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THE OGLETHORPE ECHO
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ANNOUNCEMENTS,
plsr Announcements inserted in this column
at $13.30, where, paid in advance.
For Tax Collector.
I am a candidate for Tax Collector, at
the ensuing election, subject to the nom
ination of the Democratic party. Will
thank my friends for their support in the
nominating convention, on Friday the
20th of November, 1874.
Thomas D. Gilham,
For G'lerk of the Superior Court.
ISagr George H. Lester, having serv
ed the people of Oglethorpe county as
Clerk of the Superior Court, and dis
charged the duties* of hi* office to the
best of his ability, again ofibr himself as
a candidate for 1 e-election—subject to
the nomination on the 3d Friday in No
vember inst.
For Sheriff 1 ,
Agy James T. Johnson is respectfully
announced as a candidate for Sheriff of
Oglethorpe county —subject to the nomi
nation by the people on the 3d Friday in
November next, '
For Tax Receiver.
JttiF* The friends of John T. England
announce his name as a candidate for
Tax Receiver, subject to Democratic
nomination, on the third Friday in No
vember next. Many Voters.
For Tax Receiver.
The friends of G. W. Young an
nounce his name a* a candidate for Tax
Receiver, subject to Democratic nom
ination, on the third Friday in Novem
ber next. Many Voters.
For Tax Collector.
StaT* J, G, Hartseibld is a candidate
for Tax Collector, subject to the Demo
cratic nomination. Friends.
COUNTY NEWS.
“ VIOLETS.”
Such is the title of a very interesting
novel, of which Mrs. Win. Brooks, of this
village, is agent. While a love story, it
is, at the same time, devoid of that in
eipieney that characterises so many of
the novels of the present day. It is
strictly a moral work, and one that will
do mo harm in the hands of any young
person. To those desiring to read an
interesting, well written, life-like story,
we cheerfully recommend “ Violets.”
Mrs. Brooks has also a select stock of
fall and winter millinery goods, which
she sells at extremely low prices. Ladies
desiring such goods should be sure and
give her a eall. Mrs. B. is a lady of ex
cellent taste, and customers can rest as
sured that they will be suited.
Communicated.]
SENSIBLE CONCLUSION.
Father just from Athens.
Six-year Old Boy —Pa, what did you
get for my—have you any candy or ap
ples ?
Father —Nothing, my son, it will take
all the money I will get for my crop to
pay my debts.
Boy —Pa, why don’t you pay for every
thing when you get it, and not have to
give all your money to pay your debts ?
That is Hie identical question we
should .al',l see to, B.
SWIFT & ABNOLD.
We age glad to learn that this young i
firm, of Elberton, is doing one of the
largest and best businesses in the county.
They richly deserve the patronage of the
people, for both members are young, en.-
ergetic, correct, sober, enterprising, and
accommodating. We know whereof \ve
speak.
FOB SALE.
A Wheeler and Wilson
dewing Machine, •with all the attach
ments, can be purchased at a reasonable
Price, by applying to W, T. Hancock,
Crawford Ga.
CHIPS AND SPLINTERS.
Cold, damp, wet, moist weather.
A cure for dull times—Apply an
advertisement.
A party will be given at the Acad
emy to-night—cakes and candies..
Red Martin keeps a full
inent of the finest tobacco and cigars,
Billy Brooks is still boring our
town— i. e., the ground, not the people.
‘ Mu Lane’s store-house is receiv
ing a coat of paint. Not a hit too soon.
“ Suffering days will soon be over”
with the juveniles. Next week is vaca
tion.
V itcher & Jarrell will open in
their new store about the first of Decem
ber next.
Madame Rumor says that a mar
riage in high life will soon take place in
Crawford.
Lexington depot is blessed with a
little the best and most accommodating
agent in the State.
well-arranged store, drop into R. S. Mar
tin’s, on Elbert street. *
A fine safe reached the depot this
week for Mr, John Eberhart—almost
large enough to hold the owner.
Cotton is turning out better than
expected. It is non thought an average
crop will he made in this county,
Hands are again at work on Mr.
Little’s new house. We see a string of
guttering now surround the building.
An addition has been made to
R, P. Tucker & Bro’s house. People say
that Bill will soon make [an addition to
the family.
Read our advertisements, and
patronize those who have the liberality
to solicit your patronage through your
county paper.
By the first of December next, it
is rumored, every respectable white man
in Oglethorpe county will he a subscriber
to the Echo. Verbum sap.
■ — Why don’t some enterprising man
start a brick-yard near here ? There is a
splendid opening. We have to haul all
the brick we use from Athens.
ers to carry Red Martin’s safe into his
new store-house, this week. So much
for having a Ku-Klux for a collector.
Mr. John L. Wilhite has sold his
house in Crawford to Dr. Watkins, for
$l,lOO. We are sorry to lose Mr. W. as
a citizen —he is a kind, accommodating
gentleman.
This is an accommodating vil
lage. Tom Witcher lost his cow a few
days since, and Sunday the whole town
burned out to help him hunt her. For
the information of the public we will
state that they found her,
One of our subscribers stopped
his paper because he thought one of our
articles might be so construed as to re
fer to a yellow dog that once trotted
across his great-grandmother’s cotton
patch. All right, our friend—we didn’t
propose to publish a paper that would
please every body.
Jim G#lloway is one of the best
engineers and cleverest men in the State,
Whenever a passenger sits behind the
iron horse he guides, he may just requi
escat in pace. He never gets behind time
or has an accident happen to his train.
Would that all of our railway engineers
were “ jist sieh.”
Will the night engineer on this
branch please do a little of his “ blow
ing ” after he gets home. He does
enough when lie reaches Crawford to last
through a Presidential campaign. He
has got some of' our best church members
to using “ cuss words” when they are
woke up every night,
will soon commit dogslaughter on his
pointer, because lie can’t tell him and
Winter apart. Winter says if Cheney
don’t slay him he will. Some think that
so soon as “ Heart” finds opt Ids true
owner lie will save either the trouble by
committing spjcide..
A darkey sent his scion to our
largest gnd most corpulent merchant,
with the request: “ Daddy say please sir
loan him a chaw ub ’bacco till dinner.”
The “ efraw” was loaned, but we have
not as vet learned whether lie returned
it or no. But they say Uncle Stephen is
a mighty good collector.
scription to the Echo do so at once, or
we will have to discontinue the same
after this month, unless you write and
tell us that you are willing to pay fifty
per cent, for waiting. This is fair warn
ing, and so no one can feel aggrieved
when opr rules are enforced, as they will
be in every case. Pay your subscription
tiop to either us or J. J. C. McMahan.
= — Red Martin, this week, was pre
sented with a piece of wedding cake to
A‘ dream on.” His fair friends wrote out
819 names to place under his head with
the cake. He that night dreamt that an
old, broken-legged, humped-backed col
ored woman came into his store and pajd
him a half-dozen eggs for pound of salts
he sold her last summer on credit. It is
dangerous to ask Red now who is his
destiny, as decided by his wedding-cake
dream.
QUERY.
Which one of S. H. Stokely’s clerks
raced with a hog fora rotton apple? and
which hog got it ?
X. 0, 0. E.
In our next issue we wift publish some
interesting articles on this order. Gqr
full columns crowded ffieip out this
week.
SIGN IN THE HEAVENS.
The night of the election a rpd hand
was seen in the sky, by many of our
most respectable citizens, pointing to the
North.
A GOOD THROW,
Our friend Miles Dillard, recently
killed two partridges at one throw of a
stone. The beauty of it was, Miles
didn’t see what he was throwing at, and
“went it blind.”
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THANKS,
J. T- Murphy returns his grateful
acknowledgments to the ladies who
complimpnfted him with a splendid bo
quet, and begs to say that the principles
of the Democratic party are nevertheless
Democratic principles, and that the la
dies are two of the principal planks in
the platform of the principles ot the Dem
ocratic party.
“THE ENTERPRISE.”
The last debate by this society was of
unusual interest. The speakers had pre
pared their arguments with great care,
and delivered them in a most creditable
manner. We hope the ladies will con
tinue to honor the boys with their pres
ence, for nothing serves more to encour
age perseverance on their part than the
presence of the fair sex.
HYMENIAL.
Married, at the residence pf Dr, ’\y,
H. Jarrell, on Tuesday mopping, tfi,e
10th November, 1§74, at 8 o’clock, by tfie
Rev. C. A. Conaway, Mr. John F. H.
Jackson, of Clarke county, and Miss
Mattie A. Jarrell, of Oglethprpe,
Married, near Beaverdam Church, in
Oglethorpe county, Henry Meyer and
Miss Mary E. Fleeman.
RELIGIOUS NOTICES,
If the Lord will, Elder D. \y, Patman
will preach at Antioch, Oglethorpe coun
ty, on Friday night before the fifth Sunday
in this month; on Saturday night at
Maxey’s Depot, and on Sunday, at 11
o’clock, at Atkinson’s meeting house-=-
funeral ofe'd man John A, Nunnallv.
Rev. W. N. Chandoin will preach at
Crawford next Monday, and Monday
night.
GUSHING.
The /ollowing is a verbatim copy of a
note sent yesterday by a young genjt of
Crawford to a young lady living near this
village. We hope to see no more of
such effusions:
“ Komplinients of to Miss
begs leave to know if he can have the
plezure of skorting her kurppapy to the
party to-night to fie hell at the residence
of Nov 10th J 874 Mr- Cheney’s,”
CARD FROlf THE CRAWFORD MERCHANTS
Editor Oglethorpe Echo ;
As the Governor of our proud old
commonwealth has issued his proclama
tion, setting forth Thursday, 19th inst.,
as a day of Thanksgiving, and as we
think it right and proper, under the cit.-
eumstances, which called forth this pro
clamation, to observe such a day, we take
this method of notifying the citizens of
our county, and elsewhere, if interested,
that all the stores of Crawford will be
.closed on that day. Merchants
of Crawford, Ga.
A WORD TO OUR PEOPLE.
We believe it is conceded by all that
a county paper is decidedly beneficial to
the entire people—bringing the advanta
ges of their section prominently before
the word ; encouraging home enterprises;
Rattling for their rights; recording and
giving publicity to many important
events that would fie otherwise consigned
to oblivion; besides being a source of
pleasure and instruction tp thpir families.
Admitting such to be thp does it
not behoove you to support that paper ?
Well, how shall you support it, by sub
scribing for the same ? Most assuredly,
xes ; thqt’s the initiatory step, hut there’s
another equally important, that won’t
cost yon opp cent, viz,: Patronise those
merchants ayd who patronise your
paper —thus indirectly helping you. Be
fore purchasing of a merchant, glance
J'ver the advertising columns of the
Hkh and if his name does not there
:: ®‘ ar let him alone. A man who is too
BHpmonious and close-fisted to spend a
to secure your custom, should
HBpjft {done with his fogvism and old
JHk fiff pipe times out of ten such
are too close to keep a good stock,
H content themselves with buying the
IH* U ie maT ket. But of course
Se are exceptions to all rules. We do
a ask our friends to lose one dime, hut
|Bt we ask of them is this : first try the
IB that advertises, and if you can buy
jnHiem just as cheap (which we know
IB cap), give them the preference. The
||Hp if yop wish any manner of work
By this means you will not only
§■> your paper, hut indirectly benefit
||Br county and yourself. On entering
|Bore, tell the proprietor you saw his
in the Egho ; it encour
igHs him to continued his notice, and
Bs you nothing.
Bor the benefit of opr readers we ap-
Id the names qf those Athens mer-
Bnts who desire the patronage of the
■■pie of Oglethorpe. They are all per-
Bly reliable.
I- C. Wilkins & Cos., stoves and tin
me.
It. T. Brumby & Cos., drugs, paints,
I, perfumery, etc.
I*. Schevenell & Cos., watches, clocks,
B jewelry.
I- F. Wilson & Cos., furniture and
lins.
E. A. Williamson, watchmaker and
■ eller.
Kalvarinski & Ifiefiler, premium cigar
■nufacturers.
R- Jtobprfsqn, marble and granite
Irks.
g THANKSGIVING,
By reference to the Governor’s pro
clamation in another column, it will be
seen that his Excellency has set aside
Thursday next, the 19th inst., as a day
of Thanksgiving, and Prayer. We hope
that our citizens will faithfully observed
the day, for if there w'ere ever a people
on earth who have cause to thank God
we have, Through His instrumentality
has villainy and oppression received a
stroke that will ne’er be forgotton ; the
shackles stricken from the hands of an
oppressed people, and creatures, who
have for years disgraced the name of hu
man beings, been deposed from power,
in disgrace, and their places supplied
\ ith men qf lionqr. Lee every place of
business ip the State be closed on that day,
and opr people, bowed down in “ sack
cloth and ashes,” praise and thank “Him
from whom all blessings flow.”
UQmmpnfoated.]
ATHENS MILL.
“If you want meal, send a man to
mill.” This is an old saying; hut if you
want to send corn or wheat tq the Ath
ens miill you had better go yourself and
see how they do it. They will give 3 T ° U
31 pounds No. 1 flour and 10 pqppds of
bran for wheat that will make 40 pounds
of flour, brand, and middlings to the
bushel, after paying the toll.- By this
operation they just get qne-fhird for
grinding. The law qnly allows one
eighth. It is true tfiey give you good
flour; but if they grinfi for the public
why not give every man the product of
his own graip ? H.
LEXINGTON.
Grand Jip-y Presentments—A Suggestion.
LjEXfNGTON, Ga., Nov. 9, 1874.
Editor Oglethorpe Echo :
I hear that the last Grand Jury of
Oglethorpe county recommended repairs
upon the Court House, which will
amount to over SJ,QOO. The county is
already in debt over $1,300. Would it
not be well before such an important
step is taken, to subpjit it to the people,
who will have to foot tfie hill. This
seems to me nothing bpt right.
A CfTIZpN.
LEXINGTON £Q9GE, I. 0, G. T.
The following officers \vere installed
on the 10th inst,, for tfie ensuing quarter:
L. M. Johnaqp, W. C. T.
Miss Mary fiowe, W. V. T.
JRichard Kinnebrew, W. R. 8.
.J. W. Bacon, W. C.
W. P. Edwards, W. M.
W. A. Latimer, W. F. 8.
Miss W. Lester, W. T.
Miss Georgia Lester, W. I. G.
Richard Smith, W. O. G.
Miss Ella Shackelford, W. D. M.
J. R. Boggs, P. W. C. T.
Rev. J. G. Gibson, L. D.
GLADE.
The Crop*—A Side-dash at “ McCooly” and a
Throat at “ Mnm.’i
Point Peter, Nov. 9,1874.
Editor Oglethorpe Echo :
As you desire the readei s of the Echo,
in different parts of the county, to keep
you posted on the events of local news
in their respective localities, I hope you
will not think me presumptious in re
sponding, in my feeble way, to your ex
expressed wishes.
The farmers in this vicinity, by dili
gent labor, favored hy the most excellent
weather, of the last four or five weeks,
have garnered their corn, peas, etc.,
picked and prepared the por
tion of their cotton for market, and are
now beginning to sow wheat and oats.
The corn crop is some better than it
was last year, Many thanks to the
Grangers, if they are bringing about
this increase of breadstuffs. If they
swerve not in their aims, and adhere
faithfully to the purposes for which they
are banded together, soon the winds will
cease to whistle through our barns and
corn-cribs— prosperity 4ml smiling plen
ty will reign,
The heavy frost about the middle of
October did the cotton crop considerable
damage. Probably, a loss of one bale
to every fifteen or twenty acres would
not be an exaggerated estimate.
By thp Way, we learn that a number
of our ppighbors intend buying their
groceries, boots, shoes, and supplies for
next year of the Athens merchants.
This is all well enough. Rut will not
Mr. “MijCooly” and the other merchants
of Crawford and Lexington show the peo
ple that goods can be bought as cheap
in their own county as they can in
Athens. If they will do this, it behooves
the people to give their trade to Crawford
and Lexington. Every dollar retained
in the county adds that much to its
wealth, aud helps to pay oui overburden
ing taxes. This is as true of a county
as it is of a State or a nation. We hope
one and all will give our home merclpints
a trial before they haste away to a dis
tant town to make their purchases,
We cannot agree with Mr, “McCooly”
about everything partaking of the na
ture of jts author. You may accomplish
this by applying a smashing incentive
now and then. If one will visit the
home of “Mc’s” boyhood, he wilf
see at a glance that there is a scarcity of
what we call undergrowth. It took
something else besides “moral suasion”
to induce “ Me” to partake of the nature
of his author.
That communication of “Mum’s” pub
lished in your issue before last was a most
smashing thing. We could not help
exclaiming, “ O ye gods ! ye gods ! must
we endure all this?” Even now we
tremble as we think of his withering
sarcasm. We thought “Mum” had
since ceased to take cognizance of me 1
and things. But, alas! he quits his se
cluded domains—where perchance he
has, for years, been wandering up and
down some sluggish stream, searching
for the site of long lost Babylon—rushes
to the front, reviews the Echo, gives
“Glade” g death-like blow, and becomes
“Mum” (a misnomer). He surmises
that we are sighing for “ credit.” Well,
when we become so untrustworthy that
Crawford >vill not “ book” for us, we
will sneak away into the wilderness, as
“Mum” doubtless had to do, rake up
our abode with the bears thereof, live on
roots, herbs, goose-berries, and help
“Mum”search for Babylon.
Glai)e.
BLOOD SPILT.
A Negro Man Stabbed in Cold Bl<>9d at Lump
kin & Biggs’ Gin.
Editor Oglethorpe Echo:
Last Saturday gt Lumpkin &
Biggs’ gin, a white man by the name of
Julius Ckeser stabbed a colored
gentleman by the name of George Settle,
in the shoulder joint, making a painful
and probably a serious wound.
The operatives had just finished pack •
ing a bale of cotton, and were in the
act of placing the press-shaft in gear to
run the block up, when fhe thoughtless
negro concluded he w'oul4 hold on to
the revolving box and take a ride. He
was sooiji turning at the rates of fifty re
volutions per minute. Fortunately, Mr.
L. happened to see the darkie flying
around in time to throw' the press out
of gear and prevent his being hurt. He
w r as too drunk to stand up for a few' sec
onds ; but thought he had perlormed quite
a feat, and laughingly remarked, “There’s
an old gentleman,” pointing to Mr. 0.,
“that I would like to see take a ride.”
Oglesby, who was sitting some twenty
paces off, sprang up, very much excited,
and said he would not allow' anv “nigger
to jaw ” him. The negro disclaimed #ny
intention to offend him ; but Oglesby’s
wrath would not be appeased, aq<j ad
vancing directly up to the negyty with
out any one present hav
ing a knife, and stabbed him, as before
stated. Mr. O. and the qthe jr gegro had
been in the habit of each #ther,
and as the negro is not an impudent
one, and showed np disposition at gjl on
the occasion alluded to to be ipsif.lting,
it wa6 a most brutal affair, an<j of
fenders should be made to feel the pen
alty of the law'. “ Buffalo.”
LATEST GEORGIA NEWS.
-•i ' - •
Ginhouses are burning in all parts of
southwest Georgia.
A hairless horse was one of the curi
osities at the State Fair.
The production of cotton in North
Georgia increases annually.
Griffin had a feeble attempt at a riot on
election day. It originated with the negroes.
Rev. Jacob Young, of Alapaha, caught
a troqt that had swallow jd a juvenile aligator
the other day.
Gen. 11. W. Riley, representative elect
from Lumpkin county to the Legislature, died
on the 4th inst.
The Elberton railroad is progressing
finely. The laborers are being increased and
the work vpU soon be, dope.
A negro woman living near Lagrange
has had nine children in tbe hist five years.
She.is about thirtv years old.
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The gin house of Mr. O. P. IRiniel, of-
Greene county, was burned last Tuesday. It
contained about ten bales of cotton.
Some of the visitors at the Sandersville
Fair crowded around a pill vendor under the
impression that he was the Hon. A. 11.
Stephens.
A negro woman in Waynesboro went
to sleep with a child in her arms. She grew
restless and rolled on the child which died of
suffocation.
Without pretending to actual statisti
cal facts, there is about a million and a half
inhabitants in oqr State, about seventeen to
the square mile.
- In the Seventh district the race for
Congress was between Col. Dabnoy and Dr,
Felton, the former the nominee of the party
and the latter an independent. Dr. Felton is
elected by 85 majority.
A Monroe county negro named Guil
ford Battle was assailed and dangerously
wounded by his wife and son the other day.
The wcunjn knocked him down with an axe
and the son stabbed him,
A Georgia planter dralqgfl |iis ric£
swamp last year and planted thp ground with
corn last Spring. A hybrid crop is his re
ward, the stalk, blades and cob being that of
corn, while the kernels on the eob are rice.
Aboqt three or four hundred negroes
marehed to Union Point Saturday night and
threatened to burn the place and kill every
body. The whites from the surrounding
country eaine to the rescue end no conflict
occurred.
An old negro in Columbus, who re
ceived $208.75 for cotton, asked a colored
youth to count it for him. The latter reported
it correct, hut the old man afterward foun
that two fifty dollar bills were missing. Th
boy has been arrested.
Two little negro children were burned
death in the Bed Bone District of Lee, last
Sunday. The parents of the children locked
them up in the house and went off. When
the house was found to be burning the root
was falling in, and help was of no avail.
A negro in Macon was sent by a be
reaved colored friend to an undertaker for a
coffin for her dead child with $25 cash, bought
a coffin for $4.85, pocketed the profits and
palmed the coffin off on his confiding sister
for a $25 one. This darkie equals in mean
ness the one who stole the copper off the dead
nigger’s eye.
The fair grounds in Clarke county are
advertised for sale. How are the mighty
fallen ! Athens, once the seat of the gods and
the throne of fulminating Jove, has so far be’
come poverty-stricken that she cannot make
it to the interest of her citizens to keep in
possession a little patch of ground for the pub
lic lyeuefit.
Mr. R. M. Vaughan, of Milledgeville,
one evening last week, sat down on a box with
a glass cover. The box contained a rattle
snake. The cover gave way and Vaughan
had the cover tightly fitted to him. After
jumping and yelling for some time he suc
ceeded in detaching the box and putting its
dangerous occupant at a safe distance.
According to the official returns
received at Atlanta, the next Georgia
Legislature will stand: In the Senate, one
Radical, two Independent Democrats, and for
ty-one Straight Democrats. House, Four
Radicals, twelve Independent Democrats, and
one hundred and fifty-one Straight Demo
crats. There will be three negroes in the
House and none in the Senate.
Chestnut pie is the latest abomination
for dyspeptics.
Support your wife, or the Canadians
imprison you for three years.
-—-At a recent Covington (Ky.) wedding
one of the bridesmaids was grandmother to
the bride.
A man in Garrett county, Maryland,
killed, during the present season, three hun
dred rattlesnakes.
An ingenious Frenchman in the Haiti
more jail has invented an improvement fot
sewing ttye heels on shoes, for which he has
been offered .'*ts,ooo.
—— Miss Sherman’s name wouldn’t rhyme
very well with anything, but Miss Honore’s
name can be played upon by poets all day
long. There’s “ bore,” “ door,” “ floor,”
“ chore,” “score,” and lots of other words.
A fashion writer in the Hornet gives
this advice and comment: “When the skirt
is made up be sure and have it perfectly tight
fitting all round, as overdresses are being
made so extremely tight that the least possi
ble space is left for underskirts.
A North Carolina minister lost his life
a week or two ago in a singular manner. He
was annointing his entire body with kero
sene, as a cure for rheumatism, when the oil
was ignited by the fire on the hearth near
which he was standing, and he was burned t
death.
A new toy, lately patented, consists ot
a figure of a dandy with a cigar-holder in his
mouth. In the pedestal there is a small bel
lows, operated by clock-work and spring. A
small cigar is lighted and placed in the holder,
and when the spring is set iu motion the
dandy puffs away as natural as life until t-he
cigar is consumed.