The Oglethorpe echo. (Crawford, Ga.) 1874-current, December 18, 1874, Image 1

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BY T. L. GANTT. THE OGLETHORPE ECHO PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY JIOKYIYO, T. L. GANTT, Editor and Proprietor. TERMS of subscription. Where paid ttririly in advance..... $2 OO Where payment delayed 6 months ii 50 Where payment delayed 12 months... 3 OO CLUB RATES. Clob of sor less than 10, per c0py...... 1 75 Club of 10 or more, per c0py......... .... 1 50 Clubs must be accompanied by the ca*h, or papers will be charged for at re;;ul;r rates. J&t~ No attention will be paid to subscrip tions trom other counties unless accompanied Wy the money, with 2Up. per annum additional t 0 pay pontage., as the law requires that after January next postage must he prepaid bv th.* publisher, except to subscribers in the county where the journal is published, in which iu atance no postage is charged. Air THE ABOVE TERMS WILL NOT BE DEVIATED FROM IN ANY CASE. RATES OF ADVERTISING. Per Square (l inch) first insertion $1 O© Per Square each sulsequent insertion.. T 5 Liberal contracts made with regular adver tisers, and for a longer period than 3 months. Local notices, 20c. per line first insertion, 15c. per line each subsequent insertion. ___ B USINESS CARDS. • H § 1 1 OS * - ~ — ~ 4 ~ , ~| Si J . s and H3 zy, % i :>5 S r 03 -3 * x g / * * i I* “ ** - 4 a 5- t; -r peg a s*< t in t=c=J j * 5 v “r r* ’ * h s tc s"< '-5 OO t £ £ •£ *, g S~BC ■ >n L* A, , ~| £ o LONGS & BILLUPS, DEALERS IN DRUGS, MEDICINES, PAINTS, OILS, Dye-Stuffs, Glass, Etc., Athens, Ga. KALVARINSKI & LIEBLER, Under Newton House, Athens, Ga., .dip ffiannfactnrers, Ami Wholesale and lietail Dealers in Tobacco, Pipes, Snuff, &c. Dealers would do well to price our goods before purchasiiiff elsewhere. Our brands of Cigars are knoivti everywhere, and sell more readily than any other. oet3o-tf jTm. NORTON, Coniractor and Builder /HfeAWFOftD, GA., IS PREPARED TO V furnish all kinds of -Pudding Material, Bueh as rough and dressed I.un.her. Shingles, Sash, Blinds, and Doors; also, Laths, Lime, and Mastering Material. Estimates given of all classes of Carpenter work, Plastering, Brick work, and Painting. oct3o-3m BOOTS AM) SHOES HENRY LUTHI, CRAWFORD, GA., IS NOW PREPARED 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 anti wear. REPAIRING AND COARSE WORK also attented to. oetß-ly Tb. & w. CHILDERS, Carpenters and Builders, ATHENS, GA., TIfOULD RESPECTFULLY ANNOUNCE VV to the citizens of Oglethorpe county that thev are prepared to do all manner of Wood Work. Estimates on Buildings earefully made and lowest figures given. Satisfaction guaranteed. A portion of the public patron age solicited. nov27-12m 'E.a7 WILLIAMSON, PRACTICAL WATCHMAKER & JEWELER AT dr. KING’S DRUG STORE, ■■road Street, - - - Athens, Ga. AH work done in a superior manner, and warranted to give perfect satisfaction, octi-ly r ®t|c #glftl)oi:pe Cd}o. WHOLESALE HOUSES. TALMADGE, HODGSON & GO., WHOLESALE GROCERS AND PROVISION DEALERS, ATHENS, CEORCIA. AUGUSTA A ATLANTA BILLS DUPLICATED. Chips and Splinters from Oglethorpe. * Seven more days to Christmas. The rustle of the bustle is heard again in the land. About these days matrimony and sau sages are popular. The next man who leaves our office door open will be shot on the spot. Young man, times are hard. Throw away that pipe and put up with cigars. Mr. Thomas Howard says his boy, only five moths old, drove his buggy nine ' miles last week. Quite a crowd of youngsters turned *ut Saturday night to see the train bear ing Robinson’s Circus pass Crawford. Why is it that nine out of every ten ladies who wear kid gloves, will persist in getting them with such short fingers ? Why ought Witcher & Jarrell’s store and the Echo office be used to store away Bronn -Chloralum, lime, and the. like in ? When a boy scares up anew knife, all the fences within a mile of home become first-class certificates of his skill as an autographic fiend. If there are any feelings of gratitude in inanimate objects, then the gate posts in our village are thankful for the ap proach of cold weather. December, from the Latin decern, (ten) is so called because it was the tenth month of the old Roman calendar, which began its year in March. You can’t tell much about the girls now-n-days, they are so like the Echo, capi al y made up. To see a girl as she really is, you must drop in on her unex pected. It is to be hoped that the greasers will keep the axles of the cars on the Athens branch well oiled. This thing of spin ning along at the rate of seven miles an hour produces friction. Reading the great Spurgeon’s declar ation that “ a cigar is a thing to thank God for,” a C rawford boy bought a cigar. He was afterward seen hanging over a fence, but was not giving thanks. Mr. Winter, of Wintervifle, has one of the best cotton gins and corn mills in the State, run by steam, in full operation in his flourishing little town. It is engi neered by our little friend, Bill Argo. We do not know much about the thick ness of corn shucks, but from the way a Lexington boy held his sweetheart’s shawl on with both arms, we incline to the opinion this may be a hard winter yet. A CERTAIN chap in Crawford has been struggling with his moustache for two years, and yet it consists of but nine hairs. He ought to know that a respec table moustache ean’t be produced with out brains. Peytox Moore, mail agent on this branch, is certainly the right man in the right place. If all of Uncle Sam’s ap pointees were “ sieli like” the country would not be accursed with thieving, rascally office-holders. It is not right for a young couple to do their kissing behind a window curtain when the gas is turned on. Idleness on the part of pedestrians should never be encouraged. We publish this for the benefit of a couple in Lexington. The young man who went to call on a Lexington belle, the other evening, and held an animated interview with a bull terrier, instead of his girl, now sits on the “ ragged edge ” of a torn pair of trousers and the softest cushion he can find. Ye that have good* to sell, prepare to sell them now. Where the advertiser is, there will the customers be gathered to gether. How shall it best be made known that one man hath what another wanteth, except he advertise ? “ I’d rather be a toad, and live upon the va pors of a dungeon, than keep a corner.” or any other place, and have every body wondering why I didn’t advertise. CRAWFORD, GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 18, 1874. A REIGN OF TERROR IN ITALY. Horrible Murders Committed by the Bri gands Who Buie the South of Italy. The monster trial at Potenza, the | capital of the largest province of the I South, continues, and the enormities which the evidence reveals are almost incredible. Yet one year only has elaps i sed since the chief criminal was arrested, i As instances of the savage acts commit ted in this beautiful land take the work of a single day : “Captain” Aliano and two only of his band started on the 2d of July, 1870, to sequestrate a rich proprie tor called Laracca, and having taken him went off towards the mountains of Niaggiano —one of those places, by the by, where the musicians who have de lighted the world are trained from early youth. On the road they met two wo men, whom they ordered to follow them. One of them, resisting their brutalities, (“Death rather,” were her words,) was murdered on the spot; the other, an older woman, overcome by threats of the dagger and pistol, saved her life, as she only could save it, and lived to give her evidence. A day or two after the capture of .La racca, twenty ducats and some articles of food were sent by his wife as his ran som ; but the chief being irritated by the smallness of the sum, ordered his ear to be cut off, and, supplying him with pen, ink and paper, told him to write from dictation. The letter, which is said to have been stained with blood, may be translated thus: “My Dear Wife —You see that lam in the hands of brigands. Send money as soon as you can, that I may not be murdered. If they would kill me out right it would be well, for I am dying little by little. Send three thousand five hundred ducats. Asa present I send you my ear; by the next journey I will send you my nose.” This letter awakened all the fears and zeal of the family, and 6,000 lire were collected and dispatched, but, as the sum was far below that demanded, they murdered the unfortunate man and fled, as the troops were upon them. * On the next day two other persons were captured, and the father of one came and tried to reduce the ransom. His wife also presented herself and begged permission to accompany her husband, when*the savage Aliano cut off his ear and threw it into her bosom. Not, however, to multiply such facts, it is as serted on evidence that in one week Al iano and his companions committed tw r o barbarous murders and one violent rape, sequestrated five persons, extorted 15,000 lire, and cut off three ears and one head. . Two men were almost alone in this neighborhood in endeavoring to check the excesses of brigandage—Luigi di Noia and Vilo Tardugno, of Paterno— and we shall hear how they suffered for their courage and honesty. First, a visit was paid to the house of Noia, where only the wife was found, the sons having escaped. The poor woman was thrown on the ground and bayoneted —pierced through and through repeated ly ; the sister, too, rushing to her assis tance, was murdered with a hatchet. This was not vengeance enough, so in October, 1870, Aliano returned to Pat erno, broke open the doors of Tarduugo, and found him seated with all of his family. With a yell of joy the savages rushed in, dagger in hand, and murder ed first Tardungo, then his wife, who was enciente, and had a child of three years of age in her arms, that was also murdered. Four other children, who had been witnesses of these scenes, were then attacked and left for dead. From the house of Tardungo the brigands passed to the house of Noia, where they found and assassinated two of his sons, scarcely ten years oid, and a girl, the last of the family. Thus was com pleted the savage vengeance of these brutes on the families of two of the very few who made an effort to thwart their excesses. On the body of Tardungo was found the following paper : “My uncle has died for having betrayed his broth ers, and I am the Signor Capitano Fred erico Alia io.” The wonder is that a government or a people who had any respect for them selves have not commenced a crusade against brigandage. As regards the Ba silicata, it is a large and mountainous province, half peopled, with a widely scattered population, exposed, therefore, to any razzia which might be made upon them. Again, from the want of roads protection was out of the question, and the brigand who was acquainted with every mountain fastness was secure from the pursuit of disciplined troops. The choice of the inhabitants lay, there fore, between accepting the position of a manutengolo, sympathizing with and as sisting the brigand, or of employing in dividual efforts against savagery. The government did not or could not protect them; these wild bands could, and re ceived their allegiance. Honest indi viduals might resist and suffer, as did Noia and Tardungo. The civilized world will watch attentively the verdict of juries in Ravenna and Potenza, and not merely the verdicts, but the mode in which they are executed, and not a little curiosity will be awakened by the dis cussions in the Italian Parliament on ihe state of Sicily. Number of Pounds Per Bushel. Below we give the number of pounds of various commodities to the bushel, as established by law. Merchants and farm ers would do well to preserve this table, as it will be found very useful for refer ence : Stone coal Unslacked line 80 Corn in the ear Com shelled .'.4 56 Wheat . go Irish potatoes 60 White beans 60 Clover seed Onions Shelled corn Rye Flaxseed Sweet potatoes 55 Turnips Fine salt... 55 Cotton seed 28 Peas 60 Buckwheat Salt Barley 48 Corn meal Castor beans 46 Timothy seed 45 Hemp seed 44 Malt Dried peaches 33 Oats Dried apples ... 24 Bran ...20 Blue grass seed 14 Hair (plastering) 8 Published by request. Light Diet. To this thing I call your attention, For I think it is a great invention— Anew thing unheard of before: A man who lives upon an Echo ! ’Tis the greatest wonder of ’74— All would like the secret to know, For many suffer for something to eat; Others to get it, defraud and cheat. If he only will the secret reveal, People will no more hunger and steal. Many a poor man will cut up a caper, And with his money buy a newspaper. True, ’tis said the man is gaunt, And some may look at him askant, And wonder if the man is well Who lives on Echoes and have to sell. Why should he care if he does look lean, So he is guilty of nothing mean. I think it best that all should go To his office and take the Echo. G. M. L. J. F. MUBPHY. This gentleman, editor of our Lexing ton department, has kindly consented to act as general agent also. Parties hav ing articles for publication, advertise ments, or any news items, can hand them to Mr. Murphy, who is fully authorized to receipt for money, or attend to any other business incident to the office. Paper Building. —Many splendid buildings—churches and other sorts — have existed on paper heretofore, but now we have to record a veritable build ing—a church—of paper. Walls, roofs, ceiling, Corinthian columns with their appropriate ornamental capitals are all of paper, rendered perfectly incombusti ble by a chemical process. It is erected at Bergen, Prussia, and is said to be of capacity to seat 1,000 persons. A popular clergyman says it is interesting to observe how many people go to circus “just to please the children,” and very curious to notice that some times it takes several able-bodied men and motherly women to look after one littie boy or girl on such an occasion. Barnum will henceforth exhibit a stuffed hippopotamus only, and the ele phants which appear daily are not alive. They ar< made of India rubber and blown up for each performance. Men are in side each leg and move the machine along. Barnum will not permit a chance for his menagerie to escape. The little folks, God bless them, are beginning their annual animated prattle about good old Santa Claus. Do not permit any of them to be disappointed in their expectations. The tunneling of the North (or Hud son) river, between Jersey City and New York, is fairly in progress now. It is further designed to tunuel on beneath the whole city (New York) and under the East river, with a terminus near the Navy Yard in Brooklyn. Idiots’ brains are mostly quite small. The Hebrew language is read back wards. Thunder travels a mile in four sec onds’ time. It is said that kerosene will produce wild intoxication. The name of God is not mentioned in the book of Esther. The longest jump on record is twenty three feet one inch by an amateur. An Ashfield (Mass.) widower of 91 has just wedded a blushing widow of 71. The 2,000 odd Utah polygamists average three wives and nine children apiece. A Chinese Young Men’s Christian Association has just been organized in San Francisco. The new'issue of postal cards are to be nearly white, with a narrower border and printed in black. It w'ill cost England and France $4,- 000,000 to survey for that proposed tun nel under Dover Straits. Norman S. Woodworth, of Water town, N. Y., has been relieved of a tape worm thirty-one feet long. We are told that “ Mr. Lotto, of In diana, recently eloped with another man’s wife, sister and daughter.” Virginia hung Mr. Gibbs twelve years ago for murder, and now it has come to light that he was innocent. A weak solution of tar and water is recommended to us by bald-headed men, to bring back the capillary glory. A father, mother, son and daughter, were recently before a Lawrence, Mass., police court to answer a charge of drunk enness. Artificial butter-making has never proved a success. The difficulty lies in putting ia the hairs so that they look natural. A little Rome rascal sets fir to the dresses of passing ladies with matches. The Sentinel “sees no reason for letting such a boy grow up.” The majority of the Louisiana colored people believe that Governer Kellogg wrote the Bible, and that he can make it rain when he wants to. Lager beer is strongly recommended to consumptives by a St. Louis physi cian. Patients are to abstain from water altogether during treatment. General Butler says he is going to confine himself strictly to his profession. The announcement is well calculated to stimulate the safe manufacturing busi ness. The oldest man in North America, George Le Barre, of Middle Smithfield, near Strousburg, Monroe county, Pa., died at his residence last Saturday night, at the extreme age of 112 years. A steamboat captain on the James River fell asleep after a hearty dinner, and had a set of false teeth stolen out of mouth. His mouth wasn’t deep enough for the thief to steal his dinner. In Queen Victoria’s crown there are 1,363 brilliant diamonds, 1,273 rose dia monds, 1 large ruby, 17 sapphires, 11 emeralds, 4 small rubies and 277 pearls —a total of 2,186 precious stones. It is reported to the Cincinnati Gazette that parties in Florida are now engaged in claims for slaves ; in some instances SIOO each having been paid. Among others, ex-Senator Yulee is said to be engaged in the business. Now they speak of a “ boy” at Los Angelos, Cal., with a tongue so large that several inches had to be cut off to enable “ him” to articulate. The tongue may be, but the “boy”—no, gentle read er, “he must have been a girl. A LAW institution in London smelt something wrong in its water supply, the other day, and tasted something “unpleasant.” Investigation disclosed the remains of a burly plumber who had drowned himself in a tank in the attic. He would be hard to pi east; who could not find agreeable society in that New York building tenanted as follows : First floor, liquor saloon ; second, ball room; third, residence; and fourth, dis secting room of an adjoining medical college. VOL. I--NO. .11 OHBISTMAS GIGGLEBI3MS. Temperance shoes—Pumps. To spell canine with one letter — K 9. A friend indeed is one who is not in need. What is the best line to lead a man with?—Crinoline. The man who was lost in slumber found.his way out on a night mar -. Why is a selfish friend like the let ter P ? Because, though the first in pity, he is the last in help. Noah was a man of wonderful foresight, for he took cats before he dis covered Ar-a-rat. A lazy man in Columbus, in ad dressing notes to his wife, commences his epistle w T ith “Dr yf.” The boy who undertook to ride a horse-radish, is now practicing on a sad dle of mutton without stirrups. Colorado started a college a few weeks ago, and up to date its inmates consists of one woman, three Indians, a buffalo, calf and a professor of botany. They talk about the reckless ex travagance of the American people, and yet a Bangor man worked all day to clean a three-eent stamp so that he could use it again, A Paris gentleman bet that he could smoke twelve cigars in one even ing. He won the bet, but the same night he abandoned the “weeds’ - forever and his widow assumed them. A minister who came into church during a sudden shower, requested an other to preach for him, as he was very wet. “ No,” said the other, “preach yourself; you will be dry enough in the pulpit.” Correct copy of a note to Jeremy, an undertaker in Hertfordshire : “Mis ter Germery, mi wief is dede, and wantes to be burid termorrer, at wonner cloke. You kno ware to dig it by uther wief— let it bee dip.” An old farmer gives it as his can did opinion, after many years of obser vation and experience, that the arrival of a circus will do more towards enforc ing the Fourth Commandment than a dozen Spnday schools. A Ticonderogain didn’t know whether the grease he put on his boots was nitro glycerine or not; but thinks if he could scrape together a small quantity of that missing right foot, and dog that he kicked, he could very soon tell. The penal laws are sadly deficient if they provide no remedy for an eating house keeper against the fiend in human form who evinces his enmity to his kind by scraping the label off a tomato catsup bottle, leaving it to read in its mutilated form thus : “ Tom*** Cats**.” A young man who left Brooklyn over three years ago, to “go West and grow up,” has just been heard from. He writes home to his friends, from Idaho, saying that the country is th; most beautiful the sun ever shone upon, and the inhabitants the most sociable he ever met. Also that he expects to be hanged in about four days lor stealing a mule. A schoolmaster down at Mari nette says : “I will spell eny man wo#un or child in the hull State for a dickshun ary or kash prize of one hundred dollars a side, the munuy to be warded by a kommittee of clergymen or skool direc tors. There.ha:s been a darned site of blowin about my spellin ; now 1 want them to put up or sliet up. I won’t he put down by a possel of ignoramnm-es because I differ with noar Webster's style of spellin.” Two boys were standing before a cigar store, when one asked the other: “ Have you got three cents ?” “ Yes.” “Well, I have got two cents; give me your three cents, and I will buy a five center.” “All right,” says No. 2, hand ing out his money. No. 1 enters the store, procures the cigar, lights it, aud puffs with a good deal of satisfaction. “Come, now, give us a pull,” says No. 2, “ I furnished more than half the mon ey.” “I know that,” says the smoker, “but then I’m the President, and you be ing only a stockholder, you can spit.” The Schoolday Magazine lias the following collection of definitions given by small persons, and faith fully reported bv doting parents: “Back-biter—a flea. Fan —a thing to brush the warm off with. Fins —a fish’s wings. Ice—water that stayed out in the cold and went to sleep. Nest-egg—the egg the old hens measure* by to make new ones. Pig—a hog's kit tle boy. Snoring—letting off <lee- Hnow—rain all popped out white. —the moon’s eggs. Trunk (of an phant)—his front tail. eyes all the time coming unbutton- and.