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The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-08-29
MONEY TO BURN.
They Burned 1t and Later Wished They
Had Kept the Fuel.

They Burned 1t and Later Wished Thoy
Had Kept the Fuel.
"When Burnside made his mud march
on to Fredericksburg, we men i'll the
advance had some gay times, remarked
a veteran of the civil war. at was a
long while before the Johnnies would
let us cross the river, but when we did
get across we made the fellows who had
been shooting at us for the past three
hours get right up and dust for safer
quarters. The infantry soon followed US
and took up their position along the
river toward Falmouth, while we Skin
mished through the town. When we
came to the Planters hotel, we just
walked in and took possession. Every
body had deserted the place and we did
just as we pleased. In going through
one of the rooms / came across three
bundles of Confederate notes. Each
bundle was labeled to contain S., 600,
and as I held them aloft shouted to
the rest of the men that we now had
money to burn. They laughed, and l
thrust the notes in my pocket. The
Johnnies had taken or destroyed every
thing to eat, and, as for liquor, there
wasn't any in the town.
"After satisfying ourselves that there
was nothing further to be had in the
Planters hotel we sailed forth and
walked up toward the home of the
mother of our country-George Wash
ington' s mother. We had had no break
fast yet, and now it was close on to
noon. One of my companions had some
coffee i'll his haversack, so thought we
might have little coffee if nothing
else. Well, we got the coffee out and
then discovered that we had no firewood.
There was some tall swearing just at
that time, for the Johnnies hadn't left
so much as a match behind them.
"'I've got it'll cried, and l hauled
out the three bundles of notes l had
found in the Planters hotel. My ex-
preston was greeted with shout by
my companions and-we had money to
burn. We soon had the fire going and
the coffee cooked. Need say to any
soldier that we enjoyed our coffee at
price which seems rather high-$15,-
900? We were soon through and marched
back into the town only to see our men
trying to buy some tobacco without
money. How strange it seemed They
had not cent, while we had money to
burn and burned it.
-Four years after l regretted having
had this money and burned it. While
in Washington in the winter of 1865 |
had the modification of seeing an ad-
vertisement for this identical package
of notes and offering 90 per cent on
their face value for their return. They
were Virginia state bank notes; hence
their value Whenever I hear that
man has money to burn 1 think of my
SIS, 1000 and shed a tear of regret that
burned it. New York Telegram
The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-08-29
MONEY MAKING IN TACOMA.
The City Of Destiny Once Coined Its own
Cash.

The City Of Destiny Once Coined Its Own
Cash.
Tacoma once had mint that coined
all Of the money in circulation where
the City Of Destiny now stands, and it
did not require the fiat of Uncle Sam,
the silver of Idaho or the gold of Cali
tornia to make the pieces from Tacoma's
mint pass current among the Indians
and the few hardy pioneers who were
blazing the path of civilization through
the forest on the shores of Commence
ment bay, says the Tacoma Ledger.
Back in the early seventies the Taco
ma Mill company, not being able to
handily secure gold and silver for use
in trading with and paying off the In
dian laborers and early settlers, hit
upon the novel plan of issuing its own
currency, and to this end set it's black
smith to work to fashion for it out
of scraps of iron and brass pieces of
money, or, rather, tokens, which could
be used as circulating medium. The
pieces consisted of 40 cent and 40 cent
iron tokens and brass 81 pieces. The 40
cent pieces were about an inch in diam
eter and the 40 cent pieces were about
the size Of the present silver half dollar.
The 81 pieces were oval in shape, about
IN inches long, an inch wide and a
sixteenth of an inch in thickness. These
pieces were stamped with the figures
showing their value, and readily passed
current all over the country tributary to
the mill. Nearly all of this old mill"
coin has passed away, but few days
ago William Hanson Of the Tacoma Mill
company presented set of these queer
coins to the Ferry museum. In his let
ter to the museum he said:
"The honesty Of the people and the
absence of any blacksmith shop save
that of the company made the use of
this money possible. !"
Oregon has long boasted that the
Beaver" coin, minted at Oregon City
in the early fifties, was the only money
minted in the northwest in the days of
the pioneer, but here in Tacoma, long
years after Oregon's Beaver" mint
had become historical incident, was
primitive mint that supplied the coin
to furnish the pioneers and Indians with
all of the necessities for their rough
lives. The coins, which are still pre-
served, are roughly made, just such as
any blacksmith with ordinary tools
might make, and as a matter of fact
during the early years of the mill COM
pany's existence formed practically the
local circulating medium Of exchange
When the Indians who were employed
in the mill were paid for their labor,
this coin sufficed, as all the trading
they did was with the little store run in
connection with the mill. The iron and
brass pieces were, of course, passed
among the Indians in trading with each
other, and as anything in the way of
supplies was purchased by them at the
mill store the pieces were fully as good
to them as if they had borne the stamp
Of the government
The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-08-29
An Acid Proof Glue.

The following has been recommended
as producing cement which will fas-
ten glass or porcelain, etc., together
firmly and viii not be affectedsby strong
acids: Mix together two parts of pow
dered asbestus, one part of bariu1n sui
phate and two parts Of sodium silicate of
specific gravity l50. A still fir1ner glue
can be made which is particularly valua-
BILE, since it is not attacked by hot acids,
by mixing together two parts, of sodium
silicate, one part Of the finest sand and
one part of finely pulverized, asbestus.
II potassium silicate is used instead OF
the sodium salt, the glue wall harden
Immediately, but otherwise it will re-
quire about an hour to set--Exchange
The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-08-29
Pope and Grub Street.

Among other pretty myths and ira
ditions," says Sir Walter Besant, Il
fear we shall have to give up that of
Grub street My friends, there never
was any Grub street. The ragged poets
did not take garrets in Grub street
That street is now called Milton street
Until quite recently there was little
square court opening out of Grub
street. in which it would have been a
pleasure to live at any time. Well, but
how did the legend arise? Pope invent
ed it. Pope delighted to heap scorn
upon the minor bards, and since moth
ing is easier than to put on an appear
ance and air of soorn he has been imi-
tated ever since. At the present day it
is the Distinguishing mark or sign of a
minor poet that he must assume an at
titude of scorn toward other minor poets
with as lofty a superiority as Pope him
self 4"
The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-08-29
FROM FOREIGN LANDS.
Interesting Topics That Engross the At
tention of Europe.

Interesting Topics That Engross the At
tention of Europe.
So sensational have been the accounts
published by the Partisan press con-
corning the Turin Orleans duel that the
II and 12-year-Old sons of two socially
prominent Parisians were moved there
by to do little dueling on their own
account. Having secured possession OF
couple of dueling rapiers, owned by the
father of one of them, they fell to fight
ing one another with quite as much
vigor as the two princes, although hey
had no quarrel and were solely possessed
by desire to win fame and notorlety
in the same manner as their seniors
The conflict terlE&lated far more Sc
riously than the ridiculous Turin-Or-
leans duel, for, whereas Prince Henri
has already entirely recovered from his
slight wound, one of the boys was run
through the shoulder while his own
rapier pierced his adversary's eye, de-
stroying its sight and narrowly avoid
ing penetration of the brain.
The Danube, like the Thames in
England and the Hudson here in New
York, is to have a tunnel beneath Its
bed. The Hungarian government has
just completed the necessary arrange
ments for the construction without de-
lay of a subway beneath the river at
Budapest on the same principle as that
of the new Blackwell tunnel under the
Thames in London. There IS to be
footpath for passengers and an electric
railroad. The upper way will be re-
served exclusively for vehicular traffic,
and ventilation is to be provided by
electricity.
DR.. Leyds. the Transvaal secretary %
The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-08-29

Every day some fresh source of food
supply is discovered, says The Stamp
Collector. Adhesive stamps have not
hitherto been regarded as nutritious.
The ostrich prefers gold watches for a
steady diet, and the travelling tinker's
donkey has reputation for consuming
any clean linen that may be handy.
A Hindoo paper, however, gives an
account of curious incident that oc-
CURED at the residency in remote dis
trict in Ceylon little while ago. Mr.
Pieris, the office assistant, placed on
his table some Judicial stamps to the
value of about 200 rupees. While his
attention was drawn to something else
his pet goat was slowly but surely max
ing meal of the stamps. This was not
discovered until the goat had swal-
lowed some 90 rupees worth Of stamps.
Immediately the goats life was de
manded as penalty, and the stamps,
afterward taken from its stomach, were
forwarded to the commissioner.
The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-08-29
THE SUBJECT WAS DROPPED.
Tilt at a Banquet Between Two Well
Known Men.

Tilt at a Banquet Between Two Well
Known Men.
"That reminds me, remarked an old
pioneer to San Francisco Post reporter,
when General Halleck s name was men
toned, "of the banquet we gave Hal
leck in 1865, when he returned from the
war. The people here were proud of
him, for he had more than regained the
laurels he lost at Corinth, when he per-
mitted the enemy to escape under the
cover Of big battery of wooden guns
that had been made ont of logs during
the night.
Among the friends Of Halleck who
met him at the banquet was Bully
Waterman, the old sea captain, who in
early days commanded a clipper ship
plying between San Francisco and New
York. On one voyage he had laid big
wager to beat rival clipper, but when
he found on going to sea that some of
his crew who had shipped as ablebodied
seamen were incompetent he was so mad
he hanged three to the yard. Just how
many were hanged was never known.
but Waterman was tried for murder and
acquitted
During one Of those. silences that
will fall over the merriest of banquets
General Halleck called to Waterman,
who was at the other end of the room:
Now that you have been tried and
acquitted, Waterman, won t you tell us
how many men you hanged Oh that voy-
age?'
Eyes, general l WILL responded
Waterman, if you will first tell us how
many wooden guns stopped you at Cor
NTH.
"The subject dronned there
The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-08-29
Lepers and the Lay.

The Norman English laws enacted
that a leper had neither power to sue
in any court nor to inherit property.
During his lifetime he was permitted
to enjoy the usufruct Of any property in
his possession at the time he was found
guilty" so to speak, Of leprosy. but all
rights of disposition over it he lost.
The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-08-29
Opened the WroneaDoor.

In letter. to one of his children
Guizot tells how on his first visit to
Windsor he lost his way and opened a
wrong door and beheId for a moment!a
lady having her hair brushed. The next
day the queen (for it was she) joked
him about it, and he says: II ended by
asking her leave, if ever I wrote my
memoirs, like Sully or St. Simon, to
mention how, at midnight, 1 opened
the door of the queen of England. She
laughingly'gave me the desired permits
zion.
The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-08-29

The state of Vermont seems to be dis
tinguished in many notable and diversi-
fled ways. 1t transpires that the first
patent granted by the United States was
to Samuel Hopkins of'Vermont July
81, 1900 flor making pot and pearl
ashes
The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-08-29
The Country,s Needs.

"What this country needs" said the
earnest citizen, lis more warships. E"
Eyes, replied Senator Sorghum re-
tiectively, land more consulships -
Washington Star.
The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-08-29

To assist person in holding an ear
OF corn so as not to soil the fingers
whlle eating it, new device is COM
posed ot three prongs set in triangular
form III handled disk, the prongs be-
Ing stuck INTO the large end of the ear.
The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-08-29

The best teacher of duties that still
lie dim to us is the practice of those we
see and have at hand. Thomas Carlyle.
The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-08-29

state, IS now on his way DacK TO IRE
toria, his mission to Europe, avowedly
undertaken with the object of securing
the support Of the continental powers
in the efforts of the Beers to rid them
selves of the suzerainty of Great Britain,
having been a failure all along the
line. Financial considerations are all
important at Paris, and to this must be
attributed the fact that the doctor met
with so little encouragement from the
French government. The economic in
terests of France are almost identical
with those of England in the Transyaal,
where both nations suffer from the
treatment accorded by the Beers to for
eigners. In Germany and at st. Peters
burg DIR. Leyds was received with
plenty of pleasant speeches, but could
get no assurances of support that were
of any practical value. Accordingly he
betook himself to London, where, after
some preliminaries, he became the hon
ored guest of Colonial Secretary Cham
berlain, and he has now returned to the
Transvaal sadder and a wiser man.
Enthusiasts of Wagnerian music will
be interested to learn that a Richard
Wagner museum has just been opened
at Eisenach. Among the treasures con-
tanned therein are the original manu-
script score Of ''Rienzi" and of other of
the great composers operas, as we'll as
the decree of arrest issued against him
by the Saxon government as "politi-
cally dangerous individual and a
"revolutionist'' in 1849, when he was
conductor of one of the leading orches-
tras at Dresden.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-08-10

ed in the treasury in Washington and in
the subtrcasuries in Boston. New York,
Philadelphia. Baltimore. New Orleans,
San Francisco. ST. Louis, Chicago and
Cincinnati. and in the national bank
United States repositories. He is the
trustee for the bonds held to secure ma
tional bank circulation and public de-
posts in national banks. He is the GUS
tcdian of the Indian trust fund bonds,
agent for the payment of the interest
on the public debt and ex-officio COM
missioner of the sinking fund of the
District of Columbia. His salary is &c.
600 a year. and in his office are employed
at the present time over 300 clerks. His
opportunity for the distribution of pat
ronage. however. is not great, the only
officer whom be is permitted to appoint
being the assistant treasurer of the
United States. All of his clerks are
within the Jurisdiction of the classified
civil service.
The office. though one of great dig
nifty and responsibility. is not one in
which individuality of character can
well display itself. There is no chance
for the originators Of new policies of
administration. the duties of the in
cumbent being as rule prescribed and
hedged about by precedent. 1t is pure
ly an office of custodian and keeper of
accounts on a large scale, the routine
of which resembles very much that of
the president OF great bank.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-08-10
Oldest Shin Vow In Use.

The Oldest ship in the world engaged
in actIes service is the bark True Love,
now used as coal hulk on the Thames,
near London. She was built at Phila-
delphia in 1864. and is 1913 years old.
When launched the True Love was the
largest boat the Delaware river had
ever floated, being 90 feet inches long.
She sailed away from Philadelphia and
did not return for 100 years, when she
again reached her birthplace from
Greenland with a cargo of kryolite.
Soon after this she reached London and
was sold to a man who made coal
barge of her.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-08-10

An account of drive which tile
king Of Siam recently made with XIII g
Humbert during his visit to Rome is
published here in Paris. The two SOW
ereigns drove through parts of the city
in which the ecclesiastical element is
very largely represented. The royal
sarriage having passed before several
groups of seminarists, the king of
Siam noticed that these did not follow
the example of civilians and salute
King Humbert. ''Have you noticed"
he finally said to the king, that these
men with large hats, who look at us so
fixedly, do not salute?" "Ah! yes" re-
piled King Humbert, indifferently;
that is because they are attached to
the vatican" But this did not appear
to- the king of Siam to be good
enough reason, for he replied in the
most natural manner in the world: us
it because you have no gibbets?" King
Humbert explained that these things
were of past age, and that in Italy the
death penalty had long ago been abol-
Post.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-08-10
THE TRUE REMEDY.

w. NJ. Repine. editor Tiskilwa, ILL.,.
"Chief," says: I'VE won't keep house
without DR.. Kings New Discovery for
Consumption, Coughs and Colds. Ex-
perimented with many others, but
never got the true remedy until we
used DR.. Kings New Discovery. No
other remedy can take its place in our
home. as in it we have certain and
sure cure for Coughs, Colds, Whooping
Coughs, ETC." 1t is idle to experiment
with other remedies, even If they are
urged on you as just as good as DR..
Kings New Discovery. They are not
as good, because this remedy has a
record Of cures and besides Is guaran-
teed. 1t never fails to satisfy. Trial
bottles freee at F. Kalteyer & Sons
drugstore.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-08-10
COUNTING MILLIONS.
Contents Of Uncle Sans Strong
Box Under Scrutiny.
Fifty Persons Are Now Busy Count
ing Something over S7OO.OOO,OOO
in Coin. Bullion, Notes
and Bonds.

For some time in the cavernous vaults
of the treasury building in Washington
a force of so expert and trusted en-
ployes of the department have been en-
gagged during the entire official day in
counting the contents of Uncle Sans
strong box. AS the old gentleman is
understood to have something over
s7OO,OOO, 900 in gold and silver coin and
bullion, notes, certificates and bonds,
this same force of men and women will
still be employed in counting ard piling
up the public hoard through all the hot
days of summer and will not have fin
ished their monotonous but important
task until the autumn winds are blow
ing the falling leaves about the parks
of the capital city.
This laborious operation is rendered
necessary by the transfer of the Gus
tody of the public moneys from the re-
firing treasurer of the United States
to his successor, of the new admins
tration, which took place at the begin
ming of the fiscal year, July 1. At the
close of business on June 30 all the
money. bonds and bullion received that
day, with the retiring treasurer's state
ment of the contents Of the vaults, was
deposited in the subterranean vaults
and the massive doors of steel were
closed, locked and sealed. The work of
retiring Treasurer Morgan was over
and the official keys were handed over
to his successor. Ellis II. Roberts, for
merly of the Franklin national bank,
New York. whose autograph you are
perhaps carrying in your pocketbook
to-day, for it has appeared on all the
paper currency issued by the govern
ment since July 1. .....
The vaults that were sealed on the
Both of June. says the New York Her,
aid, will not be reopened for the recep,
ton of new money and bonds till the
last dollar of the retiring treasures
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-08-10

account has been counted and attested
and the total is found to agree exactly
with the amount named in his transfer
statement. Such moneys as are re-
ceived at the treasury in the meantime
are deposited in other vaults. The work
of counting the contents of the sealed
vaults is under the personal supervision
of the chief of the public moneys d.
vision of the department, representing
the secretary of the treasury; the chief
of the loan division, representing for
mer Treasurer Morgan, and cashier of
one of the national banks, represent
ing Treasurer Roberts. These men are
the appointees of the secretary of the
treasury. are personally responsible to
him and will make to him a report of
their findings when their work is COM
pleted. 1t is then that the transfer
statement of the retiring treasurer will
be formally approved.
The Office of treasurer of the United
States is, under the secretary, the most
important in the gift of the treasury de-
partment. both in responsibility and
emolument. The treasurer is charged
with the receipt and disbursement Of
all public moneys that NAV be deposit
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-08-10
TRIES BEING ELEcTRocuTEo.
Harry L. Taylor, of Corning, N. ", Ex-
pertments on Himself.


Harry L. Taylor, of Corning, N. Y,
has been making experiments on him
self in the electric chair. He describes
the sensation of electrocution in this
language:
"a sudden shock is felt at first, as if
some one had struck you on the head
with heavy mallet. There is no pain.
The brain feels benumbed. Bright
lights dance and flash before your eyes.
Your head feels abnormally large,
somewhat like that of person when
troubled with vertigo. A heavy weight
seems to be bearing down upon your
head. The pulse is high and an exhil.
srated feeling takes possession of you
You feel as if you were treading the air
with everything around you blank
You are alone-the only being, the
only object, the only tangible thing in
the universe. You gradually sink into
insensibility.
"a fierce shock suddenly passes
through your entire system. YOU are
again struck on the head with the NAL
let, the same bright lights dazzle be
fore your eyes, and then all is blank
This second shock is caused by with
drawal of Identification, or, as com
monty expressed. when the current /.
turned off"
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-08-10
Minute writing.

Among the wonders shown at the re-
cent exhibition of the Quekett Micro
scopical club in London was the whole
of the second chapter of ST. Johns Cos
pei written on the two-thousandth part
of square inch, and plainly legible at
that under the microscope.-Chicago
Inter Ocean.