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VOL. 2.--NO. 12.
Weekly Timber Gazette,
PUBLISHED EVERY
FRIDAY EVENING
AT DARIEN, GEORGIA, BY
RICHARD W. GRUBB,
• OFFICE: Broad Street, Near tlce New Offices of
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Timber Gazette, Darien, Georgia.
CITY DIRECTORY.
County Officers.
County Commissioners — T. P. Pease, Chairman, J.
Y. Gilson, James Walker, James LaehUson, Rich
ard 1,. Morris, L. Mclntosh, T. H. Gignilliat.
Clerk }}. O. C—Spalding Kenau.
Clerk Superior ■Conrt —Isaac M. Aiken.
Ordinary —Lewis Jackson.
. Sheriff—T. Butler Blount.
Receiver Tux Returns— S. E. Clarke.
Tax Collector —Allen McDonald.
■ County Treasurer —E. P. Champney.
Coroner —John 11. Burrell.
The Commissioners hold monthly meetings first
‘ Wednesday in each month.
City Officers.
Ex-Off. Mayor —T. P. Pease.
Ex-Offs. Aldermen —Jos. P. Gilson, James ual
ker, James Lachlison, R. L. Morris, L. Mclntosh,
Thomas H. Gignilliat.
Clerk and Treasurer— Spalding Kenan.
Oily -Marshal —Robert E. Carr.
4 Harbor Master —C. 11. Staadwell.
Inspector General of Tember —E. b. Barclay.
Port Wardens —Isaac M. Aiken, John 11. Burrell
■and James G. Young.
Jailor— Robert E. Carr.
Masonic.
Live Oak Lodge!, No. 137, meets first Wednesday
nb'ht in each month at their Hall near the Magno
lia House. E. P. Champney, Worshipful Master,
,L. E. B. DeLorme, Secretary.
Schools.
■Mclntosh High School on the Ridge. Gardner
Buggies, Esq., Principal, Miss Clifford Stanford,
‘Assistant.
Travellers’ Guide.
The Steamer Reliance, Capt. Nick King, arrives
from Savannah every Friday morning and leaves
same day for Brunswick and Satilla Paver. Re
turning, arrives from Brunswick and Satilla River
every Saturday night and departs for Savannah
-Sunday mornings at 8 o’cloe.k.
The Steamer Lizzie Baker, Capt. P. Laßose, ar
rives from Savannah every Tuesday evening
and departs same night for Brunswick and Flori
da. Returning, arrives from Florida and Bruns
wick every Friday evening and leaves same
night for Savannah.
The Steamer Clyde, Capt. J. X., Day, makes reg
ula trips up the river to Hawkinsviile and Dnb
lin about once a month.
V. 8. Officers.
Collector of Customs, Brunswick District —John T.
■Collins. Headquarters at Brunswick.
Deputy Collector of Customs for Port of Darien—
■Charles H. Townsend.
Boarding Master —J. E. Cornelius.
Postmaster— D. Webster Davis.
Deputy U. S. Marshal- Robert E. Carr.
Superior Court.
Mclntosh Superior Court convenes Tuesdays af
ter the last Mondays in April and November.
Hon. Henrv B. Tompkins, Judge, presiding; and
Col. Albertß. Lamar, Solicitor General.
U. s. Malls.
The mail arrives from Sterling, No. 1, M & B
R. R "every morning (Sunday excepted) at 10
o’clock, departing same day at 4 p. m. Mail
closes at p. m. _ _ ,
Side mail for No. 3, A. &G. R. R., departs at
8 K o’clock every Tuesday morning and arrives at
BP. m. every Wednesday,touching at Riceboro and
South Newport both ways.
Religious.
Religious services at the Methodist E. Church
every Sunday morning at 11 o’clock, and every
Tuesday evening at 8 o’clock. Services at the
Ridge Chapel every Sunday and Friday evening.
Sabbath School every Sunday afternoon at 5
■o’clock. Rev. R. M. Lockwood, Pastor.
Religious services at the Episcopal Church on
■the Ridge every Sunday morning at 11 o clock.
Colored Mission at DeLorme’s Warehouse at 3 p.
m., and at R. K. Walker’s office at 4-30 p. m. ior
white congregation. Rev. It. F. Clute, D. I>.
Rector. „ ,
Regular meeting clay St. Andrews vestry, sec
ond Tuesday of each month, at 12 o clock, m.
Religious services every Sabbath at 11 a. m., 3 p.
m.. and 7 p. m.. at the colored Babtist Church-
Rev. R. Miflin, pastor. , .
Religious services every Sabbath at 11 a. m„ and
3p. m., at the Methodist Church, colored—Rev.
•8. Browu, pastor.
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
W. Rob rt Gignilliat,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
DARIEN, GEORGIA.
Prompt attention given to all legal
business in the Eastern and Brunswick Cir
cuits, and in the United States Courts at Sa.'an
nah, Georgia. april 2a-ly. _
L. E. 11. DeLorme,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
and notary public,
DARIEN, GEORAIA.
WILL PRACTICE IN THE BRUNSWICK AND
Vt Eastern Circuits. Patronage solicited. Of
•fice opposite Dr. Keuan’a. *'•
Stephen C. Deßrulil,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,'
BRUNSWICK, GEORGIA.
WILL PRACTICE IN ALL THE COURTS OF
n the Brunswick Circuit, Special attention
given to the investigation of titles. ,iau - ’~ ’
nEIIAL\OTHI-
Having located in darien. J beg to
tender my profession services to the
CITIZENS OF DARIEN
and the county of Mclntosh.
Nov. 21-Gm. GEORGE J. KOLLOCK, M. D.
WALTER A. WAY,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
AND REAL ESTATE AGENT,
DARIEN, GEORGIA.
WILL PRACFICE IN THE SUPERIOR COURTS
" * ol the Brunswick and Eastern Circuits. Also
in the Federal Courts in eases of Bankruptcy, &c.
Particular attention given to the collection of
claims, and the examination of Land Titles, ap 25
M. L. MERSHON,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
BRUNSWICK, GEORGIA,
Wild, PRACTICE IN ALL THE COURTS OF
" th> Brunswick Circufl and Mclntosh in the
Eastern Circuit. Darien and Brunswick made a
specialty. may 22-ly.
Goodyear & Harris,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
BRUNSWICK, GEORGIA.
WILL PRACTICE IN ALL THE COUNTIES OF
** the Brunswick Circuit and the city of Darien,
Ga. Office, corner Newcastle and Gloucester sts„
over J. S. Blain & Co.’s drug store. Aug 1-ly.
P. W. MELDP.IM. s. B. ADAMS.
Meldrim A Adams,
ATTORNEYS AND
COUNSELLORS AT LAW,
Cor. Bay and Barnard Sts. Savannah, Ca.
ff IVE PERSONAL ATTENTION TO CAUSES IN
VI the Superior Courts of Chatham, Bryan, Bul
lock, Effingham, Liberty, Mclntosh, Tatnall, Scriv
en counties. Practice in the State and Federal
Courts. Prompt attention given to collections.
Reliable correspondence in all sections of the
State. Septi9-ly.
IR.A JE2. SMITH,
ATTORNEY AND
COUNSELLOR AT LAW,
BRUNSWICK, GEORGIA.
WILL PRACTICE IN ALL THE COURTS OF
> * the Brunswick Judicial Circuit, the Supreme
Court cf Georgia, and elsewhere by special con
tract. Will examine Titles to Land, eject Tress
passers, enforce Liens, collect Claims, and, in
short, make a specialty of all the varied duties
and branches of his profession. apr3tf
GEO. B. MABRY.
ATTORNEY AT LAW
AND SOLICITOR IN EQUITY,
BRUNSWICK, GEORGIA.
I>ERSONAL ATTENTION TO ALL CAUSES IN-
V trusted to my care in the Brunswick Circuit;
and Mclntosh iu the Eastern, Elsewhere by
special contract. junell-6m
§„ KB. L. BARER; JI. B>.,
VkFFERS IIIS PROFESSIONAL SERVICES TO
17 the public. Special attention given to diseases
OF CH ILDREN.
G J Bills p resented first oj each month.
_July 11-iy. _____
BR. SPALDING KEiYAIY,
DARIEN, GEORGIA.
Offers iiis professional services to
the citizens of Darien and vicinity. Ho can be
found at all hours day and, night, at his olfico oil
Screven Street, next door to Mr. Wilcox’s dwell
ing house. Aug. 8-ly.
D. B. WING,
MEASURER AND INSPECTOR
Timber and Lumber,
DARIEN, GA.
tSS~Respectfully Solicits Patronage, “O
May 2-ly.
WM M. YOUNG,
H AVING had five years experience in the busi
ness, I feel satisfied tliat I can give satisfac
tion. My thanks to the public for past patronage,
and hope for a continuance of the same.
WM. M. YOUNG.
declStf Second Street. Darien Ga.
BURR WIN TON,
CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER,
BRUNSWICK, GA.
PL ANS and Specifications furnished on short
notice. Will contract to erect Buildings in
every style. Also Superintend Buildings at reas
onable prices. All orders left with J. A. Atwood
& Bros Darien, Ga„ will be attended to with dis
patch. _ _ july4tf
BARBER SHOP,
—BY—
CLEMON SAB AT TIE.
Broad Street, two doors below Semen St.
DARIEN, GEORGIA.
SHOP CLOSES AT 11 O’CLOCK SUNDAY
Thanking the citizens of darien and
the public generally, for past patronage, I
solicit a continuance of the same, and will still in
deavor to merit the patronage bestowed upon me
in the future. lnar2otf
FALL k WINTER, 1874-5
EDWARD J. KENNEDY,
merchant tailor,
126 Broughton Street, Savannah, Georgia.
INVITES the attention of his former patrons
and the public in general to his new selected
stock of fine English and -French Digonals, Cassi
meres and Fancy Vestings, all of the choicest
„oods adapted to the season, w hich will be made
up to order in the most approved fashion All
goods warranted as represented sepia-iy
FISK’S PATENT
Metalic Burial Cases,
The best invention known for pre
serving THE DEAD. Also SELF-SEALING
Metalic Cases (two patent- elegant;}' finished) and
handsomest in the market.
Coffins in Rosewood. Mahogany, Black walnut,
Cedar and common woods. We k“ep A full as
sortment of all goods BRQg
auyl-tr (Broad Street,) Darien.
DARIEN, GEORGIA, FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 6, 1875.
PAINTING!
CHRIS. MURPHY. CHAS. CLARK.
MURPHY & CLARK
98 Bryan Street, near Drayton, Savannah,
Georgia.
HOUSE, SHIP, STEAMBOAT, SIGN AND
Ornamental Painters,
GLAZING,
GILDING.
GRAINING,
MARBLING, and
PA PLIt HANUERS.
We are prepared to offer estimates for every
description q; Painting in any part of Georgia,
South Carolina and Florida, and guarantee satis
faction in the execution of our work. Iu Store a
select stock of the following articles:
PURE ENGLISH B. B. LEAD.
ATLANTIC and all other brands of Lead.
OILS, VARNISHES, PUTTY, and BRUSHES.
FURNITURE. DEMAR and other Varnishes
put up in quart, pint and half pint bottles, ready
for use.
GROUND and'ENAMELED GLASS, STAINED
and PLAIN, of various colors.
Double and Single thick French, English and
American GLASS.
GOLD LEAF, BRONZE and Glaziers’ DIA
MONDS.
Machinery OIL and Axle GREALF.
A select stock of Gold and Plain PAPER HANG
INGS.
Persons desiring work and material in our line
would do well to give us a call before going else
where.
PLAIN ANS ORNAMENTAL
S I C N WORK
Executed with neatness and dispatch.
LADDERS! LADDERS!!
Connected with our Paint and Oil House will
be found a general assortment of Ladders of ev
ery discription, and at prices to suit purchasers.
STEP LADDERS
sold by Ms will be stained to imitate Black Wai
nnt, and lettered with the perchasers name if de
sired.
Orders from the country promptly attended
to feb!3-Gm
BRESNAILS
EUROPEAN HOUSE,
SAVANNAH, - - (VEORGIA.
(OPPOSITE NEW MARKET,)
Rooms, with Board, $2 00 a
Day.
*TNE LARGE AND AIRY ROOMS ALWAYS IN
READINESS FOR FAMILIES AND
COMMERCIAL TRAVELERS.
ONE OF THE FINEST
RESTAURANTS
In the South attached to the House.
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attention being given to Savannah’s Local and
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Foundry and Machine
WORKS.
P. HERTEL. Proprietor.
Boilers and Engines
MADE AND REPAIRED.
Saw Mills, Steam Boats and General
Machinery Repairs a Specialty.
Always on hand,
Sugar Kills, Pans, Gearing,
Etc., Etc.
All work nealty and promptly executed, and
satisfaction guaranteed.
For sale at the works now, one Sixty Horse
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are said about the Morning News by its contem
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referred to as “The best paper in the South,”
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the people of Georgia and Florida. The ample
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partments, will be kept up to the old standard,
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The Morning News is the only Savannah paper
that publishes the Associated Press dispatches
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XI.IGVII fSOSEEOCXSL..
mills SCHOOL will open at the SCHOOL HOUSE
1 on the Ridge at 9 o’clock, a. m. on MONDAY,
the 19th day of October, 1874, under charge of
GARDNER RUGGLES,
Principal.
MTSS CLIFFOBE STANFORD,
Assistant.
The trustees desire the prompt, aud punetua
attendance of all pupils with such books as they
may now have.
For further particulars apply to tho Chairman
oftlie Board. E. S. BARCLAY.
octl7-tf Chairman.
JOSEPH G-OETTfe,
Undertakers Waire-Room,
137 Rroughton St., between Bull and Whitaker,
SAVANNNH, GEORGIA.
\FINE and well selected stock Metalie, Mahog
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Coffin plates and trimmings always on hand.
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nerals. Ice cases for preserving remains in the
warmest weather. Remains disinterred, boxed
and shipped. Orders from the country promptly
attended to. Personal attention given to all or
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Notice !!
From and after this date, all wheel
wright or Blacksmith work, left at my Shop,
if not called for within TEN DAYS after repaired,
win be sold to cover expenses. Also work done
on Jewelry, A-e. Wm. McW. YOUNG
Darien,"May 19tb, 1875. n.ay-Jl-lm
CAPTAIN BOYTON.
Ills lilventures as a Diver-How lie
Played It on a siltark.
A correspondent wlio lias inter
viewed Captain Boyton sends a re
port of the Captain’s statement to
the Getlenian’s Magazine: “Soon af
terwards I worked down into the
Gulf of Mexico. The first coral I
raised was in Catoclio, Knocking
round about there, I heard of the
loss of tho schooner Foam. The
first mate and three men got saved,
but the captain, his daughter and
three men got lost. I slung round
to see if she could be raised. After
we’d spent the best part of the week,
we sailed over her and dropped an
chor. It was a, lovely Sunday mor
ning when lie struck her. She lay
in sixty feet of water on a bottom
as white as the moon. Looking
down 1 could see her leaning over
on one side upon the coral reef.
W hen I got down to her I saw she’d
torn a great gap in the reef when
she ran against it. The mainmast
was gone and hung by the fore; I
clambered up; I saw whole slioals of
fish playing in and out of the hatch
es. First I went to look for the
bodies, for I never like to work while
there’s any one of them about.
Finding the fo’castle empty I w'ent
to the two little state cabins. It
was rather dark, and 1 had to feel
in the lower bunks. There was
nothing in the first, and in the oth
er the door was locked. I pried it
open and shut back the lock with
my adze. It fI(UV open, and out
something fell right against me. I
felt at once it was the woman’s
body. I was not exactly frightened,
but it shook me rather, I slung it
from nie and went out into the light
of a bit until I got hold of myself.
Then I turned back and brought
her out —poor thing! She’d been
very pretty, and so I carried her in
my*arms; with her white face nest
ling against my shoulder, she seem
ed as if she was only sleeping. I
made her fast to the line, as care-
fully as I could, to send her up, and
the fish played about her as if they
were sorry she was going, At last
I gave the signal, and she went
slowly up, her hair floating round
her head like a pillow of golden sea
weed. That was tho only body I
found there, and I managed after to
raise pretty considerable of the car
go. One *of my expeditions was
among the silver banks of the An
tilles, the loveliest place I ever saw,
where the white coral grows into
curious tree-like shapes. As I step
ped along the bottom it seemed as
if I was in a frosted forest. Here
and there trailed long fronds of
green and crimson sea-weed. Sil
ver-belled fisli flashed about among
the deep-brown and purple sea
ferns, which rose high as my head.
Far as I could see all round in the
transparent water were different
colored leaves, and on the floor
piles of shells so bright in color
that it seemed as if I had stumbled
on a place where they kept a stock
of broken rainbows. I could not
work for a bit, and had a quarter
determination to sit down a while
and wait for a mermaid. I guess
if tl ose sea-gir s hive any where,
they select that spot. After walk
ing the inside out of half an hour I
thought I had better get to work
and blast for treasure. A little bit
on from where I sat were the re
mains of a treasure ship. It was a
Britisher, I think, and corals had
formed all about her, or rather
about what was left of her. r ihe
coral on the bottom and around her
showed black spots. That meant a
deposit of either iron or silver. I
made fa'rly good hauls every time I
went down, and sold one piece I
found to Barnurn, of New York. Af
ter I left there I had a curious ad
venture with a shark. T was down
on a nasty rock bottom. A man
never feels comfortable on them; he
can't tell what big creature may be
hiding under the huge quarter-deck
sea-leaves which grow thore. The
first time I was visited by a porcu
pine fish, which [kept sticking its
quils up and bobbing in front of my
helmet. Soon after I saw a big
shadow fall across me, and looking
up there was an infernal shark play
ing about my tubing. It makes you
feel chilly in the back when they’re
about. He came down to me slick
as I looked up. I made at him and
he sheared off. For an hour he
worked at it, till I could stand it no
longer. If you can keep your head
level, it’s all right, and you’re pret
ty safe if they’re not on you sharp.
This ugly brute was twenty feet
long, I should think, for when I lay
down all my length on the bottom
he stretched a considerable way
ahead cf me, and I could see him
beyond my feet. Then I waited.
They must turn over to bite, and
$2.50 A YEAS.
my laying clown bothered him. He
swam over three or four times, and
then skulked oft' to a big thicket of
sea-weecl to consider. I knew he’d
come back when he’d settled his
mind. At last he came viciously
over me, but, like the time before,
too far from my arms. The next
time I had my chance, and ripped
him with my knife as neatly as I
could. A shark always remembers
lie’s got business somewhere else
when lie’s cut, so oft' this fellow
goes. It is a curious thing, too,
that all the sharks about will follow
in the trail he leaves. I got on my
hands and knees, and as he swam
off I noticed four dark shadows slip
atter him. I saw no more that
time. They did not like my com
pany.” After a short period of ex
perience in pearl-diving, and the
loss of nearly everything that he
possessed, including his diving ap
paratus, in a great conflagration,
Captain Boy ton, in a sort of desper
ation, took service in the Mexican
war, and led an exciteing life till,
growing tired of the semi-barbarian
mode of warfare, he deserted, cross
ing from Matamoras at midnight in
an old tub of a boat, in which he
expected every minute to go to the
bottom. Arriving at Brownsville,
he “fixed himself into hard ■work”
at a dry goods store. Then lie
wrote home, and, lieaiing that his
father was dead, grew restless again,
and “waded away north,” through
Victoria, San Antonio, Indianola,
and by a schooner from Galveston,
whence lie proceeded through New
Orlei n', Savannah, Charleston'and
Wilmington to New York. There
he stayed until he had filled his
pockets again, and having set lum
self up with a diving suit, he ship
ped for Havre.
Illusions,
i
Do we not dwell amid a world
peopled with them, and do we not
find, almost without exception, the
i lusions a thousand fold more
bright, more beautiful than the real
ities? Youth wears, indeed, a mystic
vail, and the objects viewed through
it shine ever with rainbow hues,
The dull, cold, hard realities sur
rounding us—the occurrences that
to the disenchanted are tiresome
and commonplace—beheld through
youth’s trustful eyes, wear a glow and
glory eclipsed by nothing else in this
world! Ah ! never, though year af
ter yeijr speed by, and we, growing
old, prove sadly that our visions
were visions only, can we forget
their wondrous loveliness —the
charm which enwrapped them, or
the homage we rendered them,
near or afar off! It took so little, so
very little, to make the eye gleam
with pleasure, the check to flush
with pride and joy, or the heart to
quicken its throbbing, in the en
chanted days. Why is it that we are
half-indifferent now to praise or
blame 1
When our joys were in the disr
tance they gleamed with a thousand
roseate hues; but as they come near
er their deep tints grow pale and
wan, and when at lest we touch
them, only shadows linger in our
clasp. From time to time our illu
sions are dispelled. Each perished
dream leaves in its stead something
of distrust and bitterness; and: we
wonder sadly if the cliage is in otil
ers, or if we are changed ? Has the
bud, so full of promise and sweet
ness, developed into such acrid fruit,
uninviting to the eye, and nauseous
to the taste ? Though the vail which
lent these glimmering visions their
rare lovliness be lifted, and we see,
with the eyes of hardly-gained wis-j
| dom, what once we deemed so fair,
| now dark, commonplace, and utter*
j ly devoid of a single grace—yet let
lus forbear to dispel the charm
| which encircles as with a halo, each
I object the eye of youth rests upon.
! The great world will never he
gleaming before us like an enchant
ed picture but once —and we shall
tire sometimes of looking at the nev
er-paling stars seen through a mist
of tears.
The flowers w T e gathered in the
morning will be crushed and broken
ere night—and night comes so soon
to us all!
There is a village in New
Hiinshire which has produced
twenty six editors, and it was in
allusion to this circumstance that
a pious old deacon there remarked:
“Yes, there were twenty-six on’em,
but as they’ve all left town, I reck
;on the Lord won’t lay it up agin
| us.”
A medical journal has found
that there are from 160,000 to 200*
000 hairs in a woman’s head. The
number of hairs in a man’s head
! depends considerably on the length
of "time he has been married