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THE OGLETHORPE ECHO.
Friday Horning, Jan. 22, IST 5.
PUBILSFIEP WEEKLY BY
/ T. L. GANTT, Editor and Prop’r.
01£ KcStinger'e Engagement with the
Booking Chair.
[From the Columbus Enquirer.']
Old McStinger was going to bed a lit
tle wavy the other night, and not wishing
to disturb Mrs. McStinger, who bas a
tongue like a rat-tail file, he thought it
just as well not to turn on the gas. lie
got along very well until he reached the
door of the chamber where his patient
wife lay sleeping. Here hepaused arao
merit, balancing on his heels like a
pole on a juggler’s nose. Then he made
for it, in order to make a bee line across
the floor. Mrs. McStinger, with her
usual exemplary fortitude, had placed
the rocking chair with such gifted skill
that uo man could come into the room
without running over it, so the first thing
be knew McStinger stubbed his toe nail
off against the rocker, which knocked the
seat Against the crazy bone of his knee,
and made one of the long arms pred
him in the stomach. Simultaneously
he fell over the chair crosswise, and it
kicked him behind hi3 back before he
could get from the floor, as he stood on
all four.-;. The engagement was now ful
ly opened. When a man begins falling
over a rocking chair in a dark room he
ought always to have three days’ rations
and forty rounds. Before McStinger
could get up straight his knee came down
on one of the long rockers behind, and
the back of the chair came down on bis
head with a whack that laid him flat on
the floor, and before he could move, the
chair kicked him three times in the ten
derest part of his ribs with the sharp
end of the rocker. This made him per
fectly furious, and he scumbled up and
made a blind rush at the chair, deter
mined to blow up the enemy’s works,
lie ran square against the back, and it
rocked forward with liim, turnings com
plete somersault over the bandies, throw
ing ATr;£tinger halfway across the room
and landing on top of him, digging in
his abdomen like a bull’s horn, as he lay
spread out on the under side. It would
have been a good thing for McStinger if
he had laid still then and let the chair
have its own way, It lay flat on its
back, with the long points embracing his
abdomen, and didn’t seem to want to do
anything active just then. But McStin
ger couldn’t make up his mind to give it
up yet. He rolled over sidev/ays and up
set the chair. It fell with a crash on its
side, giving him a furious dig in the
liver, which made him straighten out his
legs spasmodiously, barking one shin
from the instep to the knee on the rock
er which hung in the air, and setting the
chair on its feet again, where it stood
rocking backward and forward at him,
like a wary old ram making feints of
butting its adversary in order to throw
him off his guard. The blow in his side
nearly finished McStinger, and while ly
ing rubbing bis wind back again, he
was beginning to reflect whether his
honor required him to proceed any fur
ther in the affair, when Mrs. McStinger
suddenly began screaming all the names
in the crime’s act, under the impression
that Charley Ross’ abductors were trying
to commit a burglary, bigamy, robbery
and everything else ou her. Up to this
time she was speechless with terror and
had lain there trembling, shedding per
spiration and aceummulating shrieking
power until slie had gained the scream
ing capacity of a camel-back engine.
She had just reached her third sforzando
fortissimo accelerando when old McStin
ger succeeded in getting to his feet once
more and became dimly visible to Mrs.
McStinger. With one last wild parting
shriek she sprang from the bed and
made a dash tor the door near which the
rocking chair still stood menacing the
whole universe with a butting motion.
Mrs. McStinger had no time for investi
gation just then, and slie pitched into
and over the rocking-chair and clear on
down stairs, the chair, after turning over
and over, and kicking Mrs. McStinger
every bump until they both landed in
the hall below, where the chair broke all
to atoms. This ended the fight.
If wives will learn from this sad story
not to leave rocking-chairs standing
around in the middle of the room for
their poor husbands to fall over, we shall
not have written in vain.
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A Staked Relic. —The vest worn by
Israel Putnam when he escaped from the
British soldiers in his ride down the
stone steps at Stanford, Conn., in 1779,
is in the possession of Mrs. Wm. Perry,
of Kenton county, Kv., the grand niece
o'tlie revolutionary hero. Like “Old
Grimes,” the vest is all buttoned down
before.
In* peeling onions put a large needle
in the mouth, half in and half out. The
nee lie attracts the oily juices of the bulb,
and any number may be peeled without
affecting the eyes.
What is the largest room in the
# rid T —The form ffrr iu*a>nyvement. *
Sweetmeats and Chitlings.
A throng of youth and beauty glide
Amid the festive scene;
The dancers close, ami side by side
Upon each other lean.
But one fair maid, the queen of all,
Hath on her brow a frown—
She feels her pride will have a fall:
Her—hack hair’s tumbling down.
The man who weighed bis words
broke his scales yesterday.
Of all sad words of tongue or pen,
the saddest are—He’s drunk again.
The glory of woman is in her
hair, but we object to having any glory
in our butter.
When geese go South hogs carry
straw, and other folks commence marry
ing—look out for cold weather.
Africa, where church congregations are
not so durned particular about morals.
Moral: When you strike oil,
stop boring. Many a man has bored
clean through and let the oil run out at
the bottom.
A Lexington man has written a
life of the devil. The last three chapters
comprise a ten years’ biography of his
mother-in-law.
There is a vile hypocrite in Beth
lehem, Pa. He actually entertained a
company in honor of the anniversary of
the birthday of his mother-in-law.
Oats may be good to soak the
dampness out of wet boots, but Winter
says he can’t afford to keep thirty bush
els of oats oil hand for that purpose.
An Athens lady recently took a
bath in the dark. She managed very
w ell, only she cot hold of a piece of stove
blacking instead of soap, with remarked
results.
There is a man in Missouri who
has a dog which doesn’t resemble Noah’s
ark. He says he has kept him forty
days and forty nights without his light
ing on ara-rat.
A Crawford woman gave a tea
party, and made a mistake and shorten
ed the pumpkin pies with axle grease.
The next day she received twenty-seven
anonymous letters.
A woman bought a quart of milk
and got a small fish swimming in it.
The milkman innocently said he sup
posed the cow must have swallowed the
fish while drinking.
Andrew Arnold says one of the
meanest things a small boy can do is to
put tacks in the chairs when he knows
that a young man is coming to call on
his sister that evening.
A Wolfskin hero, with a dose of
Aycock’s “old terrible” in him, retired
in great confusion, Thursday, before the
fist of a countryman, who he said was
connected with Uli Damu.
To see a young man employing
high-priced words, using a standing col
lar, and the proprietor of a puny mous
tache, reminds one of sticking his finger
in his wind-pipe and gagging.
A youth was asked by his Sun
day school teacher who made the beau
tiful hills about them. He replied that
he did not know', as his parents only
moved into town the day before.
A worthy deacon in the upper
part of this county, near the Madison
line, the other day, gave notice that a
church meeting w 7 as to be held soon after,
and unconsciously added : “ There is no
objection to the female brethren re
maining.”
Mercy Consolation Smith is Fort
Wayne’s handsomest girl. Mercy will
no doubt be a Consolation to some fel
low. It seems to us that it will be a
greater consolation to Mercy to get rid
of the name of Smith.
One of the old settlers at the Isles
of Shoals seeing the name of Pysclie on
the hull of a yacht, the other day, spelled
it out slowdy, and then exclaimed:
“ Well, if that ain’t the durndest way to
spell fish I ever hearn of!”
A West< rn paper tells us that a
female book agent at La Crosse knocked
a lawyer down with a $22 Bible, and
then knocked bis teeth out with as6
hymn book. Arm that woman with an
ordinary library of costly religious liter
ature, and she will whip her weight in
wild cats.
The other night a gentleman of
Lexington went home in a tipsy condi
tion, and several times fell down on his
head, greatly to the detriment of his
silk hat, which game out of the series of
accidents looking like a concertina with
hair on. He threw it away, of cou. se,
but the next day he met his w ife on the
street wearing that identical hat, pinned
up at the sides, elaborately trimmed, and
the envy of every woman she met.
Nothing goes entirely to waste in
this world. Our latest Kansas dispatches
intimate that the book agents will go to
eating grasshoppers in the spring. A ,
newly married man told us this week
that he wished they would go to eating
mothers-in-law. He says that he would
cheerfully contribute his better-half’s
shemale parent as a meal for that poor
sloshindicular cuss who heads his letters
“ Out of Doors.” His generosity is only
equaled by the man who sacrificed two
uncles and nine cousins in defence of
Fv*Tth*ern liberty.
BUS!NESS CARDS.
T- A. BURKE,
Bookseller & Stationer
Athens, Georgia, -
Soils everything in his line as low as it can
be had elsewhere in the State, or out of if.
Any Book or piece of JJjTusiC not ou hand
will be supplied at short notice.
PIANOS and ORGANS
of the best manufactures, sold at New York
prices for cash, or on time at a small advance
ou cash prices, payments to he made monthly
or quarterly, as may-best suit the purchasers.
Send for catalogue and terms, and give me a
trial before you buy elsewhere. janlo-Gm
LONGS & BILLUPS’
HEALERS IN
DEIS, MEDICINES,
PAINTS, OILS,
Dye-Stufis, Glass, Etc.
Athens, Ga.
CARRIAGES. BUGGIES,
WAGONS.
R. P. TUCKER & BRO.,
CRAWFORD, CA.,
Haying rebuilt pttt'tj.
their Shops, and thor
oughly stocked them with
the best tools and a full supply ot the finest
seasoned LUMBER, are now prepared to
manufacture, at short notice, every descrip
tion of CARRIAGES, BUGGIES, ROCKA
WAYS, PILETONS, WAGONS, CARTS,
etc., etc. We will also do all manner oi
ISlaeksmithing and Repairing, am.
guarantee all our work to give perfect satis
faction. fAir- We sell our TWO-HORM 1 ’
WAGONS at from SJO to $(125, and eve
rything else LOW in proportion. oct9-tf
KALVARINSK! & LIEBLER,
Under Newton House, Athens, Ga.,
Cigar Sfflfactmrs,
And Wholesale and Retail Healers in
Tobacco, Pipes, Snuff, &c.,
Healers would do well to price our goods
before purchasing elsewhere. Our brands of
Cigars are known everywhere, and sell more
readily than any other. oct.'iO-tf
C. S. HARGROVE
CRAWFORD, GA.,
DExVLER IX
Off Goods, Notions, Eats, Boots, Shoes,
Groceries, Provisions, Etc.
Or, i. H. McLEAN'S PATENT MEDICINES
Be sure to-give me a call and examine un
stock if you want to
Buy Goods Cheai) I
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GwralTietApiy
RAILROAD TICKETS
For sale, by all routes, to all principal points
In the United States.
Buy your Tickets in? Athens, and get all
information from
Capt. WM. WILLIAMS,
Agent Southern Express Cos., Athens, Ga.
G. HAUSER,
ATHENS, GA.,
Healer in
CICARS,
Tobacco, Snuff, Pipes, Ac.
He manufactures all of the Cigars
that he sells out of the very best tobac
co, therefore, for a pleasant smoke,
give him a call. A ys. Sign, Indian
Squaw, College Avenue, Athens, Gb.
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BOOTS m 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 and wear.
REPAIRING AND COARSE WORK also
attented to. oetS-ly
T. R. & W. CHILDERS,
Carpenters and Builders,
ATHENS. GA.,
VYTOULDRESPECTFULLY ANNOUNCE
T V to the citizens of Oglethorpe county that
they are prepared to do all manner of Wood
Work. Estimates on Buildings careful lv
made and lowest figures given. Satisfaction
guaranteed. A portion of the public patron
age solicited. nov27-12m
J. M. NORTON,
Oontraotor and Builder
CRAWFORD, GA., IS PREPARED TO
furnish all kinds of Building Material,
such as r>ugh and dressed Lumber, Shingles,
Sash. Blinds, and I><w*rs; also, Laths. Lime,
and Plastering Material. Estimates given of
all da srs of Carpenter work, Plastering
Bri<sk work, and Painting. Oet3o-.3m .
LEA DI hKJ FERTILE* E RS, ETCk
PACIFIC GUANO CO., - - - CAPITAL, $1,000,000!
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SOLUBLE PACIFIC
CfTT.A_IsrO
And COMPOUND ACID PHOSPHATE,
For Composting with Cotton Seed.
The SOLUBLE PACIFIC GUANO is now so well known for its remarkable effects ms
an agency for increasing the produce of labor, as not to require especial commendation from
me. Its use, for Ten Years past, has established its character for Reliable Excellence. The
large, Fixed Capital invested by the Company in this trade, affords the surest guarantee of
the continued excellence of its Guano. The Guano and Phosphate will be delivered to
any boat or depot in the city FREE of Dray age.
CASH PRICE:
Per Ton, 2,000 Pounds, SOLI RLE PACIFIC’ GLAXO 848
“ “ “ ACID PHOSPHATE 36
TIME PRICE s
Without Interest, and option of paying in Liverpool Middling Cotton, delivered at nearest
Railroad Depot, at Fifteen Cents per pound:
Per Ton, 2,000 Pounds, SOLUBLE PAC IFIC GI’AXO 858
“ “ “ ACID COMPOUND 42
Orders received and information furnished on application to niy Agents at various
Local Markets.
J. 0. MATHEWSON, Asc SM?St Co '
ja.us.3n, J. G. M. EDWARDS, LOC LkA, ga.
“EUREKA I ”
The Best Fertilizer Now in Use!
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Cash Price per Ton, - - - - $5Ol Time Price per Ton, - - - - S6O
MADISON, Ga., Dec. 15, 1574.
Messrs. McMahan Stokely, Crawford, Ga.:
"’Gents—My house, Messrs. A. W. Foster &
Cos., sold the EUREKA last season, and my
friends are so well pleased with it that we will
sell it again. If you desire to run a Fertilizer
lam satisfied the EUREKA is as good a
brand as you can get, and will give general
satisfaction to your friends who use it. From
my long and intimate acquaintance with some
of its manufacturers, I am fully satisfied its
present high character will be fully maintain
ed, as long as they have anything to do with
it: Yours, truly, W. L. HIGH.
janis-2ni M’MAH&N & STOKELY,
REMOVAL! REMOVAL
To No. 12 Broad Street, Athens, Ga.
The Largest and Cheapest Furniture Establishment in North-East Georgia!
-J. F. WILSON & CO.
Furniture, Coins, Burial Cases, Etc.
Give us a call before purchasing elsewhere. janls-ly ■
REMOVAL
W. T. HANCOCK, Watchmaker & Jeweler
HAS MOVED INTO THE “ECHO” BUILDING.
Having a full stock of the very best material, is fully prepared to Repair all kinds of Jew
elry, Watches and Clocks in a superior manner, and at moderate prices. Satisfaction guaran
teed. Parties having left Watches, Jewelry, etc., with me for repair are requested to come
and settle for same, or they will be sold for expenses.
MEW STOCK,
NEW STOCK!
R T. BRUMBY & CO.
Athens, Ga.,
HAVE NOW ON HAND:
PURE WHITE LEAD, at*l4 per hundred
VENETIAN RED, dry and in oil.
VARNISH, of all kinds.
TURPENTINE and PAINT BRUSHES.
ANILINE DYE, red, black, and purple.
The largest and finest selected stock of
Cheap and fine PERFUMERY,
SHELL BOXES, BABY' BOXES,
COLOGNES,
Belle, Atwood’s, Caswell & Hazard’s, Ger
man, Hoyt’s, Wright’s, and Brumby A Co’s,
half-pints and pints, elegantly put up in cut
glass bottles, etc.
IVORY’ TEATHING RINGS.
ARNICA COAT PLASTER, white, blaok
and flesh color. *
Shaving and Tooth BRUSHES.
The finest selection of Imported HAIR
BRUSHES ever had in this city, for Christ
mas Presents, some costing $5 each.
LADIES’ CACHOUS, for the breath.
Fine PUFFS, LILY WHITE,
Nail and Infants’ BRUSHES.
OTTO OF ROSE, in small vials.
SHAVING COMPOUND, in mugs.
CAMPHOR ICE, LIP BALM,
ROSE CREAM.
P< iWDER PUFF BOXES, 25c to *2 each.
Fine TOILET SOAPS.
S A POLIO, 25c per package.
And a host of other articles too numerous to
mention. We want the people of Oglethorpe
and surrounding country to give us a call
when they visit Athens,'and examine our fine
stock.
Notice to Trespassers.
A LL PERSONS ARE HEREBY FOR
BIDDEN, after this date, to trespass on
any of my lands, under penalty of the law.
Any one caught ii|on said lands, without per
mission, will be prosecuted.
M. H. ARNOLD.
December 9, 167 4. decl l-4t
OXFORD, Newton Cos., Ga.,)
Nov. 30, 1874. j
W. G. Crenshaw, Esq., President Atlantic and
Virginia Fertilizer Cos., Orient, L. I.:
Dear Sir—l have sold in the last four years
over 2,000 tons of the EUREKA Fertilizer,
which has proven to be the best standard Fer
tilizer 1 kuow of, and I have used it myself
for the last five years, and find it to be tlie
best I have ever used. Yours truly,
[Signed] DAVID DICKSON.
Will also respectfully refer to Mr.
Mordecai Edwards and M. 11. Dillard.
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WILL BUY A
FIRST MORTGAGE PREMIUM BONO
OF THE
N, l Industrial Exposition Company,
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These bonds are issued for the purpose of
raising funds for the erection of a building in
the City of New York, to be used for a
Perpetual World's Fair,
a permanent home, where every manufactu
rer can exhibit unci sell his goods, and every
patentee can show his invention; a centre of
industry which will prove a vast benefit, to the
whole country.
For this purpose, the Legislature of the
State of New York has granted a charter to a
number of our most wealthy and respectable
merchants, and these gentlemen have purch
ased no less than eight blocks of the most val
uable land in the city of New York. The
building to be erected will be seven stories
high (150 feet in height), surmounted by a
magnificent dome, and will cover a space of
22 acres. It will lie constructed of Iron, Brick
and Glass, and made fire-proof. The bonds,
which are all for S2O each, are secured by a
first mortgage on the land and building, and
for tlie purpose of making them popular, tlie
directors have decided to have quarterly
drawings of $150,000 each ; this money being
the interest on the amount of the whole loan.
Every bondholder must receive at least s2l,
but he mav receive
:
Or $35,000, or SIO,OOO, or $5,000, or $3,000, Ac,
EVERY BOND
purchased before Jan. 4, 1875, will participate
In tlie Third Series Drawing,
Held .Holiday, January 4, 1875.
Capital Preminni, SIOO,OOO.
These Drawings take place EVERY THREE
MONTHS, and eventually every bond will par
ticipate in them.
Address, for bonds and full information,
MORGEXTHAU, BRUNO & CO.,
Financial Agents, i
23 Park Row, New York.
Post Office Drawer 2'J.
Remit by Draft on N. Y. City Banks, Reg
istered Letter or P. O. Money Order.
Postponements impossible under this plan.
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ocratic principles. In the news from all parts
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I ENt’E, THE ST. LOUIS GLOBE cam
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eut issues, such as lew of its contemporaries in
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any measure not in unison with Republican
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Will aim to ho the
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It will furnish its readers with the latest
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petitors.
The news of tlie week will he re-written
and prepared especially for this edition, so as
to put the largest amount of information into
the smallest amount ofspaei This will give
us an opportunity to devote a large share of
our pages to .
Family and Literary Reading.
We shall also pay especial attention to Mar
ket Reports and Commercial News, and shall
endeavor to be full and reliable on all matters
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ST. LOUIS GLOBE,
decll-fit NT. L.OLTB.
ATHENS
KarUe&6ranite Yard,
A R. ROBERTSON, DEALER
. in Monuments, Head Stones,
Cradle Tombs, Marble and Granite
Box Tombs; also, Vases and Mar- t/fjf: '!
ble Tops tor Furniture. Persons
desiring work of this kind would PwOl'
do well to examine my designs be- '“ft*
fore purchasing elsewhere. Price*
moderate. ©et9-ly*