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•V SIS! , $ mwirit '4*. Q. Stacy, Editor and Proprietor. ShieripUon Price: $1 per Annum in Advance. WEDNESDAY, Oot, 20th 1876. GENERALiTEM5. Yellow fever has become epidemic in Havana. The Spirit of the South now has a “Tie-back Column.” Kent county, Md., has lost $26,000 in horses by the new disease now go. ihg through the North. The more respectable Cubans of Key West denounce the action of certain of their number, who are trying to sell out to the Republican party. The Bible has been discarded from the public schools of Chicago, 111., by the board of educatiou. Oue dissent ing voice. .A defalcation in the pay department 'of the U. 8. Navy at 8an Francisco is estimated at over a million of dollars. —Ex. Iowa will soon take a vote on a new constitution, one of the principal fea tures of which is woman-suffrage. Go it, pull-backs. Savannah parents are very much ex orcised on the school book question. So are parents everywhere, in this progressive ago. “Whiskey l ings” and “cotton rings” heretofore, but now comes “hog ring” of the West, that proposes to fetch up the price of pigs. Oh my! Howe’s big circus paid tho State Road $1,000 for the use of locomotives to haul its trains. It cleared $6,000, however, the first day in Atlanta. The Mirror is a new semi-monthly journal—two and ono-lialf by three and one-half inches—recently sturted in Savannah by Master C. H. Carson, Jr. Subscription ten cents. Milledgeville girls have tho faculty of entertaining boys of ten and young men of twenty-five at the same time. Tho Spirit of the South wants to know what they talk about—“nursery tales, or poetry and moonshine?” Thomas and Decatur counties are much annoyed by cotton thieves in the shape of farm hands who pick cot ton all day, and when night comes steal half and sell to unprincipled white men—shop keepers. Things don't mix any better North than South, it seems. A negro owned •a lot in a cemetery in Philadelphia. He died. His widow tried to bury him in his own lot, but the white fo ks would not agree to it. “A brother, and yet not a brother. ” The Hartford Cournnt tells of a po* tato dug by one Mr. Thomson, which had imbedded in it a pair of specta cles, which wero lost by him four years ago. Our Bob-Clubb-clam-shell potato dwindles into insignificance af ter this. Try it again, Robert. “When trade grew slack and notes fell due, the merchants face grew long and blue; his dreams were troubled all ^he night, with sheriff's bailiffs all in sight. At last his wife unto him said, ‘Rise up at once, get out of bed, and get your paper, ink, and pen, and ad vertise to all good men.’ He did as his good wife advised, and in tho pa. per advertised. Crowds came and bought off all he had; his notes were paid, his dreams were glad, and ho will tell you to this day how well did printer’s ink repay.”—News. J. M. DEXTER, BRUNSWICK, GA. S##ler nud Iwfcer, Insurance, Real Estate and COLLECTION AGENT. Special atteuiioin given to collection of drafts and ac counts; remittances promptly made —IN— Tv ew York Exchange. S, C. LITTIEFIELD & CO.. General Commission & For warding 1 Merchants. On CONSIGNMENT and for SALE. CORN, HAY, FLOUR, and IIMr, Cheap For CASH my-2tf A. PETERS, CABINET MAKER & UN DER- TAKER, Is prepared to furnish) COFFINS, CASKETS. | etc. at lowest cash prices. Making and Repairing Fnrniture a Spooialty. no 21-Snv D O yon want a splendid BOOT or SHOE ma dt to ORDIilt, with PERFECT FIT guaranteed? Then call.on mar. 24-1 y. D. A. MOORE. W. A. JOHNSON, BOOT and SHOE HAUER. W ork done us cheaply, and war ranted to lust as long as that of any other Workman in this section. Mending done on short notice at AYER’S OLD STAND mar. 24-ly. BRUNSWICK FOUNDRY & MACHINE WORKS. P. HERTEI, Proprietor. Boilers and Engines mode and repaired. Saw Mills, Steam Boats and General Ma chinery ropairs u Sfeoiai-tt. Sugar Mills Pans, Gearing, etc. always on baud. All work neatly and promptly executed, and satisfaction guaranteed. ■ For salo at tho worss now, one Sixty Horse Power Engine and two Timmons Saw Carriage*. a Iso two Steam Pumps. P. HERTEL, I’>dj Street. Brunswick, Ga. burr w in ton, CONTRACTOR And BUILDER, BRUNSWICK, ...... GA. P LANS'and specifications furnished on Bhort notice. Will contract to erect Buildings in EVERY STYLE. Also superintend Buildings at reason able prices, mar. • 24-ly. fen ■ n a Z m r w o m • & o o a ■ © :» . B Etc. -Dealers in GENERAL MERCHANDISE, Ship Stores, Ac., Manufacturers and Shippers of YELLOW PINE LUMBER. (Bay St.,) Brunswick. Ga. BAKERY and CONFECTIONERY F. LEB^AGT., Bakery a Specialty. IC-oeps on hand, daily a supply of freoh bread such as LOAVES, TWISTS, ROLLS, Eire, Cakes, Kisses. Etc., Etc. —Also— PURE and FRESH F. A. FITZGERALD, COOK BROS. & CO., ICE-COLD SODA WATER with Delicious SYRUPS, besides everything pertaining to a FIRST-CLASS BAKERY. flSrOfl-Excnn'.on and Wedding parties acre in t< ated on ■ ho t aotice.-®fl“@ft May i tf. i DEALER IN FANCY and DOMESTIC DRYGOODS, NOTIONS, HOSIERY, SHOES tic. Choice Family Groceries, PROVISIONS, FLOUR. CORN ANJ> OATS at the “NEW YORK" Store Terms Cash, or City Acceptance. mar. 4-ly. BLACKSMITHING. -:0: ROBEP.T CHRI3TOPHER B EGS the attention of all persona who may have any Blacksmith - work to be done, and hopes they will remember that his shop can be found near Georgo street, between the City Hull and the M. & B. R. R. depot. All work promptly attended to, and satisfaction promised. Lime For Sale. OYSTER-SHELL LIME IS GOOD FOR AGRICULTURAL PUR POSES. mHE BRUNSWICK LIME CO sell it in JL bbls. at $10 per ton, free on cars in Bruns wick, Ga., for CASH. All Orders promptly filled O. H. DEXTER, Treasurer. Brunswick, Mar. Ui.-ly lev Jewelry Slop. Wm. D03RFLINGEB, Formerly with Charles Doerfliuger on Bay Street lias taken the room botween the Davidson house and post office, where ho will bo ploa»ed to meet his friondu and all who may wish any work done in his line. Sat isfnetion guaranteed, with moderate prices. Ho will soon have a select stock of FINE JEWELRY to which he invites the attention of cho public- Gvo him a caU. and fair trial PATRONIZE THE ADVERTISER. It is read by more families who trade in BRUNSWICK than any other paper now published in this section. Subscription, $:.00 Advertising, very low.