Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-03-27
DARIEN.
The Cold BIast-A Sad Bereavement
Easter-Jo ottings

EdSttr-J outings.
DARIEN, GA, March 24.-The people
have been talking for days of an expected
cargo of ice, but old Boreas is out of his
cave in good earnest this morning and
blowing us such an arctic greeting that we
will wait for the ice a day or two longer
The town has been lively this week with
visitors from different parts of the State
not Tor Holy week services. Very few of
the sterner sex join the women in church
during the week. Probably they have
some private arrangement made-We
don't know-but these visitors were busi-
ness people-physicians lawyers, attor-
neys, journalists and insurance agents
who expressed themselves well pleased
with our town, where warmth OF welcome
and cOrdiality of reception atones much
for want of wealth in her hospitality.
A very touching bereavement has
moved the sympathies of the town. I'm
der the bluff on River street is a little
variety store, kept by brother and Sis
ter, who worked their way upwards to-
gether for some years. The sister, never
strong, fell i'll little while back, and on
Thursday morning died. leaving the
brother alone and heart broken. The re-
mains were taken to Savannah for burial
IN the Cathedral Cemetery, and because
OF the beautiful, self-sacrificing devotion
existing between them to the last George
Mansfield's sorrow for his sisters loss is
respectfully mentioned here.
1t is decided to build a Catholic Church
on Doboy soon-a great convenience, as a
large portion OF the inhabitants are
Catholics, and, in order to attend high
mass, they must either come to town by
boat, and hire carriage to the Ridge, or,
coming to the Ridge by boat, walk a mile
along the DlankWaV and road to fl 10 ob,,roI,
About our own modest Easter services,
and the Sunday-schOOl examination. YOU
shall hear next week.
Church people, and his many friends
outside, are grieved to hear of the indis-
position of our good Bishop, and sincerely
hope 1t is but temporary trouble. We
had begged him, ifpOssible, to spare us a
visit before this very Easter, of which to-
day IS the even, and Ordain as priest our
gifted and working rector. We had so
hoped to receive the Bread of Life in our
own church, and from our own priests
hands, on that great high festival, and re-
gret, teelingly, that anxiety should be
joined with our disappointment.
In some localities the late frost injured
beans, melons and pOtatOes-nOt here,
hOWever-and fortunately it is not too late
to replant anywhere, though the crops will
not come in so early. Fruit, such as we
have, has not suffered about town,
peaches and grapes being chief among
them. There IS, iatterly,. so little cotton
planted that one can scarcely speak of it
among the crops, but work in the rice
fields is getting on well.
More timber in town this week than
last, but the market is not stocked by any
means. There were three clearances this
week, and thirteen vessels remain in port.
The colored people, with rod in their
hand, seem to lose themselves entirely. A
woman who lives near us uses a strap, with
which she has sometimes renewed the
punishment so often, after once getting
heated, that we could not refrain from eX-
pOstulating. She took it kindly, but
bOasted that she "wOuld bring them up
right, even to the bdby," and that sat eyery
pop she mex de blud cum,1 citing Scrip
ture to prove her justification.
The Police Court of Darien is getting so
lively that it will soon need special re-
porter. The streets and things generally
are well looked after
At the meeting on Tuesday night last
the Debating Club came out so strongly for
poverty as a superior developer of re-
source and moral character, that a feeling
Of elatiOn has peryaded the brotherhood
ever since.
The Light Dragons are the pride and
flower Of Darien, and we, one and all,
thank you for the promise of "a cordial
welcome when they visit Savannah in
May.
You will confess that they merit our
encomiums as a finely mounted, well
drilled and noble looking body of men.
So, Rev. Tunis G.. Campbell lectured in
Savannah on Monday night? Thought he
had gone back to the patriarchal bosom at
W ashington to rest awhile. What is the
style? Political, evangelical, temperance,
or merely intellectual and elocutiOnary
entertainment for a consideration?
The DobOy artesian well has reached
depth of 160 feet, and no water vet! Won't
it be fresh and pure, though, when they
get to it? Perhaps, with a Slight flavor
of tea.
There is talk of a change in the tele-
graph office sOon-and a lady operator.
Where will the popular Mr.. Robinson 90?
The Democracy of Mcintosh county
met at II m. to-day at the court house.
DR.. Spalding Kenan. w. Robert Gignilliat.
Esq, and VIM. Henry Atwood, ESQ, were
elected delegates to the convention, and
90 uninstructed to consult with other
delegates at Atlanta in the selection or
election of a Governor to fill the unex-
pired term of the lamented Stephens.
H. S. B.