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COUNTY DIRECTORY.
Ordinary—A. J. Strickland.
Sheriff—E. Z. Byrd.
Clerk of Court—A. M. Moor®.
County Treasurer—B. D. Brantley.
County Surveyor—J. M. Johnson.
Tax Receiver and Collector—J. M. Purdom.
Session® first Mondays in March and September.
J. L. Harris, Judge, and Simon W. Hitch, Solicitor
Geueral.^
Oct. 31, 1878. w
POST-OFFICE NOTICE.
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to 4 P.M.
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DR. W. E. FRASER,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON,
Blackshear, Ga.
Prompt attention to calls day or nif'ht.
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DR. A. M. MOOES,
PEACTICING PHYSICIAN,
Oct3l-ly Blackshear, Ga.
S. W. HITCH,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Blackshear, Ga.
Practice rejnlar in the Brunswick Circuit.
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J. C. NICH0LL3,
ATTORNEY AT LAY/,
Blackshear. Ga.
Practice regu! ar in the Counties of * poling,Clinch
Camden. Charlton. Coffee, Echols, G.ynn, Libertv!
Pierce, Ware, and Wayne. oct31-ly'
W. R. PHILLIPS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
ooc32-ly Blackshear, Ga.
BLACKSHEAR, GA., THURSDA?. JANUARY 9, 1879.
AN ENfiLNEEK’S ADVENTURE.
Treed by n Wild Hour and Saved from Death
by a (Hack Bear.
A letter from Honesdale, Pa., says:
Aleck Forbes and Charley Hulsizer. of
Port Jervis, are two well-known Erie
railway enginters. They have lately
returned from a two weeks’ hunt in the
wilderness of Cauada, 150 miles north
of St Thomas.
“ Last year Clmrley and I went out
the same woods,” Aleck said. “ Then I
got treed by a wild boar, and I thought
that was worse than going down the
bank at the rate wf forty miles an hour.
Yon see, some hog'Jin Illd fellow woc{Js ftout there
turned some the three or
four years ago, and they went wild. I
started one of ’em one day, and thonght
I’d have a little fun with him. I sent a
bullet after him. He changed his
course, and made plumb for me. I
skinned up a beech tree. I thought the
blamed animat'd go away when he fonnd
I was out of his reach. But he wasn’t
that kind of a hog. It was colder than
Greenland, and about two o’clock in the
afternoon. Charley and the rest of the
party were scattered about in the woods,
out of hearing. The boar—for he was a
boar, and a big one at that—waltzed
around that tree, spitting out froth as if
he’d chewed a barrel of shaving soap,
and showing up a pair of tusks like a
young rhinoceros. He tried to gnaw
the tree down, and worked away for an
hour with his teeth. I thought certain
lie intended to keep right on till he
brought me down. But tree'wasn’t by and by he
gave that plan up. The more
than eight inches through, and I think
the hog made a mistake in quitting, for
there ain’t any doubt but that he’d a
fetched it by early bed time. But he
stopped gnawing.
“ Then ho went off ten or a dozen feet
and sat down on his haunch is. He
grunted and frothed for at least ten
minutes. Then a new idea seemed to
strike him. He jumped back to the
foot of the tree and commenced to
shovel the dirt away from it with his
snout, as if he had a contract to build
a cellar. I saw what he was at in a
minute. He was going to dig up the
said. tree by the roots. * Blame the hog !’ I
‘ If some of the boys don’t come
along pretty soon I might as well have
been born a beech-nut, for he’s bound
to have-a meal on me if it’s in the book.’
Then I yelled, ‘S’boy, there, s’boyl’
But that bog’d been too long in the
woods to s’boy worth a cent. Then I
whistled for an imaginary dog, and call¬
ed, ‘ H’yer, Towser! h’yer, h’yer,
h’yer !’ I remembered that when I was
a they boy, and the hogs got into the garden,
always made for the hole in the
fence when you whistled for the dog.
But this old fellow only frothed the
more, and snorted the loader and work¬
ed the faster.
“I was blame near frozen by the
time it grew dark. The sun went down
and the moon came np, and still that
hog dug away at the roots of that tree.
I could see that he had a hole around it
big enough to bury an ox in, and I hope
to fly if I didn’t think the tree began to
totter. It got colder and colder, and
the boar kept right on rooting. I be¬
gan to wonder who they’d put on my
engine in my place, and whether the
hog would leave my bones so the boys
might find ’em, and take ’em home to
my folks. Once, at about eight o’clock,
I thought I’d shin down the tree and
try a race with the boar, as I might as
well be killed in trying to get away as
to die like a sheep in a pen. So I be¬
gan to let myself quietly down. I had
my hands on the lower branches with
my legs hanging down the trunk, when
the hog smelt the rat. He gave a snort
that made the very tree shake, and
raised up on his hind feet to meet me
half way. I was back to within two
feet of the top of the tree in less time
than it wonld take a red squirrel to
jump a rail fence.
* * It’s no use, ” I said. “ Unlees some
o’ the boys oome inside of an
boar, I’m a goner .” About ten miuntos
after that the hog suddenly stopped dig¬
ging. He seemed to listen for a minute ;
then, with a string of ihe most unearth¬
ly snorts, he started on a dead run off
toward Wolf swamp.
“What’s np,” 1 said. In le^s than
five seconds I knew what was np. Out
of the brush to the right came, tearing
and growling, one of the biggest bears
I ever saw. He never stopped, but let
himseif out the best he knew how after
the boar. Pork is one of the clioieo
delicacies in the provender of a bear.
The hog had considerable start of the
bear, but at the rate the bear was going,
as I saw him by the light of the moon
disappear think over the brow of the ridge, I
he must have come up with tho
hog and hod his coveted lunch. I didn’t
wait for any news from the seat of war,
but got. out of that tree about as lively
as I had got into it, picked up my gnu
and made for camp. I got in about
twelve o’clock. The boys had been
out looking for me, and had given me
np for lost. Tiny felt good when I
showed up.
A Lady on a SI %" recked Steamer,
York A letter has jusMWu received in Now
which gives Miss Mary Clymer’s
account of the shipwreck of the* Pom
mcrauia and of the rescuo of herself and
of her sister Rose. The mother, brother
and soother 6ister of the family were
lost. The letter is as follows :
Mother, Richard and I sat up later
than usual that night, thinking with
pleasure of soon being safe landed at
Hamburg. We were sitting in the
cabin by the diDing-table. Birdie and
Ro e bad just left us to go to their
berths for the night. Richard and the
two young Bodiscos went up on deck,
when suddenly there was a grinding
sound and shook, as if the vessel had
Btruck a liaid bottom. This was a quar¬
ter before midnight. Then suddodly
there csimo a loud cry of “All mou on
deck. All ladies stay below.” Then
came the cry of “Everyone on deck.”
I got Rose and Birdie—tho latter almost
undressed—and we went up on dock,
going to the port side, mother following.
Birdie was very cold, and had on only a
wrapper. Rose gavo her a water-proof
cloak, and I gave Rose a coat. When
we reached the deck there wus tho
greatest confusion and excitement. Tho
captain was at his post giving orJers, and
stuck to hi* duty to the very last. I
went down again into tho cabin to got a
little box containing some valuables,and
when I came back with it I found Rich¬
ard bravely at work freeing a lifeboat,
and mother, Birdie and Rose trembling
and very much agitated. I do not think
mother had very much hope of being
saved, for she put her arms around each
of our necks and blessed ns, and then
got up on the rail of the vessel. Fear¬
ing she wonld fall into tile water below
I pulled her to the deck. Next Rich¬
ard put a rope into my hands and told
me,in a voice of command, “ There, sis¬
ter, hold on this.” Scarcely knowing
what it meant, I seized the rope. Rich
ard swung me off. I then saw the fright
ful distance below me to the water, and
the next instant I was in the bottom of
the lifeboat. When I looked up I saw
it dark something flying through the
air, which I thought was mother; it fell
into the water by the side of the boat;
I pulled it up by the hair; it was Rose,
Rose was stunned for the moment, but
soon recovered. There was room for
eight or ten mure persons in the boat,
but it was suddenly cut from its fasten
mgs. Then the sailors pulled off for
fear of being swamped by the vessel,
and in a few moments we heard a voice
in our boat cry, “ Good God, they’re
gone. pulled Pray for their souls.” The men
very slow, and did not reach the
although Glengarry for the best part of an hour,
she was very near, having
come in answer to the Pommerania’s
signal. We were landed at Dover, Eng
Und.
44.
Items of Interest.
The route to the coal bin is a hod road
to travel.
Hpicetl kangaroo tongue is the latest
in canned goods.
Prize-fighters show each other mark,
ed attention.
A generous spread—Raising a borrow
ed umbrella.
The blacksmith secures prosperity by
being always on the strike.
Private Dalzell is said to write regu¬
larly for forty-two waste baskets.
A model Texan gave his son-in-law a
wedding present of 80,000 head of cattle.
“You’ll find no change in me,’
snoored the wash vest to the in-vesti
gatiug laundress.
MaDy a boy who handles a billiard cue
with consummate skill, can’t get the
hang of a Bnow shovel.
An independent family newspaper has
been started at Dead wood. It is called
the Up Gulch Snorter.
8: iking of grain-corners, why
-a- there, naturally r enough, be
corners in every “ square ’ deal.”
Last year bankrupt liabilities in Eng
hind were £(>5,886,850 (8329,434,250) ;
assets, £5,989,154 ($29,945,770).
“ Oh husband!" said Mrs. Ophelia MoMann,
As she gazed at her willful and passionate son,
“ Where that boy got his temper I never could
M06;
I’m certain ho never oonld take it from rao.”
“No doubt, my dear wife, yonr assertion is
trno—
I never have missed any temper from you."
A man in Lexington, Vt., mailed a
letter to a fictitious name in Japan, with
a request that it be returned if not call¬
ed for, and started it by way of the At¬
lantic. His object was to see how long
it wonld be in going around the world.
It came back by the way of Bon Francis¬
co in just 100 days.
A man went in the office of a board of
health not long since, and said: “ Look
er hero, I’ve been payin’ to keep thia
office long enough for nothing. Now,
if you’ve got any health here I want
some. ” The clerks tried to explain, but
ho would not hear a wor 1. He went in¬
side the rail, “ pedostrianated ” to the
manager’s room, and luxuriated in the
manager’s easy chair, saying as he swung
airily around: “I came here for health,
and health I’ll have.” When the chief
arrived and found tho man immovable,
he called tho brawny porter, and as tho
health-seeker picked himself np off the
soliloquized pavement, twenty seconds afterward, he
healthy; it’s well moodily: “Maybe that’s
shaken before taken,
and they give it in large doses, too. It
ain't liealhty for clothes, that I’ll swear
to.” It was observed that he did not
depart he with as much vigorous energy as
came in with.
Little Johnny on tb« Pigeon.
My sister says no man wioh shootn
pidgin matches shal marry her, but no
man wnde want to marry her, I guess,
as long as the pidgin shootin held out,
cos that wud be fun ennff. Wen she
said it her yung man got red like a beat,
but didn't say nothin. Nex day he ast
my Uncle Ned did he kno enbody wioh
wad like to bi a jam-up good shot-gun.
Uncle Ned, he said : “ I'd like to bi it
my own self if it was a good pidgin gun,
but I gess it aint, cos it has oome mity
ni spilin a match.” Some pidgins car
rys letters, same as the poetoffice, and
one time wen my'sisterVyung went
away he cot one of onr pidgins and took
it a long for to fetch back a letter to
her, jest for a flier. Nex day wenever
that girl herd the dore bel ring she waa
jest wild, cos she thot it was her letter
come, for her idee was that the pidgin
wude leave it at the postoffice, for to be
delivered by the letter carryera. But
wen my mother tole her the | ’ '
come thru the winder, she and
thru np evry winder in the hous, aneffii
was baby, a cole day, and Franky, that’s tho
took cole and oome mity near pe
term