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BY T. L. GANTT. OG.ETHORPE ECHO PUBLISHED E\ERY FRIDAY MORNING, DA T. L. GANTT, Editor and Proprietor. GASH BATES OF ADVERTISING. The following table shows oar lowest cash rates for advertising. No deviation will be made from them in any case. Parties can readily tell what their advertisement will cost them before it is inserted. We count our space by the inch. time. 1 in. 2 in. 3 in. 4 in. i col i col. 1 col 1 w’k, SI.OO $2.00 $3.00 $4.00 $6,00 SIO.OO sl4 2 “ 1.7.5 2.75 4.00 5.00 8.00 13.00 18 3 “ 2.50 3.25 5.00 6.00 10.00 16.00 22 4 “ 3.i)0 4.00 6.00 7.00 11.00 18.88 26 5 “ 3.50 4.50 6.00 8.00 12.00 20.00 30 6 u 4.00 5.00 7.50 8.00 13.00 22.00 33 8 5.00 6.00 0.0010.00 15.00 25.00 40 3 mos, 6.00 8.0011.0014.00 18.00 30.00 50 4 “ 7.00 10.00 14.00 17.00 21.00 35.00 50 6 “ 8.50 12.0016.00 20.00 26.00 45.00 75 0 “ 10.00 15.00 20.00 25.00 33.00 60.00 100 12 “ 12,00 18.0024.0030.00 40.00 73.00 120 LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS. Sheriff Sales, per levy, 10 lines $5 00 Executors’, Aumini4trators’ and Guardi an’s Sales, per square 7 00 Each additional square 5 00 Notice to Debtors and Creditors, 30 days, 1 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 Rule Nisi’s per square, each insertion... 1 00 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, o 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. 0 First Settlement of Goose Pond. o BY ALBERT WINTER. o 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. mm $ 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 ; -