Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-11-03
DARIEN.
The Cityss Healsh-AnOther Fire
POliIics-The New Academy-Tfm.
berthe Need of Water.

DARIEN, GA, October 31.-Editor Morning
Nei1s: Another summer, sir, has passed over
us, and we are nearing the time that is so beau
tfully illuminated in higher latitudes with
changing foliage, that sunset radiance of a
declining season And, while with us, as every
where else, there has been more sickness than
usual this past summer. we bow our hearts in
thankfulness that we have been spared any
thing Of an epidemic nature. Considering the
population, the low character Of the face cf
the country, as well as the universal preva-
lence of malarial diseases. the wonder is that
so few have died-but these few are missed.
Two of the number were strangers. and that is
very sad. Some home was filled with pain and
the desolation that always follows bereave.
ment. But saddest Of all. and one that we all
mourn, is the death of little Richard Grubb-a
fine boy, OF six years, with bright intelligence
and manly ways-a favorite with everybody
and an only child. Yet he did not contract
diphtheria here; only came home to die, it
would seem.
After that great fire that ate up a whole
block of business houses fer us. not long ago
would you not have thought that even in our
often rebuilt city. the torch could rest bit?
But so lately as on Saturday night or Sunday
morning, rather, about four or five O'Clock, the
building but lately used a telegra ph office
was burned TO the ground with all it contained,
and that was much. Mr. w A Robinson, the
operator, having removed the office to another
point, had just fitted up this house as a little
dwelling to which he hoped soon TO welcome
his wife and baby on their return from the
| springs He lost everything, but some wearing
apparel of his own, with which he barely
| escaped through the window in time to save
his life. l believe there was insurance, but
| money cannot supply the many associations
connected with ones belonsings-nor, always,
Mr.. Atkins did not speak in Darien He
was advertised to do so, and came
down for that purpose on the David
reconsidered the matter; aud it is az WELL
though our polite people would have listened
quietly to what he had to say. There is a grow
ing feeling among the colored people Of conf
dence in the men born on the soil whose inter-
ests they find to be identified with their own,
and an increasing strust of new tangled poll
tics especially, so that they are fast setting
| down to a quieter life. Even Tunis G.
| Campbell seems to have lost some Of his DO
| lit1cal prestige among his own color.
Hercules wilson, colored Representative,
| leaves tomorrow for Atlanta, and says he will
not vote for Governor Colquitt to fill the unex-
| pired term of the lamented Hill.
~ zlest, after many 9 sarcastic twit and
4 shea131an aFghaeaors 70 sasc o6hsaIss sF me
/ dins-uong Of The womens begging at Aorns9
sndrlcAA 4san dpzual tsnn III lh8 &6Adomy,
f8P f i Is s ss BslaS y }s g M sss esss' s
Mcintosh County boasts som8 OF the bcst and
most thorough teachers to be found in anv
county OF its size. The town, too, has a just
proportion Of them, and neither county nor
town are small by any means. 1 had promised
some time to give the population Of both, and
may as well do it here. AS nearly as l can
learn the number OF inhabitants of the town is
about !, 500, and Of the county between 5000
| and 5000.
The timber outlook, they say, is good, and
the season will fully open very shortly now
Few RATS down so far, and onlg eight vessels
In port and OF course there are crdakers who
predict dun times and dying out of things
as is right il the timber trade is to be diverted
from us little by the railroads that are push
ing through those regions so fast. Could you
believe it! The little enthusiasm that had
Deen awakened about short road has seemed
to die out. One gentleman recently remarked
TO me in Augusta: "You are strange people
down there. am told that only three men in
your county want railroad-that your mer-
chants oppose it." Well, the necessity GER
tainly seems to be looming right up before us
now, or even our shipping trade will be diverted
Turpentine distilleries are engrossing atten-
tlon, and there is much active work going on
IN that line. Our City Fathers miRht we'll
forego the tax and allow one of these to be es-
tAolished in the city limits. that its healthy
FUMES might permeate and purify the place to
the general advantage.
There is crude material enough here for
many an undertaking, and one of our young
men Is ready engaged in the gathering and
curing OF moss for shipment Even mullin
tnae old neld weed. that grows so freely here,
and that Is so esteemed in pulmonary troubles
might be gathered and dried with profit.
Mr. X: K. Walker, one of our most enterpris-
ing and experienced timber men, has bought
Myhall Mills, and is having a telephone putup
between the mills and his office in Darien
FOR while it seemed that we must have an
atJeslan well among our other improvements
butJ just as the sanitary properties of the water
used was arous ng 80 much fear and wonder
tnat street pumps were condemned and ordered
pulled up and river water alone pronouncei
pure, we ceased TO discuss the matter. Now if
water tower and pipes are too heavy an ex-
pense on our people, and the artesian well too
great an undertaking, how can we expect, with
rapidly growing town, to escape disease year
after year.
The weather is beautifully bright, and yester-
day and to-day as soft and balmy as in April
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