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About Blackshear news. (Blackshear, GA.) 1878-18?? | View Entire Issue (March 20, 1879)
w i “WITH AN HONEST PURPOSE, WE SHALL BRING TO BEAR ENERGY AND A DETERMINED EFFORT TO PLEASE.” II. Published Every Thursday — AT — BLACKSHEAR, CA„ — BY — E. Z. BYRD, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. Antes of Subscription : One copy, one year (post-paid), in advance.....$1.00 One oopy, six month* “ ’ “ .60 One copy, three months “ .26 One copy, one month “ .10 Advertising Hates: Transient Advertisements, first insertion, $1.00 per square and 50 cents for each subsequent iu6er« tiOD, Legal Advertising Rates: Sheriff's Sale per levy.......................... $3.00 Mortgage Sales (not exceeding two squares).... 8 .no Application for letters of Administration......4.00 Application'Letters Guardianship.............. 4.00 Application Dismission from Administrator Application ship......................................... C.OO Dismission Guardianship.......... 5.00 Homestead Notice............................. 4.00 Notice ttl 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. Siuwiff-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. Purilom. Seasfona firat Monday* in March and September. J. L. Harris, Judge, and Simon W. Hitch, Solicitor General.® Oct. 81,1878. POST-OFFICE NOTICE. This office will be open every day (3jndayt» ex¬ cepted), from 8 a. m. to 6 p. si. On Sundays from 9 a. m. to 10 .v. m. Money Order and Register businvaj from 8 a. m. to 4 v.• Mails daily from each way—East ami West. Eastern mail arrives 7.80 p. m. Western mail arrives 4.20 a. m. oct31-ly T. J. FULLER, Postmaster. Professional Vartl*. DR. W. E. FRASER, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Blaokshear, Ga. Prompt attention to calls, day or inch*. *W Diseases of Women and Children a specialty. oe‘3I-ly DR. A. IX. MOORE, PKACTICING PHYSICIAN, Blackshear, Ga. oct31-ly S. W. HITCH, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Blacksliear, Ga. Practice regular in the Brunswick Circuit, oom-ly J. C. NICE0LLS, ATTORNEY AT LAW, ISlackshear, Ga. Camden. Practice Charlton. regular in Coffee, the Counties Echols, of Giynn, Appling,Clinch, Liberty, Pierce, Ware, and Wayne. oct31-ly W. B. PHILLIPS, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Blaehshear, Ga. BLACKSHEAR, GA., THURSDAY, MARCH 1879. FOR THE YOUNG FOLKS. Bloom. The sudden sun shone through the pane, And lighted both their faces— A prettier sight just after rain Ne’er fell in pleasant places. Two girls. One held a vase of glass, And one, a ball unsightly, Ragged and soiled. And this, the lass Upon the vase laid lightly. “ What lovely flowers we’ll have!” said they, “After it starts a-gjbwing.” ~ The sun delighted slipped away, v And down the west went glowing. —Bessie Hill, in St. Nicholas. A Don's Memory. There is a well-known story of a mur¬ derer being discovered by a dog flying at his throat and bearing him to the ground, when he confessed that he had murdered the animal’s master. The story ts matched by one told in Land and Water of Nelson, a black spaniel. One night tho dog was missing from his favorite corner, and nothing for sev¬ eral weeks could bo heard of him, not¬ withstanding the most searching in¬ quiries. Alter the fainily had retired to rest, one miserable winter night, the well-known bark of old Nelson was heard at the door. He was soon admitted to his cozy quarters, supplied with food, which he ate with many a grateful wag of his tail, and looked a mere bag of bones in comparison with his former self, besides being very lame. A neighbor came in and inquired if Nslsoo had arrived, as he met him 02 the previous day at Macclesfield, eigh¬ teen miles from Manchester. The driver of the mail-cart had also seen him at Derby, and gave him a feed of milk and oat-cake, but could not induce Nelson to remain with him or with the hostler of the inn where he baited. Some time after the dog came home, the owner of Nelson called at a public house in the neighborhood, having with him his four-footed and faithful friend and oompanion. the A bar, sturdy, surly-looking man stood at and to the surprise and alarm of everybody, Nelson sprang at the throat of the stranger, striking his teeth through the waistcoat, and holding on with the utmost tenacity. With a strong effort, Nelson’s owner released the man, who confessed there and then that the cause of the dog’s anger arose from the fact that “ he was the man who stole him, took him to London by the canal boat, where he sold him and left him.” The dog must, therefore, have traveled from London to Manchester. Nothin* to Do. Kit had taken a slight cold, and so she did not have to go to school. Al¬ though glad enough to stay at home, she could think of nothing in particu¬ lar to do, and after breakfast she wan¬ dered around the house aimlessly for awhile. She finally strayed into her father's study. No one was there. On the table was the unfinished sermon, just where her father had left it. Kit glanced over the neatly-written pages but did not attempt to read them. Then she went into the sitting-room; but her mother was not there, for she had gone out also. Kit returned to the study, feeling a trifle lonesome, and for lack of better enjoyment she built a large fire on the hearth. She placed the back-log and fore-log in their places; and this done she sat down in a big chair to enjoy the blaze. She had not sat long there, when she heard a queer rustle, and turning toward the door, she saw enter a half-dozen crash towels. They were 6ighing at a tremendous rate; and plainly finally one of them said quite : day “ She promised she’d hem us the first she could; and she hasn’t thought of usonce.” Kit’s conscience reproached her. She was just going to excuse herself, when a shuffled pair of thick-soled walking boots in. “ Seven buttons off !” they groaned dismally; them “ and she declared she would sew on the first day she had time.” Kit felt much ashamed; but she could think of nothing to say, so she sat very still, blushing, however, a good deal, for the crash towels and unpleasantly. walking-boots were staring at her most The silence was growing oppressive. The towels and shoes stared and stared, until poor Kit felt very much like cry¬ ing ; and she would have done so had not her attention been attracted by n funny scraping noise in the hall. The towels bent their heads forward to look, and the shoes turned themselves squarely Kit’s around to look, as there entered upper bureau drawer. Such a looking thing as it was! It was crammed full with ribbons, pins, bits of jewelry, collars, cuffs, morsels of very sticky taffy candy, fancy work, chest nut shells, handkerchiefs, gloves, some little apples, notes from the schoolgirls—a of everything in fact; and it seemed as though Kit had stirred them all together like a pudding. The crash towels laughed disagreeably, and boots squeaked in disdain. “ She was going to put me in order as oon as she had time,” said the knob of he drawer, meaningly. Bang I From off the top shelf dropped a fat history of the United States, and as it landed on the floor, it leaves opened at the ac¬ count of the settlement of New York by &e Dutch in 1610. Kit's dbefckr '►edSer yet. Hhe had promised her father to read that sometime when she had nothing else to do; and here she had dawdled away nearly a whole morning in trying to amuse herself. She looked sadly at the nnhemmed towels, the grinning shoes, the disordered bureau drawer, and the history; and they looked at her in such a hands disagreeable way that Kit put her up before her face and began to sob. and began Straightway kick the shoes hopped up slapped her to her, the crash towel flung face, the bureau drawer climbed apples at her, and the fat history up on top of her head and began to push her in the fire. With a great effort Kit tried to get away; and at last she succeeded in rolling off her chair to the floor. Then she woke up. She moved her eyes and stared around the quiet room; and after a second she re¬ alized that she had been dreaming. Straightway she rose and went to her own room, took the six crash towels out of the basket, and hemmed them till dinner-time.— Independent. Filthy Habits of Afghans. The Afghans are not a cleanly people; in this they present a striking contrast to the Hindoos, who are, perhaps, the most climate cleanly race on the earth. The of Afghanistan is cold in winter, and perhaps the wild life which is so much the fate of all may have some¬ thing abhorrence to do with it. They have such an of water that they never bring it in contact with their bodies. Being Mohammedans they are bound to do certain ablutions by their faith, but they find substitutes which are allowed instead of the water. There is one tribe who are said to get three new garments only in their lifetime, the garment The first being in each case a blanket. is given at birth, the second when they are married and the third when they die. Each blanket is under¬ stood to have been ceaselessly worn till events entitle the wearer to a new one. Clean clothes and the washing of them are not entirely unknown in Afghanistan, for they have a term by which they im¬ ply a gentleman, and it is characteristic. They call him a “Suffaid Posh," which means white, or in this case clean dress A pair of ears that go on a head of civilization—Pioneers and frontiers, . NO. 2, ITEMS OF INTEREST. Hard times—The iron age. J A checkered career—A convict’s. » A man of pluck—The fowl-stripper, 1 To asoertain the age of a tree—Axe it. The advance guard—A betrothal ring. Flags are employed for signaling at sea. cake. Every baker’s shop has the stomach William Tell was an arrow-minded man. i A shot tower is usually about 180 feet high. Thore are about 600 newspapers in Russia. The only thing which is constant— Change. A man of push—The wheelbarrow trundler. Tho latest thing out—Oats on the back shed. A capital letter—One containing a remittance. The Bank of England has a capital of $ 72 , 766 , 000 . There is a small community of Mor¬ mons in Paris. The Scientific Monthly says snoring is an acquired habit. loo is a cowardly thing. If the sun merely looks at it, it runs. about Steamships for Europe usually carry 30,000 letters each trip. Whioh is the beet of the four seasons for arithmetic f The summer. , Q^odsoufr t 9l a singing bge^l'flna, fltim, there's Tlo place like comb.” half Long sentences don't tire a reader as much as they do a criminal. In the year 1828 there were but three miles of railroad in the whole United States. What is the need of being told to rise with the lark ? The lark ris es abou 3,000 feet. * It is safe enough to tickle a wasp un der his wing, if you do it with a very long straw. The river Ynken, in Alaska, never has been surveyed, but has been navigated for 2,000 miles. looks Nothing does so much for people’s as a little interchange of the small coin of benevolence. “ That’s the long and short of it, : as the street Arab remarked oh he a tall wife and a little husband. A somnambulist in Fountain City, Wia, ent off his finger with ail ait. while asleep, a felon being the incite¬ ment. Electricity is found to be a delicate test for purity of oils, which are judged of by the resistance they offer to the enrrent. The Frenoh are acquiring a more stable government every year. Paris alone consumed 11,219 horses for food last year. “ You ought to husband your coal more,” said the charity woman. “I always pick does. I make him sift ashes and the cinders.” Have you ever observed how mad it makes a man with a sore throat because he can't swallow about 260 times every* four or five minutes ? One hundred and three boys between the ages of fourteen and nineteen are now confined in the California Btate prison, at San Quentin. Beware of prejudices, they are like rats, and men’s minds are like traps. Prejudices creep in easily, but it is doubtful if they ever get out. To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fall our pride supports ub — when we succeed it betrays us. Pile tier, the French chemist, discov¬ ered quinine, the active principle of Peruvian bark, about sixty years ago, and was awarded a prize of $2,000.
