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FIRE-FLIE.S.
’Tin June, and all the lowland swamps
Arc rich with tufted reeds and feriiH,
And tihny with the vaporous damps
..at rise when twilights’ crimson burns ;
Ami a* the deepening dusk of night
Svals purpling up from vale to height,
r I !i want, fire-ties show their fitful light.
Sft gleams ■ clover-beams they fling,
An ! gtfnir rin each shadowy dell,
Ur downwaia witli a sudden swing
Fall, as of old a I’lc'ad fell;
And on t tic fields bright gems they strew
And up and down the meadow goj
And through tho forest wander to and fro.
They store no hive nor earthly cell
They Pip no honey from the rose;
ls> day unseen, unknown they dwell,
Nor aught of their rare g ft disclose ;
Yet, when the night upon the swamp?,’
falls out tho murk and misty damps,
They pierce the shadows with their shining lamps.
Now ye, who in life’s garish light,
Unseen, unknown, walk to and fro,
When death Htiall bring a dreamless night,
May we not find your lamps aglow?
God works, we know not why or how,
And, one day. lights, close hidden now,
May blaze like gems upon an ai gel’s brow.
ROMANCE OF THE RAIL.
Among the pleasant things in an itin
erant Bohemian life I count tho perpet
ual meeting at most unexpected places
of people whom you have known before
in widely different localities. An hour
ago my friend and I started for a stroll
on this matchless Galveston beach. All
the afternoon wo sat on the upper gal
lery watching the long, low surf-crests
that crept so slowly and surely land
ward ; all tho afternoon we had listened,
in the pauses of our light chattering, to
the ceaseless refrain which those same
white-capped waves were chanting, till
the beauty of the scene and the siren
song tempted us down to the shore.
Oh, it was lovely, sauntering thither
over the oleander-planted walks, breath
ing their rich, exquisite perfume and
gathering handfuls of the pink blos
soms. A f w carriages had come for the
regular suuset drive; some German
women were gathering shells ; a few
children, with bare, dimpled feet, were
wading out into the coming waves, to
run back with screams of laughter when
some swifter billow washed up higher
than the rest ; and over the whole pic
ture there rented the mellow glow re
flected from the crimsoned west.
The occupants of the carriages raised
their eyebrows in polite amazement as
they rolled past us, for a pleasure walk
was beyond their comprehension ; and
my friend laughed, telling me that she
always knew northern visitois because
they loved to wander a pied , and Texans
never do.
“ I’m sure they regard me as mildly
insane for my long walks ; but, see, this
time we have companions in our mad
ness,” she continued, pointing to a pair
who were standing a little distance be
yond.
“Evidently a bride and gioom,” I
asserted, for
“ Both avoid young and one was fair,”
and there were the usual unmistakable
symptoms of recent ownership quite ap
parent, in the air of tho young man, who
just then folded the lady’s wrap mere
closely, and caught, her fluttering vail
till she had fastened it securely ; and in
tho act she turned her face toward us,
startling me with it familiar look.
“ Isn’t she beautiful ?” said my friend.
I answered her absently, since I was
hunting every nook in memory for the
counterpart of the fair girl before us.
I was sure I had known her—but
where ?
An impertinent wave came hurrying
up the beach, and in a moment the
bride's dainty boots would have suffered,
tmt milord clasped her swiftly, and
raising her, ran back a few steps, com
ing close to us. I knew then where I
had seen the happy pair, but I went
very sob rly toward them, only quietly
saying :
“So this is what came of that jour
ney !”
“By Jove!” ejaculated my hero iu
round English tones, seizing both my
hands in a grip that nearlv crushed
them, while the bride blushed, laughed
and added her graceful greeting.
Wasn’t it an odd encounter ? I last
saw those young f eople at Cheyenne, in
September, 1873; now they met me
strolling on the shore of the gulf, and
my friend asserted that we had picked
up something better than shells this
time, for she do minded the story at
°nce ; and I will tell it to you just as I
told it to her.
On Friday, Sept, I*2, 1873—1 like to
be accurate—the San Francisco train
food on the track at Omaha waiting
the arrival, from the opposite side of
| be Missouri, of eastern passengers
There were four Pullman cars attached;
three were already tillpd, or engaged by
telegram, and the oflicials iu charge
were grumbling because “Boss Tweed”
and his party occupied six entire sec
tions. The “Boss” stayed closely in
his compartment, for Nast had made
his face so perfectly familiar to every
one that he encountered more staring
than he likpd. His daughter, a stately,
dignified lady, waited the Btart with
evident impatience, while the young
gentlemen—his sons and their friends—
stood in a group on the platform, smok
ing. apparently enjoying the curious
looks which were naturally leveled at
them. They were bound for the Yo
Semite and I have always marveled
that, when once so far away from
Gotham, the “Boss” didn’t know
enough to sail for Hong Kong and stay
there ; but that “ marvel” is not essen
tial to my story.
We were picking away at lunches,
eating California grapes, and doing the
hundred listless things one always does
while merely “ waiting,” till the scream
of the approaching “transfer train”
sounded shrilly out, and we looked with
interest at the new passengers. Some
°f them deserve 1 our regards, others
didn’t; but we watched them all, men
ially summing up each particular case,
and utterly ignoring them thereafter,
or else resolving to win their friend
ship.
The first group comprised a man, his
little, meflicient, washed-out-looking
wife, a strong-minded nurse, and two
children, destined to be our torments.
Next came a widow and her daugh
ter ; the daughter wore glasses and was
a goose ; the mother only, paying for a
single berth, grumbled and fretted
most impolitely when the other seat
and berth ot the section was assigned
hi a tall, spirited-looking English girl,
with whose splendid eyes and queenly
ways 1 fell directly iu"love. But, dear
friends, don’t jump at conclusions, for
she isn’t my heroine of the beach.
Two Dollars Per Annum,
VOLUME 11.
Listening to theill-bred matron, I
hardly noticed a bevy of young girls
who had entered, at the rear door, or
two oreadfully bridish brides and their
spouses who had likewise claimed their
places. My English beauty, utterly
disgusted with her vis a vis, asked for
a place in my section during the day,
and we became so delightfully confi
dential in ten minutes tnat I learned
she was from Nova Scotia ; that this
was tho eleventh day of her journey,
and that her destination was Sacrameto;
while the merry-faced, handsome young
man whom she ordered about with such
supreme nonchalance was her brother.
Meantime, we heard from the rear
sections peals of merry laughter, the
aforesaid infants gave us peal on peal of
dreadful and we took dishonor
able peeps in the tell-tale mirrors to
watch the “spooning” of the brides.
Our handsome young man roamed up
and down, and finally, with a wickedly
mischievous face, came to his sister,
suggesting that she should go and
watch the view from the end of the ear.
I knew his motive, so I went too ; but
he made nothing that time, for his sis
ter never even glanced at the pretty
girls we passed. We looked from the
platform a few minutes ; our hero stood
twisting his mustache with vexation,
till, growing desperate, he remarked :
“Sav, Madge! That girl with the
dark eyes is stunning, isn’t she ? I wish
you would make her acquaintance.”
“Indeed! That’s the view you ad
mired, was it? Well, sir, I shall do
nothing of the kind. I have no vocation
for ‘stunning’ girls. Come, Mr. D.,
let’s go back I”
Evidently used to such snubbing,
Tom—th t wasn’t his name, but Ave’ll
play it avus— made a mocking salute,
and retorted, laughing :
“Well, madam, I’m quite equal to
helping myself. You just wait till you
want to know some ‘ stunning’ fellow !”
Madge only gave him a look of su
preme contempt and walked off, tossing
over her shoulder a command to fetch
the hamper, for she was hungry, and
no supper could be had till Ave reached
Grand island ; then, turning to me, she
said with an exceedingly ancient air,
“ Positively, that boy is too ridiculous !
He gets silly over these American girls
all the time ; but I won’t help him !”
“ That boy !” I repeated with intense
amusement; for the delinquent stood
six feet high, and was evidently older
than the monitress who lectured him
in the gravest fashion all the while we
were nibbling at the contents of that
never-to-be-forgotten hamper. It re
minded me of the famous one Avhicli
Mr. Wardle carried to the races, and I
think we enjoyed it as much as Mr.
Pickwick aud his friends enjoyed their
nl fresco lunch, though the sleepy fat
boy was not in attendance.
The usual funny scenes occurred dur
ing the stoAvi rig-away process at night :
but the long hours passed swiftly, aud
the “ infants” greeted the morning with
sundry howls of misery and fretfulaess,
which waked us all too soon. It was
droll enough to see the way in which
everybody peeped from their sections to
investigate the “ reason "why,” and then,
having viewed the situation, each sud
denly discovered all the other curious
heads, and disappeared. The lament
iug wail was from the stout lungs of a
four-vear-old boy this time. His moth
er, arranging her toilet placidly, paid
no heed to his screams, and the little
imp danced with passion. Suddenly
Madge showed a vexed face between her
curtains, and her ringing voice called
out imperatively ;
“ Tom ! for heaven’s sake get a slip
per ad spank that child ! He’s quite
too old to cry like that, and his mother
doesn’t seem to know enough to manage
him !” Then she vanished.
Fancy the laugh ! It began in a
chorus of stifled chuckles, but she had
spoken for us all and a hearty indorse
ment sounded from every berth, Avhiie
the amazed parent picked up her off
spring, slapped him soundly, and looked
round with a “ Please-ma’am-what-else
shall l-do?” face which was funnier
than Madge’s prescription.
Our train was “ behind time,” and
breakfast Avas only a dim prophecy, so
we beguiled the hours as best we might,
watching f> r buffaloes wlrch wouldn’t
appear, spying several groups of the
pretty, graceful antelopes, passing
swiftly through widespread settlements
of the funny little prairie-dogs, aud
opening our eyes widely at the cactus
which grew in such prickly profusion
on either side of the track. I found the
face of my Euglish beauty more en
chauting than anything else, for it was
as changeful as her thoughts. Sudden
ly she exclaimed :
“ I wonder Avhere Tom can be!” and,
suiting the action to the word, she
started in pursuit, She was only gone
a minute ; then, with a comically rue
ful face, she begged me to come, too.
We found the deserter cosily tucked
beside the very girl he had admired the
day before, for both of them were occu
pying the same car step, while tho rest,
of the gay group were camped on the
platform. Of course I laughed, while
Madge evinced her presence by reach
ing over and energetically pulling a curl
of the handsome head that was so dan
gerously near the young lady’s losy
cheeks.
Tom started, looked round, and coolly
said : “ Ah, Madge ! I thought it was
you. Well, I can’t very well move just
now; but, Miss Ellis, if you can look
over your shoulder you will see my sis
ter. Miss Fairfax, allow me to present
Miss Ellis.”
The scamp certainly showed good
taste ; for Miss Ellis was very lovely,
both in feature and expression. She
blushed a little, but bowed as graceful
ly as her position permitted, and her
voice Avas singularly sweet when she
said, “I find that Mr. Fairfax is an old
schoolmate of my brother’s. They were
at Toronto together !”
It was Madge’s turn to blush now,
not a little, but furiouslv, while Tom’s
mischievous danced with delight
at her confusion, and I did some
Yankee “ guessing” about that “ broth
er,” which proved quite correct, aud
then I sat doAvn to AYatch further devel
opments and to enjoy the happiness be
fore me. O youth and hope and beau
tv ! What brave possessions ye are !
Ye hold in your magical glasses such
rare libations, and w'e drink such eager
draughts, believing the visions they j
bring to heart and brain.
EASTMAN, DODGE CO., GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JUNE 11, 1874.
The train roared on. “ Boss Tweed”
came out and stood on the platform
of his car, watching the strange,
desolate lands we were passing; gen
tlemen consoled themselves' with cigars;
ladies tried all conceivable changes of
position and read persistently; while
all the happiness and delight in the
whole train seemed to concentrate in the
knot of young people about me. Madge
sent for the hamper, the young ladies
opened their baskets, and when we
reached Cheyenne I left Tom seated on
a reversed water pail, with all the gay
girls around him pampering him by of
fers of the daintiest morsels, and" my
queenly Madge as merry as the rest, di
recting at him a perpetual volley of
saucy speeches.
They were all going through to Sacra
mento. My prophetic soul told me what
would happen, for the imprisonment in
a Pullman car for a week of two mutu
ally susceptible young people has an
almost certain result. Nothing in
Euclid is surer than a flirtation, Avhiie
something more serious is very apt to
take place. Tom gave me his own ver
sion of the story, declaring fate had
been too much far him, for during those
days of travel he had grown so used to
caring for Miss Ellis, so accustomed to
playing a devoted lover “ just to tease
Madge /” that when then* destination
was attained the force of habit made
him still seek the young lady, and “she
seemed so fond of him, that, Avell, real
ly now, you knoAV a fellow finds himself
in a queer position, and I had to marry
her just to save her feelings!”
The pretty bride had heard all this
before, so she only rejoined with the
meekest air :
“ I’m trying to shoAv how sensible I
am of his pure benevolence.”
“Altogether an accident!” but what
a delicious consequence ! I am telling
you a true story, dear friends, and if
you Avill find out the history of many a
marriage it will be found to have had
an equally small beginning.
“Aud Madge?” I think I hear you
say. Well, Maidge was going to Sacra
mento to complete her engagement to
that same brother of Alias Ellis, who
had known “Tom” at Toronto, and
Tom asserts that she rules him splen
didly. I’d give something to see her
eyes flash again, but to-morrow I am to
say good by to my hero and heroine,
Avho rail for home, at Cape Breton ; and
Madge is keeping house in Sacramento.
California Wood-Choppers.
It is in the logging camps that a
stranger Avill be most, interested on this
coast, for there he will see and feel the
bigness of the red-woods. A man in
Humboldt, county got out of one tree
lumber enough to build his house and
bam, and to fence in two acres of
ground. * A schooner was filled with
shingles made from a single tree. Cno
tree in Mendocino whose remains were
shown to me made a mile of railroad
ties. Trees fourteen feet in diameter
have been frequently found and cut
down; the saw-logs are often split apart
Avith Avedges, because the entire mass is
too large to float iu the small and nar
row streams, and I have often seen them
blow a 'eg apart with gunpowder. A
tree four feet in diameter is culled un
dersized in these woods, and so skillful
are the wood-choppers that they can
make the largest giant of the forest fall
just where they want it, or, as they say,
“ drive a stake with the tree.”
The choppers do not stand on the
ground, but on a stage raised to such a
height as to enable the ax to strike in
where the tree attains its fair and regu
lar thickness, for the red-wood, like the
sequoia, swells at the base near the
ground. These trees prefer steep hill
sides, and grow in an extremely rough
and broken country, ad their great
height makes it necessary to fell them
carefully, lest they should, falling with
such enormous weight, break to piece .
This constantly happens, in spite of
every precaution, and there is little
doubt that in these forests and at the
mills two feet of wood are wasted for
every foot of lumber sent to market.
To mark the direction line on which the
tree is to fall, the chopper usually
drives a stake into the ground 100 or
150 feet from the base of the tree, and
it is actually common to make the tree
fall on this stake, so straight do these
red-woods stand and so accurate is the
skill of the cutters. To fell a tree ei-lit
feet iu diameter is counted a day’s work
for a man.— Harper's Magazine.
Curious Calculation.
There is something wonderful iu fig
ures ; and l umbers, when calculated,
startle us by their immensity. We talk
of millions and billions with little
thought of the vastness of the sums we
name. The lips may utter the words
glibly, but their understanding fails to
grasp their real significance. Take our
own national debt as an illustration.
Everybody kuows it is large, but few
have ever stopped to consider its appall
ing magnitude. A few calculations will
not, we trust, be uninteresting to our
readers :
Let us suppose that the national debt
is, in round numbers, $2,500,000,000. If
au experienced cashier was to com
mence counting this, at the rate of three
silver dollais per second, and work dil
ligeutly eight hours per day, 300 days
in the year, it would take him about
one hundred years to complete the
Count.
If the silver dollars were placed side
by side, touching each other, they
would reach nearly thi ee times round the
world ; thev would pave a highway the
width of Chicago’s streets more than
200 miles iu length.
If each silver piece be estimated at one
ounce in weight, and the money loaded
into carts containing one ton each, and
driven one before the other, each horse*
and cart occupying two rods, the pro
cession would extend five hundred
miles.
Or consider that only about 1.000,-
000,000 minutes have elapsed since the
birth of Christ, and that if one dollar
had been put away each minute, day
and night, since that event, the accu
mulation would amount to but little
more than one-third of the debt this
nation now owes. If this calculation
was applied to England or France,
whose national debt is nearly twice as
large as ours, the result would be still
more startling.
In God }f'c Trust.
SUBORDINATION OF WOMEN.
All •Anti-Women’ a ItisfUts View of (he
Situation.
That woman has not competed with
men in the active work of life was pro
bably because, not having had the pow
er, she had not the desire to do so, and
because, having the capacity of func
tions A?hich man has not, she has found
her pleasure in performing them. It is
not simply that man, being stronger iu
body than she is, has held her in sub
jection, aud debarred her from careers
o? action which he was resolved to keep
for himself; her maternal functions
must always have rendered, and must
continue to render, most of her activity
domestic. There ha\*e been times
enough in the history of the world,
when the freedom which she has had,
aud the position which she lia-, held in
the estimation of men, woukl have en
abled her to assert her claims to oth r
funcli ms, had she so Avilled it. The
most earnest advocate of her rglits to
be something else than what she has
hitherto been, would hardly argue that
she has always been in the position of a
slave kept in forcible subjection by the
superior physical force of men. As
suredly, if she has been a slave, she has
been a slave content with her bondage.
But it may, perhaps, be said that in
that lies the very pith of the matter—
that she is not free, and does not care
to be free ; that she is a slave, and does
not know or feel it. It may be alleged
that she has lived for so many ages in
the position of dependence, to which
she was originally reduced by the supe
rior muscular strength of man, has
been so thoroughly imbued with inher
ited habits of submission, and over
awed bv the influence of customs never
questioned, that she has not the desire for
emancipation ; that thus a moral bond
age has been established, more effectual
than an actual physical bondage.
It would be rash to assert that there
is not some measure of truth in these
arguments. Let any one who thinks
otherwise reflect upon the degraded
condition of women in Turkey, where
habit is so ingrained in their nature,
and custom so powerful over the mind,
that they have neither thought nor de
sire to attain to a higher state, and
“naught feel their foul disgrace;” a
striking illustration how women may be
demoralized and yet not knoAv nor feel
it, and an instructive lesson for those
who are anxious to form a sound judg
ment upon the merits of the movement
for promoting their higher education
and the removal of the legal disabilities
under which they labor. It is hardly
possible to exaggerate the effects of the
laws and usages of a country upon the
habits of thought of those who, gener
ation after generation, ba\*e been born
and bred, and have lived under them.
But may we not fairly assert that it
would be no less a mistake in an oppo
site direction to alloAv no weight to such
an argument? Setting physiological
considerations - aside, it is not possible
to suppose that the Avhole explanation
of woman’s position and character is
that maD, having in the beginning foimd
her pleasing in liis eyes and necessary
to his enjoyment, took forcible posses
sion of her, and has ever since kept her
in bondage, without any other justifica
tion than the right of the strongest.
Superiority of muscular strength, with
out superiority of any other kind, would
not have done that any more than su
periority of muscular strength has avail
-1 and to give the lion or the elephant the
possession of the earth. If it were not
that woman’s organization and functions
found their fitting home in a position
different from, if not subordinate to,
that of men, she Avould not so long
have kept that position. If she is to be
judged by the same standard as men,
and to make Their aims her aims, we are
certainly bound to say that she labors
under an inferiority of constitution by
a dispensation which there is no gain
saying. This is a matter of physiology,
not a matter of sentiment. —Fortnightly
Review.
Hayseed.
There are nearly 150,000 Patrons in
Georgia.
A. AI. Hardin, purchasing agent for
Alississippi, at St. Louis, has SSOO
in his hands, contributed by Missouri
grauges, for Patrons in Louisiana.
A grange in Aluscatine county, la.,
holds Avhat is called open grange, and
invites everybody to attend. Questions
of interest to agiiculturists and others
are to be discussed.
The grauges of Franklin county,
Ohio, of which Columbus is the county
seat, are trying to reduce wages of farm
laborers from S2O to sls.
The Patrons of Husbandry in the
southern states number at present 2,-
500 granges, and are rapidly increasing.
This is about one-third of all the sub
ordinate granges in the United States.
Union grange, Hickory county, Mo.,
has resolved to buv no more coffee so
long as such high prices prevail ; and
that its best interests demand that it
shall purchase coffee at lower rates or
cease to use it.
A Minnesota grange has adopted a
novel and praiseworthy method of edu
cating its members and keeping them
posted on current events, and adds fifty
cents from the grange treasury to every
dollar subscribed for newspapers desig
nated by the grange.
P.anting Prospects in the Missis
sippi Valley.
Everybody is busy in their fields in the
valley, and planting, even in the over
flowed districts, will be all complete
this week. This encouraging news
comes in freely from all sources. The
John S. Miller place, below Friar’s
Point, reported totally ruined a few
days ago, is nearly replanted, and the
whole place will be again in cultivation
before the close of the present week.
The recent crevasse carried huge rivers
of water directly over the middle of
the Miller place, but the alluvial de
posits the water has left will render it
more valuable than before, and a good
crop is promised this year. On the
I) ason place, near Carson’s Landing,
150 miles below here, 1,000 acres have
been planted in cotton since the over
flow.
A curious fact in regard to immi
gration is that many who come to the
United States and Canada are from dis
ci icts in the British isles almost as
thinly populated as Dakota or South
ern llorida. About 150 immigrants
from Kincardineshire, Scotland, recent
ly arrived at Halifax, bound for a now
Yet one- may travel the
moors of Kincardine for miles without
seeing a house, and the land is but
poorly cultivated.
The Baltimore Horse and Mule
Market.
The Baltimore American of recent
date says : “A number of small lots
of good horses have arrived during the
wetk from Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana
and West Virginia. Several of these
lots were particularly good. One spau
of browns that arrived this week are
for sale at an up-town stable. They can
go a mile handsomely in less than four
minutes, and they are valued at $4,000.
This team may, however, be considered
above the m°vkcfc, .md io nut iiKeiy
tube sold at anything near th© sum'
asked, although a few weeks since the
same span would have brought even a
larger amount than is now asked for
them. A handsome span of Kentucky
bays that have been for sale in this city
for several weeks at $3,500 were ship
ped to Philadelphia last week, where
they will very likely be sold at advan
ced figures. There are several other
teams for sale at from $1,500 to $2 500
each, but the demand for horses of this
grade is very poor. A number of ex
cellent roadsters and single driving
horses have arrived recently from Ken
tucky and Ohio. This class of animals
are selling low, one very stylish bay
that can make a mile in less that four
minutes being sold for $550. Horses
of this class bring from 250 to 500 per
head. This grade of horses is being
bought principally by North Carolina
men. A number of Wilmington and
Newbern dealers are now in the city
buying for those markets. Heavy
draught-horses are in poor demand, and
the supply is both large and excellent.
These heavy horses are held at prices
varying from $250 to $350 her head. The
sales have, however, been very few.
There are very few brood-mares upon
the market. Snch animals are selling
at from $l5O to $175 each. The demand
for common work horses has been very
good, and the sales have been larger
than usual. The prices have of course,
increased in proportion to the demand,
and they bring from $75 to $l5O per
head, according to age and points. The
mule market' has for some weeks been
very quiet, and the stock of mules on
hand very large. There has been a
change, however, in the market this
week, and prices have advanced won
derfully. The supply of sound and
well-broken mules is very small, and,
with the exception of one or two small
green lots, none have arrived during
the week. The prices range from S3OO
to $650 per span.”
What the Confederate Archives Show.
It will be recollected that some time
ago the southern claims commission, in
pursuance of authority from congress,
recommended the purchase of a large
amount of rebel archives which were
then in the possession of a person in
Canada and that finally these archives
were purchased for seventy-five thou
sand dollars. It appears now that these
papers and documents are to prove ot
incalculable benefit in making up the
truthful history of tLe late rebellion,
and, to place them in historic, authentic
form, it only requires a true historian —
an American Macaulay, possibly—who
shall have free access to the proper de
partments, to give to the public the
substance of the valuable documents.
Just at this moment there is a subject
of vast importance to be considered by
congress, in which, to obtain intelligent
action, the publicity of the rebel ar
chives would aid materially. The Ge
neva award had been attacked in Eng
land by leading statesmen, apparently
differing from the then dominant party
in Great Britain, upon the ground, as
alleged, that great injustice had been
done the English government in the ar
bitration. No clear statement of the
facts on which this position was based
has been published. It now appears
from the rebel archives, the correspond
ence of Mason, Slidell, and other repre
sentatives of the southern confedera
tion. that the Biitish government was
absolutely opposed to any countenance
or recognition of the movement to dis
solve the union; that Mason tried in
avin for over a year to get an audience
with the then premier of England for
the purpose of presenting liis case and
demahdiug recognition of belligerent
rights ; and that he left London in riis
gust and repaired to Paris to confer with
Siidell. There they met with more en
couragement, it seems, and found in the
late Emperor Napoleon a warm sympa
thizer. Napoleon was willing to gve
all the aid that could, under the cir
cumstances, be expected of France.
What took place between Napoleon,
Mason, and Siidell will probably be
disclosed in the further discussion of
the Geneva award, when the bill making
the distribution of thi money comes up
in the house of representatives.
ghikspearc’s Ghost.
Not long since an English gentleman
residing at Hong Kong dreamed two or
three nights in succession that he met
the ghost of Shakspeare near Stratford-’
en-Avon, of whom he asked whether
any of the manuscripts of the great
dramatist’s plays were still in exis
tence ; whereupon the ghost led the
way into a forest, and then pointing to
a spot near tlie roots o a large tree,
said, “Dig,” and vanished. The Hong-
Kongressman hastened at once to Eng
land and to Stratford, where he found
and identified the ghost’s tree, and at
once began to dig, which he continued
to do day and night, until, at the depth
of seven feet nine inches and a half, he
found, wonderful as it may seem, that
he had made a fool of himself.
—A few days ago a hungry party sat
down at the well-spread supper of a
sound steamer, upon which one of the
dishes contained a trout of moderate
size. A serious-looking individual drew
this dish toward him, saying, apology ti
caUy, “This is fast day with me.” His
nest neighbor, an Irish gentleman, im
mediately inserted his fork into the fish !
and transferred it to his own plate, re- ;
marking, “ Sir, do yon suppose nobody i
La3 a sowl to be saved but yourself ?” j
Payable in Advance.
NUMBER 20.
CiUmbs From Josh Billings.
I he only way to hold out own iz to
keep advancing—no one can set still and
do it.
It duz seem that all mankind luv lies
more thin they do truth. How menny
people do you suppose tlnire iz in the
world who wouldn't rather listen to
flattery they knu waz false than to re
proof they knu was just?
Wize men laff at most things in this
life—it iz only the pliools who gape and
swallo.
Yu kant allwuss tell how mutch a
man is really tickled hi hearing him
lafi’. Thare ought to be a maslieen in
vented to meazzure the joy in him, just
az thare iz to find out how much water
thare iz in milk.
Honesty iz the basis ov all that iz
good or even remarkable in enny man.
reazon whi everyboddy In vs
child, and pete a puppj, la bchauze
they are so natral.
Whenever yu see a phellow who iz
forever and amen in a red hot hurry, yu
kan make up yure mind that he liaint
got mutch to do, and but little kapacity
to do it.
Good breeding iz nothing more than
the art ov knowing how to wait paslmut
ly till our turn comes. A little child
wont do this, and a little pig kant.
Gossip iz more ketching than the
meazles iz.
The quickest way to take the humil
ity out of a man who iz forever blaming
himself for sumthing iz to agree with
him. This ain’t what he iz looking for.
Book larnin iz all a man needs in this
life, provided he spends hiz daze in a
closet.
Next to a bad man I am allwus the
nr st afrade ova cunning one.
Familiarity kan only be prakticed
with safety amung the well bred—fools
and puppys will run right over yu with
the least bit ov encouragement.
Thoze who never laff seem to Lav died
before their time cum.
Every human being haz hiz own pri
vate sorrow, and thoze who whissell are
wizer than thoze who weep over it.
A conceited man iz a grate fraud, but
he never cheats enny boddy so much az
he duz himself.
He who dont want what he liaint got
liaz got all he wants and iz happy,
whether he knows it or not.
The covetous man is like a sponge,
which takes in all the moisture that
cums near it, and lets out none until it
iz squeezed.
A cunning man iz selduni wize, and
not allwuzz honest.
The man who never deceives himself
iz the hardest kind ova man for others
to deceive.
If mankind had been satisfied with
the bare necessitys ov life, we should
to-day be just about az far advanced
in the arts and sciences as Cain and Abel
wuz.
Double sixes are a good thiow with
the dice, but thare iz one better throw
.than that—throw them into the fire.
Prudence is a most necessary virtew ;
it aint safe to be karless, even with an
intimate friend.
No man lias ever lived to be so old,
and so wise, that he couldn’t learn sum
tliing from experience.
Thare iz a grate menny ginger-pop
people ; after they have been unkorked
for a fu minutes, they git to be dred
phull flat.
Changing tlie Tune.
Snooks had occasion to call on the
Rev. Dominie Thomas Campbell while
at Glasgow. “Is the dominie in?” he
inquired of a portly dame who opened
the door. “ He’s at liame, but lie’s no
in,” replied the lady. “ He’s in the
yard, sooporintendin’ Sauners, the car
penter. Ye can see him the noo if your
business is vera precise.” Snooks as
sented and walk and through the door
pointed out to him in the yard, where
hebiheld a carpenter briskly planing
away to the air of “Maggie Lauder,”
and the worthy dominie standing bv.
Unwilling to intrude on their conversa
tion, Snooks stepp and, unseen, behind a
water cask, and heard, “ Sauners !” No
answer from the carpenter. “Sauners, I
say ! can ye no hear me ?” “ Yes, min
ister, I hear ye. What’s your wull ?’’
“ Can ye no whistle some mair solemn
and godly tune while ye’re at work?”
“A weel, minister, if it be your wull,
I’ll e’en doit.” Upon which he changed
the air to the “ Dead March in Saul,”
greatly to the hindrance of what was
now painful planing, The domirie
looked on for some minutes in silence,
and then said, “ Sauners, I liae anither
■word to say till ye. Did the gude wife
hire ye by the day’s darg or by the
job ?” “The day ( s darg, was our agree
ing, maister.” “Then, on the whole,
Sauners, I think ye may just as weel
gae back to whistli g bonnie ‘ Maggie
Lauder.’”
A Pulpit Sensationalist.
A correspondent writes: “There is
a Rev. Mr. Peck in Worcester, Mass.,
whose performances in the pulpit are
beginning to enjoy more than a local
fame. He throws Fulton and Talmage
completely in the shade for eccentric
ity. The subjects of his sermons are
announced beforehand in the newspa
pers and on the dead-walls, and are
snch as ‘Cremation,’ ‘Paul’s “ Skoo-
Fly,” ’ ‘ Who’s Your Hatter ?’ ‘ Pop
ping the Question,’ and ‘All Aboard
for Heaven, with Pick for Conductor
of the Train.’ He draws vast crowds
to see him gesticulate and tear passion
to tatters at the sacred desk, and it is
related of him that on one occasion re
cently, while in the midst of an impas
sioned harangue, he threw one of his
leg3 over the top of the pulpit and
asked the congregation ‘ How’s that for
high ?’ Dr. Talmage never went as far
as that.”
Tobacco Exemption.
Representatives in congress from to
bacco raising sections of the country
have by persistent effort induced the
committee of ways and means to report
a bill exempting from tax SIOO worth of
tobacco sold by a producer to a con
sumer. But there seems to be a strong
opposition to this exemption from the
commissioner of internal revenue and
manufacturers—the one on the ground
that it weakens the revenue law on the
sales of tobacco, and the other because,
as they declare, it will encourage frauds
in selling the leaf, and the use of un
manufactured tobacco for chewing.
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FACTS AND FANCIES.
—The reason why a watch is called a
watch is evidently because it is always
on its guard.
—A matter-of-fact old gentlemau
thinks it must boa ve>y small base ball
that can be caught on a fly.
—A Wisconsin minister has been dis
missed from an othodox pulpit because
he built a fire under a baulky horse.
—A young man of twenty-one hanging
to a lamp-post and singing “Father
don’t drink anv now,” at midnight, is
one of the curious phases of city life.
—lt is estimated that in Faris there
has been an average of three suicides a
day for the past year. During the win
ter the suicides occured at the rate of
four a day.
—A good little Bangor.bpv refused tn
nycii t-iaci, Dt'caiise had signed the
pledge. That excuse hadn’t the requi
site thickness, and the boy was sent to
his seat to learn his lesson.
—An eastern poet gives this parting
advice to the bridgegroem :
“ Be allers kind, and never say • shall,’
And do what you can tew please her.
For she’s a hum-bred ’Alerican cal,
And the che-i-ldof our hum-bred Caesar.”
—To see how eagerly a human being
will catch at a straw, it is not necessary
to witness a drowning. The phenome
non is now manifest chiefly within sa
loons, where one end of the straw is
immersed in a tumbler.
—A modern satirist says that an in
dolent man, who has overspent his in
come and lives on the principal, is like
Heine’s monkey, who was found one day
hilariously seated by the lire and eook
ing his own tail in a copper kettle for
dinner.
—“ X’a” don’t amount to anything on
oyster cans or barrels of flour. They
liavo got so they put fifty pound rocks
in a barrel of flour and then paint live
x’s 011 the head, though the x-tra busi
ness could all be done in a minute by
the man who finds the stone.
—A Detroiter who removed to Lone
Tree, Neb., a year or two ago, writes to
a tobacco house in that city to send him
five pounds of “fine-cut” by express,
adding; “I am a candidate for sheriff
of this county, and I think by a judicious
use of five pounds of good tobacco I can
secure tw T o hundred majority.”
—Kate Field, in her letters about
Spain, gives us the following moral re
flection as the result of her study of
Spanish human nature : “Itis a great
mistake to think that good people are
the most light-hearted and contented.
They are bothered by conscience and
worried about everlasting salvation.”
—Fashion has decreed that the day
of the blondes lias come to an end, and
that bruuettes are now in style. This
is the kind of weather to color up with.
Stay out of doors for half an. hour or
so every day, and you will be fixed for
all summer. This is a cheaper and
simpler prescription than the olive pow
der coming into vogue.
—The following verse is said to be the
flight which prompted Tennyson to call
Joaquin America’s greatest poet :
Alone and sad I sat me down
To read on Rousseau’s narrow isle,
Below Geneva. Mile on mile,
And set With many a shining town,
Tow’red Dent du Midi danced the wave
Beneath the moon. Winds went and came,
And fanned the skara into a flame.
011 Rosseau’s isle, in Rousseau’s shade,
Two pink and spicy drinks were made;
In classic shade, on classic ground,
We stirred two cocktails round and round.
—A very pleasant perfume, and also
a preventive against moths, may bo
made of the following ingredients:
Take cloves, carraway seeds, nntmeg,
mace, cinnamon, and tonquin beans,
of each one ounce; then add as much
Florentine orris root as will equal the
o her ingredients put together. Grind
the whole to a fine powder, put it in
silk cotton filled bags, and place among
clothes, etc.
—A Philadelphia broker, worth at
one time a quarter of a million of dol
lars, is now peddling books for a liveli
hood. He derives his largest income
from a thrilling brochure entitled “A
Programme of the Philadelphia Centen
nial.” Persons whom lie import ui ei to
buy a copy promptly knock him down,
and he recovers from five to ten dollars
from each of them in an action for as
sault and battery.
—The president of Guatamala has
forbidden the clergv of that republic to
wear the clerical ‘dress except when
they are engaged in the performance of
their ecclesiastical functions, and has
closed all the convents but one, that of
St. Catharine, the nuns of the abolished
convents, one hundred and forty in
number, having the option of either en
tering the convent of St. Catharine or
returning to civil life.
—Directions were given by tko Uni
ted States senate the other day to have
a spot designated in the eanitol grounds
for the equestrian statue of Gen. Greene,
“in comt'ormity with the resolution of
the continental congress, passed in
1786.” There was no occasion to hurry
about it. It is not a, hundred years yet
since the resolution was passed, and
who cares a continental what the conti
nental congress resolved, anyhow?
—The Nevada Journal, relates this
incident: “Miss Bradford has a boy
in her school who combines keen per
ception with ready speech. The other
dav, while endeavoring to explain the
difference in waterfalls —not the kind
that makes the ladies round-shouldered,
but the waterfalls of natu e —she gave
the class to understand that a large
waterfall was a cataract. “Now,” said
she, “ What is a little waterfall ?”
“ Kittyract,” blurted out a tow-headed
youngster, who sat chewing the corner
of his primer on the front seat.
—A smart city billiardist picked up a
countryman, and induced him to play a
game of billiards —one hundred points.
The city boy took the cue and ran the
game out without a stop. The country
man quietly laid down his cue and
started for the door. Said the billiard
ist, “ He re, come back and pay for this
game,” “What game?” said country.
“Why, the game we just played.”
“We ?” said the countryman ; “we ? I
haint p’ayen no 1 ill ards a:- I knows of.
I guess, mister, see’n as you played the
game alone, you’d better pay for it
alo’ o!” W'i reat the countryman
walk and cutfand the smart city boy cogi
tateu.