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J$dvct[tti;cr and 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