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VOLUMI] 11 THE EASTMAN TIMES. Is PUBLISHED WEEKLY AT Eastman, Dodge Cos., Ga., BY TZ. S. BURTON. Terms—One year, $2 00 ; Six months, $ . 00. All subsections required in advance, invariably. Advertising Hates. SqS iM.| oM. G JI. ; r* * T 1 . .. $4 00 $7 00 $lO 00 sls 00 2 6 25 12 00 18 00 25 00 4 9 75 19 00 28 00 39 00 i.... 11 50 22 50 34 00 4G 00 i 20 00 32 59 55 00 I 80 00 1 col. 35 00 60 00 80 00 j 130 00 Advertisements inserted at $1 per square for first insertion, and 75 cents fot each subsequent insertion. A square is the space of ten solid lines bre vier type. Advertisemen's contracted for a specified time, and discontinued before the expiration of time contracted for, will be clung.d lor the tinu: run at our schedule rates* 'Marriage and obituary notices, tributes of respect, and other kindred notices, occupying over ten lines, will Le charged for as other ad vertisements. Advertisements must take the run of the pa per when not contracted otherwise. All bills for advertising are due on the first appearance of advertisement, or wlien pre s sited, except when otherwise contracted for. Parties handing in advertisements will please state the required time for publication, other wise they will be inserted till forbid and charged for accordingly. Transient advertisements unaccompanied by the money will receive no attention. \dv rdsoments or Communications, to se cure n insertion the same week, should be handed in on Monday morning. All letters should be adddressed to R. S. BURTON, Publisher. RATES AJS'D HULKS FOR LEG-AX* ADVERTISING. Sheriffs sales, per levy, 13 50 ; sheriffs mort n/; !gr‘ sales, per 1 wv. $5"; tax sales, per low, $3; Ibv letters of administration, $! ; eitu . dismisstera of guardianship; application plication fof from administration, 810; np oH.atiou for nission from guardianship, $5; ?•, lllld each fuh’,ve to twll i nnu cnivjVAl for homestead square, S->, application, iters, $4 ; lam) V n ° h f to ‘lebtora and ered ditivnd or,-,, sales (Ist square), and each ad erty, ’p. -T ; 8 perishable prop f dayc, .4, 50 ; astray notices, sixty m A ?. ce to perfect service, $7 ; rules . <e mortgage, per square, $1; rules t° vyl ish lost pipers, per square, $f ; rules (oh., il ; ng titles, per square, $4 ; rules to per fect sen ice in divorce caies, $lO. Sales of 1; nl, etc., 1 y administrators, cxec utor o guardians, are required by law to be held on the first Tuesday in the month, between the hours of 10 in the forenoon and 4 in the afternoon, at the court house door in the county ia which the property is situated. Notice of these sales must be given in a public gazette 40 days ] revious to the day 0!“ sale. Notices for the fate of personal preparty must be given in like manner 10 days \ t vious to day of sale. Notices to the debtors aid creditors of an estate must be published 40 days. Notice that application will be made to the Coartof Ordinary for leave to sell land, Ac., must b 1 published for two months. Citations for letters of a 1 minis'ration, guar dianship, Ac., must be published 30 days—for lismission from administration, monthly for three months—for dismission from guardian ship, 40 days. Rules for foreclosure of mortgages must be published monthly for four months—for estab lishing lost papers for the full space of three months—-for compelling titles from executors or administrators, where bond has been given by the deceased, the full space of three months. Publication will always be continued accord ing to these, the legal requirements, unless oth erwise ordered. Professional mid Business. 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. Dodflp4th Mondays, April and October* 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.”