Advertiser and appeal. (Brunswick, Ga.) 1882-188?, December 19, 1885, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextI '? Dertfeer I H r* *e i<% 8***" . M' VoiuME XI. BRUNSWICK, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1885 The Advertiser and Appeal, IS PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY. AT BRUNSWICK, - GEORGIA, T. G. STACY & SON. Sabftcrlptloii llatcN, One copy one year $2 00 One copy six months 1 00 Advertisements from responsible parties will be published until ordered out, when the time is not specified, and payment exacted accordingly. Communications for individual benefit, or of a personal character, charged as advertisements. Marriages and obituary notices not exceeding our lines, solicted for publication. When ex mod • ng that space, charged as advertisements. All letters and communications should bs ad* dressed to • Advertiser and Appeal* Brunswick, Georgia. Rescuing a Prisoner. UCE.tN LODGE, No. 214. F. X A. M. Regular commuul#a«.-<>u« of this Lodge are held on the first and third Moudays in each month, at 7:w o'clock, P.M. . . .. Visiting and all brethren in good standing aro ira- ternally iuvited to attend. „ DU. 0. L. SCHLATTER, W. M. A* B. LAM BRIGHT, Secretary. SEAPORT LODGE. No. 68. I. 0. 0. F. M..t.ercr, Tn M 0.ynl R Ut at elEhjo'clMk. q I Aa. E. LAMDEIQHT. P. * R. Hecretmry. ^ GGLEpiQUPE LODGE. NO. 24-K. OF P. Moots at their CMtle Hall. In Mlcholoou's bull.l. tog. every Wednesday at N p. m. Visiting knights tnVod standing are rr.ternaUy^Inviled^lo attoid. V. R. MITCHELL, K. of B. and 8. SECTION SO. 593, E. R., mocta Firot Wednesday in every month. ^ b/'VbRQUSOX, President. H, J, REID. Secretary. NUENNESS LODGE, No. 2005. KNIGHTS OF HONOR. Regular meetings 1st aud 3d Fridays In each onth at 7.30 P. M. E A Nemos. Dictator. D. O. Owes. Fiuanolal Iteportor. MAGNOLIA LODGE. No. 1105, AMERICAN LEGI0NI0P HONOR. meotlngi 3d and 4th Fridays u each T. H. HTACY, Commander. 4. T. LAMHRIOUT, Hecrntiry. SEAPORT LODGE, I. 0. 0. T.. NO. 68. fleets at Mlchelson's HMj W. 8." BLAIN. W. 8. Tho Young Men's Chri.timn AasociaUon holds its » nrajermeotlllg for men every sabbath morning at 9 ' o'clock at the Presbyterian cliurch. tveryonu is welcome. MORE MITCHELL’S EYE-SALVE! A certain, safe and efficient Remedy for SHE, WEAK MB IHFLAMEO EVES, nrmluelii!! Long*Xlglitcilnc*s 4 and It® - Ntoriiig III© ol'tlio Old. 'Cures Tear Drops. Granulation, Stye Tumors, Re.I Even, Matted Eve Lushes, AND PRODUCING QUICK RELIEF AND PEHMA* NENT CURE. Al*o equally efficacious <lie», such as Ulcers, Fev Rheum, Burns, Piles, or w i„ts, MITCHELL’S SALVE UKC ’ Void bv nil Drusrul*** Jj. J. LEAVY&CO, Ani't’dii ami Commission Merchants, ai.,1 General Oollectinif Agents. Snot. Petition given to th Business an.l consignments i relume gt.iirtntee.l, Orac- nn APPEAL office, Brunawick, v«a ,ion'to J.M. Madden, broke manufacturers of lumber, »r jfthocitvof Bruuslee A. D. GALE & SON, LOCAL DENTISTS, BRUNSWICK, - GEORGIA. V Parties having worn in th** d *nt.il line will find V to thoif interest to call. Offi-e in new Rainer block over drups tor- of Lloyd .k A« am*. , DJ). Atkinson DENTIST, •*. BRUNSWICK, •- - GEORGIA. Offlco up *tairs in Wright’s m-w building. f« Old Newspapers for Sale. Several tholism rapping l>»P'*r. t» BY AN EX-REBEL Detroit Fieo Dross. After Slieritlnn’s troops had carried out, tbnt order to burn ten square tnilea of the Shenandoah Valley there was a more bitter turn to tho war waged in that locality. Manv of the Confederate farmers who had been neutral, or had tried to bo, now be came guerrillas and bushwhackers 1 lost no opportunity of killiug a Federal. . After that burning Mosby had no difficulty in securing nil the men he could handle,and other guerrilla bands sprang into life in the various valleys aud scrupled at nothing which would cripple the enemy. I know that scores of Federal prisoners, who would oth orwiso have been treated as prisoners, wore shot down as soon as captured on account of that horning. Among those who turned bush .whacker was’ an old man named Humphrey, living ubout two miles from Strnsburg. He was sixty-two years old, quite lame in one leg from hip disease, and up to the burning was looked upon as u kind-hearted, good-natured old man. TheFederals burned the booses and barnes of bis t AO sons, further down the valley, and one day two or throo half-drunken soldiers came to his bouse and de manded dinner. He refused to give them anything. One of them drew u revolver to shoot him down, but the weupou was accidentally discharged and Mrs. Humphrey was mortally woandtd. After her death and bnrial Humphrey disappeared and was next heard of in tho monntains. Ho lived in a cave and became a bushwhacker. That term is hardly stroug enough. He became a man-hunter. While n Confederate in sentiment, ho hail lit tle to do with them, securing bis arms ammunition from his Federal victims, and his few provisions from tile farm houses. In bis old age, the man became an avenging spirit, TUere was something appalling in bis tireless, vindictive trailing of Fedeiuls, He bung about camps aud picket- posts and marching columns, and he touk deliberate chances to gratify his I hirst for blood. If he came across tliree foragers together two would certainly bite tho dust, anti ho would not hosituto to attnek oven where tho number was five. In ono year old Humphreys killed thirty-six Foderals. I make the state ment on the authority of people who saw tho tally. The old man preserved it relic from each body—knife, ring, watch-chain or button—and there was no chance to mistake the number One day, in making u scout near Cross Keys I was discovered by scouting party of ten Foderals u run into the mountains. The pur suit did not end here. Some of them dismounted and hung on to tile trail for an hour. It was in avoiding these men that I accidentally stumbled upon Humphrey’s hiding place. It was veritable cave, warm and dry, and well hidden, and I had entered it before knew that it was occupied. Tho old man was not ut home, but I had scarce ly detectod signs that the placo had inhabitant when n voice called from the gloom nt tho rear end: ‘Tell me, who is it—Yank or Rob?" “Reb, I guess. Who are you?" “Then there is no hope!” he groan ed.” i struck a match and advanced to wards him. On a rude bench was a dish of fat with a rag in it fora wick, and ns soon as I had lighted this I i could see everything in the cave. On t’s.”e*f<!r.Tie!the hard stone floor lay a prisoner ms office. |bound lisnd and foot. HewasuFed- WEAK EYES! ,.‘d in othur mala- on. Tumor*. Sail r inflammation ox* ,» tim'd to advan- collodion of rent* llcitetl. ami Hpeodj t*r ADVEUTINKU AND lie fora by i»ormi8- , Cook liroa. &Co., M..T CoR****, Mayor nld-lv nl, a Second Lieutenant, and be longed eitbor to the Twenty-fifth New York or the Twenty-fifth Pennsyl vania cavalrv. Having afterwards lost my note-book I am not certain of the regiment. Tho cave contained a bench or two pile of straw and two or three quilts for a bed, and a lot of trophies in the ay of guns jaud sabres. “Who tiro you?” I asked of the man ns I bent over him. “Lieutenant Johnson, of Sheridan’s cavalry,” he answered. “How cniue you here?" “I was riding with a dispatch lost evening when I wits bushwhacked and made prisoner. I have a ballet in the left shoulder.” “Who brought yon hero?” “An old mnn, who acts as if he was crazy.” It was the first prisoner old Hum' phrey ever took, and I greatly won dered over it. His policy was to kill, and how came he to spare this man’s life?’* ‘Who are you?” snddenly asked the prisoner. “One of General Early’s scoots.” “Then I have no hope. You may bnve the heart, however, to hand me drink of water. I am burning up with fovor.” There was a gourd ou the bench, and the purest, coldest water ran down the rocks at the door. I raised the man’s head and he |jt)bid^ more than a pint. Hi3 hands wore tied together at the wrists, and tho cords had sank deep into the 'flesh. I severed the-bands with my knife and rubbed his arms until the blood was restored. ‘God bless you for that I I have suffered death twice over,” be said, sort of breaking down liko n woman, His wound had not been dressed, I propped him up, cat away his shirt aud coat, washed off the blood and dressed his wound as well ns possible. I was finishing the operation when heard a step behind me, and as I rose up aud turned my head old Hum phrey spraug upon me. He hud gnn with him, and why be didu'i shoot mo down I guess unless it was in the hope of making prisoner. The old fellow sprung nt me like tiger, and during the first fury lie got the best of me. However, after struggle of three or four minutes ho lost his wind and I niauaged to tie him hand and foot. Then lie broke out in revilings, aud such oaths and imprecations I never heard before or since. He boasted that he meant to torture tho lieutuuaut to death, aud be called such curses down upon my bead as it did not sown possible for human tongue to utter. By and by, when lie had exhausted himself, the prisoner asked: “What will you do with me?” That was a puzzler. I had uo show t him into our lines, I could lint A PREHISTORIC IIO.TIB. Sent* Fo Mow Mexican. Major Powell, chief of the geologi cal survey, has discovered in New Mexico, near California Mohntain, what be pronounces to be the oldest human habitation upon the American continent. The mountains in this vi cinity nre’covered with bilge beds of lava, in which the prehistorlo man and his comrades have excavated square rpoms, which were lined With IT K)e- oies of plaster made from lavs, and In these were fonnd various evidences of quite nn advanced civilization, among them a speoios of cloth made of wovbn hair and a large number of pieces of pottery. In the sides of tUe room cupboards trad shelves were excavated In one room, sticking oht of the bare face of the wall, was a small branch of a tree. When this was palled ont it was fonnd that there was a hollow space behind the wall. Colonel James H. Stevenson, Major Powell's assis tant, broke this with a pick and fonnd a little concealed niche, in whioh was a small carved figure, resembling a man,done npin a closely woven fabric, which, with the touch of the band, lamed to dast. It was blaok and orisp, like the money-cloths of Egypt. In all, some sixty groups of these lava villages wero fonnd, there being about twenty bouses in each group. The evidences of civilization were aim ilar to bat removed by their crudity and evident want of skill a good deal from the articles found in the cliff bouses, whioh have been so folly writ ten up in the reports of the g^ologital survey. Scientists await with a deal of interest Major Powell’s report of these recent very important discover ies. A TERRIFIC COMBAT. '■* ‘ s "Bolivar,” the largest elephant npw * in captivity, had a terrific encounter^ with the Nubian Hon, "Prince,” at the' winter quarters of Forepaagh’a men-' agerie, and a lion whioh'wns \nlnod at $2,000 was killed. Tbs trainer bad entered the oage with the beast. "Prince” was in a surly mood end ate' tacked him. In endeavoring to etl* caps, the trainer loosed the bars of the oage and fell ont. The Hon bounded after him, clearing bis body as it tof on the tan-covered ground. He difc 1 not turn back, however, bnt pursued’ bis way through the ring barn *mt* entered the open <^>or of the elephant bonse. “Bolivar" stood where he was chained to a stake near the door.” Ae lion attacked him and an enconnteP ensned, which ended in the Hob being crashed to death. JEFFERSON. IUIVE THE WIFE THE HONEY. Many people wonder at the thrift of the foreigners who live nmong ns. Many of them being common liibor- ers, work for small wages and irregu larly, yet their families, and their families are large, are comfortably kept, and in the course of time they have a little homo of their own. The secret of this is that tbo wife is the banker, and through her superior ideas of economy and shrewdness iu purchasing, the scanty earnings aro placed just where they will do the most good; no awkward debts me in curred, aud at tho end of the fiscal year thoro is almost invariably a sur plus. English speaking people might emulate their example with profit but it is too commonly the American idea, at least, that a woman knows nothing about business, and cannot be safely trusted with W husband’s wages. On tho coutrnry, tho money that he docs not spend for bis own gratification is dolod out to her in grudging compliance with her timid requisitions. THEY DID\i'r SUE IT AT Flltvr. A joke is a mystery to some people. In a certain court in Maine the pro ceedings were delayed by the non-ar rival of a witness named Sarah Mony- After waiting for n time, tho court concluded to wait no longer, and wishing to crack his little joke, re marked: ‘This court will adjourn without Sarah-Mony.” Everybody laughed except one man, who sat in In the ante-room of the President’s mansion at Washington a fhll length' portrait of Tho rati Mfefcon bait Men pieced. It was psintift by E. F.j.Vn- dro'vs, who also painted the piotnre ot Martha Washingtob, hanging in the East room of the \yjiitq House. The following is the graphic description of Jefiersbn’ff portrait that tar find going the rounds: The father of the Democratic party is dressed in a costume which must foinly paralyze the straigbtont Bour bons from the far West. Mr. An drews took great pains to verify the historical accuracy of this dress, by talks with descendants of the family and the oxarainaoion of the records preserved by them. Jefferson’s hair in this piotnre is a soft, sandy salver, parted in the middle and curling gracefully about his fresh-colored,' regular-featured, intellectual face. The face is smooth-shaven. His coat is a dark blue velvet with onormous skirts. The waistcoat is red plush, with a raffle between its top button and his sharp chin. Rnfilos encircle his wrists, shading bis long aristocrat ic hands. In the right band he bolds n quit pen. Tbo knee-breeches are of the same material as bis coat. His stockings are of the finest black silk. His shoes are very carefully made and of highly polished leather, with square black buoklos across the instep. This picture of graceful and courtly ele gance stands upon the threshold as if to welcome the Democratic visitors to the White Honse, who como to con gratulate the bead of the party upon tho restoration to power of the De mocracy and to incendentally ask for an office. THE BIGGEST FOOL. to remain there and guard him, aud as lor leaving him in the hands of old Humphrey, it was not to be thought of. The old man had endured priva tions and brooded over his wrongs until ho hnd become insane. His ravings showed that. “I’ll tell you," I replied to the pris oner, who was on his feet to try his strength. "I am going away for three hours. When I return I shall take j solemn meditation for five minutes, you to Port Republic. Bo ready.” j min then burst into a hearty gnffaw. With that I walked out. It was j exclaiming' “I sec it! I see it!"— six hours before I returned. The I When he went home ho tried to fell prisoner was gone. The old man lay i the joke to his wife. “There was a on his back just where I had seen bint I ”' tn “ P8 Mary Mony, who T , . , ■ v didu t come, said he. “and so the il bent over him I saw ! . ’’ '" ,li ho lue ' COIll L Kdl:t * ' that he was i , , , r i . , ■ w idnlut come, last, and as I bent over him I saw . *.. .. ... .. . , . , , | court said: *\*«II adjourn without ad. A day or two uf-1 Mary-Mony’.” “I don’t see any point ter a prisoner whom we captured ‘o tha\” „ai.I bin wife. “I kuow it,”i Al i nm , I1( i F . _ „ . stated that the Lieutenant got safe said he; “I didn't at first, bnt you will | wbo u ,J t Z\ v J^ into Strasburg. ! in about five minutes. , " 'days of their ancustois. “When I married you,” snid Mrs. Peppterton, to her husbnnd “I thought, tbut yon were a sensible man, but I have since lenrned that you are a fool.” “Let’s seo,” the husband mused, "wc have beeu married five years, haven’t we?” “Yes, I am sorry to say that we have ?” “And yon ranrried me under the impression that I was n sensible fel low?” “Yes.” “And you have just discovered tbnt I am a fool?” “Yes; I have.” “Well, you were a long time iu making tho discovery, which proves that you are a bigger fool than I am. Another thing in rny favor i* that I knew yon were a fool, or yon wouldn’t have consented to marry m:-.” Adam and Ev. B IVI days i

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Advertiser and appeal. (Brunswick, Ga.) 1882-188?, December 19, 1885, Image 1