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OGLETHORPE ECHO !
PUBIL3HED WEEKLY BY
T. L. GANTT, Editor and Prop’r.
Where the Beautiful Eivers Flow.
BY TATHER BYAK.
Oh, I’ll sing to-night of a fairy land,ln the
lap of the ocean set,
And of all the lands I’ve traveled o’er, ’tis
the lovelist I have met;
Where the" willows weep, and the roses
sleep, and the balmy breezes blow;
In that dear old land, that sweet old t land,
where the beautiful rivers flow.
But oh, alas! how can I sing?—’tis an exile
breathes the strain,
And that dear old land of my youthful love
I may never see again ;
And the very joys that fill my breast must
ever change to woe,
For that dear old land, that sweet old land,
where the beautiful rivers flow.
But I’ll sing of the lonely old church-yards
where our father’s bones are laid—
W here the cloisters stand, those ruins grand
that our tyrant foes have made;
And I’ll strike the harp with a mournful
touch, till the glist’ning tears will show,
For that dear old land, that sweet old land,
where the beautiful rivers flow.
And I’ll sing of Emmet’s lonely fate, and of
his lonely grave—
Of his early doom, and his youthful bloom,
and his spirit more than brave ;
And ah ! how blest and calm his rest, tho’ his
grave be cold and low,
In that dear old land, that sweet old land,
■where the beautiful rivers flow.
And I’ll sing of Tone and Geraldine, proud
Edward true and blest—
They won the crown—the martyr’s crown—
and they sleep in shade and rest;
In heavenly mould their names are rolled—
they died in manhood’s glow, i
For that dear old land, that sweet old land,
where the beautiful rivers flow.
And I’ll sing of Ireland’s ancient days, when
her sires were kingly men,
Who led the chase, and'the manly race thro’
forest, field and glen ;
Whose only word was the shining sword—
v hose pen, the patriot’s blow,
For that dear old land, that sweet old land,
where the beautiful rivers flow.
Household Woman.
BT CAROLINE GILMAK.
Graceful may seem the fairy form,
W ith youth, and health, and beauty warm.
Gliding along;the airy dance,
Imparting joy at every glance;
And lovely, too when o’er the strings
Her hand of music woman flings,
Her dewy eyes upward thrown,
As if from heaven to claim the tone.
And lair is she when mental flowers
Engage her soul’s devoted powers,
And wreaths—unfading wreaths of mind
Around her temples are untwined.
But never in her varied sphere
Is woman to the soul more dear
Then when her homely task she plies,
With cheerful duty in her eyes,
And every lowly path well trod,
Looks meekly upward to her God.”
Indian Burial.
Funerals among the aborigines of this
part of the country are not impressive.
Ihe Diggers, of California, burn their
dead in a funeral pile, amici the lamen
tations of the tribe. The ashes of the
deceased are then gathered by the near
est female relative and mixed with resin
into a paste w’hich is then spread over
the head, forming a cap of tar, which is
worn as a sign of mourning, u itil des
troved by time and attrition. Moreover.
“ ~.e defunct was a noted Indian, grand
wailing chorus is chanted by the tribe
for several nights after the funeral. But
y itii the Shoshones of Reese river, and
Piutes from the westward, which now
have invaded the former’s domain, death
seems to produce no other emotion than
a desire to get rid of the body in the
quickest and easiest manner. The Sho-
Siione disposes of the body by burning it
in a heap of sage-brush, or simply leav
ing it on the top of the ground to decay
or be eaten by coyotes. A few years ago,
whilst looking for a mine some three
miles south of Austin, we came across
the half-decomposed body of a Shoshone
squaw, some three hundred yards from
an abandoned campoodia. A rag, huno
on the nearest sage-bush, was the’ only
monument to her memory. The Piutes
do not burn their dead, but bury them
“all same as white man.” But the burial
is accompanied by no ceremonial; the
body is simply placed in a hole, where,
we have no doubt, it will hear Gabriel’s
trumpet just as well as if reposing in a
marble vault in Greenwood Cemetery.
—Reese River Reveille.
A Look Around the World.—The
latest and best authority gives the pop
pulation of theglobeat 1,350,300,000.
In America, 72,800,000.
In Europe. 587,000,000.
In Asia, 798,000,000.
In Africa, 158,000,000.
In Australia and Polynesia, 5,300,000.
These people speak about 3,000 differ
ent languages, and are cut up into
1,000 different religious sects.
The adherents of the principal sects,
reeuuting the whole population, are
supposed to be nearly thus:
Roman Catholics, 195,000,000.
Protestants 47,130,000.
Mohammedans, 400,000,000.
Budhists, 340,000,(KK>.
The six other oriental churches, 65.-
000,000. ’
Other Asiatic religions, 260,000,000.
Pagans, 200,000,000.
Jews, 6,000,000.
Died For Her Brother. —On Satur
day, at Aylmer,an event occurred in which
two children were the actors. A young
girl named Popps, seventeen years old, is
w orking in the house, and keeping an eye
all the time on her little brother, who is
playing upon the ice on the creek. The
little bov falls into the water. Instant
ly his sister runs to pull him out and is
drnwnl in herself?,‘No. She calmly
tells her little brother to climb on to her
back and get out. He did so, and was
saved; but iu doing as she bade him he
pushed her under the ice, under which
she drifted five or six yards, and of course
when taken oat wu quite dead.
ALL SORTS.
It will soon be time to inaugurate pic
nics.
The last human skeleton dug up in
lowa was eight feet along.
Time is money, and many people
hereabouts pay their debts with it.
The fumes from burning sugar are
said to be a sovereign remedy for n u
ralgia.
To make an ounce of ottar of roses
about 230,000 roses, weighing 57 pounds,
are required.
You can buy horse-meat at fifty shops
in Paris, and the more you eat of it the
better you like it.
Seven years is the time counted for
the construction of the tunnel between
England and France.
A man in Conecuh county, Ala., says
the Eufaula Times, killed six wild tur
keys at one shot a few days ago.
Last Saturday was a lively day. The
square was crowded with wagons and a
good deal of business was transacted.
It is said that Mr. J. C. New, the
successor of Spinner, has a signature
that resembles a handful of fish hooks.
There is a lady now visiting Florida
for her health. She weighs six hundred
and fifty pounds. Poor, delicate thing!
A negro who threatened to kill a white
boy at Butler on Monday, was himself
killed, the lad being too quick for him.
Taylor county, Georgia, comes to
the font with wheat three and a half
feet high, w’ell headed and unusually
large stalk.
A pair of twins, closely resembling
the Siamese twins, were recently born
near Troy, Missouri. The parents of
the twins are colored.
Col. Jefferson Davis and Capt. U. S.
Grant are invited to a reunion of the
officers of the Mexican war, in Austin,
Texas, on the Bth of May.
That director of the Georgia railroad
was in earnest when, as a matter of eco
nomy, he proposed to suspend all trains
on the road for thirty days.
A Louisville woman has sued a lodge
of Knights of Pythias for $50,000 for hav
ing fatally injured her husband during
the initiation ceremonies.
General Spinner’s retirement will
necessitate the counting of every dollar
in the Treasury vaults, amounting to
more than one hundred millions.
W. L. Cash, who killed O. S. Holland
at Columbus a few days since, has been
on the police force of that city since the
war, and during that time has killed
three men.
Eli Crozier, of Delaware, sw r ore
thirty-one years ago to wear the hat he
then wore until Henry Clay should sit
in the Presidential chair. The venera
ble beaver still crowns his wrinkled
brow.
One thousand years from now the
earth will tumble into the sun and be
destroyed. If it isn’t asking too much
of a favor, we’d like to keep our grip un
til that time just to see the hopping
around.
China has a very singular plant called
the camelon flower, a kind of creeper of
the convolvuli tribe, which, in the morn
ing is deep blue, at noon pink, while
at night it becomes quiet white, and soon
afterwards fades away.
A lady in the Christian Monitor savs
that when it is necessary to break a bot
tle, the quickest way is to soak a string
in turpentine and tie it round the neck
of the hotttle, then set fire to the string
and it will break in good shape.
A piece of red-pepper, the size of your
finger-nail, put into the meat or vegeta
bles, when first beginning to cook, will
aid greatly in killing the unpleasant odor
arising therefrom. Rememher this for
boiling cabbage, green beans, onions,
chickens, mutton, etc.
The aspirants for Governor are Col.
Tom Hardeman, Gen. A. H. Colquitt,
Gen. Lucius J. Gartrell, and Hon. John
H. James. There will he several more
in the field before the election comes off.
It is all speculation as to who will be
the nominee of the Democratic party.
Two brothers, one of whom fought on
the Federal and the other on the rebel
side during the war, met at Columbia,
Tenn., the other day, after fifteen
years’ separation, but would not reeog
nire each other, and separated again
within without speaking.
The entire alphabet is found in these
four lines. Some of the children may
like to learn them :
God gives the grazing ox his meat,
He quickly hears the sheep’s low cry,
But man who tastes his finest wheat,
Should joy to lift his praises high.
The following puzzle is again on its
rounds : “To five and five and fifty-five
the first of letters add, ’twill make a
thing that killed the king and drove a
wise man mad.” It was published first
about twenty years ago and has never
been answered. But they say there is
au answer.
A company in Butler,Ga., is manufac
turing wire ropes to tie cotton bales with.
The rope is of ordinary telegraph wire,
galvanized, cannot rust, and six of them
only weigh four pounds, while the pre
sent iron bands weigh eleven pounds
The six ropes cost but fifty cents.
A Keokuk paper tells a story of how
a clergyman of Keokuk married two
young people in Bonaparte recently by
telegraph. The parties assembled in the
telegraph office, the questions and re
sponses, service and benediction were
ticked rapidly off, and the happy pair
left the office one flesh, welded by
lightning.
A Hydra-Headed Snake. —We
were told yesterday, by a prominent geu
tleman of this city, that he saw a snake
to-day below the cotton factory, in Reedy
river, that had several terrible looking
heads, but he only got a glimpse of it ana
could not say how many. It was a huge
monster, appearing to be twelve or four
teen feet long, and as large round as a
man’s thigh. Efforts will be made to
capture the monster. —Greenville {S. C.)
___BUBIWEBB CARDS.
L. Schevenell & Cos.
ATHENS, GEORGIA,
DEALERS IN
Watches, Q Jewelry,
Silver l Plated Ware, Fancy Articles, Etc.
Having BEST workmen, are prepared to
REPAIR in superior style.
We make a specialty of SILVER and
GOLD PLATING watches, forks, spoons, etc.
Spring and Summer
3Dry goodS
S. C. DOBBS,
New Planter’s Store,
BROAD STREET, - - ATHENS, GA.,
Have now in store one of the best selected
stocks of Spring and Summer
Dry Goods, of all kinds,
GROCERIES, PROVISION. Etc.,
ever brought to Athens, which he will sell as
LOW FOR THE CASH as can be bought
elsewhere in the city. I 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
WHO WISH A THOROUGH PREPA
RATION for Business, will find supe
rior advantages at
Moore's Southern Business University,
Atlanta, Ga.
The largest and best Practical Business
School in the South.
Students can enter at any time.
oct3o-ly B. F. MOORE, Pres’t.
BOOTS AND SHOES
HENRY LUTHI,
CRAWFORD, GA., IS NOW PREPARED
to make, at short notice, the FINEST
BOOTS and SHOES. I use only the best
materia], and warrant ray work to give entire
satisfaction, both as to finish and wear.
REPAIRING AND COARSE WORK also
attented to. octß-ly
CARRIAGES, BUGGIES,
WAGONS.
R. P. TUCKER & BRO.,
CRAWFORD, CA.,
“5*22 mm
ouglily stocked them
the best tools and a full supply ot the finest
seasoned LUMBER, are now prepared to
manufacture, at short notice, every 1 descrip
tion of CARRIAGES, BUGGIES, ROCKA
WAYS, PHOTONS, WAGONS, CARTS,
etc., etc. We will also do all manner oi
Blacksmithiug and Repairing, am.
guarantee all our work to give perfect sati°-
faction. pff' We sell our TWO-HORsF
WAGONS at from S9O to $125, and eve
rything else LOW in proportion. oct9-tf
G. HAUSER,
ATHENS, GA.,
is the best and cheapest place in the State to
purchase your
Cigars, Tobacco, &c.
He keeps the best brands always on hand,
that he sells at very low rates. Special terms
to dealers. Give nim a trial before buying
elsewhere. feb4-2m
MRS. HARLOWS
Electric Life Liniment
For the cure of Rheumatism, Neuralgia,
Toothache, Headache, Sore Throat, Bronchi
tis, Pain in Chest, Side, Plurisy, Paralysis,
Cramp Colie, all Spinal Affections, Bone
Felon, Carbuncle, Cuts, Sprains, Burns, Brui
ses, Chilblains, etc. If not as represented the
monev refunded. For sale by McMAHAN
& STOKELY, Crawford, T. Fleming & Cos.,
and McWhorter, Young & Cos. janß-6m
E. A. WILLIAMSON,
PRACTICAL
WATCHMAKER
And Jeweller,
At Dr. King’s Drug Store Athens, Ga.
MANSION HOUSE,
Third Door Above Globe Hotel,
Broad St., Augusta, Ga.
MRS. R. E~ROBERDS,
(Late of Gainesville, Fla.,) Proprietress.
BOARD, $2.00 PER DAT.
janß-tf
WM. B. JACKSON,
CARPENTER & BUILDER,
Is now fully prepared to do all manner o
work in his line in a snperb manner. Esti
mates on buildings made, and lowest figures
given. A portion of the patronage of the
citizens of Crawford and surrounding country
solicited. No “ botch” work done.
MISS C. JANIES,
Broad-st., ATHENS, (store formerly occupied
by S. C. Reese,) dealer in
Millinery and Fancy Goods.
FIRST-CLASS LEAPING FERTILIZERS.
Wm. L. Bradley’s Standard Fertilizers.
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PRINTUP, BRO. & POLLARD,
Formerly Pollard & Cos.,
Cotton Factors, General Agents, Augusta, Ga.
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23. 33.
SEA FOWL
GUANO.
GUARANTEED EQUAL TO ANY EVER SOLD.
SEA FOWL GUANO, in Bags, 200 pounds each.
C. C. COE’S SUPERPHOSPHATE OF LIME,
BRADLEY’S AMMONIATED DISSOLVED BONES.
In Bags, 200 pounds.
ROYAL GUANO COMPOUND, in Bags, 200 pounds.
Isssu A Cottorf Option of 15c. per ponnd on the Sea Fowl, where
delivered at 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 that cannot fail to give satisfac
tion, while the standard is guaranteed to be equal, if not superior, to any ever sold.
For Prices and Terms apply to
STOKELY & LITTLE, Agents,
feblL3m 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 PURE BOXES, dissolved in Sulphuric Acid, and the
best Ammoniacal material.
Analysis by Prof. White.
Moisture and volatile matter 56.21
Non-volatile matter 43.79
Sand and Clay 4.61
Phosphoric Acid, soluble iu water 9.77
Reduced Phosphoric Acid 3.63
Insoluble Phosphoric Acid 1.69
Nitrogen, (=3.45 Ammonia) 2.82
Commercial value per ton, (2,000 lbs.)
195.4 lbs. Soluble Phos. Acid $32.73
72.6 “ reduced “ 12.16
33.8 “ insoluble “ 1.86
56.8 “ Nitrogen (=69.0 lbs. Ammo.).. 17.04
$63.79
fbelß ' 2m WITCHER & JARRELL,
HARK! WHAT'S THE MATTER AT
R. S. MARTIN’S
FANCY AND FAMILY GROCERIES
AT UNPRECEDENTED LOW PRICES!
Come one, come all, and see for yourselves, the following prices:
Good Coffee Sugar, 9 lbs. for sl.
Extra C, white, 8 tbs. for sl.
Coffee, best, 3£ tbs. for sl.
Coffee, good, 4 tbs. for sl.
Soda, 3 tbs. for 25c.
Starch, 10c.
Turpentine Soap, 4 bars, 25c.
Matches, per doz., 40c.
Shot, 15c. Candles, 20c.
Guano, Goano, Guano.
WE are now offering the following GUANOS at prices to suit the times
Barry’s Chemical Fertilizer —Cash $80; Time, $65.
Barry’s Acid Phosphate— Cash S4O; Time, $45.
Five dollars per ton added for cotton option of 15c., delivered in Augusta by Nov. 1.
Carolina Fertilizer— Cash SSO; Time $65.
Russell Coe’s Superphosphate— Cash $55; Time $65.
Cat Island Guano —Cash $43; Time SSO.
The above subject to a cotton option of 15c., deliver at purchasers’ nearest depot.
Also, Sardy’s Fertilizer.
Planters would do well to give us a call before purchasing, and examine our Fertilizers.
Pamphlets, containing certificates, etc., furnished on application.
feb2s-2m HARGROVE & JOHNSON,
REMOVAL! REMOVAL!
To No. 12 Broad street, Athens, Ga.
The Largest and Cheapest Furniture Establishment in North-East Georgia I
J. P. WILSON & CO.
Furniture, Coffins, Burial Cases, Etc.
J&T' Give us a call before purchasing elsewhere. janls-ly
Garden Seed, Flower Seed, Grass Seed,
Clover Seed., Pure Lead and Oil.
We have just received a large lot of the above articles, which we offer very cheap.
LONGS & BILLUPS, Athens. Ga.
TERMS.
Time Price, per ton, at Port Royal $62.50
Cash Price, “ “ “ 55.00
Freight, per ton, from Port Royal to
Crawford, $4.75.
Purchasers have the option of paying
450 pounds of good Middling Cotton,delivered
at Crawford by the Ist of November, 1875.
We warrant every bag to contain, by
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.
Tobacco, sound, 60c.
Tobacco, finest, 85c.
Pine Apples, 2 lbs., 30c.
Oysters, 1 tb. can, 12Jc.
Strawberries, 2 lbs., 25c.
Also Pickles, Sardines, and
Crackers of all kinds.
Stick and Fancy Candies.
ISaT' Come and see.
MISCELLANEOUS.
JILZ’ IMPOVED
PATENT
WELL
AUGER!
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WILLIAM BROOKS,
General Agent for Georgia)
Crawford, Oglethorpe County, Ga.
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The Anger is operated by either hand or
horse power, three men being required when
the former is nsed. We can bore to anr
depth, and as large a thirty-six inches in di
ameter. As soon as the well is bored we tube
it from top to bottom with good inch lumber,
ripped in strips three inches wine, and of the
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 putin anew joint. That be
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 lie drawn out at any time, and your well
thoroughly cleansed of the most minute parti
cle of trash or garbage that should chance to
lall into it. The old-fashioned dug wells cost
from $5 to $lO 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, and tubing with wood,
and we can generally
Finish a Well in One Day.
We also supply buckets and well-house at a
small additional charge. Can bore iu either
winter or summer
COUNTY RIGHTS
FOR ANY COUNTY IN GEORGIA
FOR SALE BY ME.
$25 PER DAY CLEAR
ol all expenses guaranteed in good territory.
This is the best opportunity ever offered to
make a great deal of 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 l>e as represented. I will sell County
Rights at different prices, owing to class of
territory. Any one wishing to purchase can
address or apply to me for full particulars.
Refer to the following prominent gentle
men of Oglethorpe county, who now use the
Bored Wells and will testify to their worth.
S. 11. STOKELY, Crawford.
J. J. C. McMAHAN, “
It. A. McMAIIAN,
J. B. POYNER,
TOM WITCHER, “
W. R. D. MASON, Lexington.
M. B. BROOKS,
Rev. J. G. GIBSON, “
Elder D. W. PATMAN,
And many others.
CERTIFICATE.
I now use a well bored by Mr. Wm. Brooks,
and cheerfully testify that it surpasses, in
every point ot 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 fully sls less (hav
ing paid $1 per foot) than any other well
would have done. H. C. ZUBER,
Maxey’s, Ga
PERSONS DESIRING WELLS
in Oglethorpe and adjoining counties, would
do well to correspond with me before con
tracting wi th any one else, as I will guaran
tee to furnish them a better well, better wa
ter, easier drawn, and for less money than
any one else. No danger of children falling
in my wells. The ladies all like them, and
when they once try them will nse no other.
For particulars address me at Crawford,
Oglethorpe county, Ga.
WM. BROOKS,
janß-ly General Agent for Georgia.
ATHENS
Marble & Granite Yard,
AR. ROBERTSON, DEALER
. in Monuments, Head Stones,
Cradle Tombs, Marble and Granite
Box Tombs; also, Vases and Mar- rfjffp, 1 1
ble Tops for Furniture. Persons
desiring work of this kind would v jb)Qt>
do well to examine my designs be
fore purchasing elsewhere. Prices
moderate. *oylct-9
Go to Davis’Gallery
IN ATHENS,
IF YOU WANT
OLD PICTURES COPIED and ENLARGED
ith RELIABLE and Guaranteed work.
At 25 Per Cent. Less
than Foreign companies. jan29-tf
General Mel Agency
RAILROAD TICKETS
For sale, by all routes, to all principal points
In the United States.
Buy your Ticket* in Athens, amd ret all
information from ' °
Capt. WM. WILLIAMS.
Agent Bentharn Ejrprsts fV.Alhaa#, •.