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THE OGLETHORPE ECHO PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY MORXIXO, BY T. GANTT, Editor and Proprietor. terms OF SUBSCRIPTION. Where paid strictly in advance £•> qq Where payment delayed 6 months g 50 Where payment delayed 12 months... 5 00 CLUB RATES. Club of sor less than 10, per c0py.,,,,, 1 75 Club of 10 or more, per copy j 50 Clubs must be accompanied by the cash or papers will be charged for at regular rates. fitS~ 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 countv where the journal is published, in which in stance no postage is charged. m- THE ABOVE TERMS WILL NOT BE DEVIATED FROM IN ANY CASE. ,, RATES OF ADVERTISING. Per Square (1 inch) first insertion *1 00 Per Square each subsequent insertion.. 75 Liberal contracts made with regular adver tiers, and for a longer period than 3 months. Local notices, 20c. per line first insertion, 16c. per line each subsequent insertion. 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.” Tj whci ami of 1 lasi j)°u| ingl vie* aii'l ami 1 ,h .l 1-'| wl the j one! whl mul cni }'•>■ nt/M tail loA '■ fe| Slice Ogle has any, doulj raisl 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. m 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.