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THE EASTMAN TIMES, [
R. & BURTON, - Proprietor.
H. W, J. HAM. - - - - Editor.
WEDNESDAY. JUNE 18. I )7&.
Mad and Vicious.
The Bucholio quill-driver, who mis
manages the editorial department of
t he Hawkinsville Dixjxitch, took his pen
in hand last week and sloughed off a
somewhat bombastic editorial and
several little items about our town, in
the choice adjectives which usually
characterize the language of people
who have a vicious spleen to gratify.
It/is wonderful how some people will
allow the ruling passion, however ig
nominious, to crop out even in their
daily walk and conversation. This
illustrious ink-slinger denies that he
has any prejudice against ns, our
town, or our paper, and yet his every
action goes back on the fair words, lie
is not prejudiced. Oh, no; not he! llis
soul soars above such littleness. He
didn’t yhdrfli.sli a ulaU>uif>nt lihat our
paper was printed in two different.
cities, knowing it to he untrue, and a
vile slander. He hasn’t used every
effort of which he was master from the
time our paper has been established,
to ridicule us, and stigmatize our |
efforts to compete with him in honest i
journalism. He didn’t publish a state
ment that our town was not larger
than a big woman, and afterward j
swear that it contained six drug stores.
He didn’t lend his countenance to the
slanders of a certain correspondent
who shall hereafter be nameless in our
columns, back up his positions, and
declare that his ink and paper was
free for him to go on with his vitupera- j
tion ol us and our people. Oh, no !
Most puisant, high and mighly phi
losopher, he is above the little petty
meannesses of this lmmd me sphere!
Ah ! wonderful, unprejudiced, good
hearted creature! llow clever in him
to use his large and
journal to bring us, the poor despised
Lazarus, lying at his gate, into noto
riety. Will our hearts ever cease to
Hop up and down with gratitude for
iiis disinterested kindness ? Well, we
must confess ho has accomplished
what he sought; lie has hushed us up.
\V r e must decline further controversy
with, or notice of him and his corres
pondent. Of course we’re annihilated,
done for, busted up, and blotted out
of existence, but so let it be. We
will not further compromise our dig
nity by tuudyiug words with him.
Our morbid desire to quarrel is not so
wonderfully developed that we can’t
control our ire toward those we deem
our inferiors. There is no principle
involved in the discussion; nothin 0 *
that does us any harm; and he is at
liberty to fire away his ammunition
at the imaginary bear, as long and as
much as he pleases, and may rest as
sured that he is in no danger of ha ving
his fire returned Iron, our battery.
W e feel as did the poet when lie said:
“Immodest words admit of no defence,
For want of decency is want of sense.”
So we dismiss them from our notice,
in the famous words of Mat ur ins Ber
tram.
“Let them wield their thunder. Fell
is their dint, who,re mailed in despair.
VISIT TO CHAUNCEY.
MUJLJ.IINOAI!.
Extensive Sliingle and Laih
VV(r!is
Kuergy,Tlirift and Tim,
One day last week we took occa
sion, in company with a friend, to
make a vsit to No. 12, M. & Ik R. R.,
or Chauncey. Arrived there the first
thing which met our eye was a large
platform, some fifty by one hundred
feet, filled with shingles, as high as a
man’s head. This is erected by Messrs.
Sumner, Mullin & Hills, as a reposito
ry for their shingles, We went over
to Mullingar, a distance of some half
a mile, where we came upon the ex
tensive works, which bear this euphon
ious name, where we found our clever
old friend, Mullin, more familiarly
known as Tap,’ who greeted us with
a cheerful welcome and invited us to
make ourselves at home. In a few
minutes the round table in his office
was covered with quite as nice a little
dinner as one would wish to see, and
we fell to with a will which soon left
us nothing to wish for in the way of
edibles, for our carrying capacity was
completely monopolized by a conglom
eration ot vegetables, eggs, ham, and
good butter, biscuit and coffee, Aftci
this we prized our mouth open, insert
ed a long-stcmed pipe, the property oi
‘Pup,’ between our jaws, and with the
wreaths of Trido of Virginia* curling
gracefully around-our editorial knowl
edge box, sallied forth to take a more
critical view of Mullingar and its sur
roundings. Wo found regular streets
laid out, the handsome cottages for
the accommodation of the hands and
employes of the works,' stretching
away in three directions from the mill,
presenting amid th tall pines quite a
picturesque appearance. The works
are contained in a budding eighty feet
long by about fifty wide,/and the
rapidity with which the famous Geor
gia pine shingles are turned out is
perfectly wonderful. Two shingle
machines arc run by the same engine,
(sixty-horse power) together with
cross cut and bolting saws. Comfort
able stables arc erected for the accom
modation of the stock, while the en
gine and all the machinery are models
of their kind. Everything runs as
smooth as oil, and not a jar disturbs
the still air, save the whirl of the in
numerable wheels and the swish of
t ! /e shingle saws, turning out -10,000
shingles per d;i>y. The shingles ark
are packed in bundles of 250 each, by
small boys, in a packer made for the
purpose, and a most rigid scrutiny is
bestowed upon them to see that each
one is sound and without wrack or de
fect. They manufacture two grades,
Nos. 1 and 2. No. lis all heart, while
No. 2 contains more or less, sap. No.
1 is sold for $4 per thousand, and No.
2 lor $2.50. The shingles are piled
on the platform at the Station which
we first mentioned, and from thence
loaded and shipped by the car load to
various points from Atlanta to Bruns
wick. The energy, thrift and vim
which characterizes this firm is really
refreshing. They give employment to
from fifteen to thirty families, at prices
ranging from $8 per month to boys,
to $33 per month fur good men hands,
and the money is paid promptly at the
15th of each month, which always in
sures them plenty of good hands. By
red ere li co- to their large advertisement
in our columns, it will be seen they
are gentlemen of energy and enter
prise, and well deserve the success
with which they have met,
Fite Best Maty to X.iII a Town,
w.'et your faces against every enter
prise and work against the interest of
every mechanic and laboring man who
tries to procure a decent living in your
midst by the sweat of his brow. If
you have a tinner, buy your tinware
elsewhere, and brag and gasconade
around that you can undersell him.—
If a harness maker locates with you,
buy your harness from a foreign man
ufacturer, never patronize him to the
extent of a whip cracker, even. Charge
the laboring classes two prices for
their goods, and never encourage them
by your patronage. Don’t advertise
in your local paper, and tell everybody
that it doesn’t amount to much, that
the editor is a clever fellow, but you
don’t think his paper will survive long.
If you have a piece of land to sell,
charge two prices for it. If you have
a house to rent, charge two prices for
if, and by all means exact two prices
tor your wormy bacon and wooden
nutmegs Do all this, and if you don’t
.succeed in killing even the most pros
perous young town, we’ll give a year’s
subscription to the man who will con
vince us we are mistaken.
31 i&fakeu Independence.
“End of the Exchange System.— The
New York Sun takes the lead in deal
ing the death-blow to the exchange
system. ‘From and after the Ist of
duly next/ says tiie editor, ‘The Sun
will cease to be sent in exchange to
any other paper, and will not receive
exchanges. For all papers iji different
parts ot the country that we require,
we propose to subscribe and pay, just
like any other subscriber; ami nli our
friends who desire to have The Sun
can procure if upon the same condi
tions.’ This is business-like and just.
Eater in the season, no doubt other
journals will follow The Sun’s exam
pie, and effectually put an end to an
already useless feature in American
Journal ism.—Ac tea rk Ad cert iser.
We think, with all due deference to
the eminent gentleman's opinion, that
he is quite mistaken when he dubs the
exchange system a “useless feature of
the American Journalism.” The pur
pose in view by all intelligent journal
ists, is the diffusion of the greatest
amount of intelligence among the
masses of society, and there is nothing
conduces more to the promotion of
| this object than the free interchange
of opinion among newspapers. As to
the uselessness of the system, we
think the mistake is a most erroneous
one, for our idea is that nothing is
useless which is a paying investment.
“Money saved is money made,” and if
| the gentleman will take the trouble to
; expend a few mathematics on the
- problem he will find that the exchange
system is, even under the new postage
law, quite a saving. For an illustra
tion: We publish a small country pa
per; we have six daily exchanges and
twenty weekly. Linder his arrange
ment six dailies would cost us sixty
dollars in subscriptions, and five dol
lars in postage. Twenty weeklies,
forty dollars and six dollars on post
age, making in the aggregate one
hundred and eleven dollars. At pres
ent we work off for those exchanges a
little over a quire of paper, worth
twenty-five cents, and add to this the
eleven dollars nostage, and the amount
foots up twenty-four dollars, a clear
saving of eighty-seven dollars, which
is no small item to a country newspa
per.
Singular Coincidence,
The first woman ever hung in Geor
gia was a Mrs. Eberhart, of Randolph
county, who suffered the extreme pen
alty of the law, in the year HBS, for
the murder of her child. How singu
lar that the very next white woman
"iruTg" fn Fje fSTatc, ysiiouk// * £ the
same name, though neurlv > mfc hun
dred years have elapsed since that
time
GEORGIA NEWS.
lion. Alexander 11. Stephens has be
come sole proprietor of the Atlanta
Sun. Mr. Willin ghain retains his po
sition as associate editor, and Mr.
Moore is still ‘ye local.’ .Air. James 1.
Miller is business manager
Mu 3 r or Huff, of Macon, comes out
in a proclamation on the Georgia
State Fair,-which has the right ring in
it. Though long, and taking’ in a wide
range of matter, it is full of sound,
practical sense all the way through.
Macon commenced smacking tu
lips over ripe peaches last week.
The Sandersvillo Herald chronicles !
the death of Mm Nathan Renfroe, an!
aged and highly respectable citizen of j
Washington countv.
The Maeonitcs fish for rats with
hook, line and bait, just like they I
would for any other Ted-ycd We
knew there was cat fish, and can’t see
why there shouldn’t be rat fish, as
well.
Harris has gone at it now. Asa
sample of the size lie turns out, we in*
sort the foliowing item:
Since we commenced composing our
articles at the case wo have Warned !
to set type so fast that in order to!
prevent the lead from melting from !
the friction, we have secured an a tile-1
bodied freedman to stand at our side j
with a Babcock Fire Extinguisher,!
and keep a heavy stream of water up
on the boxes.
The caterpillar is raging in Mitchell
county.
Aii Atlanta man by the name of
Cole, attempted to commit suicide the
other day by taking laudanum.
Mr. John Callaway, an old citizen of
Milledgeville, is dead.
A Macon man is opposed to hiring
livery stable horses any more. He tried
it the other evening, and went out to
ride with his sweetheart. Chancing
to pass the stable whereat he had se
cured the bucephalus, the animal want
ed to go for his matudinal corn and
oats. The gallant objected, and the
horse elevated his heels so artistically
that the young gent alighted with his
sconce in the mud without oilier dam
age than a compound fracture of a
seven dollar pair of pants. Asa mat
ter of retaliation, we may say that the
facts of the above danagraph was
gathered from the Savannah News.
The new editor of the Columbus
Sun says, in wrathy English, that he
ain’t a Colonel. Sorrier men are
dubbed Colonel, and why not ho
The Savannah Advertiser <£■ liepubh
can announces that the house of a cer
tain party was 'robbed by a negro of
considerable property.’ lie might not
have so meant it, but it sounds like
the negro was possessed of considera
ble property. Why, then, should he
wish to theftuate his neighbors.
Harris, of the Savannah News, don’t
like the retrogade movement, which
he has been obliged to take in his pro
fession, if we may judge from the fol
lowing tearful appeal:
‘We repeat that there are several
openings in this office for country prin
ters and young men who desire "to fin :
isli their trade under excellent aus
pices. We have already had several
applications, and those who wish to
secure permanent and fat positions
should come forward at once.
A negro near Savannah while dig
ging in tiie ground a few days since,
unearthed $17,000 in gokl and silver.
He says ‘all dis talk bout hard times
don’t ’mount to mitfin, an’ de good-for
nuffin lazy niggers won’t work. Hat’s
what’s de matter/
Mitcoji ups und says she is going to
; clean out the vagrants from her limits.
Albany is grating her teeth on green
j corn at twenty-five cents per dozen
I ears.
it the lilaek->hear Georgian could
keep their Baker at home they would
turn out Quite a feast of good readable
matter. Wo would advise them to
,n uty the Colonel to some nice girl,
or else bell him. Their paper is im
proving very much, indeed, in both ed
itorial and mechanical departments.
Crawford county flops her wings,
gives a prolonged crow, and says she
has a hen who lays eggs with U. S.
Internal Revenue Stamps on them.—
Wo never doubt anything now. No
doubt it is true, but we wish to know
the exact amount of paper, print
ers’ ink, and green paint that hen
consumes per dozen eggs. Our idea
is that it would be cheaper to attach
the stamps afterward, but it seems the
inventive genius of the XlXth century
has got away with such an old fogy
idea as that. .
- r * . < i
ilie in corpora tofs of the Louisville
Branch railroad have held a meeting
o
and opened books of subscription to
the capital stock of the company, en
gaged an cngiifcer to survey the
route, and fixed upon New Bethany
as the terminus of the road. Louis
ville and Bethany seem to be taking
hold of this matter vvilli a vim, and
we wish thgm every success.
The colored population of Columbus
while a way the sultry hours in danc
ing picnics. As an investment, it is :
a success, for the per scent is vei v
largo.
A Calhoun man lias a mule for sale.
It is because- lie started across a creek
the other day, and the aforesaid mule, I
suddenly stopped, and by an adroit
elevation of his caudal appendage,
and a scientific urging of his nether
bog-trotters, persuaded the. pious cit
izen to go in without him Wading out, I
lie stood on the bank and swore for i
1
half an hour while mulcy stood quietly j
cooling himself. Ills opinion now is >
that of all things conducive to profan- j
ity to be flung by a mule in the middle I
of a branch “beats the world.”
A Covington Enterprise man who ;
spells clerk with a K, accuses his tel-!
egrapli operator of cussing very gram-1
matically for a child raised up in civi
lized circles,
' '
The Atlanta Herald speaks of May
or Hoff of Macon, as Miss YY. A. Huff. :
W'e wonder when the metamorphoso’s !
took place, and what will be the effect
on the Georgia State Fair,
An old lady who sells eggs and j
buys \arn in thevioinitv of Jonesboro,
let her ire boil over the other day in >
this wise. She asked what was the j
news. The obliging dork replied,
“the yankees have got the modocs.”
striking her knuckles on the counter,
she exclaimed, “I'm glad of it, and
hope it will kill the last one of ’em
before the doctors can stop it.”
Tile Devices of the ’JNew Silver |
- Trade Dollar.
The Secretary of the Treasury and j
the Director of the Mint, Dr. 11. R ;
Linderman, fixed upon the devices for '
the new silver trade dollar authorized :
by the coinage act of 1873, seven sets ;
of devices, prepared by the Philadel
phia Mint, being submitted. The one
adopted has tor its obverse a female
figure seated on a bale of cotton and
extending the right hand, grasping
an olive branch toward the open sea.
in the lelt. hand is a scroll, bearing the
word “Liberty,” and at the base of the
device is the motto, Tn God we trust.’
The date of the coinage(lß‘T3) appears j
together with the halo of thirteen
stars. The reverse is the figure of an
eagle, with the inscription, “United
States of America.” and the mottlf’
E Pluribus Unum. The weight and
fineness, with the words ‘Trade Dol
lar/ are also appropriately inscribed
on the reverse. The working dies
will be commenced immediately at the
Philadelphia Mint, and the coins are
expected to .be ready about the middle
of this month. Already there has
been deposited in New York upward
of a million of dollars to be exchanged
for the new dollar, and this will be
the firsi requisition filled. It is under
stood they will be shipped immediately
to China and Japan
The Modocs. —Boyles Camp, June
13. —The Modocs commission convenes
at Fort Klamath. It is thought that
Bogus Charlie, Hooker Jim, Shack
nasty Jim and Steamboat Frank, who
aided in Captain Jack’s capture, will
escape punishment as murd rers.
Those not tried for murder will be
forwarded to a fort in San Francisco
harbor.
General Ross, of the Oregon volun
teers, denies that his men massacred
the Modocs,
Successful Advertising.
Wo hgve often wondered why so
many advertisers seemed to prefer
newspapers tluit were* full of adver
tisements, to those that gave only a
limited number. It is evident at
once to every sensible man, who does
not like a silly sheep, merely follow
the herd, that everything else being
equal, an advertisement will attract
more attention when there are com
paratively few others in the paper.
I hose experienced advertising
agents, the Messrs. Rowell, in a late
issue of the ‘Advertiser’s Gazet e.’
containing advice to advertises, eali
attention to this fact, they sav:—
Another point of great consequence
is the amount <>J advertising in a j nir
’oal. \\ here a paper lias but one col
umn or less of advertisements, it is
worth an extra ju ice, because it makes
tnosc lew more cosPicuious than they
could be among ten times us many. A
daily paper is not kept so long as a
weekly. It is not so thoroughly ex
am, nod by the lamily, and furthermore
a successful daily paper usually de-,
votes two-thirds of its space to udver- j
Using, while no well-managed weekly
will admit more advertising Hum can j
be accommodated in one-tliiid of its j
columns.”
In a weekly paper like Tih: Post,
! w ueie too advertisements are compar
j atively few, and scattered on different
i pages, [he chances of their boin°*
O
read are probably ten to one as com
pared with a great daily. In fact
where pages are made up entirely of
advertisin'* matter, a large number
of readers never turn to those pages
at all.— Sat. Evening Post.
A Siamese Bible.— Miss Sal lie R. 1
Mattingly, of Bardstown, Kentucky, :
his sent to the museum of the Pubic
Library a rare curiosity from the far
off Kingdom of Siam. It was brought
from there by an uncle of the and mor.
It is a copy of the Siamese Bible or
Holy Book, and consists of a bundle
of very thin strips of bamcoo, twenty
eight of which are covered with writ
ing in the peculiar character used in
that country, and five blank strips,
three on one side, and two on the oth
er, form a cover of tne book. The
whole is held together bv a silk cord
and tassel. The strips are numbered
each one apparently constituting
a page of the book. The strips
are twenty-eight inches long by one
and a quarter inch wide, and the char
acters on them are delicately but
clearly traced, and appear to be so
arranged as to read up and down, or
Xiigthwise of the pages, instead of
from side to side as inPngiish volumes.
SCRAPS.
Profanity never did any man the least
good. No man is richer, or happier,
or wiser for it. It commends no one
to society. It is disgusting to the re
fined and abominable to the good.
The Utica Herald says it is some
consolation to see a bald headed in
surance man, You don’t know that
justice has been dealt out to him,
but you think perhaps it lias.
Miss Alice Jonhson, an attractive
young woman started a barber shop
m a Kansas town the other day All
the wives in town seemed moved by
a common impulse to present their
husbands with some little love token
By a remarkable ceinci-Xmce they all
selected razors and brushes and mugs
A woman at East Ja fiery, N. 11.,
has had an .accurate picture of a juni
per tree printed on her leg by a Hash
of lighting. And the editor who
chronicled the event has had a lively
time explaining to his wife how lie
got the ite re
A creditor in the eastern part of the
State received a postal card which
read; “Please find enclosed my check
for SIOO .which you will place to
my credit and oblige.” Ho is looking
for the check, and is reminded of
Josh Billing’s letter which ran thus:
“Enclosed please find $5 if you can.”
“Mrs. Jinks,” said a little red head
ed girl, with a pug nose and bare feet,
“mother says you will obleege her by
lendin’ her a stick of firc-w. od, fill this
cruet with \inegar, puttin’ a little soft
soap in this pan; and please not let
your turkey-gobblers roost our fence.”
Aristocratic young gentleman now
have their cigars manufactured to or
der with their monograms stamped
upon them in gold. Unless this thing
can be stopped, the supply of precious
metal is bkely to run short.
They have a Judge in Kansas who
fined a lawyer for saying sic transit.
The official thought it was swearing,
and remarked indignantly that nobody
sh mid “sick 1 , him in that court
A MODEL NEWSPAPER
j The Daily
% *
Tin- Savannah D’V Corning New, j.
knowledged by the press and people to be the
best daily paper south of Louisville atul east
of New Orleans. Cnrryiug with it tke*pn sti-1
ami reliability of age, and it has all the
and vitality of youth, and its. enterprise R V a
gatherer of tlie latest and fv shest news has
astoushed its cotemporaies and met the appro
bation of the bub lie.
During the year 1873 no expense of time,
labor, and money will be spared to keep the
Morning News ahead of all its competitors in
Georgia journalism, and to deserve the fritter
ing eneonimns heaped upon it from all quar
ters. There has ns yet, been no serious q.
tempt made to rival the special telegrams which
the News inaugurated some years ago, and
the consequence, is that the reader in search
cf the latest intelligence always looks to the
Morning News. The telegraphic arrange
mauls of the paper are such that the omissions
made by the general press reports are promptly
and reliably supplied by its special correspond
eirs.
The Morning News has lately been enlarged
to a thirty-six column paper, and this broad
scope of type embraces, daily, everything of
u; dost tutii transpire in the domain of litern
iUie, Art, science, Politics, Iftligion, and Gen
oral inti Uigt nee. giving to the reader more
and both r digest than other papur in matter
the State.
It is perhaps needless to speak of the poJi.
tics of Lhe Morning News. For yews and
.years indeed, since its esfalishwent, ■it has
been a representative Southern pa t Lr, and
h-oni that time to the present, in all eonjunet
ures > it: Lis consistently and persistently main
tained I Gmocratic States Rights principles, and
labored, with an ardor and devotion that know
no abatement, to promote and preserve the in-
Lrests and honor of the South.
The special features of the Morning Nkivs
will be retained and improved upon during the
ensuing year and several new attractions will
be added.
The Georgia News items, with their quaint
aim pleasant humor, and the epitome of Florida
ail iirs, will be continued during tlie year.
The local department will be the most com
plete and reliable to be found in any Savan
nah paper, and the commercial columns w 11
he lull and accurate.
The price of tlje Daily is $lO CO per annum
•~L.Od *oi* six months; SI.OO for one mouth.
THE TRI-WEEKLY NEWS.
1 nis edition of the Mobning News is c.s
pccially recommended to those who have art
the facilities of a daily mail. Everything that
has been said in regard to the daily edition
may be repeated of the Tri-weekly. It is made
up with great cave, and contains the latest and, s
paldles and market reports. The price of this
edition is s(>.oo pel* annum, $3. CO for sixmontLs,
and ei.hu for three months.
THE WEEKLY NEWS.
The Wv inly Morning News partienl riv r-sv
omim nds iisell to the farmer aucl planter, and
to those who live oft' the line of railroad, ft is
one ol the 1). ,st family papa’s in lhe country,
and its cheapness brings ii within the reach of
all. It contains Thirty-six solid columns of
reading; matt- r. and is mailed so as to reach sub
scribe ts with the utmost promptness. It :s a
carefully and laboriously edited compendium
o; tiie news of the week, and contains in addi
tion, tin inis:nft variety of other choice reading
matter. Editorials on all topics, sketches of
m- n, manners, and fashions, tides, poetry, bi
ography, pungent paragraphs and condensed
tel -grams enter into its make-up. It contains
the latest telegraphic dispatch© . and market re
ports up to the hour of going to press, and is
m till r speeds, an indispensiLleadjunct to every
home.
Drive One year, $2.00; six months, $1.00;
three months, 50 cents.
Subscription for either edition of the Morn.
INC* News may be sent by express at the risk and
expense of tire proprietor. Address.
J. H. ESTILL.
Savannah, Ga.
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Coni, Oats, Hay,
Flour, Molasses, Sugar,
Coffee, Lard, etc., etc.
All of which we offer for sale on a* fair
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; in Middle Georgia.
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2 Gm.
WESLEY WINDHAM. W. W. WINDHAM,
WINDII St CO.,
ARTISTIC
House, Sign & Decorative Painters,
(Under Spots wood Hotel)
Fourth Street, - - MACON, GA
All orders executed icith neatness and
dispatch.
march 10, ’73 ly