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VOLUME I.] THE EASTMAN TIMES. * IS PUBLISHED WEEKLY AT Eastman, Dodge Cos., Ga., re. s. uxj re o is T . Term*—One year, $2 00 ; Six months, gl.oo. All subscriptions required in advance, invariably. Advertising Kates, s.p> j 1 mTT 3M. 6Mil2 M. ;$4 oo s 7 oo_i $lO oo: sls 00 o" • ; 625 12 00 ' 18 00 j 25 00 4 , 075 ]f)oo i 28 00 39 00 \ i 11 50 22 50 ; 34 00 40 00 i, ... 120 00 32 59 | 55 00 80 00 1 col. | 35 00 f, O 00 ! 80 00 130 00 Advertisements inserted at 81 per square lor 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 be charged lor 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. 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Sheriff's sales, per levy, S3 50 ; sheriffs mort gage sales, per levy, $5 ; tax sales, per levy, S3 ; citation for letters of administration, Si;* cita tion lor letters of guardianship; application for dismission from administration, $10; ap plication for dismission from guardianship, $5 ; application for leave to sell lind v one square $5, .aid each addition. 1 squnjx-, 81; application for h miesteacl, S2 ; notice and cred itor;-;, ;Imd sand .-s -Jst each ad ditional square, S3 ; sale *saW>hablo prop i rty, per square, Sa 50 ; e.-JWP notices, sixty days, S7 ; notice to perfect service, S7 ; rules uUi to mreclosom. riguge, j*.. rsqu.ire, $4 ; rules to establish lost papers, per square, Si ; rules compelling titles, per square, SI ; rules to per fect service in divorce casts, $lO. Sales ot land, etc., by administrators, ex? - utors or guardians, are required by law to be j h 1.1 on the first Tuesday in the month, belwe- n the hours ot 10 in the lorenoon and 4 in the ldternoon, at the court house door in the county ia which the property is situated. Notice of these sales must be given iu a public gazette 40 days previous to the day of sale. Notices lor the sale ot personal 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 la.veto sdi land, Ac., must bo published for two months. Citations tor letters of administration, guar-! diauship, Ac., must be published 30 days - for j lis mission from administration, monthly for '■ three mouths—lor dismission from guardian-! ship, 40 days. Kales for foreclosure of mortgages must be ! published monthly for four months -for eetab-! fishing lost papers for the full space of three, i mouths for comp*.]ling titles from executors | ( v administrators, where bond has been given ; . deceased, the full space of three months. 1 in dication will always be continued aecord- m § to these, the legal requirements, unless oth erwise ordered. Professional and Business. 11. W. J. HAM. j | THOMAS 11. DAWSON HAM <fe DAWSON, ATTOR XK Y S A T LA W , (Office in Court House.) EASTMAN, GEO., Will practice in the counties of Dodge, Ttl lair. Appling, Montgomery, Emanuel, Laurens mid 1 ulaski, and elsewhere by special con tract. 1 Fob. 14-tf Dll. .1. 11. LASIIE ll 9 Pliysican and Surgeon, Oners his professional services to the people of Eastman and sui rounding country. Office near Gen. Foster’s house. 1-ly. L, A. HALL Attorney and Counsellor at Law, EASTMAN, GA. Will practice in the Circuit and District Courts of the United States, for the Southern District of Georgia, the Superior Courts of the ' ,(; onee (. ircuit, and all counties adjacent to the M. AB.K. K. Half tee in adv.uice; con sultation fee reasonable. Office in the Court House. 1-ly. o. IIOIICVIC, A T T O E. N E Y AT LAW Hawkinsville, Geo. Oconee Circuit—Comi Culendar 1573. Wilcox —4th Mondays, March and September. iJooly-sa Mondays. March and September. Irwin—Fridays after above. Montgomery—Thurs after Ist Mondays, April Laurens—2d Mondays, April and Oct‘and Oct. yulaski~ 3d Mondays, April and October. Lodge-4th Mondays, April and October |e..oir —Thursdays after 3v. EASTMAN, DODGE COUNTY, G A., WEDNESDAY , JUNE 1873, A RAMBLE. 44 JOHN AND GEORGE” GO ON A SPREE. Bartow and the Temperance Pic Nic, Fine Oratory and Pretty Girls. Phrenology and Poetry. Montgomery County, June 13, ’73. Editor Eastman Tikes;— Thinking per haps that you would like to hear from your “old trumping' ground,” and something about the good, kind and agreeable people thereof, that made so many enquiries of us about you, your paper, and your prosperity among the tall pines and long grass, \ve pen ! these few lines. About sixty miles north of our quiet viile, Mount Vernon, is a place called j Bartow, No. li, C. R, IT, and some times Spiver’s Turn Out. How it came Iby such names you are doubtless j aware. But thither we bent our course last Thursday night, for, by some means we had learned tha t there was to be a picnic at that place Fri day, 6th of J one. Did we say ivc ? Well, we are not lik o some of your noble frateftiitv, a going to be so extravagant with the pronoun, but mean exactly what we say, that there were two of us. One laying aJde his scepter, the birch, and the other stall holding on to his honor. Thursday evening, after partaking- ot a hearty supper at his Honor’s house, to mid us seated in a bugg-y drawn by Charlie, that was ready for any emer gency that might turn up on the road that lay before us that night. Charlie bounded away for some 20 m.les, and nothing of material interest happened oij the route, hill the moon, winch had been shedding its silver rays all the night, had now sunk be hind the western hills, when, as a matter of course, Charlie’s gait was somewhat slackened, and we necessa rily had to be more cautious as to what road we took. Oh rny 1 We in advertently did take a wrong road, which was followed twy miles, and terminating amidst logs and brush, we found that “no further could we g-o,” and in front of us on a road which was now reduced to a mere trail, stood a small log house, which had all the appearance of liaviyg been for tified from the approach of man, beast or “varmints, by the falling of all the trees, saplings and undergrowth on d5 or 30 acres. After spending some half hour roll ing- over brush •and trash we succeed ed in getting in halloing distance of the log hut, when we made the hills reverberate and the welking ring with j HALLO ! For a few moments every t'-iing was as still as death, save the chirp of the crickets and the frogs in cone rt in a heavy swamp just back of the hut. Our feelings were such that we could not restrain them anv longer, so a double HALLO was giv en, which brought forth* the slumber ing inmates with the inquiry, ‘Who are you ? And what do von want V ‘We wish to find a road from this place,’ we answered. ‘W ho are you, any how V Tt don’t make a darn bit of differ-1 ence who we are; give us the road to Kick’s mill,’ we yelled *W ell, hold on,’ said an old lady. ‘The old man will be out directly, and I think as how he kin put you on the right road.’ ‘Strangers, which way is you trav eling C said an elderly gentleman in night clothes, accompanied by a half dozen barefoot boys. ‘W e wish to be put on the road to Kick’s mill/ we replied. ‘Now, thar is just this about it, Strangers, you 1! make money by turn j in back an’ takin’ tuthcr road, as not a rabbit could squeeze through that har riCane on the hill over yonder/ said the old gentleman, with such earnest ness tout we felt as if it would be the height of folly to attempt to go that road any further. So right-about facing Charlie we retraced our steps Till we found ourselves in the proper road and then hastened onward. But alas! Again in a tight before we had gone three miles. Missing the road which had been cut round the hill over which a hurricane had been playing havoc with the forest a few weeks be fore, we found ourselves brought to a stand still, and concluded the better part was to take out, feed Charlie, and wait for old Sol to give us light on the subject. An hour or so and we saw the pre dicament into which we had driven.— Reconnoitering some five or ten min utes, and we were again all 0 K; and now hastening on at a speed not far be hind a Dexter’s. Seven o'clock, amd va* reined up at that whole-souled gentle man’s, Mr. Drake, where we partook of a warm breakfast, that did so much revive our drooping spirits, and after which, were again upon the highway for Bartow, which we now found good, and, as a matter of course, we availed ourselves of it for 2fi miles. The crops we found good, and in good condition, save now and then a field that Gen. Green showed signs that he wished to be marshal of the day The farmers, all from where daylight found us to Bartow, have planted largely of cotton, and we think enough corn for home consumption. One o’clock, and we rolled over the bridge across Williamson Swamp at Barto w, an d—a nd—and—and—w ell, right there we saw—was the pie nic. To the left, up the east bank of- the creek carriages, in fact, every class of vehicle from a Stanhope to a Berlin or E' glisli barouche were crowded close together, for some two hundred yards, having only space between them for many hundred of fine ‘Selams/ to stand and await the final decision of driver or rider to remove them from under those sturdv oaks. Our inclination was, as a matter of course, to lurn up; and after going some distance, found an open space for Charlie, which we readily accepted. Alighting from our buggy, haltering' Charlie, we bent our steps for the stand, where hundreds of men, 'wo men and children, lads and lassies had assembled to celebrate a day set apart by the Good Templars in behalf of the temperance cause, in speaking, ad dresses, Ac., and to conclude with a glorious dinner. The first object that met our eyes was uncle Milledge Murphy, that Is rael of the temperance cause, that Joshua of a noble cause, and one who fears not to hoist his banner liie'h ; yea, upon the highest battlements of the cause that he so dearly loves we heard him proclaiming in an able and pointed address— “ Temperance in every place, abioad at home, fihence will applause, and hence will profit come ; Ann health from either he in time prepares, I or sickness, aye, and their attendant cares. ” “Beware the bowl! though rich and bright Its rubies flash upon the sight, An adder coils its depths beneath, Y\ hose lure is woe, whose sting is death. ” God bless uncle Milledge ; and may lie yet be spaied to spend many days among that happy throng of G. T’s by whom he was surrounded on June 6th. The next address was from the Rev. Mr. Johnson, of Waynesboro, Burke county. It was indeed an able and forcible speech. Mr. Johnson was followed by Rev. Dr. E. Carswell, who had delivered quite an interesting address before we arrived, of some two hours length, and was pronounced by the knowing ones as the best ever listened to or sat un der the sound of. The doctor was not satisfied with the day’s labor, or thought some more good yet might be done. So after relating a eouule of anecdotes, one of a baptist brother, brother Brinson, and one of a metho dist brother, brother Pitt, and they were real side-splitters, just the kind to settle three days rations and make a void for the good tilings waiting fin al 1 near by, three cheers were given for the temperance cause ; three cheers for the banner county in the cause, Jefferson, and three Drolonged cheers for their noble Representative, Hon. Marcus A. Evans. Mr. Evans next ascended the stage, and announced that dinner was ready, and that ALL were most cordially in vited to partake of it, which was spread under the large umbrageous oaks near by MJe, in company with fnendc, fal- lowed the gay and happy multitude to the tabio, and if ever a table groaned under the rich, luxurious viands that one must surely have made some sound. Any and everything to eat was there, and cool lemonade to iuvig -1 orate the thirsty. ; “Dire was the clang of plates, of knife and fork, TLat mere’luss fell like tomahawks to work.” “I'm quite asham’d—*tis mighty rude |To ait so much— bat all’s so good ! We have a thousand thanks to give BARTOW alone knows how to live.” At a late hour the many people re ! tired to their homes, satisfied that they re well*paid for the tboiYulo it had cost them in sowing the seeds of tem perance that day. Leaving our dear traveling- compan ion in the care of one that we bad ev ery confidence would take care of him, we took the highway for Burke county in company with many others, passing through Bethany, which we found to show signs of energy, with some im provement. Here they have a good ! school under the watch-care of Prof. i ; Timmerrnon. A few miles beyond this I we halted at a brother’s, where ! we refreshed and rested our weary 1 body till a lute breakfast Saturday I morning. After breakfast brother’s r horse was harnessed to our buggy, I leaving Charlie to rest, and we were i° . ’ j soon on the road to visit another bro-h --i or, where wo arrived a little before i noon. G‘n the road to Burke we saw many good farms. Cotton, cotton ! Every where was cotton, and all as a general thing looked exceedingly well. Corn, enough planted for home supply, and had been heavily fertilized with cotton seed—to such an extent that fifty bushels p.-r acre will be realized by the farmers of Burke and Jefferson. Mingling with family and friends till a late hour Saturday eve, we were again on retreat for near Bethany, where we again rested for the night. OdOolt .ll Hi j. mug. . OUT id US Oil v .'i road for home, after bidding adieu to dear relatives and kind friends. Ar riving at Bartow at 9 a. m., we reined up to take in our traveling companion, but through the influence of friends we were induced to remain till a an early dinner. During our stay for dinner we had the pleasure of being introduced to Prof. B. Gunn Mason, of England, who took great pleasure in telling us of the many sights seen in the Old World. He is a traveling phrenologist and scientific lecturer.— L'he following is some of his poetry after reaming the head of a fair and lovely damsel of the picnic : TO MISS H. F. J., OF BARTOW. “A genius bright as noon-day light, All dazzling as the sun ; An eye that gleams with sunny beams, Intelligence begun. “A soul that glows, like blushing rose, With ardent classic wit; With reason, power of that knows, Gigantic knowledge, wnr “A genius which may well compare With auv of this day ; In law or medicine would dare Contend with giants gray. “Poetical and musical, affectionate and kind. And all the other powers of mind Which thrill, and leaven, And charm the soul ot man to Heaven.” After dinner, bidding- a kind adieu i to our generous and kind-hearted ; friends, and Charlie adjusted to the buggy, we were soon wending our way homeward, where we arrived Monday morning in time to partake of a breakfast of “arr and lieggs” and i friccussee, with most delicious cups of! pure Java, when we felt like new be- \ ings, and was not the least disposed to regret our trip to Bartow. \\ ishing you all the success possible j in life that will crown your undertak ings while a pilgrim to that Land of Rest, We remain, Yours, very truly, John & George. THE DISGUISED DUKE, Or, The Slugger of tlie Slum s. CHARTER I.——THE ABDUCTION AND MURDER. | ’Twas the early morning of a beauti ful day in midsummer, and just as the goddess Aurora kiused the horizon and I sank to rest in the western portion of i trie hemisphere, that a youth vf com*' manding and dignified demeanor 1 strolled, at*the top of his speed, down the principal street of a thriving En 2 -! Hth report sj>t thres thjUiCzid miles London. Suddenly as he walked along, lie : was not heard to mutter anything-. 'iNot an audible sound escaped him, i nor did the slightest change o’erapread | ills noble countenance, so great was ! his control over his powerful inward | nature. He had just reached the coiner, and was on the point of turning round it to proceed homeward by a smaller : street, crossing the other at right an gles diagonally, when, as if by magic, he did not meet any one, nor, indeed, see y:y one else, The coast was clear! ‘Ha! ha! ha!’ would have -been the , ejaculation of almost any other young j man ot the same age, under such tiy j ing circumstances; but our hero never | flinched, nor uttered the slightest ex clamation to denote that anything un usual had happened. Bat there was a fire in his eye—he had only one—and a paler on his cheeks—-he had two or three—which plainly denoted that he was prepared i to meet the situation firmly and hero ! id v. i ! ?-** * * * * (To be continued in our next.) % 2\. B.—This is the next. CHAPTER II. —ANOTHER ABDUCTION AND AN OTHER MURDER. ; W hde these strange and terrible | events were transpiring in that lonely | village, unseen by mortal eyes, a trim | built wherry suddenly shot out from j the Custom House Wharf, in Nassau, I N. P., and urged on by a stiff breeze j lrom the westward, went speeding on ! toward Hour Island i O All unconscious of the fate that, ! awaited them, the inmates of the boat | sat conversing in low tones, in rdx ! tion to a strange and suspicious light j that v. as distinctly visible just at the I water’s edge, on 1 1 e of i But. first let us were. But first of all let us tell what they were saying. “I tell you what it is/' said the oth er one’s companion. “1 been around this harbor fin* forty years, and I nev er in all my experience—” “Wlmt!” exclaimed the other, ‘what! —what!’ he ejaculated, between his clenched teeth—“wnatl” “Yes,” rejoined his companion, ex citedly, and growing more and more excited as the terrible truth flashed j upon him. “Yes—yes-es-s-s !’ All was now confusion. The other j man sprang up like a lion, or, if the j exact truth must be stated, was going j to, but immediately, sat down again ! before he had arisen, and as suddenly, j though with slow deliberation, re- * maiued in that position for as much as ; I don’t know how long. At this very moment the splash of oars was heard, “List!” “Ilist!” “H—sh!” “ —sh!” As if the very heavens had been rent asunder by one fearful smash-up, the sk^| suddenly— We forgot to mention that it was very dark A man could not have seen his hand behind him at a distance of two paces. The darkness could have been felt. The struggle was a fearful one. Each powerful man, half crazed by the ter rible disaster, fought with careful en ergy, a reckless perseverance, a cairn but gentle madness, never before wit nessed on that coast. But, alas ! what could be hoped for in so unequal an encounter ? Vv r e give it up. But there is an “eternal fitness of things,’* which may* always be seeu at intervals—a providential interposition of Providence. What might have been the termination of this desperate con flict can hardly be guessed at, and that with great certainty. But it was not allowed to terminate at all. . Hark ! Through the silent watches of the dim, misty night, rendered hid eous by the combination of noises, prevalent at the hour, a horße’s hoofs j —yes, a horse's hoofs— (10 ti CO-VTINUIO :y o??. r.i:) V. B.— Ih:s is—the next. [NUMBER 211 Chapter lll.— The Terrible the Result. Eat we mast return to our hero, whurn we left in such a critical situa at the end of the first chapter. Our hero Is a duke, although ho is not aware of it. Ho was exchanged iu his infancy by his wicked nurse, for reasons which will bo left to the lead er's own good sense to unravel But no more, as she has long since gone other account. But to proceed wit otr cilery. As he walked along but with eyes wide open and on the alert for anything which might transpire in that lonely section of the country, his foot suddenly struck against something on the pavement. It was not a female in long, flowing white robes, with black hair streaming down, nor was her far.* oVrspread with a deathly pallor. “Merciful goodness !’/ he exclaimed, in bitter agony, “it is not a she !” (ro in our next.) N. B.—More n:\vt Chapter IV.—Conclusion. Reader, you have followed the char acters of this story through all their strange vicissitudes, and in saying farewell do you not feel a slight—that is to say—but of course you know what we mean ? All, the human heart is but human ! Would that it could be otherwise ; but how- fortunate that it is not ! There was a time when— yes, but methiuks we hear a thousand voices exclaim—- | “When !” At this point we are compelled t j I stop. i Tle End. | \V e should have said, though, and j meant to say, that the mercenary vil lain dragged out a miserable exist -1 once, and io-d the nordatichuliy dissat j iexaction of seeing the good people ol ! that section oi' the country point at ; his grave in derision and say— I But he heard not what they said While the happy bride and bride | groom, nestling in the blossoms of i eternal love, lived to a green old age, j and have long since been tenderly for gotten by their happy children who fell heirs to their princely estates, Finis. (A r B. — This is really the end this time.) Nasby Outdone.— The Washington Star prints the following letter from a gentleman in a backwoods town of lowii, who was recently appointed postmaster on the munfieent salary of sl2 per annum. We give it verbatim et literatim: “to the gineral postmaster at Wash ington City my Duarc friend i hope you will not appint me postmaster iu this hear town i haint got no time to tend to Fsupose g'ot the paper someow my friends sent up Reckominden me but i hain’t got no time to do the thing up as it ort too be done. In fact i dont know hardly what is a go in to be done our shoemaker would be a very good man only he was Grely square out which you know onfits him for the position then there is our store ceepcr jim B that wants the posi tion mightty bad but as shure as you are a livin man jim B kant read good writin and thats the trouble. You see them that wants it dont know enufl to tend itarid them their that does dont want to take it jim B wus raised out in the countrey and jest come to town last week and dont know enufl’ postmaster but do as pou think best only dont apint mo i hain’t got time ever your friend,” &o. W hen riding in the cars one is often forced to conversations upon person al matters. On one of our eastern trains, the other day, a newly married couple, starting on their wedding tour, after comfortably aranging themselves in tbeir seats, gave vent to their emo tions as follows: HuDband(leaning over very tenderly toward the partner of biejoyj and sorrows) —‘Oose little pet lamb is ou?” Wife (with roepon sive tenderness) —“Go's.” Husband -~'Oo doe® ’ou love?" Wife—‘On.’ I G., being a single maa, waa complete ly c /orcoma at tills of the con vtrsatic". and joired the euchre play ing crev.d in the smoking car.