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CARRIAGES, BUGGIES,
WAGONS.
R, P. TUCKER & BRO.,
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Having rebuilt ,
their Shops, and tlmr
■ Highly stocked them with—
the best tools and a full supply of the finest
seasoned LUMBER, are now prepared to
manufacture, at short notice, every descrip
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satisfaction, both as to finish and wear.
REPAIRING AND COARSE WORK also
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nOLLIi: DAKLIYG.
We hope those who were most interested in
“ Mollie Darling” will now rest a little easy
on the subject, as she has. by special request,
made a public a A nowledgment of her love.
We heard an old gentleman, who is a member
of the church, say he wished to heaven Mollie
Darling would tell the love sick jackass that
she loved him, for he was tired to death of
hearing the darned thing. Mollie herself an
swers him in the following:
Yes, I love you, dearest darling—
Love no other one but you ;
Long for you my heart was pining,
I will ever more be true.
Oh ! hear me, while 1 fondly tell you,
While you clasp this hand of mine,
Mollie still will be your darling,
While the stars above shine.
(thorns —Darling, fondest, kindest, truest,
Your sweet eyes to me are bliss—
Yes, I love you, dearest darling,
Take your answer with a kiss.
Smile upon your Mollie Darling,
Like the stars above to-night,
M ak e.ik“ihmef is ; -ihh v Yf "iWfiTffi
a ;
In her dreams your Mollie Darling
Still will keep you by her side.
(Jh or us —Darling, kindest, etc.
Moli.ie Darling.
HOW THE HONEY GOES.
BY JOHN G. SAXE.
How goes the money? Well,^
I’m sure it isn’t hard to tell ;
It goes for rents and water rates,
For bread and butter, coal and grates,
Hats, caps, and carpets, hoops and hoes,
And that’s the way the money goes.
How goes the money ? Nay,
Don't everybody know the way ?
It goes for bonnets, coats, and capes,
Silks, satins, muslins, velvets, crapes,
Shawls, ribbons, furs, furbelows,
And that’s the way the money goes.
How goes the money ? Sure,
I wish the ways were somewhat fewer!
It goes for wages, taxes, debts',
I- goes for presents, goes for bets,
For prints, pomade, and au de rose,
And that’s the way the money goes.
How goes the money? Now,
I’ve scarce begun to mention how ;
It goes for feathers, laces, rings,
Toys, dolls, and other baby’s things,
Whips, whistles, candles, bells, and bows,
And that’s the way the money goes.
How goes the money? Come,
I know it didn’t go for rum ;
It goes Tor schools and Sabbath chimes,
It goes for charities sometimes,
For missions and such things as those,
And that’s the way the money goes.
How goes the money ? There,
I’m out of patience, I declare!
It goes for plays and diamond pins,
For public alms and private sins,
For hollow shams and silly shows,
And that’s the way the money goes.
A Snake Around her Ciiignon.—
Recently, on the train on the Erie Rail
road, which runs from Rochester to
Dansville, and reached here at 10 a. m.,
a most singular circumstance occurred.
When the train was about three miles
from this village, the passengers in one
of the coaches were alarmed by the sin
gular actions of a lady, who gave her
name as Mary P. Rhoades, of Adrian,
Mich. Slie was leaning over a seat, ut
tering the most piercing cries. A gen
tleman rushed to her and asked the
trouble. She made no answer, but con
tinued to scream the louder. When the
train reached this village she was helped
into the waiting-room, and a gentleman
present procured a glass of brandy, which
being given to the lady, she appeared to
recover some. A lady standing near, at
this juncture, gave a scream, and point
ing to the head of Miss Rhoades, fainted.
On examination, a large striped snake
was observed coiled around the chignon
of the lady. • How it came there was a
mystery, and only explained by the the
ory that it had got into the car, and took
refuge under the cushions of the car
seat. Miss Rhoades stated that she felt
something crawling up her back, but
could only give vent to her feelings in
screams, and until it was taken oft' did
she herself know what the matter was.
The snake was killed, aud the affair pro
duced no little excitement for a while.
On the 19th inst., the wife of Sam
Henry, a colored resident of Salisbury,
Md., became the mother of four children.
When informed of the fact Sam began to
make preparations for a journey. “ I
ain’t gwine tb live in this heah Saulsbury
no longer,” said Sam.
CRAWFORD, GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 30, 1874.
THE BRIDAL WINE-CUP.
“ Pledge with wine, pledge with wine,”
cried the young and thoughtless Harvey
Wood. “ Pledge with wine,” ran
through the bridal party.
The beautiful bride grew pale; the de
cisive hour had come. She presses her
white hands together; and the leaves of
the bridal wreath trembled on her brow;
her breath came quicker, and her heart
beat wilder.
“ Aes, Marion, lay aside your scruples
for this once,” said the Judge, in a low
tone, going towards his daughter; “ the
company expect it. Do not so seriously
infringe upon the rules of etiquette. Tn
your own home do as you please; hut
in mine, for this once, please me.”
Pouring a brimming cup they held it,
with tendering smiles, towards Marion.
She was very pale, though composed, and
gracefully accepted the crystal tempter,
and raised it to her lips. But scarcely
had she done so when every hand was
arrested by her piercing exclamation of
“ Oh! how terrible.”
“ What is it ?” cried one and all,
thronging together, for she had slowly
raised the glass at arm’s length, and was
fixedly regarding it.
“Wait,” she answered, while alight
which seemed inspired shone from her
dark eyes—“ wait, and I will tell you.
I see,” she added, slowly pointing one
finger at the sparkling ruby liquid, “ a
sight that beggars of all description ; and
yet, listen; I will paint it for you if I
can. It is a lovely spot; tall mountains,
crowned with verdure, rise in awful sub
limity around; a river runs through,
and bright flowers grow to the water’s
edge. But there a group of Indians
gather; they flit to and fro, with some
thing like sorrow upon their dark
brows. And in their midst has a manly
form, hut his cheek, how deathly! his
eyes wild with the fitful fire of fever.
One friend stands before him—nay, I
should say, kneels; for see, he is pillow
ing that poor head upon his breast.
“Oh! the high, holy-looking brow.
Why should death mark it, and he so
young? Look, how he throws back the
damp curls! See him clasp his hands!
Hear his thrilling shrieks for life!
Mark how he clutches at the form of hit
companion, imploring to he saved! Oh!
hear him piteously call his father’s name;
see him twinge his fingers together, as he
shrieks for his sister—his only sister —
the twin of his soul —-weeping for him in
his distant native land.
“ See f” she exclaimed, Avliile the bridal
party shrank back, the untasted Ayine
trembling in their faltering grasp, and
the Judge fell ovcrpoAvered upon his
scat—“see! his arms arc lifted to
heaven—lie prays—how Avildly! for
mercy; hot fever rushes through his
veins. He moves not; his eyes are set
in their sockets; dim as their piercing
glances ; in yain his friend Avhispers the
name of father and sister—death is
there. Death —and no soft hand, no
gentle voice, to soothe him. His head
sinks back ; one convulsive shudder—
he is dead!”
A groan ran through the assembly ; so
vivid Avas her description, so unearthly
her look, so inspired her manner, that
Avhat she described seemed actually to
have taken place then and there. They
noticed, also, the bridegroom hid his
face in his hands, and Avas weeping;
“ Dead !” she repeated again, her lips
quivering faster and faster, and her
voice more broken ; “ and there they
dig him a grave ; and there, Avithout a
shroud; they lay him doAvn in that
damp, reeking earth, the only son of a
proud father, the only idolized brother
of a proud sister. There he lies, my
father’s son, my own twin brother, a A'ic
tim to this deadly poison. Father!” she
exclaimed, turning suddenly, Avhile the
tears rained down her beautiful cheeks —
“father, shall I drink it noAV?” The
form of the old Judge Avas convulsed Avith
agony. He raised not his head, but in a
smothered \*oice he faltered: “ No, no,
my child ; no!”
She lifted the glittering goblet, and
letting it suddenly fall to the floor, it was
dashed in a thousand pieces. Many a
tearful eye Avatched her movement, and
instantaneously every Avine-glass Avas
transferred to the marble table on which
it had been prepared. Then, as she
looked at the fragments of crystal, she
turned to the company saying, “ Let no
friend hereafter Avho loves me, tempt me
to peril my soul for wine. Not firmer
are the everlasting hills than my resolve,
God helping me, never to touch or taste
the poison cup. And he to AA-hom I gave
my hand, AA'ho AAatchecT over my brother’s
dying form in that last solemn hour, and
buried the dear Avanderer there by the
river in the land of gold, will, I trust,
sustain me in that resolve.”
His glistening eyes, his sad sAveet
smile, Avas her ans Aver. The Judge left
the room, and .when, an hour after, he
returned, and with a more subdued man
lier took part in the entertainment of the
bridal guests, no one could fail to read
that he had determined to banish the en
emy forever from the princely home.
Vast Underground Ruins.— The
Two Republics, a Mexican paper, men
tions the recent discovery of an artifici
ally excavated grotto, fifteen miles from
Tancitaro, in the State of Michoacan,
which cannot fail to enlist the attention
of antiquaries and archaeologists. The
grotto is represented to he of immense
depth aud vast extent; the remains of
walls and arched coridors are still to be
seen, and many curious specimens of the
handiwork of an unknown race have
been brought from this subterranean
palace. Two citizens of a neighboring
village recently penetrated into the cav
ernous depths of the grotto and lost then
way. Three days and nights were spent
in wandering through the labyrinthine
passages of this wonderful place before
they found an outlet from their strange
imprisonment. Subsequent to this com
petent persons made a more thorough
examination of the grotto, when the fact
that at some unknown period in the past
it had been shaped by human skill, and
Availed in on every side by human hands,
Avas reA r ealed. It is a dark labyrinth,
surpassing in extent and intricacy the
fabled one constructed by Daedalus in
the classic realms of Crete. The aamlls
are of masonry, and passage Avays, Avhieh
connect vast chambers, arched OA'er Avith
stone. These evidences of human labor
and contrivance lead to the supposition
that it is the Avork of an aboriginal race,
which long ago perished.
“ And the Cock Creav.” —A singu
lar story is told of a fanner who, Avith
his former servant, Avas suspected of kill
ing a child. The rumor took so much
consistency as to cause the Mayor to pay
an inquiring visit te the farmer Desault.
He found him at the table Avith his
ploughman, and the matter having been
broached, Desault treated the Avhole as
an idle, malevolent im-ention. “ Besides,”
saiand
will t/v. tnat cock next,” pointing out to a
sparkish chanticleer avlio ay as busily
scratching for the family grub on a large
dunghill in the farm yard. The phrase
was scarcely finished Avhen the cock
gave a sonorous crow. The farmer greAv
pale. The Mayor took the providential
hint, and in spite of the asservations of
Desault, the dunghill was at once exam
ined, and the body of the infant discoA'-
ered at the depth of three feet, with its
head severed from its body. The farmer
and the unfortunate girl Avas at once ar
rested, tried, anti executed.
A Bloody Victory Over the Texas
Indians. —The United States army is
covering itself with glory in Texas in its
recent battle Avith the Cheyenne Indians.
General Mackenzie reports that he came
upon the enemy after a forced march, in
the Canyon Citro Blanco, on Juta creek,
near the fork of the Red river, and
achieA'cd a brilliant A’ictory, capturing
and destroying over 100 lodges, the en
tire outfit of the enemy —comprising buf
falo robes and munitions of Avar —and
killing 4 Indians, and 1,048 mules and
horses. This brilliant victory was gained
Aviih the loss of only one soldier, slightly
Avounded. With the mules and horses it
must have been bloody Avork. Can our
advanced civilization find no more hu
mane method of dealing Avith the Indians
and their horses and mules?
Some Facts About Eels. —Eels, it
has been proved, have both sexes in one,
and spaAvn someAvhat after the manner of
other fish. Like the turtle, they can
travel out of the Avater for some distance,
from stream to stream, so that it is in
most every rivulet, hoAveA-er small, they
can be found. The gills or breathing or
gans are coA r ered up by a most delicate
curtain,-.vvhich acts like a valve and res
ervoir lor AA-ater, thus enabling the fish
to take in a gill-full of Avater, so to speak,
to keep its gills moist during the time It
is out of Avater. It has a heart in the
tail, the same that is known to exist in
the salmon, Avith pulsations at the rate of
about ninety-four the minute.
Acres of Wild Pigeons. —The sound
of the hurrfcerts gun resounds on the hills..
Millions of wild pigeons roost nightly at
Oakland, West Virginia, and each train
passing through Piedmont carries its
quota of shot-guns, Avhieh are almost a
superfluity, as the • birds are piled so
thick on the elder bushes that after
nightfall one can step up to them and
catch and kill them as fast as necessary
Avithout mutilating them with shot. One
gentleman killed 833 birds in one morn
ing, many of which Avere taken without
the aid of a gun.
Farmers gather Avhat they sew, and
s a m tresses sew Avbat they gather.
WISE AND OTHERWISE.
Noah Avas the first Arkiteet.
The melon colic days are gone.
There are many avlio can’t read knows
A bee sees.
An expensive Avife makes a pensive
husband.
Why is grass like a penknife ? Because
the spring brings out the blade?
What axles on a railroad train are
most likely to he broken ? The tender
axles.
Why is a vender of a worthless article
like a coquette ? Because they are both
a dam-sell.
A Pennsylvania ne\A'spaper says: “On
Tuesday Mr. Undercoffer raised 143
bushels of potatoes.”
A Mississippi paper proposes this-mot
to for the country —
Com and Economy,
Hog and Hominy.
A man out West sat doAvn on a keg of
powder to enjoy a smoke. After the
smoke cleared aAvav, they found one
button.
There is a wide difference betAveen a
battle-scarred and badly scared veterans,
although the latter generally claim all
the honors after a fight.
Why is a beautiful girl like a locomo
tive ? Because she draws a train, scat
ters the sparks, transports the males, and
says to the tender, “ pine ’not.”
“ See,” said a sorroAving Avife, “ lioav
peaceful the cat and dog are.” “ Yes,”
said the petulant husband, “ but just tie
them together and see lioav the fur Avill
fly.”
When a AvidoAV in any neighborhood
sets her cap for a young man, there isn’t
one chance in a million for any young
Avoman to Avin, even if she hold the four
aces.
Farmer —“Uncle, Avhieh would you
like best, Avork for Avages or part of the
crop.” Negro—“Waal, I ’clar, I tink
bofe de best, if you kin only brung ’em
togedder.”
“ Gasoozling ” is anew slang Avord,
meaning “ honeyfuggle.” If any one
shouldn’t knoAV Avhat “ honeyfuggle ” is,
Ave explain that it is a synonym for
“ hornsAA’Oggle.”
“ Who made you ?” Avas asked of a
small girl. “ She replied, “ God made
me that long,” indicating Avith her hands
the length of a ucav born infant, “ and I
groAved the rest myself.”
Josh Billings says : “ Trying tev *e
on the reputation of a ded father
graufather is just as enterprisin a busi
ness as trying to hatch out rotten eggs
under a tin Aveather cock.”
When a young farmer’s Avife made her
first hoy’s pants precisely the same before
as behind, the father exclaimed: “Good
ness ! he Avon’t knoAV whether he’s going
to school or coming home.”
The strangest case of absence of mind
that Ave ever heard of, Avas that a mon
key out in Paducah, who used to sit on
the fence in a reverie, and try to pick its
teeth Avith the end of its taiL
When Ave asked a man a few days ago
Avhat induced him to make a law student
of his son, he replied : “ Oh, he a-hvays
Avas a lying little cuss, and I thought I’d
humor his leading propensity.”
They tell about a sleepy and prosy
clergyman in Hart county, AA'ho. prayed
one evening that “ the- inefficient* may he
made efficient,, the intemperate temper
ate, and the industrious d'ustrious.’*'
Tender-hearted persons who. have read
of the fierce raid of Texas steers, through
the streets of neAv York recently, Avill be
pleased to learn from the market reports
that “ there is a better feeling irv Tc-sas
cattle.”’
“ Will you please insert this obituary
notice ?” asked an old gentleman of the
editor: “ I make hold to ask it, because
I know the deceased had a; great many
friends around here who’d be glad to>.
hear of his death ?”
An Irishman put his head into law
yer’s office, and asked the inmate,. “ An”
Avhat do you sell here ?” “ Blockheads,”’
replied the limb of the laAv. “-Och,.thin,.
to be sure,” said Pat, “ it must be a good
trade, for ye have but one of them left.”
A promising youth of nine summers,,
irt Massachusetts, recently relieved his
over-burdened mind as folloAvs :
Lord of lo\-e, look down from above
Upon us little scholai s;
For we have a fool to teach our school,
And pay her twenty dollars..
A sportsman tells a singular instance
of a gun hanging fire. He had snapped
hisgu* at a grey squirrel, and the cap
had exploded ; but the piece not going
off, he took it from his shoulder, looked'
down the barrel, and saw the charge just
starting, when, bringing its to his shoul
der again, it went off and kille 1 the
squirreL
VOL I--NO. 4.
INTERESTING ITEMS.
There is a postmaster in Illinois who
draws a salary of $1 per annum.
John Hepner, of Reading, Pa., is the
father of forty-one children by three
wives.
Tilton is selling his wife’s old love let
ters and photographs. Can any brute
be lower?
Three young English girls, unaccom
panied by any gentleman, have recently
made the ascent of Mount Blanc.
Opium is imported into the United,
at the rate of 5,000,000 of ounces a year,
at a cost of $2,000,000 a year.
Many of the white people are leaving
Xenv Orleans. Fifty families in one
body are preparing to move.
Men often omit what they might do,
in consequence of thinking about that
which it is out of their power to do.
The oak staves for making wine casks
in the south of France, are sent from the
forests of Kentucky and Tennessee.
“In the whole range of Southern ag
riculture, there is no crop on which
manure pays so well as on our winter
pastures.”
A New* Orleans dispatch says: “Fewer
cases of yellow’ fever have occurred here
than for the past ten years. Not six
fatal cases in the State.”-
It is estimated that it takes a domesti
cated tlv a two-billionth pact of a second
to wink, while an industrious mosquito
can do it in one-tenth of that time.
Asa result of the recent eruptions of
Etna, a fisure three miles long has been
opened on the northern side of the moun
tain, in the course of which several mi
nor craters are formed.
An inquirer in the Richmond Dispatch
wants to know which is correct, to say
“ four and five is nine,” or “-four andi
five are nine,” and gets a reply that the
former is the right expression..
Maria Stratton died! ik a New Jersey
almshouse insane, her mental difficulty
having been caused by tight lacing. So 1
says an item.. But we can’t understand
how it was, unless she carried her brains
in her stomach.
A number of Texan steers, which arri
ved in New York recently, w'hilc passing
tlirough the lower part of the city, be
came infuriated at the noise and lights.
Eight of them broke loose and rushed in
various directions, and before they could
be shot, injured nearly fifty people,
none of them, however, seriously.
A German woman named Yoit, aged
about 50 yeurs, died in Ephratah, Fulton
comity, thirteen years ago, of apoplexy.
Last week the body was disinterred for
the purpose of removing it to another
cemetery.. It was thoroughly petrified.
When it was struck with an iron rod, a
sound w r as produced as though it had
been brass, or other hard metal.
By the following method we may have
tomatoes all tlie year round',, which can
scarcely be distinguished from those
picked fresh from the vine: Dissolve a
teacup of sel.U in- a gallon of w'ater. Pick
ripe tomatoes,but not over ripe, leaving
a littfie of the stem on. The tom a top
most be- kept weii coveredwwiths' s 10
brine, anil! they wull keep.till spring 1 *
longer..
An inquest has been held at
tor,England, on the body of af l :t ' es a ’ e
named Donovan, w r ho was an i occaslol "
the Prestwich Lunatic Asyjfe'j' air > 0
worked at his trade there, jdifferei t
great taste for eating iron, and as to
denly on*Sept. ML The post i r^‘e
animation showed fchakThe atom- ’ )r>s b
tained one-pound,, tan ounces 1 a * 11
some an inch and a half lor 1 ’ 1 ! .
pieces of iron half an inch e
an awl without a handle. H;„
The neguses of the West Inf corn and
are far nywse superstitious tha.i outers of
says a- laJße writer. They are that th y
ardk at night, shutting up th rt jU n „,
-tight as a drmn to keep out th >r fear f
mg spirits.of tiie darkness, andii woul-i
lief in- fetaffiism is almost filing edi-
The C>bea& men drive a th a contain-
it is seldom a boat over 7
without existing the valuable Variety,
man-witeh or warlock. The conm.
of. the free negroes is one of ignorance,
squalor, and comparative destitution.
A French newspaper states that a gir
mused Cavrigrac was carried to th#
.■4}nine at Lourdes in a dying state, but
had.; no sooner touched the holy water
ehaa< sin? rose up perfectly well. An
other girl, who had been dumb for seven
year.-,., commenced singing as soon as she
reached-the -grotto. At Marseilles, more
over, the nuns have marched in proces
sion’to an; altar in one of the churches
which is dedicated to our Lady of
Lourdes to express their gratitude for
the miraculous cure of one of their num
ber, who had suffered for twenty months/
from aii apparently incurable uuu-d. .