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THE OGLETHORPE. ECHO. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3^1874;. T..L. GASTT, F.ditor.uml Prop. ECONOMY IS WEALTH; The great misfortune with most of us is, that we never fully appreciate this till the best part of our lives is past. AVith yotith, and health, and bounding pulse, we vainly imagine that we’ve got the xyoi id in a sling, and take for our motto ‘‘NoyTing venture, nothing have,” for £et A>g that the largest piles are putto gfier piece by piece. To us of the South, experience (that school for dullards) has been a severe master. It has taught us, at the cost of some yf the best years of our lives,, that we have been pushing a stone to the top of the hill, that the fall would find fur ther in the valley than when we started : with it in the spring. We have laughed j at the experience of older and wiser ! heads, and fondly hoped and believed that we would be an exception. To a farmer, economy consists in pro ducing everything that he needs at home, instead of paying two prices for it abroad ; in so handling his labr.that the best results may be obtained from fit, and in so dividing his crops as to obtain, the largest returns with a given number of hands. We have a money crop that should insure us greater wealth than any other farming community upon earth, while the fact is we are the poorest people under the sun. In cotton we possess a comodity, that, as Greely once said, Time cannot rust, rot, nor corrode ; a staple that is-of great value in a small package. Our lots have been cast in pleasant places, and the fault of failure rests entirely with ua- when we do not succeed. When we convince ourselves that wealth is a coy thing, who comes less often to those who eagprly seek it, than those who quietly wait,. we shall have acquired the first great lesson in gaining it; and when we learn again- that there is more wealth in saving than in. spend ing, in hopes or .a larger return,, we will have advanced another step on the road that leads to fortune.. Great wealth, like religion, is not of mushroom*; growth j; . its comes not in a night, but rises like the pyramids, after much labor... ’TIs the little dimes that make the dollars and. the little drops that swell the ocean.* The past seven years have been bitter ones to most of us, but they have not been in vain if they have taught us that “ Economy is Wealth.” The* Western Elections. —Ohi lias gone Democratic by about 10,000 majority. They elected thirteen or four teen Democrats to Congress—a gain of six or seven. Indiana has gone Democratic- by an increased majority over last year’s elec tion. The majority will probably peach 10,000. / Arkansas has adopted her rtew con stitution.. t J Nebraska and lowa hat e gone Republi can. /■ — I Horrors of- the j Yellow Fever Flague at Pbnsaoola. — A private let ter from Warrington, near the Pensacola (Fla.) Navy Yard, dated. October 1, says : “ TKte fever has not abated yet. Three Sisters of Chsrity died last night. Ther tre six officers down with the fe ver.. * * * I wish the first of No vember was here, and we were spared. Tub suspense is perfectly terrible. No on£ seems to escape the fever; people ditwhad it before, and everybody, is frightfully lonesome ; almost eve dy is dead.. +. m ’ m ,aneast r county farmer writes to cal paper that as he was going past ~i crib d ier morning, he ob bat also tron l ] a rge sized ear of iety which another l£r j-which his tail was wasn t a g°°d day for . Either, m Phi. . v--. lect his having lost his situ ter in 1 hi s w ]f e took some U^°n ~r N saved and started x * * k a 'ucceeded.at once, An Js her husband, as ckrk ?aid prcachin . r raid Mr. residing on Jack and y° w Mass., is the owner of after, a-yeais- old and still in. blacksm; n g SO und and kind,, said: I haves’ farm work, as “And for shoeing your hon horse shod here,U 0 since the fault is your o".n, q V avs, and ope of a£t. 0 , n jle* LATEST GEORGIA NEWS. Bin .Hill has bought a $20,000 resi dence in- Atlanta. While Northern mills are slacking up, Georgia is increasing her looms. Mr. C. C. Hammock has been nomina ted by the white people • for Mayor of Atlanta. Not a Radical wcfi.ajscatin the Senate chamber this year. Only three negroes have been elected. The Augusta, papers of the Bth inst., furnish us with the sad intelligence of the death of Col. James Gardner. A pumpkin measuring six feet and seven inches in circumference was ex hibited in Savannah last week. Three men and a woman, emigrants from North Georgia, to Kansas, were murdered by the Indians recently. The State University opened on the 7th with about one hundred and thirty-five students, half of whom are new students. The people of Eiberton were enter tained by an exhibition by the Eiberton minstrels Friday night of week before last.. The election returns from all over the State show that the next Legislature will have a Democratic majority of over two hundred. Mr. C. W. Coram, of Randolph county, is the happy possessor of George Washington’s priming horn. Anybody else got it ? An Indian preached at the Baptist chuisch at Fort Valley last Wednesday evening. He sang several songs in his native dialect. M. L.Drew, a white man of Eufaula, was arrested and committed to jail last week, on a charge of attempted rape on a small white girl. Newton county has a negro who can pick a thousand pounds of cotton in a day, and a horse which can run three miles in =as - many minutes... Senator T. J. Perry, while on his way to his marriage, was run over by a train at Macon, and his leg so badly fractured that amputation.was necessary.. The Washington (Wilkes county) Gazette says : “We do not think that much more than half as much cotton will be made in Wilkes, county this year as last.” Hon. L. N. Tammell has tendered liis withdrawal from the canvas for Con gress in the Seventh District to the Dem ocratic Executive Committee-cf. the dis trict. Three cheers and a large Bengal tiger, with red stripes around it, for the Em pire State, where Radicals ara as scarce as hen’s teeth, and Democrats as numer ous as falling leaves in autumn. Mr. Diggers Damie, of Upson county, though only one hundred and two years - old,,gathers in his corn, cotton and other crops, with all of the ability of youth. He also draws a nimble how across a, fiddle occasionally. A man living in Baldwin county plan ted one watermelon seed and raised a vine therefrom, from which sixty-seven melons were pulled, the smallest of which weighed fifty-seven pounds.” The story is larger than the melons. The Valdosta Times says some un-> known person entered the Ordinary’s office the night before the election and, off the tax hooks. We suppose it was done for the purpose of prevent ing the payment of taxes on the day of election, as they were found deposited &|the Court-house door at daylight yes tijjjiay morning. The Ordinary had blam|| printed, so that the theft occa sioned no trouble. There being a pretty large crowd in Sandersville on Wednesday, attending the election, Jerry Simmons, one of the colored candidates for Legislative honors, concluded it was a good time to turn an honest penny. So he equipped him self with a basket of ground-peas and a supply of sugar-cane, and went around peddling the same while his- colored brethren were trying to send him to the Legislature. Not a pea or a “lint” would he give away either to friend.or foe.. The Crawfordville correspondent of the Madison Journal says: “ About three weeks ago a difficulty occurred be tween a white man of this county,..by the name of Hancock, and a colored , man by the name of Harris, as they were go ing in a wagon, with others, homeward from town—Hancock was drinking. Words ensued between him and Harris, the final result of which was, Hancock struck Harris several blows with his fist, .also with a stick and knife; Harris at last picked up a rock and threw it at Hancock, wounding him on the left tem ple, from the effects of which he died on Saturday night last. Mrs. Elizabeth Akers Allen (Flor ence Percy), the anthor of “ Rock, Me to Sleep, Mother,” is at present editorially conneeted with the Portland Advertiser. . The poem was written by her, while a ■factory girl in Maine, upon, a sheet of coarse brown writing-paper in which she had brought her noon-time lunch, while waiting for the hour to commence labor. A lady at Princeton,. lowa,, was re -1 cently stung on the neck by a honey bee,. and died in twenty minutes.. THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY. Senators and Representatives. The following is the result as far as heard from l senators. First district—R„ E. Lester. Third district—Willis Clary. Fifth district—Daniel Lott. Seventh district—J. McDonald. Eleventh district—W. A. Graham. Thirteenth district—L. M. Felton.. Fifteenth district—T. D. Wilcox. Seventeenth district—G. R. Black.. Nineteenth district—C. S. Dußose.. Twenty-first district—W. O. Daniel. Twenty-third district—Wins. Ruth erford. Twenty-fifth district—W. I. Hudson. Twenty-seventh district—H. D. Mc- Daniel. Twenty-ninth district—W. M. R< ese.. Thirty-first district—J. M. Freeman. Thirty-third district—G. E. Deadwy- Thirty-fifth district—E. P. Howell. Thirty-seventh district—J. T. Slaugh ter. Thirty-ninth district—E. C. McAfee. Forty-third district—R. E. Wilson. REPRESENTATIVES. Appling—Paul Carter. Bullock—D. L. Kennedy. Bryan—J. DeLoach. Burke—J..A. Shewmake, H. C. Glis son, J. B. Jones. Baldwin—W. McKinley. Bibb—T. Hardeman, A. O. Bacon, D. D. Craig. Banks—J. J. Turnbull. Bartow—Dr. T. H. Baker, John Neal. Coweta—J. E. Stallings, J. B. Wilcox an. Carroll—Camp, Shellnut. Cnattahoojhee—J. Whittle. Chatuam— A. R. Lawton. J. L. War ren, Dr. J..G,. Thomas. Cobb—YV..D. Anderson, E. H. Lind ley. Catoosa—A. H. Gray. Campbell—J. W. Nelms. Columbia—S. C. Lampkin. Clayton—Jesse Anthony. Clarke—Dr. H. H. Carlton, Wilson. Dougherty—Davenport, W essaiowsky. Chattooga—Dr. D. V. RudiciL Cherokee—Sharp. Clay—Saunders. Dodge—D. David Sapp. Dade—E. D. Graham. Douglass—F. M. Duncan. DeKalb—O. Winningham, Decatur—Daniel Magiil, Thomas T. Maxwell. Elbert—H. P. Mattox. Effingham—H. E. Cassidy. Emanuel—Kennedy. Fayette—E. W. Leach. & Fioyd—Hamilton, Turner. Forsyth—R. A. Lakes. Fulton—W. A. Wilson, W. L. Cal houn, E. F. Hoge. Gwinnett —X. M. Peeples, A. A. Dyer. Glasscock—W. J. Wucher. Giynn—J. Blue, (col.) Greene—L* B. Willis, L. D. Carlton. Gordon —W. R. Rankin. Henry—Dr. Winn. Harris—ll. E. Moss, Geo. Kilpatrick. Hancock—J. L. Culver, J. E. Binion. Houston —Brown, Simmons,\V imberly Mali—A. D. Candler. Heard—Ware. J ohnson—Tiieophilus Christian. Jetterson —Dr. il. E. Battle, Col. R. T. Little... Jasper—T. L. Lane. Jones —H. B. Ridiey. Jackson—G. R. Duke, Potts. Lumpkin—Gen. H. W. Riley. Lowndes—A. li. Smith. Lee—ii. Al. McAiee. Laurens—Dr. J. T. Chappell. Liberty—W. C. Bacon, Milton—O. P. {Skelton. Murray—B. F. Wolford. Madison—Meadors. Mem wether —G. Warner, W. T. Rev ill. Monroe—G. W. Adams, J. G. Phin- azee. Macon—W. 11. Willis, J. B. Fred erick. Muscogee—T. W. Grimes, W. F. Williams. Mitchell —C. O. Davis. McDuffie —J. 11. Scott. Morgan—O. Tliomasson. Newton—L. B. Anderson, L. F. Liv ingston. Oglethorpe—Elder D. W. Patman, Dr. T. D. Hutcherson. Price—J. S. Bennett (all up except initials). Polk—W. M. Hutchings. Pike—A. G. Peden. Pulaski—Harrell. Putnam—Frank Leverett. Pierce —Bennett. Quitman —W. H. Harrison. Rockdale—Dr. J. A. Stewart. Richmond—J. C. C. Black, P. Walsh, W. A. Clarke.. Randolph—W. M. Tumliu. Sumter—Furlow Stewart. Spalding—A. M. Speer.. Stewart —Bell, Walton.. Talbot—J. H. Maxwell,. W. H. Searcy. Telfair—D. A. Graham. Terrell—W..G. Simpson. Thomas—W. M. Hammond, Isaac Alderman. Taliaferro—J. G. Asbury. Taylor—J. F.. Ficklen.. Troup—J. H. Fannin, {Pittman. Wilkes—Colley, Quinn. Whitfield—J. P. Clements. Walton—J. W. Carter. Wilkinson—Dr. J. B. Duggan. Washington—W. Warthen, G. J. El kins. Ware—Miller. White—Sire Craig. Warren—Dr. H. R. Halli. Wayne—H. R. Fort. VALUABLE REGIBES.. Preparing Bones for Fertilizers.. Of all the agents that ean.be employed, for decomposing and dissolving bones,. the best and most practicable are wood ashes.. They are generally plentiful in country.places, they prevent any unploas aid; odor, from being given off*mid, above ill, cause airapid, and complete decom position. The bones are e mvertedJnto a.fine powder, which, mixed with ashes,, furnishes an excellent fertilizer,, very rich in potash and phosphoric acid.. The method of using them is as follows :: A, trench three or four feet deep and of any desired length, is dug in the earth and filled with alternate layers of ashes and whole bones, each layer being about six inches thick. The lowest as well as the top layers are of! ashes, and each layer of ashes is thoroughly saturated: with water. At distances of three feet, poles are rammed down to the bottom of the ditch., and. every eight or ten days they are taken out and enough water poured into the holes to saturate the ashes. At the end of two months the whole heap is tlioroughly stirred.up with a fork, so as to* mix. the ashes :uid softened bones, which are then, left to ferment again, wafer, being added as often as necessary. In about three months after, the heap being worked over twice or three times more, the decomposition of the bones will be so complete that only a few of the largest remain, and these are taken out and. put into,another heap. Where wood ashes are scarce, recourse must be had to house manure:. The bones are soaked a. few. days, in, water and then placed, in rectangular pits with alternate layers.of horse manure, each layer being drenched with the water in which the j bones were soaked. The strata of bones | are-three inches thick, and those of ma- I nure a. foot thick. The pit is covered ' with, earth, so as to be tightly closed. I The decomposition of the bones will re quire,.in this case,, about ten months, when* the mixture will be ready for use as a fertilizer.. Antidote for PatsoEi. If a. person* swallows any pciscm what ever, er-bas- fallens into-convulsions front having overloaded the stomach, an in stantaneous remedy, more efficacious and applicable in a large number of eases than any half dozen medicines, is a heap ing teaspoonful of common? salt and as much ground mustard,.stirred rapidly in a teacup of water,, warm, or cold, and swallowed instantly.. It is scarcely down before-it begins to come up, bring ing; with it the remaining contents of the stomach, and lest there he any remnant of the poison, however small,, let the white of an egg or a teacup of. strong coffee be swallowed as soon as the stom ach is quiet.. These very common arti cles raulify a larger number of virulent poisous-than any medicine in the shops. Bed Bugs. A correspondent writes;: “'After fighting them* eight years, I learned from/, tv girl who had;served as chamber maid, in. a large boarding house that bugs could he entirely, exterminated for all time. I immediately followed her di rections, which was to take grease that was melted.out of salt pork,, to, melt it, and t>?keep it melted (the vessel can he kept in a pan. of coals), and, to put it with the feather end of quill in every place where I could find a bug. It is necessary to see that the • bed cords are entirely free from the pests*, and I will warrant there will be no more trouble. It is more than thirty years since a hug has-beeniseen in my r house.” The negro troubles which occurred about, ten, yyears ago in Jamaica seem likely to he renewed. The island con tains about 440,000 negroes and 15,000 whites,. The colored people demanded rights which were denied them,, and when, they attempted to frighten, the authorities into yielding they were promptly put down by military force. About 2,000 negroes perished, and the lesson has had its effect during the past decade. Now they are rebellious again. Gld“Baldy,” the volcanic mountain,of North Carolina, is at it again. A gen tleman living near the base reports that the rumbling has been heard several, times within the past ten days. Ail the letters in the alphabet are con tained in the following sentence: “John P. Brady gave me a black wal nut box of quite a small size.” Won’t the fourteen Radical members elect to the Legislature feel rather lone ly in the midst.of over two hundred Dem- j ocrats ? It is asserted that five hundred ! pounds of frogs are daily- consumed in j New York. FREIGHT LIST. The following is the names of persons having freight remaining in the depot at this place up to the morning of publica tion : ELBERTON. G. B. Almand, BAckwell & Son, T. C. Burch, J. D. Clark, J. M. Carter, W. H. Clarkj M. P. Deadwyier, Duncan & Bro., H. C. Edmunds, J. Eberhart & Son, S. H. Fortson, J. L. Heard, J. H. Jones & Cos., H. P. Mattox, Mathews & White, A. Oliver, Swift & Arnold, J. R. Stevens, N_ J. Swift, H. P. Sims, Tate & Almand, Mrs. E. A. White. LEXINGTON. J. W. Bacon, T. D. Biggs,. Z. H. Clark, J. V. Collier,. J. S. Gilbert, R. L. Hargrove, BLA. Hays, C. S. Hargrave, T. H. Hawkins, W. H. Jarrell, J. G. Jonas, H. Kinnebrew, N. M. Mattox, E. G. Murrah,. J. M. Norton, G. F. Platt*. E. J. Reynolds, A. Shelverton,. G. W. Smith & Bro., Young & Cos.. MARKET REPORTS.. CRAWFORD, October 15, .1874. Cotton $ i&,@ 131 Flour, per bbl 8 00 (a 10 00 Corn, new, per bu L li) “ old, “ none. Corn Meal, “ l 40 Pkas, “ l 00 Wheat, “ l 50. @ 1.75 Oats, “ .„ 75, @ 1 00 Rye, “ i 50 Sweet Potatoes, per bu.... 75 Bacon—Market falling 15 @ 18 Laud, per ft 20 (& 22 Bagging *...„ 15 18 Ties 9 @ 10 Chickens 25 Eggs 20 Butter 25 Syrup, per ga1.... 75 Ot 1 25 Molasses ... 50 @ (>5 Sugar 12J@ lGjj Coffee - 25 (a, 30 Tobacco 75 % 1 25 MISCELLANEOUS. PHOTOGRAPHS! YI7 A. IHJNTER, ARTIST, HAVING T’t . located for a short time in Crawford, is prepared to take Photographs', FerotjipesAGem Pictures, in the finest style of the art, and at very low prices. Satisfaction assured. Parties desir ing pictures had better call at once, as. I will remain but a short time. Photograph, Al bums and Picture Frames>foe'sLo low. STOVES grAtes, And TIN WARE! To be had Cheap for Cash at J. C. WILKINS & CO’S, Broad St., Athens, Ga. 50,000 WANTED FOR THE. OGLETHORPE ECHO. J.F. WILSON &ca, MANUFACTURERS OF AXIL DEALERS IN ALL KINDS OF FURNITURE FRANKLIN HOUSE BUILDING, Broad Street, . Athens, Ga. Bedsteads, fflireaos,TalsCliairs^g CHAMBER AND PARLOR SETS, Wood and Bctalic BURIAL CASES, Lower than can be bought elsewhere in the city. Give us a. call. octl-tf LUCBJE & YANCEY, DEALERS IN AND REPAIRERS OF Watches, Jewelry, Etc. No. 3 Broad Nt., Athens, Ga. octt*—lv merchandise and drugs. the question *-*ll WHERE; GAN, WE BUY SfIODS CHEAP BEEN AGITATING THE mimlfc-of the citizens ot Oglethorpe and adjoining-counties. It:need no longer-trouble you, for- it is settled beyond all controversy that Mata £ Midi's is the place. You will find there EVERY THING usually kept in a FIRST-CLASS RETAIL STORE! And yon will MISS a good chance if you leave Crawford without visiting their store. Articles are too numerous to mention, but rest assured that you .will find WHATEVER YOU WANT (if they have it.) They will he found in the BouffiEormeili Bucupied by Martin £ Cos, BE S¥RE A XI) CALL OX THEM BEFORE PVRCHASIXG ELSE WHERE.. oestt-Sp R. T. BRUMBY l CO.. DRUGGISTS MI) PHARMACISTS, DEALERS IN Drugs', Chemicals, Patent Medicines, DIUGGISTV SINDRIES, Paints. Oils, Lainp.i, Glass. Slladissi, fhaniois Skins*,.. Sponges, Etc., Fie., College avenue, la-tween Book Store and P. Oi. Athens, Ga. Sprrial attention-y inert to lions at nil hours* oetfttf MISCELLANEOUS. Carriages, Buggies, WAGONS. Pu \\ TUCKER & BR0.„ CRAWFORD, CA., Ha VLN G REBUILT their- Shops, and: oughlv stocked them the l>est tools and a full supply of: the finest* seasoned LI MBER, are now prepared to. manufacture, at short notice, every descrip tion of CARRIAGES, BUGGIES'ROCK AL WAYS, PILETONS, WAGONS, CARTS,, etc., etc. We will also do all manner or Klaeksmitliing and Repairing, arid! guarantee all our work to give j>erfeet satis faction. pjr- We sell our TWO-IIORSK. WAGONS at from 81)0 to sl£3, am; eve rything else J.'.VW, in proportion. oc.tP-tf LUCKIE & YANCEY, DEALERS IN ANDaRERAIRERS OK /Ag; ' WATCHES, [gl Jewelry, Ktc?.,jE3.. No. 3 Broad St., Atlien*, Ga-. j oetJMy HENRY LUTHI, ( dIAWFORO, GA., IS NOW. PREPARED? ™ ak ?’ at sllort the FINEST I ROOTS and SHOES. I use only the best I material, and warrantjny work to give entire ! satisfaction, both as.to finish and wear. REPAIRING AND COARSE WORK also at tented to. oorf-lv SUPERIOR ORIENTAL TOOTH POWDERS! F°i? ffLBANSING THE TEETH AND 1 untying the Breath. Prepared by R. T. BRUMBY A CO., Druggists and Pharmacists, Athens, Ga.. ATHENS MarlM Sranite Yard A R. ROBERTSON, DEALER -VA. in Monuments, Head Stones, Cradle Tombs, Marble and Granite T’Y/pi' ftn Box Tombs; also, Vases and Mar- fffW] jl hie Tops for Furniture. Persons tiilfjk&f desiring work of this kind would kf(CrOi> do well to examine my designs be fore purchasing elsewhere. Prices Jr *£ moderate. oct9-ly* OPERA COLOGNE. AN ELEGANT PERFUME. This cologne is- manufactured from Pure Materials, ’sfith the greatest care. Prepared only by R. T. BRITIBY 4c CO., Druggists and Pharmacists* Athens, Ga.