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VOLUME VII.
BRUNSWICK, GEORGIA. SaTCRDAY, APRIL 15, 1882,
NUMBER 41.
| Hie Advertiser and Appeal,
u pteu^hed EVERT S1TCUUT, AT
[brUNWICK. - GEORGIA,
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«I*. G. STACY.
REGl'UR BRICK* t
Row They are Bade kjr eke Billion la
Telegraph cl Veneer.
None of oar readers would care
have a clear profit mi the .I-sy’s woik
of $75.00, or $7,500 on a million
brick, which can be made with one
machine in less than four mouths.
Oar yards can sell everv brick thev
much to plod through the hot sou to m&keat from ^ to eight dollars
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one of our many brick-ynrJs and wit-
| ness the process of making brick, and
"*} ® i yet it is a most interesting sight. Ac-
■.Wniien'ot* mo rrrprmxMm pwoeteiu j cepting an invitation from Mr. Henry
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. -'™rfaet »=<! p»td«« amedOfiy.«Pettis vesterdav, onr reporter via ted
■ ^scaaatioc* fjrlwiiiilMlbe«at.orof»| * . . ., ,
ctrr.i-i u UreniMoeau. two Tards, and herewith presents the
' SS?S I resnl't of his trip.
rue day aronnd Macon is well
.stacy. i adapted to brick-making. Thai
aronnd Aagnsta is very good, and a
fire can be started under a kiln at fall
heat to begin witb. Any day free
of rocks or roots will make brick, bat
it is only now and then that pore day
can be struck.
With the exception of Stratton’s,
our yards use the revolving machine,
which moulds and presses at the same
time. The day is led into the ma
chine after the manner of a mill hop
per, and then H is thoroughly mixed
and ground before it reaches the "tur
tle'’ or disk, and then it is pressed
with much force into the moulds in
tbe.disk, and comes out solid lumps
of dark mud weighing about
pounds. We timed one of these ma
chines yesterday, and it made forty-
eight bricks to the minute, which is
about its average.
As fast as the bricks are thus made,
they are taken out by a man who has
to keep his wits about him. He has
no time to be fooling, as the machine
goes on with its work and does not
give him time even to take a chew of
As fast as the bricks are
taken from the revolving disk a boy
stands by with an oiled sponge and
keeps the moulds well-oiled. This
keeps the bricks from sticking. Three
hands with two-wheeled tracks, wide,
well-oiled boards mounted on wheels,
keep op a lively race from the ma
chine to the “hade" or rows of bricks
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per thousand The demand, instead
of decreasing, is increasing every day,
and thus it will be seen that few en
terprises pay handsomer dividends.
One of the yards has a standing
contract with the Central Railroad
for all the brick they can make at $5.-
50 per thousand, bnt there’s big mon
ey in this, because all the bricks made
go to ooe purchaser.
The machines are the greatest sort
of improvement over the old method
of Slop brick making. When they
were made the truck hand made 2,500
trips from the mill to the yard, now it
requires only four hundred trips.—
Seven thousand a day was a big day’s
work. Now, all tins is changed.—
Better brick is made, a good price ob
tained, and the demand good.
Those who don’t mind the walk
will learn much by a visit to the yard.
Tbe proprietors of any of them will
take pleasure in showing the visitor
the entire process, which, though
simple, is interesting,
At Far u Be Knew.
A stranger from the East was hav
ing his boots blacked at tbe poetoffice
when an alarm of fire was turned. As
he saw the steamer rush ont, he in
quired of the “shiner” at his feet:
“Bab, what sort of water system
have you got in this city f"
The boy spit on his brash, looked
ap and down the street, and finally
answered:
'‘Well, as far as I know anything
about it, they all take water after their
gin!”
The reply seemed to be thoroughly
satisfactory to the stranger.
FOBTT-TRO IRISHBEH-
The Wonderful Exploit at Sabine
In the Day* ol Jeff Darla.
tack she went agroand. A »w„l
shot penetrated and disable I the ma
chinery of tbe Sachem, and she drift-
car™ poeie^T*., r or* s«. ed helplessly ashore, using her gnus
Sasdce Pass, Texas. March 10.—In ' without effect. The engagement last-
looking from the site of this town to- ed bat a few moments—the omiiuan-
piled in the yard to dry in the sun. Mr. Parkinson, of Brockway, St
• The hands at Blake's yard are giv- Clair county, Mich., and a native of
. en a tusk of twenty-five thousand• County Down, Ireland, in a letter to
j brick to make per day. Tbe task is a brother Mason, writes: “I am the
1 done before six o’clock, and the bricks oldest Mason in America. I was ini-
i are piled up in backs six bricks high tiated on tbe 27th of December, 1813,
ward the Gulf, the most conspicuous
object, next to the lighthouse on tbe
Louisiana shore, is tbe wreck of tbe
steamship Clifton. She was burned
while running the blockade in 1865,
loaded with six hundred bales of Con
federate cotton. Tbe Clifton former
ly belonged to the Uuited States gov
ernment, and formed part of tbe
Franklin expedition, which was dis
persed in September, 1S63, by forty-
two Irishmen, fighting under tbe
Confederate flag. It was one of the
most memorable incidents, not only
in tbe history of tbe late war, bat in
the record of all wars. Captain Sto-
art, a venerable coast pilot, while ac
companying your correspondent on a
tour of inspection down the bay in the
little tug-boat Fannie, circumstantial
ly related, as an eye-witness, his rec
ollection of the affair.
The pass is eight miles long and
from three-quarters of a mile to a
mile in width, with a depth of water
varying from twelve to forty-five feet.
Its capacity as a harbor has recently
been brought into prominence by the
number of railways projected here.—
On the Louisiana side the shore is low
and reedy, while on the Texas side
there are several shell ridges and an
elevated plateau, upon which are the
remains of wbst was once Sabine
City. About two miles below this are
the grass-grown parapets of a rude
fort known as Fort Griffith. It
in this earthwork that Lieutenant
Dick Dowling, an Irishman, with t
twelve-pounders, and a command of
forty-two men, all natives of Ireland,
lay concealed on the 9th day of Sep
tember, 1863, when the Federal fleet,
composed of a large number of trans
ports and gunboats, appeared off the
mouth of the Pi
It is said that there were 15,000
men in the expedition, while Dowling
and his men were the only rebel force
the neighborhood nearer than
Beaumont, on the Xaches river, tnir
BAY STREET.
BRUNSWICK. -
by three wide. From two to four in Lodge 1,609, which met in Clough,! ty . two 3,^. aboTe The obj-c-s of
I'ijiia are required for these bricks to . County Down, in those days. Tue expedition were to co-operate
! be ready for tbe kiln. A windy day j Lord has blessed me with long life, w j t j l n, e m0Te menLs of General Banks
; dries them quickly and they can be eood health, and comfort in my old
placed in the kiln in two days. The, age. We have five sons and five
Convenient to J Business, the
Railroads and the Steamboats.
Furniture New, Table Good
IP. C. BECKS'CO.,
PROPRIETORS.
wg»jy
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sun is not so good as tbe wind for
drying.
When ready, they are piled np care
fully and a kiln formed. These kilns
contain from four hundred and fifty
to five hundred thousand bricks, with
apertures or eyes left at tbe bottom
for tbe fires. At first a small fire is
built, and it is gradually increased.—
At the end of two days the sweat or
“water smoke” begins to dry. Xo
bow dry bricks are made by
wind or son, this water smoke ap
pears and must be expelled before the
fires are increased. In from five to
six days tbe lamps of dark clay are
rrd bricks and are ready for the
wagon
daughters. I have seen them all mar
ried, most of them very comfortably,
with thirty grandchildren living and
fire or six dead.”
A number of years ago, a Baptist
clergyman, named Clevinger, was one
of the most popular men in two States.
His bouse was built in such a manner
that a large ball which ran through it
was exactly on a straight line between
Kentucky and Tennessee, and when
ever a run-away couple came to him
to be married, the obliging parson, on
the first intimation of an approaching
pursuit, would usher them across the
ball into the State from which they
bad not come, and from which
, thev could not be legally dragged by
Various estimates nave oeen made •
, . , .- ' relentless parent,
to the pronu in bncs-iaafcing.—
up the Red river, and to secure the
vast stores of cotton collected in tbe
vicinity of the Pass. Daring tbe af
ternoon a number of the gunboats ef
fected a passage over tbe bar, and,
ascending tbe bay, vigorously shelled
the shores in all directions, at the
same time making soundings, and
marking the main channel with long
poles driven into the mud.
Coring this reconnoissance Dowl
ing’s guns were withdrawn from
sight Secure in the shelter of bomb-
proofs, his men whiled away tbe time
chatting and playing cards. After
the retirement of the gunboats, and
under cover of darkness, Dowling’s
men explored the harbor in small
boats, removing the poles and plant
ing them in positions calculated to
mislead.
On tbe following day tbe fleet ap-
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. The total cost of production is cen- ; p ae of XihiiisU from Si be- j proacued m grand array, preceded by
.: tered in tbe labor required to run the' ^ becoming quite a common thing.; the gunboat Sachem on the Louisiana
/1 yard, tbe prime material costing cm-! j Le te ieg rU ph announces that a fresh j side and tbe transport Clifton, with
p&ratively nothing. One of tue most, j ot - ulTe recently escaped. As the ge-1 over 300 men on board, moving along
reliable and experienced brick-makers,: osra j ) j ) v of the intervening country , the Texaa shore. The formidable ap-
who has carefully counted the cost, better understood, the nnm- i pearance of the expedition and its de-
estimates the actual cost of making a ^ increase, and the : structive equipments, (produced no
thousand brick, with a yard running j j ell ( or Rnssiau Gov-1 panic among the handful of Irishmen
twenty hands, at $3.60. Xow second j erDrnent> y It to keep persons j in Fort Griffith. When the Clifton
quality brick finds ready sale at $7.00, banished confined on a territory, will! arrived within point-blank range, the
per thousand, and leaves the maker » ’ be to secure some groat Island large twelve-pounders w ere instantly
clear profit of $3.40 per thousand. To ecoag b f or the purpose and boild a brought forth, manned and fired. A
be a little more liberal, we will say around in upon which sen- jshot struck the vessel amidships. In
%&£?$%$£ar£iC-I W .W " I*, tan, ntal bv U. ...
ders of the Sachem and Clifton struck
their colors, and tfbe remainder of the
fleet retired down the bay and beyond
tbe bar.
Dowling’s uninjured command was
still kept partly ont of sight to con
ceal tbe smallness of tbeir nnmber*.
Tbe Lientenaut himself went aboard
the Clifton to receive the formal sur
render. Its commander, who va« af
terwards dismissed from service, ap
peared on deck, award in hand. He
requested to be informed of Dowling's
rank. Learning that be was only a
Lieutenant, he said that be eonld not
band him his sword. He threw it to
ward him on the deck. Tbe Lieuten
ant refused to pick it up, and was
about to go ashore, dedaring be
would blow up all on board in less
than five minutes, when the sword
was picked up ami formally presented
to him. He then retired to the fort,
keeping his guns trained on the ves
sel all day, while awaiting the arrival
of reinforcements to take charge of
the prisoners. About nightfall these
arrived. It was not until tbe prison
ers were safely landed that they were
made aware of how small a force it
was to whom they had surrendered.
The federal fleet did not reappear.
Of course the report of this remnrka-
ble exploit created great rejoicing
throughout the confederacy, and
Dowling’s company, known as tbe Da
vis Guards, were especially houorod
by the Confederate Congress. An ap
propriate bronze medal was struck
and distributed to each member of
the command. Jeff Davis was mad*
an honorary member of tbe corps,
and was likewise decorated with •
commemorative medaL Dowling’s ca
reer after the war was that of a popu
lar saloon keeper in the city of Hous
ton, where bis place was the common
resort of ex-confederatee and boys in
blue, many of whom accredited his
great feat to tu«- glory of old Ireland
rather than site cansc of the con
federacy. Hi -iied of yellow fever in
1868.
In 1874 Jvfi Davis was a guest of
the State mgr.cultural fair in Houston
and was formally visited by the mem
bers, but five in number, of the Davis
guard. One of these was Mike Dow
ling, a brother of the deceased hero.
Davis received them impreesiTBly, and
when he told the buys that his medal
had been taken from him while a
prisoner at Fortress Monroe, Mike
stepped forward and tearfully pinned
his own of the breast of the e*x-con-
federate chief. They separated after
a glass of poteen all around and many
avowals of gratification that the
bloody was was over.
A Washington, X. J., photog
rapher has been trying to photograph
a kiss, bat there are so many noses
and chins ia the way that he can’t
get at the real sensation.
Mamie,” said be, m l bis voice
i singularly in*, “aili yon be my
wife Will yon clu.o in me as the
tender vine dings to ” “Yes,
I catch on,” said -he.
II u a Foolish .’I Is take
To confound a re.ue.iy of merit with
tbe quack medicine .mw so cumuion.
We have used Park-r’a Ginger Tonic
with the happie*i re-ulr.a for rbeuina-
tiim and dyspepsia, m l when worn
ont bv overwork, .in i know it lo be a
sterling health ros;..-tnve.—Time*.—
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