Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-12-18
DARIEN.

with capital of SOC, 900.
DARIEN.
Bright PrOspects-POssibilit of the
SOil-POlitics-The Building Boom
Coming Local Events.
DARIEN, GA, Dec. 16.-EditOr NOynipG
NeicS: We certainly know this morning
whether we are above the frost line or
not, for the wind that blew so steadily and
so strong throughout the night brought us
as much Of the North Pole as we care to
take raw.
Prospects are Frightening around us.
Some good lots ftimber are coming down.
Several vessels are in port, and more are
expected daily. The stores are bright and
full OF Christmas goods and toys, and the
startling reverberation of the firecracker
begins to waken the echoes. We still
have great faith in our future, and a
gigantic amount of confidence - as some
body expresses it, in our mighty recupe-
ratiye power, so we'll illustrated after
many fearful drawbacks and losses. and
eventually in the rapid development of
our various resources.
Look at Northeast Georgia! But ten wears
ago her splendid water power ignored, her
vast mineral wealth comparatively uneX-
plOred, her sons pulling through a drearv
existence of farm life without farmers
incentives in country known only
through its restorative climate and fine
natural scenery. See what the Air Line
Road has done for these people already,
ana thInk what we, too, could be if we
only could have rapid transit to the
outside world. Contrast our agri-
cultural experience even now with that
OF the average mOuntaineer who spends
half the year cOntending with stones.
weeds and sunbakes, risking the late
frOsts, often so disastrous, for the sake of
early crops; and glad if, after months of
toll, he can safely crib fifty or sixty bush
els OF corn to the acre, which, in scarce
seasons, represents $50 or $50 in store
contrast this, | say, with the compare
lively light work of the farmers and rice
planters here, the latter with the
tide water to perform half his
labor. Why, one cOlOred man told me
that he had made on two acres of land
this year, without other aid than the
water and the hoe, sixty bushels of clean
rice, and that was not fine crop either.
But each peck of this home beaten rice.
often red and dingy, brings a good price
and sells in the stores at one dollar per
peck retail. Root crops love this deep
sandy soil. Nowhere else are such Span
ish potatoes, beets and turnips produced
at such small cost. One Of the latter
measured at my request a few DAYS since
had circumference of fifteen inches,
while the leaf measured from foot stalk
to tip twenty-one inches in length by nine
in width.
Messrs. Sinclair and Screven had on
exhibition bunch of bananas grown OH
their place, back of the store, of the yellow
variety, with fruit as large, firm and fine
favored as any brought to this mar
ket. l mentioned in the spring
the fruit tree fever that seemed to
seize our community so suddenly.
and which resulted in a large order to the
Pomona Hill nurseries, in North Carolina,
through the travelling agent then here
The order was given while business was
still lively, and before it began to revive
notice was received that about 81. 200
worth of trees and small fruit plants
would be down upon us, and it was anus
ing even to the sufferers to see each other
trying to swallow the quinine of inconve-
nient settlement, or staving off the attack
as best one could. But nearly all recOv-
cred, and the agent had the pleasure of
getting things pretty well arranged-nOt
more than $40 worth being left with a
gentleman to dispose of at leisure.
The recent report of the grand jury of
Mcintosh county is highly creditable, and
quite complimentary to her public officers.
She is out of debt, and with a good balance
IN the treasury. The Commissioners, too,
have added bright feather to our cap by
abollshlng the tax on newspapers and in
creasing it on the retail liquor sellers.
1t seems scarcely worth while to men,
ton local politics, yet, as / spoke a little
time back of the intended meeting of the
Republican party OF Mcintosh county on
the 9th instant to take into consideration
the election of county officers, it may be
interesting to some to know that such
mass meeting was held in the court house
on the appointed day, with Lectured Craw- !
ford in the Chair and j. II. ClaghOrn Sec
retary, and the reform ticket, as it appears
in the Timber Gazette, ''was heartily in /
dorsed and recommended as the right |
ticket to be strenuOusly supported by the |
citizens Of the county at large"
There is, at last, to be some organized !
effort to procure that fire engine, and now
we will have it. We are a rather slow
moving people, taking plenty of time for
consideration beforehand, but once the /
public mind is made up as to the right /
course, prompt in action and seldom
troubled with after regrets. We feel quite |
encouraged at the building going on
lumber and brick are piled all about. /
Messrs. Collat are collecting g0Odly pile !
- !
The academy is growing in size and /
shape, and signs of the new rectory of st. |
andrews are among the things visible |
The two last named, with Mr.. Louis Col |
lats new dwelling and Allen Gould's neat !
new house, viii bring things at this end |
OF town into notice when all four are COM !
pleted. Ex-MavOr Walker. by The way, +
tells NE that the improvements at the /
West End are mostly on private propertv. |
h
city granting authority. Well what l say |
is for the promotion of all interests as |
well as my own, and we hope property |
owners and Commissioners alike will 1
help the cause along. We need pumps |
and little more plank walk.
Public entertainments here are nearly !
always for the benefit of some church, |
especially those gotten up in our midst, /
and friend tells us who is Just home |
from the North that our churches are /
really in q more prosperous condition for
the size of the place, and that people gen.
orally take more likely interest in church
work here than they do there,
The children of this place, as well as
some grown people and many negroes.
were much excited and delighted with
Harry Warmers street performance on the
tight rope and trapeze yesterday, though
many of the latter ran like "Bull Rum
troopers when the hat went round
This exhibition, following close on the
heels of a pleasant hop given at the Mag
nolia House by the Young MEMS Social
Club, paYes the way for additional
breaks in the long monOtony of our daily
life, and the excitement once startle. and
balls and hops viii not subside again iin-
til the warm days come, The Dragons
propose ball on the 8th of January; but
if that prisoner is hung on that day, they
will scarcely carry out their nnrnc.a nnrn.,,.a. NOT
.hat INC punishment is unmerited. but
even the strongest men will feel unfit for
estlvlty on such day. We hope that
)ut OF Consideration for the ladies these
gallant gentlemen will postpone what
should be delightful affair
Views Facilities in Turkey.
CONSTANTINoPLE Dec. 1.-THE Porte
has addressed a circular to the foreign
at COnstantinople, an
lQunclng the creation Of a special bureau
or the purpose of supplying correct infor-