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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