Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-05-15
DRIFT FROM DARIEN.
Agricultural, Sanitary and Other Mat
fers Put ON Pannr

DARIEN, May Eve had a snucI
needed rain yesterday afternoon. but i
fell so fast and furious that in Iittl,
while the plank in front of our door sta,
was noating OFF on its tide across the ward
ana the gully running across the lower enf
VI Ul broad street to the river, the only one in
Sne city, was washed out terribly. Thf
mayor and Board went promptly to work
70 see the damage repaired at an early
hour to-day. Vegetation is thOroughlv
reIres he'd, and the smoke curls up from
.he wei pallngs in the morning sun with
lelsurely satisfaction.
The boys want to carry the 81 estar,,
over 10 Brunswick, and everybody wOuld
Siadly let them have their way if that
valuable piece of city property had NOT
seemed such anecessity to Ourselves-any
accident would be irreparable. They
can wear the uniform and display their
wonderful skill. after only months drill
with any reels. If the power is inferior
10 our Sllsby, so much the better chance
Tor the boys to show off. The board re-
ferred them TO property owners and bust
ness men, and these may yield the point.
sweet corn is in tassel and corn of the
common kind shooting" Baskets of crisn
vegetables, clean and tied up i'm neat mar
ket fashion, are sent around by a few en-
terprlslng c0lOred people. The roots are
e.
peas are good, and a sOup-bunch costs
little more than can Of tomatoes. Fowls
OF all kinds are scarce; indeed. chicken
Is our rarity. There seems to be no GOOD
reason for this either. this poultry famine.
: some years ago when the court housa
was rebuilt, after the war, it was con-
strueted a wooden building above for the
court room and deep brick basement
opened on all sides with arches, intended
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We're not prepared for such prosperity:
fences were too few and too expensive.
anu laDOrers too crazy over freedom and
pohucs, so people ate canned things as a
less troublesome and far surer crop. The
new court house is too elegant an affair
70 dream OF proposing such a combination.
but public market, if only opened tri-
weekly, where things could be seen at
once and selected from. would be a great
convenience to those whose semi-aHrHai
removal deprives them of the benefits of a
home garden. Blackberries and plums are
IN season. and we saw some Strawberries
from Champney Island three weeks AGO
and some on the Ridge last week. i'm n
small but vigorous looking patch. These
berries never grow wild here, as in North
ern Georgia and the CarOlinas.
The Joseph Hilton. now i'm DOrt is no
heye, the fourth vessel built of Darien
yellow pine, and partly or wholly owned
here. The others were the Nettie Lang
don, Flora Rogers and Robbie Foster. the
latter named after the only son of one of
our largest timber dealers.
And, by the way, that windmill tower at
Mr.. Fosters villa on the Ridge nears com
pletion. 1t is not attached to the house.
as at first supposed, but rises, a strong
skeleton tower, with a large water tank i'm
Its second story, about fifteen or twenty
feet from the northeast side of the house,
TO which water pipes lead from the tank.
and the whole is about forty feet high.
There are twenty-sevpn vessels in port.
and as DIR. Drummer has been sent down
from Washington to take charge of the
SapelO Quarantine Station. there
will be little falling off in our
trade, especially as that railroad from
Slark's bluff will be built pretty soon to
Darlen. Savannah loves us too well not to
help us out, when, too, we will be revers-
ing the natural order and giving what we
have to the mother city. Whether we get
the needed help or not, one thing is sig
nincant, property that was Il way down
short time back is rising in value. People
take more interest i'm the town and i'm
their homes. Several new buildings have
been erected in the town, some of them
quite handsome. and many are
gong up on the Ridge. Mr.. VIM.
DOWney's residence out there is
a cOmmOdiOus dwelling, handsome
enough to take its place anywhere: while
in town, the house erected by one of our
merchants, Mr.. Louis COllat, who is Just
married to wealthy Boston lady, and
gone to visit the sold folks at home" i'm
Germany. is an ornament to the city. The
large grounds, having been planted thickly
IN orange trees and other fruits. are taste
fully laid out
The Board Of Health for the city is the
same as last year.
The Ridge Board of Health got an ap-
preparation from the County Treasurer of
$50 to help towards the proposed drain
age. The citizens must raise the rest.
which they can do without much bother.
The health of this place-the city proper
AS a physician said to me the other
day, lis as good for eight months i'm the
year as any place." Indeed it is. not
eCeH excepting the mountains. Living
here since '66, | ought to know. Epidem-
les, with once an exception i'm
the way Of the general epizOOtic
everywhere, none. Of what other town
can this be said andwheTe is it to be found?
Yet people flock to Florida all winter and
10 the springs and mountains all sum-
mer. and write home of scarlatina, ty-
phOid fever, small pOX and pneumonia
which surround them, or from which they
are running. We stay in town too late.
perhaps get a big, stock of malaria from
the rice fields abOard-Our own fault-gO
to the Ridge, get in bed and shake it off at
leisure. with the bitter of quinine to in
tensify the bitter of our repentant reflec-
tiOns.a trifle yellow of cOmplexiOn-that's
all.
The ladies of the Presbyterian Church
gave an ice cream festival on Tuesday
last. The children of the Missionary So
ciety have been selling cream on the
4 Nf.a ~fna1-
val under the same auspices PreSbyte-
rian will be given at the Ridge on Tues
day next. One for the benefit of st. An
drew's i'm town, is spoken of for the same
date.
1t gives us sincere pleasure to say that
our young rector returned to us from the
Albany Convention entitled to wear the
priestly stole and perform the sacred Off
ces in his own congregation. Mr.. HOl-
ley's examination was very thorough and
most satisfactory.
The people of the First COlOred Baptist
Church work hard and deserve credit.
They attend . o'clock service on Sunday
mornings. regularly, although many of
them have an employers breakfast wait
ing in the background on their cOnven-
ience. Last year they numbered over one
thousand on their list OF members, but
the cook. who is a devOut communicant,
saws they have not so many now, since
some were turned out for dancing. She
saws further. that ssFather" Mifiin read
aloud a letter from Father Houston, of
Savannah, saying their new bell was in
Savannah and would be here on Monday.
Ii was the admiration of everybody who
heard il, white and cOlOred, and people
gave many a dollar toward helping pay
for il. Asking if they called their pastor
father because of ultra old age or all
the time, she replied: "We always call
dem father. Cali all our ministers sO.r
The Dragons are preparing for Bruins
wick. Little else talked Of but the fair.
IL. :. Il.
Major WassOn's Excuse.