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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. TIM!■:. 1 in. 2 in. 3 in. 4 in. .} col V col. 1 col 1 w’k, *I.OO >2.00 *3.00 $4.00 XO.OO *IO.OO sl4 2 “ 1.75 2.7-") 4.00 5.01 T 8.00 13.00 1* 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.