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THE EASTMAN TIMES. M. L. BURGH, Editor & Proprietor THURSDAY, JANUARY 23, 1879. AN INCIDENT OF 1745. On a-Btonny night of February # 1745, a young lady wb in wu shill call Miss *S ott, was <-i ting ii< her dr ssing loom, iu an old castle in Perthshire, Scot! ind. She had been occupied all day tending her emie'n, Miss Hay, \vh > was ill of lever; and iiow > ere re* tiring to rest, she thought of the con test in which many of her r datives were engaged. The army of Piince Charles having retreated towards the .Highlands, several detachments of the King's troops w. re on the march to that c nnpaign which ended in the bat tle of Culloden. Amidst the roar c f the storm Miss /Scott fano'ed she heard the hell of the castle ring; and presently a servant appeared, saying that an officer wished to see her alone. On descending to the dining-room she found her cousin. Captain who eagerly asked for .hs s : ster. When he found that she Avas too ill to be disturbed, he said that in a vault below Die castle, un known except to his parents and him self, were concealed the family plate, and some papers which it was of the ■ulmost importance he should now possess As he had only obtained leave from his commanding officer to .jgallop before his troop, he had not dime to select the papers but he would open the trapdoor, and Miss Scott must go alone next night and take .them out, and lie would send a trusty messenger to receive them. He took a shovel from the hearth, and a small dark lantern. Miss Scott followed him to the low est story of the castle, through cham bers ami long dark passages. At length they reacht and a small vaulted apartment, the only furniture of which Avas a strong wooden press, fixed to the w dl in one corner of the room. In front of this Captain Hay scraped away the sand, and Miss Scott saw the ring .pfan iron trap-door. By united strength they raised it, and, descending a stair, Ahey reached the lowest vault, wheie ,thc ch fit stood. Captain Hay gave his cousin u list of the required papers, ; #nd thcikey of the chest; then he left the trap-door so that she could raise it without assistance Next night when all had retired to rest, Miss Scott took a small lamp, and, easily ra sing the trap-door, de* amended to the chest, and took out the papers; but oh, horrible 1 the heavy iron-bound lid of the chest slid from iier tremb! ng hands. The violent con cussion closed the trap-door, and threw open the door of the strong wooden .press above, s > that it remained im ,movable across the trap-door. She became aware that she must die of starvation in that dreadful vault! In fainting she must have extinguished her lamp, lor she revived in the awful .darkness. After praying, as Jonah might have prayed, she became again insensible. On reviving, she lay in bitter agony; at last she beard a sound. Had a most merciful God heard her cr\? Surely someone was in the up per vault! Tne trap-door was slowly .raised, and Captain Hay looked down in terror and astonishment. When she became composed he ex plained that, having omitted to mark .in bis list a document of the greatest importance, he had explained the cir .cumstancc to his commanding officer and got permission to return to the ( castle. jt is supposed that Captain Hay perished at Culloden, for he was .never heard of more, j Years passed ,away. Miss Scott was .mairied to a pious and benevolent med ical man, but he died of fever three weeks after the union. In the depths of despa : r the widow exclaimed, r ‘l prayed long; I prayed that 1 might s)e united to him; I will never pray again, nor see the light of the sun/ For more than a year ..she .refused to see her friends, and sat in a darkened room. The Rev. Hugh Blair, (author of the well-known sermon.' 3 , and afterwards professor of rhetor c in the University of Edinburg,) then a young man, be .earne interested in her history wrote her a vt ry sympathizing letter, and asked leave to pay her a visit. He found her sitting alone on a sofa, by the light of a taper. What p isscd is not known, further than he spoke of the wonderful deliverance God had vvouchsafed her that awful night in the vault. She wept much. 'And now, jinadam, kneel and join mo in prayer.’ >She did so, and when they arose from their knees, lie said: ‘Now, madam, I T s\’ill show you the light of the sun;' ,u”d lie opetre l the shutters. .From that day she admitted her friends, attended the house of God, and b’cauie exemplary for piety and sub tnisiou. Jt is not surprising that, to .the close of her life, a shade of melan choly tinged her countenance, and she was unwilling to speak ,of the thrilling incidents of her youth. How lo manage ;> wife--remain sin- Afraid She’d he Kissed. A rna i was once walking along one road and a woman along another The roads finally united., and the man and woman reaching the junction at the s ime time walked on together. The man was carrying n largejro* kettle on his back, in ope hand lie held by the legs a live chicken, in the other a cane, and he was leading u goat.. Just as tiny were coming,to a deep, dark ravine, the woman said to the man : ‘I am afraid to go through that ra vine with you ; it is a lon< ly p'aco and you might overj ower me and kiss me by force.’ ‘lf you were afraid of that/ man, ‘you shouldn’t have walked with me at all. How can I possibly over power you by force when I have this great iron kettle on my back, a cane m one hand, and a live chicken in the. other, and am leading this goat?— I might as well be tied hand and f.ot !' ‘Yes/ replied the wpipan, ‘but if you should stick your cano into the ground juid tie the goat to it, and turn the kettle bot'om side up and put the, chicken into it, then you might wick> edly kiss mo in spite of my resist ance/ ‘Sucress to thy ingenuity, oh, wo man !' said the rejoicing man to him self ; ( I should never have thought of such expedient., When they came to the ravine he stuck his cane in the ground and tied the goat to it, gave the chicken,to the woman saying : Tloldqt while I cut Home grass for the goat/ and then low ering the kettle from his shoulder inr prisoned the,chicken.undej-r itapd wick edly kissed the woman, as she was so afraid lie would. A Distinguished Postal Card. i A striking illustration of the extent and exce'lence of the uirangement for the international mail service, which has resulted from the Postal Union is given in an official publication receiv-, ed by our superintendent of foreign mails from the Berne Central Bureau. A resident of Chemnitz, Saxony, mail ed at that place at 7 p. m. on the 24th of May lust a postal card, addressed to hirnselt carrying a request to all postmasters, to dispatch it successive ly, and without loss of time to Alex andria Singapore, Yokohama, San Francisco and New Y"rk, and thence to Chemnitz—his object being a wager that with the existing postal arrange ments, the circuit of the world coaid. thus be made by postal matter within 120 days. The request was complied with and the card arrived in Chemnitz from New York on the 117th day after the date of, original mailing. The Postmaster Qenerdl of Germany has caused this card to be photograph ed, and transmitted acopyAo the Bl‘i> no International Bureau, with the re mark that had it been posted one hour earlier it would have accomplished its journey in 96 days, instead of 117. The First AVedding. We like the short courtships, and in this Ada.n acted like a sensible man— lie fell asleep a bachelor and woke up to find himself a married man. He appears to have popped the question almost immediatelyafter meet- 1 ing Miss Eve, and She, without flirta tion or shyness gave him a kiss and herself. Of that first kiss in the world we have ha 1 our thoughts, however, and sometimes m a poetical mood wished we were the man that did it. But the deed is done,-the chance was Adam's, and he improved it. We like the notion of getting married in a gar den. Adam's was private. No envious aunts and grumoling grandmothers The birds of the heav ens were the minstrnls, and the glad sky flung its light on the scene. One thing about the first wedding b-ings queer tilings to us in spite of its scriptural truth. Adam and Eve were rather young to marry ; some two or three days old according to the sagest elder ; with out experience, without a house, a pot or kettle ; nothing but love and Eden. A Jones county man who attended the Macon Fair, and saw a man handle a swarm of bees, went home and experi mented with one of his own coveys.— He tilted the box up so that his wile, who was at a safe distance, could see them. Then he tried to put them back, but this was a failure. Then be en deavored to shake them off, and this also appeared to be a failure, for his wife heard him give a snort, and the next moment he was tearing through an orchard of young peach trees, mak ing as much fuss as a frightened cav alry company. The place where he went through the fence looked as if the band-wagon of a circus had been shot through it side-ways. The opium refuge at Shanghai, or ganized by foreign medical and mis sionary influence, Has met with so much welcome from the natives that it is al ready self-supporting, and many pa tients are there trying to break from th; slavery of opium. ()n the-trump—the flea. The Butter Tree. There is a free in Africa called the shea tree, fiom which butter of a most excellent kind is obtained. It is found near Ka tba, on the banks of iho Ni ger. These trees grow in great abund ance all over that part of Bainbarra. I hey are not planted by the natives, but are fund growing naturally in the wood; and in clearing woodland for cultivation, every tree is cut down but the shea. The tree itself very much resembles the American oak, the fruit from the kei riel of which, being first dried in the sun, the butter is prepared by boiling the kernel in water, lias somewhat tne appearance of the Span ish olive. The kernel is enveloped in a sweet pulp, under a thin green rind, and the butter produced from it, be sides the advantage ol ils keeping the whole year without salt, is whiter and firmer, and of a richer flavor than the best butter ever made from cow’s milk. The growth and preparation of this article seems to be among the first ob jects of African industry, and i.t con stitutes a main .article L >f their inland commerce. So Natural. A boy on a firm in Kentucky, one day last summer, full to the ground with exhaustion three times while car rying an armful of wood from the yard into the kitchen ; and then he jumped over the front fence, ran two miles and a half down the road to catch up with a traveling circus, fought nearly an hour with three different nests of bum ble-bees, went in swimming four times, ran down a rabbit and treed 2 coons, made eleven whistles, two bows, and six pop guns, climbed a tiee one hun dred and eighty feet high to get u : crow's nest, lost one suspender, Acre out the whole after-guard of his pants, killed a snake four feet long, went al fishing, set fire to a pile of cord wood J run a plum thorn through his hand, had a fight with the boy on the next farm, was chased by a dog, and got home to make the painful discovery that a iarge and select assortment of new stone bruises on both feet gave him insupportable agony whenever he tried to walk just as it was time to go after the cows. The Times That Try Men’s Souls. When he pops the question. When his wife wants to talk and he doesn't. When lie writes to his girl and has to wait two weeks for a reply When hash is placed before him five suee ssive mornings at his boarding house. When be p ikes lbs head through his last clean shirt-and finds do button on behind. When be walks twelve miles to sse his girl and then rinds her out with his rival When he buys anew pair of shoes and discovers two big nails sticking up in the heels. When he liurrh s around the corner and lands square jin the arms of a man who holds his I. 0. U. When lie takes his girl out and dis covers that lie has left Ins pocketbook in his old trousers. When he comes home early in the morning and his wife wants to hold a little debating society in the lower hall. When he goes home at noon, finds a house full of company, and his wife blissfully ignorant of the fact that din ner is not ready. When in his dreams he is standing upon the verge of a precipice and his wife suddenly reminds him that he is not, but that lie is jerking her “banged hau•' , all to pieces. When he dives down into the bot tom of bis trunk, jerks out what he supposes is a clean pair of socks, but, finds only an old table napkin, with four white neckties, put away for next summer. The venerable Richard H. Dana and the late William Cullen Bryant were friends iu early life. Tiieir acquaint ance began with the publication of “Tlianatopsis." Mr. Dana was ar first unwilling to believe that any one in America could have written it, and when .the author's name we made public he sought bis acquaintance, and a friendship began which lasted through Mr Bryant’s life. Gratitude toward one's adopted country is a good thing, but it may be carried too far. ‘America/ said a Teu ton, 'is der bestgountry in der vorld. I haf vailed dree times, und now 1 goes pack to spend mine vortune mit my vatnily.* Stic—“How lovely in the calm still ness of evening to listen to the ni-rht in gale's note !" He—“Ye'tb, he’s a doocid fine fellow is the nightingale ; but I think he mutht be a beatbly noo thance to all the other little birdth that want to thlcep.' Young writer: Your poem on M he Flood’ is declined. The lines are too condensed and the expression is too constipated. Remember that a de scription of such a freshet as the last one should be written iu a .very easy tlowing style. PROFESSIONAL CARDS. John F. DeLacy. Attorney at Law, Eastman, .... Georgii Will practice in the counties r DODGE, PULASKI TELFAIH W.LGOX, DOOLY.' LAURENS Special attention given to all lh< branches of the practice WILLIAM McRAE, ATTORNEY-AT- LAW, Eastman ■ - - - <2a. Will practice in the counties ol the Oconee circuit: Jy WILBUR r. KELSEY, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW COCHRAN, GA. Will practice in Oconee and Brunswick Cir cuits. Prompt attention given to business. ROLLIN A. STANLEY. ATTORN IY-AT-L A W* DUBLIN, GA. Will practice iu all the counties of the Oco nee Circuit. From long experience in the Criminal Practice, much of his time will be specially devoted to that branch of his profes sion. angß’7Btf O. C. HORNE, ATTORNIY-AT-LAW IIAWKINSVILLE, GA, Will practice in the counties of the Oconee Circuit and United States Courts of Georgia. ♦ Attorney and at Law, AND SOLICITOR IN EQUITY, McVILLE, : ; GEORGIA Refers to Hon. Clifford Anderson, Captain John C. Rutherford and Walter B. Hill, Esq., Professors of Law, Mercer University Law School, Macon, Georgia. AuFBED HERRINGTON, ATTORNEY AT LAW, HOC NT VERNON, GA. Will practice in Emanuel, Tattnal and aril the counties of the Oconee Circuit. Special attention given to buying, leasing and selling real estate, and examining laud titles. Also, special attention given to the collection of pen sions of widows and soldiers under a late Act of Congress. may3o’7B ly 13. 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THE EASTMAN TIMES will be sent, post-paid, to any part of the United States, for one year, on receipt of Only Two Dollars. ja. y pjijifjt, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR, Eastman, Dodge Co* GEORGIA. . T " t