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About Blackshear news. (Blackshear, GA.) 1878-18?? | View Entire Issue (March 13, 1879)
<( I kttofww v tm AN HONEST PURPOSE, WE SHALL BRING TO BEAR ENERGY AND A DETERMINED EFFORT TO PLEASE.” II. Eveary Thursday — AT — BLACKSHEAR, GA., — BT — A* E. Z. BYRD, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. Rates of Subscription : copy, on* six month* year (post-paid), •* In Advance.....$1.00 oopy, “ .30 oopy, throe month* “ “ .23 oopy, one month “ “ .10 Advertising Rates: Transient Advertisement*, first insertion, $I.C0 square *nd 30 cents for each subsequent iuser Begal Advertising Rates: 8*)e per levy.................... ..... Sales (not exceeding two square*).... for Letters of Administration...... Letters Dismission Guardianship.............. 400 from Administrator¬ ship.................. fi.oo Dismission Guardianship. 5.00 Debtors Notice............................. 4.00 to and Creditors............... 3.00 for Leave to Sell................. 4 00 Sale (not exceeding two squares)..................................... 6.00 COUNTY DIRECTORY. Ordinary—A. J. Strickland. Sheriff—E. Z. Byrd. Clerk of Court—A. M. Moore. * t 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 4.20 a. m. oct31-ly T. J. FULLER, Postmaster, 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. oct31-ly DR. A. M. MOORE, PHYSICIAN, Black shear. Ga. oct31-ly S. W. HITCH, AT LAW, Blaokshesir, Ga. Practice regular in the Brunswick Circuit, ectSldy J. C. NICH0LLS, AT LAW, Black shear , Ga, Practice regular in the Counties of Appling,Clinch, Charlton, Coffee, Echols, Glynn, Liberty, Ware, and Wayne. oct31-ly 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. 1. 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. .....
