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L O VE.
BV JOAQUIN MIDLER.
There was one who stood by the waters one eve—
With the stars on her hair, and the bars of the
moon
Broken up at her feet by the bountiful boon
Of extending old trees—who did questioning grieve:
“ The birds they go over us two and by two;
The mono is mated ; his bride in the boughs
Sits nursing h s babe, and his passionate vows
Of love you may hear them the whole day through.
“ There is nothing that is that can yield one bliss
Like an innocent love ; the leaves have tongue,
And the tides talk low in the reeds, and the young
And the quick buds open their lips but for thiß.
“ In the steep and the starry silences,
On the stormy levels of the limitless seas,
Or here in the deeps of the dark brow’d trees,
There is nothing so much as a brave man’s kiss.
“ There is nothing so strong, in the stream, on the
land,
In the valley of palms, on the pinnacled snow,
In the clouds of the gods, on the grasses below.
As the silk-soi't touch of a baby’s brown hand.
“ It were better to sit and to spin on a stone
The whole year through with a babe at the knee,
With its brown hands reaching caressingly,
Than to sit in a girdle of gold and alone.
“ O barren dull days, where never the brown
Hweet hand of a babe hides back in the hair
When a mother comes home with her burden of
care,
And over the life of her life bends down.
“It were better perhaps to be mothers of men,
And to murmur not much; there are clouds in
the si.n,
Can a woman undo what the gods have done?
Nay, the things must be as the things have been.”
A WAR YARN.
Cleaning Out From Chickasaw -Every
Ulan Ills Own Circus.
Squills declares this to be a true
yarn, spun out of an incident of the
late war. It is about throwing the com
missary stores into Chickasaw Bayou,
on New Year’s night, 1863, when the
Union troops concluded to return to
Uncle Sam’s transports on the Yazoo.
In those days Squills was “ a boy in
blue,” and signed himself Capt. anil C.
S., U. S. V. It was Squills’ first attempt
at active duty. All through that New
Year’s day, Squills had been receiving
stores and issueing rations, and hadn’t
time to think much about svhat was go
ing on at “the front.” About 7in the
evening a clerk came up and said the
troops were in full retreat to the river.
Squills didn’t believe it, because he
thought Gen. Sherman would certainly
take care of his faithful commissary
and request him to retreat too. In about
half an hour the fame anxious clerk
came again, and this time he said, dole
fully : “Captain they’re all gone.”
It dawned upon the mind of Capt.
Squills, C. S , that Geu. Sherman was
laying a commissary on the altar of his
country as a sacrifice to the gods—he
didn’t hanker after Libby—and so he
vaulted to the summit of his warlike
steed, and in auothor minute was gal
loping over the fields to Geu. Sherman’s
quarters, to ask William Tecumseli how
he thought it was himself.
It was a beautiful southern winter’s
night and the camp fires blazed all over
the ground in front of the open fiats
which lay between—wlmt bad been the
Union lines, and the first bluffs of
Walnut Hills. Fires everywhere but
no troops ! A soldier here and there
piling on brush aud half a dozen array
wagons scraping together the fag,
ends of regimental equipago, and that
was all. Squills didn’t half like the
look of things.
In a corner of Mrs. Lake’s plantation
Gen. Sherman sat on a camp-stool by
the edge of a ditch, and with a back
ground of trees. As Squills dismount
ed Hammond said, “You’ll find the
general out there somewhereand
Squills found him with his head well
down in his hands and his elbows rest
ing on his knees. Gen. Sherman was
keeping up a good steady thinking. He
didn't know Squills half so well as he did
afterwards, and he looked as if ho didn’t
want to know anybody very much just
about that time.
“ Well, what do you want?”
“Come for orders about the stores,
general.”
“ What stores ?”
“ Commissary.”
“ Get a detail of wagons.”
“No wagons here, general.”
All the spare mules aud horses had
been engaged that day in hauling out
heavy seige guns to deceive the confed
erates into the belief that he had come
th ‘re to stay, aud the general loi ked
down into the little ditoli for inspira
tion.
“ Shall I destroy them?”
“No!” almost fiercely. “No! don’t
burn them ; they will know that we are
leaving. Throw them into the bayou.
Find deep water, Squills, and be
quick.”
Then the soul of Squills was stirred
within him, aud he made his way back
to find deep water. In less than no
time Gen. Morgan’s (of Ohio) bodyguard
were detailed to pitch the stores into
the bayou, and Squills couldn’t help
thinking that throwing thousands of dol
lars into a deep ditch was about the
deepest water, figuratively speaking, he
had ever paddled in.
His faithful body-guard of clerks
pitched in too. Everybody pitched in,
and Squills looked on almost with tears
in his eyes.
“ Hold on, boys; I’ll be condemned
if I don’t try and save these stores.”
Squills didn’t know so much about
courts-martial for disobedience of or
ders as he did afterwards.
“Take a drink, boys, and go back to
your quarters ” —this to Morgan’s body
guard. “And boys, let’s make for the
river —this lust to his own fellows.
One clerk mounted one horse with
the cook pots, and Squills took another
clerk up behind him with the balance
of the mess outfit in a coffee-sack. Per
haps there was a stove—Squills don’t
exactly remember; but he thinks there
was a wash-tub. There were 4ou
miies between them and the river, and
the horses were fresh. Every stride
they made the pots and pans rattled
until the horses wondered what the
deuce they had got outside. They had
never run away from the enemy before
and carried a kitchen. Squills’ passen
ger, to make the old thing work prop
erly, hung over on one side so as to
balance the coffee-sack, and Squills had
an elegant time of it, pulling at the
frightened horse with one hand while he
held on to the faithful clerk with the
other.
The faster the horse ran, the louder
the Infernal kettles and pots rattled
about the flanks, aud it was just as
good as a circus to anybody looking on;
but Squills was every now aud then
looking a good more off than on, and
By K. S. BUETON.
VOLUME I.
besides this, he was busy and didn’t
pine after a circus, especially when he
was doing most of the heavy circus bu
siness himself.
The Yazoo at last ! Black and blue
were Squills and liia clerk, and sweat
ing as bad as the horses who had beeD
running away about half this time.
On board the Continental, Squills
found Gen’s. Steele and Blair and he
told to them his sorrows about the pork
and things.
“Go back, Squills,” said Steele, in
his thin, cracked treble tones—“ Go
back, Capt. Squills, and save that pork,
and take half of the Seventy-six Ohio
with you.”
“ Go back, Squills,”' cried Blair, pull
ing his moustache longer by half an
inch or so— “Go back and take in that
hard-tack out of the wet. If you get to
Libby, I will write to Mrs. Squills.”
Squills almost dropped two tears at
this evidence of friendship and then he
took a little weak, cold tea out of the
canteens, and then he started down the
gangplank to find half the 76th Ohio
all ready, but not at all willing.
The first thing Squills did when he
reached the stores was to break in the
head of a barrel. Commissary Squills
don’t know whether the 76tli Ohio drank
more whisky or slung more tack and
pork ; at all events, the boys worked
well, and about 2 o’clock in the morn
ing, as the fires were dying out in the
late camp of the Union army, Squills
turned his head again towards the Ya
zoo.
There isn’t such time on record as
that make by Squills, and his train on
that second of January morning, for
they reached the river about 4 o’clock,
and then the festivities commenced.
Bang ! A gun from the confederates.
“ How are you, Johnny ?”
Bang ! bang ! Sharp and quick.
“ Hurry up, boys ; they know we’re
scooting. ’
Whirr—fizz—crack—bang!
“ Get your stuff on board, Squills,”
cried Lewis B. Parsons, riding up.
“ Can’t stop for that.”
“ Pitch it on any how, boys, hurrah !”
Bang ! bang ! bang !
It was getting lively somewhere, with
a vengeance. If the confederates could
reach the bluffs below Johnson’s land
ing with their guns before we could get
there, then it would be more lively still,
for every shot would be a plunger and
one would be enough to settle the hash
of the best transport in the fleet.
“ All aboard, everybody !”
A wild scene of hurry and coufusion.
Every boat for itself and the devil
take the hindmost.
Bang ! bang ! bang !
“ Let go those lines there.”
Bow first; stern first; anyhow first;
anyhow to get out of that place.
Crash! “Now then, where are you
coming to ?” Crash again. And still
the guns blazed away, and the boats
swung round and battered into one an
other. Finally they got their heads
straight down stream, and off they
went kiting to the Mississippi, with
nothing broken to speak of after all.
All kiuder scared, but jolly with it all.
“ Stores saved, general,” said Squills
to Steele, reporting on the Continental.
“ Charlie,” said Steele to Scammon,
“ make Squills a cocktail.”
“ Stores saved, general,” said Squills
to Blair.
“Lucky for you, Squills,”said Blair;
“ take a cigar.”
“ Boys,” said Squills to Maguire aud
Thompkins, “ I’m going to my little
bed ; don’t let anybody come near me
for two days.”
“My bleeding countrv, how I suffer
for you,” thought Squills, as he rolled
in between the blankets to dream of
mountains of hard-tack and islands of
mess-pork, swimming in oceans of
bayou.
And that is how Squills and the other
boys in blue cleared out from Chicka
saw.
Putting on a Shirt.
There are things which a man can do
with some show of dignity and even ele
gance, but the putting on of a clean shirt
is not one of them. Even those fastid
ious chaps who put one on every week
never become so expert and familiar
with the process that they can go
through with it with any degree of com
fort or dexterity, aud the less extrava
gant individuals who change only once
a month, are really to be envied. The
feat is accomplished in this way : You
lay the garment down on the bed, or
across a table or washstand. bosom down
wards, each rustle of the stilly-starched
garment striking terror to your soul.
Pulling it open, you make a strange
draft on your courage and resolution,
and plunge into it, thrusting your arms
here and there in a frantic and desper
ate search for the sleeves, finding which
you struggle manfully iu an endeavor
to draw the garment down so that you
can catch a glimpse of the outer world
once more. By the exercise of a proper
amount of judgment you are finally sue
cessful in this, and you find yoiirself
gaziug out upon surrounding objects,
encircled by stiff, rustling linen, which
props your chin up in the air and gives
rise to a feeling as though you were
braced around about by crowbars, with
no prospect of ever being able to sit
down again. Putting on a collar and a
tie, you don your outer garments and
sally forth, feeling as uncomfortable
and uneasy as though you had just sat
down on a coat-tail pocket full of eggs.
—Metallic gold can be almost invari
ably distinguished by au experienced
eye, by its rich yellow color. Touch it
with a drop of strong nitiic acid and
notice whether any oxidation, efferves
cence, etc., takes place. If no effect is
produced the article may be considered
as gold on the outside. This test is, of
course, only a very partial one, as the
gilded sham jewelry may withstand it.
To ascertain the fineness of gold, that
is, how much real gold there may be in
or on a gilded metal or alloy, the speci
men must be analyzed by a chemist.
—ln the ninth book of his “Parisians,”
which he intended to publish anony
mously, Bulwer sets the following little
trap to catch the critics: “There is
somewhere in Lord Lyttou’s writings—
writings so numerous that I may be
pardoued if I cannot remember where —
a critical definition of the difference be
tween dramatic and narrative art of
story.”
KASTMAN, DODGE CO., GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1573.
BARBADOES.
Negro huts are scattered along the
sides of the roads all over Barbadoes ;
in fact, they are as thick all over the
island as plums in a pudding. It is
said that it is not possible to raise your
voice in any part of it without being
heard by some neighboring house.
These huts are dotted about without
the slightest regard for regularity—
sometimes a number of them in a kind
of promiscuous heap, sometimes one or
two by themselves. They frequently
have little patches of land or gardens
attached to them, but often are set
down on the bare face of a piece of
stony or waste ground. Sometimes an
almond or a gooseberry tree grows close
to them, but apparently more by acci
dent than design. Some of the huts are
kept nicer than others ; aud many have
a pig, or a sheep, or a goat tethered be
side them, or in rarer cases even a cow
or a donkey. Chickens and turkeys
abound among the huts. Sheep have
no wool, but a kind of coarse hair, and
are of as various colors as our cows—
black, brown, chestnut, and piebald,
occurring nearly as commonly as white.
Cows are much smaller than the aver
age size in England. Oxen and mules
are the beasts of burden, horses being
kept solely for riding and driving.
The first thing that struck me on
entering a West Indian house was the
extreme want of privacy in their mode
of life ; in fact, this is carried so far
that one does not even shut one’s bed
room-door at night. The reason is, of
course, that everybody wants to create
a draught—a thing as much sought after
here as it is avoided at home—and so
windows and doors are all left open.
There is seldom a hall, but the veranda
generally opens directly into the living
rooms ; and everybody walks directly
into the drawing-room when he comes
in from riding or driving. In the rooms
there are never carpets nor curtains.
On the beds are no blankets—the only
covering for a body at night is a single
sheet, not even a counterpane ; and all
the time windows and doors are open,
and there is a great draught, but no one
thinks of taking cold.
There is one thing in Barbadoes I quar
rel with immensely—that is, the way
the tall black hat is worshiped. That
institution, so ugly, so uncomfortable
even in cold England, is twice as ugly,
three times as uncomfortable, in tropi
cal Barbadoes, where blackness is a sun
and-heat-attracting color to be sedulous
ly avoided, and tightness a lieat-giving
quality to be as sedulously shunned.
O little Grundy-ridden island of Barba
does ! you, so small that everybody is
either related to, or an intimate of eve
rybody else, do you say that a black hat
is a token of respectability? Surely
you know who is respectaole without
that mark of Grundyitisli slavery. O
black hat! the blackest blot on fair
Barbadoes, would that I could drown
you in yon blue sea, and so wash away
that stain of Grundyism forever !
The Barbadian ladies do not seem to
have much taste for flowers. While
the most beautiful flowers grow all over
the island, I saw mauy bouquets at the
hall composed of English chrysantlie
ums and spindly rose-buds. In few
of the houses in which I have been
have there been natural flowers about
the house, but what requirement there
was for floral decoration was satisfied in
many cases by a vase of artificial or
paper flowers. A vase of paper flow
ers inside, and lovely jasmines and ipo
moeas, aud the treasures of our green
houses, outside, is a rather surprising
sight to an Englishman.
The peasantry of Barbadoes is nearly
entirely black, though there are some
few poor whites. They are civil, in
dustrious, and contented; and since
the island is so thickly inhabited, they
are obliged to work ; for though they
generally own their little huts, and get
a good deal out of the little patches of
land attached to them, still it is not
sufficient to keep them without work
ing. They have the credit of being in
a measure immoral, but since the fe
males very largely outnumber the males,
it is so accounted for. They are, as a
rule, very li mest, and no great crimes
prevail among them. Offenses against
the person, as assaults and such like,
are rare. The greatest temptation
placed in their way, and one to which
they seem not unfrequently to fall vic
tims, is the facility for stealing sugar
cane from the cane-fields, which are
totally unprotected except by watch
men, who, of course, cannot be in many
places at one time. The negro is very
fond of cane, and practically lives upon
it during the crop-time—that is, while
sugar is being made. The punishment
for a first offense of stealing cane is
three months’ imprisonment; on a sec
ond conviction, six months, which term
is also the punishment for all after
offenses of the same nature. Fowl
stealing is not very prevalent, though
one sometimes hears of it; but for that
also there is great facility, because of
the quantity of poultry kept at the
various estates. Chillren abound, and
the boys run about clothed in nothing
till they are eight or ten, but the girls
are invariably decently dressed.
The negroes are very religious on
Sundays, and flock to church and chapel
dressed in the most wondrous manner ;
but they do not carry their religion
with them every day in the week, nor
does it penetrate very deep. A negro
one day, after hearing a powerful and
uprousing sermon, announced to his
friends that he was quite ready to die
that night. One of his friends then,
while the negro in question was going
to bed by the light of a candle, ap
proached his front-door and knocked
three times in a most sepulchral man
ner. “ Who dere ?” asked the negro.
No answer, but three more knocks.
“ Who dere?” again he shouted. In a
deep bass voice his friend answered, “1
am Michael, the augel of death.”
“What you waut here?” parleyed the
negro inside. “I am come for the soul
of Thomas Jones.” A scuffle inside,
and “ O Lor’! O Lor’!” in a smothered
voice. Out went he candle, and care
fully peeping through the window of
the hut, lie said, “You come for Tom
JoDes, eh? Weil, him just gone out;”
and off he bolted as fast as he could
through the back-door. Another tale,
much to the same purpose, is the fol
lowing : A nigger hut had a pumpkin
vine growing over the roof, and a fellow
once climbed up to steal the pumpkins,
I when, to liis horror, the vine gave way,
In God we Trust.
and he was let through the roof, and
came down between the owner and his
wife, who were in bed. At his wit’s
end for an answer to the indignant com
plaint and question of the disturbed
sleeper, “Who dere?” his disturber
answered, “I am de debil himself, come
to take you away.” Away went the
man and his wife, one one way, another
another, leaving the thief in possession
of the house and his stolen pumpkins,
which had fallen through with him, and
with which he decamped in peace.
There are some colored families who
are wealthy in Barbadoes, but the line
of demarcation between colored people
and whites is strongly drawn and firmly
maintained. People in England con
sider that the word “creole” implies an
admixture of colored blood in the per
son so addressed. But it is not so :it is
an adjective implying born in the col
ony, and is not only applied to people,
but also to animals, as creole beef and
creole mutton ; and I have even heard
of creole soda-water in opposition to
soda-water imported from England. All
the white people, therefore, are white
creoles, and the black people are black
creoles, only in respect to the colony
they are born in, and not to the rest of
the islands.
Both whites and blacks, however,
agree in one respect, and that is in
tense admiration lor their native island,
which I think they have some cause
for. A ludicrous story is told of a ne
gro who was cook of a sailing-vessel be
tween England and Barbadoes. During
the voyage he dressed in the quietest
manner, aud was all that a cook should
be; but, just before he landed, it was
observed that he was got up in the finest
style—black coat, white waiscoat, gold
chain, tall hat and showy gloves. He
was asked what was the matter. “Oh,”
said he, “ Barbadoes is such a pompos
ity fine nation, I must dress well to go
shore.”
A Georgia Man’s Locomotive.
There has just been completed at the
machine shop of Laffertv & Bros., Glou
cester City, N. J., a four-ton locomo
tive, designed to run on one rail. It is
built for a street railroad company in
Georgia. This engine can with propri
ety be called a steam velocipede, as it
rests upon two wheels, one folkwing
the other. The rail or track upon which
it is to run, a sample of wdiicli is laid in
the yard of the builders, is styled “Pris
moid, or one-track railway,” and is com
posed of several thickness of plank, built
up in the style of au inverted keel of a
vessel, with a flat rail on the apex. Up
on a trial a speed of about twelve miles
an hour was attained, and the inventor
and patentee claims that the speed can
be almost doubled on a lengthened track.
Mr. E. Crew, of Opelika, Ga, is the in
ventor and patentee of both tracks and
engines, and he claims that liis inven
tions demonstrate a tractive power’ sup
erior to anything in the locomotive line
of equal weight. The capacity for run
ning curves is very much greater than
the two-rail system. The track upon
which the trial was made contained thir
ty-six feet of lumber and eighteen pounds
of iron to the lineal foot, proving itself
equal to a span of twenty feet, remain
ing firm and unyielding under the pres
sure of the engine as it traversed the
road. The revolving flanges attached
to the engine, and which run on the out
sides of each wheel, Mr. Crew claims,
absolutely lock the rolling stoqk to the
prism, and obviate the necessity of so
much heavy rolling stock in light traffic
at a high rate of speed. It is also claimed
that a prismoidal railway built with a
base of fourteen inches, angles forty
five degrees, can be built at a cost of
$3,000 per mile. The inventor is of opin
ion that this engine aud track is parti
cularly adapted to the propelling of
canal-boats, and will compete sucessf ully
with horse power on canals without ne
cessarily interfering with the use of the
latter, but he does not state in what way.
The engine will shortly be shipped to its
destination (Atlanta, Ga.), where it goes
into operation on a street railroad, built
at an elevation of twelve feet above the
sidewalk.
Our Merchant Navy.
The portion of the forthcoming re
port of the register of the treasury,
which refers to the American merchant
marine, is of general interest. It ap
pears that on the 30tli of last June there
were altogether 32,672 American ves
sels, with 4,696,026 tonnage—an in
crease, as compared with the close of the
previous fiscal year, of 19,493 tonnage
in the foreign trade and 238,668 tonnage
in the coastwise trade. This country,
at the date mentioned, owned 2,383,801
tons of sailing vessels, 1,156,443 tons ot
steam vessels, and 1,155,782 tons of canal
boats and barges, three-fifths of the
year’s increase having been in the latter
class. Of the steam tonnage reported,
about one-sixth is employed in the for
eign trade of the country. During the
fiscal year just closed shipbuilding re
ceived a great impetus, there having
been built 2271 vessels, with 359,246
tonnage—an increase of over 150,000
tons compared with the preceding year.
This great increase, the register attrib
utes to the serious losses to our mer
chant shipping by wrecks, and the fact
that, owing to advances in the prices of
labor and materials abroad, the cost of
American built ships is now but slightly i
greater than the best English vessels.
The tonnage built during the last fiscal
year was 144,629 of sailing vessels, 78,-
011 of steam vessels, and 126,606 of
canal boats and barges. Twenty-six iron
vessels were built during the year, ag
gregating 26,528 tons—an amount about
equal to the iron steam tonnage built
during the two previous years combined.
Three of these vessels were of the lar
gest class, the steamers of the Philadel
phia company, intended for foreign
trade. There are 2640 American ves
sels, with 154,274 tonnage, employed in
the fisheries and owned chiefly in New
Eugland. Of these, the cod and mack
erel fishermen are constantly increasing,
whilst the whalers as regularly decline.
Thus, there are 187 whale ships, with
44,755 tonnage, registered this year,
whilst last year there was 51,608 tonnage
engaged in the whale fisheries.
Rutherford thinks that the present
may be termed the renaissance period
in the history of physiology in England.
Anew system of physiological instruc
tion is spreading rapidly over the coun
try, while Huxley has done much to
make physiology palatable to the young.
Fry’s Last Letter to His Wife.
Gen. Qutsada has been so kind as to
permit the writer to make a transcript
of the letter written by the gallant
Fry to his wife. The pages of the
original bore the impress of the tears
sheil by the heroic writer. It was the
last communication ever made to the
world by the true American, and the
blended expressions of affection, of re
ligious hope, of dignified resignation
with which it teems, will cause its
words to be remembered so long as vir
tue and courage are honored among
men. It may be well to state that the
letter necessarily omits all reflections
on the Spanish government, but before
his death Fry gave utterance very for
cibly to his opinions on’tliat subject, his
silence only coming with his death.
The allusions to family matters are, of
course, not reproduced herein below :
On Board Spanish Man-of-War La\
loknado, St. Jago de Cuba, Nov. 6, 1873. j
Dear, Dear Dita : When I left you
I had no idea that we should never meet
again in this world, but it seems strange
to me that I should to-night, and on
Annie’s birthday, be calmly seated, on
a beautiful moonlight night, in a most
beautiful bay in Cuba, to take my last
leave of your, my own dear, sweet wife,
and with the thought of your bitter an
guish my only regret at leaving.
I have been tried to-day and the pres
ident of the court-martial asked the fa
vor of embracing me at parting, and
clasped me to his heart. I have shaken
hands with each of my judges; and the
secretary of the court and interpreter
have promised me as a special favor to
attend my execution, which will, I am
told, be in a very few hours after my
sentence is pronounced. lam told my
death will be painless : in short, I have
had a very cheerful and pleasant chat
about my funeral, to which I shall go
in a few hours from now. How soon
I can not yet say. It is curious to see
how I make friends. Poor Bambetta
pronounced me a gentleman, and he
was the brightest and bravest creature
I ever saw.
The priest who gave me communion
on board this morning put a double
scapular about my neck and a medal
which he intends to wear himself. A
young Spanish officer brought me a
bright new silk badge with the Blessed
Virgin stamped upon it to wear to my
execution for him, and a handsome
cross in [some fair lady’s handiwork.
These are to be [kept as relics of me.
He embraced me affectionately in my
room with tears in his eyes. * * *
Dear sweetheart, you will be able to
bear it for my sake, for I will be with
yon if God permits it. Although I
know my hours are short and few, I am
not sad. I feel I shall always be with
you right soon, dear Dita, and you will
not be afraid of me. *****
Pray for me, and I will pray for you.
* * * There is to be a fearful sacri
fice of life from tlio Virginius, and as
I think, a needless one, as the poor peo
ple are unconscious of crime, and even
of their fate up to now. I hope God
will forgive if I am to blame for it.
If you write to President Grant, he
will probably order my pay due when I
resign, paid to you after my death. *
* * People will be kinder to you now,
dear Dita, at least I liope so. Do not
dread death when it comes to you ; it
will be as God’s angel of rest—remem
ber this. *
I hope my children will forget their
father’s harshness and remember his
love and anxiety for them. May they
practice regularly their religion, and
pray for him always. * * * Tell
a public profession of my faith and
hope in Him of whom we need not be
ashamed, and it is not honest to utli
hold that public acknowledgment from
any false modesty or timidity. May
God bless and save us all.
Sweet, dear, dear, Dita, we will soon
meet again. Till then, adieu, for the
last time. Your devoted husband,
Joseph Fry.
The Chase of the Virginius—How
Twelve Cubans Died.
During the chase, at one time, the
Virginius succeeded in putting fifteen
miles between her and her pursuer, but
that, on board of the Tornado, by the
most prodigious efforts, they overtook
her. The smokestacks of the Tornado
were heated to red heat, and flames
seemed to come from them rather than
smoke ; they were so hot as to cut off
communication between the crew fore
and aft, and several alarms of fire in
the engine-rooms were given.
According to the declaration of some
of the expeditionists, it is stated that
two torpedoes were thrown overboard
from the Virginius, in the hope the
Tornado would run on them and be
blown up. The waterproof lines of
connection are still to be seen on board.
When the Spanish boarding officer,
Eugene Ortiz, with only ten men,
boarded the Virginius, he called on the
captain to surrender, who immediately
did so. The steersman who was orderesl
to the wheel was threatened by one of
the expeditionists, who cooked a pistol
at him, but was prevented from using
it. Bembeta at the time was in his
shirt-sleeves, having taken off and
thrown his coat and vest into the fur
naces of the Virginius as an example to
the others. During his stav in the
Tornado, he says that he had a ciga
rette ready to set fire to a cask of
powder when about to boarded, but at
the last moment reflected that there
were many young men under age aboard
whose lives would be spared, and he
did not want to take upon himself the
responsibility of sending them thus ab
ruptly into eternity.
The deck of the Virginius when
boarded was in the greatest confusion,
covered with papers, insurgent cock
ades, five pointed buttons, pieces of
linen, harness and bayonet-sheaths.
The lower cabins were so filled with
coals and the cargo that but twenty per
sons could find accommodations below,
and consequently the remainder of the
persons < n board lived on deck.
Nothing is said by the officers con
cerning the details of the execution
save that Captain Fry died like a brave
man, and it was due to his appeals that
a number of comrades accepted in the
last moment the consolation of religion
and embraced the Catholic faith. An
officer of the Tornado, in speaking of
the manner in wich the last twelve
Cubans died, among them being Gen.
$ 2 00 per Annum.
NUMBER 47.
Quesada’s son, Yalls, Mol a, and others
of the best families of Cuba, remarked:
“I can not exactly qualify their man
ner of receiving their end as valiant,
but must call it cynical ; they laughed
and joked on the way to the place of
execution, and, upon arriving there, and
after being compelled to kneel, some
picked up handfuls of earth and threw
it at their companions, with the words,
*Chico que te sea la tierra leve' (my
boy, may earth rest light upon you).
At the last moment they commenced to
shout ‘ Viva Cuba fibre!’ etc., and
bugles had to be sounded and drums
beaten to drown theii voices.”
Railroads and Passengers’ Rights.
In Lynn county, lowa, S. J. McKin
ley, a traveling agent, has recovered
$12,000 damages against the Chicago
and Northwestern railroad company for
injuries received at the hands of a mus
cular brakeman who handled him rough
ly because he insisted upon resuming a
seat in what is called the “ ladies’ car”
which he had occupied for part of the
trip he was making, and upon which he
had left his coat and satchel. Another
recent case is reported where a passen
ger having had the audacity to enter a
“ ladies’ car” was promptly ejected, and
in consequence recovered $4,500 dam
ages from the railroad company. In
Kansas a case has just been decided,
which involves anew principle, so far
as judicial decisions are concerned. A
respectable physician of Kansas City,
bought a ticket, which was taken up By
the conductor and a check given him in
its stead. The doctor put the clusfc in
his hat band and then indulged m a
nap, from which he was rudely awak
ened by the conductor, who charged
him with stealing the check from a pas
senger in the forward car. The result
was that the doctor was put off the
train, and the company was compelled
to pay $1,500 and costs for the incon
venience and indignity he suffered.
One more case, recently decided in
Dixon, 111., is worth notice from its
novelty. A man named Reed pur
chased a ticket and went on board a
Pullman palace car, but lost it after
entering the car and before exhibiting it
to the conductor. Though he procured
a written statement from the ticket
agent to prove that he had bought and
paid for his ticket, the conductor of the
cir expelled him, whereupon he brought
an action against the Pullman Palace
Car company for damages, and recov
ered $3,000. In course of time the man
agers of the railroad companies gener
ally are likely to learn that it will be
for their interest to employ only courte
ous and sensible conductors, and to in
struct all their employes that passen
gers have rights which it is not proper
to'disregard.
Large Legislatures.
In reply to requests from Pennsylva
nia for information respecting the prac
tical results of large membership in
legislative bodies, the governors of New
Hampshire, Vermont and Connecticut
have written brief letters, in which
they concur in the opinion that it is a
great safeguard against bribery and cor
ruption. The New Hampshire house of
representatives consists of 360 members.
Gov. Straw writes: “There has never
been any corruption charged in our
house of representatives.” Gov. Jewell,
of Connecticut, says : “In my opinion,
a large number of representatives is a
certain guard against corruption and
he goes on to say: “I am proud to
say there never has been any corrup
tion of the legislature. What is true
of this, is equally true, I think, of all
the New England states.” Gov. Con
verse, of Vermont, writes: “We have
often attempted to reduce the number
of representatives, but we have always
failed. The main ground of failure—
and I think so, too—is the security it
gives us against corruption. I think
to-day the reasoning against lessening
the number is stronger than at any
prior period in the history of the state.
The experience of some of the sister
states, for a few years past, I think,
has irrevocably established the wisdom
of our policy in the minds of the peo
ple. I most heartily concur in this
opinion, that it prevents fraud and cor
ruption.”
The Value of Sewage.
Commenting on the sewage ques
tion, and notably with reference to the
utilization of the waste soil from Liver
pool sewers, a writer in Iron estimates
that a town of 100,000 inhabitants pro
duces fertilizing material to tho value
of $250,000 per annum. In the above
mentioned city, it is considered that
the sewage, if properly utilized, would
be worth fully $750,000 a year. The
entire population of Great B itain, with
all her colonies, is about 75,000,0CX)
souls, and each person produces annu
ally about two and a half dollars’ worth
of valuable material. Hence the aggre
gate amount is valued at $187,500,000,
a sum equal to the jointa nnual yield of
the Australian and Californian gold
mines. Applying this vast total to ag
ricultural purposes, it would produce
fully ten times its value in breadstuff:,
beef, milk, butter, and all kinds of veg
etable and animal food. The United
States contain about 40,000,000 people,
and hence $100,000,000 worth of useful
substance is yearly wasted ; a sum, it is
hardly necessary to say, which, if added
to the finances of the country, would
lessen the chances of luture panics and
aid materially in paying off the national
debt. __
Slang. —ln his recently-published
diary, Moscheles lecords an amusing
instance of the perplexities which
“slaDg” causes to learners of English.
“To-day,” lie writes, “I was asked at
dessert which fruit cf those on the
table I would prefer. ‘ Some sneers,’ I
replied, ingenuously. The company
first of all were surprised, and then
burst into laughter when they guessed
the process by which I had arrived at
the expression. I, who at that time
had to construct my English laboriously
out of dialogue-books and dictionaries,
had found that ‘ not to care a fig’ meant
‘to sneer at a person,’ so when I wanted
to ask for figs, fig and sneer I thought
were synonymous.”
—One of the London comic papers is
cruel enough to say : “The ex-prince
imperial is raising a mustache. His
friends use a field glass,”
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GLEANINGS AND GOSSIP.
—The London Spectator regards
John Bright as “by far the greatest ora
tor of our times.”
—The last surviving servant of G.
Washington is dying very frequently,
this season. The latest is Arvena Trip
lett, 99, at Washington.
—Near the Italian gate at Pompeii,
has been excavated for the first time a
tanner’s shop, with all the instruments
of the trade within it. These are very
similar to those which are used in the
trade at the present day.
—The following clipped from an en
change may be branded as a white lye :
“ To make soda water —Dissolve a quar-
Aor of a pound OT common soda in a gal
lon of water; afterward bottle for use.
This is cheaper than that sold at shops,
and different in flavor.”
—Fears of the failure of the quinine
supply may soon be laid aside, and the
futui e is not utterly dark for victims of
the “shakes.” Vast plantations of the
cinchona plant are now growing in India,
and the Dutch government has given
orders for planting two million trees in
Java.
—The consumption of coal for the
purpose of gas illumination in Great
Britain is estimated at fourteen millions
of tons per annum, valued at sixty mil
lions of dollars. The total animal pro
duction of coal in England is one hun
dred millions of tons.
—A critic in one of the London week
lies speaks rather favorably of anew
piece at the Court theatre, but adds
that “ dramatic realism hardly requires
that a manager should fill the house
with the smell of onions for the sake of
giving a vivid representation of a work
ing-man’s dinner.”
—lt seems that the Norwegian fisher
man take a telescope out with them to
sea, and this they use to look down into
the water for fish ere they cast their
nets. Will not one of our opticians
contrive something of the kind for river
anglers, and save them those mauy
hours of waiting—fishing, as they too
often are, without a fish within hail ?
—A newspaper man of London pro
poses to establish a daily to be issued
about 9 o’clock in the forenoon, which
shall be made up from the news of all
the other morning dailies in the city, but
tlie publishers think they will block the
scheme by getting a bill through parlia
ment giving them a copyright on all
their news for forty-eight hours after
its publication.
—We learn by a recent letter from
China, that the Great Northern tele
graph company have erecteel a line to
WoosuDg, and have opened a telegraph
station there from which messages of
twenty words will be sent to Shanghai
for one dollar. This seems e email mat
ter, but it is the beginning of a great
revolution, ami the first step toward
the 'introduction L of the telegraph
throughout China.
—Apropos of a recent police case, in
which a woman’s life was saved by her
Laving on a large chignon, the Pall
Mall Gazette says: “ Chignons, in
stead of being merely senseless disfig
urements, are most valuable as bead
protectors ; and certainly no married
woman in these days, when the chopper
and the poker are so often used to ad
just domestic differences, should ever
be without one.”
—M. Strakosch and M. Merelli, the
most influential theatrical managers in
Europe, have, it is reported, entered in
to an important partnership. At pres
ent they work together the opera-house
of St. Petersburg, Moscow, and the
Paris Italiens ; the San Barlo, Naples,
is shortly to be added to their list, and
others will follow. They propose to
absorb the principal opera-houses of the
continent, in order, by coalition, to do
away with the exorbitant salaries now
demanded by prime-donne.
—The Etruscan museum of Florence
has lately been enriched by the acquisi
tion of a beautiful marble sarcophagus,
found in a tomb at Tarquini, in the
Mareme, the sides of which are fres
coed in the highest style of Grecian
art, with a battle of Amazons and kin
dred subjects. Some of the heads are
wonderfully fine in expression and the
horses and general action most vividly
spirited. The museum paid 23,000
francs for it. Next to the “ Muse of
Cortona,” it is, perhaps, one of the
most precious of modern finds.
—Among the mechanical novelties of
the American Institute Fair at New
York there is exhibited a diamond saw,
which gives promise of great things,
and may justly be ranked with the dia
mond drill and sand-blast. The diamond
saw consists of a thin metal disk, the
teeth of which are nothing more than
minute black diamonds, imbedded in the
metallic edge of the sheet. When re
volving at a high speed, this disk cuts
into the sides of a stone slab as though
it were a piece of timber ; and not only
can straight-cuttings be made, but, by an
ingenious mechanical device, bevels and
rounded edges are cut. Asa labor-sav
ing machine, the inventor judges that
one of them will do the work of four
teen stone-cutters.
Covering for Steam-Pipes.
Anew method of covering steam
pipes is applied in the Saarbrucken
District, Germany. A coat of thin
loam wash is first given to increase the
adhesion of the mass. The composi
tion consists of equal parts of loam or
clay, free from sand and brickdust,
with an addition of cow hair. This is
well mixed up and put round the pipe
in a hot state. For better securing this
coating piecesof board ten inches long
are laid alongjthe whole length of the
pipes and fastened by thin iron wire.
After applying the loam wash again to
the dried masses tiil all the cracks have
disappeared, the pipes receive another
coating of the mass until they feel
quite cool, whjch will be attained after
the mass i laid on to the thick
ness of fr-nr™ frr
of linseed oil
given. This method ansilHßHl
ent all requirements, the eovmncMp®
ing fperfectly air-tight and free frdf§!
cracks. The mass is not hygroscopic
a property making it all the more suit
able for pipes in the open air. The
cost of the covering per foot, of eight
inch pipe is twelve cents.