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feY T. L. GANTT. OGLETHORPE ECHO PUBLISHED EVEBY FBIDAY MOBHIHG, HY r T. Ij. GAYTT, Editor and Proprietor. CASH BATES OF ADVERTISING. Tho following table hows our lowest cash rates for advertising. No deviation will be made from ihem in any cpsr. Parties can readily fell 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 4 col. 1 col F w’h; *I.OO $2.00 *3.00 *4.00 $6.(8) SIO.OO sl4 2 “ 1.75 2.75 4.00 5.(8) 8.00 13.00 18 3 “ 2.50 3.25 5.00 6.(8) 10.(8) 16.00 22 4 “ 3.00 4.00 6.00 7.00 11.00 18.88 26 f> “ 3.50 4.50 6.00 8.00 12.00 20.00 30 6 “ 4/00 5.00 7.50 8.(8) 13.00 22.00 33 8 5.(8) 6.(8) 9.(8) 10.(8) 15.00 25.00 40 3 mos, 6.(8) 8.(8)11.(8)14.(8) 18.00 30.(8) 50 4 “ 7.00 10.0014.0017.00 21.00 35.00 50 6 “ ,8.50 12.0016.00 20.(8) 26.00 45.(8) 75 9 “ 10.0015.0020.0025.00 33.00 60.(8) 100 12“ 12(8)18.(8)24.(8)30.00 40.00 75.00 120 LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS. 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) Notice to Debtors and Creditors, 30 days, 4 (8) 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.