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-Uaauen umber Gazette.
VOL. 7.—NO. 28.
Darien Timber Gazette,
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY MORNING,
jtT DJiRIEJT , GEORGIA,
CORNER BROAD AND NOBTHWAY STREETS.
RICHARD W. GRUBB,
Editor and Proprietor.
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Timber Gaaette, Darien, Georgia.
City Directory.
COUNTY OFFICERS.
County Commiuionert —James Walker. Chairman;
Adam Strain, Isaac >l. Aiken, J. A. Atwood, T. H.
GiguiLuat, lames E. Holmes, Joseph Uiltou.
Clerk Hoard of County Commistumeri —Spalding
Kenan.
Clerk Superior Court —L. B. Davis.
OrtUntiry—o. H. Hopkins, Sr.
Sheriff— T. Butler Blount.
Reeeiuer Tax, Retuma— W. McW. Young.
Tax Collector—O. O. Hopkins.
County Treasurer —M. 0. O'Neil.
County Surveyor —W. R. PoppaL
Coroner —Philip Maxwell.
The Commissioners hold monthly meetings on
the first Wednesday in each month.
CITY OFFICERS.
Ex-Officio Mayor —.lames Walker.
Ex-Officio Aldermen —Joseph Hilton, J. A. Atwood,
Adam Strain, J. E. Holmes, Thomas H. GiguilUat,
Isaac M. Aiken.
.SIASDINd COMMITTEES.
Cmsmitiee an Finance— Messrs. Strain, Atwood
and Hilton.
Committee on Account*—Messrs. Holme#, Gigml
liat and Aiken. .
Committee on Harbor —Messrs. Hilton, Aiken
and Strain.
Committee on Health and Cemetery- Messrs. Gignil
liat, Atwood and Holmes.
Committee on Faupers— 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 anil Hilton.
Committee on Jbsb'.ic Buildings —Messrs. Strain,
Gignilliat, and .Aiken.
Cmnmittee on Ihjlict —Mcssr#. Holmes, Hilton and
Strain. 4 .. _.
Committee on Ordinance*— Messrs. Aiken, Strain
%nd Atwood.
Clerk and Treasurer— Spalding Kenan.
City Marshal —diaries H. Hopkins, Jr.
Deputy Marshal —Alonzo Guyton.
Harbor Master —James Abeol.
l*ort Physician —Dr. James Holmes.
Inspector General of Timber —George W. Fanes.
I*ort Wardens —Isaac M. Aiken, John H. Burrell,
and James G. Young.
Jailer —Charles H. Hopkins, Jr.
Board Pilot Commissioners— Charles S. Hang don,
Chairman, It. K. Walker, W. C. Clark. Arthur Bai
ley, Dr. B. B. Harris. James Lachlison and Itobt.
Mitchell. Win. L. Gignilliat. Secretary.
MASONIC.
Lire Oak Lodge, No. 137, meets first Wednesday
night in each month at their hall near the Magno
lia House; H. S. Ravonel, Worshipful Master; It.
W. Grubb, Secretary
UNITED STATES OFFICERS.
Collector of Custom, Brunswick District —John T.
Collins. Headquarters at Brunswick.
Deputy Collector of Customs for Port of Darken—
Charles H. Townsend.
Inspector —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 ftrst 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. _
Mclntosh County—Tuesdays after last Mondays m
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 3p. m. Mail closes at 2% p. na.
Side mail for No. 3, Atlantic A Gulf Railroad
departs B>4 o’clock every Tuesday morning and
arrives at 8 p. m. every Monday, touching at
Riceboro and South Newport both ways.
RELIGIOUS.
Religions 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)4 o’clock. Rev. H. E. Harman, pas
tor. .
Religions services every Sabbath at 11 a. m. ana
3 p. m. at the Methodist Church, colored, Rev.
L. H. Smith, pastor.
UTO $6,000 A YEAR, or $5 to s‘2o
i 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 fail 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.
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 & 00., Portland, Me.
June 20
Garden Seed.
WE HAVE ON HAND A SUPPLY OF FRESH
Garden Seed, just received, consisting in
part of
BEETS, CABBAGE,
CABROTS, CFCTTMBERS,
CELERY. EGGPLANT,
LETTTCE, OKRA.
ENGLISH PEAS,
BEANS, TOMATOES,
SQUASH, OYSTER PLANT,
EARLY CORN, PEPPER, Etc.
W. H. COTTER & CO.,
Djwiggiwts and Anotfcesarier.
Professional Cards.
■yy .ALTER A. WAY,
Attoxney-at-Law anti Ileal
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 yiven to the collection of claims
and the examination of land titles. april*2s
w. ROBERT GIGNILHAT,
Attoruej’-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
IE. B. DkLORME,
J.
Attorney & Counselor-at-Law,
ami Notary Public.
DARIEN, GEORGIA.
Office on Broad street, near Timber Exchange.
July'2
|jlt SPALDING KENAN,
DARIEN, GEORGLA
Offers his professional services to the citizens of
Darien and vicinity. He can be found at all hours
day and night, at his office on Serevon street, next
door to Mr. Wilcox's dwelling house. augS-ly
JJR. B* B. HARRIS
Offers his professional services to the citizens ol
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,
junoft-tf SAVANNAH, GEORGIA,
HENRY B. TOMPKINS. B. A. DENMARK.
rjluMP KIN’S & DENMARK,
Attorneys-at-L.aw,
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 OXJn?-
HOYT’S COLOGNE, CORNING’S COLOGNE,
LTTBIN’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
madicatod. Give us a call.
W. H. COTTER & CO.,
fcb22-tf Druggists and Apothecaries.
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NOTicir
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 groat
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 and Mclntosh
County is a trial. All work warranted.
ROBERT MITCHELL,
jeG-tf Second street, Darien, Ga.
11l I R| Tf n A limited NUMBER of
ft fU 3 g- f lactive, energetic canvassers to
If Hll I LiUengage in a pleasant and
profitable business. Good men will find this a
rare chance
TO MAKE MONEY.
Snch 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. Finley, Harvey A Cos., Atlanta, Ga.
A MONTH guaranteed. 112 a day
at home mafic by the industrious.
Capital not required; we will start
yon. Men, women, boys and girls
make money faster at work for ns
than anything else. The work is
light and pleasant, and such as anyone can go
right at. Those who are wise who see this notice
will send us their addresses at once and see for
themselves. Costly outfit and terms free. Now
is the time. Those already at work ar laving up
sums of money. Address TIC - cq.,
AtfFrfsitti’M’c. jnne3o-ly
DARIEN, GEORGIA, FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 2, 1880.
GEORGIA & FLORIDA
INLAND
STEAMBOAT COMPANY.
The Darien Line!
Savannah. St. Catharine’s,Doboy,Darien,
Union Island, St. Simon’s Brusuwick,
St. Mary’s and Fernandina.
Connecting at Darien with steamers for all land
ings on the Oconee and Altamaha Rivers.
Steamer City of Bridgeton
WILL leave wharf, foot of Bull street, every
TUESDAY and SATURDAY at 1 p. m„ for
above points, connecting at Brunswick with Ma
con Brunswick and Brunswick and Albany Rail
roads tor all points on the lino of those roads, at
Fernandina with Transit Road for Jacksonville,
Cedar Keys, and all points on Florida Central
Railroad and Jacksonville, Pensacola and Mobile
Railroad, and with steamer Flora, Captain Joe
Smith, for all points on St. Mary’s river,
Through rates of froight 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.
Darien, Georgia.
SPECIAL. NOTICE.
CAPT, THOMAS WHITE, Agent, is authorized
to adjust, promptly, all claims at Darien.
W. F. BARRY, General Agent.
J. N. HARRIMAX, Manager,
sep22-tf Savannah, Ga.
Collat Brothers.
Per rm Their Fromise
New Inducements to the Purchasing
Public!
„rlves'ln Every Department 1
Drive* from the Jobbers 1 I
Special Drives troiuour Buyers 1 1 1
Solid Fact I . Solid Fact
Savannah Prices in Darien.
In Groceries,
Hardware,
Wood & Willow Ware-
Crockery,
Stoves,
Glassware,
Sadlery.
OFFER SPECIALITIES IN] DRY GOODS
and Blankets. Shoes of all grades,in pegged ma
shine and hand eowod. Wo keep in stock a tine
selection of Ladies and Gents hand-made Boots
and Shoes. We are offering the finest line of Gents
FURNISHING GOODS.
Clothing,
Hats,
Trunks,
Valices,
which we carry in endless variety and constantly
roceive from Nortnem markets only. Thanking
you for past favors and saliciting a continuance
of the same, we arc yours,
n2B-tf COLLAT BROTHERS.
PLANTERS’ HOTEL,
SAVANNAH, GA.,
Cheapest and Best
HOTEL IN
THE SOUTH.
Bates $1 50 pnd $2 00
per Day,
ulccordinx to Loea/ion of
Room..
JOS. HERSCHBACILprop’r.
Jyas-tf.
City Marshal’s Sale.
FIRST TUESDAY IN JANUARY 1880.
STATE OF GEORGIA, McINTOSH COUNTY,
City of Darien.—Under and by virtue of a fieri
facias issued by Spalding Kenan, Clerk and Treas
urer of tbe Board of County Commissioners ex-of
fiia Mayor and Aldermen, of the City of Darien,
against Mrs. James Larkin, for license due the
said City of Darien amounting to s7f> and cost, for
the year 1878. I have this day levied, upon one
bay mare as the property of the said Mrs. James
Larkin to satiisfy said ft. fa., and I will proceed to
sell the said mare before the Court House of said
County, between the legal hours of sale, on the
First Tuesday in January 1880. Terms of Sale cash,
purchasers paying for titles. December 4th, 1879,
C. H. HOPKINS. Jr„
dec. City Marshal.
Notice.
A LL PERSON, ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED,
iY. that from and alter date hereof, that any
violation ofthe"Sunday Ordinance" will he rigidly
enforced.
By order of tho Board of County Commissioners
of Mclntosh Cos., ex-officio Mayor and Aldermen,
City of Darien. SPALDING KENAN, Clerk.
This 3d day of December, A. D. lH7it.
City Elections.
Office Board Commissioners. )
Darien, Ga., Dec. 3d, 1879. j
The next regular monthly meeting
of the Board, being the first Wednesday in
January next, there will be an election for the fol
lowing officers: Clerk and Treasurer, of city,Mar
shal, Deputy Marshal. Inspector General of Tim
ber and Lumber. 10 Inspectors, Port Physician,
City Sexton, Harbor Master. Bv order of Board.
d5. SPALDING KENAN. Clerk,
Notice.
THE CAPTAIN NOR CONSIGNEES
of tho German Bark MAX FISCHER. Captain
Mass, willbo responsible fcr any debts contracted
by the crew of said vessel.
HILTON TIMBERS LUMBER CO.
Darien, Ga., November 2*, lfm.
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ANNOUNCEMENT.
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Darien, Ga., October 31, Ufr6,
A Man Who Made aud Lost A Fortune-
How His Luck Changed.
There is now in the streets of New York
a man who was from Connecticut a few years
ago anil made $900,000 in. six months. He
had $7,000 to start with, partly money that
he had saved and the rest borrowed. In
whatever direction ho reached, money
seemed to answer tho touch. The news of
his luck went back and fairly bewildered
the town whence he came. Of those who
took the fever seven gave up their em
ployment and came to tke city, making
here a little bunch of speculators liko many
another that may be found in Wall street
drawn together by like causes, from many
parts of the country. It is just when some
body draws a prize in lottery, straightway
half the people in the neighborhood go to
buying lottery tickets. And for the same
reason you may find in small towns remote
from New York, communities who seem to
have a bent for stock speculations. Ask
why, usually you will discover that some
body from that town has gone to New
York and taken up the stock business or
at sometime has made a big hit there.
Among those who followed the man from
Oonnetticut was a young fellow who had
about SBO,OO0 —his share of a fortune left
by a relative. This made him rich in his
town, but be was dazzled by the rapidly
increasing fortune of his fellow-towns
man. He began putting small bites of his
SBO,OOO in the Wall street shark’s mouth
and lost steadily, but not enough to alarm
him, for he had no doubt his luck would
turn and give him as much money, as the
man who had struck it rich and made.
He met that fortunate individual in the
street one day and said: “You’ve got
$900,000 enough for anybody to live on.
Why don’t you take it and get out and
keep it?”
“Because I waut to make it a round
million—then I’ll clear out.”
In less than two months he lost every
dollar of the $900,000. Luck went as per
sistently against as it had been for him,
and in a desperate endeavor to regain his
losses he stacked up his margins until
the whole great fortune had melted away.
It took the man with SBO,OOO a year to lose
his money. He made sumfier and more
cautious operations, but he lost all the
same. He could not withstand the fasci
nations of the street, and now he is the
cashier of a small banking concern, at a
salary of SI,BOO a year. The $900,000 man
stuck to it, too. Sometimes he was well
clad and again not so well. Occasionally
lie made a little strike of a few hundred
and speedily lost it all. When he got
particularly hard aground he would slip
up homo and stay awhile, but he would
soon return with a small capital and try
again.
On August 4th last he appeared with
SIOO, which he put up as a margin with a
broker who had handled hundreds of
thousands for him in his flush days and
began to buy stocks. He struck the first of
this great flood-tide that lias inundated the
country and came in with it. As his
profits increased lie keptonbnyingstead
ly, putting in all he bail with the nerve
of a soldier; and with wisdom gained of
previous experience ho stopped short
three days ago, when the market became
choppy and uncertain, and rested on his
oars $300,000 in bank. This safely invest
ed in four per cents would give him an
income of $12,000 a year—enough for a
man of simple tastes to live on comforta
ble; but he sticks to the street and is still
going in to make it a million, and in all
human probability he will keep at it until
he is down again, and will wind up by
joining the small army of curbstone brok
ers who lead a wretched existence and
finally fade away nobody knows whith
er.
Saying “llatHul Tilings.”
What a strange disposition is that which
leads people to say “hateful” things for the
mere pleasure of saying them ! You are
never safe with such a person. When you
h ive done your b st to p a;o, and are
feeling very kindly and pleasantly, out
will pop some underhand stab, which you
alone can understand—a sneer which is
masked, but which is too well-aimed to be
misunderstood. It may he at your person
or your mental feeling, your foolish habit
of thought on some little secret opinion
confessed in a moment of genuine confi
dence. It matters not how sacred it may
be to you, he will have liis fling at it; and
since the wish is to make you suffer, he is
all the happier the nearer ho touches
your heart. Just half a dozen words, only
for the pleasure of seeing a cheee flush or
an eye lose its brightness, only spoken
because he is afraid you are too happy or
too conceited. Yet they arc worse than so
many blows. How many sleepless nights
have such mean attacks caused tende
hearted men! How, after them, one
awakes with aching eyes and head, to re
member that speech before everything—
that bright, sharp, well aimed needle of a
speech that probed the very centre of
your soul!
Educated Women. —There are now fifty
girls among the students of Cornell Uni
versity ami thirteen of them are freshmen.
Michigan Univesity has one hundred and
thirty-four women students, and its Presi
dent says of the experiment of educating
the sexes together: “After our nine years
experience in co-education, we have be
come accustomed to see women take up
any university work, carry it on success
fully, graduate in good health, cause no
embarrassment in the administration of
the institution, and awaken no especial
solicitude in the minds of their friends or
of their teachers, that many of the theo
retical discussions of co-education by those
who have had no opportunity to examine
it carefully, read strangely to us here on
the ground. It is a cause of sincere con
gratulation that both in this country and
Europe the opportunities for women to
obtain as extended an education as men
are rapidlly multiplying.
A popular clergyman was greatly bored
by a lady who admired him without re
serve. “Oh !my dear Mr. ,” said she,
last Sunday afternoon; “there isn’t any
harm in one loving one’s pastor,is there?’
“Certainly not, madam,” replied the
worthy cleric; “not the least in the world,
so long as the feeling is not reciproca
ted.”
What if the difference between our post
office and one of our churches? Ono has
the postmaster and the other the most
pastor.
$2.50 A YEAR.
A Wedding King.
The other day, when a young man had
pulled off two big mittens from his hands
and stuck one in each pocket and hacked
up to the coal stove in a Woodward ave
nue jewelry store, he had still sfficient
strength to ask if they kept finger rings
there. This jeweler might just as well
have replied that he did not, hut that fin
ger rings could be found at any boot and
shoe store; yet he wanted to make a sale
and he answered:
“We do. What sort of a ring do you
want ?”
“It is for a wedding.”
“Ah ! Will you have a single diamond
or a cluster ?”
“I ’spose you’d want two or three dollars
for a real diamond ring?” remarked tho
lover as he advanced to the tray.
He was carefully and tenderiy informed
that diamonds had gone up considerably
since they were used in his baby rattle
box, anil then he concluded to explain:
“I’m kinder down on all such nonsense
as wedding rings. When a fellow has to
get a whole suit of clothes, pay the preach
er, come to towu and ride on the street
care and .all that, it’s expensive ’nuff. I
’spose, though, I'll have to get one.”
“About what price!”
“Oh, gl'ty cents or six shillings, or
around there. If its kinder gilded up to
last for two weeks, that’ll do It hadn’t
orter turn rusty under two three days,any
how, as she’ll want to show it oft' on the
street curs, and all tho girls will be hand
ling it. I’ll look at the fifty-cent ones
first.”
The jeweler went into a declino. He
declined to admit that he ever had such a
thing in his store. He further said that
he could hardly believe that there was a
young man on earth who would buy a
fifty-cent ring to put on the finger of his
bride.
“Do you ’spose,” replied the young man'
as he reached for his mitten, “do you
'spose I’m going to sell a hull crop of
taters to buy a ring for my wife to wear
washin' dishes and turnin’the coffee mill ?
Sue’s layin’ off' now to have me buy her
shoes, hat, muff'and perfumery after wo
are married, anil do you think I can rush
in here and holler out ‘diamonds? and
slam down wads of greenbacks to pay for
cm ?”
The jeweler leaned his pensive head on
bis hand and looked out of the -window,
and as the young man opened the door
he halted and continued:
“Fifty cent ring ! Just as if fifty cents
wasn’t nothing to’rds a bridle tower!”
He Hadn’t Eat Much.
It was Sunday afternoon and young Mr.
Staylate had stopped until they were forc
ed to ask him to take supper. The best
china and the extra silver graced the ta
ble, and one of the best napkins was placed
before young Mr. Staylate’s plate, for the
family desired to create all the impression
possible upon the susceptible mind. His
young lady was conducting herself with
great credit, and the young man was more
than evt r in love with her, when the moth
er said, passing the cake for the second
time;
“Won’t you have another piece, Mr.
Staylate ?”
“No, thank you,” said the young man in
liis politest tone, not any more.
Oh, do just have one more, urged the
mother smiling sweetly; you haven t eaten,
hardly anything.
The younger, w ho sat opposite, and had
been instructed not to ask twice for any
thing, much to his disgust, saw- his oppor
tunity, and snorted out with great malev
olence:
Hah ! I shouldn’t think he had ! He’s
eaten four hunks of tongue, four biscuits
two plates of sauce, two of then* tarts, and
both kinds of cake—mother and sis keeps
a kicking me under the table. Make her
stop !
They brought Mr. Staylate to by dash
ing water in his face.
Wisdom.
Words sometimes wound more than
swords.
A pound of care will not pay a pound of
debt.
If you would make a thief honest, trust
him.
A good book supplies the place of a
companion.
The simple flowers are sociable and be
nevolent.
Fortune can only take from us what she
gave us.
Youth looks at the possible, age at the
probable.
Charms strike the sight, but merit wins
tbe soul.
Faith and hope cure more diseases than
medicine.
It is a very proud horse that will not
carry his oats.
A newly-married Danbury man went
home the other evening and found his
wife asleep on the lounge. He kneeled
beside her and devoured her with his lov
ing eyes. “John,” she murmured in her
sleep. “Yes, my pet, what is it,” he whis
pered, thrilled to his heart’s depths by the
calling of his name.. “John,” she again
murmured, “sparerib is only nine cents a
pound.” The thrill passed off.
The old trick of getting up a sham fight
in the gallery- of a theatre, and then thrown
ing the stuffed figure of a man over the
railing was successfully placed at Lead
ville. The excitement in the lower
part of the house caused a panic in the
house, and an actress fainted on the
stage.
There is nothing like settling dowD,
said a retired merchant confidentially to
his neighbor. “When I gave up business
I settled down, and found I bad quite a
comfortable fortune. If I had settled up,
I shouldn’t have had a cent.”
On one occasion there happened to bo
three clergymen in a Connetticut pulpit
whose names were Ketchem, Graham and
Killem, and yet they were a harmless
set.
Alas this fatal gift of booty!” as the man
said who was arrested for receiving stolen,
goods.
If the best man’s faults were written on
his forehead, he would draw his hat over
his eves.