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Darien Timber Gazette.
VOL. 6.—NO, 5.
Darien Timber Gazette,
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY MORNING,
JT DJLRIEJT , GEORGIA,
CORNER.BROAD AND.NQRTHWAY STREETS.
RICHARD W. GRUBB,
Editor and Proprietor.
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Timber Gazette, Darien, Georgia.
City Directory.
~~~ COUNTY OFFICERS.
County Commissioners —James Walker, Chairman;
Adam Strain, Isaac M. Aiken, J. A. Atwood, T. H.
Uignilliat, James E. Holmes, Joseph Hilton.
Clerk Board of County
Kenan. ,
Clerk Superior Court —L. B. Davis.
Ordinary— C. H. Hopkins, Sr.
Sheriff— T. Butler Blount.
Receiver Tax Returns— W. McW. Young.
Tax Collector—o. 0. Hopkins.
County Treasurer —M. C. O’Neil.
County Surveyor—Vi. R. Poppel.
Coroner— Philip Maxwell.
The Commissioners hold monthly meetings on
the first Wednesday in each month.
CITY OFFICERS.
Ex-Officio Mayor— James Walker.
Ex-Officio Aldermen —Joseph Hilton. J. A. Atwood,
Adam Strain, J. E. Holmes, Thomas H. Gignilliat,
Isaac M. Aiken.
STANDING COMMITTEES.
Committee on Finance —Messrs. Strain, Atwood
and Hilton.
Committee, on Accounts—Messrs. Holmes, Gignil
liat and Aiken.
Committee on Harbor— Messrs. Hilton, Aiken
and Strain.
Committee on Health anil Cemetery —Messrs. Gignil
liat, Atwood and Holmes.
Committee on Paupers—Messrs. Atwood, Holmes
and GignilUat.
Committee on Jail— Messrs. Aiken, Hilton and
Atwood.
Committee on Streets and Lanes— Messrs. Aiken,
Strain and Holmes.
Committee on County Roads— Messrs. Atwood,
Gignilliat and Hilton- _ ~
Committee on Public Buildings— Messrs, btrain,
Gignilliat, and Aiken.
Committee on Police— Messrs. Holmes, Hilton and
Strain. .
Committee on Ordinances —Messrs. Aiken, Strain
and Atwood.
Clerk and Treasurer—Spalding Kenan.
City Marshal —Charles H. Hopkins, Jr.
Deputy Marshal —Alonzo Guyton.
llarbor Master —James Abeel.
Port Physician—Dr. James Holmes.
Inspector General of Timber —George W. Faries.
Port Wardens —lsaac M. Aiken, John H. Burrell,
and James G. Young.
Jailer —Charles H. Hopkins, Jr.
Board Pilot Commissioners—Charles S. Langdon,
Chairman, R. K. Walker, W. C. Clark, Arthur Bai
ley, Dr. R. B. Harris, James Lachlison and Robt.
Mitchell. Win. L. Gignilliat, Secretary.
MASONIC.
Live Oak Lodge, No. 137, meets first Wednesday
night in each month at their hall near the Magno
lia House; H. S. Ravenel, Worshipful Master; R.
W. Grubb, Secretary
UNITED STATES OFFICERS.
Collector of Customs, Brunswick District —John I'.
Collins. Headqnarters at Brunswick.
Deputy Collector of Customs for Port of Darien—
Charles H. Townsend.
Boarding Master —Edwin C. Davis.
Postmaster—D. Webster Davis.
Deputy Marshal—J oseph B. Bond.
SUPERIOR COURT— EASTERN CIRCUIT.
Hon. Wm. B. Fleming, Judge.
Major A. B. Smith, Solicitor General.
Bulloch County—Thursday before first Mondays
in April and October.
Effingham County—First Mondays in April and
October.
Bryan County—Thursdays after first Mondays
In April and October.
Chatham County—Second Mondays In February,
May and October.
McMtosh County—Tuesdays after last Mondays m
April and October.
Liberty County—Tuesday after seconu Mondays
in May and October.
UNITED STATES MAILS.
The mails arrive from Sterling, No. 1. Macon &
Brunswick Railroad, every morning (Sunday ex
cepted) at 10 o’clock a. m., departing every after
noon at 3p. m. Mail closes at 2'i p. m.
Side mail for No. 3, Atlantic & Gulf Railroad,
departs B, v, o’clock every Tuesday morning and
arrives at 8 p. m. every Monday, touching at
Bioeboro and South Newport both ways.
RELIGIOUS.
Religious services at the Methodist Church
every Sunday morning at II oclock, and evening
at 8 o’clock.' School at the Ridge every Sunday
afternoon at 3 V, o’clock. Rev. H. E. Harman, pas
tor.
Religious services every Sabbath at 11 a. m. and
3p.m. at the Methodist Church, colored. Rev.
L. H. Smith, pastor.
UTO SO,OOO A YEAR, or $5 to S2O
a day in your own locality.
No risk. Women do as well as
men. Many make more than the
amount stated above. No one
f can fall to make money fast.
Any one can do the work. You can make from
50 cts. to $2 an hour by devoting your evenings
and spare time to the business. It costs nothing
to try the business. Nothing like it ever offered
before. Business pleasant and strictly honorable.
Header, if you want to know all about the best
paying business before the public, send us your
address and we will send you full particulars and
private terras free; samples worth $5 also free;
you can then make up your mind for yourself.
Address GEORGE STINSON & CO., Portland, Me.
june 20
M f\ K WEEK in your own toVn, and no
111 11 |~apital risked. You can give the busi
* W a trial without expense. The beet
111 |ll opportunity ever offered tor those wil
|/ U to work. You should try nothing
else until you see for yourself what you
can do at the business we offer. No room to ex
plain here. You can devote all your time or only
your spare time to the business, and make great
pay for every hour that you work. Women make
much as men. Send for special private terms
and particulars, which we mail free. s•* Outfit
free. Don’t complain of hard times while you
have such a chance. Address H. HALLErT V CO.,
Portland, Maine. Jnae2Q
Notice.
A Ii VESSELS AND STEAMBOATS BOUND
to Darien by the inland route from tk© South
hiuat report at the quarantine station at Doboy
for inspection and permitted to proceed.
JAMES HOLME©, Port Physician.
By order Of the Mayor.
Professional Cards.
'yy ALTER A. WAY,
Attorney-at-L,aw and Real
Estate Agent,
DARIEN, GEORGIA.
Will practice in the Superior Courts of the
Brunswick and Eastern Circuits. Also, in the
Federal Courts in cases of Bankruptcy, etc. Par
ticular attention given to the collection of claims
and the examination of land titles. april'2s
yy ROBERT GIGNILLIAT.
Attorney-at-Law,
DARIEN, GEORGIA.
Prompt attention given to all legal business in
the Eastern and Brunswick Circuits, and in the
United States Courts at Savannah, Georgia.
april'2s-ly
Te. b. Delorme,
i.
Attorney &. Connselor-at-Law,
and Notary Public.
DARIEN, GEORGIA.
Office on Broad struct, near Timber Exchange.
J uly'2
JJIt SPALDING KENAN,
DARIEN, GEORGIA.
Offers his professional services to tho citizens of
Darien and vicinity. He can be found at all hours
day and night, at his office on Screven Btreet, next
door to Mr. Wilcox’s dwelling house. augß-ly
R. B. HARRIS
Offers his professional services to the citizens of
Darien and surrounding country. All calls prompt
ly attended, both aaedical and surgical. Office
under tho Masonic Hall, in old Custom House
building.
J J. ABRAMS,
Attorney-at-LaW,
Commercial Building,
june6-tf SAVANNAH, GEORGIA.
HENRY B. TOMPKINS. | li. A. DENMARK.
rriOMPKINS & DENMARK,
Attorncys-at-Laiv,
No. 105 Bay Street, SAVANNAH, GA.
Practice in the United States Courts, and in the
Superior Courts of tho Eastern Circuit. jeG-tf
MiscellaneoTiSa
LOOK OUT.
HOYT’S COLOGNE. CORNING’S COLOGNE,
LUBIN’S EXTRACTS, POMADES,
HAIR OIL, TOILET POWDER,
LILLY WHITE, PUFF BOXES,
ROUGE, TOILET SETS,
And in fact, a full assortment of Perfumery and
Vunojr Tniit Articles. Soaos—toilet, laundry and
medicated. Give us a call.
W. H. COTTER & CO.,
feb22-tf Druggists and Apothecaries.
Reduction! Reduction!
BJ3DUCTION 2
To give everybody a chance before they have
fully supplied themselves for the season, the
Managers of the Famous
NewYorkClothing House
Have decided at this early date to
ji.i n e a it Eif vc tio .r
on their already very
LOW PHICES,
offering now their entire of
FINE CLOTHING
—AND—
GENTS’ FURNISHING GOODS
lower than can bo bought
AT WHOLESALE IN NEW YORK.
This is no humbug, to draw a crowd, but
A POSITIVE REDUCTION,
to close out our
Spring# Summer Clothing
Come one and come all, and supply yourselves
at the FAMOUS NEW YORK
CLOTHING HOUSE!
140 Congress street. Savannah, Ga.
.1 anil
PREPARED AND SOLD ONLY BY
W. H. COTTER & CO.
W. H. COTTER k CO'S.
Magnetic Liniment
Is an invaluable remedy in all cases of Rheuma
tism, Neuralgia, Chronic Pains, etc. It is also an
excellent application to all bruises.
W. H. COTTER k CO’S.
Cholera Mixture
Is a sure and speedy cure for all Bowel Affections
and Summer Complaints incidental to our climate.
Those preparations arc guaranteed to give imme
diate relief, and should be kept in every family.
—FOR THE LADIES—
W. H. COTTER & CO’S.
Sewing 3lacliine Oil
The Best Oil made for all flue machinery. apl9-tf
Garden Seed.
VITE HAVE ON HAND A SUPPLY OF FRESH
W Garden Seed, just received, consisting in
part of
BEETS. CABBAGE.
CARROTS, CUCUMBERS,
CELERY. EGGPLANT,
LETTUCE, OKRA,
ENGLISH PEAS,
BEANS. TOMATOES,
SQUASH, OYSTER PLANT.
EARLY CORN, PEPPER, Etc
W. H. COTTER k CO.,
Drugs <* AO' l Apotimcrarlee,
DARIEN, GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 25, 1879.
Steamboats.
GEORGIA & :FLORIDA
INLAND
STEAMBOAT COMPxINY.
The Darien Line!
THE STEAMERS
David Clark and Centennial,
—TRI-WEEKLY—
BETWEEN DARIEN AND SAVANNAH,
AND WEEKLY TO SATILLA RIVER.
SCHEDULE!
The Steamer DAVID The Steamer CENTEN
CLARK, Captain John NIAL, Captain W. 0.
Fitzgerald, will leave Ulmo,, will loave Hotel
Hotel Wharf, Darien, Wharf. Darien,
FOR SAVANNAH, FOR SAVANNAH,
every Wednesday and every Saturday, touch-
Stinday, touching at all ing at all intermediate
intermediate landings. landings.
RETURNING, RETURNING.
Leave Savannah every Leave Savannah every
Monday and Friday af- Wednesday afternoon,
ternoon, arriving at Da- arriving at Darien every
rien every Tuesday and Thursday, and leave Da-
Saturday, and leave Da- rien the same day for
rien the same day for St. Simon’s, Brunswick
St. Simon's, Brunswick, and Satilla River.
St. Marys and Fernan
dina.
Through rates of freight to and from Northern
and Western ports.
Steamers connect at Brunswick with tho up
ward and downward trains of the Brunswick and
Albany Railroad and with the Macon and Bruns
wick Railroad.
THOMAS WHITE, Agent, notel Wharf.
O. 8. BENSON, Gen'l Passenger Agent.
SPECIAL NOTICE.
CAPT. THOMAS WHITE, Agent, is authorized
to adjust, promptlv, all claims at Darien.
J. S. LAWRENCE, Manager.
sep22-tf Savannah, Ga.
Savannah and MelonviUe
STEAMBOAT LINE.
INLAND ALL THE WAY!
STEAMER ROSA
For St. Catherine’s, Doboy, Union Island, Darien,
St. Simon's, Brunswick, Satilla River and .St.
Marys, Ga., Femandina, Jacksonville, Palatka
and all points on St. Johns River, Fla.
STEAMER ROSA,
Captain P. H. WARD,
Will leavo wharf foot of Drayton street, every
TUESDAY at 4 o’clock p. m., for Jacksonville,
Fla., touching at all the above points, except Sa
tilla River.
Through rates of freight issued by steamer
Rosa for points on Altamaha, Oemulgee and Oco
nee rivers, will bo protected bv Steamer Halcyon,
C. M. QUARTERMAN,
Agent Steamer Halcyon, Darien, Ga.
Trough low rates of freight and passage and
bills of lading given to all points.
Freights lor Altamaha, Oemulgee and Oconee
Rivers must be prepaid.
Freight received daily, Sundays excepted.
J. H. SMITH, Manager.
O. S. Benson, General Business Agent. feblO
REGULAR LINE
On tlie Altamaha, Oemulgee
and Oconee Rivers.
THE NEW AND LIGHT DRAFT STEAMER
2? 1 O si,
Drawing twenty inches only when
laden, will ply regularly on the waters of the
Altamaha, Oemulgee and Oconee rivers, during
both summer and winter, connecting with A. G.
li. R. at Doctortown, and M. <S: 13. K. R. at Lumber
City Bridge, and with Savannah by steamer David
Clark. Captain Tom White, at Darien. Freights
are kindly solicited. Strict attention shall be paid
to all freight and business consigned to her. Live
and let live, shall be her motto. With permission,
respectfully referring all parties to li. C. Bowiu,
House Creek. Wilcox county, Smith Turner, Ab
berville, Wilcox county, T. F. Fussel, Wilcox Lake,
Telfair county, Stephen Middleton, Appling
county, steamboat agents at Darien, and railroad
agents at Doctortowu and Lumber City, and liobt.
Mcßride, Montgomery county.
doc2o-r>m JENKINS M. IIOLMUS, Master.
ANNOUNCEMENT.
TATE FEEL GRATEFUL TO OUR MANY
V V friends and customers for their liberal pat
ronage during the past year, and we have entered
anew year with tile determination to deserve a
larger share of their trade. We do not keep cheap
drugs, but sell a GOOD AND PURE ARTICLE OF
MEDICINE as low as it can be sold. Remember
that we have constantly in stock a full assortment
of
PURE MEDICINES,
PAINTS, OILS,
VARNISHES,
PATENT MEDICINES of all kinds,
HAIR DYES,
HAIR OILS.
HAIR BRUSHES,
TOOTH BRUSHES,
And the best article of No. 1 KEROSENE OIL at
lowest prices.
Prescriptions carefully compounded night or
day.
W. H. COTTER & CO.,
feb22-tf Druggists and Apothecaries.
NOTICE.
Wheelwright and Blacksmith
rAM NOW PREPARED TO DO ALL KINDS
of Wheelwright and Blacksmith work at short
notice.
BUGGIES, WAGONS AND SIGNS
TAINTED.
Gorham's Patent Attachment for shafts (a great
saving of time and money to all who use them)
are kept on hand.
All kinds of work done in first-class style. All
I ask of the people of Darien aud Mclntosh
County is a trial. All work warranted.
1 ROBERT MITCHELL,
Second street. Darien, Ga.
\U ft llTrn A LIMITED NUMBER of
SRI A M I Is 11 active, energetic canvassers to
IT rill I LU engage in a pleasant and
profitable business. Good men will find this a
rare chance
TO MAKE MONEY.
Buch will please answer this advertisement by
letter, enclosing stamp for reply, stating What
business they have been engaged in. None but
those who mean business apply. Address
Je2o-ly Foonst, ILuu't'f k oc>., AUa*ta, Ge.
Ordinances, &c.
AN OKDINANUE
Entitled An Ordinance to Protect tlie
Public Health ot the Port of Darien
by quarantine and Otherwise.
Section I. —The Board of Commissioners qf
Mc/rUosk County who are exqflicio Mayor and
Aldermen 'f the City of Baritn, in Council assem
bled do ordain and it is hereby ordained by author -
ity of the. same. That at tho first annual moot
ing of this board for each and every year, there
shall be elected a Board of Health, to be composed
of five (fi) members, and nlso a Port Physician,
who shall lie, by reason of his office, a member of
said board.
Sec. 2. — Be it further ordained, That said Board
of Health shall have power to visit and inspect,
at their discretion, any or all lots, enclosures,
yards, streets, lanes, thoroughfares or wharves,
and to require tho samo to be cleansed of any
filth or unwholesome matter found thereon, by
the owners or tenants of such property, within
twenty-four (21) hours after notice is given; they
will also cause such gleanings to be forthwith
rendered or placed within reach of tho public
scavenger. Upon neglect or refusal of the owner
or tenant of any such property to comply with the
foregoing requirements they shall be reported to
tho Police Court, to be punished, as hereinafter
provided, and the said rloaniug up shall be done
by the Marshal, and all expense thus incurred
shall be paid by the owner or tenant of such
property.
Sec. 3. — Be it further ordained, That said Board
of Health are hereby empowered, in their discre
tion, to have any or all uutenanted houses opened
for ventilation and the premises of the samo
cleansed. And any expense so incurred shall be
paid by the owner of such house or lot.
Sec. 4 .—Be it further ordained. That any person
resisting, by uegleet or otherwise, any of the pro
visions of the preceding section of this ordinance
after twenty-four (24) hours notice is given him
or her by any member of the Board of Health,
shall be, upon conviction thereof, fined for every
such offense not exceeding $25 (X) or placed on the
chain-gang for not exceeding thirty (JO) days, and
the Marshal or his assistants are hereby ordered
to obey all orders emanating from said Board of
Health, which may be given for tlie purpose of
carrying into effect the provisions of tho ordinance.
Sec. 5 .—Be it further ordained, That said Board
of Health shall meet monthly, or at the call of its
chairman, and report to this board their actings
and doings, and also examine into and recom
mend any measures which may be, in (heir judg
ment, necessary to preserve the public health.
They are also hereby empowered to till, by elec
tion, any vacancy that may' at any time occur in
their board.
Sec. (.— Be it further ordained, That it shall be
the duty of tho Port Physician to visit and inspect
all vessels arriving at this port from any point
(foreign or domestic) reported to him as infected
with contagious or malignant diseases of any
nature, and if after investigation any such dis
ease is found to exist aboard of such vessel, he
shall forthwith order the same to be removed to
quarantine grounds and the sick or diseased per
sons aboard said vessel shall be, at his discretion,
removed to the quarantine buildings, near Wolfe
Island, so that the proper attention may be given
them. Hu is hereby empowered to employ, where
he deems it necessary, sufficient guards to pre
vent communication with such vessel or sick per
sons, and to transport any necessary medicines
or HUHteaiance to the same. Also, to employ
nurses when required, reporting such action to
the chairman of this board.
Sec. 7 .—Be it further ordained. That after the
required time of quarantine shall have been com
plied with by such vessel, the Port Physician shall
cause her to be thoroughly fumigated and
cleansed, and two (2) days alter such fumigation he
shall issue a permit for her removal, and all ex
pense thus iicurred shall be paid by the master
or owner ol such vessel. And the quarantine
grounds spoken of in this ordinance arc hereby
declared to bo the grounds in Doboy Sound, to
the northerd of Wolfe Island, known as the lower
quarantine grounds.
rtKc. s. ~Bc it further ordained. That tlie regular
quarantine term shall begin on the first day of
April of each and every year, and end the first day
of November of the samo year unless circum
stances should require other dates than the
above, and the Port Physician is hereby instructed
to issue, his proclamation, endorsed by the Mayor
on the said first day of April, to all pilots and mas
ters of vessels arriving from any South American,
West India, or Gulf ports, requiring the same to be
anchored at the quarantine grounds and reported
for investigation and fumigation, even though
they may have no sickness aboard. And in the
event that any vessel with sickness aboard of a
rnalignunt nature, shall arrive at other dates
than those above specified, it shall be tho duty
of the Port Phj’siciau to proceed as during the
regular term of quarantine.
Sec. 9.— Be it further obtained, That it shall be
the duty of every pilot of this port before board
ing any vessel either at sea or inside the bar to
make a diligent inquiry of the master of said ves
sel, if there .is on board any malignant, contagious
or infectious disease of any nature, and if there
should exist such disease he is hereby forbidden
going aboard, under a penalty of SIOO and dismissal
from office.
Sec. 10.— Be it further ordained, That any mas
ter of a vessel refusing to answer the above in
quiries of the pilot, or deceiving him as to the real
presence of infectious disease on board, or as to
any*death on the voyage from said cause shall be
fined in the sum of SIOO.
B ec. 11.— Be it further ordained , That any master
of a tow or other steamboat violating the provi
sions of this ordinance as contained in section 9,
whether as a pilot or master of such boat, shall
upon conviction, be fined in the sum of SIOO lor
each and every such offense.
Sec. 12.— 8 eii further ordained, That it shall be
the duty of the Port Physician to examine into
any cases of a malignant or contagious disease re
ported to him as existing within the city of Darien
or its vicinity, and report the same to the chair
man of this board, who is hereby authorized to
cause the removal of such persons, at tlie expense
ol the city, to some point designated by the Board
of Health, so as to prevent the spread of such
disease.
Sec. 13.— 8 eit further ordained, That the fee of
the Port Physician shall be:
For every vessel boarded in Doboy Hound
for inspection S2O 00
For every vessel boarded in Sapalo Sound
for inspection 50 00
For every vessel boarded at or near Darien.. 200
At the Ridge 5 00
For all vessels boarded at night, with infectious
disease on board, double day rates, (S4O, SIOO,
$4, $10), and he is hereby required to make month
ly reports of his actions, and doings to this board.
Sec. 14.— 8 eit further ordained, That all ordi
nances or parts of ordinances conflicting with any
of the provisions of this ordinance be and the
same are repealed.
Read third time and passed April 11, 1879.
Staldino Kenan,
junel3-tf Clerk and Treasurer.
To Pilots and Masters of
Vessels.
First—All Vessels arriving at this port from
.South America, the West Indies, or ports on the
(lull of Mexico, having no ricknett on board atul
having had no burials on the voyage, shall be
anchored at the Upper Quarantine, one mile above
the ixnkr buoy, up the Carnochan River and
remain until visited and inspected by the Port
Physician. The ballast ground being near at
hand, such vessels may be cleansed and disinfected
while throwing off their ballast, and will not be
detained, under favorable circumstances, over
five days, when the Port Physician will visit them
and finding all right will give a written permit to
proceed to their destination.
Second—Vessels arriving from any port having
fever on b<xird, or deaiitx on the voyage, must be
anchored as near as may be safe to the hospital,
on Clam Bank, or Lower Quarantine Ground, and
remain until visited by the Port Physician.
JAMES HOLMES, M. D..
Port Physician.
Approved: JAMES WALKER, Mayor. jel3-tf
J. J. SUTTON,
BUILDER and CONTRACTOR
• DARIEN, GA.
Plans, Specifications and Estimates furnished.
I guarantee to my friends and the public to give
entire satisfaction to all work entrusted to me.
OSr No Wood Butchers employed. *4S
June STdf 3.3- tjeiTON. 1
BY TDK SEA.
My bluo-eyed pet, with goldon hair.
Is sitting on my knee,
And gazes eagerly afar.
Across the beach beyond the bar,
Where roll* tho restless sea.
She puts her little hand in mine.
And laughs with childish glee,
To see tho foaming billows sx>lash,
As on tho shore they fiereoly dash,
And guide back silently.
But when she laughs so morrily
My heart is far away;
And as I look upon the shore.
Where loud and long the breakers roar,
My sad soul seems to say:
•'The sea is like a human life;
It breaks upon the shore
Of time with a restless might,
And when the goal is just in sight,
Dios to return no more.
"And all along the shore of time
Full many a wreck doth lie;
The pangs of many a mad carouse.
Of blasted hopes and broken vows,
Of happy days gone by.”
Yet while I muse in mournful mood,
And gaze upon the sea,
My bluo-eyed pet, with golden hair,
Whose heart has never known a care,
btill sits upon my knee.
Her head is resting on my breast.
Her eyes in slumber deep;
The same rough sea whose breakers roar,
Aul madly, fiercely lash the shore,
11 a s lulled my child to sl jep,
How Two Texas Friends Met and Ex
changed Compliments.
Two men hailed each other from tho op
posite banks of a stream and exchanging
greetings, many friendly questions were
put and answered. The men who evi
dently delighted to meet each other, and
their only regret appeared to be that they
encountered one another in a place w lie re
it was impossible for them to clasp and
shake hands, the river not being fordable
on account of its swiftness and the rocky
and treacherous nature of its channel,
while the nearest bridge was five milos
above. Both men lamented these unfort
unate circumstances very much, but ot
length a way of getting over the difficulty
suggested itself to one of them, whose pet
name was “Broncho Bill.”
“I say, Sam !” cried Broncho, “it’s a lit
tle rough for old friends and neighbors to
meet away out here, thousands of miles
from home, anil then have to part in this
way. Got yer pistal with yer?”
“I hev 1” cried Sam; "allere carry he."
“Good! That's soi le comfort; of wo
can’t get across this yar stream to skake
hands, why, tliar’s nothin’ to prevent us
from takin’ a shot or two. Thar, now, jist
one good old neighborly home shot!”
The men rode aside, and bang ! bang !
went their pistols.
“Yer smashed tho pummelof my sad
dle,” cried Broncho; “yer see the boss
shied a little jist as yer turned loose, or
yer might a plumped me good.”
“You done better, Bill; you got into the
of toy 1.3 t arm bout half an inch
Good morning to you, a safe journey to
yer, and bell the folks at home we met and
had a good, sociable time together !”
“Thank yer, and the same to you; hut
I’ll give them a good account of you!”
Sam then turned to our friend and, with
tears in his eyes, said: “God bless him!
it is a great comfort to meet an old friend
and neighbor like him awav out here in
this wilderness place. A kmder more ac
commodative and agreeable gentleman nev
ro lived. I wouldn’t a-missed .seein’ him
for SSO !”—Virginia City Enterprise.
The Fate of the Napoleonic lieira.
Unfortunate as was the death of young
Louis Napoleon at the hand of the sav
ages, taken by surprise, enlisted in a cause
of doubtful worthiness, and at best not a
cause of his country or his ow'n, his death
was less unfortunate than that of his
second cousin, the Duke of lieichstadt,
son of the great Emperor, who was King
of Home and heir to the French throne;
and died at 21, Lieutenant in the Austrian
artillery. There seems to be a remarkable
parallelism in the fortunes of these two
l’rinces. One died at 21, the other was
killed at 23. Both had brilliant prospects
at birth, both were bom after long and
anxious expectation, both lost their pres
tige and chances by the military downfall
of their imperial fathers, both were forced
to quit their native country, both were ed
ucated in foreign military' schools—one in
Austria the other in England; both were
of delicate constitution, both were amia
ble, generous and estimable, without in
heriting the paternal strength, both pined
for opportunities, both came to an untime
ly end. The two youths were as gentle and
likeable as their fathers were selfish, cruel
and treacherous. Yet their fathers had
magnificent success up to a certain time,
and lost their power by overweening am
bition. There is something very dramatic
in the fact that the sole son of Napoleon
1., the greatest force in modern times,
should have siekelftil life away' at Sehonn
brunn, and that the sole son of Napoleon
111, should be pierced to death with ’Zulu
spears in a remote and barberous land,
and in a cause in which he had embarked
simply' for political effect.
It sounds curiously to hear a woman
shout: “Yon, George Washington Bona
parte Augustus Henry, come back and get
your liandhkercief and dont you never start
for school without it again.” This sounds
curiously, but he ought to keep a hand
kerchief about his clothes, when y'ou come
to think of it.
There is a young lady in Wellsboro’,
Tioga, State of low'a, whose hair reaches to
within six inches of the fioor, and when
cut off, on account of the lady’s illness, is
said to have weighed four pounds.
The really charming toilets of the season
are those which no one looked for, and no
one has ever seen in general wearing, and
these are the results of individual taste and
wondrous patience.
It is asserted that many cases of sun
stroke in warm weather, in the female sex,
are really a vertigo, caused by frequent
turning the head to look at other women’s
clothes and bonnets.
The Empress of Japan is the sort of a
wife to help a King get along, and lay up
corner lots. She cooks, washes, bakes and
does the darning, and one paper of pins
lasts her three months.
$2.50 A YEAH.
Coaxed Into a Fortune—A Eureka Team
ster tlie Subject of the Item.
Wo don’t know whether one would cull
this a romance or an old phase of human
nature, but it is a fact as we tell it. Our
town readers all know Horace Tyler. Ho
has been on the Base Range ever since the
mines wero discovered, and his genuine
manhood is a characteristic of the man.
In his chosen occupation of teamster ho
has plodded over the dusty highways and
sandy deserts of Eastern Nevada “nigh
opto fifteen year," as uncle Josh would ex
press it. He came to the coast a mere boy,
and in his independent, sturdy sort of
way has gappled with fortune, not as suc
cessfully as some, perhaps, as all his years
of toil simply resulted in his ownership of
a team and his wresting a hard livelihood
from incessant daily labor. He was as
honest as they make ’em, and that trait
was his pride. Why he left the home,
“Way down in Vermont,” is his secret,
and ho is stubbornly reticent on that
point, simply stating that he came away
because “he hankered after a life on the
plains.” Whatever the motive, ho betrayed
no desire to return to his birth-place, despite
the fact now known, that it was a most
luxurious one, and that every comfort and
pleasure that wealth would command was
his if he would accept it. Sunday morn
ing Mr. W. O. Tyler, a couisin of Horace,
arrived in Eureka from Vermont, charged
with a special mission. He sought out
his relative and announced to him that ho
had been sent by Horace’s father to per
suado his boy—now a bearded man—to
come back to his home. His parent was
waiting, eager to welcome him, and pray
ing that his son might listen to his plead
ings. Not all this, lmt all his riches—a
cool quarter of a million dollars —was at
his son’s command upon his arrival. The
latter inducement would have been bulll
cient for an ordinary m< rtal, but it did not
influence Horace a particle. On the con
trary, ho was obdurate, flatly refused to go,
and despite his cousin’s* ontreaticß, which
lasted from the time the train arrived Sun
day until it departed yesterkay morning,
he persisted in his determination, and
bade the ambassador good-bye at the train,
still firm in his resolve. He came back to
town, curried his horses and fed them,
greased his wagons, and then, falling in
with some of his friends, related the inci
dent to them in a matter-of-fact way, con
cluding with the remark that “he owned
that team, didn’t owe much money, and
ho reckoned ho could make a living inde
pendent of anybody,” He was met with a
storm of remonstrances, arguments and
advice. The policy on the part of his old
comrades staggered him. He thought he
was doing the right thing, but when they
remonstrated to him how unfilial his con
duct, how cruel he was acting in with
holding from his aged father the comfort
that his son’s presence would ho to his
fast declining years, Horace weakened, ho
couldn’t stand the upbraidings of his as
sociates, and as a consequence Eureka
loses a good citizen. His couisin was tel
egraplied at Elko and Instructed to await
Horace’s arrival. Yesterday ho sold his
team, paid up every cent that he owed,and
this morning departed on horseback for
Elko, where he will join his relative, and
proceed on his journey Eastward. May
good luck attend him. Ho has furnished
us with a novel item, and one that it will
he hard to match. Think of it. A rara
avis, found in these degenerate days, an
excentric individual that has to be coaxed
and driven into tho possession of $250,000.-
—Eureka Leader,
Stop My Paper.
If the “enraged subscriber" who rushes
into a newspaper office to tell the editor
to “stop mv paper,” only know how out
rageously silly he appears in the eye of the
publisher, he would send the message by
a boy, and instruct the boy to keep very
quiet about it, too. Just imagine a man
who habitually buy's five cents W’orth of
tobacco weekly, rushing into a grocer’s,
red as a lobster, frothing at the mouth,
etc., and saying to him with great con
cern, “I won’t buy my five cents’ worth of
tobacco in your darned old store any
more—l won’t—l won’t—because I found
a nail in the last, and it hurt me in a ten
der place !” The grocer doesn’t sit down
on a soap box and cry his eyes out for the
loss of such a customer; anil the publisher,
treats the offended subscriber with tho
same indifference. So all the rage and
venom which some men carry with them
when they call to “stop their paper” only
betrays a donkey’s nature. If a person
doos not wish to read a newspaper longer,
he should havo it stopped with as little
ceremony as possible, because no pub
lisher under the sun would exchange the
profit of five cents, a week for the charm
ing exhibition of cranky human nature
which the angry taibscriber display's in a
news office, when his spine is probed.—
Turner’s Falls Iteporter.
When you meet a man who comes down
in the morning and kicks the cat over the
table, cuff’s two off tho children, and re
marks that the cook was drunk, do not
think harshly of him. lie is probably the
person who sings “Home Sweet Homo” so
utfectingly at evening parties.
A colored man observed, while in con
versation with a friend, “I dusn’t b’lieve
in havin’ a pardener when you’ve on’y got
a small business. If yer make enny tiling,
why, yer don’t git it, and if yer lose, yer
have to lose all. “Jesso,” remarked his
companion.
A young man who went from Burling
ton to Leadville, six weeks ago, writes
cheerfully back to his friends, T have
gained threo pounds since L came here,
andgained it all in half ounce installments.
Haven’t been shot in the head yet.”
The gift chromo business lags, and it is
now possible to purchase a pound of tea
in some localities without being obliged
to pay 8-1.87 1-2 for a frame to encircle the
artistic production, so smilingly’ handed
you by the dealer.
Strange that nobody tried the effects of
a barbers breath on a potato bug. Its a
pretty hard remedy’, but something must
be done.
Uneasy lies the man who has already
been caught at it once or twice.
Society is no place for people not soci
able.