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VOLUME IV
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
DR. W. H. MITCHELL
Offers bis prof* ssional services to the citizens
of Eastman and country surrounding. Thank
ful lor past liberal patronage would respect
fully solicit a continuance of same.
All bills are due-monthly, unless special ar
rangements are made. maylß-ly
DR. A. H. BEST,
Surgeon UentiKt.
Office cor. Congress & Whitaker sts.
SAVANNAH, - - GA
Having thoroughly competent associates I
am prepared to make an entire set of teeth in
a few hours. All work warranted. Prices
low but always cash. Dental stock of all
kinks at manufacturers prices, Orders
proudly attended to when accompanied with
the cash. apr6-Gm
DR. H. C. RYALS,
T*i*etieing- Physician
MoVILLE, 10* M. & B. li. 8., GA.,
Offers his professional services to the citizens
of Montgomery and Telfair counties.
March 9, 1870-lv.
Gr. B. MABRY,
Attorney and Counsellor at Law,
BAXLEY GA
Will practice in tlif Brunswick, aud Oconee
Circuits. Speccial attention given to real es
tate matteis. mcarh3o
COURTLAND SYMMES,
Attorney at Law,
JESUP, GA.
Will practice in all the courts of the counties
comprising the Brunswick Circuit.
ELIAS H E R R MA N
Attorney and Counsellor at Law?;
EASTMAN, GA.
Will practice in the counties of the Oconee
Circuit. Special attention given to the col
lection of claims. sep3o-3m
WALTER A. WAY.
ATTOJtXHY
AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW,
DARIEN, SA.
Particular attention paid to the lollection ot
claims and the examination of land titles.
Will practice in the Superior Courts of
Brunswick and Eastern Circuits; also in the
Federal Courts in cases in Bankruptcy, etc.
sept3o-ly
J. I. carter 7
ATTORNEY
A\J)
COUNSELLOR AT LAW.
Baxley, Georgia.
Will practice in the Brunswick, Oconee and
Middle Circuits.
Special attention given to the Collection of
Claims.
LAWRENCE C. RYAN. JAMES B. MITCHELL.
RYAN & MITCHELL,
ATTOCRNEY-’S fiT Lfl W,
HAWKINSVILLE GA.
M ill practice in counties of Oconee Circuit
and United States Courts of Georgia.
oct*2B.lv
HENRY CURRELL,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
McEAE, GEORGIA.
Will practice in the Courts of the Oconee
Circuit, and in the U. S. Courts by special
contract.
G. J. HOLTON.
Attorney and Counsellor at Lai*
BAXLEY, GA.
I radices in the Counties of Appling, Piero e
Vayne, Coffee, Ware, Glynn, Mclntosh, of
ice Brunswick Circuit, and Telfair of the
•oonee Circuit
JOSEPHUS CAMP.
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Swaixsboro, Emaxc:. Cos., Ga.
TV ill practice in the Supreme Court of
corgia in the U. S. District Court for Geor
• iu the Superior Courts of the follow
counties : Emanuel, Johnson, Laurens,
Montgomery, Tatnall, aud Bulloch.
JOHN F. DEL AC Y,
Attoi*ney at Law,
EASTMAN, GEORGIA.
dl practice in the Counties of
WILCOX, MONTGOMERY,
+ bLASKI, TELFAIR, APPLING,
ULITC a. r. P. MILLER.
butch & MILLER.
General Dealers in
GOQDS, GROCERIES, WARES and
PLANTATION SUPPLIES.
ISB Congress .Street, .Savannah, Ga,
‘"isignments of Cotton, Wool, Hides and
r, r Po 0(i ' u ' ts solicited.
Povlß-i v
Selected Poetry,
Tlie Dying Soldier.
BY MATILDA.
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AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED TO LIZZIE A.
CHRISTIE.
[Col. Christie, of North Carolina, fell mor
tally wounded at the battle of Gettysburg,
while gallantly leading bis men against the
enemy’s breastworks. He was taken to Win
chester, where he was nursed tenderly until
his death. He longed to see his young wife,
his darling Lizzie, but when she reached vVin
chester he was dead. His last words were, -
“Kiss me for Lizzie.”— Extract of a Letter .]
“The l/ravest are the truest .
The loving are the daring .”
I am dying—is she coming?—throw the win
dow open wide.
Is she coming ? Oh ! I love her more than all
the world beside.
In her young aud tender beauty, must, oh !
must she feel this loss ?
.Saviour, hear my petition, teach her how to
bear this cross.
Help her to be calm and patient when I moul
der in the dust,
Let her say and feel, my Father, that thy ways
are true and just.
Is she coming ? Go and listen—l would see
her face once more;
I would hear speaking to me ere life’s fevered
dream is o’er.
I would fold her to my bosom, look into her
soft bright eye,
I would tell her how I love her, kiss her once
before I die.
Is she coming ? Oh ! ’tis evening, and my dar
ling comes not still.
Lift the curtain—it grows darker —it is sunset
on the hill,
All the evening dews are falling—l am cold—
the light is gone.
Is she coming f Softly, softly comes death’s
silent footsteps on.
I am going—come and kiss me —kiss me for
my darling wife;
Take for her my parting blessing—take the
last fond kiss of life.
Tell her I will wait to greet her, where the
good and lovely are,
In that home untouched by sorrow, tell her
she must meet me there.
Is she coming ? Lift the curtain—let me see
hoi her fa ‘ liu o Kght
‘ ! I want to live to see her, surely she will
*' come to-night;
Surely ere the daylight dieth, I will fold her to
my breast;
With her hand upon my bosom, calmly I
could sink to rest;
It is hard to die without her; look, I think
she’s coming now;
I can almost feel her kiss my fuded cheek and
blow;
I can almost hear her whisper, feel her breath
upon my cheek,
Hark ! I hear the front door open; is she com
ing? did she speak?
No. Well drop the curtain softly—l will see
her face no more,
Till I see it smiling on me on the bright and
better shore.
Tell her she must come and meet me in that
Eden laud of light;
Tell her I’ll be waiting for her where there is
no death, no night;
Tell her that I called her darling, blessed her
with my dying breath;
Come and kiss me for my Lizzie —tell her
love outliveth death.
— Richmond , March 23 d.
When will the Hard Times lie
over 1
AIR —“ROSIN THE BOW.”
I have travelled this country all over,
And everywhere that I go,
The people of hard times are crying,
And tor better are wanting to kuow.
And they say to me rosin the bow, oh ! oh !
Old men tell us how, if you know,
Oh, when will these hard times be o’er,
Come tell us old Rosin the bow.
Inflation has ceased agitation,
Resumption some say is too slow,
Conniption is ruling the nation;
Ami all are wanting to know.
And they say to me Rosin the bow, oh ! oh !
And tell us cld man if you know,
Oh ! when will hard times be o’er,
Come tell us Old Rosin the bow.
Of whisky rings all are disgusted,
Post traderships also to show;
High taxes for all kinds of ring jobs,
Is where all the’money does go.
And the.y say to me, Rosin the bow, oh ! oh!
Come tell us old man if you know,
Just how to stop all the stealing;
Oh ! tell us Old Rosin the bow,
To stop the stealing aud plunder,
The only way that I know,
Is to put Samuel Tilden in office,
And that in November we’ll do.
— Cln'eland Plaindealcr,
Any person may see the following things
every day:
I saw a pigeon making bread;
I saw a girl composed of thread:
I saw a towel one mile square;
I saw a meadow in the air,
I saw a rocket walk a mile;
I saw a pony make a file;
I saw a blacksmith in a box;
I saw an orange kill an ox;
I saw a butcher made of steel;
I saw a penknife chance a reel;
I saw a sailor twelve feet high;
I saw a ladder in a pie;
I saw an apple fly away;
I saw a sparrow making haj ;
I saw a farmer like a deg;
1 saw a puppy mixing grog;
I saw three men who saw these two,
And will confirm what 1 tell you.
Everybody knows that Daniel Web
ster died in I§s2—twenty-four years
ago—and everybody knows that there
was a Mrs. Daniel Webster; but few
know, though, that Mrs. Webster,
now eighty years old, is still alive
and is living with Mr. Robert Edgar,
a relative of hers, in the city of New
York.
EASTMAN, DODGE COUNTY, GEORGIA, AUGUST 31, 1876.
Democratic Convention of the 14th
Senatorial District.
Hawkixsvii.i.e, Ga., Aug. 22, ’7O.
Pursuant to previous call the dele
gates from the counties composing the
Fourteenth Senatorial District as
sembled in convention for the purpose
of nominating a Senator for said dis
trict.
The convention organived by elect
ijrgj|mes Bishop, of Dodge county,
Giiiurman, and L. C. Rvan, of Pulaski
coui.ty, Secretary.
The roll of delegates was called and
the following responded :
Dooly county—W. 1. Brown, G. \V.
Wooten, James Carlisle and J. M.
Hamilton.
Dodge county—James Bishop and
\V. W. Harrell.
Wilcox countv —D. Johnson, Arch
Blue, Thus. Gibbs, C. YV. Ashley and
D F. McCrimmon.
Pulaski county—J. H. Pate, W. 11.
Ilendley, T. 11. Dyclies, T. F. Walker,
R. W. Anderson and J L. Walker.
On motion each county was declared
entitled to live votes.
W. \V. Harrell moved that the ro
tation system be continued.
On the call of counties the result
was as follows :
For Against
Rotation. Rotation.
Dooly, 21 21
Dodge, 5
Wilcox, 5
Pulaski, 5
171 21
Mr. D. Johnson offered the following
resolution, which was adopted:
That W ilcox county, under the ro
tation system, is entitled to the can
didate for Senator.
The delegation from Wilcox count}
being divided in the choice of a can
didate from their county, the conves -
tion proceeded to the election by bal
lot of a candidate from W ilcox count}
which resulted in the election of Drury
Reid.
On motion his election was declared
unanimous.
John H. Pate, R. W. Anderson, G.
\V Wooten, C. W. Ashley and W. W r .
Harrell were appointed a committee
to infirm Mr. Reid of his nomination.
The following was introduced by
Dr. T. F. Walker and adopted:
Be it resolved, That it is the sense
of this convention tliai the county of
Dodge, under the rotation rule 1 , is en
titled to the next Senator from the
14tli Senatorial District.
The following resolutions regarding
the Hon. 0. C. Kibbee were read and
adopted :
1. Resolved, That this convention
cannot close their deliberations with
out giving expression to their feelings
and sentiments, as to the course pur
sued by our late Sena‘.or, the Hon. C.
C. Kibbee.
2. Resolved, That he has, in our
estimation, been the peer of any mem
ber to the Legislature from the State
of Georgia, and lias originated and
ably advocated more matter in the in
terest of the State than any man with
in her borders.
3 Resolved. That not only we,
but the tvholc State are due him a
debt of gratitude, and that it would
be with feelings of pride and joy to
see him promoted to some position in
keeping with his prominent ability.
Resolutions endorsing the action of
our National and State Democratic
Conventions were adopted.
On motion the following Senatorial
Democratic Executive Committee was
appointed :
Janies Bishop, of Dodge county,
Chairman.
Dooly county —W I. Brown.
Pulaski county- -J. 11. Pate.
Wilcox county—S. D. Fuller.
Dodge counfv —W. W. Harrell.
The thanks if the convention were
tendered to the Chairman and Secreta
ry.
The proceedings wore ordered to be
published in the Hawkiusville Dis
patch and Eastman limes.
L. C. Ryan, James Bishop,
Secretary. Chairman
Mackerel are so abundant near
Block Island that the water is said by
fishermen to look almost like dry land.
They are very large, too, 100 and 125
making a barrel.
In God We Trust.
Buried Alive,
At noon on Friday last John Sulli
van, of Newmarket, aged twenty-si A
years, visiting at Welsh Tavern, at
Portsmouth Plaius, while at the bot
tom of an old well attempting to re
cover a dipper, was buried alive by !
th* caving in of the same. A large
gabg of men were set to work dig
ging him out. Although the well was
aLmat thirty feet deep, Sullivan could
be<|hstiiictly heard. He said he was*
not; hurt, and prayed for the men
above him to be careful how they
worked.
Frequent intercourse was held with
Sullivan, his voice being just audible.
With wonderful courage lie informed
his rescuers that he had a faint glim-
I mcr of light, repeatedly asking the
! men to hurry with their work. Re
i lief gangs were constantly laboring
j with intense zeal, and though the soil
! was sandy and treacherous, and there
! was momentary danger of caving,
everything worked well; so that at
I ten o’clock about twenty feet below
1 the surface had been reached. At
j this time there was great excitement,
as the men were apparently within a
few feet ot the arch which had thus
far protected the unfortunate man,
who could be faintly heard asking for
more air, and saying that the dirt
from above was closing around him
! Air pipes were brought to the grounds
, and immediately introduced, Sullivan
j catching hold of the same.
At 10:30 p. in. Sulliva i’s head was
reached and safely uncovered, blank
ets being used to protect him from the
fast falling earth, and just one
hour later he was drawn out ol bis
perilous position, where l.e had l een
for eleven hours and a half Sealing*
himself in a large dump tub, he was
speedily drawn to terra Anna, safe
and sound. Cheer upon cheer greeted
him from the hundreds of people who
were present. With one wild whoop
Sullivan then rushed to the tavern to
the apartments occupied by his al
most frantic mother and wife, who
had arrived on the seine in response
to telegrams announcing bis death.
The greetings between them boggard
description. The well was just fifty
three deep, and Sullivan was buried
forty feet under the earth, just the
'smallest aperture affording him air.
One hundred and sixty tubs of stone
and dirt were drawn from the well in
three hours.
Superstition About Friday.
There are many who are very su
perstitious regarding Friday, but the
following facts compiled by an ex
change must convince any one that
his superstition against Friday as an
unlucky day. is an error :
It was cn Friday, the 3J of August,*
1492, that Columbus sailed from the
harbor of Palos for the new world. It
was on Friday, the 12th of October,
that he first saw land after sixty-five
days of navigation. It was on Friday,
the 14th of January, 1493, he started
on his return to announce the result
of his search. It was on Friday, the
15th of March, 1493, that he disem
barked in Andalusia. It was on Fri
day that he discovered the American
continent. It was on Friday that
Henry Y 11. gave John Cabot his dis
patch from the voyage which resulted
in the discovery of North America.
On Friday, September Gtb, 1565,
Wendez founded St. Augustine. On
Friday, November 10th, 1620, the May
flower first disembarked a few emi
grants on American soil at P ovince
town, and on Friday, December 22d,
1620, that the passengers finally land
ed atPlymouth Rock. It was on Fri
day, February 22d, 1732, that George
Washington was born. It was on
Friday, June 16,1775, the battle of
Bunker Hill was fought, and on Fri
da}, October 7th, 1777, that the sur
render of /Saratoga took place, the
event which decided France to give
her aid to the colonies. The treason
of Arnold was discovered on Friday,
Yorktown-surrendered, and on Friday
that Richard Henry Lee read the Dec
laration of Independence to tfie Con- ;
tiuental Congress.
-W* ■
A Yoioe from a Michigan Soldier.
EviRT, Mich., Aug. 10, 1876.
To the Editor of the Detroit Free Press:
Your article in the Daily Free Ptvss
ot the Bth ihst., on ‘Diy, the Dema
gogue,’ 1 real with interest. lam an
ex soldier. I served in a Michigan
battery. I was a Republican' at the
time. After the close of the war 1
went South. 1 lived in Georgia and
! Alabama four years. 1 found 1 was
!on the wrong* sida of the fence. 1 had
a chance to see now political stock
was distilled; how ku-klux outrages
originated, and how Republican rings
ruled Georgia when Bullock was elect
ed.
Dix is shooting wide of the mark ii
he thinks he can pull the wool over
tlie eyes of the ‘Boys in Blue.’
He (Dix) may, as you say, organ
ize the sutlers, brevet-colonels, majors,
captains, hospital beats, dog robbers
(officers’ servants) and the feather
bed soldiers But the soldiers who
stood the fire like men have laid down
their arms, and tlie majority of them,
yes, all of the honest, thinking soldiers
want an honest government and re
form, which they have not seen under
the Grant administration, and vvnich a
true reformer, Samuel J. Tilden, will
give them when he claims the house
at Washington. I say to my old com
rades in arms, look out for stay-at-home
Dix and the continuation of Grantism.
Ex Soldier.
Battle With a Oat,
One of the stangest incidents that
has ever fallen under our repotonal
observation, transpired at the Virginia
Hotel in tliis city last night.
Mr. French, a member of the Throne
Dramatic Troupe, playing an engage
uiCiit in this cily, was the victim, lie
retired to rest at an early hour l ist
night and soon fell into a deep clum
ber. Alter the lapse of an hour or
two he was aroused by a feeling of
over-powering oppressiveness and suf
focation, and was horrified to find that
a huge cat was sitting on his breast
and had its head inserted in his mouth
sucking away his breath. He found
iiimself in an exhausted condition; so
muffi so that ho was unable to shako
off' the vampire fiend attacking him.
llis groans and cries of agony, how
ever, fortunately brought some neigh
boring lodgers to his relief, and he
was rescued from his frightful position
Even then they were compelled to turn
him out of bed and roll him over and
over on the floor before the cat would
release its hold and abandon its pur
pose. Mr. French's face and chest
this morning bear frightful evidences
of his terrible battle with the monster.
—Moberly Enterprise Monitor.
Captain Bunco, of the Leonida, is
the owner of a large Spitz dog, named
Jack, that was picked up iu the mid
dle of the Sound several years ago,
as lie was swimming about several
miles from land. On Tuesday the
captain left the faithful creature on
East Neck wharf by some mishap, and
Jack, seeing the vessel some distance
out in the bay, decided to follow. As
tlie vessel was under good headway,
little notice was taken of his jumping
oft the wharf, as it was supposed that
lie would soon return. The vessel
reached New York about night. Noth
ing was seen of the dog about here
during the following day, but what
was the astonishment of the captain
and crew, on going up to the deck
while tlie vessel lay in her dock in
New Y ork on the morning of the sec
ond day, to find the faithful creature
at liis post watching over tl.e vessel
in his usual manner. He was thor
oughly exhausted by his long swim of
over forty miles, however, and could
do nothing but lie about and rccru3t
his strength for two or three days.
George Elliott says that a young
man’s eyes fiist open to the world
when lie is in love. This is not al
ways so. Usually it is when he has
gone away from home and had his
washing sent out for the first time,
and finds among it when it is returned
an odd stocking with two red snipes
about the t<vp, and long enough to
button around his neck.
in Advatitiei
NUMBEFf 30.
Fr\GKS AND FUNN¥GBAJHS.
‘•Sweet extinct of taumn’ " w what a Pula *
ki, N. Y., boy calls bis strillttmpMtraeboob
marm; * '
‘•Pa,'' saii a little fellow to bis uusliaveu
father “your ckiu looks like tbe wheel in the
music box.” “V *
Sorioqjtfy by a tippler: “The pubkcal**y*
notices you when ydi* httve been drinking,
an (J never when ytAf are thirsty.
■ When a Saratoga lady culled her sou to ac
i count because he had goldeu iuor ou the lapel
i of l>is coat he explained tlmt hi* girl had put
Ia head on him.
A spunky Bostonian has mu tip the follow•
inj notice ou his vacant lot: “This lot of
land for sale at ten per cet. less than assess
or’s valuation.”
“I never could enjoy poetry when I'm
cookin’,” said an old lady, “when I step out
to feed the hogs and h’ist myself onto the
fence, and throw myself into a lew lines of
‘Oapt’n Jinks;’ it does seem as if this airth was
made to live on after all.
“Clarence, you've got a a real kind heart,”
gratefully observed a young lady on the cars
to a sallow faced youth as he dropped a prize
p:\ckageofpop-corniu her lap. “Yes, Mary,
my heart's all right,” he sadly replied, “what
I waut it anew liver.”
An “able seaman” from Ardamurchan was
at the tiller of his sloop one night, shortly
alter the introduction of colored signal lights
on ships. A steamer was approaching, and
Archy saw the green and red light for the first
time at sea. He astonished his shipmates by
yelling out: “Hard a part—hard a-port!
We’re gaun richt intae the ’potliecary’s shop
at (iourock !”
He s<\t crumpled up over the remains of a
watermelon, with his hat on the brek ot his
head and his toes turning inward, groaning as
if his heart would break. “Do you feel sick,
Sam ?’’ asked a sympathising friend. “I feel,”
said Sam, spealing with much difficulty, “I
feel as it I was havin’ a circus performance in
here, ” and he struck himself a blow beneath
the belt that sounded like the flap of a wet
sheet in an eighteen-knot breeze.
At the raising of a Tilden pole in Toledo,
Ohio, the other day, it fell on a Radical by
the name of Gasman and killed him.—Ex.
Yes, and the same Tilden pole will f*ll on
and kill the whole party, which is made up
entirely of Gassmen about next November.—
Warrcnton Clipper.
That is if the gass don’t explode and kill
out the race before next November.
Pete wanted a job yesterday, and went into
a store which is in the hands of a receiver.
“W bar’s de boss ?” he asked. “No boss
here!” said a clerk “Ha* n’t got no boss?”
‘No, nary boss!” “How are dat, boss?"
queried Pete. “Don’t call me boss; I tell you
we’ve got no boss !” retorted the clerk. “Is
yer jess foolin’ me?” “Xo, this store’s get no
boss—it has got a receiver !”• “Reseeber !”
exclaimed Pete. “Den good bye, bxss, 'kaso
taint de reseeber dat I'se lookin for—hit’s do
man whar pays out dat I’m arter !”
The entire coffee crop of the world list
year was 8000,000,000 pounds, of which the
United States imported over 300,000,000
pounds.
And now it is said Governor Tildeu is “a
manufacturer of pills !’ We hope this will
not turn out a lie, for, if it is true, the demaud
for these pills will exceed the supply before
the election. Grant people will find them
“attentive to business.” 'Ahe country requires
a lively purging, and the Tildeu pill will do
it. —Xeir Haven Register.
When a dyer’s wife, in Leith, Scotland, re
cently entered the bedroom where three of her
children, aged 14, 9 and 4, were sleeping, she
was horrified to fi: and bedclothes bespattered.
The children had been attacked during the
night by a rat, which they had vainly endea
vored to catch on the previous evening. It
had bitten the cheeks of the two little boys,
and more sever ly the forehead of a girl, who
lost a large quantity of blood.
A good woman searching out the children
of want one cold day last winter, tried to open
the door in a *hird story of a wretched house,
when she heard a little voice say:
“Pull the string up high ! Pull the string
up high !”
She looked up and saw a string which on
being pulled, lifted a latch, and she opened
the door on two little half naked children, all
alone. Very cold and pitiful ttiey looked.
‘Do you take care of yourselves little
ones?” asked the good woman.
“No ma’am,” said the oldest, “God* takes
wire of us.”
How beautiful and full of faith was the
reply.
One Maryland linn will pnt up
1,000,000 cans of tomatoes this season,
and one million dogs will wag their
tails derisively until they arc empty.
ihey have a plaster Paris cast of a
womau at Philadelphia that calls forth
admiration on all sides. It breathes
and moves its lips, but it never scolds;
it raisea its foot, but never kicks at a
sick cat; it moves its arm, but it nev
er reaches out after a broomstick; and
now if they can fashion it to wink at
one man—and only one—then will art
have triumphed over nature.