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VOLUME 11 THE EASTMAN TIMES. IH PUBLISHED WEEKLY AT Eastman, Dodge Cos., Ga., BY 11. S. BURTON. 4*> Terms—One year, $2 00 ; Six months, SI.OO. All subscriptions required in advance, invariably. Advertising Rates. Sqrs 11M.| 3M. GM. 12 M. 1. .. $4 00 $7 00 $lO 00 sls 00 2 . G 25* 12 00 18 00 25 00 4 J 75 19 00 28 00 39 00 1 11 50 22 50 34 00 46 00 i .. 20 00 32 59 55 00 80 00 1 col. 35 00 GO 00 80 00 130 00 Advertisements inserted at $1 per square for first insertion, and 75 cents for each subsequent insertion. A square is the space of ten solid lines bre vier type. Advertisements contracted for* a specified time, and discontinued before the expiration of time contracted for, will be charged for the time run at our schedule rates. Marriage and obituary notices, tributes of respect, and other kindred notices, occupying over ten lines, will be charged for us 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 when pre sented, except when otherwise contracted for. Parties handing in advertisements will please state the required time for publication, other wise thejwvill be inserted till forbid and charged for accordingly. Transient advertisements unaccompanied by the money will receive no attention. Advertisements or Communications, to se cure an insertion the same week, should be handed in on Monday morning. All letters should be adddressed to It. S. BURTON, Publisher. 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 [TVI’AIDER 30 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.