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OGLETHORPE ECHO
IT'BILSJIED WEEKLY BY
s L GAXTT, Editor and Prop’r.
NEW PUBLIC LAWS.
The 101 l >wing compilations of 'the i
Laws jas ; ( dat the late session of the
L-urgia Legislature we clip from the j
{itortjia / fume Journal:
1. Mxempi'h.l)-peTsoi over sixty years
old from jury duly, unless they are wil- \
ling to serve.
2. Authorizes the transfer of state, j
utility and city tax executions.
3. Prohibits camping on or under |
bridges.
4. Authorizes h-iid requires Tax Col
r -tors to i-suo fi. fas. against defaulters
for proceeding years.
3. Makes To borer's wages liable to gar
nishment for physician’s and druggist’s
bills.
o. Exempt clerks in the State Depart
ment from jury duty.
7. This is an act to amend the ‘Consti
'•iion by reducing the homestead to !
' v 7oo reality and the exemption of per- I
•onaltv S3OO. This will have to be pass- j
ed by another Legislature and voted on j
by the people before it becomes opera- I
five ' .
8. Requires voters to reside in the
State one year and in the county
six months prior to exercising the elec
tive franchise.
0. Prohibits dower in lands not paid
for.
10. Prohibit' the sale of liquors to mi
nors without the consent of the parents
or guardians,and fixes the penalty there
for.
11. I tegulates the letting out of con
tracts by county authorities, and re
quires them to advertise the same.
JJ. Prohibits the writ of quo warranto
against the Governor.
Id. Prohibits'contracts for interest at
more than 12 per cent, under penalty
of forfeiture of all interest.
14. Authorize graduates of Mercer
University Law School to be licensed to
practice Jaw without examination,
15. Requires engineers to ring the bell
and not to whistle when about to cross a
street in any corporate town.,
16. Provides for a Military School at
the State College at Athens.
17. Designates as legal holidays, Jan
uary 1, January 22, April 26, * July 4,
December 25, and such days as the
President or Governor may designate as
a day of fasting, thanksgiving or prayer.
18. Makes fog stealing a felony.
19. Punishes the fraudulent sale of
crops by tenant.
20. Relieves parties sited under the
law requiring weighers of produce to be
sworn.
21. Allows the jury to fix the sentence
in capital cases to imprisonment for life.
22. Allows landlord’s liens for provis
ions and supplies furnished tenants, and
makes them transferable.
23. Organizes a State Board of Health
and rule for its government.
24. Allows aliens to hold land's in |
Georgia.
25. Requires school fund to be -paid
over by Tax Collectors instead of the
Comptroller General.
26. Amends the constitution of the
State, by prohibiting the payment Or
recognition of the fraudulent bonds'.
27. Allows constables to levy distress
warrants for any amount.
28. Provides for binding out pauper
minors.
2lk Relates to advertising cstrays,
30. Prohibits cruelty to animals.
31. Prohibits any persons putting any
fishing aparatuso'n the lands of another
without the consent of the owner.
32.. Allows clerks to demand recording
fees in advance.
33. Provides forswearing the weigh
ers of agricultural produce.
34. Exempt engineers and miller's from
jury duty',
35. Relates to changing names.
36. Provides for the collection of agri
cultural statistics, etc.
37. Authorizes a waiver of homestead
by debtors.
38. Exempts SIOO of maimed soldiers’
property from taxation.
39. Requires the Governor to offer
SSOO reward for ginhouse burners.
A Horror,
We learn that about four miles from
this town, in a southwestern direction,
the skeletons of two human beings were
found some time since, in a situation
and a position, which has convinced all
■vho have* viewed the bones, that they
were the victims of the vengeance of
Judge Lynch. They were found settle
distance trout the road on a small streaM,
or water, in a thicket, and one of them
when found had a rope around its neck,
and was lying under a tree, which was
probably used for a gallows. The other
one was probably shot.
Persons who have examined these
skeletons are of the opinion that they are
the mortal remains of two negroes, who
four or five years ago committed an as
sault upon ii widow and her daughters by
the name of Kemp living near there, in
flicting injuria upon j>ne of them from
which she has never recovered. He
struck her a severe blow on the head
with a stick, which so injured the nerv
ous system that she now frequently has
fits. These negroes were arrested by an
officer, and on their way to jail were in
tercepted near this place by unknown
parties aud the negroes taken from him.
Since that nothing lies been heard of
them, and finding of these bones proba
bly explains the mystery that has en
shrouded their late; Grimes like this, in
a country where ohr families are fre
quently exposed to the brutality of the
negro, have, it is well known.' subjected
the perpetrators I& the swift and sure
vengence of the exasperated people; and,
while we are opposed to mob law, we
must say that under some 'bircilffistanccs
it is excusable. lrvlnton <&outhcn)tr.
Anew style of summer fan is called
the pistolet. ft D a fan, when‘-open,
with a curved handle-; a pistol when
closed, worn by passing through a slide
in the belt. Pulling the trigger opens
the toy with a movement which is both
startling and anm-imo It enchants young
fTdies,
THE GERMAINE GIRLS.
A Graphic Recital of their Horrible Adven
ture and Sufferings.
Wichita, Kansas, March 12.
From a correspondent of tire Kansas
City 7'imes, who has just arrived here
from the Cheyenne agency, your corres
pondent has learned the following con
cerning the Germaine girls, recently
restored from captivity with the
Ch< venue tribe:
Catherine, the eldest, has suffered un
told cruelties from the demons who had
her in their possession. “My father’s
family consisted of himself, Lydia G.,
his wife, and seven children—Rebecca
21, Stephen 19, Johanna 15, myself 17,
►Sophia 11, Julia 7, and Nancy 5. We
left our old home'in Morgantown, Fan
pin county, Ga;, about five years ago,
and removed to Dowel county, Mo.
From there we went to Kansas, and when
overtaken by the Indians were going to
Colorado for my sister Johanna’s health.
THE MASSACRE.
“We chcamped on the banks of the
Smoky FT ill river,in Central Kansas,about
fourteen miles from the track of the
Kansas Pacific Railroad, and within
thirty miles of Fort Wallace, on Thurs
day night, September 10,1874. The next
morning I went down the river’s bank
to drive up the cattle, and when return
ing heard shouts and yells. Running
towards the wagon I saw my poor father
shot through the back and my mother
tomahawked by a big Indian. They
were scalped while yet living. An old
squaw ran up and struck an axe into
father’s head and left it there. Rebecca
seized an axe Mid attempted to defend
hgrself. She was soon overpowered and
knocked insensible. While lying on the
ground covered ivith blood, several In
dians outraged her person. They then tore
her clothes off and covered her up with bed
clothes from the wagon. These were
set fire to, and my darling sister was
burned to death. Stephen was killed
next, his scalp being taken. ►Sister
Johanna and myself 'were placed side
by side, and they came up to inspect us
and see which one they should kill. The
choise fell on poor Johanna, and she was
shot'through the head.
II OR It I RLE CRUELTIES.
“ Tying us—Sophia, Lucy, Nancy
and myself—they hurried us across
the prairie, going south. My clothes
were torn from me. I was stripped
baked and painted by the old squaws
and made the wife of the chief who
could catch me when fastened upon the
back of a horse which was set, ; loose on
the prairie. I don’t know what Indian
caught me. I was made the victim of
their desires —nearly all in the tribe
—and was beaten and whipped time and
time again. They made me carry wood
and water,,like the squaws. I had to kill
dogs and eoqk them for the Indians to
eat. We had nothing but dog meat and
horse meat. During the time we were
away from the home camp ‘on Staked
Plains I nearly froze. The snow was
very deep, and I had nothing to keep
me warm but a blanket. Both feet were
frozen, and my nails came olf from my
feet. Sophia was with me but little of
the time —where she went I don’t know.
I am positive that I can identify every
ope of the seventeen members of the
party that murdered my family. Medi
cine Water was with them, and! believed
was the leader. Ido not care to go
away from here, as I have no home.
They are very kind to me at the mission,
and I feel that good Mrs. Mills is a mo
ther to me.” 'Sophia is a spry, little
girl for her age, and does not "apparent
ly appreciate her condition. This vir
tually ends the Indian troubles, as all
have surrendered except ‘straggling:
bands.”
How Twenty Ears of Com Yielded Twen
ty Million Dollars.
Anthracite coal, was discovered in
Pennsylvania soon after the settlement
of the Wyoming Valley, but its first
practical use was by Obadiah Gb'se, in
his blacksmith shop, in the year 1798. In
1791 Philip Ginter discovered anthracite
coal on the Lehigh. In 1792 Robert
Morris, of Philadelphia, formed a com
pany and purchased 9,000 acres of the
property on which Ginter discovered the
coal. The company was called the Le
high Coal Mine. This company opened
-the mine, and found the vein to be fifty
feet thick, and of the very best quality
of coal.' The company made every ef
fort to secure a demand for the coal,
but without success, and having become
throughly disgusted with their specula
tion, leased the 9,000 acres ot the mam
moth coal to Messrs. White & Hazard of
| of Philedelpha, for twenty years, at an
annual rental of ode ear ofebrn. Messrs,
j M Hite & Hazard tried to use the coal in
I die blast furnace in 1826, but failed : the
! furnace chilled. In 1831 Neilson con
; ceived the idea of the hot blast for sav
j ing fuel, and in 1833 David Thomas
: adopted the idea of using the hot blast
I and antracite together. White & Haz
ard had previous., to this, formed a com
; pany and bought the property. In
1839 David Then ins made the use of an
• thracite for pig metal a success, by which
j the twenty ears of corn were transformed
! into twenty million dollars. And this is
' the early history of the great Lehigh
; coal mines of the present day.
White Quails.-—A year ago from
1 last fall a pair of white quails were net
! ted in the western part of this country
and were purchased by G. H.Dibble, Esq.,
;of this city. They were verb inaneh like
the ordinary quail with the exception of
being pure white. Mr. Kibble kept them
until last May and then, as they seemed
drooping and despondent, turned them
loose in the woods south of town. Noth
ing more was heard of them, until early
in the fall, when they were discovered
on the Lackland farm, with an Interest
ing family'of thirteen chicks, all as white
as themselves. They are yet in that vi
cinity, our sport-mien, bv common dcon
ueet, leaving.,, them unmolested. If
it had been onfy a freak 5f nature, as
was supposed by some to be the case with
the pair chpt red. the progeny would
have been of the ordinary color. They
are evidently,a kind new to this country.
What is their proper name and classifi
cation. and where uid they come from ?
\\ ill someone who is posted please in
form us. —Mexico I Mo. ) Liteligenccr.
, Old time rocks—rocking the cradle.
BUSINESS CARDS.
L Sclievenell&Co.
VTIIEXS, GEORGIA, •
DEALERS IN
ffatcte,§§ Jewelry,
Silver & Plated Ware, Fancy Articles, Etc,
Having BES T workmen, are prvnared t<>
REPAIR in superior -tvle.
./r>’ We make a specialty of SILVER and
GOLD PEA rix<; watches, forks, spoons, etc.
Spring and Summer
X>IIY GOODS
S. C. DOBBS,
Yen Planter’s Store,
BROAD STREET, - - ATHENS, UA.,
ir ave now in store oiie of the best selected
stocks of Spring and Summer
Dry Goods, of all kinds,
GROCERIES, PROVISION. Err.,
ever brought to Athens, which he will sell as
LOW FOR THE CASH as can be bought
elsewhere in the city. 1 ask that the citizens
of Oglethorpe give me a trial when they visit
Athens, and I will convince them that they
can purchase of me as low as goods can be
sold. I 'have every article needed by farmers
or their families. apr2-tf
YOUNG MEN
AITHO AVISII A THOROUGH PREPA
YV RATION for Business, will find supe
rior advantages at
Moore's Southern Business University,
JLt 154 nt s) 9 <a
- hugest and best Practical Business
School in the South,
Students can enter at any time.
oct‘so-1 y 15. F. HOOKE, Pros’*.
DISSOLUTION.
rniTE PARTNERSHIP OF LUMPKIN &
JL OLIVE was dissolved, by mutual con
sent, on the Ist day of .January 1875, as to all
business arising on and after that date.
Each hientl'er of the firm remains ip Lex
ington, G.i., and continues the pjfaclice of
Law in the Northern Circuit—and elsewhere,
by special c nitract.
| SAM PEL LUMPKIN may be found in the
j Bun Willingham office, fronting lot of E.
G. Ko- .ne
J. T. OLIVE may be found in the office
late!v occupied by Joii C. Reed, Esq.
BOOTS AND SHOES
HENRY LUTHI,
TTRAAVFORI), GA., IS NOW PREPARED
vv to make, at short, notice, the FT NEST
BOOTS and SHOES. I use only the best
material, and warrant my work to give entire
j satisfaction, Jiotb as to finish and wear.
REPAIRING AND COARSE WORK also
attoirted to. oetß-ly
CARRIAGES, BUGGIES,
WAGONS.
R, P. TUCKER & BRO.,
CRAWFORD, CA.,
HA A' IN G REBUILT
their Shops, and thor
oughly stocked them
the best tools and a full supply of the finest
seasoned LUMBER, are now prepared to
manufacture, at short notice, every descrip
tion of CARRIAGES, BUGGIES, ROCKA
AVAYS, PIIJETONS, AVAGONS, CARTS,
etc., etc. AVe will also do all manner oi
Kliicksmithiiig and Repairing, am.
guarantee all our work to give perfect satis
faction. AVe sell our TYYO-HORsK
WAGONS fit frojrn s9© to $123, and eve
rything else LOW in proportion. ocUl-tf
G. HAUSER,
ATHENS, GA.,
is the best and cheapest place in the State to
purchase your
Cigars, Tobacco, &c.
lie keeps the best brands always on hand,
that lie soils at very low. rates; Special terms
to dealers. Give him a trial before buying
elsewhere. feb4-2m "
MRS. HARLOW’S
Electric Life Liniment
| For the cure, of Rheumatism, Neuralgia,
! foothaehe, Headache, Sore Throat, Bronehi
j tis, Pain in Chest, Side, Plurisy, Paralysis,
: Cramp Colic, all Spinal Affections, Bone
j Felon, Carbuncle, Cuts, Sprains,Burns, Brui
ses, Chilblains, etc. If not as represented the
i money refunded. For sale by McMAHAN
& STOKELY; Crawford, T. Fleming <fc Cos.,
and Mc\\ horter, Young A Cos. janß-fim
E. A. WILLIAMSON,
... PRACTICAL
WATCIIM .V K E R
And Jeweller,
At Dr. King’s Drug Store Athens, Ga.
mansioOouse;
Third Door Above Globe Hotel,
Broad St., Augusta, G-a.
MRS. R. mTrOBERDS,
(Late of Gainesville, FTa.,) Proprietress.
HOARD, $3.00 PER MY.
PACIFIC GUANO CO., - - - CAPITAL, $1,000,000!
o
SOLUBLE PACIFIC
ou^isro
And COMPOUND ACID PHOSPHATE,
For Composting with Cotton Seed.
The SOLUBLE PACIFIC GUANO is now sowell known for its ivirtarkalJe effects as
an agency lor increasing the produce of labor, as not to require especial commendation from
me. Its use, for Ten Years past, has established its character for Reliable F.xecllenec. The
large Fixed Capital invested by the Company in this trade, affords the surestguarai ta > of
the continued excellence of its Guaiio. .£•*.?'• The Guano and Phosphate will be delivered to
any boat or depot in the city FREE of Dravagc.
CASH PR ICE :
Per Ton, 2,000 Pounds, SOEIBEE PACIFIC ill IXO £4B
'* ACID PII ON PH AT E (>
TIME PRICE:
Without Interest, and option of paying in Liverpool Middling Cotton, delivered at nearest
Railroad Depot, at Fifteen Cents per pound:
Per Ton, 2.000 Pounds, SOI. I DEE PAC IFIC’ GL AXO *s*
•• • AI DC’ COAIPOI XD 12
/'C • Orders received and information furnished on application to my Agents at various
Local Markets.
J. 0. MATHEWSON, r&,r<S. c *'
ja „ 15 ,,„, J. G. M. EDWARDS, LOC LYSi>, <u.
Wm. L. Bradley’s Standard Fertilizers.
PR INT UP, PRO. & POLLARD,
Formerly Pollard & Cos.,
Cotton Factors, General Agents, Augusta, Ga,
o
• ZB- JD
FOWL
GUANO.
GUARANTEED EQUAL TO ANY EVER SOLD.
SEA FOWL GUANO, in Lags, 200 pounds each. •
C. C. COE’S SUPERPHOSPHATE OF UIYIE.&,
BRADLEY’S AMMONIATED DISSOLVED BONES,
In Bags, 200 pounds.
ROYAL GUANO COMPOUND,
Ay. • A Cotton Option * of’ 15c. per pound on tlio Sea Fowl, where
delivered sft Lexington Depot by the Ist of November, 1875.
The above Standard Fertilizers having been in use for the past seven years in the
South, with unequalled success, are again offered at prices tlfttt cannot tail to give satisfac
tion, while the standard is guaranteed to be equal, if hot superior, to any ever sold
For Prices and Terms apply to
STOKELY & LITTLE, Agents,
febjl-3m LEXINGTON . DEPOT, GA.
W. H. HOWARD & SONS,
Cotton Factors, Commission Merchants,
AND GENERAL AGENTS FOR
JOHN MERRYMAN & CO S
AMMONIATED
DISSOLVED BONES!
THE GREAT COTTON GROWER.
Composed of PI KE BOXES, dissolved in Sulphuric Acid, and the
host Anmtoniaeal material.
Analysis by Prof. White.
Moisture and volatile matter 50.21
Non-volatile matter 43.79
Sand and Clay 4.01
Phosphoric Acid, soluble in water 9.77
Reduced Phosphoric Acid 3.63
Insoluble Phosphoric Acid 1.09
Nitrogen,.(=*3.4s Ammonia) . 2.52
Commercial value per ton , (2,000 lbs.)
195.4 lbs. Soluble Phos. Acid 532.73
72.0 “ reduced “ 12.10
33.8 insoluble “ l.St;
50.8 “ Nitrogen (=09.0 lbs. Ammo.).. 17.04
$03.79
“ „ WITCHER & JARRELL,
Gil, Gii Guano.
M E are.now offering the following GUANOS at prices to suit the times
Barry’s Cliemioal For!ilizor— CasJi SOO; Time, 865.
Barry’s Acid Phosphate— Cash s4o* Time, 845. . .
Fivti: dollars per ton added for coftehl option of 15c., delivered in An gusto by Nov. 1.
< arolina Fertilizer —Cash
Bussell Coe’s Superphosphate— Gash 8,55; Time 805.
Cat Island Guano —Cash $43 Time 850.
4 hc.aliove subject to a cotton option of 15e., deliver at purchasers’ nearest depot.
Also, ftardy’s Fertilizer.
Planters would do well to give its a call before purchasing, and examine onr Fertilizers.
I amphlets, containing certificates, etc., furnished on application.
fetes*.. HARGROVE & .JOHNSON, c,.fcx
Garden Seed, Flower Seed, Grass Seed,
Clover Seed, I 3 m*e Lead and Oil.
We have just received a large lot of the above articles, which we offer verv cheap.
LONGS & BILLUPS, Athens, Ga.
TERMS.
Time Price, per ton, at Port 80vtt1......562.50
Cash Price, “ “ “ ' 55.00
Freight, per ton, from Port Roval to
Crawford, 84.75.
S'VU- Purchasers have (he option of paving
450 pounds of good Middling Cotton, delivered
at Crawford by the Ist of November, 1875.
Me warrant every hag to contain, bv
analysis, the standard of fertilizing proper
ties, and to secure this result one of our firm
superintends in person every detail of its
manufacture.
JOHN MERRYMAN & CO.,
Baltimore, Md.
MISCELLANEOUS.
JILZ’ IMPROVED
PATENT
WELL
AUGER!
WILLIAM BROOKS,
General Agent for Georgia,
Crawford. Oglethorpe County. Ga*.
o
The Auger is operated by either hand or
horse j tower, three men Iteing required when
the former is used. We can bore to anv
depth, and as large a thirty-six inches in di
ameter. As soon as the well is bored we tube
it from top to lnittom with good inch lumber,
ripped in strips three inches wine, and ofthc
proper beveled edges to suit the inside of the
well. The tubing nearest the surface will
last fifteen or twenty years, and then vou can
pull it out and put in anew joint. That fal
low the water will last for ages. The wood
causes the Water to taste of it only a week or
so. Either pumps or buckets can be used in
our wells. The bucket fills from a valve in
the bottom. At the bottom of each well is
kept a galvanized iron bucket, left there for
the purpose of cleaning out the well, which
can be drawn out at anv time, and your well
thoroughly cleansed of the ntost minute parti
cle of trash or garbage that should chance tb
fall into it. Ihe old-fashioned dug wells cost
from $5 to 810 per year to be kept clean—our
bored wells costs nothing. We bore through
quicksand easily, and guarantee it to never
after annoy you.
ONE DOLLAR PER FOOT
is my price for boring, aud tubing with wood,
and we can generally
Finish a Well in One Day,
\\ e also supply buckets and well-house at a
small additional charge. Can bore in either
winter or summer
COUNTY RICHTS
FOB ANY COUNTY IN GEORG! V
FOIL SALE BY ME.
125 PER DAI CLEAR
of all ex]tenses guaranteed in good territory.
This is the best opportunity -ever offered to
make a great dt-ul'bf money'with little labor
and at a small outlay of capital. This is no*
Yankee catch-penny, but a Southern inven
tion run by Southern men, and guaranteed
to be as represented. 1 will sell County
Bights at different prices, owing to class ■</
territory. Aliy one wishing to purchase can
address or apply to me for full particulars. _
Refer to the following prominent genti** l
men of Oglethorpe county, who now iise the
Bored M ells and will testify to their worth.
S. 11. STOKELY, Crawford.
J.J. C. McMAHAN, “
b. a. McMahan,
J. B. POYNER, “
TOM WITCHER,
V.. It. I>. MASON, Lexington.
M. B. BBOOKS,
Rev. J. G. GIBSON, “
Elder D. W.-PATMAN,
And many others;
CERTIFICATE.
I now use a well Ixired by Mr. Win. Brooks,
and cheerfully testify that it surpasses, in
every point of excellence, my greatest expec
tations. I was surprised at the large amount
of water furnished. It gives full satisfaction
in every way. It cost me tully .slo less (hav
ing paid $1 per foot) than anv other well
would have done. 11, C. ZUBER,
Maxey’s, Ga
PERSONS DESIRING WELLS
in Oglethorpe and adjoining counties, wonld
do well to correspond with me Indore con
tracting with any one else, as I will guaran
tee to furnish them q better well, better
ter, easier drawn, and for less money than
any one else. No danger of children falling
in my wells. The ladies all like them, aud
when they once try them will use no other.
For particulars address me at Crawford,
Oglethorpe conntv, Ga.
WM. BROOKS,
janß-ly General Agent for Georgia,
ATHENS
MarWfi&Graiiitß Yarfl,
AR. ROBERTSON, DEALER
. iii Monuments, Head Stones,
Cradle Tombs, Marble and Granite ywvrV [>| i
Box Tombs; also, Vases and Mar- ffjnTi :
lde Tops for Furniture. Persons i
desiring work of this kind would j]KO\
do well to examine my designs lie- yUr —NV
fore purchasing elsewhere. Prices
moderate. *ovlct-9
Go to Davis’ Gallery
IN ATHENS'
IF YOU WANT
OLD PICTURES COPIED and ENLARGE!/
M ith RELIABLE and Guaranteed work
At 25 Per (feat Less
than Foreign companies. jan29-tf
GeiielfieiAimy
RAILROAD TICKETS
For sale, by all routes, to all principal points
In the United States.
Buy your Tickets in Athens, and get all
information from
Capt. WM. WILLIAMS
Agent Southern Express Co.,Athens, Ga.