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Darien Timber Gazette.
VOL. 6.--NO. 7.
Darien Timber Gazette,
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY MORNING,
'A T tIARIEJT, GEORGIA,
bdKSEBEBOAD AND.NOttTHWAY 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.
Gignilliat, James E. Holmes, Joseph Hilton.
Clerk Hoard, of County Commissioners— Spalding
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. C. Hopkins.
County Treasurer —M. C. O’Neil.
County Surveyor— W. 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 and Cemetery— Messrs. Gigml
liat, Atwood and Holmes.
Committee on Paupers —Messrs. Atwood, Holmes
and Gignilliat.
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 HR ton.
Committee on Public Buildings —Messrs. Strain,
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.
Harbor Master —James Abeel.
Port Physician —Dr. James Holmes.
Inspector General of Timber —George W. Faries.
Port Wardens —Isaac M. Aiken, John H. BurreU,
and James G. Young.
Jailer —Charles H. Hopkins, Jr.
Board Pilot Commissioners— Charles S. Langdon,
Chairman, K. K. Walker, W. C. Clark, Arthur Bai
ley, Dr. R. B. Harris, James Lachiison and Robt.
Mitchell. Wm. 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 T.
Collins. Headquarters at Brunswick.
Deputy Collector of Customs for Port of Darien—
Charles H, Townsend.
Boarding Master —Edwin C. Davis.
Postmaster —D. Webster Davis.
Deputy Marshal —Joseph 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 aftor‘first Mondays
in April and October.
Chatham County— Second Mondays in February,
May and October.
Mclntosh County—Tuesdays after last Mondays in
April and October.
Liberty County—Tuesday after second Mondays
in Mfty 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>£ p. in.
Side mail for No. 3, Atlantic & Gulf Railroad,
departs 8% o’clock every Tuesday morning and
arrives at 8 p. m. every Monday, touching at
Riceboro and South Newport both ways.
< RELIGIOUS.
Religious services at the Methodist Church
every Sunday morning at 11 oclock, and evening
at 8 o’clock. School at the Ridge every Sunday
afternoon at 3o’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 $6,000 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
I can fall to make money fast.
Any one can do the work. You can make from
60 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.
Reader, 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 terms free; samples worth $5 also free;
you can then make up your mind for yourself.
Address GEORGE STINSON & CO., Portland, Me.
june 20
WEEK in your own town, and no
111 11 I capital risked. You can give the busi
* . V\ |%ness a trial without expense. The best
| \ | II lopportunity ever offered tor those wil
| / filing 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
as much as men. Send for special private terms
and particulars, which we mail free. $5 Outfit
free. Don’t complain of hard times while you
have such a chance. Address H. HALLETT A CO.,
Portland, Maine. june2o
Notice.
A LL VESSELS AND STEAMBOATS BOUND
J\_ to Darien by the inland route from the South
must report at the quarantine station at Doboy
fbr inspection and permitted to proceed.
JAMES HOLMES. Port Physician.
By order of the Mayor. iyti-tf
Professional Cards.
’yyr ALTER A. WAY,
Attoiney-iit-Law and Real
Estate Agent,
DARIEN, GEORGIA.
Will practice tn the Superior Courts of the
Brunswick and Eastern Circnits. Also, In the
Federal Courts In cases of Bankruptcy, etc. Par
ticular attention given to the coUection of claims
and the examination of land titles. apri!2s
Yyr ROBERT GIGNILLLVT,
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.
april2s-ly
j e. b. Delorme,
Attorney it Counselor-at-Law,
and Notary Public.
DARIEN, GEORGIA.
Office on Broad straet, near Timber Exchange.
July 2
SPALDING KENAN,
DARIEN, GEORGIA.
Offers his professional services to the citizens of
Darien and vicinity. He can be found at ail hours
day and night, at his office on Screven street, next
door to Mr. Wilcox's dwelhng house. augS-ly
JJR. R. B. HARRIS
Offers his professional services to the citizens of
Darien and surrounding country. All calls prompt
ly attended, both medical and surgical. Office
under the Masonic Hall, in old Custom House
building.
J J. ABRAMS,
Attorney-at-LaW,
Commercial Building,
june6-tf SAVANNAH, GEORGIA.
HENRY B. TOMPKINS. | B. A. DENMARK.
rpOMPKINS ft DENMARK,
Attorneys-at-Law,
No. 105 Bay Street, SAVANNAH, GA.
Practice in the United States Courts, and in the
Superior Courts of the Eastern Circuit. je6-tf
Miscellaneous.
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 Perfamery and
Fancy Toilet Articles. Soaps—toilet, laundry and
medicated. Give us a call.
W. H. COTTER & CO.,
feb22-tf Druggists and Apothecaries.
Reduction! Reduction!
REDUCTION !
To give everybody a chance before they have
fully supplied themselves for the season, the
Managers of the Famous
New York Clothing House
Have decided at this early date to
MAKE A RED EC TIG A'
on their already very
LOW PRICES,
offering now their entire stock of
FINE CLOTHING
—AND—
GENTS’ FURNISHING GOODS
lower than can be 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.
jan3l
PREPARED AND SOLD ONLY BY
W. H. COTTER & CO.
W. H. COTTER & CO’S.
Magnetic Liniment
Ir 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 & CO’S.
Cholera Mixture
Is a sure and spe.edy cure for all Bowel Affections
and Summer Complaints incidental to our climate.
These preparations are guaranteed to give imme
diate relief, and should be kept in every family.
—FOR THE LADIES—
W. H. COTTER k CO’S.
Sewing Machine Oil
The Best Oil made for all fine machinery. apl9-tf
Garden Seed.
TTTE HAVE ON HAND A SUPPLY OF FRESH
YV 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 A CO..
Druggists And Apothecaries.
DARIEN, GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING, AUGUST 8, 1879.
Steamboats.
GEORGIA & FLORIDA
INLAND
STEAMBOAT COMPANY.
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
CLAHK, Captain NIAL, Captain W. C.
Fitzgerald, will leave Ulmd, Will leave Hotel
Hotel Wharf, Darien, Wharf, Darien,
FOR SAVANNAH, FOR SAVANNAH,
every Wednesday and evory Saturday, touoh-
Sunday, 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 Satiila River.
St. Marys and Fernau
dina.
Through rates of freight to and from Northern
and Western ports.
Steamers connect at Brunswick with the up
ward and downward trains of the Brunswick and
Albany Railroad and with the Macon and Bruns
wick Railroad.
THOMAS WHITE, Agent, Hotel Wharf.
O. S. BENSON, Gen’l Passenger Agent.
SPECIAL NOTICE.
CAPT. THOMAS WHITE, Agent, is authorized
to adjust, promptly, all claims at Darien.
J. S. LAWRENCE. Manager,
sep22-tf Savannah, Ga.
Savannah and Melonville
STEAMBOAT LINE.
INLAND ALLJTHE WAY!
STEAMER ROSA
For St. Catherine’s, Doboy, Union Island, Darien,
St. Simon’s, Brunswick, Satiila River and St.
Marys, Ga., Fernandina, Jacksonville, Palatka
and all points on St. Johns River, Fla.
STEAMER ROSA,
Captain I’. H. WARD,
Will leave wharf foot of Drayton street, every
TUESDAY at 4 o’clock p. m., for Jacksonville,
Ha., touching at all the above points, except Sa
tiila River.
Through rates of freight issued by steamer
Rosa for points on Altamaha, Ocmulgee and Oco
nee rivers, will be protected by 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 for Altamaha, Ocmulgee 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 Altamalia, Ocmulgee
and Oconee Rivers.
THE NEW AND LIGHT DRAFT STEAMER
F O x,
Drawing twenty inches only when
laden, will ply regularly on the waters of the
Altamaha, Ocmulgee and Oconee rivers, during
both summer and winter, connecting with A. & G.
,R. It. at Doctortown, and M. & B. R. It. 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 aU freight and business consigned to her. Live
and let live, shall be her motto. With permission,
respectfully referring all parties to It. C. Bowiu,
House Creek, Wilcox county, Smith Turner, Ab
berville, Wilcox county, T. F. Fused, Wilcox Lake,
Telfair county. Stephen Middleton, Appling
county, steamboat agents at Darien, and railroad
agents at Doctortown and Lumber City, and Robt.
Mcßride, Montgomery county.
dec2o-fim JENKINS M. HOLMES, Master.
ANNOUNCEMENT.
TXTE FEEL GRATEFUL TO OUR MANY
\ V friends and customers for their liberal pat
ronage during the past year, and we have entered
anew year with the determination to deserve a
larger share of their trade. We do not keep cheap
drugs, hut 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 aU 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
W. H. COTTER & CO„
feb22-tf Druggists and Apothecaries.
NOTICE.
Wheelwright and Blacksmith
I AM NOW PREPARED TO DO ALL KINDS
of Wheelwright and Blacksmith work at short
notice.
BUGGIES, WAGONS AND SIGNS
PAINTED.
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.
' ROBERT MITCHELL,
JoG-tf Second street. Darien, Ga.
lillllTm A LIMITED NUMBER of
W A fU I P llactive. energetic canvassers to
■ V fill I ■Uengage in a pleasant aud
profitable business. Good men will find this a
rare chance
TO MAKE MONEY.
Such 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
Finley, lUsvu , Cos Atlanta. Ga
Ordinances, &o.
AN ORDINANCE
Entitled Ail Ordinance to Protect the
Public Health of the Port of liar leu
by Quarantine and Othcmiac.
Section I. — The Hoard of Commissioners of
Mclntosh County who are cxojjicio Mayor and
Aldermen <f the City of Darien, in Council assem
bled do ordain ami it is hereby ordained by author
ity of the tame. That at the first animal meet
ing of this board for each and every year, there
shall be elected a Board of Health, to be composed
of five (5) members, and also a Port Physician,
who shall be, 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 the same to be cleansed of any
filth or unwholesome matter found thereon, by
the owners or tenants of such property, within
twenty-four (24) hours after notice is given; they
will also cause such gleanings to be forthwith
rendered or placed within reach of the 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
the Police Court, to be punished, as hereinafter
provided, and the said cleaning 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 un ten an ted houses opened
for ventilation and the premises of the same
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 neglect 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 00 or placed on the
chain-gang for not exceeding thirty (30) 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 the purpose of
carrying into effect the provisions of the ordinance.
Sec. s.— 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 their judg
ment, necessary to preserve the public health.
They are also hereby empowered to fill, by elec
tion, any vacancy that may at any time occur in
their board.
Sec. 6.— Be it further ordained, That it shall be
the duty of the 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 AVolle
Island, so that the proper attention may be given
them. He 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 sustenance 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
Rhall issue a permit for her removal, and all ex
pense thus incurred shall be paid by the master
or owner of such vessel. And the quarantine
grounds spoken of in this ordinance are hereby
declared to be the grounds in Doboy Sound, to
the northerd of Wolfe Island, known as the lower
quarantine grounds.
Sec. B.— Be it further ordained. That the regular
quarantine term shall begin on the first day of
April of each and every year, and end the first day
Oi November of the same year unloss circum
stances should require other dates than the
above, and the Port Physician is hereby instructed
t > 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 Amerieau,
West India, or Gulf ports, requiring the same to be
anchored at the quarantine grounds and reported
f>r investigation and fumigation, even though
they may have no sickness aboard. And in the
event that any vessel with sickness aboard of a
malignant nature, shall arrive at other dates
than those above specified, it shall be the duty
of the Port Physiciau to proceed as duriug the
regular term of quarantine.
Sec. 9. — Be it further ordained. 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, ami 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.
Sec. 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 for
each and every such offense.
Sec. 12.— 8 eit further ordained, That it shall be
the duty of the Port.Physiciau 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 the expense
of the city, to some point designated by the Board
of Health, so as to prevent the sjiread of such
disease.
Sec. 13. — Be it further ordained, That the foe of
the Port Physician shall be:
For every vessel boarded in Doboy Sound
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 6 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 an l passed April 11, 1879.
Spalding 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
Gulf of Mexico, having no sickness on board and
having had no burials on Uie voyage, shall be
anchored at the Upper Quarantine, one mile above
the nrctEß buoy, up the Camochan River and
remain until visited *nd inspected by the Port
Physician. The ballast ground being near at
hand, such vessels may bt cleansed auri 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 board, or deaths on the voyage, must be
anchored as near as maybe safe to the hospital,
on Clam Bunk, or Lower Quarantine Ground, and
remain until visited by the Port Physician.
JAMES HOLMES, M. D..
Port Physician.
Approved: JAMES WALKER, Mayor. jelJ-tt
J. J. SUTTON,
BUILDER and CONTRACTOR
DARIEN, GA.
Plans, Specifications and Estimates furnished.
I guarantee to my friends and the public to give j
entire satisfaction to all work entrusted to me. |
• No Wood Butchers employed.'.fi*
June 2T-tf J- J- SUTTON.
The ('aptaia’e Story.
“Well, it's party hot,” answered a lake
captain in one ol the ferry dock saloons
yesterday, "but it isn't nothing to the sum
mer of 1836. We had It at least twenty
degrees hotter than this right ulong for six
weeks. I was running the Mary Jane be
tween Chicago and Buffalo then, ahd I’ve
seen the thermometer stand at 130 degrees
in tho middle of Lake Huron.” “That was
awful," sighed oneof thesittera “Well it
was fairish, but we didn’t call it very hot
till wo got into the St. Clair River and the
mercury went up to 150 degrees when hang
ing against the water-butt. Tho hoys used
up 728 palm-leaf fans on one trip that year.
On one of our trips down we were becalmed
for three days on Lake Huron. We got it
there and no mistake.” “Party hot eh?”
“Well, I'm an old man, and I don't care to
go to lying at this day, but I'll tell you a
few solemn facts. Every sail on that schoon
er smoked and smouldered till they fell to
pieces on deck and just left us under bare
poles ! Yes sir, we hadn't a rag aloft as big
as your hand. That was just at sunrise, and
within an hour we had to wet down decks
to prevent them burning. I wont down be
low to consult the thermometer, and it lay
on the floor, all melted into a chunk of
glass and tin. Then I began to realize how
hot it was and I got frightened ?"
“What could you do?"
“Well, not much. We had begun to rig
lines over tho leesido, so that all could take
to tho water, when the top-sail yard came
down and killed the cook. The links in
the chains had melted right out! I never
know a case like it since, but then tho
weather has cooled off greatly since 1836.”
“And about the cook?”
“Nothing about him. When we picked the
body up to heave it overboard it had spread
out in a mass about four feet square and we
had to use shovels before we got through.
He was a good young man and a perfect
gentleman, and his mother never blamed
me in the least for scoop-shovelling his re
mains over the rail. We finally rigged our
lines and got overboard.”
“And it was much cooler?”
“Ah! young man, how little you report
ers know of the great lakes spread out be
fore your gaze on the maps ! Cooler ! why
the minute we struck the water we begun
squirming like so many eels. The lake was
red hot. The water w-ould have cooked an
egg in four minutes. I was blistered from
head to heel in no time. Some day I will
take off my coat and vest and show you my
back. The fiesh was cooked actually cook
ed to a depth of two inches, and for over
two years the dogs used to scent cooked
meat when I walked out, and follow me by
dozens. Five surgeons fainted away in a
heap at the sight of my left shoulder, and
the only man I could get to dress my back
was a butcher under sentence of death.”
“It must have been terrible. How did
you come out of the calm ?”
“Well while I was squirming in tho wa
ter a white squall struck the schooner and
down she went. It was all over in a min
ute, and air and water were hotter than ever.
I struck out for the Canada shore, over a
hundred miles away, knowing that it was
sink or swim, but in half an hour I was
safe.”
“Ficked up?”
"Well, no,” replied the captain as he
scratched his leg, "I struck an iceberg and
climed up into a cave near the top ! I tell
you it was a grateful change to me, and that
is one reason why I can never see a hunk of
ice and a lemon without feeling grateful to
the man who invented both—with a very
little gin in mine, if you please.”—Detroit
Free Press.
(ood Society.
Many parents who have sons and daugh
ters growing up are anxious for them to
get into good society. This is an honora
ble anxiety; if it interprets good society af
tersome lofty fashion. Parents your daugh
ter is in good society when she is with girls
who are sweet, and pure, and true hearted;
who are not vain and frivolous; who think
of something else besides dress, or flirting
or marriage; between whom and their pa
rents their is confidence; who are useful as
well as ornamental in the house; who cul
tivate their minds and trnin their hands to
skillful workmanship. If society of this
sort is not to be had, then none at all is
preferable to a worthless article. See to it
that you impress this on your children, and
above all that you do not encourage them
to think that good society is a matter of
fine clothes, or wealth or boasting to be
somebody. As you value your child’s soul
guard her against the miserable counter
feits; and impress upon her that intelli
gence and simplicity, modesty and good
ness, are the only legal coin. The same
rule holds to boys as well as girls. You
would have these enter good society. Do
not imagine that you have accomplished it
when you have got them with a set of boys
whose parents are wealthier than you, who
dress better than you can aftord to, and
who pride themselves on their social posi
tion. Good society for boys is the society
of boys who have no bad habits, who are
earnest and ambitious. They are not in a
hurry to become men. They are not ambi
tious l'orthe company of shallow, heratless
women, old enough to bo their mothers,
and not envious of their friends, who fancy
there is something grand in dulling all the
edge of their heart’s hope upon such jaded
favorites. There is nothing sadder than to
see either young men or women priding
themselves upon the society which they
enjoy, when verily it was a Dead Sea apple
that will choke them with its dust, when
they see some generous, juicy fruit to cool
their lips and stay the hunger of tl e r
soul.
Labor.— Honest, hearty, cotented labor
is the only source of happiness, as well as
the only guarantee of life. The gloom of
misanthropy is not only the great destroy
er of happiness but it tends to destroy life
itself. Idleness and luxury produce prem
ature decay much faster than many trades
regarded as the most exhaustive and fatal
to longevity. Labor, in general, instead
of shortening the term of life, actually in
creases it. It is the lack of occupation that
annually destroys so many of the wealthy,
who, having nothing to do, play the part of
drones, anil like them, make a speedy exit,
while the busy bee fills its day in useful
ness and honor.
Country doctor to the bereaved widow of
a late member of the Georgia Legislature:
“I cannot tell you how pained I was to
hear that your husband had gone to Heav
en. Wewere bosom Binds, but now we
shall never meet again."
$2.50 A YEAR,
An Imperial Belie.
Among tho trinkets passing unde* tho will
of the Prince Imperial there will, it seems,
be missingvthat one article which was prob
ably most valuod by the cheif of tho family.
This is the watch of Napoleon 1., of which
the Berliner Tageblntt has just given tho
full history. It is sai dto have been bought
by the great commander at Jfcirseilles when
ho was only Lieutenant in the artillery and
to have been a very ordinary watch. Never
theless its owner would never exchange it
for one of more pretentious appearance, and
throughout the rest of his life, whether ns
First Consul or Emperor, whether at Elba,
St. Helena, at Paris or in the field he al
ways carried it in his pocket. The Tage
blatt recounts that on one occasion when
the Emperor was looking at the favorite
watch in the presence of Marshal Berthier
the latter observed that it had stopped some
horn's before, and made a remark thereup
on to Napoleon. The answer was a smile
and the rather characteristic querry: "What
can you exp 3ct from a watch? Why we shall
ourselves come to a stop one day” The
watch is not traced by the German paper
through tho intermediate steps by which it
passed eventually into the hands of Napo
leon 111,, but it affirms that he wore it in the
expeditions of Boulouge and Strasbourg,
and that it was quite as inseparable a com- •
panion of the nephew as it had been of the
uncle. An anecdote of a more somber and
mysterious kind is related of the watch
while it was in the hands of the former.
According to this tale the watch stopped on
the very day when the Emperor started to
take command of the troops in 1870,and
the incident cast a profound gloom over
his mind for some time afterward. On the
death at Chiselhurstof Napoleon 111, wl o
had constantly worn it till his death, it pass
ed to the Prince his son, who also is suppos
ed to have carried it with him at the time of
his death. The Zulu who has secured the
trophy is, perhaps, not so ignorant of Re
value as the German paper supposes; and it
is very possible that at no distant date the
relic will find its way back to these shores.
—London Globe.
Doesn’t Want To Become a Bad Boy.— A
bright-looking boy, 12 years old who said
his name was Tommy McEvoy, went alone
into J eflferson Market Police Court last even
ing and said to Justice Morgan: "Judge,
your Honor, I want to give myself up.”
‘ ‘Why, my boy ?” asked the court. ‘ ‘Because’'
he replied, "I hain’t got no home and I don’t
want to live in the street and be a bad boy.”
"Why don’t you stay at home?” "I ain’t got
no home. Father’s been dead nine years,
and mother died before that.” “But where
have yon been living since V "With my
aunt. She lives in Forty-first street. Butshe
gets drunk. And she won’t let me stay in
doors. To-day she chased me out and said'
if ever I came hack she would do something
awful to mo. I’m afraid of her, and so I’ve
got no home. Nobody will take me in be
cause I ain’t got good clothes and don’t look
nice. I can’t get any work, and I can’t get
anything to eat unless I beg or steal it.
Then the cops’ll take me in. I don’t want
to get arrested. I don’t want to steal, nor
to be a bad boy. Won’t yo.u please send
me somewhere where I can learn something
and get to be a man ? There’s places like
that, ain’t there?” The Justice told the boy
there were such places for good boys, and
taking the little fellow under his protection
promised to find him a home in some good,
institution.—N. Y. Times.
The Unpopular Governor of Texas. —A
Texican writes to the St. Louis Times: We
are all thoroughly disgusted with our
Governor and his new freak of commut
ing the sentence passed upon a negro for
a horrible crime for life, that we feel like
abandoning the State. I think if two
thirds of tlio people could get up and
move out of the State until his term of of
fice expires, they would willingly do so,
for he opposes emmigration, opposses free
schools, and everything which would or
could add to the growth or wealth of the
State. The “old fossil" has his friends,-
but they are few, and I read in one of the
State papers a few days ago that when he
was elected, the lawyers who knew him
fervently thanked God that he was off the
Supreme Bench, hoping he would do les
mischief as Governor. Now they are pe
titioning God to move him somewhere
else; most of them would prefer Heaven to
be his home, and bo willing to give him a
seat nearest the throne to get him safely
out of the way; hut now that they have
got so far as to marry in Heaven, I do not
see why he couldn’t sit up there and bo
Governor, too.
The Poor Girls. —-Unlike many foolish
Christains, the Jew’s teach their children,
girls as well as boys, some occupation by
which they can earn a living. An exchange
inculcates a similar practice upon all pa
rents. The poorest girls in the world are
those W’ho have never been taught to work.
There are thousands of them. Kick parents
have petted them; they have been taught
to despise labor, and depend upon others;
for a living, and are perfectly helpless. If
misfortunes comes upon their friends, air
it often does, their case is hopeless.. The
most forlorn and miserable woman upon
earth belongs to this class. It belongs ta
parents to protect their daughters from
this deplorable condition. They do them
a great wrong if they neglect it. Every
daughter ought to be taught to earn her own
living. The rich as well as the poor require
training. The wheel of fortune rolls swift
ly round; the rich are very likely to become
poor and the poor rich. Skilled to labor
is no disadvantage to the rich, and is indis
pensable to the poor. Well-to-do parents
must educate their children to w ork. No
reform is more imperative than this.
The Atlanta Despatch is responsible for
the following item: "Not a thousand miles
from Atlanta a few days ago, a lecture on
temperance was in progress. Some mis
chievous fellow filled the pitcher on the
stand with beer, and as the lecturer closed
a brilliant sentence on the subject he at
tempted to quench his thirst by pouring
out what he supposed to be water. The
beer was on him, but he did not shirk the
consequence, and poured the beer down,
remarking that tho water was somewhat
muddy, but rather wateT half mixed with
red mud than villainous beer or whisky.”
When a poor man eontraets tho gout he
feels that nature has simply added insult
to injury.