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BY T. L. GANTT. OGLETHORPE ECHO PUBLISH KD EVERY FRIDAY MORNING, U V i\ L. GANTT, Editor and Proprietor. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Where paid strictly in advance ...&IS OO Where payment delayed 6 months 2 50 Where payment delayed 12 months... 3 OO 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 tablfc shows our lowest cash Tates 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 lew. 10 l : ncs $5 00 Executors’, Ad.i)'hi4oftto s’ and Cmedi an’s Sales, per sqea e... 7 00 ’Each additional square 5 00 Nolice to Debtors and Creditors, 30 days. 4 00 Notice of Leave to seU; 30 days 3 00 Letters of Administration. 30 days 4 00 Letters of Dismission. 3 months 5 00 Letters of Guardianship. 30 davs 4 o<> .Letters of Pis. Guard's’nship. 40 days.... 3 75 Homestead Notices, 2 inseviions 2 00 link N isi’s per square, each insertion... 1 00 OEORGIA RAILROAD SCHEDULE The following is the schedule on the Geor gia Railroad, with time of arrival at aud de parture from every station on the Athens Branch: UP DAY PASSENGER TRAIN. Leave Augusta at 8:15 a. in. Arrive at Union Point 12:27 p. m. Leave Union Po'nt 12:52 p. m. -Arrive at Atlanta 5:4.5 p. m. DOWN DAY PASSENGER TRAIN. Leave Atlanta at .;. 7:00 a. m. Arrive at Union Po : nt 11:3*2 a. m. Leave Union Point J 033 a. m. Arrive at Augitsia 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 TRAIN. DAY TRAIN. Time Stations. Arrive. Depart, bet. sta’s. A. M. Athens 8 45 25 Wintersviile 9 10 9 15 30 'Crawford 9 45 9 50 25 Antioch 10 15 10 IS 15 Ma Key's 10 33 10 35 15 Woodville 10 50 10 55 20 Union Point 11 15 UP TRAIN. Union Point...P. M. I 00 20 Woodville 1 20 1 25 15 Maxey’s 1 40 1 45 15 Antioch 2 00 2 05 25 Crawford .;.... 2 30 2 35 30 Wintersviile 3 05 3 10 25 Athen5......... 3 35 NIGHT TRAIN— Down. -Athens a. lit. 10 00 25 \Vintersville 10 25 10 30 30 Crawford 11 00 11 05 25 Antioch 11 30 11 32 15 Maxey’s . 11 47 11 49 15 Woodville 12 04 12 10 -25 Union P0int......... 12 35 j a. in. Up -YO/A/ Train. Unioh Point3 55 & Woodville 4 20 4 24 15 Maxey’s 4 39 4 41 15 Antioch 4 50 4 58 25 Crawford 5 23 5 27 30 Wintersviile 5 57 6 02 28 Athens 6 30 IF YOU 'Want a Situation- Want a Salesman- Want to buy a Horse — Want to rent a Store — Want to sell a Piano— \Vant 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 pieee of Furniture— W'ant to buy a second-hand Carriage— W’ant 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— Ad*%rfsein THE OGLETHORPE ECHO. #|jletl)otf>e €cl) o, IN STORE! 50,000 Bacon Sides. 25 bbls. Best O. K. Lard. 5 rar-loads Corn. 100 bbls. Sugars. 50 sacks Coffee. And numerous other goods in our line, just received aud for sale at prices that defy com petition. TfILMADGE, HODGSON 4 C 0„ feblß-4t College Aveu ue, Athens, Ga. The New England Journal of Educa tion propounds the following peetic problem : A landed man two daughters had, And both were very fair; To each he gave a piece of land— One round, the other square ; At forty dollars the acre just, Each piece its value had, The dollars That encompassed each, For each exactly paid. If’ cross a dollar be an inch And ju i t a half inch more, IVhich did the better portion have, That had the round or square ? To avoid exciting false hopes in the breasts of youthful male readers, it is well to state that both the daughters of this wealthy landed gent are now mar ried. The Editor of an Exchange, Oho no doubt has more delinquent patrons than he ought to have, appeals to them in the following touching strain : “When other bill.smnd other.duns Their tale of woe shall tell, Of notes in bank without the funds, And cotton hard to sell; There may, perhaps, in such a scene, Some recollection be Of bills that longer due have been, And youTl reiftCmber me !” If they don’t they ought to be asham ed of themselves. Signs. —The popular superstitution regarding the days on which it is lucky or unlucky to trim the finger nails is expressed in an old rhyme thus: Cut them on Monday, cut them for wealth; Cut them on Tuesday, cut, them for .health ; Cut them on Wednesday, cut them for news; Cut them on Thursday, anew pair of shoes; Cut them on Friday, you’ll cut them for woe; Cut them on Saturday, a journey to go; Cut them on Sunday, you’ll out them for evil, For all the next week you’ll be ruled by the devil. Existin'. Superstition.—A very singular reported from Paris, il lusiuuiiigi -Hiking manner the power of the iau l ion upon even a cultiva ted mind. Tolas Boralajova, a Ser vian noble. i,-had been forced to leave his own co in. ry because of a strange tale to the effect that in his family the eldest son was invariably a vampire, always re turning Irom the grave after death, to suck the blood of the living. Singular as it may appear, the nobleman, though educated and intelligent, actually be lieved this remarkable story himself, and previous to his death, which recently oc curred, requested that his heart should be taken from his body to prevent him from leaving the grave—it being suppos ed that a vampire cannot get along with out a heart. A Starving Family Eating Dog Meat. —The Wilkesboro’ Record says: A family was found in this city on Sat urday night iu such an extremity of pov erty that they had been subsisting on dog flesh for sevaral days. The husband hhd become involved in debt, was una ble to get employment since last fall, could get no credit at the stores, and as a last resort, rather than beg, butchered a dog for lood. The children were ignor ant as to the nature of the meat, being told by their father it was turkey. It was soou eaten, and another dog killed which was found by some gentleman who visited the house Saturday evening and supplied the family with a few days rations. The relief associations have ta ken charge of their wants, A 999 Years’ Lease Expires.— lt is safe to assert a lease for 999 years has never run out in this country, but this has recently occurred in England. An estate let for that term has reverted to the original holders, or rather their rep resentatives. Tue laud is at Woodwich, and was church property 1,000 years ago, but was leased to the crown for military purposes. “Few incidents,” as an English exchange remarks, “could speak more eloquently of the stability of English institutions, and the law-abid ing nature of Englishmen, and their re | spect for tlie right of property, than that ; there should be an unbroken continuity | of possession from the time of Alfred the Great to that of Queen Victoria.” CRAWFORD, GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 25, 1875. The Bank Note, The following amusing scene, which occurred recently in an American fami ly, will be found not uninteresting to our readers. The chief role is played by money, the prime movers in such affairs. An eye witness recited to us the occur rence in the following words: One evening that I took tea with an intimate friend of mine, while we were seated at the table, Mr. Baker, my friend’s husband, while absently feeling in his vest pocket, found a five dollar note which he had no recallectitn of putting there. “Halloa!” he exclaimed, “ that is no place for you. I should have put you in my pocket-book. Here wife, don’t you wan’t some ready money? ” and he threw the note across the table to her. “Many thanks,” she replied ; “money is always acceptable, although I have no present use of it.” She folded the note and put it under the edge of the tea tray, and then proceeded to pour out the tea and attend to the wants of her guests. At her right sat Mrs. Easton, or Aunt Susan, Whom We all knew as an acquaint ance, who, from time to time, spent a week with Mrs. Baker. Her visit j at an end, and she was about to return home that evening. As Mrs. Baker was pouring out her tea it occurred to her that she was in her aunt’s debt for certain small matters, ari£ when she had the op portunity, she pushed the note under her plate, saying: Here, aunty, take this five dollars in part payment of my debt.” “Verywell,” she replied, “but the money does not belong to me. I owe you fifteen dollar’s, my dear Grace, which you lent me last Saturday. I had to pay the taxes on my little house and had not the ready money, and Grace lent it to me,” exclaimed Aunt Susan. Grace, an orphant, was a cousin to Mrs. Baker. She and her brother Frank boarded with her, aud made a very pleas ant addition to the family circle. She was studying music, and her brother was a clerk in a mercantile establish ment. As soon as Aunt receiver! 'thb note, she handed it to Grace saying: “I will give you this now on account, and the rest as soon as I get it.” All right,” answered Grace, laugh ing, “ and since we all seenx in the hu mor to pay your debts, I will follow suit. Frank. I owe you something for music you bought me ; here is part of it;” and she threw the bank note across the table to her brother, who sat opposite. We were all highly amused*to see bow the note wandered around the table. “ This is a wonderful note,” said Mr. Baker, “I only wish somebody owed me something and I owed somebody some thing, so that I could come into the ring.” “ You can,” said Frank. “I owe Mrs. Baker, or you. it’s all the same, for my board ; I herewith pay you part of it.” Amid general laughter, Mr. Baker took the note ahd playfully thre'tv it again to his wife saying, “It’s yours again, Lucy, because what belongs to me belongs to you. It has completed the round, and we have all had the benefit of it.” “ And now it must go around again.” replied she gaily. “I like to see money circulate; it should never lie idle. Aunt Susan, you take it'; now I have paid you ten dollars.” “ Dear Grace, here is another five dol lars on my account,” said Aunt Susan, handing it to Grace. “ And yofi, Frank, have received ten dollars for the the music you bought me,” said Grace, handing it to her brother. “ And I pay you ten dollars for my board,” continued he, and the note once more rested in Mr. Baker’s hands. The exchanges were as quick as thought, and we were convulsed with laughter. “Was there ever so wonderful an ex change ?” exclaimed Grace. “ It’s all nonsense,” cried Mr. Baker. “ Not in the least,” answered his wife. “It’s all quite right.” “ Certainly,” said Frank, “when the money belongs to you, you could dispose i>f it as you would; I have the same right. It is -a fair kind of exchange, although very uncommon.” “It shows the use 6f ifioney,” said Aunt Susan; “it makes the circuit of the world, and brings its value to every one who touches it.” “And this note has not finished its work yet, as I will show you, my dear husband, if you will give it to me again,” said Mrs. Baker. ■* I present you with this five dollar note,” said Mr. Baker. “And I give it to you, Aunt Susan— I owed you fifteen dollars, and I have paid my debt.” “ You have, my dear friend, without doubt; and now, dear Grace, I pay you my indebtedness, with my thanks for your assistance.” “I take it with thanks. Aunt Susan.” replied Grace ; “and now the time has come when this wonder working, this in exnaustibly rich bank note must be divi ded, because I don’t owe ’Frank five dol lars rtiore. How much have I to pay yet?” “ Two dollars and sixtv-two cents,” re plied Frank. “ Can you change it ?” “ Let me see; two thirty-eight; yes, there is the change, the spell is broken, Grace, and you and I divide the spoils.” “This bank note beats all I ever saw. How much paid? Let us count up,” said Grace. “Mrs. Baker gave Aunt Susan fifteen dollars, which Aunt Susan gave me —I gave Frank twelve dollars and sixty-two cents—Frank gave Mr. Baker ten dollars, altogether fifty-two dollars ad sixty two debts.” “It’s all nonsense I tell you,” cried Mr. Baker, again, “you all owe each other what you owed before.” “You are deceived, my dear, by the rapid, unbroken race this little sum has made ; to me it is as clear as daylight,” replied Mrs. Baker. “If it is all nonsense, how coulo the note which you gave Mrs. Baker, if noth ing to me or to you, be divided between us two ?” asked Grace. Mr. Baker didn’t seem to see it very clearly, but the others did, and they of ten relate this little history for the amusement of their frierids. Funeral of an Indiaoußing. Sir Samuel Baker has a horrible sto ry to tell respecting the mode of suc cession to the throne of Unyoro, in Af rica. When a king of this'territory dies, the body is exposed on a framework of green wood, like a gigantic gridiron, over a slow fire. It is thus gradually dried until it resembles an over-roasted hare. Thus mummified, it is wrapped in new black cloths, and the body lies in state within a large house built spe cially for its reception. The sons fight for the throne. The civil war may last for many years, but during this period of anarchy the late king’s body stil: lies unburied. At length, when victory is decided in favor of one of his sons, the conqueror visits the hut in which his father’s body lies in state. He approaches the corpse, and stand ing by its side he sticks the butt end of his spear in the ground, and leaves it thus fixed near tlie right hand of the dead king. This is symbolic of victory. The son now ascends the throne, and the funeral of his father must be his first duty. An immense pit or trench is dug. This pit is neatly lined with new bark cloth. Several wives of the late king are seated together near the bottom, to bear upon their knees the body 6f tlieir departed lord. The night previous to the funeral the king’s own regiment, or body-guard, surround many dwellings and villages and seize the people indiscriminately as they issue from their doors in the early morning. Three captives are brought to the pit’s mouth. Their legs and arms are now broken with clubs, and they are pushed into the pit on top of the king’s body and his wives. An immense din of horns, drums, flageolets, whistles, ming led with the vel s of a frantic crowd drown the shrieks of the sufferers upon whom the earth is shoveled and stamp ed down by thousands of cruel fanatics, who dance and jump upon the loose mould so as to force it into a compact mass, through which the victims of this horrid sacrifice caunot grope their way, the precaution having been taken o break the bones of their arms afid legs. At length the mangled mass is buried and trodden dowff beneath a tumultu ous earth, and all is still. The funeral is over. An Actress Dying of Starvation. —The New York Sun says that during a recent rehearsal at “Henry V” at Booth’s Theatre, in that city, one of the supernumeraries, a delicate, pale faced woman, fell to the floor in a fainting con dition. When raised up and asked if she was ill, she replied ‘‘l am starving. It has been three days sirfee I tasted food.” Mr. H. C. Jarrett, one of the proprietors, was informed of the incident, and in a mbfhent he was in a neighbor ing restaurant giving an order for a hearty meal for the famishing supernum ary. When the girl bad appeased her hunger Miss Wells, an actress, went among the actors and actresses and col lected forty dollars for the sufferer. She took her to her lodgings and found the girl’s husband dying of consumption, and her mother and four little children all suffering from the want of food. The actress, who had not been on the stage before, was the sole support of the family. - Going to sleep on a girl’s shoul der cost a New Yorker $5,000. FUNNYISMS. A little thieving is a dangerous part, Stealing largely is a noble art. ’Tis mean to rob a hen’s roost of a hen, But stealing thousands makes us gentlemen. A bhstle described as a fiction founded oh 'fact. An irrevereut butcher styles his shop a meat-ing house. French?” “ Yis, if it’s sphokein Irish.” where’s the place fora boil? We would suggest, in a pot. When a Chicago woman gets mired they have to dig up half the street to get a 16-foot pole under her for a pry. “As a rule,” remarked a lady, “ get a hired girl with au ugly face if you want to keep your husband out the kitchen.” Henry Eure and his mother-in law, who eloped from Virginia recently, have been released from arrest and have eloped again. Henry Eure a fool. while writing a composition, to make the remarkable statement that “an ox does not taste as good as an oyster, but that it can run faster.” Au old bummer says that he’d rather be adrift on the Atlantic ocean wiih a ten gallon keg of whiskey than to be lost in a desert with a barrel of water. A New Orleans woman wears a bustle made of government bonds. Her husband looks over the bond market in the evening paper, before going home, to see if her back is up. An advertisement for a dry goods clerk reads : “ Wanted, a young man to be partly out of doors and partly behind the counter.” It’ doesn’t specify what part of the young man is to be out doors. Algood many people were recent ly deluded into going into an apotheca ry’s shop in a village on the Hudson to see a red bat which bad been captured and was on exhibition. They saw it, and it was as red as a brickbat usually is. A young bride who had been fashionably educated was asked by her husband to attend to the orderingof the dinner. It is a fact that she blandly re quested the butcher to send home a “leg of tongue, seventeen pounds of steak and -i wo halibut.” planation of the mysteries of this world, We shall be glad to know why the young man who remarks on leaving church, “I can preach a better sermon than that my self,” is content to wear his life out over a counter at sls a month. A Kansas farmer purchased a re volver for his wife and insisted on target practice, so that she could defend the house in case of his absence. After the bullet was dug out of bis leg, and the cow buried, he said he guess she’d better shoot with an axe. man to a neighbor, next day after bury ing his wife, “when I came to get into bed, and lay thar, and not hearing Lu cinda jawing around for an hour and a half, it just made me feel as if I’d moved into a strange country. A Poughkeepsie parent lately in duced a croupy youngster to make quite a hearty meal of buckwheat cakes and “maple molasses,” but the latter proved to be nice syrup of squills. The boy said he thought something ailed the molasses the very minute his father told him to eat all he wanted. A Kansas editor, meditating upon the death 6f a dog-trainer in his neigh boorhood, gives vent to the mournful thought: “ Our great men are petering out s6rt o’ rapid like these times. Whis key kills most on ’em; some tumbles overboard, and ’casionally one gets hung or lynched.” Mr. Lorenzo day to Miss Martha Weeks, the following epitlialarium is sung by a mischievous poet: A Day is made, a Week is lost, But time should not complain ; There'll soon be little days enough To make the Week again. A certain old gentleman of Lex ington has a very bald head, and he used to permit the children to amuse them selves, while he took his afternoon nap, by playing tit-tat-too on his scalp with pieces of charcoal. One day the little ones grew tired of that game and started to play mumble-peg with a jack-knife, and at the first blow drove the blade half an inch into the Judge’s skull. Nobody ever ascertained who would have won, for the game stopped suddenly, and the Judge took a turn at another game, in which he chased each child around with a slipper. He sleeps with his hat dn row. VOL. I—NO. 21. Fright and Contagion. The Fort Wayne Sentinel, speaking of the foolishness of a sinall-poxseure, illus trates the effect of the imagnation by the following: You have heard of per sons havingtheir imagination so wrought upon as to cause their death from some suppose disease or illness. Now, no one has, so far as heard from, been frightened to that extent on account of the small-pox scare of yesterday, but a ease in this point happened here twenty two years ago, that will serve to point a moral, if not adorn a tale. The cholera was then raging pretty generally, aud numbers of people had left Fort Wayne, fearing to be attacked by the seourge. Three doctors were conversing about tho plague—the effect fear and imagination had upon people, etc. One of them (now dead for the last ten years or more) pro posed a test of this. He named a strong, robust man, a butcher by occupation, ’ namedJDolman, who then kept his shop on the canal, directly back of Columbia street. Of the many strong and healthy men, probably not one could be found who was so nearly a perfect man physi cally. He was also at that time iu superb health, of full habit aud good weight. So the trio agreed to subject Dolman to the above mentioned test. Eacli of the three diseiples of Eseulapius was to go into the shop on pretence of purchasing meat, and then lead the butch er to talk on the subject of cholera, or in some way to Impress him with the belief that be was about to become its victim. The first doctor entered the shop, and after passing the compliments of the day with the proprietor, ordered a ponneb of steak. It was cut and the unsuspecting man of meat began to weigh it. “Why,” said the doctor, “ how badly you look ! What is the matter with you, Dolman ?” “Nothing at all,” said Dolman ; “nev-" er felt heartier or better in my life.” “But surely something ails you ; you are looking ill.” “Well,” said the victim, “I’m very well; nothing at all is the matter with ine.” After looking at Dolman a minute, the doctor passed out. Entered then the second of the trio, who also ordered some meat He like wise looked searchingly at the butcher, and then said : “Why, Dolman, what is the matter with you? You are looking ill. You’re go ing to be sick, I’m afraid.” The poor man replied that he was not ill,and felt as well as ever he did in his life. The doctor looked dubiously at him and went out. The last of the three who had “put up the job” on Dolman came in after awhile. He requested the butcher to cut him off a nice piece of steak. As this request was about to be complied with, the doc tor examined the meat and remarked in an earnest way, “No, I won’t take it, that meat has cholera in it.” This was the last straw. The poor wretch began to think he was in a bad way. The doctor, as soon as he had gut tered the rash words, walked and left Dolman to his own reflections, which were none of the pleasantest. Dolman immediately “ shut up shop” and went home. He fell sick and had, it is said, as genuine a case of cholera as was ever seen. The artifice of the medi cal trio had succeeded too well. Fortu nately, the man’s splendid constitution carried him through, and he recovered. Had he been a man of little strength, highly susceptible to disease, and all that, the result very likely would have been death. „ But that was not all. The doctor who had proposed the trial attended Dolman while he was sick, and presented a bill ‘or his services. The butcher, having no money, couldn’t pay it. To satisfy his laim the doctor took Dolman’s horse and cart and sold them to pay the bill, though he himself was the principal cause of the poor fellow’s illness. The circumstances are doubtless re membered by many in this city. The Danbury girl who asked how to pronounce the name of the late Emperor of China, is informed that the new York Tribune calls him T’oung-che; the Herald, Toung-chi; the World, T’oung Chih; the Times, Toung-che; and the Post Toung-CLih. We call him Mr. Tongue. “Where’s the molasses, Bill ?” said a red-headed woman sharply to her son, who had returned with an empty jug. “None in the city, mother. Every gro cery has a big black board outside, with the letters chalked on it, “N. O. Mo lasses.” Why is the end of a fish’s tail like the Prince Imperial of France? Because k is the kst of the bony-p*rt.