Picked Up In The Red Sea

Ex-SheriffConnellisauthority for the statement that Capt. Silas C. Warner oí Hartford, Conr...'has in hia possesnion an interestin? relie of antiquity, wbich is of unusual historical importance, inasmuch as it is evidence of the biblical story of the destruction of Pharaoh's hosts In the Red sea. The ex-sheriff is an old sailor, aiid relating some reminiscences of his salt-water career he told how away back ia 1859, when he was "before the mast" on the brig Margaret Evans, commaHded by Capt. Warner, they were crosstag the Red sea at a point near that indicated by history as haviag been crossed by Moses and the hosts of Ii-rael. A fog coming up, the anchor was .dropped. When the fog cleared and an eKort wua made to heave anchor it stuck and it required the entire ship's crew to raise H. Then it was diseovered that one of the flukes had caught a large bronze or brass wheel, covered witb sea rust. A good scrubbing revealeú a lot oí hieroglyphics, wlth a name which looked as thomh it mlght read in Enllsh "Ramesea." The cáptala took the wheel lome and e-Sihrifr ConneU Is of the opinión that the wheel was part of one of the chariots of Pharaoh's host when the latter were overwhelmed by the waters of the Hed sea Mr. Connell denled that the wheel was anything like a roulette wheel or that t cculd have belonged to '-faro"