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Eastman. Times.
M. E. RITIICII - - - - Editor.
THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 1878.
MOltE CANDIDATES.
More than one sensible thinker an 1
•observer his mentioned tie fiu hat
we are cursed by too much legislation.
It is a good sign, we remark paren
thetically, that the State of Georgia
appreciates the fact and has arranged
it in her new constitution to have just
haif as much as formerly. This tens
dency is the natural lcselt cf another
evil which seems inseparable from our
glorious republic, to-vvit: too much
office seeking. Even now the whole
country is a3tir with the suggestions
and machinations by which, through
great tribulations, it is intended to
BecUtC our next representation in the
national legislature. The fact that
we are ably and faithfully represented
at present, weighs but little in this
ever pending conquest between the ins
and the outs. ith the single excep
tion of Senator Hill, Georgia might
for once act upon the old adage of
“letting well enough alone.’* Still, we
gather from our exchange s that every
district, from the Ist to the 9lh, has
suggested anew man.
MOFFETT BELA, PUNCH.
We have been reading in the Atlan
ta Constitution the views of soma sen
sible person upon the subject of the
adoption of the Moffett bell punch as
a remedy for intemperance. We like
his ideas very much, Ho argues that
it will work more efficiently to have
an inspector of liquors and then tin*
reform would begin with pure liquor .
Of course, if men will drink and must
drink, it would be a great deal better
to have the single intoxicating effect
of pure liquors, than the complicated
poison of many unknown drugs. It
would, he says, put it out of the reach
of the poorer classes in many cases by
the inevitable advance in the price,
the cla*3 most injured by its use.
Lastly, it would destroy entirely dram
drinking on credit, and thereby cut
oil a large class of customers who re
sort to this means of obtaining it, oft
times as a desperate remedy for their
already oppressive poverty.
COMPLIMENTARY TO MR.
BLOUNT.
g clip tlio following from the
W ashington editorial correspondent
of the 1 elegraph Messenger :
“1 find in the Pittsburg Leader of the
22d ult., a lively Washington letter
telling about the passage that day of
the naval appropriation bill, and the
Incidents connected therewith. The
writer lias this to say of Mi. Blount
and h's p rt in the skirmish :
‘At the very start Vv His, of New
York, was determined to cut and
carve. ‘Midshipmen must be reduced/
be said. ‘One thousand dollars per
year is too much. Chaplains are an
unnecessary luxury. And besides they
don't confine themselves to their le
gitimate business—the salvation of
souls/ But by common consent the
chronic grumbler is put down, Blount
of Georgia leading the attack. For
bitter sarcasm, sharp satire and quick
repartee, commend me to this Blount,
of Georgia. For one of his cloth and
from his section, he has a broad, honest
and manly way of looking at things.
A swarthy skin brings into notice his
deep-set, glistening eyes, which I have
never yet seen at rest. They are
glancing about the house forever ; or,
if for a moment they are directed to*
ward a speaker they cannot be called
at rest. They arc not glancing, it is
true. But they are hard at work.—
ilo never resorts to so-called figures of
speech, nor does lie attempt ornament
simple words are all tie uses. But
his vocabulary is as inexhaustible as
the language itself. ‘The gentleman
from Georgia does not understand me/
said Sayler of Ohio.
Blount responds : ‘The gentleman
from Ohio thinks 1 don't know what I
am talking about. Perhaps he holds
all the brains of this house. He cer
tainly possesses a large share of its
impudence,' With Blount’s aid Heiss
ter Clymer's bill is carried through
without a single amendment.
The first dollar of the now coinage
of silver, or the ‘dollar of our daddies’
arrived in Hawkinsvilleon Friday last.
Mr. \\ m. Dejpacy, our clever and effi
cient express agent, is the preud pos*
sessor of the precious metal.—
'insvilk Dispatch.
WASHINGTON LETTER.
[From our Own Correspondent.]
W ASHINGTON, Id. C., April 8.
One cf the most important measures
now before Congress, and one concern
ing a great constituency is the propo
sition to change the method of proced
ure in issuing Patents. It. is proposed
to establish a Patent Office Court to
take jurisdiction in all complications
and interferences in patent cases. This
plan is based upon the recommenda
tion of the Commissioner of Patents in
his late report, and would, of course,
abolish the present boaid of appeals
connected with the department. Near
ly every is more or less concerned in
the patent question either by the use
of some invention about which there
is litigation, or by being himself an in
ventor, and therefore an applicant for
the benefits of the patent laws. Your
correspondent deemed it worth while
to learn something about a master ir
which so many readers are interested
and for that purpose resorted to a cou
ple of interviews, calling upon a mem
her of the board of appeals. An offi
cial about to be legislated out of of.
fice by tbo proposed change mighl
naturally be expected to oppose it
though in this case the opposiPon is
based upon higher grounds
than mere personal considerations, and
the official from motives of delicacy is
rather uncommunicative. I then ap
plied to F. A. Lehmann, Esq., the well
known Patent attorney, For informa
tion on the subject. Air. Lehmann,
was formerly an examiner in the Pat
ent Office, and being now one of the
most extensive practitioners before the
is about the best posted
man, on these questions, in Washing
ton. He does not favor the proposed
court. Under the present system there
is an examiner in each division, or
head under which the invention is
properly classified an 1 upon the report
of the Examiners, after a uareful in
vestigation of the case, a patent is is
sued or refused. Inventors whose
applications have been rejected have
tiie right to go before the board of ap
peals, and this board has power to re
verse the decision of the Examiner and
cause a patent to issue. Last year
there was 20.808 applications and 13,-
010 patents issued,or about two-thirds.
Of the 6,698 re jected cases 416 ap
pealed and 206 of them allowed by the
board. The commissioner is anxious to
get rid of this board, yet if he does so
and changes the system of examination
&c., as now proposed he will have the
inspection of over 13,000 cases per
year, or an average of 42 per day, a
number which no six men could care
fully read and consider, much less
critically examine. Mr. Lehmann says
he is opposed to the court for the rea
son to be deducted from the above,
that the responsibility of the commis
sioner would bo greater and the dis
pa’ ch of business infinitely less. The
machinery of a court would move much
slower than tho board now acts, as all
who have had experience with courts
can readily imagine. It is understood
that tbo Secretary of the Interior was
not consulted in regard to this recom
mendation of the Commissioner of
Patents, his subordinate, and it is
considered an unpardonable sin for the
headof a bureau to recommend changes
in the organization of a Department
over which he has no control.
The patent office is the only govern
ment bureau that is self-sustaining.—
Last year the receipts were 121,866.73
in excess of the expend itures, and there
w r as on iho Ist of January, 1878, a
fund of $1,114,221.40, to the credit of
this department. Most of the patents
were taken out in New England thirty
years ago, but now six great Western
States taken out 50 per cent more pat
cuts than New England, in 1870 the
yearly product of our manufacturing
establishments were nearly twice the
value of all our agricultural products,
and trie wages of the operatives were
greater than the labor earning of all
farmers and farm-laborers. The man
ufacturing product and wages exceed
those of agriculture even in the great
corn and grain growing States of the
West and Northwest, while our ex
ports exceed our reports of breadstuff®.
The abundant currency issued during
the war was the principal agent of this
industrial development, but some as
cribe it to a protective tariff.
Day after day the charge is reitera
ted and amplified that the policy of
economy inaugurated by the last Con-;
gress has crippled every department!
of the government ; that by reason 1
of reductions the clerical force in the
different bureaus is insufficient to per
form the service required, and that in
consequence the public business suffers.
Washington correspondent? who are
also join in the chorus, and the
charges are rung upon this theory as
upon a harp of a thousand strings, un*
j til people at a distance really suppose
that the reductions have gone too far.
Last year when the discharges were
going into effect much sympathy was
aroused for the unfortunates by repre
sentations of their probable sufferings.
And in individual casea there, undoubt
edly, was some hardship, but as a
whole the reductions were just and the
principle correct, while the experiment
has ha<l a wholesome effect. There are
to-day more clerks iu every depart
ment than are necessary to perform the
service required. In some bureaus this
miy not be the case and the work by
reason of bad. management may get
behind, but probably in the adjoining
bureau of the same department the
clerks of both sexes are at a loss how
to pass their time during office hours.
In no walk of life do people who are
supposed to work fur a living have so
many holidays and half-holidays or
such a comfortable time generally.—
The wiiter of this is personally ac
quainted with no less than fifty of these
clerks in different departments, and
there is not one among them who dues
not confess that his or her work could
be. performed in one-half of the six
office hours per day.
The theory that it is easier for the
many to bear the burdens than the few
—that it is better that the people at
large should be taxed to pry the sal
aries of these poor clerks than that
they should be turned adrift, penniless
finds a generous response. But sound
business principles recommend that it
is unwise to pay large salaries to 2000
or 8000 persons whose services are not
really and who are kept in
comparative idleness and dependence.
If the government is to maintain these
persons as a charity let the provisions
be made upon that basis and with that
understanding. Whatever of individ
ual hardship or public disadvantage
the reauctions entailed was greatly
agravated by improper discriminations
and favoritism ol heads of bureaus in
executing the acts of Congress and the
purpose on their part to render inoper
ative an obnoxious law. It is related
of the great Napoleon that in a time
of distress among ihe people he em
ployed thousands of lnborers building
stone wails and puling them down
again, at public expense. Such a pol
icy on the part of the government to
wards the laboring classes at least far
enough to provide for the con,pletion
of all public works, would display far
greater wisdom than to pay SISOO
apiece to a lot of unnecessary clerks.
Much objection is also made to the
reduction in salaries of certain officials
but there certainly can be do injustice
these times in cutting off S4OO or SSOO
from the pay of committee clerks and
others who receive S2OOO or S3OOO per
annum for six months work. Better
a part of this should go towards an
appropriation to give employment at
$1 per day to a few hundred laborers
on some public work. But while they
are about it, there would be no im
propriety in Congressmen reducing
their own salaries a few hundred, by
way of guarantee of good iaith. And
with all the rest the extravagance of
these investigation committees poking
around into things generally is con
demned as a piece of great folly. Yet*
when we come, to look into the matter
and find that these same investigations
have discovered numerous abuses and
stopped leaks to the amount of sever
al millions qf dollars per annum, the
two or three hundred thousand so ex
pended can hardly be regarded as a
bad investment. The total saving to
the government from investigations
and reductions in expenditures
amounts to more thau fifty millions.
Phono.
A FIGHT WITH AN EAGLE.
A large eagle, measuring seven feet
fiora tip to tip, was caught on the
Howell's Ferry road, just beyond How
ell's mills, near Atlanta last week.—
The circumstances attending the cap
ture are rather sensational, and are
thus given in full in the Atlanta Core*
stitution :
‘Late in the afternoon an old negro
by the name of Norton Simmons and
bis wife were walking along the How
ell's Ferry road, on their way home,
Norton having in his arms a small ne
gro baby. When they had arrived
near Mr. Cox's farm, a large eagle
came down from overhead and made a
swoop at the child in the arms ol its
father. Although being taken by sur
prise, the father warded off the assault
made at the child with a well directed
blow. This only made the br 1 more
and he returned to the attack
with renewed vigor. Simmons kicked
and fought the bird with all his might
and courage, while his wife render and
valuable assistance by crying and
whooping for help, which came in the
person of Mr. Carr Cox, who fortu
nately was in a rieid near at home and
ran to the assistance of the parties call
ing for help, carrying in his hand an
with which he had been chopping
wood. Mr. Cox to<>k in the situation
at a glance, and with a well directed
hlovv with his axe laid the savage bird
senseless upon the ground. In the
melee the. child was lucky enough not
to rec ive a scratch,’but its father was
inflicted with many slight wounds
made by the claws of the bird. The
eagle during its attack tore the entire
upper of a brogan shoe from the foot
of Simmons with his beak, having ta
ken hold of his toot while being kicked
by the plucky negro. Upon investiga
tion it was found that the bird was on
ly stunned or disabled. He was then
taken to the barn of Mr. CoxC? planta
tion, where he now remains in captiv
ity, having recovered almost from the
rough but timely blow of the axe.—
Since the capture his majesty has re
eeived quite a large number ot visi
tors/
A Dutiful Son is Obedient to his
Parents.
We have been requested to state
that Mrs. Susan Troupe, of Irwin coun
ty, desires to learn something of the
whereabouts of her son Gtorge Troup,
aged about 17 years. She is a widow
lady, and needs the services of her
son. He was decoyed from home under
the premise of large wages by a cer
tain party in Telfair or Dodge county.
It is hoped that George will reconsid
er his action and return home and give
his mother the help that is due from ft
du ti fu l soon. — lla wJcinsv Hie 1) ispatch .
Hon. J. 11, Blount of Georgia, is
second on the appropriation committee,
and is one the most active and hard
working members of the house. He
is as strict an economist as there is in
Congress, and at tin* same time is lib
eral as far as it is prudent and just to
the people to be so. lie watches with
great attention every bill that appro
priates money, and is ever vigilant to
toe that there is no loose legislation in
this regard. Ilis two terms in the
house have eminently fitted him for re
election, and tie doubtless will, as he
should, be returned to the torty-sixth
congress.—Washington, D. 0. Gazette.
SPLENDID WATER POWER.
The Swainsboro Herald has the fol
lowing notice of a splendid water pow
er within a few miles of that town :
Tt is not generally known that there
is in Emanuel county one of the finest
water powers in the world. It is situ
ated within two miles of No. 91- C.
* }
R. R., on the Emanuel side of the
Ogeechee river, and is really a great
curiosity. In the head of the pond
are a large number of immense springs
that can be seen through the transpa
rent water boiling up like a cauldron.
These springs form a body of water
that cover about six hundred acres of
land, and is from three to twenty feet
in depth. The water is limestone, and
so transparent that a bright pin might
be seen, on a clear day, lying on the
bottom, where the water is twenty
feet deep. The pond is never percep
tibly affeotod by either heavy rains or
very dry weather. The pond is alive
with the finest fish, which can be seen
disporting in the water many feet be
low the surface/
A PITIABLE SIGHT.
Written history does not furnish a
parallel in pathos and thrilling interest
to the story of the abduction of Char
ley Ross,-and the subsequent suffering
of his father.
It has now been several years since
the bright-eyed, curly-pated little feK
low was stolen from within the very
shadow of his home. Since that time
his father, distracted with grief, has
gone through what few men before him
ever endured. As if the loss of his
darling boy should not have made him
sacred in the eyes of the slanderer, he
has been cruelly and wantonly out
raged; his movements have been critis
cised ; his caution and prudence have
been stigmatized as lukewarmness.—
Some villain was found despicable
enough to charge that Mr. Ross, being
embarrassed in had the bov
abducted by his own orders, that he
might share, with the abductors, the
large reward sure to bo offered by the
state and city. Ilis wile bearing up
under the original affliction, groaning
ben- atb these infamous attacks lost
her mind. Mr. with a steadis
ness and heroism, that challenges the
highest respect, has disregarded these
slanderous assaults, and pressed on in
the hopeless search for his child. It
would melt the heart of a monster to
follow tliis wretched man through the
days, months and years of agony he has
passed through since that fatal day.—
With his hopes raised to the skies to<-
day only to be dashed to the ground
to-morrow his lot has been truly pitia
ble. His fortune has been utterly ub
sorbed in tliis costly and continuous
search, and at as if no dreg of
the cup of sorrow could be withheld
from liis whitened lips, the poor man
is forced to go upon the lecture stage,
and retail the history of Ins agony—
uncover his bleeding heart—that he
may not procure a pittance with which
to continue the search to which he
has consecrated Ids life.
He made his first appearance in
Boston. lie was met by a large crowd
which was kind enough to give Idm a
hearty and cordial welcome. He was
introduced by the president of the
senate of Massachusetts. He detailed
in the lecture the v\ Hole history of the
abduction and of the consequent search.
He exhibited portions of the coires
pondence between himself and the ab
ductors, He said lie was satisfied that
his son was stolen by a band of men
organized for the especial purpose of
trading in human lives. If they had
been successful in their attempt to get
money from Mr. Ross, he said lie felt
sure that they would speedily have re
peated their infamous crime, and that
no man’s family would have been safe.
He therefore for a long time, by the ad
vice of friends refused to compromise
with the child-stealers, although fie
had money at his command, every
dollar of which ho would willingly
have given for the return of his bov.
At last, however, he offered to pay the
required ransom, some months being
consumed in the arrangement of the
details. It was at length stipulated
that he should take the money, put it
in a valise and go to New York with
out letting any one know the object of
his visit. He should then take the
train for Albany, st n lug on the roar
platform alone, with the valise in his
hand. At some point along the road
a signal (agreed upon in the letters)
would be given by a man alongside
the road. At this signal Mr. Ross was
to drop the valise on the track, re-en
ter the car, and say nothing. The child,
the letter said, would bo restored in a
manner agreed upon. Mr. Ross acted
precisely as he was directed, but re
ceived no signal. Of course he did
not dtop the valise, but returned to
Philadelphia without any result. It was
explained afterwards in a letter from
the abductors, that they had seen a
newspaper report to the effect that he
had gone ofi in search of some other
child, aird did 7iot send their agent
for the money, as they had agreed to
do. In conclusion, Mr. Ross said he
had good reason for believing that
Charlie was still alive—but that,wheth
er dead or alive, he was determined to
probe the horrible secret to the bot
tom, if his life lasted long enough.—-
O O
Atlanta Constitution,
Cotton Shipments from Haw
kins since September.
A note from Mr. John Fanti inform®
us that the shipments of cotton from
Hawkinsville over the M. & B R. R.
since September last have been 11,250
bales. Say there are 1,000 bales now
in the warehouses in Hawkinsville,the
receipts to date at tliis place would be
12,250 bales. The receipts for the sea
son—from September to September—
will probably reach 13,000 bales.—
Hawkinsville Dispatch.
ADDITIONAL LOCALS.
It Cured the Preacher.
“Will Mr. Whiting please accept this suit,
presented by his lady friends as a slight token
of then- kind regards and esteem for their Pas
tor. Eastman, Ga., April sth, 1878.”
Accompanying the above was a handsome
525 suit of clothes which “fitted” nicely. Mr.
W had been sick several days, but from this
he began to improve, ajid is yet, we are glad
to say, convalescing. This is certainly a most
praiseworthy act on the part of the ladies of
our town and community, assisted by the
ladies of Chauncey, in thus showing in a sub
stantial way their appreciation of a faitntul
pastor, and is one that is duly esteemed by
him.
Among the arrivals at the “ Uplands Hotel”
since our last issue, we notice the following ;
P. Keller, Darien; M. Dutsh, Savannah; W
Fearse, Md.; W. Mason, J. Slippy, W. p
Grace, J. M. Walker, J. E. Martin, W. \[
Key, Fred Cunningham, Macon ; J. D. Jones
nnd lady, Mr. VanSautvoord, lady md 2 chil
dren, C. B. Konwenhoven, Feter Konwenbo
ven. New York; W. 0. Baxter, Portland, Me.•
Ingram Fletcher, Indianapolis, Ind; 11. o.
Moss and lad}, 2 childreu, New Berlin, NY.
We learn that very many persons are pre
vented stopping at Eastman, on their return
from Florida, by the present schedule—being
compelled to leave the cars at 3 a. m. Com
ment is unnecessary.
Inventors and Patentees
should send for instruetioas, terms, references
etc*., to Ensop Brothers, Solicitors of Patents,
Washington, D. 0., who furnish the same
without Charge . Edson Brothers is a well
known and successful firm of large experience,
having been established since 18GG. 22
“German Syrup.”
No other medicine in the world was evt r
given such a test of its curative qualities as
Bosehee’s German Syrup. In three years two
million lour hundred thousand small bottles
of this medicine were distributed tree ot charge
by Druggists in this country to those afflicted
with Consumption, Asthma, Croup, severe
Coughs, Pneumonia, and other diseases of the
Throat and Lungs, giving the American peo
ple undeniable proof that German Syrup will
cure them The result has boon that Drug
gist in every town and village in tl;e United
Slates are recommending it to their customers
Go to your Druggist, and they know
about it. Sample Bottles KTccuts. Regular
size 75 cents. Three doses will relieve any
case.
MARKETS,
Savannah, Ga., April 9. 1878.
Cotton— Pair, 10R middling fair, lOg ; good
middling, 10jf ; middling. 10; low middling,
9i; good ordii arv, 84; ordinary. 71,.
Naval Stores.— Rosin — A and B £1.35 • C
and D $1.40; E 1.45; F 81.50; S 51.55; 11 $1.65
I 51.70; K $2.25; Ms 2 62*; N $3.12*; window
glass $3.50. Spirits turpentine, oils aud whis
kies, 25 c.
Bacon. —Clear-rib sides, 6|©6£c ; shoul
ders si@s|c ; dry salted clear rib sides 5.J©
G; long clear 54 ; shoulders 4£©s ; hams 9i@.
10c.
Flour. —Superfine $5.50@G.50 ;extra $6.75
@7.25; tamily $8.00@8.50.
Grain.— Corn 70©740 for white; oats 50
@ 55c.
Hides. Wool, ect. — Hides, dry flint, 12c;
stilted B@loc ; wool 24c; burry wool 12© 15c;
tallow 7c; wax 24c.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
HEW STORE! HEW GOODS 11
Tile UNDERSIGNED wonl.l call alt ntion
of the ladies ot Eastman and vicinity to
her new and well selected stock of
FANCY & STAPLE MILLINERY
just received and now offered at prices to suit
the times. Also
DRESSMAKING,
cutting and fitting done with neatness and
dispatch. Satistaetion guaranteed. Call early
and secure a bargain.
Store on Second Ave., opposite Asa Harrell’s
Miss M. A . ROYAL
Eastman, Ga., April 11, 1878-lm
STATE OF GEORGIA—Dodge County.
Court of Ordinary in Chambers.
Ihe returns having been made and review
ers appointed to review, mark out and lay off
a change in the Hawkinsville and Dublin road,
commencing between Gim Swamp and the
residence of J. B. Tripp, and running in the
direction of G. J. Tripp, by the resideoe of
Nicholas Rawlins, nnd to intersect with said
road near the Lime-sink branch. John C.
1 kompson, J. \V. ltozar aud J. V. Nix have
been appointed reviewers of said road, and
have made their report under oath, and say
that said change will be of public utility. All
persons interested will tile their objections in
terms of law, or the order will pass establish
ing said road on the first Monday in May next.
This April G, 1878.
apllltd J. J. ROZAIt, Ord’y D. C.
EXECUTOR'S SALE.
By virtue of an order from the Court of Or
dinary of Dodge county, will be sold on the
first Tuesday in May, 1878, at the Court House
door in said county, between the legal hours
ot sale lot of land No. two hundred aud sixteen
(21G) in the sixteenth (10th) district of said
county reserving the use of about ten acres
rented for the year 1878.
Also lot of land No. one hundred and twen
ty-seven (127) in the twentieth (20th) district
of said county—reserving the right to work
the trees for turpentine for the year 1878.
Each ot said lots containing 202* acres more
or less, and belonging to the estate of Alfred
Mullis, deceased. Term of sale, Cash.
This Ist April, 1878.
1 OVETTE BROWN,
Ex’r Alfred Muiiis, dec’d.
April 4tb, 1878. 14 4w
Dodge Sheriff Sales.
be sold before the Court House door
, in th e town of Eastman, during the
legal hours of sale, on first Tuesday in MAY,
rext, the following property, to-wit :
Iwo thirds ot one eleventh interest in the
dower lanos of Mrs. S. A. E. W*ilcox, dec’d,
comprised of the following lots of land, num
bers 2jo, 291, 310, 321, one-halt ot 311 and
one-half of 320, lying in the 14th district of
Dodge county. Levy made in favor oi G. W.
Adams, transferee, as the property o' Mark
Godins and Susan P. Mobley. Notice of same
having been given this April Ist, 1878.
Also at the same time and place the following
lots of land, to-wit : Nos. 11G, 86 and 125
in the 19th district of said county ; sold as the
property ot Nicholas Rawlins to satisfy one
Superior Court fi fa in favor of’Chas. C. Hard
wick vs. Nicholas Rawlins and John T. Raw
lins. This April Ist, 1878.
WM. B. SAPP, Sheriff.
April 4, 1878. Htds.
ALL KINDS OF
JOB PRHmJTG
DONE AT THE TIMES OFFICE.