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About Blackshear news. (Blackshear, GA.) 1878-18?? | View Entire Issue (June 19, 1879)
I \ / 7 L* INA AN HONEST PURPOSE, WE SHALL BRING TO BEAR ENERGY AND A DETERMINED EFFORT TO PLE lSE ’ YOL. II. §ladistifat: %tm, Published Every Thursday — AT — BLACKSHEAR, CA., — BY — E. Z. BYRE, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. Rates of Subscription : One copy, one ye»r (poet-paid), in advanoe. SS3S One copy, six months “ “ One copy, three months “ “ One copy, one month “ “ Advertising Rates: Transient Advertisements, first insertion, fl.CO per square and SO cents for each subsequent inser¬ tion. Ijegal Advertising Rates: Sheriff’s Sale per levy.........................._ 85.00 Mortgage Application Salta (not exceeding two squares).... 8.00 for Letters of Administration...... 4.00 Application Letters Guardianship.............. 4.00 Application Dismlssiou from Administrator¬ Application ship......................................... Dismission 5.00 Homestead Notice............................. Guardianship....... . . . 6.00 Notice to Debtors Creditors............... 4.00 and 5.00 Application for Leave to Sell.................. 4.00 Administration Sale (not exceeding two squares)..................................... 6.00 COUNTY DIRECTORY. » V. - r . Ordinary—A. J. Strickland. Sheriff—E. Z. Byrd. Clerk of Court—A. It. Moore. County Treasurer—B. D. Brantley. County Surveyor—J. M. Johnson. Tax Receiver and Collector—J. M. Purdora, Sessions flr»t Mondays in March and September. i. L. Harris, Judge, and Simon W. Hitch, Solioitor General. „ Oct. 31,1873. POST-OFFICE NOTICE. This office will be open every day (Sundays ex¬ cepted), from 8 a. m. 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. M. Mails daily from each way—East and Wist. Eastern mail an-ives 7.80 p. m. Western mall arrives 4.20 a. m. oct31-ly T. J. FULLER, Postmaster. Professional Vartls. SB. W. E. FRASER, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Blackahear, Ga. Prom pt attention to calls, day or night. Diseases of Women and Children a specialty. oct31-1y DR. A. M. MOORE, PRACTICING PHYSICIAN, Black shear. Ga. oc*31-ly S. W. HITCH, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Blackshear, Ga. Practice regular in the Brunswick Circuit. oct3I-ly J. T H L. Ty IMItilULLb, rnrOTiT ^ A1 ATTORNFY rOKWEY AT AT I LAW, AUkf Wacleahear, Ga. Practice regular in the Counties of Appling,Clinch, Camden. Charlton. Coffee, Echols, Glynn, Llbsrty, Pierce, Ware, and Wayne. * oct31-ly W. R. PHILLIPS, ATTORNEY AT LAW, •— “• BLxlCKSHEAR, GA., THURSDAY, JUNE 10, 1879. A Bully Disposed Of. A French paper tells the following story: While L’Eclair No. 3 slowly went up La Garonne river, Lodois Podensae, who was clerk on board the steamboat, and whom everybody called captain, I say Lodois Podensae was as much em barrassed as embarrassed could be. An officer of the 13th regiment of hussars was stretched at ease on three chairs— one bore his body, the other bore his legs, the third his left arm. Lapped into.a jeering pipe, beatitude, he smoked an enor mous whose thick smoke was blown by the wind straight into the faces of two charmirA ladies. Tim latter, disagreeable after having smoke, borne lit jpr last some made tijie sign this to Captain Lodois Podensae. He at once understood what they meant, and went up to the officer and said: “You will greatly place. oblige me were ladies you to change your The two behind you smoke are seriously of pipe.” inconvenienced by the your The officer slowly raised his eyes, looked at Captain Lodois Podensae, smoked faster, drew inspira tion deeper than ever; lazily moving his right said: “I arm, refer he pointed to to Coco.” his saber Captain and Lodois Podensae you asked: “ What do you mean? Who is Coco?” The officer ironically Captain replied: “ I refer you Coco.” Lodois Podensae saw the officer back sought a quarre., so Podensae turned his on the officer; who smoked more than ever. The steamboat was full of passengers. The ladies had no aherna tive but to change their seats, which were in the shade, and to sit in the sun— an ting August sun. longer So they preferred put up a little with the incon venicnce, sure that the captain would soon make the officer behave himself. Podensae was young; he was ambitious to please ladies, especially when they were his passengers; so he attacked the officer again and went up to him saying: “You will oblige me to deal harshly with you, but it is your own fault. You have no right to remain on the quarter deck, for you have only a second-class ticket. Your place is forward The officer carelessly replied, still patting his sword: “I refer you to Coco.” “You annoy me with your Coco. I don’t know Coco. I don’t want to know Coco, have nothing to say to Coco, Will you go forward? Once, twice.” “ I refer you to Coco,” repeated the officer, smoking faster than ever. Po densae was furious. He went up to two sailors who were standing near the smokestack and gave them an order in a low tone. He returned with them and said to the officer: “I should be very sorry I to use force, but if you do not obey me shall be obliged t o make my men carry you forward. ’ T e officer quietly answered: “ I refer you to Coco.” Po densac’s first impulse was to seize the insolent officer by the collar and drag him He forward, kirkin* him as ho wont! all at once exclaimed—evidently a thought had suddenly occurred to him: “You are right. Toil refer me to Coco, ])o you think I am afraid of yon, of such as you, of Coco? Wait one minute and I’ll let you see.” The captain went he low and in a fow mhmtes afterward came out of his cabin brandishing an immense saber. He went up to the ofli cer and said, “See on our lee, there is a little island. It is entirely deserted. It is the very place for you and me. I shall land you there, and I shall say to Coco more than you now dream of.” The officer rose. The captain ordered the engineer to stop the boat and the helms man to put her close to shore. When she almost touched short the captain ordered the gangway to be put out. W hen it was m position the captain said to the officer: “Will youland?” In a moment the officer was on the island, In less time the steSm gangway was taken in, a full head of put on and the boat in the middle of the river. The officer yelled in a towering rage. “What does all this mean?” The captain yelled lxwk, I refer you to Coco.”- “ Have you civ iayed a trick on me? “ _ refer you to oeo. Do you mean t C insult me?” I it-fci jou to Coco. TVia Krvv i^oii. i F " 0d, ?4^ a * i £X te ”° W attd l0 k £ P an d 1 ■*- How a Comet Struck the Earth. It was a very small comet, and jus the merest corner of the earth—but I must tell you the whole story, About the year 1839 we went to live on the banks of'Rock river in the beautiful State of Illinois. the During first the early part of that winter, little town newspaper was settlement. printed It in tin* near our was called the Star. My brother wrote some ambitious verses—chanting the praises of this “Star of our country! Star of our banner! Bright Star of glory that shineth afar!”—which were printed in the first number, and accordingly he was chosen from among the youth of the town office. to be the printer's imp of the Star How I admired, with just a flavor of envy, his sudden elevation! I used to peep in at the windows, for I was too shy to enter by the door, and would watch the inking of the forms with the hand-roller of those days. And I act ually came to think my brother’s good looks were improved by the smutch of ink he habitually wore over his eye or on his nose! Well, it was here, hovering about the Star office, helping occasionally to wash the forms—after I hail grown bold enough pick to the go in—and ‘lending a hand to up type, clear away the pi and sweep out, that I had my first dreams of the life awaiting me in the busy world, True, there was no fountain of inspira tion that flowed for me there, unless it was the ink lountain of the old Washing ton press, but my visions were shaped by an case-stands: object hanging against one of the and that was—the foot of an old boot: One day, exploring that dark abyss in the Star office, I found a lot of types that were only slightly defaced; and then came to me the lucky thought that I could beg these, and pick up enough more like them to set up by-aud-bye a printing No prairie office sun-flower of my own. ever grew so quickly with as head that idea, and soon 1 walked my among the stars. It Imp pened, everybody too, just about this time, that was “ falling expecting a shower of meteors, or stars ” as they were then called; and although I did not see them, I was constantly and thinking about them and the Star, trying to work out in my mind a plan for starting my thought printing thrilled office, and, at length—how the all own! How me—publishing should I print a paper my it? What name should I give it? My spare hours were spent in trying to find answers to these Questions. And all the time that tantalizing old Star was coming body in out its as regularly as any heavenly taken course. in My paper must have a name some way from the sky; but what should it be? Mea CLB while, no diligently stamp collector ever worke moro in gathering varieties than I in getting together the type for my enterprise. The contents proprietor of the Star, gave me the of the old boot, and I searched daily the sweepings stock, f did oi the “chores” oilioe to add to my for a friendly finally carpenter, took borrowed Iris tools, and him into my confidence. I made a type-case by boring in a thick plank as many holes as there are letters numerals, in the alphabet, with extra holes for double letters, “spaces,” “quads,” “points,” etc. I made a press by nailing to the end of a well-seasoned strip of two-inch oak a piece of hard wood a foot square and an inch thick. The strip of oak was two feet and a half tong, upright, and the the strip hard-wood smoothly piece planed formed an leveled, and cleat,” making nailed the bed of upright the press. A ” along the its inner face, on furnished a fulcrum, and a stick four or five feet long was the lever. Lou will see presently how h,;, home-made press was worked. “Give me the fulcrum,” said Arclii medes, “and I will move the world! ” I had a fulcrum and a lever, and with them I hoped to lift into existence a new body of celestial name. But I was like a young bear—my troubles were all ahead of me. When I SgM»teut U £ e a : veffh u ™e^«t a, ajgaa? r z~ss i NO. 15. mending little the faces ot the crooked and perverse letters. When “sorts,” or I had particular kinds of letters failed me, to reconstruct them entirely, al¬ ways so far mindful of my “p's” and “ q s ” as to turn those lettera upside down when I was short of “d's’ r and 4 « h’s.” I made capital “F’s” with “ E’s,” just chopping off the lower limbs; and a “Q” learned to cry “O”after I had cut away its tongue. The severest strain, however, was to make two ‘W’s ” stand for “ W.” Imagine the editorial of a paper opening with the quotation: ‘ v V hen, in the course of human events, it becomes,” etc! Through these many similar difficul¬ ties I led my little columns of broken English, until they stood at last in hat tic array on the bed of my press, which had been made true with the aid of a spirit-level. Four hard-wood strips formed the “ chase,” or frame, in which the eolumi s were “ locked up ” to com plete * the u * “form, “ — ” I had two of two columns each, the size of the pages ing three inches and a-Imlf page be¬ I inked the with printer's by five inches. applied by type ball made of buckskin ink a stuffed with cotton. I laid one of my dampened sheets of printing paper on the inked surface, then a square of woolen cloth, then a piece of hard-wood board ten inches square, planed smooth and block block true, irue, aim and half half then, men, on on top top of oi that, that, another another the the size. size. Now Now came came the the su- su¬ preme moment. I grasped the lever, fitted it myself beneath the the fulcrum, and swung seemed over other end! I to sit astride the handle of the Great Dipper, in this the proudest moment of my boy life! I tell you, there is no satisfaction like that w hich comes from hard-earned success. Now was fulfilled my hope to bring upon earth, by means of my fulcrum and lever, a visitant of heavenly title. The stars, might including “hide their my own village Skir, lor I stood diminished “heads!” that moment holding in my hand th<* first imnression of the Comet. Thus was ushered in, as we solemnly say of the fourth of July and other great events, the first hoys’ newspaper printed stir where in the “Far West.” It made a I lived, and struck with as¬ tonishment all the hoys of the village. This “comet” struck the earth about sixty-live miles west of Chicago, but I am disturbing compelled to admit that it exercised no influence on the old planet. It made an impression of one kind, how¬ ever. Patience, contrivance and confi¬ dence were not left without reward. The Comet made me head boy in our debating club and president of our first juvenile temperance in St. Nicholas. society .—Edward C. Kemble, What “ Boom” Means. Thn cnmmt nbermmem.rfin _____„„„ )m( j -bS”’ freouent P SSvJS » ta !binr Western idiom defter Instil, 1 f l tS {w ; n rivers ire fe?from and crooks The ...hi? | „f j,) i 1 in? t a waters tin-re v,,!7tP are vrrvmvat 1 nt nllIl uties six?nch«TfrtuS?. of volume lixiv fwi of^aier derine tiJir^thiw ? L aSOI r!i : ns an( i .,11 Krvp ..ndSmibw W i ien the usually thin dow^in^a vJlLwfKS \ 8 comes bearing nounnir fenceSaiIs W tL and corn other ffms^and of laden riparian £ P with the ?exati<?™of 0 ne exDleUves thi of tbe «ettW« H 18 fords !.,«*« Ttestre^ t l 1 and while itat cahS its IfeShtofSi!^^ ‘^m ,1 „ greatness f’ it is a ” thf™ rH >k or the iKh l)rv Fork ' • iKiisin- in ebiiHit!<of 1 b * 1 1 1 ese ‘n,f T^imni 1 U ‘ c f nature. tm-p Prmndenee Pmruu J ournal. _ “ She’s youni a darlin" she’s quieTmusi^ a dai«v ” sang the man in a sort of way beneath his breath Up and wasjust his starting heart down overflowing; toward her liouse be turned was but as the corner he saw Smythe hand her into a carriage and drive off to enjoy the moonlight. A sudden hush a^ne^'hri^pt
