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VOLUMI] 11
THE EASTMAN TIMES.
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H. W. J. HAM. | | THOMAS H. DAWSON
HAM & DAWSON,
ATTORNEYS AT LA W ,
(Office in Court Housed
EASTMAN, GEO.,
Will practice in the counties of Dodge, Tel
fair. Appling, Montgomery, Emanuel, Laurens
and Pulaski, and elsewhere by special con
tract.
Feb. 14 tf
O. C. HORNE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Hawkinsville, Geo.
Oconee Circuit — Court Culendar 1873.
Wilcox -4th Mondays, March and September.
Dooly- 3d Mondays, March and September.
Irwin—Fridays after above.
Montgomery ' Thnrs after Ist Mondays, April.
Laurens 2d Mondays, April and Oct (and Oct.
Pulaski 3d Mondays, April and October.
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Telfair —Thursdays after above.
Jan. 31st, ly.
L, A. HALL
Attorney and Counsellor at Law,
EASTMAN, GA.
\\ ill practice in the Circuit and District
Courts of the Lnited States, for the Southern
District ot Georgia, the Superior Courts of the
Oconee Circuit, and all counties adjacent to
the M. &B. 11. 11. Halt fee in advance ; con
sultation fee reasonable.
Office in the Court House.
i iy.
§p pme J;
A IIOeLOVV mockery.
A Detroiter Driven Into a Hog
toy an Enraged Hull.,
From the Detroit Free Press.]
A man, Andrew Steadman, who buys
cattle, who deals in hides, and occa
sionally makes a dollar by buying
and selling produce, went out to Gan
kin townslep, a few days ago to buy
a span of heavy horses which were
wanted by a firm in the city. Upon
reaching the farmer’-; .house fio found
tli&fc the man was working with a
neighbor a mile away. To save the
distancp lie cut across lots, but was
warned before-he started to look out
lor a savag.; bovine which had the run
of a ten-acre field. Thinking of how
he was going to get that span of
horses for fifty dollars less than their
value, Steadman kept plodding across
the field, which had a strip of bushes
two or three rods wide running half
way across it. There were a few
stumps and logs, one small tree, but
nothing which prevented any one from
crossing tlie strip. The Detroiter was
about ten rods from the bushes, when
lie heard ‘a distant thunder sound,’and
looked around to see from which way
the shower was coming. About thirty
rods away he beheld the old bovine
coming for him, head down, back up
and eyes blazing. Steadman was sat
isfied that iie was the man who wanted
to be making the gravel fly, and he
went for the bushes. He thought the
hull would stop and run around the
strip, and was startled when the old
fellow dashed through thorn on his
trail, uttering a deep ‘boom !’ every
instant. Steadman dodged this way
and that, but the bovine tore along- af
ter him, smashing bushes and leaping
logs, and it was getting to be a red
hot aflair, when the man spied the open
end ol a large hollow log. The bull
was jioj-' o\L‘i toiiy ieeU ueiTAKi. aim :
into the log went Steadman, finding
an orifice about twelve feet long, and
large enough to be roomy. The bovine
had seen the movement, and stopped
at the log and ripped off a bushel of
bark at the first dash.
Then putting In's horns under it lie
gave it a roll, and Steadman spun
around like a.dried pea in a police
man’s whistle. The log was large,
but old and tender, and every time the
bull hauled back and jumped for it he
covered himself with glory and clouds
of bark and wood. Sometimes he
whirled one end, and then he gave the
center a heave, and then he knocked
a foot off the other end. Steadman
swore, shrieked and pleaded, his eyes
lull of bark and bis mouth stopped up,
and every act of his life passed before
him like a vision. ‘W-o-o-h 1 whoop !’
bellowed the bovine as he slammed
away at the log, and every moment
Steadman expected to see the roof
cave in on him. He was in despair,
when he heard the barking of dogs and
the shouts of men, and after a few
minutes the farmers succeeded in re
leasing h.m, but it took a good hour to
get the kinks out of his back and tne
rotton wood from his ears and eves.
German Strategy in Civil J.ife.
A German is ol just as hasty a tern
per, and in -Germany will resent in
words, an insult, or implication as
soon as an American, but will rarely
resort to physical force. A Dresden
letter gives a good example of how
disputes are settled with quarrelsome
persons without resorting to blows,
for striking a person moans imprison
ment and fine, and before proceeding
to the extremity they have to decide
which will give them most gratifica
tion':" *
On the Fourth of July some Ameri
cans were to meet at a garden to ar
range for our celebration. One of the
party drove there in a droschke, he
paid his fare and walked into the gar
den and joined his friends at the table.
\ ery soon the driver followed and in
sultingly demanded pay for a broken
glass, which our American friend de
nied having been guilty .of.
The driver commenced a tirade of
abuse which would have resulted in a
knock down ala Americana, and con
sequent fine and imprisonment, had
not General Heine interfered to settle
it ala German. He rose from his seat,
and in doing so accidently brought
EASTMAN, DCXDGHE COUNTY, GA., WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 3, 1873.
two hundred and fifty pounds of bone
and muscle to bear rather suddenly
upon the driver’s toes. This caused
him hastily to retreat a few steps, and
as the current of his abuse was chang
ed a couple of steps brought the same
weight again on his tender extremities.
Thus the General followed apologeti
cally until the driver vacated the gar
den; during this time the hands of both
imng idle, but in passing the gate the
driver’s anger got the better of his
juugmcm, when he made the a _ f rnpt
to d\ive the gate agtfihat the Gcnbrai’s
head. For this he w* • sent to prison
for five days, as a lesson to keep his
temper another time. This would not
be worth mentioning did it not clearly
exhibit the German manner of dealing
in such circumstances.
Tlie Agricultural He turns of
Georgia.
Our efficient Comptroller General
and his assistants yesterday completed
the .footing up of the agricultural
books returned by the various Tax Ro
ceivers throughout the State. In the
table of aggregates which we give be
low the returns of the entire State are,
included, with the exception of twelve
counties. The Tax Receivers of these
counties up to yesterday afternoon had
not sent in their books, but they w ill
probably do so in a few days.
These agricultural returns are taken
under a special act of the last Legisla
ture, and hence we have not the re
turns of the previous years with which
to compare them, and thus ascertain
the increase or decrease of any partic
ular item. On account of the novelty
of these returns, many of the receivers
have failed to understand thoroughly
how they were to be taken, although
printed instructions and forms were
distributed to each from the Comp
troller’s Office. Consequently some of
the items are by no means perfectly
by mistake, failed to ascertain the
number of cattle, stock, etc., or acres
planted in vineyards, orchards, pota
toes, etc., in the cities, but obtained
these returns only for the counties
exclusive of the, towns. This makes a
grave difference in the aggregates, for
in many counties the towns contain
nearly as much live stock, and more
vineyards or orchards than the balance
of the county put together. The other
returns may be relied upon as compar
atively accurate.
Number of acres planted in cotton,
1,702,1691
Number of acres planted in rice,
6,952|.
Number of acres planted in wheat,
278,057.
Number of acres planted in rye, 18,-
668.
Number of acres planted in oats,
854,304.
Number of acres planted in Indian
corn, 1,791,468.
Number of acres planted in sweet
potatoes, 33,949.
Number of acres planted in Irish
potatoes, 1,940.
Number ot acres planted in tobacco,
411.
Number of acres planted iu sugar
cane, 5,857.
N umber of acres planted in sorgum,
3,481.
Number of acres planted in clover
and seeds, 16,451.
Number of acres planted in vine
yards, 384.
NumbeT of acres planted in orchards,
83,349.
Number of acres planted in peanuts,
15,4131
Number of sheep in Georgia, 471,-
084.
Number of dogs in Georgia, 115,-
870.
Number of hogs in Georgia, 730,814.
Number of horses and mules in
Georgia, 139,597.
Number of cattle in Georgia, 534,
833.
Number of cotton factories in Geor
gia, 25.
Number of cotton spindles in Geor
-79,057.
Number of woolen factories in Geor
gia, 5.
Number of woolen spindles in Geor
gia, 872.
Number of carding machines in
Georgia, 65,
Number of iron furnaces and fuund
eries in Georgia, 10.
In Richmond county there are 1,286
acres in melons, and in Bibb countv
there are 143 goats.
Houston county returns the largest
quantity of land in cultivation of anv
one county, and Appling ' the largest
number of cattle.; Washington is next
to Houston in its, return of agricultu
ral products.
Houston has in cotton, 55,173 acres;
ir* com, 83,253. acres It has, also,
2 13 1 i.;ul 7,175 lags. I
Washington has in cotton, 47,798
acres; in corn, 45,879. It has, also,
2,*74 dogs, and 14,370 hogs.
In Houston county the darkies are
largely in the majority, and a compar
ison of its hogs and dogs with those in
Washington county, proves conclusive
ly the fact that dogs increase in a direct
ratio as the darkies, and that on the
other hand hogs decrease in a double
inverse ratio. Hog raising is evidently
not a success just now in Houston.
Appling makes the largest return of
cattle in the State, returning 7,824
head. —Atlanta Constitution .
A BLACK PHOPIIET.
Am Extraordinary Heligious De
lusion.
A letter of a recent date from Spar
tanburg, South Carolina, to the Charles
ton News & Courier decribes an extra
ordinary religious movement among
the colored people of that section:
For the last two years a negro
preacher, by the name of Bobo, has
been the spiritual head and adviser of
one of the largest negro congregations
in this county. Ilia church is situated
about twenty miles of this place, in a
dense negro settlement, and so great
was his fame as a minister of the Gos
pel, that his members were found on
’V“- l ’ l o *i.*-!*rvfi-, < ■*rv*o
plantations. Bobo is described as a
negro of great ignorance, but blessed
with that profusion of speech so often
found in his race. He is said to be a
good workman, but of very loose mor
als in everything but the strict keep
ing of the Lord’s Day, and an almost
austere observance of the forms of re
ligion. He thus possessed all those
qualities necessary for a leader of this
people.
During the last montn a kind of re
vival has been in progress in Bobo’s
church, and a few days ago it culmi
nated in one of the greatest religious
demonstrations ever seen in this part
of the country. Bobo, from preaching
Christ, went to preaching himself as
“the new prophet high iu favor.” His
doctrine was that the Lord had com
manded him to call together the chil
dren ot Zion, and lead thorn to the
promise land, distant but one hundred
and sixty miles, and where they would
have wings and could fly. After much
exhortation and many midnight orgies,
he said that the command to march
had been received, that his disciples
must sell „li they had, and without
scrip or sword follow him. He thus
persuaded some fifty or sixty to obey
ffim. The poor deluded creatures sold
crops, stock, and everything they had,
at a sacrifice. One man sold his crop,
said to be worth six hundred dollars,
for one hundred and fifty dollars; an
other sold a cow and calf for one dol
lar and fifty cents. Nothing could
dissuade them from their purpose.
they said it was the command of the
Lord, and they must obey.
Just before they started the prophet
said there was yet one more thing to
be done. It was necessary to the suc
cess of the journey the oldest person
among the faithful must be sacrificed,
because he being the oldest can tell
the Loid m3st about any of us. On
examination the oldest person was
found to be a woman. She was taken
and confined in an old out-house until
a stick of peculiar growth could be
found, with which she must be killed,
did not seem to mind her danger
but lather to rejoice. She certainly
would have been a martyr had it not
been for the neighboring whites, who
-iad to use some show of violence to
release her.
This was a damper ou the prophet
and his followers, but did rot divert
them from their purpose. Placing
their smallest children and a few pro
visions in a two-horse wagon, they sat
out on their march. On their march
several attempts were made to dis
suade them from their folly, but with
out turning to the right or left, with
eyes upturned they went on without
making an}' answers. The last heard
of them they were crossing the moun
tains in the direction of Tennessee.—
This may seem like fiction, but it is
true; the witnesses are here, and I
have written no more than what to
day can be hoard ir, any crowd r in
any family circle of this county. The
exodus is the grand theme of conversa
tion and the wonder of the people.
A Darned Stocking.
From the Griffin Daily News. ]
Yes, girls, 1 know its awfully mo
notonous work, one stitch over and
under the needle again and again, but
then you know, Those who dance must
pay the fiddler,’ and dancing is just as
sure to make holes in stockings as it
is to give pleasure Now, while we
all indulge in this more profitable than
amusing pastime, I’ll tell you the story*
of a darned stocking, and how it help
ed to make me what I am—an old maid
in this world.
I see that thought don’t reconcile
you a particle to the business in hand,
but girls, whether you marry or re
main single, whether are happy
wives and mothers some day, or like
your aunt Ellen, go through the world
alone, an ‘old maid/ I should be glad
to think that 3*olll* lives would be as
bright as mine is and lias been, even
it like mine they should be brightened
only by memories and dreams. Ycs k
in this world I am an ‘old maid/ and I
don’t mind being called so, either, for
I have always kept bright as morning,
and in my heart ‘the love of life’s young
day/ and now, after twenty years of
patient waiting, 1 know that ‘on the
l-'l TffYt Zm* '1 ! ... . T _
for the meeting that some day will be
witnessed by God and his angels, those
who like myself have borne the cross
below in sorrow and sadness, but.
through faith in Him, have risen with
the crown of glory to dwell ‘eternal in
the Heavens.’
John and I grew up together, loving
each other from the time we com
menced our a-b abs in the same class
in school side by side. Of course the
childrei lauged at us, but whether our
‘loves were wiser/ or our hearts truer,
all the fun missed its mark and we
continued ‘little lovers’—though no
words of love were spoken, no prom
ises asked or given, but he knew, as I
did, that in the wide, wide world no
other would care for him as did the
little girl he’d grown strong beside—
almost grown to man’s estate. John’s
people had great riches and high ex
pectations for him, their oldest boy,
and I hardly know if they felt most
pride or pain in the parting that took
him away from his quiet home to enter
the university where he was to conf
plcto his education. All during the
long winter months of his absence I
had his home-coming to look forward
to, and then occasionally I had a let
ter, or a note slipped into his mother’s
letters, in which he told me of his col
lege life and how lie hoped some day
to make his old friends proud of him
as well as fond. Still no words of love
and lie never even said, ‘Ellen. I should
like to give you the right to be fond
est and proudest’—but in my heart I
knew John was all mine, and that in
good time lie would ask me to be all
his own. The time for his graduating
was drawing near, and such reports
as his mother and sister gave of the
grand speech John was to make, and
they even had me to read the copy lie
had sejit home. They went to hear
him and sec him receive the congratu
lations of his class and faculty, for his
university career had been an unusu
ally bright and promising one. Then
they all came home together, and John
came to me just as in the old childish
days, and our old familiar intercourse
was resumed, and we weie happy as I
believe only youths and maidens are.
One day we were riding along quiet
ly, as was our almost daily custom,
when just in front of us, into the long
smooth glass, there dropped a bird,
and immediately a hawk with a pierc
ing shriek darted upon it, aud a com
[rs i 3*2
bat ensued, in the midst of which the
horse I was riding became frightened
and ran—ran through the dense pine
forest, where the limbs of the tiers
were down to the earth and the ground
thick with the fallen pine leaver of
ages making it almost as slippery as
lce * * >n on we Woll b 1 clinging* in des
peration to the saddle, till on a hillside,
down which I was being carried with
lightning* speed, the horse lost his foot
ing and fell, crushing and bruising my
poor foot and ankle under its great
body. Tie lay there moaning like a
mountain of pain, and I, faint and in
agony. In a moment I heard John’s
horse coming, little less rapidly than
my own had done, and in another in
stant he was by my side. The pent
up love of all those long years poured
irom liis lips, as he kissed me again
and again, and begged me to live for
liis sake. Of course his anxiet y was
much greater than my injuries, though
he would have me remove the shoe
and stocking from my wounded foot,
or rather my broken ankle, lie car
ried me home most gently, but ’twas
Ihe last ride ever taken on that horse,
for his injuries were so great that he
died before John could improvise an
arrangement for getting me safe home.
Not long after that, John was ad
mitted to the bar, and went to practice
law in a large city far away. Not,
however, till we had expressed all the
love we had been learning in the old
school house, that had grown so dear
to both our hearts, and had strengthen
ed so since those early day r s when we
were boy and girl together. John
was making a name for himself, and
his letters were full of love, and prom
ise, and hopes of the home to which
lie was soon coming to take me. In
my own quiet way I was happy and
content, believing in John and his
love and trusting him for all the hap
piness that life could give Uod
knows it might have been mat i trust
ed him too much, and that I never
looked to a higher source, or thanked
a higer power for the happiness that
was mine.
The time for our marriage was
drawing near, and John was coming
to make some last arrangements before
taking me from my old home forever.
I was waiting* with all love’s impa
tience for the coming of him I almost
worshipped, feeling so strong in our
love, and believing that “if we loved
each other nothing could harm us.”
In those days, even bad news trav
eled slowly, and ’twas sometime before
we heard of the terrible accident that
happened on the short-line railroad
over which lie passed, though my
heart had almost grown weary with
waiting as the days passed by and
John was still absent. Finally his
mother came to me. with a little pack
age in her hand, and said, “Ellen, this
is all that’s left to tell you how he
loved you’’—for he was among those
who had gone from an earthly future,
with happiness just before him, to reap
a glorious reward on high. Twas a
long time before I opened that little
bundle, but many, many days I sat in
silence with that for my sole compan
ion, and my fingers had almost worn
away the words written in his hand
before I found courage to look at its
contents. Just a little parcel tied up
with a cotton string, and on it was
written, “August 11th—My God, I
thank thee, that, though I nearly lost
her, she is mine.”
When I opened it, there lay the
stocking I had worn the day of lh
ride, on which lie told me of his love,
and there were three darns in it, and
close beside one was a big hole where
the broken bone had come through,
and the stains of blood had been
washed away, and there, girls, shall
that stain remain, as he prized it, for
among the relics of m} T youth and the
treasures gathered in riper years, the
dearest of them all is that old “Darned
Stocking.”
Susan B. Anthony wants tho name
of the Pullman cars altered, either-to
Pullmao-and-woman or pull-irrespcc
tive-of-sex cars. -
The plan for the new Chicago court
house is severely criticised. One
writer says that “the general effect is
that ot a sugar-box, with a pickle-bot
tle at one end and a lot of p< pper cast
ers on top.”