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About Blackshear news. (Blackshear, GA.) 1878-18?? | View Entire Issue (March 6, 1879)
I » * mti t 7 & t " WITH AN HONEST PURPOSE, WE SHALL BRING TO BEAR ENERGY AND A DETERMINED EFFORT TO PLEASE.*’ YOL. I. §larit*beav %tm, ibUbhed Every Thureday — AT — BLACKSHEAR, CA., — nr — E. Z. BYRE, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. JBates of Subscription : 0*e eopy, on® jreer (post-paid), in edvanoe.....$1.00 One copy, etx months , “ 44 .60 On® oopy, three months “ • • • • • .25 One oopy, one month “ .10 ■ • Advertising Rates: Transient Advertisements, first insertion, fl.CO per square and 60 oenta for each subsequent iuser Lcgal Advertising Rates: Sheriff’s Sale per levy........................ $3.00 Mortgage Application Sales Letters (not exceeding two squares).... 8.00 for of Administration...... 4.00 Application Letters Guardianship.............. 4.00 Application Dismission from Administrator¬ Application ship......................................... Guardianship.......1.. 5.00 Dismission 6.00 Homestead Notice.............. ...... ......... 4.00 Notice to Debtors and Creditors............... 6.00 Application for Leave to Sell.................. 4.00 Administration Sale (not exceeding two squares)..................................... 6.00 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.
