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/THE EASTMAN TIMES. R. S, BURTON, - Proprietor. H. W. J. HAM. Editor. WEDNESDAY, JOKE 25. 1873.. Ii ill ■■■■!" ■■■ I mu -|j- - Ti m 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 cfUKbir, >iuihdJ t;v