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About The Southern sun. (Bainbridge, Ga.) 1869-1872 | View Entire Issue (May 5, 1870)
I VOL H. V Kt ,ik>Sl UNA I. . •j iv \ liiMrll, O. O. Gurley. ■ C.VVLE Y L BUSSELL. . T OK NK V AT LA W, *>» lijliritofS in in the Court House.) I , O. W. KINK ALLK.V a- HINES, I t TT<H{NKVS AT LAW AM* fcIICITORS IN EQUITY ■* BAiNBHIDGE, GEORGIA I —v< tb'-ir j r«*rjj>t Attention to all Interne • * - ti.Ji care in the following coui'.tie t, Town. .. ,tr.r. Ihunbrulge. Colquitt, I f ,. Blakely. Newton. > Camilla. ■ • Tlromasville ■ . , 4 t<.. une-tice in the Supreme Courts of i I*uit-e-l States Court for the Southern ... ; ~f «;.*<,rcria. office upstairs over J. I*, v< v, s.. Oonfecl ionery. f A , 49 ts. y , A jSi:\ & 00., DEALERS IN CLOTH \ Furnishing Goods for men wear, Staple 1, lUrno*s and Saddlery, Water street Georgia. IJunel MV AWAIT DIRECTORY. ‘I rr.RniV.N OLIVER, General Com < v iiatit. No. 97, Ray Street (over Wil \ Savannah, Ga. [dec2 35 I•- .A' •> Id, IJS, commisson and f«.rra:d ; og A > • n«i.N Savannah, Ga. | I'VNNIN'GHAM, pro*.-err. ami shin - .>mer Bay and Drayton Streets, Sa , 'ATI A .! HINSON wholesale greects a n “ - *n < hauls, corner Barnard and l)*y ; T ' ' \ SIMMONS, Oottonfaetors and com *"*>, f»s ]',mv street, Savannah. 7 .S ‘ * I,iV is, No ft. Whitsket Street. Savan d i ni* G-ercia. 1 nmlit in SasSes, Itoore, Blinds, oe's. !'Hints. oTi*. G| sn. Petty cTut nl ' »uA fiWi.it materia). M x*d faints of al 1 eoVors *>n 1 <hao . « • ■ I'si.S &«>■. < >u<>n eom - ” ” m.-ret>anta. 5s Uiv street Savannah. Ga, . V'sHAttP. whok-sah-and retail dealer in *. - «•» Tvrs. 1,|0,.15. mouldings wpwi (xvsts, '•nk- oj K*y St*xvt, foot <*f Lamar*!, Sa- A GV, whoh-sale givx-ors, '.VI it 2rt2 H v -4. At ist of Kattiand. Savannah Ga ’rtria. Florida and Alabama of the \1 v t 'Mu %’hoVsalo <Valers in cnoccru s ■'* ' s 1 .’.jnois. tolvHS’o's and segars, Ho and *— ' Ah. Gild, vt OO , wholesale grocers, j ' — -1 N AKTIN Jt Or\„ ckWo# factors and « , Agents K'r Po adh-y's super ilaxrvnp. no4*e*ml iitn ti«s ei*ays ' >• ' i • •.»ieacVtyudcd i'rkss s^ribrs. I trqj isvrT fc « r .v” Jrem mil I' Xow Prepared to UECUTE any order FOR JOB WORE Xiili Xeatncss and Dispatch. ihl Southern sJS.' I THE SOUTHERN SUM. Published Weekly by JOHN E. HAYES. Proprielor. - t • \ * | | I * I Tor ism of Snbfccriptlon : One Copy, one yenr $2 60 One Copy, nix months I 60 One >opy, three month# 1 00 ADVBRTISEMEN IS Will be inserted at one dollar per square for the first insertion. Liberal deduction# will he made on Contracts. Oljjtuaries.aud mariagea will he ehagcdil the Kame as other edveriisementa .w.. The Worn-Oat Font of Type. I'm sitting liy my desk. George : Before rue on the floor. There lies a worn mil font'of type, Full twenty thousand score. And many months have passed. George, Since they were briaht and new, And ina y were the tales they've told— The false, the strange, the true. What talcs of horror they have told, 0* tempest and of wreck ; Os murder in the midnight hour, Os war full many a•• Speck"!” Os ships that, lost away at sea— Went down before the blast, Os stifled erms ol agony, As life’s last moment passed ! Os earthquakes and of suicides, Ot faiimg crops of cotton, Os bank defaulters, broken banks, And banking systems roiten, • '* And boilers bursting, steamboats snagged, Os riots, duels fought, Os robbers with their prey escaped, Os thieves, their booty caught. Os flood, and fire, and accident, Those worn-but type have told ; And how (he pestilence has swept The youthful and the old ; Os marriages, of births and deaths, Os things to please or vex n^;" Os one man’s jumping overboard, Another going to Texas. . They’ve told us how sweet summer da3 r s Have faded fiom oui view. How autumn’s chilling winds have swept The leaf crowned forest through; How Winter’s snow hath come and gone— Dark reign of storm and strife — And-how the smiling spring hath warmed The pale fitwers back to life. I can’t pretend to mention half My inky friends have told, 1 Since shining blight and beautiful, They issued I rum the mold— Ilow unu> some they joy have brought, To others grief ami tears;. v Yet faithfully Die record kept • • Os last receding years. THAT TROUBLESOME INSECT. As through the street you pass along, You think it very queer To hear one universal song Resounding in your ear. • A fiiend you meet, and ae you greet One whom you're glad to see, v He Wat bins making'quick retreat “Shoo fly, don’t bodder me I’’ .■ • >v- 4, H I'Oi-W Ale voly weftian'nCifVf brthan:..b You-venture to salT-te 1 ? 1 > t 4. .' S She views you l with a waiicgbincc, i A«d tltun prepares.To “scoot” Yon prvss hcT gently to explain Tl.e tvdur you cannot see ; She answers with a cal n disdaiu, * Shoo fl}’ do’t bodder me !” • ■ ..j.- ■ o ’ •< 1 On Sunday you may go to church With feelings of devotion ; The preacher in his lofty perch, Gets up with grave emotion. It may be that lie feels perplex’d— His mind is not quite free ; He states cu fuscdly his next “Shoo fly don't bodder me.” C • .“j • 4 ’ * When he gives out the opening hymn, AU hearts with rapturo bound, ■ • As though the cloisters, vast and dim, There peals the swelling sound— The organist, with earnest gaze, Strikes up with pious glee, And with tierce vigor, wildly playe, “Shoo fl\! don’t bodder me.,’ The congregation are dismiss’d; — The tune is rather vain; But still they cannot we 1 desist From huuunir g that new strain. It haunts as they homeward go To dinner or to tea — They whisper very soft and low, “Shoo liy! don’t bodder me!” Encouraging a bosom friend, You to bin* with check, “C.in you to me five dollars lend Until some time next week, When l my little dog shall sell?” Now what reply makes he? He hums a tune-you know it well— “ Shoo fly, don’t bodder me.” A lady flushes like the rose; Your arm’s round her waist, Then matrimony you propose While she is thus embraced. But while she gazes in your eyes, As lovingly as can be, Mischievously the fair one cries. •‘Shoo fly—don’t bodder me! When credit shall come to you About “that little bill, And say, “That small account is due, Just pay it, if von will,” Tut into the expectant ear The largest kind of flea By whistling, very loud and clear, “Shoo fly- dont bodder me. From nonsense we may draw some good; A moral there is here, Which, when ’tis fuMy nnderstood, We hope ymYll prize most dear; When troubles come, the burden beai With laughter loud and ft ee > Aud say to sorrow, grief and care, “Suoo FLY! DOS’! BODPEK ME. An. lndopendont Journal-Devoted to too Intoresta or ooor ß lft BAINBRIDGE, GA., THURSDAY, MAY 5, 1870 | LIFE IN K \ST TKNNK'fES UNDER THE BROWN LOW REGIME. | From the Richmond Dispatch.] We «n "anecdote" which we den ire to tell. It is a story told l>y Bub that boat of good fellows, and now repealed with dramatic excellence by F. R. We arc nuc ekdh/d ns these men nrc, hut will, tell it the best way wo can. The imagin’- alive reader may adorn it, m, as the cook ery book says, ’season to stir." One day at the close- of the war, n horse ’maiTßn a lank st°ed was riding along a 1 loi+'j. road in East Tennessee, when sud denly leaped from the road six men crying out : ‘Halt !’ Amazed and fearful, the ri der, arrayed in sulunissivencss, reined up crying out, ‘I done and halted gentlemen. Holding the steed by the bridle, the leader interrogated him where lie lived—where lie was going—what for, etc. He replied that he lived fifteen miles from Morristown— was going after medicine for his daughter who was mighty sick —and while lie was in Morristown would buy a little coffee, sugar and molasses. That was all, and lie beg ged to be permitted to go on. .To this the leader replied. ‘Not so fast. What are your politics?’. ‘I ain’t got no p^lit’cs—never bad any-—don’t ki;ow any- thing about (hem, and don’t meddle with them. ‘What’s your ‘sympathies?’ Ain’t got any of them either been a healthy man—never had nothing but jaun* ders—never gwine s o have them agin.’ ‘You don’t get off so, old weather-wax. On which side did you go in the 'war, and vvhieh do you belong to now?’ ’On no side* I'm an ondisturbing man; I never had any trouble with anybody, I kept clear of both sides, and tried to live in peace with all mankind.’ The leader assumed an air of great determination, and told the horse man that he could not move a foot until h<. told on which side he was, and if he denied being on either they would whip the skin off* of him. The poor fellow seeing how it was, gave in, and suspecting lie was de tained by rebels, declared that if he must <e!l the truth, ‘his heart was with tile rebels!’ That settled his hash. One held the horse by the nose, while another took off the bridle with which ah nl)le«bodied man with the utmost lain upon hteiuire back some hundred- of heavy blows, the steel buckle: of the reins, as the man said cutting the’fli*«h at eVery,tick. Having dispatched* liim< in thio regular way,’ lie was placed on.his horse and sent off at a gentle pace asiif tiethiijg had hap pened. The rider bled and ached in every limb, and ‘cussed’ aloud Wfieri out of : hear ing of his tormentors. Hti, had got far on IdjS.Jdiii'neyj entered a ford* where his mare heartily, giving him. time to reflect oh .his Flatter: end, and. had i just emerged from the. flood, when nineiarmed men leap.- ed from the “Woods;' and, brought him to a second halt. The same questions propound ed by his first captors were repeated by his present detainers, and answered with fear and trembling in a similar manner As in the first case he found lie could not baffle them, and thinking it safest to try the other sids, he declared while he did no fighting, his 'heart was with the Union men.’ ‘Nuf sed’ —bis captors were enraged, and tieng his innocent and unsuspecting steed in the bushes, cut a bundle of keen hicko ries, and proceeded to persecute their vic tim. He remonstrated, he implored mercy Ho assured them he had gone through the experience, they plied hickories with mali cious energy amidst his roars and groans Once more dressed off, squirming with pain and all aflame with counter irritation, the victim essayed to go on to Morristown. His reflections were not calculated to give consolation; but at last catching a glimpse of the village, he thought he was safe. Just then a single individual, hedged around with guns and pistols, suddenly ap peared aud arrested hi» progress.. This person had no time for parley, and came at once to the point, ‘Union or rebel?’ Sorely perplexed and full of dread, our hero begs god to be allowed to goon. He had already suffered severely—he had been cut aud slashed behind until lie was oue great sore. His cateclT.ser was inexorable; whereupon the rider dismounted, and with the tear of distress glimmering in his eye, and a smile ts huqjU’.ty and supplication on his face, he threw an arm affectionately around the walking arsenal aud said: ‘Stranger, won’t you speak fus?’ A little Connecticut boy, asking a mate who Good Friday was, received the wither ing reply: ‘Well you go home and read your RobiDSon Crusoe.’ WESTERN NEWS. j Cli cago l« Nicolauaixing a largo number of her atrveta. , Thu Chicago Journal ia congratulating itself on MS lwcnty«nixth anniversary. Davenport Brothcra’ performance* arc caponed in every city they exhibit, but r IVy continue their tiuvcU, and compla* | ctMiUy giro their exhibition* a» heretofore. C« ' Tobii Hancock »<f Oshkosh, *Via., hn* received f.ir distribution $2,087,62, being the Awarded seven members of the Ist \V,B. Cavaliv,engaged in the captute ol Jeff Davis. A convention is called for the 4th of at Cedar Rapidc, to initiate anew railway from Cedar Rapids, on the Northwestern railroad, to Marengo, on the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific railroad, thus giving di rect communication by rail between Dubus que and Des Moines. The lowa City Republican says: Richard Popham, cf Washington town* ship, brought us a sample of sugar the other day made from the sap of the box elder tree. We would not have suspected it anything else than maple sugar, although the flavor is a little different It is of a lighter color than maple sugar usual ly, and sweet and nice. Mr. Popham says the box elder will run more sap than the sugar maple, but the 6ame amount of sap will not make quite as much sugar. Any one can have a sugar orchard by planting the box elder. It was anew idea to-Us that any tree but the maple would make such nice sugar: An Ex- CoNDUCToa’s Truoble. —A certain railroad conductor furnishes a brilliant iL ’lustration of the force of habit. After sev oral years of faithful service on the road, he was offered and excepted the position of train dispatcher. He thought it would be an agreeable change from the wear and tear of the more active duty to which he had been so long accustomed. But he found it impossible to resist the force of old associations. As he sat in the office he would start every time he heard a bell ring and yell, ‘All aboard.’ Then he would go about the office at intervals aud tr,y to col lect fare of his assistants, or would ask friends who dropped in if‘they had a pass.’ He couldn’t get accustomed to his new po sition at all. He pined to be again on tire road. He missed the exhilirating motion^ of the moving train, and said he couldn’t enjoy life unless he was shook every day. ; The boys would shake him up occasionlaly, but, it afforded him only momentary relief. One day he begged of the boys to put him through a collision, which they did to his entire gratification.. They tore his clothes nearly off, bl icked his eyes, broke a kero.* sene lamp over bis head, and piled a red hot stove on top.of him.He was in an ec stacy of delight, and declared he hadn’t been so happy and enjoyed himself so much since ho had a bile.’ But the next day he was more melaucholy than ever. He had been Gain dispatcher only four days, and he was nearly dispatched himself. He had fallen away nearly oue hundred and fifty pounds. He 6aid he could'ut bear it any longer, and accordingly took an emetic, threw up his position, and is now back on the road. A Poikt of Etiquette. —A young and ver dant married youth was confidently informs ed by two or three shopmates that his wife was receiving attentions from a man who was already the* father of a family. Havn ing full confidence in his wife, he refused to listen to the stories told him; but finally his friends pressed him so strong, that one day he left his work and stealthily entering his house, found there, of course to his surprise, the man he had been warned against. He saw enough to convince him ot his wife’s infidelity, and, turning on his heel without giving any alarm, returned to his work heart.-.sick and crest-fallen. His ghopp mates, who hud interested themselves in his behalf, noticed the marked change in his appearance, and inquired as to the re suit of his investigations. ‘O, he was there,’ was his reply. ‘Well, what did you do tp him?’ ‘I did nothing.’ ‘But,’ more anx* iously spoke his interrogator, ‘what did you say to him?' ‘Say to him!’ exclaimed the poor fellow, ‘I didn’t say anything; I never had an introduction to biml’ The Canadian expedition to Red river will number ten thousand picked men; in cluding the steel battery aud the picket brigade, as well as two thousand loya Indians. Here ere » few ‘Brick* from the Louis vfll*? C<>nri«r<*Jmirnai of the 23th : Somebody urge* as an objection to the S income tax that it makes the people a na tion of liars. This is ns sort of an ohjec | lion in the eyes ot Congress, a majority of j whose members are too busily engaged in stealing to euro how much tho nation is addicted to lying. < . The evening Journal is the name of ft pa» per which has just been started at Wash ington lor the purpose of everybody a liar and a scoundrel who doesn't want to see tho Bowen ye-elected Mayor of that uuhnppy ,citv. * J V % - Congress has appropriated $230,000 to enlarge Ilcll Gate. A strange appropria tion, certainly. Why k the majority of Congress will go through that gate, even though two hundred and fifty millions should be spout in stopping it up. ‘We should like to know,* says the Cam den Express, ‘what Admiral Porter thinks of Secretary Robeson.’ Why, he thinks, as everybody else does, that Robcaon knows scarcely enough about naval affairs to pad dle his own canoe. An exchange paper says ‘Mr. Delatio cannot make laws.’ Whether lie can or not, lie lias made a thousand things which the business men of the country are forced to obey as laws. The London Times lias discovered that ‘the American political system is faulty.’ It is very remarkable that the thing was never suspected in this country 7 . , . In its dealings with the Indians the gov* eminent has never found that honesty was the best policy, for the simple reason that the.government has never tried it. The Hartford'Post says ‘Shoo Fly’ is dy ing out. Wo should be • glad to know that the author of it is already dead out. In 1845 there werb eleven daily papers in Boston. Seven of them are dead, and three or four more ought to be. v i-Mk j. The Wheat Crop —The Norfolk Journal of the 22d instant, sayej ‘ “ We are glad to learn, by accounts ’we see from various parts of the State, that- the wheat looks very > welt * everywhere: Throughout the Valley it is extremely’pront iaing; oft the Roanoke and its branches *it' never presented a finer appearance at, this lime of the year, while the same may be said of the counties along James river. - The Chicago Tribune thinks (hat wheap the great staple of the Northwest, can scarcely get much lower. , /Farmers,* in their present preparations for planting, will probably turn their attention more to other grains, and it is hardly probable that this ( a s well as all other wheat producing regions will have another as abundant crop this year as during the last two. —.——..—4 ’ Raising Tomatoes.— lt may he Worth while for otir farmers to read the following account of the Frcnclv ihelhod of raising tomatoes. -It isfrom an "exchange: >• , As soon as a cl ustef of flowers are visible, the stem >is topped down to the cluster, so that the flowers terminate "the stem. Thb effect is that the sap is immediately impell ed into two buds nekt helow the cluster, which ■ soon push strongly and produce another cluster of flowers each. When these are visible, the branch to which they be long is also topped down io their level, and this done successfully. By this means, the plants become stout dwarf bushes, not above eighteen inches high. In order to prevent their falling over, sticks are stretched horizontally along the rows so as to keep the plants erected. In addition to this, all the laterals that have no flowers, the fifth topping, all laterals whatsoever, aro nipped off. In this way the ripe sap »is di rected to the fruit, which acquires a beauty, s’ze and excellence not maintained by other means. A Detroit negro prisoner, on bis way to the Penitentiary for larceny, was asked what he thought of his trial. He said: ‘Fore God, when dat lawyer dat Tended me made his speech, I thought shnah I was going to take my oie hat and walk right out of dat co’t room, but when de odder lawyer got up and commenced talking, I knew I was de biggest rascal on top ov de earth.’ ! )eath of Hon. Richard Yeadon. —The Charleston Courier of the 26th utimo, comes draped in mourning for the above gentle man, who was senior proprietor of that journal. Mr. Yeadon was in his 68th year. He has been for over forty years identified with the Courier as proprietor, editor and contributor. A long, just and feeling trib ute is paid to his many virtues. TtMXSMKt to SB KsOOXHTaUCTU).—OId Brownlow writes os follows from Woolm in^ton to the* Knoxville Chrouiclc, under date of the 11th instant: *i» «, I expect the Committee cf tho • House to report a bill looking to tho reconstruction of Tennessee.’? We propose to wipe outthd Legislature and the late Convention, sod order an election of a new Legftdature un der the old law, and’ with'* new registra tion, leaving tho Kxetfntiro I 'and -Judiciary undisturoed. Tho bill will meet With oppo sition in tho House from th# t>eumißracy and tho tender footed Rtpublicr.d*,' but 1 will, nevertheless, pars. In thd Seriate we will have less trouble, as wo. are divided; politically, sixty Republicans4o teuDomos crats. They will, of course-; go on to elect’ Judges in Tennessee. * What Gov. Seutei* will feci it his duty to do I but unable to' say, but if I were Governor I would refdse to commission their Judges and other offi cers. — - **’■ '»* Death From tiie Bite of a Rattlesnake,—- Last Thursday, Simon Gainey, a negro working on the plantation of Mr, Thos. McJuukins, about seven miles from town f returned to the field ’after dinner to plant cotton. As he was lifting up his basket he’ was bitten by a large rattlesnake, about 12» years old, through his clothes just above tho ankle. At dark he was a corpse,. The snake struck a vein and the flow of blood' was profuse. By the time it was checked, the poison had taken' effect, indicated by excessive vomiting, which continued until' the death of the man.— Quincy Monitor, 22 d The ludiana negroes swear they will brand any of their number 1 who dare to vote the Democratic ticket, with the word ‘Cain,’ on their forehead with white paint. This Is the general uegi’o Radical idea of freedom. AH of them are free to vote—the Radical: ticket, and none other. ’Maybe, one of these days, they will see what little mtu>- gin there is between this sort of freedom anil old time slavery. . . r , i: ti. ? • To Make Blackberry on MtißramNit Gr-ax* Wine.— Measure the'berfries or grapes, and bruise them. ;» To every gallon add one quart of water}' and let the mixture stand twenty-four hours, stirring occasionally ; . then strain the liquor into a cask, aud to every gaHbn add two pounds of sugar*, Cork it .lightly'until .fermintatibhi subsides, then tighten the cork and 1 let it stand for three?nionhts. It is then ready for Use. fThe above recipe is applicable to berries" or grapes suitable to 1 wine making, other than those above mentioned. I.— • Dick Taylor, (frfeedrnari,) of- Cuthbert,' says the Early County News, aged 105 year's*and the father of sixty children, died’ about twd weeks ago. He was quite a* favot ite with‘‘the boys,” and cursed every, body loud and strong. !> A destructed fire occured at Selma, Ala./ on Tuesday night last, burning'tile depot’- of the Selma, Rome & Dalton Railroad, and' injuring other property in the neighbor l - * hood. The total loss is estimated at $65,- 000, The railroad company wa* partigUy if not fully insured. The trial of McFarland, who kilted Rich** ardson for ruining his conjugal happiness/ > is progressing before the Recorders Court in New York City. t«j■ * . The Albany News gets after the Thorns * asville Southern Enterpriirfe far having i(a* supplement printed in ’ Yankccdootlledoiii/ and concludes that it is poor Southern em» uprise. s wi— "'■* ,•t > j j J. D. Alexander. Esq., has retired front the Georgia Herald, W, T. Weaver, Rsq. succeeds him. ■» Without a Hotel.—The Floridian am*’ nouncGs that the City Hotel-figs closed up, ’ and Tallahassee caunbf'bontft » -ingle pubs lie borise. We trust that fine place is not going to’seed. ? .... _ j ' \ Jg' W. J. L ARG EN, WITH— . • ‘ . CLARK BROTHERS & CO., Late D. P. Clark & Bros, and .Draper, Clark & Cos, STRAW GOODS, fats, (Saps and £m ■ NO- 830 B OADWAY, NEW YORK. flff° Orders addressed, to Mr. I<argen s care will be promptly filled. NO. 1.
