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Sheriff Sales, ner levy, 10 lines $5 00 Executors’, Admini4trators’ and Guardi au’s Sales, per square 7 00 Each additional square 5 00 Notice to Debtors and Creditors, 30 days, 4 00 Notice of Leave to sell, 30 days 3 00 Letters of Administration, 30 days 4 00 Letters of Dismission, 3 months 5 00 Letters of Guardianship, 30 days 4 00 letters of Dis. Guardianship, 40 days.... 3 75 Homestead Notices, 2 insertions 2 00 itule Nisi’s per square, each insertion... 1 00 GMBOIA RAILROAD SCHEDULE The following is the schedule on the Geor gia Railroad, with time of arrival at and de parture from every station on the Athens Branch: UP DAY PASSENGER TRAIN. Leave Augusta at 8:45 a. m. Arrive at Union Point : 12:27 p. m. Leave Union Point 12:52 p. m. Arrive at Atlanta 5:45 p. m. DOWN DAY PASSENGER TRAIN. Js*ave Atlanta at 7:00 a. m. Arrive at Union Point 11:32 a. m. Leave Union Point 11:33 a. m. Arrive at Augusta 3:30 p. m. UP NIG)IT PASSENGER TRAIN. Leave Augusta at 8:15 p. m. Arrive at Atlanta 6:25 a. m. Remains one minute at Union Point. ATHENS BRANCH TRAIN. DAY TRAIN. Time Stations. Arrive. Depart. bet. sta’s. A. M. Athens 8 45 25 Wintersville 9 10 9 15 30 Crawford 9 45 9 50 25 Antioch 10 15 10 18 15 Maxey’s 10 33 10 35 15 Woodville 10 50 10 55 20 Union Point 11 15 UP TRAIN. Union Point...P. M. 100 | 20 Woodville 120 125 I 15 Maxey’s t4O 145 j 15 Antioch 200 205 I 25 Crawford 230 235 j 30 Wintersville 305 310 ) 25 Athens 3 35 NIGHT TRAIN —Do ten. Athens a. m. ] 10 00 25 Wintersville 10 25 I 10 30 30 Crawford 11 00 I 11 05 25 Antioch 11 30 ! 11 32 15 Maxey’s 11 47 11 49 15 Woodville 12 04 ! 12 10 25 Union Point 12 35 | a. m. Up Sight Train. Union Point I 355 25 Woodville 420 | 424 15 Maxey’s 4 39 4 41 15 Antioch 456 | 458 25 Crawford 523 I 527 30 Wintersville 557 | 602 28 Athens 6 30 | There are about three hundred thou sand slaves in Cuba, and it has been said that the average life of a slave there is hut seven years. There will he two eclipses of sun this year—one on April 6, not visible in the United States, and auotlier on Septem ber 29, visible east of the Mississippi. The fastest railroad ’time ever made in America was by a train which carried a party of officials from Rochester to Syracuse, eiglity-one miles in sixty-one minutes. In St. Louis a dentist has refused to fill the teeth of a “cullud pusson,” and the United States Marshal has called on the Attorney General for troops. It is not certain whether Sheridan will be sent out, or whether II is Excellency will “ take command in person.” •* A negro man in Albemarle county, Va , on Saturday, attempted to whip his daughter. She resisted, and seizing a stick struck him a violent blow over the head, fracturing the skull and causing hi* death. The girl was arrested and lodged in jail. Cl)c delicti) or pc Cello. MUEDEEED, OUTRAGED, BUENED. Arrest and Confession of the Authors of the Lee County, Miss., Horror—A Whole Fam ily Burned in Their Own House— Two Little Children Burned Alive. Two weeks since, mention was made in the telegraphic columns of the Memphis Avalanche of the fate of a family named Borum, living near Shannon, on the Mobile and Ohio Railroad, in Lee coun ty, Mississippi. The whole affair seem ed shrouded in mystery, so much so that the coroner’s jury which viewed the charred remains of the unfortunate fam ily returned a verdict of death from ac cidental burning. Since then the mys tery has been cleared up, and the Avalanche is able to give the following particulars, for which it is indebted to the agent of the American Press Association of this city : The victims in this horri ble tragedy were Mr. Borum, a young man of 25 or 30 years of age, his wife and children, aged respectively three and six years,and a little negro boy, who was acting in the capacity of a servant. Un til within a few days previous, Mr. Borum had been merchandising in the town of Camargo, in Monroe county, when he sold out for some six or seven hundred dollars in cash, and removed w it . Ids family to the log house in which they were murdered, and which was ab ut a mile and a half west from Slian no:i, his nearest neighbor, living half a mile distant. On Saturday, the 16th ult., Mr. Borum was iu the store of Mr. Whitesides, in Shannon, and while there the latter remarked that he was in need, and asked Borum is he couhl accommo date him. The amount lie wanted was two or three hundred dollars, which Borum said he could let him have, and would bring it to him the following Monday. There were present in the store at this time three negroes, who oveslieard the conversation. Borum soon after left the store and proceeded homeward. The next morning (Sunday) neighbors passing, discovered a heap of blackened ruins where the Borum resi dence stood. The doorway, which had not been totally burned, was approach ed, and the door found locked, but the key was gone. Search among the smok ing timbers revealed the horrible truth of the murder. A few feet from the door way were found the remains of Borum— a part of the heart and liver lying in one mass. The skull, which had beed burn ed from the trunk, w T as found close by, a part of the brain remaining in the cavity. In the skull were found tw r o holes, and on the inside two misshapen pieces of lead —the bullet having beeH melted by the intensity of the heat. By the side of these remains were found a pistol that had been discharged, and Bo rum’s pocket knife, with the blade open. In the northwest corner of the room, where the bed had stood, was found the ghastly skeletons of the mother and child locked in an embrace. A few feet from this were the ashes and some bones of the eldest child. In the east of the room had been the fireplace, and near this were found the remains of the little negro boy. The excitement created in the neighborhood by this appalling dis covery was intense. Neighbors flocked to the scene from all quarters, and threats of summary punishment to the perpe trators were freely expressed. A coro ners jury was impanuelled, but singular ly enough rendered a verdict of acciden tal burning. The citizens, not satisfied, however, dispersed through the country in small scouting parties in search of a clue, at least-, to the horrible mystery. A whole week elapsed before auy disclo sure or the discovery of a single trace of the murderers. The conversation that occurred in Whiteside’s store, and the fact that it had been heard by negroes, furnished at least the color of the mur derers, and the probable motive for the act. Acting on this, a party of scouts, on last Saturday night, 2d inst., arrested in the woods of Lee county a party of four negroes. There was nothing to in dicate that they were the murderers ex cept their suspicious actious in keeping in the woods. After being arrested they were conveyed to Shannon and closely questioned as to their actions during the week or ten days previous. One of them, who happened to have just enough con science to make a coward of him, made a clean breast of the matter and reveal ed the names of five confederates who assisted him iu his terrible work—three of whom were arrested with him—and also made a detailed confession of the crime. He stated that being aware of the fact that Borum had money, six of them went to his house on the Saturday night in question, and having called him to the door, the whole party set upon him. He drew a pistol and fired, with out injuring either of them, however, and then kept them at hay with his CRAWFORD, GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 4, 1875. knife. They shot him in the head twice and killed him instantly. Then they at tacked Mrs. Borum, whom they found in i bed, and each of the six outraged her person in turn, when one of them struck her on the head with a hatchet, leaving her for dead. Then they killed the negro boy, throwing his body near the fire place. After glutting themselves with murder, they proceeded to ransack the house, in which they found, among other valuables, S7OO in money, which they carried off with them. Having fired the house in four places, in order to destroy all traces of their crime, they left, locking the door behind them, and leaving the two children to be burned alive. A more coolly planned scheme for-murder and outrage cannot well be imagined, and the indignation created by this confession was unlimited. New-s of this arrest and confession reached West Point last Monday, when a party of about thirty, blacks and whites, start ed for Shannon, with the avowed inten tion of taking the negroes out of the hands of the authorities and burning them alive, which they have probably done ere this. No Better Off. —A man and wife who had been married ten years disagreed and determined to separate. The terms of separation were to be decided by a justice. “ Have you any children ?” asked the judge. “ Yes. monsieur.” “ How many ?” “ Three —two boys and a girl—and it is with them lies our difficulty. Madame wishes to have two of them ; so do I.” “ Have you agreed to abide by my de cision ?” “We have,” said both of them. “ Very well, my friends ; I condemn you to have another child, so that each of you may have two. When you have obtained that you may return to me.” The matter was then adjourned for the time being. Nine months afterward the worthy magistrate, who in the mean while had heard nothing of the husband or wife, met the former. “ Ah !” said he, “ how about the sepa ration ?” “ Still impossible, monsier. Instead of three children we have now five—my wife gave birth to twins.” Tribulations of a Rural Editor.— Editing a newspaper a pleasant thing. If it contains to much political matter, people won’t have it, if it contains too little they won’t have it. If the type is too large it don’t contain enough reading matter ; if the type is too small, they can’t read it. If we have a few jokes, folks say we are nothing but rat tle-heads ; if we omit jokes, they say we are old fossils. If we publish origi nal matter, they blame us for not giving them original selections; if we publish original selections, folks say that we are too lazy for giving them what they have read in some other paper. If we give a man a complimentary notice, we are censured for being partial: if we do not, all the hands say we are a hog. If we speak well of any act, folks say we dare not do otherwise; if we stay in our office and attend to business, folks say we are too proud to mingle with our fel lows. If we do not pay all bills prompt ly, folks say we are not to be trusted ; if we do pay promptly then they say we stole the money. How to Measure Land. —An lowa farmer recommends the following device for measuring land: Take two slats about six feet long, sharpen one end of of each, lay them upon a floor like a pair of open compasses, so that the points shall be exactly five feet six inches apart; now nail the other two points together and a piece across the middle, so that it will look like the letter A, and the measure is finished. To measure land place one point at the starting place and the other also on the ground in a straight line for destination; stand alongside the machine with one hand on top of it; take one step ferward, tip up the point that is behind, swing it around (from you) on the other point and set it in the line also. A person in this manner can measure correctly as fast as he can walk—three spaces make a rod—walk straight without stopping, count the spaces, divide these by three, and you have the rods. It is now that married men most fully realize the comforts of matrimony, as, they lie snugly tucked under the quilts in the morning and see their beloved wives making up the fires. Young men marry young. There are few sights more inspiring than the spectacle of a small boy shoot ing aloDg an alley-way with about four feet of bull-dog fastened to his trousers, and'fioating in the br&er* behind him. HUMOEISMS. where is the place for a boil ? What length ought a lady’s petti coat be ? A little above two feet. Good looking lasses and good looking glasses are not very far apart— generally. but-get-up-and-build-the-fire that makes a woman great. no chauge. Poor relatives are cut the same as last year. Miss Anthony, who recognizes only the rights of the Eves, owes her na tivity to Adams, Mass. borrows a paper is always the one to find the most faults with its contents. There is nothing more hazardous than to be bothering an irritable woman with foolish questions on wash day. A darkey preacher, lining out a hymn from memory, said : Plunged in a gulf of dark despair, Ye wretched sinner —come out of dar! Jack Frost is a notable har vester, as he reaps our ears and noses and fingers and toc-ses with his keen ice-sickle. A grocer in the suburbs, when complained to about selling bad eggs, said: “At this time of the year the hens are not well, and often lay bad eggs.” A Chicago boy has invented a ten-barrelled shot-gun, and the face of the small boy who didn’t know it was loaded is fairly radiant with a hideous leer of satisfaction. A great many ladies have applied to Theodore Tilton for locks of his hair ; but they must wait until it is determined whether Plymouth Church shall have the whole scalp. And now they say William Penn would sit down under a tree with Indians about him, and telling them of ther bet ter world beyond the sea, deal himself four aces and win the game. Mr. Bergh’s attention is called to the fact that a number of women place their furs away in snuff during the sum mer. Hundreds of moths have sneezed their heads off in consequence. A Green Bay man thinks it very wrong for a boy to go to a circus, but lie will keep a lad turning a fanning-mill ten hours, band him five cents, and stand and wait for the boy to thank him. Can anything be more exhilerat ing than the notice given by a railroad company, shortly after a big disaster, that the wreck lias been cleared up and everything is in good running order? A minister asked a tipsy fellow, leaning up against a fence, where he ex pected to go to when he died. “If I can’t get along any better than I do now,” said he, “I shan’t go anywhere. I’ll stay where I am !” What kind of cattle do they have out at Zanesville? A man there adver tises that he wants “a woman to wash, iron and milk one or two cows.” Wash ing may do cows good, but w r e don’t think they will like ironing. A useful and much needed inven tion has been patented—a fountain pen —which, by the pressure of the thumb on a small rubber ball, projects a stream of ink through the holder and into the face of the person who is looking over your shoulder while you are writing. freeze. If whisky is left outside in an open vessel, the alcohol will evaporate and the component water will freeze. Consequently, you must put your whis key inside of you, so that it can’t evap orate. This is logic. A gentleman, whose house was repairing, went one day to see how tlie job was getting on, and observing a quan tity of nails lying about, said to the car penter, “Why don’t you take care of these nails; they’ll certainly be lost?” “No,” replied the carpenter, “you’ll find them in the bill.” Some men at Louisville were bet ting on the weight of a large mule. One man, who was a good judge of the weight of live stock, got behind the mule and was measuring, when something appear ed to loosen up the mule. Just before theexpert died he gave it as his opinion that if the mule was as heavy all ove r a$ he was behind he must weigh not far from 47,000 tons. A man was seen coming out of a Texas newspaper office with one eye gouged out, his nose spread all over his face like a piece of raw beef, and oue of his ears chewed off. To a policeman who interviewed him he replied: “I didn’t like an article that ’peared in the paper last week, an’ I went up ter see she man who writ it. He war thar, stranger.” CANNIBALISM. The Waifs from the British Ship Euxi&e. The Friend of India ( arriving by the mail of Saturday ) has received intelli gence from Batavis regarding the suffer ings of some of the survivors from the British ship Euxine, bound from Shields to Aden, which caugh fire and was aban doned in the South Atlantic. The boats containing the captain and a number of the crew, reached St. Helena, but the third boat containing the second mate and several men, remained for three weeks in the open sea, being ultimately sighted by a Dutch ship, but not before one of the sailors had been sacrificed to provide his suffering companions with food: “On the 12tli of June last the iron ship Euxine sailed from Shields with a cargo of coal, and crew of thirty-two men and excellent provisions. Every thing went well till the 3d of August, on which date a storm tossed the vessel about so violently that her cargo was shifted to the starboard side, one man was washed over-board, and considerable damage done to the sails and rigging. All endeavors to right her were fruitless, and after large quantities of the coal had been thrown overboard traces of fire wen discovered. Although every hatch and opening was closed as tightly as possible, the flames made such headway that on the Bth of the same month the Captain decided on abandoning his ship, whose living freight left in three boats, the Captain and thirteen men in the long boat, the first mate and eight others in the second, and the second mate and seven seamen in the third. It was known that St. Helena was 850 miles distant, and it was determined to make for the island. During the first night the boat commanded by the second mate lost sight of the others, and at dawn was alone upon the wide ocean. The little vessel was on life-boat principles, about thirty feet long, her sides being protected with a bulwark of sailcloth. She had ten air-tight cases, two masts besides a foreboom, and carried a set of sails and necessary cordage. The pro visions comprised two cases biscuits, a ham, a cheese, twelve tins of meat, and two small casks of drinking water. By the ninth day the mate came to the con clusion that he had been steering too far to the westward, but as the the wind and the sea did not admit of any change be ing made, it was decided to go on as heretofore, in the hope of meeting with a vessel or reaching the coast of South America. The rations were diminished to half a biscuit and glass of water once a day, and thus the 24th of August ap proached with no sight of rescue or land. On this date a stiff breeze sprang up as darkness drew on, and at midnight, while a man named De Jager was at the helm, and the rest were asleep, the boat sud denly capsized, and its occupants sud denly found themselves struggling for their lives. How it occurred is not known, but it is surmised that De Jager placed liis charge against the wind, as it is certain that he had already threatened to “ knock a hole in the craft to put an end to the misery of all.” Any way, he “put an end” to himself and another, named Reynolds, both sinking, notwith standing help rendered them by their more fortunate comrades, who had found safety on the upturned keel. In the morning the boat was righted, but all the food was gone. In order to prevent capsizing in future the masts were cut down, and only a small sail set, so that the boat might be stired right before the wind. Hunger and thirst characterised the day—a Sunday—and twenty-four hours later it was agreed that lots should be east to see which of the number should be sacrificed for the benefit of the re mainder. Early on the same day one Mul ler, after drinking large quantites of salt water, declared that he offered his body as food for the others, and entreated them to kill him. “ After a time ” —we quote from the affidavit of James Archer, second mate —“ Manus Schutt proposed that they should cast lots who should fall as a sacrifice for keeping the others alive. To this we all consented. Hav ing no other means to make a lottery, we hit upon using small sticks of different sizes, deciding that the one who drew the smallest should be the victim. Af ter having made the sticks ready, I held them in my hand while the others drew. On comparing them together, I found that the Italian, Francis Shufus, held the smallest stick. Having also agreed that the lottery should be thrice repeated, and that when it should then prove that either two or three of us had drawn the shortest stick, these should cast lots among themselves so that the victim might be singled out, we found that the same man had for a second time picked out the same object. Francis Shufus, when his turn came for the third draw- VOL I—NO. 18. ing, hesitated to join and would not draw, upon which the man Sandstroni proposed he would do it for him. Tb a he did, and the shortest stick was found in Sandstrom’s hand. Shufus bore it with great calmness, and showed the utmost resignation. He was left alone for some two hours, while we now and then eagerly looked round the horizon to see whether a sail could be perceived or any help would come ; we stood upon the thwarts. Shufus prepared himself to meet his fate by praying and speaking in Italian. He gave us no parting mes sage to be sent to his friends, most pro bably as he hardly knew more English than to say Yes and No. His bearing was that of a man whose mind was made up. Seeing we were past help, and feel* ing that our hunger and thirst had grown beyond further endurance, we saw our selves driven to sacrifice Shufus. He laid himself down ; but before that Angust Muller had told him that he would take his place and die for him. This Shufus refused, and laying himself down in the bottom of the boat gave himself up to be tied ; then one man held an empty tin, so as to catch in it the blood. Muller, on saying that now someone must die for the others passed the kife round the man’s throat. He did not struggle or scream. The blood was drunk by us all. Muller then cut out the liver and heart. These we cut into small pieces, and ate them mixed with blood and salt water. At the last mo-' mentof Shufus I was at the helm. The head and feet were thrown away, the trunk and limbs were put into one of the air-tight tins of our boat, which we had opened. We continned on our way. It might have been 2 o’clock in the af ternoon when the man Shufus died. Some three hours after a ship was seen, which, perceiving the boat, made for us.” This vessel turned out to bo the Java packet, bound for Amsterdam, and her commander, Captain Trappaa, did all in his power to relieve the mii ery of the five unfortunate waifs—Janie* Archer, August Muller, Victor Sand strom, Manus Schutt, and Alexander Vermenlen —who had been twenty-three days at sea in an open boat, and sailed fully 2,000 miles.” Something About Eohoes. A good ear cannot distinguish one sound from another unless there is an interval of one-ninth of a second between the arrival of the two sounds. Sounds must, therefore, succeed each other at an interval of one-ninth of a second in or der to be heard distinctly. Now the velocity of sound being eleven hundred and twenty feet a second, in one-ninth of a second the sound would travel one hundred and twenty-four feet. Repeat echoes happen when two obstacles are placed opposite to one ano ther, as paralled walls, for example, which reflect the sound successively. At Ademach, Bohemia, there is an echo which repeats seven syllable three times ; at Woodstock, in England, thera is one which repeats a sound seventeen times during the day and twenty timea during the night. An echo in the villa Simionetta, Milan, is said to repeat a sharp sound thirty times audible. The most celebrated echo among the ancient* was that of the Metelli, at Rome, which, according to tradition, was capable of repeating the first line of the AEnei containing fifteen syllables, eight time* distinctly. Dr. Birch describes an echo at Rosen heath, Argyleshire, which it is said does not now exist. When eight or ten notes were played upon a trumpet, they were returned by this eoho upon a key a third lower than the original note, and shortly after upon a key still lowered. Dr. Page describes an echo in Fairfax county, Va., which possesses a similar curious property. This echo gives three distinct reflections, the second much the most distinct. Twenty notes played upon the flute were returned with per fect cleaness. But the most singular property of this echo is, that some notes of the scale are not returned in tSieir places, but are supplied with notes which are either thirds, fifths, or octaves. There is a surprising echo between two barns, in Belvidere, Alleghany County, N, Y. The echo repeats eleven times a word of one, two or three sylla bles ; it has been heard to repeat thir teen times. By placing one’s self ia the centre between the two barns, there will be a double echo, one in the direction of each barn, and a monosyllable wift be [ repeated twenty-two times, A striking and beautiful effect of echo is produced in certain localities by the Swiss mountaineers, who contrive to sing their Ram des Vache* in such time that the reflected notes from an accom paniment to the air itself. M. D. Conway is writing a history of the devil.
