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/THE EASTMAN TIMES.
R. S, BURTON, - Proprietor.
H. W. J. HAM. Editor.
WEDNESDAY, JOKE 25. 1873..
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VISIT TO MACON.
THE 8188 COUNTY FAIP.
Grand Display of Field I roducts
Lovely Park and Beautiful
Buildings.
Military Display and Pomp, To
gether with Various and
Many Other Things.
Last Wednesday evening 1 as fiery
Sul obscured his blazing countenance
behind the western lulls, the Macoi
and Brunswick train sat us down in
beautiful Macon, the central city oi
our grand old commonwealth. A night
at the old Spotswood with its good
faro, cool rooms and clean beds,
left us on Thursday morning in the
best of humor with ourselves and man
kind generally, and after partaking oi
an appetizing breakfast, we sauntered
forth to see what might be seen. In
company with our clever friend, Mr.
Leman, of Rodgers & Leman, who
kindly offered us a seat in his buggy,
we rode out to the
CENTRAL CITY PARK.
Wo expected to find a nicely arrang
ed a id well appointed place, but were I
totaly unprepared for the delightful as j
well as extravagantly beautiful vision
that burst upon our astonished view
The main entrance is a splendid piece
of architecture, arranged with exquis
ite taste, while inside, the tall magnifi
cent forest oaks and waving pines,
together with nature’s carpet of green
grass, form one of the most delightful
spots which it has ever been our good
fortune to visit. We meandered
around for an hour over the beautiful
grounds, listened to the murmuring
fountains, visited the several pictur
esque buildings, and felt really refresh
ed by our visit to this charming spot.
Macon and her efficient Mayor certain
ly deserves great credit for the admir
able taste and energy which" 1 charac
terizes evei y part of her beautiful park,
a lovelier than whiclGwe are sure
cannot be found in the Southern States
THE FAIR
Opened at three o'clock on Thursday
evening, and \vas, beyond all question,
a magnificent display, that done great
credit to Macon an old Bibb. The
principal part of the articles were
contained in tlic Floral Hall, and
thither we bent our steps. Nearly
the first thing which engrossed our
attention was a magnificent display
of drugs, chemicals and toilet water,
by
J. H. ZEILIS & CO.,
who, through their several proprietary
medicines and delightful toiiefc articles,
have become almost world-wide in
their reputation. Here was the great
“Liver Regulator,” so widely at.d
favorably known; “Champious Cotton
Caterpillar Exterminator,” together
with Zeilin’s Fertilizer, and the splen
did refreshing “Southern Heliotrope
Water,” one of the best perfumes we
have ever seen.
THE FINE ARTS
were well represented, rustic sketches,
wax cross and flowers, Amateur
pencil drawings, together with a
handsome photographic display by
J. A. Pugh, and various and many
other beautiful paintings, and pictures
which time and space precludes us
from mentioning, made the southwest
corner of the spacious hall, seem like
some old gallery of the feudal age.
TIIE FLORAL DEPARTMENT.
was full, and presented a display of
beautiful flowers, tastefully arranged,
that was beautiful and refreshing in
the extreme.
We much regret that we have not
time to give a full account of Friday’s
proceedings. The baby show, the
m.lkmaids’ contest, the military drill,
the boy riders, the ball, and all that
went to make the two.days of our stay
so very agreeable, but we are forced
to pass them over. To Mayor Ilufi
we are indebted for favors shown us:
and return thanks to our clever friends,
Menard, Zeilin and Hancock, for theiv
efforts to make our stay in the city
pleasant.
TIIF. STATE FAIR
will 1)0 held in Macon this fall, and it
is only necessary £\ say that Mayor
Huff, the nrftist popular man in Macon,
with the whole city a unit to hack
him, is making.exteueii e preparations
to make it a grand success, the which
of course it will be with Huff to* run
the machine. We can only say, when
-‘.comes "fl' may wo bo there *Vo s.e
h I’ii Sg<**.
The following editorial on the new
ordered the*'patrons of husbandry is
from the talented pen of Col. Baker, oi
the Ijlaek'shear*Gt.orginn'.
i his is anew and rapidly increas
ing organization, sustained by the
virtue and intelligence of the agiicul
fund interest of the country. The
wide sweep of corruption, the specula
ting mania and the bold peculation of
those holding posit ions of responsibil
ity, nave excited apprehension arid
damn The agriculturist are com
bining for the common safety, and the
formation of Oranges composed of
those interested in agriculture, is the
result of . the well timed movement.
Mr. Jefferson said that when the pi I
lars of constitutional liberty shall be
iverthrown and corruption shall bold
ly stalk abroach the last vestige oi
public virtue and love of liberty will
be found among the farmers of the
land, for they seek success not by
cunning devices or legerdemain arts
but lady on their honest industry and
Providence. The object of this organ
ization is not political and is above
party considerations. It is not busied
aud engrossed with calculations of
lollars and cents profit and loss, but
t rests on broad principles. It revives
nto its membership, only those known
as industrious and of unblemished
character, and who have interest in
the cultivation of the soil. To the pro
motion of useful industry aud the de
velopment of the resources of the coun
try it adds the moral benefit resulting
from the due excereise of the social
feeling’s and the mental faculties. To
accomplish these valuable results it
was appropriate that the aid of worn, n
should add to it new strength and
efficiency. Hence the members of the
Granges are male and female bound to
each other, and the organization by
obligations of fidelity to all the noble
objects contemplated.
Radical leaders and presses have al
ready taken the alarm at this harbin
ger of hope, and of a better time to
the country. Already they tremble at
the onward march ot this noble band,
of the true, the good and wise, who
are gathering to rescue the land from
the rule of the Rings, the sway of the
bad, and the oppression of moneyed
factions. At another time we will re
cur to this subject and present the
practical bentits of this new order
more fully.
GEORGIA NEWS.
Baker, of the Blackshtar Georgian,
got mad with us last week because
wo of his -patent
out of hisimoWMieaded'' pencil against
a clean sheet of paper after this wise:
‘‘The quaint, peculiar Ilam,
Of the Eastman Times,
While fondly dreaming,
To tender themes inclines—
Dreaming of some fair one,
Far away perhaps,
—Thus ta-fks out in church!”
The poem would have won him a
State reputation if he had finished as
he started out instead of chopping it
oil right at the most interesting por
tion, and going oft’ into prose, and
then to call us a “done secundem
artem / ’ Now, look here, Colonel, if
you mean to miss us in earnest- just
say so, and we’ll accompany you to
Florida on an excursion, and take “pis
tols and coffee” for refreshments.
Pierce county slips up to the front
with the bravest man of the age. His
name is Hagan, he is twenty years
old, and actually had the courage to
wallop his mother-in-law and wife
both at the same time. lie minds the
rats out of the county hotel now, and
amuses himself during his leisure
hours by singing, “Don’t be Angry
with me, Darling.” Pretty state of
affairs when a man can’t trounce his
better half’s maternal derivative and
caress the partner of his joys with a
stick without being put in jail.
The “Local Broad-Ax” of the Cov
ington Enterprise was sent out to
grind itself last week, so we judge,
from the fact that it didn't “hew to
the line” as usual.
Russell, of the Albany Central City ,
has a most enthusiastic admiration
for lightning.
An individual of the name of Drake,
who was of the manumitted way of
indulging in saucy jaw to his superiors,
once lived iii Lee county. He had a
misunderstanding -with Mr. in
whose employ he was, and followed
that gentleman to his own house,
swearing he would kill him. Mr. Hitt
drew his pistol like a little soldier
man, and told him if he entered his
yard he would feel called upon to ex
tinguish the flickering candle pf his
i beligerent, colored existence. Never
theless, his bravery impelled him on.
and the song birds now warble their
lays over his new-made grave.
The sala of city Jots at Port Royal,
| the new GeorgTtT sea port between
| Savannah and Charleston, will take
'place >\v, tli** ;V‘nh ins*
The following advertisement appeal’s
in the last number of the Albany Xeirs,
and if we find the fellow we’ll string
h : m up quicker’n winkin’.
Absconded. —The Junior Editor of
this paper took advantage of our ab
sence last week, and incontinently
quit his post, vacated the sanctum,
vamosed the ranch, stole away, slid
out, disappeared, got-up-a nd-got,
strayed, absconded, or words to that
effect, and it is suspected that one
Ben. E. Russell, of the Bainbridge
Democrat, instigated, incited, enticed,
wheedled, and persuaded the said Ju
nior to get-up-ambgit as aforesaid,
and that he, the said Ben. E., did ac
company the said juvenile Junior to
parts unknown to the Foreman and
iypos of this said office, leaving them,
tlie said Foreman and Typos without
copy and without spondulicks.
Now therefore, if any valiant Mo
doc should find, discover or flush the
said juvenile Junior in any body’s lit
tle lava bed, he, sue or it has our full
authority to take Ins scalp, name, age,
previous condition, how long before
he’s been, and when lie expects to get
there. And |he above reward will be
promptly paid <sn delivery. ' *
When Harris, of the Savannah News,
gallops his taper fingers over a type
case, lie sihjlls “excellent” with two
e’s, two c’a, two Ts, and an x-n t.
Tlie editor of the South Georgia
Tunes slung his editorial corporation
all around a pound and one ounce
onion one day last week, and modestly
marched oil to see his hope of future
bliss.
The Fort Valley Thomas Kitty pus
sies are rehearsing with much success
for the spring concerts, and the “pat
ent outside” is preparing and secret
ing for future use and defense, a large
supply of old boots, rolling pins, and
sich.
An Albany man is a candidate for
the lunatic asylum. He actually re
fused an offer of SSOO for a “pinter
dorg.” The man who offered it, is not
regarded as altogether safe when the
fit is on him.
The editor of the Dalton Citizen is
slowly convalescing from a rush of
blood to the head, caused by his vio
lent attempt to write a leader on the
commercial prosperity, which was
called forth by seeing a man on the
street with a ten dollar bill.
Harris, of the Savannah News , li:>-
dicrously jokes on the printers’ strike,
and the misfortune of a darkey after
tb’s wise*:
A Spalding county negro rambled
within range of a mule that was on a
strike the other day. The animal was
more efficient than the Typographical
Union, and the colored citizen prompt
ly suspended publication.
Augusta borrows a stick, prepares
herself for emergencies and casually
announces that she is the proprietor
of the first mad dog of the season. It
is thought the causes leading to the
attack of the malady grew out of the
fact that he had a piece of meat in his
mouth, and a bigger dorg took^it. —
And that purp was so mad , or other
wise exasperated, that he lifted up his
canine vo’ce and wept.
The hardware stores in Fort Valley
are doing a rushing business in the
sale of trace chains. They are bought
by fond paternals, next-of-kin to hope
ful young bloodffpft’ho.m they affection
ately insist should stay at home, and
upon their failing to do so, they kindly
anchor them to bedstead posts. An
over anxious parent who tried it once
doesn't do so now. The ungrateful
youngster up the bed
stead, and as paterfamilias wended
fiis way home about eleven o’clock,
from Ins nocturnal game of billiards,
he actually found that youngster
talking to his girl over a front gate,
composedly resting the side rail of the
bedstead on which he proposed to rest
his weary limbs on bis arrival at home,
on his left shoulder, as though he was
used to the business, while the chain
gracefully dangled from it to his left
fore foot. It is said the rattling of
that boy and chain and bedstead rail,
and the old man’s stick, together with
“yells loud and curses dire,” could be
heard for four squares, and all the
dogs in town are suffering with a se
vere hoarseness.
The casual potato bug excites the
profanity of the average Dalton citizen.
Two things are scarce in Foil Val
ley. Truth and soap. Falsehood and
dirty faces are the result.
Columbus is to have anew Baptist
church.
Augusta thinks she is going- to have
a new’ union depot. ■„
Warrewtou fights niggers against
white men, and makes the white trash
“pay the fiddler.”
The wheat crop in Gwinnett .county
has been seriously injured by blast
and rol
—V - _____. 1 " 11 1 11
Watson, of the Macon Telegraph,
with his usual aptitude for blunders,
geU Off the following’ in his account of
the Bibb county fair:
e think tl*e thanks of the Society
are especially and peculiarly due to
that noblest Roman of them all,’ Mr.
James Holmes, who alone, was able to
product l a country cured ham. May
he live long and be happy. The sight
of it, to your committee, was as the
sound of long forgotten music. It re
minded us of the days ot our childhood.
e were there, but did not expect
to be localized in this way, and are as
tonished at the cheek with which he
a. serts ihat Mr. James Holmes is our
Tataer. Mr. 11. doesn’t claim the honor,
Mr is he responsible for our existence.
The Americns Republican lias this:
A deacon, residing within an hundred
miles of Americus, objected to the or
gnn purchased by his church, and
when called upon to close the service
said “Call on the machine! il it can
sing the glory of God, it can pray too,
o;i v the machine!*
Last week a Griffin man was bitten
by a snake, stung by a bee, lost a val
uable dog, and stuck a splinter in his
foot. lie is now loafing around a
livery stable endeavoring to get kicked
by a mule.
GENERAL NEWS,
An observing exchange says the
people of the United States consume
annually ten and a half millions worth
gf foreign fruit; use nine millions
wotli of tobacco and segars; take six
millions of foreign crockery, and five
of glass,seven millions of India rubber;
five million dozens of eggs of foreign
tayingptw) million dollars’ worth of
spices; 138,000 bushels of foreign
grown potatoes; two and a half million
dollars worth of buttons ; a million :
dollars worth of sardines, and nearly
a million ‘dollars’ of human hair.’ we
might get along without some of
these articles, but what would become
of us if there was to be a falling in
our supply of hair?
The Cotton Prospect In Texas. —A
correspondent of the Galveston New*
gives a very gloomy picture of the
Lower Brazos and Colorado. lie says
he has seen nothing like the present
season in many years. The grass
and weeds, which are fr< m ten inches
to two feet high, cover the entire cot
ton fields like a green carpet, except
j where one or two furrows have been
: run next to tike drill of the cotton,
| and a majority of the farmers have
■ made up their minds to the loss of
i over one fou.th of the crop. '[ he great
I discouragement is the certainty that
j such weather will produce the cotton
| worm,
Detroit, June 18.—The Press Asso
ciation of Michigan passed a resolu
tion requiring all new advertising
agencies to send cash with their or
ders, and fixing a rate of discount to
all advertising agencies of twenty
per cent.
Wo hour strange things in medical
practice, but here is one entirely nov
el. A Mrs. Emery, of Portsmouth, N.
11., while washing, recently, experi
enced a sensation in her left eye,
which she described as sounding like
a watch running down. Presently
the eye, eyelids, and left cheek began
to swell, until the lids were beyond
the eyebrow, and the eye beyond the
lid. Her doctor treated her for ery
sipelas, In a few days, the eye began
to slough, and was removed, but mor
tification ensued, and the patient died
four days after The physicians pro
nounce the case one of apoplexy of
the eye. caused by the breaking of a
blood-vessel, mortification ensuing,
and ultimately, apoplexy of the brain.
Of the Connecticut State Senators,
four are farmers, five manufacturers,
four lawyers, four merchants, one
butcher, one auctioneer, one surveyor,
and one carpenter. Of Hie 241 mem
bers of the House, one hundred and
fifteen are farmers, thirteen are law
yers, five clergymen, twenty-one mer
chants, six physicians, and the rest
are divided up among various callings
and pursuits.
General Meachara thinks Captain
Jack the best of the Modocs after all.
He says he was the first and most per
sistent advocate of peace, but when
ever he talked in its favor some of the
tribe would throw a shawl over his
shoulders, or put a woman’s bonnei
on his head, signifying that he was a
coward, and to their taunts and jeers
he at last yielded.
Expenses in Bankruptcy —The United
States District Court for the Eastern
District of Virginia has ordered that
no constructive traveling expense
shall be allowed to assignees in any
ca o in bank raptor; nor ;mv traveling
I expense in any case, when the order
| desired Could be obtained by mail, and
i . *
, in no case where the assets coming to
j the control of the assignee do not ex
! ceed the exemption allowed the bank
rupt, shall the allowance, over and
above the original deposit of fifty dol
lars, exceed twenty dollars to the reg
ister, fifteen dollars to assignee, and
j fen dollars to the clerk, and expenses
| actually and necessarily incured
A Kentucky paper gives this in
teresting piece of information: ‘Tne
! hite Legislature passed an act declar
| ing that the wages and compensation
jot married women for labor and ser
, vice performed by them shall be free
| from the debts and control of their
I husbands. For a number of years the
j courts ot the State have been author
! ized to empower married women, on
j the joint application of themselves
| and their husbands, to act as Angle
i women in matters of business. So
j Kentucky is not so far behind the
i rest of the world after all.
James McGibben, a captain in the f
IJth Louisiana regiment in the Con- ■
federate army, and latterly a clerk in
the office of the Erie R. R., N. V., and t
who had been the recipient of many
favors from the late James Fisk, Jr., I
was arrested in that city Wednesday
for threatening to shoot Stokes. The j
threat was attributed by the Toombs j
Justice to intoxication, but in default
of bait to keep the peace MeGiben
was committed.
HUMOBOUa
A Dutchman went to the lottery j
office in Louisville the other day and i
inquired for ticket No. 9. lie either ;
wanted 9for 99, or 999, or 99,999. j
But no other number would satisfy j
him. On inquiry as to lus reasons j
for tliis particular number, the follow-j
ing facts in his life were learned: He
came to this country when 9 years
old. After he had been here 9 years
he got married. Nine months afti r
the wed ling his wife gave him a child.
The baby when 9 days olu was christ
ened. He lived with his wife 9 years,
and during that period she presented
him with 9 children. Then he ha 1 a
fuss with her, and she banged him
over the head 9 times with the stave
of a beer keg, from the effects of
| which lie lay in bed 9 days. He hdi
| that wife then, and had been a grass
| widower just 9 years on the day h.
j applied for the ticket. lie hoped with
ticket No. 9 to draw money enough
to recuperate his finances, which were
reduced to $9, which lie offered foMho
ticket. On being informed that then
was no ticket remaining the nun.bei
of which was composed Catiivlv of 9’s,
he looked dejected, but immediately
went out and drank 9 glasses of beer.
Then he returned and said he would
wait until only 9 tickets were left, and
v ,
then take them all.
The hotel proprietors of a New
Hampshire town are having circulated
through the Exchanges the following
neat advertisement: “People wii
are not going to heaven this
summer should go to Danville. N 11.
There is not a lawyer, doctor,
lightning rod, sowing machine agent,
or hotel clerk in the piae, while m >re
than 409 beautiful, long haired , rosv
checked, bright-eyed maidens, with
natura 1 teeth and white dresses mean
der through the streets at eventide,
chewing gum and smiling on the few
young men who have heard of this
elysium before?’
Suppose a man and a girl were
married, and—which is, of course im
possible—that, at the time of the hy
meneal contract, the man was thirty
five years old and the girl five—winch
makes the man seven times as old as
the girl. They live together until the
girl is ten years—this makes him
forty years old and four times as old
as the girl; they lived until she was
fifteen, the man being forty five—this
makes the man three times as old:
they still live, she is thirty \ears old
—this makes the man sixty, only twice
as old; and now, as we haven’t time
to work it out, perhaps some one* will
be good enough to tell us how long
they will have to live to make the
girl as old as the man,
Anew Texas paper announces its
religions position thus: “In religion
we are conservative, and we intemd
to adlipre to the cash system.”
A Western editor insists that he
wrote the word “trosseau” plain as a
pikestaff in connection with certain
bridal presents. The printer, however,
vulgarly put it “trousers.”
A passenger on an Ohio railroad,
aroused from a serene slumber by the
tooting.of a whistle .exclaimed: ‘The
train has caught up wish those cattle
again.
A lather and two Sons a lew ve.ns
ago married three sisters in lovva TANARUS),
! undutiml sons have driven their u,V
■ happy parent to the verse of insanity
; liv trying to explain the relation*;!.,
of iheir children.
j A young drug clerk went to see
! other night, and, wit.!, a
I luv °r’s familiarity, entered the p ar l
! without knocking. The room was
dark, but he knew he was expected
| and thought he heard the rustle of J
dress in a gloomy corner. ‘Elfrida!”
lie exclaimed, in passionatee tones;
“what! hiding ? What- art thou doing,
pretty one V ‘Suckin’ a neg’’ unmis
takably came from/Elfrida’a brother,
behind the sofa. And the drug clerk
laid his weary head on the window
sill and wept until Elfrida came in
with a lamp.
S. S. Prentiss ox Metempsychosis
'fhe gifted Sargent S. Prentiss once
|ga\e a sumptuous dinner to some
j Mends at a hotel in Vicksburg. Earlv
1 in the evening a stranger entered tho
100,71 h) a mistake. Prentiss courte
ously invited him to join the partv.—.
Before long the strange* guest began
boasting of how much he had drank
during the day—a cocktail here, a
smasher there, a julep in this place, a
sling in that, and so on, apparent Iv
without end. At length Prentiss said:
“Sir,” said he, “do you believe iu
the doctrine of metempsychosis ?”
“I don’t know,” was the reply, “ a yd
I don't see as it has got anything to
do with what we were talking about.”
“It has’,” rejoined Prentiss, “much
—much every way. I have firm faith
in that doctrine. I believe that in the
next life every man will be transformed
iiffo the thing lor'which he has host
qualified himself in this. In that
life, sir, you will become a corner
groggery.”
The Acreage in Cotton.
Poe Fin meia! Chronicle; in its issue
of June 14, 1873, publish *s a statement
of tho acreage devoted to cotton iu
the South during; the present year. [
is carefully made up from inform.itiou
lens >1 fro n its correspondents in
Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Ala
bama, Georgia, South and North Caro
lina, Tennessee, and Arkansas. While
all such only approxima
tive, and thiMgts of the growth de
pend at I istTPlreiv on tie* w ither,
Hmy jVTLum; onsH-rthl; value iu
insisting the calenlatlons of these
who are trying to forecast the res id Is
of the crop, and when put forth by
gooc. audiority, possess muc 1 interest
for the merchant and statistician. The
Chronicle makes the inen use in 1873
as compared with 1879, amount to
eleven per cent, in which Texas shows
a gain of 14 per cent, Louisiana I*2,
Mississippi 11, Alabama 19, Florida 8
Georgia 7, South Carolina 4, North
Carolina 10, Tennessee li, Arkansas
13, all others 6 per cent. The total
acreage is put down at 9,802,815,
against 8,867,557 1879, 7,811,699 in
1871,8,885, 45 in 1810.
The Humorous Side of the Modoc
Campaign.— A correspondent of the
New York Times writing, from
the camp of General Davis, says the
Modoc campaign is not without its
humorous features. In the field here
they are sometimes absorbed by ac
tive movements, but throughout the
United States they are manifested in
tiie public journals, in illustrations,
squibs and sharp satires. Each mail
brings also to camp an extensive cor
respondence for Captain Jack, and
occasional notes and postal cards ad
dressed to Sconchin and scar-faced
Charley. It is surprising to see how
much folly is wasted in this way, the
new postal cards being the favorite
mode of address. The Quartermaster
is accumulating a small museum o
sue!) contraband literature. And it is
rather amusing to read the assortment
of ideas. One wishes Jack to come
there and scalp the fellow who wants
to win his girl away from him, another
assures him that he can get
plenty of volunteers if he will Come t >
that village; he is congratulated on
his heroism, and told to on and con
quer. Business cards, congratulations
good advice, and fun are forwarded
as regularly by mail as any
matter, amTtke'extent to which it is
carried shows to what degree the sen
sational - elemennt prevails among
young* people. hilt? lam wiitu „
this, a courier has arrived with a
installment of Captain Jack’s exten
sive correspondence
BACON! BACON!
For Sale, Cheap for Cash.
Bargains will be given to early purcha^ur^
Call and examine at
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