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Per Square (l inch) iirst insertion OO per Square each subsequent insertion.. / •* Liberal contracts made with regular adver tisers, and for a longer period than •> months. : Local notices, 20e. per line lirst insertion, ' toe. per line each subsequent insertion. BUSINESS CARDS. STOVES a ri:s. am> TIN WARE! To he had Cheap for Cash at .1, C. WILKINS & CO'S, Broad St., Athens, Ga. R. T. BRUMBY l CO.. DRUCGISTS AM) PHARMACISTS. DEALERS IN Drugs, Chemicals, Patent Medicines, I>UI (LISTS' SI XIMUES. Paints, Oils, LaiispN, <lass .Sluuh's. Chamois Skins. Spouts. Etr., Etc., College avenue, between Book Store and P. O. Athens, Ga. s 'gP'iSpccial attention given to Prescrip tion* at utt hour*. octO-tf BOOTS AW) SHOES HENRY LUTHI, / lEAWFORI), GA., IS NOW PREPARED v.y to make, at short notice, the FINEST BOOTS and SHOES. 1 use only the best material, and warrant mv work to give entire satisfaction, both as to finish and wear. REPAIRING; AND COARSE WORK also uttented to. oetS-lv E. A. WILLIAMSON PRACTICAL WATCHMAKER & JEWELER AT DR. KINO’S DRUG STORE, groad street. - - - Alliens. <ia. y vt.. All work done in a superior manner, and warranted to give perfect satisfaction, oetl-ly If. It. IIKA> > A X. House, Sitrn, and Ornamental PAINTER, PVPEK HANOI NO. GLAZING, CaLSO MINING, etc. Would respectfully so licit the patronage of the public. Any one wanting a botch job done can get someone else. oeth-ly LUCKIB & YANCEY, UKALKKK IN AND KKPAIKI-ItS Ol- WATCHES, |Si .1 e we Iv.v, Etc-. 9 ,jjg==s. 3 Broad St., Athens, Ra. oetfMy BOOT, SHOE & BARBER SHOP. OtOFIEE lIILL, HAYING LOCATED IN V s ) the Post Office building, respectfully so lieits a portion of the publie patronage. Ido only first-class work, and never fad to ,dease m'"customers. ®)£ #gllctl)®r|l£ € CI) 0. VOLTAIRE. The Death-bed "of this Celebrated Infidel. On the twenty-fifth of February, 1758, Voltaire penned the following blas phemy: “Twenty years more,and (Tod will be in a pretty plight.’’ Let us see what was taking place precisely at the time indicated. <)n the twenty-fifth of February, 1778, Voltaire was lying, as was thought, on his bed of death. Racked and tortured by remorse for past misdeeds, he was most anxious to propi tiate the (lod whom lie had insulted and the church which he and hi- band had sworn to destroy ; and hence lie resolved on addressing a minister of religion ini order to receive the sacrament of recon ciliation. On the twenty-sixth then lie wrote the following to the Abbe Gaul tier: “You promised me, sir, to come and hear me. I entreat you to take the trouble to call as soon as possible.” The abbe went at once. A few days later, in the presence of the same Abbe Gaultier, the Abbe Ylig not and the Marquis de Villeveille, the dying man made the following declara tion : “1, the undersigned, declare that for these four days past, having been afflicted with a vomiting of blood at the age of eighty-four, and, not being able j to drag myself to church, the reverend j the rector of St. Sulpice, having been j pleased to add to his other good works that ot sending to me the Abbe Gaultier, 1 a priest, I confessed to him, and, if it pleases God to dispose of me, 1 die in the ! holy Catholic Church, in which I was > hern, hoping that the divine mercy will j pardon all my faults. If ever 1 have scandalized the church, 1 ask pardon of J God and of the church. March 2, 1778. | —Y oltaire,” This document was de- ! posited with Mens. Momet, notary of j I’aris. It was also, with the permission ot Y oltaire, carried to the rector of Rul pice and to the Archbishop of Paris, in order that they might say whether or not the declaration was sufficiently explicit and satisfactory. 1 wire before, when dangerously ill, the wretched man had made abject re tractions. Rut those lie had not only rejected when restored to health, but, passing from bad to worse, he poured out i idler vials of his wrath against God and Christianity. It was then of necessity to receive the most solemn and full objur gation of past infidelities. When Gaultier returned with the a chi-episcopal answer he was refused ad mission to the dying man. The arch conspirators trembled at the apostasy ot their hero; and, dreading the ridicule which would tall upon themselves, it was determined not to allow any minister of religion thenceforth to visit him. Find ing himself thus cut off from the conso lations of religion, Ymltaire became in furiated—no reproach, no curse being deemed bad enough for the D’Alem berts and Diderots, who guarded him. “Be gone,” he said; “it is you who have brought me to my present state. Be gone! I could have done without you all; but you could not have existed without me; and what a wretched glory have you procured me I” And then praying, and next, blasphem ing, now saying, “O Christ,” and next, I am abandoned by God and man,” lie wasted away liis life, ceasing to curse and blaspheme and live on the thirtieth ot May, 1778. These facts were made public by Mons. Tronchin, a Protestant physician from Geneva, who attended him almost to the last. Horrified at what lie had witnessed, lie declared that to see all the furies of Orestes, one only had to be present at the death of Y7ol taire—“ Pour voir toutes lex furies </’ Oreste, il Eg arait qu'a se trouver ala mort de Voltaire.” “ Such a spectacle,” be adds, “ would benefit the young who i are iu danger of losing the precious | helps of religion.” The Marechal de Richelieu, too, was so terrified at what he. saw that he left the bedside of Yrol taire, declaring that “ the sight was too horrible for endurance.” His “ Better Half.”—A recently made benedict writes us as follows eon ' corning his young wife’s habits : “If there was a bed room a mile long, and 1 her entire wardrobe could be packed in a band-box, still you’d portions of that wardrobe scattered along the whole mile of dressing-room. She’s a nice thing to look at when put together, but this wonderful creation is evolved from a | chaos interminable of pins, ribbons, cot | ton, rags, paint, powder, thread, brushes, combs, steel-wire, laces, etc. If there were seven hundred thousand drawers in J your room, and you asked but for one to be kept sacred and inviolate for your | own private use, that particular one would be full of hair-pins, ribbons, and soiled cuffs. Some provision, some protection ! in this matter should be inserted in the marriage service." CRAWFORD, GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 23, 1874. A SCENE UNPAKALLELED. Last week. a> the mammoth fleet of steamers employed to transport the old John Rohinson’s (Treat World Exposi tion approached the landing at V yan dotte, situated on the bank of the Ohio river, in West YJrginia, an unusual com motion was observed to take place on board the Hag ship “ Erie, No. 9.” Men, women and children were wildly run ning to and fro frantically shouting to the other steamers, while at the same time there arose a series of shrieks, screeches, yells and howls, a> if all the inmates of pandemonium were let loose. The good people on shore were unable to make out the meaning and strange be havior of those on the steamers, but sur mising that everything, was not right among the animals in the menagerie, they very quickly concluded that the open levee was no place for them should any of the ferocious monsters make their way to the land, and quickly fled to their homes. In the meantime, Commodore John F. Robinson hoisted signals of distress, which were quickly responded to by the steamer Champion, Capt. G. N. Robinson; also the steamer Argosy, Captain James Robinson, who ranged alongside the Erie, and were in formed that an awful battle was raging between the huge double horned rhinoc eros and the monster war elephant, Old Emperor. The ladies and children were quickly transferred to the steamers Champion and Argosy, and then the en tire crews of the three steamers armed themselves and went below to endeavor to separate the combatants. As they reached that portion of the main deck just off the boilers, a horribly sickening sight met their view. Woun ded, bleeding and horribly lacerated men were lying where they had been stricken down by the terrible brutes; dead, woun ded, and dying horses and ponies strewed the deck in every direction ; cages do st roved and literally smashed into frag ments were scattered among the dead, wounded and dying, and the terrible din, shrieks, grunts and groans plainly told them that the battle was still raging. A total destruction of almost every cage on the boat seemed imminent. All ef forts proved unavailing to separate the savage denizens of the forest. At this juncture a large crash was heard, and the two cages containing the monster sea lions and the Labrador seals were driven overboard. The veteran showman was as cool and collected as a man could be under these circumstances, when his property was going to destruction every moment by thousands of dollars; not so with mana ger John F. Robinson, Jr., for when he saw his favorite seals and sea lions being dashed overboard, he cried: “Boys, I I can’t stand this, and we might as well attempt to kill one of these brutes before they ruin every cage on the boat.” He then ordered to fire upon them, and a heavy volley was discharged, which had no more effect on the now thoroughly aroused and frightened monsters than to cause them to fight with more fury than before. The situation was getting each moment more dangerous for all onboard, and the managers were despairing of all hope, when it occurred to manager John to open the steam pipes and deluge them with steam. The engineer quickly turned on the steam, and as it suddenly escaped from the boiler with a terriffic roar, a shrill screech was heard from the elephant, such as they always utter in crying for mercy when conquered in their native wilds. YYhether the elepant had re ceived its death-blow from the rhinoce ros or was frightened into submission by the steam, could not be ascertained until the steam had cleared away, which it did in a few moments, disclosing to the as tonished gaze of the showmen a curious and gratifying sight. There lay the el ephant on the deck cowering, trembling down, and a little farther on was the rhinoceros, snugly enseonsed in his cage, where he had retreated when the steam was opened upon him. The attendants sprang forward and closed and bolted the door of bis cage, thus securing themselves from further molestation from him. Five horses were found dead, as also were three ponies, and four more were so badly maimed and wounded, that they were killed in mercy, to end their pains. A Veteran —Two soldiers were talk ing together, when one asked the other : “ YYhere was you during the war?” “ I was twenty-four months in the ar my, sir.” “ YTuis, wal, where was you during that time?” “ I was twenty-three months in the hospital.” “And where was you during the other month?” “ I was looking for the hospital.” WIT AND HUMOR. A man may love wisely, but lie cannot love two very well. for what port i* a man bound during courtship ? Bound to Havre. -Mr. Mudd runs a paper in Missouri. Uis editorials are as clear as his name. I oast at a railroad dinner: “Our Mothers—The only faithful tenders vho never misplaced the switch.” luo horns will last an ox a life-time, but many a man wants that number every morning before breakfast. If your sister fell into a well, whv couldn't you rescue her? Because you could not be her brother and assist her too. 1 he New York Herald calls the recent exciting cattle stampede and chase in the Bowery “ The third battle of Bull Run.” An unsophisticated person once decli ned a plate of maecaroni soup with the remark that they “couldn’t palm off any biled pipe-stems on him.” A Thankee paper says: “If General Banks would fail of a nomination in Massachusetts he must try YJrginia. He formerly ran well in that State.” At the Cincinnati Exposition, a card gives the following touching hut practi cal information : “If you try our coffins once you will never use any others.” 1 hev tell of a farmer in Elbert so lazy that when he went tolioe corn j so slowly that the shade of his broad-: brimmed hat killed the tender plant. • ! Yes, sir, said a Michigan 4th of; July orator. “Putnam went right into the wolfs den, dragged her out, and the : independence of America was secured !” | I want lo know, ’ said a creditor, j fiercely, when you are going to pay j me what you owe me?” “'I give it up,” replied the debtor, “ ask me something easy.” ■ '■ The magician who astonished an audi ence by changing a canary bird into a cat, lias a formidable rival in the man who turned a bushel of potatoes into a barrel. / Since “The Woman Who Talks” has been placed upon the stage, there’s scarcely a married man going who does not think he has a natural great actress in his family. Pedagogue—First little boy, what is your name? Little boy-—.Tule. Peda gogue—Oh, no ; your name is Julius. Next little boy, what is vours? Second boy— Billions. A Chicago woman dipped her feet in the Mississippi river, at St. Louis, the other day, and the effect was noticed as far down as Memphis, where the water rose several inches. At a hotel table one boarder remarked to another: “This must be a healthy place for chickens.” “Why?” asked the other. “ Because T never see anv dead ones hereabouts.” Dean Swift, hearing of a carpenter tailing through the scaffolding of a house which he was engaged in repairing, dryly remarked that lie liked to see a mechanic go through his work promptly. When a Connecticut deacon nudged a somnolent worshipper with the contribu tion box the sleepy individual awoke partially, smiled, murmured, “ I don’t smoke!” and dropped off again. Circumstances alter cases. For in stance, when a Greene county man arose in church and said, “ Here’s a hundred dollar bill for the old boss behind the pulpit,” no one thought of putting him out. A Cape May youth used the deeds of his father’s farm for gun-wads. The stamp on the bottom of the document wasn’t anything like the impression the i old man made on the same part of the lad’s anatomy. The fall and winter fashions of the I Sandwich Islands have just been an i nounced. In additional to the usual | band of red tape above the knee, a paper I collar with corners turned down will be • the proper thing. A land agent in Colorado remarked i to an inquiring man, that all that was needed to make the place a Paradise was : a comfortable climate, water, and good i society. “That’s all that is lacking in : hell,” was the reply. Some of the regular soldiers sent West have married squaws, and are doing their ; best to civilize the poor, ignorant red | skins. As soon as the squaw gets a pair j of army boots and a brass chain on, she begins to act refined and lady-like. How doth the busy little pig improve each shining hour, and gather sausage all the day from every opening flower. And when the shades of twilight fall, he slumbers in his stye, or sings his pretty opening hymn. “ Root little pig, ok die.’ “JOSH BILLINGS’ ALMINAX." Jo.-h Billings’ Almanac for 7<> is just out. It is fall of droll and mischievous humor, and i> the best he lias ever issued yet. We present sum •> extracts from it which are rich and racy : •'he dumplin are about the mitral size ov my phist. mrde out ov dough, and filled with apples. They aie served up hot, with some sweet-tasting liniment on them, and iz as eazy lo struggle with az a sugar plum. They ain’t so good kold, as they ought to be. Kold dump ling and raw potatoes eat similar. I never et apple dumpling yet, without . thanking the Lord for that one, and the j landlady for another one. Four apple i dumplings, at one sitting, iz just about my size. I wish 1 knu who invented these kind-hearted balls. I would like ■ to weep over his memory. Pumkin pi and apple dumplin have done as mutch to civilize man as ennv two missionaries that have ever lived. Good vittles is next to good morals enny how. Y'u may talk about virtew as much as you pleze, you kant ever inokulate a man with virtew fust race on an empty stum muk. Give a man four apple dumplins, j with some good kind of ointment on 1 them, and after he hez et them and be : haz settled down to hard pan, you kan krawl up to him on either side with a j dose of morality, or even some new kind j of sope, for takiu spots out of clothes. YYhen a man ain’t good for ennything i else, he is just right to sit on a jury. Coquets make better wives than prudes do, but thank the Lord, there iz better ones in market than either ov them. One ov the most unfortunate individu als I kno ov is a third-rate fiddler. About as low down az man kan git, and not quite spile, iz to liv on his wife’s repiFashun. A good character iz allwus gained hi inches ; but iz often lost in one chunk. To be strong a man should liav plenty j ov friends and plenty ov enemy's —too j mennv friends weakens him, and too menny enemys makes him a vagabond. After tricing for more than 35 years to hav mi own way in all things, I hav finally cum to the konklusion to split the difference. I hav made up mi mind that human happiness consists in having a good deal to do, and then keep a doing it. Woman is the glass ware of creation. She iz luvlv and brittle, but she haz run up everything we really enjoy in this life from 25 cents on the dollar to par. Adam, without Eve, would hav boen az stupid a game asplaying checkers alone. Thare lias been more beautiful things sed in her praise than there haz ovenny other animate thing, and she iz worthy ov them all. She iz not an angil, tho’, and 1 hope she won’t never go into the j angell bizness. Angells on earth don’t pay. The only mistake that woman haz ever made iz to think she iz a better man than Adam. Adam iz eaptin, and 1 am ready to admit that be is often a drcadphul poor one too. Woman is the power behind the throne, and she holds all the best playing cards in the pak, and her own good sense ought to teach her not to be in ennv hurry to play' them. I hav al wuss sed, and I beleaf it still, that the time to be careful iz when you hav a handphul of trumps. Experience acts on some pholks’ vitals just as it docs on a bull tarrier. He don’t fairly git over one whipping before he begins to look around for another. Next in point of meanness to doing a man an injury', is to do him a favor, and every now and then remind him ov it. Thare is a grate menny gingerpop peo ple in this world; after they hav bin uncorked a fu minutes, they git to be dreadful flat. Didn't Say It. We find the following card in the Gainesville Eagle. It is one of the most satisfactory explanations wo have ever read: “Homer, Banks Cos., Oct. 7, 1874. “ Editors Eagle: —The Hon. John YV. O’Neal, whom you may have learned is the Radical candidate for Congress in the Ninth District, has made a charge against me, which I deny. In the last issue of the Gainesville Advertiser he says that in a speech made by me, on Thursday last, in Gainesville, I charged him with showing himself on the streets, and in the State House in Atlanta, with out his pants and drawers. The Honor able gentleman misquotes my language i that he may deny it. I did not charge him with showing himself on the streets and in the State House in Atlanta with out his pants and drawers ; I only char ged him with appearing on the streets ! and in the Btate House in Atlanta in his shirt tail. Your obedient servant, . . “ Emory Bpeek." VOL. I—NO. 3. Tl** Mississippi River to be Tun neled at Grand Tower. W e loarn that there is a company about being formed with the view of tunneling, or we might say, tubing the Mississippi at Grand Tower. The plan, as tar as we can judge, seems practi : cable, and when carried out will unite the Illinois Central with the Iron Moun tain Railroad, ’ ring the coal holds ot Tsig Muddy u. close contact with the iroo beds of Missouri. The plan is this : An iron tube is to be first sunk in the fiver, of oval shape, say twenty feet at its largest dimensions, inside of which another iron tube, three 1 feet smaller each way, is to be laid on girders inge niously constructed with a view to strength and durability. The tube or tunnel will have only about ball of its diameter below the bottom of the river, as the water is very deep at this point, and it is the intention of the companv, if they get an appropriation from Con gress, to utilize the heat which is now being wasted by the Big Muddy furnaces —and which are located just where the tunnel will enter the bluff on the Illinois side—by leading a pipe from the hot air chamber directly into the space between the outer and the inner tubes of the tunnel, thereby getting up sufficient heat to raise the temperature of the wa ter in the river, while passing over it, above the freezing point, and thus pre venting any obstruction of the river by ice between that point and Cairo. In Love with a Wax Figure.—A lunatic has just died in an asylum in France whose distemper had a very sin lar origin. His name was Justin. He was a wJx figure maker and had au ex hibition of wax works at Montiouge. lie fell in love with one of his figures. It was that of a girl, which he called Eliza, He sat for hours contemplating the fig ure until itbecame to him a living reality. He loved Eliza and neglected his wife. His business left him in the shadow of his infatuation. His family starved. One day his wife, in a fit of rage and desperation and jealousy, destroyed the figure of Eliza. Justin tried to kill his wife with a broom-stick, and vrouLd have succeeded had not the neighbors inter fered. The man after this became dan gerous and w r as put in a lunatic asylum, w here be continued to love Eliza for five years and then died. A “ Bran-new Baby.” —The hit,-? Western story comos from Tern* Haute. As the ears were moving away from that station the other day, a pretty young woman came from the ladies’ car, ami rushing into the smoking ear, frantically appealed to everybody to stop the train. Catching sight of the conductor, she ex plained, piteously, “ Mr. Conductor, do please stop the train; I’ve left my baby.” The train was stopped and the baby r - covered, amidst the hearty cheers of the people on the platform and the*passcn gers; and while the laugh ed,cried and hugged ~ sl >e tried to explain how the oaby.was such anew one sin* hadn’t got used to it; A Slight Mistake. — mag istrate in a town in Indiana named Hel ser. A clergyman in the place was* called upon by a young couple, not long since, who wished him to join them in tie- holy bouds of matrimony. He asked the bridegroom (ajgj|jf&, by the wav,) for a marriage liceiwe. The man in blue* responded that he had been engaged to. the girl for four years, and thought that would do. The. clergyman thought not,, and remarked, as the spetMiest way t<s obtain a license: “ You had better take your girl and go to Helser !” •* You go to hell yourself!” retorted the angry vet eran. And seizing the bride by the arm, he dragged her from the liouse, won dering what manner of a profane minis ter he had met with. A Singular Circumstance. —Sev- eral weeks ago a fainjj^yeakluitf n°:i Liberty Mills, Orange county, Virginia, arose early in the morning and prepared breakfast, using the tea kettle in which to heat water for eoffee. The family drank of the coffee, as usual, and with out any injurious effects. Towards noon someone, in attempting to use the kettle for another purpose, found in it a consid erable sized black snake boiled to death in the water which was used for coffee i 1 the morning. On this announcement there was considerable consternation in the family for a short time, some vomit ing, and others tried to do so, but iaiiee. Strange to say, no one was other wbe in jured. With a sardonic grin, Wix poured some musilage into his empty i air oil bottle, yesterday, and this morning the hair of one of theservunt girh was stuck so tight tliat she could not shut In r m out If* " r _