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BRUNBWIOK,
NUMBER 6.
The Advertiser and Appeal,
18 PUTBTjTHHED EVERY SATURDAY, AT
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O. STACY,
Brunswick, Qeorgis.
.ears, J. P. Harrey, F. J. Dow-
jjer, J. 1
Wilder,
M. Cou;
Houston.
H. Bainey, 0. B.
— 1 OITT 0FK0KB8.
Mayor- M. J. Colson.
Aldermen- J.J.S
filnger# 8. C. Little
Policemen—D. B. Goodbreed, W. 1
^Keeper' 'of Guardhouse and CUrk of Market—T>. A.
^°Port Physician—££ Blain.
CUo Physician—J. B. Robins. .
Sexton White Cemetery—0. G. Moore.
Sexton Colored Cmcfory—Jackie W&tte.
Harbor Master—Matthew Shannon.
fl>r( Wardens—Thos O'Connjfr^. *. Wattles, J
II. Dexter.
end
Harbou—Hardy, <
Publio BtULDuroe—Harrey, Ooui
BuLnoane—Wilder, Spears and Hudy.
Enuoanoit—Cook, Con per and Wilder.
CBaaiTT—Spear*, Harrey and Cook.
Fma DXTARxsfurr—Doerflln—
Pome*—WUder, Cook and!
UNITED STATES <
Collector of Customs—H. P. Furrow.
Deputy—H.T.r
Collector Intern
Deputy Marshal-
Postmaster—UnueJIorth. . •
if finoT
OCEAN £OIWH|Noi-’81^A : ^I.
Regular communications of I
tho first and third Mondays In
° Wattingend aU brethren in good standing are tra-
aEFLANDBRS^
temaUy inrited to_attend.
. 8PEA.B8,
Secretary.
Meets erery Tuesday nl^ttat «l{jMoJjjk
. HIB8CH, vT
)U. E. LAEBBIQHT,?. *B. Secretary.
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MILUHHtY!
Miss HETTIE WILLIAMS
IS NOW RECEIVING A LARGE ANDWEUW1E.
LEOTED STOCK OF
Millinery & Fancy Goods,
LACES OF ALL DESCRIPTIONS,
Pattern Bonnets
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in all the Intent jrtgjt.• New York.
OoiIaretteaiLadie8’trnderwear
CHILPBBR'8 DBBS8B8, Etc. ,
Dress-Making a Specially,
l^thamcH^^ghtaatytae, ordgj
A SPEUAIrfW^
Fropoae selling at~prlccV
Never Before Known!
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"jpre.aiy lor this market.
J. B. WRIGHT.
nov25-ly
‘ : INDIAN ROUNDS.
The Ahorictanl Benanlne I
-■ Vi.,- Cent«,
From the Early County He*e.
Sit miles north of Blakely, on the
Mercier plantation,'on Little Colomo*
kee creek, are sbme ancient monnds,
the aoenmnlated labors of a race of
people long since extinct Some
writers have pot the nnmber of these
monnds at six, bntbn a recent visit to
the locality, only four, or rather three
and traces of a fourth, were found,
Of these, two are small, being twen
ty-five feet high, conical in shape,
with a base forty or fifty feet in
diameter; the nearer one, standing
about an arrows’s shot from' the
largest of all, which is by far the
chief object of interest to visitors.
The main mound rises abruptly to a
height of seventy feet, from the bo
som of a comparatively level country.
Its apex or summit is flat, and being
oblong, measures eighty or eighty-
five yards long, and twenty-five or
thirty wide—i-ratber narrower in the
middle than at the ends. The Ipng
diameter points a little west of north
by east ofi'sonth, and: the northern
extremity'is somewhat lower than the
southern. This level plateau is over
grown with : a lnxnrant net-work of
of -videSj high grasses, briars, eta,
with here and there a small tree
Tbe’sides or slopes, however, which
Are quite stetfpj are pretty: tbiokly
studded fill ’ afottadwttb' gigantiaosks
And hickories) together with other
smaller trees, underneath whioh is a
variety'Of such undergrowth as is
common Id the higher portions ,of
oar swAimpy districts. ! The mound
seems to be oomposed of rioh surface
soil, taken, no donbt, from the oir-
cumjacentcountry. ^ Commencing at
1 :— „ 1 . _ n n „ UUUilUUOUb uuuuuj. vuuuwuwug au
SEAPORT ’• ” the southern extremity of the base
and leading ofi in* a northeasterly di
rection; is a little deep ravine or
channel'which has the appearance of
hAVing been once a, spacious under
ground or
COVERED PASSAGE
to the creek, about three hundred
yards distant. Tbe lands lying im
mediately around are now and have
long been in a state of cultivation.
Some years ago ft Bhnft or well was
sunk in the centre of this, the largest
mound, to a depth of sixty feet, and
a stratum of decomposed hnman
bones was passed near the bottom.
Five or six miles to the sontb of these
mounds, and formerly connected
with them by a road or trail, arc
other works, doubtless, of the same
people. They are scattered over
what is now a level eighty-acre field
of very productive land, situated be
tween and nearly surrounded by two
small streams which wander away
from oool clear springs. This field is
called ‘Walnut Fork, from the fact
that until just before the war, when it
was cleared for cultivation, it was al
most literally shaded over by large
walnut tre.es, some of them as much
as four feet thaangh, -In many plaoee,
the decaying tranks of these once
.valuable monsters are standing yet—
that slew tifoft ’. tlonkf they have
■tooAiMitButel tfcww ffUaiE
000 would be a pitiful prioe for Hum.
This field WAa once dotted all over by
NUMEROUS SMALL MOUNDS,
somewhat regularly with disposed
EsIvwKe to a larger oosm the cen
ter. Some of these mounds, too >
were dug into yews ago, and more
than the cohoentric' impressions of
reeds in tbe elayitaad ashes beneath,
nothing of interest was found. In
addition to these evidences and until
i recent years, in nearly all parts of the
human bones and pieces of
eiirthware or pottery Have Veen 'jdW-
ed up. Indigenous to this locality
there is also » peculiar rieed' which
springs np spontaneously and betift
beans ( or berries very mdoh like beads.
These monnds and 'those mentioned
in theontset are not widely dissimilar
to many others in this and other
states of the anion. The large one
on the Savannah river, in Elbert coun
ty, is perhaps more like the Mercier
mound than any in the state, though
not so high. Interesting as are these
evidences of the primitive race which
once roamed and owned our forests,
the ax and plow in some plaoes are
doing much to obliterate them.
Those in Walnut Fork are fast fading
away, and not many years hence the
doaky African as he sings bis idle
song and drags his lazy hoe through
the green growing cotton and waving
corn above, them, will little dream
that he is delving in the das! of no
bler* better men. Not so, however,
with thb Mercier mound.' - Impelled
by some strange impulse, or necessity,
its builders have made it a structure
destined to stand till the end of time
—till the tramp of the resumbtlon
shall awaken thb reposing dust be
neath it and regather the now sleep
ing pebple Over ' tihOae ' habits,
anatoms And history the' hand of
ages has drawn an impenefrAblC* *v4iL
By whom, when, and for what
19 ' HA^STVEWOBX ‘ * 77 * ■
was thrown np, are questions hover
to be answered save by vague oon-
jocturo or nndefihite' speculation.
Whatever the purpose' 'that'' prgod
them on tluppap’b years of w&riness,
and toil to the day of its final com
pletion, it most have been all-absorb
ing, ceaseless, unremitting. Was it
for sacrifice and worship? How
rioh, then, the curling incense that
rose from their smoking oblations,
how many pare prayers ascended
from the dark bosoms {that worship
ped on its summit, to the Great
Spirit 1 If for observation and de
fence in times of war, what ‘stormy
battles, sanguinary straggles, scenes
of carnage, pictures of suffering and
death does this great, grand combina
tion of Human effort silently com-
memofatet But its builders are
gone, and with them, their records,
legends and traditions. They do not
even live in tbe songs and ohronioles
of their exterminators. The period of
their prosperity and power has long
since passed away. As a nation,
their pride and glory have waned and
faded to nothingness and their son
has gone down in tbe gloom of obliv
ion. Their arrows are broken, their
camp fires have died ont, and their
voices are hushed in death. The
Mercier monnd,bnt a pile of earth
though it be, with silent mien and
echless eloquence tells its own
story. The same bright moon and
stars that centuries ago shone and
and twinkled above the embattled
hosts who burled their deadly mis
siles from its bald, bare heights in de
fense of life and liberty, now gleam
and shimmer through the trembling
foliage of hoary frees that spring
from their blood, and towering like
green pyramids in the olonds, spread
their moss-mantled branches over
their crumbling ashes. The dew and
sunshine only foster the wild immor
telles that flower above their sepul
chres, the olonds of heaven weep the
only tears that fail Upon their graves,
and the ' wailing triads chant their
only requiem.
*47. .' m De*errln* Article*
Are always appreciated. The excep
tional cleanliness of Parker’s Hair
Balsam makes it popular. Gray hairs
are impossible with its occasional use.
A'WANTSS THEFT.
a State’s Arcklves and Selling
for Waste Paper.
Ntahvlll# American.
e of the most shameful and out
sets of Vandalism that has ev<
er been chronicled baa occurred at
the State capitol during tlie past few
moUtbs, resulting in tbs wholesale
destruction of the archives of‘the
fssoe; the record of the
Quartermaster’s department of the
United States, inclnding all the docu
ments which affeot tbe Federal sol
diers of this State; six large volumes
of the Supreme Gourt docket, the on
ly copy in existence; nearly all the re
port of Comptroller Gaines; a large
number of volumes of the acts of the
General Assembly, with appendices of
House and Senato, together Vrith an
unknown nnmber of the decisions df
the Supreme Coart A box contain
ing rare books belonging to the Ten
nessee Historical Society was rifled of
its contents, the damage being un
known, save where the books were
found. Among these were some
twelve or sixteen Volumes of Washing
ton’s Correspondence and Messages,
a work of such- extreme rarity that'it
would command any price, being
now ont of print It is almost a cer
tainty that these were sold for waste
paper. Altogether it is one of the
most astounding thefts on record, the
damage to the pnblio being incalcula
ble, while the profits most have been
very limited, as waste paper sells at a
low price. < How the records of the
Supreme: * Court can be replaced, if at
all, ie a mystery, j Many of. the man
uscripts and bookBof the Historical
Sooiety ore of extreme rarity, and can
never be replaced in any way, no otb
er copies being in existence- Who
were the guilty parties is not known,
bnt with the circumstances known, a
clue might be obtained and tbe mat
ter worked apt
min CononH Cheap Dinners.
If tho New .Fork freight : handlers
did not have to do suobhard physical
work, lifting heavy weights; eta, one
of them might get ajoqg on a diet of
oatmeal and rice and soup, As advised
by Miss Corson in her book, “Fifteen
cent Dinnere.” Bnt .what befell a
sturdy stone-cutter,who followed her
advioe might be expected with still
more reason to happen to the freight-
handler. This worthy stone-entter
bought a "Fifteen oent dinner" book
and began to live on sonp and save
money. The resnlt was that in a
month he became so feeble that bis
employer discharged him as unfit for
agopd day’s*work, and it took a
month's rations of tieef and beer to
restore him to normal condition and
enable him to get another place.
For all of which he sues Miss Corson
for damages, having lost s good
plaoe and one month’s pay.
Facts About tbs BrcckljraDrMcs.
Iwtsttn. " l •- ‘ft | -*Ti
The cpnatroction of the East river
bridge,was begun January 3,18TO.—
The length of the riW span is 1,693 capital inw
feet and six inches. The length of * US_J —
each land span is 930 feet. The length
of the Brooklyn approach is
New York approach, 1,632.6 feet; frh
tal length; 5,089 feet; width, 85 feet.
The number of cables is four; diame
ter of each cable, 15] inohes; each ca
ble consists of 5,3001 parallel steel
wires, No. 7. gange, Wrapped to A sol
id cylinder; nltinyrte strength M each
cable, 12,000 tons. The depth of the
Brooklyn is 45 feet; in New Fork, 78
feet. The size of the towers at high
water line is 249 feet by 59 feet. The
total height of the towers above high
water, mark is 277 feet. The clear
height of the bridge iu tbe center of
the-river apart-over high water, as
computed by the bridge engineers,
136 feet. The height of tlie floors at
the. towers above high water mark ia
U9 feet and three inches The grade
of the roadway is 8£ feet in every 100
feet The size of the aoeborageat
the bases 129 by .117 feet, and at the
top llTfeet by 104 feet. The weight
of each ahohor plAte is 28 tons.
Atroclon, Cruelty—Punching Ont the
Eye* of Cattle Before Slaughter.
Chicago Triban,.
The attention of the Humane So
ciety hasjnst been directed to a prac
tice which, if the allegations made in
connection are true, is one of horri
ble ornelty. The practice is one said
to be carried on at James Turner’s
packing-house, corner of Aroher
avenne and twenty-eight street.
When the cattle out there are driven
into the pen preparatory to being
slaughtered, they frequently show
some obstinaoy'dnd an unwillingness
to being driven, particularly when
they catch sight of the pools of blood
drawn from ti» lnokless bovioes who
buys gone bef^e.* 'It fasaid that the
batchers oat there, in order to make
the cattle more tractable, xnook ont
the animals’ eyes an honr or two—
and sometimes longer—before driv
ing them into the slanghteriiig-pen.
After the poor brutes bave jest their
eyesight throjgh^this fiendish opera
tion they become too much afraid and
too uncertain, About themselves to do
mush wild running aropnd. . Com
plaints having reached the Humane
Society that Turner’s, batchers were
lightening their work by this outrage
ous method, Officer Mitchell yester
day .went out to investigate, and he
states that he found a butcher named
Herman EU in-thewery act of blind
ing cattle by blows with u heavy ham
mer, the poor beasts trembling with
the pain inflicted.' Ell was arrested
and locked np at the . Twenty-second
Street station, And there am warrants
ont for the arieet ot J. and M. ‘ Hart
nett, two other butchers at Tuner’s,
who are acctodited with indulging in
tbe same chiel practice.
The brutality of some of the
butchers employed by the wholesale
meat-dealers at Turner’s slaughter
house ofr &ebtt wn&suMiBqbin-
onatrated before Justice Wallace at
the . armoyy'jdtt&rday, . and John
Hartnett, one of the bntehers, was
fined flOO, and Herman Ell, another
of them, was fined |80. The crnel
practice indulged in by these men—
tuat of knocking ont the. eyes of cat
tle before slaughtering them, to make
them more tractable—was folly expos
ed in the Tribune of yesterday.
Six hundred and ninety million
glasses of beer were brewed in Ohio
last year, according to the figures of
-a leading brewer. This amounts to
two hundred and twenty-five glasses
to every, citizen. Of course not all of
fte beer is swallowed by Ohioans;
bnt they never lack forenough. The
business is
thirty!
P“ 6te ifim
rom these figures tbe
e business is realized and the power
of the brewer in Ohio is felt; and it
is to be borne in mind- that Ohjo is
not the first state as a brewer.
b is estimated
■tadffl
It la the H«tefct*rF,Ujr M
To wait until yon are in bed with dis
ease yon may not get over in months,
When yon can be. cured during the
tower foundation below high water in early symptoms by Pari
Tonia Vfe have known tHeXicIltost
familfes made tbe healthiest»by a
timely use of this pore medicina—
Observer. jyl5-lm.