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vttfUm 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. .. . ■ - 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.