailed accounts have ap-
peared in The WORLD.
With reference to the second matter, Mr..
Blackford propose and Protector Mersereau
suggests in his last report that an amend
ment be made to the present law that will
make it criminal to dump refuse from scows
or barges in New York Harbor other than be-
/ tween the hours of sunrise and sunset, and
that any citizen who discovers q violation of
that law be given half of the fine imposed.
1t is believed that with such precautions
taken the oyster beds about New York will
flourish, the oysters will be healthier and the
people will be benefited in moro ways than
one.
Another prominent figure in the retail fish
department Is Dr." Patrick Murphy. For
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The BrOken.Heurted Father.
lF$om The Chicago 7ribune.l


We had just stopped one evening neap Hay
Springs, Neb. and were building q campfire when
we saw quite an old man coming along tho road
from towards the town. He was somewhat stopped
and walked slowly. He had a benevolent express
sion, but looked melancholy, as II in trouble.
When he came TO where we were he stopped and
talked with us some little time.
~ might "a been home before this, " he said
after q while, ''if I mad walked along as / gener-
ally do, but ! don't feel like it"
I" Are you sick? 2" ! asked.
"Oh, no, s'pose Pm well enough-its trouble
that ails me; my Oldest boy, bout sixteen, Is in jail
down at the Springs"
"Is that so9 Too bad. What is the charge
against him Z"
'"He was takn' q pair OF boots that were hangln'
front of a shoe store for a sign and a policeman
see him, - and the old man gaZed at the ground.
''1hat is sad, " ! replied alphabetically, every
sad. There can't be ANYTHING much harder to bear
than to have such O son."
Yes, Z" replied the old man sadly. eyes, it's
pretty rough at my age to have that kind of q boy.
There amt no excuse for IL, neither; ] told him
he'd got to be mighty keerful or they'd snatch him.
l reckon the next time / want q pair o. boots III
lift 'em myself And here 1t is right In co'n-shucktn-
time. too, and he won't be out o. Jail fora month,
mAhbV.
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Spooling cast his eyes around, and saw but
too plainly that he had no sympathy there.
OF course the remainder of the evening was
far from joyous TO him but / am able TO say
that the event proved q blessing to him.
He did mediate upon the speech Of the
Colonel, and when he foundt that others-All,
in fact, whose opinion vas worth having,
were equally emphatic in condemnation OF
his course-he concluded that II would be for
his interest to turn over q new leaf.
has si nSs t saess sys5Si1 r. Of x sss ~ SaP gSs,l Rsrs{ a Ss
not know what he has done at home; but Il
we might judge from the sunlight Always
upon Iottie's face, We should say no had
given up the evil habit Altogether-A habit
easy enough to fall into. but with eons9-
rQuOnoes hardtO overcome.
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Hi REBUKE.

IT is into evil that men fall SO easily, and
an evil habit was at the bottom of our pres
ent story.
1 had been told that our young. friend
spooling and his wife did not live as happily
as they might, but / could not credit it.
They had been married not two years yet,
and I had known them both from childhood.
had known Spooling for q smart, bright
faced, healthy boy, who was called the best
scholar In school. He was honorable to q
be kind.
l had known that he was very methodical
an alhe did. and that he was rigid In his OBJ
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doubling. If he were TO prove ST.. Peters
dome by his measuring-ta and find it half
do verify believe he would denounce the
whole trick as a fraud. = Now, don't stick to
that absurd measure of yours. Let it go as 1
told it. twenty feet, for | know and shall de-
clare that / fell twenty feet"
Then" said Spooling, with q red spot
on either cheek, for everybody was laugh
ing at him, you will declare what is not
true"
George! ~
IT say II, Lottie." -,
Say / would tell an untruthp ?"
IF you say you fell twenty feet on that
occasion upon the Swiss mountains, yesln
George Spooling, you are a brutel just
exactly o brutel !"
"Lottie"-
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of ladies on that trip altogether. Why. where
l fell was full twenty feet below the road-bed
and only the intervening trees and bushes and
tangled vines saved me from being crushed
to death"
Keep within bounds, Lottie. dear. You
do not mean twenty feet" corrected the hus-
band, with one of the very smoothest and
most p~atronizing of smiles.
" mean Just twenty feet, George. I call
II Just as II looked and appeared to me.
There was twenty feet Of calamity, at any
rate.n
But, my dear, you know we measured the
ledge or cliff and foundit TO be twelve feet
and -four inches. That Is not quite twenty, is
but still holding hard upon her good nature.
That husband Of mine beats Thomas at
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NEWS SUMMARY.
Another capine. crisis is imminent in France.

Another Cabinet crisis Is imminent in Franco.
The Baptist Union of London has accepted the
Rev. Mr. Spurgeon's resignation.
A Wabash train is deraiied near Coatesville, Ia,
and thirteen persons are injured.
Mr.. Lane, Nj. p. for Cork, has been sent to prison
for a month under the Crimes act
Russia's candidate for the Bulgarian throne is
Valvode Marke Milanon, Of Kucsi.
New York wins nine straight goals from the Sing
Sing polo players at the Harlem Rink.
Father Matthew Ryan Is released from the LINER
lex jail, and Is given q reception by 10, 900 people.
President Cleveland accepts an invitation 10 At
tend the next commencement at Cornell Uni
versity.
A school teacher and eight pupils in Neigh. Neb.,
are reported TO have persisted during the recent
blizzard.
The Minnesota Republicans organize a State
League and start q northwestern boom for the mag
netic statesman.
Justice Lamar takes the oath of once and his
place on the Supreme bench, where he ID welcomed
by his associates.
France and Italy are squabbling over an alleged
insult TO tue French Consul at Florence, and q good
deal Of loud talking Is INDUCED in.
Two young Baltimore swells quarrel over q popu-
lar belle and bring up In q police court with
bruised noses and dtscolored optics.
The Executive Council refuse to interfere in the
case of Nowiin, the boy murderer, Of Someryille,
Mass. and he will be hanged tomorrow.
The Italians who are looking for gore down In
Africa report that there are no Aoyssinlsns to DO
found. They have reconnoitred rs far AZ SaatL.
VhhJOhA " &" a. ~
flaming variety theatre posters and orders the
theatre license revoked and the pictures torn down.
The German Reichs!ag passes the Landwehr
clauses In the Military bill, which will increase The
army in time of war by nearly 100, 900 trained men.
A convoy OF Russian prisoners on their way TO
the Caucasus attack their guaros and twenty-one
escape. Ten soldiers and thirty prisoners are
killed
Graham and Burns, the socialisdc leaders OF the
Trafalgar square riots In London last November,
have been sentenced TO six months Imprisonment
without hard labor.
Encouraged by Actress Annie Summervllle's
good fortune In Chicago, Sister-in-law Stella Chap
man applies TO the courts for a dissolution OF her
bonds.
big double ripper sled containing nfty-two per.
sons comes into collision with another Aled whils
descending 4 hill in Kansas City and seventeen
persons are seriously. hurt
The American shipping and Industrial League, in
session at Washington, proposes TO encourage for
eign commerce by swing a bounty to every Amerl-
can vessel sailing 10 foreign portA-
Emperor Francis Joseph OF Austria has begun a
suit In O Chicago Court TO recover 80, 900 from q
former subject, who embezZled that amount from
the Imperial treasury and ned to this country IN
1887.
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EFORE The EVENING
WORLD reporter who
entered Nilsson Hall
last night had time to
SO much as take down
the collar of his ulster,
he was politely re-
ceived by Mr.. Louis
Baron, who, as Chair
man Of the Reception
Committee, babe him
welcome to the enter
tainment of the Jefer.
son Literary Associa.
ton.
The scene was as
pretty as it could we'll
be. The following de.
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street. His father before him, also Patrick
Murphy, was engaged in the same business
at the same place and was one of the most
popular men in the market.
Patrick, the son, earned the title of Dr."
in a peculiar manner. A big tank of cod
liver oil is stationed ut one corner of his
stand, and from here daily hundreds of bot
ties are filed. The business from an imma-
terial enterprise grew immensely, and at
length the f~ishmanbecame interested in cod
liver oil. Then when a marketman within
half q dozen blocks of the stand contracted IL
cold he hurried to MIR. Murphy's, tapped the
tank and went away healed.
Gradually the sobriquet of doctor =" at
tached to him and so clings to-day. To-day
it's 4" Dr." Murphy everywhere, and no one
referred to Us plain " Mr." Murphy.
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80
the Office of Asa w.
Weldon, in South
street, and for more
than three years was
thus employed. Then
he was made freight
clerk on the Hartford
steamers. and later
served with the Cam
den and Amboy Rail
road Company.
For two years he was
with A. T.. Stewart at
the Broadway and
Chambers street store,
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THE WORLD. THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 49, 1888.
tina. had been returned for some slight or fsnc,ed

that had been returned for some slignt or fancied
fault.
"You SEQ I destroyed that paperf Why 30 2
Because n that paper got around eome new Gus
toner's goods I'd have trouble In. fitting him ever
afterwards. ohi you needn't laugh; I've had
enough experience In that matter and know what
Pm talking about, ami don't care TO risk 1t.
/" Well, laugh all you want to, I" he said AZ a part
ing shot; I" just the same tia so, or at least, that's
my experience. Superstition or no superstition, l
destroyed the paper, and Ill do the same with all
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Iron The Indianapolis Senfnsi.J
Rather q singular and sudden death occurred at
Rushville a few days ago from the effects of over
exertion in q ballroom. William Fry tcolored)
was said 10 wear q corset tightly laced on such
occasions, and while dancing slipped ana fell once
or twice, causing internal Injuries which caused
his death in less than forty-eight hours. He was
buried yesterday.
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A Perfect Cure.

M.Asra, W. p. Riker d Son.
GENTLEMEN; For the last five or sir months I have
been suffering from q severe affection Of the chest, ac-
compauied by a most DISTRESSING COUGH. could find
one bottle Of your "RIKER's ExPEcToRAET." and that
has effected a PERFECT CURE, and ] feel like a new per-
son. i most highly commend your ExPEoroRASr TO all
affected with pulmonary trouble, and trust this may in
duce other sufferers TO try IL and BE CURED.
Iremain very truly yours,
MARoARET z. KELLY,
1877 Ross St., Brooklyn, N. Y. -
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Had sized Her Up.

tFTom Jud0s.l
Madame Is scolding her cook.
cit really seems impossible nowadays ito get de-
cent help
"Quil true; and II madame herself were a
servant she'd be discharged even quicker nor me-"
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N>B ~
thirty years he has
been identified with
the fish business both
in Fulton Market and
before the present
structure was built.
He is the third largest
dealer in the building.
Before occupying his
present quarters his
place was located in
the basement. Then
he rented stands run
ming the length of
what is now Fulton
Market, from South
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The story Of T Buccaneer of the Bay" as
tod by Police Captain 4. O. Smith, Commander
Of he Police Boat 'Pdtroi," ,ciu appear erclus-
iuely in The EVENING" WORLD tomorrow,
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TO-NIorrOM.

Police Capt Z. O. Smith, commander QJthe 20
lice boat Pdtro', has Furnished an ercitin0 storl
Jor THE EVENING WORLD tomorrow entitled -
Buccdneer or TIE Bay"