Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-04-03
DOTTINGs FROM DARIEN.
Gleanings from the Fields and in the
Town.

Gleanings from the Fields and i'm the
Town.
DARIEN, March 31.-The Atlantics have
been practieing up recently. They make
pretty picture on the green sward at
the lower end of Broad street, and people
really enjoy watching the game. 1t is
their intention to beat the Altamahas
next time.
Our fire engine, Silsby No. ), is said to
be the finest piece of the kind South, and
the agent has obtained the Commission
ers' consent to stop over in Savannah and
challenge any engine to equal the ''Rufus
| +. Lester" of Darien. The honorable
Mayor Will thus have an opportunity to
review and interview his namesake.
BY the way. Savannah had better give
us a lift with that railroad of ours before
Brunswick cuts her out. That road will
be built. Darien herself may not get
much of the loaf, but she will do some
careful fishing when the time comes,
especially as her neighbOrs seem so
chary of their bait.
ANY one who can walk with quiet
mind from st. Andrews Church straight
down to Cat Head" glancing across the
cleaning river, with its play of purple
and gold lights, to the rich brown of the
rice fields beyond, bOrdered and dotted
with groups of and trees, here and there
cOngregated mills and dwellings. OH the
one side, on the other the large yards and
gardens planted with ornamental and
fruit trees, surrounding neat and often
pretty dwellings,, with great squares of
grass between the blocks, and all under the
sheltering arms of our dear old live oaks.
and deliberately say he ''hates Darien'
ought at once TO leave her and never
return. We want capital, and would like
people of energy and capital to come in
and open up other avenues of industry
that now lie closed for the want of them.
Timber, turpentine and rice being already
open. can be kept going: but mills for
manufacturing palmetto paper, lathing
machines, shingle making of the lasting
cypress, moss drying, and such things.
OF the latter, Mr.. II. A. Rayenel has been
making trial on a small scale for a year
or two very successfully. More machinery
and more capital would make the labor
less and the profit more. Wonder if this
elastic tbre could not be woven and a
kind of carpeUing made of it!- Palmetto
ought to make a mating equal to
any if woven on strong chain, and
such quantities are to be had for the cut
ting. Peaches are about the size of
shelled almonds and pretty abundant.
Mr., James Walker has large beds of green
peas i'm bloom. His garden is always worth
looking down up literally, for it lies in a
basin about twelve or fifteen feet below
the buF along which the street runs.
For some days our pOstOtfice door has
worn hood of mourning for the Post
master General.
The Debating Club last week discussed
the question els Deception ever Justifia-
ble:' The affirmative, we regret to say,
got the upperhand. In publishing. the
next question for debate in the Gazette
the club shows an interest in itself and
a desire TO interest others not before
manifested. 1t is a good move.
On the Ridge, Mr.. j.. a. Foster, of the
Hilton Timber and Lumber Company, is
adding a wind mill tower to his already
handsome villa, to be used in pumping
the water from the tank placed in the
second story to the apartments and to the
kitchen-pipes running from the tank to
these.
If the Gazette or the Gazette's head is
going to leave us, we have not heard it Of
ficially; and you know no other report is
received as final.
six clearances during the week show a
little more animation in timber matters.
eBlack Maria," as Mr.. Ingram's rather
suspicious looking Ridge hack is called,
has proved such a success as convent
ence that we confidently look for a 'White
Mary Ann to be added to the line this
summer.
The court house square is nicely dug
ND. and now for those handsome groups
of foliage to mingle with the green pro-
posed last spring. and flowers, fountains,
swings and benches, and guitar swung
to trOubadOr by moonlight struck. Da-
rien going down: Not a bit; only settling.
H. S B.