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THE BLACKSHEAR HEWS.
PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY
E. Z. BYRD,
EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR,
BLACKSHEAR, . - GA.
SUBSCRIPTION, $1.00 PER YEAR.
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COUNTY DIRECTORY.
Orddjajli.— A. J. Strickland.
Clekk.- J. W. Strickland.
Shkmut.—E. Z. Byrd.
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Tax Receivkk. —John J. Smith.
Tax Couueutor. —Alfred Davis.
CDUltr CALENDER.
Clinch County. —First Mondays in March
and October.
Appling CotJj#CT.—Second Mondays in March
and October. •
Wayne County.—T hird Mondays in March
and October.
Pierce County.— Fourth Mondays , , r ,
in
and October.
Ware County.—F irst Mondays in April and
November.
thud Charlton .Monday County.—F in April aud irst Tue^Bkdter
and^NovTudje* ourtl1 Mouda>:
Glynn County.—C ommencing on
Monday in May aud December, and to
r' V °uire ckd> "° l0UB M the haBmvM 1 -
M. L. Mersbon, Judge, Brunswick, Ga., and
G. li. Mabry, Solieitor-G neral, Brunswick. Ga.
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TOWN DIRECTORY.
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Mayor.— Wm. It. Phillips.
Aldermen.— Dr. C. H. Smith, T. J. Fuller,
J. M. Shaw and J. W. Strickland.
SECRET SOCIETIES.
a BLACKSHEAR LODGE NO. 270 F. & A. M.
Regular communications of this lodge
~ will i,e hold on the iirot and third Fri
' ' lay nights in each month.
C. T. Latimer, W. M.
A. J. Strickland, Secretary. aug-tf
PROFESSIO NAL CARDS.
w. R. PHILLIPS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
ang4-tf Blackshear, Ga.
A. E. COCHRAN,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Blackshear, Ga.
Practice regularly in the counties composing
the Brunswick Circuit and in the District and
Circuit Cuuris of the United States at Savannah
or the Southern District of Georgia. my!6-6m
G. b. Mabry,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Brunswick, Ga,
Practice regularly in the comities of GIvnn,
Ware, Pierce, Wayne, of the Brunswick Camden, Coffee, Circuit, Appling‘and
aud Teltair,
of the Oconee Circuit. aug4-tf
S. W. HITCH,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Blackshear, Ga.
Practice regularly in the Brunswick Circuit,
aug-l-tf
A. B. ESTES, JR.,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Blackshear, Pierce Co., Ga.
Practice regularly in the Brunswick Circuit.
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PHYSICIANS.
JJR. A M. MOORE,
PRACTICING PHYSICIAN,
Blackshear, Ga.
CalDpromptly attended to day or night.
jyjEDICAL AND SURGICAL. NOTICE.
DR. C. H. SMITH
Offers his professional services to the citizens
of Pierce and adjoining counties.
Blackshear, G*., March 1, 1880-tf.
DENTIST.
J^R. WM. NOBLE,
DENTIST,
Blackshear, Ga.
Office on Maine street, opposite Postoffice
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Blackshear News.
E, Z. BYRD, Editor and Proprietor.
VOL. IV,
THE FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.
Form and Gardes Notea.
Orchards in thin soils should be fer
till zed butnot plowed. In deep soils
plow judiciously.
Young cows do not agadoA give as rich milk
as those of mature A lean cow
gives poor milk, and Mat cow gives rich
milk *
While the English farmers use large
quantities of bone dust upon pastures,
they prefer superphosphates for tilled
cro P s -
If yon permit those dead weeds to
stand about your young trees, look out
(or. gWled by the m,c. n e5 t
spring,
In selections for breeding, it is wiser
the pullets from a selected
rather than the eggs from the
a good time of year to remove
stumps that have proved
stumT^^^Jpcks j to the plow and mow
n b „
After ., rrn^Hpt; an unsightly , , branch
paint the set^with gum shellac dis¬
solved in alcohol, or common paint.
Undesirable or dead tree should now be
removed.
A cow wintered upon two tons and a
half of ha}* will produce not far from
live tons of manure, provided she be
well littered and none of theexoements
wasted.
Comfortable housing is all the warmth
required by adult fowls. Artificial heat
is dangerous, as it is difficult to control.
Heated houses are a fertile source of
many evils.
Add a little glycerine to the grease
applied to harness, and it will be kept
in a soft and pliable state in spite of
the ammonieal exhalations of the stable,
which tend to make it brittle.
Two cows well sheltered in winter
will produce more milk and butter than
three unsheltered animals, though no
more than half the feed required for
the three should be given to the two.
Copperas is the dread of rats. In
every crevice and every hole where a
rat treads scatter the grains of cop¬
peras, and the result is a stampede of
rats and mice. But look out for poison.
Petroleum is an excellent preserva¬
tive of exposed woodwork and tools.
It is cheap and penetrates the pores.
Try it on gates, farm wagons, rakes and
all rustic work exposed to the weather.
A cow becomes impatient under the
hands of a slow milker and holds up
her milk. The richest part is the strip¬
pings, and a cow milked quietly and
quickly will give more and richer milk.
For killing grass and weeds on gravel
walks there is nothing be tter than mode¬
rately strong brine. One application is
not sufficient, but it must be kept up
rain. persistently, and especially after a
As cabbage contains a large per cent,
of pho phone acid it is most valuable
for all young stock, requiring, as they
do, a large amount of phosphatic food
to make bone. Clover is next in value
to cabbage.
Potatoes are frequently spoiled by
being exposed to the sun too loDg af er
digging. They should only be opened
to light and air long enough to dry
them, and then stored away in as dark
a place as possible.
A very thin coat of varnish will not
make a good finish, because it has no
depth, and an extra heavy coat will not
remain brilliant, becanse it cannot set
or harden through equally. A medium
between f he two will give the desired
results.
A small quantity of ashes given to
pigs while fattening is found very bene¬
ficial, as their food is generally rich in
phosphoric acid and deficient in lime,
which the ashes supply. In this way
the phosphoric acid is made available
as a food.
There are few cows so constituted
that their milk cannot be largely im¬
proved, both in quantity and quality, by
a careful attention to the wants of the
animal. Good feed and a warm barn
will go far toward accomplishing this
desirable result.
Marshal P. Wilder says: “In plant¬
ing seeds and pitB for raising fruit trees,
plant the most mature and perfect seeds
of the most hardy, vigorous and valu¬
able varieties; and, as a shorter
process, happy results, insuring more certain and
best fruits.” cross or hybridize your
The term hybrid is quite loosely used
by many horticnltnrists and farmers
If two varieties of one species are united
or crossed we get a variety hybrid; if
two species of one genus are crossed we
get different a species-hybrid; if two species of
genera are crossed we get a
genus-bybrid.
There is less oil and sugar ic south¬
ern than in northern corn, hatch is
adapted where to the wants of the peopb
it is grown. Heat-producing ele-
BLACKSHEAR, GA., JAN. 1882.
ments are not required in southern
climes, but nitrogen is. In northern
climes heat-producing elements are re¬
quired flesh. as well as those which produce
In spring when either the grass or
spring grain has made a start nitrate of
soda, at the rate of 100 pounds to the
acre, makes au excellent top dressing.
Nitrate of soda being extremely soluble
should never be applied except on
growing crops. Th’efCls no fertilizing
salt which makes its way through the
soil so rapidly as this, and none .vhich
contains such t,n amount of nitrogen.
Krclvei.
Apple Pbeserves.— Take some pleas¬
ant sour apples, remove the core from
the bottom, and leave in the stem at the
top. luake a syrup of white sugar and
water to cover them half way up. Bake
or boil till they aro just done through
and serve up whole wli sugar and
cream.
Stewed Chicken.— Cut up your
chicken and Jboil till tender; a slice or
two of pork boiled with it is an addi¬
tion. Salt it while boiling: add a little
pepper, >f you like, and let the broth
simmer nearly down; then pour in
milk xth a little cream to make a rich
gravy, .hickon with a little flour stirred
in water. Have ready some short bis¬
cuit, split them in halves and lay in
a deep dish; pour over the chicken and
gravy. This, if successful, is a most
delicious dish.
Sago Pudding.— Put seven-eighths of
a cup of sago to a quart of cold milk,
and half a teaspoon of salt, and turn
into a tin saucepan; place a large pan
with boiling water on the stove, and
place the saucepan in it; let it remain
till the sago is thick, then remove it
from the saucepan to your pudding
dish, and while hot add half a cup of
butter ; when cool add four eggs, well
beaten, a cup of white sugar, a gill of
rose water, and the grated peel and juice
of a lemon. Bake until a nice brown.
Rice and Apple Souffle.— Boil two
tablespoonfuls of rice in half a pint of
milk ; add, when soft, the yolks of two
eggs, and sugar to taste; make a wall
with it around the sides of the dish.
Stew some pared and cored apples until
soft, fill the center of the dish with
them, fill up the apertures in the ap¬
ples with candied sweetmeats of jelly,
and cover the whole with the whites of
eggs beaten to a stiff froth and sprinkled
thick with white powdered sugar. Brown
in the oven, and serve with cream.
Hot Slaw.— One small, firm head of
cabbage, shred fine, one cup of vinegar,
one tablespoonful of butter, one table
spoonful of sugar, two tablespoonfuls of
sour cream, one-half tablespoonful of
made mustard, one saltspoonful of
pepper and the same of salt. Put the
vinegar and all tho other ingredients
for the dressing, except the cream, in a
saucepan and heat to a boil. Pour
scalding hot over the cabbage ; return
to the saucepan and stir and toss until
all is smoking again. Take from the
fire, stir in the cream, turn into a cov¬
ered dish and set in hot water ten
minutes before you send it to the table.
Congressman Randall’s Mistake.
A number of people of Philadel¬
phia and New York city at various times
nave been victimized by a young bunco
sharp, who represented himself to be
'he nephew of the Philadelphia bankei,
A. J. Drexel. The real nephew is a
flashy young man, and one evening a
short time ago be saw Congressman
Samuel J. Randall in the lobby of the
Continental hotel of Philadelphia. Mr.
Randall seemed to be waiting for some
one, and as young Drexel was also
awaiting the arrival of one of his bosom
friends, he thought it would be only
sociable to enter into conversation.
Approaching Mr. Randall, he ex¬
tended his hand, bmiled pleasantly,
and said: *
“How do, Mr. Randall? Haven’t
seen yon for some time.”
Mr. Randall looked at the gorgeous
youth before him, and hesitated about
takiDg the proffered hand.
“I don’t know that I have ever seen
you before,” he said.
“Oh,” laughed Drexel, “you don’t
recognize me. Why, I’ve met you often;
have cashed checks for yon, too, I think,
aud if I remember rightly I was once
your partner at whist.”.
Mr. Randall scowled. “Ypu have
the advantage of me,” he said. “ What
is your name?"
“ W hy, my dear sir,” added the young
banking clerk, “I am ‘Tony Drexel’s
nephew.’”
Mr. Randall started as though he
had been shot, opened his eyes in won¬
der, scowled again, aud turning on his
heel, said:
“ No, sir; you can’t play any of your
Drexel business on me.
A druggist to New Richmond, Ohio, Mr. E.
1. Dunham, writes ns the following : “ I ooo
•idor Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup on* of lhe vary
beet things made. I tuw U *itogether in my
Subscription, $1.00 per Year.
NO. 40.
A SHIP WITHOUT A MAST.
New New pal Style ®f Vessel to be Rnllr—Many
A in nee* In Machluerr-—Wouder
ful Speed Promised.
The New York Times of a late date
says: A project which is likely to as¬
sume great proportions at an early date
came to light in Wall street yesterday.
It contemplates a sweeping revolution
in ocean steamship building, and, ac
cording to information given the Times,
it has the support of leading and influ¬
ential capitalists, principally Massa¬
chusetts gentlemen. The story of the
proposed Perry enterprise, as told by Mr. A.
Bliven, of this city, who is large¬
ly interested in the scheme,is presented
herewith. Mr. Bliven talked freely
with the Times' representative, and en¬
tered into a full explanation and dis¬
cussion of the plans which he and his
colleagues have combined to prosecute.
“This,” said Mr. Bliven, “is no sud¬
denly bard contrived scheme. We have been
at work upon it a long time, and we
have taken every step necessary to as¬
sure our success, so we believe. Capi¬
tal is not wanting. An organization
has been formed in Boston to pash tho
project through. That organization is
known as the American Quick Transit
association, and has $200,000 in cash
already paid into its treasury. That
$200,000 is to be used for the construc¬
tion aud equipment of an initial ship,
aud to defi.iy such other expenses as
may be incurred. We avo now ready to
begin tho construction of that initial
ship, and a contract lias just been exe¬
cuted between the association and my¬
self by which I agree to build the vessel
and put her in thorough sea-going trim,
complete in every particular. The
work will be done at my yard ou vho
Hudson, at Nvack, where I built tho
well-known schooner yachts Republic
and Princess, and the peerless little
sloop yacht Ada. I expect to have the
pleasure of seeing her shoot out upon
the river before the first day of next
May. This first .boat will be much
smaller than those which are to follow.
She will be 147 feet long, with twen¬
ty-one feet beam and sixteen feet
depth of hold; her draught forward will
bo five fe»*t six inches, and aft eleven
feet. So much for generalization. Her
deck will be completely domed. Noth¬
ing will be iu sight there but the upper
portion of the pilot-house, the smoke¬
stacks and ventilators. The pilot-house
will be entered from underneath, and
will give an unobstructed view in every
direction, being composed of convex
glass an inch thick, set solidly in steel
frames. The advantage of a vessel with¬
out any obstructions above deck are too
obvious to require that they should be
detailed. The limitless amount of
upper hamper with which ships always
have been weighted down and handi¬
capped has ever been a subject for loud¬
est lament among sailors, but it has been
suffered as an unavoidable necessity.
Nobody, till now, has ever dared attempt
to take such radical steps as would be
involved in a project to sweep away
the incumbrance. We have stepped
forward to solve the problem by
doming in our vessels, covering them,
as with a shell, from stem to stein,
This will place us above all danger of
rough seas. * Sweeping over us with
whatsoever force, they can do no
damage. No spars are torn out, no
freight goes overboard, no lives are
lost. Everything is safe beneath a
roof. Only the top of the pilot-house
and the top of the smokestacks and
ventilators can be touched, and upon
them the waves can have no effect.
When we announce that we intend to
completely dome in our ships, doing
away with masts and sails, most people
will be apt to break out with the ex¬
clamation—Wbat will you do if in mid¬
ocean you break a shaft or tear your
screw to pieces? That’s where you will
be hopeless without masts and sails.
“ It is just there,” continued Mr.
Bliven, “that the difficulty has always
been. It is jnst at that point that ship¬
builders have always halted and de¬
clared that a vessel without spars is
valueless, or worse. But just at that
point we claim to have triumphed. It
ia in the matter of driving power ap¬
pear our greatest departures from the
present type of vessel. Our machinery
will occupy less than one-half the room
now required by the most modern pat¬
terns in use, and it will weigh not more
than two-thirds of that now used. But
that same machinery, smaller and
lighter, will produce more than five
times the power given by that now in
use. Our engines, boilers, shafts,
wheels, condensers, and all machinery
will be of the best steel, and in that
matter alone we shall obtain vastly su¬
perior Serna, strength. allowed Thu new steamship,
the is to carry from
ninety to 120 pounds of steam per
square inch upon her boilers.
We shall be able to have
ours 1,000 pass a government inspection at
pounds, and will lie able to com¬
mand a working pressure of 660 pounds
per square inch. This enormous power
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new and wholly our own. Another new
appliance is a triple compound engine,
just patented, capable of making three
times as many revolutions per minute
as are made by engines used to drive
the fastest steamships now afloat. There
will be a double steel boiler and double
triple have compound engines. The engines
will four steel cylinders each, and
will provide, combined, over 660-horse
power. There will be an average of 360
revolutions per minute, with a possible
maximum of 400. The vessel will be
fitted with a four-bladod hammered
steel wheel or screw, each blade being
separate, ten feet in diameter, and
with eleven fine feet pitch. They will
have knife edges, and will be
of more than ten times the strength
of the present composition wheel, and
will be capable of traveling 42.40 miles
an hour. Tho main shaft will be of
steel seven inches in diameter, fifty
three feet long. The engine's fonr
steel cylinders will give a combined
stroke of ninety-six inches, with the
660 pounds pressure on piston rods.
The engine and boiler roomi will be
placed amidships, and will be surround¬
ed completely by water-tight bulkheads,
giving absolute protection from acci
dent from without. This machinery
insures a speed which will enable ns to
cross from Boston to Liverpool inside
of five days. Fonr days and a half we
calculate to be a fair estimate. No mat¬
ter how rough tho sea, we shall be able
to make the same quick trip, our dome
deck insuring us against the necessity
of heiving to or changing our course
to run out of a storm center.
Tho first steamer will be equipped iu
the finest style, her interior being fin¬
ished handsomely in polished upholstered hard in woods velvet. and
silk
She will bo as magnificently appointed
as any pleasure yacht afloat. When
completed sho will bo taken to Boston,
and make a trial trip to Europe from
that port. Immediately returning, she
will be entered in the steam pilot ser¬
vice. and will do outside towing, taking
disabled vessels off Grand Banks and
acting as a general wrecking vessel
along the coast. But before she is
placed to that use keels will already
have been laid for other vessels, larger,
and being in some respects even
more marked in their departure from
tho prevailing types of ocean steam¬
ships.
Acorn-Storing Birds.
At a late meeting of the California
Academy of Sciences, a paper was read
by Mr. R. E C. Stearns, on the acorn
storing habits of the California wood¬
pecker. In Napa county he had exam¬
ined a fallen yellow pine, the bark of
which was full of acorn holes. Its
length was 176 feet, and the diameter
of its butt was five feet ten inches, and
at ninety feet three feet eight inches.
Above the ninety-foot line the wood¬
pecker holes were comparatively few;
neither were there any in the first ten
feet of the trunk from the ground. A
piece of the bark, twelve by twelve
inches, showed sixty holes. Taking an
average of thirty-six holes to the
square foot, ic gave 41,040 acorn holes
in the bark of this one tree. The holes
were drilled to receive acorns of differ¬
ent sizes, for the birds are exact work¬
men, and each acorn is nicely fitted
into its special cavity. Woodpeckers
reject the caps and store the acorns
without them. In Knight’s Valley he
observed woodpecker holes in a large
sprnce tree, and he was informed that
they also bore into the bark of certain
oaks to a limited extent. The acorns
were generally considered as laid np
for a winter supply of food ; but while
iu this climate no such provisicn was
necessary, it was also very improbable
that woodpeckers wonld feed on hard
nuts or seeds of any kind. The more
rational explanation is that they are
preserved for the sake of the grubs they
so frequently contain, which being very
small when the acorn falls, grow until
they eat out the whole interior when
they become a welcome delicacy for the
bird.
Mr. Lightner, a member of the acad¬
emy, Lad observed woodpeckers engaged
in drilling hob s in the bark, when a
blnejay was seen to fly close np to one
and inspect the size of the hole. Some
active chippering then ensued, when
the blnejay flew away, but soon re¬
turned with a green aoorn, without the
cup, in his beak. This he offered to
the woodpecker, who took it with his
beak, and set it into the hole, and drove
it home with a few taps, where it re¬
mained. This process was continually
repeated. Mr. Lightner desired to
know what were the special benefits de¬
rived by this mutual service conducted
between a teed-eatin ; and an insect
eating bird. Mr. Stearns said that
great numbers of untouched acorns re¬
main in the spring, which have devel¬
oped no wormh suitable as food for
the woodpecker, but which supply
nutriment tea bluejays and squirrel*.
Thus a community ot interest was manl-