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THE PEOPLE’S FRIEND.
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BRUNSWICK, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, APRIL 12 1878.
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BRUNSWICK ADVERTISER
PUBLISHED EVEHr WEDNESDAY MORNING
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T. GOULDING STACY.
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L. B. TOOJIAR LODGE, No. 0, F. A. 91.
A
Toomar Lodge, No. 9, F. A. M., meets
every 1st and 3rd Wednesday in each
month, at8o’clok, p. m.
Moses McDonald, W. M.
April 28-ly J. M. Cabteb, Sec’y.
C.TV GOODYEAR. |
| P. H. HARRIS'
GOODYEAR & HARRIS,
Attorneys at Law,
Brunswick, Geobgia.
O FFICE— Corner Newcastle and Gloucester
streets,—over Drug Storo of J. S. Biain & Co
Practice in all counties of the Brunswick Cir
cult and ilie city of Darion, Ga
no 1-ly,
T. E. Davenport.]
fW. E. Jones,
Davenports Jones,
A TTORNEYS A 1 LA W,
fX /"ILL practice in all the Courts of the Bruns
XV wick Circuit. Office comer Oglethorpe &
Gloucester streets,
no 1- ly
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Ga.
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We are now prepared to furnish
CORN & FLOUR
cheap for cash.
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48-tf. Office at Brunswick Foundry.
NEW SHOP.
* BOOTS and SHOES.
All work neatly done, and
WARRANTED.
Give me a call at my Shop on the Bay, next door
to gun shop. Sign- THE BIG BOOT.
No. 2U-tf. J. N. Blair.
PRIVATE SCHOOL,
for
the year 1876.
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“ADVERTISER!!”
—The steamer Gen. Sedgwick, hav
ing changed her schedule, now mokes
two trips every ten days.
—We note this week improvements
in front of Mr. Borchardt’s shop in the
matter of shed, new sign, etc.
—The distillery will soon be in run*
ning order, and then the passer by can
chew gum to his heart’s content.
—The Brunswick House has its up
per front set off with a tastefully exe
cuted sign. Let onward be the word*
—How about our Bank & Trust Co.?
Not a failure, we hope—eh? Come,
gentlemen, hurry up, we want to bor.
row a little.
—And how about the tannery: has
it taken wings and flown away? Come
good folks, you can’t all be Presidents
and Directors.
—We observe the painter at work on
the exterior of the handsome residence
of Col. Schlatter on Union st. Let
others do likewise.
—Our readers will please excuse the
scanty supply of Locals in this issue-
We have been absent several days.
—Lovers of fv n can obey the injunc
tion “Laugh and grow fat” by reading
“That Yaller Mule” on the second
page of this issue.
—The bricks for the furnace of Mr-
Penniman’s distillery having arrived,
we may expect business in that quar*
ter soon.
—In our next issue we will publish
“Editorial Correspondence” from Da
rien, which has been received too late
for this week.
—The German bark Frits has been
towed up to the Cotton Press wharf,
awaiting further orders. Her cargo
of 2,100 bales of cotton and 10,000
staves will probably be taken out.
—The public rond leading from the
Altamaha to Brunswick is in fine ol
der. If the other roads in the county
are as good, our citizens may well con*
gratulate themselves.
—The Norwegian crew of the Ger
man bark Frits do their “cussin”in
English, strange to say, although they
can’t speak our language. Guess our
“cuss words” must be more emphatic
than theirs.
—The 1st of May, our usual time for
Sabbath School Celebrations, is near
at hand. Would it not be well for
those schools intending to unite to ap
point committees, etc. Put the ball
in motion.
—We lcarn that the new mail route
from this city iu oi. Simons mills wiii
be established in a few days. It will
be a daily mail carried in a light skiff
built for the express purpose, all deck
ed over. At a later day a Bmall steam
er will probably take its place.
•
—Cols. John T. Collins and A J.
Smith leave to-day for Washington
City as a Commission from our city to
represent her interest touching harbor
appropriation, etc. A good selection,
we think. May success attend their,
efforts.
—If oVery property holder would
exercise as much public spirit in the
matter as Mr. J. O. Moore has along
the street leading from his place to the
Episcopal Church, we would soon have
sidewalks all over town. We shall
surely put him on our ticket when we
run for Mayor.
, The Trials of Editors.
By mTa. R.
Inexperienced persons are apt to
imagine that an editor’s profession is
very much of a sinecure; that he has
an easy berth; in short, that he reclines
on a flowery bed of ease. Tbis is a
great mistake, as any one will find it,
who ventures to change business with
him for awhile. It reminds us of the
case of a deacon, who, not remarkable
for his generosity and breadth of
views, was expressing his opinion on a
certain occasion as to the payment of
his pastor’s salary. The conference
had met, and was gravely considering
the ways and means of meeting their
obligations to their shepherd, looking
fairly and squarely all the difficulties
in the face, and ready 'almost to give
up in despair. The deacon arose, and
said that it seemed to him the minis'
had a very easy time, anyhow; he hafl
nothing* fo dfi all the week, and then
on Sunday only to Btand up once or
twice a day and talk for half an honr,
and his labors were ended. - He said
he considered preaching a very easy
sort of work, and he thonght a very
moderate compensation reasonable
pay for it. He was asked if he had ev
er tried; he replied that he had not,
bnt that he ^as confident that he
could meet the emergency at any time
and “fill the bill.” Whereupon it was
proposed to him to give it a trial right
then and there, with the promise that
if he could give satisfaction, they
wonld employ him and dismiss tb e
minister, and thus save expenses. The
ueacon, nothing daunted, ascended
the pulpit, opened the Bible, selected
a verse for a text, read it, and then
paused, and then read it again. All
was breathless silence and lively ex_
pectation. But the ideas would not
come. He read the text again, .then
coughed, then cleared his throat, then
wiped his forehead with his handker
chief, then he hemmed, and coughed,
and again announced his text. By
this time, the perspiration had bedew,
ed his forehead profusely with hugo
drops, which he had to rub off, and
B till it would come. So, at last, he
said to the congregation, “If any of
vnn nfn inalinaJ frt think tb?.t this !9
easy work, come up here and try it. i
coniess I am satisfied upon the point.”
And so it is with the editorial tripod.
It seems so easy to mount it, and scrib
ble away and furnish a nice, readable
paper once a week, or even every day.
There is no trouble in selecting topics,
snrely, and even less in expatiating on
them. But, reader, have you ever tried
it? Come, give ns a lift once in
awhile. Yon have views and opinions
and notions yon wonld like to venti-
*ate on matters of public policy, gov.
ernment, &o, <fcc. Ah, you will soon
wish yon “had never turned doctor,”
as the apothecary’s boy said, who had
to sweat all day over the mortar anil
pestle.. You will soon wish yourself
back where you came from; you would
sing—
"Oh, carry mo back, oh carry me back
To old Virginia shore."
Yon will soon find that you have stir
red up a hornets* nest. The critics
will swarm upon every hand; you have
written the very things yon ought not
and have left out the very things yon
should have noticed; you have puffed
the wrong people and the wrong
things; you have neglected true merit,
and lavished yorr praises upon th e
most unworthy—in short, your style
is not the thing at all. One critic lias
a logician’s intellect, and delights ju
dialectic subtilty; another has a
prompt intuition, and deprecates ev.
ery ingenious and protracted argu
ment; some have the ideal faculty so
strong that they never understands
proposition rightly until it sparkles as
a sentiment; in order to arrest a vision
so sublime as theirs, thoughts must
spread the wings of metaphor and soar
into the zenith; while others areb°,
prosaic that they are offended at all
imagery and grudge the time it take 8
to translate a trope or figure. Som e
minds are concrete, and cannot under
stand a general statement until they
see a particular example. Others ar°
so abstract that an illustration is an in*
ternption and an example a waste of
time. The style is too tame and prosy
for the gay and volatile; too florid and
extravagant for the calm, contempla
tive and philosophic mind; too ranch
argument for the admirer of the de
scriptive; too little for the mind disci,
plined by the rules of logic. And
what becomes of the poor amateur ed_
itor and his tender bantling? Com.
pletely melted. There is scarcely n
spot of grease to tell where he had
been. Ah, then, ye public, pity tho
sorrows of a poor editor. Deni gen
tly with his errors and frailties. ‘ ‘Con -
aider thyself, lest thou also be tempt
ed*”
NOTICE!
A large attendance of the “United
Friends of Teniperauce” is requested
at Marlin’s Hall on Friday night next.
FANNIE LOU SPEAR,
A. R. S.
Stacy’s Private School—Deportment-
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Mar. 31.
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Eddie Leben, 47; Carlton Stacy. SO;
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