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VOLUME 11
THE EASTMAN TIMES.
IH PUBLISHED WEEKLY AT
Eastman, Dodge Cos., Ga.,
BY
11. S. BURTON.
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HATES AND RULES FOR
LEGAL ADVERTISING.
Sheriffs sales, per levy, $3 50 ; Sheriffs mort
gage sales, per levy, $5 ; tax sales, per levy, $3 ;
citation for letters of administration, $4; cita
tion for letters of guardianship; application
for dismission from administration, $10; ap
plication for dismission from guardianship, $5 ;
application for leave to sell land (one square)
?">, and each additional square, $3 ; application
f >r homestead, $2 ; notice to debtors and cred
itors, $1; land sales (Ist square), and each ad
ditional square, $3 ; sale of perishable prop
erty, per square, 50 ; estray notices, sixty
days, $7 ; notice to perfect service, $7 ; rules
nisi to foreclose mortgage, per square, $i ; rules
to establish lost papers, per square, $4 ; rules
eompelling H f les, per square, $ l ; rules to per
fect service iu divorce cases, $lO.
Sales of land, etc., by administrators, exec
utors or guardians, are required by law to be
held on the first Tuesday in the mouth, between
the hours of 10 in the forenoon and 4 iu the
afternoon, at the court house door in the county
iu which the property is situated. Notice ot
these sales must be given in a public gazette
40 days previous to the day of sale.
Notices tor the sale of personal property
must be given in like manner 10 days previous
to day of sale.
Notices to the debtors and creditors of an
estate must be published 40 days.
Notice that application will be made to the
Court of Ordinary for leave to sell land, Ac.,
must be published for two months.
Citations for letters of administration, guar
dianship, Ac., must be published 30 days—for
dismission 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
mouths 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.
'I&SSL' It ■!'-. . .■ , jii
Professional and Business.
H. W. J. HAM. | | THOMAS H. DAWSON
HAM & DAWSON,
A T T O RNETS AT L A W ,
(Office iu Court House.)
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 EAW
llawkinsville, Geo.
Oconee Circuit — Court Calendar 1873.
Wilcox—4th Mondays, March and September.
Dooly—3d Mondays, March and September.
Irwin—Fridays after above.
Montgomery —Timurs after Ist Mondays, April.
Laurens—2d Mondays, April and Oct (and Oct.
Pulaski—3d Mondays, April and October.
Dodge—4th Mondays, April and October*
Telfair—Thursdays after above.
Jan. 31st, ly.
E, A. HALL,
Attorney and Counsellor at Law,
EASTMAN, GA.
Will practice in the Circuit and District
Courts ot the United States, for the Southern
District of Georgia, the Superior Courts of the
Oconee Circuit, and all counties adjacent to
the M. AB. It. It. Half fee in advance ; con
sultation fee reasonable.
£ it** Office in the Court House.
1
We Eastman Iptnegl
AN EDITOR’S OBITUARY.
BY A SYMPATHETIC POICK.
The editor sat in his rickety chair,
As worried as he could be,
For the “devil” was grinning before him there,
“I want some copy,” said he.
Then the editor grasped hie big quill pen,
And it spurted the ink so free,
That his manuscript look’d like a war map, when
“Take this !” to the “devil” said he.
He scribbled and scratched through the live
long day,
No rest or peace had he,
For the “devil” kept constantly coming that
way,
And calling for “more cop-ee !”
And when the boys in the news-room heard
The sound of unequal fray—
The sound of a blow, and a blasphemous w*ord—
“He’s raising the ‘devil!” said they.
And oft’ when a man with a grievance came in,
The editor for to see,
He’d turn around with a word of sin—
“Go to the ‘devil! ’ ” said he.
And thus was he destined thro’ all of his days,
By the “devil” tormented to be ;
In hunger and poverty, sorrow and strife,
Still close to the “devil” was he.
The editor died * * * but the devil lived on,
And the force of long habit we see ;
For the editor’s breath no sooner was gone,
Than straight to the “devil” went he.
TIIE FAMILY LETTER.
How tlie Materials are Procur
ed—How They are Used—
Wliat Becomes of the
Result.
The Family letter is written on Sun
day. The reason that day is selected
is not alone because of the leisure it
presents. The quiet of the day, its
relief from all influences that irritate
or agitate, frees the mind from irrele
vant and antagonistic matter, and
makes it pre-eminently a fit occasion
for communing with loved ones. In
nine cases out of ten the lctfer is writ
ten by the head of the family, and of
those sent;? an equal proportion is ad
dressed to his wife’s iolks. We don’t
know why it is a man so rarely writes
to his own folks, but as it is not the
province of this article to treat on
that subject, we will pretend we don’t
care. The hour being selected for in
diting the letter, the first thing is to
find the paper. There is always a
drawer in every well regulated family
for keeping such things. It is either
in the table or stand. Here the writ
ing paper and old screws and fiddle
strings and broken locks and fish lines
and grocery receipts are kept. There
may be other things, but if there are
he will see them. The sheet of paper
is finally found ; the fly stains neatly
scraped off, and search commences for
the ink and pen. The former is inva
l’iably found on the mantel next to the
clock, and is immediately laid on the
table convenient to the perspiring
man, who sarcastically inquires if the
letter is to be written to-day or next
Sunday. This inspires the wife with
new zeal in the search. She goes
over the drawer again, because she
knows he wouldn’t see anything if it
was right under his nose, but the pen
is not there. Then she looks over the
top of the bureau, and lifts everything
on the top of the front-room table, and
says it seems so singular it can’t be
found, when'she saw it only the day
before, and thought about the letter.
Then she goes into the pantry, and,
after exploring the lower shelf in vain,
stands upon a chair and carefully goes
over the top shelf, where the medicine
bottles and unused cans arc stationed.
After she lias done this she starts up
stairs, and pretty soon returns with
the pen, and takes it to the sink to
wash the grease from it, but does not
succeed in quite effacing the delicate
scent of bergamot. This leads him
to observe that anybody w T ho takes a
pen-holder to lift hair grease from a
bottle is too pure and innocent for
this*world. Everything now in readi
ness, good humor is restored, the wife
takes a seat opposite, with her elbows
on the table, and her chin in her hands,
and assumes an expression of coun
tenance that is mysteriously calculat
ed to both encourage and repress the
writer ; and he grasps the pen tightly
between his fingers, and stares at the
paper with an intensity that is entire
ly unnecessary. The date-line starts
off glibly, and then suddenly ceases
EASTMAN, DODGE COUNTY, (J A., WEDNESDAY, OCT. 1, 1873.
as it reaches the date itself. He puts
the holder in his mouth and immedi
ately spits it out again, making up a
face that is no wise suggestive of
bergamot, and pettishly asks her if
she knows the day of the month. Of
course she docs It is the 13th—or is
it the—but no—it must be. She hes
itates, starts at him, wavers, and fs
lost. She don’t know whether it is
the 13th or 18th, but the almanac will
tell, and she at once starts to hunt it
up. This occasions a delay of fifteen
minutes, during, which he makes nine
ty-five passes at one fly. The date
having been satisfactorily settled no
on, and the things which rolled over
the floor as that stand drawer unex
pectedly fell out, haying been restor
ed to their place, the date line is com
pleted and “Dear Mother” started.
Tht pen is a home pen of bashful
mould, and whenever it starts a line
it requires half a dozen passes to
make it give down. All home pens do
this. And all home sheets of paper
have weak spots which the ink refuse
to cross, thus creating some remarka
ble division of words, and considera
ble confusion among sentences. Some
of these spots are two inches in diam
eter, and anybody in the next room
can tell the moment the writer comc-s
to them, just as well as if lie was look
ing over his shoulder. When the let
ter is completed, which generally oc
curs at the end of the fifth hour from
the commencement, it is carefully read
over, and supplied with absent words,
and then gone over again and artisti
cally touched up with the pen at the
bare places. Then it is folded up
ready for the envelope, and the dis
covery is made that there is no en
velope in the house, and Hie letter is
tucked in behind the clock until the
want is supplied.
The Management of Children
W 1 ion rewards are bestowed let the |
pride and pleasure of them he as last
ing as possible; but when once pun
ishment is inflicted there let it end,
taking care to restore the culprit to
favor upon the earliest manifestations
of contrition and reform. Never doubt
the signs of repentance in a child, bet
ter be deceived than to blight the germ
of honor by distrust. The pupils of the.
Master of Rugby were wont to declare
that it was “a shame to tell Arnold a
lie, because—lie believed a
boy’s simple word !’, and it is related
of Dr. Nicliaols Brady, that his pupils
thought it the greatest punishment
in the world when he refused to speak
to them ! Had these two masters loft
on record nothing more of their scho
lastic management than these two
anecdotes, they would yet have done
a rich service to youth in the lessons
thus taught to educators.
A Long Branch correspondent
writes : My feelings are capable of
bearing up against an ordinary amount
of strain, but when they are put to the
test of listening to a spoony couple
making love every night for three
weeks, it is more than an ordinary
single young man ought to be expect
ed to stand. There is a young man
here who has been engaged in a dilli
gent effort for three weeks, to kiss a
girl, and has not yet succeeded.—
They sit near my window on the sec
ond balcony till midnight. Any fel
low who couldn’t get as far as kissing
a girl after three week’s love-making
is a milksap Every night it is the
same story. As I lie down on my
lonely couch, wooing the slumbering
god, I am kept awake by this young
man’s persistent begging for a kiss.
He’s a fool.
The Louisville News & Farmer has
the following:
“Jt is asserted as a positve fact,
that Louisville is cursed with a few
of this low born, unpiincipled malig
nant class of people who make it
tl eir business to sneak around the
Masonic ball during the meetings of
some of the secret organizations, and
endeavor to obtain information, by
eaves-dropping, that will enable them
to expose the order—for no other pur
pose we cannot imagine their object.
Pei haps they are not aware that they
invite unto themselves injuries of a
very severe and serious nature. Their
signs have been noted and they them
selves may be spotted should such
conduct be repeated.
The Chicago Pension Agency.
The Chicago pension agency is an
office under the Government worth
about $6,000 a year. It is now held
by a Mr. Blakeley, the editor of an
evening journal in Chicago. There
are three applicats for the office, which
will soon become vacant by the retire
ment of Blakeley. All of the appli
cants are also editors of evenin g Chi
cago journals of Administration poli
tics. The most noticeable applicant is
Mi •s. James A. Mulligan, the widow
of General James A. Mulligan, who
was killed early in the war at Lex
ington. This lady is said to be a
person of accomplishments and for
some time past has been one of the
associate editors of the Chicago Even
ing Post. About a month ago Mrs.
Mulligan saw President Grant and
applied for the office. The President
asked her to collect her credentials
and come again to see him. She re
turned to Chicago, did as the Presi
dent advised, and she lias now gone
to Washington armed with her cre
dentials and with a fair chance of ob
taining the appointment. The prece
dent, should she be made pension
agent at Chicago, would be an inter
esting one in the present problem of
woman’s right, as the office in point
of salary would be the most important
one ever held by a female under Gov
ernment. —A T . Y. World.
u Wliat Kind of Elastic.”
A dry goods man, who is well
known for his politeness, lias a father
who is an excellent citizen, but not a
very smooth talker They were so
busy at the store Saturday afternoon
that the old gentleman was called in
to help. Among the customers was a
young lady who appeared to be wait
ing to trade with him whose elderly
appearance invited her confidence.
Soon an opportunity offered,
ing over the counter as an invitation
for him to do the same, she whispered
her order. He bent close to her, and
said, ‘what’s that?’ in a voice that
started the perspiration to her fore
head. Again she whispered. ‘O elastic,’
said lie in a tone that could be heard
on the walk, and looking much pleased
with his success. What kind of
elastic? lie added, bendb.g his head
closer to the burning face of the per
spiring maiden. Once more she
tremblingly whispered, “For garters,
hey?” he repeated, even louder than
before, without noticing the horror
struck expression of the almost faint
ing 3 T oung lady. ‘Something fancy 1
suppose,” he went on to say, in happy
oblivion of the storefull of people ;
young people nowadays want nice
things. ‘My old woman uses a shoe
string, and sails around without notic
ing the difference. Then he got down
with the box, and turned around to
show f it but the customer was gone.
He stood around with the elastic some
five minutes in waiting, but she did
not return, and it is likely that he has
forgotten all about the circumstance
now.
The True Lady.— The true lady
would be as polite to her inferiors as to
her equals. The servant who takes
wages from her hand, the clerk who
serves her behind the counter, the
dress-maker who furnishes the elegant
dresses that so enhance her beauty, the
very child that sweeps the crossings,
and the beggar who begs alms are her
fellow beings and have feelings which
the true lady never wounds, either
intentionally or through neglect She
is always thoughtful of others observ
ant of the peculiar likes and dislikes
of her companions, that she may mini
ster to one and avoid ilie other. She
yields to others the first place, and
gracefully takes of her own accord
the second. She never shows her
temper in company ; bears neglect as
well attention, and shrinks from being
made conspicuous in any way. She
is polite to all who approach her,
whether they be entertaining or the
re\eise. She always behaves, speaks,
even looks with tact. She is deferential
to those older than herself and kindly
affable to those younger and less at
their ease. She remembers always
the Bible injunction, ‘Be ye courteous
one to another.’ —Home and School for
September.
Live Freight for Ocean’.Stealit
ers.
An English company formerly did
an immense business between Holland
and the English markets-, in the trans
portation of live stock, carrying about
thirty thousand head of cattle a
week, and uncounted numbers 'of
sheep, calves and poultry. The rinder
pest destroyed their business, and the
P l ’ice of beef rose to such a height
that the proprietors of the -Anchor
Line concluded to try the exportation
of cattle from New York. The atten
tions of Mr. Bell, of Glasgow, and
one of the most extensive .dealers in
cattle, were drawn to the success of
the Anchor movement, and three
months ago he contracted for the
transportation of twenty-four head of
cattle in eacli of the thirty five vessels
of that line. He pays ten pounds a
head for the transportation, three
pounds for insurance, ard one pound
for food. His agents buy directly
from the farmers on this side ; and he
clears about seventy-five dollars on
each first class beef. The best cattle
are worth in England from one hundred
and fifty to two hundred and fifty dol
lars a head.
Just before the hour of sailing a
strong rope girth is thrown about the
animal, and at a signal he is launched
twenty feet in the air, from whence
the surprised animal is gently lowered
into a comfortable enclosure, where hay
and corn await him in abundance. The
animals take very well to and
if the storm is very severe, a tarpaulin
thrown over them causes them to re
main entirely quiet. They loose about
fifty pounds on the passage, but a
week's grazing in England, after a
sea voyage, puts from two to three
hundred pounds of flesh in their place.
English butchers are greatly
excited about American cattle;
and the Anchor Line is building four
powerful steamships especially for
this trade.
Therein lies another hope for the
establisiiment of lines of ocean steam
ers from Savannah and other Southern
ports. If the cattle business goes on
prosperously, it will certainly work a
profitable change in the handling of
Texas cattle. The cattle growers of
the Southwest can find nearer shipping
points among Southern ports than at
New 1 ork Between cotton and
cattle our steamers would be sure of
freights for the outward passages,
and perhaps we may yet be indebted
to the English love of roast beef for
our independence on the ocean.
Tlie South.
The following beautiful tribute to
the South is from the pen of the editor
of the Vicksburg Times:
“Southern nationality is a dream of
the past. A gulf, beyond which we
could not pass, yawned between us
and the realization of our hopes ; and
though blight flowers bloomed upon
its brink and wafted us sweet per
fume, vc could not cross to gather
them.
The Southern cross no longer gleams
out amid the wild light ot battle ; the
sword of the vanquished is sheathed,
and the land is gloomy with the harm
less sepulchers of our martyred dead.
But when years and years shall have
passed away—when the last of the
present generation sleep with their
fathers, and new forms throng the old
familiar places—when faction shall
have been hushed and justice hold tfie
scales—then, as bright as day and free
from blemish and stain, will stand
forth in bright relief upon the scroll
of fame, the record of the South, dear
er to the hearts of her children now
in the hours of sorrow than when on
the march of victory she won the ad
miration of the world. Pilgrims
from other lands shall tread with rev
erend step above the spot where
moulders the dust of our loved and
lost ; while those who are to follow us
will cherish as household gods the
names of those who, carving awav
tin *ough the fiery path of war, have
written their names where they never
die. The principle for which so many
laid down their lives may not be rec
ognized until their names have grown
feeble on the tongue of friendship,
and been dropped, like dead silence,
from the car of the world. But it will
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stiuggle back from the hollow bosom
that once bled for it and ascend the
heights of government. And when
the faithful historian shall descend
info the vaults of the dead past
in quest of traditions of liberty,
he will discover to whom he is in
debted for their perpetuation."
Pocket Edition of Hell Fire.
A young parson of the Univcrsalist
faith, many years since when the Si
monpure Univcrsalism was preached,
started westward to attend a conven
tion of his brethren in faith. He took
the precaution to carry a vial of
cayenne pepper in his pocket to
sprinkle his food with, as a preven
tive of fever and ague. The conven
tion met, and at dinner a tall Hoosier
observed the parson as he seasoned
his meat, addressed him thus :
“Stranger, I’ll thank you for a little
of [that ’ere red salt, for Pm kind
o’ curious to try it."
“Certainly,” returned the parson ;
“but you will find it rather powerful ;
be careful how you use it.”
The Hoosier took the proffered vial
and feeling himself proof against {any
quantity of raw whisky, thought he
could stand the “red salt,” with impu
nity, and accordingly sprinkled a junk
of beef rather bountifully with it,
and forthwith introduced it into his
capacious mouth. It sxm began to
take bold. He shut his eyes, and his
features began to writhe, denoting a
very inharmonious condition physi
cally. Finally he could stand it no
longer. He opened his mouth and
screamed—“fire !”
“Take a drink of cold water from
the jug,” said the parson.
“Will that put it out?” said the
martyr, suiting the action to the
word.
In a short time the unfortunate man
began to recover, and returning to
the parson, his eyes yet swimming
with water, exclaimed :
“Stranger, you call yourself a ’Ver
salist, 1 believe ?”
“I do,” mildly answered the par
son.
“Well I want to know if you think
it consistent with your belief to go
about with hell fire in your breeches
pocket ?”
What was Saved by a Purchas
ing Agency.
The Centralia (111.) Democrat , says
the farmer’s Central Association of
Centralia, have a purchasing agency
connected with their Association, al
lowing the agent threo of five per
cent commission for sales on manufac
turers’ prices for agricultural imple
ments. The territory of the Associa
tion is thirty miles square, and within
that limit there arc twelve business
points. The value of implements sold
the past season amounted to $93,530.
The average commission received by
agents heretofore, has been thirty per
cent., and so his commission on this
amount of sales .at thirty per cent.,
would have been $28,059. But at five
per cent., the prices agreed on be
tween the Association and the pur
chasing agent, his commissions only
amount to $4,675 50. Thus the farm
ers, within the thirty miles square,
have saved through this purchasing
agency $23,282.50, being the differ
ence between $28,059 and $4,676.50,
and it may be proper to state that
none of the above figures cover the
sales of wagons manufactured out
side the territory embraced in this
statement. The Demo'ci'at adds that
the total expenses of every descrip
tion of the Association since its or
ganization, have only been $101,300.
Scandal— The great curse that
hangs over very small communities is
scandal, and a disposition among
some lew to pick up merest trifles
of gossip and magnify them into hid
eous deformities, borne people have
a peculiar faculty of making them
selves intolerable by excessive indul
gence in this business, and some
times so well succeed in injuring the
reputation of others that even they
themselves must recoil with horror at
the reflection. Be sure that you are not
uot one of them.
A good way to find out if there is
abnoxious gas in a well is to lower
your mother-in-law by a rope.