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COUNTY DIRECTORY.
Ordinary—A. J. Strickland.
Sheriff—E. Z. Byrd.
Clerk of Court—A. M. Moore.
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SSdver and Collector— J. M. Purdotn.
kSaatona first Mondays in March and September.
L. Harris, Judge, and Simon W. Hitch, Solicitor
Oct. 31,1878.
POST-OFFICE NOTICE.
This office will be open every day (Sundays ex*
from 8 a. m. to 6 r . m.
On Sundays from 9 a. m. to 10 a. m.
Money Order and Register business from 8 a. m>
4 p. h.
Matls daily from each way—East and Wtst.
Eastern mail arrives 7.30 p. m. Western mall
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Professional Cards.
DR. W. E. FRASER,
AND SURGEON,
Blackshear, Ga.
Prom pt attention to calls, day or night.
IW Diseases of Women and Children a specialty.
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DR. A. M. MOORE,
PHYSICIAN,
Black shear. Ga.
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S. W. HITCH,
AT LAW,
Blaokshesir, Ga.
Practice regular in the Brunswick Circuit,
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AT LAW,
Black shear , Ga,
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W. R. PHILLIPS,
AT LAW,
•ettMx Rtaekshear, Ga,
BLACKSHEAR, GA., THURSDAY, MARCH 13, 1879.
FEEDING OX FELIXES.
Sausaies Id New York that are said to be
made of Cat Meat.
The New York Mercury asserts that
some of the residents of that city are ac¬
customed to buying sausages and other
food partly made up of the flesh of
young kittens. The Mercury says men
go about at night banting cats, which
they Its article put into continues bags as soon as caught.
:
When a sufficient number of victims
has been obtained, the cat-hunter takes
his homeward way and empties his bag
of his eveniie's spoils. The largest and
fattest quickly hayirf killed, been sel Noted, they are
either being knocked in
the head or having their throats cut,
while those too lean are reserved to fat¬
ten for future use. The slaughtered
cat is then skinned, the skin being of
some value, especially the white and
black ones, and the meat prepared for
chopping. Mixed with a little bull
meat, or sometimes alone, it is then
chopped bolognas, and made into the desired
and is ready for sale. Most
of these cat-hunters manufacture the
sausages and sell them themselves, thus
combining the occupations of manufac¬
turer and tradesman on the smallest
scale, while others sell the meat to small
butchers. The manner in which this
business in cats was discovered and in¬
cials, vestigated is of interest. Certain offi¬
a few months ago, in a tour through
the eastern part of the city in search of
alleged abuses, were surprised to find
evidence of this traffic in more ways
than one. A reporter of the Mercury
discovered three or four men who made
a business of getting .fceenilfc aJTa
■XSStZZSf feeeding - ZVoxi these men manu
sold bologna sausages in
quantities. knowing A woman told the reporter,
not his errand, that a short
time ago she had purchased one of these
sausages, but its appearance and taste
was it, so and peculiar that she was afraid to
eat threw it away. It is most
difficult to obtain accurate information,
as these men are most reticent regard¬
ing themselves. Many of them do not
speak any English, and are evidently
afraid their business will be discovered.
The cats, when caught, are sorted out,
and those reserved for fattening are
kept either in large boxes or in small
yards adjoining their captors’ houses.
The advantage of the boxes is, that they
can be more easily concealed and kept
in smaller compass, sometimes in a small
cellar or room ; but they are not pre¬
served in such good condition in this
way as when allowed more freedom, so
it is not resorted to except in cases of
necessity. The boxes have slats nailed
in front of them, and the ocenpants are
fed at stated intervals with some fatten¬
ing compound. When a yard is used,
the tops of the surrounding walls are
smeared with a substance known to
these cat-dealers which the animals de¬
test and will not cross. A collection of
cats thus imprisoned presented a most
amusing spectacle when seen by the re¬
porter. About a hundred cats, of all
sizes and ages, were sleeping, eating,
attitudes. quarreling and caterwauling in various
All grades of cat society
were represented, from the handsome
Angora and Maltese, to the prosaic,
homely backyard Tom, that makes night
hideons with his yells, and murders
sleep. Great care has to be used, it is
said, to prevent the old Tom cats from
eating their young. The “uncles,
cousins, and annts” could indeed be
“ reckoned up by dozens,” and seemed
to constitute anything but a happy
family.
Two ladies, both of them a little dull
in the hearing, were in church one day,
when the minister had for his text,
“ Except yon repent ye shall all like¬
wise perish.” They listened patiently
enough, but when they got out the
onesaidtothe other: “Jenet, wasna
yon an awful text the minister had the
day we’re ?—‘Except a’ we pay our rent,
to be putten out o’ the parish.”
The Uusistered Sinters.
This pair inhabited a single room;
from the faetB, it must bave been
double-bedded; of dimensions; and it may have been
some but when all is said
it was a single room. Here onr two
spinsters fell out—on some point of con¬
troversial divinity belike; but fell out
so bitterly that there was never a word
spoken between them, black or white,
from that day forward. You have
thought they would separate; but no;
whether from lack of means or the Scot¬
tish fear of soandel, they continued to
keep house together where they were.
A chalk line drawn upon the floor sepa¬
rated their two domains; it bisected the
could doorway and the fireplace, so that each
go out and in and do her cooking
without violating the territory of the
other. So, for years, they oo-existed in
hateful silence; their meals, their ablu¬
tions, their friendly visitors, exposed to
au the unfriendly dark scrutiny; and at night, in
breathing watches, each could hear the
of her enemy. Never did
four walls look down upon an uglier
spectacle than these sisters rivaling in
nneisterliness. Here is a canvas for
Hawthorne to have turned into a cabi¬
which net picture—he had a Puritanic vein,
would Yiave fitted him to treat
this Puritanio horror; he coaid have
shown them to us in their sicknesses
and at their hideous twin devotions,
thumbing a pair of great Bibles or pray¬
ing aloud for each other’s penitence
with marrowy emphasis; now each,
with kilted petticoat, at her own corner
of the fire on some tempestuous evening*
put now sitting each at her window, looking
upon the BTjasUP’ landscape sloping
far cell a toward the .*rtb, and the
here they had wandered
1 - " — —» them v», ma and prolonged and infirmity then*
toilets, upon
and their hands began to trem¬
ble and their heads to nod involuntarily,
growing only the more steeled in enmi¬
ty with years; until one fine day, at a
a look, a visit, or the approach of
their hearts would melt and the
boundary be overstepped forever.
Annals of Edinburgh.
Utilizing a Rat,
Large sewer rats get into houres, sn
especially into public buildings in which
of apartments are let to families
and others. In such rooms, and in cel¬
walls and pantries, these ferocious
vermin are more destructive than a wild
beast of prey—and more dangerous
when cornered. One person, who had
suffered much and long from their
ravages, and whose occasional capture
of one of their number had failed to
make any impression on the general
horde, resolved to try a new plan. It is
known that nothing so frightens a rat as
to hear the shrieks of one of its own
kind in captivity. Having caught a
vicious and lively specimen, the experi¬
menter determined on the cruel expedi¬
ent of starving him to death, and to
make his squealing “ tell ” on the others.
Caaght in a box or wire trap, the rat
was there kept, unbanned, except for
deprivation of food aLd water—and he
lived just two days and two nights.
During that time, what with the pangs
of hunger and thirst, and the added oc¬
casional incentive to vocal exercises in
the shape of proddings and stirrings up
with a long pole, the caged rat gave
forth at sundry and divers times such
only piercing shrieks of rage and despair as
a rat can utter. Probably it
wouldn’t have been entirely safe, at that
time, to have given him a chance to
smell of vour finger, or to get at your
ly thumb; but one good result was certain¬
cruel accomplished by that otherwise too
that experiment—not a rat has been in
room or in those walls from that
about day to this, a period, we believe, of
half a year. A similar result is
said to have been attained by catching a
rat, dipping it into a pot of red paint,
and letting it run; and also by shearing
and singeing a rat, and then letting him
go.
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The Country. €
It h in the country that the soul ex
panda and grows great. . The tow* de¬
velops, cultivates and amplifies ad the
senses, but its tendency is to
that incomprehensible impulse of being
we call soul. Out where the ragged
hills point heavenward with ten thou¬
sand sturdy evergreen figures; where
stand the woods in royal majesty; where
the brooks dance along and clasp hands
with the rivers, and rivers sweep on
with unimpeded flow to the bosom of
the sea; where rocks rise like brawny
giants, their nakedness covered with
mosses, and drink in the sunshine and
the rain proudly, disdaining to show
how the elements caress them slowly
into dust: where the birds sing their
most jubilant songs, and the wild
flowers wear their brightest hues;
where the bees ham in lasy content
from honey-cup to honev-oup: where
nature rules supreme, aud man becomes
and a pigmy—there the true soul, mtbashed
the undismayed, aspires to oompass all
profound mysteries of creation, and
reads eloquent lessons in everything.
Where villages dot the hillsides and
nestle in the valleys; where the) b
bing loudest clangor of the church-bell the
sound heard; where thi fields
teem with homely promise of tin com
ing harvest, and the voices of men are
drowned in the prattle of nature—there
are magnificent souls hidden oath
the humblest exteriors. The ] that
grasps the plow and scatters seed
may be brown and hard, but \ is a
whole heart in its grasp; the that
has been snowed upon, and rail
and blown upon, is neither m
scarred, in but brave and gentle;
every lineament bow emm
that sees the first tiny bud of the trees,
the first blade of pale green grass, the
first frail blossom of the woods, watches
the oovert approaches of spring
glow and luster that we do not often
in the dissipated town.
Wanted Ab Indorser.
the A Yallejo (Oal.) butcher was over in
mountain wilds of Oontra Costa tha
other day, buying meat on the hoof.
He fonnd an oid Missourian with a
thousand cattle on a hill, living in all
the simplicity of primitive life as it is
generally discovered a thousand miles
from the outposts of civilization. In
appearance he looked something like
the picture one sees of Robinson Crusoe
in the books, after tho latter had worn
out all his good clothes. But the cattle
were fat, and the Yallejoan bought
what he wanted. When it came to set¬
tling for them, he handed the Contra
Costa Crusoe some greenbacks as part
of the payment. The man did not seem
to know what to make of such a kind of
medium, and it was found
necessary to explain to him that they
were government notes for the sum in¬
“ Waall,” said he, after mnoh
I’ll “efyer’ll agree to indorse
ar, take ’em.” But the Yallejo
not Uncle being in the business of in¬
Sam’s paper, refused,
he had to pay him in gold.
A Moment of Horror.
A prominent fancy goods dealer of
city, the whose lees neatness of attire is the
of fortunate, stepped into
store He Sunday to replenish the fur
laid aside his glossy silk hat
put on an old straw. Having ar¬
matters satisfactorily, he saun¬
np Congress street just as church¬
of were his coming down. Meeting a
his hat, acquaintance, when, he gracefully
to his horror, he
that he had on the straw one
said. He took the back streets and
home as soon aa possible.—
(Me,) Argus
An exchange speaks of a “ wife insur¬
company.” it insures But we don’t know
a man’s wile or insures
man a wife. .....
