Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page.

you ;>ie ii THIi EAST3IAN TIMES. IS PUBLISHED WEEKLY AT Eastman, Dodge Cos., Ga., by n . s. 15 nil t on. . ■— Terms— One year, $2 00 ; Six months, 5? 1.00. All subscriptions required in advance, invariably. Advertising Hates. Sqm 1 M. 3 M. j G M. | 12 M. 3 $4 00 S7 00 sloooj $l5 00 :2 620 12 00 18 00 | 2> 00 4 975 .10 00 28 00 39 00 4 11 50 22 50 34 00 4G 00 i 20 00 32 59 55 00 80 00 1 col. 35 00 GO 00 80 00 130 00 Advertisements inserted at SI per square for first insertion, and 75 cents for each subsequent insertion. A square is the space of ten solid lines bre vier type. Advertisements contracted for a specified time, and discontinued before the expiration of time contracted for, will lie charged for the time run at our schedule rates. Marriage and obituary notices, tributes of respect, and other kindred notices, occupying over ten lines, will be charged for as other ad vertisements. Advertisements must take the run of the pa per when not contracted otherwise. All bills 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 lie inserted till forbid and charged for 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 Monday morning. All letters should be adddressed to 11. S. BIJIITON, Publisher. HATES A XL) HULKS FOR LEGAL ADVERTISING. Sheriflt s sales, per levy, £3 50 ; sheriffs mort gage sales, per levy, $5 ; tax sales, per levy, S3 ; citation for l tters of administration, $1; cita tion tor letters of guardianship; application tor dismission from administration, $10; ap plication for dismission from guardianship, $5; application for leave to sell land (one square) *5, and each additional square, $3 ; application f> r homestead, $2 ; notice to debtors and cred it'ys $1; land sales (Ist square), and each ad (iiti u; 1 square, $3; sale of perished p prop erty. per square, $2 ;.;0 ; (stray notices, sixty da s. $7 : notice to perfect service, $7 ; rules nib to tore) lose “Bov: g; ge, pt* square, $4 ; mV* to cstnl lish lost papers, per square, $4 ; rules compelling titles, per square, $4 ; rules to per fect service in divorce cases, $lO. Sides of land, etc., by administrators, exec utors or guardians, are required by law to be held on tite first Tuesday in the mouth, between the horn’s of 10 in the forenoon and 4 iu the afternoon, at the court house door in the county in which the propc rty is situated. Notice cil these sales must be given in a public gazette 40 days previous to the day of sale. Notices lor the sale of person;d property must be given in like manner 10 days previous to day of sale. Notices to the debtors and creditors of an estate must be published 40 days. Notice that application will be made to the Court of Ordinary for leave to sell land, etc., must be published for two months. Citations for letters of administration, guar dianship, Ac., must be published 30 days— for dismission from administration, monthly for thr e months—-for dismission from guardian ship, 40 days. hubs for foreclosure of mortgages must be published monthly for four months —for estab lishing lost papers for the full space of three months -for compelling titles from executors or iulmuiisuutors, where bond has been given Ty the deceased, the full space of three months. I’ui'lieation will always he continued accord ing to these, the legal requirements, unless oth erwise ordered. 3U A. HALL, Attorney and Counsellor at Law, EASTMAN, GA. M ill practice in the Circuit and District 1 ourts ol the United States, for the Southern district ol Georgia, the Superior Courts of the (Oconee ('bruit, and all counties adjacent to the M. & I>. 11. It. Half fee in advance; con sultation fee reasonable, X '-T- Office in the Court House. 1-ly. H. L. SCHREINER, SAVANNAH, - - GEORGIA, Keeps on hand everything in the line of Stat ionei*y, Hooks. Spec ini attention paid to the aU sICAL DEPART3I ENT. PIANOS, ORGANS, ,Ui( l all other instruments, Strings, and Sheet Music, Music and Books sent by mail. iL ~ I'riee lists of all goods sent free. 10-3 m. ADMINISTRATOR'S SALE. (> ’•' V!l 'tue of an order from the Court of tii U1 t U V Dodge County, will be sold on the (1 ,U;;s day in May next, at the Court House (i ." 1 , in s, _ ll d county, between the legal hours ' V>° tl ; lct °* tand in said county where lu' ‘ l - Ridker resided at the time of his (3f) I ’./' '° three hundred and forty-two W'.Vv I '?’*’ 111<)r c or less, composed of lots of of s 'd't 313, and 357, in tlie 14th dist. <ki-v tSold subject to the widow’s ' °nns of side Cash. B. F. Cia.uk, yldm’r, of Wr., aI. T. Walkek, Adm’y, EASTMAN, OOIKiK COUXTY, OA., WEDNESDAY, APRIL -e;j, l!(r:i. Selected Poetry. Together. Oh! tike me with you, my darling, i'll follow where’er you lead, To the grandest heights of triumph, Through the darkest ways 1 11 speed. Over the flowers of girlhood With relentless track 1 11 press, And the sharpest thorns M ill blossom Like the fabled wilderness. Trampling on ev’ry emotion, Condemned by a gath’ring frown, My oice mdl thrill \\ ith the music That your smile awakes to sound. I’ll learn from the softest zephyr The whisper at eventide, And the fleet wild birds will teach me The steps I tread at your side. I’ll borrow the light of beauty From your loving, trusting glance, And check with a shield of happiness Misfortune’s chill advance. Together we’ll bravely conquer And write with the self-same hand The tablet we’ll read together 111 the shadowy spirit-land. Together enter its portals, W hicli the warder, Death, flings wide, Together trout the throne of God, \\ ith your strong hand still my guide. THE ACCEPTED OFFERING. r J lie evening was pretty warm, so I sat in my cabin with my window and door open. I was reading by the light ol a wax-candle, put in a swivel stand; but although I was interested in the subject, 1 could not help being aware, in a sort ol dreamy way, ol the sounds which reached my ear from time to time, there was a harsh grinding and rattling of the steam-winch at work discharging cargo; the cries and curses of the coarse men at work; the striking of the hells on board; the lap ping of the water at the wharf; the sounds of the great ferry boats which crossed from East Boston to Boston proper. 1 was beginningto feel tired, and was thinking of turning in for the night, when the lamp that hung in the passage revealed the figure of the second mate/ a great rough, sulky looki.ig fettow,' with us war-.;M hirt as ever beat in human breast. ‘Oh,’ saiu I, come in; sit down, and spin me that long-promised yarn of yours.— Take a cigarette—’tis the only thing 1 smoke; 111 keep you company.* So saying I produced two of the little weeds, and we commenced slowly to exhale ‘Well, Sawbones/ lie began (I was the Doctor), ‘I hate palaver; so here goes. I was once mate of a coolie ship. lam not going to speak of the coulic-tiade at ibis time; hut it’s about coolies that the story is. I’m not go ing to enter into time or place, but suffice it that our ship was a good one, and we were on a voyage with a right heavy load of coolies. We were pretty tightly packed. I can tell you, and no mistake. Well, we had the blackies on deck pretty much, and wc did all we could to ventilate and purify them; and as yet we had had no bad disor der among them—all was going pret ty" well. The skipper was much engaged be low—lie was one of the kind that be lieved in keeping the steam up—high pressure, you know. In fact, I had command; the ‘old man’ never inter fered. Doctor, boys arc the greatest nuisance and torment that you can have afloat or ashore—no mistake.— We had two boys. They were little dwarfish chits, but as cunning and tricky as young apes. It took us all our time to look after those boys.— Sometimes tiiey fought—sometimes they leagued in mischief ; but if they were out of sight, you might be sure they were doing no good. George was the name of one, Harry that of the other. The whole of the ship was against them, and they against the whole ship. It was a game, and the little wretches played well. Of course, they were thrashed from time to time, but that seemed to act only as a stim ulant. Well, one day the coolies got up a great affair—at least, it was a great affair to them, poor creatures. They were to give a sort of offering to their god—or, at least to one of them. They wanted to be in his good books, y r ou see, and so they made him this gift.— I don’t know all that was in tho bun dle, but I think there was rice and I know that there was money. The of fering was fixed to the truck of the mainmast—the truck, you know, is the button affair at the very top-point of the mast. Well, it was fastened up during the day, and the sign was, that if the god came in the night and took away the bundle, he was well pleased, and meant to bless their voyage. It was fastened all right, and they set a watch of their own to keep a tight eye to the bundle, so that they might see the god swoop down and cany it away. There was also a group of coolies at the shrouds to see that there was no unhallowed interference by the ships people. Well, evening shaded into night, and deuced dark it was too—heavy masses of cloud scudding across a sombre sky ; not bad weather, but rather threatening, you know. I was on watch, feeling rather anxious as to how the night might turn out. Our doctor, a native, came to my side. lie was a very intelligent fellow, I can tell you, and well educated. lie didn’t believe in the god coming down and taking away the bundle; but lie wasn’t such a fool as to express his mind be fore the coolies They are rather dan gerous cattle at times. You read now and again of their rising in mutiny, killing the officers and crew, ay, even setting lire to the ship, and playing the deuce generally. Coolies arc not to be trilled with, especially when there is a great crowd of them. Of course, they are ignorant and super stitious, and such are always danger ous. Life with such people is at a discount, and no mistake. Well, the doctor and I were devising plans for ventilating the ship by kindling fires, etc., and so the watch passed. When eight bells struck at midnight, I turned in as soon as I was relieved. It seemed scarcely a minute before I heard eight.bells strike again, and 1 was forced to know that it was four o’clock in the morning, and time for me to be on deck to take my watch.— 1 ijmmd the ship much as I had left her. The ‘second' said that the wind lAid not risen higher than when I went be low, but that the night had been in tensely dark. It was so at the time he spoke. I commenced to pace to and fro—wishing heartily that my watch was over, and. as time passed, noticing the gradual diffusion of the uncertain light of early morning. ‘Suddenly, m3 7 blood was nearly fro zen in my veins by a devilish uproar I thought at first that it was a mutiny —then fire. While I was composing my mind fur action, the screaming was renewed tenfold. Coolies streamed and crowded on deck in dozens. They were all violenty excited, but did not seem disposed to do any mischief. I sent one ot the hands to ascertain what was the row, before I gave any command, but before lie returned, (lie native doctor sprang to m3 7 side with glassy terror-stricken c3 T es and trembling limbs. ‘Mr. Topsail,’ says he ‘our lives are in danger! What fully! what madness! Who could do it ? You must act veiy prudently, Mr. Topsail, or this will be our last V 03 7 age., ‘While I was staring at the poor horrified doctor, unable to see his drift, the man returned, and said that the row was caused by the coolies having discovered that the bundle was gone —or as they said, thajt their god had carried it off. It was yet early dawn, and the great fact had just been discovered. I had forgotten about the affair. Now I glanced up at the truck of the mainmast. No bundle was there. It was gone. Ilow? Nothing in the way of atmospheric force could have removed it. Of course we could not admit the super natural (unless indeed, a half-formed suspicion of tho possibility of the dev il having done the thing.) Only one other explanation remained, that of human intervention. But how ? and who? I felt cold and giddy, a clammy perspiraion oozed out on me. and 1 felt shaky. I nerved myself I must act at once, and secretly. ‘The doctor whispered : ‘Oh, Topsail we ll all be murdered in cold blood, if they discover the trick. Who could it have been ?’ ‘‘l could only echo his question with a groan. I called the ‘second/ much to his surprise and disgust; but liav- ing left the deck in iiis charge, the doctor and I went on a voyage of dis cover 7 . First we repaired to inv room and thought. Sudden^ 7 we both rais ed our C3 7 es, and staring at each other whispered: ‘The boys.’ ‘Oh, copfound them !’ cried I ; ‘OIII3 7 wait. If we make this V 03 r agc, and get rid of this load of gunpowder safe 13', oh, wont I give them jessy*!” ‘Let us hunt them up said the doc tor.’ So we set out for the forecastle We entered, noislessly, and crept in the di rection' ,ci the boys bunk. At first there Teemed nothing unusual. The lamps ‘swung- ahu creaked, the timbers strained, the water went thud, thud on the ship’s bows. We crawled nearer. We held our breath. Hush ! What sound was that ? Was it not like the chinking of money ? Oh, horror! ‘The doctor and I pinched each other black and blue , and shuddered. We crawled still nearer. We got behind a coil of rope and some barrels. We peeped into the corner where the two young scapegraces dwelt. Yes, the metallic sound proceeded from that direction. We stretched our necks. There before our eyes sat the two lit tle creatures, with the bundle between them) cosil3 7 but secretly dividing the spoil. Such a combination of daring and-fully almost made us commit our selves. But we watched our chance, and pounced on them, and clapped our hands on their mouths. In a second we had them tied up and gagged. The contents of the bundle we quietly con cer.ted aoout. our persons, and dropped overboard when we went aft. We set a watch over the bo\s, and I read them a Lsssen in whispers, which put the terror of death on them. It was a dark night, 3 7 0 u know; they had climbed up the day unnoticed, and laden the bundle! ‘Ah! doctor, I’ll never forget that voyage, I was forever thinking that ;ne b.ackies were rising, or that thc3 7 were T walked on needles and pins ; —every sound startled me. I had taken all possible precautions, had my arms ready, ect.; but it would have been madneas to have thought of resistance. I had all the burden on my shoulders, for I nev er told the skipper, and the ‘second’ did not seem to understand the affair nor to appreciate our danger. But the native doctor did, and assisted inc ably. Even my turn below was no rest; I couldn’t sleep—l dozed and started till I was called on deck again. 0 man, it was awful! Suspense, doc tor, is a terrible thing ! I felt just as if I were living over a volcano—nev er sure but that an eruption might oc cur. It would have been almost a relief to have had the worst My hair turned gray, doctor—no mistake. The ‘second’ even noticed that. I turned shaky and fanciful. No, doc tor, I didn’t drink ; that had nothing to do with It. How I rejoiced at the close of each day! We made a pret ty good voyage; and I almost felt as if the land, when we first sighted it, it was paradise! When we actually got that cargo safel3 7 on shore, and I felt my throat still uncut, I almost thought it too good to be true—no mistake!’ I don t know bow many of my ci gaiettes Mr. Topsail smoked, but I know that the was sadly reduc ed. ‘But I say, Topsail,’ I put in ‘what about the bo3 7 s, 3 7 0 u know? Did 3'ou give them an awful thrashing-? Mr. Topsail looked sulkier than usu al as he replied: ‘Well the3 7 gut loose as soon as we got into port—robbed me, and deserted tne ship. That was the last I ever saw of them.’ A Story for Yoim§ Ladies with Little Brothers. The moral of the following, told by the sufferer, is too apparent to mention. Young ladies will hereafter run their brothers out when gentlemen call. It’s certain that I wish somebody would spank the young rascal. We talked of mountains, hills, vales and cataracts —-1 believe I said water falls—when the boy spoke up and said : ‘Why, sister’s got a whole trunk full of them up stairs ; papa says they are made of horse hair.’ This revelation struck terror into me and blushes into the cheek of my fair companion. It began to be ver3 T apparent to ine that I must be very guarded in what I said, lest the boy might slip in his remarks at uncalled tor places ; in fact, I turned mv con versation to him, and told him he ought to go home with me and see what nice chickens I have in the coun try. I nluckily I mentioned a yoke of calves, which ruined all. The little one looked up and said : ‘Sister’s got a dozen pair of them, but she don’t wear them only when sue goes up town of wind3 7 days.’ ‘Leave the room, \ 7 oii unmannerly little wretch !’ exclaimed Emity.— ‘Leave immediatelyA ‘I know what 3 7 0 u want me to leave the room for,’ exclaimed he. ‘You can’c fool me, 3 7 0 u want to sit on that man’s lap and kiss him, just like you did Bill Simmons the other day ; you can’t fool me, I just tell you. Give me some candy like he did, and I’ll go. You think’cause you’ve got the Gre cian bend that you’re smart. Guess 1 know a thing or two. I’m mad at you, anyhow, because papa would have bought me a top yesterday, if it hadn’t been for getting them curls, dog on 3 7 er. You needn’t turn so red in the fact', ’cause I can see the paint. There ain’t no use a winking with that glass eye ot yourn, for I ain’t agoing out of here ; now that’s what’s the matter with the pimps. I don’t care if 3 7 ou are twenty-eight 3 7 ears old, you ain’t no boss of mine.’ Let tsse Children Alone. Lot your children alone when they gather around the family table. It is a cruelty to hamper them with mani fold rules and regulations about this, and that, and the other. As long as their conduct is harmless to others, encourage them in their cheerfulness. If they do smack their lips, and sup pings of milk and other drinks cun be heard street, it Axis not hurt the street ; let them alone. What if they do take their soup with the wrong end of the spoon ; let them alone. Suppose a child does not sit as straight as a ramrod at the table ; suppose a cup or a tumbler should slip through its little finger and deluge the plate of food below, and the goblet is smashed, and the table cloth ruined, do not look a thousand scowls and thunders, and scare the poor thing to the balance of its death, for it was scared half to death before. It ‘didn’t go to do it.’ Did you never let a glass slip through yonr fingers since you were grown? Instead of sending the child away from the tabb in anger with not even a threat for this or any like nothing, boas generous as you would to an equal or superior guest, to whom you would say, with a more or less obsequious smile, “It’s of no possible consequence.” That would be the form of expression even to a stranger guest; and yet to your own child you remorselessly, and revenge fully and angrily, mete out a swift punishment, which for the time almost breaks its little heart, and belittles you amazingly. The proper and more Christian method of meeting the mishaps and delmquincies and improprieties of your children at the table, is either to take no notice of them at the time, or divert attention from them at the very instant, if possible or to make a kind of apology for them. But after wards in an hour or two, or better still, the next day, draw the child’s attention to the fault, if fault it was, m a friendly and loving manner: point out the impropriety in some kindly Vv a^s, show where it was wrong or rude, and appeal to the child’s° self respect or manliness. This is the best way to correct all family errors. Some times it may not succeed; sometimes harsh measures may be required ; but try the deprecating or the kindly method with perfect equanimity of mind, and failure will be a rare occur rence. — Dr. Hall. The following sentence of only thir ty-four letters contains all the letters in the alphabet : ‘John quickly extem porized live tow bags.’ I 3IISKT£ 11. HUMOROUS. Young Simpson, just beginning the study of natural philosophy, be came fond of applying technical names to common objects to impress hearers with a sense of his profound knowl edge, and tried the game with his father one evening. When he men tioned to him that lie had swallowed some marine acephalous mollusks the old man was much alarmed, and ho suddenly seized Simpson and threw him to the floor, and held him and, screamed for help. And when Mrs. Simpson came with some warm water an?nhe hired man rushed in with a garden pump, they forced half a gallon of water down Simpson’s throat, and then held him hv the heels over the edge of the porch and shook him, while the old man said: “If we don’t get them things out of William lie will be pizened. And when they were out, and William explained that the articles alluded to were merely oysters then his father fondled him for half an hour with a trunk strap for scar ing the family. Subsequently Simp son framed his language in more fa miliar phrase. —Danbury News, A Danbury young man, who was once a clerk, lately went on a farm to work, ilie first night in his new pooition he was detailed to remove a call Irom the apartment of its parent to another shed, and while enframed as thousands have been before him, in shoving the contrary beast along, the mother reached under the tails of his coat with her horns and suddenly lifted him up against the roof of the building with a force that threatened to shatter every bone in his body, ihe first thing he did on returning to earth was to rub himself, the next thing was to throw up his place, lie said he didn’t doubt that agriculture was a noble pursuit, and that the far mer needed an assistant in the discharge of his multifarious duties, out he didn’t believe lie was designed lor making skylights in cow sheds. ‘I wasn’t so very late—only a quar ter of twelve.’ ‘How dare you sit there and tell me that lie ? I was awake when you came in, and looked at my watch—it was three o’clock.’ ‘Well, isn’t three a quarter of twelve ?’ Ihe clerk of a San Francisco lawyer guarded against the possibility of for getting the secret of the combination by writing it upon the knob of the safe. lie found it hard to dodge the well-bound law books that were thrown at him when the lawyer dis covered it, and is now seeking a desk in another office. One of our citizens went to the cars this morning to see his wife off, and having two or three minutes, before starting-time, stepped around the cor ner an instant. lie returned just :in time to see the train moving off, and, slapping his leg emphatically, he re gret! uily enunciated, ‘I ought not to have taken sugar.’ In London no man thinks of black ing his own boots !’ said a haughty Briton once to the late Mr. Lincoln, whom he found polishing his calfskin gaiters. ‘ Whose boots does he black?’ quietly responded Uncle Abe. A young lady says that a gentleman ought never to leel discouraged when the ‘momentous question’ is negatived by the object of Ins choice, ‘for in life, as in grammar, we always decline be fore we conjugate.’ ‘My son,’ said an affectionate mother to her son (who expected to be mar ried soon), ‘you are getting very thin.’ Yes, mother,’ he replied, when I come the next time you will be able to see my rib.’ ‘When I put m3 7 foot down, I’ll have you to understand,’ says Mrs. Nojoker, ‘that there is something there.’ On investigation it appears to be a No. 11 shoe. Mr. Ta3*lor, of Lafayette, thought he would shear his mule’s tail. The sur geon is assiduous in his attentions. J lie man who tried to sweeten his tea with one ot bis wife’s smiles, has fallen buck on sugar.