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About Blackshear news. (Blackshear, GA.) 1878-18?? | View Entire Issue (April 17, 1879)
■* ------n«— m,, flWfc' i> \ < 55 * “WITH AN HONEST PURPOSE, WE SHALL BRING TO BEAR ENERGY AND A DETERMINED EFFORT TO PLEASE.” VOL. II. §ladsHeat flew, Published Every Thuradny — at — BLACKS HEAR, CA •r — BT — E. Z. BYRD, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. Mate* of Subscription : One oopy, one year (post-paid), in advanoe.....$1.00 One copy, tlx maBhs “ “ ......80 One'oopy, One three months “ u .25 copy, one month “ • • • • • .10 Advert!ulna Raton : Transient Advertisements, first insertion, $1.00 per square and 50 cents for each subsequent inser¬ tion. Legal Advertising Rates: Sheriff’s Sale per levy.......................... $5.00 Mortgage Sales (not exceeding two squares).... 8.00 Ai plication for Letters of Administration •••••• 4.00 Application Letters Guardianship........ 4.00 Application Dismission from Administrator Application ship................................... Dismission 5.00 Homestead Notice....................... Guardianship.... • • • • .. 5.00 Notice 4.00 to Debtors and Creditors......... 5.00 Application for Leave to Sell............ 4.00 Administration Sale (not exceeding two squares)..................................... 6.00 v COUNTY DIRECTORY. Ordinary—A. J. Strickland. 5 £{%»»i Bhrrtff—E. E. Byrd. ..... f.rmf 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 W. Hitch, Solicitor . ©euers 1. „ C Oct. 31,1878. POST-OFFICE NOTICE. This office will be open every day (Sundays ex¬ cepted), from 8 a. m. to 6 v. m. On Sundays from 9 a. m. to 10 a. m. Money Order and Register business from 8 a. m. to 4 p. M. Mails daily from each way—East and W«sf. Eastern mad arrives 7.30 p. m. Western mall arrives 4.20 a. m. oct31-ly T. J. FULLER, Postmaster. Professional Cards. DR. W. E. FRASER, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Blaclrahenr, Gn. Prom pt attention to call* day or night. tST Diseases of Women aud Children a specialty. oct 31 -ly DR. A. M. MOORE, PRACTICING PHYSICIAN, Blaokshear. Ga. oct31-ly • S. W. HITCH, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Blackshear, Ga. Practice regular in the Brunswick Circuit. oct31-ly J. C. NICH0LLS, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Blackshear. Ga. Practice regular in the Counties of Camden. Charlton. Coffee, Echols, Giynn, Pierce, Ware, and Wayne. oct31-ly W. R. PHILLIPS, ATTORNEY AT Blackshcar, Ga. oct31-ly BLACKSHEAR, APRIL 1879. Origin of Two Popular Poems. Hood’s touching lyric, “The Song of the Shirt,” was the work of an evening. Its author was prompted to write it by the condition of thousands of working women in the city of Lontfcm. The effect of its production was foreseen by two persons, Lemon, the poet's wife and Mark the editor of Punch “Now mind, Tom—mind my words,” said his devoted wife, “ this will tell wonderfully. It is oue of the best things you ever did.” Mr. Lemon, looking over his letters one morning, openc^ an envelope in¬ closing a poem whi<J| Jy the wri try said had been rejected three London journals. He begged the editor to con¬ sign it to the waste-paper basket if it the was not thought suitable for Punch *as author was sink of the sight of it.” The poem was signed Tom Hood, and. was entitled “ The SoDg of the Shirt.” It was submitted to the weekly meet¬ ing of the editors and principal con¬ tributors, several of whom opposed its publication as unsuitable to the pages of a comic journal. Mr. Lemon, how¬ ever, was so firmly impressed with its beautv that he published it on Decem¬ ber 16, 1843. “ The Song of the Shirt ’ trebled the sale of the paper and created a profound sensation throughout Great Britain. People of every class were moved by it. It was chanted by ballad-singers in the streets of London, and drew tears from the eyes of princes. Seven years after the author’s death the English people erected a monument over his grave. IP* *jch gave £uipeas,.the.laJborej shillings .8 sewing-women gave and ponce, Sculptured on it is the inscription de vised by himself: “He sang ‘The Song of the Stiirt.’” “ The Old Oaken Bucket” was written fifty or more years ago by a printer named Samuel Woodworth. He was in the habit of dropping into a noted drink ing-saloon kept by one Mallory. Oue day, after drinking a glass of brandy and water, he smacked his lips and de dared that Mallory’s brandy was supe rior to any drink he had ever tasted. “ No,” said Mallory, “you are mis¬ taken. There was a drink which in both our estimations far surpassed this.” “ What was that ?” incredulously asked Woodworth. “ The fresh spring water we used to drink from the old oaken backet that hung in the well, after returning from the fields on a sultry day.” “Very true,” replied Woodworth, tear-drops glistening in his eyep. Returning to his printing office, he seated himself at his desk ftnd began to write. In half an hour “The old oaken bucket, the iron-bound bncket, The moss-covered bucket which hong in the well” was embalmed in an inspiring song that has become as familiar as a household word. From Vagrant to Missionary. John _ , Brady _ , only , a few , years ago wa* a street vagrant m New York, a frousy-heade.i, vagabond little savage, sleepmg under grocer^ carts, m nooks, and on the docks m neglected areas and doorways anywhere he could find room to curl himself up m a ragged bundle and appropriate to himself a cat-nap before the inevitable police man could interrupt his slumber Then be was committed as a vagabond and shut up m Biackwell s island; then being on a farm, he worked and went to school three months of the year, then secured the position of bell-ringer at Yale college, paying thus for his tuition until he was graduated; then friends paid Ins way through the New York Theological seminary, and then, last .summer, the Tittle street Arab became tue first _ Presbyterian , . missionary . . lo the , burrowing Esquimaux in Alaeka. A German theorist thinks cooking de i stroys the nutritive properties of food. Snails as Food. We take the following from a curious paper entitled “In a Suailery,” con¬ tributed to Scribner by Ernest lugersoll Snails, being great eaters, meet their just reward in being eaten. Tne paln dine forms are sought after by all sorts of water birds, particularly ducks and rails; while the thrashes and other birds crush the shells of the land snails and extraot their juicy bodies. The wood¬ land birds, however, will not eat naked-bodied Rlugs ; the slime sticks their beaks and soils their feathers ; the ducks seem to have no snch prejudices. Some mammals, like the raccoons and wood-rats, also eat them ; insects suck their juices, and the car¬ nivorous sings prey upon one another. Lastly, man, the greatest enemy of brute creation, employs several of snails for culinary purposes. By Romans they were esteemed a delicacy, and portions of were set apart for the cultivation of large, edible Helix pomatia, where were fattened by the thousand bran sodden in wine. From Italy taste and spread throughout the Old World, colonies are yet fonnd in Britain where the Roman were. They are still regarded as a cacy in Italy and France,' the method of preparation being to boil milk, with plenteous seasoning. Bncklancksays Engli that several of the h species are excellent food hungry boiled people, and recommends either in milk, or, in winter, raw, after soaking 8 for an hour in salt ., e©« ollke l French in London have them placed upon their bills of fare. Thousands collected aunually and sent to as food for cage-birds. Dr. Edward Gray stated, a few years ago, that mense United quantities were shipped alive the States “ as delicacies I am inclined to think this an tion. The same author records that glassmen at Newcastle once a year a snail feast, collecting the animals the fields and hedges on the Sunday fore the feast. Emigration Into the United States. The chief of the bureau of statistics tt Washington, furnishes the summary of the official returns of gration into the United States, last During the culendar year .1878, arrived at the several ports of the States 209,254 passengers, of 153, 207 were emigrants. During calender year 1877, the total arrival passengers was 180,361, of whom 503 were immigrarts, showing an crease of 22,704 in the number of grants, or abont seventeen per The ages of the immigrants who daring 1878 were : Under fifteen 29,685 ; fifteen and under forty, forty years and upward, 19,464. were 94,651 males and 58,556 females. The occupations were : Professional, 1,516; skilled, 16,837 ; not specified, 631 ; without occupations women and children), 72,121. countries of last permanent residence, 0 r citizenship, were as follows: larul, 19,581; Ireland, 17,113; Scotland, 3 700; Great Britain (not specified), Wales, 311; Germany, 31,958; Austria, 4>881 . Hungary, 632; Sweden, Norway, 5,216 ; Denmark, 2 688 ; er i ands> 652; Belgium. 554; landf 2 ,051 ; France, 5,668 ; Italy, Sicily, 228 ; Greece, 13; SpaiD, Portugal, 648: Russia, 4,216; Poland, 554 . Fialtin.i. 22 ; Turkey ia Europe, 23 .Syria, 38 . , ndia> 9 . c hina 8 468 y ont h Africa, 7; Africa (not 4; Quebec and Ontario, 24,533 ; Scotia, 3 ^ . New Brunswick, 1 458; E , lward I(llandf 849 ; Newfoundland, 108 . British Columbia, 372; Mexico, 437; British Honduras, 4; Central { 14 Waited States of Colombia, Venezuela, 16; Brazil, 11; Peiu, 80 nt.i 1 America (not specified), 10 Cuba, 494, Porto Rico, 13 ; Hayti, Jamaica, 34 ; Bahamas, 289 ; NO. 6. 22; St Croix, 11; St Thomas, 18; Trin¬ idad, 7; West Indies (not specified), 81; Azores, 873 ; Cape Verdes, 6 ; Bermuda, 13 ; Iceland, 168 ; Australia, 684; and ail other countries, 14. During the year 1878 fifteen ohildren were born on the voyage, and the num¬ ber of deaths was seventy-one. A Frontiersman on the Mule. One of the Bishop Brothers’ herders, a bronzed frontiersman, whose face is shaded by a sombrero with a brim of the broadest, and whose constant com panion is a blaeksnake whip, which he can orook with a report like a rifle, re lates many aneoaotes of mules, with whose habits and capabilities he is thoroughly When conversant. He says: “ you get on the plains you don’t want nothing better’n a mule, ami you can’t get nothing better for plains work. They can live on less and lay them¬ selves down to more honest hard work than any other eritter of their size. Why, stranger, a mule kin ran down an antelope, long-legged and I never see any of yonr American horses do that the Mustangs do it sometimes, bat a mule’s best. He won’t be so very speedy, maybe, bnt he’s got the bottom, and though the Tope’ll git awav from him at first, and perhaps histe h isself clear out of sight, the mnle'U tucker him out and tucker him in the end, if he’s kept on his trail long enough. Males ain’t no slouches on the track some¬ times, too. Mnles ’pill live, too, on what a horse would starve before he’d and touch. I've They’ll ’eifi grow fat live on and sage work brush, for known to weeks by ohowin’ on eaoh other’s manes and tails and wagon-tongues, feed boxes, wagon-sheets, sand and sieh stuff. Oh, you bet a mule’s tough.”— Colman's Rural World. Where Genius Fonnd Inspiration. It is told of Mrs. Siddon that as one day as she was passing in her through St. Giles’, London, she saw two vixens indulging in a struggle that was a more common sight in the actress’ time than our own. The trage - dienne ordered her coaehman to stop, much to companion the amazement the of occasion. the lady was her on perfoimers of this grand combat tinued their conflict without taking of who waB or who was not looking on their exertions. At last, equally ed, very much disfigured and ly out of breath, the viragos had to off from positive exhaustion. Upon this the majestic Sarah directed her servant to drive on. “You are she said to her friend, “ at brawl. my stopping I to witness a vulgar street never been satisfied that I had canght the true facial emotion of Maobeth, when she talks of Now, dashing the brains of her babe. one those women, in threatening the struck me as having exactly the sion required; and I am determined try it to-night, as I have to play character.” She did, and the effect electric. Rome Sentinel Brevities. —The dollar is mightier than sword. —“Now m try to brace up,” as man said when he bought a pair of penders. —“That takes the cake,” as the positor said when he removed the of fat poetry from the hook. —The “Faille Bridal Toilet” is trated and described in a fashion jour; To purchase such an outfit is enough make the average father fail. —After you have related a rich to a friend’ aud you expect to hear burst out into uproarious laughter, ing is more calculated to convince of the correctness of the theory than to have him stare blandly inquire: “What’s the point?”
