VOL. III.
Com munuai ions, local notices ifc, to guar an
must be tn by 3 p. m., every
BLACKSHBAR NEWS.
PUBLISHED EVEUY THIIKSDAY BY
E. Z. BYRD, Proprietor.
BLACKSHEAR, QA.
DECEMBER 16, 1880.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES.
One year............... 2Sf,
Six mouths............
Three mouths..........
lu variably in advance.
ADVERTISING RATE & RULES.
One square (one inch space) one year f 10 00.
Two square „ „ .5 00.
Three square „ „ 20 00.
1-4 column „ „ 25 00,
1-2 column „ „ 36 01*.
1— column „ „ 65 00.
Tranfiet t advertisements inseried for f I. per
square-one inch- Hrst insertion, 50 ceuts for
each sabsequeut oue. Local notices for less
than tmee months arc subject lotranticnt rates
Contract advei tisers who desire their adver¬
tisements changed, must give us two weeks
notice. (Jhangiug adveitiseuieuis unless oth
erwi-e stipulated iu the contract, will be char¬
ged 25 ceuts per square.
Advertisements must take the run of the
paper as we do not coutract to keep them iu
any partiulur place.
OojnnumetUions of a personal nature will
he charged trumient rate' brevier measure.*
Bills a'e due immediately alter the appear¬
ance of the advertisement, and will be preseat
ed when the money is needed.
No advertisoient will be continued after the
expiration of the time contracted unless reuew
ed.
All communications or letters c.on'aining
money should be addressed to
E. Z BYRD, Blaekshear, Ga.
BLACKSHEAR LODGE NO. 270.
F. A. M.
A day Regular will nights be held communications iueaeh <>n the m drst oath. and of this third Lodge Fri¬
C. T. Latimfr, W. M.
J. A. Haeffb, Secretary. mhlSif
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
. W. HITCH,
A TT0RNE Y - AT - LAW
BLAKSHEAR, GA.
Practice regularly in the Brunswick Cir¬
cuit. janb-ly
A. E. G0CHRAN,
ATTORNEY - AT - LAW,
Blaekshear, Georgia.
Practice regularly in the counin-s composing
the Brunswick Circuit, aud m the District and
Circuit courts oi the United States at (savannah
or the Southern District ot Georgia, may? 16
A. B. ESTES, JR.,
LAWYER,
Blaekshear, : : Georgia■
(^“Office over B. D. Brantley's Store. lel>2?-ly
G. B. MABRY. A. J CROVATT,
MABRY & CROVATT.
ATTORNEY - AT - LAW
Brunswick, Georgia.
Practice regularly in Lie count cs ot Glynn
Ware, Wayne, Camden, Codec, /poling, am'
<t
the Oconee Circuit. a ly
ANNOUNCEMENTS.
For Clerk.
The undersigned voters respect lolly anounee
the name of E Z Bryd a candidate lor Clerk
ot the Superior Court in January next aud
must ask a liberal patronage iu his election
He his ser.cd us four years as sheriff to the
undoubted satisfaction of his coi stiluents.
Many Voters.
Tax Receiver.
Allow us space in yu«>r paper to announce
lhe name ot John J. Smith as candidate for
the office of tax Receiver of Pierce at the
ensuing January electionand earnestly solicit
your support in his behalf.
Many Voters.
Tax Collector.
I respectfully announce tomy many friends
that I am a candidate lor Tax (killector at
ensuing county election and earnestly s licit
the suppor tof many ' voters. September 2,
1880. M Sweat.
Tax Collector.
We tne citizens oi Pierce county respect¬
fully submit the name of Alfred Davis lo
them as candidate for the office of Tax G>1
Kckt at the ensuing Janu try, election and
s.oncstly solicit your support.
Citizens.
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BLMJKSHE AR, GA., THURSD DEC.
She) P**.
We the friends of John biridje respectfully
atm..uuee Lis nuine os a candid tc for sheriff.
Many Voters
T x Receiver.
I respectfully announce to my friends and
feliow citizens that I am a candidate for ilie
above office, and solicits the suflerage of my
friends. R. M. Ckowfokd.
For Ordinary.
We respecttully announce the name of R G
Riggins :•» a candidate ior Ordinary at the
eusuing January election.
£ OU Citizens.
Sh -riff.
I respectfully announce myself .t candidate
for the office of Sheriffat the ensuing January
election, and solict the support of my fellow
citizens. S. E. Sowell.
Mil
TO PAPER may file Rowell b© at found Geo. & Co’s on P.
Hewspaper Street),v Advertising Bureau (10 Spruce
aftsrwrsllEw ..ero acver |ip.if If YORK. ARIf
--s-i.'J—!—
R. C. CANNON,
Dry-Goods, Groceries
AND
General Merchandise )
BLACK SHEAR, GA.
FLOUR, BACON,
COFFEE, SUGAR,
MEAL, GRITS, RICE,
Canned Goods of all kinds at lowest
prices for Cash or Barter.
My Goods are all FirstClass
241b sacks of Flour $1 05,
5lbs of the best Coffee, $1.
If my goods are not at I represrnt them
bring them back: n >v IS Sra
USE. Si I ORNAMENTAL PAIIT
lift Jt PAPER-HANGING NEATLY EXECUTED NY
ID. TOOMBS,
All work BLACKSHEAR, GA.
entrusted to my care wi 1 receive
prompt in attention, and satisfaction guaranteed
every ease. Prices inaJe known oil appliea
•ion. oet 6 tf.
Wanted 100
PURCHASERS at once for GOOD
Cfcap BED-STEADS, BUREAUS
and a few TABLES at
Win. Armitage’8,
nov 4 tf Blaekshear, Ga.
FOR SALE
1 fine black horse, price $160 00
1 buggy and harness, outfit com¬
plete for $14000
1 wagon $ 25 00.
1 wagon $ 50,00.
Also my stock of merchandise which will be
full and complete in a fejvdays isfor sale at ■
fore bargain. purchasing; Call and examine my stock be i
you will fiind prices reason¬
able:
Best family Flour ppr barrel $ 8 . 00
,
Six pounds good Coffee 1 . 00 ,
16 yards of Calico for 1 . 00 ,
A. N. SMITH,
Blackshe • a, Ga.
P.S.—Buy CIGARS at
se29tf. A. N Smith’s.
The Ladies Friend.
The “Summit stove pipe shelf’, for sale
by subscription only. E. B. COATES
CITY BARBER SHOP.
JNO. ALDRIDGE, Proprietor.
Hair cutting, Shaving, Shampooing and ev
ry thing in ifcat line done sjtisfact. rnlly.
»Emcunmi 9 WE.
DR. C. H. SMITH,
/"V tiers his Professional services to the citl *
I Izens of Pierce and adjoining counties
^ Biachthear,Ga. y M^rch lit HSf),
mb 18 tt
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From our regular <• orr spondent.
Washington, Dec., 2, 1880.
Prognostications and sjiecuUticus
concerning the new Cabinet ami the
organizations of the next Congress
take precedence non- in this city
political gossip. Even the approach
ing session of Congress, a nearer ev»ut
elicits less interest at this time. We
have had quite a number of prominent
politicians here during the last week,
aud th? curiosity to learn what they
are driving at, and toeblain their views
is all-absorbing. We oould not live
if it were not tor this sort ot thing.
There is not a little anxiety to settle
the question as to the influence likely
to prevail in making up the new ad¬
ministration—whether Senator Conk
ling and his associates in the Grant
canvass will have ilia post ot honor or
not. I could not begin to give you all
the “nlatts’’ that hat 11 ! been reported,
nor would it be ot especial value, for
it is more than probable that no one
but General Garfield himself has any
very definite and authoritive ideas ora
the subject. Some of the prophets
place Senator Don Cameron in the
War Office, and General Logan or ex
Senator Hitchcock in charge ot the
Interior Department, with. Postmaster
James, of New York, as Postmaster
General, Finery Storrs, of Chicago, is
mentioned as a possible Attorney
General, and Chairman Jewell is as -
signed a foreign mission, since his
withdrawal tiom the Senatorial raee iu
Connecticut, in tavor of Hawley.
As to the organization ot the next
House of Representatives, there is
really more opportunity tor the exeroise
ol one’s judgment. ’-It is a safe
prediction that Secretary Me Plierson,
the former Clerk, will go back to the
position from which the Democrats
retired him in 1874. He was a corn
indent aud popular officer, and by
'
reason „ of f,. h» pos, ,on * secreta.y of
the Congressional Campaign
mittee, has the inside track over any
competitor ia the canvass. The only
thing likely to defeat him would be an
unfortunate combination or. the Speak
ership. Mr. Kasson is said to be Mo
Pherson's candidate for Speaker, and
should Mr. Frye bu’would be elected Senator
from Maine, U out of lbe
way and Kassonis chances good. Yet
there are two or three oontingenoes
that may upset this arrangement, and
if Pherson h is formed an allianee
disastrous. At present, however, the
outlook is that such a combination
would sweep the deck. Both Judge
Kellev and Mr ( tbf/s'peak«rghip. 1 on<rt>r are mention,.,!
a. candidates for Tbu
former is denominated the “Father of
the House,” having served eleven con
seeutive terms—twenty-two years,—
aud the latter L undvvatuod to bave a
good chance torthe Michigan Senator
ship. George C. Gorham expects to :
be returned to his old position as Sec
retary of the Senate, it the Republicans
can control that body after March 4th,
but that now seems hardly nrohable
the Republicans. Mahone was here a
few days ago aud had interviews with
prominent 5.......—t officials but no one other
kuowv b„w be will act.
Judge Davis is also a rather uncertain
Democrat, and all things considered,
the next Senate is awiully mixed.
, Possibly Kellogg, ot Louisiana, may
; be turned out this winter and a Demo
crat Ht * att 'd
The report that General Sheiman
W ’N shortly be placed on the retired
hst ia tn,e ’ notwithstanding the au
.Wiz, I at .te,„<,,t 1'om the War De
l artm ‘ nt to the contiary. 1 lie an
“ ou " ce; * intentions of the I resident
have nothing to do with it. The
General does not, in the event that he
carries his expressed purpose into effect
intend , to ask , . to , be retired , until next
April, when the President Hayes will
be merely Mr. Ilnyes, and when the
present authoritative voice of the War
Department will be that ot an bumble
citizen. General Sherman has the
right, having served iu the army thirty
years, to ask to be retired, and it is
understood that he prefers life in St.
Louis with bis grandchildren and a
retired officer’s pay, to the mere honor
of being a subordinate to the next
Secretary of War in Washington.
-vhicb he will be under the regulation,,
ct the army to be approved by the
President in a few days. In tiie event
ot his retirement General Sheridan will
be callel to Washington and General
Hancock assigned to command at
Chicago,.unless where he he which prefers to General remain
is, in case
Schofield would likely succeed General
Sheiidan.
Colonel It. M. Scott, in charge of
the publication of the official records
of the war ot the rebellion, reports
that the work has steadily progressed
during the past year. Important ad
ditions have been made by voluntary
contribution, lo the records, both
Union and Confederate, among the
cnntnbuliona being valuable |m,>er»
bom Mr. Davia, Generals Beauregard,
Chalmers, IX II. Hill. B. R. Johnson.
S IX Lee, E. Kirby Smith, Steele and
A. P. Stewart, and from the represen
ut,v « “^okeo
ridee, D. ’ H. f’ooper 1 and ““ Ewell The *“
8e n .... 0 ,e P u ,.. 10 1” l,,tc the 24th
• ‘ r
o( , Au ust ,ast and ot,,e1 volumes will
” » '
fo,low ,,nlil the P re * e,,t appropriation
is exhauste<i ‘ I{ is « x l>ected that the
^''sttwo volumes will be published by
the lime of tho ‘assembling of Con
f? 1 ' 688 - It is estimated that the entire
d Potion, J vl,ie »ot° tout wbuih senes, it is — will lequire to
n,np ty six volumes.
^ ^ UH ‘ ll,, ss *s a little slack iu
the dejiartments the clerks find various
8< f vt8 vari ‘ f ^ method,olamusing ^ a ^ er ' l ‘‘ rn;,n whose tbem
y a,< ^ ‘ 8 ndjccent . to the Pension Office
carne to the commissioner with a
■•ngiilar complaint. It seems that the
-«*• ^ ^ "ad whiled away
^ iclt ‘“ 8Urf1 moments in snooting
bands at t lie mans chickens,
They got up quite a rivalry as to who
» •«
( lf n 1 comjdain. n the contrary,
lllf T loo * < the , a^K ^ , ^ or worms, and
’ '
ate thern * Se7eral ot them ,]wl The
owner cou,<1 not ac, ’ 01 ‘" t for tl » pir
de,nise ’ B ? e and b ^ e 8 ° me more
turned up their toes. In a spirit of
°P' ■-^7 n a,K found 77 then 7 “ craws stuffed »ir.i,
with rubber bands. He was as mu eh
Mton ' ,8hed M lhe owner of the
«*Ma* Twaiu, wbeu
10 lscov ® ie ^ a ‘ ,c P 61 h* 611
Wlth shot - 1Ie 8000 learned
where the rubbers came from, and
NO. 41.
made complaint to Commissioner
Hently, who has issued a prohibitory
order as to target practice on chickens.
Dom Pediio.
‘The best thing for the south to do
.
northern Democrats nominate her
man and elect him if she can. We
have relied on them, and they have
deceived us, let us no longea trust them
" ^ ,e V l * K ‘> hilly realize that the dem
ocratio strength is m the south, there
will be some ebane to elect a president.
Let us, until then, attend to home
affairs, and let the north with her false
P roin > !, e* g° lo Hie devil ’ Coffee
0Un ^N azett.
A Singular Asset
“I am a peaceable man,” said the
intruder, grasping his club with both
his hands, “but if you don't come down
w : th $17.50 damages tor my lacerated
feelings, the bombardment will begin
at once.’’
The owner of the dog paid down
the money, as he was afraid the other
fellow might exasperate him it he hit
him with a club of* that size. The
owner ot the dog also said that he was
sorry the dog had bitten the intruders*
son.
< W hy, he ain't my son,” said ti e
u ,t rud er
« WhoBe 80n is he> then ,« asked tho
astonished owner ot the dog.
« He j 9 the son ot a friend ot mine
who owed me $17.50, but he is poor,
and the 0Illy availablo a88et8 he ha9
are thesL , dog bile8 on hig bod y ( which
he timied over lo me for ooiUnUon.’’
••Well, I’ll be Mowed."
you needn’t complain; you .re
, „ ff dog chcap . , 00ght w
mak<J advanc0 , or tUe
n<Jxt time „, at bo , going w be bit> ,
, m _
It was so cold in the vicinity of the
North Pole when Lieutenant ochwatka
wa, there that the breath of the party
in the Esquimau huts condensed and
foil in a small snowstorm around them.
This comes very near to the story of the
mari . g mortis which were frozen so hard
they that nobody knew what he said -Detroit until
melUHl the next summer
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Last week, in a sermon iu this place
Rev. S. P. Richardson said, that ho
would as soon look in Hell for a saint
cSS
j, diivers. a jg n . Complimentary Douglassville Star. to the quill
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December is just the very month for
to bave g„ od roads. It saves your
horse-flesh, your wagons, carts and
buggies, a good reputation to your
cou,,t y, an <l oftentimes sweetens the
Wl jj gaveyou many precious hours in
your crops the next spring and summer
which you would otherwise have to
Eg
wb ose duty it is u> enforce the road
laws of the State —The Reporter.
Savannah News: “We had the
pleasure ota visit yesterday from Hon.
*> hn ?- Nieholls, who is en route tor
t rJ
ba8 bee „ published in the State press
to the effect that Coi. Nieholls was
about to remove to Coffee county,
£
there, but we understand from him,
however, that lie has no idea ot leaving
Pierce connty, where he has lived for
many years.’’
