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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, BT «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 Subscription Kate*. errr orncsRSL I'xSMsn. r. P. Hweey. F. J-D<X- | a*, s. C. UMsSsid. J. M. Coapw. 1. Wilier. I 1. sr. Hirdj.j ^ IT i Mien Rwt. tt B. ^ (fa* *f Mtrtd—T). A. 8 Blsis. 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 .ibmtclwstiiorlerrfoEt. wbealheUmeisI r . . .. . . -'™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 j\rl r»*«i TW QrQpfiMr. A. E. WsUlta. I t*r. i msssra ootejfzrrtx* or oocbczl- ■ OooA 3py»- Prxren. Duow aana»-B*x*«p.Bu«T*M ' . orepw ret WUdw. sad Hirdj. _ r tad Wilder. iliirn i imi ■ Haresy isA OssA i— m—Daerttojtr.HaraysadSp—v*. ftKjca-WOSW. Cock ie J H»rrey. XTXTTXD STATES OFFICERS, r etc—W— *sta T.OoUffi*. ^SMorUtKwRRrnaae—O. T. Daan. ipetyKSH-*- w. Dcwr. OCEAN I/ODG-E No- 214,FAM A Wal«i cmmirlfilrti «tku Lod*r are b«iAe“ zTtrtX »»4 third MoctUj* i* At ’ IMuai ill brethren 1= *ood etaadlnc »re ha- -EiPOET LODGE, Xo. «. L 0. 0. P- Xsea mu Tee»tay j.'T- LAV BRIGHT. V. O. 'JL5. E. LaVBEIGET, t. k E. Secretary. 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 i\ 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- A SPECIALTY Gents' Furnishing Goods teatit* N ; r-vci Never Before Known ! ru tOCZfct - Kr ay ’ tA-a sark*:. •t. B. WRIGHT. . 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*.— See &dv. uil5-lm