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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.
Tax Receiver and Collector—J. M. Purdom.
Sessions first Mondays in March and September.
J. L. Harris, Judge, and Simon TV. Hitch, Solieitor
General.» w
Oct. 31,1878.
POST-OFFICE NOTICE.
This office will be open every day (Sundays ex
eepted), from 3 a. u. to 6 p. m.
On Sundays from 9 a. m. to 10 a. m.
Money Order and Register business from 8 a. m«
to 4 P. U.
Malls dally from each way—East and Wtst.
Eastern mail arrives 7.80 p. m. Western mall
arrives 4.20 a. m.
settUy T. J. FULLER, Postmaster.
Professional Cards.
DR. W. E. FRASER,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON,
Blackshear, Ga.
Prom pt attention to calls. day or night.
IV' Disease* of Women and Children a specialty.
oc!31-ly
DR. A. M. MOORE,
PRACTICING PHYSICIAN,
Black%hear. Ga.
oct3l-ly
s. W. HITCH,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Blackshcav, Ga.
Practice regular ia the Brunswick Circuit.
oetSl-ly
J. C. NICH0LLS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Blaclcshear, Ga.
Practice regular in the Counties of Appling.Clineh,
Camden. Chariton. Coffee, Echols, Giynn, Liberty,
Pierce, Ware, and Wayne. oct31-ly
W. R. PHILLIPS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
eot31-ly Bluekshear, Ga.
BLACKSHEAR, GA., THURSDAY, MARCH 6. 1879.
THE ZULU WAR.
AurkLaS’a Triable With the Cattre Tribe la
Africa.
The scene of the British military
maneuver has shifted from Afghanistan
to South Africa. It is in the later lo¬
cality aotive, that the troops are now the most
and the recent British reverses
give renewed interest to the old story of
that misunderstanding with the natives of
part of England’s extensive empire.
nihilated Near the Tngela tfwer, 20,00QJ5ulus an¬
a Britisll column coyisting of
part battery of of the artillery Twenty-fourth and regiment, a
600 natives; 102
shot wagons, 1,000 oxen, two cannon, 400
and shell, 1,000 rifles. 250,000
rounds of ammunition, 60,000 pounds of
provisions and the colors were captured
killed by the enemy. and wounded, About while 5,000 600 Znlns officers were
and men were lost on the British side.
Snbseqnent attacks were repnlsed, how¬
ever, and the threatened destrnotion of
the English forces and colony averted,
although the governor, Sir Bartlet Frere,
sent to England for re-enforcements,
which were at once ordered to Africa to
the number of 7,000.
ble England has had almost constant trou¬
with the natives ever since that
section became a British colony. The
first Oaffre war broke out in 1811. The
Prophet Mokanna headed an incursion
in 1819, The second Caffre war was in
1828-31. The third in 1834, attended by
diplomatic difficulties between the colo¬
nial secretary and the governor. “ The
War of the Axe ” came in 1846, and an¬
other of more than two years’ duration
in 1850. In 1857 came the destruction
of all their cattle and grain by the
Caffres at the instigation of another
“prophet,” and a desperate and futile
attempt ing in to recover their territory, end¬
death by famine. The Galekas
rebelled in 1856, and nearly twenty years
of comparative peace followed. An ex¬
tensive war, with quarrels ad libitum
among the English officials, came in
1877, and then succeeded the tronble
with the Zulus, which had long been
brewing, brought by animosities be¬
tween the natives and the English and
Dntch settlers.
The English proposed conditions of
peace which would have destroyed King
Oetywayo's lowed. He royal prestige, so war fol¬
has 300,000 subjects, 10,000
miles of territory, 140,000 men of arms,
of athletic and stalwart build and capa¬
ble of great endurance; 22,500 under
thirty and years of age, 10,000 between thirty
forty, 3,400 between forty and fifty
and 4,500 between fifty and sixty, all
well armed. Everything in the way of
tactics and war supplies is very simple.
To ford a swift torrent they form in a
dense column and push each other
across, many, of course, being drowned.
They do not marry under forty, , and the
married men are distinguish ed by a
monkish shaven crown.
The British force at the beginning of
this war consisted of about 15,000 men,
5,000 being regulars, and the naval
brigade is 300 strong, from the ships
Active and Tenedos.— New York Mail.
“Rome Sentinel” Brevities.
A pair of specs— :
A tight fit—Delirium tremens.
A little fresh heir—A new baby.
The only difference between a swine
disease and an important part of a har¬
ness is, that one is the horse collar and
the other is the hog choler-eh ?
Men may come and men may go, the
seasons may follow each other in regu¬
lar succession, dust may return to dust,
the sun may continue to shine upon the
just and the unjnst, but the world has
yet plate to discover the man who haa eaten
a of soup and not burned his
tongue.
“ Is that marble ?” said a gentleman,
pointing to P bust of Kentucky’s great
plied statesman. t No, sir ; that’s Clay,” re¬
the dealer.
The Curiosities of Advertising.
Some persons find the advertisements
the most amusing part of their daily pa¬
per. Advertising old; is a system barely 225
years the first authentic newspaper
advertisements having appeared in Eng¬
land about 1658, in the latter days of
Oliver Cromwell, At firet two or three
small insertions in the newspaper
of the day were sufficient for the
wants of the community. These only
related to runaway servants, the appre¬
hension of evil-doers, quack medicines,
lost dogs, horses and hawks, and ocoa
sionally Edward challenges. As, for instance,
tised for Perry, July 1, 1658, is adver¬
as “of low stature, black hair,
full of pock-holes in his face; he
weareth a new gray suit, trimmed with
green and other ribbons, a light cinna¬
mon-colored cloak and black hat, and
hath run away from his master.” Here
is another, evidently by the hand of the
merry monarch himself, and printed by
the honored editor in type extraordi¬
nary, June 28, 1660:
“ We rnm-s call on you again for a
Black Dog, between a Greyhound and a
Spaniel; no whited about him, only a
streak on his Brest, and a Tayl a little
bobbed. It is His Majesties own Dog,
and doubtless was stolen ; for the Dog
was not born or bred in England and
never would forsake his Master. Who¬
soever Andes him may acquaint any at
Whitehall, for the Dog was better
known at Court than those who stole
him. Will they never leave robbing
His Majesty? Must he not keep a
Dog? This Dog’s plaoe (though better
than* soma imagine) is the only place
which nobody offers to beg.”
Though great feats of feminine pedes
trianism were reserved for our own days,
the early part of the eighteenth century
was in advance of us in female pugi¬
lism. Here is what the gentler sex
proposed to do in 1722 :
“ Challenge.— I, Elizabeth Wilkin¬
son, words of Clerkenwell, having had some
with Hannah Hyfield, and re¬
quiring satisfaction, do invite her to
meet me on the stage, and box me for
three guineas; each woman holding
half a crown in each hand, and the first
woman that drops the money to lose the
battle.”
“Answer.—I, Hannah Hyfield, of
Newgate luteness Market, hearing of the reso¬
of Elizabeth Wilkinson, will
not fail, God willing, to give her more
blows than words, desiring home blows
and from her no favor ; she may expect
a good thumping .”—Baltimore Ameri¬
can.
Gold and Silver in Bulk.
One ton (2,000 pounds avoirdupois)
of gold or silver contains 29,163 troy
ounces, and therefore the value of a ton
of pure gold is $602,799 21, and a ton
of silver is $37,704.84.
A cubic foot of pure gold weighs
1,218.75 pounds avoirdupois; a cubic
foot of pure silver weighs 656.25 pounds
avoirdupois. One
million dollars gold coin weighs
3,685.8 pounds avoirdupois; $1,000,000
silver coin weighs 58,929.9 pounds avoir¬
dupois.
If there is one per cent, of gold or
silver in one ton of ore, it contains
291.63 ounces troy of either of these
metals.
The average fineness of Colorado g old
is 781 in 1,000; and the natural alloy,
gold, 781; silver, 209; copper, 10; total,
1 , 000 .
The calculations at the United States
mint are made on the basis that forty
three ounces of standard gold or 900
fine coin) is worth $800, and eleven
onnees of silver 900 fine (coin) is worth
$12.80.
The Mahrattas had a simple but ef¬
fectual method of discovering wealthy
Hindoos. They pom»J water on the
leaves the people use instead of plates
to eat their rice from; if it ran off the
man clarified was rich, because be could afford
only butter, whereas the poor have
salt.
NO. 52.
ITEMS of INTER ENT.
A side-walk—The crab’s.
Light timber—An eye-beam.
Lawyers profit by their clients’ trial*
The most popular mine — “ Baby
mine.”
He who learns to read will read to
learn.
A book for the table—One full of
plates. *
shoes. Split horse-leather is made up into
Most families die out in two hundred
years.
When a man kicks he generally puts
his beet foot forward.
In a London theater you pay twelve
oents for a programme.
Birds are not noted for courage, but
many of them die game.
The census reports show 6,000,000
farmers in the United States.
Fernandina (Florida) ships snapping
turtles in tierces to Savannah and the
North.
What we are suffering to know is, if a
State prison convict takes the smallpox,
can he break out with it?
from “Sing a Song of Sixpence” dates
the sixteenth century, and “ Three
Blind Mice ” is in a music book dated
1609.
Whether ou the hen-roost high.
Or in the batcher’s ran,
The noblest plaoe for fowls to die
In where they die for man.
On the leading avenues of Rome the
guards now patrol the whole length ot
the way when the king and queen are
expected.
Sonth African proof-readers die young.
The last one snoonmbed to the descrip¬
tion of a fight between the Unabelinjiji
and Amaswaziezizi tribes.
While in a Western town Camilla
Urso took her violin into the county
poorhouso and delighted the inmates.
Good girl that, to play for nothing to
poor houses. ,
He who learns and makes no nse of
his learning, is a beast of burden, with a
load of books. Oomprehendeth the ass
whether he carries on his back a library
or a bundle of fagots ?
The bridge over the river Jantra, at
Biela, in Bulgaria, is a structure of un
nsual beauty. It has fifteen circular
arches, with hollow piers. It is the work
of a self-taught Bulgarian.
An English gardener has brought out
new vegetable called the cabbage
c* roccoli, which is about the size of a
der, good and coooanut when °abbage, solid and ten¬
cooked is of a peculiarly
mild flavor.
Mr. J. A. Rose, of Highland Prairie^
Wis., weighs 242 pounds; so does his
wife; their tweDty-year-old son weighs
211, and a daughter, three years younger,
requires a supporting knee of the ca¬
pacity of 181 pounds.
Who is it, with funereal tread,
Come® slowly home and goes to bed.
And utters what Is bent unsaid?
Tia be who fished since rose the sun,
Subsisting And on a single bunn,
after all’s caught nary one.
Men may escape the law, but their
own consciences they cannot flee from.
Many years ago a young man in Boston
was offense guilty of an offense against the law,
an which brought social ruin
upon himself and his amily. The
and his offense are forgotten by the
public, yet he lives, and lives in Boston.
But from the day hie offense was dis¬
covered—although, law, he is having escaped the
free to come and go as he
pleases—he has never been seen outside
,of his own home in the daytime. Some¬
times, under the cover of night, he
walks abroad to take an airing, and note
the changes that thirty years have
wrought, but an ever-active conscience
makes him shun the light of day and
the faces of men, and he walks apart, a
stranger in the midst of those among
whom he has always lived.
