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Camden County Miscellaneous News Stories
There is a new steamboat
now on the ways, which will be finished this winter. It is a
propeller, about 150 feet long and of beautiful model, and, as the
Brunswick Appeal says, “built by S. L. Burns & Co., of course, as
no one else is allowed to do anything in that thriving village,” B.
& Co. get the material (live oak and yellow pine) from their own
lands, with their own men, build the boat in their own yard, and with
their regular employees, except the designer or superintendent; and a
member of the firm says: “If any one else wants to build a boat, they
are welcome to use our yard and ways, and can help themselves to the
material where it grows.”
The
handsome new hotel is now open in this place, and a small new steamer
has arrived or “reported” to play around our rivers and harbor.
The doors of Florida opened early this winter and visitors are pouring
in by every train and boat. We are giving occasional glances up
toward this side of the Okefenokee, to see if anything from Atlanta
comes through. The party will have a better chance to make the
trip than they could have had at any time previously. Old
inhabitants say they do not remember seeing so dry a fall in fifty
years. We hope if that party does succeed in penetrating the big
swamp, they will (if they can get near enough) tell those fellows of
the Georgia Cavalry that the war is over, and help them surry the moss
off their shoulders, salt them gradually and carefully, and get them
tame and lead them out...Yours, etc. Falconton
[The Georgia Weekly Telegraph November 30,
1875 - submitted by Dena Whitesell]
Fire in Camden County – Brunswick
Appeal: On the 19th of
January, Mr. Almond's dwelling house, kitchen, stable and barn, with
about four hundred bushels of corn, and about five thousand pounds of
fodder, was destroyed by fire. An out building was set on fire by
a spark from the chimney. The roof being much decayed, and the
wind blowing hard, the fire soon did its work. We did not hear of
his misfortune for several days after its occurrence. [Georgia
Weekly Telegraph February 18, 1879 - submitted by Dena Whitesell]
Kingsland, Sept 9 – A new bank
will be opened at Kingsland, in Camden County, in the near
future. The new banking institution, which will be known as the
State Bank of Kingsland, will be incorporated at $25,000 and the
following are its incorporators: J. H. Gross, at
Evergreen, Fla., and H. J. Carswell, J. B. Smith, W. H. King, C. A.
Perry and C. T. Proctor, all of Kingsland. Work on a new
building for the bank will be started in the near future and it is
expected it will be completed by the first of the coming year. [The Macon Daily Telegraph September 10, 1912 - submitted by
Dena Whitesell]
Jeffersonton Destroyed by
Fire – The Savannah Herald of Monday says: We learn from a gentleman
from Camden County that a disastrous conflagration occurred at the
village of Jeffersonton, on the Satilla River, one day last week.
Nearly all the building were destroyed, with five or six bags of
cotton, and some fifteen hundred bushels of rice.
Mr. A. B. Land had a
total loss of his store and stock, to the amount of from $3,000 to
$5,000.
Mr. Joseph Einstein lost
from $3,000 to $5,000.
Mr. G. Lang lost about
$1,500.
Mr. Edward Lang suffered
a loss of from $3,000 to $5,000.
Dr. E. H. Hart lost
everything, and Dr. George Lang was partly burned out.
The office of the
Internal Revenue was partly burned, and most of the papers lost.
The fire was set by an
incendiary in the store of F. Birnbaum & Co., who suffered a total
loss. We do not learn that there was any insurance on the property. [Georgia Weekly Telegraph November 15, 1867 - submitted
by Dena Whitesell]
Waycross, April 12 – Rev.
Claude Bridges, of Macon, has accepted the call to the Kingsland
and Reuhama churches in Camden County. He has been engaged until
the close of the associational year in October. After that date
he may move to Kingsland. [The Macon Daily Telegraph
April 13, 1915 - submitted
by Dena Whitesell]
Waycross, Ga. - Aug. 8 – One of
the most unusual cases of insanity ever reported from Camden County is
that of Katie Dawson just declared insane after a hearing
before Judge Russell of St. Mary's. The negress was taken with a
pain in her neck while washing about ten days ago at Oakwell.
Insanity of the worst kind developed rapidly and the woman had to be
bound.
Before
she was taken to St. Mary's for trial she attempted to set fire to a
house and had a charge of arson against her. Once arrested the
negress refused to eat and eight days have passed without a morsel
passing into her mouth. She also refuses drink and unless
something can be done to force her to take nourishment she cannot
survive much longer. [The Columbus Ledger August 8,
1911 - submitted by Dena Whitesell]
Republican Compiler
(Gettysburg, Pennsylvania) June 22, 1825
Vilany
George Thompson of Camden Georgia, advertises five hundred dollars for
the apprehension of William Scott, a young man who was entrusted with
28 bales of cotton to be disposed of in Charleston; but instead of
selling the cotton in Charleston, he shipped it to New York, sold it,
and absconded with the proceeds. Scott is about 5 feet 10 inches
high, sallow complexion, dark eyes, black hair and 23 years of age.
Submitted by Nancy Piper
Vilany
George
Thompson of Camden Georgia, advertises five hundred dollars for the
apprehension of William Scott, a young man who was entrusted with 28
bales of cotton to be disposed of in Charleston; but instead of selling
the cotton in Charleston, he shipped it to New York, sold it, and
absconded with the proceeds. Scott is about 5 feet 10 inches
high, sallow complexion, dark eyes, black hair and 23 years of age.
Republican Compiler (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania) June 22, 1825 Submitted by Nancy Piper
The
papers received from Georgia communicate the unpleasant intelligence
that the Indians exhibit every indication of an intention to attack a
part of the frontier, which is said to be very weak and almost
defenceless. Representations to this effect have been forwarded
by express from Early and Dooly counties and immediately laid before
the Legislature of the State, by the Governor. – Nat. Intel.
Republican Compiler (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania) June 29, 1825 Submitted by Nancy Piper
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