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THE OGLETHORPE ECHO
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ANNOUNCEMENTS.
FOR SHERIFF.
IGF I hereby announce myself as a
candidate for Sheriff at the January election.
J. L. LANDRUM.
COUNTY NEWS.
THE MESON ACADEMY.
As will be seen by notice in another
column, this academy will open on the
11th of January next. To our citizens,
the mere mention of the fact that Mr.
Thomas B. Moss still remains in charge
is enough to guarantee their patronage ;
hut for the benefit of those at a distance
we will give a brief notice of the advan
tages offered by this school. The pres
ent principal has been in charge of this
academy for a number of years, (we be
lieve from its erection,) and his compe
tency as an educator is vouched for by
numbers of our highest educated and
most prominent citizens, who received
their mental training from him. He is
so pleasant, agreeable and kind in his
manners, that he at once wins the esteem
and respect of all with wlfofri he comes >
in contact, and consequently exerts
great control • over his pupils, who look
upon him riot only a*s a teacher, but as a
friend and protector. We do not sup
pose, in point of competency, lie has a
superior in the State.
With his assistant, Miss Laura Moss,
we are not acquainted, but all whom we
have heard mention her name unite in
pronouncing her one of the most refined,
intelligent and agreeable young ladies
in the county. It can he said, with
truth, “None know her but to love her,
none nanie her hut to praise.”
Mrs. Shackelford, who has charge ot
the Music Department, is a lady in every
way qualified to fill the position. She
combines, with a thorough knowledge of
music, elegance of manner, refinement,
and rare mental culture. It would be
worth double the price of tuition for
parents to have their daughters thrown
daily in company with such a gifted lady,
not to speak of the thorough instruction
they would receive in music.
A MODEL FARMER.
Last Sunday, by invitation, we, in
company with a friend, spent the day
with Mr. Thomas J. Howard, one of our
most scientific farmers. We, during the
day, “ interviewed” his farm, and were
delighted with all we saw. He is what
we term a progressive farmer. Abandon
ing old fogy ways, he has entered into
the new order of things. W ith one ma
ture of his farm we were particularly
pleased—the different varieties of clover
and grass patches he has planted. He
also has the finest imported stock of all
kinds, and the finest lot of home made
bovs in the State. His daughters, too,
are an honor to the name of woman, which
the magnificent dinner we partook of,
prepared by them, clearly evinced. We
wish our county was filled with such
men as Tom Howard, for then soon
would our waste and deserted farms blos
som as the rose.
ORANGE ELECTION.
At the annual election for officers of
Cherokee Corner Grange, held on the
12th inst., the following ladies and gen
tlemen were chosen:
Master —Dr. T. D. Hutcheson.
’Overseer —J. R< Hall.
Lecturer —Wm. E. Yancey.
Steward —John B. Crowley.
Assistant Steward —Theodore Daj.
Chaplain —J. T. Thomas.
Treasurer —0. H. Arnold.
Secretary —J. F. Dillard.
Kate-Keeper—D. M. Gaulding.
Ceres —Mrs. J. F. Dillard.
Flora—Miss Hattie Dillard.
Ponoma —Mrs. L. J. Jones.
Lady As’t Steward —Miss A. P. Dillard
Installation of officers the second Sat
urdsv in January, 1874.
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NEXT WEEK.
In our next we will publish an article
from the pen of one of the most talented
young ladies in Lexington. t
“BILL JONES.”
The excellent communication, signed
as above, will appear next week. We
would be delighted to hear from the
writer often.
BRICK STORES.
We learn that next fall those live, en
ergetic capitalists, Messrs. Arnold, will
erect a row of fine brick stores on’the
corner now occupied by McMahan &
Stokely, tearing away the wooden struc
ture now there. This is just what should
be done.
LADIES’ SUPPER.
The members of the Baptist Church at
Lexington propose giving a supper for
the benefit of their church, at the Ma
sonic Hall, on the night of the 23d of
December, and they cordially invite the
public to attend. Admission, 50c.; child
ren, 25c.
SEQUEL.
We learn that at the corn-shucking
given by Mr. Eseoe, reported in the
Echo at the time, there were ten opos
sums on the supper table. A Good Tem
plar says there were only five, our in
formant being blessed with double sight
that night, occasioned by well, you
all know.
HORSES STOLEN.
Mr. Seisson, of this county, while on a
visit to Washington, Ga., had the two
horses he was driving stolen from his
wagon, and has not, at last accounts, re
covered them. We learn that several
suspicious looking characters are prowl
ing around in various portions of this
county, without any known object. Our
friends would do well to lock up their
stock at night.
THE ROADS.
We are happy to say that the condi
tion ol the public roads were never bet
ter than now, occasioned partly by the
dry weather, but mostly owing to the
superb manner in which they were
worked. The worst places have been
raised in the eeutre, to allow the water to
run off, and now, no matter how much
rain we have, our highways will never
become impassable. All honor to the
Commissioners and our public-spirited
citizens.
HEAVY PURCHASE.
A party of neighbors, from the lower
part of this county, clubbed together last
week and went to Athens to buy then
next year’s supplies. They purchased of
Center & Reaves, and spent about $4,000
in cash. A merchant, who examined
one of the bills, says the sellers could
not have made over SIOO profit on the
entire sales. So much the better for the
farmers. Does not this single paragraph
speak volumes in favor of the cash
system ?
A BOLD THIEF.
We learned, this week, of one of the
boldest and most high-handed attempts
at stealing it has ever been our province
to record. One night recently, some of
the hands on the plantation of Mr. Sep
Cox, of this county, he ird a noise at the
corn-crib, and going tnither, discovered
a wagon and oxen standing before the
door, the vehicle partly loaded with
corn. The thief, gaining some intima
tion of the party’s approach, fied in
haste. Subsequent investigation proved
the wagon and oxen to belong to Mrs.
Colberts, a widow lady living near,
which team the would-be thief had
“ borrowed” (without permission) to
haul his stolen com away ir. Can even
C lit ago heat this for darinj ?
Judge E. 0. Shackelford Suggested as a
Candidate for the Constitutional Con
vention.
Editor Oglethorpe Echo :
I was greatly pleased to meet last
week at Crawford, my old aqd tried
friend, Judge Shackelford, now the senior
of the bar ot Oglethorpe county (if Col.
Mathews is not an exception), and the
senior, too, of the bar of the circuit
elsewhere, except General Toombs. I
found out that the Judge was examining
into shipments of cotton, looking up
evidence in a heavy case, in which he
had just been employed. His examina
tion consumed about a day and a half.
He worked like a Trojan, ransacking
boxes and old books, nearly wearing out
his hands, and, in fact, breaking off sev
eral of his strongest finger nails. It is
generally thought that he has a strong
grip on his case, and that if he does not
recover the $20,000 sued for, he will at
least much alarm the defendant and
their counsel. He is said to have one
of the Lexington bar associated with
him as a striker.
The Judge has won much fame as a
lawyer. Of late, he has had to refrain
almost wholly from speaking. His de
fence in the Superior Court of this coun
ty, some five or six years ago, of George
Long, the colored man wrongly charged
with the murder of a white girl, will
never be forgotton. This, the great ef
fort of his life, has left him insufficient
voice for argument. At its conclusion,
he was carried by anxious friends into
the Clerk’s office, and put to bed on a
table, and his head pillowed on a chair,
where he lay in profound weariness un
til the close of the exciting trial. Stim
ulants had to be freely used upon the
patient.
Since then, the failure of his voice has
kept him from making any elaborate
argument, but neither his standing or
practice has declined. I have always
heard that Bill Dougherty was a wonder
fully successful lawyer, while he gener
ally packed the necessary speaking off
on associates. And so Judge Shackel
ford now only shapes and directs the
conduct of <?ases. He invents and sug
gests points and ai-guments to be made
by his colleagues. I have just learned,
with pain, that he was forced to attempt
an argument of a case tried in Lexing
ton last Saturday night, by W. G. John
son, Esq. The Judge’s speech consist
ed in handing to the court a sheet of pa
per containing a calculation, and his say
ing that he would leave the matter of
his fee entirely to the court, withput
further argument. After this oration
the Judge walked out to get fresh air,
and told some of his friends, who
found him panting and fanning
himself wildly with his hat, that such ef
forts exhausted him and hurt him in
wardly. A stimulant was forced upon
him at once. It restored him, and it
was pleasant to his friends to learn from
him that he had opened his case and
elaborated it so satisfactorily that his
junior, who was to follow in the argu
ment, could by no possibility go -wrong.
His friends solicit him earnestly to
avoid these over exertions. While his
mind is more than enough for them, his
physical strength is utterly insufficient,
lie can long enjoy, we hope,, the exer
cise of his sound judgment, accurate in
sight, and superb management, which
make him so able and formidle a lawyer
in his silence,
And this is the proper place to depre
cate the jealously and envy which he
excites among the other lawyers. Many
of them have often succeeded in their
cases by making points which they had
stolen from him, and then afterwards
denied his seal merit as a lawyer.
The county officers have long been
the better for his gratuitous counsels.
He was for many years the trusted ad
viser of the Inferior Court. The pre
sent accomplished Clerk of the Superior
Court gratefully acknowledges his obli
gations to the Judge. Charles Fox onee
said that if he were to put in one scale
all the knowledge that he had got from
his learned friend, Burke, and in the
other all else that he knew, he would be
in doubt which would out weigh. And
I believe that Mr. Lester would hesitate
to sav whether he had learned more else
where than he had from his old friend
Shack.
The people rewarded the Judge some
years ago by conferring on him the of
fice, the title of which he still bears.
Nor have they forgotten the advanced
position which he took in politics in
1870. It has been said that the best of
a man’s greatness is to find him ahead
of his age. After the nomination of two
Democrats in the county as candidates
for the Legislature, the Judge deeming
our fight too tame, boldly an
nounced himself as an independent can
didate, patting himself upon a platform of
a single all-important plank, namely,
the inys~,*diate impeachment of Bullock.
It is now agreed by the knowing that
this action of the Judge, though it ap
peared premature at the time, commenced
and. set to work the train of events
which finally scared Bullock out of the
State. News has lately come that wher
ever the unhappy man goes he is still
haunted with a fear that the Judge is af
ter him.
But it is time that I declare the pur
pose of this communication. I have ex
patiated on the merits and the career of
my subject not because I believed them to
be unknown—for they are household
words—but as my justifying reason for
confidently suggesting him tor the next
Constitutional Convention.
Let the people of Oglethorpe keep the
Judge in mind, dwelling on his many
qualifications, his age and experience,
resolving to send him to that Convention
whenever it is held. He will not waste
the people’s money by making long
speeches. But he will outsit all in the
committee room, and look more wisdom
in the hall than any other member. He
is free from the ordinary clannishness of
lawyers, and he would not sacrifice
everything else to the interests of his
profession, as they too often do.
To sum up, in one word, Judge Shack
elford is the man of all for Oglethorpe
to send to the next Convention,
I have only to add that while much
of the information contained herein is
derived from him, still that this com
munication is not made at his sugges
tion or instance. Oglethorpe.
THANKS.
The proprietor of this paper takes this
method of returning his sincere thanks
to those citizens, both white and colored,
who so promptly responded to the call,
and gallantly and successfully fought the
flames during the recent fire of his dwel
ling. But for their heroic efforts, our
loss would have been considerable, be
sides the destruction of much valuable
property. Among the colored men who
merit our especial thanks we would men
tion Henry Thomas. He was first on
the ground, and never quitted his post,
in spite of flame and smoke, until the
last spark was extinguished.
LEXINGTON DOTS.
We had the pleasure of an introduc
tion to Rev. P. Hanson Moss, of Alaba
ma. This gentleman is on a short visit
to his parents. We understand he will
preach in the Baptist Church next Sun
day.
Mr. W. D. Foust, of this county,
killed a hog last week that weighed 212
pounds net. The hog was pigged last
April. At six weeks old it only weighed
5 pounds.
Mr. Emal Gohzihbelazinqualheimer, a
gentleman from the Faderland, was
showing some horsemanship on last Sun
day to some small boys. The horse
“ taught ” he would show some of his’ll
by landing about 140 pounds of dry
goods and Switzer cheese, in the shape
of a Dutchman, by one of our shade
trees. It is feared the tree will die.
Brantly, of the Chronicle , was in
town last week. Oh ! what kind feeling
he has for the Echo ! He cannot ex
press it! We think it doubtful if the
whole Southern Express could.
ATHENS IN A NUT-SHELL.
Athens has been crowded with shows
lately. First, Harry Watkins and troupe,
then the opera, next came Brown’s The
atricals, followed by Robinson’s Circus.
Monday there were between six and
eight thousand spectators present. The
riding was fine, and the animals unsur
passed, but not all shown that were ad
vertised, Next week the Berger Family
will exhibit at Deupree Hall.
There is an occasional runaway by a
horse or ox with a wagon, but never any
damage done.
Tuesday there was a mile race came
off at Watkinsville, between Captain
Brumby’s bay mare and Holman’s grey
filly, for SIOO a side.
Collins is building a new brick store,
as also a Mr. McGinty.
for" RENT.
To rent, for next year, a house, con
taining three large rooms and a pantry,
in the most business portion of Crawford.
One room would answer admirably for a
store of any kind. On the premises is a
kitchen ; also splendid garden spot, un
a new fence. Rent very low.
Apply to J. M. Poyner.
LOCAL SQUIBS.
Farmers are requested to bring in
butter, chickens and eggs for Christmas.
For eggs ye editor will pay the highest
market price.
A team, belonging to J. H. Duncan
& Bro., of Elberton, ran away last Thurs
day. Cause, carelessness of driver.
R. S. Martin will sell many articles
at auction during Christmas week. Red
is selli g goods at lowest living prices.
He sells his best sugar at eight pounds to
the dollar, and everything else low in
proportion.
Mr. S. H. Stokely is offering 13£c.
for cotton in payment of all accounts.
Now is your chance to get more than
the market price for your cotton, and
pay your honest debts.
Witcher & Jarrell are now in full
bl ast with a fine stock of new goods.
Mr. F. McElhanon will sell a lot of
fodder, shucks and cotton seed at public
outcry next week.
The Crawford High School will open
on the 11th of January.
Go to the ladies’ supper.
ATHENS MERCHANTS.
WHERE TO PURCHASE YOUR
SUPPLIES.
When our merchants and farmers visit
Athens, we request of them to first try
those merchants who patronize their
county paper, and give them the prefer
ence. Below we give a brief notice of
those houses we have not mentioned as
yet. We will frequently, through these
columns, urge their claims upon the
people of Oglethorpe. Our readers will
please bear in mind those firms previ
ously noticed by us.
J, H. HUGGINS.
This staunch and reliable merchant
comes out in a large double-column ad
vertisement, telling our citizens of his
magnificent stock, and the rare induce
ments he can offer. The Colonel has
one of the largest and finest lot of plan
ters’ supplies, dry goods, groceries of all
kinds, crockery and glassware in Athens,
which he sells fully as low as can be
had of any man who don’t steal his goods.
To show our merchants the way he sells
crockery, we will tell how he got a drum
mer for an Atlanta crockery house. The
drummer priced his articles to the Colo
nel, and stood quietly expecting an or
der, when the latter calmly told him that
he would like to fill him (the drummer)
an order at these prices himself. He
then quietly escorted that individual to
his cellar, where he showed him his
stock and told him what he (Huggins)
sold at. Mr. Drummer left in disgust,
swearing that no man could undersell
Huggins in crockery unless he stole his
goods from the manufacturer and had
them shipped free. Our friend and Ogle
thorpe’s former citizen, Linton Stephens,
will be found with Colonel Huggins,
ready to sell his friends goods at the
lowest prices.
J. C. WILKINS & CO.
If you want to buy any article in the
stove or tinware line, be sure and call on
Jim Wilkins, opposite Huggins’ Plant
ern Store, and there you will find the
best stock and lowest prices in the city.
Wilkins is a high-toned, honorable gen
tleman, and just what he tells a custo
mer will be found true. He is too honest
and honorable for his own good. This
firm is also.prepartd to do all manner of
tin work, such as roofing, guttering, etc.,
in the best manner, and at prices that
defy competion. They have in their
employ Mr. M. M. Maddry, the most
finished workman in the State. Several
of our friends have promised us to trans
fer their work to this firm, and we hope
every subscriber will give them a trial
when they visit Athens.
GAILEY, BARRY * WEBB.
Christmas is upon us, and here is the
place to lay in your supplies so cheap
that you can afford for that blessed holi
day to come four or five times during the
year. They are closing out their large
stock of wines, liquors, fancy and canned
goods, candies, crackers, toys, etc.,atless
than cost. Merchants and families would
do well to purchase their Christmas
goods of them. They can save freight.
Rempmber, you have but a short time to
secure these rare bargains, as they are
bound to close out by the first of Janu
ary We hope this fine young firm will
again embark in business next year, as
they are too enterprising merchants and
clever gentlemen for Athens to lose.
LONGS & BILLUPS.
This old and reliable drug house is also
soliciting the patronage of our people.
As they are better known to our citizens
than we ourself, it w r ould be presumptu
ous for us to recommend them. What
ever they say of an article is true, and
when one buys a bill of drugs, or paint,
or anything else of them, he knows he
will get just what he ordered, full weight
and measure. They have now on hand
an unusually large stock of drugs, fancy
goods, perfumery, paints, oils, varnighes,
glass, putty, etc., which they are desirous
of selling at their usually
pries.
G. HAUSER.
This gentleman is out in a card thjgrj
week, advertising his fine cigars and |i||
bacco. Hauser’s cigars have always
taken the premium at every fair at
they were exhibited, and when a man
gets one in his mouth he never throwlajj§|
away until it scorches his lips, so de
lightful the flavor and the ease with
which it draws. Besides the quality of
his goods, Mr. H. has another claim upon
our people. Although an alien, when
the tocsin of war sounded, he. shouldered
his musket, entered the Southern army,
fought us only a brave man can fight,
leaving one of his liml son one of the
bloodiest battle-fields.
TALMADGE, HODGSON A CO.
Last, but by no means least, comes
this splendid young firm. There you
will find the largest store—the finest and
best selected stock of goods—the greatest
variety —the cleverest boys in the whole
world—and the cheapest prices. They
do an immense wholesale business, and
sell as low as can be bought in Atlanta
or Augusta. The firm is composed of
live, energetic young men, whose motto
is, “ Upward and onward !” They ask
competition no odds, for they well know
their goods and prices can't be beat /
GLADE.
He '‘Snuffs the Battle from Afar"—Sound
Arguments in Favor of Cotton—“ Hum.”
November, 14th, 1874.
Editor Oglethorpe Echo :
What is the news from the seat of
war? We have been listening to the
booming of the big guns, and the occa
casional crack of a musket, till anxiety
has almost unnerved us. Has asy blood
been shed ? We heard it was imminent.
Do ask the combatants to keep cool. We
fear our old county will be depopulated
unless these heroes? are stopped.
To be serious, we were glad to see a
call for the establishment of an agricul
tural column on your paper. It will be
an excellent medium, though which the
people in the county and elsewhere can
have a weekly talk with each other. It
will be pleasant and profitable for them
to dismiss, at least for awhile, all politi
cal subjects and turn their attention to
the material of the county. We would
be glad to see the subject of Corn vs. Cot
ton thoroughly discussed. A few’ days
since we heard one of our most intelli
gent and successfu 1 fanners express some
surprise that public speakers and news
paper correspondents are constantly
calling on planters to raise corn to the
exclusion of cotton. He cited us to a
number of men who came out of the
war almost pennyless and settled on lands
not well adapted to growing corn. These
men bought their supplies, fertilizers,
etc., on a credit, and went to raising cot
on. It w’as hard work and hard living
at first, but they have beeu in a mea
sure successful. Lands and stock are
paid for, and some money laid up for a
rainy day. Serious doubts were expres
sed as to whether they could have ac -
complished this by raising corn enough
to meet their demands to the almost en
tire exclusion of our staple. On some
of our farms, if every acre of arable land
was planted in corn, the net gains at the
end of the year would be a mere trifle.
’Tis said, and truly too, that we are in
debt. Cotton', guano and credit are ru
ining us. This may be true to some ex
tent, but the real cause may be attribu
ted to our extravagance, for many dis
like to live on common things Luxu
ries go better. By closing the -oor of
credit we may check our wastefulness.
This is true. But while the non-credit
system might benefit one, the usefulness
and prosperity of five would be greatly
hampered. It is not the system but the
abuse of it that is ruining us. Let the
people live economically, plant cotton
wherever it wil 1 pay best, and all will
be well in a few years.
It appears that the Grangers are de
termined to oust the middlemen, or some
other men. It may ultimately prove to
be the men nearest io “ law,” that they
have ousted, while the middlemen will
be still in the ring. Already quite a
number from this county have bought
their groceries and domestic goods for
next year of the Athens’ merchants.
This is to be regretted. Or rather it is
to be regretted that our county mer
chants cannot, or will not, offer such in
ducements as to get this custom. We
are proud to see Athens getting a heavy
sum of.trade, but we would be prouder
to see it given to our own county. Her
prosperity should be our chief aim and
delight. But so long as Athens contin
ues to offer greater inducements than
our county towns, the people will and
ought to give her their trade.
And now, Mr. Editor, please pardon
me for referring briefly to the “ dish of
sarcasm,” of that “Solon in the Wilder
ness.” We will say here, in justice to
ourself, that we deprecate anything
like petty and uncalled for thrusts
among correspondents. We even disjike
to see children crooking their fingers at
each other. It makes ’em spiteful. A
faint suspicion flashes through our mind
that this was what spoiled your able cor
respondent when he was a brat. But he
VT. ‘■’ 'EA. —In his
’ " \ i yOU Mr. Beecher
a wonder that the youth mnocei. „ _
, a suffer
tated his example, that is, crooked i
. . l or our
We did not think ?re were writing 1A
“extinguisher” in our last. In
there aretvfo classes of persons that can-, •
not be easily extinguished. Those that
have no ideas of their own, and those
that “know it all.” Unfortunately, we ±
belong to the former, and equally unfor- jp
tunate is the “right thinking man, in
longing to the latter, <xt least mi his own -,•
estimation. F .
UlB *
We, too, will wow perform the
ntes of an interment. We sink his liG
rary “ bosk” into a timely grave,
lest some helpless wanderer should
willingly disturb 1 his slumbering gi
we wiite thereon the simple but ~ I>am ’
phrase i ,ades, that is
“ Beware—he nays nothing !” ' “ suffering
q about that
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PHOTOGBJLPHIC. ’ , W I H .
Mr. Wren, recently of Athens hi—
merly of AVashington, D. C., spet addresses
permanently locating in Crawfeter Office,
the practice of his firs*
is one of the best artists in
and would prove a valuable
to our village.