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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— * 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-