Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-01-22
SEARCHERS FOR GOLD.
LEGENDS OF CAPTAIN KlDD'S COIN
ALONG SHARK RIVER.

When Captain William Kidd, the
doughty sea rover, was sent out from Plym-
Outh, England, to r+1 the sea of some of
the pirates which infested it, he and bis
crew came to the conclusion that it was
y. better to be the hunted than the hunters
| They probably arrived at this unique de
termination from observing the case with
which the fast flying schooners of the buc.
cancers evaded them and from catching
glimpses of the many golden doubloons in
the pockets Of the black browed, red hand
kerchefed gentry who cut Threats on the
high seas They chose between small pay
and hard fighting us sea police and un-
/ limited rum and fat merchantmen prizes
as sea robbers They turned pirates.
While the sun shone on the scene of
! Captain Kidd's deeds Of piratical valor he
! and bis crew made hay. He was popularity
| supposed to have buried treasure in sew
! eral hundred places along the Atlantic
| coast, though there has been only one
recorded find of the treasure, which was
| that of BelIomont, governor of the colony
on Gardeners island.
Money hill is small promontory jut-
ting out into Shark river No houses are
| near it, and the approaches to it by land
are guarded by tangled masses of briar re-
! enforced by thick growth of scrub oak
! Three miles to the eastward can be seen
the shingled roofs of Avon-by -the-Sea, and
Belmar, lying among the trees on either
| side OF Shark river inlet. So lonely is
Money hill that even the joyous owner of
clans to bake and the hilarious possessor
of bottled beer seldom invades its quiet
and the little cedars grow their blue Der
ries without danger from the grasping
white hand of the summer girl
But here is where the native of the pines,
the man who knoweth not the razor nor
grammar, nor the almighty dollar, held
high carnival with pick and shovel Liv-
ing in the sands, with only the huckleber
ries and pine cones for company, his soul
was filled with eagerness over the story
chat man had told his great grandfather
who had passed it down the generations
until it arrived to harrow the erstwhile
happy possessor of a small watermelon
patch and cornstaks that could be counted
WHAT ONE MAN SAW.
The stories say that men used to see, in
the days long ago, when the inlet was
broad, deep bay, a low black schooner
standing off and on at the mouth of the
inlet. AT nightfall she would run into the
river, but at day break she would disap-
~
home Mt night along a lonely path which
wound through the woods near Money
hill, was startled by seeing schooner ut
anchor few hundred yards from the
shore and "A boat full of men coming to.
ward the beach. The terror stricken young
ancestor OF some of the present families CT
the pines threw himself on the ground and
prayed very earnestly, for in those days no
ships would venture into the lonely inlet
at dead of night except pirates, he
thought, for they were the only ones sup
posed to Know the channel except the few
fishermen.
Hesaw dozen bead eyed and brawny men,
with heads covered with red caps, clam
Der from the boat. BY the aid of a feeble
glare from IA lantern some of them began
to dig Others handed huge boxes from
the boat, which appeared from their mo-
tions to be heavy. Fiat on the ground, the
shivering fisherman watched them as they
worked, with the dim light glimmering on
their siyered buckles on belt and shoe,
and making the red of their garments look
like blood.
He tried to crawl away noiselessly, for he |
was suffering from "A powerful trembling
that shook his frame, but, alas, the usual
twig snapped under him. As he glanced |
over his shoulder he saw twenty pairs Of
fierce dark eyes turned in his direction. He
gulped his heart back into it's place and |
bounded wildly down the path.
AS he afterward, gray haired and nfrm,
sat in the chimney corner, he told his |
grandchildren that there followed him |
curses in six different languages down the |
forest pathway.
STORIES OF THE SEEKERS.
Then came the time of the treasure find !
ers. Wild rlmors have swept over the |
pines at different times of certain fam |
lilies growing suddenly and mysteriously
wealthy. They were said to use very old .
fashioned coins in buying. The name of |
Captain Kidd became household word, |
and it was the universal belief that he had |
buried fabulous amounts on Money hill. +
Stories such us this flew and do still fly |
among the new timbers at barn raisings .
and around the smoked hams of the gro
Gerry stores They sound in the ears of the
sand FOUNDER and make him smile with |
blissful anticipation. 1t becomes his am
bition to dig and find treasure. Let his
wife dream of new dress with beads on
it, or of a whecbarrow with gold han
dies, and he bitches up his trousers, Shout.
ders his spade and sets out for Money hill. !
Let him see the new moon over his
shoulder (some prefer the right, some the
left), and he does likewise They have
tried divinine rods and all manner of un-
Cauny spells. They have generally chosen
the weird hour of winters midnight in
which TO Overturn the frozen earth on the
hill. Every truly ambitious resident of
the pines possesses a dream book and it is
startling to find how few times one can
dream without dreaming of something
that points to the sudden acquisition of
wealth according to the books. Some have
been known always to sleep with new POI
tatoes under their pillows. One man, they
claim regularly reUires to rest with an ear
full of pumpKin seeds. They believe that
by means of the potatoes and pumpkin
seeds they will one day be inspired and
will know at once where to 20 for the
coveted Spanish dollars and gems of the
famous kidd.-Cur. New York Tribune.
A Cure for Sea Sickness.
Sea sickness is simply brought about by
excess of bilean weakness of the stomach.
/ had crossed some fifteen or twenty times
from England to the Continent, and had
always been iudsposed Once, travelling
quickly from an out of the way part Of
Europe and having no opportunity or in.
cination to take food for some twenty
four hours arrived on board "A steamer at
Ostend leaving for England. then took
a small meal of bread, meat (coldD and
stout, and was, much to my surprise, for
the first time not troubled with the Slight
est indications Of nal de mer.
Since then have always on going on
voyage carried out the same plan, that is,
taken little or nothing to eat for about