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Brunswick Advertiser.
DAILY BLAIR EXTRA..
Published by the Weekly Advertiser.
BRUNSWICK, GEORGIA, MAY 13,1880.
Oflice corner Newcastle and Monk Sts.
ST. SIMONS DEPARTMENT.
Dn. It. J. MASSEY,
On last Saturday there arrived at
the boom of St. Simons mills a raft
of logs 500 feet long. There were
211 logs when they left Lumber just completed arrangement to build
exhibit, one that will certainly at
tract the attention of our many
visitors. Remember this is a home
production, designed and gotten up
on the Island.
St. Simons Mills Company have
City, and 206 when they arrived.
The raf t was only 52 hours in com
ing;—the largest shipment with the
greatest dispatch ever received at
our docks.
On the 5th of March last, in a
shipment of fruit trees to this Is
land, from Augusta, there was a lot
of apple trees. Immediately upon
their arrival here they were trans
planted, and have received careful
attention ever since. To-day, May
the 13th, (two months and eight
days) there are apples on them as
large as guinea eggs. What por
tion of country can beat this for
quickness of growth? •
Where the stables of Mr. W. A.
Fidler now are, at the mills, seven
ty-five years ago stood a large tab
by building, 40 x 00 feet, 3 stories
high, called the Magazine. The
west tabby wall of the stable is a
portion of the old magazine build
ing. It was a building well known
up an down the coast for fifty miles
and as far in the interior as the
white man dared live; and thou
sands of Indians also .came to it.
The lower story was divided by a
partition wall, so as to make one
room 40 x 40, which together with
a part of the upper stories, was used
for a long while for ginning pur
poses. The other room and bal
ance of upper stories were used for
selling and storing goods. Many
years before Brunswick had an ex
istence (and the gloiy of Frederica
had waned) this was the main tra
ding point for an extensive area.
Mr. John Moore, of Brunswick, is
in possession of a gun sold at the
Magazine in 1806. Wo should ex
plain ca jxiMiuU that we do not
think that Mr. M. was there him
self, in jierson, and bougiit at that
time.
We were shown to-day a very in
teresting contribution to our Fair,
which will be oil exhibition to-day
and to-morrow. It is a cathedral
clock, the handiwork of Mr. D. B.
Stallings, the foreman of St. Si
mons mills. It consists of an ordi
nary eight day movement, encased
in wood work, gothic in design,
representing a cathedral. The wood
works consist of a niahogony base
on which are placed four upright
columns of beautiful white holly,
covered with an open scroll work
what is called a gang or span circu
lar saw mill. Two large circulars
work opposite each other, and every
time a log passes between them off
will come two slabs, or two boards
or two deals, as the case may be
It is estimated that this mill will-
slab for the Gang, in the large mill
now in successful operation, at the
rate of 400 logs per day, at least an
average of 250, and that it will add,
on an average, 50,000 feet per day
to the mill’s present capacity. To
get the logs to this circular they are
run up the log slide, one after anoth
er, on an endless chain, without be
ing dragged in the old way. At sta
ted distances apart there are on this
endless chain cross bare or log
chains with steel teeth, as these
teeth come around on the chain
the log is floated on to it, and up
it goes. The logs wanted for the
large mill will be let run through
into the mill pond, and the others
stopped until they have a couple
of slabs taken off. This mill will
have a mammoth Gang Edger that
will take care of all the six cants,
and saw them into flooring or scant
ling. The engine furnishing the
steam is an 18 x 24, making 100
revolutions per minute, with five
boilers, 30 feet x 36 inches diameter.
Twenty men can run this mill up
to it* full capacity. The piling for
this mill will be commenced in a
couple of weeks, and the present
company will do its work without
help from abroad.
There were houcst men in those
days. There are living on the Is
land at this'time representatives of
an old gentleman, whose peculiari
ties entitled him to be classed
among that now almost extinct
race, whose insignia gained for
them the cognomen of tho “noblest
work of God.” He was scrupu
lously honest in all his transactions
with his fellow men, and demand
ed the same in return. He was
kind, affectionate and tender to a
fault; always the friend of the
poor, the distressed, the widow and
the oiphan. These noble attributes
soon endeared him to liis whole ac
quaintance, and the olficers in the
county readily found him a most
reliable and trustworthy person, in
whose hands to commit the charge
of widows and orphans and their
estates. Consequently he was not
New Advertisements.
Forwarding <fc Omwtnisdoii Merchants,
BR URTSWICIZ Get
of rich, black walnut, with uiuhog-, ] 011 g in having as much business of
ony drops under each column. The j this kind as his duties to his own
^uble front is of the finest bird-eye I large and constantly growing inter-
1 est would allow’. His strict adher
ence to the principles of business
maple, overlaid with ebony. The
| integrity soon taught all with whom
Hie works with the \ | ie dealt, that he was no ordinary
nickel-plated.
gable front occupy the space be- personage, and that they must ren-
tween tho four columns. The line der to the widow and orphan the
mechanism and artistic skill dis-, ver ^A farthin # L du , e .. * e "V.
, . . . .•<•111 came across one hard case, howev-
playcd in arranging the beautifully er) w ^ 0 thought to test his metal,
colored woods render it a valuable j By means of some crookedness,
this hai-d case cheated one of his
wards out of several thousand dol-
SrtSiSS sSs UTTUniUI & TEW,
over the matter and exchanged
hard words. They offered to fight
it out a la code ihimo with shot guns
They met and fired. The tip of the
left ear of the fellow was shot off
and the old guardian’s legs were
badly peppered, not dangerously,
however, but sufficiently to confine
him to his bed for a couple of
weeks. As soon as he began to re
cover, he sent his antagonist word
tliat by a certain day he would be
well and on the war path again, if
restitution be not made by that
time, and that he would continue
to try the effects of cold lead upon
him till the debt was paid, if life
lasted. Suffice it to say, that the
day before the old guardian’s no
tice expired, the fellow turned up
with his bag of gold, discharged
the debt in full, and offered the
amende honorable for his conduct
in the whole affair.
ALSO WHOLESALE DEALERS IN
CORN,
HAY,
OATS,
BRAN,
Etc., Etc
Also keep oil Uauil a supply of
BriCK, Lime, Cement and Coal.
J. E. MOORE fc CO.,
DEALERS IN
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