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Advertiser and Jkpfrf*
T. G. STACY.
Editor, and Proprietor.
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BRUNSWICK,
" 8ATTJBDAT MOBNIXO,
Senator BenHiUTsjepGi'twJ as be
ing much bettor.
A bill bus passed tbe Semite pen
sioning Mrs. Garfield, Mrs. Tyler and
Mrs. Polk.
Longfellow, the great poet, has
gone to his long home. “Peace to
his ashes.” ; ”
Felton made a bifc speech in Sa
vannah this week. He gave the peo
ple taffy, somewhat. Some bit and
sorno didn’t. , ^
G. W. Childs gave a $20,000 bap-
qaet laet Saturday night to about fipo
hundred distinguished gentlemen.—
We wonder what he,is up to., |r
The residence of Rev. W»'J. McCor
mick, Gainesville, Fla., was destroyed
by fire. A largo portion of the furni
ture was saved, but very little clos
ing. This is a sad stroke on this
good man.
The Freedman’s Bank building has
been sold, and this enables the com
missioners to declaro another divi
dend of twenty per cent. Thus the
poor, deluded negro will get another
email bite at his lost cherry.
Oar Western Indians are gradually
becoming civilized. As an evidence
of this, Crow-Dog, who killed Spotted
Tail some lime since, is to be hung on
the 11th of May. This something new
with the red man and comes along
with civilization.
BRUNSWICK HARBOR.
Improvement* »nd Appropria
terest the
ation in C<
cities
dfMgllJIliBf orvppropriations
for 8avannah and Brunswick. Not
only has Brunswick, through her
Mayor and Council, forwarded memo
rials to both houses of Congress, em-
tion are frequent, and freight block
ades equally frequent; and with the
the West seeking and de-
lief, and with tbe cejtajpty
population jtnd
renter in tbislljc-
fffast—it is evident
iprovement of our harbor
is a matter of national importance,
even of national necessity—a necessi
ty growing more imperative each
phosizing our needs and illustrating ^ ’
- - - Crippled, the victim of many disas
ters, Brunswick, since 1875, has been
From the Post-Appeal we learn that
Governor Colquitt on Saturday last
pardoned Kate Southern, the murder
ess of Narcissa Cowart, of Pickens
county. She was sentenced to death,
bat the sentenco was commuted'to
ten years in the penitentiary. After
serving four years of this time, sho
has been pardoned in full.
Last Sundny Richmond, Vo., was
visited by a terriflo fire, which con
sntned tho Richmond Si Petersburg
Railroad bridgo, sovoral tobacco fac
tories, arid numbers of other build-
iugs. Tho tiro originated on tho
bridgo, but could not be extinguished
owing to a foarfal wind that was pre
vailing at that timo. About $500,000
of property was destroyed, much of
which was oovored by insurance.
Douglas county brings to light a
horror that curdles tho blood. Tho
romnins of a woman and child were
recently found in an old copper near
Villa Rica that has not been work
ed sinco 1855. Thoy proved to be
thoso of a Miss Bagwoll, who disap
peared in 1865, having been very in
timate with a colored man named
Hargraves. In the evidence before
tho jury of inquest it was brought to
light that sho had been foully dealt
with by the said Hargraves at the in
stigation of her own father and broth
ers. Her 'murdered is dend, having
killed himself t^o years ago, but the
father and brothers have been ar
rested, and “bound over” under bond
of $1,500 each. This is certainly
heart-rending picture. Troth seems
stranger than fiction. ,.
The insurance agencies doing busi
ness in Atlanta, since the recent fires
have raised rates from ten to one hun
dred per cent, and nssign as a rea
son the inadequate supply of water,
as shown by the recent fires. This in
crease, however, applies only to busi
ness houses, and not to dwellings!—
Until this increase Atlanta rates wore
lower than'those of New York by
long odds. Several 'companies have
Withdrawn altogether. Some bouses
threaten to get their insurance in
New York, but this is attended with
difficulties, us tho best companies of
the rountry have agencies now in At
lanta, and to secure other insurance
the wisdom of appropriations large
enough to permit an economical and
,»* 1 ’..in rr,< t .ii
prompt completion of improvements
nlready commenced, but Macon, At
lanta and Albany, through the May
ors and Councils of those oities, have
done the : same. Tbei'eid every r4i-
soti ih’ftivor of pt'oropt and liberal np-
prflprfatiohB for Brunswick and Sa
vannah, and the arguments opposed
to such appropriations are based up-
on'Yalse ideas of economy 1 .'
r -Every harbor of importance upon
onr const shdtild bd improved by the
General Government, and the appro
priations should yearly be large
enough to permit of pushing tbe
work rapidly, and therefore econom
ically, to completion.
The ontlay asked for Savannah and
Charleston should be granted. It is
necessarily large for these cities, for
reasons stated in the applications
from them for appropriation b. Sa
vannah, while having ample water at
her onter bar, lies a long distance
from that bkr, np a river whose chan
nel must be deepened to give her nd-
nantages that her threat and growing
commerce demands.
Charleston complains that steamers
are often compelled to lie outside for
bonrS before they can cross tho onter
bar.
No such difficulties exist in our
harbor. YVo are close *■ 'lie ocean.
The water over our outer r, sovon
teen feet at moan low m- uty-fonr
feet at mean high wnt<- • > k, is am
plo for all ordinary vessel* en gaged
in commerce.
Wo have bnt one point in our har
bor which needs improvement, and
that is just below onr city at Brandy
Point bur. Tho highest estimates but
.slightly exceed single yearly appropri
ntians heretofore made for Savannah
Tho snrvoys of this hnrhor, made
140 yoars ago, show that tho sonnd-
ings differed bnt little from those
made now. Tho bottom, contrary to
expectation, is fqund to bo of solid
material, and not mad and sand, as
has been popularly- believed. Tho
jetty which is to narrow the channel
over this bar to 1,000 yards, even in
its present incomplete state, has in
creased the volume of water to an,ap
preciable oxtent, and keeps its clear
where cuts have boen made by the
dredging machine.
One hundred and fifty thousand
dollars will make onr harbor equal to'
tbe demands of a vast commercial
business at our wharves. We want
enough appropriated to complete the
work at once—certainly enough lo
permit-of vigorous and therefore eco
nomical prosecution.
With two railroads reaching from
oar port to tho interior—the Macon
<fc Brunswick, the south Atlantic out
let of the Cole-Seney syndicates—vast
system; of road* traversing .many
States and tapping the great North
west, and .affording an outlet fop a
vast territory free front ice and snow;
the Brunswick Si Albunjg soon to be
connected With the Erlnnger system,
which traverses eight. states, and will
soon become a part of a continuous
and nearly air-line road from llie At
lantic at Brunswick to th* Pacific;
with the advantage of distance, over.
Northern pq^ts for* tbe shipment ot
Nortbwesti i u and Southwestern pro
ducts, and .m advantage even over
Savannah < i over sixty miles; with a
harbor, lac locked and affording safe
anchorage _ ound, and ample water
front for tl. -nsiness of a great com
mercial ci with the fact admitted
that the tr . lines and tho canals of
the Nortl. uro nnablo to carry the
steadily advancing in commercial im
portance. Since 1877, the percentage
pf increase bas been, very 'great. |)n
pxporta alone tbe percentage , of in
crease in 1881*>ver 1880 was fifty per
cent. It promises to be uearly as
great foi; 1882 oyer that for 1881.'
Nearly four hundred vessels entered
our port and loaded here last year
with lumber, timber and naval stores.
As many os 66 were loading at one
time. Our population has increased
since the eeusus of 1880 over twenty,
percent. We are rapidly building
new houses, and everything gives
promise of a still brighter future.
Surely, when so small a'sum is
needed to remove the only obstruc
tion! in our harbor—not over $100,
000—it should be granted- Since
1870 we have had but $80,000 approx
printed. Daring the same time Sa
vannah bae had well toward a mil-,
lion, and asks for $350,000 more.
We want her to have it, for she needs
it, bnt we, insist that onr port is of
equal importance, and, needing so
much less, that sho should have what
she needs. ,
MONDAY’S OYOLONE OR OY
OLONES.
Exchanges bring us sad news from
all parts of tho oountry about the re
sults of last Monday’s cyclone or cy
clones, for thore seemed to have been
several, or, if only one, it must have
“cut np” a nnmberof antics. Besides
thnt which visited the Satilla,account
of which is given on our local page,
tho storm king seemed to have been
abroad in numbers of places. In Ef
fingham, Bulloch, Washington, Bibb
and Raudolph counties, much dam
age has been done, stock killed ahd
fences destroyed. In Bulloch county
Mrs. Hngan nnd child woro killed by
the falling of a largo oak . that has
stood tho storms of a half century.—
In Washington county a school house
was blown down and tho teacher and
several children badly hurt. Near
Tennillo a negro was struck by light
ning ana instantly killed, and num
bers of bouses woro blown down and
their occupants 4>ruisod and scarred,
In Bibb county, Mr. H. H. Jones'
place, nine miles from Macon, was
completely wrecked, and much prop
erty destroyed at Griswoldville, on
the C. R. R.
Just across tho river from Colum
bus—over iu Alabama—a man named
Tatum was killed, and one named Al-
vis severely wounded, whilst houses
wore destroyed on every hand. In
Barbour county Mr. R. J. Richard
son was killed by a house falling up
on him.
Mr. P. Rodding, of Cnthbert, and
Mrs. Pond and Mr. Martin, near
Brown’s Station, were killed, ahd a
number of peoples wounded.
OOL. BLAOK’S^ONDITION.'
OKOROIA MATTERS.
than these means to take weaker rum
p.itiies, besides having to go onlsido \ products uf tho West, increasing so
uf the State to adjust losfct - in the rapidly in volume each year, and that
couttn. j snow and* ice blockades in that sec-
It gives us pleasure to state that
Representative Black iB still improv
ing, though slowly. Ho now' has
a little more uqf of himself. His ptiv-
[eician fwsmjes Mrs. Blfck that Lis
symptoms are gratifying,, and gives
her hope that he may yet recover.
■' I e i r '
It is noted as a matter worthy of
coasidetation that while Sergeant Ma
son’s wife and baby are receiving in
contribntions about one hundred dol
lars a day, Gniteau’s daily income
ha* run down to less than tendoll*r8.
This amount comes from the sale of
bis photographs and autographs.
It !• a Foolish mistake
To confound a remedy of merit with
tho quaejc medicines now so common.
We huve used Parker’s Ginger Tonic
with tho happiest results for rheuma
tism and dyspepsia, and when worn
out by overwork, and know it to be a
.sterling health restorative.—Times.—
S o adv. tnl5-lm
Tbe new Academy of Music in Ma
con is to costt|80,fiOO when completed
Wm. A. Pledger
to begsufihyor of ci "
w) .A
The'Yiow artesian well in Albany
has, after three attempts, struck wa
ter. The stream yields thirty gallons
per minute.
Central Railroad st ick declined this
week to 109 and 110. There seems
to be considerable tussle between the
‘‘bulls” end the “bears" pvef this
Stock. ^ ^ ^ xSl n)
Col. W. T. Thompson, the veteran
editor of the Savanuab .Yips, died u
few days since. Othe,r pens, ab(pr
than ours have alreadyploue^honor to
his memory. ,
1 Captain Lee, of Blackshear.stabb
ed a Mr. Long,to the heart .with? A
pSir of shears, this week; whether ac
cidentally or in self defense is still a
question of doubt. .; o
. The Senate on Monday last* 1 ’con
firmed the nomination of Joseph
Shepherd as Collector of Customs for
the port of St Marys, and H. P. Far
row for Brunswick.
; A cyclone passed through Worth
county this week about three-quarters
of a mile wide that played sa9 havoc.
Houses were blown down on all sides
and turpentine farms mnch damaged
Macon is still exercised" over tbe
question, which shall it be, street car,
herdie or omnibus ? The last seems
to be the favorite, if the first can’t be
had. The herdics don’t seem to meet
With favor.
Burke county has been visited by a
terrible cyclone. A child was killed,
a lady injured, and mnch ,damage
done to property. Residences, barns,
ginbonses, fencing, etc., was de
stroyed.
From the sand that came from tho
artesian well yesterday, was panned
out a fine powder of sparkling and
shining partioles. Tests wore applied
and the powdor, or sand, was found
to be iron and manganese. It came bp
six hundred and thirty feet from the
snrface of tho earth.—Albany News and
Advertiser.
Albany’s cotton setd oil mill is an
assured fact. $50,000 has been sub
scribed, and the following officers
elected: G. H. Dudloy, President; T.
C. Ball, Secretary and Treasurer; J.
R. Forrester, Superintendent. We
know of no place better located for
such an enterprise, being right in the
very heart of a cotton belt of no mean
proportions. We trust tho enter
prise will moet with abundant sue
cess, and yield a big dividend.
A TRAIN TELESCOPED.
Knoxville, Tens., March 26.—Ear
ly this morning an eastern bound
passenger train on the East Tennes
see, Virginia and Georgia Railroad
was telescoped by a freight train,
eighty-three miles east of Knoxville,
The passenger train had just passed
the freight train at Home Station and
was suddenly stopped by £he barsting,
of tho hose of the air, brake. The
freight train was only three ppnutee
behind and ceming down a steep
grade. The speed was checked, bnt,
it was impossible to stop -the train be-
Ipre the, engine ran ,iptu„ jhe r$*r of
tfee ; pas8enger train. Tbp rear gyacb,
■whim wae,President E, W. pole’s pal
ace car, and which rpcuntly cost |17,-
060, was fatally wrecked. The steam
pipe of the freight engine wes.brqken,
and Wm, Booker, a porter on ,Cole’e
car, was scalded, to death. , There wag
no one else in the car. John Gorlingt-
ton, conductor .of the sleeper, was se
verely Bcalded, and the sleeper dam
aged. AU trains were, delayed six
hours.
What one class will consider arti
cles «f news upon which a feast nay
be hud, ythtSR^ consider the stalest
and Mrs <f e.-idy to take an oath
t kfes “just flung in to fill up."
Infre ismardly a man but what has
yobby, and unless spe
cial attention is given to what en
grosses him be thinks the paper is be
hind the times. This is not unfre-
qnently shown ir. the manner of the
various replies in answer to the ques
tion, “What’s the ue’ws f* When we
come to consider ivhut men mean by
consider horse races, police points, ac
cident. scandals and items of that
phBacter us .cowring the whole
ground us to what is the “news.” The
tidings of-a cock-pit oryi dog fjglit is
far- more interesting to them Chan' al
most anything'else that could be giv
en, and if it does Hot appear in full,
the paper is dull and dry.—Ex.
— ■»«•«<*• '
. A gentleman walking down Broad
way noticed a young man make a sad
den dash for a small piece of bread on
the pavement and as eagerly devour
it. Touched by this sad picture of
starvation, he gave the young man
fifty cents wherewith to buy some
thing to eat Happening into a
friend’s store a few blocks further up,
be related the above. Imagine bis
Surprise upon being informed that he
had been made the victim of a regu
lar fraud; that this young man had
been watched repeatedly at this game,
playing it, and always with good ef
fect, with pieces of bread, apples, etc.,
which he deposits on the pavement,
and, watching his chances, at tho
proper moment leaps forward, grasps
the same eagerly and devours it. He
has been known to gather from five to
six dollars per day as the result of
this little game.
According to tho census the num
ber of retail liquor shops in the North,
as compared with the number of in
habitants, is largely in excess of those
in the South. In Maine there is one
grog shop to every 791 inhabitants;,
in Mnssnchusetts*pne to every 245; in
Connecticut, one to every 235; while
in South Carolina there was one only
to each 910 inhabitants. Thoro were
tho same number of liquor shops
(7,279) in Massachusetts as there
woro in North Carolina, South Caro
lina, Georgia, Alabama and Florida
combined,and containing a population
tbreo times that of Massachusetts.
On Monday lost Mrs. Bollard, of
Lincoln county, Ark., broke the nock
of two of her children and then threw
the bodies into a pond. Sho then
Beized her infant and leaped in her
self. The fonr bodies wero afterward
recovered. This rash act of hors was
in consequence of a disagreement with
her husband.
Nashville is selling Irish patatoes at
three for five cents.—Ex.
Not Lowest Priced and Poorest.
There is a great difference between
the lowed priedd and the cheapest
thing. In tbe rnntter of orgnns, it is
'impossible that the lowest priced should
be the cheapest. This is because so
much is sacrificed in order to produce
an article at least cost that it must
necessarily be very poor, and a very
poor otgah i$,dei# grauy price, > be
cause its owner will soon become very
tired of its bad quality of tone; be
cause it will be very expensive to keep
n repair, and will probably soon be-
mmeti&ldfcundiwbrthleh Ibis im
possible to sell the best article of any
kind ns low,as the poorest can be af
forded. But the prices' of Mason 4
Hamlin Cabinet Organs are not mnch
more fhnntbMeof other brgnqs; while
i>iib3teiTO£3r3&
latest reduced prices on easy terms,
address Ladden & Bates, Savannah,
Wholesale
PAINTS.
If von wish to paint your house in-
Wm. M. Baxter
ide or ,out, ; send to V
i Co., 262 Pearl*street,*
SEHUEANT MASON’S SENTENCE
INVALID.- ,f
Judge Advocate General Swaim has
made his report ot the Secretary ot
War on the findings of the court mar
tial in tho case ot Sergeant Mason.—
He holds •that the sentence ot the
court martial is invalid, by reason of
certain irregularities and informal!- « s well as all wishing to paint, to ecu;'
. _ I f<>r the card of colors and price’■
ties in the proceedings of the court, (which is mailed free. feb25-2ic
New York, tor
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 nnd zinc
paints in all colors, mixed and ready
for use, It will pay dealers in puints,