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E. Z. BYED,
EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR,
BLACKSHEAR, GA.
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PROFESSIONAL C ARDS.
w. R. PHILLIPS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
aug4-tf Blackshear, Ga.
A. E. COCHRAN,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Blackshear, Ga.
Practico regularly in the counties, composin';
the Brunswick Circuit and in the District and
CnvuR cuurts of the United States at savannah
or the Southern Dietnc* of Georgia. ^0
Q B. MABRY,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Brunswick, Ga.
Practice regularly in tho counties of Glynn,
Pierce, Ware, Wayne, Camden, Coffee, Appling and
of the Brunswick Circuit, and Tcliair,
of the Oconee Circuit. aug4-tf
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ATTORNEY AT LAW,
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^ U. ESTES, JIL,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Blackshear, Pierce Co., Ga.
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PHYSICIANS.
J^R. A. M. MOORE,
PRACTICING PHYSICIAN,
Blackshear, Ga.
Calls promptly attended to dav or nieht
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jyj-EDICAL ANDSURGICAL NOTICE.
DR. C. H. SMITH
Offers his professional services to the citizens
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DENTIST,
Blackshear, Ga.
Office on Maine street, opposite Postoffice
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MARBLE AND STONE WORKS.
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Blackshear News.
E. Z. BYRD, Editor and Proprietor.
VOL, IV.
A TERRIBLE MONSTER.
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taSont^Amerlc* aidwCItselfKHleu!"
One of the largest snakes that was
ever captured, and an authentic maes
nrement taken, was the boa killed br
1,rof “ 50 - "Wok "»» thirtj
'tknivr'.o jptensrs
WJ-J-J-VOM- re tko naturalist
But a tale comes from South America
oi a^toroartured by a party
naturalists and prospectors, that ex
ceeds this length by two feet. The
enormous reptile was forty feet long
th a h ° A l ° f
F ”‘ Mmb * r cf “ onth ® * had c
mitted numerous depredations m . the
immediate vicinity of a hamlet—pigs,
calves, and a Urge pet tapir, that
had been severally carried off in the
mgm : , . anu j was _ as supposed 8nuDOae A that mat
some gigantic . ,. conger was the cause,
until some natives came upon the rep
tile coiled under fhe upturned roots of
a large deflhrafawft traA and it C r so corn
pletely r— m that they all
took to their M hH left, the place.
Two weeks tS uralist men
tioued stopped Buid, hear
ing of the account; in
hiring several of the naTT :
them the spot, doubting, C couf
their story of the size of the snake.
They started out, however, fully armed,
and after about an hour’s tramp thiough
thick undergrowth they came in
sight of the upturned tree. Any nearer
the natives would not go, so the white
men pressed on, but only to find the
game gone.
A great hole had been hollowed out,
and pieces of snake skin lying around
showed that there had been one there,
at least. Determined not to give it up,
they formed into a line of skirmishers,
radiating out from the tree or snake’s
nest, and then started out the agree
ment being that if one of the party dis
covered the annul, he should signal to
the one next him, and so on around, so
that in a short time they could all rally
to any given place. In this order k<»p4 they
fe . out. Iv.tu.g the ba.h
a S They arp ^ had ok - ont gone nearly , a thousand ,
yards rom the tree when the signal
from the circle to the south was heard
.Til“ SitSfCA?fc P ..l 1 P 7 ’£e cnarge
tbe P art J was the furthest a . away, and
as he , came near he could hear the yells
Making through the underbrush as fast
as ho could, incumbered with a rifle
and several specimen-cans, ne suddenly
Ckmeupon thereat of the party, who were
standing on a rock about one Hundred
feet from a tall cocoanut, and the object
of their attention was immediately ob
vious. Coiled man immense heap was
a serpent, whose was twice the
size of a man s, while its tail was coiled
around the tree in three or four coils,
The ground around was torn up, small
trees, reeds and grass crushed to the
ground with all the evidences of a life
and-death struggle A second glance
showed what R had been
The snake s head was stretched unon
the ground, and from its enormous
mouth protruded the head and horns of
a goodly sized stag, which gave it the
appearance of having horns, while the
body of the deer that had been sue
cessfnllv swallowed expanded the crea
ful non-descript or dragon. It was
evident that the animal could be easily
p&SifrS? SHE
so it was decided to spur it through
maaiag ° Qly ° De W0UIld ’ lf
One of the natives, who was now, in
the seemingly helpless condition cl the
animal very brave, offered to attempt
A . bt ^ ut ro Jf w as “«de ready to se
, Et
guns while two of he natives ap
proacued the animal who had not yet
moved. Indeed, it appeared to be
dead, and so the negro must have
thought as he crept up,
Quickly passing it between the head
and the coil, he raised his spear, and in
a second would have boned ,t. in the
brain of the monster, when to the
ror of the rest, the enormous body rose
in the air, and the head and projecting
horns were hurled at the luckless negrJ
with a sickening force, so that the horns
of the deer crushed into hia lung*,
throwing him dead and bleeding to tne
ground, the great »>ody slowly drawing
>0 Upon it, 00 that, had not the first
blow lM*tu fatal, he would have been
crashed It 4 to dfe«tb l»y tin terrible weight.
VM Ufom om the so quickly, that all what was
over other* could r« 0 iz«
had happened.
BLACKSHEAR, GA., DEC. 15, 1881.
The natives fled, but the white men
decided to end the tragedy, and, simul
taneousl y aim ’ three bullets
w !? r .° ail< *l d 1Q the reptile s head. They
a “ t0 °* effect, as the great coils shot
ou *’ Rnd unwinding, turning
de *‘ 1 ‘
i^^tZTjSSTlZ P n derbruah, tearing up trees, and beat
■«*«.«*"& druggie oecame less violent,
“j ? n “ the monster ^dv body was stretched
^ ^
Tho “ SonunatT ne«o was was crushed crushed
fll aln „ ?° ht * ^ beyond recognition, but the jag
f ed woaa '\“ the breast showed that
! 10 ^ ame to hls ‘ loath b T the korna pro
trnclin . 8 ' from . the mouth of the snake—
one uue 0 oi | .Eg tne most most «w_*us _ ^ ----------- cases on record. ----- j
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The Presidents.
1. George Washington, of Virginia,
born February 22 , 1732 ; elected Corn
mander-in-Chief of the Continental
army in rH 775 ; first inaugurated as Pres
lfont in -wa he city &CNew York, April 30,
| second inauguration *
- ; in 1793;
. Decem ber 14, 1799, aged sixty-
27 Massachusetts,
horn in 1735 3 eh 4,
years' 1797 ; jj e( j July 4 ’ 182iT ’ lifity
3 . Thomas Jefferson, of Virginia.born
in 1743 . fir8t inaugurated in Washing
ton in 1801 ; second inauguration in
1805; died4tfi July, 1826. aged eighty- J
two vears
4 . James Madison, of Virginia, born
in inauguration 1751;first inaugurated in 1809iecotd
in H813 ; died 1837,
uge d eighty-five years
5 . James Monroe, of Virginia, born
in 1750 : first inaugurated in 1817 ; died
in mi, aged seventy-two years,
6 . John Quincy Adams, of Massachu
setts, ’. horn ”f £ in JaT' 1767 *-“ • inanwnmtpd in
l 825 di ’ 8 eight -*‘° nC
veare ^Andrew "iAon,
born 1767 ; first inaugurated in 18*0 ;
8ecoa d inauguration in 1833; died in
1845, aged seventy-eight years,
8 . Martin Van Buren, of New York.
died m 1862, aged eighty years.
y. William Henry Harrison, of Ohio,
born in 1773 ; inaugurated in 1841 •
ag ^
1(K John T l of Virginia, born in
1790; elected Vice-President, and in
augurated as President in April, 1841;
died in 1862, aged seventy-two years
n . James K. Polk, of Tennessee,
born in 1795; inaugurated R in 1845 ; died
in i 849) ag0(i fifty four yeara .
1 2 . Zachary Taylor, of Louisiana,
bonj in 1784; inaugurated in 1849
died in office in 1850, aged sixty-s,x
years “
13 . Millar<1 Fillmore, of New York,
born in ] 80 0 ; elected Vice-President in
1848> and inaugurated as President on
the death of General Taylor in 1850 ;
died March 8 , 1874, aged seventy-live J
y ears 14.'
Franklin Pierce, of NewHamn-
8 i nre , born in 1804; ; inaugurated | in
1853; died in 1869 age 5 8 ixt y.five J c
y ( , ar8 15.’
James Buchanan, of Pennsvlva- f
oh> borD in 1791 . inaa g Urate(1 in m7;
years.
born wr£Sia 1809^first biauffm-’atiVn
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18 Uiysaea S. Grant, of Illinois, born
1 * 22 , first inauguration in 1869; sec
gf JgX ia1873 > term ex I iired
19 . ]> atberford j> Haves, of Ohio,
born in 1824; inaugurated fc in March
i 877 term expired arch 4 1881>
20 - Jame « A. Garfield inaugurated
March 4 1H81; assassinated July 2,
l881 died September Arth^, 19, 1881.
21 . Chester A. inaugurated
.September 20, 1881; still in office.
After the Jj experience of American
citie8 with w en pavementH> it it
strange to hear that Piccadilly, London
La. been paved its entire length B with
blocks of wood
» l * U • f ,d ., 10 . , be tb , V>eBt
e
VJZ 1 T , 1 do Z y° nr * . pobshipg vT*' ,
. plVwn . ^
L polish a thouJind*»JaL fon.L fo^ni
d v tud . . 0ae hornftl . , ** tch . h, , . “ at il , , {
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“Who ways it is nuhwdthy to sleep it
feathers ? Look »t tho spring cidckca,
4 sew bow tough he im. H
Subscription, $1.00 per Year.
NO. 34.
LOST LEGS AND ARMS.
The Cunning Thai Hn* Been l-ni Into Artl
.fli-inl I.irab».
“ I presume that most persons believe
that our harvest Br^lleyi time isafter Ik a war”
-aid Mr. No. York
£“} 'SA^S^TS^t maini
stroy men rather than them Knve
«»
men, not to dispose of dead ones Onr
^ 8t helpers. in a business way, are Hie
railroads. Thev maim in ninn
out of ten > il1 v to benefit us. For
“stance at the close of the war there
were only nine or ten thousand ex-sol
diers drawing pensions for the io«s of ?w! a
j or an armThere were mvMm onlv
pensioners C',\ in the t no receipt n cc-int of 0 f pay from
*«e ,i 1A Government , for the loss of beth
fogs and both arms. Now f «„„»«««
that most persons hSndleds fancied tW there
must have been of thousands
of such sufferers by the war. Of course
there were many thousand more pen¬
sioners for other classes of injuries.
Now, after about sixteen years of pro¬
found peace, there are fully 50,000
wearers of artificial limbs in the United
States. Why, the little city of Provi¬
dence has sent in a requisition for ten
legs within the last four months. The
railroads have been responsible for four
faiths of this increase of maimed per¬
sons.”
“Of course, then, tho business of
manufacturing creased artificial limbs has in¬
reporter largely Haiti. since the war?” tho
“It has,” Mr. Bradly rejoined. “ But
it has spread as it has increased. Forty
years could ago, or even twenty years ago,
yon not get an artificial limb
worthy of the name outside of New York
or ficial Philadelphia. limb Now there is an arti¬
maker, and sometimes moro
than one, in every large city. There lire
six firms in New York, all within a few
blocks of each other. Ho this business
is lilmost as much cut up as any other
nowadays. But, after fo.^ all, flyman who
waifls a first-class or arm comes to
New that YQrk. New It-Wy not be too much to
say York makershavo sur
passed those of France and England, for¬
merly incontestably the best. Orders
come from Europe and from the ends of
tho earth to New York.”
“1 suppose that tho supplying of
pensioners of the Government from
their maimed legs and arms is still a
considerable part of the business ?” the
reporter queried.
“ It is,” Mr. Bradley replied. “ The
Government gives each pensioner an
arma or leg every five years. We sup¬
ply a great many of these. But, natu¬
rally, there rfre fewer veterans of the
war The to supply every five years.”
“ leg of to-day is very different
from that of twenty years ago,” Mr.
Bradley went on. “Then it was a
heavy,loose-jointed,cumbersome.creaky affair. Every remembers how
one easy
it was to tell a man with an artificial
leg as soon as he came within sight or
hearing. The creaking was perhaps
the most disagreeable part of the affair.
That has been done away with by means
of one or two little patented improve¬
ments. The principal one of these is a
concealed screw at the joint of the leg
and foot that enables the wearer of the
leg to stop the creaking at any time.
Once upon a time he would have to
send it back to the maker to have tho
joint tightened, and tho cost would have
been $10. Now he can do it for himself
without a cent of cost. Then there is a
contrivance worked by a band passing
down from the shoulder strap to throw
the fog forward as the wearer moves
This is particularly useful to ladies as
it pushes the skirts with no more effort
than the action of the natural Jimb oc¬
casions. But, above all, the of
the body has been transferred to a dif¬
ferent part of the leg. Formerly, the
stamp rested on a cushion in the socket,
and the weight fell upon this sensitive
point of contact. Now, by means of
steel braces, the region of contact is
almost entirely at either side of the
thigh, where there is, comparatively, no
sensitiveness. A man with an artificial
leg, nowadays, can do almost anything
that a man with two na'ural legs can.
For instance, in this letter here, a man
writes that he has traveled horseback
and afoot thousands of miles over
Wyoming,Colorado,and Mexico on one-”
“ What provision is there for a per¬
son who loses the whole or a part of an
am ?” asked the reporter.
Mr. Bradley stepped to a case of flesh
colored artificial members and took out
an arm. The hand was covered with a
perfect-fitting glove. There was an
arm to be woin by a woman hanging
next to the one that he selected, and
the small hand was encased in a long,
manv-buttoned white kid glove. Mr.
Bradley white put a loop at the end of a
woollen band attached to the up¬
per part of the am around his right
slipped the band about hiaabouid
and then inserted bin band into the
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socket of the artificial arm. Then he
took off and replaced the reporter’s hat,
the artificial fingers being worked by
means of mechanism in the socket. He
also raised and held an open book up
before him.
“ I am not at all expert in the man¬
agement of these arms,” Mr. Bradley
observed; “ but, if I had to depend
upon one of them for the remain¬
der of my life, I suppose that I
would soon learn to make the best
of it. The stump, acting upon the
mechanism in the socket, opens and
shuts the fingers and makes them pick
up and hold any article , desired. The
fingers are composed of a steel skeleton,
covered with soft India rubber, well¬
shaped, and they have a natural feeling
to another person. One man writes
that he can draw and paint, and that h e
holds a medal for his drawing from the
New Hampshire State Fair. Another
says that he can write well, as indeed
his letter shows, and can send telegraph
messages as an operator.
Ureal Tilings.
The greatest cataract in the world is
the Falls of Niagara; the largest cavern,
the Mammoth Cave of Kentucky ; the
largest river, the Mississippi—4,000
miles in extent; the largest valley, that
of the Mississippi—its area 5,000,000
square miles; the greatest city park,
that of Philadelphia, containing 2,700
acres; the greatest grain port, Chicago ;
the biggest lake, Lake Superior ; the
longest railroad, the Pacific Railroad—
over 3,000 miles in extent. The most
huge mass of solid iron is Pilot Knob of
Missouri—height, 250 feet circumfer¬
ence, two miles; the best specimen of
architecture, Girard College, Philadel¬
phia ; tho largest aequeduot, the Croton
of New York, length, forty and one-half
miles, cost $12,500,000; tho longest
bridge, the elevated railroad in Third
avenue, New York ; it extends from the
Battery to the Harlem River—the whole
length of the eastern side of the Man¬
hattan Island—seven miles long, or
nearly 40,000 yards. The longest bridge
over bring water, however, will be that now
Volga, cqjbtructed, in Russia over the
'.i a point where the river is
nearly lour miles wide. The most ex¬
tensive deposits of anthracite coal are
Pennsylvania.
It would he supposed from its popularity
that only one substance is known to the
world for the relief of rheumatism, and
that ia Rt. Jacobs Oil.- -St. Loqis (Mo.)
Dispatch.
Our good deeds rarely cause mnch gos¬
sip among our fellow-citizens, but onr
evil ones leap immediately into noto¬
riety.
Mr E Pure*!!, of No. 11 Ann street,
New York, used St. Jacobs Oil for rheuma¬
tism with entire relief, writes a New York
journal.- Richmond (Va.) Christian Advo¬
cate.
The essence of friendship is entire
ness, a total magnanimity and trust.
A FAIRY AFLOAT
The following description of the fairy
vessel represented on this page is from the
Cincinnati Commercial : The hull is of tho
finest selected white oak, braced, bolted
and riveted in the most skillful and work¬
manlike manner, and is G4 feet in length,
14 feet breadth of beam, 2} feet depth of
hold, and draws twenty inches of water.
She carries a tubular bull ir. and two beauti¬
ful little engines, made expressly for her,
by the Ohio Machine Co., Middleport, O.
The dining-room is situated between the
boiler and engine rooms, and is artistically
grained, with the frescoed ceiling. It is fur¬
nished in Queen Arme style, and the
silver, china and table linen are of the finest
character. The pilot-house, cabin, main
deck aloa and Captain’s office are on the saloon
and are luxurious in their furnishing
ll 'Si¬
’*msm i-i :
atid decorations. The saloon proper is
fresr:oed and gilded in Eastlake style, and
the flooring is covered with Turkish carpet
The furniture, in raw silk and walnut, of
the Queen Anne pattern, like that of the.
dining-hall, and rich curtains of damask
complete the impression of a veritable float¬
ing palace. Tlie four state-rooms,contain¬
ing two berths each, are also carpeted with
Brussels and handsomely furnished. The
boat belongs to and was built under the
directions of Messrs A. Vogeler & Co.,
Baltimore, Md., for their own exclusive use
upon the Ohio, Mississippi and other West¬
ern rivers, and Is run by a picked crew of
officers and men in their employ. The
object of this little steamer is to carry
neither freight nor passengers. She was
l*uilt for the firm alsrre named, to be used
exclusively by them for distributing their
printed matter in the river towns tor Bt.
Jacobs On., the Great German Remedy
for rheumatism and other painful ailment*.
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