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SHOOTING BV WHOLWAIK.
Forty Riflemen Employed bym CmtWaf
uta Planter to Herd WUdJCeeee.
Sou Frencleco Coll.
Various methods have been devised
of exterminating wild geese without
avail, until geese-herding bos become
a profession as distinct as herding or
trapping. In the early winter the
geese appear in the grain counties in
myriads, traveling about in vast flocks.
Their hunger is insatiable and the
uew wheat is rapidly destroyed. Dr.
H. J. Glenn, whose rancho in Colusa
county covers most of the arabie land
in that county, numbering some 75,-
000 acres, or nearly twelve square
miles, expends about $10,000 a year
in herding his geese. He recently
purchased in this city for the present
season between two and three thou
sand worth of cartridges, about 250,-
000 in number, of 44-calibre. He has
constantly in his employ while the
wheat is growing, about forty rnou, all
of them mounted und nearly all
armed with Honry rifles and field
glases, who patrol bis property du
ring the day and on all moonlight
eights.
These men are regularly organized
into a patrol guard. They discover
with thoir glasses the flocks of geese,
which at a distance of from three to
four hundred yards look like a blan
ket spread over the green wheat, and
they thereupon plant a bullet right iu
the middle of the flock. This unex-
l>ected visitation sets the flock on the
wing, and the geese herder follows
them, keeps planting bullets among
them until they rise to a great height,
iikI, disgusted, leave the vicinity.—
Few geese are killed, the object being
to keep them on the wing and couse-
queiitiy oil the wheut field. Those
that are killed are carried off and
suoru of their feathers, but the reve
nue from them amounts to little. On
1>i . Glenn’s rancho about 8,000 car
tridges aro used iu a day, which rep-
leseuts about 20,000 geese daily put
to flight.
Oftentimes a tkiek fog blows iu,
and this appears to be the'favorite
time for the geese, and they devour
the wheat with great energy. The
herders then, foarfnl of shooting each
other, aro almost baffled, bnt when
the fog rises tho flocks are put to
flight and for boars thereafter the uir
i> tilled with feathers and geese, and
Glenn's rapehu resounds with the clat
ter of rifles and tho (rightoued cries
of the persecuted fowls.
To pay his men, buy ammunition
and maintain horses, costs Dr. Glenn
some ton thousand dollars per an
num, but it saves bis wheat, which
yields $100,000, as without tho geese
herders half would bo destroyed. The
borders become very expert in their
business and are generally good shots
uud capital horsemen.
INDIAN ANTIQUITIES.
Tue “Next of Kin" Dodge.—Tho
stupendous swindle, known as the
International Agency, with bead
quarters at Birmingham, England,
which advertised that next of kin and
other heirs for $25,000,000 were
wanted, has been broken up. Such
common uamos as Wood, King,
Brown, Mason and Smith, wore men
tioned, nnd many people bearing
these nnmes, induced to make depos
its with tho company, have lost thou
sands of dollars.
A singular action was recently
brought in Baugor, Maine. The pub
lishers of a history of FenoLscot coun
ty Reported one of the attorneys living
iu the district as having died aDd
gave him a long nnd complimentary
obituary sketch. The alleged dead
man lias given evidence of his posses
sion of vitality by bringing suit
agrinst the publishers, laying his dam
ages at $5,000.
Thirty years is said to la- ti e life of
a locomotive. Possibly they would
live longer if they did not Kinoke so
much.
Tho builder who helped Lafayette
to luy the corner stone of the Bunker
Hill monument, fifty-seven years ago,
still woiks iu Bostou.
Valuable Addition* Secured for the
Omaha Academy ol Sciences,
The Omaha Bee.
About 11 o’clock yesterday the men
at work on “Stephenson’s dump” ran
into an Indian bone-yard and exhum
ed all that is mortal of a squaw who
once roamed up and down the valley
of the.Missouri and over the prairie
to the West The relics were care
fully gathered, and ornament the
broad window of Jim’s private office
in the stable. They are numerous,
and literally embrace “sticks and
stones and a dead squaw’s bones.”—
The anatomatical collection, however,
is complete. For instance, if the tan
colored “Daughter*of-the-Mule,” or
whatever her sobriquet was, was here
and saw and felt her bones taken up
and shaken np, she couldn’t gnash
her teeth if she was raging, for there
is only one jaw to gnash. Of, if she
wanted to snatch the offender bald
headed, she’d have to go it one-hand
ed, for there are only bones enough
to cobstruct one arm. There is some
jewelry, but Max Meyer, or Huber
man, or Edliolm, or somebody else,
needs to polish it up brfore it can be
presentable. An inventory of Jim’i
collectio i would be about like this:
One skull,
Bones,
Beads,
Buckskin thong (“petrified,” Ste
pbenson says, but his cheek must be
petrified to think anybody will be
lieve it.)
More bones,
The jaw aforesaid, with all the teeth
that the buck hadn’t knocked out
when he came home to dinner, and
found the squaw had cooked the same
old eutrails.
More bon os,
The top of her powder flask. (Ste
phen is authority for this, )
An ear-ring, with the lobe of the
ear resembling tanned hog-skin,
A few more bones,
A Indie wherewith she used to serve
dog bouillon,
Still more bones,
A bracelet,
Small piece of bone,
A baby. This article is rnado of
wood, roughly carved. Next week
StepheiiHon will claim it is a petrified
pappoosc,
Miscellaneous bones,
Miscellaneous jewelry,
Dirt,
Etc., etc., etc.,
This completes tho show. Mr. Ste
phenson says the dump contains more
graves, which he will open and
deavor to supply tho enriosity dornaud
as fast as tho graders get to them
A Han Sold for n Dollar.
Richmond (Ky.) Register.
A stunt-looking young fellow, who
bore a marked resemblance to a thor
ough-bred tramp, was put np to the
highest bidder iu front of tho court
house Iasi Monday, and sold under
charge of vagrancy iuto slavery for
one year. He brought $1, and the
Brookstowu auctioneer found it bard
to reach that point. Had the vagrant
not bid fifty cents for himself, and
gotten up a sort of rivalry, he would
most likely have been bnocked off for
forty-five cents. Mr. William J. Col
lins was the purchaser, and said he
would set the poor follow to work on
the railroad. Briug on some more
tramps.
“The Pnnoe of Wales," says Ed
mond Yates in the London World,
“must bnve n wardrobe as large ns
Mr. Irving, or any other theatrical
star, and must be quite os much in
need of a ‘dresser.’ At Portsmouth
he appeared the first day in a volun
teer uniform; at the review he was in
the uniform of the civil seryico corps;
the same night I saw him at Govern
ment House in the red tunic of a gen
eral officer. He can, on occasions
torn out os an admiral, a guardsman,
a hussar, a Highlander, a Ulan, or in
the flowing robes of on Indian rajab,
possibly of a Chinaman or Jap.
A ten thousand dollar liquor license
went into effect in Screven county on
the 1st inst.
GIMER&DUM
(SUCCESSORS TO W. T. GLOVER)
Ha* removed from the store next door to the Poet
Offlco, tod opened afresh in #
Dixon’s New Building,
Where the public can be ■ tipplied. at wholesale or
retitfl, with everything In the line of
STATIONERY,
Books, Pictures, Etc.
NEWSPAPERS, PERIODICALS & MAGAZINES
Received daily and for sale at low prices.
GRAIN,
PICTURE FRAMING DONE
ON SHORT NOTICE.
.JiisILiWitalit
Green Grocer,
and dealer in
Country Produce
GROCERIES,
CANNED GOODS,
TOBACCO.
CIGARS,
bTANDARD AND
FANCY CRACKERS,
CANDIES, NUTS,
FRUITS, Etc.,
All of which are offered for cash at reasonable
I MEAN BUSINESS!
Store comer Newcastle ami Monk Streets,
BRUNSWICK, GEORGIA.
AN ORDINANCE,
To provide for the forfeiture and collection of bonds
given by otfemlnrs agaluat the ordinances of the
city of llrnnxwick fo** thoir appearance at the Po
lice Court of said city; and for other purposes
therein moiiUoited:
Hectiom 1, The Mayor and Council of the city of
Drauswick, in Council assembled, do hereby ordain,
that tho Mayor be, and lie hereby authorised and
empowered to adjudge and declare forfeited the
bond of any person charged with a violation of an
ordinance of the city, and given for his or her ap-
pearance at the police Court of the said city, when
ever such violator ahall fall to appear and answer at
the time and place sot forth in such bond.
8ec.2. And bo It further ordained, That it shall
be tho duty of tho Clerk uud Treasurer of the city
to issue, immediately upon tbu declaration of such
forfeiture, an execution againft the property ol the
principal and sureties upon tho bond and for tho
amount named in such bond.
Sec 3. And be it further ordained, That it shall
l*o the duty of the Marshal of tho city to proceed
immediately upon tho reception of such execution
to collect the amount of the same, with thu usual
costs, from the goods and chattels, lands and tene
ments of the principal and sureties npon such
bond.
8kc. 4. And be it lurthcr ordained, That it shall
be the duty ol the Mayor, whenever it shall appear,
upon tho investigation ol any case, that any law of
the State hits also been violated, to cause tho offend
er to be turned over to the Court having jurisdic
tion of the offense, when the flue or term of labor
imposed by the Police Court shall have been paid
or dlacharged.
Sec. 4. And be it farther ordained, That all ordi
nances and parts of ordinances in conflict with this
ordinance be and the same are hereby repealed.
Passed in Council on tho 10th day of May, 1882.
Attest: M. J. COLSON, Mayor.
<JA8. HOUSTON, ClerR of council.
CiACEES COS31T,
GRIST, URAL, MEAT,
IN ALL SHAPES
flOM KM » WHEAT KM.
Goods Sold for Cash Only.
Greenfield from & Forrester,
J. K. NIGHTENGALE, Agent,
BRUNSWICK, (xA.
Blaiii’s Drug Store,
Newcastle and Grant Streets,
BE’CTITS-WICK, . Oh A
(OFFICE PORT PHYSICIAN & HEALTH OFFICER)
Where wll^be fonnd s LARGE STOCK
DfiUGS, CHEMICALS,
-AND
Mrs. BaRLB,
Masquerade and Boll Costumers,
Newcastle 8t, next to Dunn's dry goods etor*.
BRUNSWICK, - GEORGIA
Keep, ou hand every kiud of gold 'and .Uver
Princes, Tassel,, lace,—In «Uort, everythin!! con.
ncctedewltb tho bn,lne,s.
Parties c»n be supplied with resdy-mtde dresses
costumes, etc., tor amateur exhibitions, fancy bull,
masquerades, etc. Jan7-tf
NOTICE Of IRrERM TO CR1RCE RIME.
OKOKGIA—tiLtNa County.
All persons Interested are hereby notified that I
shall apply to the Superior Court to be held In and
lor the ennnty aforesaid on tbe first Monday in
May. latt, for the purpose of having my name
changed fromVloodbread, by which I have hereto
fore been known and called, to tnat ol D. B. Ran-
doplb. Tills 7th of January, 1KSJ.
D. B. GOODBREAD,
By tny Att'ya, Mabry & Borchardt.
©St
Hair, Nail and Tooth Brushes,
Perfumery and Toilet Aticlee
IN GREAT VARIETY.
Soda and Mineral Waters.
FROM MY SPLENDID FOUNTAIN. (Liquors probibted).
Lamps & Lamp Fixtures,
Bnist’g itJPerry's
Garden Seeds.
TRUSSES
Abdominal Suppor
Tbe very boat
CIGARS£f
C- P. GOODYEAR,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
Over lficheUou't Provision 8tore, Gloucester Street,
BRUNSWICK, GA.
Green and Black
TEAS
TOBACCOS/
And other article., too numerous to mention, usually kept In a first-class Drug Htqre.
Physicians’ Prescriptions uarefully Compounded.
Onltm and , MansfieM d «trMls. llMr,aIly **** b4 CTl1 * for medicines, 11 notified at my realdence, corner
JAMES T. BLAIN,
**“>•»» licensed druggist.