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W O II K S ,
ATHENS, GEORGIA.
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ATHENS, GEORGIA,
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LETTER FROM ALABAMA.
[Special Correspondence to the Ecno.]
Mr. Editor :— Your highly appre
ciated paper makes me weekly visits in
my Alabama home, where it is always a
welcome guest. Wherever our lot may
be cast in this world, struggling up the
rugged hill of life, battling with its diffi
culties,and breasting its dangers,the heart
will always find time to linger upon the
scenes where we have spent our boyhood
days ; and O ! how precious are the mem
ories which gather around: but now only
living in the past. They once seemed
hard and irksome, and when surround
ed by schoolmates, diligent with book
and slate, we were continually look
ing for the pleasures in store for us when
manhood’s days would come. Then un
fettered we would roam o’er the world and
feast our eyes upon the grandeur which
vivid imagination had pictured. Little
did we realize that we were then in the
midst of our happiest days. We then
possessed the substance, but thought it
the shadow, and have lived only to feel
that “ blessings brighten as they take
their flight.”
Many were the names recorded upon
the roll of “Meson Academy.” Within
its walls we were first pointed to the
heights of knowledge, and were led, with
care and tenderness, from the first rudi
ments,along the weary and rugged course,
until wc could enter the classic field, and
read the meditation of Virgil, beneath
the shade of the wide-spreading beech
tree. The old Academy yet stands upon
the commanding eminence, surrounded
by the beautiful green, gently receding
until it is lost in the forest beyond.
But where are the many who were stu
dents beneath its roof, and whose merry
laugh and happy faces made sunshine
upon the old ground ? Scattered through
the world. Some sleep upon battle fields,
true to their country’s call. Some, alas !
have fallen victims to intemperance,
swept of courage and manhood; others
are quietly filling their station in life,
sowing their seed with care, laboring
with patience, and gathering with full
satisfaction the yellow corn and fleecy
cotton, and then spending the long win
ter nights around their happy hearth,
surrounded with comfort. While one
pleads at the Court of Justice, and anoth
er follows the God of Healing, bearing
the title of M. D., and from the moun
tain of Virginia to the plains of Texas,
do their forms move upon the stage of
action. But with Heaven’s blessing we
shall meet at the river. One has re
cently left us—Joseph 11. Lumpkin. I
met him last December, and enjoyed his
kind hospitality while stopping in At
lanta, where he was pursuing his medical
course. Then on the verge of manhood,
I hoped for him a bright future. But,
alas !heis no more. He has left behind
above all, truth, which was the principal
of his life. Peace to thy ashes, my honor
ed friend ! We remain to toil, while you
are gone to rest.
Our political state is better now than
it has been for many years, the gov
ernment being in the hands of our wor
thy sons of Alabama. The State Conven
tion, which meets in a few months, will
doubtless be beneficial to our future suc
cess.
Crops are very good ; during the past
week, we have had fine rains, and the
ground is thoroughly saturated. Corn
is planted largely, and cotton in this sec
tion is secondary. The motto of our far
mers is, “ We must live at home,” and
the result is truly gratifying. Wheat
and oats were not materially injured.
Syrup, rice and potatoes are raised in
abundance. While labor is belter than
it has been since the war.
P. H. Moss.
Greenville, Ala., June 23d, 1875.
The Size of Adam.—We learn from
a recent book that Adam (who many of
our readers will remember as the first
man) was according to the Rabbinical
tradition, one hundred miles high. If
this is really true, every one of us ought
to be thankful that the race has dwin
dled since Adam’s day. It is appalling
to think of the inconvenience and
pense to which we should be subjected if
we retained Adam’s dimensions. A man
would require we should judge trowsers
fifty miles long, and about four hundred
furlongs of suspenders. And if we were
to preserve proper propotion in our dress
we should each require about sixty thou
sand cubic feet of hat. When a small
family of such men died they would oc
cupy the entire State of Pennsylvania as
a cemetery, and the way the undertaker
wonld accumulate charges for coffins
would be simply frightful. So it is bet
ter as it is. Adam did very well while
he was alone in the world ; but just at
present a man of his inches, who lived
in Philadelphia, could hardly sit down
without mashing Lancaster out of ex
istence.
Chhllenging lawyer to a colored jury
man in Clinton, Louisiana : “Do you
know what a verdict is?” “No, sah.”
“ Did you ever see one ?” “ No, sah.
I nebber wa3 at a shew in my life.”
CRAWFORD, GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 2, 1875.
DEVILTBIES,
—Slurman they call him now since he
got out his book.
—“ That’s the end of my tale,” as the
tadpole said as he turned into a bull-frog.
--Why is Grant like a power of attor
ney? Because he knows all men by
the presents.
—There are only two hundred men in
Connecticut who have not invented some
sort of clothes-pin, or some kind of salve
or liniment.
—The following sentence will show
the importance of the position of ft
comma: “Woman—Without her man,
is a brute.”
—Madame Rothschild expressed a de
sire to reach one hundred years before she
died, as it wouldn’t do for a Rothchild to
go off under par.
—Sunday-school teacher : “ Who was
the strongest man?” Boy: “Jonah, be
cause the whale couldn’t hold him after
he got him down.”
—The word d-e-b-t is composed of the
initials of “ dun every body twice.”
C-r-e-d-i-t is formed of the initial letters of
“ call regularly every day—l’ll trust.”
—“ Lemme die now,” gasped an Ohio
farmer. “ I’ve lived to see a woman
git thirty-one yards of cloth into one
dress, and I’m ready to pull stakes now.”
—A Virginia widow rides with a leg
on either side of the horse. People used
to stop and gaze at her before she killed
John Cass, but now her mode of riding
is not commented upon.
—When Shakspear wrote about pa
tience on a monument, did he refer to
doctor’s patients ? “ No.” How do you
know he didn’t ? “Because you always
find them under a monument.”
—“ She’s a perfect Amazon,” said a
pupil in one of our schools, of his teacher
to his companion. “Yes,” said the other,
who was better versed in geography than
history, “I noticed she had a big mouth.”
—On which side of the platform is my
train ?” asked a stranger in a Jersey City
depot the other day, “ Well, my friend,”
replied a gentleman, passing, “if you
take the left, you’ll be right, if you take
the right, you’ll be left.”
—Murray county, Kentucky, has a
bright individual. He built a hogshead
in his house about four times as large
as the door, and instead of taking the
hogshead to pieces to get it out, he knock
ed out one side of his house.
—When you see a man on the river’s
bank holding a fishing rod ? and intently
watching the cork bobbing in the river,
you should not ply him with questions.
Besides diverting his attention from his
line, he may have to remove a handful
of worms from his mouth to answer you,
and that annoys him.
—The Amador county (Cal.) Indepen
dent says: Now we will inform the
sweet scented evader of truth and hones
ty who ruus the little nigger nose rag
across the street, that he can not ram
any of his infernal lies down our throat,
for we know him too well to believe any
thing he says, even under oath.
—“ No, gentleman of the jury,” thun
dered an eloquent advocate the other
day in a Denver court, “ this matter is
for his Honor to decide, who sits there
sleeping so beautifully.” His Honor
opened both eyes and his mouth, and
said: “All owing to your narcotic
speech, sir.”
—A Slawson man was not so overpow
ered by grief at the funeral of his wife
but that he could muster sufficient
strength to stop the procession and jump
out of the carriage to pick up a knife
which he detected in the road. It had a
pearl handle and five blades, and will
while away many a sad hour for him.
—A Frenchman being about to remove
his shop, his landlord inquired the rea
son, stating at the same time that it was
considered a good stand for business.
The Frenchman replied, with a shrug of
the shoulders, “ Oh, yes, he’s a very good
stand for the business—by gar me stand
all day, for nobody come to make me
move.”
—There were five sewing machine
agents in Leighton, lowa, last week, and
when the terrified inhabitants telegraph
ed to Governor Carpenter for troops, he
sent back he could not send any military,
but would come down and talk to the
agents. Then Leighton just emptied it
self when it heard that, and broke for
the woods.
—One of the college newspaper ex
changes says that a clergyman in a cer
tain church, on a recent occasion, dis
covered after beginninng the service
that he had forgotton his notes. As it
was too late to send for them, he said
to his audience hv way of apology, that
this moniing he should have to depend
upon Lord for what he might say, but
in the afternoon he would come better
prepared.
—“ Goethe used to rise at four o’clock
and work until eleven before eating.”
Very little faith is to be put in such
stories. We once resolved to rise at
four o’clock ourselves, but this thing of
keeping a yoke of oxen merely for the
purpose of dragging one out of bed at
sneh an early hour of the morning was
soon found to cost more than it came to,
and the insane scheme was abandoned.
—There is nothing which will inspire
a not well dressed up woman with such
terror as the appearance of a dressed up
sister. However devoted she may be to
the front yard flowers, she will leave
them in a flash on the approach of a w ell
dressed female, and taking her stand be
hind the front blind, will, in a brief space
of time, see everything she has got on
and figure out the cost to within a few
cents. It is marvelous.
The Hame of God in 48 Languages.
As Louis Burger, the well known au
thor arfd philologist, was w'alking in the
Avenue des Champs Elysees one day, he
heard a familiar voice exclaiming: “Buv
some nuts of a poor man, sir; twenty for
a penny!” He looked up, and recogr
nized his old barber.
“ What 1 are you selling nuts ?’’ said
he.
“Ah, sir, I have been unfortunate.”
“ Butthis is no business for a manlike
you.”
“ Oh, sir, if you could only tell me
of something better to do,” returned the
barber with a sigh.
Burger was touched. He reflected a
moment; then tearing a leaf from his
memorandum-book, he wrote for a few
moments and handed it to the man say
ing, “ Take this to a printing office and
have a hundred copies struck off; here
is the money to pay for it. Get a license
from the Prefecture of police, and sell
them at two cents a copy, and you will
have bread on the spot. The strangers
that come to Paris cannot refuse this
tribute to the name of God printed in so
many different ways.”
The barber did as he was bid, and was
always seen at the entrance to the Ex
position, selling the following handbill :
THE NAME OF GOD IN FORTY-EIGHT LAN
GUAGES.
Hebrew—Elohim, Eloah.
Chaldaic—Elah.
Assyrian—Ellah.
Syriae and Turkish—Alah.
Malay—Alla.
Arabic —Allah.
Language of the Magi—Orsi.
Old Egyptian—Teut.
Armorain—Teuti.
Modern Egyptian—Teun.
Greek—Theos.
Creton—Thios.
AEolian and Doric—Hos.
Latin—Deus.
Low Latin—Diex.
Celtic and old Gallic—Diu.
French—Dieu.
Spanish—Dios.
Portuguese—Deos.
Old German —Diet.
Provencal—Diou.
Low Breton—Doue.
Italian—Dio.
Irish—Die.
Olala tongue—Deu.
German and Swiss—Gott.
Flemish—Goed.
Dutch—Godt.
English and Old Saxon—God.
Teutonic—Goth.
Danish and Swedish—Gut.
N orwegian—Gud.
Salvic—Buch.
Polish—Bog.
Pollacca —Bung,
Lapp—Jubinal.
Finnish—Jumala.
Runic—As.
Pannonian—lstii.
Zemblain—Fetizo.
Hindostanee—Rain.
Cormandel—Brama.
Tar ta —M agatal.
Persian—Sire.
Chinese—Pruesa.
J apanese—Goezur.
Madagasca -Zannah.
Peruvian—Puchocammae.
A few days after Burger met the bar
ber.
“ Well,” said he, „ has the holy name
of God you good luck ?”
“ Yes, indeed, sir. I sell on an ave
rage a hundred copies a day at 2 cents
each, or two dollars ; but the strangers
are generous; some give me ten cents
and others twenty. I have even received
half a dollar for a copy, so that, all told,
I am making five dollars a day.”
“ Five dollars a day !”
“ Yes, sir, thanks to your kindness.”
“Ah 1” thought Burger, as he walked
away, “ if I were not a literary man I
would turn peddler or publisher; there
is nothing so profitable as selling the
learning and wit of others 1”
Thought He Was Drunk.
Not a bad story is told at the expense
of one of our most distinguished and es
timable citizens. It seems that a dinner
party was in progress during a brilliant
display of northern lights, and this gen
tleman, stepping out to cool his burning
brow, was startled by the display about
the frosty pole. He stood perfectly
amazed ; then, turning to the window,
he saw within the wife of his bosom sit
ting with the ladies, waiting for their
liege lords to end their champagne and
cigars. Pushing aside the laee curtains,
he beckoned Mrs. Agnes to come
out. She complied ; when he said to her
solemnly :
“ Wagnes, d’er see anything exstron
ory now ?”
“ Yes! Dolly—l see that you have
been drinking too much wine.”
“ No !—-nor that, Wagnes ; I mean ex
tronory phornomonums in asmophere,”
“ Why, where, Dolly?”
“ Upper yonder, Wagnes.”
“ W hy, dear me!—yes! I do indeed
—the most brilliant aurora I ever saw.”
“ Wagnes, are things a shootin’ ?”
“ Yes I dear.”
“ And a flashin’, Wagnes?”
“Yes! Dolly.”
“ An’ a sorter spreading’ and dancin'
—eh! Wagnes?”
“ All that, my dear.”
“Ho! ho!” laughed the husband,
much relieved. “Do you know, Wag
nes—l mean Hagnes—when I came out
an’ saw the c’lestial phornomonams a
growin’ upper yonder damn me effer I
didn’t think I was drunk !”—Free Press.
If a lady wears a three-story bat to
*be theater, is it etiquette for the gentle
man who sits behind her to climb up and
and roost on the back o-f his seat ? Or
must he bob his head from side to side
to catch furtive glimpses at the stage
around her head ? Will some modern
Chestfield answer?
CONGRESSMAN COOK.
He Goes a Fishing—And Guard# Against
Snake Bites.
There is a fishing party out near Amer
icas, Georgia, widen must be having lots
of fun, if an Americus grocer filled their
order for provisions. The leader and
responsible man of the party being very
busy fixing his tackle, sent the follow
ing perfectly authentic note to his gro
cer :
Dear Sir— Myself and a couple of
friends are going a fishing, and you will
send us by bearer the following articles,
which please charge to account:
Four pounds of salt and a small cask
of whiskey.
One pound of ground black pepper
and a demijohn of whiskey.
Ten pounds of lard and a large jug of
whiskey.
One canvassed ham and six quart bot
tles of whiskey.
Three good stout fishing lines andthreo
pocket flasks of whiskey.
One large paper of Limerick fish-hooks
and a gallon of whiskey in an old vessel
you don’t use about the store.
Also one pound of white sugar and a
small keg of whisky.
Hurriedly yours, Phil. Cook.
P. S.— As we shall be gone for several
days, and as snakes are bad on the river
at this season, my physician has just
stepped in and suggested that we take
along a little whisky. Send it, and en
ter it on your books with the other items
as above. P- C.
The little fishing party has not been
heard from since, but it is reasonable to
presume they are having a jolly good
time, whether the fish bite or not. The
moral is that a little whisky is good to
go a fishing with in case of accidents.
The occasion for its use may not arise
unless the snakes are very bad, but then
it is nice to have. Safety is desirable,
and a fisherman takes good care of him
self while t;here is a drop of whiskey
within his reach.
Our Good Ladies.
A wife when she has received suitable
notice can get up an excellent dinner
for her husband’s friend. She does her
level best, working without stint until a
repast which pleases her in every particu
lar is spread. Then the following con
versation takes place with the guest:
“ I hope you’ll be able to make out a
meal.”
“ I shall do nicely, I know,” he says.
“ I’m really ashamed of the table,” she
rattles on.
“ Why, you needn’t be,” he protests..
“ But its all his fault,” she explains,
nodding tow T ard her husband. “He
never gives me any warning scarcely,
and it’s such w r arm w r eather now there
is nothing you can keep on hand for an
emergency.”
“ Why, you’ve done nobly, I think ;
couldn’t have done better,” asserts the
guest, beginning to lose his interest in
the topic,
“O, I hope you don’t think this any
thing of a dinner,” she says, looking with
anxious pride over the spread. “You
must come up again, and let me know
before-hand, and I’ll promise you some
thing decent to eat.”
“ I am sure this can’t be beaten,” pro
tests the guest with a sense of becoming
depressed,
“O, bless me, this is nothing but a
pick-up dinner, just the same as we’d
have if alone. Do try another biscuit;
I don’t suppose they are fit to eat,
though,” she says, with their delicate
color and flaxy texture.
“ They are beautiful,” he hastily ex
plains, feeling very uncomfortable the
while.
“ You must take the will for the deed,”
she resumes. “ I didn’t see we were out
of bread till the last moment, and then I
hastily made up these. I didn’t think
they’d be half way decent, as there was
no time to work them.”
And so she rattles on with her disas
trous comments, the dear old fraud,
w r hile he continues to protest, and con
tinues to feel more and more like getting
up and flying madly away.
The Creation of Woman. —A
Prince once said to Rabbi Gamaliel :
“Your God is a thief; he surprised
Adam in his sleep, and stole a rib from
him.”
The Rabbi’s daughter overheard his
speech, and whispered a word or two in
her father’s ear, asking permission to
answer this singular opinion herself.
He gave his consent.
The girl stepped forward, and feigning
terror and dismay, threw her arms aloft
in supplication, and cried out, “My
liege, my liege,justice—revenge!”
“ What has happened 7 T asked the
Prince.
“ A wicked theft has taken place,” she
replied : “ A robber has crept secretly
into our house, carried away a silver
goblet, and left a golden one in its stead.”
“ What an upright thief?” exclaimed
the Prince. “ Would that such robber
ies were of more frequent occurrence!”
“ Behold, then, sire, the kind of thief
that the Creator was ; he stole a rib from
Adam, and gave him a beautiful wife in
stead.”
“ Well said 1” avowed the Prince.
Recently, while a lady was looking
at some baby wagons in front of a Wood
ward avenue store, a boy stepped up and
inquired ;
M W ant to buy a buggy, mum ?”
“ Why, yes, I thought of it,” she re
plied.
“ Better wait a day or two,” he contin
ued, in a serious tone; “my little broth
er’s powerful sick, and if he dies we’ll
sell his babv-cart at half what it cost?” —
Detroit Free Press.
—What is it that a poor man has and
a rich man wants ? Nothing.
VOL. I—NO. .39.
Bob Toombs and the Fourth of July.
The committee to invite speakers to
the celebration of the coming Fourth of
July in Atlanta, received the following
answer from Bob Toombs:
Washington, Ga., June 23, 1874.
Gentlemen: I have received your letter
of the 11th inst., inviting me, “ in behalf
of the citizens of Atlanta, to co-operate
with them in person or by letter in cel* -
ebrating the ninety-ninth anniversary
of American independence,” for which,
please receive my thanks. When the
principles proclaimed by our ancestors in •
1776, and nobly maintained and re-es
tablished by them, shall have been estab- -
lished, I will then, if this side of the •
grave, rejoice with yon. I am ashamed ,
to sing paeans to the lion-hearted heroes
of that grand epoch in the world’s histo- -
ry, until we shall have regained those
eternal principles of self-government -
which we have both lost and betrayed.
I can not shake hands with those who
dug it, and filled it with the bloody
corpses of the brave and the true, over
the bloody chasm which engnlps, also,
the principles of ’76. I want no frater
nity with States or people without liber- •
ty and equality.
I am very truly and respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
R. Toombs.
Messrs. H. V. M. Miller, Geo. Hillyre,,
Marcus A. Bell.
Lost Gow, by Shimmy.
[From the Lowell Journal.]
Asa rule there isn’t a better class of *
people in the world to deal with than the
Germans, but occasionally you will find
one whose ideas concerning certain busi- -
ness transactions are amusingly peculiar..
Instance: A German subscriber to the
Journal recently called to advertise a lost
cow, as the custom of this well regulated
print shop, we immediately wrote up the
notice and figured up the cost of publica- -
tion.
“Vat ish dat?” asked our friend,
placing the butt end of his whip on our
letter sum of multiplication.
We informed him that it would cost
him so much to advertise his lost cow,-
three weeks..
“ You make me pay for dat?”
“ Certainly; we always take pay for.-
advertising.”
“ You take pay for advertising.”
“ You take pay, eli? Veil, dat ish von i
tam shvindle. I shcribe mit dat shour- -
nal bapers dese tree years, und now yoa i
sharge me yoost for wot lettle advertise >
uv mine gow.”
“ But we—”
“ You shtop my shournal babers.” ’
“ But you—”
“ You shtop mine shournal bapers,.
und I got some more in Daytraw, py
shiminy ; und you gome leetle end daft
horn oud.”
“But, see here, my friend—”
“ I go right away und dond got sheat- -
ed mit you, py krashus. Tink you got
some sleep mit a veasel, dond you ? '
Sharge me yoost for advertise von gow !
It was better uv you dond got me, ven I
gome here, and I scribe mit dat shournal i
more as tree year, but you makes me med
un yon shtop mine bapers before I got it
next dime. Dat ish vat man lam kind
uv, py shiminy !”
We tried to explain; we tried in vain ;;
we lost him and a three-weeks, ad rertise- -
ment of a “ lost gow, by shiminy !”
Is He Rich ? —This is the question i
that floats around the circle of matrimo
nial ladies. Poor, giddy fools, w’ho seek
happiness where there is neither brains
nor morality—good sense or high honor.
Yes; he is rich—he has strong arms, a
pure heart, a clear head, a brave soul!
“ Aye, but has he the cash and bonds,
real estate and stocks ? for new bonnets
fine clothing, costly houses and elegant
equipage are needed.” Go to, you gene- -
ration of vipers, you curses of humanity,.
who cannot make an honest man’s life
and fate your own, and with himtoiland
live, that happiness and virtue may
dwell under your roof, be it ever, that
the next generation may, if they will, be
better than the present, and the world
lifted and moved forward heavenwards.
No Show for Him. —Saturday after
noon while the rope-walker was going
through his performances a boy about
twelve years old turned to an acquain
tance of the same age and remaned :
“Tom. don’t you wish you could do.
that r>
“ Yes I do,” sadly replied Torn," but my •
folks make me go to school and are deter--
mined I shan’t never be nobody I”
A Grasshopper Incident.—A Ne- -
braska farmer sneaked around one night
to the place w here au army of millions o€
grasshoppers were sleeping preparatory
to wading into his wheat on the morrow,.
and after throwing a lot of hay around
he set fire to it. Well, it was death to*
the grasshoppers, but by the time the
farmer had run four miles over a burn
ing prairie and climbed a tree with his
hair and eyelashes burned off, he had oc
casion to take breath and say: “ I’ll be •
cussed if I thought I was goin’ to get up.
a circus like that.”— Milwaukee A ties. .
A Boston letter to an Eastern news
paper relates that upon one of the fash
ionable South End squares of that city
there has lived in a swell-front, four- -
story brick house, until very laU ly, a-'
woman who has hired for her servant
her own sister. The sister and former
mistress has engaged board for the rea
son at the very house at a fashionable
summer resort where her sister is to fur
nish the dainty pies and paddings.
The gates of Heaven are lowa relied \.
we must enter upon our knees.
Soda Powders at Witcher L. Jarrell’s..