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YELLOW FEVER.
Aa usual at tl
carried by silly
SATURDAY Ml
Atlanta DOW bts with]
another new paper—the Greenback
Gance. What next ?
A fleet of forty vessels from Key
West are gathering sponge off Ardot
and Clear Water harbors, Fla.
The highest point in Florida is in
Gadsden county, three miles east of
Chattahoochee, the elevation being
three hundred feet above sea level.
Fire wood in Key West cost $9 per
cord, and next winter it will probably
be advanced to $16. None can be
bad less than seventy-five miles from
the city.
Col. Sumner Baker of Charlton is
reported as coming out for Congress'
man in the First Congressional Dis
trict rather on the “still hunt” style,
making no public announcement.
Won't, Mr. Stephens do us the fa
vor to come down to the seacoast and
give the party n lift ? There are a
whole “passel” of independents in
this section that must be hammered
back into line. Besides, we low-
country folks, many of us, have never
seen the great statesman.
The Savannah Recorder speaking
of the coming race says that there
will be three candidates in the field
for Congressional honors. Warren
of Savannah, Nicbolls of Blackshear,
and Black of Screven. Black will go
into the convention with 16 votes,
Warren with 18, and Nioholls with
12. It speaks of a “dark.horse.”
Dr. Bliss is very moderate in bis
charges for attending President Gar
field. He says his pecuniary losses
during the time he attended the
President, and during his subsequent
ill health caused by over exertion,
amounted to $16,000, and he thinks
be should receive as compensation for
losses and services to the late Presi
dent $26,000.
The war in' Egypt still continues,
the English vitorions in every en
counter, slaying the enemy by hun
dreds and losing very few men them
selves. A general advance seems the
order of the day and Arabi Bey hud
better look well to his position or ho
may wake up Borne fine morning and
find himBolf in the hands of his pur
suers.
Hon. J. J. Clements of tho Seventh
District has respectfully declined to
divide time with Dr. Felton who has
invited him so to do. Mr. Clements
reoalls to Dr. F. the treatment re
ceived at his hand two years ago and
says ho does not care to have it re
peated, and furthermore that only
strife would be engenered by their
joint discussions. Dr. Felton’s last
defeat has made him decidedly more
respectful to his superiors.
The Savannah Echo, edited by
some Savannah colored men thus
gives a bit'Of information tonching
Brunswick politics:
During the late State Convention
many snrpising secrets were brought
to light, among which may be men
tioned the numerous mastodon bribes
of tho cut-throat syndicate. They of
fered W. A. Pledger the oollectorehip
of Brunswick if he would allow them
to boss the late convention. Of
course the ironclad Farrow was at
the head of this bait, and Longstreet
in the rear, shoving him up with the
syndicate derrick ; but Mr. Pledger,
who iH a wholesouled Republican of
the first water, could not see wherein
the people would be benitited thereby,
and they were cast aside as a child
would a plaything.
A Nesleotcil (leave.
Sow York Tribane.
In view of Mrs. Jesse James’ ter
rible grief at the death of her hus
band, and ber heroic resolve to vin
dicate his character by a course of
lectures, it might have been reasona
bly supposed that she would at least
see to it that bis grave was kept
greeu. On the contrary, only a neg
lected mound of red clay marks the
spot where the outlaw’s body lies.
well as at Pensacola,
Matamotas etc., and
home goose has gone so far even as
to say that such a malady had actU'
ally reached onr fair city. This latter
report is an unvarnished yarn, oat
of whole doth. The authorities of
Savannah pronounce the report
about that city equally as great a
misrepresentation. We have seen no
positive denial from Fernandina but
presame the facts far removed from
the statements as in other instances.
Tellow fever, however, does exist at
the three other named places. The
latest from Pensacola is that up to
the 30th of Angnst there were four
teen coses and two deaths. At
Brownsville, the fever seems to have
taken firmer hold, there being on the
above date fifty-two new cases and
three deaths. On the same day, there
were eight deaths at Matamoras. At
these latter places the Marine sur
geons have the matter iu hand and
will render what services they can.
THE OUTLOOK.
At no period since the war has the
outlook been brighter than at pres
ent. The grain crop last spring was
unprecedented, the corn crop now be
ing harvested, or at leoBt now fully
matured is abundant, the cotton
crop is excellent, the rice crop, with
out a mishap from storms, will give a
handsome yield, and lastly and by no
means in significant, the sweet po-
tatoe crop ot Georgia promises
grand yield. Add to this the fact
that special rates have been made on
this last commodity and we have an
outlook that is indeed comforting.
Finally the bottom has fallen out of
the lumber business for the present,
but what avails that, the breadstuff
supply is abundant, and already we
see in prospection fat people, fat
stock, fat poultry, with contentment
abounding everywhere.
MAKING- A START.
There are three,
ailed down side b;
led down side
latform broad enou
i to attract and i
number of voters to
balance of power in tbe approach-
frig elections. These are: 1, Civil
service reform ; 2, revenue or tax re
form ; 3, reform in publio expendi
tures. Both of the olid Duties have
proved fnlso to the pmriples em
bodied in this jdatform, which, short
as it is, obntubs the “promiso ftnd
RINGS—BOSSES.
These names seen as familiar in
Maine as iu Georgia. Independents
are cropping out there as well os’
here—among the Republicans, how
ever. Hear wbat the Argue of Port
land says : “Ever since the triumph
of the ring in tbe Republican State
couveutiou, by methods which the
better portion of the party strongly
condemned, there has been talk of
an Independent Republican tioket.
Frequent consultations have boon re
ported, bat the movement has taken
no publio aspieot, until last evening
the Advertiser announced the candi
dates that have boen selected for Gov
ernor and members of Congress.
These names make the movement a
very portentous one for the ring
bosses of Maine.”
Tl»e Question Settled.
The contest for the locations of the
shops of the E. T. Va. & Ga. R. R.
os between Macon and Atlanta has at
last been settled. Atlanta gives the
ground and subscribes $10,000 for
levelling the same. Just as wo ex
pected—that city has more plnck to
the square inch than any other town
in this section. If she keeps on she
will become the "Hub” of the South.
Worth County Star: Monday be
fore last we rode part of tbe way from
Albany to Isabelle in an elegant coach
built at Brunswick, smoked an excel
lent oigar with Capt. Snap Taylor,
which was monufactured in Brnns-
wiok (tbe cigar, not Capt. T.), and
felt prond of the growing importance
of onr seaport town.
An exchanges says : “When Cor
nell, became Governor be owned
more than $100,000. After three
years in the office, be is reported to
have paid off all obligations and salted
down about $1,000,000. His salary
is $10,000.”
An Agreeable Dressing for the Hair
That will stop its falling has been
long sought for. Parker’s Hair Bal
sam, distinguished for its purity, fully
supplies this wank aagl6-lm
potency” of more good to the gov
ernment, the politics and the pockets
of tbe citizens of this country thaD
all the vote-catching resolutions that
have been pnt forth for the past eight
years. There is no issue onteide of
them in which the people have any
thing at stake compared with what
is involved in these. They are funda
mental and exigent And the people
who are not politicians, or who have
no selfish or sentimental reasons for
desiring the success of either of the
old parties, believe in and desire the
reforms here indicated. They want
the minor office taken out of politics.
They wish to see the publio business
done on business principles. They
object to having the machinery of the
government used as an agency for
controlling elections nnd forcing po
litical contributions from the public
employes. They ask that the publio
service shall be open to all deserving
and competent citizens, and no longer
be maintained as the monopoly of
political bosses. They demand a na
tional revision of tbe tax laws, with
the express object of relieving the
people of the burden of $160,000,000
of unnecessary and extravagance
breeding taxes. And they insist that
tho policy under which the national
expenditures have increased over
$100,000,000 in two years shall be
changed one of strict economy. They
condemn the reckless and criminal
extravagance that has given ns the
arrears of pension act, the gigantic
growth of the river and harbor grabs,
the needless multiplication of costly
public buildings, and the disposition
to spend tbe public money as though
there were no limit to the tax-paymg
capacity of the country.
If a poll of the voters could be had
upon these questions, does anybody
donbt what their response would be ?
Even tbe politicians who thwart and
hinder these reforms understand the
popular wish concerning them.
Every platform that is adopted is a
recognition by hypocrisy of the de
mands ' of earnestness. With the
sentiment of the intelligent and die
interested voters thus strongly in fa
vor of thege reforms, what prevents
their accomplishment ? Nothing, in
our judgment, but the servile or the
tbougbless fidelity of voters to the
old party organizations. Men are
still voting the Republican tioket be
cause it once meant hostility to
slavery, or loyalty to the Uhion, or
security for the fruits of the war.
They are voting the Democratic ticket
because Jefferson was a Democrat, or
because their fathers voted it, or be
cause they call themselves conserva
tives, or for some other qually in
adequate reason. As a result, they
aid in postponing a ncedod recon
struction of parties, and keep the
hoses in power, to piny into each
others’ hands.
Is it not time to end this folly ?
Are intelligent American voters to go
on forever with this poor parody up
on republican government, this sham
contest of galvanized dead parties?
Cannot a start be made this year to
ward a division of the citizens upon
live questions of practical statesman
ship? If the time be not ripe for the
inauguration of a new business and
economic era in our politics of agita
tion and conflict upon moral and in
stitutional issues, now happily closed
forever, it is at least time to prepare
for such a change. If fifty, or even
twenty, representatives can be elected
to the next Congress who will stand
up squarely for a reform in the civil
service, for a revision of the tariff and
tbe abolition of needless internal
taxes, and against all log-rolling jobs,
by whatever fine names they are called,
it is safe to say that no general elec
tion will ever again be fought npon
reminiscences, or prejudices, or Jper-
sonalities. Either one or the‘other
of tbe old parties will be forced to
to take a position, and stand up to it,
upon these questions, or a new party
will givo those who think alike and
earnestly upon them a chance to act
together.
Mach a movement can be started in
the congressional elections more ef
fectively than anywhere else. No vo
ter who believes in any one of tbe
three reforms mentioned—and, in the
minds of most, they , go together—,
should support any man for Congress,
of either party, who will not pledge
himself to favor them to the fighting
point.
Baum—What Business Has |
Hein MaineP
i the Portland Argua.
■‘BUD
dollara _
hundred dollars a month—a month’s!
pay for him being more than half the!
men in Maine earn in a year. Whatj
business has he here? He is a ser
vant of tbe people, paid by tbe people!
of all parties. Wbat right has he lo|
leave bis office and spend a month on
a stomping tour in Maine ? If he has
nothing to do, out down his salary, or
stop it while be is absent. It is inde
cent, it is sheer impudence for him to
come here to work in tbe interest of
a party, while men of all parties are,
taxed to pay him; and if < he had a
proper conception of the moral, pro
prieties he would not do it He ib no
party to the contest m Maine, being a
publfo servant in an office that is sup- stomach, Uverandbow<Sr
posed to know no party.. Ikis £| ml "° “<»
very largely ovorpaid-reither that or I atgoods delivered free to any part 0 r
TBE CITY.-®*
IN QUARTS AND PINTS.
he is unduly neglecting it.
One of the People.
Siffns ol tbe Times.
Springfield Republican.
There is a growing popular impres-1
sion that the Republicans will find ev
idences of popular reaction, when the
Congressional elections are held.—
This feeling finds expression in tbe
newspapers, and is voiced by far-j
sighted polititians. Certainly the]
best Republican leaders at Washing
ton see and bewail the mistakes of I
this session of Congress. The voter-j
an ex-Minister Wasbbnrne has been I ■* nmvHN sAwmiaa
interviewed by tbe Chicago Times, | fUT6 WINES, CORDIALS
and, looking at the situation as an ’
outsider, he says: “I fear the Repub
licans will lose many members in
Pennsylvania, New York and Ohio,
nnd perhaps in other Northern and
Western Stares, and the greit ques
tion is whether there can be Republi
can gains enough in the South to off
set the losses in the Northern and
Western States.” Mr. Washburne
has grounds for indulging the hope
of Republican gains at tbe South, but
while some Republican members will!
undoubtedly be returned from that]
section, which has been cultivated]
with patronage administered by Chan
dler, the party could not afford an]
even swap of Northern districts for]
Southern ones.
Nero York Sun: The worst legisla-1
tion of the Forty-seventh Congress j
was carried through by absenteeism. 1
The river and harbor job was passed
over the President’s veto by fraudu
lent pairing, and by the failuro of
Senators and. Representatives to he
in their seats to discharge tbe duties
they bad sworn to perform, and for
which they are liberally paid. Had
either Honse been reasonably full, the]
job would have been badly beaten.
BRANDIES & LIQUORS,
ANHAUSER AND VIENNA EXPORT BEER,
Goldsmith & Nock’s
THE BOSS GROCERS.
MALLORY’S
NEW YORK & BRUNSWICK
Steamship Line.
Mayor’s Office,
Leesburg, Va., April 19, 1879.
Jtessrs. Hutchinson & Bro.: It af-1
fords me pleasure to testify to the]
great virtues of yonr “Neuralgine" for steamships
the cure of neuralgia and sick head-] am^memwp (WWXA
ache. It is tho best remedy for these]OMkIBmJu VJSr FsKmkSm
most distressing-complains I have ev
er used. It should be in every family
in the country. Yours truly,
Geo. R. Head,
Captain RISK.
CARONDELET\
Captain RISK.
HUTCHINSON
tors, Atlanta, Ga.
Sold by all druggists
Mayor of Leesburg, Va.
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To The Ladies Richard Oberlauter,
OF BRUNSWICK.
I WATCnfiS, CLOCKS, JEWELRY,
J..
SPECTACLES AND FANCY GOODS,
Next to Dr. L. Halna' Office.
Mrs. EARLE,
OF BROOKLYN, N. T„
WISHES TO INFORM YOU THAT SHE IS NOW I
PREPARED TO SHOW HER STOCK OF
SPRING MILLINERY GOODS I Bay Street, Brunswick, Ga.
TRIMMED** UNTRIMMED
Imported Bonnets,
LACE NEOKiWEAR, TRIMMINGS,
FANCY WOOL WORK,
<1HIl.DREN>S|I.ACEtirAPS
WATCHES. CLOCKS AND JEWELRY carefully
repaired. <v8-3m
FRESH
1 MM lint.
Fancy Ornaments, Buttons, *•> * bi * nM ^ e -
RIBBONS, Etc.
Call and examine stock. declO-ly
We have this day received an invoice of this Lime,
~ ^or masons’ use, or for jrhltewaahing
purposes. For sale in any quantity
COOK BROS. & CO.
ang!2-tf
For Sale or Rent. Goodyear A Kay,
Cholera is epidemic in Japan.
The undersigned baa a pleasant borne for sale or
reot. Good titles. Everything in good repair, and 1
a good bargain for tha man that lain season to re.
celve It.
“jifdf a. o. Bartlett.
ATTORNEYS’AT LAW,
BRUNSWICK,
JjJ-U
GEORGIA.