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BY T. L. GANTT. THE OGLETHORPE ECHO PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY fIOUMVI,. IJY T. GANTT, Editor and Proprietor. ♦# TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. \\ here paid strictly in advance )i*t* 00 Where payment delayed tj months ti 50 Where payment delayed 12 months... 5 OO CLUB KATES. Club of 5 or less than 10, per copy 1 75 Club of 10 or more, per copy I 50 Clubs must be accompanied by the cash, or papers will be charged for at regular rates. No attention will be paid to subscrip tions from other counties unless accompanied by the money, with 20c. per annum additional to pay-postage, as the law requires that after January next postage must be prepaid by the publisher, except to subscribers in the county where the journal is published, in which in stance no postage is charged. JJSSrTHE ABOVE TERMS WILE NOT HE DEVIATED FROM IN ANY CASE. RATES OF ADVERTISING Per Square (1 inch) first insertion £ Per Square each subsequent insertion.Jt Liberal contracts made with regular: tisers, and for a longer period than 3 |~ Local notices, 20c. per line first it** 15c. per line each subsequent insertiofe BUSINESS CARDS.^r rT tT bRU MBY& GC DRUGGISTS AND PHARMACISTS, DEALERS IN Drugs, Chemicals, Patent Medicines, IHURLISTK' SINIMtIFS, Paints, Oils. Lamps, (dass Shades. 4’lismiois Skins, Sponges, Etc., Etc., College avenue, between Book Store and P. O. Athens, G-a. Beg*'Special attention given to Prescrip tions at all hoars. oet9-ti CARRIAGES, BUGGIES, WAGONS. R, P. TUCKER & BRO., CRAWFORD, CA., 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 tion of CARRIAGES, BUGGIES ROCKA WAYS, PH-ETON’S, WAGONS, CARTS, etc., etc. We will also do all manner oi lUaelismil hing and Itepairing. am. guarantee all our work to give perfect satis faction. /?■*?'■ We sell our TWO-HORS'F WAGONS at from to $125, and eve rything else LOW in proportion. oetO-tf BOOTS AND SHOES HENRY LUTHI, /OKAWFOKI), GA., IS NOW PREPARED v to make, at short notice, the FINEST BOOTS and SHOES. I use only the best material, and warrant my work to give entire satisfaction, both as to finish and wear. REPAIRING AND COARSE WORK also attented to. oetS-ly E. A. WILLIAMSON, PRACTICAL WATCHMAKER & JEWELER AT DIE KING’S DRUG STORE, “road Street, - - - Athens, <a. A*£.. All work done in a superior manner, and warranted to give perfect satisfaction, octl-ly 1? . E. BRANNAN, House, Sign, and Ornamental PAINTER, PAPER HANGING. GLAZING. CaLSO MINING, etc. Would respectfully so licit. the. patronage of the public. Any one wanting a botch job done can get someone else. oetO-ly LUCKIE & YANCEY, DEALERS IX AND REPAIRERS OK WATCHES, i|j| Jewelry, Ete.,jb=4. Y. S Broad St., Athens. CJa. oct9-ly BOOT, SHOE & BARBER SHOP. QQUIRE HILL, HAVING LOCATED IN O the Post Office building, respectfully so licits a portion of the public patronage. Ido only first-class work, and never fail to please mveustomers. oetlMf aI) c #glct|®r|ie Cell)®. 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. .