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mm*; .1 Hi i VOLUMB^IIlr»ii.-' it* ., j ijf <i»alt it'll! • -—■ 1 —-1 tow, / jjghgj BRUNBWIOK, NUMBER 6. The Advertiser and Appeal, 18 PUTBTjTHHED EVERY SATURDAY, AT BBUNSWim. - GEORGIA, rP ^iTACY. gnbicrlptlou Bate*. »?» TdvertUements from responalbl# partiMwlU be published until ordered out, when thet me is aot > s P eclflod^snd^>sjunentj*s»eted^cordlngly. " launta, Oommunii 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. r.H.o. MILUHHtY! Miss HETTIE WILLIAMS IS NOW RECEIVING A LARGE ANDWEUW1E. LEOTED STOCK OF Millinery & Fancy Goods, LACES OF ALL DESCRIPTIONS, Pattern Bonnets jjc- ’ .A 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! - . -..... ,(▼ etc "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.