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feY T. L. GANTT.
OGLETHORPE ECHO
PUBLISHED
EVEBY FBIDAY MOBHIHG,
HY r T. Ij. GAYTT,
Editor and Proprietor.
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Sheriff Sales, nor levy, 10 lines $5 00
Executors’, Aumini ltrators’ and Guardi
an'll .Sales, per square 7 00
Each additional square 5 (8)
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Notice of'Leave to sell, 30 days 3 00
Letters of Administration, 30 days 4 (8)
Letters of Dismission, 3 months 5 (8)
Letters of Guardianship, 30 days.. 4 (8)
Letters of Dis. Guardianship, 4o days.... 3 75
Homestead Notices, 2 insertions 2 (X)
Rule Nisi’s per square, each insertion... 100
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 Auirusta at 8:45 a. m.
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. m.
Arrive at Union Point 11:32 a. m.
Leave Union Point 11:83 a. in.
Arrive at Augusta 3:30 p. m.
UP NIGHT PASSENGER TRAIN.
Leave Augusta*at 8:15 p. m.
Arrive at Atlanta 6:25 a. in.
Remains one minute at Union Point.
ATHENS BRANCH TRAIN.
DAY TRAIN.
I ime
Stations. { Arrive. Depart, bet.
| sta’s.
A. M.
Athens 8 45 25
Wiptersville 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
UP TRAIN.
Union Point...P. M. 100 I 20
Woodville 120 125 | 15
Maxey’s 140 145 { 15
Antioch 200 205 j 25
Crawford * 230 235 I 30
Wintersville 305 310 i 25
Athens 3 35
NIGHT TRAIN— Down.
Athens a. in. 10 (8) 25
Wiutersvilie 10 25 10 30 30
Crawford 11 00 11 05 25
Antioch 11 30 11 32 15
Mnxey’s 11 47 11 49 15
Woodville 12 04 12 10 25
Union Point 12 35 a. m.
Up Ni<j/d Train.
Union Point 3 55 25
Woodville 4 20 4 24 15
Maxey’s 4 39 . 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,
o
HERE THE CITIZENS OF OGLETHORPE
will alway find 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 Ms, Clothing,
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 TIIE
Olioieest Brands 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. Come one! Come all!!
KALVARIXSKY & LIEBLKR,
Under Newton House, Athens, Ga.
Rock Me to Sleep.
Although a large number of our read
ers may have seen these beautiful lines
before, there is no one so devoid of poet
ical love that they will not take delight
in giving them a second reading:
Backward, turn backward, O Time ! in vour
flight,
Make mea child again jut for to-night!
Mother, come back from the echolftss shore,
Take me again to your heart as of yore ;
Kiss from my forehead the furrows of care,
Smooth the few silver threads out of my hair;
Over niv slumbers your loving watch keep—
Rock me to sleep, mother—rock me to sleep !
Backward flow backward, oh swift tide of
years!
I am weary of toil, I am weary of tears;
Toil without recompense, tears all in vain,
Take them ami give ine ray childhood again !
I have grown weary of dust and decay,
Weary of flinging my soul-wealth away,
Weary of sowing for others to reap;
Iloek me to sleep, mother—rock me to sleep!
Tired of the hollow, the base, the untrue:
Mother! O mother! my heart calls for you!
Many a summer the grass has grown green,
Blossomed and faded, our faces between :
Yet with a strong yearning and passionate pain
Long I to-night for your presence again :
Come from the silence so long and so deep,
Rock me to sleep, mother—rock me to sleep !
Over my heart, in the days that are flown,
No love like mother-love ever was shone—
No other worship abides and endures,
Faithful, unselfish, and patient, like yours!
None like a mother can charm away pain
From the sorrowing soul and the world-weary
brain ;
Slumber’s soft calmso’er my heavy lids creep;
Rock me to sleep, mother—rock me to sleep!
Come, let your brown hair, just lighted with
gold,
Fall on vour shoulders again as of old ;
Let it fall over my forehead to-night,
Shielding my eyes from the flickering light,
For oh ! with its sunny-edged shadows once
more,
Happlv will throng the sweet visions of yore ;
Lovingly, softly its bright billows sweep—
Rock me to jjeep, mother—rock me to deep!
Mother, dear mother! the years have been
long
Since last I was hushed by your lullabysong;
Sing, then, again ! to my soul it shall seem
Womanhood’s years have been only a dream;
Clasp to your arms in a loving embrace
\\ ith your soft, light lashes just sweeping my
face,
Never hereafter to wake or to weep ;
Rock me to sleep, mother—rock me to sleep !
Tired Mothers.
A little elbow leans upon your knee—
Your tired knee that has so much to bear;
A child’s dear eyes are looking lovingly
From underneath a thatch of tangled hair.
Perhaps you do not heed the velvet touch
Of warm moist fingers holding yours so
tight;
You do not prize this blessing overmuch,
You are almost too tired to pray to-night.
But it is blessedness. A year
I did not see it as I see to-day—
We’re all so dull and thankless, and too slow
To catch the sunshine till it slips away.
And now it seems surpassing strange to me
That, while I wore the hade of motherhood,
I did not kiss more oft and tenderly
The little child that brought me only good.
And if, some night, when you sit down to rest,
You miss this elbow from your tired knee—
This restless curly head from off your breast,
The lisping that chatters constantly;
If from your own the dimpled hand had
slipped,
And never would nestle in your palm again;
If the feet into their grave had slipped,
I could not blame you for your heartache
then.
I wonder so that mothers ever fret
At little children clinging to their gown;
Or that the footprints when the days are wet,
Are ever black enough to make them frown.
If I could find a little muddy boot
Or can or jacket on my chamber floor;
If 1 could kiss a rosy, restless foot,
And hear it putter in my home once more;
If I could mend a broken cart to-day,
To-morrow make a kite to reach the sky—
There is no woman in God’s world could say
She was more blissfully content than I.
But ah ! the dainty pillow next my own
Is never rumpled bv a shining head ;
My singing hireling from its nest has flown;
The little boy I used to kiss is dead.
Project for the Civilization of Africa.
A bold project for the civilization of
Africa is announced, under the sanction
of Cap. Sir John H. Glover, Mr. R, N.
Fowler and other well known gentlemen.
This is the formation of a canal lor com
mercial purposes from the mouth of the
river Belta on the Atlantic, in the neigh
borhood of Cape Jubv and Cape Bajador,
opposite the Canary Islands, to the nor
thern bend of the Niger at Timbuetoo, a
distance of 740 miles. Such a highway
would open up the African continent to
the world, and it is beliived that no for
midable obstacle opposes its construction
but that the conformation of the great
Desert of Sahara favors the scheme.
For 630 miles of the distance there is a
{rreat hollow, supposed to be 250 feet be
ow the level of the Atlantic, which was
prf bably at one time covered by the sea.
This low country is separated from the
coast by a broken ridge of about thirty
miles, through which the river Belta runs
for twenty-five miles, so that all that
would be necessary in order to reach it
is to deepen the channel of of the river,
cut through the ridge, and let the Atlan
tic fall in the vast arid basin. In this
way a vast sheet ol water would be
formed, the climate would be improved,
the country would become more fertile
for pasturage, apd agriculture and com
merce would be carried into the heart of
Africa.
—There are two things that a w oman
cannot do-poke a fire and sharpen ajeftd
pencil. Some illnatured fellow has ad
ded, and reason ; but, of course, no one
believes him. .
—Uneasy rests the head that has no
new' spring bonnet.
Saddles and Bridles of all kinds,
for sale by Weatherly & Cos., Athens,
CRAWFORD, GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING, MAY 7, 1875.
DEVILTBIES.
—A bustle is described as a fiction
founded on fact.
—Why is the sun like a good loaf?
Because it’s light when it rises.
—lt was so cold in Montana recently
that whisky was sold by the plug.
—March may have gone out like a
lamb, but April holds ou like a whole
menagerie.
—lt has been observed that cautious
old bachelors always speak of a baby as
“ it.”
—A Harrisburg paper informs its rea
ders that “ when a gentleman and lady
are walking upon the .street the lady
should walk inside the gentleman.”
—An Irish editor says that “ A child
was run over in the street by a wagon
three years old and cross-eyed, with
pantalets on, which never spoke a word.”
—Young ladies, give always prece
dence to old age. Never go to the wash
tub if your mother or grand-mother is
present.
—Conundrum—Said a boy ; “That
chap is my brother, and this girl is his
sister, and yet she is no relation of mine.
How is that?” Answer—That boy lied.
—Two women claim to be the mother
of Bessie Turner. It isn’t likely that
both can prove their claim. Who is
the Solomon who will decide this ques
tion ?
—The following is Aunt Debora’s de
scription of her milkman : “He is the
meanest man in the world,” she exclaim
ed. “He skims his milk on the top, and
then turns it over and skims the bottom.”
—A Dubuque printer received the fol
lowing note from his girl: “ May I get
yanked out o’ bed at midnite every nite
bv a cuss like Thrydore Tilton, an’ car
ried up a million pars of stares, if ever I
sese to love you, Jim.”
—At the Philadelphia Centennial,
next vear, there will be a department al
lotted for the exhibition of four-months
old babies, and Pennsylvania patriots
are xerv generally directing their wives’
attention to the fact.
—“May I leave a few tracts?” asked
a medical missionary of a lady who re
sponded to his knock. “ Leave some
tracts ? Certainly you may,” said she,
looking at him most benignly over her
specks. “ Leave them with your heels
toward the house, if you please.”
—We know a rotund and rubicund citi
zen of Washington who has been haunt
ed by internal revenue detectives for some
time past. Why? His stomach has a
front pouch, contains much whiskey in
bond, and yet he has no permit for a
bonded ware-house.
—The Greatest Joiner—The lawyer;
he can place a tenant, empannel a jury,
box a witness, bore the court, chisel a
client, augur the gains, floor a wituess,
cut his board, nail the case, hammer the
desk, file his bill and shave a whole com
munity.
—Ladies sojoining in Florida for the
winter catch and tame chameleons. The
favorite food of these animals is flies, and
half a dozen will keep a small family
busy catching these insects for them.
Can’t a few be imported for the country
districts this summer.
—Here is something that should be
more generally known : It is said that
bedbugs will live a year without air or
food if placed in a hermetically sealed
bottle. Persons who desire to keep their
bedbugs over the winter without feeding
them would do w’ell to remember this.
—The Milwaukee Sentinel thinks “it is
simply absurd to talk about a woman be
ing qualified to fill every position in life
that a man fills. For instance, what wo
man could lounge around the stove in a
country grocery and lie about the num
ber of fish she caught last summer ?”
—A gentleman was endeavoring to en
joy an evening in the company of a
young lady upon whom he called, but
found a serious obstacle in the person of
a stern father, who at length ventured
very plainly to intimate that the hours
for retiring had arrived. “I think you
are correct, my dear sir,” returned the
unabashed young man. “We have been
waiting to have you go to bed for over
an hour.”
—“ Hair gettiu’ a little thin sir,” said
the barber. “Young man,” said John
Henry, looking down upon him from
the height of solemn experience; “young
man, when you get married you will
never allude in that thoughtless manner
to domestic afflictions. No ; don’t apol
ogize. My feelings are blunted. But is
there not some mysterious unguent—
some soft, seductive compound—that
makes the hair more slippery to the
grasp ?”
“W ho is the girl Helen Blazes, to
whom the boys so often appeal to in sud
den pain or peril’s darkest hour 2 A
day or two ago a young man trod on a
piece ot orange-peel, aud sat down on the
pavement, at the same time exclaiming,
Heleu Biazes?’’ And that same after
noon another young man struck his
toe against a brick, and taking bis foot
up m his arms, he, too, cried “Helen
Blazes !” There may be such a patron
saint of the hurt in the calendar but
we can’t find her there.
Glen den ning in the Pulpit Again.
John S. Glendenning preached
on Sunday last in his Prospect avenue
church, Jersey City, for the first time
since his famous trial. A large congre
gation greeted his appearance in the
pulpit, which was decorated lavishly
with flowers. Mr. Glendenning’s church
has paid the charges ol the lawvers who
conducted his defence, and his salary
has not been affected by the intermission
in his ministry.
The Kimball Eotfse.
The unfinished portion of t}ie Kimball
House, Atlanta, is to be fixed up. This
will add about one hundred and twenty
five rooms fo the hotel. Speaking of the
Kimball, here is what a correspondent
of a Northern paper has to say about it.
He was evidently billious !
“ It is not often that I puff a hotel, but
where I pay my bill at the rate of *4 a
day for sleeping in the “milky way” and
feeding on a bill of fare, it’s a privilege
and a pleasure to mention such an insti
tution. The Kimball House, in Atlanta,
Ga., ought to travel with Barnum’s show
as a curiosity. It is the largest, I pre
sume, in the woi)id. Many people who
go in the sky parlor to repose, never
come down, but go right on to heaven,
without change of elevators: and those
who have written back say they could
smell hair oil on the hair of the clerks
all the way up. The halls are so long
and winding that many waiters get lost
whde going after a pitcher of water and
are never heard .of until their remains
are found years after. I went in there
one morning and ordered breakfast. A
small colored boy took my order, and it
was so far out to the kitchen that he was
grown and gray-headed when he got
back. It is a very large house —ho-
tel ! Many travellers going South and
returning by this city order their meals
in advance, and frequently when they
get back they have to lay over a week to
make connections. The hotel is a very
large one, and everything about it is very
large, from the feet of the clerks, the
mouths of the waiters, up to the bills.
It is provided with all modern conveni
ences, hot and cold water, bay windows,
idiots, dirty sheets, everything to make
the traveller happy, including an under
taker’s establishment for the accommoda
tion of such boarders as starve to death
while waiting for the waters. It is a
very large hotel, and eveiybody stops
there juet once.”
The Fire that Old Kick Built,
We fiud in an exchange the following
capital imitation of the style of the house
that Jack built, and wish it might be
come a household favorite:
Intemperance—This is the fire that
old Nick built.
Moderate Drinking—This is the fuel
that feeds the fire old Nick built.
Rum Selling—This is the ax that feeds
the fire that old Nick built.
Love of Money—This is the stone that
grinds the axe that cuts the wood that
feeds the fire that old Nick built.
Public Opinion—This is the sledge
with its face of steel that batters the
stone that grinds the axe that cuts the
wood that feeds the fire that Old Nick
built.
A Temperance Meeting—This is one
of the blows that we quietly deal to fash
ion the sledge with its edge of steel that
batters the stone that grinds the axe that
cuts the wood that feeds the fire that old
Nick built.
Temperance Pledge—This is the smith
that works with a will to give force to
the blow that we quietly deal to fashion
the sledge with its face of steel that bat
ters the stone that grinds the axe that
cuts the wood that feeds the fire that
old Nick built.
Eternal Truth—This is the spirit so
gentle and still that nerves the smith to
work with a will to give force to the
blows that we quietly deal to fashion the
sledge with its face of steel that batters
the stone that grinds the axe that cuts
the wood that feeds the fire that old Nick
built.
Half of a Round Dance.
The other night, says Eli, I met one of
those Columbia College law students at
Saratoga, and asked him if he could give
me half of a round dance with Miss
Johnson.
“ Why, yes, Mr. Perkins,” he said,
“take her;” but recollecting his law
knowledge, he caught hold of my coat
sleeve, and made this casual remark:
“ I give and bequeath to you, Mr. Eli
Perkins, to have and to hold in trust,
one-half of my title, and claim, and my
advantage, in a dance known as the
“ Railroad Galop” with Amelia Johnson,
with all hair, paniers, grasshopper bend,
ring tans, belt, hair-pins, smelling-bot
tle, with all the right and advantage
therein ; with full power to have, hold,
encircle, whirl, toss, wiggle, push, jam,
squeeze, or otherwise use—except to
smash, break, or otherwise damage—
and with the right to temporarily con
vey the said Amelia Johnson, her hair,
rings, peniers, and other offsetts hereto
fore or hereinafter mentioned, alter
such whirl, squeeze, w’iggle, jam, etc., to
her natural parents, now living,and with
out regard to any deeds or instruments,
of whatever kind or nature soever, to
the contrary, in anywise, notwithstand
ing.”
IRWINTON Southerner: Mr. N. C.
Hughes informs us that be manufactures
a valuable and cheap fertilizer by throw
ing his refuses upon the earthern floor
ot his fowl house, and about once a
month composting it by working it well
with a hoe and placing it in uncovered
hogsheads. In 1873 he made over a ton
of this compound, which he used upon
various crops, also using guano and sta
ble manure, and he says the crops ferti
lized by this compound were incompara
bly better than those upon which guano
was used. Mr. Hughes has about one
hnndred head of various fowls who roost
in this house, and he estimates the value
of the fertilizer made by him last year
from their dropping mixed with ashes as
being worth, as compared to the price of
commercial fertilizers, SIOO. Divide
this amount, allowing SSO for ashes and
the labor of composting, and he realizes
a profit from his fowls of fifty cents per
head. We would advise our farmer
to try it.
Origin of Eminent Men.
John Smith was the son of his father.
He formerly resided in New York and
other places, lie has removed to San
Francisco now.
Wm. Smith was the son of his mother.
This party’s grandmother is deceased.
She was a brick,
John Brown was the son of old Brown.
The body of the latter lies mouldering in
the grave.
Henry Jones was the son of a sea
cook.
William Jones was the son of a gun.
John Jones was a son of a temperance.
In early life Gabriel Jones was actual
ly a shoemaker. He is a shoemaker
yet.
Previous to the age of eighty-five, Ca
leb Jones had never given any evidence
of extraordinary ability, lie has never
given any since.
Patrick Murphy is said to have been
of Irish extraction.
James Patterson was the son of a com
mon weaver, who was so miraculously
poor that bis friends were encouraged to
believe that in case the Scripture were
strictly carried out, be would “ inherit
the earth.” He never got his property.
Wm. Patterson, better known as “Billy”
—parentage uncertain. His father was
never at home. William was trained
for a priza fighter, until he got struck,
and was knocked out of time into eter
nity. His assailant has never been iden
tified, but suspicion has always rested on
his mother-in-law.
John Davis’ father was a soap-boiler,
and not a very good soap-boiler. John
never arrived at maturity—died just be
fore reaching his 100th year.
John Johnson was a blacksmith. He
died. It was published in the paper,
with the head over it, “ Deaths.” It was
therefore thought that he died to gain
notoriety. He has an aunt living some
where.
Up to the age of thirty-four, llosea
Wilkerson never had any “ Home, Sweet
Home,” and even when he had that he
had to sing it to himself. At one time
it was believed that he would have
been famous if he had become celebra
ted.
A Century’s Change.
The nineteenth century has witnessed
many and great discoveries.
In 1809, Fulton took out the first pat
ent for the invention of his steamboat.
The first steamboat which made regu
lar trips across the Atlantic ocean, were
the Sirus and the Great Western in 1839.
The first public application to practi
cal use of gas for practical illumination
was made in 1802.
In 1813 the streets of London were for
the first time lighted with gas.
In 1813 there was built in Wallham,
Mass., a mill, believed to have been the
first in the world which combined ali the
requirements of making finished cloth
from raw cotton.
In 1790 there were only twenty-five
post-olfices in the whole country, and up
to 1837 the rates of postage were twenty
five cents for every four hundred miles.
In 1807 wooden clocks commenced to
be made by machinery. This ushered
in the era of cheap clocks.
About the year of 1833 the first rail
road of any considerable length in the
United States was constructed.
In 1840 the first experiments in photo
graphy were made bp Deguerre.
About 1849 the first express business
was established.
The anthracite coal business may be
said to have begun in 1820.
In 1886 the first patent for the inven
tion of matches granted.
In 1835 the first telegram was sent.
Steel pens were introduced for use in
1803.
The first successful trial of a reaper
took place in 1833.
1842 Elias Howe obtained a patent
for his sewing machine.
The first successful method of making
vulcanized India-rubber was patented
in 1839.
The Housewife’s Table.
The following is a very valuable house
wife’s table, by which persons not having
scales and weights at hand may readily
measure the article wanted to form any
recipe without the trouble of weighing,
allowance to be made for an extraordi
nary dryness or moisture of the article
weighed or measured :
Wheat flour, 1 pound is 1 quart.
Indian meal, 1 pound 2 ounces are 1
quart.
Butter, when soft, 1 pound is 1 quart:
Loaf Sugar, broken up, 1 pound is 1
quart.
White sugar, powdered, 1 pound 1
ounce are 1 quart.
Best brown sugar, 1 pound 2 ounces
are 1 quart.
Ten eggs are 1 pound.
Sixteen large tablespoonfuls are 1 pint.
Eight iarge tablespoonfuls are £ pint.
Four large tablespoon fuls are 1 gill.
Two gills are a half pint.
A common-sized tumbler holds half a
pint.
An ordinary teacup is 1 gill.
A large wine glass is 1 gill.
A large tablespoonful is half an ounce.
Forty drops are equal to 1 tablespoon
ful.
Four teaspoons fuls are equal to 1 ta
blespoonful.
Puzzle.— A ship at sea sprung a leak.
The whole in the bottom was just one
toot square. There was but one board
on the ship—this was sixteen inches long
and nine inches wide. It had precisely
the requisite number of square inches,
and the carpenter cut it in two pieces
only, and these two pieces just fitted the
hole. How did he do it?
Jokes are like nuts—the drier they are
the better they crack.
VOL I--NO. 31.
A Parisian Hoax.
Hooper writes from Paris to
the Philadelphia Pres#: “It is not
•'°f April, and yet a peculiar*
lv unpleasant trick, which was recently
perpetrated on a quite elderly couple re
siding on the Chausse cPAutin, might,
argue that that festive, anniversary had
already arrived. M. and Mine. X. and
their four children had just finished din
ner. of which the chief dish had been a
piece of roast veal. .Their cook had re
quested permission to go out for a little
while, which permission had been grant
ed .Suddenly a ring was heard at the
hell, and a note was handed to Mine X
It ran as follows:
Madame: I have just learned that
the meat \\ hich was served to you for
dinner to-day was not veal, but—oh how
cau l write it? a piece of the ’little
nephew of the butcher. He assassinated
the poor little boy, and to conceal his
crime cut him in fragments and sold the
pieces to his customers. I dare not re
turn to the house. Farewell.”
This precious missive was signed
with the name of the cook. Mine. X.
straightway went into the hysterics; M.
X. was taken deathly sick, and the four
fehildren screamed 1 in chorus. In the
midst of the uproar in walked the cook
and stood in blank amazement on be
holding the confusion in the usually or
derly household. Of eourse, she* had
never written any such note. The butch
er was guiltless of any assassination, and
the veal was good, honest veal as ever
was cooked. A scandalous hoax had.
been jicrpetrated by some unknown joker.
Poor Mme. X. was ill for twenty-four
hours thereafter, and the husband in his
wrath had invoked the aid of the police
to discover the author of the unseemly'
jest."
Ax Irish Ghost Story.— A super
natural incident is said to have occured
in the wilds of Kerry a short time since.
It seems that a woman residing in Gleu
flesk received a call from the spirit of
her husband, a “ man of the farming class,
dressed in a shroud and white stockiugs
and gloves.” The farmer in white gloves
stated that since his death, some months
back, although he ought to be in heaven,
he was detained elsewhere on account of
owing a sum of £ls to friends of his, and
begged of his wife to give him the money.
The woman in full faith handed him £lO,
and promised to giye him the. rest in a
few' days if he came for it. Meanwhile
she went and told the priest the circum
stances of the case, and this gentleman ,
seeing the fraud, made proper arrange
ments for dealing with the poacher of
the ecclesiastical manor. When the
ghost, in complete burial costume, ar
rived for the bank note he was at once
received by a couple of police, and
proved, as ghost do m our day, to be a
mere pretender. He will now have to
answer for his misconduct before a mag
istrate.
A remarkable case of somnambulism
occurred at Murfreesboro, a few evenings
since. One of the young lady students
of the W. F. College during the night
got up from her bea, threw over herself
a loose wrapper and started down town.
She went into Colonel Vaughan’s resi
dence, and into his room and laid on a
lounge. It greJtlv surprised and fright
ened the Colonel, though he knew some
thing was wrong, and did not molest the
“ sleeping beauty.” Soon Rev. W. G.
Starr yvas informed where the girl was
and went after her. He took her back
to the bed-room and enconced her in
bed, and left the room. The yotmg.lady,
on awakening next morning, knew noth
ing of where she had perambulated, or
anything about her noctural visit.
Birds.—l once killed birds in in'*
wantonness—God forgive me—merely to
test my skill with the rifle.’ But I re
ceived a bitter lesson. While once
passing through the woods I carele**lv
fired at a bird caring only*Ho discharge
my gun. so as to make my next fire sun ,
I wounded a bird which sat upon the
fence. I felt grief-stricken at onee. and
tried to catch it. Failing I thought n
would be humanity to shoot it. Before
I could load my rifle it fluttered aero- *
the field, where I followed it, and found
the panting sufferer at its nest, and the
blood dripping upon its young! Mr
cruelty flashed upon me in all its naked
ness, and I cringed my reflections like a
guilty butcher as I was.— 7hurlow Brou n.
A good-natured old
bore, who loafs about our office a good
deal, explained his projects the other
day and what he proposed doing w'th
his sons: “ There’s Jim, now, he’* idle
an’lazy and worthless. I think I’ll *
him to West Point an’ make a officer mu:
of him. Then Ephraim, who’s stuifid
and good-looking, I'll metamorphose into
a preacher. John is a pious, religious,
well meaning youth, an’ll do first-class
for an editor. But Ned, Ned’s my hope,
he’s a cute, sharp, intelligent chap, s’
make a name for himself I’m a goin’ to
set him up in a saloon and cigar shop
next week ?”
An antidote for hydrophobia pee .’h r
to Kentucky is the “inad atone,” consist
ing of a bard, porous substance, the ap
plication of which to a wound is al lodg
ed by superstitious people to absorb i .he
poison transmitted from the mouth >t a
dog. A process for making mad stone-,
offered by Isaac McCubbins,' of Ersiu
tordsville, Ky., consists of “sewing up a
toad in apiece of buckskin, throwing it
into an ant mound or nest, Sri** all \v\vrr
it to remain for two years, when uiil
efficacy is attained, and the stone rea
dy for use.”
—There is something novel and r -
freshing in the arrest of a Jersey City
woman on a charge of habituallv \ - _t
ir.g and maHie&ting her nusbanu.