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THE EASTMAN TIMES.
R. S, BURTON, - Proprietor,
H, W. J. HAM, Editor.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 187:3..
EASTMAN ON V JAMBOREE.
Excursion to Cumberland Island,
FUN, FROLIC AND It FIDDLING
LOVE S YOUNG DREAM.
The Great Deep, Surf Bathing,
Fishing and Hunting.
On the 20th of June, a party of sev
en, consisting of Messrs. Sumner, Bus
sell, Harrell, Ilerrman, Murrell, Burton
and your Humble servant, fully equip
ped for anything that might turn up,
left Eastman on an excursion to
Brunswick, and the “beautiful Isle of
the sea,” known as Cumberland, (inns,
pistols, fishing tackle, fiddles, tambou
rines and .groceries—principally in
kegs—fully armed the party against
the attacks of everyniing from an ali
gator down to thirst, and as the M.
& B. train, under charge of that ever
long and clever Thornton Sharpe, the
conductor, whirled us along through
tall pines, many were the witty jests
and happy repartee, which enlivened
the journey. At No. 12 we were
joined by Mr. Mullin, whose sir
name is “Bap” and T. C. Lasslic, Esq.,
increasing our party to nine. At ten
o’clock we arrived in Brunswick,
where we found, through the efficient
management of Mr. Sumner, our com
mittee on arrangements and pur
chases, the lager beer all ready, and
Capt. Ilotch of the little sail boat
Henrietta, on hand to meet us. Con
suming some two hours iu getting
down to the boat and loading our
luggage, lager, Ac., Ac., at fifteen
past twelve o’clock, A. M. we set sail
with the band playing “Life On The
Ocean Wave,” which beautiful air
was cut rather short when wc reached
the Sound, and found the ‘ocean wave’
so high that it broke over our little
boat, which plunged and reared to
that extent that the writer came near
tearing the chime off a lager beer keg,
with his frantic grip, and our prudent
Captain thought host to anchor out
and wait for daylight. . A sharp
drizzle soon set in, and the sail being
lowered was used as uu uwnlng or
tent, and the party proceeded to hori
zontalize themselves in humble obei
sance to the drowsy god. The short
fellows got along very well, but those
of us who were longer in proportion
found it somewhat difficult to find
enough unoccupied room in which to
stow away our manly carcasses. Day
light however, soon came and showed
us a rolling sea and the wind square
in our teeth, but our little boat man
fully rode the waves, and after many
a weary tack wc found ourselves at
P o’clock on Cumberland, wet to the
skin by the briny spray, which had
beat into our boat, but in the very
best of spirits. Another hour found
us at the Sea Side House, and under
the care of Mr. W. R. Bunkley, its
gentlemanly proprietor, where after
drying ourselves and partaking of an
excellent dinner, wc proceeded to en
joy as much as posssible the Island life.
Here we found a party from Macon,
Savannah and Albany, and putting
the whole together, wc had one of the
liveliest crowds it has ever been our
good fortune to meet. Fun seemed to
rule master of the occasion. Some
sought it in fishing, some in bathing,
some in fiddling, and the whole crowd
seemed determined to frolic away the
happy hours, regardless alike of future
care and present scarcity of spondu
licks. Wo may as well mention here
a little affair which caused seeming
ly much happiness to the parties con
cerned, and no little diversion to the
lookers-on. An Albany gentleman,
(no names called) and a Macon belle,
seemed to have come to the conclu
sion that of all places on earth, (film
land was the place for ‘love’s young
dream,’ and regarldess alike of sur
rounding friends, and the delights of
the Island, they went for each others
slumbering affections in a way that
tor a specimen of ‘unaffected, old
fashioned, flat-footed, North Carolina
courtinY it just perhaps took the di
lapidated linen from the traditional
undergrowth in a way we never saw
excelled.
“Two souls with but a rankle thought/’
“Two cherries ou one stem."
They sat upon the beach gazing
out over the blue waves, listening to
the plashing ot the grand old ocean,
or watching lazy flying sea gulls, as
they winged their way over the \ el-
low marsh, and anon the sun set and
the stars camcfout, ‘while eyes looked
love to eyes which spake again,” and
with their hearts stirred into a gentle
flutter, by the overmastering passion
of reciprocated love, they seemed
happy as the poet Rogers when lie
said—
“An hour like this is worth a thousand pass’d,
In pomp or ease—’tis present to the List.”
Leaving them to enjoy themselves,
as only those can who bow willing
slaves to cupids throne, we must go
on to describe other incidents of oili
pleasant stay on this truly lovely spot.
On Tuesday morning some of the par
ty proceeded to equip themselves for
a deer hunt, and after an absence of
some four or five hours returned with
a handsome buck, which furnished us
in most delicious venison during our
our stay. Some others went fishing,
among them Mr. Burton, who was
so unfortunate as to happen to quite
a serious accident, which was iiotliinor
more or less, than to have a large salt
water cat-fish fin him quite severely
in the instep. Some people might
think it a very small matter to be
finned by a fish, but such have never
tried it with one of those grown kit
tens to be found on the coast, for it is
one of the most painful as well as
poisonous wounds one can receive.
His foot swelled from it to quite a
serious size, and ncapacitated him for
walking, or any kind of exercise du
ring almost all the balance of the
time we remained on the island. How
ever, through the kindness of a Macon
lady, who had seen cases of the kind
before, and prepared a liniment and
prescription for him, it did not assume
a very dangerous attitude, and he was
able to walk a little towards the last
of the week. Our first visit to Cum
berland beach which is one of the
finest in the world, gave us some idea
of the mighty grandeur of the great
deep. Stretching away as far as the eye
can reach, in each direction, is the pol
ished sand, hard almost as a pave
ment, and making one of the most
splendid drives in the world' while in
front the mighty ocean, with its sullen
roar, and the white capped breakers
dashing in upon the beach, form one
of the most majestic sights, and awe
inspiring sounds which we have ever j
seen or to which we have ever listen- ;
ed. Surf bathing was one of the !
favorite amusements of our party, j
and was indulged in with much gus
to. Ou I>V id tty wa in ado up a party to
go down the beach, some eight miles
on a shelling excursion. On the trip
we found nine turtle nests, and—
start not gentle reader—brought one
thousand and ninety eight turtle
eggs, besides shells without number
Some of the party went out to a fresh
water pond and had some fun and
sport with aligators and cranes.
That night Messrs. Sumne”, Russel,
and Bunkley went out turtle hunt
ing, and succeeded in bringing in
one of those “ocean rovers” weighing
25C or 300 pounds. Wc had forgot
ten to mention that one night during
ours tay, an impromtu dance was got-j
ten up, and contributed considerable j
enjoyment to those who participated.!
\\ e would be glad to elaborate on
all the thousand good points we
might make of the occurrences of the
trip, but time and space demands that
we hasten to close. On Saturday at
twelve o’clock, we bid adieu to this
lovely island, and as tlie Henrietta
veered away from the strand, a spank
ing breeze filled her sails which took
us to Brunswick in three hours. Here
our party disposed of themselves
each according to his inclination.
Through the kindness of brother Smith,
of the Brunswick Appeal, we enjoyed
a buggy ride over this truly beautiful
little city, for which to our mind na
ture lias done more than any other
city in Georgia. At six o’clock, on
Sunday morning, under care of that
! hit, clever gentleman, A. A. Sharpe, we
boarded the Macon train, drawn by
the engine Macon, who has the clev
erest engineer on the road at her
throttle, Mr. Rope Freeman, and after
a most delightful ride, found ourselves
at home at three o’clock, safe, sound,
sunburnt and hungry. Wc can only
say that hereafter wc are in favor of
patronizing islands in the summer
; season, and shall always select Cum
berland as the one on which to be
| stow our favors.
The mercury rose to ninety-six de
gress in New York last Saturday.
The heat is described as opressive and
‘‘sticky,” with a dull, heavy weight in
it that bore down the strongest, and
sickened most people Sunstrokes
are ot daily occurrence. Georgia
offers many cool asylums to the suffer
ing Gothamites.
I CONSOLIDATION OF THE AT
LANTA CONSTITUTION
AND SUN.
Unkind Strictures of the Ilerald.
On Tuesday tho 24 th of June, the
i Atlanta Constitution published a
| card announcing that they had bought
i out the Atlanta Sun and that hereafter
the two papers would be merged into
; one and carried on under the manage
ment of the editorial corps of the Consti
tution aided by Hon. Alexander IT. Ste
phens as corresponding editor. To our
mind the arrangement is a most happy
one, and giving to the Constitution,
the patronage heretofore enjoyed by
the Sun, makes it one of the most in
fluential journals in the State. On
the next morning tlie Herald comes out
in an editorial headed ‘The Suspension
of the Sun,’ and goes on with what
we regard as a most unkind and lin
eal lea for piece of glorification over,
what according to its statement was, the
downfall of a neighbor. We read his
editorial before wc did the cards in
the Constitution, and was impressed
with the idea that the Sun utterly
gone under, without making any ar
rangement to have its contracts car
ried out, and being so utterly worth
less in ics last days, that it could not
be even sold, and the article we
thought was written in a style of vin
dication, gloating over the death of
what we thought was an honorable
high toned, and dignified journal. It
struck us as being to say the least of it
an unkind, and ill-timed article, to thus
make merry over an event, that in the
minds of right thinking and kindly dis
posed journalists, presents almost the
same sadness as the death of a mem
ber of one’s family. There is a certain
sympathy which should prevail among
journalists, a fellow-feeling that makes
us wondrous kind/ for our idea is
that instead ol the newspapers of the
country being arrayed against each
other, they should, whatever may be
their local differences of opinion, be
still a band of brothers united as a
unit for every good word and work,
and it betrays a littleness of mind to
allow the striving competition for
power and profit, to overrun and j
swallow up the higher aims of refined i
and honorable high minded journalism, j
Then for the Herald to announce with j
a flourish of trumpets, that tho Sun j
had suspended without even so much ;
as an item to note its consolidation ,
with the Constitution, seems to ns to |
be one of those pieces of journalistic i
discourtesy, which ought to be looked ;
upon with disfavor by all right-minded j
journalist. Wc fear, bretheren, you
have suffered a desire to outstrip:
your neighbor to run away with the
better feelings of your nature, and if
so, you have lost in the contest that
manliness which ought ever character
ize the actions of even sworn foes.
Wc are fully aware of the fact that
we are only a small country paper,
that the Herald goes armed to the
teeth with cutting sarcasm and blis
tering venom, and that in thus speak
ing our mind on this subject we run
the risk of bringing down on our
defenceless head, the life-long ire of
this great daily ; still as an independ
ent journal, and living up to our
pledges, to condemn the wrong in
high and low, and to freely, fearlessly,
and unbought speak our opinion on
all questions, we have done so, and
are willing to risk the consequences.
Perhaps tho Herald may consider us
too small game for their daily cannon,
and beneath their notice, but we can
only say if such is flic case, that—
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Tall aches from little too corns grow,
Big tears from use of onions flow.
TTie Bremen Mummies.
The cathedral, erected in the twelfth
century, is the only interesting church
of which Bremen can boast. It is
now a Protestant church, and contains
the finest organ in Germany. Its
great attraction to strangers is the
exhibition of several mummies, the
oldest having been four huudred years,
and the most recent sixty years, in an
undecaying condition. The vault in
which they repose possesses the prop
erty of preventing decomposition, in
proof of which poultry frequently
is suspended in it, a venerable turkey,
one hundred years old, being at the
present time hanging on the wall.
The corpses bear no evidences of de
cay as in the case of the Egyptian
mummy, but carry on their counte
nance the appearance of recent death,
except that the dust of ages has somc
i what colored, them.
There are about a dozen bodies
laid out in their coffins. The flesh
j feels like parchment, and the cheeks
lof an old countess, who has lain here
i four hundred years, look quite plump!
j one is the remains of an English ofli
i cer, shot in a duel ninety years ago,
| with a bullet hole in his breast, and a
shattered shoulder. A corpulent old
: General is still corpulent, and a dozen
; chickens hung up ninety years ago
I have their feathers all intact. The
j va ult in which they lay, is about thir
| ty foot long and fifteen feet wide, and
is above ground in one of the crypts
of lue church. 1 here is nothing par
ticular about it, and there seems to be
no reason why it should preserve bod
ies from decay more than any other
room in Bremen. The exhibition of
these curiosities gives an income to
the church of about S2O per day, and
is quite a valuable source of revenue.
It is not everybody who can expect
to be so remunerative after they have
given up the ghost.
To tlie l'eople of Dodge County.
As one of your fellow-citizens, I
! much regret to come before you with
Ia card in explanation of my conduct
■ as a County Commissioner for Common
! Schools, but a duty I owe to myself as
well as to you compels me to resort to
that course. I feel sure that if the
people and the last Grand Jury for
Dodge county had known all the facts
in relation to my conduct as a Com
missioner and in a private capacity in
that respect, they, the people, would
not have made insinuations against
myself and others, nor would the Grand
Jury have made the reflections they
did—it resolves itself into law and
fact.
Now the law gives Commissioners
for the County three dollars per day
as compensation when engaged in their
duties. The law also provides that
there shall be organized trustees in
each district, and I engaged many a
day hi meeting various parties in en
deavoring to organize them into trus
tees, but in the end failed, whose du
ties if organized would be to enroll
the names of certain persons entitled
to the fund, but if no trustees and no
enrollment be made, (and I would here
call upon all persons conversant with
difficulties of organizing such things
in this and similar counties), then it
becomes the duty of County Commis
sioners to hire competent persons to
perform the duties of the trustees. 1
hired J. J. Kozar and S. \Y. Burch, who
discharged that duty in two districts
and charged three dollars a. day for it.
and (I think that little enough) the
law says if those persons so hired are
not paid they have the right to sue for
their services (and I do not see who
they are to sue unless myself.) The
law also provides that the Commission
ers and persons so hired are to l>c paid
out of the fund appropriated for com
mon school purpose. I was many days,
as stated, engaged in trying to organ
ize trustees in the various districts.—
I labored hard and constantly for that
purpose, buChave to regret that I, in
the end, failed. I went into the thing
intending that if it depended on my
exertions this county should partici
pate in that fund. 1 rode time and
again to organize a board, through
cold and wet, to meet at the time ap
pointed, and others failed, and I had
to appoint another time. This took
many days, it being anew thing, and
there seemed to have been lethargy,
and neglect, and carelessness in many
of the people whose duty it was to en
gage in this matter, and they had to
read to understand, and many of them
don’t like to take tinre to read, as you
know their business calls when the
time comes to meet and they fail—any
way I did the best I knew, and for the
best interest of the county. This fund
was to pay expenses incurred in the
year 1871. The county has made no
arrangement to raise a county fund at
all. The County Commissioners have
nothing to do with the funds. The
County Treasurer received a small
sum most of which he paid out on
proper vouchers—accounts made out
and sworn to—and as most of it pass
ed through my direction I will give
you a statement:
13.i clays services by T. J. Kozar in tak
ing enumeration in Ist dist SIO.OO
S. W. Burcli, taking enumeration in
Ist dist 20.00
D. M. Buchan, taking enumeration in
3d dist., making reports to State
Commissioner, meeting to organize
trustees, meetings for the Board
Commissioners and such like, 81
days at $3 per day 243.0 C
Total $303.00
These accounts are just, and servi
ces rendered and presented to Treas
urer and he paid them and has vouch
ers for the same. Ilad the trustees
formed of themselves in the various
districts and ail mot and discharged
their duties, the expense would have
been about half less, and then this was
the starting and made the expense
more.
1 have made a fair exhibit ol the
whole matter, so far as I am concerned
myself and with others, and you will
see the entire duties devolved upon
me, and I kept strict account of my
time engaged and with others, and
they are correct. I repeat I have only
charged what the law allowed, for no
time was there a charge made that
was not necessary.
And now, my county citizens, I sub
mit this to you and hope you will be
satisfied, and I leave it to all candid
and informed men, feeling assured that
they will approve of the correctness
of the same. Let the thing be as it
may, I have a consciousness of the
rectitude of my course and conduct in
the premises, believing that all en
lightened people must approve of the
disbursement of that portion of the
fund, finding the service one necessa
rily rendered and lawfully charged
for, but should this unfortunately fail
to give general satisfaction, then it
must be attributed to the law and not
to myself, or to the fact that they have
made up their minds not to be satis
fied.
Fellow-citizens of Dod <*c. i
I remain your ob’Ut serv’t.
David M. Buchan.
A Defense of the Modocs—Bad
White Men to Blame. —The Herald’s
Washington correspondent says that
the lion. J. Iv. luttrell, congressmen
elect, from the third California district,
writes to Commissioner Smith, of the
Indian Bureau, an account of Ins rec
ent visit to the scene of the Modoc
war, and says that he has been able
to arrive at only one conclusion in
reference to it, namely: That it was
caused by the wrongful acts of bad
white men. lie was informed on what
seemed to him reliable authority, that
the Modocs were compelled to slaugh
ter their horses for food on the lvla
math Reservation, and having ex
hausted this means of subsistence
were compelled by hunger to seek the
fishing and hunting grounds on their
old reservation on Lost river. Mr.
Luttrell urges an investigation of
the causes of the Modoc war, and re
grets to say that never was there a
time since the organization of the
government when there was so
much corruption and swindling—not
only gainst the governmennt and the
people, but against the Indians— as
w hoinp; practiced on the Indian reser
vations on the Pacific coast.
The third trial of Stokes, for the
murder of Fisk, is not likely to take
place until October. No change of
venue is expected, as under the new
jury law it is thought a panel can be
obtained without any difficulty. The
new law does away with triers, mak
ing the judge the trier, and allows
men to go on the jury who swear that,
though having an impression, they
can decide impartially on the facts of
the case. When the counsel for the
defense have exhausted thirty prern
tory challenges, they are then oblige
to take who ever comes, if the judge
so decide.—Under this law the pros
ecuting officers believe that a jury
will be found very readily in New
York, and therefore that there will be
no need to have it elsewhere. It
seems to be the opinion of these gen
tlemen that in case the next jury
should disagree, there will be no great
difficulty in Stokes getting bail.
Scene in ii California Barber
hJiop,
During the early days of the Golden
State, when San Francisco barbers
were as rough and bold as the rest
of creation there, the art of shaving
was in a crude state in that city, and
the facts that the knights of the razor
drank, gambled and tore around with
the bravest, quite naturally made
them unsteady of hand in their busi
ness; the consequence whereof was
that after a customer had submitted
himself to be operated on, he usually
emerged from the ordeal looking as if
he had just been undergoing the oper
ation of skinning.
One of the festive Frisco boys at
last got tired of being continually cut
and hacked, and going into a barber
shop one day, hauled forth a revolver
with the remark to a barber: “Here
you shave me, and if v.m cut me this
time, I'll blow your brains out.”
“All right,” chimed the barber, ‘take
your seat.’
But, replied the other, “ain’t you
afraid to tackle me under the circum
stances? I’ll shoot you sure, if you
make a mistake.”
“Oh, don’t you worry,” returned
the barber; “If I happen to nick you,
why, I’ll just cut your d—d throat.
The bloodthirsty customer wilted
forthwith, and concluding that he
wouldn’t be slutvcd just then “walked
oil' on his car.”
GEORGIA NEW&* 55
Blackshear dogs furnish f unn
thrilling items, for the local paper }
Camilla announces that she is stead
ily improving notwithstaning the hard
times.
Thomasville has had a SSOOO fire
Styles wants a partner with S2OOO
cash capital to start a daily p aper
Being interested in her accomplish,
ments, an Albany youth inquired
his Juliet, “if she painted?” referin -
of course to the tine arts. She m \t
took the drift of his question, and
now he has no wool on the top ( >i‘
his head “the place where the w< and
ought to grow,” and his incidental
expenses for hair oil is considerably
lessened.
A Waynesboro moot court have do
eided the recent amendment to the
bankrupt law, unconstitutional. R
seems that ‘great minds do not always
run in the same channel/ as the U. $
| Supreme Court hold differently,
j An over gallant Forsythe man lifted
his hat to a quadroon on the street the
other day, and has more fun than a
httie explaining to his young l ffiy ac
quaintances how lie happened to
make the mistake.
Stone has found a namesake, the
initials of whose name is P. It was
discovered in the interview of a seven
inches in circumference peach.
liic Monroe Advertiser man noses
around and looks so wantingly at
large beets, that the huckster tells
him to take one and go in peace.
Where is the dignity of the press?
While the editor of the Houston
Home Journal struggles with cholera
morbus, the fence question man‘ seize
upon his space with great rapacity.
Americus is in ecstacies over the nu
merous weddings. The idea of people
marrying with the thermometer at 90,
an l spondulicks as scarce as liens
teeth. Whew!
A Parting, a Meeting and a Wed
ding.—Ten years ago Maurice R.
Christie journeyed from England to
America and found employment in
Lord & Taylor’s. After five years
faithful service, on recoinendation of
that firm, lie began travelling for
white, Boss & Cos., with whom he re
mains. Before he visited America lie
rmi in love with a blue-eyed, rosy
maid of twel VC J'CdlO, cmvl frUl Ifllg
the two bound thtmselves with solemn
vows to become man and wife. Mau
rice did not hear from her during
the ten years absence. lie worked
hard and laid up a snug little fortune.
Last Saturday a friend told him that
a young Englishwoman was in the
Stacy House whose name was Cairie
Linyard. Maurice hastened and hum i
his betrothed of ten years ago a beau
tiful, accomplished young lady. ILr
aged father was with her. The old
vows were repeated. Each ha l writ
ten to the other, but the id
did not reach their destination. YY.
the father’s approval they were mar
ried that night, and they now live on
Montgomery street, Jersey C. y, as
happy as two bees in a tube rose.--
iY. Y. San.
One of the most curious strike on
record has just occured in St. Louis.
On the editorial staff of the German
newspaper, the Am erica, is a gentle
man named Regenaur; whose hml
writingis said to be a wonder. For a
long time the compositors in the
America office puzzled their brains to
the verge of distracti m in their efforts
to decipher this gentleman’s manu
script without complaint, but at last
driven to despeiation, they appointed
a committee to wait on the proprietor
of the journal, with a request that in
future they should be paid a price and
a half for putting Mr. Regenaur’s copy
in type. The request was refused,
whereupon the compositors struck in
a body.
Of the Yale Seniors,4l have chosen
the law for a profession, 15 business,
13 the ministry, C medicine, 6 teach
ing, two journalism, 2 banpking, 2
civil engineering, 1 art, and 1 mining.
A boy put a false bead into a flour
barrel, and pro cured four quarts of
peanuts and poured them over the
heed so as to make one think he had
a barrelful, and then took his station
on the street and cried out: “All these
peanuts for 150 ” A grocer passing
by gave him the money, and the boy
had business elsewhere at once.
MARSHALL HOUSE,
SAVANNAH, GA.,
A. B. LUCE. - - Proprietor.
JJoartl Per JL>av HJJ-