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DO THEY MISS ME AT HOME!
Do they mi&s me at home—do they miss me?
’Twould be aa assurance most dear
To know that my.name was forgotten
As though I had never been there.
foJcnow that the tailor and landlord,
And banks where my paper is due,
And hosts whom I cannot now mention
Had. banished me quite from their view.
Do they miss me at home—do they miss me?
When the market for money is tight,
And collectors in haste are pursuing
The debtors, by day and by night!
Do the friends who once loaned me a “ fifty,”
And others who loaned me a “ten,”
Heave a sigli of regret as they miss me,
And wish they could see me again?
Do they miss me at home—do they miss me ?
W hen no longer I’m seen upon ’Change ;
And do those who •were wont to assist me
. >Suy, “His conduct's infernally strahge?”
Does the tdrydoek who loaned me his money
To bear me to regions unknown,
Look in vain for occasions to dun me,
And wish I again were at home ?
But I know that my memory lingers
Around the place as I roam;
And while I’ve my wits and my creepers
They’ll miss me—they’ll miss me at home.
Monster Baby. —The Massachusetts
papers are crowing over a big baby born
in Springfield a few' days since. It is a
boy, the son of I). J. Shea ; and it is the
first child of its parents, who are young
—the father 24, and the mother 23; nei
ther of them large persons. The average
weight of babies is less than 8 pounds—
hardly over 7k, it is said ; but this bounc
ing descendant of some “ good ould Irish
stock” actually weighed (and Dr. Rico
was the weigher) no less than 20 pounds
and 2 ounces ! It was weighed immedi
ately after birth, and a dozen persons
witnessed the weighing. The weight is
also verified by measurements of the
child taken sixty hours after its birth.
The horizontal circumference of its
head is 1(5 inches, the perpendicular cir
cumference 3inches ; length of child
231 inches distance ; from shoulder to
shoulder oyer chest 20.] inches. In short,
the child is as large as an ordinary
babe a year old, and is well and flour
ishing. These figures are entirely un
paralleled. And the child, if he grows
to maturity, will be another “Irish
giant.”
Build up the Town.— The Sparta
Times and Planter is more than half
right when it says that the interest of
any community hang more upon the
success of its local paper, which is its
mouth-piece end advocate so far as the
rest of the world is concerned, than upon
any other one enterprise. To prove this
it cites Forsyth, which Simri Rose pro
nounced the deadest town he had ever
seen. “ About the same time,” says the
Times and Planter, “ Mr. J. P. Harrison
took control of the local paper, and called
it the Monroe Advertiser. He built up
the paper and the people rallied to his
support, and the town took on new life,
and it Mr. Rose could visit the town now
he would not recognize it. There is not
a better business town of its size in Geor
gia. The history of Forsyth is the his
tory of every town where the people have
stood squarely up to their paper.”—At
lanta Constitution.
Lunar Volcanoes. —The theory—
originally propounded, we believe, by
Mr. Nesmyth, the English astronomer —
that the crater-formed mountains, with
which every portion of the moon’s
surface appears toJbe covered, are really
the craters of extinct lunar volcanoes,
appears to he gaining more and more
favor in astronimical circles. One of
the most plausible evidences urged in
favor of this theory is the frequent oc
currence of the central cone, the result
of the last eruptive efforts of an expiring
volcano—so familiar to all those who
have observed volcanic craters on the
surface ot the earth. This central cone
is shown to exist in the majority of the
lunar centers, and the conclusion is there
fore drawn that they are the result of the
same kind of action which has produced
them on the volcanoes of the earth.
Hadn’t Time.— A citizen of Vicks
burg who wanted a few hours’ work
done about his back-yard, the other day,
accosted a colored man, and inquired if
he would like the job.
“ I’d like ta do it, but I haven’t time,”
was the answer.
\\ hy, you don’t seem to be doing
anything.”
“Idon teh ? V ell, now, I’ze gwinc
a-fishin’ to-day. To-morrow I’ze gwine
overderiber. Is ext day I’ze gwine a
hunting . Next day I’ze got to git my
butes fixed. Next day I'ze gwine to
mend the table, and de Lawd only knows
how I’ze gwine to git frew de week on
less I hire a man to come and help me !”
■ mm 9 mm
Engine V ith Legs.— Experiments
are making in France to test the efficien
cy of locomotive engines. It is thus de
scribed : “ This engine has no wheels,
but what may be called legs. It does
not roll: It walks, runs or gallops. It is
like au ordinary engine with straight
rods terminating in broad circular skates.
Three legs in front and three behind.
The moving cylinders, instead of turn
ing wheels, raise the feet. The invention
is especially adapted for earrvine great
weights up an incline. One model,
which is now at work on a French rail
way, weighs ten tons, and goes four or
five miles every hour, but 'can accom
plish, if desired, eleven or twelve miles.”
The latest Maine murder is one of the
most singular reported for many a day
William Pangboru, of Medway, an old
gentleman of eighty-two, is under arrest
for having killed his wife, sixty-one years
old, on Saturday night, and admits hav
ing committed the act. but claims that he
did it while dreaming that he was fight
ing a bear. Ihe question of responcibil
ity for murder committed in a dream is
a novel one.
The Sultan has eight hundred wives.
CRAWFORD. GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING, AUGUST 6, 1875.
DEVILTRIES.
—What's the difference between a girl
and a nightcap ? One is born to wed,
and the other is worn to bed.
—Men who never have $5 read de
scriptions of dangerous counterfeits of
that denomination with great interest.
—lf a little boy of five puts on ■ his
father’s pants, what two cities in France
do the pants resemble ? Toulouse and
Toulong. . . .
—“ Do you like codfish balls, Mr.
Wiggins?” Mr. Wiggins, hesitatingly
—" I really don’t know ;I don’t recollect,
attending one.”
—A philosopher asserts that the reason
why ladies’ teeth decay sooner than gen
tlemen’s is because of the friction of the
tongue and the sweetness of the lips.
—“ Cast iron sinks/’ is written on the
sign of a city plumber. “ Well, who in
the (hie) said it didn’t,” said an inebria
ted man, after reading it over three times.
—“ I think I have seen you before, sir.
Are you not Owen Smith?” “Oh, yes,
I’m owin’ Smith, and owin’ Jones, owin’
everybody; but it’s none of your busi
ness.”
—During the recent freshet an editor
telegraphed to another at the scene of
action, “ Send me full particulars of the
flood.” The answer came, “ You will
find them in Genesis.”
—Speaking of the poem, “ She who
Rocks the Cradle Rules the World,” the
Memphis Avalanche says : “In this sec
tion she is generally a colored girl, and
we don’t believe a word of it.”
—There is no counterfeiting the beam
ing smile of satisfaction which over
spreads the physiognomy of an ordinary
physician, as he contemplates the small
boy masticating the young green apple.
—The Terre Hautentots get mad so
easily. A woman there who has eloped
five times has been told by her husband
that this sort of thing would have to stop
or a coolness would spring up between
them.
—A medical journal has found that
there are from 160,000 to 200,000 hairs
in a woman’s head. The number of
hairs in a man’s head depends consider
ably on the length of time he has been
married.
—We are told by the Chicago Tribune
that the pull-back dresses are the pret
tiest style since Eve first made her ap
pearance in Eden. At first glance we
think this is fair, and we never permit
ourselves more than one glance at a time.
—An exchange tells a story about a
shopkeeper who advised a lady customer
to buy two mohair switches instead of
one, as the article was becoming scarce.
He said that the man he had hired to
hunt mocs had only caught two in a fort
night.
—A new style of shirt collar is run
with lead at the back, so if the button
comes off the shirt hand the collar will
not climb up the back of the wearer’s
head every time he stoops forward. This
is equivalent to equipping several hun
dred missionaries.
—“ I’ve know’d dat mule fur freeyeahs
an I dou’t tink dat de animal would hurt
a lam, cause .” This blank space
indicates where the lecture was interrupt
ed, and the nigger forwarded to the oth
er side of the fence. Mules will stretch
their limbs at times, you know.
—lt was a Des Moines couple, and
they climbed a steep ladder to the top of
the new Capitol building. When they
were ready to descend that ladder, he
said, “ I’ll go down and steady the lad
der.” She replied, “ Young man, that
ladder is steady enough ; you will wait
here and I will go down first.”
—lf those dresses were twice as tight
they would wear them. If it were the
fashion to carry a barrel of flour on the
hack ot the neck they would do it, or die
trying. You couldn’t devise a fashion
the women wouldn’t meekly follow, from
no clothes in winter, to bearskin over
coats in summer.
—The oldest woman of Long Island is
in her one hundred and seventh vear.
Her general health is very good, but her
vision is somewhat impaired, owfing pro
bably to a Aveakness she has for snuff
and whiskey. Her case should be a
warning against the “ weed” and the
“ worm.” It is believed that if she
does not reform she will die.
u I’m shot! I’m shot! Here’s some
of my brains,” shrieked a Newburyport
man on the fifth, clapping his hand sud
denly to the back of his head, and show
iug a handfull of something soft and
squashy to the horror-stricken bystan
ders. A doctor Avas called and found
that the report of a firecracker and a sim
ultaneous bloAA’ on the head trom a rotten
banana Avere Avhat had produced the de
lusion.
—A Clermont county man hid his
wife s false teeth in the coal shed to keep
her from going to a sociable. She had
to sta\ home, but she AA'ept and screeched
and told him, “ I more gau gafe begi\-e
you know ah about my geefe, you miger
able bow-legged Tar! I coug tearge eyge
out o’ gur bead, your naghty, mean,
sqauking, migerable squoungel!” And so
the poor man didn’t have such a good
time after all.
—A presiding elder from Elbert—a
keen, humorous, someAvliat Avaggish man
—was approached by a tra\'eJing com
panion, as he seemed to be asleep in the
railway ear. “Brother D.” said the
friend, “wake up, Avake up! Do you
knoAv where you are ?” “Yes, I know
where I aui,” answered the elder.
“Where are you?” “Not far from
Atlanta.” “ How- do you know?”
“ Because I have for the last hour felt
like stealing something.”
A RURAL GHOST STORY.
Old Pierre Bordeau and the Jewelry
Peddler.
A correspondent of the Cincinnati Com
mercial writes from Lancaster, O.:
Sugar Grtvre, a quiet, lazy, old fash
ioned little village, situated about eight
miles south of Lancaster,on the banks of
the legendary .Hockhocking, has a sen
sation. ...
For the past fifty years the good dem
izens of this prosaic and diminutive bo
rough have bad most unqualified faith
in the visitations of a representative of
the sweet by-ana-by, and many of them
have been frightened out of their seven
senses by actual rencounters with this
supernatural gentleman, and have sup
plied us with accurate and detailed de
scriptions of the apparation.
The facts of- Gafeeaseare these : Years
ago—over half a century—when the
pleasant little village of Sugar Grove
comprised hut a log cabin or two, one
dark, stormy night, when the wind was
howling through the hoarse wilderness,
and the sky was full of ominous clouds,
a jewelry peddler stopped at the cabin of
a settler by the name of Pierre Bordeau,
a little weazen-faced old man of Gallic
extraction, whose miserable domicile
stood on what is now the farm of R. L.
Sharp,Esq., just where the family burial
ground is situated. This nomadic pur
veyor solicited a night’s lodging for
himself and horse, and, as was customary
in those good old days, was unhesitating
ly and heartily accommodated, In the
morning the peddler of cheap jewels
turned up missing, which, however, occa
sioned no very great alarm, as it was sup
posed that he had left in the night to
avoid the little compensation old Pierre
might properly expect for his hospitality.
The peddler’s disappearance had al
ready been forgotton, when, late in the
afternoon, a neighboring farm-hand
found his horse, with its throat cut,
lodged against a flood-gate curvature in
the Hockhocking, when the startling in
telligence was scattered abroad, and dili
gent search was instantly instituted for
the missing traveler, but to no avail.
Not the slightest trace hut a pool of
blood, hack of the Frenchman’s cabin,
near the base of a hill, where bubbles
forth a spring of cold water, could be
found. Years flew round, and the story
of the missing peddler and the dark pool
of blood became a tradition, but the
weird spot about the Frenchman’s cabin
was ever after thought to he haunted,
and the hunters who stopped in their
wanderings to slake their thirst at old
Bordeau’s spring, gave it the name of
“ ugly water,” on account of the peculiar
odor that arose from it and its bitter
taste, which name it bears to this day.
Many a night, when the sky was hid
den by the clouds, and wind sighed
and moaned lugubriously around the hill,
has the passing countryman seen the
ghost of the missing peddler,which would
flit along in front ot the horses until the
spring was reached, when it would van
ish, apparently into the bowels of the
hill.
That the old jewelry peddler had been
murdered and robbed, no one had the
least doubt, and that his troubled spirit
had taken this mode to scarce the mur
derer into a confession and repentance,
they also firmly believed. Strange to
say, no —there is nothing strange about
it either—for old Bordeau Avas a kind
hearted, inoffensive farmer, and he was
never suspected as having committed
the horrible crime, or being accessory
thereto, until the day of bis death, when
he confessed the deed, but would not di
vulge the spot where the body had been
concealed. However, almost bis last
words AA r ere: “Under the house,” and
on searching there the peddler’s clothes
and pack of jeAvels Avere found, decayed
and corroded by time, but no evidences
of the body or bones. Thorough inves
tigation Avas made, the whole hut de
molished and torn aAvav, and the foun
dations upheaved, but no signs of the
object for which they Avorkcd Avere ever
brought to light.
The confession and demise of the
Avicked little Frenchman, hoAA'ever, did
not sootli the ruffled spirit of the victim
of bis treachery, and, often the tall,
white, weird and frightful figure Avould
make its appearance before the startled
vision of some passing farmer, and the
spot was finally given up as hopelessly
the ghost’s, and a detour of tAvo miles
many a courageous man has made, to
avoid the place after the sun had with
drawn its benign rays from over the earth.
Much speculation has been indulged
in as to Avhat disposition the old French
man made of the traveler, but no definite
or satisfactory conclusion could be ar
rived at until a feAv days since, after a
lapse of nearly seventy years, the whole
tragedy was made plain. Mr. Robert
Sharp, in building his new residence, con
cluded to convey water for common usage
from the spring at the hill’s base,
around which had hung a dark mystery,
to his house by means of subterranean
pipes. To accomplish this the spring
had to be greatly enlarged, and Avhile at
work here in digging out “ ugly Avater,”
the skeleton of a man in perfect preserva
tion was exhumed from beneath the
rocks, which corresponded exactly in
statute with the missing and murdered
peddler. No one who knows the fact of
the case has any doubt whatever but
that the murdered peddler had been
buried in the spring and carefully cov
ered with rocks by the cunning French
man, and noAY that his bones hav’e been
given a Christian burial, it is hoped that
he Avill lie quiet and docile until the
great day, when all alike, the quick and
the dead, shall rise and be judged.
Col. Geo. Seuntz and a party of ex
plorers have recently discovered, sixty
miles north of Duluth, Minn., a solid iron
mountain eight miles long, two and a
half miles wide, and 1,200 feet high.
Violin strings are not made of catgut.
THE PLAGUE.
Its Reappearance in the Marshy Districts
of Western Asia—Will it Spread.
[From the Cincinnatti Gazette.]
An old and very unwelcome visitant
has made its appearance in the marshy
districts between the Tigris and Eu
phrates. It is the old- fashioned plague,
which under the name of black death,
destroyed in Europe, between 1348 and
1351, about 25,000,000 of people. Italy
loosing halt its inhabitants ; Germany
about 1,240,000 souls, and London alone
100,000 of its residents. In China
10,000,000, and in the other countries of
the East 24,000,000 persons are said to
have 1 alien victims to this epidemic,
\yhich seems to have extended to Africa
in the south and to Greenland in the
north. No such destructive-scourge had
been known, and, as usual in the middle
ages, the Jews in Europe were held re
sponsible. It was said that they had
poisoned the wells, and at Mayence
12,000 of them were massacred.
The plague has since spread into Eu
rope at different periods, hut its ravages
liave _been confined to narrower limits.
In 1575 Titian died from it at Venice.
In 1665 it raged in London, nearly 70,-
000 having fallen victims to it. In 1720
not far Irom one-half the people of
Marseilles were swept away, and abou
-1700 it was very fatal in Russia and Pot
land. I lie latter visitations of the plague
have mainly been confined to the* coun
tries lying on the eastern shores of the
Mediterranean. The disease is fatal in
the majority of cases, death occurring in
less than a week after the first attack.
Nowhere has its symptons been more
faithfully and vividly described than in
Defoe’s wonderful description of the
plaguge in London, which is true to real
ity, though the basis of the narrative is
imaginative.
About thirty years have elapsed since
the last violent inroad of the plague into
Egypt and Asia Minor. Its ravages in
the former country are briefly, yet elo
quently, portrayed in Kinglake’sEothen.
People were beginning to hope that it
had died out, when in 1867 some cases
appeared in the low and malarious dis
tricts of Mesopotamia. The spread of
the disease was quite slow, and it did not
attract much attention until the close of
1873. From that time until now cases
have multiplied, and the area of infection
has been widened. Some localities have
suffered frightfully. The future alone
can tell whether the malady will be con
fined to sections to which it appears al
most endemic, or whether as at former
periods it will overleap its limits and
advance toward the civilized centers. It
may he aided, as other diseases, by dirt
and poverty ; but, on the other hand, the
channels through which infection may
be spread are largely increased. Medi
cal skill, as yet, has discovered no specific
against it, and, like small-pox, which
half a century ago seemed likely to be
stamped out, it may be entering upon a
new cycle of vigor. As yet there is no
reason for alarm, hut there certainly is
need of watchfulness on the part of Eu
ropean officials and physicians. Travel
in the East will doubtless grow into dis
favor, and the quarantine regulations of
the Mediterranean ports will he very
vigorously enforced.
&ponge Baths. —A fat-looking, bald
headed, lobster-colored German in shirt
sleeves appeared in the hallway of an
Adams street bathing establishment, ad
dressing a loose-jointed individual with
wet, stringy hair, about noon yesterday :
“ Holt on von minud,” called out the
hist descrioed, “ you can no go oud des
blace so you not bay me fur dot bat.”
“Pay for that bath,” exclaimed the
other in apparent astonishment, “who
said anything about payinsr!”
“ I say somethings ’bou^dot.”
“ You do ?”
\aw, I say you must bay me fur dot
bat.”
“ You said it wouldn’t cost nothing ”
sSaid the wet-haired man.
“ Noddings !” echoed the bath-keeper,
“ I no say such a ding.”
“ What’s that reading on your sign
then ?” inquired the disputant.
“ Lot sign reats : Turkish bats, Sul
phur bats, Vapor bats, and Sponge bats,”
replied the man of the lobster complex
ion.
W ell said the other as he edged away,
that last’s it j bein’s I didn’t have any
money, I took a sponge bath !”
due Teuton fell to studying his sign,
resolved to strike “ sponge baths” off his
list. —Minneapolis Tribune.
A Queer Tale of Unappreciated
Love comes to us from Duluth, Minn.
Two young men loved a maiden fair, of
that breezy paradise. She smiled on
both, and, as has happened since the days
of Helen, there was a bloody feud. They
had conflicts concerning iier until the
thing was monotonous, when youth num
ber one suggested an adjustment of their
differences upon a commercial basis. He
offered to taxe SIOO and forever thereaf
ter hold his peace. Number two scorned
to accept the proposition. The other
offered this amount for peaceable pos
session, which was also refused with
scorn. Bids were made until the amount
of c 150 was offered by the sighing swain
number one, in the shape of his note at
ninety days, which party of the second
part took, and two loving souls were unit
ed. But when the note became due, and
the former lover demanded its liquida
tion, the fond husband refused payment
on the plea of “ no value received/’ and
suit has been brought to recover the
a oiount. The husband sets up the plea
that the girl was not worth a tinker’s
condemnation, and for further answer
states that if the plaintiff will take the
fair creature off his hands he will gladly
pay the note and throw in his lovely
bride. So the case stands at this writing.
A blind man in southern Illinois can
play checkers.
VOL I-NO. 44.
I THE SANDEBSVILLE TROUBLE.
How it Originated—A Strange and Tn
Story.
[Macon Telegraph and Missenger..]
A letter from Sandersville returning
thanks to the Second Georgia batallioa for
the aid proffered and extended in the re
cent threatening emergency nt Sandere
ville, in \\ ashington county, explains it
as follows :
There was little apprehension of diffi
culty until Thursday night last, 22d in
stant, when R. Mayo, Esq., Sheriff of the
county, received a rude and insolent let
ter trom a negro in Waynesboro, Burke
county, who styled himself “ Joseph
Morris, Chairman of the Executive Com
mittee of Nineteen Counties,” command
ing the Sheriff to sweep out the Court
House, and have the keys ready to be de
livered to him for the purpose of enter
taining “ General Rivers and staff and 1
General Morris and staff, from South *
Carolina,” and that he should have the
road cleared out from Tennille to San
dersvillc from all obstructions.
This impudent and uncalled for letter
created much indignation among the cit
izens, and the Ordinary instructed the
Sheriff to close the Court House against
these negroes, and keep it closed.
Being informed by telegraph that
large numbers of negroes were taking the
railroad for Tennille, from other counties,,
we determined to resist every effort that
might be made to occupy the Court
House.
About 7 o’clock to-day (Saturday,
24th,) a large crowd marched from the
depot at Tennille, under colors, witlu
three hands of music, and marched into
town, hut finding the citizens ready and
willing to give them, a warm reception,
they toned down to a request to use the
Court House, which was refused. Upon’
which they adjourned their meeting.
Afterwards they paraded through
town —marching and counter-marching
through the streets without further de
monstration.
The Sheriff, when llie crowd assembled:
before the Court House, demanded that
Joseph Morris, the author of the letter,
should come forward and give an expla
nation of himself and his authority to
act, when it was discovered that he had
si inked away and could not be found.
This was the largest crowd of negroes'
that ever assembled in Sandersville.
There were about 250 from other coun
ties, and some four or five hundred more
left at the different stations on the line of
the railroad.
The whole demonstration passed off,
however, with far less turbulence and
trouble than was anticipated. At ten
ten o’clock a. m., the negroes began to
disperse, and by eleven o’clock the bands
an 1 companies had entirely left town,
going towards Tennille.
Facts not Generally Known.
Melons tvere found originally in Asia..
The cantaloupe is a native of Ameri
ca, and is so called from the name of a.
place near Rome, where it was first culti
vated in Europe.
The nectarine is said to have received:
its name from nectar, the particular drink
of the gods.
Tears were originally brought from
the East by the Romans.
The greengage is called after the Gage
family, who first took it into England
from a monastery in Paris.
Filberts originally came from Greece..
The walnut is a native of Persia, the
Caucasus and China.
The Greeks called butter bonturos—
“ cow cheese.”
Before the middle of the seven teeth'
century, tea was not used in England,
and was entirely unknown to the Greeks
and Romans.
The bean is said to be a native of.
Europe.
Spinach is a Persian plant.
The tonnito is a native of South Amer
ica, and takes its name from an Indian
word.
The turnip came originally from Rome.
Sweet marjoram is a native of Portu
gal.
Coriander seed came originally from
the East.
The clove is a native of the Molucca
Islands, also is the nutmeg.
Capers originally grew wild in Greece
and Northern Africa.
The Cow Tree. —Among the many
curious phenomena which presented
themselves to me in the course of ray
travels, says Humbolt, I confess there
were few by which my imagination was so
powerfully affected as by the cow tree..
On the parched side of a rock on the
Mountain of Venezuela grows a tree
with dry and leathery foliage, its largo
woody roots scarcely penetrating into the
ground. For several months in the year
its leaves are not moistenc-d by a shower,
its branches look as if they were dead
and withered : bnt when the trunk is
bored, a bland and nourishing milk flows
from it. It is at sunrise that the vegeta
ble fountain flows most freely. At that
time the blacks and natives are seen
coming from all parts provided with large
bowls to receive the milk, which grows
yellow and thickens at its surface. &ome
empty their vessels on the spot, while
others carry them to their children. One
imagines he sees the family of a shep
herd who is distributing the milk of his
flock.
A fishing smack master has recently
captured off Montauk Point a monstrous
animal resembling a turtle, which he has
brought into the harbor of New London,
Conn. It is seven feet long and ten feet
through. Unlike the ordinary turtle,this
animal has no feet, but large fins project
ing on either side, which measure eight
feet six inches across.
The census of the town of Abbeville
shows a total population of 1,530 —whites
613 ; colored PI7.