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VOL. 2.—NO. 13.
Weekly Timber Gazette,
PUBLISHED EVERY
FRIDAY EVENING
AT DARIEN, GEORGIA, BY
lUCIIAKD W. GRUBB.
OFFICE: —Broad Street. Near I fee Net* Offices of
\lessrs. Young J langdon, and J. K. Clarke.
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Timber Gazette, Darien, Georgia.
CITY MREOTORY.
County Officers.
County Commissioners —T. P. Pease, Chairman, J.
P Gilson, James Walker, James Lachlison, Rich
ard L. Morris, L. Mclntosh, T. H. GigniUiat.
Clerk If. C. C—Spalding Kenau.
Clerk Superior Court— Isaac M. Aikon.
Ordinary —Lewis Jackson.
Sheriff—T. Butler Blount,
Receiver Tux Returns —S. E. Clarke.
Tax Collector— Allen McDonald.
County Treasurer —E. P. Champuey.
Coroner —John H. Burrell.
The Commissioners hold monthly meetings first
Wednesday in each month.
Cl tv Officers.
Re-Off. Mayor— T. P. Pease.
Ex-tiffs. Aldermen— Tos. P. Gilson, James Wal
k t. James Lachlison, B. L. Morris, L. Mclntosh,
Thomas H. GigniUiat.
Clerk anl Treasurer— Spalding Kenan.
City Marshal —Robert K. Carr.
Harbor Master— C. H. Steadwell.
Inspector General of Timber—V. S. Barclay.
Hurt Wardens— lsaac M. Aiken, John H. Burrell
and James . Young.
Jailor —Robert E. Carr.
Masonic.
Live Oak Lodge, No. 137, meets first Wednesday
night in each month at their Hall near tho Magno
lia House. E. P. Champnoy, Worshipful Master,
L. E. B. DeLorme, Secretary.
Schools.
Mclntosh High School on the Ridge. Gardner
Buggies, Esq., Principal, Miss Clifford Stanford,
Assistant.
Traveller*' Unltlc.
The Steamer Reliance, Capt. Nick King, arrives
from Savannah every Friday'morning and leaves
same day for Brunswick and Satilla River. Re
turning, arrives from Brunswick and Satil'a River
every Saturday nigh! and departs for Savannah
Sunday mornings at 8 o’clock.
The Steamer Lizzie Baker, Capt. r. LaTiose, ar
rive, from Savannah every Tuesday evening
and departs same night for Brunswick and I iori
da. Returning, arrives from Florida and Bruns
wick every Friday evening and leaves same
night foi Savannah.
The Steamer Clyde, ('apt. J. L. Day, makes rcg
ula trips up the river to Ilawkinsville and Dub
lin about once a month.
U. S. officer*.
Collector rf Customs, Brunswick District— John T.
Collins. Headquarters at Brunswick.
l)e.po.tj Collector of Customs for Port of Darien—
Charles H. Townsend.
Boarding Master —J. E. Cornelius.
Postmaster —D. Webster Davis. •
Deputy V. S. Marshal —Bobert E. Carr.
Superior Court.
Mclntosh Superior Court convenes Tuesdays af
ter the last Mondays in April and November.
Hon. Henry 13. Tompkins, Judge, presiding; and
Col. Albert K. Lamar, Solicitor General.
17. S. Waif*.
The mail arrives from Sterling, No. 1, M ft B.
p. R every morning (Sunday excepted) at 10
o’clock, departing same day at 4 p. m. Mail
closes at 3>7 p. m.
Side mail for No. 3, A. k. G. It. It., deiiarts at
S'; o’clock every Tuesday morning and arrives at
gp.m. every Wednesday, touching at Biceboro ana
South Newport both ways.
Religious.
Religions services at the Methodist E. Church
every Sunday morning at 11 o’ch ck, and every
Tuesday evening at 3 o’clock. Services at the
Bidge Chapel every Sunday and Friday evening,
Sabbath School every Sunday afternoon at 5
o’clock. Kev. It. M. Lockwood, Pastor.
Religious services at the Episcopal Church on
the Ridge every Sunday morning at 11 o’clock.
Colored Mission at DeLorme’a Warehouse at 3 p.
m., and at R. K. Walker’s office at 4-30 p. in. for
white congregation. Rev. R. F. Clute, D. D.
Rector.
Regular meeting day St. Andrews vestry, sec
ond Tuesday of each month, at 12 o’clock, m.
Religious services every Sabbath at 11 a. no, 3 p.
ui t . and 7p. m.. at the colored Babtist Church—
Rev. R. Miilin, pastor.
Religious Services every Sabbath at 11 a. m., and
■3 p. m., at the Methodist Church, colored—Ref.
■■3. Brc.wn, pastor.
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PROFESSIONAL GASPS.
Wi Robert Giguilliat,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
DARIEN, GEORGIA.
PROMPT ATTENTION GIVEN TO ALL LEGAL
A business in the Eastern and. Brunswick Cir
cuits, and in the United States Courts at Savan
nah, Georgia. april
JL. E. 11. DcLorme,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
AND NOT Alyl" PUBLIC,
DARIEN, GEORATA.
WILL PRACTICE IN THE BRUNSWICK AND
■ * Eastern Circuits. Patronage solicited, ui
lice opposite Dr. Kenan's, July A—iy-
Ste|lieii a Beßrulil,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
BRUNSWICK, GEORGIA.
l\aLL 1 r ,-X’TIOE IN ALL THE COURTS OF
'* the Bru wid; Circuit, special attenti
given to the lev ligation of titles. Jan...
TiEDini wriCK.
i J AVING LOCATED IN DARIEN, 1 BEG X >
I*- tender ray proft'-.un servic to .jo
t iTI/.ENS OF ESAU IK N
.ml the county rf Mclntosh. .
v„ •!.,; yci GF L hoLLuCK. •* v
WAI.T HR A. WAV,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
AND REAL ESTATE AGENT,
DARIEN, GEORGIA.
\UTT T- PRACFICE IN THE Sl i'ERIOR COURTS
of the Brunswick -and Eastern Circuits. Also
m the Federal Courts in cases of Bankruptcy, &c.
x>ai ticular attention given to the collection of
lf ' examination of Land Titles, ap 25
M. L. MERSHON,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
BRUNSWICK, GEORGIA,
WILL practice in all the courts of
T ’ the Brunswick Circuit and Mclntosh in the
Eastern Circuit. Darien and Brunswick made a
specialty. _ _ may 22-ly.
Goodyear A Harris,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
BRUNSWIOK, GEORGIA.
WILL PRACTICE IN ALL THE COUNTIES OF
■ 1 the Brunswii k Circuit and the city of Davien,
Ga. Office, corner Newcastle and Gloucester sts,,
over J. S. Blain & Co.'s drug store. Aug 1-ly.
T. W. MELDJUM. s, B. ADAMS.
Mcldrim k Adams,
ATTORNEYS AMD
COUNSELLORS AT LAW,
C/r. Bay and Barnard Sts. Savannah, Ga.
<' JIVE PERSONAL ATTENTION TO CAUSES IN
’ " the Superior Courts of Chatham, Bryan, Bul
lock, Effingham, Liberty, Mclntosh, Tatnall, Scriv
en counties. Practice in tin- State and Federal
Courts. Prompt attention given to collections.
Reliable correspondence in all sections of the.
State. Hepti 9-J y.
XHL£L~ a
ATTORNEY AMD
COUNSELLOR AT LAW,
BRUNSW U’K, GEORGIA.
WILL PRACTICE IN ALL THE COURTS OF
* * the Brunswick Judicial Circuit, tlie Supreme
Court of 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. aprStf
GEO. B. MABRYr
ATTORNEY AT LAW
AND SOLICITOR IN EQUITY,
BRUNSWICK, GEORGIA.
PERSONAL ATTENTION TO ALL CAUSES IN
i trusted to my care in the Brunswick Circuit;
and Mclntosh ia the Eastern. Elsewhere by
Special contract. . junell-6m
j7li. is. MAKER, 51. !>.,
OFFERS 1113 PROFESSIONAL SERVICES TO
the public. Special attention given to diseases
of caiumKX.
lid's presented first oj each mcnlhp&sD.
July 11-Iy.
im.7 PALDI XU HEX A
DARIEN, GEORGIA.
OFFERS HIS PROFESSIONAL SERVICES TO
the citizens of Darien and vicinity. Ho can be
found at all hours day and night, at his ofiice on
Screven street, next door to Mr. Wilcox’s dwell
ing house. Aug. 8-ly,
I). B. WING,
31EA,SURER -AN D INSPECTOR
Timber anti Lumber,
DARIEN, GA.
IlcspectruUy Solicits Patronage
May 2-ly.
WWI m. YOUNG,
,jaHrwEn:-a4i:..
I j WING had five years experience in the busi-
II uoss, I feci satisfied that I can give satisfac
tion. My thanks to the public for past patronage,,
and hope for a continuance of the same.
WM. M. YOUNG.
dccl2tf Second Street, Darien Ga.
BURR WI XT ON,
CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER,
BRUNSWICK, GA.
rjLANSand Specifications furnished on short
l notieo. 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. juß-ltf
BARBERSHOP,
—BY—
CLEMON SABATTIE.
Broad Street, two doors below Sen von St.
DARIEN, GEORGIA.
SHOP CLOSES AT 11 O’CLOCK SUNDAY
rrH.VNKING THE CITIZENS OF DARIEN AND
J the public generally, for past patronage, I
solicit a continuance of the same, and will .still m
df avor to merit the patronage bestoived upon me
in the future. ar2otf _
FAIT& WINTER, 1874-5
EDWARD J. KENNEDY,
.HEKCHAXT TAILOR,
126 Broughton Street, Savannah, Georgia.
INVITES the attention of his former patrons
. and the public in general to his new selected
stork of line English and French Digonals, Cassi
meres and Fancy Vestings, all of the choisest
goods adapted to the season, which will be made
up to order in the most approved fashion. All
goods warranted as represented scplJ-ly
FISK’S PATENT
Meialic Burial Cases.
rpHE BEST INVENTION KNOWN FOR I’RE
-6 SERVING IHE DEAD. Also SELF-SEALING
Met’itD Cases (twopaten? < elegantly finished} and
ta 7ofl.o’("inß wood, Mahogany Black Walnut,
Cedar and common woods. Me k-c-p a full as
sortment of all goods in k BROS.
augl-tf* Brojid Street ' Darky
DAKIEN, GEORGIA, FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 13, 1875.
PAINTING!
CHRIS. MURPHY. CHAS. CLARK.
MURPHY & CLARK
98 Bryan Street, near Drayton, Savannah,
Georgia.
HOUSE, 'HIP, STEAMBOAT, SIGN AND
Ornamental Painters,
GLAZING,
GILDING.
GRAINING,
MARBLING, and
PAPER MANGERS.
We are prepared to offer estimates for every
description oj Painting in any part of Georgia*,
South Carolina and Florida, and guarantee satis
faction iu the execution ot our work. In Store a
select stock of the following articles:
PURF ENGLISH B. B. LEAD.
ATI,ANTIC 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 andIENAMELED GLASS, STAINED
and PLAIN, of various colors.
Double and Single thick French, English and
American GLASS.
GOLD LEAF, DIIONZE and Glaziers' DIA
MONDS.
Machinery OIL and Axle GBEALF.
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 AND ORNAMENTAL
Si CPi W ORK
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 discriution, andatprices to suit purchasers.
STEP LADDERS
sold by us will bo stained to imitate Black Wal
nut, and lettered with the perohasers name if de
sired.
Orders from the country promptly attended
to, febl3-(im
BRESNT AN’S
EUROPEAN HOUSE,
SAVANNAH, - - GEORGIA.
(OPPOSITE NEW M A RKET,)
Rooms, with Board, $2 00 a
Day.
FINE LARGE AND AIRY ROOMS ALWAYS IN
READINESS FOR FAMILIES AND
COMMERCIAL TRAVELERS.
ONE OF THE FINEST
RESTAURANTS
In the South attached to tho nouse.
,!OII\ BRESAAIV,
Proprietor.
sep!9.ly
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MADE AND REPAIRED.
Saw Mills, Steam Boats and General
Machinery Repairs a Specialty,
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All work nealty and promptly executed, and
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I power Engine and two Timmons Saw Carriages,
! also two Stkam Pumps.
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> j, - v £av Street,.Bruns wick, Ga
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XUIOM AND AF ER THIS DATE. ALL WtD'EL-
I wright or Blacksmith work, left at my Shop,
if n< t Called for within TEN DAYS after ri paired,
! wfh be sold to cover expenses. Also work done
, on Jewelry, kc. Wm. McW. YOUNG
I Dm-ieu.M’y i3th. 1875. rnayjl-lm
“JoffgiH”
They entered Vicksburg just at
dark. The two mules before the
covered wagon leaned against each
other for support, and a man hav
ing any knowledge of mules, would
have said that a lunch of scrap-iron
would have been a God send to
them. There was a big dog under
the wagon, and he looked around
in a suspicious, frightened way, as
if expecting an attack from some
quarter.
Peering out from the wagon was
a woman and three children. Her
face was as yellow its ochre and as
sharp as a plantation hoe, and if
the children had a bit of bacon for
months past, their looks didn't show
it.
“We’re a sad family,” replied the
man as he returned from the gro
cery with a pound of crackers and
a bit of cheese.
Anything bad happened?”- asked
the reporter.
“You see that woman in the wag
on thar. Well, she weighed a hun
dred and sixty pounds when we
struck Louisiana, a year ago. Thar
she is now, gone down |to a shud
der, and you qouldu’t hear her hol
ler across the ro, and!”
“Yes, she does look bad. ’
“And tliar’s the three children —
fell away to bones aud hide and ha’r.
Thar’ used to be seven. The rest
sir planted over thar’ across the riv
er!”
“Well, that is bad.”
“And thar’s theta mules,” contin
ued the stranger, his voice growing
husky. “Thar’ was a time when
they was jist ole lightning; had to
tie 'em up out doors for fear they’d
kick the stable down. They don’t
look like it now, but they was once
able to run a plow into tho side so
deep that it took a nigger a day to
dig down to the handles!”
“They seem worn out now.”
“And gaze on that dog—on poor
Timothy!” continued the man,
brushing a tear from his left eye—
that’s what takes the pluck ome!
When I brought that dog from old
Kaintuck, the taller fried out of him
as lie walked, and when he sot his
teeth on to anything, it had to come
or die. And what is he now?
Whar’s his bounden’ step, his fat,
his grit?”
“You had bad luck, then?”
“Yes, things sot agin’ us from the
start. The rain drowned the crops
out, the ager shook us up stairs and
down, fever took the children away,
and the ole woman and the mules
and Timothy sot right down and
pined away tc shadders.”
“And you are moving ?”
“We’re a joggin,’ stranger, kind
er joggin’ along and around, look
in’ for a place to squat. The ole
woman sighs for Ham tuck, and
Timothy he’d git up on his hind
legs and howl if we w’ere pinted
that way, but I. thought we’d jog a
little further.”
“And you will settle in Mississip
pi?”
“I’ll see. They say the sile here
is good and crops sure, but I dun
no If f can git a good bit o' land
on sheers we’li stop and make the
dirt fly, but if I cant we’ll make
for Kaintuck and keep joggin’ as
long as the mules hold out.”
Well, I’m sorry* said for you, said
the reporter.
“ ’Bleeged to you stranger, I’ve
tried to keep a stiff back-bone, and
I guess I kin see this thing through,
but when a feller remembers what
those mules was and see ’em now,
it’s ’nnff to break his heart, to say
nuthin’ about Timothy under the
wagon, a dog who was brung up on
the fat o’the land, and who liain’t
used to sorrow and grief!”
And he climbed into the wagon,
pushed on the lines, and the mules
slowly mbved on their way.— Vicks
burg Herald.
Dan nkenness. —What is it tnat
saps the morals of youth; kills the
germ of generous ambition; depot
bites the domestic hearth-; renders
families fatherless; -digs ‘dishonor
ed graves?—Drunkenness. What
makes a man shunned by the rela
tives who loved him; condemned by
the contemporaries who outstripped
him; reviled by the very wretches
who betrayed "him?—Drunkenness.
What Alls our asylums with luna
tics; our ponds and rivers with sui
cides; our jails with -'th'eives and
murderers; our streets with infamy?
—The same destructive vice. He
who by precept, whether oral or
written, should succeed in render
ing drunkenness detestable, and so
briety an unviolated virture
throughout the land, will confer on
all classes of society- -a boon beyond
all price.
- ♦ ■
tie is worth no weal that can
bide no woe.
$2.50 A YEAH,
Wanted to Learn a Yankee
Trick.
He was an Irishman and his name
was Pat Flinn. He had heard of
such things as “Yankee Tricks,” and
he wished to know what they were.
So, as he was walking along the
road he met a man and asked him
if lie knew any “Yankee Tricks.”
The man said iie did, and Pat thus
said: “Bedad, if you learn me one,
a good one, I’ll give you a quarter.”
“All right,” answered the man, “i
place my hand flat against this post.
Now you strike my hand as hard as
3ou possibly can.” Pat understood
—-he would strike his hand for him,
if that was ail he wanted. Pat
struck the man's hand a terrible
blow, expecting to see it converted
to a jelly. It wasn’t. The man had
drawn away his hand at the same
moment that Pat struck, and Pat
roared with pain. As he paid the
man his promised quarter, he de
termined to be even; he would show
Jim Shaw that “Yankee Trick.” He
walked along as luck would have it
he met the identical Jim Shaw.
Says Pat: “Jim, did you ever see a
“Yankee Trick? ” “No,” answered
Jim, “dhl you?” “Begorra an’l did;
I paid a fellow a quarter to-day to
learn me one, an’ I’ll tache it to you
for that very same.” “Chape
enough,” says Jim, “Here’s your
quarter; blaze away with your
trick.” Now as they were in tlio
middle of a large field, Pat looked
around in vain for a post, not ono
nearer than a half mile. But it
would never do to back out. Ha!
A. bright idea enters his head. He
places his hand against his mouth
and tells Jim to hit it as hard as he
can. Jim complies, and Pat draws
away his hand and receives a tre
mendous blow in the mouth knock
ing all of his front teeth out. “Jeru
—St. Patrick! Blood and thunder 1”
he roiivs, “Take your quarter back,
Jim, bejabers! I’ve learned two
Yankee tricks!”
♦ -*■
independence Day in Dan
bury.
One of the most painful of the ac
cidents happening on Independence
Day, occurcd to a family living on
Osborne street. Two of the young
sons had improvised a cannon from
an old gun barrel. The father gave
them a pound of powder, and took
a lively interest in the firing. It was
not an ornamental piece, but it made
a most astonishing noise, which is of
more importance.
“Ram her down tight this time,”
suggested the exultant father, a
little impatient to increase the
sound.
“But wlmt will the neighbors
think?” mildly protested his
wife. “You will jar their heads
off.”
“Fudge on their heads. This
is the glorious Fourth, and it
don’t come but once in a year.
Ram her down, boys, an’ make her
sing.”
They did. They worked like vet
erans, and put in a lot of grass, and
hammered away at the wadding
like a pair of pile drivers. They
then fixed it for touching off The
father was sitting on the f ence,
weaving [to and fro and smiling
with all his might. The match was
applied. There was a sis, a flash.,
and then a discharge -which seemed
to shake the very centre of the
earth. At the same instant flie pa
triotic father left the fence back
wards, and went crashing end over
end, into the next lot, his eyes and
mouth full of dirt and sand. The
piece had exploded, and a portion
of the barrel, weighing nearly two
pounds, flerv across the yard with
such force as to completely rend
the teats frem two pairs of new
overalls hanging on a line, and then
plowed into the earth just in front
of the owner of the garments,
knocking him over as stated. Alien
he got on his feet, and his eyes and
and senses sufficiently cleared to
“team what had happened, he un
hesitatingly said, “'Come, now,
there’s been enough of this cussed
foolishness for one day.” —Danbury
Nncs.
jggp Racine society is scandalized
hecause a handsome young lady
student at the high school was fer
rule 1 on the hands the other day
by the principal, but that’s noth
ing-. When we went # to school
they used to take a piece of clap
board. and they didn’t use it
on the hands, either. —Milwaukee
News.
—&
Upon the dentil of her hus
| band, a St. Louis woman dyed her
I Spit/dog Mack. She had recently
| purchased a very elegant bonnet and
couliln’t afford to go in mourning
herself