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BY T. L. GANTT. OGLETHORPE ECHO PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY MORNING, HY r l\ 1.. GANTT, Editor and Proprietor. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Where paid gtrirtly in nr? fci** f)(> Where payment delayed 6 months 2 50 Where payment delayed 12 months... it 00 CLUB RATES. Club of 5 or less than 10, per copy 1 75 Club of 10 or more, per copy 1 50 CASH RATES OF ADVERTISING. The following table shows our lowest cash rates for advertising. No deviation will be made from them in any case. Parties can readily tell what their advertisement will cost them before it is inserted. We count our space by the inch. 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Sheriff Sales, per levy, 10 lines $5 00 Executors’, Aumini4trators’ and (Guardi an’s Sales, per square 7 00 Each additional square 5 00 Notiee 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 Rule Nisi’s per square, each insertion... 1 00 GEORGIA 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. 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 IF YOU Want a Situation— Want a Salesman— Want to buy a Horse— Waut to rent a Store— Want to sell a Piano— Want to lend Money— Want a Servant Girl — Want to sell a Horse— Want to buy a House—■ Want to rent a House—- Want a job of Painting- Want to sell Groceries— Want to sell Furniture— Want to sell Hardware— Want to sell Dry Goods— Want to sell Real Estate- Want a job of Carpentering— Want to sell Millinery Goods— Want to sell a House and Lot— Want to find any one’s Address— Want to sell a piece of Furniture— Want to buy a second-hand Carriage— Want to find any thing you have lost— Want to sell Agricultural Implements— Want to Advertise anything to advantage— Want to find an owner to anything found— Advertise in THE OGLETHORPE ECHO. 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.