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VOLUME 1-1
THE EASTMAN TIMES.
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O. O. HORNE,
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Oconee Circuit — Court Calendar 1873.
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EASTMAN, DODGE COUNTY, GA., WEDNESDAY, JULY" 30, 1873.
Selected Poetry. |
For the Eastman Times.
Just A Year
BY ‘'MEMORY.” **
dust a year h .tli 1 ned its flight,
With its sunshine, tud its night,
Since a whip r breathed on h gh,
Bade an angel downward fly.
Just a year hath passed away—
Just a weary year to-day—
Since was seen a pearly gate
Swing upon Its golden plate,
* >
Just a year hath glided by
Since that angel, from on high,
With “Death’’ stamped upon his face,
Winged his flight to mortal race.
Just a year hath left us now
Since that angel’s dusky brow
Caused the ev’ning breeze to quiver,
As lie came my heart to shiver.
Just a year hath wandered on
Since that angel waved Lis wand,
Blighting with his icy breath
As he whispered, “I am Death.”
Just a year hath set its seal,
Taught my heart to deeply feel,
That it hath a yearning still
Which the world can never All.
Just a year hath glided by,
Since that angel from the sky,
Stole my idol from its throne,
Left me in the world alone.
Just a year hath winged its flight
Since my life received its blight,
Saw the last of oil it loves
Waited to the arch above.
J ust a year hath sadly flown
Since that angel reach’d tlie throne,
Laid the jewel in its case,
Placed it at the throne of Grace.
Just a year hath passed away—
Just a bitter year to-day—
Since my life was robed in gloom,
Since they laid her in the tomb.
JOHN A m OEOROE GO TO GEFe
MANTOWN.
FioNic anil Jollification, Crop
Montgomery County, Ga, )
July 7Hi, 1873. }
Editor Eastman Times :—Having just
returned from a trip to Germantown,
r.itnail county, where the groat “'Ger
mania Saw Mill Cos.” is located, we will
devote a lew leisure moments in pen
ning a lew words about what we saw,
heard and endured while absent from
Mt. Vernon. Yes ; we have been to a
grank old 4th of July barbecue, and,
of which we will tell you when vv
get that far in our writings about our
trip.
fhursduy evening, July 3d, found
7 s s*m -' .Kit disp >s.*d to pay tlie
Ju-a n c Tmy a visit, as we had often
pianos- and apt. Otto Mel in to do so
>' •' < '.ic o:d c reuinstances adu.it
:‘d. s --s ng up Charlie Sw.lt
O' our e, ,wo were so >n over the
• b , ml Ur a w y town in fat nail
U*’ e bdi) and miseives to die west side
ol M.ii g ors Or ek, which, you are
aware, rises mar Mr. Vernon, flows
•smith, and empties into the Altamana
'Tver some jour miles below our coun
ty hnc. It was near its mouth that
we crossed it, and then wended our
way down the east bank of the Alta
inahu to within one mile of German
town, where we halted for the night to
enjoy tlie hospitality ol our mutual
friend, Mr. Henry Mann.
On oi;r route down we saw many
tine farms of corn, cane, and potatoes
—better crops on upland we never
saw grow ; but the swamps on the
river this year have proven a water
haul. We did not see ten acres of cot
ton on our route, but iield after field
of coni, cane and potatoes met our
view and seemed to greet our coining
as we rose every hill. All vegetation,
for mail and beast, was luxuriant.
After enjoying- Thursday night that
“Sleep, that knits up the raveil’d sleeve of
care,
The death of each day's life, sore labour’s
bath,
Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second
course,
Chief nourisher in life's feast!”
we were awoke from our slumber by
the noise from early risers, which told
us it was near day, if not quite. So
donning our apparel, we were soon
down the stair-way and out into the
barn-yard looking at hogs, goats, cat
tle, sheep, horses and poultry. Henry
is indeed a goo.d farmer, if we may be
allowed to so speak after taking a
stroll with his father, Mr. Henry Mann,
?r., between daylight and sun-up, over
all his plantation—looking at as good 1
corn here as one wmild find on unbind
in Georgia ; looking at large cane
patches, up knee high ; and over next
to Mill Creek, rice waist high. Re
turning to tlie house through his stub
ble oat fields, vve found them sown
down in pease after the oats were har
vested, and they were looking fine.—
By-the-bv, why do not all our farmers
sow down their stubble lands? It wa
here we found Wordsworth’s man—
“ Frugal, affectionate, sobre, and with:'!
keenly industrious.”
it was nere we saw the best corn, c ine
and potatoes in all our ups and downs
in Georgia.
As old Sol began to make bis ap
pearance in the east, and to dispel all
doubts as to the weather, the day. &e.,
and to tell all that wished to attend
the barbecue,**’Go ; I will do my level
best, and give you as much as you can
endure to-day,” thwack 1 thwack !
wallow ! wallop ! greeted our ears just
before the breakfast bell rang, which
gave us warning that all colors and
classes were hasting on to the bar
becue to the tune of “Lay on, McDufl*
ane and and be who first cries hold,
enough.”
After returning from breakfast we
concluded we would follow suit, so
Charlie was brought out by a minot
15th amendment, and we were pretty
soon bounding away at 2:40 on a
good road, which, “for honest men and
bonny lasses,” was now “cling” full,
and all vicing with Tam O’Shanter,
who was
“Weel mounted on bis gray mare, Meg,
A better never lifted leg.”
Wishing to greet our kind and much
beloved friend, lion. S. P. Smith, who
lives upon a very high eminence, over
looking all Germantown, and in whose
company we have spent many pleas
ant days, we reined up, alighted, and
were most heartily greeted with—
• l jr: rtv '*mCTr_J .v € i. * ■**.,. -S* .1
Oh here’s my heart, and here’s my hand.”
So after remaining some two or three
hours, all concluded to walk over o >
town, dunking of
“When Greek meets Greek,
Then comes the tug of war
- “But when Dutch meet Dutch,
Then comes de lager beer,”
and il any lags r, perhaps we “mout”
get a little for stomache’s sake, as
well as some roast. Down the hill, aI i
hands ! Across the dam, to the mil!—
and a mill it is ! Think of $200,000.
it not $300,000, spent for frame-work,
machinery of the latest and most im
proved kind, a railroad track, graded,
erosstied and iron laid, upon which
the steam engine rolls over from the
mid to the Altimaha River, some four
miles, all in good ordbr, with eighty
hands employed, and you nay perhaps
draw some idea of the magnitude ol
the
“Germania Saw Mill Cos.”
It is here that millions of feet ar°
being* sawed, sent down to the river
on open flat cars, thrown into tiie riv
er, and there made into large rafts,
thence ratted down, or rather floated
down the river to Duobov, below' Da
rien, where it is loaded in large ships
for Northern or foreign ports. The
mam saw mill building is 139 feet long*
| by GO feet wide, and has a larg’e circu
lar saw and a gang saw, which spills
things all to pieces whenever a log is
put in its way.
After looking at all the mill with its
many improvements in art, we then
bent our way up the sandy hill from
the mill to the larg£, spacious eating
hall of the Company 7 -, where—
“D rn.ur.ic, sphere descended maid,
Friend of pleasure, wisdom’s aid !”
was heard, and many* a merry lad and
happy lass were engaged in “lifting
the light fantastic toe.”
The eating liali is quite large. All
tables and dishes had been cleared out
and left ample room for qi/adnlles.
hornpipes, Irish jigs, Dutch waltz, in
fact any kind and class of dance that
one wished to see and engage in.
W e thought before arriving at the
barbecue all would be disorder and
confusion, but we found the best of
order.
Order No. 1, from Superintendent
Captain Burke, was, that the whites
should occupy their side of the street
and the negroes theirs, which was
rigidly enforced. On the oppposite
side of the street was a largo eating*
hall for Sambo and Dinah, and it was
over there that Mr. ,15th, and Mrs.
15th, and the lads and lasses of the
15th, were enjoying -themselves to
their heart’s content; over there was
indeed a black cloud resting on terra
firm a that day. Oie o’clock and din
ner was announced free to all, and
right here let me say that that was the
BEST BARBECUE
that we ever saw, the meat was done,
well cooked and properly seasoned.
Those Dutch know how to cook.
Vfter the whites had eaten their fill,
and -atnrmr 7 t<' the in” 4 a a•• •
their dance, dinner was announced for
the negroes. All with command of
person marched up in order and were
soon hiding those viands that were
spread free for them, and not a bit
| disposed to turn up their noses be
! cause they did not eat at the first
| table, or ride on the cars that day
I with the whites. The dance was kept
i up till a late hour in the evening, with
,an occasional hornpipe or Irish jig,
j from Pat OConuer, or a Dutch waltz
from the employes of the mill, danced
to their national airs.
About 4 o’clock P. M. some 300 lads
and lasses adjourned from the mill to
Mr. Bob Sharpe’s, to resume the dance
fsr the night, and to continue “till day
next morn.” and ax which place was
to be the great fiddling match, B>b
Sharpe, vs. James Butlong. Wo did
not attend, consequently cannot say
as to who was champion, but have
since learned Bob won the laurels,
after long and heavy playing. But
before the boys left the eating hall of
Germantown, and while all was yet
“merry as a marriage bell,” Bill Holl
ingsworth was ushered in, and up
near where the music was sending
forth its sweet strains, to keep time
upon tlie nether jaw bone of a horse.
Now, Mr. E liter, I have heard of
Sampson as the only man that found
• io< IT?. ,ii- j.:yv TlTTITci' Of 0 b ,1. ulil
never in all my born days did I think
there was music in one. Billy held it
in his left hand just in front of his flat
nose, and in a horizontal position, and
with a stick oyer the teeth which
were yet in the bone and loose, kept
time to the tune from the violins, to
the great mirth of all present. Thus
ended the 4th of July at German
town.
Returning to Mr. Smith’s, where we
had left Charlie, we were soon in our
buggy and far up the road for home
in old Montgomery. Before leaving
Mr. Smith’s we took a walk through
his gaden to look ax some of tlie best
vegetables vve ever saw—tomatoes
as tall as our head, and you know we
are not low, loaded with fruit as large
as our fist, Spanish sweet pepper not
to be equalled in ail the land of Dixie.
Dunking we have already penned
enough, will close, promising to give
a little more at some future day.
55 e remain, very truly yours.
John & George
t Iho salt mines discovered in the
1 echo count] y, Louisiana, during the
sate civil war, are now being worked,
wnde the surface is covered with
growing sugar cane. The bed,
estimated to contain ninety million
tons of pure solid rock salt, is located
on an island of 300,000 acres, rising
185 feet above the salt marsh. Access
is obtained to the Island by a .steam
boat line running between Brashear
C:ly and new Iberia. The soil is com
posed ol sand, loam gravel and clav,
<tiil the surface is partialy covered
vwth magnolia, live-oak, cypress,
maple locust, gum, walnut and fruit
bearing trees The vegotat'on re
sembles that of a rich .prairie, and the
semen is varied and beautiful. Ac
cess to the interior of the salt mines
is obtained by an elevator running
up and down a forty-foot shaft, cut
through the solid material. The width
ol the vein is 120 feet, and the visitor
is surrounded on all sdeis by rock
salt as dry as powder. The absence
ci moisture is one of the most striking
peculiarities, and the won and steal
implements used are quite bright.
Two large chambers have been cut
out of the vein.
It is stated on high chemical author
ity that the last gill of milk drawn
troin a cow is sixteen times richer in
cream than the first portion yielded.
Origin of the Names of Mates.
Maine was so called on account of
the people there always keeping an
eye on the main chance.
New Hampshire —Old ham was sold
in the adjoining* States, but if you
went there you got new ham—sure;
hence the name—New Hampshire.
Massachusetts —sV’nen slaves were
sold there, the misstress of the house
hold caught one of them chewing to
bacco. She was about to order him
punished, when he said “Masaa-chews
i.” She ccv "i*w: >*utenee to
hanging, and immediately gave a name
to the S>nte.
Connecticut —An old Indian in the
tobacco business, named Kormeeti,
used to get up two very good brands
of chewing tobacco. lie called one
fine-cut, and the other Konnecti-cnt.
The latter gave the name to the State.'
New Jersey —No stranger has ever
stopped long enough in the State
to ascertain where it did get its
name from. It is supposed to have
been named from “Jersey lightning ”
Pennsylvania' —All the pencils were
made here once and the people were
exceedingly vain of it, hence the State
got to be called “Rencil-vaiu-ia-” The
orthography has been changed some
what since.
Maryland —R un a way couples used
to fly there to be married, hence Mary
land. Some careless printer dropped
out an r in “making up,” one day,
and it has never been put back again.
Carolina — A man named Gar set
tled the Carolinas. He was rated an
old-liner; hence the name Car-o-lincr,
now Carolina, North or South, just as
it suits you.
Florida —So called because tlie
compexion of the people is so fiorid-eh?
Alnbama —The Alabama family once
owned the entire State, hence All-A
bam a.
Georgia —was named after George
Washington. They thought a great
deal of sVashmgton down there, and
used to call him “Georgia.”
Mississippi —Old Sippi, who settled
the State, had two very charming
daughters, tlie Misses Sippi, and they
gave naffie to the State.
Arkansas (pronounced Arkansaw,
—Named after the title of the first
tavern ever opened in the Si ate, whose
device was a picture of the ark and a
saw, the inn being called the “Ark
and-saw.” The ark denoted that they
were above such a thing as water,
and the saw was intended as a symbol
that this is a world of saw-row.
Tennessee —ln the early days of that
State the people had a mania for bet
ting on the ten spot, hence “Ten-I-see.”
Indiana —The State was declared
at its first settlement to be so healthy
that it was quite a question for a time
whether those who went In-clie-any.
That somehow got to be the name.
Illinois —The earliest settlers were
| made sick by the howling of the wild
! beast and of the Chicago City Council,
| hence 111-o.noise.
j Missouri —Named “Misery” origi
-1 nelly, now corrupted to Missouri
loica —This State has always been
! free from debt, and its motto is “I
--! owe-a-cent to ’nobody/ In confirms
tion of that fact “nobody called the
State lowa.
Minnesota —A small stream called
the Sota, famous for its minifies, gave
name to that State.— Fat Contributor.
A Slugulai* Case.
For months I have been in the pos
session of facts concerning the alarm
ing mental condition of a young lady
residing upon Prospect street in ,
who was once the pride of her parents
and delight of her friends, yet who has
recently become so changed as to
cause great anxiety to her relatives,
and gossip among the neighbors ; and
the case being one of great singular
ity, now demands publicity.
Her father says lie first noticed her
•idiosyncracry last January, one morn
ing at the breakfast-table, when she
not only acted as if in a state of great
happiness, but said “if you please/ j
and “thank you,” as she asked for food
and was served. A day or two later
her mother found her in her room darn
ing stockings, instead of reading nov
els, and she also appeared in the kiteh
en a day or two liter, and insisted up :
[NUMBER S7
on helping her parent in the labor of
baking ar\d makiug pastry and bread.
A physician was at once called in,
who, unknown to the patient, watched
her through a keyhole for au hour
while she was engaged in repairing
her little brother’s torn trowsers, and
sewing buttons on her father's shirts.
The doctor said he had practiced
twenty-five years, and never during
his entire medical practice had he seen
any young unmarried female manifest
such symptoms as those witnessed.—
i' ' . • petite, however, seemed to in
' crease rather than diminish* and a rosy
! flush was observable on her cheeks
| which had not been seen before.
But the most, singular symptom was
! developed a few days since, when her
' father, hoping to draw her from her
new ideas, placed two hundred dollars
in her hands, with the remark, “There,
; Nannie, rig yourself out in a nice
spring dress ”
She immediately replied, “I do not
meed anew dress now, and if you will
let me keep twenty-five dollars of this
to pay old Mrs. Macflanniganety’s rent,
(her husband has just died, you know,)
1 1 had much rather you would take tho
rest of the money and apply it to that
new’ property you have purchased ”
The old man looked at her a few
minutes and then fell upon the floor in
| anguish, saying between his sobs,
! “her mind is gone ! her mind is gone !”
1 called to see her yesterday, and
| found her building a nice pudding and
putting a mansard roof of frostwork
on a fruit cake. But there was a look
in her eyes that told too plainly she
would not long be seen in her elegant
home. A solitaire ring oil her fore
finger told the near approach of tho
winged and youthful destroyer who
sin ots his victims with arrows, and as
I left the premises a young man in
' spring-bottom pants and a white hat,
| bounded up the steps with the air of
; one who knows the affair will soon bo
i over. She will pass away some morn
! ing in June No cards.
The Secret of Life.— lFow many
lake a wrong view of life, and wasto
; their energies, and destroy their ner
vous system, in endeavoring to accu
mulate wealth, without thinking of tho
present happiness they are throw
ing a way If is not wealth nor high
station which makes a man happy,
Many of the most wretched beings
on earth have both; but it is a radi
ant sunny spirit, which knows how to
bear little trials, and enjoy little com
forts, which thus extracts happiness
from every incident oflifo.
Decision as to Lay-Over Tickets.
The Supreme Court of Illinois has de
cided that where there is a contract to
carry a passenger by a railroad com
pany to a certain point it is entire,
and in the absence of any agreement to
lay over and use the same ticket, the
passenger doing so forfeits his ticket,
in the case in point the passenger had
taken a “lay-over” ticket, good for
thirty days, and attempted to use it
after the time had expired, and was
put off of the cars, and sued for dam
ages. • The case on the principles laid
down by the court was decided against
him.
The Thought in New England. —Tho
drought is steadily increasing over all
New England, the showers of rain be
ing local and ol short duration. In
many localities farmers irrigate their
garden crops with water brought from
rivers and streams in barrels. The
| con b is anticipated, will turn out
| voiy badly, and not more than half tho
usual crop of apples is expected. Tho
j °^ er L’uits will be far below last
year’s yield.
A ease of snake charming* is report
ed in the Bowling Green (Ky.) Dem
ocrat by “one of the most reliable citi
zens of Allensville/’ who “observed a
large black snake lying perfectly mo
tionless at the loot of a tree, with his
mouth open, while a terrified squirrel
would run to the top of the tree and
back again to the snake, drawing
nearer to him each time, until finally
it deliberately thrust its head into the
snake’s mouth. At this juncture, the
“reliable citizen” killed the fascinating
reptile and set the deluded squirrel
free,