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THE BLACKSHEAR NEWS.
PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY
E- Z. BYRE,
EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR,
BLACKSHEAR, GA.
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OmnxutT.—A. J. Strickland.
Si s-J. W. Strickland.
Coun E. Z. Byrd.
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PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
w. R. PHILLIPS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
&ug4-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 oourts of tho United States at Savannah
or the Southern District of Georgia. mylG-6m
Q B. MABRY,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Brunswick, Ga.
Practice regularly in the counties of Glynn,
Ware, Pierce, Wayne, Camden, Coffee, Appling and
of the Brunswick Circuit, and Telfair,
of the Oconee Circuit. aug4-tf
S. W. HITCH,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Blackshear, Ga.
Practice regularly in the Brunswick Circuit.
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A. B. ESTES, JR.,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Blackshear, Pierce Co., Ga.
Practice regularly in the Brunswick Circuit.
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jQR. A M. MOORE,
PRACTICING PHYSICIAN,
Blackshear, Ga.
Calls promptly attended to dav or night.
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Offers his professional services to the citizens
of Pieree and adjoining counties.
Blackshear, Ga., March J, 1880-tf.
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Blackshear News.
E, Z. BYRD, Editor and Proprietor.
VOL. IV.
Usefulness and Hurtfulness of Coffee.
Since coffee possesses the quality of
stimulating the neTvcus system, it is a
matter of course that in manv cases its
effect is rathei* in j arious. Phlegmatic
people, especially, need coffee, and int-y
are fond of drinking it ; for a fiuiilar
reason it is a favorite beverage in the
Orient, where tt^persoip its consnn^tion is im
mense . But of an excitable
temperament the enjoyment of coffee is
hnrt | ul 5 ^
weak. 1 A\ )th lively children it does not
agree at all, and it is very wrong to
force them to di ink it, as is often done;
while elderly people, who are in need
of a stimulant for the decreasing ac
tivitv of their nerves, are right in tak
ing as much of it as they choose,
In households of limited means it is
often necessary to use chiccorv with
1 Wo do not pretend to pro
fP ce this, if taken in moderate
. entity, hurtful, but do
we say
that it, is a poor substitute for
coffee, # and that there is nothing in it
to
recommend its nse. A far better mix¬
ture is milk and sugar; and there is
good reason for it; both milk and
sugar are articles of food. Milk con¬
> tains the ingredients blood;
same as
and sugar is changed in the body into
fat, which is indispensable to us,
especially in the process of breathing.
Having taken no food through the
night the loss of onr blood has suffered
daring deep by perspiration and the
fat which has been lost by respiration
j/nust be compensated for in the morn¬
ing. For this milk and sugar in coffee
are excellent.
It is good for children to have a taste
for sweetened milk or milk-coffee in
the morning. We must not find fault
with them if they like it. Natnre very
wisely gave them a liking for sugar;
they need it because their pulse must
be quicker, their respiration stronger,
to facilitate the assimilation of food in
their bodies, and also to promote
growth. Not that adults need no sugar,
but the sugar necessary for tlienf is
formed from the starch contained in
their food. For this purpose the diges¬
tive apparatus must be strongly devel¬
oped. With children this is
not the case; therefore, they are
given sugar, instead of the
starch to make it from. Many diseases,
particularly rickets, prevailing mostly
among the children of the poor, are the
consequence of feeding the child with
bread and potatoes; these contain
starch, it is true, but, the digestive ap¬
paratus of children being yet too weak
to change them into fat, the result is
that the flesh falls away and tho bones
grow soft and crooked.
But he who, to promote digestion,
takes coffee immediately after dinner,
does best not to use sugar or milk—for
both, so far from helping digestion, are
an additional burden to the full stom¬
ach, and disturb its labor more than
coffee can facilitate it. —Popular Science
Monthly.
Bribing a Boy,
Iu cleaning up a little yesterday
after the Christmas r ush, a small dealer
in toys, papers and confectionery on
Gratiot avenue found among his trash
what the boys call a “thundering big fire
cracker.” It had been hiding away ever
since Fourth of July, and the man no
sooner fonnd it than he was possessed
of a desire to make some one happy.
He dared not throw it into his stove,
and it seemed a grievous waste to fling
it into the alley. He therefore waited
and patience was soon rewarded, just
as she always is. A boy came in
after a cent’s worth of taffy, and he was
closely followed front by a dog big enough to
carry off the steps of a meeting¬
house. The big fire-cracker was ex¬
hibited and the case explained, and the
party of the second part, in considera¬
tion ,of five sticks of candy, gave the
party of the “first part leave to attach
the cracker to the dog’s tail and fire it
off. The canine offered no serious ob¬
jections, and things were soon in shape.
The boy then led the dog out on the
walk, the fuse was ignited, and directly
there was an explosion which set the
dog to thinking faster than ever before
in his life. He wheeled and [dashed
back into the store, made six or seven
circuits of the room, and then, embar¬
rassed, confused and anxious to get
home and overhaul himself for repairs,
he took a jump through one of the
doors and left $7 worth of glass in
pieces on the sidewalk. Some of the
crowd sat down to langb, while others
leaned against the wall and yelled haw!
haw! haw J at the top of their voices,
The fire-cracker man was the only one
who seemed abstracted .—Free Pre»%.
The mysterious disappearance of
King Louis of Bavaria is the engrossing
topic of European gosrips. He left his
kingdom without a word of farewell
and is traveling about incognito,
vouchsafing no trace of his where¬
abouts.
Belting for machinery is (successfully
made of paper.
BLACKSHEAR, GA.. FEB. 23, 1882.
A LIFE OF VICISSITUDE.
rbet'arrn' of n llrllllnnt but Erratic Nem
pnper Writer.
A New York letter contributes the
following reminiscences of a brilliant
but The dissipated newspaper Bohemian :
mention of Pfaff’s reminds me of
the history, half pathetic, of one of the
true Bohemians, a type now almost ex¬
tinct, related the other night in a pop¬
ular resort near * ‘the square” by a for¬
mer associate, one who would not l>ear
the ills of newspaper life, but flew
to other that he knew not of by em
barking upon the treacherous sea of
theatrical speculation, Of obscure
origin and the most limited advantages
our Bohemian developed into a man of
marvelous resources, wide knowledge,
incisive wit and brilliant attainments,
but in him were united a most remark¬
able combination Of good and bud qual¬
ities. The peer intellectually of the
brightest men of his davfthe delighted
in the companionship of the dissoluto
and debased. He would pawn the coat
on his back for charity but would
never pay a debt. He was a born news¬
paper man, and possessed a versatility
that enabled him with equal readiness
to pen a scholarly and analytical art re¬
view or describe a sensational murder
with all the brutal justice of a photo¬
graph. Iu a reportorial way he was
equal to anything from a humorous
paragraph to a five column interview,
from an Italian opera to a base ball
matcb, from a Presbyterian synod to
prize-fight. He was by turns an idle
and bloated vagrant, and a man of clear
brain, untiring energy, fertile in expe¬
dient, and incomparable as a news
gatherer, but always strictly unreliable.
When of his own volition he undertook
a task no obstacle could dishearten him,
no he would personal hardship was too great, and
persevere until his object was
attained ; but give him a set task, even
though it might assure equal or greater
compensation, and he was quite likely
to neglect it altogether.“If y ou ever have
anything very particular on hand,” he
said one day when about to receive an
important assignment, ‘ don’t iutrnnt it
to me, but in groat emergencies, when
left to myself, look out for me.” One
evening, while dragging out a miserable
existence by occusional reporting in
Cincinnati, oui* Bohemian heard of a
railway accident a few miles distant.
In an instant there was a magic
transformation. The news gather¬
ing instinct was aroused, The
shuffling vagrant became the alert re¬
porter, with every faculty active.
Hastening to the office he feund every
month closed. The facts were to be
suppressed as long as possible, and no
word of information could be extracted.
This mnch he knew; the disaster had
occurred near a country town abont ten
miles from the city. Without a mo¬
ment’s hesitation he took to the track.
It was a dark, stormy night, and the
rain came down in torrents, but he plod¬
ded along manfully and cheerfully, and
shortly before midnight reached his
destination. The station operator said
the wreck was five miles further on.
Time was precious and the seeker after
news pleaded in vain for a statement of
the facts. The operator, governed by
instructions, curtly refused to divulge
the slightest detail. Argument and en¬
treaty were alike unvaling, and the re¬
was the tele¬
graph instrument began to click. In¬
stantly be grasped his opportunity, and,
requesting soaked permission to dry his rain
where clothing, seated himself by the
stove, every sound could be dis¬
tinctly heard. Among his varied ac¬
complishments was a thorough knowl¬
edge of telegraphy, and as he sat
shivering over the cheerful blaze, his
practiced ear, drank in every word that
passed over the wire. From the station
beyond, where the train employees had
gone, came a the tolerably comprehensive
account of accident (a collision
caused by the violation of orders) tho
names of four or five persons killed and
as many wounded. It was a supple¬
mentary report and explicit enough to
serve the purpose. A neighboring
farmer was hastily aroused, and the
promise of liberal compensation induced
him to harness a team and drive the
reporter with all speed to Cincinnati,
where the Efoquirer office was reached at
2 o’clock iu the morning. An hour later
a column report of the accident, em¬
bracing the essential facts with some
imaginative embellishment of details,
had been put in type and the esteemed
contemporaries of the Enquirer were
badly “scooped,” while the chagrin
and anger of the secretive railway
authorities was simply indescribable.
This ingenious bit of work was liberally
rewarded, and its author given regular
employment. But the incentive to con¬
tinued action was lacking; the first im¬
portant assignment was deliberately neg¬
lected and the depths of degradation
were again sounded. drifted
In time the Bohemian back to
New York, where he underwent every
form of privation and suffering that
Subscription, $1.00 per Year.
NO. 44,
poverty can inflict because he would
not be a man.
An artful boi rower, he lived chiefly
him upon the bounty of those who admired
in spite of his faults. His appeals
at least had the merit of irankness. It
was rarely “Will you lend me a dollar?’’
tint “Give me a dollar; it's safe to
assort that I’ll never pay you.” Remon
stances against his manner of life were
unavailing. He would listen attentively
to the catalogue of his misdeeds, and
then remark complacently to his
accuser, “My dear fellow, you flatter
me; fession you positively offenses, do,” adding a con¬
of compared with
which those for which ho had been
arraigned were trifles of utter insignifi¬
cance. When fickle fortune smiled
upon him at rare intervals he squandered
hiir small possessions with as much
princely millions prodigality as if there were
in reserve. He would give
his last cent to a brother unfortunate,
when not knowing where he himself
would sleep that night, or how he
would procure his next meal. “I am
generous, but not just,” he would say.
But neither dissipation nor privation
could chock the spontaneous flow of
his wit, which was singularly bright and
sparkling. He wrote numerous sketches
when his nightly bed wus upon a bench
in Union Square and a five cent mutton
pie was to#him a banquet fit for gods.
It was during his darkest days that New
York was convulsed by terrible labor
riots. To interview Cardinal McClosky
upon the subject was an idea that came
to him like an inspiration. He was
almost in rags, dirty and unshaven, and
a silver dime constituted his entire cash
assets. The dime procured a clean
shave, and, pinning the collar of his but¬
tonless coat closely about his neck to con¬
ceal his lack of linen, he boldly presented
himself at the good cardinal’s door,
insisting so persistently upon admit¬
tance that the servant doubtfully
permitted him to enter the first com¬
fortable apartment he bad seen for
months. One of bis unblackened shoes
had burst wide opon, and this he skill¬
fully masked beneath an ottoman and
calmly awaited the cardinal his victim. Ha had
never seen and cipwioJ to
behold him entering, like “Richelieu,”
clad in robes of enmson and ermine,
ready to launch the curse of sacred
Rome upon the rash intruder. The
door opened aud there entered an old
gentleman of mild and benevolont
aspect, who courteously inquired :
“Did you want to see me, sir ?”
“No, sir," replied the visitor. “I
want to see the cardinal.”
“I am the cardinaL” *
“Oh !”said the audacious interviewer,
with easy familiarity. “Sit down,cardinal,
you see the present labor disturbances
is a topic of vital importance just now,
and any expression of your views would
be read with great interest by the entire
country. Now, what do you think
about-”
“Excuse me, sir,” said the good man,
with a shade of asperity. “This inter¬
view is unwarrantable. I have positive¬
ly declined to bo interviewed upon
this subject. What paper do you repre¬
sent?”
“Well, now, the fact is, cardinal, I
may say frankly and confidentially that
I don’t happen to bo regularly con¬
nected with any paper. You see, car¬
dinal, I haven’t eaten anything since
yesterday morning, and that wasn’t at
Delmonico’s, and I have only very dim
and misty recollections of what a bed is
like. In my present extremity it just
occurred to me that if you would give
me a little talk on this matter, I could
get four or five dollars for it from al¬
most any paper in New York.”
The eminent churchman gazed at his
singular visitor in blank amazement,
until his indignation gave way to amuse¬
ment, and then to compassion. He
granted “the little talk,” and the result
was a wonderfully graphic and forcibly
written interview of two columns, which
the Herald gladly published Bext morn¬
ing and paid twenty dollars for.
One night, just as the old year was
dying. John McCormack, then city told editor that
of the Cincinnati Enquirer, was
the strange character whom he had so
often befriended was lying helpless in
au attic not fur distant, and that the
end was fast approaching. He hastened
to the squalid apartment, and there,
alone, haggard and uncared fof, was
the pitiful wreck of one endowed with
mental gifts which, properly employed,
would have made him one of the bright¬
est journalists in tho land. He shook
his head sadly and smiled feebly :
"Its no use, John, old fellow—-I’m
beyond help. My life has been a fail¬
ure, but it will soon be ended. Oh, if
I could only have xnown what--if I
could only have seen-”
The living sat beside the dead, and
the neighboring bells rang out the
merry tidings of a new year’s biith.
An international fishery exhibition is
to be held in Edinburgh, Bcotiand, next
April, when everything pertaining represented. to
the fishing interest will be
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Marge* on the Mississippi.
Transportation by barges on the Mis
sissippi has river, says the New Orleans
Times, become the solution of the
great problem of restoring to the river
its position as the great highway of the
West. The palatial steamers that float
on its waters and once monopolized the
freight and passenger traffic of the
Mississippi valley, having fonnd them¬
selves nnable to compete in cheap
freights with the railways, and still less
unable to compete in speed, were plaoed
at a great disadvantage, aud forced to
abandon all the transportation business
except that which the railway could no
reach or did not possess the ability to
carry.
This city, for years without a railwav
reaching out to tho rich and rapidly
growing regions of the West North¬
west, aud landing commerce diverted
more and more from the river route,
seemed to have left but one hope, and
that was to restore to the river the
capacity to transport freights more
cheaply The than conld bo done by the rail¬
ways. success of this problem has
been found in the barge line.
a small, handled but
powerful steam tug, with a very small
crew, will move upon tho river in one
tow six enormous barges, carrying at
least 40,000 bushels of grain each, of
an aggregate of a quarter of a bullion
bushels as a single cargo. The ma¬
chinery for doing this business is so
simple and inexpensive, when compared
with the palatial steamboats of the old
style, with their costly appointments
and numerous crews that once would
have been required to do the work, it
is readily seen how vast a reduction of
expense has been accomplished. The
barge system is, however, merely in its
infar.cy, bilities and without doubt it has capa¬
that have not yet been reached,
so that it is fair to suppose that the
minimum of cost for transportation on
the river has not yet been arrived at,
and still further reductions will in time
be realized.
Tbo importance, then, of the barge
lines can scarcely be overstated, and it
will be of interest to know something
of the extent or tUoii rto
coming season’s business. Two im¬
portant companies Lave recently been
consolidated with greatly increased cap¬
ital and greatly enlarged facilities for
doing the work. Besides tho present
fleet of the combined proportions,
which consists of thirteen towboats and
eighty-nine barges, the company have
contracts made for an additional fleet,
which will swell their total tonnage to
twenty-three towboats and 1G0 barges,
with a capacity of 3,000,000 bushels of
grain for a single trip, and a capacity
for an average season, according to esti¬
mates, of 100,000,000 bushels. The
people who are at the head of this enor¬
mous enterprise do not propose to
make these preparations for nothing.
They are going to do the business they
are prepared for. They know just what
they arc doing and have the capita! to
carry out their designs.
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How to Make Tea.
Hard water makes the most delicious
tea, as it dissolves less of the tannin
aud gives the enp a more delicate fla¬
vor. And even with hard water there
is a wide difference between wells lo¬
cated near together. But given the
same quality of water, and a difference
in the manipulation will make to a sen¬
sitive taste a total change in the char¬
acter of tho beverage. There is not
one tea-kettle out of a hundred that in
its present condition is fit to boil water
for a cap of tea. Let onr reader go
home to-night and inspect his own out¬
fit, and he will verify our statement.
He will find the interior of his kettle
encrusted with the mineral deposits
extracted from the water boiled in it
from morning until night of each sue
ceeding day. As the water is “clean,”
the cook lmt empties and fills the ket¬
tle, never thinking of the growing
crust that mast now be scraped off if
the kettle is to be cleaned. Water that
has stood after boiling will not make a
good enp of tea, and yet how often the
tired laborer, mechanic, merchant, doc¬
tor or lawyer has tried to solace himself
with a beverage made from water con¬
taining the debris of that which has
stood all day on the range, being only
filled as often as any addition was
needed. Take a clean kettle never
used for anything else, nil it with fresh
water, the harder the better, boil
quickly over a very hot fire, and pour
as soon as it boils upon the tea leaves
fresh from the canister. I>t it stand
four or five minutes, and then drink —
'Exchange.
Western prices are curious some¬
times. In Miles City, Montana, and com
is forty cents a bushel egga ten
cents apiece. The hired girl demands
$10 a week'; with every Sunday oat.
The lake fisherman who catch white
fish know them as lake herring.
