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Darien Timber Gazette.
VOL. 6.--NO. 23.
Oafi&i Timber Gazette,
VOHUftUBD KTMIST FUIDAT MORNING.
jiT DARIMJT, GEORGIA,
COHKBB 3HO AD AND SOBTBWAI STREETS.
RICHARD W. GRUBB.
Editor and Proprietor.
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City Directory.
“ COUNTY OFFICERS.
County Commisrioner, —James Walker, Chairman;
Idem strain, Isaac M. Aiken, J. A. Atwood, T. H.
GiguiUiat, James E. Holmes, Joseph Hilton.
Ctzrk Board of County Commissioners—Spalding
K C erk Superior Court —L. B. Davis.
Ordinary —U. H. Hopkins, Sr.
Sieritr—T. Butler Blount.
IZXer Tan Belarus- W. McW. Young.
Tan Collector —O. C. Hopkins.
County Treasurer— SI. C. O'Neil.
County Surveyor —W. B. Poppel.
Coroner Pm tip Maxwell.
The Commissioners hold monthly meetings ®n
=ihe first Wednesday in each month.
CITY OFFICERS.
sjffi..j.A. Atwood,
J. E. Holme i, fhoinas H. Gignilliat,
Isaac M. Aikdii.
COMMITTEES.
Oounittee on Finance- Messrs. Strain, Atwood
a Committee on AcMuntn Holmes, Gigml
fiarsor-**™. Hilton,' Aiken
U Co on ae** and lottery -Messrs. • gnii
**" * *—
''committee on Street, and -Messrs. Aiken.
Boads-Mesers. Atwood.
Bunting,-*-*: Strain.
>\a'l AUeQ. , n .v
Committee on Pnice —Messrs. Holmes, and . oh so.
Committee on Ordinances -Hours. Aisen. s m
and Atwood.
C.erk and Treasurer— Sp filing Kenau.
Citf Marshal— Charles H. Hopkins, Jr.
Deputy Mar,bat— Alonzo Guyton.
Harbor Master—dams* Abeel.
Port Physician- Dr. J v ines Holmes.
Inspector (ienera: of Timber George ■ J ‘ '
/V-7 Warden, —lsaac 34. Aiken, Jonn H. Burrel..
<a.l Jamas G. Young.
Jai.tr —Charles H. Hopkins, Jr. ,
Board Pilot Commissioners— Charles S. Langd_ n.
tLiian, K. K Walker. W. O. Clark
•ey, Dr. it. 3. Harris. James Hgutison and Bobt.
Mitchell. Win. L. Gign.lliat, Secretery.
M.uiOSIC.
Live (Hk Lodge. No. 13T, meets first Wed ‘
meat ia each month at their hall near the Magno
lia ii rase; H. S. Bavenel, Worshipiul Master; B.
W. Grubb, Sacretary
UNITED STATES OFFICERS.
CtUtdor of Custom,. Brunswick District— John T.
Collins. Headquarters at Brunswick.
Deputy Collector of Customs for Port of Darren—
Oharlea 11. Townsend.
Imptetor —Edwin C. Djivl§.
master —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. , . „ ,
Dry a a County— Thursdays after first Mondays
in April and October.
Chatham County—Second Mondays in February,
Mav and October.
Mrlntoih County —Tuesday* after loft 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 aiter
noon at Bp. m. Mail closes at 2% p. iu* .
Bide mail for No. 3, Atlantic A Gulf Railroad,
departs o’clock every Tuesday morning am
arrives at 8 p. m. every Monday, touching at
Riceboro and South Newport both way*.
RELIGIOUS.
Religious services at the Methodist Church
every Sundav 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
tor. ,
Religious services every Sabbath at 11 a. an
3 p.m. at the Methodist Church, colored, Ke\.
MTO $6,000 A YEAB. or $5 to S2O
I day in your own locality.
No risk. Women do as well as
men. Many make more than the
amount stated above. No one
r cn fafl to make money fast.
Any one can do the work. You can make from
SO cts. to $2 an hour by devoting your eyemngs
and spare time to the business. It coats nothing
to try the business. Nothing like it ever offered
before. Business pleasant and strictly honorable.
Header, if you want to know ail about the best
paying buaineas before the public, aend us your
address and we will send you full particulars an(
private terms free: samples worth $6 also Tree;
you can then make up your mind for yourself.
Addre** GEORGE STINSON & 00., Portland, Me.
june 10 .
Garden Seed.
WE HATE ON HAND A SUPPLY OF FRESH
Harden Seed, juat received, constating in
part of
BEETS, CABBAGE,
CARROTS, CUCUMBERS,
' CELERY, EGGPLANT,
LETTUCE. OKRA,
ENGLISH PEAS,
BEANS, TOMATOES,
SQUASH, OYSTER PLANT,
EARLY CORN, PEPPER, Etc.
W. H. OOTTEB & CO.,
Professional Cards.
"YY'ALTEIt A. WAT,
Attorney-at-Law and Real
Estate Agent,
DARIEN, GEORGIA.
Will practice in tho 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
ROBERT GIGNILUAT,
Attorney-at-Law,
DARIEN, GEORGIA.
Prompt attention given to all legal business In
the Eastern and Bruuswick Circuits, and in the
United States Courts at Savannah* Georgia.
april'2s-ly
IE. B. DxLORSIE,
J.
Attorney & Counselor-at-Law,
and Notary Public.
DARIEN, GEORGIA.
Office on Broad street, near Timber Exchange.
July 2
jyR. SPALDING KENAN,
DARIEN, GEORGIA.
Offers his professional services to the Ciflzens of
Darien and vicinity. He can be found at all hours
day and night, at his office on Screven street, next
door to Mr. Wilcox’s dwelling house. aug3-ly
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 Hou<
building.
J J. ABRAMS,
Attorney-at-L tU',
Commercial
june6-tf SAVANNAH, GFc >H- >'
HKNBY B. TOMPKINS. I>. i.-
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NOTICE.
Wheelwright and Blacksmith
I AM NOW PREPARED TO DO ALL KINDS
of Wheelwright and Blacksmith work at Short
otice.
buggies, wagons and signs
PAINTED.
Gorham’s Patent Attachment for shafts (a great
saving of time and money to all who use them)
arc kept on hand. . , .u
All kinds of work done in first-class style. All
I ask of the people of Darien and Mclntosh
rvmntv is a trial. All work warranted,
county IS a in* ROBEK T MITCHELL,
je6-tf Second street, Darien, Ga.
liflllTrn A LIMITED NUMBER of
Ml A ill I ► I la,-five, energetic canvassers to
If nil I $■ Iwengago in a pleasant and
profitable business. Good men will find tuis a
raro chance
TO MAKE MONET.
Snch will please answer this advertisement by
letter, enclosing stamp for replv. stating what
business they have been engagi 1 In. None but
those who mean business apply. '.ddress
je2o-ly. Finley. Harvey A Cos., Atlanta, Ga.
A MONTH guaranteed. sl2 a day
at home made by the industrious.
Capital not required; we will start
you. Men, women, boys and girls
make money faster at work for us
than anything else. The work is
light and pleasant, and such as anyone can go
right at. Thaie who are wise who see this notice
will send ns their addrosses at once and see for
themselves. Costly outfit and terms free. Now
is the time. Thoe* already at work are laymgnp
Argtj of xxzf* edL-esa TSTE * PO.,
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DARIEN, GEORGIA, FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 23, 1879.
GEORGIA & FLORIDA
INLAND
STEA3I BOAT COMPANY.
The Darien Line!
Savannah.St, Catharine’s,Doboy,Darien,
Union Island, St. Simon’s lirusnwick,
St. Mary’s and Fernandina.
Connecting at Daiien with steamers forallland
mgs on the Oconee and Altamaha Rivers.
Steamer City of Bridgeton
WILL leave wharf, foot of Bull street, every
TUESDAYaud SATURDAY at * p. m., for
above points, connecting at Brunswick with Ma
con Brunswick and Brunswick and Albany Rail
roads for all points on the line of those roads, at
Fernandiua with Transit Road for Jacksonville.
Cedar Keys, aud all points on Florida Central
Railroad and Jacksonville, Pensacola aud Mobile
Railroad, aud with steamer Flora, Captain Joe
Smith, for all points on St. Mary’s river.
Through rates of freight to and from Northern
and Western ports.
Steamers conne-t 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.
Darien, Georgia.
SPECIAL NOTICE.
CAPT. THOMAS WHITE, Agenis authorized
to adjust, promptly, all cl:; ms at Darien.
W. F. BAKRY, Gens’-' 1 gent.
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Lngersoll ou Alcohol.
Colonel Hobart Ingersoll was lately em
ployed in ease which involved the nitin
utacture of ardent spirits, and in hia speech
to the jury he used the following language!
"I am aware there is a predjudioe against
any man engaged in the manufacture of
alcohol. I believe from the time it issues
from the coil and poisonous worm in the
distillery until it empties into the hell of
death, dishonor and crime, that it is de
moralizing to every body that touches it,
from the sour A; to where it ends. I do
not believe that anybody can contemplate
the subject without being prodjudiced
against the crime. All we have to do is to
think of the wrecks on either side the
stream of death, of suicides, of the insani
ty, of the poverty, of the destruction, of
the little children tugging at the breasts
of weeping and despairing wives asking
for bread of the man of genius it has
wrecked; the man struggling with imagi
nary serpents, produced by this devilish
thing; and when you thiuk of the jails, of
the almshouses, of tho asylums, of the
prisons and tho scalloldson either bunk, I
do not wonder that every thoughtful man
is predjudieed aguiust this vile stuff called
alcohol. Intemperance cuts down youth
in its vigor, manhood iiaits strength, and
age in its weakness. It breaks the father's
heart, bereaves,the doting mother, extin
guishes natural affection, erasos conjugal
love, blots out filial attachment and
blights parental hope, and brings perma
ture age in sorrow to the grave. It pro
duces weakness, not strength; siekuess,
not health, death, not life. It makes wives
widows, children orphans, father's fiends,
and all paupers. It feeds rheumatism,
nurses gout, welcomes epidemics, invites
cholera, imports pestilence, and embrace
consumption. It covers the land with
misery, idleness and crime. It engenders
controversies, fosters quarrels und cher
ishes riots. It crowds your penitentiaries
and furnishes victims to the scallold. It
Is the blood of the gambler, the element
of the burglar, the prop of the highway
man, and the support of the midnight in
cendiary. It countenances the liar, re
spects the thief, esteems the blasphemer,
it violates obligations, reverences fraud,
honors infamy. It defames benevolence,
hates love, scorns virtue and innocence.
It incites the father to butcher his help
less offspring, and the child to grind the
parental. axe. It burns up men, con
sumes women, deserts life, curses God aud
despises Heaven. It suborns witnesses,
nurses perfidy, denies the jury box and
stains the judicial ermine. It bribes vo
ters, disqualifies voters; corrupts elections,
polutes our institutions and endangers the
Government. It degrades the citizens,
debases the legislator, dishonors the states
man and disarms the patriot. It brings
shame, not honor; terror, not safety; desires
not hope; misery, notliap])inss;and with
the manevolance of a fiend, calmly sur
veys its frightful desolation, and unsatia
ted with havoc, it poisons felicity, kills
peace, ruins morals, wipes out national
honor, then curses the w orld aud laughs
at its ruin. It does that aud more—it
murders the soul. It is the sum of all vil
lainies, the fathorof crimes, tho mother of
all abominations, the devil’s best Iriend,
and God’s worst enemy.”
A Young Editor’s Experience With a
Humorist.
I mot Artemus Ward but once. I was
quite young at that time, and was acting
as city editor of the Star, published at
Schenectady, N. Y. I was standing on a
bridge at the time, and in talking about
newspaper work was about to say some
thing in regad to my heavy editorial re
sponsibility, but Ward checked me by
saying:
“What creek is this?"
“Creek !” I exclaimed, “why, this is the
Erie Canal.”
“How far is it navigable?”
"Why, of course it it navigable from one
end to the other.”
“Well,” solemnly replied Ward, “that
beats all the streams I ever heard of. By
the way, I think I can make out some large
boats anchored up the stream there—
what are they, propellers or side-wheel
ers ?"
I replied that they were merly canal
boats, and were moved by horse power.
“Ah! I didn’t think the stream was so
shallow ns that,” said Artemus.
“As shallow as what?"
“Why,you say that those boats are pull
ed along by horses. Now, of course, they
must walk along in front of the boat muent
they ? I used to run a stone on my la
mented Uncle John’s farm, and 1 distinct
ly remember the horses walked along in
front.”
I mentally declared that I bad never met
with such ignorance. I spentj some time
in explaining the peculiarities of the big
ditch, and just as I had begun to think
that at last I had set the stranger right
on the subject, he In eked my hopes into
kindling W’ood by remarking.
“I supbose that wheii the streams dries
up in summer they put the boats on wheels
don’t they?”
Then I began again and explained ev
ery feature of the canal from New York to
Erie. How attentively he listened to my
words. I can still see the meloncholy
face, lit by the sad light of the stars, and
those mournful eyes looking into mine so
earnestly; and again I hear, as I did then
after I had talked for nearly half as hour,
going full into the details of boating, the
low pathetic drawl:
“Any saw mills on this stream that you
know of?”
Shortly after some gentlemen came
along who seemed to be acquaited with
my obtuse friend. Presently one called
him Artemus, and then I commenced to
reflect, I always reflect beet when I am
hid away somewhere, so I went and hid
myself.
We have one satisfaction —not a single
woman with “banged hair” has as far as
heard from, captured a husband. We are
thus hopeful that this class will die out
with the present generation. Those now
living in civilized society with “square
cut bangs,” should be placed in solitary
confinement until “the glory of woman
shall be gathered upon tho head as befits
her. The banged sister should “tarry at
Jericho” till their bangs grow out.
A farmer is respectfully informed that
weeds on the arm.are got rid of by a little
husbandry. So are those on a widow's
bcfci&f.
$2.50 A YEAR-
A Boy Almost Torn to Pleows by a l>e
perate Pair of Felines.
Several days ago, says the Littla
Rock, Arkansas, Gazette, we published an
article from the Dardanello Arkansian,
giving an aoceunt of a bull dog attacking
and almost tearing a ooupje of children to
pieces. Such a course from a bull dog is
not surprising, but the following given us
by Mr. George Harrison, of Poinsett coun
ty, is something aside from the usual line
of animal ferocity:
Several mornings ago, a boy about 15
years old, a nephew of Mr. Harrison, an
inmate of his family, went out to the bam
to feed the horses. When he entered the
loft he discovered two large cats lying on
the straw asleep. Boy like, he took up a
bundle of fodder, and creeping up, struck
both of them at one blow. There was
something of a disappointment in the re
sult. The cats instead of running away,
sprang at the boy w ith a fury that startled
him. Having nothing with which to de
fend himself, the boy tumbled around,
while the cats squalled, claw ed and bit
him unmercifully. Tho boy’s cries did
not bring assistance, aud, of course, real
izing the fact that it might prove fatal to
delay desperate efforts, the boy sprung to
ward the ladder leaning against the ratters,
und ascended to the roof of the houses
The cats followed him, and despite his ef
forts to keep them away, bit and clawed -
him frightfully. Realizing his ladder fol
ly he jumped down on tho hay. The cqts
followed him. By this time he was bleed
ing very freely, and his coat was almost
torn into threads. Seizing one of the cats
by the hind legs, he attempted to beat it
to death against the wall, but the animal
turned and began tearing his arm. Shak
ing the feline off, he ran to the ladder
leading down. The animals followed him.
Just as he reached the ladder, he discover
ed a monkey-rench lying ou the floor.
Soizing it, he tinned, dealt the foremost
cat ab ow between the eyes, and, before
it could recover mashed its head. The
other animal war not rendered less fero
cious by the death of its companion, but
f ugbt wi h fi.ry. With a heavy blow t 9
boy stretched out the remaining feline und
beat out its brains. Catching them bj the
tails, he marched to the house to give an
account of his battle. When ho entered
the house ragged and bleeding from al
most every inch of his body, holding two
large cats by the tails, the astonishment of
the uncle and the terror of tho aunt were
what you might call boundltss.
The boy has been confined to his bed
since the encounter, and his physiciuns
say that his recovery is doubtful.
Heroic Act of au Engineer.
Nick Hartman, the Lake Shore engine-.r
in the accident near Glcnville, 0., is in a
.critical condition, and his injuries may
prove fatal. As soon as Hartman’s engine
struck the Torpedo he shut off steam, put
on the air brakes and turned on the sand.
It took but a minute to do this, but at the
end of that minute the brave engineer
found himself wedged in between the
debris of the wrecked caboos and the cab
of his engine. The pressure on his chest
was aw ful to endure. It was necessary to
chop away the timbers around him before
he could be liberated. When they had set
him free, someone said. “Nick, why did
you not jump like your firemen did ? The
engineer looked contemptuously at his
interlocutor and with an oath said: There
was only one of me. There were five hun
dred passengers behind me. I knew that
by staying at my post I could probably
save tkeir lives, and I stayed.” It is such
men as Hartman who make, the practical
heroes of life. He is a married man, the
father of two children, and has been in
tho employ of the Lake Shore road aboat
twenty years.
It’b What You Spend.—“lt’s whnt the’ll
spend, my son,” said a sage old
“not what the’ll make, which will decide
whether thee’s to be rich or not.” The
advice was trite, for it was Franglin’s in
another shape: “Take care of the pence
and the pounds will take care of them
selves.” But it cannot be too often repeat
ed. Men are continually indulging in
small expenses, saving to themselves it’s
only a trifle, yet forgetting that the aggre
gate is serious, that even the seashore is
made up of pretty grains of sand. Ten
cents a day is even thirty-six dollars- and
a half a year, and that is the interest of a
capital of six hundred dollars. The man
that saves ten cents a day only, insomuch
river than he who does not, as if he own
ed a life estate in a house worth six hun
dred dollars; and if invested quaterly; does
not take half the time.
Why She Wept—A young lady of Doug
las, Mo., recently showed more good sense
than is common with lovesick damsel.
She had been courted Iw . y .•/ man
who took the name of W **:•,• - !>,:■ t.d
who through aft acqu -.n’ar > ve* Kt
had secured her cons,u. that of her
parents to their marriage. The twain
were on their way to be married when West
moreland was arrested by Sbrrilf Donald,
of Springfield, Mo. It appears that the
real name of Westmoreland, was Wood,
that he had been indicted for fraudulent
voting, and skipped from Springfield, and
that the Sheriff had been sent in search of
him. When the young lady was inform
ed of the fact she cried as though her
heart would break. Sheriff Donald asked
her if she wept for her lover, and she gave
the sensible answer, ’No lam aiad to think
what a fool I was.’
Queen Victoria once signified to Viscount
Macduff, now Earl of Fife, that she would
not be unwilling to have him for a son-in
law. The nobleman respectfully declined
the honor. Ho is not yet thirty, wca
schooled at Eton, has eight residences in
the Highlands, and is warmly spoken of
by nil classes. His four sisters are ladies
of extreme beauty, but have not all been
enviable in their wedded life.
Women are such strange creatures! Is
there any trick that love and their own
fancies do not play them? Just see how
they marry. A woman that gets hold of a
bit of manhood is like one of those Chi
nese wood carvers who work on any odd,
fantastic root that comes to band. I should
like to see any kind of man distinguishable
i from a gorilla, that some good, ffnd even,
pretty woman, could lot shape a knshift)fi
' our of.