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The Brunswick Advertiser, PUBLISH ■*> EVER* HATTHPAY AT BRUNSWICK, GA., BY F. sr&cr. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: b copy c B year.. One copy *ix month* * Advertisement* from reeponelUe |»vtlM wil1 be publUhed untii ordered out, when thetime u jotapecifled. and payment exacted error JtBglJ Communications for iutUvidual benefit,or ot * personal character, charged a* advertieement* r M^rriaoe* and obituary notices not exceeding r publh ceeding that api charged aa advertiamuel .... and communications should bo *d- dreased to the undersigned. T. U. STACY, Brunswick, Georgia. City Directory. Alder mm- J. M. Co u per, T. G. Stacy, J. Cook, J. P. Harvey, A. T. Putnam. W. W. W kin*. J J- Spears eud I). T. Dunn. Clerk it Treasurer—James Houston. Chit/ Martha!—J. C. Norman. Assistant Manhal—J L. Bea* h. Wurman-W. 8. Pittman. I*>rl Physician—J. H. Blaiu. M. D. City 1‘khy/ician—J. H. Hobiua. M. D. Harbor Matter—Matthew Shannon. /•art Wardens—Burr Wintou. O. J. Hall ■ Thomas O'Connor, Jr. STANDI NO COM IflTTEE* or COCVCIL. Finance—Couper. Watkins and Dunn. Town commons—Spears. Putnam and Stacy. Harbor—Harvey. C< * Railroad*—t 'ook, H Watkins. C KM ETERI ca—Putnam, Harvey and Conner. Public buildino*—Watkins. H|K*an» and Dun: Education—Cook, Stacy ana Spear*. Chabitt—Htai’y, Cook and Putnam. Fire department—Dunn, Harvey and Putua: UNITED STATES OFFICE HI. Collector of Customs—John T. Collins. Deputy-11. T. Dunn. Collector Internal llot Deputy Marshal—Ja y and Couper. Dunn, Spears and drrrtterr. VOL. G, NO. 25. BRUNSWICK, GEORGIA, SATURDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 25, 1880. |2 00 A YEAR. CURE CHRISTMAS, The Persians kept it as tlie birth- around with winter clothes on, lay of Mithras, the Mediator,aspir- blowing on their lingers to keep With Snmerons^and Sundry huts 0 fthe sun, with ceremonies of them warm. uncommon splendor. I Inn western part of Devonshire, KKMAKKARI.E CLOCK. The Strasburg clock is a very re- niarkaldo astronomical clock, con structed about 1570, by Isaac Ho- illld Fancies Relating Thereto. compiled by opit St. simoxs EBiToR. i j 3 a general holiday, England, a notion prevails that at! brecht, and now in the cathedral at Below we present some interest- the shops are abut and the courts twelve o'clock at night on Christ-, that city, hut there is a still more ing clippings connected with the closed. No journey would under mas Eve, the oxen in their stalls remarkable clock at Detroit, Mich., origin and manner of celebrating any circumstances be commenced [are always found upon their knees The work of Mr. Felix Meier, a me- Christmas in different countries.— on l ^' 3 ^y. We find this derivation of the name Christmas: The old Saxons had a word M<r*- IMI’ROVED EXCELSIOR KIDNEY PAD. 1 <w, by which they designated all It is a MARVEL ol HEALING days freed from labor, whether hoi- idays or fast days. The holidays The Egyptians recognized it by their festival in honor of the birth of their god Horns. deco-1 ns if in devotion, while what is chanic. It stands eighteen feet in more remarkable in the supers ti- height, and is enclosed in a black tion is that since the change of style they are found in kneeling postures only on Christmas Day. An honest countryman, living on i«l RELIEF ! A Conundrum. A correspondent of the St. Paul Pioneer Press, fishing at Nantucket with Rev. Robert Collyer, Robert Burdette and ••vend other serious gentlemen. He says: I cannot refrain from telling a conundrum that was (impounded to four ministers when the blue fish party went ashore at the “Pint** and took their picnic dinner in the simile of a fisherman's hut. It was “ If Solomon was the son of David, and Joab the son of Zeruiah, what relation was Zeruiah to Joab?” They all said ‘‘father’’ at once and when assured the answer was wrong, there was much curiosity. *• Will you state that again ?” asked Mr. Collyer, laying down hie fork. It was restated. Well,” said he, “David and Sol omon had nothing to do with it, walnut frame, clnlxirntely enrveef c and ornamented. The crowning. but Zeruiah was Jonh’s daddy 1” figure is that of “Liberty,” onaj “ No, guess again.” was the reply. The Hindoos on this day deco- An Honest ooumr/man, living on canopy over the head of Washing-1 The clergy all insisted that the •ate their homes with garlands of* the edge of St. Stephen’s Down, ton, who is seated on a marble L n swer was right, and Mr. Collyer Howers and papers of gold and tin- ,,ear I-aunceston, Cornwall, says dome. The canopy is sup|H>rtec ! »*h e certainly must have been Simple,Sensible, Direct,Pain- kept in remembrance of the birth ^ ftn j t j ie cus ^ )In () f niaking t * K,t he, wit * 1 8omc “there, once by columns on either side, fin |,; H father, and X won’t eat anotlier less, Powerful! of Christ were Christ -inaswri. presents to relatives and friends is mft, l° n tr ^ a l the oxen on Christ- niches below, at the four corners of! mouthful until you tell me what a revela* ——7 . .. i mas Kve, and, watching several in | the c-ock, are four hitman figures,| t j, e cn teh jg.” their stalls at the npj minted hour,! representing “Infancy,” “Youth. When told that Zeruiah was Jo- TION aii.UKF.VOl.l TIO> i presents 1 Tl e spread of the Christian rc- universally observed. i. T. I)uun. I'uetuia •r-Liuu. North. J.FJelsoinSoiis —AT THFIB— GRAND RAY STREET i°K ligion carried with it the uwerv* In Scotland, except among Catli- Observed the oldest two fall upon “ Manhood ” and “Age,” each ha v-j^/g mother, he exhibited much . ance of Christmas ns a rt igious es- ami Ch^*c:h «>f peo- their knees and make “a cruel ing a hammer in one hand a mi a joyousness and told Powers and tival with which lecaine cornu ctei p( Pt Christmas is scarcely noticed, moan like Christians.” There is an j bell in the other. The niches are I that lie was surprised that other observances varying w itli t m Q t j |( , r denominations who nftice old picture in which the oxen in'.supported by angels with Haring t | )0y didn’t know their Bibles l*t- the season, defer the rejoicings to the stable arc represented in a sup- (torches, and over the center is the j ! Twelfth (Old Christmas) day. A plicant position on their knees,and | figure of Father Time. At the customs and habits of differ tions. There is no record that the birth- Scotchman, who was asked how day of Jesus, the Christ, was cb- Christmas was spent in his country, served till the second century. At “ Hoot, nwa, mon we din- the suggestion of Pope Telesphorus na n.iml the T ule-thu Clmstma* some of the Eastern churches ran- vo ca’it, mon. A we.mnd.sNew Day; a.id then every .non The Schools of Georgia. tin ogulied the 6th of January _ 1 , l:i- ..t «t... u-.„t who call afford it gets drunk Lt'.\U DISK tSKS, TIIKOAT DISK \s»% Itlt I'.ATIll Ml THOl It LI' DRY GOODS, CLOTHING, ROOTS & SHOES. lay, while those of the \\ itit it to other celebrations ill the last ! week ot December. j In the fourth century Pope Juli-. | us made an order assembling the, chief theologians of the time, for the purpose of examining all evi dence bearing upon the date of the birth of Jesus, that they should, if mtantly on liaml aim Tito It *11 ml* l.wtif, in >(« Virtue*. ! birth of JuSUS, that tflpy Should, u • . You can be Relieved A Cured ! ponuiblc, fix the day, in order that “!’ u ^ l " ,l I n . 1 1,,nH Af , nutii >ob I,... tri^i tbi. iN .diservai.ee might he universal. ( l.nst.uas pay the merry-mal c. n»Uy ...onul.io mil usios, ^ .... , I, „ ic- rest r etc, iteAuii..,,,,.,. After due deliberation, they deed- . 0 "on .-sue, resunu HoM l»y ImiRipEt. or arnil y mail ou nt-Hi.t of . , , * * L 1 • j *•» oo, by o«l that, it was on December the r oVThs "Only” Lung Pad Co. 2.5th. ontt.c publication of tw doubtless this picture originated I quarter hour the figure of t..e in-1 Sparta Mumtdtit: (bsirgia has the fabulous story of the honest hint strikes its tiny bell; at the half: mountains for the Swiss, sunny countryman. ; hour the figtue of the youth strikes' plains for the Italians and French, his bell of a-louder Ume; nt the untold water .saver tor the Englieb third quarter the man strikes his I and Scotch, fertile valleys for iiu„ur,,s.m„tio„. [ t w ]l, and at the full hour the gray-■ Irish, and mineral wealth to The reoo.l of Commissioner Orr,, bt-ur.1. Then the figure of Time py all the ..linens ot the which has just been submitted to stt .|, 8 1>ut alu | tolls the hour, us two Now let the column begin to In the mountains of Norway dis- the Legislature, covers la.tl. 187G siuallfigures throw open doors ini — tricU the day is kept with hearty a ..d 1880, except that the tables lor t | 10 u ,i u „ m ol , e i t | ler side of Wash-' (>r !•>* K ir,s ut Vassar College hospitality. All work issusiie.ided t |, e L,tt«-r year arc not given, be- Ijngton, uiul u procession of the voted for Garfield and 38 far for thirteen days. The entrance of ulH U„.y cannot he prejiared tin-1 IVesidenta of the l.'nited Statas (ol- cock, and political exdtemen every huu.-e is rleeo.ated, and the til January. But there is enough ]y\ys. As the procession moves, high there. The girls who walls ot the kitci.cn me roughly j a the report to show tl.e great' Washington rises and salutes each Hancock are the prettiest, progress in this all-important mat- ! figure as it passes, and it in turn ’Ion't el.cw so much gain as ter since 1871. In tint yrar the | salutes him. They move through Oarfieldewte*. _ public scliot-ls were nlU'iuleii Dy ! the «loor oil the other side, and it only 42,014 while, uml H,G04 <aJ-! ^ then olusod lichind them. The I >>n■ >ila U o.t.il ill ".TA* in . .j S«)MtTUIHG New UNDEK THE OOlf.— itti pupils, a totai or *r.», j<o, hi \ prooi^ion moves to the accoinpu-| A Itt W ,. riI ,i a * n j„g upon woman.— U is Found at hart l Wllsl.l \ ♦!> K. Grroceries JUST RSL’SIVE!!!. A FINE STOCK OK Clocks, Watches, lecision, the Roman Church ch- sreed and instituted special pvay- rs to priests to l>e said on tluU day, which are known ns Christ illumes. adorned with gaudy pictures, tasticallv pninted in water colors. and king ^ t° ored pupils, a total of 4B,o76; in i pnict^sion moves tothcuceompa- th .■ mem hoi’s ot each household.' , J87B the attendance was 117.1‘JJ I niment of varied music, by tbs! Hitherto she Inn* ln-en mllfH npoo to Not even a friendly visit is paid.- white and 7U.4JH colorwl childrtm |dock itself. The mrchnnitm also! tUu JJ* °! •***["* «•*!| On the billowing days the neigh- tot,,! 22 »,027. The gain in 187B|gi V w the wrn^ movement of the her «*xTmiI5 hois a.<x :nl'lf sit each others hous- ovpr tl»«? previous year was 1<»,7"».‘>. planets round the sun, comprising long lierii to her Hie “ilireftil spriug e,l,y turns, for carousing. Noreg- The work of 187'.) was done at an | Mercury, which makes the rcvolu-1 I' 11 exjienw! to the people ot $31A,748. t (j 0 ,i once in H8 days; Venus, in 211 . M like, «<>nmn li m U*»*» the cimatuiit y»*t eal is With the Germans. Christii ular i house is kept, tl spread for ail come provided, but tables richly No strange v including tiic |ioU-tax, one-half the days; Mars, in days; Vesta, in ' pMtifnt vi. tim of n thcia - r rental uf the State lhiail, uml other 11JK7 j a yn; •Juno, in 1,593 tlaya: j V.Su^L^nLuilkmg!" i FAMILY SUPPLIES, And a large *upi>ly of tiioumtiid ills on* itliont a reiuwly. esteemed the “Children s Festival, is permitted t*> leave the house tin- Hourcr? of re vein e. The sehooi lo^es, in 1,081 days; Jupiter, in 4,- j of her soul, Imth she crisil. Bni uow, ami with them originated the wi.ihl til hr lias partaken ol the etroug ......ulation being 133,444, the eu- 1 a '.t avB - Snlurn in 29 yonre• H *e hour of her rwleiupli..u ia •onw. - .1 e .... : * i ..i_ . •» a' i i i .... .. . . J J She will imnir no more, for Hnuiaelil • Uranus, in 81 ‘ yoan^ As these: ReauUtor, ^Womsn's Best JlOVIXllY, ^ famous myth of “Saint Nicholas," Yule ale, which is serve. I up iu n.fln.ent being 220,027, amltlio av Acc^deons, Harmonicas, «■'*.« “Santa Claus,” a/m» -Kris' truo Norwegian fashion, cask fol- cn.ge atUm.lauco 132,000, this ap- V10I4.N sxiti.M.s, Kringle,’’ the patron of 5 ule-ti le lowing cask iu ropbl Sikx’eseion. pmprintioit amounts to 78 cents n and the frieml of all proper boys On these occasion* (he servantB sit head of the school population, to Toys,Holiday Goods, •».<! P rettily behaved girls. Hap- ; ,t the tame table with the butt and g].39a of thocnroll.ncnt,nnd CTTtn CTrtDCC i CIUUSTMAS THEE pily the reforms in the observanee .family. All are .llWtod iu thri,. 82.39 ol the average ul tendance! , how itl working* to the public.- SH.Il O 1 UKIlO,. oftheOljr, winch began ... Oer- gala attire of rich colored elotlv _ a ll sma ll sums in a Statu that islTI.ero aro dials which show tl.e 1 TS mM ' r ’ niicl,c ' 1 an< ! " aS C,>1 ’ tri,u, "“ a " Ul1 n "‘ 1 H,lve 1 r b * uul - «<>w fairly forehanded. The | houn<) , llinoha) oeoonds in De other jjortions of Eurojie. Cr ‘ *• • All of which they alt all b** *ali* factory t l«»>21 1 > AND ATT AC 11M K NTS. A IDO Christ- the w | of bri m H^T 15 A_ncl lOo D Li 5 I If COUNTER GOODS In The Jewelry Headquarters W. F. DOERFLINGER la tha Beat Plare of the Kind, in every reapect, UT rhieh I invl at.i.i bxloi uurchaaibg eUewherv. C. J. DOCHFLIMHali. Watchmaker and Jewel, i I ortl-ly Bay Street, UntMwU I England, Christinas is iilay of the yeur, w 11 pa pas and gmndmnm- ikIcw children all id to play th« part of >ver ntruin. They seem i rtma C ALI, and examine hia largu and beautifully a» JEWELRY, WATCHES, Etc,, Etc., Which haa Jnat arrived and i* being aold at low STABLE, A. T. Putnam, p r op, lmi “ iu " theperBOna,,eof Corner MONK k GRANT streets. BRUNSWICK, • • GEORGIA. nits is also now “Children's Day 1 in England and France. In toys and confections for the period the ill r «»i v . l great holiday of tlie yei children are clwtiiictly reinemoereu « . J J in Italy, and in America the Christ- cvcn 8 1 ' mas tree, the “stockings hung by the chimney with care,” and the | harmless merry games and iimo- ll >iu uy . , , i.i ,L m i , m i ol step; their smiles are uid.sen.lu cent glee of eh.lillKSKl supplant 1 , nately bestow ed on all around then., much of the boisterous carousal > 1-1 . I.I,. their hearts warm with the gi ner- whtch once tended to render tl.e , ,. , • , r, oils feelings of their lo: g past day rollicking and riotous. It was h , ,, , 3 ... . . i prune, mid the selfishness of old formerly the custom, and is still, * . i ii.o .m,n age is for the tunesubdu-a. they the practice in some of the small - . . x . encourage the little ones in those villages in North Germany, toooin- 8 ,, I mission the personage of "Enocht.™^ ronqis wluch at any other Rupert,” corresponding with our ^ - ulJ «•« th *'“ ll '° ■ Santa Claus," to distribute all the headucho or prove .ntoleraMe to 1 i „i, hxf nnd their uerves; they behold without presents made by parents ana . .... Disguised l.y a gesture of angry reproof the Jt.es- movements :ir«* altogether too slow Friend,” i* for ^ftk* by Dr. F. Juergvr, to l*e popularly enjoyed, the m- ■ p ro , wrw | \ iy j )r . j BrailfleM, AtUu- ventor has a filed a device by which t»», Grorgin; pricu $1.50 p**r Itottl**. ho can hasten the machinery to uov ^ )l ‘ OCT * in ^ ^ ^ What an Kditor Mays: | There «re »o m-iuy (Hiteut htmthnas ■ - | ••■*'»••• » — - - j .mil u •* r.iuiN, iu the wgy of uu'diciueM, omen wearingch|maim aprons ninount available this year i»about I tro j tt Washington, New York, San ludvertieed all t»v»-r the oonntry, that lliant hues. ; $346,273, or about 89 cents a head H'mnci-co London Paris. Berlin. 1 " ,e l " ll * rt " r * skspHest. •** ■« Mh ,, | , • «s. • ‘ 1 ’ . to buy nnlcw the iirtiole ofleivu for the ^ Imputation, 1 ins Viciinn, St. Petersburg, C onstanti- iggiu kuewn to |n>m«om reel iu.miIn, when Hl,m itJ ri^Wttlowsly small for the | n0 p( e Cairo, Pekin,and Melbourne, jtmd on the otlu r hand, miuietof well- niaintonance of a public school •t.|The clock also shows the day of ,V«?."« C “!r - d,V p,,”!!,^ f, or“7ir^ttag least three im>nths in tlie year in j^j ie wt . 4 j; a u t J month in Detroit, the j*ttk* und |mlining off h wmiiileiM prep- mil, Thev seem i ever V luilitin district o( the 8taU^ | in onlh and season of the year, tlie Ti iiguiu. t utt punt , , . • .. . . , |Midi'iitti'*u, if givit me pleiiwire trkablo elasticity 0,, d yet Commissioner Orr Inis sue- i c hangw of the moon, etc. It is Iu> | UM t. lu .»,ii«il m ,» n.edi. nn- wlikb I ecedeil in attaining sugl. a result. ja jq t i la t Mr. Meier has worked on [ knew fr.su p, .-.>uul riperwuv, to doc Ijchooh have becncplaced, at the j thia cWk ue-^ly ten years, and rate t»f eighty cents a head, within ^j 1L , j.^ four years has tlovolfnl liis nent-nlaiH mid Im ndKcdi *. put up id this •ity liy Uuteltiu*oit ic Pro. W. T. L'HKIHTOFREBc Ed. Atlftiit* Smt.l. y Piiouogiftpb. the reach of at least 2UU.UOO chil-' w hole time to it. dren who could not otherwise have ! • entered a solwol-room on account 1 The Ib.yal Agricultural Hodely of the poverty of their parent*.— when adopting its motto “Practice ubastyiu-x, CIa , Avo. a«,%TO. 22111127 actually e.iioved this nriv- 1 with Soienee, placed practice first Da. C. J M..nktT-fW «e-I at many enjoy t u uns pnv 1 ' .. . ennuot hmuer reii.uu from middling ilege in 187D; ami Commissioner D in close attention to * to yoa mjr grateful msk^wleilgemettU Orr cautiously but justly adds, “I that the elements of success in [for theipricekus l«ou you lutve gifwn have yet to b ar. ere a like fartning aro b, bo sought. amount of money lias in any other my tn general management t annul giving it to our little girl uow tet thiuff* State been made to accomplish Ik. attained and habitually prac-,...ul with.the m.-t 1m, ,7 reo.lt. .1 1 nnluu. a wh-mtiiod- QtU*r ItUl* an** art drunptHg and d*- Vnbitlw of a vary claaeripitoo far hlw. Onl«r* Hlld shod ill tftll buckskins, K for ilrajitn promptly ftlleft. Carriage* WIT Y! friends to children. — 0 , a mask, wearing an enormous flax- mg <eovaBi tl.e nostU tm. nut ir ^ ^ rc ^ n j u „ ,M r , Orr urges the deed unlesa a inii., understands , en beard, clad in along white robe, J 1 ' 00 ’ poop e P la-gislature to increase the school "even to the nails breadth the |U I,«,/„/. I recomm^ud it to andshod in tall buckskins, “Knecht " >flue " c r l,y . U ‘“ fun.l by enforcing a ...ore thorough particular department of this l.usi-, *Uoa l come in cwjtoet. Rupert ’went from house to house, * .nsUmi*, j ,,w ls 1 1 1 collection of the |k.1I tux, by in- ness. This (articular knowledge ol.T 1 m A. U. S'/itOl'D. young? who can den.et the lull , was received by the parents with - n . , . ., creasing the liquor tax, ami by i m .sense of happiness enjoyed by the . . .. . , .• , t till- ... ;* . J \ ... levying a dog tax. By statistics of i youthful of both sexes at this sea- J great ceremony, called for the chil- BEST GREEN $ BLACK TEAS, Bl’ISTS GENUINE NEW CROP GARDEN SEED, AND Q.VIQSSETS* CHOICE CHEWING A SMOKING j GOODYEAR 4 HARRIS, Attorneys at Law, Geobgia. dren, and after the strictest inve-ti- - v son of the year! It is not only a crime ami illiteracy he proves that even a small property-tax would This (.articular knowledge can only be acquired on a farm step j by step and day by day, m the^ ^ w a “k^: working of the farm goes on. The Sir-it give* u»«* great pleasure ornamental farmer, like the orna- to D-stify nt to the of yonr ju*i- •«It hnifctl GILDLKn PILLH,— more for me Hum any have ever tiikeu, I HiieeetM, ■ the me- entl noted Kpriuga, lieve and cum i TOBACCOS. The Best Five Cent Cigar, B LAI Vi Dat’d STOKE. B buns win O FFICE—0 Mi. h- Uor. v, up *u»r*. I ing, the children say, “ Oh, dear ! educate her children. She certain- mojees any place where liquor is how hot it is 1 1 <Io wish Christ- ly cannot afford to have during an*‘sold or given awny,'or gambling w Tlie old Romans held high festi- came in tl.e winter time.”— other generation 80.000 illiterate slowed, a nuisa. ee, and the place val in honor of llarchns. rejoicing (.•„,- w h c n it is winter here it is sum- voUrs. She can afford to provide, ! is shut up, the kisjwr being l.ab.e with hill, that tl.e sun was aljout MRIf (j are and when you are lying as the new constitution directs, a 1 to be fined from 420 to $230 and t°ar^ tU, Tliey d d.77g^l ‘ the'day under a shady tree in July, the lit- thorough system of common imprisoned for three months.—S.- yards. They designated the day ; the birthday of the invincible sun. j tie Australia children are running .schools. miiwih Sci>4. Ati.anta. D»*c. 10, 1870. I ImvH gttCt'ii i i«l entirely of Itonolt- . l.y Hie um: <>f tlie Ufa Exteraiiiui- r. 1 but) Ui. cl iurtrl> everytUiug to • pu- • one. hmni is the bent thing »200 and ”< ...« taa 11 ever S.W. It.ioc.tha ncrll well suit qs.ck. Mas. ADAMS. I ProprieUresa Adwuu 1