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About The Hawkinsville dispatch. (Hawkinsville, Ga.) 1866-1889 | View Entire Issue (June 27, 1872)
THE HAIVKINSVILLE DISPATCH. VOL. 6. The candidates for county officers in Miller county are equalled only by the demand in Chatham. IThc Early county News is exultant ever a stalk of cotton two feet high, and with fifty-6no forms and bolls on it Pretty good for high. Every county which has held a convention, so far, has endorsed our excellent and patriotic Governor, James M. Smith. The colored Baptist Church of Thomaston have purchased a bell, i and the old horn, through which they 1 heretofore summoned the brethren, ha?,"been placed on the shelf. Mr. W. B. F. Baily, of Griffin, took the oath of allegiance on the 2d inst., support the constitution and by f ws of Miss Fannie Copeland. We eliminate the fallowing from exchange. The brethren will pKasu raise the tunc promptly : “Oh kittens 1 in our hours of ease—uncer tain toys, and full of fleas: when pain anil anguish hang o'er men, we turn you into sausage then.” This paragraph is industriously moving through the Western press: “Miss Stevens, a beautiful blonde preacher, is creating a profound re ligious sensation in Georgia. She is said to make all the masculines feel like embracing her—doctrines." The bill abolishing capital puish ment in lowa has commendable brev ity. The sections of the act are: 1. Tko penalty of ylcalU as a punish ment for crime is hereby abolished. 2. All crimes heretofore punishable witli death, shall lie punished by im prisonment for life at hard labor in. the State Penitentiary. 3. In all ca ses arising under the preceding see-- lions, the Governor shall grant no pardons except on rccommendat on. What Andy Says. —The Wash ington correspondent of the Cincin nati Commercial says, June 12: “Ex- President Johnson, who is no* hern, is non-committal on tli£ yreelcy movement. He says lie will abide the decision of the Baltimore Con vention, whatever that may be, and he is of opinion that whoever it nom inates will be elected, and make a better President than General Grant. He does not believe that the country will again indorse Grant, and it it does, the people will have abdicated their rights auil lilx-rties. He propo ses to hike the stump for the nomi nees of tho Baltimore Convention.” The Georgian, published at Black shear, says: “Another disaster to this year’s crop in this county’, has made its appearance. The array worm, or caterpillar, lias taken to the corn fields, literally destroying them. We arc informed that they have des troyed ten acres of born for James Hyers, eight for Mathew Dickson, and have seriously damaged the corn crop of several other persons living in the same locality. They have a dark green color in appearance, and in size are between that of the bud worm and common catcr^lar. A Ship Canal Across Florida.—. A ship canal across tbo peninsular of Florida is proposed. Tho route is up the St. John’s river one hundred and twenty-seven miles, then up the Ocklawaha river for sixty miles. To this point a ship canal for the dis tance of forty miles must be cut through the swamps to the Amaxarc river at a spot thirty-five miles from its mouth where it empties into the Gulf of Mexico near Cellar Keys— By this route six hundred and fifty miles will be saved on the voyage be tween the mouth of the Mississippi and the Atlantic parts. As the trade of 1871 between the ports on the Gulf of Mexico and those on the -Atlantic coast amqpnted to eight hundred thousand tons, it is believed that a handsome revenue would be derived from the proposed canal. The anti-Greeley men in the upper portion of the State are making much of the fact that the “Georgia House," at Dalton, changed its name the other day to the “Greeley House" and was soon thereafter struck by light ning. HAWKINSVILLE, GA., THURSDAY MORNING, JUNE 27, 1872. John 11. Brnnllcy and Ills old Fuplls. The Minden Academic, a little paper - printed by the pupils of Mr. John 11. Brantley in Minden, Louisiana, contains the following edi torial. Quite a number of the young men of Hawkinsville, and tho coun try generally, will read their old teacher’s kind words with interest and pleasure. Mr. Brantley says: OUR dKORQIA BOYS. We arc much obliged to some of the Georgia papers for their very flat tering mention of our name as a teacher, and their kind notice of our School-Boys’ Paper. The llawkins villc Dispatch, published in the town where wc spent the Spring of our life, and where we have so many friends —friends such as man never had, in dulgent, liberal and steadfast amidst whatever vicissitudes of fortune—in its issue o May 16th, freshens many pleasant recollections and places us under additional to its young and rising editor. It alludes to the fact that our pupils are scat tered far and wide over the country and successfully pursuing the differ ent callings in life. In looking over an old list, and noting the various honorable positions they arc filling in the county’, municipal and district offices, in the Tamneils of different states, in the judiciary department as Judges and Solicilois General, in the pulpit and among the laity, in, the teacher’s chair, and the chair edito rial, everywhere, and everywhere res |icctcd as good eilizeni, we have rea son to fuel proud of our Georgia boys and that our somewhat eventful lile has not been altogether misspent. Os two facts we are specially proud,'viz.. Ist. That wc do not know of a single Georgia pupil who is vagabondizing or “living upon the interest of what he owes.” 2nd. That we never failed to se cure any business position for any of obr pupils where, employers were re ferred to ns. or where our aid was so -1 .cited, or volunteered. From.Gcttyabnrg to New Orleans, from Shiloh to Ocean Fond, from C.nrlcston across to Vicksburg, on Missionary Ridge and around Atlan ta, our Georgia school-boys from bigh-privates up to Colonel, illustra ted Georgia patriotism, Georgia val or, Georgia heroism. At the first victory cn Manassas Plains when the smoke of battle had not yet rolled away, it was of the Captain of filly six of our former pupils that Gen. Beaureg asked, “What Regiment is that,” and to whom, when the res ponse, “It is what is left of the Eighth Georgia,” was given, that the brave General lifted his hat and re plied, “Eighth Georgia, I salute you.” If the good people of Minden could have seen these boys gather around us at Richmond when orders came to move to the front, and coufif have heard the assurances they gave us thnt “all of your boys will do their duty,” they would pardon the vanity which may have prompted the writing of this article. On admon ishing them to obey orders one mod el boy, (John W. C,arruthers) with our hand pressed in both of his, re plied, “If you have not heretofore taught ns the important lesson of obedience, I fear that yonr admoni tions now are too late." Another little Christian hero, (Alvcy Goodson) said : “Tell my poor widowed moth er, that her only child, whom she has taught how to live, is not afraid to die, I only fear for her.” In common with many others, these two noble yonths fell on the same battle field. Peace ttf their ashes. A handsome and aristocratic young lady, in reduced circumstances, has been appointed keeper of a toll-bridge over the Neuse river, in Nortn Caro lina, whereat an editor down there says; “There will undoubtedly "bo more young men than ever tolled over that bridge, and many a love story will be told over it too. An editor oat west became martial and was made a captain. On parade, instead of “two paces in front—ad vance,” he unconsciously exclaimed, “cash—two dollara a year in ad' ▼once." He was court-martialed and sentenced to read his own papers. Letter from Tclfltlr County. Below wo publish quite an inter esting letter written by a friend at Macßae, the new county site of Telfair. The 'catfish nest i 9 some tiling “new under the sun:” Mcßae, No. 11, M. & B. R. II.,) June 18, 1872. J Editor Hawkinsville Dispatch: Dear Sir Allow mo to give you a few hints in regard to affairs in old Telfair. Crops are looking well, taking into consideration the drouth and late planting; still, the crops will he short. I have seen on the farm of D. C. Graham, Esq., cotton blooms two weeks ago. Times are very dull here, with the exception of some few, who are fond of their fishing parties, and seem to enjoy themselves very much, while others are carrying on their same old occupation of land and sheep stealing. I think Judge Pate will have a goodly’ number of indict ments for larceny to dispose of at the October term of the Superior Court. I was in Lumber City a few days since, and I saw one gentlemen drink twenty-one glasses of Lager Beer in less than tun minutes, and then a couple of glasses of Peach and Iloney to taper off with. I say, where arc tho Lemonade Drinkers and Orange Eat ers ? Fly -to the rescue 1 * Mr. Deberry Powell killed, on the 13th inst., an Alligator measuring twelve feet in length, and also found a catfish nest on the same day lie broke a couple of trace chains and large hooks in trying to capture the old hen. The citizens meet at the new site on the 20th to nominate delegates to the Atlanta State Convention. There is, a goodly number of the citizens* declared for Greeley, and hoisted their ensign. I mean the broad brim liats, but 1 would support the D—J sooner than either one of them. „ I think I will have at least twenty more subscribers for your paper in less than three weeks. Nothing more. Yours, Rospocfully, M. !>«-■<■ orrulte HcreliiiK In Dooly f'ouHly. YTT.n.na, Dooly County,! June 15, 1872. ) Pursuant to previous notico a por tion of the Democratic party ot Doo ly county assembled this day at the 'court-house in Vienna, for the pur pose of electing delegates to the State Democratic Convention. The meeting was organized by call ing Mr. A. J. Pound to the chair, and .1. P. Heard as Secretary. On mo tion the chair appointed S. B. Stovall, S. Woodward, P. Morgan, G. W. Busbee and J. 11. Moreland, to report suitable business for the action of the meeting. Buring the absence of the committee A. J. Cone, Esq., ad dresed the meeting. The committe returned and reported the following resolutions: Resolved Ist, That in the princi ples of the Democratic party as enun ciated by Jefferson and Madison, we recognize the only hope of constitution al liberty and free government* There fore wc believe the times demand a “straight-out Democratic ticket and a sound Democratic platform.” 2d. That whilst we warmly advo cate and decidedly prefer the nomi nation of true and tried Democrats as candidates fiy President and Vice President, yet we will abide by and support thtf action of the Georgia Delegates to the Baltimore National Democratic Convention, on the 9th day of July. . .3d. That J. W. Woodward. A. J. Cone and P. Morgan, be and are ap pointed delegates to the State Con vention to assemble in Atlanta on the 26th inst., and that those present be entitled to cast the vote of Dooly county in the Convention. 4th. That we approve of the ad ministration of our worthy, able aod honest Executive, James M. Smith, and if nominated we will cheerftilly support him for a second term. On motion the resolutions were unanimously adopted, and it was .ordered that the Secretary furnish the Atlanta Snn, Telegraph A Mess enger and Hawkinsville Dispatch, with a copy of these proceedings and reqaest the publication of the same. A. J. Pound, Chairman. J. P. Heard, Secretary. Beefcteak for Ministers. There have been lately several elaborate articles remarking upon what they call the lack of force and fire in the, clergy. The world won ders that, with such a rousing theme as the Gospel, and with such a grand work as saving souls, the ministry should ever be nerveless. Some ascribe it to lack of piety, and some to timidity of temperament. We be lieve that in a great number of cases it is from the lack of nourishing food. Many of the clerical brotherhood are on low diet. After jackets and sacks have been provided for the eight or ten Children of the parsonage, the father and mother must watch the table with severest economy. Com ing in suddenly upon the dinner-honr of the country clergyman, the house wife apologises for what she calls “a picked-up” dinner, when, alas! it is nearly always picked-up. Eight hundred or a thousand dol lars for a minister) is only a slow way of killing him, and is the worst style of homicide. Why do not the trustees and elders take a mallet or an axe, and with one blow put him out of his misery? Congregations sometimes mourn over dull preaching when themselves arcto blame. Give your minister more beefsteak, and he will have more fire. Next to the divine unc tion, the minister needs blood ; and he cannot make that out of tough leather. One reason why the apos tles preached so powerfully was that they had healthy food. Fish was cheap along Galilee, and this, with unlioltcd bread, gave them plenty of phosphorus for braiu-food. These early ministers were never invited to late suppers, with chicken salad and doughnuts. Nobody ever embroidered slippers for the big foot of Simon Peter, the fisherman preach er. Tea parties, with- hot waflles, at ten o’clock at night, make, namby pamby ministers; but good hours ami substantial diet, that furnish nitrates for the muscle, and phosphates for the brain, and carbonates for the whole frame, prepare a man for effec tive work. When the water is low the mill-wheel goes slow; but a full race, and bow fust the grists are ground. In a man the arteries are the mill-race, uud the brain the wheel, and the practical work of life is the grist ground. The reason our sol diers failed in some of the battles was because their stomachs had for sever al days been innocent of everything but “hard-tack.” See that your min ister has a full haversack. Feed him on gruel during the week, and on Sunday lie will give you gruel.— What is called tho “iwrson’s Htae” in a turkey or fowl is an allegory set ting forth that in many communities the minister comes out behind. The damage begins in the college boarding-house. The theological stu dent has generally small means, and he must go to a cheap boarding-house. A frail piece of sausage trying to swim across a river of gravy on the breakfast-plate, but drowned at last; “the linked sweetness long drawn out” of fließ in the molasses cup ; the gristle of a tough ox, and measly biscuit, and buckwheat cakes tough as the cook’s apron, and old peas in which the bugs lost their ‘life be fore they bad time to escape from the saucepan, and stale cucumbers cut up into small slices of cholera mor bus, arc the provender out of which we arc trying at Princeton and Yale, New Brunswick to make Sons of Thunder. Sons ot inusb ! From such depiction we step gasping into the pulpit, and look so heaveuly pale that the mothers in Israel arc afraid we will evaporate before we get through our first sermon. Many of our best young men in preparation for the ministry are going through this martyrdom. The stron gest mind in. our theological clan perished, tho doctors said afterward, from Jack of food. The only time he could afford a doctor was for bis post mortem examination. I give the financial condition of many of our young theological stu dents when I say: Income... >250 00 Outgo : Board at $3 per week (cheap place), IV) OC Clothing (ehoddy) 100 00 Books (no morrocco) 20 00 Traveling expenses 20 00 >3Ol 00 Here you see a deficit of fifty-one dollars. As there are no “stealings” in oncological seminary, he makes up the balance by selling Hooks or teaching school. He comes into life cowed down, with a patch on both knees and several other places, and a hat that has been “done over" four or five times, and so weak that the first sharp wind that whistles round the corner blows him into glory. The inertness you complain of in tho ministry starts early. Do you sup pose that if Paul had spent seven years in a cheap and years after in a poorly supplied parsonage, ho woul# 1 have made Fe lix tremble? No! The first glance of the Roman procurator woulij have mnde him apologise for intrhslon. Do not think that all your eight hundrcd-dollar minister needs is a Christmas present of an elegantly bound copy of “Calvin’s Institutes.” Ho is sound already on the doctrine of election and it is a poor consola tion if in this way you remind him that lie Ims been fore-ordained to starve to death. Keep your minister on artichokes ami ptirslaiu, and he will bo fit to preach nothing but fu neral sermons from the text “All flesh is grass.” While feeling most of ull our need of the life that comes fronf above, let us not ignore the fact that many of the clergy U>-day need more gymnastics, more fresh air, more nu tritious food. Prayer cannot do the work of beefsteak. You cannot keep a hot fire in the furnace with poor fuel and the damper turned.— T. De Witt Tahnage. Love In h Snowdrift. The Kansas City’ Times recounts the termination of a romantic young Indy’s travels. A young and pretty’ girl, named Miss Alameda Cosgrove, residing at San Diego, Inst summer responded to an advertisement in the Wnvorly Magazine for a correspond ence, with n view to enjoy fun and amusement, ami perhaps matrimony The correspondence ensued between Jerome Markham and Miss Cosgrove. Photographs were exchanged, anil Miss Cosgrove was delighted to # find her unseen lover a good looking youth, dixlinjue in appearance and decidedly handsome. Finally she consented to come to Watlicna to bo married. Two weeks ngo she started for Kansas. Ail went well until she got on the Denver Pacific After leaving Cheyenne the train struck a drift, and became helplessly stuck fast. While Snow hound near Crow Creek, Colorado, Miss Cosgrove at tracted the atttention of 'Mr. Julius Emmett, a commission merchant of Kansas City, who, perceiving the young lady seated alone, evidently unprovided for sueh an emergency, very r gallantly tendered such assis tance as was in his power to give, which wns a valise full of cold food and two buffalo rolies. The young couple were soon on friendly, social terras. Miss Cosgrovo very naively recited her adven tures, and was rewarded by Em met informing her that lie was sin gle, etc. They parted with regret at Wathena, when the young lady turned to meet the first time him she was to call her husband. She had only a moment to wait before a a rough, rakish-looking individual, at least forty years old, made himself kdown as her correspondent and ex pectant husband. Miss Cosgrove, Gliding that she had been deceived, turned without a word and entered the car for Kansas City. A few days afterward the lady married her friend Emmett, and she will ne doubt wonder at the strange termination of a flirtation in a snow drift on tbo Denver Pacific. “Jerusha, I don’t see bow they send letters on them ere telegraph wires without tearin’ them all to flin ders.” “Why, Jake, you goose, they don’t send the paper, but just send the writin’ in a fluid state." There never was a better plan than that adopted by A. T. Stewart many yean ago. He made It an inflexible qule to dismiss on the instant any clerk who was found representing anythirg offered for sale on his counter to be of a better quality than it really was. He does not seem to have lost anything by it NO. 26 The Hawkinsville Dispatch I* published every Thursday. Subscription: >2 00 a Tear, in ad canes. • « Rules and Buies. OT Advertisements >1 00 per square for the first insertion, and 7& cents for each subsequent insertion. (A square is the space of ten lines or less.) CONTRACT AOVKInTSINO^" I oi 2 iii 8 m 6nt 12 m j squire... ITOpT f~f~ ~|i7T 3 “ ... 6 8 11 .15 20 8 “ ... 7 11 15 20 80 4 “ ••. 0. 14 18 25 85 I column.. 10 lit 20 1 35 45 IV .. 18 20 80 ' 00 . 75 » ** 20 80 40 75 | 125 A liberal deduction will be made with those who advertise by the year. The money for advertisements is due on the first insertion. Tributes of Respect, Resolutions by Bocl Sties, Obituaries, etc., cxccedimr six lines, to lie charged os transient advertising. I.fCOAL ADVKttTISIKO. Ordinary's—Citations for Letters of Administration, by Administra tors, Executors, Guardians, &c....| 3 5 Application for Letters of Dismis sion from Administration 4 00 Application tor Letters of Dismis sion from Guardianship 5 50 Application for leave to sell Land 4 00 Notice to Debtors and Creditors 5 50 dales of personal or perishable property, per square 1 50 Sales ol' Lands, per square 6 60 Siikhikk's—Per levy 8 50 Mortcug* sales, ten fines or less.. 500 Tax Collector’s sales, per square, 5 0 CLkiik’s—Foreclosure of Mortga ges and other Monthly advertiro monte, >1 per square of one Inch tor each insertion. ,wr Sales of I,and, by Administrator* Executors or Guardians, are required by law U> be held on the first Tuesday in the month, lietween the hours often in the fore noon and three in the afternoon, at the Court-house in the county in which the property Is situated. Notice of these sales must lie given in a public gtizotfc -10 days previous • the day of sale. Ndtlcc lor the sale of personal property must lie given in like manner, 10 days pre vious to sale- day. Notice to debtors mid creditors of an as tale must also Is- published 40 days. Notice tlmt application will lie made •lie Court of Ordinary for leave to sell land must lie published for lour weeks. Citations on letters of administration. Guardianship, Ac., must bo published 80 days; for dismission from administration, monthly three months; for dismission from Guardianship, 40 days. Rules tor tlie lon-closure of Mortgages must he published monthly, four months; for establishing lost papers, for the still space of three months; forcoin;)cfliiig titles from Executors or Admitiistnitors, where bond Inis been given by tlie deceased, the full spare of three moutlis. Slierifl's sales must be published for fom weeks. JOHN H. MARTIN, Attorney at Law AND REAL ESTATE AGENT, hawkinsville, oa. \\ ill practice in the Counties of Pulaski Houston, Dooly, Wilcox, Irwin, Telfair Dodge and Laurens. may 22 JAMES A. THOMAS, Jr., ATTORNEY AT LAW, ANI» ttF.IL ESTATE AO ENT DUBLIN, GA. WILL practice in the Counties of tbo Oconee Circuit, and purchase and sell Real Estate. B|ieciai attention nlse given to collections. uplH-flm* L. A. HALL, Attorney & Counsellor at Laaft EASTMAN, GEORGIA WILL give prompt attention to all business entrusted to his care, marl 5- if L. C. RYAN, ATTORNEY AT LAW, HAWKINSVILLE, OA. WILL practice in tiie counties of Pu laski, Houston, Dooly, Wilcox, Tel fair, Laurens and Dodge, and by special contract, in any Court in the Stale. OFFICE—Over J. <). .Pelks A Brother'* store, in old hotel building, juuel-t! O. C. HORNE, Attorney & Counsellor at Law. .HAWKINSVILLE, OA. OFFICE in the Building adjoining Dr Laidlcr's Hotel. octiMP-U T. L. TAYLOR, -A.ttorn.ey at Law EASTMAN, GA WILL attend promptly to all business entrusted to his care. febtS-tf CHAS. C. KIBBEE, Attorney and Counsellor at Law HAWKIIfSriLLK, OA. Will practice in tho Circuit and District Courts of the United States, for the South ern District of Georgia, and in the Superior Courts of Houston, Dooly, Pulaski, Lau rens, Wilcox, Telfair, Irwin and Dodge Counties. junaM-ly
