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Weekly Democrat.
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'SIXESS & PROFESSIONAL.
MEDICAL CARD.
M. J. Nicholson,
las removed to Twilight, Miller conn-
Gcorgia. Ollice in J. S. Cimfoy'
MEDICaTcARD.
r. E. J. Morgan
las removed his office to the drug store,
oerly occupied by l)r. Harrell. Resi-
ce on West street, south of Shotwell,
■re calls at night will reach him.
CHARLES C. BUSH,
ttorney at Law
COLQUITT, GA.
’rompt attention given to all business en-
ited to me.
DENTISTRY.
,C . Curry, D. D. S.,
lao he found daily at his office on South
oad street, up stairs, in E. Johnson’s
ilding, where he is ready to attend to the
nts of the public at reasonable rates.
dec-5-78
MCUH.L,, M - 0 NBA I*
McGILL & O’NEAL,
ttorneys at Law
BAINBRIDGE, GA.
heir office will be found over the post of-
, 1. I'ONAI.SON,
nvnoN b. bower
BOWER & DQNALSON,
omeysand Counsellers at Law
Ifice in the court house. Will practice
ieeatur and adjoining counties, and
where by special contract. a-26 7
OCTOR M. L. BATTLE,
Dentist.
MBoe over Hinds Store, West side
rt house. Has fine dental engine, and
I have everything to make his office
t-class. Terms cash. Office hours 9
n. to 4 p. m. jan.l3tf
JEFF D. TALBERT,
ttorney at Law
llainbridge. Georgia.
Will practice in all the courts, and bust
ess intrusted to his care will be promptly
ttended to. Office over store of M. E
ruett & Son. feb.23,’82
DR. L. H. PEACOCK,
ipectfully tenders his professional serv-
i to the people of Baiubridge and vicini-
Iflice over store of J. D. Harrell «fc Bro
iidetice on West end of Broughton
*t. where he can be found at night.
Lprit 6.1881—
IIG1A. Miller ''lounty :
ill whom it may concern : T F. Jones
ng made Application to have the Clerk
iperior Court of said county appointed
uistrator of the estate of A. J. Miller,
is therefore to cite all persons concern,
i show cause if any they can within ibe
allowed by law, why said application
Id not be granted. This April 19,1882.
WM. GRIMES,
Ordinary.
3IACON
The Bainbridge Democrat.
BY BEN. E. RUSSELL.
BAINBRIDGE, GA, THURSDAY, MAY 11, 1882.
| YOL. 11.—NO. 50.
RAILROAD RUMBLINGS.
Something More About the New
Line.
or special instruction in bookkeeping,
tnanship, business arithmetic, corres-
lence, bill heading, telegraphy and
■roil business routine.
McKAY, - - PRNICIPAL.
■t terms, information’ as to boarding
apply to the' principal. P. O. box
Macon, Georgia.
B. F. COLBERT.
ATCHMAKER AND JEWELER.
Col ambus Bids the Projectors
Success in the Enterprise.
What Oar Leading Business Hen Say
of It-
fficc at L. M. Criffin’s old stand, corner
of South Broad and Troup streets,
ainbridge, - 6a.
Cleauing and repairing, watches,
locks, sewing-machines ana all kinds of
welry, done with neatness and dispatch.
„ G?“All work warranted.
Bainbridge, Ga., August 4, 1874.—
It Will Probably Be a Harrow Gagne-
Colvmbus Enquirer-Sun.
In speaking of the Chattanooga,
Columbus and Florida railroad yester
day morning, we gave the prospects for
its immediate completion, the country
through which it traverses, the benefits
to be derived from it and the necessity
of the road. While we may enlarge
more fully upon the two last subjects
at another time, there is another fact
that is of this utmost significance in
connection with the road. The present
probability is that it will be a
NARROW GAUGE
or a gauge of three feet. The narrow
gauge is a superior investment over the
broad gauge, but this fact alone does
not prompt selection of the former. It
is the same as the system of roads now
being inaugurated in Florida. There
fore, one of the reasons why it will
probably be adopted is that an exten
sive system of narrow gauge roads are
being adopted, extending from Talla-
ahassee to Gainesville, thence south and
west by Ocala, Leesburg, Tampa and
Charlotte Harbor to the west coast of
Florida ; and another from Gainesville
to Palatka and from thence to Indian
river. There are
THREE FOLD REASONS
why this road will probably adopt the
narrow gauge system, in addition to
what is enumerated above. First, the
cost of construction is from 33 per cent,
to 60 per cent, legs than the broad
gauge ; second, the running expenses
are at least 33 per cent, less; third,
the narrow gauge more nearly corres
ponds with the necessities of the coun
try than the broad gauge road. Un all
these points however, we will speak
again as we merely wished tff call at
tention to the fact that there is a proba
bility that the road will use the narrow
gauge system,
OPINIONS OF THE PEOPLE.
Yesterday a representative of this
paper talked with a number of our
prominent citizens in reference to this
road, some of them who met Mr. S. G-
McLendon, President of the Chatta
nooga, Columbus and Florida railroad,
and conversed with him about the pros
pects of its early construction, etc.
These gentlemen were much impressed
with the benefits to be derived by the
city, and are heartily in favor of any
thing that will bring the railroad at an
early day. Among otherswere our may
or, and the president of a bunk, the
leading men in some of our largest
manufawturies, our largest capitalists
and promiuet business men. Know
ing that Judge W. H. Brannon, Presi
dent of the Merchants and Mechanics
bank, had been in conversation with
the president of this railroad, we called
on him at his office yesterday evening
and asked his opinion of the enter
prise.
“I think it is the best road and
will prove of more benefit to more peo
ple than any other Columbus can get,”
replied the judge, “and of course I
heartily favor the movement.” He then
went on to say : “I have not had an
.•pportunity to talk with a great many
of the business men since the article
appeared in the‘Enquirer-Sun this
morning, but the great Eagle and Phe-
nix factory, the Muscogee Mills and
other similar institutions are much
elated with it. The Columbus Iron
Works, the Empire Mills and others
are enthusiastic at the hope that the
road will be built.’
‘You think, then, Judge, that the citi
zens will favor it?’
‘There is no question of that in my
mind. Every industry and interest in
Coiambus will be benefitted and there
is perhaps not a business man in the
city but what will hail its coming with
pleasure and will give it all the ‘moral
support they can. The President of
the company tells me they want no
money from ns, and l am satisfied that
all the citizens are ready to give what
ever encouragement they can.’
‘Sinoe talking with Mr. McLendon,
what do yon think of the prospects of
the road being built F
‘The geogarpby of the country de
mands the building of the road. I have
seen for a long while that it was only
a question of time for it to be bnilt,
and I am persuaded that the time has
come. These people in SouThwest
Georgia and Florida must have a direct
line of transportation to the northwest.
The fruit and truck farms of Florida
are of as much importance to that sec
tion as the cotton crop is to this, and
they must have a ready way to reach
the market. Just think of it,’said he,
‘forty-acre fields of strawberries, orange
trees by the hundreds of thousands;
immense market garden ; hotels where
the receipts are $500 per day—they
must have a direct line of travel and
for transportation of their products.
There is no doubt in my mind as to
the early building of the road.’
‘The road will pay, then, you think ?’
‘Yes, I certainly do. Taking it for
granted that not a pound of freight
should be received between Bainbridge
and Columbus, which will not be the
case, the fruitq and other Florida pro
ducts shipped over the road will make
it self-sustaiding. I have no objection
to your saying 1 am heartily in favor of
the enterprise.’
A CHAT WITH MR. JORDAN.
Mr. G. Gunby Jordan, Secretary
and Treasurer of the Eagle and Phenix
Mills and also President of the Colum
bus Board of Trade, bad a talk with
Mr. McLendon, and we also approach
ed him to see what be thought of the
new road.
‘I have never given much thought
to railroads being built,’ said Mr. Jor
dan, ‘but this is one in which I feel a
deep interest aod hope to see built in a
short time. When the boom on the
Bainbridge, Cuthbert and Columbu*
road was started in 1870, I was in the
meeting and went into it with much
interest. If anybody under the sun
but H. I. Kimball bad have been in
charge of it, the road would have been
built at that time. The people bad no
confidence in him, and didn’t want to
have their money squandered.’
‘■You would like to see the road
reach Columbus then ?’
*1 had rather see it built than any
other road I could name. I think it is
of so much importance that at the next
meeting of our Board of Trade, which is
now assuming a great deal of vitality,
I shall call their attention to the enter
prise and ask that they urge its com
pletion to this city. They ask no
money from us, but we should do what
we can to give them encouragement
aod aid in whatever way we can in
facilities for entering the city/
‘Put you down, then, as favoring the
road V
‘By all manner os means. I am most
heartily in facor of it, and in whatevei
way I can be able to lend to anything
that will spend its progress will not be
slow to do so. Yes, put me down
aa decidedly in favor of it/
MATOR GRIMES SPEAKS.
Stepping into Mayor C B Grimes’ office
we said to him :
“I suppose you saw Mr McLendon, the
president of the new road ?”
‘■No, I did not, but would like very
much to have done so; particularly since
reading the railroad article in the Euquir-
er-Sun this morning. I read it with a
great deal of interest, and there is a de
cidedly hopeful outlook for our city in that
direction.”
“You. then, favor the building ef the
road to Columbus?”
“I am iu favor of anything that will add
to the necessity and aid in the progress of
the city, and in my opinion there is no
thoroughfare that will go further toward
this end than the new road of which yon
spoke this rooming. I think we should
nse eveiy effort to secure the building of
the road and I will favor any move that
has this purpose iu view.”
“You are aware that they don’t ask os
for money ?”
“O, yes, I understand that, but as was
suggested by your paper this morning, we
should put no obstacle in theii way; on
the contrary we should extend all the en
couragement we can. I shall certainly do
this as far as I can legitimately do so.
We need the road and if there ’8 any way
to get it, the advantage sboa^j not be lost.”
WHAT JUDGE CRAWFORD SAYS.
Judge Manin J. Crawford, associate jus
tice of the supreme court of Geo>-g ; a is on
a visit to his home in this city. Knowing
with what superior judgment be is possess
ed, and how mach an opinion from him is
worth, we asked what he thought of the
road.
"It will bring a degree ef prosperity to
the city that will be very beneficial. It will
fire to Columbus the trade of a large sec
tion of country which now goes Gsewhere
and which cau*<asily be controlled when
the road is built. I am familliar with the
country through which the road will run
and I speak by the book when I say it is a
section where trad® is worth, something.
The people are good people and this road
will make them our neighbors.”
“The road will benefit us you think ?”
“There can certainly be but one opinion
on that suhject. The citizens of the city
will no doubt be very much gratified to
know that there is promise of the baild’r.g
of the road at an aarly day. I have
thought for a loDg time this road would
greatly benefit Columbus and prove a pay
ing investment. It will be the grand
thoroughfare from all the important places
in the northwest to Florida and all the
lower country. If Columbus consults her
best interest she will do all that can be
done in the way of extending encourage
ment to the building of the road.”
THE VIEWS OF MR SWIFT.
Mr George P Swift, jr., one of our larg
est warehouse and commission merchants,
and also a large stockholder in tfce Musco
gee Mills, had several conversations with
Mr. McLendon during his visit to the city,
and we called on him to see how he was
impressed in reference to the road.
“It has for a long time been one of my
pet theories,” said Mr Swift, “that Colum
bus could have no outlet- more beneficial
than a road over the line that has been
mapped out for the Chattanooga, Colum
bus and Florida road. There is not a sin
gle industry in the city that will not feel
the good effects."
“What do vou think about the prospects
of the road being built?”
“Since talking- with Mr. McLendon, I
am very much encouraged. I am confi
dent that they mean busidess, and, just as
you stated, if the negotiations are not sat
isfactory they will build it themselves.
The fact is,” said he, “the road is a neces
sity, in Southwest Georgia, aud the people
there are anxious for it. They don’t like
the idea of going a zig-zrg route of two or
three hundred miles before they start to
market with their produce, and this line
obviates all that by giving a direct route.
The fruit3 and vegetables of that section
has grown to be of so much importance in
the commercial world that the demands
for the best market naturally forces the
building of the road.”
“You want the road built to Columbus?”
“Yes, I had rather see this line built than
any other, and I think we should do all we
can to get it. By all means encourage it all
you can.”
•* OPINIONS OF OTHER3.
We talked with a number of other promi
nent citizens in reference to the building
of the road.and as Judge Crawford truly
said, we fonnd but one opinion expressed
and that was that Columbus should give the
projectors of this enterprise every encour
agement to carry it forward. We have
given the above conversations to show how
the citizens feel toward it, and we are con
fident there is not a business man in the city
but what will be glad to see the road reach
Col ambus.
Paddling in Sing Sing Prison*
Albany. April 21.—The Assembly com
mittee investigating into the alleged aens-
es at the Sing Sing prison examine several
witnesses this afternoon. John Gray, a
discharged prisoner, testified that he hsd
been paddled by the principal keeper be
cause he refused to work while sick. He
received aboat eight or ten blows. The
doctor bad refused to ■ excuse him from
work.
Dominick J Killorn, another ex-convict,
testified t hat he had been paddled in the
presence and by the order of the head
keeper by a man named McCormick
for short work in the laundry.
He believed the doctor was not
present From seven to ten blows were
administered at intervals of about a minute.
He felt the effects to the present time.
During his second term he was put in a
dark cell from Saturday until Monday with
out a bed, and was given four ounces of
food. He saw the person of a man who
received forty blows of the paddle. The
man could not sit down for four days.
His back presented all the
variegated colors of a rainbow
The physical effect of paddling was weak,
nesrof the lowerlimb3 and the spinel He
denied the statement of the Sergeant a
Arms of the Assembly that he demanded
$50 for his attendance before the commit
tee.
John F. McMahon, a keeper, testified
that prisoners had been paddled, but none
severely. Paddling was necessary for the
discipline of the prison.
Dr. H. Barker (recalled) testified that
he was always present when prisoners were
pdadled. The paddling ceased when the
prisoners agreed to work or conform to
the rules of the prison. He treated only
one for injuries from the effect of paddling
He always stopped the paddling when he
thought the prisoners had been sufficiently
punished.
State Execu tire Cornuif tew
Call.
Atlanta, GA- t April 25,1882.—A meeting
of the State Democratic Execat've com
mittee is hereby called to assemble an the
breakfast room of the Kimball House, in
Atlanta, oa the 18th of May, inst, at 2
o'clock, p. m. A full meeting desired, as
business of importance will be before the
committee. The following named gentle
men are members of the committee, for
the State at large: J. E. Shumate, R J.
Moses. L. Mynatt and Wm. Phillips.
First District—J. J. Jones, Burke coun
ty: R. W. Grubb, McIntosh county.
Second District—Richard Hobbs. Do
ugherty county ; W. A. Harris, Worth
county.
Third District—John A. Cobb, Sumter
county; Geo, P. Woods, Pulaski coun
ty-
Fourth District—A. D. Abrahams,
Troup county ; J.D. Willis, Talbot couu-
ty-
Fifth District—W. T. Newman. Fulton
county ; J. II. Mitchell, Pike county.
&ixth District—Jno. L. Wimberly,
Twiggs conuty ; John L. Hardemau, Bibb
coonty.
Seventh District—Arthur H. Gray, Cat
oosa county: N. J. Tumlio, Polk couu-
ty.
Eighth District—Wilbeforce Daniel,
Richmond county; F. H. Dolly. Wilkes
county.
Niuth District—C. J. Welbome, Union
ounty : T. M. Peoples Gwinnett county.
Leander N. Trammell
Chairman.
Democrrtic papers please copy
Feet Wiped by an Emperor*
At the Hofburg, the princioal palace of
the Austrian Emperor, a ceremony took
place on Thursday which has probably
no parallel throughout all the States of
Europe. It is an old and familiar event
kuown as the “Green Thursday Feet
Washing.” It took place, as usual, in the
splendid “Hall of Ceremonies.” On each
side of the hall was a table, each of twelve
covers, one for the old men, the other for
the old women. The palace was filled with
dignitaries, including the Minsters, the
Corps Diplomatique, and the various
court officials. At 10:30 o'clock the old
people, having received the sacrament in
the court chapel, were brought to their
seats at the table. They were all dressed
in the old German costume, the dresses
being presented by the Emperor. At 11
o’clock the clergymen conducting the cere
mony appeared. They were followed by
the Emperor, the Empress, the Crown
Prince and Crown Princess, and the Arch
dukes and Archduchesses. The Emperor
served the old men, who take the food home
after the ceremony, while the Empress aod
and the Crown Princess Stephanie and
the Archduchesses setved the old women
at their several tables. The characteristic
part oi the ceremoay was the taking off a
’shoe and stocking from one foot ot each of
the old people, after which the Emperor
and Empress wiped the feet of tbe aged
people with towels moistened from the
golden ewer. After this their majesties
huog a purse, containing 30 silver pieces
round the neck of each of the old people.
At the conclusion of the ceremony the
latter were sent home to court carriages
each w th a basket of provisions.
Joe Brown.
Quitman Free Press.
Friend Hansell thinks we were mistaken
in thesnrmise that Senator Brown was
setting political triggers while in Thomas-
ville recently. Well, may be so. We
wouldn’t like to be brought into conrt to
prove the charge, but if we are to be “had
up” about it we will at once proceed to
send for persons and papers, and if we
don't make out a pretty good case we’ll
pay the cost of trail. When it becomes
possible for a fi3h to lire out of water, then
k it may be possible that Joe Brown will
discontinue his political intrigues. We
say intrigues, for by no more respectable
name are they worthy to be called. As
a rale success gives respectability. Mr.
Brown's case is an exception. He is look
ed upon by friends and foes as entirely un
reliable and dishonest in politics. Hence
his movements at all times are watched
with suspicion. If Mr. Brown was not
talking politics in TbomasviUe it is our
opinion that he was mocking the fellow
who did. We are not mad about it, for
we expect nc better from him. Nor is it
our intention at this time to have him
bang for it. We shall reserve our inal
ienable rights, however, asm free American
citizen, to a private opinion as to what
punishment slionld have been meted him
for crimes committed against the common
wealth of Georgia in the dark day3 that
are past.
A physician says : ‘It is healthiest to
eat a melon right in the field when it is
picked.’ A LimeKiln clnb man writes ns
that it is false.—Tbe healthiest way is to
run, and not stay to eat it till you’re sure
the farmer has called iq his dog and given
up the pursuit.
The Ralnx Decreulug.
The countries of Sardinia and Sicily*
once the granaries Italy, have suffered
the penalty of their thoughtlessness in
evading their forests. Two thonsand
years ago these lands were celebrated
for their wonderful productiveness, and
were said to be the most beautiful in
the world. In 1880 Humbolt visited
Vensuela, and informed by the natives
living in Aragary that they noticed,
with great astonishment, that a lake
which lay in the middle of tbe valley,
had decreased in volume every year;
the cause clearly tracked to the felling
of a great forest of trees which grew
on the surrounding mountains. In
Ilungary periodical droughts are uni
versally attributed to the annihilation
of the forests. In Cairo, Lower Egypt,
a great many years ago, rain fell but
seldom—otily once in three or four
years—but since the time of Mohom-
med Ali thirty or more millions cf
trees have been set or planted, and the
result is now that the country has from
thirty to forty rainy days in every
year. When New England and the
heavily timbered States of the Union
were first settled, the rainfall greatly in
excess of what it is since so much of
the land has been cleared up.
I'nhappincss at Home.
No nnhappiness in life is equal to un
happiness at home. . All other personal
miseries can be better borne than the ter
rible misfortune of domestic disunion, and
none so completely demoralize the nature.
The anguish of disease itself is modified,
ameliorated, rendered blessed by the ten
der touch, the dear presence of the sym
pathetic beloved; and loss of fortune is
not loss of happiness where family love is
left. But the want of that love is not to
be supplied by anything else on earth.
Health, fortune, success, nothing has its
full savor when the home is unhappy; and
the greatest triumphs out of noors are of
no avail to cheer the sinking heart when
the misery within has to be encountered.
To be supposed gifted with home happiness
because held in public honor, and then go
back, Clnderilla-like, to the ashes of the
domestic hearth, there to sit in the midst
of contention disunion and despaia—what
life can equal the misery of this ? None;
not even inprisonment, nor banishment, nor
poverty nor ruin—nothing has the force of
misery which lies in the fact of domestic
discord. No wonder that strong men
break down nnder the strain, that ardent
women fling all social honor, all personal
self-respect, and «elf-restraint to the winds,
and go off into the wilderness to escape
from the torture of such a life.—Home
Journal,
The Kind of a Man to Marry.
Let us look at another case. A young
man, receiving a small salary, determines
to put asi le each, week a certain snm as a
fonndation for the pleasant home he some
time hoped to have. It forces him to make
many sacrifices ; he eschews jewelry and
canes, soda water and cigars, and carries
an unperfumed handkerchief. When in this
semi-rnstic plight, and wearing a suit
(perfectly preserved) two seasons old, he
calls on a maiden whose company he de
sires, she looks with scorn at the dowdy
dress, and is suddenly otherwise engaged.
Discouraging as this may be, he plods on
in the chosen path, and finally lays his
heart before a quiet maiden who has read ;
“I gee a man :
I do not see his shabby dress,
I see him in bis manliness ;
I see his ax, I see his spade,
I see the man that God has made.
II such a man betore you stand,
Give him your heart, give him your hand,
* * k
And thank yonr Maker tat such men :
They make this earth young again.”
The beginning of their wedded life is
devoid of much of the splendor that attend
ed the other pair, bat to them there is no
rude awakening to misery and woe. Their
affection having never been trifled away,
but reserved, each for the other, proves a
constant joy aod ever present delight.
There will be very little need of a law
prohibiting tbe immigration of Chinese
when it is known that those now here are
refssed employment. The immediate effect
of an organization to oppose tbe employ
ment of Chinese would be a movement of
Chinese East Special rates coaid be made
rith transportation companies to take
them at a cost the Six Companies would
advance, rather than lose the profits on
the slaves. A good many of the Chinese
have money-enongh to pay their own way.
Theje is already a nuclens of Chinese in
most of the Eastern citieswith which the
Six Companies conld communicate, and
thus provide their coolies with work.
Boston, New York ann Philadelphia will
soon have their Chinese qnartera, which
will enable their citizens to study the
Chinese character without making a journ
ey to the Pacific Coast. We do net wish
the East any harm, bat it is desirable that
they should have some personal knowledge
of tbe evil that has so long rested upon the
Pacific Coast.—San Francisco Call (Ind).
THE STEAMER -CITY OF
FORD” BURRED J ^ T
SEVERAL LIVES LOST—TWO WOMEN
AND CHILDREN ROASTED TO DEATH L *
Jacksonville Times, 24fA. ^
Between 3:30 and 4 o’clock this morn
ing, there occurred one of the most
shocking catastrophic* that has ever
happened on the St. Johns river. Tber ,
Steamer City of Sanford, of the Inde
pendent Line, while on her way down
the river full ladened with passengers
and freight was burned to the water’s
edge, with a loss of at least nine lives
and probably more.
The place where the accident occur*
red was Point LaNista, or Philips
Point, aboat five miles above Jackson*
ville.
The fire is supposed to have origi
nated in the wood buukers from a spark ■
from the furnace or from a lantern.
The alarm was instantly-given, bat the
flames gained such fearfully rapid head
way that Captain Roberta saw there
was no hope bnt to pnt the steamer’s -
head to the bank, which he according
ly did. He ran her aground in three .
feet water, but the lower deck bad by
that time become so hot that it had to
be abandoned, and the engineer could
not reach the engine-room to stop the
machinery, so that the wheels kept re
volving.
The stern of the boat being lightest,
she swung rouud with the current, and
the wind carried the flames forward, so
that the after-part of the boat was the
place of safety. Thither the Gan tain
and Purser conducted the passengers,
and encouraged them to await rescuo
from tbe rapidly approaching Bird.
While thus waiting, both Mr. and
Miss Ireland were crowded over into
the water, and Miss Ireland was at once
sacked under the wheel, and in imme
diate danger of being drown-rl. Captain
Roberts seeing her danger promptly
jumped overboard and gallantly res
cued her. While he was thus engaged,
however, tho other ladies were burned
or drowned.
Purser .Steed was also pushed over
board by the crowd, but swam ashore^
and at onee returned with a gang plank
to tho rescue of the people in the water,
who were widely calling for assistance.
He thus saved Mr. Ireland and Mr,
Smith, keeping them afloat until tho
boat caine up.
One thing that added to the danger
of the unhappy persons in the river was
that the current was so strong that if
they lost their footing for a moment it
carried them out into the channel.
Everything was done that oonld be
done under the circumstances, and the
catastrophe is notably free from those
illustrations of human Cowardice aod
selfishness which so often characterize
such scenes of hoiror.
THE LOST.
The following is a list of those knows
to be lost; G. H. Downer, of Norwark ;
he jumped overboard and was drowned.
Mrs. Ireland and child. Mrs. Annie
JR. Keep and son; they were found,
and the body of Mrs. Keep, with the
head burned off, has been removed.
The little boy was burned to asbe* ap
parently. Mrs. Keep was formerly
Miss Rose, of St. Augustine. Her
husband died on tfie 22d of last August.
She is about thirty.two /Bars of age,
and has three children, of whom the
oldest, Brandon Greeley Keep, and aged
eight, was burned. They are relatives
of Mr. Greeley, of our city. Captain
Sbortelle, of the schooner Magnolia.
He lost his vessel three weeks ago oo
the Mosquito Bar, and was in rather
low spirits. Charles Price, nephew of
the pilot aged sixteen years, drowned.
Willie Brooks, son of the old pilot, aged
6even years, drowned. It is feared that
there are others, bat no others wer^>
known at the time of going to press.
In a primary school the teacher un
dertook to convey to her pupils an idea
of the ose of the hyphen. She wrote
on the blackboard ‘bird’s-nest,’ and
pointing to tbe hyphen, asked the
school, ‘What is that for V After a
short pause a young son of the Emer
ald Isle piped oat: ‘Plaze, ma’mo,
for tbe bird to roosht on I’
Liberal mannriDg is tbe best kind of
theory and practice combined to make
thrifty apple trees.
CITATION.
GEORGIA—Decatur County;
To whom it may concern. Whereas,
John W Wilson as administrator of the es
tate of Elizabeth Fain, deceased, has made
application to me for leave to sell the six
shares of Eagle & Phoenix Manufacturing
Block belonging to said estate, for the pay
ment of the indebtedness of said estate and
distribution amongst the heirs, this is,
therefore, to cite all persons concerned to
show cause, if any they can, on the first
Monday in June, 1882 why such leave
should not be granted, *s prayed for. Giv
en under my hand and official signature^
this 22d day of April 1882,
MASTON O’NEAL.
Ordinary.
