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• The M. fc B. Extenaiori.
In company with lb. Calnan, one
of the contractors for the M. & B. ex
tension at this end of the lino, we vis
ited this week the scene of his labors
his contract for grading being now
finished. The work is pf no mgaii
proportions, as much of it bad to be
bnilt ont in the marsh, a halt mile
sway from dry load. The extension
leaves the main track at the first
crossing with the B. & A. B. R, about
three miles from the oily, and gradu
ally curves to the right until it reach
es the marsh, and then straight across
the same to Turtle river. From the
crossing to the river is about one and
three-qnarter miles. A single track
is bnilt across the marsh to within a
few hundred yards of the river, where
the road-bed begins to widen, reach
ing a width of 527 feet, upon which
are laid seven separate traoks leading
on to the wharf, whioh is 600 feet!
long, with thirteen slips for loading
vessels at low water. We learn that
a large warehouse will soon be bnilt
between the two onter tracks, running
parallel to each, and near by a guano
warehouse. The water is very deep
at this point, the ohannel approach
ing very near the bank. The wharf
proper is abont done, but the crib
bing and platforms leading to it are
not yet complete.
This stnpendons work, the labor of
months, suggests very strongly that
in the near future somebody aims to
do some business over it Certainly
sncb works would not be bnilt simply
to give Messrs. Mineban and Calnan
a job and keep Engineer Palmer ont
of mischief.
As we stood upon that wharf and
looked over the net-work of tracks
leading to it, remembering at the
same time that they were the termi
nus of a grand system stretohing far
away to the North and West, and
then, turning oar vision southward,
took in oar magnificent harbor, we
'gave loose win to our imagination,
and soon had completed a pioture of
possibilities too grand to hope for,
and yet only what we may legitimate
ly look for. Is it too much to expect
in the near future lines of steamships,
from these wharves to New York',
Boston, Philadelphia, and even to
points across the ocean? hit too
much to claim that these are but the
natural results of the termination
within onr borders of this stnpendons
system ? If it pays to transport Wes
tern freights over this system to Jes-
up, would it not pay better to bring
it to Brunswick, and tbns control it ?
And, vice vena, if it pays to carry
goods to the interior from Jesnp,
would it not pay better Still to take it
from Brunswick, and thus utilize this
grand outlay of money above onr
city ? We think it will, and we be
lieve the authorities of the E. T., V.
& G. think it will, and, to that end,
will utilize this property oe suggested,
OEN
THE
He has felt the Pan«* ot Hunarer lor
a Life Time-30 Years Since he
Has had a Square Meal.
Mortuary Report
Of the city of Brunswick, Ga., for
the first six months of the year 1882
UfTUUIZXTa I* OAK OKOTE OKKETXBT.
Adults
Children under ten years of sge
Sailors
Total
mman a colobxd csauiur.
Adults
Children under five year. of sge ...........4
Totsl...
UCAnTWLAKOV.
...:V.ia
EtratATKS PO pennon.
White —
Colored
...,1000
....woo
Total
....mo
James & Blum, M. D„
Health Officer C. B.
A. V. Putnam.
This well known gentleman and
merchant has an advertisement in
this issue. In addition to his gro
cery business, he makes a specialty 0
harness of all kinds, doable and sin
gle, plain and fancy, and, in fact, al
most everything necessary in the
equipment of horses and vehicles.—
A fine lot of shoes have also lately
been added to his stock. Mr. Putnam
is too well known personally to onr
people to need any word of commend
ation.
Tl\e story we are
seems increditab]
human being possessing the stomach
of an ox in its capacity to bold—but
to onr story. Hearing that -it. negro
man in onr town had eaten twenty
loaves of break and six ponndB
raw bacon at one sitting, we set ont
to get the particulars, and learned
the following from those who witness
ed the feat. He had agreed to eat
twenty loaves of bakers bread and
one dollars worth of white bacon,
provided the parties present would
foot the bill; if he failed, he wonld
pay for what he ate. With this un
derstanding he set ont and in a few
minutes had eaten nine loaves .of the
bread and quite a quantity of the ba
con. At this juncture the by-stan
dors interfered and wonld not let
him finish the feat, which incensed
the chap very mnch, who remarked
as he went away that it was the first
time in thirty years that he has had
a fair chance to eat a square meal and
they wonld not let him get it This
much is vouched for by scores of
men white and colored who saw him
do the eating. Wishing to know
something of this wonderful cbarac
ter we sought him ont this week and
interviewed him, and for the benefit
of onr readers will give what be says
of himself. Telling him onr mission
he began:'
“Well, sir, my nameisGenl. Pinker,
I am sixty-nine years old and was
raised near Norfork Virginia. I have
been married seven times, am now
living with my seventh wife—all the
rest are dead. I am the father of
forty-seven children—all twins but
one. Have been in Georgia four
years. I don’t drink whiskey, got
so use for it Hav’nt bad a square
meal in thirty years. Am hungry all
the time. I now weigh 195 pounds,
used to weigh over 200. I can stand
in my track and tom nine somersaults
without stopping: I can split five
hundred rails 9 day the year round
and gain every Saturday. Gan throw
a blacksmith hammer with any man
living, and in slavery times was worth
a mint of money for my old master
who used to run a blacksmith shop
for the neighborhood.
“Yon say, Tinker, that yon have not
had a square meal in thirty years,
what did yon eat at that time ?”
“Eightheon shad sir, and bread ac
cording.”
“Didn’t yon get enough to eat at
the barbecne ?”
“Which, Mr. Dunn’s barbecne?
Well I come mighty nigh it, I eat
the major part of a fore-shoulder of
a beef that day.”
“Now tell me, Pinker, did you oat
anything last Saturday sight besides
the nine loaves of baker’s bread and
the bacon?”
“Yes sir, after I knocked off work
that evening I eat two watermelons
and six five cent pies and after they
wonld’nt let me eat my twenty loaves
I went home and the oldUdy sot me
ont eleven biscuit, a big chunk of
shoulder meat and big pot of coffee.
I eat all that np and wanted more.
I tell yon boss I can eat more than
any man I ever saw and can do on
as little as any man but I stay hun
gry all the time, I wish I could get
some man to take me and feed me
and give me one dollar a week for my
work I’d take the job, bat before a
great while he’d be a busted man—
Td eat him out of bones and home.
We give the above interview for
what it is worth, we bavo only
Flnker’s word for it, bnt bis exploits
with the bread and white bacon last
Friday night prepares ns to accept a
good deal of it Before leaving him,
we suggested that. he. show ns
specimens of his agility in somer
saulting. He said be conld show ns
a hand-turn or two, bnt did not like
to somersault as it unfitted him for
lifting heavy lumber. In a moment
more he slipped off bis shoes and was
soon vaulting through ’the air like
a circus man and apparently only 25
year of age, bounding like a ball
when bis feet touched ground.
He is certainly a wonderful man.
‘%F
Regular Seating, August 3d, 1883.
Council met Present, His Honor,
M. J. Colson, Mayor, and Aldermen
Harvey, Wilder,}- Ha?<ty, lAtUotMA
and Spears. Absent, Aldermen Cook,
Conper and Doerfiinger.
The minutes of last regular
meeting Mere read and confirmed.
The appeal cases of W. J. Williams,
J. L. Beach and W. G. Bennett were
continued to an adjourned meeting to
be held at 11 a. u. on the 3d inst.
Bead a communication from J. W.
Wallace, agent, asking Council to
grant him a license to retail spiritu
ous and malt liquors on Oglethorpe
street, accompanied by the consent of
heads of nearest families except one,
and withont a protest from him,
which was, on motion of Aid. Harvey,
reoeived and granted.
Bead a communication from D. J.
Dillon, asking Council to grant him
farther compensation for time and
trouble spent in arbitrating certain
matters on the part of the city, which
was referred to the Finance Commit
tee. * * ■
Bead a communication from D. J.
Dillon, asking Council to refund him
certain license money for his hall on
Bay street, as the same was not now
used as a public hall, which was re
ceived and laid on the table.
Bead a communication from Isaac
Meyers, asking permission to bniid a
warehouse of wood on Oglethorpe
street, near the foundry of J. S. Barns,
which was reoeived and laid on the
table. s
Bead a communication from the
Board of Education, enclosing a copy
of a resolution requesting Council to
furnish the Board with a detailed
statement of taxes and leases received
from Town Commons lots from April
30tb, 1881, to Jane 30,1882, which
was reoeived, and the Clerk and
Treasurer instructed to furnish the
statement. The communication also
contained a statement of the receipts
and disbursements of the Board from
July 1,1881, to June 30, 1882, which
was received and referred to the com
mittee on education, and ordered to
be published and filed.
The committee on police reported
that policeman D. B. Randolph had
been repotted as leaving bis beat and
going sailing for a half honr; that he
had plead gnilty and promised future
diligence, and asked lenienoy, and
that they recommended a fine of $5,
which was received and adopted.
The committee on police reported
that policeman W. D. Mclver bad
been found gnilty of neglect of dnty,
and recommended that be be dis
charged from the force and a succes
sor elected. The report was received
and adopted.
The committee on police reported
that policemen Randolph and Gordon
had been reported as having been
present at a chicken fight ob the
premises of Messrs. Doerfiinger A Da
vidson on or about July 14th; that
they had investigated the matter, and
found that they had been present on-
for the purpose of preserving or
der, having been instructed to do so
a previous fight by the Marshal.—
The committee recommended that, un
der tho circumstances, the policemen
be fined $6 each, and the Marshal $15,
for allowing the chicken fight on or
about the 4th of July. The report
was received and adopted.
The committee ou fire department
reported adversely to tlje petition of
Mrs. Bridget Golden for permission
bniid of wood on Bay loteramber
seven, which was reoeived and adopted.
The committee on fire department
reported that they had considered the
proposition of C. P. Tnrnley to ba3d
cisterns of a certain size for $200, bnt
the cisterns bnilt on the plan sug
gested wonld be practically worthless,
they would reoommend-that the prop
osition be not entertained, whioh was
received and adopted.
The committee on fire department
reported adversely to the petition of
T. Lambright for permission to
erect a two-story frame building on
the southern section of Old Town lot
number 119, for the re son that there
rrt-
U tect /brick
is now ample gpaee to pro’
buildings if erected, whicii would not
then be the case, which was received
and adopted.
The Clerk and Treasurer and Mar
shal submitted $hefr reporta for the
pM8#W$, exadthed and found
correct, which were received and or
dered to be published and filed.
The Harbor Master submitted his
report of the arrival of vessels daring
the month of Jaly, which was received
and ordered to be filed.
By Aid. Wilder: Resolved, Thaba
committee of three be appointed
whose duty it shall be to .take into
consideration the practicability of
feeding and keeping the city prison
ers, and report upon the same at the
next regular meeting of Oonnofl.
The resolution, on being seconded,
was unanimously adopted. His Hon
or named the committee as follows:—
Aid. Wilder, Harvey and Hardy.
By Aid. Harvey: Resolved, That
the policemen shall, in future, take all
offenders to police headquarters be
fore allowing them to give bond.
The resolution, being seconded, was
unanimously adopted.
By Aid. Littlefield: Resolved, That
a committee of one be appointed,
whose dnty it shall be to open negoti
ations with parties now engaged iu
boring artesian wells, and obtain es
timates for boring one in this city.
The resolution, being seconded, was
unanimously adopted. His Honor
named Aid. Littlefield as the commit
tee. ,
By Aid. Spears: Resolved, That His
Hqnor, the Mayor, be instructed to
proceed at once to have a bill of in
junction filed restraining the Board
of Education from dividing the mon
ey received from the academy fond
with the country schools.
The resolution, on being seconded,
was unanimously adopted.
Messrs. J. H. McCullough and R. D.
Meader were appointed Fire Wardens
by His Honor, the Mayor, with the
advioe and oonsent of Council.
Bills amounting to $719*45 were
submitted by the finance committee,
and ordered paid.
Council then took a recess until 11
o’clock a. m., on Thursday, 3d inst.
M, J. Colson,
Attest: Mayor.
Jas. Houston, Clerk of Council.
intention of taking a few week’s rec
reation at Catooea, and the lady read
ily declared her approval of the plan,
and remarked that she would take
pleasure in aooompanying him. Her
liege lord saw the matter differently,
and gently remarked, “That will nev
er do, my dear, for you are now tak
ing Anti-Fat, and the mineral water
would have an entirely different ef-
fect—yon know yon don’t like large
a le." The lady wilted, and her
and will go to the springs, while
she will be forced to console herself
with Anti-Fat.
1=
ion oi ; iH)e shops in HurM
im-resc .mr population'no
2,000, and bring bnndredB
ends of dollars in onr ooffere annually.
Anti-Fat yu. the Spring*.
A lady of onr acquaintance recent
ly petitioned for and commenced the
use of Anti-Fat to reduce her avoir
dupois. Her husband, a week) or two
later, became < ,
his great thinness,
onaccopnt of
d expressed bis
Other Tima* and other Men.
Under date of June 28th 1838,
nearly fifty years ago, we find at the
head of column of the Brunswick
Advocate the names of the following
gentlemen of Georgia, candidates for
electiou the following October :
STATE BIOHTB TICKET FOB CONGRESS.
Thomas Butler King, of Glynn,
William C. Dawson, of Greene.
Julius O. Alford, of Tronp.
Walter T. Colquitt, of Muscogee.
R. W. Habersham, of Habersham.
Edward J. Black, of Soriven.
Mark A. Cooper, of Hall.
Eugenios A. Nesbit, of Bibb.
Lot Warren, of Sumpter.
BRUNSWICK MARKET.
OFFICE ADVERTISER AND APPEAL. I
Bkukiwick, Ga., Auguat 8,1883. j
Below w« quota price* current for to-day:
OOTXOfl.
Good Ordinary Mi
Ordinary Vt
Bough country..
NATAL ROBES.
Tho East Tonne
i ayutam.
Chattanooga Time*. . _ . c ^
Mai or O’Brien, superintendent of
the East Tennessee, Virginia and
Georgia system, arrived in the city
yesterday morning in bis beautiful
special car, to supervise the location
of their tracks in the depot and in
ject business matters at this point,
e spent only a few hours in the city,
returning to Knoxville at noon.
A Times reporter had a few mo*
meats' conversation wittt him on mat
ters of interest to onr city and glean
ed some important facts.
He states the line from Macon to
Atlanta will be finished in forty days,
and the line from Bed Clay to Olte-
wah in two or three weeks. When*
these branches are completed a regu
lar train will be ran from Chatta
nooga via Ooltewah, Borne and At
lanta to Macon, and probably to
Brunswick, with a tbrongb car to
Jacksonville. This will be a very im
portant line for onr city, as it opens
an entire new outlet to the sea, and
it will stand in dose competition
with other lines leading from the city
and certainly effect more advantage-
one freight rates to all competing
points.- This train will be separate
and distinct from other trains of the
system.
In regard to shops Mr. O'Brien did
not speak so freely. He says that
the company will bniid a stnpendons
plant, which will be the chief shops
of the entire system, while the shops
—White oak |M 80, water oak
aah or oak, <18 00, par 1.000. da-
window glam 83 UK.
8ram Torn* Oil* and whiakaya, ao.vo;
regular*, 41*0.
CRUDE TURPENTINE,
dip 39, old dtp S3 00, par barrel ol 380
pound*
Basra STA’
Urercd ln'unmawlck.
SUPPLIES.
Bacok—Clear rib aide*. 18ei Bhouldara, lllio;
ham*, ITo; dry aaltaa clear rib aid**, lSkfejlosg
mixed, 98c; cate 07;
bran, 31 SO.
Har-Northem, *1.10; Eaateru, |1J0; Western
‘»I* n 1 »V.,Jta F .arilul,H..
Flock—8uperdue, $6 l“*pft 00; extra, 38 MS
$7 00; flunlly, «T MSI 00; fcney, |9 25013 80;
choice patent. 8» 00®10 00; baker*’*825018 80.
HidwTwool, Etc.—Bide*, dry flint, 13c; **1 ted
lllo. Wool—Unwaahed, frea of burr*. In bale*.
9011c.
prim*, SOo; In bag*.
UeiSo; vary tor
ITo; otter akin*.
»sax
NAVAL STORES FREIGHTS.
and apMta, 3«. M4M, Od. to United
_ eminent direct; Baltlo direct, asm*
.i New Tort. ASeoo roaln, 00a on aplrlta; to
noM, 80c on roaln. TOo on aplrlta.
Shipping Intelligence.
now at Memphis, Knoxvil(e .i
other points on the line will ’
serve as auxiliaries. These main
shops will be probably the largest in
the sonth and their constraction is
only the question of a few month*.
He stated that work will begin on
them certainly within a year. As to
location be was unable to speak* and
stated that the matter is now under
advisement and a conclusion will soon
be reached. We suggested Chatta
nooga as the most available point,
and he replied that its advantages
were apparent and recognized by
them, bnt its high taxes and little dis
position to eneonrage enterprises
militated against her. He acknowl
edges this locality as the central point
of the system, and intimates that with
proper effort on the part of onr city
we can eecnre this prize. Sncb it
prill unquestionably be, os the Iocs-
arrivals.
July 20—Sp fag Cld. Llopla, Baras*,
> OXPA
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