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Jfdvct[tiser and jjggg/.
Tlmrlow Weed, of,New York, the
greai journalist, is dead.
The re-districting of the State will
he postponed until July.
A liill has been introduced in the
Legislature, making it a crime to bet
on elections. \
Judge Hillyer, of the AtLnta cir
cuit, will resign bis position in a few
days, it is thought.
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It cost the ConMution $2,000 to
collect the returns from the Ninth
District in a single night.
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Gen. Fitzhugh Leo lectured in Sa
vannah on Wednesday night, on the
“Battle of Chnncellorville.”
Pierce comity is moving to have her
liq nor lice nse increased from $1,500
to $li',LKJ0 per annum. Pierce has
tiicl lestriction, and is so pleased sh
wants more of it.
Dear
the inven
Chattanooga has had several case:
of smallpox, but compulsory vaccina
lion is being enforced, and it is to be
hoped thnt a spreading of the disease
may be prevented.
The following postof!ice8 have re
cently been eaublished in the state:
Humphries, Clinch county; Friend
ship, in Sumpter country; Itoopville,
in Curroll county; Drunesville,Marion
county; Reddish, in Wayne county;
Wynne, in Douglass county.
The semi-centennial of the first
locomotive turned oat of Baldwin’s
works at Philadelphia will be cele
brated by tho workmen's association
>■( the establishment on the 23d
instant. The locomotive in question
was built by Mr. M. W. Baldwin, and
on its trial trip ran at the rate of a
mile an hour. After every stoppage it
had to bo started by pushing.
The trial of Cupt. Howard, com
mander at the Pensacola navy yard,
charged with deserting his post at
the appearance of yellow fever at
Pensacola, is progressing at the navy
yard. Howard claims that he left
before the fever broke out beenuse of
tho illness which prevented his doing
tho duties of the office. He bns a
physician's certificate of disability
givon him three weeks belore tho fever
broko out.
Tho calender of tho present ses
sion of tho Legislature shows many
railroad hills. There are bills to pro
hibit tho running of excursion trains
on Sunday; to require companies to
provide a depot and agent at each
station; to compel roads to return for
taxation their property in each coun
ty through which their route lies; to
place tho selection of railroad commi*-
sioners into tho bauds of the Legisla
ture, instead of the Governor ne ut
present, and various measures to pro
vide for tho more effective settlement
of disputed questions by the commis
sion.
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Murder in Wayne County.
lllacknhear Newa and Signal.
Wo learned from persons on
Wednesday that Dave Williams had
shot and killed one Major Honstan,
near Dales mill in Wayne county.
Major Houstan had beeu to Jesnp
after his‘wife and wns returning with
tier on the freight train. Dave Wil
liams wns on the same train, but rill
ing on an open car. When the
freight arrived tit Dales’ mill, Wil
liams went from the open car to tho
coach and shot Honstnn two or three
times. Williams escaped and is yet
at large, so far as we know.
Within a little over six mouths more
than one liumlred persons have joined
tlie churches in the Presbytery of
Athens, in Georgia, nu a profession of
faith; four new clmi dies have oeon
•>tgnuiZeil, and several communities
i.ie asking fur organization.
Mr. Alfred Barksdale, of Early
county, has s itisfactorily demons
trated the (liidilem of rai.-ing meat.
He | IH s thiity-M-vvn fine hogs to kill
tuts ivtuti*i*, ami has not lint a single
one during the jeur.
EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE.
Valdosta, Ga,, Not. 20,1882.
•: What a blessing is
the steam horse, that
not only distance bnt
weather 1 Think of it 1
id in Brunswick this
morning, spent three hours at Way-
cross, and to-night sapped in this
thriving little city 1 How oar grand
fathers would have enjoyed snch a
luxury, and yet we take it as a matter
of course, and worry that we do not
move a little faster still.
'At nine o’clock this morning, the
writer, in company with several mem
bers of the bar, bound for Charlton
court, took the B. & A. train and
glided out of Brunswick for Way-
cross, tho initial point on tho S., F.
it W. Railway. We were scarcely out
of the "city by the sea” when tho ed
itor began, as usual, to look for
“dots,” knowing thnt we lmd to write
this very identical letter. At the first
crossing with the M. & B. Railroad
wo mnde our first dot, which was
thnt the B. & A. road 1 was pnttiDg in
n switch, oimecting its track with
the M. & B. extension above our city,
so that its lumber nml rther trains
can bn shifted to tbut line and thence
down to their wharves. We noticed,
further, thnt some improvements were
going on in that vicinity, and, further
more, we learned thnt lots on the Day
lands, adjacent to the extension and
wharves, were being bought, and
houses would soon bo erected—all of
which would seem to declare thnt
somebody had an idea that there
would be a little business doue over
said wharves in the near future. Jnst
here we would say that a few hundred
dollars invested in cottages at this
point would prove remunerative, for
operatives at these wharves must have
homes, and jnst there is where they
need thorn.
At the second crossing our pnrty
was joined by Judge Morsbon uud his
charming daughter, Miss Leek, who,
by the way, is said to be an excellent
marksman. She had hor trusty
breach-loading rifle along, and, no
doubt, would have put to sbauie nny
of the party who should dare to pit
bis skill agaiost hers at a mark a hun
dred yards away.
At Waynesville the traveler is
greeted with a sight he is not pre
pared to meet. Emerging suddenly
from the low, flat ground, he sees on
the right a rolling country, and on
the crest of an adjacent bill the ele
gant homo nud grounds of Mr. S.
Mutnford—all so unliko tho scenes of
the twenty miles just passed over.—
Besides tho station house, we noticed
hero three stores and n turpentine
distillery. And just hero we would
say that tho forest from this point to
Waycross seemed cue mighty turpen
tine farm, which leads ns to ask the
question, when these trees have yield
ed up their gum, wUuttbeu? Why
e.m i this whole section be turned in
to farms that will yield a suppart to
hundreds of people. Ten acres of that
pine land, with twenty head of cattle,
wo believo would yield a handsome
support to any farmer's! a mily.
At tho thirty-sixth mile post Mr. J.
J. McDonough bus erected a sawmill,
which will still further swell tho ship
ments from our port, already the
largest ou the Atlantic.
Sells’ big circus i t ached Waycross
we saw evidences of what can be done
by energy, backed by capital. The S.,
SV & W. Railway is a monument to
tbeitbility of its management. ByJls
fast trains i perfect tfihod tide of trat-
el bas been induced this way. With
in the last week a fast schedule bos
been pot on from Waycross to Alba
ny. Over this route wo were hurled
this afternoon at tne rate of a mile in
ono and one-half minutes, or forty
miles an hour, not including stop
pages. The people of this section
now no longer feel that they ore out
of the world, but that they have been
brought into close relationship with
tbe rest of mankind.
Valdosta is a live, wide-awake little
town, located about 140 miles from
Savannah, and jnst on tbe edge, we
may say, of tho cotton belt. Evi
dences of thrift arn visible on every
hand. Stores nnd warehouses are
mostly of brick, and a spirit of prog
ress seems to characterize the people.
Arriving here this evening, we were
taken in charge by “the committee,”
and assigned quarters with a Libcrty-
conntian, Mr. Lamartine Varnedoe,
who refugeed hither during the war,
and, being satisfied, has remained,
and is doing well, as are several oth
ers from the same section.
Tho Savannah Presbytery, to
which we were sent ns a delegate, is
in session here. The meeting is not
ns full ns it should he, many being ab
sent from various causes.
From here we go to Quitman, the
next station, to attend a meeting of
the Synod of Sontb Georgia nnd
Florida, which convenes on Thursday.
From that point we may drop yon a
few lines more. T. G. S.
CH
J' V v ; fi li
_ circus
a few days uhcad of us, anil we under
stand it was patronized by over 5,000
people. They enmo from all direc
tions within a radius of fifty miles.—
Some Came by rail, some by carts,
and scores of others came horseback
or on foot. They came all the way
from tho jangles of the Okefenokeo
swamp. The crowd began arriving
tbe day before, nnd at night their
campfires were visible in < very direc
tion. Many staid until the day after,
loth to leave the spot where they had,
for the first time in their lives, seen
the gcw-giiw and glitter of a circus
riog. With them, tin y Itud “seen the
end of all perfects
GKOROIA'S El SHERI EH.
The Census Commission has issued
a bulletin relative to tbe fishery in
dustry of the United States, and from
it we extract tbe following in regard
to tbe
FISHERIES OF GEORGIA:
The sea fisheries of Georgia are as
yet almost wholly undeveloped, and
tbe state comes, next to eastern
Florida, lowest on the list of the At-
lantio-bordering states. Immense
numbers of edible fish of various
kinds gather in the numerous sounds
and bays and along the outer shore,
but comparatively few are taken, and
the people are largely dependent up
on the fisheries of westery Florida for
their supply. In 1880 tbe value of all
sea products, exclusive of oysters,
was only $19,225. The oysters taken
were vnlued at $35,000, making the
total value of the sea products $54,
225. The river fisheries are more
fully developed, and the Savannah,
Ogcecbee, and Altamaha yield consid-
able quantities of fresh water and nn-
adromous species. The principal fish
taken are shad and sturgeon. Of the
former 252,000 pounds, mul of the lat-
tor 343,000 pounds, "' re caught in
18S0. Tho fol.owing is a summary of
the fishery interests of tho state:
Person** employed
' pit h di'pmitlont on fishery JndUHtrie*... $78,770
>s of ni*aproductm (including oyster*... V82.nuo
value of same. ’. $r>4,’2‘25
pounds ot river product* taken
Value of name $»m,7»>8
Total valuo of product* to tho lUherweu..
Columbus, Ohio, Nov. 22.—The St.
Louis Limited Express East, leaving
litre at 12:05 this morning, on tho
Dittslmrg, Cincinnati and St. Louis
Road was wri cked noarUuion station,
twenty-six miles east, bv a rail which
had been placed across the track. The
incident happened shortly after ono
o’clock. .The engine was pitched down
an embankment over thirty feet,
turning twice over nnd landed inn
tie'll. Two postal and the baggage and
passenger cars were thrown to the
bottom of the hill a confused wreck.
No persons was fatally injured, but a
great many persons suffered broken
bones and bruises.
THE UNDERSIGNED, HAVING BOUGHT OUT THE ENTIRE INTEREST OF D*. J. u. MADDEN
DRlfG BUSINESS,
CORNER NEWCASTLE & GLOUCESTER STS.,
Brunswick,
Georgia,
Griffin Daily iVciw; “It wns antic
ipated that the building of the Macon
nnd Brunswick Extension would
injure Griffin, but thus far it appears
to have had no effect. Our merchants
have better and larger stocks than ev
er, and trade is lively.”
There are fully seventy-live thous
and white men iu Georgia who never
vote, and recent political events are
calculated to increase the iniuiber.
EXTENDS TO THE 1'UllLIO AN INVITATION TO EXAMINE A FULL AND COMI'LETE STOCK OF
BJitTCrS, CHEMICALS,
• Proprietary and Domestic Supplies such as
DYE STUFFS.
Paints, Oils, Glass, Putty,
TOILET O-OOIDS, Etc.,
Landreth’s Fresh and Reliable Garden Seed,
AND EVERYTHING PERTAINING TO A FIRST-CLASS DRUG STORE. OUR PRESCRIPTION DEPUtT.
MENT IS UNDER THE DIRECTION OF
Mr. L. J. D. PERSSE,
An experienced nnd registered Pharmacist Especial attention given to compounding phyficlan*'
prescriptions.
I t. U IJliEORD, jVI. d.
aprl5-6m s
Main's Drug More
Newcastle and Grant Streets,
GhA-
(OFFICE PORT PHYSICIAN & HEALTH OFFICER)
Where will be fonnd % LARGE STOCK
DRUGS, CHEMICALS,
-AND-
Hair, Nail and Tooth Brushes,
Perfumery and Toilet Aticlee;
IN GREAT VARIETY.
Keene’s colt Fox hull is for sale for
$35,000.
Sumter, S. O., No*. 10, 1874.
Mr. IV. If. Barrett, Augusta, Ga.,
Dear Sir—It gives me great pleas
ure to attest to the efficiency of Gild
er’s Pills reeiveil from yon a few days
ag". They have accomplished eveiy-
Poor deluded | thing that I di-sired of them, and I
creatures, how little they know of ,mve iJ'un several to my neighbors.
mt was behind the scenes ! j PkllsL ‘ 10 ,uo two do2eu u " >re for
.. j use on in v farm.
At \\ ayeross we beheld evidences
of life that enthused everyone. There
Yours respectfuly,
J no. C. Tisdale.
Soda and Mineral Waters.
FROM MY SPLENDID FOUNTAIN. (Liquors prohibted).
Trusses & Abdominal Supporters,
THE VERY BEST CIGARS AND TOBACCOS,
BUST'S and FERRY'S HARDEN SEEDS
LAMPS AND LAMP FIXTURES.
FINE GREEN AND BLACK TEAS,
And oth«*r artides, too numerous to meution, usually kept in a find-da** Drug Ht^k.
Physicians’ Prescriptions uarefully Compounded.
eny calls for medicines, If mailed st in, reeidence. cirner
JAMES T. BLAIN.
licensed druggist.