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VOLUME VII. BRUNSWICK, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, MAY 0.1882. NUMBER 44. Tlie Advertiser and Appeal, IS PUUI.ISHKD EVERY SATURDAY, AT BRUNSWICK. - GEORGIA, T. G-. STACY. Siibucrlptlou Hates. Our copy ono year $2 00 Oue copy Bix months 1 00 Advertisement* from responsible parties will be published until ordered out, when the time is aot specified, and payment ox acted accordingly. Communications for individual benefit, or of a personal character, charged as advertisements. Marriages and obituary notices not exceeding tjttr linos, solicted for publication. When ex ceeding that space, charged as advertisements. All letters and communications should bo ad dressed to the undersigned. T. O. STACY, Brunswick, Georgia. err? officers. Mayor- M. J. Colson. Aldermen- J. J. Spears, J. P. Harvoy, F. J. Doer dinger, S. C. Littlefield, J. M. Coupor, J. Wilder, W. W. Hardy, J. B. Cook. Chirk A Treasurer—James Houston. Chief Marshal—J. E. Lambrlght. Policemen—D. B. Good bread, W. H. Balney, 0. B. Moore, C. W. Byrd. Keeper qf Quartl House and Clerk of Market—D. A. Moore. IWt l*hysician—J. S Wain. City l*hysician—J. B. Robins. Sexton White Cemetery—C. G. Moore. Sexton Colored Cemetery—Jackie White. Harbor Master— Matthew Shannon. port Wardens— Thoe O'Connor, A. E. Wattles, J. M. Dexter. standing committees or council. Finance—Wilder, Cook and Spears. .Streets, Drains & Bridges—Ilarvey, Hardy and Littlefield. __ Town commons—Harvey, Hardy and Spears. Cemeteries—Littlefield, Doerflinger and Hardy. Harbor—Hardy, Cook aud Llttlofleld, Public buildings—Harvoy, Couper and Wilder. Railroads—Wilder, Spears and Hardy. Education—Cook, Couper and Wilder. Charity—Spears, Haney and Cook. Fire department—Docrtlingor, Haray and Spears, Police—Wilder, Coojc aud Ilarvey. UNITED STATES OFFICERS. Collector of Customs— John T. Collins. Deputy—H. T. Dnun. _ _ Collector Intornal Revonuo—D. T. Duuu. Deputy Marshal—T. W. Dexter. Postmaster—Linus North. Commissioner—C. II. Dexter. Shipping Commissioner—G. J. Hall. THE TAJIK ALLIUATOU, OCEAN LODGE No 214,F A M A Regular communications of this L< tiie first and third Mondays in <j»ch i o’clock. P. M. Visiting and all l-n-thr. n in good st • rnally invited to attend. .1. I. SPEAKS, Secretary. 'K A POUT I.0I»GE, No. I. 0. 0. F.. Me#t» «vory lucmlay ulijh ^ieiiI'i* °n*"u j.'t. i,A.':itui<iirf. 1 \s. i:. LAMDUldllT, 1“. A It. (tarn-tary. MILLINERY! Miss HETTIE WILLIAMS IS NOW ItECEIVINOA LARUE AND WKU.-SK LECTED STOCK or Millinery & Fancy Goods, LACES OF ALL DESCBllTWXS, Pattern Bonnets In all the latent styles, just from Now York. A full lino of Collarettes-Ladies’ U nd erwear CHILDREN’S DRESSES, Etc. Dress-Making a Specialty. In all the most fashionable styles, orders prompt ly filled. aprlM-ly “You see that item in one of the pa pers abont taming young alligators, I reckon ?” said the Gravesend man, capturing tbe city editor by the but ton bole and drawing him into the door-way. “You know tbe paper said it was a fashionable thing to do.” “I don’t remember. Perhaps I did What of it?" asked the city editor. “I tried it,” said the Gravesend man. “A friend of mine brought mo one from New Orleans, and I’m tam ing that alligator for tbe children to play with.” “How does the experiment come along ?” asked the city editor. “I don’t know abont the experiment —tbe alligator is thriving. He was six weeks old when I got bim two months ago, and he is seven years old now. People in oar parts say be’s all tbe alligator I’ll ever need.” “What does he do ?" “Well, it’s hero. When he came he was a sportive little onss and jnst waddled around friendly. He was chiefly month, and we used to feed him for the fan of seeing him eat— Now wo skin around when we see him coming for the fun of seeing him go hungry.” “Is he dangerous?” asked the city editor. “I haven’t been close enough to see. He eat up my dog, and when I left this morning he was in the sty argu ing the question of pork ns a diet with a pig. My wife thinks if he has any luck he will find the cow we lost.” “Better get rid of him, hadn’t you ?” suggested the city editor. “I don’t know,” said tho Gravesend man. “Wo’vo stored so much away in him now it seems like giving up most of our property, and my eldest girl says she can’t hear of having her leg go out among strangers.” “Did ho bito her leg off?” demand ed the horrified city editor. “Sure," responded tbe Gravcsond in ‘‘Took it off short! Then hero’s A SPECIALTY Gents’Furnishing Goods I lave ju41 opcUf.il, in store oi Messrs. Muoro & M. Crnrjr, a hauilsoLie liue of above goods, which I propose selling at prices Never Before Known ! .1 B WRIGHT. tho baby. Wo bate to part with tbo baby’s grave so wo try and keep tbo alligator along. My wife insists on keeping bim because she thinks sho sawn couple of peddlers go in oue day, packs and all, and sho’s got an idea tbe packs may come to the front again if we hold on. Besides, sho saw that item about tamo alligators being fashionable, and sbo goes a good deal on style.” “But do you call that alligator tame ?” “Certainly. He comes right into the bouse, same’s any of us, and keeps himself. He’s got that heel,” and tbe Gravesend man pointed to a mutilated foot. “There’s my son’s wife, too.— She’s part alligator now. He eat her np a week ago and the boy hasn’t got over his arm yet. Tho alligator got tho arm too.” “Great Scott I” ejacnlated the city editor. ‘■Oh, yes, its lively down here.— When be puts himself up be’s busi ness. He’s the lightninest alligator for a tame ono yon ever saw. When we first got him we used him for a tuck hammer, and drew nails with bim, bat now be’s tbe bead of the fam ily, except paying the rent. When there is any mysterious disappearance around Gravesend the eoroDor comes and views the alligator—that ends it. When tbe baby was snatched -they held the inquest in a tree. Tbe jnry was all on one limb, and tbe alligator on the ground looking np. Bimeby tbe limb broke, and tbe jnry disap peared in a row, jast as they sat. Wo didn’t wait for any verdict. Tho cor oner gave me a permit, and after the funeral we shied an empty coffin at the alligator. Then tbe minister said dust to dust., mid we all dusted. Do you remember whether that item said what a real tame alligator ought to be fed on ?” “Don’t recollect seeing it at all.— Aren’t you afraid he’ll eat np some of yonr family ?” ’ “Think he’s liable to ?” asked the Gravesend man with a curious ex pression of visage. “He might. Suppose he should get your wife ?” “Ah 1” said the Gravesend man, “he might get her, mightent he ? You think I’d better keep bim them ?” and the Gravesend man leaned against the door and gave himself np to reflec tion. “So he might—so he might,” the city editor heard him say as he drew away and left him there. “That beautiful young tame alligator may get her yet,” and the gloom of night fall enveloped the frame dilating with a new hope. Tbe Tears oj Animal*. The monkey tribe is grotesquely like man in the display of his joy and sorrow. Many of them actually smile when amused. The broad grin which is associated usually with a sense of fun, is developed in the onrang-outnng, and was observed by Livingston in the soko. The laughter of certain apes is analogous to man’s own, in thnt it is noisy and hilarious. So close indeed is the resemblance that tbe grave Turks compare laughing West ern Europeans to apes. Tbo chim panzee, if amused, chnckles. Living stone describes tbe soko as giggling, and Darwin observes that tittering occurs among monkeys when they are pleasod. A sonso of fun is also exhib ited by practical jokes and sports or Their grief is demonstrate Sarali IVann’t There, Detroit Frue Prnu. Charley Sbaw, of tbe Detroit opera house, was grinning at tbe window of tbe box-office tbe other day when in walked a chap with an agricultural bronze in bis face and asked: “Does any one perform here ?” “Ob, yes." “This afternoou ?” “No—to-night.” “How much to see ’em ?” “Well, I can give yon a seat for a half dollar and you can hold yonr girl on your lap.” “Wouldn’t anybody laugh ?” “Not much! We don’t allow any laughing in this bonse.” “Well, maybe we’ll come. Has this theatre ever burned up?” “Never.” “Any danger of fire on the stage ?” “Not a bit.” “Any pickpockots around ?” “None.” “Does anybody peddle lemonade?’’ “No.” “Any prize packages given out?” “No.” “Take a half dollar with a hole in it?” “Yes.” “What kind ctf a play is it?” “It’s tragedy.” “Tragedy! Then that lays me out 1 Sarah was to a circus last year where somo ono hit a fellow who crawlod under the canvass with a neck-yoke, and sho fainted so dead away that they had'to unhitch her corset and jerk off her shoos. Let her see a play where fellers aro jobbing with pitch' forks, knocking down with crowbars aud sticking each other with swords, aud sho’fl tumble kerplunk and stop tho show dead still. I hope yon’ll do well and all that, but I don’t bring no Tornado.* anil How to Avoid diem. game. just as unmistakably as their pleasure, j Sarah to soo no tragedy, and don’t True tears are shed undor the onto- you forget it! Sho fainted on me tion of grief, especially by that aris ing from beroavomont, by tho soko, chimpanzee, onrang-ontang, and oth er apes or monkeys; and also by the elephant, dog, horse, mule, donkey and various deer. Livingstoue says that a youug'soko, if not taken up in the arms like a child, when appealed onco, and my hair turned gray at the rate of a bushel a minute. Tho rain was pouring from the lead en sky, and everything looked doubly dark and dreary without, by contrast with tbe brightness ami beauty with to be so carried, engaged in the most j ' n ^ r8 ’ *^ cu H cherry sitting coom.— bitter, human-like weeping. Boutius j ‘My poor little love,’ she s titl, in n describes tbo weeping of an ournug- ! vo ‘ ce which told of the great heart ontang as resembling that of a WO' ache which was racking her frame, man, and Dr. Yuan mentions one that *'*; 0 * 30 0H ^ * D a s * orm like this! Her wopt when u mango was taken from him, jnst as a child would have done. Chimpanzees in Sierra Leone, that have been trained to carry water jags for white people, will weep bitterly when they let them fall. Dr. Boer- lage shot a female mother ape in Java that fell mortally wounded from a tree, tightly clasping her young one in her arms, and died weeping. All of these instances clearly prove that the monkey tribe are capable of experiencing both joy and sorrow. Do you know it is a splendid thing to think that tho woman yon really love will never grow old to you ?— Through tbe wrinkles of time, through the mask of years, if you really love her, you will always see the face yon loved and won. And a woman who really loves a man, does not see that he grows old—be is not decrepit to her; he does not trembe; he is not old. Sbe sees the same gallant gen tleman who won her heart and hnnd. We like to think that love is eternal. And to love in that way and then go down tbe bill of life together, and us friend well knew that her thoughts were always turning townrd a little now mound in tho cold graveyard clay, which had not yet a flower or blade of waving grass to brighten it. Bat sbe spoke in a cherry tonaas she said: “I, too, Elizabeth, have a little sleeper not far from yoars, but that is the only one of the five that I know can never be oat in a storm again. It is all sunshine and gladness where she dwells. I tremble and weep some times when I forebode evils and suf- ferings that may come to the rest; bat that one is safe from all of them.— How precious tho thought when the cold winds blow, and the storms howl about our honsos, that these darling ones can never know suffering or fear or sin any more. Sheltered forever!”. If you want to be miserable and don’t know bow, enrry malice against humanity in general. You’ll find the load tbe heaviest one you ever under took to curry.—Ex. Sorrow is a kind of rnst of the soul which every new idea contributes in its passage to scour away. It is the putrefaction of stagnant life and is yon go down bear, perhaps,'thelauglT. remedied by exercise and motion. Sclent ifle American. The Signal Service Bnreau has in press a monster, by Sergeant Finley, containing a review of the observa tions of six hundred tornadoes, with generalizations from the recorded facts, and suggestions as to the meth ods which onght to be followed in the investigations of such storms. The 8torn studies have occurred daring the past 87 years in all parts of the country. For these it would appear that tornadoes occur most fre quently in summer, and in tbe month of June. They have occurred, how ever, more frequently in April than in Jnly, and in May and September tbun in August. Kansas is the State that Las been most afflicted, and .thnt notwithstanding the fact that the pe riod daring which tornadoes have visited it has been comparatively short. The State bus bad 62 torna does from 1869 to 1881; Illinois has bad 64 from 1854 to 188Lt Missouri has had 44 from 1814 to%181; New York has bad 35 from 1831 to 1881; Georgia 33 from 1804 to 1881; Iowa 31 from 1854 to 1881; Ohio 28 from 1823 to 1881, and Indiana 27 from 1852 to 1880. Tbe States and Terri tories that have bad only one each from 1794 to 1881 are: Colorado, Cal ifornia, Indian Territory, Nevada, New Mexico, Moutnnn, Rhode Island West Virginia and Wyoming. Tbe storms occur most frequently from five to six in the afternoon, nit bough there is no hour of the day that 1ms been entirely free from them. The average width of destruction is 1,085 feet, and tbe storm cloud runs with a velocity of from twelve to sixty miles. Tho wind within tbe vortex sometimes attains a velocity of 800 miles an hour, tbo average velocity be ing 392 miles. Among the most valuable sugges tions of the paper are tkoso with ref- orenco to the peculiarity of the move ments of tornado clouds, containing rules for nrriving at their viol •:.(•••. A tornado cloud always has a c. liter, and it always moves forward from West to east. It nun, however, -nvny from side to sole in its prog.a wove movement. Change* in moti n ire sometimes very sinLlun. in tin e\eut of a sadden change, tlio observer, who is east or south of east of tbe storm, should move quickly to the south.— If be is northeast he should move to the north. If within a very short distance of the cloud the observer should run east, benring to tbe south. Earthquake lit Rea. Scientific American. Captain Horner, of tbe German ship Stella, from Bremen to Balti more, arriving April 15, reports that on tbe morning of Mnrch 18, in lati tude 37° 21 north, longitude 23° 51 west, his vessel suddenly hnlted in her coarse with a shook that gave to those below tho impressiou that tbe ship had strnok a rock. The weather was dear and the sea smooth and calm.— Neither tbe chief mate, who was on the quarter-deck at the time, nor the lookout, could account for the strange occnrrrenee. ' The captain ordered the benving of the lead, but found no bottom at 100 fathoms. The pomps were sonnded and the ship fonnd to be tight. Tho shock lasted only half a minute, after which the ship went on as before. Capt. Horner himself went aloft, but could discover no signs of any obstructions. ter of grandchildren, while tho birds ; How poor, bow rich, how abject, h of joy and love siug once more in the bow august, how complicate, leafless branches of the treo of age. wonderful is man The firmest friendships have been formed in mutual 'adversity; as iron ow | is most strongly united by the fiercest llume.