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I. a. STACY. Editor uA Froprjgto
BRUNSWICK.
Oartrell will speak
to-day. t - T -
The Secretary of the Navy is on
his annual tour of inspection of the
fiaval stations He visited Norfolk
on ihe llth. _ ^ ■
Wake np Democracy or yon will oc-
copy the book seat. Independents
are getting asthiokaspig tracks in
the pipe barrel.
The first, wife beater to be lashed
under the late act of the Maryland
Legislature is David Gardner, colored,
of Baltimore, who will in a few days
receive thirty lashes.
Honolulu is to be lighted by
“electric towers” and several street
railways are projected there. A cable
will soon be laid to oonneot the city
with various Hawaian Islands
Johnson county,' at a Democratic
meeting on Wednesday last, sent del
egates to the Congressional Conven
tion, to be held in Augusta, favorable,
to the eleotion of Hon. J. K. Hines,
of Washington county, to represent
the' Eight Congressional district.
—•
A. D. Candler has been nominated
as the Democratic candidate for Con-
gaess in the Ninth.
A young Jacksonville negro was ar
rested in New York on the arrival of
the steamer Atlanta, charged with
stealing $300 from a woman in Jack
sonville. He affirms his innocense,
but will be returned to Jacksonville.
There were fifty-eight cases of den
gue fever at Cedar Keys last week,
none of which were fatal. The
Health Officer reports the sanitary
condition of the city, with reference
to local and climatic condition affect
ing pnblio health, as not good.
Dick Little, a member of the
James band, has been arrested in
Kansas City, oharged with complicity
in the robbery of United States Pay
master at Mussel Shoals, Ala., on
March 11th, 1881. The amount
taken was $5,200.
CoL Charles* R "smith, of the
19th U. S. Infantry, on doty on the
Bio Grande, has begged to be reliev
ed of oonrt martial dnty to which he
was appointed, giving hiB reason that
his regiment is exposed to yellow
fever, and he does not wish to leave
them. _
Congressman Geo. &. Black, in a
recent letter thus compliments our
townsman, Col. Collins. Speaking
of the last campaign, he says: I am
satisfied that the Bepnblican party
ean secure no greater campaign fond
or prevent no stronger candidate than
it did in the last election."
The White Snlphnr Spring has been
purchased by Mr. White, of Cairo,
Ga., and will be vastly improved.
The natural beauty of the place is
very mnoh in its favor, and all who
know it, and have enjoyed its wonder
ful health-giving'water, wiU rejoioe in
the improvement of the dear old
“Bustio City’s" glorious spring, with
its eternal flow of three hundred
hogsheads of pore snlphnr water per
minute. *■ *■ !i *■“
There was recently a meeting held
in Griffin, Gha, of persons who claim to
have reached “perfect holiness and
entire sanctification." Strange to say
all the members of that convention
still live on earth. This remind os
of a preacher we know of in Georgia,
who once said in a pulpit in Chatham
, county, that he, “bud not sinned .ip
three years and that if he should
die that night and go to the bad
place he oonld climb np the walls of
b—1 and cry injustice, injustice! un
til every spark of fire was extinguish
ed." That preacher came very near
losing a wife for ^bat speech, for his
intended fatber-in-Iaw told him be
did not want bis daughter to marry
that sort of a man, as he might die
too soon.
SENATOR HILL READ.
After months of illness, the illustri
ous statesman, Hon. Benjamin H.
Hill, passed away on Wednesday last.
‘ tellect-
Bat
of bis eli
and the
s his loss.—
has issued a proc
lamation inviting all State offiicials to
attend the obBequisa tiHitty in the city
of Atlanta. .. .
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YELLOW FEVER IN THE SOUH-
WWM 1 .
The southwestern edge of the Unit
ed States, bordering on the Bio
Grande and Mexico, is being scourged
by that dreadful pestilence, yellow fe
ver, and great fears are entertained of
its obtaining a foothold in Galvestoff,
New Orleans, Pensacola, and other
Golf port The scourge at present
seems to be principally confined to
Matamoras and Brownsville, Texas,
where a great many deaths have oc
curred. The situation in Matamoras
was improving at last advices, the fe
ver dying out in the centre of the city
and confining itself to the suburbs.
Again we are reminded of the im
portance and necessity for quarantine
provisions of the most stringent char
acter, with thorough sanitary regula
tions as an extra precaution, iu all
towns and cities where there may be
the slightest danger of such diseases
being brought within their borders.—
Quarantine is the only preventive and
protection, and that official who is lax
in the performance and enforcement
of that quarantine is guilty of a crim
inal neglect. The greatest danger
arises from a thought of no danger—&
feeling that “it’s all right, and I guess
no harm can come of it.” Those Tex
as towns pow going through the fire
were doubtless lax in their quarantine
against some place where they
thought there was no danger. In
conclusion, we urge upon our own of
ficials the importance of constant and
unceasing watchfulness. Our little
city’s future is too bright to afford a
repetition of 1876, to say nothing of
the value of the preciouslives it would
cost.
There lives in MoDonough, Henry
county, Mr. J. H. Lester, who is 118
old, having been born in Bock-
B “a, in 1769.
the re'
ven years
‘ the womei
iries with
a skirmish
he received two cuts on the head from
a sabre. He served under General
Floyd during the war of 1812.
Sherman's army destroyed all hisi„
iroperty. His wife is dead and
iis sons Mve been! killed in : battle, or
have died, and he is now old and in
And Items'of Interest in
Around Them.
firm, deg
port.
Col. Wm. M. Wadley, the great
railroad king of Georgia, died sad
denly at Saratogo last Friday whilst
walking along the street with his
wife and daughter. His remains were
brought to Atlanta and there met by
a special car and special friends and
taken to Bolingbroke Station, a few
miles from Maoon, where it . was in
terred in the presence of an immense
throng of people. He was buried
with Masonio honors. Thus has
passed away anjupright, honest man—
one whose life is a pattern for others
to follow., Many are tho conjectures
as to who bis successor shall be.
Some think Col. Alexander, others
Captain Baoul. Many and varied lire
the conjectures of the probable fate of
Central stock. Of one thing we are
sure, there will he a change in the
schedule, eta, of the road.
The Parle tlouwe.
Wtrerou Reporttr.
The piers,and foundation of this
magnificent hotel was laid last 'Wed
nesday, the frame raised Thursday,
and now it is fast assuming the ap
pearance of a house of no mean di
mensions. It will contain twenty
elegantly finished rooms, ‘sixteen of
which will have fire places. It
owned by Moore and Dixon, and will
be ooenpied by Mrs. C. B. Vandyke,
the wife of the present popular keep
er of the railroad restaurant, a
lodging house for the travelers, who
will be famished with meals from the
restaurant The building is being
done by the intrepid Herbert Mur-
& , who puts things through with
tning speed when be undertakes
them.
Jesup Sentinel: “One of the boil
ers of Johnnie McDonough’s mill,
located at No. 6 M. & B. B. It, burst
about 3 o’clock on Saturday the 5th
inst Fortunately no one was serious
ly hurt The necessary repairs have
been made and everything is in good
working order again. One of the
negroes was so badly frightened that
he ran over a stump and sustainhd
some injuries. He thinks “you jis as
well kill a feller us to scur him to
deffi”
indent on charity for-sup- -hillsides one
county gives Uiun five
nrv c .... _
dollars for his support every three
months.—Constitution.
The above old veteran has indeed
seen a large proportion of the scenes
and events connected with the histo
ry of the world daring his long
life, and, we may suppose, also a large
quantity of the ups and dowhd in
cident upon a passage through this
vale of tears. A life prolonged to
such a length as his must, it seems to
us, have been filled with good deeds.
He must certainly have lived strictly
in accordance with the laws of nature
and humanity to have attained to such
an Usually ripe old age, and it seems
sad that in his last days, after giving
his best years to his people and his
country, should be in snchjstraighten-
ed circumstances—dependant upon
oharity for the sustaining of his life
and upon the potter’s field for a final
resting place. He is certainly more
entitled to a small pittance from the
millions annually dispensed in pen
sions thafi many of the quondam sut
lers and quartermasters’ clerks that
now draw their pap therefrom, and
we believe that if the citizens of bis
county would take the matter in band
a sufficient sum might be obtained
from the public cofier to enable his
hoary head to bloom in peace for the
remainder of his days. We hope the
effort may be made.
Hanlon on Independents.
Bro. Hanlon, after urging the
Democracy of Worth to renewed zeal,
thus empties a broadside into Inde
pendents. He says.:
“It is a waste of time to endeavor
to convince us that a man can be an
Independent and a Democrat at the
same time. He must be of one politi
cal belielf or another, and the implied
assertion that an individual can put
on the Independent harness in order
to win a victory in some local issue,
without injuring hiB standing as a true
Democrat, will not bear the crucial
test of impartial criticism. Such an
Independent might vote the Demo
cratic tioket in national and State
elections, but so long as he bids de
fiance to the organized Democracy
of his county, which is a component
part of the organized Democracy of
the United States, and calls upon the
people to sanction such defiance by
voting to place him in office, no mat
ter what the issue may be, just so
long will it be apocryphal to term him
a true Democrat, because bis course
tends to the disruption of the latter
party.
A Rare Ourloaity.
TbomuTille Timei.
Mr. Alexander S. Ballard informs
us that he had, a few days since, (but
had killed it)* quite a curiosity, in the
shape of a deformed pig. The fore
legs came out at the usual place, but
ran back, along the side, until the hi]
joints of the hind legs were reached
when they turned down, the hind
legs, following the example of the
fore ones, run forward, from the hip
joint, until they reached the shoulders,
when they turned down. Piggy, as
will be readily understood, thus walk
ed with his hind legs' in front, and
his fore legs behind. Each foot hod
five toes. The pig was otherwise well
developed. Mr. Ballard, unfortunate
ly, killed it at three days old.
r - — ■ —°ot—to see the
country^?)—accompanied by a com
petent guide, to visit a newly married
female cousin near Dry Lake settle
ment, said to be some seven or eight
miles distant Aftejr having walked
as I thought, aboht 1 that' distance at
z zz ^ oi.
.hawgon hod, often
started for the northeastern portion
of the county, sixteen miles, to luxu
riate and grow fat on the products, ol
a farm, and visit some “oonntry cous
ins,*’Orer rocks and pebbles (natives
of this country), up the steep, red
The following is a statement of the
appropriations for ten fiscal years,
os officially reported by the Treasury
Department:., ..
1573—Republican t'onjreee *154.216,751
1*74—Republican Congreee...... 17*490,700
187J—Republican Oon«ret* 153,17,768
1875—Republican Congreee .141.714.940
1877— Democratic Honee Ut.Ul.010
1878— Democratic Honee ..114.080.483
1879— Democratic Honee 171,010,816
1880— Democratic Houae ..101,401.0*7
1881— IKmocraUc Congreee 144,118,21]
1882— Democratic Congreee. 177,889,114
The above figures tell the story of
Bepnblican extravagance. The ap
propriations for the fiscal vear 1883
(from June 3,1882 to July 1, 1883)
exceed those of the previous year by
$116,403,883, and are greater than the
average for the last ten years by
$140,907,044.
gully the next,
at an angle of forty-five degrees (as a
matter of course causing an nneasy
motion of said novel seat, and more
than once throwing one end from its
support, precipitating the unsoepebt-
ing “greeny” in the bottom of tbe
wagon with an emphasis that threat-,
ened the dislocation of bis spinal col
umn, and exposing to the midday
sun the soles of his number tens), ren
dering the ride anything but monoto
nous, sped the noble span of old gray
moles, nntil my destination was
reached—a residence in the neigh
borhood of Tsllokas.
This location was certainly a grand,
a beautiful one. Spread ont before
and around me was one vast area of
thousands of acres of well cultivated
land, with only a line fence to mark
the different plantations of hundreds
of acres each. The cotton fields,
white as snow—truly a new and beau
tiful sight to me—seem to indicate a
yield fully up to the expectations of
the most sanguine farmers. Brooks
county farmers have engaged more
particularly in planting corn this year,
cotton being a secondary considera
tion, and they unanimously agree
that Brooks will raise enough bread
for home consumption and to give to
her less industrious sister counties a
good, generons hoe-cake besides.—
Cane, potatoes, etc., all seem to prom
ise a bountiful supply.
Having a great desire to see a fair
sample of the fair sex of this section
and Brooks county in particular, I
availed myself of an offered opportu
nity to visit a Sunday sohool picnic
at or near the county line, where were
assembled about five hundred picnio-
ers from Boston, Quitman and Thom-
nsvillo, and I must confess that it was
an awful struggle to retain a firm
grasp npon that little article known
among wonld-be lovers as the “heart.”
Soffice it to say, tbe beanty of Brooks’
fair maiden cannot bo excelled by
even old Glynn. There did abound
—not angels’ food—bat an abundance
of such wholesome, substantial food
as first-class farmers produce, of
which all heartily partook—some with
more speed than grace—after which
came “love and music,” with a pre
dominance of love-makiDg, all of
which I took in with a jealous eye, es
pecially when I saw a great, big, bur
ly farmer waltz np by tbe side of and
go off with my idea of “qneen of love
and beauty.” I still survive.
Mr. Editor, were it possible for
buttermilk and “sich” to intoxicate
man, I wouldn’t often have been able
to tell my own name, apd, as it was,
I was often pretty “tight,” and more
than once reluctantly left the table,
sighing for the capacity of yonr Gen
eral Flnker.
Learning that I was from Bruns
wick, Mr. Tim Brice, a well-to-do far
mer, sought me ont and asked for in
formation regarding a certain well
known druggist of that city, with
whom be bad been in correspondence
concerning a certain race-colt off#!
which be is the happy possessor.
Mr. Brice states that he is still ready * eta 1 o:
to put ber against tbe State, and
states that she easily makes one-quar
ter of a mile in 18 seconds, or about
73 feet per second, or, at tbe same
rate, a mile in less than a minute andl
a quarter—a spqpd seldom, if ever, ac
quired by the average Southern rail
road engine. Snoh a statement seems
almost incredible, bnt this is what the
gentleman claims for Ms “creetur.” I
am no jadge of horseflesh, bnt mast
ssy she is a beautiful animal, and is as
gentle as a lamb. Mr. B. is anxious
to try his animal against tbe celebrat-
ed Hancock, owned by Mr. T. W
Lamb. ^
of the hospitality
the neighborhood of
np
in the distance, my guide casually re
marked, “this is what,I call half way
ground.” I felt mad enongh to eat
him, as l-thought of the distance still
to* be traveled. I didn’t, however,
bnt trudged along, and presently
came to a belt of land that bad been
completely stripped of all timber, and
that indefatiguable guide, noting my
look of wonderment and surprise, re
named; by way Of explanation, “this
is the work of a. sow-coon" (cyclone.)
Arriving at my destination about
dusk, no artist can paint or pen de
scribe tbe horror—the chagrin—de
picted pn the countenance of tbe
writer when it was discovered that
the inmates of the “log cabin” were
absent 1 A forty-male team could not
have palled me farther that night, so,
after going in, and sapping on the
frait of a pomegranate-tree, and going
through with numerous and divers
trioxs, and rending the air with mirth
ful song, I torned in, only to be oust-
en about midnight by tbe runaways.
Next morning I was carried to
Dixie, “the lamfpf cotton,’’ on a ve
hicle drawn by a noble span of
“horned ponies." As I beheld' the
extensive white cotton fields in this
vicinity, I thought that Dixie was
really a “land of cotton,” with a good
sprinkling of oorn and potatoes.—
Dixie seems to be on a boom. Land
itiiat, only a few years ago, oould have
beep bought for seven or eight dollars
per acre, cannot now be bought for
fifty. Canse—the people are awake
to a new industry, as it were. Ootton
will now take a back seat and give
the watermelon a chance. Everybody
and bis grandfather are going into it
head, ueok and shoulders. The peo
ple, too, in this neighborhood are
highly elated oyer the present very
cheering prospect of a railroad from
jbhat “burg” to Montioello, Fla., thns
giving an independent outlet to tbe
denizens of that locality. I am relia
bly informed that the proper author
ities have surveyed ont and bonght
np the, right Of way, This, too, tends
to enhance the value of lands in this
section.
Bnt I did not tarry long in Dixie,
for the Savannah bound train appear
ing at this time, I crawled aboard,
and-I was soon again in Q., where I
remain a Tew days longer.
| W)r „ N.H.G.
t & Shower *ot Frogs.
DeKalb County Now*.
Mr. J. T. White, of this county
was returning from Atlanta on Thurs
day lpst in his wagon, and when a
3 this sid© of Edge wood depot
was caught in a pretty hard shower
of rain and frogs. Mr. White says
that the frogs fell so thick in the road
that it was impossible to avoid run
ning over them, with hi« wagon. We
have before heard of this freak, but
it is tbe first time we have had it from
one so reliable as Mr. White and an
ay wjfofoA. ■ _ _ mvW
An exchange Bays : “The Central
Bailroad will Boon have the new
stock which was ordered sev-
d? the fast trains
t on on tbe 1st of
ines and three
cars—fifteen" in all—will he
for a trade-$300 cash. He propose© ^tbStio^expr^ and mail car,
sides
ipr
car and three coaches, be*
. re. It has not been au-
uouocedyet what the scbednle will
be, bnt tbe trains will leave Atlanta on
the arrival of one of the Western and
Atlantic trains, which oome in at tbe
following boors : 8:40 p.m., 3:58 a.
m., and 1:40 p. m. The time from
Atlanta to Maoon will be about three
hours.
Forty-seven miles of the Pensaco
la & Atlantic Bailroad are open to
the passage of trains.