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Eastman Times.
M. L. BURCH - - - - Editor.
THURSDAY JANUAIix 31.
AN OPENING.
There is scarcely a day in the week
that we do not meet upon our streets,
men “looking for a chance to get into
business/’ This generally means that
they wish to clerk in a store ; a bar
room ; work in wood shop ; overlook
some man's farm, or otherwise “cut
the gentleman/ 1 for board and hand
some compensation. The pi ice—the
sn*g, nice, little, genteel place—with
pay and perquisites—once for all—we
gratuitously announce, is not to be
found in this community. But there
are openings here lor profitable em
ployment plenty enough. The require
ments are, sufficient capital to rent or
buy a few acres of ground; brains
enough to plant and cultivate that
ground in a crop of varieties that will
be coming off and going into market
all through the year; a back stiong
and willing hands to dig among such
truck'; and independence of character
enough to sit upon a market cart or
wagon and sell it to the willing pur
chasers, readily found in town and vi
cinity.
Nothing promises so pretty a little
cash trade, as a truck and dairy farm
in marketing distance of Eastman.
We will furnish some information as
to what has already been done in this
way in our next issue.
DOG LAW,
What say you, sheep and wool
growers, to this astounding proposi
tion ? Have your flocks suffered
much from the ravages of the maraud
ing Cur? Have you been robbed in
this way of fifty or a hundred dollars
worth of property as the result, prob
ably, of an hour or two's work, possi
bly, of one single dog? Those are
questions that present themselves
forcibly to us in this land of sheep and
dogs. True, our Legislature does not
meet till November, but our Senators
and Representatives would doubtless
be pleased to know in advance the
opinions of their constituency upon
the question of a Dog Law and the
wisest and best courso to be adopted.
It occurs to us that it is a question
*hich more materially concerns us
here as a people than the great Silver
bill now before Congress, wh ch is
shaking the whole country from cen
ter to circumference.
But as we own neither sheep nor
dog, we prefer at present to withhold
our views, and request our friends and
all who feel an interest in this matter
to present their views through our
columns.
THE WRONG WAY.
AV e havo often called attention to
the follies and sins of which religious
people are gui’ty in their fairs, sup
pers, and sales to raise money for
church purposes. In these things it
would seem that the professing Chris
tian people • have come to the point
where they recognize and practice the
Jesuitical doctrine, ‘that the end jus
tifies the means / And on that prin
ciple any means, however doubtful in
character, if they promise success, are
pressed into the service of the church
es. These things have gone on until
now the 'ladies' benevolent society,'
or 'the committee to raise funds,' or
'the missionary society,' advertise a
lottery, a drawing, or a sale, or a
grab-bag, at so much for a ticket, or
a twenty-five cents ballot for the most
popular man or woman, who shall be
the owner of some jewelry, or other
thing, which in value bears no pro
portion whatever to the sum of mon
ey paid in this way.
To these 'wheels of fortune,' ‘lotte
ries/ ‘sales/ or what not, a larger
crowd assembles than ever go to
preaching, or a prayer meeting, and
saiut and sinner enter the list, and vie
with each other to see who shall pay
the most for a toy or trifle made by
some pretty and popular young or old
lady.
This evil is increasing, and is per
vading every agency heretofore em
ployed by our churches to raise mon
ey for the pastor, missions, Sunday
schools, and other things. Scarcely a
month is allowed to pass without a
concert, a fair, a sale, or some other
thing is set on f. ot, and for which
everybody is called on, or is expected,
to give whatever anybody else has
said A. or B should give, do, or sub**
scribe.
Is all th s proper ? Is this living on
principle? Is this the right way?-
Index and Baptist.
WASHINGTON LETTER.
[From our Own Correspondent.]
w ASHiNGToN, I). C, Jan. 28, '7 l.
It is generally believed to be a
health}- thing for members of Con
gress to hold sweet communion with
their constituents fr>m time to time.
Usually it imports greater firmness to
their special columns, and impresses
them with an increased sense of re
sponsibility to the source whence they
sprung. This was thought to have
been the effect of the late recess,
which gave members an unusually
favorable opportunity for consultation
with the people, and the prompt, bus
iness-like manner in which the inves
tigation resolution was taken hold of
indicated that we were to have more
work and less ' 4 chin-chin." But two
weeks and more have since passed
during which little real work has been
done, so that those who have been
taught to
“Count that day lost, whose low descending
Min,
Sees at thy hand no worthy action done”
begin to estimate what proportion of
lost days may be found upou the
record of an average Congress. The
investigations have not yet begun, and
the other and more important legisla
tive work drags along, while members
talk politics, drink cock-tails at San
derson's, and have an easy time gen
erally. Some Congressmen work hard
in committee and in endeavoring in
various ways to serve their constitu
ents, but that the majority do not, is
attested by the slow progress of leg
islation.
Many people have supposed that
sun-stroke had killed Blaine, but it is
an awful mistake. He w'oke the
echoes in the Senate Chamber the
other day pretty much after his old
style in the House. It was the occa
sion of the presentation of the statue
of Governor King to the Congress
sional gallery on behalf of the State
of Maine. The ancient Hamlin, in
his most serious and solemn tone and
manner, had just finisned a sort of
funeral oration over the long departed
Governor. Everybody felt like the
statue had been converted into a
corpse, and they sympathized with
Mr. Hamlin's deep grief. The galle
ries were crowded, fully half the audi
ence being ladies, and when Blaine
arose, those who had any tears to
spare, commenced getting ready to
shed them. Hamlin was dreary and
Blaine was expected to be pathetic.
Nobody supposed that he had a thun
der-storm prepared and was ready to
hurl it at the heads of two of his asso
ciates. Mr. Blaine had his notes writ
ten in a small memorandum book, and
in a very clear and calm voice lie
brought Governor King down to the
war of 1812. Raising his voice and
giving more emphatic emphasis to his
tone, he said Massachusetts opposed
the war of 1812, while Maine stood
nobly by the administration of Mr.
Madison and the flag. This declara
tion somewhat startled the audience,
and people looked at Blaine and then
at Dawes, who was sitting just behind
the speaker, and at Hoar, who had
turned Lis chair so as to front the Sen
ator from Maine. Blaine slightly
paused to note the effect of his speech,
and was apparently satisfied with the
result upon Hoar, as that gentleman
whirled his chair round in an impa
tient manner. Following up his first
assault, Blaine briefly reviewed the
history of the separation of Maine
from Massachusetts, denying that the
people of the latter State did not con
sent to that separation from a sense of
justice, but were driven to it by the
fear that Maine would get control of
the State politics. He painted the
Maine people as superior in every
respect to those of Massachusetts, and
accused the latter of boiling over
with envy on this account. His ar
raignment of the old Bay State was
deliverel in his most taunting and ex
asperating style. After he sat down
the Vice President attempted to pre
vent any controversy by immediately
ordering the resolution relative to the
statue read for adoption. But Sena
tor Dawes asked a moment to reply to
Blaine in which he endeavored to re
pel the charges. His effort was rath
er weak and stammering, however,
and Senator Hoar, toward whom all
eyes Lad been turned, as he twisted in
his chair full of indignation, took the
floor, closing his energetic remarks
with the statement that it was not
what Massachusetts did years ago
that rankled in Blaine’s breast but
her part in events of a much more re
cent date—meaning that it was the
action of the Massachusetts delega
tion at Cincinnati, in opposition to
Blaine that had induced his enmity.
Here a scene of excitement quite un
usual in the Senate Chamber -ensued.
Blaine shook his fists wildly and
kicked the chairs out of his way as he
strode up and down and hurled back
additional charges. The three Sena
tors were each on their feet three
times or more, but I can not take room
here to report all that was said on
either side. It was soon over, and
Blaine upon being congratulated by
an admirer upon getting the better of
two opponents replied, '‘Oh its an
easy matter to suppress two old wo*
men/’ But Senators Iloar and Dawes
were equally severe on Blaine, and
promise that Massachusetts shall sit
down upon him with all her weight.
Somebody says that his late trip to the
Hot Springs improved him too much.
The affair has been the general theme
of conversation since Tuesday, and
the verdict is that the entire responsi
bility for a scene so unseemly on such
an occasion, must rest upon Blaine.
Senator Vorhees says it was the livli
est funeral he ever attended.
Phono.
FOREIGN NEWS.
London, 28.—The Stand
ard's Constantinople correspondent
says the Porte has received a telegram
to the effect that the preliminaries ot
peace have been signed.
The Turkish delegates and the
Grand Duke Nicholas will reach Adri
anople on Saturday.
The same correspondent states that
England had the Porte’s permission
to enter the Dardenellos.
The Post publishes the following as
an official version of the preliminary
conditions of peace :
First. An autonomy for Bulgaria
—boundary not defined—under a Gov
ernor to be appointed according to
stipulation of a Constantinople confer
ence. The Turkish military forces to
be withdrawn to certain localities to
be determined upon.
2. The independence of Roumania,
with a compensation for the territory
near the mouth of the Danube, which
she will make over to Russia.
3. Local autonomy for Bosnia and
IlerzGgovania, and the independence
of Servia with territorial ratification.
4. The aggrandizement fr Monte
negro.
Finally, the Sultan to undert ike to
consider how to protect Russian inter
ests in the passage of the Dardcnelles.
A special dispatch from Vienna to
the Daily Telegraph says the Russian
demands will encounter serious oppo
sition from England and Austria. The
latter power is particularly opposed
to the retrocession of Bessarabia to
Russia and to any conditions more
than to cripple Turkey.
The Daily News in a leading edito
rial article says that the English Cabi
net council on Sunday determined to
persist in its demand for a supplemen
tary vote.
The exceptional step of suddenly
summoning a Cabinet council on Sun
day is regarded in some quarteis as
an indication that the political atmos
phere is not clearing. The latest au
thentic advices from Constantinople
do not confirm the statement in the
special dispatch from that city to this
morning’s Standard that the Porte
had received a telegram to the effect
that preliminaries of peace had been
signed and that the Turkish delegates
and the Grand Duke Nicholas would
reach Adrianople on Saturday. Up to
nine o'clocK last night the Porte had
no advice of the conclusion of an ar
mistice, though o“ders were tele
graphed to the Turkish plenipotentia
ries on Friday to accept the prelimi
naries of peace.
Ragusa, January 27. — The Monten
egrins captured, after a violent bom
dardmenr, three fortified islands in
lake Scutari, and were preparing to
attack the important fortress of Zabli
ac to-day.
—The Cuthbert Appeal gives us the
following : “Mrs. Melton, wife of
Clay Melton, and daughter of John
Hay, of the sth district of this county,
was so severely burned Thursday
evening last that she died early Fri
day morning. Her husband was burn
ing some brush near his residence,
when his wife went out to see him
about some matters, and in passing
near a brush heap her clothing caught
on fire and resulted as above She
left three small children, a husband
and a circle of relatives and friends to
mourn her sad end.
A Tea Fraud.
The New York Sun says : In most
of our leading hotels and eating hous
es the tea grounds are saved by the
servants, and sold to parties who come
around in wagons at stated intervals.
What they did with the grounds was
for a long time a mystery. Lately,
however, the secret has escaped. We
hear on good authority that they are
taker, to a factory in the vicinity of
Central Park, steeped in acids, and
drie 1 in the sun on copper plates. By
this process each leaf is shrivelled and
made to assume its former shape. The
color is beautiful, and the old tea odor
so familiar to all who love this de
lightful drink, is plainly recognized.
The drying process completed, the
grounds are packed in tin caddies or
second-handed wooden boxes, and dis
tributed throughout the country,
where its remarkable cheapness at
tracts universal attention. Occasion
ally a little genuine tea is mixed with
this preparation. This adds to the
flavor, and the victim is more easily
taken in. Much of this tea is said to
be sold from peddler wagons, and
eggs, butter and similar produce are
sometimes received in exchage.
The tea is not strong enough to in
jure anybody's nerves, but the acids
used may undermine tne health nd
prove extremely injurious to invalids.
The substance is not extensively sold
to customers in large cities, through
tear of injuring the business of those
who collect the grounds. A tea ex
pert can detect the difference between
this second-hand tea and the genuine.
This faculty comes from his experi
ence. ‘‘As a general tiling,” he says,
“the farmer can lay down this rule—
the greener the leaf and the blighter
the caddy the poorer the quality of
the tea,”
Threatened Indian War.
If the intelligence that comes from
the Indian country is true there is a
prospect of stirring times on the fron
tier this spring. A special dispatch
from Bismarck, D. TANARUS., to the New York
Herald gives the startling information
that Sitting Bull has left his retreat
in Canada, crossed the border, and is
now encamped at Frenchman's creek,
with over one thousand lodges, includ
ing the escaped Nez Perces and the
recent deserters from the agencies,
numbering two hundred and eighty
lodges, with eight hundred warriors.
Sitting Bull's own camp numbers two
thousand three hundred warriors
splendidly mounted and equipped,
and five thousand women and children
All tho principal hostile chiefs are with
them—Black Moon, Four Horns, Long
Dog, Red Bear aid others. The in
formation comes from General Miles’
headquarters at Fort Keogh. Tiie
General had sent such troops as he
could spare to the relief of Fort Peck,
in the neighborhood of which a band
of the Indians had been seen. It is
surmised that Sitting Bull contem
plates an attack uoon Fort Keogh.
To oppose this large force of hostile
Indians General Miles cannot muster
more than five hundred men. Is the
country to witness another Custer
massacre ?
CONGRESSIONAL.
The Matthews eilver preamble and
resolution, as we gather it from the
Congressional Record, passed the Sen
ate, on Friday last, by a vote of 42
yeas to 20 nays—l 4 members not vot
ing.
The preamble consists in reciting
various acts of Congress providing for
the issuing of bonds, etc., and the
resolutions are as follows:
Resolved by the Senate t (t/te House
of Representatives concurring therein,)
That all the bonds of the United
States issued, or authorized to be is
sued. under the said acts of Congress
hereinbefore recited are payable, prin
cipal and interest, at the option of the
Government of the United States, in
silver dollars, of the coinage of the
United States, containing 412| grains
each of standard silver; and that to
restore to its coinage such silver coins
as a legal tender in payment of said
bonds, principal and interest, is not in
violation of the public faith, nor in de
rogation of the rights of the public
creditor.
Return equity and justice for evil
done to you, and pay goodness by
goodness, says Confucius.
A Stone Wonder.
Asheville (N. C.) Cor. Raleigh Observer.
It is a fact not generally known
that the cemetery of the Methodist
church in Henderson, N. C., contains
a petrified human body. About the
year 1835, Miss Tdeline Byers lived
with her father, Francis C. Byers, fif
teen Utiles south of this place, in Hen
derson county. She was a bright,
sweet girl, much beloved by all who
knew her, and her hand was sought
in marriape even before she was . f
marriageable age. At last she was
won by Win. Pinkney Murray, whom
she had known long and well. Soon
the nuptials were celebrated, and the
oride and bridegroom set out in search
of anew country, following the set
ting sun to the Mississippi Valley.
There they located and began the
journey of life together in real earnest.
Prosperity and happiness came to
them until, at an unexpected moment,
death cut down Mrs. Murray in the
very prime of life. The disconsolate
widower, consigning the body of his
deceasca wife to the dust, as he sup
posed, sought “surcease of sorrow” in
the wilds of Texas. A few years af
terward Dr. Josiah Johnston, intend
ing to return to North Carolina,
whence lie had removed with his bro
ther-in-law, Mr. Murray, disinterred
the body of Mrs. Murray for the pur
pose of carrying it back with him.
Imagine how amazed lie was to find it
in the coffin just as he had seen it
there years before. The same features
—almost the very same expression.
But what he saw was not flesh ; ii
was solid stone. The whole body
had petrified. In that condition he
cairied it to North Carolina, and de
livered it to toe aged father, Mr. Byers
who could hardly doubt that his
daughter had come home to him
asleep. The news spread that Ade
line’s body had been turned into rock,
and great was the desire to it. At
tempts were made, it is said, to steal
it out of the cellar, where the old gen
tleman had carefully concealed it, but
they were unsuccessful. All through
the war it was guarded by the father
as tlie most sacred trust, but few per
sons being allowed to s*e it. About
six however, it was quietly bur
ied in the Methodist cemetery at Hen
dersonville, where it is hoped it will
be permitted to rest until the “resur
rection morn.”
The Mulatto Dollar.
Mr. Stephens, Chairm *n of the Com
mittee on Coinage, has had a sample
goloid dollar made. It contains gold
monetizing silver : forty per cent, in
value gold and sixty per cent, in value
silver. It is said to be a very hand
some coin of a purple golden color,
rings clearer than silver or gold, and
maintains its brilliant color. The
value of goloid, as coin, is said to be
equal to gold, and if adopted, halves
quarters and ten cents pieces are to
be made of it. The mongrel dollar
may be as valuable as gold and very
pretty and all that, but it amt what
the country demands. The people
have ha 1 enough of experiments,
etiongh of mongrelism, and want to
go back, in financial matters at least,
to honest first principles, to the good,
pure, old-fashioned silver dollar and
gold. Like the very particulai board
er who wanted the hair and butter on
separate plates in order that he might
mix them to suit himself, the people
prefer to take their gold and silver
straight. They want no goloid in
theirs. —[Savannah News.
The Cumberland Route.
The Cumberlend Route via the Ma
con and Brunswick railroad to Florida
is fast gaining in popularity. By this
route passengers can leave Macon at
half past seven o'clock in the morn
ing and arrive at Jacksonville at 11
o’clock at night the same day, being
only fifteen and a half hours en route
and ten hours and twent-five minutes
quicker time than any other route.
Excursion tickets are now on sale
to Jacksonville and Fernandina at re
duced rates. Capt T. L. Rose, ticket
agent of the M. & B. R. R., will give
| any information desired concerning
the Cumberland Route and its connec
tions.— [Tel. <t 3les.
The Atlanta Steam Cotton Factory
commenced operations on Monday
morning last, and President Kimball
says ‘‘let 'er roll right along day after
day henceforth. '
(J eorgia In tel 1 i gcnce.
—Citizens of Augusta have forwarded
to Congress two petitions, one for an
appropriation to survey and remove
obstructions from the Savannah river,
and the other for an appropriation to
build a custom house, postoffiee and
Fnited States court house in Augusta.
—Eagles destroy many young
lambs in Miller county, ltit are, in
turn, killed bj poisoning the carcasses
with strychnine.
—Colonel 11. W. J. Ilam has sold
the Old Capital to his late partner
Colonel E. P. Speer, who will hereafter
be in charge, and make his home in
Milledgeville permanently. Colonel
Ham retires from journalism for the
present, having made other business
engagements which will require his
almost exclusive attention. We wish
both gentlemen great success in what
ever vocation they devote their ener
gies.— [Telegraph.
—The receipts and expenses of the
State for the year 1817, according to
a statement furnished the press by the
Comptroller General, were as follows;
Receipts from all sources (including a
balance in the treasury January 1,
1877, of $564,283 $2,562,630 17,
and the disbursements, which include
a part of the expenses of 1876, were
$1,728,910 80. The cost of the Con
stitutional Convention was $46,740 75,
and there is a balance in the treasury
of $833,719 17. —[Planter and Grange.
—Mr. James McPherson, the ea
teemed clerk of the United States Cir
cuit and District Court for the South
ern district of Georgia, died at his
residence in Savannah Sunday even
ing. Mr. McPherson was one of the
most genial, popular gentlemen in and
out of his official position, and was
much liked by the members of the bar
practicing in those courts. He was a
South Carolinian by biith.
—The Fort Valley Mirror says: “A
Mr. Dixon, from Taylor county, a
member of Company 1 Sixty-fourth
Georgia Regiment, in the Confederate
service, has just got home after an ab
sence of fifteen years. He was woun
ded at Petersburg, Virginia, and final
ly fell into the hands of the United
States troops at Columbia, S. C. He
has been unable to get h>mc from
physical and financial inability, being
severely wounded in the thigh and
having lost his right arm. During the
negro domination in South Carolina he
had a hard time of it. Since the ad
vent of better times he has been fur
nished transportation aud arrived
home a few days ago.'’
The Old Capital says : * r Gen. My
rick .informs us that two old men of
Baldwin county, William and Thomas
Green, aged respectively seventy-two
and sixty-nine years, gatherd this year
as the result of their own labor six
hales of cotton averaging 496 pounds,
300 bushels of corn, 6,000 pounds of
100 bushels of potatoes, 25 bushels of
ground peas, 15 bushels of field peas
and 10 bushels of rice. Besides these
various products they raised and kil 1 -
ed meat enough for aotheryear. The
extra work hired by these aged far
mers cost thirty-nine dollais and the
eldest, Mr. AVilliam Green, did all the
plowing necessary to make the crop.
We think these old men deserve to be
commended and if tiiey want to read
a newspaper next year they can get a
copy of the Old Capital free by hand
ing in their address.”
Col. Thomas Alexander, of the well
known firm of Grant, Alexander &
Cos., railroad contractors, died at At
lanta ou Mond iy of congestion of the
heart and lungs. He recently mar
ried in Mouticello, Florida.
Deputy United States Marshal Tim
othy Murphy and his party were fired
upon near East Point, ten miles from
Atlanta, before daybreak on Monday
morning, by illicit distillers and their
friends. A negro guide and two hor
ses were wounded. One horse will
die and the other is ruined. This is
one of the boldest attacks ever made
in Georgia.
A bard money meeting was held at
the Opera House, Atlanta, on Monday
night, and letters were read from
Chief Justice Warner, Congressman
Candler and Senator Hill in favor of a
sound currency. The latter says no
one cau drive him one inch troin what
he believes to be his duty in this mat
ter. Dr. 11. V. M. Miller gave a histo
ry of money, and declared that nothin o
can be money but gold andsi*vei.