The Exeter Times, 1885-4-23, Page 6ARCTIC EXPLORATIONS.
.fart Argument Favoring shit. Cost; gad 1Eiprcl.• .
ships of Arens, Trsavel,.
Is Arctic exploration worth. its cost?
writes S. E. Noursc in the Century for
October. A full affirmative answer
epuld be made to this inquiry; its out-
lines only can be laid down with au
open letter. The reply may run cauu- fore the surveys of Rodeers and the
worth. Among the .direct or indirect
gains of this bind for us have bees the
whaling -grounds of the northeast and
the :fisheries of Behring strait, a region
rendered safe by the voyage and charts
of the Vincennes, the explorations of
the coast survey, and latest by the Cor-
win and signal service. Alaska is now
attracting immigration, but its shores
seemed forbideling iw the eetreme be -
ter to a wideleeentertained feeling: yet' trial observations of Dall and others
it i, justified "by history, and it: due to were charted for the ,guidance of the
the interests Uf scient;e. Sympathy mariner. The increasing returns to
with the Losses sustained by the 11e the Government and to the iuerehaut
Long and (Greeley expeditions is sin- from the fur seal and the otter hare
sere, tit.ep, and widespread. But ehown the wisdom of the purchase.
pathy with the suiicrer• and 1-,,-.ith Still higher results aro associated
the bereaved, can not dim the with the"krarography a the great
value of the results secured be 1 ,aceanst the observations needed for the
the sufferings of the logit and the further knowledge of the laws govern-
living. Their work is a. compensation ing the origin and the course of storms;
for.at least something of the severe sae- and magnetism. with its relation to the
ritiee- trade, andhistorr shows that the coni ass, the telegraph, and the tele -
well -beim of a man has ever been and hone. ^alt: e shall never :accurately
will be advanced by sacrifice. know," says the President of our own
To meet the inquiry fairly is to recall • Geographical oteety. -'the laws of
the true objects and gains of Arctic ex -aerial and oceanie currents, unless we
ploration. Its history. like that of oth-. know more about what takes place in
er experimental ntal pro rese begins with „
h the Arctic circle.
events, evolves other and far more hrs.,' Advertise
portant t, nes. ar gains have been tt f andy'1},.:itb Many ilrttlulonde. a From witeee I stand ld
made with .. remarkably small loss of would the richest
a single object vi ieh, in the logie of
level Eroitement us tieorgia.
The revival of the Georgia gold in-
terest is attracting' many practical min-
ers froza the west and southwest, where i
the fever has somewhat subsided, and
marvelous stories are being told of the
richness of the ares found In many lo-
ealties in the northern part of the
state, Pahlonega has long been fain.
ous for its mines. The state aaxieul-
tnral school is situated there, and after
a hard rain the boys flock
that have into the 1
streets to pick up nuggets
been washed out of the sand. Mines
are being discovered everywhere, and
old traditions are revived by white -
,i settlers which incite men, young
d and old, to join in the hunt for the veins 1
they tell of.
A Near Cartersville an aged fanner
'' tells the story of an Indian chief which
° has aroused. the interest of the neigh-
borhood to fever heat. When Gov.
Troup drove out the Cherokee tribe
and settled it in the west, this chief re-
turned to .old haunts in Bartow county,. t i
and gathering all his white friends
about him, ascended a little mound sur-
e rounded by an am itheater of hills.
lie turned himself slowly round three
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Cures Dizuness, .T ova of Appetite, .1 ditjestion, Biliousness,
.Dyspepsia, Jlund ec, 4, cetiortscf the ..ircrand I ialneys,
_Pimples, Blotches, Boils, Inintors, Salt Rheum, Scrofula.
RrrdatipeIas, iou1 all diseases arising from Impure Blood.
eran;teci Stomach, or irrt�yulcar action c the Rowels.
tilwes, swing in Ids native tongue:
Ita�• sec a mina that e
buyii ' s kingdom in the
life, for the whole number of deaths John L. Lighthall and wife, reg$ter- world." He disappeared suddenly,
occurring in all the Aretie expeditions ; ed from Peoria, 111„ have been attract- a and was never seen agairn. Some say
from the year tele to, Tri was but 1 ing considerable attention for three ', he spoke of a silver mine, others be.
740 leer cent: of officers and crews, l days past. The couple were eonspieu 1 lieve he meant a gold one, but what. 0
while in carrying on the work of the ous especially for the magnitieent and I ever it was diligeut searelt bas been "s
> e, e , nsthe jewelry which the wore,made t I o u pout the nei hberhood.
1
fourteen nteteor l deal a:tatio of { ponderous 3 L} .. I fro 1; g
in the Exeter TIMES.
past two years but two deaths have oc- and -Mold not go Into the dining -room well mines of rauganese and gray iron
eurred outside of Greely s party of La- or walk through the corridors without ore have been found by those in search
dv Franklilt bay. With the sufferings being, followed by gaping crowds, In of the gold and silver; copper hasbeen
of Creel} a in4'n before their minds, • appearance Lighthell emnbi€ies the di eovered in largo quantities, plum -1
people are heard to exelair: 'Four cowboy of the west and theswelt young bego and mica and yellow ochre un-
miles um ar er the pole. Is this worth man of the east. lie is about Ott years . earthed.a.sitwere,byaccident---allshow-
nineteen lire:?.' Forgetting the true of age and six feet tall, of a lithe. ae- a in; the marvelous mineral wealth of
olajeeta of A.retie exploration, they tine build, His hair, which israven a tine section. Numerous old shafts
lose eight of all but the polar problem black. is as straight as uuludiany s, end have been found,shafts which must
alone. and they deal even inconsider- falls in a mass to bis shoulders. Ilia i have been worked from a half to ;three-
;Ire+ly with this, the origin of more im- clothes are of fashionable cut and of ; quarters of a meaty ago. In .exec -
portant i'sae'4. rather loud pattern. llisvest, 441101 1S eating ate eighty -foot cut ou the Cin -
The first point in the inquiry here ie of bright material, is buttoned With -innate and Georgia: railroad square
tc, rt•eall the fact that the search far dlamonda, there beiug fifty-four gem. hewu timbers In are excellent state of
the pole it‘ -elf wa. begun, three eentur sized stones in the set of buttons. His preservation were removed front the u4
iee. ago, in no motives of mere euriositl, ; visit to Cinelnuati was for the purpose ! roadbed, No outlet to theshaftthrouglt
Or even of theory. The impulse was of of adding some choice stones to his at a: which they must have been lowered
the mo -t practical ebaraeter-- to find a ready large eallee+tion of jewele. He a there was ever discovered.
new vonimere•ial route from Northern probably wears more diamonds then A murder or accident of forty years 11
Europe to Asia. Columbus and Deany other man in this country or any bark was unearthed a short titre afo
e
and West, but Seemingte oUh' for theMr. and Uri. Lighthall welcomed iM bottom of which the skeleton of the;
(anal had opened up the world East other, ftar that matter. by the dieeovery of an old shaft, at t
two nations, Spain and Portugal, these reporter yesterday, and seemed noth- victim was found.
them -Owe t thewere rather conigaiew y pp celebrated P g r
to the new lauds found mut'twhe fou4.1 am sorry," said he. "that I did not boils up from it very top. Near the
but to the navigation of the great t know you were coming, for I could spring aro the remains of a fort, from
•oceans. Ay thee -were then unable to have had more of my ester here and which the mouutain takes its name,
maintain their claim by force of ttrmG. !
made more of a show. 13ut this scarf- taunt. it issaid, by UM Soto to guard j
Northern Europe soon set about the pin is worth looking at," pointing at against the attacks of the Indians while:
search for a safer and shorter route to the same title to a huge Bluster of dia- his men worked the rieh gold mines 011
the rich lands of Asia. mends more than an inch A uarc,which the range of which this mountain Is a"
The is cry need no he almost a gaudvnee • e wit: epur
two powers promptly settnee up for tog loath to shote their level*, which. Port Mountain, inMurray county,, is I
, v t'xe1tt$ve right, not a • iusl • des la •ed, � b ed far a wonderfulspring
wluelt
Tl 1' t l t traced !n 1 hid i.tl bi h
full. It began with the voyage of old swathed his throat. Miners are prospecting inthe neigh- t
Cabot in 1497, and was closed only in *''Phis Is probably the largest pia in borhood with great diligence, and us
1847 with the discovery of the passage the United States," he continued. *.It muds exeitemeat prevails there Ascher. '
by the drifting and crushed ships of contains 179 stones, one of which, as acterized the recent strike in. the the Co."
Franklin. The northwest passage will *ou see, woigha six carats. They are huttah mountains, of which the fine l
not be pursued. Sir Allen Young's bettutift111y set and the entire workman. ' bone spoke the other day.—zlIto IUrlr
latest disappointment in the Pandora ship in almost perfect. It was original- 1 ribunc.
(1876) closed the question even for the ly a ring, but is too cumbersome to •
curious. Tortuous and shallow chap- wear." A Historicist Tavern.
nels, if found, could, indeed, offer no "Did you order it made?" It is not generally ];noises but It Is a
advantages except for the small ex- ,,;�*o, It was the last order of a dia- ato-dayI 1 Jp„clertf1.kE'r•-1
changes carried on by whalers. Nor is mond broker in St, Louis, whoso name .fact all the same, that in Alexan-arger
• lilt. 1 h t f tocome national It is said that leo `vent dreg, built around by a much larger
Main Str et1 Exeter;
Tuos. r'ITTON
Keeps Watches That Are Watches
And are warranted. correct for Time, Tide, o Railroad
Train, and t(1~ please the most fastidious.
EWE ERY
TJiaatu iS Rich, Rare,Sparkling and Substantial, Suitable
Friends and Countrymen, Lovers, Brides,
for- Romans, �, - , t
Bridegrooms, Loving and Lovely \!1v ea, Children, this -
bands, Etc., Etc'.
SPEOT..OLES.--•Scatcll and Brazilian Pebble. soft easy
and pleasant to the eye, and suitable for youth or age.
Give Dint a call. No trouble to show Goods.
Watches and Clocks Repaired and Brought to
Time.
t e v t a or years
aid will be given for further attempts
was :!taus edllien, but still kept intact in every
to push through any one of the supposed
gateways to :t theoretical "open polar
ea," found by Coldwey, Payer, Hall,
Nares, Dc Long, Ray, and Lockwood,
to be sealed up 1;y the paleocristic
masses.
Have, then, the labors, exposures and
patient durance of Acetic exploration Lighthall professes to have been fond
been profitless and discouraging to fit- of jewels ever since a boy, and for the
crazy, and I guess he dui, for no sane appointment, stands the tavern or inn
man, unless he was as eccentric as I where the fat, roll -faced, brandy -drink -
am, would order, much less year, a ins Gen, Braddock passed the night
bauble of this description. It is said i Drier to this fatal march towardwestern
that Maus took a handful of stones in- ' Peinisylvania. The Inn is a neat, wee.
built, and thoroughly preserved build-
ing of two stories, with dormer win.
dows and roof, and seems solid and
good for many years yet.
'Yuen Braddock and his forces loft
Alexandria, they did not march over
the road, but moved by traueports, and
landed on the Maryland shore near
where the National observatory now
stands—Twenty-third street. To -day
"Braddock's rock" can be seen near
the old canal in that locality upon
which tate commander leaped from his
boat and superintended the landing of
his soldiers and equipments. From
the site of this city he marched by
way of Cumberland to their place of
massacre. Had. Braddock been half as
prudent as he was brave, he could, by
acquiescing in tete advice =riven him by
the ..Buckskins," as the Virginia mili-
tia were termed, have whipsawed the
French and Indians in that campaign.
But as it is it is all the same, for be
would have been dead before this date
anyhow.—Jiar•tford Post.
to a workshop and told the foreman to
make the finest ring possible out of
them, and this is the result."
ture effort? 13y no means. They have
teemed with incidental results in value
immeasurably greater than could have
been gained from success in their first
object. They are a record of extensive them, he says, because he likes to be
geographical discoveries, of large addi- odd. Of late years he has been much
tion to scientific knowledge, of mater- ;tenon g the Indians in the west, and af-
ial gutne for navigation, commerce, fects the manners and actions of a cow -
and 'industry, told of moral lessons boy. He has a sombrero which cost
past ten year:, since he has been able
to gratify his desires in this %direction, i
has been making an extraordinary col-
lection of precious stones. He wears
taught by these examples of heroism.
It is something to learn the true boun-
daries of the land and water surfaces
of the globe on which we live; it is yet
more to have eliminated from the
human attack the absolutely uncon-
querable of nature's forces. Lock-
wood's latest dating advance has again
him over $2,800. Clusters of diamonds
and other gems decorate the crown and
rim of the bat, and it is probably the
only hat in the United States that is
kept in a safe. The same man, just to
gratify an inclination to be conspicu-
ous, wore a suit of ' clothes the buttons
of which were made of 510 gold pieces.
done much in both of these directions. The jewelry which he wore yesterday,
A true estimate of what Arctic ex- in addition to his glaring scarf -pin and
ploration has gained will, in part, be diamond vest buttons, consisted of four
reached by a comparison of the knowl- big rings, a massive gold chain, and
edge of our own continent half a cep- three large badges or medals, which
tury ago, with that shown on the were pinned on his vest -front. The
schoolboy's map of to -day. The maps setting of one ring was a topaz said to
of 1825 exhibited for our northern be the Iargest in the United States.
coast -line, Baffin's bay only on the . Another was a beautiful sapphire, sur -
east and westward, dots only for the rounded by four large diamonds. The
mouths of the Mackenzie and Hearne others were diamond clusters and were
only noticeable on account of their un-
usual
nusual size and the worth of the stones.
—Cincinnati Enquirer.
Parry's voyage in the far North. The 111 . •
charts of to -day accurately delineate The Prince of Wales proposes that
the zone of land and the coast -lines his eldest son shall in one respect fol -
within the 60th and 150th degrees of low in his father's footsteps. The Ger-
west longitude up to Cape Parry, lati- man theory that every royal personage
tulle 71 .degrees 28 minutes, a region should be taught some kind of trade—
now largely frequented by the trader. German royalty showinga quite intelli-
To these add the explorations in the gible preference for carpentering—does
Danes, Hemisphere
Duby
theanRussians,uwedsnot prevail in England. "If "If our Prin
crowned bythe circumnavigation, first Ms take Gaupzette,
professions," says the Pali
enough --
in the world's history. ofg Northern Matt (lazette, enoug is judged
Asia. And now Lockwood has extend—
ed the line of Northern Greenland.
Again, no Arctic expedition has been
fruitless of commercial and scientific
gains. Cabot failed to find the passage,
but he established the claims of our in-
heritance of hnglish liberty and law.
The first attempt to find the ppassage by
the northeast brought from theill-fated peetet ; e ' all its candidate members."
Willoughby news like that from our De
Long:
Re with his hapless crew,
Each fall at his several task,
into Froze statues,
,
But Willoughby's second ship made
. the diseavery of Russia's wealth—"a
neve Indies"—for England the begin-
ning of maritime ` commerce on the
rivers, up to the icy Cape of Cook,
and the Behring sea,—all which was
then known except the n' w sweep of
choice was limited to the army or the
navy. The present heir to the crown
is a bencher of the Middle Temple.,
Pince Albert Victor, on obtaining his
majority, will be entered as a student
of the same Inn,- with the necessity of
passing the slight preliminary exami-
nation which the honorably society re -
A man lives a few miles above Ath-
ens, Ga., who eats in one county, sleeps
in another, smokes when sitting upon
his
piazza in a third, and has built
barn in a fourth. Ho lives where four
counties corner. -
He Had to Believe It
"A Kaintucky man told me a curious
snake story wunst," remarked& hoosier
from Southern Indiana. "It happened
to hisself, he sed. He wus out atter a
ground -hog for dinner one day whe
suddenly he see a snake -lift his head
above the high grass an' hiss. He go
within a few foot of the reptile an' wus
jest on the pint of pullin' the trigger,
when the snake made a clean jump an
went plump down the muzzle of hi
gun. So how to get it out he didn'
know. Hit finally occurred to him t
shoot it out, which he did, an', stranger
he swore to me by all that is holy tha
he driv the head of that snake riggh
down through the hull length of hi
body, an' jest turned it inside out."
"You didn't believe such an all
round. story as that, did you?"
"Stranger, I believed every word of
it. I had to. When a Kaintucky man
who is sweatin' big drops of whisky
tells a story 'bout snakes, that actually
cum within his own , experience, an'
swars to it, mind ye, no citizen of
Southern Indiany who has a family .
to support ever is foolish enough as to
go an' allow as what it ain't so."—De-
troit Post.
The author of "Do They Miss Me at
Home?" is Mrs. Caroline. A. Mason,
of Fitchburg, Muss. She is sixty-one
r. ear old and wrote the sone fortypearse y
years f ' aa A.
OULD SAY TO
those wh intend
purchasing to tit ro from
the manutaeturer. The
dottier who buys 10 sell
again must necessarily
have a profit. We claim
to givethe purchasers the
beue5t, whleh cannottait
to moot the views of rho
Grangers: Our expensas
ageless than those of cite
manufaetnrerteonsegaest
teacart sslleheaper.
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to our undertaking deport
meut,which to more cons
plotetlaanaver,as we have
added severaluewldrst'�isr
of late The beat comes
caskets shrtuds.and every
funeral requisite at the
tonest:ricer• Our new
hearse is vrououneedby
competent judges to be
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provinces
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