Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-04-17
OUR DARIEN LETTER.
Easter Plc-Nic-Regntta and Boat
Race-CrOp PrOspeets-COmm0d
Gus Academy for White ChtIdren-
The Bic cE berry season Timber
Items - Postal Difficulties - New
Church In Anticipation.

DARIEN, Ga, April 15.-EditOT Morning NelCs'
The ehildren's picnic was to have come off on
Thursday, but the day being dark and dreary''
enough for November, we sat by little fire on
the hearth instead Of under heavens blue
arch, with soft shadows falling on us through
semitransparent foliage. The promise holding
good for ''the first pleasant day. we hurriedly
sandwiched that play and lunch in the woods,
between the gloom Of Thursday and the
showers of Saturday morning having it on
Friday, between the hours Of u m. and p m.
The children seemed thoroughly TO enjoy the
search for the nests of colored rabbit eggs. -
hidden in the corners and under the leaves and
brush about the fences, and It was quite like
old times-very old for some Of us-tO
be playing witch or chick in 'Chickamy, Chick
amy. Craney Crow" and MANY, Many stars
as old as Adam the down upon your knees
part coming in a little too often for the elias
ticity of some very responsible joints OF my
We read of preparations being made for re-
gattas and boat racing with a sigh OF regret.
that our hard working BOYS OF to-day have
little spirit or time left for the extraneous ef-
fort Of training that used so TO eXhllarate and
fill them with enthusiasm when Darien had her
boating clubs and regattas yearly.
We are glad to know that the fruit
prospects in the South Newport section are as
gOOd as in this
The Supreme Court has given us a satisfac-
tory settlement OF long and bitterly agitsted
question by affirming Judge Fleming's decis
ion, and our people can now go on in a more
secure and satisfactory msnner with home i'm
provements. OF which the first forward step
will OF course be the erection Of a cOmmodiCus
academy for white children, containing all
necessary departments for good education.
and handsome enough to gratifv the taste of
iong-waiting taxpayers. An academy for
colOred children is also needed.
The blackberry season has opened in the
n raSrp-fnli.
csstes.
In Northeast Georgia they used to turn their
backs on blackberries before the war. except
for wine making, because they grew pentifuiiy
in fence corner and old fields at will and with
out culture, bat to-day so many corners have
crept to the centre. and so much crudeness
sits be.i1e culture, that "Bill Arp'S' phlan-
thropie efforts in behalf OF this ignored son of
the soil are crowned with delightful success
and with us now the blackberry ranks with the
blueberTy. without distinction of class, and
rather overlapping the latter in flavor. Thus
in grateful appreciation. we lay our sword on
the. krightly shoulder of the Georgia humorist
who preserved the record OF the State archives
and made so many waste places to smile when
weeping was the reader expression of the
times that we. who were young then. owe him
and the blackberrleS more than this generation
can understand.
stock on hand was so large that We hear Of
no demurrsges. The Jennie F. Wiley came up
to the wharf below US yesterday. There are
now i'm port twenty-four vessels. since the eth
inst. there have been nine arrivals and nine
clearances. OF the latter, Mr.. X. X. Walker
cleared on the Sth, American schooner Cyrus
Hall, for New London, with cargo OF hewn
timber and plank, valued at So goo; Mr.. August
Schmidt 18th. American schooner Eddie Huck,
for Philadelphia. timber lumber and boards
valued at s3.75e: Mr. Jas. Hunter 1lth.
German bark Mathide. for Conway, Wales
with cargo OF 253, 301 feet OF hewn timber, SO =
T29 feet sawn timber. and 9,034 feet deals val
ued at SHIP ~; Hilton Timber and Lumber
Co 11th. American schooner Aetna, for Phila-
'ielphia. sawn lumber and boards, valued at
50 600; on 18th American bark Joseph Rensens,
for New York, with cargo OF 333, 900 feet sawn
timber, valued at S. 800; J. K. CLARKE & Co.
sth Norwegian bark Sophie, for Pembroke
Dock. England, cargo hewn timber. valued at
50 OOO. s4wn timber valued at Sl,750, deals at
$3.50: on the 10th the German bark Lima
Schwoon. for st. Nazarre, France, cargo Of
hewn timber. valued at S4,50O, sawn ti'T Der at
5000. deals $500 nth. Norwegian bark Even
ing Star, for Queenstown, for orders, with hewn
timber valued at S3.7sO. sawn at Sl.75O, and
deals at $3.50: on the 18th inst the British bark
J. E. suthergreen. Captain Spicer, for Har-
wick, England. with a caTgo.of $50, $50 feet Of
sawn timber, valued at 5000, and 16, ,252 feet
leals valued at $3.50.
We are reduced to some straits in the postal
iepartment-the money orders here have given
out, and the prospect OF a postmaster is still
remote.
Our Methodist brethren are quire hopeful Of
being able to begin their work OF rebuilding
soon. This is better plan than trying to re-
pair so old an ediflce as their town church.
and will AFFORD besides an opportunity for the
exercise OF taste in the construction of the new
church, which the old building decidedly lack
ed. II. s. B.