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BY T. L. GANTT.
OGbKTHORPfi ECHO
PUBLISHED
E\EKY FRIDAY MORNING,
35\ T. 1,. UAXTT,
Editor and Proprietor.
CASH RATES OF ADVERTISING.
The following table shows our lowest cash
rate-' for advertising. No deviation will be
made from them in anv 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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3 “ 2.30 3.2-7 5.00 0.00 10.00 10.00 22
4 “ 3.00 4.00 6.00 7.00 11.00 IK.*B 20
5 “ 3..70 4..70 0.00 8.00 1 2.00 20.00 80
0 “ 43hi 5.1 mi 7.50 8.00 13.00 22.00 33
8 “ 5.00 0.00 0.00 10.00 15.00 2.5.00 40
3 mos, 0.00 8.00 11.0014.00 18.00 30.00 50
4 “ 7.00 10.00 14.0017.00 21.00 3-3.00 50
0 “ 8.50 12.00 10.00 20.00 20.00 4-5.00 7-5
.1 “ 10.00 1.5.00 20.00 25.00 33.00 00.00 100
12“ 12.00 18.0024.0030.00 40,(H1 73.00 120
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS.
Sheriff Sales, |>er levy, 10 lines *5 00
x ceil tors’, Admini4tra tors’ and Guardi
an’s Sales, per square 7 00
l!neh additional square .5 00
Notice to Debtors and Creditors, 30days, 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
little Nisi’s per square, each insertion... 1 00
LKORGIA RAILROAD SCHEDULE
The following is the schedule on the Geor*
'kia Railroad, with time of arrival at and de
parture from every station on the Athens
Branch :
rr DAY f’ASSKXCi Kit Tit AIX.
Leave Augusta at 8:45 a. m.
Arrive at Union Point 12:27 p. m.
Leave Union Point 12:52 j>. m.
Arrive at Atlanta 5:45 p. m.
DOWN' DAY PASSKX(.ICR TRAIN.
Leave Atlanta at 7:00 a. in.
Arrive at Union Point 11:32 a. m.
Leave Union Point 11:33 a. m.
Arrive at Augusta 3:30 p. m.
I P NIUIIT PASSENGER TRAIN.
Leave Augusta hit- 8:15 p. m.
Arrive at Atlanta 0:25 a. m.
Remains one minute at Union Point.
ATHENS BRANCH TRAIN,
I)Ay TRAIN.
Time
Stations. Arrive, i Depart, hot.
I sta’s.
A. M.
Athens 8 45 25
\\ intersville | !) 10 015 80
Crawford !l 45 0 50 25
Antioch 10 15 If, 1S 15
•Maxey’s 10 88 10 35 15
Woodville 10 50 10 55 20
Union Point 11 15
Pl* TRAIN.
Union Point...P. M. 100 I 20
"Woodville 120 125 | 15
Maxey’s 1 40 1 45 1.5
A ntineh 200 205 | 25
Crawford 230 235 I 30
Wintersville. 3 0.5 310 | 25
Athens. 3 35
NIGHT TRAIN— J)own.
Athens ~... j a. m. I 10 00 25
Wintorsville | 10 25 | 10 30 30
(Yaw ford I 11 00 I 11 05 25
Antioch <... | 11 30 | 11 32 15
Maxey’s ....... j 11 47 j 11 40 1.5
W oodville .... J 12 04 | 12 10 i 25
Union Point | 12 35 j a. m. |
Up Xi'jh t Traiii.
Union Point I 355 25
Woodville 420 | 424 15
Maxey’s 4 30 4 41 15
Antioeli 450 | 458 25
Crawford 523 j 527 30
Wintorsville 557 j 002 28
Athens 6 30 j
MISCELLANEOUS.
Great Reduction in Prices of
MON & CLARK’S POPULAR GUANO
S.*7 or .‘{HO lbs. Middling Cotton,
Payable Nov. I*l. Freight *2.10 Ca*li, or at DilOl,
payable November Ist,
Or 407 lbs. of Middling Pot ton, and no Freight Charged.
it. s. martin,
MEDICAL NOTICE.
DR. J. C. SIMS TENDERS HIS PRO
FESSIONAL services to the citizens of
Pleasant Hill and vicinity; ami from an ex
perience of twenty-seven years in the practice
flatters himself that he will he able to give
treneral satisfaction in the treatment of all
diseases incident to the country, and especial
ly diseases peculiar to women ami children.
Office at preseut at W. (J. England's, but
will soon locate permanently at Plcasaut Hill.
April I, 1873. aprJ-oui
STEWART COI’XTY.
Letter from an Authoress—How the Echo
is Received in the Land of the Magnolia
and Cypress—The Fioods—Crop News.
Stewart Cos., Ga., March 23, 1875.
Editor Oglethorpe Echo :
“Mark Twain,” in his inimitable
“Pilgrim’s Progress,” gives an account
of his going from Milan, accompanied
by a guide, to “ see ze echo.” By means
of that potent guide, the subscription
price, (paid in advance,) wc, too, have
“ seen ze Echo;” and right gladly do we
welcome its presence among our weekly
visitors. Although it is a little Echo,
it is quick, clear, decided, and true to its
vocation—in very deed a repetend of
the news of Oglethorpe county. We
almost equal the zeal of that good old
deacon, who read every line, advertise
ments and all, of his church paper, and
for fear of missing a line, always made
it a rule to stick a pin in to mark his
place, if compelled to lay it aside before
finishing. For you sec, Mr. Editor,
though these lines are penned away
down in the region of the long moss and
of the magnolia, yet your correspondent
is “to the manor born,” having been
reared among those old hills, and breath
ed that pure air, and known and loved
those excellent people. Everything from
’Oglethorpe is possessed of a peculiar
charm. Sometimes our little Echo is
a charm of merriment, and rehearses
the laugh and jest of gay, glad life; and
anon the tidings are the refrain of
grief and woe. What a scene of sorrow
has been recently enacted on Big Creek !
and our heart lots ached in sympathy
with those poor sufferers to whom death
and bereavement have lately come in
such fearful guise—a ten-fold horror ad
ded to the dread presence of the King of
Terrors! Cod help them in their dis
tress. to remember that Tie never makes
a mistake—That whatever comes, is by
His wise and merciful direction, and
will redound to the glory of His great
name. We do ardently hope that the
plague has been stayed, and that no fur
ther anguish and distress will be occa
sioned by it.
The late high water in the up-country
became much higher the lower it got
down, paradoxically speaking, and our
creeks and rivers were immensely swol
len ; so much so, that steamboats might
have safely traversed the fields adjacent
to the streams. The usually smooth
current of the Chattahoocho no longer
merited the poetic signification of
its name, “ silver water ,” for its turbid,
ru. hing tide bore more resemblance to
that of the troubled sea which constant
ly “casts up mire and dirt.
An item or two of agricultural im
port, and we must close. As everywhere
else, the exceedingly wet weather has
thrown the farm work very far behind,
but renewed diligence will enable 'the
planter to gain pace again. Corn lias
been, or is being planted, and we be
lieve a liberal allowance, too—for South
west Georgia lias had its lesson in the
“all cotton” system. A considerable
acreage is in whgat, oats, etc., and these
look well—perhaps too much advanced,
as the cold may damage them yet.
As soon as our time expires, let us
know, for so long as you issue such a
readable little sheet we shall continue to
subscribe. With many warm wishes for
vour success, Very respectfully,
Reaper.
— 0
Problem.—Twelve persons stopped at
a hotel over night. On asking their bill
the next morning they found it to be sl2.
The old men paid $4 each, the.old women
paid $2 each, the young men
paid 50 cents each, and the young women
paid 25 cents each, how many old men,
how many old Women, how many young
men, how many young women, were there
traveling in this crowd?
Shocking Cruelty to a Little
Giiu..—An instance of wantonly brutal
treatment of a child is under judical in
vestigation in Danville, 111. A girl only
five years old seems to have been used
by her step-father to vent his spleen up
on. The proof is, that he pulled out her
hair, blistered the bottoms of her feet by
slapping them with a board, spat tobac
co juice in her eyes, and made her dance
until she fell down exhausted. These
and like inhumanities were continued
until his arrest, a short time ago.
Good Advice. —The outrage upon a
young wife and mother, by a negro man
in Prince George’s county, is the last ar
gument against the criminal negligence
on the part of the natural guardians of
'women. It would be unjust to iasten
this wrong upon the race to 'which the
wretch belonged, only so far as the crime
is one which the ignorant and uneduca
ted tire more liable to commit.
The lesson which it teaches to resi
dents in negro communities is never to
leave their women at the mercy of the
brutal passions which dwell in the bo
soms of those whom slavery kept in igno
rance and freedom has emboldened with
out elevating.— Washington Cap To/.
mm
False pride goc* before laLc hair.
CRAWFORD, GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING, APRIL 9, 1875.
THINGS IN GENERAL.
The sexton of Beecher’s church gets
$3,500 a year.
Epitaph for a cannibal —“One who
loved his fellow-men.”
A Westchester (Pa.) cat weighs
twenty-five pounds.
A London minister was recently taken
with the small-pox in his pulpit.
Grant and Johnson don’t speak
when they meet in the street. What
a pity !
A California child, aged five years,
has become insane and the inmate of an
asylum.
. Mow, just as we have learned to read
his signature, ISpinner must up and
resign.
There was a colt born in East Wash
ington, day before yesterday,with a well
defined horn.
Two colored barbers of Charlotte, X.
C., fought a duel one day last week.
Both were wounded.
Yellow fever has appeared at Key
West, and all the Naval vessels have
been quarantined.
An entire family in Harrison, Ohio,
has been made insane bv a stroke of
lightning which hit their house.
A Couple, short of money, gave a
clergyman in Cedar Springs a dog and
an aceordeon for marying them.
It is said that Fred Grant contem
plates resigning his position in the army,
and will enter the banking business.
Mr. Beecher goes to California for
recreation, at the close of the trial, in
stead ofEurope, as he dreads a sea voy
age.
“The reign of the chignon is over;
its glory lias departed ; its name is Iclia
hod.” The ladies will take notice ac
cordingly.
A party living near Camak had his
well curb so badly twisted and warped
by the late storm that it was impossible
to get the bucket up or down.
The Republicans will have a majori
ty of eleven on joint ballot in the New
Hampshire Legislature— two in the
Senate and nine in the House.
New Jersey has a lunatic who uses
a couple of pounds of tobacco daily, not
in the way of chewing or smoking, but
actually devouring it as food.
There is far more snuff-dipping in
this country than is imagined, and es
pecially in the south. There are four
snuff factories on one stream in Massa
chusetts.
The time for the opening of the great
National Centennial Exhibition, at
Philadelphia, has now been definitely
fixed for May 10, 187(5, and it will close
November 10.
At the Atlas Works, Pittsburg, Penn.,
they are making the largest shears ever
constructed in this country. They will
weigh 40 tons, and will shear cold iron
five inches thick.
Paducah bets heavy on a negro man
who seizes the chime of an empty flour
barrel between his teeth, swings it three
times, and then throws it over his head a
distance of ten feet hack of him.
Troy , N. Y., boasts of having a man
49 years of age, who is perfectly hairless.
The Press says of him: “Not a sem
blence of a hair has ever put in an ap
pearance, either on his Head, face, arms
or body.”
A couple in Pottawottamie county
were married, a few days ago, but when
night came the happy groom absolutely
refused to retire and actually sat up the
entire night. Ashamed to give his
name.
The first piece of gold found which
raised such a revolution on the Pacific
coast is still to be seen. Its value is
between four and five dollars. .It resem
bles a piece of spruce gum just out of
the mouth of a school-girl.
Among the incidents of the late terri
ble Georgia cyclone was the destruction
of a house, one inmate of which was a
little child, who-was blown into a cup
board. Of all the furniture in the house,
that was the only piece not broken into
kindling wood.
A Southern citizen who proudly bore
the rank of General in the Confederate
service, recently joined the United States
army in New Orleans, and to-day carries
a musket as a private soldier. lie was
not compelled to join the awkward squad.
Poverty was the cause.
It is said that kerosene and rats have
no affection for each other. The kero
sene is not particularly sensitive, but the
rats are, and refuse to live in the same
cellar or shed where the kerosene is
kept. A great quantity is not necessary,
as they only require a steady odor of it
for a briefseason to be looking up an
other boardinghouse.
It is a fact not generally known to
students of the history of Massachusetts
that as recently as 1750 a woman was
burned at the stake tit Charlestown, in
that Commonwealth, “outlie northerly
side of the Cambridge road, about a
quarter of a mile above the peninsular.”
The woman was a colored servant of
Captain John Coffman, and was burned
for poisoning her master.
Monroe Advertiser: The most marvel
ous freak of the late storm that we have
heard of was reported to us last week by
Mr. W. H. Thurmond. He says that a
large hickory tree, about two feet in di
ameter, was driven four feet deeper into
the ground. It is still standing, and
can be seen by those who have curiosity
enough to visit the spot. We cannot ex
plain how this happened. Mr. Thur
mond, however, assures ns that it is a
true tale.
SWEETMEATS.
Bessie is spoken of as having been
ready of speech, but redder of hai r.
An emetic has relieved a Wisconsin
girl of a water snake eleven inches long.
A Fort Scott lady says the times are
so tight she is compelled to buy very
small shoes,
THE grand-daughter of Thomas Jeffer
son is in Washington seeking emplovment
for herself and son.
An Eldorado lady waltzed around a
ball-room the other night with a dress
festooned with pop-corn.
Bessie Turner never will be a suc
cess as a nursery maid. She sleeps too
soundly to be entrusted with the care of
children.
Mrs. GRIDLEY lives in Chicago, at
the tige of 102 years. She married at
the age of 38, and had her only child
when 59 years old,
A rooß woman, bound for San Fran
cisco on a Union Pacific train, was
obliged to leave that train on the 21st
ult., and become a mother.
A Philadelphia youth was recently
married to a girl who had refused him
eighteen times. He wishes now he
hadn’t asked her but seventeen.
It is said that nothing will cure a
poet’s affection for his idol sooner than
to catch her at the dinner table excava
ting the kernel of a hickory nut with a
hair pin.
A widow was weeping bitterly for the
loss of her husband, and a friend tried to
console her. “No, no,” said she, let me
have my cry out, and then I shan’t care
any more about it,”
“ No, sir,” said a weary-looking man
on a street car, to an individual by his
side, “ I wouldn’t marry the best woman
alive, I’ve been a dry goods clerk too
long for that.”
Deacon La due, of Wisconsin, vent
to his barn, the other day, and hung
himself because his wife playfully kicked
off his hat, and said, “ That’s the kind of
a clothes-pin I am !”
A Pittsburg girl fell in love with her
step-father, and annoyed him to such an
extent that he has sent her to Germany,
hoping that absence will work a cure of
her unfortunate passion.
A lady at Memphis says she doesn’t
want any jewelry, hasn’t a looking-glass
in the house, and wouldn’t take a silk
dress as a gift. Memphis has another
living curiosity—a cross-eyed cat.
“ That clock, stranger.” said an Ogle
thorpe farmer, “ was the best kind of a
clock up to six months ago, when my
daughter began to have beaus, and now
the blameff things is always too hours
slow.”
“Flanders, dear,” said she, tenderly
pushing him from her, as the moonlight
flooded the window where they were
Standing, “ I think you had better try
some other hair dye—your moustache
tastes like turpentine.”
From a young lady in town to her friend
in the country : “ I’m sitting on the latest
spring style, Mary.” And, judging by
the number of monstrous buttons one
sees in the fashion-plates, a very uncom
fortable seat it must be.
Belle Seymour, of Memphis, put on
men’s attire, and worked with a gang of
city laborers for three months, ft does
not appear how her sex was discovered,
but John Henry says he’ll bet a nickel
it was because she sat down on the floor
to put her shoes and stockings on.
The Utica (X. Y,) Observer gives the
following scene on the cars not many
miles from Utica : Enter a lady who,
addresses a well known railroad official:
“Mr. , do you think that Mr.
Beecher is guilty ?” “Guilty of what,
madam ?” Exit lady, suffused with
blushes.
Col. Sparks in his address told the
young ladies to “ turn their hacks upon
idle young men who wouldn’t work.”
Good advice, but wasted. The soft-kid
gentry of leisure are generally the recip
ients of the sweetest smiles, while the
working young man meets the cold
frown.
An lowa paper tells of a champion
little girl baby out there “whose face is
so small that her parents have to kiss her
through a pipe stem.” If the practice had
been adopted in this city of kissing grown
up babies through a forty foot rod pneu
matic tube, we shouldn’t have to take
out our pocket handkerchiefs and weep
as much as we do.
In Washington, the other day, a lady
went to pay her respects to one of the la
test arrivals on the list of babyhood, when
the following colloquy took place between
her and the little four-year-old sister of
the new comer: “ I have come for that
now,” said the lady. “ You can’t have
it,” was the reply. “ But I must; I came
over on purpose,” urged the visitor.
“We can’t spare it all,” persisted the
child, “but I’ll get a piece of paper
and you can cut a pattern.”
A very picturesque thing is flea-catch
ing in balmy Florida. Here is the or
dinary method as prescribed by a lady
to a correspondent of the Baltimore
Sun : “Go to your room,” she says,
lock your door,close your blinds, spread
a large blanket out on the floor, take
your position in the middle of it. with
a basin of water beside you, then re
move each article of dress, one piece at
a time, turn it inside out, and shake it
carefully over the blanket. The little
wretches will drop on and become en
tangled in the nap of the blanket when
they can easily be caught and consigned
with appropriate rites to a watery grave
in the basin.”
DEVILTRIES.
Both Mr. Lincoln’s Vice Presidents
are in the Senate ; but they’re not the
only vices there.
Bed used on a railroad signifies dan
ger, and says stop. It is the same thing
displayed on a man's nose.
An exchange frankly admits, “Our
breath poisons the air, and trees keep it
pure by sucking the poison out.”
At a spelling match at Indianapolis
the other night, everybody went down
on “Ipocacuanna.” It usually brings
everything up.
A Nelson street boy made an effigy of
his lather, and hung it in a peach tree in
the yard. Friday. That peach tree isn’t
so large as it was.
There is a man in Manaynnk who
has been snatched from a drunkard’s
grave ninety-nine times and is now in
training for the hundreth snatching.
Tn Shreveport the other day a negro
shot a soldier “in the suburbs.” That
means, we suppose, he hit him somewhere
outside the limits of his corporation.
An Irishman, after seeing the numer
ous hills and mountain ranges “out West,”
exclaimed, “Bedad I never was in a coun
try before where they had so much land
they had to stack it.”
A McDuffie county man broke his arm
in two places, and put out the eye of a
grass widow, recently, in endeavoring to
drop some warm molasses candy which
he had picked up.
“We find the prisoner not guilty, but
this kissing business must be stopped !”
was the verdict recently rendered by a
Chariton (N. Y.) jury in a ease of domes
tic trouble. How would this do for a
Brooklyn verdict.
Tilton wandering around the house
in his night clothes, Searching for a soft
bed, and Mrs. Tilton following him with
a candle, is one of the most charming ex
hibitions of eccentric genius that the
world has ever seen. Consequently Bee
cher is Innocent.
The other evening a student was vis
iting a young lady, and after a little
while she shivered and remarked that
she ought to have something around her.
The Soph, with creditable sagacity, put
the sleeve of his coat around her.
This is the season of the year when
the farmer tells his son John that if he
will sort over ten bushels of potatoes,
feed the stock, repair the fence and re
shingle the corn crib he may have the
rest of the day to go rabbit hunting.
Will you be pleased to insert the five
digits of your left fore arm into the left
hand corner of the right angle triangle
of the crook of my elbow against the per
pendicular of my body? That is the way
a fine haired young man invites a young
lady to take his arm.
A rustic youngster, Being asked out to
take tea with a friend, was admonished
to praise the eatables. Presently the
butter was passed to him, when he re
marked, “Very nice butter—what there
is of it,” and observing a smile, he added,
“and plenty of it—such as it is.”
“Do you retail things here ?” asked a
green looking specimen of humanity ef
Tom Witcher, as lie poked his head into
his store door. “Yes, sir,” replied Tom,
thinking that he had got a customer.
“ Then I wish youjvould ro-tail my dog
—he had it bitten off about amouth ago.”
And greeny strolled down the street
with one eye closed.
A party who was looking at a house in
the vSixth Ward the other day, said he
couldn’t afford to pay so much rent.
“Well, look at the neighborhood,” re
plied the woman. “You can borrow flat
irons next door, coffee and tea across the
street, flour and sugar on the corner, and
there’s a big pile of wood belonging to the
school-house right across the alley!”
A lady was advising a young man the
other day to marry. He replied he
couldn’t afford it. She came back with
the stereotyped played-outism that two
could live on what one could. He could j
not see it. “Why” said she, “a hen has
to scratch as hard for one chicken as she
does for two.” “Blit,” lie quickly re
joined, “the rooster doesn’t.” The argu
ment was exhausted.
Tin-; is a story from California. If
told of any other country in the world
we’d doubt it. A line bay horse was
found suspended one morning recently
from a cherry tree by the neck and dead.
He had been left hitched to a branch of
the tree, which had grown up so rapidly
during the night that it raised him off
his feet and hung him. And they don’t
think of fencing in California.
They got up a surprise party Thursday
night last, on a young married couple, at
whose house in Swampoodle a similar
affair was one of the social successes of the
last season. The conspirators were met
calmly but cordially at the gate by the
husband, who rested on his shot gun,
while his beautiful and accomplished
wife, whose face and form were visible
inside the porch, said she was very glad
to see them, but she didn’t think she
could hold the bull-dog back more than
a minute longer!
This is how Mary Kyle Dallas says it
feels: Take a man and pin. three or four
large table cloths about him, fastened
back with elastic and looped lip with
ribbons ; drag all his own hair to the
middle of his head and tie it tight, and
hair-pin on about five pound* of other
hair and a big bow of ribbon. Keep the
front lock On pins all night an*! let them
tickle his eves all day ; pinch hi> waist
into a corset, and give him gloves a size
too small, and shoes ditto, and a hat that
will not stay on without a torturing
elastic, and frill to tickle hi* chin, and a
iittie veil to blind his eyes whenever he
goes out to walk, and he will know what
wonu.i’s drej is. My!
VOL. I—NO. 27.
FASHION DOTS;
Ykuy long and full sprays of flowers
are to be worn on hats this season:
No feathers, and only a very few
small tips, are to be used in trimming
hats.
Chip is to be the most Dduonable for
hats: and hats are as varied in shape as
they were during the winter.
White illusion is much used as a tie
for the neck, and it is botli simple and
becoming. In-doors it is sometimes worn
as a scarf, confined at the throat with a
brooch or flowers, the ends reaching
within half a yard Of the dress.
Wiicn a gentleman leaves n lady at
her home after hiking her to an enter
tainment, he should thank her, and feel
very grateful for her condescension, and
not expect any expressions of obligation.
The attention is no more than vrhrit is ex
pected of him.
The flowers for the new hats are just
scrumptious and no mistake. Some are
mounted as trailing sprays, others as a
single compact cluster. For the latter
there are lilies of the valley, with roses
and hawthorn berries; path rose geran
iums, with fern leaves, to concrysan
thums with lilacs, p nk rose, and sprig
violets. For wreaths, there are smalt
scarlet poppies with dark green ivy
leaves, wild sweet briar with green arbor
vitae, and roses of all shades.
•Something new and pretty m fhecy
work is made of Turkish toweling, and
used for covering low chairs, stools, etc.
The toweling is overlaid Or inlaid with
figures and different designs, in red flan
nel of a very fine quality, worked with
silk in button-hole stitch. Besides this-,
there are different fancy stitches done in
colored worsted, and the whole is fin
ished around the edge with a box-plaip
ed scarlet braid.
Few sacques are seen this spring. The
latest importations give us capes, fichus 1 ,
and dolmans. The latter do not materi
ally differ from last year’s, so that she
who is fortunate enough to have had one,
is now in style without the trouble and
expense of getting anew garment. The
fi chits are without sleeves, :aid the capes
are round and fit the shoulders closely.
A little shirred pocket is worn on the
outside of the dolman, cape or polonaise.
Very few plain suits will bv fora
this season. Nearly all costumes lire
combinations; silk for the underdress
(and here a discarded black or brown
silk will come finely into play ) and plaid
or plain goods for the overdress. Tweed
and de biege goods may he bought .j*t
twenty-five cents a yard, and serges ifa
browns and greys at forty and fifty cents-.
The latter is twilled cotton and wool-,
and makes a most sorvicable dress tor
early spring wear. Basques are to be
very much trimmed, and sleeves their
whole length.
Unparalleled TT ex dish ness is
Utah. —The Rocky Mountain New* of a
recent date gives the following particulars
of an atrocious tragery committed at To
queville, Utah, on the Uitk instant:
‘‘Richard Fryer, who 'has lately labor
ed under the hallucination that he war
a second Jesus Christ, entered his house
in the evening and found Therras Batty,
a friend of the family, lighting a fife in
the grate. Believing that Batty was an
emmissary of the devil, who was trying
to burn his premises, The lunatic rushed
for a pistol and shot him through the
head. Mrs. Fryer, paralyzed with fear.,
crouched iii a corner, and we* abet
through the heart by her demoniac hus
band. The neXt thing he did was to gO
tb a cradle where his infant child was ly
ing asl.eep, and deliberately blow its
brains out. This was the crowning act
of the almost unparalleled tragedy. Fry
er then sallied forth into the village,
armed with a revolver and a gun, pro
claiming himself the Lord, and saving
that he had slain the devil and several
of his imps. The Sheriff be
ing unable to arrest Fryer, and fearing
that still other lives might be sacrificed-,
killed him with a shot from a navy revol
ver. Battv, Mrs. Fryer, the babe and
the slayer of them, ail were buried on St-.
Patrick’s Day frtm the samehousc.”
DESTITUTtIGN IN MISSOURI. —The St.
•Louis Republican has accounts from
some of the western counties of Missouri
which report great destitution amort>
the people of that State. In parts t.l
Henry, Johnson and Hr. Clair counfiies*
cattle have died for want of food, and
many families are suffering the pangs of
hunger from day to day. The drouth
of last summer burned up the com and
grass, leaving the people -without Use
crops on which they were depending for
food, and without the means to pur
chase provisons abroad. The St. Clair
County Court has been ;Asked to make
an appropriation to blty food for the
sufferers. It is a me\v thing to hear of
actual suffering from hunger among any
considerable number of persons in
Missouri, but that is the condition that
exist:- at this time in half a dozen of the
southwestern counties of the Slat#.
Punch's Advice to a Baby, —Don'.,
come into the world in cold weather. If
you are the heir of a branch of the ho. s;
of Smith, by no means }>crnjit your
parents to christen you Howard or Stan
ley, or Clinton, or Spencer. If you are a
lady-babv. don’t let them '*ill you Mary
Ann, or Mary Jane, or Sonhonisba, or
Sophronia. Think of your future hus
band’s misery under such < o:i hii nv ,
Be intensely cross to every bo;.-. No
bodv Asked whet he i yon wi.-aed to en
ter the world, an i you Imre a right to
protest against being h mg .* into it. Cry
lustily. It is good tor the !u gs, and it,
generally results in s > ncthiug nice be
ing produced to qui t you. Allow no
on” to talk politics hi your prawn a*.
Howl when you ire wasn&d, and resist
all attempt to put you to bed early.