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jlatiro ®imkv feette> 'local Department, Notice. jsSrCapt-. D. AY. Davis, Postitonsrer.is duly authorized to receive and receipt for sub scriptions. Ac., for the Gazette. #jp~Our office cun now lie found over the store of Coleman A Collat. Broad street. jrtr All will please recollect the motiev for advertising considered due after first inser tion. LOCAL DOTS. . Our colored Episcopalians are solicting subscriptions for the purpose of ereetiug a new church. We hope our white citizens will respond liberally to the rail and thus lie!]' the colored people of that denomina tion build a house of worship. George Francis, one of the best colored men ns can be found anywhere, will receive subscrip tions. We wish them abundant success and hope soon to hear that work has been com menced on tlieir new edifice. We reeeiv< "and a communication a week or two ago, from a colored man, complaining of tlie way the haf-kman between the Landing and No. 1. overcharged him for a passage to tlm Station, while lie did not charge others as much as the regular fare. This, we learn, is not the only instance of this kind; but is practiced often. This discriminating bus iness will brake down any line if kept np. We hope to hear of no more complaints of this kind. —The boys (so they say) had a most char ming time at the dance given by Captain I. M. Aiken, at bis residence on Friday night last. Now Capt. Aiken and his estimable j tdy couldn't do otherwise than make every body around them happy. We were sorry we were unable to attend. We lire informed that it will be often repeated during the winter. —An esteemed friend of ours sends us tlie following: “I write simply to acknowledge (he favor you extend me in sending your Gazette to testify my gratitude therefore, and to offer you my best wishes for your suc cess in the editorial (and the matrimonial too, if you will) line—and to all vour life, whether in this, or the -other side of the Great Dividing Line.” All of which is high ly appreciated. —Christmas is just thirteen days off and yet there is but little talk of egg-nogs, tur keys, fire-works, Ac. “You don’t pretend to say that Amos Carr is going to raffle off that fine turnout of his?” Yes, that is just what we said, and and that nint all either-—he are going to get married. The announcement of Mr. D. M. Dun woody for Tax Collector will be found in another column. Mr. D. is the present Tax Collector and we believe ho is .giving general satisfaction. —A gentleman who came down the. Gulf Road the other day ti lls the most jcissness story of a newly married couple we have ever heard. He says they played kiss some 1900 times between Savannah and Jesnp. Following a fellow over to No. 1. is get ting (o be a common occurrence now-a-days. The last trip, however, was very*-successful. —Con. S. tV. Baker will deliver a Grange address to-day (Saturday) at 11 o'clock, nf the old Court House ground. A general in citation is extended and the ladies especial ly invited to at tend. We hope our citizens will turn out and hear the Colonel. —On the Streets and through the mails we receive congratulations on that Johnson county affair. This is all very good, but is there no law by which Harris can be pun ished for perpetrating this terrible hoax on us. Rev. J. W. Leigh and wife, of Butler’s Island, returned from England a few days since. — Bile Young speaks a few lines in this issue. Read his advertisement. —Some one has stolen .our scissors again. If this sort of thing keeps on we’ll believe after awhile that the great democratic victo ry did no good. —Me had a call during the week from Dr. T. S. Hopkins, of Thomasville. The Dr. is here on a visit to liis relatives. We want a carpenter, and how it trou hies us to think we huve’nt the money to pay one, you little kn6w. What we want with him is to build us a room—an editorial room—in which, after having gone to the bottom of our resources for locals, we can Rit with a heart bursting with generous emo tions and ask some friend to lend us a half a dollar. Capt. A. C. Wyj,ly has resigned Ihfc po sition of Captain of Mclntosh Light Drng- Oons. We are informed that Win. H. At wood, Esq., will probably be elected as his successor. Air. A. would make an excellent Captain. Success to the Dragoons. HotV would a temperance society go in Darien ? We only ask the question and leave the pub ic to answer. Read the new advertisements to be found in another column. Mr. Wm. R. Gignii.liat, of Marietta, is in the city, on a visit to his sons. lie seems to be in good health. —Be sure and take a chance at Climax. Who knows, you ’mout win. —Me had a call from the P. G. in G., one day this week. "We always like to see them sort often. — Mr. Henry Younge, of Savannah, and once a citizen of this county, spent sevara! days in the city during the week. This is the first time Mr. Younge has visited Darien in twenty years. —Capt. J. M. HolmEs returned home on Tue.oday last, after a very pleasant trip through the timber counties. The Captain did splendidly as our agent. Thu timber men are beginning to appreciate our paper, we are glad to know/ Regular Term -Board Count) Commis sioners. Darien, Ga.. Dec. 2, 1874. Present—T. P. Pease, Chairman; Jos. P. Gilson, Jas. Walker, Jas. Lacklison, R. L. Morris and Thos. H. Gignilliut. Absent—L. Mclntosh. The minutes of the last regular meeting read and confirmed, and the following busi ness taken up in regular order : Committee on Finance -Report upon bills Amounting to $:ill 5C> for the city, and county bills amounting to 85.3'2 10. and or deied the same to be paid when in funds. Moved by Mr: Walker, tint the County Treasurer be instructed to hold in the Treas ury the shin of ijtfiOO, for tlie purpose of pay ing comity jail bills fob tlie year 1875. Car ried. Committee on Streets and Roads —Mr. Morris made n satisfactory report, and the Board ordered the Treasurer to pay bills against the-city for street work. Committee on River and Harbor—No re port. Harbor Master’s report for the month of November received, together with s2l 15, amount harbor dues. Committee on Paupers— Report an in crease id the pauper list, both city and county. Committee on Health—No report Committee on Ordinances—No report. Committee on Public Buildings —No re port. A petition from the Clerk Superior Court read, and on motion of Mr. Lacklison, re ferred to Finance Committee, Willi power to act. Ptlilioii of il. Grubb, r< ferred to Fi nance Committee. Petition of Betsey Gurcy was, upon mo rion, laid upon the table. On in 4ion Mr. Lacklison, the petition of sundry citizens of the county asking for the .establishment of anew pr&iiudt be rejected. Carried. Moved by Mr. Lacklison, that the tax re turns of Dr. M'ilson’s estate be made to con form to the schedule as returned to the Re ceiver by Dr. Wilson. Lost. Mr. M'.dker moved that the Sheriff be in structed not to proceed further with the execution on the estate of M. M'. M’ilson un til further ordered by the Board. Carried. Mr. Gilson moved that the report of [lie edmmittee of citizens upoii the protec tion against fire be received, and the Chairman appoint a Special committee of the Board to take into consideration the suggestions embodied in the report, and to carry out the same so far as it is m the power of the city so to do. The Chairman appointed Messrs. Lacklison, Walker aha Morris said committee. Moved by Mr. Lacklison that the Finance Committee be empowered to take immediate stops (legal or othenvifie) for the collection of the amounts due the, city by Walter A. Way, late Clerk and Treasurer, pro. tan. Mr M T m. M. Young having applied for a remittance of line for non-performance of street duty. On. motion Mr. Lacklison it was resolved that Mr. Y mug be required to iiiiv the fine assessed. No other busbies.!, the Board adjourned. Spalding Kenan, Clerk B. C. C. Mcl. C. GiY/iian Consul. With the number of German vessels arriving at this port that do, and the prospective increase in (heiraiu+vals. we wonder that the government to which they belong has not before now appointed at this place a German Consul, sit occurs to us as being but light that those of their people who come here in these vessels should he represented, and we know no one would make a more fitting protector of their interests than our friend and fellow-towns man, Mr. August Schmidt. Being himself a German who evidently has been feared and educated in the. school of refinement—with tlie manner arid polish of a gentleman—he is the one above all others in our opinion who should receive the appointment to this re sponsible office; and we would be glad to hear him announced as the German Consul at the port of Dir ten. German C iptaius, represent this matter to your government. Jas. K. Clarke.-- -This gentbman, who is one of our heaviest timber dealers, is one, who from the more quiet walks of life has made his way to a position from which he can look back and congratulate himself upon the good fortune that has attended his efforts. He furnishes but. another example of those who have so clearly proven that honesty, industry and econofit'y will reward those who practice them. Gentlemanly, af fable and agreeable, ho is such a one as you are always pleased to meet; with him you feel that you are in the company of one whom you are not afraid to trust, but in whose every feature is portrayed the attri butes of a generous, manly and noble nature. Henry Todd.- A character such.os is borne by the man whose name heads this paragraph is seldom enjoyed by one of his class of our citizens. Unpretending, unob trusive, yet earnest and diligent in the pur suit of his business, he moves along respect ed by all who know him; giving in return that polite obedience to a law inevitable, that should always Characterize the true gentleman. Honest and upright in allot his dealings with his fellow man, he has gained for himself a name and reputation such as no other colored man within our knowledge enjoys. Why can we not have more Henry Todd’s? Card Epping. - — Another one of out timber merchants —and than whom we have not a more perfect or enterprising gentleman is one whose fortunes have been with Darien for many years past —longer we believe, than any other gentleman who is now engaged in the timber trade at this port. W ith a na ture having just enough of the “sunviler irj mule" to render him always pleasant and agreeable, he has drawn around himself friends whose name is legion. Oh, for a thousand such men ! DISASTROUS FIRE] An Entire Block of the City in Ashes! LOSS OVER S7O 000! ONLY ONE-THIRD COVERED BY IN SURANCE ! About 11 o’clock on Wednesday morning last, the cry of fire startled our citizens from the quiet routine of their daily busi ness. A ibin column of smoke issuing from a building occupied by Joseph Mansfield, as a restaurant and ten pin alley, and situated Veit nearly midway of the block on Broad stria t, between Jackson and Screven .streets, revealed the locality of the fire. ITS ORIGIN is ascribed to the luckless use of Kerosene oil by one of the unfortunate sufferers. We arc informed that Mrs. Mansfield undertook to light, the fire in the stove by saturating the wood with that fluid. A considerable quantity of it leaked out upon the floor, to which, in her ignorance of its extremely com bustible nature, she applied a lighted match. The utter fully of such an act would induce suspicion of criminality, were it not that there could be no motive, for she and her husband had no insurance on their stock. Lu au instant the room wa° enveloped in a blaze, and In an incredibly short time, and b> fore assi-hmee could be rendered, the fi illicit were bursting from every part of the bull ong. THE sURE.vU or T!Iil ITRE was rapid beyond conception. The wind was blowing gently but, steadily from the west, and in less than twenty minutes from the first alarm the large two storied build ing adjoining Mansfield, east, and occupied as a store by lielsinger Brothers vritsdi! lire. By this time a large crowd had ttssfcilibled, and strenuous but desultory effete wfere made to save the edifices on each side (if the burning buildings. It was hoped that the elegaut two storied building known as A. & It. Strain's upper store might escape as the wind set dire tly from it. But the intense heat of the Mansfield building soon pro duced its inevitable result, and flames issuing from the eastern end of A. & R Strain’s es tablishment, brought from the hearts of nil that one if tiff finest edifices ill tlib city would soon be but au unsightly heap of ashes. J,ist. at this moment the building used as a law office by )V. A. Way, was knocked down by the toiling crowd, aud several persons mounted to the top of the store of Eekmau <fc Cos., the next building iu order. This was soon covered willi blan kets and numerous backets of water emptied elver the roof, but the intense heat soon drove tlie ill-protected laborers from she root Under its influence the boards and shingles began to warp aud in a lew mo ments the fire caught tin side aud roof. The confusion and excitement had now cul minated, men shouted, women screamed, dogs*barkt'd, horses loosened from stables and lots to escape the tire, scampered away. Hundreds poured iu and out of the threat •eied an l burning buildings "saving goods,” and in a short time Broad street was strewn with every conceivable description of !rier chandise Kept m retail stores. THEItE WAS stftl' gdMK HOPE that the large bakery rfnd adjoining residence of John M. Fisher, rtl the corner of Broad and Screven streets, litjglit be &tvo.l. Sev eral small, intervening traildftijgd between this establishment aud Belsingor’s were de molished, arid there was a hard fight of an hour’s duration between man ami fire for the possession of Fisher’s without much ad vantage on either side. Bat gradually’ the fire gained 'lie mastery over the undiscip lined crowd with their poor appliances, and Fisher’s was abandoned to the flames. In the, m anwhile a gallant and successful con test had been waged with the relentless ty rant brt that side of the block facing First street, by which the office of L). M. Monro, and the residences of Th is. Nelson and Jus. Boyd w’efe saved arid the progress at the flames stayed in iliai direction. An equally successful fight ):'i .1 leva made by the Mess.- Walker ami latur lincmls and assis" amis, by which their flu 1 bedding on Jack son stroat occupied by trie, ofluvs jtf Guy, Stewart v Cos., timber merchants, was res cued. Y\ . l> ov '•; r'.'.i tiiLJ, s st ire, as s. -n as 1 jsher’s was given itp ah lost, became the centre of interest. The es tablishihent of ttreffe gentlemen is one of the largest in the city, a building of two stories, extending seventy feet on Broad and one hundred feet on Screven street. The fire of October 4th had stfept the entire block with the exception of this building, which had then been saVed by a combination of cir" cumstances, and the indomitable courage and coolnesi ot Mr. Wilcox; the same good judgment had been exercised by this firm as in the previous fire. Their building was lined with 'blankets aud carpets. Cool and determined men stood at their post on the roof, and by this time, through the strenuous efforts of Marshal Carr assisted by several gentlemen, the crowd had been fairly organized into a line extending from the river to the store. Second street inter vened between this store and the now rapid ly’ consuming Fisher property, but the street is not over seventy feet in width, and the wind was blowing a stiff breeze. As the flames raised higher and higher, the heat became so intense that no one could stand in the stree between the burning pile and Wilcox & Churchill’s for a moment. Still the fight went on, water came with greater rapidity and regularity, and every man stood to his post. The fire grew hotter and hotter, the blankets curbed and finally blazed, and roof aud sides caught in several places, but the men stood their ground through it all, and put out the fire as'it Caught, until gradually the beat began to subside as Fish er’s house fell in and was consumed. Every one felt that if the building was fairly caught the entire business part of the town would be destroyed, and the sense of relief was audibly expressed, as the pile stood in tact after the danger was vivtimlly past. For three hours the battle had been waged and finally gained. BI T THE LOSS IS lIE.VVY, as will be seen by thb following list of the su fferora; A. & K Strain Idse a large part of their stock, valued at >520,000, upon which there was insurance of S'J,OOO only; the building, the property >f A. Strain, valued at $3,000, insured f-r SI,OOO. J. Mansfield loses $1,500 worth of stock, no insurance, and SOOO in gold and greenbacks. J. Belsinger Bro. lose the greater part of their stock, valued at $16,000; insurance unknown. J. V. Phillips loses the building occupied by Belsinger Bros,, and a lot. of furniture; also the building occupied by W. A. Way, valued altogether at $8,000; no insurance. L. Eck niau loses tile building occupied by Mans field. valued at $1,50); insured for SBOO. L. Ecknian & Cos. had $15,000 in stock, greater part lost; and nine hundred dollars in cash; insurance, unknown. T. P. Pease loses tiie building occupied by L. Eckraan A Cb., valued at $1,000; no insurance. John M. Fisher. ]ost buildings and goiids valued at $i(),000; insurance $5,000; John 11'. Walls loses about S7OO in money and notes, which were in Eokman’s store. A loss, the inconvenience of which will be se riously felt by the pitblic generally, that of the post-offlee; idciltod id A. A It. Strain’s store Our Worthy post-master, 1). W. Davis, had, a year ago, boxes made at his personal expense for the convenience of the business n: nof the place, lie can ill afford their dost ruction. Among the minor losses was that- of IV. A. Way—several law books and S6O ia greenbacks. The losses will loot up $70,000, of which one-tliird was covered by insurance. THE INCIDENTS OF THE FIUE were numerous, and there were several nar row escapes, but no lives were lost, and no one was seriously injured. The inelosnre around th? residence of W. Hubert Qiguilliat, several squares off’, cuu-’lit on the from the flying cinders; also the house of Richard Sams, near the Methodist Church. Both were quietly extinguished without daiiiage; THE LESSON TAUGHT I3Y THE FIRE is short and serious. It is hardly necessary to call further attention to the utter folly ot using kerosene oil as a kindling agent in a country abounding with lightwood. We did not think that there existed a man, woman or child so reckless or indiscreet, and we trust now that there is not another in Dari en. The absolute necessity of An organized tire department is obvious. Theie were times during this fire when twenty per- in concert, would have saved tens of thousands of dollars worth of prop erty. We cannot afford expensive tire en gines with the means at our disposal. But we cau afford a good liook and ladder com pany, and with the appliances which uelong to such an organization any frame building can be quickly prostrated ami the fire pre vented from spreading. In lieu of engines, let every real eslate owner and merchant have on his premises a first rate force pump with forty or fifty feet di hose. The cost will not exceed $75, and the investment is a paying one, and the best insurance in the world. With such an appliance several hundred gallons of water per minute call be thrown over the lafgtis't building iu this towm. Wilcox & OildrchllTs store, in the present fire, was thoroughly saturated long before the dames reached it, by the use ot a force pump, operated by three or four per sons, even without tlie lio.se, and iu all probability the building was thereby saved. Let the city authorities do their duty by the establishment of a liook and ladder company with the proper appliances, and by the dig ging of lire wells throughout the city, and let tuc citizens carry out our suggestion ot the pumps. Then let. all act harmoniously ior the public weal. It is the misfortune ot many small places that divisions ot feeling and action result in hopeless weakness anil inefficiency. We fear that our little city is not exempt from these unlmqiy ind,unices. We do not ascribe them to any particular man or net of men. We do not presume to blame any one for their existence. They are a gradual and inevitable growth, unless checked o>i all sides by w ise council, and charitable constructions, cerbum sup. Our community is too small for division. \\ c believe that there is enough of good sense and good feeling to cure any growing ten dency in that direction. NOBLE EFFORTS were made by many citizens, both white and black, to save the property endangered. The instances of p'ers'oiittl exertion, and we may add, herdisni, ure too numerous to be individualized. Some of the colored popu lation behaved badly and will have to be handled by justice for petty larceny and riotous conduct. Some of the women wire excessively noisy and added, by their out cries, to the confusion and difficulty ol working to advantage. We mention these tacts in no unkind spirit, but that they themselves may’ correct the evil. It is our pleasure to testify that ifl tlie main they worked faithfully and showed themselves to be good citizens. REBUILDING the burnt square will commence as soon as the ground cools sufficiently. The energetic Strains say that they will be O. K. in thirty days. They have the advantage of retaining in tact their main establishment, a lire-prool building on Broad street, from which to supply their branch house as soon as rebuilt. Fisher, our baker, lias his oven in tact and is too much of a man to leave Darien suffer ing for bread for many days. Friend Eek -111 au will commence building in a low days. Although at this writing we have no positive information, we do not doubt that the other sufferers will soon be on their legs again. We only judge by the recuperation from the last fire. It occurred on the 4th of October last, and now the square is rebuilt with better houses than stood at that time, with all the places of business in full operation, with two exceptions. The l’ost Office, for the present, can he found in the ltnr of Messrs. Young A Langdou’s office, at the Magnolia House, where our esteemed friend Davis can always be found. AJ|sdentally Drowned. On Friday night Frank Collins, the cook on board the steam tug Leon, lost his life by falling overboard at Doboy. We do not know of a colored man in this community whose death we would have regretted more to hear of. Al ways respectful, polite and obliging, he had won for himself many friends amongst both white and black, who,- deploring his loss, will blot with a tear from their list of living friends the name of Frank Collins, whose untimely death Calls forth this notice. Vg- We are inlormed that a small col ored child was burned to death last Sunday night. The parents had gone to church and left the child' asleep by the fire. Home Again. The return of our large business men from their summer and fall vocations, imparts a hopeful and enlivening influence to ditr little city. It shows that although timber has been dull fqr a few month* past, (here is a prospect of the market looking up again, and these far-seeing gentlemen are on hand to avail themselves of reviving tride. Sev eral weeks ago we chronicled the arrival of J unes K. Clarke and Carl Ep ing. This week it affords us additional pleasure to re cord the return of Don M. Monro, Esq , one of the largest dealers on the Atlantic coast, and Major Charles S. Langdon, of the popu lar and flourishing house of Young A Lang don. Both of those gentlemen have spent the summer and fall in Europe in fact, the Major got ns far as Rome, although we are enabled to assure his numerous friends that ho returns home with some Protestant view’s on the subject of “infallibility.” In fact these two gentlemen have brought back with them from England the plans for an elegant and tasteful Episcopal church, soon to bo erected in this city through the liber ality of a few who are well known, but whose names we will not venture to publish at present. In the midst of the warm greet ings of his many friends, the Major must feel that he is welcome home again. Cutting Scrape. -Saturday night Bill Me Cullough stabbed Jeff .Tones, on the planta tion of Or. W. Gignilliat, Esq. Jeff retalia ted with a hoe, and both of these colored troops are liniw Tinas’ tin combat. Jeff will probably die. and Bill will probably tell the next Superior Court what lie knows about hanging. —— Personal.— The Earl ot Rosebnvg is oh a visit to the Hon. and Rev. J. W. Leigh, of Butler’s Island. He visited the city Thurs day, when we had the pleasure of meeting him. He is an intelligent and agreeable gentleman, an 1. we are informed, one of the rising men in the upper house of the English Parliament.. Maj. O. B. Devercaux and Rev. T. \Y Leigh, were also in the city during the week. The Board of Commissioners. — Wo aer sorry to hoar so much complaint against our Board of Commissioners. We had hoped that everybody was salisfiod that their efforts wore made with a view to accomplish good for the public. On the contrary, how ever, nobody seems to tliink so, but are de sirous of bringing about a change—either by obtaining the resignation of some of its present members, or bv doing away with it altogether, and going ha -k to the old system of electing those we like the best - r erbam sat. “Them ’Arc Hose.” Me. Ebrroit: Thb following lines were not picked up, but handed in to me with a re quest that you be kind enough to give them a place in your columns: Cit. A clothes line in a garden out on the Ridge, Goes wandering among the trees. And on it two very long stockings Are kicking the evening breeze; And a lot of fancy dry goods. Whose nature 1 cannot define, Are merrily and wildly flopping About that same old line. And a very “sly” young lady At. the trout, room window sews ; And I rather conclude if you try it, You’ll find she’ll lit into them ’are hose; She’s only a half length picture— Foreshortened below the breast— But the drygoods which dance on that tight rope Gut yonder, just makes up all the rest. So dream-like, she seems so gentle, Yoil'll think her too good for earth; And I feel that a holier spirit Is banishing Vnlgar mirth To its worldly home—by jingo! What a flourish that muslin throws, And how uncommonly taper Those stockings go off at the toes. Oil. eyes! like the sky when it's not bluest; Oh, hair! neither like sun or the stars ; Oh, muslin and hose! I can't help it — Ye still draw iny thoughts over “thar The little lady alone is substantial Yet, somehow or other—confound it— I've mixed up the sham and tlie real. Awl thrown some confusion around it. Oil, love ! you'r the same old sixpence— With the poet, the muff, or the brick ; You go up with a rush like a rocket. But. come down at last like a stick. And let two thoughts be lofty or lowly, Platonic or flash. I opine That they all. Use those dry goods and stockings, Belong to the very same line. Ridge, August, 1874. Frkre. BABIES TIMBER MARKET. REPORTED BY A. W. CORKER. AVERAGE. r*r. SQUARE. 300 BtU’d 4<>o 7(f/aB. . 500 000 tkfai 700 800 9®ilOX 000 10xt7i.ll % 1000 12@13 Shipping PORT OF DARIEN, GEORGIA. FOR THE WEEK ENDING DEC. 9. ARRIVALS. Dec. s—Bark Fisher, Temple, Maryport—D. 31. Mnuro. Dec. s—Ships—Ship John Barbour, Jones, Antwerp—A. Dobell & Cos. Dec. o—Bark Heinrich Von Schroder, Ilellel, 31a deria —A. Dobell & Cos. DEPARTURES. Dec. s—Bark Johannes, Ihkler, Liverpool—A. Do bell & Cos. , Dec. 5-Bark Aurora, Ilore, Liverpool—D. 31. 3lunro. IN FORT. Ship John Barbour. Bark Eliza McLaughlin. Bark Fisher. Bark Caf I Frederick.. Bark lorger Lorentzen. Bark Geo. W Jones. Bark Heirrich Von Schroder. Bark Bessie Crosby. SchoPner Hattie Turner. Schooner Charles 3lnrford. Schr. Kaltraline. ileir Julmfecmcnts. COUNTY ELECTION NOTICE. Office Board County Commissioners, 1 Darien, Ga„ Dec. 5, 187-1. f \N election will be held at the diflerent precincts in the county on the Oth day of January, 1875 being the first Wednesday, to fill the following county offices: Clerk superior Court, Ordinary. Sheriff. Tax Re ceiver, Tax Collector, Coroner. County Surveyor. Polls to open and close as directed by law. By order of the Board. Spa mi mo Kenan. Clerk B. C. C. Mcl.C. CITY ELECTION NOTICE. ' (office Board County Commission?:!**, I Darien, Ga., Dec. 5, 1874. ( i JURSUANT to an Ordinance entitled “An Oi'dU 3 nunc.’’ to Prescribe tin .1 fade of Electing City Officers, etc.." an el ction will be held at the office of the Board Countv Commissioners on Wednesday, tlv lith day of Juiiuaiy, lt-75, to till the following offices : Clerk awl Treasurer,, Marshal, Deputy Marshal, Port Physician. Harbor Master. Port Wardens, Inspector General of Timber, fourteen Inspectors and Measurers of Timber. By order of the Boarc. , pp.u.niNi; Kenan. docs- til Clerk B. C. C. Mel. C. EXEHJTOKS’ NOTICE Ti> DEBTORS AND CREDITORS, i LT, PERSONS INDEBTED TO THE. ESTATE , V of S. W. WILSON are hereby required to make payment at, once, and all persons having claims against oil estate are notified to present them, duly attested within the time prescribed by law, to W. Robert Gignillint. attorney at law, at Darien, or to tiie undersigned at Savannah. Ga. JOHN li. HALL, ALEXANDER BLUE, Executors Estate 8. W. Wilson. Darien. Dec. 7th. 1874. _ declg-6w WM. M. SOUNO, JEWELER. HAYING had five years experience in the busi ness. I feel satisfied that I can give satis faction. My thanks to the public for past patron a-'(\ and hope fora continuance of the same. ° WM. M. YOUNG. do<l2-tf Second Street, Darien, Ga. PETITION FOR INCORPORATION. STATE OF EEOHC.IA Mcln tosh Count y. To the Honorable Tire Superior Court of said 1 The'petition of Charles Spalding. J. A. Atwood, It. L Morris, Spalding Kenan, J. M, Mclntosh, I. M Aiken A. W. Corker. J. N. Winn, J. M. Hoimes, \V A Wav. J. T. Clancy. 1). M. Dunwoodv, P. P. Pease, K. F. Flute, L. E. B. DeLorme. John Robson. K, s Barclay, A. S. Ham well, W. W. Churchills m 1) half of themselves and their associates, respect fully shevvith that your petitioner- desire a charter incorporating them and their successors as a body politic and corporation, under the convirate name of ••'The Mclntosh County Savings and Loan Associa tion.” with power by ihis name to sue and be sued; td Inye and to use a common seal, should they so desire ro hold such real estate or other property as may be conveyed, or mortgaged, or pledged to said Company; to adopt such a Constitution and By Laws ami Amendments thereof, as they may deem advisa ble and proper to carry out the objects of said Com pany. and generally to enjoy all the rights incident to corporations created by ttieCourts of this State. Your petitioners submit the following a specifica tion of the objects of their Association and the par ticular business they propose to carry on: CONSTITUTION— articIe Ist. The object of the Company shall he the accumula tion of a’fund by monthly subscription or savings of the members thereof, to aid them in their business and Hie purchase, improvement, sale and leasing or land and the loaning of money to its members or, others upon mortgage of real or pledge of personal property. article 2d. ’ f ,p he number of shares in the Company shall not be les‘s than One Hundred (100) and the directors .nay, at their discretion, increase the number to Five Thousand (5,000) and said shares shall constitute the capital stock of said Company. ARTICLE 3n, Each subscriber to the stock of the Company shall pay into the Treasury not less than *1 50 per month on each share lie, she, or they may hol t, until One Hundred Dollars, its par value, have been paid up, and no stockholder shall he allowed to own, Ini hia or her right, more than One Hundred, or ices tnan One, share in said Company, , ARTICLE 4th. The officers of the Company shall be managed by a Board of nine Directors, elected by ballot by the stockholders of the Company, which election shall take place at such time as a majority of the stock holders shall determine for each year, and said Di rectors shall continue in office until their successors arc chosen and qualified. The Board of Directors shall elect from their number a President and v left-, President, whose ditties shall be specified in the By-Laws of the Company. A majority ot said Direc tors shall have power to act at nil meetings, and fill any vacancy that may occur in the Board. Each stockholder shall vote in person or by proxy undett written power of attorney, and be entitled to one vote for every share he, she, or they may tiave, lout no stock shall be voted which may be in arrears ror installments, fines or other dues, until such arrears are paid up in full. The election of the first Board of Directors shall be held within twenty days after this charter is granted, notiee of time and place or said election being given in some paperfn the city of Darien or Savannah. article sth. , The Board of Directors shall have full power to employ all officers and agents that may be necessary to transact the business of Ibe Company and to fix their conq easation; to dismiss them, find to take bonds from persons so appointed for the faithful ex ecution of their duties. article firu. a Dividends shall h<_ declared, payable at such times as the Board of Directors may see fit, and when so declared may be either paid over or applied to pay ments on stock. ARTICLE 7TH. i All oblmations and evidences of indebtedness by the Company shall be in writing and be signed by the (•resident. Treasurer, and one memlter of the Fl* nance Committee, and sealed with the seal of the Company. article Bth. No member shall be allowed to withdraw front the Company during the continuance of the same except under such rules as shall be made and provided ifteffc*- for in the By-Laws of the Company. The legal rep resentative of a deceased member may-continue his, her. or their relation in the Company, or may be set tled with Oil the same, terms as are prescribed for a withdrawing member. Transfers and sales of the shares in the Company may he made upon such terms and in such manneras shall be prescribed in the By-Laws of the Company. ARTICLE !Tlt. The By-Laws of the Company shall bo binding upon all the members, and the Company shall hay.e power toenfore the payment of all installments add other dues to the Company from its members bj such fines and forfeitures as the Directors may from time to time provide in their By-Laws. ARTICLE 10TII. This Constitution can only be altered or amended at a regular meeting mid by two-thirds of the eDtire number of shares, and at least one month’s notice of the proposed alteration must be pttbli ly given. Oq the alteration of the Constitution stockholders may vote by proxy. ' Your petitioners farther state that the said Com pany w ill do business and have its principal office in the city of Darien, county and State aforesaid; and that your petitioners desire to be incorporated for. the term of twenty (20) years, with the privilege of renewal at the expiration of that time. i T. W. ROBERT GIGNILLIAT, Attorney for Petitioners, j A true extract from the Minutes. This. Bth day of December, 1874. ISAAC M. AIKEN, decl2-tf Clerk S. C. Mcl. C. STATE <>r GEORGIA Mcln tosh County. CLERK'S OFFICE. ) SUFERIOR C’OCRT, S December Ist, 1874. . J , rpHE FOLLOWING ORDER IS THIS day receiv -1 ed and published for the information of all par ties concerned— Jurors, Witnesses and dll others interested will take notice theroof: .. ■> Whereas. The Legis'irtnre. in requiring a term of lb.* Superior Court t i fie held in Chatham county in November of each year failed to change the time for holding the Fall Term of Mclntosh Superior Court, so as to prevent the time of holding Chatham Superior Court from running over the date Aaed for the said term of Mclntosh Court; and, whereas, the said November lernt oi Chatham Superior Court is now in session, and will extend beyond the day set for Mclntosh Superior Court, It is therefore ordered, that the said Fall Term of Mclntosh Superior Court is hereby adjourned to the first Thursday, being tbe 7th of January next, A.D., 8175. ... Given under my hand and official signiture, this '27th duy ol November, 1874. at Savannah, G*. W. SCHLEY, Judge Superior Court Eietero Circuit of Ga. A true extract from the Minutes of this Court. ISAAC M. AIKEN,. decs-td Clerk S. C. Mcl. C* $l5O REWARD. KEN from my room or. THt'RPAY NKpHT* a GOLD WATCII. CHAIN and LOCKET. Parties having the articles will receive the above reward and no questions asked, by returning them to W. J. SWAN. uov7-tf Office of Young ft Bargde'n