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About The Eastman times. (Eastman, Dodge County, Ga.) 1873-1888 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 14, 1873)
VOLUME 1 1 THE EASTMAN TIMES, TS PUBLISHED WEEKLY AT Eastman, Dodge Cos., Ga., BY It. S. BTJ It T O IST . Terms—One year, $2 00 ; Six months, SI.OO. All subscriptions required in advance, invariably. Advertising Hates. Kqrs IM. 3M. jG M. |l2 M. • 1 $4 00 *7 00 S3OOO I§ 15 00 2 fi 25 12 00 | 18 00 j 25 00 4 975 10 00 I 28 00 I 3!) 00 i 11 50 22 50 I 34 00 | 40 00 1 20 00 32 59 j 55 00 j 80 00 1 col. 36 00 00 00 j 80 00 | 130 00 All hills for advertising are due on the first appearance of advertisement, or when pre sented, except when otherwise contracted for. Parties handing in advertisements will please state the required time for publication, other wise they will be inserted till forbid and charged lor accordingly. Transient advertisements unaccompanied by the money will receive no attention. Advertisements or Communications, to se cure an insertion the same week, should be handed in on Wednesday morning. All letters should be ndddressed to 11. S. BURTON, Publisher. MffiMiHUHi i ■' mmsav Professional and Business. DR.J.H.I ,ASS 1 ER, Pliysican ami Surgeon, Offers bis professional services to the p-cople of Eastman and surrounding country. Office near Gen. Foster’s house. 1 lv. L, A. HAXL, Attorney and Counsellor at Law, EASTMAN, GA. Will practice in th-■ Circuit and District Courts of the United States, fdr the Southern I)istrict or Oißiggq llfo Superior Courts of the Oconee Circuit,'find all counties adjacent to the M. AB. R. 11. Half fee in advance; con sultation fee reasonable,. tt“ Oflice in the Court House. 1-ly. THOMAS ILDAWSON, Attorney end Counsellor at Law, EASTMAN. GEO. Atioi'uey sU Law, Eastman, geor;'a a <>- C. MOW ATTORNEY AT LAW, llawkjxsviu.k, Geo. O'-'onee Circuit —Court Culcrultr — 1573. WiDox - 4th Mondays, Man-h and Soplembcr. i >of .ly 3d Mondays, Mar 'll and September. Irwin Fridays alter above. Montgomery—Thins ft ['ter Ist Mondays. April. Lanr ns—2d Mondays, April and Get paid Get. Pulaski - 3d Mondays, April and Gctober. ])odf(n —4th Mondays, April and October- Telfair—Thursdays alter above, jan 31st, ly. H. W. J. HAM, attorney at law, EASMAX, GEO., (Office in Times building.) Mill practice in the counties of Dodge, Tel fair, Appling, Montgomery, Emanuel, Laurens and Pulaski, and elsewhere by special con tract. Feb 14-tf. J. EUGENE HICKS, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Mount A evnon, Montgomery Cos., Ga. Fall into Ranks ! AND MARCH DOWN TO H. HERRMAN & SON'S, AND BUY YOUR GOODS AT Savannah Prices! Lb 7, 73- ly. Selected Poetry. Cling to those Who Cling to You. There are many friends of summer, Who are kind while flowers bloom ; But when winter chilLs the blossoms, They depart with the perfume. On the broad highway of action, Fri nils of worth are far and few; So when one has proved the friendship, Cling to him who clings to you. Do not harshly judge your neighbor, Do not deem his life untrue, Tf he make no gr at profusions— Deeds are groat but words are few. Those who stand amid the tempest, Firm as when the skies are blue, Will be friends while life endnre-th— Cling to those who cling to you. When you see a worthy brother Buffeting the stormy main, Lend a helping hand fraternal, Till he reach the shore again. Don’t desert the old and true friend When misfortunes come in view ; For he needs friendship’s comforts — Cling to those who cling to you. TSac Coining Woman. A DIALOGUE FOE GIRLS. Ist. Nobody knows how I want to grow, How I count the days as they come and go, Wishing and wishing that time had wings ; For I’ve made up my mind to do great things When I’m a woman ! I won’t be dull, and faded, and gray, And drudge in the household from day to day, Like some of the women I know ; But I mean to grow fresher every year, And I'll be so smart that the people here Shall ask how I manage so, 2nd. When Tin a woman I mean to show’ What wonderful things a woman can know, I’ll know French and German to write and speak. And I'll read all those funny old books in Greek, Besides what there are in Latin. I’ll learn all about what they call “high art;’ I'll have the Philosophy quite by heart, And Trigonometry, too. I won’t take a minute to work or play, But I’ll study by night and I’ll study by day, To show what a woman can do! 3d. A writer i'll bo. and I'll engage fU/i v'KinuiLiiat/O.L And songs to be sung with a good deal of noise, And marvelous fairy tales, i know all the children will buy ray books, tudl’li write some, too, for the older folks, For the newspapers first, I guess ; Letters, perhaps, from over the sea, To tell the strange things that have happened to me, And how the queer people dress. 4th. Such a famous housekeeper T will be, ; That all the ladies will call to see ; How ever I make such beautiful bread ! For al 1 my household shall be well fed When I’m a woman. I Oh! the sweetest jellies and cream Fll make, 1 And of daintiest puddings, and pies, and cake, I will always have great store. My kitchen floor shall be snowy white, And every tiling else shall be just light That you find inside n y door. sth. I'll be a lecturer, traveling about, When it isn't too stormy for men to get out ; 1 ll show them their sphere and the women’s too, And tell the young girls what they ought to do When they are women. I’ll let people see why the world goes wrong, And make them all hope it won’t be long Till women can have their way. Freedom to lecture, to vote, to preach, To do everything now beyond our reach, We surely will have some day ! Gth. Til be a milliner, wrapped in a cloud Of laces and ribbons, and sought by a crowd Ot beautiful ladies in velvet and pearls, Who want exquisite hate for their dear little girls, In the style just fresh from Paris ! Such ravishing bonnets as I’ll invent leave never been seen on this continent! And, for customers to prepare them, Fll have dozens of girls sewing night and day, For fear the new fashion will grow passe Before folks get a chance to wear them. 7th. When ]'tn a woman, a teacher I'll be, But I hope I shall not have much company ; Gh ! if committees could only know How glad we are when they rise to go! \\ hen I’m a woman I expect that teachers will have great pay, And they won’t work more than three hours a day, And vacations will be so long! And 111 caution my scholars to take great care lo study no more than their health will bear, lor that would be very wrong, All. When tcc are women; you then will see The useful things that women can be ; .and though each ol us in her own way tries, \\ e can all be happy, and g’ood, and wise, When we are women. But perhaps it is true that time has wings. And, it we would do all these wonderful things, e must lose not a single day, If our plans should go wrong, we’ll have cour age still, For we ttiink that somehow, where we’ve a will We shall always find a way! A. I. M. EASTMAN, BODGE COLMSTY, GA., FEB.i l, Hiug ins anil the Widow. One day Sandy Higgins came into my oflice and sat down without a word; for some minutes lie sat still, watching me intently, as if trying to make out by the sound of the pen what I was writing. “Squiref* he said at length, “did 1 ever tell you about my scrape with the widow Horry, up here on the river?” “Never did,” said I, laying down iny pen; “let’s have it.” ‘ They’re curious creatures, widows is,” said he in a inediative tone, “and the more you study about ’em the more you don’t know about ’em. What was the thing 1 read about in Egypt or some other country, that nobody could unriddle?” “The Sphinx, probably,” I replied. “Well,” continued he, “that was a widow as sure as ever you had a gran ny. Every tiling' else in the earth has been found out by them and they are as great a mistery to-day ai the lei gdi of the North Pole. You may read the history of the world from Genesis to Revelations, and you’ll see that wid ows has been the bottom or top of five quarters of all the devilment toads been cut up. Was you ever in love with one?” “Lots of them,” said I. .“You’re a great gander—that’s what you are,” said he. “A man who loves one-and gets over it, won’t never get bit by another, if lie’s got as much sense as a ground hog. I ] don’t con sider that Iv'e got any sense at all, but I’m a little too smart to let another of them g'et all the trumps on me. The widow Ilorrv, that 1 was speaking about, is a little the handsomest wo man I reckon, that ever lookeTl a man into fits, and I ought to be a judge, for I’ve seen lots of pretty women in iny day. She was about twenty-live years old when I went up there to work, just in the bloom of her beauty, aral is full of deviltry as a tiirec-yoir at Jenkins’, and of course I went, for I always go where there’s anv fun <o)- ing on, and generally act the tool lie fore I get. away. Of course the widow was there, and dressed as fine as Solo mon’s liliies, and flying around as fris ky as any young iamb in a rye-patch. I got introduced to her and asked her to dance with me, and when she Hash ed her eyes at me and said “ves,” I .jumped up like 1 had set down on a hot griddle. You may talk about sen sations, but when she took hold of my hand and I sorter squeezed it, I felt a sensation as big as a load of wood, and it kept running up and down my back like a squirrel with a hawk after him. I,m very fond of dancing, but I’ll lx* hanged if I know whether I enjoyed it that night or not, for every time she took my hand I'd commence feeling curious behind the cars and up and down my back again, and then I would not know whether I was on earth, or in a balloon, or on a comet, or any. thing about it. It was undoubtedly a case at that. For a wonder I got through the frolic without making mv self conspicuous or cutting up any exti as, as I am in the habit of doing when I go into public. I’d set my pegs to go home with the widow after the ball, just as I was fixin’ my mouth 1 to ax ie L T, P steps a big, long, leather-! faced doctor named Mabry, and walked her off before my eyes. That riled me some, but I kept my tongue still, in waidlv swearing to break his bones the first opportunity that presented it self. I saw there was no use in saying ; thing, so I went home and went to i bed, and all the rest of the night I was dreaming about rainbows, angels, fid dles, widows and doctors mixed up like a Dutchman’s dinner.” “Well,” ’Squire, to make a long sto ry short, I made up my mind to have the widow, or kill myself or somebody else.” “So I made it convenient to be on -hand where she was on all occasions. I couldn’t sleep, eat nor work, and if the thing had held on, I wouldn’t have had sense enough left to skin a rabbit. But I was determined that it shouldn’t last long, for I had been fooled by wo men, and I thought I wouldn't give her time to think of anything but me. She appeared to take to mo right sharply, and the doctor seemed to mix in with me, but I didn’t consider him anymore than a brush fence, for I was ; so far gone I thought she could see nobody on earth but me. Well, ’Squire, it went on so for about a month, and one Sunday I screwed up my spunk and put the question. -She looked kinder one-sided, and finally told me that six. couldn’t give me on answer just then, but if I’d call at her house next Thursday evening she’d give me a final answer. Thinks I, you’re mine as sure as .there’s a fiddler below.— Whenever a woman takes time to study she’ll say yes. ’Squire, don’t the p. A say somt thing about the cal culations of rats and men going crooked ?” “Mice and men, Burns says,” I an swered. Wei!, mice and rats is all one, and so is men and fools sometimes, as I have found out in my travels. I was so sure that si e would have me that 1 went off and spent all my money for fine clothes, thinking that I would have them ready for the wedding—and did ! Confound the widow* I say ! Confound all widows ! Thursday even ing came at last, although it was a long time about it and over I went dressed into fits and leeling as big as Josh Raynor did when lie was elected coroner. I got there about dark and found a right smart crowd collected, which v. as not on the bills, but I felt !as good as the rest of ’em. So in I j marched like a blind mule into a po ’ talo patch, and took a seat by the fire. ! I didn’t see anything of the widow, but ; r kept looking for her to come in’ or j send for me, and p issed away the time eussin’ the crowd to myself think in' they had no business there, and I want ed to get to talk to my woman a bit. Presently the door opened and in walk ed Polly and the dad-burned doctor and a whole team of gills and boys fixed up savagely,.l tell y -u. I looked around for a fid.Her, thinkim they were about to > U ’vE l l.wo-..L- l what they iah ivept so si; it icr, a ITT wn ; .g-mA | proposin’ a reel, when up gits a little : preacher and before you could swallow ; a Eve oyster he had Polly and the P :etor married faster than a Mexican greaser could tic a bull's horn. I was so completely fiummixed Emit I sat ! there with :nv mouth open like I was | going to swallow the whole crowd, i and my eyes lookin’ like billiard balls ; till die ceremony was ever, when I jumped up and bellowed : “I forbid the thing from being' con i stituted !” “ion re a little too late, my friend,’’ said tiie preacher and they all com menced laughing like they had seen something funny. “i'll be ding-squizzled if I don’t be soon enough for somebody yet,” said I ; lor i was mad squire, and no mis take m ihat ticket. I do believe ] could have eaten up that doctor quicker than a hungry dog could swallow a squirrel skin, if I could have got a fair chance at him. It was too bad, after! 1 had fixed to marry her myself, for i her to walk right out under my eyes ; and marry that babboon. “It was bad, that is a fact,” said I. “Bad !” he cried. “It was meaner than eating fried coon, I first thought | I’d go straight home, but then I con ! eluded that wouldn’t spite nobody. ; You know I’m the devil to get myself :or someone else into a scrape, so I j concluded to stay and see if I couldn’t I ff et satisfaction out of somebody ;so I | commenced studying out some plan.— I l codec ted hearing the doctor say that where he come from—but the Lord only knows where that was the bride and groom always washed their face and hands together before they went to bed, as a charm against infi delity or imbecilit}’, or some other long word. \\ hile I was studying about that, I spied the doctor’s saddle bags setting m Fie corner ; so I waited till they went to supper, and then I got toe bags and looked to see what I could discover. Nearly the first thing I saw was a stick of lunar caustic. I slipped it into my pocket, for I had my plan as soon as I saw it. Well, I watched around till I saw one of the i gi-is go to the pail with the pitcher ; so I went out and asked her what she was going to dp with it. She said die i was going to carry it to the room for the doctor and Polly to wash their faces in. I kept talking to her while she was filling the pitcher, and when she turned her head I dropped the caustic into if. It was then about bed-time, and I got my bat and put out, but I couldn’t help laughing all the way home, whenever Pd think about it next morning. “Well, ’Squire, they do say that when that couple woke up the next mornin’ they both had the hardest kind of fits, each one thinking they had been sleeping with a nigger. Oh, it was rich ! He a cussing an 1 tearing up things and she a screamin’ ami famtiu’ and cornin’ to, and 'goin’ off again, and me not there to see it.— They make such a rascally racket that the folks broke into the room to see what was the matter, and there they were with their faces and hands ns black as the inside of a stove pipe.— Pd have given half mv interest in t’other world to have been at some safe place where I could have seen the row. As soon as they found they were the same folks that were married the night before, the\ called for warm water and soap, but just here the doc tor happened to think and took it to the door to see what was the matter. There was a little piece of caustic that had not dissolved-, and as he saw it he says : ‘Ws no use washing, Polly. All the soap in New York City can’t wash that black off?” That was the truth, ’Squire. Soap and water had no more effect than on a native born African, and-the chance was for it to wear off. llow long it took them to get white again, 1 never found out ; hut one thing I do know,” he conclud'd, getting up to go out, “the next time I met the doctor, I had the hardest fight and come the Highest being whaled that ever I did in mv ! born and y 1 1 gw to Live Happy -* l ***-—■ *-.*j - *- .; i „ . r l . -i i: follow mg excellent advice.- There is much ! Mumun Bature and good sense in if. j , i' iimony in the married state is ' thc v “ r .V fast to be aimed at. Nothing an pieserye affections uninterrupted i !iut a Urm resolution never to differ in w.ii, and a determination in each to consider the other’s love of more value iham any subject whatever on which a wisii had been fixed. If nv light in tael, is the sacrifice of any other wish when weighed against the affections one wiili wnorn we are to pass our WiKile life ! And though opposition in a single instance, will hardly of itself pioduce alienation, yet every one lias their pouch into which all these little oppositions are put ; while ’that is fill ing tno alienation is insensibly going on, and when filled, it is complete It would puzzle either to say why, be cause no one difference of opinion has '>een marked enough to produce a se rious effect by itself. But he finds his affections wearied out by a constant dream of little checks and obstacles. Other sources of discontent, very com mon indeed, are the little cross purpo ses of husband and wife, and in common conversation, a disposition to criticise and question whatever the otiiei sa\s, a desire always to doinon stiate and make him fed himself in ; the wrong-, especially in company. | Nothing- is so goading. Much better, to ere fore, if our companion views a tning in a light different from what we do, leave him in the quite posses sion of his views. What is the use of rectifying him if the tiling be impor-’ taut ? Let it pass for the present, and wait for a softer moment and more conciliatory occasion ot rehearsin'' l1 * the* subject together. It is wonderful how many persons are rendered unhappy b_\ inattention to tnuse little rules ot prudence.” There is talk about removing the seat of Government of the Suite of Pennsylvania to Philadelphia. The corruptions are so great at Harrisburg that virtuous people think that Phil- ; adelphia would be more favorable to honest administration. Dreadful indeed must be the condition of things iy Harrisburg that could j give the preference to Fniadelphia. An Arkansas girl having named her kitten Dolly Varden, her little brother named his Timm as Varden. au• >scrioc at Alice to the i imfs LM MISEII n. -Making -V Foitsme. \ _____ BY MABK TWAIN*. Samuel MeFadden was a watchman in a bank. lie was poor, but liono.-t, and his life was without reproach. The trouble with him was that he was not appreciat'd. Ills salary was but four dollars a week, and when he ask ed to have it r used, the president, cashier and the board of directors glar ed at him through their spectacles, and Irowned on lean, and told him to go out and stop his insol nice, when he knew business was dull, lot al >ne lavish ing* deb. :** on such a miserable worm as Samuel MeFadden. And then Samuel MeFadden felt depress ed, sad, and the haugnty scorn ot, the president and the cashier out him to the soul. lie would often go into the sidevard, and bow his venerable twenty-four inch head, and weep gal lons and gallons of tears over his in signilicance, and pray that lie might be made worthy of tlie cashier’s and pros id nt’a polite attention. One night a happy thought struck him, a gleam of light burst upon him, and gazing down the dim vista of years with his eyes all blinded with joyous tears, he saw himself rich and respect ed. So Samuel MeFadden fooled around and got a jimmy, a monkey wrench, a cross-cut saw, a cold-chisel, a drill, and about a ton of powder and nitro-glycerino, and those things.— hTcn in the dead of night he went to the fire-proof safe, and after working 1 at it for a while, burst the and >or and brick into an immortal smash, with | such a perfect success that there was not enough of that safe left to make a carpet tack. Mr. MeFadden then pro ceeded to load up with coupons, green backs, currency and specie, and to nail all the old change that was lying anywhere, so that he pranced out of the bank with over a million dolars on him. He then retired to an unassum ing residence out of town, and then I ' vor -! to tno detectives where he j was. J -o d■f 'Ciivo called on him the next j d-'y, witii a soothing note from the | cashier. IhcFadJen treat 'd it with 1 ( *n. Detectives called on him evew day, with humble notes from the pres ident, caslner and board of directors. At li-1 the bank officers got up a mag n ill cent private supper, to which Mr. McFadd-n was invited. He came, and as the bank officers bowed down in tiie oust before him he pondered well over the bitter past, and his soul was ii I,'d with exultation. ILfoi ehe oro\o away m his carriage that night it was fixed that Mr. Mc- Fadden was to keep half a million of t h.it, mcney, and t ) be unmolested if" he returned the other half, lie ful iiiled his contract like an honest man, but refused with haughty disdain the atfer of the cashier to marry his daugh ( C \ T iac 118 now honored and respected He moves in the best society. He browses around in purple and fine linen and otner good clothes, and enjoys Jiim seli first-rate. And often now lie takes hm im'ant son on his knee and tells him ! “ s early life, and instills Indy prin ' ques into too child’s mind, and shows :/im how. by industry and persever ance, and frugality, and nitro-glycer me, and monkey-wrenches, and cross cut saws, and familiarity with the de- U'ci.we system, evou the poor may rise to Cilluence and responsibility. Typographical Enors. On one occasion “casting your pearls before .some" was printed: “Casting their pills before sunrise-” Again, on the description of a building, it was written: “It had sixty f ;incy t0..1n >\pc it r.-id : The establislimen coniained sixty faded widows. 5 ' A certain Jenkins also, was the victim of an j a -l A -v.ued iis' anit, because when, in liis report ! of a we dding, he declared that “the bride was I to the altar by eight brides i maids ’" mads it that “the bride was I a -*companied to the altar by tight bridesmaids. An editor wrote; “The Kev. B is a j-.ett} aged minister.’ It was printed “The nev. B -a putty eyed monster.” A New York editor, remarkable for his bad penmanship, wrote: “Women now manage most of the public libr a-ies in Massachusetts* and the compositor read it: “Women now worry most of their public babies by mastica tion. 5 A poet write . “Her bosom tossed by respi_ ration wild. ’ The printer made it read, “He; husband Was bound with perspiration mild.” „ a_>e } e iLertjiGj.’rg steadfast, is well, but when iiLpimled Pc ve there for breakfast,” it is not so will.
