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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 8:43 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.
Leave Atlanta at 7:00 a. m.
Arrive at Union Point 11:32 a. in.
Leave Union Point 11:33 a. m.
Arrive at Augusta 3:30 p. m.
UP NIGHT PASSENGER TRAIN.
Leave Augusta at 8:15 p. m.
Arrive at Atlanta 6:25 a. m.
Remains one minute at Union Point.
ATHENS BRANCH TRAWL
DAY TRAIN.
I Time
Stations. Arrive. Depart, bet.
I sta’s.
A. M. I
Athens 845 I 25
Wintersville 9 10 9 15 30
Crawford 9 45 9 50 25
Antioch 10 15 10 18 15
Mnxey’s 10 33 10 35 15
Woodville 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
Wintersville 3 05 3 10 25
Athens 3 35
NIGHT TRAIN — Dawn.
Athens a. m. 10 00 25
Wintersville 10 25 10 30 30
Crawford 11 00 11 05 25
Antioch 11 30 11 32 15
Maxey’e 11 47 11 49 15
Woodville 12 04 12 10 25
Union Point 12 35 a. m.
Up Night Train.
Union Point I I 355 I 25
Woodville | 420 | 424 | 15
Maxey’s I 439 j 441 j 15
Antioeh j 456 j 458 | 25
Crawford j 523 j 527 j 30
Wintersville 5 s'! 602 j 28
Athens | 630 | j
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A-fv*H4i* THE OGLETHORPE ECHO.
®!)c €)olctijorj €cli®.
John Smith.
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“John Anderson, my Jo John, ye were my
first acquaint,”
j But as for being the only John, I tell you,
sir, you ain’t!
There’s that precious little John who sat for
ever in a corner,
Whose mother was a mystery, whose mother
was a Horner.
And there’s the John that built the house to
hold the famous sack,
! And that hero of our childish days, the giant
killer Jack,
And the old John Lackland, he who signed
the blessed Magna Charta,
And Juek, who seeing Jill fall down, descen
sut, followed arter.
And good Prince John, the gentle one, and
the stern, unflinching Knox,
John Doe whose fights with mythic Dick fill
England’s jury box.
And he that in poetic mood (one Milton) did
attain
Great fame for losing Paradise and getting it
again!
But all the Johns since days of Noah, the
world has ever known,
For infinite variety John Smith must stand
alone.
For lie is tall, and he is short, and he is black
and white,
And iie is now th first to run, and now the
first to tight.
And he’s a learned sage, and a simple rustic
clown;
And you may Cud him any day in any street
in town—
H:swiv- s are legion, and his creeds so numer
ous have become,
You’!', find his name in every church as one
to lean upon.
For heresies they also sav his match was
never known,
And Mrs. Smith, in simple fate, says she’s the
only one!
Yet all these contradictions, as dark as they
appear,
Should you know this hydra-headed man,
would be as daylight clear.
Sniffles’ Spree.
Sniffles brought his two weeks spree
to a close on Thursday night. He lay
on a lounge in the parlor, feeling as
mean as sour lager, when something in
the corner of the room attracted his at
tention. Raising on his elbow, he gazed
steadily at it. Rubbing his eyes, he
stared again, and, as he staried again,
his terror grew. Calling his wife, he
asked hoarsely:
“Mirandy, what is that?”
“What is what, Likey ?”
Sniffles’ name is Licurgus, and his
wife calls him Likey for short and sweet.
“Why, that—that—thing in the cor
ner,” said the frightened man, pointing
at it with a hand that shoook like a po
litician.
“Likey, dear, I see nothing,” replied
the woman.
“What ! you don’t see it! he shrieked,
“ Then I’ve got ’em. Oh, heavens!
Bring me the Bible. Mirandv, bring it
quick ! Here—here, on this sacred book
I swear p.ever to touch a drop of whiskey.
If I break my vow may my right hand
cleave to the roof of my mouth, and—”
Here, catching another glimpse of the
terrible object, he clutched his wife and
begged in piteous tones:
“Don’t leave me—don’t leave your
Likey,” and burying his face in the folds
of her dress, he sobbed and moaned
himself into a troubled sleep.
Then his wife stole gently to the cor
ner, picked up the toy snake, and threw
it into the stove.— The New Brunswicker .
Propelsion by Electricity.—A
young San Francisco mechanic thinks he
has invented a method by which railroad
trains can be hearafter run by electricity.
He has it all on paper, and is very confi
dent. The Bulletin thus describes his
peculiar notion: “The principle is the
construction of driving-wheels of enor
mous electro-magnets, which diverge
from the centre in the same form as the
spokes of an ordinary wheel, the poles of
each magnet terminating with the outer
circumference. The electric circuit is
complete as the magnet impinges upon
the steel rails of the track. As the poles
of each magnet forming the driving
wheel approach the track, and enormous
magnetic attraction is exerted, and as
they - css the centre or perpendicular
point ifthe magnet upon the track, the
current is cut off from each particular
magnet, and the attraction abated. By
the multiplication of driving-wheels of
this description, the inventor expects to
acquire any degree of power requisite,
and accomplish any rate of speed at
which a railroad car is capable of travel
ing, with no possible danger of the loco
motive leaving the track. In place
of the cumbersome steam-boiler and
tender, loaded with coal, the locomo
tive will carry a magnetic battery of
immense power.”
A Western man killed his family
doctor to save his sick wife. He was
tried, but the jury acquitted him and she
recovered.
CRAWFORD, GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 18 1875.
BEBOILED NEWS ITEMS.
The negroes near Nashville are
starving to death.
Wm. B. Astor, of New York, pays
$350,000 in taxes annually.
Atlanta has two widows, sisters,
aged respectively 13 and 15 years.
A bill has been introduced in
the Texas Legislature to legalize lynch
ing.
Eighty-one cannibals will shortly
be executed in San Domingo for man
eating.
A plate of iron has been found
imbedded in the masonry of the great
pyramids.
A gentleman killed a chicken the
other day, and on cleaning it, found two
pins projecting through the gizzard.
When a Florida Indian is likely
to die his friends place him where an
alligator cm take him in and thus save
burial exp -nses.
There is a well in Georgia that
has no botttom. It is believed that the
creek flows through it, and that the
creek has lost its bed.
Grant and Kalakaua has exchan
ged telegrams, calling each other “great”
and “good’’ men. Here’s hoping they
may know each other better.
A French scientist is of opinion
that birds had nothing to do with the
formation of guano beds, but that the
beds are composed of fossil remains.
Mrs. Sartoris is coming home,
and it hasn’t happened in the White
House since President Tyler’s time, and
they’re going to call it after it’s mater
nal grandpa if it’s a boy.
The citizens of Gettysburg are in
a starving condition. Most of them in
vested their money in material for mak
ing battle relics. Now the relics won’t
sell, and business is dead broke.
The merchants of Madrid have
given Alfonso anew crown studded with
ten thousand dollar diamonds. When
he is exiled next spring he will find it
very handy to pawn for Paris lodgings.
A negro woman near Greenville,
S. C., recently gave birth to triplets—the
first one white, the second mulatto and
the third black. Evidently a woman of
communistic proclivities, or she wouldn’t
be hoisting the tri color in this style.
Since the disappearance of Char
ley Ross, and the consequent agitation,
eleven boys have been recovered and
restored to their friends. Charley re
mains in obscurity, but his disappear
ance has been the means of bringing
light to many other households.
Five sets of natural teeth is a
large proportion for one person ; but it
is reported that a nun who has just died
in Paris at the age of ninety years, had
anew set grow in her jaws a few years
ago ; a previous new set at sixty three ;
also at forty seven, and these in addi
tion, of course, to the two earlier sets that
all have.
At a dancing party in Western
Kentucky, the other night, to which sev
eral women came with their babies,
some young men changed the clothes of
the infants while their parents were
(lancing, and mixed them up generally.
The following day there Mas a great
row, and as the families lived miles
apart, it took several days to unmix the
children.
Yankee papers now assert that
the White Leagu. rs of Louisiana have
been quietly cutting up a negro man and
flaying alive a negro woman after tor
turing her in various ways. They have
resorted to scalp taking also ; also cruci
fying negroes and inducing turkev-buz
zards to feed upon their vitals. This is
nothing. Why ye Editor here, in quiet
Georgia, had a Yankee carpet-bagger
on toast, for lunch, the other night.
A boy in a Connecticut school,
says the Danbury Nines, on being asfed
wbat were the productions of Georgia,
promptly responded: “Cotton, rice
and negro minstrels.” We think the
teacher should have continued the ex
amination of that boy, and interrogated
him as to the productions of his own
State (Connecticut), when he might
have answered, with equal alacrity:
“ Liars, swindlers, thieves, wooden nut
megs and clay hams.”
A musical goat is the latest dis
covery in New Mexico. He is found in
in the deep canyons of the Rocky Moun
tains. He sings at sunrise and just after
dark. Mr. Brownley, who found him,
caught a couple of kids, which he brought
away. They make the mornings vocal
with their wild dirges. They do not
sing any particular songs—vet their mel
ody is pleasing and peculiarly plaintive.
In April, when the buds start, their eyes
melt and they become so melancholy,
that one can scarcely listen to them
without weeping
FUNNYISMS.
Four doctors ti kle Johnny Smith.
They blistered and they bled him;
V. •: l.< and anti-billious pills
And ipecac they fed him.
They stirred him up with calomel,
And tried to move his liver.
But all in vain ; his little soul
Was wafted o’er the river.
key is used for paper weights.
A girl baby in Moore county,
Tenn., has two tongues; but we don’t
know' that that’s any Dews.
Frank Newby, of Ohio, who elo
ped with his mother-in-law, leaving a
wife and two children, is the latest in
stance of con-new r by-a,l infidelity.
A colored “gemmen” in Newnan
wishing a bottle of Hall’s Hair Renew
er asked for Hall’s Hair Manure. He
was furnished with the needed capillary
fertilizer.
A Missouri woman, who applied
for a situation as a car driver, being ask
ed if she could manage mules, scornfully
replied, “ Of course I can, I’ve had two
husbands.”
Thus spoke Murphy’s sweetheart
to him the other night: “If you intend
to hug me, don’t do it suddenly, because
the chair you are sitting on has a broken
leg, and you might get a tumble.”
All the axes and buck-saws found
in the ruins of Pompeii are of lightmake,
as if constructed for women’s use. Those
old ancients knew their little business.
A Paris merchant who refused
to advertise w r as challenged by an editor
and shot. The man who says anything
against advertising deserves to be shot
on the spot.
An elephant is 1,227,386 times
larger than a flea, but yet there are wo
man who growl at paying two shillings
to visit a menagerie and will turn a fea
ther bed over for half a day to hunt a
flea.
pepper on the stove please come up here
and get a present of a nice book ?” said
a Sunday school superintendent in loWa.
But the boy never moved. He was a
far-seeing boy.
An exchange gives this eulogy
pronounced over the coffin of a deceased
Tennesseean : “ Thar lays a man who’d
give his last chaw of tobaeker to a star
vin’ stranger, and then pay him for spit
tin’.” A great and good man, cer
tainly.
A young woman in Detroit, char
ged with assault and battery, upon be
ing asked her occupation, said she ivas
an artist. The evidence conclusively
proved that she had been painting a
man’s eye, using a soda water bottle for
a brush.
A lady went out with her little
girl and boy, purchased the latter a rub
ber balloon, which escaped him and
went up in the air. The girl seeing tears
in his eyes, said : Never mind, Neddy;
when you die and go to heaven you’ll
dit it.”
A very hospitable lady of Athens
gave a party for her friends among the
young misses and masters the other even
ing. Round dances were proposed, when
the lady said : “ I cannot allow you to
have any round dances. If any of the
boys wish to hug the girls, let them sit
down upon the sofas and go at it in ear
nest ; but—no round dances, mind you!”
A Georgetown man unconscious
ly got himself into trouble the other
day. The wife asked him where he was
going as she observed him putting on
his overcoat. “I am going to sally forth,”
he replied. “Let me catch you going
with any Sally Forth, and there will be
a first-class opportunity for your fire
company to throw themselves on a set of
obituary resolutions.
A young fellow of Richmond who
has few' nights in which to do his court
ing, the other day asked his sweetheart
if she received company on Saturday
nights. “No,” said she, “that’s tub and
gourd night.” The fellow has quite a
thick skull, and it was not until after
about a week that the joke penetrated
his brain ; then he became aware that she
meant she dared herstockings and wash
ed her feet, etc., that night.
Among the witnesses before the
Alabama Outrage Committee w’as a
likely looking negro, who testified to in
timidation, shot-guns, bowie knives, etc.
The Chairman, Coburn, rather cultiva
ted this witness and elicited by leading
questions many bloody items. When
Coburn had finished, Luttrel ( Demo
crat) asked the witness : “How old are
you ?” ‘ ‘Reckon I’se ’bout twenty, boss,”
said the witness. “How long have you
been voting?” said Luttrel. “Ever
since Grant was first elected,” was
the reply. And yet there had been in
stmi'daUrtfn f
A STRANGE STJRY.
How a Confederate Soldier from Tennessee
Became Very Biot—His Removal to Cali
fornia with Nemesis After Him.
When the Confederate army, under
Gen. Lee, was forced back from the
trenches at Petersburg by the Federal
army, President Davis hurriedly order
ed about $15,000,000, the property of the
banks of Virginia and of the Confeder
ate States, to be placed on trains at
Richmond and sent South, intending to
convey it to the Trans-Mississippi De
partment, if possible, there to make a
final stand. The treasure was carried
down to Charlotte, North Carolina,
where the railroad ended. At this place
it was decided to leave the money be
longing to Bank of Virginia in keeping
of their officers. The rest of the money
belonging to the Confederate States was
placed in wagons and retre ;t continued.
The brigades of Generals Basil Duke
and Vaughan, who had succeeded in es
caping from East Tennesse and had ar
rived at Charlotte a few days before,
were placed under the orders of Gen.
John C ( Breckinridge, to act as an es
cort to the treasure, and the command
proceeded south until Greensboro’,
Greene county, Georgia, was reach
ed. At this point inbormation was re
ceived that the Federal Wilson had cap
tured Macon, a few miles distant, and in
the line of retreat to the Trans-Missis
sippi department. The news soon got
among the men. They became demor
alized, and a rush was made for the wag
ons containing the treasure. It was
speedily divided among them, the offi
cers being unable to restrain the men.
Among the lucky ones were too sol
diers belonging to Company B, Third
Tennessee Mounted Infantry, of
Vaughan’s brigade, from Monroe county,
Tennessee. One of them was named
Albert Stevens, and the other we will call
J. T. Jonas. They had charge of a wagon
containing one hundred and fifty thou
sand dollars in gold; and when the panic
spread among the soldiers and the cry
was “ sauve quipeut ” they retained their
presence of mind and drove on in the
woods, where they divided the money,
making some $75,000 apiece, and separ
ated, Stevens taking his to his home in
Tennessee, where he buried it, confiding
its hiding place to his mother, a very old
lady.
Finding that it would be dangerous
for him to remain in Tennessee, owing
to the unsettled condition of things there,
the people being equably divided on the
question of the war, he went to Georgia,
where he found Jones, who had bought
a small place and was quietly waiting
until it would be safe for him to return
home. Stevens stayed a while with
Jones, and then went to another part of
Georgia to visit some relatives. Before
going, however, he informed Jones about
the hiding of his money, and his moth
er’s knowledge of its whereabouts.
As soon as Stevens was gone, Jones
mounted his horse and made a bee line
for Tennessee, to the place where Ste
vens livt and. Arriving there, he present
ed his comrade’s mother w r ith a forged
letter, purporting to come from her son.
directing her to deliver the money to
Jones, which the old lady did. Jones
then started for California. Arriving
here he purchased a large tract of land
in Mendocino county, being very low at
that time, and has since amassed a large
fortune in addition to his ill-gotten gains,
and is now highly respected and a mem
ber of the church.
In the course of time, Stevens, having
ascertained that it would be safe, started
for home, possibly dreaming of a future
life and comfort on some bluegrass farm
—raising fat cattle and blooded horses —
being your average Kentuckian’s or
Tennesseean’s idea of an earthly para
dise. On reaching home he soon found
out his loss. Buckling on his revolver
he scoured the entire South and West
in search of his faithless friend, vowing
to shoot him on sight, and only recently
ascertained his whereabouts. He is now
in correspondence with a prominent law
yer ofthis city, and an attempt will short
ly be made to bring Mr. Jones to account
through the courts.
Vasquez, the noted bandit of Cal
ifornia, has been convicted of thirty-sev
en separate and distinct murders. We
always said that when a man goes into
any kind of business he ought to do his
best to make a success of it.
lars to repair the breaks in the banks of
the Mississippi. Whiskey and water
will be the ruin of the South yet.
Japan is going to keep pace with
ns. She has had her first boiler explo
sion. One hundred people participated
is tbe exercises.
VOL. I—NO. 20.
Tue oirangest of Duels.
Perhaps the most remarkable duel
ever fought took place in 1803. It was
peculiarly French in its tone, and cou'd
hardly have occured under any other
than a French state of society. M. lo
Grandpre and M. le Pique had a quarrel,
arising out of jealousy concerning a lady.
They agreed to fight a duel to settle their
respective claims ; and in order that the
heat of angry passion should not inter
j iere with the polished elegance of the
! proceeding, they postponed the duel for
a month, the lady agreeing to bestow her
I hand on the survivor of the two, if the
other was killed ; at all events, this was
inferred by the two men, if not actually
expressed. The duellists were to fight
iu the air. Two balloons were constuet
ed exactly, alike. On the day denoted
Le Grandpre and his second entered the
car of one balloon. Le Pique and his
second that of the other ; it was in the
garden of the Tulleries, amid an im
mense crowd of spectators. The gentle
men were to fire, not at each other, but
each other’s balloon, in order to bring
them down by the escape of gas; and, as
pistols might hardly have served this
purpose, each aeronaut took a blunder
buss in his car. At the given signal
the ropes that retained the cara
were cut, and the balloons ascended.
The wind was moderate, and kept the
balloons at about their original distance
of 80 yards apart. When half a mile
above the surface of the earth, a precon
certed signal for firing was given. M.
le Pique fired, but missed. M. le Grand
pre fired, and sent a ball through Le
Pique’s balloon. The balloon collapsed,
the car descended with frightful rapidity,
and Le Pique and his second were dashed
to pieces. Le Grandpre continued his
assent triumphantly, and terminated hit
serial voyage seccessfully.
Extracting Teeth. —A hired girl
should be ingenious. One of them, in
the employ of a West street family, haa
discovered a unique way of extracting
teeth. She suffered nearly all of last
week with an aching tooth, but did not
have the courage to go to a dentist.
Friday alternoon it troubled her so
much, as to force her to look about for
a remedy, and she finally hit upon a
plan. With a piece of stout twine she
made a loop which she put about her
tooth. Then she took a bit of soap and
rubbed it on the floor opposite the back
door. The other endjof the twine she
fastened to the knob of the closed door.
Then she took a position on the soaped
boards, so as make the twine nearly
taut, and commenced to lean back.
When she had acquired a figure of about
forty-five degrees, the soap suddenly
took hold, and she came down on the
floor with such force as to knock a pair
of ten dollar vases from a mantel up
stairs. And there she sat reaching out
for breath, when the affrighted family
made their appearance, while the of
fending tooth dangled from a string
against the door. She suffers no more
from the teethache, but it will be some
time before she can wear a bustle.
India rubber sidewalks are coming
into fashion out West. For small towns
they are admirable—combining econo
my with durability. The first experi
ment was made inDallville, lowa, where
three hundred yards were put down on
one of the principal streets. All the
boys in the place ran over it, but there
was no noise. A leading merchant stop
ped in front of his house ; then jumped
on his heels. The elastic forces hidden
in the rubber threw him over the gate to
the roof of the piazza. But after a few
trials he was able to alight on the step*
with the graceful occuracy of a flying
squirrel. The chief drawback to the
walk is its odorous familiary in hot
weather, but it can be neutralized by a
weekly wash of borax and coal tar. It*
principal advantage is that it can be
stretched. As the town grows, it is pull
ed out towards the suburbs. Two yoke
of cattle can lengthen it three miles a day.
The fjssil hunters dug a sewing ma
chine out of the excavations in Rome,
the other day. Compared with those
of the present day, it was a rude affair—
yet it worked very well. An American
; who was present got permission to take
| it home and clean it up. With a file and
j some sweet oil he soon put it in running
order; and he made a pair of overall* on
it in about twenty minutes. The inscrip
tions were nearly obliterated, but enough
remained to show that the machine was
made during the reign of Tiberius by a.
slave belonging to one Caius Lucius.
According to the new census, elevem
millions of women in the United States
wear calico dresses, but only twenty
tfctfcstfiid 3£ them can play a Jewahaypi