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Dari en Timber Gazette.
VOL. 7.-NO. 30.
Darien Timber Gazette,
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY MORN IN®,
,i t D.wiEjr, aeo na /j,
CORNER BROAD AND NORTHWAY STREETS.
RICHARD W. GRUBB,
Editor and Proprietor.
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Timber Gazette, Darieu, Georgia.
City Directory.
" ' COUNTY OFFICERS.
County Commissioners— Jamas Walker, Chairmau;
Adam Strain, Isaac M. Aiken, J. A. Atwood, I. H.
OiKiiiili* l . James E. Holmes, Joseph Hiltou.
Clerk Board of County Commissioners —Spalding
Kenan. _ _ _ .
Clerk Superior Court—L. B. Davis.
Ordinary —O. H. Hopkins, Sr.
Sheriff —T. Butler Blonnt.
Ri'eeioer Ta Return*— W. MeW. Young.
Tux Collector— O. C. Hopkins.
County Treasurer —M. C. O'Neil.
County Surveyor —W. R. Foppel.
Coroner— Philip Maxwell.
The Comnxisaionera hold monthly meetings on
the first Wednesday in each mouth.
CITY OFFICERS.
Ex-Otiscio mayor— James Walker.
Ex-OlheiQ Aldermen —Joseph Hilton, J. A. Atwood,
Adam Strain. J. E. Holmes, Thomas H. Gignilliat,
Isaac M. Aiken.
BTAKDiaa OOMMITTKES.
Committee on Finance— Messrs. Strain, Atwood
on AetounU— Messrs. Holmes, Oignil
liat and Aikon. , iv „_
Committee on Htrhnr —Messrs. Hdton, -Aiken
Committee on Health and Cemetery— Messrs. Gignil-
Atwood, Holmes
an CoST~ Jail —Messrs. Aiken, Hilton and
on Streets and Land- Messrs. Aiken,
Strain and Holmes.
Committee on County Boods-Messrs. Atwood,
Gignilliat and Hilton.
Committee on Public Buildings- Messrs. Strain,
Gignilliat, and Aiken. ~,,,1
Committee on I‘olice— Messrs. Holmes, Hilton an l
' Committee on Ordinances— Mossrs. Aiken, Strain
and Atwood.
Clerk and Treasurer— Spalding Kenan.
City Marshal —Charles H. Hopkms, Jr.
Deputy Marshal —Alonzo Guyton.
Harbor Master —.lames Abeol.
l‘ort Ph.yMd.an— Dr. James Holmes.
Inspector General of Timber-Otorge W. Faries
Port Wardens —Isaac M. Aiken, Juhn H. Burrell,
and James G. Young.
Jailer —Charles H. Hopkins, Jr- .
Board Pilot Commissioner*—Charles 8. Ln„don,
Chairman, K. K. Walker. W. C. Clark, Arthur Bai
ley, Dr. B. B. Harris, James Lachlison and Rolit.
Mitchell. Win. E. Gignilliat, Secretary.
MASONIC.
Live Oak Lodge, No. 137, meets first Wednesday
night in each month at their hall near the >
lia House; H. S. Ravenel, Worshiptul Master; R.
W. Grubb, Secretary
UNITED STATES OFFICERS.
Collector of Customs, Brunswick District— John 1.
Collins. Headquarters at Brunswick.
Deputy Collector of Customs for Pori of Darien
Charles H. Townsend.
Inspector —Edwin C. Davis.
Postmaster —D. Webster Davis.
Deputy Marshal —Joseph 13. Bond.
SUPERIOR COURT—EASTERN CIRCUIT.
Hon. Win. B. Fleming, Judge.
Major A. B. Smith, Solicitor General.
Bulloch County—Thursday before first Mondays
in April and October. ,
Effingham County—First Mondays m 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 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 a*:
Brunswick Railroad, every morning (Sunday ex
cepted) at 10 o’clock a. m., departing every after
noon at 3p. m. Mail closes at 1% p. m - .
Side mail for No. 3, Atlantic & Gulf Railroad,
departs B>£ 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
tor.
Religious services every Sabbath at 11 a. m. and
3p. m. at the Methodist Church, colored, Rev.
L. H. Smith, pastor.
WTO f 11,000 A YEAR, or *5 to S2O
a day in your own locality.
Mo risk. Women do as well as
men. Many make more than the
amount stated above. No one
’ can fafl to make money fast.
Any one can do the work. You can make trom
t>o cts. to $2 an hour by devoting your evenings
and spare time to the business. It costs nothing
t© try the business. Nothing like it ever offered
before. Business pleasant and strictly honorable.
Header, if you want to know all about the best
paying business before the public, send us your
address and we will send you full particulars and
private terms free; samples worth $5 also free,
you ran then make up your mind for yourself.
Address GEORGE STINSON k GO., Portland, xrfe.
june 20
Garden Seed.
WE HAVE ON HAND A SUPPLY OF FRESH
" 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.,
Dmjrgtfti'ahd Apothecaries.
Professional Cards.
yy ALTER A. WAY,
Attorney-at-Law and Real
Estate Agent,
DARIEN, GEORGIA.
Will practice in the Superior Courts of the
Brunswick and Eastern Circuits. Also, in the
Federal Courts in cases of Bankruptcy, etc. Par
ticular attention given to the collection of claims
and the examination of land titles. april2s
yy ROBERT GIGNILLIAT,
Attorney-at-Law,
DARIEN, GEORGIA.
Prompt attention given to all logal business in
the Eastern and Brunswick Circuits, and in the
United States Courts at Savannah, Georgia.
april2s-ly
IE. b. Delorme,
-J •
Attorney & Counselor-at-Law,
and Notary Public.
DARIEN, GEORGIA.
Office on Broad street, near Timber Exchange.
July 2
Jfyil. SPALDING KENAN,
DARIEN, GEORGIA.
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 Screven street, next
door to Mr, Wilcox's dwelling house. angß-ly
Jjll. It. B. HARRIS
Offers his professional services to the citizens of
Darien anil 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,
,jnno6-tf SAVANNAH, GEORGIA.
IIKNRY B. TOMPKINS. B. A. DENMARK.
rpOMPKINS & 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,
JiUBIN’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 Articlos. Soaps—toilet, laundry and
medicated. Give us a call,
W. H. COTTER & CO.,
feb22-tf Druggists and Apothecaries.
Wheelwright ami HlacksHiitli
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 and Mclntosh
County is a trial. All work warranted.
J ROBERT MITCHELL,
jeG-tf Second street, Darien, Ga,
satSPrlTrSl A limited number of
Mm In I rl I active, energetic canvassers to
? S“! i a I™ U engage in a pleasant and
profitable business. Good men will find this a
rare chance
TO MAKE MONEY.
Snoh 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
je'2o-ly. Finley, Harvey & Cos., Atlanta, Ga.
fH AfS A v MONTH guaranteed. sl2 a day
I]! I 11 81 lit home made by the industrious.
\ s|l|| I Capital not required; we will start
I 881 9 19 |y°u. Men, women, boys and girls
V? wrnake money faster at work for us
* 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 are laying up
large sums of money. Address TRUE A CO.,
Augusta, Me. june2o-ly
Col lilt Brothers.
Perform Their Promise
New Inducements to the Purchasing
Public!
Drives in Every Department!
Drives from the Jobbers ! 1
Special Drives from our Buyers ! 1!
Solid Fact! Solid Fact]
Savannah Prices in Darien.
In Groceries,
Hardware,
Wood & Willow Ware-
Crocket,
Stoves,
Glassware,
Sadlery.
Tip; OFFER SPECIALITIES IN DRY GOODS
and Blankets. Shoos of all grades,in pegged ma
chine and hand sewed. W keep in stock a fine
selection of Ladios and Gents hand-made Boots
and Shoes. Wo are offering the finest line of Gents
FURNISHING GOODS.
Clothing,
Hats,
Trunks,
Valices,
which we carry in endless variety and constantly
receive from Nortnern markets only. Thanking
you for past favors and saUciting a continuance
of the same, we arc yours,
aW .tf. COLLAT BROTHERS.
DARIEN, GEORGIA, FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY Hi, 1880.
Administrator’s Sale.
FIRST TUESDAY IN FEBRUARY, 1880.
WILL BE SOLD BEFORE THE COURT HOUSE
door iu Darien, on the flrst Tuesday iu Feb
ruary, 1880, 300 acres of Rice laud—ouce under
cultivation, a portion now cultivated, and known
as Siilon on Cat Head Creek. Also, ‘2,000 acres of
pine land adjoining said rice plantation; at the
same time and place the Joiner Ridge tract con
taining 1190 acres; Also Lewis Islands, opposite,
formed by Lewis Creek and the Altamaha river,
containing 1,300; Also, the adjoining mainland be
tween Lewis Creek and the Bariugton road, con
taining 1,200 acres, more oriels, All the above
lands near Darien, will be sold in a body or in par
cels without resurvey according to description in
the titles,being property of estate ot B. King, and
sold for partition. Terms one-fourth cash and
balance on time with interest and approved secur
ities; purchasers paying for titles. C. B. KING,
(Uv2T-M. Administrator.
Mlntosh Sheriff Tax Sale.
FIRST TUESDAY IN FEBRUARY, 1880.
WILL BE SOLD BEFORE THE COURT HOUSE
door, iu the city of Darien, county of Mcln
tosh, State of Georgia, betweeu the legal hours of
sale, on the First Tuesday iu February, 1880, the
same being the 3d day of the month, the follow
ing described property, or so much thereof as
will be sufficient to satisfy a tax fi. fa. due the
State and county, for the year 1879 vs. W. C. Tink
er. Upon all of that certain lot in the city of Da
rien,county ot Mclrtosh,and State of Georgia,and
known iu the plan of said city as lot number 12,
bounded on ibe north by lane,south by Turnbull
street, east by lot No. 1, and west by Frauklyn
street. Levied on as the property of W. C. Tink
er. Levy made by O. C. Hopkins, Tax Collector,
and turned over to T. B. Blount, Sheriff. Terms
of sale cash, purchaser paying for titles.
T. B. BLOUNT,
jan2. Sheriff of Mclntosh county, Ga.
Mclntosh Sheriff’s Tax Sale.
FIRST TUESDAY IN FEBRUARY, 1880.
WILL BE SOLD BEFORE THE COURT HOUSE
door, In the city of Darieu, county of Mcln
tosh, State of Georgia, between the legal hours of
sale, on the First Tuesday in February, 1881), the
following described property, or eo much thereof
as will be sufficient to satisfy a tax fi. fa. due the
State and county for the year 1879 vs. Stephen Ba
ker: Upon all of those certain lots in the city of
Darien, county of Mclntosh.State of Georgia, and
known iu the plan of said city as lots No. 254 and
278 and bonded on the north by Fifth street on
the east by Clark street,and on the south by fourth
street,and on the west by lots 253 and 259; levied
on as the property of Stephen Baker. Levy made
by O. C. Hopkins, Tax Collector, and turned
over to T. B. Blount, Sheriff. Terms of sale cash,
purchaser's paying for titles. T. B. BLOUNT,
jau2. Sheriff Mclntosh county, Ga.
Mclntosh Sheriff’s Sale.
FIRST TUESDAY IN FEBRUARY, 1880.
WILL BE SOLD BEFORE THE COURT-HOUSE
door, in the City of Darien, county of Mcln
tosh, State of Georgia, between the legal hours of
sale, on the First Tuesday in February, 1880, the
same being the 3d day ol the month, all of that cer
tain tract of land being in the 271st district G. M.,
of said county, and state, containing 400 acres
more or less, bounded on the north by lands of
W. C. Wylly, on the oast by Salt Marsh, on the
west by Cow Horn road and on the south by lands
of Hopkins and unknown lauds. Levied on as the
property of Thomas S. Wylly. Levied on under
and by virtue of a fi. fa. issued out of the Superior
Court of Mclntosh county in favor of L. Eckman.
Property pointed out by plaintiff in li. fa. Terms
of sale cash, purchaser paying lor titles.
T. B. BLOUNT,
jan2. Sheriff of Mclntosh County, Ga.
Letters of Administration.
GEORGIA—McIntosh County:
rilO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN—WHERE
JL as Robert P. Paul, of said county and State,
applies to the Ordinary for letters of administra
tion on the estate of Charles A. Davis, deceased,
late of said county and State. These are there
fvre to cite and admonish all and singular the kin
dred and creditors of said deceased, to be and ap
pear at my office within the time prescribed by
law, and show’ cause (if any they have) why letters
of administration on the estate of said deceased
should not issue to the applicant.
Given under my hand and official signature,
this Ist day of January, 1880.
jan2, C. H. HOPKINS, Ordinary.
Letters of Administration.
GEORGIA—McIntosh County:
rpo ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN—WHERE-
J- as Adam Strain, of said county and State, has
applied to the Ordinary of said county for letters
of administration upon the estate of Converse
Parkliurst, late of the State of Florida, deceased.
These are shcrefore to cite and admonish all and
singular the kindred and creditors of said deceased
to be and appear at my office and show cause (if
any they have) on or before the first Monday in
February next, why letters of administration on
the estate of said deceased should not issue to the
applicant
Given under my hand and official signature this
Ist day of January, 1880.
jau 2. C. H. HOPKINS, Ordinary.
Singer Sewing Machine.
JULIA CLARKE HAVING SECURED
the agency for the genuine and old reliabio Sin
ger Sewing Machine, is now prepared to serve all
those who are in need of the best machine that
is made, and at very reasonable prices. Mrs.
Clarke is also acting in Darien for Messrs. Ludden
& Bates music store, Savannah, and will be pleas
ed to take orders for any thing in their line. Give
her a call opposite Mr. Reuben Walker’s offi es.
Darien, Ga., December 2fith, 1879.
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3 Whitaker street, Savannah, Ga.
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PROPRIETORS.
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ovated, and is now being extensively repaired.
Liberal arrangements made with weekly boaders.
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nov2l-tf. Proprietors.
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ANNOUNCEMENT.
\XTE FEEL GRATEFUL TO OUR MANY
YV 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, but sell a GOOD AND PURE AIITR LE Of
MEDICINE as low as it can be sold. Remember
that we have constantly in stock 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
dSy ‘ W. H. COTTER A CO.,
feb22-tf Druggists and Apothecaries.
For Rent.
rjMiE DWELLING HOUSE FORMERLY OCCU
uied by Mr. Joseph B. Bond is offered for rent.
Apply to the HILTON TIMBER A LUMBER CO.
Darien, Ga., October 31,1876.
A Private Secretary’s Mistake.
Mark Twain’s latest production is a let
ter giving liis opinion of private secreta
ries, in which he sits down rather hard up
on Mr. Kirhv, private secretary to Post
master General Key. The letter lias caus
ed a great deal of amusement among Mr.
Kirby’s associates in the post-office, and
that gentleman feels very much torn up in
consequence, and probably will not be
anxious to tackle the subject again at least
not for some time. Some days ago Mr.
Kirby took occasion to write a letter to Mr.
Clemens in which he had the tenerity to
criticise some comments made by that
gentleman upon a recent order of the post
office department. Mr. Kirby felicitously
inclosed a tract issued by the post-office
department, saying that “it was to meet
just such hardened cases as yours; and I
also send you a copy of the postal laws,
and hope you will take the trouble to look
into the matter thoroughly.” It seems by
the letter received in reply that Mr. Clem
ents did look into the matter thoroughly,
and Mr. Kirby thinks now that he made
too searching a study of it. Among oth
er things in his ‘letter Mr. Clements
says:
My callow friend, when you shall have
outgrown the effervesence of youth, and ac
quired a bit of worldly experience you will
cease to make mistakes like that. That is
you will recognize the simple wisdom of
minding your own business. You seem to
think you have been called to account.
This is a great error. It is the post-office
department of the United States that has
been called into account. There is a dif
ference here which you seem to have over
looked. I will point it out. You are not
the post-office department, but only an ex
pensive.and unnecessary appendage to it.
Grave, elderly public instructors like me
do not call private secretaries to account.
The mistake you have made is simple; you
imagined yourself the dog whereas you
are only the tail. Y T ou endeavored to wag
the dog. This was injudicious. You
should have hung quiscent until the dog
wagged you. You seemed to have gather
ed the impression, somehow, that you are
a member of the cabinet. This is an error.
Your chief is one of the guns of that bat
tery; you are not. You are not a gun, or a
load, or even a ramrod; neither do you
supply ammunition; you only servo as a
stick to fire it off. You are not a barrel of
molasses, ’but only the faucet through
which the molasses is discharged. You
are not a boot, hut a bootjack. Do you
perceive? The thing I am trying to convey
to you is that it does not become you to
assume functions that do not belong to you.
The newspaper slip which you inclosed to
me I will return by one of my private sec
retaries. I keep eleven of these things,
not for use, hut for display.
Speaking of the envelope in which Mr.
Kirby’s letter was enclosed, Mark says:
You, an unofficial private citizen, have
written me an entirely personal letter, en
closed in an envelope bearing uponitssur
face in plain print the warning: “A pen
alty of S3OO is fixed by law for using this
envelope for other than official business.”
The servants of the government ought to
he, for decency’s sake, among the last to
break its laws. You have committed an
offense with no elements of a joke about it
and if your superior does his duty he im
pose the penalty involved. As far as lam
concerned you are sale, but il you intrude
upon me again I may he tempted to bring
you before the courts for violation ot law.
There, now, receive my blessing. Go and
do not mix in other people’s business any
more; otherwise you may pick up some
body who will feed you disagreeable words
instead of sugar.
Perils of Housekeeping.
Have yon paid the milk bill ?
The coal is out.
The stove wants fixing.
My night-key is broken.
That front door bell-wire is loose, and
the bell won’t ring.
Get some fresh meat. That cat hason’t
had anything fresh for nearly two days.
She won’t eat cooked meat.
The poker is broken.
Get some screw hooks for the cupboard.
We must buy anew clothes-line.
The salt is out.
Mem : Mark’s last butter was had. Must
buy somewhere else.
The iceman has raised the price of ice,
and he leaves dreadfully small pieces at
that,
Get some wire.
Ditto oxalic acid.
Ditto bug powder.
Ditto a nutmeg grater.
Ditto some nutmegs.
Shall we buy anew palor carpet? The
old one is fading.
Want anew tin stewpan.
The teapot leaks.
Send for furniture man, and find out
how much he asks for re-covering the
sofa.
Buy anew market basket.
The old cat has four kittens. How many
shall we drown?
We suspect our hired girl of stealing
the tea. The last half pound went very
quick.
Schnapps the grocer, will persist in giv
ing us coffee which has lost its flavor.
Change him.
Somebody has stolen the ash-box again.
Fifth in three weeks.
Get a paper of carpet tacks.
Mrs. Doc borrowed our tack hammer a
month ago, and has never returned it.
Our canary bird is sick.
Buy a ball of twine.
Ditto six small screws.
Ditto a hatchet.
The iceman forgot us to-day.
Get some naptha.
Out of soap.
The water pipe leaks again. Send plum
ber.
The cat persists in carrying her kittens
all over the house and won’t stay in the
nursery soap box we fixed for her.
Out of matches.
Ditto lamp chimneys.
She wants some worsted three shads
darker the last lot but one, and one
shade lighter than the last lot.
A strolling theatrical company was at
the dinner-table. A waiter approached
one of the members, and said: “Soup?”
“No, sir,” said tbe person addressed: “I
am one of the musicians.”
Sleeping-car conduct rs should give a
fat man a wide berth.
$2.50 A YEAR.
His First Drunk.
“I am GO years old, and never got drunk
till day before yesterday.” remarked old
Uncle Jesse White, as he sat on a salt bar
rel, iu front of a grocery store. I have
lived iu Arkansas for forty years, cum here
from East Tennessee, and the thought that
I got drunk in the evening of my life,
when I can just see my gray hairs shining
in the twilight, is enough to make me
throw myself into the river.”
“Tell us how it occurred Uncle Jesse’”
asked a bystander.
“Well, sometime ago, up in my neigh
borhood,” and he stopped talking and
drew his pipe vigorously to see if the fire
was out, “a Good Templar’s Lodge was
organized. All the young people in the
community jined, and pretty soon they
come after me. My son Ike, was the lead
in' man, and he says to me, Pap, I want
yon to jine this thing. Ike, says I, I don’t
know the taste of liquor, and I don’t sec
the use of jinin.’ Pap, says he, we want
your ihlluence. We are gwine to vote the
local option law pretty soon, and we want
you publicly identified with the work.
Then my daughter Susan, sho comes
around and begged me to jine. Susan,
says I, you never seed 3’ our old lather take
a drink. No, pap, says she, but we want
you to help us frown down the curse ot
intemperance. Next our parson eamo
round and sot my wife on rue, and when
they all got to drummin’ I had to jine. I
jined on a Friday night, and on the fol
lowing Saturday I got on the boat to come
down here. Somethin’ ailed me. Some
thin’ kept sayin,’ Jesse White you ain’t a
free man. It bothered me, and when I
saw one of the deck hands turn up a jug I
wondered if he had aver taken the pledg,
and when he had set the jug down I walk
ed around aud looked at it, and took hold
of the corn cob stopper, walked away and
smelt my fingers. I went upon dock and
sat down in front. Pretty soon two men
come out and sit down. After awhile one
of them remarked: “The Governor of
South Carolina, to the Governor of North
Carolina, and without finishing the sen
tence, both nun laughed and drank out
of a big black bottle. Thar was somethin’
in that Governor business that took me.
I had heard my father talk about it and
laugh. I had often heard it, but no ono
had ever been positive what it was that
Governor said, only that tne time between
drinks had been rather long. Pretty soon
one of the men reached down took up tho
bottle, took out the cork, and said: ‘The
Governor of North Carolina said to the
Then both men laughed and drank I
never felt so curious in my lite. I looked
around at the trees on the bank and tho
women who waved their handkorchiefa at
us as we passed. Those Governors had a
ring about them that tingled through my
blood. Just then one of the men turne<q
held tho bottle up, and said: ‘The Gov
ernor of North .’ Before I knew it I
had hold of the bottle. I turned it up and
drank. All I thought about was the Gov
ernors, and when the shadow's of Ike and
Susan, the parson and my wife fntten
through my brain, the two Governors, tall
and grand, stalked right up and ran over
them. The Governor of North Carolina
and I had taken another pull, and a long
one. I began to see the Governors in thou'
true light. 1 thought that they were tho
best fellows in the world. The bout seem
ed to be running a mile a minute, and I
didn’t cure what she did so long RH the
Governors were with us. Well, boys tho
Governors kept remarkin,' and I kept a
pulling,’ and by the time I got to Little
Rock I was drunk as an owl. Oh, I was
as drunk as a mule—a mink. I got off
the boat and yelled, ’Hoorah for the Gov
ernor of North Carolina, anil the first thing
I knowed I found myself in a sort of a
prison. Fust time I ever was locked up,
hoys. Fust time I ever was drunk, and I
am sixty odd years old. —Little Rock (Aik.
Gazette.
Curiosities of English.
The following are a few amusing ex am
ities of the “curiosities of English, ” as re-
Kp€‘.cty tlie change of Bound by
different consonants:
B makes the road broad, and turns
ear to bear, and Tom into a tomb.
C makes limb climb, changed,
a lever clever, and tmnsports a lover to
clover. . , ,
D turns a bear to beard, a crow to crowd
and makes anger danger.
F turns lower regions into_flower re
gions.
G changes a son to a song, and makes'
one gone.
H changes eight to height
K makes now know, and eyed Keyed.
L transforms a pear into a pearl.
N turns a line into, lineiq a crow to a
crown, und makes one none.
P metaphoses lumber intor plumber.
S turns even to seven, makes have shave,
and word a sword, a pear a spear; makes
laughtsr of slaughter.
T transforms the phrase “all his own to
“tallow this town.”
\V does well: e j., hose are whose, aro
becomes ware, on won, omen women, so
sow, vie view, it makes an arm warm, anik
turns a hat into—what.
Y turns fur to fury, a man to many, to
toy, rub to ruby, ours to yours, a lad to a
lady.
Mr. Wormley, of Eeidsville, Virginia,
had two sons, Tom and Jack, both fond ol
playing poker, but Jack was very sharp at
the game and Tom very dull. When the
old man died he left Tom $30,000 and
-Jack only SI,OOO, but he explained that
SI,OOO was stake enough for Jack to win
everything that Tom had, and it was a
wise provision, fop the local newspaper
says it has so turned out.
Mark Twain tells this new story of tho
late Artemus Ward: “Artemus once said
to me, gravely, almost sadly, Clemens, I
have done too much fooling, too much
trif nI am going to write somctl mg
that will live. Well, what, for instance?
In the same grave manner he said: ‘A
he.’ _________
A subscriber to a Southwestern newspa
per died recently, leaving a four years
subscription unpaid. Tbe editor appear
ed at the grave and deposited in the coffin,
a palm leaf fan, a linen coat, and ther
mometer.
The proper place for boys to play leap
frog is on the back stoop.