The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1884-02-07
WIG TTOIN IIiE IUUT WINGS
Q breath,
And breath upon these Slain
That they may live"


II i granite monument, with bronze Statue
of a Confederate soldier surrounding the top.
The statute i very finely executed. and is life
like. and all lie lesser detail, have been care
fully looked after. However hard we may
far against the South for bringing ON THE
cruel war, We cannot but admire the devotion
ana love they have for the soldiers who fought
their battles.
Broughlon ST. seems to be the business Street
for miscellaneous business. ana Bay st. nv
commercial street of savannah. Here AL the
heavy business is transacted, I'd The amount NJ
S60.o00 900 and some odd cents
Icuquired at the hotel where the strangers
went 10 amusc Themselves. and was ted that |
ought 70 visit "Bonayenture." | asked what
that might be, and learned That it was Come
terry. ! remarked TO the clerk, that up North.
when we wanted TO give Il visitor Il bang up
good time, we didn't send him into grave
yard, but that if it was the custom with them,
Id try and catch on. found that could take
a horse car and ride to the gate. distance of
about four miles. | arrived at the cemetery
about the middle of the afternoon. The Chief
ltd@ ultS VI are the i've OAKS covered
with moss, which line the avenue II is said
that the avenues, form the letters NJ aud r. ~
formerly some hundred years ago, Il party by
the name of Mulryne owned this tract of Hand
and had a daughter, who married another rar-
ty by The name of Tattnall. Not knowing about
this tradition while there did not notice these
letters, but presume that they are there. lust as
have stated. There is probably nothing truer
in this world than the historical facts that |
weave into my letters. | ambed through the
avenues, looked at the monuments. trees. moss,
&c, and completed the whole thing in lust 30
minutes, and emerged from the gate ready 10
go back to the city. | had read that this place.
though beautiful mpIcSst> the visitor with
sad thoughts. and found myself exactly i'll
that condition. There ] was at the ccmeter,
gate, not live thing in sight, except an Old
negress who was trying 10 chop some wood
with a dull axe, four miles from my hotel ana
horse car not due for an hour and a half ana
no way to get back except to foot it. If that
was not sufficient TO impress one with "-;id
Thoughts what was: | organized Il meeting.
elected myself chairman and but the vote
whether to wait for cai or walk back and
the vote to walk was unanimously carried, and
| adjourned the meeting sine die. and started
for the city, which | reached about the time the
horse car passed the gate at Bonavcuture.
have a car-tickct now, which | will sell at a
greatly reduced rate, emitting the holder to Il
ride from Bonayenture cemetery to the city.
The next time any one finds me in cemetery.
four miles from town. shall be located there
horse cars run by the gate every two hours, or
every two minutes
While in the city, | called on Col. j. H. Is
till, proprietor of the Morning News. | found
him at his office in the News building. on Whit
taker st. The Col. ought to have been a trip
let, for he has three times rs much business as
one man ought TO attend TO. He publishes the
DAILY Morning News, two editions, The Savan-
nah Weekly News, the Sunday Telegram. the
Southern Farmers Monthly, and the Morning
News Library. Beside this. he does an extern
slve Job printing business, lithographiug, plain
and i'll coors and runs a blank book manlfac-
tory and bindery. He has boilers, presses, &c.
be sure of getting off his papers. He employs
about 100 hands, and his pay roll is about $1,000
per week. On presenting your letter, Col. Is
Vii immediately bid me welcome. and showed
me over his establishment, Explaining the yari-
Gus departments as we went along. He also
gave me some copies of his Morning News Lii
brary, to read on the steamer, coming home.
made my call as short possible, for | fell
that | was OBTAINING him from more important
business. Col. Estl is sharp, shrewd bust
ness man. and is making money, and his paper
Is success. Like every one else here, he was
in the Confederate army, and bears the title OF
"Col." In the evening attended the theatre
and saw Maude Granger in" Her Second Love-
! The way that she went at it. | should not wan
her TO love me but once, in my present fecbl,
| state of health. | would as soon have "a mum
Der lo hyena make love to me Maude.
From the theatre proceeded to the steamer
and AS it was about II O'Clock at night and
had to pass through IA not very fashionabl,
quarter of the city, l was glad when / saw tn,
steamers light. had previously been down
and had presented my letter Of introduction t,
Capt. Wright. and Lad been given my room.
passed through the burnt district and say
where the D.g fire swept last fall. The city wa
ilShted by electricity, there being p skeleton
IRON towers in different localities, but the work
were destroyed by the fire and the yellow ga
jets gave about as much light as Il candle.