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BY T. L. GANTT.
OG jETHORPE ECHO
PUBLISHED
E\ERY FRIDAY MORNING,
B\ T. L. GANTT,
Editor And Proprietor.
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Notice to Debtors and Creditors, 30 days, 4 00
Notice of Leave to sell, 30 days 3 00
Letters of Administration, 30 days 4 00
Letters of Dismission, 3 months 6 00
Letters of Guardianship, 30 days 4 00
Letters of Dis. Guardianship, 40 days.... 3 75
Homestead Notices, 2 insertions 2 00
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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. in.
Arrive at Union Point 12:27 p. m.
Leave Union Point 12:52 p. m.
Arrive at Atlanta 5:45 p. m.
DOWN DAY PASSENGER TRAIN.
Leave Atlanta at 7:00 a. ni.
Arrive at Union Point 11:32 a. m.
Leuve Union Point 11:33 a. m.
Arrive at Augusta 3:30 p. m.
UP NIGHT TASSENGER TRAIN.
Leave Augusta ? at 8:15 p. m.
Arrive at Atlanta 6:25 a. m.
Remains one minute at Union Point.
ATHENS BRANCH TRAIN.
DAY TRAIN.
Time
Stations. Arrive. Depart, bet.
| sta’s.
A. M.
Athens 8 45 25
Wintersville 9 10 9 15 30
Crawford 9 45 9 50 25
Antioch 10 15 10 18 15
Maxey’s 10 33 10 35 15
Woodville 10 50 10 55 20
Union Point 11 15
VP TRAIN.
Union Point.. .P. M. 1 00 20
Woodville 1 20 1 25 15
Maxey’s 1 40 1 45 15
Antioch 2 00 2 05 25
Crawford 2 30 2 35 30
Wintersville 3 05 3 10 25
Athens 3 35
NIGHT TRAIN—How?,
Athens a. m. 10 00 25
Wintersville 10 25 10 30 30
Crawford 11 00 It 05 25
Antioch 11 30 11 32 15
Maxey’s 11 47 11 49 15
Woodville 12 04 12 10 25
Union Point 12 35 a. m.
Up Night Train.
Union Point 3 55 25
Woodville 4 20 4 24 15
Maxey’s 4 3!) 4 41 15
Antioch 4 56 4 58 25
Crawford 5 23 5 27 30
Wintersville 5 57 6 02 28
Athens 6 30
THE LITTLE STORE ON THE CORNER.
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HERE THE CITIZENS OF OGLETHORPE
will alway find the Cheapest and
Best Stock of
FANCY GOODS, LIQUORS,
GROCERIES, LAMPS, OIL, Etc.
Jr M. BARRY. Broad Str., Athens, Ga.
p9-tf
CHARLES STERN,
Broad Street, ATHENS, GA.
Wholesale and Retail Dealer in
Dry Oris, Clotting,
MILLINERY GOODS, BOOTS, SHOES,
HATS, NOTIONS, Ac.
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 Brands!
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. Come one! Come all 1!
KALVARINSKY & LIEBLER,
lender Newton House, Athens, Ga.
INTERESTING CONDENSATIONS.
—Boston has a Chinese lawyer.
—Hon. B. H. Hill is 52 years old.
—.Sound travels at the rate of 12f miles
a minute.
—Frogs live from 12 to 15 years (if
not eaten).
—Mark Twain bears a striking resem
blance to Frank Moulton.
—There Is an elm tree in Paris which
was planted by Henry IV in 1605, still
flourishing.
—The English papers are somewhat
amused over a recent elopement in the
Merrie Isle, of a father with his son’s
sweetheart.
—With the advent of spring the cru
saders have broken out in New York,
visiting some some forty up-town saloons
last Tuesday.
—A game of chess, which has been
going on between a European and a New
York player since 1859, has just been
termimined. The American piayer won
the game.
—lf you write down the figure 5 and
twenty-one cyphers, and call the unit
tons, you have the weight of this world
of our. For instance, 5,000,000,000,000,-
000,000,000 tons.
—Hawks can fly at the rate of 150
miles an hour; ducks, 90 miles an hour;
the crow, 25 miles an hour; the falcon,
75 miles an hour. Fair winds can make
their flight three times greater.
—The number of vertebrated animals
is estimated at 20,000; number of birds,
6,000; number of reptiles, 2,000; num
ber of fishes, 10,000. There are about
250,000 species of living animals in all.
—24,000 eggs of a silk worm lay one
quarter of an ounce. The worm lives
from 45 to 53 days. It increases in
weight in 30 days 9,500 fold, and during
the last 28 days of its life it eats nothing.
—The wing of a gnat flaps at the rate
of 15,000 times per second. The wings
of some insects arc so thin that 50,000
placed one upon another would not form
a heap more than a quarter of an inch in
height.
—Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher is the
owner of some fifteen acres of valuable
land near the residence of Mrs. Stowe.
We merely announce the fact to remind
her that the tract is advertised to be sold
for taxes.
—A farmer in Nelson county, Va.,
who had a number of sheep killed by
dogs, took one of the sjieep ami put
strychnine in large quantities upon it,
and the next morning there were thirty
dead dogs in the field.
—Poor Charley Ross’ father is almost
a maniac again. He is said to be grad
ually weakening under the strain to
which his mind has now been so long
subjected, and the pursuit of his lost boy
has become with him a mania.
—The number of seeds in one pound
of wheat is 10,500 ; in one pound of bar
ley, 15,400 ; in one pound of oats, 20,-
000 ; in one pound of rye, 23,000 ; in one
pound of clover (red), 249,600; in one
pound of clover (white), 686,400.
—3,000 stars only arc visible to the
naked eye. Counties- millions are re
vealed by the telescope—so remote that
tlieir light, traveling at the rate of 200,-
000 miles a second, cannot arrive at our
little planet in less than 14,000 years.
—AVas eftrontery ever more sublime
than that of the nob 11 Cheyenne, who,
when compelled to go out on bis annual
raid and shoot a soldier or two, first
takes the precaution to house his squaw
and papooses comfortably at the nearest
government agency ?
—All the members of a family in Phil
adelphia were poisoned last Sunday by
eating canned fruit. They were seized
with frequent and violent purging, but
were soon relieved by medical aid. It
is believed that the effect was produced
by copperas, which had been found in
the sealed can.
—IO,OOO threads of the full grown spi
der are not larger than a single hair of
the beard. When the young spiders
first begin to spin, 400 of them are not
larger than one of full growth—allowing
which, 4,000,000 of a young spider’s
threads are not so large as the single
hair of a man’s beard.
—The following is the secret of the
Baldwin apples : Take slips of paper
and cut children’s names on them, then
place the papers around the apples
when they begin to color, and in a week
or two Mamie, Jamie, Johnnie or Susie
appears on the apples in large letters.
These picked and barreled by themselves
bring fancy prices of the New York
Christmas market.
—Thomas Paine’s birth-day was
scarcely noticed this year in the city of
New York. Thirty-five years ago it was
celebrated with great enthusiasm. Be
fore, and even after that time, a grand
dinner was eaten by his disciples, speech
es were made, long columns were taken
up in the daily papers with their reports,
and it was considered bigotry and intol
erance to say a word against the demon
strations in his honor. Now, none so
poor to do him reverence.
—A party of women in Wilton, lowa,
have carried the crusade mania to a dis
graceful length. They forcibly gained
entrance to a house of ill-repute, which
they thereupon proceeded to turn inside
out’ demolishing the furniture, driving
the inmates into the street, and generally
conducting themselves more like crazy
demireps than Christian ladies. The
shameless proceeding was crowned by an
act of wanton cruelty, one of the female
inmates being taken from her bed and
subjected to the outrage of a coat of tar
ami feathers.
CRAWFORD, GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING, APRIL 30, 1875.
DEVILTBIES.
—What relation is the door„-mat to the
door-step?—Step farther.
—What ship carries more than the
Great Eastern ? —Courtship.
—Which is the most popular of the
United States?—Matrimony.
—When is a black dog not a black
dog ?—When he’s a greyhound.
—Why is love like a canal boat ?—Be
cause it is an internal transport.
—Where is it that all women are
equally beautiful ?—ln the dark.
—Why is dancing like oew milk ?
Because it strengthens the calves.
—Why are stars like an old barn ?
Because there are r, a, t, s in both.
—Why was Paul like an old white
horse ?—Because he loved Timothy.
—What is it gives a cold, cures a cold,
and pays the doctor’s bill ?—A draft.
—Why do girls like looking at the
moon ?—Because there is a man in it.
—What is the first thing a man does
when he falls into the water ?—Gets wet.
—How can you shoot one hundred
and twenty hares at a shot I—Fire at a
wig.
—Why is a watch-dog bigger by night
than by day ?—Because he is let out at
night.
—Who is your greatest friend?—Your
nose, because it will run for you till it
drops.
—There is one town in Connecticut
that is not afraid of the small pox. It’s
Haddam.
—Which one of the Presidents wore
the largest hat ?—The one with the larg
est head.
—Why is a dog biting his tail like a
good manager ?—Because he makes both
ends meet.
—Why are young ladies bad gram
marians?—Because they can’t decline
matrimony.
—When does a blacksmith make a row
in the alphabet?—When he make A
poke R and A shove L.
—One swallow don’t always make a
summer, although one swallow has been
known to make some-err.
—Nature, impartial in her ends,
When she made man the strongest,
In justice, then, to make amends,
Made woman’s tongue the longest.
—A flirt is a fool, who delights in
fooling fools, and the fool who is fooled
by such a fool is the foolishest kind of a
fool.
—What is the longest word in the
English language ?—Smiles—because
there is a mile between the first and last
letters.
—The endurance of the public in the
matter of the Beecher trial has embol
dened a Detroit paper to announce the
death of James K. Polk.
—Why is a ship like a woman ?—Be
cause she is often tender to a man of
war ; often running after a smack; often
attached to a great bony.
—“ Bub, can you direct me to a dye
shop ?” says a man to a boot black. “ I
kin that,” says the boy, and directs the
man to a doctor’s office.
—What are those things which, though
they appear twice in every day, and
twice in every week, yet are only seen
twice in a year?—Vowels.
—Why was the whale that swallowed
Jonah like a milkman who has retired on
an independence?—Because he took a
great profit out of the water.
—Said a great Congregational preacher
To a hen: “ You’re a beautiful creature!”
Then the hen upon that
Laid two eggs in his hat—
And thus did the Hen-re-ward Beecher.
—“ I don’t care much about the bugs, ’
said Warmley, to the head of a genteel
boarding-house, “but the fact is, madam,
I havn’t the blood to spare ; you can see
that yourself.”
—A small boy in Boston made a sen
sation for a short time by quietly trans
fering a card bearing the words, “Take
one,” from a lot of handbills in front of
a store to a basket of oranges.
•
—“ Don’t you wish you was me ?” said
a six-year-old boy to one of his compan
ions, on Monday, “ for I’ve got twenty
five cents, and I’m goin’ to the barber
shop to git my hair cut, an’ I’ll have
pink water squirted on my head.”
—A nice little boy who never would
steal apples, grew up to be a man, went
into merchandising, broke three times,
paid nothing on the dollar, retired rich,
and is now a shining light in one of San
Francisco’s most fashionable circles.
—“ The candles you sold me were
very bad,” said Suett to a merchant.
“ Indeed, sir, I’m sorry for that.” “ Yes,
sir, do you know they burn .no longer ?”
“ You surprise me ! What, sir, did tnev
go out ?” “ No, sir, they burnt shorter.”
—A country newspaper out West thus
heads its reports of a fire : “ Feast of
the. Fire Fiend—The Forked-Tongued
Demon Licks with its Lurid Breath a
Lumber Pile!—Are the Scenes of Boston
and Chicago to be Repeated?—Loss
$150.”
—A Keokuk man held a neighbor’s wife
in his lap while she did up his hair in curl
papers. The husband attended the fun
eral, and when the minister had finished
speaking he stepped up to the holy man
and said, in a low, sweet voice, “ I didn’t
mind him so much, because there wasn’t
no harm in him no how; but I thought
as things war gettin’ from bad to worse,
and—well, I wanted to give them preach
er chaps a warnin’.”
FAITHFUL DOGS.
They Care for a Lost Child, and Warm and
Feed Him.
Yesterday morning we gave an account
of a child wandering away from home
on Thursday last, accompanied by two
dogs. The whole neighborhood had
turned out and searched night and day
without success, at the time we wrote
the account.
The following is a copy of the hand
bills struck off and circulated :
LOST BOY :—TO THE PUBLIC.
Yesterday afternoon, William Norman
my son, left my residence, five miles
from Lexington, on the Salt Pond road,
and was last seen on the road to town,
He is five years of age, wore a dark
woaten coat, dark jeans pants, patched
on the knees, and was followed by two
dogs; one a black, and the other of a
dark yellowish color.
Any information regarding his where
abouts will be thankfully received, and
will relieve the anxiety of a mother and
father. William A. Smith.
Lexington, Mo., April 2, 1875.
From Mr. M. Carroll, the popular
baggage-master of the Lexington pas
senger train, we learn the following par
ticulars of the discovery of the child yes
terday morning, which certainly shows
the wonderful sagacity and faithfulness
of the dogs which accompanied him.
As in our account yesterday, the last
seen of the child was in a fence corner
with his dogs. From there it seems he
wandered into the woods belonging to
Judge Woods, eight miles from Lexing
ton and three miles from his home.
Here, probably, night overtook the little
wanderer, and darkness closed in upon
him, cold, tired and hungry, with none
to aid him but his faithful four-footed
companions. The night 9at this time of
the year are too severe for a robust man
to be exposed, and certainly a tender
child, almdst an infant, would surely
succumb to the biting temperature.
But there is a watchful Providence
above, and his interposition of this case
seems miraculous. The faithful dogs,
with an instinct that seems equal to hu
man intelligence, went to work and
scratched together a bed of leaves. Into
this the boy crept, and then the intelli
gent animals laid down, one on each side
of him, and kept him warm through the
night with the heat of their bodies.
Morning broke with the boy safe, his
shaggy guardians remaining at their
post. Though rested and refreshed, he
was almost famished with hunger.
Again the wonderful instinct of the faith
ful dogs was equal to the emergency.
They set out foraging, chased and killed
a rabbit, and brought it to their young
charge, laying it at his feet. The boy
eagerly ate of the raw meat, and when
discovered was busily engaged in ap
peasing bis hunger.
When the party who discovered him
endeavored to approach the child the
dogs became exceedingly ferocious, and
would not let one of them approach
him. The boy’s father and the dog’s
master had to be sent for before they
could get the child from his noble pro
tectors.
The joy of the parents can be easily
imagined, and we will guarantee to say
that all the wealth of Lafayette county
would not purchase one of these dogs.
Greece is about the size of Vermont.
Palestine is one-fourth the size of New
York. Hindoostan is more than a hun
dred times as large as Palestine. The
Great Desert ef Africa has nearly the
present dimensions of the United States.
The Red Sea would reach from Wash
ington to Colorado, aud it is three times
as wide as Lake Ontario. The English
Channel is nearly as large as Lake Su
perior. The Mediterranean if placed
across North America would make sea
navigation from San Diego to Baltimore.
The Caspian Sea would stretch from
New York to St. Augustine, and as wide
as from from New York to Rochester.
Great Britian is two-thirds the size of
Japan, one-twelfth the size of Hindoo
stan, one-twelfth of the United States.
The Gulf of Mexico is about ten times
the size of Lake Superior, and about as
large as the sea of Kamschatka, Bay of
Bengali, China Sea, Okhotsh, or Japan
seas; Lake Ontaria would go in either
of them more than fifty times. The fol
lowing named bodies of water are nearly
equal in sizes: German Ocean, Black
Sea ; Yellow Sea ; Hudson Bay is rather
larger; the Baltic, Adriatic,Persian Gulf,
Aegean Sea are half as large and some
what larger than Lake Superior.
“ Thankful I Settled It.”— At a
meeting held in Edinburgh, by Messrs.
Moody and Sankey, a miner in his work
ing clothes, was sitting near the front
obviously most attentive and impressed.
At the close of the meeting he arose to
go away; but, after walking down the
passage he turned and sat down again.
His friend came upon him and said,
“ Come awa’ home, John.” “No,” said
he “ I come here to get good, and I have
na taken it a in yet.” So he waited.
There was more prayer and another
hymn, and special conversation with
himself. His heart was touched and
changed; with his hard, rough grip, and
shook the minister’s hand, and said, “ I
have wondered if this might be true now
I believe it. It has brought peace to my
soul. I know and trust my Saviour.”
On the next day, while working, a mass
of coal or rock fell on him. The injuries
were fatal. Death was close at hand,
a fellow-workman approached him.
“ Bend down your ear to me,” said the
dying man; and then he added, “ Oh,
Andrew, I’m glad I settled it last night.”
—How do young ladies show their dis
like to mustaches?—By setting their
faces against them.
Subscribe for the Oglethorpe Echo.
April First,
Owing to the deep depression in busi
ness, the anniversary of the Ist of April
was not generally observed in Danbury.
Two bricks neatly wrapped up in paper
were picked up from the streets, but not
carried off. One gentleman picked up
a package containing an unknown arti
cle, and hurried home with it, where
he discovered that it was sawdust. He
went out in his barn, and swore for an
hour. Another party, a trifle cuter, saw
a similar package and promptly gave it
a kick calculated to lift it over a house,
but, owing to his having on thin boots,
and it being a chunk of furnace slag
weighing some twelve pounds, he failed
of success. He was taken home in a
wagon, and is attended by Dr. Hamil
ton, who thinks the foot can be saved.
A Cherry street man lost a package of
tea on the walk. Several people saw it.but
they merely turned their tongue into
their cheek and went on. An hour later
the owner discovered it where it had
been dropped. Mr. Hinckley, our colos
sal real estate agent, strolled about town
nearly an hour, unconsciously bearing
on his back a placard gravely announc
ing, “ This is Charles Ross.” One boy
went into a store to inform the proprie
tor that another boy had stolen some ap
ples from the front, and was chased out
of the place for his impudence. When
the apples was discovered, it was too late
to catch the thief. One or two otl er fol
lies resulted seriously. A man on Lo
cust avenue told his wife that a woman
next door had anew dress with thirty
yards of edging on it. She pulled down
her sleeves, put on her sun-bonnet and
hurried in there. She picked up a piece
of lath on her way back, and struck him
across the face with it, injuring one of
his eyes so severely as to threaten the
loss of its sight.
Mrs. Cobleigh’s Hot Potato.
Mr. Cobleigh had just got down to
breakfast. He was standing up to the
stove with his hands clasped behind him,
as. is his custom, contemplating the at
tractively settable. A large platter of
broiled ham, with fried eggs, was the
central feature, and Mr. Cobleigh is very
fond of ham and eggs. The family cat
was lying under the tab.le, purring softly
to herself. It was a strongly marked
domestic scene, and Mrs. Cobleigh was
taking up the potatoes. She had the
last one pierced with the fork, and was
about to deposit it with the rest, when
she espied the upturned palm ofher hus
band’s hand. What possessed her she
cannot tell, but she dropped the steam
ing vegetable straight into his uncon
eious hand. He didn’t ask her what she
was doing ;he didn’t even look around ;
he simply emitted an awful scream, and
sprung madly into the air. On the de
cent he struck the table with his knees,
with such force as to completely overturn
it, and with the contents he went to the
floor with an awful crash. Five dollars’
worth of crockery was smashed, and a
carpet, coat and a pair of pants was ruin
ed by ham gravy and butter. It is prob
able Mr. Cobleigh would have fainted
dead away from the effect of the shock,
had not the eat, across whose erected
bach he fell, as she was darting away
from the awful calamity, turned around
and fastened both claws and teeth into
his thigh with deadly ferocity. That
revived him. The house is now shut up.
Mrs. Cobleigh is visiting her mother in
Brookfield and Mr. Cobleigh has taken a
jaunt to Boston on business. We under
stand she thinks Mr. Cobleigh is to
blame in the matter, for, she properly
reasons, had he not jumped so like an
all-fired fool, there would have been no
damage done. —Danbury News.
Humor and Sarcasm.
It is not everybody who knows where
to joke, or when, or how ; and whosoev
er is ignorant of these conditions had
better not joke at all. A gentleman
never attempts to be humorous at the
expense of people with w'hom he if but
slightly acquainted. In fact, it is neith
er good manners nor wise policy to joke
at any body’s expense, that is to say, to
make any body uncomfortable merely
to raise a laugh. And iEsop, who was
doubtless the subject of many a jibe on
account of his humped baelc, tells the
whole story in his fable of “ The Boys
and the Frogs.” What was fun to the
youngsters was death to the croakers. A
jest may cut deeper than a curse. Some
men are so constituted that they cannot
take a friendly joke in the same light
coin, and will requite it with contumely
and insult. Never banter one of this
class, or he will brood over your badi
nage long after your have forgotton it,
and it is not prudent to incur any one’s
enmity for the sake of uttering a smart
double entredre or a tart repartee. Ridi
cule, at best, is a perilous Weapon. Sa
tire, however, when leveled at social
foibles and political evils, is not only le
gitimate, but commendable. It' has
shamed down more abuses than ever were
abolished by force of logic.
Morning and Evening Stars, etc.
—Venus will be Morning star until Sep
tember 23; then Evening star to the end
of the year.
Mars will be Morning star until Feb
ruary 26; then Evening star the rest of
the year.
Jupiter will he Morning star unil Jan
uary 20, and after November 4 to close
of the year. He will be Evening star
from January 20 to November 4.
Saturn will be Morning star from Feb
ruary 5 to May 16, and Evening star until
February 5 and after May 16.
Mercurv will appear brightest on Feb
ruary 10, June 6, October 3, the planet
setting soon after the sun; also March 31,
Ju|y 30, November 18, the planet rising
then a short time before the sun.
Jupiter will be brightest April 16; Sa
tun, August 15, Mars, June 20, Venus,
January 12.
VOL. I—NO. 30.
A Clairvoyant Dream.
A recent writer narrates the following
signficant dream relative to the Dr. Park
man murder, and which in all its un
pleasant details was dreamed twice over :
Dr. \\ ebster, professor of chemistrv in
Harvard College, was convicted of the
murder of an acquaintance—we can
hardly say his friend—Dr. Parkman. A
lady well known in the literary world,
and then residing in Londe . had some
years previously paid a long visit to the
United States, during which she became
intimately acquainted with Dr. Webster,
who showed her much kindness and at
tend 'i. After the return to England she
continued to correspond with his family,
and one day in early autum of 1848,
a gentleman, related to Dr. Parkman,
called upon her with an introduction
from Prof. Webster. On that night she
went to bed as usual, but soon experi
enced a horrible dream. She fancied she
was being urged by Dr. Webster to as
sist him in concealing a set of human
bones in a wooden box, and she distinctly
recollected that there was a thigh bone,
which, after failing to break it
they vainly attempted to innerPffa box,
but it was too long.
While they were trying to hide the
box, as she fancied, under her bed, she
awoke in a state of horror and cold per
spiration. She instantly struck a light,
and tried to dispel the recollection of her
horrible vision by reading After a lapse
of two hours, during which she deter
minedly fixed her attention on the book,
she put out the lights and soon fell
asleep. The same literal dream recurred,
after which she did not dare—although a
woman of singular moral and physical
courage—to attempt to sleep any more
that night. Nothing more at the time
was thought of these dreams, but shortly
afterward the news reached England that
Dr. Parkman was missing ; that the last
time he was seen alive he was entering
the college gates; and that the janitor
was suspected of having murdered him.
On the writer mentioning this to tho
lady, she at once exclaimed, “Oh, my
dreams'! Dr. Webster must have been
the murderer!” The next mail but one
brought the news that the true murderer
had been detected ; and at the very time
when the lady’s dream occurred, Dr.
Webster must have been actually strug
gling to get the bones—the flesh having
been previously burned—into a wooden
box such as she had seen ; and that af
ter attempting in vain to break the thigh
bones, he had hidden them elsewhere.
Fortune Telling.
By the aid of the following, persons
who will study the wrinkles, furrows,
lines and hollows on the hand, will be
able to tell fortunes as well as any mod
ern Gipsy :
If the palm of the hand be long, and
the fingers well-proportioned, etc., not
soft, but rather hard, it denotes the per
son to be ingenious, changeable, and
given to thief and vice.
If the hand be hollow, solid, and well
knit in the joints, it predicts long life,
but if overthwarted, then it denotes short
life.
Observe the finger Mercury—that is the
little finger; if the end of it exceeds the
joint of the ring finger, such a man will
rule his own house; and his wife will he
pleasing and obedient to him ; but if it
be short and does not reach the joint he
will have a shrew, and she will be boss.
Broad nails show the person to be bash
ful, fearful, but of gentle nature.
Narrow nails denotes the person to be
inclined to do mischief, and do injury to
his neighbors.
Long nails show a person to be good
natured; but distrustful, and loving re
conciliation rather than differences.
Oblique nails signify deceit and want
of courage.
Little round nails denote obstinacy,
anger and hatred.
If they are crooked at the extremity,
they show pride and fierceness.
Fleshy nails denote the person to be
mild in temper, idle and lazy.
Pale black nails show the person to be
very deceitful to his neighhor, and sub
ject to many diseases.
Red and marked nails signify choleric
and martial nature, given to cruelty ; and
as many little marks as there are, speaks
so many evil desires.
Jimmey Brown came running into
Mrs. Jone’s house the other day, say
ing :
“Oh, dear, Mrs. Jones. Such an acci
dent has happened. Your son John got
under a four-horse wagon-load of pig
iron down at the river, and it run right
over his head. Oh ! dear !”
Poor Mrs. Jones screamed and nearly
fainted, when the little rascal added:
“Don’t cry, Mrs. Jones, he wasn’t hurt
a bit.”
“ Why, what do you mean ? Run over
by a four-horse wagon-load of pig-iron
and not hurt?”
“Well, you see, the wagon was pass
ing over the bridge and he was sitting
under it fishing, ” replied the little ras
cal, shooting out at the open door.
A Terrible Dre.ysi Realized.—
Lawrenceville (Ga.,) Herald: “One
night last week Mr. Thomas Allison,
dreamed that his brother, John Allison,
had been murdered and scalped by the
Indians. He lives in California and
trades to Oregon. The dream made so
strong an impression upon Allison’s
mind that he told it to several parties in
town next morning. That day, when the
mail arrived at 12 o’clock, be received a
letter informing him of the death hi*
brother. He crossed a mountain in Ore
gon, and the party was attacked by thfj
Indians and John Allison was killed and
scalped. He is not acquainted with the
party who wrote the letter, but from the
statements made, he is afraid it is true
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