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VOLUME IX.
Professional Cards.
DR. W. C. GIBSON,
Macon, Georgia. .
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"CHARLES HICKS, Wit D.,
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DUBLIN. GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY APRIL, S 1881
NUMBER 87.
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Dublin,
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rf, L. GRINER,
ATTORNEY & COUNSELLOR
%T LAW,
, Dublin - Georgia.
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FELDER & SANDERS,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Dublin, - - Georgia.
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nee, Ocmulgee and Middle circuits, and
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where by special contract.
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W. J. niGIITOWER,
Nov. 24, '80. Dublin, Georgia.
Remember you can got Dublin
l'o.'T and tho •Savannah Weekly
News one year for only $2.25.
At San Francisco, Captain Briggs
of the whaler Janus, shipped as fore,
mast hand a scarred, grim looking
native of the Navigator Islands,
named Tongtoo,
The captain’s pretty wife, Louisa,
who with their son Louis—a boy of
ten—had accompanied her husband
for the voyage, felt afraid of tho is
lander, on account of his fierce-look-
ing visage.
After leaving San Frawcisco and
cruising fGr six months.in the Pa
cific Ocean, the captain came to an
chor off oue of tbe Navigator Islands
for wood and water.
About half a mile from the beach
there was a coral reef, and between
this and the ship, not fifty yards from
the latter, was a 6teep rooki nearly
fourteen foot high.
“Gave in rock,’’.said Tongtoo to
one of the men. -
“A cavo ?”
“Yes. If me wanted to desert
this ship, me could hide there.’’
Just then the captain called Tong
too aft. His wife had persuaded
him to discharge the native; so ho
now told him that, when he should
go onshore that day to see his people,
he might remain with them.
As he said this the captain prepar
ed to pay the man his wages in silver
dollars.
Tongtoo hung his head, and a
look of distress came ovor his face.
“No like to leave ship,” he re
marked. “Why want Tongtoo to
leave ship ? Mo like salt junk—get
plenty here. Good captain here—
good ship—good oat!
“All right you cau stay, said the
skipper touched by tho-frank confes
sion of the poor native and nis evi
dent sorrow at leaving him.
Tongtoo went forward a happy
man, and the captain entered the
cabin to tell his wifo wlrnt he had
done.
She made no complaint, but sho
was apparently much disappointed,
One morning, about a week later,
an enormous white shark was seen
swimming to aud fro about the bows
of the ship.
This creature was fully thirteen
feet in length, and presented, a truly
hideous appearance.
At the cry of “Shartc 1” raised by
some of the men; little Louis—the
captain’s son, who hud just climbed
upon the after rail,—-was in so great
a hurry to.get down for the purpose
of making his wav forward to look at
the monster, that he lost,his balance
and foil into the water.
“My boy 1 Save him,! Save him !”
screamed Mrs. Briggs, who was th
only person on tho quarter-deck at
that time.
Tho splash, however, had boon
hoard.,,
“Down with tho larboard boat 1”
roared the captain, running aft from
tho bow, where he had been watch
ing the shark;
A tall figure bounded past him as
ho was about to leap oveiboard, and
sprang into iho soa.
It was Tongtoo, who at once
struck out for the coild, whom tho
current had already carried some
fathoms from the craft.
As the little boy was about to sink
for the second time tho native caught
him under oue arm, and swam with
him towards the ship.
Meanwhile a boat was being lower
ed, but before it stsuck the water a
long, white form was see to shoot un
der it, and a cry of borrow rose-frorn
theAJiew us they saw the huge shark
heading straight’for the native.
"It was, in fact, now between the
swimmer and the sliip, and not ten
fathoms from him.
“Quick with the boat 1” came the
clear, ringing voice of Tongtoo, us
ho turned round and struck out away
from his hideous pursuer.
lie swam with astonishing rapidi
ty, but tho fin of the white shark
clove the sea still faster, and it was
evident that, unless tho boat could
overtake tho fish, and tho creature
bo harpooned, it would soon roach
tho fngatives.
The captain sprang into tho boat;
in her exoitement, his wifo also
scrambled into it.
“Now, men 1” cried Briggs* in a
thrilling voice, “pull for your
lives 1”
Tho orew strained at the oars, and
tho boat flaw !.
“Wo will bo too late 1” moaned the
agonized motho.1, beating her houd
with her hands. “My boy 1 m*y
boy 1”
Buzzing and whining on wont
the boat.
Still ahead glided that long, terri
ble fin, with the enormous body of
the white shark just visible beneath
i fc * .
And, not ten yards fchoad of that,
was Tongtoo, fairly seeming to fly
through the water with his preoious
charge.
The direction he took led him to
wards the Bleep rock which has bean
mentioned, and which was now not
more than seven fathoms from him.
Tongtoo swam steadily on. All at
once ho disappeared like a shot, not
six feot from the rook.
A few seconds later tho shark,
turning ovev and showing its white
belly, also went down.
Mrs. Briggs uttored a despairing
cry and sank oii tho soat nearest to
her.
The Ruilors still plied tho oars.
“Hold !” oried the captain, in a
husky voice, as the boat approached
the spot where Tongtoo had disap
pearod.
A long streak of blood rising to the
suiface caught the gazo of both tho
skipper and his wifo.
“Lost!” tlioy simultaneously cried;
and the uyothor, in her agony, 'bow
ed her head upon her breast, and
clutched at her long, auburn hair.
The white shark was not again
seon.
“He has done his work,” gloomily
remarked the captain at lust. “Pull
aboard 1”
Tbe boat was soon alougaide of the
ship.
The grief-stricken parents went
into the oabih, and there gave way
to their anguish. .
Tho sad ocourenco had cast id
gloom ovoi every person abroad,
Tho men conversed in low tones
about it and sliudderod, whilo the
steward moved on Lip—too perform
ing his duties noiselessly.
Night came, but no one there could
alcop.
At Sawn tho captain carno oil deck
supporting on his arm nis suffering
wife.
The two stood by tho rail, tho
mother’s sad eyes turned towards
the rock, near which she had last
seen her beloved child.
All at once she started with sur
prise, pointing towards the rock,
from the summit of which a thin
column of smoke \vas rising.
“What can that moan !’’said the
captain.
A boat, provided with a ratlino
rope ladder, having hooks at tho ond
was pulled to the rock. Both the
captain and his wife were in this
boat.
By means of the ladder, they
climbed to the’top of tho rook.
There was a largo crevice iu it,
and, looking through it, they dis
covered that the rock was hollow,
forming a water-cave, with slopiug
projections at tho base. On one of
these, Tongtoo, with a banduge
about his head, was dimly discerned
through the smoke, holding up lit
tle Louis, alive and well, for his .pa
rents to see. Mrs. Briggs gave a cry
of joy. The latter was lowered into
the cave, and tho native, nscendi/ig
with tho boy, placed him in his
mother's arms.
“Ay!’’ said ono man, “I remember
Tongtoo told mo tho:e was n cave
hero, but l did Hot know it was like
this.”
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Explanations werosoou made,
After diving with tho child, tho
nativo oamo up inside of tho wator-
cavo. Ho had, liowovor, struck his
head so violoutly against a rugged
spur, that it nearly took away his
senses, and, on crawling up tho rook-
projection, ho was so faint that ho
oould hardly hold the boy.
Some minutes elupsod before either
could find sulfioiont breath to shout,
and by that timo the boat was too
far on its way to the ship for Tong
too to make his voiee hoard. He,
liowovor, kopt shouting at intervals,
liopmg some oanoo might be passing^
Afraid to leave the cavo by tho samo
way he oame, lost tbe shark should
bo hovering near, ho rosolvod to re
main where he was.
At dawn he thought of tho exped
ient of setting five to some damp oak
um ho had in his pocket, and of thus
oauBing the smoko whioh was ob-
soavod from the vessel.
“Tho blood wo saw on the sea
soon after you dove, must have
come from tho out on your head,”
said tho captain to Tongtoo. “It
wus that, for one thing, that made
us all feel sure you were ouught by
the shark under wator.”
The happy mothor thanked the
native warmly for rescuing her boy,
aud over after §he was a good friend
to tjiis poor, islandor, who had so
nobly tatiglit her tho lesson of novor
judging character by mere personal
appearance.
Had sho,- on account of Tongtoo’s
unfavorable looks,’suooepdod in get
ting him disohargod from tho ship,
her little Louis could not posaibly
have boon saved from tho torriblo
wliito shark. Rufus Halo in Hem
York Lcdqor,
Tho Wife’s Share.
Fiirmor’s Advocate.
No class of mon aro more in dobt
to their wives for the success tliut
comes to thorn than are farnfiors.
Tho wifo and the mother who has
tho courage to go out with tho hus
band of her choice and oominonco
tho struggle of life with him on tho
prairie, or on a new farm, with but
little capital, except that boundless
capital of boad and heart is worthy
to stand'by the side of tho#Spurtan
woman of whom poots have exhaus
ted their words of pruiso. Upon
her falls the burnt of the strife, no
matter how hard tho husband may
toil; his work clos6s with tho day, but
licrs'continues long after; and with
her children and the small chores
that many of tho boginnors look af
ter, her lot is not one to ho envied.
And when, aftor years of struggle,
success, with reluctant foot, comes
to crown tho husband with honor*
the brightest wealth should adorn
tho brow of tho noble wife, who was
tho stay and anchor, the comfort
and tho source of all hope in the
stormy days of trial, Tho wealth
should ofown tho queen. We hear
that so-and-so is-making money, and
gets the credit of being a forehand
ed man, but it is quite often that the
noblo little woniatf, who has toiled
and complained not, is the oio to
whom -the Stato ami nation are
most greatly indebted. These are tho
women that lead mon up to that
shriuo where, like knightB of old,
they bend the knee of homage, not
to beauty, but to worthy and royal
woman-hood. -
THE EDITOR AND IIJS SON.
A prominent Senator says: “All
you have to do to got Cleveland down
on a man is to oyerwholin him with
recommendations.” In fully threo
fourths of the prominent appoint
ments made by the President not a
scrap of paper has been filed by tho
appointeo.—New York World.
“You, will wunt to ontor some
thing for the county fair, I suppose,
Mr. Hayseed ?” said the chairman of
tiiongriciiHuml,socioty. “Wall, yes,”
said Mr. Ilayscod; “yon kin pat me
down for tho biggest hog in tho
county,”—Harper’s Bazar,
Bill Nyo Relates a Mournful In
cident in Journalistic Lilo,
From tho Now York World.
I have boon thinking for sovcral
wooks over what a groat contributor
to the World rocontly said about
turning night into day arid day into
night. The moro I think about it
tho moro I think ho is right. Sit
ting up nights until away along into
tho Bhank of the evening in order to
bathe one’s immortal soul in cham
pagne add toll anoodotes and mako
speeches and clutoh at tho table cloth
and drink a glass of oil and vinegar
that some one has substituted for
your own, and then go home and
sprain your anklo trying to mount a
skittish bed, is injurious and perni
cious and I have about deoidod that
when I got to bo an old man 1 am
going to do differently.
Your contributor is right when ho
says that this kind of work woara
our its generation and compels -us to
bring in a generation of farmers’
sons and villago boys to roplaoo it.
Then tno farmers’ sons aud villugo
ooys do tho samo timo and apparont
ly enjoy it.
But it is. not along tho late dinner
and tho recoil of Mr. Mumm’s oolcf-
bratod internal muohiuo that is
wearing out a largo army of our
brightest and host met. It is wear
ing and destructive on tho tissues, of
course, to sit through tho majority
of tho night eating swoot cake and
trying to laugh at nncodotos that
you havo frequently hoard bofovo;
.but people who do this do it from
necessity; tlioy cannot ovado it. But
if wo call this .damaging and deplore
it in them, wlrnt shall wo say of
thoso men who do it voluntarily ?
Whrt shall wo say of tho newspaper
man who sloops all the forenoon in
order ihat. ho may dawdle about the
ottioo of a morning paper all night,
thinking thoughts and penciling
them off for the public, or pawing
around o*ver a wad of “manifold”
and writing startoing bonds to dull
tolograms half the night, whilo his
wife, who has taken timo by tho
foroloetc and done hor work during
daylight, is in bed. ‘
I know I hut I hero are men who
havo boon connected with journalism
for years, who maintain that it is
not a habit, but that with them it is
absolutory nooossary. . For tills rea
son 1 consulted Mr. James Migglo-
son, of Asliuvillo, who edits the Daily
Jimplocuto, a morning paper of this
place, and learned from him that it
is not nucessury to sit.np nights in
order to run a morning paper.
So tho wives and motbors of morn
ing journalists and printers of Now
York should no longor bo doceivod
by this tiine-honorod fraud upon
their trusting natures,
Mr. Miggleson says tlmt a rattling
good morning paper can bo worked
off tno press by supper timo, and the
ovoning reserved for sooial inter
course.
And yet I know a pale, studious
newspaper man, with silver in his
hair, a man iu whoso mouth butter
would soarcoly molt, who has, for
muny years and moro, bamboozled
his trusting wife and growVup son
with this transparent fraud*.
Ho told me only a short time ago,
that the first timo lie had seen his
own son by daylight was last fall.
He said that his son camo of age last
October, and through the courtesy
of a mutual friend (Lite young man’s
mother) ho hud tho pleasure of meet
ing him on election day aud forming
an ucquuiniunco which lie says may
yet ripuu into a strong friendship.
I have uuothor acquaintance who
assists iu editing a morning paper,
hut he docs not believe in allowing
his children to utterly forget him.
He does nob want his boys to think
thoy uro orphans just heeausa ho is
not always at homo. He is a man
of very strong will and a strict dis
ciplinarian. Ho ho gols a holiday
every two weeks tu order to go home
and do up his punishiug.
Ono timo lie found that his oldost
or*oldo8t son—I do nob know which
boenuso1 am away from homo with
out my library—had violated tliti
rulos of tho liouso in a sad manner.
As noav ns I am able to come at the
facts, the boy hud tukon a quart of
eoru and sowod a long tliroad through
each kernel, showing great patience
and porsovernneo iu so doing. Ho
had thon tired tho onds of the
threads all together into ono knot
and soattored the com whore a largo
flook of goeso had boon in tho habit
of nssooiating and pooling for mu-,
tual profit and improvements.
A man who oamo along that way
about dusk said he saw about thirty
geoso standing around iu a circlo
looking reproachfully at each other
and trying to agreo on some method
by whioh thoy .could go all homo to-
gobhor without turning a part of
their crowd wroug side out, while
bohind a high board fence, thoro was
a boy who sootnod to bo enjoying
himsolf in a smull way.
Tho incident was reported to the
boy’s father, who oumo homo and
plaoed his son under a large dry
goods box in the collar, after whioh
he pilod three or four hundreds
pounds of ooal on top of invertod
box. Ho then made a few remarks
for tho boy’s good, whioh woro fol
lowed by tho smothered remark:
“Rats 1” from tho insido of the box.
Aftor orderiiur that tho box should
not to disturbed till his return, my
friotul put on his coat and wont back
to his work.
TliiB was just as tho returns began
to return in the autumn of ’84. My
friend did not go homo for two
weeks, and forgot all about tho boy
till it oamo thime to do up his pirn-
ishmont for tho fortnight.
Whon tho truth flashed ovoi* him
he was filled with Jtlie keenest rc-
rorndrSo, and wont-homo us soot, as
ho had sent in the last proof, but
when ho wont down tho cellar lie
found the box empty anp the follow
ing noto written on it with a pencil:
“Dear-Paw do not wcup for mo r
have wont awuy from my happy
homo wlmre i was onct so gay and
freo doJNot assassanato inuw bccuz
slio Prido lip tho box with a stick
Of cord-wood yesterday and fed Mo
sho left tho box So i could Bust 4th
i am gone Far Far Away do not
wenp for mo it is bottor for mu and
you to bo Apart, onnyhow it is bet
ter for Me to be apart i like being
Apart a Good doal bettor, i think i
will tako a ham and gar of Presorvos
of whioh i am pashionatcly fond but
i will Renumoruto you some Day as
hoven is my jug so No mear at Pres
ent from you proddiglo Son Henry.”
Bill Nyu.
Asheville, N,. 0., March 8.
Litigation Over a Itinar.
Two colored damsels had a dispute
about a ring Bomo time ugo.
Ono of them sued out a poss
essory warrant for tile recovery
of it, and it was tried at the last
monlliy torm of tho justice’s court
here and decided in favor of the
plaintiff. Tho defendant was dissat
isfied with the judgrnont of the court
and appealed to a' jury. The jury
was summoned and tho caso called on
Monday last, but continued on ac
count of tho sicknoss of the defend
ant. Another jury will have to bo
summoned for next torm and tho
cost will continuo to accumulate.
Tho ring is vuluod at one dollar.
Old Gent—“How old are you, Fan
ny—“I was ten years old last birth
day.” “You don’t look to bo so old
ns that.” “How you mon do flatter
us poor women.”—Toxus Siftings.
Among tho cryir.g neods of tho
hour aro babies that will cry a little
Jobs.—Philadelphia Tiisili,'
> Tho negroos of Louisunu will hold
a Stato fair at Now Orleans, com-
inendni' on November 'S'tli.