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THE OGLETHORPE ECHO SUBSCRIPTION. ONE YEAR ’ 82.00 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 TKRMS—Cash in advance. No paper sent until money received. All papers thrppcd at expiration of time, unless renewed. GEORGIA RAILROAD SCHEDULE The following is the schedule on the Geor gia Railroad, with time of arrival at and de parture from every station on the Athens Branch: CP DAY PASSENGER TRAIN'. J,eave Augusta at 8:00 a in Arrive at Union Point 11:33 a m Union point 11:40 a m Arrive at Atlanta 4:00 p m DOWN DAY PASSENGER TRAIN'. Leave Atlanta at 7:00 a. m Arrive at Union Point 11:32 a. in Leave Ugwn Point 11:36 a. in Arrive at Augusta 3:30 ni UP NIGHT PASSENGER TRAIN. Leave Augusta at 8:15 pm Arrives at Union Point at ......12:55 p m Arrive at Atlanta 6:25 a m DOWN NIGHT PASSENGER TRAIN. Leave Atlanta at 10 30 p. in Arrive at Union Point...., 3 54 a. m Arrive in Augusta 7 40 a. i ATHENS BRANCH TRAIN. DAY TRAIN— Down. Time Stations. Arrive. Depart, bet. „ sta’s. A. M. Athens $ 45 25 Wintersville 0 10 9 15 30 Crawford 9 45 9 50 25 Antioch v 10 15 10 18 15 Maxey’s 10 33 10 35 15 Woodville 10 50 10 55 20 Union Point 11 15 | DAY TRAIN — Up. Union Point...P. M. 11 45 20^ Woodville 12 05 12 10 15* Maxey’s 12 25 12 30 15 Antioch 12 45 12 50 25 Crawford. 1 15 1 20 30 Wintersville 1 50 1 55 25 Athens.... | 220 NIGHT TRAIN — Dovrn. Athens..... a. m. 10 00 25 Wintersville 10 25 10 30 30 Crawford 11 00 11 05 25 Antioch 11 30 11 32 15 Maxey’s .. 11 47 11 49 15 Woodville 12 04 12 10 25 Union Point 12 35 a. m. NIGIIT TRAIN— Up. Union Point I 355 25 Woodville 420 I 424 15 Maxey’s 4 39 4 41 15 Antioch 456 | 458 25 Crawford ...f.. 523 I 527 30 Wintersville ......... 557 | 602 28 Athens 6 30 j LEGAL APEVRTISEMEN TS. LOOK OUT S BARGAIN 1 LAND FOR SALE! •\I7ILL BE SOI.I) AT II public outcry, on the first TUESDAY in Octo iter next, before the Court House door in Lexington, Oglethorpe county, Ga., if not sold before that time privately, the tract of I/AND belonging to the heirs of R. P. Arnold, deceased, lying on the waters of Dry Fork Creek, in the coun ty °f Oglethorpe, said tract, containing 682 Acres,.more or less, adjoining lands of Thom as Arnold, W. R. Parted, ,1. P. Rrawner, and others. This tract of land is well adapted to the growth of both Cotton and Corn, and is known as one b< ■st Stock Farms in Mid dle Georgia. The place has some 80 or 100 acres of the very best Branch Bottoms, some 250 or 300 acres of Original Forest, and about 200 acres in a fine state of cultivation—bal ance in old pine field. This is an excellent stand for a steam saw-mill, having a large quantity of fine pine timber. Has a No. 1 Dwelling House, containing eight rooms, well plastered, and dining-room. There are three - Settlements on the place, and plenty of good hands waiting to contract with purchaser for next year. The place will be divided to suit purchases, if desired. Any person wishing to see said plantation will please call on Mrs. George C. A mold, adjoining the place. She will take pleasure in having the place shown to them". The plantation is sold for a division among the heirs. Also, will be sold, one lot of WILD LAND, lying.hi Fannin,eounfy, v known as No. 141, Seventh district, First section. TERMS —One-third paid December 25th, 1875, one-thimU 1 >eeejhit>df\ 1576, and the bal ance December, 1877. Bond for titles until paid for. O. 11. ARNOLD, Manager. August 5, 1875. augl6-td QTATE OF GEORGIA, OGLETHORPE O COUNTY. —Petition for Letters of Dis mission. WIIKRKAS, Frnneis P. Collier, Ad rninistrtitor on the estate of Edward V. Coll ier, fate of said county, deceased, has applied to me for Letters of Dismission front said es tate— *' ' These are, therefore, to cite and admonish all persous interested to he and ftppear at mj office on the first Monday in October, 1875,N0 Show cause, if any iihey can, why said letters should not be granted. Given Under Toy hand and official-signature, at ofliee in Lexington, the 2;>th duv of June, 1875. TIIOS. D. GILHAM, jv2-3m Ordinary. STATE OF GEORGIA, OGLETHORPE COUNTY.— Whekkas, W. J. fc J. M. Norton, Administrators on the estate of James Norton, late of said county, deceased, applies toiue tor Letters of Dismission from said es tate' — These are, therefore, to cite and admonish all persons interested to be and appear at my office, on or before the first Monday ia Octo ber, 1875, to show cause, if any they hare, w hy said Letters should not he granted. Given under my hand and oSieial signature, at office in Lexinirton, this 30th dav of June, 1875. ' THOMAS D. GJLLIIAM. jv2-3m Ordinary. Oglethorpe Sheriff's Sale. WILL RE SOLD ON THE FIRST TI ES DAY in October next, before the Com t House door, in the town of Lexington, QgU thorpe county, within the legal hours of sale. One Tract of LAND, containing one hundred' and twenty acres, more or less, in said oour - ty, adjoining lauds of M. B. Brooks, Thomas Amis, J. P. Bowling and others —levied on ns the property of William T. Landrum, by vi\ tue of a fi. fa. issued from the Superior Com \ of said county, in favor of F. AY. M. Dowdy. Adm’r of Richard Dowdy, vs. Wil liatu T. Landrmu. —ALSO— At the same time and place, one Bay Mare named Sally and one Bay Mare Colt, named Pony—levied on as the property of J. G. Jynes, hr ft Distress Warrant issued by Jom> Sanders, a Justice of the Peace in the 220th District, G. M., of said county, in favor oi M. A. Pharr and Thomas P. Callaway, as Administrators of Shelton Oliver, deceased, vs. said J. G. .1 ones. Pro pert v pointed out by defendant. M. 11. YOUNG, D. Sheriff. August 31st, 1875. NEEDLES FR ALL KINDS OF SEWING MA CHINES, at Wholesale and Retail, by sep24-tf S. C. DOBBS. ' OOETTTV SHAWLS, Nubias and ehild y |jL I | V ren’s Knit Saeques, at Witch er's A Jarrell's. Call and examine them. @1) i ©gletJ)orfi£ Ccijo. BY T. L. GANTT. THE VELVET CLOAK. The Saloon-Keeper’s Revenge. John Smith was not named John Smith, which is a good reason why he should be known by that appellation in thi.s rela tion.. lor other heads would ache if his genuine cognomen were made public here in its given and Christian parts. He was not art intemperate man, but had a liking for what are called nips, so called because there is nothing substantial enough to nip about them. A married man was he, and in years had passed so along that the fire of five-and-twenty had cooled in his veins, and the smoke of youthful passion had cleared away from his brain, the cover ing of which important portion of his soul’s corporeal tenement had lost a part of its hair ; so much of its hair, indeed, that, viewed from above, it had a re markable resemblance to (if there was such a thing) a mildewed or mouldy bil liard ball. Mr. John Smith, that is to say, was an old young man. Not old enough to be solid, but too old to be flighty ; with a relish, remaining from the many relishes of his earlier days, for a good tangy drink. Mrs. Smith was a good young-old woman, with a weakness for ornamenta tion, growing, like a fungus on a fair tree stem, upon her honest love for home and its comforts. In fact, Mrs. Smith was a trifle vain, and her sonl underwent much laceration when Mrs. Jones flaunted past her window with anew hat on, or Mrs. Robinson (and how Mr. Robinson ever saw anything in that jilt of a homely thing she could never understand) flut tered by with anew parasol of the latest style, and new plum-colorecl ribbons all over her dress. For to tell the truth, Mrs. Smith’s new dresses were fewer and farther between than the most transient calls bestowed upon mortals the least so ciable of angels. But she loved her home, was devoted to her husband, and all things considered, tolerably content. It was the commonest thing in the world for Smith, when he went down town in the morning, to meet Brown, with whom, when a boy, he had been on terms of never-dying intimacy ; whose youth ful sprees v#re associated with his own, but who was still a bachelor. And Brown would say, as they§sauntered down Mad ison street, “ Ain’t it about time to take some medicine?” to which Smith would respond, “ I think this is the prop er hour.” And they would imbibe in wine of porn to the extent of about fifty cents’ worth, the expense being jointly divided ; for one day Brown would pay the doctor, and another day Smith would pay him. So that their medical account footed up, some $75 to SIOO a year each. And it was all very nice, though wrong. One morning, when Smith had finished his breakfast and was preparing to sally forth upon his diurnal business, Mrs. Smith arrested him with the observation delivered just ahead of the parting oscil lation, “ Johnny, my love, I want a vel vet cloak.” “ Melinda, my dear,” said he, “ why do you want a velvet cloak ?” “ Because,” said she, “ you know very well my old lace sacque is not so nice as it used to be ; and, beside, it is growing chilly, and you know my old cloth sacque is so shabby I declare I’m ashamed to look at it, and I know T look like a fright in either of them, and 1 can’t go out without something on. And, beside, Mrs. Robinson has just got a beautiful new velvet polonaise ; that only cost slso—” Smith shut one eye and winced. “ and she trimmed it with the lace off her last summer’s silk dress, and it looks just as lovely, and really I feel so dowdy when I sec it, and then think of what I've got, that I could just cry. There!” And the pretty little lady’s pret ty little lips began to tremble. Smith grew serious. “ I know I could get a real handsome cloak for $75. I know I could. The vel vet wouldn’t cost SSO, and I could get it trimmed perfectly delicious and made up for $25 more, and I think I ought to have it. Of course I don’t care for anything so grand as Robinson’s, because 1 know we can’t aford it ; but I do think that I might have one that would tost half as mucl?.'” “ My dear, I havn’t the money to spare. I’m sorry, but I havn’t. If I had, you should have your cloak. I’m sure I would be more pleased to see you with it on than you would to wear it; but I can’t afford it.” And Smith meandered townward, leav ing a sore heart behind him. At the cor ner he met Brown, and the nipping ope ration was successfully performed previ ous to an outlay of twenty-five cents on the part of Smith, whose wife’s request troubled him all day long. AY hen he re turned home in the evening he found her in tears. “ My darling,” said he “ what’s the matter ?” Then with many breaks and a thou sand sobs, Mrs. Smith squeezed out the information that she had met the wife of Air. Lawrence O’Ragan, who kept the sample-room on the corner, with a polo naise on that never cost a cent less than S3OO. And when Smith came to think it over, he remembered having seen this identical lady come into the bar-room with this identical gorgeous piece of ap parel on, and ask Air. Lawrence O’Eagan for money ; and that Air. Lawrence O’- Kangan had thereupon gone down in his pantaloons pocket and fished up a regu lar Daniel Lambert of a wallet, from which he extracted $-50 without making any noticeable impression upon it, ana handed the money over to his spouse. The recollection caused him a pang. “ I have been buying that woman’s clothes,” said he to himself, “ and here is my own wife going, I might say, naked. And what good does it do me ? Not any. I will do it no longer.” So he comforted his wife and told her he had found a way to get the money without incommoding any one, and she should have her cloak. Next day he met Brown as usual, aud Brown, as usual, extended the invitation to nip. “ Nay,” said good Air. Smith, “ nip me no more. 1 shall never contribute another cent to this accursed traffic in in liquor. I’ve sworn off.” And so it was. Every day, instead of spending that money on liquor, he laid it aside. True, the friendship between him and Brown cooled off, but his pile grew from day to day, and in the short space of one year he had saved the re quisite amount. One evening he walked into the house with a bundle under his arm. When he had laid aside his hat and umbrella, he stepped over to where his wife was sit ing, aud tossed it into her lap. She CRAWFORD, GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 1, .1875. opened it. There were ten yards of ele gant silk velvet and $25 in shinplasters. The little lady’s eyes sparkled with joy. She sprang up and threw her arms about his neck. “Oh ! Johnny, where did you get it, you dear, good, old boy ? Oh ! ain’t it just lovely, my dear? and the money, too, how.much there is of it? I am sure I never had such a pleasant surprise in all my life. Kiss me.” John Smith, he of the mildewed head, but warm heart and tender stomach, sat down and told her all about it. And a happier evening never was spent by two human beings. Now there comes a turn in this busi ness. The cloak was made up. It did look fine, and no mistake. It was simply magnificent. Too magnificent. But Mrs. Smith was no grumbler. She knew it overshadowed everything else she had, indeed she did ; but instead of whining and complaining about it, she stayed at home. Really, the first Sunday she wore it to church she could actually have sunk out of sight through the tiniest little bit of a hole when she saw Georgiana Robinson (the hateful, squinting thing!) looking out of the corner of her eyes at that cloak and then at Ihe shabby old hat she wore, and nudge her sister Millie and smile, as to say, “O, dear ! p*ut a beggar on horseback !” To be sure, the bonnet was only trimmed over once, and without anything so beautiful and aris tocratic as that cloak to dwarf it, would have been a very passable bonnet—in deed, quite nice. But, then ! And she burned all over for pure shame when she had to go slowly, an inch at a time, down that long aisle when the church was out, with the Joneses crowding be hind her; and though they pretended to be so sweet and nice, she knew very well what they were grinning at. It was those old gloves—black-gloves—that she had worn a year, and that cashmere dress with the bugle trimmings. O, yes! They needn’t he so very nice! She knew them. And she stayed at home next Sunday, and the next, and then Smith demanded an explanation. He got it, and how her face burned and her eyes snapped through her tears as she made it. Never mind, his dear. She would have a silk dress and things to match that cloak. Indeed she should. His wife was just as good as either Jones’ or Robinson’s, if he hadn’t as much money, and, if some people’s judgment was to be trusted, a good deal better. And he’d see about this matter of dress. So Smith quit chewing tobacco and stopped smoking. It almost killed him, but he stopped ; and in another year his wife had as beautiful a silk dross as ever you saw, and gloves ! O, my ! But there was that hat trouble, that everlasting hat difficulty. That broke out again on the occasion of the opera. Dear, dear! What an awful looking thing it was, indeed. And she couldn’t take it down the theater, either, though she distinctly heard the young gentle man behind her curse iu actual terms, with downright awful swearing words ; and the young lady that sat next to her really seemed to be unnecessarily scorn ful and select just because, forsooth, she had on a hat that cost at least $75, when the truth was it was not the real style to wear any bonnet at all at the opera, but only a Western barbarism. It had to come. Smith needed now boots. He needed anew suit of clothes. He didn’t get them, but Mrs. Smith got anew hat—a perfect marvel of a hat, a hat that was worth at least about $5, but cost at least fifteen times that much. A regular capsized oyster-boat of a hat, with the most enchanting of impossible flowers all over it, and a streamer be hind it that would have done honor to the mast-top of a vessel about to sail. Did this end it? No. It made the dear, good little lady feel absolutely sick to come into the house and see that shabby old black horse-hair furniture. Such clothes made anything but cherry puffs look so poverty-stricken after com ing home from church or the theater. (And those tickets began to foot up an enormous figure, Smith thought.) But that was not the worst of it. The season changed, and she couldn’t wear the same clothes all the year round. Poor Smith! Brown was almost ashamed to speak to him now, he began to be so ragged and slouchy. And he was ashamed to speak to Brown. The boys at the office declin ed to be humbugged by his incidental remarks that, as a man., grew older, he didn’t care for his looks. His efforts to keep his boots under his chair were dis tressing to see, aud it was enough to make the stricken deer go weep (so to speak) to see him figure to keep liis back to the wall on account of those holes in his—but why dwell on these things ? Smith, from a pleasant, light-hearted man, grew moody and silent. He made mistakes in his figures; he was seen when alone to fall into reveries, to mutter to himself, to clutch at the’ bald spot on his crown, to sigh and grind his teeth. And it went on at home. The expenses continually grew*, while the in come did not. It was rough, it was hard, Mrs. Smith grew ashamed of him. He gradually became shabbier, until his employers spoke to him about it. He'never went out to lunch anymore. He starved himself. His boots parted company with their soles one day. Then his coat fell off. Then his vest. Then his in fact, little by little, his rai ment went away from him. His wife ran away with another man on the day when he became reduced to a state of nature, aud couldn't go out of die house —ran away wit# a fellow 7 who had money. A blank succeeds. * * A few weeks after he was skulking along the inner side of aboard fence, try ing with all his might to look uncon cerned and dressed up, when he knew very well he hadn’t a stitch on his back —nor on his front, either, for that matter —and making a dismal failure of it, as he was perfectly aware, when he heard someone call him by his first name. A familiar voice, the voice of a woman, call ing him, “ John!” He stopped and looked timidly over his shoulder, poor man of a Lady Godiva that he was, aud —what did he see ? His wife ! positively his wife, with the old lace sacque on, the old hat. the old gloves, everything as of yore ; and in one hand she carried a tumbler of “ nip,” in the other a cigar, a paper of chewing tobacco, a match ; on her back was strapped a bundle. “ Here, my darling boy I” said she, “ come back ! come back! take your nip; take it every day ; take your smoke ; make a filthy chimney of your dear nose as much as you please ; chew, chew and chew all you feel like chewing, but come back!” Tears choked her voice. In this bundle is a suit of clothes, complete. Put them on. Come back !” He awoke, and behold ! it was not a dream. And they lived happily ever after. THE HERITAGE. BY JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL. The rich man’s son inherits lands, And piles of brick, and stone, and gold, And he inherits soft, white hands, And tender flesh that fears the cold, Nor dares to wear a garment old ; A heritage, it seems to me, One would not wish to hold in fee. The rich man’s son inherits cares ; The bank may break, the factory burn, A breath may burst his bubble shares, And soft white hands could scarcely earn A living that would serve hi3 turn; A heritage it seems to me, One would not wish to hold in fee. "What doth the poor man’s son inherit? Btout muscles and a sinewy heart, A hearty frame, a hardier spirit; King of two hands he does his part In every useful toil and art; A heritage, it seems to me, A king might wish to hold in fee. What doth the poor man’s son inherit ? Wishes o’erjoyed with humble tilings, A rank adjudged by toil-won merit, Content that from employment springs A heart that in his labor sings; A heritage, it seems to me, A king might wish to hold in fee. What doth the poor man’s son inherit? A patience learned by being poor; Courage, if sorrow come, to bear it; A fellow-feeling that is sure To make the outcast bless his door; A heritage, it seems to me, A king might wish to held in fee. O rich man’s son ! there is a toil That with all other level stands; Large charity doth never soil, But only whitens soft white hands— This is the best crop from thy lands; A heritage, it seems lo me, Worth being rich to hold in fee. O pnnr man’s son ! scorn not thy slate; There is worst weariness than thine, In merely being rich and great; Toil only gives the soul to shine. And makes rest fragrant and benigli ! A heritage, it seems to me, Worth being rich to hold in fee. Both, heirs to some six feet of sod, Are equal in the earth at last; Both, children of the same dear God, Prove title to your heirship vast By record of a well-filled past; A heritage, it seems to me, Well worth a life to hold iu fee. A North Carolina Nondescript. [Newborn Journal of Commerce.] Asa Orandy, a colored resident of Kits swamp, relates a strange and startling in cident that occurred in his immediate neighborhood on Thursday last, and which has occasioned considerable ex citement and alarm among the inhabi tants thereabouts. It appears that for sometime past a strange-looking animal has occasionally been seen, by different parties, lurking on the outskirts of the forest between sundown and dark, but until tecentlv no one has been able f -o ap proach the stranger near enough to de scribe its appearance. From the descrip tion given by Asa, we conclude it to be a nondescript which Barnum, the great showman, would be glad to possess, even at an expense of of dollars. Its face in appearance is quite similar to that of the Wanderoo, having a long snowy beard or mane, while its body closely resembles that of the baboon, though from the knees down, its feet and limbs are in shape and form precisely human. In liqight it would measure about five feet, while its volume around the chest would eclipse the Cardiff giant. Asa states that this nondecript has for several weeks past been preying upon poultry, garden vegetables aud green corn to an alarming extent, when on Thursday morning-last, while his little girl of five years was at play in the corn crib with a neighbor’s child, and himself at was stripping fodder in the field near hv, he heard the children screaming, the dogs furiously barking and his wife loud ly calling for help, whereupon he swift ly ran toward the point from whence the cries proceeded, and at the edge of the corn-held met face to face this singular being, with the children iu each paw, making directly toward the woods. At the sudden approach of Asa, the animal, being taken by supprise, halted for a moments, and as it partia.lly.4u rued to change its course, a well directed blow felled it to the earth and the children es caped without injury; but before its cap ture could be accomplished it sprang from the ground and with lightning rap idity gained the covering of the'wood, where all 'traces of its whereabouts re main as yet a mystery, though the forest for miles around have been thoroughly searched. Much excitement and fear prevail throughout that section, and no mother will again rest in peace until this strange intruder is captured and render ed harmless. An Accpiatic Velocipede, i f On Saturday afternoon last a number of people assembled on the wharf below' the Kensington Water Works to witness the trial of what the inventor calls an ac quatic velocipede. The suspension pow er of the machine is in three cigar shaped zinc floats, fifty-four inches in length by about fourteen inches in diameter. Two of these floats are placed opposite of each other, about six feet apart, stiffened and held in position by iron rods running to a chair seat placed directly over the cen tre. The third float is placed in the rear and midway between the two others. This latter float is likewise secured to the chair by rods, but in such a wav that it acts as a rudder, the rider working it by means of ropes running to his seat. The wheel which is of iron, and weighs forty pounds, is placed directly in front of the chair. The spokes,twelve in number, fif teen inches long, with floats at their out er extremities six inches square. The wheel is propelled by the feet, as in a ve locipede. When the rider was seated in the chair the floats were about half sub merged and the seat of the chair about three feet above the water. The weight of the entire apparatus is 100 pounds. Directly after high water the velocipede was brought around into the river dock, and after performing several revolutions, such as turning, backing rocking, it was started straight across the river to a stake boat anchored half a mile distant. This boat was rounded, and the machine brought back to the dock, a distance of a mile, in about ten minutes. In the home stretch it encountered the waves of the steamboat John A. Warner, but it rode them out safely, and without diminishing its speed in the 1 eas ti-r—JPh iladdph ia Led ger. THINGS IN GENERAL. —An American is “ dickering” with the Egyptians to buy the pyramids. —A piece of iron Lang in fruit trees will effectually prevent the ravages of frost. —A woman living in Chester county, Pa., has a guinea-hen’s egg fifty-nine years old. —ln the neighborhood of Ypsilanti, Mich., farmers are shearing sheep by machinery. —They cure chicken-cholera in Geor gia by smoking the birds with pine-tops, t ar and feathers. —Tiger Tail, sub-Chief of the Seminole Indians in Florida, has three wives and two black slaves. —Grape jelly dissolved in water has been adopted for communion purposes in a Troy Methodist Church. —New York city Is plodding along under a debt of $150,568,000, or SBOO for every family of five persons. —Lansfield, N. J., is boasting of a thirteen-ounce baby, which kicks and squalls like a twelve-pouuder. —A mine of honey has been discovered at Cajon Pass, Cal. It is a quarter of a mile long, and contains 1,000 tons of the sweet. —A dog who was epicurean in his ideas of mutton, at Franklin, Ind., tried eleven sheep before he found one to his taste. —A clergyman of Pittsfield, Conn., has declined to marry a couple because the groom couldn’t repeat the Lord’s prayer. —A St. Louis physician has offered a reward of SI,OOO for an authenticated case of death from eating ripe water melon. —A letter containing money, which was mailed in 1861, has just reached Cobb, Andrews & Cos., at Cleveland,forty miles distant. —Jas. AVylie, champion draught-play er, boasts of a checkered existence that foots up for the last year 7,044 games won, 32 lost, and 494 drawn. —“ Around the World in Eighty eight Days” is no longer a fiction mere ly. A letter from New York has just accomplished the journey. —Charles Joseph Bonaparte, grand son of Jerome Bonaparte, was married in Newport last week, to Miss Ellen Channing Day, of Boston. —While tunneling into the side of Mount McLellan, Colorado, recently, the explorers came upon ground solidly frozen ninety feet from the surface. —A Kansas court has decided that a man and his wife may go to a circus on a ticket that says “ admit one,” as they are “ one flesh” and considered as a unit. —A visitor in South Park, Colorado, has picked up a curious piece of stone, which, on scientific examination, is pro nounced to be a petrified plug of tobacco. —More white men are now at work on the plantations of Louisiana than at any time in the previous history of the State, and the crops, it is said, never looked so well. —Chinese eat rats and puppies. Russians take kindly to tallow candles. Patagonians eat an oily species of clay, and the inhabitants of the Indian Archi pelago like cold Missionary. ( —A man, who broke jail in Texas, was running away beautifully, when he was bitten by a rattlesnake, and being oblig ed to go to a doctor for treatment, was restored to his old quartern. —The project of letting the sea over flow part of Desert of Sahara, thus ren dering unnecessary the frightful land journey of 2,000 miles from Morocco to Timbuctoo, is finding numerous advo cates. —A dog in Indianapolis is wrestling with genuine fever and ague, lie has chilis promptly at 10 o’clock every morn ing, and several physicians are watching the progress of the disease upon the ca nine patient. —The Grand Duke Alexis, it is now announced, has been divorced from the lady attached to the Court of the Em press to whom he was secretly married before he was sent on his travels by his indignant papa. —A small yellow-spotted lizard, about four inches long, was found inside a watermelon at Dallas, Texas. Appar ently lifeless when taken out, it was soon resuscitated, but lived only a few mo ments. It had no eyes. —Among the remarkable productions of California is the Hogan family, of Mendocino county. The father stands 6 feet 2 inches in his stockings, one son (i feet 6 inches, a second son 6 feet 3 j inches, and a third 6 feet 7 inches. —An exchange tells us that the amount of money now in circulation in the United States would give sl9. 12 to every man, woman and child if equally divided. We wish to goodness, then, that they would hurry up the division. —A sinker of Golborne, Lancashire, England, Roscoe by name, offered to let two fellows nail his ears to the door for a quart of small beer. They drew the beer, nailed up the sinker, and then quietly divided the beer between them. —As an incident of the French Hoods, it is related that when the waters came down on Agen the Assize Court was sit ing, and the Judge and counsel held their places till the water was knee deep, when they locked the prisoners up in a room and* left them to their fate. —A child in Alabama, while playing near its house, was attacked by a rooster, knocked down and spurred several times in the face before it could be rescued. One stroke of the spur was found to have entered the brain, and the child died af ter three days of great suffering. —A graduate of Yale was recently ap pointed to a position in a base ball club at a salary of $3,500 a year. For a posi tion in Chicago the other day, which paid but S2BB a year, there were 515 ap plicants, among whom were clergymen, lawyers, journalists, and bookkeepers. —The colored school directors in New Orleans have resolved to move vigorous ly towards thoroughly mixing the schools. The white directors are endea voring to prevent it, but with little hope of success. This is likely to occasion [a a renewal of the school troubles.- VOL. I—NO. 52. CHILDREN IN’ THE CLOUDS. The Terrible Voyage of Two Baby JEronauts —Their Extraordinary Deliveranoe from Death. [From All the Year Bound.] One pleasant afternoon during tho comet’s appearance, ten years ago, an ae ronaut, after a prosperous voyage, descen ded at a large farm in the neighborhood of a market town, in one of the Western States. He was soon surrounded by a curious group of the farmer’s family and laborers, all asking eager questions about the voyage and the management of the balloon. That, secured by an anchor and a rope in the hands of the seronaut, about a foot or two above the ground, was swaying lazily backward and for ward in the evening air. It was a good deal of wind, and was a sleepy ami in nocent monster in the eyes of the far mer, who, with the owner’s permission, led it up to his house, where, as he said, he could “ hitch it” to the fence. But before he thus secured it, hi3 three chil dren, aged respectively ten, eight and three, begged him to lift them into that big basket, that they might sit on those pretty red cushions. While the attention of the aeronaut was diverted by more curious question ers from a neighboring farm, this rash father lifted the darlings one by one into the car. Chubby little Johnny proved the ounce too much for the serial camel, and brought him to the ground ; and and then, unluckily, not the baby, but tho eldest hope of the family, was* lifted out. The relief was too great for the monster. The volatile creature’s spirits rose at once ; he jerked the halter out of the farmer’s hand, and with a bound mounted into the air. Vain was the aeronaut’s anchor. It caught for a mo ment in the fence, hut it tore away, and was off dangling uselessly after the run away balloon, which so swiftly and steadily rose that in a few minutes those two little faces peering over the edge of the car grew indistinct, and those piteous cries of “ Papa I” “ Mamma!” grew fain ter up in the air. When distance and twilight mists had swallowed up voices and faces, and noth ing could he seen hut that dark, cruel shape, sailing triumphantly away with its precious booty, like an ajrial priva teer, the poor father sank down helpless and speechless, hut the mother, frantic with grief, still stretched her arms towards the heavens, and catted wildly up into the unanswering void. The aeronaut. strove to console the wretched parents with assurances that the balloon would descend within thirty miles of the town, and that all might be well with the children, provided it did not come in deep water or in the woods. In the events of its descending in a favor able spot, there was hut one danger to be apprehended; lie thought that the elder child might stay out, leaving the younger in the balloon. Then it "might rise and continue its voyage. “ Ah, no,” replied the mother; #T Jen nie would never stir from the car with out Johnny in her arms 1” The balloon passed directly over the market town, and the children seeing many people in the streets, stretched out their hands and called loudly for help; but the villagers, though they saw the bright little heads, heard no call. When the sunlight all went away, and the great comet came blazing out* little Johnny was apprehensive that the comet might corne too near the airy craft and set it on fire with a whisk of its dreadfnl tail. But when the sister assured him that the fiery dragon was as much as twenty miles away, and that God wouldn’t let him hurt them, he was tranquilized, hut he soon after said, “ I wish he would come a little nearer, so I could warm myself-—I am so cold !” Then Jennie took off her apron and wrapped it about the child, saying ten derly: “This is all sister lias to make you warm, darling, but she’ll hug you close in her arms, and we will say our pray ers and you shall go to sleep.” “Why, how can I say my prayers before I have my supper?” asked little Johnny. “ Sister hasn’t any supper for you or herself, but we must pray all the har der,” solemnly responded Jennie. So the two baby wanderers, alone in the wide heavens, unawed by darkness, immensity and silence, by the presence of the great comet and the millions of unpitying stars, lifted their little clasp ed hands and sobbed out their sorrow ful “Our Father,” and then that quaint little supplementary prayer: “ Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep; If I should die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take.” “ There ! God heard that easy : for we are close to him up here,” said in nocent little Johnny. • Doubtlest Divine love stooped to the little ones, and folded them in perfect peace, for soon the younger, sitting on the bottom car, with his head leaning against his sister’s knees, slept as sound as though he were lying in his little bed at home, while the elder watched quietly through the long, long hours, and the car floated gently on the still night air, till it began to sway and rock on the fresh morning wind. At length a happy providence guided the little girl’s wandering hand to a cord connecting the valve; something told her to pull it. At once the bal loon began to sink, slowly and gently, a3 though let down by gentle hands, or as though some celestial pilot guided it through the wild currents of air, not letting it drop into lakes or rivers, leafy wood or impenetrable swamp, where this, strange, unchildlike experience might have been closed by a death of unspeakable horror; but causing it to descend as softly as a bird alights, on a spot where care and human pity awaited it. The sun had not yet risen,-but the morning twilight had come, when the little girl, looking over the edge of the car, saw the dear old earth coming nearer “rising toward them,” she said. But when the car stopped, to her great disappointment, it was not on the ground, but caught fast in the topmost branch of a tree. Yet she saw they were near a' house whence help might soon come, so she awakened her brother and told him the good news, and together they watched and waited for deliverance, hugging each other for joy and warmth, for they were very cold. Farmer Buxton, who lived in a lonely house on the edge of liis own private prairie, was a famous sleeper in general, THE OGLETHORPE ECHO ADVERTISING. First insertion (per inch space)...'. $1 00 Each subsequent insertion 75 A liberal discount allowed those advertising for a longer |>eri.>d than three months. Card of lowest contract rates can be had on appli cation to the Proprietor. Local Notices 15e. per line first insertion, and 10c. per line thereafter. > Tributes of Respect, Obituaries, etc., 50c. per inch. Announcements, $5, in advance. ’ hut on this particular morning he awoke before the dawn, and though he turned and turned again, lie could sleep no more. So at last lyj awoke his wife and said; “ It’s no use ; I’ll just ret up and dress, and have a look at the ontet.” The next she heard was a frightened summons to the dcor. It seems that no sooner did he step from his house than his eyes fell on a .-{range shape hanging on a large pear tree about twenty yards distant. He could see it in no likeness to anything earthly and he half fancied it mightße the comet, who, having put out his lights, had come down there to perch. In his fright and perplexity he did what every v. .- a man would do in like extremity. Reinforced by her, he drew near the tree, cautiously reconnoi tering. Surely, never pear tree bore such fruit! Suddenly there descended from the thing a plaintive, trembling little voice, “ Please take us down ; we are verv cold ?” Then a second little voice, “ And hun gry, too ; please take us down !” “ Who are you ? And where are you?” The first little voice said : “We are Mrs. Harwood’s little boy and girl, and we are lost in a balloon.’ The second little voice said : “It is us, and we runned away in a balloon. Please take us down.” Dimly comprehending the situation, the fanner, getting hold of a dangling rope, succeeded in pulling down the bal loon. He fir-' lifted out little Johnny, who ran rapidly a few yards toward the house, then turned around and stood for a few moments curiously surveying the balloon. The faithful little sister was so chilled and exhausted that she had to be carried into the house, where, trembling and sobbing, she told her wonderful story. Before sunrise a mounted messenger was dispatched to the Harwood home with the glad tidings of great joy. He reached it in the afternoon, and a few hours later the children themselves ar rived in state, with banners, and convey ed in a covered hay wagon and four. Joy hells were rung is the neighboring tenn, and in the farmer’s brown house the happiest fami’y mi the continent thanked God that night. How a Snake Charmed a Boy. [From the Heading Eagle.] For the last two weeks a son of Allen Rogers, aged eleven years, a wood-cutter on the Blue Mountains, about three miles from Hamburg, lias been in the habit of leaving his father's house every morning about 9 o’clock, and not returning till noon. The parents of the hoy have ques tioned him several times as to where he went, and the boy would reply, to play with a neighboring boy named Springer. Ou Friday last the father watched his son, and followed at a short distance, and when about a half-mile from the house, the hoy entered a piece of thick sprout land, from the road some two hundred yards, where he seated himself upon a large rock, and in less than ten minutes the father was horrified on seeing a mon ster black snake crawl upon the rock and put its head upon the boy’s lap. The fa ther states that the snake was the largest he ever saw on the hills. He states that it was easily fifteen feet long and as thick as his arm, which is well developed. The boy had taken bread with him and was feeding the snake, which at intervals would stick a large tongue out as if his sing for more to eat. Then it would coil itself around the neck and body of the boy, and play with its mouth and heck, with the hoy’s hands. The father had often heard of snakes charming children and that if they were disturbed while they were in the act, they would kill the child; As the father turned to leave his boy with his deadly companion, he turned back, and the -make hearing a noise, at once uncoiled itself and raised its body at least four feet from the rock and looked in all directions, and then it returned to the boy’s lap, and the father returned home aud awaited the boy’s return, which was, as us m’., a- noon. When told that he had been playing with the snake, the boy said the ilrst morning he met the snake he liked to play with it; then he took it food, aud he was so much pleased with his companion that something told him that he must meet the snake every morning. One morning he said he was late, and when he reached the place the snake was standing up, and it came out to meet him, then followed him to the rock. There is something very strange about a snake charming not only chil dren, but 1 have read of adults coming under their charms. There is certainly some truth in the fasciuating powers of snakes. On Saturday morning the father and two of his neighbors went to the place with guns, and at the usual time the snake made its appearance when all fired at onetime, killing the charmer A Marvelous Egg Story. —Some time ago, says the Owen (I'a.) News, Mr. Robert Williams, near this place, hearing one of his wife’s ducks making a noise as if alarmed, got out of bed and went to where she va3, but could not see or hear anything. He went the second time,but with the same result. He told his wife he guessed the ducks had gone crazy. Next morning he went to where the old duck was sitting upon her eggs, under a brush-pile, and to his astonishment he saw a large blacksnake coiled up under the fowl. The sn;ike having swallowed twelve eggs. Mr. Williams cut his head off, cut him open, took the eggß out ana placed them under the duck, and eleven! of thatch , n hatched. Mr. Wil liams’ word i- as good as his bond. —A section of one of the monster of California is being prepared in that locality for transmission to Philadelphia! and exhibited at the Centennial. Tho, piece intended for transportation will be sixteen feet-iong, twenty-One feet in (!-. meter at one end and nuieten feet at the other. It will be bored so as to leave on ly a thin shell of the wood remaining,' and then divided into eight parts, each, of which will weigh four thousand pounds. This specimen was taken out. of a tree two hundred and seventy-five,- feet i:i height, and will constitute one of the noted features of the exhibition". An Oregonian offers to furnish fir, boards one hundred feet long and twelve feet wide for the Centennial Exhibition.! What other country can “ plank down” such wonders as this ? A negro Justice of the Feacein Jef : , ferson couuty, Fla., passed judgment against his wife for stealing a chemise,’ and in default'of bail sent net to jail.”