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GEORGIA RAILROAD SCHEDULE
The following is the schedule on the Geor
gia Railroad, with time of arrival at and de
parture from every station on the Athens
Branch:"
UP DAY PASSENGER TRAIN.
Leave Augusta at 8:45 a. m.
Arrive at Union Point 12:27 p. m.
Leavs Uqion Pomt ... 12:52 p. m.
Arrive at Atlanta 5:45 p. ra.
yOWN DAY FASSENGER TRAIN.
Leave Atlanta at 7:00 a. m.
Arrive at Union Point 11:32 a. m.
Leave Union Point ...11:33 a. m.
Arrive at Augusta 3:80 p. in.
UP NIGHT PASSENGER TRAIN.
Leave
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
Wintersvilie 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 Pt>int.... r .. 11 15
'-.grp SBAll*r
Union Point...P. M. 100 20
Woodville 1 20 1 25 15
Maxey’s .1 ;... 140 145 15
Antioch 2 00 2 05 25
Crawford. 2 30 2 35 30
Wintersvilie 3 05 3 10 25
Athena. 3 85
NIGHT TRAIN— Down,
Athens . a. m. 10 00 25
Wintersvilielo 25 10 30 30
Crawford 11 00 11 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 39 4 41 15
Antioch 4 56 4 58 25
Crawford 5 23 5 27 30
Wintersvilie , 5 57 6 02 28
Athens. 6 30
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HISTORICAL SKETCHES.
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Governor George Mathews.
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BY ALBERT WINTER.
Specially Prepared for the Oglethorpe Echo.
NUMBER VI.
As I stated in my last sketch, I pro
pose now to give short biographical
sketches of the early settlers of the
Goose Pond or Broad river settlement.
I will commence with
GOVERNOR MATHEWS,
who, besides being the first settler, was
the most prominent of the many promi
nent men who settled there in 1784, the
year after the great struggle ended.
John Mathews, the father of the sub
ject of this sketch, was born in Ireland,
but emigrated to Virginia and settled in
Augusta county, in the western part of
the State, in 1737. This part of Virgin
ia was then on the extreme western
limit of civilization, and the settlers
were accustomed to conflicts with the
Indians almost incessantly. The sava
ges in this part of the colonies were un
der the immediate influence of the
French settlers then scattered along at
regular intervals from the Great Lakes
of the North to the French settlements
at New Orleans. It was a part of the
great plan to recover French Dominion
in North America—to connect the settle
ments at Quebec and those in the ex
treme South, in what is now the State of
Louisiana, by a line of forts and settle
ments. It is a remarkable fact in
the early settlement of this country that
the French always had the good will of
the natives, and were consequently free
from the great misfortunes that followed
their enmity.
On the contrary, the English colonies,
from the time they landed on the shores
of the New World, were engaged in
deadly war with the natives, and very
many of them fell under the scalping
knife of the savages. The cause of this
is apparent at a glance to those who are
acquainted with the plans of the two
countries in regard to the Indians. The
French never dispossessed the aborigines
of their lands without giving at least a
semblance of pay, and besides they treat
ed them with that kindness and oonrtesy
characteristic of the Frenchmen wher
ever he is found.
On the contrary, the English colonists
seemed to regard the unfortunate sav
ages as legitimate prey, whom to rob,
murder and plunder was doing God ser
vice. As the direct result of this inhu
man policy, there was constant and deep
sealed enmity between the two, and a
struggle protracted and bloody which
called and could end only in the exter
mination of the Indians.
From an early age George Mathews
was inured to these conflicts, and devel
oped a courage which marked him as a
future soldier.
In 1761, a family that lived near his
father was murdered by the Indians.
Young Mathews, in company with sev
eral other young men, heard the firing,
and supposing that some of their neigh
bors were engaged in a shooting-match,
which were then very common, rode
over to join them. When they rode into
the yard, what was their surprise to see
the dead bodies of their friends scattered
around, horribly mutilated. As soon as
they found their mistake they wheeled
their horses to fly. The savages poured
a volley into them as they retreated, and
a shot passed so near the head of young
Mathews that it cut off the cue at the
back of his head. The impetuous Math
ews, roused by the murder of his friends
and stimulated by the narrow escape he
bad himself made, soon gathered a party
to go in pursuit. Placing himself at the
head of the pursuers, he soon overtook
the murderers, and gave them a severe
punishment, killing nine.
At the great battle fought at Point
Pleasant, on the Kenawah, in 1774,
Mathews commanded a company, and
by his bravery and management contrib
uted no little to the complete victory
gained by the colonists. After the con
flict had been raging all day, with no
decided result, Mathews, together with
two other Captains—Shelby and Stuart—
separated their commands from the main
body of the army, and entering the bed
of a creek which was very low, they suc
ceeded in gaining a position in the rear
of the Indians. Not expecting an at
tack from that quarter, and totally un
prepared for it, the Indians soon broke
in confusion and were pursued across
the Ohio.
When the war of the Revolution broke
out the knowledge that had been gained
CRAWFORD, GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING, MAY 14, 1875.
by Captain Mathews in the conflicts
with the savages served him a good pur
pose, and, indeed, most of the officers
who figured conspicuously in that great
struggle learning their profession of arms
on the frontier, Washington himself hav
ing served with great gallantry and
success against the savages. Mathews
was, in 1775, appointed Lieutenant Colo
nel of the Ninth Regiment of Virginia
troops, which regiment was soon after
placed, by order of Congress, on the
Continental establishment. The regi
ment was ordered to service on the
Chesapeake Bay, under command of
Gen. Andrew Lewis, and remained for
two years under the poisonous influences
of the malaria arising from the swamps
on the shores of the bay, and the hardy
mountaineers, accustomed to the bracing
atmosphere of West Virginia, died rap
idly from the effects of confinement and
impure water.
But when the contest began in good
earnest, and it was evident that it had
become a life and death struggle between
the mother country and the recreant col
onists, Washington, who knew the value
of Mathews’ courage and experience, or
dered him to join the main army, a short
time before the battleof Brandy wine was
fought. At this battle Colonel Mathews
did good service, his regiment having
broken the centre of the British line,
but being unsupported, he had to fall
back.
At the battle of Germantown be again
pushed the British forces opposed to him
back, and had caplured them, when his
command became enveloped in the dense
fog, which lost the Americans the day.
In the confusion that followed he was
attacked, his troops repulsed, himself
knocked down and a bayonet driven
through his body. He was made a pris
oner and carried to New York.
Colonel Mathews was confined in the
British prison ships in New York, and
must have suffered greatly, for he ap
pealed to the Continental Congress for
protection against the cruelties of liis
enemies, Jefferson, at that time Gover
nor of Virginia, interested himself in the
matter, and besides writing to the com
mander of the British army in regard
thereto, he also wrote to Mathews, con
soling him for his sufferingsand referring
to the time when he would be free from
such persecution. I make the following
extract from Mr. Jefferson’s letter to Col.
Mathews; ■'*
We know that the ardent spirit of hatred
to tyranny, which has brought you to your
present situation, will enable you to bear up
against it with that firmness which
has distinguished you as a soldier, and
will enable vou to look forward with pleas
ure to the day when events shall take place,
against which the wounded spirits of your ene
mies will find no comfort, even from reflec
tions on the most refined of the cruelties with
which they have glutted themselves.
Col. Mathews was not enchanged until
near the close of the war. He then join
ed the army in the South, under the
command of General Greene, as Colonel
of the Third Virginia Regiment. It was
while he was with the Southern army
that he bought the Goose Pond tract, the
title to which was in dispute, As soon
as the war ended, he removed with his
family to his purchase, and through his
persuasions, many of his friends soon
after left the old Dominion and settled
in his immediate neighborhood.
The fame of his exploits with the In •
dians and his meritorious services during
the time that tried men’s souls, made
him soon after this settlement in Geor
gia one of her most prominent citizens.
He was elected Governor of the State,
which office he held for two years, and
by his stern devotion to duty made him
self feared by the Indians, who were
then very troublesome on the northern
borders of the State. It was during his
administration that the celebrated battle
of Jack’s Creek, in Walton county, was
fought. The Indians were totally de
feated.
When the first Congress of the United
States, under the present Constitution,
assembled, Mathews was a member. It
was during his service in Congress that
he gave the celebrated evidence of the
strength of his memory. An important
public document was lost, the contents
of which he could repeat from memory
verbatim ,
He was elected Governor of the State
again in 1794. And now I approach a
period in the life of this remarkable
man when the lessons of his earlier years
seem to have been forgotton. He gave
his support to measures which have re
ceived the unqualified reproval of
of all good men, since that day. I refer
to the celebrated Ya*oo Fraud, as it was
called, an act which was passed by the
General Assembly of the State, granting
all of the present States of Alabama and
Mississippi to a company of speculators,
for the insignificant sum of five hundred
thousand dollars.
Ask your neighbor to take the Echo.
DEVILTRIES.
A man of marked features—the small
pox convalescent.
Bugby is at work on a patent to pre
vent sounds from being drowned.
A Danbury boarder writes for a rec
ipe for removing dandruff from butter.
_ About the happiest time in a young
girl s existence is when her lover rings
her hand.
Why are the days in summer longer
than the days in winter?—Because it is
hotter in summer, and heat expands.
Shacknasty Jim, Steamboat Frank
and Scarfaced Charlev are in Brooklyn,
but they haven’t testified yet.
A California man pounded his wife,
was fined S9O, and he sold her silk dress
to pay the fine.
The flowers feel so outraged at the
treatment of spring that they are carry
ing pistils.
Respect for royalty seems to be de
clining in England when an English pa
per will coolly refer to“ Bill the Third.”
A red-headed, unprincipled woman
has been selling the colored people of
Boston a lotion warranted to make them
white.
A Troy man has invented a shirt bos
om which won’t rumple. It is probably
made of cast iron, however, and he’ll
have to invent his customers.
A Colorado tombstone remarks :
Be was young,
He was fair,
But the lujuns
Raised his hair.
“Guess your eyes are bad,” replied a
Green Bay traveler when told that his
collar was soiled ; “ why, bless you, mis
ter, I haven’t worn that collar but two
weeks.”
This conundrum is respectfully sub
mitted to the best speller : If S-i-o-u-x
spells su, and e-y-e spells i, s-i-g-h-c-d
spells side, why doesn’t s-i-o-u-x e-y-e
s-i-g-h-d spell suicide ?
A gentleman who has a scolding
wife, in answer to an inquiry after her
health, said she was pretty well, only
subject at times to a “breaking out in
the mouth.”
The man who can keep from using ugly
words when his suspender buttons burst
off, or when his corns arc stepped upon
in an omnibus, is elected for heaven,
sure.
Observe a young father trying to ap
pease a bawling baby, and you’ll witness
enough ingenuity in ten minutes to make
you think that man ought to be an in
ventor,
A little boy asked a lady friend of
his mother’s who made her teeth. She
replied, “God.” “ Well,” remarked the
young hopeful, “ Dr. Freeman made
mother’s, and they beat yours by a. d—d
sight.”
Aunt Bella (who has just read aloud
‘ The Burial of'Sir John Moore”) —“Now,
then, which of the verses do you like
best?” Jack, with alacrity—“O ! I
know —‘Few and short where the prayers
wesaid.’ ”
She used to keep bits of broken china
and crockery piled up in a convenient
corner of the closet, and, when asked her
reason for preserving such domestic lum
ber, she shot a lurid glance at her hus
band, and merely remarked: “He
knows what them’s for.”
A pretty girl attended a ball out
West, recently, decked off in short dress
and pants. The other ladies were shock
ed. She quietly remarked that if they
should pull up their dresses about the
neck, as they ought to be, their skirts
would be as short as hers.
A man in digging a load of sand from
a sand bank in Seneca Falls was buried
to his shoulders by an avalanche of the
treacherous earth. When discovered by
his friends he had bleen planted about
three hours, and was beginning to grow
—discouraged.
A physician once defended himself
from railleries by saying: “I defy any
person whom I ever attended to accuse
me of ignorance or neglect.” “ That
you may do safely,” replied an auditor,
“ for you know, doctor, dead men tell
no tales.”
“Fellow Trabklers,” said a colored
preacher, “ ef I hed been eatin’ dried
apples for a week, and den took to drink
in’ for a monf, I couldn’t feel more
swelled up dan I am dis minit wid pride
and vanity, at seem’ such full ’tendance
har dis evenin’.”
He didn’t tell the young man not to
come around any more; he didn’t bid
his daughter reject his suit ; he didn’t
sit up at night with a shot-gun, or let the
fire go out in the front parlor. No, no;
he knew a plan worth two of those : he
hung out a small-pox flag every evening
at dusk, and that did the business effec
tually.
Bill Smikes came home mellow' the
other night, and when his wife asked him
w'hat ailed him he said he had been.to
the spelling-school and had (hie) got
foul of hip-pip—poppo—poppo—hip
popity—(hip-pop —hip) pity hop—himus
—nippimus—hip hip— hip hippity
mns—hipopymus—or some such (hie)
confounded word, aud it had given him
one of his ‘‘spells,”
An editor out West, who thought the
wages demanded by compositors was an
imposition, discharged his hands, and
intends doing his own type-setting in the
future. He says:
owiNG To the eXhoitbiTwit IFegEs
dEmANdeD pY priiqeßs wE ho.\e Con
cluded To do oL r o IFn tYpa sEtring iN
Tqe fuTnjje.:; auD aLTAeuGH wE never
Tqe Business tee dO &ot see vsy
gßerr mynTery i* t *£e aR'.
A Haunted House in Ancient Athens.
It may perhaps interest our readers to
be reminded how theghost story question
was regarded by Pliny the younger, the
most elegant writer under the Roman
Empire, and the intimate friend of the
historian Tacitus, the deepest man of
his day. Here is a letter from Pliny to
his friend:
“ What think you of the following
story ? Has it not more of the frightful
about, and not less of the miraculous ?
I will tell it as it was told to me:
“ There was a large and roomy house
at Athens, and one that had a bad name
and proved fatal to in-dwellers. In the
dead of night the sound like the grating
of iron, or to a more attentive ear, the
clank of chains, used to echo through it
—first from a distance, then from quite
close at hand. Presently a spectral old
man used to present himself, lean and
squalid, with long beard and shaggy
hair, and fetters on his hands, which he
kept shaking.
“ This occasioned nights of distress
and horror to the inmates, whose sleep
was banished by fear, and the result was
illness, and as the illness grew to its
height, death ; for by day, though the
phantom had departed, its image would
remain impressed upon, the eycs v and
apprehension stayed when its cause was
gone. The house was, therefore, quitted,
and abandoned to desolation,. its un
earthly occupant being allowed sole
possession. Still an advertisement was
kept up, in case any one unaware of the
serious drawback might wish to rent or
purchase it. Then a philosopher named
Athenodorus came to Athens and read
the bill. On hearing the price the
cheapness raised his suspicions, and
on making inquiries, he was told the
story, which only rendered him more
than ever anxious to hire the house.
As evening closed in, he ordered a
bed to bo made up lor himself in a front
room and called for writing materials
and a light; then dismissed his atten
dants into the interior, and applied him
self, mind and eye and hand, to the task
of writing,, that his brain might not be
left free to conjure up the apparitions he
had been told of, and torment him
with idle fears. At first silence reigned
supreme about him, as it did everywhere
else.. Then there was a clash of iron
and a shuffling of chains. So far, how
ever, from lifting his eyes or laying
aside his pen, he redoubled attention to
his work, and stopped his ears. The
noice increased and advanced nearer,
until it seemed first at the door and then
in the chamber. He turned his head
and saw a figure which lie recognized as
the one described to him. It was stand
ing beckoning with its finger, as if sum
moning him. He answered by a wave
of the hand to wait a little, and resumed
his writing. It proceeded to rattle the
chains over his head. Then looking
behind him again, and seeing it
signaling as before, without delay, he
took up the candle and followed it. The
ghost walked slowly, as if encumbered by
its chains, but after turning into the
court-yard it vgnishad suddenly and left
its companion alone. Finding himself
thus, he plucked some weeds and mark
ed the spot. The next day he went be-.
fore the magistrates and advised them to
order the place dug up. A skeleton was
found entangled in a mass of chains, the
body itself, frpm lying long in the
ground, having rotted away and left the
hones bare and moldered, in the fetters.
These were collected and publicly
buried, and the ghost having been duly
laid, the house was haunted no more.”
A Little Old-Time S'ory About Grant.
A late number of the Chimney Corner
contains a striking likeness of Hon.
Erastus Wells, one of the most popular
gentleman in the Lower House of Con
gress. The sketch of his career also
given, shows how successfully Mr. Wells
fought his way up from a stage and om
nibus driver to his present high position,
he being also one of the most wealthy
and influential residents of the “Future
Great City.”
This seems, by the way, not an inap
propriate place to refer to a little inci
dent in Mr. Wells’early career in St.
Louis, in which the present Chief Mag
istrate of this nation figured conspicuous
ly. More-than twenty years ago, one
terrible cold and stormy night in Janua
ry, Mr, Wells was driving his stage home
from Carandolet(near which burg Farmer
Grant lived,) to St. Louis, a distance of
seven miles. On the road Mr, W, met a
horse and country wagon proceeding
leisurely along without a driver, He
next discovered lying on the roadside
the debris of what appeared as a small
stock of groceries, Further on he espied
what afterwards proved to be a good
siaed, old-fashioned brown jug ; the"eork
was out and there was the very best evi
dence that the aforesaid jug had very
recently contained some whiskey. The
last object further on, and only a short
distance from that point, Mr. Wells dis
covered was the body of a man lying off
the side of the road, Jumping from his
stage he found the owner of the wagon
reposing comfortably in a snow-bank,
“ slightly under the weather ” front hav
ingimbibed too freely of the contents of
his brown jug, Mr. Wells, thinking
that the ma might perish if left there all
night, took him on his stage, picked up
the things along the road, and landed
the farmer and traps safely at home some
miles distant. This is no imaginary
sketch. The individual thus taken care
of is now the President of the United
States, and the incident aptly illustrates
the marvellous changes that occur in the
career of men who rise to eminence in
this country. Grant never forgot this
act of kindness on the part of Wells, aud
to-day the latter, although a Dem
ocrat, has more influence with the Ex
ecutive than all the balance of the Mis
souri delegation in Congress combined.
VOL. I—NO. 32.
TEEASUBE AND. QQBWNS.
A Man Discovers Gold and Silver a Cava
—He Attempts to Help Himself and i
Frightened Off by Horrible Specters
Fearful Noises.
[From the Meade County (Ky.) Mirror.]
A story reaches us from the neighbor
hood of Painsville, in this county, that
sounds decidedly Munchausenish, the
truth of whieh we cannot vouch f >r, but
give as we received it.
One day last week, while a man, whose
name we are unable to learn, was enga
ged in ctuting staves* about two mile*
from Pair—ill e* a rabbit sprung out of a
brush pile,, and the mau, with visions of
rabbit-hash looming up before his mind,
hurled his hatchet with great force in
the direction of the coiton-Jtaih Miaaing
its aim, the hatchet disappeared down a
hole in the ground aahert distance oft to*
which the man proceeded, but finding
he could see his weapon lying about six
feet below, proceeded, to lower himself
for the purpose of recovering it. Arri
ving at the bottom he observed a room
like a cave about ten feet square, which
was dimly lighted by the sunlight with
out. Casting his eyes about him, he dis
covered a pile of Indian tomahawks.
Toward these he advanced for the pur
pose of examination.. While doing so he
discovered two earthen vessels almost
within his reach, w hich he saw was filled,,
one with silver, the other with gold coin.
Paralyzed for the moment at the discov
ery of such vast riches, he stood and
stared in blank astonishment. For a
moment only did he stand thus, but ad
vancing with a panther-like leap, he
was about to receive his prey, when there
arose a succession of such shrieks, yells
and noises that he paused, and glancing
up he saw gazing upon him eight or ten
things, resembling men who had once
lived, but now' nothing remained but
their bones. It is useless to say that the
stave-cutter lost no time in getting out
of the cave, without even obtaining one
piece of the precious metal to bear him
out in his story. It appears thatdie is a
truthful man, and h.s story is believed
by quite a number, who are organising
themselves for the purpose of making au
examination and testing the truth of
his story. Reader, you haye it as w’e re
ceived it; believe or not, as you plea e..
We await further development.
The Influence of Newspapers.
A school teacher, w'ho has beep enga
ged for a longtime in his profession, and
witnessed the influence of a newspaper
upon the minds of a family and chil
dren, writes as follows:
I have fouud it to be a universal fad,,
without exception, that those scholars of
both sexes, and of aU ages, who have ac
cess to newspapers at home, when com
pared to those w'ho have not, are :
1. Better readers, excellent in pronun
ciation, and consequently read more un
derstaudingly.
2. They are better spellers, and de
fine words with ease ana accuracy.
3. They obtain practical knowledge of
geography in almost half the time it re
quires of others, as the newspapers have
made them acquainted with the looaiiuu
of the important places of nations, their
government and doings ou the globe.
4. They are better grammarians for
having become so familiar with every
variety of styles in the newspapers, from
the commonplace advertisement to the
finished and classical oration of th-j
statesman, they more readily compre
hend the meaning of the text, amt
constantly analyze it constructions wlti\
accuracy.
5. They write better compositions,
uring better language, containing more
thoughts, more clearly and more correct--
ly expressed.
6. Those young men who have for
years been readers of newspapers arc a l ,
ways taking the lead in debating s >cie
ties, exhibiting a more extensive know
ledge, a greater variety of subjects..
and expressing their views with greatet
influence, clearness and correctness.
The Printer’s Estate.—The prin
ter's dollars—w'here are they? A dollar
Ueie, and a dollar there, scattered all
over the whole country, miles and miles
apart — how r shall they be gathered to
gether ?
The paper maker, the building owner,
the grocer, the tailor, and all assistance
to him in carrying on his business, have
their demands, hardly ever so small as a
single dollar, But the mites from here
and there must be diligently gathered
and patiently, qr the wherewith to dis
charge the liabilities will never become
sufficiently bulky. We imagine the
printer wUlbave ta get an address to his
widely scattered something like the fol
lowing :
u Dollars, halves, quarters, dimes, and
manner of fractions into which ye un
divided, collect yourselves and corn*
home? Ye are wanted 1 Combinations
of all sorts of men that help the printer
to become a proprietor,gather such force -,
and demand, with such good reasons,
your appearance at his counter that
nothing short of a sight of yon will ap
pease them. Collect yourselves, for val
uable as you are iu the aggregate siagie,
you will never pay the cost of gathering
Come in here in single file, that tin.
printer may form you into a battalion,
and send you forth again to Uafctta for
him, and vindicate feehle credit!”
Reader, are you sure you haven’t u
couple or more of the printer 1 *
sticking about your clothes f
I
The largest catch of fish made at one
haul was at Alexandria, Va., Saturday
morning. It was made atFreeatooe Point,
by Jacob Faunce, who caught 4,000 shad
and 19,000 herrings at one haul of the
seine—a most profitable business at
ent quotations.
A game of cards in Milton county
caused a colored boy to kill a white
1? years of age.