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BY T. L. GANTT. OGLETHORPE ECHO PUBLISHED EYEBY FRIDAY MORKIHG, BY T. 1.. UA>TT, Editor and Proprietor. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Where paid strict/' y i•> '//I >'<uirr.... OO Where payment delayed 6 months 2 50 Where payment delayed 12 months... Ji OO CLUB RATES. Club of n or less than 10, per copy 1 75 Club of 10 or more, per copy 1 50 CASH KATES OP ADVERTISING. The following table shows mlr 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. TIM*. Tift. 2 in. 3 in. 4 in. } col 1 coT 1 col *1 w’k, SI.OO 2 “ 1.75 2.75 4.(M) 5.00 8.00 18.00 18 3 “ 2.50 3.25 5.00 6.00 10.00 16.00 22 4 “ 3.00 4.00 6.00 7.00 11.00 18.88 26 5 “ 3.50 4.50 6.00 8.00 12.00 20.00 30 ' “ 4.00 5.00 7.50 8.00 13.00 22.00 33 8 5.00 6.00 5.0010.00 15.00 25.00 40 5 mos, 6.00 8.0011.0014.00 1&00 30.00 50 4 “ 7.00 10.0014.0017.00 21.00 35.00 50 6 " 5.50 12.00 16.00 20.00 26.00 45.00 75 9 “ 10.00 15.0020.00 25.00 33.00 60.00 UK) *1? “ 12.00 18.00 24.00 30.00 40.00_75.00 120 laical Notices charged 15c. per line for first ; and 10c. for each subsequent insertion. Business and Professional Cards will be inserted 3 months for $4.00. LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS. Sheriff Sales, per levy, 10 lines $5 00 Executors’, Admini4trators’ and Guardi an’s Hales, per square...it..,. 7 00 Each additional square 5 00 Notiee to Debtors and Creditors, 30 days, 4 00 Notice of Leave to sell, 30 days 3 00 Letters of Administration, 30 days 4 00 Letters of Dismission, 3 months 5 00 Letters of Guardianship, 30 days 4 00 Letters of Dis. Guardianship, 40 days.... 3 75 Homestead Notices, 2 insertions 2 00 Rule Nisi’s per square, each insertion... 1 00 -GEORGIA RAILROAD SCHEDULE The following is the schedule on the Geor gia Railroad, with time of arrival’at and de parture from every station on the Athens Branch: UP DAY PASSENGER TRAIN. Leave,Augusta at 8:45 a.m. Arrive at Union Point 12:27 p. 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 IF YOU a Situation— 'Want a Salesman — 'Wantto bnr a Horse— Want to rent a Store— Waut to sell a Piano— Want to lend Money— Want, a Servant Girl- Want to sell a Horse— Want to buy a House — Want to rent a House — Want a job of Painting- Want to sell Groceries — Want to sell Furniture — Want to sell Hardware — Want to sell Dry Goods— Want to sell Heal Estate— Want a job of Carpentering— Want to sell Millinery Goods — Want to sell a House and Lot— Wsuatto find any one’s Address — Want to sell a piece of Furniture— Want to buy a second-hand Carriage— Want to find any thing you have lost— Want to sell Agricultural Implements— Want to Advertise anything to advantage— Wantto find an owner to anything found— Advertise in THE OGLETHORPE ECHO. ©jjktlfjitjK €c!|o. 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! mrn m tm 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.