Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-05-05

| DARIEN GA May g. Editor Morning Netcs
May day was celebrated here by the Methodist
Sunday Schools picnic. at that lovely spot,
'Kell's Grove" to which the teachers and
children of the other schools were most cor
daily invited. There was quite a large con-
| course of people on the ground, and the little
ones report a lively and delightful time
Our Methodist friends hold their Sunday
school on the Ridge in the afternoon, and their
| little chapel is pleasant and favorite resort,
| especially for young men, from town and
Dobov. They have much singing, which is
heartily Joined in by old and young, and the
Bible class, composed of ladies and gentlemen
of all ages and all views, discusses questions
with warmth and spirit. but ever with courte-
GUS tolerance.
| In town. the 1st was a quiet day. marked
only by painful accident so a gentleman who
has been here quite while purchasing timber
| He got his arm broken at Todds mill on the
| wharf, on Monday afternoon, and was at once
assisted to his room at the Magnolia House,
| where DR.. Kenan soon waited on him.
One always feels so much for a stranger
| meeting with pain so far from home, but the
| gentle hearted ladies who preside over the
Magnolia" will see that the sufferer receives
all the attention that kindly sympathy can
| bestow
We had no public memorial observances, as
| there are no soldiers, graves with us but we
| read with tender interest the accounts of what
| others were doing TO honor and perpetuate the
| memory Of the triple sacrifice of home, hope,
| and life, the all, staked and lost.
Twenty-one years ago next month. / went
| down TO Camp Mcdonald in company with re-
| cruits for the HaberSham Volunteers-one of
| the earliest companies in the field from North
| east Georgia, the original muster roll of which
| is in my possession to-day. Judge A. s. Erwin.
Of Athens, then mere youth, was Second
| Lieutenant. How buoyant, how bright all
werel What a lively scene those hillsides
around Big Shanty presented on field days.
| when Colonel Chen GeDeraD Phillips and the
dashing Bleckley reviewed the brigade before
the grim and obstinate Brown. who fought so
| hard to keep them at home as State troops
How few Of them are left to-day
Chatham" in his Atlanta letter of the 9th
| ult tells the Free Press that Georgia, Alabama
| and Florida has had wind mills in operation
| for ten years past, and he might have said for
| thirty years or more, i'll some situations; but
| in our hill country few are seen, owing to the
| abundant and convenient water supply SO
| situated that a small dam and little wheel
| can do an immense amount of labor
On Monday last DR.. Kenan was sworn in as a
member of the Board of County Commission
ers, and W. Robt. Gignilliat, Esq, was elected
clerk of the board.
man was up before Judge DeLorme in the
Justices Court yesterday on a charge of OBJ
tanning goods under false pretenses He had
bought quite a bill of Collat Bros, as ship
master, giving the name of the ship, which |
do not know. He says his name is Hamilton,
played shipmaster to Brunswick's mercantile
audience some time back. He was found
guilty and sent to Jail to await trial
1t would be a pity to misrepresent our peo-
pie, but if such an error is ever unwittingIy
committed they have every opportunity to set
themselves right; so when this humble CORES
pondent deplores the fact that nothing more
has been said about the meeting for railroad,
and other matters for public consideration, it
would only bring our people farther to the
front, to correct me in your paper. Yet it does
seem that if any county needed such
meeting ours does just now. Wonder if Colonel
Cole cannot take our little branch road into
consideration so that we could have even
circus Honestly, there has been but one cir
Gus company here in the last sixteen years.
Now for comp arison of notes with Bill Arp's
benighte1 children not to mention the ad-
vantages of more sterling and lasting char
acter than mere amusemenJs that would be-
come ours by this outside connection.
l wish the editor of the Brunswick paper had
sent me copy CT the one containing the invi-
tation to H. S. B. to visit the fair and examine
the products Of Gynp for himself, so that
thanks for the cviity could be expressed in
language smoother and more to the point than
on mere hearsay. 1t would be sincere and
long coveted pleasure to attend one of those
fairs of which yearly we hear 50 much. But
like many another woud-be, it must be set
resolutely aside at present; some other day.
We might well nerve ourselves to the point
of emulation, however. and try, If not fair.
some sort of exhibition of the fruits of toll
next fall sufficient to spur our energies and ex
to our well beiag
In some things we are-well, not lazy: that is
too hard a wCrd to confess-but, tri1e inert
Once set US rolling. though, and we move right
along, heads all level. Those who reproach us
as slow either forget, or are ignorant of the
fact. that we have been burned down three
times the first time so effectually as to require
us to begin at the beginning. Above all things,
is it distasteful to be chafed with want of en-
ergy by those hailing from beyond the old Ma
son and Dixon line-to be told, for instance,
why, look here; in Chicago, where such fire
ragged, a man worth thousands and thou
sands who had saved few hundreds, in
a day or two puts together some
boards, sticks up a sign Not Dead Yet" and
opens a little store again. PRECISELY HE
had saved some few hundreds"
So far there is nothing said of building that
summer hotel on the Ridge. A hotel there if
well kept would surely pay, especially if built
on the salts, where bathing privileges could be
enjoyed With the exception of few private
bathing houses, the boys are the only ones who
can really have the benefit Of the tidal bathing,
They do go for it with their whole heart, re-
naming in the water for hours. and one grows
envious listening to their merry shouts of
laughter and the plash Of the water borne on
the still evening air. The creeks and canals
at the Ridge are very accessible, and at high
tide furnish all boys heart can desire. A few
people are preparing to remove. Most of US
xryi1 in in,