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OGLETHORPE ECHO
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GEORGIA RAILROAD SCHEDULE
The following is the schedule on the Geor
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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. tn.
Leave Union Point 12:52 p. m.
Arrive at Atlanta 5:45 p. m.
DOWN DAY PASSENGER TRAIN.
Leave Atlanta at 7:00 a. in.
Arrive at Union Point 11:32 a. m.
Leave Union Point 11:33 a. m.
Arrive at Augusta 3:30 p. nv.
UP NIGHT PASS INCUR 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.
i Time
Stations. Arrive. Depart. ! bet.
I sta’s.
A. M.
Athens 8 45 25
Wintersvilie 9 10 9 15 30
Crawford 9 45 50 25
Antioch 10 15 10 18 15
Maxev’s 10 33 10 35 15
Woodvilie 10 50 10 55 20
Union Point 11 15
UP TRAIN.
Union Point. ..P. M. 1 00 20
Woodville 1 20 1 25 15
Maxev’s 1 40 1 45 15
Antioch 2 00 2 05 25
Crawford 2 30 2 35 30
Wintersvilie 3 05 3 10 25
Athens 3 35
NIGHT TRAIN— Doirn.
Athens a. m. 10 00 25
Wintersvilie 10 25 10 30 30
Crawford 11 00 11 05 25
Antioch 11 30 11 32 j 15
Maxev’s 11 47 11 49 ! 15
Woodville 12 04 12 10 j 25
Union Point 12 35 a. m. |
Up Xiyht Train.
ITnion Point 3 55 25
Woodville 4 20 4 24 15
Maxey’s 4 39 4 41 15
Antioch 4 56 4 58 25
Crawford t.. 5 23 5 27 30
Wintersvilie 5 57 6 02 28
Athens 6 30
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Farmer Joan to HL; Brother.
The prize of fifty doll; ir* in gold, offered by
“Brick” Pomeroy for the best poem on the
Grangers, was won by N. H. Reed, of West
Philadelphia. It is proper to say that it was
not the best poem, but it was the one which
adhered closest to li.esubject. Here it is:
The toil of the week is ended and my team is
now at feed,
Laura her work has finished and now sits
down to read.
Our home is very quiet, the children are at
rest,
As I write tins homely letter to the brother I
love best.
I have much that’s news to tell you, so do not
think it strange
To learn by this bit of writing I’m Master of
a Grange!
’Tis true, to secret societies opposed I’ve al
ways been,
But this was before the good of co-operation
I’d seen.
We meet once a fortnight now in Pomona
Hall,
As we call the furnished upper room in the
house of farmer Ball;
Some forty of us farmers, who there can take
our wives,
And by work and conversation harmonize our
our lives.
We ask each other questions in a social, kind
ly vein,
Learn how to lessen taxes and increase the
yield of grain;
To whittle down our troubles; to buildup
for our joys;
To beautify our fanner homes —educate our
girls and boys.
We look in each other’s faces —we grasp each
other’s hands,
As farmers and as neighbors we protect each
other’s lands.
We watch each other’s lambs from dogs and
wolves that prowl,
And as Patrons Vote together, while the poli
ticians howl.
We agree no more to listen to the grand
spread-eagle speech
Of the ring and monopoly agent, who takes
all in his reach.
W e are learning to live in harmony, and as
flowers from the sod
Grow 7 to meet the sunlight, so we’re growing
up to God.
Our home is now far happier than e’re it was
before,
Again the bloom’s on Laura’s cheek, as in
the days of yore.
Our house is better furnished than it was
when you were here,
For co-operation a profit left for all of n* last
year.
Our neighbors now call socially when comes
the eventide,
As peace, friendship, prosperity, do with us
now abide.
This letter teels the story, so brother, think
not strange,
If I ask you soon to visit us, and then to join
our Grange.
Johnny’s Essay on “The Tope.”—
Tories is like frogs, but more dignity,and
wen you come to think of it, frogs is wet
ter. The warts which todes is noted for
can’t be cured, for they is cronick, but if
I eouldent get wel Ide stay in the house.
My grandfather knew a tode wich some
body had tamed til it was folks. Wen
its master wissled it would come for flies.
Tehy cetches’ em with tlieir tong, wich
is som* like a long red worm, but more
like litenin, only litenin haint got no
glint onto it. The Hi wil be standin a
rubbin its hind legs to gether and a
thinkin wat a fine fli it is, and the tode a
settin some distance away like it was
asleep. Wile you are seein the fli as
plane as you ever see anything, all at
once it aint there. Then the tode he
looks up at you sollom, out of his eyes,
like he said wat’s become of that fli? but
you kno he et it.
An Astonished Heathen. —The
Virginia City Enterprise. (Nevada)
says, that recently in that city, while
a high gale was blowing, a curious acci
dent occured on Union steet. A nobbv
looking Chinaman was walking behind
a young lady dressed in the extreme
agony of fashion, when a sudden gust
of wind blew the Celestial's tail forward
and wrapped it around the lady’s neck.
Being frightened, she grabbed the end of
the queue to snatch it away but she pul
led in the wrong direction, The China
man also made a grab to recover his
property, but he also was out of luck,
as he got hold of one of those long curls
which are usually seen hanging down
from waterfalls, as well as of his queue,
and when he took a pull at it the whole
of the lady’s top hair, hat and all, came
off. The lad’s head had no hair on it,
only a little that was gathered into a
small knot that stood erect, like the scalp
lock of a Piute brave. If ever you saw
a Chinaman astonished at what he had
done, it was that one.
The Khedive of Egypt gives Gen.
Sherman’s daughter. Mrs Fitch, a neck
lace and eardrops valued at $300,000.
CRAWFORD, GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 11, 1875.
rUNNTISMS.
Her hand was first to reach and drag
The bottle from the shelf—
“lt is your curse, dear John,” she said,
And drank it up herself.
Many men are worth nothing and
some are worth-less.
Chedell announces that he will
give a chromo to the young lady who
will take him for better or worse.
A dog with two tails were seen in
Athens the other day. One belonged to
an ox, and was carried in the mouth of
the canine.
A father in Dubuque makes his
children address him as follows : “ Most
respected and revered father, I’ll take
another later.”
'Excited Dutchman —“ If mine
vile runs away mit another man’s vife, I
shake him out of his breeches if she be
mine fadder, Got.”
A young man, on taking up the
daily paper, turned to the column of
births and said, “ I wonder if anybody is
born that I know ?”
-c-c-can t-that p-p-p-p-parrot
talk?” asked a stuttering man of a Ger
man. “Veil he don’t talk so gooter as
you, I schop, by tarn, his head off.”
Sohevenell, in Athens, was star
tled recently by a Bairdstown chap, who
wanted to know if he could have his
“entrails” engraved on his watch case.
The very last curiosity spoken of
in the papers is a wheel that came off a
dog’s tail when it was a waggin’. The
man who discovered it has retired from
public life.
There was a room with eight cor
ners. In each corner there sat a cat;
before each cat sat seven other cats, and
on each cat’s tail sat a cat. How many
cats in all ?
There’s where a man has the ad
vantage. He can undress in a cold
room and have his bed warm before a
woman has got her hairpins out and her
shoes untied.
A newspaper imp is responsible
for the cure of bed bugs with salt water.
The water makes the bugs dry, and while
they are gone after a drink move your
bed into another room.
“Jury,” said a Western jndge,
“you kin go out an’ find a verdict; if
you can’t find one of your own git the
one the last jury used.” The jury re
turned a verdict of suicide in the ninth
degree.
A wicked boy upon whose shoul
ders his mother was expressing her resent
ment with both slippers, felt too proud
to cry and kept up his courage by repeat
ing to himself: “Two soles that beat
as one.”
A writer on physiognomy sagely
says: “A human face without a nose
doesn’t amount to much.” Whereupon
another writer observes that “ a human
nose without a face doesn’t amount to
much either.”
“Well Pat, which is the way to
Burlington ?” “How did you know my
name was Pat?” “Oh, I guessed at it.”
“Thin be the holy pokers, as ye are so
good at guessing, ye’d better guess the
way to Burlington.”
An Irish damsel lost an umbrella
and advertised for its return in this style:
“If the gentleman who the shoe
store with a red head, will return the
umbrella to the young lady with the
ivory handle, he will hear something to
her advantage.”
A postmaster in Maine received a
letter the other day directed as follows:
Wood,
John,
Mass.
After puzzling over it for some time he
made is out as follows: “ John Under
wood, Andover, Mass.”
Red Martin, on being solicited to
contribute to help clear the debt on the
Academy, promptly subscribed his name
to the paper in the following manner :
“R. S. Martin, (the only place in town
where you can get nine pounds of Extra
C sugar for a dollar,) twenty cents.
A sermon izer made these rem arks
on the following soul-sacing question
“My brethren, a man cannot afl’ord to.
lose his soul. He’s got but one, and he
can't get another. If- a man loses his
horse he can get another; if he loses his
wife he can get another ; if he loses his
child he can get another; but if he loses
his soul—good-bye, John !”
As my wife, at the window one
beautiful day, stood watching a man
with a monkey, a cart came along with
a broth of a boy, who was driving a stout
little donkey. To my wife then I spoke,
by the way of a joke, “There’s a rela
tion of yours in that carriage.” To which
she replied, when the donkey she spied,
“ Ah, yes ! a relation by marriage.”
“ WANDERER,”
Still Out of Doors Somewhere, {
Feb. 1, 1875. j
Editor Ojlethorpe Echo:
Since I wrote last, I’ve not rambled
much, but came through and seen a
great deal; met many kind friends, nice
widows and old gals.
I left off at Chandler’s store, and so
will start this from there. I staid around
that place a few days, and, for the want
of better business, assisted the blind
man, W. Dixon, with his show for two
nights, the second one at Chandler’s
store. AY e had a very fair attendance,
considering the cold. We went from my
place ot stay, as I said, like cattle going
to their range, but were worse scattered
in returning. I was left to wind my
way back (at least a part of it) alone.
Thanks to my friend from Pleasant
Hill for setting me right in my descrip
tion of his place. I did not intend to
leave out any one, or make a wrong im
pression as to the widows, etc. Let me
say I missed my aim then. I stand inno
cent and harmless on that, Mr. Editor.
Your correspondents gaveme some hard
licks, some of them true as preaching.
“Falling Creek” gives me “down the
river” about being in the way of the
young men, hanging that boquet in a
haw bush, etc. Look out, young men,
for when the old gals get over say 2
o’clock p. m. I’m on hand, sure. “ Poti
pher ” I see, is dead—peace to his ashes.
“Pot” lived and died under a mistake
as to my having courted every widow and
old gal in the county. You know, Mr.
Editor, that I would have to go under
whip and lash all the time to accomplish
that feat, and not have an hour’s time to
sell my books.
I met one hard case some time since.
What do you think of a people who
would read your paper and mv books
and then say they can’t pay for them,
when they had money close at hand ?
Echo answers, “ Bad !”
I am now somewhere blockaded on
account of the dreadful epidemic now
raging in our county, as well as Clark,
in which localities I have delivered no
books for some time past, and perhaps
never can.
Mr. Editor, isn’t it hard on me to
work, talk, read and beg, as I’ve had to
do, and then run the risk of losing all ?
Echo would say “ Yes!”
I have not been iu the infected settle
ment, nor will I expose myself, though
I’m not afraid, as I had varioloid two
years ago. I could go in among them
and help nurse, but as I am a little turn
ed over in life, I’ve concluded to let oth
ers older than myself and of more expe
rience do the nursing.
As the day has come when, light,
trashy publications, such as write, should
cease, I’ll stop and leave space for better
matter. I shall, perhaps, at some future
period write again, as wanderers never
tire, nor can -‘Pot,” “Falling Creek,”
nor any others whip me out or run me
off the track.
I close by sending my kindest regards
to the widows and old gals and bidding
them a long farewell. Wanderer.
P. S. —I delivered “ Cross and Crown”
to one sorter old gal. She .said she had
no time to read except Sundays, and
then an old batchelor, near by always
came in to see her, and was a great bore.
She lives not far from Salem Church, on
the road. W.
A Hindoo Clock.— A strange clock
is said to have once belonged to a Hin
doo Prince. In front of the clock’s disk
was a gong swung upon poles, near it
was a pile of artificial human limbs. The
pile was made up of the same number of
parts necessary to constitute twelve per
fect bodies ; but all lay heaped together
in apparent confusion. When the hands
of the clock indicate the hour of oue,
out from the pile crawled just the number
of parts needed to form the frame of
one man, part coming to part with a quick
click, and when completed the figure
sprang up,seized a mallet,and walking up
to the gong, struck one blow. This done,
he returned to the pile aud fell to pieces
again. When two o’clock came, two
men arose and did likewise; and at the
hour of noon and midnight the entire
heap sprang up, and, marching to the
geng.struck, one after the other, his blow,
making twelve iu all ;then returning, fell
to pieces as before.
A package was received at the Dead
Letter office last week containing half
a dozen snakes, two dead and the remain
der alive. One is a copperhead, five
feet long. The reptiles were in a tin
box, addressed to Germany, but had been
stopped at New York on account of in
sufficient postage.
A Minnesota man makes the winter
seems short by giving his note payable
in the spring.
THE JOSH BILLINGS--PAPERS.
Short Sayings.
The two best blessings of life are the
two that are the most neglected, youth
and health.
Life iz short, but ifitwaz shorter it
would be better for menny people.
Don’t cry for spilt milk, young man,
ffut pik up yure pail and milking stool
and go for the next cow.
Edukasliun haz the same effekt upon
talent that poleing haz upon a hill of a
lima beans; it sets it to klimbing.
There is no slavery so terrible as to
gro old and be kontinually lamenting
about it.
A gay oid bachelor is ever a pleazant
sight to me. He cheers me up like a
sheltered sunflower learning over a gar
den wall after winter has fairly sot in.
The man who is willing to liv liiz life
over agin haz probably got more konfi
dense in himself than hiz naborshav.
Thoze folks who are alwuss praying
for long life, are generally the ones that
the world kan spar the best.
We are all of us apt to think that we
are absolutely necessary in this life, but
if we should cum back after an abscence
ov two years, the world would probably
be more surprized than delighted to see
us.
The best way to subdew our pashuns
is to gratify them honesty.
Ekonomikal wives make fond and in
dulgent husband.
Don’t never trust a man at the rate ov
fifty cents on a dollar. If you kant con
fide in him at par let him slide.
Thare iz lots ov things in this world
that I wouldn’t kno if I could.
Cupid iz the God of luv, and cupidity
iz often its ruling pashun.
The devil was the father of lies but he
neglekted to take out a pattent, and
thousands hav taken advantage of his
invenshun.
Nobody iz fit for solitude who iz fit for
enny thing else.
Don’t never try to refute lies ; lies are
like hous flys, they will all die off when
their times cuins, and yu kant kill them
off before, try az hard az yu will.
Sum people are so ill-natured that they
kant do a kind akt without spilling it;
I hav seen kows giv a nice mess ov
milk and then kik it over.
Well bred persons are thoze who are
eazy themselves and make everyboddy
else feel eazy.
Just in rasho that a man makes a good
husband he makes a good citizen, and
he who ain’t worthy ova w r ife ain’t wor
thy ov ennything.
It iz hard work to find a lie that iz ten
years old.
Wives in olden times were the grate
necessitys ov life, but in theze days they
are the great luxury.
Stubborness lias ruined az menny peo
ple az extravagence haz.
Did you ever see an old bachelor who
wasn’t a self-conceited critter ?
Mi advice to all iz to marry yung and
gro old together.
If a man haz got real merit modesty
bekums him the best, if he haz no merit
itseems to be almost necessary that he
should be impudent.
It seems to me that the plan ov modern
edukashun iz to make the young learn
more and kno less.
Misers cheat themselfs and never seem
to diskover the fraud.
Nobility don’t cum bi birth enny more
than puty duz.
Knolledge iz very glib at making
truisms, but experience iz the author ov
all the lasting precepts.
Novelty aud truth combined iz the
grate art cv amneing and instrukting the
world.
All evils are easily managed if they
"are nipt in the bud; if you giv Kanada
thissels or blackberry bushes a three
years lease, they will chase enny man
off from a good farm.
It iz a kurious fakt that the more a
man haz to do the less time he kant do
it in.
Old age may hav no plezzures ov its
own, but it haz the satisfackshun ov
knowing that most of the delights of
youth are a fraud.
The excentricities of grate men hav
more immitators than their virtews h?v.
The poorest kompliment you kan pay
enny man iz to immitate his oddities.
If you want to find out a man’s true
karacter, watch him when he froliks.
The chief end of men’s lifes is to earn
three meals a day, and eat them.
The happiest people I hav ever known
in the world, hav been the biggest phools.
Governor Peck, of Vermont, is a
bachelor. Marrying would make half a
bushel of him.
Why do honest ducks dip their
i heads under the water? To liquidate
their little bills.
VOL I—NO. 19.
Alfonso and Gibraltar.
The young king of Spain proposes to
celebrate his reign by the recovery of
Gibraltar, but, as England will have
something to say in the matter, Alfonso
might as well try his hand on the Cuban
difficulty and the Yirginius muddle be
fore undertaking so extensive a job as
the recovery bv navigation of the key to
the Mediterranean. Alfonso’s domain
is connected with the famous stronghold
by a low, sandy isthm is, across which
two parallel rows of sentry-boxes mark
the Spanish and English lines. Between
these lines is space called the “neutral
ground,” on which neither power dare
set its foot. Some of the most interest
ing memories of Spain cduster about
this celebrated rock, but in 1704
it was captured from the Spaniards by a
combined English and Dutch fleet under
Sir George Hooke and the Prince of
Hesse-Darmstadt, and held till 1713,
when it was confirmed to Great Britain
by the treaty of Utrecht. In 1727 the
Spaniards attacked it with a large force,
but during the siege a treaty ot peace
was made, and England retained her
possession. From 1779 to 1783 it sus
tained, from the combined land and
naval forces of France and Spain, its
most memorable siege. At oue time
one thousand pieces of artillery were
turned upon the fortress, while forty
seven ships of the line and inumerable
smaller vessels menaced it by sea, and
an army of forty-seven thousand men
conducted the operations on land. With
these preparations one of the most won
derful cannonadings known in history
was carried on for nearly a whole day,
but the allied batteries were set on fire
by the hotshot from the fortress, and
about four hundred of their crews, who
escaped from the flames, explosions
and drownings, were saved by the exer
tions of the British forces. In 1868 a
proposal to surrender Gibraltar to Spain
was agitated in England, but it met with
no public favor, and there seems to b
no reason for expecting a more favorable
consideration for such a propositkn
now. Neither by force nor diplomacy
has Spain been able to regain the strong
hold she wrested from the Moors, and
the last Alfonso who undertook the task
of again bringing it under the dominion
of Spain died before it of the plague.—
Courier-Journal.
Mince Pies.
We append tried recipes for the mak
ing of good and rich mince-pies.
BEST MINCE MEAT ( ENGLISH RECIPE ).
Take four large lemons, with their
weight in golden pippins peeled and
cored, in the inside of a roast sirloin of
beef finely minced, in clear, sifted kid
ney suet, in Masticated raisins stoned and
chopped, in dried currants cleaned with
flour, in candied citron and orange peel
and rolled sugar. Boil the lemons ten
der ( putting them into boiling water),
extract all the pips, chop them small,
and add the other ingredients carefully
prepared; when will mixed add two
nutmegs, or one, and some pounded
mace, half a pint of Maderia, half a pint
of best brandy, and tea-cup of golden
syrup. Salt and other spices may be ad
ded to taste.
This recipe is a family one, with the
exception of the syrup ; in the original
more sugar is used instead, but the syrup
so much improves the flavor that it is
worth adding.
GOOD MINCE-MEAT ( ENGLISH RECIPE)
One unsalted ox tongue, boiled tender
and cut free from rind one pound of
kidney beef suet chopped fine, two
pounds of stoned raisins, three pounds
of well-cleaned currants, three pounds of
Spitzenberg apples peeled and chopped,
two and a half ounces of coffee sugar,
half a pound of mixed candied peel,
the grated rind of two large lemons, two
others boiled tender and chopped small,
two nutmegs, a dessert-spoonful of mace,
one also of ginger, a teaspoonful of cloves,
a pint of fine Muscat wine, half a pint
of best brandy, salt.
Civil Rights in Virginia. —About
a week ago a negro man, named Ben
Booker, eloped near Paynesville, in Ame
lia county, Va., with a white girl named
Mary C. Davis, aged fifteen years. Ef
| forts had been made to trace their where
| abouts, aud they were finally found in
j Cumberland, some fifteen miles from
j Farmville. They were brought to Farm
| ville Thursday by Officer Blanton. They
! claimed to be husband and wife, but the
I hard-hearted officer relused to see it in
; that light, and the modern Othello was
j sent on to Amelia county to answer fo?
! his crime, and the weeping Desdemona
i was left in Farmville to await the coming
| of her father.
i c 1 "
You can always find a sheet of wafer
on the bed of the oeean.