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COUNTY DIRECTORY.
Ordir.ry-^A, JT. Strickland.
Sheriff—u Z. Byrd. - v
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
General. %
Oct. 31, 1878.
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
lo 4 p. M.
Mails daily from each way—East and W«at.
Eastern mail arrives 7.30 p. si. Western mail
arrives 4.20 a. m.
oct31-ly T. J. FULLER, Postmaster.
Professional Ityr/ls.
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DR. W. E. FRASER,
PHYSICIAN AND 'SIMEON,
Black shear, Ga.
Prom pt attention to calls, day or niaht.
t3f~ Diseases of Women and Cuiidren a specialty.
oct31-ly
DR. A. M. MOORE,
PRACTICING PHYSICIAN,
Oct31-ly Blackshear- Ga.
s.-w. HITCH,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Blackshear, Ga.
Practice regular in the Brunswick Circuit.
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J. C. NICH 0 LLS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Rlackshear, Ga.
Practice . t, regular in the Counties of Appling.Clinch,
Camden. Charlton. Coffee, Echols, Glynn, Lil»rty,
Pierce, Ware, and Wayne. oct31-ly"
W. R. PHILLIPS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
0048141 Bluekshear, Ga.
BLACKSHEAR, GA.. THURSDAY. JUNE 26, 1870.
• TIMELY TOPICS. !
In of Germany the Toads j
lined many along parts
are the entire distance with ;
rows of poplars, or of apple trees, the
branches of which latter bend beneath
the weight of fruit. A line of three
shillings fruit, is the penalty for permitted plucking the
ripen and consequently the it of is the community to
owners
profitable
Horse races were i 'Produced into the
Grecian -later, games B. 648 yd IfiO, rs B. C., racejealled end 152
the years “Calpe,” or for C-t only, a also
mart's was
introduced into their spoYts. The date
of the introduction of racing in England
is unknown. In this country tire first
racing is believed to have taken place
almost simultaneously in both Virginia
and Maryland, about the year 1750; but
t ] ie rirst race f or a public stake WHS on
Long Island, in 1818. against time, by a
horse called “Boston Blue,” for $1,000.
The value of California’s products is
given Francisco in these figures from the San
Journal qf Commerce: “We
have a wheat crop which will reach at
least twenty millions of centals. We
will have a wool crop of forty-five to
fifty million pounds. Our vintage will
yield gallons not of less and than eight Ten million mil¬
lion wine brandy.
centals of barley will be raised, and
two million centals of corn. The south
will yield four million pounds of honey,
short Our gold of and silver million yield will not fall
twenty dollars. Our
fruit and raisin crop will sell for at least
'-L Uireg coal and millions of will dollars. yield Quicksilver, moderately,
if in their copper wonted abundance.”
not
Peculiar and infrequent crimes are
brought York police to light occasionally in the New
courts. A woman was re¬
cently prisonment sentenced for unmercifully to twenty flogging flay»’ im
her
twelve-year-old niece, and the child was
given of over Cruelty to the Society Children. for the Proven
tion to On the
same day, in another court, a woman
received four months in the penitentiary
for throw ing kerosene over her husband’s
body, fire lighting a match and then trying
to set to the oil. Husband and wife
liad One not evening lived he happily together home, found for years.
came her
slightly words. intoxicated Just the and the two had
some his wife threw the as oil man him, was but retiring
over was
frustrated in her diabolical attempt and
arrested.
The reported exploits of Mile. Sophie
von Ilerzfeld and several other ladies
during Iyieff, add the recent instance Nihilist cmcule at
one more to the long
list of female revolutionists in Russia.
During III., the tumult which dethroned
Peter in 1763, in favor of Catharine
II., Countess Dashkoff rode at the head
of the Preobrajenski regiment in male
attire, with pistols at her saddle-bow.
Several ladies of rank took part in the
conspiracy in formed the airainst political Alexander I.
1824-5. Among prisoners
banished to Siberia by Nicholas in 1831,
was the celebrated Princess Trubetskoi.
One of the principal leaders of the Po¬
lish insurrection of 1863 was accompanied
everywhere by his young wife, who
made herself conspicuous in every skir¬
mish by her reckless bravery. The at¬
tempt made by Vera Sassulitch upon the
life of the ex-Minister of Police, Gen.
Trepoff, and is still fresh in every one’s mem¬
ory, two young ladies of good family
were found among the workers of the
Nihilist printing press recently seized in
St. Petersburg.
In the New York postoffice a force of
six men is employed solely in correcting
blunders of the people who write letters,
and the skill which these men"display in
prising. deciphering The “ blind ” addresses is sur¬
postmaster gives the follow¬
ing list of a few of the many , postoflices
in the United States bearing the same
name: There are eighteen Brooklyns,
twenty Bangors, Williamsburgs, twelve Bostons, five Baltimores
ten sixteen
Buffalos, seventeen Burlingtons, seven¬
teen Charlestons, four, Chicagos, eight
Cincinnati^, ton Clevelands. twenty-five
Daytons, fifteen Ixmisvilles, fifteen
Lowells, three Milwaukees. fourteen
Nashvilles, seven Plnladelpliias. fifteen
Quinceys. twelveSt. twenty-two Toledos, Richmonds,
Washingtons, Pauls, seven thirty
thirteen Wilmingtons, twenty-live five Springlields, Omahas.
* ‘ ns hst might be extended to more
^ ^j di^
less than 4,000 misdirected letters were
tound in the office in the scattering and
supplementary mail matter.
A New Advertising Wrinkle.
The recent attempted assassination of
Edwin Booth recalls an incident that
occurred while that tragedian vv:is play
ing his .last engagement in this city, and
which is the real origin of the rumor
that he intends never to visit the Pacific
coast again.
It seems that one morning while Mr.
Booth was making his toilet m Ins room
at the Palace, the door quietly opened.
and a wide-awake-look mg individual
slid in and cheerfully bid the astonished
actor good morning
“How’s * Hamlet’ to-day?” said the
stranger, if blandly. 1 “’Fraid Hard von wouldn't just
see me sent my up, so
dropped So I in see,” informally, said ns it were.”
“ the only ‘ lago.’
“ What can I do for you?”
“The fact is, Mr. Booth,” said the
visitor, hurriedly, “1 am the advertis
ing house, agent for the Bazembees’ Auction
on Market street. Cheapest
Over dothiug-house ulsters in at—” the civilized world
50,000
“Don’t want any ulsters. Can’t look
tr. ,vgic in a coat with fifteen ridiculous
Avaunt, thou
“But! don’t want to sell you any, my
dear sir,” put m the agent; “I just come
to make you a regular dear business proposi
tion. Com m it, my sir; com in
“ But, zounds, sirrah, I am an actor—
not an auctioneer!”
“That’s exactly it. You know we
tising agents dodge are always other. up to some new adver
or 1 attended your
performance occurred last night, if Mr. Booth, and
it to me you would only in
troduce some mention of our establish
mont into your lines, we could afford to
pay “Could, very liberally eh?” said for it.” the
American hope of the
“Yes. You stage.
wedge in see you might gracefully
an allusion to us here and there,
where it would seem kinder natural and
appropriate Hamlet.’ Instead like For instance, there’s
* of giving simply the
lines 4 customary suits of solemn black,’
you might add, ‘the kind they sell
Bazeinbees’ for $24.’ That would sort
nail the attention of the audience, seems
to ri U \
.. I r should ,, think . . so, „ ’ said . the star.
stealthily edging over toward a
c y° u ( at< 11 tl,e •, u * ea - „
the , agent. Now, T there’s ‘Romeo ami
Juliet. There’s dead loads i.mMB 0/ good
chances _ that. In the balcony
in
you might say, ‘I would I wore one
Bazembees’cheap that hand that 1 dog-skin gloves upon
cheek.’ ” might touch
Y ou d like that, would you ?”
inquired Mr. Booth, slowly
the sword behind his back, and
in front of the door.
“ Yes, sir; we shouldn't mind $100 a
night to have that done in first-class
style. Just think how it would make
trade boom down at our place to have
you thunder as ‘Othello —‘ Desmona,
where is the elegant kerchief I bought for
thee at Bazembees’, at six bits a dozen?’
8ir ’ ^ wou ^ fairly—”
There was a funeral from the agent’s
house the next day. and in deference to
the last wishes of the martyr to adver
tising.his hearse bore on each side
splendid canvas inscription:
“Just arrived—50,000 more boys’suits
at Bazembees’! Call early !”—#*» Fran
cisco News Letter.
------- “
An ambitious young writer having
asked, “What magazine will give me
the highest position quickest?” was told:
“ A fiery powder magazine, if you contributr
a article.”
NO. 16.
ITEMS OF INTEREST
. n upstart „ . . TJ Beginning . . to .
* prosper.
Always Minnesota best when rare—Family broils,
millers are now shipping
direct to Europe.
The increase of the population of the
United States is 1.000,000 a year,
The total amount of luniber cut last
“* f U3.W.«,00« feet.
three cent stamp becomes a sent
stamp after you have mailed your letter,
What the weather says to the linen
collar is ** Wilt thou,” and it invariably
wilts.
“ Good buy,” as the overjoyed sales
man said when the liberal customer
turned to go.
The llanring circus advertisement is
apparent length and once more of the throughout the
breadth land.
Scientific men generally believe that
the b( . (l of the Pacific Ocean Was onco
ubov <» water, and inhabited by men.
A . <*oi respondent , ,. in a Baltimore ... paper
S\ s * ,! M'. m !l < ‘ a s< ' hTriblc burning,
followed by , lockjaw, . winch came under
Ms olwcrvation,the> patient was cured
^ 1,1 a PP^‘‘ !l,K, n of dog fat.
Mine. Catacazy, wife of the Russian
administration, Minister at Washington, dead. during Grant’s
is She had the
reputation the of national being the capital, handsomest
women at
“Father,” said a cobbler's lad, ns he
was that pegging away bite at good an old shoe, “they
say trout now.” “Well,
well,” replied the old gentleman, “you fiite
stick to your work and they won’t
you!”
States During exported the fiscal foreign year 1878, the United
to countries 21,-
83 7,1,7 pounds of butter ami 245,620,853
pounds of pounds cheese. of butter, Of this, and England took
9,251,900 107,200,520
pounds of cheese.
has Any one the who chance wants a printing-press
now of purchasing the
one Moscow, which Napoleon and which carried fell with into him
to the
, l* ai }ds , of rt theRussians , . , durirtg , his , . retreat.
Jt ,s no ,S w!& 1 1
owner oilers ~ , 1° 80 ,1 h f°r r 1,000 roubles— ,, .
al,out 7 ** 0 7
'v -
Delaware and Rhode Island arc the
sleeve buttons of the Western Hemi
sphere.— tucky furnishes New York Herald. studs.— And Ken
the Boston Pons.
-And New York furnishes the rings.—
Albany —Chicago Argus. And Missouri Union. the Wash- Vest,
ington the Newspaper Sehurz. And
Osschasonlito Iroddloyntortcnclmi Lapok
is the title of a little fortnightly journal
columns published in Ivolozsvar, Hungary, whose
contain original articles in
! French, (Icrnnudjd jiglish, Italian, Span
ish,Portuguese, Norse,Swedish and Mag
yar. Often the poems are followed by
translations into several languages.
A fktUer sai<l to an 1 old acquaintance
w j l(> C(ime to ,-ondole with iiiru on the
! unmanageableness of his two sons, who
i had niui committed cuiiiiiiiLwu a a burglary ourgiary in 111 the tiie next next
j town and had been sentenced to prison •
“It is pretty rough ori me to have them
both go to once, but there is one thing
to it—when it comes night now, you
know where them boys he.”
—
The Bludgeon uud Dagger Fans.
Some “ fans ” are not a”bar~ fans at all. The
“steel fan ” is simply of metah
dinarv shaped and painted to resemble an .... or
closed fan, and earned sometimes
si# a life preserver, sometimes by the
swell mobsmen and rowdies of China, to
be used at close quarters, with murder
ous effect. Of the same species is the
well-known “dagger fan,” which con
sistsofan elegant imitation in lacquer
of a common folding fan, but is really a
sheath maintaining within its fair ex
like like a Malay Malay deadly blade, This This short dagg dagg and sharp,
a a kris. kris. r r fan fan was was
invented by the Japanese, and its im
portation into China has always been
strictly however, forbidden. successfully Great numbers have,
been introduced
into Canton, Foochow and other large
maritime cities, and they are now even
manufactured by the enterprising natives
of the first-mentioned port.— Frasers
Magazine.
