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About The Hawkinsville dispatch. (Hawkinsville, Ga.) 1866-1889 | View Entire Issue (June 15, 1871)
THE HAWKINSVILLE DISPATCH. VOL. 5. MiM Nellie Grant will be sweet •IxUdn'tib the 4th of next July. If ybn wHilt the time to pass light ly, leave some little children at home playing with a box of matches. Track laying at Eufftttlß 'com menced Tuesday, 30th ult., on the •Vicksburg and Bruswick Railroad. *“ There are three things,” said a wit, “ which I have loved without un -derstanding them; paintings, music Wnii'Women.” Tfhe'Worthiest people are most in j jored by slanders ; as we usually find 'that'to be the best fruit which the thirds have been picking at. •tTeff Thompson is raising cotton in Mississippi. lie raised a fellow two bales on “kings and”—the other night. Another colored oadet has arrived, at West Point, Henry Alonzo Napier, from Tennessee. He is about eighteen years of age. j Kimball is now the President of four roads—the B. and A., B. C.,j ■Cartersville and Vanwcrt, and Mari etta and North Georgia. •Mr. Ira Jennings, the Radical and successful candidate for Tax Collec 'tOr df'Blbb'Coonty, having failed to give bonds within the tithe prescribed 'by law, the office is therefore declared 'vacant. — “My dear,” said a husband to his Wife, “ I’m going to start a codec. :plantation.” How’ll you get the land “Oh there's no trouble about that; I always have plenty of coffee grounds •in my cup." A Washington editor is mad be • cause a compositor headed his edito rial, “The G’hairfpagne Opened,”' when he wrdte “ The Campaign •Opened." He says that printer is al ways thinking about something to •drink. “The fact is,” said an elderly wifb, 1 '“a man docs not know howto slraigh ’ten up things. He does not know where,to begin. I don’t wander,” she •remarked in conclusion, “ that when! •God made Adam, lie went right to work and made a woman to tell him what to do.” The tailor makes the man I" em ■phhatically declared a village philos-' •opher. No, sir,” replied a by-stand er, “ it is dress that makes the man,” Then what does the tailor make ?’’ —Well, perhaps from ten to fifteen •Hollars clear fttoGt on a suit.” The Mempis Appeal says that •{Judge Jdlin W. Harris, of Paris, Tennessee, who was an officer in the service during the war, •treated a western New Yorker kindly •as a prisoner Of ww. The New York wx-soldier died a short time ago, and' bequeathed Harris $5,000. Mr. John T-. Mooro, a well-known •steamboat man, of Angtrsta, has boegWCfOOT boats to run the Savan nah ftiVOr. The UoJts are all light draught vessels, built to do -business x>n tbe Savannah in mtnrtner as well us winter. The price paid was $lO,- •000 each. Judge Wm. F. Wilburn, an old *nd worthy cTtfeen of ftfbb -county, died Very suddenly of the heart dis ease last Tuesday night. He had been laboring under tbe disorder for some time, but during the night his wife, bein£ aroused by his struggles, bad not time to *trike ft light before be had passed away. In the midst of a stormy di-' cas aion, a gentleman rose to settle mat ters in dispute. Waving his hand majestically over the excited dispu tants he began, “ Gentleman, all I want is common sense.” “ Exactly," Jerrold interrupted, “ that is precise ly what you do want." A young lady of Cleveland, Ohio, jeoeiyed a letter on the eve of her wedding, saying that her lover had a wife and two children in n neigh boring .town.. The poor girt i»fd A* Alter through, turned her face to wards her mother who was in the room, and exclaiming, “ Oh, ma,” ng« dropped dead on tbe Horn:. HAWKINSVILLE, GA., THURSDAY, JUNE 15, 1871. Krrp Your Top Cool. —Artemus Ward once, during a journey across the Plains, offered a stage-driver a drink of whisky from his flask, which was refused in the most decided terms. Said the driver: “I don’t drink. I won’t drink. And I dont like to kfce anybody else drink. lam of the opinion of thbftc -mountains yonder —keep your top cool. They’v got snow and I’ve got brains; that’ oil the difference.” There is a wealth of wisdom in the sententious remark, “ keep your top cool.” The fountain of man’s hap piness is in the brain. Alcohol is a foe to the brain, and when it gets there, either benumbs it or perverts its action. Remember the stage-dri ver's curt philosophy. Pat at it Again An Irishma made a sudden bolt into a druggist’s shop, took from 'Jits ipOckct a soda water bottle filled with some liquid, and banding it across theCOUbter, ex claimed, “There, doctor, sniff‘that, will y dr. ?” *fhe Dr. did as requested, and pronounced the liquor to be gen uine whHky. Thank you, doctor," said the ‘lrishman. Hftnd it to mo again,'lf you please.” The Dr. did so, and ttsked what he meant. ‘*©ch, thin,” said -Pat, “if you will hfcVe it, the priest fold'tacnot to drink nny of this unless I got it from the doctor. So here’s to your health and the priest's health.'’ Tkv'CbTTON Area —The Commer cial and Financial Chronicle of last week makes the following es timate of falling off from last year in the cotton acreage: Nortli Carolina, 12 per cent, 54,000 acres; South Carolina, 20 |>cr cent, 120,000 acres; Georgia, -Iflipcr cent., -1-75,000 acres ; Mississippi, 'ife per cent., acres; Alabama, 15 percent., 215,000 acres; West Tennessee, 5, Middle TennesSfee,’lo atid an Average through out the State of 7 per cent., or 37,000 acres; Arkansas, 8 j>er cent., 56,000 acres ; Louisiana, 9 per cent., 83,000 acre? ; Texas not estimsted. These eight Suites, according to the esti mate of the Chronicle, show an ng gregate decrease iti edfloh acreage amounting to 982,000 Rcres. Woman Iras toasted in the follow ing style at the recCht anniversary meeting of the Richmond Light In fantry Blues: “Woman—pure as a snowflake as falls upon cold peaks of the Hactrain X’lps : -beautiful as the honri that bathes hcrstlf in tht 'Crys tal fountains of the Moslem Paradise; graceful as the Peri afloat on her shell skiff over the calm waters of the dark blue sea ; vain, worse than vain, the warning to guard the heart when in tellect flashes from her bright eye, and the light of the soul is breathed like music upon her face.” The Baptist Convention, which re cently held its session at Cartcrs ville, appointed a board of Atlanta gentlemen for the purpose of estab lishing an Orphan Home, to lie under the direction of the Convention. On last Friday the bohrd organized by electing Hon. Cincinnatus Peeples, President; I.cwis G. Crawford, Secre tary ; end IfoVt. H. James Treasurer. A young lady of Bainbridge, in New York Stft'te, nffc&cft bargain With Curtis Cooper, some fifteen years ago, whereby she was to have a “ ewe lamb and its increase until she was 21 yeats old,” in ’exchange for a gold watch key. She was but six years of age and now wres Mr. Oooftcr for 17,064 lambs, Or IheTr valne> which at four dollars pet- head, is $74,- 526. An eccentric murderer has tuttied np in Louisville, Ky. George Wal coiJ, who killed a soldier at Frank fort some time since, and for whose arrest Governor Leslie offered SSOO reward, had himself arrested by a friend, who drew the reward and gave it to Walcott. Walcott im mediately gave the money to the widow of his victim. He was drunk when the killing occurred. The trial of E, J, Martin, for the BMtrder of Westmoreland, at Brun swick, resulted in the failure of Use Jury to agree and their consquent discharge. Temporary insanity was the pies of the deference. The Wife’s Influence on her Husband’s Fortune. A woman lias her husband’s for tune in her power, because she may, or she may not, as she pleases, con form to his circmiAtancdss. This is her first duty, and it ought to be her pride. No passionfor luxury or dis play ought'for a moment to tempt her to deviate in the least degree from this line of conduct. She will find her respectability in it Any other course is wretchedness itself and in evitably leads to ruin. Nothing can be more miserable than trying to keep up appearances. If it could! succeed it would cost more than it is worth; as it never can its failure in- ( voices the deepest mortification.— Some of the sublmest exhibitions ofj human virtue have Been 'ihade by women, who have been precipitated 'shddriily from weiilth and splendor to absolute want. Then a man’s fortunes Arc ‘in a 1 manner in the bands of his wife, in asmuch ds’hls own power of exertion: depends on her. llis moral strength' is inconceivably increased by her sympathy, her council, her aid. She can aid him immensely by relieving him of cvry care which she is capable of taking upon herself. His own em ployments arc usually such as to re quire liis whole time au 1 his whole mind. A good wife will never suffer her husband's attention to be dis-j traclcd'by dctailsto which lie: own time and talents arc adequate. If she be prompted by true affection and good sense, she will perceive when his spirits live borne down and ' overwhelmed. She, of all human I ic ings, can minister lo his needs. For the sick soul her nursings is quite ns , sovereign as it is for co •porea'l ills. ■Hit be weary, in her assiduity it finds repose and ‘refreshment If it be harnessed and worn to a morbid ir ritability, her gentle tones steal over it with n sootliirfg'ftKtta pdterft 'than, the most exquisite ‘music. -If every enterprise lie dead, and hope -itself almost extinguished her patience and fortitude have the power to rekindle them in the heart and lie again goes forth to renew tltb cncountdr with, the to-is and troubles of life. Ph«* Him Round. On the 21st of April, an individual calling himself J. T. Durant forged the name of Mr. W. Mobley, of Ran dolph county, on an order to the firm of Owen k Scaly, for a bill of fhJfthftndise. The order was duly presented and filled, after whli-h the forget left fbr parts unknown. Subse quently, Messrs. Owen k Sealy discov ered the fraud, and learning that Dur ant was in llawkinsville, dispacthed Mr. M. B. Smith, otic Of thfe tftifiloyes, in search of him. This Durant had the mark of a female tatooed on one arflt, rfnd a ship upon the other, and was crippled in one arm also. The Sheriff of I’ulaski county having been furnished with a description of Dt»rant, arrested another party with precisely the same marks upon his person, not excepting the maimed arm. This in dividual, however, was the older of the two. Upon Mr. Smith’s arrival, he saw at once that the prisoner was not Durant, and he was immediately released. Such a striking coinci dence and identity of person and cir cumstances has rarely been known. Durant is still at large, but it is hoped wHI be apprehended.— Tele- Graph. •A San Eranciseo paper says Mrs' Lawra ft. Fair takes the greatest pains with her toilet in prison, often Changing her dress three or fowr times a day. She passes much Os the time liefoTc hcrrtirfo'r, And while admiring herself, says : “ The more I see of myself the more 1 art Con vinced I can never be hanged-. Sneh a face and form as mine wre never created for the gallows.” She mod estly asserts she was never so hand some as she is now. Black-eyed ladies arc said to be most apt to be passionate and jeal ous. Blue-eyed—soulful, truthful, affec tionate and confiding. Gray-eyed—philosophical, literary resolute, ooid-hearted. Hazel-eyed—quick-eyed, quick-tern pered and fickle. The Last of the flcmlnoles. The Seminolcs were supposed to be entirely driven out of Florida as the result of that most famous ot our struggles‘with the aborigines, known as the Florida IndiAh Vdr, which cost us years of militiary adventure, hun dreds of millions of dollars in money, a vast amount of corruption, extrav agance and army demoralization. When we had picked up the majority of the brave Seminolcs, one by one, a plan was devised and carried out suocesfully, of buying up the couscnt of the remaining Indiaus to removal to the Ibdian Territory at the West. Two bands, those of Billy Bowlegs and Sam Jones, were supposed to be all that remaiued, and they were nego tiated with. Bowlegs and his follow ers were bought up at from S4OO to SI,OOO a head, and removed. Sam Jones, who was then 120 years old, declined at first, to sell himself and his birthright and people, declaring that one hundred cartloads of gold would not him ‘tb 'forsake his familiar haunts ; blithe?finally yielded,' and the round suin of $50,000 carried him, and what was supposed to be the last remnant of the Seminolcs, from Florida to the West. But there wore those who still lin gered in the everglades. They took refuge in the swamps of the lower portion of the peninsula, where they have sineo remained—some three hundred in number—in entire seclu sion, no whites, excepting ouc or two Methodist Missionaries, having pen etrated their settlement, and subsist ing no one can hardly tcll|!iow. A late report of a missionary describes them as at lea it a semi-religious peo ple, keeping the Sabhallt and exhib iting moral and intelligent traits of character; *in |>crsonal appearance, coming up to the old tyc of the red man, of which the Seminolcs are good specimens. In pursuit of a more sa- I lubrious residence and better hunting ground they arc moving southward, from which fact an inference is drawn that tire lower portion of Florida is gradually rising and becoming more callable of human habitation. Within the past ten days five girls under fourteen years of age have committed suicide in the United States. One of ten years hung her self because her brother died. Two between twelve and fourteen poison ed themselves in consequence of love disappointment. One of eleven told her companions she intended to jump rope until she killed herself, and did so, dying next day. The fifth, only eight and a half years ol age, threw herself into a mill-pond because her mother insisted upon her wearing cop|>er-toed shoes. To these may In added the novel suieido of a little girl twenty-one months of age, the child of Mr. William Beavers, resid ing near Alexandria, Va. The child held -her breath while in a pet, aschoil dren frequently clo, and died, al though she was perfectly well before the crying fit. Be a Man. —FoooHhli spending is the father of poverty. Do not be ashamed of hard work. Work for the licst salaries or wages you can get, lrtt work for half price rather than lie idle. Be your own master, and do not let society or fashion swallow [up your individuality—hat, coat and boots. Do not cat up or wear out all tlxat you earn. Compell your selfish body to spare something for profits saved. Be stingy to your own appetite, but merciful to necessi ties. Help others, and ask no help yourself. See that you are proud. Let your pride be of the right kind. Be too proud to be lazy ; too proud lo give lip without conquering every too proud to wear a coat you cannot afford so buy; too proud to be in tortparty that yo* cannot keep up with in expenses; too proud lo lie, or steal, or cheat; too proud to be stingy. Killed bv Liohtnino. —The Car tersville Express learns that young Mr. Nelson, of Euharlec, son of the late Major Nelson, who was killed a short time since by the falling of a bridge over Euharlee creek, at Tum lin’a Mill, was killed on’Wednesday afternoon laat by lightning, while standing in bis own yard. i*nd Deeds for sale at this Office Extract. There are many devils tlmt walk this world, Devils large,and devils small: Devils so meagre and devils so stout ; | Devils with horns, nthl devils without: Sly devils that go with their tails uncurled. Bold devils that carry them unfinled ; Meek devils, and devils that brawl; Serious devils and laughing devils, Imps for churches and imps lor revels; Devils uncouth, and devils polite; Devils black, and devils white; Devils fooliill, and devils wise; Hut a laughing woman with two bright eyes. Is the worst devil of all. Je.T. nuvls—Sensible Itetharki By A Northern Editor. We take the following article, on a much discussed subject, from the New York Express, and rejoice to sec that there is at'least one 'journal at the North that has a lilmr.-il appreciation of the condition and feelings of the Southern people; Jefferson Davis, in spite of himself, ! i t would seem, is receiving a sort of ovation in Georgia. He spoke at length on Saturday evening at Atlan-, ta, ahd declared for “the liberty of 1 the law.” Among other tilings lie said: “ I don’t believe I did nny wrong, 1 and therefore I don't acknowledge it. All that the government lias a right to claim from any of its subjects is that they will quietly submit to the law. Liberty of the law is their in heritance, and submission to the law as long it is such is their duty and heir obligation, mid it should lie their pride.” , We say nothing of the propriety of Mr. Davis’ speeches—which may have an eye to business, as the Presi dent of a Life Insurance Company— for in the freedom of speech, with the responsibilities of stleli freedom, we fully lielieve; nor can we quarrel with a disfranchised citizen, though the leader of the rcliellion, who denoting ees the yoke put on him after the war’ is over, and the whole country is at, peace. If Congress was wise, if (lie Executive, was wise, if the Republi can party was wise, the Executive, and Congress, and party would soon disarm all eavilers and nssaiilants of the administration on this score, by insisting at least that enfranchise ment should Is- as free to white mean as negroes. Nor would they stop lien-. They would wake friends of enemies by concession to public opin-, ion at the South, where there was no violation of Federal law or attempts, to violate it. The licst inen and the best minds at the South have a right to at least as much freedom as the lowest inen and the meanest minds. Nor can we expect the leading classes of the South to express sorrow fdr the past. They pi lyed the last stakes for iiide|x-iidciicc and lost all in the trial. They put in practice opinions that Northern States and Northern men have often assumed, but never maintained. They own up that they failed and were beaten; but they are not sorry for their attempts to gov ern themselves, and would lie liv)>o crites if they said they were; ami yet many would value the hypocrisy of ft false expression of regret to the more honest declaration that they thought tlioy were right in 1860-61, and think so now. The human mind and heart are not like pieces of clay or putty, to Is- moulded to any shape and at any bidding. What they think and feci they will give expression to, nr.fl it is quite enough that men willingly and advisedly acquiesces in that which is beyond their control. The Biieakino of a Wedding Ring. —An article in Chambers’ Jour nal on matrimonial superstition cot tains the following: “The breaking of a wedding ring is an omen that its wearer will soon lie a widow. A correspondent Os Notes and Queries found this fancy current in Essex a few years ago A man had ltccn murdered in that country, and his widow said: “I thought 1 should soon lose him, for [ broke my wedding ring the other day; and my sister 100 lost htf- tit*.* baud after breaking her ring. It is a sure sign !” Such superstitious no tions arc far more prevalent than one would suppose, and the school mas ter will have to work hard and long before they arc entirely eradicated in our land. The following, from the Sunday- School Times, is pretty hard on otfr ministerial brethren. There are a good many Synodical, Conferential and General Assembly meetings just now, and we wonder if that can real ly be one Os the Items of business Bnt here is the item: “During the May anniversaries in New York the following dialogue was overheard between two ncwsl*oyft; “Say, Jim, what’s the meaning of so man}' ministers bein’ here altogeth er?” “ Why,” answered Jim, scorn fully, “ they always meet once a year to exchange sermons with each other.'” NO. 24 HAWKINSVILLE DISPATCH. PI'nLISIIEI) EVERY TIUJHBDCT. rar Subscription: $2 00 a Ytbr, in adtancc. Rules nml Rules. IT Advertisements $1 00 per square for the first insertion, and 75 cent* for each subsequent insertion. (A square is the space ot one inch in depth of the column, irrespective of the number of lines.) CONTRACT ADVBIITI6ING. i m 2 iii in 11; in | r,‘ n -1 square.. . SII $ 5 $ 7 ffO $ Ifi a “ ... r. 8 It 16 2(1) 3 “ 7 It 15 20 30 4 “ ... « 14 18 26 35 i column.. 10 111 20 85 45 I “ .. 15 20 30 CO 75 j “ _2O 90 40 75 125 A liberal deduction will lie made will those who advertise by the year. Tbe money lor advertisements is due on the first insertion. Tributes of Hespect, Resolutions by Hoei eties, Obituaries, etc., exceeding six lines, to be charged as transient advertising. Subseriticrs wishing their papers changes' from one post-olllce lo another, must slate Hie name of the past-ofltcc from which they wish it changed, us well us that to whiei they wish it sent LEGAL ADVERTISING. Ordin art’s—Citations lor betters ot Administration, by Administra tors, Executors, Uttnrdtaa*, Ac $35 Application for Letli-rs of Dlsntfs- . „ shin from Administration..,...;,.. 4 0t Application tor bettors of Dismis lion from Guardianship. 55] Application for leave to sell baud -4 0< Notice to Tviilbrs and Creditors 0 51 Hales of 'personal or perishable property, per Square. 1 oy Hales ol bands, per square....... f> 5j BitEHirr’s —l’er levy 8 5J Mortgage sales, ten lines or less.. 50) Tax OuT- oV-c's ; aies/per’sipinrc, S w- CLeiik’s—Foreclosure of Mortga ges and other Monthly advertise ments, $1 per square of oik- inch for each insertion. Announcing County Candidates.. M Announcing District Candidates,. 72 0* l-'or a man advertising his wife, in advance 20 0 f *sf“ Sales of band, by Administrator' Executory cr Guardians, are required b; law to tie held on the first Tuesday in tin month, Iv-tvyeen the hours of ten in the fore noon and tll.Yc in the afternoon, at tlu Court-house in the county In which tin property is situated. Notice of these sales tnust lie given in a public guzetle 40 days previous tb the da\ of sale. , Notice for the sale of personal property must Ik- given in like manner, 10 days pre vioiis to sale day. Notice to debtors and creditors of rin es tale must also Is- published 40 days. Notice that application will Is- made io the Court’nf Ordinary lor leave to sell land must lie published for four weeks- Citations on letters of administration (lu-irdiaiisliin, A-e., must lie published I! 1 ’ days; for dismission from administration monthly three months; for dismissiou from Guardianship, 40 days. Rules tor the foreclosure nf Mortgage must lie 7’ohlislied monthly, four months for establishing lost papers, for the fill’ xpuce of three months ; loreom;M-lling title from Executors or Administrators, wlier* I loud has lieen given l>v the deceased, tin bill space Os three months. Hlu-riH’s sales must he published for foil! wrecks. Publications will always lie continued neeoiding to these, the legal requirement unless otherwise ordered. L. A. HALL, Attorney & Counsellor at Law, EASTMAN, GEORGIA. Wibb give prompt attention to ali business entrusted to his care. marlO-tf A. C. PATE, ATTORNEY AT LAW, HAWKINSVILLE, QA. Wibb practice in the counties ot Pn Huki, tfouMon, Donlv, Wilcox, Tel fair, Irwin, banrens and Dislge, and, by special contract, iu any Court in the Stall rnt»y2s-lf L. C. RYAN, ATTORNEY AT LAW, HAWKINSVILLE, GA. WILL practice in the counties of Pu laski, Houston, Dooly, Wilcox, Tef fair, Laurens and Dodge, and by *|ieciul contract, in any Court in lie- Htate. OFFICE —Over .1.0. .b-lks Jt Brother's store, in old hotel building, jiincl -ts Road Notice* Ordinary’s Office, Pulaski C 0.,) May 28,1871 Tin- Road Commissioners -hi-pointed n mark out and report on anew Road, lead ing from Fellowship to Friendship Churches on a direct line, and intet sect with *he Abbeville and Troupvilb- Road, have returned their report to tbi offlcc, and it will be passed on the first Mondfty fr, duly next. Givc’n iimler my band and official slgna ture, this May 23, 1871. J J. SPARROW, may 25-Sod Ordinary. ICE I ICE! ICE l LEMONS 1 LEMONS! Dnritig the season, 1 will keep on lrnnd for the accommodation of ritizxus in tnwi and country, ICE and LEMONS, at elthei wholesale- or retail Families can aupiil' themselves at short notice. Terms cash A. WATERMAN, maylß~3m At the Old Stand. Sheriff's Executions for sals at this Offls
