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BY T. L. GANTT. OGLETHORPE ECHO PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY MORNING, 13 Y T. L. GANTT, Editor and Proprietor. — TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Where paid strictly in advance £2 OO Where payment delayed 6 months 2 50 Where payment delayed 12 months... 5 OO CLUB RATES. Clnb of 5 or less than 10, per copy 1 75 Club of 10 or more, per copy 1 50 GASH 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, tw r levy, 10 lines $5 00 Executors’, Admini4trators’ and Guardi an’s Rales, jx r square 7 00 Eacli additional square. 5 00 Notice to Debtors and Creditors, 30days, 4 Oil Notice of Leave to sell, 30 days 3 00 Letters of Administration, 30 days 4 00 Letters of Dismission, 3 months 5 00 Jitters 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 8:43 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 IF YOU Want a Situation— Want a Salesman— Want to buy a Horse— Want to rent a Store — Want to .sell a i’i ino— Waat to lend Money— Warn a Servant Girl — Want to sell a Horse— Want to buy a House— Want to rent a House— Want a job of Painting— Want t sell Groceries— Want tv 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 nud 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 any tiling to advantage— Want to find an owner to anything found— A-fv*H4i* THE OGLETHORPE ECHO. ®!)c €)olctijorj €cli®. John Smith. I “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