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BY T. L. GANTT. THE OGLETHORPE ECHO PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY JIORNIXtii, I*Y Y. L. GANTT, Editor and Proprietor. ✓ TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Where paid strictly in advance 00 Where payment delayed 6 months 2 50 W here payment delayed 12 months... 3 OO GLCB KATES. Club of 5 or less than 10, per copy I 75 Club of 10 or more, per copy 1 50 Clubs must be accompanied by the cash , or papers will be charged for at regular rat*s. fx fflT* No attention will be paid to subscrip tions from other counties unless accompanied by the money, with 20c. per annum additional to pay post aye, as the law requires that after January next postage must lie prepaid by the publisher, except to subscriber* ill the county where the journal is published, in which in stance no postage is charged. Mr THE A HOVE TERMS WILL NOT BE DEVIATED FROM IN ANY CASE. RATES OF ADVERTISING. Tar Square (1 inch) first insertion lit I 00 Par Square each subsequent insertion.. 75 Liberal contracts made with.regular adver tisers, and for a longer period than 3 months. Local notices, 20c. per line first insertion, 15c. per line each subsequent insertion. BUSIN ES S CARDS. T. R. & W. CHILDERS, Carpenters and Builders, ATHENS, til., WOULD RESPECTFULLY ANNOUNCE T V to the citizens of Oglethorpe county that they are prepared to do all manner of Wood Work. Estimates on Buildings carefully made and lowest figures given. Satisfaction guaranteed. A portion of the public patron age solicited. nov27-12m ‘suoodg ‘soqom.w Supnid l[oi) puu jo -rijuioods oqbui oy\ •apvjn jouacin* ui anscl -fu oj pajudajd oi ‘ujui>[Joa\ ;soq SuiAujj ‘WBAI J'i-MIS ‘JhIIOMAf ‘Slfaoi,) XI SHNTYJG 6 *Uf) fi SUOI[IV WraiAMl LONGS & BILLUPS, DEALERS IN BIGS, MEDICINES, Paints, oils, Dye-Stuffs, Glass, Etc. Athens, Ga. KALVARINSKI & LIEBLER, Under Newton House, Athens, Ga., Cigar Harafactiers, Ami Wholesale nml Retail Dealers in Tobacco, Pipes, Snuff, &c., Dealers would do well to price our goods before purchasing elsewhere. Our brands of Cigars are known everywhere, and sell more readily than any other. octoO-tf J. M. NORTON, Contractor and Biiiiaer GA., IS PREPARED TO V 7 furnish all kinds of Building Material, such as rough and dressed LumU>r, Shingles, Sash, Blinds, and Doors; also, laiths, I.nue, ami Plastering Material. Estimates given of all classes of Carpenter work, Plastering, Brick work, and Painting. oct3o-3m BOOTSffI SHOES henry luthi, oa„ is sow I‘iiKr.uiEii ( / make, at sh<*rt notice the r * BOOTS and SHOES. 1 use only the best material and warrant my work to give entire satisfaction, both as to finish and wear. REPAIRING AND t OAKSE WORK also attented to. octS-ly -iXmLIAMSONr PRACTICAL WATCHMAKER 4 JEWELER AT DR. KING’S DREG STORE, BrMd Street, - - - Athens, <a. All W ork done in a superior manner *ud warranted tr give l*erfect satisfaction. ©cl-ly ®l)c ©gktljorfie Cell)#. A Boom. Good friend, don’t squeeze so very tight, There’s room enough for two; Keep in your mind I have a right To live as well as you. A ou’re rich and strong, I poor and weak, Rut think you I presume, AN hen only this poor boon I ask— A little elbow room? ’Tis such as you—the rich and strong, If you but had the will, Could give the weak a lift along And help him up the hill. But no—you jostle, crowd and drive; You storm and fret and fame; Are you the only mail alive In want of elbow room ? But thus it is on life’s round path, Self seems the God of all. The strong will crush the weak to death, The big devour the smell. Ear better be a rich man’s hound— A valet, serf or groom— The struggles of the mass around, When we’ve no elbow* room. Up heart, my boy ! don’t mind the shock, Up heart, and push along! Your skin will soon be rough with knocks, Your limbs with labor strong. Then there’s a hand unseen to aid; A star to light the gloom; Up heart, my boy! nor be afraid— Strike out for elliow room ! And when you see, amid the throng, A fellow-toiler slip, Just give him, as you pass along, A brave and kindly’grip. Let noble deeds, though poor you be, Your path in life illume; And with true Christian charity, Give others elbow room. Smiley’s Gun. Recently it occurred to Mr. Smiley, of Darby, that it would be a good thing to go out to see if he could not shoot a rabbit or two. He alw*ays kept his gun loaded and ready in the corner of the room, so he merely shouldered it and went out. After awhile be saw a rabbit, and taking aim he pulled the trigger. The gun failed to go off. Then he pulled the other trigger, and the cap snapped; again, and then, taking a pin,'he”pieked the nipples of the gun, primed them with a little powder, and then started again. Presently he saw another rabbit, but both caps snapped again. The rab bit did not see Smiley, so he put on more caps, and then they snapped too. Then Smiley cleaned out the nipples again, primed them, and fired the gun off at a fence. Then the caps snapped again. Smiley became furious, and in his rage he expended forty-seven caps in an effort to make the gun go off. When the for ty-seventh missed also, Smiley thought there might he something the matter with the inside of the gun, so he tried the barrels with his ramrod. To his utter dismay he discovered that both barrels were empty. Mrs. Smiley who is ner vous about firearms, had drawn the loads without telling Smiley, for fear of mak ing him angry. If there had been a welkin anywhere about it would probably have been made to ring with Mr. Smiley’s excit denunciations of Mrs. Smiley. Finally, however, he became cooler, and loading both barrels, he started again after rab bits. He saw one in a few moments, and was about to fire, when he notieed that there were no caps on his gun. He felt for one, and to his dismay found that he had snapped the last one off. Then he ground his teeth and walked home. On his way there he saw at least six hundred rabbits, lie has been out hunting every day since, however, with his gun in first-rates order, and he has never laid his eyes on a solitary rabbit. Smiley is beginning to thing something is wrong in the universe. A Child with Two Heads.—A Eu faula, Ala., paper says a most remarka ble freak of nature occurred iu llarber county a few days ago. A child was born to Mr. James Hays, living near King’s post office, with two distinct heads and necks, of natural size, hut one of them a little smaller than the other. Both heads had perfectly developed ears, mouth, nose and other features, as natu ral as if the child had been born with hut one head. The body was that of a fully and perfectly developed infant, and was partially born alive. The at tending physician thinks that if it could have been born without destroying the life of the mother the child would have lived, and with proper care might have been raised. A Navajo Indian, ou taking leave of the President yesterday, presented him with a “rich and variegated blanket,” and left his application for the position of Secretary of Navy to his kindly con sideration. It may be mentioned, in this connection, that the King of the Sandwich Islands was presented to the President not long since. CRAWFORD, GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING, JANUARY 8, 1875. New Year’s Laughterisma. Bustles are an empty show, For man’s illusion given ; They’re filled with bran or stuffed with tow, They stick out ’bout a foot or so, And look first-rate, by heaven ! A thorough washer-woman—Sal Soda. Cure or headache—Join the Good Templars. A mother-in-law in the house is a well-spring of jawy. AVater reddens the rose, whiskey the nose, and tight boots the toes. How to pronounce a Polish name—sneeze three times and say ski. Winter says experience tells him that tall aches from little toe-corns grow. The most direct method of deter mining horse power—stand behind and tickle his hind legs with a briar. They do say that the entire crop of mustard this year wouldn’t make the Kentucky Lottery draw when it agreed to. Next to an umbrella the most difficult things for some people to keep is—their nose out of other people’s_busi ness. —— There is a lady in Lexington so ticklish that her dress-maker can never measure her for a dress without first ad ministering chloroform. I When she eagerly described a woman who sat in front of her at fhe theatre as having “ four soltaire diamonds in her ring,” he laughed. to make an ordinary Elbert county gar ter. In some parts of the county it is considered cheaper to buy a horse collar. Lucy Stone said : “ There is cot ton in the ears of men and hope in the bosom of women.” Lucy made a mis take, and got the cotton in the wrong place. A California woman has started six clot lies-washing and repairing estab lishments in various parts of the State, and married six Chinamen to attend them. A Greene county man, who felt called upon to make his mother-in-law a Christmas present, purchased her an um brella, with a lightning-conductor attach ed to it. A Yankee editor throws up the sponge with the remark that “it don’t pay to run a paper in a town where busi ness men read almanacs and pick their teeth with the tail of a herring.” Young ladies who really like pickles shouldn’t be dissuaded from in dulging in them hv the silly superstition that they are bad for the complexion. A colored lady in Athens certifies that she has eaten them all her life without expe riencing the least injury. Rev. Glcndenning’s defence is that the woman ran after him and show ed him too much partiality. This ten dency on the part of the woman to show partiality for the pastor, is one of the reasons why we have always steadfastly declined becoming a preacher. “Yes,” said an old Wisconsin deacon, “ Job was faithful under many trials, and suffered a great deal; but lie never had his horse runaway and kill his wife just at the beginning of winter, and leave him to sleep cold o’nights, and get up and build fires for the hired girl in the morning!” Bill Smoot, of Pike county, Ga., says : “ I hereby announce myself as a candidate for Kurrener in your county. I do it because I believe the Sivil Rites Bill will pass Congress, and the offis will he worth something. People nas laffed at it heretofore, hut its going to be wurth something this time.” Scarcely a week passes without the record of some wonderful surgical operation. Sally Brown was recently taken in hand, had a broken knee and dislocated rib taken out and new ones put in, and is now as good as ever. It may not injure the story much to add that Sally is a Savannah river cotton boat. A wagon crossed the Missouri, coming South, the other day, with myriads of grasshoppers painted on the cover, and hearing the inscription : Goo<l-l>yc, Kansas! I bid you adieu! I may emigrate to hell, But never hack to you! Airs. Jane Swisshelm, in a recent lecture in Chicago on woman’s dress, told her hearers that she wears an un bleached cotton chemise, which she washes in hot water without soap, and folds up without ironing. Good heav ens! Why just think of it! Positively wouldn’t sleep with a woman with such clothes on for a thousand dollars a night in gold. ROSE HILL. Reply to “Citizen.”—How the Echo is Wel comed—The Removal of the Court House Advocated as Early as Practicable—The County Unable to Meet Its Obligations— Hard Lick at Some One. Rose Hill, Dec. 26, 1874. Editor Oglethorpe Echo: In the issue of the 25th inst. of your journal, which is so welcome around the hearth-stone of so many—for there is always a scramble on Friday evening among the children, when the mail comes, as to who shall read the Echo first. Just at this time up steps the old lady and decides that the old folks are entitled to the first reading, and so ap propriates it herself. But I think, Air. Editor, that is wrong—l always did think children should eat at the first table, and the old folks wait, for they have more patience than the youug. I would suggest that we take several num bers of the Echo in every family ; hut as you know, I am opposed to accumu lating unnecessary expenses, I will “go fat and plump last.” But I have wan dered from my theme. As I was saying, I see in your paper of the 25th a corres pondence headed Antioch and signed “ Citizen.” I fully endorse every word that Mr. “ Citizen” says in reference to the county advertisements, and hope that your paper will be a perfect success. I don’t know, Mr. Editor, who “ Citizen” is, nor who his informant was when lie says that the question of repairs to the Court House was proposed when the Grand Jury first met, and not disposed of until about the close of tlieir duties ; that there was but one juryman op posed to the recommendation, and that it was unanimously carried. Now that is not a true statement of the facts. The question of repairs was sprung on Wednesday of court, and the Grand Jury was dismissed on Thursday, and as to there being but one of the jury opposed to the repairs, I pronounce a mistake. If Mr. “ Citizen” or his informant were jurors they must have been asleep Wed nesday or Thursday of court, as there were jurors opposed to the removal of the court-room up stairs, who voted “Nay” every time, and who never did give their consent. Again he stated that but one juror ob jected ; that lie was interested at Craw ford, but would not urge his objection, and permitted the recommendation of the Grand Jury to be made unanimously. I wonder where “ Citizen ” or his infor mant were during court, and if either of them were on the Grand Jury. I have heard it always said that “ They Say ” is a knowing fellow. Now, Air. “They Say ” must have been “ Citizen.” There was one of the jury who stated that he was personally interested in Crawford, hut he did urge his objections all the time to the removal of the court-room up stairs, but stated that he would not advo cate the moving of the Court House at that time, as he thought it would be do ing the citizens of Lexington injustice. But now, I think, under the present cir cumstances, he would favor and advo cate the removal of the Court House to Crawford. Air. Editor, I wish I was at liberty to reveal some of the facts that transpired in that jury-room among some of the jury, but you know our obligation. You know that you will always find milk-and cider men just so long as there is good fat cows and plenty of apples. This question of repairs to the Court House, while it may be a matter of small consequence to some, is a serious busi ness to the tax-payers of Oglethorpe county. Out of them the money must come to pay for the work. Let us glance around us for a moment at the actual financial condition of the tax-payers of the county, and ask ourselves seriously and soberly the question, Are we ready to go into extensive and expensive re pairs, or anything else that requires an outlay of money this winter? We will find, I think, that a majority of the tax payers of this county are unable to-day to meet their own individual obligations. They will he “ put to their trumps ” to make buckle and tongue meet this Christinas. Many of them hardly know where next year’s rations are to come from. Many of them now have tlieir property under the Sheriff’s hammer. Under this view are we prepared for spending large sums of money on the Court House? These are serious ques tions to the tax-payers, and will be still more serious next fall, when the tax gatherer makes his next yearly rounds. It has been said that “ gold in its last analysis was hut the sweat of the poor;” and I tell you now, that if we rashly j and without due forethought in times I like these, burden the county with cost j lv building schemes, the money to pay j for it will have to he wrung out of the 1 hard earnings of an impoverished peo ple. A gentleman informed us that he was in the office of the County Treasurer a few days ago, when a creditor of the county walked in and presented liis de mand. The Treasurer glanced at it and handed it back with the remark that there was over SI,OOO in ahead of it, and nothing in the Treasury to pay with. At that very moment, Mr. Editor, the workmen were busily engaged in the court-yard on the lumber for the so called improvement to the Court House. Is this honest ? To have the obligations of the county dishonored at the door of the County Treasury when costly repairs were going on to county buildings. There are some men who don’t care a figyvliether they pay their own debts or not, and when they get control of coun ty matters they don’t care whether the county is honest to its creditors or not. From all such, and their works and jm provements, Good Lord deliver us. Respectfully yours, A Grand Juror. An Old Lady. —The Dalton Citizen says : In our issue of the Bth inst., we published a short sketch of Mrs. Rachel Headrick, of Tennessee. Since that time we have been furnished with the following sketch of another “old Rachel,” who resides in this State; her name is Rachel Groves; her maiden name was Fergus, and she was born on the 20th of July, 1786, in York District, S. C. AY hen she was about seven years old her father moved to Elbert county, Ga. In 1808 she was married to Samuel Groves, and they settled in the neighborhood of New Hope church, in the fork of Broad river, which was soon after cut off from Elbert and made the county of Aladison'. She is now residing with one of her daughters within one mile of the old homestead. The husband, Colonel Samuel Groves, was a man extensively known throughout the country, both in Church and State, having served two campaigns in the war, one in 1812, and the other in 1815, when lie was promoted to Colonel, served eighteen sessions in the Legislature of Georgia, and was for many years an elder of the Presbyterian church. Airs. Groves had eight children —three sons and four daughters, four ot which are dead—one son and three daughters; two died at the age of fifty years and two at about sixty, The youngest is about fifty-two years of age. She has fifty-eight grandchildren and forty-seven great grandchildren. She furnished for the Southern lost cause two sons and nine grandsons. Three of them lost their lives, one an arm, and three others were seriously and slightly wounded. Two of them served as majors and one as surgeon in the Confederate service. A Alax his Own Grandfather.—l married a widow who had a grown •daughter. Aly father visited our house very often, fell in love with my step daughter and married her. So my fath er became my son-in-law, and my step daughter my mother, because she was my father’s wife. Some time afterward my wife had a son. He was my father’s brother-in-law, and my uncle, for he was the brother of my step-mother. Aly father’s wile, i. e., mv step-daugh ter, had also a son. He was, of course, my brother, and in the meantime my grandchild, for he was the son of my daughter. My wife was my grandmother, because she was my mother’s mother. I was my wife’s husband and grandchild at the same time. And as the husband of a person’s grandmother is his grandfather, I am my OWN GRANDFATHER ! Controlling Runaway Horses.—A correspondent of the New York Herald suggests a “simple method of controlling runaway horses.” A running noose, made with a small strong cord, is to be put over the horse’s neck, the controlling end of the string passing into the car riage. AVhen the horse attempts to run away or to do anything else which he ought not to do, the driver has simply to pull the cord, choke the horse “for a minute or two,” and he will necessarily stop for want of breath. The author of this device says “the philosophy of the operation is very obvious.” It is not i only obvious but old. The same p’niios- \ ophv years ago, recommended an infal- ! lihle method of preventing a dog from going mad, viz : The cutting off the end : of his tail—close up to his ears. Nay, j the operation itself is now in use in some j AVestern States, for preventing men from ! running away with other people’s horses. \ a gallon in some of the Eastern cities. If rightly used it would lay out twenty- j one hired girls, which is less than half a , cent a girl. v * VOL. J--NO. 14 How the Cable Talks. An operator sits at a table in a room darkened by a curtain. On his left hand stands a little instrument named the “reflecting galvanometer,” the invention of Sir AVillium Thompson, without whieh Atlantic telegraphy would be slow pro cess, not exceeding two or three words per minute, instead or twenty—the pre sent rate. This delicate instrument consists of a tiny magnet, and a small mirror swing ing on a silk thread, the two together weighing but a few grains. The electric current passing along the wire from Valencia deflect the magnet to and fro. The mirror reflect a spot of light on a scale in a box placed at the operator’s right hand, where, by its oscillation, the spot of light indicates the slight move ments of the magnet, which are too slight to be directly seen. This little swinging magnet follows every change in the received current ; and every change, great or small, pro duces a corresponding oscillation of the spot of lighten on the scale. A eode of signals is so arranged by which the move ment of light is made to indicate the letters of the alphabet. A\ f hen receiving a letter from Valen cia, the operator watches the movement of the little speck, which keeps dancing about over the scale on his right. To his practiced eye, each movement of the spot represents a letter of the alphabet, and its seemingly fantastic motions arc spelling out the intelligence which the pulsing of the electric current are trans mitting between the two hemispheres. It is truly marvellous to note how rapidly the experienced operator disentangles the irregular oscillations of the little speck or light into the letters and words which they represent. Snakes. —Think of a man shoveling snakes out of his house. Air. Edward Asher lives in Union Grove, Alinnesota. His dwelling was an old one. The first night he slept in it he made an unplea sant discovery. It is said that snakes sleep at night. His snakes did not. They crawled by dozens across the floor. In the morning Mr. Aslicr used to get up, shake the reptiles out of his clothes, grasp a pitchfork, and pitch the slimy snakes out of doors. It was no uncommon tiling to slaughter half a doz en in the morning. The second and third days were worse than the first. At breakfast one morning, Air. Asher felt something crawling up his leg, and glancing downward found a beautiful little striped fellow working his way up in the world. Another time lie found a three feet fellow* in his overcoat pocket. The nuisance became intolerable. The house ivas old, and the mortar had given way i<i many places, and in the evening no sooner was the lamp lighted, than a serenade of hisses would begin, and near ly every one of the holes would be orna mented with a snake’s head. At the end of the fourth day, Air. Asher grasp ed his shovel and went to the banking of the house, a mass of straw and dirt that had not been moved for several years, and here were their snakeships in all tlieir glory. It was a perfect massacre, for in that banking he found and killed an even hundred garter snakes. Thirty were found in one nest. > All About a New ' .-.re is a superstition that the presentation of a knife without any equivalent whatever will cut friendship. There is a fact late ly come to light in a small town where i there is a great deal ot primitive sim plicity, that the presentation of a shirt by a woman to the man she wants to marry will cut the heart out of love. One young girl tried it, and made her lover a glistening shirt with her own pretty hands. He retired to his hoarding house, put it on, and went straightway to see and make love to another girl. Clad in a clean shirt lie felt above the seamstress who had made it, and she lost his cove ted company. She did not sit down and whine over the linen that had gone astray, but took a pistol in her delicate hands and tripped her way to the hoard ing-house aforesaid. She met the un suspecting rover, and presenting the pis tokl him to take off that shirt. He hesitated and was lost. He saw desper ation in those eyes and death in the pis tol. He peeled and handed the girl the soiled garment, which she took on the point of her pistol and poked into the stove. And the flame died out, and her love went up the chimney with tin* smoke. He sought the seereev of his chamber to mourn over the depletion ot his w ardrobe, and she, cocked and prim ed, went off for another lover.—.V. ijon',* Republican. The Ticliborne clatiiHF b,* em ployed as a tailor, and iri "*' 4 ’ G sentence at Darimoor. Ik