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A EASTMAN TIMES.
... S. BDETON, - - Proprietor.
H. W. J. HAM. Editor.
WEDNESDAY. JULY 30. 1373..
THE M. & B. RAIL ROAD.
Its Utility and Future Prospects,
Officers and Kmpioyes.
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Asa connecting link between one
of Georgia's most thriving and pros
perous inland cities, and one of the
finest harbors in the United States,
the above Road is destined to become
at an early day one of the most impor
tant trunk lines in (lie State. Forty
years ago, when the railroad interest
in Georgia was but in its infancy, to
liave talked of building a railroad
through the wire-grass section of Geor
gia would have been thought perfect
folly ; but wonderful are the changes
brought about by these forty years,
and if the transition is as marked by
development for the next forty years
as it has been in the past, the much
despised wire-grass section will be
come the garden spot of our great
Commonwealth. The timber of tin’s
section has achieved a fame in the mar
kets of the world that makes it more
valuable year after year, and will
eventually yield a revenue not to be
despised to the owners of these once
worthless barrens.
The M. & lb Road is tending won
derfully to the development of this re
gion, and with its connections daily
growing more extended, while the
Central and other competing lines arc
going under, and their stock slowly,
but none the less surety, depreciating
in value every day, will it be any won
der that, after having’ struggled
through its infancy with the grip of its
once powerful adversary on its throat
—is it all unreasonable, that when the
power of that adversary is weakened
and prostrated by its overmastering
thirst for gain and power—that the M.
Sc 8., square on its feet, should be able
to cope with and overmaster its enemy.
The Road is indeed fortunate in the
choice of officers. First in command
wc have
Major George IT. llazlehurst,
a courteous, affable gentleman, and
one of the best business men in Geor
gia. He is devoted to the Road, and
untiring in his-efforts to advance its
interest. Only a few days since, we
heard a friend remark that a former
partner of Mr. llazlehurst (a South
Carolian, wc believe), said that he “be
lieved him to be the most honest man
he ever saw." To our mind, from such
a source, there could come uo higher
compliment, and we are fully satisfied
that it was worthily bestowed.
As General Superintendent, we have
Col. James W. Robertson,
tvlio, .though connected with the Road
but a short tune, has shown himself
well conversant with the position he
occupies and an efficient officer, as well
as a popular, courteous gentleman.—
He is one of the few men whom it does
not make a bear to place in power, and
not one of those creatures whom the
poet had in mind when he said —
“Man! vain man, dressed in a little brief
authority,
Cuts sucli fantastic tricks before high heaven
As make the angels weep,”
but a gentleman in every sense of the
word, who knows how to treat with
respect even the humblest employe ol
the Road, and yet maintain a quiet
dignity well becoming his position.
Occupying the position of Master
of Transportation, we have
Mr. J. W. Jarvis, *
a former Conductor on the line, who,
on the score of merit alone, has worked
himself up to the position he now occu- j
pies, and thus being fully conversant
with the duties of his office, makes an
efficient officer. We have not the hon
or of his personal acquaintance, but
are daily conversant with his efficient
and business-like discharge of the du
ties devolving upon him.
Road Master, Bostic,
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is another self-made man, who com
bines with every characteristic of the
true gentleman, a tireless industry and
invaluable knowledge of the position
he occupies.
As Conductors,
we find on the line such gentlemen as
A. A. Sharpe, Messrs. Fowler, Willis,
Shepard, and T. S. Sharpe, each and
all of whom arc free from the swag
gering pomposity of most railroad
men—true gentlemen—and with whom
it is a pleasure to ride, and who take
an interest in the comfort of their pas
sengers, and make their trip over their
Road pleasant and agreeable. Nothing
adds so much to the popularity of a
Road as tfficient, gentlemanly, uud po
lite Conductors.
Engineers
re generally supposed to be a rough,
uncouth set of men. People who have
formed such opinions should see some
of the quiet, courteous gentlemen who
hold that position on this Road, among
them Mr. Pope Freeman, Mr. Cox, and
others we might name, but sufficient
for this article—our Road is officered,
from the top down, with a set of gen
tlemen, who arc an ornament to any
institution.
[COMMUNICATED.]
Eastman, Ga., July 26, 18T3.
Editor Eastman Times : — Allow me a
small space in your paper to lay be
fore the people of Dodge county some
of the doings of the County School
Board. Asa friend to the former Com
missioner, I feel it my duty, as I was
a member of the Board and know as
much as any one about the business.
There appeared a communication put
forth by a Committee of the last Grand
Jury, in which the language used car
ries to the people the idea that the
School Commissioner received $501.10,
which is not true. The School Com
mission was $243.00, and the wages
paid J. J. Rozar and S. YV. Burch, for
enrolling the children in a portion of
the county, was $60.00 ; so, you see,
all the money paid through his direc
tion was only $303.00, instead of $5Ol,
as “Exhibit A.” would have the people
believe Now this money was paid
on properly audited accounts, audited
by the School Board, two of whom
were members of “Exhibit A.” One
of the members of “Exhibit A” carried
a written report from the School Com
missioners before the Grand Jury
which he refused to have read. Now,
after denouncing tiie law and its offi
cers, “Exhibit A" discover vacancies
in County Board. What do they do
then ? Fill two of the vacancies from
the members of “Exhibit A,” and, in
their opinion no one else being' compe
tent, till the other with a gentleman
from New Hampshire. You will re
member two of the members of “Ex
hibit A’’ had been members of County
Board, but resigned—you see the ring
is complete. They then call a meeting,
elect one of themselves Commissioner,
and direct him to proceed to Atlanta
to a meeting of County School Offi
cers, the expenses to be paid out of
the people’s money. Now was lie au
thorized to use the people’s money be- ;
fore he was an officer ? or was he an
officer before lie was commissioned ?
But in these times of office grabbing,
anything is right with a few individ
uals.
I will relate another circumstance
in relation to the School Boar# : At
one time we thought we had a free
school, but some time after the school
was out an account was placed in the
hands of an attorney to be collected
from the School Fund, and a desperate
effort made to have it audited by the
School Board. The Commissioner could
not do this without violating his oafh
of office, as tiie school was not run as
a county school, nor none of the re
quirements of the law complied with
by the teacher—l think this ease had
something to do in getting the dis
pleasure of some of the ring against
your Commissioner. In better times
in Georgia it was not thought well of
for men to hold more than one office,
if it was not entirely forbid by law,
but some of our officers hold two com
missions and two and three offices.
Now you have some of the doings
of the County Board, and von are com
petent to judge impartially. The trick
is so plain that a way-faring man
could not help seeing it.
I am your ob’dt serv’t,
Jas. M. Buciian.
POWER’S GREEK SLAVE.
Where lie Got llis Model.
Quite a romantic story is told of the
model of Power’s Greek Slave. It ap
pears there was an American gentle
man of great wealth who had a beau
tiful daughter—beatiful in form as in
feature and character —but not con
tent with this treasure lie added to
his household a second wife About
thirty years ago his wife ran away
with her husband’s money. Father
and daughter in their poverty and
distress, took up a temporary resi-
I dence in Florence, and there met Hi
ram Powers. Out of love for the des
! titute father, whose sufferings from
want she had no means to relieve, the
: daughter consented to become the
| model for the Greek Slave.
The Rev. T DeWitt Talmage, has
' accepted the editorship of The Chris
| tian at Work, and his sermons and ar
| tides are to be published exclusively
in that journal. Mr. Talmage will be
-1 gin bis arduous duties in August.—A’.
Y. Tribune,
GEORGIA NEWS.
The energy and enterprise, as well
as unique novelty of the Atlanta Her
ald, is wonderful in the extreme. Last
Friday’s issue came to us with either
the “outside” or “inside” of it, we
couldn’t tell which, printed bottom
upwards ; and yet they run a special
mail train, and fail to see the SSOOO
“antied” by the Constitution, and go
any ‘‘better.”
Hawkins, of the Covington Enter
prise, is responsible for the following :
“A young man from a distance had
his ‘pegs knocked from under him’ by
a Covington child on Monday night.—
He remained with an elder sister of
the aforesaid child until after twelve
o’clock. About the time he was pre
paring to leave, the child came in the
room with only one short white gar
ment on and remarked thusly : ‘Oh,
yes, Mr. —* ,Pa says you shan’t
have sister : lie’s got more’n he can
s’port now, and he be d—n if he wants
any more your sort hanging ’round
her.’ The gent departed in tears and
has never looked down that street
since.”
The 'News and Farmer man, regardless
of cholera, has lovingly wraped him
self around the juicy refreshuess of
his first watermelon. —Eastman Times.
Brother Ham has surely beeu prowl
ing through some ancient vocabulary,
else we are at loss to construe the
meaning of tne word •wraped used in
the above item.— News and Farmer.
We give the two brothers who run
the above live journal credit for a lit
tle discrimination not possessed by the
devilish apprentice in our office, who
went and stuck in a “tv” where we
didn’t intend it
Louisville is to have a barbecue and
a Lodge of the Knights of Pythias,
and also talks of having a dramatic
entertainment.
Albany is regaling herself in bull
frogs, caught in dilapidated cisterns
around town.
When a Gainesville man tries to
penetrate the market house with his
nose, the editor of the Eagle, with
much suggestiveness, calls it fres
coing..
Ihe Perry Home Journal man actu
ally advises careful mothers not to let
their chddren go near the water until
they know how to swim. And this U
the kind of man who fui nishes “copy”
for the average country newspaper.
Perry is worried with a soda water
syrup that is called “anything,” and
punctuated with a wink, which causes
good templars to patronize the soda
founts very extensively An elaborate
analysis has developed 85 parts peach
brandy, and 15 parts honey.
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Bainbridge says she wants a tan
nery, and that without it she can nev
er be happy or impress outsiders with
the importance of her manufacturing
interests.
.According tr> Harris, of the Savan
nah News, Woods, of the Ilawkinsville
Dispatch, is a “C 01.,” and vice versa,
Harris rejoices in the title of “Rev.”
A sort of mutual aid society, it would
seem. “You tickle me,” &c.
Albany has started a “pisen” facto
ry. It is claimed by the inventor to
be a dead-shot for caterpillars if sifted
over a field. The trouble to our mind
would be to get a sifter the exact size
of every field.
Quitman congratulates herself be
cause she s drawing the trade of Col
quitt and Berrien counties.
Harris lacks three things now to
make him happy, and make Savannah
thrive : Atlanta to have the cholera ;
Brunswick to have three or four ship
wrecks ; and Styles to break out with
the St. Vitus Dance, so he can put him
out with his Babcock Fire Extinguish
er.
Atlanta brags that two John China
men prerambulate her streets daily.
Mr. J. L L. Allen, former Ordinary
of Johnson county, is soon to establish
a newspaper at Wrightsville, the coun
ty site, to be called the Johnson i?e
porter. We wish him every success
in his rew enterprise.
The Atlanta Constitution now has a
special artist, and occasionally pre
sents its readers with a wood cut of
the self-made men of Atlanta. Geo.
W. Adair, together with a biograph
ical sketch of his life, appeared in their
last feunday’s issue.
One Day’s Fatality in Boston.—
A man stabbed, a man killed by fall
ing from a window, a child kiUed in
being run over by a hack, a woman
killed by suicide and a man drowneii
Yet they tell us that Boston is a model
of good government, law and order
and of security to life and limb.
Humors of War with Mexico.
A Washington special to the Louis
ville Courier-Journal says: “The state
ment made by the San Antonio press,
just received here, that the Mexican
General Escobedo was marching to
the Rio Grande with an entire divis
ion. is looked upon in military circles
here, as very important. Such a move
ment of so large a body of troops it
is natural to suppose cannot be with
peaceful intent. The Mexicans have
determined to retaliate for the incur
sion in their territory. They will givt;
the very opportunity which our annex
ationist have been so anxiously avvait
ingj for nothing would delight Secre
tary Beiknap and the President more
than an attack by the Mexicans on
our forces. That would be the signal
for an advance along the whole line.
Rumors were current to night that a
heavy battle had already been fought
between Mackenzie’s forces and the
Mexicans, and that McKenzie-had been
killed. These rumors, were net, how
evet, credited by the War Department
officials It is thought, however, by
them that stirring intellgence from
the Mexican border may now be look
ed fen* at almost any time.”
When the proper time comes to
turn a war with Mexico to political ac
count, the administration will not
lacK means, nor hesitate to embrace
the opportunity to bring it on. If
necessary agencies will be employed
among the mongrel Mexicans 1 hem
selves to induce them to initate the
conflict.
Postage to Germany. —Complaint is
made by intelligent citizens that the
recent postal treaty between the
United States and Germany is calcu
lated to very materially retard the
emigration to the United States of
their fellow-countrymen. The postal
rates fixed by the treaty, impose, it is
alleg’ed, a much higher charge upon
American newspapers printed in the
German language than upon any oih
er. Germans in the United States
have been in the habit of sending
papers printed in their own
to their iriends at home, who in this
way have been made acquainted with
the advantages offered in the United
States to all respectable and worthy
immigrants. The action of the Ger
man Government some time since in
rrm, '*■*- * • '•*■ •j. t 1... J l* Ivo
subjects to America, shows that it
will use all the possible efforts to
keep them in ignorance of all that
pertains to this favored land. It can
not of course, be doubted that this
provision was inserted in the treaty
without our Government being aware
of its effect
Poisonous Colorings. — It appears
that greens arc not the only colors
which contain arsenic, nor wall paper
the only fabric colored with arsenical
pigments. A correspondent of The
Chemical News, who is in position to
know, states that the French use the
pigments, containing arsenic, in calico
printing, and that they arc qually
suitable, and doubtless used, in the
coloring of paper hangings. Light
scarlet pigment contained alumnia,
arsenions oxide, and aurine; scarlet
ponceau contained carbonate of lime,
in addition to the ingredients just
named; dark green a preparation of
aniline green and arsenous oxide;
steam chocolate and catechu pigment,
both contained the arsenous oxide.
The presence of arsenic in red as well
as in green colored wall paper, has
been demonstrated by Halhvacha.
Resuscitating the Drowned.
Dr. Joux, an eminent physician of
Brussels, having recently exhausted
all known scientific remedies in at
tempting to restore an apparently
drowned man, and failed, proceed
ed to apply plates of iron, heated to
a white heat, to the upper parts of the
body, near the mftre vital organs.
After a short time, to the astonishment
of the assistants, faint signs of breath
ing were observed, and in the course
of half an hour the man came to life,
and was finally and fully restored, the
only inconvenience sustained being
the result of the severe cauterization
which his skin necessarily underwent.
A man named Moore, a representa
tive of a Philadelphia jewelry firm,
stopped over Sunday at a northern
Vermont town. In the coni of the
evening he bethought himself to take
a little walk, and finally reached the
village graveyard. Seeing the door
of a vault ajar, he opened it and stvp
| ped within, when a gust of wind came
| and the ponderous door shut to, and
the bolt lock sprang. He tried to es
| cape from his imprisionment, but in
vain. All night long he toiled and
halloed, but with no effect. At last
in the morning, he was successful in
I escaping, having to pound the lock
npr?i with a heavy stone.
Art of Swimming.
Men are drowned by raising their
arms above water, the unbuoved
weight of which depresses the head.
Other animals have neither motion or
ability to act in a similar manner, and
therefore swim naturally. When a
man falls into deep water he will rise
to the surface, and will continue there
if he does not elevate his hands. If
he moves his hands under water, in
any way he pleases, his head will rise
so high as to give him free liberty to
bieathe; and if lie will use his legs as
in the art of walking (or rather
walking up stairs), his shoulders will
rise above the water, so that he may
use the less exertion with his hands,
or apply them to other purposes. These
plain directions are recommended t<
the recollection of those who have not
learned to swim in their youth, as
they may be found very advantageous
in many cases.
Terrific Storm in New Jersey.
A cyclone swept through southwest
ern New Jersey on Friday, which
damaged farms, crops and trees to
the amount of several hundred
thousand dollars. Every structure
in its immediate track was swept
away. A tremendous fall of hail ac
companied the storm, and ice-stones as
huge as a hen’s egg could be gathered
and picked up in the track of the hur
ricane by the bushel. The storm
moved from east to west, and p cssed
over Philadelpnia without any marked
demonstration of violence. A heavy
fall of rain, however, flooded the
streets in many parts of the city,
and a few houses on the outskirts we
struck by lightning.
The movement looking toward Hi;
formation of a now State >u o ’ v
Mississippi, West T vwi ■
Western Kentucky is i * ng >
with considerable aniin it>on >
newspapers published in'the ,■■■ •
interested. A c invention wu to -.v
been held at -Tacks >u on yes erdiy,
and delegates were expected 1.0.i
every city town and civil district with
ill the limits of the proposed new Slav,
file general sentiment seems to be in
favor of the m >vement
Railway Progress in- the United
States. —The number of miles of rail
road built in the United States and
fi„. -i, i., iqaq
was 3515; in that ending with 1850
it was 5508; in that ending witn ISGO
it was 21,614; and in that ending
with 1870 it was 22,764. The great
est number of miles constructed in
any one year was in 1871, in which
7453 miles were opened. The prog
ress of railroads was seriously inter
rupted during the war of secession;
for during the four years of its contin
uance only 3273 miles were opened—
-4180 miles less than were opened in
the year 1871.
The Caterpillar in Alabama. — The
Montgomery Advertiser of i* late date
says:
It is useless to cumber our columns
with reports from all the papers pub
lished in the cotton belt of Alabama.
They all have the same sad statement
to make—that the worms have ap
peared in dreadful numbers and are
now webbing up preparatory to their
grand and destructive charge in the
next three or four weeks. Every far
mer with whom we meet, from this
and adjoining counties, brings tin*
same gloomy tidings. With rains in
the best part of the season, and worms
when the cotton begins to develop,
the prospect for much of a crop is
slim.
NOTICE, TO THE PUBLIC!
The undersigned is now prepared to do
WAGON, CART, OR BUGGY WORK,
On Short Notice and Reasonable Terms.
For the present I will work at Mr. Murphy’s Mill, where I may be found during the day.--
pti" Parties having hard timber to sell, and wanting good work in return, will find it to
their interest to call on rue at once. All work warranted to give satisfaction.
July 23. ’73-2m. J. I. WAITE.
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