Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page.

THE OGLETHORPE ECHO, PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY BY T. lA. GANTT, Editor and Proprietor. terms of subscription. Where paid strictly in advance £2 00 Where payment delayed t> months 2 50 Where payment delayed 12 months... 3 OO CLUB RATES. Club of sor less than 10, per copv I 75 Club of 10 or more, ]x:r copy I 50 Clubs must be accompanied by the cash, or papers will be charged for at regular rates. jar No attention will be paid to subscrip tions lrom other counties unless accompanied by the money, with 20c. per annum additional to pay pontage, 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. THE ABOVE TERMS WILL NOT BE DEVIATED FROM IN ANY CASE. RATEF OF ADVERTISING. Per Square (1 inch) first insertion $1 00 Per Square each subsequent insertion.. 75 Liberal contracts made with regular adver tisers, and for a longer period than 3 months. Local notices, 20c. per line first insertion, lot*, per line each subsequent insertion. ANNOUNCEMENTS. Ip&i"Announcements inserted in this column tit 83.50, tchere paid in advance. For Tax Collector. W* J. G ; IT A RTSFIELD is a candidate for Tax Collector, subject to the Demo cratic nomination. Friends. For Tax Receiver. teT* The friends of John T. England announce his name as a candidate for Tax Receiver, subject to Democrati nomination, on the third Friday in No vember next. Many Voters. For Tax Receiver. ten”' The friends o>f GE W. Young an nounce his name as a candidate for Tax Receiver, subject to Democratic nom ination, on the third Friday in Novem ber next. Many Voters. COUNTY A i:\YS. I, 0, G. TANARUS, The members of Crawford Lodge are all requested to attend the meeting of the order to-morrow (Saturday) night, as the election for officers will take place. COTTON PICKING. A little son of Mr. C. H. Steel, who lives near Sandy Cross, on Thursday week, picked 225 pounds of cotton. The little fellow is only 10 years old. Such boys are worth raising. FINE VEGETABLES. Mr, H, J. Hall placed upon our desk as fine a specimen of turnips and Irish potatoes (the latter planted in August last) as we care to look at. It is said none but a prosperous farmer can raise turnips successfully.. --— THE WORKS OF HYMEN. Married,,on the 20th inst., by the Kev. M. M. Landrwm,. James \Y. Thompson and Miss A. Marable, near Maxeyte. On the 20th inst,, by 11. P. Taylor, J. P., R. S. Gilliam and Miss Susan Maxey. All of Maxey’s. DIED, On the 25th inst., M. A., the youngest son of 11. A. and Mary Campbell, aged 16 years, 4 months, and 17 days. The star is not extinguished when it sets Upon the dull horison ; it but goes To shine in other skies, then re-appear In ours, as fresh as when it first arose. A PROMISING CHAP. One of the bright, intelligent, deeplv learned, and astronomically-inclined stu dents of the Georgia University sat up mil Sunday night, watching for the eclipse, nnd remarked Monday that he did not see it His friends are preparing to trot him up to the next State Fair, and think jthev will take a brass-button premium g>n him. APING. The negroes of Cherokee Corner have .organized a debating society, and meet -once a week at St James Chapel to ’seuss some question. The following are the .last two debated; “ Which can we do without the best, a dog or a gun ?” “Which is the most eerrigrou.% water or fire ?” A friend promises to attend one of their debates, and furnish us with some the arguments adduced. A COTTON-PICKING, We learn that the hands working the plantation of Captain Barrow, on Friday night last, gave a cotton-picking. The hands assembled at 0 o’clock in the eve ning, when work commenced, and con tinued to gather in the fleecy staple until 2 o’clock in the morning, when they ad journed to supper, where they found an abundance of the substantiate of life, including corn-juice. Our informant says that about 3 o’clock there were about sixty of the drunkest darkeys he has seen for years. They gathered in about two bales of cotton. SMALL ITEMS. The depot is full of freight. Beginning to leave—The leaves. Fires and thick clothing have the floor. A car-load of fine mules passed up the road Monday. High, bold, and flaring is the defini tion of the new bonnet. Early to bed and early to rise will all be vain if you don’t advertise. This week has been delightful weather —splendid time for cotton picking, The boast of the average planter, now a-days, is how much cotton is daily picked. The Oglethorpe Echo gets up one of the spiciest and fullest local pages in the State. —Savannah Advertiser. Business has fully opened for the sea son, and the peripatetic sewing machine agent and lightning-rod man have put in an appearance. Men scorn to kiss among themselves, and scarce would kiss a brother; but women want to kiss so bad, they kiss and kiss each other. Many planters now say they will not make more than a half crop of cotton. The fro.>t has injured them seriously, par* ticularly their low-land cotton. 51k. Hunter, the photographer, has struck his tent and left. He is a clever gentleman, and during his brief sojourn in our village made many friends. My hand is not fi lemon nor my lips dear meat, as the young lady said to her escort when they parted at the door the other night. Why did she speak tliusly ? At the request of friends, we omit an article we had prepared for this issue, at the expense of a young man who started home very drunk on “ fine brandy.” We hope he will “ sin no more.” A YOUNG man who is to be married soon, was seen the other day kissing a door-post in order to learn the art that he might not appear too awkward. Poor fellow, his lips are sore. Our friend Red Martin, we presume, is interested in the Hot Springs of Ar kansas, as he was showing to an admir ing crowd, Tuesday last, cards setting for the invigorating effects of the waters. The young folks had quite a pleasant gathering at the hotel Monday evening. Those little Crawford nightingales, Misses Lollie Martin and Jennie Stokcly, treated the company to some excellent music. An old bachelor, who has never had a whole pair of socks in his life, says that some of the married ladies will have to go to knitting, as their husbands arc beginning to appear at church with socks more hol(c)y than righteous. Wives of candidates for county officers complain that their husbands keep them awake all night talking in their sleep and saying : “ What’ll you take? Step up hoys. Come. Dan, Jim, Ed, Mad, Fitz, Buf, Pat, the whole of ye. Gimme some whiskey.” We are happy to state that we have secured the services of Mr. Jasper Hop kins as o&r “fighting editor.” Parties having any business with the Echo in that line will find him at the store of McMahan & 'Stokely anxiously await ing for such customers. A young man whose mother author ized him to purchase a “dandruff distur ber,” (sometimes called a fine-tooth comb,) was so modest that he selected a midnight hour for the time of investing, and woke up Red and made him go to the store and serve him. A MFJfBEIt of the church in this town asserts that if you decapitate a logger head turtle, and throw the head in a mud-hole, it will, in two week's time, sprout out a new turtle! A humane Good Templar suggests that it is splendid sport to-fasten the head to Che end of a dog’s tail and watch him run? Where’s Munchausen and Burgh ? The fine new store of Mr. R. S. Martin has beeu handsomely painted and fitted up, and will soon be occupied by Red with a splendid stock of new goods. Our young friend is too well known as a clever, kind, and accommodating gentle tleman and good merchant for a notice from us to assist. The simple announce ment that he will shortly open a splen did stock of goods is enough to secure the attendance of all who wish bargains. The store was built by Mr. J. M. Norton, who is just as good a workman as he is a clever gentleman. It was on the edge of the wood. They had come thither from different points in pursuit of the seasonable partridge ; but in the shrubbery one startled hunter had discovered that the other had drawn a bead on him. “ Don’t shoot,” he said, “ I am not a partridge.” “ I must shoot,” was the response, “ for I have sworn that if ever I saw a man homelier than I am I would kill him.” The intended victim gazed curiously for a moment, and then said, placidly, “Fire away; if I am ug lier than you are, I even wish that I were dead.” We will add that this oc curred on Saturday, when our teacher was not at school , and Red Martin told Winter that he thought he could attend to the store, and he could take the. part ridge hunt he spoke of. A COLORED ROMANCE. “The Course of True Love Never Runs Smooth." A Goose Pond Darkey Loses Ills Rridc and Shoes. A pair of dusky lovers, of Goose Pond, i a short time since, pledged their troth, and vowed, by everything sacred, to live only for each other. The damsel was ! not as yet sweet sixteen, and attending school, and the gay Lothario worked on a neighboring farm. History says they j met by chance, fell desperately in love, ; became engaged, and all that was lack ing to render their earthly happiness complete, was the consent of the young damsel's papa, a large, flat-nosed, kinky ; wooled old gentleman, who prided him self on a straight line of ’scent from one of the strongest (smelling) families in the county. The bride, too, they say, in herits her father’s odor and physiognomy and her mother’s complexion, and her father got her educated free of cost, on the condition that she would allow the scholars to use her cheeks for a black board when they were forced to use charcoal for chalk. The perfume distill ed from her fair (?) form, and which, like | a bright halo, surrounded her where ere ; she moved, was of such fragrance as | would cause an ancient William goat to | blush at his own inferiority. It is said the loving Lothario, in a short time, learned to trace the direction taken by his heart’s idol, even were she three miles distant, by the fragant odor waft ed to his nasal appendage by the passing breeze. But we will not longer dwell upon the loveliness (?) of the dam-sell. Suffice it to say no other lassie in Goosepond could show a blacker hide, kinkier wool, flatter foot, or hold a candle to her when you come to smell. As the swain plays but a minor part in our narrative, we will not spend much time in delineating bis characteristics — was a nigger all over ; wore on Sundays a hickory shirt, a pair of pants three inches too short, held up by one suspen der, a cross between a coat and a jacket, a pair of No. 12 shoes, with a vamp for the heel as well as toe, an old army cap, and was second, in point of ’scent, only to his prospective bride. But with our story: The father of the damsel was solicited by the lover for his daughter’s baud , he adding that “ I dun bin lubin your darter fur now gwine on tree months, and if you only gim her to me I swar i’ll sport her on de best dat de market fords, if I lvab to gedder it in when ebry one else dun sleep ; and I gin you tree pounds munition, a pistol, and Jack for a coon dog. Now, what you say to dat ?” The father considered for a moment the proposal, when, remembering that lie had been offered a better trade by another nigger, scorned the offer, and drove the proposer from the cabin. But as the old adage goes, “ love laughs at locks and bars.” The lovers secretly met and planed an elopement. A night was appointed, and true to time the swain rode up to the the thyrsting place on a nigger’s mule he had borrowed— a poor, old, blind, sore-backed animal, with a sheep-skin for a saddle and a rope around its neck for a bridle. His anxi ety was soon relieved by a strong odor being carried to him on a passing breeze, and he knew that his love was not far distant. But when she put in appearance, judge the feelings of the lover when he found her feet encased in nothing save the cov ering furnished by her maker. With a grace that would have done honor to Chesterfield, he quickly took off his own shoes, and with hard work squeezed the non-Cinderillian understandings of his partner into them, with the thoughtful remark that “ You kin war deni till cold wedder sot in !” All things being ready, the damsel was placed behind him on the mule, and the trio set out at a pace, that can be only equaled by the Athens Branch Railroad. But the course of true love never did run smooth. At daybreak the father awoke, discovered his loss, and started in pursuit of the runaways, who he found just a mile and a half from their point of departure. Rushing up to the trio, he ordered a halt, which command not be ing heeded, he seized hold of the tail of the mule, dragged it into the bushes, and recovered his odorous daughter, to gether with Lothario’s shoes, by way of spoils. Sequel. —ln three weeks the captured damsel was married to another nigger, who now wears the captured shoes, while Lothario, having neither shoes, money, nor credit, is forced to go bare-footed. THE DEBATE. The Enterprise Debating Club meets on Saturday night, Nov. 7. The follow ing is the next question for debate : “Is the Slanderer a Afore Pernicious Character than the Flatterer ?” The public generally are invited, but we we hope the ladies will specially favor the club with their presence. XEGRO KILLED. A White Man Cuts the Throat of a Negro, in Self-Defence, near Woodville. We learn, from reliable authority, the particulars of a difficulty which occurred near Woodville, in this county, which resulted in the loss of one vote to the Radical party. It appears that on Tuesday night last, at a corn-shucking, some controversy arose between a white man, named Per dee, and a negro named Alfred Haily, a notoriously bad and desperate character. The negro accused Perdee of drawing a knife on him, and, without cause, com menced beating him with a piece of fence-rail ; whereupon, seeing himself thus assaulted, he very properly drew out his knife and cut the black scoun drel’s throat, killing him almost instant ly. The killing was done in self-defence. How long will it be before the negro learns that he is the inferior of the white man, iu every respect, and as such must submit to remain in his own sphere ? He always comes out worsted in every encounter with the white race, but still there are those who will continue to try and foist themselves where they will not be tolerated. But a word in the ear of the whites: Don’t you think those difficulties are sometimes brought on by placing yourself on a level with the negro—drinking, cut ting wit, and associating with him? and the negro* seeing you thus place yourself on a level with him, ceases to look up to and respect you, and feels no hesitancy in dealing with you like another negro— hence such frequent strife and bloodshed. The Anglo-Saxon and the negro were cast in entirely different moulds, made of different sorts of dust, and can no more commingle on an equality than oil and water. There is a walk for each, and let them stay in their respective places. — LETTER FROM RAIRDSTOWX. Particulars of the Late Homicide —Perdee Acquitted. Bairdstown, October 28, 1874. Mr. Editor:—We had a fatal cutting affray in this neighborhood, near Wood ville, on Monday night, the 26th inst., on the plantation of Col. Janies Davison. The Colonel had an old-fashioned corn shucking, at which some hundred or more negroes gathered, and after they had quit the corn pile, some of them, who had been imbibing rather freely of old pop-skull, got to quarreling and wrangling with each other. Col. D. in terfered, and all, as lie thought, had be come quiet, and the crowd dispersed about 2 o’clock in tlie morning. But it seems that a few of them had remained behind, and in this party was a white man named Thomas Perdee, who is in the employ of W. R. Wilson, Esq., of this pr& c. Alfred Haley, a colored man, and notoriously insolent and in sulting, especially when drunk, becoming offended with Perdee from some fancied wrong, made an assault on him with a heavy pole, striking him a time or two, when Perdee drew his. knife and stabbed Haley in the neck, severing the jugular vein, carotid artery, and the muscles of the neck, from which lie died in a few minutes. Perdee, who is an inoffensive sort of a fellow, was arrested immediately, and a court of inquiry was held on yesterday, at Woodville. Quite a number of wit nesses were examined, mostly blacks, and from the evidence the Court decided that the act was committed in self de fence, and the prisoner was discharged from custody. The general sentiment among the black and white people is that Haley received his just deserts. There has hardly passed a week this year but what he has had a difficulty with somebody. He was considered a dangerous charac ter. While such occurrences are to be deplored, this community will not grieve much after him. We have no news of any other char acter to tell you. Money is very scarce and the people are looking for hard times next year. The Echo is well spoken of here, and I think Oglethorpe county will bring up a large subscription list. It is a live paper, and ought to and will be a success. With my best wishes for it, I remain Yours truly, W. O. Cheney, M. D. TAKE NOTICE. 1 would respectfully and earnestly call upon those indebted to the firm of R. S. Martin & Cos. to lend them a helping hand in this, their “day of deep distress.” I hope that the confidence I have placed in my old cus + miers has not been mis placed, and the best possible way to prove that my estimate of them was cor rect is for them, one and all, to come forward ami pay off old scores, or so much as they can, and show at least a willing mind to help those who, on their part, have aided them. R. f?. Martin. There is nothing so tends to shorten the lives of old people, and to injure their health, as the practice of sitting up late, especially winter evenings. This is especially the case when there is a grown up daughter in the family. We publish this item at the earnest request of sever al young men. ATHENS IN A MT-SHELL. Specially Reported for Tlie Oglethorpe Echo. The notice last week should have been M. J., and not I. M. Morris. New buildings are going up in differ > ent portions of the city. Bill Weatherly says he is supremely happy when he reads the Echo. The Mayor is having very neat cross ings built at different points on Broad 1 street. A negro woman is working on the street as a punishment for using “ cuss words.” Sunday night last there were live per sons immersed at the Baptist Church by the Rev. Dr. Skinner. The clever firm of Burke A Hodgson continue to keep books and stationery enough to supply Athens and surround ing country. Captain A. S. Erwin has returned from Clarksville Court, and is once more on duty at his office, in Deupree Hall. As a lawyer and as a citizen he has the con ' fidence of all classes of society, i Sock Pruitt has returned from Atlanta. | He says the fair was a complete success. ! As usual, he looks cheerful, and presents i the appearance of one who had struck ! the tiger a hard lick and had whipped him badly. The directors of the laundry met Mon day last to make arrangements to go to work at it. There is no doubt but what it will be built. An enterprise with such men as Huggins and Hampton at its head is hound to succeed. There is a white man in town who lias just served out a twenty-years term in the penitentiary and chain-gang. He was pardoned before bis time expired through the intercession of that kind and clever gentleman, Judge James D. Pittard. Mr. Orr, of the firm of England & Orr, planted the common yam and red potato in the same bed last spring, and the ones raised by him partook of both kinds — one half of a potato being red and the other half yellow. The Hope Fire Company elected Maj. Lamar Cobb as Captain, last Friday night, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the resignation of Capt. Ed Bishop. The company visited the house of the Major, when lie invited them in, when they were made to partake of refreshments, and entertained in that hospitable man ner for which the Major is celebrated. Last week the negroes held an immi gration meeting at the Court House. Several speeches were made by men of their own color. Since the election they are somewhat scared with Clark county, and speak of emigrating to Mississippi. Good for Georgia, but how about Missis sippi? “ Tree patriots they, for be it understood, They have their country for their country’s good.” Not long since a revenue officer step ped into Ike Moon’s bar-room and called for a drink of corn whiskey, which was handed him, together with sugar, lemon, and bitters. The Yank took a good pull, set down his glass and asked the price. “Ten cents,” replied Ike, in his mild, pleasant way. “ Ten cents ! echoed the Yank, furiously ; consider yourself un der arrest for swindling the best govern ment the world ever saw; for any man wlio can sell as good liquor as that for ten cents is either a distiller or has stolen it!” The people were greatly disappointed on the 22d inst., in not hearing their standard-bearer, Captain McMillan, speak on that night, as was advertised. All were anxious to hear one,so gifted, and so “ honorable a man,” as they be lieve him to be. If he will be as faithful a sentinel in Congress as he was in the Legislative balls of Georgia, the people may be satisfied that he was the success ful competitor over the distinguished Ben Hill. The death of his child prevented him from attending on that occasion. He has the heart-felt sympathy of all in his loss. DRUGS AND CHEMICALS. li. T. Brumby & Co-., the ILe drug gists of Athens, have just received a fine stock of chemicals, pure drugs, Granular Effervescent Salts of Iron and Strych nine, Pepsin, Bismuth and Strychnine, and Pepsin and Bismuth. The especial attention of physicians is called to the card of this firm. Their drugs are of the purest quality, and prices reasonable. ♦ COTTON GIN. Mr. W. T. Patman says he will guar antee one pound of lint cotton for every three pounds of cotton in the seed car ried to his gin, and if the seed cotton is aNo. 1 article, he can do better; and besides this it makes as good lint as any other gin in the county. If you try him one year, you will have to move out of the county before you can quit him. A HIND REMEMBRANCE. We return our sincere thanks to one ( Crawford’s fair daughters for a lovely ; boquet, fomed of F: ora’s choicest offer- ; ings, tastily arranged. May the path way of the sender, through life, be al ways strewn with flowers, and heaven her destinv. K. OF J. Organization of a Lodge at Mount Pleasant. Mount Pleasant, Oct. 23, 1874. Mr. Editor: —Some weeks since, the people of this community conceived the idea of raising a Lodge of Knights of Jericho, as a part of the grand army of moral reform, and to do something, in a tangible mav, for the cause of “Hu manity, Temperance, and Charity.” Accordingly, a dispensation from the Grand Lodge was procured, and Friday night, October 23, fixed "upon as the ! time for the organization. Your correspondent will not under take to tell how many anxious hearts i beat with emotions, mingled with fear and hope, as the hour drew nigh, but time —how fast it brings distant objects near—soon found us all on hand and ready for work. There was a large number of gentle men and a few ladies, members of Hope Lo !: ' at Wintcrville, present, and as sisted in the organization. : Oirt of twenty-nine charter menvbeis i to begin with, the following list of offi -1 eers were elected: j J. E. England, S. K. C. E, H. Smith, 8. K. Z. V. C. Mrs. A. M. England, Preceptor. R. B. O. England, Seetretav. R. A. Glenn, Treasurer. | W. G. England, Chaplain, j it. D. Power, S. K. M. j. H. Howard, S. Iv. H. W. T. Kidd, Guard. R. A. Culbretli, Sentinel. W. M. England, S. K. P. C. In conclusion, I take occasion to re mark, Sir Knight W. H. P. Johnson, of Wintcrville, is District Deputy for Ogle thorpe county, and will assist in the or ganization of new lodges, whenever called upon. Knight ok Jericho. REPLY TO “ GLIDE.” Mr. McCooly Steps to the Front in De fence of Crawford. Oglethorpe Cos., Ga., Oct. 20, 1874. Mr. Editor— Dear Sir:—l noticed, in your last issue, a letter from one who signs himself “ Glade.” I agree with him as regards the merits of the Echo, but I, too, know some of those fellows that were reared near the Glade ; and I don’t think you puffed them a bit too much. I know them to be all you de scribed them. I know some of them are good at telling tales and eating chestnuts,- too, (provided they can get them to eat, ) but I know they mark goods remarka bly low. He says, “hold your ear close.” Beware, Mr. Editor, for he says “ birds of a feather flock together.” Now I want the Echo to be a grand success. $o : please don’t let me catch you flockin with such birds ; for everything partake of the nature of its author. If what he. says about the birds be true, it strike me there is a slight contradiction when he says he often sees these fellows that tell such tales and mark goods so high in company with that virtuous fat man. Mr. Editor, I think I know “Glade”— he is a good, clever fellow, likes goobers and enjoys a tale well told. But don’t risk your ear too close to him. P. Y. McCooly. P. 8. Pleese ax him to send us an nuther lettur. CAREFUL COTTON PICKING PAYS. Let cotton picking be pressed with all your energy and force, so as to gather the lint as fast as the bolls open. You lose both in quantify and quality by de lay. The first picking should be well sunned. Do not allow your hands to pull off the bolls while picking, as they are sometimes inclined to do; and avoid picking immediately after a shower. In all cases where large quantities a r e stored in bulk, stir the heaps oecasioi - ally, and expose the cotton to the air, o keep it from heating. Keep thedifferei t qualities of cotton separate, so as to avoid selling mixed cotton for the j rice of the poorest portion of it. It is best, if practicable, to gin cotton as soon as it is dry, as it is far safer in bales than lying in bulk in the gin house. FINE CORN AND COTTO . Mr. A. W, Wilkins, of Goose Pond, sent us this week a specimen of corn and cotton that would cause the p 1 a titers of the Mississippi Valley to weep that th y had to till such poor land. We w ill n, attempt to tell about the corn, for fear f having our word disputed, whi< h wouhi necessitate our employing a fighting edi tor ; but one stalk of the cotton contain ed 208 boils, and the other was over 7 feet high. It was of the Simpson variety. DEATH OF A GOOD MA". It is with sorrow we announce th • death of Mr. B. B. Waller, of this coun ty, which occurred on the 21st inst. Mr. W. was honored and respected by all his neighbors, who in his death met an irre parable loss. There can be written on his monument, with truth: “ Here lira the noblest work of God—a’ man.” To his bereaved family we ten der our warmest sympathy. Now is the time for candidate? to an nounce their Jaynes. We charge on iv 83.50 to pub until the day of nominating Triday in Novem ber next. , soldier half price. *