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THE EASTMAN TIMES. B. S. BURTON, Editor arul Proprietor. NOVEMBER 5, 1873. " SALUTATORY. Inasmuch as the individual wlio formerly slung ink for the editorial de partment of this paper has seen fit to voinose this ranche, and leave this ar duous duty to be performed by the un dersigned, it may be necessary for us to state what we propose to do in that direction ; and we will do so by sta ting that as very many of our ex changes are ably edited, and we have a good pair of scissors, and a tolera able grip in our fist, we will princi pally rely for our editorial matter up on the brain scintilations of our’ tal ented cotemporaries. Some of the employes of this office having threat ened to strike tor lower wages unless we gave them more work to do, and being determined never to accede to so unreasonable a demand, we pro pose to devote the most of our lime to the case, and thus be secured from the humiliation of feeling that our office is not in our own [grids. If any of our editorials arc not satisfacto.v, any one dissatisfied, will please address this office, and we will take great" pleasure in rcfeHng them to the edu cated Bohemian, who got up the particular article. Under this ar rangement, with a corps of thirty-five editors, located in every town in the State, we expect to knock the Atlanta Herald completely into pi in the amount and va. ietyof our news. R. S. Burton. Whisky Drinking. This detestable habit seems to 1>: gaining ground throughout thd length and bieadth of the land. llow un fortunate that no means can be devis ed to put a check on the growing ev il. The high and the low, the rich and the poor, the young and the old, and in many instances, even those who profess to be followers of the meek and lowly'Jesus, all participate in dram-drinking. If the practice is not abandoned, we shall soon have a world of drunkards, wholly unfit to perform the ordinary business'trans actions of life. How do young men expect to obtain situations of a re sponsible nature, where a clear head and reliability are indispensable requi sites, when they arc constantly under the influence of intoxicating drinks ? liven H.c always sclent a sober man in any branch of business, in preference to one whose brain is constantly crazed with the fiery liquid. But outside of the gen eral benefit that accrues from a sober life in a worldly point of view, the obligations we are under to him in whose image we are created should be some inducement to a man to prevent him from making a beast of himself. The Effects of the Panic. The accounts that come to us from the North are startling. So far from tiie monetary disturbance being over, it seems to be spreading. Every where laboring operatives are being discharged. At Fall River, Massa chusetts, the largest cotton and wool en manufacturing centre in the United States, the mills have been put on half time. Tljp great house of Sprague in Rhode Island, with its millions of juiTl business, lias failed. This in volves half the State. The rest of the cotton mills North are nearly all con t’ cciing ope ations. The great shov ed and iron wo.ks of Roy & Cos., at Fort Schyler, New Yo;k, have been p’aced on short ibnc, with the pros pect of en.irc stoppage. The i*n mecse won interests at Albany, Troy, Pa.lc son, Pittsburg and oilier places have all contracted. Patterson alone lies five thousand operatives discharg ed. The famous sewing machine fac to, les at Bridgeport, Conn, a c dis c-’j ging hands, and one has stopped. The la:ge carriage factories of New Iloven have contracted. In the man ufacturing towns on Naugatuck Riv c Couo t thirty thousand men are out of wo k. Bui it is needless to enumerate. The tbuaron : s getting alarming North- A 'crdu Co:isliiution. Cwsar at the Wljite llouse.—Police man Chase, the officer on duty at the President’s house, Wednesday, took into custody a crazy German who was loitering about the premises. When questioned he stated that he had been appointed to take charge of the Uni ted States Government, and had walk- 1 ed all the way from Massachusetts.— He demanded to see the President f< >i thwith. He was conducted to po lice headquarters, and among a vast quantity of papers and rubbish on his person was a hand stamp which makes the impression, in circular form, of the legend “U S. Governmeut,” and across the conter “President ” It is likely' the unfortunate man will commence his supervision of national affairs at the Government Insane Asylum. Washington Star. l'Ue Fever in JBainbridxe. Bainbridge, Nov. 3. Only one mild case has been devel oped since yesterday. Mr. Met Griffin, it is reported, died in the country to-day. Mr. W. 0. Dickinson died of pneu monia in town this morning, lie was one of our oldest citizens. Mr Mack Gross, who contracted the disease while attending Mr. Engel, died in Albany . his morning Miss Ida Pearce, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George \V. Pearce, both dead, is the most dangerous case in town at present. 1 think the epidemic is about over, unless the present warm weather re develops it, Dr. Harrell is better at Whighani. I will send further particulars by mail. Absentees arc not invited to return yet. B. E. R. LATER. Bainbridoe, Nov. 4. 1813. There are no new cases reported to day. Mrs. Jesse F. King, whose husband died two weeks ago, died this morn ing. Mr. Green Perry, a young man, who caught the fever from Mr. T. J. Will ams, died near the city last night. B. E. R. TENNESSEE. Trouble o tlie East Tennessee And Georgia. Railroad from Reduction of Wajes. K;:oxv'\l2, Nov. 2, 1813. On account of the gene-ai icduct'on of the wages of iiie employees by the East Tennessee and Geo.gia Ra ; lway Company, for wl ’ch the engireeis, firemen ,rnacV'..ists and bkicksiniJis quit work, some de'ry i-i Dams has reseUcd out the conpaoy has sue ceeded in sup dying tiie places of en g'oeers and li.emen, so as rot to in terfere w in tiie passenger service.— The company ordered 20 per cent, re duction of wages. The employes were willing to submit to short tune, bui io no decrease of their per diem The company will roc recede. No demons*lation lias been made by Hie employes. t.atb:r. K Noxviir.E, Nov. 3, 1813. The trouble between the employes and the East Tennessee, Virginia and Company is unad justed. The men obstiucted running of freight trains, but no interference with mail tnaios. War of Races in Texas. A Washington special to the Balti more San of Friday says : Attorney General Williams to-day received a report from United States Marshal Ochiltree, ot the eastern district of Texas, detailing an account ol a se rious hostile feeling between a party of desperadoes, led by one Jim Roan, and the colored people on the line of Galviston, Harrisburg and San Anto nia Railroad, resulting in the atrocious murdeivof two well known and peac eable men, brothers, named Wright, who were going from the plantation upon which they were employed to Eagle Lake on horseback, with a sack of pecans, which they proposed to sell. They were met by members of the Roan party, ordered from their horses, tied together, and shot dead. Friends of the desperadoes say that the diffi culties began in an attempt of Roan, the leader of the desperadoes, who had been deputized by a constable to arrest a colored man, and upon his re sistance struck him over the head and severely wounded him. Roan was ar rested, tried, and acquitted ; and it is alleged that on the following night his house was fired into by unknown par ties, but neither he nor his family was thei e. This seems to have been the origin of the organization of the desperadoes against the colored people, culminating in the murder of the Wrights, which creates much excitement among the citizens. There is danger of further difficulties between the. Roan gang and the negroes, which may result in furth er bloodshed at any moment, as Roan and his associates, as well as manv colored people in the neighborhood, go heavily armed. Hon. A 11. Stuart, one of the old time statesmen of Virginia, made a speech recently, in which he advocat ed the idea of colonizing the colored population of the United States on the Island of San Domingo. lie asserts that the antagonism which exists be tween the two races must eventually lead to the adoption of some similar plan. Mr. Stuart gives Grant credit for great foresight, and declares that this is his programme for the future of the freed men, and that is his reason for being so persistent in his efforts for the annexation of San Domingo. He is regarded as rather visionary in his notions, especially about the de signs of the President. There are eight hundred thousand Jews in Poland, the number having nearly quadrupled since 1816. A Belgium Story. We quote from the Belgium news papers the following account of a dreadful tragedy that occurred in a little village near Brussells : A farmer and his wife had plotted to murder their niece during her sleep, to rob her of one thousand eight hun dred francs that she was taking to her sick mother. In order to foil the fu ture searches of the police, they, pre viously to perpetrating trie crime, were engaged in digging a large hole in the garden so as to bury the body in it, when the girl who, not being asleep, had-hcard her terrible sentence, rushed out by the window and ran to the police station, one mile distant. But as soon as she was out, the daughter of the farmer, who was not expected home that night, came buck, and not wishing to awaken anybody in the house, went noiselessly into the bed where her cousin had been lying a few moments before. She soon fell asleep, and thus her mother, not being a ware of the providential substitution, owing to the darkness of the night, broke her own daughter’s neck with an axe. This being done, the two were go ing to the garden, carrying the corpse, enveloped in a bedspread, when two gendarmes, accompanied by the fugi tive girl, rushed into the house with lanterns in their hands. At tlie sight of their' niece, whom they thought they had murdered, the two wretched culprits took off the covering and found their unfortunate ch'lu k’lled by their own hands. The man took out a large butchers knife, plunged it into his breast and fell dead fto the ground. As to the woman, who was prevented from committing] suicide, she became in sane, a id is now'shut up in a lunuHc asylum, where she is expected soon to die from mental exhaustion. A more horrible account has rarely been reg istered in the annals of crime. A New Crime. The Pennsylvania Constitutional Convention propose to make it a crime to bore a fellow—that is, a legislature or official fellow, and to punish it with a severe penalty. The following is the proposition which has been ap proved in committee of the whole of the Convention : The practice of boring shall be de fined and punished by law, and shall include any corrupt solicitation of members of the General Assembly, or of public officers of the State, or of any municipal division thereof, and any 'occupation or practice as a com mon borer for or against the passage or approval of laws. The punish ment for the offense shall be by fine and imprisonment. A Colored Verdict. In one of the towns of Mississippi, two colored men were arrested on the charge of burglary. The Jury before whom they were tried was colored.— After the case was tried all retired and made up a verdict, which was an nounced to tiie court. On being call ed, the Judge asked for the verdict, which the foreman delivered : “Dis jury find dat one of the ’cusses busted in de ’sto and stole dat bacon, an’ dat de odder didn’t do nuffin.’ ‘Which one do you find guilty ? ask ed the court.’ ‘Dat’s de question, boss,’ returned the foreman ; dat’s jes what we can’t find out, and I recommend dat de ’on orable court jes hub anoder trial, aid find out which one of dem two niggers stoP dat bacon/ Labor and Wages. The New York Journal of Com merce holds these views : Wages must go down or work will not go on. The absurd eight hour system must be abolished or manufacturers must fail. The time has now arrived for these fetters on business to be removed. In everything else but wages there is a falling oft, and the turn has now come for wages. Either there must be more work don* per day, or there must be less pay for a work. From this alternative we think there is no escape and the failure in manufacturing es tablishments, which we are beginning to record, are the prelude of a general movement for the reduction of wages to a standard more reasonable than the present one. A Detroit wife lias demanded a di vorce from her husband upon the fol lowing grounds : 1 He is inebriated on an average 21 days in .every month ; 2 lie cut off her hair while she slumbered ; 3 He is accustomed to wake her at daylight by throwing several pails of cold water over the bed : 4 He has attempted to force kerosine oil down her throat ; 5 He has forced her go without shoes and stockings ; 6 He put hot pota toes in hei hands aud then mashes them by squeezing her fingers. It is thought by a majority of the best law yers in Detroit that this singularly treated dame is entitled to a separa tion ; but it isn’t a case upon which we should like to express an opinion until we hear what the husband has to say about it. The Disgraceful Goat.— There is an old goat owned on Lewis street, which has received a great deal of training lrom the boys. Last Fourth of July they discovered that if they stuck a frecracker in the end of a crate and held it at William, |he would lower his he and and go for them, and they have practiced the trick so much that the goat will tackle any human being who points a stick at him. Yesterday noon he was loafing near the corner of Third and Lewis streets, when a corpulent citizen came up and stopped to talk with a friend. They happened to speak of sidewalks, when tli € corpulent citizen pointed his cane just to the left of the goat and said : “That’s the worst piece of side walk in this town.” The gat had been eyeing the cane, and the moment it came up he lowered his head, made six or eight jumps and his head struck the corpulent citizen just on the belt.” The man went over into a mass of old tin, dilapidated butter kegs and aban doned hoop-skirts, ar.d the goat turn ed a somers au t the other way, while the slim citizen threw stones at a fioy seated on a who was laugh ing tears as big as chestnuts and cry ing out : “Oh 1 its ’nuff to kill a fel ler.”—Detroit Free Press. The California Slavonians.—Cali fornia has a nest of semi-savage Sla vonians, who are banded together in an organization and are endeavoring to engraft certain peculiar customs of their native land into California life. One of these pleasant Slavonian so ck* 1 laws is that when a man woos a girl she must either become bis wife or die. George Sorchovich, of Chero kee Flat, a locality whose name is fa miliar to the readers of sketches of California life, became enamored of a young lady named McDaniels, and of fered her Ills hand. She refused the offer, and tiie barlfMlan waylaid her on her return fiomiW evening party and cut her throat from ear to ear.— Cherokee Flat regarded Mr. Sorcho vieli’s proceeding as wholly unsuited to California society ; so its citizens hunted him, shot MVulown, and pitch ing his body on the i?Tof of his cabin burned it to the ground. It is said that a regular organization of Slavon ians exist in California, who take the lives of all persons who incur their enmity. The New York Sun announces with satisfnet on that at hist the country is to have an account of the war from one of the greatest Southern Generals. It refers to the forthcoming octavo volume \>f Gen. Joseph E Johnston, which will soon be published by the Applet* ns. The volume -v-dl be a comprehensive history of the distin guished writer’s campaigns, and will be embellished with portraits of emi nent officers, and furnished with com plete maps of the various scenes of tlie great General’s immortal military operations. The perils that encompass a teacher in the Newport, Kentucky, schools in these troublous times are many, and of a peculiar character. Mr. Suton, the Principal of a Newport school, re cently tried on the charge of whip ping a pupil with unnecessary severi ty, has received the following note : “I have children at the school you are placed over, and take notice ; if you whip any of mine, by the Eternal I will shoot you as dead as hell. I will put six balls through your d—d body as quick as a revolver can send them.” Marking Down the Dry Goods. —The leading New York houses in the retail dry goods and fancy goods trade are marking down their stocks on hand, as well as of goods purchased since the commencement of the panic. Silks, which sold a few months ago at $1.50, are now put upon the market at 75 cents. All goods arc offered at rates far less than when the financial trouble began. They have a clergyman at Evans ton, Illinois, who is bound to be pop ular. At the laying of a corner-stone for anew church, recently, he said : “If boys and girls do their sparking at church, I say amen to it. I have a daughter whom I cherish as the ap ple ol my eye. When she is of suit able age, 1 had rather she should be courted in the house of God than in a theatre. A Te rre Haute editor, who spoke with the air of a man who had dis covered anew fact by experience, said that the way to prevent bleeding at the nose is to keep your nose out of other people’s business Thirty-nine thousand dollars is the amount, that Gen. Grant spends annu ally foi the support and education of his family.” This, too, although a couple of his sons are past education, and enjoying soft places of support at Government expense. Such is the statement of Roderick Randum But ler. We must confess that $39,000 a year would have beggared any previ ous President since 1789. But Grant has imperial notions. Milton Malone, has been re*sentenc ed to hang on the 28th of November. The last hearing before the U. S. Su preme Court has not been had yet ; but the hope there is very slim and then the Governor’s interference is the only hope, and unless he goes back on his precedent established in such eases that is still slimer. The weather in Butler county, Pa. is so dry that water is selling at $1 per barrel. We fear that unless there is a rain in the county soon the people will have to abondon the use of water altogether and corner on whisky. * * A Troy policeman swore as follows against a prisoner : “The prisoner set upon me, called me an ass, a precious dolt, a scarecrow, a ragamuffin and idiot—all of which I certify to be true.” T 1 icre are about seven hundred Methodist clergymen in lowa in the regular work of the ministry, besides local preachers. The Methodists in lowa number about seventy thousand. Increase of the Public I)ewt.— A Washington dispatch to the NeW York Post says : It is estimated that the in crease of the public debt for the pres ent month will amount to above five million dollars. Tears of thankfulness till the eyes of the editor of the Concordia (Kan sas) Empire, lie has been presented with a loaf of bread, a squash, a lot of big turnips, and a peck of pop corn. A little German boy attempting to repeat the first verse of “Mary had a Little Lamb,’’ rendered it as follows : Mary's got von little sliepes, His vleece was vite us vool, And every place vere Mary’s pin, Dos little shepes vos come there too. Owing to a war among the dry goods merchants at Denver, calicoes were reduced to two cents a yard, and every printer and minister in the place now wears a shirt—gaudy in some instance, but still a shirt. ~" NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. H. MIBRMAN &>SON, Keep constantly on hand The Laryeri and Bot Aborted Stock of DRY-GOODS, Cl OTHINCx, DOTS A SHOES, HATS A CAPS, NOTIONS, TOBACCOS GROCERIES, ETC., to be found in this market, all of which they propose to sell at prices to suii toe panic. Call and see them and price their goods. Nov. 5, ’73 If. AdnrnLu'atOi’s Sale. M ill be sold bcloie tbe Court House door in the town oi Eastman, during the usual hours of 3.ile, on the first Tuesday in Decembei nest, the following prope- iv, to-wit : Lot of land No. 216 in the 14th district of Dodge county, as the mope l l v of Nancy Cobb, deceased.— Sold for division among the heirs. Purchaser to pay l'oi ilrafiuig deed. NOAH COBB, Adm’i. Nov. 5, '73-tds. THE ALBANY HOUSE, Merrick Barnes, Pro p'r. ALBANY, GEORGIA. This house is well furnished and every way prepared for the accommodation of the travel ing public; entire satisfaction guaranteed.— The table is supplied with the best the country a fiords, and the servants are unsurpassed in politeness and attention to the wants of guests. Omnibusses convey passengers to and from the different railroads promptly. Charges to suit the times. Change of Schedule. SUPERINTENDENTS OFFICE, SobiH WESTERN RAILROAD OFFICE, ) Macon, June 13, 1872. j On and after Sunday, the 16th, Passenger and Mail Trains on this Road will run as fol lows : DAY EUFAULA PASSENGER TRAIN. Leave Macon 8:00 a. m. Arrive at Eufaula 4.42 p m “ at Clayton 6.15 pm “ ftt Albany 2.40 p m “ at Fort Gaines 4.40 p m Eufaula Mail Train connects daily at Smith ville with Albany Mail Train, and at Cuthbert with Fort Gaines Mail Train. Leave Clayton 7.20 a m Leave Eufaula 8.50 a m Leave Fort Gaines 8.35 am Leave Albany 10.45 a m Arrive at Macon 5:25 p m EUFAULA NIGHT, FREIGHT AND ACCOMMODAT ON TRAIN. Leave Macon 9.10 p m Arrive at Eufaula 10.20 a m “ at Albany 6.45 am “ at Fort Gaines 11.52 am Connect at Smithville with Albany Train on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday nights, and at Cuthbert on Tuesday and Thursday.— No train leaves on Saturday nights. Leave Eufaula 5.15 p m Leave Albany 8.40 pru Leave Fort Gaines 1.10 p m Arrive at Macon 5.20 a m COLUMBUS DAY PASSENGER TRAIN. Leave Macon 5:45 a m Arrive at Columbus 11:15 am Leave Columbus 4:10 pm Arrive at Macon 9:35 pm VIRGIL POWERS, Engineer &. Superintendent. GEORGIA MUSIC HOUSE. Having established agencies in most of the cities of the South, we have selected \L. as the best distributing point, and have located * co * Our Great Piano and Organ Depot, AT 84 MULBERRY STREET. We have the largest stock” of Pianos and Organs in the South, which we will sell at lows* prices and on better termh than are offered by any other house. Pianos and Organ* will b delivered free of expense to cash purchasers in any part of the South with written warrant**. Mho make the best Pianos and Organs? After an experience of more than eighteen vears as General Agents for the Principal Manufactories, we do assert and are prepared to prov# tha the CHICKERING PIANOS AND ESTEY ORGANS! *re in purity of tone, elastically and evencss of action and durability the best in tha world Strings, violins, guitars and all kind of musical merchandise sold at NEW YORK PRICES. Our stock of sheet music is exceptionally large. Georgia Musical Electric only $1 ,^ r annum. Send for specimen copy and price-lists of pianos, organs and musical merchandise to GUILFORD, HOOD At CO., Macon, Gu. "“ “ - BERND BROTHERS, v THIRD STREET, MACON.GA. MANUFACTUREKS OF .4P Saddles, Harness, Collars, Bridles, Ac., Ac., IN .ENDLESS (VARIETY. ALSO, DEALERS IN SADDLERY, HARDWARE, HARNESS-MAKERS' SADDLERS' AND SHOE-MAKERS' MATERIAL f \ M ith our increased facilities wo arc again enabled t> offer M’ork of our own tfmnifarture a* Reduced prices. M r e make GOLD, RUBBER AND SI EVER M< )UN lED H IKNESS. V well as the cheaper grades. Saddles in great variety. Also, Wool-faced Team, Coach and Hiipj;. Collars. Also, keep constantly on huud a a Ltrge stock of Harness Leather, Skirting, Brie It Leather, Oak ami Hemlock Sole Leather, UPPER KIP AND CALF SKINS, AMERICAN AND FRENCH. Patent and Enamelled Leathers and Cloths, Lasts, Boot Trees. Pegs, and Shoemaker's Stcxk generally. To prompt M holesale Buyers we are prepared to offer unusual inducements. Merchants and Planters will find it to their interest to give us u call when wishing (tc buy Goods in our line. M o pay Cash for Hides. Purs, Skin., Wax, Woo., 1 allow ami 1-ccir, in tue rougn. Macon, Ga., October 8, 1873. otB 4ia. JOHNSON cfc SMITH, Wholesale Grocers, & Produce Dealers AND COMMISSION MERCHANTS. MACON, GEORGIA Nos. 74, 76, 78, Mulberry Street, under the 3/asonic Temple, Opposite the Lanier House. o Ollter to the citizense of Dodge and surrounding Counties one of the largest, best assort *< and cheapest stock of Groceries and Plantation Supplies evt r brought to Georgia—for Cash o: on Time —consisting in part oi 300,000 lbs. C. Pi. SIDES, 100,000 yds. BAGGING—aII kinds. 50,000 lbs. LONG CLEAR SIDES, 51,000 lbs. “ARROW TIES.” 50,000 lbs. BACON SHOULDERS, 1400 barrels SUGAR, A. Ex. C. k C. 50,000 lbs. Lard, tierces, kegs, etc., 150 Syrups and Molasses 100 tierces Choice Hams, Fresh Corn Meal, always on hand 30,009 lbs. Flour—all grades Gilt Edge Butter. Fine Cheese, 225 sacks of Coffee - Java and Rio, , Candles, Starch and Soap. Fine Teas and Canned Goods, Fresh Mackerel, Moopen W’ap.e, 225 boxes Tobacco, cheapest to best, 175 bids. Liquors, full assortment. Large stock of Smoking Tobacco, Osnaburgs, Sheeting and Shirting, Salt, Pnjier, Twine Blacking, Oats, Corn, Rye, Barley, etc., etc. [octß-3m. Three Hundred Stoves Guaranteed! ' We have just received two car loads “Barley Sheaf' Stoves, and have in store with them th “Great Benefactor,” “Sunny South,” “Cotton Plant,” “Stewart,” And other first-class Cooking Stoves ; also, a fine assortment of Heating Stoves. Also, from | ie Barlow Knife to the finest POCKET CUTLERY! And from the ch npest to the best j VORY HANDLE TABLE CUTLER-VI A large lot of M T ood and Willow Ware, Crockery andGl ~*™re, and full line of Ho**/Fur nisliing Goods. Call or send your orders, as now is the time to buy your fall stock ware and House Furnishing Goods, on as good * n W'. Prompt attention given to all orders. OL*l * EKi 13UL GLASS •* oct Q *o. 12 Third Sxelez, Maq*- n g **