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Advertiser and Jkpfrf* T. G. STACY. Editor, and Proprietor. — 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,