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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. " * 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, # 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. { 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. THE PEOPLE’S PAPER. THE ATLANTA CONSTITUTION. DAILY AXD WEEKLY, With Great 8-Page Sunday Edition, PIPIP I p % p Every FAMILY should have the Consti tution—lt is full of carefully selected general reading—Poetry. Literature, Stories, News. Every FARMER should have—lt makes a specialty of crop and farm news. Every LA\\ TER should have it—The Supreme Court Decisions are exclusively re ported for it, immediately when rendered.* Every MERCHANT should take it-Its cel ebrated weekly cotton editorials contain facts and figures to be had nowhere else. Every LADY wants if—lts famous FASH ion LETTERS are eagerly sought. E\ EL.YBODY should take the Constitution —lt is a weekly newspaper looking after the interest of all classes. Its correspondence Department is not ex celled in the I nited States, embracing ‘“Round the World.” European, and letters from Georgia and the American States. siiii | i | g Largest editorial staff in the South—l. W. Avery, Political Department; J. T. Lumpkin News; W. G. Whidby, City; N. P. T. Finch, Howel C. 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