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THE WEALTH ok GEORGIA
Below we givo some figures from This grand affair has proven not to
0. STACT. Editor and Proprietor,
BRUNSWICK, - GEORGIA:
SATURDAY MOUNTS'
Central Railroad
has gono down, dow
this week at 109 to
Wm. Scruggs, of Georgia, has been
appointed Consul to Panama. We
B^hwdoffelt^Mojgi... —
J. M. Davis, Deputy U. 8. Revenue
Collector of ’ Tennessee, was riddled
with bullets bjuaoonahiners on the
12th inst. (n ,. , , ,
The East river bridge that is to join
New .York and Brooklyn, is to be
completed about March 1st, 1888, and
when finished will have cost just even
sixteen million.
“Little Alee" Stephens says he will
retire from public life when bis pres*
ent term in Congress ends. Now
won't this news cause the aspirants of
the Eighth District to hop with joy.
London, March 13.—At a meeting
of the Irish Parliamentary party last
evening it was determined to form an
Irish National Independence Associa
tion, Ireland's inalienable right of self
government being proclaimed.
The Russian Nihilists in Geneva
have issued a declaration that if the
execution of the recently condemned
Nihilists, which is to take place short
ly at St. Petersburg, is not averted
that their deaths will bo avenged.
A plot was recently made to burn
the jail nt Petersburg, Vn., and, also,
to kill the jailer. Both failed. The
plotter was a negro natnod Henry
Harris, recently sentenced to the pen
itentiary for three years. He suc
ceeded only in setting fire to the floor
of the jail.
President Arthur is certninly slow
in his appointments to Federal ofllces.
Such movements will bear two con
structions. Either ho is ono of the
purest putriots, and is determined lo
have only good mon, or else he is as
selfish as somo of bis predecessors, and
is looking to the feathering of his own
nest.
A few days ago, a negro boy, of 15
yenrs of age, Ben Withers by n.i/ne,
followed a young lady, Miss tvdlie
Moore, near Charlotte, N. C., ou her
way to church, and overtaking her,
felled her with a stick, cut her throat,
and left her for dond. It is thought
she may recover. Tho chap has been
caught and placed in jail. No reason
is assigned for tho murderous assault,
Tho President him sent the follow
ing nominations to the Senate: Sain
uul Blatchford, of New Yojk, to bo
Associate Justice of tho Supreme
Court of tho United States; John Rus
sell Young, of Now York, to bo Envoy
Extraordinary and Minister Plenipo
tentiary of tho United States to Chi
na; John G. 'Watts, to be (Marshal of
the United States for tho Western
district of Virginia.
Mob law still continues in different
sections of our country. Only last
week an Englishman named Owens,
about thirty years of age, wbs hung
in front of the court house in Tampa,
Fla., for breaking into the bouse of a
prominent citizen, stealing a number
of valuable articles therefrom, and
Stabbing his daughter with n bowio
knife. So it will be as long as there
are so many quibbles on which to
clear tho guilty. Men seem to be
afraid to trust the courts.
tho Comptroller General’s report, just
issued, giving the value of the taxable
property for ll
be a financial success, if it wns so in
every other particular, at least, so we
Tfe is a pleasing judge, from an article in the Constitu-
fact to know that Georgia is not 'tion, of which we clip below a part—
jr, but richer. The tq* The rpport of the Treasurer is not yet
rty for 1880 wap published, but the; Constitution has
1881 it was $270,- gotten the mnh> figures. It says;
i, an Increase in value of $18,
1 ovrf 1880.
Value of lmprored lends 190,59?,519
Value of wild kadn......T. 1,838,91*
City and town property 55,6*2,801
Building and loan association*. capital... 368,110
Value of bauk (hares 4,518.63?
Hone/ and aolventdebta 39.U3.0Sd
TiWi at ■■*aadlii.,.:r. :. 15.66X»4T
Capital lore*tad in a hipping 301,199
Value of (tocka andbond* 5,231.031
Valne ot cotton manufactoriea.. 2.431,066
Value ol iron worka...................... 349.949
Capital invested In mining —... 101,675
Household and kitchen furniture.. 9,9163,309
Watcbea, Jewelry and ■Urerware 1,163,459
Hence, meted, hofea. ale 23,639,394
Plantation and mechanical tool* 3.474.301
Cotton, corn, etc., for aale April lat 930,180
Other property, not enumerated 5,101.859
Defaulter!’ property (tingle)...; j„ 995,811
Railroad property 16,741^258
Poll* of white*... 137,331
Poll* of colored 94,746
Polla of defaulter* 9,672
Total polla 241.611
lawyer* a 1,358
Doctor* 1,678
Dentist* J77
Daguerrean artists 58
Average value of Unproved laud, 33.
Average value of wild land, 23 cents.
Valne of real estate $146,067,235
Value of personal property 106,195,395
Aggregate value of whole property 254,353.630
Aggregate value in 1880 239,535.753
Increase for 1881 of 14,726,878
Cotton factories and iron worka exempt
from taxation, amount exempted.... 4,1.37.775
Tho value of property returned by-
colored tax-payers is as follows:
Number of acres of land o 1.358
Value of land * “. sOO
City or town property . : u45
Amount of moucy and solvent debts wo
Household and kitchen furniture ' \S9i
Horses, mules, etc 022
Plantation and mechanical tools ?a
Value of other property not enumerated.. 264,821
Aggregate value of whole proporty 6,478,951
An increase over 1880 of 671,179
From the above, Georgia is not
growing poorer by any means, and if
the tnxablo property of tho State was
given at its real and truo value, wo
would make a showing of over $300,-
000,000. Railroad proporty is given
in at $16,741,258, everything included.
MERCHANT MAS< >N SENTENCED.
Sergoant Mason, who shot at Gui-
te»n, has had his trial and been sen
tenced to bo dishonorably dischaged,
with tho loss of all pay and allowan
ces, and be ednfined in tho penitenti
ary at hard labor for eight years.
Speaking of the scutouco, the Sa
vannah News says:
“ Tho sentence of Sergeant Mason
is severe, but its justice must bo ad
mitted. For a soldier, while on duty
to protect a criminal, to deliberately
violate his duty and attempt to kill his
prisoner, no matter how low he may
do, is a grave offense. In fact no one
more grave could bo committed."
We disagree with tho Nines. Ex
citement nt that time was at high
pitch, and the general sentiment of
tho wholo country wns to lynch Gni
tonu and a few other Stalwarts with
him. Sergeant Mason only did what
the wholo nation felt like doing. The
penitentiary part of his sentence
should never be exocuted.
COL. GEORGE R. 13LACK.
Col. Black, our immediate Repro
sontativo in Cougress, at lost accounts
was lying in * hopeless eoadition from
a stroke of paralysis. It first effected
his left side and afterwards his right
Thoro ore no hopes entertained of bis
nltimate recovery, but he may linger
awhile, possibly may recover in port,
in which eumt be will be a cripple all
the days of !>w life. We bear expres
sions of sympathy on every band.—
Party lines seem forgotten and Dem
ocrataand 1 .’-publicans alike deplore
the sod ba r - voment.
THE COTTON EXPOSITION.
“The capital stock, or in other
words, the subscriptions, amounted to
$107,000, the gate money to $96,000,
and the privileges, entry feee and oth
er sources of lucome, including the
Bale of the buildings, amounted to
from $58,000 to $60,000. The sale of
the buildings and other property at
the dose of the Exposition netted
$27,000. The total receipts of the Ex
position from every sonroe may there
fore be pnt down at $263,000 in rotthd
figurea The disbursements amounted
to $260,000. It may be said that this
will leave about three thousand, dol
lars to be returned to the stock ‘sal
scribers. At an ordinary glance it
most appear that the Exposition cost
its projectors and friends a cool one
hundred tbousand dollars. It most
be remembered, however, that of this
amount about one-third was sub
scribed by railroads, and for whioh
the returns were ample in the form of
advertising the resources of the lines
subscribing the several amounts. Of
the cities subscribing, the lead wns
taken by Now York with a subscrip
tion of about twenty thousand dollars.
Her roads subscribed an additional
teu tbousand. Cincinnati came next
with $5,600, and tke other important
subscriptions were: Baltimore, $4,800;
Philadelphia, $4,000; Boston, $4,000;
Augusta, $3,GOO; Charleston, $1,000,
and New Orleans $1,000. Savannah
did not subscribe anything. Tho
Treasurer’s report, when it is made,
will present many facts of interest
and it will be eagerly sought for.”
From the above, evidently the Stnte
of Georgia has lost nothing by the
Exposition, but on the contrary, has
gained much. Of this $100,000 sub
scribed, over $50,000 of it enmo from
abroad, and was spent hero in Geor
gia.
Gov. Colquitt has concluded not to
coll the Legislature together in extra
session to re-district the State. His
reasons therefor are given in the fol
lowing interview, published-in the
Constitution oi th*14th:- ' §j f ff
“I have concluded not to call the
Legislature in session for tfSVe-di#*
trictiug of the State.”
“ Will you give the public the rea
sons that led you to this conclusion?”
. —Certainly. The-main thing is the
question of expense. The Legisla
ture, has had an extra session and the
expense has been very heavy. I see
It is estimated that the Mississippi
floods wilt cause a shortage of 500,000
bales in the coming cotton crop, or a
money loea of $25,000,000, to say
nothing of the probability that specu
lators will aeize the opportunity to ad
vance prices. An estimnte of the
amonnt required to construct levees
from Cairo to the mouth of the river
is $33,000,000, which is probably less
than the amount of damage directly
or indirectly inflicted upon ihe coun
try by the present overflow.
Grant m* three residences—a pa
latial mati-o-.u in New York, a $40,-
000 coti «-o by the sea at Long
Brunch, and an old time homestend
at Galena. It is not surprising that
a man with so many homes should be
begging Congress for relief, even after
gotting a quarter of a million from
admiring friends.
An Atlanta man fell on the icy walk
and broke bis nose, and when be came
to sue for damages the jnry held that
his looks bad been improved thirty
per cent. He, therefore, got nothing.
NO MORE WHISKEY IN WORTH.
Isabella, Ga., Mar. 14,1882.
Editor Advertiser and Appeal:
Worth county held her whiskey
election yesterday, and prohibition
won by 46 majority. We are aston
ished ut the result, nnd onr opponents
seom almost dumbfounded. Worth
has shaken off the incubus, and is now
ou tho high road to prosperity.
J. W. Hanlon, Editor Star.
TEU1U13LE TALE FROM THE SEA.
Fortress Moniioe, Va., March 12.—
In a box picked up ou the boneb boro
to-day, tho following message was
found: “ Wboover picks this up, re
port that tho schooner Fleetwiug is in
a terrible condition and about to be
wrecked off Capo Charles. No hope
for a soul on board.”
Crawfordvillo Democrat: “ It some
times sooms that the sorrows of a fam
ily come altogether. In Crawford-
ville there is a most unfortunate fam
ily. Two months ago Mrs. E. Ping-
ston was happy in the love and health
of two daughters and one son. The
son was suddenly taken ill and died.
Iu two weeks her eldest daughter Miss
Wright Pingston diod. And now the
final great blow has come. Last Sat
urday, just two weeks from the time
of tho death of her sister, the remain
ing daughter, Miss Mollie Pingston,
died. The strangeness seems almost
a fatality. There was just two weeks
difference between the doaths, and
each of them died on Saturday before
noon.”
NO EXTRA SESSION.
pressman will no elect
State at large, and will r ,
State as,«rell asif he was elected from
a district”. t ,vt • »- *•
“ It is said, though,'that it will cost
jnst as much, except the mileage, to
re-district at the regular session next
year as to do it now ?”
An old negro in Columbia county
recently plowed up three hundred
dollars in specie. The strange and
unaccustomed sight of a pile of silver
very naturally frightened the old man,
and, dropping the plow lines, he ffoj
for dear life, howling that he was
“rained and in danger of some dread
ful calamity." Later, he recovered
from his shock and forthwith went to
town and got on a regular “bust”
Williams, a Texan athlete, is said
to be able to bold two hundred ponnd
weights in each hand and at the same
time allow a man to sit astride of the
extended arm and write his name on
a wall.
‘That is-a mistake. The mildoge
itself is a considerable item, but be
yond this there would, bo very heavy
extra cost. For . instance: Suppose
the extra session is called. After a
day os two lost'in organization, a
committee on ra-distrioting is ap
pointed* While this committee is
preparing its report the Legislature
waits idle-handed. After the report
is made the redistricting bill would
have to be read three separate read
ings in each house. This would take
six days—all of whioh time the Legis
lature would be sitting idle, though
drawing full pay. Then there would
be a long debate over the bill, and
countless amendments. Now, if the
work is done during a regular session
the Legislature could attend to other
business while waiting for the report
of tho committee, and while waiting
for tho readings of the bill, so there
would be uo time lost. As for the
debate, it might fit in during dull
days of the session, and save at least
two or throo weeks of time. This has
led mo to decide not to cull the extra
session.
“Thore is nnother renson," said the
Governor, “that you may give if you
wish. It is a great burden on the
farmer members to call them away
from thoir crops in the spring or sum
mer. That is a time when the farmer
is Deeded nt home, nnd nevor so much
so, as now. I havo a letter from a
member now telling mo be has lost
two crops bv the Legislature nlreudy.
Where there is no emergency, and
really no reason for action this year,
I think such an appenl ought to have
weight.”
WILL NOT BE A CANDIDATE.
“Your name has been suggested,
Governor, ns a candidate for Congress
at Inrgo. Have you any objections to
saying whether or not you will run ?”
None at all. I shall not be a can
didate under any airouuistuuces. Had
I ever thought of such a thing—I
had never thought of it—the very
fact that I find it necessary from pub
lic consideration not to call the extra
session, would make it indelicate and
improper for me to allow my name
to bo used. I shall not bo a candi
date."
Mr. J. B. Cuney, of Fernandina, in
clipping off a pioco of timber from a
live oak log, which had been foiled
nine years, discovered seven inches
beneath the surface the initials “J. F.
R." rudely cut in the wood. Tho Ex
press says that the letters are as plain
as when first cub Charles Hardee,
Esq., of Sb Marys, writes to tho Ex
press that these initials were made by
Benjamin Franklin Richardson, whose
father kept the light house at the
time. About forty years ago he de
parted from Fernandina on a whaling
voyage, and has made many long voy
ages since.. The great whaling stop
tion, New Bedford, Massachusetts, is
now his home. He is now an old.
old man.
THE SEMINOLE INDIAN.
- Americas Republican.
The papers are publishing that ono
thousand Seminole Indians are in the
Florida. This is a mis-
interview with a sher-
be informs us that
warriors nae to bo
ol?population amount-
ing’to two hundred and fifty or three
hundred persons. This gentleman
frequently visits them, bants with
them, and he says that they live,in
huts constructed ebtitety of jfcftuldtto
trees, living mostly upon the chase;
no reason to add to tjijg hy anathw they aHnkTgmtrdeal of whis-’
MHAenJus. Alllf.O* f.llflf. f.hn .Qominnlo T- - * 4
culty; that the Seminole Indiao of to
day is the,same in costume snd man.
ner as be was in 1836, when he deified
the government of the United States.
The new house which Mr. Samuel
J. Tilden is building on the site of his
former mansion, 15 Gramercy Park,
will be one of the costliest on Mon-
hatten Island, the estimates running
all the way from $400,000 to $600,000.
The materials used are Scotch red
sandstone, Bellville brownstone and
Maine granite. The whole front of
the bouse is one mass of elaborate
carving, wherever the Carlisle stone
is used, and npon this part of the
work no fewer than forty men have
been employed for several months.—
The style is mixed Gothic and Renais
sance.
There is a brand of North Georgia
whisky called “stone fence.” A man
who gets drunk on it doesn’t stagger
nor fall, but stands up aud goes to
sleep, and a thunder storm can’t wake
him up.
PAINTS.
If you wish to paint your bouse in
side or out, send to Wm. M. Baxter
& Co., 252 Pearl street, New York, for
their card of colors- and price-list.—
This house has been established over
fifty years, and puts up none but the
choicest linseed oil, lead and zinc
paints in nil colors, mixed aDd ready
for use, It will pay dealers in paints,
as well as all wishing to paint, to send
for the card of colors and prices,
which is mailed free. feb25-2m
It Is a Foolish mistake
To confound a remedy of merit with
the quack medicines now so common.
We have used Parkor’s Ginger Tonie
with tho happiest results for rheuma
tism and dyspepsiu, and when worn
ont by overwork, nnd know it to be a
sterling health restorative.—Times.—
See adv. m!5-lm
Thera has been discovered in the
lower part of Wax all* county,
the locality of the famous Florid* vol
cano, what is supposed to be oil flow
ing out of a crevice between two rocks.
Some of the prominent citizens of
Tallahs88ee became interested in the
matter and had an analysis and geo
logical survey made, the results of
which were deemed sufficiently en-
couragi g to induce them to form 4
company and purchase all the lauds
adjacent thereto, »“ The members of
the company,” says the Tallahassee
Land of Flowers, “will meet next Mon
day to incorporate and take steps
loading to the development of the dis
covery, of which we will say more in
the future.” *
City Tax Notice.
Omc* or Clerk and Treasurer,
Brunhwick, Ga., Fob. 25, 1882.
Tho taxes duo tho city of IJriiuttwick ou ronl es
tate uud every species of porsoual property, for the
year 1882, are payable aa follows:
1st quarter, ou or before tho 3Ut day of March, 1832
2d " 3»tb ** •• Juno, ••
3d «• «' " «* “ 30th ** •• Hopt,, ••
4th *• 30th •• •' Nov., *'
Books for the reoeptiou of returns, and tho collec
tion of the first quarterly payment of taxes,aru now
open, and will remain so until tho Slat day of
March, 1882, when ail persona failing or refuaiuj' to
mako such returns will bo placed upon tho Infor
mation Docket, iu obedieuco to the tenth section ot
the supply ordinanco passod by Council on tho 22c!
day of February, 1882.
Office at tho Court House, and open during all
reaaonablo hours, both day and uight.
JAMES HOUSTON, Clerk and Treaanrer.
Fire Insurance!
J. M. DEXTER,
INSURANCE AND REAL ESTATB AGENT,
REPRESENTS THE
SOUTHERN MUTUAL INS. CO.,
OF ATHENS, QA„ AND 8 OTHER FIBUT-OLASSl
COMPANIES.
.■Insurance on dwelling, at veryjlow rates in town
or country. lei 12m
NOTICE OF INTENTION TO CHAN6ENAME.
QEORGIA—Gltm Oodxtt.
All person. Interested are hereby noticed that I
shall apply to th* Rnperlrr Court to b* held in and
S tbe county aforesaid on tb* lint Monday in
r, 1883, tar the purpose ot haring my name
aged (ram Ooodbread, by which I hare hereto-
been known and called, to that ot D. B. Ran-
fore
dpplh.
This 7th of January, 1863.
D. B. OOODBREAD,
By my Atfys, Mabry A Borcbardt.
L. J. LEA 1
IntftandOaniMd
i General Collecting Agents,
Special attention siren to the collection of rents
Bcslncss and consignments solicited, and speedy
returns guaranteed, Office under ADruron aw>
manufacturers of lumber, and M. 1. Colson, Mayor
> city of Brunswick.
jsnl«-ly
LOCAL DENTISTS,
BRUNSWICK, - GEORGIA.
Office over tho store ol Kaiser A Brother. Those
wishing work done will Uud it to their ntereat to
call. *epl-U