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GEORGIA RAILROAD SCHEDULE
The following is the schedule on the Geor
gia Railroad, with time of arrival at and de
parture from every station on the Athens
Branch:
UP DAY PASSENGER TRAIN.
Leave Augusta at 8:45 a. m.
Arrive at Union Point 12:27 p. in.
Leave Union Point 12:52 p. m.
Arrive at Atlanta 5:45 p. rn.
DOWN DAY PASSENGER TRAIN.
Leave Atlanta at 7:00 a. m.
Arrive at Union Point 11:32 a. m.
Leave Union Point 11:33 a. m.
Arrive it Augusta 3:30 p. m.
Ul* NIGHT PASSENGER TRAIN.
Leave Augusta at 8:15 p. m.
Arrive at Atlanta 6:25 a. m.
Remains oue minute at Union Point.
ATHENS BRANCH TRAIN.
DAY TRAIN.
I Time
Stations. Arrive. | Depart, bet.
i sta’s.
A. M. I
Athens 545 | 25
Wintefsvilte 910 915 I 30
Crawford 9 45 9 50 25
Antioch 10 15 10 18 [ 15
Maxev’s 10 33 10 35 | 15
Woodville 10 50 10 55 j 20
Union Point 11 15
UP TRAIN.
Union Point.. .P. M. 100 I 20
Woodville 120 125 | 15
Maxev’s 140 145 | 15
Antioch 200 205 j 25
Crawford 230 235 j 30
Wintersville 305 310 | 25
Athens 3 35
NIGHT TRAIN— Doum.
Athens la. m. I 10 00 25
Wintersville | 10 25 | 10 30 30
Crawford | 11 00 i 11 05 25
Antioch | 11 30 | U 32 j 15
Maxev’s | 11 47 11 49 | 15
Woodville I 12 04 I 12 10 I 25
Union Point | 12 35 j a. m. |
Up Sight Train.
Union Point i 355 25
Woodville 420 I 424 15
Maxev’s 439 I 441 15
Aptioch 456 j 458 25
Crawford 523 j 527 30
Wiutersville 557 | 602 28
Athens 6 30 j
MISCE^LANEOUS.
THE LITTLE STORE ON THE CORNER,
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HERE TIIE CITIZENS OF OGLETHORPE
will alway dud the Cheapest and
Best Stock of
FANCY GOODS, LIQUORS,
GROCERIES, LAMPS, OIL, Etc.
J. M. BARRY. Broad Str., Athens, Ga.
ap9 tf
CHARLES STERN,
Broad Street, ATHENS, GA.
Wholesale and Retail Dealer in
Dry (roods, Ming,
MILLINERY GOODS. BOOTS, SHOES,
HATS, NOTIONS, &c.
The citizens of Oglethorpe cordially invited
to examine my stock and prices before buying
elsewhere. The best line in Athens. ap9-lm
250,000 Cigars!
NOW IN STORE, OF THE
Choicest Drands I
which we offer at GREATLY REDUCED
PRICES. Also, a large stock of
SMOKING AND CHEWING
TOBACCO,
SNUFF, GENUINE MEERCHAUM PIPES
AND ALL SMOKERS - ARTICLES
A liberal discount allowed to Jobbers buy
ing largely. Cotue one! Come all 11
KALVAKIXSKY & LIEBLER.
Under Newton Hotwe. Athens. Ga.
HISTORICAL SKETCHES.
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First Settlement of Goose Pond.
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BY ALBERT WINTER.
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Specially Prepared Jor the Oglethorpe IdcJut.
NUMBER V.
Kince writing the last sketch I have
made additional efforts to ascertain
whether or not there were settlements in
the county duringthe Revolutionary war,
but I can find no account of any, and
must therefore Leave that period and
come down to the time of the first settle
ment made in the Goose Pond country.
Gilmer states, in bis book, that when
a small boy he saw on his father’s plan
tation, which was in the fork of Broad
river and Long creek, the decayed hut of
Kennedy, the last Broad river trapper.
1 lie hut stood on a high hill, that com
manded a long stretch of the river,
which, when swelled by heavy rains,
flowed immediately at its base. This
part of the river was called “ Kennedy’s
Gate,” after the trapper. Gilmer does
not state at what date this man lived,
hut as his hut had fallen into decay when
Gilmer was a boy, he having been born
in 1700, Kennedy must have lived at a
period iong before, probably about the
time of the war.
I am surprised that Gilmer omitted to
give any notice of the earliest settlement
of the county, living, as he did, so soon
after the stormy scenes of the great
struggle, and having enjoyed personal
converse with many who figured in those
troublous days, he had materials at his
command which are now lost, never to
be regained, ips book is devoted, how
ever, to sketches of the Virginia settlers,
and, like Pointful and other chroniclers
of the late war, he thought, perhaps, that
no one born witnout the limits of the
Old Dominion, or who could not trace
their lineage back in a direct line to the
Mother of States, was worthy of notice.
Among the officers who served in the
Army of the South, under Greene, was
Col. Geo. Mathews, of the Virginia line,
who, at the battle of Germantown, luid
been wounded and captured. After sul
fering untold misery in the British pris
on ships in New York harbor for three
years, he was finally exchanged and or
dered into service under Greene, as be
fore stated, lie was sent after the cap
ture of Augusta to disperse parties of
Tories in Wilkes county, who had com
mitted great depradatious upon tiie de
fenceless families during the time that
Augusta was in the hands of the British.
It was about this time that he bought a
disputed title to the whole of the Goose
Pond country, though from whom he
bought the claim, or whether it was a
part of the celebrated Galphin claim, is
unknown.
This gallant old soldier, fresh from
the horrors of prison life, and remember
ing the rugged hills and barren moun
tain sours of the section of Virginia in
which he was reared, formed a high
opinion of the fertility of the soil, and
determined that as soon as his country
could dispense with his services to return
and posses? it. And, in truth, it was a
goodly land on which he looked, with
long stretches of level forest, as far as
the eye could reach, with no under
growth to interrupt the view. On one
side flowed Broad river, leading beauty
and fertility to the soil on its banks,
while numerous smaller streams ran
here and there, and fish and game were
in abundant**.
When Mathews returned to Virginia
when the war etosed, lie described, in
glowing colors, the beauty and fertility
of the land he had purchased, and that
adjoining it, and influenced by his judg
ment, several of his neighbors in Augus
ta and Albemarle counties determined to
emigrate with him. The war had left
them well nigh penniless, and the desire
to improve their condition, encouraged a
little, perhaps, by the roving habits
learned during the time they had been
soldiers, was the immediate cause of this
step.
Accordingly, in 1784, a year after the
independence of the Colonies was ac
knowledged, Colonel Mathe. s, accom
panied by Francis Meriwether, Benjamin
Taliaferro, Thomas M. Gilmer, John
Gilmer, the McGehee, the Harvie’s
Johnsons, Jordans, Marks, Barnetts,
Bradleys and others, s ttled on the tract
of land that had been purchased by
Mathews and in the immediate neighbor
hood. They were all united either by
blood or marriage, and formed a society
of the el°^ st intimacy. Colonel Math
ews, afterwards Governor of the State,
settled at the place now owned by Mr
CRAWFORD, GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING, APRIL 23, 1875.
Mike Mattox. Thomas M. Gilmer, fa
ther of George R. Gilmer, author of the
work to which frequent reference has
been made in these sketches, settled on
; the place now owned by Dr. Willis W;l
--1 lingham’s estate, lying in the fork of
Broad river and Long creek. Col. Nich
olas Johnson’s place was a few miles
above Colonel Mathews’, while the other
families referred to settled at places
above and below.
The first settlers of the Goose Pond
country were, with a few exceptions,
men of stern integrity, great industry,
and soon acquired a competency, though
when they left Virginia they were very
poor. To show the rnanuer in which
they lived, Colonel Mathews’ residence,
during the whole time he resided in the
county, was a rude hut of logs, the cracks
of which were stopped with puncheons,
and the whole covered with a coating of
red mud. Yet in this cabin lived one
who had, by his gallantry, made himself
famous, and in whose veins ran some of
the best blood of the “Old Dominion.”
His sous all took prominent stations
wherever they went, and the daughters
married distinguished men.
Indeed, Mathews was not alone in this
style of living. There was not a framed
house in all the Goose Pond country for
many years afterwards, the first having
been erected by Col. Nicholas Johnson,
I believe.
For many years after the settlements
on Broad river there was no school in the
neighborhood, the first one being estab
lished in 17%. The teacher was a deser
ter from the British navy. His only
qualifications were a knowledge of
the use of the pen and the first rules of
arithmetic, and an inordinate propensity
to use the rod. He was caught in an at
tempt to rob his patrons, and the coun
try became, in consequence, too hot to
told him.
As the Virginia settlers on Broad river
were greatly distinguished for their stern
integrity, devotion to duty, and economy,
ajid Lave numbered among their descend
ants many who have taken high stations
in this and other States, it would not be
amiss, perhaps, to give short sketches of
their lives. In this I will be assisted
mainly by Gilmer’s book, which is, with
all its faults, I believe, the only record
ever kept of the hardy pioneers of our
county. Its greatest offence, as I take
it, is a too free expression of the mode of
living and characteristics of men whose
descendants could m>t bear to have the
world know their fathers lived in log
huts. And yet ;hese very characteristics
were the immediate and sole cause of
the great prosperity attained by the over
sensitive sons of the noble sires.
Asa case in point, it is related of Gov.
Gilmer that when he had finished his
book, being a man of simple tastes him
self, be thought that his volume would
meet with every encouragement from hi .
relatives. Accordingly, he sent them
several volumes to dispose of, and when
he visited them years after he asked if
they had sold the books, and what was
his surprise when he was answered that
the obnoxious volumes were hid away in
the garret, not a single copy having been
sold.
They likewise so worked on the sensi
tive nature of Mr. Gilmer that on his re
turn to Georgia he bought up every vol
ume of his book on which he could lay
his hands, and consigned them to the
flames. Fortunately, however, a few
were preserved, for with its defects it
will be a book of great service to the
future historian, and of interest always
to those who knew the persons and
events referred to.
The copy from which I make copious
extracts is one presented to Dr. Willis
Willingham by Mrs. Gilmer herself, and
by her corrected of the many typograph
ical errors that disfigure it. It has also
a synopsis of contents in verse, written
by Mrs. Gilmer, on the blank leaves in
the first part of the book.
The Coming Physician,
The Danbury Wcws man says: An
English physician removed a section of
a patient’s liver, placed it on a plate,
scraped it carefully, and returned it to
its normal action. This promises to
work a revolution in the treatment of
disease, and in a few years we have an
addition to domestic literature something
like this : ‘‘Husband, I wish you would
take John’s right lung down to the doc
tor’s this morning, and have the middle
valve fixed,” or, “ Will you step into the
doctor’s when you come home this noon,
and see if he has Mary’s liver mended, as
she wants to go out to tea this evening.”
The practice will become so common in
time, \ye are sure, that none *f the neigh
bors will be in any way startled to see a
wife with a veil round her head leaning
out of a bedroom window and shunting
to a receding husband: m J9(e-miah!
Tell Dr. Scraper to send up Willie’s
right kidney at once, whether it is done
or not. He’s had it there more’n a week,
and the child might as well be without
any kidney, and done with it!”
THINGS IN GENERAL.
Jonesboro, Tennessee, has a healthy
woman 110 years old.
President Grant will be fiftv-three
years of age on the 27th day of the pres
ent month.
Brigham Young has been re-elected
Prophet, Sver, Reveiator and President
of the Mormon community.
The wheat crop of Oregon has not
been a failure ever since first settled by
the whites, th rty years ago.
The suit for the possession of of the Hot
Springs of Arkansas has been decided
in favor of the Government.
It is reported that the Turks killed
two hundred and seventy Christians in
Rumalia and Bulgoria, in the past three
months.
The King of Ashantee has taken a
choice lot of ladies and gone into retire
ment, leaving his sou to reign in his roy
al shanty instead.
The Carlists have seized a number of
women and children in the province of
Soria, and they threaten to shoot
them unless ransomed.
A bee-tree discovered in Schuyler
county, in New York State, a short time
since, yielded IS6 pounds of solid honey,
and seventeen pounds of comb aud hon
ey.
A GENTLEMAN named Gilchrist, of
Greensburg, (Pa.) is the owner of three
steers weighing an aggregate of 7,900
pounds. They will be exhibited at the
Centennial.
There is an association at the West
called “ Daniel’s Band.” We were un
der the impression that Daniel’s men
agerie experience was not enlivened by
an orchestra.
"When the postmaster of Vicksburg
was on his dying bed the other day,
twenty-eight men hurried past the house
with petitions praying that they might
be postmaster.
There are some things which cannot
be easily gainsayed, and among them,
perhaps, is the remark that Brooklyn
provides the strongest kind of hemlock
and the weakest kind of wedlock.
A bell has recently been cast in Ger
many weighing 50,000 pounds. It was
made from cannons taken from the
French during the late war. It is for
tiie Cathedral church in Cologne.
At a horticu tural exhibition in Paris
last lall, several gourds were exhibited
that had gourds of other varieties grafted
on them. The operation was performed
by introducing the stem of a goard
through the skin of one to which it was
to bejoined.
The Roundoubt (N. Y.) Freeman says
it has been discovered that the Rev. Mr.
Warren, who has been for three years
pastor of the Baptist church in Ulster,
county, besides the wife he has had living
with him there, has two other wives
in Chicago.
It has been discovered that a railroad
brings rain. There are places on the
Union Pacific where rain was never
known before laying the track, that are
now subject to frequent showers. Scien
tists say it is occasioned by the bars of
iron and telegraph wires.
A setting hen in Detroit recently
died upon the nest and the lady owner
placed the eight eggs in her bosom and
kept them there for eight days, at the end
of which time they were all hatched out
by this ingenious artificial method.
Four of the chickens are alive and
healthy.
There was a destructive fire in Char
lotte, N. C., last Saturday, destroying
about three thousand bales of cotton, the
depots of the North Carolina and Char
lotte, Columbia and Augusta railroad
companies, and a number of private
residences. The loss is $250,000; two
thirds insured.
None of the present styles of dress
require a large amount of material, un
less an inordinate amount is used in trim
ming the skirt, so that any style can be
applied to moderate patterns, judicious
ly arranged, and rendered as effective a ;
if the amount of material used was much
greater.
It is said that if a depth of fifty miles
was reached into the bowels of the earth
a temperature would be reached twice as
great as that necessary to melt i- on, and
sufficient to reduce nearly the whole mass
of the earth’s crust to a state of fusion.
Our globe consists of a solid shell, not
exceeding fifty miles in thickness.
A terrible case of fanaticism, super
induced by spirit-rappings, is now under
going investigation in Cuba. A mother,
believing she was acting by the orders of
the spirits, tore out the eyes of her son,
and afterwards attempted to tear out her
own. This she did openly as a solemn
sacrifice in the presence of the other
women of the family, who prayed in a
loud voice while it was going on. All
the parties have been arrested and are
now on trial.
While hunting in California, an old
tule hunter discovered a petrified goose
standing upright, with its legs buried
about one-half in the adobe soil. He
thought at first it was living, and creep
ing closely up fired his gun at it, but
the bird did not budge an inch. He
though it very strange, and walked up t-o
it. He found it dead, and in trying to
pick it up was astonished at its immense
weight. It had turned to stone, and a
markon its wing near the forward joint
showed where the shot had struck it,
knocking a piece off. He managed to
raise it up out of the ground, and when
he laid it down a piece dropped from its
breast, disclosing a hollow in-ide, from
which pure, clear water commenced run
ning. Its feathers were very natural, and
its was life-like.
DEVILTRIES.
The original greet: backs—frogs.
It is suggested that Gen. Sehenek’s
idea of poker is purely an I-dc-ai one.
Why is the Capital of Turkey like a
whimsical patient ? Because i;’s constant
to no pill.
Its the fashion in Florida to wear
gloves out at the tips of the fingers, in
order to better scratch the flea bite3.
If you want to teach a dog arithme
tic tie up one of his paws, and he will
put down three and carry one every
time.
A Newark policeman had a pair of
boots bull-soled last fall with a boarding
house beef steak, and he hasn’t had wet
feet all winter.
Boston would like to know. “ Are
women persons ?” It’s of no consequence,
however; il they are not they are very
excellent substitutes.
Some men don’t get enthusiastic over
the return of spring. There’s old Sor
ghum, for instance, who swears hia wife’s
feet are as cold as ever.
Mysterious—Little Johnny—“ I’ve
heard somebody crying in there, and it
wasn’t ma nor the doctor.” Sissey—
“ May be it was the kitten.”
A fashion editor reports that the
Easter bonnets have a hurricane deck, a
bell tower, signal lights, birds of Para
dise, quail, Welsh rabbits and flower
gardens ad lib.
“Why is dat hat like the United
States?” said Porapev to Squash, hold
ing up his dilapidated beaver. “Cos—
cos—dunnanigga.” “Why, cos it’s not
subject to a crown.” 9
“Falling Water” is the pretty
name of an Indian maiden up in Chip
pewa county, but she chews tobacco and
wears an old pair of army pants, with
horn buttons on them.
The man who predicted a mild winter
because corn-husks were thin, was found
frozen to death in a corn-field the
other day, a few miles from Dayton.
They buried him close to the ground
hog.
A wag says it is feared that Spinner’s
resignation will cause a panic in the ru
ral districts, where the impression pre
vails that his signature symbolizes the
American eagle struggling with the ser
pent of rebellion.
Dr. Betiiune once introduced into a
sermon the sentence, “ While men slept
the Devil sowed tares.” Judge of his
surprise when he found himself reported
in a religious journal, as saying, “ The
Devil sawed trees.”
A Rockford man came home late one
night from the “club” and raved around
with a shot-gun because the servant
would not let him into his wife’s cham
ber, because there “ was a young man
there.” The young man was two hours
old.
Times are so hard in Athens that when
the boy who goes <,u‘ on Saturday to
collect bills comes home with seventy
five cents, arid has the ceiling of his
pants worn out by the boots of the cus
turners from whom he has collected it,
it is looked upon as a good day for col
lections.
A MOTHER-IN-LAW has sent a commu
nication to a Milwaukee magazine, de
nouncing “ the vile rabble of coarse, low
bred journalists,” who make paragraphs
about men’s wives’ mothers. We’ll bet
that woman keeps her son-in-law within
the traces. Perhaps she even stood over
the poor devil and made him write her
communication for her.
Somebody wants to know “who wrote
that article” in the Houston (Tex.) Tele
graph, and it promptly responds thus:
“ The man who wrote that article early
in life was a hard-working blacksmith,
later he was a deck-hand on a steamboat,
then he was a cow-boy on the frontier,
but of late years he has followed the
profession of a prize-fighter. He only
became an editor to reduce his flesh by
starvation so as to become more of a suc
cess in his peculiar line.” The Telegraph
received no further inquiries.
While an overseer and a gang of
hands were in a field at work, they saw a
balloon rapidly descending to the earth,
with a man in it. Having never seen
such a visitor before, they at once con
cluded it to be something supernatural,
and all immediately left for the woods,
with the exception of an old crippled
negro man, who could not get away. The
air-ship alighted immediately beside the
affrighted darkey, who. believing that no
less a being than the Messiah had taken
this method of visiting earth, and wish
ing to ingratiate himself into His good
graces, tremblingly held out his ban ]
and exclaimed : “ Good evenin’, Massa
Jesu.s —powerful glad to see you. Please
sir gimme a chaw of ’baccer !”
A negro party applied to a livery-sta
ble keeper in Texas for a team and
sleigh to take them to a dance in the
evening. Having the fear of the civil
rights bill before his eyes, he thereupon
named a price, cash down, that he did
not expect they would pay. But the
colored gentlemen came down with the
greenbacks required, and ordered the con
veyance ready at 7 o’clock in the even
ing. Arrived at the rendezvous, the
liveryman blanketed his horses and sat
down in a corner of the room to wait for
the dance to be over. As the party warm
ed up in the exercise, the natural per
fume from the darkies became intolerable,
and the driver concluded to go out to
his sleigh, roll himself in blankets, and
wait for the breaking up of the party.
At this moment one of the colored gen
tlemen approached and politely inquired
if he would have any objection to taking
a seat in another room, adding, “D‘ la
dies comnlain of de smell of de. hose.’’
VOL. I--NO. 29.
Among the Mormons.
The approaching trial of Lee, the Mo?
mon prophet, charged with being enga
ged in the Mountain Meadow massacre,
in Utah, draws near, and a correspondent
says the Mormons aie preparing for
some startling developments. It is be
yond question, he says, that not only
were obnoxious Gentiles put out of tha
way jn Sait Lake City without any trial,
but even many of “the brethren ” were
watched when out of doora and :ietly
led to a place convenient for butchery,
and there bad their “throats cut,” for
the double purpose of keeping them from
“opposin'/ the kingdom” aud attoning
for their f ~is of unbelief. It is said of
Isaac G. Haight, who was lieutenant col
onel of the military regiment that com
mitted the massacre at. Mountain Mead
ows, that he grew so fanatical and was
s.o lar removed from any supervisory au
thority that he did as he pleased and
disposed of the lives of the obnoxious
with all the freedom of a dodge of Venice.
In the little town of Cedar, the head
quarters of his militia, he is said to have
kept two of the brethren-—Stewart and
Maeiarlane—for that special purpose,
and to aid at odd times in harassing and
stealing from the passing Gentiles.
No fewer than ten men were taken
down into the celler beneath Haight’s
house, and from there they never came
out alive, and the only answer that was
ever made to any inquiry about a missing
person in those days was the laconic sen
tence, “ He has gone to California.”
To listen to the tales that are now told
bv men and women of the early times of
blood one feels carried away in reflection
to dark ages and barbaric nations, and
it is this history that Brigham Young
hits good cause to dread being brought to
light in the forthcoming investigation of
the Mountain Meadow massacre, and I
do not see how he can prevent its expo
sure
The investigat’on, when once begun,
will be like the letting out of water—
the dam, once pierced, the breech will
widen and widen until it all is out, and
the revelations of cr ; me will startle the
nation. Its ultimate result will be the
breaking down of a fearful superstition
and despotism and the deliverance of a
people who deserve to be free.
Stephen Allen’s Pocket Piece,
Among the victims of the Henry Clay
disaster, which happened July 28th,
1852,was Stephen Allen, Esq., an aged
man of the purest character, formerly a
Mayor of York, beloved and esteem
ed by all who knew him. In his pocket
book was found a printed slip, apparent
ly cut from a newspaper, of which the
following is a copy:
“Keep good company or none. Never
be idle. If your hands cannot be useful
ly employed, attend to the cultivation of
your mind. Always speak the truth.
Make few promises. Live up to your
engagements. Keep your own secrets if
you have any. When you speak to a
person look him in the face. Good
company and good conversation are the
Due sinews of virtue. Good character
is above all things else. Your character
cannot, be essentially injured except by
your own acts. I: any one speaks ill of
you, let your life be so that none will
believe him. Drink no kinds of intoxi
cating liquors. Ever live (misfortunes
excepted) within your income. When
you retire think over what you have been
doing duringthe day. Ma‘ke no haste
to be rich it you wou and prosper. Small
and steady gains give competency with
tranquility of mind. Never play at any
game of chance. Avoid temptation,
through fear you may not withstand it.
Earn money before you spend it. Never
run into debt unless you see a way to
get out again. Never borrow, if you can
possibly avoid it. Do not marry until
you are able to support a wile. Never
speak evil of any one. Be just before
you are generous. Keep yourself inno
cent if you would be happy. Save when
you are young to spend when you are old
Read over the above maxlnma a{, least
once a week.”
An Inverted Giiost.—The spring
styles in ghosts have all of an original
type, so far, but the most novel type of
all is reported from Schenectady, New
York. There was no materialization in
this case, but the evidences of materiali
zation seem to have been plain enough.
A certain Mrs. Veeder was one day lately
engaged in her ordinary household du
ties when she was amazed by a dazzling
flash ot light fi ling the* room. She
screamed, but recovered as the light
passed away, when to her great astonish
ment, happening to cast her eyes toward
the kitchen ceiling, she saw the mark of
a child's loot on the wall overhead. In
a moment she noticed another similar
mark appearing, aqd so they developed,
one by one, until the ceiling was ail
tracked over. The alarmed woman
called in a neighbor* and both women
observed the phenomenon together. Since
that time the houe ha° been crowded by
lovers of the marvelous, and the tracks
are still visible, though gradually disap
pearing. All of the marks were alike,
and each is the imprint of a small child’s
foot. No explanation of the ghostly
spoore has yet been given, anu the people
of Schenectady are extremely puzzird.
The phenomenon would seem to indicate
one thing, at least, if it belonged to the
supernatural, it would seem that "even
small ghosts are not afflicted by a rush
of blood to the head.
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If there are no witches near Paris, Ky. t
it must be from the uubeiief of the peo
ple, for the cats in that vicinity are con
ducting themselves in a very mysterious
manner. The grimalkin of one Benjamiu
Dykes has long followed a rooster about,
but has lately varied the freak by anew
idiosyncrasy, being now engaged* in ?<r,
ting on a lu-.v nj j ; -