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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. JONES &. BAXTER, Y'XC' X'rSc GENERAL COMMISSION X-y pitA M M J-Z ii lJ II .-V IN TS, AND DEALERS IX 1 ’rod ttcc, Provisions, Staple Groceries, Fertilizers," Lime, Plaster, Cement, Ac No. 100 Cherry Street. j3l A CON, ----- GEORGIA. i March 10. ’7l-3m. jATHGLMES A CO., WHOLESALE HEALERS IN" Groceries and Provisions, No. 8?, Comer Third & Poplar Sts., ! MACON, - - GEOItGIA. ——< Wo have just received and in store a fteslx ; supply of Bacon, Bulk Meats, Coni, Oats, Hay, Flour, Molasses, Sugar, Coffee, Lard, etc., etc. All of which we offer for sale on a* fair terms as can be had from any wholesale house ; in Middle Georgia. TpgT- Give us a trial—We guarantee satis* faction ! J. HOLMES & CO. 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