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THE EASTMAN TIMES.
R, S, BURTON, - - Proprietor.
H, W. J, HAM. - - - - Editor,
Wednesday, march • j 1573.,
A Thing Which Should Not Be.—
We learn that some of the ladies in
town speak of going l to Macon and
elsewhere to buy their spring goods.
Now, in our humble judgment, this is
wrong. Here are oi*r own merchants
who will Ik* receiving their spring
st ocks in a tew'days, and who look to
our people tor the patronage to which
their merits entitle them; and we think
ladies would do well to wait ami see
if 1 hey cannot be suited hero, and keep
their money at home. And, speak'ng
of thin reminds us that Mr. Coleman o l '
the “French Store/’ is now in Savan
nah from whence he will return in
a few days, with a heavy and wed se
lected stock of spring and summer
goods, which he will offer very cheap.
We hope the ladies will wait until his
return, when we think they will bo
able to find something to suit the taste
of even the most fastidious.— EaMrnan
Times.
But we want to see the beautiful
Kastman ladies in town whether they
buy anything fVom us or not. As to
Colemans, We have two in Macoy, cm*
of whom has a dry goods house nearly
as large as the city of Eastman, and
the other, groceries enough to supply
your end of the State indefinitely.—
Their “French’’ goods are not bought
in Savannah.— Macon Enterprise.
Upon first'reading the above com
ment of our neighbor wo were- dis
posed to follow the golden rule, and
allow him the same privilege wo
took ourselves, of blowing each
his own merchants, but upon glancing
over his paper we find we are not on
an equal footing, for our Mr Coleman
advertises with us, while his does not
advertise with him. It therefore seems
*a little singular, that lie should give
iiim such a gigantic puff, as to say
that his dry goods house is*as big as
our city, if so we think he had better
have it surveyed off into lots and rent
it out for a while, at least until he
can afford to advertise in his local pa
per. Were it not for the charming
compliment paid our ladies we would j
think the Enterprise was disposed to
be a little unkind, but in view of this
fact, conclude he meant it for pleasant- j
rv, and that his extravagant state* j
ment proceeds from his imperfect
knowledge of the siz * ef our town,
and of Golem vn,s dry g > ids house, for
as lie does not advertise with him, ;
it may safely be pi c n m and he doesn’t
know the exact size of his establish
ment.
A Bailoonist in Troiible.
The Ai tgusta Chronicle says that I
considerable interest and speculation
was excited hi that city on Saturday
last, by the finding 1 of a letter, pur
porting to have been dropped by a
stray balloonist in his aerial flight over
the city. The aforesaid communica
tion was written upon a soiled paper
rdllnr, size No. 15, in a to 1 e able leg
ible hand, to which was attached four
small keys, apparently to give it
weight, and a half inch black silk cra
vat, somewhat worn. This mysterious
package was picked up on Reynolds
street, in front of Goodrich’s Range,
by a colored woman in the employ of
Mr. John A. North. The following is
a copy of the letter written upon the
collar :
‘Should this fan into the hands of
any one, send word to my dear wife,
Mrs. J. J. Harte, at Olive Street Hotel,
St. Louis, Mo. I am up some ten or
twelve miles, in my balloon, tossed t >
and fro. Have lost control of it, and
the lord only knows. The wind has
been blowing a terrific gab; since Sat
urday Bth instant. lam out of food,
aud am nearly famished for water.
1 left St. Louis on 7 th, and have been
floating.about in space ever since. I
drop this, hoping someone will find it,
and address a letter to my wife soon.
I will write, should I land safe on
earth again. My name is J. J. Harte.
of Boston, Mass/
A dispatch from St. Louis says that
the people of that city know nothing
of the Balloonist. It is probably all
a hoax.
G I*ll mbiers at Newspapers.
Horace Greeley, in speaking of
grumblers at newspapers, thus hits
the nail on the head:
‘‘lt is strange how close men read
the papers. We never say anything
that anybody don’t like, but we soon
hear of it and everybody tells us of it.
If, however, once in a while we happen
to say a good thing, we never hear of
that; nobody seems to notice that.—
Vfc pay some man a hundred compli
ments, and give him a dozen Duffs,
and he takes it ad as a tribute to his
greatness, ond he never thinks it dm*
him any good. But if we happen to
say things this man don’t like, or
something he imagines is a reflection
on him or his character, see how quick
lie flares up and gets mad about it.—
All our evils are duly, charged to us,
but we never apparently, get any cred
it for what good we do.
One of our exchanges, in speaking
of newspapers, and what is expected
of them, very forcibly remarks that
‘there is no business in all the wide
| world so subject to sponging as the
j art or trade of printing a newspaper.
I it really seems to us that public cor
i p mat ions, societies and associations
j in general, have peculiar ideas about
i printers. They think we ought to
I print, puli and publish ail for nothing,
that is, ‘free gratis;’ in other words,
they seem astonished if we ask half
price for obituary notices, cards of
thanks, tributes of respect, personal
communications, or anything else that
only interests-a few persons, and not
the general reader. They think it
costs no money to advertise, puff, etc.
An I thus one and another will sponge.
They lorget that this business makes
them known; they forget that printers’
ink makes nine-tenths of their immense
fortunes ; they f >rget that it takes
money to pay compositors—to buy ink,
type, and paper; and lastly they for
get even to thank you for gratuitously
puffing their business or serving the
public. Not only do country editors
suffer from these inflictions, but they
are also compelled to listen patiently
to the dull nonsense of some fellow
who wants to introduce Kamschatian
baths, agricultural insurance-pills, or
sugar-mated double back-action wash
boards. Wo fe' sure that if we were
a provincial editor we would live very
cheap, because we should get ‘bored’
for nothing.’
Webster Com!-—Sentences of
Death.
The editor of the Sumter Republican
was at Webster Court last week.—
Lee Smith, colored, charged with kill
ing his wife, was found guilty. Wm.
Sheppard, hUrgdary at night, guilty.—
Says the Republican :
At three o’clock Thursday afternoon,
the Sheriff entered the Court room
with E. F. Spann, Susan EberhartJLeo
Smith, and Win. Sheppard to hear the
sentence of the law about to be ,pro
noun cud upon them. The room was
crowded with spectators to witness a
scene which . erhaps may never occur
again, and the like of which has never
before been wtnessed in this State, the
sentence of death on three persons and
co ifincment n the penitentiary on one,
at the‘same time. It was indeed a
solemn sight to behold, and one that
we never again expect to witness.—
T ie prisoners all appeared to be deep
ly affected, especially Spann and Miss
Eburhart. As the prisoners euteied,
a silence fos still as death pervaded
the entire room. Shortly after they
were seated and became composed,
the Judge, in a very solemn manner,
called the names of E. F. Spann and
Susan Eberhart. and asked if they had
anything to soy why the sentence of
death should not be pronounced upon
them. Nothing, was answered in a low
tone#
The Judge then read the judgment
of a former Court and the Supreme
Court, and pronounced the sentence
of death upon E. F. Spann. ‘lt is or
dered by the "Court that the Sheriff of
Webster county, do execution of said
sentence in tiie manner and mode
therein prescribed on the person of
said defendant, between the hours of
ten in 'the forenoon, and two in the
afternoon on fridoy, the eleventh
day oi April, next, and may the lord
have rnerev,’ ect.
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A like sentence was then pronounc
ed upon Miss Ebernart, but upon the
solicitation of prisoner’s counsel. Col.
W. A. Hawkins, tne day oi execution
in her case was prolonged until the
2d day of May.
Sentence of death was then pro
nounced upon Lee Smith, to be hung
on Friday, the 25th day of April.
The next criminal was Win. Shep
pard, who was sentenced to the Pen
itentiary for five years.
The Sheriff with a sufficient guard
then proceeded with the prisoners
back to their lonely cells, there to re
main until the day of their execution.
It will be remembered that Spann
and Miss Eherhart murdered Spann’s
wife by strangulation in a most brutal
manner. That Spann ran awa}- to
Alabama, was captured and brought
back, and Miss Eherhart confessed
the whole crime. A prodigious effort
has been made to save them—the
case going to the Supreme Court, but
resulting as above.
Scientific Burglary.— A nice young
man called on the agent of the Moffat
buildings, in New Yoi k, on the 10th
instant, and engaged an office for the
exhibition of samples. F r e promptly
paid his ten dollars in advance, taking
possession of the office, and moving
into it several heavy trunks, examin
ing them in the presence of thejani
, tor, lie said the firm "had'sent him the
wrong samples, and he would have to
return the trunks in the morning, fie
; did not return’ the trunks In the morn
ing*, but in the mlevcning night, with
accomplices he had unpacked from the
trunks a section ladder and other bur.
glarious tools, v/iili which they effected
an entrance into the store of Rose,
King & Cos., several houses off and
abstracted therefrom silk goods cf
the value of 2. 000. The next morning
an express Wagon removed the trunks.
As yet no cine to the robbers has
been obtained. The enhance to the
store was made through the roof.
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Georgia News.
The town marshal of Blacks!.ear je
ceives twenty-five dollars per m y.rt}/,
and perquisites.
The great Dr. Jones, has removed
to Atlanta
A committee consisting of Dr. Geo.
F. Cooper and Professors Douglass
and Kenedy, will meet in Am uncus on
the 20th of next month for the exami
nation of applicants f>r a cadetship at
West Point, which has been given to
the third Congressional district,
through the influence of Gen. Phil
Cook, our efficient representative.—
The applicants must reside in the dis
trict, be not less than five feet high, j
between seventeen and twenty years j
of age, free from physical defects, and '
pass an examination in reading and ;
writing, descriptive geograpy, and ;
the elements of English grammar.— |
This is a good chance for some cl ter- \
prising young man.
We wish to take our time at the
conundrum business now, and ask,
why is it, that the Atlanta Weekly
Sun will persist that it is 111 years
old? The statement is something
like the Irishman’s rad, “too big
for us to swallow,
Atlanta women light on their bus
bands in the streets, and just everlast
ingly wear them out to a frazzle be
fore the efficient police can sufficient
ly recover from his surprise to arrest
th an.
The Irishmen cf Atlanta donned
the Shamrock on St. Patrick’s day,
cut the double shuffle, and had “a rale
illigant toirne to be shore.”
Nevvnan has had a sensation in the
way cf an organ grinder, and a mon
key.
Macon rats have got large enough
to talk. The paper who was too mor
al to publish the notice of a cock-fight
is responsible for the above statement.
/
The office of the State Agricultural
Society has been removed to Maeon.
Miss Jennie Patterson, gave two
readings in Macon on Friday ana Sat
urday nig]its of last week.
NevvYorx, March 20.—Thomas J.
Blackwell, a dry goods merchant of
Eberton, Ga., while cn route to New
York, left a friend while the train was
at Wilmington, Delaware on Tuesday,
to go into the smoking car, and has
not since been heard of. He had-eon
siderable money in Iris possession.
Woods, of the Hawk ins vi lie Dispatch,
says he hasn’t seen a copy of our pa
per in two weeks, and yet some how
or other lie gets in one of our local
items. That’s two thin, Woods ; come
up to the scratch like a man, or give
over your practice of challenging in
offensive men to fig 4 it duels.
Gen’l Horne, the independent i ffidi
date for the Legislature from Ft ask;
county, comes out in a card de-fi ling
his position. He endorses the action
of the last Legislature on the )ond
question and will favor all the agri
cultural, mechanical and industrial in
terests.
The Hawkinsville Dispatch has re
ceived two new hats, and fee’s so
elated thereat, that in future it does
not intend to look annoyed, blow hot
and cold at the sane time, nor ride
two horses at once. Quite a reform,
but we would advise our frits#-! to
‘draw it mild.’
The Sandersv ills Herald fires c.t: this
at the Times & Planter:
The ‘devil 1 of the Southern Times &
Planter must be awfully cross-eytd. or
else he has been drinking some enb.
bly mean whisky, or else he was
standing on his head when lie ‘made
up* his huff paper. He sent us a paper
this week with the third page turned
‘heels upward*; we turned it cross
wise, then it looked both ways at once,
then we turned it over, and the ‘devil
iy'i thing 1 was still *bottom upwardJ
on one side any how. The Good Tem
plars ought to go there amt‘straighten'
that ‘devil.’ or he. ought to join a trav
eling circus, as a‘first class acrobat or
gymnastic.
Miss Anna Haines, one of the most
beau til id and aceomplishad young la
dies of Sandersville, died on Thursday
the 20th iirst., of pneumonia.
The same fell disease also carried
away from earth a few days before,
Mr.'Jordan F. Outlaw, Clerk of the
.Superior Court of Johnson county and
one of her best citizens.
Our clever friend, J. M. G. Medlock,
of the Sandersville Herald, has lost
the fairest flower of his household—
!iis little habv, Mary Lillian. The be
reavement is a sad one, and we tender
our brother our heartfelt sympathy in
his misfortune. We trust his loss is
her eternal gain.
Bainbridge ups and says she’s had
a “Mardi Gras,’ just because some fel
lows with false faces paraded the
streets thereon the occasion Of the IV
<-'m Ball t
\ Bainbraige barber went fox hunt
ing the other night, mounted on one
of those beasts commonly denominated
as a mule. Comhig on a ’possum in
liis route, lie knocked hirn on the bond,
broke his neck as he thought, tied him
to his saddle and unwitting of sorrow,
journeyed on his way. Now the ’pos
sum was only playing the favorite
game of In’s race, and after a while
conelsided to d’vest the mule of h's
part of the burden, and to that end,
spread his paws out over the flanks of
him, the said mule, and then and there
began tug ing* away w'th might and
main, by inserting his nails in Becks
unyielding cutaneous covering. Beck i
disapproved of the arrangement, and
made it known by suddenly and with
out warning, pointing with both hind
feet to the seven stars. The barber
couldn’t sec them well in his perpen
dicular position, so he just turned a
somersault about - sixteen foot in length,
and alighted on his back, where instead
of seven he saw some four thousand
stars. Beck then continued the exhibi
tion bv galloping from under the sad
dle with which the dead ?) ’possum
crawled off into the bushes; leaving
barber minus a possum, a saddle and
a mule, and in possession of a first
class back view I’fe-size picture of
himself, taken in the yielding earth.
At last accoun f s he had sufficiently re
covered to declare his utter unbelief in
a possum’s protestations of death.
Tit's is flip wav Harris, of.the Savar'-
nah New*, shooT. off his month at the
An trust a reporters:
The reporter of the Augusta
C'Vi*h’hifirma 7 )st, in default of a welb
anlheniica+ed horse-thief item, milrllv
reproves Mark Twam for alluding to
I the 'info Col. Judas Tseaviot as ‘a sort
: of low, mean, premature Congressmans
j The point seems to he w*dl taken
; What satisfaction can it he to Mark
| Twain or anybody else to add to the
| infamy of no already m+amous man by
i comparing him to a Congressman?
And then he frees for the Macon
: cock-fighters thualy:
We have procured, at great exn°nso,
| a h'st of nrominent nartie" who aPend
! ed the chicken soiree whirh took
in Macon on Wednesday. The list
comprises the names of one Cortgress
j man, one State Senator, two State
■ Thep-esentatiyes, s’v '[aeon Aldermen,
i two Justices of the a prominent
| member of the Stale Democratic Lvee
' ntiyp Committee, one preacher ffrom
; -Tones county), and three editors, (C and
orvd dishy was providentially pre
; vented from nftendingV Tho soiree—
jas well ns a barrel of beer—went off
! with great eclat, and the whole party
; retired to their homes some time during
j the night in the best of spirits.
"'x .
i The devi? of Ihe Camilla. Enterprise,
'in connection with his arduous duties
! of sweeping and rolling, has also taken
! charge of the editorial department.
; We are sorry to say lie seems to hare
! a devih'eh way of ignoring the editor
of the Times, fathering onr paragraphs
on the proprietor, who is not in the
least responsible therefor. We refer
!to the negro tijsselling item from
! Cochran. Part of the credit of his
1 Georgia news is due ns instead of In’s
j devil. See the Savannah marriages
j item, in last issue.
The Brunswick Appeal wants the
y mng men to leave off billiards and
pool, and devote part of their time to
the young ladies, and says the young
ladies are complaining because the
young mm are so unsociable. Great
grief! We ought to be there, forte
follow up such amusement as that, we
not only leave off billiards, pool, eat
ing, sleeping, and such small items,
but business also, and well , if courting
is what is needed, we -are sorry we
don't live in Brunswick.
The Macon Enterprise has had a
call from a sweet little babe who said
her name was little Chffy’T.nd goes on
to sav how—well, this that and the
*/ '
ofker,-she was; whereupon, some fel
low sees the item and gets olf the fol
lowing :
‘She said her name was TitLcC fitly,
And grabbed his scissors in a jiffy:
Pulled down the papers right arid
left ;
Filled with arson murder theft.
Of course she had a perfect right
Sweet child of innocence and light,
She gave him one d< licious hug,
And said lie was an old humbug.”
The Macon young men have organ
ized an anti-boarding house ring’under
the title of the Independent order of
Hash Hiders. Regular meetings of
the order held three times each clay.
Admission fee, pro rata of the expens
es of the institution
Gene msl A’ ews.
An Alabama exchange says that a
sealed b >ttle was picked up a short
time since in Grant’s Pass, on the
coast of that State, which, when
opened, proved to contain a ntemoran-.
duin, dated off the coast of Alaska.
June 20, 1870, on board the ship !
James, and in the Russian language,
announcing that the ship had founder
ed and broken in pieces. This bo*t
tle must have drifted through the
North and South. Pacific ocein-,
doubled the II >rn, and, in its voyage
through tile All in tic, fallen into the
great equatori and current and been
swept by it into the Caribbean Sea,
where the Gulf caught it and carried
it round the circuit of the Gulf, lami
ng it after its voyage of two and a
half yea* s, in the Pass where it was
found. i
Nf.w York, March 18, —The ‘lrish
laborers lately employed on the boul
evards yesterday determined to clean
out the Italian laborer's wife replaced
them at Teas wages, and to-day a
large number marched to where the
Italians were working, but the po
lice drove them away. It is feared
there will be trouble to-morrow.
In Brooklyn to-day, David Dowd
and E agene S;n a 11.' (buys), v;ere con
victed of arson and sentenced to seven
years each in the State prison.
The committee investigating the
condition of the Tombs, report in fa
vor of the demolition of the building
fronting in Center street, and the
erection of an entirely new building.
! Galveston*, March 18. —Superintend-
ent Durant announced the ’completion
l of the libust m and Texas Centra!
| Railroad To Red River City, connect
ing with tine Misso'uri, Kansas arid
Texas road. Through trains will run
from Galveston and Houston, to St.
Louis, commencing on the 2-4th.
Montreat,, M roll 18.—At one e’cl k
clock this morning a fire broke out in
I _ °
a building behind the St James Hotel,
and communicated through the laun
dry into the passage of the fourth flat
and from there to the stairway of the
tilth flat, where the female servants of
the establishment were sleeping. The
girls finding their escape by the stairs
was cijt off, fled to the windows and
threw themselves on the sidewalk,
where their tall was partially broken
l>3 r mattresses and other soft material.
They were taken to the general
hospital where they now lay in a very
precarious state. Another girl na'rfred
Matild j. Sayre, hung Out from the win
dow 2G minutes, and was finally res
cued by the firemen who brought her
safely to the gr mud amid cheers from
the excited multitude. Notwuhstand
ing the effort of the firemen, the fourth
and fifth fiats were completely de
stroyed.
Washington, March IB. — Every bu
siness house in Laurenceburg, Ken
tucky, except a tin shop was burned
to-day, including a tavern and a bank.
Little insurance meetings arc held
through the State for the relief of the
place. *
A LARGE STOCK OF NEW SPRING SOGDS {g
JUST RECEIVED bv "
M fk
■|j oar. soini.
For Sale Cheap for Cash. !§!?
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'l—ci *g" ~ "*** "" and
C. W. Hurley, Radical nominee,
was elected Mayor of Galveston yee
terday.
A small boy skating beside the rail
road track between Sharon and Law
rence, Wis:, recently discovered a
broken Jail, and at the same time dis
covered Conductor Linsley’s freight
train coming down the heavy grade
toward the break in the track He
comprehended the situation at once
and started toward the approaching
train swinging his scarf wildly in the
air. The engine was reversed arid
the train stopped in safety Tht boy
waited only long enough to be supplied
with a red flag, when he went up the
track at a lively pace to stop an extra
which was following Linsley’s train.
Accomplishing his second undertaking
the boy disappeared without leaving
his name ur any clue to his where
adouts
Special Notices.
Pianos—here to Buy. February Ist,
IS73.—Prices reduced from Id to 2d per cent
Largest stock in the South to select from.—
Elegant T-oct. pianos, rosewood cases, carved
legs, overstrung ba>e, end i\T* the modern im
provements, $26?, 275, and 300; warranted
durable ; money refunded in case of failure.—
The popular “Southern Gem,” only S2OO, 300,
320 and 340. Pallet, Davis it Co’s Square
Grand's 74 octave, $375, 410, 430 and 490.
V\ m. Knabe & Co’s superb instruments lower
than ever before sold. Address us for Special
Terms. Pianos sent on trial to any part of tlio
State. Send for price lists, catalogues, etc ,
select the style desired, give in the order, and
we guarantee to furnish a first-class instrument
or refund the money. Wholesale Depot for
the celebrated Mason A Hamlin Cabinet Or
gans, fi.fy styles from $75 to SI,OOO each, de
livered, freujhi paid to cash buyers , in any part
of the South. Any piece of sheet music or
music book published in the United States sent,
post-paid, on receipt of retail price. Address
all orders to Ludeen A Bates, Southern MWlc
House, Savannah, Ga. 10 3m.
H. L. SCHREINER,
SAVANNAH, - - GEORGIA,
Keeps on hand everything in the line of
BoolvS,
*ss i At to lie i\\ * ?
;V5 limit IToeltsk
Special attention paid io the
M UfclC AI, D IIP A UTM ENT,
PIANOS, ORGANS,
and all other instruments,
Strings, and Sheet Music
Music and Bocks sent by mail,
Price lists of all goods sent fre*.
10-3 m.
MARSHALL HOUSE,
EAVAHNAH, GA.,
A. B. LIJCE, - - Proprietor’.
Board Per I >;t.v 5.“5.
TJh FF3 cyk
jL. McLEAIT, I
Agent forJSO. McLEAN
|| MeRAE, - - - GEORGIA, 1
1 1 Is receiving a small but selected j|j
j i stock of the following articles for the j|j|
j; |
: j Dry Goods, Clothing, jjj,
j 1 1 j|
Shoes, Hats, Drugs,
Cruckeryware, Tinware, ||
| 1 j * Ifll
Pocket ’A Table Cutlery. ||
and Family Groceries,
i All of which lie offers at the “Ma- itjj
I | con Retail Price,” for cash.
Ii Those visiting this pi .ce this spring, f
b and especially at the April Court, 11
ff will do well to bring their little cash, ’jjj
| ant l buy their goods. 11|!
mrL26-3in. jj (
J, EUGENE HICKS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
M >unt Vernon, Montgomery ۥ>., Gn