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THE EASTMAN TIMES. M. L, BURCH, Editor & Proprietor THURSDAY, JANUARY 9, 1879. There a e over 1,500 chil !ren 'n the Memphis schools. Shipments of vegetables from Flor ida have begun. Charleston, S. C., is shipping pin 8- phate rucks to Ireland. Wade Hampton received II wounds during the war, one of them a sabre thrust. Charleston has abo'ished her license of $5OO t> commercial drummers, and invites all to come. There wore watermelons and to matoes in Tampa, Florida, last week, and ice quarter of an inch thick. Jefferson Davis’ book of memoirs is to be p*Wished next spring ►imuHane onaly, in New York and London, with £ French edition in Paris. Mr. D. B. Taylor, of Mecklenburg, N. C., had a pumpkin vine the past season which bore 31 pumpkins, and the weight of the whole footed up 317 pounds. Washington, D. C., Jan. 7.—Rep resentative Uartridge, of Georgia, was in a critical condition yesterday from incipient pneumonia, but to-day seems lobe improving. When John Wesley died there were 79,00i9 Methodists in the world ; now there are 19,000,000 members of that church iu the world. There were 312 ministers ; now there are 90,000. A deputy sheriff at Richmond, Ky., being unable to collect taxes from a resident, got a third party to admire the resident’s false teeth and ask to be shown them, then darting forward se z-*d them. After living on soup for a few days the resident paid his taxes and redeemed his property. Says the Turner Falls Reporter : These are the days of economy. Yes terday a man was having a silver door plate engraved, and he requested that a blank space be left below the name ho that his age could be added, in case it was desirable to use the plate on his coffin after death. April 3, 1873, a bill passed the Illi nois Legislature making women eligi ble to all the school offices in the State. At the next election, November, 1873, ten ladies were elected county super intendents. These all served their four years’ term, and many of them were re-elected in 1877. Madison, Ga., Jan. 7.—A special dispatch to the Atlanta Constitution nays: Mr. L. W. Pou, of our city,com mitted auieddo Saturday morning at his plantation in Jasper county. He shot himself in the head with a pistol .and lived only a few minutes. The community is much distressed over tragedy. The latest thing in politics is the re vival of the scheme to cut up the State of Texas and make five States blossom where only one now blooms. Texas is certainly too large and unwieldly for one State, but any plan for the ameli oration, which includes the sending o* eight more Democratic senators to Washington, will be vigorously oppos ed by the watchful State of Rhode Island. Anew year always leads to statis tic* All possible subjects are summed op. We arc told, for instance, that 96 murderers were hung in the United States during 1878, or thirteen more than In 1877. AH were men, 41 being white, 52 colored, 2 Indians, 1 China man. Two qnadruple executions took place. Five of the to.taj number were hung in Georgia, ten in Texas and six in Pensylvania. The laws prohibiting polygamy have been, by the Supreme Court of the United States m the case of George Reynolds vs. the United States, de clared constitutional. Reynolds was tried for bigamy and found guilty, and the Supreme Court of Utah affirmed the judgment, when he appealed. The Ctiief Justice held that polygamy is BOt uuJer the protection of that clans; of the Federal Constitution which pro bibit* interference with religious be liefs, ■ A most remarkable thing of this whiter is the southern latitude at which snow has fallen. All northern Florida <l few mornings since was hoary with fall ot snow. It whitened the streets of Jacksonville and snow-balling was <q-uite common. South Georgia was also visited. In Brunswick the novel sig'itran the peo ple with excitement, and the popula tion turned outen masse to enjoy the rare luxury of anow-balUng. Such a cold s >ell has not been known in this part of the Union in forty years. FOB THE “TIMES.” HAPPY NEW YE Alt Is a familiar greeting ton'll of us ; but how many extend the words with out truly meaning them—or, in other words, are merely willing that others should be happy provided it cost them nothing. We should wish a happy new year only to those we are willing lo strive to make happy, and that should be all of our fellow-beings. There are times when all need help, in a word, a look, or iu some way, and it is generally in our power to bestow what is needed. It is not always the purse that is need to be opened, but oltener the heart of sympathy, that we may J rejoice wijLb those that do re joice, and weep with those that weep,’’ which enables us to obtain the confi dence and respect of others, and gives a chance to administer both t o their temporal and spiritual welfare. Oh, for influence among the people to do good. Wed may it be said, ‘lie that wiunetb souls is wise/ All of our flaunting and watering is iu vain unless God gives the increase ; and I may add, a'l of our attempts to plant and water among those with whom we have no influence, is already in vajn. Let us work to obtain an influence among our people, and use it for the good of both body and soul, thus making the year round a happy one, both for those who may or may nojt se it close; happy in time and in eternity, by trying to fol low in the footsteps of Him who bought for us such happiness and sealed it with His blood- Oh, Christian, it is New Year’s morn, Up, and gird your armor on j Gather the giain into the store Before the harvest time is o’er. “Why stind ye idle here ?” He said, There is work and wages too. ahead ; None of you need idle be If you will only follow me. And what's the wages ? may I ask, It faithfully I do my task : Eternal life, a home in Heaven, And crowu of light will then he given. Cleaning Ruth. Eastman, Ga., Jan. 1, 1879. Su#W in tjie South East. The Macon Telegraph of the 7th inst, says •: The Brunswick Railroad authorities hayc information that on Sunday last there were two inches of snow jn Jack sonville, three in Fernand'na, and two to two and a half in Brunswick, On Friday previous a gentleman tells us, the foanj caps at Bruuswick, as they dashed successfully on the beach, stif fened into ice at once, making a very pretty and massive piece of frost work. Although the coon oyster must have suffered immensely from the low tern* per a tty re between tides, no complaints are reported. The fish which have been shipped from the coast since the Ist instant have had no need of ice, being themselves frozen as hard as rocks. Altogether, wo have had nov el experience since the advent of 1879. Tbe Cold Weather. Atlanta, Ga., Jan 7.—Skating in Atlanta for the first time in twenty years took place during the cold sped. Thousands of pounds of ice were cut and packed here. This is the first time such a thing has ever occutred here. There is great suffering among the poor. The city is reliving the suffer ing:. Darien, Ga , Jan. 7. —There was quite a snow storm here this morning. It is the first ol the kind in fifty years. Rome, Ga., Jan, 6.—The steamer Sidney P. Smith was prevented from making her regular trip down the Coo i a to-day on account of heavy floats of ice from Etowah and Oostanaula rivers, A Costly Machine, The recent report of the Secretary of War shows the total strength of the U. S. Army to be 24,761 men, and no less than forty miiiious of dollars are demanded for its support. This makes our military establishment the most costly in the world. We see it record ed that the Mexican war, which was carried on io a foreign country, and lasted two years, cost the government less than one hundred milliun dollars, although one hundred thousand men were placed in service. At that rate our peace establishment is more ex pensive annually by far, in proportion to the f;rce enlisted, than when en gaged in active hostilities abroad. Is not this due to the extravagance of a Radical administration ? It was formerly estimated, says an exchange, that every soldier cost one thousand dollars a year, but, accord ing to the estimate of Mr. Sherman, it is now nearly fifteen hundred per man. This is a crying shame, and we trust our prc*ent Democratic Congress will go to the bottom of every army con tract and expose the huge frauds which alone can account for such ex travagant expenditures. - € The lease of the Penitentiary con victs is a fruitful theme of discussion by the Georgia press. Sue think the best plan would be lor each county to work its own convicts. BILL ARP’S CHAT, Wherein He Becomes Pensive. From the Atlanta Constitution. “If parts allure thee, think how Bacon shined, The wisest, brightest, meanest of mankind.” Mr. Webster will have to make a new dictionary, for as it is we cani keep up with tlwe new words and new ways. If there were any interviewers in his day, or if one min ever inter viewed another, he dident know D, for there are no such words in the book.— It must he anew science which you editors have invented to gratify folks who like a sensation, and can digest a •weet little morsel of slander better than a sermon on charity*- If ever a public man lias a wound or a sore, the newspaper surgeon starts out on the run with his probe and sticks it into him and twists it all around like a .cork screw till he gets to the bottom and then hurries back and treats the pub lic to a nice dish of interview. If one man has a quarrel with another, or is jealous of somebody, or has got mixed up with some little feminine scandal, or wants an office, or has got an opin ion as is an opinion,or goes somewhere and comes back, three or four go for him right away, and it dont make any difference whether he has gone to b< and or haint got up, or is eating his break fast or otherwise engaged, he's got to submit to an interview and he knows it, foj* the press is a power ip the land, and the press wont allow any man to bottle flinisell up with impunity. Last week a feller in Kentucky interviewed a respectable woman whose husband had run away with another woman, and bored out her view s on the situa tion—what she thought about it and was going to do about ; and there's never a hangin in the land but what the priest or the preacher and kinfolks have to give way to the interviewer, and the poor fellow on the last night of his life has to tell all about it, and give his views of the gallus and Jdcath and heaven and hell for the entertainment of a few thousand who don’t care a darn whether he was innocent or guil ty. There's no conduct too scandalous for'em, and no grief too sacred. But there's another brannb of busi ness that don't need any sympathy.— It's the fashion of late, with most of our public men, to get interviewed for their own benefit. Aspiring men don't like to be forgotten—so when the aewspapers are chock full of wars and murders and shipwrecks and Beecher aud Edison and O’Leary and the like, they get jealous and restless and hunt up an interviewer. You sec its highly important that they keep themselves continually before the peo ple just like a patent medicine and every little notice from the press helps them amazingly, as for inst&nce, Gen eral Swell has sent in five dollars for the yellow fever, or Colonel Conceit is in town stopping atthe Kimball house. Then again, if a public man gets into trouble, or has doue something mean and wants to lie out of it, or desires to flatter up somebody who can do him a favor, or pull down somebody who is in his way, he gives the interviewer the wink to come round,.and when he cal’s he finds the answers all cut and dried, and they go forth to the world as the corkscrewed gushings of patri otism and truth. These mortifying reflections are not spontaneous, but they rise up and come forth while ruminating upon soj&e of the late interviews of our pub lic men. 1 wonder if a man can be great without being small about some thing—jealous, envious, vain, conceit ed, revengeful or splenetic, as the doc tors call it. Georgia is a great state and has always boasted of great men, great statesmen, good judges, men of parts—but having parts dont seem to make a man amiable, unselfish, nor does a man get any more angelic as he gets nigher the top of the ladder, for it aint like old father Jacob’s that pointed heavenward. About three fourths of all that climb it get the dev il's help, and as the reach the top the old rascal sticks em on a spit and shoves off in the multitude with a Sa tanic grin, uncovering patches of envy or plumes of conceit or dark splotches of slander or some other weakness that human frailty is heir to. Ever since I can remember our great men have been fussing anxi quarreling with one another, and they are at it yet. It may bo the same way in oilier states, but if so we dont hear of it, and it is very mortifying to admit we haven't got any other sort to set up ns sign boards for us wayfariu fools to travel by. There has been a heap said and written about folks shooting the shafts of euvy at those who are higher np in the world than themselves, but it looks to me like ’the ups set the downs a very bad • example, lor they shoot harder aud further and oltener than anybody else, though perhaps they do it with more refinement. With some folks tl # manner of the thing does make a difference* I know, for I’ve seen several who would take the lie straight and plain, but wouldnt take the dam lie from nobody. But it ap pears to me that any kind of a lie is any more ban to say of a man he h devoid of truth, and I would rather be called a fool or an idiot any time than a weak man with good intentions. Well now, if it i envy and jealousy thats at the bottom of all this fussing, I suppose there’s no remedy ; but if it is the spleen thats affected, it seems to me that the doetor ought to be called in at once. Aint there room enough for ad of our big men who have already got office ? I remember what Chief Justice Lumpkin said once to some young lawyers, that there was plenty of room at the top. He knew, for he was up there, and he was a great man without malice or envy, or any weak ness to tarnish the luster of his name Pity we ha vent got many more like him. But it looks like our statesmen are powerfully crowded in some way. If they cant climb up fast enough in the regular way they go to quarreling or slandering, and Fort says lies kno'vd em to hunt up the life insurance book and count up how long a man who is in their way is likely to live. Me and him was talkiug one day about death and says he : “Bill, deaifi is a mighty good thing in its way. When a rich man dies theres a heap of souls made happy ; when an officeholder dies it makes room for another, who t has been waiting a long time ; when a stray bullet took off a colon 1 in the army, there was about a dozen promotions right away, and I was thinking the other day that if an incrufcable providence should call upon our chief justice's home, one of his brethren would step right up into his shoes, and then a circuit judge s‘.ep into his shoes, and some lawyer step into the circuit judge's shoes, and some other lawyer step into that lawyer's year's business, and so on and so forth, and all this would help the boys out amazingly, and it seems to njie that a philanthropic individual who had held offis a long time could afford to die just as an accommodation, but they wont do it till the l,a*t mipute; will they ? Gn the whole I don’t tlfink theres much comfort in having pans. A high private and a poor man have about as good a time as anybody. Bill Arp. Who are Disfranchised? From the Macon Telegraph. There is much ado at the North con cerning thedisfranchishmcnt of uegroes in South Carolina, Georgia, Albania, Mississippi and Louisiana, whereas, if the truth was only known, these dusky suffrage slingers not only in many in stances vote once, but often, at every election, and pocket nice sums from both s:dHB iu each contest, whether po litical or personal. . The fact is, maugreelection districts registration or any other precaution in the premises, thjß average darkey has it I is own way on these occasions, for lie can no more be distinguished from his.fellows than one cow from another when a flock of these noisy marauders settle down upon acorn field- The whole thing of universal suffrage is almost an unmitigated farce at the South, so lar as the negroes are con cerned, for not one in twenty of them know whether his ticket is upside down or not, or can read the names of the candidates he has promised or been subsidized to vote for, and only values bis vote for the whisky or cash it will pan out. There is more truth than po etry in this statement, albeit the fact is patent to every candid southerner that the carpet-baggers and Rads have to ail infinitely greater extent than the Democrats, and upon much cheaper terms, monopolized the votes of the simple-hearted negroes, who had ta ken up the idea that the Yankee sol diers, wiio robbed them on every oc casion, and the federal offic als aud so called missionaries, who levied con tributions world without end from their unsuspecting victims, were their best friends But we have reason to hope and believe that our colored citizens are gradually opening their eyes to the true condition of affairs, and in time realize that their interests are in reali ty identical with the fortunes of the white owners of the soil who give them employment. These remarks were predicated upon the following paragraph, clipped from that sterling Democratic papor, the Doylestown (Penn.) Democrat: ‘‘Wonderful are the beauties of our legislative apportionments. Philadel phia, with 70,000 republican voters, e’ects thirty-one members of the Leg islature, and ths Democrats with 56,- 500, elects seven. That is. 2,300 re publican votes elect a member of the House, while it takes 8,000 Democrat ic votes to secure a Ike result. And yet the republicans talk of disfranchise ment at the South. We have it in its worst form in Pennsylvania. THE COLUMBUS FIRE. Columbus has been quite unfortu nate in the recent disastrous fire that destroyed over $150,000 worth of prop erty, nearly covered by insurance. The origin cf the fire is believed to be a<.* cidental. Mr. Thomas Bryant of Randolph county iq this State, killed on the 24 h of December, three hogs, fourteen months old, that weighed 979 pourids STATE NEWS. Savannah will soon start a 30uphonse for the benefit of tbe poor. Gen. Lnngstreet has accepted the appointment of Postmaster at Gaines ville. The Planters IluteLpropexty in Au gusta was sold on Tuesday last for $35,000. .... m * Work on the new hotel at Milledge ville will be begun about the first of next March. Marsh&llviMe in Macon county, was partially destroyed by fire on Monday night last. The friends of Gen. L. J. Gartrell are pressing him vigorously for the next Governor. Six thousand California salmon were put in the Chattahoochee at Shallow Ford last week. Eighteen dollars a day for a carriage is what they charged iu Augusta on New Year's Day. During the year just closed, $634,029 worth of timber and lumber have been shipped from the port of Darien. Lawyers and doctors are not expmpt from a license'tux by the State # but municipal corporations cannot tax them. Savannah boasts ef an iron-jawed negro who bites a ten penny nail in two. He does it twice for two dol lars. Anew steamboat is being built at Huwkinsville. It is 100 feet in length and 32 feet across the beams, with a capacity of 150 tons. The North Georgia Agricultural College at Dahlonega was destroyed by fire a few days ago. The exercises of the college will continue, Jiowever On a two horse farm, Abe Faust of Oglethorpe county, this season killed 1,225 pounds of pork, made 100 bar rels of corn, 11 b iles-of cotton, and peas, potatoes and ground-peas in pro portion. The Georgia House of Representa tives, at the session just terminated spent three thousand two hundred dol lars for clerical service, against be tween eleven and twelve thousand dollars spent fox the same service of the last session before. On the 25th of December, Mr. Hen ry Boyd, a young man about 23 years of ago, was found frozen tv' l death two miles west of LaGrange. He was on his way home, and was not very far from it when it is supposed lie was attacked with an epileptic fit. The Montozuma Weekly says : ‘Through the energy enterprise of Hon. Phil Cook,.Coramissioner Baird has been induced to stock Flint river with California the finest fish that swims. With white salmon and steamboats in and on Flint rjv.er, ail through the influence .of Gem Conk, we will be happy. Let ’ex roll/ Arnold negress named Lish Jackson now living in Sumter county is said to be 118 years old Her hair is as white as wool and tbe facial muscles clearly bt-ar the impress of extreme old age We suppose there are at least five thousand old negro daddies and nfam mas in the south who range, according to uheii own account from 100 to 160. Death of Caleb Cushing. Caleb Cushing, one of the most em inent lawyers this c >untry has ever produced, died at his home in Boston on the 2d inst. He was President of the last National Democratic Conven tion ever held at the South, at Charles- in l?o0. When it was found that Douglas would be the nominee, a se cession took place, and Mr. Cushing went with the seeeders and presided over the body that nominated John C- Breckinridge for President. So did Ben Butler Yet both of fhe'se men were, politically, afterwards, tho most bitter enemies the South .ever had. DR. BUTTS No. 12 N. Eighth St. Bt. Louis, Mo. Who ha* had greater experience In the treatment of the •exual trouble* of both male and female than any physician in the Weat, give* the reaulta of hia long and successful practice in hi* t. sew warlt*, just published, entitled The PHYSIOLOGY OF MARRIAGE The PRIVATE MEOI CAL ADVISER Booh* that are really Guides and BelMaatreetor* in all mat tera pertaining to ■sukood and Womaabaad. and supply want long felt. They are beaaUfaily Illustrated, and in plain language, easily understood. The two bock* embrace page*, and contain valuable laferaaatloa for both married and •ingle, with all the recent impror*aenU in medical treatment Bead what our homepaper* *ay knowledge imparted in Dr. Batts’ new work* l* in no way of questionable char acter, but i* aomething that every aae kaow. Tba Teeth, the rictim of early indiscretion; the Baa, otherwise perfectly healthy maybe, but with waning vigor in the prim* of lift, and the Wouiau, in from the many ills her (ex i* heirC Ml uj£ m to."—St. Louis Journal. Kl 111 El B M POriLAB PUICES 6O ct. both in one volume, |1; in cloth gilt. 25 eta. extra. Sent under seal, oofl BB H T|B *hfl ssceipt of price in money or stamp*. BF w w ff April 18. 187a 15-1 m BURNHAM’S 'JLwhib ml WARRANTED BEST AND CHEAPEST. Price* reduce*!!. FamphUt Jru, W^illingsSm Works : Christiana, Lancastei Cos., Pa. Orrxci: 23 S. Beaver St, York, Pa. Dec, 26, 1878. ' ly Look Out For Low Prices! W. W. ASHBUR.N Has increased his business and in addition to his former stock has now hand and will keep a lull lino of ST AP-l-.fi PRY Gpp p 8 such as: PRINTS, DOMESTICS. SPUN VARNS, JEANS. Ate., fcc. A GOOD ASSORTMENT OF HATS, SHOES, SADDLERY, ETC. A Large Lot of BAGCJIJiG and TIES ■A. CONSTANT SUPPLY OF FLOUR, BACON 1 , CORN, MEAL, SUGAR, COFFEE, RICE TOBUY SALT, POTASH, HARDWARE, NAILS, CUTLERY CROCK I ERY, TIN & WOODEN-WARE, ETC., always on hand. feard mean business and ask that you examine nr; stock and prices and convinced. Highest market price paid in cash for hides, wool, cotton iete I.ATTENTION! ©BEENBACKEBS! GEORGES W. POW BL, (Successor to POWELL & HARRISON,) Respec'.fully calls the attention of the public generaly to the fact that Uh e 9 on haud and will constantly keep a full line of FAMILY GROCERIES Canned Goods, Tinware, Cutlery, Glass and Crockery Ware, HA/R/OW-ARE, such as SCREWS, HINGES, BUTTS, FILES " CHISELS, AUGURS, HAMMERS, HATCHETS, SAWS, <fcc. KEROSENE OIL, FURNITURE of all kind*, and in fact everything usually kept in a first-class store. fl*ar*All of the above goods will be sold lower than ever.-®* Thankful f past favors extended the firm of Powell & Harris on, I most respectfully askt continuance of the same. . Respectfully yours, Eastman, Ga., Oct. 10, 1878.301 ’ GEO. W. POWELL # Thanking my customers and friends for their very liberal patronage in t! 1 past, and asking a continuance of the same, I bog leave to inform them that I now have, and am receiving a large and well selected stock of Pry pooDS. Clothing, pooTS & p hob : HATS, HARDWARE, FAMILY GROCERIES, &C., &.C., and indeed everything usually kept in a first class store. Having bought these goods low down, I am fully prepared to give my custom* BARGAINS UNSURPASSED BY ANY! Don’t Fail to Call and Examine my Goods and Prices before purchasing 4 I am determined to sell goods as cheap as they can be sold in this or r I other marKet at retail, and will guarantee satisfaction. Agaiu thanking y or your liberal patronage, and soliciiinga continuance of the same, I an Very Truly Yours, Eastman, Ga., Sapt, 12, 1878 -3 m C. B. MURRELL. L. Off. pMgoci STILL LEADS THE VAN IN —§°§ He can be found at his old stand with the best grade* of FLOUR, SUGAR, COFFFE BACON, CANNED GOODS, TOBACCO, BUTTER, l SOAPS, COFFEE MILLS, TINWARE, CROCKERY WARE, HARDWARE, NAILS, CUTLERY, SEALED MEASURES, &c., Ac, and as low as they can possibly be sold in tbi* market. Eastman, Ga., Oct. 3,1878-3 m . .* § SOL MASON, BARBER, will be in EASTMAN every Friday afternoon and Saturday forenooD, ready to wait on all who may need his services. dl2-3m ROBERT GARY. FASUINOVBI.B BOOT t SHOE BAKER. EASTMAN, GA, Fine Work a Specialty. Repairing promptly attended J. G. WRIGHT, WATCHMAKER & JEWELER, COCHRAN, GA. Watches and Jewelry repaired on short no tire. .411 work warranto! •etlOtnß CITY HOTEL, COCHRAN, GA. Mrs. Anxii Rinaldi, ) j B. G. Lti. Proprietress. \ j Mauafe’^ This house has been thoroughly renors r aud the rooms furnished with new furuitur and bedding, the tables are supplied w, rVfj the markets aftord; and the house be to first-class iu every respect. Cochran, Ga., Mbs. A. R IXALD V^ Nov, Ist. 1878. proprietress- NOTICE is hereby given of the intent**® apply to the legislature lor the passage local bill, entitled, “An act to amend n a t incorporate the town of Eastman, in the ty of Dodge, to define the limits ot the etc,, approved Dec. 15th, 1871, so as ' large said town by embracirg the foli* j lots of land entire, to-wit : lots numlier and 10, in 15th district, and lots nmnt'cr*- 309 and 310, in the 16th district of V 9 * county. Ftstiuas, Ga.,* Pee. 4, 187S-4I