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Darien Timber Gazette.
VOL. 6.--NO. 13.
Darien Timber Gazette,
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY MORNING,
AT DARIEJT, GEORGIA,
CORNER BROAD AND NORTHWAY STREETS.
RICHARD W. G-RUBB,
Editor and Proprietor.
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Timber Gazette, Georgia.
City• Directory.
COUNTY OFFICERS.
County Commissioners— James Walker. Chairman;
Adam Strain, Isaac M. Aiken, J. A. Atwood, T. H.
GignilUat, James E. Holmes, Joseph Hilton.
Clerk Board 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. '''’Neil.
. County Surveyor —W. E. Poppel.
Coroner —Philip Maxwell.
The Commissioners hold monthly meetings on
the first Wednesday in each month.
CITY OFFICERS.
Ex-Officio Mayor —James Walker.
Ex-Offtcio Aldermen— Joseph Hil-on, J. A. Atwood,
Adam Strain, J. E. Holmes, Thomas H. Gigmlliat,
Isaac M. Aiken.
STANDING committees.
Committee on Finance—Ueßarß. Strain, Atwood
on Accounts—Messrs. Holmes, Gignil-
Harbor- Messrs. Hilton, Aiken
“Committee on Health and Cemetery— Messrs. Gignil
r• *“>•
&n c u Scc m n Jail —Messrs. Aiken, Hilton and
A *Committee on Streets and Lanes— Messrs. Aiken,
Strain and Holmes.
Committee on County Reads —Messrs. Atwood,
GignilUat and Hilton. 0 . n .
Committee on Public Buildings— Messrs. Strain,
GignilUat, and Aiken. .
CornmUteetm I'elite. —Messrs. Holmes, Hilton and
Committee on Ordinances— Messrs. Aiken, Strata
tnd Atwood.
Clerk and Treasurer— Spalding Kenan.
City Marshal —Charles H. Hopkms, Jr.
Deputy Marshal —Alonzo Guyton.
Harbor Master—Jamas Abeel.
Port Physician — Dr. James Holmes.
Inspector General of TimScr-Georgc W. Faries
Port Wardens— lsaac M. Aiken, John H. Burreh,
and James G. Young.
Jailer —Charles H. Hopkins, Jr. „
Board PiU.t Commissioners-^ Charles S. Langtam,
Chairman, R. K. Walker, W. C. Clark, A jt ßu l,® A '
ley, Dr. R. B. Harris, James Lachlison and Robt.
Mitchell. Tim. L. GignilUat, Secretary.
MASONIC.
Live Oak 'Lodge, No. 137. meets first Wednesday
night in each month at their hall near the Magno
lia House; E. 8. Ravenel, Worshipful Master, It.
W. Grubb, Secretary
UNITED STATES OFFICERS.
Colledorrf Customs, Brunswick District —John T.
Collins. Headquarters at Brunswick.
Deputy Collector of Customs for Port of Danen—
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 Mondajs
in April and October. . ... -
Effingham County—First Mondays in April and
° Bryan County—Thursdays after 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 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 ‘21z P- tu.
Side mail for No. 3, Atlantic & Gulf Railroad,
departs 8K 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 3>£ o’clock. Rev. H. E. Harman, pas-
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 fan to make money last.
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 Uke it ever oneTed
before. Business pleasant and strictly honorable.
Reader, if you want to know all about the best
paying business before the public, scud 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 yourselt.
Address GEORGE STINSON k CO., Portland, Me.
june 20
A* f\ f\\ WEEK in your own town, and no
I |I 11 1 capital risked. You can give the busi
* , Khness a trial without expense. The best
I VI II |opportunity ever Offereu lor those wil
-1 lllllling to work. You should try nothing
** else until you see for yourself what > ou
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
pav for every hour that you work. Women make
as much as men. Send for special private terms
and particulars, which we mail free. Outnt
free. Don’t complain of hard times white you
have such a chance. Address H. HALLE IT A to.,
Portland, Maine. J une2 ° .
Notice.
All vessels and steamboats bound
te Darien by the inland route from the South
must report at the quarantine station at Doboy
for inspection and permitted to proceed.
JAMES HOLMES, Port Physician.
By order of the Mayor. .Iyl2-tf
Professional Cards.
ALTER a - way,
Attorney-at-Eaw and Real
Estate Agent,
DARIEN, --- - - GEORGIA.
Will practice ir 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. april2s
W ROBERT GIGNLLLIAT,
Attorney-at-Law,
DARIEN, GEORGIA.
Prompt attention given to all legal business in
the Eastern and Brunswick Circuit.-., and iu the
United States Courts at Savannah, Georgia.
april2B-ly
le. b. Delorme,
J.
Attorney & Cou nselor-at-Liaw,
and Notary Public.
DARjEN, GEORGIA.
Office on Broad street, near Timber Exchange.
July 2
jyi. SPALDING KENAN,
DARIEN, GEORGIA.
Offers his professional services to the citizens of
Dar Jen and vicinity. He can he found at all hours
dav aud night, at his office on Screven street, next
door to' Mr. Wilcox’s dwelling house. augß-ly
B. HARRIS
Offers his professional services to tho citizens of
Darien and surrounding country. All calls prompt
lv attended, both medical and surgical. Office
under the AYaaonic Hall, in old Custom House
building.
J J. ABRAMS,
Attorey-at-RaYV,
Commercial Building,
jnneß-tf SAVANNAH. GEORGIA.
HENRY B. TOMPKIN.S. I B - A - DENMARK.
ryioMPKiNS & Denmark,
AttnmeJ r 9
No. 105 Isay Street, SAVANNAH, GA.
Practice in the United State 9 Courts, and in the
Superior Courts of the Eastern
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 Perfumery and
Fancy Toilet Articles. Soaps—toilet, laundry and
medicated. Give us a call.
W. H. COTTER & er>„
feh22-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
J/JJiJE .f REDUCTIOJV
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
Is an invaluable remedy ill all cases of Rheuma
tism, Neuralgia, Chronic Pains, etc. It is also an
excellent application to all bruises.
W. H. COTTER & CO’S.
Clioiera Mixture
Is a sure and speedy cure for ail Bowel Affections
and Summer Complaints incidental to our climate.
These preparations are guaranteed to give imme
diate relief, and should be kept in every iamily.
—FOR THE LADIES—
W. H. COTTER & CO’S.
Sewing Machine Oil
The Best Oil made for all fine machinery. apl9-tf
Garden Seed.
TITE HAVE ON HAND A SUPPLY OF FRESH
Vi 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 & CO..
Druggist* and Apothecaries.
DARIEN. GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 19, 1579.
Steamboats. .
GEORGIA & FLORIDA
INLAND
STEAMBOAT COMPANY.
The Darsen Line!
THE STEAMERS
David ClarF and Centennial,
—TR I- WEEKLY—
BETWEEN DARIEN AND SAVANNAH,
AND WEEKLY TO SATILLA RIVER.
. SCEEDIILE:
The Steamer DAVID
CLARK, Captain John
Fitzgerald, will leave
Hotel Wharf, Darien,
FOR SAVANNAH,
every Wednesday and
Sunday, touching at all
intermediate landings.
RETURNING,
Leave Savannah every
Monday and Friday af
ternoon, arriving at Da
rien every Tuesday and
Saturday, and leave Da
rien the sanle day for
St. Simon’s, Brunswick,
St. Marys and Fernan
dina.
Through rates of freight to and from Northern
and Western ports.
Steamers connect ai 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. 8. 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 ALL THE WAY!
STEAMER ROSA
For St. Catherine’s, Doboy, Union Island, Darien,
St. Simon’s, Brunswick, Satilla River and St.
Marys, Ga., Fernandina, Jacksonville, Palatka
and all points on St. Johns River, Fla.
STEAM ER ROSA,
Captain P. H. WARD,
0
Will leave 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, 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 Altanialia, Ocmulgee and Oconee
Rivers must be prepaid.
Freight received daily, Sundays excepted.
J. IJ. SMITH, Manager.
O. S. Bens n, General Business Agent. l-bIQ
Rule Nisi.
STATE OF GEORGIA—McIntosh County.
CLERK'S OFFICE SUPERIOR COURT, 1
July 30th, 1879. j
XT APPEARING BY THE PETITION IN WPI-
X ting of J. H. M. Clinch, Administrator ol the
estate of John H. Mclntosh, Sr., deceased, together
with a copy in substance of the paper lost, or de
stroyed; that S. Harris, Tax Collector of Mclntosh
county, Georgia, on the twenty-seventh (27th) day
of January, A. D., eighteen hundred and one, exe
cuted and delivered to John H. Mclntosh, Sr., de
ceased, a certain deed of fifty thousand acres of
marsh land in Mclntosh county, Georgia, at the
mouth of the Altamaha River, and about Doboy
Island, granted to Edward Walsh in the year 1794,
which said deed is lost or destroyed, and the rec
ord of the same was destroyed by fire in Darien,
in said county; that said land is still the property
of the estate of John H. Mclntosh, Sr„ deceased.
It is therefore ordered, that the said Sampson
Harris, then Tax Collector of Mclntosh county,
Georgia, and Edward Walsh, grantee, and the heirs
of Armand Lefils. grantee, and W. Street, deceased,
and Sarah A. Thomas and Chas. S. Langdon, claim
ants, show cause on or before the next term ot the
said Court, why a true copy of the deed sworn
to, which with the petition now on file insaid office,
should not he established fully 7 and in lieu of said
lost or original deed.
Witness the Honorable William B, Fleming,
Judge of said Court, this July 30th, 1879.
L. B. DAVIS,
augl-3m. Clerk Superior Ct-, Mcl. Cos. Ga,
ANNOUNCEMENT.
TTTE FEEL GRATEFUL TO OUR MANY
VV friends and customers for their liberal pat
ronage during the past year, aud mo have entered
anew year with the determination to deserve a
laruer 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 Btock a lull 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.
Wlieelwriglit anti Blacksmith
I am now prepared ro do aj.l kinds
of Wheelwright and Blacksmith work at short
notice.
buggies, wagons and signs
FAINTED.
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
Countv is a trial. All work warranted.
1/0 5 ROBERT MITCHELL.
jeG-tf Second street, Darien, Ga.
11l A llTrn A LIMITED NUMBER of
Ini AN I H | active, energetic can vassers to
I? Hll I La LI, ngago in a pleasant and
I profitable business. Good men will find this a
, rare chance
TO MAKE MOAEY.
Such will please answer this advertisement by
letter, enclosing stamp for reply, stating what
| busineas they have beeu engaged in. None but
' those who mean business apply Address
ie2o-lv Finley, Rakvly it Cos., Atlanta, Ga.
I Tb e Steamer CENTEN
j NIAL, Captain W. C.
| Ulmo, will leave Hotel
I Wharf, Darien,
FOE SAVANNAH,
every Saturday, touch
ing at all intermediate
landings.
RETURNING,
i Leave Savannah every
Wednesday afternoon,
arriving at Darien every
Thursday, and leave Da
! rien the same day for
St. Simon’s, Brunswick
and Satilla River.
Ordinances, See.
AN OKMNANCE
Entitled An Ordinance to Protect the
Public Health ot the Port of liarlen
by <|narantinc and Otherwise.
Section I. —The Board, of Commissioners of
Mclntosh County "’ho ore exofficio Mayor and
Aldermen of the City of Darien, in Council cssem
bleti ao ordain and it is hereby ordained by author
ity cf the same, That at the first annual meet
ing of this board for each and every year, there
shall be elected a Beard of Health, to be composed
of five (5; members, and also a Port Physician,
who shall be, by reason of his oflice, a member of
said board
Sec. — 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 tound thereon, by
the owners or tenants of such pioperty, within
twenty-four (24) hours after notice is given; .hey
will also cause such gleanings to be forthwith
rendered or placed within roach 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 he 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, iu their discre
tion, to have any or all untenanted houses opened
for ventilation and the premises of the same
cleansed. And any expense so incurred shall he
paid by the owner of such house or iot.
Sec. 4. — Be it further ordained, That aay person
resisting, by neglect or otherwise, any of tho pro
visions of the preceding section of this ordinance
after twenty-four (24! hours notice is given him
or her by any member of tbe Board cf 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 lor 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. — 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 Wolle
Island, so that tho 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, aud 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
shall issue a permit for her removal, aud all ex
pense thus incurred shall be paid by the master
or owner of such vessel. And the quarantine
grounds spokeil of in this ordinance are hereby
declared to be the grounds in Doboy Sound, to
the northerd of Wolle Island, known as the lower
quarantine grounds.
Sec. 8 .—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
of November of the same 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 youth 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. Aud 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 duly
of the Port Physician to proceed as during 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 auy malignant, contagious
or infectious disease of any nature, audit there
should exist such disease he is hereby forbidden
going aboard, under a penally 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
auy death on the voyage from said cause shall be
fined iu 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,
wheiiier 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 eit 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 the expense
of 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 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 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 ami the
same are repealed.
Read third time and 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
haring had no burials on the voyage, shall be
anchored at the Upper Quarantine, one mile above
the innkk buoy, up the Camochan 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 davs, 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 may be safe to the hospital,
on Clam Bank, or Lower Quarantine Ground, and
remain until visited by the Port Physician.
JAMEB HOLMES, M. D.,
Port Physician.
Approved: JAMES WALKER, Mayor, jc 1.1-tt
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 rue
No Wood Butchers employed. “3*
june2T-tf J J- SUTTON.
The Late Geueral Hood.
Gen. Randall Gibson, member of con
gress from Louisiana, who is now at tho
Greenbrier White Sulphur Springs, baa re
ceived a letter setting forth in an affecting
manner tbe last sad scenes in the life of
Gen. John B. Hood. The following is an
extract from the letter: Mrs. Hood after
her last sickness, was better. Friday
week, feeling so well, she imprudently
took a bath. Immediately alter she was
taken with a chill. Dr. Richardson hav
ing left < n the first of the month, Dr. Bem
iswas called in, and during his temporary
abscence, and when taken with this chill,
Dr. Beckham was called, and in consulta
tion with Dr. Logan treated her for inter
mittent fever. On the following Friday
Dr. Bernis returned. I heard him say Mrs.
Hood's case was the most remarkable one
he had ever seen in his practice; that there
was not a single sympton of yellow fever,
and they did not know that sho had until
the black vomit appeared. She died at 9£
o’clock p. in., Sunday night and was bur
ied 10 o’clock Monday moring. I never
saw a man so completely crushed in my
life. I was with him Monday morning
till the funeral. He said he'd rather God
should have taken every one of his children
in one lav than to have lost his wife; that
he was completely ruined, and now, with
out his wife he had nothing to ask lor.
The precious little lambs who bad gone to
bo#Sunday night, knowing nothing of
their mother s death, began to come in one
by one until nine came in, and such a
scene I never wish to witness again. After
the children left he said: “Major, I have
never had the fever, but if I should have it
and it is God’s will, lam ready to gt>. I
have requested Col. Flowers to take*charge
of my children, and appeal to the Confed
erate soldiers to support them, for I have
nothing on earth to leave them." He was
taken Tuesday morning at three o’clock,
and died Friday morning at 3£ o’clock,
perfectly in his mind to within ten minutes
of his death. At about 2 o’clock he asked
if his time to go was not near at hand.
The Dr. said, “Yes, General.” Then a
minister was sent for, at liis request to give
him the last communion. I hear his house
is mortgaged to its full value, and he left
no insurance on his life, not being able
to keep up his policies. He told me bis
book was finished, and be was just about
stalling to Philadelphia to make arrange
ments for its publication. Old Mrs. Hen
nen, his mother-in-law, can live but a few
months, and here are eleven little lambs
left fatherless and motherless.” General
Gibson laid this letter before certain of the
guests at the White Sulphur, whereupon
an appeal in behalf of the orphaned chil
dren of Gen. Hood was issued by a number,
representing nearly every Southern State,
and tbe work begun by the collection of
several hundred dollars. The address af
ter reciting the heroic deeds and sacrifices
of the late General Hood, concludes: “Let
the women of the South adopt these or
phans, and at once raise a sum efficient for
their maintenance and education. We
suggest that an association for this purpose
be formed in every county and town, and
that subserptions be raised,not to exceed $1
from every child in a family. Tbe children
themselves will subscribe, or their parents
for them. We appeal also to the ministers
of God and Christian churches to make
collections. The funds may be remitted
immediately to Col. Isac W. Patton, Mayor
of New Orleans, or to Major Walter P.
Crouch or to Major Samuel Flowers, of
New Orleans associates of General Hood in
business, who will act a guardian shall be
lawfully appointed.”
A Pleasant Picture. —“There in a man,”
said his neighbor, speaking of a village
carpenter, “who has done more good I
really believe, in this commnnity than any
other person who ever lived in it. He can
not talk very well in prayer meeting, and
he dosen’t often try. He isn’t worth two
thousand dollars, and it’s very little that
he can put down on subsefiption papers
for But anew family never
moves into the village that he does not find
them out, to give them a neighborly wel
come and offer any little service he can
render, He is usually on the lookout to
give strangers a seat in his pew at church.
Ho is always ready to watch with a sick
neighbor and look after his affairs far him,
and Iv’e sometimes tuougt he and his wife
keep house-plants in winter just for the
sake of being able to send little bouquets
to invalids. He finds time for a pleasant
word for every child he meets, and you 11
always see them climbing into the one
horse wagon when he has no other load.
He really seems to have a genius for help
ing folks in all sorts of common ways and
it does me good every day just to meet
him on the street.”
The Most Popular Girl.—The most
popular girl in America to-day is M iss Anna
W. Williams a modest teacher in the house
refuge, Philadelphia, if we may judge by
the struggle people of every rank and con
dition in life make to secure her likeness.
Men toil early and late, commit crime and
do all manner of evil to secure the impress
of her faultless profile even. Women sell
that, the price whereof is above rubies, that
they may possess her counterfeit features,
though they have never seen or known the
original. Not one of the many beautiful
women whose photagraphs, taken in a
hundred different positions, are in the
stock of numberless picture stores, are
nearly so much sought after as that of the
modest Miss Williams. Statesmen, mer
chants, soldiers and laboring men make
the goal of their ambition the possession
of the gentle Anna’s likeness, and why?
Because it is her face that is stamped on
the silver dollar, she having set for the
artist who designed the head of the God
dess of Liberty which adorns that coin.
“Poor man !” said the old lady, “and so
he’s really gone at last! Ninety-eight,
was he ! Dear, dear! to think how that if
he’d lived two more years more he and have
been a centurion!”
It destroys half the pleasure of a sum
mer resort to hear a man eat soup at the
dinner table like the last tew gallons of
water being sucked out of a bath-tub by
the waste-pipe.
The Zulus, in battle, keep working their
jaws, for wait good nobody ever knew.
The same phenomenon sometimes hap-
in tLe American CongrefcH.
$2.50 A YEAR.-
I nluippy Marriage*.
The truth is that these too frequent “un
happy marriages” are the offspring of igno
rance quite as much as actual sin or wrong.
Fools, and especially vicious fools, have no
right to get possession of an honest wo
man’s life and soul, which they cannot
comprehend, and the elevating influence
of which they throw away even more by
stupidity than wilfulness.
A woman by her sex and character, has
a claim to many things besides shelter,
and clothing. She is not less a woman for
being weded; and the man who is fit to be
trusted with a good wife recollects all which
this implies and shows himself perpetually
chivalrous, sweet spoken, considerate and
deferential. The fools and brutes among’
us may think suck demands hard;but they
are not nearly so bad as to live the eat and
dog life, missing the dearest possibilties
of human intercourse.
What right has a man to expect happiness
in a household who brings no sunshine in
to it? What right has he to look for the
graces and refinement of early love when
ho violates them rough speech, ill-manners
and the disregard of those little things up
on which the self-respect of a wife is built
and maintained ? The cynic who rails at
marriage is generally ond and the same
with the thougtless egotist who flies into
the presence of his wife careless, stubborn
and soar-tempered, though he never went
to his mistress except in his best behav
ior. , „
Tho fate is horrible which a pure sud
faithful girl may endure by encountering in
him whom she weds not mere actual cruel
ty or injury but stupid incompetent to un
derstand a woman’s needs dull forgetful
ness of tbe daily grace of life and oblivion
of the fact that while men have the world
women have nly their home. These
gro.ssne.sses of masculine ingratitude do not
indeed, often lead to visible catastrophe
nor grow into absolute tyranny, but equal
ly lead that way. They dgag down a wife's
soul to the point where she is.,to despair;
they change the sublime meaning
of marriage to vulgarity and weariness;
they spoil tbe chance of that best and fin
est of all education which man obtains who
wins a reasonable good woman for his com
panion, and they cost more to a million
households than money or repentance' 6an
ever pay back.
Wife and Mother.
Women are perpetually exhorted to
make home comfortable. The wife must
greet her husband with a kiss, for a cross
word might send him to a billiaad-room
for entertainment and relaxation. Of
course baby has been troublesome—babies
always are; but then women have nothing,
else to do, so why should she complain- if
sho does have to hold him iu her arms all
day? the mother must speak gently to the’
children, no matter how aggravating they
may be; and even one’s own children, are
sometimes a trifle annoying. And so on. .
But what of men’s part in this home-mak-'
ing? Oh! their duty in the home is to
“raise a breeze” in it. They are too busy,
too pre-occupied, too impatient and
thoughtless, and—it must be said of some
of them—too selfish to do their fair share
of that pre-eminently millennial work, the
creating of a happy home. The small du
ties of life are not in their line. They will
for their home, and make slaves of them
selves in their business to maintain them,
but, like the proverbial man who would
die for a woman, but would never bring
tip a scuttle of coal, they can’t tell what
tlieir children are studying at school who
their mates are, whnt they are learning of
good or evil, nor scarcely anything else
that a father ought to know concerning
his offspring. It is so sad a fact as to spoil
the satire when it is said that many a father
finds his Sundays and holidays too few to
enable him to become acquainted with his
boys. A father can contribute in many
ways to a liappy home life, for it takes little
to mako children happy. Five minutes’
romp with them renders them happy for an
hour. We need scarcely say that a man
should set the example for the family m
patience, cheerfulness, courtesy, forbear
ance, and all the amiable moods and graces
t hat are the soul of home happiness. The
sort of men who display all their suavity
and politeness in the street or at their busi
ness places, and save the storms and sulks,
and sourness, and all the evil brood of
fiendish disposition that they characterize
by the convenient euphemism of “moods”
—Well they don’t deserve home, wife, or
children.
Womanly Modesty.—Man loves the mys
terious. A cloudless sky and. the full
blown rose leave him unmoved; hut the
violet which hides its blushing beauties be
hind the bush, and the moon when emerg
ing from behind a cloud, are to him sources '
of inspiration and of pleasure. Modesty
is to merit what shade is to a figure in
painting —it gives boldness and promi
nence. Nothing adds more to female beau
ty than modesty. It sheds around the
countenance a halo of light which is bor
rowed from virtue. Botanists have given
the rosy hue which tinges the cup of the
white roses the name of “maiden blush.”
This pure and delicate hue is the only
paint Christian virtue should use. It is
the richest ornament. A woman without
modesty is like a faded flower diffusing art
unwholesome odor, which the prudent;
gardener will throw from him. Her desti
ny is melancholy, for it terminates in
shame and repentance. Beauty passes
like the flower of the albe, which bloom
and die in a few hours; but modesty gives
the female charms which supply the place
of the transitory freshness of youth.
In Texas if you kill a man they will give
you your liberty and SSOO to start on; if
you steal a horse they hang you; if you
steal a sheep they send you up for ten
years, and if you steal a horse whip they
penitentiary you for life. Justice to whom
justice is due.
One of the disagreeable features about
being near-sighted is that a man is in dan
ger of taking his wife for another woman
and being polite to her. —Des Moines Reg
ister.
When a St. Louis girl sneezes it is a
-ign of damp weather or rain across the
river in a two days, when the spray
comes down.
No Hottentot is permitted to marry
more than eight sisters out of one family.
This is right. Somebody else might want - '’
a chance.