Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 September 1893 — Page 11

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL. WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 6, 1893-TWELYE PAGES.

A BURIED TREASURE STORY

3IILLIO.S OP GOLD nOLLABJ SECRETED BY X rillATE. Thrr Are on th Florid Coaat und an Arkansas Man Claim to Know Where They Are-It Will Require 10,000 to Fit Out an Expedition Trjlnif to Induce the St. Lonli Ex. chanse to Invest In the Enterprise. There is 52.000.000 In gold burled down n the Florida coaet. and St. Louis merchants have been asked to help recover It. says the Globe-Democrat The exact location of the treasure Is known, and all that Is needed to get It is the requisite nerve and energy and the paltry pum of Jin.OOrt to fit out an expedition. The directors of the Merchants' exchange have the scheme under their thumb and are jealously guarding it lest an enterprising private citizen grab the good thins offered and secure the golden booty. The story of the treasure reads like one of Robert Louis Stevenson's romances, but is vouched for by the best of authorities. Part of it is told In a letter that George II. Morgan, secretary of the exchange, has securely locked up in a burglar-proof safe. The letter was received yesterday, and U was directed to the board of directors. After beir.sr discussed by the board it was committed to the care of Secretary Morgan., who allowed several members to -peruse it without seeing- the name. Then, when inquiries began to be made about it and thr interest to increase, the (secretary concluded tr place the preflous communlcati-,n under lock and key and await developments. To all entreaties after that he was deaf, and the only information that could be jrleaned was from parties who had been favored with the privilege of perusal. The letter is from a prominent Arkansas merchant. It consumes f ur large sheets of paper, closely written, and makes a number of very bold assertions. The merchant start3 out by t filing the "president of the board of director"" of the exchange that he n?-ds their aid to the tune of $10.000. If he did not need It h would g ahad and g-t the gold himself. I'non his marriage recently, he si vs. he came into pot-sepsion of a chart, a map and comprehensive gaii'le to a portion of the Florida coast where the money is hi'Mn. His wife received the data from a New Orleans physician several years ago, ju.-t previous to his death. Years before this physician, sitting at the deathbed of a poor patient, had been riven the secret as pay for his services. Twenty years before this deathbed scene the patient had been intrusted with the papers by another dying man in Xew Orleans. This man W3 3 the last survivor of the party that had buried the gold. The . history of the sole survivor's efforts to regain possession of the treasure he had helped bury was a pathetic one. Worn out with fatigue he had landed in New Orleans about the close of the century. The frightful hardships he had und-rone piDvei too much for even his frame of iron, and he was taken from his pallor's lodging house to the hospital more dead than alive, lie still kept the precious chart and map, however, determined to return to the Florida, coast a aoon as convalescent. His sickness lasted nearly two years, and when he was finally turned out of th hospital he was a physical wreck. With doggei perseverance, however, he set out to prepare for his expedition after the gold. His appearance was against him, though, and men to whom he told his story regarded him as a maniac. He all but succeeded several times, but aa each scheme seemed about to develop, some untoward event shattered his plans. The war of 112 coming on defeated what promised to i? his greatest expedition, and after that he had not the energy to try again. He kept the papers until his death, and only then did he resign all hope of securing the fortune. Dying. he left them to his nearest friend, with the promise that the treasure wcfuld De searched fr and found. The same fate, however, that had pursued the unfortunate pirate seemed to follow the second owner of the papers. Try as he might, all his plans went by the board, and he died fs penniless and as far from the treasure as the man from whom he got them. Business and family interests prevented the physician from searching for the gold, though he had always Intended to make the hunt before he died. The writer of the letter to the exchange grows quite melodramatic when he describes the events leading up to the burial of the treasure. It was in the troublesome days of the close of the eighteenth century, he says, when the gulf of Mexl--o was still a terror to owners of merchnat vessels from the presence of the pirates who infested its roads of travel and tree-grown isles. Foremost among these marauders was tlie "Skipper of Sawyer's Key." named from the coral Island ujHn which he pitched his rendezvous, and to which he usually brought his booty. His craft. La Mort (death), was more dreaded than the cholera or yellow fver, for the tklpper knew no mercy. For years his black flag waved over scenes of cwrnace too horrible for pen to picture, atl the very atmosphere of the southwestern Florida coast was shunned by all vessels that did not bear regiments of soldiers and double rows of cannon. The List cruise of the pirate was a singularly successful one. It was In the autumn of the year, when ships from South America were bearing to England, France and Spain many a rich planter's profits of a twelvemonth. Some of the ships bore Ingots of gold and silver mined from the southern mountains. Many a fine lady, bedecked with costly gems, accompanied her lord to the old world. The same fate that made the harvests rich and the winds fair caused dozens of these vessels to fall into the hands of the skipper aboard La Mort. The planters were rellevf-vl of their money bags and ingots, and the ladies of their diamonds and rubies. Before the cruise waj over the skipper had gathered in over two million dollars' worth of gold. Finally he started for Sawyer's Key, there to divide the booty and spend a winter In revelry and drunkenness. Hut he never reached his rort. A storm, the like of which seldom ever visited the giilf. swept down upon LaMort and tore her shrouds from her masts as though they were but tissue paper. The holm broke, th.? masts themselves snapped like pipestems In the hurricane "d large waves rolled from stem to strn cf the ship, washing away the bulwarks and scores of unfortunate seamen. With all haste the longboat was launched and a few of the crew loaded in the treasure, a few provisions and a supply of water and resigned themselves to the mercv of the waves. The storm lasted three days and at the end only four of the crew lived. The skipper was among the survivors, and directed that the treasure be buried. A spot was selected near I 'once de Leon bay, where they were washed ashore, and with great toil and trouble a hole was dug and the money planted. One of the party was a civil engineer and he made a sketch of the spot and surroundings, being careful to take such markings as could never be obliterated by time jr the elements. The little band of four then started toward civilization afoot. From Ponce de Leon bay to the habitations of man was a long and almost hopeless Journey. Swamps Impassable barred thir way, and their pcant supply of provisions gave out. To make a long story short, only one man reached , New Orleans. His companions died one by one In the morasses. Ills trials after reaching the Crescent City have already been told. Th directors of the exchange are evi

dently inclined to look upon the scheme with some favor, chimerical though it may be. The proposition of the merchant is to pilot a searching party to the locality where the treasure is burled. and then, with the assistance of charts and Instruments in the hands of scientific men. to locate the spot and unearth the treasure. lie does not propose to surrender his claims to the wealth, but. being without the necessary means to prosecute the search, he will surrender one-half of all that is found in case the merchants, individually or collectively, conclude .to furnish him with the means necessary to carry out his plans. That the pirates in the early days ot the republic concealed along the coast vast sums of money and precious stones of untold value there is hardly a reasoa to doubt. Florida, at the time referred to. was inhabited by wealthy Spaniards, and the ships that visited the coasts brought with them cargoes of immense value and carried away to the Old World the riches of the purchasers. At St. Augustine, the oldest city in the United States, the people still talk about the depredations of the 'pirates, and they firmly believe that there is treasure Of almost fabulous value buried somewhere along the roast from the city. Of course the directors as a body cannot go into the scheme. It must be put to a vote of the exchange. "Money is too tight now to go into a scheme like that." said one member when interViewed on the subject. Moses Fraley read the letter and took the trouble to quote it from memory to dozens of members. Mr. Phil Schrlmer wanted more Information before he would commit himself either one way or the other. He wanted the letter printed in full and discussed. Mr. R. P. Annam, the first vice-prseldent and acting president of the exchange, was asked to give the letter for publication. lie consulted his secretary, Mr. George II. Morgan, and, after reversing his decision twice, finally ordered the secretary to treat the letter as7 a private communication. TWO DOLLARS THE CORRECT SIM.

A Scheme of norroiTlujr That Amount It educed to a Science. Among the great variety of ways of getting a living is to borrow two dollars until tomorrow says the New York Herald. The manner seems at first blush to bo rather precarious, but If scientifically pursued It apparently yields an Income sufficiently large to sustain life srd enable Its recipient to keep up many of the appearances of respectability. Why should two dollars become a standard sum of exchange In this field is a question for the financial sharps who can tell you all about the causes of commercial depression. Hut who ever heard of a "friend" striking you Tor time dollars? And as for $2.C0 or 51.S0 It is something preposterous. Next to the man who wants but f.fty cents to tide htm over the evening the man who is in need of two dollars takes precedence. Th next man of value Is five dollars. The sum of four dollars would be of r.r use to anybody. It is two dollars I hat seems to fill a long felt want. For this reason the two dollar silver certificates were created. There is a man who has reduced the scheme of borrowing two dollars something akin to an exact science. Perhaps it were invidious to allude to a single Individual in discussing so popular and widespread an occupation, but It is merely for the purpose of illustration. This example is said to be a very bright and companionable gentleman who, did the bent of his mind turn In that direction, might easily earn a comfortable living in other walks of commercial life. In fact he was earning such an Income a year or so ago when, unfortunately, he borrowed two dollars till tomorrow. It was accomplished so eaally and quickly that he tried it again, and again he was successful. With the brilliancy of a born financier he saw at once that it was a foolish thing to toil when two dollars could be gathered here and there merely for the asking. He made another discovery that nobody expects two dollars thus loaned to ever be returned. Any amount above that required a note of hand, or if nrt promply repaid caused trouble and engendered hard feelings. Having settled on the two dollar theory he threw up his job and has ever since subsisted on an army of small investors. He knows the pay day of every printing establishment in town. And he is on hand for his two dollars every time. The employes are taken in turn. Some of them "kick" once In a while, but aa the financier usually takes them to the nearest Joint and tieats them with their own money he is not altogether unpopular. If the "kick" is strong he lets them off with fifty cents or perhaps a quarter, and thus lets them in on a cut rate. Sometimes men attempt to dodge him. but they find their retreat cut off at the elevated station. The loan of two dollars Is usually made philosophically. It is put down to profit and loss, allowed for wear and tear, and the thought of it banished at least as long as the borrower is out of sight. r.nitland in South Africa. England has come forward in south Africa with a Roland for France's Siamese Oliver. Cecil J. Rhodes, the prime minister of Cape Colony, is well known to be one of the ablest and most successful of these who are seeking to extend the dominions of the queen, and much weight must be attached to his utterances on Imperial affairs. He has Just been making a speech on British policy in Africa, In which he explicitly declares his intention to make the Zambesi instead of the Orange river the northern boundary of Cape Colony. This means the absorption of the Orange Free state and the Transvaal republic, which are now independent, besides Mashonaland and Matabeleland, which are already under Hritlsh protection, and threatens Gazaland, which makes half of Portuguese, east Africa. No doubt Mr. Rhodes means what he says and will presently set out to do It. The Orange state" and the Transvaal will have to be secured by treaty, and that should not be a difficult task, since these states owe about all the progress and enterprise they have to England. Matabeleland may have to be won by hard fighting, but it Is doubtless worth It, for It Is one of the choicest regions In all the continent. Mashonaland Is already famous for the wealth of its gold mines. In these advances England will have practically a free hand, for she will come Into collet with the interests or desires of r.o other European power save Portugal and scarcely counts. N. Y. Tribune. Animal Kingdom in wupnperdoin. The top of the Herald building in New York Is said to be decorated with twenty figures of owls. Behind the eyes of these owls will be sixteen-candle power electric lights. The clock over the main entrance will be connected with these lights, and at midnight each particular owl will wink one eye and then wink the other eye. Mr. Pulitzer should now get up some electric owls that will not only wink the other eye but shriek unitedly at noonday, "We told you so." This bit of enterprise would goad Brother Dana Into having a colossal office cat set on top of his modest building that would arch its back occasionally and yowl loudly, "If you see it In the Sun, it's so." and then conclude the performance by thrusting Its tongue into lis cheek and grinning from ear to ear. Buffalo Commercial. . Comfort of a Home. Summer Boarder "Why did you wake me up anJ hustle me down stairs at this unearthly hour?" Farmer Way back '"Hiat other boarder Is goln' fishin', and has to go away early." "What has that to do with me?" "You had the towel." N. Y. Weekly. Early Hours. City Boarder (at farm-house) "Do you still use candles here?" Mr. Hayseed "No, elree. In the winter we use a lamp. Don't need It in summer, you know. It's bedtime before It gits dark." N. Y. Weekly.

THE WORLD'S PRODUCTS.

FIGIRE5 COMPILED IIV THR AUSTRIAN GOVEUXJIEXT. They Show lhe Amount ot Grain Troflneed by All the ConntrleM of the World A Tabulated Statement Containing? .Much Information. VIENNA, Aus. 2S.-The estimate of the harvests of the world, which are prepared annually by government officials was given out today. The grain and seed market estimates will Ehow Austria's yield of wheat to be 14,000,000 zneterzentner or 8S.8 per cent.; rye, 24.500,000 meterzentner, or 83 per cent; barley, 145,000 meterzentner, or 93.5 per cent.; oats, 21,500,000 meterzentner, or 82.63 per cent. The estimate for Hungary will show wheat 40.000,000 meterz ntaer; rye. 13,000,000; barley, 15.250,000; oats, 12.000.ooo. Estimates for other countries are as follows: Prussia Rye, 96 per cent.; winter wheat, 94; summer wheat. 92: barley, 81; oats, 53. Denmark Rye and wheat 100 per cent. Norway and SwedenWheat, 100 per oent.; rye. 90 per cent. Switzerland Rye, 71 per cent.; wheat, 81 pw cent. Holland Wheat. 83 to 90 per cent.; barley, 75 to 80 per cent. Belgium Wheat, 85 to 90 per cent. France Wheat, 90.000,000 to 93,000.000 pectolitres; rye, 20,000,000 pectolltres; barley and oats, 8? per cent. England Wheat, 80 per cent.; barley, 75; hay and fodder, a decrease of 60 per cent. Italy Wheat, 50.000 pectolltres. Servia and Bulgaria have 465,000 meterzenter available for export. The estimates of Roumania show a deficiency of 40 per cent, in the wheat and rye harvests. Poland, after the needs of her inhabitants are supplied, will have a surplus of 4,000,000 poods of wheat and 400,000 poods of barley. Central Russian Provinces Wheat, 70 to 80 per cent.; rye. SO to 90 per cent.; barley, 110 to 120; oats, 120 to 130. Taurus Winter wheat and rye, 150 per cent.; barley and oats. 300 per cent. Egypt will have 230,000 meterzentner available for export. The estimated yield of British India Is 2.236.0OO tons. The estimated yield for North America is S82.000.000 bushels of wheat, 14.333,000 bushels of rye and 1.809.000,00 of corn. The Hungarian minister of agriculture estimates the world's production of wheat this year at 2.279.000,000 bushels against the otlicial average of 2.2S0.0OO,000 annually for the last ten years. He gives also the following figures: The deilcits to be filled by the Importing countries will require 379.000,000 bushels. The surplus available In exporting countries to satisfy this demand Js 379,fi6t",.0OO bushels. The world's product of rye Is given as 4S3,0O0,000 hectolitres. The production of wheat an I the deficit (amount needed above the domestic supply) In each importing country i3 given: Product. in Bushels, Great Britain f6,rr.o.ooo France 2S3.734.0O0 Germany 90,773,000 Deficit. 1R4.427.0O0 4G.8t8,000 25.537,000 22.700,000 8.512.000 13.76.,000 24.118,000 3.KS8.000 2,270,000 .512.000 i.ST.i.OOO 7.377.000 Italy 122.012,000 Netherlands 6.3S4.000 Switzerland 4.3."9,000 Belgium 15,603.000 Denmark 4.2r.6,O0O Norway and S'den. 4.838,000 Spain 76.612.000 Portugal 5,873.000 Greece 4,255,000 Austria. 45.400,000 39,725.000 The production and surplus In each exporting country are given thus: Product. In Bushels. Surplus. Russia- 342.965.000 7..93,000 Hungary 141,870,000 45.-W0.000 Roumania 4,5,818,00O 24.350,000 Turkey 23.375.000 5.S75.000 Bulgaria 31.977,000 10.792,000 Servia 8.512,000 3,4iW.ooo United States 337.3:.0,000 69,518.000 Canada 43,350.000 29,310.000 India 274,880,000 42.553.000 Rest Of Asia 6.r.2?2.0ü1 7,093,000 Africa 3S.716.0O0 3.6S8.000 Australia 39.725.000 19.295.000 Argentina r.6.575,000 26.105.000 Chili, etc 19'862,000 6,520)00 Telephones in Paris. Telephone service in Paris costs $125 a year. The Instruments are good, the wires pretty much underground, but oh! for an American operator. If I ever get back I'll never talk in a minor key to her if she fails to give me the number I want In ten seconds. A new "Central" is being built, but one now may wait an hour in vain for a number. The telephone as a toy is much appreciated. In some rich houses connection is made with the theaters, and the hostess says to her friends: "Wouldn't you like JLo hear a little of the grand opera, or the Comedie Francalse, etc?" It is far superior to the Inevitable amateur oian1st or vocalist that is inflicted on suffering mortals by Interested friends at home. One Is not obliged to listen and applaud a telephonic soiree. Anything of the toy nature takes with Parisians. The Improved phonograph pleases them just as a rattle does a baby. In one office I found two phenographs and not a single typewriter in sight. Paris Letter. Tlioe Selfish CliIoMjtonu. Mrs. Muggins "How did you enjoy your visit to the world's fair?" Mrs. Puggins "The fair was good enough, but I don't think they had any business to charge extra for the gondolas and side shows and things. Seems to me the price of admission was enough to cover It all, and give a free lunch besides, but it didn't. I never saw such selfish, money-saving creatures as them Chicago people. The worst of the troubles, though, came at night. That was awful! We were packed four In a room sometimes; and one night the children had to sleep on the sofas. I never felt so annoyed in my life." "Were you at a hotel?" "No, we was visit in relatives, and other relatives kept comin'." A Child' Letter. An exchange publishes the following In the Cincinnati postorRce recently In the general deposit of mail was a muchthumbed and tear-stained postal card. The writing upon It was a child's hand, trembling and uncertain. The address was: "My dear mama In heaven." The letter was aa follows: 'home dear mama I am so lonesome sins you went to heaven. I want to go to you, the time seems so long, you said I could come to you. Mrs. Clark Is kind to me but not like you. you sho this to God and send for me sure, my arm hurts me so and you said It would be well in heaven. I send you a kiss, from me, little Dora. , ' English Mourning Ktlqnet. The period of mourning for a father-in-law Is twelve months ten months black, two months half mourning; erepe Is seldom worn, although the crepe period wis formerly six months. For a parent the period Is the same as above. Tne longest period for a brother is six months five months black, one month haif mourning. The crepe period was formerly three months; It Is now almost discarded. The shortest period Is four months black, no half mourning. We may remark that the period of mourning for a father-in-law Is often shortened to six months when relative? reside at a considerable distance from each other. London Times. Why Women Are Xlcer Tlutn Men. Women are areat deal nicer to know than men. If you meet them In a drug store when you are buying a cigar you are not expected to oiler them one.

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SERVAXTS IX IXDIA.

A Good Memory neqvlred to Tell What They Are All For. The kull does odd jobs around the house and grounds. The chohodra. or private prwtman, carries cards and letters. The chowkidar Is a night watchman, who cannot be hired to open a door in the daytime. -The dudh is the milkman, who always brings the cows and the goats to tho house to milk them. The gari-maJa, or coachman, looks after the carriages and drives. If necessary, he wiil help the syce. The consarml. or head man. an indispensable individual. supervises the whole army of servants. His position la thsame as that of thef or chief steward. The khldmutgar is a personal servant, who also waits on the table and will help to look after the older children. Some khidmutgars are excellent waiters and can lay a table very tastefully. The blhishti is a native carrier who supplies the bath rocms and waters the roads and gardens. He also sweeps up the rooms every day, but would not help the pani-wala for fear of losing his caste. The hawurchee is the cook, who will prepare every meal but can not be hired to wait on the table. He attends strictly to his cuisine and reigns supreme over the kitchen, which is in a separate building Eltuated some little distance from the house. The dhobee, or laundryman, washes all the clothes on the banks of the river, or any place in a Jungle where there is water. He pounds them clean on a rock or slab of stone and will wash the clothes beautifully clean, even if he has to destroy them and smash every button into oblivion. The ayah, or ladies maid. Is a sen-ant of great Importance. She Is as good as a French maid without airs. All children have an ayah, who will attend to them night and day. They have excellent Judgment In the care of children and will even put themselves between the little ones and danger. The ranl-wala is a waterman who supplies the kitchen and drinking chattels only. The water is carried in goatskins. At railway stations the panlwalas meet the trains, calling out: "IIo, everyone that thirsteth come up to the waters." The sixteenth part of one cent Is charged for a drink. The saees, or groom, looks after the horses and cuts grass in the Jungle every day for all the stock. Nearly every night in the year he must keep a good smoking fire in the stables on account of the mosquitoes. He must also keep a net on every horse In some districts, or they would be tormented to death. The chaprasi. or the master's body guard, has some strange duties to perform. He attends to his master at dinner parties and carefully watches him In case he gets too excited over wine. If necessary the chaprasi will by some excuse summon his master out of the room, and will by main force sometimes take him home. Ohio State Journal. itKPiinix; ocEtx carl.:. Locating the Fnnli Picking lp and Spllolna; he Wires. It has always been a matter of speculation and wonder to most people as to how a marine cable once broken in midocean Is ever got together again. The explanation is this: First, it must be known that the cable practically rests everywhere on the bottom of the sea. Of course, there are place where sudden deep places coming between shallow ones will cause the cable to make a span as over a ravine or gully. In either place the ocean Is so deep that the cable finds Its specific gravity somewhere In mldwater, so to speak. In that case it rests quite as firmly as ' If it were on solid ground. When a break occurs the first step, of course. Is to accurately locate its position. A conductor, such as a cable, offers a certain amount of obstruction or "resistance" to the passage of an electric current. Apparatus has been devised for the measuring of this "resistance." The unit of resistance Id called an ohm. The resistance of the average cable Is, roughly speaking, three ohms per nautical mile. Resistance practically ceases at the point where the conductors make considerable contact with the water. Therefore, If when measuring to locate a break It be found that the measuring apparatus Indicates a resistance of 900 ohms, the position of the fault will be known to be 300 miles from shore. With this information the captain of the repairing ship Is able to determine by his charts of the course of the cable, the latitude and longitude of the spot where the break occurred and can proceed with certainty to effect the repair. When tha approximate neighborhood of the break Is reached a grapnel Is dropped overboard and the vessel steams slowly in a course at right angles to the run of the cable. On the deck of the ship there Is a machine called a dynometer, which, as its name implies, is used to measure resistance. The rope securing the grapnel passes under this. If the dynometer records a steady increase of strain it Indicates that the grapnel has caught the cable. If, on the other hand, the resistance varies from nothing to tons and from tons to nothing again. It is known that the grapnel Is only engaging rocks or other projections of an uneven bottom. It Is frequently necessary to drag over such a ground several times before the cable can be secured. Having secured one end of a parted cable, the vessel moors It to a buoy and proceeds to search for the other end. When both ends are brought together on deck the electrician holds communication with the shore on both sides to make sure that there are no other defective places and that the cable is perfect In both directions. This having been satisfactorily detetmlned, all that remains is to splice the ends together and drop the cabl3 once more back Into the sea. New Orleans Times. dem. Strange Disease. Physicians here are Interested in the case of Miss Amle Richardson Baldwin, who died on Friday from a combination of two rare diseases, syringomyelia and acromegaly. Each disease Is rare, and It is said that the combination was never before known. Acromegaly is a weird disease for which neither cause nor remedy has been discovered. One of Miss Baldwin's physician says of the disease: "It affects the head, hands and feet In such a measure as to make them grow to gigantic size, while the body Itself retains its normal conditions. Persons suffering rrom the disease present a grotesque appearance. Their bones, flesh, nails, ears, chins, noses, ringers and toes attain often twice their ordinary size. Many people with this ailment have found their way into museums. There Is no pain, and the disease Is not necessarily fatal." The other disease affects the spinal cord In such a way that th patient loses entirely the sensation of pain and temperature, though the sense of touch is not affected. That two such terrible yet grotesque diseases should attack one person is certiinly remarkable enough to excite the Interest of either physicians or laymen. New York Letter. Needles XoIpc In Ciilen. Concerning noise, the New York Evening Post very Justly says: "There is no modern city health board, end indeed, no modern city doctor who is not well aware of the evil effects of Incessant noise on the vast and Increasing multitudes who. In all the great cities now live, one might say, by their wits, but more accurately by their nerves." Undoubtedly the malady which we know as nervous prostration Is often Induced ad always Increased by the din which is thus far an unavoidable Incident of city life. An a mere health precaution, the lessening of noise, and particularly of unnecessary noise, is only prudence, as much to be commended as the efforts of cleanliness which boards of health are accustomed, and with reason, to magnify. The subject hi not new.

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