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OGLETHORPE ECHO
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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 8:45 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. m.
Leave Union Point 11:33 a, m.
Arrive at Augusta 3:30 p. m.
CP NIGHT PASSENGER TRAIN.
Leave Ahgusta’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
Wintersville 9 10 9 15 30
Crawford 9 45 9 50 25
Anti0ch.....,., 10 15 10 18 15
Maxey’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
Maxey’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 — Down.
Athens a. m. 10 00 25
Wintersville 10 25 10 30 30
Crawford 11 (X) 11 05 25
Antioeli 11 30 11 32 15
Maxev’s 11 47 11 49 15
Woodville 12 04 12 10 25
Union Point 12 35 a. m.
Up Xight Train.
Union Point 3 55 25
Woodville 4 20 4 24 15
Maxey’s 4 39 4 41 15
Antioch ............. 4 56 4 58 25
•Crawford 5 23 5 27 30
Wintersville 5 57 6 02 28
Athens 6 30
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IN STORE!
50.000 Bacon Sides.
25 bbls. Best O. K. Lard.
5 car-loads Corn.
100 bbls. Sugars.
50 sacks Coffee.
And numerous other goods in our line, just
received and for sale at prices that defy com
petition.
TALIOGE, HODGSON & C 0„
iv!)18-4t College Avenue, Athens, Ga.
Charlie’s Opinion of the Baby.
Muzzer bought a baby,
Itle, bitsy sing,
Sink I mos’ could put him
Froo my rubber ring.
*
An’t he awful ugly ?
An’t he awful pink?
Just come down from Heaven—
Dat’s a fib, 1 sink.
Doctor told anozzer
Great big, awful lie;
Nose ain’t out of joy-ent,
Dat ain’t why I cry.
Mama stays up bedroom,
Guess he makes her sick.
Frow him in ze gutter
If I can, right quick.
’Ey, cuddle him an’ love him,
Call him “ blessed sing,”
An’ don’t care if ihy kite
Ain’t got a bit of string.
Send my off wiss Biddy
Every single day;
“ Bea good boy, Charlie,
Run away and play.”
Sink I ought to love him?
No, I won’t, so zere;
Nasty, cry in’ baby,
Not got any hair.
Got all my nice kisses,
Got iny place in bed;
Mean to take my drumstick
And crack him on ze head.
March.
March! March! March! They ate comitig
In troops to the tune of the wind;
Red-headed woodpeckers drumming,
Gold-crested thrushes behind;
Sparrows in brown jackets hopping
Past every gateway and door;
Finches with crimson caps stopping
Just where they stopped years before.
March! March! March! they are slipping
Into their places at last—
Little white lily-buds, dripping
Under the showers that fall fast;
Buttercups, violets, roses;
Snowdrop and bluebell and pink ;
Throng upon throng of sweet posies,
Bending the dewdrops to drink.
March ! March ! March! They will hurry
Forth at the wild bugle-sound—
Blossoms and birds in a flurry,
Fluttering all over the ground.
Hang out vour flags, birch and willow !
Shake out your red tassels, larch !
Grass-blades, up from your earth-pillow!
Hear who is calling you —March!
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Destruction to Matches. —The
Paris correspondent of the London Daily
News writes : “I have just been shown
a simp!" apparatus which will probably
sweep away ere long the match trade.
It is calh-1 the electrical tinder box, and
is small enough to be carried in a cigar
case. On opening this box you see a
platinum wire stretched across. Touch
ing a spring the wire reddens sufficient
ly to light a cigar. At will you can intro
duce inr a tiny sconce a mesh of cotton
steeped in spirits of wine or petroleum,
which, taking fire, does service as a veil
leuse, or nurse’s lamp. The hidden
agency which heats the wire is a very
small electrical battery, set in action by
the touching of the spring. The trade
price of the electrical tinder-box will half
a franc, or five pence. Its inventor prom
ises that it will be an economical substi
tute for the lueifer match. The appara
tus may perhaps derange the budget,
which depends for a heavy sum upon the
match tax and monopoly.”
The President signed the joint resolu
tion ofCongress authorizing Thomas W.
Fitch to receive those diamonds presented
to his wife, General Sherman’s daughter,
by the Khedive of Egypt. The Presi
dent's known opposite to giving of pres
ents —to anybody else —provoked great
apprehensions that he would veto the
resolution. He was probably influenced
in giving his assent by the fact that has
just come out that the diamonds are off
color for the most part, and are not worth
more than fifty thousand dollars, it that.
A Berlin circus horse sits at a table
and eats like a human being, knife and
fork fastened to his two fore legs by
straps.
Cabbage grew wild in Siberia; buck
wheat originated in Siberia; celery origi
nated in Germany; the potato is a native
of Peru; the onion originated in Egypt.
CRAWFORD, GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 4, 1875.
ITEMS OF IHTEBEST.
Soon the spring time will come, gentle Aiihie,
And the front gates he loaded down again.
A tree 2&0 feet high has been dis
covered in xiustralia.
The aggregate cost of the Modoc
war is footed up at $411,000.
not penetrate thirty sheets of paper.
A French doctor says that Indian
.corn meal is an infallible cure for con
sumption.
The regular Baptists of the United
States report an increase of 127,000 mem
bers during the past year.
Good authority says that the
spring trade will be large, and that busi
ness of all kinds will revive.
Chicago is supplied with water
bv two tunnels, eachoVer two miles long,
w 1 Cl
carried out into Lake Michigan.
A San Francisco lady, Who made
S6O a month teaching school, went to
speculating in mining stocks and cleared
$30,000.
The King of Dahomey has a
necklace composed of two hundred and
fifty human ears, and that ear necklace
is his great pride.
Great excitement exists in Orr
ville, Ohio, caused by the discovery of
a woman in an open grave from which a
body had been removed.
When a young man in Patagonia
falls in love with a girl he lassoos her,
drags her home behind his horse, and
that’s all the ceremony necessary.
Winston, North Carolina, has
grown from a village of 500 inhabitants
to a town of 1,500 in two years, and 150
houses have been built in that time.
An entire Roman city, swallowed
up in the neighborhood of Fourvieres,
France, by an earthquake, in the year
800, has just been discovered by some
railroad excavators.
The deepest well that has ever
beensunkisin Prussia. It is 4,194 feet
deep, and they are still a digging. If it
had been in Massachusetts they would
have struck hell long ago.
- A Cincinnati family, whose 'two
year-old child died, over a year ago, man
aged to preserve the child almost per
fectly by hn embalming process, and
have kept it in their house ever since.
A fre’ghttrain pulled into Ottum
wa the other night with blood and au
burn hair matted in ghastly clots on the
pilot. The engineer grumbled about the
“ muss,” and said that if people didn’t
want to be run over they must keep off
the track.
Butler county, Missouri, has the
most eccentric genius on record. He is
now 65 years of age. At twenty-one he
commenced to count two billions. He
has counted almost incessantly ever
since, and his task is still incomplete.
He says he wants to count that number
and die happy.
While cutting down a tree in
Rockdale county, in this State, recently,
the axeman cut into a hollow filled with
gold pieces,' each amounting to about
SSO. They are supposed to have been
bidden there by some of the followers of
DeSoto, as they were Spanish coins, and
on the line of march supposed to have
been taken by him, when he discovered
the Mississippi. They were embedded
six inches beneath the bark.
A French naturalist hollowed out
a large stone and cemented a toad in it.
At the end of five years the animal was
taken out alive, but in a torpid state.
This fully corroborates the New Canaan
story. A large grindstone in Brown’s
axe factory burst while revolving at
great speed, and threw oat a couple of
yellow lizards. Scientific men assert that
the lizards have been entombed for at
least ninety centuries.
The most heart-rending tale we
have heard in some time comes from
Northern New York : Three little boys,
the oldest only eight years old, were sent
by their brutal parents to a neighboring
town with baskets to sell. The weather
was bitter cold, the ground covered with
snow, and the children thinly clad and
barefooted. The next day they were
found frozen to death in a heap on the
roadside, with tears frozen to their
cheeks.
The new religious sect in Ohio,
called “ Eternalists,” believe that the
soul is immortal; but that when it leaves
the body it hoveis in the air until by
some subtle process of materialization it
enters anew body, which may be that of
a dog or a man, according to the life led
by its previous owner. For instance, if
a man be low and depraved in life, his
soul will instinctively seek the society of
dogs, and in time inhabit one. But if he
is good and honest, he can die in peace,
for his soul will find a home in the body
of an editor.
BARBERRIES.
The pastor of the Baptist church in
Slawson keeps hens. Last summer a
member of his congregation offered him
a rooster and eight hens, of a good breed,
if he would make a coop for them. Such
disinterestedness is not common in the
history of a country parson, and our
theological friend was not slow in com
plying with the conditions. Asa matter
of economy, he built the coop himself,
and after a week of hard labor, and the
sacrifice of one pair of pants and the nail
to the thumb of the left hand, -hr. com
pleted the coop at a cost of about fifteen
dollars. Then he got the hens. He has
had them ever since. They have laid in
that time about thirty eggs, and put away
a quart of shelled corn, daily. As for
the rooster, he is an incorrigible loafer,
with no ambition and no character. One
day, last week, the parson started out to
feed them. He had a tinpailful of shell
ed corn in one hand, while the other was
doing duty as a sort of a balance pole.
The ice was very slippery, and the coop
was on a rather steep hillside. To make
it worse, there had been a warm rain,
and the remnants of it were pouring
down the grade in numerous rivulets.
He felt his way along carefully until he
acquired half the distance. Then the
dark line against the horizon, which rep
resented the parson, suddenly increased
its Velocity. He don’t know how it hap
pened, but he felt that the ice was going
up hill at a powerful rate, and he clutch
ed a beau-pole standing by him, and
gave forth a hysterical gasp. Then the
pole snapped in twain, the pail of corn
made a swift revolution in the air, and
the reverend gentleman came down full
upon his back, splashing the corn and
the water on both sides, like gold
en and silver spray. Then turning
part way around so to enable one of the
rivulets to run up the leg of his panta
loons, he sailed down the inclined plane
by the coop, and currant bushes at the
foot of the yard. Altogether he slid
nearly fifteen yards, and although he
lost his hat and the collar to his coat, yet
he kept tight hold of the pail all the
way. And when he came into the house
he still had the pail tightly grasped in
one hand, while 4he other hand was oc
cupied holding the moist section of liis
unmentionables as far from his body as
possible.
Professor Randolph has recently
made some novel experiments. He
soaked a dog in the liquid used for
making dresses of ballet girls—non-com
bustible. Then he-made him swallow a
pint, and, strange to say, the animal
Wanted more after lie had become used to
the taste. That afternoon the professor
gave him a bath of kerosene oil and set
fire to it. The dog was terribly frighten
ed, but when he saw that it did not hurt
him his delight was unbounded. With
a little coaxing he was pnrsuaded to drink
some of the oil. When a match was held
to his mouth, flames burst from his
mouth and ears with astonishing fierce
ness, and it was some time before any
one dared to approach him. After this
the dog considered himself fire-proof.
He jumped into a lime-kiln which was
so hot as to melt his brass collar in
the twinkling of an eye, while he was not
even singed. Then he went to a foun
dry and amused himself by carrying
chunks of hot iron in his teeth. His
last feat surpassess all others. He took
a fancy to an engineer on the New
Haven railroad, and while riding be
tween Stamford and Bridgeport, a few
days ago, he leaped into the furnace as
the fireman was shoveling in coal.
But when the train stopped at Bridge
port, the dog jumped out as fresh and
sweet as a young babe.
Florida is a strange country. Its
orange groves and striped alligators are
the wonder of all travelers. The latest
curiosity is the blue canary which a Mr.
Renwick recently found in his orange
grove. Its wings are pure white, while
its little legs are as red as blood. But
what is most unaccountable, it is a deadly
enemy of the alligator. Hundreds of
these rilpftles crawl out on the sand to
sleep. They always keep one eye open,
but can see nothing very near them.
The canary knows this, and about the
time the annimal is dreaming of surpris
ing a lot of young pigs, it lights noiseless
ly on the margin of the open eye, and
before the alligator has time to arouse
himself, the bird thrusts its bill into the
optic nerve. If this occurs late in the
season, when the waters are poisoned by
the marshes, they are sure to die. This
accounts for the thousands of dead ones
that have been found. Until recently,
the cause of their death was a mystery.
Mr. Renwick caged one of these* birds,
and he finds that its song is surprising
ly sweet. During the autumn months, it
sings at night, but its notes are so melan
choly that the listener is moved to
tears.
DEVILTRIES.
Lives of preachers all remind us,
We may make our lives sublime;
And in dying leave behind us
Novels worthy of a dime.
Girl’s rights —Kisses.
Abominations of all good and
true men—Newspaper borrowers.
Jap Hopkins says this thing of
working between meals is killing him.
He who is in love is like a man
on a slippery street between two tvater
pails.
For the present, says an exchange,
correspondents will wrtte on neither
side of the paper.
The good man who left “ foot
prints on the sands of time” always paid
the printer promptly.
Mark Twain says the Sandwich
Islanders are generally unlettered as the
other side of a tombstone.
tance, but we don’t remember ever seeing
any one buy an umbrella.
When a man’s breath is so bad
that the Coroner follows him around, it
is time he doctored himself.
A Texas jury sent a man up for
fifteen years for stealing a pony, but for
killing a man it sent him up only nine
months.
A soft-hearted Lexington man
has twelve eggs under a hen, but the
eggs are covered with cloth, so as not to
chill the hen.
Since there is talk of organizing
a brass band in Crawford, some of our
best citizens speak of emigrating to the
grasshopper region.
A crusty old bachelor explains
that the reason a woman puts her finger
in her mouth when she thinks is that
she can’t think and talk at the same
time.
Said a little girl to another, “ My
ma can take all her teeth out of her
mouth, and yours can’t.” “ I have got a
dead grandma and you haven’t,” was the
retort.
Andrew Arnold asked Miss —. last
Sunday if she thought his moustache be
coming. To which she replied, “ Well,
sir, they may be coming, but they havn’t
arrived yet.”
Our friend Therlkeld, at Burke’s,
in a fit of iibsent-mindedness, asked a
customer if he would take white or black
ink. He told him white, butTherl could
not find it.
Now a West Poirit professor has
demonstrated that ice makes from the
bottom and not the top, the world can
pick up her duds and travel along again
the same as ever.
the softening influence of woman. A
Massachusetts man who has had four
wives has just been sent to the penitenti
ary for stealing horses.
An honest farmer, being asked
why he did not subscribe for a newspa
per, explained : “ When my father died
he left me a good many, which I have
not read through yet.”
of the man’s soul who says that the more
peevish women there are in the world
the sooner shall we be able to listen un
moved to the filing of a saw.
An Athens boy was afraid that he
would not know his father when he got
to heaven, but his mother eased him by
remarking: “ All you have to do is to
look for an angel with a red nose.”
Misprints will present themselves
in other columns besides those of news
papers. The author of a temperanee
novel who wrote, “ Drunkenness is folly,”
was horrified to read, “ Drunkenness is
jolly.”
■ A forger in Michigan by the name
of Betts has swindled Will Carlton, the
author of “ Betsy and I are Out,” out of
SI,OOO. Whereupon an exchange sug
gests anew ballad, to be entitled “ Betts,
he and I are out.”
no better school for a boy than a news
paper office, and there is something in it.
In nine years of close application, we
have acquired a dexterity in the use of
the shears that would secure us a posi
tion to cut wall paper a $4 a week.
A strip of velvet around the neck
of the girl of the period is called a “ dog
collar,” and is fashionable. It heightens
the whiteness of the complexion. We do
not know if the collar would affeot the
complexion of a “colored lady,” how
ever.
Girls don’t look behind to see if
the “ young fellows” are watching them
any more have got over that. It’s
anew invention. It consists of a little
round looking glass, the size of a half
dollar. Every once in a while they ad
just a stray curl, and see if he “really is
looking.”
VOL. I—NO. 2?,
A YOUTHFUL THESPIAN.
Painful Result of Having a Father who will
Not Appreciate Shakspeare.
A few days ago, young Gurley, whose
father lives on Croghan street, organized a
theatrical compauy and purchased the
dime novel play of “Hamlet.” The com-'
pahy consisted of three boys and a host
ler, and Mr. Gurley’s hired girl was to be
the Ghost if the troupe could guarantee
her fifty cents per night.
Yotmg Gurley suddenly bloomed out
as a professional, aiid when his mother
asked him to bring in some wood, he
replied:
“ Though I am penniless thou canst
not degrade me!”
“You trot out after that wood, or I’ll
have your father trounce you 1” she ex
claimed.
“The tyrant who lays his hand upon
me shall die 1” replied the boy, but fcb 1
got the wood.
He was out on the step when a man
came along and asked him where La
fayette street was.
“Doomed for a certain time to roam
the earth 1” replied Gurley in a hoarse
voice, and holding his right arm out
straight.
“I say—you! Where is Lafayette 5
Street ?” called the mam
“Ah! Could the dead but speak— oh
continued Gurley.
The man drove him into the house,
and his mother sent him to the grocery
after potatoes.
“I go, most noble duchess,” he said as
he took up the basket, “but my good
sword shall some day avenge these In
sults !”
He knew that the grocer favored theat
ricals, and when he got there he said :
“Art thou provided with a store of
that vegetable known as the ’tater, most
excellent duke ?”
“What in the thunder do you want?”
growled the grocer as he cleaned the
cheese knife on a piece of paper.
“Thy plebian mind is dull otfeoinpre-'
hension 1 ” answered Gurley.
“Don’t try to get off any of your non
sense on me, or I’ll crack your empty
pate in a minute,” roared the grocer, and
“Hamlet” had to come down from his
high horse and ask for a peck of pota
toes.
“What made you so long ?” asked hia
mother, as he returned.
“Thy grave shall be dug in the cypresS'
glade!” he haughtily answered.
When his father came home wfc noon
Mrs. Gurley told him that she believed
the boy w T as going crazy, and related
what had occurred.
“I see what ails him,” mused the
father; “this explains why he hangs >
around Johnson’s barn so much.”
At the dinner table young jGurtey
spoke of his father as the “ illustrious
count,” and when his mother asked
him if he would have some butter gravy
he answered:
“The appetite of a warrior cannot be
satisfied with such nonsense.”
When the meal was over the father -
went out to his favorite shade tree, cut a
sprout, and the boy was asked to step out
into the woodshed and see if the pen
stock was frozen up. He found the old
man there, and he said:
“ Why, noble lord, I had supposed
thee fr.r away!”
“I’m not so far away but what I’m t
going to make you skip !* growled the
father. “ I’ll teach you to fool around
with ten cent tragedies 1 Come up here 1”
For about five minutes the woodshed
was full of dancing feet, flying arms and
moving bodies, and then the old marii
took a rest and inquired :
“ There, your highness, dost want any.
more ?”
“Oh ! no, dad—not a Earned bit P*
wailed the young manager, and White *
the father’star ted for down townee went
in and sorrowfully informed the hired
girl that he must cancel her erfgageifefclft
until the fall season.
A Wonderful Intention.— We
were shown yesterday in the office of Col.
E. W. Cole, President of the Nashville,
Chattanooga and St. Louis railroad, an
invention which claims something more
than a passing notice. It is called the
Type-writer, and is useful for all kind of
manuscript writing. A simple touch
upon a key produces a letter, and the
action is as easy as that of a piano ; con
sequently, the speed with which
can be performed is only limited by the
celerity with which the operator can
move his fingers. There are experts "ii*
the country who can already write eightv
words to the minute.— Exchange.
Both the Quakers and the Shakers are
declining in numbers—the former, we
presume, because they don’t quake
enough, and the latter because they shake
too much.