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BRUNSWICK ADVERTISES.
BRUNSWICK, . . . GEORGIA*
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Pope Pius IX during his long Ponti
ficate has buried 104 Cardinals. -
Thihxjl-seven miiiiun dollsrs’ worth
of petroleum leaves this country every
year.
Queen Yio. will bo fifty-six on the
24th of next month. Fat, fair, and
fifty-six.
News from all over Arkansas is to
the effect that the prospect for a fine
wheat crop was never better.
The Oshkosh fire depleted the in
aurance companies to the extent of
$917,000, bo far as heard from.
Ex Senator Nye, of Nevada, is in
the Bloomingdale asylum, affeoted with
softening of the brain, and it is thought
Will not recover.
The president having tendered the
position of attorney general to Judge
Edwards Pierrepont, of New York, that
gentleman has ocoepiel it.
The statistics show that there has
been a steady decline in the manufac
ture and use of lager beer in this coun
try during the past two years.
The.Ncw York city postoffipe is sell
ing over $1,000 worth of newspaper
stamps alone a day, and the postmas
ters say this is a sure barometer of a
revival in business.
The pa‘rons of husbandry have a re
markable predominance in the legisla
ture of Oregon, seventeen of the thirty
senators and fifty-four of the sixty rep
resentatives belonging to the order.
Surrs for damages, to a considerable
amount, have been brought against the
Baltimore and Potomac railroad com
pany on account of the recent terrible
accident in which to many persons were
maimed. _______
Judges Brooks and Dick, in tleir
charges to grand jurors in North CMo
lina, declared the oriminal features of
the civil rights act unconstitutional, as
no law could say men are socially
•qual. J
At present the aggregate volume of
the United States foreign trade is, ac
cording to the New York Express, less
than it has been since the year 1871,
with no immediate prospeot of recovery.
The Florida season has dosed. and
the visitors are oomirg home to get ont
of the way of the swamp fever. It is
said that 83,000 visitors have wintered
ii Florida, spending there at least $3,-
000,000.
In the great fire at Oshkosh, Wis.,
She other day,sixty-nine business houses
and about five hundred dwelling houses
were destroyed. The total loss is put
down at $2,500,000, and (he insurance
wall amount from $800,000 to $1,000,000.
The time between New Orleans and
Yera Onus is to be shortened to two and
a half days, by omitting two or three
stops of the steamers. This is done to
encourage iraffio between Mes>V> and
&e United States.
Oh the 21st nit. twelve car loads of
diver ooin ore were received at the St.
Xioliis redaction and refining works,
ftom Old Mexico. From a single local
ity in Southern New Mexioo there comes
|» or throngh St Louis nearly $50,000
& month in silver bullion.
A ran substituting license for pro-
aiVition in respect to the sale of interl
acing liquors has jost passed both
Bmmebes of the legWatnreof Michigan,
jOich is the fourth state where similar
legislative measures have been adopted
within a few weeks.
Summer travel to Europe commenced
on Saturday. Five steamers left New
York for England and France, carrying
477 cabin and 585 steerage passengers.
The steerage tourists were mostly re
turning immigrants, however, going to
take a look at fatherland.
The New York Bulletin loams nprm
the best WaHliiugLun authority that the i
government will not put in circulation j
! any of the silver coinage, in pursuance
of the redemption act, nntil gold has
fallen to about 110, as with gold rang
ing above that quotation, the coin
would be bought up for export.
The Rome (Ga.) Commercial states
that a merchant of Resaca employs a
umber of children to collect bullets
from the hard-fougbt field. He pays
them five cents a pound, and has already
shipped to Baltimore sixteen thousand
pounds at a good profit. He has on
hand two thousand pounds more.
Daniel O’Leary, of Chicago, has ac
complished the feat of walking one
hundred and sixteen miles in twenty-
three hours and eight minutes, in Phil
adelphia. He had undertaken to walk
one hundred and fifteen miles in twen
ty-four hours. The time he made is
said to be the best on record.
A New Orleans correspondent of the
New York Times stated that if affairs
in Lonisiana become settled, a foreign
company, with a capital of $20,000,000,
is ready to come and purchase 400.000
or 500,000 aores of land in the state and
settle upon the parehase industrious
English and German agriculturists.
The English aretio expedition is
nearly ready to start on the dreary
voyage to the north pole. The amount
of the appropriation to equip the two
vessels was about $500,000. The
Swedes are also fitting ont an expedition
for the same purpose. There have
been thirty-two arotio expeditions,
British and American, since 1848.
It is not much to the credit of the
new Bessemer steamship, which is de
signed to prevent sea sickn:ss, that on
her recent trial trip between England
and France she only made a speed of
twenty miles in seven hours. Most
people would not object to be a little
sea-siok, in crossing the English chan
nel, if they make the trip in two hours.
Boynton, the swimmer, orossed in a
much shorter time than the Bessemer.
The imposing oeremony of placing
the red hat on the -head of Cardinal
MoOloskey, took place in St. Patriok's
cathedral, New York, yesterday. The
novelty of the event—the first of the
kind in this oountry—attraoed a large
number of ecclesiastical dignitaries
from far an 1 near, and 'probably not
one-twentieth of the people who desired
to witness the ceremonies were accom
modated.
The newspapers in California evi
dently do not lack faith in the bonanza
of silver. “ Our bonanza” is still their
theme, and they point with pride to the
fact that since January 1, the sum of
$2,484,000 has been paid in dividends,
all of which was taken out of the ground
in two months. This is said to be the
yield of the “ consolidated Virginia”
mino alone, so there must be "millions
in it.”
Nukkbous lumber-yards, frame houses,
careless use of fire and a high wind did
the business for Oshkosh, Wisconsin,
on Wednesday. The loss is over $2,-
000,000. This is the seoond great fire
which the Oshkosh people have expe
rienced. Last year a sodden conflagra
tion licked up six hundred houses and
other property worth $800,000. This
last oatsstrophe is overwhelming, and
much suffering will result.
LAUBA
BX JOHM a. SAXE.
“ Oh hateful Death !” my angry aplrit ertss,
"Who-thus couldst take my darling from my
sight,
Shrouding her beauty lu sepulchral utght;
O erucl! unto prayers, and tears, and sighs
Inexorable.” m Hush!” my soul rep ies;
“B» just, O stricken heart!—the moral strife
Which we call * death' is birth to higher life.
Safe in the Father’s mansion In the ektes
She bides thy comlog: only gone before,
A little whflt, that at thy partlrg breath,
Thou may’it endure a lighter pain of death,
And gladller pass beyond this earthly ahers;
ITo?* with T*»*j** from oa Liulx,
It hVfi dta t* 1
The Great American Desert
-v Good Country to Stay Away From-
BeUet- Go South.
There bas been much talk about the
great west. There has been much talk
about the capacity of it to sustain mil
lions and tens of millions of inhabitants.
Out of it weie to be manufactured many
Btates like Ohio, Indiana and Illinois.
This was all very well while the popu
lar ignorance prevailed in regard to the
region of oountry between western
Missouri and Kansas and the Rocky
mountains. But late developments
have shown us what it is. It is several
thousand feet above the sea. It is,
therefore, in its latitude very cold. It
is treeless, But worst of all, it is de
prived of any water irrigation. That is
a primary necsssity of life. Without it
life cannot exist. These pacific plains,
extending from western Kansas to the
R-cky mountains, are destituted of it.
The inference, .therefore, is that that im
mense territory can never be made in
habitable to any large extent. It is the
great A merican Desert. Some portions
of it may be made available, as Colo
rado and Nevada, for example, as min
ing districts for gold and silver. But
in its great extent it is a barren waste.
There will be no new Ohio, Indiana or I
Illinois west of Missouri and Kansas.
This is a fact that should be understood
by the people, not only living in the
states, but in the territories beyond.
What is called the great west is a myth.
It is a delusion which is leading tens
and hundreds of thousands of people
yearly to their destruction.
No man in Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana
or Illinois should leave their fertile
f ilains and their advanced civilization
or the problematical chances that
await them in Idaho and Colorado.
The great American Desert lies beyond
the Mississippi. It is safe to say that
one-third of its expanse, from physical
causes, can never be within the reach
or the resources of man.
Therefore, let the cry of the great
west cease. We must go south. There
is to be found the best and most pro
ductive land on thiB continent. It is to
befonnd with great improvements at
almost the price of the barren lands in
the west sold by the government with
out any improvements. Take Virginia,
for instanoe: If her old, worn-out
lands were agriculturally renovated
and improved, she could better support
five times the population that she now
does, and that is an illnsration of all
the sonthern states. This inorease in
population in the next fifty years will
go south and not west. It is bound to
do so by manifest destiny—CSnefnnaff
Enquirer.
Macready’s Way.
In a volume of reminiscences of Mao-
ready, the actor, an extract is pnblished
from a letter to a friend, in which he
describes the method he punned to
perfect himself in bis art. A line in the
opening of one of the cantos of Dante
made a deep impression on . him in sug
gesting the dignity of repose. In his
practice he adopted all the modes he
conld devise to,acquire the power of
exoiting himself into the wild°st emo
tions of passion, at the same time
coeroing his limbs to perfect stillness.
He would lie down on tne floor, or stand
straight against a wall, or get his arms
within a bandage, and so pinioned and
.wnfinsd recite the most violent pas
sages of "Otheilo," ‘‘Lear,” or " Mac
beth.” ‘ He would speak the most pas
sionate bursts of rage under the sup
posed constraint of whispering them in
the ear of him or her to whom they
were addressed, thus keeping both
voice and gesture in subjection to the
real impulse of the feeling. Snoh was
Macreaay's process. Now-a-dayB there
are scores of powder burners who conld
teach him an easier trick to gain the
applause of the multitude.
—It is said that Gustave Dore is to
reoeive $50,000 for a series of designs
for a new edition of Shakspeara.
FACTS AND FANCIES.
—When the stoves are taken down,
see that the pipe openings in the wall
are protected by good tin covers. Don’t
stuff rags in. • j jjyf
—Charles Bradlangh has. severed his
connection with free masonry ih Eng
land,because the Prince of Wales is to
be gland master.
—Germany is now furnishing Russia
with laige proportions of the manufac
tured goods formerly supplied exolu-
! g-veiv bv England.
—They have got no now that they
blow ub Whalei with torpedoes, and it
won't beriong. before the women wilt
get hold of the invention and scatter an
intoxicated hnsband all over the ceiling,
—Julian Hawthorne, in his “ Saxon
Studies,” savs: "To be a thorough
German cook requires only a callous
conscience, a cold heart, a confused
head, coarse head, coarse hands, and
plenty of grease.”
—A Portland chap, who during court
ship sent his girl some poetry begin
ning, "Was it a gleam of golden hair?”
was mollified after marriage to see her
hang that " gleam ” over tne back of a
chair,
The faults of our neighbors with freedom wo
blame
And tax not ourselves, though wa practice the
same.
Words are like IeavCs, and where thoy most
abound.
Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found.
V -Pope.
—In responding to the toast, "The
Queen,” a jolly Englishman at the Mas
sachusetts Centennial celebration said:
“I wish to express my satisfaction in
being with you here to-day, and my equal
satisfaction in having beet, absent a
hundred years ago.”
—A country youth, who desired to
knowhow to become rich, seat a quar
ter in answer to an advertisement, and
received the following valuable recipe :
" Inorease your receipts and deorease
your expenditures. Work eighteen
hours a day, and live on hash and oat
meal gruel.”
—Prof. Tice, if St. Louis, informs
the world that the " frigorific wind of
the past week” was not a polar wave,
“ but an immense cylinder with a bar
rel five or six hundred miles in diame
ter, down which flows an aerial mael
strom from the surface of the atmos
phere.” This destroys the lt^t hope of
a Btrawberry.
—Wm. C alien Bryant turns an epi
gram as neatly still as if he were but
thirty. Htreishisexcuse to the Echo, the
little journal of the homeopathio fair
at New York, for not furnishing the
poem it had claimed :
I gave my word, dear madam, it ie true,
At your request to write a verse or two;
I gave it you as frankly as 'twas sought,
And now you chide because I keep it not.
Talk not of honor; I am honor’s slave ;
None but a rogue would keep the thing he
gave.
—A prominent citizen of a Connecti
cut town, who is the proud possessor of
a handsome daughter, went home to tea
the other evening, and said to his vife:
"Mother, I have finallysnooeeded in
my petition for a street lamp on our
street, and it is going to be set directly
in front of our gate. A sudden soream
and a heavy fall sounded from the next
room. The affrighted parents rushed
in there. Their daughter lay prostrate
on the floor. She had fainted.
—For the first time in twenty years
Mrs. Thompson, of New York, scrubbed
out the city hall. Twenty years ago
she married a man who became a mu-
lionare, took the contract, before the
war, to supply A. T. Stewart marble
for bis new residence, was rained in
trying to live np to- it (when a slight
sacrifice by the merchant-prince wonld
have saved him), and died an insane
pauper, leaving his wife to resnme the
scrubbing business where she left off
Ventilation.—Dr. Hamilton, of Buf
falo, says we need for cur dwellings
more ventilation and less heat,, more
out-door exercise and more sunlight,
more manly, athletie, and rude Bporta,
more amusements, more holidays, more
frolic and noisy, boisterous mirth.
[Note—These will result in a greater
abundance of fresh air in our dwell
ings.] A proper temperature as the
first condition of mental activity, and
the removal of carbonic acid, which
lowers the vitality, and kills with in
definite warning, are prime conditions
for the development of a nation that is
S et to rule the world. Let us abolish
ie strangling of innocent children in
our schools by viewless ropes of poisoned
air.