Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1854-04-14
From the Atlanta lntelligcncer. ]
BrumsNVIck-Ea Fancy Com pamIcs.


New York is a great place, decidedly. 1t is as
fruitful in mock auctions. fancy corporations and
humbugs generally in other and more legitimate
affairs. Many of the high sounding companies To-
cate there evanescent the little iok ers" in the
most dexterous thimbed- rigging game and quite as
hard to locate. Sometime since a company, calling
itself the Brunswick land company, 90 Broadway
New York. advertised through the South large
and peremptory sale of building lots in Brunswick Ga
Whether these lots, comprising about the whole
town of Brunswick, were ever Sold proposed we
not informed. We happened to be one of the
Georgia publishers 'patrOnised' by the aforesaid
Company in the way OF advertising. Our account,
in due time was forwarded for collection to law
yer in Nassau street, who, will be seen, has found
the endeavor to find tangible concern something of
" "a wild goose chase" We extract @ paragraph
from his letter.
Your last enclosed bill against the Proprietors
of the City of Brunswick" received four weeks
yesterday. Not doubling that should only have to
call, present the bill and receive the money went
down their CfhCe told my business and was inform
ed that a Mr.. Wheeler had charge of the advers-
ing department, but that he had Just beer take.
down with the small pox other disease, an
would not be out for a few days. | have since writ
to him at his address and called once or twice .
week hut have not yet heard anything
him think the said Wheeler must be some mytho-
logical myth got for the companys especial beneftand
not a verItabie man. like other men. This view was
strengthened this morning, when, on calling, met a
gentleman who has been waiting 10 get a ght Of the
brunswick RdllrOaQ company Tor the last weeks
but without success. He informs me that the Bruins
wick City Company a thing still in future and
not an eSse-that the stockholders had never had a
regular meeting organization Of any kind, though
they said 10 be looking forward to a con-
summation devouty to be wished"
4 TELEGRAPH MIsrAKE-Ihe Detroit Tribune tells
tho following good story
few days since, a gentleman telegraphed 10 one
of our western cities TO gain intelligence Of his
daughter, who i'll. In return he received
aconic reply from her attending physician, which
purpOrted that he a grandfather. Heavens !"
he exclaimed, throwing down the missile if il had
been a hot cinder, . My daughter--a chld ~ Then
stridng to his closet he grasped his hat and coat,
and struck a beene for the cars, muttering: " A
pretty muss, indeed child-my daughter in such
predicament, and unmarried, too! Oh, such dis
grace" In a few hours he at the sick room of
his daught The physician surprised to
him soon, but politely told him that the girl
getting along quite finely. SO it's girl, hey :"
: gasped the father. OF course said the doctor,
don't you call your daughter grI.' "Ah-hum
; I-yes-but, th-lhe child!' Chiid!' wondered
the DOCTOR what child a? Why, sir, lid you not
send that dispatch? ," pettishly exclaimed friend
as he handed to the doctor the dispatch which he
had hastily picked up from the floor before he came
from home. The doctor looked at it, and broad
j., smile visible upon his features. {" | sent you
dispatch but heaven knows it never contained such
news this The one sent intimated that your
daughter was Just through having a chiUn Our
friend felt that he had been taken in and done for
undesignedly, and offered to treat if the doctor
would only keep it STILL
The Cheraw Gazette, of the 5th inst, says:
We have referred occasionally to the fact, that the
production of turpentine bad been commenced in this
vicinity. We cannot state with accuracy the num-
Der of hands employed, the number of boxes cut
but, say, that important beginning has
= heen made in this new branch of production. There
= ale, we believe, FIVE companies engaged, who had
: some 200 hands employed during the winter. The
has nd of thQ inrinc
goes into operation this week. This distlery be-
# longs to Messrs. Cfenshaw, Taylor Richardson. -
The still is of the capacity of forty barrels, and is to
- make its first run on tomorrow.