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OGLETHORPE ECHO
PrBLISHKD
EVERY FRIDAY MCRININC.
by T. GANTT,
Editor and Proprietor.
Quite A Rumpus at Wabbextox.—
We learn from passengers who came
down the Georgia Railroad ‘last night
that quite a riot occured at Warrenton,
commencing Sunday and culminating
Monday. On the Sabbath, while the
daughter of Mr. Fitzpatrick was walking
along the pavement she was rudelypushed
off it by a negro girl, whereupon a war
rant for assault and battery was sworn
out against the negro. She was tried and
held to bail, in default of which she was
sent to jail. To this a mob of twenty or
thirty excepted, and assembled on Mon
day, on the outskirts of the town, with
threats expressed of rescue. To this the
military company of the town excepted
and moved upon their position, which
was carried, and fourteen prisoners ta
ken and locked up in the Court House,
which will end the matter in all likeli
b ood. Constitution a list .
Second Great Cycloxe.— The fol
lowing is a summing up of the recent
casualties.
Fast Alabama—s killed, 5 wounded.
Harris county—s killed, 20 wounded.
Talbot—26 killed, 10 wounded.
Houston—l killed, 4 wounded.
Maxeys— 2 killed, 10 wounded.
Burke—l killed, 5 wounded,
Henry—6 wounded.
Troup—s killed.
Total—killed, 54; wounded, 63.
After leaving Georgia it continued its
work of devastation in South Carolina
and North Carolina.
Kentucky.— The Democratic Guber
natorial Convention adjourned on the
7th instant, after having nominated Hon.
Jas. B. McCreary for Governor, John C.
Underwood for Leiutenant Governor,
Thos. E. Moss for Attorney General, D.
H. Smith for Auditor and J. W. Tate for
Treasurer.
Daniel O Leary, of Chicago, finished
his attempt to walk 115 miles in 24 hours
on the 24th ult. O’Leary walked 116
miles in 23 hours and 8 minutes, thus
beating his fixed time and having a
mile to spare. This is the best time on
record.
The report made by the city council
of New Orleans the other day, says the
Louisville Courier-Journal, makes the
pitiable disclosure of intense suf
fering in that city, for the want of the
common necessaries of life.
An industrious Spanish hen at Sou
Lorenzo, Cal., has laid an egg that is
six inches in circumference, and eight
inches from end to end, and the Califor
nia newspapers are cackling for her.
The Federal and Confederate soldiers
are cordially invited to join in decora
ting the graves at Arlington on the 4th
of June. The Confederate graves will
not be decorated on the 30th of May.
The average price of corn in lowa is 43
cents ; in Illinois, 56 cents; in Kansas, 91
cents ;in Missouri, 74 cents. It is low
est in lowa and highest in England,
where it brings sl.lß.
The Memphis Appeal on Friday in
forms us that a private letter from New
Orleans mentions the death of Santa
Anna, near Jalapa, a few days ago.
An American named Holtum is at
tracting attention in Paris by hav : ng
cannon balls fired at him and catching
them in his hand.
A Cincinnati fiend in human form
wants to make the question of Mr. Bee
cher’s guilt or inuocence the subject of a
national vote.
Georgia Railroad. —At a meeting
of‘the stockholders, Judge King was re
elected President, with the old Board of
Directors.
At a photograph exhibition in Ford’s
Theatre, in Washington, the other night,
Grant’s picture was hissed and Lee’s ap
plauded.
There is an isolated monastery in Tur
key inhabited by twenty-three monks,
who have not seem a woman since infan
cy-
The Ninth.—The following is the
official vote in the Ninth District :
Hi 11—6,371; Estes—2,9Bfi; 8e11—1,205.
Five daughters of a family is McNair
county, TeuiL, were all married in one
day.
The table ess -which Pemberton signed
the capitulation of Vicksburg is now do
ing duty iaai beer saloon.
The Plymoth pastor a day or two ago
received one hundred and five-new mem
ber*** to his church.
Judge Pierrefoint will assnmetbe
Attorney-Generalship to-day.
There are rumors and signs of a gene
ral European war.
GEORGIA NEWS J)F THE WEEK.
—Buffalo gnats arep’entiful in Deca
tur county.
—lt is against the law in Columbus to
dig for fish-bait.
—Milledgeville has a watermelon, and
is consequently elated.
—Cuthhert boasts of a jack fish weigh
ing 1 50 pounds.
—The recent tornado earned a brick
the distance ofa mile in Newton county.
—There will be several first-class hang
ings during this summer.
—Mrs. J. W. Arnold, of Wilkes coun
ty, died last week.
—An Atlanta negro was buried alive
the other day, but was subsequently dug
up.
—The Rockdale Register learns that
the wheat in that vicinity is taking the
rust.
—The President has re-appointed Les
ter Markham Postmaster at Madison.
—A four-year-old boy was blown away
by the recent tornado and has not been
heard of since.
—The Press Association will meet in
Athens next Wednesday, May 19th. It
is believed there will be a full attendance.
—The grading on the Elberton Air
line Railroad will probably be completed
this month.
—His Honor Judge Rice is holding
the first Superior Court in the new coun
ty of Oconee this week.
—We learn that the name of the Sel
ma, Rome & Dalton {Railroad will soon
be changed to the Georgia Southern.
—Corn is selling at $1.75 per bushel in
Reidsville, and will command $2 shortly.
Plant cotton.
—Mr. A. T. Shackleford, a compositor
who has been with the Thomaston Herald
since 1869, died on Wednesday last.
—The Nashville Journal and East
Georgia Messenger are the latest ventures.
We have not seen copies of either paper.
—The recent storm in Harris county
blew the hair off a man’s head. It is
hardly necessary to state that he wore a
wig.
—Contrary to expectation, Mr. Hill
was supported as well, if not better, in
the mountain counties of his District as
he was in the “ white settlements.”
—Colonel Jeff Johnson was waylaid
and murdered in Chattooga county Mon
day evening, together with the negro
boy who was driving him.
—From information obtained from
different parts of the State, we learn that
crops are backward. In some portions
wheat is reported as good as it can be.
—Arrests of persons implicated in the
recent riotous proceedings at Darien are
being made daily, but without further
disorderly demonstrations.
—A colored Charlie Ross has been de
veloped in Augusta. He was stolen and
carried to Memphis and made his way
back.
—Mr. J. M. Weaver, of Talbot county,
whose house was blown down in the late
cyclone, had SSOO in gold. ‘He has never
heard of a cent since the blow.
—Mr. Hill’s old friends and neighbors
at LaGrange got up a torch-light celebra
tion Saturday >n?ght in honor of his elec
tion to Congress from the Ninth District.
—Messrs. Findlay and Hale, respec
tively, of the Gainesville Southron and
Democi'at, had a street rencounter on
Friday, a brokeu stick and a sore head
being the result. Let us have peace.
—The Hinesville Gazette says that Mr.
Edward Kennedv, of Bulloch,has erected
a circular saw in his water mill, which
will cut one hundred feet of plank in ten
minutes.
—A furious gale struck Tunnel
Hi’l, on the Western & Atlantic Rail
road,on Wednesday morning. Two store
houses, one brick and the other a large
frame house, were demolished, but no
lives lost, nor any one seriously injured.
—The Hinesville Gazette says that the
latest novelty at Perry’s Mills, in Tat null
county and State aforesaid, is a large
double hen egg. The egg, which was
unusually large, when broken was found
to contain another egg, both of them
perfectly formed with hard shells.
—An Ex-President, (Hon. A. H. Ste
phens,) a leading editor (Col. J. Clisby,)
and an eminent lawyer (Col. C. Peeples,)
were marched out ofa negro car on the
Macon and Western Railroad a few days
ago, bv the conductor, and required to
take seats elsewhere.
—The argument was heard Tuesday be
fore Judge Gibson on the application for
an injunction restraining the Georgia
Railroad from paying interest on the en
dorsed bonds of the Western Railroad of
Alabama. The Judge reserved his de
cision.
—The Macon Telegraph and Messenger
says the election-of Mr. Hill now settles
the fact that a gentleman may represent
in Congress a District in which he does
not live. Mr. Hill takes a different view
of it. He says he knows where his home
is better than any body else does, and
that Athens is his home.
—The Opelika Times. .thinks that if the
Federal Government had retained in its
service Capt. Maury, .the originator of
storm signals, the people would have been
forewarned of the late destructive cy
clones in Georgia and Alabama, and
some lives would have been saved. But
Maury was not acceptable because he
was a “ rebel.”
—The Augusta Chronicle and Sentinel,
referring to the proposed re-unioe ot the
survivors of the Third Georgia regiment
at Portsmouth, Va., on the 4th of Au
gust, says the Atlantic Coast Line has
tendered to the regiment transpotation
at reduced rates, it-will be prepared to
offer accomodations of a satisfactory
character on its tram, leaving Augusta
at 4:15 p. m., August 2d, toall visitors to
Portsmouth, intending to participate in
the re-union. The-round trip fare for
this occasion, between Augusta and
Portsmouth, will be twelve dollars.
A Terrible Shipwreck,
Intelligence of a shocking marine dis
aster has just reached this country. The
Eagle Line steamer Schiller, Captain
Thomas, which sailed from New York
April 28th, for Hamburg, by way of
Plymouth and Cherbourg, has been
wrecked off the Scilly Isles. It is be
lieved that 200 persons have perished.
This unfortunate steamship was the
last but one to sail under the flag of the
broken Eagle line. The line was ush
ered into existence about two years ago
with a capital of sixteen million dollars
and bright prospects of success ; but mis
management and the panic had wrecked
the hopes of the stockholders. Just as
the ill-fated line was to disappear from
the commercial lists came thediaasterous
loss of the Schiller.
The vessel left New York on the 28th
ult., crowded with the advance guard of
the season’s army of tourists ; and the
predominance of female passengers, both
in the cabin and ‘in ithe steerage, was
specially noticed. -Of these helpless
ones only one was rescued, aud of the
hundreds all told on board the vessel,
only forty-four appear to have been
saved. The crew alone numbered one
hundred and forty-four.
The ship had crossed the entire ocean
when, in the nautical blindness that is
often caused by .days of log, she was
wrecked on the shoals that surround the
Scilly isles. These islands are the frag
mentary western end-of England. They
lie just’beyond (Land’s End, and are the
first limits of the English channel.
The *SclHer was to call at Plymouth,
which is only a short distance from
where the vessel went to pieces.
Thoughts of land, after the weary days
at sea, must have been in the hearts of
all on board, when the vessel struck.
Seven citizens ol Georgia are known
to have been on board, and we can only
hope that all were not lost in the terrible
disaster. Mr. Leonhardt, his wife and
little daughter were on board the ill-fa
ted vessel. Mr. Leonhardt is a well
known citizen of Augusta, and a mem
ber ofithe firm df E. A. Brahe & Cos.
Mr. Maurice Harrison, of Haw’kinsville,
had built himself a snug home, and was
on his way to bring back his bride. Mr.
Cohen, of the firm of Eichberg & Cohen,
of Montezuma, w r as called across the
water by the apprehended death of of his
mother. Mr. Heiman Spritz, of Macon,
and Mr. A. Waterman,•of Jdawkinsville,
were crossing the stormy tarry Tor the
purpose of visiting their friends In the
old country. Other Georgia passengers
are reported among the passengers of the
Schiller ; but <only the foregoing are
known.to :have sailed. Reports of the
associated-press picture sorrowful scenes
at the steamship in New York in
the efforts of The ‘friends of Those on
board to obtain information.
THE .CROPS.
We “interviewed” one of our best
farmers the other day, and gained from
him the following information, which;
we give to our readers as reliable:
The wheat crop, while most people
look upon it as “remarkable good,” is
quite the opposite. While it is free from
disease thus far, and w’ell grown, it has,
owing .to .the wet spring, made very little
“spread,” and so, at best, the crop is
bound to be short.
Oats were never hotter. A large area
has been sown, and the prospect for a
bountiful yield is good.
Corn is generally up, with a good
stand, and while somewhat backward,
looks well. Some has received its first
plowing. Many low lands have not as
yet been planted.
King Cotton is cracking through the
ground, and a fine stand is promised. A
large area has,unfortunately, been plant
ed this year.
Gardens are very backward ;and, as a
general thing, very poor. The Irish po
tatoe crop is promising, notwithstanding
many patches were injured by the late
frost.
We would thank our farming friends
to keep us posted each week in regard to
the progress of the farming interests of
our county.
M. G. * J. COHEN.
The advertisement of this model house,
which will be found on this page, has
doubtless attracted the notice of our rea
ders, but for fear it did not get the atten
tion it deserves, we call their careful,
undivided and particular attention to it
again. *lb Athens, where *The Messrs.
Cohen are known aad read of .-men,
it would be a work of supererogation to
speak of their character as dealers or of
the stock of goods they keep. But some
of our readeis do not know them, per
haps, and we will therefore tell them a
few things that will prove of benefit:
It is a fact, conceded by those compe
tent. u> judge, that “ Cohen’s Paris Store”
is one of the model establishments of Ath
ens, and the ladies:ail acknowledge it by
buying their fashionable 'goods there.
It would burn the heads of ;most ladies
to hear of all . the novelties that Cohen
has in the way of dress goods, and this
local will not betray his ignorance by at
tempting to enumerate them.
But the ladiesidbiowrthemalii by ; heart,
and we advise them, when they visit
Athens, to go first of all to Cohens and
see for themselves. The Messrs. -Coheo
have, also, a full stock of everything re
quired to make the “ lord of creation”
presentable.; ad what will be of more
interest than everything else, they sell
goods at prices that cannot fail to-satis
fy the most economical.
Mr. Geo. T. Latimer, the efficient
libra ian of the Lexington Sunday-School,
requests all who have books belonging
to the school to send the same in at
once—or look out for that tongue of bis. I
I JEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
WOOL
MADE INTO CLOTH.
The Athens Manufacturing Company,
During the past year, have
added to fheir machinery a SELF-ACT
ING MULE, which enables them to make
Jeans Equal to Any from Kentucky
and thev now offer to EXCHANGE THEIR
CLOTHS for WOOL on most liberal terms.
Send for sample by mail.
B. L. BLOOMFIELD,
myll-3m Agent A. M. Cos
REESE T . A-KTTT^
DEALERS IN
Fancy and Domestic Dry Goods, Hats, Shoes,
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CHINA AND GLASSWARE, NOTIONS, &C.
LESTER’S BLOCK, ATHENS, GA.
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The subscribers have removed
,to No. 12 Franklin House Range, llroad
Street, ATHENS, GA., where they keep con
stantly on “hand a large and beautiful stock of
FURNITURE
OF EVERY DESCKIPTIOY,
to which they invite the attention of the pub
lic, and which will be sold
ASTONISKjN GiJM.O W!
Coffins! Burial Eases
Furnished AS LOW or LOWER,than hy any
other establishment in the city.
The citizens of Oglethorpe in
vited to call and examine our Stock when
they visit Athens. We will sell them Furni
ture CHEAPER and MUCH BETTER than
they can purchase elsewhere. Will take
§reat pleasure in showing them our stock. Be
URE and give us a call.
J. F. WILSON & CO.
JnesUaMßro.,
>205 .Broad St., Augusta, Ga.
Respectfully ask your atten
tion to a full line of the following
Goods, which will be sold as low as any other
bouse:
Carpet Department.
English Velvet Carpet*, .Floor OU Cloth*,
English Brussels Carp’s Table Oil Cloths,
3-Ply & Ingrain Carpets Stair Carpet* & Rods
Venetian Carpets, Mattings, Druggets,
Cheap Carpets, And Door Mat*.
Curtain Department.
Curtain Materials, { Window Shades,
Cornices and Bands, j Hair Cloths,
Lace Curtains, Wall Papers & B’dr’s
Muslin Curtains, Beautiful Chroma*.
Groeery Department.
Choice Fam’y Groceries j Baskets of all kinds.
‘DuffieM Hams, [ Wood Ware,
English Craekers, I Brooms and Brushes
Dyspeptics’.Food, j Plantation Supplies.
CARPETS, OIL CLOTHS and CCR
.TAldSSuituuie and laid at short notice.
Oglethorpe Sheriff’s Sale.
WILL BE SOLD ON THE FIRST TUES
DAY in June next, before the Court i
House door, in the town of Lexington, Ogle
thorpe countv, within the legal hours of sale,
one brown HORSE, about 12 years old. and
two COWS and one YEARLING, levieaon as j
the property of Joseph Smith, bv virtue of a 1
fi. fa. issued from the Superior Court of said
county, on the foreclosure of a mortgage in
i-Javor of Wm. B. Lester, assignee, vs. Joseph
Smith. Notice given to the defendant agree
ably to law.
J. T. JOHNSON, Sheriff!
Mav 6.1875.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
ZDIRTX" OOOIDS
BOOTS AND SHOEa
GROCERIES AND PROVISIONS!
FOR SALE CHEAP FOR CASH!
WE til ICCOIMIM Mom-milt CUSTOMERS UTIL fILL
CALL TO SEE
HAIRE & LATIMER,
At their Mammoth Store, LEXINGTON. GA.
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MRS V. E. DOBLE™
Eashi enable Millinery and Dressmaking,
CRAWFORD. CA.,
HAS JUST RECEIVED THE FINEST LOT OF
New Spring .Hats, Bonnets, .Gibbons, Laces, Trimmings, Buffiings, Etc,, Etc,,
Ever offered to the ladies of Oglethorpe. My goods were all selected with great care, and
with especial view to this market. The ladies of this and surrounding counties are cordially
, i"3 r lsr 40 '* a * nin f. mv . st ‘*ck and prices. CUTTING, FITTING AND DRESSMA-
G proiiiptiy done, in the latest style of the art, and satisfaction guaranteed in every in
stance. Prices very moderate. IIKN. V. E. DOBLfc.
J. M. WEATHERLY. W. A. WEATHERLY. H. R. BERNARD.
WEATHERLY & CO.,
*THEIS, GA., Dealers in
GROCERIES, DRY GOODS, BOOTS, SHOES, HATS.
Crockery, Etcu
SPECIAL INDUCEMENTS TO CASH BUYERS.-&1
ELECTION.
ORDINARY’S,OFFICE, )
Oglethorpe County, Ga., >
A|jril 17, 1875. J
It having heen made kno. n to me that
the Hon. Thomas A. Gilham, Ordinary of
said county, has departed this life—
Now, therefore, I, George H. Lester,
Clerk of the Superior Court of said county,
by virtue of the power and authority vested
in me by an act of the Legislature of said
State, approved December 15, 1871, do hereby
order an ELECTION to fill the vacancy occa
sioned by the death of said Gilham. Said
election to take place on
Tuesday, (he First Day of June
next, at the Court House and the several
legally established precincts in said county,
and to be conducted in the manner prescribed
by law.
It u further ordered, That this notice be
published till the day of election in the
Oglethorpe Echo, the gazette in which
the Ordinary of said county published his
Citations. GEO. H. LESTER,
Clerk Superior Court O. C.
MEDICAL NOTICE.
DR. J. C. SIMS TENDERS HIS PRO
FESSIONAL services to the citizens of
'Pleasant Hill and vicinity; and from an ex
perience of years in the practice
,flatters himself that he’*wi]l.be able to give
general satisfaction in the treatment of all
diseases incident to the country, and especial
ly diseases peculiar te.women-.anri liildre.
Office at present at W. G. Englajid’s, but '
will soon locate permanently at Pleasant Hill, i
April 1, 1875. apr2-3m
LITTLE STOREth.CORNER
HERE THE CITIZENS OF OGLETHORPE
will alway find the Cheapest and
Best Stock of
FANCY GOODS, LIQUORS,
GROC ERIES, LAMPS, OIL, Etc.
J. M, BARRY. Broad-Str., Athens, G-a. j
.apa-tf
Fine Boots & Shoes
HENRY LUTHI,
CRAWFORD, GA., IS NOW PREPARED
to make, at short notice, the FINEST
BOOTS and SHOES. I use only the best
material, and warrant my work to give entire
satisfaction, both as to finish and wear.
REPAIRING AND COARSE WORK also
attended to. octß-ly
THE BEBT AND SAFEST INVESTMENT
ia a year’s subscription to the Echo.
CARRIAGES. BUGGIES,
WAGONS.
R. P. TUCKER & BR0„
CRAWFORD, CA.,
Having
their Shops, and thor
oughly stocked them withflttfSSttUMUfe
the best tools and a full supply ot the finest
seasoned .LUMBER, are now prepared to
manufacture, at abort notice, everv descrip
tion of CARRIAGES, BUGGIES,'BOCK A
WAYS, PIIACTONS, WAGONS, CARTS,
etc., etc. We will also do all manner oi
BJaekamil Ring and Repaiflaf, auu
i guarantee, all opr work to give perfect sati
j faction. We sell onr TWO-HOBSF.
WAGONS at from S9O to (1125, and eve
; rythiqg else LOW in proportion. oct&-tf
COME
AHEAD!
ffITCHEMJABEELL
Have in store a well selected stock of
Dry Goods, Notions, Shoes, Hats, Etc,,
which they are bonnd to sell as low as can be
bought in this market.
AV e also keep on hand all the time a good
lot of
Bacon,, Hams 4 Lard,
which we are determined to sell LOW for
the CASH. Give us a call and learn our
prices before buying elsewhere.
MANSION HOUSE.
Third Doer -Above*Globe Hotel,
Broad St., .Augusta, jQa.
MRS. R. JLROBERDS,
(Late of Gainesville, Fla.,) Proprietress.
BOARD, $2.00 PER DAY.
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IMPROVED SELF-HEATING FLAT
IRON.
An article the world cannot beat and no
woman -condemn. This is the neatest inven
tion in its line that has ever been offered to
the public. It is heated with an alcohol
lamp, and thus dispenses with the heat and
expense of a fire. W. B. ABGO,
W. H. JOHNSON,
mar!9-2m Agents for Oglethorpe A Clark.