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BY T. L. GANTT. THE OGLETHORPE ECHO PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY MORNING. BY T. L. GANTT, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION. ONE YEAR ............. $2.00 SIX MONTHS 1.00 THREE MONTHS , 50 CLUB RATES. FIVE COPIES or less than 10, each... 1.75 TEN COPIES or more, each 1.50 Terms —Cash in advance. No paper sent until money received. All papers stopped at expiration of time, unless renewed. ADVERTISING. First insertion (per inch space) $1 00 Each subsequent insertion 75 A liberal discount allowed those advertising for a longer period than three months. Card of lowest contract rates can be had on appli cation to the Proprietor. Local Notices 15c. per line first insertion, and 10c. per line thereafter. Tributes of Respect, Obituaries, etc., 50c. per inch. Announcements, $5, in advance. BUSINESS CARDS. T. A. SALE, Dentist, lester’s block, ATHENS, GA Work warranted anti prices moderate. E. A. WILLIAMSON, PRACTICAL WATCHMAKER And Jeweller, At Dr. King’s Drug Store. Athens, Ga. T. R. & W. CHILDERS, Carpanters and Builders, ATHENS, - - - - GEORGIA, Are prejmral to do all manner of work in their line in the best manner. Parties in Oglethorpe wishing building done will save money by addressing them. nov27-ly JOHNNIEMINES, Fashionable Tailor, BAIRDSTO WN, GA. Will be in Lexington The first TUESDAY in every month, prepared to do all work in his line. Cutting and Making, in the latest style, done at short notice. Satisfaction in sured, and prices very low. my7-tf MANSION HOUSE Third Door Above Globe Hotel, BROAD STREET, AUGUSTA, GA. MRS. B. M. ROBERDS, (Late of Gainesville, Fla.,) Proprietress. BOARD TWO DOLLARS PER DAY. FRANKLIN HOUSE, Opposite Dcupree Hall, ATHENS, ....GEORGIA. This popular House is again open to the public. Board, $2 per day. W. A. JESTER & CO., feb4-ly Proprietors. LITTLE STORE -CORNER HERE THE CITIZENS OF OGLETHORPE will alvvay find the Cheapest and Best Stock of FANCY GOODS, LIQUORS, GROCERIES, LAMPS, OIL, Etc. J. M. BARRY. Broad Str., Athens, 6a. apil-tf L. Selievenell & Cos. ATHENS, GEORGIA, DEALERS IN ffatcte,§j Jewelry, Silver&Plated Ware, Fancy Articles, Etc, Having BEST workmen, are prepared to REPAIR in superior style. We make a specialty of SILVER and GOLD PLATING watches, forks,spoons, etc. W. A. TALMADGE. F. F. TALMADGE. W. A. TALMADGE & CO., DEALERS IN WITCHES, CLOCKS AND JEWELRY, SILVER AND PLATED WARE, Musical Instruments, Cutlery, CANES, GUNS AND PISTOLS. Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, Guns and Pistols REPAIRED in the best manner and warranted. General ENGRAVING done with dispatch. Sole agents for J. MOSES’ ELECTRO GALVANIC SPECTACLES. College Avenue, Opposite Post Office, apr3o-tf ATHENS, GA. Go to Davis’ Gallery, IN ATHENS, IF YOU WANT OLD PICTURES CM and ENLARGED With RELIABLE and Guaranteed work, At 25 Per Cent. Less than Foreign Companies, jan29-tf ©f)c #oktt)otjiic Cd)o, THINGS IN GENEBAL. —Beech trees are never struck by lightning. — The Presbyterian population of the world is 30,000,000. —There is a horse in Jackson, Mich., that is 51 years old. —Every man should take time to eat and say his prayers. —The population qf Louisiana gives an excess of 45,668 colored people over whites. —A colored in Sparta recently lifted another negro into eternity by means of a pitchfork. —The James river has uncovered many of the graves of Union soldiers who were imprisoned at Belle Isle. —Down in Alabama the weather is so dry and hot that even trees are dying and shedding their leaves like autum. —An lowa farmer has eighty acres of corn that stands sixteen feet high, and will average one hundred bushels to the acre. —The damage by rain to the western wheat crop is not near as great as was first reported. Scarcely one-third of the crop is lost. —A Greenback Convention is called to meet at Detroit this week. Mat Car penter and General Gordon are adver tised as speakers. —English gardeners now gladly pay $1 each for toads. They find them the best and cheapest destroyers of the insects which infest tlieir plants. —ln some parts of the South the drought is so severe that there isn’t water enough in the rivers to keep the fish from getting sunburnt on the back. —Poor old Thurlow Weed came very near getting out of jail Saturday. He was poisoned, together with his whole family, by a copper tea kettle. —The report that Charley Ross has been returned to his parents, and that they keep the fact a secret, in order not to be annoyed, is pronounced untrue. —Karl Ahlberg, a Sweed, murdered a man in Louisiana to rob him of a hatful of advertisements printed to look like greenbacks, which the Sweed thought a great treasure. —There is anew paper in Nebraska whose staff, from highest to lowest—edi tors, proof readers, compositors, and all— are obliged to dress in uniform. It is published in the State penitentiary. —A President of Pittsfield, Mass., pub lishes his belief that there are separate heavens for men and women. His argu ment is that all the troubles in this life arise from the mingling of the sexes, —Mrs. Joseph Custer, of Worcester, Penn., stung by a bee, died a few days after, her arm swelling to the shoulder, and a yellowish liquid being discharged from it in several places where it broke out. —The Montgomery Advertiser says a number of emigrants passed through that city last Saturday on their way back to Georgia from Texas. They advise every body to keep away from Texas, asserting that it is no Eden. —The Keely Motor has been superse ded, and now John A. Hoctor, of Roches ter, N. Y., “ has brought a newly discov ered vapor to the test of utility in haul ing trains of loaded cars on a railway, and driving balls and other missiles from guns, iarge or small, employed in war.” —Mr. Andrew Johnson, son of the late ex-President Johnson, denies all knowl edge of the reported insurance on his fa ther’s life, though he says he has not yet been able to look over all his father’s pa pers. The estate of the ex-President is estimated at between $150,000 and $175,- 000. —The curious story of the kidnapping Charlie, the infant son of Mr. Brill, of Greenpoint, New York, about eighteen months ago, has been revived by the finding of the child on Randall’s Island, where he had been sent under the name of John Smyth. He says he recollects crossing the ferry with a policeman and a woman. —There are few persons who have any conception of what amount an ordinary editor may write in the course of twenty five years connection with the press. It is a low estimate to state that the edito rial matter prepared by a single man, ta king his productiens, good, bad and indif ferant, to say that a hundred volumes of five hundred octavo pages, set in medium sized type, may suffice to transmit it to posterity in substantial form. —The building of the Southern Pacific Railroad through Teheehape Pass in volves a vast amouut of labor. For twen ty miles there is a succession of cuts, fills and tunnels. To reach an elevation in one part of this section eight miles of track will be laid to attain one mile of actual progress. The road at that point runs through a tunnel, and then encircles a hill at a heavy grade. Another tunnel is nearly two miles long, and in places over a thousand feet below the surface. —The Memphis Appealoi a recent date says that a large crow and of Voudoo people called recently at the office of a Justice of that place, one-half of the crowd hav ing instituted criminal proceedings against the other half for alleged witch craft, legerdemain and other tricks. It was asserted that a cew had been run dry and a sweet-potato patch withered up by the diabolical practice of the accused. The Justice, after a patient hearing of three hours, decided that the proof was not such as the law required, and re marked that the complaining parties seemed to be as superstitious as the other side. CRAWFORD, GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING, AUGUST 27, 1875. SWEETMEATS. —The ladies generally favor contrac tion. —Twenty little children crowd and call Queen Victoria “ grandma.” —Another scandal case in Brooklyn— ss,ooo damages—no minister. —Really, now, ought not the girls to get some clothes to wear over those dresses ? —“ Mother-in-law” is the name of a favorite mixture in London. It is old and bitter. —Sadness hangs over society men just now, because of the rumored restoration of crinoline. —“ Come, sit down on the shelly shore, And hear the mighty ocean roar.” “ I can’t sit down, you silly goose, Because I’d bust my pull back loose.” —Since those “ pin backs” came out it is quite difficult for a near-sighted man to distinguish a lady from a gentleman a block away. —Several young American ladies are at present in Paris, studying the art of displaying their ankles without appear ing to do it intentionally. —The Gainesville ladies pin sprigs of pennyroyal on their sweethearts’ coats for the purpose of keeping off the fleas. Could anything be sweeter? —Havana wants more women. A wo man with any pretensions to beauty or fine physique would sooner die than be seen on the streets unprotected. —A marriage was broken up in Duluth by the young man making an unexpect ed call and finding the poodle dog play ing with his true love’s glass eye. —Miss Nelson’s sickness cost her SIOO,OOO in broken engagements. When we were sick, last spring, it'cost us only nine cents—three pills at 3 cents apiece. —Mrs. Chambers, one of the heiresses to the 12,000,000 of francs left by a French relative, will leave Augusta for France in a few days to obtain possession of the fortune. —Miss Augusta J. Evans is in New York stopping at Commodore Vander bilt’s. We learn that the Carlton Broth ers have offered her $50,000 for her New work “ Infelice.” —A merchant who doos not advertise can no more succeed in drawing custom, than can a young lady without a bustle and a few pounds of false hair, succeed in drawing beaux. —“ Yesterday afternoon,” says a Ten nessee paper, “ the handsome Miss Jen nie Taylor was borne to the cemetery before a large concourse of grieving men, women and vehicles.” —There is less romance than stern re ality about the fact that Benjamin Bar ker, a murderer of Monroe county, Pa., has been surrendered by his wife, who re ceives a reward of SI,OOO. —At Vincennes, recently, during a marriage ceremony, the bride’s teeth dropped out, which so frightened the un happy man that he rushed off like an ar row, and has not been heard of since. —The horrible news has crept into the fashion letters that Turkish trousers for women are coming. Each trouser will be lulled into a band around the ankle, and finished with a ruffle edged with lace.” —The Indiana courts hold that the fact of a girl’s being engaged to several gentlemen at once does not bar her from the privilege of sueing each one in suc cession for breach of promise. This opens up anew industry. —The restless genius who decorated the statue of the Greek Slave in the Cor coran Galley, Washington, with a mus tache, in oil colors, has hopes of an offer from Congress to refresco the ceiling of the Capitol dome. —Three old women and a lame man constituted a debating society at Du buqe. The three old women live together, and their chickens scratch up the lame man’s garden. The debate is held across the line fence. —A mountain girl wants a descrip tion of the tie-backs. If she will just im agine herself a closed umbrella with all the ribs broken out but two, she will have a good idea of a pretty girl leaning up in a corner attired in the modern style. —A Pittsburg infant fell out of its lit tle carriage, and the shock caused it to bite off a portion of its tongue. As the infant is of the feminine gender, her chances of securing a husband when she grows up are increased ten-fold by the mishap. —Jenny Lind is not as much changed as might be imagined. A correspondent writes that she has the same blendid ex pression of firmness and sweetness of temper, the same winning smile and the simplicity ot behavior. She is the moth er of two daughters, aged 18 and 20. —An energetic woman who had been married four times had managed by doubling and tripling to add to the pop ulation of our beloved country to the ex tent of twenty-four souls. When we expressed a little natural surprise and admiration at the number, she sadly re marked: “Stranger, I could a’beat that —l’d a’ made the other dozen ef I hadn’t lost so much time a courtin’. Men folks is so slow.” —“ A feller” (he’s gone away) told us that he overheard a conversatiqn between a young lady, preparing for a shopping tour, and her maid, a few days ago. “ Now Jane, hand me that powder,” f( the paint,” “those teeth,” “those two largest papers.” Now my pa .” Oh ! dear, we came very near exposing architectu ral mysteries that should not be known to the vulgar public. By the way tee are absent to-day. “ DEVILTRIES. —A dentist, love, makes teeth of bone For those whom fate has left without, And finds provision for his own, By pulling other people’s out. —When does a man have to keep his work. When no one will take it. —“ Putting a pull-back necktie on to him,” is what the Western lynchers now call it. —“ You say, Johnson, that four halls lodged in your bosum ?” “ Yes, codfish balls.” —Where ten men will cheerfully lay down their lives for a woman, only one will carry her a scuttle of coal. —A lawyer is a learned gentleman who rescues your estate from the possession of another and keeps it himself. —lt is a summer wonder to a city boy that a farmer should call a grindstone a “grunstun,” and a coat a “jacket.” —“ Say, Sambo, lea us jine de base ball club.” “ What fer, nigger?” “ Kaseit lam you how fer ter kateh fouls on de fly.” —A murderer in Nevada refused to es cape when the jail door was left open, “ because he didn’t have a clean sh.rt to go in.” —lt was a Connecticut editor who wrote, “ Is there a balm in Gilead ?” and read next day, “ Is there a barn in Guilford?” —The latest agony in stationary is Beecher note paper. It has a “ ragged edge,” and whatever is written on it means something else. —A politician who accidently drank from the wrong bottle with a friend is one of the few men in the State who know how horse liniment tastes. —lt was an lowa landlord who posted the notice in his dining-room, that mem bers of the Legislature would first be sea ted, and afterward the gentleman. —A book agent took refuge under a hay stack during a thunder storm, and the lightning struck him on the cheek, glanced oft* and killed a mule two hun dred yards away. —Simmons was a clerk in a wholesale store, and has been unjustly discharged because his emplyers disliked to see their letters, bills, etc., signed, “ Jones, Brown & Cos., per Simmons.” —They call it a “ Keely motor” now, but there is very little condensed air or water about it, and a good square dose will move a man’s tongue oftener to the square inch than anything else yet dis covered. —The following toast was given at a Concord cattle show in 1846 : “Old Bachelors. Like sour cider, they grow more crabbed the longer they are kept ; and when they see a little mother, they turn to vinegar at once.” —“ What de price ob a letter stamp ?” asked a small darky at the post-office window yesterday; “ Three cents.” “ Tree cent 1 Ain't got no split ones fer two cent?” “No.” “Can’t send dat letter den,” and Cuffy slid. —The most attentive man to business on record was he who wrote on his shop door : “ Gone to bury my wife ; return in half an hour.” He was no relation to the lawyer who put upon his office door: “ Be back in five minutes,” and returned only after a pleasure trip of three weeks. —The most astonishing instance of a man’s regard for his word was recently given by a man who killed his wife, whom he did not like. When asked why he didn’t go off and leave her instead of killing her, he replied, jocosely, that he had promised on the wedding day to live with her until death should part them, and that he wasn’t the man to break bis word ! —Yesterday morning a Harrison ave nue man who had started out to attend the funeral of a neigbor returned to the house and asked his wife where the whetstone was. “ Whetstone! What in mercy’s name do you want of a whetstone at a funeral?” she exclaimed. “Oh, I’ve been there before, and I know they’ll fool around and fool around, and I might as well get a good edge on my knife while they’re waiting?” —George Washington couldn’t tell a lie, and that’s what ails the average Vicksburg boy. The other day, when one of them accidentally broke a pane of glass in a store window, it was touching to see him walk bravely into the store and up to the merchant and say : “ Mr. Blank, I broke a pane of glass in the window there, and you can charge it to the old man’s account. Put it down as a pound of salaratus and he’ll never know the difference!” —The attention of physicians here has been quite generally attracted of late by the ease of a boy in East Rome. Any at tempt to bring in water, or saw wood which he makes, brings on fits of dizzi ness and a severe headache. Even the sight of a wood-shed gives him simptoms of illness. In other respects he is per fectly healthy, and he can play base ball all through a hoc afternoon, and go in swimming in the evening without expe riencing any evil effects. —The other day a resident of Vicks burg went up to Thompson’s Lake to get a shot at a big alligator, and while eating a cold bite in the shade a man jumped over the fence, presented an old army musket to his head, and cried out: “Stranger, unkiver yer hed!” The Vicksburger was dumbfounded, but made haste to remove his hat, and exhibited a pate which shone like a newly-polished pilpaw. “Stranger, that saves ye !” con tinued the man, shouldering his musket; “ I thought ye was that red-headed col porcher what charged my wife seventy cents fur a testymint that haint a got a goddarned pictur in it,” TWO BRAVE CHILDEEN. I’ - possessing a Lion of His Native Home, and Keeping House Under a Tree—Lost in the Woods. [San Francisco Chronicle.] Lower Lake, Lake County, ) August 4.j There is good stuff in those youngsters of Dr. Baker’s—every one of them ; but my yarn only concerns the two younger of the lot. Last Sunday the little one, Jenny, a girl of six or seven years, made her appearance into her mother’s room, and demanded permission to go out deer hunting with her brother. Claude is about twelve years old, and killed a deer about the size of a buck rabbit one day last week, since when he can’t rest a mo ment in the daytime, and scarcely sleeps of nights. It was 10 o’clock when they started, taking a dog with them. The mother thought no more of them until dinner time in the evening. Then she became alarmed. Night approaching, she was half wild. All hands, consisting of some ten or twelve miners, started out, some on horse-back and some on foot. Night came; darkness settled down on the still valley with a quiet that seemed like death. The mother became frantic. She heard an occasional gun fired off, and knew that it was the doctor and men in pursuit of the lost children. She could not remain in the house another moment. She took the direction of the guns’ re ports, as well as she could, and started after the crowd. It was midnight when she came up to them. There was scarce ly a half garment of any kind on her body. She seemed to have passed through a dozen deaths—all but the dying. From the time she joined her husband and the other men she led the crowd until, about 3 o’clock in the morning, they heard a dog bark, and in another moment were with the children, who were instantly wakened by the noise. Then it was, “ Howd’e do, mamma ?” and “ Howd’e do, papa ?” and “ Ain’t this a splendid tree to keep house under?” “We had to fight for it, though,” said Claude. “ See here—we had to kill the first set tler and sure enough there lay a Cali fornia lion, one of the largest size, with a ball through his brain. Claude had shot him after dark. They had been lost, but the boy imagined he had struck the home trail, and kept running on until he met the lion and shot him. Jenny says he was crouched down like a cat, and not farther away than across the room where they shot him. He sprang right into the air and tumbled at their very feet. Before starting from the house one of the men bad put some biscuit in his pocket, thinking the children would be hungry, and these he offered them. “ No, thank you,” said Jenny “we had quails for sup per.” They had taken matches and Claude had shot the quails ; these they had roasted on a stick, and of course they were not hungry. It was an elder sister of these two plucky youngsters, who was out on horseback in a very wild tract of country. She was about twelve years of age about that time, and had been hunt ing stock. All at once she saw a pair of bright eyes looking at her from a turf of tall grass. “ I’m going to see what you are, anyhow,” she said. She got down from her horse, and soon found that the eyes belonged “ to the prettiest little darling she ever saw.” There was more of them but she only captured one specimen and climbed back to her saddle. She had not gone half a mile before she heard something loping behind her. She turned around and saw a lion. She put her horse to his best speed and .almost flew, she says, but the horrid thing gained on her. “Of course I knew what she wanted,” said the child, “ but I didn’t intend to humor her sel fishness. I didn’t take but one, and I left her two, and that’s as generous as any one need be. But she couldn’t seem to see it. Anyhow, she just flew after us; and old Phil—talk about his being a fast horse. I wanted to break his neck. The lion gained on us at every step, till at last I took her baby and threw it at her. ‘ Now take it and leave, you stingy old thing,’ I said ; and she did ; she just grabbed him up in her mouth and put off', and I came home.” The mother says that nothing would give her more comfort than to know that her Children were all afraid of their own shadows. But not one of them has ever shown a particle of cowardice in their lives, or their father before them. Deprived of Her Hair.— The Hart ford (Conn.) Courant reports that a young lady of literary tastes, who is staying for a while at a hotel at Stafford Springs, awoke one morning last week and found her hair lying on the floor, and, near by, a p*ir of scissors. She was very much frightened and she rushed out into the hall screaming. Her friends gathered around her, and, on calmness being re stored and reason set to work, it was thought she must have got up in the night in her sleep and committed the offense herself. She had long black hair, which was the admiration of her friends. How to Remove Warts.— Warts are not only very troublesome, but disfigure the bands. Our readers will thank us for calling their attention to the follow ing perfect cure, even of the largest, with out leaving a scar : “ Take a small piece of raw beef, steep it all night in vinegar, cut as much from it as will cover the wart and tie it on ; or; if the excrescence is on the forehead, fasten it on with strips of plaster. It may be removed during the day and put on every night. In one fortnight the wart will die and peel off.” The same prescription will cure corns. —At a wedding in this city recently a wag pinned in a conspicuous place in one qf the dressing-rooms a newspaper para graph reading: “On the evening of August 12, Jupiter and Venus will ap proach within one degree of each other, presenting a rare and beautiful specta cle.” VOL. I--N0.47. A TERRIELE STRUGGLE. A Child Barely Hes cued from the Jaws of ’ an Alligator. Handsboro (.Mi;-*.) Democrat. Last Saturday, about sundown, four miles east of this place on Biloxi bay, occurred a scene calculated to send a thrill of horror through every human heart, and to make even the boldest tren> ble with fear. Two little girls, daughters of Mr. Elam R. Blackwell, living on the Back Bay of Biloxi, while bathing in the bay immediately in front of his dwelling, were attacked by an enormous alligator. The eldest, a girl of about seven years of age, was holding the youngest, an infant of two years, in her hands, and was quiet-* ly enjoying her bath, when suddenly her little sister was snatched from her, and borne swiftly from the shore. Terrified beyond measure, and unable to render any assistance to, her unfortunate sister, the elder girl uttered ascream,which w r as quickly caught by the ear of the father, who happened,accidentally, to be passing within 30 or 50 yards of the spot where his daughters were bathing. Realing instantly, from the tone of the voice, that his children were in some peril, but un able to conjecture its exact nature, Mr. Blackwell, who is an active and athletic man, rushed rapidly to their assistance, and arrived at the spot just in time to discover his little daughter being borne out into the bay by an alligator. Com prehending the scene at once, and nerv ed to almost superhuman effort by the desperate situation of his child, the agon ized father leaped madly into the water in pursuit of the would-be destroyer of his daughter, which w r as then some 35 or 30 yards from shore. The water, for a distance of 40 or 50 yards out into the bay from the point where the children where bathing, ranges in depth from one and a half to tw'O feet, and then suddenly attains a depth of 40 or 50 feet, and both the animal (which by this time had dis-> covered the pursuit) and the father seemed to realize that, the deep water immediately in front of them once reach ed, pursuit and recovery would be alike impossible ; both, therefore, redoubled their efforts, the one to reach the point, and the other to prevent it. In this struggle, although sinking to his waist in the soft mud at the bottom at each bound, the father was successful. He succeeded in grasping the child by tho arm about ten feet from deep water. The alligator, which all the while held the child’s foot in its mouth, perceiving itself overtaken, alarmed and confused by the boldness of the assault, released its hold, and made its way rapidly into the deep water in front of it. The fath er, completely exhausted, raised his child out of the water, and, perceiving that it still lived, by desperate effort succeed ed in regaining the shore and depositing the child safely in the hands of its moth er. The little girl is unhurt, w r ith tho exception of a couple of bruises on it foot, made by the teeth of the monster. Railroad Across the Atlantic, [New York Express.] A railroad across the Atlantic is on tho list of possibilities for the future achieve ment of science. Many years ago a civil engineer suggesting sub-marine railways. His thepry was that at a certain depth of the ocean—a hundred fathoms or more —far below any agitation from surface storms, the waiter is of such density that nothing in tubular form, whatever the weight, can possibly sink. Having thus made a foundation in the very bowels of old Neptune, he proposed to sink a con tinuous line of immense iron tubes—.af ter the manner of the recent cable laying —in which a double-track railway could be laid between Cape Clear, Ireland, and Cape Race, Newfoundland, and thus trains go booming through, to the con sternation of the sea-serpent and the mor tal terror of the big and little fishes. The only really serious objection to his project that the engineer of this deep-sea scheme could then see, was the suffoca ting effects of the smoke from the locomo tives ; and, if this could be overcome, then the grand oceanic railway only re quired the necessary construction capi tal to enter upon its career of “ success ful experiment,” be duly figured out up on the profits of the ample traffic bet ween the two worlds. Now, the aforesaid “sci entific objection” has already disappear ed in the smoke-consuming engine of modern invention, to say nothing of the “ Keely motor.” Can the capital ques tion be as easily solved ? Who will form the company, and who will take tho shares ? Was it Morgan’s Body. Apropos of the statement of Mr. Weed in the Herald of the 9th inst., regarding the disappearance of the recreant Mason, Morgan, fifty years ago, I wish to relate a circumstance well authenticated, which may not be devoid of interest. There is a lady now living in Lockport, New York, eighty years of age, who can vouch for its truth. Bix months subse auent to the alledged murder, a corpse rifted ashore upon the beach of a farm situated near the mouth of Niagara river. The owner of that farm, who has been deceased for eight years, found the body, which, after an informal inquest, was buried. A narrow band of wrought iron was found around the waist of the re mains, to which was attached a short iron chain, from which it was evident a weight had been rusted or wrenched away. The corpse was buried unpublish ed and unclaimed upon the spot where it was found. I think Mr. Weed is mistaken regard ing the non-existence of a current in Lake Ontario. There is a very percep tible current from the mouth of the river at least for forty miles eastward. A Mason’s Daughter. New Y T ork, August 12, 1875. —A bootless task—Putting on socks,