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VOLUME VIII. BRUNSWICK, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, JULY 22,1882. {NUMBER 3. Tlu* Advertiser And A ppeal, IS PUHLIHHBD EVERY 8ATURDAY, AT BRUNSWICK, - GEORGIA, T. C3r- STACY. Kiibacrlpiloii Kate*. One copy one year $2 00 One copy six months.. — 1 00 Advertisements from responsible parties will be published until ordered out, when thetlme is not specified, and payment exacted accordingly. Communications for individual benefit, or of a personal character, charged as advertisements. Marriages and obituary notices not exceeding (our lines, solicted for publication. When ox- reeding that space, charged as advertisements. Allletters and communications should he ad- «. STACY, Brunswick, Georgia. CITY OFFICERS. Mayor- M. J. Colson. Af'termeti- J. J. Spears, J. P. Harroy, F. •?. Doer- ,huger. S. C. Littlefield, J. M. Couper, J. Wilder, W. W. Hardy, J. B. Cook. Clerk <& Treasurer—James Houston. Chief Marshal—J.'E, Lamb right. policemen—D.B. Goodhreau, W. li. Rainey, 0. B. Moure, C. W. Byrd. Keeper of Guard House ami Clerk of Market—V. A. .Moore. Port Physician—J. 8. Blain. City 1‘hysician- -J. 21. Robin*. Sexton Whitt Cemetery— C. G. Moore. Sexton Colored Cemetery--Jackie White. Harbor Master—Matthew Shannon. Part Wardens -Thos O’Connor, A. E. Wattles, J. M. Dexter. „ ' „ STANDING COMMITTEES OF COUNCIL. Kisani k—Wilder, Cook and Spears. Htmwts, Drains & Bridges—Harvey. Hardy and Littlefield. Town commons—Harvey, Hardy and Spears. Cemetkhie*—•Littlefield, Doerftinger and Hardy. IIarbor—Hardy, Cook aud Littlefield, Public buildings—Harvey, Couper and Wilder. Railroad*—Wilder, Spears and Hardy. Education—Cook, Couper and Wilder. Oharitt—Spears, Harvey and Cook. L-’iiiiS dkfaktmknt—Doerrtlnger, Hardy and Spears, Polio—’Wilder, Cook and Harvey. UNITED STATES OFFICERS. Coiloctor of Customs—H. P. Farrow. Deputy—H.T. Dunn. Collector Internal Revenue—D. 1. Dunn Deputy Marshal—T. W. Dexter. Rostmaator—Linus North. Commissioner—0. H. Dexter. Shipping Commissioner—Q.J. Hall- OCEAN LODGE No- 214,FAM. 1 err < i/ a KetfuUr communtuOau olUile Lo4g»KohyMon be flint end third Mond.jf, In eeoh month, »t 7:30 ’clock P. M* v Visiting and all brethren in good .landing are Ira. O. E. FLANDERS, W. M. ■nail) invited to atteud M..et» every TnosdaynlgUtei o olo<-V. H. PlEltCK. >. O. J. T. LAMUR10UT. V. G. ,V8. K. LAMU1119RX, F. A U. Secretary. MILLINERY! Miss HETTIE WILLIAMS IS NOW UECKiYINll A LARUE AND W1H.L-SE- LBCTKD STOCK OF Millinery & Fancy Goods, LACES OP ALL DESCRIPTIONS, Pattern Bonnet in all the Meet etjftee^Vrt from New York CoUarettes-Ladies’Iinderwear CHILBHBN'S DHBSNKX, Etc. Dress-Making a Specialty, In nil the most fashionable styles, orders prompt- ly filled. aprld-ly A SPECIALTY! Gents’Furnisliing Goods ve just opened, in store of Messrs. Moore A »ry, a hauusome line of above goods, which I se selling at prices favor Before Known ! II on mo and see ray stock, which ressly for this market. bought J. B. WRIGHT. "Ill NATIONAL JULLADY. Texas Siftings. v The office fever is not confined at all to Texas. Even in the colder re gion of the North, for instance at Washington city, it prevails in a mild form. Yes, even at the national capi tal, in some isolated cases, men- can be found who do not require much urging to accept an office. Some of the brightest intellects of the nation —Gen. Grant and Gniteau— have both had attacks of it. Guitean has been enrod of bis itch for office, but Grant is liable to have a relapse at any time. Bat for the office fever, Guitean might be alive and well to-day. Conkhng is all broken oat with it. General Han- cook had it severely, but has entirely recoverod, so they say. His Texas namesake has also boon radically, or rathor Democratically, cured of the dread malady. Hancock admitted as much when the representative of the Texas Democracy recently implored him, with tears in their eyes, for God's sake not to let Gen. Weaver carry off the party in a bag, as it were. Governor Boberts, of Texas, is also a political sufferer from the of fice fever. Some victims of the great national malady have it on both sideB like the mnmps. Davd Davis and Congressman Jones have had it on both sides—first on the Democratic side and then on the Bepnblican side. Judge Ireland is broken oat beaiiti fnlly with it, and there are innumera ble embryo statesmen who are trying ito catch it. It comes ont beautifully on Ireland every spring. Except in some few cases, the effect of the fevor,’ after the patient has suf fered a* relapse or so, is incurable.— Tho disease can be studied to advan tage in snch men as Grant, Ben But ler, Colliding, and Bo bets, of Texas, who, while they excite sympathy, are nevertheless useful and interesting subjects on whom to stndy the dis ease. One of the moBt marked feat ures of the affliction is the abnormal development of the bnmp of self-es teem. The patient, although he baa likewise u tine development of ear, is all I. Wh might cite the egotistical remarks of Conkling, who seems to think he could temporarily at least, derange the planetary system. Wit ness the the nauseating self-conceit of Grant Bead Governor Roberts’ let ter about the Galveston Nows, or ono of his speeches in whioh more eyes stjok ont than are in a potato. Tho advanced sufferer from an itch for office is fall of strange hallucina tions and wbiuiBical conceits. At ono time he will imagine the war is still going ob, and at soldier reunions he will charge imaginary foos, and get off the Same old talk he did twenty years ago. On the Fourth of July the victim of the office itch confidently imagines that be is a revolutionary father. He shivers with cold at Val ley Forge, captures Hessians, and with a trumpet smile, receives the sword <>f the vanquished Lord Corn wallis. Another very common hallu cination is for the sufferer to imagine he is Jefferson or Jackson. At other times the poor, demented creature imagines that be is an Afri can. He intrudes himself into the negro meeting, and from his speech yon might imagine he was really one of them. He speaks of their past suf fering as if he had really done manu al labor in a cotton field, and be re fers to their hopes as if he oxpected to bo benefited by their realization. On other occasions, he addresses land leagues, and talks to the paddies, until he actually acquires a slight brogue. We all remember how Gov ernor Roberts shed tears, at the ban quet, ivheu Tim Henrly, M. P., was in Austin, gabbling over the wrongs of Ireland. * Or we see I be victims of eariy po litical indiscretion quaffing the um- ber-hued lager in a garden, to the music of a brass band; and on Sun day, too, being folly persuaded that their cradles were rocked on the banks of the Rhine and the Neokar. The yonng men of the country should take warning by the- dreadful examples they see around them, and refrain from taking too mnch stock in politics. Let them rather settle down to journalism, or to some other legit imate and respectable means of ac quiring wealth. If, however, they do catch the infection, if their friendB treat them for it in time, cure can be effected. The symptons of incipient office fever are unmistakable. The first bad sign is excessive thirst, and a dread of being left alone, hence he drags everybody who has a vote into saloons and talks polities to him. The mental hallucinations set in from the start. He raves about imaginary crowds that are going to vote for him and his pulse rnns up to 120 in the shade—of a beer garden. His friends mnst act promptly. The best method is to bleed copiously for campaign expenses, and afterwards put wet blankets on him by telling him he is an 088, and he knows it. Let .each friend borrow five dollars as frequent ly as possible, to consolidate the vot ers. That will make him sick at first, and then he will have lucid intervals daring which be will express doubts as to his being the right man for the position. The bleeding system brings the patient to his senses, and is also very beneficial to the candidate’s friends. They will have all the small change they need. The money should never be returned, as it might bring on a relapse. If taken in time, the patient will rocover. Gradually the red dash will fado out of his nose. He will converse rationally, and laugh over the idiotic remarks he made while laboring nnder the delirium of the disease. Trick* of the Trade Exponcd. i. It. Randall’* Washington Letter. One of the best New York corre spondents writes his letters from this city, and never goes near the place he dates from. A clever Baltimorean contributes a series of European let ters to a prominent journal, which were much better in every way than nine-tenths of the epistles really writ ten from abroad. The best lecture on China and Japan was delivered by an odd genins who never was within five thonsand miles of either country. An Atlanta man once offered to fur nish California correspondence with out leaving Georgia. This kind of ingenuity resembles the method of Thompson, who never in all bis life saw the sun rise, and yet described that phenomenon much better than anybody else. I once asked a witty comrade how he accounted for this success. He answered: "I do not know, bat it may be that an artificial sunrise iB better than the original.” Tbe Story of a litre Written with One Letter. Cradle, christening, colic, cry, cat nip, crawl, candy, croup, castor oil, catechism, chastisement. Collars, conceit, cigars, college, cocktails, croquet, compliments, court ships, cards, congratulations. Conjugality, children, commerce, calculation, credit, crisis, crash, curses, compromise, competence. Care, contemplation, conscience, chnrch, cronies, conversation, ‘chim ney-corner, cough, corpse cemetery. THE INDIAN’S VITIIIK. WiCke.l Bill Nje. The question of what is to be the glorias ultimately of the red man in America, is one which demands of us, as a people, serious consideration.— Will a few denting years extirpate and exterminate from the face of the earth a race which has so long filled our fourth readers and onr school declam ations with crude oratory, oxist only as a smoke-tanned, bead-trimmed momory ? Will the benutiful picture of tho brunette Indiau maiden at last become nothing but tho frontespicce of a time-honored legend and the trade-mark of fine-cut factory ? Let ns hope not. We have crossed the wide ocean and wrested from these people their lands, and then, to add insult to inju ry, we have taught them the mysteries of our civilization. With the white man came the doc trine of vicarious atonement and the open-back shirt. He brought with him tho dictionary and the garden hose, salvation and saleratus. The tale was soon told, and now on the vertebra of the continent the tele phone and the morniiig papers are crowding the red widower and the pigeon-toed scion of Powhattan into the moaning sea. The restless waves of civilization and soap have crowded old Rise-up William Riley and his whole tribe into the black night of forgetfulness and death. Gradually he has picked up his household goods and his wife and upright piano and stolen toward the couch of dying day. Now he stands upon the rooky battle ments that border the new States, and, bathed in red sunlight and noth ing else in particular, he shakes hands with his approaching doom. Had he taken more kindly to the batb-tub of the pale-face, and frater nized more adequately with the crash towel of the European, his oblivion would have been loss speedy, and the block, tom-cat night of eternal sleep less formerly. Silent and unrelenting, unmoved above the broad cemetery of bis peo ple, stolidly awaiting forgetfulness and death, we cannot help admiring the brawny brave with thbundauuted eye and the bnckakin pants with the seat ent out. Nature gave to thee, tbon dusky warrior, strength like the eagle and swiftness in the chaser, bnt in her wisdom denied thee the copper lining that is required to meet and conquer the vintage of a progressive age. The mountain lion may meet thee and yield up his life at thy hands, but the juice of the centipede, that is distilled by the paleface and sold to thee, tangles up thy denodeuam and cracks the crown-sbeet of thy di gester. Brave orator of the schobl book, grim relie of the days of Pocahontas, we watch with tear-dimmed eyeB thy closing hours. Adieu, thou Indian mother standing on the steep; precip itous shores of eternity. Behind thee rest the dead heroes of thy race, and at thy side the brindle relic of a mighty tribe of Indian dogs, fatigue and listless, pets his favorite flea. No one cun look upon this sad and smoky gronp unmoved. The fading rem nants of a glorious petty larceny mob. Had be adopted the Prince Albert coat and tho doctriue of a protective tariff, instead of the ping hat and the whisky sour, his future might have been a resplendent one, and his life less crowded with failure and remorse. We should learn from this to shun tbe errors which have basted the glo rious future of tbo redtnan. Let us profit by his example and eschew the flowing bowl. We should also avoid the exposure of an out-door life. A constant communion with nature and wet feet shorten life, and clouds tbe pathway with gloom and catarrh. Fall ol a Meteor at Iteil-lfeHt I poll the Bottom or Kluakciroii Lake. Chicago Intcr-Oceau. Vessels arriving in Chicago yester day report a most retnurUble oceur- rehce at Muskogon on Friday night. At midnight there was an awful shock heard throughout tbe whole city, ac companied by a bright, sulphuric light, which illuminated the entire surroundings. Grows of crufts in the harbor spruug from their bunks, aud citizens, terribly alarmed, rushed to the windows. Many supposed that a severe thunderstorm bad bnrst upon them; others thonght that the great boilers of some of tbe immense mills had exploded, and not a few attribu ted tbe deafeuiug report to the first crash of "the wreck of matter aud the crash of worlds." When the people, ventured oat shortly afterwards, how ever, they beheld one of the most calm and beautiful moonlight nights ever witnessed. The only explanation of tbe mystery is that a great aerolite fell into Muskegon lake. The following is from the Muskegon Chronicle, received in Chicago last night: “The great mystery is solved by the statement of persons employed in and about the mills in the lower part of the city. They say that a large ball of fire fell iuto Muskogon lake, seemingly striking its surface three or four hundred feet from the shore. James Fiske ■ felt the shock perceptibly, and Mr. Archibald Lee was ‘shaken up' by it; bofchuf these gentlemen were on ’Western avenue at the time. Messrs. Frank Johnson, Levi Beardsley, Charles C. Moulton and Fred Miller, all of whom lodge on Western avenue, state that the baildings' in which they have rooms were shaken by the explosion. Mr. Hugh Leonard, the druggist of lower town,’ who had jnst retired to his room on Western avenue, states as follows: ‘I saw the glare, and it seem ed as though tho entire light was con centrated in my room. At first it ap peared as though my window curtains were wrapt in flames.’ Where the aerolite struck there was great com motion, ‘as though a tou of solid sub stance bad fallon into it Irpm a great height.’ It is currently believed that a great meteoric atone tell, and it may be well for steamers umi sailing ves sels to be guarded for die present while passing tho point where the stone is sapposed to have struck.” •linrr a Punishment for crime. New York Suu. The recent sale of a negro into tem porary slavery in Kentucky has sur prised many persons who were not aware or had forgotten that the Con stitution of the United States dis tinctly recognizes the lawfulness of slavery or involuntary servitude as a punishment for crime. “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except a* a punishment for crime, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist with in the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction." So says tbe thirteenth amendment * There is nothing in the constitu tional amendment to prevent a Stato from making slavery tbe penalty for very trivial offenses. The fact that this has) not been more generally at tempted in the Southern States shows how the sentiments of tbe people have grown away from tbe old slave system. Besides, if a law was passed imposing slavery as a punishment on black culprits it wonld have to apply to White culprits also; and tbo possi bility of a negro owning a white slave would seem unpleasant to the ordina ry legislator.