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THE EASTMAN TIMES. R. S. BURTON, - - Proprietor. H. W. J. HAM. - - - - Editor. WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 1, 1873. Not a Question of Wheat. Dr. J. C. 0. C. C. Blackburn, the smart little man who 'runs a paper, ridiculously called the Patriot , at some point or other down the Macon Road, joins in the now popular amusement of squirting water at the Herald. lie says in this ‘ Patriot" of his : “Grange Organ. —This mooted ques tion is settled at last. The child is born, named, and the {Atlanta Herald steps to the front Ye pigmies, who were striving for the position, hide your faces, throw up the sponge, and retire gracefully. But what will the Herald do ? It stands committed not to become the organ of any clique, or ganization, association, combination or party, but will only consent to lol lovv the course indicated at its very birth, that of independent journalism. But you know men will change, how ever eternal may be principle. Should the Tier aid back down from its lofty position of independence, which it has so long justly prided itself in, arid be come the organ of our Grange friends, it will remind us of the course pur sued by an old minister in Virginia, when that State was a colony. It was the custom of the several congre gations to pay their preachers in wheat and tobacco, the current cur rency of the day. At first, the old man was made glad by receiving his instalments regularly. After which his salary began to decline. He was surprised. He called in an old deacon, in whom he had implicit confidence, and enquired as to the cause. Said lie, “I preach regularly, zealously and independently, as 1 did when I began, but my congregations grow smaller and I am at a loss to divine the cause." “That is all very true," replied the deacon, “but to be candid with you, we don’t like your independence." “Well," remarked the preacher, “if that’s all, I’ll change that, for I want the wheat." We will not apply the moral until | we sevi whether the Herald “wants the wheat." That the Herald “wants its wheat," is no less true than that Dr. Black burn “wants his rye ;" but that we have lost any of that independence of action which has been at once our rec ord and boast, is not at all true. The Herald stands pledged to sup port not a single candidate of the Grangers or a single measure of the Grangers. That it has seen fit to write in favor of the movement is a proof that it be lieved the movement susceptible of great good. The very moment they show demogogism, illiberality, spleen or prejudice,, we shall give them the liveliest fight we can make. The se lection of the Herald as the “Organ of the Granges” merely meant that the Herald being a paper centrally locat ed, widely circulated, neatly printed and liberally edited, was a proper me dium in which to print the advertise ments of the order. There were no pledges given or required ; spoken or implied. Simply a business patron age, totally unsought by the Herald, and conferred upon it to its surprise. We trust that this explanation will satisfy our friend, the bantam of the Patriot. We promise him that if we ever own an “organ,” lie shall be dressed in a red jacket and a proud tail and sent out into the crowd to col lect the pennies while we grind the machine.— Atlanta Herald. We read the above bombast and fustian with no little amusement, and thought that it might somewhat tame the ardor of the Herald, and contri bute somewhat to the better feeling of the Pa r of, to have heard what T. J. Smith, Master of the State Grange, said to us a few days since. Said he, “I was astonished to-day to sec that the committee on a newspaper organ had selected the Atlanta Herald. They have entirely transcended their pow ers, had no right to make any such selection, and I am satisfied when the State Grange meets in Macon, the whole matter will be repudiated.” The newspaper is the product of vast labor and thought. And yet when you arc face to face with it, and it talks in such an easy natural way, making itself completely at home with you, you are prone *o for get at what cost it has, been brought into life. It comes to you so quietly and so smoothly, that you may well be pardoned for tripping into delusions that it springs into voice and being —something like Minerva sprang into full panoply from the brain of Jupiter— at the mere touch of a magic wand. A French lady, hearing that a tun nel cost 5,000 francs a yard, importun ed her husband to buy her a dress of that material. [COMMUNICATED.] Towns Station, M. & B. R. R.) September 11, 1873. } Editor Times: A Grange of Patrons of Husbandry was organized here to-day under the auspices of Mr. Fred. L. West, of Lees burg, Ga., composed of the following gentlemen : I). McArthur, J. C. Clem ens, Sen , D. F. Mcßae, M. N. Mcßae, Chas. Stewart, J. D. Clemens, J. W. Clemens, P. McArthur, T. J. Smith, W. W. Livingston, E. 11. Graham, W. W. Pitman, A. 11. Graham, J D. Stewart. I). Stewart, Geo. Browning, Frank Smith, John McKay, Geo. Burkhalter, J. D. Wynn—and the following ladies: Mrs. Caroline Cotter, Mrs. M. Mcßae, Mrs. E. Clemens, Mrs. Sarah Clemens, Mrs. Katharine Mcßae, Mrs. Living ston, Mrs. Miller, Mrs. Jennie Pitman, and Miss V. Clark. The following gentlemen and ladies were elected officers : Master, D Mc- Arthur ; Overseer, D. F. Mcßae ; Lec turer, J. C. Clemens, Sr.; Treasurer, M. N. Mcßae ; Secretary, T. J. Smith ; Chaplain, Chas. Stewart ; Steward, J. W. Clemens ; Assistant Steward, D. A. Graham ; Gate Keeper, W W. Livingston ; Ceres, Mrs. Caroline Cot ter ; Flora, Mrs. M. Mcßae ; Pomona, Mrs. Katharine Mcßae ; Lady Assist ant Steward, Mrs. E. Clemens. Yours, &c., Granger. ‘Been Bankrupt Mnce tlie First Sliovel of Dirt was Taken Out.’ A correspondent of the Chicago Tri bune who has been up in Minnesota for the past year investigating the management and future prospects of the Northern Pacific railroad tells some ugly things about the road and its projectors. He says: The Northern Pacifiic Company never had any financial standing: it lias been bankrupt from the day the first shovel full of dirt was taken out. And if the people had investi gated the prospects of the company, they would not to-day be holding hundreds of thousands of dollars of its worthless paper. For the last two years the only receipts the Northern Pacific Company lias had were from the sales of land and its unsecured watered bonds. There has not been a section of twenty miles o tii. t road that lias paid its operating ' xfcnses. And while the head men of ti c Northern Pacific have been keeping up a show of appear ances from the money received from its bonds and its lands, the operators —the laboring men—have gone un paid. I have met men on the North ern Pacific railroad so poor and so disheartened, that they were in a manner beggars ; yet they were on the pay-roll as creditors of tlio company for months of wages. Other crimes against humanity are justly laid at the door of the Northern Pacific Company. That company has employed smart, shrewd, yet unscru pulous men to visit the Scandinavian provinces, and deceive and inveigle those hardy sons of the North to its inhospitable barren lands. And it is openly asserted in St. Paul that Minister Cramer, Grant’s brother in-law, has been one of these paid agents. Hundreds of Scandinavians are scattered along the line of the Northern Pacific railroad, living in mud hovels, and barely raising enough provisions in the short season to sub sist on during the long gloomy and terrible winter, with no market for what little surplus they may stint themselves to acquire—whose curses are loud and deep against the decep tion practiced upon them. A Sure Cure for Boils. Dr. Simon, a physician ot Lorraine, states that, as soon as the character istic culminating point of boil makes its appearance, he puts in a saucer a thimbleful of champhorated alcohol, and, dipping the ends of his middle lingers with the liquid, rubs the in flamed surface, especially the central portion, repeating the operation eight or ten times, continuing the rubbing at each time for about half a minute. He then allows the surface to dry, placing a slight coating of camphorat ed olive oil over the afflicted surface. He states that one such application will, in almost all such cases, cause boils to dry up and disappear. The application should be made at morn ing, noon and in the evening. He avers that the same treatment will cure whitlows, and all injuries of the tip of the fingers. As soon as pain and redness appear, the fingers should be soaked for ten minutes in camphor ated sweet oil. The releif is said to be immediate, and three applications arc generally enough to afford a cure. LYNCHING IN LOUISIANA. Twelve Horse Thieves Hanged By the Yigilanct Committee. The troubles which we last week anticipated would occur between the citizens of Vermilion parish and the horde of cattle thieves that infest that region have at last broken out with terrible violence. The committee, urged to desperation by the cool au dacity of the robbers, have given vent to their long pent up feelings of indignation and commenced the work tf retributive justice. Up to writing some twelve of the gang have been swung up. Our streets are full of vague and exaggerated rumers concerning the operations of the Vigilance Commit tee, the number executed, &c., and it is next to impossible to obtain a cor rect detailed accout of the extent of the troubles. From the best sources at hand, we elic.t the following infor mation : “A delegation of citizens from Ab beville had called upon Gov. Kellogg with a view of laying the facts of the case before him, and ascertaining their course of action in the matter. The Governor told them, it is said, to go on and do whatever the exigencies of the case seemed to require Armed with this permission, they proceeded at once to seize and hang three or four of the worst characters, among them two sons of ex-Sheriff Lege. A prisoner was taken out of jail and shared the same fate ; a butcher was seized and executed. Persons who came from Abbeville last Monday testify to having seen three or four bodies swinging from trees in the neighborhood. The most intense excitement prevails, and the members of the committee were scour ing the country in search of the “spotted" individuals and hanging them as fast as caught. Two of the leading thieves are known to have passed New Iberia on Sunday, the day after the hanging commenced, on their way to the bay. One of them is said to have thrown his saddle into the bay and turned his horse loose upon arriv ing there, preparatory to making his way to the city. He was, however, telegraphed for and arrested. On Tuesday evening a man warned Pag nol was hanged. The up boat was boarded this (Thursday) morning while at Jeane rette by a party of fifteen or twenty men, armed with shot guns, and a orisoner on board, supposed to be the one arrested at Brashear, forcibly ab ducted. Parties who afterward met this same crowd declare the prisoner was not then in their possession. This morning he is said to be on a tree near Dr. Dungan’s plantation.” The foregoing are the only details we have been able to gather in regard to this fearful affair which maj be considered at all reliable. It is not known licre how many thieves have been executed up to this time. The most reasonable reports put the num ber down at twelve.— New Iberia Su gar Bowl, Sept. II After the Worms. —A Middlcficld farmer has “rastled” severely, this year, with cabbage worms.’* When they first put in an appearance, he gave them a dose of slaked lime fol lowed by lime unslakcd, charcoal, pounded oyster shells, copperas water, hen manure, carbolic acid, bromo chloralum, kerosene, (on the appli cation of the latter, “they wriggled their tails and asked for more,’) magic oil, vermifuge, pro. cough syrup, ano dyne liniment, sneezing snuff, several washes, and dyes for the hair, condi tion powders, and various remedies of the day, after which it was about “an even thing” for the cabbage and worms. Asa last resort he gave them a dose of sperm oil, which extermina ted every worm, arid he has this year the best lot of cabbages he ever raised in bis life. Livingstone is heard from again A Paris dispatch reports the arrival in that city of Mr. Starnes, the English traveler, who has been roaming around in Central Africa, where he had the pleasure of meeting Dr. Livingstone in June, parting from him so recently as the Ist of July. Mr. Starnes re ports the doctor in perfect health, but the dispatch gives no information as to how much longer he expected to stay in Africa. Gen. John B. Gordon and Gen. W. B. Bate, of Nashville, have been in* vited to attend and deliver addresses at the reunion of the seventh Tennes see Confederate regiment, which is to take place at Gallatin on the ninth of next month. To The Press. In accordance with a series of reso lutions passed by the Georgia Press Association in Convention at Aineri cus, the undersigned Committee were appointed to take all necessary steps for the formation of a National Press Association. The Committee having O received, through their Chairman, a number of favorable responses to the proposition to form such an Associa tion, from journalists of several States and Territories, giving to the Commit tee the assurance of their hearty co operation in the movement, we deem the object worthy ol an effort, and the present an auspicious movement to begin the work, we therefore issue a call for a Convention of journalists throughout the Union to assemble at St. Louis, Missouri, on Wcdnesdav. the 26th of November, 1873 r to organ ize a National Tress Association. All papers in the United States are requested to make a notice of the place and time, and every journalist is re spectfully solicited to attend. 'The Georgia Press will please do’us the favor to keep a standing notice of the call, until the day for the meeting Robert L. Rodgers, Cary W. Styles, C. \V. Hancock, T. M Peeples, J. B. Reese Committe. GEORGIA NEWS. When a paper gets down to where you can’t find a local item in it, we think it ought to suspend. We don’t call any names, but address this item to those who will understand. This is the way the Grand Jury of Washington county talks about dogs in their General Presentments. We are in favor of making the law a gen eral one: “The census return fur nished by the Tax Receiver to the Comptroller General under a recent law, shows the enormous number of 2364 dogs in Washington county, ma ny of them doubtless, “worthless curs,” and in many instances, a nui sance and expense, rather than a ben efit to their owners. Our Senator and Representatives are respectfully requested to obtain the passage of an act taxing dogs in this county two dollars per head. The fund accruing from such tax, to be appropriated for educational purposes.” Sandersville has had quite an inter esting protracted meeting. A \\ ashington county nigger slipped his hand in a cotton gin the other day. He is out of the potato business for the present season, at least. Hancock county men who desire sit uations, write letters to prominent mercantile firms, and forget to gave their names or addresses. They rare ly ever succeed in getting what they seek. For a readable, racy, live, little coun try paper, give us the Sandersville Herald every week. It contains more nice readable matter for the fireside and home circle, than any country weekly in Georgia, save one, and we are too modest to tell what the name of that one may be One Atlanta and two Augusta banks had suspended under the money pressure, up to the 25th inst. Mr. A. P. Surrency, of Appling county, has a fine boy, about a year old, whom he calls Alexander Pendle ton Surrency, after the Hon. A. H. Stephens, and the editor of this paper. Wc mention the fact to show that per haps our humble efforts to make a pa per for the people is appreciated abroad.— Valdosta Tunes. If Madame Rumor be correct in her whispering, there may be a large fam ily reared and all of them named after their pa ; which we presume would prove that his ‘‘humble efforts” were appreciated at home. —Brunswick Ap peal. Only at Home. Humph ! The morals of the average Georgia editor has degenerated to the pitch that they can print a statement of a single man’s killing from fifty to nine ty rattlesknakes in one day, without so much as closing an eye. The Atlanta papers have at last concluded that it don’t pay to hire a special engine to carry their mails. So very, very sad, that they don’t own a railroad and fixtures of their own. A reporter has interviewed General Austell, President of an Atlanta bank, who has just returned from New York and he gives it as his opinion that the late crash and panic will only affect the Southern money market tempora rily, and that in the course of ten or fifteen days money will be easier here than it was before, lie assigns good reasons for his opinion. The Atlanta Herald is making anx ious inquiries about its traveling agent, Mr. B. F. George. Say, when George d)es come back, please ask him about our man. We have entire ly forgotten his name, now, but any way, just ask about him, and he’ll be apt to know who he is, as they’ve like ly been in caucus somewhere, devis ing means to get back home. The Spiritualist ami Free Lov ers at Chicago. The annual pow-wow of these ill starred bedlamites has been going on for several days in that sensational centre of the country, Chicago. The meeting is termed the National Asso ciation of Spiritualists, and the ex travaganzas of the delegates, male and female, are to the full as impious and preposterous as usual. We give a quotation from the proceedings : “A\ oodhull is defending her course as President, and her peculiar notions of life, with vigor, and, during Tues day night’s session, she indulged in the most radical utterances on all sub jects. Miss Anna M. Middlebrook, of Connecticut, said : ‘I stand here, to night, as far as Christian religion is concerned, determined on its destruc tion. In politics lam a rebel, I avow it boldly. This is a sham republic. With reference to social problems I am a revolutionist. Why should we in the nineteenth century go back 1800 years for our doctrine ? Is there not more than we can learn from the liv ing present ? II we live up to our philosopny we will see the time when the mummery creeds of Christianity will be overturned.’ Mr. Higgins, of Jersey City, pro posed dropping the name “Spiritual ists” and calling themselves anti- Christians, and inveighed against the laws of marriage.” Jay Cooke & Cos., and Iron Cotton Ties. —Jay Cooke and his co-laborers in the field of financial patriotism, have made not less than one hundred millions of money by fleecing the Government. The process still goes on, and in each great bond sale or oth er stroke federal financial policy, Jay Cooke & Cos., handle the funds and line their protuberant pockets. It was Jay Cooke & Cos., that absorb ed millions of acres of public lands and gave birth to Duluth of immortal ridiculousness. But Jay Cooke Sc Cos., are not content with these little opera tions bv 1- which the whole people are plundered to poverty that a newly born nobility may riot ie ill gotten wealth and despise the wretched poor reduced to penury by the knavery of those who prey upon the Government. Jay Cooke & Cos., are the owners of the iron cotton-tie, with which cotton bales are made exportable. The ties are patented, and Jay Cooke & Cos , have so used the Federal Courts that the inventor’s widow and orphans get not one dollar, and all competitors in the iron-tie market, save one, have been expelled by injunction, and Jay Cook & Cos., forthwith advance the price of iron-ties from five to nine cents, and this in the face of the fact that iron has declined thirty per cent. By every possible device, honest and dishonest, the people are plundered by their great greenback masters of the East, and the chief of those now” levy ing such intolerable exactions upon the helpless people of the South, oven as the favorites of the empire have robbed the whole country, North and South, is the desperate body of public plunderers, known as Jay Cooke & Co. —Memphis Appeal. The first duty of the Grangers, it is suggested, should be to extinguish every orator who begins with : “I have not the good fortune to be a far mer, but I have always felt the most profound interest in the truly noble and predominant pursuit of agricul ture, and never was the interest great er than now ” Coleridge says there are four kinds of readers—the hourglass, whose reading runs in and out and leaves no trace of gain ; the second, like the sponge, takes everything ; the third retains only refuse that some would throw away ; Tut the fourth, like the miner among gems, keeps the pure and casts aside the clippings. The possessors of the Tichborne es tate are already out of pocket SBOO,- 000 by their fight with “the claimant.” But the lawyers don’t feel particularly mournful over it. It is stated that a handsome young lady named Miller has left Dubuque to become Brigham Young’s last wife. A MODEL NEWSPAPER The Savannah Daily Sews. The Savannah Daily Norning News i* RC knowledged by the press and people to be the best daily paper south of Louisville and east of New Orleans. Carrying with it the prestige and reliability of age, and it has all the vigor and vitality of youth, and its enterprise os gatherer of the latest and freshest news lag astonshed its cotemporuies and met the appro- ' bation ol the bublic. 'During the year 1873 no expense of time, labor, and money will be spared to keep the Morning News ahead of all its competitors in Georgia journalism, and to deserve the flatter ing euconiums heaped upon it from all quar ters. There has as yet, been no serious at tempt made to rival the special telegrams which the News inaugurated some years ago, and the consequence, is that the reader in search cf the latest intelligence always looks to the Morning News. The telegraphic arrange ments of the paper are such that the omissions made by the general press reports are promptly and reliably supplied by its special correspond ents. The Morning News has lately been enlarged to a thirty-six column paper, and this broad scope of type embraces, daily/ everything of in terest that transpire in the domain of litera ture, Art, science, Politics, Religion, and Gen eral intelligence, giving to the render more and better digest than other papar in matter the State. It is perhaps needless to speak of the poli ties of the Morning News. For years and years indeed, since its estalishment,—it has been a representative Southern paper, and from that time to the present, in all conjunct ures, it has consistently and persistently main tained Democratic States Rights principles, and labored, with an ardor and devotion that know no abatement, to promote and preserve the in terests and honor of the South. The special features of the Morning News will be retained and improved upon during the ensuing year and several new attractions will be added. The Georgia News items, with their quaint and pleasant humor, and the epitome of Florida affairs, will be continued during year. The local department will be the most com plete and reliable to be found in any Savan nah paper, and the commercial columns will be full and accurate. The price of the Daily is $lO 00 per annum $2.00 for six months; SI.OO for one month. THE TRI-WEEKLY NEWS. This edition of the Morning News is es pecially recommended to those who have n*t the facilities of a daily mail. Everything that has been said in regard to the daily edition may be repeated of the Tri-weekly. It is made up with great care, and contains the latest des patches and market reports. The price of this edition is SO.OO per aunum, $3.00 lor six months, and $1.50 for three months. THE WEEKLY NEWS. The Weekly Morning N ews particularly roe’ ommends itself to the farmer and planter, and to those who live off the line of railroad. It is one of the best family papers in tin* country, and its cheapness brings it within the reach ot all. It contains Thirty-six solid columns of reading matter, and is mailed so as to reach sub scribers with the utmost promptness. It is a j carefully and laboriously edited compendium j of the news of the week, and contains in addi- I tion, an infinite variety ot other choice reading matter. Editorials on all topics, sketches ot men, manners, and fashions, tal-s, poetry, bi ography, pungent paragraphs and condensed telegrams enter into its make-up. It contains the latest telegraphic dispatches and market re ports up to the hour'of going to press, and Is in all respects, an indispensi Lie adjunct to every home. Price-One year, $2.00; six months, $1.00; three months, 50 cents. Subscription for either edition of the Moi x ing News may besent by express at the riskand expense of the proprietor.- Address. J. H. ESTILL. Savannah, Ga. MARSHAL’S TAX SALEST Will be sol 1 before the Court House door in the town of Eastman, Dodge county, Ga., on the first Tuesday in October next, the follow ing property, levied on under and by order of the Town Council of Eastman, to-wit : Eight Yds. of United States Digest, levied on as the property of Thomas H. Dawson, to satisfy one tax fi fa in favor of Council, vs. the said Dawson. Property pointed out by defendant. ALSO—At the same time and place will be sold one lot of Law Books, to-wit; One Code and four Yds. ot the Acts of the Legislature of the State of' Georgia, levied on as the prop erty of H. W. J. Ham, to satisfy one tax fi fa in favor of Town Council, vs. the said Ham. — Property pointed out by defendant. ALSO—At the same time and place will be sold one Circular Saw, levied on as the prop erty of A. Murphy, to satisfy one tax fi fa in favor of Town Council, vs. said Murphy. — Property pointed out by plaintiff. ALSO—At the same time and place will be sold one pair of Fairbanks’ Scales, levied on as the property of James M. Buchan, to sat isfy one tax fi fa in favor of Town Council, ys. said Buchan. Property pointed out by plain tiff-. ALSO—WiII be sold at the same time and place, one Bay Horse, levied on as the prop erty o' J. H. Lasher, to satisfy one tax fi fa in favor of Town Council, vs. said Li sfier. Prop erty pointed out by defendant. ALSO—WiII be sold at the same time and place, Three Yols. of Greenleaf on Evidence, leavied on as the property of L. A. Hall, to satisfy one tax fi fa in favor of Town Council, vs. said Hall. Property out by defendant. HLSO —Will be sold at the same time and place, one Clock, levied on as the property of T. M. 3/oseley, to satisfy one tax fi fa in favor of Town Council, vs. said Moseley. Property pointed out by defendant. , C. B. MURRELL, Marshal Sept. 3, 1873-tds. oTcThorneT ATTORNEY AT LAW Hawkinsvillk, Geo. Oconee Circuit —Court Calendar 1873. Wilcox —4th Mondays, March and September. Dooly—3d Mondays, March and September. Irwin —Fridays after above. Montgomery 7 —Thurs after Ist Mondays, April. Laurens —2d Mondays, April and Oct (and Oct. PuLiski —3d Mondays, April and October. Dodge—4th Mondays, April and October Telfair —Thursdays after above. Jan. 31st, ly.