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FORGETTING.
BY YXCjfbkXA HEQINA.
A shroud of mist ia floating
O'er hiJI and plain and tree,
And moonrays, pale, arc gloating
Upon a heaving sea;
And mystic shades are creeping
Along the dull, gray shore,
Where willows, lowly sweeping,
Half drape the dead rocks o’er.
Deep, sullen echoes sounding
Far back from bluff and cave.
Are caught in their rebounding
And lost amid the waves.
And blent in weird splendor,.
With a light so pale ahd rare,
Are purple shadows, tender,
That gather here and there.
And, listening to the surges
That moan by night or day.
Like low, eternal dirges
For spirits passed away,—
i walk in silence, thinking,
With Btrange, deep-lying pain.
Of deeds and scenes lost, Jinking
Together memory’s chain.
I think of dreams and yearning
That never were fulfllled,
And all the bitter learning
That life has since instilled;
I hear the words once spoken
By lips now cold as clay,
And think of dear hearts, broken,
And hopes all swept away.
, The great gray tide is swelling.
Along the dreary shore,
And troubled, mute, rebelling,
I pace the damp sands o'er.
A strong and vain regretting
To-night has made me feel —
There is no sweet forgetting
For wounds that never heal.
As moonrays on the ocean
May brighten falling waves,
The gleam of pure devotion
May light the void of graves ,
But Lethe’s golden river
Still undiscovered lie*,
And hearts throb on in shadows.
Unseen by human eyes.
Si.Marys, Ga., 1881.
THEN AND NOW.
ll»w Sentiment Cli.iruiGi* a-ntl With
, it OuMtoms.
Below wo take some clippings from
it copy of the Ma*xachuxett» Spy, pub-
lislinl iu Worcester, Mass., December
Itb, 1776—something over one hun
dred years ago. We capitalize, spell,
and punctnato as iu original:
ADVERTISEMENTS.
‘•TO BE SOLD.
“A Sprightly, healthy Negro Wench
20 years of age, born in the Country
and can do any kind of house work,
she would be a valuable sorvant in u
Country lavarn as she lias lived in
one several years.
“Enquire of the. printer*'
another “ah."
‘Taken up by me the subscriber
three three years old cattle viz. a Red
Stear, with a half penny out in each
of his ears and some white in the end
of his tale and a black Stoar with a
slit in each of his ears and some white
u; his face, and on the end of his Tale,
and a lved Heifer, with a slit in each
of her ears, and a white face.
“JOHN HOBBS.
“HrooLfeld, Noe. 27, 1776.”
ANOTHER.
“Taken np in Paxton a pail red
Stear two years old the Oner may have
him for paying the charges.
“Samuel Man.
“November 27 1776.”
STILL ANOTHER.
“WANTED TO HIRE.
“Poor hundred pounds lawful Mon
ey for which good real and parsonul
security will be giveu, Inquire of the
Printers.”
Below we give a few dots as items
of news:
“Hartford, December 2.
“We bear Geuls. Washington, Pot-
tium and Sterling are at Elizabeth-
Town, in New Jersey, with about 6,-
000 of the Continental Troops, and
that they have lately been re-inforcod
with 12 or 1400 men from Pennsylva
nia nnd New Jersey, and more were
constantly coming in to their assis
tance.
“Last week the Hon. GenL Gates,
with about 3000 men from the north
ern army, joined the Continental ar
my near New York.”
“Worcester, December 4.
“We are credibly informed that the
enemy lost 1700 man killed on the
spot in taking Fort Washington.
“We hear that Genl. Washington
has lately offered Genl. Howe buttle,
but In- would not accept it.”
The Hartford Post did not ar-
.iutil ton o’clock this morning,
•ii--i-.-f.ir** our kind customers we hope
wiii excuse our not inserting more of
dn- southern news.”
Mwv Miserable Peobi.k dragtiiem-
-'•it.-s about with failing strength,
••-fling that they are steadily sinking
mi ■ :heir graves when, by using Par-
"1- ('ringer Tonic, they would find a
■".lx- commencing with the first dose,
■'i ■ vitality and strength coming back
; 1 ‘hern. See other column.
- lm
The First Velooipede.
Jnst thirty years ago, in the county
of Liberty, and the village of Flem-
ington, probably the first vohicle of
the volocipede, tricycle or bicycle
kind saw the light in Goorgia, and,
for anght we know, was the first in
the South or even the United States.
It was built by two lads, cousins (re
spectively thirteen nnd fourteen years
of age), named Stacy, and known ev
ery where throughout that section as
Bob and Tom. The machine was
built entirely by the boys, Bob being
the master builder and the older of
the two by one year. The maehine
was crude in its make, for it was
built by boys, without tools, but it
had the principles of cycles of the
present day, with one advantage,
which was that it utilized both the
weight and muscle of the rider. The
machine had four wheels, each uboat
two feet high, connected by iron axles,
made firm in the wheels, upon which
rested a frame with standards and a
railing. The front axle was made
with a double crank in the center,
thus:
Upon those cranks wore troadlos,
tho rear end of which wore swung
from the hind axle. To propel the
machiue, the operator would etand on
these treadles, holding on to the rail
ing of the frame, and whilst beating
alternately upon these treadles, would
press down by palling upward on tho
railing. The machine was abandoned
by the boys when they found that to
secure any degree of speed they must
have large wheels. These they wore
unable to procure.
We do not assert positively, but wc
feel confident that this was tho first
maehine of the kind ever propelled on
a dirt road. These two boys still
live. One is a practicing physician in
New York city, and the other is the
writer, the editor of this paper.
Our Tolepone Exchange
Will be one month old on Monday
next, and -will celebrate the event by
taming on a fresh supply of electric
fluid. Oar exchange is a lively infant
for one month, and has cat its wisdom
teeth long since. Appreciating the
fact that the public might enjoy a few
telephone dots, we connected our re-
portorial. wire with Mr. Washington,
the manager, with the following re
sult:
“Well, IVJr. Washington, how is the
exchange to-day ?”
“Oh, quite prosperous and happy.”
“How many subscribers are con
nected ?"
"Twenty-nine.”
“How mnny connections do you
make daily ?”
“We average about two hundred.—
The busiest times in tbu day are from
ton to twelve in the morning and
from three to five iu the afternoon,
between which hours our call-boll is
almost constantly ringing.”
“What firm uses the exchange the
most ?’’
“It is about a tie between Chess-
Carloy Co. and A. V. Wood, with a
preference in favor of Mr. Wood.”
“Do you have many night calls
“Not a great many, though a cer
tain naval store merchant has a very
bad habit of calling me up at a most
unseasonable hour of the morning—
however, such is the luck of the tele
phone man.”
“Can you give me auy idea, sir, how
much wire you have iu use?”
“Botweon sixteen and seventeen
miles, which is supported by about
eight hundred insulators."
“Can you give mo any other items
of “interest ?”
“I do not think of an.vtliingyjust
now, except that a proposition is un
der consideration to connect ihe
quarantine station with the t-.xchange.
This will be a great convenience to
vessels needing the services of tho
port Physician, as it will obviate de
lays which are now unavoidable.”
Col. David .Shook, of Asheville, N.
C., is niuety-five years old and has
two hundred and twenty-three de
scendants. of whom one hundred and
sixty-three are living.
WHY IS GLYNN NOT AN AG-BI-
CUI.TUR.YLi COUNTY P
Mr. Editor: One of the grand re
quirements for the fall development
of this our particular section is un
doubtedly cultivation of the soil. It
is well knowD to most of yonr readers
that, with extremely few exceptions,
there is scarcely a farm in Glynn
county, and, again, excepting the few
rice plantations bordering the Alta-
maha, not an area of ground appro
priate to planting purposes in the en
tire county which can properly be dig
nified by the term “plantation.”
Why this should be the ease more
particularly in Glynn than the nu
merous other counties seems difficult
to say, for go where you will through
the county, large open areas of culti-
vatable lands present themselves to
your view. Such lands, free from im
pediments to easy cultivation, natu
rally rich, would, conld they be trans
ferred to Middle Georgia, be consid
ered a source of wealth to its proprie
tors, and yet here it lies, fast hiding
its shame at being thus unnoticed, in
a covering of unserviceable under
brush.
Prior to tho civil war those identi
cal lands were the boast of their own
ers, consequent npon their productive
ness. Tract after tract can bo pointed
to the enquirer that in ante-bellum
days produced its bale of sea island
cotton to the acre and thirty to forty
bnshets of corn per acre without the
aid of fertilizers, whilst now it pro
vides but » screen to the wild-cut, a
roost for the owl, or a scanty grazing
for that rhinoceros-consistency of
flesh, yclept “Glynn county beef."
My neighbor tenders me the infor
mation that scarcity of labor is the
cause. Is it so ? The Middle Geor
gia farmer cultivates from thirty to
forty-five acres to the plow, realizing,
as by the statistician’s reports, an av
erage of a bale of upland cotton to ev>
ery three acres, or eight bushels of
corn per acre—and are onr lands so
much harder to cultivate ? I venture
to assort that a Glynn county farmer
would feel himself a very much abused
and unfortunate individual if his crop
ping venture repaid him by no mure
prosperous yield than this.
Unfortunately for the past of onr
cii v and for the residents of our coun
ty, u “timber-getting” mania appeared
to seize upon one and all just after
the war, which seemed to open tho
way for present remuneration if not
for future wealth. This, connected
with the fact that the old system of
labor wns annihilated nnd the inabili
ty of our people to reeoncile them
selves to the now condition, caused
the old farms and plantations to be
come neglected. Whore once every
thing flourished is now but a useless
waste, biding the time when the new
order will again change the old. Fan
cy to yourself, Brunswick grocer,
Brunswick dry goods dealer, a line of
country wagons entering your city
loaded with country produce, to bar
ter for your wares—such a sight as
may bo seen upon a Saturday or pub
lic day at any one of a hundred Geor
gia towns. It would be a happy sight,
and I sincerely hope yon have tbut
pleasure yet io store for you.
But corn and cotton are not the ou
ly productions of which our soil is
capable. Florida papers and pam
phlets ore filled to overflowing with
details of the astonishing benefits fi
nancially to be derived from so-called
“trucking," the descriptive accounts
making it appear that all Florida
must be one graud garden spot. Mnr-
] velons tales arc told of the immense
| squashes, potatoes, cabbages, etc.,
! produced, yet I have seen no account
! of any that would exceed in size, fla-
! vnr or appearance those placed on ex-
j hibition at our annual fairs, which we
I have all witnessed, and I do claim,
from observation, hearsay and expe-
! rience that as fine lands for trucking
! are embraced within an area of eiglit
or ten miles around Brunswick—easy
f of access to rail, steamer or city mar
ket as can be found in Florida.—
Granting this to be the case (and
none will gainsay it . what better
opening for u small : vestment of the
Schofield’s Iron Works, Maco:
manufacture"
PORTABLE AND STATIONARY ENGINES AND I OIL
ERS, SAW MILLS, GRIST MILLS, and all Kinds of
Machinery and Castings to order.
US-SPECIAL ATTENTION GIVEN TO REPAIR WORK. WE HAVE NOW OPENED A
WHOLESALE HARDWARE HOUSE,
And can supply our customers with anything in HARDWAKB*lttON« SiTJBEsJ
NAILS, PLOWS AND AGHICTLTUttAL M1PLBWENT8. Write for Price*.
J. S. SCHOFIELD & SONS*
surplus capital of onr merchants, pro
fessional men, clerks, mechanics—all
—can be found than in devoting a
portion of it to trucking and fruit
raising.
I cannot find time to attend to it,
says one. Bnt yon can, my friend.—
Cut short that morning nap, jump’on
yonr pony and take a morning gallop
to your little farm or orchard, direct
your day’s work. lEpeut the dose
frequently, and in a short time yon’ll
be a better man physically, financial
ly and otherwise. One acre of Le-
Conte pears, after coming to maturity, | viniio dip (■<
will give vou as fair an annual income I Buena, stav
, HO IU. Iiwllni
as the salary ot any hard-worked 1 itv»n-i in araw
clerk in this city. This is the right
kind of fife insurance to leave your
wife and children. Take .>nt a policy
iu Ltiis mutual company, and if the
premiums nre properly cared for, you
need fear no collapses, such ns many
of ns have experienced. Strawberries,
grapes, cabbages, cauliflower, Irish
and sweet potatoes all present tbeir
different claims to yonr attention, nnd
challenge an investigation ns to
whether, if properly cultivated, they
do not briug you in a handsome re
turn for the investment.
What, then, will be the result?—
A stranger prospecting will note an
air of thrift now lamentably absent,
of positive independence, a more live
and stirring people, with plenty for
minds and hands to do. an increase
in the number and quality of stock
and equipages, a greater desire to let
yonr neighbor’s city affairs alone and
attend more closely to yonr own, both
in town and at yonr farm. Then, in
place of taking ynry stranger friends
for a drive through the environs of
yonr city, and having naught to ex
hibit. n> him other than a labyrinth of
pine frees, with here and there a cab
bage palmetto or a scrub hog by way
of diversion, you will bo able to show
him cultivated fields, handsome or
chards, pretty villas, and all the oou-
oomitauts of a prosperous people.
This, rooders, is within the reach of
us all, slimly provided in this world’s
goods though wo are. Try it, as n
few of your acquaintances have, who,
I venture to say, do not regret their
having made the beginning.
But a word of caution—be not too
sanguine nnd therefore become care
less. Have a care what you plant and
how, and hold Davy Crockett’s maxim
constantly before yon, which, if fol
lowed, will snreU lead vou to success.
In all this, kind render, do as I say,
and not as I have done, or you might,
after raising eighteen barrels of five-
inch average Irish potatoes, ship them
(as I did) to Brunner, Peck A Co.,
of New York, and get fifteen three-
cent postage stamp- i return. P.
BRUNSWICK MARKET.
OFFICE ADVERTISER ANH APPEAL. (
Brunswick, Ga., July 14, 1p82. J
Below we quote prices current for to-day:
COTTON.
MiddlingFsir 12^
Good Middling 12L
Middling 12 Ik
Low Middling 11 s
Good Ordinary 10
Ordinary O),
BICE.
Common
Fair .
Good
Roncountry 90<£1 20
NAVAL STOKES.
ItosINS—O *1.00, D $1.06; K $1.70;F $1.75. G $1 85;
H $2.05, I #2.25; K «2 'W; M $2 50; N $‘2 75:
window RlasH $8 26.
Spirit* Tuhi*ksttnk -Oils and whiskey*. 41 lie;
regular*. 42 Ke.
CRUDE TURPENTINE.
d dip $2 Til p, r Barr l it 280
cick.
• «>ttk
«»ak. .‘18
SUPPLIES.
Bacon rib hide*. ; shoulder*. II,‘*c;
mi*. 17**: dry H*ltea clear rib sidea, lie; long
ear. Ui#e; shoulders, 10>fo.
Grain—Oorti -.*hito $1 18, mixed, $100; oatH
67; bran, $1 40
Hay—Northern. $1.10; Eastern, $125; Western
timothy, $1.25(4-1.ail.
Laud—In tierce*, 14c; keg* and tnb* 14 ’^c.
Flour—Snperilue, $6 26; extra. $0 75®$7 25;
family. $7 2W&8 26; fancy $8 25(6 76; baker*'
$8 25ft-8 75
Hide*. Wool, Etc.—Hide*, dry flint, l:lc; Halted
•ft 11c. Wool—Unwashed, free of burr*, in bale*.
r rime. in bans, prime, 24,Jc; *lig!itly burry
5@D04c: very burry, lbftlSO.f. Tallow. «c: wax 22c;
deer akin*, 27c; otter skins, 25o(«j $4 00.
NAVAL STOKES FREIGHTS.
Bosln and spirit*, 3*. 0dM5s. W. to United
Kingdom or Continent diroot; Baltic direct, name
rate*; to New fork. 45c on roaln, 60c on spirits; to
Baltimore. 30c on rosin, 70e on spirits.
Grand Hld»un>mer < owing; Out Sale-
1,000 IMauoa nnd Organ* at Rock
ItoUom Pauli Rate*, on Eaiy Term*.
Buy now and pay when cotton comes In. A small
cash payment ami balance November 1st. 1,000
Standard Instrument*, from bent makers only. All
style* and price*. No sbmcil instruments. Makers’
name* on till.
Npcclaf .Ylfdwtimuter Offer*
PIANOS, $25 cash and balance November 1st, 1882.
ORGANS. $10 Cash mud bal ance November lit, 1882.
L«»we*t •■**■• li ran * ami no interest. Can’t bny
cheaper n**xt Call wirh rash in hand. Closing out to
reduce stock *ud keep working force employed
through summer
Special MIDSUMMER OFFERS to Installment
buyer*. Se:i l vat-nog* e-. Price List* amt • lr-
eular* giving ml! inform*!. \ddn s* l.iMtdeu
A IIhIvm’ Southern flu Mr Hon«e, »tt«
vnniiMli, f«a.* 'ihenrwu Whole**)* i'lano .mi
Organ Depot «*f the South jyH it
■Shipping I iitciligeuce.
FOR THE PORT OF BRUNSWICK. FOB TH Iff WEEK
LNDIVf, .JULY 15, 18*2.
July 7
July '•>-
July 11
July 11
July Vi
July M
July ‘J—
July 10-
July 12
July IU
July 13'
July la
July U
July 11
■ Jollith.
ARRIVALS.
M iy. Little, Philadelphia.
So Eddie Illicit, IUrt!e»t, New York.
—Sp bg Jose Orio, I,lores. Cienfuego*. r'u.
Hk Hcu*y Knight, Peudlctou, New York.
-Ho Ada I.»nren«*e, Young, Savannah.
NVr bk Kavdyst, Anderson, Boston.
DEPARTURES.
He Wave Oest, llcwcit, Vatilla.
-Hr bg Lottie Bell, Grant. St. John*, New.
—Br bk Allerby, Fisher v'alpsriao, Chilli.
Nor bk Iona, P*-p Newcastle, Eng.
Nor bk Miulda, C:a*n Hamburg,Ger.
So T..re-; Sinter*, Miuix^on, PbiUrelphia.
Hr M A Ptimer. .Ilatfhew*, Santo*,Br
Sc (i li McFarland, st/oeg,
Petition for Incorporation.
STATE OF GEORGIA—Couxty Of Glymx.
To tho Superior Court In and for said County:—
The I'etitiou of Andrew J. Roger*, Henry S. Welles,
Eugene C. Gordon, James Alexander, Newell V.
Bquary, Oscar M. Newell and Charles p. Goodyear,
respectfully repreaenta that petitioners and their
associate* do.iro to be incorporated according to
law under the name and style of “The Brunswick
Lands, Improvement and Colonisation Company.’’
Petitioners ropresent the objects of said incor
poration and the particular business to be carried
on as follows:
I.
To bny or lease for terms of years lands in tbo
city of Brunswick, in the oounty of Glynn, In the
State of Georgia, and in auob other Southern or
Southwestern States, cities, towns and villages as
by comity said Company may be permitted to do
bnsluoas in, and to improve, use, rent, lease or re
sell real estate, m its discretion.
IL
To erect or encourage the erection of hotels for
tho traveling public and as winter and omumer re
sort*. III.
To enconrnge the establishment of lines of
ocean Nteaxners to ply between European porta and
Rrun*wick, for the purpostB of transporting immi
grants to Honthorn, Southwestern and Western
Mate*, vis Brunswick, Ga., and engaging in passen*
ger nml freight business generally, and to encour
age the establishment of coast steamship line* be-
tweeu Brunswick and other port* on the Atlantic
coaHt, as well a* »tearashlp line* to the West Indies
and Mouth America.
IV.
To etigiigu in a general storing, wharflng and
shilipiug business at the x>ort of Brunswick, includ
ing the advancing of money on bills ot lading, and
goods In store, and sending goods aud valuables ot
all kinds through infbond to any and from all points,
and to enter in such contracts with the railroads
terminating at Brunswick, Ga., as may be deemed
advisable in furtherance of such business.
V.
To encourage, aid and promote emigration ftoiu
Eastern, Middle and Western States, and from Eu
rope, to tbe Southern and Southwestern-State*, and
to eater into any and all contracts necessary to ef
fect the settlement of such immigrants, either on
the lands of said company or tbe lands of individu
als or of other corporations.
VI.
To aid and encourage settlers, by erecting houses,
furnishing tools, seed end other necessaries, or by
advances of money, or sales of land or lots to be-
paid for by installments, to appoint agents in tho-
Eastern, Middle and Western States and in Europe
for bastnesa purposes, and the encouragement of
immigration to the Southern and Southwestern
States, and to make all and every kind and class of
contracts which may be deemed expedient in tho
transaction of any and all classes of business afore-
*ald
vn,
and all finds of manufacturing at BranswickToaT,
or elsewhere in the Southern and Southwestern
State*.
VIII.
To establish a coaling station or stations In tho
city of Brun*wick, or elsewhere iu the county of
Glynn, if deemed advisable.
IX.
To engage in. ship building and in the construc
tion of steam vessels in the county of Glynn, Geor
gia, If deemed advisable.
X.
To erect water and ga* works, brick yard*,
wharves, docks, slips, warehouses, depots, and any
ami all improvements, of auy and every kin I, which
may be- m-re*ear? or doHlrable in tho business of
said company, and to own any and all classes of
personal property.
Petitioners desire all the {lowers granted to said
corporation incident to all corporations, and desire
the power to borrow money and secure the same by
boud or mortgage or deed ot trust; to loan money
on real estate, secured by mortgage or deed, with
boml to re-couvey; to make all by-|»wn themed de
sirable for th** government of tbe affairs uf said
uuipany not in conflict with the laws of tliv State of
it-orgia or ot the United State*.
Petitioner* state that the place of doing business,
•f said corporation i* to be st Brnn*wlck, Georgia,
r;th the power to establish agencies or branch## at
ny point or points deemed desirable.
'1 hat the •-apiihl stock of *si«| company is tp be
•n« million dollar*, divided iuto *20,000 shares of
i.W :x) esch, with the power to increase said capital
bn;k at any time to any amount uot exceeding ten
million do'W*.
Petitioner* further stab* flint they dc*ir<*to be In
corporated tor the term of twenty yuar». with privl^
h ge of r<
July 5,1882.
rdlllg t*-
C. P. GOODYEAR.
Attorney for lViRimers.
Fire Insurance!
J. M. DEXTER,
INSUR ANCE AND REAL ESTATE AGENT,
REPRESENTS THE
SOUTH® HIM IE CO.,
i-llings at very low i