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Mr. A. F. Franklin left this morn
ing for Mt Vernon, Ga., on a bus!
ness trip.
When the repairs are completed,
Mr. John Wood’s residence will be
handsome indeed.
McEiv^n & Go., is the name of a
new finn doing business on the Bay,
They arc meeting with every success,
The ice factory qow runs on lm)f
time. Seventy or eighty tons are stor
ed away and the inschinc shutdown
The steamer City of Brunswick,
left for Savannah yesterday, to
go upon the ways, to copper her hot
tom.
Mr. W. S. Walker has purchased
Mr. Shannon’s interest in the Din
ing Parlors, and will run the busi
ness alone.
Mr. Wm H. Anderson,is fencing in
his Mock of lots in Cochran avenue,
and preparing for the erection of his
Planing Mill.
Our electric lights arc among the
greatest improvements ever been
•made in Brunswick, and 1888 will be
made memorable thereby.
The whaling schooner Franklin.
Capt. Avery, arrived in port Tues
day, nnd is unloading her cargo of
250 barrels of whale oil.
Mr. J. P. Hughes’ grocery near
the ice house is a great convenience
to that end of town. Ho keeps a
nice stoek, and ha: a good trade.
Col. D. L. Clinch, of Camden coun
ty, returned to his home last Tues
day on board the Cracker Boy after a
two month’s visit to the mountains
The Brunswick cooper shop has
skipped this season over 24,000 bar
rels, and expects to make the num
bor an even 25,000 before the end of
the season.
Mr. McClure’s big warehouse is
about done, and he will soon lny in a
supply of building material of every
sort nnd deecription, from sills to
shingle nails.
Mr. Jas. McRca, oi Macon, and
Miss Ella Fish, of this city, were
married yesterday at the Epis
copal church. They took the evening
train for Macon,
For once in the history of Bruns
wick all of her newspapers are on ex
actly the same line, and have nailed
the word “sewerage” on their mast
lp?ads, It is well,
The Episcopalians arc converting
the small ante-room on the south
west corner of the church into a choir
rostrum. The wall next to the au
ditorium has boon cut away, and an
arch substituted therefor.
The United States Farmers’ < 'oa-
gress convenes in Topeka, Kansas,
on the 14th of November. The Ex
ecutive Department at Atlanta, has
appointed A. E. Moynclo, of Savan
nah, a delegate, with D. T. Dunn, of
Brunswick, ns alternate.
The attention of the ladies is call
ed to the new advertisement of Mrs.
Earle the milliner. She has a
word to say to them, which will he
found ofintcrcst. Mrs. Earle’s es
tablishment is well known to the la
dies, who find her always ready to
serve them.
An honest looking old colored man,
meeting Charley Driver, the colored
constable, on the streets Wednesday
morning, nsked him to direct him to
the “Troublesome Store.” Mr. Elkun
Will no doubt be amused to find that
his great pride, the “Racket Store,”
has become “troublesome.”
Many are the speculations con
cerning the results of the purchase
, of the Central by the Richmond Ter
minal. Every Savannah man thinks
it will help Savannah, and every
Brunswick man is dead sure that
Brunswick will be beuifited. Mean
while the AuvKunsKit-ArrKAi. is go
ing along getting up its Trade Pam
phlet, to proclaim to the world that
Brunswick is on the move up the
hill, and withal the Garden Spot of
the World.
The negro burglar wbo was shot
last week by a colored barber named
Conoway, died Sunday from bis
wounds. Let bis fate prove a warn
ing to others who prefer stealing for
a living to honest labor.
The coiored hands would not work
to ioad or unload the Caroline AJiiier
last Sunday. They said it was Sun
day and they did not work on the
Lord’s day. This is a pretty heavy
slam on the Council who gave per
mission to have the Lord’s day dese
crated.
To the Chairman of the Cemetery
Committee: We have shielded you as
long as we can. The ladies won’t
stand it any longer, so for your own
good, and the good of the scribe, we
would ndviso that you clean out the
cemetery speedily. We know where
of we speak. Be warned in time.
The Richmond A West Point Ter
minal has made another deal, and
this time gobbled up the great Cen
tral of Georgia. What next ? It is
to be Loped they won't get the B. A
W. and the Wayncsville A Colonel’s
Island lines. If they do we are gone
sure.
Mr. T. Newman, Drum Major of
the Atlantic Band, left this morning
for Columbus. He will remain until
after the visit of our boys to the
Chattahoochee Valley Exposition.
Mr. Newman will not be ashamed of
his Brunswick boys in his old homo
—Columbus—but will, the rather, be
proud of them.
Mr. 11. M. McIntosh, editor of the
Albany’ News nnd Advertiser, has
announced himself as candidate for
Mayor of that city. No one in Alba
ny Las done more to advance the in
terests of that city than Mr. McIn
tosh, nnd bis election as Mayor would
be a deserved and fitting recognition
of his services, while Albany would
secure an efficient and vigilant officer.
The accident at the East Tennes
see docks Monday afternoon was
measured, in the first reports, by
“what might have been,” and not
what really did happen, “Seventeen
tiien killed and wounded” proved to
be only two men injured—-Mr. Bll-
lington, a foreman, struck in the
head with the end of a pike pole, and
Wash Hopkins, a colored man, whose
logs were badly bruised. The great
timbers of the cottou warehouse were
being raised, several being mortised
together and forming a section of the
building. One of these sections were
being raised into position, held by
guy ropes and stays, when an over
confident darkey let his rope slip, and
the .timbers began to totter. The
alarm was given, and the workmen
told to "look out for themselves.”—
The falling timbers struck the next
and each in succession pushed its
neighbor. Many of the workman
saved themselves by stepping be
tween the falling timbers, others ran
out at the sides, and one man jumped
overboard.
11. A >V. It. It.
The City Council has granted the
B. A W. permission to lay another
track into the city from a point near
the mouth of the old canal down to
the present docks. The ground cov
ered is the marsh lots now unoccu
pied, but still represented on the
map. The road owns the majority of
the lots through there and only asks
permission to lease the streets. The
city granted the lease for sixty years
at a nominal rental with the priviso
that one of the streets so crossed
shall have and bo maintained by the
road a public dock for small boats
to land so that the water front in that
part of town will not be shutotf from
the public. This gives the road all
they need, and they will forthwith
begin to improve this property, ami
when so completed they will have fa
cilities for doing the immense they
contemplate. The Company will j the two restaurants that have estab-
spend within next two years .$123,-'lished themselves in rough board
000 on this property. I sheds. They lack something of ri
The busiest place in all Brunswick’s
length and breadth is the “new dock.”
It is a great bee-hive, in which a
great colony of heterogeneous human
bees are rushing to and fro, hither
aud thither—Jobnnic Rebs, Yankees,
English, Irish, Scotch, Germans, and
the ever present and ubiquitous no
gro, “too numerous to mention.”—
The Advertiser-Appeal went out
Tuesday with photographer Jack-
son to get a view of the dock for the
forth coming Trade Pamphlet, and
whiie the photographer was getting
a focus with his camera the newspa
per man made a pencil sketch for the
benefit of the hundreds for whom he
is eyes and ears, in a news-gathering
sense.
First, then, the docks have a deep
water frontage of 1,400 feet, and like
a bulwark along its entire length lay
three streamships, a bark and n
schooner, while on the inside of the
pier lay the steamer Abbeville, dis
charging cotton, and a tug steamed
and puffed out in the stream.
The steamships Caledonia, Mineo-
la and Caroline Miller were loading
with cotton. Mr. F. D. Aikin was
in person looking over the destinies
of the latter.
The British bark George Davis,
Capt. Falkner, is being loaded with
lumber by Stillwell, Millen A Co.,
under charge of Mr. Ilarry Barkuloo,
who has for many years handled the
pencil and tally book.
The schooner Gov. Hall is dis
charging nut coal, which is shipped
in East Tennessee cars.
The 1,400 feet of wharf front is
tapped about every hundred feet by
spur tracks, which converge to the
main line like the ribs of an enor
mous fan.
The warehouses, at the northern
cud of the docks, are filled with dam
ageable merchandise, largely spirits
turpentine, while the territory around
is a perfect sea o^rosin barrels. Here
the work of gauging, grading and
marking was going on with a rush,
nnd Mr. J. S. Thomas looked on with
the expression of a man who had
liiyie than a passing interest in those
barrels.
But the busiest spot on the whole
area is at the southern end, where
the compress is going op. This and
the warehouse to adjoin it will stand
on a large platform built inside of
the dock proper. Great attention
has been paid to the foundations for
this platform, and it will stand any
weight that can lie put on it.
The press is not yet up, hut the
foundations of masonry are ready to
receive it, and a train load of machin
ery is on the-ground. Some of the
eastings arc tremendous, weighing
many tons. This compress is prom
ised to he the most powerful in the
world.
The furnaces and boilers arc al
ready put up, the necessary masonry
being upon a specially prepared foun
dation of piling.
An artesian well is being dug to
supply the boilers with water. Mr.
T. \V. Dexter is the contractor, and
the hum of bis engine can be heard
from morning till night. At noon
yesterday he had reached a depth of
260 feet with a'four inch pipe. The
pipe goes right through the salt wa
ter, hut that won’t keep the artesian
fluid from being just as clear and
sweet.
Another busy man is Mr. Moses
Daniels, the plumber, who is looking
a*'ter the lire protection. Beneatli the
cotton portion of the dock pipes are
being laid, with plugs at appropriate
distances. Seawater will be pumped
into a tank, and in case of lire put
to use.
Perhaps a hundred negroes work
on the dock. Many of them carry
their dinners, hut numbers patronize
on the docks is
Mr. H. W. Johnson, the representa
tive of the railroad. He has a vast
amount of business on his bands, and
often burns the midnight oil.
Onr Schools.
Under the guidance of Prof. Bran
han and School Commisssion E. A.
Nelson, onr public schools have grown
to become the pride of our people.
They are patronized by many of our
best people and the work still goes
on.
A committee of citizens visited the
schools Monday by request of the
Board, and were pleased with all
ohey saw. The discipline was excel
lent, and the pupils seem to recog
nize, as so few pupils do, that they
were there for a purpose. In short,
that the chief business of their lives
at this present time, is to attend to
school duties, other things being
secondary. The committee are thor-
oughly of the opinion that our peo
ple should be proud of our schools,
and should give the School Board
all they ask for. Otfi- schools can
be, and should be made second to
nobe In the State. Both Superinten
dent and teachers impressed the
committee as alive to the work be
fore them. The writer regrets not
being present with the committee,
having been hindered in doing so.
He is with them however in every
movement to Md the schools.
Superintendent Branham submitted
to this committee in writing a list
of the immediate needs consisting of
desks, globes, i-i'.os, recitation
benches,etc., figu; r.g up about $1,000.
These the City Council have
promptly ordered furnished and the
teachers and pupils are all happy to
day over it.
But this only meets tire present
emergency. With the light now be
fore us, our school census will be
doubled very soon, to say nothing of
the large number of children now de
barred for want of room from attend
ance.
This question too, came up before
Council last meeting, and both the
members of that body and the citi
zens present acknowledged that the
demand for more room was impera
tive, and more buildings must he put
up. Where was the money to eomo
from?
, Here Col. C. Symmes came to the
rescue and showed conclusively how
it could be done. lie suggested that
as Queen’s Square, where the Coun
cil Chamber now stands, was an un
sightly place, an obstacle to the
growth of our principal business
street, nnd in short, out of place en
tirely—permission lie asked from
the next Legislature P* submit to
the people the. propiiciy of cutting
up this space into lets and selling
same for school purport - —sites hav
ing been reserved for a Court lioust-
and City Hall.
The ground thus cut up iuto bus
iness lots would command $2,000 or
mote apiece and bring in about $30,-
000 into the treasury, thus furnish
ing us the means of putting up as
lino an academy building as can be
found in the State.
Still They Come.
From every direction people con
tinue to come into Brunswick. Mr.
L. Johnson, of Pike A Johnson, lum
ber dealers, of Graham, Ga., is here
to day arranging to build several
houses, ouc Gnc one for himself, an
other for his son-in-law, Mr. Bran-
han, and others to rent. lie purchas
ed some line lots here some time ago
from the Brunswick Company; and
will now proceed to build on them.
We shall welcome his family to the
city. Good citizens, we are always
glad to greet.
We consider Col. Symines’b scheme
for securing Brunswick a new and
commodious school building—a
thing she needs and must have—as
ouc of the wisest and best hits of the
age. -Queen square is. practically no
value as a square to the city or any
body else, whereas cut up. into busi
ness lots it will be a valuable piece
of property, ami readily sell for a
sum sufficient to build for us sehool
accommodations coufmensurate with
our needs. By ail means let ns ob
tain the nccccsary sanction, of the
Legislature. Let thei-- lie no delay'.
This greatest of all questions to
onr town is not receiving the atten
tion we think it should have. It
should be uppermost on the minds or
our Aldermen, nnd they should at-
once get the ball in motion, for it wilfc
take time to do anything,
The engineers, we learn, will soon'
be down with their plans and speci
fications of work, but as yet no pro
vision has been made for the money-
A suggestion has been made to ar
range for the legal issuing of bonds-
for this work. Heretofore we have-
fought the bond idea, believing the-
work could be done by piece—so-
much each year—say $20,000 worthi
In conversation with members of the-
financo committee, we glean as their
idea, that to raise that amount over
aud above other actual needs- would
he impossible, so then that leave ub
but the one resort,, namely, bonds.
The very thought of these, however,
sends cold chills through our veins;
and makes us shudder..
We haveabout reached the conclu
sion that as bitter as- is the pill we
must prepare to swallow it, unless
the wisdom of Council will suggest a
bettor way. *
In making this concesion, howev
er, we aro by no means in favor of a
blind issuing, of bonds.. We would
throw around it certain restrictions
. First,, tliatat should be submitted
to the people, and secondly that said
bonds should be put into the-hands
of a special committee, composed, say
of three citizens and two members of
Council—a regular bond commission.
With those restrictions we would
he willing to issue bonds; and -only
so much each year as are 'absolutely
necessary, say $40,000 the first yean
That amount could be placed> right/ .
here in our ini 1st, for they would be-
a good investment for capital.
AXOTHER PLAN..
But another way isopen.. Above-
counsel. was about to prevail last
Tuesday evening bcforoCouncil,when
Judge Symmes appeared on the scene-
nnd'Suggestcd a plan which if car
ried out will satisfy every faction.
His plan is to enter into a contract
with parties who oan be found who
will put in the sewerage and rent
same to the city at a fair interest on
the money. The city to purchase
same at a given time in the future,-*
when it can issuo bonds if desired.
Tliis is the main feature of the prop
osition, and so far ns we have learn
ed it meets the approval of both
bondist and anti-bondist. The whole
matter will be nrnngcd by an ordi
nance now being prepared at the first
meeting of Council in November. In
the framing of that ordinance, as a
matter of course, both interests must
he guarded. The city must be guard
ed against imposition, and the rights
of the party putting in the money
must he maintained. We trust the
attorneys will look well into the mat
ter and leave no loopholes for contro
versy as in the present water and gas
contract. Make tho language so
plain that there will he no necesity
for tho Supreme Court to be com
pelled to interpret.
As Seen by Cuilie.
Two negro women on the corner of
Newcastle and Gloucester streets last
Tuesday night discussed the electric
light. They admired its beauty and
brilliancy, and thought how fine to
be able to walk under such a beauti
ful light. Suddenly one of them
seemed to havecaughtan inspiration
and exclaimed:
“Tank de Lord, de white people
ncblier know ’bout dis ting ’fore de
wall, or dey would -a worked we nig
gers nit* an’ day.”
A Reliable Man.
Jinks: -Johnson wants to borrow
$1U0 from me. Is he good?”
Binks: “Yes with proper securi
ties.”
Jinks: “What would yon suggest?”
Binks: “A chain and padlock, a
pair of handcuffs ami a dog. That
would he enough,- I -think- to hold
him.” t