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»/ . * THE PEOPLE’S FRIEND. -N T c, 2 BRUNSWICK, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, APRIL 12 1878. Yol. 2 BRUNSWICK ADVERTISER PUBLISHED EVEHr WEDNESDAY MORNING —BY— T. GOULDING STACY. ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION $1.00. 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 D. T. DUNN, ' BANKER and BROKER, Brunswick, ------ B Ga. UYS and SEIXS cxchango on New York, Sa. vannah, Boston and Philadelphia, at LOWEST MARKET RATES. BUYS and SELLS Gold, Silver and Commercial Paper. Interest allowed on SPECIAL DEPOSITS. Collections promptly attended to and business sol cited. no. 1-ly, READ! We are now prepared to furnish CORN & FLOUR cheap for cash. Win. P. MINOR & Co. 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. 15 or 20 boys only will be received. Apply to T. G. STACY. SUBSCRIBE for the “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- The Five Highest. FOB THE WEEK ENDING APRIL 7. MAXIMUM 50. Thomas Hacket, 4H; Willie Danernlx *<*■ Gicuu Nut wood. SO: Carlton Stacy, 50; Eddie Lehon, 46. The five highest for the week ending Mar. 31. Willie Dangaix, 47; Green Norwood, SO; Eddie Leben, 47; Carlton Stacy. SO; Eddie Herzog, 46. New Advertisements. CHEAP! A firstrate HORSE will be sold cheap by no 1-tf. * 8. C. DeBRUHL.