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Eastman 'Times*.
M. L. IUJKCKI - - - - Editor,
THURSDAY, MARCH 28, 1878.
•‘MY COUNTRY, ’TISOF THEE
i SING.”
The -stars and stripes as they boat
from the staff’ on the obsorvatory of
the u Uplands” remind us of the fact
that we have a country. And the
thought comes unbidden into our men
tal audience-room, ‘ e and what of that
country ?” Is it a land that we can
love ? Does otir heart, when we rap
idly scan the grand incidents in her
last twenty years’ history find any*
thing in that record to incite a patri
otic glow that shall ever reach up to
those colors floating there? In the
light of a calm and serene reflection,
with a subdued, lut emphatic tone,
Comes the answer—yea and verily.
We have seen the waste of war ;
the pillage and p’under of the remains
of our wrecked fortunes; the mockery
of law and justice meted out by alien
hands; we have seen this tidal w r ave
of corruption hurled back upon the
Government that sent it forth ; and in
the darkness of marked and
memorable forever by the simple word
“reconstruction our hearts grew sick
and faint, and hope had weli nigh de
serted us.
Thank God we have seen these
clouds flee away. We have beheld
like a dove of peace bringing joy and
healing on her wings, the return of
home government. We have seen
these colors at the mast head of the
ship of state, while the old craft lurch
ed and floundered in many a storm,
still flying there as she rode (the cy
iiosure of the world) into our centen
nial year.
To-day there is strength and vigor
in the body politic ; there is life in the
old land yet. Even now she tackles
the most formidable power on earth ;
and has already gained a signal victo
ry. When we look around to-day and
behold the starving millions of China
and India ; Russia and Turkey deso
lated by war, now the prey of pesti
lence, the hosts of Britain and conti
nental Europe marshalling fora dead-
Her carnage; and in the light of the
terrible past, the hopeful present and
the glorious future, we reverently
thank God and the powers that be for
the protection of that flag.
THE NEWS FRO3I EUROPE.
England continues to demand great
and humiliating concessions of Russia.
She continues to delay the hour of as
sembling the congress of the powers.
The powers threaten to go into session
without her, and England and Russia
continue the grandest and most rapid
preparation for war, and the situation
at this moment looks most dubious.—
We confidently believe they will fight.
SILVER.
When John Sherman, the apostle of
the bondholders, set the mints of the
United States to making the dollar of
our daddies, old Mammon made a bow
to the popular will never dreamed of
in a land where the adage is every
where current “that money rules the
world.’'
Tt may not be known to many of
our people that is now a violation of
the law of Georgia to kill, trap or
snare birds, except birds of prey, from
the 15th of March to the 15th of oc>
tober. You may kill all the hawks,
owls or eagles you can, but must not
destroy the innocent birds. Better
put your guns away until next Onto**
ber.
Isaac Green, a colored man in the
employ of Mr. Leonard Parker, living
about 8 miles east of Americas, was
killed by lightning on Tuesday the
12th inst. lie had been working in
the field, and on seeing a heavy cloud
coming up, started toward his house,
hut before reaching that place he was
struck down with the electricity, and
almost instantly killed. He was dead
before anyone could'reach him.
Mr. J. S. Anderson of Tatnall
county, some time time ago found a
hawk and a snake in a fight. It ap>
pears that the hawk was intending to
make prey of the snake* while °the
snake had come to the same com hi
sion about the hawk. The snake had
wound himself about the hawk’s neck
and wings, until the latter seeing his
perilous condition, began to cry for
raeicy The snake having no morev
tightened his hokl, until the distressing
cries of the hawk atti acted the utt**r
tion of Mr. Anderson, who having no
mercy to lavish on either hawk or
8 neko, threw’ his whet-rock at them,
filling both.- —Rrcckior AV?cs
CALOMEL AS A CURE FOR
HOG CHOLERA.
It will be remembered that we pub
lished a short time ago the opinion of
Dr. James M. Buchan, advising the
use of calomel for hog cholera, which
was extensively copied by our ex
change 0 Now as a further indorse*
ment of this remedy, we publish the
following, which we clip from the
Sumpter Republican :
“Having examined all the cures for
hog cholera, even to the use of tur
nips, and seeing that the State of Mis
souri has offered SIO,OOO for a per
manent cure, I propose to give the
following recipe as a permanent pre
ventive and cure, that I have used for
two years to my entire satisfaction,
not having a single hog to die in that
time. Being a physician I studied
carefully the nature of the disease, and
came to the conclusion that calomel
possessed all the properties requisite
to meet the disease in all its forms. I
consequently tried its use in every
stage of the disease, and firmly believe
that, if used judiciously, no hog need
be lost by that disease. My mode of
using it is to take about ten grains to
each hog, and mix it in a little
chop feed or bran, and give it when
ever you find your hogs begin to cough
and repeat tins every day for a week,
and at any time when you find them
coughing, 3 7 0 u can give one dose as
above. If your hog is past eating,
catch it and give it twenty grains by
making it into a pill with a little flour,
and by means of a stick, put it down
the swallow, and you need pay no
more attention to it. I present this as
a perfect and recommend all hog
raisers to give it a fair and impartial
trial. G. McClintock.
Hamilton, Hancock county, 111.
THE PRESIDENTIAL TITLE.
Mr. Hewitt made an admirable and
effective speech on Monday, showing
up Mr. Hayes* Civil Service humbug
ery, but when he avowed that the
usurper's title to the Presidency was
an irrefragable and sacred one, and if
there hid been any fraud connected
with the matter Mr. Hayes had noth
ing to do with it, he advanced an
opinion which is not regarded as cor
rect by nine-tenths of the Democratic
party, and is not believed in even by
a majoiity of the Republic ms. There
is probably not a man in the United
States, who has the smallest knowl
edge of the circumstances of the last
Presidential < lee ion, and who is not a
fool, who does not know that Hayes
was fairly defeated for the Presidency
by the votes of tiie people. Every
Democrat believes that he came into
possession of his office by fraud, and
we have eminent authority that “fraud
vitiates everything/’ Mr. Hayes/ ti
tle is not good, it is not unassailable—
he only holds his office by sufferance
and toleration. The recent disclosures
concerning the plottings of Sherman,
Stoughton and other “visiting states
men” at New Orleans leave no doubt
that Hayes was fully cognizant of all
the corruption and the workings of
the conspiracy through which he was
inducted into office. The result of the
Electoral Cornmision was only a trick
of law, to which the Democratic party
chose to submit rather than plunge
the country into civil war. Few Dem
ocrats recognize his title to the office,
nor ought to do so, except so far as is
necessary to carry on the business of
the government. The Democracy can,
therefore, without any inconsistency,
assail Mr. Hayes' title at any time,
and would be justifiable in doing so if
convinced it would be lor the real
benefit of the country. There are ru
mors afloat as to various schemes of
this kind, out there is a doubt of both
their practicability and their success
at present. There seems to be just
now no way to legally and formally
get Hayes out of the Presidency except
through impeachment. Should evi
dence to justify any such movement
as this be presented, it would be the
duty of Congress to act upon it. Oth
erwise we think there will be no seri
ous attempt to Unseat the usurper.
The last House of Representatives de
clared that Mr. Tilden and not Mr.
Ha>es, was eleeted President, and it
is inconsistent and a great mistake f >r
any Democrat to attempt to give Mr.
Hayes a good title to that office, as
Mr. Hewitt did on Monday.—[ Patei '■
son (N. J.) Guardian.
McCormick, United States Commis
sioner General to the Paris Exposition
sailed Monday in the steamer France.
ROSINDALE.
New Village—lts Enterprises—
Agriculture—Turpentine—Lum
bcr--Tlie Academy, &e.
Mr. Editor :—Last week an engage
ment called me to the pleasant little
village of Eosindale. Of course you
know where Itosindale is. You do not?
Well, they are a modest people, unwi -
liug to thrust themselves into public
notice ; hence, they have not called
your editorial attention to themselves
and their various enterpris s. No
doubt this public mention of them will
agitate the usually quiet surface of
their social life ; but as I have nothing
discreditable to I hope the disturb
ance wdl only be a ripple.
Rosindale is situated about three
miles west of Eastman The M. &B.
R. R. passes through the western por
tion of it. The principal industries
are turpentine distilleries,
agriculture, &c. In the latter Mn Gus
Powell is extensively engaged. He
informed me that he had finished plant
ing corn, and that a portion of the first
planting was six or seven inches high
—ready for plowing. This is a fine
beginning for the year. His farm is
in good condition, and is safe to
predict an abundant harvest as the
fruits of his energy. Eastman, herself,
has felt the push of his enterprising
hand.
Mr. Geo. W. Powell is the owner of
a large saw mill in Rosindale. The
steady puff of its engine from morning
till night indicates a fine business. I
visited tbs mil), aid watched for
more than hour its clock-work opera
tions. They have recently adjusted a
new saw, and it is positive delight to
see it cut with ringing whizz through
the logs. I said to Mr. King the saw
yer, “That is the prettiest lumber 1
ever saw. 1 ’ sir,” he replied with
manifest pride, “we make no other
kind here 41 A glance at the lumber
piles confirmed his words.
In the turpentine business Mr. Ri
naldi has extensive operations. He is a
courteous gentleman, full of enthusi
asm in his chosen vocation arid he
hardly fails to infuse that enthusiasm
into his visitors as he exhibits his in
dustries and products. Mr. Moore, of
South Carolina} his distiller, voluntari
ly proposed to make the best rosin on
the line of ihe M.& B. R. R. or to re
ceive nothing for his services. That
which he showed me was certainly the
clearest 1 have ever seen I write these
statements not as newspaper “puffs,”
but because they are truths; and I
think these energetic citizens of Rosin
dale deserve honorable notice.
The Rosindale Academy is in charge
of Miss bailie Hail. She seems to re
alize her responsibilities as a teacher.
I noticed with pleasure the clean floor,
desks and seats; the festoons of wild
vines, and Clusters of bright flowers
that beautify the room, and the gener
al air of neatness and taste in and
about the house. The teacher placed
much of this to the credit of the larger
girls in schooj and I thought it quite
c mmenda le in them.
The village, like Eastman, has no
church building, and the Academy is
used for religious purposes. This is
how I came to see the schooLroom,
for the night of my stay there was the
occasion of preaching by one of our
Eastman ministers. Although it was
at night, and the middle of the week,
some forty or fifty were in attendance.
I heard the minister express Ins
prise and pleasure at the number out—
declaring that it was ‘the fullest house'
he had had in many a day. So you
see Rosindale is a moral community.
Of course I have not mentioned all
of the citizens of the village. My stay
was brief, and my visit was by no
means of a r< portorial character. Our
efficient sheriff, Mr. Sapp, lives hard
by, and others, whose names, worthy
of mention, would extend this article
to an improper length. I thought to
speak of a bevy of school girls, whose
pranks of innocent sport would amuse
you ; and of a sweet little one in par
ticular, Carrie Rinaldi, whose merits
are higher than many whose names
have beeu paraded before the public
eye.
Are you acquainted with any ol
these clever citizens, Mr. Editor?—
"Well, sir, find them out —take occa
sion to visit them—enjoy their polite
hospitality, as I have done, and see if
you will not find it the natmal im
pulse of your he -rt to speak of it.
Chatterbox.
March 27, 1878.
llou. John AUison, register of the
Tresasury, died suddenly in Washing
ton City on the 23d inst., of apoplexy.
"WASHINGTON LETTER.
[From our Own Correspondent.]
Washington, D. C., March 25.
Our modern propmtssoon find that
their ‘prophetic souls’ are a ‘delusion
and a snare.’ Their predictions con
cerning matters of ‘fee-nance/ as Mr.
Kelley says, and upon various other
matters, only hold the word of promise
the ear to break it to the hope. Yet
such is lif ■. When the silver hill was
under discussion, one of the arguments
of its opponents was that the silver
dollar was not even as good as the
greenback dollar. Secretary Sherman
•—otherwise John Sherman —said that
a greenback dollar was worth 9S cents
in gold, whereas 412| grains of silver
would only command 92 or 93 cents.
Taking him at his word the people
of the country naturally imagined that
the passage of the bill and consequent
coinage of the dollars would cause
John to sell them or exchange them at
par, at as fast they were turned
out of the mints. Upon this basis
that the greenback dollar was worth
five cents more than the silver dollar,
it was supposed that the Secretary
could sell foffr millions of silver every
month lor four millions of greenbacks,
at a net profit to the Government of
two hundred thousand dollars. Tiiis
would have increased the revenue two
millions four hundred thousand dollars
per year, which in these hard times
is a right cheerful addition to one's
income. But John didn't do it. Now
that the silver dollar is coined and on
the market, he demands gold at par in
exchange, or 101 cents in greenbacks.
Ia his interview with the Senate Fi
nance Committee, on Wednesday, he
said that, he had been mistaken—that
he now believed the silver legislation
was a good thing. The efiect of it
has certainly been to reduce the pre
mium on gold and bring the yellow
coin in*o circulation. One Washings
ton merchant took sixty dollars in
gold over his counters a day or two
since in payment for goods.
Congress is quiet and dull. The Sen
ate has recently been discussing Pa
cific Railways, and the House is de
voting itself mostly to committee
work. For two weeks there has been
nothing lively or spicy, and nothing
specially important.
Dr. Mary Walker is always getting
into the papers, and her latest effort at
notoriety has proved about as success
ful as could be expected from one al
ready notorious. The newspapers here
made no end of fun about her appli
cation to be app tinted on the police
force. A reportei interviewed her on
(he subject and she unbosomed hcr
sell —that is to say, relieved her mind
quite freely. She says that herself and
her friend Mrs. Pierson, another pans
taloons wearer, in other words “dress
reformer/' go ab >ut ihe city a good
deal together, and are annoyed on all
hands by ihe naughty boys who follow
them shouting, “There goes Dr. Mary
and her Dad/' “Pull down your vest,"
etc., and otherwise making life a bm
den to them. She thinks if she were
a policeman it would be fun to go for
these unruly boys and hook them up
with the crooked end of her cane. She
says :
“I want to be a peeler,
And ’gainst tlie hydrant stand,
A ‘star upon my bosom,
A club within my hand.
If urchins mock my clothing,
I need not cry “Police !”
But take them up for breaches,
For breaches of the peace.”
In a former letter I mentioned the
engagement of Senator Don Cameron
to Miss Sherman, niece of Secretary
Sherman, and I have since noticed a
good deal of erroneous gossip on the
subject going the rounds. Oue writer
speaks of the ‘youthfulness and bash
f illness’ of the f son of his father,’
while other glaring misstatements of
lacts give a rather too romantic eqjor
irig to the affair. Instead of being a
‘bashful youth/ Don is a widower, 50 |
years of age, already possessing a;
promising family of chi dren. Miss ;
Sherman is a young lady just out of
her teens. She is not rich—Don Cam
eron is worth millions. This slightly
abbreviates the romance of the thing
Did anybody ever hour of a rich young
girl marrying a poor old man with a
house full of children ? The society
gossip says further that, with the ex
ception of Miss Sherman‘s engage
ment, the season has not been produc
tive of a sing)" ***atrimonial alliance
Of c >urse no one knows what seed may
have been sown, nor what the future
may develop; but it seems strange to
Grundy for such a large number of
handsome young ladies to Lave been
thrown so constantly in the society of
eligibte young men without kindling
> the divine spaik.
Id the Supreme Court room, Mrs.
Fassett is daily working on her paint
ing of the electoral commission, and
will remain there until the 27th inst.,
when the court convenes. The picture
gives evidence of groat merit, and the
illustration in oil ot a historic event in
the Presidential annals of the country
by the preservation of the likeness in
group of some of the principal actors
and a few leading correspondents of
the pi ess, .will be valuable. Tibs per*
trait will be a landmark in the history
of the nation that will never be erased.
It memorizes a most remarkable crisis
in our national life, and will perpetus
ate both by reason of its*intrinsic
value as a chapter of history and its
extrinsic worth as an art production,
the incident it represents, and the name
of the artist throughout all time. Yet
there are a great many people scat
tered about over the country, who
never think of this same electoral com
m’ssion without reflecting how easily
the eight spot takes the seven. Prob
ably few will ever look upon the pic
ture in question without occurrence ol
this thought.
Mr. A. C. Buell, the brilliant young
journalist, has just married a daughter
of door-keeper Polk. Buell acquired
national notoriety a few years ago by
his caustic criticisms upon Zach Chan
dler. The cruel accusation that Zacli
aria sat down on a baby in a street
car, originated in the Capital to which
A. C. B. is a contributor. The boys
all extend their congratulations to Bu-
and a local paper expresses the
hope that Chandler may not bs a visi
tor in his domestic circle—unless he
sits down calmly. Phono.
JEFFERSON DAVIS.
Peeps at tlie Wife and Children
of Hie President of the Late
Alleged Confederacy—The Re
duced Circumstances of the
Family.
Correspondence Chicago limes.
Memphis, March 12. —“That,’' whis
pered my friend, “is Mrs. Jefferson
Davis.’*
I looked in the direction indicated
by the slight toss of the head and saw
a very stout lady conversing in an an
imated manner with a gentleman at
the forward end ot the slowly-moving
street car. I very naturally scanned
her close ly when I h arned she was the
w ife of the head of the defunct confed
eracy, and the woman known as quite
a jww'ir behind the throne in the war
reign at Richmond. Mrs. Davis is a
very fat, very intelligent, and a very
amiable looking woman. She cannot
weigh less than 200 pounds which she
carries with as much grace as could be
expected of such excess of averdup.ds.
Her facd is round and marked by no
striking feature without it is her
mouth which is large and very ex
pressive. Her hair is worn plain, and
its glossy blackness is broken with
str aksof gray. When a smile is not
playing around tier mouth, the face is
rather a sadly composed one. She wore
a long cloak of thin black cloth over a
black merino dress made in simple but
stylish manner. As she sat there chat
ting with her companion she impressed
me more as a kind hearted and ex
ceedingly affable woman than in any
other apparent characteristic.
‘So she is, and is very much liked,
particularly by young people, for
whom she has quite a penchant/ re
plied my friend as I gave expression
to the opinion firmed.
‘That young man conversing with
her is a struggling young lawyer who
is one of her pets ; a bright, gener
ous so it of fellow. Few people fail to
like Mrs. Davis, though I've heard
ladies object to her free and easy sort
of treatment. ‘Large ?' he continues,
‘Yes, decidedly. Quite a contrast to
Mr. Davis who is thin as a lath, and
looks very old and broken. No; he is
not in the city. He is down on the
gulf now writing his history of the
war.
I sat studying pleasantly that kindly
smiling face as the street car mule
trotted lazily along in the afternoon
sunshine.
Ou Vance street Mrs. Davis’ com
panion stopped the car an 1 the pair
moved out. As the car waited on
the switch for another to pass I saw
them go up the stone walk to a neat
new Prick residence, upon the stone
porch ob which sat a lady and gentle
man in that affectionate pose which
indicates the yet young state of mar
riage.
‘Mrs. Davis' daughter and son-in
law/ said my friend.
The gentleman had a remarkably
regular face, fresh and rosy complex
i ion, soft blue eyes, and a drooping
moustache of gold. A handsome. ,
tlemanly fellow, I mused, and torno-l
to the young lady, who arose to grfet
her mother. Here was a dark,
face wearing a shy, gentle look with
which her graceful slender form w v
in keeping. I saw her extend her hand
with a frank, welcoming smile to her
mother’s companion as the car moved
on.
The son-in-law, I learned from
friend is J. Addison Hayes, a y ou , ' 9
man generally liked in Memphis, and
cashier of the State National Rant
of this city. lie took to his woofo®
only iiis handsome face, good busines
sense, and soft gentle manners.
not rich, and I understand has a mtb.
er and sister whom he also support*
and met with the hearty approval of
both Mr. and Mrs. Davis whose res
pect for the high moral character of
Addison Hayes is shared by all who
know h m
Their house is a pretty brick resi
dence, the bridal present of Mrs. Da.
vis, who in Mr. Davis' absence resides
with her children. Death invaded the
little household last spring and to k
away the first infant grandchild, Jef.
ferson Davis Hayes. Mrs. Davis has
two other children, one a miss of six
teen, now at school in Germany, whith
er Mrs. Davis took her last summer,
and the other a young man now in
Memphis, Jefferson Davis, Jr. H e i 9
about 22 years of age, but does not
inherit his father’s talent, though his
mother's amiability finds its reflection
in him. lie has tier large, not hand*
some face, and is an awkward, loqua
cious, good-natured sort of an over
grown boy. He is generally liked
among the young men of Memphis,
who speak of him as “a good kind of
a follow." Delias been employed in
a cotton house of Memphis, which by
closing out business, has thrown young
Jeff out of a job just now. Ila prides
himself on his skill with the gloves,
“is not a bit stuck up.’'
The Davis family is comparatively
poor now, and Mrs. Davis frequently
alludes to “our poverty'’ in a jocular
way. The whole family moves mod
estly and unostenUfbiously in the sock
ety of this city. They are Episcopa>
iians in faith, and the rector of ti e
church which Mr. Davis attends was a
colonel of federal Rev. Clias.
C. Parsons. In Mrs. Davis and family
he finds as warm friends as his parish
contains. One does not hear much if
the family heie, but ho member of it,
1 find, is ever spoken of with aught
but words of regard and respect.
The Greenesboro (Gu.) Ilerald id Is
tells the following amusing story :
“Yesterday evening persons in the
neighborhood of the livery stables
were unused at a negro and a mult*.
A drover had a mule and he said no
body could ride him, and nob dy did
lidehim until Charley Greene made a
pass at him. lie made several efforts
before he could straddle the mule, but
finally he succeeded, and then the fua
opened in earnest. The air around
seemed full of negroes and mules.—
The mule first got up on his hind feet
and tried to look over the court house,
lie then changed ends, and kicked at
the moon, bur the negro was still
there. lie next turned a couple of
somersaults and lit on his tail, and
then turned quickly around to look
lor his rider. The rider was there.—
This concluled the exercises, and the
mule was as tame as a lamb. It
did look as if the mule could have
trirown off a piece of tar stuck to bis
back, but that “nigger" bad no noti Q
of changing ba e without carrying
about half a mule with him. They
are getting up a bet now that that boy
can ride a cyclone."
Thomasville is making great exer
tions in behalf the May Fair.
Judge J. W. a prominent
citizen of Burke county, is dead.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
GEORGIA—Dodge county.
Whereas M. A. Walker and J. B. StadstilL
administrators of Jas. M. StudstiH, decease),
represent to the court in their petition duW
filed and entered on record, that they ba*
fully administered Jas. M. Studstill’s estate,
this is therefore to cite all concerned, kindre
and creditors, to show cause, if any they can.
why said administrators should not he < b s '
charged from their trust as administrators
and receive letters of dismission on the
Monday in May 1878. J. J. ROZAR
Feb . 5, 1878*td Ordinary D- c
Application for Leave to Sell Land-
Four weeks alter date, application will b?
made to the court of Ordinary 7 of Dodge con 0 *
tv, for leave to sell lots ot laud number 216 n 1
the lGtb district Dodge county, and nund vr
127 in the 20th district of Dodge county, he
longing to the estate of Allred Mullis. deed.,
for the benefit of creditors of said deceased.
LOYFITE BROWN,
March 4,1878-4 w Executor.