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VOLUME VII. BRUNSWICK, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, JUNE 10,1882. NUMBER 49. The Advertiser and Appeal, 18 PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY, AT BRUNSWICK, - GEORGIA T. Gr. STACY. Subscription Bates. One copy one year $3 00 One copy six months 1 00 AdTertteements from responsible parties will be published until ordered ont, when the time it not specified, and payment exacted accordingly. Communications for Individual benefit, or ora personal character, charged aa advertisements. Carriages and obituary notices not exceeding (car lines, toileted for publication. When ex ceeding that space, charged as advertisements. AlUettera and communications should be ad dressed to thatradarst^Md.' Brunswick, Georgia. CITY OFFICERS. Major- M. J. Colson. Aldermen- 3. 3. Spears, 3. P. Harvey, F. J. Doer* Unger, S. O. Littlefield, J. M. Conper, 3. Wilder, Or. Hardy, 3. B. Cook. Clerk 4 Treasurer—James Houston. MefMankal—3. E. Lambrlght. Policemen -D. B. Goodbread, W. H. Rainey, O. B. Moore, 0. W. Byrd. Keeper of Guard House and Clerk a] Market—D. A. Moore. Port Fhytieian—J. 8. Blaln. “ ' ' m-J. R. Robins. _ e Cemetery—Q. G. Moore. Sexton Colored Cemetery—3nekle White. Harbor Matter—Matthew Shannon. Port Wardens—Than O'Connor, A. E. Wattles, 3 U. Dexter. sTAiromo couunns or oouxcil. Finance—Wilder, Cookjmd Spears. Iimrs, Deaths A BalDoxs—Harvey, Hardy and Ilttlefleld, Public nunmneos—Harvey, Conper and Wilder. Bailboads—Wilder, Spears and Hardy. Educatiob—Cook, Conper and Wilder. Chabitt—Spears, Harvey and Cook. Fibe DxrAUTUXBT—Docrdlngcr, Hardy and Spears, Police—Wilder,Oook and Harvey. UNITED STATES OFFICERS. Collector of Customs—H. P. Farrow. Deputy—H.T. Dunn. Collector Internal Bevenu*-D. T.Dunn. Deputy Marshal—T. W. Dexter. Postmaster—Linus North. Commissioner—0. H. Dexter. Shipping Commissioner—G. J. Hall. OCEAN LODGE No- 214,FA-M. A Regular communications of this Lodgo aro held on the Arat and third Monday* in each mouth, at 7:80 o’clock, Pe Me Visiting and aU brethren In good standing are fra* temaily invited to attend. J. J. SPEARS, Secretary. 0. E. fland: >EKS,^ SEAPORT LODGE, No. 68. I. 0. 0. F.. Meets every Tuesday nljjht^tclght ojclMk. j7 T. LAMBR10HT, V. G. JAB. E. LAMBBIGHT, P. A B. SecreUry. MILLINERY! Miss HETTIE WILLIAMS IS NOW RECEIVING A LARGE AND WELL-SE LECTED 8TOOK OF Millinery & Fancy Goods, LACES OF ALL DESCRIPTIONS, Pattern Bonnets lu all the latest styles, lust from New York. A full line of OollarettesiLadies’ITnderwear CHILDREN’S DRESSES, Etc. Dress-Making a Specialty, In all the most fashionable etylea, orders prompt ly filled. aprls-ly SOUTHERN PINE. A SPECIALTY! Gents’Furnishing Goods I hare Juat opened, In store ol Mean. Moore fc “cCrsry, a handsome line of abova goods, which I propoae selling st pricef Never Before Known! Cafi on me and *e« mjr stock, which was bought txprevHly tor this market. J. B. WRIGHT. The Nation. The future of the Northwestern lumber industry has already been dis cussed at some length in the light of Prof. Sargent's investigation into the forest wealth of the United States. Forestry Bulletins covering several of Hie Southern States have lately been issued by the census officer, and it is now, for the first time, possible to ob tain an accurate idea of the extent and composition of the great mara- timo pine belt whioh stretches from Virginia nearly to the Brazos. The statement that at the present rate of consumption twelve years wonld prac tically exhaust the pine of the lake region, must have seemed startling to persons unfamiliar with the actual condition of the Northwestern piner ies. It will be no less a surprise even to those best informed in regard to Southern forests to learn that Louis iana contains over eighty-four billion feet of merchantable pine, or more than was left standing at the end of the census year in Michigan, Wiscon- sis and Minnesota; or that Arkansas, which has never been looked npon as great pine State, contains, in addi tion to its unrivalled bard-wood for ests, over forty-one billion feet of yel low pine, or, rather, more than the amonnt of white pine credited to Wis consin. Texas is believed to possess some sixty-seven billion feet of pine. These three States contain more than one hundred and ninety billion feet of merchantable pine, or more than double the amonnt supposed to re main in the three Lake States from whioh of late years the country has been chiefly supplied with white pine. The Southern pine belt, running through nine States, is believed to b|ve contained, at the end of the cen sus year, not less than two hundred and twenty-five billion feet of mer chantable pine, or enough to last at the rate of consumption of that year some two hundred and fifty years. The value of this great body of tim ber is enormous, and must have an important influence in developing the material prosperity of the Sonth.— But because Southern forests contain a greater amonnt of pine than they have been supposed to contain, the al most total destruction of the white pine of the North is none the less a national calamity. The Southern for ests produce no pine which can take the place of white pine. The long leaved pine, of whioh the forests of the Southern coast are largely com posed, is one of. the most valuable timber trees. The wood of no other pine at all equals it in strength or fit ness for all kinds of heavy construc tion. It is, however, as compared with white pine, difficult to work, es pecially when seasoned, and so full of resin as to be unfit for those uses to which white pine is universally ap plied. The yellow pine of Arkansas, wbleh also oovero much of Lonisiana and eastern Texas, is a valuable build ing material, although inferior to the long-leaved pine in strength, and without the peculiar qualities of the white pine. The destruction of the white pine will deprive eastern Amer ica of her most available and, all things considered, most generally valuable lumber, and Southern pine, whatever its value, can never take i s place. The study of the actual condition of our forests indicates important com mercial obanges which may be ex pected to grow out of the changing conditions of the lumber trade. New Orleans seems destined, at no distant day, to become one of the greatest lumber-distributing and manufactur ing centers of the world. Ite posi tion with reference to vasts forests, its commercial importance, and the ease with which logs may reach it by river and lake, point to this conclusion. A great deal of Northern capital has been invested daring the last few months in Southern timber lands, and the number of persons seeking snob investsments is rapidly increasing.— The best informed Northern lumber men realise at last that the time bos come when they must seek new fields for their operations or abandon the business entirely. These men are get ting ready to move their mills, capi tal and energy into the South, and their attention is naturally directed to the Gulf States. The outlook for new investments of this sort in the South Atlantie States is not favorable. The four Atlantio pine States, in cluding the whole of Florida, contain less than twenty-fon? billion feet of The meet accessible timber, situated along the streams and rail roads, has already been removed, and much of the remainder has been in- ; ured in the manufacture of turpen tine. Alabama and Mississippi con tain great bodies of pine, but in the three pine States west of the Missis- sipp, pine forests in whioh the sound of the logger’s axe has never been heard, extends over tens of thousands of square miles. Here, during the next twenty-five years, will be seen, we believe, the great lumbering oper ations of the continent—if, indeed, these forests can supply during the next twenty-five yeans the demands whioh may be made npon them. It is not easy to foresee how great these demands will be. The popula tion pf an enormous territory must procure its building materials from these trans-Mississippi pineries.— From the Brazos to the Sierra Neva da of California, exoept on the high and unusually inaccessible mountain range of the Sonthem Rocky Moun tain region, a tree fit to saw into boards does not grow. The northern Mexican platean is destitute of valno- forests, and mast depend, with growing prosperity, upon the United States for its lumber. West of El Pa so, the country will bo supplied from the Pacific coat; east of El Paso—that is, all of Texas and the provinces of north-eastern Mexico—it most draw its lumber from the pine forests im mediately west of the Mississippi riv er. It is needless to point ont how rapidly western Texas is now becom ing settled, or to estimate even the growing demand made npon these particular forests. Their position with reference to a treeless, although rich agricultural and grazing, region inanres their entire destruction at no very distant day. The demand for Southern pine for Northern consumption and export is rapidly increasing also, and the conn- try most not make the mistake whioh it made first in regard to the pine supply of Maine, and then in regard to the pine supply of Pennsylvania and Michigan, and which the Califor nians are now making in regard to their redwood, and conclude that, be- the Southern States contain vast quantities of pine the supply will last forever. No forest is inexhausti ble. The Southern forest, as it stands to-day, is mature throughout and ready for the axe. No young trees are coming np to take the place of those which have reached or nearly reached their prime. The eastern, first instituted by the Indians, it is said, has long prevailed in the South of carefully burning over every spring the whole territory occupied by the pine forest, to improve the poor and scanty grazing the forests afford. A more ingenious system for destroying permanent valne of forests confd not have been devised. A forest fire kin died once a year does not find mueb to feed npon and cannot burn long enough to greatly injure the old trees, bnt it sweeps np the hnmas from the surface of the gronnd, destroys the vitality of any seed that may have fal len daring the winter, and extermi nates all seedlings and young trees. Looking forward fifty years, the fa- tare of these forests is not brilliant, and, unless some general change of management can be initiated, their extermination is inevitable. It may take a few yoars less or a few years more, as the country is prosperous or otherwise, to find a market for the two hundred and fifty billion feet of lumber, which Prof. Sargent tells ns these forests may be expected to con tain; but unless five and grazing ani mals can be excluded from them, their days are numbered. The South has only to turn to Maine, New York, Pennsylvania or Michigan to learn how quiokly forests which were only a few years ago deemed inexhaustible may melt away before reckless disre gard of the simplest laws of nature. THE SOUTHERN MUTUAL INSUR ANCE COMPANY. Athena Banner-Watchman, May 18th, 1883. Mach has been said of late abont the Sonthem Mutual Insurance Com pany, of this city, attention being called to it at this time by reason of a “bill in equity” filed by the compa ny, in whioh it prays the conrt for construction of its charter. As thereto some misapprehension as to the objects of the bill, and as the question involved is of interest to many people in this State, we took occasion to interview one of the offi cers of the company in regard to it, and herewith present the result: Reporter—“I see that the surplus fund of the Southern "Mutual to in lit igation.” Answer—“Not at all; the company has not asked and will not ask any direction from the coart as to its sur plus.” Reporter—“What, then, is the ob ject of the bill ?” Answer—“Simply this: The compa ny has for many years been building up a reserve fund which should be large enough to give ample and un questioned security to its policy-hold ers. The management of the compa ny now feel that they have reached that point. They think that the re serve fnnd to large enough for the present business* ol the company, and if, therefore, the surplus to not to be increased farther, the question arises, what shall be done with the annual interest on the reserve fund, ? The profits of the business, arising from preminms, as you know, are now divided annually among the policy holders, and the object of this bill is simply to ask the conrt how this in terest is to be divided.” Reporter—“What is the question as its division Y’ 'Answer—“The company has al ways gone upon the idea that only those who are now members of the company have any righto in it—that a member who has passed ont of the company and severed his connection with it has no farther concern in it, and consequently, that any division mutt be made among those only who are members at the time the division is made. Bnt doubts having arisen os to the propriety of this action, the company has applied to the courts for direction in the premises. The other idea is that any division most be made amongst all who have ever bad policies from the beginning.” Reporter—“It wonld therefore seem that a present policy-holder need not take any steps in the matter at all.” Answer—"Of course uot; no one need take any steps. All the parties are before the coarts, brought there by the bill itself, nnd every one, whether a present policy-holder or not, to protected by the bill,, and the rights of every one of them submitted to the judgment of the conrt. The bill filed by the company »entirely impartial; it presents all the facts, it lay» all the objections, difficulties and intricacies of the case before tbe court, and asks a decree which will protect and do justice to not only tbe present bnt past policy-holders.” A SURPLUS FUND. By reference to an interview with an officer of the Southern Mutual In surance Company, in another column, the billm equity filed by that compa ny to explained, and will doubtless be read with interest and gratification by. the stockholders. As will be seen,, this bill does not look to a division of the anrplns fond accumulated, bnt simply asks for tbe sanction and opin ion of the court about distributing to its policy-holders tbe annual interest which accrues from the securities on hand, which will amount to over $00,- 000 and greatly lessen the expenses of insurance in this reliable and pop ular company. It is tbe height of folly to think of dividing the accumu lated funds of the company, os these are the back-bone of the institution, which gives it the prominence and strength it objoys, and acts os a dou ble safe-guard to those insured there in- Even admitting that a division of its sorpins capital be made, why the pro rata part of each shareholder would be most insignificantly small; and, besides, it would require an out lay of about half tbe fund to employ accountants to audit the claims—the remainder evidently passing into the hands of lawyers. This suggestion is tbe acme of folly, ami any stockholder who to bugging tbe hallucination to his bosom had as well dismiss the idea at once. As to the future management of these fnnds, we refer ell concerned to tbe reputation of the company end its management for thirty-five years, whioh is a sufficient guarantee to pol icy holders that they will be managed with wisdom and tbe strictest integ rity. Texas Siftings: Onr granger read ers are earnestly nrgnd to raise as large oropa as possible, as there will be an extraordinary demand on them for the necessaries of life between now and Christmas. There are forty-two . circuses raiding through tbs country, and most of them are heading for Texas. They have got to be support ed, or they will not be able to pay for their advertisements, hence,we request oar granger friends not to fool away their time with fishing poles, or in banting dew-berries. We understand that the lato| heavy vain prostrated tbe oats. If that is so, the farmers ought to be out in the fields straight ening up those oats. Tbe circuses have to be supported. A lover and bis girl went inio a Springfield, drug store the other day to gut some “soda.” One ordered “bovine," the other “vaccine,” suppos ing that these two words, which were hnng near the fouuiain, were the names of some new syrups. The hides of all t!u- cn.« in the U. S. represent a commercial valne of $10,000.000. Rnssiu has lost $110,000, i-OO by the nnti-Jowish movement.