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COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS.
REGULAR MEETING.
[for the ensuing year—J.'M. Madden, jTHE EDITORS ARE COMING.
•T. *1. Stacy and \V. F. Symons.
Brunswick, May 2, 1888.
Council met. Present, His Honor,
D. T. Dunn, Mayor, and members of
Council Atkinson, Crovatt, Bost
wick, Madden, Cook and Penniman;
absent, Berrie and Fulton.
Tt.e minutes of the last regular
meeting was read, and on motion of
Alderman Atkinson the words “for
want of jurisdiction,”, was ordered
insetted after the words “stricken
out” in that portion of the minutes
in relation to striking out a part of
the minutes of April 4,^1888.
Motion to strike from the minutes
that portion relating to changing the
city time was lost.
The appeal case of R. S. Grier was
continued by request of Judge C.
Symrncs.
The appeal ease of Policeman Dub*
hot ly, charge reporting late for duty,-
and lined #5 in police court was heard
and line remitted.
An invitation from Rev. McK. F.
McCook to attend divine services at
the Methodist church, Sunday May
13th at 11 o’clock, was received and
accepted with the thanks of the May
or and Council.
The sanitary rules adopted by the
Board of Health April 14, 1888 was
approved aud adopted.
The Quarantine Rules and Rcgu
latious adopted by the Board of
Health April 14, 1888, was approved
and adopted.
Bids for the scavenger Work were
opened and the contract awarded to
A. T. Putnam at $1,860 for the year
ending May 1, 1889.
A petition read from G. W. Horton
aud others asking that “K” street
be opened from B street to the river
was received, and on motion a com
mittcc was appointed, consisting of
Madden, Penniman and Atkinson for
investigation. ^
A petition from C. L. Parker and
and others, asking that that portion
of E street through 5 acre ranges 37
and 38 he opened, was received and
referred to some committee.
Capt. Horton and others asking that
two fire plugs be placed at the inter
section of A. and K. and B. and lv.
streets, was received and referred to
artesian well committee.
A petition from V. R .Mitchell and
others protesting against putting
down brick sidewalks on the West
Messrs. Hazlehurst <fc Mason ap
peared before Council and stated
they would furnish the city with 100,-
000 bushels of shells at 3e per bush
el, 25,000 bushels to be delivered a
mtmlh.
The proposition was accepted and
the city Attorney instructed to draw
up the contract.
Mr. W, B. Gunby appeared before
Council and asked that “1C” street,
between Gordon and -Johnston, be
opened. The matter wps referred to
committee or streets, drains and
bridges.
On motion a committee, consisting
of Madden, Penniman and Atkinson,
was appointed to 'confer with the
Brunswick Light and Water Co. in
regard to placing' spigots i-n differ
ent parts of the city for the use of
the public..
Accounts approved by finance com
mittcc were ordered paid.
Engineer John C. Green was re
fused permission to go to Dawson
with the Protection Hose Reel Co.
Council then*adjourned.
» E. A. Nelson,
Clerk of Council.
The Democracy.
They will be Received with Open , ?^ Demoura . u * ofG , 1 ? nn met
• r Saturday in mass meeting pursuant
to call of Chairman of Executive
Arms.
The Georgia Press Association
meets this year in Canton, on the
North Georgia Railroad. The E. T.
V. & G. R. R. have placed a full train
at the disposal of the press, ‘to leave
Atlanta on the night of the 11th,
reaching Brunswick Saturday morn
ing. They will breakfast at the
Oglethorpe Hotel, and the St. Si
mons Bench Hotel Company* will give
transportation to the beach during
t!u* day, and the city and citizens
will find opportunity to extend other
courtesies so as to make the occasion
an enjoyable one.
side of Richmond street was received
aud granted. -The committee on
public buildings reported progress.
TheVeport was received.
The Marshal’s report for the month
of April was received and ordered
tiled.
The Harbor Master's and the Clerk
and Treasurer’s report for the month
of April was received and ordered
published.
A motion to pay for services of the
uurse employed by Marshal Dart to
attend Etta Clifford prevailed.
A committee consisting of Madden,
Crovatt and Pcntiimhn was appoint
qd to provide for the wants of sick
seamen. '■
.A petition from T. J. Minelian ask
ing that his liquor license be trans
ferred from No. 30 to No. 40 Bay st—
granted.
A petition from A. J. Biitch, ask
ing that he lie granted a license to
sell spirituous and malt liquors in
Dixville—the same was granted.
The Board of Health was granted
permission to eraplov tii* • rts for
the purpose of oleaij' op ,.ie city.
By Alderman Pcimiiiian—
Whereas, It h.% ■ i clearly <le
monstrated to thu L of this Coun
cil, that open wells endanger the
health of the citizens by causing ma
larial diseases; and,
Whereas, Individuals not being in
a position, or caring to avail them
selves of artesian water, can readily
supply themselves with water from
driven wells, at a cost not greater
than digging and curbing; there
fore, be it
Halved, That on nml after this
date no open wells shall be permitted
to be dug within the city limits.
The resolution was adopted.
The following gentlemen were ap
pointed as a sinking fund committee
A Grand Dali in the Oglethorpe
50 Ye*ars Ago.
Dr. Hopkins, ot Thoitinsville, now
visiting in this city, told us yes
terday morning that lie danced all
night just fifty years ago in the old
Oglethorpe Hotel, that stood just
where the Oglethorpe of today-
stands. It was at the tune of the
great boom in 1838, on account of
the opening of the Brunswick and
Altamaha canal. The Doctor lived
at that time in Darien, and came
over with other guests from that city
to attend the grand hall in limns
wick. The elite of the land, from
Savannnah to St. Marys, were here in
full force. The music was furbished
by old Andrew, servant of Mr.Night
engale, aud by the way the only fid
dler in this section. lie was ably-
assisted by Cuflie, on the banjo.
The grand promenade was innrcli-
to the soul inspiring strains of “Su-
gar in the Gourd.” .This was follow
ed by “Haste to the Wedding.” These
two, then “new pieces," wefe alter
nated during the evening and night
until the small hours ill the morning
warned the party* that it would soon
be “day dean.”
After breakfast the Doctor went
•Jip to the clerk and modestly asked
the amount of his bill. The young-
• looked at him carefully, and then
tly whispered,-“Just $10. sir, and
that includes the music,” The 1)
tor paid his bill and wondered to
himself, if old Andrew and Cullie
made his Bill run up to ten dollars,
hat would it have been, if they had
a full orchestra. In other words, if
a night’s lodging and bail inelndin
music at the old Oglethorpe was
worth $10* what would a night's
lodging and Imll with McDuffie’s
Grand Orc hestra to make the music
he worth in the new Oglethorpe of
to-day*.
Something Rich in Store.
The Entertainment Committee of
the Library* is.getting up a rich treat
for our citizens on tlie 15th inst., at
L’arioso Hall. Tbfy will open up
the evening by the rendition of
laughable parlor play, in Which some
of our best local talent will be engag
ed. After the play is over refresh
ments will be served, and music fur
nished for those who wisli to exercise
their .limbs. The Library people
don’t often corqc to the front, hut
when they do, they always have
something good.
A New Phase.
A new phase of the time question
was sprung last night in the Council
Chamber by* Alderman Atkinson. It
is this-. The city having changed to
“standard time,” will ring its Satur
day night bell at 12 o’clock as usual,
which will be 36 minutes after the
Sabbath day begins. The question
arises, how will the grand jury and
the court view this mutter with those
store keepers who remain open until
the hell rings i
Enthusiastic Meeting.
The Protection Hose Reel Compa
ny had an enthusitfbtic meeting this
week over their proposed visit to
Dawson. By request the meeting
was addressed hy Mayor Dunn nnd
the senior editor of this paper. Up
on a call of the roll to see who could
and would go, some seventeen names
responded "aye, ready”. The Sec-
retary^was instructed to invite Chief
S. C. Littlefield, Mayor. Dunn, A1
dermen \V. L. Fulton John R. Bost-
wick, R. R. Hopkins nnd T. G‘. Stacy
to go with the Company to Dawson
to be their special' friends and chain
pions.
The Foreman announced the fol
lowing named members to take part
in the coulest:
First Test—Ed Herzog,Coupler to
Engine; Mintcr Edwards, Ilosciimn;
Guy Huthnar.ce, Breakman; A. B.
Rowe, Pipeinnn.
Second Test—Ed. Herzog, Coupler;
C. P. Robnrts and Alvnn B. Rowe,
Pipemen; C. F. G'ay* and Danie W.
Krauss, Centre Couplers.
Little Miss Lizzie May Wooten, of
Dawson, lias consented-to occupy the
seat on the Protections’ Reel. She is
a beautiful little girl from one of the
best families of the town of Dawson.
The Reel will be handsomely- deco
rated nnd drawn by seventeen of the
Protection boys who wiil lie proud of
their fairy burden.
The Military! ”*The Military!
They are surely coming.
('apl. Dint ilk just back from At
lanta and assures us that there is no
trouble about the encampment, lie
has already gotten positive answers
from six or eight companies, and ver
bal messages from others to satisfy
him lliat there will lie at least a full
regiment down,at the encampment.
The matter of tents, the big hug-a-
boo, has all been arranged, for if the
govchiment fails to furnish them,
Alabama comes to the rescue, and
says, ‘ take ours,” so there will be no
trouble about tents, and the cots
have been ordered. •
Thus by a little vim and push wc
have secured a genuir** bonanza in
building up the sea-const of old Geor
gia. For if the military come, others
will follow.
Wc omitted to state in its proper
place that “Neals’ Cadets,” of Atlan
ta, have accepted the offer to grt to
St. Simons, hut will not wait for July
but will come down the night of the
Uth, and will encamp near Ocean
Pier, on St. Simons Island, for a week.
They have invited the other Cadets
of the State to join them.
Committee, and reelected Bolling
Whitfield Chairman of the Demo
cratic Executive Committee for the
next two years. Mr. John Lehman
was elected Secretary. The following
resolutions were adopted:
Resolved by Out Democracy of Glynn
County, in mass meeting assembled,
1st, That the Democracy of Glynn
county hereby unqualifiedly endorse,
step by step, and act after act, the
able, Democratic and just adminis
tration of Grover Cleveland as Presi
dent of the United States, and de
clare to the party* everywhere our
entire approval of his course.
2d, Wc endorse to the same extent
and in the same manner the course
of Senator A. H. Colquitt, of Georgiu,
in liis support of the administration
of President Cleveland, and his en
tire course in the Senate.
Be it further Resolved, That the
course of the Hon Thomas M. Nor
wood, our present Representative in
Congress from this District, during
his preseut term, meets with our
hearty approval and endorsement;
and we hereby congratulate the peo
ple of the District in possessing in
him a Representative of so distin
guished ability and broad culture, a
man who can and lias risenahovc lo
cal prejudices or ;: 'erences, and by
bis official course and conduct hns
proven him»-. If a Representative not
of a section or locality, but of his
entire District; audlins exerted him
self successfully for the benefit of
caeli and every portion of the people
whom he represents.
Be iljurther Resolved, That, in the
opinion of this Convention, the peo
ple of the First District can do no
better than to re-nominato and elect
this distinguished and able gentle
man, as their Representative for a
third term in the Congress of the
United States.
The meeting then went into elfee-
tion of delegates to State Convention
in Atlanta on 9th of May, and the
following were elected by acclama
tion: T. W. Lamb, W. E. Burbage,
W. L. Fulton and A. J. Crovatt.
Delegates were next appointed to
Congressional Convention in Savan
nah, as follows: W. E. Burbage, J. L.
Bench, T. W. Lamb, M. Ullmiu, W.
L. Fulton and W. 11. Berrie, and by
rr'nflj'ln of Institution.
fWossor E. Ray Ldnkestor, lecturing
on the "Struggle for Life” at the London
institution, said that a considerable num-
bfcr of the most fatal diseases in man,
oxen and sheep were due to poisonous
matter produced in tlio blood which was
known as bacteria. When this poison
got into the system, the duty of the
corpuscles was to go for it. and they pro
ceeded to eat ns much as they could; but
sometimes they could not attack it at oil.
The bacteria was too much for them,
with the result that, tho bacteria grew,
and very soon proved fatal to tho body
in which it existed.
The corpuscles could, however, be edu
cated to deal with the bacteria, and tho
future of preventive medicines would bo
the education of the white blood cor
puscles. Tho fact that one man, by con
stant uso, could without injury -tako a
dose of arsenic that would kill six or
dinary men was duo to the fact that ho
had by weakened doses been educating
and training tho while corpuscles. They
could be taught to eat and flourish under
conditions which, if not commenced',
gradually, would lie destructive to them,
and that was the principle at the base of
protective inoculation. As a preventive
of many fatal diseases in sheep and oxen,
inoculation had been remarkably success
ful. The corpu&des first received a weak
ened breed or disease by inoculation, and
thus when a violent attack came they
wero ready ?o recei vo and dispose of it.
This education of the corpuscles, it seemed
to him, was the , x; lanation of the suc
cess of vaccination. They received a
weak doso of the poison from the vac
cine, nnd were in that way prepared for
a stronger dose in the way of smallpox.
He believed the white corpuscles could
be trained to receive the most virulent
poisons, and ho hoped this training would
bo carried on so as to deal with a great,
number of diseases,—New York Post.
Ago of an Old N*cgro. J
Tho old time colored people in tlio
south, those who were slavey have no
other method of reckoning antes, occur
rences, and esjicciafiy births nnd mar
riages, than to refer them by association
to events that happened about tlio same
time, and it is quite common to get from
them answers about like the following:
‘•How old are you, Aunt Miily?”
“Wall', chile, I know you beam toll of
der fust yarthquako in Norf Caliny?
Wall, I wus a right smart sizo gal den,
an’ could spin an’ weavo my ten cuts a
day for my ole missus. Dat’s how ole
I is.”
“How old are you, Uncle Bob?” «
“How ole I is? Lemmo see, you.know
der time der stair fell, well, dat’s der year
Mi6s Mary died, an' ole massa gib ole
’ooman one of Miss Mary’s Sunday
dresses, an’ she ware’d it waitin’ on der
comp'ny der next year when olo massa'
brought he’s sccon’ wife homo, from
Georgy—an’ bress de Lawd! she wur
purty.”
“But, Uncle Bob, I am no wiser than
I was before: you haven't tofd mo how-
old you are.”
... . . . , . . TI . ‘Well, when dom tings happen wat I
resolution instnictcdto support Hon. j was a telUn . you -bout, my ol’est gal.
T. 31. Norwpod.
Tho meeting having gotten its
huntl it,, finished up the work of del
egates hy appointing the following to
tlio Gubernatorial Convention: C.
Mviumes, U. Dart, W. E. Kay, Boll
ing Whitfield, J. M. Madden and T.
G. Stacy.
Meeting then adjourned.
Stop Them.
If something isn’t done to restrain
3Icssrs. Moore A Valentino they will
keep on building until their shops
will push the E. T. V. it G's. new
docks into the river. Somebody will
have to got lip an injunction. Not
satisfied with building, they are put
ting in more now machinery—the la
test is an.iminense planer, capable
of surfacing 30.000 feet of lumber in
a day. A day laborer with a jack-
plane would actually get tired look
ing at the speed it runs.
Resolution of Thunks.
The following resolution was adopt
ed at rcgular*confercncc of the Bap
tist church, April 26th, ’88.
Resolved, That the thunks of this
church arc due and are hereby ten
dered to the citizens of Brunswick
for their generous hospitality to the
members of the Baptist Convention,
recently held in this city, anil to the
pastor and members of the Sletlio-
dist church, for the use of their house
of worship and for other courtesies
E. A. Nelson, Clerk.
Fine Beef.
Tlie New Crovatt Building
On Newcastle street will be a genu
ine iron front. From present indica
tions it will lie tlio handsomest store
front in the city. Another beauty
about tlie hiiildinglis tlie extreme
| high ceilings, rendering the rooms as
I cool us they can be made in this cli
mate. The upper rooms of this new
structure will be occupied by 3Icssrs
Good year.A Kay and the Brunswick
Co.
Increased Taxes.
The last graird jury appointed a
committee to investigate the tax re
turns and push them np a bit. That
committee pushed up some city prop
erty far above tlie city assessment,
which has never been very low, and
the result has been arbitration—99
cases are booked for this work. Tho
Receiver informs us as far as arbitra- j
Colored Imlastrlnl School.
Tho Colored Reformatory Industrial
school, of Nashville, Tenn., is nearly
completed, and will bo opened on April
1. It is being erected bv an organiza
tion whoso ambitious namo is “Tlio Uni
versal Congregational Methodist church
of tho United States of America,” and
wliichtiaa for its object tho betterment of
tho colored rrco spiritually and morally.
It hopes to a;...in this object by having
connected with each church a temper
ance hall, a homo factory, or an institu
tion of learning. * The Nashville institu
tion will opeu with about 100 young col
ored people ot both sexes.—New York
Tribune.
A live oak tree in Mississippi measures
five and one-lialf feet in diameter breast
Mr ( has Baumi/artner returned , . . | high from the ground, nnd spreads its
.ur. Mins, uaumgannor returned te(1 U|e L . ugeg have against the | branches cighty-two-feet.
yesterday from Tennessee with an-| t . 0 , jnty Nolrifthege 99 cases a „ ,
other cal* load of those elegant stall i , . , , The choirs of tho church of England
b . go agqmst the county, and cost each, ,- 4 000 vo | unUlrv nnil ,^ 000
«,o ■i' 1 "' 1 price, $•), we do.lt seel male singers, and«ji,000 voluntary
Lindy, w ai 'bout der same age as mossa's
new wife, nn’ mo an’ her daddy was
chillun together, in Georgy, Bamo time
Gin’al Lafayette came ter 'Gusty, an’ der
sogers all turn out on’ beat der drums
and shoot off der bigeanyuns. Oh golly!
I specs I’so nigh outer a hundred."—
Youth’s Companion.
A Land Kvor Poor.
India is fearfully poor today, and I find
internal evidenco that it lias over been so.
There has over been tho few who coined
gold out of musclo and crystallized sweat
into gems. Tho few hero was perhaps
smaller than in any other country. It
built its palaces and tombs of wondrous
beauty, but there is absolutely no sort of
monument of past people or masses.
These havo ever lived in squalor, their
mud houses melting under a summer
rain; their little accumulations vanishing
m the smoke of their poor funeral piles.
Oppression lias so sunken into their
natures that they havo no conception of
anything else. If eels wero half os fond
of being skinned as these people are of
being ground down they would wiggle
from their mud houses into tho frying
)an. lake spaniels, they delight in lick-
ng tho hand that smites them.
There is nothing in this land to make
it one of wealth, but everything to moke
it the opposite. Its climate enables its
people to live on what would bo starva
tion elsewhere, and to clothe themselves
in some light cloth alone. Such a people
never could be rich. They bovo been
able to manufacture articles* at almost a
nominal cost whoso rarity in Europe
made them of great value, and Europe-
imagined these things were riches, where
as their very cheapness here was evidence
of tho poverty of tho country.—Carter H.
Harrison in Chicago Mail.
fed beeves, tlie flesh of which
toothsome and tender.
is so | the usual ^
the county will be benelittcd much. I And 2,1<)0 female singers.