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COUNTY DIRECTORY.
Ordinary—A. J. Strickland.
Sheriff—E. Z. Byrd.
Clerk of Court—A. M. Moore.
County Treasurer—B. D. Brantley.
County Surveyor—J. M. Johnson.
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Ocf. 31,1878.
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Prompt attention to calls day or niftht.
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AT ATTADAICv lOrtrsSY AT Ji f i LAW, a taj
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Practice rejular iu the Brunswick Circuit,
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ATTORNEY AT LAW,
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BLACKSHEAR, GA., THURSDaA^DECEMBER 5, 1878.
Fanny Sights.
I a cow-hide m the giftse,
A rash-light ou the floor ;
I Hftw » candle stick in mud,
And bell-pull ftt ft door.
I hew ft horse-dr up s creek,
A cat-nip at her fcod ;
I saw a chestnut-burr, aud beard
A shell-bark iu the wood.
I saw a jack-plane off a board.
A oar-spriug < ff the track ;
I saw a saw-dost off the floor,
And l%u a carpet ~^>k,
I saw fttyionkey-wreelu pAte a bat
From a fair lady's :
I saw a rattle-snake a bird.
Aud hogs-bead ou a pla’ e.
1 saw a brandy-smash a gl»»,
I saw a sbooting-atar ;
I’ve heard the corns talk iu tUo field,
And pig-iron orow bar, I-* t
I saw a pin-wheel off a post, ».
And wheel wrigbt in a abop ;
I saw a gin-sling on a bar,
And saw a ginger-pop.
I saw a house-fly o’er a field,
I saw an ox-roast too ;
I saw a shad-roe and clam bake,
And saw a cbicken-stew ;
I saw a sword fish from a bank,
I beard the water-spout;
I saw a tobacco spit, and then
I beard an eye ball out.
I heard & fence-rail at the din,
I beard a waist-band play.
A lovely strain—a sweet spit-toon—
A st| I went away.
nny
*r. I ian Child’s Cradle.
The the Is an Indian mother for her
ahild nentAde plain to us by the care
end I' 1 (G*f which she often expends upon
the Adle; the choicest production of
her Vkill in grass aud woolen weaviug,
the neatest needle-work, and the richest
bead embroidery that she can devise
and bestow are lavished upon the quaint
looking cribs which savage mothers
nurse and carry their little ones arouud
in. This cradle, though varying in
minor details with each tribe, is essen¬
tially the same thing, no matter where
it is found, between the Indians of
Alaska aud those far to tho south of
Mexico. The Esquimaux are the ex¬
ception, however, for they use no cradle
whatever, carrying their infants snugly
ensconced in the hoods to their parkies
and otter-fur jumpers. The governing
principle of a papoose cradle is an un¬
yielding board upon which the baby can
be firmly lashed at full length upon its
back.
This board is usually covered by softly
dressed buckskin, with flaps aud pouches
iu which to envelop tbe baby ; other
tribes, not rich or fortunate enough to
procure this material,have recourse to a
neat combination of shrub-wood poles,
reed splints, grass matting, and soft and
fragrant ribbons of the bass or linden
tree bark. Sweet grass is used here as a
bed for the youngster’s tender back, or
else clean, dry moss plucked from the
bended limbs of the swamp firs ; then.
with buckskin thongs or cords of plaited
grass, the baby is bound down tight
and secure, for any aud all disposition
that its mother may see tit to make of it
for the next day or two.
Indian babies, as a rule, are not kept
in cradles more than twenty to twenty
four consecutive hours at any one time ;
they are usually unlimbered for an hoar
or two every day, and allowed to roll
and tumble at will on the blanket, or in
the grass or sand if the sun shines warm
and bright. But this liberty is always
conditional upon their good behavior
when free, for the moment a baby be
gins to fret or whimper, the mother
claps it back into its cradle, where it
rest* with emphasis, for it can there
move nothing save its head; but so far
from disliking these rigid couches the
babies actually sleep better in them
than when free, and positively cry to
be returned to them when neglected and
left longer than usual at liberty. This
fact is au amusing instance of the force
of habit.
When the papoose is put away in its
cradle, the mother has little or no more
concern with it,other than to keep it with¬
in sight or hearing. If she is engaged
about the wigwam or in the village, she
stands it up in the lodge corner or hangs
it to some conveuieut tree, taking it
down at irregular intervals to nuise.
When she retires at night, the baby is
brought uud suspended at some point
easy reaching ; if the baby is ill,
a is kept at her siue, or she sets np all
ion. nigfct ‘lichen with it the iu the most ieave orthodox the village fash¬
women
on aiWkenaud, such as going to the
mounf e o| * for beiries or to the river
canyon' 1 r ^eiu fish, the cradles with the
babies i are slung upon the
mother’s and carried, no matter
how far, houAough vizier.— the road, or how
dismal the if. H r . Elliot , in
Harper * Afa llB mue.
Yellr y Fever Victims.
The follow is an approximate list
of deaths f iupposed yellow fever (inclnding
imported anf cases), since its
first nppenra ,J»e this year :
New Orleans.. ..... 9171 Rook Springs. Miss.. 88
Memphis...... vicinity ..... 1081 Meriden, Miss........ 71
Vicksburg* 1,1 8 Mississippi,scattering 21 <
Grenada A vicinity, a 27 Chattanooga........ 143
Holly Springs...... 314 Nashville, Tenn 11
Port Hudson, L i... 9 Paris, Teitu •••••• • ... 23
Gretna, La........ 63 Mnsou, Tenn 2>
Carrollton, 1 a...... 5 Germantown, Tenn.. 26
N’r PuttersouviHc.L 4< Grand Junction.Tenu ' 8
Thibodeaux, La Kh Brownsville, Tenn. . J88
Tangipahoa, La 43 Collierville, Tenn.... 44
Morgan City, La. . to lAgrange, Tenn... Tenn a
Dry Grove, La 3 Martin, 4‘)
Delhi, La..... 30 Somerville, Tenn 14
Delta, La...... 27 Moscow, Tenn. 84
Plaqnemlne, Baton Rouge.. 195 Willistou, Bartlett, Tenn. 13
La.... 120 Tenn.. 9
Donaldsonville, La. 35 Tennessee, scattering 46
Labadievllle, lot.. 80 Hope field, Ark • ••••• • II
Louisiana, scat ter’g. 225 Arkansas, scattering.. 13
Greenville, Miss. . 237 Florence, Ala...... 41
Pt.Gibson A county, | Mobile, Ala........ 68
Miss ............. 225 Decatur, Ala...... 44
Canton, Miss....... 171 Tuscaloosa, Ala....
Bovina, Miss....... 74 7 Tuscurubfa, Key AIs tv
Bay St. Louis, Miss. Hickman, West.... 3*
Hernando, Miss.... 69 Louisville.... Ky 141
Water Valley, Miss., 51 34
Pass Christian, Miss 20 Bowling Green, Ky.. 23
Jackson, Miss...... 67 Kentucky, scattering. 6
Terry, Miss 20 New York
Osyka.Miss A vic’ty. 40 Ht. Louis :u
Winona, Mi«a...... * Gullipolis aud vicinity 82
Mississippi City.... 19 Clucinuati... • • • ■ ■ IG
Biloxi, Miss...... 37 Pittsburg....
Port Eads •••■•• in Chicago...... 1
Lake, Miss.. 46 Cairo........ 32
Bolton, Miss 8‘
Ocean Springs,Miss hi Total 12,617
Goodrich Ld’g, Miss 42
The Mustache in Prance.
The administration of tho bank of
rr«.n<:c has issued an order forbidding
any person in the employ of the bank to
wear a mustache. In this connection
the Journal dee Debat h makes an in¬
teresting catalogue of the regulations in
the French army and in other depart¬
ments of the service regarding the wear¬
ing of these ornaments. Iu February,
1792, a general order was issued forbid¬
ding the waxing or pointing of the
mustache in the army. 2n June of the
same year it was ordered that the grena¬
diers only shonid lie allowed to wear
them. In the year XIII of the republic
the permission was extended to all the
cavalry except the dragoons. In 1822
the minister of war permitted grena
diers, riflemen and light-infantry men
to wear mustaches, and ail officers of
every army were allowed the sameprivi
lege. Finally, in 1832, but the mnstache
was not only permitted rendered
obligatory upon all soldiers. In the
French navy the mustache is forbid
den to all. but from a fancied sanitary
reason. It is said that the effect of the
salt water lo Iged Yips. in the beard is to raise
ulcers on the In the courts mus
taches are generally prohibited, though
there is no law on the subject Judges
ordinarily refuse to listen to a lawyer
who presents himself adorned with a
mustache, but advise him to present
himself more decently. The French
clergy are now forbidden to wear mus
tacbes, but formerly they were accus
tomed to wear them. But even now
missionaries and priests attached to the
colonies are obliged to wear the beard
folL
NO. 38.
“Heat Is Ufe—-Cold is Death.”
There is no greater fallacy than the
opinion of many, particularly the yonng
and strong and vigorous, that winter—
especially a sharp, frosty one, with
plenty of snow—is Very the most healthy sea¬
son of the year. few oeraons seem
to realize the fact that cold is the con¬
dition of death, and that in both warm
and cold climates it is onr unconscious
effort to maintain our bodily heat at a
temperature of ninety-eight degrees that
wears us out. ‘ To this temperature,
called “ blood-heat,” every cubic inch of
oxygen that serves to vitalize onr blood
must be raised by our own bodily heat,
or life ceases. Since in oold weather
the maintenance of a sufficiently elevated
bodily temperature beoomes very often
a the difficulty too great for our strength,
advent of a severe winter is really
more to be dreaded than a visitatiou of
a pestilence. The saying, “ Heat is life
—oold is death,” has a striking illustra¬
tion and confirmation in the reports now
regularly submitted by Dr. Russell to
the Glasgow sanitary committee. The
death rate rises and falls with the regu¬
larity of the thermometer. So many
degrees less heat, so many more deaths,
and vice vena. In one of his fortnight¬
ly reports Dr. Russell says: “Tb e
death-rate in the first week of the fort¬
night was twenty-one, and in the second
week twenty-five. The mean tempera¬
ture in the former week was 40 8 de¬
grees Fahrenheit, in the latter 39.5 de¬
grees. ” He attributes the low rate of
tho first week to the high mean temper¬
ature of the preceding fortnight, which
was 47.03 degrees, aud adds: “Tins is a
good frequently illustration observe of in a these law which we
reports of
temperature and death-rates—that a
Wl‘<‘ k of low temperature produces a
rise in mortality the week follow¬
ing.” Iu our climate it would probably
be difficult to find a more frequent cause
of serious ailments than taking cold.
Whatever weak place we have, whatever
constitutional disorder we be subject to,
oold will surely discover. We take
colds because onr vitality is too low to
ward off the effects of the rednoed tem¬
perature aronnd us. As a matter of first
importance, then, to resist oold and the
various derangements of the system con¬
sequent, It is necessary by proper un¬
trition to maiutain onr natural animal
heat; second, to retain this heat by a
sufficient quantity of clothing; third, to
regulate with care the temperature of
the air we breathe. Contrary to the
opinion current among lovers of oold
weather, a fire in a bedroom in the win¬
ter is cheaper and better than a doctor’s
bill; for, owing to our inactive condi¬
tion during sleep, the circulation of the
vitalizing blood is both slow and im¬
perfect, and hence the danger of taking
cold by breathing oold air is greatly in¬
creased. A cold is the beginning of
everything that is bad. If any one con
scions of having caught one feels oold
chills creeping np the back, lot him
apply a mustard plaster to the bottom
of the spine and lower part of tut back
at once; and by so doing he may avert a
dangerous illness before it is too late
and medical advice can be procured.
It should never be forgotten that ” heat
is life—cold is death."— Scientific Amer¬
ican.
It has now been nearly three days
since anybody announced a new infalli¬
ble core for rheumatism and all bilious
complaints and malarial diseases. Don’t let Come,
ronse up, some of yoril this
whole world tumble into its grave for
want of a new medicine. Fly around
and paste a new lable on the old bottle.
— Hawkeye.
Bo much of our time in preparation,
so mnch routine, and so much retrospect,
that the pith of each man’s genius con¬
tract# itself tp a very few hours. t
WRat arc the aims which are al the
fecting same time duties ? They the happiness are, the per¬ of
of ourselves,
others.
