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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-
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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.
